HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-06-12, Page 5RL.U'S TREASURE HOUSE
R'.f'ERRA.NF,AN LAKES
an D MEXICO,
res labelously Rich in Gold and
diver—Pedro Alvarai1o'6 Boor,
mous Fortune:
Mexico is, the led of Trig stakes.
is ane reason fpr its . vola -
Humboldt .called it 'The
tiro House of the World.' It
11 that mad More."
mean who has spent veers of
life on the. south of the Rio
Lde, was 'Waking and this was
burden of his talk. -
told of a eupterrraneen lake
oil, known to' be - 200 miles long.
feom 15to 20, males wide, with
'gas►sheer.' that flowed more than.
,000 bells to 24 hours before
as "'pepped" and. regulated; of
leys filled with ell in that 24
re; of vegetation drenched for
ea around.. Oil—crude oil—is
tb roughly $1 a barrel at the
e' told .of .ore that assayed $86,-
0 to the ton, end hundreds of
s of it in eight.,
"Under Spanadsh rule," sod the
from Mexico, "-lie md.nes of
aanajnato alone produced over
,000,000,000 worth of silver. The
ns owaners made millions so
ickly that one of the Spanish
roys, was forced to issue an er-
r forbidding them from ecataterdng
ndfuls of giver on the 'streets be-
uee it increased the number of
gars. Also, it was a public nui-
noe.
"Well, it isn't very different in
1e year 1914. For instance, there's
edro Alvarado,: the owner of the
almillo. mine. He ie an ignorant
dian who has no idea how much
oney he has, nor any idea. of his
ealth. In the last few years he
tie built 50 churches, at least 100.
hoots, and has given away several
xtunes. Christmas, 1910, Pedro
leered° gave away $2,000,000 to
e poor, 'for the love of God,' he
id,
Dresses Like a Peon.
Pedro presses like a peon, but he
as a beautiful home in which there
the finest furniture, several pi-
une:a, and 20 talking machines. Be -
re Porfirio Diaz a •indicated, Pedro
ffered to pay off the national debt
f Mexico. When his request was
infused he asked to be allowed to
y off a piece of irt, anyway. When
his was, else refussed he got indig-
nant' and gave away a forbune esti-
mated to equa•I the interest on the
national debt for five years. Fact l
"There's a mine in the State of
iSonora, not far from Arizpe, which
"probably the richest mine in the
aorthern half of the Republic: This
roperty has high gold es well as
;'lver values. An engineer from
nanea was allowed to visit the
mine and the Mexican owner asked
him to sample and assay a ship-
memrt of 36 tons of ore that was go-
ing to the smelter. The owner said
he didn't think the smelter was giv-
ing him full value. He didn't care
for the money, but he wasn't going
to be robbed by anybody.
"The engineer assayed the ore.
Then, thinking he had made a mis-
take, he had two other .assayers
check his results. All three assays
teelecked 'tvi a few
dollars. That
ore -was worth more than $86,000 a
ton. The shipments had been going
t on regularly for quite a while. The
owner used the mine as a bank.
Whenever he needed money he
would send a, few. men into it and
take out a 'small fortune. I know
that, because I was the engineer.
An Abantlened Mine.
There is another property in the
ranee dietriot and this is how it was
discovered: There had been a tra-
dition in that region about a won-
derful rich nine, which had been
worked by the Spaniards. The
mine was supposed to be in a cer-
tain direction front a; mission, now
ruined, and could 'be seen frons a
corner of the main building. An
Amerioaan prospector followed the
directions. He was sure he was
talose to it, but he couldn't locate
the old workings.
"At last he took a trip to Spain;
he Braid he was going .to . see if he
couldn't find , some retard of the
mine in the fifteenth century era-
ives. which were •supppesed . to exit
t'he.re, . It has never been proved
what he didin ,Spain; but he re -
tweed and went straight to' -the
dietrict; in voltich the mine was geld
to be and walked right on the pro-
perty. He took out a fortune in
less "than'' ,ter.. Then he "sold the
mine to a arry'ndie alrbe, which was do.-
brig very well when the wars broke
teat; when in suspended ofae rartions.
"The plcl workings of the mine
beim esxefiully •covered over
then the Ainea can , lieeovered it,
and the remains of forty odd "In-`
creme were found walled up in the
tunnel. By walling• up the Indian
miners, you see, the Spaniaa ds had
m,:dle• sure that the location of the
property would not be betrayed.
They thought' they were conning
back to .Masco ;some day, and in-
tended' reopeniang the mine.
