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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1893-8-31, Page 3ems Clare Others ti'fill cure You, is a truestatement of Uro action of AYER'S Sarsaparilla, when taken for diseases originating in impure blood ; but, while this assertion is true of AYER'S Sarsaparilla, as thousands can at test, it cannot be truth- fully full applied to other preparations, which unprincipled dealers will recommend, and try to impose upon you, as " just as good as Ayer's," Take Ayer's Sarsa- parilla and Ayer's only, if you need •a blood -purifier and would be benefited permanently. This medicine, for nearly fifty years, has .enjoyed a reputation, and made a record for cures, that has sever been equalled by other prepares- ;ions. AYER'S Sarsaparilla eradicates the taint of hereditary scrofula and other blood diseases from the system, and Kik puts, deservedly, the confidence of. tMie people. Sarsaparilla " I cannot forbear to express my joy et the relief Ihava obtained fro the use of AYER'S Sarsaparilla. I was afflicted with kidney troubles for about six months, suffering greatly with pains in the small of my back. In addition to this, my body was covered with pimply eruptions. The remedies prescribed failed to help me. I then began to take AYER'S Sarsaparilla, and, in a short time, the pains ceased and the pimples disappeared. I advise every young man or woman, in case of sickness resulting from impure blood, no matter how long standing- the case may be, to take AYER'S Sarsaparilla."—H. L. Jar - /imam, 33 William st., New York City. t , Prepared by Dr J. C. Ayer & Co, Lowell, Mass, alb Curs You THEEXET.R TIMES. Ispubiisnetl every Thursday niotnn„ 1„ TIMES STEAM PRINTING iNG HOUSE ruin-straet,neady opposite Fitton's Jowolory biolo,Lxeter ,Ont„byjohn Wuioo3' Sons,Pra- aviators. 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The crime for which Dr. Buchanan was convicted on April 26 was the murder, by administering morphine and belladonna, of his wile, Anna B. Buchanan, on April 23, 1892 ,at their home, 267 West Eleven- th street. His first wife was a Mies Anna Brice Patterson, but he secured a divorce from her in November, 1890. Three weeks after securing the divorce. he married Mrs- Auna B. Sutherland, pro- prietress of a notorious house in Newark' and brought her to New York to live. She had accumulated a fortune and made a will delivering all her possessions to her hus- band. The couple quarrelled frequently, and she constantly upbraided Buchanan for spending her money. On the morning of April 21, 1892, Mrs Buchanan was taken ill, and Dr. McIntyre was called in to at- tend her. Two days later she died, and Drs. Molntyre and Watson, after consult- ing with her husband, gave . a certificate that death resulted from cerebral hemor- rhage, The statements of several friends of Mrs. i. n s co m Buchanan aroused uspi , and acme weeks later the body was exhumed and given over to Drs. Doremus and Loomis for chemical analysis. The examination resulted in Dr. Buchan- an's arrest. On June 9, 1802, he was indieted, and on March 28, of the following year, the trial began. Several days having been given for the impannelliug of a jury, The trial was the LONGEST MURDER TRIAL EVER RECORDED, lasting nearly four weeks, during which time the greatest known medical patholog- ical and chemical experts testified, showing conclusively the presence of morphine and the probable presence of belladonna in the deceased woman's body. The jury after deliberating twenty-eight hours returned a verdict of guilty on .April r, Dr, Buchanan was a Canadian. Ile bin a drug business life u g atom in Halifax, N. S. He was afterwards graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago, and then returning to Halifax, he married Annie Bryce Patter- son, the daughter of a well-known manufac• Curer of that city. Soon after Ms marria e he brought his viten:, New York, and after- wardwent with her to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he attended a medical college, He returned to New York in 1886.. Tropioai Railways. Apropos of the projeoted Pan American Railway, it is to be noted that not only is the first coat of railway construotion in tropical countries very heavy, but the annual maintenance of way is expensive to a degree which cannot be appreciated by those who have had no experience in this connection. tion i Railroad, The An lu a in Colombia, says Charles P. Yeatman, in the "lJthgineeriug 141agazfne, �� cost in a single year for repairs of track and bridges two thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars per mils. The