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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-9-21, Page 7MX DAYS ON A RAFL the terrible Sufferings of the Crew of the Jonathan May, /NEITHER FOOD NOR WATER. other" Moine waist to Piens—woe lean in the Great Storm—Gestated alter intone Gad Died Gum ' UT in the terrible gide of Augered) 27th and 28th the, Threadee phOa Schooner jonethen May broke to pieties off the Frying Pan Shoals, meet of North Ouellette. The orew ot 7 mooned upon a reft, meole from the ;decks or their' wenn, and on thia frail *ell lived six demo withot feed or water, =tad reamed by the eehooner An E. Val- nutinnefor St. JoinspNew Beunewisils: The haw Pilot, orreisiog oif 'the Delaware cape ielighted the Valentine And toole en bond the entire' crew of thsi May, turd landed l§hena at this poet yeeterday mornitig. The Jonetaleen May sailed from Oharlee- ton on Anglin 24th for P ) hiladelphia with nwer.hold full and Nor denim 'Oinkedmore) *lima six feet ahem:, the batellways with wolloWpirse lumber. In this oonaittion she 'eon Struck by the Onteleaseof hotpot 2911, seadiefithe moth foxiness that ever swept the aeaceaeto end all attempts to sweating the gene were futile. Do the manning ef August '2703e After a 'night or terror amid the wild waives and howling gale, , ' ems VESSEL GATSIZED, . War dock lead, helping ext only her over. WS awe her the mattes mei rigging were out slimy and he righted herein/ 3aelnee her 'Zink ieted. Captain George Cook, seeing that it was a maotter of life and death for nil on bond 'and that the vessel could not live much Unger, o.edered a raft to be made en which Ite neaps from the weeols, es their boato had boon smaelzed to pieces by the see. Anguat .28tih the vowel took a Sudden anrolvand broke to piece». All !sande took lathe rat, hue the me, had swept away the atom of provision end all the water. Btervation and nasal worse horror, thboto entered them In the fans. Thole frail craft 'Nom to drift in a northeasterly direotion, and the vessel wee neon ton a apart and iltonsher harge,n to drift away in all dtheotions. Foe slx days Captain Cook and Ms men, ef them negro ealiersto drifted about at the mercy of the waters of the bread entilantio, the platen stria besottag down swim their drying akin e tWi they oeemed to ehrinitt. The shell one only 25 feet long and 15 feat wide, and Captain Cook Sep GOD ALONE KNOWS 3110Widteseveaa clung to ltalltheaedays, Whey =Wowed miswrite tome ,eataticnnu psalm. 'or tin first few dap they trumaged to 'worry aleng, though their thirob was in- , tere.table and they stared at each other in netts agony. On the fourth day signs ot ill content be - gen to crop out. The peer foliose" meresraed half orad frem their privation, and the captahe wee oerapelled to bring Onto play hut greaten besemoity to provenn menet to deoperate mons for allaying ralenger. The mouelie and tooguee of the •onfortunates beams ee pinched that they amain not artrimate and the ooly oeunde thet escaped them even grown agony. no hates anol lower limbs of the white ma become calleosed and etwellera. They moaned to be paesteg through a living dezsbb. aSomirel ef them tried to drink ma water, hut watchful Cepeteba Cook kneed them back. They tried Ito plemoo into the sea bet be HELD THEM noon THE DAFT .stred cheered them epee beet he could. Oa- rsman:malty a lite/ism fish ler o ent bird 'would come wiveoping peat the indt. Once a Beth area the wroth and the hungry nen pannoed upon to in le delleirran of Joy. Osi the ninth day oeum Tau sou to noel their halted Ain and one her burning ththet. Wheo they began to cheer up. Eyes wore kept otralried for mote end ovary day sane SVATO nen, but as far army that) the ohip- snacked new multi mot tail there. At lost, 'when hope teemed wholly gene and tho men had about given op tie dim Wm ;ilea mioht of a Ismael's lights wait mon isiet Saturday might. !!'he men managed to shout in their Oloy, and the watch of the vessel, 'which proved to be the oehe000r Valeettine, heard them. The ovoin haifideed eritiore were token aboard, and were well oared for till Ole tug Pilot was sighted. THREE ORIENTAL RULERS. Potentates Whose Empires Extend Away Bak Into Antiquity. PERSIA WAN ,AND CHINA. CORDING to the Earl of Roefibery, who directs for tho / present the foreign policy of the Bribleh empire, the letter luta been nearer to 4 war with France reoently , than at any moment einoe the battle of s Waterloo in 1815. And in order to approliate the full importance