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AMERIČAN PROFESSOR'S PLANS,

to overcome their passions, which disturb the|· healthy nourishing of the human organa

All evil thoughts also have a barmful intinence on the heart and Hver."

"THE LAST OF THE SCOTS.”

The physicians of Thibot 1,500 years ago Professor Todd; of America, whe in Septem-employed the same means of diagnosing the bur will endeavour to make a balloon assent to condition of a sick person na the physicians of a height of several miles, has given details to a the present day-they felt the patients pulse representative of the New York. Times of and looked at his tongue, etc. Among the the objects of his ambitious plan. In the course" remedies" which they recommended, were not of his remarks the professor says:-

only vegetarian diet, baths, compress, but also The object of my balloon trip is to learn massage and capping. What is more remark whether, at a height of 25,0 0 feet, air pumped abls is that physicians who did not keep their from the anrrounding atmosphere and com. instrumente quite clean were severely punished. pressed will support human life. It is my The ancient Thibetans were in this repeat theory that I will. If my balloon experiments extremely modern. The old Thibetan medicine- prove that I am right, then I will have estab book prescribed that healthy persons should lished the fontibility of a plan I have for build- "load an orderly, sensible manner of life, avoid ing the highest, and consequently the most all excess and irregularities, also conscientious- efficient, astrmomical observatory in the worldly cherish and keep clean both soul and body," This observatory will be on the summit of Mount Chimborazo, in the Andes of Ecuador. This peak has an altituds of 21,000 feet. It is par- petually covered with new and ico. The atmosphere is so rarefied that human beings oannot breathe it and live. Hence the utility of my experiment with compressed air.

should say bars that a surprisingly large part of the public has a misconception of the object astronomers have in climbing high meuntains to make observations. "Many up pone that then ascensions are thode so that the astronomers will get closer to and hence a better view of the heavenly bodies. takes but a moment's thought to show that 10,000,20,000, or even a 100,000 feet in so infinitesimal fraction of the vast space that separates the earth from oven the moon, its nearest celestial neighbour, that the cension would not be worth while, though it were made in a Fillman parlour car at the rate of a mile a minute,

JOHN STUART BLACKIE'S CENTENART Centenary celebrations have been so frequent in the past year that the absence of almost any reference to the centenary of John Stuart Blackie last month is a little surprising. He to every journalist who had to write about his was "ultimus Scotorum," the last of the Scots,

death fourteen years ago, and indeed it is not Of course, itay on a hurried review of our living contem

Ferries to discover anyone who quite so markedly and picturesquely represents old Scottisk sentiment; but in fourteen years, says the Glasgow Nowe, oven the heat of the Soota hu become a vague tradition, except among those who know him personally.

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIOKS. These astronomical observations are made

from mountah tops simply with the object of getting so far se possible out of the moisture- Inden atmosphere that enshrouds the lower-lying surfaces of the earth. You know how you can see the air quiser when you look along the pare ment on a hot day? Well, that's the effect moisture has on the air when you look through a powerful tescope; the stronger the telescope the greater the quivering. You may spend thousands of dollars on a telescope and have it 1159-1 optically perfet; the rays-may through the glass, and forms to perfection if the air is clear; but if there is any moisture in the atmosphere the rays will be shattered and scattered.

The only way to obtain absolutely accurato results with, a telescope is to get abore the atmo

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sphere that is alway in commotion, I believe

that if a man

gst above a four-mile thick news of atmosphere and could exist thera be would find there the perfect conditions of air Isaac Newton spoke of. You know Sir Isaac predicted that if a telescope could be set up the highest mountain it would be possible to obtain there stillness and rarity of air that would make the planets scientifically approach.

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QUEITION OF AIR, PRESSURE.

In 1907 I made & trip up into the Chilean Andes to an altitude of 16,000ft. This trip into the Andes aforded me an opportunity to give my theory concerning compressed air in high altitudes a preliminary test. The difficulty that human beings have in existing in a rarefied atmosphere is one of the many subjects on which scientists haves colossal ignorange. The theory has bean advanced that it is lack of oxygen in the air. A number of men have experimented in high altitudes with tanks of compressed oxygen, and the resulte have been very unsatis. factory.

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This is dua doubtless to the fact that Blaskie a personality was greater than his work. If you heard him shook an audienco in St. Andrew's Hall by singing vingrove, bonis inssie, a gang to Kel- on a Sunday, had soon that daring little plaided figure go along Princes-street-

carrying its own breeze with it, you would never for get him, but you may be excused for neglecting his poetry, and your time may be past for deriv ing any benefit from his little book-sily his most popular-on Self-Culture." Who wants Self-Culture of the Blackie kind at present ? We are giring our brains and moral char- actors rest, and cultivating the Doop Breath, the Varden Swing, and the deltoid muscles. There is no successor to Blackie, but you might make fairly good simulacrum of him if it were possible to combine some of the characteristics of Lord Bosebery, Mr. Canning- hame Graham, and Mr. Barrie."

LITTLE DANT."

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little daft?? was a frequent comment upon the good old man, but only the stupid said so, otherwise than with some admiration and daftness that is due to eternal youth, the affection. He was delightfully daft, with the

innocence of childhood, and on utter absence of moral fear. Most of us sneak through life with a constant effort to be convention- al, and reservS our moments of High. Jink for discreet companions; Blackie was as artless and acsophisticated as a lamb, and gamtolled openly with none of the self-con- sciousness that, according to B. L. Stevenson, makes the Briton so gawky a participant:

any al fresco tomp.

