The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, February 21, 1908, Image 5
MEN AS FICTION READERS.
In Demand For Such Roading Arc
Said to Outrank Women.
That men have tallou to reading
fiction more thau over belora 1B a
statement madu recently by Boin?
persons in charge of public reading
roo hi s and !
It used lt. ,iul some yea?'a .ito
that women bad a monopoly of lic
tlon and that men read the "heavier"
literature. Now il is claimed by some
authorities that the conditions arc
becoming somewhat reversed and that
.women do a good deal of the heavy
reading.
There ia a tale of a woman In one
of tho suburban towns wno is so
eager to leam ah that she can on
these deeper subjects and tho volumes
Which contain the precious matter are
BO heavy that she is obliged to laing
ti toy express wagon each week to
?carry them back and forth.
A cataloguerer In a large publie li
brary, la of the opinion that the men
and women about average on reading
fiction. "You soc." she said, "the
businessman reads for recreation,
and tlrod out with tho routine of the
olllco, requires something light -
something which will not tax his j
brain too much. So he resorts to
fiction. Women take oui books on
travol 4aud tho dornest lo sciences,
cooking, noodle-work and house-fur
nishing and decorating. of course
they read tho modern bet ion too.
"Books on art do not seem to ap
peal to the mon as much as the wom
en. Our music department ts utmost
exclusively visited by the women, who
Vire allowed to go in and select what
they wish themselves. Oh, yes; I
have seen a man venture in there, oc
casionally, but very ran ;
"Wollu n in ver lake out any ho iks
on techa tea I subjects it is ohl> the
mon who la mi theso on?, tp'oks on
finance mo rarely lalo.. I'roiii thc
shelves. I suppose tho reason for
that is bi cause most business men
rely upon their experience lo help
them.
"Athletics, books on thal subject
interest, tho o?iys, and one. in a while
some fair devotee of fool ba II or base
ball will take out books on those sub
jects, but hoi very of;en
"If you ask mo about poetry I
think tho line there would by very
hard to draw, as the mon seoul io bc
RS enthusiast h readers as rho wom
en.
"Twenty years ago if a woman had
gone into ti public library anet asked
for a book on poultry farms or stock
raising she would have received a
.stare of wonder, and more likely of
pity, as the n" 'adanI would probably
liavo thought ber Insane.
"But women are now taking up so
tr.nr*.r Af i 1. *\ y **#.*?- ? . ' .
P^.O aro .iiLon-.-M -u 01 economics, soci
ology and psychology and scientific
works of all kinds, have been a very
reportant factor in turning womans
noughts to books on thc moro seri
ous subjects.
"'The Ladies Boote of Fashion.'
Dickens and Thackeray and the stan
nard novela which our grandmothers
and mothers road, do not satisfy the
women of today. She must have
something different. Tho college
woman is interested in all Um hn
jportanl questions of the day, tho un
l?ons and the strikers aro of as much
Interest lo her aw thc (aleut stitch m
Knitting or the very latest shape In
a bonnet wore to her grandmother."
He Had The Idea.
Tho position of librarian in nomo
of our city libraries often ?alls for
qualities which would at fist thought
occur to one as indispensable to per
sons of the Sherlock Holm? s persua
sion rather than to those busy in tho
field of library wot!..
For example, in one of thc crowded
districts a Utile boy appeared al the
desk one morning and demanded a
"hook by a feller named Dirt." Sus
pecting a discrepancy somewhere,
the libral ian searched the catalogue
lu vain, then had recourse lo cross
questioning. This proved .(pially fu
tile, and a. note was seul lo tho boy's
mother, asking her if she would be
hind enough to writ?- tin- name of tho
book she wanted In abie! lt il 11" .ip
hour he returned willi a slip ol pall
or on which was written:
"Please send something by George
Band."
Where They Die Only Doce.
A lumbering old stage waa wind
ing in and out OVO!" a rem?lo road
in the Adirondacks. There was only
one passenger and he had ?hosen to
?lt outside beside tin- driver Several
times he had tried con v.-rsa t ion. but
had nud with so Utile encouragement
thnt he bad giv< n up and was sil
ently walebing the landscape.
Presently they came lo a tiny
mountain burying ground, containing
a few gravestones and a few unmark
ed graves, Tho passenger looted at
lt, struck- by its air of loneliness,
which seemed lo stir in bim afresh
the desire for human intercourse He
turned again lo tim drive?-, pointed
toward ibo graveyard, and observed:
"People around lu re don'! seem to
die very often, do they?"