of tleie remark, it is neon - airy to beer in Wei that en two Dona. stone, one during the reign of Ring Louie Flaillippe, and at another time, during the Wen empire, an outbreak of hostilities between these two countries niensed so near that military promo., elms. were made by both ill view of what epperized to be a, certainty of a cen- t:dot In diethiesetes, however, the amens of dlemete between Eughold and Prance were of a European character, whereas in tbe recent anthem the toeuble was caused by Stant, which may be regarded as one of the meet progressive antienlightened of all these ainoient enoturrobleri of Astro oompareir to which eyen the olden of Europe Amass QUITO- YOUTHFUL. ,In America we are soienstorned to look upon Europe as the old werld, and its history, ha inititutionsand Ito moraumente as heary with age. We are apt to forget that there la dill another worts', namely, Apia, the history and civilization of which date back SO far as to mare that of Europe appear all nether parvennand of muidaroora growth. The potentate who hes given more public) and arrogant manifestation than anyone else is aseuredly Nap Er Din, the Shah ef Persia, who, to merle his superiority overall hie brother menarche of Europe, proudly etylee lairneelf "tbe king of kings.',How- ever lefty his Idea concerning his own peel - thin and charaoter may be, there is no doubt that he stands extremely low in the ateem of European severeigere, who still ilutider at the Mire recolletetion of the viett which he paid to their mints some 10 or 12yeers age. His behavior at Berlin was so epTENSivE AND UNMANNERLY, aecordiug to Waisteret noticen, that the old Emperor withdrew from the festivities or- ganized in his honor, on the plea of indis- position, and refined to Rea his Persian greens any more before his de- parture. The entire burden of enter- taining the Oriented potentate fell on the shoulders of the Empress Augusta, whose peetio hankerings for the Orient were sub- eeotto a most severe shook. For, to the end of her dap she loved te relate in her shrill, high plbohed voice how, during the grand state banquet given in the Shahai honor at Berlin, whenever he got some feed which waanot to his taste table mouth, he would coolly remove it from his jaw and place it on Her German Majesty's lap, to the intense horror of all proemt. Her mageitiont white ;silk rebate at the obese of the haegnet presented a most woeful aspen. On his arrival in England he was quartered at Buokinghum palette and while in London 'sorely tried th'e tamper of tho Prince of Wain by coolly placing isle hande en the ham alba/alders of the Princess when talking to her. Having bean entertained by the Iota Duke of Sutherland at the latter's mannifieent country nab at Trentham, he Beriously euggested to the Prime of Wales that it would he In every way ado/treble to put the duke to death on bhe groundo that he wits much too powerful and wealbhy for a subject. The Han Nate's. . ... 19-22 Binabrook;ate ........ Cornees..........Sept 20-24 'thetteleet, at Stoney Creek. . .Sept. 21-20 A/waster.. ....... ..............Sept. 28-21 Olamford Oct. 2 BurlingtonandNelson, atEturlingtonOet. 3-9 'West riamborot at Dundee Sept. 19-20 lieckton World's Fair.......... —Oct. 10-11 Preelton Central Pair-- — ... 12-13 East FlamboroO at Waterdown Industeral, Toronto Ventral, Guelph neerebton E.. Watford Merford N., Woodstock Bouthern, Brantford 251h, Sb. Thoma nry Be Tilbury Centre .... Sept. 27-28 Derhare. Tdsonhurg Sept. 28-29 Perth N, Stratford... .........—Sept. 28-29 Norwich, N. Norwich Sept). 29-30 lona, Iona, Oct. 2 Tilbury, W. Comber Oct. 2-3 Xant E., Thamesville Oct. 2-3 Nialahide, Aylmer Oct. 2-4 Oxford, N. and W. IngersollOct. 34 • .Raldhnseed. Cayuga Oct, 3-4 Great Bouthwestern, Essex Oct. 3-5 72atdesular, Chatham Oct. 3-5 Wallacetown, Wallacetown.... Oct. 5-6 13pringfield, Springfield. ... ... . .. Oct. 6-7 Wm -much 3., Ottertalle Oct. 6-7 int/ward Branch, RidgetownOct. 9-11 Isenanington, Leamington Oct. 10-12 ,Ilighgate Oct. 14 Nioefolk TJnion, Sinnott . . . ... 17-19 Sept. 4-16 Sept. 19-21 Sept. 25-26 Sept. 26-27 Sept. 26-28 Sept. 26-28 Coquette tena Ciroquette. • The difference between m coquette and a atrequette Is tido The tioquette lie one who imealinWhile a orequetto ie momethirag that no, remehsei. when Whits Cruet tioneeze le ever. The waterlog place girl says that when littonnomeeze »ia meet in Wall street she totes It Will come her way.