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HOW THE WAR 1S WAGED ALL
ALONG THE LINE. -
The Mindement--Whet the Bishops Want ,
Contrary Pledges—The Little Premier --
The Premier and McCarthy--" Not 'Wor-
thy ore Hiss."
To the provinces that are not those of
their birth the leaders of Canada's two
great parties will pay the greatest atten-
tion in the campaign that has been com-
menced. Already has Sir Charles Tupper
addressed two meetings in Montreal,
while Mr. Laurier will visit Ontario
within a fortnight. In the commercial
metropolis the Prime Minister held two
meetings; one in the great auditorium at
Selmer park, where thousands of French
Canadians heard the three Freneh Minis-
ters from their own province speak in
their mother tongue. Our French fellow-
• countrymen take their politics vigorously.
At Sohmer park the Ministers did not
have all their own way. Aid. Prefon-
taine, the Liberal who sat for Chambly
in the last House, was present with some
two hundred believers in his own poll-
' ticalfaith. They made their presence felt.
When the versatile Prefontaine, by lift-
ing his hand, gave the signal, there
would burst from the two hundred
'Rouges a howl of dissent and defiance.
The audience—or that part of it that was
not composed of extremists of either side
--langhed, and the meeting went on.
Neither Sir Charles nor Mr. Prefontaine
took the matter seriously. It was simply
part of the game. Doubtless, when next
Mr. Laurier addresses a meeting in Mon-
treal, the Conservative rank -and -file will
make it plain that they can do something
In the way of organizing "claques." And
nobody will object. It was a prominent
politician, whose name and whose poli-
tical belief shall not here be divulged, who
said to me once: "Political meetings do
good in two ways. They instruct the
people, and they Iteep the voters out of
taverns." Need I say that thie gentleman
is an ardent Prohibitionist? It might
have been Hon. G. E. Foster, or it might
have been Mr. John Charlton who gave
vent to this very utilitarian opinion. As
a matter of fact, it was neither.
The trandemen t.
For a fortnight we have been awaiting
tbe mandemene which the bishops of the
Roman Catholic Church in Quebec had
promised their people. For four days their
lordships sat in council, and, on Sunday
last, in every parish churchin the
Province the mandement was read. Of
course, It had to do with the Manitoba
School question. To sublimate this two
column long document, it amounts to a
command to the faithful to cast their
ballots for the men who will pledge
themselves to vote for remedial legisla-
tion. Says the mandement "Please re-
mark, our dearly beloved brethren, that
a Catholic is not permitted, let him be
journalist, elector, candidate, or member,
to have two linos of conduct in a religi-
ous point of view; one for private life,
and one for public life, and to trample
under his feet in the exercise of duties
not social the obligations imposed on
him by his title of a submissive son of
the Church. Therefore, all Catholics should
only vote for candidates who will formal-
ly and solemnly engage themselves to
vote in parliament in favor of the legisla-
tion giving to the Catholics of Manitoba
the school laws which wore recognized to
them by the Privy Council of England.
This grove duty imposes itself on all
good Catholics, and you would not be
justifiable, neither before your spiritual
guides nor before God himself, to set
aside this obligation. We have been able
thus far to congratulate ourselves upon
the sympathetic support of a large
number of our ,separated brethren, and
we wish to make a new appeal to the
spirit of justice and to their patriotism,
so as, by joining their Influence °to that
of Catholics, they help with all their
might to s obtain the settlement of the
complaints justly made by a portion of
our co -religionists. Whaf, we ask for is
the triumph of right and justice. It is
the re-establishment of rights and privi-
leges of the Roman Catholic minority in
matters of education, to our brothers in
Manitoba, so as to shelter the Catholics
of that province from all attacks and
from all arbitrary and unjust legisla-
tion."
What the Bishops Want.
Looking at the question from a non-
partisan standpoint,it is obvious that the
bishops have one supreme object in
view. The Tupper Government is pledged
to introduce a remedial bill. The desire
of the bishops is to obtain a similar
pledge from Mr. Laurier and his follow-
ers. The 'Liberal leader has stated that
he is in favor of the principle of remedial
legislation, but that he does not consider
the bill introduced last session to go far
enough. The question naturally arises,
and doubtless will be put to Mr. Laurier,
"Will you go farther? Your adherence
to the principle of remedial legislation is
already on record. Will you implement
your belief, if you shall attain power?"
