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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-10-06, Page 3++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Richest Baby in World. +++++++++4+++++++++++++++++4-4-44-14++++++++++++44+++4 Over the welfare of JOhn Nicholas keeper loam, that servants beget aer. Brown, the $10,000,000 4-yearold ROA of mite. The more you have the mote the late John Nicholas Brown, of New you need. All these servants require York, two women watch—an adoring waiting on. •Yeu can't expect the train - mother and a doting grandmother. ed nurses to wait on themselves, for im He is the apple of their eyes,, the last stance. They never do, not even in the representative of ;the Rhode Island households of the poorer folk. Each Browns, His father died when he was servant has her own special function for nine weeks old and left him 0,000,000; which ehe tespoosible to ono or the his father'e brother, Harold Brown, died ten days later and left him another $5,- 000,000. By the time be is twenty-one years old this $10,000,000 will have grown into $30,000,000. When his grandmother, Mrs. John Catter Brown, dies more millions will be piled on these; when his mother, who was ono of tlie rich Dresser sisters, dies still more mil- lions will be added. Baby Brown's father was nof strong, neither was his uncle. The two Women who watch over him have one object in their lives—to make him perfect physic- - ally, mentally and morally. Had $io,ocgt000 When Born. lie came into the world puny and deli- cate a little over four years ago, on Yob. 22, 1000. 'Before he was three months • old he Was in full pciiisession of his $10,- 000,000 without any conditional ifs -or buts. The whole family, including George Vanderbilt, whose wife is Baby Brown's aunt, were gathered in consultation to devise ways of how best to spend tbe interest of Baby Brown's $10,000,00Q. What could be done with it to pre- fierve the tiny thread of life? A, noted child's physician was summon- ed, who said -he must sleep just so long; • eat •so much solid food and drink just so much liquid; exercise just so much; have just so much fresh air; laugh just so much; cry just so much. He 'told them what he should weigh at the end of eacloweek and month of his first year and at the end of each succeeding year. How to accomplish this? His mother and his grandmother and all his blood relatives decided that every • bit of food that Baby Brown puts into • his mouth must be specially prepared for bimr. that every' step he takes must be specially watched over; that he must t never under any circumstances be put 'in danger of contracting a disease, no matter how , infantile• that someone ) must always see dhat 'he rides only in fumigated carriages and travels only in r fumigated cars; that every dish and glass he puts to his lips is sterilized; that every drop of water he drinks is. • specially bottled for him: ) • Three Residences and Yacht. lie has three palatial residences end a yacht; a special. cook, all his own, de- voted to the tempting of his palate; a cast that feeds in a $100,000 clover field, and a,special maid to milk,her; a farm where squabs and chickens are bred for him alone; his own valet, who takes care of his fifty pairs of boots and superin- tends his moving from house to house; a room that is a miniature sand beach; ponds in his different dwelling places, wherahe can fish and sail' boats; a swim- ming pool. e He has a maid to look after -the airing of his rooms, the sunning of his mat- tresses and pillows; a maid to wash and sterilize his dishes; a maid to keep his clothes mended and ta• look after his toys; he has two trained mutes, who watch over him night and day; he has a suite of rooms, kept always at a cer- tain temperature, that cover an entire floor of eapii of his holism; he has auto- mobiles, carriages, ponies and people to watch over these; he has a little gymna- sium with miniature wand§ and dumb- bells; he has a bathtub made of a por- celain swan. and a cradle fashioned of . mother of pearl; he has a governess who ; is a trained kindergartner, and a special physician, who is summoned if he but • sneezes once toO often. Keeps Blue -Blooded Cow. -••-' In Newport, on a $190,000 pasture, fronting on that part of aristocratic • Bellevue avenue that is most aristoo erotic, Baby Brown keeps his pure -blood- : ed Jersey cow. There it lives in luxury and loneliness, surrounded by a high i skeleton wire fence, and in the midst of I enough clover to feed a whole herd of ;tort, common ordinary, everyday cows: The ao't where it makes its home is one of .The most expensive in all Newpert. -On'the oast it is bounded by Ridgemere, the handsome villa that belongs to Miss Fanny Foster; on the south by• Chateau Sur Mer, the splendid &state of Senator George Peabody NVetmore, -and on the north by Leroy -avenue. Other millionaires, strangers in New- port,ountequainted. with Baby Brown and the history of his blue-blooded Jersey oow, etop and size up the Splendid lot and frequently decide it would be just the place, to put up a- palatial residence. Milk at Sas Per Quart. They make offers fair this- lot and are told that it is worth $100,00, but that it is not for sale at that or any other price. It belongs to Baby Brown's Jersey cow— hers to browse in and to feed in and to sleep in until such time as her young master and she decide to part. It is worth $100,000. At 5 per cent, that would yield an income of $13.70 a dow. - But at thot Baby Brown's guardians snap their fingers, smile contentedly and look out joyfully upon the great, healthy cow that 'peacefully eats up The income. And to be sure that she is healthy still snore money is spent upon het, She has, for one thing, a skilled veterinery in eon - stout attendance; three tithes a day she ' drinks distilled water to make sure that ao possible infection may creep into. the All these Things bring the cost of the single quart of milk that Baby Brown drinks every day up to $15. And Baby Browns pet kitten (also carefully watched by the dector, because • eats sometimes have diphtheria), shares this $15.a.cputrt milk every day with its , young master. It is the voterinary's duty to make fi40, quent milk tests so as to be sure that the cow is free front any. distemper, for . *while