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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-02-22, Page 3„,....._'101;:ilif.1441141111141/(4,14414414160,060044W „ 4.041414441,0104104r*411014.101Nir K.,'"«...._00004#0410%,444iirt41444,*Willierniirrirt***, *OA. ci 1.1.1.4porkir Some important Discoveries veer., see se age a 0 4e444-44+44.04444.44-$4-04-0 ++44 0earelte#4-0,4eitsfet44 the hlaeing earflap thrOugh the teeth pARALysi6 yiELDs TO (. Wood Alcohol Poisoning. The Danger Greater Than is Commonly Supposed. 4 4-444-+++.+4+++++4"+*++++++++1fre-++++++•-4-+0-•-•-• (N. Y. SUM) LOng, before the recent, eeethri caused by itdratereted whielrey in the Stryker'a Farm i district In this city the medical prefix:retort I realized the tiangere that threatened the public tem the enbetitutlon of \rood alcohot for grain alcohol. One grave peril lies lit the fact that woo) alcohol is sometinien used instead of grain alcohel In varioue boueehold preparationa. The use ot wood alcohol in tee 111(11111, facture and adulteration of potable spirite 10 Utelclently alarming, put this is by no luaus the extent of its ueo as in adtllt00. AUL Not only have preparations intended for use in the arts, cre varnishes, or for ex- ternal use, as witch hazel, been made wite wood alcohol as 1111 inrdIcut, b0t. 0Ve11. medicinal or flavoring agente, Quell as es - Bence of Jamaica ginger, lemma pepper- anint, etm, luteuded for internal use brave been found to contain it. Eye specialiste of this country anti of Europe agree in [mortising many casee of total or partial blindness to wood alcohol, which had unernowingly been taken in the form of liquors, medicinal remedies, flavor- ing essences or used °eternally hl the form of witch hazel and bay rum and as linimente and for alcohol rubs. Wood alcohol is known to the chemist as carbinol aud methyl, more popularly known under the name of pyroligneous spirit, 1 pyroxylic spirit, wood alcohol and wood naphtha. It occurs as one of the ingre- dients of crude wood viaegar, the Gun'. product of the destructive distillation of I weed, Purified wood alcohol is a thin, color- I lose fluid, greatly resembling grain :lice - col in tate and smell, but obtained from wood vinegar. Unpurified, it has a rank and ensive odor and flavor. It is ou Y withiu the last seven or eight years that cheap. deodorized wood alcohol has been • placed on the market, and it is only during the frame period that the alarming record of death and blindness resulting from its use has been made. Before that time the unpuriflea product possessed so offensive au odor and taste Shat even the most inveterate drunkard was unable to stomach it. The purified wood alcohol is known under varloua names, and owing to the fact of its close similarity in taste aud smell to grain alcohol, and to its comparative cheapness—wood amp- I hot untaxed retails at GO cents a gallon, grain alcohol taxed retails at seco--it is very largely substituted for grain alcohol. Unhappily the deodorizing process de- stroys none of the poisouous properties et wood alcohol, and, while differiag little ; In appearance, taste and smell from gram I alcohol, it is under certain conditions it deadly poison. Poisoning by wood alcohol manifests it - Belt in two forms—that of acute poisoning • and that of chronic poisoning. Acording to remiearches by physiologists, Jeffrey anti i Servereaux, Birch -Hirschfield, Holden limit, ! Pohl and others, the symptoms of the acute form are 1 general similar to those observed In cases of poisoning by grain alcohol, except that he action of wood alcohol is produced more slowly and the duratien of the intoxication is more pro- longed, The coma caused by wed alcohol continues for a very much longer Muse there does that caused by grain Icohol. The investigations of Buller and Wood have demonstrated that, In many instancee, no marked poisonous symptoms ere noticed until twenty-four hours, or longer, after the last number of doses, usually small drinks, ha dbeen taken. Indeed, it may be set down as a rule that except M persons exhibiting an idiosyneracy against wood alcobol or upless a large dose of the poison be drunk wftlain a /ow bours, not °ply may tho severe abdominal symptoms and the collapse of tho heart and nervous system be postponed, but even to fatal termina- iron has M some instances been delayed for several days. Although physiological experhinents would seem to allow tbat the consumption of wood alcohol In lame quantitlea hoe a similar efeet on animal life to that of grain Alcohol when taken in excess, yet it is gathered from the observations by doctors of those suffering from the acute form of wed ateohol poisoning that wood alcohol is undoubtedly, in every respect and how- ever taken, far more daugerous to mau than grain alcohol. Chronic or sub -acute poisoning by wood alcohol, Urea Is, the taking of small quantie titles at short intervals, produces a form of cumulative action, depending probable, on the retention within the body of wood alcohol or of some of its decomposition products. Pohl made the hnportant discovery that wood alcohol differs markedly from grain alcobol In that it Is but partially oxidized In the body and that its administration leads to the formation withinthe body of a markedly poisonous ac id, formic acid, which Is thrown out of the system very slowly, a striking ilustration of the fat that within the body one poison may be coaverted into another which is far more powerful. Dr. Frank Buller, of Montreal, and Dr. Casey Wood, of Chicago, both ot whom aro eye specialists, began an investigation of the subject in the early part of this year and the results are now being published In the Journal of the American Medical Association. The physicians In question bave laid bare by their researches a startling state of affairs. It has been found that wood alcohol, adulterated essences and Witch hazel, as well as