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WHISTLES TOO NOISY.
WOMAN PHILANTHROPIST WOULD
PREVENT UNNECESSARY DIS
TURBANCE OF SICK.
Mrs. Isaac 1.. Rice, a Wealthy New
Yorker. States that Half of the
Vast Hubbub Raised by Boat
Whistles is Useless.
Mrs. Isaac L. Rice is one of the
few rich and inlluential women of
New York who is constantly looking
after the needs and comfort of those
less fortunate in the awarding of
the world’s goods than herself.
Mrs. Rice 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 nuisance 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 half miles over the city and
through careful investigation Mrs.
Rice has found that hundreds of in
valids in hospitals and nervous wo
men in homes are driven almost to
distraction.
From her palatial homo in New
Y'ork’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 au
thorities in New Y’ork 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;
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 river men themselves had said
that so many unnecessary signals in
duced collisions.
Mrs. Rice’s fight was not against
the lawful signals but against the in
numerable blasts that were sent out
as particular meanings to river men
and their crews. Scows coming up
the river would begin blowing two
miles down and 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 but necessary sig
_ MRS. ISAAC L. RICE
nals done away with and when she
finally took her plea to Washington
the investigation was apparently a !
most thorough one but the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor ruled;
that the matter was one which came
under the jurisdiction of the state of
New York and not that of the Federal
Government.
This charitable and sympathetic j
woman is still working earnestly forj
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 inlisting to her
support members of the New York de
legation that they. too. may take a
kand in abating the nuisance.
Mrs. Rice is an attractive woman,
always smartly gowned and givisg
Gal. 9. Newspaper.
every evidence of having a goodly
share of the world’s best but beneath
It all is a heart which aches to see the j
suffering around her and the unnec
essary causa **raLh> comfort andj
iWmtlumnmj JDimttor.
the means to live o»c her Hie m ease
have taught Mrs. Rteo itve happiness
which these can things bring and 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 (SURE.
Big 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 Tgith the disease for nearly eight
years, is now offered as a free scien
tific contribution to the medical profes
sion by Dr. J. F. ('. Lillian, of East
Seventy-second street. X. 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.
The 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
away as to cause the red corpuscles
which have been destroyed by the dis
ease germs to be eliminated from the
blood. Often these dead corpuscles
cause congestion in the interior mech
anism of the kidneys, which turns into
Bright’s disease. The extra oxygen in
the blood prevents paralysis of the
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 home. 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 he thrown away after the
patient is well and renewed when
needed again.”
English Woman Politician.
The considerable part which women
play in politics is well expressed by the
London Mail in an article upon the re
cent death of Lady Grey, wife of Sir
Edward Grey, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. It said in part:
Even apart from her devotion to her
husband, she was the keenest possible
Liberal politician, though the daughter
! of an old Tory squire, Major S. F. Wid
drington (whose ancestor is men
i Honed in the ballad of Chevy
i Chase) and her personal popularity in
i the Border Country was responsible for
much of its liberalism. For Sir Ed
ward she worked incessantly and bril
j liantly, from his first political cam
jpaign, Cwo months after his marriage
in 1883, down to the last battle, from
! whose triumph she had beep so trag
ically called away.
Lady Grey had 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. Peru, is the highest
navigable lake in the world. It is to
be tapped to provide electric power for
the Peruvian railway and manufactur
ing plants.
MOUNT VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, M’RII. it), iqofi
FAVORS FOUR-YEAR TERM,
BOURKE COCKKAN DECLARES IT
WILL ISA REA SE EE Fit lENC Y
OF THE HOUSE.
Under Present Two Years’ Term,
He Savs More I ime is Spent in
Lqoking for Re-Llection than in
Law Making for the Nation.
Boiirke 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 he all that is es
sential to establish the predominance
of the House over the Senate, if the
House only saw fit to exercise the
power lodged iu it by the Constitu
tion.
Discussing the subject recently, Mr.
Cockran said:
“There is hut 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 he simply the
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 the position that just as
soon as a member takes his seat in
Congress and begins the discharge of
his duties ho is at once thrust in the
throes of a contest for re-election.
HON. BOUKKt COCKRAN.
“No man can do his duty ia 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 own
district. If 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.”
THE CARPENTER'S SQUARE.
History of Its Invention and Manu
facture.
Carpenters who use the common
steel square, a very necessary ad
junct to their trade, perhaps give lit
tle thought to how, when and where
this article was first produced. While
there are millions of squares manu
factured and used annually, all over
the world, when the nineteenth cen
tury was horn there was not one in ex
istence.
One dull, rainy day. Slier Howes, a
poor Vermont blacksmith, who lived in
South Shaftsbury, was called upon by
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 had 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 he had 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 spare hours he made a number of
these squares, which he sent out by
peddlers, who found every carpenter
anxious to buy one. Soon he bad or
ders coming in faster than he could
supply the demand. One of his steel
“squares” would sell for or
which wa3 five times as much as it
cost him.
