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Parting of Weber & Fields
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Lew Fields Tells How They Rose to Fame and
Now Separate Alter Twenty -Seven Yesrs,
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Two weelte from Oext 8trrda bw wo Addea that to our a.ot. fWiifle
night jou Weaer and Lew Seielde end ' we danced wo would tear tittle/ end
their portnertiliip, if it had thtn give them to the ladle% •
boon eontalued until uext Jauuttry, "Weil, eve played in New Yee% olne
thould liana covered te period of O7 sveeke, awe when we (melee oar 'stay;
yeare, there we 'were getting a it3.50 each
No otlier theatrleal tenan, nee for a ev'eeltee wort. By. that time
worked together so long, syStil thenothing could delve ues awa,y1 from
(reception of Minter° ADO Heath, our tiet purpose qr coneinuilig op t1c
the loachfaea vaudeville emeetilance otage, Wo lef t sultool arid let our
Hera ga and Hart were part nem .
many years and so were Robson and
()Male, lait neither pule stayed 1,o- -
gether so loag, os Weber and Fields,
When Ilarraeon and Hart
and later ilebson and Crane, leap
goers aeard the news with regret.
'Ito severing of the bond that
Weber arid pietas together Is also re
-
grated by the pubin.
Utley hey° parted, bowever, and
each. man says he bears ea ill -will
against .the ether. Neither will say
o. word that reflects on the other.
Weer ;hoe bought out les Tarte
ner's interest in the mete bell and
expects to run it next Hewn, neve
is considertable talk of his taking
a new partner in tee person of an-
other eomealan, but be does not
know NO -At lie is going do do as -
Set or erLat obanges be . will make
In the eberacter of the shows to be
given at the music hall.
Inielde tote eareadY made his plans.
Ile has beeoine n patter in the,
theatrical firm ot Hamlin &, Mit-
chell, and next season he will star
In a new extravaganza built on the
lines or The Wizard of Oz, Meantime
hie is going to take la long rest
and does not expect to appear on
the stage again until utext janu-
ary,
It remains to be seen which man
will be the more succeeeful. Both
• liave partisars. The friends of Fields
say he is the better actor of the
two, but Weberni admirers say he
WOO tile One Wilo alvvk ys. created
the laughter. At any rate both have
agreed never to make use of their
uptted names again.
Fields has been MAI up for a eveelt
with. a sprained hip, lie bad to stop
playing in Beaton, and he has been
resting quietly at Ills home, .307
West ggety-thirch street, for several
("eye. Ile expects to be able to join
his partner at tee West End Thea-
tre, beginning to -morrow night.
(Whet a Sun reeorter called on lam
yesterday, Fielde seas in bed, fol -
Ismailia: his Phaelcian's iustructions to
stay there if he wanted to be able
to .act this wieek.
attrente in 00 our game.
We went to Wortli's abrecum,
This awe the 'beet museton 00 1,110
Boore. We often e1auget1 Our elot
there. Ir Wo wore 1104 Ilifed as
tridll tlr Weal• (Menge to a Dula
°I.' a coon hair. It nteele no differ-
enoe to us. All we load 1,o Slo Was' to
avenge the first lino ot our etnig
and our costume and, psalm -up,
"It was at Wortbee that Joe was
'taken oft the tago by, the Gerry
Society', We were playing eight 05
nine time a day., and jee'e nee" to
PrOnacie that they wouldn't anew
him to play more than -three times
each day before the society woule
allow hirn to go back to work.'40,0
woe picked out 'becalm he was small-
er than I, but after that Bret inter-
ference we ever° never bothered,
"We'cl leased the museum& tor
about four .years up and down the
Bowery, but there was one museum
we couldn't seam to break into.
Teat was at Broadway anti Ninth
etreet, and George H. Bunnell ran.
it.
"Being off the 13oevery it had a
higher class of patronage, and .100
and 1 wanted to play there. We
used to write to Bunnell every week
asking him for an engagement, but
he always sent us book a stamped
postal, mynas "All time filleden
"We Mado up our iniods we were
going to play in that house, and
we spent coneiderable time in plan-
ning how we were going to do it.
Oemember, we were only young-
sters, but we wanted to go abed.
"We called on 13unnell one day af-
ter we bad received les fiftieth
stamped postal, 'Selling us all jets
dates were filled. The man at the
door of Me office recognized us and
suspecting what we were after told
us to go away. He 'what Bunnell was
toobusy to sea us.
