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Show When you hiT over-nerte- d Touratlf if ninninjrjumptDtr. or workinir. 1 lie re l Doth lutf that will relieve the aoremae of Tour joints aud muarlea so quickly auu eJrctuall as Oil, the greatest cure on earth lor paiu. Price 25 cent a. How a Genius Looks. Edison looks when at work like a boy apprentice. His manner and speech are very boyish. But the tire of geuiusshiues iu his keen, gray eyes, and tbe clean-c- ut nostrils and broad forehead indicate strong mental act-ivity. Though but thirty-thre- e years, old, the occasional gleam of a silvery i hair tellsthe jitory of hjsjtppjjcatioo. neath will not wrinkle if the given above be observed. A silken handkerchief bound to-gether about tbe brow and temple is an old and good wav to iron out wrink-le made bv Father Time. HAVE NO WRINKLES, THEY ARE UNNECESSARY IF YO'J KNOW HOW TO AVOID THEM. 6ln.pl Itemeillee for Removing Crease In tlia Faea Dellcata Surf-lea- l Iterations Secret of Japaneso Beauty. Thy Indy love may deceive thee by tho brightness of her eyes, her glossy hair, her white teeth, or dauiak cheek, but look you and count the smile wrinkles at her temples. Count ten years for every hing and one year for every short furrow," runs the Spanish proverb. liut the proverb is not true. Re-cently a girl whom I knew became "1. Takiiii: her silver-backe- d hand-mirr-to an attic chamber, where the search- - ing sunlight poured through a sky window, siic peered into the glass and counted one. two, three long wrinkles. Is there no remedy? Of course there are myriads of so- - called remedies and preventives for sale. Some claim to so act on the skin its to make it taut and smooth. These are seldom tried without resultant in-jury. Keeping the temples and mus-cles about the eyes well bathed with almond meal and olive oil. taking caru to brush crosswise of the wrinkles, is, perhaps, the best "slow but sure" remedy iu existence. Wrinkles are entirely unnecessary. How frequently you will lind an old w oman who is proud to claim a bit of tko "ould sod" as her birthplace with cheeks as smooth aud found as a child's, and the color of a ruddy tipple. Sometimes you will be able to find hardly a line about tho widely opened, child-lik- e eyes. Widely opened, child-lik- e eyes! That is one of the secrets. Have you not noticed lately how many of tho girls affect the innocent, round-eye- won-derment style of facial expression? Even Mrs. Cleveland does. She frowns, oh so charmingly, bringing the beauti-ful, black eyebrows almost together, and then a smile from the wide eyes like a flash of sunlight ou an April day chases the frown uutil it runs away and hides in a forest of wavy tresses above. It is remarkably effective. Had I tau daughters I would drill every one with these tactics: Form erect! Head bent slightly forward! Eyes widely opened! Now frown; just a little bit! JJow smile! Repeat! Rending the head slightly obviates the frightened staring appearance which might otherwise be given the fawn-lik- e look which goes so well with the present styles of graceful gowns and names. Of couase this is but one of the reasons, aud the other aud more important to our story is that the very act of thus opening widely the upper lip draws the skin about the lower part of the eyes taut and smooth, thereby accomplishing the very purpose for which medicines are used. It is to this end thatTurkish mothers have the muscle at the corner of their girl-babie- s' eyes cut, securing wide eyes and future freedom from crows' feet. Without the surgical operation this habit may be easily learued, aud it is best induced by darkness, rarely or uever exposing the eyes to powerful sunlight. Here are a few golden rules to pre-vent wrinkles: Re not unduly elated, neither be ye cast down. Emulate the sister of charity and be always placid. Never sleep on a pillow. One can not help noticing t!ie satin skins of the Japanese worn n. One who has studied carefully to ascertain the cause says that dailv hot baths may nil probably are very Important, but I am sure their manner uf sleeping is a tuore potent cause. You remember having read about the queer little blocks they put under their necks at nirrht. of course. These are used partly to protect their elaborate coiffures, and, eu wassant, that is why they have such luxuriant hair. The head being never overheated by the noxious pillow, en-ables the hair to retain its vitality and prevents its falling out another word to the wise that is worth much. In telling how tho block pillow is a preventive to wrinkles it must tirst be explained how the feather pillows in-crease the tendency to them. It will take but a moment to illustrate this: Cuddle dowu to sleep upon a feather pillow and notice how it increases the furrows around the eyes. There are one. two, three, four uever mind how many wriukles. It is marvelous to uotice how the pillow pressed and deep-ened the furrows about the temple that were not noticeable before. (This