Nature Makes Nothing in Vain--A Successful Experiment--A Question for Ages--The Position--Meaning of Life--Some Questions Asked--Condition in Certain Diseases Caused by Cold--Cerumen in Fluid State--Winter Kills Babies--Some Advice to Mothers--A Case in Point--Connection of the brain and Other Nerves in Digestion--Unaided Investigation. NATURE MAKES NOTHING IN VAIN. That nature makes nothing in vain is an established truth in the minds of all persons whose observation has created in such persons a desire to reason, and that being my faith for many years I asked myself to try and get a reason of why nature had made and placed in a person's head so much fine machinery just to make a little ear-wax. If nothing is made in vain, what is that bitter stuff made for? It is always there, and more being made all the time. I have read many authors or say so's about ear-wax, and about the best the wise or the unwise have said is that it would keep bugs and other insects out of our heads. I thought if that was all that it was made for nature had done a great deal to shoo off the bugs. The idea that it was made bitter and bad to eat just to make bugs sick was weak philosophy, if nature never did any useless work or made anything in vain. At this time I saw the doors all open and a good chance for the loaded mind to unload and give us other uses for ear-wax than bug food, and to lubricate the auditory nerves with dry wax. At this time of my desire to know some positive use or object that nature had in forming so much fine machinery and no use for its products when made, but to pull out of the head with a hairpin, I reasoned about so, that this dry hard wax was once in the gaseous or fluid state. A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.