The Brussels Post, 1906-11-15, Page 6CURRENT TOPICS
Tho awakening of Chinn. Is favorite
.thefno fol• writers nowache s, The pos-
sibilities are so many if that ancient
olnpiro does have an upheaval that
romancing is easy. \\'hat is actually
clone is likely to fallow closely Timm lines
laid down In government proclaim).
thins. The changes made may be radi-
cal, but they aro apt to be gradual ones
rather than sudden and revolutionary.
The translation of un imperial decree of
the empress dowager has been received
bei diplomatic circles which forccusts
tbo probatle clhvelopmenLs of the imnle-
dinte future, This paper asserts that
nations are influenced by ono another,
that Chinese institutions have -remained
unchanged so long that conditions
threaten danger and disaster, and eon-
eequenlly that China must broaden its
knowledge by a study of comparative
political science.
Asa help in this direction the govern-
ment appointed a. commission to visit
other countries and nuke careful ob-
torvations. The report from these gen-
tlemen declares that the trouble with
China Is the lack of participation of the
people in the government and the want
of cooperation between the capital and
the provinces. 'Tho officials are ignor-
ant of the needs of the people, and the
people do not understand what is neces-
sary to the safety of the state." The
wealth and strength 01 other' countries
are due to constitutional government
'under which public questions are de-
termined after consultation with the
people, money is raised with the con-
sent of the people, and the limits of
authority are clearly defined and under-
stood. In such countries there is con-
stant study of the acts of others, one
learning from the other and -making
modifications of policy as o. result of
such enlightenment.
The conclusion is plain. If China is
to develop it must have a constitutional
government. The people must be en-
couraged to cooperate with the crown.
But China is not ready for such a
sweeping change. Educational facilities
must be extended. The financial sys-
tem must be put in order. The military
must be reorganized. The police con-
trol throughout the empire must be per-
fected. The gentry and the people must
ba taught to understand polittcai.
affairs thoroughly. By such prepara-
tions the foundations of constitutional
government will be securely laid, and
then, after e. few years, such a political
organization will be started with a fair
chance of satisfactory working.
The preelannalion probably indicates
what may be expected during the corn-
ing a -ears. Its frunkness is interesting
when compared with occidental me-
thods. The "awakening" seems a real
thine. It may not bring a disruption of
the great empire, as many have
thought. It may result in one of the
great constitutional governments of the
future. Most constitutional reforms have
come through revolution and bloodshed.
The deliberate recognition of a situation
which needs improvement and the defi-
nite planning for govermeital changes
make the Chinese movement a specially
interesting one.
The English cast ell on the troubled
roads. Dust raising is a nuisance of
such magnitude that various civic and
amelel anti -dust experiments have been
made. Quite selisfactory results have
been secured in Liverpool through the
use of oil sprinkled upon meeaclam
roadways. The surface having the
cleanest and whitest appearance was
that coated with creosote 011 mixed with
resin, while that covered with creosote
mixed with tallow bud the least odor.
The 'texas crude petroleum gave the
most. lasting results. Atter oiling We
wear and tear of the road appears to be
less. The surface of the road dries more
.quickly after rains, and the number of
loose stones pinked up has been re-
duced. The first sprinkling kept the
surlaco in good order for three weeks,
at 'the end of which time it w'as Bought
advisable to re-cover the arca. Tho
effeais 'of the alt on the surface after a
second coating had been applied had not
entirely disappeared alter the lops° of
live weeks. Oiling wood pavements in
Liverpool was done in the saute men-
ace and the dust satisfactorily kept,
down, a result not pruvieusiy obtained
aver by watering four times a day.
Ilex Motlicrw-'R saw him kiss yoiu 1
=terribly shnrl<ed. k did not for ino-
ment imagine he would dare to lake such
a liberty," Ilersell---`Nor cid 1, nia. In
fact, 1 bet !nim a pair 0t gloves he
dar,.n't1"
"That Mrs, Sawbones always nliudes
to her husband as 'Ilia clear doctor.'"
"Well, that's the kind '61 doctor he is."
A .man isb't iecessnrlly crooked he -
lease 111 follows his natural bent,
EMPRESS' NERVES BREAK
Iti'SSXAN DOWAGER AT LAST YIELDS
TO TERRIBLE STiRAIN.
flee Name Is On the List of Individuals
10 be Exterminated by Ibe
Terrorists.
AL last the Russian terror lens broken
dawn the steel nerves and 111e iron con-
stllutlon of ono who has been described
us the most high-spirited end 0011111y
eou,ugeous wnnlan that the present
genernlioe ihes seen. This is the Dow-
ager Empress of Russia, sister to the
Kings of Denmark and Greece and the
Queen of England, and mother of Czar
Nicholas IL Iter husband was the late
Alexunder III„ one of the few Russian
Emperors who have been. allowed tic die
decently I1 bed.
