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HELEN GOULD TO THE RESCUE
for herself, and is accompanied by some prominent financiers.
She will see and study for the first time the great Gould properties that
have their center in San Francisco. With her are a number of eastern finan
ciers and railroad men, with whom she will advise.
Until now Miss Gould has remained free of the financial enterprises in
■which her family has been involved. Her chief concern has-been her philan
thropic work.
HEAD OF VERY SMARTEST SE~F
Sadness and gloom have been the
portion of a large section of the
American Society (be careful of the
large Si), since the publication of
that remarkable book "The 469 Ultra-
Fashionables of America,” compiled
by Charles Wilbur de Lyon Nichols,
on whose shoulders has fallen the
mantle of Ward McAllister, inventor
of New York’s “400.” The cream of
the cream of American society have
now been segregated, coralled, re
concentrated or otherwise abstracted
from the common herd and seated on
high in the splendor and dazzling
radiance of Mr. de Lyon Nichols, au
gust approval. There appears to be,
however, a remarkable lack of inven
tion displayed in the New York list
of 300 notables. It Is confined prac
tically to the guests who were invited
to meet the Connaughts and Princess
Patricia on their recent visit. Surely
New York is going to the dogs when
•? It can only muster a beggarly 300.
Even Ward McAllister, in an earlier and less enlightened period, permitted
the metropolis to have a sacred circle of 400. The reason Xxay be that only
the superfine ultra-fashionables are included in Beau NicsoJo* arbitrary selec
tion, and that those unfortunates who are at all tainted with the stigma of
slowness, who do not fully subscribe to the modern doctrine of “eat, drank
for- tomorrow we die,” are dropped relentlessly. Possibly the
compiler’s wisdom did not wholly desert'him and he hesitated to embark on
the stormy waters of the next stratum below, being assured of countenance
and support by the precedent already established.
[ | KING PETER IS IN TRQUBLE~~|
J At the foreign office and in the war ministry all knowledge of plots and
I conspiracies are denied, of course. "It is a sensational newspaper lie,” said
■ one official, who was most anxious to leave the impression that the best rela
?| iions existed between Peter and the army and Peter and his people. But
■ talk in the cases, converse with officers to whom you have been vouched for
I or ask any representative of the common Servians, the working people, and
| one finds little praise for Peter.
"Servia wants to become a republic,” one army officer said. The army and
B the people are tired of the dynasty.”
I RULER OF SMALLEST STATE |
I By the death of William Alexander,
■ Grand Duke of Luxemburg, which oe
| curred recently, a demure young
I woman not yet 18 becomes sovereign
■of that little principality. She is the
■ late ruler’s eldest daughter, the Grand
B Duchess Marie. Luxemburg is a state
■ of 998-square miles in the angle where
BGermany, France and Belgium meet.
Bit has about 250,000 people. From
H t}me immemorial it has been an ap-
B panage of the House of Nassau. It
B^as therefore virtually part of Hol-
Bland, though separated from it until
B^he death of Queen Wilhelmina’s,
Bfather in 1890. Then it followed the
Hunale line to the father of the grand
Bduke Just dead. In 1907 the succes-
B^n in the female line was instituted
Kiy a family statute.
L-At a time, some years ago, when it
Hseemed likely that Queen Wilhelmina
Hsf Holland, would be childless, she
Bfesignated this young grand duchess
Sns hei' to the throne of the Nether-
Hands nnd was about to ask the Dutch states general to pass the necessary
^Mlslation to this end. Shortly afterward, however, the hopes of the Dutch
B«ople for a direct heir to the throne were gratified by the birth of the little
BVipcess Juliana.
■ The grand duchess is described as an unusually pretty girl, Impatient of
■dyice, quick tempered and impulsive—characteristics which greatly displease
B^royal busy-bodies who are already occupied in selecting for her a suit
■ husband.
Miss Helen Gould, philanthropist,
one of the best loved among Amer
ican women and possessor of millions,
has come forward to savb the family
fortunes from possible wreckage and
to restore the prestige of the family
n^me. v
At the very moment when the finan
cial downfall of the family is impend
ing she has offered to cast her per
sonal fortune into the breach to stay
the threatened calamity.
In so doing she has chosen to for
get and to forgive all that has oc
curred to alienate one member of the
family from the others. She is in
spired by her own bounty of heart
and by the deep reverence in which
she holds her father’s memory.
