The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1905, Page 12

: FOOTBALL, week the first skirmishes on the “gridiron” begin. Ten days ly forty colleges, East and West, will meet in championship & The 392 games scheduled for the important colleges during son give an idea of the present great vogue of this most popular of ‘Sports. the average citizen realize what the first fall kick-off means byouth of America? p the nation there are 455 universities and colleges, with a student ion of 125,834. In high schools and academies are 776,635 stu- Reckoning with these the members of law, medical, dental and er professional schools who take ar, interest,in the game, there is thus community of a round™million to whom the opening of the il Season is an event of vital importance. And this is to take no int of millions of gtammar school boys. yAssuming that in each of the 455 colleges there is at least one foot- team, and estimating the number of its regular and ocscasional mem- rat the minimum of fifteen, there is a college population of 6,825 who rest themselves in the game to the extent of playing it. As a-maiter of fact the number directly engaging in football Is higher. Of the 2,963 Harvard students, who answered President ot’s inquiries regarding the kind of exercise they. took, 456 put them- elves on record as playing football, This was 10 per cent. of the Har- d-undergraduates, A similar percentage for all colleges would show army of 12,500 college football players, These figures will serve to discount the effect of the catalogues of fridiron casualties, which will soon begin to appear. Unfortunately, the ‘of the maimed and the slain is in the aggregate regrettubly large, and ories of players borne unconscious from the field make gruesome 3 ‘ Yet the injuries are mostly to the unskilled, and It ‘s profitable to a Conjure up along with pictures of football brutality others illustrating Ethie great gain of health and strength, of sound lungs, strong hearts and p> lear eyes. Football, for all its faults, is producing an eminently better ‘young manhood, ~ An encouraging thing is the way the game has begun to appeal to the innumerable hordes of young America, who are denied the privilege of )) attending ‘private schools and academies. It has displaced baseball in ju , : lots will testify from now on. It As giving the public schoolboy a new iy ides ption of the pleasures of school ‘The encouragement of ‘sports and games in the city schools by the } “Board of Education is a wise policy of administration, ‘ "> & remarkable phase of football development is the extensive prop- “erly Interests it has created. A college game may draw 40,000 spectators nd the income of an eleven for the season exceed that of a popular thea- fe It has called into being costly amphitheatres., It has virtually become ‘business enterprise op a large scale for the successful conduct of which Woreld*s Mono Mas < A be} 4+ bing, Bum SHow? 4M GOING OUT TO SEF A woman AFTER THIS ACT, Dear Mise Greeley-Smith: Some time ago a young lady, who hes since married, made the following atatement to me: ‘When I was seven years old," ghe eaid, “I wes bitten by @ TAtllesnake, and I was given a large dose of whiskey ag an antidote, which filled me. with an ecstacy which I ‘had never experienced. Since then I have become very much attached to @ young man, and I find thet the sensation ‘fits presence inspires is very like that produced by the rattlesnake cure. Therefore I think Jeve and intoxication are the same thing." Won't you hang ‘a few ornamental adjectives about this subject: “Ig love an tntoxi- cant? ” A. T. BATTENFIFUD. HIS letter, written by a lawyer iiving way out in Indian Territory, is very interesting. To be sure. the young woman he quotes is by 10 means the Christopher Columbus of the singular analogy existing babepera: love and !ntoxicatiou, nor is she the first that had to be “stung” by ft serpent to experience the former sensation. Our late lamented great- ,)et-cetera-grandmother Eve, whom I have always regarjed as the greatest Its influence on the outer commercial world ts considerable. Merely estimate ‘the amount ‘spent on) pigskin balls, padded trousers, nosc- E ribbed stockings, shir shoes, jis to réalize to how ‘trade it contributes a large item of income, Waterless Vladivostok, Support 000 ‘persons. In summer the ‘wells tuive plenty of water, though ex- ante jorge number of Russian @hould be centred in that Of the hardest. prob! ‘for bea rol pew tages ofl wel Arinking water supply. In ‘Vindi- ‘there are at present fifty-three ) #0 that, eatimating the population elty at 90,000, every well has to ell practically: dried up and the people ate compelled to bring foe for drinking ate neighborhood also has s peor water supply. timo