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Show CAN A WHOLE PEOPLE GO MADT Reflections Drown From the Conduct of the Doukhobors. The conduct of tho Doukhobors In Canada raises onco mora the old question ques-tion whether It Is possible for a whole neoplo to go mad. Their conduct recalls re-calls that of many of tho followers of Peter tho Hermit, who, It la recorded, re-corded, In later llfo qulto perceived his folly; or of tho Flagellants; or of"tho South African triho who In our own tlmo believed they wero ordered to kill all their cattle, and did It. That there Is a possibility of mental Infection Infec-tion when multitudes are gathered Is certain from tho long history of panics, pan-ics, hut tho deep religious feollng of tho Doukhobors ought to cnablo them to posE033 their souls In patlenoo until un-til U10 Avatar which Uiey expect. Ono polt In tho delusion Is, wo bellovo, unprecedented. Thero Is no previous record of men willing to walk barefoot bare-foot out of pity for tho "slavery" of Lea3ts. American Machlnory Ahead. Though tho Bteam turblno was perfected per-fected In England tho Wtstlnghousa company of Pittsburg is making a sot of four 5,000-kllowatt and threo 3,000-Kilowatt 3,000-Kilowatt machines for the underground under-ground electric railroads of London. Tho kilowatt (1,000) watts Is Uie unit of electric power now In accepted accept-ed use. In a gcnoral senso It lit equivalent to about 1 1-8 horse power. As to Faults. J Mako euro that, howoyor good you may bo, you havo faults; that how. ovor dull you may be, you can And out what they are; and that, however allgM thoy may bo, you would better make somo patient effort to pit quit of them. RusUln. 1 I |