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MODES OF SLEEPING.
Interesting Facie of Which We Are
ignorant,
Sleep is a universal experience,
but, as in the case al other fatniliar
things, we take it so much for
granted that there are many inter-
esting facts about it of which we
are ignorant. In the Illustrated
London News, Mr, W. P. Pycraft
gives a number of them. Our no-
tions of rest, he says, are likely to
be a little upset when we come to
survey the various postures that
different animals assume during
sleep.
Most persons probably sleep lying
on the right or left side of the body
with the knees drawn up toward the
chin. But certain African tribes he
on the back, and let the head, •or
rather the back of the neck, rest
• on a bar of wood that is supported
on two short pillars. The elephant,
apparently invariably, and the
horse. commonly, sleep standing.
This is really astonishing. Besides
the difficulty of maintaining the
balance .of the body during, long
Periods of uncnnscipusnes,, it would
seen that there must be some 61e-
ceseity for resting the muscles of
the legs- Cattle usually sleep lying
down. and clnr•ing many hours of
the day they lie clown.
More curious still, there are
creatures that sleep while they hang
head downward, suspended by the
hind feet, among these are the
hats. The hanging parrots of In-
dia and the -Malayan region have
the same strange habit. In this
they differ from all other birds,
which invariably sleep with the
head turned tailward'over the beel
and the beak thrust in among th
feathers between the wing and th
body—not actually under the wing
as people generally believe. No
satisfactory explanation has ever
been offered to :account for thi
strange habit. It is followed ever
by the penguins, whose feathers are
So short that they do not completely
cotter the beak.
Certain birds sleep while they
rest on line leg. That curious pose
rs, hest seen in lung -legged birds,
like storks and gulls. .bucks gen-
erally sleep on open water; and in
order to keep from drifting shore-
ward, and therefore into the dan-
ger zone, they peddle constantly
with son, font. s, that the body is
always circling r.,und the chosen
sleeping arm The sloths sleep
suspended by their feet, with the
head tusked in between the fore -
lees. The no les. remarkable Al-
riean (too., or slow lemurs, as-
sume a similar pose, but they attach
themse!i•es to a vertical instead of
horizontal bough, so -that the body
rests with the stead upward. No
animal except man ever sleeps up -
en ire bnek.
It i. commonly believed that seers
animals; never sleep, but that ie be-
cause hey do not cl•t:e their eyes.
Hares. snakes, and fishes are crea-
tures of this sort, but all of them
do sleep regularly. Whales and
their kin are often spoken of as
sleepleee eFPnt111•ell, for It is sup-
reme(' the if the} host (museum 0
nese they would promptly drawn,
see a rule, darkness inclrtct.s sleep,
hut with many creature hats,
and owls fir t'xanrpie, -the oppo-
sih' is the , 04,. Chat never -:al tax
the natural order has been brought
About by tete leisure of the animal's
feeding habits.
It it difficult t, sac where sleep
begins. and we shall perhaps be
near tin' earth if we regard it as
ori meet. mime Being things. In
the e,r:e or plants, it is esu eSl by
darhne,s, save for certain I, tt ,ria
and fungi, whieh, like evil deeds,
gru,t ender the cover of night.
therefore, to unify. It would nut be
easy to adopt a state !religion, for
sueh a step might be contrary to the
wishes of the people. But snort -
'flees offered at the proper season!
to the ancient saints and sages, gas
prescribed in the laws of the late
Ching dynsety, dial not touch the
question of religion. Since they are
nob in conflict with a republican
forst of government they should be
continued as a token of respect on
the part of the succeeding genera-
tions, It will become generally
known that the ceremonies now pre-
scribed are performed, and there
is danger that the ceremonies will
be construed as the beginning of
the establis meant of g patioaal re-
' li ion. It•therefore ne essay
g is, , c y
to make known the principle which
prompted the restoration of the an-
cient rites, and to state that they
aro in response to the wishes of. the
majority to express their reverence
and veneration fur the saints and
sages and to preserve the traditions
of thousands of years. The choice
of religion is still left to the peo-
ple. This is according to the liberty
guaranteed by the constitution and
in accord with the practice of the
world. This order is issued to
avert possible misunderstanding
and suspicion."