CaucaRailroad, in the same year,cost three thousand eight hundred and I thirty-seven dollars per mile. Tbese two roads aro in Colombia, and aro sometimes mentioned either as future feeders of the Pan-American Railroads or parts of its main line. On the Antiognia Road, if the undergrowth were out at the beginning of the rainy season, less than two months' rain was sufficient to form an arch of green trees thirty feet high, leaning over the track so as to shade it completely. The constant cliange from dryness in the day to soaking moisture at night, even in the dry season, would soon ruin the best of timber, but nature furnishes a still quicker means of getting rid of it, in the shape of an ant or wood louse, which is careful not to :mar the outside of his domicile, but will patiently honeycomb the inside, until what looks like a solid twelve-by-twelvestick is but a shelf from one.eighth to one-fourth inch thick, filled with dust and ants. The native timber suffered so much fromthein- roads of these pests that yellow Lino was used in Panama to avoid them, a trial of it was made on the Antiaquia Road. Georgia pine had to be shipped by way of New York at a cost of nearly one hundred dollars per one thousand fe et, board measure when Putin place. When I left there the first of m yellow pine trestles was beingre- placed. It had ben built less than our years. Facts About the Human Race. Of the human race 500,000,000 are well clothed, that is, wear garments of some kind ti cover their nakedness; 700,000,000 are semi -clothed, covering inferior parts of the body; 250,000,000 are practically naked. Regarding the civilized state of humanity, 500,000,000 persons live in houses partly furnished with the appointments of civiliza- tion ; 700,000,000 in huts or eaves with no furnishing ; 250,000,000 have nothing that can be called a home, are barbarous .and savage. The range is from the topmost round down to named savagery. Tho por- tion of the race lying below the, line of human conditions is at the very least three- fifths of the whole, or 900,000,000. As to religion, the 1,450,000,000. are divided in the order of numerical strength as follows ; 860,0'0,000 are pagans, comprising 600,- 000,000 of Brahma Buddhists, or Brahmans or Buddhists; 160,000,000 of unclassified pagans ; 150,000,000 Parsees, Confucianists, Shintoists, Jains, and other smaller pagan amts 410,000,000 are Christians, composed of 225,000,000 Roman Catholics, 75,000,000 Greeks, and 110,000,000 Protestants; 180, 000,000 are Mohammedans and 8,000,000 Jews. The 860,000,000 pagans are found chiefly in Asia and Africa, and comprise 09-IOOths of the population, with scattering millions in the Americas' and islands of the sea. The 410,000,000 Christians constitute the body of Europe, and nine -tenths of the. Americas, with a few millions in Asia, Africa,. and the islands. The Mohammed- ans; are found ..chiefly in Asia' and Africa. The Jews are scatterd in all lands, without a home or country. This is approximately a correct cast of the religious status of the world to -day. It shows two-thirds of the whole to be pagans, or including the Mo hantmedans and the Jews as, anti-Chr` tian components . of the pagan fraction,. three- quarters of the whole -not less than 1,050, 000,000 Willie was very much interested while the choir sang the anthem in church last Sunday. At its conclusion : he turned to his mother, and in a stage -whisper asked, Say, mamma, which beat?” Chiidren Cry for Pitcher's Castoria ALONE IN MID -0 OE The if'Oritlannne firings ? eivs oreapt. Car- ddnei• and Me Dory—vitalise-as (rood or. Drinit—Stoh•iu4 Riad Stripped Ulm or Ills Clothing arida Rad Broken Ills Rud- der, Captain Stanwell, commanding the Brit- ish tank steamship L'Oriflam me, which has just arrived at Halifax from Dartmouth in ballast, brings tidings of having fallen in with the 14 -foot dory, Flying Dutchman, in which venturesome Capt. John Gardiner is a+tempting to cross the Atlantic, on July 29, in latitude 43,44, longitude 46.36, which is about 1,000 miles off the coast. ' The daring navigator was almost famish- ed, having neither food nor water for al- most ! - m sstove been a t a week. Hie cooking a had n washed overboard, his vessel's rudder was gone, and for several days he had guided it by an oar. In consequence he was almost worn out, and his body was badly bruised by the many severe knocks it got from the end of the oar while keeping the craft'a head to the heavy sea. He masa most pitiable sight, and Captain Stanwell fears he will be completely over- come when be reaches his destination. When seen by the crew of L'Orifiamme he was almost