Gun Goes Off 1 instantly when you pull the 9 trigger. So sickness may come gg on sudden!/. But It takes time hi g to load the gun, and it takes Q time to get ready for those ex- Jg plosions called diseases. Coughs, ku colds, any "attack,** whatever H the subject he, often means pre- vfl ceding v/eakness and poor blood. |$ Are you getting thin? Is your appetite poor? Are you losing tkr?.t snap, energy S vigor that make "cJeir-ficaded- M out prejudice or favor, and give judgment with judicial fairness, we have no more difficulty in rendering a verdict than on a prisonor in the dock. And just so in tho future the United States must appear at tho bar. Some Gibbon or Oarlyle, with spectacles on his nose, will sit in judgment on the deeds we are now doing in the tlesh, tho chronicles of the day will present a brief and the evidence for the prosecution, and Irving and Hancroft and others who have loved | us, not so wisely, perhaps as well. wiU appear for the defense. The finding of that court we cannot forecast as yet, but at least we should decide what is our chief sin, that wo may shun it and reform if possible. And that sin, marking our whole poo pie with a brand as plain as that of (Jain, is waste. The south wastes annually enough to pay the interest on our national deht; the waste of the nation eouhl pay the principal in two years?waste of food, waste of clothes, waste of energy and hrain force. Now, in this categoi y we count nothing as waste that gives fair return of pleasure or health or rest. Money spent for these pays large dividends, and yet this is what most of us call waste. Malthus teaches that the time must come \s hen the earth cannot support its thronging millions, and therefore he calls war a necessity and wholesale death our earthly benefactor. And he is * right if wo rniist live as wo do f now or if our present mode of life is necessary to our hea'thy existence. But here are a few figures to controvert both the theory and foundation upon which it is based: ^ Two thousand one hundred and twenty-five acres near Paris produce all the vegetables necessary for tho 2,000,000 inhabitants of ] I Iness?'** Do one thing; build up 70ur whole system with h. SCOTT'S EMULSION cf & Cod-lhrer Oil. It is the essence fa of nourishment. It does not nauseate, does not trouble the Lj stomach. ArtA if .11 M that d!wu*f rcbs y?>f, 11 A book trlitng more about ft acot M tree Aak tor it. kj SCOTT & BOWNV., KnrYort. ' WHAT IS Of II NATIONAL SIN.' Homo Time in Hip Future This \ Country Must Appear at the liar. Through the prospective of history each nation is but a larger man. it has its L.'rth, its cliildT hood, its manhood and old age,its characteristic virtues, and, alas, its predominating vices and favorite sin. On the old nations, whose records we can view with salting ins laboratory mine? To this he simply answers that he is satisfied if the government is, that he has no secret, to sell and no invention to he bought up,and all ho asks is to be let alone in the prosecution of his industry. By next year he expects to be able to turn 50,000 ounces of his manufactured gold each month into the United States mint. During October he will have 1,000 worth ready for the assay office, lie says. 'I he correspondent i who tells of the meeting of the chemist and Director I'reston on Friday goes on to quote thel former directly and indirectly: "So far as my observations I have gone." said I >r. Emmons, "I am led to believe that ordinary j silver consists of groups of par-i tides having varying degrees ofi j molecular stability. Some of j these groups are capable of dis- I integral ion ami rearrnngement in' the form of argentarum, and in i this latter appears to !>? altogether unstable. At the least provocation, so to speak, it ;e voits into silver or advances into ! gold. This seems to explain why the chemical analysis of gold found in nature invariably shows w? neoconnn / * ~:i ?i I j/ivouaiv\j */l ? /? M | i Oil <11111 gold." Dr. Km mens said it is agreed among chemists that the differ enco between gold and silver is a difference of specific gravity. It is not color, for Corey Lea of Philadelphia some time ago treated silvor in a way to give it a yellow color so that it looked like gold. Chemists called this 'allotropio silver," hut, call it what they would, it was as yel that city and furnish a surplus for shipment to London. With no appliances more costly than a few frames for seeding, half an acre produces c:ops that sell for $1,000. Resides, it is now certain that not even soil is necessary for the perfection of plant life. The (dorman, Professor Nobbe, grew in jjars of water perfect rice plants, j heavily fruited, merely by introducing the chemical food of the , plant?principally nitrogen?into the water. Nearly all these con j stituents are in the air,aro returni od to it and may be used again ! forever. And yet wo are already talking | about our ''exliau ted fields." What about Egypt and A-in Mi I * nor, that have fed millions since the dawn of historv '?Ex. : r ins kloniri'f. Dr. Emmons Makes Gold ami Sells It To Government. Dr. Stephen 11. Km mens of New York, a chemist ot some imputation, has been telling Director Preston of the United States mint about his industry of turning silver into gold. This scheme was rnado public some time ago, but now Mr. Emmons tells the mint director that the United States government itself since Aug. 13 has taken $2,000 worth of his manufactured gold at the mint price, and a Wash ington correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean declares that Mr.Preston has found from the records of the assay ofliee that this is true. But it may have been original and not manufactured gold?in a word, is Prof. Emmons low as gold, and by his process Dr. Emmens says ho has given the silver the same specific gravity as gold. ILo has simply packed the silver closer by beatingwhet her lie has converted sil\er into gold or not, he has produced a metal which commands a price as gold. The process of conversion is somewhat expensive, hut Dr. Emmons says he can not if2.80 profit on "very ounce of goMJpro duced. '*f am in this business for money," he continued, "and 1 cm making my pile, c e.vp el to. No, I do not want any man to invest his money in !' nor d"? I want *ho government to purchase 'ho secret. I am not toady io soil. ! simply I -tv" foi:".! r-.p I \ 1 o r. d < k o. an?l it is > i > .; < y ..' j > r a torv on Stat en Islaml, NT. Y." And the correspond nl adds that when the chemist is ' finish *d, the mint director, who is a pronounced gold bug and looks upon silver as a base motal, appeared dazed. 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