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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06
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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06

GONDITIONS:-
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06
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General MANAGER. PASSENGER Tragic AGENT.
GEO. w. BOYD. General PASSENGER AGENT
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06

A woollen felt made in Leeds, Eng,
is being much employed for giving elias
tic foundations and reducing the noise
Of machinery and railway trains. 1t is
made in sheets UP to 90 inches by 80,
with thicknesses of three-eighths to one
and one-half inches, and is impregnated
with mineral fat, the upper surface be-
ing tanned to resist damp and rust. This
felt is already much used in Germany
under steam-hammers, dynamos, pumps,
engines, and the like, and in England
on bridges.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06

A purely chemical publication Of wa
ter has given excellent results to L. AL
lain. of Marseilles. Iodine, which is a
powerful antiseptic, is added in the pro-
portion Of part to 100000, and in
most cases destroys all bacilli within
quarter of an hour. The free iodine
IS then neutralized by sodium hyposul-
phite. The water is finally filtered
through charcoal, and it is claimed to
come out limpid, colorless and tasteless.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06

Death from old age, says Sir Her
man Weber, is due to atrophy connected
with changes in the blood vessels. Wig
orous circulation, promoted by keeping
tte- arGasas- Ia actior-is- ha-hest -nreyei,-
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06

In an attempt to determine whether
air is itself radioactive, Profs. Elster
and Geitel seem to have proven that
it is inactive. It's induced radio-activity,
as occasionally observed, is attributed
to an emanation from some radioactive
substance which finds its way into sthe
free atmosphere as well as into mineral
springs. Tests of very active earth
from the Italian Alps seemed to show
a trace of radium as the radioactive
constituent.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06

The Finsen light, seemingly allied to
X-rays. is claimed to remove scars by
stimulating the blood corpuscles and
causing them to form new tissue.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06

A new French work by c. " Houl-
bert enumerates 90 species of insects in
furious to books, and gives all known
method of preventing their ravages.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-06

Gums are a botanical puzzle. DR..
Greig Smith, of Sydney, has now shown
that some of them are due to bacteria
and he has isolated some of these-like
that Of "Arabin''-and made them pro-
duce their gums in the laboratory He
suggests that all other gums are bacter-
ial products, and that the worlds sup
ply Of gum might be increased by judi
cious selection of susceptible trees.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18

had 4 cool day and returns TO his
home with. say. six-peuce He viii ex-
pend this in farthlng purchases Of
misc. kind u soup stock oil, fuel.
tobacco and perhaps little FISH. which
II he feels reckless he will eat raw with
horseradlsh. He buys drfblets. and
ike the very poor IN all the cities Of
the world pays enormous prices. This
has been a very good day. and perhaps
he VIII peep in At one Of the tempting
cake shops which smell 50 fragra ntly
70 the weary and hopeless. However
he VIII BE- 81 all likelihood broke" By
this time and will content himself with
listening 70 a story teller relating the
ancient glories Of Dai Nippon.
Paynbroker Always Near.
Had our pipecleaner returned empty
handed he would have hurried to the
paWnbTOker, always near al hand, and
raised few farth!ngs on his precious
brass pipe. his hibachi. or his few poor
garments not in actual use. with
the money he would have purchased
fish enrrals or the offal from horses
used for food. and perhaps a hand
ful Of scraps from A garbage barrel
With these he would have Toasted
with his family. and with them pray
ed that providence would give him a
better day tomorrow, 50 that he
might reclaim his goods. The pawn
brokers fatten of these wretches as
In 10 other land. II is impossible TO
escape them. and they never relent.
Anything that cost above fivepence
can be pawned.
Until this time Of the year, or even
until midwinteT, one can exist in Shi-
taya without bedclothing. but when
the nights get cold, with the fearful
piercing frost Of a japanese winter.
some covering must be had. Now ap-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18
AWFUL SLUMS IN JAPAN.
sHITAYA QUARTERS N TOXIC
WORST N THE WORLD.

