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It will be worth all the self denial
that one may practice for several
years to see the World's Fair of 1904
at St. Louis. Money saved, earned or
borrowed, cannot be better spent than
in getting acquainted with the world's
progress as revealed at this latest and
.greatest of expositions. All of us cannot
travel around the world to take
note of what the nations are doing,
but the nations from all around the
world desire us to know and have sent
their best works to St. Louis to be
iDlaced on display.
Therefore, by all means or any
means, see the World's Fair. It means
everything to your future growth of
mind, to your present pleasure, and
life-long satisfaction. Who that saw
the Centennial Exposition or the
Columbian Exposition that does not revert
to it with recollections of keenest
pleasure?
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St.
Louis there is more to be seen than
ever was brought together in ten times
the space before. It is a great collection
of expositions massed Into one.
It is nearly twice as large as the
Columbian Exposition at Chicago,
nearly ten times larger than the Pan
American Exposition at Buffalo.
Every exhibit palace offers the equivalent
of a splendid exposition, each
covering many acres of space.
The largest of these is the Palace of
Agriculture, with its twenty-three acres
under roof, and filled to the doors with
the most wonderful agricultural collection
ever assembled upon any occarr?U~
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siuu. JLue luiyuriuuu oiuics auu iuiHons
of the world are all here alongside
great numbers of individual exhibitors.
Five great staples have been
chosen for extraordinary display.
Corn, cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco
are here arrayed as they have never
been before, and undreamed possibilities
are revealed to inquiring minds.
Such a dairy display was never attempted
and such a collection of farm
machSkery and tools was never placed
on exhibition.
The Palace of Transportation is next
In size, covering fifteen acres. One
may only hint at the wonders It conELECTRICITY
IN JAPAN,
Activity of the Ialniut Fmplre In Construction
Work.
That the modern Japanese are determined
to keep abreast of the peoples
of the Western world is shown
not only by their quick mastery of the
art of war, but also by their readiness
to appropriate all the results of modern
scientific discovery. According to
the London Electrical Engineer, they
are now displaying much activity in
the utilization of electricity for lighting,
power and traction purposes. The
Tokio electric light works have been
In operation for a considerable time,
and it has become necessary to greatly
extend the power house. The plant at
present has a capacity of 5050 horse
power, and this Is being increased by
an additional 3G00 horse power. This
new plant will go Into operation during
the present mouth, and work will
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-which will ultimately increase
.the output of the station by 10,000
horse power. Fresh demands for electric
power are being made on the electric
company by the railway company,
which is operating an extensive system
of light railways in Toklo.
The Dardanelles
The question -whether Russia has the
right to 6end her Black Sea fleet
through the Dardanelles is based upon
a treaty executed in 1841 between the
five great Powers, whereby it was
agreed that no ship belonging to any
nation Bave Turkey should pass
through the channel without the consent
of Turkey. This agreement was
reaffirmed by the treaty of Berlin,
executed after the Busso-Turkish war
in the 70s.
Where Lord Nelson Really Died.
' Visitors to the Victory, at Portsmouth,
England, who have gazed upon
a spot in the cockpit and i elieved it to
be the place where Nelson breathed
his last, were quite mistaken, according
to discoveries just made during
the overhauling of the ship. The authentic
place where the hero (lied was
close against one of the huge ribs of
*V>o chJn n further fnrTvnr/^ Thic
place Is now to bo railed around, and it
will be lighted with electric lights, for
:which a storage battery is to be placed
on board.
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taiiis. The historical exhibit of locomotives
is one of the features. It
shows the development of seventy-five
years in locomotive construction.
Strange indeed is the person who is
not yet impressed with these evidences
of man's long struggle with the problem
of rail transportation, the most civilizing
of modern influences, next to the
newspaper, which must always stand
first. To describe in detail this exhibit
would be a long story in itself.
