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The Wingham Advance, 1904-11-17, Page 3dess,A**14.4*A-aaaebeeee4e^04A4A4 -wad Life On Board Ship. BrIta:res North Son Fisherman aro Nomads—Fleets II:eating Towns With Churches and Hospitals, v seetvereravververwwvwverwwwvvviertrveareneverevvv*vorsavvervaaaarvera It. imposeible for ane to realize vc Lama knowledge bow Taterly iteheet 'the hard -worked fishermen of the Dogger Peak and theeNorth Sea generally mast have bon at the mica recta bail of shot ana shell from Ad- miral Rojestvensky's battle fillips, eruis- ern and torpedo boate. Vast areas of the North Nee are well-known. Britieli fleeting grounds, and there the whole floating "villuges" to be found, in Woe storm -swept watere in the form of trawlern, both hailers and steam, eaca commanded by nit "admiral," The population. of those floating vil- lages, welch are attendee by their own floating hospitals aml churches reachee the astonishing, number of 20,0100 souls, tine the aggregate value of their catch eseeeds $4000. The lives of the men aro terribly liard. iu tINSKI waters, opecially in the winter, and an American may well be estonisbed to learn that these poor fellows -Mut - drabs aud thoneands of them -slave day and night, under the most cruel circum- stances, for $3 ur $4 a week. seud yet it is these men ena their like who form the very backbone of the Brit- ish navy. These fishermen form the third line of the navai reserves of Great Britain. Quite a uumber of Captain Lambton's men, who dragged the big six- inch naval guns of the Powerful to Lady- smith 'were fisbermen from the Dogger bank. A large proportion of these men have had at least some training in the navy, if not in battle ships or ertibsers of the first class, then in coast defence iron - clads, which are 014'0f -date battle•ships with a limited radius of action, Aecidents are Frequent, Accidents ire very frequent in the fishing fleets, especially in conveying the boxes of fish from the trawlers to the steam curlers that ply between the floating "villages" and the • great fish markets of Hull, Grimsby and Billings. gate (London). Just think of 300 mon and boys drowned in e single night, as happened M the -March gale of 1883, Again, in the furious gale of Christmas, 1894, 200 of these poor fellowe were lost in the trawling fleets. Prior to 1881 the lot. of these men was truly deplorable,. particulerly among the floating villages of the Dogger bank - that great prolific shallow which lies 280 miles front the names, and per- haps 75 miles off the Jutland coast. The famous "Dawger," as the men call it, is the most notalale fishing.ground of the North Sea; and from its size and fectin- aity is vastly preferred before the "Bot- ney Gut," the "Silver Pits," or any other of the North Sea grounds. In those early, days the fishing smacks ran out singly, carrying a little ice for the preserving 'of them catch, and choos- ing their own markets. Thus every week or tie the men were at home, Grad- ually small fleets began to be formed, which remained on the banks, and smart sailing cutters were employed to "run" their takes. When steam trawlers came into use the fleets increased immensely in size, end special mew fish.earriers were built, capable of carrying thousands of empty fish trunks and many tons of ice for each journey, besides the forty or fifty tons of coal for the double trip - Five or six of these carriers are now allotted to ecteh fleet and plough their way back to market, often with. 2,500 boxes of prime fish in the hold, •each trunk weighing perhaps eighty pounds. Have Floating Villages. With the grewth of "fleeting" and steam earriers, the absence of the crews from home was prolonged, mail et length the reopgnized system for the /loathe villages became eight weeks tie. sea ataa etretch, if sailing' from Yar- mouth, or ten weeks if from the more northerly ports of Hull mid Grimm*. This, however, applied only to sailing vessels. The steam trawlem mostly carry home their own ca.W, presereed. in ice, and they aro out from ten days to a fortnight. These fleets, such as the Gamecock, the Red, the Blue and so on, vary in size from thirty-five or fifty up to over 200 Yeesels. The snicteks ate from fifty to eighty tons burden, and each carries a crew of six or seven men. Hence it ia that in one large fleet there Ls the popilation of a small town. The floatiag villages aro always far Hospitals Well Patronized: The twitting hest:Rale have lied as many ae 10,160 ineeical and eurgicul and out patients in a single year, not to mention 2,002 miesionary Visits and roligioue eervices held. Beckoned by limn weight,. the free literature eta tributed-uutgazines, tracts and boles - amounted to ilfty-two tons, seventeen lauidredealglite and three pounde. elven the tobacco eold in the floating villages in a single year was 'valued at ACM. - No oue exec t the fishermen them - selvee knows what a difterenee this. work luxe made in their of slay - masts sheer fiercely Omsk the drift. ceseel after vessel makes) ber tremeli- dolts swoops front the crest to the hol- low of them, dread sews, and it eeems that only a miracle can prevent some of the evallowing boats from creshing into each other. But mall lunge is measured and the cool berstla at the tillers generally men- age to work themselves out of commit- cetione that would paralyze a coward. Nererthelese very severe accidents cm. cur. When I visited the "Short Blue fleet last . year one of the erevr broke his thigh In getting the trawl on board, owing. to a heavy beam falling upon him. A ti.ig sea was ninnies): and it was quite -impossible to send lum ashore for treatment. In the old days the poor man Weal either hen died or lost his legs but the floating hospitals have ehanged all that. The latest ono, the Queen Alexandra, is a. blessing positive- ly incalculable to