PLVIIES AND DISEASE.
Famous Zoologist Points Out That
One Aids the Other.
Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston,
famous traveller and zoologist, who
found the okapi in..lfrica, cleplures
the vanity of wealthy women who
adorn themselves with the plumage
e of 'rare and lovely birds.
Sir Harry, in a lecture the other
e • night, complimented the United
' States for haiang elvsed its porta
and markets against the imporla-
•
tion of the feathers and skins of
s certain birds, and urged similar ac -
1 tion by the British Parliament.
All birds of betattiful plumage are
insect eaters.; he said; so to slaugh-
ter birds is to permit the.. infinite
multiplication of creatures that
carry germs and cause about, two-
thirds of the workl's diseases.
The appalling destruction oi birds
whose feathers deek milady's hat is
proven by figures front the last six
feather sales in London this year ;
crowned pigeons, 21,818; niaeaw
wings, 5.791 pairs: quills of the
white crane, 20,715; humming birds,
1,112; birds of paradise, 17,711. Of
the kingfisher, one of the birds of
bright plum.age to he found on the
English and frielt lake -s, the skins
of no less than 216,000 were on sale.
This destruction simply means the
kingfisher's eatinction,
:CLEVER WIFE
Enew How to Beep Peace In Family
. ft is quite significant, the number
of persons who get well of alarming
heart, trouble when they let up on
tea and coffee and uso Postum as
There is nothing surprising about
it, however, because the harniful
alkaluid-seaffeme—mt both tea and
coffee is not 'present in Postilm,
I Which is made Of clean, hard whea.t.
"Two years ago I -was having so
emelt trouble with my hearts"
writes a. lady in the West, "that al;
times felt quite alarmed. My hes-
hand took me to a spevialiet to have.
my hearb examined.
"The doctor said he cenld find no
WaS irritable from something I had
been accustomed to, and asked ate
to try- and remember what, disa-
greed with me,
"I remembered that coffee -always.
soured on my stomach find caueed
the truntle from palpitation of the
heart. Su I stopped coffee sled bo_
further trouble Nill CO,
"A neighbor of ours, an old
man, was so irritable from drinking
toffee that his wife wanted him to
drink Poetstin. Thie made. him eery
angry, but his wife secured eume
NO ST.1 TE 1;1;1).
Con fonianism Nut a iteligion. Says
Chi upew President.
Accomivnnying the inan,lates which
hate just. been premel !test pres-
cribing the m•rrbin of loetven ant]
of ('onlicius hy- the President and
ctttai'r pr,iinrial otheials, there is
tint phi in that this d es not
meati than ('bilin has adopted a
state eoliorien. The documents at•
tract. wide interest because of the
long carat ror'erti•,- to whish they
coats as at least a trmpurary ter-
ininntien. 'rimy are taken ars a de-
claratiee to the part of the Preai-
steal; turd while his gooer'nment in-
tends to worship in the way that
luin�-e governments have been
worshipping for rent:Aries, it will'
not betels -re with the religions uf
them, who believe in wurship.111 1011.
other form. The mandates react !u
part es follows:
"Beligrfons liberty is observed
1I ronsilraut the 'world, Our repnb•
lir• is ct.smpoecel of five rates, (lhi-
110sc', 11eeehiia, :ltungCoiians, Mo-
ltatemedans andJ.`hibetatrs t and
their historical traditions (lifter.
Their religioue, beliefs at'e difieult,
Pustule, and made it carefully
according to directions.
"Hu drank the Postu n and slid t
not know the difference, and 1,3 still
using it to his lasting benefit. He
tells his wife that the coffee' is
better than ib used to be, so she
smiles with :lire and keeps peace in
the family by serving Poslunn in-
stead of coffee."
Nasse given by Canadian Puslurn.
Co., Windsor, Dat.
