Exeter Times, 1908-07-02, Page 6TWO DIE BY A LIVE WIRE
Two Thousand Volts Passed Through
Hamilton Carpenters' Bodies.
A despateh from Hamilton, Ont., says:
There wee a deu!ete electiocuton en
Wce.i es.lay afternoon ut the B. Greening
Wire Company's plant on Queen Sire.
north. Thi victims were Geo. Bambrlck,
167 Canada Stro-t, and Arthur Scottecy
I1 Florence Street. Tl.ey were e'rn-
pleyed as carpenters and had been e,a-
gag. d all day in buil ling a Came stir!
adjoining thwr,rks. Over their hea:te
run the high tension power wins which
euepi ed the fact,ry. The Wir.A were
s1tpletraed in the usual way and herd
firm by guy wires running to the
ground. In order to go on with the r
stork the caretenterls found it n.:c sea';
te, remove tile guy wires, as th y were
in the way. In loosening the %%t ee they
wigged cons:d•raely, so much :o teat
they camp in c.react with t'.o lower
w i res.
't'P.e currant under a high v' tags
was sullleent to kill both then in_een:•
!y. George Lecke, snail r catp.nte',
was close by ween the acne tee: leap-
fencd, and av quickly as h': c•)uid ere
curel u ladder and pusher :he, guy wires
away loom the power wire/. th PIC
i nerurtime, h.ewever, rho curre! t had
lectl discharg_ d into the bodies or Inc
two unfortunate men. their clothing and
parts of tis flesh being badly burned
The power was turned oil ante the
works ceased for lir' day. Tee. police
were notiflai and the ambulance was
sent, but as it was seen twat the rt. t
were dead the patrol 'vegeta was de-
spatchod and the remains teten to the
me rgco at the City hospital.
GOLD IN TIIE FRASER.
There is Said to be Gold in Abundance
Aliyng the River.
A despatch from Vancouver says:
Creat interest was excited lo'ally by
the statement el Mr. II. A. Bayfield of
Bny-fie141 & Archibald. engineers, that
preparations are being mad by Bost •n
yip:nal sty to etto Igo for gold In the
Fraser. Tho iww company has a three-
mile lease en the Fraser River. Three
weeks' prospecting yielded such r salts
teat an order for plans for a hundred
th iusatd (teller dredge has been placed
watt Bayfield & Archibald of a capacity
of 2.543 feet per day. Mr. Bayfield says
there Ls gold in abundance along the
Fraser from Soda Cre_k !own to Yale,
tee average running twenty cents a
yard. Ile says in one bench on the Lit -
heel fifty feet above high water level,
the prospect hole, six feet square, yield-
ed an average of 43 cents a yard fmm
tl•e grass rots down. A streak of
e ghteon feat thickne-& was struck giv-
ing $2 a yard.
.TUE 'PHONE TRil1MPI13.
It is Replacing the Telegraph in Rail-
way Work.
A despatch from Montreal says: At
the convention of railway telegraph sup-
ernk'ndenls it was announced that in
the last six months 6.000 miles of 'phone
wires have been built to replace the
telegraph line as despatching lens on
ia lways. This announcement was
node by W. W. Rider of the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy Railway. This
G000 miles includes the 46 mars of the
C P: R. Lown here and Farnham.
Tito convention was much impra.sed as
tho speaker went on to say that the
•ll,one had without doubt proved its
success, and the operators were very
enthusiastic. it was coi tan to replace
the telegraph.
TIRED OF TUE STRUGGLE.
R. Monteith Was About to Throw Him-
self Over the Falls.
A despatch from Niagara Falls 'says:
Meer Greenwood on Tuesday p►eiCnt•d
a young man named R. Monteith from
throwing himself over the Ilonseshoo
Falls. Divesting himself of coat and
vest, Monteith was about to plunge
over the precipice, when the officer. who
tad lean observing his actions, prevent -
cd henn. Monteith said he had been out
(t work for a k►►ng time, was deems sod
end owed stand the strain no longer.
\\ o' k was found fur hien un Wednesday.
• IIIIS i.UCK LEFT iiL\1.
How a J'aris Gambler Won and Lost a
Fortune.
THE WORLD'S MARKETS
RI:POI:TS IIROM iIIE LEADING
71t.\Ul: CENTItLee.
Pekes of Cattle, Grain, (.,eess anJ
Other Dairy Produce at Moms
aid Abroad.
BREADSfUIFS.
Toronto Juno 30. -Ontario \Vbeat-
No. 2 wah:te, red or mixed, 79c to
clam ••1 a \Vl:eat-Market (leen:liens
et Georgian Bay ports, No. 1 northern,
SI -07X: No. 2 n_.rlhern, $1.01%; Nu. 3
northern, $LOC%.
