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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-5-17, Page 3...ettrgoravroverioa..now. mer,nerrwous 041100000t00000.3.000000000a09000(9000e000C1 400000000000.00GOOG0000-000(9000000000060a) eo Oa) 4il>0 00 00 430* 00 CIO IIOW the French oe Ilope to Override Ger- oo 00 many on Automobiles. • . IS :141' 00 00 1;ife 100 BIS a* • e 00 00 a 436,,e4,000.06400084,410e0a0eemes*06,34)906001400 oesooessece0000(90000000a0 0000000 0060 Tae autornotele rever has tarn a unlimited faith in the horsclesss car- riage plan of, invasion. They have also notified the owners of automobiles that ba the event ,of war Giese will be req- uisitioned. 11 is ROW Germany's turn to devise a means or meeting this lIONV G(IpartIllt1 in the war game. She cer. tainly Gannet afford lo ignore it, and the greatest of all military nations eau be trusted to find the right guard for the DM 1/101Y. TO 13E11.111 new and sensational turn. The goSsips of the cafes and boulevard e have for- gotten for awhile the interminable topic of the exposition. Wbat is the great fair in comparison with the glori- ous idea that has just had its birth in the larencli war office and which it is proposed shall wipe out that almost indelible stain oa the tricolor, the over- running of laranee by the German AUTOMOBILE INVASION. army/ It is to be done by means of automobiles, says a Paris correspond- ent of the Cincinnati Commercial Trib- une. If war with Germany were to be declared tomorrow, the only thing that would prevent the famous cry of "On to Berlin!" becoming this time a prelude to a sweeping success is the lack of horseless carriages. Filed away ;in the intelligence department's recep- tacle for documents and maps of the •.greatest importance to the republic is a complete plan for a horseless car- riage campaign, with Berlin for its ob- jective point. It has been ascertained through agents of the department who base scoured the country and made in- quiries in every town, village and ham- let of France that there are just 3,103 automobiles in the country, including the public conveyances, delivery wag- ons and private carriages of individu- als. Each of these conveyances would bold at least four persons. At a pinch, and pinches are the essence of the con- tract in time of war, six or eight or even ten roen could be crowded into an automobile constructed to carry emly four. This means that a maxi- mum of 30,000 and a minimam of 15,- 000 men could be rushed over the frontier In a few hours with arms, am- munition and camping equipment. 'Such an army, unless the plan of the intelligence department proves In prac- tice to possess flaws that the theorists have not provided against, would be more formidable than any body of cavalry could be. for at its highest 'speed the • automobile can easily beat 'the horse and besides does not get tagged out. The only weak point that the cafe erenerals have so far. after two whole days' eager discussion of. the proposi- tion, been able to find in the horseless e-arriage plan of campaigning., is that automobiles must. keep to the roads, and by blocking these the eneriV could very easily stay the progress of the horseless army. Cavalry would be able to surmount such obstacles or get :around by taking to the fields. The answer of the experts to this °la jectien is that the automobile is merely intended to convey the army as far and as quickly as possible. It would. it is 'claimed, move so fast that before or- ganized opposition could block its way the army would be already far advanc• ,ed in the direction of the German capi- tal. At the first sign of a check the -soldiers woulcl pour out of the automo- biles. take positions, storm and remove the barriers if possible and thenceforth 'repeat the operation as long as their progress was barred. The sWiftness of the movements of +such a body of men as that the French Tropose to launch against Germany In the event of war cannot be quodtionecl. There would be no necessity for going into camp at night. The soldiers would aleep and eat in the conveyances, and, there being, no horees, there would be no one to consider but the men. It 'would be ecalivelent to 11 large foie moving by rail. With all the epeed and mobility of such a force this one could go by roads undeCe.ndecl, became° no enemy would be expected to invade by them unless with such a cumbrous train tta to give notice days ahead of ails appearance at any given point, The government oflicials have given 'Orders for the manufacture of vast !numbers of anternobiles for ID ilitat'y lase, showing that they, at least. have • FEAST OF THE DRAGON. Gorgeous Ceremonies