THE SPARTAN JAPS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, 24 November 1904, Page 6

THE SPARTAN JAPS.

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•»«« sub* tak **„_ I kave —M that the JtnatW <ro O Fpsrtan r»c«, writea Ana* 11. Benjamin, in Amslee's. Many things betides their resistance to cold prove t%. The most of them lire in simplicity. They can'gV * 4oSg ? iim** without food. The coobse perform marvelous feet* of strength and en- - duraaee; they draw a ''jinrikishs." all day or carry travelers -oeer the steepest mountains. -Every-, aianinfr a colony of foreigners go to Meant Mei-eixan, nexr Kioto J Their eemp ia several miles up the steep mountain aide, bnt early eachmorning fhe . Japanese bring jffjfo JMii. ,«•■>( vegetables and milk, and women often carry trunks to the aummit on their . heads. In the upper .classes the Js4 "wmsrai" ideals . inculcsrtid, endurwrtUr in a recent magainae " comments upon serin : . inff o«|he Jap*n*e« ! offlyar. This IT 1 the preparation oTa teeoctt Merries-/, ant; but itje. pserete e ender modrr* of W : o*o< tear heat, is not guch a greet cause for welder, beceweT* is-norjhedrut-the western methods were sown on a fenestrated Bperton - eoil- ~ Tker learning if new.miHtery tsefeaaod';*. ike edojr ion of up-*c-d»W weapons 5 say be ITfc—ea so 'ysaseasj —w aw for power on a greet water fall. The new insuheeery provides no power fetteeH. Is—>Ti VeeaC to **» Weeew of eho »ss—sees Mar B« P»< Ps> ao .v -%. ■ HggyaS -■ • "Some enterprising- dealer in canned. r goods eonld make a small fortune,* said e visiting lumberman, reports the New Orleans Times-Democrat, "by going into the northwest. ;; and ■ putting op tree ants as a condiment.

a Vm no* JoldayAlfc* .continued, ""•ad what** more, th* product would need no iatVoduction to the people , of that region. All through the lum>ber districts oJM>fmnespta-.andyWis-iconsin ants ars~ segsrdsßlae/a v *great jdelicacy, and the only trouble is that 4 they can't get enough of then. I Idon't know why it is, hot men who do [hard manual labor in cold climate.' acquire a strong craving for something sow, and the big, brawny ,;choppera and |gaeu»tswilfoqad out \long ago that eSto ware a palatable substitute for pickles. Thsy use-Only a peculiar variety, .largo and red in color and found in immense quanti- - ties under the bark of dead trees. It is not very hard, .to collect * quart pail full, and after killing them by scalding they are spread j» a board and dried in the son. When ready to eat they look lAa coarse,,brown powder and UN * matic rmell. "Of course, it is impossible to deScribe exactly how they taste, but the general flavor would remind you of some toe frsH vinegar, and if you have any aqueimTshrfees over the nature of the dish it doesnH take you ten ** *° %mb#&'4 m f&3m*&sm ever, why there should bejany objec-

tion to dried ants as • table dekeaey. They are perfectly ckss apfl ssrtsin lys^ttractiveMs^^sM-p.-MO6QOTTOK-YKSrSW*IVER ""'Xisc^ 'Essex?*** A mors Mriens charge than thai, ef spreading jjnalaria. is brought against the aosqutto in Century, the writer being the chief entomologist sf the departmentof egricuUpxa. ~ n "Tfe'e latest news, wJuehyomea to .on with ike authority of the yellow fever aommiselonof the United States army, eouM ie*B *o indicate that, great as are the dsseomfort* which "mosquitos. occasion through their tormenting -bites, end great as is their destructive effect upon human health through the transfer of malaria, they exert still • another and most njsienceht influence by the transfer of yellow immediate' cause of yellow fever is still disputed. Neither the' Bacillus Xof Sternberg nor the Bacillus icseroides •f Sanerelli now seems to be the causative organism of this terrible diesase, and the true nature of the genu —for it is a germ-disease—is yet to be ascertained. £The experiments of-last summer and winter made in govern' ment hospitals in Cuba show with a reasonable degree of certaiaty that 1 mosquitoes which have bitten patients suffering with the yellow fever may,

and do, upon biting healthy persons, convey the disease: in each cas's/how-

•rer, it is not Anopheles which is the Active agent in the transfer, hut a specie* of Culex known as Culex fascist us. •r CuJ«x taeniatus, a form .which, while it has always been placed in the genus Culex, seems, accordingto Theobald, thf English authority, to present ■tructural differences of sufficient importance .to warrant the erection of a new genus called Stegoxnyia. Should the careful experimentation which will follow proTe the TsKdity of this, discovery of our army medical men, the true germ of yelww fever will probably prove to be a protosoonthat is to say, aa animal —instead of •ne of the bacteria —that is tp "say. a plant. ' Possibilities of the establishment of such a truth Me far-reaching for inhabitants of tropical•regions, and its influence upon some of our sew insular possessions will be great."