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WHISTLES TOO NOISY.
won AH PHILANTHROPIST WOULD
PREVENT UNNECESSARY DIS
TURBANCE OF SICK.
Mrs. Isaac k Rice, a Wealthy New
Yorker. States that Half of the
Vast Hubbub Raised by Boat
Whistles Is .Useless.
Mrs. Isaac L. 'Rico Is one of the
few rich and Influential women of
New York who la constantly looking
after the needs and comfort of those
less fortunate In the awarding of
the world’s goods than herself.
Mrs. Klee Is a philanthropic woman
Who has never permitted her wealth
and comfortable surroundings to
blind her to the want and suffering
around her and has recently been
making a strong effort to have at
least one nulBance abated—a nuisance
In one sense and a menace to many
lives
This Is the constant and, as Mrs.
Rice declares, the unnecessary blow
ing of whistles and signals In New
York harbor. Night and day these
ear splitting whistles and sirens can
be heard for a distance of thirteen
and a halt miles over the city and
through careful Investigation Mrs.
Rice has found that hundreds, of in
valids In hospitals and nervouB wo
men in homes are drlven^almoat to
the means to live oat her Me hi ease
have taught Mrs. Klee She happiness
which these can things bring end she
Is doing everything In her power to
bring these same attributes Into the
lives of New York unforunates whose
positions do not warrant a protest but
whose rest and comfort mean much,
A SCARLET FEVER CURE.
distraction.
From her palatial home In New
York's most exclusive resident section
•—Riverside Drive—Mrs. Rice has
gone forth to Investigate this and
see If there were not some means by
which the sufferings of the poor ana
Invalid people might be relieved.
She first took her case to the am
thorltles In New York who told her
any remedial measures were without
their Jurisdiction and that she must
make an appeal to Washington.
Leaving her handsome home In
New York Mrs. Rice went to Washing
ton and laid the matter before the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
She told the officials of the depart
ment of the 14,000 sick people In
New York whose suffering was made
two fold by this unnecessary noise;
she told how nervous men and women
were unable to get sleep because of
the continual, piercing shrieks of the
river boats and she told them, too,
how rtver men themselves had said
that so many unnecessary signals In
duced collisions.
Mrs. Rice's light was not against
the lawful signals but against the in
numerable blasts thgt were sent out
as particular meanings to river men
and their crews. Scows coming up
the river would begin blowing two
miles down end never cease until they
reached their wharves. This was a
warning to their crews to make ready
to get out
For weeks and weeks Mrs. Rice
worked to have all hut necessary slg-
Blg Success Claimed for Remedy
by Dr. Luhan..
A new treatment for scarlet fever
which, he says, has had a long series
of victories and no failures In its strug
gles with the disease for nearly eight
years, is now offered as a free scien
tific contribution to the medical profes
sion by Dr. J. F. C. Luban, of East
Seventy-second street, N. Y. Noticing
that most deaths from the disease
were the result of paralysis of the
heart, he devised a treatment for the
blood and for the kidneys which pre
vents anaemia,—or destruction of the
red blood corpuscles—and also prevents
kidney complications.
Tbe physician in speaking of his
treatment, said:
"As to my treatment The germs of
scarlet fever diminish the red blood
corpuscles. Anaemia next sets In
through the poverty of the blood, and
paralysis of the heart follows. My
treatment Is curative and eliminative.
In the first four days of the disease,
prescription No. 1 Increases the Iron
In the red blood without Impairing
the function of the kidneys. The
Ingredients of No. 1, and also another
substance, acts on the kidneys In such
a way as to cause the red corpuscles
which have boen destroyed by the dis
ease germs to be eliminated from the
blood. Often these dead corpuscle*
cause congestion In the interior mech
anism of the kidneys, which turns Into
Bright’s disease. Tbe extra oxygen in
the blood prevents paralysis of tbe
heart, which Is due to the presence In
the blood of carbon monoxide,
"I always Insist that, as soon as evi
dences of the disease appear, the pat
ient—usually the patient Is a child—
be bathed In warm water, and then
placed In lightest and best ventilated
room of Its borne. The medicine must
be purchased only of reliable druggists,
as It must be perfectly pure and con
tain no chemical likely to depress the.
heart action. It must be kept In an
amber colored bottle, as It Is affected
by the light While there are no pois
ons used in the preparations, the med
icine should be thrown away after the
patient Is well dnd renewed when
needed again.”
