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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-29

WANT to get the names of several Ala kasnians who have been restored to health snrourh the use of swamp Root. the wonderful liver bladder and kidney cure. l have some xhinr interesting to say to them. Address "A H'' care The Advertiser. IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27
The Cause Of Leprosy.
From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER


The conclusion of Dr. Jonathan Hutchin-
son OF England, after a study of leprosy
as 1t appears in various parts of the world.
Is that the disease is caused wholly nv
eating decomposing or imperfectly cured
fish. The London Times is inclined IN ac
cept Dr. Hutchinsons idea 1t Is held that
In all countries and In all ages leprosy
has been and is still due to the consumn
ton of high fish. The preference for fish
In tainted condition Is an acquired
taste and it is claimed that It prevails
among a sufficient number of peon,e IN
account for the dreadful disease where
ever 1t exists. Leprosy was nearly general
IN England and on the continent in the
sixteenth century. and it is claimed still
prevails at many fishing stations especially
in Norway. Iceland and Tracadie. n r.
represented That at these places there is
still preference for fish in tainted con-
dition. 1t Is noted that in regions where
leprosy was formerly common, It has dis
appeared with the advancement of agri-
culture and the discarding of fish for food
In India vegetarians are free from IT hut
the hsh-eaters are much troubled. DR. Han
sen of Bergen discovered that persons hav
ing leprosy carry in their tissues a bacillus
resembling that of tuberculosis and the
disease Is thought to be a modification of
tuberculosis, caused by a specific virus de-
veloped in decaying fish. The scientists
especially those whose direction IL in the
medical line, are always making II harder
to get along in the world: but 1t is probably
better to give heed to their theories even
IL there may be nothing in them for il NAV
happen that a little care in the Selection
of the dried fish we eat may add fauy
years to life; and 1t Is the general agree
ment that life Is none too long at best
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27
Copyright. 1904. by William Bradford Allen

"My wife and Mrs, Hills used to think
heap of each other; that was when Sarah
Imagined she had hay fever, and told Mrs
Hills every day how poorly she felt. Now
they don't speak. and it's all on account OF
floating around on an iceberg.
Mr. Abner Spencer stirred up the blaz-
ing logs in his fireplace and smiled reminis-
Gently 1 expressed my ignorance and in
terest.
Mr.. Spencer's Office, in which we were
seated, was not busy place, but then Mr.
Spencer was not a busy man. His bankers
could vouch that he had no need to be. His
office was for him an asylum to which he
could go every morning and read the news
papers, thus adding to his sense of impor-
lance and avoiding domestic worries at the
same time.
you never met Mrs. Spencer" her hus-
band inquired. | had not.
well, my wife is a capable woman; yes,
sir as ca pable Il woman as there is in the
state OF Connecticut; but il wasn't always
that way. For spell she used to think she
had hay fever every year from the time
the grass turned green in the spring until
furnace time in the fall, and it took good
sized iceberg to make her agree she was
mistaken.
Mr.. Spencer drew his chair a tri1e nearer
TO the fire smile that started in twin
kle in his eyes spread itself over his smooth
shaver cheeks, hesitated for an instant in
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be sure to fit and as far as style went, the
people up in Greenland didn't change fash
ions very often, ard he tried to ease ner
mind. Sarah wanted to see them and try
them on, but they were way down in the
ships cellar and couldn't be got at easy, SO
she had to believe the captain, seeing there
was no other way We kept on sailing Tor
a long time. and then one morning there
was Greenland just ahead of us, and III be
fingered if it wasn't green, too with grass
growing the way it does here at home.
Naturally l was disappointed, seeing
we'd come so far to run away from growing
things, but after we'd sailed along all day
we came to a place where there was moth
ing but rocks and ice.
81 guess Well stop here I said to the
captain. 1t doesn't look exactly inviting
but if we don't catch our death of rheuma-
tism or pneumonia We ought to get cured
from hay fever.
The captain looked sort of surprised that
I'd pick out just that place for a summer
resort, but l was paying him to do as l
wanted, so he stopped the ship. and the next
morning the sailors commenced to take
our things ashore. Sarah was sort of dis
appointed when she saw the place by day
light. Not that 1t wasn't daylight all day
and all night up there at that time Of the
year, but she was sleepy the night before
and hadn't taken good look.
why. l don't see any neighbors up
here she said.
NO the captain answered; and you
won't gee any wherever you look all over
Greenland, unless it's Esquimaux or polar
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of France, especially OF the Disc and Brit
tany, goes to the Leipsfg fair. so that Ger
man brushmakers profit by it at first hand,
While their French competitors have to pay
for their supplies in marks instead of
francs. Again, the furnishing of porcelain
objects for electrical installations Is in the
hands of Germany for practically the whole
world yet it could be furnished at a profit
at present prices by French industries like
these of VierZon were their managers not
suffering from routine and swelled head.
Wholesale trade in Paris is beginning its
necessary up-to-date changes. True, this
is looking into the future; the number Of
first-class firms already entered is scarcely
more than 300 for this first fair. Admit
that the other 300 squares be occupied by
smaller, but very ambitious. houses. VIII
not the sight be very novel?
The regulations forbid any firm, however
important, TO lease and occupy more than
one square. Only samples may be ex-
posed. Only wholesale orders for future
making and delivery may be accepted. Do
you not see that products and prices viii
thus go on their merits? That the great
firm cannot overpower the small one with
its prestige?
The orders must be for future delivery.
Thus they hope to suppress the dead sea-
sem Five or ten years from now, whom
the fair of Paris shall have grown to I'M
mense proportions. in some immense palace
Ike the Grand Palais of the Champs Ely
sees, the buyers from all lands will flock
thereto do all their business in three days,
see everything there is to see-and have
time TO Paris.
STERLING HELLO.
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The Missionary's Dilemma.
From the New York Tribune.


