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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-2-28, Page 2GURRLINT TOPICS, , Ono of the big Atlantic stetenship 1111(.8 has annotincea 11ul a new Vessel it has under construction will be equipped with 'a tennis mute on We upper deck and witte a swIntming pool, 75 by 25 feet, on 0110 of the lower decks. This is an inter- esting development that will result, no double in rivalry in supplying euell eammodation, but it suggests that a fine rivalry might spring up also lie We pro- visions for the steerage. Ilow would It du to turn over 1,875 square feet extra Woe to the steerage? And what a valuable thtng 11 metallizing pool would be for the steerage passengers. Professor , Steiner, whose story of the emigrant, made one of the important books of the •Pest season, and who hae crossed the ocean in the steerage a dozen times or more, has given facts and flgures 10 Prove that the steerage passengers are shamefully cheated by the steamship companies. He does not make his plea toe better treahnerd on the ground of leumanity, though he might well do so, but on the ground of fair and square dealing. Compareti with what the first and second cabin passengers get for their money, the steerage passengers get only a small fraction of what they pay for. After such a showing as Professor Steiner makes 11 would seem that there was an exceptionally good field for eonipetttion in steerage improvements. NAVIES OF THE FUTURE BERLIN PROFESSOR TELLS OF Ttfl COMING AERIAL WaIRSHIPS, flow 'They Will Look mid the Terrible 'Things They Will De to tho World. - • Recent progress in aerial navigation has greatly stimulated the imaginations of the e authors who delight in waging wers--on paper. When in Luelvelee Hall, Tennyson many years ago "dipt inte the future fur es human eye could see," his prophetic visiou beheld "the melons' aerial navies grappling la the central blue." But, according to the poet, that' awful conflict is to bring about the era of universal peace—Nile parliament of man, the federation ce the world,' writes a London correspon- dent. , A.ecording to Professor Rudolf Mar- tin of Berlin, it is to make Germany the mistress of the gkebee He has just pub. lished a book entitled, From Berlin to 'enfeebled; the German World Supremacy lin the Coming Era of Aerial Navigation, 1 in whleh he tells how 11 10 to be done. The perusal of it ought to afford some 1 satisfaction to the Kaiser, who jus 11001 10 fighting hard to maintain bus own supremacy in Germany. And a I shonld afford no little solace to the 1 thousands of his poorer subjects who yearn to exchange a diet of horseflesh and dogmeat for the roast beef of old England. For, of course, it is England which is to eufter most at tha hands et THE GERMAN DESPOILER. .14 Tho world to -day has no means of knowing how well the operatic stars of a century ago could sing, as compared with the great singers of the present generation. But the world will be wiser eanother hundred years. Recently } Tamagno, the Italian tenor and the! greatest singer of the lige, desiring to leave for his children some reoord of his genius, had made, upon specially pre- pared plates for reproduction" 10 the phonograph, several records of his most exquisite songs. Two of these records have been preserved in a museum in Paris. The plates were made with great eare and are sealed in metal boxes, con- taining also chemical compounds for their preservation. The boxes are labeled and dated. One will be 'aliened fifty years hem now and the other 81 1(18 end of a century. Long after the singer is dead his voice will be heard and the musicians will be able to judge 11 11 really is true that the tones 01 1(10 htunan voice become less exquisite as civiliza- tion advances. The greatest tenor of the year 2006 may listea to Tampa's voice and thus judge eis own genius. A vegetable milk is prepared by the lapanese from suy beaus, which are .soaked, crushed, and boiled In water, the resulting liquid resembling cow's milk, but. differing much he composition. It contains 92.5 per acne of water, 3.02 of protein, 2.1.3 of fat, and 1.88 of nitro- gen freed extract. A. condensed milk is now made by T. leatayama by adding sugar and a little dipoles:Sum phosphate, and then eveporating. The yellowish • product, having an agreeable taste of cows 101I1) with a slight odor of beans, is recommended 1.10 a cheap substitute for ordinary condene-ed milk. NEW AND STRANGE. Something About the Newest Things on the Market. A savings bank building is being erected of glass and a framework of steel girders in the town of Des elaines. Professor Flaturnarthn, the esteem:mem state 11181 everybody will live in glass . houses in the near future. The late,st idea is that