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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-07

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Gloves, worth up to slips; cut
price .................... E0C
Mems Calfskin Gloves and Mittens,
lined and regularly sold at soc;
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which is always ready to do homage to

which is always ready to do homage to
real merit.
During the last few years great
many kinds of hot-air treatments for
rheumatism have been invented, tried
and discarded, but at last one has been
found which, while there seems to be
great chance of killing the patient,
may, if he escapes alive, be expected to
cure him. Numbers of successful ex-
periments have been made, notably
some of recent date in the Cook county
hospital, of Chicago. About a year ago
Warden Graham and DR.. Thoren, OF
that institution, were in New York,
and there saw a hot-air machine in
vented by Mr.. A. V. NJ. Sprague, OF
that city, whose wife was a sufferer
from rheumatism. It had been found
to work satisfactorily. and Mr.. Sprague
offered to present his visitors with a
similar machine. BY means Of this APP
paratus person may be exposed to
temporal ure of 400 degrees, or nearly
twice as hot as boiling water, without
serious inconvenience, because the hot
air is rendered entirely free from
moisture. Four hundred degrees OF
heat will melt several kinds OF metals.
If one drop of moisture were to gain
entrance and be diffused over the body
of an occupant, the whole skin would
be scalded and the patient would die.
Precipitation is burned up before 1t
can spread over the body.
The Sprague machine is double
cylinder, the inside of copper, the out
side of steel. An asbestos blanket is
between the two. Through the inner
lining, which is pierced with holes, the
heat penetrates like shower bath.
Tiny jets strike the body simultane-
ously, but with far different results
than from an unbroken blast. An ar
rangement between the two cylinders
extracts moisture from the inner at
mosphere and it passes off through two
escape pipes at the top.
Several gas burners underneath the
outside plate furnish heat. Strips OF
cork, an inch and half thick, line the
inside of the cylinders. Patients are
placed inside the machine on a mat
tress of abestos and magnesia, the
head being left outside. While the tenn
perature of this machine may be raised
to 400 degrees, in a Turkish bath no
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12

Doubt is born of the mind faith is
the daughter of the soul.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12
HOT AIR TREATMENT FOR RHEUMATISM.

one can stand more than 100 degrees
because of the moisture. Some 400 pa
tients have thus, far been treated by
this method in the hospital named
Some were said to have been literally
twisted into knots by rheumatism. One
man was SO doubled up that his arms
and legs seemed to have changed places
He was finally Strengthened out, but
not entirely cured, although, to his
great joy, he is now able to dance Jig
The theory is that the hot air draws
the poison from the system. One case
of chronic lumbago and sciatica OF
Is years standing, which had been
treated by noted physicians in Italy,
Germany, and at different springs in
America, was kept in the machine for
two hours. The patient was then told
to get out. He thought it impossible
for him to make the necessary move
ments. When he found that he could
work himself out without much pain,
and could then walk, his qualification
was beyond description. After five or
six treatments he was well. Several
cases of locomotor ataxia have been
much benefited.
If it can be made certain that the
machines can be always depended upon
to exhaust the moisture from the hot
air and can always be in charge Of
skilled attendants, they bid fair to>rank
among the important discoveries of the
century.
The destruction to crops from hail
stones is such a cause of dread in farm
ing districts, especially in those coun-
tries where the vineyards furnish the
chief means of subsistence to the peo-
pie, that for many years efforts have
been made to discover some method of
preventing their falling. Chief among
these has been the use of the mortar.
A special form is now used, set in a
wooden base and having sheet-iron
cone 6A feet high fixed to its mouth.
The mortar is charged with powder,
well tamped down, the cone placed and
the piece fired. Owing to the vibra-
lions of the cone, considerable dis
turbance is produced in the air. Ifthis
kind of mortar is fired near forming
hailstorm, the stones cannot form, and
a heavy shower Of rain falls. Many
Italian provinces are adopting this
method of protection. In Syria and
Carniola, where these mortars were
first used, the vineyards thus defended
have remained uninjured for three
years. One mortar protects a space
of from 1000 to $500 feet in diameter.
Hence, they should be placed from
two-thirds to one mile apart. These
mortars in bronze cost about $50. If
made of cast iron, the price would be
less. EDWARD JULIAN.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12

