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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-07-29, Page 6,.tiJrg, ii tJw,GJki•i'•&I: .., v7at ..'.ml.u• i::: i el rise ONLY the SOFT, SILKY, TOuGii MANUFACTURED !J 131f on beim supplied with ono of the fallowing broods r- ln .Roils--" f:Itaindard," "Hotel," "York," "FdaMinOth," &SS In Sheets—" imperiatl," "Loyal!," "Regal," °a Orient," &o. e VIE POPE'S SISTERS. TURBINE LOCOMOTIVE, Spending the Heated Term in the Papal Summer Palace. Writing from Rome, a Pali' Mall Ga- zette correspondent says: The Gordian knot is cut, and the sisters of Pius X., who live in Rome, have fled the heat and are in Castle Gondolfo. Before the decision was taken great was the com- motion in the little apartment of the Corso Vittorio Emanuele. However, in stepped hie Holiness, and not only in- sisted that they should leave Rome, but indicated where they should go, and a$ the good ladies would as soon think of cutting off their heads as dispute any- , thing that Pius X. decides upon, they are already 'safe- in the Papal Summer Palace. The palace and its immense grounds is one of the few temporal possessions left to the Pontiffs after the Italians took possession of Rome. It dominates both the Mediterranean, on . one hand, and the tiny historic Lake of .Albano on the other, and is only about an hour by rail from the Eternal City. The palace is a rambling. old pile, -with enor- mous halls, in which regiments could be accommodated; a fine chapel, but, alas! bare of furniture. At one time it had quantities of antique furniture, price- less marbles and old tapestries, but these have in the main vanished into thin air. THIS MUSICIAN IS DELIGHTED His Kidney Disease and Gravel Cured by Dodd's Kidney Pius. Tried many Medielnosbut got no Relief till he used the Great Canadian Kid- ney Remedy. Rosedene, Ont., July 1S.—(Special.)— Mr, Samuel J. Crow, the well-known mu- sician, of this place, relates an experi- ence that adds to the already great pop- ularity of Dodd's Kidney Pills in this locality. "I suffered for years with Kidney Trouble," says Mr. Crow, "which became aggravo,ted with every attack of cold and caused me much agony, The disease developed into Gravel, when I was tot- ally unfit for anything. "I tried. different remedies without the. desired result, and was in much mis- ery when I decided to try Dodd's Kidney Pills, when to my astonishment and de- light I immediately began to recover." "After using five boxes the ailment had entirely ceased, and 1 was .again en- joying perfect vigor, all of which I owe to Dodd's Kidney Pills." The fact that Gravel yields so readily to Dodd's Kidney Pills is good neve in- deed, as it does away with those ter- ri'ble operations that were supposed to • be the only relief from this trouble. DREARY LIFE OF POOR IN RUSSIA. As a rule, a Russian village is a for- lorn looking place, where the huts of the poor are made of birch logs, with upright oak or pine supports, ceiling of strips of the same birch and walls lined with crude branches. In these huts there are only two rooms, one of which is not for everyday use, but is kept for best occa- sions This room houses those sacred images so dear to the heart of every member of the Greek Church, to which belong the great mass of the Russian people. The other room serves the purpose of both kitchen and sleeping room, as one of the principal ideas of comfort to these people, ice and snowbound for so many months of the year. is warmth. In many of the peasant hats, no beds are used, and the top of a great stove, reaching nearly to the roof, is a much sought place. Although the conditions make dirt and accompanying results insepara- ble in the life of these peasants, they are devotedly fond of bathing. The vapor bath in a crude form inay be called a national institution, and a not un- usual picture of a summer afternoon is the village pond filled with women and children bathing.