Poor People Live in FElfh and on
Refuse from the City-Haye TO
Rent Bed Clothing During Cold
Weather-Pnwnbrok ThFives OH
Pressing Needs of the Destitute.
Toxic Letter 70 the London Nail
Deeper than ever plummet sounded
in the ocean II poverty and human
woe have descended here in the me-
tropolis Of the Far East and found
the worlds poorest poor. Beside these
starved subjects q the son Of Hezv-
en- who cover outside his palace walls
the submerged tenth Of London are
bon wants. and the groveiing Rus
SLAMS Of GOrky's night refugees the
spoiled children Of fortune. What I
have seen doubt II any Occidental
has seen before me. for the existence
Of such absolute wretchedness IS not
revealed 70 the tourist. and the Ordi-
nary resident suspects II not At all
II he has heard some whisper Of the
the dolorous regions near At hand Il Is
not regarded as polite 70 Be too in
curing. Not by any possible chance
VIII AlAE EDt4E DL AEA-l44 rtl44A~L L44C
visitor 70 the quarters where Joy is
LIES unknown quantity.
Stunning IN Toxic is for the regula-
ton Traveller the same az II In Lon
don he went 70 Soho without exploring
the East Side. None but regions Of
comparative prosperity are shown. be-
cause the japanese are proud Of their
universal reputation for cleanliness,
for artistic surroundings and for a
poverty that Il always smiling we'll
washed, and safely removed from act
ual want. Nevertheless. Toxic and
other cities have their social purga-
tories. their SargassO seas Of living
breathing wreck and drift In Toxic
not fewer than 100000 people seldom,
II ever. know Of a certainty where the
necessities Of the next day will come
from. and throughout the land the
great majority are too poor 70 eat rice.
The high-grade rice grown in the is-
lands Is exported almost 10 the last
sack and the inferior rice IL imported
for those who can afford IL. Rice is
not in every bowl, az the tourists fond
~ imagine.
Gives Warning to Japan.
] have spent days and nights in the
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18
AwAkExIxG OF yAPAN.

How the Magical Land, Came to
EurOpe-Work of the Emperor
Magician, the Man of the Hour
To-day.
From the London Mail
Life must seem like a dream 10 Nut
suhito. the Emperor-magician Of ia
pan. the man Of the hour in the Far
East to-day. as he looks back to the
time when he came 10 power. As
long as Japan has a place in the
world his name must live on the roll
Of the worlds great men.
II was not given 10 many Of the
great worid-hgures who made history
and founded empires TO SOW the seed
and watch the harvest gathered in.
England toiIed painfully through the
centuries. through war and revolution.
now suffering long oppression, now
beating down its kings, out Of the
long night Of feudaIism into the free
dom which she has spread throughout
the earth. But TO one man in the world
IL has been given to ind nation
bound and TO set IL free. TO ascend a
feudal throne and TO base it firm upon
the peoples VIII.
Mutsuhito has brought Japan TO Eu-
rope. It Is almost as IL he had, by a
stroke Of magic wand. transformed
the England of the Conqueror into the
England Of to-day. Half q thousand
years seem 10 have slipped by forgot
ten in the generation which MutsuhitO
has reigned.
Time and history seem both to be
playing tricks when We think Of the
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18

rise of Japan. The things which should
be centuries old are only thirty years.
and almost on the same page we fina
prime ministers and feudal lords. There
are men, and men not very old, who re-
member when for an Englishman to
set foot In Japan was a perilous thing,
when Japan was to Europe as a closed
book which none had dared to open.
Then, across the vast distance. came
rumblings of a storm, the dim message
of a mighty change, and Europe knew
tnat Mutsuhito. a young man in an
old country, the youngest, perhaps, of
all the rulers in the world, had broken
down the power of centuries, swept
aside all but a thousand years of GUS
tom, and laid the foundations of a new
Japan.
1t was the work, as 1t were of a
night, In a short war, the Shotgun, the
dynasty which had ruled Japan for
seven hundred years. was overthrown.
ana the dynasty which through all the
centuries had ruled Japan in name now
ruled IN TACT. That-was in 1868, when
Mutsuhito was sixteen. and it seems
an incredible thing outside novel
that youth in his teens should lead
a Kingdom out of Egypt into the Prom
lsed Land. Yet all that is modern and
powerful In Japan has come into be-
ing since the Emperor was sixteen. and
IN his short life is bound UP all the
strange change which has made japan
the Hope of the East to-day.
Even now there are times when Ia
pan looks rather like a picture in a
tairy book than country on the map.
AT the Emperor's garden party gray
veterans scrape up the soil where his
chair has rested and carry IL away.
and If the Emperor has taken a piece
OF cake and left half of IL, no guest
need think twice who would carry off
the crumbs. When a Prince is born.
he who presents the babe to Mutsuhito
must cover his mouth lest he breathe
by chance upon an Emperor of japan
and Alice in all her dream of Won
derland saw nothing more strange
than she might have really seen il
she had been awake in the Land of the
Rising Sun.
But there were wonderful things for
the world to see i'm Japan when we
we're young. Such things as men had
rarely looked upon We're there TO gaze
upon when Japan drew up its blinds
and threw open its doors to all the
continents. Great mobiles gave up their
lands and castles to the state. The
feudal lords. heads OF great families
which had ruled Japan a thousand
years. the sword-bearers who had
fought her battles and preserved her
fame In war. laid their wealth and dig
mites and traditions. their very homes
and incomes. on the altar Of the New
Japan. Two hundred landed lords
gave up their estates 90 the Emperor
who was building up a kingdom which
could have no room for other lords
than he. No such laying down Of rank
and power had been seen since The no.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18