England and France were flashed
across the English channel, the distance
covered being estimated at from % to
80 miles. The complete success of the
system employed by Marconi 11quires
the use of vertical wires at the trans
uniting and receiving stations, the
height of the wires varying according
to the distance to be covered, also de-
pending to some extent on the induc-
ton coil of the te1egraphic apparatus.
For the channel service wire $50 feet
high is used, while with the others men
toned above 80 to 90 feet has been found
to be sufficient elevation.
It is not to be expected that we shall
treat Marconi with the veneration
which our democratic natures allow us
to accord to the lords, dukes, etc.,
who are sometimes loaned to us for a
season by our mother country that we
may help them to recuperate their men
tai and moral stamina, as well as fill
their pockets, but there are numbers
of our countrymen prepared to recog-
nize the worth of the young mans dis
coveries, and it is safe to say that he
will not be neglected by the nation
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12
THE ASIATIC PLAGUE.
1t II a Micr0bic Disease That Ii Fer.
petuated i'm Filthy Regions
of China.

To many people the reports, rev
years ago, of the appearance OF the
plague in China, and later in India,
came with shock of surprise. The
plague was disease associated in their
minds with antiquity or the middle ages
and was thought to be one of the extinct
scourges of man, as safely buried as any
of it's victims.
In reality, however, it has never died
out. Although 1t retired from Europe,
driven before the slowly improving
cleanliness of modern civilization, it has
been preserved through all these years
in some of the almost inaccessible and
indescribably filthy regions of western
China and the neighboring countries
of central Asia. It exists also in certain
parts of central Africa, and a small cpl
demic prevailed in Astrakhan, in Rus
STA, only about 20 years ago.
Since 1894 we have heard constantly
of the plague in the seaport towns of
China and in India, chiefly in Bombay,
and now it has reached Mecca, and has
been brought thence to the shores of
the Mediterranean by returning Mo-
hammedan pilgrims.
The plague is a microbic disease. It
thrives in filth and in the generally un-
sanitary conditions associated with the
crowding together of human beings in
small and dark habitations. Rats suffer
from it, and are believed to be instru-
mental In its spread. Fleas are also
charged with transporting the virus
from the sick to the well.
L
cause of the swelling of glands in the
groin or armpits, which is one of its
chief and most constant symptoms.
The disease begins like all fevers, with
headache, loss of appetite, nausea, in
definite pains in the muscles and bones,
lassitude, chilly sensation, and SO
forth; but the sign which enables the
sufferer to foretell his fate with almost
absolute certainty Is tenderness on
pressure under the arms and in the
groin, the forerunner Of glandular
swelling.
There is little to do for one who has
the disease, but much can be done to
prevent it. It cannot thrive in sunlight
and cleanliness, and an extensive cpl
demic could not prevail in any city
where modern sanitary regulations are
enforced.
The "pneumonic" plague, from which
several persons died in Vienna last
year, is a form of the plague which at
tacks the lungs chiefly, the symptoms
being in many respects very similar to
those of ordinary pneumonia. This
form IS exceedingly fatal, almost every
case ending in death. OF sufferers from
the bubonic plague about eight out of
ten die.-Youth's Companion.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12

Scattered over southern Africa ar<
great pipes in which diamonds have
been made, says Prof. Moison. There
pipes are made of blue ground. Each
volcanic pipe (for their origin seems to
have been volcanic) is the vent for it's
own special laboratory, laboratory
buried at greater depths than we have
reached or are likely to reach; where
the temperature is comparable with
that Of the electric furnace; where the
pressure is f1ercer than in our labora-
tories; where no oxygen is present and
where masses of carbon-saturated iron
have taken perhaps thousands Of years
to cool to solidifvin0--N. Y. World.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12
BJRROWING BIRDS.
Some That Arc Rema r1kable for TIL iii
Power OF Flight Nest in
the Earth.