Oats -No. 2 white, 44%c outs de; No.
2 mixes, 43c.
(fern --No. 3 yellow offered at 80c to
SCyc, all rail, and 79.: to 7t)%e Like and
rail.
Battle -No. 2. 53c t 55e.
Peas -No. 2 quiet, nominally quoted at
Dee.
Rye -No. 2, none offering; quAat'on
about 88c.
But:wheat'-No. 2, nominally quoted
65c• to 08e.
Bran-Offcr?d al $15 in bulk outside;
shorts. $19; quotations for delivery in
leis $:
Flour - Munit,ba patents, special
brands, $G; seconds, $5.40; strong hnk-
crs' $5.30; winter wheat. foa'nnts, offer-
ing at $3.25.
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COUNTRY PRODUCE.
M. Lambert, a gentleman of independ-
ent means living in the Rue Quincant-
pe.x, in Paris, Frarice, has had an un-
pleasant adven'ure in the little t ewn of
Enghien, in the suburbs, in which there
aro a casino and a club where gambling
is carried on.
The other evening M. Lambert went
down to Engh'en, and after dinner spent
a pleasant half hour at the "little
horses' table, where he won about $100.
Pleased with his winnings, ho went to
the door of the club, which is in a room
situated on the first floor of the sarno
building, and asked for admission. The
man at the door told him that, although
Le was not a waiter, he could probab-
ly be admitted in a -very short time.
M. Lambert said that he was willing
to pay any necessary entrance tee, and
after formalities -which lasted exactly
ten minutes --he became a member of
the club. There, Instead of "little
horses," baccarat was being played.
M. Lambert was lucky. Ile at first
lost half the money that he had won
downstairs at the 'little horses" table,
tut then he began to win and won
throughout the evening, finishing by
taking the bank, and rising a winner
ef a little over $35.000.
He went off with this money In his
eccket, left the club and casino build-
ing, and waked down the road towards
tho railway station. Tee men followed
hien. M. Lambert remembered to have
seen them :n the room, but paid no par-
ticular art eaten to them.
Suddenly the men rushed forward -
one on either sido of him -tripped him
up, and methodically went through his
pockets. They took his money, his
watch and chain, hes scarf pin, and the
rings on his fingers. Then they un-
dressed hbn. and, with the deliberation
which had characterized all their move-
ments, threw hien into the lake near.
b it Ls not n particularly well smelling
lake. but fortunately it is not,``ery deep
and M. Lambert, who can awn a lit-
tle, made his way to shore.
MRS. P1tOt'LX FATALLY Bl'RNF.D.
Ottawa Woman's Clothing Caught
While She was Lighting Fire.
A despatch from Ottawa says: Mir.
Voids. a woman of 80 years, died on
\\Wedno-day morning in tie City Respi-
te' as a main of burns received wtaee
lighting a fine with o ens o 1 nn Tuesday
Tight. Iler ele•tlting caught flee, and lee
fore passorsby on the trot who heard
her sercanls could smother the fames
she ro.e.v(d fatal burns.
PLAGUE IN WEST INDIES.
Crusade .Inaugurated to Extermdllate
the Rats.
A e'e.pat:h from Kingston, Jamnicn,
says: Two more fetal cases of plague
1 ave been reported at Tend,ad. The
ree.vernmcnit of Jamaica has started a
Crusade to exterminate the rats In King-
ston as a precauli,en against tl:e di+
est .e.
PANIC ON A STEAMER.
Seventeen Women Drowned In Wreck
Oil Spanish Coast.
A despatch from Corunna, Spain, says
that the Spanish steamer Larache went
ori the rocks in a fog near Mune', where
the cruiser Cat dinal Cements was
wrecked in 1905. The Larache sunk rop-
Butter -Creamery prints, 21c to 23c;
creamery solids, 20c to 21c; dairy prints,
choice, 18c to 19c; dairy pen's, erdin-
ary, 16e to 18e; dairy tubs, 170 to 18c;
inferior, 15c to 16c.
Cho so --12%c to 12%c for largg, and
12%c for twins.
Egger --Prices are quoted unchanged at
17c to 18c per dozen• in case lots.
Beans -Primes, 82 to $2.10; hand-
picked, 82.10 to $2.15.
Hesey-Quiet; strained, 11c to 13c rer
pound; cordes, per dozen, $1.50 to $1.-
75.
Potatoes-Ontraos, 75c to 80e; Dela-
wares, 85a to 05o in car lots on truck
bete.
idly, and a panic followed. There were
97 passengers and 54 of a crew, includ-
ing stewards, w•allers, etc., a►.aard.