Solomons Company, 1873 Congress,
west, and Bull and Charlton streets.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18

I have spent days and nights in the
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18
WOMEN READY TO DIE
In Utter Despair. They Tura to
Blood Wine at Eleventh Hour
and Are Cured

Miss Margaret Fitzgerald, 20 Amory
ST., Manchester, n. H., says:
was wasting wreck; so bad, in
fact, that had nervous prostration.
Could not eat, sleep, or scarcely think.
dragged around, more dead than alive.
/ had heard of the good results Of
Blood Wine and commenced taking
it. felt splendidly after one bottle.
continued it until it cured me entirely.
1t built me up and strengthened me. /
heartily endorse it.
Miss May c. Murphy, 1915 Tyler ST.,
Lowell, Mass, says:
~ do not wish 10 be without Blood
Wine. 1t has proved valuable for
female weakness, from which 1 have
been an intense sufferer. had conges-
ton of the womb which kept me home
from my business for five weeks. After
taking two bottles Of Blood Wine l was
delighted to find was steadily improv-
ing. To-day I am we'll woman, thanks
to the virtues of Blood Wine"
Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, AS Essex St,
Lawrence, Mass, says:
For forty years / suffered from fall
ing of the womb and female weakness,
which caused constipation. l finally
found that an abscess had formed. /
lay at the point of death for days. re-
covered, but suffered continually from
sleeplessness and was weak and nerv-
Gus. Blood Wine was recommended,
but | was reluctant about taking it. 1
finally consented, and can truthfully
say it is a wonderful remedy. have
taken five bottles and never felt better
in my life"
Women can have the greatest con-
fidence in Blood Wine from the time
they are little girls until they arrive at
advanced old age.
Solomons Company, 1873 Congress,
west, and Bull and Charlton streets.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18

pears another plunderer of the poor
in the guise of the capitalist, who
rents quilts by the night. He charges,
and invariably collects, from one
farthing for a shred of dirty patched
old rag to a penny or even twopence
for foul but heavy covering. Then.
too. there are frayed silk quilts for
bridal couples, but these are too cost
ly to be rented by many bridegrooms.
Rent must be paid in advance, and
before the family go to sleep the COL
lector comes and gets either the
money or the quilt. With a refine
ment of cruelty he does not appear
until the lessee has turned in, and the
loss OF his covering will be doubly felt.
There are heartrending scenes when
penniless mothers strive to hold the
quilt to protect their babies from the
chill and damp. Like the pawnbroker
and the moneylender. the guilt renter
is flinty hearted.
Rent Their BedcIothing.
Few OF the inhabitants of Shitaya
ever get enough money ahead to buy
bed clothing. and the CHASTITY tragedy
of renting is re-enacted again and
again for winter after winter. Where
there are so many children having
but a few cotton rags. the winter
means acute misery. Nothing that
was ever edible can become too bad
for the very poor to use. From this
and similar quarters the scavengers
go forth daily searching for food, and
they rake the city as with a comb.
Back they come at night laden with
bad rice, decayed fish and meat, scraps
from slop barrels, broken food from
restaurants, and all manner OF queer
odds and ends. This secondhand food
business has an extensive language
of its own, with special terms for every
kind and condition of edible junk that
is brought TO the quarter. This jar
gon is wholly unintelligible to the un-
initiated. and few there are who care
to learn the language OF the freezing
and starving who rent rags and dine
on offal. Poverty has its ultimate
expression here--lts last word.
Has your father a bad cold? 2"
NO, indeed. He is merely reading the
Observation-Disclosures war news aloud
NWaubfnofnr
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18

