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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-07-12, Page 34+44+4+++++ 44+++++44++++++ 44 +++++++++4.+++++++++++++ Booming Mme. Bernhardt. Sarah /3ernhareit's tour of America, which ended last week, was epoch mak- ing in rime rempects. Four years ago Mme. Bernhardt played to theatre e al- , most empty, yet the results of the past season are described as highly Satisfac- tory to her and to her manager -a fact eurprielreg to experienced theatrical 11)411am:we who had predicted disaster for Izer "farewell" tour. What whim of the public caused such a change? There are managers along Broadway who will tell you that Mine. Bernhardt's success on dee tour was due entirely to the "Orme" methods em- ployee to tell the public that Bernhardt was coming. Never before perhaps with a dignified star of the first magnitude have adver- tising methods been employed in so strike big a way. It is a fact illat her tour ex- hauste-d the ingenuity of eight different press agents, who evere employed one af- ter another by her managerseonly to re- sign in succession when they found the advertising pace growing too hot or the demands upon their inventive ingenuity growing too great. Eight of the most hustling press agents in The business treated Mme. Bernhardt exactly as they would have trewtest the greatest show on earth in the halcyon days of P. T. Barn11111. While some other theatrical stars gazed in ana eminent at the methods employed, total- ly itt variance with the traditions about the dignity of a star, they sadly compar- ed their own box office receipts with the coffers of the Bernhardt aggregation. "If Bernhardt can play in a tent," said Julia Marlowe to an intimate friend re- cently, "then tents and barns should be good enough for the rest of us. If she can titan(' for such advertising they can do what they please when advertising inc in the future." That Miss Marlowe is not alone in thus expressing the sentiment of the profes- sion is shown by the fact that she and Mr. Sothern have just engaged for next season as their own press representative the first press agent on Mme. Bern- hardt's recent tour. It should be added that there are those who believe that William F. Connor, Mine. Bernhardt's manager, proved himself on his tour to be the greatest advertiser of them all. Luck favored the Bernhardt tour from the start. The steamer on which the company come was due on Saturday morning, but did. not arrive until Sun - 'day. Bernhardt thus missed the train planned for her departure for Chicago, where she was to open Monday night. Mr. Connor saw the advertising possi- bilities of running it special train to Chi- cago on an eighteen hour schedule, or better, and so the Bernhardt special started out to break the record of the Twentieth CenturyLimited. Press i Agent No. 1 was n Chicago. He got the publisher of an afternoon paper to get out Bernhardt special editions all day Monday. Consequently the news- boys of Chicago shouted all day long: "Eleven o'clock - Bernhardt special train passes Toledo two minutes ahead of the record time." "Twelve o'clock -Bernhardt has just entered the dining car." "Twelve twenty-three - Bernhardt drinte a glass of milk.' This sort of thing, kept up until the Bernhardt special arrived in Chicago, aroused tremendous interest. The result was a packed house the opening night. Press Agent No. 1 found the Bernhardt guile too arduous, however, and at his own request was transferred to another company. Press Agent No. 2 was in Can- ada when a couple of rotten eggs were thrown by some drunken students at Mme. Bernhardt's carriage in Quebec. The storiee which followed about the whole tows's turning out to rotten egg Bernhardt reflected great credit upon his imagination. Another yarn he supplied dealt with the French Ambassador at Washington, who was represented as protesting to this Government a aint the alleged dis- crimination against Bernhardt by the theatrical trust, This story, which at - tailed wide publicity, bought about his resignation, as Mme. Bernhardt objected to usng her .Ambassador as a. medum of advertising. For Bernhardt's New York engage- ment Press Agent No. 3 employed 150 men to sten in line all clay before the sale opened, presurnably to buy tickete. This line of ticket purchasers was duly photographed to show the intermit. in Bernhardt. This stimulated the legiti- mate purchasers. The Bernhardt tent story is also at- tributed to him. The story was that Bernhardt could. not get bookings in Tex- as theatres and that her manager wonld exhibit her in it tent. It may be explained that no theatrical star of prime importance ever wants to play in Texas. Stars like John Dreer, Maude Adams, E. H. Sothern, Julia Mar- lowe and all the big attractions never think of visiting Texas, where the towns are too small and far apart to make it tour profitable. The tent story, however, spread with such rapidity and. had such prominence that Manager Connor decided he would have to make good, and subsequently did present Bernhardt in a tent, though site played only one tone performance In Texas. This was at Dallas, on Mardi 20, when people for