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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-15

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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04
HOW CHINESE WOMEN "cALL"
Aaborate Ceremony Prescribed by
Rules of Fashion and Estab-
lished Etiquette.

The Chinese woman has a calling
substitute called q carde de visite.
1t is really a sort of social informa.
ton bureau, as it conveys to the re.
cipient the name of the caller, her
address and the day on which she
is to be found in her own house be-
yond question. If / should call on
Monday, when her card" read
Thursday" she would send down
ord by the maid, who would report
to the housekeeper, generally a ne
gro, that she was mot at home" You
will remember how the missionaries
impressed upon US that truth" was
the corner stone of Christianity. But
l digress.
Now these calling cards" could be
mailed or sent by a servant just as
well, for the visiting lady does not
go In. She rides up to the house in
state, the footman opens the door, re-
ceives a card delivers it to the serv.
ant, and they proceed to the next
house on the list, which the driver
carries. Now the curious part of
this ceremony is that the party called
upon does not know that the lady
called in person, and there is conse-
quently no objection to the caller put
ting herself to the. trouble, but it is
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Maya.
zine.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04

Wife of City Dentist Makes All of Tiny
Napkins Husband Uses in
His Work.

There is a city dentist whose wife
helps him in a wholly feminine and
money-saying way. The makes all the
tiny linen napkins he uses to tuck
into the mouths or collars of his pa.
tents, and makes them all by hand
Not a bit of machine stitching is
ever een in his office linen, and there
is an odd reason for it. She did the
first lot soon after her marriage,
when she knew little of sewing, and
could not run a machine. By the
time she had finished four dozen she
had become a fine sewer, and then
disdained to use the machine at all.
That was some years ago, and now
her husband could well afford to hire
the work done, but she still clings
to the idea of helping him, and every
summer when other women on the
hotel piazza bring out their EN-.
broidery and fancy work she pro-
duces her tiny squares of linen and
hens away. Last summer she made
IL dozen.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04

BY the aid Of that most marvellous
modern invention Walter Wellman
Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Record-Herald and noted arctic
explorer, is making a third attempt
to reach the north pole. Of the count
less number of attempts to conquer
the elements Of the far north few, if
any, have ever excited the interest of
this expedition of Mr.. Wellman and
his chosen companions.
1t is this thing of going about 1t In
q new way that lifts the Wellman
expedition to a plane high above all
previous efforts in point of interest
that places it in a class by itself. The
devices fixed upon by Mr.. Wellman
were selected because they were the
latest offerings science has made
which were available for the purposes
OF the expedition.
The two expeditions made by Mr..
Wellman, one in 1894 and the other
in 1928, like those of all other ex-
plorers, were made on the theory that
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04
Great Tunnels Projected.

Two projects for the construction
of railway tunnels of unprecedented
magnitude are now under discussion.
One of them, which appeals strongly
to the imagination if it does not en-.
list much sympathy among practical
men, is M. De Lobel's plan for tunnel
ing Behring strait to connect Siberia
with Alaska. The author of this plan
explained it before a large meeting OF
the Navy and Military club at st.
Petersburg recently. Behring strait,
he said, is about 3Sk miles broad and
167 feet deep, but it has two islands
30 situated that the tunnel could be
divided into three sections of about
12k miles each. The other project is
older, and relates to tunneling the
English channel between Dover and
Calais. French engineers have recent.
ly been studying the enterprise anew.
The distance is about 23k miles. The
work would be relatively easy, be.
cause the tunnel would run through
chalk.-Youth's Companion.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04
breaks down at times and becomes ut

breaks down at times and becomes ut
terly useless. but the proportion of
efficiency Is great enough to make au-
tomobile construction n Of the big
industries of the country. The Well
man airship holds the same relation
to the possible high-speed airshir Of
the future as the automobile in its
present stage Of development does to
the possible non-breakable automobile
Of the future. 1t is possible that the
preliminary flights or trials at Danes
island may indicate weaknesses or
faults; but If such is the case the IA
%cilities at the base for %remedying them
are all-suficient. The airship that
starts to the pole will be a well-be-
haved, easily managed ship Of the
requisite speed when the start is made.
If it develops untractable traits after
that it will be because conditions arise
which cannot be ~foreseen or because
machinery breaks down, a contingency
which arises whenever machinery is
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04
FOUR YEARS OF AGONY.
Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh
Had to Use Crutches-"Cuti-
cura Remedies the Best on
Earth"