---.Florcla Times detaChMent of 529 Mexican troops, be- nithis a numbera women and children, bead simple shelter At one ' time under e tree le Oxon, . Thene are lots of peopie wlio mix their Willi:len with blielbeen but forgot to Stir it -o well. 'AS a regalia the beteitiees Moselle') Any elan to the top. 4rWhilet scent 40 you prefer, Mr: onrse7" asked she as then Paged 4 Per" stases shop. '4The red, Mite hileneygni," zarkilled ho fervently. 44 Whet IA blest Women ectoeS the street ItrifIng to sing ri"MY. Sweetheart ra the Man in the Moan." fli Wall, if he dean; 'heat her, Lt le/Allot Units" ' THE IMPEBTAL BONDSMAN. The Chinese Emperor is tied down en every side by the maxims of Confucius, and above all, by the etiquette and traditional oedema ef a line of ancestors extending back almost 4,000 years. lt is paid that the young Emperor, Kwangsu, who Is barely 23 mare of age, strongly rebel)" against this species of servitude, from which he is endeavoring te emanci- pate himself in every poesible way, greatly to the' horror of all the members a the old regime, and especially to that of the wielow of the 1Ato Emperor, whe acted an regent during Kevategsn's long minority. Indeed, the relations between the young monarch and this very Imperious old lady are ex- ceedingly Strained, and have bean especially atter BIBOS she succeeded in preventing him. from ;marrying two beautiful girls he had ohmen for hie wivee. Indeed, ehe forced him to marry a homely niece of her own, her aim being to retain through the latter her bathroom over the conduct of the affairs of the nation. She oan namely be regarded, however, as having succeeded in her object, as the Emperor has never got ever his disappointment and has EXTENDED THE HATRED with which he regarded the old Empress dowager to the consort, whom he deollnee to see except an state occasions. An illustration ef the antagemiam between the emperor and the empress dowager occurred in connection with the burning of the Temple of Heaven, a Per or so age, elf whirl disaster the empress dowager amused the emperor, by his impiety, of being the direct mum It seeing that among the teibutes from Thibet in 1890 there were mime very beautiful idlken-fieeoed patio Then became greet pets ef rating Kwangen, who, We they aid not seam to fiourieb in the pelmet, courtyard, bad them put to graze on the rich grass that grow within the smote. sure of the Altar of Heaven. The empreon dowager eipposed. this strenuously, but the emperor kopt his pets within the seared bird° until the Tempi° of Heaven and the Alton were both deetroyed by fire shortly afterwards. It 1i:believed that the old empren had Qs hood in the burning, at any rate the men who t•vere arrested for complicity in the heartens have :never been puniehed to this day. The destruction of the Temple by fire, however, served , her purpose, as it lase led the Chinese people to. prenoutale K1011,33011 to 'have bud "fengshun ' Wit ho to he uolitilty and an bitomeselon prevailo throughout the empire that he will belles last of hio dynasty. • &Matt% Emperor. Up to ebout; thirty years ago the Emperor of Japan was Menden with similar attri- butor of divinity. He was regarded as a epeoles aged by his subjects -It was held to be a sitiotilege to mention hie name. No one was allowed to gaze 011111)3 countenance, When he received his ministers they ap- proached him pteetreto and with their fano kept down to the ground, while a °int& concealed his face aa a the tipper part of his body front the visar 0f the profane. When he paned tbrongia the Arens they were (geared, tho eilinithere and doom of the rotten oleng the road beteg kept pined and if any the waio Wight) one &mooring to Obtain, by ithealth, giltostPire of the Mike& all fit passed, by, he inedered the penalty of death. Contact with wisd- om nation bee, however, entirely cheesed all thte, and when I was lest in Japan the people had lost so much of their former reverence and virsonsinien Fon MGR Hell'aeae 114 the pollee were obliged to home a rep- letion ordering, tbe people to stand add°, to alight from any conveyance in which they might hempen to be riding and doff their hate when the Emperor patine through the Wenn The Emperor is net what can be called a well -favored num. Indeed, he le extremely homely, even fpr n Japanese, and neither hie footers) nee yet tato build ahem any trace of that high bred Meth and ancient race their eat dlettingulehed the lad of the Tycoon. The Etriporerie hair is as benehy and manes at titet ef an ordinary Jap, and his lam is onoiroled, by a sparse