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WEDNESDAY. DEC. 31. 1890.

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The Old Year.

» » The year which-dill close to-night

has been in mxny respects more than usually eventful, and the political, scientific, and other movements which it his witnessed are likelytn exercise a vast influence on the year»- that-are to come.

The attention of the world has been for a portion of the year centred on " Darkest Africa," the scene of the heroism and intrepidity of .H. M. Stanley, whose amazing feats have in many ways brightened its dark re oessesand very much reduced its in- accessibility to civilizing and Christian- ising influences. The revelation of

. horrible atrocities on the part of sum J‘ of the members of the great t.raveller’.~

rear guard have dimmed the now fam- ous Emin relief expedition and short. Englishmen of some of their glory; bu» it is our sincere hope that reports have

' been exaggerated, a not unlikely thing

‘in view of the many ditliculties attend- ing the transmission of news from the- heart of Africa to Britain. Portugal has more than once duiing the yea: assumed a threatening attitude to- wards the British Government, and once would have gone to war-"if she had dared, to assert what she called her‘ “rights” in the millions of miles of African territory.

European peace, in spite of grave forebodings, remains unbroken, and the war cloud has not yet appeared. This happy condition of things, not withstanding the “ preparations for war” which nearly every European na- tion has been making on an elaborate

_scale, is due in a great. measure to tn ‘ 5 wise utterances of the young Emperor of Germany and the skilful and far- seeing statesmanship of Lord Salis- bury. The fall of Bismarck and the appointment of General Caprivi at his successor was brought about by a bold, and it was thought at the time a reckless political stroke of the German Emperor, but beyond a few trivialities. the falling out of line of the “ man of iron” has not had any appreciable efli-ct on the destinies of nations. lt would not have been so two decades The lust of territory does not diminish but nations are learning mot» and more to appreciate peace and good will.

The relentless persecution of the Jews by Russia called forth a storm of condemnation no less severe than that which the Siberian outragegwhich still go on, provoked some little time ago. It would appear that France’ is de sirous of bringing about an alliance with as an offset to the Triple Alliance between Austria, Italy and Germany.-

_'_ and Japan have suffered from a succession of fl nods and earthquakes.‘ and Japan has just held her first par liament. She progresses rapidly and" the time, it would , is notfar ofl' when she will fall into line with all other civilised nations of the globe.

of the British Lion ha been extended andgiinally consolidated in India,'jt‘nd the railway ‘system of C.-sshiurre which hasjiust been inaugu- rated has forged a link with Great Britain which cannot easily be broken.

Imperial politics have been con-« vnlsed by the now celebrated Parnell- O'Shea divorce case,‘ and the question of Home Rule for Ireland has been rendered more diflicult than ever and p03t.poned indefinitely. Parnell has rapidly lost ‘power in Ireland and the resnlt of ‘the Kilkenny election shows beyond doubt that he will never re- gain it. McCarthy is the coming leader-_of ,Home Rule, and if this long cherished ambition of Ireland is ever to be_ obtained it can only be under the ~ skilled, faithful, and honorable loading of such a patriot as he.

The greatest discovery of this and many past years has been that made by Dr. Koch, the now celebrated Ger- man physician, who claims to have found a cure for consumption. The medical world has been moved, and all intelligence received goes to [prove that :the eminent specialist's claim is not unfounded. Some experiments made with Koch’s lymph have failed disastrously and brought about several deaths, but this has only been in those instances where the lymph was applied by unskilled hands. Koch and his assistants have been invariably suc- cessful, and in no case have their ex- periments resulted fatally.

In America the only thing that calls for notice is the McKinley Tarifl' Bill which seems to have had a totally dif-

, ferent effect over the realm of politics

from that anticipated by its author and his fellow politicians. The Behr- ing Sea dificulty between England and the United States remains a dim culty, and at the present time the bal- ance betweeo the two powers is being preserved by the operation of a media vivendi which must, sooner or later, give place to a Goal settlement which it would be too much to hope, will give satisfaction to both parties. The dificnlty with the Indians in North Dakota which has resulted in the death of the celebrated Chief. Sitting Bull and his son, together with several of the United States. oficers

diespatchra give promise of an early cessation of hostilities.

the past year with Temperance“ work in this

-. ainst

Peters’ famous decision regarding hop

beer has been reversed and an im-

mense impetus has _oopsequ_e_i_itly been . given to the work of temperance.

Drunkenness has I during the past’ year and if the Scott Act he sustained at“ the election on Thursday week we have abundant hopesihat by this time next year we mine shall heable to report that Charlot- tetown has earned the right to be called the most sober city in the students in his laboratory

Domini an.

ly diminished

We Must Have the Tunnel.

It seems almost useless to protest

the gross and inexcusab

mismanagement of our winter ms:

service.

