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WHY MEN "SEE SNAKES." Scientists Working on the Problem Caused by "Overindulgence." That delirium tremens is the direct result of overindulgence in alcohol is well underscood. But how does such - - ^ ? 4 ^ ^ " h f c*l>niilr1 overindulgence aci: ahu \>n\ omruiv. some hard drinkers never "see snakes," while other and much milder victims visualize them to such a degree that loss of life tollows? Theories of delirium tremens are not wanting, but there are so many as to indicate that the truth is yet undiscovered in its completeness, says the Journal of American Medical associa'. tion. There appears to be an interesting, though disquieting, reason for revival of research in the subject just now. The writer tells us that since t ? the Harrison narcotic law went into r " effect many drug habitues, having exhausted their supply and failing to obtain more, have turned to alcohol as a substitute. In some who had been drinking for years the sudden and marked increase in the amount limii-kn onnsnmpd has led to the VI i*4UVA frequent occurrence of delirium tremens. After noting that "chronic alcoholic poisoning produces well known changes in the central and peripheral nervous system," he adds, In substance: "As yet, however, no changes have been found in the brain which explain fe why a man who has been drinking for years suddenly develops a delirium which runs a definite course | of from three to five days or even P longer. "It has been thought that delirium tremens is an acute infection occurring in chronic alcoholics. Neverthe!' less, many cases run their entire course without fever, and Nonne found blood-cultures negative in fifteen consecutive cases examined by him. Doeliken believes that conf tinued drinking of alcohol results in the production of a poisonous substance in the brain itself, and that an accumulation or concentration of this substance produces delirium tremens. Jacobson explains the delirium as an g; autointoxication, the toxin arising 7 from the pheumococcus gaining enj?'Af. trance through the liver, the kidney ,y ' or the intestinal tract, and acting on a brain which has been poisoned over ^ a long period of time by alcohol. The view of Hertz differs from this in that jfe the supposed poison which precipife) tates the delirium comes from an insufficiency on the part of the kidney. According to Bonhoeffer, chronic alternation in the intestinal tract is responsible for the elaboration of poi| son which is normally excreted pv . through Ihe lungs. Wagner Von Jauregg believes that the liver, rath&./ ' than the lungs, is the organ which :fails to eliminate the poison, and he thinks that this failure is due to the changes occurring in the liver in * chronic alcoholism. Kauffman has ^ asserted that this poison is a carbonK derivative acting on a medulla altered as a result of chronic alcoholism. " (He believes that the delirium will , persist until the deduction of this ' - carbon-derivative stops." All of these theories presuppose a poisoned central nervous system. It has been objected, however, that By*- '?^many chronic drinkers never suffer delirium. It has been suggested that , ainereni poisons may result num cacessive drink and that only one of these may cause delirium tremens. There are, however, still other theories. "The possibility that delirium is due to an increase in the pressure and amount of the spinal fluid has recently been considered. Jauregg, of Vienna, assumes that the body of the : : chronic alcoholic protects itself by the production of an anti-alcohol r- which is of the nature of an antitoxin. When a hard drinker suddenly stops taking alcohol this anti-alcoholic substance, having no alcohol to which to afiix itself, acts on the body in such a manner as to produce delirium tremens. Hare maintains that the development of delirium is due to a sudden fall in the amount of alP! cohol circulating in the blood of alcoholics. His evidence is drawn from a study of 75 cases, in nearly all oi which there was a great reduction in the amount of alcohol absorbed prioi to the onset of delirium. "Numerous objections have beer raised to each of these theories. The views concerning poisons and autointoxications have been vigorously attacked because there is as yet nc definite proof that a poison is elabor ated. There are already adversariee to the recent notions concerning ai increased pressure of the spinal fluic and the fall of alcohol in the circu lating blood, all of which indicates that much work remains to be don( before the final answer to the prob lem is reached." He Should Be Glad. Father?Upon my word, you chil dren are getting too dainty for any thiner Whv. when I was vour ag< I was glad to get enough dry breac to eat. Robert?You have a much bettei time living with us, don't you father' ?Answers. QUEEN FOR 25 YEARS. Wilhelmina. of Holland, Refuses Cele bration of Silver Jubilee. I ?? Queen Wilhelmina has occupied tin throne of The Netherlands for 2' years, says the New York World. Sh< celebrated the event very quietly witl her husband, Prince Henry, their lit tie daughter, Princess Juliana, anc her mother, Dowager Queen Emma, j She would not allow her subject; to spend any money on festivities ii i her honor, stipulating that the ap | propriation made by the State fo; ! this occasion should be donated t< | the fund for the war sufferers ii I Holland. The newspapers, in recent j ly noting this kindly act of charity I brought to the minds of people ii other countries the first remembranc< that the young queen had actuall: passed a quarter of a century upoi the thorne. Only 35 Years Old. She will be 36 next August, an( was a very plump and dimpled littl< girl of 10 when her father, King Wil liam III, died and she became queen She was under the guardianship o her mother until she reached the ag( of 18, since which time she has beei very much of a sovereign. Her position is not an easy on< these days, as the head of a natior of 6,000,000 people crowded into ar area of 12,000 sq.uare miles, less thai the States of Massachusetts and Con necticut put together, with abou; 500,000 Belgian refugees and 2,00( interned British soldiers and sailore as uninvited guests. Army Kept on the Watch. There is the army still mobilized which is costing $200,000 a day. II was increased last July from 330,00C to 550,000, the navy being enlarged at the same time through a government grant to build two new cruisers and four submarines for the defense of Holland's colonial possessions And there is, above all else as a source of anxiety, The Netherlands Overseas Trust, the great