Protestant Liberals assure us that Mr.
Laurier will make no such pledge. They
aver that if their leader comes into power
he will find other means of settling the
difficulty. It is warrantable to assume
that M. Greenway, the Prime Ministen
of Manitoba, would be looked to, in such
a contingency, to make any amends that
may be necessary to the minority in his
province. During the provincial cam-
paign Mr. Greenway was at considerable
pains to make it clear that there existed
no understandina between Mr. Laurier
and himself. But, of course, it is not im-
possible that some such arrangement
might be consummated. I do not wish
to be taken sas hinting that any such
adjustment is probable. I speak of the
possibility only,
Contrary Pledges.
And, while the ecclesiastical heads of
the province to the eastward, are asking
for pledges from parliamentary candidates,
certain gentlemen in Ontario are making
themselves "solid"—to use the vernacular
—by making promises that have a diamet-
rically contrary trend. Three of the four
Government candidates in Toronto have
told their conventions that they are un-
alterably opposed to any Interference
with Manitoba. In other constituencies
the same pledge has been made, both by
Conservatives and Liberate: Afar in
Manitoba D'Alton McCarthy has accepted
an invitation to run in Brandon, whither
the has gone to prosecute an active can-
vass. Joseph Martin, who has adopted
the complete platform of the ex -
representative of North Simeoe, is
making a house-to-house canvass. Hugh
John Macdonald, the new Minister of the
Interior, trusts principally to his personal
popularity to (nary him safely through
his contest with the author of the bill
wherein, the Separate Schools of Manitoba
are few more popular men in Canada.
He possesses many of his father's best
qualities. Not two days ago a Minister of
the Crown told me frankly that Joe,
Martin could, to use his own exPression,
"liens the boots off any other man."
Meanwhile, the Winnipeg Liberals in no
wise lore heart. and the animated cam -
The Little Premier,
As yet, we have heard little of Sir Oli-
vier Mowat's promised stumping tour. In
Toronto the other day the Little Pre-
mier, as his followees affectionately call
him, was in conference with Sir Richard
Cartwright, James Sutherland, the ex -
chief Liberal Whip in the last House of
Commons, and other prominent members
of the Opposition. It was decided to hold
the Provincial ,Premier in reserve until
the dying days of the campaign. By
that time, the Liberal chieftain believes,
the strength of his party in the various
portions of Ontario should be capable of
approxiination. And, into the doubtful
constituencies the Little Premier will be
sent.
The Premier and McCarthy.
D'Alton McCarthy, who is a human ice-
berg, if ever there was one, has•need of
all his coolness. Against him Sir Charles
the Elder has an etnassuagable hatred.
Since the Promie's return to Canada,
McCarthy has not bridled his tongue in
criticising Tupper. You have read en -
ready in this correspondence of that
scene in the House when the First Min-
ister thanked heaven for that McCarthy
was no Conservative, and of McCarthy's re-
ply that he still was a'Conservative, but
that he had not fallen so low as to be a
,follower of the present Premietr. At
Montreal on Saturday night last Sir
Charles once more launched his slings
and arrows against the man from North.
Simooe. Envenomed were the old baron-
et's words; strong was his arraignment
of the apostle of Equal Rights. But let
the Premier speak for himself. And let
it, too, be remembered, that one partisan
spoke of another.
• "Not Worthy of a Hiss."