And without thmihg his hoad,
"Jest once," said the <lri,er.
What was probably oin- of Ibo larg
est cargoes of fruit over carried from
any pori in tho world in cool cham
bers recently left J fiona rt l. In the
fjtate of Aasmanla, for Kngland. The
Shipment exceeded 12S.0O? bushel
teases,
NO CREMATION POU PAR3EI2S
Expose the Bodies of Their Dond u
lie Devoured hy Vultures.
Indignation waa created arnon?'
tho Parsecs by na agitation to hi
duoo thom to dispose of their nous
by oromution instead of exposit)'
t^ce) h? (Vvoui"*d 'tv vultures o
t ir ' ?o . . <? of si . ?>." T my a:<
not prepared to abandon a euston
which ia haliowod to thom by hoar>
antiquity and associated with theh
most solomu religious rites.
Though in European minds tin
thought of allowing feathered seav
ongera to feast ou tho bodies of tholr
bolovcd dead would excito tho deep
est feelings of repugnance ami dis
gnat, as praoticod hy tho Parsecs
tills method of getting rid of tho
fleshly tonemont is far fro n boin:-; so
horriblo as ls generally Imagined
Indeed, to tho Parsecs tho nisei ves
and they aro tho mont cultivated and
Intelligent of all tho sects found In
India-it sooms fur preferable to
burying tho dead as practiced bj
Christians.
"Your pooplo," said a Pnrseo, "put
your dead underground, v/he.ro they
provide a banquet for worms. We
put ours above ground, where their
flesh ls eaton by vultures. Tho ul
timate reoult is tho same. Tho honen
are left. Hut there ls a great differ
ence in vrhat taken placo before the
skeleton stage, ls reached, and that
method. Before consigning tho bod
ies of your doad to tho earth you in
close them in collins. You dare not
allow your Imaginations to picture
the horrible changes that there
takes pince before Nature recovers
what she gave. Wo db not scull to
retard the process. Tho vultures do
their work expeditiously. There ls
no putrefaction. ("hil.Han hurlai
grounds, so I have t nd, aro offen
sources of disease; l'a see dokhmiis.
or Towers ol' ntl? nee' .t.? you poeti
cally call thoo, aro never snv'ti.
From a sanitary point of view they
are Incomparably superior lo your
cemeteries, and with us they aro
equally sacred."
"Hui," lt was suggested, "fire
would do the work even bott? r than
VUltu ro?."
"Or worms." said the Parsec.
"When you Christians luke to cre
mation wo Parsoes may possibly fol
low your excellent example. Thero
aro far weightier reasons why cre
mation should take tho placo of bu
rial than eau hu urged tn favor of
Its Hubatitution for our towera of
Bllence."
Th? towera of silence rrown tho
summit of Malabar Hill, near Bom
bay, and aro situated in tho midst
of a beautiful garden whoso tropical
treen swarm with vultures. They
aro built of stono and aro about
twenty-five feet high. A small door
ls provided for lb? ?nlf???<??? .??.? *>e
and friends of the dead, headed by
a number of prto.it?. Upon arrival at
the garden the Itter I? laid down and
prnyers uro nald at tho "s:igrt" or
hon HO of prayer near the entrance
to the Karden. Tho attendants then
carry tho body to the towers of al
lene?, lay lt on tts stony bed and re
tire. Theu tho vultures gather about
and do their gruesome work unseen.
The honen are soon denuded of flesh
and fall through an Iron grating luto
a pit beneath, from which they are
afterward removed by ,\ subterra
nean cavern.
On th? third day after th? death
friends and relatives stiain ansein
bio at tho house where the dead man
lived and thence proceed to the
"tampia of fire." Standing before
th? urns In which th? "celestial
fires" ar? kept burning, prieuts re
dt? prayers foi* tho soul of tho de
parted, lils son, or adopted son.
kneels before the high priest and
promises due performance of all re
ligious rites anti obsequies to the
dead. Friends and relatives then
hand the priest a list of contribu
tion to various charities which have
boen subscribed as a montoela) offer
ing. Thin concludes tho ceremony of
"rlalnR from mourning" or the res
urrection of the dead." On each re
curring anniversary of tho death ot
a Parse? memorial funeral coro
monies aro performed. An iron
framework is orected In the house.
