The Wingham Advance, 1905-02-23, Page 3+ Nations Race for Empire.
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And home we got by treaty,
And some we got by trade,
But morst.we get by courtesy
Of pilie ann cur:made.
Since Kipling wrote these words about
the winmeg of England's colonies new
feree huts been given to them by the con-
quest of the South African Republics
and Thibet. The • pike and carronado
are still as powerful empire builders as
they were in the days of Olive stun War-
ren Hastings. They are adding every
year to the white man's burden,
Bat England has lagged ter behind
France in recent years In the extent of
the territory she has appropriated. The
Gaul has become the greatest colonizer
of the age.
It is true that the colonial empire of
France is still melt smaller than that
of England, but the great bulk of it has
been acquired since 1882, when it protec-
torate was proclaimen over Tunis. In
the succeeding years Frame hite man-
aged to snap up far more territory than
'Great Britain or any other power.
England was praised,even by those
who th
eught her course indefensible, for
the grim resolution with which she sus-
tained, reverse after reverse in the Boer
war and fought on until she annexed
the South African Republics.
But if those encomiums were deserved
what is to be said of the restless, dogged
courage which France has brought to
the building of her colonial empire?
Wins Tunis and Madagascar.
Scarcely recovered from her series of
exhausting wars for the control Of Al-
geria, staggering from the terrible blow
dealt her by Germany in 1871, she ap-
plied herself to the conquest of Tunis.
That accomplished in a few brief months,
she took all that was worth taking in
Indo-China, fighting one of the most ter-
rible guerrilla warsof modern times.
Then came the conquest of Madagascar,
and, the series of •desperate adventures
over thousands of miles of jungle and
swamp and desert out of which grew the
present dream of a vast African empire.
French colonization in the past few years
le what Robert Louis Stevenson called
the Indian mutiny—"an incredible un-
sung epic."
Madagascar was annexed in 1896, and
during the last four or five years France
has been trying to giVe some effecteby
military force of her paper protectorate.
over the Sahara.
This region is the third largest colonial
possession in the world, having an area
of (wee 2,000,000 square miles and an
estimated population of 2,500,000. It is
considerably larger than India and just
about double the size of Egypt and the
Soudan put together. The only colonies
which exceed it .in size are Canada and
'.Australia.
The total area of the colonies ami de-
pendents �f France- is 3,982,000 square
miles, with a populetioe of 52,000,000,
so that the batren Sahara snake *up more
than half of the French empire over
seas. No wonder the French people grow
enthusiastic over schemes to irrigate
that vast stretch of country and make
the desert blossom as the rose. If they
could doeso they would have a colony
that might hope to rival .British India
some day.
Now Only an Empty Sway. •
At present, however, the French writ
runs In the Sahara -only as far as the
rifle of a French zouave will carry. The
Sahara protectorate has not even got a
capital. It is supposed to be governed
from St. Louis, in French West Africa,
but the Touarege and other predatory
tribes roam about the country at their
own 'sweet will. Nowhere else in the
world is there a dependency of a Euro-
pean power over will& that ppwer has
so little real centre'. • .
. De.hoiney was conquered by the French
in 1892 and is noW one of,the few French
colonies whiCh is selesupporting and re-
ceiver' no 'subsidy from the home gov-
ernment. In 1894 the, French embarked
on the great scheme of conquest which
gave them their splendid Congo terri-
tory and nearly plunged them into a
war with England, when Kitchener and
Marchand met at Fasboda in 1898. The
area of the colony thus acquired in a
few years is over 550,000 square miles,
with a population that is guesed -at any-
thing from 5,000,000 to 15,000,000. But
it is one of the least developed of the
French West African colonies and places
a heavy burden on the French colonial
budget.
So does the military zone between the
Niger and Lake Chad, of whiefi-thei chief
town is Thubuctoo. This latter region
came under French control at the close
of 1900, as the result of the forcible oc-
cupation of Say, Sinder and other native
towns.
, Inroads Into Central Africa. •
French Central Africa, which ineuldes
the vassal negro states of Bagirmi, Wa-
le dai and Kanem, is enother recent con-
quest. The Anglo-French agreentent of
1899, -which closed the Fashoda incident,
recognized that region as French terri-
tory, but French sovereienty was only
•
established after much hard fighting
with the Maims, a warlike Mohammedan
negro., race. Soon after he eves installed
the French resident was driven from
Massenia, the capital of the region, by
Rehab, black Napoleon." In Feb-
rnary, 1900, Rehab was defeated end
slain, but hie sons continued the fight
for over a year.