these splendid fellows,. .with ita beautifully fitted o eratin P g rooms, comfortable bede, with spotlese motlern diepensary, electric light ing through bitter nights, (Men. with and hot and cold baths. their fingers gashed almost to the bone,', The Islerth Seetturbyolant; e i golf: annren itiliye and their wrists covered with bad bee. steam trawlere, tees from their oil skins -blisters which, hands each. I well remember gain:on:ea: i !which the Russian battlee ups ag)onyei ta i boat has a trawl or net which their broadsides, We left on the float - sweeps the floor of the ocean and traps ing hospael Quell Alexandre and. noth- all kinds of fish, lucluding a gooe per- ing contl have been more curious than Don of cod, haddock, plaice, soles and the inquales *we nuule of passing vessels turbot. For tbe special benefit a the whether they lmil seen , the floating last named 31, fringe is placed along .the awn we were in search of. net, literally for the purpose of "ack-1 We were laden -with every kind of ling" any 'atoll fish lying beneath the iterrotratztonboaescoo,onnieretlieine and litera- meshes. . bad the hoepital At times all kinds of unwelcome hauls 'arrived at the fleet than Wets were aro made-weira aml =medal mona lowered and patients began to come on eters in the wey of lisle Never will a ,board for both surgical' and medical certain skipper of the Gamecock fleet treatment. forget drawing up Ids trawl and finding Church Ships Visit Fleets. in hiS net a -weird thing with two huge Nor ere the cod eishermen of New - horns. It almost seared the lives out :midland neglected. Even the wild and of these superstitious men, until they desolate coast of Labrador is visited by found the monster nothing more fear- these floating hospitals and churches - some than the head of a dereliet bullock notably the beautaully equipper Strath. that had been thrown overboard from come which was presented by the erni- oome ship. nent' Canadian stateman of that name. From, time to time the awe °smear Her skipper is both elergynaan and doe - arrives at the fleet and. thou conies the tor Rey. Dr. Wilfred T. Cam -doll, M, R. perilous task of transferring the trunks a. 's. of fish from th6 smacks or steam trawl- It is even more interesting to watch ers to the larger vessels. The little red the Detains& ohm& taking up its sta- boats having been loaded, each is rowed tion and blowing its shrill steam whistle, by two Men, who stand to their work, which, does duty as church bell. Forth - and pull svith a short, snatching stroke with boats are lowered and in hail an until their craft gets near the steain hour or so an 'earn* and hearty eon - carrier. gregation is gathered in tbe hold of the Few Able to Swim. mission vessel and the worshipers, sit - The &ismer is at its climax when the ting on empty fish trunks, are roaring little boat° is made fast to the great out hymns to the tune of a portable rolling iron eull of the ship. With a harmonium. crash and a bump it is brought into poi- It is estimated that the bospital and tion, and one of the men lilts the heavy mission steamers consume over $16,000 trunk full of ash and prepares to swing worth of coal in a single year. Toward it on board. If the smecksman slips les Christmas time they carry out hampers life will he crushed out of him between of good things to the Hobe not forget. the boats and if the box slips it is irre- ting warm woollens and tbe warmest of trievably lost in that cruel and romring warm mittens, socks and comforters. sea. And, by the way, very few of the These men, as we have seen, work North Sea fishermen are able to swim. terribly hard for the merest pittance, The writer has heard some of these but the government helps them a good men declare that they have deliberately deal, particulaely through the depart. neglected swimming, beeriuse as the remit of marine biology. If you Wore greater 'part of their life is spent right told of these fishermen gravely catclang out of sight of land the knowledge of it flee', fixing neat little metal labels onto would only add to and prolong the pain them and then slipping them back into the ocean, in tbe hope that sonfe other of drowning. The summer visitor to .these floatiug man would find them. somewhere else villages is apt to take away a very and thua their movements would be pleasant impression of •the life, but he traced, you would smile and think about sees nothing of the horrors of the North "salt on the bird's tail." Sea in the winter gales, when the black Yet it is done, and done hy order of waves rush down upon the boats with a a serious government department, so that the movement of the shoisls may noise like thunder. I have been on board in the night be recorded. for the benefit of the fish - when tbe hour has struck for the great ernien, whose year's fishing, by the way, net to be hauled. The sleepy men come weighs more than 900,000 tons, of which on deck to face the hissing., roaring nearly 300,000 tons are herrings. ivind or lasbing sleet or blinding snow. As -might be supposed, these tugeed They tug and strain at the trawl on that fisbermen were a pretty stiff proposition heaeing and tossing deck, by the feeble at first for the missionaries. flieleer of oil lanms, until the huge beam All Love Whiskey. comes up. And then they grope in the ' "What we want," said tho admiral of dark, coiling the nets mechanically be- the Gamecock. 