Now let us cross the flower gardens
to the Palace of Machiuery, just south
of Transportation. The huge power
generators are the first things to ar
rest the eye. The Allis-Chalmers engine
of 5000 horse-power, the Curtis
steam turbine of 8000 horse-power, the
Parsons steam turbine of 5000 kilowatts,
the four Westinghouse generators
of 3000 horse-power each, and
each as high as a house. And then
other generators great and small of
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all kinds?the most wonderful display ;
of engines ever assembled. But these ;
are not all. Think of ten acres of 1
trliaf-pnini? machines of everv kind and
you have some idea of the contents of I
the Palace of Machinery. i
We cross the lagoou to the east- I
ward and come to the beautiful Palace
of Electricity, with eight acres of ex- i
hibits from many countries, which i
show the marvelous development of 1
electrical science. To the north again
over one of the arched bridges we ap- 1
proach the Palace of Varied Iudus- '
tries, viewing its wonderful grace and :
splendor as we go. Here are fourteen ]
acres of exhibits from all over the i
world. The Paiace of Manufactures i
is the same size and stands on the op- j
posite side of the Plaza of St. Louis. \
It is equally interesting in the variety i
and newness of its contents. i
Opposite the Palace of Manufactures i
to the southward is the Palace of Etiu- '
cation, this being the first time that j
education has been allotted a great 1
building all its own. A variety of i
schools in daily session are the feature ]
of this eight acre display. The two !
exhibit buildings In the eastern part i
01 toe ruam group ure juuus ?uu juci- ,
allurgy and Liberal Arts. The Department
of Mines and Metallurgy has '
A CHANGE OF AlR.
Why It Proven Bencflclal When a Person
1ft Ailing.
To maintain the balance of perfect
health in a body so complex as man's, 1
where the circulatory, respiratory,
muscular and nervous systems interact
so much upon one another, there
is need of very frequent adjustment, 1
especially in such a busy age as
this.
One great benefit of change of air
is that the great law of contrast enforced
upon us by all natural phenomena
is allowed fuller scope for its
beneficent work. The various organs i
of the body are very really rested by
slight changes in diet, cooking, water,
new surroundings, people and amusements.
The same monotonous daily
round of duties tries them as it tries
us, and change of work is actual refreshment
If specific ailments have manifested ;
themselves, then the seashore for a
tonic and general stimulant, mountain
air for its aseptic property, a sandy j
district for its dryness or a sea voyage
to invigorate the whole system will be
calculated to ward off what would
otherwise spell serious illness.
Man'sNorVe Impulses.
The speed of nerve impulses in man
is stated by Dr. Alcock, in a recent
paper before the London Royal So
ciety, to be sixty meters (210 feet) a
second. The experiments of Sir Michael
Foster fifteen years ago showed it
to be thirty-three meters. Dr. Gowers,
the eminent neurologist, remarks that
either Dr. Michael Foster or Dr. Alcock
is widely wrong, or the rate of
transmission has become greatly ac- :
celerated during the last fifteen years.
Origin of "So Long."
With reference to the orisin of the
familiar expression, "So long," a correspondent
of the London Academy
suggests that it is derived from the
i>urwegiau oaa laenge,' a common
form of farewell, equivalent in meaning
to "au revoir," and pronoudfced like
"so long," with the "g" softened. There
was a fair number of Norwegians
among the settlers in America, to
judge by the names, and it is quite
likely the phrase was picked up from
them. It is in general use among the
Dutch in South Africa. 1
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a twelve-acre outdoor display in addition
to the nine acres under roof.
The Palace of Art at tlie World's
Fair contaius 195 galleries. Each gal- !
lery is a large room, lighted from \
above and filled with the choicest |
works of all countries of the world in I
which art has made noteworthy pro- j
gress. The group of buildings to house 1
this magnificent display represents an j
expenditure of more than $1,000,000. i
Even to the timid traveler, St. Louis
presents no complications. It is all as
plain as a b c when once you get your
bearings. The streets all run east and
west or north and south, with rarely j
a confusing diagonal.
All trains into St. Louis arrive at j
Union Station, one of the finest rail- :
road terminals in the world. The sta- j
tion is on the south side of Market j
street, between 18th and 20th streets, i
so that when the visitor emerges from j
the station he fieds himself at the be- i
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ginning of the city numbering both |
north and south and eighteen blocks !
from the river.