experiment may be easily tried and noted by means" of a hand glass.) "Ou the other hand, see how beauti-fully a block pillow works. Place it comfortably under the neck and you will enjoy tbe position very much, and it is marvellous to uote how little strain is put upon the facial musolos and how stqoothly they lie in conse-quence. "You will easily see that as the en-tire weight of the head is supported at the base of the brain the muscles of tho face are not in the least drawn and perfect placidity of the features may be maintained throughout the night. To this fact is attributed the rather smooth skin of the Japaneso." "In reality the block pillow is only k fad of a few women of fashion, yet they have become so" attached to ft that they are putting the heads of their children to sleep upon the mattress without any support at all. to the block to be preparatory used later. If these children try sleeping on a pillow, as they sometimes do Tot the novelty of the thing, thev invariably complain of stiff necks in the mornin"' iu consequence of the unnatural position. Respecting surgical methods for re-moving wrinkles, one of tho most effica-cious is the following: A keen-edge- d lance is drawn quite deeplv along the entire wriukle. When "the wound heals tie scut-- which has foruie4 bo-- THE COUNTY 11 MISTER. Utglele. Pnbllaltlnsr ompaiir. El'IIRAIM, : : : UTAH, j Again takiog the nut In Its claw tlie bird inserts the very long and sharp point of its bill into the hole just made and picks out the kernel, which is tciced flake by flake by the horny end of the loug and Ueiiblo tongue. More time is required to tell about this nut cracking than the bird takes to per-form the operatiou. for tbe cockatoo is a very rapid feeder and will consume a great many nuts iu an hour. Great Black Cockatoo. In the islands of tho Malay Archi-pelago is found the great black cocka-too, whose special food is the kernel of the kauari nut. aud the shell of which is said to be harder thau that of any other nut, and to protect a kernel nf most delicate flavor. The kanari tree irrows to a great height and bears a fleshy fruit which incloses an extreme-ly hard shell of glass-lik- e smoothness of surface. . Within this shell are from one to three kernels covered with a thin skin; when this is removed the nut falls into a number of irregular flakes of snowy whiteness and delicious taste. The fleshy part of the kanari fruit is saten bv many birds, particularly by the large wood-pigeon- s, but only the black cockatoo is able to get at the nut, which it does by the great strength of its immense, sharply pointed and hooked beak. Taking a nut end-wis- e in its bill and keeping it firm by a pressure of the horny end of its tongue, tbe cockatoo cuts a notch across the shell bv a sawing motion of the sharp edge of the lower part of the beak. This done, the bird takes hold of the uut with one foot while biting off a piece of a thick leaf. This it wraps arouud the nut to prevent tbe glassy shell from slipping, while it uses tbe upper part of its beak to hold tbe nut and the under part to insert in the notch already made and wrench off piece of the'sbell by a powerful nip. No, Frledrike, though jrou do murder the German language, jou are no germicide. This certifies that I have used Pr. Hull's Cough Syrup and found it to ' be what it is represented. 1 can safelv any tliut It has helped my coui'h (wliirti 1 might ay waiv chronic) and I cheerfully re minuend It' to all those afflicted. H. V. Donnki.lv, 64 East Wist Street, New York. It la not mendicancy in the weak irhich threatens society. Nor is there the remotest danger that It ever will. It Is solfitth acquisitiveness in the strong. Thin is one of the most im-portant a:ao:r.J of political science, Bnd it can never be safely ignored in any system. The dallv surplus of births over deaths la the L tilted Kingdom Is l,5wJ. lUnine has bought a tC5,CO0 house In Yathington. It eoftt 64 rents to run a train a mile la England. Daniel Bandmann, the actor, Is ranching In Montana. Even the dizzy waltz It is love that makes the whirled go rouud. New York and Brooklyn consume daily about sixty thousand chickens. It has not been very lo:ig since Eng-land went out of the slave trade. Slaves were sold publicly in Liverpool in the latter half of the last century. Sir James Pieton. in his "Memorials of Liv-erpool, two advertisements of the sale of slaves in Liverpool which appeared in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser in this year 17tii and 1766. February treats the days of the week Im-partially this year. There will be four and uo more of each. " " The Indians need policing. Policing in cities is properly the business of civ-ilians. On the plains it is properly the business of soldiery. Adequately policed, honestly dealt with, compacts kept with them, reservation regulations firmly and kindly maintained, schools free and interesting, agriculture encour-aged, tho country will have had its last Indian outbreak. lianses