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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-11-25, Page 6LIFE OF A CHILD IN CHINA. Boys Have Many Presents and Feasts and May Have Three Names. At birth it is supposed that many spirits, both good and evil, attend the Chinese °held, Rid candles are lighted in the birth chamber, as For a wedding, and attendants must speak only good words. The little one must not bo frightened. but it is to be received with joy. The baby boy's head is shaved on the 'twenty. eighth day, but the ceremony is on the tbir- Meth if the baby is a girl, and in Dither case this is done before the ancontral tablets or the shrine of the goddess called 'Mother." A. boy receives mauy presents, whllo girls are not altogether forgotten, the gifts taking the form of gay little caps ornamented with tassels and bells, and gold, silver or copper images of Buddha, to hang about the neck. Although baby receives his first name at this time, it Is changed by his schoolmaster when he is old enough for school, he receives an- other when he is married. and if he succeeds at the examinations, which may not happen before middle age, he receives a third. Often such names as vagabond, dog, - eat, good for nothing, ugly, are given the 'baby, leimay ink the oldo t e him. By thetmebeis d en- ough to go to school it is supposed that the spirits have forgotten about hien, and he may be ;given a better name. When a child Is differencea year ldinhere is favor feast,ofboy. always These feasts for the boy aro repeated every ten years. -Good Housekeeping. Question of Politeness, Not Opinion. (Nashville Banner.) Representative Cooper, of Texas, tells a story about Gen. Sam Houston, of his State, and a practising physician, who did not like the old General, being strenuously opposed to him politically. One day, after a heated political discussion, the physician said: "General, I like you well enough socially, but. politically I would not believe you on oath." "I would believe you, doctor,'' was the Quiet reply of the General. Then, sir," vehemently exclaimed the doc- tor, you have a much better opinion of me than I have of you." "Not a better opinion, doctor, but I simply have a little more politeness than you have. NEW PATENT Folding Seat. This seat is the 'only one of its kind en the mar- ket, and should • be seen and used • , to be appreciate'. ji The advantage- ous feature is in the fact that the seat drops. There is no spring and it cannot get out of order. Made of malleable iron with a piano stool finish top. Largely used in depratmental stores and any place where space le an object. Price per seat. 81.25. If a larger number is re- quired Write for special terms. Novelty Mfg. Co., 219 Queen street east, Toronto, Ont. Homeopathic Power. Natrum muiaticum, a homeopathic re- medy, is eonluh,.)0 teble salt. But in the process of dynamization, homoepathi- cally, its particles are sub -divided till they approach the infinity. A German druggist once bet $50 that be could take a certain number of doges of it every day for a month, reasoning that in that time he would not take as much salt as could be held bit the extreme point of a delicate penknife. But he had not cal- culated on the power of homoepathic doses. Before the month was half passed he willingly paid the bet. He had made a "proving" of natrum muriaticum and did not like it. "Affections of the inner head, headache as though a thousand little limners were knocking at the brain, etc.," is the way Guernsey gives it. ..gas .cnaR+ Most people think too lightly of a cough. It is a. serious matter and needs prompt attention, Take h llo19 cureTlrso S..tirlg �' TOr11G when the first sign of a cough or cold appears. It will cure you easily and quickly then—later it will be harder to cure. Prices, 25c., 50c., and $1.00. 211 Appalling Japanese Bravery. (Cleveland Leader.) According to official Japanese reports, one regiment which went into ono of the most deenerate assaults upon the defenses of Port Arthur with more than 2,100 effective men lost 2,600. Only six officers and 200 men came back from one of the most terrible struggles in the history of war. Such fightinsf. as this is disheartening to the most stul. ole s,.ttes- onsts which any army can encounter. It reveals a willingness literally to conquer or die, which is appalling to officers command - Ing opposing forec.