"Why, there• are lots of creeks
or stl'•easie, paait4eularly in Sonora,
where a , aeon• or a Chinaman cavi
make front $5 to $10 a day wash
-
leg . for gold with an ordinary pan.
Theyx,11 tbeere .ti tle etr!ea me 'lace
men's banks.' "
1c)t1GH'l'INC« CONSUMPTION.
New York Ilospital Gives Juice of
Garlic to Patients.
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Theme's a new treatment out for
tuberoulosis. It £stput forth by an.
Irish physician, Dr. W. C:-Minehin,
of Dublin .late medical officer to the
Kells Union Hospitaal, who wrote a
book 'about it. %'The treatmen rb is
garlde juice.
He, however, is by no means the
only doctor who is sol the impres-
sion that he has found garlic the
best remedy for the "great white
plague." In New York, at the
Metropolitan Hospital on Black
well's Island, the physicians in
chargee of the tuberculosis wards
have been experimenting with the
treatment for two years. As their
experiments are ,9611 in progress,
they are not yet prepared to pro-
nounce . any definite opinion on its
va]ue, beyond what Dr. Marshall
W. McDuffie stated in an article
published in the Interstate. Medical
Journal for March, 1914.
"In our treatment -study of this
disease during the past two years•,"
wrote Dr. Me,Duffie "observations
have been made with fifty-six treat-
ments in over one 'thousand and
eighty-two cases, mostly in Ward
Q of the Metropolitan Hospital, De-
partment of Public Charity. Of
these treatments but two stand out
as regerds anything like specific ac-
tion epee the tuberole bacillus and
tubercular processes. They are
garlic faint the vegetable kingdom
and mercury from the mineral.
"Garlic ebntains a volatile oil
called allyl sulphide,,and its medi-
cal, properties depend on this oil,
strngly antiseptic, and it seems to
have remarkable power of inhibit-
ing the growth of the tubercle, bacil-
lus; it ns eliminaaated by the lungs,
skin, kidneys, and liver, and oxi-
dizes into sulphurous acid in the
system. Applied locally, it is free-
ly absorbed by the skit and pene-
trates the deeper tissues.
"Garlic gave us our best. results,
and wouldseem equally efficacious,
no matter what part of the body is
affected, whether skin, bones,
glands, lungs, or special pants.
Dosage used internally, one
drachm of the expressed juice or
two drops of the essential oil three
times a day ; externally, poultices
or crushed bulbs, one part with
three parts of lard, or unguentum
garlic (50 per cent. juice in ,vase -
line) applied daa.ily."
Tuberculosis is uncommon in
Italy, where garlic is used univer-
sally; the leading Italian physi-
cians in New York say it is alarm-
ingly prevalent among the children
of Iballees in America, children'
who do not eat garlic, largely be-
cause their school fellows and other
associates ridicule them for smell-
ing of it.
Garlic is a plant of the onion
family. It is to the onion what the.
tiger is to the eat, or the wolf to
t>be dog. Growing, it looks like a
small onion plant. Its bulbs, which
may be seen dried and ' hangimag in
festoons in most grocery stores, are
composite, that is, they are formed
of mna,ny smaller bulbs or "cloves"
loosely bound together with skin.
Cooks who know their business use
it as they use salt, almost univer-
sally, but with great' discretion. A
great French epicure called garlic
the "soul of cookery."
huge Cost of A.rtnameut..
The Russian Minister of Finance
has informed the Budget Commit-
tee of the Duma, that Russia within
the next five years must. spend $3,-
760,000,000 for the army and navy,
The .Budget for the current year
for the atony and navy amounts +to
nearly $500,000,000. Excluding the
oust of •strategic 'railways the Em-
pire has anent. $2,580,000,000 in the
last six years, and lately proposed
enermoue inoreaa+ses in order to meet
the German growth of agnanamenfs.
Arid even a very, tall mean may not
be above criticism.
° Dyspeptic—!tbius is a sad world.
',aoetious Friend—You're right, old
man.. Even the 'heavens get blue..
over it.
id the• infirm old aunt
despondently, ``I,she 'n'it, be a nuns
.once to you mndh longer." "Oh,
don't talk like that, aunt," said her
nephew, reassuringly; "you know
thee you wilt!"
atiot Climbing Through Snow, But Up the Side of a Sand lune.
American' soldiers doing seout'4 ttaty a Bong sand dunes in the vicinity of El Trejor, S iaxico.