These look to the boats, but up to the
filing of lute despatch only 47 hid land -
M D.'fecUve communications made it
impassible to obtain complete details,
but latest rep )res state that 17 w >r nen
web drowned. It is kn run that 17 sur-
vivors were landed at Mune, but that
two of theme have since dieted Fifteen
elbow were landed at Lon.
FRENCH WARSIIIPS COMING.
Two Will Reach the City of Quebec on
July the 21st.
A despatch from Breen saga: The
French warships Leon Ganlhetta and
Aminal Aube leave Brest for Canada on
July 7th. They will apend six days at
Sydney, C. 11., repainting and will ar-
rive nt Quebec on July 21st. A large
number of Canadian and ilritish Mtge
hate been taken on board for dressing
the ships.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
UA(1't:\INee IltO\I ALL ON- .t TUE
GLOBE -
"'graph Oriels Brom Our 0tvn and
Other Countries of Recent
Es eats.
PROVISIONS.
Local quotations are:-
Pork-.yhort cut, 822 to $22.50 per
Larrol; mess, $18.50 to 819.
Late -Tierces, 11%c; tubs. 12c; pails.
12j c.
Smoked and Dry Salted Meats -Long
c:.ear bacon, 10%e to Ile, tons and cas-
os; hams, medium and light, 13%c to
14e; harts, large, 11%e to 12e; backs, IGo
to 16%c; shoulders, 9%c to 10c; rolls,
fele: to l0%e; breakfast bacon, 14c to 15c;
green meats, out of pickle, lc las than
srnoked.
The welding presents you give are
lieuaUy worth more than Ihoso you re-
ceive.
BOMB EXPLODED IN NUROB
Attempt to Kill the Archbishop of Turin
Many Persons Injured.
A despatch from Rome anys: \Vh le
(enema! na! Ale sono Itichelly, Archb sheep
ef Turin. was saying rna-s in the ca-
tl eetral nt n,.0n on Wednesday in honor
of the (neater St. John. the city's 1:atron
saint. a pelnrel explo lel within the
building. making a ferrite: din. The
e mete:gat:on, w heh was comlmse•d
n••ndly of women. wens thrown into a
Watts of taut: and ni do a wad rush for
11 o doors. Many persona were thrown
CANADA.
Fruit Prospects in the Niagara district
are very proiniviiig.
Kingston penitentiary has now 513
pris.cera. the large nwuber in five
)4141:3.
\l c•h el Arorne urs sentenced at Ham -
11t011 to live years in the Jenitent'ary
kr shafting at street car ounducturs.
Donald Johnston of llarwich died
bum blood -poisoning, having : cratehed
his hand on a ther•n bush some tura: ago.
Sr Sandford Fleming will give Itali-
e.): a park of 80 acres if a memorial
l:,w.-r 100 feat high, ousting $20,000 1.5
erected.
Excellent Fries were real:zed for tim-
ber berths sold at Ottawa en the Iridian
reserwo bettte.;n Fr nett River and Luke
NnpissLng.
Sir etackenz'e Buwell distributed
ruses in leo Senate from a rosebush
wheel he brought from the Yukon three
yoaia ago.
Over five thousand case; of Walkers
Canadian Club whiskey have been seized
at Detroit because It was not labelled
'a cunlpound" in accordance with the
United States pure food law.
Mr. Henry elongate, C.E.. Chairman of
the Quebec Bridge Commission, proposes
that the Gevetnnont rebuild the br dge,
employing the services of throe of the
moat expert engineers That can be CA/ -
Cared to oonleal the work.
IIAY AND S I(AW.
Timothy is quoted at 59 to 810.50 in
car lots on track here, with No. 2 at
$S to 88.50.
Straw -Prices range between 56.50
and 88 per ton in car lots here.
MARGOtlI MASTERS fOG1G
GREAT BRITAIN.
Winton Churchill has won ins libel
suit agnnst the Manchester Courier, real
was awarded 51,500 damages. Ho was
accused of cowardice during the Boer
War.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, June 30 -Flour -Manic ba
spring wheat patents, $6.10 to 86.20; sec-
ond patents, $5.50 to 55.70; winter wheat
patents, 55 to 55.50; straight roller.,
51.25 to $4.50; in bags, 81.95 to 52.10;
extra, 51.50 to $1.70.
flailed Oats --$2.75 in bags of 00
pounds.
Oats -No. 2, 49c te 50e; No. 3, 47c to
47%c; No. 4, 46c to 46%e; rejected, 45c;
Manitoba, reje,•t d, 47c to 47%e.
