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Show Say of Other Editors The People On Mars, What kind of creatines live oa toe planet Mars? Are they round, with rour legs and four arms like those Imagined by Plato? Have they faces partly brass colored, and the queer characteristics char-acteristics of the folk Imagined by Swedcnborg as dwellers on the moon? II. Q. -Wells, tho great Imaginative writer and sociologist, has tried to master tho problem. He has made a picture of creatures that he says area man and a woman of Mars, and you can Unci them In the mid-winter number of tho "Cosmopolitan Maga.ine" Just Issued. Mr. Wells Imagines his Martians covered with feathers or fur and says: "It Is not less reasonable to suppose that Instead or a hand, a group or tentacles or proboscls-llko organs." He Imagines Martians whirling about on a singles wheel, balanced by a gyroscope. A few months ago we should have laughed at tho Idea of Mars folk using tho gyroscope to ' balance them on their travels on one wheel. Ilut since then we have learned that the gyroscope gyro-scope can balance a railroad train on one wheel, or do away with the shifting sensation on an ocemo steamer, or steady an aeroplane In Its flight. We jdon't laugh as much at the gyroscope gyro-scope now as we should have done some time ago. A Lessen for Advertisers. Dillon Examiner: As an Instance of the value of newspaper advertising to Increase or foroa trade the following acts are remarkable: During December the orders received by tho Dougl&t Boot and Shoe company, of Brockton, Maw., fell off In consequence of the business depression following the panic. The advertising advertis-ing manager of that largo concern mentioned the matter to Governor Douglas, and asked his advice, whether under the circumstances they should place tho usual amount of advertising during January and February, which arc usually usu-ally the slowest months In the, year In the shoe business. Governor Douglas at once ordered an increase of .10 per cent In the amount appropriated appro-priated for advertising, declaring that such an Increase would help to overcome tho unfavorable unfavor-able business outlook. There was considerable skepticism about the result amongst the principles prin-ciples employes of the Douglas company. But tho result showed almost -an Immediate Improvement Im-provement In business, which is now averaging more than last year during these usually dull months. . ' Thus the business sagacity of Governor Douglas has overcome the hard times World's Half-Built People. . Uutlng Magazine: The world is full of half-people. half-people. If anyone doubt this, let him or her visit a Turkish bath, and note the number of people who are flat In the chest, round In the back, ponderous as to paunch and heavy In the jowl people with outstanding shoulder blades and flat feet Out or a thousand pcoole In this country, there could be round scarcely three who had really tine rlguies. 1 make this statement advisedly, ad-visedly, alter many, many years of careful observation. ob-servation. A,nd why Is this so? Why are there so few people In this country. In the civilized world who have bodies that are not a travesty of him In whose Image they are supposed to be created? Tho reasons are many, but may be grouped under onu phrase-unhyglenlc and unwholes-some unwholes-some conditions of living. Among these conditions con-ditions may be mentioned dietary errors food that is excesslvo hi quantity, varlety.or frequency fre-quency as tomcalsand food taken under"im-piopor under"im-piopor conditions, either of mind or body. Great Advance In Science. Philadelphia Enquirer: Surgeons have now made such a complete diagram of the brain that they are now able to locale disease before operating. For Instance, It is not uncommon that a slight tumor on the brain Is the cause of paralysis of the hand Tho surgeon knows exactly where it is, opens the skull, reaches down Into the recesses and extracts the tumor, fixes up the skull and In a short time the man is able to use his hand as well as ever. So perfect per-fect is this knowledge that the seat of language lan-guage has been discovered, and It Is found that for every new tongue a man learns there Is a separate compartment. A Frenchman who learned English was Injured at the precise spot where the latter faculty was located, but he could speak French, as well as ever and retained retain-ed his knowledge of Greek, but the English shelf was damaged almost beyond recovery. The Expectoration Law. Salt Lake Herald: Some' people seem Inclined In-clined to make light of Hie arrests made by a patrolman on Commercial street ror violations of the antl-expi'duriiilnu oidlnancc. It does not seem to us a matter n be Joked about. Ther? Is on the ordinance book a law which fortltls the practice nr expectorating on sidewalks, side-walks, In. street cars and other public places.. The enforcement, of I he law is earnestly to be desired, -and everv policeman who does his part is entitled to commendation. . Assessments Won't Show it. Stale .lnuiiiil: According to a "feature" writer, the senate has twenty-one multimillionaires multimil-lionaires and eleven millionaires, and tne house eight of the tint and six of the last, their com- I blned wealth being $2i)3 500,000 It's dollars to pumpkin seed thin these guesses arp not based J on the tax books of the -.tales these gentlemen represent |