Show THE sufferings OF THE CRETANS stillman theoni the united ted states consul on the island of crete thus sums up the sufferings of the people at the hands of their turkish masters the crops ef of all the refugees are seized by government and sold for fon Its benefit and all their property declared confiscated by proclamation of the commissioner no distinction being made between those having emigrated and those going into the mountains with the combatants the property r 0 perty of all absentees bein being forfeited d ipso facto yet the emigrants are not allowed to return and the families in the mountains are not allowed to descend unless they bring all their fighting relations with them a f father a ther be being ing held responsible for ills bis sons even though he be has no knowledge of them and a wife and children for the husband and father besides this many have been banished arbitrarily without time to arrange their affairs or dispose of their property and have cone gone gone penniless to greece in the mountains things are still worse most of the people there have not had bread for months in some places they have their flocks still and with these and boiled herbs they subsist the permission to descend and submit conditionally on all their male relations going with them is rendered almost worth worthless legs by continual massacres bf of those who attempt if it the mohammedan troops not making much question of their right to fo kill christians wherever they find them thern I 1 am not unaware of the great de mands on american charity from our own population in tile the southern states or disposed to urge any diversion of benevolence from home work but it is so difficult to understand the depth of destitution into which the cretans cremans are plunged frow from any american experience that I 1 can carcell ear car cely cels hope borsuch gene geue rosity as oth other erti ertl times lri ill would haves V 01 sho bowa howk but if our people could imagine tib tie whole Oh christian ristian population of cret creti nearly turned adrift oil on th world as destitute as the possession of part only of their wardrobe perma I 1 them to be no housos houses ilo lid uses no crops thelt theu cattle sheep goats mostly stolen theia theu i olive trees cut down por for fare fire wood wood in many places aud and their fruit and mulberry trees wherever whatever the army has marched their hidden stores searched out by torture and destroyed and except I 1 those who have driven their flocks into inlo in to theroun bains no man rich enough i to give a mouthful to his starving ue neigh ign i hor bor or if I 1 say our people ca could eoula ula ald imagine ghisi this thib 1 I 1 am sure tuat that the heart heit would oaid bald p pull puli u i a little harder at the purse purie strings for 0 r f it t and not eva even feel tempted to blame the cretans bretana because they all this unflinchingly even to ileath tl eath rather than give glie up their hopes of bf freedom how TO awalter A writer in the new york evening fost rost states that it is deficiency of phosphate of lime in the system that causes bad teeth and adds what shall be done to give the teeth a proper proportion of phosphate of lime th the simple answer is ea eat t it because we know of ot no other process by which it can be introduced into the blood and unless it is found there somewhat abundantly it will never get into the structure of the teeth inasmuch as they like the rest of the body 1 are coni composed posed of the materials which are brought into the blood by the digestive m organs in order to eat it one must eat certain kinds of food which are coming now into general use in cities and which contain in themselves large quantities of it such as grits oatmeal graham bread one fourth of or an inch of the surface of potatoes the reasons furthermore may be found in the following the bone of a tooth is composed of phosphate of lime to the extent of 62 per cent the enamel has in it about 85 percent per cent of this phosphate and if less than this amount is found in proportion to the whole tooth its structure is very easily dissolved away by the acids which form in the mouth from particles les lea of food in process of decomposition from confectionery and other sweet things which in the mouth rapidly acidify some of the above named articles of food should constitute a part of the daily diet from the time of first evidence of a childs existence to the fourteenth year of the same at which time the character of the teeth may be considered finally settled they will be found of a good shape hard with an excellent enamel covering without deep seams crossing each other on the surface and liable to decay but the enameled caps will be found perfectly formed which will save the patient an immensity of fear pain and expense the wonder is very often expressed that the teeth of people of the present day are so frail while in past generations they have been so much more generally sound it would not be far from correct to reply that the art of refining nning flour has now so much more perfectly robbed it of the bran of the wheat that we get from our white bread just so much less phosphate of lime also dyspeptics and those who dread dyspepsia knowing they ate potato skins when young blindly say they and such trying food injured their stomachs and hence neither themselves nor their children are allowed to eat them and it appears to sum it up that children of the last two generations throughout the civilized part of the world have happened to be deprived of just tho the sources of the he supply of phosphate of lime in their rood which have robbed their blood of the w wherewith herewith to make good teeth and bones so our teeth and general bony framework frame work but illy compare with those of the backwoods back woods settlers who person abed our grandfathers and lived more independently of fine boiling cloths claths and ate up the entire potato relishing rye and indian bread all to our present mystification and the blessing of or their I 1 0 own n physical happl happiness ness 5 A F bulletin 1 A exhibitions an ethnographic exhibition is to be held in n moscow in the autumn of this year jear the exhibition is to comprise all ule the various tribes of onic descent and from a political apolitical point of view will be no less austrian and turkish than russian bussian even the prussian will not be for forgotten gotton nor the few for lorn Vind ians thelast the last remnant of the once numerous ab originals of blandell burgh and saxony w |