C anneal $1.75 to 81.85 per tag.
Milifeeel-Ontario bran, in bags, 520.-
1.1 to 821.50; short., 8.3 to $24; Mani -
tam bran, In bags, See to 523; shorts,
524 to 525. focal and outedo demand
ter 'Manitoba feed wheat is quiet, and
period; aro unchanged at 710 tel 720 for
No. 1 and at 67c to G7eec for No. 2 per
Lu-.hel, ex-s:oree.
Eggs -Selected, 18c; No. 1. 16%c to
17c, and No. 2, 14c per dozen. Local
receipt; today were 1,281 cose•s, com-
pared with 1,634 for the corresponding
day of last year.
Butler ---Finast creamery quoted nt
23%c in round tots and 24: L0 grocers.
Choeso-Westerns quetol al 11'/.c to
11%c and /cisterns at 11%c to 11%c.
Provisions -Barrels short cut mars,
$23.50; half -barrels, 511.50; clear fat
backs, $28; dry reit kung clear 1 ticks,
IIc; barrel@ plate beef. 817.50; lilt-hnr-
nes do.. 89; compound Lard, fi%c to 9, c;
L•uro lard, 18)c le 13e; kettle rendered,
13c to 13%c; hams, 12%c to 14c, era ced-
ing to size; breakfast baron, 14c to 15r;
Windsor boo in, 15c to 16c; In eh killed
atattoir dressed hogs, $9.25 leo $9.50; live
56.60 to $6.75.
(!run and trampled upon. some tiles
n reivi►eq severe injuries. Neb'edy was
wounded by thea xi lose .n. 'late l eta et
ei nsi.le.l of n lin bee containing pun -
powder and r. volvcr enrtr,di;es. The
effects of Ilse exp'osieen were le•s'ened
by the fact that the cartridges did not
explode. 11 fathelioved that the nether
c1 the oulrige wee seeking the life est
the Card:nal Richetrny, to u hem k"e
Pope has te'egrnphe:l c .ngra'utet.ms
upon he escape.
7UE LATEST tPl'I.Il:.tIION OF TUE
\\IItlLI. .S pnian'IPLE.
UNITED STATES.
A Pittsburg firm wilt make headstones
of glass.
Seven negrocs were taken from .the
jail at Iloniphill, Texas, Sunday night
and lynched.
Theodore •Roesevclt, Jr., will work
this summer for tie U. S. Steel Cor-
poration.
A million dollars is .to bo stmt in
reclaiming for sellers, 100,000 acres in
Will Intention ill be o1 Very (treat
Benefit hit I. Lanrenee liner
Navigation.
. T. P. ARILS AT MONCTON
Work on the New Intercolonial Chops Is
Also Going Ahead Rapidly.
That wireless telegraphy has not yrt
exha.sled its stole of wunJehs and sue
pits:s was proved to a London Daily A dospate.h from Menden, N. 13., says:
C!.runiae rrpie-eatalive In an interest-
ing
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway hos
talk with Mr. Marconi at his Lon- enterod Moment qui sly. The rails of
don officewite . Onein approachisyouthhes this man• the new Transeoatinental Railway were
who hyet revolutiout-
ized telegraphy, in the expectation of run into Moncton on Wednesday, alai
meeting a typical and rather uncanny now stretch within a few hundred: yards
wizard who has but to wave hs hands 0. the I. C. R. dcpJ(. Several surveys
le were all meaner of wonders by an have recently been made by the G. 'I'•
unse, n force. But there is nothing un- P engin( ere, but no one except (isa rail -
canny, and nothing to suggest study way contractors knew exactly w 1ire
and midnight oil, about the tall, athletic, the new line was to be located. In a
well -groaned young man, who greets single day the rails were lad, and n ,w
yea in breezy fashion, :and in such ler- a stctun :hovel has been installed and
feet English that his Italian name is
te.rgolten and you remember only that
IIIS MOTHER WAS IRISH.
"Oh, yes," he said, "I'll tell you what
1'n trying to do and w hat aro my
Ltcpes; but please don't make me scent
boastful, and don't lot us have loo
Hutch of the I-1-1.
'We Can send twenty-four words a
minute across the Atlantic. or forty-
eight when we can use the duplex sys-
tem. But at present we can only send
messages one way at a time. If an op-
erator tried to send a meeeage across
while he was receiving one time would
be great confusion, ono man wring
against another" -and Mr. Marconi
waved his hand le suggest a grand col-
lision of language in mid-Atlantic.
