HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-03-25, Page 6HINDU FARMERS.
Little Doriaanrl foe Agricultural im-
plements,
There is very, „little demand In
India for agricultural, impieniezite,
altll,mugh three-fourthq of the people
.aro employed in taking the soil. Each
farmer owns' or rents a very small'
piece of ground,. hardly big enough
to justify the use of anything but
the simple, primitive totals that
Lave been handed down to him
through long lines of ancestors for
.3,000 years..Nearly all of his imide-
meats are' Baine -made, for 'come
from the. village blacksmith - shop,
and are of the rudest, mfos r 1 a wk-
ward description. .They plough
ycit1 a crooked etiek, they dig
ditches with' their, fingersa and oar-
ry everything that has,to be moved
in little baskets on their heads„ The
hiarw•esting is done .with n, prima
tiw•e4looking •sickle, and root crops
are taken, out of tate .ground with
a two -tined fork, with a handle Only
a foot long,, Tho Hindu does ev-
erything in a squatting posture,
hence he 'uses only short -Brandied
tools. Elite or .seventy-five cents
would ,easily replace the outfit of
three-fourths 'of the farmers in the
empire. Occasionally there is a
• raiahl with large estates under cul-.
tivation upon which, modern ma-
chinery is used, but even there' its
introduction is discouraged ; fust,
(because the natives aro very con-
servative- and '-dtsinelined to adaivt
nen: means and new methods ; and,
asecand, what is mor,c important, ev-
ery labor-saving implement and
machine that comes into this eoun-
try deprives hundreds of poor cool-
ies of emlloy menta •
The /development of the mater-
ial reeoiu' es of India is slowly go-
ing on, anti imehanicnl in iustries are
being gradually established, with
the discouea.gement of the. go,vern-
ment, for the purpose of attract-
thg the surplus labor from the farms
and villages, and employing it in.
factories and mills, and in the mines
of southern India, wvhich are sup -
rased .to be very rich. These en-
terprises offer unlimited possibili-
ties for the sale of machinery, and
/t merican-made machines are re-
cognized as superior to all others.
There Is also a demand for ev-
erytling that can: be . used by a
foreign population. which in India;
Is numbered somewhere about a mil-
lion people, but the trade is com-
troIled largely by British merchants
;who have life-long connections at
home, and It ie difficult) to remove
their prejudices or persuade them
to see the superiority of American
goods. Nevertheless, our manufac-
tures, on their merits, are gradu-
ally getting afooting in the mar-
ket,
arket, end such men as the Neww :.York
Export and Import Company is
sending over here will eventually
build up a trade.,
When Mark TTw,ain was here a few
years • ago, ho met with an experience
w,hic/ix wars unusual for a mortal man.
He was the guest of Mr. Tata, the
Parsee merchant, of wwYliom I have
spoken several times, and received a
great deal of attention. All the for-
eigners in the city, of course, knew,
him, and had read his books, and
there are in Bombay hundreds of
highly cultivated and educated na-
tives. Of course, he hired a servant,
as every stranger dans, for reasons I
gave you the other day, and was de-
lighted when he-discrrvered a native
by the name of aatan among the
IT MEANS
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People Objects of Aversion, Dr. Ag-
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Hon. George .Tames, of Scranton, Pa., says:
"I have been a martyr to Catarrh for twenty
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throat and pain in the heat very offensive•
breath. I tried Dr. Aguew's Catarrhal Pow-
der. The first application gave instant relref,
After using a few bottles I was cured."'
Use Ur. Agnew's Heart Cure for heart;
stomach and Nerves.
A QUEEN AND 'PRINCESS SHOPPING
;:The Queen, the Princess of. Wales,
Princess -Charles of Denmark .and Prin-
cess Victoria wvallead from the castle
into Windsor yesterday afternoon and
did some shopping.
The Princesses ,frilled their,, pockets
with lovely tidings. s the royal_ party
staying in . the shops a considerable
time. "They give us as little trouble
as possible," said Mr. Barber, • `;and, it••
is a real pleasure to wait. on them."
