The Herald, 1914-01-16, Page 5PIRQ'T]ST,
Is U reedlly Ac
Rueeien
,fries:
fir's,. manifestri of
imising liberty, 10
gala, over 400,000
sentenced for pe-
)f these 3,000 were
re than 10,000
horrible "Kator-
risuns.
er.erowded.
rerowded rooms,
'of the simpleet
t and cleanliness,.
oners are almost
medics' assistance
ctims of all kinds:
rvy, typhus and
ate • their ranks.
;he death rate has
cent. 'Very often
come a centre of
surrounding dis-
ntenced to long
men t --chiefly pe-
nal fact condenan-
of slow death.
the fate of those
s of political ex -
et are deported to
rias, but simply by
y .action of the adm"inis-
i. Most of thein are sent to
frozen waete, where, unable to
obtain the necessary food, clothing
and housing, they perish."
The above is a quotation froxn
the recent international protest
against the treatment of political
prisoners in Russia, signed by many
of the most, prominent public men
in France, Germany and England.
In the minds of runny people such
etatements savor of exaggeration,
writes a St, Petersburg correspond-
ent.
'ha
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P
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Actual Conditions.
Do prison horrors really exist in
Russia, er are the thousands of
otherwise well-informed men and
women who claim so, simply . soft-
hearted and soft -brained humani-
tarians, led astray by designing
egit .tors in the Czar's realms'?
At the prison of the ancient city
of C.zenstochova, where is the fame
flus Pauline monastery and the.
'Miraculous picttire• of the Virgin,
no less than OO prisoners are even
now being kept on bread, 'water and'
frequent applications of tho rod.
The gaolors in charge are nearly al-
ways drunk, but do not let their
victims drink even water. The cells
defy description, so filthy is their
state.
There is now between 3,000 and -
'4,1/00 exiles in Siberia under direct
police supervision. These do not
include the prison inmates. The
government, has sent them to the
very worst part of Siberia for vari-
ous political offences, such as keep-
ing schools where children and
grown-ups were taught, for hold-
ing political meetings in their
houses, for criticizing the govern-
ment--inshort, for doing the hun-
dred and one little things which
.everybody `can do with impunity in
Canada. The upkeep of these 4,000
amounts, according to budget re-
turns, to $350,000 a year; or $8'7.50
per head. This sum includes the
feed, lodging and clothing of the un-
happy exiles. They are forbidden
to work, because it is a well-known
fact that people are happier when
they have something to do, and
also because the pittance they could
earn on oolonists' fares during the
ehort summer would buy them a
,little more food than the $87.54-ca.n.
Innoecut Bic Puititibed.
The following is a fair example of
•ivhat`goes on, almost daily. in Rus-
tle.: rl,s,rles . irirlaiilski and Joins
Trzaski, two . decent workingmen;
employed in the foundry of Wheel,
have been doing hard labor for five
years, thoupin innocent. In 190'7 as
policeman end a cossack were
weundecl near the foundry. A. fe'ty
days later a woman, Mnee. Mach
siewska, well known to the police
as a receiver of stolen goods axed
a white slave traffic agent, went to
the police 'station and said she
knew who attacked the two wound -
al men. She pointed but Maminski
and Trzaski. They were arrested,
tried by court 'Martial and, solely
we the woman's evidence, condemn-
ed ? to be hanged! The Czar com-
tented the sentence to 24 yeal•s'
fetedlabor for Maminski. •;end 15
,relgrJr.a. for . his comrade. `' 'J lieir ear
p:' ` •�ers' decla,'raotie n',tha;t,both were
u�t honest men, -and, their own
q s that, the woman ave.
protestationsgx
evidence agairest'theen''imeause' .they.
prevented her ` 'fron7t getting two
young girls into her clutches, flute
A. Freak Bicycle; Which Is .More than a Freak., '
A French engineer has invented the extraoydinary racing "torpedo;
cycle." The cigar -shaped frame of wickerwork completely protests
the cyclist': without disturbing his balance. This special body practie
tally obviates wind resistance. Riding a •"torpedo-eycic" recently,
the racing• Berthet beat many existing recordsr by attaining a speed of
over thirty-six miles an hour over one lap of a. racing track in Paris,
not the slightest difference. They
were thrown, chained, into a cell
with the scum of a Russian prison;
their wives and families were left
to starve; they were sent in chains
across the Urals and put to work in
tie mines.