'But lately i have been exierimcnting
with apparatus which will enubie us to
send a message in loll► directions at
once. The exlxr,nrents have bean quite
st.ccessful over a distance of three or
four miles at Poole, in Dorsetslire, and
I anticipate equal success before long
across the Atlantic. That is ono of my
latest experiments. Another is to en-
able a ship approaching the shore or
mother ship in it tog to determine ex-
actly the position of the wireless stat'on
on shore or the course of the other shi; .
You can see, of course,
IIOW IT WILL IIELP A NAVIGATOR
Wyom ng.
A baseball player, nitnost blind, had
his sight res'one d in New Yory while in
a hysterical lit.
Tho village of Ziril, near Innisbruck,
Austria, was drstrowed by fire and 1,-
300
,300 are homeless.
1:. 11. Dobbs, of Woodbury, N. J., sold
20 isaras of hay for 8600, which is nearly
528 per acne.
Three trainmen were killed by the ex-
plosion of a locomotive on the Pennsyl-
venia RaL!rod at Stotton, N. J.
Twonty-fmtr companies manufacturing
manilla paper were fined 82,890 each at
New York for maintaining an illegal
combine tion.
August Rahn, el \Vast Mead, Pa., has
b:en paid sheep killed by clogs dur-
ing tie past fifteen months the sum of
51.154.
Dumh for two years, Howard Rotrrls,
rigid 28, of Turner, Mo., hnd the pow-
er of .speech restored by .tire shock of
1, s brother's suicide.
Mad dogs have oast Monroe town-
ship, Gloucester county, Pa., over 5400
for treatment of vict me at Pasteur In-
stituto and for cattle that were bitten.
Sarah Williams, the oldest and larg-
e t woman in New efexteo, is dead of
biked poisoning, caused by slopping on
a nail a week ago. Her weight was
445 f;olt1tttt.
At Georgetown, Del.. when Mrs. Tho -
may Coulter pu110(1 some oniony from
Ile family truck bed recently, she found
a geld ring, set with rubies. tightly en-
circling the roots of ono of the voge•
lalr'en. The ring was lost by her hus-
band three years app.
UNITED STAT lee iARKLTS.
Buffalo, June 30. -Wheat - Spring
firmer; No. 1 Nort4lern, $1.07% carloads;
Winter lower; No. 2 red, 93c. Cotn -
Easler; No. 2 whike. 77%c; No. 2 yel-
low, 76%c. Onls-Steady; No. 2 mix-
ed, 52%e; No. 2 while, 57c. Barley --58
to 65e. Ityee-860. No. 1 frank. Canal
frughLs-Wheal, 5: to New Ye,rk.
Minneapolis. Juno 30.-\Vh'at.-No. 1
hard, 81.08%: No. 3 Northern, $1.00%
t•i $1.02%; July. 81.44%.,; Sept., 89% to
8eye. Flour -First tin tints, 55.30 t0
4.5.45; eecond pet nus, 55.20 to $5.35; first
clears, $4.20 to 81.30; second clears, 53.-
5a to $3.60. Iiran-in hulk, 518.
Duluth, Juno 30 -Wheal -No. 1 hard.
$1.08%; No. 1 Northern, $LO5%; No. 2
Nc Ahern, $1.01''%; July, 51.03%.; Scpt'm-
ler. 00ye.
M lwnukee. June 30. -Wheat --No. 1
Nen t:torn, 81.09 1e 8I.10%: No. 2 North-
ern, 51.07 to 81.09; September, 80%c
hid. f lye ---No. 1. 7$c. Harley -No. 2.
Vie; sample. 55 to GSc. Corn ---No. 3
cosh. 70 to 71e; Sept, mber,
New i rk, June 34 -Wheat -Spot
flim; No 2 red. 95e, elevator: No. 2 red.
Vic. f.o.b., °float; No. 1 r•ot!lern, Du-
luth. $1.14%. f.o.b.
.i.
. KING .tB 1\IN)\S It t('.1\(;.
Oflicinl) tnrnwm•rd Thal Ile trill Dis-
pose o1 1115 Ile reen
A &epnte)! fe nl t!en.(0rl .n)s: Lori
NCr•e.l'y5. 1!e King:s intent, seerrlary. in
r•• pi%im; t) 11 que•atnn. nettled Hint his
elajees'y Inteauu to abandon horse tee-
ing.
is rapidly excavating Fee guide. The
rail; run almost up 41 the I. C.
truck, 1111d front pierce will parallel 1 e'
1. C. It. depot.
Work on this divis on of the Trunci
c mtinjental lair been gong alt ad nee
icily. Close by the place where lie
steam shovel as tearing up lie ground,
in rerdiuess for th • p<rnutre nt rat's of
the Irans,ontneuta'. wen: on tna 1. C.