—From the Social Ser- vice. A. Patent for This Innovation Has Been Granted to a Southern Man. James Wilkinson, of Birmingham, AIa., is the inventor of a number of improve- ments in the construction of turbine engines and bis attorneys are now engag- ed in securing patents for these in the leading countries of the world. A recent action of the United States Patent Of- fice allows him papers on a turbine as the motive power for a railroad engine. The inventor claims that he can make use of his turbine +for railroading with all the economies .and conveniences which this system shows on shipboard. Mr. Wilkenson says that his engine is suited for light or heavy traffic, and he is about to equip a plant in his native city for the construction of turbine engines for all kinds of service. Minard's Linament Cures Distemper. FOUND SANCTUARY IN A CHIMNEY. For the past ten days the town of Newry, in Ireland, has been convulsed over the curious strategy by whilh a small contractor, named James Gill, has defied the efforts of the police to enforce the penalty of a 40s fine or .a month's imprisonment, to which he had been sentenced for drunkenness. The man had recently undertaken the demolition of a factory chimney, round which the scaffolding necessary for the work had been erected, and he sought security from the clutches of the author - Mei. at the top of this structure, climbing by ..:cans of a short ladder, which he drew up after him as he reached each suc- cessive platform of the staging. Food and drink are furnished to him by his son, and raised to the summit of the chimney by an ingenious mechanical de- vice. The other evening Gill managed to descend to the ground and reach his home unobserved, but he returned to his lofty perch early on Monday, morning. Large crowds of people have flocked from all the country round to Sugar Is- land, where his hiding place is situated, and the police have now resigned them- selves to waiting till the work of pulling down the chimney is completed before at- tempting to arrest him.—From Rey- noldsNewspaper. A Merchant't Creed. The President and General Manager of the largest department store at In- dianapolis has recently made "the big- gest contract for newspaper space ever made in the Middle West." In an inter- view he said: "'Advertise to the limit' is my creed. An advertisement, properly written and displayed in a first-class newspaper, will attract attention sooner and hold it longer than will ordinary news matter." VIEW OF INTELLENCTUAL WOMAN Listen! "An intellectual woman," says the Sydney (Australia) Telegraph, "is an abnormality; she has the brain of a man, in the body of a woman. Intellect in woman has dazzled us by it's brilliance that we have failed to recognize it as a disease, like genius in man, and the pearl in an oyster. But, nevertheless, it is a disease, and must inevitably be the death of a race in which it is fostered.' Minard's Linament Cures (iarget in Cows. A Sharp Retort. (Chicago Post.) He complained bitterly of the slowness of the train. "If you don't like it," said the con- ductor, "why don't you get out and Walk?" "Pm afraid." "Afraid of what?" "Afraid you'll hitch the blamed train to me and make me drag it." SUCCESSFUL WOMAN MACHINIST. Miss Ella F. Jones, 24 years old, said to be the only practical woman machin- ist in Chicago, plans to erect and operate in that city a new plant for the manu- facture of machinery, employing 150 men. • Since her father's death, two years ago, • she has been manager of a machine Minard's Linament Cures Diptheria, works employing 85 men. Silent Women of Corea, -.-'" The women of Corea are absolutely silent. They never Clare speak more than is absolutely necessary. A bride utters no word and makes no sign, however her husband may tease or taunt her, for to break th'e silence would mean to- tal loss of caste. In the higher classes it may be months' before a husband hears his wife's voice for the first time, wbile the wife does not speak or look at her father-in-law for years after her marriage. As They Strike the Ear. • The Japanese and Russian names one despatches suggest the sweet in the p gg voices from a, frog pond on a summer evening: Teno— Kuroki, iEuuroki, Kurok; falsetto — Kouropatkin, Kouropatkin, Iouropatkin; basso—Togo, Togo, Togo! "SKIPPING TEAS." "Skipping teas," to which guests of both sees and all ages must bring their own . skipping ropes, are mentioned in the columns of the Lady, a London fashion paper. Skipping is to' be the fashionable "cure." PAY OF TEACHERS. The average wage of a male school teacher in the United States is about $450 per year. The average salary of a woman teacher in the United States is about $50 a year. the basis that one pound nd of sof• P fee will make two gallons of infusion, this country's consumption amounts to 1,566,902,614 gallons, at a cost of $156,e 690.26L THE HOSPITAL TRAIN. Equipped by the Central Branch of Brit- ish Red Cross Committee. In war Innes itis sometimes necessary to transfer stick and wounded soldiers from one point to another, andears arc ofn ontentimprovised hos- pitalstecfol• verthis .dpuirposeo. Ordinary eoaelies and even box,ears have been transformed into rollinhos- pitals for the reception, care and medi- cal treatment of the sick and wounded, but these . methods. -are far from• ideal, and have never proved satisfactory. To obviate these untoward conditions during the Boer war the Central British Red Cross committee decided to raise sufficient funds for building, and equip- ping a complete hospital train. This un- dertaking was made all the more difficult since the railways in South Africa are narrow gauge, with heavy grades and single tracks, and where it was desirable to have a train of at least ten 'cars the number was limited by these conditions to seven. • The cars were . designed by Sir John Furley, of the Central British Red. Cross committee, and the contract for their construction was given to the Military Equipment Company of London, and the cars were built by the Birmingham Rail- road Wagon Company; under ordinary circumstances the work of building and equipping the complete train would have required .eight or ten months, but the enthusiasm ran so high, not only among the officers of the wagon company, but the employes as well, that the seven cars were finished complete in every de- tail in Just ten weeks. The train completed was made up of seven bogie, corridor cars—that is to say, cars which were of the vestibule type, as we call them in this country,were mount- ed on trucks having four or more wheels, by which the rounding of curves is fa- cilitated. Eachcar measured thirty-six feet long and eight feet wide. The first car contained three compartments, the first being used for linen and stores, the second for two hospital officers, and thet third for two nurses. The second car contained the same number of similarly arranged room one for two medical officers, the midv serv- ing as a dining roon, and thetpird as a dispensary. The next four curs were ar- ranged for the invalid soldXs, and each car had a capacity for ei lieen men and one hospital orderly. he last car was arranged for the tr men, and contain- ed a neatly appo It'tied kitchen, a pantry and berths foo the cooks. Every car had a closet, a aeavatory, lockers' for stores and a cistern for water. The lifting and moving of the invalids is not an easy matter, and as an aid to this diffiicult operation and delicate task an arrangement comprising a series of sliding pulleys is placed in the roof so that an assistant may easily raise the bed with the patient on it to the proper height and swing it in or out of the car or move it about at pleasure. Portable steps and an awning are pro- vided so that meads may be sheltered while being transferred from stretchers or beds to the train. These cars are fully equipped with every essential for the maintenance of the full complement of ninety-seven persons for two or three weeks. The cars are handsomely finished in - side and out. In the centre panel on either side of every car there is an em- bellished Red Cross on a white back 'grround encircled by the words "Princess Christian Hospital Train" in royal blue and gold; the train was named in honor of her Royal Highness, whet had evinc- ed a keen and active interest in all that appertained to the work of providing succor to the sick and wounded soldiers in South Africa.—New York Times. R. & O. DAILY SL6RVIOE. Steamers "Toronto" and "Kingston" leave Toronto at 3 p. m. daily (including Sunday), for Rochester, 1,000 Islands, Rapids of St. Lawrence, Montreal, $ue- bec, Murray Bay, Tadousac, and the Sag- uenay River, connections at Charlotte for New York, Boston, etc. FELL THROUGH THE EARTH, Two Large African Lakes Have Recently Disappeared. It is reported through scientific jour- nals that Lake Shirwa, southeast of Lake Nyassa, in Central Africa, has en- tirely disappeared. Desiccation has been going on for many years, but the last. stages in the process were very rapid. This lake used to be shown on the inapt as an oval-shaped body of water . 