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The Herald, 1904-04-08, Page 6CEMENT WALLS. 1Ruildln,rs of the t'itture to be CIieah and Strong. • If the inspector of buildings of this city is actuated solely by a desire for the good of the whole public, he has much to learn about cement walls. Concrete houses are no novelty in Canada. Many were built Half a century ago. Some of the oldest residences in Canada are con- erete, and walls are good to this day. ,And the concrete of those days was not to be compared for solidity. durability. and fine service with the concrete walils of to -day. In old times concrete wane were built of common lime, .sand, gravel, stone and rubbish. Now we have cheap "Portland" cement, instead of the com- mon lime, which remakes °a wall as hard and durable as a rock. The concrete wall is the dryest• wait made. It is cool in summer and in winter no breath of cold air can get through it. An enginecer who made a study of the debris of the recent big fire In Baltimore reported that the .olid concrete walls proved the most indestructible, coming through the fire better than walls of any other material. The only objection to the concrete wall is its cheapness. It can be erected with- out skilled labor, and therein is its of- fense. Almost every well-to-do farmer in the country has his barn basement rolled and fuoorea with cement concreet. Many have concrete duelling houses, and these latter are iuereasing rapidly. The wort: is done by common laborers or farm hands, and the farmer gets the best possible wall at a very small price. But in cities opposition to the concrete wall has checked its spread to some degree, and inspectors seem to be trying their hand at the business of diseouraging the "innovation." But it will not do to bar out concrete as abuilding material for walls simply because it is cheap. That is not a good reason why ridiculous regulations should be provided to enhance the cost and dis- courage the use of concrete walls. The City Council will do well to consult some qualified engineer or architect about the use of concrete walls: Trade Review, Montreal. Run of the Yellow' Mail. One of the most interesting railroad stories ever published, "The Run of the Yellow Mail," printed originally by Mc- Clure's Magazine, is now republished in pamphlet form by the Pittsburg, Shaw - mut & Northern R. R. Co. It brings out in the most interesting and thrill- ing manner the value of resourcefulness in cases of emergency, and its perusal cannot fail to be benefiieial to employ- ees, young and old, who wish to gain promotion. If anyone in or out of the service wants something good for a few minutes' reading. send a two cent stamp to D. F. Maroney, Vice -President, the Pittsburg, Shawmnt & Northern R. R. Co., St. Marys, Pa., and you will get the best story published in many a day. Rev. Father Culotte has been ap- pointed Secretary of Laval Univer- sity. " I'd rather be dead than aufferagain the tortures of Insoninla„ palpitation and nervous twitching of my muscles induced by simple neglect of allttle indigestion." These aro the forceful and warning words of a lady who proclaims that her cure by South American Norville when everything else had failed was a modern miracle. A few doses gives relief.. --93 Your Faufh ailed or 3 Mhuits Ile will positively eure you of nervousness, sleeplessness, indigestion and heart disease, If you will only have sufficient faith to take out) dose of or. Agnew's Heart Cure. The benefit yon can derive from stn use will sur- prise and delight you Thls remedy in the greatest agent that medical science has dis- covered for weal; hearts, weak blood, weak nerveN. r A few doses will positively convince you. To believe iu this instance means health to ,you. It will relieve overy form of heart disease. in 80 minutes. It strengthens the nerves by feeding them through the heart. 