the little milliormare's guardians aro not at oll particular as to the quan- thy of milk yielded, they are terribly particular as to its purity. Had Crossed the Ocean. Of course Baby Brown is not always in Newport. Ite is sometimes in Providence, Where the celebroted Brown University is; sometimes in New York; and once he created over the water with eleven trunka and hia retinue of servtdits on a, visit to the old world. He has three palatial residences. One is in New York city, at 031 Fifth avenue. Ai:Other is at Newpoetttin Bellevee ave. nue, A third is at ProVidenee, in the old Goddard mansion on Brown street, which was bought for him specially so That he might spend a portion of each year in the place where his grandfather, John Carter Brown, and his great.grandfallier, Chad Brown, were famous. He travels with the thants,ea of the sta- tion front some to the other of them, sme. oornpanied by his special physician, lila tooverness his valet, his two trained SHINN ana his six servants. Arrny of Trained Servants. This may seem a surprising number, out you must remember, as every house - First, the daintiest of linen sheets) IQ fino that one might fancy it to be woven of silk threads, ie laid smoothly at the bottom of the tub and over the sides. This is softer for the body than the touch of porcelain. Then the water is heated to exactly 83 degrees Fahren- heit, and perfumed with a violet extract made from the fresh flowers opecially for this baby Croesus. Next to the big swan there is a little baby swan, into which he eteps from his blg bath, and there. he is sponged. off with cold water that runs from 00 de- grees to 00 degrees Fahrenheit. He is dried with his own special mo- nogrammed towele, that are of tbe finest damask. Night and morning he is rub- bed with. cocoanut oil and dusted off other of the trained nurses; the valet with a violet powder from a gold powder has his line of duties, as the trained box, on which hie initials are monogram- nursee have theirs; all of them .are under ined in tiny diamonfla Oo the lid of the the direction of the governess, who in box there is a medallion of a dear little her /um le :mountable to the special physician. , baby with golden hair and blue eyes thet ! smiles back at him, And on his larusbes Every one of them, iudividually and and bottles there aro other babies of colleetively, is bound over to see that al laorte and kinds,. but always pretty no poisonous germ ever by any chance babies that make him Milo. gob) into the vicinity of thia precioue I There aro other 4 -year-olds in the baby. Their systeM of sterilization and world who will some day be as tick if not fumigation is severe and complete, It richer than John Nicholas Brown—for in- takes absolutely no chances. It goes on stance, the Itoelcefollers, Aston, Vander. hilts—but thia baby has his money now, right oow, and that is the reason he is called the richest baby in the world. Every ono who has the honor of this young millionaire's acquaintence says he is a lad to be proud of, Care and eaten - tion have made his flesh as firm as the rocks near his Newport home. He has ton ageinst them. She may wave her been- called the most panipered baby in hand. to the baby if she happens to meet the world, and from all accounts he de- bim from a distance, but mider no cir- serves the title. cumstances must she appoitch him until . Best the World Affords. she lam changed every article of her ap- It has been possible to give him the parel. Frequently if she Wel been away best that the world affords, for his es - ,for a great many hOurs she is even re- tate is tremendous and is one of the big- -quested to .wash her hair in some weak best and richest in'Rhode Island. It con - solution of carbolic acid. sists chiefly of stocks in otton mine • The servants all understand that this is an uuavoidable rule and they respect it even as they love their (Marge, wile is one of the dearest little children you cao imagine, in spite of all the care he gets. Everything is Sterilized. One othis maids has entire charge of the sterilizing of every dish Baby Brown y.ears ago and has so increased in value 'eats out 'of. Even his toys, especially sioce then that it is now worth nearly those that might possibly find their way ten times as muph as Standard Oil staelcs to his mouth, are sterilized,, and his at their last quotation.. Noah's ark is painted with a special dis-. This young millionairels mother was one of. the three beautiful Dresser sis- infected varnish. ` And when he travels from New York ters, She .was Nathalie, a daughter of to Newport or Providence you should see Colonel George W. Dresser, United.States the preparations. Of course, he has a army, and a .sister of Mrs. George 'Van - special car, but nevertheless someene has derbilt, Mrs. George Grenville Merrill and been in it at sometime before him. , of Daniel Leroy Dresser. Every seat and cushion is thoroughly Besides being beantiful; she is charm - fumigated, every window is Opened, • ing; also, as all the world knows, -de- then the car is heated to exactly 08 dot voted. She realizes that her $10,000, - grecs Fahrenheit and some one is plac-1 000 baby should be very carefully ed on guard. to see that no one enters it brought up in order to live up to the until Baby Brown arrives. • Of coutse, standards of his ancestors. She has oot. he siever teaviels in the heat c4 sub,na- been able to resist the temptation to give he never travels in the heat of sum- him all the world could afford.