fishoe talk to (me another by actual sounds. These sounds are made ia various ways, one of which is to grate a movable bone against the air bladder or against a tough part of the flush. The lateel combination Ls a hymn- • book or religious manual with an ay- tistically-designed cover that acts as a purse in which to hold the contribution. The idea originated with a lady who was worried about carrying a coin in • bee •glove. Disappearing paper Is a nevelly for use by those who correspondents for- get lo been the letters after their len- ity has ceased, It is steeped in sue phuric acid, dried, end glazed, the acid being neutralized by ammonia vapor. It falls to pieces after a given time. An Invention has just been tested fr)r making paper nut of eushree; it is ahem. ee that, wlien treated with 11 stifirthle eitemical solution and subjected to the special process which. Is the subject of the invention, the plant makes a good white peeve that earl be used for almost a' purposee. maclane, line been devised for mirth- ' ling peovision dealere to cut a eerlein weight of cheese accurately. The total weight or the cheese and its extiel measurement are ascertained. then ;he apparatus is ellaelmil, and the shop. Metier ean cut pree:isely what is wanted ty the customer, neither more nor less. Among Lite novelties now se)ling is a toy fountain, which con he pieced o the table or mantleshelf, end will throw (1 tiny jel of teeter twelve inehes, keep - tog up the play for an holm 'pm • fountain is then reversed in the efare) oe holder, when 11 recharges Itself and will go on for another hour. This Can be eenthated ludeffititely. The ittleet toy le the move mule, Thi, animal looks the White of ienneenro until an attempt Is made lo :Meg it for. Ward, When IL shows the whiles of it: eyes, throws back ifs ears, end shoots cut lis hind legs in a series r; violent !deka A toy rider Ia somtlInien 11101101' :ect en the mote, mid utionetiaty gels theown off.All thia is done oy Meyer merit:tram, To make the animal go quietly it • 18 simply neeesthry t otter the tiosilton Of Cc Cord. When airships can travel faster than zatiway !rains now move, Greet Britain, the professor says "%via be deprived of We strategic advantages of het geogra- phical •position: The British navy will be reduced to comparative insignificance. The Himalayas will no longer protect India from land attack. The professor admits that England and America may build aerial navies that, ehip by ship, may be quite as good as those of Ger- many, but they win have no armies ft 00e p with Germany's highly by 11(11Ons, with which conveyed b3 aeria l transports, she will overwhelm hostile ceuntries. The narrative of events which the pro- fessor relates takes plade between 1913 and 1930. Germany adopts an improw e4 form of the airship invented by Count Zeppelin, who thus far has mere- ly succeeded in spending a large fortune in abortive attempts to conquer the air. The Zeppelin airship consists of a cigar - shaped balloon, with an aluminum deck, and ffited with powerful motets and steering apparatus. In the death -dealing perfected form it takes in Professor Martin's book, the balloon hes a ca- pacity of from 60,000 to 100,000 cubic meters, is divided into something like 150 air -tight compartments, carries 6.10 men on its aluminum deck, and, among other weapons of destruction, is provid- ed with 400 or 500 aerial torpedoes. The professor predides that by 1916 Ger- many will have 2,000 of these fighting airships in commission. Without 81, maniere, he figures it out that they will cost only $75,000 each—about what it now costs to build a torpedo boat. In addition, Germany is to be supplied with aerial trains, consisting of four airships linked together, the front air- ship alone being supplied with motors and towing the other three after it. a PRODIGIOUS RATE OF SPEED. Each train will suMee le transport 000 fully armed and equipped German soldiers. The unersal shindy starts in 1913 with another war between Japan and Russia, ln which the Jape administer O crushing defeat to the Colossus ef the North by means at their magnifi- cent aerial fleets. It is followed by n revolution in Russia, in whIch the Ro- n -smolt dynasty is overthrown, The Czar. besieged in his palace, appeals to the Kaieer by wireless telegraphy to save hint from the mob which clamors for his life, The KaSser responds to his appeal by carrying him off in •one r.f his matchless airships. Anarchy ensues in Russia. But of the chaos emerges a 'second Napoleon in the person of Suvarorf, a young Russian engineer, who is a master: of the art of aerial navigation. . Ile Is made .pre.si- dent, of the Russian republic and goes in for airships wholesale. By thee: means Russia again becomes a mighty