Protests both loud and long

have been made year after year ever

since we and yet

entered the confederation, the Minister of Marine does

not appear to have exhausted his spite or the spite of the powers that be

we have,

soon, the cry will be . Why this studied‘ neglect is practised

against us yet. _ had cause to raise the cry of secession,

If ever a province

and unless something is done I . I

we know not. But one thing is sure.

The standing

Canadian politicians, notwith-

their shouts about building

up a Canadian nationality, do not care

a snap

Edward Island and its needs.

of their fingers for Prince Our

six representatives are not worth a button to them—-numerically speaking —and as far as doing anything to secure the tunnel they are not worth much more than that to Prince

Edward the

Government

Therefore they can

Island either. feel

afl'drd to trifle with us and expend

all their

millions on the other Pro-

vinces whose votes are so necessary to

their political being. We sayithis is

grossly unfair, unstatesmanli unpatriotic.

, and If Ottawa does not want

this Province to be a part of the con- federation let it say so, and one hun- dred thousand Prince Edward Island- ers will soon let it know that we are not a colony of paupers hanging on to confederation for support. But the trouble is also largely with ourselves. The politicians, both Dominion and local, are neglecting the one grea' issue that afl'octs us, and wasting their

energies

Conservative and Liberal, is

over trifles; the press, both al-

most, as silent as the grave, and tho-

people have never awakened to the

necessity of a scheme which it would almost be worth their while sellin-1

increase Liberals and

the shirts upon their backs to secure- a tunnel under the straits. of North- umberland. At this moment while Conservatives are bragging about the

of interprovincial trade, the shouting for reciprocity,

potatoes are selling at the rate of

75 cents a bushel just across the

straits, thousands of dollars worth of

produce is lying idle in our barns and

warehouses and thousands more are imprisoned in vessels detained by the

ice. What ”

suchconditions!

be a ably the

be no poorer. than they are‘ today ten years time if they undertook tz__

good can either interprovin-

cial trade or reciprocity be to us under How can we ever us and contented peo- ple? The tunnel must come and prob-.

people of this Province would

in

build it themselves.

with

We are not al the. resolution or‘ County Tempera

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Censure of Messrs. Laird and

McN-utt.

' or in accor‘ the Princ nce Lea-rue in censur-

ing Messrs. Laird and McNutt in the

evasive answers they; gave on the license question. Thfig‘ §rspli‘es were not as candid as we could wish, but we believe they indicate opposition to the principle of License. Of course it is a

diflicult question to decide what would

liquor.

be best to do in case‘ of the defeat ' of the Scott Act‘ hero, and while License is wrong it must ‘not be forgotten .hat to refuse to pass _sny liquor law is practically to legalize the sale of

The “ Examiner's” Assumption.

I remember during Robert Inger- soll’s palmy days of seeing a cartoon in the American papers in which Ing-

ersoll ap chipping

Christian faith.

peered with mallet in hand

away at the pedestal of the A smallboy appears

on the scene and asks, “Why don't you build, a. better statue and -then we’ll pull down the old one 1” Tr-

which Ingersoll West, I am not an architect.” a cartoon would very aply illustrate.

replied, “ You go Such

the attitude of the Examiner in this

Scott Act campaign. In Saturday’:

issue the following appeared :--“ The

editor of

Tun Guannum has taken till-

trouble to obtain from the members of -

the Logic

' lative Council an assurance of that which the Examiner assumed from the beginning, viz: that a license law

will not probably pass the. Logis-

lature.”

that if the Emaniiner had for any such assumption that it“_allowed the discussion to befoiipucted through its columns, editoijiallylihnd as though the real issue‘ . re our people at present were lifilhe low versus the Scott Act, when accord- ing to its assumption it is-not that. _

but free

Is it not somewhat singular good und

herwise,

high‘ or

rum and the. Scott Actf

Does it not seem to’tliq.intelligant_ and men is-almost settled and recent tor of the ' without construction,‘ V folly and wickedness, reqdivin T Coming none; 1.03,, '9 fovi.' hrains,hoart nor character. __ u..nkfni......_ see in a paper for which wexahways pm, have had so much respect articles with

“it " hen we

vinoo has prospered all along eh. such captionsss " The Scott Act Must line, and temperance ggnfimgng of Go,” we do think that something bet- the best kind is greater now than for ought to beoll‘o~re.d in its‘ place.

ever before. For this happy oommm.

Now will not the Examiner build a

mntion we have to thank the Scott 593%? 38100 Mid then we'll pull down

Act which provides such

Vglugble the old 0110. Give us some more satin;

machinery for temperance work as ‘WV’?! 7915'? 158" Imzorsoll gave the

well as educative influences for those b°7. i"

who are ofl;--the raisseller

loci-tgnfl’

as

o

the lubsvths;

i-iii

go West,‘I,am not an

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law. in ’v«a_.-wgnacsat - of...‘ _ g -.