" 'He ain't too busy,' said
got a new eurlosity for tarn,'
"Tee doorkeeper gave Bunnell our
reeseage and we were nihered into
1115 off,co. He was a very nnay lnan
and ttie astred curtly what we
wanted. , • '
"There Is no better time to hater- " We want to. tell you about a
view, ‘s, snash,,, said the aaneelan, curiositee said I boldly. i•
"than when he is inbed following " `Yes, a one -eyed alleinaman,"
Ivls dootor'e advice. I am glad you broke in 'Toe, •
• for,you can give the Ile to " `Waiot's eurieus about a °ne-
rved Chinamen ?' asked, Bunnell,
the story, that I was faking. simply
to get out or playing again with sharply.
Joe." But this ,Chink ain't got any
"That was an unkind thing to say.
eyes' like other Chinks,' said L
I'll play next week if I ani " 'No, he ain't,' said Joe. 'He's only
got orie aye, and it's in the centre
On May 28 our partnereitip ends. of his forehead.'
"Twenty-seven years is a long
time to- be business partners and "'And he wears a black soft hat
friends. joe and I first met in
pulled down over his face,' said I, tiho Allen street public mime''and he's got a hole cut in, the ilea
when so he cam sae out with his one eye.'
We were 10 years old. We both had
"'Where is this remarkable China -
a, fancy for clog dancing, and it won man?' asked the eniuseuin man, ex -
this mutual liking that drew us to-, cited at hearing of such a freak.
gether. " 'We saw, hien in Mott street and
"During recess and after school 'vete know.- the house- he lives in,'
'lours we would practiee dancing, sath I. ; • ,
and 'every time we could we would' " 'Meet iiie here to -morrow morn -
sneak off to the London Theatre and tag and take me to hire,' eaki Dun -
gaze with awe upon tho performere aerie
from our seats in the gallery. We "'But what clo we get out of tell -
resolved to be actors, too, and it ing you about this curioeity ?' we
was not long before we made our asked,
fleet appeatatice on the Otago. en3unne1l asked what we wanted.
"The Elks' Serenaders Aiqt:er the name We told hine a job, and we went to
selected by. flee Fast Side yelling work at les place the 'following day.
men who banded together and gave "Our freak Ceinainan never exist -
themselves a benefit -at what was od, aliO for several days we lired
then known as Turner's Hall, on the in fear that Bunnell would ask us
Bowery. Wanting alio opportunity to to take him to the freak. We strueg
ape what we could do in public. Joe 1,111.0tuaailceig tor four weeks about that
and I volunteered our service% air reporting every once and a
' "From the pennies we could serape
together we each bought a pair of
green knickerbockers, a white waist,
• blank stockings, dancing clogs and a
derby hat. Then we were ready to
make our ;debut as dancers and sing-
ers.
while that the Chink was still ily-
Aug in the pleas we first saw him.
"Everything event airing enemelay
until Bunnell called us from the etage
one day, and told us to Inyvtle into
our street clothes. We knew then
that the museum manager woe go-
ing after our Obink.freak,
We hinel a merge iwords of our own "We got In Bunuell's carriage and
composition, =ale cribbed, which drove to Oldnaeown. Although We
we Called "Ilhe Land of the Sham- were weak in the knees we deelded to
rock. Oireena Just lieten to the blurt as long as we could, and, when
chorus; , we reached the Chinese quarter we
, painted out a house in Mott street
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Here we are, an Dietz pair, . our freak was .eupposed to live.
Without any troublee or care; "Jute: ae we wero entering the
We're hear once more to make house a Chinamen appeared out of
people roar the dark hall and barred our way.
Before we Seo to the hall. , , We told bine what we were in oearch
of, • but he would not let as enter
' "Well, ,Toe and I made our first the nonee. •
appearance at this benefit, and we "Bunnell threatened Min and we
received so meet' profile from a very called hint names for barring our
Slim °acne -nee that we t'elt we Were -Way, but he paid no attention to
cut out rex actore. At that benefit tie. I learned later that he woe the
We decided upon our vocation, and lookout man of a 011ineee gambling
We vowed that neither one of us boos°. ,
Would de any other sort of work ex- "Bunnell was furlong at being balk-
cept dunce and sing. The Lord ed 'by the Clank and we drove to elle
knows ive did not look line the two office of the 'Chinese Conant. Once
Irlsh boys our song told about, but there Bunnell did all the talking.
our first audiehoe didn't care *loth- "Ile told the Consul that he want -
ex we eamo from Ireland or jer- ed that one -eyed Chinese freak and
ulealein. lie was going to have himi no Mat-
• "We played at three or tour bene- ter what It cost. Bunnell demanded
fete atter this„ and kept on going of the Consul (hoe he help him leet
to school. Then we got bold t and tlic than' '
etruelt out for a jdb. "'Wily, I never even beard OS' Mich
"'Morrie & alickman'e East Salo a mon,' eald tho Consul, and no euch
museum wed teen on Chatham person meld be here seltholit me
knowing. Some one must be- fooling
Square. We demanded an engagement
there, and 'were hired for one week
at eS3 each. , , "Bunnell looleed at tts. We couldn't
"We went to,Sehool in the morning help grinning, for we figured that
and played hookey in the after- we had Octant' our first and laet
noon, while We 'kept out engagement engagement irt lite holm.