Standing on Market street with his !
back to the station the down-town or
main business section of the city
;s to his right about one mile. Tbe
World's Fair is to his left, westward
about five miles. All the street cars
ire so labeled that he may easily know
svhich cars to take.
Practically all St. Louis will be a
lodging house during the Exposition,
rhe hotels have greatly multiplied in
number and thousands of private i
tiomes are open for the accommoda- |
tion of guests. The rates at the hotels |
ire generally on the European plan
is it will be more convenient for
quests to get .heir meals wherever
meal-time may find them. Prices for
rooms in private houses range from
>0 cents to $2.30 per day per person,
rhe prevailing rate is $1.00 per person
ind in nearly every case good accommodations
with all conveniences and
in good localities may be had for this
price. The higher rate presupposes
larger rooms and more luxurious quarters.
But no oue need pay more than
51.00.
The hotel prices have a wide range.
Competition will be brisk.
an organ without stops.
That Was the Opinion of the Man With
? Muaicless Soul.
There is a man living in an Eleventh
street flat who has no music in
his soul, and there is:, a man on the
lower floor whose soul is lull of it.
The lower floor man not long ago add- j
ed a four lung parlor organ to his lares I
and penates, and two healthy daugh- j
ters of his began to practice on it. j
Several nights later a friend paid a
visit to the first man, and as soon as
he got inside the apartment he heard :
the parlor orgau on th$ lower ]
door.
"Fine toned instrument that," he |
said, because he, too, had some music ]
in his soul.
The inusicless man grunted.
"Whose make is it?" the visitor
asked.
"Don't know," was the ungracious i
answer.
"How manj' stops has it?"
The host pulled himself up for a
powerful effort. "Well," he replied, !
"it's been In the house for about a !
week now, and in that time it hasn't
had any that I have been able to dis- {
cover."?New York Press.
Happy When They Are in Jail.
"Many a prisoner as soon as he steps i
in the outer office," said a Charles ,
street jail officer, according to the Bos- !
ton Record, "throws himself into a ;
ctiair with a sigh of relief, muttering: j
This is the first happy hour in many i
months.' This is especially true of j
men charged with large embezzle- J
ments. Their consciences seem to be i
on the verge of collapse until they ar- j
rive under the shadow of the jail, when 1
they then see their future clearly.'
Ancient Prescriptions.
Sir Walter Besnut's study of old
English customs shows that the doc- !
tors of several centuries ago pre- '
scribed for fevers "a cold water affu- |
sion" with drinking of asses' milk, j
When the queen was ill in 1GG3 tney
shaved her head and applied pigeons j
to ner reel, rowaeri'u mummy L<>r a ;
long time was considered to be a |
specific against diseases. It is said
that the reason it went out of use
was that dealers took to embalming
bodies and then sold them for genuine
ancient mummies.
MACHINES THAT THINK.
Stirpass Hainan Fingera In Deftness and
Cleverer Than Many Brains.
In factories and offices, increasing
yearly in numbers, are a thousand machines
that surpass in deftness and
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ones are constantly invented.
Thus the new machine for decorating
crockery puts on the china, by a
single action, the border patterns and
monogram centres, which formerly required
a whole process of handwork.
The machine is operated by compressed
air. and has a maximum capacity of
decorating, in this manner. 120 doz?n
pieces of crockery in a single hour with
the assistance of two boys.
A new speed indicator has been
added to locomotive practice that not
only indicates the varying speed of the
engine, but automatically applies the
brakes when the speed exceeds the
established safety limit, thus successfully
replacing the "speed feel" of engines.
To do away with guesswork in office
and shop management, and to And out
the real amount and value of each and
every different kind of labor expended
on a given piece of work, there is a
machiue which makes a permanent
record by card printing, not only of a
single period of time, but also of an indefinite
number of periods. This record
shows the number of hours and
minutes put on the job, and also the
time of day when the job was started.
When the job is done the totals of labor
costs are entered on the outside of
the e:*ve!ope containing them, together
with a record of the material used.
Each record is entered on the factory
books for permanent reference.