' In no other part of her wide domin-
ions—not even Algeria and Tunis—is
Franee ONrSetl to such great danger of
a native rising as in French Central
Africa, It is an extremely heavy portion
of the white mau's burden told it is ques-
tionable whether is was worth the
shouldering. The population is composed
of fanatical Mohammedans professing
adherence to the mysterious sect domin-
ated by the Mahdbes•Senussi, whosepol-
icy is to weld Islam together, especially
in ,Africa, to overcome Christian civiliza-
tion, France. has great trouble ahead of
ner in this region; the fight with Rehab
and his sons was merely a foretaste of
worse to come.
The territory of Algeria was greatly
extended in 1809 antl 1000 by ii10
eqn-
quest of the series of oases known as
Twat. This annexation mowed the fears
of the Moors and Berbers and has ren-
dered a war between Morocco and France
one of the international' dangers of the
future—a danger somewhat mitigated
by the recent agreement on the subject
arrived at between England. and France.
France in Indo-China.
In ludo -China France rules over 22,-
000,000 of yellow men who are a cross
between, the Chinese and the Malays.
Eighteen millions of these first came
under the tricolor in 1884, when Annan
and Tonquin were annexed. France has
paid heavily with blood and treasure for
her possessions along the Annamese
peninsula. They are being developed
more or less sucessfully, but for the ben-
efit of the natives—not for that of
France or Frenchmen. In the colony of
Cochia-China, for example there are duly
about 4,000 French residents, including
soldiers, to 3,000,000 of natives, and the
majority of those Frenchmen are "Ione-
thinnaires."
The French colonial empire lms, grown
up, like Aladdin's palace ;almost over-
night. Tunis, Madagascar, the Comoro
Islands, French Congo, Dahomey, Bagir-
mie WadaiaKanein, the Sahara, Timbuc-
too eerrithey, Amnon and' Tonquin—tney
make an imposing list. All of them
were conquered smee 1882, and most of
them in the '90's. But at present they
are a source of weakness and expense
to France, rather than strength and pro-
fit. The. greet goal of French colonial
ambition is not the mastery of the Pa-
mific, the aim of other leading nations,
but the development of that immerse
African estate for which such heavy lac,
rifices are now being made.
The mere gaining 'of the territory is
one of the most remarkable achieve •
ments of the nineteenth century; al -
though it is one to which cOmparatively
little attention has been paid, even III
France . It has been made, possible on-
ly by the courage and devotion of =my
militery heroes li,ke Marchand, of whom
the world has never heard, and by the
genius of two great etatesmen—Bano-
taux and Declasse. But. apparently
France has yet to evolve empire build-
ers and consolidators of the type of Cro-
mer and Taft. Her efforts to develop
her colonies by means of railways, ocean
cables, steamship lines and paternal ad..
ministration are well Meant, but at pres-
ent they are feeble arid spasmodic. A
Chamberlain at the head of the French
colonial department might work won-
ders. '
England Annexes Thibet.
Thibet, with its 650,000 square miles of
territory and its 6,000,000 people, has
just been added to the British empire.
That is the plain truth of the matter,
whatever polite fictions may be indulg-
ed in by British diplomatists. Lt is the
principal conquest made by a white race
Over people of another color, and m-
other civilization during the preseet
year, but next year may see a greater
one.
Events 'move rapidly nowadays in the
matter of colenization. hardly a year
passes without a few millions blacks and
browns and yellows being added to the
white man's burden.
The British empire, the greatest col-
onial power the world has ever known,
has grown with wonderful rapidity with -
M the memory of living men. in 1837 it
extended over an area of 8,329,000 square
miles, with 168,000,000 people; in 002
it covered 11,250,000 square nines, with
over 400,000,000.
'And this latter total did not include
territories occupied by British troops,
such as Egypt and the Soudan, which are
British possessions in, fact, but in name
not. Neither did it, include, of course,
conquests made since 1902, such as the
rka
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South African Republics,. large territor—
les in west and central Africa and 13d. Dmesa on t Deceived
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biseitt'empire, counting all the places wherer, the total aea of the Brit.
Itogether,
the word, of a Britoil, is law, can net noW
be lese than 13,000,000 square links. Ex-
act figures are impossible to arrive at,
bemuse tile need extent of Borne of the
African possessions Is still unknown.
In 1837 there were onyl a million and
te half Britons in the colonies. A. con.
siderable proportion of that number NirAfi
there against their will—as transported
convicts in Australasia. In 1904 0(3130
1W:re over '11,000,000 pure-blooded Brit.
ons doing garrison duty along the "far.
flung battle line"
Vast Gain in Revenues.
