THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Ill llffill Condition of the Various Do minions of the Sultan 'HE CAUSES OF REVOLT llsrwli Madi Wri ty Conflict of Itiiic, llfllKlon dim! I'olH Ity 0iiN(nt Wnrfarra tin- Kmpin I Gradually HeiiiK Itfdinid In Size -The ?fT Nut i I'nrtor. 'ic territory In Europe under iictuat sovereignty of tlu .Sultan ' il Hamld IF. may now ho said to in lined to Its southern ede, nnd idmlnlitrntlon of the whole Abdul Muiuld, Sultan of Turkey. western pnrt of it is in dispute be tween him nnd the representatives of the Western Towers, says the New Tork Sun. Briefly told, they rail upon the Sultan to submit, to the amputation from his direct rule of the richest and largest part of his European ter ritory, containing several millions of Inhabitants who, unhappily, are di vided among themselves by differ ences of race and religion to such a degree that all attempts made at dif ferent times to bring them together to their own interests have totally toiled. Among the Albanians are adher ents of Islamlsm, Catholicism and the Eastern or Greek Orthodox Church. The people of what Is railed fodonia are of Bulgarian, Servian Greek origin, with about 100, of tho descendants of the old :.an military colonists scattered : the southwest and given mostly astoral and commercial pursuits, commercial port and capital of J:ls country Is Salonioa, th old Tliesi'ulonlca, with a population In which the Jewish element largely predominates, there being a section about 7,000 In number, railed by the Turl.s Dunmeh, who profess the Mo hammedan religion and have their own mosques. The consequence of the division of the population into three strong sec-tlon:-i Is that there are only four full working days in tho week, the Turks performing their Sidnmllk on Friday, the Jews observing their Saturday Sabbath and the Christians Sunday. That, the revolt against Turkish rule in Macedonia was justifiable eannot be denied. The condition of the (ouiitry, so far from Improving, had become intolerable to men who aw the results of the freedom given to the Bulgarians, Servians and Orrc.ks, and ho had, as so many of the leaders of the Macedonian bands, or coiiiitat Is, as the Turks call them, or committeemen, as we would call them, have had a western education. Tho treatment of the Christian won:i'ii by the Mussulman Aghas and Beys, and by the truculent zapttehs, or gendarmes, who lived free on the conu'ry, had as much to do with the insurrection against Turkish rule as anything else. Against such a rule and the social and political oppres sion accompanying It enlightened and high-minded men could do noth ing else but revolt, and maintain their revolt, whether by doing so they hurt the interests of European ov rnments and financiers or not. Il-irassed by suspicion of every oue around him the Sultan has al wn.vs for some reason not easily ex-pl.-ii'ned, entertained special doubt of the fidelity of his navy. Whether It. was because of the better educa tion of tho officers or the foreign in fluences under which most of them came, ships that cost millions were laid up for years together, and the ofllrvrs remained In Idleness, with little else to do than pass their time la i he cafe and gardens drinking and forming pnrt of the Sultan's cortege on the Friday when he per formed the weekly Selinalik. Tho secret murders by poison, the dapper, and drowning In the Bos phorns and the (iolden Horn, tho endless intrigues at the palace and In the provinces, the all pervading spy system that centers In tho Sultan himself, for since tho flight into Egypt of his most trusted political agent Abdul Hatnld gives his confi dence to no one; all thesa, combined wlili the International Jealousies that crop up between the embassies of the Powers, the Intrigue at tho Thanar, the headquarters of the Greek Patriarchate, and since 1878 tho-o at the agencies of tho minor Bal tun Sutos, leave the days of the Greek empire far behind. The won der Is not that there are disorder and oppression going on all over the empire, but that there Is any empire at till left for the Sultan to reign over. folk -'ira OCi:N TKAVF.UXU OP T(MAl Ingenious New Pevlces Tlint Insure Safety In Hen Voyages. Tn the presence of the fearful loss of life in accidents on our railroads, it Is with relief that v.o contem