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lem in England are contributed by two 

 eminent men, the first by Michael Davitt, 

 M. P., on "A Plea for Old- Age Pensions," 

 and the second by Rt. Hon. W. H. Lecky, 

 the brilliant, English historian, on "Why 

 I Oppose Old- Age Pensions." David Wil- 

 cox throws new light on "The Futility of 

 the Anti-Trust Issue," and William R. 

 Thayer writes an unusually convincing 

 paper on "Longevity and Degendration." 



REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



The February number contains an 

 interesting article which will probably be 

 of interest to every-one who knew the 

 great evangelist, (and their names are 

 legion) a character sketch of Dwight L. 

 Moody, written by George Perry Morris. 

 Another timely and intensely interesting 

 subject, is tue position of England at the 

 present time and this is ably discussed by 

 W. T. Stead, under the heading "The 

 Perilous Position of England." Among 

 the other articles are"'A FrenchView of the 

 German Empire" and "George Henry W. 

 Lawton." 



SCRIBNERS. 



Scribners Magazine for February has 

 for its frontispiece a portrait of Donald G. 

 Mitchell, recently drawn from life by 

 A. I. Keller. It is accompanied with an 

 article on "The Master of Edgewood," by 

 Arthur Reed Kimball. "The Opening 

 Period of the Boer War" is brilliantly 

 described by H, J. Whigham. There are 

 two articles, of special significance at this 

 time, in relation to our colonies. Major 

 T. Bentley Mott, late adjutant-general of 

 the department of Havana, describes 

 "The Social life of Havana." 



One of the most essential things to a 

 complete Gasoline Engine irrigating plant, 

 in our estimation, is the utmost reliability 

 of the engine driving the pump. 



We have recently come across a Witte 

 Gasoline Engine, located in Southern 

 California, which the writer was informe 



had been running for 34 consecutive days 

 of 24 hours each, without even shutting 

 down the engine. This was accomplished 

 by wipe oil cups on all movable joints, by 

 absolute, perfect, electric ignition of the 

 gashes in the cylinder, and by the high 

 perfection of the workmanship obtainable 

 on such an engine. 



We believe it to be the longest and best 

 test ever obtained from any make of gaso- 

 line engine, and the Witte Iron Works Co. , 

 Witte Gas and Gasoline Engines makers of 

 are certainly to be congratulated upon this 

 result. 



Anyone desiring any further infor- 

 mation on this subject will be accommo- 

 dated by addressing the Witte Iron Works 

 Co., of Kansas City, Mo., or their West- 

 ern agents, Chas. B. Boothe & Co. of Los 

 Angeles, California. 



PHYSICAL CULTURE. 



The following extract from an ar- 

 ticle on longevity by Prof. James W. 

 Grahame, in Physical Culture, Janu- 

 ary, 1900, must appeal to every sensi- 

 ble physician: 



"As life's statistics prove, it takes 

 the average human being longer to 

 wear out than, to use an expression, 

 'rust out/ and while thousands die 

 daily from want of exercise, few in- 

 deed succumb like the professional 

 athlete to over-exertion. If you are 

 a parent do this : Send the young 

 children to the turning school, the 

 older ones to the gymnasium then 

 go yourself. While attending these 

 colleges of health, and watching the 

 little ones go through their simple- 

 looking studies, bear in mind the 

 young scholars are doing what you 

 should have done years ago, viz. : sew- 

 ing the seeds of longevity and assur- 

 ing strong and comfortable old age. 

 Stiffness of limb and joint is ever the 

 forerunner of human senility; there- 

 fore to all I include both sexes 

 who are desirous of lengthening their 

 days, try and 'postpone the inevitable' 

 as follows: Every morning I say 