capital story has been told by an Amer
lean missionary who has just arrived in
London from Korea. The difficulty of learn
ing the language of that country ia in.
creased enormously owing to the large num-
Der of WORDS which with a slight infection
OF the voice. are used over and over again
with an entirely different meaning. The
missionary in question was preaching ia
some natives. and assuring them that nm
less they repented they would go to a place
Of punishment. Amusement rather than
terror was written on the faces of his orr
entail listeners. Why on earth, il they re-
jected his advice and refused to renent
should they be dispatched-to the local most
office! On another occasion a lecture was
delivered, in the course of which beautif,II
moral was being drawn from the gay career
of the tiny butterfly, which was suddenly
cut short In the clutches of the spider The
sinile however. fell somewhat short of tie
intended meaning. and it was not until the
laughter had subsidized that the lecturer he
came aware that the victim which had been
foundering amid the dainty silken threads
of the web was donkey, which in the Ko-
rean language. it appears, IL synonymous
with butterfly.
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speciality called the article de Paris" and
take that other special retail trade In play
things and dolls. Both all that is Pa
rtsian. surely Well, late years have seon the
representatives of the biggest Paris iobbers
and retailers in both lines buying at the
fair of Leipsig. And still stronger, some OF
the greatest Paris manufacturers in these
lines have been seen at the Leipsig fair in
person,
Looking the facts squarely in the face.
the Partisan patriot is bound to admit that
the Paris business man is acquiring tend
ency TO buy where he can buy cheapest;
and the German maker furnishes for q
surprisingly low price. an article, certainly
less finely made than that of Paris. but
which will sell quickly. at a good profit.
Then. it is said. the manufacturers OF
Nuremberg. Furth. Sonneberg. Dresden and
Breslau are so supple and obliging. They
offer to furnish models to suit the buyers
taste. l have spoken of the music box cyl
inder example But you can also find a
glass dealer who. on an order for five doz-
ems. will compose you special design.
German industry puts itself at the DISPOSE
ton of the buyer. and Goes not impose it&
tastes, coors or forms.
These things explain In part why the
great houses IF Paris left 81 100000 worth
of orders at Leipsig last year.
And this last financial fact explains why
the heads of 800 French manufacturing
houses have pulled themselves together and
are endeavoring to profit by the German
lesson.
I'VE must show more complaisance in
dealing with inquiries. more elasticity in
accepting orders. said one of them, NJ.
Fabius de Champeville. vice president of the
Society of Small Manufacturers and French
Inventions I'VE must show more defer
ence to the ideas of buyers. while never re-
fusing to afford them, when they desire 1t,
the sureness of French taste
But we are too much the creatures OF
routine. We shrink from the novelty ana
expense of perfecting our tools. while
consider net profit OF two per cent I'M
worthy of our acceptance. Thus German
industry and German exports profit at our
expense"
Dealing in the Future.
Then the speaker gave certain wholesais
trade details that are really amusing. For
instance, the whole pig-bristles production
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27
FOOD FOR FISHES.
Result Of Study of the "Plankton"
in the Illinois River.