'fleet once, apropos of re - fore beginning tho growsome work of ligioui work among the North Sea fleets, sorting and packing the fish under con- eis not so much of this 'ere cant, but ditions positively appalling. more svhiskyl" After this work, utterly exhausted, The doctors who work among these they plunge into their reeking .dogliole men tell many funny stories about their of a cabin, fling themselves clown in great respect and regard -even love - their sodden clothes and eleep until the for meeicine. neet call sends them on d.eck with "I remember one day," said Dr. Gren- steaming garmente. Of course tae steam fell to the present writer, "1 chancedeto capstan hits lightenea their labors and MoYe one of the long boots belonging to the 'cabins are more decent than they a skipper which lay in a, corner of a ivied to be. cabin. Out fell a laottle of medicine, They are grand. inen and no eveo.kling waich I had given its owner an hour or survives among them. The smacks- two previously. man's life • is made up of furious spells "'Why, what do you keep your meal - of work, snatches of heavy sleep and cine in your boot for, ekipper?" I asked stray hours of leisure. . nd Hea thful Unapproachable by any Japan tea grown CEYLON NATURAL. CRXgri tea la to the 4opon tea drinker what -44 SA1,40A" .Olack Is to the h!ack .tea drinker* Sold only In sealed lead packets! 200 and 40o per lb, ey all grocers* be placed to -catch tbe verinin when they eo that the may be destroyed, ep y e equires cleaning mut linieweshing twice a year. The roosts should be removed and treated 1V101 cOal tar or kerosene every week, alien wet with sea water, cease positive .from Thal io vIna the ver fleet into an4 00 nests frequently deemed and, neW straw placed in them, It is necessary to regularly examine young chicke for head lice. if present, the lice will be found in the dosyn or the feathers on the chick's bead. If not destroyed, they will so weaken the chick that it will die from loss of blood, The lice can be eamoved by smearing the chick's. head with grease or sweet oil to which a few dorps of carbolic acid beve been added, Sealy. Leg. -This disease is quite pre- valent in flocks of neglected poultry, and is due to a species of mite. The scales of the legs and feet become raised and separated, end a ehalk-like excretion ae- °emulates between and over there, rough lumpy crusts are formed, and under these the mites live and breed. The diseased leg and feet of the obick- ens should be well washed with a small stiff bresh, warm water and soap. The• ousts should then be removed and a mixture of eaual parts of eulphur and lard. rubbed into the affected parts. Af- ter three or four days the legs of the chickens that were treated should be cleansed with soap and warm water. Yours very truly, D. A. CrEMONS, Publication Clerk, oultr ous r No sight is more impressive than to see the steam cerrier taking up her sta- tion in the North Sea on a stormy morning, there to lie weltering amid the *vicious cross -seas. Trawling is Dangerous. sThe fleet of musks and trawlers are out of sight of land, ae.ne hardly ever scattered far aed near but they grad - rest eat anchor. A rislung "admiral" ually onverge. toward' the big carrier. "regulates" the movement of his fleet 1.ittle by little, the .preee grows closer by means of roekets and flares at night around the central point. The myriad and flags in the day. Where the fish teataxAmemmitoori•• ,m1.0•••••••••.....1.•••••••1•10 are thickest there must the trawlers follow, aed ,so it conies to pass that one week a man may be found off the coast of Denmark, later on close to' Norway and still Inter on the steam -swept Dog- ger bank, • There, on the wild waste of water fat from any harbor and with the only duty of fislecatebieg day end eight, in- .cluding Sundays, these hardy men labor. Their "villages" formerly offered. fine mope for the hearties:a/sharks known as “cepers"-• not sea sharks, but yes - oat bailing mainly 'from Reiland and laden with fiery aniseed brandy and. nameless abominations. The result may be imagined. Were Formerly Quarrelsome. There were quarrels and knife fights and drowniegs, but the toyal national mission to deepaca fiebernien bas alter- ed all this. Prom having one second - head vessel, the Ensign, doing religious work only in one fleet and without a -doctor, the mission now runs a fleet eif its own -a fleet of floating thurclies and hospitale, wheat work both for soal and body Is excellent. It was soon seen that the "first aid" training of the mission skippers ,was not sufficient for the serioxis a.cehlente that took pities iu the Deals, and so the, soeiety built its firet fleeting hos- pital, the Queen eactoria. with a regu- lar Ward of eight bede, two Awing cola for dietocations and steffed with tt fully qualified surgeon and eergemest mate, As to the floating elturelien that sail :With the verious fleets, thole are man. tied by brother fishermen trout the Skip- per downward and. are surely the queer- est "chute -he*" -on record,. since they aro mot only chepel, temperance -hall, club and theatre combined, but they also .,stisl work for their living arid trawl and dieli like the ievit of the fleet. -They carve goo(' toiraceo for sale at . s eost price, ia order to theelonate and gam out the "eoner." Indeed, the "cop& atul .doinge gave rise to a 'special act of the British Perliament .-the North Sei, fisheries Liquor traffie ad, which makes it illegal to sell stlem hol to these Nsorth Sea trawlers. In, Ammer, too, the floating villagee aro visited by volunteer evangeliete, bobh derical and lay, and inttotent lit. - ars:tura by the ton is tient off to the 'Mag. Xi, Oile who bee seen Slushy leonine; seryke in the fleeting chureh could Otter forget It, partieitlarly the roaring voices. of the bronzed and burly itt **a hoot*, A prominent club woman Mrs. Danforth, of St. Jose' h the chickens appear po r health the P should be examined at nigloit, and if mit Y -- Tiestekville, Get, MiCh. tells hovv she was cured are found treatment shauld be vestertg A NEW IDEA. Ton lo Treat ment for Ind igestion-New Strength for the Stomach from New, Beall:lob Blood. The Tonic Treatment -that ht the latest and only scientific cure for in- digestion. All the leading doctors of Europe and .Aerterica are using