commer' cial enterprise which has charge o1 all trade entering and departing fron the country, which is officially recognized by both sides of the belligerents, who, naturally, glare at one another across little Holland's narrov strip of territory and fasten eagle eyes upon the doings of the N. O. T. The Overseas Trust. Mr. Van Aalst is the president ol the Netherlands Overseas Trust, the ablest financier of the nation and i man held in high esteem both in London and Berlin. He is, however, the representative in the Trust of the Queen, who has the privilege of appointing the president. She is s large stockholder in this lucrative enterprise, which was founded bj King William I, and has remained under royal direction ever since. At the present time the N. O. T. is responsible to the British government for every item of every cargo that enters Dutch,ports. The N. O. T. is also held accountable in London for the final destination of every item oi every cargo wherever it relates tc contraband of war. Dutch citizens on the other hand, and Germans whe have a perfect right to cross the water, since they are not at war with The Netherlands, find it hard to resist the seductions of Teutonic golc for what can be smuggled across th* frontier. Prices undreamed of it times of peace can, it is said, b? easily obtained for the commodities which Germany desires and whict Holland possesses in plenty. Determined to Avoid War. It is not believed either in Londoi or Berlin that Queen Wilhelmina has the slightest intention of permitting her country to enter the war. Sh< fears both Germany and Great Bri Koinor rlononf^ont nnnn thfi firs t CL 1 UL y IJ 1 11.^ V WM VM V ? for the integrity of her territory ii Europe and dependent upon the sec ond for the integrity of her colonia , empire. The one is at the mercy o the German army, the other at th mercy of the British fleet. Thi queen's hope is that she may b among the negotiations of the peac which must eventually come and tha she may thus have the opportunity o . placing Holland upon a higher plan of international importance. He . country was the first to recognize th flag of the American colonists, bu on that account Holland's delegat to the conference at Paris was not a! lowed a seat at the council table. The Diagnosis. ) "Jack," said a friend to a patrol s man who had just turned to a rc i porter about a man taken ill on th I street, "what did you say was th - matter with that man in your n 3 port?" 3 "I reported," said the patrolmai - with all the dignity of an accurat diagnosis, "that he had fell down i an athletic fit." And Many There Be. Fluhdue?Well. I suppose yo 3 were up bright and early this mon I ing? Roundabout?No, sir, I'm never u r bright and early. If I am up early ? am not bright, and if I am up brighi I'm not early. ? AX ESSAY OX PAXTS. " Some Interesting Thoughts About Those Worn by Man. ] Pants are of two kinds; human and dog, says Farm Life. The human pants of commerce are 1 worn mainly by males. ~ But equal rights prevail among 1 dogs. Human pants are worn thicker in * winter and thinner in summer. A dog's pants come thicker in the summer. The dog's lungs are the seat of his 5 pants. (Date 1 875, Hostetter's Al1 manac.) White pants are not a garment. ' They are a business to themselves. 1 The man who wears them doesn't 3 work at much else at the time. When I was small and on a farm I 1 wore pants that were not new. So far as I could find out, they never had been new. When they had been first worn out, 3 by the first tallest ancestor I had, they had been patched at all the ven' tilated places. When the original goods wore out 3 between the patches, the first patches 1 were connected by other patches. And sew on. Where they overlapped?the 1 patches?the goods became about an 1 inch thick. 1 And then human legs made of any material less durable than vulcanized ^ flint are incased in a set of inch-and* a-quarter Deer Island jeans trousers 5 patched with every kind of heavy goods from horse blankets to remnants of rag carpet?when, I say, any ' human nether limbs are incarcerated ^ in these bendless tabular garments in * a wheat field on a southwest hillside ^ at 2 o'clock on a clear, still day when the temperature is 110 in the shade 5 and there is no shade, the owner of J said legs thinks longingly of the bas' tile, the stocks, the pincers, the guilL lotine, the pillory, the thumbscrew, ' the rack, the stake and other religious pleasantries. ^ I have gone long days in the wheat 1 field in a pair of such asbestos pants lined with sandpaper and barbed wire, and now death or public speaking or fashionable dinners?none of r those things has any terror for me. " I playfully inquire of death as to the location of its stinger. f A Story of Daniel O'Connell. t The most interesting of the stories, . however, is that of the famous hat k incident, which has been told so of? ten. A prisoner, whose name was . James, was being tried, and the witl nesses for the Crown had sworn to > the finding of his hat in an incrimii nating way. "You are quite sure," I said O'Connell, when he rose to crossexamine, "about this hat?" "I am," } replied the witness. "Let me look " ? 11 J li I at It," said u uonnen, ana it . he looked inside, and slowly spelt . out the word "James." "Do you } mean to tell the court that this name f was in that hat when you found it?" ) "I do, on my oath." "You saw the name then?" asked O'Connell. "I > did?surely." "This is the same hat, . and there is no mistake about it?" t "Och," returned the witness, grow. ing impatient, "no mistake at all, I 'tis the hat." "And all you have ? sworn to is as true as that stateit ment?" "Quite." "My lord," said j O'Connell, turning to the judge, "you 5 can dismiss the case, there is no i name in the hat."?Christian Science Monitor. Best History of The United States. 1 The following is the best history ever written of the United States of one hundred words: "The revival of learning, commercial revival and re ^ ligious zeal in Europe led to Colum1 bus's discovery in 1492. Conflicting ~ territorial claims and parental animosity involved English, French, and Spanish colonists in wars, culminat0 ing in English supremacy in 1763. 0 England's oppression alienated colone ial affection, induced revolution, has0 tened independence. Common cause * and danger begat colonial union, the weakness of the confederation dee manded a federal republic. Party r difference tempted legislation, negro e slavery precipitated civil strife, secession, emancipation. Federal aue _ tnority supreme, rwuasuuvuun succeeded. 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