- By every mer. If he did thete would be a cool- evidence her experiment has been suc- cessful. The Most pamphered of babies ing apparatus of some sort. • His car, his carriage dif it be a hired issomaehdeaaylthio,bsetuarndy4oynoourntgosttehre, tideasintieneodf -conveyance) and his stateroom aboard Brown. the principles that germs are every - Where, When Anna, one of the maids, for in- stance, goes out she never by any chance Mare a costume that she might wear when around this $10,000,000 baby'. Germs are everywhere and Anna is paid the highest wages to take every precau- which pay big dividende and are such close corporations that none of the stock has ever been marketed. The Goddard brothers have the management of these mills, not a single share in which is ap- praisea at less than $1,500, while there .are 27 shares of Lansdale Company stock -which was worth $0,500 per ahare three ship are carefully sterilized with a 40 per dent. solution of • formaldehyde, to make sure that the previous oecupant might not leave behind any injurious germs. Charles, the millionaire's baby valet, has numberless duties which will be- come plain as the life of this $10,000,- 000 4 -year-old expands itself. Of course his young 'master travels very little, and then his trips are not complicated. But has guardians have agreed that it is as important that he should be pro- perly amused as that he should be pro- perly fed and fumigated. • Funfoi Rainy Day., With millions backed by imagination they have provided against that bete noir of most children—the rainy day. In , Baby Brown's suite of rooms there is ! one where he may' roll about in a mound of dry white sand with his pail and shovel .just as though luf were- on the choicest bit of Newport Beach. And this even in the depth of winter. All about the room there are great growing palms and in their branches the loveliest of singing birds. On oue side of it there is a sun parlor or nursery, stride it is absoultely and entirely Baby Brown's. In there he has hammocks to swing in and chairs to be wheeled about in and chairs that may be wound up to go by themselves, and a hanging swing. • And on the other side . of the beach - room, arranged so that the beach ac- tually slopes down to it, there is a pond, a miniature pond, not deep enough for Baby Brown to drown in, but quite deep enough for hint to sail his boats on and play at being a fisherman. It is a wonderful place, and Charles, 1 the valet; has it in charge, and his young master when he plays near it. He keeps Baby Brown's boats in order—no maid could do that—he helps him sail them, he rakes over the sand -room, and has charge of Baby Brown s engine room. What a place it isl There are miles upoo miles of glistening tracks and yard§ upon yards'of locomotives and ears, ahd Charles keeps them all in perfect trim. There is never so much as a jolt on this millionaire's road. If there is it is reme died before John Nicholas Brown can say Jack Robinson. Spicial Hens Lay Eggs. Every egg he eats is laid for him by specially eared for milk -fed chickens.. As they come in from his farm they- are marked With his initials so that no pos- sible mistake could be made. He. has his own vegetable garden, Stocked with eveiy possible vegetable his appetite might crave. In winter his vege- tables come from his own hothouses where -4110y are grown for him so thdt, he can always have the things, he cares for most. Ho herr two acres of, ground devoted to fruit trees, and another acre is given -over to berries. He is weighed night and mottling Wit% own special gold -mounted scales. He him. self is as much interested in the proceed- ing aa, anyone of the household, though, of course; he does not quite know why everyone looks so pleased and happy when the hand switches around to 38 pounds. Shortly -after this $10,000,000 baby came into the world his special physi- cian gave out certain weights and meas- ures as the- correct ones for him to itire up to. His entire average may be said to turn open them. His trained nurses, mid governesa, and his valet. and.% maids know quite well that their posi- tions depend largely upon the balaneing of his Realee. Soon after his birth it Was determined that he must weigh twenty to twenty- one pounds nt the end of his first year; about twenty-six pounds at the end of his second; from thirty-one to thirty- two pounds at the end of his third, and When he should be four years old he must weigh thirty-five pounds. - That weight Baby Brown has attained, and each member of his homichold flat- ters herself that she has been instru- mental in bringing it about. There is, for instance, the maid who, under the direction of the doctor, the governess and n trained nurse, looks out for his baths. Of all his bath tubs he prefer); the white awao, that Las a beautiful, long yellow beak, cot of which the water comes. Ito the swan is prepared in his bathroom, where the sunlight Om reflect- ed in a Wail of mirrors and where the.; temperature is never below 00 degrees and never above 38 degrees Fahrenheit. . CRYING BABIES. — Babies do not cry unless here is some good reason for it. The cry of a. baby is nature's warning signal that there is something wrong. If the fretfulness and crying are nod caused by exterior sources, it is c.oreilusive evidence that, the crying belay is The •only safe and judicious thing to do is •to give Baby's Own Tab- lets wrthout 'delay. For mdtgestion, teething troubles, constipation, diar- rhoea, worms ond simple -fevers, these marvellous little tablets have given re- lief in thousands' of cases and saved many precioua lives. They are guaran- teen to contain no harmful drug. Mrs. John Doble, St. Andrew's East, Que., says: "Baby's Own'Tablets are a splen- did Medicine for the core of constipation and other ills that afflict children. I consider it my duty to recommend them to all who have iittle ones." The Tab- lets are sold at 25 cents a box by all druggists, or may be had by mail by writing The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. COOL CURED CHEESE. .. "Demanci for it 1nm:easing— Building New Curing Rooms. Judging from the greater demand for cool cured cheese which exists- this sea - on, the old country merchants are be- ginning to realize More fully the advant- age there is in handling cheese which has oot been exposed during the process of cumng to a temperature higher than 00 degrees. Cheese factories that are able to offer strictly cool cured those are de- riving so much benefit that it must be only a question of time, a short time in fact, until all factories are equipped with proper cool curing rooms. The experience gained at the Govern- ment cool curing rooms. has demonstrat- ed that while the first re.quisite is to con- trol the temperature, it is also necessary to provide for some circulation of the air to carry off the moisture which escapes front the cheese, and which comes from the increased relative humidity due to the reduction 'of temperature:* If the relative -humidity. is too high the cheese will have soft skins and develop a dend- ency to mould badly. The syetem adopted at the Govern- ment curnig rooms has worked admir- ably; and it can be employed without difficulty and at a moderate cost in con- nection with any cheese factory. In- deed, a large number of factory curing rooms have already beh remodeled on this system. The necessary alterations 'mid additions involve the putting in of a reamoitit concrete floor, some extra insu. lation and the erection ol an ice cham- ber. 