beard of °earn Week bair. He is of medium height, otoopo a good deal, and when I have nee him invariably wore a gorgeous military uniform ef Euro - pan cat, bat of =enable lade, abundantly *trimmed and twinned with gold thee. The thing 'which Minx& me in the appearance of the Emperor was hie ExTBAORD1NARY IMPERTUREABILITY, which preSents a angling contrast with the aninuition and Appearance of mental bril- liancy of the &apron, who has now aban- doned the Japanese kimono and obtains ell her dreams from Perin She has lateWlse developed a stroog taste for western jewelry and KIM euperb diamonds and necklaces Wive been made for her at Paris and London, Netwithetanding the feet that the Em- peror Monti Hite addreesed the naenarohs of Europe as "sire and brother," and, aopired to be, treated and regarded by them as In eveiy way a monarch of equal civilization and enlight- enment to their own, he otill continues to maintain an immense erstabliehrnent of concubines, one of whom is the mother of the young heir be the throne, the Empress herself being childless. It is difficult to know whether all the marvelous) referent that have taken place dewing the reign ef Mutsu Hito Immo oeiginated with himself, or whether he was merely yielding in thane mattera to the influence el his advieere. The fad however rentable that during the Int 20 years he has transformed himself from a semi -divine and irresponsible despot tate the constitutional sovereign ef a country, which many believe to be now on the eve of beeombeg mrepublia. Great Expectations. Agent (of the Workingmen's Mutuai Sinkhole Association)—le only 005tB you 25 cants a week, and we give you $10,000 after three yearn Think of going back toIreland and spending that 10,060! Pat (who has item there before)—01 don't want in Oi'm after baba' inured in a company idol) wake thot gives pz foive hun- dred dollars W upland anther yer dead. Two Exceptions Teacher—It was very kind of you tobring me this big apple, Willie. Willie—Yesim. I got one for mamma and one for you. Teacher—And that isn't the first thne you have remembered me along with yotir mother. I gone I must bevelled everything that she has, haven't 1? Willie—N(3'm, not everything. Mother had twins. For thoStonalteh's Sake. Wife—Whom will you bring to dinner 1 Husband—Col. Gore and some frienda of lais front Kentucky. Wife—Not the regulation toioers, 1 hope! Husbeard—No. The colonel raid they were moderate drinkere. Wife—WOW, if that's so Pil jest put a bucket of cognac on the buffet with a dipper Itt Why She Didn't Say 15. The reason Eve never mid she wouldn't marry Adam if he were the only man on earth was because there was no other sveman ehe could any it to.—Indianapolis Journal. "Have you any Georgie, patient merry combo ?" asked a man of a Toccoa naerolaanti the other day. "1 don't knew," replied the storekeeper. "I've gob several Muth'. What sort is the Georgia patent ?" " made with scallop so it will fib in between a mule's ribs this time of year," replied the MSD. " This piing man is well posted In the businees and oan take everything off your hands." "Well, he's not what we want. The last clerk took about $5,000 off our hands." When lightning strikes it admits of no arbitration. 11 is believed that the long -loot Planet') column is on the eve of being recovered after lying for the best part of eight eon tortes in the Lagoon mud of Venice. The red, white, green and black of :the watermelon may seem an execrable whir combination, but it's marked by good taste for all that. SINSIIIIIMMEMMICIMME141111111ESHIMPRZUSEILLIELYSIC/12====1219 "Shorter" Pastry and "Shorter" Bilis. We are talking about a " shorten- ing," which will not cause indi- gestion. Those who "know a thing or 'two" about Cooking (Marion Harland among a host of others) ore using , nestead of lard. None but the purest, healthiest and cleanest ingredients go to make up Cot- tothee. Lard isn't healthy, and is not always clean. Those who use Cottolene will be healthier and 'wealthier than those who use lard—Healthier because they will get "shorter " bind; wealthier becausethey will get "shorter" grocery bills—for Cottolene costs nomore than lard and goes twiee as far—so is but balf as expensive. Dyspeptics delight in HI Physicians endorse it! Chefs praise it 1 Cooks extol it 1 I-1 onseireives Weloorne i 1 All live) Gropers sell it! 1VIade only by N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., Wellington and Ann Streets, MONTREAL. ROW KAFPIRS GAMBLE The Peculiar