While the Empress is 59 and has
lived since she was a girl in the health -
'destroying Russian court, she was until
two years ago a person of remarkably
youthful appearance, slim figure and
buoyantly hopeful disposition, She even
rivaled her sister, Alexandra of Eng-
land, who is only three years her sen-
ior, in the exquisite preservation of all
her charms.
Though never at any time bas she
boasted the beauty of the English
Queen, she has always rejoiced in the
possession of an intellectual vivacity
that MS inherited from her mother,
Queen Louise of Denmark, and 111ce old
Queen Louise, Dagmar, as she has al-
ways been called In spite of her ch,-gnge
of name on entering the Russian
Church, was deeply and
DETERMINEDLY AMBITIOUS.
Moreover, she was her shrewd mo-
ther's favorite daughter, and to her mar-
riage the consort of the good and mild
old King Christian devoted the great
diplomatic skill she possessed. Nothing
indeed in all her long and successful
life gave Queen Louise the satisfaction
that she derived from lea union of her
second daughter In 1800 with the then
Czarevilch of Russia, who later became
Emperor Alexander III.
Fortunately the mother-in-law of Eu-
rope, as Queen Louise was sometimes
called, died before troubles thick and
fast began to fat in the path of her
child. Far all gossip to the contrary,
and in spite of the severe etiquette of
the Russian court, as well as the very
gloomy temperament of Emperor Alex-
ander and the daily peril In which Rus-
sian rulers have lived Since the rico of
the Dowager 011 but refused to reslgn.
And so, from had to worse, went the
domestic situation, until the contest be-
tween the two women \' 0S extended
from the question of pearls to the light
to Influence the son and husband.
For some yean's 1110 Dowager held
her power over her son. It is probable
lint she advised hen to follow his fa-
ther's policy, and she still held one of
1110 trump cards in her {game with her
dlulghler-in-law, because tucking the
birth of it son, to Nicholas 111e Grand
Dunce George was heir to the throne..
But somehow with the death of her
husband Dagmar's long run of luck
collie t0 an abrupt end. Grund Duke
George died miserably of lung trouble,
ani at his dealil his mother not only
suffered, but the loss seemed to harden
her. At court she formed a party de-
voted to her interests, she invested
GREAT SUMS OF MONEY
in vague mismanaged Manchurian en-
terprises, she dabbled In dangerous
politics, and so from being the most
loved she cable to be the most detested
W0111411 In Eastern Europe,
Violent accusations of extravagance,
of keeping in her pay an army of spies,
whose business it was to ferret out the
names of plotters against her life end
Mal, of the Grand Duke Michael, the only
sal save Nicholas now left, were brought
agninst her by enemies. They even
went further and accused her of ad-
vising the Grand Duke Sergius to 50100
of his worst acts of oppression, of coun-
seling Nicholas to vvboteeale murder of
his subjects,
In the presenI. infin tiled -tale of the
Russian people a weed of 1110 revolu-
tionists against the Dowager Empress
WAS enough to incite the unkindest be-
liefs, and two years ago her name ap-
peared In the list of individuals to he
exterminated by the Terrorists. Not
only was her name included on the list,
but formal warning, as is usual, was
sent her.
At first she refused to believe it. She
even laughed at it, as she had been
wont to laugh years ago when death
came 1111 her. Nevertheless her chil-
dren, and chief among them the Czar,
urged her to place herself beyond the
reach of her enemies. Whispers blew
about to the effect that the Czar would
give into his mother's hands his heir
and only son and that the two would
retire to Denmark to wait for fairer skies
to shine on troubled Russia.
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FOR DOCTORS ONLY.
Novel Features at the London Medical
Exhibition.
Medical men with a thirst for fresh
Nihilisne, Dagmar was foe yea's one of knowledge, 1101 1011011 to interest them
the llappiest women on thrones in Eu- et the second London Mance' Exhibi-
rope. lion, which was opened at the Royal
Some of the old Viking spirit if her Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square ree-
ancestors was in the blood of tall, slim,.
Dagmar; it shone in her big, brilliant
sea -blue eyes, and it is declared by those
who helped to guard her and were with
her in moments of surprise and danger 'Mellish and Colonial Druggist,' and
that site never seemed to understuilcl this year many -more are expected. The
the meaning of the word fear. Nut once exhibition is attended exclusively by
or twice but frequently in her career es dcetors. There are 117 attractive stands
wife of the heir and then of the 00011- as compared with t fly -eight last year.
pant of the Russian throne did she loot: There are many novelties in the
dean- in the faee as it threatened her- way of preparations, appliances, and
self, her husband and her children, and nicotine disc restos. Among the latter
never once was she known to blanch or ten small phial of a white fluid, a en -
shiver or lose her preeece of mind.
She knew that poison, the knife, a bul-
l." er it bomb might at any instant
hurl her into eternity or snatch Cue of
her loved ones from her; always her
giant husband brooded over the possi-
bility of a quick and terrible end, but
she kept ever a
LIGHT AND CONFIDENT HEART.
envy.