+. The War in the East. (Pot Shots From a Popgun.) There's a nimble Russian General, Runs tarter than a cat kin, He''l stop, perhaps, when stopped by death, But they cannot pure opatkin, 1Couropatkin Solus: What's up with me. I've no more luck Than the Thlbetan Llama; And still T pray both ttight and day, Am I to win," Oyama. THE B I l 1.0 Pd SAID TUT RE T ST DIE But Dodd's' Kidney Pins Cured .i..1. Perkins. ut Gras Our facilities are unsur- passed for obtaining the best possible assortment in cut glass. Ahandsonte one-quartwater bottle, graceful in shape, is No. into at only $5.00. Send for our mail-order catalogue. Careful consider- ation is given to seeing that goods are dcivered at just the time required. YG Y 1Z1 E BROS. "DIAMOND HALL" VS 118 to 124 Yon4e Street TORONTO IIIMMNIONIWArfsINOMORMIMISI Living Expenses in Japan. . (New York Press.) Japan is no longer the land of cheap liv- ing. Rents have advenced from 200 to 300 per rent. Europeans who used to pay from 06 to 012 for a whole house now content them- selves with a single room. Prices of food, drink, etc., are a ]ung way beyond those of Europe. A bottle of beer coats from 18 to e.5 cents. A 2 -cent cigar fetches 13 cents. The only cheap article is French champagne, owing to the low duty paid. Germany's trade with Japan i falling off; America's and England's is increasing. Ile Was 'Unable to 'Work, and Becom- ing Destitute, ileibre Be Used. the Great Canadian Kidney 3.cnnedy. Tyndall, Man., Nov. 14,--(Special.)— Unable to work because of Kidney Bis ease, pronounced incurable by the doc- ent -a, and fast becoming destitute, Me. J. J. Perkins, of this place, found new life tend health in Dotld's Kidney l'ills. In his gratitude he wants an the world to know of his cure, and that the owes it to Doddi.'s Kidney Pills, Mr. Perkins :gays: "After two years of Kidney Trouble I got a .bad tate doctor said 1 was inettr- able. 1 got etill worse, and at times ihaud ettoh terrible pains in my back and kidneys that I thougltt I would die. 'I was unable to work and was becom- ing destitute when a friend persuaded jake to “try Bodd's Kidney. fills. Five boxes eared Inc completely.' STATISTICS OF THE NEGRO. Death Rate in this Country Nearly Twice That of the White. The final census bulletin on the negro. ebo population shows that there are 9,204,- 531 negroes in the United States,' in- cluding Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico. Uaif of this great uumr er years of age and from 11betoare und16 par cent19. of them have white blood in their veins. The center of this black population is De Kane. county, Alabama, it having moved from Dinwiddie county, Virginia, northeast 476 miles, since 1700. Thus the negro population constitutes about one -fifteenth of the city popula- tion and one-seventh of the country population of continental United States. This proportion, although still large, is the result of a steady decline during the nineteenth century. The death rate of negroes approximates 30 per cent., while that of the whites is 17 per cent. At present fully 90 per cent. of the negroes live in the southern states and 77 per cent. of them reside upon farms. But the northern migration to the big cities has been noticeable during the last two decades and is in a largo measure responsible for the excessive death rate among them. Bad habits, poverty and disease make terrible inroads upon ne- groes living in the big cities. The largest numbers of negroes living in compact masses are found in certain urban counties, several of which lie out- side the great cotton -growing states. The four each having 75,000 negrees are District of Columbia, co -extensive with Washington; Shelby county, Tennessee, containing Memphis; Baltimore City, Md., and Orleans parish, Louisiana, co- extensive with New Orleans. The ne- groes form one-third of the population of the 'entire south and 48.6 per cent. of them are reckoned among bread win- ners, as again 46.9 per cent. of the sou- thern whites, but these figures appar- ently in favor of the southern black men are accounted for by the prevalence of female .labor among the negroes. Among females at least 10 years of age 4.7 per cent. of the negrocs and only 11.8 per cent. of the southern whites report money -getting occupations. — Kansas City Journal. �.e o-o-o-o-o•�-o-a-s-� e 4 .p; t!N There is nothing in the market approaching the quality of make of this ware. See that EDDY'S name is on the bottom of each pail and tub. The Czar's Many Houses. A prominent and distinguished member of the large Russian colony in Paris, writes my Paris correspondent, has been giving a French interviewer amazing ac- counts of the magnificent possessions and properties of the Czar. in all he is the master of 100 palaces and chateaux, scattered about al over his vast empire, and each one of them is a marvellously furnished and lnarvrllou:8ly filled with servants. Something, like 35,000 butlers, grooms, footmen, valets, chefs, coachmen, t'prdenera. etc., are housed in the hund- red residences, and their total salaries amount to the enormous sum of 20,000,- 000 francs or £S00,000. In the many stables are some 5000 horses, while the heads of cattle may be placed at 50,000; but even the distinguis- ed members of the Paris Russian colony hesitates at stating the number of in- habitants of the Czar's kennels, the dogs being entirely innumerable. Naturally, the Czar is not familiar with all his pal- aces and chateaux. Out of the hundred indeed, there are not less than sixty-two upon which he has never sat eyes and which, in all probability, he never will. But the servants are there, and every- thing is ever in readiness in case the Czar should take it into his head to look just once upon his truly magnifi- cent abodes.