When he dropped theatrically on his knee and kissed a lady singer's land before su audience, or when his plaid wont blowing down the street like a banner, the cynical cried pose!" Yet there was no more pose about Blackie than there is about a kitten; it is the circumspect who are always posing in their deep Now my own theory is that it is simply a anxiety to conciliate a censorious world. His question of air pressure. At ses level every dress was often mentioned as a proof of vanity square inch of a man's body is under 15lb. of that he should be attired a little differently from atmospheric pressure. That is practically the his fellows, and present a more picturesque figure pressure that the human body has been built to than the average nu of the multitudo, was withstand. Now, when a man climbs to a

attributed to dandyism, while the truth was 35,000-foot altitude and the atmospheric pres. that sartorially he was a work of art, for which sure is reduced to 101b. to the square inch of his wife was wholly responsible. Blackie was body, there is naturally trouble. I believe that if you keep

a normal atmospheric pressare on the body the oxygen in the air will take care of itself. In other words, if at an altitude of, Bay, 25,000 feet,

you compress the air so that the pressure upon the human body is. 15lb. to the equare inch, there will be sufficient oxygen in the air to maintain a normal physical condition. TANK WITH COMPRESHED'AIR. As I have aid, I gave this theory a partial test in the Andes during my expedition of 1907. I scored an iron oil tank and had it carried on the railroad to the 16,000-foot altitude, where my telescope was set up. Túto this tank I had fifted an airtight manhole. As both electric light and compressed air were used in the nens by copper mines, I had both of these supplied to this tank. The air pressure inside the tank was practically the same as that experienced in the open at sea level.

so far above any consideration of how he should be clothed that new clothes were substituted for his old ones without his knowing anything about the change.

The unkind allusions to Blackio sonėtimag nade by his contemporaries were usually made. in moments of irritation occasioned by his aruberance, which could offend souls depressed. "A man of more sail than ballust,” Carlyle once wrote of him to Emerson; it was inmore generous mood he wrote of him later as "a man of lively intellectual faculties, of ardent friendly share ter, and of wide speculation and acquirement, very fearless, very kindly, without ill-humour, and without guile." The latter virtues are manifested in a story of Blackie told by his nephew, Mr. Stodart Walker.

WHAT MY WIFE TELLS ME.” One day he paid a visit to the office of an Edinburgh publisher, and mentioned that he

Home Rule. The publisher said, "I am aston- ished at your fondness for making an exhibition of yourself." Professor Blackie, without an- other word, tarned on his heel and went away slamming the door.

As I had expected, to step into that tank, clonekad lectured the previous night on Scottishi the manhole, and turn on the compressed air, was like plunging from the 16,000-foot altitude to sea level. Within ten minutes after getting into the tank my headache completely dis appeared and my pulse returned to a normal of 90 Justead of 106. I could have stayed in there indefinitely, I suppose, but I used to remain about an hour, and feel entirely refreshed. My stay in the Cillean Andes, however, was not long enough for me to test out my theory con clusively.

Since my return the idea oceurred to me that I might have sa aluminium tank made, and by going up in in a balloon thoroughly test my theory at far greater heights than that at the copper mines in the Chilean Andes. This is the reason for my balloon ascension next September.

Presently he came back, opened the door, thrust in his head, and said: "Do you know, that's just what my wife tells me His phil osophy, too, in epitomised in a latter in which he says: The grand thing is to start in life with the deep conviction of the vastness of the world and the smallness of man, and to fling out broad arms of loving oppreciation and reverential regard to all the phases of the true, the good, and the beautiful, which make up this eternal divine miracle called the world, which is in very deed the living architecture, poetry, sculpture, painting, and muse of the one self-existent, plastic, all-embracing logos of which the

THE ART OF HEALING IN THIBET. biggest man is only a fraction. Above all

"MODERN" METHODS PEACTIVED

3,500 YEARS Ago.

The anciente priests, and savants of Thibot were skilful physicians when almost the whole of Europe was overrun by ignorant savages or semi-civilised barbariana.

The Eussion Government recently received a petition from the Siberian Buddhists, request ing that medical schools should he stablished among them, in which the ancient Thibetan art of hauling

should be

be taught. In consequence of this strange petition, the Medical Academy at St. Petersburg has been making investiga tions concerning the claims of the ancient Thibetan act of healing.

A. Thibetan

of medicine, which was known and used sbont 1,000 years ago, and even then was regarded as an "ancient" and vane- rated source of knowledge, was used as material for the investigation. The Eussian Academi- cians have this made the astonishing discovery that this book described drugs and cures which European physicians "discovered" many dred years afterwards.

Thus the doctors of Thibet, so many centuries ago, were not only aequainted with the secrets of the entire human anatomy how many bonus there are in the human body, etc., the principal nervas, namely, but know that the skin con- tained eleven million pores. According to this venerable book, "the heart is King of all the organs and the support of life." "Sicknesses in general originate owing to the evil and ignorance of human beings, especially owing to their inability

things, avoid the temptation of wishing to sp. paar clever and smart; cleverness is only valuable as an unconscious accompaniment of an honest reality, such a the bicker of a mountain tam or the flashing of a trout in 4 stream. Read the Sermon on the Mount, or Romans xü, or I. Cor. xiii., at least once i week, and not them out every day of the week and every hour of the day."

In sixty years Professor Blackie published forty books, most of them purely sphemeral in their interest, and confessedly intended as a stimulus only for the moment." Self-Culture" has been the most popular of his works; it went through eleven editions in eight years, is now well on to its thirtieth, and has been translated into eleven different languages-from that of Finland to that of the Indian Empire poetry he produced seven volumes of translations and eight of original verse,

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