It. new sltops is rapidly grin; forward,
and the etar•itinte Free:ne's t> lay pro.
bably pre_ent uo bus er locality than
the west end if this city.
OLD CLOTHES OF ROYALTY
if ho Is able to know not only that an-
other ship is approaching, but the ex-
act angle Pie course of that ship makes
with his own.
"1t is perhaps a little difficult to ex-
plain the idea to the general reader, but
hero it is roughly" -and Mr. Marconi
sketched rapidly on his blotting pal
while he spoke. "Wo get, you see, a
screen with a small hole in the centre.
This is turned about in the direction
from which the other ship or the shorn
station is known to be telegraphing, un -
tit the ringing of a bell, caused by the
waves entering the stole 4n the screen,
shows that the exact direction from
which the wave is coming has been as-
cerlaned.
"I shall be carrying out experiments
on these lines in the Mersey in a few
weeks. The idea Is being specially wel-
comed by shipping authorities on the
St. Lnwronce River, where fog so often
tinders navigation.'
GENERAL.
The datives of Portuguese Guinea are
in revolt.
Sir William Whitoway, formerly
From`er of Nowfouniland, is dead.
A criminal at Cordova s(enleneed to
to hanged was pardoned by King Al-
iens), on the birth of another heir to
the •Ulrone.
Pi�T NAMES.
Perms of iEnde!arment Used by One Na-
tion are Unsuited to Otehr Peoples.
The terms enep)oyed by lite people of
cne naton as the choicest phrases in
their vocabulary of endearment are of-
ten c•nr,;•loyed for quite the opposite pur-
peses by other pooples. Ono of the
most familiar and most coveted phrases
ef endearment among the Frcnc.h, for
Instance, is "My little pigs" and "My
little puppy dog' Ls else much apprcrt•
ata,. When a French husband calls
his wife "a cat," she dors nut fly into n
pies -on of resentment, as nn Englesh-
.ticaking wife might do under the sante
circumstances, but lakes it as a gentle
oennplirnent. On the other hand, if Ile
ween; to call ler "a duck,' us the Brit-
ish husband might his wife, she swore'
be very much offended.
Some lime ego, in Germany, letters
written by the Into Count von Meeltke
le, he betrothed were published. in these
tin• great la nldk,r frequently talcs' the
lady "My little kernel of coffee." This
strikes one as 0 very queer pet name.
and has sugg• s'ed to n cynical author-
ity that, in view of the writers profes-
s on, "My little gran of powder,' or
"\ly Lille lump .,f ked," would have
leen mere appropriate.
A 'era n'e individual likings end oc-
ruleati.en frequently supply h"nr w• 1h
terata of , n knrm•nt A farm r s erne'•
tim,es calla his little girl Ilia "\•.!t mrd
a well•kno'. n fisherninn. 1. r w h ern the
creatures of the bio k were as I►w' apple
of his eye, used to begin his letters to
les wee. when he was on his netting ex-
1e<lit•,n', with Vio wo:els, 'My dear h4
In speckled tinier
\York may le good for nen, bet few
Men are good for work.
TIIE GODOWNS OF JAPAN.
COSTUMFS WORN BUT ONCE AND
THEN PUT AWAY FOR GOOD.
Hing Edward Wears a Pair of Gloves
More Than Once-Kdtser's Ward-
robe is Biggest.
An enterprising English journalist
wrote an interesting if not instructive
article recently on King Edward's clothes
and what became of them after they had
finished service. in the article the state-
ment was made that the King never
wore a pair of gloves more lhuu once,
writes a London correspondent.
Out of this arose a discussion as to the
necessity of considering gloves damaged
by one day's service, &c., which went on
until Lord Knollys, who is tato King's in-
separable companion, friend and servitor,
described in a moment of candor the
story as ridiculous. Yet it was admitted
that there are soine things that the King
uses only once, such as white evening
toes, certain neckties and white evening
gloves, which would be true also of many
outer masculine leaders of fashion.
The list of King Edward's quickly dis-
carded garments would include also cer-
tain state robes which have appeared
In public only once, such as those of the
coronation and the costume of the Grand
Master of the Knights of Malta. This
last was worn at the Devonshire house
ball when he was Prince of \Vales at
the limo of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen
Victoria.
Then, of course there are certain regi-
ment uniforms which have been worn
just once In honor of some occasion. All
these are put away in press.s and are
regularly overhauled and kept In good
condition. Perhaps some day they will
find their way to a museum to bo shown
as relics of
EDWARD THE PEACEMAKER.
Iron Sheathed Warehouses Made Neces-
sary by the Ever Present Danger
of Fire.