—From M. A. P. 6linard's Liniment Cures Distemper. Cocoanut Oil for Toothache. Mr. Consul Werner's report on the trade of Kiungchow for 1903 says: With regard to cocoanut oil it may be useful to mention that it is used by the natives as a speeifie for toothache, and it is said to be a never failing remedy. The directions for use are as follows: Pro- cure a fresh cocoanut, cut it in half, place one-half with the concave side fac- ing upwars on a large cup containing some cotton wool. and inside the cocoa- nut put some live charcoal. When the oil exudes on to the wool, take the latter out, and insert it with the aid of a blunt needle into the aching cavity. Care must be taken not to let the oil drop on to the tongue or skin, since it raises a most painful blister.—Indian Review. A Japanese War Charm. The custom of the Sen Nin Niki is one that has arisen in Japan during the pres- ent war. Ever since the war began, at all times of the day, and even ight, small groups of women can be seen gath- ering in the streets; one or more of the women will have a piece of cotton cloth with one thousand marks or dots stamp- ed upon it. "Sen" is the Japanese word for one thousand. "Nin" is the word for human being—either man or woman. "Riki" is, in the Japanese language, strength. In combination the words mean "the strength of one thousand peo- ple." Each one of these one thousand clots or narks in the cloth are to indicate the place where a stitch or knot is to be made by a woman, who, while shaking this knot, gives her best thought, wish or prayer for the safety and protection of the soldier who will wear this piece of cotton cloth as an "obo" or be't while fighting of rhis country. The prayers of one thousand women for one man are believed to protect him from all dangers and to give him strength to overcome and conquer the enemies of his beloved Japan.—Front Leslie's Monthly Maga - eine for September. Effort of the 'New Reporter, (Kansas City Star.) A Green county paper hired a new reporter the other day and bent Mm out after some news. Three hours later be returned and be- gan writing. Atter twenty minutes of hard Work he handed the editor a sheet of paper on which he had written: "Joe Green had en accident at his home to -day. Hie wire fell off tho porch and hanged on the dog. It wast an unfortunate occurrence." • PATENT TROU- ser and Skirt Hanger, holds 4 garments„ steel, heavily nickel - plated, will last a lifetime. Send 'S0c and secure one. Endorsed by all leading tailors. Novelty Mfg. Co., 219 Queen street east, Toronto, Ont. The Telephone Ear. .A peculiar development of the sense of hearing has been discovered as be- ing the result of the use of the tele- phone. Most people when using the be- strument hold. the receiver to the left ear because it comes more natural to adjust the mouthpiece with the right hand. So it happens that from an ex- tensive use of the telephone the hearing of the left ettr is sharpened at the ex- pense of the right. In the majority of eases the difference between the two is not very great, but in some persons it is alarmingly so. The sensitive nerves are so irritated by the sound coming di- rectly on them, and in a tone which is strange, that it sets up a reaction which has a cumulative effect and upsets them. " Pure soap !" You've heard the words. In Sunlight Soap you have the fact, Ask for the 0ctagon/Lae cis The Corean Flag. The Corean ensign and merchant flag is a white flag bearing the great monad in blue and red. This is a symbol of great antiquity. It is to the Mongolians what the cross is to the Christian. To them it is the sign. of deity and deity, while the two parts into which the eircle is divided is called the Yin and the Yan—the male and female forces of nature. Some throe thousand years ago one of the writers, speaking in reference to it, said: "The illimitable produces the extreme. The great ex- treme produced the two principles. The two principles produce the four quar- ters, and from the four quarters we de- velop the quadrature of the eight diagrams of y'eublii," This means little to us, though the writer may have ex- plained the matter to his entire satis- faction. But so much we know—that the symbol had a mathematical as well as an occult meaning. There is a little puzzle connected with the Corean flag which may or may not be perplexing to the novice. Divide the great monad by a straight cut into two pieces so