or the Chinese ,Ceiehration In San Francisco. The feast of the dragon, most splen. did and impressive of all Chinese eese- monies, is to be celebrated in San Fran- cisco in June on a grand and gorgeous scale. The Celestials have outlined a programme of magnificent display, the like of which has never been seen ex- ceptieg in the Flowery Kingdom. Ho Yow, the progressive consul general of the imperial Chinese government, has requested the American people to par- ticipate in the affair. It is but fitting, says the San Fran- cisco Examiner, that the gateway through which the conanierce between the Brobdingnagian nation of Asia and the young giant oil the new world has but begun to flow should be the sceue of the celebration of the patron deity of China, the dragon, the source of all wisdom, the ruler of the destinies of her people, the god at whose caprice good or bad crops result, at whose will success or failure is made in business enterprises. , With the demand of the government at Washington that the "open door" In China be guaranteed the United States by the powers of Europe Ameri- ca became, if not the greatest factor in the trade of the orient, at least in line for succession thereto. So when 0. fate days ago Mayor Phelan Made public Ho Yow's communication, outlining the plans of the Chinese for decorat- ing the city in honor of their favorite god's feast day and of holding the bril- liant ceremonies in his honor upon the principal streets of the municipality, the people immediately became inter- ested in the idea. A taste of what the Mongols can do In a spectacular way was given the citizens of San Francisco last Fourth of July. At that time a small body of Chinese native sons participated in the parade In honor of the nation's birth - GREAT HIGR PRIEST OF MR DRAGON. day anniversary. They carried the dragon and made a further sNvell dis- play. which, despite their limited num- ber, was the hit of the occasion. What then can be expected when, as Ho Yow promises, there will be thou- sands of his countrymen in line, a dragon more than a00 feet in length, floats allegorical of the history of Chi- na, mandarins, soldiers, coolies, mer- chants, all attired in their picturesque native costumes, gorgeous in the colors affected on holiday occasions? Tben It Is proposed to deck the Bay City as though it were the capital of Emperor Kwong Suey. Market street is to be made beautiful with flowers, lanterns and bamboo work. Rustic bridges will spin the broad avenue. At night colored lights will gleam from .the interstices of the openwork and from the gaudily painted globes. Flowers, of which California can pro - Vide a plethora, will be lavishly esed In beautifying the buildings along the great thoroughfares, the poles and poets and the bamboo decorations. correct. "I find here a most unusual line," said the profeesor of pahnistry, look- ing up from his caller's hand, "and it means, I fear, something dark and Mysterious. "You are right," replied the man who had dropped In to consult him. "It's a scar I got several years ago in an en- counter with a Very dark Man with a razaer."—Chicago Tribune, OARNE00E ON TRUSTS. U iO1.111ti the Process hy MOO .1..11,e!r raw,: Are "Undone. Mr. ' Carnegie believeS in letting trusts alone, and in the May Centnry in a paper called "Popular Illusions About Trusts". he ,explains his atti- tude: . "Every .attempL, to monopolize. the manufacture, of any staple article ear-, ries .Within .its bosom the seeds of failure. Long ,before we could legis- late with mucheffect againsttrusts there would be no necessity for legis- lation. The , past proves this,aad the future is • to confirm it: :There should be nothing but encouragement for these vast aggregatioas Of capit- al ',foe the manufacture of staple. article. As for the result being an increasse ofprice to ,coestatier beyond a brief period, there: r),c6a be no Sear. Go the 'goatee -try, the inevitable re- sult of these aggregations - and permanently to give to the con- sumer cheaper articles than Woula, have been Otherwise possible to :ob- tain, for capital is stimulated by tae high profitsof the trust for a season to embark against at. The result is very soon a :capacity of production beyond the wants of the consurner,.' and as the new works erected are of the most improved 'pattern' and cap- able of producing cheaper .. than the old Works the vulnerable trusts are : compelled to buy. and capitalize at two or three times their Cost. There is thus 00 danger ahead to the com- munity from trusts nor any • cause for fear. The great natural laws, being the outgrowth of human nature and hu- mao needs, keep on their irreeistible