The sewing of buttons on shoes and
on garments is no longer done by hand
in modern factories. There is a machine
that sews 5300 buttons on garments
in nine hours?or more than
eight expert sewers could possibly do
in the same time. This machine renniros
nr? Avnpi't nnerator. A bov 01' a
girl runs it.
And in one insurance office, where it
was formerly necessary for a force of
clerks to copy names on reference
cards to be filed in various places, one
clerk now writes the riame on a single
card with metallic ink, clamps it in a
holder with a number of blank cards,
and flashes an X-ray through the packet.
Thus by a single motion one man
writes, or rather prints, all the cards.
?The World's Work.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
B? B. J. FBEDEEICES.
Civility is a charm that attracts the
love of all men, and too much is better
than to show too little.
Fortunately for stupid people, the
weather changes often enough to supply
them with something to talk about
A cheerful boy and a modest girl
need give no concern to father or
mother. These are traits that form a
substantial superstructure to build on.
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lines, let him be told that twenty-five
years ago about the only games the
boys haa were baseball, marbles and
tops.
One reason why some people get
cheating swapping horses is because
they look too carefully at the horse,
and not close enough at the fellow
they're trading with.
The man who has been good to hia
mother and family can be excused for
leaving this world without an eventful
career. In a praiseworthy way. he,
too, has done a great deal.
There are so few very clever young
men, that whenever one is discovered
he is made the subject of newspaper
talk and illustration. Alio. tue columns
of the press are not overcrowded
at that. v
I appreciate the fact that the young
men of to-day have an exalted idea of
their importance. They are told that
the world has progressed wonderfully
in the last hundred year?, and as
the youth stretches himself out while
telling you all about it, he can be seen
to feel that he contributed largely to
the advancement.
When the Worm Turnerl.
There is a young wife in this town
who naturally enough prides herself
upon the trim daintiness of her shoes,
and in order to live up to her reputation
for small hands and feet she very
properly refuses to purchase footwear
that would warrant the phrase. "As
easy as an old shoe" on first wearing.
There is a period of what is termed
"breaking in" her shoes, and her husband's
unfeeling habit has been to
cheerfully inquire, "Why dou't you get
shoes to fit you?"
It happened that last week the husband
bought a new pair of shoes, and,
as he expressed it, "got fooled on the
number." Of course, his wife never
"got fooied on the number;" she made
mistakes with malice aforethought.
But, anyway, there were days of war
in that flat and nights of profanity
and calls for old slippers and hot footbaths,
all of Wyhich that woman bore
with heavenly meekness and silence.
The other day, however, her liege
lord announced that he was going to
break those shoes in or die; he was going
to wear them to his office and trust
to the excitement of business duties
to divert his miud from any possible
discomfort he might experience. The
wife humbly suggested that he take
nn niii nnir of shoes alonar in case of
emergency, but bo scorned lier remarks
and departed.
Three hours later an office boy appeared
at her home with a laconic
message to send down the oldest, biggest
and easiest masculine footgear the
house afforded. The request was complied
with promptly, but accompnDying
the parcel was a delicately perfumed
note containing the tender, solicitous
query: "Why don't you get
s4ioes to lit you?"?Baltimore- Sun.
Eating at Night,
Every living bird and beast strives
its utmost to cram itself with food
before retiring for the night, and this
food is digested as the night pro
gresses. The evening f?ed is 1 lie feed
of the (lay* with tbe l?rnl?* creation,
and yet doctors toll us to rcfr::ii: from
eating heartily at night and oven advise
us to retire to rest with a more
or loss empty stomach. Are we following
nature when following this advice
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WITWHUMOR
of THE DAY
Urba In Kure.
I'm glad you city-people
Love the city as you do;
| For if you should desert it,
iYou would spoil the country too.
?The Whim.
As to the Star.
The Soubrctte?"Does she make up
quickly?"
The Understudy?"Well, everything
but her mind."?Pittsburg Post.
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The Mystery of Credit.
, "Tactful?"
"Very. She lives as far beyond hei
inceme of $50 a week as most women
could live beyond an income of $100 a
week."?Puck.
Not Quite the Same.
Old Grave?"Are you thinking of the
i future, my friend?"