I'm the year 1899 the side Of my
right foot was cut OF from the little
toe down to the heel, and the physi.
clan who had charge Of me was try
ing to sew up. the side of my foot, but
with no success. At last my whole
foot and way up above my calf was
nothing but proud flesh. I suffered un-
told agonies for four years, and tried
different physicians and all kinds of
ointments. / could walk only with
crutches. In two weeks afterwards I
saw a change in my limb. Then / be-
gan using Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment often during the day, and kept
it up for seven months, when my
limb was healed up just the same as
If I never had trouble. 1t is eight
months now since I stopped using
Cuticnra Remedies. the best on Gods
earth. / am working at the present
day after Ave years of suffering The
cost of Cuticura Ointment and Soap
was only Sc. but the doctors bills
were mere like 5000. John M. Lloyd,
71S s. Arch Ave-, Alliance, Ohio. June
q, 1906"
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Description of Ship.

A general description Of the airship
Is as follows:
In length it is 164 feet. Its greatest
diameter is 50 feet. The materials of
which the bag Is made are pure rubber
and silk, with the top of the bag
q perfectly smooth surface, which will
not accumulate frost, snow or sleet,
and thereby decrease the ascensional
power. BY a simple device provision
has been made for the removal of snow
from the top of the ship.
The propelling power Of the airship
lies in three motors, Of the inner COM
bustion type and using gasoline for
fuel. The combined horsepower of
the motors is 100, although the con.
tract called for only Is. The largest
motor is 20 horsepower, and in calm
air provides a speed of from IL to Ia
miles an hour. With all motors work.
ing, the, ship will be driven 19 miles
an hour in Gains.
The surface of the bag measures 81
O9s square feet, and the volume is 224,-
225 cubic feet. The hydrogen with
which the bag 10 inflated Is made Of
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04

the pole could be reached by sledges
drawn by dogs. The first of these ex'
petitions was made from Spitzberger
and the second from Franz Joseph
Land. . The same obstacles encoun
tered by other explorers were met by
Mr. Wellman, and the trials were flu
tile. except in that they furnished the
explorer with a comprehensive knowl-
edge of conditions both atmospheric
and by land and water. 1t was this
fund Of information that suggested
the methods to be employed in the
forthcoming effort.
From an easily reached base of OPP
Srations in northern Spitzbergen, lat
ltude 80 degrees so minutes, the dis
lance to the mathematical pole is but
$50 miles, making the flight there and
return LOO geographical miles. Cal
culating the distance at 1900 miles,
there would be required but 100 hours
Of airship motoring at the rate of IL
miles an hour. Santos-D umont repeat
eddy had made 10 to % miles an hour
with small airstips equipped with cor
respondingly small motors. The Lee
baudy ship had made rs miles an hour,
and its average speed through a long
series of flights had been above 20
miles an hour. Under all conditions in
which airship flights have been made
q speed of from IL to Is miles an hour
has been easily obtainable.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04
Fortunes Made BY Vocalists.

Of all vocalists the world has evel
known Patti stands alone in earnins
ability. Her marvellous voice, aided
by histrionic power Of a high order
has frequently brought her $4,000 q
night. Next to her stood, and per
haps still stands, Jean De Reszke
When he first visited this country he
commanded $1,000 at each perform.
ance, but SO great was his success
that he demanded higher terms and
Maurice Grau vas glad to grant them.
For some time his nightly honorarium
was $1,000, and later on it was raised
to still higher figures. During his last
season in New York he averaged
about $4,000 a night, which included
a guarantee of $1,000 and a percentage
of the box Office receipts. He is now
living on his well-gotten gains in his
Partisan home and y teaching singing
to pupils at the comfortable rate Of
$25 an hour.
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Mr.. WeNman's Oun Vetus.

It is interesting to note that in the
gossipy discussions Of the venture by
men who pretend to know nothing of
aeronautics nor the polar regions, the
two objections most often urged are
the two which caused MI. Wellman
and his associates in the construction
and QUILTING of the ship the most per-
plexity. The manner in which he pro-
poses to overcome one of these dangers
that from fast, adverse winds-has
been explained by Mr.. Wellman, thus:
"We have already explained how we
hope to make progress with our air
ship by means of III motors and
screws when the winds are favorable
in direction, and als~ when they are
~unfavorable, but not Uf too great We
locity. What are we going to do when
they blow adversely and also too
strongly to permit us to advance with
the motors?
"This brings us to one of the funda-
mental features of the method which
we have adopted. 1t is this:
81. With favorable winds or unfa.
vorable winds of relatively small We
locities-motor at a proper speed OF
from ten to II geographical miles per
hour, with II miles per hour as per.
haps the mean speed.
"2 With ~unfavorable winds Of high.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04