of Climate Kill more people than is generally kuown. Par-ticularly Is tills the case in Instances where the constitution Is delicate, aud nmouir our imm-igrant population seeking new homes In those por-tions of the West, and where malarial oud typhoid fevers prevail at certain seasons of the year. Tbe beat preparative for a change nf cllmat-e-, or for diet and water which that chance necessitates, is Dostettex's Stomach Hitters, which not only for-tifies the system against malaria, a variable tem-perature, damp, aud the debilitating effects of tropical heat, bat is also the leading remedy for constipation, dyspepsia, liver complaint, bodily troubles specially apt to attack emigrants and visitors to regions near the equator, marine's and tourists. Whether nsed as a safeguard by sea voyagers, traveleers by land, miners, or of agricu-lturists in newly populated districts, this Una specific haselecitcd the most favorable testimony. HAZING THE HAZERS. A Termonter and Aaothar.Nnw a Senator, Who War Ktjaal to Kciergenolee. "Talking of hazing." said the uni-versity club man tbe other evening in the heariug of a Kansas City Star re-porter. "I'm here with some emphasis aud accent to say it is not always a success. I was with a party of students once who, baftiug set their academic hearts ou hazing a rough aud uncouth specimen from Vermont, repaired to his room about 11 o'clock oue night to perform these rites. There were seven of the invaders, including myself, and we silently collected in the corridor outside the Freshman's door. In order to be impressive in our entrance, at a given signal we hurled ourselves ngainst the portal and, burst it iu. I recall a feeling of pride as the door went in at the success of this first step, but notliiug distinctly afterwards. "Iu the dim, religious light that sifted through the curtains from the swinging moon, we beheld a long, sparse aud meagre being who flew out of bed and fell upon us. He was silent as a bull-do- g. but quick aud ferocious as a cat. I never saw such a creature. The whole affair did not last ten min-utes, aud its close found myself aud the other hazers battered aud bruised and out in the hall. '"I thought only one man inhabited that room,' said a sorrowful Sophomore as he fnlt of his various features in an effort to measure the disaster so far as he. personally, was affected. "There are at least ten, for I couuted them, to say nothing of the large African gorilla which threw me out, and which I take it they nuiiutain as a pet.1 "There was no one iu there, however, except that one Vermopter, aud he did not even attempt to close the door after us, such was his contempt for our prowess. "We did not go back into his room. We could have gone, of course, but we saw that it would cousume a great deal of time and the hour was late. " Say, you Vermont man!' I said as we were about to leave, I trust you are not mean enough to report this to the Faculty?" 'Not at all,' he said. 'I like it. Come again any time you please.' "Another time," continued the racon-teur, "a party of us hail been out on that sacred night, Halloween, tearing off gates aud signs aud otherwise dis-porting ourselves after tho fashion of college youth the world around. We had brought about a coril of broken store signs up to Jim Martin's room and were merrily burning them in his big fireplace. The ceremouies wore at their height when two or three profes-sors, excited to the movement by in-dignant townspeople.whose signs being ravished had followed us to the college gates.rapped loudly at the door for ad-mission. Something had to be doue.as it would never do to let in the profes-sors and those broken evidences of our guilt arond. "A mau by the name of Jack Nesbit, now a State Senator iu Nebraska, was eiial to the pinch, however. "It was a rule of t.'iu milUacu tt ao 'WtJfBsor should be denied entrance to a room, no matter the hour, unless the occupant was engaged iu prayer. In event of the present progress of this re-ligious exercise, the professor was made to wait until the 'ameu,' aud could in nowise complain. "At the lirst rap Nesbit broke into prayer. In a loud, sonorous tone he sought mercy for himself and his com-panions. Continuing, he beleaguered the throne of grace in behalf of the college.as well as the professors, singly and in a body. Next the students all came in for notice, by name and in bulk, as well as every attache of the place to the small person who cleaned knives and forks in the kitchen. No one was slighted or overlooked. Then Nesbit went for the Government and prayed for the nation at large; then lite President and his pressing nrmls were named, aud Divinity was pleaded with for their fulfilment;" then all the departments and various officers of state and when they were exhausted, the States, beginning with Maine and ending with California, were in-terceded for. After this Jack went to Europe, and beginning with England, related the necessities of each govern-ment and sought their