'Mr. 3. A. Ruddick, Chief of the Dairy *Division, Ottawa, who bas this work in hand, p.oints out that many of the existing curing rooms are large en- ough to allow. of an ice chamber being constructed in one end, and still leave sufficient room for cheese. This. applies more partieularly to the older factories in Western Ontario. 'Where improvements are proposed fot next season, the work should he under- tat:eh this fall, in order to have the ice chamber ready for. filling during the ter. 'Mr. Ruddiek has prepared plans showing- his system of cooling for all classes of mimes factory and creamery buildings, mid he invites those who con- template improving old buildings or erecting new ones .to corntuttnieate with him, if they desire te have time benefit of his experience in these matters. This .question of the cool curing of them is one in which the patrons of eliceso factories should take the keenest interest, because thy will gain more through its imdoption than any other see. tion of the trade. They should be will- ing to bear a Aare at least of the ex- pense of refitting the factory,. The pre- sent scale of charges for manufacturing (+pose is leased on the old plan, and it is ton how to secure*a -good service. Some of the factories with cool 'cured cheese have during the preseut season been getting one-fourth of a cent above the highest price paid for the otdinary mired article, and there is not the slight- est doubt but the difference will be greater as'eool cured cheese becomes bet- ter known. In addition to the inereased price there is a saving in shrinkage of about 1 and a half per cent. pON'T- ABUSE Your nervous and digestive system with adulo terated and commonplace Japan tea. FARM HYGIENE Unsanitary Closets and the Dry Earth System. CEYLON NATURAL CREEN tea is absolutely "pure" and is beneficial to the most delicate systems. Sold . in the same form as "OALADA" black tea in Wooled lead thickets only. 250 and 40c per ih. By an -grocers. WESTINGHOUSE. The Pittsburg Inventor Has Millions, but Wan.riorakysa. It ie seldonl that ntor and the eon Of an iniventor maltes a cemplete succese of life, and in addition accumulates a -Mamie estimated In 'various • sources all the way erom 05,000,000 to 00,000,000. Arid it km ex- ceeding!), rare that gulch an exceptional In- ventor continues to choose the life of mum-, Jos atrenuousness, to One oZ languid ineo- lence. It takes a remerkable character to do Lomb things, bet 'George WeetIngnottee, Jen, is jugt seam rare mines. 'Ot (mum, every Pateburger Is expected to be a work- er. Tbere ere eele droues allowed ia the great Industrial hive. but for a man who ime already accomplished so much and Who Imo accumulated such worldwide property inter- ests it is 'very pleasant, even for a Pittsburg- er, to see such continued activity. This is all pretty strong, but If there le any one man in Pittsburg who deserves it, George Westingimuse is the man„ for he hag done more probably than any other living persAt to make the name ot Pittsburg potent in every clime and with every class of People in the civilized world. Mr. Westinghouse is fast approaching the three -score mark, but' he does not look it, and there le scercely any doubt' but that he feels much younger. He was born la Cen- tral Bridge, Schoharld county, N. J., October 6th, 1846, He was but 10 years old whim los father established the echenectady agricul- tural works. and hms early education was in the shops. At 15 years be made a rotary en- gine and had passed an examination to be- come paseed assistant engineer in time Unitee States navy, 1M was a warrior in the rebel- lion. That was natural. He attended Union College, but his inventive genius induced the president to cause young Westinghouse to abandon his classical course and take un mechanical pursuits. Even though he was engaged in war in the navy, Mr. Westing- houee found sufficient time and composure of mind to Invent a multinie cylinder engine. In 1865 Mr. Westidghouse invented a de- vice for replacing railroad cars upon the track; and he had these manufactured in Troy. This, occasioned frequent journeys from Schenectady, and one day when delaYed by. a collision Mr. Westinghouse coueeived the idea of a brake within the control of the engineer. He studied the problem at every spare moment. se could not get the idea out of high head. He went to Chicago in , 1866 to see a continuous chain brake Invented ' by a man named Ambler. This was operated by a chain running the length of the train, . with a windlass in the locomotive. It was operated by pressing a wheel against a flange of the driving wheel. Mr. Ambler re- marked that there was no use of Mr. West- inghouse wasting further time or money, as ho had patents covering every practical idea. MI...Westinghouse realized that the Chicago brake had not reacbed perfection, and he set about to find a solution for the troubles of the railroads in some other channel. His first plan was to use a steam cylinder under the locomotive tender to draw up the chain, and then he thought of a cylinder un- der each car, with a Dino to feed all thetemyl- Indere. His brother assisted him, and' the two worked and experimented, but found no solutionu. Mr. Westinghouse read everything that he could get on the subjct. A descrip- tion of a drilling apparatus in Mount Cele tunnel, where the compressor was over half a mile from the,drIll, suggested the use of compresed air for braking trains. It was An. 1nspiration.