“What is more pleasing than to be able to walk erect, to look your fellow men straight in their faces, to feel so good you cannot avoid getting up on your toes and stepping out at a lively gait, your face radiant, eyes glistening and so full of life and hope and joy, that all mankind is made happy by coming in contact with you? This is what training does, and surely such things are certain elements of success.
“The cigarette is the greatest curse the young man of the country has to contend with to-day. If he wishes to excel in anything, he must eliminate this habit. The cigarette is as deadly to success as the most deadly poison is to the body. To train is to regulate the body and all its functions. One must sleep regularly, eat regularly, and, in fact, eliminate all things that would in any way interfere with regularity.
“When a man enters his home with a radiant face and a beaming countenance, he is always sure of a welcome. That which is pleasing to your own wives and families is also pleasing to your fellow man. The greatest factor in a man’s happiness is regularity. Regularity is training. Training under proper conditions is the one factor, in my opinion, which will produce absolute and genuine happiness.”
Revolution Has Drained the Treasury of San Domingo.
The resources of the Dominican government are so drained by the cost of fighting the revolutionists that it is unable to pay the salaries of the officials or current expenses and the public debt is increasing, according to advices received in New York. Intervention from outside is looked for in many quarters. The opinion is frequently expressed that if a provisional government should be appointed and elections held under the efficient control of a third party, the republic would be placed in a position which would lead to prosperity.
Instrument to Detect Hurricanes.
The “barocyclometer,” an instrument so sensitive as to detect a hurricane 500 miles away, thus enabling ships equipped with it to steer clear of storms, is to be installed by the navy department in all of the naval stations on the Atlantic coast, and perhaps on the ships of the Atlantic Fleet.
This instrument is the invention of the Reverend José Algue, director of the Philippines weather bureau. While in Washington recently, Father Algue conferred with Captain Joseph L. Jayne, superintendent of the United States naval observatory, relative to the recharting of the Atlantic Ocean for the use of the barocyclometer. This instrument has been in use in the Philippines and China naval stations and on the ships of the Asiatic Fleet for many years.
“Dead” Animals Made to Live.
Doctor Samuel F. Meltzer, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, in the course of recent experiments to discover a successful method of artificial respiration, restored to life two animals which he had caused to be put to death, and which were dead in the common acceptance of the term. Both recovered entirely. He believes the method to be equally applicable to man, and urges that it be tried in all cases of death; for it is quite possible, he asserts, that in cases of death from acute[{66}] illness the actual cause might be only of a temporary nature.