If wingless birds, unable to place
their nest or gain security for their
sitting mate and her brood on trees OF
precipiees, took to burrowing in the
earth they would be considered to be
preservation. But the burrowing birds
are mainly species remarkable for their
power of flight, and could choose any
site they preferred to nest on. Even
the pufins can fly away to the Med
fterranean every year, and the king
fisher and sheldrake are both remark
able, the one for the velocity. fine other
for the sustained power, OF it's travel
through the air. Sand martins, the
smallest of our swallows, and the
stormy petrels, the tiniest of web
footed birds, both choose to toll at
mining the earth for nesting place.
though both belong to families famous
for fight both over land and sea, and
neither has the slightest especial equip
ment for such arduous labor. Other
petrels, true ocean birds, and independ-
ent except at nesting time, of any ele-
ment but air and sea, burrow in the
earth by choice when the single egg Is
to be laid. It is not even a successful
device. The capped petrol, now be-
lieved to be extinct, was killed off in
Its only breeding places, the islands of
Guadaloupe and Dominica, largely be-
cause 1t did burrow, and so was easily
caught both by men and small carniv-
orous animals. Yet the zeal with which
such tiny birds as the petrels or sand
martins work at their tunnels shows
that they believe them to be necessity
for success in life.
Early last spring a freshly arrived
party of sand martins reached the
mouth of the river Otter, in Devon
shire, almost at the beginning of April
and at once selected a bank just over the
stream for an experiment in burrowing.
The little birds were almost as tame
as bees; possibly they were all young
birds OF the past year, and in the soli-
tudes Of Libya had not yet learned any
fear OF man between the days of their
leaving and returning to the banks of
the Otter. They clustered and fluttered
like brown moths against the red earth.
and competed for claims" with gentle
rivalry. Though they could hardly have
recovered from the fatigue of their
flight from Africa, their first thought
was to select site for this abnormal
and unnecessary labor of excavation,-
London Spectator.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12

Robert Burdette says more fault.
finding men will be dissatisfied in hea-
ven, because they will not have any
mud to throw at the angels.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12

made in crowded city districts as well
as in the open country. Between
Bournemouth, on the mainland, and
Alum Bay, on the Isle of Wight, dis
lance of IS miles, regular service has
been established.
During the conva4escence of the
prince of Wales last year communica-
ton was maintained without difficulty
between Osborne house, the queens
residence on the Isle of Wight, and the
yacht in which the prince was lying, at
distance varying from two to seven
miles from the shore. One hundred and
fifty messages were sent. Regular serv-
ice between the East Goodwin Sands
lightship and the South Foreland land
station, seven miles distant, has been
established for about nine months.
Last March the first messages between
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12
BRAINY YOUNG MAN.
Marconi, the Inventor of Telegraph
ing Without Wires.
VIII Visit the United States Very Soon
Success of a New Hot Air
Treatment for Acute
Rheumatism.
Ispecia1 Corresnondence.1

Especial Correspondence
IN young !;: italian e elsetrician a Sig as
u " Guglielmo Marconi, is to be a
visitor in this country, considerable in
terest is being shown in regard to his
personal history. Although now so
thoroughly identified with his work in
connection with the development of
wireless telegraphy, he received very
little attention from the public, even
after having proved the practicability
of transmitting messages without
wires, until about two years ago, when,
becoming resident of England, his
mothers birthplace, he found himself
associated with other workers along his
lines in that country. He was born in
Bologna about 26 years ago and han,
since his extreme youth, been much
interested in various experiments and
Inventions.
The unsatisfactory results attained
by those attempting to signal without
wires caused his earnest endeavOrs to
turn in that direction, and having dem
onstrated the possibility of utilizing
the Hertzian waves for that purpose, he
left Italy and found financial and sci
entific hackers in England. There he
has been aided not only in every ma
terial way possible, but also by kindly
encouragement and recognition, and,
on the part of the head of the British
postal service, Mr.. Preece, generosity
unsurpassed. The latter gentleman,
recognizing the superior points of Mar
coni's methods over any of his own,
with which he had been experimenting
for many years, helped him in every
way possible to develop his new sys-
tenn. It's practicability was shown be-
fore the close of 1897 by experiments
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12

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He Would Do,

Honest Dealer-'E's a good 'oss. But
must tell yer e as one fault-'e's a
little given ter runnin' away with yer.
Client-If that's all, he'll do splendid
y. That last horse had of you was
given to running away without me-
Punch
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12

Mr.. j. W. Loving Of Colqutt, Ga, says: " For Gig
cen years suffered tortures from fiery eruption
my skin. tried almost every known remedy. but Il
failed one by one and was told that my age, which
sixtysix was against me, and that could never b.
to be well again. finally took s. S. s. and it clean
NV blood thoroughly and now I in perfect healt
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12

Liver troubles quickly resui: in serious
complications, and the man who neglects his
liver has little regard for health. A bottle
of Browns Iron Bitters taken now and then
will keep the liver in perfect order. If the
disease has developed, Browns Iron Bitters
will cure it permanently. Strength and
vitality will always follow its use.
Browns Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-10-12

Proof Of the pudding Hes In the eating
Of It Proof Of ROBERTS TASTELESS
CHILL TONIC lies in the taking of it.
COST NOTHING II 1t fails to cure. q
cents per bottle If it cures. Sold strictly
on its merits by
e. T. Whitehead & Co., Druggists.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-08-12
A Hard Hit.