plate the ever IncreHsIni; pafety of travel by sea, says the Scientific American. The secret of this secur ity Is to lie foetid both In the struc ture of the ship Itself, and In the marvelously ingenious devices which scletne and Invention have placed at tho service of the navigator to guido him In tho more perilous phases of his duty. The submarine. nlgnnlllns Is a close rival to the wireless tele graph in the great increase that it has made in the safety of travel on the sea. due receiver Is placed on each side of the ship, with separate wires from each, and by the use of telephones the officer Is able to hear a bell that Is being struck at a point many miles distant from the ship, and determine Its direction. The officer of tho Kaiser Wilhelm dor Crosse states that on the last trip out, when the ship was four miles distant from the mouth of the Biver Weser he plainly made out the signal conveyed from the lightship there. Furthermore, as th" vessel neared Nantucket, and when she was about four miles distant from the lightshl.i, he heard through the telephone tho sk.inl "Cfi." This consists of six strokes of the bell, a pause and then six more strokes of the bell, which Is the Nantucket Lightship code signal. At about the same distance from Fire Island liiiht and from Sandy Hook Lightship the respectiveslgnals were distinctly audible. The value of this d vice in preventing collision between approaching ships Is evi dent, for it has tills advantage over tho foghorn, that the direction f t'ie appi-tim hi tig vessel, whether from port or starboard, is deter mined at once by the fact that the sounds are audible to the port or starboard telephone. CAIlXKtJIH'S COAT-OF-AKM9. In it Portrays the Humble Origin of His Ancestors. In nddltion to many other belong ings, Andrew Carnegie is the pos sessor of a coat-of-arms. It was not, to be sure, granted to an ancestor for prowess on the field of battle nor for any deed of valor. It has a much more interesting history. Anyone almost anyone has a coat of arms which has been handed down to him like nny other heirloom. Mr. Car negie had none such, but like the man of enterprise and originality that he is, he went to work and do vised one, and then he got an artist to paint it. high up on the walls of bis splendid library not the library be gives away every other day, but his own, in his line New York man sion. I'pon the escutcheon there Is a weaver's shuttle, because his father, William Carnegie, was a weaver; there is also a shoemaker's knife, because an ancestor not very remote worked at his trade of shoemaker. They say plainly that he has no de sire to ignore his humble beginning and that he wishes to honor the memory of the weaver and the shoe maker, his forebears. He boasts not of Norman blood, and honest hearts are more to him than coronets or royal favors. Mr. Carnegie has a coronet, or a crown, for a crest, but it is reversed and surmounted by the cap of lib erty. Tho supporters are the Ameri can and Scotch llagu, nnd the motto is "Heath to Privilege." It makes no difference, of course, since tho arms are unique, that according to laws of heraldry, coronets and sup : orters are only allowed with arms nf peers, baronets and Knights of the Garter. I'pon his own particular copies of his own books, "Thq Gos pel of Wealth" for one, the arms are emblazoned in blue and gold. Boa ton Post. The Moon I'liinhabited. The moon being much the nearest to us of all the heavenly bodies, we can pronounce more definitely in Its case than in any other. We know that neither air nor water exists on the moon in quantities sufficient '.o be perceived by the most dellca'e tests at our command. It is certain that the moon's atmosphere, if any exists, is less than tho thousandth part of the density of that around us. The vacuum Is greater than any ordinary air pump Is capable of pro ducing. We can hardly suppose that no small a quantity of air could bo of any benefit whatever In sustaining life; an animal that could get along with so little could get along on none at all. But the proof of tho absence of life Is yet stronger when we consider the results of actual telescopic ob servation. An object such as an or dinary city block could be detected on tho moon. If anything like vege tation were present on its surface wo should see