Tho Queen and the 'Princesses,. ' would;
not even trouble the storekeeper to
have some of the things wrapped in
paper. They simply put the small
purchases into their pockets and -asked
for the. larger things to be sent on to
the. castle.
Her Majesty and the Princesses did'
not pay for their purchases fn hard'
cash, but the Queen remarked to one
salesman, "i:ou can trust ine." They
seemed to make light of the unpropiti-
ous weather and the wet pavements,
and 'tramped along quite gaily, holding
an animated. conversation and,frequent-
ly stopping to look at the wares 'die-
played in. -the shop windows of Iiigh
street.—London Mail.
Minard's Liniment nor sale everywhere.
Hymns and War
Talking about sailors and differ-
ences, we note that a disinterested
spectator who happenbd-=mucli • to
his discomposure—to be on a vessel
anchored near the Russian ships at
Port Arthur. Monday night, reports
that "the weather was fine, and
the H.nssian sailors impressively
chanted their evening hymn."That
rias a pretty ceremony, as well as
impressive, but, as Russia had
taken pains • ,to say many times oL
late,. the Japanese are a heathexi-
ish lot, and the result was, that,
instead of remaining quietly in
port, chanting an evening hymn of
their own, they were hurrying
through the dark across the Win-
try .sea wraththeir thoughts firm-
ly fixed on the business in hand,
which happened to be entirely .sec-
ular. And, as it turned out, what
they accomplished, in their be-
nighted way, was fairly impressive,
too.: It impressed about every-
body in the world who reads the
papers, or who can get the news
from those who do, and not the
least of the impression was on
the hulls of the Russian war ships,
Of course, there is no objection to
the ^singing of Hymns ; the practice
is, ou the contrary, highly commend-
ablr', but as a substitute for torpedo
nettings and the use of searchlights
it is not an entire success — (when
your antagonist happens to have
an inclination to do something else
numerous, applicants, lis engaged him than rant his poor feet and ex -
instantly on his name; no obiter re- pair; les lungs. The Czar also is
commendation was n cossary. To gic':, 1: r. ^`'I1 cleat of time to •the
haver a servant by the name of Satan hears :f not to the singing, of
wine a privilege uo humorist had ever hym. . In tie case there is pro -
before enjoyed, and the possibilities
to his imagination were without
limit.
And it ee happened that on the . tie war without any af-
ternoon following the morning when p'ai o
as -
Satan was employed, Prince Aga alst to =" Tiat arrr lis so devoted sub -
Khan, the head of a Yers:an sect et jri t5, i r_e act is that hymns and
Moltanimedans, w,l,o is supposed to war are. mire than slightly incom-
haver a divine origin and Le worriiipe4 pt-tible, r sp.fciaily when the war
as divine ween he dies, came to can is waged for the purpose of snag -
on Mr. Clement. Satan was in attend- ging a lot: of territory, though yofu
ance, and ween he appeared with the already bave. 'more of that kind of
oaard upon a tray, Mr. Clemens asked property than you can properly
IS, he brew arytliing about the caller ; manage, and therefore feel a mad
if he
amid give,3 him some idea, Pubo he desire to add to your holdings.
vas, because, when a prince calls in That is what •makes the piety of the
brstlyreetaing better he could do
maven is might be to inform his
art: s e.rA navy that for the pre -
:'rix he, will attend to the musical
person upon an American tourist, it
is considered a distinguished Loner.
Ada Iilian is well known to every-
bocdy. in Bombay, and one of the meat
eartsspicuous men in tr:e city. ale is
a great rave -rite, in the foreign col-
ony, and is as able a scholar as he
lsja charming gentleman.: /tan, with.
all the reverence err 'l,is race, appre-
Crated the religious aspect of
itor more highly than any other, and
in reply to the question of his new The thousands of people who
master, explained that Aga Khan write to me, saying that
was agad.