A citizen whose home is up town has
a great liking for working in his gar
den, as he calls his back yard He gets
up early in the morning, dons an old
coat and starts out with rake and hoe.
On his head he usually wears a shock
ing old cap that has been kicking
about the premises for years.
The other morning he wore this cap
to his place OF business. OF course he
did it by mistake and was greatly cha
grined when he found it on his head.
He fancied everybody was looking at
him on the car and he felt quite sure
the conductor grinned at his head coy
ering as soon as he came within sight
of it.
He didn't have time to go back for
his derby, and so he stuck it out. He
would have got through it pretty well.
he says, il it hadn't been for the ag-
gravating remark of street urchin
who saw him alight from the car.
Turning to a ragged companion he
pointed at the cap and said:
Say, Petite. deres aludder Of dem
dude golfers!"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-08-12

TRANSMITTED OF TELEDIAGRAPH.
globe sixteen times in second, the in
terval between New York and Chicago
is practically instantaneous. 1t is by
suddenly breaking such a circuit by
means of the ordinary telegraph key
that the light and loud ticks are OBJ
tanned.
If you strike a light quick blow on
the key in Chicago Ii Is instantly re-
peated in New York.
After telegraphing by hand had been
in practice for several years it was dis
covered that the dots and clashes
indented in the slips Of paper in Chi
cago the characters could be repro
duced by running the strip of paper
under the key.
Ii is on this principal that the phon-
ograph of to-day reproduces its rec
ords; the little invisible dots on the
white cylinder when run under the bit
of steel which originally made them
will reproduce the song or speech at
the other end of the wire.
This principle applied in telegraping
pictures works equally well. A draw
ing is made on a sheet of tinfoil
wrapped around a cylinder in the ma
chine similar 10 the wax cylinder of IA
photograph.
In Chicago there is twin machine
regulated to work in perfect harmony
with the New York machine. In Chi
cago. instead of tinfoil, sheet of car
bon or manifold copying paper is
placed between two blank sheets of
paper The New York current is
turned on and the little needle or plat
mum point above the revolving cylin-
der in New York breaks the current
when it touches the ink outlines of the
picture.
The needle in the Chicago machine.
which reproduces every pulsation made
in New York, prints the same kind of
a record on the carbon paper because
the steel point beats hard on the cylin-
der, and thus the picture in New York
is faithfully copied by electricity In
Chicago. The simplicity of the system
Is its wonder.
Yet experts<have been years in per-
fecting machine that would be of
practical commercial value. Mr.. Ern-
est A. Hummell, of ST. Paul, is the in
ventor.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-08-12

That the curly wool of the African
race is extremely fine hair, instead of
coarse. as has been supposed from the
reputation given it in former times. is
one of the statements made by Arthur
Thompson. He claims to have discov-
cred the mystery of why hair curls or
does not curl. On this subject he Is
quoted in THE New Orleans Picayune'
as saying:
Each hair follicle is provided with
a gland and a muscle. The size of the
gland varies considerably in different
individuals, and from my observations
appears larger and better developed in
the negro races. The muscle. | NAV
state. has an influence on the position
of the hair, thus converting the shaft
into lever.
I'm pursuing my investigations | dis
covered that straight hair is always
circular in section and is usually thick
er than curly hair, which Is ribbon-like
and fine, the finest human hair being
that met with in the Bush and Anda-
man races These facts have most
important bearing on the subject. In
order that the muscle that l have de-
scribed to you, may act as an erector
of the hair. it is necessary that the hair
must be sufficiently strong to resist
the tendency to bend. If the hair is so
weak as to bend before the action Of
the muscle, the leyerlike tendency is
nullified. When the hair is fine and rib
bon-like. the action of the muscle bends
IT into a curve. and this is the reason
why the hair assumes the curly form
of the Bush scalp"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-08-12
TRY ALLEN'SFOOT-ERSE.

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feel, swollen, nervous and hot and get tired
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try Allen Foot Ease. 1t coos the feet and
makes walking easy. Cures swollen. sweating
feet, ingrJwing nails, blisters and callous spots.
Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives
rest and comfort. Try 1t today. Sold by all
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