FROM
BRIM'S
•GREE_ ISLE MEXICO'S GREAT VITALITY:
Spite of War Foreign Commerce
Largest in History.
NEWS BY` MAIL FROM-
LAND'S
ROM LAND'S SHORES...: '{
Rappeeings in the Emerald Isle of
• Interest to Irish.-
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n►en.
The. Local Government Board has
sanctioned a loan of $30,000 to the
Skibbereen District Council for the
purpose. of erecting cottages and re-
pairing existing ones.
The death has just taken place at
Magherafelt Workhouse of 'an in-
mate named George Heyburn, who
might be termed the last of the
Irish giants. He was seven feet in
height.
At Turloughmore, county. Gal-
way, the house of a man named
Higgins was riddled with revolver
and rifle 'shots. Pictures were
smashed and considerable damage
was done.
A committee has. been appointed
by Newry Urban Council t $ rpake
arrangements for the forthcoming
A.11 -Ireland Industrial Confeeteneee
to be held at Newry this ,year.
During a thunderstorm which
passed over West Clare, lightning
passed down the chimney of a house
at Colloney, Ennisty'mon, instantly
killing a man narnedIMiohael Egan.
Foot and mouth disease has bro-
ken out in three separate forms in
the County Cork, and the move-
ment of hay and straw within an
area of five mile's has been prohibi-
ted.
While on his way to business re-
cently, Mr. Donaldson, manager of
Ballinodd Creamery, was taken
suddenly ill in the road and died
before medical aid ;could be sum-
moned.
A painful occurrence took place
at the Great Munster Fair at Lim-
erick in the sudden death of Mr. T.
McCarthy, a, county Limerick- far-
mer from Holycross, Xilmalloek.
Fo"r. extra. ,services rendered dur-
ing the recent strike, the authori-
ties have decided to give the mem-
bers of the Dublin Metropolitan
Police For"ee aa, ,special allowance of
one month's extra pay.
Dublin corporation approved a
proposal to name new streets
O'Brien ,Street, . R,edniond Street.
and Gamete Street', but " refused to
name another street after Mr. Bo-
nar Law because he is not Irish.
Enquiries have been held by the
Local Government' Board into the
applications, for loans of $363,750
and $165,415, respectively, from the
North and South • Dublin Rural
Councils for the erection of labor-
ers' dwellings.
Subject to the sanction of oho lo-
cal government board, the Gorey
Guardians have agreed to lease s
portion of the wort„ house,grounds to
the County Tuberculosis Committee
for the erection of a dispensary for
the treatment of consumptives,
While Dr. W. K. Law, brother of
Mr. Boner'I,aw, M.P., was driving
a spirited horse in Coleraine, the
animal bolted, the wheel of the
brougham getting badly entangled
in the iron screen poles of a chop.
The animal lashed ottt with both
feet, but Mr. Law managed to es-
cape.
Wall Arranged.
Maid -Mrs.. Naybor returned
linear ebeaper coffee time she bor-
rowed; mum,
Mi,stre;s,s---'e11. .1\f r, • Y•;. it in a
jeer by itself art l lend ' " t. a. hen
she sends over 41 1:.
It is.interesting to note, as proof
of the vitality of Mexico, that in
spite of the disturbance in normal
cenddtions, the foreign commerce of
file country has been to no appre-
ciable extent affected, and that in
feet from the figures of Me.-zico's
fiscal year, ending June 30, 1913,.
(foe the year 1912-1913), its foreign
commerce was the largest in its
h'ietory.
Details, as just furnished by Di-
rector -General Barrett, of the Pan-
American Union can now be given
to substantiate this statement. For
example, the entire foreign trade
of Mexico, both exports and im-
ports, amounted in I91.2-1913 to
$248,088,977 (note t;haat all figures
are given in the U.S. gold dollar),
while in the corresponding period
of the previous year it amounted to
$240,325,719. If the exports are
considered separately it will be
found that there is an encouraging
increase in that movement, the. to-
tal quantity exported being $150,-
202,808, against $148,994,564. and
that even compared with 1910-1911 a
gain was "shown. In imports a for
1912-1913 Mexico used $97,886,169,
and this too -was above the amount
in the previous year, although. the
banner yea.r, .1910-1911, was higher
by a very ;small amount
The interest in such figures can
be continued by studying the char-
acter of the goods imported to sup-
ply the needs of the people of Mex-
ico. For example, in leather goods,
which includes shoes and such man-
ufactured•articles, the country re-
quired almost $3,500,000 worth of
goode; in textile fabrics, of cotton,
wool and silk, the big total of close
to $13,000,000 was 'reached; of ma-
chinery and tools "these was an im-
portation
mportation of over $12,000,000. In
the tmat'ter of the source of these
imperta•tions, it can be stated that
as usual the United States furnish-
ed relatively the largest amount,
its goods sent to Mexico, over $48,-
000,000, being more than equal to
the sum sent by Great Britain, Ger-
many, France and Spaasin, in feet
than all Europe, put together. Ar
gentina, in South Anaerioa, has in-
exeased its trade with Mexico de-
cidedly, during the part year, send-
ing to that •ooun'ry its food pro -
duets just as it has begun to Bend
diem to the United States.