Card Games Played by Transport Drivers, A ZULU CHECKER BOARD.. A'yenvineanwhospent. his boyhood in the Dela ' gea Bay region of South Africa describes a game played by herders end transport ridere," the baste or with% ii) the eoli- ths er sheep ." bonds." White men who evil " treimparts ""WagOIDI i which do the general oar. es eying 'trona the onset town to the interior --- have es a. role twit Etiffie, drivers. Sometimes there emeseetal of these wagon)" owned by one mainpul they aro ail ID use et once, laden down wLb1 merobeet- dtse of all sorts. The tense foe eaoh wog= (towhee) of from twelve to Oedema oxen, At the head of the first pair is a Kaffir boy called a "lender." The simmer may go along en horaebaok. When 'meting comes the Inaffirri make quite a little ocalcory, and while some of them lay about and smoke and jabber to one another until sleep overtakis them, others, not content to Cold" verse with their fellow, play games .of, native origin: Others ageino who have been initiated into the anynerteli of ordinary card games, play with the ehgulation Euro- pean cards teed carry " deek n about with MUDD. The game here described veao probably invented by a white man who had no " deck " of cards at hand, and some of the Kaffirs have taken it up as a good substi- tute for their native [omen. It does nob call for so much henna:thud effort as the intricate oared games of the white brother. When the transport wagon " entepan" or unharness for the night, some of the Kaffir drivers, if they have a pack ef their cards with thein, will, after their work is done, find an isolated spot and sit down for a quiet game. They may play for fun or for coppers, or they may risk " tiokeye," as threepenny silver pieties are called. The sovereign is not too large a stake for eeme of them, in spite of the fan that the Kaffir values money very highly and spends as little of it as poesible. , The Kaffir workman in South Africa scorns notes and despises ellen. He insists on gold payments, and each pieoe is put to OSIIVE1B belt and stitching is put all around Ib so that each piece is in a pocket of its own. When he gete enough of then to bay a dozen head of cattle he takes the latter back to hie tribe and buys a -wife with them. However, if the Kaffir oensiders Wessell a good player he may be tempted to eiek some of these precious sovereigns on the re- sult of a series of games. To start the game the dealer divides the pack among the pleyers in such a way as to leave some of the pack out of ple,y, as this makes the game more eneertain, and there- fore more interesting. When there are three players each one is given tan cards. It the players are four they get eight cards each. Five plimers get six cards each anti six playma five cards mob. no first; player throws down a card. The " brand " in the upper left corner is the " trump" for this round, and it must ID "suited ', by the other playere if they have any of the set When the play has gone around the Eton who lin put en the highest "count mid," takes in the cards played. For instance, a pleyer may lee.d a " farand " A end with two marks on it. He inlay have the three mark oards of this set in his hand, and he is aware that nothing but the four mark will beat him. He may trust to luck and figure that the four line card is in the un- used part of the pack. Player number two has none of this "salt," but plain cards, and he throws one of thole on the lead card. The next player may have the four line - card lout knowing that it is high he may de- cide to hold it until later in the game and he will threw a " emit " card out, This may mislead the first player. or perhaps all of the playere, into thInking that the four line JET in the "deck.' This is merely one of the 'wane of the game, and tho advantage to be gained by holding the high cud of any suit will ID seen later when ito value as a trick - whinier gives the men who plop it the lead at nixie time when ib vill be of great ter - vice to him. The ;man who takes a trick leads off as in other oard games. When a " mit" is played and a player hao no card of the set, a card of another " oute," no matter how many its linen is of no value when yon have be "throw away." Sometimes a player has to sacrifice what weelel be a valuable card if a different " brand " bud been led became he has no "suit" Players have to follow " nit " at all then Air whatever disadvan- tage to themselves. Inhere is tenotbee feature of this game which makes It different from Goma other card