it with sensational success. No more pur- gatives, no more pepsin, no more pat- ent foods, no more long diet lists say- ing; "Thou shalt not eat this or that." No more of all this --nothing, fact, but plenty of new, pura rich red blood to tone the liver aid give the stomach strength for its work. This is the Tonic Treatment for Indigestion. The tonie treatment is based on the new idea that drugs which digest the food for the stomach really weaken its powers through disuse. The digestive organs can never do their work proper- ly until they are strong enough to do it for themselves. The only thing that can give the stomach and the liver new strength is good blood -and the only thing that can actually make new blood. is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Pea - plc. They have long been known as the greatest blood -building tonic in the world and all the highest medical authorities agree that the one scientific mire for in. digestion is the Tonic Treatment. The marvellous success ef the tract:mere has been proved in every corner of the Do- minion. One of the very latest wit- nesses is Mr. Joseph Rochette, Bt. Jer- ome, Que., who says : "I simply hated the thought of food. Of course 1 had to force myself to eat, but afterwards 1 always suffered with dull, heavy pains in the stomach. I seemed to be bilious as well and. this caused severe headaches, which further aggravatecl my unfortun- ate position. I grew pale, fell away in weight and the trouble seemed. to be un- dermining my whole constitution. 1 tried several remedies, but without suc- cess; a doctor whom I consulted, advised abeedute Test, but this was out of the question as I had to work for my Fortunately for rne one of tny "`For fear the other men should find friends advised me to use Dr. William'd it out, sir. They drank the last bottle Pink Pills and I decided to do so. After you gave me before had a ehanot" taking the petit for several weeks there PAR ASITES OF POULTRY was a decided impreeement in my condi- tion. Not only was my digestion bet- ' ter, but iny general health improved 111 every way. New blood seemed ta be A Corn mon,Cause of Loss—pre- coursing through my yeins.aringing new ventlon and EXterMifistion. health and strength every day. I took eierht boxes of Dr. Williams'.Pink Pills The presence of parasites is one of the primary causes of unprofitableness and disease a flock of poultry, says the Poultry Division, Ottawa. There are three distinet groups of parasites prey - Mg upon the domestic fowl -fleas, lice, and mites. Groups of Parasietes-Only the spe- cies of fleat the bird fiefs, lives upon the fowl. Thus flea is providea with a sharp piercing mouth; it ettaeles the fowl at night and through causing con - stunt irritation and loss of blood does 'much harm. The mouth of the Mese differs from tbe mouth of the flea in that it is not 1sharp• and used for pereing, but son. 1ply for biting. Lies bite shat.ply and treetment for al the common ailments mime considerable pain. Ouch as nnaemia, beadachee, backaches, 1 The most injurious of the mites is the floss, rhetunatism, sciatica, neuralgia, nervous - red fowl mite This is yellowish -white dyspepsia end general weakness. to dark rea in color, according to the Maga are all caused bY bad blood mad quantity of blood it eontaans. 'rho hl‘," ,,„,/ therefore are all mired by Dr. Williams' is drawn from the fowls at night, and Pink Pills. You can get these pills from during the day the mite hides in the any medicine dealer or by mail at 60c cracke and crevices of the house. When a box, or six hoxes for ee.50, by writ - in te the Dr Williamel Medicine Co.) altogether, and those who see me now would never know that I had seen tin Spartans when Ile was with them, haa to well-exceptires, those who are caught unwell day in my life. I owe my spien- remove his beard. Dirty, self-satisfied did health to these pals, and stronely old Dio,genee made coarse jokes about' the men who were clean :maven in his playine the spy -I can speak with con- . 0 advise every dyspeptic or weak ,person deuce, and say that they are well treat - to lose no time in taking them: time and did not find a man among thou ed. I had an Asiatic servant for a While a in the light of his lantern whom fie eon- who had beau a bearer in the fighting Mr. Rochette's statement is a stron triblite to the Tonle 'Treatment, Dr°. line, and though he vas not in any way sidered honest. They were too clean Williams' Pink Pills cured Lim because for MTh" The barber changed the topic of eon- - overburdenea with love for the Russians him. ' These pills go right down to the he bore 1 °stemma/ to their unfailing they actually made new rich blood tor root of the troeble in the blood and. ewe that. The new blood theyeanako carries healing health and strength to every part of the body. That is the new Tonic Treatmnt, and the highest medi- cal authorities noW recommend this niumered Oita %We the *rope ot Um eat year Uwe WAS ne 3orspo say intuition'. Met mere was no minute worthy et aisiittaa, toad teat be wits ito wailer gulag attention to the out), Jett. '11Ila was saki le so offhand. ireseseetue trait tee taming, tisoesti not so ituessepaetet. llokt 1110111 t 1.04 ' wee welch eppailea. ,Also shapia taet was fere; top it ousel the peasaut, Pnplitnian 14 • Vinland end in the central insarteut or tios envoy even letie prepared to meet it. Der- ; breed tutute laigely of ferns bad bo.4 lef IV 11911,4! ivria7:4`roigTbillff ifi:tlfi . , y hIng 3 o it sO etas,' neseesear or ea t own Blamer; Irom ateleue images:ens et I brought to me, weteli it wouta seem a shame i to We to horeee or male mud yet tiis 141. penal Iiigline,s, tile heir to the throtie, ert, acidly knew nothing of all this: fil ezplanation, I wkas afterwards told br his childhood 41at, though eehrteous. hie a. person who had known him intimately trout main charneteriatie was sn absolute indiffsr., ens° 03 all persons and thine& ;Went him, sad that lao uever eliewee any opplIcstion. 