the changes which It would undergo in the course of a month, during one portion of which it would lie exposed to the rays of the unclouded sun and during an other to the Intense cold of space llarper'f Weekly. Blunder of a Divorcee. In these days of many divorces a man should bo careful about whom ho marries at leust careful enough to see that he doesn't remarry a woman from whom he has been di vorced. That happened to a man In Montana recently. He foil In love, proposed, and wus accepted by a wo man from whom he bad been di vorced -3 years before, but did not know it until after tho wedding. Los Angeles Tluitsi. T1MK tKI VINO nil'.MIC.U,. A r.ccriit Discovery Said to Mnke Konds Dust mill fJerni Proof. The Hungarian chemist, Brunn, ays be has discovered a liquid ohemlcal compound which renders certain kinds of matter proof against the effects of time. He usserts that it doubles the density of nearly every kind of stone, and renders It waterproof. It imparts to all metals qualities which defy oxygen and rust. It is also a germicide of hitherto tin equaled powers. The professor says that while traveling In Greece some twenty-five years ago he noticed that the mortar In stones of ruins which were known to be over 2,000 yearn old was as hard, fresh nnd tenacious as if it had been made only n year. He secured a piece of the mortar, nnd lias been working on it ever since until now, when, he says, lie has discovered the secret. The com pound is a yellow liquid, which the professor has christened zorene. Ho describes the following experiments: n piece of ordinary and easily break nble slag, after Immersion In 7orene, defied the full blow of a hammer. There was tho same effect on ordi nary bricks and a block of red Jar rah wood. All three were then im mersed in water for a long time. When taken out and weighed with delicate scales the presence of a sin gle particle of added moisture could not be detected. Two pieces of steel submitted to an ammonia test equal to five years exposure to tho air emerged from the bath as they en tered it. An ordinary table knife which had lain open five months did not show the slightest stain. Profes sor Brunn asserts that he will bo able to make roads dust, germ nnd water proof, thus giving a commer cial value to hundreds of millions of tons of slag which Is now useless in the mining and smelting districts. His discovery will at the very least, he says, double the life of metals ex posed to the air, such ns in bridges, railroads, vessels and tanks. ITILI.1XG THE HIGHEST LAKK. As a Source of Motive Power for the Peruvian Hallway. Lake Tlticaca, the largest lake in Peru and the highest navigable lake in the world, will shortly be utilized as a gigantic power generator to sup ply motive force for the Southern railway of Peru, and probably also to provide electricity for lighting and other purposes in the Republic. M. Emile Guarinl, a well known electrical engineer, who has been commissioned by the Peruvian Gov ernment to estimate tho resources of the lake, has returned to London from his mission, full of enthusiasm. At present the Southern railways of Peru consume on the average about 140 tons of coal a day. The rost of this by the time it has been trans ported to the place of use, has amounted to 2 a ton. This means an average expenditure of 280 a day, or 102,200 a year for motive power on the railways. Tho interest on the capital neces sary for the installation of electric power would, according to M. Gua rinl, fall far below this sum, and in addition the electrical supply could be used for other purposes. The Physician's Kigbt to Kill. Discussing an article by Dr. I. Itegnault in "La Uevne" (Paris), A. Agrestl writes, In "Italia Mod erna" (Home), on "The Uight of Homicide" in other words, the ex pediency of physicians practicing euthanasia, hurrying the demise of hopelessly afflicted patients. The Italian writer thinks the world would become ridiculous if every one were reduced to normal as Lombroso would have it, "if thero were not some deformed that would permit us to appreciate beauty; If there were not some assassin to tench us the value of life, nnd some genius to tell of Its joys and its sorrows. That which counts In society, and lends ever to count more. Is the in dividual." Hut when the human or gnnisin is hopelessly