hundreds of miles near by crowded into the tent to see Bernhardt, exhibited like a circus per- former. After siX weeks press agent No. 4 gave up because of illness. Some people say he was worked almost to death. His beet contribution to the Bern- hardt Kbrary of fiction was the an- nounoement that a syndicate of financi- ers would erect in Now York, at Broad- way and Thirty-ninth street, a new then - make picnics more enjoyable by making the preparations easier. Easier to carry; easier to serve t endless tight kr wing as they come from the can. Libby** cooks have first pick of the best . raeats obtainabk-and they know how to cook them, as well as pack them. If you're Slot going to a picnic soon you tan make cue tomorrow at yewown table by servieg some sliced Luncheon Loaf. h It it revolution in the blending of good meet and good spicee, teittrizliove la Woo so Est." wrier Insist McNeill 11 Libby. Ckietio tie, to be called the Bernhardt Theatre and to be opened next September by Bernhardt, Workmen have not 'yet be- gun to build that theatre. Press agent No, 5 handed out wine! very entertaining fiction sabout the tic - trees and while most of his exploits WWI place in the west, they were occasional-; ly telegraphed to New Yetis. It was at this timo that the alleged visit to Aue- I tralia by Bernhardt and a side trip to ' Japan were announced to the public. , No. 8 had probably the most vivid im- agination of any of the press agents and his own personal narrative of the alleged wreck of the Bernhardt train, printed in Chicago'is it classic. Mme. Bernhardt was in the act of taking a bath in her private bathroom when the train left the • according to this report, and sub - sequoia developments were furnished with great detail. The old expedient of having a stares private oar wrecked was eefurbished and became almost new again, because of the allusion to Bernhardt's taking a bath at the time. This suggested. humorous ' possibilities whip, were eagerly The eight press agents of Bernhardt,' now that their labors are over, intend to form a society, to be known as th o An -1 onias A.ssociation, with an annual din- I nor every first day of April, William F. Connor'who undoubtedly did a great deal in the way of adver- tising his star, was formerly a property man with James O'Neill, and until this year never attained much prominence as a manager. After being O'Neill's pro- perty man for some years, he became his business representative and subse- quently became connected with Liebler & Company. His connection with thea- tricals, however, was entirely as a silent partner, until last fall/when he under- took the management of Bernherdt's, tour. He has withdrawn from the firm of Liebler & Company and announces that he is now through with theatricals forever. "I don't expect ever to manage an- I other theatrical attraction," he said, just before Beruhardt sailed. "I have played the ace successfully so long ilia the Jude would be sure to turn against me. Light- ning never strikes twice in the same place -especially in the thearical world." ee---- . SAVE THE BABIES. Mother, an investment of 25 cents now may save your baby's life. Cold, • , diarrhoea and cholera infant= carry off thousands of little ones during the • hot weather months. A box of Baby's Own Tablets cost but 25 cents and there is security and. safety in this medicine. Give an occasionel Tablet to the well 'child and you will keep it well. Give Ithem to the child if trouble comes swift- , ly and see the ease and comfort this ;medicine brings. And you have the 'guarantee of a government -analyst that the medicine contains no pois- onous opiate. Mrs. R. Metlin, Hall- ; fax, N. S., says: Baby's Own Tab- lets are a valuable medicine for the stomach and bowel troubles." Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Keep the Tablets in the house. 1 BRITISH CAPTAIN'S PLUCK. -- School of Sharks Round a Sinking Ship. A thrilling story of it British captain's pluck is told by the survivors of the steamer British King, which foundered during a fierce gale in the Atlantic. Twenty-eight lives were lost in the ells- ' aster, wthich was due to wreckage 'being Iwashed overboard and thrown back . against the hull by the furious waves. Tho continued battering soon caused The vessel to leak badly, and she eventually sank. IIt was during the attempt made to re- pair bhe damage done to the .hull of the 1 vessel that Captain O'Hagan euseeined injuries which caused lus death. On Saturday morning the ship had settled down • noticeably, and realizing the necessity for quiek action the cap- tain himsejf descended into the hold, but while he Wee working at the spot where the most damage had been done he was struck by a barrel of oil, which fractured his leg in earo places. I Notwithstanding tne fact that the , bone was protruding and that he had I eustained internal injuries in ide fall, 10aptain O'Ilagan refused to be carried to his cabin, and after having the in- jured limb bound up ate resumed the direction of the work of plugging the hole. 1 The Leyland liner Bostonian and the I German steamer Mannheim were close by at the time of the disaster. The former vessel rescued seventeen of the sailors, while the latter eteamer sue- : ceeded in saving eleven men from it k watery grave. A school of sharks added to the horror I of the situation. They pursued and kill- ed the swimming cattle, which formed , part of the British King's cargo, but it is not known if any of 'the sailors were caught. - DESTROYING ASSASSINS' WEAPONS. Unwritten Law, Based on Superstition, of the Reigning Houses of Europe. For obvious reasems it was natural that the Spanisli police should. be anx- ious to secure the bomb which did not explode when thrown at the royal cou- ple. There was a reason behind the desire to nip itt the bud tha.nce of further dam- age. There Is an unwritten law in the reigning houses of Europe, nays the Lon- don Evening Standard, that all relics of attempts upon royal lives, as well as the instruments used for treating the wounds caueed hi such attempts, shall be destroyed. There was a solemn as- sembly in Genova of Austro-Hungarian officials to witness the destruction of the instruments will& caused the death of the Empress Elizabeth and of the surgical implements used in making the post-mortem examination. The ,cuetom is based to a, certain ex- tent upon superstition, but more solidly upon the determination to prevent the relice from, falling into the hands of ex- hibitors of ouch tragic trifles, The custom in this matter once wan to grind to pieces the weapon which bed beets employed, When, howc:ver, the deg - ger !Wag secured with which the priest Martin Melina attempted to murder Queen Isa.bella of Spain, tether more than half it -century ago, the blade was found to be of eueh finely tonpered steel that it resisted every effort of filo anti stone. Something iik it panic was caused when the news got abroad; the Spanish peasants imagined that there mutt be inegic lit the blade. So a Cabinet was epetsially summoned to deal with the orb set, and it Wag determined to submit the steel to the influence of aelds. This provittg ouctessful, all implements eteed for the like foul purpose have undergone the like treettnent-kniees, swords, deg - gas, revolvers, and, prestutably, bombs. assessawaesessissiesselesieseassessesie. It 'Wee a tinsel irony that the bombe thrown at the young King and queen of Spain should be hurled by it man seereted in the only house in Madrid owned by Queen Christina, This, at first eight, is eurprieing. Napoleon TIL, in the terror which Oreini's attempt inspired, bid for safety by buying up the houses facing the Tuileries, eo that bombs should. not be -flung thence by his enemiee. It le from place whose poeition 00104 guarantee their eafety that danger comes. Only a miracle .prevenetd Alex- ander II, from being blown to etoras in hie own winter palace. The Grand Duke Serge was assassinated. outside the law courts at St. Petersburg; Gen. Bobrikoff was elain- when entering the Senate; M. Plelive was amide dead with -hie secret pollee Ali around him; the King and. Queen of Servia perished. in their own palace. A blow alined by the would-be mur- derer upon such an occasion as Thursday is aimed in epite of the most elaborate precautions of The police of Europe. The deteetive forcee of all the capitals of Europe are represented at this (moment at Madrid. Probably all the Anarchist societies. in Europe, too, are represented th ere. Plate are- always on foot, though they may not come to anything. The police get to hear of a movement; the conspir- ators are maned of the discovery and abandon their plans. The authorities do not unnecesearily display their knowle edge, There is danger in publicity, the Anarchist is bnitative, and will atrive to ehare the fame, as it is achieved, of the man who, ,discovered in a felonious enterprise, becomes for the moment a European figure. Pure Foods Versus Impure. The crusade against adulterated foode Is commendable and should be support- ed by all right thinking people, espec- ially when it is considered that in the majority af cases the adultered product is foisted upon the ceminunity at the price of the pure article. It is refreshing to know that in test the people are protected by demanding the well-known and reputable brand, "Salado," Ceylon Tea, which is sold in soled packets only, each bearing the. selling price and the registered trade name, which is the public safeguard against substitutes. - MORE OFFICIAL TESTS. Fourteen additional official tests have been accepted in the Canadian Holstein -Friesian Record of Merit. These tests. were all made under the supervision of Prof. Dean, of the Ontario Agricultural College, and are for a Period of seven days. The amounts of milk and butter fat reported are actual; the amount of butter is estimated from the fat by adding one-sixth. 1. 1"41°1 IV° 1r 17t6t)el• t Ym. "4. of age; ra 1 Ibs.; b t .6 ; equiv- alent butter 18.28 lbs. Owner W. H. Sim- mons, New Durham. 2. Car Born DeKol (2967), at Oy 6m. 13d.: milk 465,5 lbs.; butter fat 16.11 lbs.; °quilt-- alent butter 18.79 lbs. Owner. W. W. Brown, Lyn. 3. Inka DeKol Pleterje (5541), at 4y. gm. 1.4.; milk 353.261bs.; butter fat 11.76 lbs.; equivalent butter 13.72 lbs. Owner W. W. Brown. 4. Liola, at 3y. 3m. 234.; milk 447.06 lbs.; butter fat 13.95 lbs.; equivalent butter 16.27 lbs. Owner, W. H. Simmons. 5. Diotine 2nd's Pauline (6537), at 3y 4m, 12d.; milk 397.12 lbs.; butter fat 11.61 lbs., equivalent butter 13.55 lbs. Owner, H. Bol- lert, Cassel, Ont. 6. Calamity Duchess Posch (4969), at 3y. 2m. 154.: milk 358.1 bis.: butter fat 10.75 1Js.; equivalent butter 12.64. Owner, Walter S. Schell, Woodstock, Ont. 7. Houwtje Albino Inks. (6171), at 3y. 2m. 114.; milk 372.87 lbs.; butter fat 11.69 lbs.; equivalent ,butter 13.62. Owner, Fred Row, Curries. 8. Corinne DeKol Albino (6170), at 3y. 3m. 26d.; milk 408.76 lbs.; butter fat 10.36 lbs.; equivalent butter 12.08 lbs. Owner, Fred Row. 9. Tidy Pauline De Kol 2nd (4973), at 2y. Sm. 7d.; milk 387.43 lbs.; butter fat 12.34 lbs.; equivalent butter 14.39 lbs. Owner, H. Bel- lert Cassel. 10. Verbello Posch (5316), at 2y. 1m. 244.; milk 334.3 lbs.•, butter fat 11.91 lbs.; equiva- lent butter 13.93 lbs. Owner, Walter S. Schell. 1 n.lest1 a 11. lbs,; va 'lb 11') Scott, 2iirg924.; muik 203.68 s • u butter 13.'83 lbs. Owner, W. H. Simnmonp. 12. Calamity Grace (4771), at 2y. 10 m, 2 milk 301 lbs.; fat 11.48 lbs.; equivalent but- ter 13.40 lbs. Owner, Walter S Schell. 13. Countess Daisy Clay (6424), at 2y. lm. 74.; milk, 108.62 lbs.•' butter fat 8.69 lbs.; equivalent butter 10.14lbs. Owner, Walburn Rivers, Foldens. Ont. 14. Nomostead Jane (4681), at 2y. 2m, 274.; milk 303.52 lbs.; butter fat 8.29 lbs.* equiva- lent butter 9.63 lbs. Owner, J. W. Cohoo, New Durham. 0. W. cimmoNs, Secretary. . . A Queer Situation. (New York Journal of Commerce.) When the United States representa- tives went to Paris to negotiate the treaty of peace with Spain, they took with them $29,000,000 of claims against the Spanish. Government that they Wet to utlize in making a settlement. For the purpose of settling with Spain they eltuimed that these $2,9,000,000 of claims were genuine, bona fide claims, and then this Government, assumed all claims of Americans against Spain in favor of the United States. Of course," continues Mr, Smith, "immediately we turned right square around and claimed that none of these $29,000,000 worth of elf:Ansa that we were trying to collect from Spain were valid; but, claiming that they were invalid,. put these came before the Span- ish Olasms Commission, and were requir- ed to take it position directly at vari- ance with the position officially taken by our own•Government in the negotia- tion of the treaty of Paris." Why we were "required," to adopt such a position Is not mare plain than why the commis- sion should have decided that the grounds on which the United States in- tervened in Cuba were false or mistaken, and that Spain was all the time within her rights in what she did In the island. But it is nevertheless true that the .A.m- erican Government has instructed its counsel to repudiate everything that the United States had contended for at Paris, and everything the United States had contended for before We took pos- session of the island of Cuba. Coal in the West. Most Canadians are aware that we have In this Dominion supplies of coal to express the amount of which out' language falls lament- ably short, '16normous,"tremend0us'-such words as these only feebly express the ton- nage ef lignite beneath the thottsands of square miles In the western provinces. Un- limited is perhaps the correct word, for the simile. Is cartainly 'Unlimited' tor Malty hen. dreds of years. A billion, to !be ordinary person is little more than a 'figure of speech but the tons of coal in Alberta *done are probably represented by hundreds of billions. Though the presence of this coal it wen known, and has been known for eome time, the fact that it is only 'lignite' has been suf- ficient to induce Most people to believe that Iti econotalc use is comparatively smaIt. An invention has, however, been patented which has all the possibilities of rendering this lignite quite as Useful as hard Welsh anthracite. This Invention, known as a aas producer, has been put to very severe testa end has proved that coal similar to our west- ern lignite can be made to prOduce, by Its aid, an amount of poWer equal to that pro- duced in the ordinary way by best Welsh. Mr. bolding, of the Geographical Survey, lately reed, before the mining institute, a naper in which he gave same remarkable figures. These Show end in an ordinery steam dent the amount of coal (Melilla, to that fatind at lVfedicine Mat) required to pro- duce one horse -power per hour is atz pounds, whereas In the gas producer it similar result Is obtaiima from lest then two end a quarter , Pounds. Thle test was made on what Is known as 'wet' coal, but if the cost be drY, the variation Is equally ettrtling. These ex- traordinary resulte tenet tm a field whose Heats are practice:Hy boundless. The Geographical Survey hat wog/deed the tremendous posetielittee and their reports on the western oat areas will be road with more an usual Interent.-Pront Iltilletla Of Oeetraulileil Survey 01 (Med& A JUNE CONUNDRUM. TH 18 Mrs. New :Lee Wed -What is it makes those thought we'd just been married? THE BUSY LITTLE ANTS, What an Observer Saw the Intelligent Insects Do. A writer in the London News describes it little town of ants which he observed under a inagnifyinig glass at a secent ex- hibition. He -sap: "I watched them for a long time, and saw that they were very ,wise, for they believe in co-operation; that is, la help- ing one another. Some grain had been scattered in this &Otte countiy of theirs, and they were gathering it together in Otto place. Sometimes, iehen one ant found that he alone could, not move a large grain, he fetched helpers and so, working together, they shifted it, and placed each grain by the side of another. like a builder -svould lay his bricks when making a wall. "They had formed quite a little city, and had even made roads and streets, along which they were continually run- ning at bheir work. Yes, Ant -town, for we must give their city a name, was full of busy little people. Ail .had some duty to do. Those who were not `warkers' were ‘soldicese These trotted up and down the roads around the edge of the town, as if ready to keep off any enemy, or give the others warning that danger was coining. "The intelligence of these wonderful little insects is marvellous. A teaveller in the West Indies tells haw thousands of ants were once journeying, when they -came to a railway. Time after time, while eroseing it, a train would come along and kill hundreds of them, so what do you think these wise ants did? They actually made tunnels underneath the railway lines, and so passed through safely. "Now, English ante do not lay in it store of food for the winter, as many think, but they collect latves, for they eau feed on the fungue which grows on damp leaves. However, they der sbore their was during the winter, so that the young workers can be hatched in the summer. It is then that the ants again show how intelligent and wise they are, Lor the eggs are hatched by the warmth of the sun, and in the ant -hill t there are THREE FACTS For Sick Women To Consider. F1R8T.-That almost every operation in our hospitals performed upon women becomes necessary through neglect of such symptoms as backache, irregular and painful periods, displacements of the female organs, pain in the side, burning sensation in the stomach, bearing -down pains, nervousness, dizziness and sleep - legumes. Ssemen.-The medicine that holds the record for the largest number of absolute cures of female ills is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It regulates, strengthens and cures diseases of the female organism as nothing else can. For thirty years it has been helping women to be strong, curing backache, nervousness, kidney troubles, inflamma- tion of the female organs, weekness and diaplacements, regulating the periods perfectly and overcoming their pains. It has also proved itself invaluable in pre- paring for childbirth and the change of life. Minn. -The great volume of unsolicited and grateful testimonials on file at the Pinkhatn Laboratory at Lynn, Maes., many of which are from time to thne published by permission, give absolute evidence of the value of Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound and Mrs. Pinkhaell advice. Mrs. Plnkham*s Standing:Invitation to Women. -Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pink - ham at Lynn Mites. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by wonten only, From symptoms given, your trouble may be located and the quickest and Surest way of recovery ad- vised. -Mrs. Pinicham lo datighter-in-law of Lydia 1, Pinkliam and for twenty-flve years under her direction and since her decease she has been advising sick women free of chaego. Out of the vett volume of etpetienos In treating female ilia Mrs. Pinkham probably has the very know- ledge that will help your case. Snrely, any woman, rich or poor, le very foolish if she does not take advantage of this reakerots offer of assistance. people look at us as if they -From Toronto Telegram. numerous little rooms, called 'cells,' some near the surface of the earth and, others farther underneath, and ants shift the eggs every day either upstairs or down- stairs, in order that they shall not get too hot or too cold, for that would kill the little ants inside. "I sometimes think that ants must be jolly people, for they are so busy, and seem so full of life and health. It is no doubt because they are always trying to do eon:railing, for lazy people are not really happy." I 7 HORS'S': AND HORSELESS. Each Does the Other a Good Turn Now and Then. A farmer in Cadiz, Ind., recently jacked up his automobile to serve in lieu of a broken engine for the shelling of corn and cutting of fodder for his live stock and horses. The latter, says. the New York Sun, partook of their share of the feed without showing any hard feel- ing toward their deadly rival, the auto, One man who has been touring the country says that the horses have ac- cepted the automobile more gracefully than the-farm-ers theme. • He tells the story af an automobilist who met an elderly couple driving a skittish horse, which decidedly objected to passing the unknown vehicle. The driver of the car stopped to offer his aid, but the man declined it with the remark: "If you'll lead my old woman by, I guess the hoss and I can make it all rieht " Another horse and horseless yarn comae from a man in Oregon. lie says: "When I 'bought my car I marvelled that the company could sell it for $1,550. Now I marvel that they could sell it at any price. Marvelling is the eheapeet part of the proposition I find. "My particular mavel out in my barn reminds me of the man who built so mitek stone fence in one day that it took him two days to walk back to where he began. My car will take me - sometimes -so far from home in two hours that it takes the rest of -the day for me to drive home with a provi- dential' elired. horse." - Christmas is marked off th' calendar an' 0-e-tei-e-estese•-es++4-seinese-se.44- Lent loeste fr three lituadred ate sistty• five days a year. "They ought to make thins ate their own meat," said Mr. Hennessy warmly. suggested that," said Mr. Dooley, "but Hogan says they'd fall back . tit' Constitution. He says th' Conacttu- '.+++11P++++4 tion f5rbide erool an' unusul Pu 'The fiftieth anniversary of the dieeesv- mente."-From Collier's 'Weekly, dune l-1"11.- ery by William Henry Perkin of the fie* coal tar color, mauve, 'occurs' ats pax. THE WARD OF COAL TAR 'Plane are on foot in England, keersnany, ALMOST HOPELESS, and, the Unites' States for celebratiest ••••}1,4., - of the event, The importance of Dr. Perkiren The Condition of Thousands of Pale, - of the one color, mauve from coel tar, achlevenient lies not in the production Anaemic iris. discovery. Before, Dr. Perklu'S time coal hut in tho sueeeesive steps in else:Meal development whielt were built upon that y e:11,,Ar lamgons,,t, s)tit0:1::: ihs 1st:: iebheisstnnas'atyt, of the procesa of illuminating gas, Since to: ' tar was an almost worthless, by-pdaluet describe the condition I was in about 0 bis inveetigationa were snack pablie not Athol, N. 8. `My health had been grade ually giving way until I reached a con- dition when. 1 feared I Was sinking int° - made from. coal tar, but in addition it only ere all the colors ot the epectrum sheet, my blood apparently having turn - chronic invalidism. 1 was as white as a drugs and chemicals, of artificially pra- bas become the source of numberless from headaches and dizziness, tbe ed to water. I had no appetite, suffered sugar; of pleatiegraphic developers, of exertion would leave me breathless, und le:: : poP4Irvaderf:feinple:i0v1ess.4"Bilaesrl: altheeses'wee:ii ever, With 300 times the etrength of it appeared that 1 waft going into a de- - reet benefits irnin the discovery au syn. cline. 1 had seen Dr. Williams' thetic chemistry has been revolutionized Pills highly recommended by the news - The new method made possible Palmrs, and 1 decided to give them a 'through Dr. Perkin's work. trial. It was a fortunate day tor me bywiniam Henry perhin left the city 01 when I came to title lecieion, as the pills have not only restored. my health, Init 'enter the Royal College of Chemietry in. London School in his fifteenth year to ever I was before. I now have it good have actually made, me stronger than appetite, a good color, and new energy, man. canie a private assistant to Pref. Heff- Oxford street. Two years later he be - and I am satisfied that I owe all this During his Easter vacation in 1868 to Dr, Williams' Pink Pills, which 1 Perkin allowed his 'enthusiasm far his cheerfully recommend to other pale, fee - work by staying Wes ailing girls." quinine artitutficiabr. taingthistQwPorrok" Dr. Wililains' Pink Pills quickly cured lleueewas. led to oxidize aniline, and the Miss Mennett, simply because they make the new, rich, red blood which enables dyestuff known as mauve reeulteci. pale anaemic sufferers. Dr. Williams' brings robust health and cheerfulness to the system to throw off disease 'und ed to enter upon the manufacture of the Pink Pills cure bloodlessnes just as sure- product. Having patented his disiov- ery on Aug. 26, 1856, he began building works at Greenford Green, near Har - Re was but 18 at this- time. He resolv- ly as food cures hunger, and the new in the fallowing June. In this he blood which the pills make braces the ' was aided by his father and brother. nerves and tones anl strengthens every organ and every part of the body. That on the market. is why these pills strike straight at the By the end of the year the new dye was The second. dyestuff to receive Per - root of such common diseases as head - kin's attention, was madder red, or att- aches, sideaches and backaches, kidney virile a trouble, indigestion, neuralgia, rheuma- man chemists, announced a method for tism, St. Vitus dance, paralysis, and thGraebe and Liebexmann, the Ger e artificially producing this color in 1868. troubles from which women and grow - Perkin immediately set about perfecting, ing girls suffer in silence. lt has been a process for making it in large quan- proved in thousands of cases that Dr. titles, and was successful within a year. "Williams' Pink Pills cure after doctors The Germans were not in a poeition to and all other medicines have failed. But compete wit& him. in the manufacture of you must get the genuine pills with the full name, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale ePople," on the wrapper around this, their own discovery, until four The founding of the artificial perfume each box. All medicine dealers sell these years latex, industry may also be attributed to Per - pills or you can get them by mail at 50 ldn, since he discovered a method, for cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, by ad - n, Per - dressing The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., hitherto obtained from the funks bean Brockville, Ont. producing in the laboratory coumartiand sweet clover. This ,odoriferous Gem - Annual excursion to Ogdensburg on , Str. America, Thursday noon, of Y. I'. ba.ceo. His work along this line also A., Grace Church, Gananoque. Round pound is, used In the flavoring of to - aided materially later in the manufac- trip 25 cents. ture of indigo artificially. Following Perkins' successful work, chemists in France and Germany sat Canada's New Road Across the Continent about the task of obtaining other colors. of America. The resulting industry hese become of vast importance, especially in Germany, where it is often spoken of as the one which may best be called he national industry. Statistics show that five of the largest firms engaged in color manu- facturing in Germany have a combined capital of about $24,000,000. Dr. Perkin has devoted himself of lite bushels of wheat awaiting shipment in years almost entirely to research work, the West. In order to haul wheat at it leaving business details in the hands of 'ppcifit two thousand miles from the younger men. wheat fields to the Atlantic, it is abso- Prior to Perkin's time no one had been able to manufacture dye stuffs artifi- lutely necessary that the road be as cially in large quantities. Dyers depend - f ree as may be from heavy grades and ed entirely on the natural colorings excessive curves. While the entire line is not yet definitely located, enough furnished by plants and animals. Hof - field work has been done to demonstrate mann, Perkin ' s rnaster, taught the pro - beyond midoubt that the Transconti- duction of aniline from coal tar benzol, nental will be, as far as grades go, one of but it was left for Perkin to realize the the best laid lines across the continent. color possibilities which lay in coal tar. From the great wheat fields of the West The development of the industry thus to tide -water on the -Atlantic the grades founded by Perkin is shown in the largo going east will, is all probability, not establishments now devoted to the manu- exceed 0.4 of a foot per 100 feet. This facture of coal tar produets.One of these will mean that a modern locomotive factories employs 4,500 workmen, in - will handle forty-two cars between Win- chiding 145 graduate chemists, all having nipeg and Moncton. received their doctor's degree, 175 en - The first surveys on the government gineers and 500 clerks. This firm alone section under the commissioners were owns 1904. The 1,200 German and 1,400 other commenced in October, first contracts from near Winnipeg to a point 245 nines east thereof, and from the north end of the Quebec Bridge for 150 miles westerly, it 'total distance cf . 395 miles, is being awarded as this before a body of chemists in February as follows: article is being prepared. Inasmuch as the prime purpose of the road is to relieve any possible congestion of grain at Winnipeg, the Government is doing everything in its power to facilitate the Pacific Company northwesterlyteem 1111.esY I thinkwe will surely find reme- Fort William to connect with the nmin 1 dies which will cure consumption and Transcontinental line. By this means alley diseases caused by bacterial in - it is expected that the new road may be feTtion. We will have perfumes svhielt built in time to participate in the trans -1 one will be stronger and more beautifully portation of the crop of 1907. As scented than anything which nature can evidence of the rapidity with which the produce. Railway system received at its Lake ling,: not endanger human lives in the hand - m& "We shall find explosives which will it is stated that in 1901 the Grand Ti output of the western fields is growing but svhi Huronthan ports 0,662,000 bushels of wheat. ch will be more effective Last year the receipts reached 29,764,- ' nitroglycerine and all others known at present. We shall be able to preserve 000 bushels. - From "Canada's New materials of food for any length of time Transcontinental Railway" by Hugh D. Lumsden in the July Scribner. suwithout injury to the health of the con - FOR BIRDS. s mer." It is in nonor of the man whose re- HAVENftr ' _ searches have made possible these results that the jubilee this fall will be held. Proprietor of Illinois Farm Cares Those in charge of the arrangements in Feathered Tribe. northwest of this city, will not allow a John T. Dorris, who owns a large ferns York on present at a banquet to be held hi New' this country hope to have Dr, Perkin Oct. 6. At this time a personal token will be presented to Dr, Perkin, bird of any kind to be killed on his land. Besides this, it is planned to establieh He has set aside it nmnber of acres to a Perkin medal to be awarded annually grow up in underbrush, in which all kinds to an Ameriean cheinist for distinguished of birds, especially quail, find a home work in research, and to establish the through the winter; and in the summer ' foundation of a great chemical library, the place is alive with birds. with headquarters in New York Ail Mr. Dorris claims that hawks do very travelling brandies extending Out to little damage in comparison with the cover the country. It is proposed t.