Then we took counsel, and the end of Mt wap Shat we out the yaé's tough hide tremely impure, but'in wirter they are} sake of coolness only white should be purpose from e river three miles to|sunshine @ large piece of white cloth, the north. The country in the immedi-| ano gree Duluth Tribuze, GHE FVR_GHER. HISGOR_Y OF | She-Who-M wonian in history. has the advantage, or perhaps’ hid better say the dis- advantage, of her there. Only, whereas in the case of snake-bite the in- toxication results from the-antidote, in love it is produced. by the disease itself. It 1s, however, less like: the exhilaration we catch from the exultant freedom of newly released champagne than like the divinor drunkenness When Woman Rule By J. Campbell Cory. Roost—No. 8, MA SAYS = WILL'YOU PLEASE REMOVE YOUR HAT ? Love and the Snake-Bite Cure . w By Nixola Greeley-Smith | j struck by the identity of his sensations with those of love—particularty | Produced by the rarified atmosphere of mountains. Pike's Peak, for in- stance, The atmosphere of love is rarified. Persoas exhilarated by it dwell on far heights of romance that-make the ordinary mortal with his feet on the ground fairly dizzy fo look at. i When the level-dwelling Easterner strikes Colorado Springs for the first time his feelings fuctuate, and between a soft drowzy languor and a fever- Jesh excitement equally at variance with his normal mood he is at once | fret love. And when every weird thing thet ha does of that other people do is glossed over and shrugged aside “with the explanation. “Oh, It’s the altitude!” he js the more impressed by the’ similarity. For in love it’s fhe altitude that Intoxicates us, that causes our pulses to beat a ragtime mazurka and would make a chart of our temperature if it could be taken, look like a jagged outline driwing of the Rockies them- selves. r Loye is certainly ‘the Mivinest of ‘Intoxications, -but I would prefer to think of it as resembling any ocher form of extiiluration than that asso- clated with snake bite. Z \ Heat Contained in Various Colors. 4 N Intesesting experiment) recently] ‘Then, with the help of six thermome- ceade by a Duluth plyatcian | eeu genie engage ot rat proved conclusively that for the | from the sunligh it White Mi degrees 189 deletes 108 degrees the physician proved egies the man in white is ict (oy CS eo ae foewaa eee eee worn ‘in hot weather. ‘The physician spread out in an intense r of dark yellow, another of light another of dark green, another of August, blue ‘and another of black, says the $ less blue, ‘cont s a we Origin of Shoe-Throwing - i HOEMAKING was a distinct trade wan a symbol ‘of new ownership, as S as tar back as 1600 B. C., and fefer- | “Over Eodomn will I cast out my ehoe."” ence is maze tn Scripture to Atfter- ent symbolicn! usages in connection with sardals or choes. ‘The delivery of @ shoe wes used ‘as a testimony in transferring @ posseszton. Azcan plucked off his shoe and gave ft to tis neighbor, and this was “a testi- ageny tn Isracl." . The cLivwing of @ ahve on property From these gneient practives came the old custom in England and Scotland of (mrowing an old ‘shoe after-a bride on her departure toa new tome. to signity, that the parents gave up efi contro} uver thetr daughter, says Stray Stories, In Turkey tt ts the bridegroom who ts oad by the wedtiing guests with siip- pers. ‘ ro UES ee te eo See th Os nO ys O we ‘ Startling Discoveries About the Air We Breathe, F all the theories of rhe other, that lately propounded by Prof, Osborne Reynolds Ie perlaps the most startling. It inverts all our previous 1d oa the subject Acdording to this, the youngest theory of the ether, wa | must look upon the et the one really substantial thing Jn the universe; Its density being 10,000 times eater than that of water; while mavter, which seems 0 substantial, consists, 60 to epeak, in an absence of mass, and has the chi acter of a mere wave in the ether. On this newest view “‘we.are all waves,” as the author of the theory, burst~ ing into poetry, extlatmed at the close of the eighth section of his Rede lectute, says the Cornhill Magaaine, This astonishing proposition, which has cost {ts authof no tess than twenty of labor, usks us to tmagine that the universe, except those minor por | which constitute matter, 1s bullt up, Uke a bag of sand, of gralns of defi- nite shape and In uize so Inconcetvably small that ,their diameters are no greater than the seven hundred thousand millionth part’ of the wave-length of violet | Nght, which in turn amoun:s to only sixteen millionths of an Inch, and 89 closely | packed that, though ndt absolutely immovable, the four hundred thourand mfl- | Nonth of ¢he seven hundred thousandth millionth of one sixty thousandth part | of an inch—i. e., the four