Fire Ls one of the lcrro-s that dodge at
the elbow of the Japanese householder ell
the time, and because lie lives in a match -
wood dwelling Sakure-san has to lake a
curious precaution against the sudden
less of all his household goods. !'his
precaution is the godown.
The stranger in Tokio or Yokohama
who sees from his rickshaw a straeg•t
Iron plated building with doors like turret
shelters and painted roof heavily incnu'-
od with tiles is led to believe that here
perhaps Is seine feudal fort of the old
Dine, ready to house fighting men aga.nst
the attacks of a street mob. But wi:gin
the tourist finds one of these binek shoe -
el buildings on every other block he
learns from the country dweller that
these things are godowns or storehouses
tot household goods.
When a fire gets well started 'n the
crowded blocks of dolls' houses in a Jap-
anese city it Is rarely stopped until f ( m
ten to fifty houses have been consumed
and a black scar hos been drawn across
the whole face of the district. Because
th,; houses are so flimsy and crowded so
cksely together that the Japanese fire-
men oven al their best can do little with
r well developed blaze certain astute
citizens erect these Iron sleuthed end
shuttered two storied storehouses, where -
la the householders of tho neighborhood
and the storekeepers of the district can
store away their solunbleen.
The godowns are so heavily sheathed
with iron plate and so weighted with
raid tiles that they rarely burn. All day
long their windows are kept almost her-
metically sealed by heavy swinging shut-
ters that look like the doors of a safe.
When a fire comes to a certain district
the first thing Ls to close the doors of
the godown and put it In shape to weath-
e • the flames.
To these public fireproof %nfes the
he tsetotder s br;ng their bast furniture,
their porcelain and their delicate print..
The wives keep locked up there their
hest kimonos and their odds and ends
of jewelry. !Merchants hove their excess
block stowed away within them.
Whenever there Is n fete in any Japan-
ese home or preparations are being nettle
far the entertainment of some steel:11
gue.Ls the servants are sent to the 'leerily
godown to bring hone nil the valuables.
Pictures are again hung on the wall, the
!envy bronze wase Is restored for the day
to Ila special Inliouret. end the wardrobe
of Madame Is replenished.
Then with the went: of etre special
occasion peeve ► the hnncehuld gran -
dour. All the fleeting p1. I in(;•ea (.t print
and flowerol kimono L, swallowed up in
the black maw of the g.►.4.wn.
it it happens particularly to suit her
sc.nnewhat severe style of good looks. Af-
tee site bus finished with them they ore
given to the various ladies of her house -
1.01(1 t0 dispose of.
The Empress of Germany has the same
rule t'egarding gowns worn on state occa-
sions as Queen Alexandra. These are
never seen again in the same form. Dres-
ses chosen for less important events, a
reception, a dinner, an embassy crush or
the theatre, may be worn hwo or three
times. When the gowns are done with
they are ripped up by some of the fifteen
court seamstresses and the material giv-
en away. The pretty young Princess
Victoria Luisa still dres.es like a school
girl and her simple frocks aro worn again
and again.
There is probably no monarch wlto has
more clothes than the German Emperor.
iso has hundreds of different uniforms of
which perhaps a dozen may have been
worn more than once. He has a tre-
mendous variety of workman's habili-
ments, such as those worn by coal nnin-
ers or workers In tunnels, which ire has
put on at some time to prove his com-
radeship with the horny handed sons of
toil in the fatherland. Then he has doz-
ens of costumes which he has worn to
fancy dress balls. The one that he values
most among these is the costume that ho
wore at a ball When he appeared as his
famous ancestor Frederick the Great.
In his ordinary dress the King is very
particular as to cut and quality, but he
wears his various suits as many tunes us
any rich man of the world would. Then
they share the fate of all discarded ger-
ments and become the property of some
cne else for various totes.
in regard to Queen Alexandra's ward-
robe, she too has certain garments which
are of hi..;lorio interest and are put away
t, be looked at sometimes but never used
again. Among these are her wedding
gown and long tan gloves, the robes of
the coronation day and the military uni-
form of her Danish regiment. There are
university gowns and hoods which have
not been worn since the degrees they re-
present were conferred upon her.
The beautiful dresses which the Queen
wears at the evening courts are seen but
once. Sometimes a part of a gown is
used again in another fashion. This ap-
plies particularly to the priceless collec-
tion of old Ince of which she is so proud.
and which Is used over and over again
in trimming her gowns.
It Queen Alexandra does not wish In
use, any of the trimmings of a dross ngnin
tie garment is token to pieces and the
materials disributeel. There is an inviol-
able rule in the palace that rue reiplent
of any royal finery is never In tiny- cir-
cumstance to wear n gown in the forth
In which it was worn by the Queen.