• He set about the 'task of placing his idea on paper apd he took the sketches to the superintendent of the New 'York Central Railroad, with confused ela- tion. The Vanderbilt engineer refused to ex- periment. He thought the idea was foil - hardy. Mr. Westinghouse tried the officers of the Erie Railroad. They were dubious, and declined. But Mr. Westinghouse was In- sistent. He knew he had a good idea and he was determined to try it. So he flied papers for patent righte. Mr. Westinghouse started a steel works at Schenectady In 1867 to mnanufacture his car replacer and other railway supplies, but ho had little Money, and few friends who had confidence in hint. He happened to come to Pittsburg to negotiate a contract witlf Pittsburg steel manufacturing concern in re- lation to his railway inventions, and while there he Interested Ralph Baggaley in 1868 ' in his invention. The latter saw the oppor- tunities from a description, and on the prom- ise of a one-fifth Interest advanced money sufficient to make apparatus enough to give the invention a thorough test of an entire train. The Panhandle was a rather tough proposition at that time, and it was not very difficult to obtain permission from the superintendent to try the invention on the accommodation running between Pittsburg and Steubenville. The road was certainly ideal for the testing of a brake sehente, as d h gr heavy, 'and the possibilities of accidents ' ceptlonal. It Just hapeened that some faramx." leirap;ehnoedhatdo bbeeen 1)7111 eater a lackY star g he track in his wagon when thearaaoca oammodation quIppe mithatohne .WeigInghouse brake came aploeuevgehdd- b,mean't of Uri:gat. tILliTtnbwee!': other- wise, it is doubtful if the airin eke would ' have been assured at that time. It was a =vial= thing for Mr. Westimighouse and The prevention of that collision caused the formation of the Westingbove Airbrake Co - and Chicagie & korthwestern vete the first to buy the apparatus. There were plenty of itimerfections in the brake, but Mr. Westing- house kent at his idea and developed and Mrs. Fairbanks tells how ne- glect of warning symptoms will soon prostrate a woman. She thinks woman's safeguard is Lydia E. ['inkhorn's Vegetoble Compound. "DRAB Mns. PrsicfrAm : —Ignorance and neglect are the cause of untold female suffering, not only with the laws of health but with the ehanco of a cure. did not heed the warnings of headathes, organic pains, and general weariness until I was well nigh pros. trated. knew / had to do something. Happily I did the right thing. I took Lyilta Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound faithfully, according to directions, and was rewatded in a few weeks to find that my aches and pains disappeared, and I Again felt the glow of health through my body. Since X have been well "have been more care- ful, I have also advised a number of my Melt friends to take Lydia E. Pinkbam's Vegetable Com.. poand, and they have never had mon to be Sorry. Yours very truly, MRS. Mir ll'Aumouth, 210 South eth St., Minnewpolis, Minn." (Mrs. Pair - banks is ono of the Met etideeedul and highest salaried travelling ealesworaon in tho West.)— $8000 forfelf &Wm, Of ethos After proulne genul Penes* cannot be protium,. Mrs. rinkhant IntrIteN all slek Witten to Write her fOr advice. Sho has guided thousands tO health. Address* toatio Mass. „ watched and experinlented, and by the time his first Plant Wateeomploted in 1870, he had a pretty good brake to sell. That vitae the be- ginning ot 'Wilmerding and tbe birth of one of tee most profitable commute in the world. Like every Pittsburger. Mr. Westinghouee began a conquest or Europe as aeon mem ime introduced Ills brake in Araerlea. English roade wore more wealthy Veen American roads, and tbe desire for safet to passengers on and off the trains was t en greater on tbe other side. Bet there were so many' dif- ficulties in the way that it required eleven Years for Mr, Westinghouse tti introduce We invention. The trouble was that the railroads of Europe were satisfied to brake their traine from a brake ran by hand, leafing the other wagons free from restraint. • It was In 1871 when the Pittsburg Inventor started, and it waa 1881 before be succeeded. Ho bad been busy in Pittsburg in the menetline, and had invented tho automatic t teaks, which removed. the danger freni Parting of trains on steep grades. In 1886 he invented the quick -action brake. This made it practicable to apply all brakes on a W- ear freight train in two seconas. This brake is regarded. as Mr. Westinghouse's master- piece, and many lives have been saved as a result of it. This gives complete and instant control to an engineer over a train more than a third of a mile In length. It is an interesting set of volumes that Mr. Westinghouse preserves in his library. Them show his various inventions, -and it is remarkable how many features of safe rail- roading Mr. Westinghouse conceived in his search for the right thing at the right time. There are hundreds of patents, covering In- numerable details, and the history of the brake is gradually traced through years of effort, The alr-brake was the foundation of Um rivet Pittsburg inventor. It gave him wealth and prestige, and enabled hint to ac- tomplish wonders almost as great in entirely different lines. It was a good thing for Mr. Westinghouse. It was a good thing for Pitts- burg and the entire world, as many thou- sands of lives have been saved through this invention. That is why railroad statistics are doubly interesting In Pittsburg. That is why Pittsburgers are proud of Westing- house. TIRED AND DEPRESSED. The Condition or many YoungWomen in Shops and oilices. Thousands of young women Indio to depend 'upon their -own efforts to gain a livelihood, and to -these whether -be- hind the counter, in the office, the fac- tory or the home, work means close con- finement — often in badly ventilated rooms. There is a strain on the nerves; the blood becomes impoverished; the pheeks pale; there are frequent head- aches; palpitation of the heart and a constant tiredness. If the first symp- toms are neglected it may lead to a com- plete breakdown—perhaps consumption. What is needed to restore vim and energy and Vitality is a. tonic, and abso- lutely the :best tome in the -world is Dr. Williams' Pink Pitts. They actually make new blood, and bring health and cheerful energy to tired and depressed girls and women. Miss Viola Millet, Robinson's Corners, N. S., imays: "I was a great suf- ferer from headaches. heart palpitation, and troubles that afflict any sex. My blood seemed almost to have turned to water, and the least exertion left sae wealvand depressed. I used seven•boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and