0 buoincaa or A smirk Of ambition of tiny sorts te him at veurt. eta 'This was cenfirmed by what I afterward sew lisllessle. sneolclua la a good-natured way to this or that person when it was easier than eeemee to stand aeout Potto do so, but on the whom ledifferent to all that weut ou aboin him. After his accession to the throne, one of the best Anises -in Europe, who had every the other VieW, and are advising patients opportunity to °bona ben emote, eatd to with weak throats to let their beards met "iie know nothing of his empire or of grow, his people; he newer goes out ot his house if he can help it"; and tlite explains in mime are as subject to fashions Tile barbers ere fully awcultasavtoumwenn, Merano at The Hague and degree the insufficieneY Of his programme and that if the beard collies In vogue tor tho Japanese war, which, as revue these disgrace to Russia. filunrest,beisre'goaienegeo°n. with fearful disaster and Take case the dealings 'with Finland. rrbq whole thing til monstrous. It is bah cele. edy end tragedy. Vinland Is by far the best developed part of the empire; It Stands an a higher plane than .do tbe other prov. inees aa regards every element of civilize. Ron; it has steadily been the most loyal ut ther and choice bits of local gossip to tgigsuiggiul, falll'illee gifiaoreorrgetis 411 itts n in; 1 tl 4 ; keep up a. constant discussion in regard lima. Yet to -day tifere empire strong enough to preveat sundry big - to the wearing of beards, taking as his ecfreatical, leading the text the raiely disputed bypothesis that *peg tatroY vigeat all peoples of a high order of eivilbattion ine,ke tho simple PreseinteaIrigetir n4iriettaira were given to clean shaving. ales Is to him treasonable, to trample Finland. under the e•ay he tells when. he has a enStain- 81111 met, te _grievously wrong and groggy le- er with time enough for a shavee facial mf lo'clainsgolligguppoebouSiitt,s41:1iillomiii massage, hair cut, and sbanmoo : press, to brutalize $ n ry n hus 4:The Most SaVage peoples let their iroen•meartutdhoor lokugsitit,ntre to the level ot tho hair grow until they resemble wild- elle At the Finnish Capital, Relsingters Is One enndoatntentyhotulat nsoltin,vcoly. 7 of the most important universities. of 'Europe, In1saals.praYetTelewaititi eeautifie build - In, tir g:Abbiliitiltb:"Yi know,. of course, that he was a very em- i superior to that which e ds y Ras onawraliCeeivii:Faii:: 11.1:. sequent, on civilization 13enfley-you mgsphere of eleauimesse STainstkrit-epeaking Aryans were (superior ' the euritiicyirg •Iel; ?gra, there bad been physiologist -claimed that the ; 111411IY• 'rale tsboavtheed aEnuaretreatsttheercaduidse oleabsaagocuurrega no tbeliof obransiee:i while in Russia all public. matters bore th4 marks of arbitrary repression, in Finland one his theory on the word kshura,the Greek :ci'cig :Mtn tigti:. )1tet°1)1113lagshatiTIV billrlre: floicriltolliaersrazwohao Osafycotithraste thheeregiavrees zitirs,iiit any, above AsMtie. barbarism, the Flu- ntolitaherneerGreek word the wrong translation. peasant, simple. genuine, Is clearly far sible man of learning can doubt, `•Now, you win not doubt, and BO nen- 1 ht:. that ee i rtert or :10:41bghmi:oirriallumartvigali; feared have sinoo been taken. Vinland Is to agaordNcloyoutosinacellve veethzirtitraRuuentrain. see that the measures which were then But for my part I agree with him. the Egyptiaus were a very advanced pathy expressed for the Doers in South At. rece. lt is certain that from the earli- est we know of them they were a Mean- I I igictite'lihnifteesPgrirdilisehtPeha Oen in tear sauna, against England; bet c:szonoof 4'111 "Oh, yes; it is true that m,e see them l' it could to save itself, bet it recognizes the shaven people. depicted on the tombs and monoliths trolyropzegaost itticairlfltasstihaen trtaut? force of • fact that its two millions of people are ot- itis wearing beards and curled hair, but The" atrliggie in South Africa jaiereeit, atter . th t th they wall beseenoustv affected, A w.ell-knOwn hdlier in a fashionable, steighborhood wee among, the first to fear the coming of the fashion of beard - .wearing, with the result that he has ellartged the timely topics of las con- versation from remarks about the weae (Mr) ifotT),,vANT AA GOLDWATONI 441:471.1/44714944c.,,ELo:zomoill'imr.4,gocomaartac.4:-.1*:uwiers PleXt"IttatIt5 Valor tuta b7r. nalgenghil 1441$111441141retikeilifl: WRITE TO -DAY ••66." avoid before the world devoid of honor, of chivalry or of mercy. In the interests of the svouuded men who fall battle I thinke this point ehould be taken up lay the vrhole world's prese, for the exaluszon of the war care- spondmit from the field of battle is a step backward toward darkness, not from a mere newsgatherev's point of view, but in the intereste of immunity., The press that only deeiree cable news to increese ite circulation may very 'well be dismissed, either on the score of lila manity or utility, but the unemotional press that is content, as of old time, with dispassionate letters ehould not be kept front the scene when mate Met are likely to affect the World at large are impending. -A. G. Hales in the Lon- don Daily News. Baby Humarso-Dr. Agnew's Otat. went soothes ,quiets, and Woos (Mick and effective cures in all akin eruptions eoznnina to baby during teething time, It la harm- less to the hair in came Of Scald Read, and Cures Eczema, Salt Rheum and MI Skiu Diseases of older people% 35 eents.