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The Brussels Post, 1913-5-22, Page 6Ir„ 11;;1., “t;11." '' /1111111,11111\A\\,� gEd nom II ENN putti hab'Iitatdonble1 r a uwhiie &iiifwas well and the little village of Wood - stook bloomed again under the irrf- ONE OT' Pm GREAT Snow gating influences of the Vanderbilt gold, but presently differeuees PLACES O1' ENGLAND. arose, and for sone years past the Duke and Duchess have been living Apart, the two sans with the mo- ther. They coma to visit the Duke et regular intervals, but all efforts have failed to heal the breach be- tween the parents, though it was said that the late King Edward used his personal influence. So an - ether international romance went awry, and the strong support of one of the greatest estates in England being removed, the course of the Duke in turning the plow into his historical parks is a net unnatural conclusion o£ the story, us, BIG DREDGE FOR C.1N.1DA., Will Be Used to Make Deep Water Harbor in Hudson Bay. ExpeetedThat the 20,000 Idle Aores of the Eststc Will Be Put Under Cultilation. It is announced that the Duke of .Marlborough will put a thousand acres of the Blenheim estates under the plow, his abject being, he says, to increase the food supply of Eng- land. A thousand acres would net • appreciably increase the food sup- ply, and it would be very intensive farming that would nuke .this acre- • age yield food for five hundred fam- ilies. It is expected, however, that the rest of the 20,000 acres that comprise the Mate will be culti- vated later on, and that of historic Blenheim all that will be left will be the palace itself end the gardens. The Duke is oniy following lol lng t ex - amp le of smaller l nc olners, who have been inspired to cut up and sell ancient estates by the land taxes introduced by Lloyd George. They felt that they could not afford to keep idle farms that might be producing something besides de- Iightful landscapes when the tax gatherer was abroad in the laaul, and spurred to unwonted vigilance by a Radical Chancellor of the Ex- chequer. The Only Dueal Mauer. Blenheim Palace is one of the great show places of England. It is, in feet, the only ducal palace. The other homes of dukes are halls or abbeys or castles. but Marlbor- oughs alone of non -Royal and non - episcopal Englishmen reside in a palace. The right to call his home a palace was one of the distinc- tions conferred upon John Church- ill, the first Duke of Marlborough, and, as everybody knows, it was nailed after the Bavarian battle- field where he crushed the French and Germans and won the greatest victory of his career. In recogni- tion of his services Marlborough was given Woodstock Manor, a for- mer Royal residence, and about 52,500,000 in cash, so that he might build for himself a suitable nest. The building took so long that it was not completed before his death, and his remarkable widow, who continued the work, lived to enjoy the splendors of Blenheim Palace for only a short time before she, too, passed away. Canada will begin this summer to on Hudson deepharbor m ke a a Bay. Atacotof , s 000 a over g 250 a• mammoth hydraulic suction dredge capable of excavating to a depth of forty-seven feet is bing built et To- ronto for the Dominion Govern- ment, It is designed to battle with the ice floes of the Aretic region and may be completely submerged without sustaining damage. Not only is it the biggest job of the kind over attempted by a Cana- dian shipbuilder, but the contract calls for its completion in the com- paratively short space of five months, which means record time for a domestic shipyard. The dredge will be equip with wireless apparatus, a complete ma- obine shop, inoluding lathes, plan- ers, drills, air compressors, a set of pneumatic tools, smithy and a crucible for the manufacture of brass castings. Also the orew will be able' to enjoy many of the luxur- ies of as ocean liner, as the craft will have electric light and steam heating in every room a large re- frigerator, pantry and other con- -veniences. The Government hopes to make much headway in the development of a harbor on Hudson Bay before the winter of 1913, and it is expect- ed the harbor will be ready by the time the Hudson Bay Railway is completed. To reach its destination the dredge will have to go down the St. Lawrence, around by the coast of Labrador, through the Hudson Straits and across the bay. While the boat is not self-propelled she is equipped with two rudders and steam steering gear handled from the operating house on the upper