THE‘.GUAlRDIAlN—, -cumin

THE __K_(_)_CH cums.

and Dangers of the I Lymph.

Bsaux, Dec. ls.--Your correspondent iuterviuwotl l-‘raft-esnr Virchow, the fore- must nathnlogist in the world, and ob-

ii a view of Dr iI{uch's lymph. The savant was full of sarcastic humor at first and assured me that one of -the American had begged for one drn of lymph in order that he might o to P iladelphia and establish a ‘new capital.

Advantages

in all parts of the world are about to ject this powerful -nisnn into the bodies of man before f. Koch has made known the results of la e or lon_g-cuntin- ued doses upon aninia s. It is highly dangerous and indisureet to have an un- kn-nvn, untried fluid used by. iuexperts. It would be a pity to have it used upon men in all eta es of disease and uun-dis- easa. -Those w o use it should at. least know ivhat elaborate experiments with animals. proved. I cannot cxpresy an opinion as to the reason why the lymp‘- nnly afi‘ects the tissues inhabited y bacilli until Pruf. Koch tells us what it is made of. We must have the tubercu- losis tissue taken froin__tlie living patient before the ‘lymph-‘treatment and th~» tissue iak-n from thd ‘same spot aftez. treatment in order to judge what the a_- tiou is. Otherwise we may mistake. changes caused by the disease itself for changes caused? by the.lymph. The best. clue I have found to th« real action of the lymph is in cases’_nf tuberculous af-‘ foctions of the larynx. Under ordi nary treatment tub-roles form on the edge of the vocal bands and are finally do- tached, leaving them ulcers, which we can really heal; but the difliculty has been that these tubercles develop an slu - ly that by the time one set of tubercles have do tachod themselves another set have sprung up in another spot. Prof. Koch's lymph accelerates the growth and segregation of the tubercles in the larynx so greatly, and they are full-grown and detached so quickly, that before new ones can appea- wo can heal the whole larynx. It is iery clear to me that the lymph is dang-atone‘ for children and for pcrsuus in advanced stages of phthisis. In the case of chl- dren it brings on perilous inflammation- of the lun ’ and in advanced phthisis it is apt to estroy the lungs. _ In cases of tubcrcular meningitis the-fluid is likely to cause a fatal inflammation of the brain tissues. Nu doubt the remedy brings on astonishing changes in lupus and apparent cures are effected. As for the tuberculosis of the lungs, some cases in the early stages‘ of the disease show a slight im- provement. The patient claims to feel better, the weight improves, and there is less sputum; but’ in my opinion these iesults are mostly psychological. The pstient's mind and system _are _aEected and stimulated by the knowledge that he is receiving a new remedy which is said to eflbct a quick cure. No tests mad- now, in this time of ‘excitement, are worth much. We must have a period of quiet before the real search for results can be made, for patients must be in a normal condition. It will take _a car or twa- lb--fore‘ we can tell whether rof. ‘Koch’: lymph is efective in phthisis. Itispossibfe that by careful ‘eiperinionting in two oz three years we may ha able to use this lymph successfully in combination with‘ some other" compound, ‘and an’ c0_l uer phthisis in its first forms. I do not mi‘ th_t Prof. Koch's lymph is a perfect " " inallformsgnfdissasweauseil by tubercle bacilli‘. It'is a and a very \.remarkable.. oii‘_e,,;,but’ .in_ ;tl_:.e fe days pccupied by publi- -ex "riii:ents we already find “the fluid provoked a reaction “phone. no bacill existed, and also _failed’{f-;_to act where bacilli were found. "The point ‘I make is this, the lymph is not absolutely certait as a diagnostic.‘ There is one good s'er'vi-so whichit renders icience. It proves tha- several differing maladies are. caused by the same. bacilli, such as lupus, strumus,“ bone and 'oint tub rculosis and phth sis." When Prof. Virchovv-what h_ thought of the. announcement that Pr -I. Russell, of - Scotland, bad dlIC4|VGI'\‘d the microbe of cancer. he laughed and said . “ With ‘God everything is possible. Great is Allah. I had an idea cancer existed without a microbe; but if Dr. Russell dis- covered one then I make my humble b -w to the microbe and also to the detector.” Before Dr. Loomis left for New York last week I interviewed him. ,,He said: 4-“I was sceptical’ at first, but now I’ consider the lynfphithe greatest medics: discovery of if not of all times.” __ I liaw yesterday =n Dr Von Bergmannk private wards an Englishman cured of a nine years’ lupus. With sixteen injec- tions of less than one-eighth of a drop or lymph diluted he was cured of what was c--nsidered an absolutely fatal"disease All around me were cases of wonrlerfu cures. Professor Von Leyden. the grea. internal medico, told me he would us the lymph on his own child if eoccasinn necessitated. He noticed an improve- ment in advanced cases of lung tuber ciilosis. He advised the use of the lymph.