other preparations containing wood alcohol, have been directly responsible during the past seven or eight yeaes for about 1W, cases of tilindnese ant) About 100 cases of death. Inasmuch as the in- vei(tigations have been necessarily in- complete (Dr. Buller not having attempted io collect published instances of death, and Dr. Wood having noted • only cases unpublished In medical journals), it is in a high degree likely that a more thorough nnd extended search would show that quite 200 persons had been killed and the • SEED TIME experiencediarmer has learned that some grains require far differ- ent soil than others; some crops need differ- enthandling than others. He knows that a great deal depends upon right planting at the right time, and that the soil must be kept enriched. NO use of complaining in summer about a mis- take made in the spring. a Decide before the seed is planted, besttime to reme- dy wasting conditions in the human body is be- fore the evil is too deep rooted. At the first evi- dence of loss of flesh Scott's Emulsion should be taken imme- diately. There is noth- ing that will repair wasted tissue more , qvtickly or replace lost flesh more abundantly than Scott's Emulsion. It nourishes and builds up the body when ordi- nary fo od s absolutely fail. Weeds *gayer/ A sample free. Be sure that thIS platens le the term of a label it on the *rapper Of every bottle of Estsulsion you buy, SCOTT at I3OWN8 Toronto, Ont. Aoc. *II all druggist' aseerteessesetaaswesetsiatareausolige until it was totelly consumed, Meeting Plunged into Daritneta— Some unueual methods have been employed in Sunderland. The "Glory. Song," of the Alexander -Torrey mission was used to howl down M. llaggie (Unionist). At (i?O1:1 iosfo ip)Trfsrtruitigose Ttee:tionfrar tire meter and a panic was narrowly averted, Gids' Portrait Frocks.—Lady Gwen- dolen Guinnesa assisted her husband, the Iron. Rupert Guinnes, in lois canvass of Haggerston on Saturday; and twelve lit- tle girle, their frocks covered with por. traits of the Conservative candidate, went round parts of the constituency de - same number blinded by preparations erautalnlog wood :theatrel within a compare - tie ely Ebert period. The faet alno must an borne in mind Vert ranny physiciaus aro uneequalnied Wita the isympteras et wood alcohol poisoning and that the tatraltive occurring from its me wlikIt have imp r under their observation Were not recorder' 110 ruck. Poieoulng by wood aleohol, to thole who have bad any eeperieuee 111 Callel of thie deecription, is unnaletalcable. The rnoet dietinguishing feature is that it attacks the eye directly tend with peculiar viru knee, In :revere cazes when eeath erns Oct ensue, total blindnees 10 1111 uhrunit In- variable nequence. Wood alcohol poleoning Is also cbarac- terieed by the Met that while compara- tively email dorms will Injuriously affect eurne individuals, °there aro upparently no more injured by mech larger donee than if they had drunk the same quantity Of grain :timber. Among the conclusious arrived nt by Die. Buller end Wood aro the following: That the prevention ot poisoning by thia Mridious dries can be brought about only be prohibitiag the salo of deoderizel wool aleoholltt in ail its forme. The number of deeleou may in tee uteantene be limited by putting all methylated preparations on the list of poisons and proeeeeting all persone adulterating foods, • and delnks with lt. Labelling preparations containing wood alcohol with the notice, "'nos fluid teeen internally is likely to produce blinduese” would certainly have a deterrent effect. Poisoning by inbalation of the fumes of wood alcobol ger:orally occurs when the exhalations are mixed with rebreatbed air, ae in varuishing the interior or beer vats, email rooms etc. It is highly probatde that In susceptible subjects repeated, or even single, methylated alcohol rubs met, produce poisonous eyneptoms through ab- eorption of the spirit by the skin. Caronic or partial poisoning front wood alcohol taken in the drape of nips of methyl. atea Janutic agInger, bay rum, puneu, etc., is the meet insidious and probably not an uncommon form of intoxication, lts symptoms aro. not 00 pronounced nor fro easy of recognition as in the acute form, but Dm eyes, digestive apparatus and ner- voira symptoms undoubtedly Euffer. • tehe adulteratem of whiakey or other A Wits with eyeful alcohol is a grave evil, and oue which should be ettopped promptly, these physicians say. nit the manufac- ture or adulteration of flavoring esseacee, internal remedies and preparatione for ex- ternal use with wood alcohol is au even worse forin of poisoning. A person may buy a medicinal remedy with the hope that it will do him good, and may be either ltlllod 00 blinded. Agala, In the case of individuals eusceptlble to the effects of the poisou, the application of witch hazel or bay• rum containing wood alcohol after obeying, the rubbing in of a liniment, or of alcohol, may, by meane of absorption, or of its fumes, result in grave injury to health. The cheapness of wood alcohol has tempted certelu unscrupulous or ignorant manufacturers to substitute it for groin alcohol, aud this circumstance constitutes O grave menace to the public health. Until laws are enforced to restrict the use of wood alcohol in its proper limits, some physicians think, it would be prudent not to buy cheap liquors, cbeap uoidsntttled proprietary articles aud unidentified grades of witch hazel and bay rum which have 110 standard of strength or que.lity or to use auw remedy, Internal or external, in which there is even the suspicion that it may contain wartd This may seem an exaggerated view to take ot the matter, but in consideration ot the happenings recontiy in Tenth avenue, and the belief that ia the neighborhood of 40 Odeaths and eases of total blindnees have been tbe outcome of persons un - suspiciously taking wood alcohol In one term or