In which shrubs and flowers aro cul
tivated; thus literally keeping tim
memory of tho dead man greon. Be
fore thoa? iron frames prayers aro
said twoor moro llmeodiirlngtwonty
four hours.
']*ho Parsecs aro a small sect.
They humber altogether about 82,
000, of whom 71!.OOO UNO tn or near
Bombay. Most of tim remaining
10,000 aro found lil Persia. As a
people they aro remarkably Intelli
gent nnd trustworthy, with great
gonlun for business. They aro hlghl)
prosperous, much glvon lo charity,
and beggars aro u ak now ti among
thora.
Co (Un ns fi (hit.
It in donhtful Whether nowadays a
present of ono's own co flin would not
bo considered prematuro, If aol un
friendly. Lord Nelson, however, foil
differently; for when his old friend,
Hen Hallowell, captain of the Swift
moo, fient him a collin made out of
tho mainmast of the ship l/Orlont,
after tho battle of tho Nile, he ap
preciated the gift BO much (hat ho
had it Bet up In h bi cahill, Just be
hind tho chair oil which bo always
nat. "I aend it." Hallowell bad writ
ten, "lhat when you are (Ired of tills
lifo you moy bo Itu ried In one of
your own trophies." lt was In this
collin thnt Nelson's body lay when
lt was brought by wator to White
hall, on tho occasion of his public
I funorn.."
TRINIDAD'S ASPHAI/T L.AK10.
Queer M i iiin:? (harried on lu Weit In?
dian Island.
This Trinidad lake of pitch and
the Hernia da/, lako In Venezuela
supply tim bulk of tho asphalt of
oom indico. Bays n writer lu tho NJW
York ^ II
Hrl&hlou has no clattu to oatst
onco ashla from tho bituminous I
pitch that nature hore sends bab
bling up from tho bowels of tho
Garth. Tho lako ls about a quarter
ot a nillo from tho steamship pier.
Nearby uro quarters for two hun- ;
drod nativo workmen, a refining
plant, o ill ces and quarters for tho |
half dozen Americans representing
tho company, and that Is all, ox- ,
cept for tho floreo tropical sun eter
nally beating down, and tho sharks
thnt play In tho harbor.
Hut as a nat irai curiosity and as
a commercial enterprise tho lako ls
of absorbing interest, Imagine a hugo i
asphalt plaza of moro than a hun
dred acre?, softened by the sun,
overgrown In spots with weeda, cov
ered al'tor a rain with pool? of wator,
and you bnvo tho famou* pitch
lake- ? big black sornl-solid poad of
asphalt, with a surface fairly firm
and apparently placid, but In reality
treacherous and eternally in mo
tion.
Around tho odges runs a tramway
with au endless cabio hauling the
loaded cara to tho refinery and
bringing tho empty ones back
again. Alone, this lino, whore tho
pitch Is hardest, ali '.'MI mining of
tho product ls done tho black
workmen digging ll out with pick
and shoved.
lt ls m cessa ry to shift the seo a o
of op?ration only ulong the Him. I
never toward the echter, tis in two
days time tho slowly moving viscous ,
mass of pitch coi?n nilly flowing
from tim co h tor has relined (ho ex
cavation-; and made V ,.i rei 'v for '
the Workmen again, livers day tho ?
rails of tho little tramway ?ire lifted
ami tho slowly -.In' tug Hos moved a !
few Inches one way Ol the other In ;
order that the railway max not on
tlmly disappear in tho bottomless
ooze.
Hot tom loss lt may well bo culled,
for soundings have benn mad? until
with no bottom nt HO foot the pipet*
and sounding apparatus have li toft
crushed and swallowed up, to bo
. disgorged months lalor. Tho iulaln,?
of the product ls lowering the lo?ol
of tho lako at tho rato of abont ?Ix
inchon a year.