prwer which threatens to dominate nu - rope. Silver:art gets himself proelahned Czar of Russia under the name 61 elichael end sets about preparing to subjugate the rest of the world. Then the Kaiser takes a hand in the game by deelaeing war on Russel. The imnglnalion of the most, lurid dime no- velist never depleted such awful bat- tles as take place between the flying waitships of Germany and ri1141101, From dizzy heights they drop deeletic- live bombs on hostile ermire. They riddle one another with shells. Ihey ram each other in midair and the wrecks, fallIng from heights of 10,000 reet ere SMASHED TO SMITHEIIEENS. The combalente are provided with perm chutes in lieu ef life -belts, and thus meny of them, alter 111011' airships are destroyed. suceeed in reaching terra firma eafely end renew the 'struggle there. One scene describes the raid of n Rue - slim air fleet Iti Berlin, led by the 110111, Pr Michael, whn pulverizes the Ger. 1Y111I1 f•apilal lay reining bombs of Ire. mendons explosive power 111/011 it end de-iroye theusande of Gormen Ireops. tea of course. the new Napoleon urn- meels his With:rime through the superior couenge end sleill of the Ger. men warriors el' the rile, end litisele Ino, to neeepl the terms of menet dictated liy the 'filefl. having welloped Russia, he len e-er preceeds. In nuke himself master of the world, VaigInnel, ‘1 rIptiCtl (11. 1111' polrinit,S, heroines a mere elm enema: rob Orrin:my, For the conifori of those maY Ile din:1(A Iro iiike this (iceman puttee - meg pipo &NMI N01`101144 1110. 001141P/11 01 Sir 111111111 Maxim. fly AnglIciZed Ameriean kniolil. is worth quoting. "1 do eol tningine the wo need Ile melee .1 night, tlIrahlIng 0111;001V00 about the Gormanizntiod of the planet on which we happen to live at the twee - end moment, I .thinle llto Reverend 11. J. Campbell of the City Temple is in 0 11111011 better position to work a revolte hen in the Western meld than the Ein- :peter William, whose flying machines have not yet been built. There is vo question about it, however, that flying tr,achines will Acton be fn the atr, 1.11111 VV0 0,111111 111011 1111V0 0 1101V 1)1'01)10111 in SO1VO, but I am willing to bot my bottom doliae that the Angloeetaxon raCe net be left completely 0111 11) the cold," THE SCOTTISH WHATERS THEY STILL PURSUE. THEM MOST ADVENTUROUS CALLING. Last Season the Few Vessels Left ia the Business Only Caught e Seven Whales, Bruised and vanquished by violent storms and the terrible polar lee barrier of the Arctic seas, the gallant little fleet of Scottish whalers has returned home with 0118 of the poorest "catches" en record. After months of struggling to make their way through We ice Mee in Melville Bay, toward the chief fishing ground, running continual Hike vt being crushed in the pack or of be- ing wrecked in collision with the great bergs that sometimes bore down upon them in Ole darknees and the fog, the whalers had to confess themselves beat- en and make for home. For the first thne 101 hts twenty-four years experience., says The London Tribune, that veteran whaling master, Capt. Milne of the Eclipee, has had to report "clean ship," not haying caught a single whale; and IN THIS HE IS NOT ALONE. The total catch of the ten vessels en- gaged in the fishing is seven whales, yielding short of foul: tons of bone or baleen; last year the catch was twen- ty-three whales, yieldIng seventeen tone of bone. Half of this year's catch evae stewed by one whaler, the Scotia, on the east coast of Greenland, the other vessels making for the usually more profitable fishing grounds in Davie Strait. On the atnouat of baleen — meee precious than ivory—secured, de- pends the success of the voyage and the fortunes of every man on board the ships, for a rigid system of proffi-shar- ing prevails. It is this, perhaps, which makes the whaling crew in the midst of trying circumstances the most har- monious crew afloat. Whale fishing is practically a lost calling. In 1815 British vessels to the number of 164 engaged in it, a boun- ty' being paid at that lime on every ton of oil brought by a British vessel into a British port. To -day eight to ten ves- sels now sail to the arctic seas in quest of whales, and practically the whole ef these are despatched frorn one northern port, that of Dundee. TIIE MARMALADE TOWN is justly- proud of the feet !het it alone cf all the seaports in Great Britain le sufficiently enterprising to equip and despatch a fleet of vessels cm such a hnzarelous and speculative gees): Despite this year's unthetunate ex- perienee, the pursuit is not an moment- uble ore. Whalebone at present ranges. le value from :22,250 to :12,500 a ton, ancl with average luck the returns per ship aye large. With the produce cf two laege whales one ship recently paid a dividend of 20 per cent., and a few years• ago the Diana's profits for one SeliA011 with flee whales amounted to 17,315, enabling It dividend of 125 per cent. to be paid to tile shareholders.. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. A Few Facts About Some el'ell-Known People. Baron Kornura, the Japanese ambas doe in London, is a little unobtrusive nem, with a quiet voice, and a Will quieter manner. The Baron hates silk lints, and is nearly always to be seen In the unostentatious "bowler." This peculiarity is said to have been occa- sioned by an adventure he had when ha was a etudent years ago th America. He had 1)ee18 0111 nuirketing, and hav- ing pnechased some beefsteek, put it in- side the tail hat as a convenient car- rying piece. Soon afterwards he met a lady he knew, and raising his hat the moat fell on to the ground, to the no small confusion of the diffideet future diplomat. Lord Itugh Cecil, son of one British Premier, coesin of another, and not a little of a statesmen himself, Ls thirty- seven. Ho is known as "Linley" in the family, circle," and only Aimee of the House of Cecil dare call hint by that tweeter name. At the mature age ce five he threathned Mr.. Gladstone with "my 'father's sword," much to the G. 0. M.'s delight; and his debating powers drew a tribute from Mr. Bryce, and this, being delivered in the presence DI Lord Hugh's father, caused him to ex - considerable emotion. Perhaps Lord Hugh's most reactionary act was propcetil in Paeliament to punish members: vvim do not obey the Chair with iniprIsunment tor an indefinite period. The House angrily debated the quest:on for two hours; and then vot- ed 00 follows: For, 0; against, 426 — probably a Parliamentary record in ma. jerities. Queen Alexandra confesses that, When young. elm could never reconeile herself te the Ttille language, • nee alejeslyWIIA o Cry sirictly brought up, and her likes slid dist kos, 0.8 regerds her studies, were not often consulted. The Queen —Princess Alextinclea themelitel :1 wins Ihy Mil peeler as tutor, n man deeply lenened 111 the elassies, "Yon say 111111 •:. Is wrong in Aponte: badly ahord the (100(1, don't you?" oiler said iho Peineees la bee old mashie, "Yee, very weenie, indeed," wae the reply, -.rho rAlin 1,Ingilage is dead, Left it?" egnin asked thee 111(111181111'0 PPITIOPSS, , 'Yoh; ll,15 deS01,, querh el the pastor, "Oh," repli d the Primiess. "1 wes goirtg lo eat: senielliing 1(101 There sill" And, 88':111 a pathetic "Ole, 1 de think It's met nol to let the fl ITHE CRIME OF MURDER (Inimmu, sTATispos OF ENGLANI) AND WALES FOR 1905. Men 10 the Prime of Viten: Commit Most of Them—Women the Gent - 'newel Victims. A eemarkable analysis of the crime of murder foe the lust twenty years by Sle John Itinedonnell, Master of the Supreme Court, is the principal future of the criminal statistics of England and Wales for 1905, whieh was issued the other day. The number of people sente»ced e. death for inueder from 1880 to 1e05 was 488 males and 114 females. In the last decade the actual number Of cases be which execution followed the death sentence is shown in the following table* Year. Sated. Exe'd, 10115 32 17 1904 i20 16 1903 40 27 1902 • 33 22 1901 28 15 1900 20 . 13 1899 29 15 1898 27 11 1891 14 6 1696 33 20 A CRIME OF ME, -t. Sir John writes : '"rhe first fact 13 be reeled is that murder, as might be ex- pected, is a crime of men. Murder means !nutlet: by men in a great majme ity of cases. Out of 532 sentences to death since 1886, e88 were men. The figures are more remarkable because as regards women they include cases of child murder, to which they are, of course, much marc prone than men. The proportion of persons executed to those sentenced is also much higher in men, "The next nolicee.ble point, which is rarely mentioned, Is that a great major- ity of the persons murdered are women. They are as three to one. elueder means to a very great extent the murdering of women by men.. It is a curious fact, on the other hand, that the number of men killed by inanslatiighter exceeds women by two to one." A great majority of the murderers are committed by persons between the ages of 21 and 20, that is, duririg the period or greatest physical vigor. This fact is illustrated by the following table show- ing the ages of persons convicted of murder from 1886 to 1905 ; Age. No. 12 to 16 1 16 to 21 56 21 to 30 180 30 to 40 • 141 40 to 50 01 50 to 60 51 Above 60 31 "A further notable point in regard to murders committed by men is the very largo proportion of murders of wives. Out of a total of 488 murders for which men were sentenced to death in the twenty years under _consideration, no fewer than 124, or about 1 in 4, were mueders of wives by their husbands. Most