they have made a remarkable change in my con- dition. I can -truly say that I feel like a new person, and I strongly recommend these pills to all weak, ailing girls." These pills cure all forms of blood and nerve troubles, but yoU must get the genuine, with . the full name, Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills for Pale People on the wrapper around each box. A..41c your druggist for them, or you can got them by mail at 50 cents a 'box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing .the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. SOME FEATURES OF MANCHURIA, Many of the Roads Are Simply Impass- able in the Rainy Season. The valleys of the Lion and the Yalu pre separated by the great backbone ridge of mountains, known by a variety of names, which stretch from near Kai - Ping to the neighborhood of Vladivo- stok, the highest points within the area of the present operations not exceeding 4,000 feet. Just as in the Alps we find short val- leys and abrupt descents On the aide of Italy 'and easier gradient with long and divergent valleys on that of France, so ill these Manchurian mountains, al- though the distinction is less marked, the northern slopes are steeper than the southern and often fall in precipitous descents. These hills are Ior the, most. part wooded, the forest zone extending from near Kai -Ping all along the water- shed to the Lone yhite mountain and northeastern a7rea. The southern slopes are more cultivated than those mica and schist, washed down into the valleys by the rains. The woods vary in tharacter in differ- ent localities. In some plaees the local woodmen and charcoal burners. have made clearings; in others the trees and undergrowth have been uncut for years. When we speak of roads in Manchu- ria we speak of things that scarcely ex- ist. Apart from the mountain districts the roads in Southern Manchuria have the peculiarity of being below the level of the adjoining and - cultivated land. The reason for this is that the cultiva- tors anntililly steal thousands of cart loads of soil from the roads in order to mix it with the farmyard manure, aml they elfecially favor the nuelholes in consequence the tracks In the low-lying districts go from bad to worse, until they become mere stretches. of stagnant water, and fresh tracks are then made across the fields, becoming roads in their turn. As there ate no divisions betweeu ptoperties, carts travel freely over the -fiolds when they are hard fro- zen in winter, lmt in spring there is eml- less friction between formers and ott- ers when the latter attenmt to traverse The newly sown fields to avoid the mud. boles. From the middle of June until the middle of July all wagon traffic mates on the roads in the low districts and -only the smaller and lighter carts ean travel at all. From about July 1 to Ssptember 1:1 all traffic atolls on these toads, Which then become praetwally impassable for whceled vehicles. Move - molt is then vonfined to the passage of litiht end pne Minima's along the monntain tracks, and this eoutinues til some time after the elow of tho rainy teascri. The ljno plain and some of the tidier valleys near Lion N:aug and Hai -thong hate large areas covered with the most elmariteterietie crop of the reentry— namely, kaoliang (tall groin), or soy- alm11111. This erop is planted in drills two, feet epart, each plant being from of the north and Arc covered with the e• d bris (if disintegrated granite rock, the roa s, which offer a richer soil. In Department of Agriculture, Conunistdoner's Branch, Attention was recently called to the fact that out of some 100 to 200 sam- ples of waterfrom farm wells analyzed annually by Prof. Shutt, chemist of the Dominion experimental farms, not One- fifth are found safe and wholesome. By for the greater number have to, be ut- terly condemned, and it seems vety evi- dent that a great improvement ari our water supplies is necessary.. This dam. gerous eondition of many farm wells iii undoubtedly due to pollution by unsani- tary closets. There is no reason why we should have our farmhousies to -day In the send -barbaric condition in wilich so ranny of them are, with their closete and privies a menace to public health. We may talk about bacteriology, sani- tation, and so on, but all that and a great deal more is included in what we understand by "cleanliness." The lack of cleanliness ie primarily a matter of ignorance, and secondarily a matter of laziness, Ordinary shallow wells in the vicinity of the old. fashioned privy pits are al. most certain to become coetaminated by seepage. The soil is an excellent filter- ing and cleansing agent, oxidizing or- ganic matter rapidly, and tending to check the development of ninny of the conunon putrefactive bacteria. But the soil is only liable to dispose of a certain amount of contaminating -material, and such disposal takes time, so that by heavy rains the contaminating matter may be carried far into the earth below the true purifying layer, and thus soak unchanged into the wells. An old pit which has been closed and covered with earth is almost equally dangerous, as the decomposition of the large mass of excreta contained therein is a matter of years, unless hastened by the prox- imity of trees whose roots reach the pit. The contents should be removed and spread upon a field, and time pit left open long enough to permit the decent- ipnogs.ition of any organic matter remain - If farmers once took time to think of these matters there would undoubted- ly be a great improvement. Windmills are now both cheap and common, and there is no reason -why well-to-do fatm- ers should not have a water lystem in their houses, with all' tb,e convenienees and advantageg which residents in the eitiee enjoy ffem the waterworke sys- tems there established. Though n4 quite ma eonvspient, the dry earth closet is so cheep Kitt so Wis. factory from time sanitary point of view that no farmer min discover a Melon - able excuse for refusing to adopt it. A well laid cement concrete floor will be found by far the easiest to beep In a clean and wholesome condition. A *tout box of suitable size, mounted on Tlen- ners and with a stron,g book at one end to which a horse may be attached, makes a receptacle that Can be conveidently drawn to the field or barnyard