Result or a study OF the "Plankton"
in the Illinois River.
From the New York Evening Post
recent publication of the Illinois State
Laboratory of Natural History makes a
new departure In the literature of scientific
investigation in America. This is a report
of the results of an approximately contin-
nous study of the minute plant and animal
life Called the "plankton') Of the Illinois
river and its tributary waters, carried on
for five successive years by the staff of the
Illinois biological station.
1t appears from these studies that the
ratio of the ''plankton'' of the river, year
In and year out was 2.7 parts per million
of the water In the stream. and its total
average amount moving down stream past
a given point reaches the astounding ag-
gregate of 1900 tons per annum, or two
and one-half tons an hour. This annual
aggregate is about fifteen times the total
weight of the fish taken from the river in a
year.
The conditions which favor large an
nual production of this minute aquatic life
also seem to favor a large catch of fish but
no direct connection of cause and effect is
here made out. "Plankton' is, however an
indispensable element in the food of fishes
the young of nearly every species In our
waters being absolutely dependent upon 1t
at some period of their lives, and adult
fishes of several species making large use or
it during the season of its greatest abund-
enCc,
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BARRIERS Shop Diseases.

From American Medicine.
The transference to his customers, by
means of his hands and instruments, of
many parasitic skin diseases has long been
recognized as one of the unnecessary ac-
complishments ofs the necessary barber.
Among these affections are sycosis, I'M
petigo. seborrheie alopecia and furuncu-
lcsis that is more or less chronic in type.
DR.. Graham Chambers states that during
the past five years impetigo circinata has
been very prevalent in Toronto scarcely Il
month passing without an outbreak of from
two to thirty cases, generally traceable to
a common source. The barber shop is so
commonly the source that he desfgnates
the disease as BARRIERS impetigo." Quite
recently DIR. w. A. Hardaway has called
attention to a point which he believes and
we think rightly, has been but little real
lied by the medical profession. That il
the frequency with which carbuncles are
acquired in barber shops. He has seen
many cases of carbuncle in which the evir
dence of this means of transmission was
to him indisputable. The relative impor-
tance of this serious affection compared
with the other diseases mentioned needs
scarcely to be impressed. For the preven-
ton of contagion in barber shops. Harda-
way believes that We will be forced to
rely upon an educated public opinion rather
than upon compulsory laws directed against
the barber. He recommends that each
patron of a barber shop provide himself
with box, containing his own brush and
comb. small package of absorbent cotton
and a 5 per cent carbolic acid solution.
The barber will then wipe his shears or
clippers with the solution, and tie
patrons comb and brush. For the man
who shaves his own soap, cup and brush
are necessities. These suggestions SEN
sible. To carry them out properly means
some inconvenience. but it is worth while.
especially to the aged and debilitated, or
to those suffering from diabetes or similar
diathesis. Physicians attending such pa
tents should extend to them a warning in
this regard.
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The FAIR OF PARIS
To Compete With the Fair
of Leipsig.
THE DEAD SEASON."
SAMPLES ONLY SHOWN UNDER
GOVERNMENT PROJECTION.
To Be Held for the First Time in the
Middle Of March-How It Grew
Out Of the Toy Fair.
THE DEAD SEASON"

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
PARIS. February TO- 1901.
Paris is to have sample fair in the mid
ole of March. 1t is to be strictly business
and is something new in Paris. The manu-
facturers of half of France are beginning
to count on it.
1t is 10 be called "the fair of Paris" after
the cld-established example of the fair of
Ieipsig; this for the Importance attributed
to it from the beginning. 1t is to last a
month each year
Its object is to mitigate, or totally sup
press, that crying i'll of both employer and
employed, called 1.-The dead season.
Incidentally, the fair of Paris WILL at the
same time, prove an enormous boon to
Wholesale buyers of all countries when they
come to the gay capital
And, finally, there was nothing else to do
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Children Gain Weight in Autumn.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Some curious experiments have been
made at one of the royal philanthropic In
stitutIons In Copenhagen. For some years
back the seventy boys and girls in the
place have been carefully weighed every
day in groups Of fifteen and under There
by it is proved that the children gain
weight mostly in autumn and in the early
part OF December. From that time to the
end Of April there is scarcely any increase
In weight. More remarkable still, there Is a
diminutioh till the end of summer.
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All Down!
Erom Pllck