In 1837 the tot...1 revenues of the Bri-
tish empire amounted to $375,000,000,
the United Kingdom having a revenue
of $250,000,000, and. India and the col-
onies $125,000,000. 190a, the revenue
of the United. Kingdom was, roughly,
$715,000,000, that of her other colonies
making a grand tital of $1,435,000,
England was among the last of the
sea flowers of Europe to start M the
race for colonies. Spam, Portugal and
Holland got far ahead, of her, but now
they are nowhere in comparison. King
Edward rules directly or indirectly over
a fifth of' the world's surface and more
than a quarter of the human race. And
the pike and cerronade have won for
him. nearly all his territory.
It is true that treaties have been
largely operative in recent years in
adding to the territory of Great Bri-
tain and other colonizing powers, but
those treaties were not, as a. rule, made
with the people most affected by thein.
Thy were made between the powers that
had entered. the race and their simpl
principle was always, "PH let you grab
that bit if you'll let me grab this bit."
What did the Angont in Nyassalana
or the. lickwai in west Africa, know
about the deliberations of .frock•coated
gentlemen who met in London or Paris
and deckled their destiny? But England
or France got a "title by treaty," to
the black man's land and enforced it
• by machine guns,
Plants Colonies Wisely.
In reviewing the recent growth of
colonial empires it is impossible to help
admiring the genius and foresight —
Mild possibly in some cases by sheer
luck—which have given England colon -
105 on practically all the points of the
globe's surface, where they are most
useful. 'England has spun over the earth
network of colonial possessions, large
and small, and planted. with merging
instinct at those points where trade
moves most rapidly and navigation is
most profitably followed," says a Ger-
man authority. - 6
A glance at the man of the world
will disclose a fact comprehended by
few people except naval strategists —
Unit it is Great Britain's settled policy
to place fortresses in strategic pesitione
that will enable her to close the smaller
seas of the world at a moment's notice.
Thus Gibraltar commands the Mediter-
ranean and Aden and Perim the Red
sea while from Malta and Cyprius Eng-
land could speedily enforce her fiat seal-
ing in the Dardanelles to Ruseian war-
ships.
Germany's colonial ambitions in re-
cent years have been commeretal TO: Where 15 the race for colonies to stop?
, They accept it as a characteristic 'feat- se. ere, or by mail at 00 centg a PDX, or
six hoettT for .$2.50, by writing the Dr.
ther than territorialeand in the race for The great powers acquire vast tracts of . me of the Oxford game, which they are
Africa, she has been emphatically left I territory year after year, but lYith011t 3 learning to play, and get out of it as Williams Medmme Co., Brockville, Ont.
•
much fun as they can find.
behind, If Frenchmen will not go to stopping to digest them they greedily
the French colonies still less will Ger- reach out for more. The end is not yet One trembles•When he tries to think of STUDIES SPEED OF ANIMALS.
mans no to the German ,possessions. in sight. the• It f '
1
IT 18 NEVER SOLD IN BULK.
LA
• look so. It appeared elaborately iree
from frills, crisp and simple, pretty and
dainty.
• Velours chiffon le to be worn far Into
the spring,. All couturien are ilgreed
that this material should, be trounced
notch less than crepe de chew and shut-
. Jar fabrics.
As for other fabrics, they , are em.
broidered.
These embroideries are neither light
nor heavy. They are richly silky and,
they are somewhat enriched with Jewels
• and paillettes. :if ibis glistening part
of the trimming be heavy, however, all
• chic is lost. There is just enough to •
Ceylon tea Is sold only In lead packets in Black emphasize the pattern, and to lighten it.
.f Lace appliyes are toe dear to the
Mixed or Natural Green.
heart of I a ,arisienne tebe dis used
Pe
IBy all grocers. Try a Ten Cent Sample Packet, with, while mousseline floral embroidery
RECEIVED THE HIGHEST AWARD AND GOLD IVIEDAL AT ST, LOUIS, 1904. ttiofitni nog y. Tinyso anorueblbeuarso,setsbearree bdeolumg:,
• sufficient foliage to sustain the design,
mimes prize in the scramble for calm not, he never. tries to enter the church.
The dog's value is rated at about $500, ACUTE INDIGESTION
nies that centred around the partition
aevieed by the genius of •the late Lord
Salislatiry, And scattered over those
millien square miles are less than 00,000
Germans, including the officials and
troops. The trouble is that all the colo,'
nies are tropical and, sub-tropieal lands
of no farticular value.