"Ho never said a 'word to 'us all
at tbe museum. oWe.wore billea at
the name= as Weber and Fields the 'seats back to the museum. He re -
We wore hired for a eeeond week, allzed be lutd been duped by; a eouplo
arid the proprietors billed sie au• of youngetere, and he snowed he was
Fields and WebereTbret woe the onle a good sport bh1 the way he stood
thee We Were billed thafor itt 'erase
"'We Were pretty; well pleased N,N,Ith "When we. got 'book to' hie plaee
lik took us Off In, corner and !mid
teireeleve atter the first two weeke,
and WZ3 Gettill10 )vore tickled to to 05: 1
ka OW tha t eve were getting paid real "By. ilminetty: It yon were not le
Monoy' foe what we considered hitt. eotiple of .ToWs eou. would nob be so
"It wrieldt loin; before we had an- Melt. GO, baelt to work.'
'other crien,gement, Thie thee it Wee "We steeseed there fame eyeeks, long -
at tho Now York, another Bowery er and Bunnell itiwaYie %lied we hie
eenecuin. Bowery unistanie (3 timee hoen after that. Wo IslaYed in lila
date were not very high class theatre in Now Haven two weeks
olaeoes of entertainment ; tie feet, ago, and we IlOd o great tallith over
low elaect, Would better' -describe our one -eyed frc•ak that never tek-
meet of them. It was at the New 191e4., 1 ,
York, that we fleet sae/. the pei31b1l1- "The first real theatre ,Totr end I
tine or Ole:berating our gong p.nd ever played In 'Wee IlUrry Minetda
&nee aet, Beerers.. We went there from tuns
"Plaelog at one of' the newtry n01'4 for $10 it Weak. Wo were etill
Pliteee Wars a Chap nine Wes tailed doing the Web Witte arid dance ael,
they pow Xing, /le ;made all *wee and the opening night We dreW out
things out of paper and then Pro- 'ilarlarYt irl lha gal1er3t* .
echted epteirtiets elf Ilia handiWork "liver.V boy in our nelellbOrliooa
to the wenneh In the audience rite turned out te 111 051 T r : ...: 1 vv.,
Skartellirisa , clid onasetree Meade A'. U. Sheldon
"One of the thinge ho netel to 40 wale the %tap manager at tee D es -
well Weet to melte tittle/ but of white eryi then itint It Wes be Who Lave
Settler. Ire would take a big elleet our next lift.
Of white paper, fold It and WI tear- "The Ada lit'ohmontl Ixtrlegglle
big pleebe it of the told here end trolfno Plahnd dif.''..!,ililor'a tho lhnek
there 110 Weill(1 Work Met it piettern after' we did, lied they were 10 tu el
of h tidyof a Imftvlb )'.tenecly team. ellieldoe
"The Parer King took & liking to titOngitt trn SWAIM 'do (Ma "MN IfalliVd
Xtite end nee, arid lie tAught um hOw:10 lill lrie Paid eesked if Isee eould do the
. Make tkileit, J4,8 4004 AN We learsed "Neil, The got) Po ,ltihr and that
"The departure of Yiceroy Alexioff and Grand Duke Boris from Port Arthur svas hurried."
—News Despatch.
ON TO MOSCOW."
(Philadelphia Record.)
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VOA the first eisne we ever did a he meant to hit Ine 5e1 009 the _chest 'deem suits. No matter how they fl1.,
Botch a,ct. We slicl a knookabeut, And he caught nee across the lips. get them' "
roiugli Wiese turn, la eveialr we welt-
graname gave an idea, of wirat was to be tere mai* used up after our We were only too glad to follow.
ed well other it
Jeiw,h sticks. The Prof- eci"Ntorillenke3vtui:11111 t°1111ter bn itidtleeril.lesVe5citesinecl'" "
expeeted of ati, for in big letters we act that we twoluld brIVVO tti rub en.ell and retain our jobs. We igot the drese
the veteran manager's instructions
suite and shook hands atter our
were billed AS hid
The Two Skid' Crack= other Icloiren. with. (alcohol after each fight. Then began our first exper-
ors.' . - perfoxintince. i term in oduea,ting an audience.