and food supply. This last item
weighs 800 pounds and is contained In
a chest containing 16 cubic feet. When
it is stated that this supply is sufi-
cient to nOurish five men for IS days
some idea of the great economy of
space being practiced may be gained,
Of course, the disposition of the weight
in the car is such a. to insure perfect
balance under normal conditions. The
gasoline reservoirs are four in number.
two at each extreme end of the car
In the engine-rOom is placed, besides
the motors, the wireless telegraph ap-
p~aratus. The car is 50 feet long by
six feet by eight feet in it's other di-
mansions. Its construction represents
the maximum of strength and the min
imum of weight, being entirely of steel
tubing. a..
The power from the motors Is trans
mitted to a shaft at either end Of
which is a screw propeller with broad
blades, which offer the greatest eff
cheney. The forward screw is 1917
feet in diameter and the rear screw
four feet less in diameter. There is
but one rudder, which is above the car
and below the real end of the bag.
This rudder is operated from the en-
gine-room with a simple steering ap-
paratus.
Below the car there Is suspended a
steel lifeboat, nonsinkable and noncap-
stable, but of very light weight This
boat represents the %precaution against
the chance of the destruction Of the
ship or it's sinking into open water
Into it are packed when not in use the
cables for the guide rope and the
retarder, two Of the most important
attachments of the airship.
In the construction of both bag and
car the utmost care has been exercised
and only the highest possible quality
of materials used. A kgid system of
material inspection was maintained to
reduce to the minimum the chances of
1awed materials inadvertently being
used.
Such, In brief. is the airship in
will be made the most remark
able journey in history. 1t represents
the highest degree of skill known to
the machinical work. No principle in
the construction of the ship itself or Of
it's propelling appliances has been fol-
lowed which has not been proved to
be sound and thoroughly practicable.
The monster bag and its attachments
do not stand for a theory any more
than does the automobile that skins
the boulevar Is. The automobile
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04

and investigating mind, an earnes
seeker after knowledge, and abov,
all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa
thetic nature.
In 1913 she married Isaac Pinkham
a builder and real estate operator, an6
their early married life was marked BY
prosperity and happiness. They hat
four children, three sons and
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days il
was common for mothers to make
their WI home medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in a physician only in specially
urgent cases. BY tradition and ex-
p~erience many of them gained a won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkham took a great interest
in the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature so
bountifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods of
all kinds; SO, if we but take the pains
to find them, in the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies ex-
PlCooAy uCSlSuCi W CuTC UHc VARIOUS
ills and weaknesses of the body, and
it was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi-
cines for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was a are combina-
ton of the choicest medicinal roots
and herbs found best adapted for the
of the ills and weaknesses pecu-
liar to the female sex, and Lydia E. Pink
hams friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this SO far was done freely, with
out money and without price, as q
labor of love.
But in 1873 the financial crisis struck
Lynn. Its length and severity were too
much for the large real estate interests
of the Pinkham family, as this class
Of business suffered most from
fearful depression, so when the Centen-
NAL year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other source
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's
Compound was made known
10 the world.
The three o n and the daughter,
with their mother, combined forces to |
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04
Royal Child Had Her Wav.

An amusing story of the little
Grand Duchess Marie is now going
the rounds of st. Petersburg. The child
who Is now six and one-half years
old, when walking with her German
goveruess met a white-haired muz.
hik, one Ivan Leiken, who complained
Of hunger and asked for aims. Hav.
ing no money. the child applied to
her governes, who, however, declined
to give it., and advised the old man
to go to the Tsaritsa's labor colony
close by. Piqued at the refusal, the
grand duchess took off her hat and
gave it to the peasant, who walked
away. The governess then, being
afraid to take her charge home hat.
less, ran after the muzhik and de-
manded tho hat; he refused to give
1t up, except in exchange for a ruble.
and got the money.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04
Throws Rays Half a Mile.