deck. This is in order to keep her steady when towing. She will have a three ton anchor and 600 feet of 11 -inch stud link chain, and will also carry 8 sea anchor, which will keep her head to the wind in owe it is necessary for the tugs to cast her adrift. CURE FOR HEADA.CIIE. Operation Removes the Cause of Disturbance. Those suffering from violent headaches will be interested to hear that, according to a communication juet mads to the Paris Academy of Medicine by Dr. Guisez, the well- known Paris physician, a cure has now been found for a large number of cases of this disorder, hitherto declared to be incurable. Dr. Guisez finds that the frequent and annoying variety of migraine, which starts from above the eyes and spreads, often accompanied by nausea and vomiting, is caused by a malformation of the upper pert of the nose, known as the hypertrophy of the middle horn; which, under the least provocation, causes con- gestion and a. disturbance of circu- lation at the base of the brain. The doctor says he has cured more than seventy cases by a slight operation, the details of which he gave to the academy. He recom- mends all persons suffering from frequent headaches to have the in- terior of the nose examined. This communication is considered by the Deademy to be of great importance. TO PASS 3YEARS IN ARCTIC STET N SSON EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE BEM:TOR'I' SEA, Blond Eskimo Di overer Does Not Believe Region Is au Open Sea. What is said to be the last re- maining portion of the surface of the glebe is to be explored and mapped out. The expedition has fee its objective the exploration of an unknown region now charted as the Beaufort Sett, to the northeast of Alaslra, and will sail from Vic- toria, B.C., the first week in June. It. is hoped to reach Noma, the last telegraphic station on the Alaskan coast, a month' later and to round Point Barrow in this last week of July. The expedition will return, if all goes well, ie the autumn of 1916. avoyage '11 vessel inwhich the The e,sal an old 'l ck c Karluck, willmade is the l be, whaler,. She will carry ten mem- bers of the scientific staff and a crew of twelve, It is of interest to note that Mr. Stefansson, who is of Icelandic extraction, Was Born at Winnipeg, The Duchess as Overseer. Woodstock Manor is said to have been built by Henry I., and it was there that Henry II, constructed the famous bower for lair Rosa- mund, but though the place was good enough for kings and queens at did not measure up to the mag- nificent ideas of the Marlboroughs, and it was practically obliterated or incorporated into the more splendid palace that Sir John Van- brugh designed for the warrior, How much money was sunk in the palace nobody knows, but it ab- sorbed a. considerable part of the grant made by Parliament after Blenheim, and also a quarter of a million dollars which the Maribor- oughs amassed by more dubious means. For more than twenty years Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough, struggled with the gigantic task that she and her hus- band had begun. As a chronicler says, "She fought with the archi- tects, turned the workmen against their employers, robbed the build- ers, and conducted a general cam- . paign which made her almost as famous among the mortar beds and scaffolding as her husband was on the battlefield." The Spencer Branch. The old Duchess arranged that the title and estates should de.sce-nd through her second daughter Anne, named after the Queen) who had married a Spencer. The Duchess, however, preferred the younger grandson to the elder, who was rpt line for the inheritanoe, and so she began in her old age to divert every- thing she could to the younger Spencer. In the end, the elder boy, who became Duke of Marlborough, had little but the magnificent es- tates and the title. The younger Spencer had the money, So it was that until the present Duke of Marl- borough'married Consuela Vander - hilt the Spencer branch of the Mar]boroughe was the wealthy branch, while the Marlboroughs, or rather the Churchill branch is it was culled, had the title and the in- t -el -Set Gil the mortgages to pay, The wonder is that the Maribor oughs have menaged:.to retain their estates tut all, for some of them were notably spendthrifts. In the course of time many of the precious works of orb in the palace .disappeared, ' and though this buildings mellowed -in beauty and the property in - seemed in value few of the trea- sures gathered by John Churchill remained. The 'Vanderbilt Alitlirtns, OUR LETTER FROM TORONTO