It was a very gratifying meeting
for both gentlemen, wvho found each
other entirely congenial. Aga Khan
'has a kcen sense of humor, and had
read everyt. ' g Mark Twain had
written, wvhan the other hand, the
latter was L., inctly impressed with
the personality of his caller. That
• evening, when Le mane clown to din-
ner, hie Lost asked. bow he bad passed
the day :
"I have tad the time of my life,"
wee the print reply ; "and the
gr'ntest honor I have ever. experi-
enced, 1 bavo hired Satan for a ser-
vtant, and `God celled to tell me how
much he liked Huck
E. Curtis, Cor. of Chicago DLecord-
Her'ald.
Russians at once trying to the pa-
tience and so provocative of smiles.
And human nature is so peculiar
that unquestionably the Russian
piety is quite sincere --at least as
sincere as it is inconsistent, and
more than 'that could not easily be
said for ire—N. Y. Times.
Lever's Y -Z (Wise IIead) Disinfectant
Soap Powder is better than other powders,
as it is both soap and disinfectant. 3Q
Much More to the Point.
"El yer real interested," said Deacon
Skinner, "I'll tell ye what I want fur
thek horse.67
"Cllr, I wouldn't be interested in know-
ing theta" replied Farmer Shoude.
"No ?"
"No; but I wouldn't mind knowing
'what ye'd• take,"
,, .Minard'd Liniment Cures Dandruff.
Shiloh's
Cll numur tic >.t
write. ,tea rho ting
ass 'Tonle
I.cured them of chronic coughs,
cannot all be mistaken. There
must be some truth in it.
'Cry a bottle for that cough of yours.
Prices: S. C. Wax as & Co. 310
230.50c. Al. LeRoy N.Y., Toronto, Can.
wacasamistkaustuoirocaa
POTATO Olp MUCH IfOTORIETY..
TuberRaisetl by 'flScotchliikn and,Sotd
at High Prices.
No potato has ever gained so muc:t
notoriety as L+'idorado,.r}£teed bq the fam-
ous Scotch raiser, lir, A. Findlay, or
Maikineh`. The Very name of the variety
• wvas a.,stroko tot genius, for it is hardly
possible• that the•'raiser, or those who
had- the good for. uira:to secure some os..
the first tubers distributed, could have
imaggined that in so shrnt a 'tarns it
would change hands at such enannously
high prices;,
o11£r. George Massey, of Spalding, was
one of the ver.s first to obtain eto5r ani
from haoharGy, Petal] known groimwMrer, of Evertoniah, raSandya, t 11
ohased /.atone
, *aenightdas for Mfr. £20b. Thisindlay set'
the bail rollingre
solved, net 'tofurther distribute Eldor-
ado until. in the.fall,of 1904, the demand
for the small stocks available was do=
bled and trebled, and so the `prices rote.
Messrs. Denis, the Covent Garden sales•
men, and Messrs. I..Poad & Sous, of,York^
gossessed supplies, and the latter • firm
IomXnd a putoehaser of four Bounds; at
£150 per pound. This determined them
to obtain further stock, and so at the
Smithfield Club show, a member of his
firm found that ,air. Massey had 'a lin •
ited stock for disposal, and mads him an
offer of £1,000 fora stone. Mr. Messes?'
refused, as he wanted £1,500, but event-
naIly:the-bargain was struck at. £1,400,
to the satisfaction of both parties. Sub=
sequently Mr. 'Massey sold a relatively
small quantity for £2,000, so that his or-
iginal transaction brought him a very
laandsotue return. --From the Gardener's.
Magaiiiie. `
T8ERENIAllNASl E CURATIVE POWER of:thc D.
& L. I entholPlasters Id case of rheumatism,
neuralgia • or all "nervous pains 1s almost
wonderful. They give instant relief. anti the
within, ain ois rt t melafter applf ationayetem
•
Telephone Numbers on Visiting Cards.