course. Competition in all depart- ments of human activity is not te be suppressed. The individual manufac- turer who is tempted into- the -'unus- ually profitable business of the trust will take care of the monopoly ques- tion and prevent injury to thd na- tion. The trust, so far as aggrega- tion and enlargement go, is one clay to be recognized as a grand step to- ward cheaper products for the peo- ple than could have been obtained, by any other mode than the aggregation of capital and establishments: Al- ready the ghosts of numerous de- partecl trusts which aimed at Mono- polies have marched across the stage of human affairs, each pointing to its fatal wound inflicted by that great corrective; competition. Like the ghosts of Macbeth's victims; the ,line promises to stretch longer and lon- ger, and also like those phantoms of the brain they 'come like shadows, SO depart, ' "The earth has bubbles as the Water hath, And these are of them. "The masses of the People; the toil- ing millions, are soon to find in the great law of aggregation Of capital and of factories anotherof those ben- eficient agencies which in their opera- tion tend to bring to the homes of the poor in greater degree „than ever more and More of the luinries of the rich, and into their liVes more of sweetness and light.. The only people who have reason to fear trusts are those who trust them." Eduituranee of the 3loose, While the peculiar pacing gait of a moose will not carry him over the ground as rapidly as the deer or cari- bou, his endurance far surpasses that of either of these animals. For a short spurt or 'in very deep snow the caribou can easily discount the moose, but for an all day's jaunt, where' the course is fairly open, the moose has no rival. Many years ago, when Sir Edmund Head was Governor of the province, he owned a tame moose that perform- ed remarkable feats of speed and en- durance. On one ,occasion the Gov- ernor wagered £500 that his moose could tilavel from Frederickton to St. John over the ice, a distance of 84 miles, in faster time than any team of horses in the stud of Lord Hill of the Fifty-second regiment. A sledge was attached to the moose and another to the horses. The river ice • was Covered with about eight inches of snow. The start was made oppo- site the govemnent house at S o'clock in the morning. In seven hours the moose and his driver were in Market sqUare, St. John. Lord Hill's team was distanced, one of his horses ex- piring at Gagetown and the other reaching St. John -three .hours behind the moose.—Lewiston Journal. The Great Ristori. An Italian theatrical journal relat- es a number : of anecdotes regarding She - was only 14 when she appeared as 'Francesca da Rimini and .20 when :she first acted the -role of Maria Stuart in 'Schiller's , play, on which occasion:the manager advised her , to leave tragedy. alone, Thirteen years later the 'French Em- peror bogged het- to:,learn.the French language .at the expenseof the Gov- ernment and become a member of the Theatre Francais, but she was toe patriotic to accept.. On one occasion. in Madrid she was asked to .plea,c1S for the life of: a sole dale who was, to be shot the next day. The miniatry 'refused her re- quest, but :in theevening, ' when she was acting Medea, .she appearedl dur- ing an eintermission in the Queen's box, prostrated herself and secured the desired ,pardon. ' ontwell as an Idol. "It was not until 1645," says Mr. Morley in The Century, "that Crom- well had begun to stand out clear in the popular, imagination, alike of friends and foes, as a leader of men. He was now the idol of his troops. Ile prayecl and preached among them; he played uncoath practical jokes wi th them; ho was not above a snowball match with them; he WaS brisk, energetic, skillful soldier, and Pc wos an invincible comMander. In Parliament he made himself felt, as hexing the art of, hitting the right debatieg nail upon the head. The ,Saints had an instinct that he was their man, and they could trust 111111 to stand by them When the day 01 trial catae. A good commander of horse, say the experts, 10 as rare es a good commander-in-chief, be neeas so tare a union of prudence with Ina M ,ILLSNERY HINTS. Hla ats and Boas to AcooluanY Sum - war GOVV1,4* Among other millinery novelties is a hat of heavy straw braid, upoo each seam oe which is a tiny ruche of black • gauze. The 010W11 of some hats is com- pletely coyerecl Nvith flowers. The newest hat shapes have a high, earrow crown. A shape of this sort is made of real lace, laid flat over a trans- parent puffing of light mousseline de sole, the trimming being a simple piquet of Loses or orchids. Hats ot coarse