But. German financial And. commercial
enterprise bas done wondere abroad
since 1885, which was really the start-
• ing point. of the nation's biggest foreign
undertakings. The Deutsche Bank of
Berlin, the greatest private bank in Ger,
many, is mainly occupied in foreign en-
terenses. •R started with a capital of
$3,750,000; its capital is now $50,000,000,
and the volume of its business is $13,-
000,000,000. That is the best, instance
oe German progress abroad, but it is
nevertheless typical.
Italy's Dreams Dispelled.
Italy dreamed dreams and saw vision
of an African empire similar to that
whieh France is now trying to create,
but they were dispelled by the rude hend
of Menelek of Abyssinia. Nevertheless
she has saved Italian Somaliland and
Erythrea from the wreak of her fortunes
• —a territory of nearly 100,000 square
miles and 1,000,000 people.
Russia is 'eminently thought of es a
country with a vast stretcheof colonial
territory, but as a matter of fact. Siberia
is officially part of the mother country.
Tim suf•m4T
, Terrors of an. Ocean Where Disaster
but five times that amount multi not
buy him from the archbishop.
...1•••••••,.
A. Trouble That,. Causes Untold Suffer.
OXFORD WAYS AMUSE, ing to Thousands Throughout Of all the navigated seas of the world
Lurks for 11Ylariners.
the most dreaded by the mariner is the
Canada, great southern ocean which stretches
Holders of Rhodes' Scholarships Think e
They Are in Kindergartens. I suffered so much with acute ire- between the Cape and Atistralia, a,nd
digestion that 1 frequently would walk lies nearest to ethe Antarctic circle. A.
the floor through the long nights," said lonely highway is this—far from the
Some of them have been valedictori•
tins at American colleges, like the en- Sl,t1.1..sietTber°sIntraeset,VQinuceebnete,. 1"eisildiaindglieaeta a0f8- ships are to be found in its witters. Ite
main ocean trading routes, and but few
ergetie Mr. Nixon, 11•110 is now at nat. flicted with the trouble," ebe continued, awful solitude has given it the name Of
"for upwards of tweMy years, but it •the "Silent Sea." The terrors of this
Mal after soccessful career at Wes-
leyan; smile of them have been teach- was only during the past year thet it •ocean, apart from its loneliness, are
assumed an acute form. There were limner. It is subject to the most fear-
ers, like Mr. Verner, of South Caroline,
who is at Christ Church, and. at Newt times when. I was almost distracted; ein hurricanes, Which break witte
everything I ate disagreed with xne and hardly any warning, and. the waves •of
one, Mr. Seholtz, has been a college Jec.
the pains M the region of the stomach the Atlantic, even during the most se -
ter
and is fitting himself at Worces-
weer almost unbearable. 'When the at- vere• storms are as nothing coMparect
ter for an important chair in the Cul-
• tacks were at their worst my head would with the huge rollers that rise here
versity of Wisconein.
For thoughtful,,mature men, of tige, • grow dizzy and, would throb violently, when the weather 18 quite normal. Mer -
and sometimes 1 would experience severe chant officers are Instructed Os keep
Mer -
order the restraining influences of pater -
attacks of nausea. As time went on I. constantly in touch with their barom-
nal government must be irksome. Some
was ahnost worn out either through ab- eters' night and day, for the inercurYe
of them say that they dislike the re-
stinence from food or the havoc it from being quite steady, will fall a arm
strietions on their liberty, but there is
wrought when I did take it. I tried ple of inches in as many hours, and wi-
no evidence that they are seriously irri.
many much lauded dyspepsia mires, but less this warning is heeding, the sails
tated or annoyed. They are quick to
they did nte no good. In fact 1 got no- taken in, the hatches battened. down,
catch the humor, of the thing and to de -
thing that helped me until my nephew
scribe the colleges as kindergartens for and all precautions, the first burst of the
urged me to take Dr, Williams' Pink I storm will mean the destruction of the
adults or as academic nurseries with
awkward governesses and nursemaids. PillB• He had used them himself with vessel with all on board. One day last'
the greatest benefit, and assured me autumn three vessels, each of over a
Tbe majority are amused and in a tol-
that they would help me. After I had thousand tons burden, were posted as
erant spirit accommodate themselves to
their new environment taken three or four boxes of the pills missing at Lloyd's. They had Xsap
pear,
there was some improvement and I con- ed in the Silent Sea without leaving a
Russia's only depenaenoce are the vas. One of the commonest phrases among
timed to take the pills regularly for trace of their fate. Woe -betide the ship
sal states of Bokhar and Ichiva. them is "playing the game." They plume
about three months, and, at the end of which springs a leak, loses a spar, or,
But in effect Russia has been as busy themselves on their skill in adapting •
, that time I found myself cured. I could meets with any other serious mishap on
es any of the •other nations in recent themselves to new conditions and. put-
e.at a hearty meal and eat it with a rel- this sea, for she has preetically no hope
years adding to the white man's Modem ting up with restrictions which they con -
sl , I slept soundly at night, my weight of assistance, and, unless she can effect
She has been pushing her sovereignty in eider unnecessary and beneath their dig -
increased ,and my constitution general- her owp repairs she will be at the mercy
Siberia up to the limits of the eternal nity. There is something after all in the •
ly was built up. I think Dr. 'Williams' of the first storm which should arise.