deranged,' and death must ensue shortly, there co;ue t lie right and the duty to pre vent loo atrocious suffering. Each for one's self would choose tho quick er end, but all administer tho dose that prolong the life and the suffer ing. But when shall the decision for ! euthanasia be made, and by whom ; the patient, the doctor, the family? Who knows when death Is certain to come soon? Many difficult questions i arise. This writer thinks the physi- clan should bo judge, with a con- sulfation, perhaps furnished by the municipality, and not always I ho j same persons. The family should be consulted, not as to when, but as to tho willingness und advisability. The patient tnlght be consulted as to the administration of the last sacru nient, but often his true state Is concealed from him, and his merci ful ending might be also. As to tho how, Slgnor Agrestl would put It all In the hands of the physician. "He should put the pa tient into the eternal sleep without saying to any one: I come for this. His action should be sudden and mysterious, like death, and, like death, beneficent." Ueview of Ue vlews. Wear on Wooden Pavements. In provincial towns in England the creosoted soft wood pavement lias a life of from twelve to fifteen years, and hard woods from fifteen to eigh teen years. At St. Paucras, London, where there Is a traffic of 411.318 tons per yard of width per annum, the greatest wear of the Australian wood jarrah was 0.16 inch, or less thi.u ono-nfth of an inch each, yeur. NOVICTj VEXTltiATIOX 8 Y ST KM. Experiments Have D mount rnlcd Its : Klllcli'iicy. ' Attention was drawn to this Im portant question at the recent con gress of medical officers bv Thomas Glover Lyon. M.D., who made sev- j ral interesting suggestions concern ing the possibility of fresh air al ways and everywhere. Dr Lyon, after long experiments, devised a sstem of his own for the Tontitatton of the home without draught or expensive Installations, and the success of his Ideas In this respect has been demonstrated in the presence of medical confreres us well as st the clubs and hotels where this system has been put into force. The Glover Lyon system of ven tilation Is based on directing tho air In such a manner that it enters tho room evenly through apertures along the side of suitably placed conduits, and Is taken evenly out of the room In a similar manner. The result Is a slow sweep of air through the room without draught, either from end to end or from side to side, or In any direction w hich may be required. The movement of air along tho conduits Is not produced by pressure, the air moving alone by the momen tum Imparted to It. A room measuring fifteen by four teen feet, and ten feet high from floor to ceiling, was once occupied, by way of a very severe test, by twenty-four workmen, who smoked the strongest and cheapest tobacco for about two hours. The experi ment was a success the atmosphere in the apartment being as frv.sh at the departure of the men as on their arrival. Dr. Lyon's su.'f.'estlons for dealing with the impure air In our cities in rlude a scheme for diffusing the pure n I r of the country all through the metropolis by means of pipes and air tanks. London Mall. SPANISH 1 XT Ell EST IX CTHA. He t. tin a Large Share of the Foreign Traili' of the Island. CVba Is no longer a Spanish col ony, but this does not mean that the Spaniards have censed to feel the greatest Interest nnd concern for their former Insular possession. The Interests of the ex-metropolis In tho Pearl of the Antilles are loo important to permit the Spaniards to look with indifTorenece upon the de velopment of affairs in the new re public. It Is a well known fact that the greatest part of the Cuban trade Is controlled by Spnnish merchants; one-third, at least, of Cuba's wealth belongs to Spaniards, and the trade between the two countries, while not so large as during the Spanish domi nation. Is important enough to make the Spanish people deeply Interested In all matters concerning Cuba. For some time after the advent of the republican regime In Cuba, the Spaniards were Inclined to share tho pessimistic views of those who doubt ed Hie stability of tho Cuban re public. The good work of Senor Estrada Pal ma's government, however, tend ed to dissipate all fears, anil confi dence had begun to spread