-55 eRIM REAPER'S. DAILY HARVEST Estimated Death Rate of the Whole World put at 123,009. In a ceitastrophe which (suddenly blots out seemly 1,00u lives, the enelizeo world. finds cause for horror aud sympathy alike. On the corrununity in wince seen a disaster occurs its first effect is dazing and it is not strange that follosving the distraction of else Vattern! i0Oultr ee• pressions of doubt as to tbe wisdom of ;Sod and hia direction of human atfairs should. be heard. alike from the facia givloi mut the unthinking. • It is only in the calmer time of afterthought, thanks you should remember that these were to etie 'mules or the statisescaus, that just as the English judge -wears a wig. Boers would, within a generation or two, en - and shocking in its nature, sinks into false and only used for state occasions, such an accident,. terrible in its detail The proof of this is that the wigs and itheennaevherer typo of constitutional liberty I they would have developed under i ; ineignificance in the death list of the beards have been found attached to tiny republic they could have established; day, not merely in the world, or the nee hair. the rule of brutal Russian satraps. Tbese i tion, but even ebonntatitutional government nad come under . Finland is now forced to give up her , The estimated annual death rate for in the state and the city. mummies and they were made of horse strange badge of honor until he be- be. elle vuye7rslflitteelayey begun their work; all Is to be ' a dies aro to came a father, It is also true that the brought down to the level of Dorpat-once le.3,00U, sends into obscurity the thous- ;athoiarencisttigOlclulanivi ebrsoity is to be "No man in Egypt could wear this the world of 45,000,000, a daily total of mons. They denoted authority and fetichism ot the R rgto!rgeMmrWoltlia: 11 le whether one assume the position of the smeens wore false beards on state occa- ntnegeedull waoG and or fewer who were slain on the Gen - honor, "Of course, you remember in read; autism of tbo people is to be substituted the eral Slocuin. In the omniscience of God, Greek Church. a single tic doubter or the cynic, the death roll of Iterodotus, that he tells how none of the ' Fo mer Emperors, however much they have I the works of that remarkable hietorl'an i .ng wIshord to do so, have not dared break their I the saddest spectacle of our time. eident, even though it be a* Egyptians would kiss the bearded sol- n oaths to Finland; but the present weakling ; great its that of the General Slocum, uhnistitnienscisiefteoregie citiitz:seleaton‘exa • ean be only a minor detail, even more M- illers of Greece, believing them unclean. tti:edaedacoor•sareciiii sovereeni la stenificant, in view of the fad that all Not even the women would kiss them. on Tee°rd here ICI;ie about him the beard, but the smell of garlic, All ritelaeotwiounary mu good pleasure. I put In the case of the recent horror nearly Maybe this was not so much because of Ill'e is doomed to perish. the Clreeks and. Italians I know eat gar- geoioornrt, hgraist., Alp boe p 13 I d r itted without receiving punishment. -. similar accident in recent years, were the prophecy that his drtnaslyli n suuciashcreimefonas, been 1,000 lives, it larger number than in any lost, For a few hours the wharves and Century Magazine. shores along the river were transformed into morgue. In a single day there were more than 200 funerals of vic- tims, while the city. was plunged into mourning and the civilized world gave expression to its sympathy and sorrow. Yet, great as was the tragedy at the moment, its part even in the death list of the year is only slight. In the nor- mal existence of this metropolis as msay persons die every 108 hours from reasons incident to eity life as perishea in tho holocaust near North Brother Island. That this number should be equally significant to the divine power must be granted, and, as death is tbe commonest factor in human life, it can- not be regarded from a different stand- point, whether it occurs in accident or in ordinary course of affairs. Within this state 360 die every day. The tale of death.% in the Unitea States reacbes 2,850 daily, a figure three times that of the victims of the Gen. eml Slocum. There die ennualls• in greater New York 75,000 persons, a num- ber larger (ban that of the:population. of Trenton, N.J. Within the Unitea States graves are annually dug for more than 1,0fek,afiaalethaeselauthe face of this vast harvest of mortality the number slain on the General Slocum seems slight, even to the human intellect. In the death rate for the year for the state or city the Samuel horror will hardly maae an appreciable difference. While in the 45,000.000 deed of the world each twelve months it is only a tine, item. Thevefore to sober second thought the unreasoning instinet to place upon the power Which the millions regard. as omnipotent-a-Mei:hey rightly or wrong- ly dere eot enter into the question-- versation to the canary, an. eseential mitt any ndditional responsibility for so of his place of businiese, as a man with sliolit cm inerease to humanity's death a beautifully white gray beard entered k• d 1 • in TIOM tO t tor enemies a len le a - .1 ti I t • voll impears pntently ebsurd.-New to have his hair trimmed and his slices ter fell into their bands. York Tribune. 6...m.m.6•06166*06466 polished. On the next opportunity Ile chiefenakere int the continental press Most of us can remember how mis- 1 oriGht'sOiseate—IncidiousT tried during the Boer war to make the doneptivg relentless! has foiled he. Razors of bronze and flint has been found in the tombs." Tie, customer, who did not dispute what Iferodotus was said to have writ- ten, as he uever bad read lus ematings, had to objeot to the idea of flint heino. There is no telling when a medicine said, was bad °none), but the idea of • to laure a used in shaving. A newly honed razor, he' may be neeaea in limes where there are young ebildren, and the failare flint was preposterous. "There you are misinformed," polite -1 halesi I may mean much suffering, and, per - reliable medicine at hand only the other day that I read in an ly ineisted the barber. "Why, it was ' Every mother should always keep a box the loss of a precious life. English newspaper that when M.