After. Four Tears.
After four years the pxilice began
to hear from different sources that
the two men were innocent. For a
long time they took no notice. At
last, however, one of the lawyers
who had acted as "prisoners'
friend" at the court martial, spent
some spare time, in looking up the
men's friends and relatives. He
found that the woman':% own son
had shot at the policeman and the
cossack. ' After a year and much
trouble, he made the central court:
martial o£ Warsaw look into the
case.
ACTIVITIES OF WO E
Equal suffrage "prevails in Mexico
to a certain extent,
The Hebrew Technical school of
New York graduates .560 girls
yearly.
In England poor mothers get
shillings at the birth of a child.'%
Miss Rose Maley is state supexia-
tendent of public' instruction ict
Wyoming.
In 1910 there were 215 widows-te.
every 100 widowers, in the United
States.
Since women began to vote in
New Zealand, divorce has clecreas..
ed 77 per cent.
Princess Enlalie, aunt of _Xing
Alfonso of Spain, has a beauty shoe
in Paris.
\Yb,ile Maminski and Trzaski Domestic servants are employed
worked en in the, Ural mines, jail- , in more than 800,000 homes in Eng-
ers used the lash on them with im-' land and Wales.
punity, for were they nut there for' SeveraI women are seen daily On
trying to kill the police'? Their food
was moldy bread and cabbage soup.
At night they lay en wooden bunks, i
built against the walls of a wooden
hut. When they had tine they us-
od to try and destroy the vermin by
throwing boiling waterover' it.;
They* were not allowed fo write to'
their families os get letters from
them. ,
One night, after work, they \vete
told to go to the inspector, who,
after satisfying himself that they
were Maminski and Trzaski; told
them they were free. You can im-
agine their joy.
VIENNA'S FIRE LOSS.
City of Over Two Million People
Raw Remarkable Record..
For a city of 2,098,000 people, ex-
tending over an area of 108 square
miles, Vienna (Austria) enjoys .a
remarkable inimeni.ty from serious
fires. The total losses for the last
year amounted only to. • $355,000,
arising from 1,062 fires.. In the first
half of the same year New York
City's losses are reported as $5,-
820,000 from 8,455 fires.
Of the Vienna fires only 47 were
elasse as "large" fires, that is,
where two or,rrroro lines of hose
were fbrought� into play. There were
211 medium fires requiring only
one hose.
Carelessness with matches and
lights eaused 214 of the fires, There
were only 13 known eases, of arson.
The total alarms were .3,158, for
in Vienna, the .Serviees of the fire
department are requisitioned in
all kinds of accidents in the streets
and buildinge, some of them of the
most trivial character—a pigeon
entaugled in the telephone wires,
for instance,
Fam1Iy LlveS in Cave.
PO bitter is'•toe German Govern
silent in its crusade against the
Itaiser5's Polishsubjects that a Pol-
ish rallies of.:.Diugyt• Most, near.
Brodnica, ; is fo`reed to live with his
wife and elesven children in a large
hole bur -towed into the ground. For
some time be lived in a cottage neker
his mill'; Ins family grew too big
for it and. he started building a
house., The police stopped him,
saying'l re. had, no•• lieenee, and re-'
fused hien one,
"Here's an odd case ---a smitten
anarries one : wan, thinking he is
anc.►thair," "What's odd . about
thatl Women ere Leics that all
the tirnb."
the New York speedway driving
Last trotting horses.
Policewomen in Chicago cannot
weigh less than 115 pounds Air
more than 180 pounds.
London women are now wearing
trousers and little smoking jackets
instead of tea gowns.
Miss Estelle Mason is making a
32,600 -mile journey around the
world with twelve Esquimau dogs.
In New Zealand the servant
maids' union demands the estab-
lishment of a 68-lxotxr week.
Shopgirls in London have a
country -house where they rest at
intervals from their labors.
The average height of women has.
increased from one to two inches
during the ]ast generation.
A police canvass in Kansas City
shows that 148 women disappeared
front that city in six months.