Young Slave?"No. to-morrow is mj
wife's birthday, and I'm thinking ol
: the present."?Boston Globe,
By Proxy.
| Boarder No. 1?"What's that louc
thumping noise in the kitchen?"
Boarder No. 2?"It's the landladj
hammering the steak and wishing i
was the beef trust."?Chicago Tribune
Sometimes.
Upgardson?"Do you share the super
j stition that opals are unlucky?"
I Atom?"The fine opal you're wearinj
| on that soiled necktie certainly seemi
to be in hard luck."?Chicago Tribune
A Down-Trodden Family.
Brown?"Then you've no sympathy
for the Czar?"
Jones?"Not much: you see. since oui
baby came, we know exactly what s
Czar acts like."?Cincinnati Commer
cial-Tribune.
Real Thing.
6imkins?"Enpeck insists that hh
Wife has a sunny disposition."
Timkins?"Well, I guess that's right.'
JSimkins?"What's the explanation?"
rimkins?"She certainly makes it ho
for him at times."?Chicago News.
Her Histalcc.
"So," said her new neighbor, "youi
husband talks Russian?"
"Oh, yes, quite fluently."
"i uau suppuseu. iue uuistr l uuv<
been hearing was made by your gir
freezing ice cream."?Chicago Record
Herald.
Veteran Experience.
"I'll bet you never smelled gunpow
der!" exclaimed au excited veteran t(
a comrade.
"Well, to tell the truth, I didn't," ex
plained tlie other: "you see, the day ol
that battle I had a bad cold in rnj
head."?Yonkers Statesman.
A Blensed Relief.
Dumley?"Gracious! I'm glad I ain't
a Russian. It must be awful to hav<
I to leave home and go to war."
Housekeep?"Oh, I don't know; there
may be mitigating circumstances. Per
haps it's housecleaning time there jus
as it is here."?Philadelphia Press.
What Did She Want?
Mrs. Newliwed?"I want to get som<
salad."
Dealer?"Yes, ma'am. How manj
heads?"
Mrs. Newliwed?"Oh, goodness! 1
thought you took the heads off. 1
Just want plain chicken salad."?Phila
delphia Ledger.
Wedding Anniversaries.
Hicks?"So you're going to celebrate
! your wooden wedding, are you?"
Wicka?"Yes."
Hicks?"Well, I guess I'll celebrat<
my wouldn't wedding. It was jus
fiye years ago that that girl from Chi
cago said she wouldn't marry oi2."Somerville
Journal.
A Worso Fear.
"Sorry, boys, but I'll have to be get
ting home," said Underthum, at the
club. "My wife expects me before mid
j night."
"What's tho matter? Afraid, she'c
j go for you if you stayed any later?"
"No: I'm afraid she;d come.foi: me."
! ?Philadelphia Press.
A Frosty Atmbsphere.
j "I understand that prima donna
i failed to give her farewell coucert bej
cause she had a bad cold."
"Yes." answered the manager.
| "How did she contract it?"
"Well, it wasn't an ordinary cold,
! It is what is technically known as a
j box office chill."?Washington Star.
An Experienced Opinion.
I Father?"Daughter, Algernon von
I Spook wants to marry you."
Daughter?"What, that mai\? Why,
I papa, I wouldn't have him. He hasn'l
! any sense."
Father?"Of course not: of course
I not. You don't suppose he would be
wanting to got married if he had. do
you?"?Detroit Free Press.
Easy to Soo Thronch.
"They haven't much show of winning
the election, but they're making quite
a bluff. They're going to have a torch,
light procession to-night."
"That so? Have they any transparencies?"
"0! yes: that word describes the various
claims they've been making."?
Catholic Standard and Times.
Puzzled.
"I am just a little puzzled." she said.
"What's the matter?" asked her dearest
friend.
"Why, of course, it' you become engaged
to a young: man at the seashore,
it doesn't count the following winter,
but does it count for anything if you
happen to meet him at the seashore
again the next summer?"?Chicago
Post.
Dcciclcdly Fortunate.
"You are trying to break my heart."
| St*id tlic dirt.