- Mar. This medieifie acts promptly and speed. itte was excavating at Abydos he no- HY, of Baby's Own Tablets in the house. tired that the head of one of his serv. ,' troubles, teething troubles, simple fee. cures such ills n.s stomach and bowel ed that the inan had just had it shaved ants was inflamed, and on enquiry learn- • ere, colc1.5, worms, and other little ills. of his people in las youth aed he refused wite a flint. This haa been the custom And the mother has a guarantee that the Tablets contain no opiate or hann- to change it. Yon see here was a sur- i Hardy, fut. drug. One wise mother, Mrs. Geo. Fourehu, N. S,. says: "I have viral of the ancient way of being clean used Bs,by's Own Tablets and find them and free from hair on. the• face or head. a blessing to children, I am not sat. "Now, when Cortes was; in Mexico ho " isfied without -a box in the house at all was asienfiehed.to find that the natives times." If your eealer does not keep shaved with a piece of obsidian as well these Tablets in stock send 25 cents to and as fast as the Spaniards with their ; The Dr. Williams' efedicine Co., Brock - marvelous Toledo blades. Civilized men : vine, Ont., ancl you will get a box by shaved because they loved to be dean. t mail post paid. Just look at the busts of the Romans. 1 The noble cad 'fellows had close -cropped I hair ana clean feces. As they degener- REPORTERS4fteM&F IN WAR, — cited they began to war long curly locks and beards. . Their Preaence at Battle Tends to Pre - "The Spartans were clean shaven long . vent Carnage and Barbarity, before the Athenians woke to their i glory, when they, too, wore no beards. 1 Of the wounded Japanese who fall into Alcibinades, to gain the good will of the Russia's hands, and the unwoundea as A MOTHER'S PRECAUTION. es* **mon= of failing of the womb and its t°' accompanying pall • Prevention and EXterminatiolt-Tf the BEWARE OF THE COMING BEARD. , s and mtsery pouiyy bouso is old and contaius moat Eloquent Bather Raises Protest Against* memos, ie nes s000s by Lydia E. Pinkham'sVegetable tures should be remove'd from. it, ate. C01111100111 the walls and reilirese covered with a Threatened Evil. (New York Tinies.) Barbers are seriously considering the enemy NiOnn N to mg us up o ie hundreds ot trials by reediest science to stem the tide of its ravages -and not until South Amenican Kidney Cure proved beyOnd a resumed his oration with a questiou. • aAreuet nine -tenths of the cranks bear- world beliiive that we ill-treated the ' • d 1 l Id' t tl ers of germ not beards?. they carry their banners on their faces proclaim- ing them Populists or Anarchists, or some other sort of ists. In the old am- • try for eenturiee the Saxons wore beards just out of spite to the e7ormans, who shaved, They and their desendants had sWorn neva to shave until the Nor- mans were gone. erantioe would never have been disowned if he had uot sha,ved. Sir Walter Scott tells that his eneat- grandfather took en oath not to shave until the Stuarts were restored to the throne." If the customer happens to be a Re- publican the barber -will tell of Demo - crate who look like wild -men because they have sworn not to slutve until there is a Democratic president, and if ,. Ns" miss. puecniu: ....tife leek, heavy building paper end immesh. the he happens to be a Democrat he re - dark indeed vvhen a woman feels that latter should lea epplied het and'fairly question svhether the present custom ot counts hosv it is to luts the honor of her strength ia fading army and she has liquid, so aft to enter every erevice M men of being clean shaven has not al. shaving early in November an old gen- t° hopes of over being teedered, Stteh .ita 111111111g' Re quality will be be- most lied its run. In the last five years ..tlemeu who Iles grown ti, be,ra since WaS My feeling a few months ago when proved by addiug to every gallon of the One after another of their customers Cleveland left the SN'hite Home. I Was advised that iny toot health was wash one-gilarter polled ef (loft amp, with desperate reselve ordered his taus- ., At least one barber is tryinse to stop caused by prolapses or falling of the PrevioWAY iliescolve4 in boiling teeter; taebe or his beard removed, looked at ilie coming of the wearing <if beard% Venal). The words sounded like a also A small quantity of salt. The nut- himself a little foolishly in the glass at- no °there are alarmed and tome are knell to me, I felt that my ems bad set ; terial taken from the house should be ter the operation, clad then weet about but Lydia itt pinkbraws Vogt,. burned, and now roosting quarters nail his business, somethnes Miming to intro- followieg Ids emvoinle. , , , • table Compound come to me as nal buside• fittings put in, These fittitigs duo himself to old friends, ANDREW` D. WHITE ON THE CZAR. elixir ot life I it reetored tho lost fortes ahould be simple in conetruction and The testilt lifis been tbat the shaving and built me up uutil ruy good health • (slallS' reniosable so that the vermin area of humanity has largely increased, Ilosv Nicholae 11.-IttOreSsed the Ex -MM - returned to me. . Par four months I can bc ticatraYtd. natutally elating into the profits, aa it istet in 'Igoe, took the medicine daily, and each doses l Before the fowl return to the honae takes a little longer to eller/6 each cue- ' added health and etrengtili X am so Ave' should be thoroughly dusteil with tomer. But a thieg that is musing real t was preaented to the heir to the throne no wthe Daiwa enehoIne lie eannei thankful for Oscine p I obtaineathrouish. ineet't posvder or sulphur. Ily dusting alarm nmong the thoughtful tonsorial • . eindly mug teem but one of lila remarks scam ana contempt of humanity. 