Show WAR WAP AS A CIVILIZES TI time ties es when battle was tue the only effective means heans Mereb merchants ants undoubtedly in early times penetrated foreign tribes and na eions and baroug brought home in in addition t to 0 their wares stories stones of what they had seen and learned abroad but the merchants were too few too ign ignorant 0 rant and prejudiced and too little given to observation to spread much useful in mi formation in in this way and their peu ples pies were too self satisfied to give up any customs and beliefs of their own for those thus brought them how then could any effective result from national contact be produced in primitive tunes times the only effective agency must have been that of war destruct tive as this is is in in its results it has the one useful effect of thoroughly roughly corn com mingling diverse peoples bringing them into the closest contact with each other and forcing upon the attention of each the advantages possessed by the other the caldron of human society must be set boiling before its ita co con n tents tent scan can fully mingle and combi combine ne war ar is is the furnace in in which this thise ebullition takes place and through whose activity human ideas are forced to cir cir c through and through the minds of men charles morris moms in in popular science monthly A question of ancestry Inc estry abraham hayward ayward II the famous quarterly reviewer Ite viewer once thought that he would like to have hare some ome anastor and anet stor so go he walked v straight to a picture deal ees er s selecting a portrait of a cavalier in in half armor with features not quite unlike his bis own mr tr hayward ayward II roade a bid for it but deeming the price price asked too high he went his way wa Afew A few days later mr hayward ayward II went to dine with lord houghton II and was astonished t to 0 tind find the picture in in the dining room seeing that it attracted his guests at lord II said very good picture that came into my mv hands in a curious xray portrait of a milnes of the commonwealth period an ancestor of mire ah indeed said aid mr II ayward he be was very near being an ancestor of mine old time doctors doctori in the and isab centuries doctors carried cans canes with hollow beads perforated like a pepper raster caster these contained aromatic powders ind when enteria g a sick room the doctor would strike the ca cane smartly on the floor and apply its head to ins his nose for the pur rose of dis infecting loat ahat member a anc nd I 1 p ting contagion |