"Yes." admitted the youth who had
j just found her out, "and it will be a
fortunate thing if I succeed. As ion?
as it's whole you can't possibly satisfy
all the men you have kept chasing
after it. Once broken, there ought to
be a little something for each."?Chicago
Test.
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FORTUNE IN MAINE SKUNKS.
Demand For Oil Derived From T'aeua
Steadily Increasing.
It will no doubt surprise many people
to learn that the despised skunk is
worth twice as much to Maiue as is
the much admired honey bee. but such
is the fact, and, counting things at
their actual worth, the skunk is worth
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auoui US mui'Li as ait iutr u?xi tvuitru iu
Maine in a season. The skunk is valuable
both for his fur and for the oil
that is in him, and both the oil and the
fur are in ever increasing demand,
i Fashion in furs regulates the price
of skunk skins. Four years ago the
; coat of a dark skunk was worth from !
$2.50 to $3, and the demand exceeded j
the supply. Since then the muskrat i
has come Into favor, and the price of !
skunk skins has fallen to about $2 for i
the best. When, however, there are a
i dozen fat skunks to be had on every
acre of meadow land, when a hard
wood club is the only weapon needed
for killing them, and when every fat
skunk contains at least a quart of oil,.
! worth S3 a gallon at wholesale, there
is money in the business.
i Most of the skunk pelts are shipped
I to a Philadelphia firm, where they are
made up into furs for export to France
and Germany, in which countries they
pass as monkey skins. It is estimated
I that Maine's revenue from skunks
amounts to $150,000 or $175,000 annu>
ally, which is double the sum derived
I from all the honey bees in the State,
and certainly more than all the 8000
deer shot are worth to the men who
kill them. From 100,000 to 150,000
skunks are killed in Maine every fall.
The demand for oil is steadily in!
creasing, and the price has advancel
' fifty cents to $1 a gallon within a year.
The natives prize the oil for its virtues
as a cure for rheumatism and stiff
joints, and large quantities of it are
' bought by country traders and sent to
druggists out of the State.
r It is estimated that the annual pro1
' duction of skunk oil in Maine exceeds
i 25,000 gallons, and the quantity Is in
creased by adulteration with the fatty I
oils obtained from hens and woodchucks,
a deception which has proved
most profitable to the skunk maguates.
, ?Baogor Letter to Philadelphia Recori
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Folding Chairs For Theatre*.
The chairs commonly used in theaters
and auditoriums do not permit of
the rapid emptying of their occupants,
' the only egress being in a traverse
direction, resulting by the immediate
t congestion of the entirely too con'
traded aisles. The object of a recent
invention is to provide a chair which
will materally enable the public to
escape promptly in case of fire or
emergency. Side frames of the chairs
. are placed in rows and parallel to
, each other, each of which serves for
I the attachment of a folding seat and
. I a back. When not in use the hinged
? | seat is turned alongside one si .rame.
j : The hinged back closes in next to it.
A spring engages with the edge of
the back, preventing it from accidentally
dropping. The seat being folded
v t-nnrorH tha hnpic thA lattpr is free
i from connection with the next side
frame, thus affording numerous comi
paratively free passageways. It is
- possible, though not desirable, by emt
ploying this style of chair, to entirely
dispense with the middle and side passages
or aisles.
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Breathleaauegg.
The runner who sets out on a twor
mile race usually passes through two
distinct stages of exhaustion, writes
[ K. Tait McKenzie in Outing. In the
^ | first quarter, if the pace be fast, he
feels the first symptoms of breathless- i
ness? the throbbing temples, the surging
in the ears and the tightness about
the chest that makes so many men
' drop out before completing the distance.
This might be called acute
t fatigue; but if one can keep^on the
' distress passes away. The heart and
lungs work a little harder, and at last
succeed in catching up with their task
of purifying the increased stream of
sewage brought to the lungs by the
j blood, to be carried off in the form of
. ' gases by respiration. The distress dis,
| appears from the face, the lungs seem
| I to regain the power to expand and a
I crushing weight appears to have been
I ! lifted fron the chest. The head be:
comes clear and the muscles act with
, I renewed vigor and elasticity. The man
! has got his second wind.
Measures Soil Temperature.