WHAT IS BEING GENERALLY DWS• CUSSSED AT THE PRESENT TIME, Physioians Havo Little Faith in Pr. Fried• mane's RetnedY-No Hops for Federal Square, A change has come over the attitude of the medical profession toward Dr. Fried- mann, who has Just pail ti second visit to Toronto, When he first camp to this coun- try the attitude toward him was one of expootanoy and hope, although it is not going too far to say that from the first there were many physicians who looked upon hie reported cure for tuboreuionis with scepticism, On the whole, however, the attitude in Canada was much more friendly than it was In the United States, and there was general approval of tbo (nurse or the authorities lu extending a special invitation to the German phy04 Mau to come to Canada to give demonstra- tions of .lila important remedy From a situation where there were oulr a row skeptics, the condition bas now changed to one in which nearly the en- tire medical profession expressos littlo hope that any vont advance in the treatment of tuberculosis has been made by Dr. Friedmann. This altered attitude is due to two facts. In Patent: Medicine Class? and the expedition is being under- taken at the charge of the Canadian Government. The leader is the discoverer of the so-called blond Eskimos and has had experience of two Arctic voyages in the particular neighborhood to which he is about to proceed. Both of these, as lie explained, met with unfavorable weather. He has spent three years among the Eski- mos. The region to be explored covers, roughly, a million square miles. There aro two theories with regard to it. One is that it is open sea. This is favored by Dr. Neilsen, and it is understood that Amundsen also inclines to this view and is likely to trust to a transpolar cur- rent to carry him across it in the Fram, The opposing theory is that there is land in this particular region now marked on the map as Beaufort Sea, This is known as the Harris theory, from its propounder. Mr. Vilhjalmar Stefansson, the leader of the expedition. inclines strongly to the latter belief, for the reason that Certain tidal manifestations on the Alaskan coast are, he holds, in- consistent, with any other. But briefly these indications ere: First, the Bale by Dr. Friedmann of his a rights to the manufacture of the r e 1ed y. tt . m whish 1s In the form of a setora private company in which it is 'under- stood Dr. Friedmann hlmeelf retains a large interest, The feeling among ,doe. tors is that this is unprofessional conduct and places the reported remedy in the close of potent medicines and nestrume. It pray be pointed out, 'however, that the attitude of the medical profession to thie class of medioinee is somewhat more strict than is that of the general public. There seems to be some basis for the erl- tioiem that if Friedmann had made a great discovery such as that made by Pasteur or Lister,. the best thing he could have done would have been to have given it freely to the medical profession. If hie remedy had been ofoaoione his repu- tation grateful' wotrld have beensecure have seen that honor and wealth would have been freely awarded. Second, the progress of the patients who have been treated by Dr. Friedmann hoe not been decisive. In some cases there has been improvement, but. the seen - ties maintain that this improvement hleoodndeven there nFriedmann treatment. In other instances there has been no im- provement whatever. The Harris Theory. The influence of the send -lunar tides in the Arctic Ocean is felt in two directions, one from the Pacific through Behring Strait, and the other from the Atlantic going in between Greenland and the Norwe- gian coast. The Pacific tide, owing to the narrow and shallow Behring Strait, stops at a comparatively short distance from that channel, where it is neutralized by the tide front the Atlantic, which has then swept across practically the whole stretch of the Arctic Ocean. If, it is argued, Beaufort Sea is, in feet, an open space of water, the Atlantic tide would reach Alaska at right angles to the shore. But this is not the case. The tide, on the contrary, sweeps along the Alaskan coast from the north-east, and the deduction, therefore, is that there is some obstacle, either in the form of a large mass of land or of an archipelego,'which. deflects it from its course. This question is one of the objects which the Canadian Arctic expedi- tion hopes to set at rest. Depends on the Weather. It was theught that when Cion suets Vanderbilt went to IiLehheirn OA i bride, the Marlborough for - tubes ware