While she is only nineteen years
of age, Miss Sybil Vane is consider-
ed the best prima donna in. Eng-.
land.
Premier McBride, of British Col-
umbia, has refused the' request of
the suffragists that they be given
the franchise.
Lady Beauchamp, as the wife of
the First Commissioner of Works in
England, spends $40,000. annualle
in entertaining.
Mrs. Uharles Gale of Eureka,
Gail., has been appointed on the
board of trustees of the new .state
normal school.
Women in Roumania are at lib-
erty to practice as doctors or law-
yers ur they may be chemists or dis-
pensers and hold omcial appoints
meats.
Quite a sensation was created roe
Gently when Miss Ethel Spackman,.
of New York, smoked a cigarette
in the assembly chamber at Albany.
For the first time in 30 years a
wotn.an jury was recently empaneled
in London to try a Woman for kill-
ing her illegitimate child. •
Mrs. A.ssheton Harbord, the' fann-
ers balloonist, recently accompani-
ed Henri • Salmet, • the French avi
actor, on an aeroplane trip from
London to Paris. --
The Toronto Familia. of Medicine.
has 24 women enrolled as students,;
this being the largest. number of Zs),
male etudents that have ever beep
on the rolls.
SEER A)'YEN'Ti. REQ;
ST ARABIA.
She Will Plunge into the Midst of
1ecils Merely to Gr'aEify;;
a Whim..
Two of the most intrepid explor-
ers living, half a dozen others who.
are only slightly less well known,
and one of the greatest :authoritie•s
on geography and travel generally,
have been spending most of their
time lately'. in attempting to dis-
suade a rich, titled, young and de-
cidedlyattractive woman from at-
tempting .a project which she iia
set her heart on oarrying out, and,
of course, the whole let of them
have failed, writes a London curie
spondent.
ea
latter in rnentiot?ing Arabia had in
mind some 'eonrparaeively slier
journey inland, which. "a woraste
might conceivably etteceed in ac
eomplishing, though most of the
men who have tried such have lost
their lives in the attempt, But
once Dr. Keltie, carried oil' by the
geographer's enthusieerm, lead
woken of the great Rube el -Khan
desert, seine
The two explorers in question
are Henry. Savage Lander and I
Harry de Windt, while the great
authority on travel who is joining'
his protests to theirs is Dr. 'Scott.;
Keltie, the Secretary of the Royal )
Geographical Society, and the wo-
man these experts' have been at-
teml}ting to tlisenade frr,nt what
they describe as something like
'suicide is ` Countess Molitor, whose
late husband was the Owner of a
big estate near Moscow, and ' who,
although„ she is just out of her twen-
ties, already has .risked her life
more times than she can keep count
of, and altogether has had as
strange and varied a career as per-
haps any woman of her age.
`.`The Dwelling of the Void."
Besides herestates in Russia,
whish she is now selling as rapidly
as possible, the Countess has a vil-
la in Italy and a third home in Ger-
many. Yet she declares that she
longs for nothing so much as e
wandering life in comparative euli-
tude—anything so long -as it is not
hum -drum civilization. This crav-
ing it was which first made the
Countess Molitor half decide to be
a missionary, and which now has
determined her to turn expluxer,
and to attempt, practically alone,
to wrest its secrets from. one of the
earth's least explored and • admit-
tedly moat dangerous .regions, the
great desert of Arabia, called by
the Arabs who live on its fringe,
"The dwelling 'of the Void," a re-
gion that is three times as largo as
Great Britain, and on which no Eu -
'l tupean foot is ktiown to have trod.
Only. three European .travelers
have .claimed even to have gazed on
the uttermost 'fringes of thii vast
desert, while the bones of those
who have perished in the attempt
to do so now whiten the path from.
the Yenta) to Nejran. These facts,
however, do not deter Countess
Molitor, who already has wandered,
with only a small escort of native
bearers, through savage southeast
Africa and been captured there and
held fur ransom by native tortur-
ers ; who has adventured, too,
among the Tvux•ege of the Saharan
desert, known as the
Most 'Blooalthirsty Tribe- an Earth.
who has oroesed the Alps in a bal-
loon, made between 60 and. 70
flights in aeroplanes and water -
planes, been attacked by Apaches
in Paris and narrowly escaped
from them, and who has nursed in
the hospitals of Germany and car-
ried on rescue work in the slnins of
London. At the outset she thought
of gratifying what she cane, "the
strain of. gypsy in •me," only by
taking a •trip around the world ---
and the blame fol. putting the
"across Arabia" project into her
head lies at the door of I)r.. Scott
Keltie, although es soon as the fam-
ous Secretary of the Royal .Geo
`graphical Society found that the
Countess not only was taking his
suggestion seriously, but going his
original idea about a. thousand per
cent, better, he 'hastily tried to
pour cold eater on the project.