Physicians and surgeons to the num-
b& of 3,000 visited the first of these ex-
hibitions which aro organized by the
Her superb health and the zest with
which she could endure the severest
round, not only of court entertain -
(elements, but still more exhausting
religions ceremonials, were also recom-
mendations to popularity. How much
the Empress prized her popularity and
the aulhm'ily that CREDO from it is indi-
cated by life grief she now suffers be-
cause 11 has vanished, and she has been
hunted out•of the country in which once
she, was so esteemed.
But clow much that popularity rested
on the good advice and affectionate con-
trol exercised by her husband can only
be measured by the fact that from the
moment of his death it began to wane.
Twenty-eight years of lofty position as
the wife of the most powerful monarch
in the world had not fitted the still
youthful Dagmar for dowagerhood,
which in Russia Is usually no position
at all 8o fu as influence Is concerned.
She was only 40 when Alexander died,
and immneelinlely after this death. the
Russian people fairly wept like children
at her knees.
They knew the story et Ogee heavy
months when she had tenderly and
with her two strong white hands
nursed her husband; they saw her go
through the ordeal of his funerni with-
out flinching or excusing herself from
one cif the duties of it, and they were
not at all inclined -to like the new Em-
press.
Some good people just' ut 11118 time
drew a pretty picture of the Dowager
in retirement and cultivating the art of
being a grnndmolher, but the vigorous
Dagmar had no notion at all of doing
that. Though as a wife 011(1 monies site
had been a thorough success. as a
mother -in -lav she made haste to dis-
play another side of her character. and,
seeing that Nicholas wws no 0001) man
as his father, find thinking that his
wife, pretty A.1ix of Hesse, a weakling
Inn she decided to remain in Russia and
hike a strong hand in
DIIIECTING 1310 AFFAIRS,
Tholglu her }nlsbrind, (10111)6 in ninny
baton 0f adrenalin, which in solid
firm, is worn' £1,400 a pound. 11 is
obtained irons sheep's kidneys, where
it Is found in such minute quantities
that only a pound can be obtained from
31000 sheep.
This substance, discovered by a Ja-
panese doctor, is used tar arresting
capillary bleeding, and the treatment
of chronic nitwit..
A novelly in eppllances Is a tooth-
brush in the shepe of a small rubber
glove Up with rubber spikes. 11 is worn
es lie end of u finger, and the rubber
spikes, having been dipped Into the den-
Iihice, are said to search file remotest
corners of the most complicated. set of
teeth.
Lhere is also in the exhibition what
is believed to be the only piece of Eng-
lish opium in existence, It was extract-
ed from poppies grown near Pele'11or-
ougtl.
A vveli-known physician who was a
visitor to the exhibition, tnld an "Ex -
pre -s" representative why lie was there.
I ail on the look out for new ways rf
making up prescriptions," he said. "'The
nervous nodemr patient requires his or
her medicines to be assimilated easily,
and they roust be attractively present-
ed to them. Great strides are being
made in this direction every year."
SURPRISING TiIn CAPTAIN.
The eapinin of a.seertein large setting
vessel Is probably -the most polite of-
ficer in the whole British mercanli'e
service. Ile has, however, a great idea
or his inrporinnee, and lose:} no ripper.
tunny of Impressing It upon hes crew.
111 particular 110 11101118 on being ad-
dressed 110 sir by everyone on hoer('
0110 day n new hand joined the snip,
and 11 short lime after lenv'ng i,a'hnr,
being a seasoned old salt, he CWS en-
trusted with the wheel. The capital»
cone up to tum, and put the usual.
queelion:---
"iIow's ler held?"
"Nor' by her' -cast," answered the old
inr. very grit y.
"Aly mem' navels, exposltleled the
rnpinin, "nn this craft. when one of the
crew sprnks lo me, he gives 1110 line
et rsix•r!
(1(101. yrou think 3011 might
do sit Inn? Now, how's her head,
Nor by it/tie-met, I tell yer." shout-
ed Ilii tar, displaying not a litho 'lrri•
Innen,
"Come, 1111 efrni4 you don't guile um
dcr.,bm(1 m1'." is -mended the capinin,
things as he had Len, had never shared good-Inlmri Idly: "lot me nrlime+ you nt
wile he' his Stain cares, 131gmer was 1110 wheel. end then do ,vlU lake my
eve0 a good friend of most of his bra- Benne 011(1 tisk mit the (1110811011. 1
)hers and his uncles, and the Grand will 111en ,show you hove 11 elicited be
Dukes courted her aid and influence in 0nsweee(1.
They noon -limey ebnnged places•
w
Oe ,n '. ),d. leered the lar.