naked and his body was chilled through. Fresh provisions and water, to- gether with plenty of warm clothing, were put on board the little craft, and the fool- hardy mariner put off again toward Fal- mouth, his ultimate destination, which was yet The miles750 Flying Dutchman made sail from Shel bourne, N, S., June 19, bound for Falmouth, England, ande ever since its departure re f rem that place had met with a suoeession of heavy gales and high seas. How the boat ever lived throngh the gales Captain Gerdiu- er was at a loss to know. In the height of the storms aseabrokeovertheboat,at tilling her to the gunwales, and washingliim over- board. He was lashed to the boat's comb- ings, which was the only thing that saved him. Clinging to the rope, Captain Gardin- er succeeded in hauling himself into the boat again after the storm had moderated. Soon after this the rudder was broken, and the boat was rendered helpless in the trough of the sea. He rigged a rudder from one of his oars, and succeeded in this way to hold the boat's head to the sea.. After hearing his story, Captain Stan- well used every persuasion to induce him to give up the trip and come on board. This he stoutly refused, stating that sunk voyages had been ac„amplished before, and he in- endlh u h die in the tended to get to I'u not or attempt. The officers and crewvn£ the L'Orifiamme believe the August storms will bring his voyage to an untimely end. The first sight of this strange looking Draft an the horizon created quits a lot of excitement on hoard the tanker, as it was at first thought to be a boat containing the crew of some vessel that had foundered at sea, As it approached just before supper time the flag " Union down" was noticed flying from the masthead, and a °loser ob- servation revealed the fact that the craft contained only one man, who was cramped up in the email cock -pit, The wind was blowing a fresh breeze at the time, and the boat was soon alongside the huge tanker. At that time Ceptain Gardiner had fallen in with two other ships that had afforded him with him temporary relief by supplying fresh provisions, etc. Gardiner's sole purpose is to acaamplisll the crossing of the Atlantic in a boat small- er than the Mermaid, in which Capt.t,Will- iam Andrews crossed in June 1891. The latter started his trip much earlier in the, year, andptirsued a more southerly course, meeting with finer weather. The Flying Dutchman, as near as can be ascertained, is but a few inches shorter than the Mermaid. She is about fourteen feet long, twelve feat on the keel, and draws about one foot of water with her skipper un board. She is built of half-inch white cedar over one -inch oak ribs, sharp at both ends, and decked over fore and aft with a very small aook-pit, and has no rails whatever. e The craft is flat bottomed. and has a centre board. There are three thin wooden bulk- heads, one forward of the mast. Under the floor of the cock -pit is stored about 230 pounds of ballast. The mast is eight feet above the deck, with a boom twelve and a half feet long, and a nine -foot gaff. Inland Calamities. The inhabitants of small and remote isl- ands are remarkable for their attachment to their native soil ; and it is, perhaps, for- tunate that they should have this feeling, for otherwise this isolation exposes them to great disadvantages. We are not now al. luding to such matters as the alleged de- terioration of race produced by perpetual intermarriage, but rather to the shock of actual calamities, which fall more heavily insularcommunities than a non on small c 1 larger countries. Undoubtedly the vine disease caused more misery in Madeira than it would have done in a French commune;' when the island of Rhodes a few and , years ago, was visited by an earthquake the effects of the 'calamity were . much more severely felt than they would have been in a continental region. Thefollowing is a very curious instance of the sufferings to which a small self-supporting island is liable :— Some years ago a shoal of grampuses visited Pabbay, one of the Hebrides. The natives slaughtered the grampuses and obtained quantities ot oil ; but pres- ently upwards of three thousand ravens, headed by a white fieldmarshal, assembled to devour the carcases, when they had picked the grampuses' bones clean they preceeded to feast on the corn. Guns were brought into requisition, but without effeot, and Et winter of famine appeared imminent. A famous birdcatcher, named Finlay, then endeavoured to kill them singly, by climb- ing the rocks and catching them while roosted ; but these efforts caused no dimin- ution in their numbers. Suddenly