ice, and bringing under her rule many American virtue of flexibility and ac -
Pink Pills will euro any ease of dyspep- Yet another danger on the Silent Sea
tribe who had never even heard 'of the cowl -Iodation. Whether it is in the en -
Czar. • ies of Aristotle, on which the classical, ; sia, if they are given a fair trial such as is the ice, which, breaking away from
I gave them." the Antarctic circle, drifts northwards
The Siberian regiments now fighting purists lay so much stress, may be doubt-
agamst the Japanese contain withia ed, but it is in the American blood. 1 Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure cases into the track of navigation, an ever-
.
like Mrs. Vincent's simply because they - present peril to passing vessels. Re -
their ranks snny tribesmen who were The English tourist, eslaen he travels
, fill the veins with that rich, red. blood cently the `Loch Bredane one of he
conquered only a few years ago, Emelt as abroad, may exhaust his energies in con-
; that enables every organ of the body • finest vessels of her fine and well -found
the Burnet Mongols. Russian •offieers • donning with fine irony or coarse pro -
have pushed their way far up into the • Lenity everything unusual, from the to do its work properly. That is the refl.- class, was posted as missing at Lloyd's.
son why the pills cure all blood and Her cantain—one of the mot experienc-
Arctic circle, with their Cossack escorts, serving •of an egg or the cooking of a
nerve troubles such as anaemia, neural- ed navigators of these seas—had been
and have brought the most northerly of • beefsteak to the making of a bed or the gia, rhemnatism, heart troubles,. skin in her for a great number of years, and
the Yakuts and other peoples under the ordering of a bill. The American tray.
diseases, St. Vitus dance, paralysis and was most popular in A.ustralia. The ves-
rule of elm Czar, in some eases by per- eler enjoys the sense of being in a for -
the special ailments of growing girls and sel left Adelaide, South Africa. on Sep -
suasion, in other cases by force. eign comary and adapts himself with
women of middle age. When you ask tember, last, for Port Natal, was spoken
What the United States did in 1898 easy grace to whatever is different from
and has done since then to take her his own experience. for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills see that you to the south of Australia on the 15th
share of the burden is too Weil known - In a similar spirit these American col- get the genuine with the full name, "Dr. September, all well, and. has never since
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peopke been heard of. She has simply disappear -
to need dwelling upon. In her case, as! lege men consider paternal rule as a
in the ease of all the other powers, the ! part of their foreign education ,and, as printed on the wrapper around every ed in the Silent Sea. A week ago an -
pike and earronade did the business. : a striking proof of English conservatism. ' box. Sold by medicine dealers very- other vessel was also posted missing;
she, too, was lost in the southern ocean.
And during the past twelve months there
have been at least a dozen such disap-
pearances.
In the Cameroons there are over 4,-
600,000 people, of whom 500 and 600
are Europeans—not all Germans. Ger-
CAREFUL MOTHERS.
man east .Africa has a population of
,0,200,000 people, with 820 Germans. Ger- The little troubles that afflict chit -
men southwest Africa has 3,500 Europ- dren come without warning, and the
cams of all nationalities to 200,000 na- • careful mother should keep at hand. a
tives, and is utterly undeveloped, To- meditine to relieve and cure the ail-
goland, with 2,500,000 inhabitants, has ments of childhood. There is no medi-
only about 150 Europeans. •
Colonies Not Improved. ,
*These territories in the main, were
gained in 1884 or since, but comparative- opiate or poisonous soothing stuff.
ly little has been done with them. It These Tablets 'mire colic, indigestion,
seems that Germans will emigrate any- constipation, diarrhoea, simple fever and
where in preference to their own col- • teething troubles. They break up colds,
onies. They' have, built up a private col- ' prevent croup and bring natural sleep.