another, it must be admitted that the situation calls for prudence. A person who buys a preparation for internal uso, or for external use, like witch hazel or bay rum, does so in the faith that the stuff will at toast do him no harm. Unfortunately he is to a great extent at the mercy of the manufacturers and retailers, Finally, it may be said that the treat- ment of severe wood alcohol lutoxication is unsatisfactory. This condition usually ends in death and blindness. The treatment of tbe blindness in particular is of little avail. As evidence of tbe great concern mau - tested In the question by the medical pro- fession at large of this country, resolutions were adopted by the section of ophthal- mology, at the last meeting of the American Medical Association, hold in June of this yeer, to the effect that the employment of wood alcohol in spirltuous liquors, or 10 preparations for internal or external use, was a very dangerous practice, and should be prevented by law, and that is was ad- visable to have wood alcohol placed on the list of poisons. The resolutions were Placed in charge of the committee ou legislation of the American Medical Asso- elation, who wore instructed to urge the proper Federal and State authorities to take action In the matter. I = I THE SINGLE STEP. Concrete Illustrations of The Sublime to the Ridiculous. "There is no field of thought," remark. ed the Office Philesopher, after he had sat in rapt contemplation for several minutes—"there is no field. of thought where the single step that separates the sublime from the ridiculous: inay be so surely and emphatically taken as in the writing of poetry. Don't you think so?" "Surel" the Horse Editor replied.. "The greet poet," the Office. Philos°. pher continued, "is he who, bysome di- vine instinct, recognizes the point where the variation of a single line or word would result in taking this unfortunate step, the poetaster is he who does not recognize this danger -point, and so lois melody degenerates into discord ,and his pathos into bathos. Don't you think so?" "It's a cinch!" the Horse Editor re- eponded. "Probably a concrete instance or two," the Office Philosopher musingly remark. ed, "would make my proposition even clearer. For example, Halleck wrote: "'Ab manight in lois guarded tent the Turk woes dreaming of the thous.' "There is a martial tone in that line, and its. every word seems :unconsciously to anticipate the call, 'To arms!' and this tone is °continued throughout the poem. 13ut suppose that Halleek load lacked the fine poetic pereeption Oie dia. plaiyed, and had followed the, foregoing line with this: "'When he should drink the cocktail blehts or, if he chose, a whiskey. sour.' "Do you see how we would have token the ono disastrous step?'0 "You bet I'm on!" the Horse Editor replied. "Just one other example," continued the Offioe Philosopher. Moore wrote: "'The heart that Ince truly loved never forgets, but, as truly loves on to the C1080.' "Ae is all of Moore's verse, there is indeseribitble melody in the line; it sings to the soul. But suppose he had fol. low.ed it with this: "'Unless a divorce in a passion it gets, and hunts for a, chance to propose.' "If Hallock and Moore liad not pos- tossed the fine"— "Aw, eome off!" the Horse Editor gruffly interposed; "I don't believe there are Any such looms on the turf to. day I " The the Office Philosopher asked the other one what he would: take:, and they went out togothers—San Francisco Gan, WORTHY OF NOTE. The tallest building le the world Is being erotted in New York by A Iste Insurance company. It will be 860 feet high, or sive feet higher than tee Weshineten monument and 83 feet higher than St. Peter's, Rome, The railltary budget Of the French repubs . 110 foots up to a total of 20,000 Offleerz, i whose Ivy alone alumnae to neatly 44,000,- 000. Itaisoseder the eame head, has 14,003 offieere, drawing 43,450,000 minutely. Spain ; pays en account of 23,000 offices*, the suni of E3,760,000. IThe world's yearly use of postcard* is enormoue. Germany uses 1,101,000,000, the United Staters 770,500,000, Oreat Britain 81,100,000, AS to lettere, however, the United Stahel Is far ahead of all Other countrlet. The total !Welber Of lettere post- ed here during 1103 was 4.103,000,000. Th ii *TWA of the Waffler word "tstriff,* much used 111 tee tteeat eleetien coeteat td Are made only after a LONG TIME of PATIENT and INTELLIGENT ,SEARCH. Yet we cannot say THAT THE PUBLIC WERE SLOW in DISCOVERING the EXCELLENCE and SUPERIORITY of DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS AFTER SEVERAL DOCTORS HAD PRONOUNCED THE CASE HOPELESS. Convincing Proof That Cure Was Permanent—In Five Years the Patient Had no Relapse—Facts in a Remarkabie Case Substantiated by Sworn Statements. siesseeteceseemesetsgeseelleseele lee ,, es sees areedee lit ming handbills. Dr. William's' Pink Pills: are not a. -1r1EAL , Practical Polities.—A flour mill at Hol- peeeee mesiesee, but the preeeription beach (in the Spalding division of Lid' of a, physician, placed on sale with ....