Once the coast has 'been ]eft be-
hind, Apparently, the whole land of
the Arabe is practically unknown
territory, whose most familiar areas
have been crossed, as one writer
puts it, "always in haste and often
in ,fear," and no doubt when, some
sei-eu weeks ago, the Countess Mo-
•
••4
Advertising Pas.
'.1)005 advertising pay ? I lost,
a• fie &dollar bill on the 'street.'
'"Well P' • •
• ".1 adeertlsodand so farI have
reoeived three -five-dollar billet" •
•
100,000 Square Milts- in G,etenrt;,
which ib is considered doubtii"u] sif
any native even ever has : crossed,
with its possible buried; cities and
probable mines of preuiotxe metals
and its falele, welettalliss, lr'e eitins
led a fltire'Ssi' 'hrelr he ee, il'dri'e sus
segxxrratle•. extinguish. au the
1 ' A' ep her mind to at-
teiiil.n due 1,100 mile journey be-
tween Jedda and the Red Sea and
Mascat, on the G.ulf,of Oman, At
present, iu spite of' being every-
where counselled to :have, at least,
a reale European comlianion, she
is planning to travel with a party
of only seven or eight natives, com-
prising one dragoman, five or six
men to leok after the camels,
which will number about 2.5, and one
guide. The minimum 'time in which
she hopes to complete her journey
is between four and` Five months,
and she estimates the cost of it at
$10,000, all of which she is bearing
herself. s.
ELECTRICITY- -0N Tut FAB.�d.
Most Profitable Use is in Chicken
Rearing:
A paper of :more than ordinary
interest was read before the British,.
Royal Society of Arts by Mr. G.
Thorne Baker. The subject was
"The Applicationof Electricity to
Agriculture and rife." Mr. Baker
said he considered the most profit-
able application • of electricity to
the farm was in chicken -rearing.
Chickens weighing a few ounces
only ;ixud about twelve weeks old
fetched a remunerative' price in the
market. Such chickens could be
grown, under electrie stimulus at
about double the rate, thus doub-
ling the output of a chicken farm,
and halving the food bill per chick-
en. •
On Mr. Rendoiph Meech's pool
try farm at Poole an intensive
chicken house, consisting of six
fiats, each large enough to accom-
modate seventy-five chickens, was
electrified. The current . was .ap-
plied for ten niinutee every 'hour
daring the day. Six chickens only
out of a total of 400 died, showing a
xnortaJity of only 1.5 per, cent. --in
the ordinary way the mortality was
often as much as fro per cent. in the
summer menthe—and the chickens
were ready for market despatch in
five weeks as - against three
months.
The vitality srf the treated chick-
ens was remarkable. Instead of
running away= when one put a fin-
gerto the netting, they would rush
up and peck vigorously. During
the 'treatment they were so highly
charged with electricity that quite
a distinct Shock was felt in the fin-
gers on touching tnc,m, although
the birds theinselvea were supreme-
ly unconscious of anything. The
sparks which flew from their beaks-
on
eakson their pecking or,r's finger did
net appear to he felt ^n the least by
thein.
Experiment+ with radio -active
earth were also dealt with by Mr
Baker, who stated that the growth
of plants had been shown to he
, enormously increased, Be was for_
tunately in a position to announee
that the eupply' of radium in the
near future on a a comparatively
large. scale, would.'be assured, ow-
ing to the successful nature of two
new processes, one;: it this country
and one in Austria,
The Care.Pree Servants.
"Isn't it a fright what wages ser-
vant girls expect nowadays?''