"I dare say you know Mr. D'Alton Mc-
• °Leahy has devoted years of his life,"
began Sir Charles. A hiss resouned
throughout the auditorium. "He is un-
worthy of that hiss." pursued the Pre-
! mier. "There is no one thing of which I
am so ashamed as that I am his political
godfather. Sir John Macdonald sent me
a letter one day when he was living in
Toronto, received from a leading man in
Cardwell. It was when John Hilliard
Cameron died, and Cardwell was left
. without a representative. Sir John was
always very anxious that I should take
an Ontario constituency. A leading gen-
tleman in Cardwell said there were very
I many conflicting aspirants for this va-
cancy in the House of Commons, and he
said: 'Time man we want to represent us
is Dr. I Tupper,' and he said, 'If he would come up heroI am sure he could get the
people united to take D'Alton McCiirthy
until the general elections, and then we
would like to have him ourselves.' Sir
John enclosed this letter to me, and I
have in his handwriting, his words to
me: 'My dear Tupper—This is a safe seat
for you at the general elections. Go up
and get them to put McCarthy in in the
meantime.' (Laughter.) The first duty
of. a party man is to faithfully meet the
wishes of his leader, and although I did
net want the seat for myself at any timia,
I wanted to carry out the wishes of our
great leader, Sir John Macdonald, and
I at, once complied with his request. I
hied to Cardwell and got them to nomi-
nate D'Alton McCarthy. I stumped the
country for him, and succeeded in get-
ting him elected, and 1, never did any-
thing in my life I am so much ashamed
of. If I had. thought that the time would
ever come when D'Alton McCarthy would
devote his talents and abilities—and they
are very considerable—to the evil work,
the most mischievous work, that any
man in Canada can devote his talents to,
of exciting hostility to race and hostility
to religion, I would have suffered any-
thing rather than have had hand or lot
in bringing him into public life."
An Acrimonious Campaign.
I give this paragraph verbatim solely
because I desire your readers to know
with what vigor the campaign is being
pushed. The time was when political
fights in Canada were characterized by
little in the way of personal charges; It
was Sir John the First who said that
`No politician is safe in making personal
charges against bts opponent. That oppo-
nent may have that up his sleeve which
will come back on him." Sir Charles
either disregards, or does not believe in,'
this doctrine of his one-time leader. He
never, since his return to the field of Do-
minion politics, hesitated to use the
strongest weapons in . his power against
those whom he esteems to be his enemies.
And it must be said that Mr. Laurier has
not been backward in taking up the foils.
The Liberal leader has told parliament and
the country that Sir Charles is an usurper,
that he -came to Canada to oust Sir
Mackenzie from his post as Premier of
Canada. Trulyethis is the most acrimoni-
ous campaign that Canada ever has seen.
And of Sir Mackenzie? ,
And of Sir Mackenzie? The old knight
has taken ship for England. The day be-
fore he left, he talked to a newspaper
man. He was strong in his protestations
of fealty to the party, protestations that
will be accepted by all who know him.
Never in his long political history has Sir
Mackenzie been unfaithful to the men
with whom' three 'decades ago, he cast in
his politicallot. His errors of judgment
have not been few; his errors of choice
have not been many. Ills not ten days
since I saw him in Ottawa. Then he was
full of .hope for the succese of the Con-
servatives. "I am out of the fight," said
he, "but the principles of the Conservative
party are, and always have been, mine.
The Liberals are in no better position
than they were in '78, when the country
Was tired of them." It dimmed that I
met Sir Richard .the day ann.: "Sir
Mackenzie," said I, "is more eanguine
than ever."
Sir Richard smiled hs his old, sar-
donic way. "And," said he, "this is the
man who,, only four months ago, de-
scribed his colleagues as a nest of trait-
ors. Tell mee now, is -this party loyalty,
on is it overpowering senility?"
To which no answer was given. And
the reasons therefor, as original newspa-
permen would nen were obvious.
At the Telephone.
Pat—Hillo. Is this the feed sthore?
Will, sind up at once a bale of hay, two
quarts of bran and a, bushel, of oats.
Who is it fhore? Ah, don't git gay. It's
fhore the horse.
He Was.
Haggis—Are you in touch eVIth this
international marriage movement?
Millionaire—I guess I am.. I've been
touched by two counts and a lord within
t, week—for two hundred apir
OWNED ONLY HALF. BIG LEATHER
A Bad Man ti ho Had a Habit of Talking
"One day," maid an old-timer, "Cactus
Jim and I were fishing in the south fork
of the Platte River, when a stranger rode
up on a mule and blandly inquired of
Jim: 'Stranger, be you the man who
owns this yore river?' 'Not as I knows
of,' replied Jim, as he looked up lung!
enough to see that the stranger had a
gun in his band. 'Then what is you
a-doin' yore?' softly Inquired the man. ,
'I'm a fishin' arter fish.' shouldn't
think you'd dare fur to do it, 'cause the
man who owns this yere river is a rip -
roarer end a-lookin' fur a fuss. I am
a-knowin' of the fact that he killed a
feller yesterday fur fishin' in this river.'