English Woman Politician.
The considerable part which women
play In politics Is well expressed by the
London Mall in an article upon the re
cent death of Lady Orey, wlfo of Sir
Edward Grey, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. It eald In part:
Bren apart from her devotion to her
MRS. ISAAC L RICE
nala done away with and when she
finally took her plea to Washington
the Investigation was apparently a
most thorough one blit the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor ruled
that the matter was one which came
under tbe Jurisdiction of the state of
New York and not that of the Federal
Government.
This charitable and sympathetic
woman Is still working earnestly for
the comfort of New York poor and suf
fering and Is gradually gathering to
gether her forces to bring the matter
to the notice of Congress. She believes
this can be done and Is lnllstlng to her
support members of the New York de
legation that they, too. may take a
hand In abating the nuisance.
lira Rloe Is an attractive woman,
always smartly gowned and giving
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every evidence of having a’goodly
share of the world’s best bnt beneath
K all is a heart which aches to see the
goffering around her and the unnec-
essary cause. Wealth, comfort and log plants., 7
husband, she was the keenest possible
Liberal politician, though the daughter
of an old Tory squire, Major 8. F. WId-
drington (whose ancestor Is' men
tioned In tbe ballad of Chevy
Chase) and her personal popularity la
the Border Country was responsible for
much of Its liberalism. For Sir Ed
ward she worked Incessantly and bril
liantly, from bis first political cam
paign, two months after bis marriage
In 1885, down to the last battle, from
whose triumph-she had been so trag
ically called away. . . .z ,
Lady Grey bad a large desk at Fal-
loden devoted to political papers, ans
wered many of Sir' Edward’s letters,
frequently took notes at his opponent s
meetings of points In -the speeches
which she thought needed reply.
Lake Titicaca, Pern, la the highest
navigable lake In the world. It Is to
be upped to provide electric power for
ths Peruvian railway and manufacture
FAYORS FODR-YEAR TERM.
BOURNE cockran DECLARES IT
WILL INCREASE EEFICIENCT
OF TBE BOUSE.
Under Present Two Years* Term,
He Says More Time Is Spent In
Looking for Re-Election than
Law Making for the Nation.
Bourke Cockran, of New York, who
has Introduced a constitutional amend
ment making the term of office of a
member of the House four years. In
stead of two years, as at present, be
lieves that such a change from exist
ing conditions would be all that is es
sential to establish the predomlnencs
of the House over the Senate, If the
House only saw fit to exercise the
power lodged In it by the Constitu
tion.
Discussing the subject recently, Mr.
Cockran said:
There is but one change, one
amendment, that. In my Judgment,
could possibly increase the conse
quence or capacity of the House to de
fend Itself, and that will be simply ths
question of the term of a member. -I
am perfectly willing to admit that, as
at present constituted, where a mem
ber Is chosen for two years, we are
placed In tbe position that Just as
soon as a member takes bis seat In
Congress and begins the discharge of
hts duties be Is at once thrust In the
throes of a contest for re-election.
-isage and Important Industry. Peo
ple came miles to see'the wonderful
forges, the showers of sparks flying
from beneath the heavy hammers, and
to listen to the din of the thousand
workmen.
Silas Howe lived to be a millionaire,
and he did a great deal of good with
his money. Squares are still made on
the spot where the first one was
thought out more’ than ninety-five
years ago.
CROSS ZEBRA AND BORSE.
Prince of Abyssinia Sands Mg Afri
can Zebra to Ul S. Guverrffifent.
The Department of Agriculture will
be able to conduct further experimen
tal work along breeding lines through
the gift to the Government of an Abys
sinian zebra which has been present-
CHICAGO OFJTHE SOUTH.