Postonnow conies in two forms:
Regular I'ootu.nt --- must be well
boiled.' lie and 25c packages,
Instant Postale.-isa soluble pow-
der. A teaspoonful diseolves quick-
ly in'.a cup of hot waiter, anti, with
cream and sugar, makers a delicious
beverage insta11lly, -3Cle and Mte
tine,.
The. coot per cep of both kinds is
about the same..
"There's a lt.eao'on" for Posture,
—.Sold by Grootrs.,
AVIATOR'S TRYING ORDEAL
GAI:WING it flVOt S POWERS
01' M-OHIiRN FLYING MAN.
Cold Blahs and Careful Life Are
Prrcitutiolis Taken to lie.
Iain Nerve.
I have now looped the loop over
one hundred times, and meant 1
go on practising the feat until t
have Carried :nut my thousandth
loop, which total I hope to math in
a year or so, writes B, C. Mucks,
in London Answers,
Many people shake their heads
ruefully when I tell then of 'my in•
tentions, for they prophecy that
lav nerve will never stand tho ter-
rible strain of whirling my machine
about in the clouds week after week
for a year or more, And their con-
victions are further strengthened
when they' learn that I ani under-
going no special training fir my
upside-down flights.
Only Coll Baths.
But I ale very confident that T
shall carry out my thousandth loop
in the same excellent health which
I at present enjoy, and their visions
of any becoming a physical wreck
are, I think, ill-founded.
At the same time, I do not want
to make light of the tremendous
nerve -strain which looping the loop
and upside-down flying entail. I
fully realize that unless I keep in
the pink of condition my nerve will
go. So every morning, no platter
how low the temperature may be,
I have a cold bath, but, beyond
leading a moderately careful life, I
take no other precautions to rehab)
my nerve.
As a matter of fact, it is not al-
ways continual flying that wears
away an airman's nerve. More of-
ten it is a sudden shock, or moment
of deadly peril when he stares
death in the face. which destroys
his confidence for ever.
I coulci name several flyers whose
nerve was absolutely ruined by one
particularly bad smash or excep-
tionally narrow escape from death,
Such a happening is liable to occur
to any flyer. I myself might con-
ceivably rise in my Bleriot mono-
plane to find that I had lost the
requisite nerve to swing the ma-
chine over on to its basic. But I
certainly do not anticipate such a
happening, for I have had my
aerial ordeals, which, I think,
would have killed my nerve long
ago had it been built that way-.
Bombs in Mid-air.
For instance, last summer I was
giving some bomb -dropping exhibi-
tions, and, fitted in the rear of any
1',leriot monoplane was a device for
releasing the projectiles. Whilst
flying for some five hundred feet
high I endeavored to release one of
(these bombs, but, becoming jam -
riled in the mechanism, it exploded
with considerable force. The bomb -
dropping apparatus was blown
clean away and, in flying free, two
of my tail controlling wires were
severed, which through my rear ele-
vator completely out of action.
Undoubtedly I escaped a violent
death by reason of the perfect bal-
ance of my machine. The weight
of myself and the engine were sup-
ported by the niairl wings, and
hence, by very careful manoeuvring'
I managed to plane to .earth with-
out the ole of any elevator, Had
I a passenger sitting in my rear,
whose weight would have been
largely supported by the rear
Plane, nothing on earth would have
saved the machine plunging violent-
ly to earth.
But one of ;the best tests of my
nerve Occurred on the occasion
when I was preparing to go aloft to
carry out my hundredth loop, Just
as T was about to clamber into my
monoplane a telegram was handed
to me. On opening it I found it
signed by a dear relation of mine,
and it ran : "Dreamt last night that
you would have serious accident on
hundredth loop, Very worried,"
There was FL teriffrc gale blowing
at the time, some sixty miles an
hour, and it looked odds on that I
should be tossed about like it feath-
er up aloft, and perhaps smashed
down to earth. But I risked it, and
carried out my hundredth loop un-
oeathed, so that the ill-omened
dream did not come true after all,
1 have neves been snperetitieus,
and ant one of the few airmen who
lo not go in for mascots. ,Somebody
rrcecntly tied a doll, on my mono -
dant: aucl I took it alum. and limped
he loop --certainly the only mascot
that has participated in an unside-
down flight.