a bright' idea struck him. In- stead of killing the birds he took six of them aliye, plucked off all their plumage, except the tail and wing feathers, and then let them go. The rest soon left the island. An Enelishman Killed in the Alps. Telegraphing from Berne, on Tuesday, Bente says :-A fatal mountaineering hape. pened today to a young Englishman named Jones, who missed his footing, and fellfrom a considerable height whileascendiug Mount Catogne, near. Orsieres in the Valais. The deceased, .who was only 22 years of age, etarted this morning to go up the. mountain with four other tourists, and as the ascent' its in noway a dangerous one, it is supposed that Mr. Jones must have made his way to' some perilous position lying away from the ordinary path. Request Granted. Miss Fosdick (at the piano) : "Shall I sing 'Some Day? Mr. Dolley (engaged to her): "Yes, love; some day next year." To illuminate London entirely with elec- tric light would require an initial expendi- ture of at least four millions. .A FAIR EXPLORER, 1 Talk with plias Arthhie Teener, the Pin newt. Traveler, There are more elements in womankind than are dreamed of in the (leogiaphical So- ciety's philosophy, says the London Queen. The pioneering spirit, for one, is quite ignored by the gentlemen who speak of tea parties as woman's habitual and highest Joy. Of course, all women are not pioneers --there are so uncommonly few generaliza- tions that can be formulated to embrace the entire sex -.neither are all men. To quite a large number of persons, male and female, London. during the sober portions of the year, and a few spots well within the European boundaries during the periods of relaxation, offer all the- material they crave during the term of years they have at their disposal for conscious life . hn any quarter of the globe. But, allowing even for a more extended curiosity, there are few who pine to see Thibet—important though that country is likely to become in view of the threatened political cataclysm in Asia -and few to whom the"roof of the earth" is the Carcassonne that they must needs gaze on ere they go hence. I will make a personal confession that my own interest hn Thibet was --shall 1 say—dormant until I had read in the news- papers accounts of Miss Taylor's travels in that country. Then my curiosity was fired, and my zeal, if it did not yet carry me to Thibetan heights, drove me forth to seek and to see Miss Taylor. On the principle, I imagine, that "all roada lead to Earl's Court," even travelers from Thibet come ultimately .tothatprosaic bourne. re, Ar. ho wit was in a h that house region that I met Miss Annie Taylor. My first impression was of a lady very small, very slight (the voluminous Thibetan dress fn the portrait conceals her small propor- tions) s) and fragile looking. She reminded me in these physical attributes of that other remarkable traveler, Mrs. Bird Bishop, Miss Taylor dresses simply, and wears her hair cut short, a little below the nape of the neck, in a manner which savesher the elaborate and impossible duty of hairdh•ess- iug,without conveying any suggestion of masculinity. " Wo are all born travelers," said Miss Taylor, by way of stating a simple faet. "Many of my family have traveled in Aus- tralia and NewZealand ; the Taylor Lagoon, in New Zealand, by the way, is called after my brother. I do not know why we are so fond of travel ; perhaps it is because we are of mixed origin --my father is Scotch and my mother was born i nBraid ,but I thinkk we succeed cbiefly because we pick up languages very easily." CHILDHOOD AND EARLY LIFE. It always hast curious interest for me to learn how women who are in any wily re- markable have developed into what they are, so I wag impelled to ask ,hiss Taylor about her early days. She told me then that she wets born in Cheshire, and that as a child she was extremely delicate, suffer. ing from a heart complaint, which she has since happily outgrown. Her fragility rend- ered it impossible that site should be sent to school, consequently she led what the pedagogues might consider en idle lite at home. But this form of idleness proved a useful preparation for her later career. She learned to milk cows, to make butter, to manage a g garden and to nook—all simple accomplishments, which have stood her in better stead in strange lands than scholastic achievements. Several attempts, however, were made to ive her theordinaryeduca- tion tion; in partioular, she went to school in Germany for a short time. "I returned home ill, as I always did," said Miss Tay- lor, "tent I was glad of the opportunity to learn German." "Are you first a miesionary