„ colnehire), which for some years has full directions far use under a trade England, as well as in American campaigns, THE DEATH OF JOHN XNOZ, Is deseribee by the Freeman's Journal of Dublin to be from Arable, and coaxes from the name of the town and port of Tarifa, 20 miles from Gibraltar, and the southernmost town in Europe. Tarifa was seized in 710 A .D. by the pioneers of the Moorish invis- ion, under tiro General Tarte from whom the town takes Its name, and the Moors after- wards levied a toll there on all shills Pas- sim: through those waters—hence the sig- nificanoe of the name of the rest of Europe and the wore tariff, which appears in Ital- ian, French and other languages. It is calculated that in London alone about 4,000 persons regularly make a living by begging; that the average Income for Each amounts to $7.60 a week, or together $1,e00,000 a year. Last year about 2,000 Persons were arrested for begging In tbe streets of London, and many of them were possessed of considerable sums. Spain has 600,000 titled persons; that Is to say, about one in every thirty-eight in- habitants. But such titles are held ari less than nothing by the original peerage of the country. These are known as the grandees, and form an aristocracy entirely of birth, some of them—like our landed gentry—hav- ing no handles at all to their names, and yet entirely refusing to mix with even duke e of our creation. To become a Span- ish baron £400 is sufficient. A viscounty costs double that amount, while to be made a count a payment of L1,200 is necessary. The wettest place In the world, according to the atussian 1VIeter010gial Magazine, is Cberrapunji, In Assam. Its average rain- fall for the last 10 years bas been nearly 37 feet. Next to this eorne the environs of Bombay with some 21 feet annually, though the single station of Debundusciaa In Kamerun has had for several yeah an average of 24 feet, chiefly in summer. The wettest recorded year in Cherrapunjl was 48 feet in 1821, and In Debunduschs, 48 feet In 9102. In this place there fell in the one slay of June 16, 1902, 18 inches of rain. The producing, power of the banana Is 44 times as great as that of the potato. The dried fruit Is readily converted into nutri- tious flour: It may also be manufactured into sausages; beer can be made from It; while the skin can be turned into cloth and the juice made to do service either as ink or vinegar. - _ The Great Reformer's Last Day on Earth, Nov. 24t1t was the anniversary of the death of John Knox, who died in Edin- burgh in 1572. Of recent years doubt has been cast on the fact that Knox resided in the house at the Netherbow in. the volume which the late Dean of Guild Miller published on the subject. In that work he took up the position that Knorx had lived all his life in a house on the site of the modem St. Giles street. Later research, howevce, has shown that the balance of probability lies on the side of the contention that Knox lived in the existing "John Knox's House" for at leeet three months prior to his death— that is, from August to November, 1572. Professor Cowan, of Aberdeen, in lois excellent monograph on "John Knox" th the "Heres of the Reformation Ser. ies," has examined the pros and cone of the displuted question with the utmost impartiality and has come to the follow- ing conclusions: 1. That the house at tho Netherbow, which belonged to Jamea Mossman, goldsmith, was not oc- cupied by Knox during the greater part of his Edinburgh ministry. 2. That Knox resided first in a hoitse near the top of 1,Vasaiston's Close, High street, the gar- den of which stretched down to the shores of the Nor' Loch. In this house Marjorie Bowes, the Reformer's first wife, died in 1560. To this house, four years later (1504), he brought his second wife, Mar- garet Stewart, daughter of Lord ()chin tnee. 3. It is very improbable (says Profes- sor Cowan) that the Netherbow house was *coupled by Knox prior to his depar- ture from Edinburgh in May, 1571. This house, we have seen belonged to James Mossman, goldsmith, who was a deter - HOW TO MAKE BABY SLEEP. mined Papist, and was one of those who sought refuge within the castle when the fortress was held by Kirkcaldy of Grange. Now the property of all known Papists was at once confiscated by the powers meat of the stomach or bowels, which that were at the time. As the period would be speedily removed if a dose of from June, 1572, to May, 1573, when Baby's Own Tablets were given the lit. the castle surrendered, was so troubled tle one. These Tablets make children owing to the bitterness of the struggle sleep soundly and naturally, because between the "Kinsmen," or Protestant they remove the cause of crossness and panty, and the "Queensmen" or Catholic wakefulness. They are a blessing to party, it is almost certain that Mossman, the little one, and bring relief to the with his family and goods and chattlee, tired, Nvorried mother. Mrs. A. C. Ab. was safe within the castle walls. His bat, Hudson's Heights, Que., says: "I house, therefore'would be empty, and have found. Baby's Own Tablets a splen. it is only reasonable that the feeble and did medicine for stomach and bowel trou. sickly Reformer would prefer to be lo- bles, from which my little one was trou- cated sufficiently near St. Giles' Church, bled. Thanks to the relief the Tab- yet far enough away to save him from lets have given my baby now sleeps the annoyance of the guns from the cas- quietly and naturally, and is in the best tle. Finally Professor Hurn e Brown says of health." And the Tablets are tbso- "Against the tradition which points to lutely safe—they always do good—they Mossman's house as a residenee of Knox cannot possibly do harm. They will cure no satistactory evidence has been ad - the ailments of a new-born baby or a dewed." And Professor Cowan adds: "On well -grown child. Sold by druggists, or tho whole . . . there is nothing in. 28111; by mail at 25 cents a box, by writ- trio-IA=11y improbable in the supposoition g The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., of that the Reformer lived there during the Brockville, Ont. last three months of his life." Knox's last day on earth—November 24th, 1572—was spent mooch in prayer and religionus exercises. The end was visibly drawing near. There were with him in his chamber his Secretary, Rich - Control. ard Bannatyne, his old friend Campbell of Kinyeancleuch, his physician, Dr. roston, his colleague Lawson, and his wife. Between nine and ten he insisted on rising, and sat in his chair for half an hour. All through his illness (says Professor Hume Brown) favorite chap- ters had been read to loim from the Bible —especially his fifty-third of Isaiah, and the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of