midst Of this iDexpressible residue of
Japan in company with a brilliant ma
tive soeio!ogist whc, Ike scores OF his
fellow students of men and things, be-
lieves that Japan has left its good days
OF general happiness and general COM
fort forever behind and is entering
upon a sordid and merciless age of in
dustrialism In which its people are not
fitted by temperament to compete
and whose proletariat is, moreover. far
too intelligent and too proud to be ex-
plotted by capital He is crying out
warning to Japan that her seat at the
council table of the powers is being
paid for In the blood of her citizens.
not expended as they would pour it
forth cheerfully in war, but in factory
and on farm, in shop and in office.
Think for a moment" he cried last
week as we looked at Il Japanese bat
tleship IN the offing. what a multitude
of our tiny rice fields It takes to sup
port such a monster and then remem-
Der that our people can't afford to eat
rioe" But whether the last state of
Sapan be worse than her first let US
proceed TO darkest Toxic. We will Wis
IL the Shitaya quarter, which is close
by the beautiful Uyeno Park.
Toxic is so vast. IL Is such an i'm
mense sea of sheds. that from the high
est point on the clearest day one can
see but d fraction of its area-but here
are fifteen districts of mean streets.
The crazy structures called houses
which arc In reality sheds, are strung
along in a series of dilapidated and
Tilthy compartments. To folk as poor
as those who live here cleanliness. so
dear to the average Japanese that 1t Is
above godliness. is out of the question.
The wallis are decayed and full of crew
fQag and cracks the roof leaks and
there Is moss and broken tiles. the shoji
are full of holes or patched with news
papers, the mats are ragged, dirty and
moldy. There Is foul water in the
streets and a still fouler stencil in the
air. whose source IS often visible to
the eye. Frequently one sees dead
rats In the roadway. but for fear of
the plague they are quickly made
away with. After coming from the
daintiness and delightful artistry Of
well-to-do Toxic. Shitaya is the abom-
ination of desolation.
Rent for Small sum.
The most tumble-down of these
abodes may be rented for from 20 to Is
pence month. but there are houses so
fine that they cost as high as a penny
or even three half-pence day. TO af-
ford one Of these expensive residences
several families club together. not alone
for company, but also for warmth, ian
winter all hands crowding together on
the mats. Charcoal is not always 10
be afforded. and heat Is "A great luxury
these cold days A whole block viii
sometimes take turns On warming
hands at a hlbachi. wherein a few
chunks OF charcoal shoulder In "a bed
o. abhes' suppoee pipe cleaner has
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18

We live not by the quantity we eat.
nor the variety, but by what the sys-
tenn can utilize. No matter how good
or plentiful your food is, II starves
the system unless your digestion is
good. So make certain that your food
Is properly digested by taking a dose
OF Green's August Flower before or
after meals. II will not only aid d.
gestion. II viii stir the liver 10 regu-
lar habits, sweeten the stomach and
prevent constipation. Trial bottle,
25c. big bottle. TIC, az all drugRists
knights Pharmacy.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18

The Artist consider it one Of
my best Impressions" The Critic
And yet it reminds me of something
1 have seen. though I can't for the life
of me say what. Brooklyn Life
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-18

Has your father a bad cold?"
NO, indeed. He is merely reading the
Russian-Japanese war news aloud
Washington Star.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-12-03
HISTORIANS
IN SESSION
HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
NET LAST EVENING AND ELECT
ED OFFICERS.

At the annual meeting of the Hawaii
an Historical Society which was held
last evening at the Honolulu Library
Association building the following
We're elected officers for the ensuing
Year.
President, Prof w. D. Alexander;
1st vice-president, Rev. DR.. Alexander
( Macintosh; End vice-president, ]. S.
Emerson; Bird vice-president Judge A.
5. Hartwell; recording secretary, Judge
w. F, Frear; corresponding secretary,
William Allanson Bryan; treasurer w.
w. Hall librarian, Miss Helen S. Hille-
brand.
DR.. Emerson, the retiring president,
called attention to the valuable COL
lection of books in the possession of
the society and thought that the So
ciety's efforts in collecting these works
on Hawaii would be appreciated later.
The corresponding secretary, w. D.
Alexander expressed the hope that the
archives of the Hawaiian government
would before long be stored in fire.
proof vault and preserved. Miss TTilie-
brand, the librarian, pointed out that
there were several duplicates on the
as she thought that European or Anne
rican libraries would pay big prices for
them. The matter was referred to the
managing committee.
w. A. Bryan, secretary of the Land
marks committee, reported that a doz-
en- people mad offered assistance and
nearly hundred places on the island
had been mentioned as worthy of being
marked permanently. 1t was further
stated that L. A. Thurston was prepar-
ing an elaborate account of the Nuu-
anu Pail battle with a description of
the landmarks in connection Herewith.
The paper of the evening was entitled
THE Voyage of the Schooner Tetau-
tau" 1t dealt with the remarkable
voyage of the little 29-ton schooner
Tetautua from Tahiti to Hawaii in 1898
with a native Tahitian captain and
crew and two Penrhyn islanders. The
voyage was made without compass or
chart and the course was steered by
| dead reckoning for SO days.