" 'How much of the river might he
own?' placidly asked Jim. 'The hull out -
as fur as the water runs, with all the
creeks thrown in. He jest took it fuis'a
fish pond, and the galoot who is coached
a-stealin' of his fish never sees his mother
no more!' 'Would you reckon that yore
feller rides a yeller mewl?' asked Jim,
as he rebaited his hook. ' 'Yes, I reckon
! he do!' 'Man about your size, hain't he?' .
'I should go fur to say that he was.' 'In
fact, you ar' the ri - i ' cuss hisself?'
'You've stuck it right, stranger, and
you've got jest three minits to pray!'
'Thank ye,' said .Tim, as he got his legs
under him, and rose up, whirled about
and covered the man with two guns, all
in the time you could count five.
"'Say,stranger, Oar's a mistake
yere!' said the man on the mule after he
had shaken off his surprise 'As how?'
asked Jim. 'As how I've concluded that
I don't own all this yere Platte River,
but only half, and you habit fishin' on
my half at that! My eyes ar' gettin'
lettle weakish, and I can't see landmarks
as I used to.' 'Kin your eyes see that
trail over thar?' queried Jim. 'They kin.'
'Then ride fur it and keep right on out
o' sight!' The man rode straight, away
and never looked back, and when be was
teso miles distant Cactus Jim picked up
his fishpole and growled: `Somebody'll
I hurt that feller some day it .he don't
quit talkin' and go to shootin' "—Field
and Farm.
Old Jim—A Hero.
The Mount Morris correspondent of
Thursday's Post -Express, says: "Old
.7iin" is the hero of the hour on the
George Wampole place. He is a big bay
horse, homely, but intelligent. Last
night be slipped his halter and presented
himself at his master's bedroen, window
about 2 o'clock, where he rubbed his
nose against the sash—Mr. Warupole
sleeps on the floor—and whinend until
he aroused the folk. Mr. Warapole was
mad. He had been up until midnight
with a sick child and he wanted to sleep,
but he got up and led the troublesome
animal back to the stable, returned to
hod, and was on the borderland between
consciousness and dreamland, when crash
went the window.
This time "Old Jim" had. poked his
nose through a pane and the cold night
air blew in. Mn Wampole got up, put
Jim in the stable and used some had
words. 'Upon his return to bed he told
his wife there would be peace the rest of
the night. But it was not to be. For the
Olen time Jim returned to the window,
this time bringing part of the halter.
Upon investigation, Mr. Wampole found
in a back stable behind the one in which
Old Jim is kept, one of his horses—the
mate to Jim—cast and helpless. It was a
'narrow stall and he might have died
before morning. By dint of hard work
Mr. Wampole pulled him around and got
him on hiefeet. Then he went back to
"Old Jim's" stall and stood looking at
him. "Welt" said he, "that beats all!"
And he took the rest of Jim's halter off
and threw it behind, the feed box. "Old
Jim," he says, "shall never wear a halter
again—te knows as much as a man."
Sailor i'aints aPiagpoie.
Thousands of people watched a man
"shin up" the flagpoles on top of the
Great Northern Hotel and then work his
way industriously to the roof. It was a
sight to send a thrill of horror down
one's spine, and the crowd stood as if
spellbound, swaying in unconscious sym-
pathy with the figure, not much larger
than a spider's, that vibrated in the
wind 250 feet above
The man was Thomas Shay, No. 289
West Ohio street, and he was simply
painting the flagpoles for Landlord Alen
in anticipation of the June Convention.
The little fellow, as sinewy as he was
fearless, is a Norwegian ex -sailor, who
acquired his agility while sailing on the
lakes. For the last three or four years
he has found more money on flagpoles
than on the water, and has become a
specialist, painting poles and gilding
globes in all sorts of dangerous places at
from $10 to $30 apiece. He went to work
yesterday as nonchalantly as if he were
painting the wicker -work of a boudoir
cliaihre
Twind was blowing almost a hurri-
cane when Shay began his task. It was
with him a matter of strength and skill,
nothing more. He had simply a few feet
of rope tied around his waist, • with a
couple of stirrups dangling near his feet,
andnhis primitive apparatus he did not
adjust till his bead was on a level.with
the 'gilt ball at the top of the pole. He
wriggled his way up as if it were a
pleasure, put his feet in the stirrups, and
gave the rope a twist around the pole.