It is the little things in flying
Which try our nerves most, For in-
stance, when starting nut for a
flight :t have many irritable and
anxious moments when waiting for
the engine to start up-- a feeling
of weaning to "get on with the
business" as soon as possible,
-afraid Of a "'('Heil.
1 remember, some short time
back, that the people who used to
flock round my aeroplane after an
exhibition Algid: would often whip
out; pencils and Writo their mantes
on the swings of the machine,
Whether thepoints of their pen -
oils had penetrated .the fabric •and
etarted a little tear ihat would'
grow to a da•ngerotts size Usad to
worry me no end, and those signa-
tures used to w`urry me fah' more
thee the likelihood of limy machine
blowing up .iu mid -.air during nay
bomb -dropping experiments,
Apart from lochnieal skill, the
airman's self-coldideoce is his
greatest asset. 11 is even more—it
fa his very life,
It I once began to feel the faizrt-
est shadow of reason for believing
that my nem e was going, 1 suppose
l should have to give up flying, But
'whether I should do so even then
is, another matter. Flying is a
sport that, once mastered, is bard
to abandon.
SOLDIER 'PIPES.
Slow Conscripts Are Classified and
Assorted in french Artily.
What sort of man nookes the best
soldier'? The French army, where
a good deal of intelligent attention
is given to answering -that question,
has recently reconsidered and
changed the standards by which men
are assigned to the different
branches of the service. When the
conscripts ant, enlisted for their re-
quired three years, the recruiting
organization must fit all the round
and square pegs of the oontingents
into the round and square holes in
the army. The process is described
'by the Paris correspondent of the
London Times:
There are men whose trunk and
shoulders first strike the eye. They
are the "upper" men. Bread shoul-
ders and lung bodies in former days
sent Hien to the cavalry to be turn-
ed into dashing dragoons. But it
is now realized that on horseback
they arc top-heavy, and keep their
seat with their spurs. Therefore
they are sent to the infantry.
Thanks to their long, broad backs.,
they can earry the heavy load of the
foot soldier, and their Ahem legs
make them quick marchers. Very
strong "upper" men go to the artil-
lery, where great weights have to be
lifted as well as carried.
The "middle" men have fairly
short trunks and well-proportioned
legs with large hips. That brings the
centre of gravity clown on the sad-
dle when they are put on horseback,
The "middle" men now becoine the
dashing dragoons.
The "muscular adaptable" also
go to the cavalry as a rule, They
arc to be recognized by the curious
way in which their arms appear to
be. detached from the shoulders.
Their large trunks loss their promi-
nence immediately there is any
movement, for each limb appears to
carry with it its own hinterland o1
body. They go to the heavy cavalry.
• Tho "warrior type" combines
muscular. adaptability with broad
shoulders and weight -carrying capa-
city. A man of that .type can serve
usefully in any arm of the service.
The two most curious classes are
the "round" and the "flat," both
of which were represented at the
(,lichy examination. The "round'"
men are. grown-up editions ,of the
fat and flabby Cupids of the Louis
XVI. period of art. Experience has
shown that they will undergo, with-
out complaint, an amount of physi-
cal fatigue that aeutlses the most in-
subordinate grumbling from the
muscular and well-developed anon.
They try to mice up for that physi-
cal strain by overeating, and at the
first breath of illness they. go under.
The "fat" man is also dumb in his
misery. His chest ,his stomach, and
his legs attain a dull level of medi-
ocrity, and his face is almost fea-
tureless, Even his feet arse fre-
uently flat. He, like the "round"
man, dies of physical fatigue in an
ordinary regiment. They are both
sent to the auxiliary services.
PILLAR -BOC POST -0FFIC'1'(S.
Will Sell Snoops at All Ilours of
the Day or Night.