chip in all colors are to be much worn, as are horsehair lace TAFFETA COSTUME, braids and hats all of tulle and mousse- line de soie. These are very large and much trimmed, with flowers especially. Boas for warm weather use are very large and fluffy, covering the entire shoul- ders and falling to the waist in front. They are made of lace, gauze, silk and velvet and are rather elaborate. No woman with a short neck should indulge in these accessories, attractive as they are, for they suit only slender, long neelied fig- ures. Today's cut shows a costume for a young woman. It is of sky blue -taffeta, the plain skirt being laid in a box plait at the back. The bodice has clusters of tucks alternating with bands of manure insertion, and the sleeves are made in the same way. The corselet belt, the cuffs, the medici collar and the bertha are of sky blue panne, the plaited collar and the cravat of white mousseline de sole. Rhinestone buttons form a deco- ration. The leghoru hat is trimmed with forgetmenots. XUDIC CHOLLET. FASHION NOTES. Materials For Warm Weather and Styles For Making, Fancy wool goods are trimmed 'chiefly with galloon, ribbon and lace. The de- signs for these materials are chiefly tiny dots or figures, fine stripes of various kinds and small broehe flowers. The newest leather belts are no longer a plain band of leather. They are re- pousse and are often decorated with a gold design. High corselet belts of span- gles or embroidery are also worn over fedi bodices of mousseline de sole or lace and are very becoming, to a slender figure. All skirts are lined except those of very thin materials, such as mousseline de soie, lawn, etc., which have a separate SPRING COSTUME. Uning skirt. The skirt is no longer per- fectly plain at the back, being now mounted with plaits or gathered if the goods are thin. Foulard is again used and is wen rep- resented among the goods intended for summer wear. Being vesy light and , thin, ruffles are indicated for the decora- I don, although plaitings, especially acorn.- dam pliatinga, are also very suitable. , Delicate lime or mousseline de soie may . also be employed. The costume illustrated is of very thin . cloth. There is 0 line of cording near , the foot" of the skirt, which also 1111118 up the front, and the skirt is fitted by cord -f Inns at the hips. The borne°, which is i fitted an at the back d etreteh, ed in fiemt 1 hes a guimpe of corded silk framed in an [ application of velvet embroidery. The ' tight sleeves are decorated with cording i at the top end lihave little epaulets Ap- pliqued at the shoulder. The toque is i entirely of flowers, with a bow of ribbon 1 petuosity." find feathers as triniMiage, 1 NO fflJNER LITTLE TOWN WHERE "POVERTY THAT SUFFERS" DOES NOT EXIST. An Brample or the Benefits rliat Flow Arrem Municipal Ownership -George Cary ,B;;;;Ieston's Story of 1114 15irth- p121431'. have made a discovery, I have found and studied the very prettiest, happiest and in its anambitious way .he most prosperous small town I ever saw. 1 have seen there aa al- most ideal oaject lessoe in the muni cipal ownership of public ventures. The town is Vevay, Ind. It, lies on the Oaio rivet', about midway be- tween Cincinnati and Louisville. I was beset there, and I have been re- visiting the town alter an absence of 15 years. The county of which Vevay is the seat has not one foot of railroad within its borders, The town has no factories. And yet its people, less than 8,000 in number, are enviably well to do. They have two banks and three prosperous weekly newspa- pers. Their homes are all comfort- able, and many of them lugui.aous. They have a courthouse that would do credit, in its architecture and its Proportions, to a town 20 times the size of Vevey. Their main thoroughfare, leading down to tae river, and the broad wharf or levee at its foot are well paved" with stone. All their other streets are maeadamized after the best modere methods and are kept in perfect order. So are all the , main country roads that lead out from the town into the rich and highly cultivated farming regions round about. In all the residence streets there are perfectly laid and perfectly kept side- walks of artificial stone. Everywhere the sidewalks are free even from dust and the streets clean enough to satis- fy the demands of a Waring. They are bordered on either side with stately sycamores, tall elms and. broad spreading maples—all jealously cared for by the municipal authorities. In addition, there is an adequate water syatem supplying water in lav- ish abundance for all uses. There is a telephone system with astonishingly cheap rentals—so cheap that almost every house