Miss Gould left New York the other
day in her private car for San Fran
cisco, for it is there that the arrange
ments will be made by which the
family finances will be straightened
out. She is going to look over things
Is the bloody drama of 1903 about
to be repeated in Belgrade? That is
a question that all Europe, including
Servian people themselves, are ask
ing. For weeks reports have emanat
ed from Belgrade that a conspiracy
has been formed among the officers of
the army having for its purpose the
dethronement of King Peter, if nec
essary, by as violent means as those
of the terrible night nine years ago,
when King Alexander and Queen
Draga were murdered in the palace.
King- Peter is paying for whatever
guilty knowledge he may have had of
the regicide plot with uneasy days
and sleepless nights. Now in his
sixty-eigHth year, he Is wondering if
it was worth while after all, to trade
his peace of mind as a private citizen
in Switzerland, for the bloody crown
of Servia. Through the palace still
stalks the restless ghost of Alexander
and the king’s ears must still resound
the echo of the shrieks of Draga.
— I. 1.. ~ - ' '*l '
SCIENCE
AND
ION
I
BOX FOR STAMPING LETTERS
Apparatus Invented for Benefit of
Man Who Never Has Stamps—
Works Automatically.
For the benefit of those people who
. never have any stamps—dr, rather, for
. the benefit of the people they borrbw
. stamps from —a New York man has
invented the apparatus seen in the il
lustration. This is nothing less than
Letter Stamping Box.
a letter stamping machine, which,
when a coin or coins are dropped in
the slot, will automatically affix a
stamp in an envelope. The upper sec
tion of the box has a coin slot at the
top and in a lower corner, back of a
little window, a roll of stamps. A
slot at one end admits the letter and
the window allows the user to see
that the corner of the envelope is ex
actly in front of the roll of s*tamps.
ILA £oin is inserie plunger at
BMflHLff^^^gß^Ushed down. This
B^^Fend stamp against a mols-
P^and from there on to the enve
lope, which is then withdrawn and
dropped into the lower compartment
for collection.
FISHING WITH A STEAM PUMP
Each Stroke of Piston Brought Up
Torrents of W:t*r In Which
Were Fish and Crawfish.
One of the most singular fishing de
vices imaginable was discovered by
accident In France. Though extreme
ly simple, the system is revolutionary,
says the Scientific American.
A pond on the farm of La Marle
quette, bordered by rocky shores, was
drained one year by the aid of a
steam pump. Each stroke of the pis
ton drew up 25 gallons of water, and
the pond was emptied in a few hours,
and not only was the water drawn off,
but all the fishes also were transferred
to a new element.
This was a revolution. The owners
of ponds in the neighborhood followed
suit, and the proprietor of the pump
made a specialty of this sort of work.
He “let” one of his pumps, modified
for the purpose. The peasants of the
region called it “the fish pump.” Each
stroke of the piston brought up tor
rents of water, in which were fish and
crawfish, together with mud and de
bris.
One pond of several acres was
cleared of fish at an expense of about
$7.20. The process was ingenious, but
as one cannot have his fish and eat
it, too, and as such rapid consumption
would have led to equally rapid ex
termination, the authorities stopped
the practice.
NEW CLOCK FOR TIMEKEEPER
Found Quite Convenient When Time
of Workmen Wanted Expressed
In Dollars and Cents.
FROM THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
It is quite inconvenient, when figur
ing the time of workmen, to have the
time expressed in hours and minutes,
which is a duodecimal system, while
the labor is paid for in dollars and
cents on the decimal system. This
difficulty has been very simply over
come by an inventor in Louisville, Ky.,
who has fitted a clock with a face
showing the ordinary 12-hour num-
A Timekeeper’s Clock.
bers, and outside of this ten divisions
representing the decimal system. The
time of this clock is read not in hours
and minutes, but in hours and tenths .
of hours. For instance, a workman
starting a job at 9:30 would be record
ed as started at 9.5. If he completed
the job at 12.3, the difference in time,
namely, 2.8 hours, is evidently far
more simple to calculate than it would
be were it expressed in minutes.