In the. matter of exports, it is re-
inarkable' that, according to the
tables from which the Pan Ameri-
can Union gives this information,
industry in general kept on with.
but email influence against it duce
ing the period in question. The
amount of gold exported fell from
.$24,000,000 to $19,000,000. Onthe
other hand copper exports increas-
ed to over $18;000,000, where it had
been less than $17,000,000 the year
before, <" Coffee and rubber dropped
but cbiole • (chewing gum ingredi-
ent), hides, and henequen (fibre
material) anereased. Tobaoco and
vanilla increased in export quan-
tity, butsugar and straw hates fell
off. While these variations can be
marked the total exports advanced
satisfactorily. The countries tak-
ing these products of Mexico' oceu-
py the lame relative positions. The
United States standseasily first,
for it received $116,017,000,, nearly
gree quuttersof the total expor-
tation, but Great Bdritain, Germany
and France follow with quantities
suffioient to preserve a eoontertaahle
balance of trade.
'When a beiele a begins to ."realize
that her husband is much like her
brother her air onstles collapse.
DOGS SERVE IN -WAR.
Bloodhound Most' Effcient Pollee
Dog—Collies Faithful.
When the •next great war breaks
out, dogs may be expected 'bo play
an important part in the campaigns
on both lend and sea.
In many parte of the world they',
are already serving as soldiers, ea.-
ors
'ati-ors aced policemen with results
which indicate that they will be in-
valuable aids.
The breeding and 'training of
dogs for military, naval and police
duty has became an important in-
dustry. Major Richardson, a re-
tired British army officer, was the
first man to appreciate that the
dog's remarkable protective and
hearing and scenting powers could
be turned be account San a way ne-
ver before dreamed of. From the
extensive kennels which he estab-
lished he is now shipping to all
parts of the. world large numbers
of dogs of various breeds :bhat have
been carefully trained to guard hu-
man life and property under every
condition.
One of his first customers was the
Czar of Russia, who. ordered twc•
amnbulanoe dogs. Major Richherd-
•son Sent collie,, and these faithful
creatures served thr+bughont• the
war with Japan and vrere the means
of saving hundreds of lives.
The bloodhound- is the most efl'i-
tient of all police dogs, bat, its high
initial cost and the expense of up-
keep' make this breed out of the
question in cases where large num-
bers of the 'animals are required.
In lois search for a satisfactory
substitute for the expensive blood-
hound, Major Richardson has hit
upon the Aireda.le terrier as a dog
which does first-rate work, both as
a. sentry and as as police dog. The
Airedale is of a, big, heavy type,
with strongly developed protective
instincts and excellent scenting and
hear ng powere.
SA BARA WARMS EUROPE.
Onee Formed Part of • Atlantic
Ocean --Cliffs and Beaches.
There is geed reason for consider-
ing that the desert of Sahara. once
formed a part of the Atlantic
Ocala. CIiffs, ancient sea beaches
and the presence of sea fish in the
inland lakes bear out this belief.
Occasionally the project is revived
to turn the ocean once mare into
the sandy waste by means of a ca-
nal. Of course to do this is impos-
sible, since .most of .the Sahara lies
above sea. level, but it is interest-
ing to eonrteanplate what the effect
of a large body of water in place
of the burning sands would be.
It is d"vident that stall a change
would have a great iniiuenoe. an, the
climate of Europe, says Lord Ave -
bury. Hot, dry winds from the
south et present waren. Europe, both
ddreotly and indirectly, by melting
the snow and ice on the tops. If
the Sahara was a sea, the wind, in-
stead of being burning and dry,
which strips the snow off the Alps,
both by melting and evaporation,
would be a, champ, xnoisb wind, and
when it reached the mountain's
would produce dense clouds and
thick fog's, which would prevene.
the sun's ray's fromwarming the
earth and.rn,etting the glaciers. So
that `to the barmen desert of Sabers,
which many look upon a a s. a useless
waste, Europe is, in reaelity,in-
debted for its fertility and warm:
temperature.•—Kense5' Coity Star.