"It was In this show that wo first "PmroPeovidenee wo 'Went to Phil- I "We didn't make a single change
introdulecci Oar twasted dialect, We
made good with elm house, and the adelphia, where we !were offerea an ' except the two Carcroes advised. In
Leaf esse,aeset shah ahres.ass, ethe ' a week las audiences' had begun to
new:w
xt eek we :were at Mittens ntreis. 0 morose nehcr vi ,,,,,d 0 wale applaud us. Finally we began to get
Eighth avenue) benee. '
"There Col. HiSokine, of tee Cone- thought It avetahl lb° a, uovieltY,
see curtain calls, and see became so
fated a.et In Sits house, and
. . . popular that we &toyed there „ nino
190a0,_ of P1'0;Videnee, eioked us to "The opening night eve fleece got inontlre. By the way, we were the
NU eilts braise tfotr a Week. We de -
Mended $126 for a sseeek's woirk
In PiroVideneo, .Initi hinapeci at Hdp-
kins' final offer ot ;$50. Yaw see that
twas a elear lump of flirty from
what' we were witting.
hid. We event to our ssmehme , first team of tide icind to wear dress
roohle rend seem arying when Co,r-
oroas fceuncl us, Be teas a kindly
man, end he began to cheer us up.
"'Your act didn't go well, boys,' he
"Providereseeliked Oar murdering said. 'eey audience don't seem to un-
met. It woo Secough work. Of course erstand it. Tilley mem to think that
we were elways evell padded, but ac- your tage fight to real. NOM% at
ckleute will happen. tbo end of your argument hereafter
"Once J'ae, fologoti to put on the shake Intrule and smile at the audl-
piece al 'roar he wore lender his once to show tliem it is all in fun.
skull pad end I ftati Mtn! with a cane Then you must dreps different. Go
and opened nts. snatp. Another time to some eecond-hand place and buy
.`4seek
"..0;:;'"Srelhs.'"'
1,4f' ---e
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nother club woman, Mrs. Haule, of
Edgerton, Wis., tells how she was cured
of irregularities and uterine trouble, ter-
rible pains and backache, by the use of
Lydia E Pinitham's Vegetable Compound.
.Y brat, brig, PnixtrAi'F--z, A w- hile ago may health benn to fail
because of female troubles. The doctor did not help me. I remem-
bered that my mother had used Lydia E. PinkhanesVegetable
Compound on many occasions for irregularities and uterine troubles,
and. I felt sure that it could not harm me at any rate to give it a trial.
"X WAS certainly glad to find. that within a week / felt much better,
the terrible pains in the back and side were beginning to eeatien and at
the time of menstruation I did not have nearly as serious a time as
heretofore, so I continued its use for two months, and at the end of
that thee I was like a new woman. 1 really- have never felt better in
my life, have not had, a sick headache since, and, weigh 20 peunds ,more
than I ever did, sd1 unhesitatingly recoinreend your medieme."— Ras.
IIAux,m, Edgerton, Wis., Pres. Household Economics Club
MEE MEDICAL ADVICE TO VrOBEFS.
Don't hesitate to write to llIts• Pinldiam. She will understand
your case perfeetly, and will treat you with Mildness. lEter advice
is tree, and the address 18 Lynn, 1Iass No woman ever regretted
hating- writteii her, and she leteg helped thousands.
•
When women are troubled with irregularities, suppressed (no
Painful thenstruation, vreakneSs, indigestion, leueorrhoa, displace*
Meta or ulceration of the womb, inflammation of the ovaries, gena
ertil debility, an4 nervoUS prostration, or are
beset with such symptoms es. dizziness,
faintness, lassitudb,
tabtUtttertOusriess, Sleepiest:kegs,
inehniehOly, 04,11.golit," and "Vvantw
tate-left-alone" feelings, blues, and
hopelessness, they should remember
there 18 One tried and Otte remedy.
Lydia E. Iiinkhamis Vegetable Compound
at °nee telsitere$ such trouble. Refuse to
buy any other medicine, for you need the best.
Frances Cook, 0ox 070, Kane, Pk; says:
"-Molt MES latiffered for
ton years with lenoorrhcoa, but um glfal to say
that through the use of Lydia Veg4
(gable Compound and hor Sanathre 'Wash I am
cured., for which 1 am very thankfulP
suite on the stage.
"It was pretty smooth -af-
ter that. We playea with many
00111conlee ahd our eatery kept on
Increasing. 'We began to think of
taking ou a company of our own
• and began to save money toward
that ()Dd. .When we did take out a
ocinpany It was an all-star vaude-
ville cast and we got, the money.