A new Desert Botanical Laboratory
, ! has recently been established at Tuci
son, Arizona. A most novel device
| at the laboratory is an instrument for
j registering the temperature of the soil, j
' This device was invented by Dr. D. T. !
J j McDougal, of the advisory board, who j
I has been spending some time at Tuc- i
j son. A copper tube connects the in- I
! strument with a copper cylinder buried j
i ' in the ground. Onn-disc. which makes
j a revolution once a week, operated by
, ! clockwork, a pen registers the tem? |
J I perature of the soil for every hour aud j
I minute in the day and week. One of
t j these records is being taken at the
. I Rn?-<iriir>:il (l.irdeilS and ail- I
r : i>c? xui u x>vuiM.vM.
i j other at the Tropical Botanical Lab- i
oratory, established in Jamaica last j
Julj. It has been found.that tne temperature
of the soil between day and
nigfct.varies one degree in New York
1 | and live in Arizona.
l)eafnes? Good At Time*.
i Senator McEnery is atilicted with a
certain degree of deafness. He can
hear less at times than at others, it is
said. At those times when newspaper '
men seek to draw information from
him that he is unwilling to give he is I
particularly bard of hearing. It was !
j during one of his deaf periods that he
J emerged frcm a recent executive ses'
sion and was accosted by a correspondI
ent. "Well, Senator, anything doing j
I on the inside?"' asked the newspaper |
j man. "Yes, the weather is pretty bad
| outside." answered the Senator. "It's
I pretty hard on us old people." And he I
bowed pleasantly and passed rfti. leav- I
I ing the newspaper man wonde"ing.
Cocaine Trade.
j The United States is buying 00.000 ;
! ounces of cocaine a year, at about !
: 411 ounce. Of this only a very small <
I proportion is used legitimately. Some
I States have forbidden its promiscuous j
sale, but tiie laws have not boon en- [
forced. It robs its victim of his men- i
tal facilities and destroys his moral '
responsibility in briefer time and ia
"reater decree than any other drug. '
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TORNADOES IN THE WEST
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Severe Storms in Several Stales
Followed bv Floods.
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Considerable Los* of Life and ManyFarm? ?
era Rained in Misaoarl, Arkamas,
Kansas and Indian Territory. * 1 * y.j
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St. Louis, Mo.?Fifteen dead an? ' /JS
scores injured mark tue path of tornadoes
which swept through Missouri, Ar?
Uansas, Texas, Kansas and Indian Territory.
The greatest loss of life re*
ported was in Indian Territory, the
dead in two places thsre numbering
thirteen, with sixteen seriously in,
3 urea.
Arkansas added the other two to thai
death roll. Heavy raius followed the
tornadoes, and as a consequence many.
rivers are now near the danger mark J
and scores of smaller streams have
overflowed their banks. Nebraska and \ ;. >
Iowa were on the edge of the wind- f
storm, and liood conditions now prevail
in many parts of those States*
In many places uouses were swept n
away. Thousands of acres of farm
lands, especially in the bottoms, are
under water and much damage has
been done to wheat and other growing 3
crops.
Seven person^ met instant death and , ^
ten others were seriously injured in the ;
tornado at Fairland. I. T., and .half a
dozen business buildings were levelled
to the ground. Four miles south of V&i
Fairland the .country ./as swept clean
c i ??,l K?,.?c Af on/* j
UL L U 1111 UUU?"5W (111U UUIUO. AAV uuvk tf-*
near Pryor Creek, I. T., six persons yM
were killed. J '?*j
MOYER'S RELEASE DENIED. ! .J
Head of Miners' Federation to Remaiiir ,
in Custody of the Military. i
Denver, Col.?The State Supreme
Court denied the motion for the release
of Charles H. Moyer, President of the
Western Federation of Miners, on bait ^ .3!
pending decision on the habeas corpu?
proceedings in his behalf. The hearing
on the merits of the case was set for ?3
May 5. Moyer will be held as prisoner *
in the military prison at Telluride.