games and that is the °stinting method. Each trick taketi couple ene. and each four line "count card " in yr ur tricks, whether held and played be s 0I111,t5 sr taken from% player who had to merino° it for lack of nit, counts two. There are -times in the game when a lead of a egad which Is almost the lad of Ito oet not played will bring out a four Ilne of some other set, and a card which the player holding it hoped to got out in a lead. inhere are many little points which will moue to the player as the game goo on if his memory is good and he keeps traok of the " suits" played. OTHEID ODD GAMES. There are some odd ground gnus played by the Kaffirs, who are too unintelligent or lawny civilized enough for card games. In the neighborhood of Natal the more ignorant Sears of Zulu extraction play these games incessantly In their idle mo. meats. The playero lay out a apace about three) feet equare and then divide this into twelve equal spun, and It looks something like a large checker board. In the centre of each space they dig a email hole in the sandy soil. It teems to be the can that there are Rivera games played in this checker board space, and must of them are played with pebbles. One of these is m sort of Zulu solitaire. A pebble Is putein each hole and the player is supposed to pick up one pibble at a time until all are taken out, but he must do it in a eertaiba fashion. He cannot pick up a pebble whioh °couples a apace' next to the one from which the last preiloue pebble was taken, tor can he at any time have two adjoining spine vamilit until half the peb- Wes are gene. The second half is easier to pprilagthels'farliook0elaeallbyu,tanadkwtthfaenic :hat: palcac;emn: are experts they use thirty-two Instead of sixteen squares, which makes the game very mach mOtediffioult ef exeoutina. Agriculture has been about the sok in dustry of Paragtrey ever since the etan blieh went of .the Jesuit missions in 1541. .41 AG field work is done by wenieli* 1.4 .14,41"444,7", ,•,:ri 4, What s Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for rnfants *nil Children. It contains neither Opiunn, orphirte nOr other Narcotic Surbstalace. itis a harmless substitute f.or Parth Paregoric, Drops, Sooing' 'Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its gua,rantee thirty years' use by laillions of Idothcm.s. Conterhe, destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria pnevents vomiting Solar Curd, cures :Diarrhoea and Wind Colic Caster/a relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and filattileDeYe Csg.,steria, assimilates the food, regulates the stomach sad, bowels, giving healthy anti natural sleep. Cos.. toria Sa the Childrien's Panacea—thto Nother's IFrierad, Castoria,. 4011StOr8Z iS an eseellent zneclielne for chil- dren. Mothers hare repeatedly told rne et its good effect upon their children., Da. G. C. °semen, ' Lowell, Mass, "cantor/oils the best remedy for children of which'ara acquainted. Ihope tho do.y- is not far distant whearaothers11coueithereai ' interest of their children. and use Castoria stoad of tneyarrousquack nostruraswhich aro de .st-ming their loved ones, by forcingopium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to penman° graves." Du. J. F. Knenuneoz, Conway, At; Castoria. "Ca.storla fe so well adapted to children that recommend it assuperior tome -prescription known to me." H. A. A:tonne, D., 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, IsT. Y. "Our physicians in the children's depart. - meat have spoken highly of their experi- ence in their autsige practice with Castoria, and although we only leave among era - medical supplies what is ktiown as reguier products, yet WO are free to confe.ss that the merits of Cast/exit& has won us to look with favor upon it." ThirrBD noserrot. Imp DISPEDBABT, Heston, Mass ALL= C. Serra, Fres., The Contour Cisimporum TT inonsay Strome, New York City. VINARIUMMULMFSIMEMERESE eneatihiltreellWiraintireeneonientehireeee NOTAZIE RAILWAYS - Their Civilising Inlinenee in Asia—Ger- many's Highest Bridge, The 900 miles of Trans -Caspian railroad, opened in 1888, and built by Russia pri marily for military reasons, is already be- comileg a civilizing force among the nomad! Turcomane and also proving a factor in the world's cotton supply. A. British consular report states that in 1892 there were 72,565 tone of raw cotton grown on the line of this road and brought to the theses of the Cas- pian Sea. Tins cotton was sent to Russian mills to be worked up, and as