of the men convicted of murder be- longed, like the women, TO THE LABORING CLASSES. "The principal causes or motives for murders duping this period were: Joel - nosy, and Intrigues, 02; chink, 00; quar- rels or rage, 63; revenge, :17; rabery, 50; extreme poverty, 39; illegei opera - loons, 12; and for insurance money, 3. Saturday is a favorite day for murder, 2118 cases having been -ascertained lo have taken place on that day. Between le o'clock and midnight is the favorite time foe the commission of tho crime. The majority of the murders appear to - be committed in densely populated urban disthlels, seaports, manufacturing towns and mining districts." Sir John iviacdonnell makes this re- markahle declaration or the relation of drink to crhne "Drunkenness is no doubt the cause of. many crimes and is the accompanhnent of many others, but the theory of the close correspondence oftn° and drunkenness Must be. eleviMed with cam, tion." PREVENTION OF OBESITY. Those who seem addicted to putting on move flesh than is healthy may do much to prevent such an occurrence by being teinpeeate witheregard to both toad and drink, at the same litne leading a life of active exercise, both mental and physi- cal. Malt liquors and fat -forming foods should, of course, be 'extremely re- stricted. AN APPROPRIATE STEED. "Do you know I have travelled miles in my dreams." "Then it must have been on a night- mare," The Emperor of Jnpan clrawe a regular salaey from the treasury or 4600,000, and out of this be is expected to pay the expenses of his household. Sits private fortune is not supposed to he used for the puepctse of keeping up Ins elate, and since the Emperor is of •a (rugal 'mind the slim answers its pine pose fully; To see the Queen of Italy in her hap- piest mood she must be met in the 11 ur- sery with her bebles or on the water in the yitelit which she steers with n melee nieriner's ere or in a bon) of which she is 00 ported, a mistress. \\then We 'present King of naly wooed and 01011 1101' 11,01/1 .11e1' Wild M0111P11g1.111 home, he took her for her benuly and bee (futilities of heart, She is one of Nature's queens -- gentle, arfectionale, hank and winsome, She ie pnesionalely devieted to her hueband chliclree, but her heart. is in the hills nr cm the waters. It N1/1,0 W11110 he and she were lssliiighe delights of one. 41 their days of irresponsibility Out thenews et Weedy an 1 greatness rear:111d them. To limit: pretty yeehl which floated lazily over the wetere nround the 'Greek !elands it ew111 remich entlie 1e01114!. "111e !aim 1» detul. Long live the King:' Was the cry' front the deck, King Mitre bete hail been leuil thee by the aSsaselm 'CALL TO THE HIGHLANDS MANIFESTO IN GAELIC PROM TUE BAHL OF MAR. lie Seeks to Arouse National Instincts —Revival of Laneuage and Laws. The Earl of Mar has issued El mani- festo, in Goalie, lo Iligithenders. 1.00111 the following transtalien 11 will be seen that Ai 110\V Scottish paely has been celled into existence:— "People of 0110' heart and of our love. "We eve of option that we should not delay further in putting into no- tion our thoughts regarding Important mallets affecting our country. New, every Person knows thal there 18 11 Le- vivai of the Gaelic, end of things per- taining to We Highlands, We may say, Ole, efore, that it is neither prope1 nor suitable that we should be longer Inactive, particularly at a time when lite Inteit (tee raising their voloo and steiving worthily to get the ruling of matters affecting themselves Into their own halide. WIIAT THEY SEEK. Therefore a new party has been started—a Scottish party — and these are the objects we have in view. "I. Ruling of matters affecting our- selves in our own bends. "2. To give ChM piece to tho Gaelic language and to the Aspirations of Highlanders in Scotland. "3. To menet to the old system of Highland ruling, and thus advance the betterment of our country—not accord - leg to the methods of Englishmen, but according to our own ways; the wishes ef the people of Scotland. "4. That 01 110 obligatoryto teeth. the Gaelic language in every school in every parish throughout the Highlands. "5. Just, as in Wales every holder of a state office must have a knerwiedge of the native tongue; so every person holding shnilae position. in Scotland should have a knowledge pt the 'Gaelic. "6. Good-bellow:ship to be advanced and spread between the people of Scot- land, Inland and Wales, with the view or achleveing common ends used for mutual 'assistance. "People of heart!' These are We ob- jects we have as a body. We call up- on every Highlander to support us and te become a member of our associa- tion. "Sons eif the clans! Shouldee to shoulder! 