The only ,necessary qualifications ler
this set 'is to be on the telephone. :No
business can be transacted or invitations
issued through the post. Every mem-
ber of the set has his or her numb tr
printed in red figures on his or her via-
iting card,- and woe be to the mean
wretch who endeavors to gain admissi In
to the circle by using a neighbor's tele-
phoile. When the set tweets, the talk is all
of telephones, and how useful they might.
be and how tiresome they are. It is con-
sidered very bad form, I may mention,
to attempt to overhear or intercept ntes•
sages. Nobody does it, you must und.r-
stand, but everybody is suspected of try-
ing to do it.—From the Sketch.
Dropsy is one Positive Sign of Kid-
ney D'sease.—H'ave you any of these un-
mistakable signs? Puffiness under theeyee?
Swollen limbo? Smothering feeling? Change
of the character of the urine? Exhaustion
alter least exertion? If you have there's
dropsical tendency and you shouldn't delay,
an hour in putting yourself under the great
South American Kidney Cure. -86
Codfish of Chinese Origin.
Goldfish are of .Chinese origin.
'They were originally found in a
largo lake near Mount ''len-Tsing,
and were first taken to Europe in
the seventeenth century. The fust
in Franco vv'ere a present to Mme.
De Pompadour.
Masculine Infatuation.
Charles ---My wife's handwriting is aw-
ful! Just look at that letter.
His friend --How do you manage to
read it?
Charles—I don't. I just sfnd the
cheque.
Results from common soaps:
eczerna coarse hands, ragged:.
clothes, shrunken flannels.
1 1i'i�l®Tai
Aslc for thc.•ects;ron Bar aj7'
' • Wife and ['igs for 'Sime.
IA' pea/sant living in Alia village
df Petrrofe itca, • • near Irl iitsk,
beria, ,has tried .a, novel Method to
disemjt>!arrass bianseif of his wife,
who apparently , - has strong views
en the temperance question. Ac-
cording. to. the Wostotschky West:
'nil.. newspaper, he sent the ";fol--'
lowing extraordiatiry letter , to the•
police' au!thoritiee ' of• Irkutsk •
—
"I have the hila er.'to' -ask you 'the
kindly.n'tyake it P^dbliciy.; kn4w/n that
In ',the village of Petro'swgka; I have
a young wife, 20 year's o1d;'and Itwo
pig's for sale.. The s price • for all
three is only £2 l)s. • My .ww fe is
very pretty and .young, -but of a
soniewiis.t •quarrelsome and capri-
olous disposition., The pigs are fat.
If anyone thi:lcsi ot. making the
purchase( I shall be glad to send all.
three on receipt of cost of carriage
The police, when they receirved this
comznu'nicathon, thought rat first
thnh they had .to deal with,a rmad-
anan; or, - sit all events, a person
' ofawieak intellect. , But they .sought
out 'thee peasant, 'questioned hied
and found him to be perfectly .,acne
and of average intelligence, ;though.
living in poverty. His wife frequent-
ly beat' him en account of• hiss drunk-
en thajbitie,
Dear Sirs,—I have been a great
sufferer from rheumatism, and late-
l.yt have been confined to my bed.
Seeing ivaour MINARI'S• LINIi1.h I1
advertised. I tried it and got im-
mediate relief. I asoribe mr restor-
ation to health to the wonderfasl
Dsosver, of 'sT.lI Marla S. J3 J11L R.�
Burin, Nfld. ,
Japanese Proverbs.
Da not ,showy; your back to your en-
enry.
Wlien you have boequerecl draw
more tightly the cord. of your helmet.
Earnestness will penetrate e'en a
rook.
An unskillful clog barks loudly.
A well-trained warrior waken even
at the sound of a bridle -bit.
'Tye eat which does not cry catches
the rat.
Let your dearest son travel.
God Odes in an 'honest man's head.
An eagle of talent bidets. his talons.
Even a wvprm of one hates long hue
'hall an inch of feeling.
