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Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1902-08-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

IVAY.  " Gentlemen," began the street fakir, who appeared in the village of Mine( la and arranged his bottles on the little table on the street earner and got ready for business, "has any one in this crowd got the toothache?" No one answered him  "Rae anybody got the earache?" No one had that. sort of an ache.  _ "Have any of you got the neura;gia or rheumatism? Don't be afraid to speak up. I want to show you how quick I can relieve all pain." No one spoke up. "V ory well, gentlemen—very well. Now, then, has anybody a lame back, a stiff knee, or a pleurisy pain? Has anybody got a headaolier __  Not a man had anything to say. "But some of you have corns or warts or buniuns" persisted the fakir. "If so, coma up, and I'll remove them for nothing." Not a man came up. " Vory well, gentlemen—very well. --aro you troubled with dandruff Do you suffer with insomnia? Are you low-spirited at timers, and find yourself thinking of suicide?" 'lhe appeal was like the others—in vain. The crowd elbowed each other, but no one advanced. _ _ _ .  " Gentlemen," continued the fakir in plaintive tones, "is there not one man in this crowd who is a sufferer from catarrh or asthma or hay fever? One man out of every five has a liver trcuble, and one out of every twenty has a touch of Bright's direase. I ask the sufferers to step up here and be cured free gratis." There was no stepping. The fakir looked blankly around on the upturned faces for a Monte and then deacended from his box to say: " Very well gentlemen—very well. . didn't want to give away a good thing until ' I had to. This remedy has been used for the last twenty years for consumption, and if neee..sa.ry I can furnish you thousands of But it. wasn't necessary. Every man in the crowd felt that he had consumption, and evervone wanted to cure it as speedily as possible. and in ten minutes not a hottJa left unsold.  NOT IN Trig CEOWDED CITY, and t.ll Ices in its bye-streets, among its wharfs and faotories, is it reasonable to expkvt that the pnrost milk and the choicest cereals will be obtainable. Ilenoe it is not in suob places that a food primarily intended for infants and invalids should be manufactured. 1101ILICK'S r iNIALTIIII MILK is produced in ono of this finest farming and dairy district. in the whole world. The grain of whioh it is composed is taken direct from the fields, and the dairies which supply the milk are all under strict supervision. Hence the excellence and purity of tho ingredients are fully assured. It contains sufficient nourishment to support the grown man or woman, said y-ot offers it in such form that it is invaluable as a food for infants, oven from the moment of birth. Of all ohemistk price Is bd, 2s bd, and Ils. A free sampit with full information, will be sent on agce oation to 11.-Irlick and 00.. 34, Farrin road, lL  mommomialimemewl.  p. a
Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1904-01-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

POPPING THE QUESTION.  What would you think, for example, of a proposal of marriage mtde 1-efore all present in a police court? Not long ago a respectable widow, who had sunk into poverty, tried to end a miserable existence by ooratnitting suicide. She was rescued in time, however, and had to Appzer before the Court to anlwer for the off•men. Testimony was borne to the fact that ths unhappy woman was very dean, ordarly, and thrifty, and it warn shown that her only moon for attompting to take her life was that she was friendless and ponniless. A working man in the Court, moved by these disclosures, mane forward and offered to make her his wife. The offer was accepted, and the woman wag discharged. Let us bop g that the parties in Ulla humble romance "lived happy eve.r altA•nraircla." Not long ago a firnman in a Midland town married a girl to whom he proposed when both were in imminent danger of being horned to death. The fire took place during the night at a country mide.noo which the young lady was empl'oyed as housemaid. No tie noticed that she was  missing, but When the house was welll ablaze, the girl suddenly appeared at one of the top windows. The local brigade ti,t, being provided with a fire escape, her death seemed almost ccrtain_ But her fireman lover quickly darted into the house, and at greet risk managed to reach her room. But as he did so the stairs behind him collapsed, and thus cut ca their only apparent means of escape. Doubtloss it was the hopelessness of their position, and the fear. that his love would never be known, wshieh led the fireman to propcee there and then, said thus surrounded by flames and smoke the two plighted their troth. Fortunately, a lcng ladder had in the meantime been found at some neighbouring works, and after moments of great excitement the two were roam-ad.—John 2. Low Steads, Backwarth.
Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1908-08-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HOME PETS.  The cookatoos are among the most beautiful and attractive of the parrot family, having their homes mainly in Australia and the Moluccas. They are great favourites in this country, many of thern bein.g quite as well known as the old-fashioned grey African parrot. The Greater Sulphur-Orested. Cockatoo is as popukur as any. It is a large, handsame bird, pure white in plumage, with sulphur-coloured crest. With proper feeding and treatment it is hardy and healthy, attaining a great age., rapidly lea.rning to dance ard pada= other tricks. The Leradbeater Oockatoo is xynsidered the niest beautiful, With its pink head and breast, and the crest formed of sixteen pointed feathers inolined forward, and Striped with red, yellow, and white. This cockatoo is often spiteful, and is a poor talker, thult. is not so noisy and excitable as other members of the family. The best food for cockatoos is a seed mixture of eats, Wheat dazi, maize, canary hemp, and stmtower, in equal parts, with fruit in season, nuts, an occasional plain biscuit or hard dry canist, i.mi a piece of cuttlefish bone. Meat is bad, also tea, coffee, and slops of any kind.—J. Clements, 1, Johnson's-yard, Guisbotrough, York themselves among. the bedclothes, in boots and shoes, and other articles of dress; and they soon became adepts in catching the scorpions, and disposing of them as 'follows:—They confine the animal under an inverted drinking glass, and then, waiting till dark, bringing the light of a. candle suddenly before the glass in which the animal was confined. No 9ooner was this done than the scorpion showed signs of great excitement, running round the interior of the tumbler with reckless velocity for a number of times. This State having lasted for a minute or two, the animal suddenly became quiet, and turning its tea or the hinder rart of its body over its back, broutglit its sting down upon the middle of the head, and, piercing it forcibly, ia a few seconds became quite dead. This method was adopted as the best plan of getting rid of the animals. It has been many tames proved that the scorpion will invariably commit suicide if surrounded by a ring of fire.—G. Herbert Bloomfield, 5.5, Norman-road, Greenwich, London, S.E.
Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1908-12-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE DUDLEY TRAGEDY. STARTLING CONFESSION AT WILLENHALL.  At last the Dudley murder mystery has been elucidated. Ernaly Ixincey, a young woman who has just died at Willenthall in great want, has confessed to the crime. It seems that she had been jilted by Walker, the murdered man, in favour of the hawker's daughter, who, it will be remarked, was supposed to have committed suicide after the terrible affair. Lanoey traced Walker to Dudley, jealously watched him during an interview with his new lover, saw him enter the cheap-j-ack's eara,van, and late rfollowed tiim home, secreting in her muff a knife the she had picked up beneath the hawker's vain. It was this knife, it will be remembered that considerably strent,,rthezned the stran.g suspection against the other woman. Following Walker into his room, hrigla word.s ensued, and the man strove to buy her off with money, of which he seemed to have a oonsiderable amount.  In a moment of blind exasperation the woman struck him with the knife, and fatally. She °soaped hurriedly, and it will be seen by the detailed and signed oomfession taken by the police that in leaving, the house she noticed the form of her rival waiting on the pavement. The thought presented itself to serve her as she had served the man, but she had left the knife behind, and hurried on' leaving suspicion to rest upon the innocent girl who was the u.nconscions cause of her jealousy  Here followed Emily Lancey's detailed statement, but Somehow I felt I could not read it. I folded the paper and handed it back to him. Sometimes, he continued, I fancy I can see her ooming to me out of the darlrnesis like. Of course, it is only a vision, but I see her as plain as I see you. And once, down at 'Ereford, I could 'eve sworn I aetually saw 'er 'creed. 'Ave you even felt a feeling about somebody dead as you could now and again vow wasn't dead at all? Well, that's 'ow it is with me. It's so strong soanotimes that I quift•a expeot to see CT CO4lllll up to me, and puttin"er and in mine, and saying "Dear old daddy," just as she used to do in the old days—W'y, sir, wot's that-- Is it Can it be—?  I turned and sa,w a woman's form shuffling trneasily forward in the shadow of the wall. She came on a few paces hesitatingly; then emerged into the light and there was something familiar about the pale, warn features of • the wonitazi.  I moved a.way, and as I did so the women ran forward with a low cry, and threw herself into the arms of the old hawker.  " 10 ad dy ! daddy! dear odd daddy!"  Then I know the happy ending that had come tho story.  ' Spinney had hoculd of Emily Lancery's confeseion tlLat had freed her from all question of guilt, and had oc:ine back again.  It wns Christmas x,ii and tho bells of a church near by in their ine.rry peal echoed the joy in Spin-coy amci the cheap-jack's hearts.  All readers vho are victime of Chills aril dangeroue after-effects should write promptly to thrs Dr. WiJLarns Medicine Co., 46, Flolberti-viaduci., London, for information that may be of considerable Fasietance in dispelling their ailments.
Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1908-04-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MRS F. B. St CLAIR, 4, Featherstone Blliklialile, Holborn., London,  t*i  Build on resolve, and not upon regret. —: 0:  Speculation commences where certainty ends.  —: o :  Salee commits suicide when it adopt 6 a creed.  —: o :- Our only certain happiness is that which we give to others.  - : 0 :  You ape liable to Inis your main chance in life if you have nothing saved up.  Laughter is the first sign of dawning intelligence, and the first sign of criticism.—Mr James  —: o :  The saving of money means the exercise of I*H-control. That is what makes saving so hard for bo many.  o : Investment has breadth. It assists the many in helping the few. It is broader, more basic, than ynobt men reali.se.  - : 0 :  There are girls who don't know an iambic from a dactyl, and yet are just as entertaining on a moonlight sleigluide.—"Somerville Journal."  : 0 :  The invention of the noiseless firearm may be One of the world's wonders, but wait until Somebody invents the noiseless phonograph.— *Detroit Free Press."  o You may depend upon it, religion is in its essence the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentiliEe, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing ehie that will alone. --Ooleridge.  : o  Yet all's not desolate, For lo! Life svhispi-rs from the sod, An bright with buds the tyrant's rod: Spring'b promie, trust, and wait.  —Add is.on Ballard.  `71141 say you get 250 s a month. I can't believe it. Tell me how?" "I get 114 E salary, then I don't pay my rent, 40s that's 130 s; I owe the milkman 306, that's 1863; in, 'butcher 40s, 2205, and every month I raise 301 i out of my friends, making an income of 250 i 'month!"  o "Life has no stranger thing in it than this: that two people should be all the world to each °taller: that they should share all the sacredness all the tenderness, of existence together, be c:lely united by a thousand ties of loving Urteroourse, and that suddenly all this enchanted intimacy should pass away, as though liDdsod it were a mere trick of enchantment, t° he replaced by an alienation so profound that no two people, however unacquainted, are bou bo far from each other as those two who were once so near ."--Richard Le Gallienne in "Painted Shadows." (John Lase.?  tek ,st.  . 1 •
Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1908-05-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HOW KING KILLEP.S ARE KILLED.  -Phone amongst the .a&a„ssins of the late King of Portugal and his son who fell victims to the Sahr.cts,and bullets of the soldiery and police are lucky. For even in these humanitarian days the lot of the regicide, when caught, is not usually a very enviable one. To be hanged is the least he can expect. Perpetual solitary imprisonment is a far .more dreadful fate. It drove Bresei, the awsisin of .King Kumi:ert of Italy, to suicide; and it has transformed Lucehini, Who murdered the Elnpress of A twtria, iit 4 -hopOcK,s imbecile.. Amongst the plotters implicated in • the murder of the late Shah of Persia, one was tortured to death in prison, while another ,was 111CaSed in wet plaster of Paris, which, on settiag, slowly crn4bed the life out of him. Three of the awassins of a previous Eheat were boiled alire in huge copper cauldrons. SO late as the year 1831 the two Mavromichaehs, who slew Count Capo d'Lstria, the first Pr dent of Greece, were immured within close brick walls, built round them up to their chips, and supplied • with salted food (but no drink) un:til they died. Damiens, who atteffipted the life of King. Louis XV., was at first *barbarotsly tortured,. and then torn to pieces by wild horse's. This awful purnisthment WRE publicly c.arried out in cme of the principal squares of' Paris,ne longer ago than March 28th, 1757- Ravail4e' who assassinated Henry IV. of France, s-uffezed. a similar fate. The murderer of &Um 111. et, Turkey was publicly impaled, linmering five 20,1 a 'half da,ys in dreadful torment. ''Thase tviel,o24 to death his immediate successor, MustaPha" " were tortured and starved on alternate days, and deprived of sleep by night, until death cane to their relief.—S. D., 9, Roberts-street, Grange. town, R.. 5.0.
Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1920-01-31 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MOOT.I drink "air squeezed or eomcvidence has ;ieen fothooming that there ever Axel pressed into a goblet " so that it farmed a kind such a person a.s Pof a dew. This elear'y suggests liquid sir. The. leinuA reOing at 'any time met Marseilles. Again, Dr. Phinuit, &though claiming to he a Frenchman, was completely ignorant of his same writer in "Vera Historic" humorously native tongue. i deecrihes an aer'al ship, the s3,ile of which were .. Perhaps the ugliest feature of spiritism is the . Inflated by a whirivrind, thus impelling iit number ii?its ad her nts wie- 7- -beer stark mad. through space to the moon.—B. Ware, Whitley Tlis fact alone ought to be duffle:ern to induce ell Bay. sensible people to give the cult a ...ery wide berth. ; Dr. Forbes Winelow, who has riven the subject a great deal of careful study, stated some time ago that there were then ten thousand ..oeople in lunatic asylums as a result of ,spiritualism. " Not a week passes," he says, "in whic.h we do not hear that some of these unfortunates destroy themselves by suicide. or are removed to lunatic asylums. . . . I could quote many instances where men of the highest ability have, so to speak, neglected all, and followed the doctrines of eperetualiem, onlv to end their days in lunatic asylums!—J. J. Nevin, Newcastle.  The Heart.  The heart—the heart! oh, let it be A true and bounteous thing; As kindly warm. os nobly free, As easzle's nestling wing. Oh! keep it not like miser's gold, Shut in from all beside; But let it's .precious stores unfold In mercy, fax and wide. The heart—the heart that's truly blest Is never all its own; No rly of glory lights the breast Th.it beats for self alone. —John R. li;:nderson, -.inn, Middlesbrough.  Write on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.  -*---- Happinessis Like warmth; the best form of id is that vrhioh arises from ourse:res.  -* Forget, your troubles, and the world will woe forget you ever had any. --*—  Were it not foT the misfortunes of our neigh. hours life would be positively unbearable.  1 „ • . s t -`,l, ;I'l' t 1 ; i•  -r neigh. _... rear-able.
Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1906-12-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SENSATIONS OF 1906.  ON LAND AND SEA.  The public life of America has been mainly cyclonic for the larger part of the passing year. A more pronounced series of sensations is not on record. Henry W. Lawson, the noted stockbroker, wrote fearlessly and fiercely on Frenzied Finance, and at last the insurance scandals have led to sweeping action, to several tragic suicides, and in some instances to punishment by the Courts. These events, however , are eclipsed by a tornado of indignation, Dot coktlned to America and still not wholly calmed, which ensued on revelations respecting the almost incredible state of things in the Chicago packing yards. Like Mrs Beecher Stowe in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a hitherto comparatively unknown novelist, Mr Upton Sinclair, wrote "The Jungle" with an object—the emancipation of Beet Trust employees. "I aimed," says Mr Sinclair, "at the nation's heart. By accident I hit it in the stomach." His story of insanitary abominations, of rotten carcases being turned into canned food, of  machinery-amputated fingers of workers mixing with the mass for "corned beef" sent a thrill of amazement and disgust through the civilised world, and the sale of tinned products practically ceased everywhere. No industry ever reeled and tell with greater force under a blow. President B,oosvelt had the conditions investigated by Commissioners, whose report eventuated in lc,s-islation providing for State inspection, and the packers, whose losses are reckoned in millions. hastened to make reforms and to pacify the public; public analysts in this and other countries undertook and are continuing examinations of samples; the War Office despatched an officer to Ci-riPago to make an independent inquiry. The civilised world was seared and nauseated, and Chicago has not yet restored its position as measured by its meat exports. In the realm of American tragedy, the most dramatic occurrence was the shooting, in a New York theatre in the summer, of Stanford White, the millionaire artist  Lieut. Pearl.  --• .... . %,• • 07... , ~.... , . . :•'.." 7.. ,•• <--,.. .e,-- • -..,- ----... , .-?•• ..} : A, . ,: , . 4,:l .44\ ' iltf ' ,A • .t,'-----t---t--::-. ••,. •1/4.. :4Q......a... ~. ."..t--..-----.--,. ' .4•-• - - ,- ----:-.. , • •"4"4:•:• e;1 . . gi" " •• • •... A .... -", , ameta . - ... • . ...- . " . - " ... . .
Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1914-02-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

INGERSOLL AT THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON.  Ingersor : "A little while ago I stood by the grave of the old lCapoleon, a magnificent tomb of gilt and stone, and gazed upon a sarcophagus of a rare and nameless marble, where rest, at last. the ashes 6 that restle&s man.  -I leaned over -OW bAlustrade and thought about the career of the gr.:latest soldier of the modern wor:d.  "I saw lirn walking upon the banks of the Seine contemplating suicide. I saw him putting down the mobs inthe st;ects of Paris. I saw him at the head of the army in Italy. I AS IV hifn with the Trholour in his hand,. Ibaw him in Egypt in the shadow of the Pyramids. I saw him conquer the Alps and triiiFfle with the eaLdes or his tribe. I SLIN in Russia. where the infantry of the F. rvol. and the cavalry of the wil4 blast. gathered hie legions like the winter's withered le.nyes. "I so.w him eseape and ee,tablish an empire by the force of his genius. . _  •• 1a w him upon Ow tittit fluid of Waikrlco, wh.Pre chary', and fate ecnibirod to wr4...ck thp fortunev, of that fprnmo• King, and I aw him at Ile.!pna gazing cot opon TN s.ad and Eulemn _ _  • "1 thought of the orphans and widows he had made, vf the tears that bad been shed for his (,lory. and of the only woman who ever loved him. pushed fre.in his heart by the cold hand of ambition. and I st id. '1 woulti rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing purple in the amorous kis,;es of the autumn sun, "I would rather have been that poor peasant, with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the days died out of the :skies, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me, 1 would rather have been that man und gone down to the sunless and dreamless dust, than to have been that imperial impersonation of falsehood and murder known as Napoleon the Great.' " Jack G. Roberts, Easington Colliery. Co. Durham.
Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1899-11-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOVEMBER 4, -1899.  1 10-404#-*-6##-#-****-t-tret * + : News of the World + 4. it At a Glance. I ; iiiii4Z4r+Viti4+44  I.3rd Curzon has left Simla, on his tour through Centriil ludis ear Rajputana.  Mr James L. Bowes. woolbroker, Liverpool, died its the London to Liverpool express.  mr Wil;darn R. 11.tittord, late Secretary to the Post Offiee in Scotland, haa died at Bunorana, in the Co. Donegal.  Lord Rosebery has been elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University by 829 votes against 515 polled for Lord Kelvin.  Frau Franrkka Blumenreieh, the well-known Gilman novehst, leaped from the fourth floor a . Berlin hotel, rind we. killed.  Tbe dead body of a little boy, who had evidently been cruelly murdered, was found in a waiting-room at Da'Eton Junction.  Sir Whittaker Ellis, Bart., has been obliged to cancel a number of engagements owing to inaispcsition, °awed by fungi poisoning.  The Hon. Pcter Mitchelt hau died ut ti.tit. He Wg9 prominently aeooeiated with the ternett;on of the Ccinadian Cumfoderation.  The tour of the French Minister of Marine has revealed a serious defiency of stores and appliances in the principal naval dookyarcis.  The Queen bee appointed Mr George Xavier Seger to be Recorder of Oldham, in the room of Mr James Wimerbotham Hamilton, Q.C., deceased.  The (teeth is announced of the Rev. Edward Lye' Berthon, of Romeey. well-known aa the intettor of collapsible Ixats, and improvements ut telescopes.  A young Frenchman, after shooting an Italian lady—whom he hail pestered with his attentions —at her mother's retadenee in Earrs-oouri-road, committed suicide.  The Hon. John FeHowes Wallop, second son of the late Earl of Portsmouth, is to be asked to cvntest the Ta% istock IStvi.ion in the Liberal interest at the general election.  The Court of Consuls at Shanghai have met end agreed again to address the Diplomate body at Pekin with a view to the ratification of the ex• tosion of the foreign settlement.  Fore of the principal steel combines in Amer 'ca have obtained orders for 1,500,000 tons of rails to be paid for at the rate of 35 dollars a ton, not quite 50.01:44000 dollars for the entire order.  By the recent death of Mr J. W. Hamilton, 0.C., and the appointment of Mr Binglake as the Retarder of Bournemouth, the Recorderships of ()I(liam and Penzance respectively have becYllo vacant  About an acre of land. fronting Blomfieldstreet. London-wall. and Finsbury-cireu.v. was "Igt " on building leaee for eighty years by 31 esgrs Repoldg and Eason at the Mart to Major Ricardo for £lB.