Mrs. Newlywed-''Doctor, that bottle OF
medicine you left for baby IL all gone"
Doctor--"Impossible! l told you to give
him a teaspoonful once an hour"
Mrs Newlywed-"Yes; but John. and l.
and mother, and the nurse have to each
take a teaspoonful. too. in order to induce
baby to take it,"
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Enormous Trade.

The trade done during this time is enor-
NOUS From Paris alone 1t may be truth
fully said that all the great houses are
represented Over 1900 heavy wholesale
buyers from all parts of Europe and the
Americas haegle with $500 wholesale vend-
ers, the most important of these being,
naturally, Germans
You will ask what Parisians want there?
I will not mention furs leather, cloth, wool
ems, glass or linen. But take the peculiar
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The Collection Improving.

Reproduced from Lesiies Weekly. By permission
Copyright, 1904, by the Judge Company.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-15

camera fiend was there in all his glory
despite the overcast sky and dark day
and through this battery passed Mrs
Chadwick, Chief Marshal Chandler
and his two deputies into their car
rage. They were Immediately driven
away to the Federal building.
All the time the crowd kept h0oting
and jecring, and as the carriages rolled
away from the station they were fol-
lowed by some of the crowd. The
shouts and cries were taken up, and
passed along, all the way to the Fed
eral building. through the busiest part
OF the city. AS the carriages neared
the building the crowds on the side
walks broke into the streets and many
began to run beside the carriages eX-
pccted to see Mrs. Chadwick as she
entered the building by the main en-
trance. In this the crowd was disap-
pointed for the carriage with the pris-
oner was driven into an alley in the
rear of the building.
AS the crowd was being cleared
from the alley, eager, pecring faces
We're thrust into the carriaS VIM
dows, ard vulgar expressions hurled
at the occupants. Mrs. Chadwick was
taken TO the fifth floor on the freight
elevator. The police continued to
ebat back the crowd, and out of the
next carriage the nurse Freda was as
sisted and taken up to join her mis-
tress. Emil did not leave the carriage
throughout the entire proceedings.
While Mrs. Chadwick with her
nurse were in the Federal building,
Emil in the carriage outside was sub
iected to the scrutiny Of the mob and
was forced to listen to anathemas and
maledictionS as We'll as sarcastic and
bitter references to notes" "dia-
monds." securities" and the like
Even the clerks in the postofficc
working on the ground floor of the
building, locked to a rear door, To-
Gated next TO the. one entered by Mrs
Chadwick and laughingly shouted:
Lets see the securities" referring to
aggage of Mrs. Chadwick and Freda's
which they saw through the carriage
doors,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-15
BRILLIANT BAZAAR
Splendid Opening Night
at metropolitan Hall is
Delightful Affair.

The Bazaar now being conducted py
the ladies Of the Church of the Good
Shepherd had a most suspicious OPP
ening last night
A large crowd, a great crowd, was
in attendance, and this was first de-
lighted with n charming concert, III
which there were songs and So!os:
Duets and Quartette, old songs ana
new songs, piano music and readings.
The program mas heretofore been pup
liShed and it was Il feast in the way Oh
giving pleasure. Every number was
applauded.
The Bazaar is in Metropolitan Hall
and it is compelled to be a success, SO
beautiful is the arrangement and so
choice the goods offered for sale. No
one need look far for Christmas gifts
ana beautiful ornaments while the
bazaar doors are open.
There are ten booths, and all of
these were literally patroniZed last
night. while the free will offering Of
those who attended the concert
amounted TO $500. At the booths are
charming matrons ana pretty maids,
and there is no call to take chances"
or TO vote" fer this or that Ii is see
what you want, pay for il and get
value received and more than this
every time.
A feature is the Country Store and
here there is fun as we'll as bargains.
St. Mary's School has Il booth there is
a Pillow Booth, and others, 200. Hut
to those looking for good things there
is another place of delight.
This is :he refreshment division.
Here there are to be had the finest
fl led oysters, country barbecue, potato
salad, chicken salad, quail on toast, ice
cream and cake. 1t is q feast that is
offered at reasonable rates and every
body is delighted at the cooking. To-
lay Thursday and Friday, the refresh
ment division will be open from u
o'clock in the day to 10 o'clock at
night. Go there for dinner, supper
and lunch, or if you get up late, then
go for breakfast.
The hall is an artistic scene of
beauty, the place is to he crowded
Zach day and right and you are ad"is-
ID to go there TO have a most enjoy
Bile time and TO get bargains.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-15
\ BIG Ma Al RE IEW.
ScabOard Air Line TO Take The People
to Hampton Roads.