The center of this hiix* volcaale
orator ls tho source of supply. Hore
we soe thc pitch, bolling up ta al
most a purely liquid alato, spread
ing out over the lake In desens ef
streams, gradually hardening ?ad
Imperceptibly Hawing toward the
_..... t.uptus. . u long
ago a negro workman heroic;,''y of
fered himself for an oxperlineat de
signed to ascertain how long lt
would tako for a mr.n to become ??
cngulfod In tho pitch. For moro than
an hour ho ?lowly sank until only
tho uppor part of his body reinalnod
In sight and then hlj companions, la
a burst of cruel humor, made as If te
leura him to his fato. Hi* voolferone
appeals for morey molted their
hearts. Planks were thrown out ever
tho pitch, a? they aro used in rescu
ing a skater who has bioko?
through tho loo, and after an hour's
bard work tho victim woe once raero
free and happy.
The lako U a valuable source of
revenue to the Island govornmout.
An export duty If (l.Zi a ton sad a
royalty of 4 9 emits a ton, b> tko
terms of tho concession, put nearly a
quarter of a million dollars u roar
Into tho Island treasury. The eutlro
concession ls about 7.000 acres, and
asphalt is found throughout tin*
whole locality. Tb? land ls fertile
and some of lt ls noa hoing awed
with suc?e**? for the cultivation of
fruit.
The possibility of exhaustion
seems remote tho Venezuelan
lako, although ton tl moe tho ?tea, ls
but thirty foot deep. Ha surface ls
submerged In wator, rendering tho
extraction of tho product more dllil
cult, and a forty rollo haul to tho
seacoast adds much to its cost.
For tho preparation o' ?Jiving sptl
rooli io ma t MIUS iKo '(VinlJad T.I
rlety has been iou ad tue bettor
adapted, but tho purer Venezuelan
article lu us?d largely lu tho prepar
ation of varnish. Hanger at tend?
tho shipping of tho Hormudos pitch
In hulk lu tho holds of tho steamers,
as lin? slightest list to ono ?Ide or
the other tends lo cause a disas
trous flow of the pitch to that sido.
Phono Mouthpiece Abolished,
Consul Mall?n of Nottingham re
ports that tho suggested transmis
sion of dlsoaso by telephone mouth
pieces hus led tho llrltlsh General
(electric Company to devlae na in
strumnnt In which all danger bi
avoided by Simply abolishing tho
mouthpiece, The receiving nnd
transmuting apparatus li combined
in a small metal case, shaped like a
watch, which is held continuously to
tho oar both In speaking und listen
lng, the transmitting microphone be
ing made so sensit ive that lt becomes
unnecessary lo concontrato tho sound
waves on lt by tho aid of any mouth
piece such ns ls ordinarily ueiod.
Mounted on a llanillo, with u speak
ing key, thu new arrangement ls ex
actly similar to tho combined re
ceiver and Irnnsmlttor, except that
there ls no mouthpiece, and tho
speaker, as lt were addresses him
self to the world at largo, instoad of
talking Into a trumpet-shaped orl
floe.
DEKELIOT SCHOONER
Which in Hound for tho Port of Mlas
InK Ships.
Somewhere out ou tho Atlantic,
breasting wintry Boaa and with somo
of her canvas sot. is tho four-masted
Bchooae: (Cd ward J. Her* ind. aban-,
douod and beating up tho tracks for
tlio Port of Missing Ships.
Sim was sighted at sea on Febru
ary 7, by Captain Scott, of tho steam
er Maravol, now in New York, from
Granada.
Tho schooner's decks wore awash,
and there was evidence that, tho crow
had left in haste, lt is possible that
they wine picked up by passing craft.
When sighted the schooner was
about 470 miles east of Charleston,
S. C.. and although water-logged, was
making about two knots and heading
away from the shore.
lier storm foresail was sot. and the
mizzen under two reefs. Her head
sails had been carried away, and tho
spanker was In ribbons. Towing
was not feasible on account of tho
rough weither.
The Uorwlnd ls likely to provo an
ugly mounce for navigation for she
ls under fair headway and running
through tho nights without a light
displayed.
FOHAKER REATEN IN OHIO.
Roosevelt's Man Friday Cleans Him
Up All Over State.
The net result of tho Republican
primaries held throughout. Ohio was
for Wm. li. Ttl ft. Four delegates
at largo and L':! district del?gales to
tho N'allouai Convention in chicago
and a del?gale io thc Stale Conven
tion lo bo hold March :j, which will
be unanimously in his favor, were
Oloctcd. Ai l ual voling for delegates
to tho state Cenvcnilon was carried
Oil in bul thirty live out of the total
O? S8 counties in tho Stale. The
Taft delegates in f>2 counties having
no opposition, their name were sim
ply eel lilied as having been elected.