ony of their own in Rio -Grande do Sul,
in Brazil—a real "huperium in imPerio" Mrs. Mary Fair, Escott,' Ont., says:
"I have used. Baby's , Own Tablets
—for which the kaiser Would doubtless
be 'glad to give any two of his official with the very best results and would
(mime, with the possible exception not be without them in the house."
of Kiao-Chao. ' Sold by all medicine dealers or sent
This colony is of no dreat imTh
portance 1 mali at 25 cents a box by writing
bY
in itself, for it es only 300 square miles e Dr. Williams Medicine Company,
Brockville, Ont.
in extent, but it is the key of the ex-
tensive hinterland of Shan -Tung, with
its 38 000,000 people and, its great min- ARCHBISHOP'S RELIGIOUS DOG.
oral wealth. The German government -
is pouring out millions every year In the Philadelphia Students Have Educated
hope of making' Tsing-Tao, the chief• Mgr. Ryan's Collie and He's Wise.
town of the colony, a rival to Hong -
Hong as the centre of the commerce The famous St. Bernard clog trained
of the orient.
The Gernma colonies are ft bl117dell to
to a show of religione practices by a
the empire. Their annual revenue is . Benedictine monk has a rival in a collie
less than it quarter of their annual ex- ' owen by Archbishop Ryan, of Philadol-
penditure, and the deficit has to be made phia. The collie struck lip au acquaint -
up by an imperial tyrant in aid, The ;Mee with the Archbishop one day while
present war with the Hereros in Ger- , he was taking his customary walk in
ewe See thwest A frica will undoubtedly , Fairmount Park, and thereafter stuck
largely increase this deficit. i close to the heels of the prelate, even to
A million square miles—five times its :the doors of the episcopal residence.
large as the home empire. That is Ger- I "Begone!" commanded the archbishop,
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eine does this so speedily and thorough-
ly as Baby's Own Tablets, and the mo-
ther knows this medicine is safe, be-
cause it is guaranteed to contain no
1'0
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s
E MANUFACTURE
is clearly shown by the following comparisqn
insurance in rorce
Policies Issued During the Year
Policy Reserves
Assets, ••
Income.
. • • • •
• •
SURPLUS (not including Capital Stock)
The ten years durirg which these
period of the present management of the
success guarantees
POSITIVE PROTECTION
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DEC, 31, 1894.
$9,555,300
2,710,755
628,429
821,320
296,468
50,309
DEC. at, 1904.
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7,107,148
5,255,077
6,112,344
1,659,107
471,869
increase:3 have taken place cover the
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• eses.,,:seeeeeeee.s..•.e.ette"
who was afield that some one ini gIt
• think he was trying to smuggle the
' handsome animal Mtn the house. The
dog went sheepishly down the steps, but,
- catching sight of the archbishop's kindly
look, bounded up again, wagging his tail.
"Well, come in, then," said the prelate,
and the collie obeyed with a bound.
Since that day, a year ago, he has
• been an attache of the archbishop's
• household. He knows how to put his
paws together in an attitude of prayer,
he "sing:," thumps the piano with his
big paws and exhibits penitence of mis-
behavior. The students around the arch-
iepiscopal residence have. taken the great-
est pains with his religious education,
and the collie would no more think of
barking during religious serviee than
he would of trying to pick a quarrel
with the senlpturea honed on the lawn.
Daring religious processions he asetunee
of his own accord an attitude of respeet,
sitting ort his hind kgs and remaining
• motionkee until the proeession passes.
The dog had not been long in the
possession of the archbishop before 'Mgr.
Ryan -discovered that he belonged to
another man who sVilki utztih ellagrilUSI
at his loss. This real owner approached
the erchbishop, as 110 and the collie were
strolling in the park one day,
el' beg yonr par(lon, sir," said the man,
"but that's my dog." •
"Maybe it is," said bus excelleney.
• laughing, "I uever *ems sure he was
• , mine; he followea me home."
• ) The -etraliger called to the animal,
• which seemed delighted -to eve hitn.
•, Then he showed the .terchlishop that the
collie had a pedigree whket would arouse
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weary of founding libraries and buildingEuropean Engineer Gives Surprising Re -
art museums ,should imitate Mr. Rhodes' sults of Long Observation.
• philanthropy and establish a. system of
echolarships at Harvard or Yale for the For 15 years Joseph Olshausen, a Eu-
ropean engineer, has been staulyine the
benefit of the British youth. Would
there be the same spirit of accommoda-
tion 2—Chicago Chronicle,
HE WALKED.