Light rays half a mile long and
"a times as powerful as the sort com
nonly in use are the new ~oxy-petrol
lime lights that have been invented
for the motorists. The lamp consists
Of an oxy-petrol blowpipe flame play
ing on a piece of specially refractory
material. A reservoir of material Is
cylinder Of compressed oxygen. Pre-
sumably a stream Of oxygen under
pressure is saturated with petrol va
por and burnt In the blowpipe and
a small. extremely hot flame is pro-
duced, this being caused to impinge
on something more refractory than
lime.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04

er velocities-stop the motors and
throw out upon the ice sheet owe,
which we are sailing a dragging an.
nor or retardateur-a device calculat.
ed to offer the maximum of resistance
In proportion to its weight-and by
this means to drift slowly with the ad.
verse wind.
Assuming that this method works
out as well in practice as in theory
and there are many reasons for believ-
Ing that it will do so to at least a fair
degree-we have then this principle:
Il. That the winds that blow with
our course, directly or obliquely. add
their movements to the advance which
we expect to make with our motors
and help us so much on our way.
"2. But contrary winds of velocities
greater than our motor speed, or so
great that motoring against them
would be n ~uneconomical use of fuel.
are not losses to be deducted at full
value from the progress of the air.
ship. because the influence Of such
winds is largely n%eutralized by the &C.
ton of the dragging anchor or re-
tardateur.
I'm other words, all Of the value of
favorable winds is placed on the credit
side Of our ledger or log, while only
a part of the value Of the unfavorable
winds has to be written down on the
debit side.
"And the significance Of this, in the
last analysis. is that it will REQUIRE a
most extraordinary combination of
circumstances to prevent us getting
more help than hindrance from the
winds"
The expedition Is distinctly Amerf-
can, for all the mechanical aid that
foreign countries have given in the
preparations, and for the deep interest
they are taking in the project. II IL an
American journalist, backed by an
American newspaper, to whom credit
is due for the bold and intelligent on
ception. 1t is typically American that
all Of science and the arts that other
nations had to offer has been mar
shaled under the American flag for the
aerial journey into the unknown
north. The giant airship has been
the America" and. IF tina
next few weeks shall demonstrate that
the plans of Mr.. Wellman were well
and the explorer shall sail
triumphantly to the pole, the first act
will be the dropping of the American
Stars and Stripes over the spot which |
has lured nearly q thousand brave men
70 their deaths.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04

sulphuric acid and iron shavings, and
165 tons of these materials. carefully
selected, were shipped to the expedi-
tons base on Danes islanl. The as
censional power Of the inflated bag Is
1890 pounds. The weight of the ship
itself and it's equipment and crew is
1000 pounds, leaving approximately
5000 pounds for cargo. The gasoline
carried weighs $500, which is equal to
a power endurance of $50 hours mo-
toring with the 20 horsepower motor
in full operation. At the rate of from
II to Is miles an hour this e that
the airship will be able to travel 1900
miles in calm air, or far enough to
carry the airship from the base of sup
plies to the pole and back and then
back to the pole again.
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restore the family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
so good for their oma friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no money. and
little. credit. Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots and
herbs were stepped on the stove.
gradually filling a gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
it, for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired a lob
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the medi-
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons in
Boston, New York, and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties of
the medicine were, to a great extent.
self-advertising, for whoever used it
recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam
lily had saved enough money to com-
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success Of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vege.
table Compound have become house.
hold words everywhere, and many
tons OF roots and herbs are used annu-
ally in it's manufacture.
Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success of this
ago, but not till she had provided
nnoonC for oop~ lo~ -,0~l~ "a
effectively as she could have done It
herself.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was ever methOdical in her
work and she was always careful to pre-
serve a record of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-received
study, and the details, includ-
ing symptoms, treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since, are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent a vast collabora-
ton of information regarding the
Of woman's ills, which for
and accuracy can hardly
be equaled in any library in the
With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
laughter : in law, the present Mrs.
She was carefully instructed
all her hard-won knowledge, and
or years she assisted her in her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when it's origina-
or passed away. For nearly twenty
i've years she has continued it, and
nothing in the work shows when the
irst Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her
,en, and the present Mrs. Pinkham,
low the mother of a large family, took
t up. With women assistants, some as
apable as herself, the present Mrs.
'inkham continues this greatwork, and
probably from the Office of no other
'erson have SO many women been ad-
ised how to regain health. Sick wo-
nen, this advice is "Yours for Health"
given if you only write to ask
or it.
Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink
ans Vegetable Compound made
rom simple roots and herbs the n
reat medicine for women's ailments.
nd the fitting monument to the noble
oman whose nam it bears.
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WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM
And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
Had Its Birth and How the 'Panic of '73' Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

This remarkable woman, whose
maiden name was Estes, was born in
Lynn, Mass, February 9th, 1919, COM
Ing from a good old Quaker family.
For some years she taught school, and
became known as a woman of an alert
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04
It Must Be Used.

"Yes. I guess we'll go to the moan.
tains this summer"
Il thought you always preferred the
Beashore."
$50 ] do, but some foolish acquaint.
ance OF my wife's presented her with
II Alpine stan last Christmas"