"Nine years ago Joe and 1 played
at Ilatemeresteiles Olympia at $750
it week, It was there that we first
, got the Idea of 'burlesque. Wo let
1 others in on our plane, but they only
laughed at us.
"We took the old Imperial, any-
way, and c,hang-ed its title to our
own names, Everybody remernbere
what we did there. We gave the
best sbow we could get and tho best
eatlete.
"To get the best artists we had
to pay tho higheet eateries. We paid
De wolf. Maw $80.000 for his
season of eighty weeks with us. L11-
1ien Russell leas always recelyecl $1,-
020 a week.
"We kept on advancing all the time
until It got to the point • where we
cored not go any further. I think
the public will alwaya go to see a
goad burlesque, but they mem to be
a little tired of the style of 9110N9I
we have been giving thorn. However,
I won't novo to bother about what
tho p•ublie cares for at tho music
hall hereafter."
"Is there any chance of you and
Weber getting together again ?"
Fields WW1 asked.
"Who can tell ?" repiled the comed-
ian. "Stranger things bave hap-
pened."
por,ogiukiteer oeLep3.4,0100, .eattle 0,04,
To, peinte vast el 14agliorwes ,
1,7, eattio 130.
tie -Voir ti.e4etlinpaltutrievOly 'wellairttrrcli A14 iNTERESTINO SKETC11 OP
In Loma with the coetit. With the A FAmol 1, ,.. A RActim
,:cwo1334)1Y t"4:30° 1.4Qr4" we" - -. elOilettgeteia:qn *hlailliaturL ple Worthy
Ibnittli.yeetiL:VW late, arid frOut Ookien,
trtgl.o.av.eennintcLluac:nogoy tabreigeolrileps7 enn..to: , new lie Differa vont uh, vonktostn
1 evaTtihulittritgrele: Igidellail4tlipoThr DYwIl_tilejell Dr, Lao ppout the fameee phyvielf44
recent live stock ernavention in 4-4 l'.. ,te the vatieau,, who name hag re.
or Being Veil -owed
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tedvd, to itor$000 all borool "Wing 111"•°Katy; ecarte leo greae•ly to Vie front
i.lvcivi 1°111311i4valle:b niiirt0errittc114°,rnaiV:i)eult30;11711teillai i tion
XIII11411taullffittliloinbt fetlitsiterieferthe
on teem:Met of his unreeneting ettea-
OffeCt on our eXpOrt trade to the while), he le aapassess ths tee,presoese
Northwest, as their principal tiuPs " ', ''"
4.0 ') t ft 01
States. From official fignriete no lees
pyolytt:' 1'5111" IS l'oar tile Vilite4 Meal of cOunua,ncling Oehler, But he
• than g6,000 now (mere tInportea inos•lie eeneethieg Mere than that. He he
nalOre than a Mere Men -of eeleneet
; lbo is & I35.31 Or Orlginttl and int*.
In regard to cattle, in addition tO pendent peed, lee etanda aat among
• the 1)'6t81 'head) '.5i'vee " 41101)ed. te Medical Men Sit ell natiOele, theme
ethe -coasi: markets; in orOor 'to or- eeriree the fleeter of the World'a ine
'rive at the consumption of beef at
these point% meet be added the 10- ptee1414econt.,,t yerriverzeityo.f nuisettiniac9inti
cal eupply, and a total ,speiply fOr dirteeepeetewith bie fellow solentlette.
about four months, Thom the NOrth-
west. as the /3,, 0, ranges hardly But no One hatsever dlepeted tor lan
instant the reiaarkallle nettle* err bis
stslritptrzobeeeet, trope February to the. Proreeelonal attelmeents or the un-
oreelytion e the euppiyi foie the adnebing -iirtegrity of his personel
mainla raine orthwes
t, thNt, with the grocett)eraleal4eigarhrear1404rnagaZ:tairi...
The Kootenay! trade is seiPPlied
01
conntry south of Okanagan. hake, letistshe9svnieontaialhilltdoet0ttathereeiboaghbreet;h04
Lake tool
will bring alp* the beundary. This elle awe acme es the greasteee 400.
the exports train B.' C. tem
ranges to a figure probably!
ieh the coact the clalrying buelfress. A0 au example of tine May be men.
etween 10,000 and 11,000 ,
bbead.
has been very good, and the pries, In waletz lie lots dilfered from the
tionoci one veen Interesting reepeet
of butter bigh ; during januarytand neefleeet mere of this country'. 'The
letter are trammelled byl medical
w7sebrrelletl'Yehng60mtleie °Ilia ttrleitlrilegWeernite: e'etairrieettliT4or4)etelit:IterPuuntsee9lftleill,tet'rdel4veot
per lbe of butter fat.