Can a Business Man Walk aim Miles
• a Year?
On the 1st Of January, 1903, I con-
ceived the idea of walking 5,000 miles
before thet expiration of the year. The
object was not to achieve any unusual
feat, nor to accomplish any conspicuous
performance. The tinderlying motive
eves, rather, to ensure a plan by whieh
regular and systematic exercise could be
obtained. • ••
To travel this distance It was neces-
sary to cover an avelge of fourteen
miles a day. Now, fourteen miles for a
•day's walk is well within the compass
of the, ordinary, slum. But an occasional
walk of this length is one thing; the
sustained effort, day tau day through-
out the year, is another.
Let me answer the question placed at
the head of this article by saying that
at the end of the year I had completed
a distance on foot of 5,205 miles, or a
daily average of fourteen and one-quar-
ter miles. The stipulated 5,000 miles
were finished on the 16th of December,
but an additional 200 miles were covered
in order that each of the fifty-two
weeks of the year might claim an aver-
age distance traversed of 100 miles.
I set out upon my enterprise with the
knowledge that it was incumbent upon
me to maintain a daily average of four-
teen miles, and I made it a 'rule, when
practicable, of keeping above the aver-
age, so as to have something in hand
to meet the emergencies whieh were al-
most certain to arise. That they did.
arise was shown by the fact that for 212 -
ten days in the year, owing to sickness,
lameness and railway traveling, no waltz-
ing whatever could lie indulged in, me
inability to utilize these fifteen days
was equal to 11 loss of over 200 miles. It
will therefore be seen that, under the
circumstances named, it was imperative
On many occasions to exceed the distance
of fourteen miles a day, in order to pre-
serve the average.
At the beginning of my walk my
weight was 192 pounds in street cloths,
while at the end of it my weight Ullt$1
178 pounds. This loss of fourteen pounds
was in every way neeeptable. The avoir-
dupois lost was only redundaM weight,
and 1 felt, as a result, more naive,
stronger, and harder. In the matter of
health, 1 felt deeidedlg better than
bad done for severel yeara—W. Alford
Chem in Vebruare• Outing.
EV7H.Wr
An Elaborate GowEnTebta. t Gives a Simple
fie
There are the mat exquisite reveille;
dresses, ie quite natural at Ode
big eel PH aliments.
one S4'PI1 at a -soiree,
eouple in pervenehe
u
very
wi esl skilt wits rather
arraw tme:inge of
season
Very
was.
It
blue.
deeply
of
lovely
of taffeta
fell
with
The
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' he -city,
the env' 01 1,111' an 11•11•'-ino and d"ge la i plaited 111.1111.110Viileneiennes. '1111,,:i.
t
I
vpeut weeks limiting for him." "r" wl'ith sllnwea the qlltiglif 1
- vesnmed the tranger, "mid now that sage, which howed the etraight buskel
o'er. 'reeve him you eari have bio." ../ front, of eery old timee„ wag drepol
The archbishop. oftec ell to buy time de
eg.' rosover a
swise cm ,oiot of to ffeas tV111"
. 1 but the man ilmsted that be ;wept the I brobimed in pearl and. minify, .riwy,.
rale all ll gift; and he tuct. Every moth- was a itaility oliaa,,vuo eua...t, of fia.,,,t
• ing now the (Nat aeoempauies Mgr, white mons.selino, ialerlacod with blue
Hyatt On his walk through the lurk. Ile , rilthon. The toffy 1 leect..- ended ;Omni
A 'knows the I hotetTs 1,.! the .ervice in the ' half way to the elbow in plaite41 frill
dranA
. catheal d In IA ll Pally Well at the of the Volenvieww.,,. The tleeription
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r i‘Ole "MNIM14 dif side. door wailiog for tho archbishop to• may not omet pirem. *this is not say -
come out. NVItether thew is forriCO or hal., however, that the dress did not
speeds .of many kinds of animals. Man
reaches remarkable velocities, but only
by artificial aids, a good pedestrian's
rate being a sixteenth of a niile in e2
seconds, while a German soldier marehes . name of a single member of the Presi-
three nilles an hour and five miles quick, 1 dent's Cabinet, the route of a single
step. The greateet speed of an athlete ! trunk line running out of New York, the
thus far noted., says the Ohmage Citron- 1
innibtilaoTaed• f 303 inehes j• the city of Greater New York, the loca-
names of the five boroughs constituting
e jic'a emi tire r°. 1 tion of the capital of the state or the
nee' ciosndthoef
The average swimmer's rate is 39 name of the present Governor or how to
reach Hoboken by ferry. This prodigy
of ignorance lives in Harlem and passes
for a bright boy among his fellows.