30 miles long and 10 to 15 miles wide. It Lake Ngami, also discovered. by Living- ingstone discovered the lake in 1859. Loge Ngami, also discovered by Living- stone, has since disappeared. These changes, scientists conclude, seem to be a manifestation of • a gradual desiccation which is going on in Centex' Africa, 'and it is important that they should be more carefully studied before any definite con- clusions are drawn. Sunlight Soap Will not burn the nap .off woolens nor the surface off linens. JSSU7 No. 31 1904e ' always be used for Children Mrs. Winslow s' Soothing tiyru.p. should soothe the child, softens the gums, cures wing colic aud la the best remedy for Dlarrhosa. F .EDUCES' EXPENSE Ask for the Octagon Ear. - 22k Indiscriminate Killing. (Baltimore Sun.) , The thirty years' war of the. Dutch upon the Achinese of Sumatra is culmi- nating' in atrocities little worthy of the people who so eloquently 'denouncd the British for their war with the Transvaal. In Sumatra, as in South Africa, the object of the European power was to subject, the resisting people asd incor- porate their country into an empire. But the Hollanders seem able to give points to the British. At ' Likat, for ex- ample, June 20, the Dutch, with a loss of but fifteen wounded, killed 432 Achin- ese, including 281 women and 88 chil- dren. Three days' later, at Langatbars, they killed 654 Achinese, of whom 186 were women and 130 children, their own loss being but 29 wounded. This reads like butchery rather than war. The Achinese are as "rightly struggling to be free" as the Boers were. Lever's Y -Z (Wise Head) Disinfectant Soap Powder is better than other powders, as it is both soap and disinfectant. 34 KOUROPATKIN. Kouropatkin will be only 56 next month. He is an inspiring ligure. trust- ed because he has never been afraid. Five years ago Kouropatkin was warned that the great powder magazine at St. Petearsburg was to be blown up within twenty-four hours, and the magazine at Toulon, too. Toulon was outside his sphere, but Kouropatkin, who received the warning while in bed, rose and went at once to the St. Petersburg magazine stores. Calling together officers and men he inspected the stores, declared the in- spection satisfactory, and gave every man three days' leave as a token of his pleasure. Other guards and sappers were summoned, a rampart was dug around the magazine and before night it was certain that any danger that had existed had been averted. Nothing happened, but the next morning the powder magazine in Toulon was blown up. C. C. RICHARDSe& CO.: Dear Sirs,—I have used MINARD'S LINIMENT in niy stable for over a year and consider it the very best for horse flesh I can get, and strongly recommend it. GEORGE HOUGH. Livery Stables, $uebec. CONDUCTOR WEPT. According to Le Guide Musical, Dr. Hans Richter tells the following story concerning a Maria -Theresa thaler worn as a trinket on his watch chain. "It is a souvenir of a day on which I wept. I conducted for the first time, at rehear- sal, a symphony by Anton Bruckner, who, though then an old man, had not yet won fame as a composer, was not taken seriously, and hardly ever had his works performed. When I had finished Bruckner came to nee, beaming with ecstatic looks and a happy smile. I felt him put something into my hand. "Take it" said he, "and drink my health in a glass of beer." Richter took the thaler and preserves it in memory of an excel- lent man, and of the tears which the old musician's naivette compelled the conduc- tor to shed. +Summer ------------ Colds You should euro that cold at once. Ib is not only making you feel miiseralile, but it is doing you harm. Take ,.,hi1;.. 9� Consum Toni The Lcung Cure xmoney refunded Aft doesn't. Your At all druggists, 25o., 50e. and 81.0D a bottle. 403 A CITY OE WORKING GIRLS. "Speaking about working girls, there is no city in this country and possibly not in the world, that for its size can beat Jackson, Miss.," remarked Oscar A. Foster to a group of travelling men who were discussing the subject of female employment. "A woman suffragist could make a success of it in that town. Recently a newspaper of our city tools • a census of girls who roomed and found that the number exceeded 4,000. Add to this the many hundreds who live with their par- ents and you will appreciate better what I mean to say. These girls are em- ployed in the corset and underwear fac- tories of Jackson,which are byfar r the t largest in the world. They are a happy lot and it certainly is a sight to watch diem conning out of the factories when their day's work is done. The streets in the evening are so: crowded with these working girls who. promenade - up . and down Main street that mere roan sinks into insignificance."