. Tbe improvement or the heads le tion to their work, ant tshar OrO
very eteady, and 'although no .doubt l
limitein their la.bore by ...ene re,
a, vast member of cow./ saould std1 Tileelterecad abeled 6,14,011-Prlieee. eaftrjwileYti hwdlirleal3r 0,eg''
bp weeded out, ithe Average is a, good
deal better than 6, few years ago. all Wade sanctiooed by the Phar-
macopoeia or newly Introduced; but
Youre very truly,
I 1
W. A. Clemons, whore a medical dieeovery, even I 1 1 : k , when it le the lifeeworit of a Tegular
PlIblivation Clerk.
practising phosielan, is recommend-
ed to the general public byl a monofaeturers professional etiquette stepe
In and frightens them- No matter
bow overwhelming the evidence of
wilat such it diseover,yi when sold as
a proprietary medicine, has action?
vania That.Has Ite Romance. polished, they look , ?Welly opon it and
will rarely admit that they have
used It with - .success. r1 would be
"unprofessional') to do eel Dr. I...ap-
poni Is troubled by no nob scruplee.
For inetence„ the numerone remark.
able cures which beat been proved
the tinie; but I've had an exciting win- .bei newspaper reports, independently
Investigated, to have been ammo-
pliehed by the medicine sold in Can-
ada under the name of Dr. Willianale
Pink Pills for Pale People, meet be
well knower to uu Canadion doctors.
They have been published far and
Wide. There oan be no doubt of their
aceuraey. The names arid addresses
elf, the Men and Women cured are
.freely published. Their statements
have been Investigated by some ot
the meat Important .110w...spoiler5 in
tlas eouratry and abroad. No one
lees ever attempted to dispute the
facts. Bet Canadian, doctors have
never carol- to achnet publicly
that they leave revealed el'emselves of
'this discovery. Dr. Laphoni, how-
ever, has availed himself of Dr.
Williams" discovery, and has, in his
own fearless way, luel no, hesitation
in Inaking the 'fact publicly known.
The following letter, with les eigna-
etareefreely Avows the facts and en-
dorses the value of Dr, Wililione'
'Pink Pills with an authority no one
well veotore to emestien.
' - TRANSLATION.
"I certify that I hallo tried Dr.
Williainre Pink PUN in four cases of
the simple anaemia of development.
After a few weeks of treatment, the
result earne.iully up to my expecte:,
tiaras. For that reason I shall uot
fail in thrfa`uv.P to extenel the use
of thle laudable preparation, not
in this reoion. We hare our own . quarry only In the treatment of other m
aar-
cts, •There are ,great beds of limestone
rignt at geed, which supplies all we can
use,
"The rock, as it *Aimee from, the
quarry, is first cruslied hi a tarp roller,
which reduces it to the sire of the lower
dressing in a macadam road. Leaving
this first roller it is carried on by a
chain of buckets to "'another, where it
goes through- the process known as
bal`lilni l't%
cii a roller there aro plaeed a num-
ber of iron balls, each weighing twenty
pounds, mid about a ton's weight of
them to the crusher, By this process
the stone is growl(' to about the size of
granulated sugar. The other materiels
are then added to the crushed lime-
stone.
"The next step is the baking, which is
clone in long rotary kilns. As soon as
the burning reaebee the proper stage, the
clinkers, of a dark green, color, are car
-
rice' on by the bucket &Mil to the tube
roller, where the final grinding, produces
a fine powder. be this last stage the
heavy balls used in tbo second roller
me replaceci by pebbles, evhich have to
be frequently eenewed,
"During the process of manufacture it
is repeatedly tested. The first test is
the chemical one, to insure the correct
th
combination of ingredients. Then the:
are the mechanical tests, for strength
and durability. The powder should , eel entif te world ati their true
sufficiently fine to pass through a sieveealu-e. I tit . .
with 10,000 meshes to the square inch;
mid there are requirements which it 1101511st TRAFFIC IN TWO CITIES.
met as to the time taken in setting end
for tensile strength—the power to re. Mere Travellers, —But Fewer Pedestrians
sat verione Arabes to whieh it may be in New York Than in Lohdon.
subjected wlien in actual structural use. There is more traffic, deeidedly, in
The peceliar property of Portland re- London than there is in Xew York,but
ment that makes it of great value to the figures recently published in the
builders is its quality of growing coil- English capital to prove the greater
tinually harder and stronger in use. amount of travel there in a day, coat -
'The importance of Portland cement pared with New York, fail to take into
as an article of commerce is much 1 account all of New 'York's transportation
facilities.