hundred thousand millionth part of thelr own diameyer| —would represent approximately the mean free path through which these par- ticles are free to move. i Prof. Reynolds telis us that the density of this medium, far from being almost Sndefinitely small, is nearly five hundred tinfes as great as that of the densest matter known to us on carth, and its pressure more than three thousand | - times greater than that which any material yet tried has been known to austain, | To get some idea of this conception of the ether, picture to yourself a billiard table carefully packed from one end to the other with line after line of billiard | balls, each so-nicely fitted or geared into the next that the bolls are packed almost | eto each other as is possible, yet not so very tightly as to prevent ad+| “olutely all motion among them. | Imagine, again, that you have not one layer of balls, as on a billiard table, | confined by the sides of the table, but layer upon layer piled ose above the other | and extending absolutely without limit in every direction, Remember that these ‘halls or grains are so minute that, say, 11,209.000,000, 000,000 of them laid elde by side along a tins would only occupy a single Inch, you will have a picture, so far as may be, of Prof, Reynold's conception of \t universal medium, the ether. Newest Cure for Insanity. INCH periodicals are giving cohsiderable space to some recent experle ments in the ‘treatment of insanity by the hypodermic injection of sa water. As described by Dr. Caze in La Revue, the injectiona are given every five; Gays to increased doses, commencing with thirty cuble centimoters and ending + with one hundred. Twelve patients were submitted by Dr. Merle to the treat- ment—three epileptics, three general péralytios and six maniacs. All of the patients were then methodically observed, the state of every func- tion being registered; respiration, circulation, temperature, and so on, before, during and after treatment, as well as the chemical characteristics und . nations. As a whole, says Public Opinion, the condition of the patients showed marked improvement, there was an Increase of weight and improved physical condition. ‘The method, as Dr. Caze says, is am yet in its Infency, but the results so far are higibly encouraging. Henri de Parville, a French writer on scientific subjects, In the Journal des Debate, accounts for the success of the method on the rither fanciful and ta-, (consequential ground that,“man by descent is a marino animal, as {s every other |The theory on which Drs. Marie and Pelietier havefpeen proceeding, accord= ing to M. de Parville, is that many mental derungements, such as mean bor, |Precoclous dementia and genera paralysis, are infegtious, and are the result of ‘some peculiar toxin, Assuming that infestion Je the real cause of mental disease, Drs, Marlo ana Pelletier have tried to treat the condition by Injections of sea. water. { j By bathing the celle in ¢helr original medium they believe it ts possible to r them of the toxin oh clog them; but this 4s on condition that the celis hare merely beef altered and not destroyed. ‘The, injections quickly reeult in producing recup2ration of the digestive pow- ers. The appetite Improves and constipation, so frequent among the 1isane, speedily disappears. In the cage of melancholy persons the appetite returns and the ‘digestive functions iroprove, the same being true for paralysis. At the same time there is amelioration along other Jinca, « Letters from the People, « Finds Harg@ Cota Scarce, To the Editor of The, Evening World: ‘Why ie it that there is, such & scarcity ot silver’ dollars and gold'coin abovt town? Years ago §29 pieces tpoame rare and graduaily all the gold coins isappeared. out of sight. Of course paper. money is very conventent, but I dare ‘say the coins of large denowina- tion woul? make a pleasant impres- ston. LM ¥, D. F. B—Records of marriages are on file at Bureau of Vital Statis- Ucs, Fifty-ffth street and Sixth avenue. A Horse Trade Problew, ‘To the Editor of The! Evening World: Readers, if @ man sells & horse for $90, and bays. btm back for $9 and re-, tells him. for.g100, how. muych \maneyt Goes he make on the epeculation?, FRED. 's. The Shooting Star. t To the Raitor of The Evening Word: I saw an account of a Yarge shooting ster seen in New ¥ City, . While» driving from Hudson,'N. ¥.. 40 Copeke, N. ¥., 117 miles trom New York City. -f and some friends saw that shooting #tar quite plainly, It resembled skyrocke:, It looked as though it fell abou: two to” three city blocks east of wher we saw it first while driving: JOHN ". H, T.—Corbett ‘fought’ Fitzsimmons jonly once. Fitzsimmona won in the fourteenth round, - . BY H. RIDER HAGGARD Author of Shes” “Allan paaacarssalit) ‘King: