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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-09-06, Page 3ft 4i+ .$4 4 4 ee, +44 ++++++4414+++++ fi4++++4•44-4+++++4444+f-44+ 1 near the ter of tto affetted tido, but -4. its. place WA* tekett by a new groWth of i BLIND TEACHER OF 1.01 BLIND tto,,,Tar,otnihpei,,,e;,,,ttwir.w Iltibrisa blacknete gradually eliaded off as the + 'dietetic.° from the ear inereped, but the + ipignientation was discernible even, in + I Mrs. Deck Drills of n Them iWays Earning . . iparte, far removed. the corres- iponding half of the manFilially's rnuetache be. came darker han the ther half, and a Living. without any previoue falling out of the t balm °reale." Wonaen utter these words over +++++++4+++++++44++++++4444++++++ Imbert and Marquee add that in other and over again, but continue to drag along end euffer with lichee in the small of the back, pain low down in the eiale, "bearing -down" pains, nervolemeem and no ambition for any task. What h a Backache? IT IS NATURE'S WARNING TO WOMEN Means of Woman's Organism Cured and Con:equal Pals Stopped by Lydia 18.1%. hoes Vegetable Compound. " It seems as though ray hack would Ever eince the New York Asseeiationergency Mrs. Jacobs is the one to help eases they have observed a deepening of for the Blind was organized laet March Mrs. Beck, who lost her sight twenty- four years ago, has been one of thenbusi- est of women in this city. From early morning until evening Mrs. Beck jour- neys around hunting up poor women who, like herself, became blind after schooldays were over and teaching them de various inethoof earning their living. E3he herself is expert at typewriting, plain and fancy sewing, knitting, and erochetieg, basket weaving and lace making; and every blind woman, she says, can lease at least one of these me coniplishments well enough to loecome self-supporting. The association provides the little girl who (pilots Mrs. Beck on her journeys, also the yarn, thread, needles and all ma- terials for the lessons; it pays the wo- men for such of their finished work as is perfect or tries to procure them ordere in advance. It is the first tine such teaching has been attempted in this. city, though the library association has pro- vided home instruction in reading. "Those who become blind late in life have not only to overcome tho sense of helplessness and discouragement which their sudden plunge into darkness brings upon them, but also the prejudice which the publie at large 'has to employing blind label. about their work." Mrs. Beck said when asked about her work, "Only reeently I came across a woman who had been an expert seanistress before losing the use of her eyes and who felt that she could still do plain sewing if only she could thread her needle, at once opened my beg and drew forth one of the self -threading needles which are made for the blind. It was all that was needed to turn her hours of idle - mats into houre of happy activity; yet for want of theeknowledge of that simple little instrument she had passed many diseouraged years in darkness. "I am helping the asaociation take the Census of the Blind In New York, and in this way I find dozens of such cases. Often I visit as many as fifteen homes a day. If the women have been used to knitting and plain sewing it is soon easy for them to do as well without eyes. No one in - ogles how wonderfuly sensitive the the touch is until they have to depend upon it entirely. I can trust my fingers now as never could trust my eyes when I had them. I will introduce you to a pupil of mine soon who will tell you her out. ihe is expezt at it both ou the color of light hair under the in' fluenee of the Rutgers rays. They the machine and by nand. At one time :duce becoming blind she has presided do not pretend to explain the mechanism over a workroom where thirty-seven of this action. It is to be presumed, that the offset le witnessed only in hairy girls were making eravats and directed b pgpilLeanti on, and judged their work successfully. At pts delecoliirny8tiannfeoersmoft atione is 88 present besides her laundry work she t makes a lumber of skirts and aprons for working women; also dust cape and iron holders. Her proudest achievement, however, is a brootn holder which she invented and has had cast in iron. lie r husband av- erages 412.50 a day selling this novelty, and the caps aud iron holders in suburb- an homee. A new professibn for the blind has been discovered by 'William Daub, super- intendent of Mount Lebanon Hospital, who not long ago had a telephone switch- board placed in his office end gave the place of operator to a friend of his who had lost her sight recently. Thi -3 young woman became expert so rapidly and. hal proved so capable a worker that a Switchboard is now beim, placed in the —From the New York Medical Journal, THE MOORISH SLAVE MARKET. Negroes and Others Are Still Sold at Public Auction. One by one the great slave markets of the world are disappearing; yet, within three hours' .steam of Gibraltar, Mor- occo rens:tine one of the very few coun- tries where the public auction of negroea, andt other than negroes, may still be :wit- mased. Any traveller who finds his way to the imperial city, Marrakesh, ahould make a point of visiting its famous mar- ket, whiell has reeently been attracting the attention of the powers. A century ago it was no .tinconsiiion thing for Eng - office of the Aseociation for the Bhind lith men end Eterlish women—the nap - where other sightless women will be tires of the Reieulie of that day—to piles into lifeloug slavery from the very same yard, large and squalid, where I have just witneesed the auction of some twene two lessees in the touch system wrote a ty-five natives, letter without a mistake either in lottei-J It ecente hard to believe that while England was waging war with Napoleon the main duty of her Ambassadors in Morocco Was to appeal to the Sultan, CC p in hand, and with ample offerings of cerriagee and cannons—which the Moors descalbed as tributes—for the release of British erews and their wives, who hal had the ill fortune to he captured by the famous rovers of Sallee and Rabat. Faithful records of these transactions may yet be found. in the diplomatic and consular reports, of the period. At about 5 o'clock on a Thursday af- ternoon the proceedings of the Marra- kesh auction opened—with prayer—the eight or ten auctioneers formed in line, calling for the divine blesesinp; upon both buyer and seller. In this ap,peal, I re - Piano Tuning marked, the slaves were not mentioned. is another profession at which the blind Then leading his chattels from one group man excels the one with sight, not only of possible buyers to another, eaeh aue- because his hearing is so much more sen- Veneer went the round. of the market, sitive but becouse with him there is no stating the amount of the last bid. The danger of rusting the wires. The wires presence of Europeans is not welcome at of a piano are frequently rusted, you these sales; but nothing was eaid to us, know, by the sighted tuner breathing on excepting that eve were asked, emir - them as he leans forward to insert the teously enough, not to walk about. For mute. The blind man, on the other hand, any looker-on to move from his place always turns his head away Nvhile doing would, it seems, be a breaeh of slave - this and so one great danger to the in- auction etiquette, something about that." strument is averted. No writer in search of startling effects The woman was sitting up in Mount "In spite of these advantages the blind. need visit the Marrakesh market. The Morris Park, where he has sat on a tuner finds it almost impossible to get whole thing is, as a rule, businesslike, bench for years, since her total blindness employment. I know of one who is em- not to say humdrum. Naturally enough, came upon her, offering pencils and little ployed by a wealthy woman and who the slaves, especially the girls, are dresss• flags for sale. Now she is learning to keeps her two pianos in such excellent ed in their best, and artistically groom - knit ribbed sweaters and proudly exhibits condition that her friends often ask for led' and in ninny cases a ohange of mas- her first, which is ahnost finished. his oddness. In such cases she gives it tem is looked forward to with pleasure. "It's hard to keep count of the stitcres without mentioning his affliction, so tbat Somehow or other the horror we have all all the time," she said, "but I think to her friends may not be deterred from, , felt at some period of our lives evapor- myself: • "Never mind; just wait till I ' sending for him. Time and again, when .ates considerably on facing the reality. learn. Then of cold winter days, instead he Mai arrived at the home to which it is quite obvious for one thing that of sitting out on a park bench selling he has been thus summoned the mistressIthe average Moorish negro does not pencils, I'll be comfoitably at home knit- has refused to permit him to touoli her , want freedom. It is also a fact that in ting sweaters.' 1 piano on discovering that he was blind, 81110 cases out of ten he is far better off "Yes, Mrs. Beek says I'm getting along saying that he would surely ruin. it; ;than a free person of his capacity dare nicely, and she knows. Why, a week or notwithstanding his excellent work amd hope to be. Indeed, it is no uncommoie two a friend of mine saidi 'Oh, don't recommendation of her friend." thing for a freed slave to resell himself, mind counting the stitches; how will the At the workshop which the associa- and share the price paid with the friend teacher be able to tell if you do miss tion has established tut 147 East Forty- who poses as original owner. We all, in ,one occasionally?' I took her advice and second street is a case containing .sam- theory, recognize the something lwrong happened to skip one stitch in one of the pies of the work of some of the blind in slavery; bet in some mysterious way ribs. The moment Mrs. Beek took the women of New York—shawls and sweat- theory and practice elash. Of one thing sweater in her hands she knew the top era, beautifully knitted, willow baskets, we may reate assured. A plebiscite of of that rib was one stitch too narrow, bead work and sewing so fine and so Moorish slaves Nvould emphatically re - though I didn't know it myself, and she dainty it seems almost impossible a blincl ject an offer of liberty which entailed sat here ravelling out row niter row un- worker could have done it. the respon.sibility of working like an or - til she found out where the trouble com- Through the association blind women dinary laborer.—Written by a. Resident mewed, two inches down." recently received an order for dozens of Mogador for the London Daily Gra- "That is the one thing I try hardest of milking blouses which are used on a phic. to impress upon all my pupils," Mrs. dairy farm. They have also made a num- • Beek said. "'Pretty well' may do for ber of modelling. blouses for sculptors the sighted worker, but our work must and do ehe hemming of be absolutely perfect—ever better than Fine White Aprons others can do—if we are to hope to sell and of household linens for wealthy It at all. homes. Orders are taken for baskets of "A week or two ago all descriptions, from dainty work bask - .k Blind Woman et- to large hampers for hospitals. sent for me and displayed a lot of little articles in beadwork which she had made. None of them was'at all practical and the work was not more than fair, but she thought the association could diapose of them as work which was good for a blind woman to have dne. I had to tell her that just the opposite was the ease. Since then, hwever, I have learned that there is a great demand for elec- tric bulb shades of beadwork and. I have taught to operate it. „„, This same Nvoman is now ono of Alm. Beck's pupils on the typewriter and atter mg or punctuation. "We have now a stenographic machine which enables the blind to take short- hand notes as rapidly as a person who can see," Mrs. Beck says. "The -e 110 - thing but the prejudice of the general public to employing the blind in offices to prevent us supplying thoroughly ca- pable workers in this field. "'Unless you have tried to get employ- ment for the blind you cannot imagine how strong that prejudice is. We have a number of excellent mattress- makers and upholsterers among the blind men of New York, yet they beg for the work which is handed out rendily to far less competent men with sight. 4a* NEW YORK AND LONDON, They do not realize that the back is the mainsming .of woman's organism, and quickly indicates by aching a dis- eased condition of the female organs or kidneys, and that the aches and. pains *will continue until the cause is removed. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound has been for many years the one and only effective remedy in such eases. It speedily cures female organe and -kid- ney disorders and restores the female organs to a healthy condition. Dear Mrs. Pinkham "1 suffered a long time with female trouble, having intense pains in the back and abdomen and very sick headaches every month. I was tired and nervous all the time and life looked very dreary to me and I lied no desire to live until I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and to get some relief. My recovery was slow but it was sure, and I never regretted the money spent for the Compound as it brought me back to good health. "It seems to be a medicine especially adapted to the ills of our sex and I am glad to say a good word for it."—Mrs. Albert Mann, 154 Gore Vale Ave., Toronto, Ont. No other person can give such helpful advice to women who are sick as can Mrs. Pinkham, daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham. Her address is Lynn, Mass., and her advice free. .11•1•6 ,Our Scotch Corner.. ) Items of Greatness in the Two Cities— Where New York Excels. It is said of London in praise of Its great- ncss that • There are also lace makers among the In London a child iscobrcArend every thfrvee mb- blind of New Yoriz, Mrs. Beck beinl uuttsesan'hea eiryatchonrtaeins 700 r71(13wrYay most proficient worker in this art. With 5,000 'omnibuses, 7,000 hansoms, 14,000 cabs her knitting needles she can imitate the and 7,000 tramcars. Daily 1,000,000 persons finest point laces, copying any pattern perfectly. A lace handkerchief made by Four thousand postnien deliver 10,000,000 trmeevi eonn uralwergyrorrddgrael y I lwaapaBn. the Thames, Mrs. Beck was recently sent to the ex- letters weekly, walking a distance equal tO position of work of the blind, which is tatrvoictlothe cirrsmotre onyeeerhooaf dthtel Tvilitroer: now being held in Milan. It has been de- and the n000 muinter of telegraph erg:I:ages re.: clared by' judges of hand made laces an calved in London in a year is 6,000,000. example of the finest work possible of Ninety million galons of water are con- sumed daily, The railways, omnibuses, cabs started to teach this woman to become its kind. and steamboats convey 1,273,000,090 passengers really expert at making them. Then, she "When we have obtained complete daily and the underground railways 268,000, - nay hope to earn a comfortable little census of the blind in this city, I shall 000 passengers. be able to devote all my time to teach- The 118 square miles of „London aro lighted Income."by 4,974 electric lights, 1,186 electric 'noon- AnOther of Miss Beck's pupils lives in ing," MrkBeen nye; ,:eue we feel that descent lights, 66,000 incandescent gas lamps a tenement in West Thirtieth street. the mi ost mportant thing at first is to and 18,248 fiat flamo gas burners. get in touch ,with them all and learn salVeoUlinNosewof Yinolu•%iao lavna doresaotm.asetshing in the Fourteen years ago, when 21 years old, their needs. The census of the United she led her sight. Since then she has States we have found to be very deficient than London it exceeds it In the volume With a smaller nuireler "Of inhabitants sat hopeless in the single room, shining 'and clean in spite of its bareness, which she shares with her mother, who is to 'old and feeble to find work. The allow- ance given by the State provides the $4 a month which their room costs. For their food they must depend upon a fam- ily of relatives, too poor to give proper aid, and often a little dry bread and cof- fee in the morning is the only food they have all day. Until Mrs. Beck discovered her no one who knew of her had thought it possi- ble that the girl might do anything to earn her livelihood, but in the couple of lessons Annie has had so far she has proved that she will ono day be an ex- pert knitter. "If I ca nearn even 25 cente a day we ean live well on that," she says, eagerly, "and if I could feel eure to -day that we wotild have a quarter for to -morrow I would stop worrying, and perhaps my eyes would stop paining, too." "It is cues like this will& show how neeessary is the work which the associa- tion is trying to do," said Mrs. Beck. "Annie never touched a knitting needle before I came, yet see how well she is doing. The blind are all so eager to learn, so happy if they can help them- selves, Yet heretofore there has been no effort to Make the adult blind self- - eupporting." Close by the room where Annie and Ur mother live is a little flat which la It. direct contrast, as showing all that a blind woman may be capable. of Mrs. Mary lacohs, who lest bah eyee in an explosion, ex- plains proudly that the does° all her own housework, and her henna does credit to Iter ability. flhe points to shelves along the kitchen walls ata tolls how she put them up heves% measuring with It piece o !string fronk .he floor up "to get them plumb." Outside of her dining Venn window is a winter refrigerator, is piece of her handisrerk, which 'would do eresIit to any carpenter. Sb6 also Washes and irons white thirtwaists its daintily as 'men had seen a similar effect. It Wag any laundress in the land. leant of *man 55 years old Who Watt un - Mrs. Beek tot that arbtasTat lit* dor treatment with this rays for lupus Iftialft Of atty tort dam la an oz. of OM OM*, At titan be loot the hsir in respect to the blind registered, and it gives no details concerning any of them. We are making a card catalogue, which already contains the names of 1,- 200 blind persons in Manhattan and The Bronx, and of these three-fourths have lost their sight too late to gain entranee to schools for the sightless. A special card catalogue is being compiled of the blind who wish employment, with an account of what each is able to do." Twenty blind people are now in the employ of the Association for the Blind, cou1d ha OW% tot alto at a Mum among the !stook% ,ef corn. liemetimes the women, folk furtively pleated a Wet inside his door, or crammed, lieoneni into the pockete of the hungry children; but that was the eXterst of their kindnese. For a. long time he bore up bravely, but at last irie loot faith even in him- aelf, and that gone, what IS there left to a man? For days heat at the fire brooding, flini only his dear wife' e brave face prevfr ented him om making the coward's retreat. * * * * * * * "Sandy," said old Dr. Masson, "do you mind when I married yd to Ruth?" "Ay, Doctor," eaid Sandy Walker, joiner and cartwright, "fine that." "An' baptised Mary, an' Aleck, an' John, an' wee Dod?" "Ay, Doctoe," and Sandy wondered what wee coming. "Do ye mind when wee Dad was site ill wi' bronkaties? An hoo he liked to hear the .auld thinner ininister ging hymps till. him? Sandy, do ye mind yon eerie nicht when Ruth won asSall" and the old man's voice trembled, "an' boo 1 sat an' prayed wi' ye the lee lang nicht by the corp?" "Oh, Doctor, Doctor, dinna speak o't, The Lord Maisel' kens a' ye've been to me an' mine," "Alexander Welker," said tho minieter, standing erect and frowning. back a tear, "has the Load done so much for you, anti do you refwee to do even a little tor ITimI Think ohame, Alexander Walker, ungrateful sinner that you are!" "Lord, Doctor, what is't?" the asked in. apprehension. "Have you no bowels of mercy?" thun- dered the minister. "Have you no con- science? Have I always to be the mouth- piece of God to you? Man, go down this very nicht and knock at Hugh Gal- braith's dooe, Tell him you want a bookkeemesand bid him come to your of- fice on the morrow." "But, Doctor—" "No `buts? to me," said the old man. "Do os 1 bid ye! .An', Sandy," and the voice was now low and persuasive, "do it gently, as you would be done by. Cli'e him your hand ,friendly -like, an' pat faith in him, an ye will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of eine." "It shall be done, Doctor, for your sake," .said Sandy, after a pause. "No' for mine, Sandy, no for mine, but for His," and he looked up. "An', Sandy, no' a word about me, mind—no' to a leevi& soul. And the God of all merely bless you art' yours." And the Doctor was gone. "Sandy sat a long time in silence. "Doctor, ye're richt," he said to himself, at length. "Janet, my boots., like a guid lass . Puir Hugh, pule Hugh!" d It was done as the old Doctor ha commanded, and with the result he had a foreseen. Go along Min street to -day till you come to Jean Armour's corner. Turn down the close and look up at the sign, "Walker & Galbraith, joiners and build, ers." Doesn't that tell you all in a word? —Saint Andrew. The Old Minister. I think Glenkeld tan boast of having the oldest acting minister in all broad Scotland. Rev. Gilbert Masson, D. D., was well over fourscore years, yet in full harness . He was the hardest work- ing man in the parish, and the kindli- est. I have seen him enter a laborer's cot- tage at six o'clock in the morning; I have seen him wearily making his way home from a sick visit after midnight. As a preacher he was nowhere. His sermons, to say the least of them, were unconscionably long and dry. At least so thought the younger generation. Yet all, young and old, loved him, and I do not envy the man who in the course of time must be called to fill his shoes. He could be at times as gentle and winning as a child when he lapsell into the Doric of his native tongue; at others stern and commanding as any general in the field. Once his session, headed by Geordie Carruthers, of Winnaha', timorously sug- gested the advisability of appointing a colleague for the old man. "An' what for, Geordie?" asked the Doctor. "Am I no' doing my duty as ye wad like? Ay, Pm an old. man, but nano in this parish, man or woman, an' least o' a' you, Geordie, can say I've been remiss in the Lora's work." "It's no' that, Doctor," the fattener answered nervously, "no' that aye', but we were thinkin' o' your ain comfort in your declining years; an' forby, your voice is no' as strong as it used to be, or the lot o' us are gettin, fell dull o' hearini." "An' dae ye think, man," said Dr. Mas- son, with a roguish twinkle in his eye, "dae ye think that gin I had an asist- ant ye wad hear me ony better?" And from that day the subject was never again mentioned. of travel, In the amount paid for work, in the volume of work done and In the increase In the number of buildings, occupants of a building and population. Where London consumes 00,000,000 sallowc of water a day, New York oonsumes 500,000,- 040. Where London has an area of 118 square miles, Now York has 316. In New York every minute two Immigrants arrive—more than 1,000,000 in a year. Every six minutes a child is born. 'every seven minutes there is a funeral. Every hour a new building Is erected. Now York has moro children at Its public schools than London; fewer paupers; a lower death rate; fewer uninhabited houses; mora parks, more bridges, fewer jails, a better distributed street traffic and a higher stan- dard of health. some as census gatherers and others in Now York's subway carries more passen- workehops where brooms are made and chairs aro caned. Six of these men would be in the almshouse were it not, for the aid of the association in making them useful members of the working world. Ono old German came from the island about three weeks ago. "Don't make me go bask there again," he begged, "I want to be a man. Let ane stay here and work," He can catch only a glimmer of day- light through his best eye, but he has learned to size straw already. Now, bus- ily at work from morning to night and earning $4 a week, he ia one of the hap- piest men in Nete York. X -Rays and the Color of theHair. Heightened pigmentation of the hair is among the oceienotull effects of ex- poisure to the Rontgen rays, At a recent meeting of the Paris Academy of Melte- os, Dr. A. Imbert and Dr. IL Marques peported certain olbstervatim, bearing Upon the natter. One of themselves hav- ing made frequent applieations of the rays for a period of ten years, noticed that the hair of his head arid of his beard, previously elinost completely white, had progressively beeome so pig- meritedthat it Was of a darker hue than It had 'been originally and the change •bad been observed by other persons. In a sulatequent instals° thee gentle- gers in a day than London's underground. The number of crimee of violence is twice as large in London as In NowYark, and the number of arrests for drunkenness in Lon- dou is four times as great as the number of arrests for the mune cause In New York, New York has more fires in a year than London and thoy entail greater loss, It has less shinning es a port than London, fewer clerks to tho whole population employed, but more bosses or employers. Battle Ship in Bad Lack. (Philadelphia Hesse 1.1 All the old sea dogs at League Island are agreed that the new liattteship Ten- nessee, which went into ttemenisnnt 1.01 Tuesday, is destined to experience some misfortune. They base their predictions on a superstition which they claim has always been correct in its results, When the commission pennant was unfurled on the Tenneesee, instead of floating out in a long, narrow streamer, it wrapped itself around the mast, and eontiimed to do so every time it was unwrapped. The sailors say that tide happens rarely, but when it does it forebodes evil, When the battleship Missouri, on which the die- aettous turret explosion occurred, went into conimission her pennant did the seine thing. Working a Smooth Scheme. "TheY tell in you're in 1088 WItti YOtr slriployer's wife." "Nothing in "nut you take her about a great dos', don't you?" "That'e a bluff Of Mine to set myself t Menden with the hose. Ho hopes I'm ping olsOO hot." , * * * * * * * * Hugh Galbraith sat in his kitchen glowering at the fire. His children were all in bed ansi asleep, and his wife was busy laying the cloth for supper. "Hugh, dear," she asked, bending over him fondly, "why are you so sad and silent tonight?" He looked up, and she was startled to see tears on his wan cheeks. "Maggie, oh! Maggie " he said with a sob, "I must tell you, laseie. I've been dismissed from the bank,' and his arm stole around the trembling woman. "What is it, Hugh?" she asked breath- lessly. "Last summer when the children were ill I took the loan of the Bowling Club's money, and I've never been able to put It back. They call it emb—," but he could not bring himself to speak the word. "Oh, why did you not tell me this long ago, Hugh?" she sobbed. "Are they go- ing to—going to put you—?" "Thank God, no, Maggie," he answered hurriedly. "That is spared me; but there are sore, sore times before us — dear." "But you have me—and the children," and she stroked his cheek softly. Ho was 'weeping like a ehild. I need not tell of the boycott that fol- lowed. No community is so ceneorious as that of a Scotch country village. Be- sides Hugh Gelbraith was a native, ad he haa risen from the rude of them. He Was thus without employment, without the remotest hope of employment. Ile was "cut" by all his acquaint - (twee, except daft Jamie, the Carpshairn carrier's son. Work of no deseription A MOTHER'S STORY. Stereopticon War On Germs free Object Lessons on Fighting the White Plague. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++44++4++++++++ The stereopticon machine once the to get away. yet typhoid nowhere chief attraction at church eneertainments nearly as bad as thui idelenees, veliktei and later tlae medium for announcieg takes off its thousende eitels year. Yet eleetion results, bas qualified in another people make no effort ageitust tuberous braneh, This time tile slide machine ie lesm selusational and medical, 1 "When we eterted this &torso-0ton on The Health Depertment of the eity has misled out an itinerary for a stereopti- con to go about throwing on eereene in the puke and public places pictures and epigrammatic sentenues which warn and its travels we tried it on the dog by springing it unexpeeetdly on a group in Mulberry Bend Park. We held 2,000 per - sous there thoroughly interested all tli* have been only a few exhibitions thus far time. advise people about tuberculosis. There She Tells How Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Saved Her Daughter. Anaemia is the doctors' name for bloodlessness. It is an ailmeiie that affects almost every girl in her teens. Womanhood makes new demands upon her bloocl supply that she cannot meet. Month after month her strength, her very very life, are being drained away. No food and no care can do her any good. No common medicine can save her. medicines or 'consumptive cures,' They She needs new blood. New blood is the delft Me.' one thing—the only thing—that can "If you want to know how to protect make a healthy woman of her. Dr. Wil- yourself and your family from consump- Hams' Pink Pills actually make new tion, take time to read these bulletins." blood. That is why they never fail to "Patent medicines do not cure con - cure anaemia. That is how they save sumption• most of them are practically from an early grave scores of young girls whose health and strength depend upon their blood supply. Urs. Anson Clark, Arden, Ont., says: "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have been a great blessing in my family, as two of iny daughters have used them, with marked success. When my eldest daughter was, about seventeen she began to fail in health. Her blood seemed to have turned to water. She was troubled with headaches and dinzi- ness; the least exertion would cause her heart to palpitate violently and she could. not walk up stairs without stopping to rest. She doctored for upwards of a year, and the doctor said she did not have as much blood in her body as an or- dinarily healthy person would have in one arm. The doctor's treatment did. not do her a particle of good. She seemed slowly fading away. Then she became afflicted with salt rheum, ,and her hands were almost raw. About this time a neighbor advised the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and she begun taking them. After using the pills for a few weeks we could see an improvement, her appe- tite began to improve and a trace of color came to her cheeks. She continued taking thepills until she had used thir- teen boxes, when she was as well and strong as even every trace ,of both the anaemia and salt rheum had disap- peared and she has since enjoyed the best of health. Later on my youngest daugh- ter, aged fifteen, began to lose her health, but thanks to our experience with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills we knew where to look for a cure and tater using four boxes of pills she was all right again. I have also used the pills myself for ner- vous troubles, with complete success." Rich, red blood is the secret of health —Dr. 'Williams" Pink Pills is the secret of rich, red blood. They aetually make rich, red blood, that is why they cure anaemia, headaches and backaches, indi- gestion, nervous prostration, heart palpi- tation, neuralgia, rheumatism, sciatica, St. Vitus dance and the ailments that make the lives of so many women and growing girls miserable. Sold by all med- icine denim or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxee for $2.50 from The Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. 4 • l• The Age to Marry. 11•=1.0. , 1)(111)1),ESIN Pr; '411 LIS \kw' \ K1DNE --05fcw 1:111:41E:st_truS:g /41). digs °It inS Ot. -RIGhilr'S pis tate pule," r 44* "The next exhibition wait Battery Parlz and the third an City 11a11 Lark. Fromnow on until the first of Oetober by the machine, but it seems to draw as the picture man and uachine will he great ft crowd as some shows whose sole busy, and every open place and park fit and confessed object is amusement. foe the purpose from taw Battery to The doctors in the Health Department orual par.k. will be visited. are inclined to look on the use of the stereopticon as only a trivial incident of i(4,c).1:110f13.t.; lovforektitsaet, wolellimavno beetwro. their general campaign to prevent the spread of tuberculosis in the Borough skanig,ieran4n. wa have heed' etrugglingienossirm bly not worth u& eon - of Manhattan. Compared with some of hard with the tuberculoeis problem and the really hard efforts made by them in their ten years' struggle against the disease, they are inclined to think it so pretty a meaus of waging war that to say much about it is to give it too intich importance. At the same time they acknowledge that the scheme is doing and is going to da a whole lot of good. The apparatus is set up in some park, say on the East Side. It is a warm eight, and there is little for the benoh sitters, women and children to do but swelter. Anything draws a crowd. The exhibi- tor starts off with a picture of some tenement house, the lake of which is known to all of them. He says nothing. "We would have to pse megnphones, and then we could not make them all hear," explained oue of the doctors. The view changes and the interior of some overcrowded room is shown. The unsanitary conditions are nothing new. Then out, bold ancl clear, coines a sign, with these words in English and Yiddish: "Consumption causes more deaths than any other disease. Consumption attacks especially those who live in crowded or badly ventilated. rooms." The disease is no stranger to the work- ers who bend over sewing machines, and they know just what the continuous coughing and hawking mean. Their in- terest is aroused and they wait to see the lest. These sentences follow. "The only consumptive to be afraid of is the careless consumptive." 'Consumption may be cured if taken in tinie, but usualy not otherwise." , "Fresh air, rest, food. These give you your chance to get well of consumption." To some of these people fresh air and have got further along than Seine places. "For instance, in Washington and in Trenton they have not yet been able to decide that it is a good thing to eegieter tuberculous patients. They are beginning Pow what we passed through with a long tinie ago. We encountered the active opposition of doctors who thought that there was oo need to register tubercu- lous patients. "Our work was discouraging enough at the start, but the result of our efforts has been satisfactory. The community Is aroused to the real danger from, tuber• culosis, and we hope that in a few year* the registry of cases will show a failing off."—New York Sun. The Great Seaports. The latest available returns, compiled by the bureau of statistics at Washing- ton, show that London and Liverpool still maintain their supremacy in the foreign commerce of the world, The fol- lowing is a comparative list of the twenty-five greatest seaports, with the total value of their foreign commerce: London.. ...... . ... $1,304,754,181 Liverpool .. , 1,185,514,439 New York.... 1,106,979,046 Hamburg .. • 981,510,000 Antwerp .,736,114,000 Marseilles.. 431,552,000 Havre ..... . 364,143,000 Calcutta, 294,408,000 Bremen .... , .. . .. 292,457,000 ilull ..... 256,250,313 Bombay 255,272,000 Buenos Ayres ..... 217,297,000 Singapore 213.068,000 rest and food seem pretty hard to obtain. Sydney • • • . They cannot stop to rest, for work Shanghai ....... means food, and work ras to be done in New Orleans .. ... • the close air of the factory. But at any Glasgow ...... .. • • rate the stereopticon tells them that Boston • • • • • • there is a way to escape, and that cleanli- ness will do a great deal to ward off the disease that kills so many. They watch the succession of pictures. There is shown a healthy pair of lungs Alexandria, Egypt .... .• Melbourne .... ... • • • Montreal Southampton ..... Galveston ansi then a pair affected by the disease. Dunkirk .... ..... ... ... Pictures illustrating the treatment of Manchester .... .. .. • • • • patients and of all the devices for pre - Hong Kong is one of the venting infection or contagion follow. shipping ports in the world, but it is The signs are sandwiched in between "Don't waste time or money on patent liot a market. It is a convenient point sentences like these: 1 or the transfer of cargoes from or in- tended for the different ports of China, Japan, Corea, the Philippine Islands, Siam and other parts of the East, but 11 18 a small island, with a limited. popu- lation, who produce nothing and consume deal of trade iit transit.—W, E. Curtis, comparatively little, but handle a great in Chicago Record. N38,960,000 188,139,000 182,631,619 173,513,789 170,506,469 185,147,000 153,000,000 148,406,004 147,590,108 147,164,103 144,920,000 143,933,162 most active And, you will say, at what age should a man merry? Well, at all events. never before he is quite prepared to provide for a wife, whatever her position may be. When tins indispenseble condition is satisfied, I shall say never, or seldom, be- fore thirty. Never try matrimony as no experiment —that is to say, never before. you are ab- solutely certain you will prefer it to all the rest. 1 heard the other day a very good piece of advice, which I should like to repeat here. tie I endorse it thorough- ly: A man should marry a WO1TIII11 half his age, plus seven. Try it at whatever age you like, and yon will find it works very well, taking for granted all the while that, after all, a man as well as a wonion is the ago that he looks end feels.—The late Max AA 6 Tillie to Feel Grateful. Nervous Jolinny—I love the smell of MOW Care bios alcoholic drinks in disguise." "Alcoholic drinks are particularly bad for persons suffering from consumption. THE FIRST PEANUTS. They do not cure—they kill." "Few people who buy a bag of peezubbe "Rooms which have been occepied by a in the street for 6 cents realize the ex - consumptive should be thoroughly clean- tent of the peanut industry," said A. P. ed and then disinfected by the Board of Bryan, of Norfolk, Va. It is a fact that Health." tbe total sales of peanuts amount 8848 - "Don't live in a room in which there is ally to between $8,000,000 and $10,011,- 000, and some salesmen sell as high as 1000.000 bushels each year. "The seeds. of the peanut are planted like beans, and when the vines have some up and the nuts are ready for har- vesting the farmer takes oultivator especially made for that purpose and starts down the long rows. On either side of this cultivator are two long knives which sink into the ground. auk ficiently to cut