Then he began to "sling paint," as he
expressed it, gradually letting himself
down.
"It's real pleasant work," said he,
"and not dangerous."—Chicago Tribune.
Relative Strength of Wood amid Steel.
Dr. Robert H. Thurston, in a recent
article, discusses various materials in
which comparisons of interest are made.
At the outset he gives the following gen-
erally accepted figures: Cast iron weight
444, pounds to the cubic foot and an inch
square bar will sustain a weight of mow
pounds; bronze, weight 505 pounds, te-
nacity 86,000; wrought iron, weight 480,
:tenacity 50,000; hard "struck" steel,
weight 490, tenacity 78,000; aluminum,
weight 168, tenacity 26,000. A bar of
pine just as heavy RS a bar of steel an
inch square will hold up 1e5e000 pounds,
the best ash 175,000 and some hemlock
200,000 'pounds. "Wood is bulk. It owl
pies ten or twelve times the 'space of steel.
The Story of a Rose.
Only a rose!
It lay between the faded pages of an
.old book.
A man, beholding it, looked down the
distance and the dark, dreaming of the
past years.
A woman paused and, bending over it,
pressed with quivering lips its crumbling
netalse
Only a rose!
• Then, as the evening shadows gloomed
over it, a voice cried, startling the si-
lence:—
"Mamma ! When been in the parlor
a-foolin' with this book? They've gone
and lost the place where I was readin'
et I"
MAMMOTH STRAP MADE FOR A
NEW ORLEANS CONCERN.
It is Seven Feet Wido, One Hundred and
rifty Feet tong and weighs Thirts-tbree
Hundred Pounds --No Stitches Or Rivets.
"Talking about there being nothing
like leather, "said Vice -President Malony,
of the Chicago Belting Company, to a
Chicago Post reporter, "how is this for
being something like it?"
This was a huge roll of leather several
yards in circumference, standing on end
high enough to test an ordinary man's
reach to touch the top. The sides of the
big leather cylinder were built up in I
square sections resembling brown steel
plates In the hulk of an ironclad. One
'end of the roll stood out from the circle
big as a barn door, its extremity shaved
down from the three-ply thickness nearly
an ordinary
th
Inch leather strap. the thinness of an
"The largest belt ever constructed," is
how the maker of this monster eon de-
thribes it, And in view of its formidable
Proportions, its description idight well
pass unchallenged. The dimensions of
the p . Length, 150 feet;
'width, 7 feet; weight, 3,300 pounds, and I
thickness,seven-eighths of ah inch. In its
construction the selected portions of 450
oak -tanned hides, picked from over 5,000
skins, have been used. From end to end
there Is not a stitch or rivet, and the
figures necessary to enumerate the in-
gredients which have been made into
glue to hold the roughened sides of the
three tiers of hides together, and their
quantities, would run away, into the mil -1
Not the least interesting detail con-
nected with the building of this main -
moth strap is the method by which layers '
is nave been arrange so r.nat
every point from end to end there is not
a spot where at least two solid thicknesses
of leather do net cover the spliced sec-
tion of the third layer. Thus the begin-
ning of the lowest layer is made up in
three pieces, 21, 42 and 21 inches wide
respectively e above these come two pieces
of 42 inches wide each, and the third or
topmost layer is made up of three oblongs
28 inches wide. In this manner no two
seams fall together, but, on the contrary,
every joining is strengthened by two
solid thicknesses.
To follow the process of putting to-
gether this enormous volume of material
Into one supple whole is extremely in-
teresting. From the moment the big
bales of hard, crackly hides are opened
in the cellar, where everything is care-
fully scrutinized before being out to allow!
the tough spinal ridge to fall in the
eenter; the pieces thus set apart fleshed
and scoured and curried and tallow -
stuffed. and stretched and dried; again'
0/11 eff 1
LARGEST BELT EvER
MT to a straight edge, the ends scarfed
off where overlapping is required; the
smooth, finished' sides roughened to take
glue, until finally arranged to an exact
nicety, layer upon layer, with boiling
glue pasted between; the whole mass
then subjected to 220 tons' hydraulic
pressure—the process is as interesting as
anything seen in the mechanical depart-
ment at the World's Fain
The destination of this monster belt is
the engine -room of the Louisiana Electric
Light Company at Now Orleans. When
attached to the 28 -foot driving wheel of eoncerned.
the great Allis -Corliss engine the belt
will transmit up to 3,000 horseepower. CARE OF BOOKS.
The wheel alone weighs 85 tons, while
the big engine itself will scale up to 500,-
000 pounds.
To remove the leviathan roll from the
finishing room on the top story of the
factory was by no means the smallest
difficulty in the problem. Special tackle
had to be rigged to the freight elevator
and the bulky mass lowered on to trucks.
When the belt reaches its destination
workmen from the Chicago factory will
be on hand to piece together the rough-
ened ends, and the biggest belt ever
made for actual use will then be ready
for service.
DIET AND DIGESTION,
The Arabian and African Bedouins,
Wliee suffering the pangs of hunger and
;awing nothing wherewith to satisfy the
cravings or appetite, draw their belts
tightly to compress the stomach, and
thee suffer less inconvenience.
Dry bread is much easier of digestion
than fresh It is esitraated by physiolo-
gists that over 10 per cent 'of dry bread
undergoes salivary digestion while being
masticated, while of fresh bread, less
than 2 per cent is thus changed.
Prof. Stickler has demonstrated that
the presence of saliva in the stomach pro-
motes digestion. The same effect is not
procinced by water taken with the food.
Therefore the necessity of thoroughly
chewing the food.
Meats, eggs and fish are almost the
perfection of food. Of themselves they
will sustain life for a considerable time
and with the addition of bread and but-
ter, or one or two fruits or vegetables,
will do so indefinitely.
The gastric tubules which lead from
the tiny cells where the gastric juice is
secreted open into the stomach through
minute orifices. When the stomach is ex-
cited by the presence of food the gastric
cells pour forth the fiend and digestion
begins.
While the process of digestion is going
on the muscles of the stnina,et keep up
a constant churning motion .orcing the
food back and forth ana Allowing the
gastric juices to penetrate every portion.
This churning is centirned until all the
food is digested.
Coffee very cSigInly retards the process
of digestior,. A weak infunion of coffee
seems ratner to promote than to retard.
A 40 pee nest infusion delays digestion
two rni one-half times the normal per -
/OP ed a 60 per cent. concoction delays
.ve times the usual period.
The human strimach is provided with
no= coats: (1) The external, or pert-
toneal; (2) the muscular movements of
the organ when churning the food; (3)
the submucous, or cellular; (4) the mu-
cous membeane, which secretes the gas-
tric juice.
Sudden change of diet is sometimes
dangerous. During the Revolutionary
war soldiers from the Southern States
became mysteriously ill when marched
into the North. They longed for fat ba-
con, and most of them recovered when
this was served out to them as part of
their rations.
It has been proven by actual experi-
ment that tea retards digestion. An in-
fusion of 1 per cent, of tea causes a visi-
ble delay; a 3 per cent. infusion will de-
lay the digestion sometimes as much as
twelve times the normal period; a 10 per
cont. decoction arrests the digestion of
all starchy foods.
Eminent medical authorities estimate
that an English laborer, engaged in coin
nary work, eats daily 18 ounces of bread,
1 ounce of butter, 4 ounces of milk, 2
ounces of bacon. g ounces of potatoes, 6
ounces of cabbage, 33n ounces of cheese,
1 ounce of sugar, three-fourths of an
ounce of salt.
In general, animals feeding on a vege-
table diet have a complex stomach, those
which use animal diet hay e simple stom-
achs, There are, however, notable excep-
tions to this rule. The dolphin has a
multiple stomach, and yet is carnivorous,
while the horse has a Ample stomach,
and yet feeds on the same diet as th?
cow.
The science of digestion received an im-
portant impetus from the knowledge
gained by the case of Alexis St Martin.
He was a young Canadian, who received
a gunshot wound in the stomach. The
wounhealed,d but leftopen flstuia,
through which the process of digestion
could be watched and ascertained from
time to time. Through experiments made
in his case the time of digestion was as-
certained with some degree of corrrect-
Man that is, so far as his stomach was
Testimony of the Photograph.