SAM IO Old) STORY.
Nino Men Killed in * Mine Fx plo'
?loni in Kentucky.
Nine men aro dead and ono in a
dying condition as tho rosuit of an
explosion of gas in the Whito Mino
at South Carolton threo miles north
of Central, Ky. Ten men wore nt
work in a shaft ISO feet deep in a
room apart from tho rest of the mine
and threo moro wore In a different
room filled with fallon coal, and to
hear tho cries of the dying.
ACCIDENT ON A CRUISER.
Tho St. I,nuis Kilters San Francisco
After an Explosion.
A dispatch from San Francisco
says the big cruiser St. Louis wont
out through the Golden Catii leaving
in her Wako a hospital ward full of
scalded and burned sailors and signs
of a rigid governmental nvostlgation
wheh may explain why a warship,
frosh from dry dock and tho work of
roparlng, could have an almost fata',
accident ia her boiler room on tho
evo of tarpot, practico. Just as dbe
was about to leave tho harbor, somo
of tho boiler tubes blow out, niling
tho engine room with a cloud of
steam and scalding terribly four of
tho men who were at work thor?).
lil Ll. WILL PASS
To Establish One Moro Judicial Cir
cuit in This Stnto.
In tho senate tho orginal eleven
circuit bill as passed by the House
bas a favorable report and will prob
ably Docomo a law, possibly withsomo
changes. The hill provides tor one
new circuit. It puts Richland and
Kershaw in a circuit and Edgollold,
Lexington and Saluda in another
circuit. Calhoun County is I (Ml in
the Orhllgohurg Circuit. The hill in
?this shape, as lt carno from the
House, ls likely to pass, all af
fords mndo to have twelve
circuits to give Marlboro Circuit re
lief.
Pruner--The critics roasted your
book, didn't they?
Serlblet Yes, hut not enough to in
sure Us success Ufo.
"So you (bini, yon could buy me and
soil me?" "Well, I don't kliow about
tm- laiier part or the proposition,"
Louisville ( om lcr Journal.
CALHOUN COI N TY.
Hill Passed the Legislature Forming
the New Conniy.
The hill lo establish Calhoun Coun
ty passed second reading in the House
Tuesday, Mr. Hanks, who had in
troduced the hill ill (he House, being
from St. Matthews, the proposed
county sent, bad his bill taken up
out of ils order and (hen moved thal
the bill Introduced by Senator Kay
sor, hy request, be substituted for
the House hill, both hoing on the
House Calendar as second reading
hills The Senate bill was substituted
?for the House bill and given its so
lemn! reading. /
NEW YORK'S HISTORY IN F LAOS.
Dutch, English and American Emblems
That Have Waved over the City.
The first European visitor to Man
hattan Island wu:; Henry Hanson who
In IC?9 sailed up thc river now benr
.. v...:.... . '.io ung uudor which
he ... 'I waa tn.u of tho Dutch East
I tut .li. Company, whit li was thc Hag
of tho l>lilted Provinces ol tho Noth
? ri.ad 5, orango, while and bluo ar
ran;-, d in three otp i al horizontal
stripes, lu tho centro of the white
stripe being tho letters "JV. O. C."
Alu? ans na (Jost -inn se Compagnie
(General liast india Company).
From tho time of tho discovery no
vbdtor came into theso wat? rs or
vvll.cll theio is ri ord until iMV?, when
M ...m; nan wa., settled under tho bast
india Company, which con ti ii hod In
possession until lt)i.S? whoa the gov
ernment foll In o the hands of the
West India Company. Tho dag o? the
Inion Wost india Company was the
same as timi of ita predecessor save
that it boro tho loiters "G. W. C."
-Goocstroycore VVost-ladeso Com
pagnlo (Privileged West India Cum
pa: y).
'I his was tho dominant (lag till lGt',4,
when Ii is island was surrendered to
thc English, abd tho Union Jack
(cross s of langland and Scotland) or
Creal liri! da supplanted tue tricolor
of Holland and tho name of Now
Amsterdam was chanced to New
York. Tho Union Jack at present
la il. rivi d froth tlu- aaieii of the
three eidsa-s of Si. (J ergo, St. An
di' .v titi Patrick, adopted in 1801,
wi a h.- ait of union with Ireland
w p.' s.d.