Up to the present the familiar red
pillar -boxes to be seen everywhere
in the streets have been the best of
their kind. They are easily seen
and are generally placed at conveni-
ent spots. Their great disadvant-
age, however, is the fact that they
can'tsupply stamps in emergencies,
The Canadian Post 011lc:e authori-
ties have realized that the average
pillar -box has its drawbacks, so
they are determined to have the
finest pillar -boxes in the world.
They have contracted with a -:firm
to set up a new and improved kind
that will be very nearly ideal.
The new Canadian box will tell
yon the name of the street you are
in, will sell you one stamp or '.L
whole book of stamps,,an•d will, of
course, take Your letter just like an
ordinary pillar -box.
There will be no :closing -lime for
the stile of stanipo.• Yon will be
able in get them dayorfright, Sun-
day's included, and - that you may
not make a mistake. as to which slut
to put your cern in, the box will be
lit up by electric, light at night.
Jollietl Tlet% •
Miss Green ---I suppose yott adopt
a special diet: when von are writing,
PopulnrAnt.hrlr--Quito an! I eat
oatmeal. when 'f all writing a cere-
al stony, and s1 on,
Book Agent --Could •1 have vour
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Cie.ntleman,.-.Clea out! Von can't
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SOME TRIFLES THAT BETRAY.
Mr. Lloyd-t!eorge Always on the
Move.
There are few more alluring
speakers in Britain, when once he
gets into pruper trim, than Lord
Hugh Cecil. Bub his nervousness
is. always So keen at the start of a atndl the duty of tho gas*".* jukes'
speech that he stutters and gasps g ��
as if he were one of the most miser- the second is an increased discharge
able speakers in the British House
of Commons, instead of one of the
most brilliant and attractive, says
London Answers,
Mr. Winston Churchill's nervous
frame of mind never fails to show
itself clearly in any crisis to those
who know the form it takes. This
consists of tearing into small pieces so from a physiological etandpoint
any large sheet of paper the ruler at least it may be inferred that rage
of rite Admira]ty can manage to get and fear are to some extent bene-
you
ficial,
You might suppose that such • a 14"hen digestion is stopped, for
finished and courteous orator as the instance, Professor Cannon says,
the blood is carried in larger quan-
tities to other organs, and thereby
aids in preventing ol•gaiiic diseases,
the. emotions in inna: h logo are
Ftry similar to those or horses,
doges and other animate„ Must of
the testa which prove this. have been
tinkle by means cf tho X-ray on
'dogs and cats.
The first result of anger or fear,
he pointed out, .is a cessation of ac-
tion in the stomach and intestines
aE adrenalin, the fluid product of
Ole adrenal gland; the third ie the
clotting of tho blood, and the fourth
is a marked increase of sugar in the
blood.
These involuntary changes cansed
by emotional crises have all proved
useful in different ways to the body,
Earl of Rosebery would at any rate
be free from nervousness. -'Bnt he
isn't—not by any means. You eau
any time "fluor" the noble lord ---
or, at least, make leis expected
speech a very moderate one—it only
you will omit to bave,a table or desk
for him to stand at and bring down
his hands an while he is speaking.
Without that favorite adjunct,
his lordship gets fidgety, seems con-
fused in his train of thought, hesi-
tates often, and sits down finally
with the conviction --shared also
by you, -;that his speech has been.
nothing like what it ought to have
been, nothing like what was expect-
ed of him,
His Majesty King Georgy is slob-
jest to a certain nervousness if
he is interrupted when speaking.
Not only does the interruption
seem to break the sequence of his
thoughts, but it is so unusual
tiling that the Icing appears quite
-incapable afterwards of resuming
his chat exactly where he left off.
The friends of the British Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer know Min-
to be literally a bundle of nerves.
If you wish to cramp his eloquence
confine him in a narrow space—say
a small pulpit --when he has to ad-
dress a big. audience. That will do
the trick! For Mr. Lloyd George's
nervousness makes hint always on
the move; be must have room in
which to knock about, and plenty
of it or the confined space gets on
his nerves and upsets him.
To soothe bis mind when he is
speaking to a large crowd Mr. Bal-
four invariably grips with each
hand the front -lapels of his frock -
coat, and varies that procedure by
clasping his bands behind his back,
to be followed once more, in due
course, by the first performance. •
SWEETEST WREN ANGRY.