There are 000 milts of railwey " all
mildly about 41,000,000 barrels, and. Eng. kinds within the boundaries of London.
i Tho railroads of New York city (With
laud 8,000.000, white Germany
with a yearle output of some 20,0010°,110g 1.8,000,000 less population than London)
i
barrels. The iudiuney is constrently hi- have more than 800 miles, of which the
creasing, both 111 the amuntf pre
ooedu. Illeirepolitien luta approximittely, 250.
e in its value, as new Imes i
are ltho Manhattan Elevated, 115; the lin
tion nu -
ion (Hackleherry), 1 5; and the Brooklyn
deplointd.
A ee y large plant was eatablished laiglir o3f0t0ghe'TNilitswiaYo"rfelneselvnetraolf ainhae Hmiiiine:
Eon ALT, ciftfamtEIN. the Long Islam' and the Xevt York in;
-
son River, the New York & New Haven,
Putnam within the city bouridaries.
Tho number of passengers carried by
talsY's °win ..Tith'-otg in aialsodloino the .New York lines exceed e billion in
good for all chilaren, from the it year, which is 200,000,000 More tban
feeblest infant %new Me seems to are tank(' by the lines withio the beim-
rwleosie thgeetive apparatus (1055'.I t_rhere Is . ree 'melee number of U..
? daries of 1.013(105 in the like *period.
hand by a thread, to tho eturdy boy
isionolly gets out of order. Th.s 'rat- - 'Melee in the sireets of Loudon than in
lets 1nata11t:1Y helleVo and VroolPtlY ' the streets of New 'York. Tho number
mire all stoiriech awl beetle' troubleh of oda in tho teglish eapital in inueli
and tell the minor ailments of little
oorr uttiotetootiers13tlialetvee. lasiesorvn;?,:ieuxitte:1111,e',o.nclon enmities -system
larger then the timber in use irt New
IL°,4%ess:ed trthiel"tratintdhs
meets, mimeo. them 19.1ee. Robert Mots Itiuts Mee pointed ent tlest, Piceadilly,
ton, retslanoodr Who o- svho sa.i'S 1 between the hours of 1 and 2 p, in., is
"111.viky's Own 'Tablets have helpod my the mast orowded point of teethe iii
baby more than anytierins I evee gave, London. There is a record le twelve
lone 1 eau conettomft retommenu hours of more than 15,000 vehicles Iass.
the Tablets to all mothers." We give ling 41 giveet point.
you a Cole= itesurartee that the These figures appeter large, Or Would
!tablets do not tontain one particle nppear large, until mildewed With the
of opiate or harmful drug. They go morning and the nitorneen erlitili at the
good...they never tan do harm, and Ittanhattan entrance of the Brooklyn -
all Children take them es readily he Bridge,
efitay, Sold by vatd:tine dealers or i 'More 'people travel in Net/ 'Stork in a
Pont poet paid ot 23 eeete et. best deer than in Londen, a larger eity, but In
c
b,o.,r
ywiritt,oittygotaon
l)r.'tililems' Itatileine New York fewer people walk tun*
•i , . Laralea, Xors ride. t
k
POPFS Dour
BRITISH COLUMBIA RANCHING
Live Stock Conditions in That Pro-
vince Spring 1904.
Department of Agrioulture,
(Commleetorier's Branch,
eimeoraing 'to an official report re-
ceived by 'the Live Stook Connilesion.
er, Ottawa, Ilritish 'Columbia range
oattle Wont into winter quarters in
very lair 'condition, feed In the late
isummer having been very good ow-
ing to the ?Leavy rains,
Mlle :winter up! to Pchruar,y was
very fine apt", mild, but after this
it° theorist 'ol March, the ranges were
bovered wetti very deep snow, in
Most ,sectiotas a Inueli heavier snow
fall than hap been knowa ler years.
Hay was comparatively short all
through the range country ; there
evas no old hay on hand, and a good
deal of 'the 01103 !crop had been dam-
agea ;mith the 111)11,57 sometime raimi.
8pertking generally, the eattle are
in fair condition, and fete losees
have occurred"; the oho stock suf-
ferer' most, and it Inlay ho estimatea
that In consequence the calf crop
;Will be below elle overage.
Micro Is no doltibt that in certale
,seetions of tho +country, more es-
peolally en tho inliempson, the ott.t.
tie bast/sees Is too tooit of o specu-
lation to be healthy. If the past
winter had been of a eimilar teleran, -
ter to the preview; ono, a vory large
proportion of tlio etoek of thAt see -
would have to bo wiped out.
