Dr. Clifford D. Sweet, of the University-of-California Medical Department, in a recent paper shows the research work that he has been doing along the lines of bacteriology, showing the large field of the numerous and dangerous diseases caused by protozoa, those tiny forms of animal life so exceedingly minute that they can not be seen by the most powerful microscopes yet invented. He tells us that malaria, sleeping-sickness, and other sicknesses of men and of animals, are caused by protozoa, introduced into the body by bites of insects. Smallpox, rabies, infantile paralysis, and chicken-pox of poultry, are all supposed to be caused by protozoa. The organisms responsible for these latter diseases have never yet been discovered. They are so small that they will pass through a porcelain filter which strains out everything larger in diameter than one twenty-five-thousandth of an inch; from which the wise man ought to conclude that the best way of meeting these things is to live above them.
Balkan Allies Resist Peace Terms
On April 1 the Turkish government declared that it unreservedly accepted the terms of peace proposed by the powers. But Montenegro refuses to obey the powers, and Bulgaria persists in her demand for a war indemnity. And Great Britain, Austria, and Germany are preparing to send warships to make demonstrations off the Montenegrin and Albanian coasts. The difficulties do not seem to be settled, owing to the independent tenacity of the Balkan allies. The allies, so it is affirmed, had given up getting anything in the way of satisfaction through the powers, and so they have taken things into their own hands, and their success has been so phenomenal that they are not willing to quit until the ends they have in view are fully reached.
Campaign Against Vice and White Slave Traffic
Five states, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois, have inaugurated an active campaign against vice and the white slave traffic. This question of what shall be done to overcome the vice evil that is destroying the home and the nation, has assumed international proportions. The monster is imperiling the whole world. Every one knows what God did with Sodom and Gomorrah when they became hopelessly laden with vice. Is the entire world preparing itself with unwonted haste for the same fate?
Made a Thief by Bad Company
[The following moralizing story which Mrs. Blake (Annie Laurie) contributes to the Examiner of San Francisco has a lesson which is worthy of passing on. Its principles are broader than the circumstances out of which the writer has developed them. — ED. S. OF T.]
SHE sat before me the other day — the wife of the Thief. She had come to ask mercy for her husband, who had been caught stealing.
She was young and she was pretty, and her black eyes shone from under a hat of late design, and she wore a coat of fine cloth, and the shoes on her small feet were good, and the gloves on her little hands were not cheap.
“You see,” said the wife of the Thief, “it’s this way: I was away, and he got lonesome, and wanted me to come home; and he was out of work, and he got into bad company, and he is not strong-minded, and they made him think it was all right. And that’s how he got into trouble — bad company — that’s the whole thing. I hope you won’t prosecute him.”
“What was your husband’s business?” said I to the wife of the Thief.
“Bookkeeper.”
“What does he get a month?”
“Fifty dollars,” said the Thief’s wife.
“You make your own clothes?”
The Thief’s wife swept her modish dress with the tail of her dark eye, and laughed a little, like a mischievous child.
“Who? Me?” she said. “I can’t sew.”
“You do your own washing, then?”
The Thief’s wife looked down at her little white, useless hands. She looked as if she didn’t know whether to laugh or frown. She chose to laugh.
“Why, no,” she said. “I never did that kind of work.”
“How do you get on with the cooking? You do that, of course.”
The Thief’s wife smiled this time, and what a dimple she had, to be sure!
“That ain’t so hard,” she said. “There’s a delicatessen store, and I get everything, or almost everything, from there. I don’t know how to cook.”
Fifty dollars a month the Thief made, and his wife does not cook, can’t sew, and would not wash for anything, and she says he is in trouble because he got into bad company. I didn’t say a word to the Thief’s wife about the company.
I went in to see the Thief. He was locked up — as a thief should be. He sat on the edge of his cot, and he looked as if he had been crying, and he told me about the trouble.
“I lost my job,” said the Thief, “and my wife went home on a visit. I had to give up the flat, and I couldn’t pay my room rent, and I owed the laundry people, and the delicatessen man was after me, and I went into this flat you’ve heard about, and took what I could see.”
“How did you lose your job?”