satisfaction. From there he went to Asia, to Africa,' then to South America and so on, until he was drifting among the islands which dot the Southern seas. Mean-while the rest of us turned stokers aud crowded the signs into tlie fireplace, where they roared and leaped almost to the limits of a general conflagration. Just as Jack was landing at Auckland the last splinter went up in smoke and tho disgusted professors were let in. Tlie prayer must have been almost an hour long aud as the teachers tiled in Nesbit closed with some (notation from St. Mark which refers to those who, seekiug a sign, shall liud it not.' SMOKELESS BATTUES. Some Speculation m to What Fatara iit will be Llk. The air will be full of noise, says the London Broad Arrow, sharp, crisp, rattling, bellowing detonations, com-ing from many rjuartors, deceiviug the judgment, shaking the nerves of the timid and possibly interfering with the conditiou necessary to catch quick-ly and clearly the words of command. Smoke-volum- e break and shut up sound, and in their absence there will be luted of greater calmness, the strain on the mind will bo mote severe, the discipline required will have to be more rigid, tho attention will have to be more concentrated, lest the fur dbs-- taut should attract and disturb. All this will come with tho training, of which there will Imve to erable amount, involving much waste of powder, before our troops will be lit to light with tin enemy using smokeless gunpowder. Iudeod." it will be for some lime necessary to ttaiu the British soldier to eugage "in the old as well as the new battle with tut enemy making a great smoke, as well as with an enemy making doiio at all. Ac-- cordingly the new powder will not be all gain, and it will impose a deal of extra work and anxiety. It is by no means clear what the issue would be if two bodies of soldiers eijiial in other respects, were using dif-ferent forms of gunpowder. The ad-vantages of quick tiring ami clear sight might not long be with the smokeless weapons, and in the thick of a meleo troops trained in the smokeless system might be somewhat bewildered". On the other hand, especially with artil-lery, massed or iu detachments, and of fairly long range, tho use of smokeless powder would undoubtedly be an ad-vantage, not only as regards rapid and accurate tiring, but as offering less aim to au enemy obscured by his own smoke and with notliiug but sound to truide him. With armies using smokeless pow- - der it may be that oue of its earlv ef-fects will bo to affect the color of the soldiers dress, subduing it in tone, and so depriving the batlle-tiel- d of an-other of its picturesque elements, ' Judging distances by colors will be-come a most important feature iu mil-itary training and more attention will be neeued to perfect sight at such ranges as the different arms in use will carry. How this may affect a people afflicted with short sight will become a very grave question, indeed, not whol-ly to be settled by the employment of artificial aid. Maneuvers will take place over larger areas before actual lighting begins, and something of an Indian's craft aud natural, keenness will be needed on the part of staff of-ficers. The impact of solid troops will be rarer probably and surprises much more frequent than they have beet in recent wunifl'e, unless atreer naniiipg of mounted Jroops is resorted toTor surreys from iixed balloons can 'bo made to play au important part. Smoke has been so good a cover on many occasions that its abseuce will impose new conditions aud natural cover will have to be much more extensively utilized. These are general suggestions not intended to do more than excite pre-liminary surveys and ideas as to what the smokeless battles of the future may be like. The strictly practical is for more elaborate examination iu the light of the best information obtain-able interpreted by the common-sous- e which ought to be brought to bear up-on the wholo question. With the van-ishing poetry of the smoke of battle the prose of a new era will begin, in which combat will be more like a game of chess in view of the pieces as a whole, and new dispositions of old qualities and virtues will be wauted. Caution will pa)' iu a smokeless combat, enter-prise nud vigor will win as before, but blunders will receive a terrible pun-ishment, fatal to armies and ruinous to nations dependent on them. FACTS ABOUT CIGARS. BoJee Little-Know- n Truths About th Nleotlne Delectablaa. 