delta, "in which he had first cast anch- or" and on this, his last day, he was able to listen to certain passages which comforted lum. In the afternoon he asked the fifteenth of First Corinthians to be read. "Is not that a comfortable chap- ter?" he declared. At five o'clock he re- quested his wife to read once more the seventeenth of John, and though he seemed th sloop he signified that he heard every word. Between seven and ten he lay for the most part etill. About half - past ten the usual household worship was held, and he followed the service with a joyful fervor. "Heard ye the rey- ers?" whispered Preston to his uying patient. To the dying man (says Profes- sor Cowan) the gate of heaven appeared to have been already opened, and the sounds of earthly devotion had been transmuted into celestial voices. "I would to God that ye and all men heard them as I beard them. I praise God for that heavenly sound." Towards eleven there came from hien a long sigh and sob, and with the words, "Ah now it is come," he passed into the last struggle. These were Itis last words. As he lay aeitying (says 13annatyne) he was asked "to make some sign that he remember- ed upon the promises that. he had taught to othens. He raised his hand ass 11 101 response to the appeal. Incontinent thereafter, he rendered his spirit, and slept away without any pain—The Ix. Messrs. Moore, Reid and Leeds—"The Rock Island crowd," with Speyer as the fin - an serving Its independence of the larger forces, cial ally; a minor influence barely pre- Scottish Review. ELECTION ANECDOTES. ' but undoubtedly to be reckoned with as an isidependent hulk sailing the financial AVM X. The Industrial group—Messrs. Westing -right Stories From Both Sides in the house, in control of his extensive electriettl Great Fight. and maslufacturing interest% the Guggen- heims Mad tho vast induatries of the Smelt- An Infant's Oratory—At one of Mr. er Trust, Schwab, of the Bethlehem Steel Henry Norman's meetings in South Won Company, and certain other men of high verha.mton he was accompanied by his vitality wive have to be counted, XII The independents, who for conven1- son, not yet nine years of age. In a clear ehce may be called the Marauders—Lawson, voice the boy told an audience of a thou- Gatte, Keene, et cetera, sand people that he did not know how No attempt is made here to more than broadly indicate the cleavage lines by which to make a epeech, "but I think that as the financial world is separated, my father has been such 0.. good father No attempted analysis of these groups has , to me, he would make a very good mem- been put 10 print, except In a fragmentary ber of Parliament for you" way. It should therefore be foetid Inter- ' estIng to the generttl nubile to keep these "He's the Man. —At a Tariff Reform divisions in mind if they are to understand meeting in Etta Anglia, the candidate the various operations winch are reported in I was asked by a looney smith's etriker: the press from day to day.—Twentieth ul swing a sledge hammer six days a turn week for 17s. Do you call that a fair U. S. Secretary Shaw's Watch. wage?" "No," answered the eanaidate. (Indianapolis News.) "Will your policy give one a better CengresMan Hedge.one of the best 9, of Iowa, holds wage?" "Yes," was the reply. "Then that Secretary Shaw is ou'll have to get ridofthat little man politicel campaigners in the country. tin the chair, cos he'sthe men as pays "Nobody ever gets away," said Hedge,weer' How Hodge Understands.—An emus - "if Leslie gets a chance to address hint H personally." ing conversation, was overheard. in a "In one eanmeign he carried a eplea. remote district of the North Wilts (un- did stew 'watch. After addressing an ettatencv. Two agricultural laborede, were udienlie weuld circulate arnorg the engaged in a political dismission and ono ace voters saying to thi% Mad and that: '1 atked the other what the fiscal questim 'Melt ion wenn' give nit; Gut eorrect tittle, was, "Olif came tho explanation, "they afraid. of losing my train.' I be goilf to tax food to make passive "Of outgo, each mart complied, belies; • resisters be veceinatedi" flattered at the request. Sbaw ueed toBlitzing Triumphal Carriege.— .After tay it Was IlArd 611 the, watelt, bat he tho declaration of the poll at Peter believed the votes be won in thee way 'borough Mr. Greenwood (Liberal), was Mete than made up." escorted to his hotel by it &wring Monet who then withdrew his horse front th The Average young fellenvit 16ve it Carriage, rolled the vehicle over and over greater than his bank **count. And finally tot it alight. They dregged The baby that cries half the Meelit does not ery for nothing. It cries be- cause it is not well, and the chances are the trouble is due to some derange. The Eleven Groups of Men 'Who The control of the immense intereats— Transportation, Finance and Industrial — which centre In Wall Street, ineludes eleven groups. These are distinct because ot the methods of their work, and becauee of the Properties in which they operate. Then ru' and tgu er aanA:ars, act independently. When, however, it comes to political control and national legislation, they move with ryhthmic tread. They may be roughly classified as follows: 1. J. Plorpont Morgan, with his chief lieutentna, Mr. Perkins, and a group of bank presidonte, trust officers and railroad heads, as supports. The Vanderbilt inter- ests aro in practical harmony with hIs group. II. John D. Rockefeller, having as his lieu- tenants Messrs, Rogers, William Rockefel- ler, and Stillman, each exercising control over a host of officials at the head of banks and industrial corporations; and the astute lawyers who are at their ictstant bock and 111. Belmont—Inferior le organization and intellectuality to the preceding groups, but with the Rotbehilds standing ever in the background representing unlimited capital for any enterprise. IV. Thomas F. Ryan, with the