A. Clever Boy,
Agitation against fads in public schools
antinues with great fury in New York
City. One father declares his 'boy is
now ready to be graduated, but does not
know the name of a single general who
participated, in the civil war, the time
or place of a single battle either in the
civil war or revolutionary war, the cap-
itals of five states in the union the
inches a see.ond, the oaesmans in an
eight -oared barge is 197 inehes and the
skater's is nine to ten yards, while the
omen in Our Hospitals
Appalling Increase in the Number of Opera:tions
Performed Each Yedr—l-low Women May
Avoid them.
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.fess 14111
.••• drAt.
aepeelk.
n "Marl
Going through the hospitals in our
large cities one is surprised to find such
a large proportion of the patients lying
on those snow-white beds women and
*girls, either awaiting or recovering
from serious operations.
Why should this be the ease? Sine -
ply because they have neglected them-
selves. Ovarian and *womb troubles
are certainly on the inereaee among
the women of this country—they -creep
upon them unawares, but every one of
theses patients in the hospital beds had
plenty of warning in that hearing -
down feeling, pain at left or right of
the womb, nervous exhaustion, pain in
the small of the baek, leueorrhota, diz-
emess, ilatnlency, nisplacernenta of the
womb or irregularities.
When those, symptoms show theme
eelves, do not drag along until you are
obliged to go to the boSpital and :sub-
mit to an operation—but remember
that Lydia E. Pinkliance Vegetable
Compound has saved thousands of
women from surgleal operations
'When women are troubled with ir.
regn Mr, suppressed or painful menstru-
tiOn, weakness, lerteorrhoca. displace.
ment or ulceration of tbe womb, that
bearimadoevit feelime intlennwation of
the ovaries, baelstiehtm bloating (or flot-
aerleiteed. permed debility, indigestion,
and nervous prostiation, or are beset
with smell ile•mptoins as diezinese, lassi-
. tude, -exeitabil 1 ty, irritability, nervous -
nes a sleepleeenese, melancholy, " ail -
gone " and "N13:1/It•i0-1roo-left-tdotte" feel -
Mite, they rbould remember there iS one
trieul and tree remedy.
!the, Fred 413 N. leith Street,
, writes:
Lydia E PLiktra's Vetttable Com
rx. 'e ay fey
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—
" 3 WAS ill a very serious condition When 1
wrote to you for advice. Thad a seriouswomb
and ovarian trouble and I could not carry a
child to maturity, and was advised that an
operation was my only hope of recovery. I
could not bear to think of going to the h 1 -
tat, so wrote you for advice. I (lid as ,voil a-
sereeted me and took Lydia Is
; 'V electable Conmound; and I tun' Plat -Outlay'.
• eeell %remit to- 1 but laved° ie beautiful Vabya
li Eqesrlixn 111011thSt a ;01.1 tao vise all sick and
ri
you hav5e done so mac for irrie.lar advice' 49
MRS Lillian Martin, Granuate of
• Training School for Nurses, Brantford,
Ont., writes:
• DOM' Ittl'S• Pilaillltilll—
" MAIO we aro taught in ,the training
sehools through the country to Lok down
mem patcht inedieinee, twit wbile the doctors
in the hospitals speak slightiegly of them to
pat lents, i have sound that they really know
deferent. t have frequently known Phy-
sicians to gite Lydia 14.1nolchanis Vegetable
('onipound to women suffering with the most
serious (ma:lineations of (waricat troubles,
• fatties of the womb, leueorrhoca and other
disorders. They would, ae a rule, put it in
:re -tar medicine tett les arid label It " tonle"
or other melee*, hut 1 Imcw Bum; 3 Our Vora.
ipoutul and have wen there 01111 in preserip-
thee bottles. Batmen:nit-et alai Ulceration
haze been relieved Rua eueed in a few week's
by ite tee, mei I feel it hut line to 3110 to give
Lydia E. Pielehanes Vegetable Compouild
proper eredi Le
Lynia II Pinkhaufs Vegetable Coni.
pound at once removes Buell troublee,
Refuse, to buy any other 'medicine, foe
you 31ee(1 the beet,
Mrs. l'inlzhaen invites all rick wottiett
to write her for advice. Her milviiv and
rucaleiric have Teetered thousands to
, health, Addrees, Lynn, Mass,
panted Stark& Iklit•ra otbos hit