'A good dinner without a cigar is like a beautiful woman with one eye." says the Spaniard. Every one knows what a cigar is and the use to which it is put, says the N. Y. Telegram. No one will deny its wide-sprea- d popularity, although some questiou its bVnebceut effects upou the human family. Yet, while postage stamps, monograms, and cigarette Ui res have all found enthusiastic but oue man has been found to face the many difficulties atlendiug a collection of "cigars gleaned from all parts of the world. Capt. Mike Flaherty is well known in tho tobacco world and has a wide circle of acquaintances among the pilots, from whom he now and agaiu received a present of a queer-lookin- g cigar from some foreign land, and it was this decided him to commence his present collection, which now num-bers 150 varieties of cigars, about each one of which a quaint, interesting story might be told. In the lirst place the word "cigar" is of modern date and is derived from the fact that when the Spaniards first smoked cigars they were smoked in the orchard, or "cigarral." so called from its being the abiding place of those soothing, g in-sects, the calm crickets. Hence "cigarro," a small roll; "cigarron," a large roll; and ultimately "cigar," linked, even in name with the most soothing, dreamy sound in nature. The tirst cigars made by the Span-iards were of tobacco loosely rolled and held together by the silken lining of corn shucks, and always with a straw running through the center to be withdrawn before smoking, so as to secure a good draught. These were first introduced into England iu 1787 by the son of a Spanish grandee visiting London, and from there spread through 'all Europe, This is the history of the birth of the cijiar into civilization, but we must look considerably further back to lind the first records, and then can find no origin, but only data of its being in existence. The cigar of the native Uornean, liv-ing lu the Indian archipelago, is a black roll three inches long, tapering to either end, the outer leaf covered with a netw ork of gray veins like a cobweb. These might be aptly called "dude killers." They were smoked by the old Dyaks, aud the smoke inhaled to intoxication, while at the weddings the bride and groom held cigars in their bauds, aud after their heads were j knocked togRther thiw : Umoa each pVnced the clgsif between the lips of tlie oiner anil me ceremony wasecueu. Tho cigar in the collection camo from Chittagong. When the Patagouian smokes to really enjoy himself he gives a smoking party. All assemble iu a hut, seating themselves in a circle, with a bowl ef water in the center. A cigar is lighted and passed nrouud, each one drawing into his lungs as much smoke as possi-ble and returning it as long as he can, lying flat ou his face, with his curious cloak thrown over his head. As each expels the smoke he groans and grunts until a perfect babel reigns. Then a fresh cigar is lit, and as it passes around quiet comes again. After the third cigar each smoker sits quietly for a few minutes, takes a drink at the bowl, and silently Hies out. Religion is supposed to form the basis of this custom. Every outbreak known in the annals of Indian wars for twenty-fiv- e years has been due directly or indirectly to tho inefficiency of the interior depart-ment and the abuse of opportunity by its agents. Whenever these outbreaks have become dangerous for tho whites the war department has been summon-ed to rectify tho errors and failure of tho interior department Six millions of dead letters are annually torn and sold as old paper in 'Washington. The glory with tho use of military posts pulses away. There are a few old garrisoned places left along tho Atlantic coast and about tho great lakes, and more old mouldering forts where a solitary ordnance sergeant raises and lowers tho flag with the sun, but tho map of the United States is dotted with the names of abandoned posts, names which have usually trans-ferred themselves to cities, towns and villages which have grown tip in the vicinity. The consumption of horso flesh for food in tho old countries is growing rapidly. Supposing that horsos . could be raised as cheaply as cattle, what valid argument would there be against horse flesh as food? We naturally shrink from the thought of eating horso flosh, but the horse is one of the clean-est of animals, eating nothing that a sheep would not eat, and if it was tho custom here as it is In 1'aris, we should think no more of eating good horso flosh than we do of eating good cow flesh. Flower" ; For Dyspepsia. A. Bellanger, Propr. , Stove Foun-dry, Montagny, Quebec, writes: "I have used August Flower for Dys-pepsia. It gave me great relief. I recommend it to all Dyspeptics as ' very good remedy." Ed. Bergeron, General Dealer, Lauzon, Levis, Quebec, writes : "I v have used August Flower with the best possible results for Dyspepsia." C. A. Barrington, Engineer and General Smith, Sydney, Australia, writes: "August Flower has effected , a complete cure in my ease. 