The day iv past when it
Is .safe to go into tviriter with
ono -third or one -1005th of a ton of
boy per head per year, for the 500-
800 that, snow or no snoW, by the
flare January CMOS there is prae-
tically no feed left on ithe lower
ranges. In UM§ section a great area
• of the recently leased tends will be
fenced In during the neat year, or
two, and it win be pose'bie to limit
• the stooking of these. ranges, but it
will or course trek° sonic time for
them to recover sinless the seasons
are very favorable.
Beef Is stil: itThr in prima and from
present itudeations Dot lately to bo
better thou last ,year, if as high.
Ilorsee ore in good demand, ited the
heavier eorses, via, those weighing
from 1,1110 up, are realleing good
prides, Iloress of thie elaes go to the
coast, anti more of tient are being
bred every year, meetly froni retten-
IPOPS (tOCI tin trntr:Ot SOntlt Or there',
Anti are wOrtit at the present thee
• mere money in British Columbia, than
I thee eta in the Northwest. For thie
. lam leen eiliipped in inereasng
imien-
I itineltet the, lighter Itorsed tend melee
ibor.'s.
1.11,e flanad'an Patine Italiroad hos
$5000 PORFEer if wa cannot fortheith preemie the orieirtet lettere end sterieterei given the following figures of ships
Abell ostutionals, winch win peeve tnitt iebsoluter enuinemoi, , meets frOlie POinte on tho Male lIti
arils, la Plekbete s.tho1fto hoe leola. 41t11041s j during the 3c5.r 31)03, 00 coast
•
MAKING PORTLAND CEMENT,
A Great Industry of Eastern Pennsyl-
"Yes," said''the meehauleal engineer,
"there is more of romance in making
Portland cement than you would expect.
Of muse, l'm right here in' the mill ale
ter, for all tbee
."We had several floods ail(1 a fire in _
the shops rye had to do Washington's
stunt of crossing .the Delewere through
the lee A slumber of times. Then Pe had
one or two bad misrule, m the machinery;
and a row with the 'Hunks'—ein.
garian laborers. 011, yes, you don't have
to get into the Jap war to find, excite-
ment.
"There are _eniglity few peoplc,. who
understand just what Portland cement
is and know how many its Uses are
Everybody knows that it is usedfor
walks, ana•the•rouudatious of buildings,
hut there are many other uses.
the nest place, enormous (Ruda
ties of cement ere use(1 by railroads,- for
bridge piers and culverts. The rain/earls
have also begun to lies it for ties; fence
posts have been mete of it, too.
'MI% in fortifications have been built
of the cement, and it is made up. ia the
form of building bier:Its—hollow, and
therefore very light, yet as strOng as
the old-time solid bloeic of stone: The..
most curious use of it, though, is in
• ships—as a lining to the steel Owen of
the hull.
"Now, I'll hist tell you what the ce-
ment is and show yon how it is pre-
pared. The foundation is limestone,
with a certain proportion,—of course,
each firm ilEtS its own formula, which
is a trade seetet—of magnesia ad
sili-
hldformS of the category of anae-
mia or chloro,sis, but also In cases
or neurasthenia and the like.
(Signed) Do eeenpe lapponi,
Via del Gra,cchl 832, Rome.
Tim "simpie Unto:Alba of develop-
ment" referred to by Dr. Leppert!. is
of !course that tired, languid condi-
tion of young girLs whose develop-
ment to we:Manhood is tardy, and
5e,hose health, at tthe period; of that
development, is sq often imperilled.
His opinion of the value of Dr, Wil-
liams' Pink Pine at that time is of
the lasshest SOlOntiritt all'n'OritS, and
it continue the many publ shed cases
in which anaemia and other diseases
of the blood as well as the nervous
dieertees referred to by Dr. Lap -
pone have been cured by these pills,
isehich, it need hardly be mentioned.
Uwe their efficacy to their power
of mak wg new. 1)001, an.I thus set eg
direetly on the digestive and ner-
Vows system. 111 oil cases of anae-
mia, threatened consumption, do.
cline, indigostion, kidney disease and
alt affeetione O itilo nerves, as St.
Vitae' dance, paralysis and Immo.
tor ataxia, they are cobeniended to
the confidence of tho publio, and now
that they have reaeived the exaphat'o
entlorseinent of so high a profession 1
authority as Da Lappeni, the trust..
• ed physician of tho Vatican, they
will be acoepited by the medical and
greater Mtn is coramonly understood.
In 1000 this comities' nuenufaeitired
500,000 barrels, l'rance produces an-