the tap root of the vine. The same process is gone through with on the other side of the vine. The main no fresh air. "Don't sleep in a room in which there IS no fresh air." There are forty-five of these precepts that flash across the sheet in succession, and the whole series is presented every time the stereopticon is set up. The pic- tures and everything are thoroughly ap- propriate to the subject. There is no thought of amusement. It is serious business. The views have taken deep hold. Everywhere crowds gather to watch, and, at 13.! eeyth staygidy pleasedtry tb root being thus severed and the ground lessened, the vines are lifted into shocke of the birdness. They did not expect like corn. They are cured by allowing sueh SliereriS. them to stand in the sun about ten days, Dr. Bertram II. Waters says that the when colored women and children are idea originated about two years ago at a sent into the field to pick the nuts from convention of the American Association the vines. .An average picker will pick for the Prevention and Cure of Tuber- about five bushels a day, for which he is culesis, in Washington. The plan was paid at the rate of 10 cents a buehel. brought up and discussed, end. the .N ew ' "It is not 'mown how peanuts first York physicians dteitIN1 that as the city , came to this country. Both Africa and had been the foreinoet in fighting, the Asia claim the distinction of being the disease the plan should be tried here:- ;home of this vegetable. Its first record It took some time before the thing in the United States dates back to 1859. got under way. The board hired J. In 1861 the crop abounted to about 50,- Lightowler to make the views and pre- 000 bushels, but it was the circus that pare the elides. Naturally it took a. lit- really made the peanut a valuable arti- tle while to give a sufficiently minatory de of commerce. At the present time and also suffieiently soothing tone to the crop amounts to about 11,000,000 bushels annually. Virginia and. North each eentenee to make them sink in. Carolina etill maintain their lead, but The slides were finished up a while ago Tenneesee now raises about 800,000 bush - and it was .decided to wait until Ere wea- els, though of an inferior quality, Of ther was warm enough to give the views the ordinary variety about twenty-two out of doors. There were some present - pounds make a bushel.—Milwaukee San - ed in schools and halls in the winter, as part of the regular Board of leaucation lectures. In Defence of the Gallus. "There will be slides in other ian- guages presently," seid Dr. Waters. The "gallus" marks the freeman and "They will he written in Italian and. Ger- the man of genius, unpretending culture man. These four languages ought to and civilization. Your sn,ob and your cover the ease. ea -age abhor it. In Mesopotamia the "Those about the patent 'medicines are wild Bashibazauk wears it belt; in Yuma - pretty strong ,and we have it better ease tan the Indian wears a girdle of elutrk e than tbe muck rakers in the magazines. teeth; in Senegambia, the shamaleee aens Our warnings go to persons who are like- nibal sports a gunnysack; in Atiantitt layer.to use the MeilieineS, not to those City, a. few years back, the dudes used who like to read IlOrrOrse to get a shew d- to ear sashes. But find a man who, when he throws his coat off to bagin his "We have a batch tsf letters from pat- daily toil, lays bare a pair of heavy, eity ent medicine concerns threatening us it ! blue genuses, ana you'll find a man, 'fetid we do not remove these eigne from tho pays his way in the world, loves hieWite, list, I guess they'll stay there, though. rears his &Haien in the fear of the Lord, "We are thinking ,too, of having pane- and. vote the straight ticket. .p114ets on the care el the disease and its I The "gellus" is useful; it is gainful, prevention made up in several languages ! and properly adorned with hand exsinted and distributed at the placce where the flowers and brass buckles, it le beautiful. stereopticon shows. .After ut while there 'Co he ashamed of it, to et:amend St or to will be duplicates of the slides, made and ; abandon it for a sombre belabor belt is shipped to other eitiee so that the good i to fall hi tin eseential of brtie manhood eon be done everywhere. There is no de- Alla fly in the face ,of !etc—Math:dors tying that tale 'views Make a very strong 5 appeal in an effective way. "New York has, elwaye ra great deal for the fighting of the disease, The 6 English Remarks en TOO. (London Globe), doctors are beginning to lselp tie by re- The great fault 'which Americans have to alatering their patients readily, and that find with England when they come Over here Lreatitisalfor a visit In the summer Is the absent:* of lie,lpilwgfiaim the traveller May be, even if he Is 10 the ttire Mice, In the States Ice Is it Milt Wherever h auoo, they getting keener in their diagnosis of backwoods, he rinds Ice. But in Maitland tate thaet There are about 55,000 eases ro. Ignegiguiroycks.d.ouhi:oialoit. astra,h, asIRrnIraturtybotttotelti- &testa in this borough. ourveyor of drink with fin amused Malls, Ileetess—Really? What an extriserditt- "The fatelisni of parftOna in thinkleg of "were sot no lee. nut you will tlad 11 ary tastel Why do you like itt ilia 'disease is amazing. Por inwtanee, 1( and cool.' Nice Mad tom moue tikot N. j.—Ilecauee when you emelt it you there were len eases of typhoid fever in der the Astericaris say that **glut* "alias eirK would net actuallly boll in It. tru Wit*. know the danger's past. , borough people Would 166 noshing It.