to 'blaze forth anee nnore, for the Va'nderbi:lt millions EAT NESTS OF SWALLOWS. Remarkable Indntl(ry Int Sttuuese. Provinces. The Siamese Government, derives a considerable annual revenue from the rental of the islands en which breed the sea -swallows, whose nests are of edible nature, Tlhere are between 400 and 600 of these is- lands, the majority of which lie off the east coast of the Siamese - Malayan provinces, especially that of Bandon. Here, in the bay that take sits name front the'provinee, and between the mainland and the large islands Boli Pungunn and Koh Samine, stretching northward for 150 miles or so, are the lnnssws of volcanic rock that are the all - the -year round home of literally millions of the birds. Sono of the islands are mere rock -beds; others have an expanse of many acres. Nearly all rise sheer out of the in- tenseIy blue sea. In infrequent eases there is a narrow strip of beach between the water and the cliff -face, mar- velous; nets is n 7.110 color': of the isle coloring a5 velour' itis a symphony .haat of saonn , � , P Y umbers, sepias, others, pinks, pur- ples, rose and scarlet brought into being by the fervid heat of the vol- canic action that originally lifted the rooks from the seabed. Tho vi- vid green of tropical vegetables usually crests the islet, emphasiz- ing their many -colored hues. Add to all this the sapphire of the Sia- mese sea and sky in October and the steady and refreshing breath of the south-west monsoon, sand the reader will have an idea of the winding channels that lead through the witchery of fairy. islands. Or, Friedmann's Answer. The answer of Dr. Friedmann to the critics of his method of giving out the remedy is that its character requires that it ebould be in the hands only of prao- titloners who have been schooled in its use, and that it would be unsafe and un- fair to hand it out freely to the public, or even to the medical Droteselon at large. For this reason it le probable that Dr. Friedmann, through the com- pany which now holds the right to his serum, will establish tuberculosis sanitoria, which may be known as Friedmann institutes. wherepatients will bo admitted as they would be to hospi- tals will ba administered. The discovererm says that patients who are unable to pay for the treatment will be treated free. Or it may be that all that will be done for a Year or two will bo to establish a Fried- mann school, possibly in New York, whore physicians who wish to familiarize them- selves with the treatment may sconce in- struction for the purpose of afterwards applying it to their patients. This would be a -profitable operation for the Fried- mann Company. It might secure foes for the instruction and it would saleooft the also makake tt profit on the remedy to the praetiaing physicians who wich to use it. This being tho situation it is perhaps too earltoon the merite ofpthe ass remedy, finalj Evens those physician's who express the belief that the remedy fa not a remedy say that so far as they know it to not injurious. They only fear that the rousing of taloa hopes among a class of eufterers whose condition is, as a rule, hopeless, may lead to much additional suffering. Three years, the period during which the expedition will pursue its researches, has been taken as time adequate to Make the first records of so large an aceta. Much, how- ever, depends on the weather, es- pecially on the prevailing winds. "If there is a north-east wind,," said Mr, Stefansson, `cit will blow the ice down along the Alaskan coast, and we shall have to remain cloth in shore until the 'freeze in,' when we shall proceed to explore on the ice. But if the prevalent wind blows from the south-west it will clear out the ice, and we shall then use the boat. In the-Vest/se we shall divide into two poetise. Half the soientific staff will go on a small schooner, the Teddy Bear, and sail eastward through Dolphin and Union Strait, The remainder will gonorth from Herschel Island as far as possible." Care for Aged Coln•iets. A spacial building for aged con- viote is lacing constructed in eons notion with the prison at Park- hurst, Tele of Wight, In this sec- tion eation armchairs and bedsteads will be placed in the cells, and reading matter will be supplied to the pre stoner. In caste a prisoner has diffi- culty in chewing became of poor tenth, vetoed meat sand beef tea will be included in hie dietary. All Aboard for Australia. In 1881 there were nearly 200,000 mare males than females in Aus- tralia, Tietlums 30 ythans later spew that the excess of males