"Nor' 1+y nor' -0181, sir." replied the
replete, with gentle emphasis in the
mann ging Nicholas If. It ems thus In-
deed and uhforluun lely that this w0111511
wee brought 111lo the share of politics
aid rpliakly down to her iv111.
file lulled lo give up her eteern le her
dnugbler-in-bow, to get out of her
roams in the p(ducrs; and (hough Alex -
ender lied lett her tremendously 01811 111
"
tponry and jewels, 11110 paa5r'(
immdfd,v re-
sented giving up 1110 use of the great
regalia. and the lesser r (,.
rwn ,10x11% that
only en Empress eonsort is privileged
to .weer, Notorious 111 the fine was the
struggle 1het Went on for mnnllis be-
l00el dmlgbiler and mother -mine, nt'011
1 certain Set. at marvelous peals that
"'then keen her se, my men, white 1
gees forrard told line n smoke." 'etas
Itlt' .alfrllillr reJobntlee from the old rep.
lobele, nein county romnenred to suit
(inn melon le the word,
+.
The Temperer nl i 1lslr(n senreely ever
shnl<te lienria, even with life most (01-
nllrri x1:11 11) or privileged lemse1l8, ilio
(101181 form of greeting is a courtly
bow.
SUPERSTITIONS OF CZAR
RUSSIA'S EMPEROR 11:19 DONE MANY
RiDICI!LOU;S THINGS.
Carries C01(1 and Charms on ills Per-
son to eireserve Ilim From
tlar1n.
Curious stories are told about the
whims and peculiarilics of the Emperor
of Russia, w•111111 would bo amusing If
they did not involve the lumpiness and
welfare of 114,000,000 of people. 110 is
a 11(ysllc; 1111 mysteries appeal to 11110.
lie believes 11) miracles and all sorts of
occult things. 110 Is a spiritualist; he
believes in clairvoyance, amulets and
various other superstitions. For exain-
p1e, 1111 carries a min in his pocket which
he believes is necessary for tete protec-
tion of his life, and will go nowhere
without. Ile is confident of its power as
a talisman.
Three years ago or so Bernard Tut -
natter, a Jewish shoemaker at Rndaulz,
Austria, gave supper and lodging to a
mysterious wandering rabbi from the
Orient. In 1110 morning the departing
guest ]landed his host two antique coins,
saying that they wero all he had to give
in payment for itis enterte1nnieni, but
they had nitwit greater value than mo-
dern currency, because they p05505500
Um power al protecting .people who
carry them frorn unseen clangers,
The shoemaker put the coins away
with outer trinkets and forget all
about then) until a year ago lee had a
dream, In which Alexander IIi., the
late Czar, appeared at his bedside and
besought him to send the coins to his
son, Nicholas 1L, in order that he
might have the benefit of their prolee-
lJon against the terrorists and other
perils to which he, is exposed. 13ndaulz
is nearer to Vienna than to St. Peters-
burg, hence Tulnauer sent the tains to
the Russian ambassador at the Austrian
capital, with
A DETAILED ACCOUNT
of their history, which was written for
him by the Jewieh schoolmaster of the
town. The ambassador forwarded them
to Count Lamsdornf, then Minister of
Foreign Affairs, at St. Petersburg, and
the latter, after having them thoroughly
washed and tested at the Inlpe'iallabor-
atory, in order to remove all danger of
poison, presented them vvilh.ihe greatest
engernees to the Emperor and sent a
glft of several thousand roubles to the
Austrian shoemaker, Since ten he has
alvvnys carried thein on his person, with
other charms, in a little bag that hangs
round his neck.
(Zany doubtless remember the terrible
10111011 which occurred at Moscow on
his coronation day, when nearly 10.000
people were killed and wounded. This
disaster was foretold to his Majesty in a
01000311 several nights before it occurred,
and in the morning upon awakening, he
described to graphic language the heaps
appears at the end of the list of sntnte
recognesed by the orthodox Creek
Church, A few months later, Alexis,
hell' to the throne of Russia, was born,
(lo Is now a lusty youngster nearly two
years old.
WEAII WITH YEARS.
Man Useless for Emergencies Between
55 and 02,
AL 901110 time between the age of f5
and 02 111011 lose their \viii-jmvver, thee'
ju'grnent in a moment of crisis. The
loss is only lonlpnrary, marking a psy-
chological change between the meridimp
and the rio mlencenient of age.
De. Dobbes, In Argus, contributes the
above exploitation of the Grantham
(England) disaster, citing the parallel
case ut Stroud some years ago. Ile says
be has Collected data to substantiate
his point, and asks the ages of the Sells -
bury and Oranlhem drivers to see whe-
ther they fit In with his thcery. 1Ie
is inclined to rule that no mal between
55 and 03 should be allowed to drive
1111 express engine, us not 'toaster 1f
that unclouded will whin makes the
greatest emergency his obedient slave."
GOOD DONE BY STEALTH
MULTI -MILLIONAIRES WIIO ACT TILE
G001) SAMARITAN.
Russel Sano Will be Mourned by Many
—hay Gould Did Many
Good Deeds.