that each half of the circle may contain an equal share of the Yin and the Yan. aP Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. •►_s Are Soldiers Great Smokers? If recent statistics are to be railed uponn the number of men—high placed officers—in both services who do not smoke would bear out the theory that smoking is going out of fashion in the British army and navy. It appears that the majority of naval officers are eon - tent, like the French and Russians, with an occasional cigarette. Of course there are exoeptions. The army has no ofif i- cer who rs a more inveterate smoker than was the late General Gordon, who was miserable unless lie had an ample supply of cigarettes. Thus among the non-smokers we find Lord Robers, Gen- eral MacKinnon, General Sir Redvers Buller and General Gatach'e. Minard's Liniment•Cures Carget in Cows A woman has onlyYone tongue and two ears but she can generally talk fasten than she can listen. Lever's Y -Z (Wise Head) Disinfectant Soap Powder is a boon to any home. It disin- fects and cleans at the same time. et To Care for Plants in Winter. Giro plants all the fresh air you can. Open doors and windows at some dis- tance from then{ on pleasant days and give them a chance to breathe in pure oxygen in liberal quantity. Give all the sunshine you can. And aim to keep the temperature of the room between 70 degrees by day and 55 at night. It will probably exceed these figures in both directions, but try to regulate it in such a way as to avoid the extremes of in- tense heat and dangerous cold. Use water liberally on the foliage of your plants. By washing off the dust it keeps open the pores of the leaves through which they breathe, and it tem- pers the hot, dry atmosphere usually pre- vailing in the living room. The only way to modify this condition is to keep water constantly evaporating on the stove or register and make frequent use of the sprayer: Lippincott's Magazine. I believe MINARD'S LINIMENT will cure every cruse of Diphtheria.. Riverdale. MRS. REUIBEN' BAKER. I believe MINARD'S LINIMENT will produce growth of hair. MRS. CIIAS. ANDERSON. Stanley, P. E. I. r believe 111INARD'S LINIMENT is the best household remedy on earth. :VLA i THIAS FOLEY. 011 City, Ont. Deepest Gold Mine. The deepest gold mine in the world is said to be at Bendigo, Australia. It is called the New Chum mule, and its main shaft is sunk to a depth of three thousand nine hundred feet, or only sixty feet short of three-quarters of a mile. Tho most difficult problem of working a mine of such a depth is how to keep the tunnels and general workings cool enough for the miners to work. The temperature is usually about 108 de- grees, and this is, of course, terribly enervating. To make it possible for the men to work at all a spray of cold water is let down from above and kept con- tinually playing on their bodies. They are naked from the waist up, Where Doctors do agree T.— Physicians no longer consider it catering to ''''quackery" in recommending to practice so meritorious a remedy for Indigestion an't Nervousness as South American Nervine. They realize that it is a step in advance in medical science and a sure and permanent cure for diseases of the stomach. It will cure you. -60 THE CLOTHES BUSINESS. The effect of advertising on many dif- ferent kinds of business has been noted by a well-known writer. "Wearing ap- parel of all kinds," he says, "is now lib- erally advertised, and the result, accord- ing to recent statistics, has been to increase the sales 'all the way from 300 to 800 per cent.—without increasing eth pried to the consumer or reducing the profits to the manufacturer, but the reverse." ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT Removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps and blemishes from horses, blood spavin, curbs, splints, ringbone, sweeney, stifles, sprains; cures sore and swoolen throat, coughs, etc. Save $50 by the use of one get - the. Waranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. ISSUE NO. 48 1904. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup shos14 always be used for Children Teething, As seoths the child softens the gums cureswlul• cone and is the float remedy for Diarrheas. IZ QO.also Sk rt tsn Oloaka and aists. Send for LP J 1 L $ styles and cloth samples,w THm SOUTHCOTT SUIT CO., London, Can. Due Precaution Taken. (Now York Herald,) "I should think you'd be afraid to let our little boy run your automobile." "Oh. no: I have It insured.' Butterflies and Moths. Though butterflies and moths are found. ' widely distributed all over the dobe, they are by far most abundant in the tropics. For instance, Brazil can show to the collector not less than 700 different species within an hour's walls of Para. There are not half as many in all- Europe. In Britain there are 67 spe- cies, and in all Europe there are 300 dif- ferent kinds. They are found as far north as Spitzbergen, on the Alps to a height of 9,000 "feet and on the Andes up to 18,000 feet. As there are some 200,000 species, it is easy to see why butterfly hunters are great travellers. HOW'S THIS ? We offer One Hundred Dollars' Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. d. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business trans- actions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by this tire. WALDIN6, ICINNAN & Hallie, Wholesale Druggiets, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken lnternally,ac'- ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur• faces of the system. Testimonials sent tree Price -75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hail's FamilyP11Is for constipation Oot* A Birthday Mystery, Here is a strange little puzzle, which has the same answer, independent of the fact that no two people solving the puz- zle were born the same year and conse- quently use the same figures. Write down the figures of the year you wore born. and from this take away four. Add your age at next birthday if it conies before January, otherwise your age at your last birthday. Multiply the result by 1,000 and from this deduct 685,423. Substitute for the figures cor- responding letters of the alphabet, as A for 1, B for 2, etc. The result is a. Chin- ese table delicacy which is used in this oountry for. electioneering purposes. Strike out the first letter and trans- pose those that remain to form a word. Like Tearing the Heart Strings.—"It is not within the concep- tion of man to measure my great sufferings from heart disease. For years I endured a1- most constant cutting and tearing pains about my heart, and many a time would have welcomed death. Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart has worked a veritable mir- acle."—Thos. Ilicks, Perth, Ont. -50 A Question of .Age. How old are you? The adage says that women are as old as they look and men 09 old as they feel. That is wrong. A man or woman are as old as they take themselves to be. Growing old is largely a habit of the mind. "As a man thinketh in his heartso is he." If he begins shortly after midddlo age to imagine himself growing old he will be old. To keep oneself from decrepitude is somewhat a matter of will power. The fates are kind to the man who hangs on to life with both hands. Ile who lets go will go. Death is slow only to tackle the tenacious. Ponce de Leon searched in the wrong pia;•o for the fountain of youth, It is in one's self. 'One must keep oneself young inside; so thatr shreneived outerayby day.'ewhen es the inner man ceases to exert itself, when there is no longer an active interest in the affairs of this life, when the human stops reading and thinking, and doing, the man, like a blasted treo, begins to die at the top. You are as old as You think you are. lleep the hare nese on. Your job is not done. 0•® FLORIDA AND THESUNNY INNY SOUTH 'Winter excursion tickets now on sale by the Lehigh Valley Railhead and its connections via Washington or Now York, to Florida, Virginia, Carolinas, Geor- gia, Nassau, Havana, Cuba, and all winter lines,g Atlantic Coast and the AiroLine, Southern Railway. For rates of fare, maps time tables, ilustrated literature, etc., call ea or address R 10 ging LEWIS, "East, TOROTNO,ger ONT. Matrimony and Longevity. '(ICansas City Journal.) The ancient minstrel joke as to why mar- ried men live longer than beachelors, and the replyhsityU edapiroffun,ut11. longer, now scientifi- cally asserted that matrimony ie conducive to longevity. .A. certain learned professor has calculated that the mortality among bachelors from the age of 30 to 45 years is 2? per cent., while among married mon of the bachelors wiinos attainr thent. ageror of forty-one eas there are seventy -sight married mea who reach the samo age. The difference is still more striking in persons of advanced age. At 60 years there remain but twenty-two 70 ° eleven fbachelora-i fort tiivventy seven mar- ried mon, and at 80, three bachelors for nine married men. _ Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. BUD DUMB FRIENDS. Don't tease the dog. Even the cat has feelings. Give them some time to rest. Only painstaking ones should keep caged pets. All animals appreciate a little head massage. Food experiments are not wise in hot weather. Horse hats acre d, good thing, if not always becoming. An animal's actions tell exactly how he is treated. No wonder some animals act mad these days. All animals require a constant supply of fresh drinking water, whether they seem to or not. Cats and dogs should not be given too muoh meat, nieely-cooked vegetables and cereals being good. A big family of children keeps one animal too busy, often expecting it to play till it falls from exhaustion or snaps. They should be taught better.