and second- ly a traveller, Miss Taylor ?" I inquired, somewhat courageously. But the answer was unhesitating : ". Oh, yes : it is the missionary work that draweane chiefly. I have always been interested m that. As a girl I carried on missionary work in some of the the poorest parts of London—dia- tricts so dangerous, indeed, that few people cared to venture into them after dark. But I found in the slums of London, exactly as I have since found iu my Asiatio journeys, that a woman is rarely molested if she makes it quite clear that she is doing her duty quietly and unassumingly. Looking back upon my life," continued Miss Taylor, musingly, "I see that' have seldom under- taken the work that everybody else was doing ; I have always preferred to strike out some new road, and then, when the way was made tolerably smooth, I have left it for others to travel. In this sense I' think I may consider myself a pioneer." WOMAN'S POSITION IN rsnn T. The history of Mian Taylor's adventure and hairbreadth escapes is now tolerably familiar. I will therefore excuse myself from recapitulating whatis already known, in order tofind matte details of special sp efor interest. One of -my first: questions to Miss Taylor naturally concerned the position of women in Thibet. She told me that women enjoyed considerable power. Polyandry was the matrimonial system, but the Thibetan woman,though she has several husbands can no1 select these according to her own taste ; she is limited to so many husbands as there are brothers in a family. The only person probably who has any ehoice in the affair is the eldest brother of a family, who selects a spouse for himself and his brother. The Thibetans being nomadic and warlike, it seldom happens that all the husbands are at home together. Consequently there is peace in the home, where the woman reigns supreme, managing all the domestic and often the financial affairs of the household as it seems meet in her eyes. Practically women enjoy both influence and respect in Thibet. But direct testimony on this point was contributed by Pontso, Miss Taylor's de- voted, Thibetan servant, who entered the room while we were talking. Pontso speaks no English, but his remarks, interpreted by his mistress, were to the effect that he thought the beauty of Englishwomen was as much inferior to that of the ladies of his land as was their Racial position. Happen- ing to beat the Mansion House on the day of the royal wedding, the gallantlittle man was amazed and shocked to see how Eng- ligla ladies were crushed and bustled in the crowd, and he came to the conclusion that a mission from Thibet to teach Engliahn-len courtesy was as much needed as an English-, mission to Thibet.: He also prides himself upon having made a tour of the world, whilst his own country almost alone is closed to the globe-trotter. Pontso's ap- pearance is fairly reproduced in a por- trait, but the extreme smallness of his feet and hands, which are tinier than almost any woman's, cannot easily be shown. Vice Versa. Husband : "My dear, our club is going to have all home comforts," Wife ; " Is that so? And when is our home going to have all the club comforts ? She Wanted the Rudder.—" Ethel, will you roti with me down the river of .life ?" " No, Clarence ; but I wouldn't mind acts, ing as coxswain." es„ ane.,e:danaenn, for Infants and Children. "Caatoriaissowelladaptedtochildreathat 'recommend it as superiorto any prescription. Gown tome. II. A. Ascaris, AL D,, 111 So. Oxitorrl Ht., Brooklyn, IL Y "The use of ‘Castoria, is so universal and its merits so well knownthat it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. revr aretbe intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easyreach." CAxios jtlLarirer, D,D.. New York City, Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church. easeteria cared Collo, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Eats'Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di. ggestion. wttaosse fnsurrioue medication.. " For several. years I Have rt ormended pour ` Castoria, and abifl always cariiinue to do so asi a bas invariably; produced Yid-sefteta1 results. 