Although, he is a beggar, a soldier is
always a soldier.
As the cherry blossom among flew -
ens, so is a soldier among men.
A. faithful eervan•t never serves two
masters.
Even a robber will give some rea-
son to justify lis evil deed.
A demon wi11 appear ultimately
from' a plane wii^ie�h ito filled with
doubt.
An escaped soldier trembles even at
the shaking of a 'blade of long grass.
Negl'gence is a powerful enemy.
A. enidier should always have. bene-
volence.
T:ie dog fed in a. palace is happier
than one in a poor cottage.
A dog that is fed only for three
days remembers the favor for three
yen.re.
'1T a ir'g which der, Its Ina well does
•
not know the wide ocean,
A good medicine is bitter.
Good bringing up is more valuable
than family name.
We cannot capture a tiger's cub
unless we enter a tigers hole.
What's the Treublo?—Ta it Sick
Headache? Is ht Biliousness? Is it Sluggish
Liver? Is your skin :.sallow? Do youfeeI
more dead than alive?, Your 'eysten; needs.
toning—Your Liver isn't doing its work—.
Don't resort to strong ,drugs—Dr. Agnew's
Little Pills, 10 cents for 40 doses, will work
wonders for you. --85
BEGAN WITH ADVERTISING.
A prominent merchant sus that
twenty years ago he had been selling
goods en commission for three years
and thus learned the business. Then he
"started for himself in a warehouse
which. cost $3 a week. "From the fame
day," he says, "I spent more money for
newspaper publicity than for any other
feature of the modest establishment,
and it was through this. that I built
up my splendid retail trade."
Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia.
ISSUE N O.
13 1904.
Mrs. Winelow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for Children Teething.It
soothe the child, softens the Rums euteswfnd
cone and is the beat remedy for Diarrhwa.
YNSrANTED—A GENERAL lBll:P NT;
1 highest wages paid; cowforSasble
home. Address or apply to 'Hire. W. Holton,
I3amilton, Ont.
BUSINESS (VIDE tells alt about
notes, recefpt.i, mortgages, leases, deeds
wills, propertyexempt from seizure rendlord
'and tenant, ditches and waatereonireeg,etc.,
one agent sold .47 :copies -In three dlirye ;
anodic. sold 88 in a week ; 'French editoon
:.now
'ready ; outdt' 25e ; - order qutfit to -dart;
11 w.unt•agathsfaetolry .money refunded. rite
The T..L. Nichols Co.,•'rltintted; Toronto.
1g' T cB Ap �p FOSFrLLinatde
su,' fL®"UGL��1CiLL. •UI EN ter measure
clothing. Excellent chance for ambitious Hien ;
experience not uecesshbry. Ours i» t e only
correct plan for sailing clothing: p
THE VALUE OF THE JAPANESE
YEN.
When the public reads that 100,000,-
000 yen has provisionally been set apart
by Japan for war purposes it may per-
haps put an exaggerated estimate on
that amount. Although Japan has a
gold standard, the yen is of silver cur-
rency, and fluctuates with the price of
silver, so that at the moment 100,000,- Send ten cent in stamlple for.Rutsso-
000 of them means scarcely more than Japanese War Atlas issvied b!yf The
mense amount in a country in which Chicago and Northwest R''yt. Three
fine colored mbpt% each 1.*4x20; boned
in convenient form for reference.
The Eastern situation Shown in 'de-
tai'l, with tablee showing relative
military and naval strength and
financial resources of Russia and
Japan. 13. B. Bennett, 2 East Ring
St., Tosoalto, Ont.
Do You Read It?
Stea 'osi-
tion:goodpay banadaTafloringOo,, Tonto •
i?P)t415,,7•7, i.F.£+ells.'
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A POPULAR CORSET FOR 1904
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JAPANESE SCIENTISTS.