"It certainly is • .t;'•s got to the
point where it is • hardy to tell whe-
ther our !sepia -He giri,,is working
for us or whether weals ,jutst -work-
ing kr 'one eervani,
Of the lnortalit.y aaxnnfgi the peo-
ples of the world, case -seventh is
caused by censureptruri.:"'..,
ehe
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Occurrences .In The Isa.i d
Helene S'uprenKes 4'xt ;11a s t7
nc crelal 11'V or°el•.
-: There are nine kilted
in the British Army.
Within the last fifty y
ehurehos have bean buil
don.
Six nautical `miles or lr
r; ug;liIy' equal to seven
inures.
Thi'<ridest known picture is
of Chaucer, pati' t ,,%44.4,,„, fie
1380,"
Must Engli ili actresses1>a.re m. f-
ried, and most American actreren.
are divorced,
One London bookseller i.s blaming
tango teas for taking the money
that should go to book -buying.
It is estimated that iii one way
or another 2100,000,000 changer
hands every year over horse -racing
The construction of ..a tunnel ;he
tween England .and France „has o.
late oonxe up again for .disevtssion
Dartmoor: is the largest tract ei
uncultivated land in .England;
occupies one-fifth of the county
-;'xthe death is announced of
Thomas Wildbore, .for many. yea,
trustee of the .Ancient Order
Foresters.
The herring harvest was plume
minally good last year, and'there
joy in Yarmouth and. on the ea
coast of Scotland.
Mr. Carl Edward Grasemars, io`
merly chief goods manager of t
London and North-Western Rai
way,• died on the 14th inst.
Some English firemen have ele
tric lamps mounted on their he
mets backed by reflectors, *hi c
project a powerful ray in front
them,
The London County Council can
tinned a request by Earl. Grey
;be allowed to use a portion of ii
Dominion site in Aldwych for cos
mercial purposes -
A statistician calculates that i
'number of women who really ea
"about the vote is .about equal to t
number of men who like to rut t
baby to sleep,
i The late Rev. John Bush Earl
for 33 years rector of Holy Trinit
l i:olchester, left estate
value of £12,43( lbs. 4d.—all
which -goes to his isousekeeye
x•,
Mrs. Pankhurst has ceased to e
cite public attention. Any cla:ir
to martyrdom have failed, and
matters little whether the vetera
leader is in or out of prison.
Dr. John Moore Walker, txf Ea
baston, whose death occurred
tragic eireumstanees recently, lc
the residue of his estate, whirl, v
be about £30,000, to St. Barthel
mew's Hospital, London
"What language does he speak'
asked the North London •magistra
(Mr. Biron), who declared he eon
not understand what a prisoner h~
been saying. The Gaoler --"He
a Scotchsttan, your worship.
After a voyage of about 40,
i miles the battle cruiser New Z
land, the first Dreadnought ler
sented to Britain by the Doming5.
has achieved the honor of being tl
first Dreadnought to cruise roue
the world.
"Nothing can he more dangeree
for the nation at tine' present rrr"
most than the herding together .
huge crowds of working people, sa.
leaving them absolutely unprovir
ed for, ,spiritually, morally, an
physiceliy," says the Bishop
Southwell.
An American traveller was lea
ing his hotel in London. Re Lippe
the comsnissiona.ire subs-tenths:Be
andthat individual was'oonsequeni
ly affable. "I hope you have ': ee
joyed your stay, sir," - he said
"have you seen the Abbey ?'
"No," replied the Ameri.'xe
"where is he 7 I should like to 'sr
him, .
Any one searching for the _ mere
beautiful scene in London will foe
it at the Suspension Bridge. e;?eta
ning the,.lake in St..James'•s Pari"
The picture at this paint -uta
breezy, sunny day is ideal., Eat)
and west the clear, rippling 'wale,:
is fringed by tall poplars, weepin4
Willows, and massive elms, vide)
rich, grassy lawns sloping down le
the lake. The white front of Deed
inghan .Palace, ; partly hidden tY
trees and the gleaming marble e
the 'Queen Victoria Memorial, fs')
in the western ''background,
"I suppose the young MO do ne,
regard Miss Barroweliff tas
handsome no that her fethet',ha,
Lost his money 1" "V,'ell, they +4.1eni
think she has emelt e. fine figare .a
she once had."