Show A advocacy 0 of the chinese scheme of hygiene so fat far ai the american school system it co n ceitel is contained in a a bulletin just jus issued by the bureau of e education d uc aaion jt it is is the work of dr fa F B die dresslar who insists that better health rules and more rigid inspection of children tn in school are essential to the i I 1 up building ofa of a tace race ot vigorous men and women our system of paying doctors to do something for us as when we are sick argues dr dresslar 0 ought u R ht to be largely discarded for the I 1 chinese system of paying them t to r keep liepp us from getting acting sick he insists that the state his ample power to intervene in the health of I 1 its ts citizens on the ground of wide public pol dolcy cy the community he adds has as much right to demand good health in its children as ag it has to enforce their attendance in g school c h 0 01 work his has been begun on what w will ill be t the he world worldon longest lon irest single span bridge this ithe hell gate bridge across the east rive at new york which Iso is t complete the pennsylvania rail toad road connections in that quarter it will be a steel arch span n 1000 feet long arid and it will be big enough and strong enough to cany cam ibur 0 of f the I heaviest trains at oude once Pal lagara is spreading inthe in the united Stat esaud and in the six years it lia been known i to medical aut horles has claimed ed not less than victims jand J I 1 with a i fatality rate in excess of 40 per bieni arding toA to a Tep report rt 61 thi pub ach service it ibis report aport says the afi dignity 11 1 of r 8 public udus health question of national ire im disease is most prevalent in the south by taking advantage of the peculiar properties of the tare rare metal selen iun lam it is possible to do some great wonders A selenium cell as it ii is if called is a mean of light into current as it were that is the electrical conductivity of the selenium varies with the amount of light it receives thus a selenium cell may be made to turn lights on at night and shut them off in he morning etc A frenchman has now designed a burglar alarm on this principle it is a kind of automatic eye which keeps on watch all night if a burglar comes in and opens his dark lantern or even strikes a match the selenium eye will see the light and will cause a bell lorinz to ring in any desired place it will also see and report a fire thus it can takebe take the place of a human watchman and it never poes goes to sleep atly aly at ly it would have tobe to be turned off 08 be foie fate day I 1 light else it would ring everybody up garros a french aviator his has just made a new altitude record with an aeroplane near tunis he ros rose e to a height of over fector feet or over three and a half miles it becomes exceedingly dangerous for aviators to go to such altitudes in the first place the air is so much rarified ramified that tbt it does not offer the same support bothe to the planes and it causes the motor to miss fire and ilso also it Inter interferes fires with the breathing of the birdman so that he is liable to faint and lose control of his mi machine chine Gl flaisher Glat aisher sher the englishman ishman who in 1863 1862 made the worlds altitude record of over seven miles mild in a 2 balloon lost consciousness ness at feet berson and 4 suring in k ballam in ascended 3 00 feet according 0 to o their register ing be barn barometer meter but ut they toa loosest Jost consciousness aclo illness ness it at about feet the te intense cold of je fhe air there which I 1 is 5 50 0 degrees decrees biow zero or more is also a zeal real da danger tiger senator button burton of 0 ohio ho hm out nut it la a bill which would provide for one cent letter postage throughout the united states he showed that this class of 01 mail matter yields a year in revenue and gives a profit of over rome Koi aein in her worst dikas never harbored such cOndit conditions iOni ot vice rs Ps are prevalent in our highest social circles atine present ti time me declared bishop A W wilson e of the methodist church aka ia sermon at savannah sarannah never at aa period of the worlds history added bishop wilson have the moral stra strata been so thin or so low the world is beset today w with ith more I 1 thi theories ories and philosophies adore hypo critical creeds than ever before the government pure food author wes have not been able to draw the line between real beer and fake beer but have decided to class it all as just beer this does not satisfy representative anderson oi of minn who has pu put t in a bill prescribing a certain standard for beer and requiring all beers becis to be plainly labeled as pure I 1 imitate imi imitation tati or compound beer that is br brewed e wad from old boots tan bane and such substitutes fox for malt he would tax atad at an extra dizh rater rate the naval yearbook year book just issued by the senate puts the 17 S navy in the tae third place amlung the navies of the world giedt britian is credited with a tonnage of 1800 1860 COO tons of battleships 3 and armored cruisers germany pit with the united states 7 france japan russia italy austria hu hun gary A As germany is h it J ing unsay P inora me naval vessels aha lk 1 11 I 1 I 1 t anc a I 1 if anything is the matter with kansas hereafter it cannot be blamed blar ried on the clutes pl utes nor yet the lawyers nor yet the G 0 P for the first time I 1 in n a quarter century the state slate government is inthe hands of the democrats A clear majority of the legislature are farmers and even in the senate the lawyers will have to take a back seat and yield to fo the tillers of 0 the soil gov elect hodges in planning a big program of radical reforms which he says will proclaim kansas again asane as ane most progressive state in the union and make wisconsin took look sadly reactionary tio nary thousands of 0 letters are mailed by little children addressed to santa claus As this old party parly is of a roving habit uncle sam classes him as a person having no known address formerly all his letters were sent to the dead letter office but tor for several years now the practice has been tor for the local postmasters to turn them over to charitable institutions and private philanthropists in many cases where the letters reveal really deserving cases of need provision is 13 made for that the little liitle writers are treated to a merry christmas largely as the result of the labors of president tafts economy commission reforms have been introduced in the government departments at washington which have resulted in the savin to hi nation of at least a beir ye arand and this work has only just begun machines are being introduced trod in many bureaus to take the of hand worn worx en eri and a big saving in both time and money is thus secured though some 2000 clerks have thus been displaced there Is always to so much new work coradin ming 9 in that no one his has to be dach abed of course the in productions of laborsaving labor saving methods mets masts with much opposition tor for as dr wilson ones once said it Is natural natura I 1 lot for p people to want to deliver the he minimum of output for the pay they zecil zecille elve ve |