. It was a Jap named Kitasato who dis-
covered the bacillus of tetanus or lock-
jaw, thereby leading to thepreelection
of the antitoxic' serum, and it was aes-
other; name : Shiga,, who discovered the '
bacillus of dysentery, one of the ;most
deadly of diseases in time of war.—
London Chronicle.
HOW'S •TIIIS ?
We offer One Hundred Andlara' $award for
• any ease of Catarrh that cannot be Cared by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. T. CHENTEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned. have known E. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years and bele't!e him
perfectly honorable to all businelse ta+ans-
aetiona and financially able to carry oat any
obligations made by this firm.
WDmO,Druggists, Toho, a. MARVis, Wkwibaate
Hell's Catarrh Cure to taken tiaterng,Ilseact
Ing directly upon the blood and ncua.tieddus sun
faces of the system,Testi oniais sent frog
PTaake2ic Hall1'e 3'ar ilyPflle fole, Sold r constiall pation
Just Like Kruger.
• (Toronto Star.)
Alexieff, with bis office staff on board
a train ready to scoot north, must re-
call how one Paul Kruger once main-
tained his seat of government on a mov-
ing train.
The Nortl-Western Line Russia=Japan
Atlas.
£10,000,000. But even this is an im-
the wages of a skilful artisan are often
not more than 3 yen a week. The
Japanese currency system is decimal.
Thus the yen, or dollar, is divided into
10 sen or cents, the sen into 10 rin,
the tin into 10 mo, the mo into 10 shu,
and the shu, finally, into 10 kotsu. Gov-
ernment accounts do not take account
of any value smaller than a tin, but
estimates by private salesmen often de-
scend to mo and shu, which are incred-
ibly minute fractions of a farthing. No
coin exists, however, to represent these It now transpires that the most popu-
filliputian sums.—London Chronicle. lar book in 1903 was the Bible.
FIBREk
Can be had in TUBS, PAILS, WASH BASIN,
I'ULK PANS, STABLE PAILS, ETC.
From any first-class dealer.
The Khuli^-.
ani of St. Petersbur.
Feed the Birds in Winter.
Herald.) How many people ars aware that!
(BostonlR.ussia rejoices in a comic paper.?
The movement for feeding the birds 1� tihet We t Mint, ster whish Gazette.
Its
during this season of heavy snow ^Mand g
frigid temperature has been systemati- to the current Notes and Queries,
tally organized in same of the rural means the "poster." We should probab-
districts of the State. That the birds ly never have heard of the Shut if
hove been suffering for lack of food this it had net assimilated oar generl-
winter there can be no doubt. The name for the London larrikin, "hool-
bodies of large numbers of then, dead illiere isn a � elerence to the f the
n Shut
from lack of nourishment, have been lurking In a certain quarter of St.
found in various localities. The number peterebui'g, which is itiPosted ba
and variety of birds that have been gangs of "khuliga,ni," the Russian:'
with us ail through this exceptionally plural of our 'hooligan." Tho.fact re -
cold winter are altogether remarkable. corded is anything but comic, but
They include the bluejay, the sparrow, there is a certain daxah of humor
the chickadee, the wren, the wvoodpock- in a ,specimen of London slum slang
er, the pine grosbeak, and, here and securing incorporation In 'the. Bee -
elan lan'guag'e.
Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, etc. 2eze Castle was not be'lt in a night. there, the robin.
Bagpipes Would be Better.
(Toronto Star.)
A full outfit of minstrels is to follow
the Russian army and sing them on to
glory and to death. And if they sing as
badly as sonic college gine clubs it will;
take about ono selection to make ' the
Army fighting mad.
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3 fent wide, 4 foot high, incixiding hinges and lateh.,...a $2.75
10 feet Pardo, 4 feet higli, including hinges and latch :,,,.. 15.715
+�. Other eines in proportion.
p�,.
AlHE' PAri"at, ¶17 tat lar t'i Ncira'i CO. Limited.
Supplied.
by Us or
local dealer.
IIUn«kcrvlIIo, lila:streni, Winnipeg, St. John
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