TIIE PRINCESS OF WALES
has a large and varied collection of uni-
termns, university gowns and Oriental
robes of great value and beauty. During
her visile to the British colonies and to
India she receival ninny honorary de-
grees. These garments aro nil guarded
for posterity after tete mynl fnshton.
in her ordinary wearing npparel the
Princess docs not hesitate to be seen
iian.nm-"Net•er judge• a ,11 01 1 v the
ternbie'Ia he (nrn.s.' Ile lily "No; it
May net le Lis!"
in ilio sanno gown many tines, especially
THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.
ens the chief of the imperial array is able.
at a moment's notice to lake his place at
the head of any Ilussian regiment in the
proper uniform. Some of the troops in
t',e remoter parts of itis vast dominion
aro so seldom seen in the capital that
the corresponding uniform has been
brought out only once.
The Empress of Russia, who is honor-
ary colonel of several Pegiments, has had
tunics with the proper badges made for
her use. .In her ordinary dress site is
very simple and only consents to don
nragniilcence on slate occasions.
Queen Amelia of Portugal has long
Leen known as one of the best dressed
Queens in Europe. She seldom is seen in
any gown more than once, and Is very
generous in her disposal of old clolhca--
arrong lire less affluent ladies of her
court.
The Queen of Italy is so plainly dressed
tiat her great extravagance in evening
shoos is amusing. She never wears a
pair more than once. In this she is like
the ex -Empress Eugenie. except ll►al. Eu-
genie gave all her descnrded slippers mid
shoes to the girls' orphanage in Paris,
while the Queen of Italy disposes of hens
less charitably.
Tito young King of Spain has de*I•
oped a great interest in sartorial art since
his visits to England and both he and
the Queen seldom wear their gentiles
many limes. The Spanish court is repel -
following their centuple. so that beaut-
iful gowns and ninny of them, are the
order of the day just now In Spain. --
After n11. poor old Queen Elizabeth,
who created a sensation with her 0110
hundred and twenty gowns and thirty
wigs to rho modest times in which sho
11'. ed. would find herself behind her sister
royalties of to -day, and her one hundred
and twenty gowns would not go far to-
ward making her considered a well
dressed queen.
BATHING DONT':.
D n 1 plug the .ars will cea'o•t. Got -
!Oa does it •t keep out the tv.L s`nce it
al once becomes sutural, d. Further••
iiw.re, 110 water can find its way to tho
deem of a n• :mint err.
Den l• go in the water cold. It is best
le go in warn. even sl ghtly loer.pirilt.
Ile wee) begets leis bath p rs!rrit+g gots
Ile to -t react• n.
Don't have n :gel duration for IM bath.
P. is baa always io c0111(.. out at tha
,'igh'est l.reennnr,tion of cold.
Don l enter the water if ).011 have e a'eo
v th n an It tir.
AIRSHIP SOARED LIKE BIRD
Enormous Mass Sank and Rose, Turned and.
Stopped at Will of Operator.
A de-pa'ch from Fi ledrl hshnfen.
Germany, says: A secoml nscent wax
made on Wedneselay even ng by Cont
'Ls•ppeln in his new nirshp with n view
In t sting an im: r .vni s deslete ing
guar, whet has just been utstallcd. On
t'
e Gist (event Count le p, elin dec:ared
that he was satisfied with everything
except the sid•.ateerIng arrangement,
w hieh hal not come up to his exp•e ela-
tors. Ths now has leen ()Vet 41, rend
the ohnnge ea• given excellent nsulte.
The e•-1 on Wedne.,dey night laitee a
!elle ever Iwo It errs, during which tonne
the• Crest difficult Innn(etivres were car -
reel ( ut with out a hi1011. The great
..r. -hip nal circled around the Town of
Free drichs rnfen !even times. It Then
(:• perle 1 at fu l speed towards f.01
nrgen. where it C to t'd '0 the SA s s•
e 1 Lake Constance against n light
breeze. Precis. ding bre k ace as It:e lake
to 1.Indou. the Count underte k at n
height of font three hundred 10 s.x
hundred feel abnve Ile • :airfare of the
mat r n Ferns 41 mrunrnvr s. inclu II g
s.nking and ruing, tirrnlr>.t and mule•
Feng. thoroughly t•sang Ute 1 ee ar.
rangenrent of bath the aec, n- oral rind
side-A.4ring opparalum which seeming -
worked in n most internee)! )! y 111a11-
tict. The (licitly with eh ch a chan;,o
of direction of the ennrm,us ria.. 1n
mid-air was aemnpl s: el deeply im-
p' este god the spec 41 tors.
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