to be epiptied, This box may be made whol- ly or in part Of sheet iron, and if the bottom be semi-eircular in form a kettle of hot water will be found sufficient to loosen the frozen contents in winter. Galvanized iron buckets, larger at the ompp tt ni natlVtinhteerb.ottoTn earneaall°ture eoarthtoe reoeftecle is largely a matter of con- venience; the essential features of the system. are the storing and use of a plentiful supply of dry earth and the emptying of the receptacle regularly. If the contents be spread thinly over the surface of a field they will be de- composed in a very few days with no danger to the public heath. Asher should not be used as a subtti. tube for earth, and road dust is very lit- tle better. The surface soil of a field or garden that has been frequently cul- tivated will be found just the thing. If a little coarse or lumpy it may be run through a gravel screen. It is always advisable to keep a good supply on hand, as it becomes drier and 'better with age when stored in a bin. li a man who has hitherto been care- less in this particular will adopt and maintain a proper sanitary system in connection with his closet, lie will find himself gaining largely, not only in self- respect, but in the respect of his family and of the strangers within his gates. Furthermore, he may thereby escape tbe ravages of such diseases as typhoid fever, which are so frequently traced to tvheeryusleu oyf, contaminated water.. Yours W. A. CLEMONS, Publication Clerk. a foot to eighteen inches from the next. It has the appearance of maize and the crop is earthed up like an English pota- to field. At the present season it may be three feet high, but once the rains begin in earnest the kao-liang grows rapidly and shoots up to twelve feet or fifteen in height, completely covering even mounted troops frorn view and ret sembling a sugar plantation. When this movement comes the Chinese foot- pad is in season, and so perfect is the cover that the local authorities make no attempts to effect arrests until after the harvest. Men tuuy grown the stems ot tne Kao-liang are rough and impede move- ment; to grouna is usually wet and sort; as the crop covers three-tourtim of the `Liam valley it renders all move- duents of troops next to impracticable for two months. dne ono Ot tne otner crops m southern manouria are tne small yellow millet, The stalks of which make capital !Odder tor horses; dwarr beans and a grass resembling small mil- let with white grains. In the Siu-Yen valley only a little icao-nang is grown in patches, but there are maize, cotton, small millet and beans. TRAINING COLORED MAIDS. Why Domestic Service is Not Popular Among Negro Girls. The question of negro servants came to the front again this year in the Hampton con- ference. It was shown that in a number of cities in time north the negroes were los- ing their places because they were not suf- ficiently well trained for their work. Mrs. Williams last year called attention to the opened a bankleg establishment of his own. When Mayer Anselm. Rothschild lay dying in 1812 he summoned his five sons to his bed and enjoined them to be ehtithful to the laws of Moses, to remain united to the end, and to undertake nothing without having first consulted their mother. "Observe these rules," was leis last injunction, "and you vim soon be rich among the richest, and the world will belong to .you." The fortune which Mayer .Anselra divided among his sons was by no means small. He had been the court banker of the Landgrave of Hesse, who was afterwards the Elector of Hesse Cassel. In 1806, when the Elector was compelled to fly before the Freneb, left his large private fortune in the hands of his banker, who invested it so shrewdly that it Increased twofold before the Elector re - wt ueIraonl et htd, by establishing banks in different e belief that he could amass greater cities, the five brothers separate!. Ansel= remained in Frankfort, while Soloman set- tled in Vienna, Nathan in London, Carl in Naples, and James in Paris, But, although the brothers were divided by distance, they were linked together by family and finan- cial ties as inseparagly as ever. Whenever possible, each assisted the other, and m order to prevent death letting any money leak out of the family, the membere of the family intermarried. The =triage of close relatives has been a mist= among Hebrews • ever since the days of Isaac, but it has seldom been observed so strictly as by this family. For example, James, founder of the Paris house, wedded his brother's daugh- ter: Anselm, who succeeded his father in the management of the Frankfort firm, took for a wife the eldest daughter of Nathan. and Alphonse, the grandson of the original Rothschild, and also by his seniority head of the whole Rothschild family, mar- ried hls cousin, the Ildest daughter of Lionel, son of Nathan. In a few instances, however, Rothschilds have married outside the family, and have even wed Christians, Hannah, the daughter of Mayer, on March 20, 1878, married the Earl of Resebery, and became the first avowed Jewess to wear the coronet. On December 8 of theosame year Marguerite Alexandrine, daughter ot Charles, of the Frankfort house, married the Duo de Gra- to be popular among negro girls so long sister of Marguerite, married Prince Alex - wont, Four years later Bert a, a yo ng fact that domestic service was not likely as it was looked down upon by the more ander of Wagramn. Hannah remained true intelligent 'of the colored race. Attention eo the religion of her forefathers, but Mar - on foot to regulate the intelligence offices There are now twenty branches ot the guerite and Bertha became Christians. was called to the fact that a movement was practiced upon colored girls coming from. Rothchilds family. and the London, Paris in New York Any, where fraud has been the south. In general more thoughtfulness and Vienna houses are all managed by de- sconrants of Mayer Anselm. Lord Na. wards the employee both north aud south. Mantel de Rothschild and Barons Alfred was reported as shown by the employer to - Several enterprises were reported as having ' banoudeerLeopBoalrdoneareAl pabesooeceiea,teGd oientetvhee, ELdownoiton. been started by colored men and Women Adolph and James ere the chief members having for their end the training of