It is somewhat odd to think that the
camera is now as much a part of a
whaler's equipment as it is of an
engineer's. In running railroads through
crowded communities, either above or
below the surface of the ground, the
camera is busy on both sides of the road,
well in front of the workmen or excava-
tors. This is obviously the railway
company's way of protecting themselves
against possible suits for • damage to
buildings at a subsequent date. If a
claim is brought into court a picture is
taken of the building as it stands. This
Is compared with the picture taken before
the line was laid, and on this comparison
alone the question is frequently decided.
No pig ship ever leaves port now with-
out a kodak and a supply of photo-
graphic materials. This is especially the
case with whalers and other ships which
go out on long cruises. The day of listen-
ing to whalers" yarns has passed. He
must now show the photograph for
everything. A whale is worth' from
$3,000 to $5,000, and as it costs from
$05,000 to $75,000 to send out and main-
tain a whaler and her crew for her catch,
the men who furnisn the money want to
be assured of the diligent conduct of the
expedition. Parties go 'no longer on a
loafing cruise and return in nine or ten
months empty handed, after having eaten
up a huge store of provisions, and run
the wage bill into the higher thousands.
Every place the ship touches has to be
photographed, and a photegaphie trans-
cript has to be shown of every important
Incident of the cruise.
Why She Was Silent.
"Here," said the lecturer in the dime
museum proudly, "is a woman who
didn't epeak a word for ten years."
"How is that?" inquired one of the
audience.
"She didn't get a chance," the lecturer
explained. "You' see her husband is a
barber."
The Resting Time,
The glorious resting time Will wine
after awhile: and oh; how sweat and PO-
trosking God Will intike that test for all
these Who have become real tired through
acing bard pork for Him.
IBeaks with clasps or raised sides dam-
age those near them on the shelves.
Do not let books get damp or they will
soon mildew, and it is almost impossible
to remove it.
Do not allow books to be very long in
too warm a place; gas affects them very
. much, Russia leather in particular.
To Remove Iron Mold. Apply first a
solution of sulphuret of potash and after-
ward one of oxalic acid, The sulphuret
acts on the iron.
To Kill and Prevent Bookworms.—
Take one-half ounce of camphor, pow-
dered like salt, one-half ounce bitter ap-
ple, mix well and spread on the book
shelves. Renew every six months.
To Remove Ink Stains from Books.—
A small quantity of oxalic acid, diluted
with water'applied with a camel's hair
pencil and blotted with blotting paper,
will, with two applications, remove all
traces of the ink.
To Polish Old Bindings—Thoroughly
clean the leather by rubbing with a piece
of flannel; if the leather is broken, fill up
the holes with a little paste; beat up the
yolk of an egg and rub it well over the
covers'with a piece of sponge; polish it
by passing a hot iron over.—Inland
Printer.
ETIQUETTE OF CALLS.
For the caller who arrived first to leave
first.
To return a first call within a week
and in person.
To call promptly and in person after
a first invitation. ,
To call within a week after any
entertainment to which one has been in-
vited.
To call upon an acquaintance who has
recently returned from a prolonged ab-
sence.
To call after an engagement has been
announced or a marriage has taken place
in the family.
For the older residents in the city or
street to call first 'upon the newcomers
to their neighborhood.
KEEP THIS IN SIGHT.
Hot water for sprains.
Turpentine for lockjaw.
Hot lemonade for colds.
Rot milk as a stimulant.
Salt water for falling hair.
Raw, oysters for hoarseness.
Tar on sugar for weak lungs.
Quicklime in water for poison.
Sugar moistened with vinegar for hie-
n:owe
edie puddings and stewed fruit for
bilious dyspepsia..
HYPNOTISM IN COURT.
A Verdict of a Jury Rendered Under Pecu-
liar Circumstances.
"Efypnotism," remarked the professor,
"is a most peculiar power. A dozen years
ago, When hypnotism had not been Inn-
byed into its present fame, I was one of
twelve jurymen in a murder trial. It was
an intelligent jury, too—"
"Of course," laughed the reporter,
otherwise you would not have been
there."
"That's all right," smiled the pro-
fessor, "but our intelligence was of no,
great value to us. The case was one of
murder, in which the murderer gained a
fortune by getting an heir out of the
way and taking his place. The trial did
not take place until two years after the
death of the victim, and the evidence
was very nearly cirmunstantial, but it
was a remarkably clear case of circum-
stances. Well, there wasn't anything pe-
culiar or interesting that wouldn't have
happened at any murder trial, but the
' prisoner was eXtraordinary, at least as to
his eyes, which were of the piercing kind
one reads of in stories to chill the blood.