hoe dinnin- ished to 187,000,. on 00 aggregate NO PLACE POR I.T. She --I hate you. He --0h, darling, lea's not have a falling out now, The world admires any Than who attends to his own 'business -no matter how humble it may be::. population tweedy twice 48 great, No Federal Square. Toronto has given up all hope of ever esal ase thatt athednew Govornnl ntobuildings required, such se Customs ISouso, Post Offioo and similar institutions, should bo built on the same street, which would be laid out an a style of magnificence. The Government was reported to 130 in entire- sympathy with the scheme, and Toronto believed that at teat it would get something worth while. But the Govern- mout found when they came to Dumbest' the land that the land owners always caw them coming and jumped the prices volve d00 great au expenscheme e th t iitgitn Ay was abandoned. Now the Government proposes to build for the pity a nue new Post Office bn the land ocoupled and adjoining the present site on Adelaide St. east, and similarly a aeCustom djoining site Dat theonise n foot othe f present age The of 320 Poet ° dea depth of 106 le tO halm fee front- age is estimated that the additional land re- quired will cost not less than 56,500,001, although this land is not in the most expensive area. SPAIN IS PROSPERING. The .Last Ten Years Shows an Amazing Advaueemont. The last ten years in Spain show an amazing degree of commercial and industrial; progress. The record of this accomplishment In a country that a decade ago, was looked upon as a dying nation, reads like the comparative statistics of a boom town in the West, and there is awakening in Spain to -day a spirit of hope and enterprise that will, it is confidently believed., be the solution of all the country's ma- terial and political problems. The doubled imports of cotton, the tripled output of iron ores, the prosperity of railways, and the rise in Spanish government 4s from 65 to 83, are indications of this pro- gress, but it is from agriculture that the largest additions to Spanish wealth are made. Ten years ago 12,500,000 aeras were planted in cereals; to -day the total is 17.500,000 acres. The wheat yield in 1904 was 87,600,000 bushels, last season it was close to 160,000,000 bushels. The yearly consumption of wheat, including that used for sewing, is about 175,- 000,000 bushels. The larger acre- age this season will further reduce the wheat and flour imparts. The expectations are that another five WHAT HAPPENS. British Scientist Declares Laughter Is Violent -Effort. A British scientist who has been making a study of laughter has pre- pared a lisle• of things that happen when .e person gives way to audible laughter. On. each side of the throat, he explains, 'there is an ar- tery called the carotid. At the le- vel of the larynx this divides; one branch, whioh carries blood to the bruin, is oeU•ed the "internal" ; the ether, which performs the duty of distribu'lin,g blood to the twee, is called the "externa]." These two branches are joined by the opthal- mic artery at about the level of the eyes, forming betwcou the eyes a sett of casual. a Al] this in tarn brings the times of laughter, and makes literal the oxolamatiosn, "lie laughed until he cried." In reality laughter is not an easy thing. It results in a great, al- though involuntary efforts -an effort as great as though one were lifting a greatweight-and: in bothcalses the muscles of both' the throat and stomach contract.. , Now, when laughter is very hearty; when it is actually exces- sive, the whole body is convulsed send this means that, every etude is, contracted, I:Iero tis where, people "double lip" with lengthier. 'Whe- ther it: is laughter ar crying, the same thing happens, if it is en ox., aessive emotion—that is, the booed oeugcsts the tear glands, and tli,ese glands overflow. THE STANDARD .ARTICLE SOLD EVERYWHERE I to For /raid r soap, sof entra ftpn Inulnlnis�au �iI qui,jllq'l•7lplh,P;ll p, q,uuoo'llllltl ,,P'I'a�II�OP�" 1 I t I IW I t tl fl it >i1 e c -v n. + II I I I II I I I II I eI4Ji 1 Illln'9 I ISi II�I I u canons ill ��adi Ifo II u ut I III 110n011pa Illpglll!' IMI II II III I II.III a tr ones, jY'd�Y' Ep��"i a E.i:B•G SLE'.;..P1 'COMPANY L1M1-rED fORoNii T000 NT. FROM MERRY O1O ENOLA NEWS BY ALA1L ABOUT JOHN BULL .1tN1) 1118 PEOPLE. years will turn Spain into a wheat - exporting country. Freak districts of barren land aro brought under the plow each year. The new Ebro irrigation canal in Catalonia and the canals under cornetructian in Arragan will turn into farms and gardens