I:, tip month of .t; ly, 1073, the
! I hitch uga I ii look P1' ;' >' '< " bf ? ho
.ii-, v.l. ch t y o.e.i. . (illili Nov
' :. ' I r le, 11)71, WI ?li by vt rt til bf a
treat)1 of pence b?tiv " Ktightnd and
.;. ?land (he tinton Jack a,..in iloatcd
ayer the city,
I'roni Cos time thero was nb intcr
?ii|i'ioh m tho supremacy of thc Kr
KMSII until the ye ir IT.Sa. w.'ioil Hu'
memorable rule of I i Islor, speedily
terminated hy his death, occur:cd.
He was a warm suppoiTci' of William
md Mary, and it i.> possible that,
while ho held pt ssc -lea of (he foit,
i he Hat; of W illiam, not then pro
claimed King of ISugTuid, might have
floated over New York. Hut lhere ls
no record of this.
Were it so however, it could have
been luit for a rerj brief pei ind, and
tho English flag waved undisputed
an!il the ora of thc American revolu
tion.
At the beginning of the Revolution
m.- i m. h.i uii ?Amgiebn ?,<H, i .11-1,1
Chlof of ihe Ami rican Porers, and on
his way to lake commnim at Cam
brldge ard T vi n. thc English Hov.
.r ior. who l ad arrived the day be
fore. lt was alioul this time that the
irst raising of any hui thc English
(lng in New York occurred. Hcfore
h's, indeed. liberty poles had been
'll?ied and eat down ag In; nut now.
Starch, :77.r,, a Union flag, with a red
liold, was hoisted in New York upon
i h o liberty ?'ole on the Common bear
Ing tin- inscription "George Rex and
the liberties of Anmrlcn," and upon
ihe other side "No Popery."
The British, under CON Tryon, va
alcd New York in 177"?. hm there is
ao record which K'VCS any positive
lale as to the raisin;; of me Ameri
can Mag here.
The city was held by American
troops after this event, until Septem
ber |:?( 177,;. when Washington re
treated to Harlem and afterward from
. be Island, and the city WM occupied
by Sir Henry (Minion and from that
time held by the H itish until the close
ef the war. They evncu.>? ><l the city
Nevcinbpr Sin'? thea no
(lac hill ttie St nra and Stripes has
waved over the city In tok a of pow
er and authority,
THE WALLS OG JERICO.
Important Diccoveriec R. lng Made by
an Au '.lillian ?-.,fe' "?or.
Professor fielt In's . xe? va t iens on
Cu- sit,, of the nncicul citj of Jericho
an- yioidltig unexpectedly rich treas
11 res. In l-'.s ked lett, rs to the Vi
enna ACadi my of Science tho profes
sor writes that .,. .>? a ll titi (Ired men
are digging at five different points.
One of (he mest interesting finds is
the historical .?ty wall, built of burnt
dmr bricks lt " .<.- o. jon feet in
, ,.....ig fr.n.i a ..?one foun
dation. On the western side of tho
eily thc wall was iicarlj lo. ty feet in
width. \t a not lu i pc: it a private
house was found built over another
house of a still earlier enoch.
tither discoveries Include lamps,
plates, cups, needles, weights, mor
tars and mills of h on/ - and .done,
some of very rough and primitive
handwork, a ml olin ri very finely exe
cuted, (n the lither city remains of
i'oivs of houses have been discovered,
lind the mich ai Hebrew lettering
proves that the old Hebrew charac
ters were ill use.
Professor Sellii. hopes to renew the
excavating work lu xt winter. In tho
II;-an lime ho ::>>. that tho work ai
re: d'- done ha? opened up a wealth of
j material for the student of tho pro
Israelite and Canaanite period. -
1 Pall Mall Gazette
t _
? Two Kinds "A drowning -nan wtli
estell at a straw." "And so will a
tn Irs fy man."
8UICIDE 8TATI8TIC8.
Childless Marriages a Cause-Rate
Hiyn Annaly vtc. manic Mai,vns.
Among ?.iioy.?uo suicides of all
Classes, ii u,u4 ooeu lound thai '?Ob
mauled mun wita chi.urea destroyed
thou- liv, ?, i,o ma. ruo UK1" t i. - ii
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With respect to thu \, . uuu, 45 mar
ried women with ?v.ul : >a without
children committed suicido, while iu4
widows wiih, und Lotf without oi?
spring, comp.clod tho iiut.