'Signed, on behalf -of the Society for the Friends of the Highlands, "JOHN, EARL OF MAR. "Braes of Mar, 15111 January, 1907.7 FERREIRA'S FORLORN DOPE. Latest Attempt to Renew the Boer War .of Little Duration. A despatch from Cape Town early in November last announced that a band of Beer irreconcilable& had crossed the !miller of Gomm Southwest Afeica, where they hacl taken refuge, attacked the British post of Lipinglon. in Boehm emaland, killed two mounted police, wounded two soldieas and captured a. number of guns and some ammunition. On, went the Boers as fast as they could travel towards the Transvaal. There were .only twenty of them, and a lot of madcaps they were, half fren- zied by the crimy enthusiasm of their leader, Commandant Ferreira, who serv- ed valiantly in the "Boer war against England and at its close took refuge in German Southwest Africa, deciariug Thal he would never live under the British Mg, Ferreira's idea was that the Boers enly needed a lender to pis° the stand- erd of 'revolt and drive the British out of thee: country or perish in the attempt. He firinlee believed that as soon as he reached the Transvaal frontier and the news spread that Ferriera elmsele whom they knew es a dashing and a bl'il (1011) soldier, had come Co lead them 50 another struggle for independeece they would flock to Ws standard 'and the British would find themselves again confronted by a formidable foe. It was a crazy 11011011, for the Boers have no mins, no reeources whatever that would reake further . reeislanee even. respec- table: Ferreira and his men pushed on over the halt desert, land, surprised another 111110 post, mitered a few more guns, took supplies from a few Mesh farmers and were getting on femously. Mean- while the Cape Colony authorities were taking energetic. measures. They did not know how far thisplan of revolt might develop, and so a nem - lee of battalions of the 'Cape militia were hastily mebnized en view of the possibility of an uprising emong the Dutch in Cape Colony, and lnepeetor of Pollee White, with a bend of mounted police, leak a train for the north, then rode nevem country to PrIeslca on the Orange River end steeled in hot pue- suit of Ferreira's 11.011 force. Ferrelen had sent messengers in ad - V111100 Minolincing his coming. They returned lo him with the most discour- aging relieve% Tito Boors had seen the horrors of war and wanted no more 01 it. 51111 lie clung lo 1111 despeettto hope the' lie might ridly them around his $11111 I'd when lie came amoog 11 010) 011 he went, pew:Miming himself as 1 he saviour of the Boer% of South Africa. Of ccense his bubble horst. Ho wns out.numbered by the British. wim :it lest, 'confronted him, end ho 011111 '118 men were 11111110 peisoners, .. The revolt was of little imperlence in comperison 88.1111 the recent, 1111elethe ef the 511111e, 'rite Ferrelee 10ollS1111 088 (1181 the 11V08 of no more than a dowel men. ' 1) is not known whet' title nwalle man of 3 years 'Who Is now et prieoner in' Cope Colony,• flo bas a great rtmey Mende end admirers entente the Ithere and perlinps his le the Nelsen wily the British have nol been al all Orel:eels. teebring his ense to n 0110.04 seil1emer11, •Doubtless inery nth least admire tho coorage of this l'ornier eommander of erthicry in the 1 3(ier Army, %oboes he). red of the British and emtelleg deetee lo free les rolltillarneri hem the gelling yoke moved liim In risk Ms life and foluee upon the' despeenhi, clumee of e feriorn enterprise, FATHERS OF RIGH MEN MOST 011 'nem WEEE COMPAI1A. MEM! P0011 MEN. Eighty POP Cent. Never bad an Income el Over Fifteen Dollags Per Week. _ it Is nn intereeting and instructive feet that at least four out of live of Anier!can multi -millionaires are 00115 at man who, in their most flourishing days, pi:01)01y never knew 10)111 11 81/111 to enjoy an income of :83 ti week, Indeed, le the majority of them such 8 modest Lee:10110one tiV,11..)13111.51.1ave seemed riches, stirs Tho • father of Andrew Carnegie, though he lolled early unit late as 11 damask weaver at Dunfermline, was bueety able to supply the hutnblest et •necessarthe for 'las small family, and when steam looms came to supplant hand weaving he was compelled to sell his looms end Ills few slicks of fume - thee, and take ilie boys to America, wheee he found employmenb as a weav- ee im one of the eetton factories of Al- legheny City, and where one of his sons, little though he dreamed it, was to amass one of the most colossal for- tunes the world has ever known. The father of .101111 D. Rockefeller, whose wealth to -clay is said to be at leant deub(e that of even Mr. Carnegie, cultivated a few baleen acres In Tioge eeente, N. Y., anti added a little to the family exchequer (scanty enough at the bes)) by sending out his boys to boo and plow and hest( corn FOB