heads of the great corporations he controls as his business lieutenants; and aupported also by his political allies, Murphy, the leaders of Tammany, Grover Cleveland and certain men prominent in the Republican forces. V. James J. 11111, with hie .00ntrol of the Northwest, working out his plans not a speculative, but as industrial sucesses. VL Cassatt and the Pennsylvania Railway group—Mr. Schiff the financial manager; in- cluding also the big .banking firms of Phila- delphia and New York, who find profit in the connection. VII. Edward H. Harriman, having Frick as counsel and Odell as political lieutenant— controlling the central continental, south- western and southern Pacifio coast lines ef transportation. VII. George Gould, with President Jaff- rey, bead of the Rio Grande eystera, as bla chief lieutenant; working mainly aleag lines of railway development, and having the support of the great fortunes of the u51 family been closed, is decorated with an anmark that is a guarantee of their netmeement to the effect that it is dos- genuinenese to every 1)111'048er. They Protectito'n is eccurecl it will lse set weals, and while they have cured ork- t inglesaabgte again. Canvassers--Even sparrows body. To shothat w cures effected. ed owing LL Free Trade, and that when seentain no stimulant, opiate or nag- - thousands they never injured any - have been pressed into the work of elec.- by the remedy are really permanent tioneoring. :Many of these bias: may be and lasting, we recently investigated seen flying about Hallam, in Sussex, the case of Mr. A. Frank Means, of with little labels attached bearing the Reedsville, Mifflin County, Pa. Mr. words "Vote for Sir Lindsay Hogg." Means hs been an elder'211 the , APPLE HAS A LONG DESCENT. Reedsville Presbyterian Church for many years, has served. three years — as county commissioner, awl as Traced Back to tbe Cave Dwellers of school director for nine years, Re Swiss Lakes. was afflicted with creeping paralysis, losing the entire use of the lower Among the fruits of the rose family hell of his body, and for a year was are apples, pears, peaches, plum,s, cher- I a, helpless invalid, confined. to lois bed ries and quinces, as well as strawberries, I with no power or feeling ia either raspberries and blackberries. The apple leg, and physicians had given him up is e fruit of long descent. Among the as hopeless. Mr. Mesons was cured by ruins of the Swiss lake dwellers are I Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and his testi- found remains of small seed apples :which , menial was printed five years ago, as show the eectl Naives and. the grains flesh. The crab apple is a native of 1 follows: "I had the grip for four winters Britain and was the stock on which were . and as a result my nerves broke grafted the choicest varieties when : - down. I lost the entire use of the brought from Europe, chiefly France. : lower half of my body. My stomach, Apples of some sort Nvere abundant be- i liver, kidneys, heart and head. were fore the conquest and had been intro- duced probably by the Romans. Yet never effected, but the paralyzed con- d_ttLcoiite do f the lower part of the body often as Saxon manuscripts speak of , inyi m " bladder and bowels. For apples and cider there is no mention of . "` a Nvloole year I lay in bed perfectly named. varieties before the thirteenth helpless, with no power in either limb century. Then one may read of the and the feeling gone, so that. I pearmain and the costard, Chaucer's . , couldn't feel a pin run into my legs "mellow costard." ' ab all. I couldn't turn over in bed In the roll of household expenses of without help. To move me a pulley Eleanor, wife of Simon De Monefort,- an 1 - ! was rigged up on the ceiling and awincl- pies and pears are entered. In the year . lass on tre floor. 1280 the royal fruiterer to Edward L , 1 "During two years of my affliction presents a bill for apples, pears, quinces, . I had six different doctors, but none medlars and nuts. Pipins, belieeti eo be ' of them gave me any relief. A spec - seedlings, hence called from the pips or . Joliet from Philadelphia treated me seeds, are said not to have been grown for three months, but lie was of no M England before 1525. The exact benefit to me. These doctors geese Drayton, writing of the orchards of Kent a; me up, and said it was only a question t that period, can name only the apple, , of a few Nveeks with me, as nothing the orange, tloe russean, the sweeting, . inono could be done the pause w 1 water and the reinette. After the lo - e sicians bad given me up, a friend sent John Winthrop is usually e it la" 1%-- me a pamphlet containing statement of 1 sponsible for the introduction of the . two men who load been afflicted some- I apple into the new world. But as it thin' like me, and who had been cured matter of fact when Winthrop anchored : ees che use of Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills. ofi Cape Ann the recluse Blackstone i "J I began taking them at once, and al - already had apple trees growing about ; I though my improvement was slow, it his cabin at Shawinut Neck. Some of I was certain. Now I can walk most of the best of American apples were the time without a cane and everybody brought over by the Huguenots, who set- 1 I tied. in Flushing, L. I., in 1660, and plant- , can , around here thinks it is a miracle that 1 get about as I do. Your pills have ed there, among others, the ponnne roy- 1 certainly been a God -send to me. Within ale or spice apple. the last three years I have answered "We have the prize absent-minded I beard of my ca.se, and who asked Inc Absent -Minded. dozens of letters from invalids who had man in Streator, Ill.," said Henry Os- I . if it was true that I had been cured by wald, of that -city, to the Milwaukee ! Dr'tVillieens' Pink Pills. I have told' Sentinel. "Not long ago lois wife took them all that this remedy cured