82 Dr. Agnew's Ointment Cures Eczema, 350 ARE NOT DRAWN TOO ETHER Singular Lack of Fraternity Among the Japanese of New York. It is a, singular fact, and without .arallel off any other race, that al- though there are d;0O0 Japanese in New York there in no "Japanese colony. The "yankees of the east" aro not gregarious like their brethren from Chinatown. It is easy to see Brae: this comes abo'tYt. Such Japs ,as are +'n New York al"i'e not drawn from the class which usually makes up the itmmigrant with Most of them go .t there vt h money or are supplied with it from home and (they are free from the necessity of snaking their own liv- ing. Probably half of the Japs there are preparing themselves for some profession which they expect to practice at lrome.. The others rep- resent Japanese mercantile inter- ests and are invariably- men of great business ability and fully in touch with American customs, They be- come keenly offended when mis- taken for Chinamen. That they re- gard their residence in America as a temporary exile is shown by the fact that there are only half a dozen Japanese women known to be in New York.. . JOLLY AND HELPFUL. A Bit of Work That Will Strengthen All the Muscles Involved. Here is a bit of work that will strengthen the muscles involved. The two opponents may be designated as number one and number two. Number one should stand in front of number two, with his back to the latter, taking number two's right arm over his shoul- der and seizing number two's right wrist in the encircling grasp of his own right hand. Number two should make the same kind of clasp around number one's left wrist with his own left hand, holding the latter's wrist at the side. When this position has been taken, let number one sway slowly around to the left, number two snaking just enough resistance as will not altogether pre- vent the twisting of both bodies. After three exercises in this position, the two boys should change places and then again twist in the same fashion to the left. A breathing spell should now follow. Then the original number one may again take his position in front of his adversary, but with the other's left arm drawn over his shoulder, with the hand -encircling clasp, and with his ad- versary's right hand encircling his right wrist at the side. The twist should now be to the right, and should be firmly enough resisted by number two as al- most to prevent the success of the twist. After this numbers one and' two may again change positions, but remember that whichever contestant is in front of the other should be allowed gradu- ally to obtain the victory, though not without fair resistance on the part of number two.—St. Nicholas, No Opera Glasses in Court. (Vienna Tagblatt.) The president of the High Court in Vienna has issued an order that for the future the public will not be allowed to use opera glasses in court. How, Indeed? (Toronto Star.) How can the weather roan have the assurance that but 66 inches of snow fell this winter, when yon personally have shovelled 56 feet of it from your own walk ? • $50.00 to California and Return Via the Chicago, Union Pacific & North- Western Line. frora Chicago, April 23 to May 1. Choice of routes going and re- turning. Correspondingly low rates from all points. Two trains a day from Chi- cago through without change. Daily and personally conducted tourist car excur- sions. Write for itinerary and full par- ticulars regarding special train leaving Chicago April 26.—B. H. Bennett, 2 East King street, Toronto, Ont. Right Yon. Are. (Toronto News.) If the county scltoof inspectors have their salaries increased, a deserving and faithful body of hien will be getting part of their due. 1164 A Bridge of Note. (Boston Globe. The Auld Brig o' Ayr, which Burns made dear to all lovers of his immortal poetry by the famous dialogue between the new bridge and the old one, is fall- ing into decay. Well it may, for the date of its foundation cut into its wall is 1252. Six hundred. and fifty years is a res- pectable age for a bridge. Its supports are now crumbling. An architect, who is also an archaeologist and an enthusi- ast for Burns, reports that it will soon collapse unless it is shored up and re- newed. He is trying to induce the town council of nor to appropriate $3,500 for its preservation. The council is willing to act, it is said, but is delaying over a question of whether the money should come from taxation or be taken from a bequest long ago made for the purpose, the validity of which is undecided. Here is an opportunity `for Andrew Carnegie. IIQW FISH CHANGE COLOR. A Proof '.bat They Can Do So a Will. An interesting study of the abil- ity of fish to change thoir color Was carried on at the Woods Hall Biological Laboratory last ,summer, The experiment 'is thus described in Harper',s Weekly ; " Changing color at will is a jrropcerty of certain mammals, and it was found that in the fishes under obs(grvatiion it was possible when changes of