One reads much of the more than re-
gal munificence of the multi -millionaire
who writes dheques in six figures for
charitable and philanthropic objects,
"while all the world wonders"; but ono
(tea's lute of the many small deeds 1
indness, of the good„"done by sleallh;'
to which the modern Croesus is just 08
prone us bis less -gilded brother. Oc-
casionally, as in the obituary notices of
1110 lado Mr. Beit, these unt'umpe,led
acts of charily comp to light; but for
tho most part they are known to none
but the d00r.
Sometimes, however, one gets a
glimpse behind t110 curtain of conceal-
ment, and what one sees proves that
the often -maligned and misunderstood
man of millions may be very human of -
ter all, end very modest in his humanity.
The into Mr. Russell Sage, for example,
who, in spite of his $100,000,000, never
paid more than a few dollars a year to
hts tailor, and as often as not carried
his frugal lunch in his pocket, will be
mourned by many to whom he has
proved
A FRIEND INDEED.
while lie himself travelled in crowded
trains to Wall Sheet in the company
of his clerks, his carriages and horses,
among the costliest in New York, N000
faking Out poor invalids and cripples
of dead bodies which he had seen on the
vvheio a for an airing; for forty years she main-
!ninon in comfort 0 man and his fan1.
commons outside of the ciLey, fly vvho had fallen on evil days, be-
cause they had been kind to thiol in his
time of obscurity; and many a gift of
gold hes found its way anonymously
from hien to the houses of the poor and
ere sick.
Jay Gould, perhaps the most abused
millionaire who ever 1100(1, 11 MOD wild
hoorded his gold to the last gasp, also
had a =dm, heart and generous hand
which he exercised by stealth. When
a man w110 had shown him kindness in
those early days of struggle, when the
future millionaire went in New York
with a mouse -trap as his sole capital.
tailed in business, Gould not only paid
every pennyof his debts, amounting to
thousands of dollars, but set him on lbs
feet again. The widow and children of
another old friend he made a life pro-
vision for, and, thanks to his guidance,
ane of her £ens is a millionaire him-
self to -day; while countess stories
have been told since his death of simi-
lar
GOOD SAMARITAN DEEDS.
free feast was spread for the people.
The eagerness of the multitudes to reach
the tables caused a struggle and a
stampede in which several thousand
were trampled to death.
The superstition of the Czar, being
well known in the Empire, naturally
attracts to him n11 sorts of prophets,
clairvoyants and other impostors, and
he has been imposed upon repeatedly.
All prophets are welcome, provided their
predictions are favorable, but those who
bring bad tidings
ARE OFTEN PUNISHED.
There is at Moscow a well-known
crazy priest, who from time to time,
makes some rather surprising predic-
Ib us, and who is generally believed by
111e people to have the gift of prophecy.
Nicholas sent for him and asked to (lave
Ids fortune 'fold. Tho priest, whose
name is Alike 130501, went into a (ranee
according to his custom, and while his
spirit was in communication 001111 the
unseen, made the ghastly prediction
lhat,wblerever 11e welt during all his
life, his Majesty would tread on dead
bodies, and teat Its reign would see a
continuous weeping of the nations. 1115
Majesty was greatly distressed and in-
dignant. At lfirst he suspected that
elj111<a Bosoj had been coached to make
this prophecy by the revolutionaries,
and ordered him sent to prison, but upon
reflection and Inquiry he became con-
vinced that the 111011 ons honest, and
ordered Ills release a few days later.
Every ono doubtless relnembel's the
story about the hystc-vbca1 rammer in
which lee consulted John of Cronsladl,
the miracle -working priest, end how
the latter undertook to use his influence
with forces of nature to give the Czar a
son. After the failure of John o1 Cron-
stadt to perform that inlperlalt duly
the Czar lost faith in hint for a time. but
11 is understood that the miracle worker
hes since been restored to favor and is
now in the habit of advising his ,\iujesly
concerning his religious duties.
The anxiety of 111s M11jeely to secure
1011 Behr caused him to no ninny ridicu-
lous things. One of then was .his in-
eognite pilgrimage to Iho tomb of n
hely priest called 1ernphhne, whore the
peasant women who ore denied mother-
hood go to pray.
'1'ilE CZAR AND C.%ARINA
0111(111 the pilgrimage Iy leo advo1
Vludinhir, th0 melropoli(an peaI•larrhice of
the Greek Church—the highest ecclesi-
aslicnl authority in the country—who
told them flint staph an act of veneration
witted undoubtedly be rnw•nrde(1 by 1110
birlil of n son. - flow the Ceerinn, '0110
For many years Mr. Armour gave
away thousands of dollars in unobtru-
sive ants of charily. He employed
agents whose sole duty 1t was to find
out deserving oases of need and. to act
nn his almoners, with strict instruc-
tions never to 11101110D Ills name; and
IL is said that Ah'. 3, D. Rockefeller has
dispensed hundreds of thousands of
dollars in the same uhostentaalous
way.