me, and I am glad of this opportunity of telling him to task for his bsolute helplessness when it came to remembering things, and he promised to do much better. "Less than an hour afterwards die started downtown, when she handed him a letter which she wished. dropped in the post office. He promised not to forget it and to make good carried. it in his hand through the street. Just as he reached ithe letter slot in the post office a friend asked him the time. Ile drew his watch from his pocket, answered the question, dropped the watch through the slot, and started off, with the letter still tightly i held n lois other hand. "The friend knpv of his peculiarity ;and went after him. When the watch ; had; been eecured the absenteninded 1110,11 went on, and it was not until late that (night that his wife discovered the letter ; he had. started to onail reposing in his ' creme -at pocket. In the excitement be had placed it there instead of in the box." : Song of the Southward Bound. (Minna Irvine, in Leslie's Weekly.) r When the norther sweeps filen the polar deeps, And the boughs are stripped and bare, Then I haste away from the clouds of gray To a country bright and fair. By the speeding ehip or the flying train I flee to the land of flowers, Whore tho summer smiles over hille ani miles Of rose and jessamine bowere. The wind may blow and the ice may grew, And the frozen flakes may fly, But I'm southward bound to a sunny tea All under a turquoise sky, Where the tarpon glides with Ills silver sides In tho depths of the crysts1 And the hunter's boat In the reeds afloat For the teal and mallard bides. 011, tho stormy day for the folks who stay, Ami the• ' cold, But for me the shadee of theEverglades And tho trees with fruits et gold I For Florida, waits by her rose -wreathed gates With tho canes on her breast, With the rare perfumes of a thousand blooms To welcome the Northern guest. - A Bee in His Bonnet. A German beekeeper undertook to carry some of Lis choicest bees to to bee show. He took it train in Hanover with his bees in it basket at lois feet. The bees escaped from the basket and craw- led up his trousers legs. His actions soon aroused suspicions in the hearts of the women who occupied the same compaurt- ment with him. They pulled the bell - cord and stopped the train. 1,Vhen the fancier explained tile situation he was placed on an empty compartment to have it out with the bees all by himeelf. Hero he removed his trousers and began shak- ing them out of the window to free them of the swarm. Unfortunately they caught it te/egraph pole and were swept away, bees, money and all. At the next station the irate station master brought forth the reluctant bee fancier in a rug, and he pawned lois watch to acquire decent raiment to walk back along the line in search of his bees and his trousers.—N. Y. Tribune. • • • Civilization and Buil rights, (Chieitgo Chronicle.) about my case, so that others may find relief as I have done." (Signed) F. A. MEANS. 1 Subscribed. and sworn to before me i this 17th day of April, 1901. ALBERT S One day visited at Notary Public. recently Mr. Means was his handsome home over- I ! ! looking the valley of Honey Greek, near Iteedsville, where he made the fol- lowing statement: "Before 1 began taking Dr. William* Pink Pills I had been treated for a long time by my home doctor, who pronteulseed my trouble creeping parelysis, I alwaYi believed that to be my trouble, and.' do ye tbelieve so. I had also epent Sive weeks in the University Noapital Philadelphia 'without the treatment bene- fiting me, and had returned home to die, I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in 1897, but did not give a statement of my case for publication until I was our* that I was cured. After returning from the hospital I did not take any other medicine for my trouble, and I owe it to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and to them alone that I am able to be about to -day. Since my mire, as related in my state- ment of April 17, 1901, I have never suf- fered any relapse nor had occasion to employ a physician except for ntinor troubles, such as coughs, colds, et. I endorse Dr. Williams' Pink Pills as fully and heartily to -day as I did five years, ago." (Signed.) FRANK A MEANS. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22n41 day of January, 100e. JACOB KOHLER, Justice of the Peace. Justice Kohler, of Reedsville, before whom the above affidavit was made, vol- untarily gave and signed the following statement: "I have personally enown Mr. Frank A. Means for the past forty-five years, and know that any statement he makes is entirely reliable. I personally visited him when he was confined to bed and utterly helpless. I now see him daily and know him to be in as good health as most me nof his age." (Signed) JACOB KOHLER. Mr. Daniel W. Reynolds, postmaster at Reedsville, Pa., stated that he had. re- ceived many inquiries from all parts of the country concerning Mr. Means' mar- vellous cure, and he cheerfully added his confirmation of the truth as follows: "I certify that the facts stated in the testimonial of Mr. Frank A. Means are absolutely true. I knew him when he was unable to move, and I see him every. day now on the streets and in my office." Signed DANIEL W. REYNOLDS. Here is evidence that must convince the most skeptical. But became many of the cures accomplished by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are so marvellous as to chal- lenge belief, the following offer is made: $5,000 REWARD—The Dr. Williams Medicine Company will pay the sum of Five Thousand Dollars for proof of fraud on its part in the publication oo the fore- going testimonial. No sufferer from paralysis, loeomotoz ataxia, St. Vitus' dance or any of the lesser nervous disorders can afford to longer neglect to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, the great blood builder and nerve tonic Sold by all druggists or sent by mail on receipt of price, 51) cents per box; six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. The Canadian Hog aisin Industry *44- -+-••••••••0•-•-•-•+++++4-4"+444"4"+".