ATLANTA FAST BECOMING A
GREAT INDUSTRIAL AND DIS
TRIBUTING CENTRE.
Story of a Northern Man Who Went
to Georgia and has Nearly Over
turned Old Southern Methods-Is
One of a Type.
BV WILLIAM E. SliYTlIE.
Atlanta Is the Chicago of the South,
—except that some of the people ot
that enterprising city put It the other
way and tell you that Chicago Is the
Atlanta of the Middle West In either
case, the point remains the same. And
the point 1b that Atlanta Is full of new
men, new industries, new buildings,
and the new spirit which Is making a
New South. In mingling with-the
THE GREVY ZEBRA.
PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT BY THE PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA.
ed to the United States by Ras Mak-
onan, prince and governor ot Harrar,
Abyssinia. Upon arrival In this coun
try the zebra was taken to Washing
ton In a steam-heated express car, and
was placed in the Government ante
lope house adjoining the cage occupied
by Dan, the first Grevy zebra to reach
tbe United States. The new arrival Is
a young animal and Is well and stock-
Uy built.
men ot that splendid city nothing Im
pressed me so much as the pride they
take in relating the achievements of
some of the bright men who have
come down from tbe North, to Join
hands with the old native stock In de
veloping the country.
They told me of one remarktble
man who came from New York In
1870, and proceeded to make himself a
leader in several different "lines of
Raa Makonen, some years ago set the i w ork, all of which are related to the
HON. BOURKE COCKRAN.
“No man can do his duty in Con
gress, wholly and completely, when
his mail Is charged with information
that concerns not the duty at hand,
but the prospect before him In his oyn
district. It Congress Is to be a demo
cratic body and to achieve the power
which was Intended to the end that
this constitutional system may be safe
and prosperous, the members should
at least have one or two sessions In
which they would be free from the dis
traction of a campaign for re-election.
Apart from that there Is no power the
constitution could give that It has not
given us.”
TBE CARPENTER’S SQUARE.
History ot Its Invention and Manu
facture.
irpenters who use the common
steel square, a very necessary ad
junct to their trade, perhaps give lit-
the world, when the nineteenth cen
tury was born there was not one in ex
istence.
a peddler of tinware to shoe a horse.
These peddlers traveled up and down
the country calling at every farm
house, buying everything In the way of
barter. This one bad a number of
worn out steel saws that he had picked
up at various places. Howes bargain
ed for them, shoeing the peddler’s
horse and receiving the saws In pay
ment, and each thought be bad an ex
cellent trade.
The blacksmith’s Idea was to polish
and weld two saws together, at right
angles thus making a rule or measure
superior to anything then In use. After
a few attempts he succeeded in making
a square, marked It off Into Inches and
fractions of inches and found that it
answered every purpose that he in
tended It for.
In the course of a few weeks during
his spore hours he made a number of
these squares, which be sent out by
peddlqrs, who found every carpenter
anxious to buy one. Soon be bad or
ders coming In faster than he could
supply tbe demand. One of his steel
"squares” wouM sell for 15. or |«.
which was.five times as much as It
cost hlln.
He applied for and obtained a patent
1 nig invention so (hat no one else
could deprive him of the profit It gave
him. It was Just after the war of 1818,
and'money was scarce and difficult to
get 1 But he worked early and late,
and as he earned' money he bought
Iron, and hired men to help him. In
a few years he was able to erect a
large factory and put In machinery for
the making of squares, which by this
time had found their way all over ths
country and bad mads their Inventor
whole of Europe In a fright, and start
ed tongues a-wagglng over the "black
peril”, by defeating and wholly destroy
ing the Italian army of Gen. Albertonl,
sent against Abyssinia by the Italian
Government, which had at that time
great schemes of colonization on hand.
Ras Makonen Is a great friend and ad
mirer ot Consul General Skinner, by
whom he sent the zebra.