. "He did not use them, however, to any
extent until all the evidence was in and
the attorneys began their talk. Then he
turned them upon the jury and fastened
them there, as if pleading with us t 0
save him. All the arguments were in by
6 o'clock the first day, and the judge be-
gan to charge the jury. All the soul of
the prisoner seemed then to be in his
eyes, and I could not get my mind on
anything but the prisoner. What the
judge was saying seemed to be a far-off
I whisper, vague and indistinct. Whether
the other jurymen were affected as I was
I did not know, because I hardly real-
ized that there was anyone on the jury
' except myself and that the prisoner was
looking at me for help.
I"I had an indistinct idea that he was
unworthy to be saved, but in spite of
myself I eould not bring myself to con-
demn him. Then the jury was sent out,
the eyes of the prisoner following until
the door was between us. I was the fore-
man and as soon as we had entered the
room and sat down, I said, 'Gentlemen,
the prisoner is not guilty.' My statement
was assented to without a dissenting
voice, and in live minutes' time we were
In the box again, and ten minutes later
the prisoner was profusely thanking us
for a verdict in his favor.
"Then he left the court -room. quickly
and the jury was discharged. We walked
outas if we were dazed, the most pecul-
iar and uncomfortable feeling that I
ever experienced, and I went to bed that
night feeling as if I were smothering.
Next morning I was all right again and
I made it a point to question my fellow
jurymen.' In each case I discovered an
experience similar to mine, but we hardly
dared say we had been hypnotized. That
winter a traveling hypnotist came to
town and that jury put itself in his elands
at a private seance, and every man on it
was what is called a 'sensitive.' That
settled the business. The prisoner had
.hypnotized the jury and bad received a
verdict as he wanted it, but it was not
to be retracted, and the verdict stood."—
Kansas City Star.
" Rays in Piracy..
The pitiless pirate scanned the distant
horizon with one of his eagle eyes.
"Hal"
It was a short word, but there must
have been a motive for it.
"A sail! a sail!"
Turning to his first mate he com-
manded him, with a fearful oath, to run
up the regulation flag.
That person replied that there wasn't
one, as the only flag they ever had was
shot away in the last affair.
Was the pirate chief rattled?
Nay!
For the bold buccaneer to rush down
into his cabin, bring up his Roentgen
camera, and, by means of the X rays, to
take an instantaneous photograph of the
mate's skull and a couple of cross bones
from his twisted leg was but the work of
a moment and in a wink the sable pen-
nant was flying from the foretopsail of
the saucy Plankwalker.
From that instant, as is usual in such
cases, all' was excitement. —Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
What the Spleen Really Is.
The physioloigsts of old were inter-
ested in and puzzled by the spleen. It
did not make a secretion, and the remov-
al of the organ did not seem to create
much disturbance of the vital functions.
Modern physiology shows that the _spleen
is undoubtedly a blood gland. Prof.
Schafer and Mr. B. Moore, two noted
English scientists, have proved that the
spleen acts as a kind of safety -valve
to the blood circulation. Thinspleen
responds an once to all variations in
the blood pressure, whether these varia-
tions are from the heart or from the
lungs. It is a very sensitive organ, and
seems to be a kind of delicate' "gov-
ernor," much like the self-acting
mechanism of that name in the steam
engine.
Calming the waters.
Everyone knows the wonderful effect
of "pouring oil upon troubled waters"
but an experiment made upon the same
principle by the officers of the steamship
Seandia of Hamburg is quite as wonder-
ful. During a recent trip to the 'United.
States the vessel, while in mid -ocean,
was struck by a heavy storm.
It occurred to the officers to dissolve r
large quantity of soap in tubs of water.
Having thus obtained several gallons of
soap Suds, they threw it overboard off
the bows of the ship. The calming effect
on the angry seas was almost instantan-
eous, and the vessel soon began to navi-
gate without difficulty.
Shrinks Out of Sight.
The sea cucumber, one of the curious
jelly bodies that inhabit the ocean, can
practically efface hiinself when in danger
by squeezing the water out of his body,
and forcing himself into a narrow crack
—so Darrow as not to be visible to the
naked eye. He can throw out nearly the
whole of his inside, and yet live and ge w
it 'train.