•-.11...-e-4.-0 1 4 Investigations by tile Live Stook Branch of the Dominion Department of Ageiculture into the alleged shortage of hogs bare shown that for some months i poet the supply of !bonen hoge an Can- ada has been falling off. Even before 1 the order was issued debarring packers from importing United States hogs to be slaughbered in bend, difficulty was experkneed by Canadian packere in pro- curing sufficient hogs:. The amount of the shorthee during the summer and fall '0 is indicated by the fact that packers clnim to have been able to secure only 1 from 30 to 50 per ceat. of the capacity of their factorise:, Nothing could be a, more forcible re- minder that all of Europe is not civilized than the fact that the conference at Algeciras WAS eittertained with a, bull fight and that all but the British and American representatives accepted the in- vitation. There is nothing more brutal ;tea brutalizing than tho torture of brutes for amusement, and it mates a sense of relief aud 'satisfaction, after readhog of this brutal entertainment, to read thee the English-speaking raeo re- fused lit horror end disgust to participate in it. • NO Tattletale. Sunday, &drool Teacher — Tenthly, , doesn't your eonecienee tell you whee O yell have done wrong? Toremy—Yee, ma'am; but It doesn't tell any mother. nog raisers, on tloe other Land, claim that the production is oonsiderably nearer the normal than would appear from the statements; of the packers. It is, they say, perils, an increase in pack- ing house oapacity rather than it de- crease in hog raising. In some of the dairying sections the supplies are re- ported to be very little if any below the normal, while in Wine districts the shortage is plaoed at about 20 to Se per cent. Enquiries as to the cause of the short- age brought from packers and producers a variety of replies. The packers claim that for the past threeyears or more the !competition between buyers of hogs has been so keen that top prices have been paid continuously, anta that these prices have been high enough to give a profit to the producer. They claim, theretore to be at it less to underatand why there is a shortage at this time, Speaking from the standpoint of the producer, well informed authorities claii . that the priee has not been as uniformly high as it should have been. At times of the year Nviien the paelsers anticipated heaesy runs, prices dropped to a. point where no profit was left to tho feeder. This, they claim, took solace last senson when sowe should be bred for tho soopplies, of the fall just entst, and as coarse grains were high and labor scarce at that time, many brood aows were sent to tlie market. Again, it is argued that the majority of packers have not ene,ouraged the pro. duction of hogs of the bacon type end weight. For a number of years, improve- ment in the hog stock of the country made satisfactory progress, but, during the past 80:18011 at least the producers of the ideal sort have received no en- couragement to continues their good work; a, flat rate has been, pitid for good and bad. alike. The hop fit only to compete with the low American price stock brought, quite 48 muck aa the sort that competes 'with Irish and Danish bacon for the highest plate on: the Brit- ish Market. Whatever may he the extent of the shorteage or the eeeel eause of it, the fact remaine that unlees producers dna packere grepple in tympatheitie eceoper. Won with the eituatton, Canada's Vain. able ban industry, will& has cost years of strenuotte effort te build up, may beemne seriettely demoralized. In 1800 there were only two peeking hemees in the export trade with a week- I,y capacity of 802110 8,1100 hove While 1905 the weekly capacity of the sixteen packing houses in. operation urns earn* 50,000. While this limit has not been reached within from 10,000 to 1$,000 hogs weekly, accoeding to the season, the output from Canada has reached about $15,000,000 annually, or 20 per cent. of the total quantity of bacon ported by Great Britain. To jeopardize so valuable an industry would be noth- ing less titan a national calamity. if the farmers who have been in the habit of raising hogs will accord the ba- con industry a steady, consistent sup- port begotten of the knowledge that nog raising pays year in and year out, the future has vmy lerge possibilities for the !Canadian bacon industry. Cana- dian bacon having won- a ,plece on the 13ritish market commanding respect, as it, inereasea in quantity and improves in quality, will undoubtedly beecene a daily necessity of the British consumer. That it may cescupy this enviable posi- tion both farmer end packer must 00' operate, the farmer by producing a eteady supply of the rigbt class of hop, the packer by paying a fairly uniform price front month iso month and fr.= year to year; awl he must give value per pound aceordiug to the quality of the product be retest -tee. Lot each do Itis part and there will be little trouble about. the supply of hogs for keeping the factories going at a normal cape, eity. What appears to be most needee at the present time is that relations of confidence be restored and maintained between packer and farmer threugh fair dealing and intelligent co-operation. With these, and an appreoiation on the part of the producers of the pos,sibilities of the induetry, hog raeging ea.nnot fail to be one of the most profitable branches of Canadian agriculture. Live Stock Branch. Dominion Department of Agricultura - t Macaroni Making in Canada. Ii‘renelt and Italian parties are con- templating the manufacture of mace - rani in Canada on a large scale. At present the output of macaroni in the United States consumes about 3,000 bar- rels of flour 'daily.