sur- rounding conditions were made. The fish seleoted for the experiment were common green killifishes or ,salt -water minnow. (Fundulus he- teroolitus) which ordinarily in day- light have a light gray color. This in tike dark becomes almost black, as was demonstrated by placing tike fish fin a dark -lined dish. If the (isle were placed in a porcelain bowl in the light it would become much rales,; even 'though the illumination was the same. That the color was at the control of the fish was . de- monstrated by severing the spinal cord of one which had undergone the observed changes in a normal manner. In this case the posterior part remained absolutely dark." DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. Therein only ono way to cure deafness, and that ie by con- stitutional remedies. Doafnees is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in- flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper- fect hearing, and when it to entirely closed, Deafness is the fesult, and unless the inflam- mation can betaken out and this tuberestor- ed to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars. free. Ir. ,T. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.. Sold by Drug2tntri. 'Tate. Take Hall's i tinily P1lls.ior Constipation. Alaska's Great Future. SPAS You can't cure a cough or cold from the outside. You must cure it through the blood. hil©h s consumption CU1 ir, The Lung �' Tonic 1 is the only remedy that will do this. It gets right to the root of the trouble. It is guaranteed to cure. Prices: 5. C. WELLS & Co. 312 25c. 50c. $1. LeRoy, N.Y., Toronto, Can. THE CZAR'S PEOPLE. Some of the Famous Qualities of the Russian Soldier. A Rusian general, writing on the Russian soldier in `-Armies of To -day," says: "Obedience is so deeply rooted in the mind of the Russian soldier that during my thirty years' experience of the army I do not remember to have witnessed one single case .of insubor- dination, either in times of peace or in times of war," The Russian soldier's most marked characteristics are, according to the same authority, sincere and unaffected love for his monarch, profound religious piety, united with the idea of the Czar and of the Fatherland; unlimited confi- dence in his chiefs, very strong esprit de corps and a faculty of enduring gaily and naturally the greatest privations He is, moreover, distinguished by a good humor that never abandons him even in the most difficult moments, and by a gay and contented way of facing all the decrees of fate. He dies at his post. I have seenhim, says the general, in winter on sentry duty, on the heights of Shipka, die standing surrounded with snow, and transformed literally into a statue of ice; I have seen him die on the march. * * * yielding up his last breath with bis last step; I have seen him die of his wounds on the battle- field or in the hospital, at a distance of 3,000 miles from his native village— and in these supreme moments I have always found the Russian soldier sub- lime. It now seems certain there will be a 'vera' raped increase in tine po- pulation of Alaska and an enormous development of its resources in the near future. Alaska has seemed so far away; to most people that they; have utterly failed to keep in touch with the great changes 'h'hich have been go- ing on, and their impressions of its climate and conveniences are based upon 'the .lurid talee of experiences by' the early I{lon'dikers. Alaska is a great empire, of the vast sire of which few people have any conception. Tt is more titan 550 times as large as the eltate of Rhode Island and neari5; equals in area all the states of the Union east of the elississippi river. It has the grand- est scenery in the world, and re- sources enufficient comfortably-! to support ten millions of people. Through the beast of the vast ter- ritory flows the ani,ghty Yukon river, the larg et in North America, larger and longer than the Mis- sissippi. On this great river one may. rido for more than 2,000 miles with as much comfort as upon the Hud- son The valley of the 'Yukon has been pronounced richer than the valley of the Missouri, and it will undoubtedlyJ, some: day; support an Iinlnensc pn potation.-1J'rona ''TheeNattut'al'ilittboa of Aln slta," bee Arthur C. Jackson, In Nathonai Magazine for March. SMELLS OF CITIES. a r .L..1111 i tIt 'i16 .t t,uF•r �r, e:3,. ,, to }re.