The opinion of the question of admitting
Moyer to bail was delivered by; .1
Justice Steele. It is in part:
"If the liberty of the petitioner alone ^
was involved, we should probably re- ?
solve the doubt in his favor, admit him
to bail and determine the question of
jurisdiction afterward; but the head of
the Executive Department of the State
has stated in the" return to the writ
that in his solemn judgment peace and
tranquility cannot be speedily restored
X- IV. Onr, nrloiisl tinlaaar
iu iue. cuuuij> ul ouu juLigu^i uiikoo -'Sm
the petitioner remains in the custody]
of the military authorities." , "i
BRITISH ALIEN BILL PASSED.'
Sir Charles Dilke in Opposing Measure I
Highly Praises Jews^
London, England.?The Alien Imml- -->Jj
gration bill passed its second reading
in the House of Commons.
Sir Charles Dilke and Charles Phil- M
lips Trevelyan, who led the Liberal op- " ~.,'2g
position to the biH, held that the demand
for it was the outcome of antl- v
Semitic agitation. Sir Charles spolra
at length on the excellent qualities of ;
the Hebrews, and said that Christian
peoples ought to be anxious to offer ytj
the Jews an asylum as compensation *
for past persecution, which was the l.Jjji
cause of the :r faults.
The Ministerial men. ^rs warmly re- . ;5jS
nudiated the idea that anti-Se aitisnr
bad anything to do with the qv.estion, \'}aud
Sir Charles Dilke's amendment
was defeated by a majority of 124.
MANY RIOTERS KILI/JfiD. v
Twenty-three Dead, Forty Wounded ia
Hungarian Town. if ^5
Budapest, Hungary.?A Serious riot
is reported to have taken place at the v ' h
market town, of Elesd, cear Gross- s
wardein, resulting from a fight be- 'Jj
tween meetings of the Socialist and1
Independent parties. While order waa
being restored by the gendarmerie a -' >
Socialist shot and killed the com- ; $
mander. The gendarmes tirvd a volley,
killing twenty-three of the /rioters and ' ?
i severely wounding forty. Troops were
| summoned from Grossward;in. ,<
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CAPTURED STRIKING MINERS. '
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Utah Sheriff Captures Italians Who
Had Resisted an Officer.
Snit r?itv Utah.?A wholesale
| capture of striking miners in Carbon.
I County is reported in special dis- \
[ patches from Price, Utah.
Sheriff Wilcox and forty deputies,
armed with Winchesters, marched
upon the camp of the strikers in the
canyon, took them oy surprise and ar- S
rested 120 Italians on the charge of resisting
an officer. The men were
loaded into box cars aud taken to the
jail at Price, In the strikers' camp
were found several guns and revolvers
and a half-bushel of knives.
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Austrian Strikers Giving In,
The strike committee at Budapest,
Hungary, has issued a proclamation to
the strikers on the State railroads instructing
vhem to resume work immediately
and so avert a most stringent
action against them by the Government.
The Diet was closed by royal 31
decree. The sudden end of the session
is attributed to a desire to avoid discussions
of the railroad strike and rioting.
Earthquake in San Francisco,
A .sharp but not severe earthquake,
lasting about tluvt seconds, shook Sau
I'ruucisco, Cal.
Killed Her Foster Daughter.
Mrs. Mary A. Powell confessed to
the murder ot' Essie Albin, her foster
daughter, in the Powell home, at Dover,
Del., on February 9 last. The
confession was made soon after Mrs.
Powell was indicted.
Throws Herself Under a Train.
Taunted with being the daughter of a.
murderer. Miss Rachel Machett, a girl
twenty years old, threw herself under
the wheels of a train at Washington,
D. C.
Sporting Brevities.
4 /?/>nrrliin? to n rlisnntrh from Sail
San Francisco Eddie1 Grnncy will not
referee boxing bouts in the future. ~
Gougliacres Stable's colt Spring woa
the Averne Stakes at Aqueduct, defeating
eight others, including the favorite.
Peter Paul.
Eddie Hanlon, of California, bad the ?
best of a six-round bout with Tim. lj
Callahan, of Philadelphia, Pa., at the
Lenox Athletic Club.
Tom Jenkins wrestled with Munro,
the Scotch champion, at Glasgow. Hefailed
to throw Munro within the tim$
'iinit of twentv minute*.
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