There is 10 be naval rendezvous in
hampton Roads this month and a
greater number of ShiHs titan have
ever been masSed there at any one
time, taking the character of the ships
into question will be present, as the
South American. North Atlantic and
European SquadrOns will be reviewed.
Vessels from these viii be in Fan. p
ton Roads on the 27th of December
ard will remain until the 18th CT 8th
of January and an inspection and re-
viw will take place on the 5th of jan
uary by the Secretary Of the Navy and
Admiral Dewey. This will be u brill
ant event.
There Will at this time be at Elamp-
ton Roads the Battleships KeaTsage,
Kentucky, Missouri. Alabama. Illinois,
Iowa and Massachusetts,, the torpedo
boat destroyer Truxton, Hopkins,
Whipple, Hun. Worde:i Stewart ana
two others, the cruisers Newark, Den
yer, Tacoma and 81 Chattanooga, the
monitors Texas, Nevada, Florida and
Arkansas
Special holiday rates will be given
over the Seab0ard Air Line for the
big naval reviw, ard already there are
a number of people from Raleigh and
vicinity who propose to be present on
the inspiring occasion.
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Gibe and Insult Welcome
T, Her Home.
Continued from Page One.)

pressed her appreciation OF the COur-
estes extended to her by the Associa-
ed Press and a few minutes later SAL
he would like to say good bye to the
newspaper men who had accompanied
Yer party from Nv York. The CORE
pondents went in one by one and to
ach she gave a warm hand grasp and
aid a hearty God bless you.
When the train drew in the station
t Cleveland Mrs. Chadwick caught a
glimpse OF the great crowds which
warmed about the train-Shed and was
rrouped on vantage points on tSe
heights surrounding the station. She
nStinctiveiy Shrank back into q cor
Ter of the drawing room and said:
II cannot see why all those people
should be here"
After the train had been emptied
II its passengers United States Mar
shall Chandler, OF Ohio, stepped aboard
her car, the Aida and made his way
% the drawing room where she was in
roduced to Mrs. Chadwick. She
asked that she be taken out as speedily
IS possible and preceded by Emil
Chadwick and Freda SWanStOrm, the
nurse. the party made it's way to the
platform ana thence through the dense
crowds to a carriage in waiting.
Although in her own city no friend
ly face greeted her at the car and Mrs
Chadwick stepped into her carriage as
If she had been an entire stranger to
this community
The crowd had become impatient
with the delay of Mrs. Chadwick ar
rival ana began to jeer and whistle.
AS soon as Mrs. ChadWick'S son Emil
and her faithful nurse Freda Swan
sIrom dppeare< on the car platform
and stepped TO the station Mrs. Chad
wick was recognized by the crowd and
there was a spontaneous outburst of
jeers, whistles and shouts or coarse
pithetS
Shouts OF Here's the notes" and
Where's the money!" greeted Mrs.
Chadwick upon her appearance, and
as the viciousness of the mob dawned
upon her she seemed to grow faint.
and wavered as though about to fall.
IT seemed that but for the deputy
marshal support of her she must ut
terly collapse.
The arrival of the woman was mosi
spectacular in every respect and in
marked contrast to her previous ar
rivals in her home city. AS soon as
the police could clear a way and bring
about some semblance of order about
the platform the officers led their pris-
oner toward the gate and out through
the entrance There the street was al
most blocked and we'll nigh impass-
able to the carriages and teams. The