upward of 1,000,000 scree of desert -like coun- try, and in the central provinces there are 77,000,000 acres which ir- rigation and railroad extenei0n would transform into wheat fields. s Occurrences in the Lend That Reigns Supreme in the Cone nlorcial World. The British Isles comprise no few- er than 1,000 separate islands and islets, About half a million foot pas stingers pass the Mansion House, London, daily, John Martin, of Cardiff, second hate of the Westgarth, died on the deck of the vessel at Southampton. The Queen has presented a fur- ther gift of hooks to the Victoria League for Children in the Domin- ions. Sir William Bell has died in a nursing home in Dorset square, fol- lowing an operation for appendix chis. - e h the a e s travelling Pass n r t g Y g Great Central Railway Oo. are now insuring their baggage against loss or damage. Chief Inspector Windsor, of Nor- wich, a native of Colchester, has been appointed Chief Constable of Scarborough. Alen Cheaper 'J'han horses. Tc -day the Chinese are tilling the soil in the same primitive fashion and with the same antique od im- plements their forefathers Used hundreds of years ago. Tho hire of men is so cheap that the Chinese farmer carnet afford to use modern horse-drawn plows, and would grudge the animals their proven- der. The man -power plow common- ly used turns a furrow 6 inches wide. The men draw the plow about 15 miles In plowing an sore. Poor Ohl Paw. Willie—Paw, does a Scotch High- lander wear kilts all the time Paw—Yes, my son. Willie—Well, how scratch a match 1 The Cause. "Why do you blame environment for Bink's grouchiness 4" "He lives on a cross street." Mr. Francis Stopford, a well- known society writer, has been ap- pointed managing director and edi- tor of the "World." Mary Stephen, the wife of the proprietor of a shooting gallery at South Shields, was fatally shot tvhilo unloading rifles. It has been decided to start a club of old comrades of the 13th Hussars under the title of "The Old Comrades' Dinner Club." A steeplejack named Elias Pen- nington fell nearly 100 feet from a steels at the Port Talbot Steel Works and was killed instantly, A tablet has been unveiled in York Minster by General Wynne in memory of Sir John Moore, who was killed at Corinna in 1809. A North-Eestern engine -driver named Harry Goodwill, aged 38, dropped dead at Thornaby -on -Toes station just prior to his train start- ing. Dover promenade pier and pavil- ion are to be utilized as a naval landing stage, having been purchas- ed by the admiralty for £8,000. The Postal Service 123 miles walking race at North Finchley was won by H. Brockhouse with F. E. Roberts, last year's winner, sec- ond. The death has occurred of Lady Pitman, widow of Sir Isaac Pit- man, at her residence in Royal Crescent, Bath, at the age of eigh- ty-eight. Tho collieries have notified the household coal depots in Newcastle that practically all qualities of coal have been advanced is. per ton. At the police station at Steer - bridge, Worcestershire, a Tam- worth laborer was found dead in his eel' with a stocking rammed down his throat. The Royal Academy of Music an- nounce that the Samton scholarship for the violin has been awarded to Rate Rosedale Goldsehmidt, of Lon- don. Residents at Chipping Norton and Hadley have decided to place a memorial on the house at Hadley Green, where Dr. Livingstone once lived. It is proposed in the Dover Har- bor Bill now before Parliament, to make a sea front dock which will involve a considerable invasion of the foreshore. A strike annongst asylum officials in the West Riding is threatened owing to the servants and patients being served with margarine in- stead of butter. ' Queen Mary, accompanied by a lady-in•waiting, motored from Windsor to Sunninesdaie and paid an informal visit to the London' Mothers' Convalescent Horne. Included in the. list of candidates who have passed the qualifying lit- erary examination and will enter Royal Naval College, Osborne, next May, is Prince Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas of Batten - burg, Meteor Loft Ashes. A French astronomical paper publishes a picture of a ,very re- markable meteor that was observed in India, some months ago. This meteor was visible for two full sec- onds as it swept across the sky, awl the trail 01 smoke heel tithes leet by ut es it passed through the earth's atmosphere was so ))lain that it could be 11hotogrephed and hosted for twenty. minutes. Not Unlikely. "Well, my boy," said the visite to Bobby. 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