To a woman, the roe anees she
makes ere more amusing that those
she reads. ---T. Gautier.
A:mat who is pleased with no one
is snore . unhappy tin' he who
lrleiusee no one.—De "Salim -Real. '
S OF PIE MIDOLE. `EST
BETWEEN ONTAft1O AND 11t11ti-
USD COLUMBIA.
Fes'
Items Prom Provinces Where 44ln
Ontario Frays and Gitris. Are
"Raking Good,"
- The membetabip' ;f t�he;'Edmonbou
Property Owners' -Aeeooiation lanae'
very largely ipereased.
Labor troubles are being ..experi-
meed an Edmmonton`. 'Thr other day
several workers "knocked off" :to
join 'the LW.W, parade.
After fighting.. hire in Wannxpeg
for over forty year, William Cade,.
assistant chief of the Fire Depart-
ment, has tendered his resignation
The Cadet camp at Edmonton
this year is were:ted to be the big-
gest an the Province, and it is an-
ticipated that 1,348 school boys will
take part. '
Nine cattle, the property of
Frank E. Hatch, of Grand " Point,
Man., about 11 miles 'south of Win-
nipeg, were "rrustled," and so far.
there is no trete of them.
A party of geologists and topo-
graphical surveyors has left Ed-
monton for the north country for
the purpose of conducting a geo-
graphical survey.
Edmonton has a dairy Indust,:
with some 4,-000 people• on its pa:,
roll.. The amount disbursed gi5
an idea d the growing importare
of the businese.
A proposal for the ereetion'rut
duplex houses has been mooted
with • the object of reducing rents
far the workingmen of Winnipeg,
thus making them from: $16 to $25
per month.
The establishment of a. market -
day in Red Deer has not yet proven
asueeess. The trouhle is that
while plenty pf buyers were on
hand the last day. the amount of
produce offered by farmers was
small.
The Winnipeg Swimming f'lub's
new home on the Red River is be-'
ing erected so that the members
will be able to take up their quar-
ters there in early June: It ie an-
ticipeted that 1914 will be a ban-
ner year for the natatorial artiste:
Winnipeg waiters are preparing a
petition to send,to the Dominion
Government protesting against the'
Anti -Tipping Bill.' They say they
cannot live on their wages, and
that tips are essential to their axis:
tenee as matters .,standat:.pretre t.
Government officials and depar`tt
ments are taking a .great interest
in the Calgary exhibition, which
will open June 29, and this year's
fair will haat only be attended by.
members of the Cabinet, but there
will be exhibits from the Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
Brandon proposes to give a loan i
of $15,000 at 5 per oent. to the
Young Men's Christian Association
of the city. The debentures issued
and sold will be payable in twenty
years from July 1st. A vote on the
question is necessary and will be
taken June 6th.
A committee of the Calgary
Board of Trade have made a report
on monetary conditions in the
West, as follpws : `• atatement$, have
been made to press representatives
by leading financiers recently,
claiming that the money market had
a, good supply as proven by the le -
creasing rate of interest. Howev(s.r,
this has not been preductive in a
general reduction in the rate of in-
terest on loans.. by banks to their
patrons, and we believe that it
advisable that some action shot.
be taken by the Beard to seen"
from the local bankers a genei
reduction in the rate of intsre
charged for the purp•.Ise .'
A constitution and by-laws have
been drafted for the ratablishme'ne
of en Edmonton :,Eanufaetursr•e
Association, to be affiliated with
the Canadian Man ufat tursrrs' Aew
dation..
Hotel 400 Peary trill.
Very shortly the G e, rge Hotel.
Reading, England, mare than 400
years old, will he sold by auc't.ion.
The George was doing business in
the days when the Abbot oaf Read-
ing was one of the great leen in the
land, and it tatted; in dignified re-
pose in a busy s•areet, net fear from
the gaunt ruins ef the gr, at at.laliFy...
High over its arched entrance, ern:
a Tattle shield, it. the date of i:te
foundation, 1'506, '' Reading was
then a village r'f 2.000'inlaabiiaijts,'.:
Teacher—Why don't you erteli
your face before you tame to
school? Anyone could see j`tau have
had egg for breakfs it this "morning,
Zeccany—Ittease n,.mum' the egg
wags ;ires'terdal morning.
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