No doubt similar stories could be told
without number of other mei of col-
ossal wealth, from the Cro'sus who, not
long age, sent a cheque for $10,000 to
11 man whose dinper he had once pur-
loined in an Impulse of hunger, to the
Tlussinnn millionaire and Count who
pornded the streets of St. Petersburg as
a beggar, and when any seemingly pool'
person gave hem alms would follow
kiln er her home, and W1111i11 n. few hours
would send tin anonymous present cf
gold, perhaps a thousand times the
value of the dole he 111101 received.
There are even, seeing° as it any
5(Tm, some millionaires who devote
their whole life and Money to such
splendid if obscure uses. Such a men
1= \h'. Phelps :Sink is, Nlosc romantic
mareinge wile en 100 ciga' mn]cel' caused
a greet sen alien about a year ago. \h•.
Stokes and his trove elle are living in
lire darkest, most sordid slums of New
'York, giving themselves and th1111' mil-
Mens absolutely to the submerged pm-
P16
among cnn
'1'111;? HAVw'lE 11:1DE 'TrIE1R 110111e.
In one of the most wrelalnocl qunrle's
of St, Lents at miserable network of
inlrrbw sta'nls fund dai< albeys, where,
thio scum of Russia and other foreign
W118 14.011411 Up a PrO(OSlOnt, x1111 15 rc- C01111L PS sworn) end shelter, another
gaoled111its i! very sensible W0111,m, could millinunire, Mr, 1. Falls 1(ovv, hes for
1111ve Leen induced to go lhrongh this.
prs(semence is (Wenn, to explain. '1110
public were not swore 01 (1(0 fuels al the
lime, Tite imperial cunpl0 were sup-
posed to be resting in one of (heir coun-
try Pellrld5, wild,', disgleised in the garb
of pilgrims, they were 0clunlly nlni<ing
their w'ny on loot to the shrine of the
holy man, 11 11101111100 of 1(10re Wen a
hundred 1111ko. 110111 of Il1en1 remelt -led
there for a work or see preying for a
110. r vin -1 e sit '
and �i h , , e 11010' l-
bny bele" g
-11
mass every 'morning with olher pil-
grims.
Upon their return (n the 011p1101 Ilse
(tear 'beilet 01 Iho monk ;Sernphhne to be
01.4inized1 and 1110 1lttter:s nein -1'10W
years spent bis (11<' nn(3 gold In works
et unrecorded charily. I . ie creepiest one
0non, u11carpoled and poorly furnished,
cooks his own meals, and 11ves dneally
on Min netters a. week, w•h110 ell the
rest of his wealth is devoted to the col-
ony 110 (las founded,
Ite supports a house for waifs, 1105
molting classes for 11101 rand women,
sewing classes, and kindergarten, and
11110 (t satire of simile' channels he
moms Ills money end his (molly; and
lin dv.olaras--and who .41(1111 d0I(,1 117---
111n1 he (8 infinitely llonpiee in his "Lit-
tle 11115810 0111111 than if he Were flinging -
n111101 ihottennds 1(1 the, gay cep1(1115 'ht
Europa,
HAS EARTH( FOUNDATION
SCIENTIST WHO SATS 'J'HIA'I` T1113
SUN HOES MOVE,
Does Not Believe We Are \1'11ir110lJ
About 11)Vhey'-
(111110 10
Spero (lest1ilUpottn.
An
"11 .1 to New Yorl< hl
lhrToeo 110gat111',1'1'01(bile1is011(101a pnssfbilily 1(0<01"
ilals to present day science I"
That Is the settement AI. K. Ryon,
ed1' Eunhe hn n-
<la1flomo0fnthlyClvil, 1)1110(1egitoeern lgoh'resp01blgi1daLoua
1 asked him how it could be done?
"Scientists, both of the present and
Iia past," he answered, "tell us Hunt the
earth revolves at the rate of seventeen
miles a minute. If this is a fact, all a
L11 15 n 110
i:1111aLondonneeds, k10eepdo 11 slntotgolinnoryupin 111 1110
111100 1111,
and Jet the earth revolve for, roughly,
183 minutes, and then come down—in
New York."
Mr. Ryan has startled the Bad
Scientific world with a harmless looking,
lttilc e(111011111 paragraph in the October
number of Civil Engineering. 11 rends
as follows:
"IL is not generally known, even to
theengineering public, the developments
which have taken place during lite last
few months in airships of various kinds,
old entice does not permit me to enter
into details. Suffice to say that arrange-
ments have been made to manufacture
them in largo quantities during the com-
ing winter, and next season
BALLOONING TRIPS '
will be nothing unusual. The explorer
who first arrives at the North Pole will,
1 expect, do so in some form of airship,
and will probably discover the founda-
tions of the earth and dispose once and
foe all of that ridiculous and absurd.
theory that the world Is revolving in
space."
Mr. Flynn was asked on what he based
hie theories. lie counter -questioned --
"On what proven facts do astronomers
and other scientists base their present
day theories? I have es much right to
put forth a theory as they have. 1
have studied the sciences, and pa'ticu-
tarly astronomy, for years. I contend
that the world is on a solid foundation.