Emotions in Human. Beings Stitt
tar to horses and Dog;;.
Professor W. 13. Cannon; during
-the course of a lecture on the un-
usual subject, "Bodily Effects - of
Fear .and gage," given at the Har-
vard Medical School, annoilneed as
ono conclusion derived from his
interesting experiments that ,'"ruin
is sweetest when he is angry."
This paradoxical statement, the
lecturer saki, is allowed to stand
because of the fact that the experi-
ments have shown that the emo-
tional activity caused by rage and
fear souses a marked increase of
sugar in the blood of the body.
Pi.ofetsor• Cannon showed that
How a Sick 1!'Olililll
Cali Regain Health
READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY.
"For years I was thin and delicate.
I lost color ',and was easily tired; a
yellow pallor, pimples and blotches on
my face were not only mortifying to
my feelings, but because I thought my
skin would never look nice again I
grow despondent. Then my appetite
failed. 1 grew very weak, 'Various
remedies, pills, tonics and tablets I
tried without permanent benefit. A
visit to my sister put into my hands
n bog of Dr. I-Iamilton's Pills. She
placed reliance When theta and now
that they have made me a well woman
I would not be without them whatever
they might cost. I found Dr. Damn -
ton's Pills by their mild yet searching
action very suitable to the delicate
character of a woman's nature, 'L'hcy
never once griped me, yet they estab-
lished regularity. My appetite grew
keen—my blood red and pure --heavy
rings under my eyes disappeared and
to -clay my skin is as clear and un-
wrinkled as when I was a girt. Dr.
Hamilton's Pills did it all."
The above straightforward letter
from Mrs. J. Y. Todd wife of a well-
known miller in Rogersville, is proof
sufficient that De, I•Ianrilton's Pine are
a wonderful woman's medicine. Use
no other pill but :Ur. Ilatiiillon's, 21c.
per box. All dealers or The .Catarrh -
ozone Co, Kingston, Ontario.
BUJJJ) STEEL 1!'11El(i11' ('.1118.
Entire End Formed by Single Sheet
of Iron is New .Idea.
Steel is not only displacing tim-
ber in railway carriage construe
tion, but nolo .for freight, vehicles
of various classes. In order Le, ub-
tale rigidity and strength it is usual
to ridge or corrugate the plates in
Various ways, tett a new method of
construction is finding favor in some
quarters, says the 1iailwuy News.
Particulars are available of aL
freight ear in which the entire end
is formed of a single sheob of stool
pressed with concentric Annular
corrugations, no posts, braces, or
rivets being required. Tire plate is
attached to the ear body by anc•tne
of belts or rivets engaging the cor
nor angles, told it is clalniedd than
the design releases additional space
inside, adding about a foot tc the
length available,
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� Lle]arstion of
Prevents Sickness Restores Health
Aro you one of thole l.00aands +1110,
though apparently welt, patch cold eaeliY
and often 1 lite a dancefous echditicn to
'tolerate, and ono which yeti can easily
proyent by taking two or'Ihree bottles of
ria-Drn-Co Tastaieoa Preparation of Cod
Liver 011 at onco-1hia.Fs11.
T1ilspiea:ont-tastlnr food -ionic i;ivert
tone and 1401'11 Cie wiese,system, and
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RUSSIAN PRIN8 'S SAO LIFE
i.NI1,E1) AND TOI1(1OT'TE;N, KB
18 NOW DYING.
8011 of a Ittiesiatt General or Great
Wealth anti Inllueuee-- dd
Years of Age.
. Exil'eei nitro forgotten by his r'elii-
tives and friends, his great fortune
vanished, and dependent on the
kindness of strangers—such is the
Iragie eloso of the career of Prince
Michael Troubetskui, a noted revo-
lutionary scion of ono of the °Riese
and most distinguished families of
the .Itussiau nobility. A newspaper
correspondent visited the prince,
who is living under An assumed
name in a cheap hoarding -house in
Berlin, and found Men in the least
stage of consumption, with only a.
few weeks to, ave.