of any consequence has an instrument in it—and with long distance connections to (iincienati, Louisville, Indianapolis and all towns between at rates of charges that would seem impossibly low to New York victims of the telephone mon- opoly's extortion. For example, it cost me 20 cents to talk to friends in Madison, 20 miles away,and only 40 cents, if my expense memoranda are correct, to communicate with N Still further, there is an electric light plant which furnished light so cheaply that no gas company can exist in the town. The municipal tax rate of a people who enjoy all these beeefits—the well made and well kept streets, the smooth, artificial stone sidewalks. the abundant water supply, the trees which make the whole towel a park, the telephone and electric lightcon- veniences and all the rest. of it—is only 3. per cent., ancl the growing profits of the municipality from the telephone and electric light plants promise within a year or two to re- duce even that tax by one-half. All this is the result of the muni- cipal ownership of public utilities, under the vigilant scrutiny of an alert public opinion, acting in per- fect harmony for the public good. The town's ownership of the profit- able utilities has enabled it to pro- vide the comforts and to create the beauty, from which there is no di- rect profit, without imposing more tlian the very lightest tex burden upon the people. The total munici- pal debt is only $70,000, with an in- terest, charge of less than $3,500, and both are diminishing at a rate which will esctingusih them within a brief period. "But what about politics?" I ask- ed. "Suppose a gang of rascals elioulcl get control of your city gov- ernment?" "They never can," was the answer. "Every man of us makes it a part of his personal business to prevent that. We have party nominations for muni- cipal offices of course, but everybody in both parties feels that no man should be nominated for local office in,whose handswe cannot confidently trust the control of these vital in- terests of the community. No such man ever is nominatedin fact, and if by chance any such should be his own party would leave him without any votes to count when the polls close. We cannot afford any such mistakes as that, and we all know Under' the system of municipal own- ership it has been the care of every citizen that all works of construction should be well done, at honest prices, with no "rake off" for anybody. No- thing has been undertaken by the municipal authorities till a commit- tee of the wisest citizens of both par- ties has thoroughly investigated me- thods and counted the cost. Then the authorities have adopted the methods found by the committee to be best, and in no instance, I am told, has the cost of any work exceeded the committee's estimate. So far as possiine local labor alone has been employed in tho construction of public works, \vital doeble ad- vantage to the community, for local labor is cheap, and its earnings are expended in the town, There is no sech thing as pauperism in this well ordered community, no trace of the 'poverty that suffers." There are some ricb men there. The great niejority are comfortably well off 211 their work and their business undertakings. There is not one hu- man being there who has not a roof over his head, comfortable clotlfing cm his back and all the wholesOine food Yhat he wants to Oat every day in the neor. The towe is very Slight -' y Moro popnlous noev then it was when II knew it, half a century ago; eft, if it has not grown emelt in nunicipal stature, it has enjoyed the 1111,11edklll'ab1Y better growth in beauty, comfort and social advana0a ment which I limy° tried here to frldi- cate.—Oeorge Cary Eggiestoa nNew, York Journal. LITERATURE AND FLEAS. 11:ht .1,t•ont an Ciiexpented Sourest UpCt 'David Barton Aphorism., Here is 11 communication addressed to the editor of the New York Even- ing Post: 'The aphorism of David *Harem— already become famous, and whieh, will probably be long quoted as 011 Americanisai—'A reasonable amou21r. of fleas is good for a dog thaY keep him f'm broodim' oa bein' it dog' —has light shed on it from an 'un- expected source, a scientific authority though it is unlikely that Mn. West- cott ever read the passageon stip-- uli to energy from Galton's 'inqinriva Into Human Faculty,' which I here, quote: " 'The stimuli may be of any des-- cription; the only important matter is that all the faculties should be kept working to prevent their per- ishing by disuse. If the faculties are few, very simple stimuli will suiRce. Even that of fleas will go a long way. A dog is conthaually scratch- ing himself, and a bird pluming