A*• - - /
FURS ARE MADE MOTH-PROOF
Skin Is Removed by Freezing Process
and Hairs Made Quite Unassail-
able by Vermin.-—
A European scientist has evolved a
plan whereby furs can be made abso
lutely moth-proof. It is only the'skin
to which the fur is 'attached that at
tracts these creatures. The idea,
therefore, suggests itself to substitute
some other material not adapted ap
food for vermin, in place of the nat
ural skin, and has been successfully
accomplished in the following man
ner: The fur Is stretched upon a
wooden frame and is then dipped; hair
side down, In a flat dish, the dish be
ing filled with water and placed, with
the fur, in a refrigerating room and
allowed to freeze. When the fur is
frozen to a solid block the skin is
sawed off with a circular saw. It can
be further utilized for the manufac
ture of leather. The surface of the
ice block is allowed to melt down a
small distance so as to bring out- the
ends of the hairs, and then a number
of layers of rubber solution are ap
plied. After this has set the ice
block is melted off, leaving the hair
firmly rooted In the rubber.' The re
sult perfectly resembles natural fur,
but differs from It in being quite un
assailable by vermin.
PUNCTURELESS TIRE IS NEW
Kansas City Man Has Invented Wheel
With Cushion of Air Inside—
Is Soft-Riding.
Ever since a man discovered how to
make a soft-riding tire by wrapping
the product of the rubber tree around
compressed air, other men have been
trying to devise away to protect that
sofe-riding device from damaging con
tact with the unfeeling roadway, Its
tin cans and broken glass and sharp
stones, and so on.
One of the most recent devices is in
vented by E. Stewart of Kansas City.
Mr. Stewart has a pneumatic tire, all
right, but he hides it away in the
wheel, so that the only surface it en
counters is of smooth metal, adjusted
H i 1 31'
Tire Inside the Wheel.
so there is no chafing. The outer rim
is shod with an ordinary solid rubber
tire. Mr. Stewart says the hidden
pneumatic tube does all the work of
one exposed to the road, absorbing
shocks and jars, and that it will last
indefinitely. He has equipped his
pleasure car with the device and is
demonstrating it to factory repre
sentatives and other interested per
sons.
NOTES OF k .
^SCIENCE M
AND
^INVENTION
Tests of human bones show them to
be 50 per cent, stronger than hickory.
The United States spends every
year $11,500,000 for education in art
alone.
An Italian university professor
claims to have found radium in ordi
nary dew.
If blindfolded, it is said no man is
able to stand five minutes without
moving.
A method of planting eyelashes and
eyebrows has been developed by a
French surgeon.
In eastern Turkestan sheep are used
as common .beasts of burden. They
are said to be excellent carriers.
Cold air contains more oxygen than
warm air, requires fewer respirations
and consumes less heart energy.
A patent has been granted for an
attachment to rocking chairs, which
operates a fan to cool the occupant.
A piano will be less affected by
dampness if set against an Inside
wall of a room than if against an out
side wall.
-It has been found that the eye of a
fly is able to see an object no larger
than one five-millionth of an inch in
diameter.
Any attempt to turn the knob or
insert a key Into a lock that a New
Yorker recently patented rings a bur
glar alarm.
Nearly a thousand patents have
been issued in the United States for
devices to do away with the rubber
tires on automobiles and other ve
hides. .
NATIVES OF LUZON ISLAND
Seven Different Tribes Inhabit This
Land and Retain Ancient
Customs.
Manila, P. L —There are many
strange, uncivilized people among the
Asiatic-Amerlcans of the Philippine Is
lands. The wild men bf the great Is
land of Luzon may be divided into
seven different tribes, known as the
Ilongots, Ifugaos, Bontoc-Igorots, Le
panto-Igorots, Kalingas, Tingians and
Negritos. These people have not yet
felt the Influence of civilization, and
retain their ancient customs, dress
and manner of living. They can be
reached only by a long horseback jour
ney through mountains which, on the
western slopes, tire covered with
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Copyright, Underwood A Underwood, N. X.
Typical Tingian House.
tropical jungle, and, on the eastern,
with open pine forests. The five ar
ticles of greatest demand among these ’
savages are salt, matches, beads, red
or blue cloth and brass Wire; but look
ing glasses, small bells, sea shells and
white horsehair are also greatly
prized by them. For these things they
will exchange chickens, eggs, camotes
(a sort of native sweet potato) and
rice, their principal products.