If it is moving there must be a force to
make 11 move. Then that fofce should
be the force of gravity and that would
be the force of gravity outside the earth.
Therefore, the force of gravity outside
the earth would be greater than the
force inside. -
"Ast'onomers tell us that a point in
the equator is revolving at the rale of
seventeen miles a minute, but that we
arc going so fast that WO don't appre-
ciate it or are not sensthle„of it. They
tel. us Mid, we are kept on this earth by
Me force of gravitation. If a elan Is then
standing on' the equator, could he be
held there by force of gravitation If
there was a greater force of gravity
outside Um earth? We are also told the
reason we do not feel ourselves
PASSING-T'IIROUGII SPACE
is because the atmosphere Is carried
around with the earth. If you -go uta a
few thousand feet in a balloon where We
contt'ifugal force of the earth would
have 110 effect on the atmosphere, you
need only welt there 031111 New l'or1<
came around to you and then descend,
"Giving astronomers the .advantage of
their arguments that we are held on
this world by the force of gravity the
centrifugal force or the earth would yet
be much greater and we would be
thrown. at once into space.
"The foundations of I110 earth, 1 con-
tend, are sileated el North and South
Poles. Nature has never allowed us
finally to explore these regions. The
first 1)008011 Mot comes within range
with a telescope will see the solid foun-
dations. It may perhaps be a founda-
tion of rock, and if followed up might
lead to the discovery of other hemi-
spheres. Wbo knows? \Ve can merely
theorize as we have done for ages dead
and
g0n0. f
"My theory also is that 1110 movement
of the sun is not nn optical delusion, but
that it revolves around the earth once
in 24 sideral !hours: I also 0151111 that If
we have been moving through space for
thousands of years, WO w0111d have ar-
rived at some destination or have re
ocived some evidence of motion. It can
also easily be shown that the centrifu-
gal force of the earth does 1101 carry
around the atmosphere with it as the
wind blows in all directions,
"if the earth revolves, it is absolutely
certain that there is a force which ntakes
it rovolve.”
TO \VAT'Ci•i H:
Tho directors of a io0icBOT1had engaged
111e services of a watchman, who 001110
well recommended, but did not ,seem
over -experienced. The (Mohnen, there-
fore, sent for him to post bin tip a bit,
and 1105¢11—
"Jalhes, this is your first job 01 this
kind, tsn'l 11?"
";e:
'i es, SLP,"
"Tota' duly must be to exercise vigl-
Iance.
" XOs, sill :"
"Re careful how strangers approach
yon."
'1 wltb, sir."
"No 5I11115er5 11)1101 be allowed to en-
tal' the bank at night under any pretext
w•halover,
"No, Sir."
"And Dur n)nnnge'—h0 is a gond 01011,
honest, Imitable, and trustworthy; but
it will be your duly to keep your eye on
bIn"
ilul It will be hard to watch two
men and the bank at the seine limo,"
"'l'wo mei—how?"
"\Vey, sir, it was Only yesterdny the!
the maneger called me in 10r a talk, end
110 sell you were 0110 of the hest mei
in Ln, 11d b,01st ns well
1') 1<8(olda11 1.0(11 eyes(11it woul011 ,youe, 01)13 1o1 (hc
directors know 11 you Hung nra.lnd
elter'houl's.'
\VANING AFFi?CTION.
Angeline: "1 dere! believe you lova
me as notch es yon del, Edwin."
!Edwin : "Pooh! nonsense! Whal.
11(01<05 7011 1111(11< 1111111''
Ao goUtm1 "\')`ell, (I's S'Vl(l'q( (Jryy8
0,1w sinco you railed 11111 8 void nisi
hclrlless 111110 0111; end f know 1
haven't changed,'
CITY OF HERCULANIUM
iTS SECRETS BURIED BY ERUPTION
WILL RE EXCAVATED.
Plan Will Necesmldlote Demolition 101
Modern City Bull( Above the
Ruins.
The dream of an Ensile]) arohneoio-
gtsl, Prof. Weidstein, of Cambridge, is
nearing its realization Herculaneum, the
necked liemrtu city which was buried
1,8110 yearn by an eruption of Vesuvius,
le to be excavated by the united action
of England, Prance, Germany, Italy, the
United Stales, end other countries, 'tile
ncighbo'ing Pompeii, which was ruble 1
by the sane disaster, and is still bel')',
Iatd bare, calls a comparatively umilm-
Poehmt place, having no libraries or
important works of ort.
Many flee Romans had their mngul-
ficent villus al Herculaneum. Most '1
the Interesting objects In the Naples
Museum came from that city, where.
however, at present only a few hour's
have been uncovered, and that, so 1)
say, accidentally. All, scientists agree
that at Herculaneum 111051 of the miss-
ing sections and entire works of the
Greek and Renton authors end many
art treasures must still lie burled.