NEIGHBORING FAIINIERS, Nee A. Clark, the "copper Icing" 01 Alontana, whose fortune is variously es- tiniatecr at from X8,000,000 to fabulous figures 68e1110 even credit. Win with an income of £0,000 a day), Is the son ef 11 smell Pennsylvania filmier who (810' (18)17 110Ver cleared :2100 in any single 3:ear of his life, and for whom the fu- ture millionaire dal the haedest of farm laborimnnouoa.,1nl1 years after he had reached I The father of W. S. Stratton, the Col- orado "gold'king," was a &nail boat builder at Jeffersonville, 'fad., with Ise many ohildeen and et. purse so 111 fated that he was compelled to take his sep away from school at fourteee to ap- prentice Mtn to a. edepenter. Commo- dore Vanderbilt,, founder of one of the Wealthiest families in the world was cradled in the direst peverty, and be- tween the ogee of six and (sixteen, -earn- ed his own living by peeforrrileg odd )Obs that came les way, from •selling newspapers and bolding home to fl111111 1111.)01' and porter's work; and Jay Gould, who accumulated a fortune of 4.3 15,000,- 000 before he died, at the age of fifty- eight, was the son of a tstruggling farm- er, who lotted so much use for Ills son's services that ho practically receiv- ed no schooling at all. Sir ' Hiram klaxim, the millionaire inventor, had for a father a small mil- ler, whose business Wes so unprofitable that his son had to elce out the family income by farm woek and wood turn- ing before„_al the age of fourteen, ne wits apprenticed to.a coach builder at Fast Corinth. George Westinghouse, ),\ hose air brake has yielded such -A GOLDEN HARVEST, • was the son of a mechanical engineer le a smell way of busMe.ss. John W. Mackay, the "silver king," was the son of a destttute Irishman who emigrated to America with Ids family in search of fortune, and after two years of ter- rible struggle, died, leaving a penni- less widow to support herself ,and her 'young children os best she could. The father of James Gordon Bennett, the millionaire proprietor of The New York Heald, reached Boston a good many years ago with scarcely a cent in his pocket—indeed, he was so poor that for two days he went without food, until he was able to relieve his hun- ger by picking up a coin in the street. Russell Sage, who left a foetune of over .220,000,000, wias the youngest of six chadeen of very poor pnrents, anti was toiling on a farm before he was ten. The parents of Mr. Pillsbury, the "flour king of North America," were 10 peer circumstances, and Ills boyhoed was passed in a very humble home, and Mr. Gates, elr. Leiter and Potter Pnl- Trier were all 'sons of small farmers, and seeved their epprenticeshie to week ae farm laberers. John Wannamaker, whose Mores and 'Helms are famous the weeld mew, is the son' end grand- son of 'briektuakers, and the letthee Mr. Heinz, who has made millions out ri hts condiments, made a modest in- come as helelanaker and- market gard- ener. CONSTANCY OF PURPOSE ONLY, Gen. Sir Alfred Hereford, once in ate titortly at Aldelebot, believed in an army ot unineteried men, and Invariably thened a deaf KU' la privates who were in love and who wished to Wee wlves. Whell 140P8f01'd WaS 111 charge of a battalion of the rifle brigade, soys Sir Evelyn Wood 10 his recent eneertainIng volume, "From Midshipman to Irield-Marsbale" 8 soldier came up to hini toe. Permission to "No, certainly 1101," wns the cute re- ply. "Why does 85011111) 1111111 like you 11 oo'ile't' e011, please SIP," se 110 the soldier, "I have Iwo rings ("good conduct" badges) mid Me pounds in We seteirigs-bank, so (.1111 eligible, and 1 Walit 10 btintrry very go away. and if you 00(0101101k 1:11:11:day YVar in the 000115 mind, you Mien merry. 111 leeep the vacancy." Oft the annivereary the sokliee re - 1• 1°41111°1 rhiiT ;aeltfullatily, elm, lo yea;,' want 10 merry?" a; heri C1, 1 101 sipil>' 1111111 Ire es ford was eke. bl'SlenrigPeeiinsisi-er(11' 10jer," he saki, "hike his mime therm Yes, 'yen inny noun, 1100,01. believed there 0V015 010 11111011 0001- 4)80400' 111 man or 'woman . Rigid face, 'INTY'111,1:1).