— Milwaukee Sen- tinel.. Toronto • and ,ontreal. Line Steamers leave Toronto 8 p.m. daily for Rochester, 1,000 Islands, Rapids St. Lawrence, Montreal, Quebec, Murray'day, Tadousac and Saguenay River. Hamilton, Toronto, Montreal Lino Steamers leave Hamilton 1 p.m,,, Toronto 7.80 p.m., Bay of Quinte ports, Montreal and intermediate ports. Low rates on this tine. Further information, apply to R. & 0. agents, or write to H. FOSTER CHAFFLE, Western Passenger Agent, Toronto. ONE MARVEL OF NATURE. The Impulse in Undeveloped Insects in the Earth to Cut Upward. There are few things in nature nitre wonderful than the common impulse which seizes these, inillrons 8f'"undevel- oped insects living in darletunnels under- neath the ground and urges them to cut their way upward, that they may com- plete their appointed life in the upper air, says Dr. H. C. McCook • in Harper's Magazine for June. Stirred by this strange unrest, the mighty host begins to move. What engineering skill directs their course with unerring accuracy to burrow to the sunlight? If we suppose that a pupa reaches the surface before it is quite prepared to transform, or,. when the surface is reached, that wea- ther or other conditions retard the change to the winged form, we have the influences that require it�t ubuild a protection. NINE MILLIONACRES Government Lands for Homesteaders. In western Nebraska near the Union Pacific Railroad in section lots of 640 acres each, for almost nothing. The sal- ubrity of these lands. is something re- markable. Distance from railroad is three to thirty miles. There will be a grand rush of homesteaders. This is the last distribution of free homes the Unit- ed States Government will ever make in Nebraska. Write for pamphlet telling how the lands can be acquired, when en- try should be made, and other informa- tion. Free on application to any Union Pacific agent. MONSTER BOWL OF PUNCH. In 1694 Admiral Edward Russell, com- mander of the English Mediterranean fleet, entertained six thousand people in a large garden in Alicante, where he served the largest bowl of punoh ever brewed. It contained twenty gallons of lime juice, four hogsheads of brandy, one pipe of Malaga wine, twenty-five hun- dred lemons, thirteen hundredweight of fine white sugar, three packages toasted biscuits, fifty-one pounds of grated nut- megs and eight hogsheads of water. The whole was prevented from dilu- tion in case of rain by a large canopy, which spread over a marble fountain bowl which held the punch. The punch was served by a boy, who rowed about the basin of the fountain in a boat built for the purpose and refilled the empty cusps. HOW'S THIS ? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars' Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 18 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business trans. actions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by.this firm. WALDINe, KINNAN a MAnvnt, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,ac'•- ing directly upon the blood and mucous aur. faces of the system. Testimonials sent fres Price -715c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's FamuiyPllis for constipation. THE LARGEST TAXPAYER. The completed tax rolls show that only five New Yorkers whose personalty as- sessment was over $1,000,000 did not have their assessments reduced by the swearing -off process. They, are Andrew Carnegie, whose assessment of $5,000,000 is the largest in the list; Russell Sage, who pays personal tax on $2,000,000 of property; Frederick Vanderbilt, assessed for $2,000,000; Alice Vanderbilt, $1,000,- 000. The largest reduction was the cut- ting off of $1,700,000 from the $2,000,000 assessment of John Jacob Astor. Alfred G. Vanderbilt's assessment was reduced from $1,500,000 to $250,000. J. P. Mor- gan's $600,00 assessment was reduced to $400,000. The original assessment on personalty amounted to $4,589,966,384. Almost everyone included in the list for assessments visited the office of the tax department during the time allowed for rectification of - the records. The total of personalty left subject to tax after the swearing off is $625,078,878. Minard's Li nafnent Ciires Colds, etc Ii, GREELEY AND MRS. STANTON. There was once a passage at arms be- tween Elizabeth 'Cady Stanton, the em- inent woman suffragist, and Horace Gree- ley, on the occasion of a discourse by the former on the right of women to the ballot. In the midst of her talk, Greeley interposed, in his high-pitched, falsetto voice: "What would you do in time of war if you had the suffrage?" This seemed like a poser; but the lady • had been before the public too long to be disconcerted by an unexpected ques- tion, and she promptly replied: "Just what you leave. done, Mr. Greeley and urge others t —stay at home o 0 sg g y and fight »' Harper's Weekly. 'the European beet sugar area Ili 3,861,861 acres, "against 4,210,125 last year,