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We have cant in business, cant in society, in politics, in religion, in every place where men and women are to bo found, repeating what others have said before thom, without realizing its meaning or attempting to follow it to its legitimate conclusion. Even editors cant. Everybody who talks is liable to cant doctors, lawyers, politicians, preachers, scientists, teachers, hod-carrie- rs the whole business of us cant with every word that is not the result of a deliberate and more or less pain- - ful effort to tell nothing but the truth. Captured by a Hornet. "You may talk about the cunning of the fox, but you should have seen how a wasp turned the tables on a spider last summer," said a man the other evening to a N. Y. Tribune reporter when they were telling hunting stor-ies, "Oue day a fellow sportsman aud I were returning from a successful tramp for 'grays' on the Ticonderoga flats, up iu Essex county. We were restiug on the top rail of an old fence when our attentiou was attracted by a buzzing sound near by, which wo soon found to come from one of those big black hornets that hunters generally steer clear of. The old fellow lay in a spider's web, buzzing away. We saw at a second glance, however, that he was not entangled in tho meshes nt all. He would keep quiet a moment and then buzz again. He continued to act in this manuer for about a miuute, and we were unable to account for his strange conduct. Pretty soon, up from its deu among the rails came a good-size- d spider, which bravely grap-pled with the huge iutruder. it then became clear that the action of the hornet had been only a wily ruse to attract the spider, for he at once stung the plucky little defender to death and flew away with it to his big nest in a thicket of" blue beeches on a neighbor-ing hill. Economy and the saving of money-ar- e to many people synonymous terms. To them the word economy represents the foregoing of many agreeable thing,, tho rigid adherence to a standard of living which regards the indulgence of personal tastes as wasteful luxury, or as the obligation to spend no more than a fixed weekly sum for tho house-hold expenses. To others it means tho buying of inferior articles, because they are cheap, a mistake that fre-quently leads to waste and loss greater than can be covered by the trifle saved in the purchase. A Station-Mast- er Astonished. An amusing incident lately occurred on a Southern railroad in England in connection with the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Bute. , The Duke and Marquis were fellow travelers. aud when the train stopped at Station a enmpaniou joiued them in the person of the statiou-maste- r him-self, who was going for a jaunt some twenty miles further up the line. The Duke and the station-maste- r, who were both diminutive men therefore fond of talk, soon got iuto conversation, while the Marquis a tall, robust man was inclined to be reticent, uutil he found his friend the Duke up to his ears in conversation, when he himself joined, addressing most of his conversation to tho stranger. At length the train arrived nt B ., and the Marquis bid a hearty farewell to the Duke, and with a kindly adieu aud a shake of the hand from the stranger, the Marquis quitted the car-riage, while his dispatch-bo- x and wraps were secured, to the surprise of the station-maste- r, by a tall, powerful footman, and the train soon glided again out of the station. Silence was not, however, long maintained, the station-mast- er breaking out with the question: "I wonder who that swell was?'.' 'That," replied his companion, "was the Marquis of Bute." The er seemed to dumfouud the station-mast- er for a time, but presently be ex-claimed: "So that were a Marquis, was beP Well, now, I do think it kind of liliu to talk to two such snobby little chaps as us, don't you?" The Duk nodded bis assent, and had a good laugh. When tho train drew tip again his Grace affably bid his companion "Good-bye,- " and on alighting on th platform, was received with tho great-est deforeoce by a throng of Jesuit priests, this incident again setting the station-mast- er the task of inquiry, who inquisitively asked a brother official, "Who that "little bloke was?" "That," replied the guard, "Is the Duke of Norfolk." The station-maste- r, after this, declared he would never travel first-clas- s agaiu as long as he lived. Heart Disease From Physical Exer-tion. A surgeon states that of 5,000 de-crepit or aged soldiers that hae been brought under his notice, fully 80 per cent were suffering from heart disease in one form or another, due to tbe forced physical exertion of the cam-paign; and he predicts that as large a percentage of athletes of to-d- will be found, twenty-liv- e years from now, ta be victims of heart disease, engender-ed by the muscular strains that they forced themselves to undergo. The general opinion that China and Japan are a long way behind the other nations in point of civilization and pro-gressive measures is due to a lack of knowledge upon the subject. It is true that in many tilings they -- are- behind some of the other nations, but in others they are as far in advance. For in-stance, the Japanese government adopted the postal savings bank system several years ago, and it is now work-ing successfully. It this country this matter is just being discussed. There are other matters eqnally progressive which have been acted upon by these countries, which have as yet only been talked of here. |