through out Spain when the news of the com templntod negotiation by Cuba for a new loan has caused new fears. The Spaniards are well known by their conservative tendencies In point of business and they fear that Cuba will go down to bankruptcy if its rulers do not limit themselves to the strictest economy. Automobile Farming. A new nnd special type of auto blle has recently been put on the market In Scotland which is de signed especially for larm work, and w hich is not only suitable for plough ing, but may be equipped with a cul tivator or reaper. It will prepare the ground nnd sow the seed at one operation, and can be operated at a better speed than a horse. Thus, when ploughing. It can cover from six to seven acres a day, and goes over the field so as to leave It in final shape for cultivation. When not In use in tho Held, the motor can be used to drive ull farming machin ery, and when ploughing the cost of fuel, labor and depredation has been computed at $1 per acre, or less than one-half tho expense of ploughing by horse. It Is interesting to note that tho cost of the machine is about 1,500, an amount that does not seem prohibitive for a large farm, where a thorough test of tho new machine could readily be made. The automobile, unlike the farm animal, does not have to bo fed when it is not working, nnd it Is hero that a substantial element of economy can be secured. Harper's Weekly. fishing by Telephone. Izaak NVultou, reincarnated In the twentieth century, could further his knowledge of the fluny races with a telephone. In Norway they have a telephone by which the sounds of fish may be heard. It consists of a microphone in a hermetically sealed steel box, conuected with a telephone on shipboard by wires, each sound in the water being intensified by the microphone. The Inventor asserts that, with its aid, the presence of fish, and approxi mately their number and kind, can be recognized. When herring or smaller fish nro encountered in large numbers they niako a whistling noise, and the sound made by cod fish is more like howling. If they come near the submarine telephone their motions can be distinguished. The flow of water through tholr gills produces a noise similar to the lab orod breathing 'of a quadruped. Exchange. AYi'Cclaule Preparation for As slinilntini the Food nnrlKcqula ling tt Stomachs and Dowels of rromolcs DicalioivChooruir ness ami Ri'st .Contains iioillur Opium, Morphine norMuicraL Not TCAitc otic. miJ,m Seal' Mx Sriuui jinvr Srrd Jit (lUiniimlrSoiA I fwfv .liW - hlnlmfwt nmw. Aprrfi'cl Ht-moily forfonslipo lion, Sour Stouiarh.Diarrhoofl Worms .Convulsions, Fevcnsh ncss uul Loss of Sleep. Fac Simile Sifnnlure of NEW YORK. EC T!;e lYva'u Car and the favored Skippers Kay Stannard Dakcr in the Jan uary McCi.I'kk.s taiks about the private car and the liecf ttust. He begins by considering the legiti mate uses of private ears, and shows how, as originally planned they were of great benefit to the railroads, the shippers, and the consumers; how they boomed the fruit industry, and brought to the large cities of the North the delica cies of the South and the West After that, Mr. Uakcr, in his clear style, builds up a structure f facts that gives you a bird's-eye view of the almost unbelievanle sweep cf the abuses. He talks principally of Armour, as the larg est owner of private cars, who con trols a dozen or more lines, owning fruit and meat-cars approximately 14,000 in all, representing an in vestment of about 14, 000, 000. lie tells how Armour cc Co. carry not enly their own products, but fruit and vegetables for shippers generally, and how much of th's 1 side issue is conducted entirely at I the expense of the railroads I The railroads pay for these pi i -I vate cars a mileage charge," af ( te: wards collecting the freight rate. 1 Although the rental for the cars brines in a handsome interest, on the money invested, these big ship pers are not satisfied, and turn the sciews just the same and squeeze their rates down when their pro ducts are carried at a figure far be low that which the smaller shipper pays. Armour in addition, on account of the breadth of his interest, is able to drive thess cars so that thev make the maximum number of miles a day, and so gets his stuff tnrougli, at the expense not only of other shippers, but of the ordinary routine of the railroad itself. Mr. Haker illustrates his narra tive with many true incidents, which serve to bring home to the reader the menace contained in this control of the rates by the trusts. He tells of John I). Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company, and shows how Armour and he defy the railroads and name the actual price at which the products shall becartied. Mr. Uaker goes furth er and makes charges, astounding, hard of belief, until he has proved them with hard, cold faefs. He shows how politics play a part and how politicians garner rebates, and tells at length of the gross injustice ol the disci limitation between beef and cattle. This article containing : the exposure it does would create a sensation at any tune, but it is of peculiar interest just now when all the country looks to Washington for rate legislation. Prince L,ouis of Pattenburg con tributes to the Woman's Jotne Com panion for January the only signed article that he has given to any American publication "Diploni acy A New Field of Kndeavor f( r the American Woman " Another notable article is "Why Do We Read?" by Jerome K. Jerome. "A Royal Love Mutch'' tells how the Crown Prince of Oerniany won his bride. There are two ltvelv VVVm. Jeru stories. "The Princess and the . 3 j tXACT COPY Of WRAPPER. J Hj I. Tor Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years M TMI etirnuM loann. ni rann city. l'unclnr," bv William McLeod Kaine, nnd "The Trail of the Hilly Doo," by William Wallace Cook, and two good Kastern love stories, the dainty "Wooing of ISettv." by Zona Ga'c, and the strong "When Love nnd duty meet,' by May IU lis Nichols, Philadelphia's "Shoot ers' Day" is elaborately illustrated with photographs, and "How Wall Street Celebrates New Year's" is another New Year specialty. The fashion, household and architectu ral features are bright and timely ns usual. Published by the Cro well Publishing Company, Spring field, Ohio; one dollar a year; ten cents a copy. 1 Give Honor to Whom it is Due Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Rcndout, N. Y., cured me of Hright's disease and (1 ravel. Pour of the best physicians had failed to re'icve me. I have rec-'tn-ntended it to scores of p.ople with like success, and know it will cure aU who try it Mrs. V.. P. Mizner, Htirg Hill, O. Price $1.00, all dtuggists 6 bottles 55.00. - -. siiakk ' HI- tiik okir of vour old enemy, N.ial C.narili. by uifi Kly's (Vain Halm. Then will nil the swelling and -on-iu-ss le 'hiven out nf the tender inflamed im inbranrs Tilt! fi's id siiering will ccae and tlie dis charije as olfi nsive 10 oilier ns 10 oiue!f, w 11 be cured when (lie curies th;t produce il ore removed. Cleanliness, conifurt and health renewed bv the u.e nf Cream I'abn. Sold by all drim, i.sts for 50 tents, or mailed b Kly liins., 56 Warren Street. New York. Talk is 1 heap, 111 siie of 1 lie fact that nut of us indulge in ix ravagant assci li jus. Take caie nf the stomach and the heallh will take caie of i 1 self It cople only re. alied the soundness of that statement the majority mieht live to a gond old ac,e like Mncs, "ihe eye nndiiiinied, the natural force un.duicd." It is in the stoma, li that the b'nod is m. .de. It is fiom the stomach that nourishment is dispensed to nerve and inns cle. If the stomach is ' 'weak" it can't do lis whole work for each pait of the Imdy, If it is diseased the disease will taint the nour ishment whiih is distiihuted, and so spread dise ise throughout the body. It a the i? iliati.iii of the importance nf the. stomach as the very center ofliralth anil the common source of disease, w liicli led lir. 1'ierce to prepare his "I iolden Medical Discovery." "Diseases which origirate in the stomach must he cured through t lie stomach.'' 'I he soundness of this theoiy is proved everv day by cures cf diseased organs, Inait, liver, lungs, blood, by the use of the "1 hscovery" which is solely nod singly n medicine for the blood and nigrum of digestion and nutrition. It is a temperance medicine curtaining no alcohol, whisky or other intoxicant. Fhoto(raphl4 REVIVO rum -4ia. RESTORES VITALITY Made a Well Man x of Me. Grn.EA.T 1 rnuKToii xixnuraaxnr produces the above result In 30 days. It tctl powerfully Bud quickly. 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