•aS?a Unless the, soap you use has this brand you are not getting the best Acis for the octagon Bar. 745 PRESERVE THE HOME. Parental Duties Can be Discharged by No Others. (Buffalo News.) Tho Courier well says- the social or- ganization can do nothing to make that home the resort it should be. All the mo- thers' clubs and the "settlement" advice and help can do little to this end. It can only be reached by awakening in the hearts of parents the sense of their res- ponsibility and their matchless opportun- ity. This is to be done by preaching in the pulpit and in newspapers mainly. The parent who can make his boy a friend and an associate, help him with his stud- ies, give him a feeling of partnership in the fortunes of the household, share in his discoveries, tolerate his dogmatism and encourage and join hirer in his spores, will not drive him to the 'wretched make- ' shift of "the corner." It is too much to say that poverty will prevent this sum- radeship of father or son, or mother and daughter. There would bo no hope for families that are not rich if all depended on competition with the crude dazzle of the saloon and kindred resorts. This simple fact should be an encour- agement to press upon parents the fact that they can snake their cbildren love home, if the effort is made to give them an interest in it. Not all the children of poor men are corner loafers or ruffian. It does not depend so much on the re- sources of the home as upon the senti- ment prevailing there. There are well-to- do homes, many of them, from which the children are exiles for many different reasons. The story of the boy who said his grandmother was the only one at home when he was born, "his mother was et her club," illustrates this, with a self- evident absurdity enshrining an import- ant truth. If the mother must go to their card club in the afternoon and the fath- er can only find enjoyment in his lodge and night, it is easy to guess the boy and the girl will be restless too and seek their pleasure outside the place ctlled home. Odors Which Pervade Paris, Cologne, Moscow and Other PIaces. Some sensative essayist should take the smell of place as subject, Paris, for example, says the London Chronicle, is lightly pervaded with the odor of burning charcoal and coming from Paris to Lon- don one is newly assailed by the appeal of soot. Cologne has a reputation, long undeserved, for smells other than that of its, famous "water," and it has been said that in years of old a blind man could find his way about Colonge by following his nose. It suggests cranberries of pe- culiar pungency. And it never leaves the nose. Garlic is the basic smell that greets the stranger who lands at Calais. But the most curious of the smells of place is that of St. Petersburg. The present writ- er had often wondered what it was hav- ing detected it even between the sheets of his bed at the most exorbitant hotel. On his third visit he was driv- ing in a drashky from the station with a fresh young English girl, who had nev- er been away from Dent before. 'Now, do you smell anything ?" he asked. "Yes,' said the girl, "Old boots." That is the smell of St. Petersburg. Centenarian shoe leather. Remember, Boy, You're Irish. (Toronto, News.) The correct pronunciation of the name of the capital of Corea is "Sowi." And when the Emperor re- marks "By my Seoul," he gives rise to a suspicion that he is a successful Irish adventurer. Was Usetul. (Oswego Times.) Feeder—Can I have my meal ticket back?. Restaurant Deeper—But it's punched. full of holes. Feeder—Yes, I know; but I want to use it as a perous plaster. Sudden deaths on the increase.— People apparently well and happy to -day, to -morrow are stricken down, and in ninety- nine eases out of every hundred the heart is Is the cause. The king of heart remedies, Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart, Is within reach of all. It relieves In 30 minutes, and cures most chronic eases. -91 How Rare Plumage is Spoiled: (Madame.) In spite of all the money spent on clothes and the miles of shop windows devoted to the display of feminine wear- ing apparel, few well dressed women are to be met with. The lovely fabrics that bask behind a plate glass window too often lose their attraction in their than- sition to the pavements, when they ap- pear at the wrong time on the wrong wo- man in the wrong hat. Most fellow's would like to learn boxing if they could be taught by mail, ISS'LJE NO. 15 19044 Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup should always be used for Children Teething. It Booths the child, sottensthegums, euros wind colic and Is the best remedy for Dial'rhawa. r.._., .sem ANTED—e1 GENERA.I. SERVANT; . T highest wages paid; comfortable home. Address or apply to Mrs. W. Holton, .Hamilton, Ont. BUSINESS GUIDE tells all about notes, receipts, mortgages, leases, deeds, wills, property exempt front seizure, landlord and . tenant, ditches and watercourses, etc., one agent sold 47 copies in throe days : another sold SS in a week; french edition now ready; outfit 3fic ; order outfit to -day; if not satisfactory money refunded. The J. L. Nichols 90., Limited, Toronto, ri•1�ii.�!M*+nt:,� �;yet,+; A POPULAR CORSET FOR 1904 STYLE f;;;;11...4 •. rNO r - li ,kzt a ,:rp i tie s .eieel. MANUFACTURED ONLY 13Y The Joy of Seclusion. Alexander Selkirk, upon being mar- ooned on the Isle of Juan Fernandez, heaved a sigh of relief. "Here, at least," he murmured, "I will not have to read the Sunday supple- ment." upple- ment" In this blissful solitude he lived four years and four months. Lever's Y -Z (Wise Head) Disinfectant Soap Powder dusted in the bath, softens the water and disinfects. ele The Influence oe a Look. ,Z Disappointment, ailment, or oven weather depresses us ; and our look or tone of depression hinders oth- ers from nettintaining a cheerful and thankful spirit. 'We seryl an unkind thing, and another is hindered in learning the holy lesson of charity, that 'thinketh no evil. We seryl a pro- voking thing, and our sister or bro- ther is hindered in that days effort to bo /meek. (How, sadly!, too, we may hinder without 'word or act ! For wrong feeling is hnore infectious than wrong doing ; especially) the various phases of ill-temper—gloominess. touchiness, discontent, irritability, -- do 'we not know how catching these are?—Frances.Ridley! Eavergal, Great Service to New Yoi k The New York Central affords excel- lent service to New York, Boston and points in the Eastern States. See your ticket agent for full particulars. Exports of Swedish Matches, Sweden sent three-quarters of 4,- 000,000 grass boxes of matches im- ported into this country last year, Can be had in TUBS, PAILS, WASH BASINS, flILK PANS, STABLE PAILS, ETC. From any first -cross dealer. The Jilted Japanese maid. 'A Japanese woman when abandon- ed !by leer Lover, takes a peculiar and picturesque revenge, wets, the Lon- don Mail. • When she hie longer has any doubt as to his lailthleesness, isle gets up in the middle of the night, and puts on a pleasing drew and wooden sandals. Attacbcd 'to her headdress she carries throe lighted candles, and suspended 'to heft neck hangs a small naleactr. iStbe takes in her left hand a =all straw effigy of the faithless one, and fin her right a hammer and nails. Walking gravely; to the sanctuary, she selects one of the sacred trees, and nails the effigy; securely to the trunk. She 'then prays for the death of the tractor, vowing that if her w eh is granted she \vitt take out the nails (which trouble her god, since thein: are fastened to a sacred tree. Night after night she Pontos to the tree, adding one or two nails, and repeating her prayers, persuaded that the god will not Hesitate to sacrifice the mean to eare the tree. A Funny Little Power. (Springfield Republican:) With her two little gunboats sold and her army reduced to 250"hien, including the generals, the republiquita of Pan- ama will soon settle down into the fun-, niest little falsehood of a "sovereign, independent power" that cam be found on the earth's surface. The fictions of diplomacy are often convenient, but ii,' is seldom that they aro so grotesque as in this ease. Make -Up of the English Woman. (London Truth.) if you were asked to construct an I:enq- lish woman from her shopping, what fiendishly heartless horror she wauld turn out! Tearinc the plumes from liv- ing birds for her hat, scorning her stem.ing countrymen, their wives and child- ren, whileshe nips across to Paris to buy her silks, decking her head with the tresses of poor souls ill in hospital--- But we will go no farther with the fab- rication of our female Frankenstein.. 150 -foot roll, 4 feet high 1.50 -foot roll, G'feet high 150 -'foot roll, Q feet high $4,40 For poultry and garden. Better than old style, Of local dealer or us. freight paid. 5.10 THE PACE WIRE HENCE CD, LIMITED' 204 0.00 Walkorvtile Montreal Winnipeg St. John