He applied for and obtained a patent
on his invention so that no one else
could deprive him of the profit it gave
him. It was just after the war of IS 12,
and money was scarce and difficult to
get. But he worked early and late,
and as he earned money he tought
I iron, and hired men to help him. In
a few' years he was aide to erect a
I large factory arid put in machinery for
* 'he making of squares, which by this
time had found their way all over.the
| country and had made their inventor
| famous.
i Such, was the small begioukkg of a
arwt important industry. Poo
lplo camo miles to see the wonderful
forges, the showers of sparks Hying
from beneath the heavy hammers, and
to listen to the din of the thousand
workmen.
Silas Howe lived to lie a millfonare.
and lie 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 HORSE.
Prince of Abyssinia Sends hi£ Afri
can Zebra to U. S. Government.
Tile Department of Agriculture will
lie aide to conduct further experimen
tal work along breeding lines through
the gift to the Government, of an Abys
sinian zebra which lues been present-
THE GREVY ZEI3RA.
PKI SrNrED TO THE PKf!sll>lNT BY Till: PUINCt Os ABYSSINIA,
ed to the United States by Ras Mak
onan, prince and governor of 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
the United Stales. The new arrival is
a young animal and is well and stock
ily built.
Ras Makonen, some years ago set the’
whole of Europe in a fright, and start
ed tongues a-wagging over the “black
peril”, by defeating and wholly destroy
ing the Italian army of Gen. Albertoni,
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 of Consul General Skinner, by
whom he sent the zebra.
The experiments which the Bureau
of animal industry will soon conduct
with the aid of this zebra may sland
forth as among the most 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 Burchell’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.
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I THE HOPKINS PUBHSHI c NO o CpMMHY, |
22242«N0RTH WILLIAM ————
CHICAGO OF THE SOUTH.
ATLANTA FAST BECOMING A
GREAT INDUSTRIAL AND DIS°
TRIBUTING CENTRE.
Story of a Northern Man Who Went
to Georgia and lias Nearly Over
turned Old Southern Methods—ls
One of a Type.
. BY WILLIAM E. SMYTHE.
Atlanta is the Chicago of the South,
—except that some of the people of
that enterprising city put it the other
way and tell you that Chicago is the
Atlanta of the Middle West, in either
ease, the point remains the same. And
the point is 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
men of 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 the North, to join
hands with the old native stock in de
veloping the country.
They told me of one remarktblo
man who came from New York in
187(i, and proceeded to make himself a
leader in several different lines of
work, all of which are related to (lie
•prosperity of the whole region rather
than to that of an individual or of a
single community. The story Is well
worth telling, because it. shows t.hal
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 he richly endowed will, the lat
ter, but. it. must find the genius to use
them In the lies! way before it can lie
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 of
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
wlicn his health began to fail, thirty
years ago. Ho decided the best way
to save his life was not to become an
Idle traveller or professional health
seeker, hut to find a good climate and
plenty of interesting work. That, by
the way, is the scientific, way for a
weak man lo become strong, provided
ho begins in time. The West is full
of men wlio have done it, and they
have made remarkable history for til*
country as well as for themselves.
Mr. Hunt has studied the climate it
many parts of the world and thinks
there is none better than Middle
Georgia. But as I read his story, as
lie 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 for
empire-building, and that he would
languish in the best, climate if there
were no hlg things to which he could
set his hand, litre 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 irresist
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
lege* Everywhere I hey go, they car
ry the seeds of civilization. This work
of creation goes on indefinitely. No
matter how rapid the growing there
is constant additional work to lie
pushed on in a new country."
That is the idea in the abstract;
Mr. Hunt has shown what it is in
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 he
has capital or can command it, but
there are other tilings which can only
be done by the man who isissesses
faith, indomitable perseverance, and
genuine interest in humanity.
Became a Live Stock Builder.
When Mr. Hunt, went lo Georgia
the livo stock interest was in a low
state. Farmers thought It. a positive
injury to have entile trampling the
soil because It seemed to pack the clod
into a hard brick substance. More
over, the Southern cattle fever was a
constant menace. This Northerner
thought, that Georgia ought to he tha
home of fine horses and cattle and
proceeded wilh a series of exi>erl
ments to demonstrate the possibilities
of the business. He went to the Isl
and of Jersey to select, the best stock,
and now the blood of his herd is la
evidence all over the South, as well
as hi Cuba. But before this result
was achieved he had to do some good
scientific work in learning how to
make his cattle immune against dis
ease.
He discovered the germ which car
ried the contagion, and the cattle tick
which carried the germ, and found a
way to exterminate both. Then ha
showed his neighbors how to improve
the pastures by planting grass so thad
“the touch of the cow’s foot, instead
of being a curse to the land, has made
the farms glow wilh shimmering
green and plenty," to quote his worda
Here was a bigger achievement than
the building of cotton mills and rail
roads because it. showed thousands of
people one way to become prosperous
on small farms. It literally added
millions to the wealth of the South.
But the enthusiastic man from the
North did not stop there. He thought
(Continued on ncxt page.)
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