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There are seven or eight large, moun- tainous islands varyingbin length from seventyto 100 miles, and a great number of smaler islands, ranging from fifteen to twenty miles in length, down to the tiny coral islet only half a mile across. The Solomon Islanders are of a mixed race,varyingin g between an almost pure Ma - lay type and the darker -skinned Poly- nesian. ol -nesian. Though they are almost universal- ly cannibals, they stand in other respects by no means low in the scale of savages. The men are, as a rule, tail and well form- ed, and the women, in their youth, are handsome and attractive, though the drutlg- ery which falls to their lot soon ages and hardens their looks. Indeed, the condition of women among them, as in most savage races, is one of absolute subjection. The wife of the household slave. She is com- pletely in the powerof her husband for life or death. If goods be stolen from the house she is responsible to her lord in the first case, not the thief. Wives are bought andsold just like outer commodities, and among the wealthy chiefs polygamy is free- ly practised. ree-lypractised. It was on one of these islands that Mr. Bates, an English yachtsmen, landed from his vessel and started into the woods. . He never came :back. A small party vainly searched for him, and for years trade goods lauded on the island were done up- in wrappers on which were printed the words: " Bates, we are looking for you." It was also on one of the Solomon group that an unfortunate Italian was kept as a slave for. a number of years, until he finally got a chance to escape to New Britain, where at last accounts he was living among the na- tives, his mind almost wholly destroyed by his sufferings of earlier years. Head•huntin is still carried on to some g with cannibalism extent in connection , but much more from the anempia, desire of the chiefs to accumulate skulls as a token of power, or of prowess. It lies also a sacri- ficial aspect ; in oase of the death of a chief a head must be provided, and the launch- ing of a new war canoe' or the • completion of a bamboo house must be signali ed in the same way. "Within the radius of the head-h;uting forays no native can be said to enjoy Electivity of life for a single day, The custom is now carried on less openly than of old. Every chief has his butcher, who ix an important member of his , court, When, a Captive is taken in war, he is handed over to this official and promptly despatched. Tha body is then cut up and the joints are hung upon a tree reserved for that purpose in the village, and the people are invited to come and buy. cal rap MI. Aerial Navigation The problem of making a heavy body fly through the air may not be insoluble, but Is singularlydifficult and . l ot• itall • hs at- tempts , tempts which have been made to lir its solution are very uncertain and incomplete. Without doubt it cannot be positively affirmed that in order to accomplish bodily movement feet will always be better than wings; but on the other aide,it is not suffi- cientto say following the formula dear tothe advocates of flying machines. " The bird flies ; therefore man will fly." Nothing proves that man, riveted to the soil, is powerless ever to rise into the air. But can this be done with wings ? It is by process. es very different from those employed by nature that mat op to this time has been able to enter into rivalry with her. The great Stephenson never thought of mak- mg a steam horse, and the machine man, which it is just announced that an artis- an ot Nuremberg has constructed, is, according to the same paper announcing it, only a very poor machine. It is then probable that man, if he succeeds, will sus- tain himself and circulate through the higher regions by other means than those at the disposal of the bird. The dirigible, balloon comes to the support of this pre- sumption, and its partisans, pleased with its progress, would probably be of the opine ion that it better to restsatisfied with it, at least for the present. It is however a matter of intereat to scan the arguments brought forward in behalf of the aeroplane, or the flying machine. They claire that in order to straggle against the air there is needed a body heavier than the air. The balloon is an obstacle to aerial navigation. A propelling motor moved; by steam is the mechanism which promises the conqueat de- layed so long. The search for some light motive power which interests alike those working for the interests of the dirigible balloon ad of the aeroplane leads everyda toward eertaint of success. The' oblen of. aerial nevi- . has not yet received a definite so. bation; but its hour is approaching. The learned Mr. Janssen says, "The twentieth century will see realized the great appli- cations of aerial navigation. The terres- trial atmosphere will be furrowed by dif- ferenth appliances which will take pos- session of it." Such an event will have for all humanity consequences of such e magni- tude that it is not too sou- is begin to prepare our minds for them. -[.i. Fleury in The Chautaugaan for September.