The Prince reluctantly camp to
Berlin from Switzerland ott:i uui Bulb
Dr. Friedmann, bub never saw the
discoverer of the turtle serum.
"After my arrival hero," said the
Prince, `C heard 001any unfavorable
reports about the t;r-eatntent. I
know enough about mediein:e to
realize that eery case is hopelrs-c- A
fere weeks more or less will nut mat-
ter, so 1 hai•e not taken the treat-
ment,"
The prince -is 11 years of age. He
is the son of a Russian general who
is very wealthy and very influential.
delicate constitution prevented
him from entering on a military
career, and at iii he decided to
study law_ His family approved of
this, but when he proposed to prac-
tice they were indignant. The
prince, however, volunteered to
prosecute a :suit brought by Sunon
peasants against a nobleman friend,
of his father. The prince, in telling
about this, said: ••1 won 111) fight
and then began a. fight against. the
oppression anis injustice of Russia,
1 intended to be only a soetal re-
former fighting for the rights of the
common people,, but because of my
activity T was soon branded as se
dangerous revolutionist, My inves-
tigations made me become constant-
ly more interested in the awful con-
dition of the poor, and, as 1 had
money, I was able to devote myself
to the working people and the un-
fortunates who needed legal and
other assistance.
"The' issuance of political patnpli'
lets is a crime in Russia. Sumo
friends of mine who were engaged
in printing and distributing educa-
tional pamphlets were so closely
watched by the polies that I hid the
pamphlets and printing machine in
my house, The police in my ab-
sence from the house discovered
their. The at:thurities and my- fans- •.
il,y-,pleaded with and threaten cd nee.
They promised that if ,l gave the
u.a111•es of toy frit ids they would re-
lease Hie. .t refused, and my fancily
then east me off, •
"Atter eight months 110 pt•ir,on I
was exiled to the bleakest part of
North }tussis, a small village called
_hlessen, north 01 Archangel. Even-
tually I escaped, and have been a
revolutionist ever since, working
fur the cause in MISeow and various
parts of Southern Russia."
ilk's '1'I1E FATHER OF 8.1.
six Solis Ito Army, 111111 Kaiser Asks
For b1ore.
Ferdinand Fgliuski, a tailor in
the village of Alihreck, on the Bal-
tic, claims to ha. G; roan's cham-
*it father. Ile has been married
twice, and his wives have, borne
thirty-five children, twenty -rix of
whom are living. ',Cheri were two
sets of twins and ono wife gavo
birth to triplets.
The hatser on learning 50m1111115
.ego that I glioiskt's sixth son had
entered (hc army, summoned the
father to Berlin, Anti after giv!rt
him a donation (f money, '.r•':
'Keep' up tlt;z p ocd work, FA!' c
Ski."
the ]dttl t saint d and ttnl .c1:
"At your service, your Mejeaty.. '"
OCI;EN'S IIOSPI'i',4L 1'NT1D1'.
Elena of Daly Tltrt'ttteno 10 (.'lose
Place Named .4 flee lien.
ween :Glenn revenily Maud a sur-
prise visit to a hose tri for ellikleen
Which is named attire her, n,s, ing t:o
It regular §ul „•tis She past for its
maintenance.'PM' Qt o rs:ev-
ira) poor chi1drcn sa this hdspitel
at her expels^ and nine often used
to visit thean. A; is often tiro eine,
the hospital whr:ell was t r.giaalll
well kept and clean, .hail been ne-
glected uf lade, and: the Queen was
indignanb wits elle found sail the
slate of litter neglect to the
hospital had been reduced,
a4cling on the, itnlenlsc of the mo-
ment, the Queen Iota away "h„r.•'
children from the hospital and sent
them Irr a 0011e1t of molls, wlrl_lo
she gave orders I:u the. Minister of
the Ito ail house P1 have lite llahle
of (ho hospital changed at onee o nd
threatened to close %t up 01111085 Lit
was better 16110 In future,