Ths experiments which the Bureau
of animal Industry will soon conduct
with the aid of this zebra may stand
forth as among the moat Important of
modern times. Certain English Inves
tigators along with Baron Parana,
a Brazilian planter, have already de
monstrated that the hybrid offspring
of the horse and Burchett's zebra, In
herits from the latter parent Immunity
to certain diseases which are particu
larly fatal to horses, asses, and mules,
and that they furthermore are valuable
as pack and artillery animals,
prosperity of tbe whole region rather
than to that of an'Individual or of a
single community. The story Is well
worth telling, because It shows that
human resources are quite as Import
ant as the material advantages which
are usually grouped under the head of
natural resources, such as climate,
soil, timber and minerals. A country
may be richly endowed with the lat
ter, but If must find the genius to use
them In the best way before It can be
a great country. This fact Is fully
appreciated In Georgia, which Is con
sequently proud of the enterprising
men It has attracted into Its citizen
ship from other parts of the United
States and anxious to get more ot
them.
. The Cure for Weakness.
Mr. Benjamin W. Hunt was the
credit man for a great New York
establishment which did an extensive
business with the South and had made
a fine start In ’a commercial career
when his health began to tall, thirty,
years ago. He decided the' best way
to save his life was not to become an
idle traveller or. professional health-
seeker, but to find a good climate and
plenty of interesting work. That, by
the way, Is the scientific way for a
weak man to become strong, provided
he begins In time The West. Is full
of men who have done it, and they
have made remarkable history for the
country as well as for themselves.
Mr. Hunt has studied the climate Ot
many parts of the world and thinks
there Is none better than Middle
Georgia. But as I read his story, as
he has set It down at the request of
his Southern friends, I conclude that
any country would be good for him
which furnishes an opportunity tor
emplre-bulldlng, and that he would
languish in the best climate If there
were no big things to which he could
set his hand. Here In his own words
you may see the true spirit of the
empire-builder:
“Natives of old settled parts of the
world fall to understand the lrreslst- -
ible attraction of new countries, to
men of energy, self-reliance and force.
Such persons are really and truly
creators. They make meadows of
swamps, create farms from wilderness,
establish cities where commerce de
mands markets, build court houses
and churches, found schools and col
leges. Everywhere they go, they car
ry the seeds of-civillzation. This work
of creation goes oh Indefinitely. No
matter how rapid the growing there
Is constant additional work to be
pushed on In a new country.”
That Is the Idea In
Mr. Hunt has shown
the concrete by building a railroad,
establishing a cotton mill and a bank,
and Inaugurating other commercial
enterprises. But this Is not his great
est contribution to Southern progress.
Any man can do those things if be
has capital or can command It. but
there are other things which can only
be done by tbe man who possesses
faith. Indomitable perseverance, and
genuine interest In humanity.
Became a Live Stock Builder.
When Mr. Hunt went to Georgia
the live stock Interest was In a low
state. Farmers thought it a positive
Injury to have cattle trampling the
soil because It seemed to pack the clod
Into a hard brick substance. Mora-
over, the Southern cattle rever was' a
constant menace. This Northerner
thought that Georgia ought to be th*
home of fine horses and cattle and
proceeded with a series of experi
ments to demonstrate the posslbllltlee
of the business. He went to the Isl
and of Jersey to select the best stock,
and now tbe blood of bis herd Is In
evidence all over the South, as well
as in Cuba. But before this result
waa achieved he had-to do some good
scientific work in learning bow to
make hie cattle Immune against dis
ease.
He discovered the germ which ear-
rled the contagion, and the cattle tick •
which carried the germ, and found a
way to exterminate both. Then h*
showed his neighbors how to Improve
the pastures, by planting grass *0 that
“the touch of the cow’s foot. Instead
of being a curse to the land, has made
the farms glow with shimmering
green and plenty,” to quote hie words.
Here was a bigger achievement than
the building of cotton mills and rail
roads because it showed thousands ot
people one way to become prosperous
on small farms. It literally added
millions to the wealth of the. South.’
Snch was the 'small beginning *1 •