it- self, whenever they are, not occupied with food hunting, fighting ow love. In those black times there is very little for them to attend to beside their varied cutaneous irritations. ft is a matter of observation that well - washed and combinea domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. IS animals did not prosper through the agency of their insect plagues it seems probable that then: - races would long since have been so modified that their bodies should have ceased to afford a pasture ground for parasites.' "As to the range in nature of this benevolent (?) parasitism, Swiftses observation is in point that fleas " 'have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum.' " A CONTINENTAL DAM., It Sounds Like a Cuss 'Word, But This Proves It Otherwise. Can you give the 'origin of the ex- P reri•espon ssi o ni'ecntonti'Of"continental dam?" lainP?1ilaadseklsphia coa: Testes. It sounds . profane, but is it? Possibly, and in all probability it owes its 'existence to the coati- uental currency of revolutionary fame or its counterfeit. During the dark- est clays of the revolutionary enara when the credit of the contineetal government was at its lowest ebb and the redemption of its currency of grave doubt, this currency had de- preciated to such an extent that we ttre told it required $600 of its face value to purchase a good substantiai pair of boots. Not content with 1111- deplora,ble condition of things, how- ever, Yankee ingenuity devised a suit-, s tiLute (counterfeit) for this currency, and evlien these spurious notes came under the notice and detection of bank officials it was their pustom to stamp upon them the Latin wort/ danmato (condemned), or, in its ab- breviated form, "dam," thus ending their disastrous career. Is it possible to conceive of any- thing more utterly worthless or good for nothing than this counterfeit, con- tinental money forever condemned by this "clam" upon it, and is not this the most logical and natural deduc- tion of the origin of the expression "It is not worth a continental dam," so much like profanity, and yet, if we are correct, so absolutely free from. it? Projentinz Physicians in South Africa, now have another theory for explaining away the charges made by both Bri- ton and Boer that the other is using explosive bullets. The extensive le cerati on often found in bullet wounds is now said to be due to the a ii- avhich the bullet drives before it in to the wound. The existence of thia phenomenon can be proved enaily. 3.1 a round bullet be dropped into a glass of water from the height of a few feat, it -will be seen that -Nvheir the bullet touches the bottom. a large bubble of air will become detached and rise to the surface. In this case` the bubble 'will usually be from 10 to 20 times the size of the bullet. New, a Mauser bullet traveling at high, speed is said to carry before it a bubble of compressed air of large dimensions. Eeperiments made by a - surgeon who fired a pistol ball into - a glass of Nvater showed the bubble to be 100 times the size of the ball. From the appearance of the woundw and from these experiments it is con- cluded that the mass of air drivem by a Mauser bullet explodes in the body of the wounded man with suffi- cient force to cause extensive lacera- tion. This destructive air bubble is - well known to surgeons wider the name of projectile air. No Use for a Throne, Napoleon Bonaparte is quoted in The Century as saying to Dr. O'Meare), at St. Helena: "If I was in England now, and the. French nation was to offer me tbe throne again, I would riol accept oa it, because if I was to do so I would be obliged to turn bourrean (execu- tioner), 3. would be obliged to cut, off the heads of thOusands to keep myself upon it, which would not be pleasing to me. Oceans of blood must, be sbed to keep me there. No, no; 3. have made enough of noise al- ready in the evorld; perhaps ritore than any other elan will make; per -- haps too much. I am getting olti„ and only 13,1:111t retirement. What. could T do in Femme? Aloue, to set myself against all the powers of 1 -AL - I -op°. Madness!" It1ort1,q12:21:43-, ,11opao. 111 1110 of ' -the Genoese of Science, of Tokio, Professor Sekiya gives an extensive aettortnt, of Japori- eSe earthquakes from 416 A.' D, to the end OT 1803, the total /lumber of destructive ehocke being 222, it is. ,fottnd Chet whorl. smell ear tliq nalt (Inc nuinerous seribusly destructive. 0003 aro loss so; this is explained 'by' the faet that in an unst,able country. like Japan, if the earth stress is used up in numerous small -shocks there will be So much lees force store(' to produce extensive dietimbances h!h-rhihthhhhh 11