negro : in Vienna, The Frankfort and. Naples houses It seems Quito clear from the discussions I have eessed active operations. aolone the peculiar traits of the Rothe - servants. po ef 0 otlhee teller/ e r childs there is none more potent than their etahaeair ththaptugahatiseastothapreapaalarleadg superstition. • When Barren Alphease de . lose their opportunities to earn 4 living In Rothschild married he chose for a residence themselves for domestic service they will , that way. The feeling of Japanese youi.h the hotel in the Rue de George, which had ferent from that of negro youth. They as the baron saW the ominous figures he formerly bon the property of m . s The house bore the number 13, and as soon. l in regard to domestic service is entirely dif- a good family gives to gain a knowledge et ordered thorn torn off, nor did he take his bride across the threehold until the hated realize the great opportunity which life in ! euRuere71r iitieormtevaws idleiineinteneftoulnoilg swine° in a sermeitl. c net: addresse? t% No. 1.3,, mtitd th ' elgtinsieed abrgl af.' t • Young legally the number of the house was still rth:Ini hoer tbuttitleiOnse:be. amAeceohradrinrgeidy hYe napilpelled ator ttlamete meta awns a naearloarelgve of a ginner Sae Council of the City of Paris for permission moor seeglielelenke setrovoantti;eitalsiderg - to change tu the poor of the district if his petition should e number, offering $15,00 to anese Minister at Washington, and that he "nloaleram be granted. The council accepted the 'peep - tip hare and mannrs (gi men and women numerals were out of sight. But lettere o the ighest type o cul re, house servant of slavery days often gained maim, and that Is why the baron's house a refinement and training that distinguish- binte.th, Is street is to -day marked by "No. u will be real loss to the negro race if sgearani a align level cause of a false pride.—The Southern Work- statuary awl vases which adorn the home skterimie litaseldinrefilt•or?nlei4isfelloowins anundd tleialdhraesn.maliZ 'elle riotous acts ot the old commune still this source of bele sbould be denied it be- gnard their treasures, The costly paintings, Inan. beingAleliVedar:o afcml•letTdasaaVy gig I aftee*9 Helpless as a Babv.South Am- beli‘ sowtelonVgnekeedinti?bethree roaehl:ad autpthion toereca erican Itheumatle Cure strikes the root of the safes.—N. Y: Tribune. 1 I I Sheriff Wore a Laughing Waistcoat and Fined His Cat IIn the Edinburgh Court of Session yes-, i terday Lord Kineairney ordered Winn for 1 trial by itlry of an action by Alfred kat - rick Mdrhomas Thome, W. S., and others, against verions defendants for the reductiomi of the will of the late Sheriff Thome, of I Orkney and Shetland . I The plaintiffe say that the late sheriff. Who never married, was very' eccentric. lie used to earry a Pale of tawse in his pocket and apply them to the children of lila Mende maul relatives. limbos were printed bir i his order for the guidance of his servants, I and If they or he broke theni ho imposed ( MN. 1115{0 levying finen upon. a favorite cat ' r3iled "Pambo" if it disturbed the order et ' the house. IWhen he event out to dinner Imo wote a waisteent with (entitle sides. This he called , a laughing waletcont. About 1888 ho con- i Veivel the idea—although there was g0 folnidatiOn far it—that he was the chief of . Ille Clan alaiintrame of Glenehee. He astletit- • ea the name of tterhomas, caned hinmelf i "'Ye Maceenisb," fire ttently referring to ' his mhieftainehip. By lis w w rec ; that be Wits to be buried in tricker or Other 1 sliglit eoffin se as "te have n chance tet he in early 'et the general ecremble et the ite3erreetion." ThoUgh Werth thousands he for a long thne imagined himself a poor Munn. Ile left the bulk of big fortune Re ehe Teatoration of KirkWall Cathedral. •-• London Morning' Leader. ailment and strikes it quick. It. \N. 'W right, 10 Daniel street, Brockville, Ont., for twelve years a great sufferer from rheumatism, couldn't wash himself, feed himself, or dress himself. After using six bottlee waa able to go to work, end says: "I think pain has left forever," -26. THE ROTHSCHILDS. 1 History of a Family Well Known in the World of Finance. tiod tbe 'father of the "original" Roths- child had his way, the ealents of this fannly Might never haee boa known to the world of anaemic. When Mayer Anselin Rothschild Was gorn in the JudeastrwLe, Frankfort, hi 1743, hiss pants eeneeerated him to the Church. Attie:meet he workea in his fath- er's store, driving a bargain whenever there was an opottunity, he was told conetantly that he was to beacon° a rabbi. For a long time the boy's remonstrances woe in vain, but he finally OVereanle his father'S will tit the falloWIng Way: The elder itethsehild had left his son ene day at tbe home of a nelghberinA rabbi, In order that this reverend deeter might Der- ma& tbe youth to (tome the eynagogue, rather than the rounting tool% After a loug talk the rabbi gave the boy the Tal - nine, and asked him to read eertain pas- eagtv. An hour or so later the father Caine fo: hie ehild, and, finding no one at toe door, he eteppee into the hallway. A low 1 e leer wan an nompa reama cache/ Lam t.m, quiahly, n his head sweliol wait joy. lie PaW lels been e.1 MaYer (Timeline: over a beelc, and (heating frein pageS. ae se seaming something by bona, Aproeching nearer, he raw that the volume Wati tbe Talmud. Apla.111.0111);:ttlings" 111V boy, ash, d the father, t r. efo the lad rould Meager leso leaf Slipped oupt‘ and flomed to the ti name ty irilterStl.ly°ftbre)al:mNetttldretiitralergial, broader and more trtliti'lYlaY,irt• fron au old initut et blot:awl:al . es no farther effort to eitwart the lad's ambition. and a year or So later he Wan Lent te TIlli:4111.1"*Tfttelir gott 'iLoptiAtia, 41101 nOtilsehild returned tO his native town and AN ECtatisTRIC SCOT. A Ifeterants Ster,y. ueorgo Lew* of Shamokin, Pa., writes: "I ani eighty Ogee of age. I hate been troubled with Catarrh for fifty years, and in my• thee have WM great many tatarrh cures, but never imasi any tenet until I limed Dr. Arica's Catarrhal Pierder. One box cured me completely." 10 ceuts.--.2.5. rail de Montalt. who oeuples the &eel. Me position in the lime of Lords as an English and an Irish peer, has sold his estate Tipperary to ids tweet*.