(11 11.:;.:1'; 1 : the 11101i "Timid( you, sle," 110 solid, gratefully ult Isn't the Shale women." *44 001,0:4144•0:">*0*.:":#11.4.:**424 HEALTH 4116.44•3•4:0•34•Iefeetsfiefeele A few years ago 11110 WaS one of the most falaiof the ClISear'S ef eltildhood, end was Lrequently the cause of death In adults as well, but to -day, thanks to the discovery of en 111001n, 11 has been shorn of many of its terrors, although 11 ls ell a disease to be dreaded. in the coyly days tram one-quarter to one-thied 01 111050 attacked died, but now the :nor - 4'41'1113' o gno lies i antof 1011 00 (1s )01ieas 1licne.is ustielly a sore throat, although this symptom may be preceded ter a short time by a. slight thyme headache and general lassi- tude. The mucous membrane of tho throat Is first reddish end swollen, 01 it may be paler than usual, but in a few hours, Or sometimes a clay or two, whitish species appear on the Retells DP thP palate. These epodes soon increase 111 extent, and form a membrane 00051- 11011,0 greater or lesser area. The throat alone may be affected. This constitutes the mildest form. Again, the inflammation with the formellon of membenne may extend to the nostrils or Lo tile larynx. The parts beneath tho membrane aro swollen, sometimes enor. mously, and an abundant discharge covers all the surface. Any of the 0111- 001.13 membranes of the body may bo laafefeeelded. , lad the parts mentioned are those willeh ale thmmm the most coonly M- kAI.' the same time with We formation of membrane general symptoms occur, showing that the poison absorbed into the blood stream. has mused serious changes In the blood and neevous SYS- 18111.it.iealA special clanger in diphtheria Ls heart failure. The poison 011110 disease seems to have a special affinity for the • - A 0011101011 sequel of diphtheria Ls a temporary paralysis, involving first the soft patine. Generally it goes no fur- ther, but it may attack tile arms or legs, 00 ally of the museleS in the body. 'rho usual treatment of diphtheria is by the injection of antitoxin, In addition ta this, measures have to be taken to prevent failure of the heart and to keep U e the general strength. When the dis- ease involves the larynx, death may threaten through Choking, and in this ease i1 is necessary to insert a tube be- tween the vocal cords to allow the patient to breathe.—Youth's Companion. • THE HOME DCCTOR, The juice of lemon. Ls excellent as a gamic for sore throat, but must not be swallOwed, To relieve a troublesome cough rub the throat with a inixture of olive oil, tur- pentine and kerosene. Defective eyesight, declares an author- ity, is often, caused by the wearing of tight collars, which interferes with 'the cireulcillon of blood to the head. Never tamper with moles. It, is un- safe ewe sometimes is followed by .ser- tous consequences, If any treatment is necessary go to a reliable physician for it. cit.ru'shed Ilngee should be plunged into water es hot as ctin possibly be borne. The application of liot water causes the nail to expend and ,soften, and the blood poueing out beneath it has more room to flow; thus the pain is wrapped edinTleientirenegoci)ansrli-io_‘Nulltdior tphoeunmebee. A jammed finger should navel' be ne- glected, as it mu lend to mortification of the bone if it has beeti badly crushed. PREVB.NTION OF COLDS. Keeping the extremities, especially the feet, wain, is of great consequence, and it the soles of stockings quickly get damp through perspiratton they should 'be frequently dried or changed. Breath- ing through the nose when in the cold is very essential as the air can thereby get warmed before it reaches the lungs. Colds may be caught in bed if ample covering is not attended to, and to sus- •ceptible peesons the open window at night in the wider is hardly Advisable. WHY WE GET INDIGSSTION. Recently a medical renn gave it ns his opinion that, the oven was responsible foe more dyspepsia then any other household conleivance, Tha modern eat) oikonfistii.dsTlitlensipueolticieoigisiehine) tonnbnaolecet gthnoane ete, ef existence, and there is seldom any."' one in the kiichen to take its place. It followe very reesonably that any food cooked within a confined space will not be so digestible as that done before nrt often flee where all gases have freedom to escape. NEEDLES UNDER THE SKIN. It Is rug at ail uncommon for women who sew To get a needle under the side. The slight accident generally makes the woman much more nervous than sho need be. If the needle Cell be seen Ilia doctor will freeze or °them's.° deaden tho skin ovee it, cut down on to it, end remove le lf it cannot be seen the we" men must go to the bospital and lino'e 1 1 1)."°41s"1,d aro°1111.01iiimid.sim$11110111) trl c0o1(111»1.510(.11110°0piliixiMeene allegether for C0 10, etul are quite for. gotten; they go Wong move nimu1. by action of, the muscles and the cireula. 11011 01 (10 blood, rind one tiny Wm: come out theciegh' the skin in et totally mule - pealed place. • DON'T SERVE alle.eTS LeJleneerAllet. Howevete Simple a meet may be there should be 110 1181 t•Way WOO(' aboul foca that 18 10 be served hot, Melt, like mem, cannot be served too hot and ('01181 Meat 411001C1 81%,7,10 as (he knife ninkes the first • Nothieg Is opperleing when, lullower111, Among meets I Fl 001)) Su trees. most by Matt cereleesly servel . (1,i shimly spoiled unless served erneldIng And people wit() slatel III) for rights um* 14 alt o(1 the rigida of Wows. — ta . '