- Dr. Loomis said every drop of tho fluic was worth at least $1.30), as s diluteu" drop will furnish over 130 injections --f average strength, and :a_uv- reputable, American physician can get 810 for each infection. As a phial contains about M‘ drops, its resent ‘-‘actual commercial

diamond of the same size. .‘ was itocii con. _ _

Many medical men «rho came here from abroad to study the Koch treatment ar leaving with their hopes of its success abated. S-vme specialists continue their demonstrations ‘of the trcatlnent, but th; others have ceased to ofler onquirers further facility. Prof. Bergmann, upon concluding hisdemonstrati.-us, said tha: he had made injections in 200 cases, but

results or the method of treatment until a year hadyclapsod.

7‘ {Q 3

Too Timid.

" An English exchange says: “One reason; why the Christian Churches of today are

n. D.

v ” " so_inefl'o-ctivc to grapple with the evils in ‘t ‘l""_%‘*‘l’" midst is because they are afraid of ‘idjjiviiig out a few tipplin , l-quor loving

inesnbers, who hang as a weight upon of all the great social problems ChristianiChurch ought to take the ' lead

in deelingv ith them. If they do not, a grand opportunity will be lost. «Until the,

thinking people or to -expect much suc-

-‘ 1' -"

“ It is absurd," he said, “ that doctors '

value is 878, . Thsdoctor saidadrop _ is worth three times naorethan a fine _

would not pronounce definitely upon the ’

The drink question lies at the that no claiming: attention, and the E

300

I081‘

accident he

notice that

babies. "

'll.I|'0,llT.lllT

v ‘l*Ny,NOU“NCEllEN,T7-

A we HAVE pans 1-‘on mans.

--ALL Goons ox-

aas. ' it belicloiedfiout at

v «BEER -.-enos.

V Rather Mixed.

1-:———

In a count;-yl church the curate had to. give"out taro notices, the first of which was abuu§}._‘b‘aptisnis, nnditlie latter ' had to do with ’fl’tie\ii hymn"-book. Owing to an

inverted the order. and gave

out as follows:-—“ I am requested to give

the"new hymn-book will be

used for ?tho‘ first : time in this church on Sunday next ;' and I am also requestedjtc, call attention to the delay which often. takes pliiée in bringingcliildrenltn be hop; 1 tised; 1tls’Qj_slio.uld be'jbr'ought__ on the earliest dhy’ possible. -‘This is particularly pressed on mo-there is-ho.have ‘young “And , for th - infurxnatiou . of ‘those who have none,'?.arided the rector,

in gentl -.ltindly'-_tone.n, and who, being

3 rvice fizd each; wit

All

in Potsdam, A certain

there died.

and in due

supposed t-

maiden.

body of ‘ill’! dressed ,. in medals and

young lady

sup

case from breathe,

we ddmn nothing eluslvely than the

salt rbeuxu,

soulug. - etc.

’ feeling, and

What to (losith the Russian is puzzling tl1i9;s:i:dow.—'—-._Ex. . ‘

blood. The _ other foul humor is hcredlted and transmitted A for generations, causing untold sulerlng, and we-also accumulate poison and germs of dis-

we eat,‘ or _

' power..ot Heod'rl'Sarsapariu.1 over or the blood. _. This medicine, when fairly tried, docssxpel every trace of scrofula or

cstarrh, ‘neutralizes the aclditysiid cures rlieuniatlsm, =drlves out ibe“"gei*_2us. of inslaria,-b1o‘od pol-

’ vltallzes andgep-I _ _ _ _ , riches the -blood.lthus’o_vcI'coinlng ‘um tired

deaf, ha: -_no_t‘_lie_ar_d what hsd:beeu pre- viously nlgiid,‘ "for" the iiilonumtion '-of those who have none, I may state that, if wished,;? they canbe obtained on appli- *cation"iu75th‘u vestry immediately "after

ay.._,. Linip ones, oneshilling still‘ backs, two shillings."-

Birmingham erciwy. ‘

Puzzling Situation.

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» At a distance of thousand miles or niorethe full-swing coutreteinps has a. distinctly humor--us look. It ‘happened

near Berlin; last Sunday‘:-— widow, by name rWacliter-

hausen, .'had~a,da_fughter Amelia. W’lIIF‘l!8d gone to Nice for. her health, and- had

The mother -telegraphed to

an undertakerin that city to forward the body, to her. This was apparently done, time arrived a but enclosing . an elab -rate cuflin, which in its turn was