TOWN TO BE DEMOLISHED.
Hitherto there have been very strong
reasons why Herculaneum could not be
unearthed. Tee Town of Resins has
been built some 80 `feet above the an-
cient city. Consequently, first•:0f ell
Rosins must be bought up and demol-
ished; and, secondly, It would be neces-
sary to remove a layer of earth 80 feet
thick, the expense of which undertak-
ings would be enormous.
No one country, says Prof Waldsteln,
Is rich enough to undertake this mis-
sion alone, and so he conceived the idea
that this greet week, which will In-
crease the knowledge of the whole
world, must be undertaken collectively.
First, he laid the matter before icing
Edward, from whom he received the
greatest encouragement.
KAISER IS (-iONORARY PRESIDENT.
The professor then approached King
Victor Emmanuel and the Kaiser, bolt)
of whom entered heartily into the pro-
ject. The Kaiser consented to accept
the honorary presidency for Germany,
and said that one of 11(5 princes should
be active president. Mr. Roosevelt af-
terward accepted the presidency for the
United States, end France's goad -will
los also been assured.
New only the final decision of the
Tl41nn Government, under whose pro-
tection 1110 international en -opera linn
is to lake place, is wanting. i1n131
consent, is not doubtful. Pref. Wald -
stein Is sure lie will seen get the neces-
sary funds for exenenlhhg Herculaneum.
At present only $:00,000 a year will bo
necessary.
A FAMOUS POLICE COURT.
The "01d Bailey" is Known the \Vide
World Over.
Everybody has heard of the "01d
Batley," of London, the most famous
Police Court in time world, IL is also
generally known that It. wins torn down
some time ago to make room for a more
modern structure.
The new "Old Bliley," the contract
for which was signed in 3111y, 11102, will
be completed in all but a few minor
details by the end of October.
"'The Old Bailey of the future will be
in no sense a prison," slid the princi-
pal assistant to M. 1's. W. Mountford,
F. R. 1. 13. A., from )0080 designs the
slruelure Js being erected. "The cells,"
continued 1itis gentleman, "wilt he 00
in number, but they are not for tine in-
carceration of prisoners, only for wait-
ing purposes. As you are mere, the
new Sessions House—tor that is its real
name—is built 011 the site of Newgnto
Prison, the 18un(11011cm slono having
been laid by tie Lord Meyer in the De -
comber of 1002. On the Old Bailey side
11has n frontage al 287 feet, and of 145!
feet on the Newgate street side, ante it is
interesting (o note that th0,.101ot lnr.d
IL imposes upon the earth from the
lower down to the foundations Is 10,000
tons. The contract for the building
amounts to £282.000, but 1 understand
'that ale total cost will exceed £800,000.
Another circumstance of some interest
is that in carrying out the vvorlc it ons
found convenient to 11)51<e USO of some
of the stone of the old edifice. This has
teen redressed and used on bhe Old Bat-
ley frontage from the ground as tar as
the springing of the arches of the ground
floor window's.
"The height of the building from the
pa'onents to the top of the balustrade
is 75 feet. The base of the building up
10 the ground floor Is in grey unpolished
Cornish granite, and Iho rest of the
building 'le !need with Porilnnd stone.
The main 0111011180 to the building is in
Oki Bailey, 511(1 on moll side are pro-
jerting bays surmounted by pediments,
and the tympana contain sculpture in
relief. There are two entrances to the
building 111 Newgale street -,one for Me
general public end the other for counsel.
There is a pr'ivet° enit'ahce nt the south-
ern end 01 the Old Bailey foe the 0111-
cinls, And on the elle of the 0(d prison
yard (hero will be a ceulrlyol'rl for the
3155 of the Lord Mayor, jucigos aid
shclefts.
"Internally, !Ito structure hes oleilnr.
ale decimation of a high (leder. Tho
chime of the content hell on 1110 first
nem is flee most shriking femme of 1110
interior, The eendenlIvrs Neve sculp-
tured ponds, in vvh(01) Chanty, Temper-
aV'e, Juslice, end 1141010y lore repre8e11-
ed, while 111e content hallItselfend the
5(11(4(1 111111s 811 either side have lun-
ettes. which will be deeoreled with al-
lol;m'ienl pn1111.1ngs. 'The Golden Age'
will he Ilm (111) nr 0110 111 the 1eeor014,0
woks, whish will be exceeded ,leve
spring by Sir Witlinin Richmond, R,A.
Others beet oh'eady 'heel carried out,
Professor Gerel(1 (4(01111 00nh'ihu1in'ir,<
wer1<0 reln'e.eonling Justice, ninsnk: Lav
(\testi% giving 111e Lew to the 11ws), i1141
T 1)51(4 t T.ev (King Alfred ndlnbnslerbeg
tihe T,nhv(, Two of fill' William 111ehs
mott'l'e paintings in one of the lesser
hullswilt represent Rouge Law end
Greek, Law."
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