11 e all false. We Imve proved it false to the doubt its power to turn back the tide, wee of us knew at the lime that this was there NVII0le world since, but we have not yet diseasea.:514eam of anything but despair tor fergotten our traducere. It will do ils the victim of this dread form of kidney no harm to remember this as the pree- est orders have beeu given by offieers Do you know that if one should, begin of the highest rank to the troojis to deal at roulette with a mine and svere kindly with the wounded after an ne- lowed to leave all Ids winnings on the Hon. That many tevrible deeds will be table five consecutive geesses wouldgire done in hot blood on both sides- there him a million and a half dollars, or, to can be but stunt room to doubt. When be exact, S1,450,025,52 1 Thet 'would be men get to the erossing of bayonets the result of whining thirty-five for ono all that is devilish in their blood is apt five times hand running. To give an- te. come upperinest. .At that stage a other ex:style, take the No, 15. Multiply man is no better than It tiger and natty that by itself and you get 2e5. Now tigerish deeds may be expiated. But in multiply 225 by itself, and so on until cold blood I do not believe that the Bus- fifteen produets have been multiplied by shims will lay rough hands upon the themselves in turn. This tnay not dein to be a diffieult problem, but eYen fiTileolLexplain just What mean, let me though you were a clever mathematic - say that should not care to be in the ian wottla take you a quarter of a enemy's trencime when a regiment of eentury to work out thie simple little the Iligeland Mega% or the Grenadiere sum The final product ealled for toil- er the Dublin Fusiliers stormed in svith tains 88,539 figures, the first of vthieh the briaonet. At the saint time, 7 do alre 1,442. not think should have en atom of fear Tf three figures were tellowed to an of what Might happen later if I lay in ineh the answer would be move than le thoee trenches among the wounded. 070 feet long. To pevform the Opersitien Yet it tenet. be admitted that one of would tequire about five hunderd mil- ieus greet safeguards of eivilization lam lion figures. If they tan be niade itt the been volleyed since the war correemond- rate of one a mama% a person svorking tuts of the world hasoi been prevented for ten hours a day for three hundered frout going into the ring line to see for days in a yettr would be teventy-eight themselves what happens. At present yeare about It. Suppose ins multiplying be tilionld Maize tt row of eipliere tte he does in other fogureft, the nuntber Of lip MOS Veleta be more than 523,040,220, This would lie the preeise number 01 tIg• urea Toed if the product, of the lett baud figure in &Leh multiplicand by eitch figure of the multiplier were always a Angle figure, but it hi 1110St frequently, though uot always, two figures, the method employed to elettviri the remelt eittmot be tieuvittely eplkid. If Or, el - Over he need once in ten tirritie the eel*. al number aproxinuttes 4711,000,004,00*. Stupendous Roulette. ent war goes on. / know that the strict- 1-0101001ill;steitAivfe;;411int,a.,040:10,111. unlielei— if tiant»e IN en rlinhed aniong the quills of their eustomers have recently Iseised erevions year the lareine whieh had bacon y cr ng .o te eat :Qrs. and the eeeees will not beards chronic in lurgo nano of Wino% baa tn for it 'that he itlidt‘nllostt aitt-tienneyllitlinte" brel its use."---- Alas. PLOilitS(1:1 11.4-8001rfil, t)r paper, the pow- artists 19 Ole nlence t Int 110t ft TOW amazed ithd dinappointod buring tho ib0 worm -has •. g s en acute form, one in its train bad iota; hti" Ilk° a lielP1"51 f""' mul penttleescoa eons& be 0;•odaw.i. I be wasted The toll ter treatment for It would be welt if they simply "PRIM l'arlISItlik T1 A WM:0 ceet • • • • • • Me !AMMO AVfiS. 1,PC.1:1 ihrk (Slieigl their den% W 11. t 11P8ct 011 4 the inside of whir+ ig Matra With it mix- theme must be it% d e°11rse write to Mrs, Mkt* if vo womm. ,_ _. ti.nrindtiml of the gape worm eart their enustisclies grow ngain, but the vane Widespread had tletunv combination ca ,.ii oniiar t, ,, .. 0.e. !I...et.° evidence le toyer of a thoiough. typhue Ana rbolera. It woe, in tea the ;la efteetivelv wed to ti I fold 1 1 tl ' ' 1 c v s o ser- rea mu; in t le way Of hairy fleece starvation mai eiseaeo whi' Is'. e'etiefactorv elintetter. Commandere Women would save time and • • ' ' . , t al y s law, with the Ass:, s, weirs taw As. thrill:, no vo . . f • A . . . e le ettem go; let one men fromorech tuned of Testate look on rt•na tits mele etseellra ef Pelet• nlia tee Op of the her- 'rho worst of it, eivording to "114111, 14. • "val. the"e lied '1.(o'it o i,,,,-.14rareVe It'll.' tAili.ii le oatnaaaaeit lace , tiwr000 ..osiai to kilo f.n nao tkneral aini. r 111W4.1*"1" sirvagerY 'WM 4* Till" 3 111.‘it .-3 Vet is et:vele:IS 'Me Mel are ovetenie bete, ift that the deetore whit we ..0 S ‘ fesu nes about "hipa roubb,4 wort, lied tam see thiees to tie seem and many a deed y t Li re ;$121..., sylintr,. . • tom* appear. It 1:4 free " 'I, b4 Out thetmandsef woolen on tiaS by the mil tor fumes and fall to the Iy renpoosilde for ti *. 1 41gts- l'eld. 1" ill" I'''ti'1444111:13 fth. tliflt"'"1°‘ A..init"thi l'.:Np ei,e ulore geese right road to recovery* . bottom of the barrel, A paper elieuld as * Matter of hygiene, lame now taken.' i..4gti.tt orettilriltignstetrthial5 aiLteNtell'alivestriP."114: pfo8rooli, for no ?Irak* eitYineLf0(tessf tittl ‘, produced so often ei weetan mire o u•A' cdinlaalls that eabloa ho fo,14 are pieced br it barrel, IS to be areadecl by the trade. ' Muck slekite.As if the w 1 linn' 1 . Alt thrtt iS net had Penle 'large clutaoutioun of Money aid ItOlf • e eltbk8' but its moon an tol t 4211 4.1ro-thia.3 anal f (-eel far iota rota oil of tlie eon- like the I