The Tingians are a very uncouth
tribe of savages. Their head women
have their arms completely covered
with strings of beads, wound so as ,
to form beautiful and striking designs. ‘
A long, heavy string of beads is also
twisted around the hair and hangs
down the back like braid. The skirt
of these head women is white, with
a blue border, and the waist is of
light yellow. They smoke pipes of
solid silver, ornamented with bangles,
In the bowls of which pieces of cigar
are inserted.
The typical young Tingian chieftain
wears a stiff collar of beads and gay
ly colored calico shirt, over which,
is a sort of scarf trimmed with many
silver coins. The members If this
tribe are very fond of silver. They
make a large number of finger rings
from silver coins, and each man usu
ally has from five to ten of these
rings about his person, but not nec
essarily on his fingers.
The Tingians are fond of a pecul- ,
lar dance. The music is produced by '
beating with the palms of the hands ]
on “gansas,” or tom-toms. The danc
ers, a man and a woman, with arms (
outstretched, circle about each oth- (
er in a spiral, the man pursuing the ,
woman with a quick, jerky step. As
they approach the center of the spiral, ,
he suddenly swoops upon her, when f
she always eludes him by suddenly (
darting out of his reach. (
The Kalingas, like all wild people, ]
are extremely fond of ornamentation. ]
—Forrest Clark in Leslie's Weekly. |
TAX PUT ON FEMALE CATS ]
New Jersey Assemblymen Pass Meas- •
ure That Hits Felines Without
Dissent. ,
Trenton, N. J. —By a superhuman
effort and the aid of Speaker Mc-
Cran’s gavel, the New Jersey house
passed Assemblyman Bresinger’s bill
fixing a tax of a dollar a year upon
female cats. The vote was 51 to 0,
and the author of the measure was
surprised and delighted. Every time
the bill has come up for consideration
heretofore the risibilities of the mem
bers have been aroused and a chorus
of catcalls has set in. When this
course was attempted Speaker Mc-
Cran said impressively, and with no
sign of a smile: “The gentleman from
Hudson has been a square sport and
he Is now entitled to a fair hearing.”
Assemblyman Bresinger then made
a speech in favor of his measure, fair
ly bubbling with good humor but
sticking to the principle of the meas
ure and declaring with impressive elo
quence that female cats as hunters
of she Insect-destroying birds were a
menace and ought to be restrained by
law. Moreover, he said, the cat has
been found to be a dangerous dis
seminator of contagious diseases and
should be suppressed for that reason,
If for no other.
Assemblyman Simpson, also of Hud
son, said the bill was not complete; I
that it ought to embrace all cats and j
not the females alone. He defended .
the cat as a destroyer of rats and ,
mice, and said It should not be so re- ’
strained to such good work. Most of i
the members voted “No” on the roll J
call, and Assembly Bresinger saw de- ’
feat for his bill, but all changed to >
“Yes” before the announcement was
made.
IMMEDIATE EFFECT OF CHEAT KID
NEY REMEDYISSOOH REALIZED.
According to my experience I do not
consider there Is anything to equal
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root for kidney
affection. Twice it relieved me when.
I was completely helpless.
The last time I was traveling In
Texas, when my kidneys became af
fected, and for ten days I suffered ex
cruciating pain, accompanied with se
vere chills. Several years previous
having been relieved of a similar at
tack, I naturally sought relief aa be*
fore, from Swamp-Root.
After using four of the large size
bottles, I was completely restored and
went on my way rejoicing and prais
ing Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. Thin
was three years ago, and I, have had
no indication of the return of the af
fliction. Yours very truly,
J. C. SMITH.'JR.,
108 Johnson St. Jackson, Tenn.
State of Tennessee 1
County of Madison f 8 '
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 13th day of July, 1909.
p. C. STOVALL,
Notary PubUe
Utter to
Dr. Kilmer * Co.
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bladder. When writing, be sure and
mention this paper. Regular fifty-cent
and one-dollar size bottles for salp at
all drug stores.
When to Call the Doctor.
When to summon the doctor is a
point which has probably puzzled most
people at one time or another, but In
the case of throat and intestinal
troubles there should be no uncertain
ty, says a medical authority. The doc
tor should be summoned at once, for
the sore throat may be diphtheria, and
the intestinal symptoms may mean
peritonitis, appendicitis or any one of
a dozen complaints of serious char
acter. Valuable time and the golden
opportunity may be wasted by wait
ing for symptoms that are severe
enough to justify calling the doctor.
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