(in the rttce ?JI things, Bays the Il
lustrated London New:., lt would ap
pear that in childless marriages the
number of men suicides ls douoled
and in woaicu trebled. Leaving tho
case of actually insane persons out ot
count, ii wo ?ld also appear that in
males suicido is moro {roquent than
in females.
Equally interesting is that phase ot
the subjcr.t which deals v>>tn tho
causes. One tablo deailug with ti.7X2
cases snows om- seventh caused by
misery, one twenty-first part by toss
of fortune, one forty-third by gamb
ling, one nineteenth by love affaira,
one-ninth by domestic troubles, ono
sixty-sixth by fanaticism, and by
foiled ambition and remorse one-sev
enth and ono twentyscvenlh respect
ively.
The geography of suicide is also of
h igh interest. Westcott says the
highest proportion in Europe Is
shewn by tile Germanic races. Sax
ony ha vine "the 1er: ; suicide rote
of tiny c?untry." In Norway the rate
was vor) larg? for a time, Its dc
e ron se hoi nj* attribut* I lo thc greater
restrictions nov, laid on tho liquor
I rallie.
The Celtic races hilve a low rate,
uhd this is evinced by Hie ligaros tor
ir? tanti at td W.ih s. Mountainous ro
gioilS are said to s oyv a towel' rale
than lowlands. In th highlands of
Scotland a.ul Wales, and in Iho high
arcs of switzerland, suicide ls
rare.
'I .nu s an 1 seasons ab o operate, tip
pan uiiy to Inlluen? Hie net of soif
desl ruction. Roughly speaking, tho
curve line of suicide, calculated
through the yenr, rt cs from January
lo July, and decreases for the sec.
Olid hail Of tho year. The maximum
periods have been fourni to fall tn
[.ray, June and .lilly. I believe in
deed Jun? ls found to show a marked
predominance as a suicido month.
One reason for such preeminence in
the warm season of the year is set
down as represented by tue onset of
hot weather affect lng tho system and
tending to disturb the menial equil
ibrium Of the subjects. In 1,093 eases
noted in Paris the prevailing hours
that different countries appear to
show preferences for different means
of committing suicide from other
hinds. The most common European
methods ls by moans of Hanging, but
in italy ibis mode of self-destruction
is rare.
Drowning comes next in order, and
twice ax many women as mea perish
in this way each year in Europe,
Shooting is frequent in Italy and in
Switzerland. Cut throat is common In
England and Ireland; it ?loes not seem
to ?oust it nie anywhere else a fre
quent mo le of ending lifo.
Poisoqlng is a specially Anglo
Saxon method of suicide, wo are told;
while suffocation by the fumes of car
bonic ncld xas, inhaled In a closed
room, ls vcr> typical of suicide in
Prance.
SOUTH AMERICAN RAILWAYS.
They Run East and West Instead of
Noi th and South.
Although to the North American
exponents of that project there ha?
seemed a discouraging lack of inter
est in the Pan-American Railroad
nun. there has really been no cessa
tion of Ihe activity of the latter in
pushing development in their mort?
Immediate spheres.
I et m bl il?! tho Unes tho country
needs," IhO) say. "and don't ask us
to go oui of our way to further n,
fv.heine which, however practicable
from an engineering point of view,
would not pay us dividends in this
century, and possibly not In the
next.
"We concede that we might benefit
Indirectly through the increased stn
hillly ?d' government that would fol
low the building of an intercontinen
tal lino, bul that hem nt is too rom o te
to Interest us at a time when wo
have ample opportunity for expending
all our available funds In the con
Rtruetlon of Hues thal will yield re
turns from the day they are oponed."
So it happens that while there han
never been so much activity in ratl
wny construction in South America
as at the pr . ? nt moment, almost
wit hon! exception tlc new lines aro
following the parallels rather than
the meridians, running nnsl and svest
rather than north and south.-Re
view of Reviews.
Mr. I lilli tom I'm ling to India to
hunt six mom hs.
Miss i 'a I chem And 1 suppose you
will forgot all about poor me.
Mr. Iluutom My d ar, it will tako
a terrible boree elephant to mako mo
forget you.
You can't mako a nagging woman
believe that she hasn't the swoetost
disposition in tho neighborhood,