� good they do in killing field mice and have this library bear Dr. Perkin's eame. rats. There are hundreds of quail on 1 In England the suggested honors 'ti- lde farm and they have become so tame 'elude the presentation to Dr. Perkin of that thcy come to the dooryard 'to feetl. ' an oil portrait of himself, the portrait So carefully does he watch these birds one of his hired bands, while driving at Dr. Perkin's death, the execution of a to become the property of the nation that he can tell where nearly every bird through the lane with a load of hay, saw marble bust of the chemist to be placed nests in the brooding season. Last fall taking his whip he knocked it off, alight- hmin the rooms of the Chemical Society in ly crippling 11. IT picked the bird up London, and the stablis ehment of a Per - it quail sitting on the fence close by, and and took it to the house to feed it to the kin research fund for the prontotton US eat. ceical investigation. Wben Mr, Dorris sew this he rebuked him warmly, questioned him as to \there lie found the bird, and upon being told remembered where it had a nest. tin.f hitching one of the horsee and saddling ho eode it mile and a half, placed. Um bird on her nest and watched and cared for her 'until she hatched out her brood. Mr. Dorris' farm is notkeably free from ineeets that do damage to crepe, end he , , ..eitatingly says Ude is due to the birds on the place. --Har- risburg cot St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. How It Looks to 1Vlisther Dooley. Well what the experts discovered, I won't tell ye. Suffice it to say, that 1 whin He rayport come in Congress de- 1 aided to abolish all tit' days iv th' week except Friday. "I have r -read th' rayport an' now whin I'm asked to pass th' corned beef, I pass. 1 "Thank ye. I'm betther now. 1Vell, I sir, th' packers ar-re gattin' r -ready to ' protect thimsilves item `Th' Jungle.' It's on'y lately that these here gin-ros souls have give much attention to lithrachoor. Th on'y pens they felt an inthrest in was those that restrained th' hectic cow. If they had it blind man in th' Health Department a few compet- int frinds on the' Fcclaral bench, an' Farmer Bill Loriiner to protect th' cat- tle inthrests iv th' Gr-reat West, thoy cared not who made th' novels iv our country. But Hogan says they'll have to add a novel factfiry to their plant, an' in a few months ye'll be ruble to buy wan iv Nets Morris' joflar series war- ranted to be fr'm rale life, like th' pressed corned beef. "An' there ye ar-re, Hinnissy. It's a turrible situation. IIere am I an' ; here's all th' wurruld been stowin 'away meat since th' days iv Nebudeud-whats ye -may -call -him. 'Tis th' pleasant hour iv dinner. We've been waitin' half an hour pretindin we were in no hurry, makin' conversation an' lookin' at th' back iv th' house, an' a cheery perfume as iv beefsteak an' onions comes through an open dure. Th' hired girl smilin' but triumphant flags us frail th' dinin' room. Th' talk about th' eveather stops tit wanst. .Th' story iv th' won -1 hredful child on'y four years old that bit his brother is stowed away rr fu -1 turo use. Th' company dashes out, There is some crowdin' itt th' dure. `Will ye sit there, Mrs. Casey'? 'Mrs.! Iiinnissy, squat down next to Mikeei 'Tom, d'ye etow ydersilf at th' end iv , th' table wliere ye can deal th' potatoes.' 'Ar -re ye all r -ready? Thin go.' There mare twinty good stories flyin' befure napkins ar-ro well inside iv tie col- lars. Tit' platter eomes in smokin 'like : Veenvyous. I begin to play itie fav -rite I chune with it earvin' knife ort a ate -el whin Molly Donahue remarks; 'lievo ye r -read About th' invistygatioes iv th' Stock Yards?' 1 dhrop iee knife. Tom Donahue elutchee at his collar. Mrs. Itinnissy says th' room !teems eloee, en' ) we make it meal of potatoes an' Vather-1 cress, Iy'rebody goes home ariy with- out sayin' good -by, an' the ilex' day rather Kelly has to patch up it row between :von an' ye& wife. We ate no snore togitlier, an' food being' th' basis iv aU frindahip, fritalihip ewes. GREAT WHEAT LINE. The Great Lakes will for all time remain the favored freight route from the West to tide -water, but when the lakes are frozen, if the crops increase as they have increased for the past decade, there will always be millions of patents. The possibilities still lying dormant in coal tar fire the imaginations of chem- ists. One chemist concluded it paper read "What these raw materials, obtained throngli the distillation of coal tar will furnish in the future is a matter of con- jecture, but if you will perfit me to pro - Me. John Marsh, who bas been jailer of the Belleville jail sinve May, l8S1. line handed in his resignation to Sheriff Hope, with the request that Ise be relieved on 41111r . •