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104 104 COLD BRINGS SLEEP, 'which no doubt is the principal cause of giving upj for the brain loses its activity and power to revolve kthe wheels and keep up the necessary friction of the Tbdcain that sends the message to the balance of the body; to be brave and not give up: for is it not a demonstrated fact known to all explorers and iaravelers in cold countries, that to give way to sleep under such conditions is certain death? Doctor Solander, one of the arctic explorers, whUe travhng in the intense cold, kept admonishing his men to not permit themselves to give way to sleep, and yet he himself laid down and the men were compelled to beat him and set him on his feet, running with him to induce will power, and during all this the commander fought and even tried to injure his men as he became crazy to go to sleep. It is told as a fact that two trappers were in the northern part of Canada, both inured to cold, and yet one day one of the men ob- served that his companion was becoming depressed in spirits ■ and intimated that he was sleepy; where- upon his mate knew from experience that somethlBg must be done quickly or he would be alone in the wilderness; so he struck the would-be sleeper a blow, cursed him for a coward, and did everything to rile him, to make him mad and fight. In this he finally succeeded, and after blows had been exchanged, the companion who was soUcitous of his friend's welfare, ' finally "called out for him to stop, and explained the reason for his attack; thus the man who was about to give up had his blood surging through his body and was alive in every sense of the word. But notwithstanding that the average soldier