it is said to be cheaper than American or Egyptian cot- ton, the Ruisienti hope that their trans - Caspian Provinces will ultimately supply all the cotton they require. The third mountain railroad in the United Stites was opened to travel this summer. it extends from Pasadena, in California, to the top of 11 o Withers. The steepest grain on the road are heavier than the Mb. Wash- ington or Pike's Peak roads, amounting to 60 per cent. This tremendous incline led to the abandonment of the rook rail and the aitibetitutien of cable *monition. The road is in three division—an easy grade electric) road to the foot of the cable Incline; the cable section, and a well -graded elec- tric dietitian to the bop of the mountain. The diffioulty and expense of obtaining ohartere, and the severe eenditione impmed on companies for the protection of the public have been factor in retarding the buildieg of electric railways in European cometrtee. At the present time Boston is said to have more miles of electric road than the whcle of Europe. According to " L'Inshistrie Eleotrique " Germany lias 91 mike of eleobrio railway; Eng- land,50 natio ; Austro-Hungary, 15; Belgium, 3ai ; Spain, 8 ; France, 48 ; Italy, 3.52O ; Remus, ; Sweden, 5, and Switzer- land, 171'. The loghett railway bridge in Germany is now ureter conetraotion on the line of the Solingen.Rerescheid Railway, n road ocean miles long. tale viaduct will be double -tracked, 1,640 feet long and 351 feet high abovo the water surfaoe. The members of the structure will be put in place by a cable heisting system, operated by electricity. A railway line from the Indian Ocean to Leke Victoria Nyezze, in Afrtha, has been surveyed by order of the British Govern- ment. By the most direct route tbe road would be about 657 miles lenp, and tbe estimated cost is $11,200,000. It would Mks several years to develop traffic) to an extent nattiest to pay interest on this heavy outlay. The greatest railway enterpriae ever undertaken, the Trans-Sibertan Regrew% from Buena to the Petal& Ocean, is to he completed in 1904, actordirm to the venues official pogrom/re of the Rennin Govern- ment. • It will ID tbe loegest road in the world. Down With High Prices PO, Electric Belts. $1.55, $2,65, $3.70 ; former prices $5, $7, $10. Qualty remains the same --16 dif- , ferent styles; dry battery and acid belts —mild or strong current. Less than half the price of any other company andrnore home testimonials than all the rest to- igether. Full list free. Mention this Vapor. W. T. BAER 445 CO. Windsor, Ont. WHAT IS ADVERTISING? A Successful Man Gives His Views on ith Question. " Advertising," says Mr. H. L. 'Kramer, " be bid for public patronage, whether it Is directed agauist one man or a minim, and it is not only covered hy what people ordinarily call advertising, that hi the AS6 ef printer's) ink, but is show in detail by how a man walke, talks, &woes and exists. Newspaper advertising is nailer anintro- ductory held out of the band, you might say. If the taking ono of the prospeotive buyer, after the advertisement brings him Into the More, is not well looked after, the advertieiog will show ton. It) is the imolai mutated effects that pey profit." " Actiumulettee effeee what's that ? Why eimply this: Your big dry goods houses advertise extensively; a single customer, new one, never been in the store before, comes in to buy a pair of epecial bargain glover. He gets them, le nicely takea care of, good impreosion made, and frequently calls within the year snaking rcamy -pur- chases, likely a $100. First own e5 to 6n4 and know this onetime; hut be ac- cumulative effecer, as shmen h nii con- tieued trade, paid." When money grown timid it n • sh rest of ui thy. CARTEKS 1TTLE OVER POLLS. Date Britieh Museum bas recently acquired a Chinese book eon dating back to the lad yeare of' the feurteerith century. It to the eldest bank note Innen). It to taitficcated ttat of the 5,006,000 Po hebitterte of Louden Infer 1,000,000 are poor —living on hise than Li per m -eek for eaoh tonally, while ever 300,000 are in ehronto poverty, A. Spanish Jerilelne deelar o that the Queen Regent of Spain is so fast a eivinumer that oho Often *Hannon the rowboat 'which noompanthe her when she goes into the serf at San Sebastian. I Charlie aro you going to the World's Fair ?" d Not unless you do dear. / needn't go if you don't." "Why not 'I" "Because, dear, the world's fatr wherever you ere," "Oh, Charlie." 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