“I don’t know,” said the Thief. “They just let me out, that’s all.”
“Do you know who took your place?”
“Yes. A fellow that lives in the same house where our flat was.”
The new bookkeeper’s wife wasn’t at all like the Thief’s wife. I went to see her, and found out. She isn’t as good-looking as the Thief’s wife, but she is sweet-faced and rosy, and her eyes are bright and true and loving, her hair is pretty, and her neat little house dress was well made and hung right.
She made it herself, she told me; makes all her own clothes — O, yes, indeed! She could not afford to hire them made.
Her hats, too, she trims; and the laundry — well, the collars, she sends them, but the rest she does herself.
The delicatessen shop — is there one nearby? She didn’t know. She does all her own cooking. It is cheaper so, and better, and her husband does not like ready-cooked things.
Picture shows? O, yes, once in a while; but they are paying for the home things now, and there’s a lot they want to get — so much down and so much a month — so they don’t go very often.
I went to see the man who pays the bookkeeper’s salary.
“Yes, we let him out,” said he. “No, nothing definite against him, you might say; but he and his wife were picture show fiends — went every night; and once I saw them there, and the wife was dressed better than my wife. I can’t see where he got the money for that hat. He handled money for me sometimes, and I didn’t think it was fair to put him under such a strain, so I got a different sort of man.”
“A different sort of man?”
“Well, no, not exactly. I mean a man with a different sort of wife. It amounts to the same thing. Don’t you think so?”
Bad company — that’s what got the poor, weak-chinned Thief into trouble. There’s no doubt about that — the worst kind of company, a silly, vain, selfish, lazy, wasteful wife. The foolish girl, who marries a poor man and then will not wash, will not iron, will not cook, and will not sew! Bad company, indeed! Poor, silly Thief! Bad company, indeed!
He is out of jail now, is the Thief. We asked the judge to be lenient with him, as it is a first offense.
I wonder if it will be his last.
Medical Value of Lemons
“WHILE you are giving people simple rules for preserving their health, why don’t you tell them about the use of lemons?” an intelligent professional man asked me the other day. He went on to say that he had long been troubled with an inactive liver, which gave him a world of pain and trouble, until recently he was advised by a friend to take a glass of hot water, with the juice of half a lemon squeezed into it, but no sugar, night and morning, and see what the effect would be. He tried it, and found himself better almost immediately. His daily headaches, which medicine had failed to cure, left him; his appetite improved, and he gained several pounds in weight within a few weeks. After a while he omitted the drink, either at night or in the morning, and now at times does without either of them. “I am satisfied from experiment,” he said, “that there is no better medicine for persons who are troubled with bilious and liver complaints than the simple remedy I have given, which is far more efficacious than quinin or any other drug, while it is devoid of their injurious consequences. It excites the liver, stimulates the digestive organs, and tones up the system generally. It is not unpleasant to take, either; indeed, one soon gets to liking it.”—Chicago Journal.
The Love of a Mother
Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and despondency, who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and loneliness of a foreign land, but has thought on the mother “that looked on his childhood,” that smoothed his pillow and administered to his helplessness! O, there is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son, that transcends all other affections of the heart! It is neither chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by ingratitude.
She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience; she will surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment; she will glory in his fame and exult in his prosperity; and if misfortune overtake him, he will be the dearer to her for his misfortunes; and if disgrace settle upon his name, she will still love and cherish him in spite of his disgrace; and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to him.
Mother’s Fading Years
By M. Overton
Mother’s face has not the light
It had in other days,
Tho’ still there is much to love,
And there is much to praise.
The rose has faded from her cheek,
There’s not a tint left now,
And there’s a sorrowful, care-worn sign
Upon her wrinkled brow.
Her jetty hair is streaked with gray,
Her eyes are often dim with tears.
Her joys in this old world are past,
She’s fading with the years.
Beautiful sight — to see her face,
Yet changed, is wondrous fair.
It is always to me like an angel,
With some sweet message to bear.
M. OVERTON.
Gems from Wesley
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I love truth wherever I find it.
While we do live, let us live in earnest.
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We have need to use all the common sense that God has given us.
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