FROM OTHER LANDS INFORMATION GATHERED BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. SOME FACTS OF BOHEMIA Is a Great Industrial Country and Not aG Pictured in Romance —Increas- ing Demand for Wood a Se rious Problem. t 3 s J.I. k i' (Tin l«illn * tS I PRAGUE, AUSTRIA. The Bohemia of real life as an en tirely different sort of a place from the Bohemia of romance. There has been a disposition on the part of a great many people to regard the coun try as a romance land simply, to refer to it as such, thus neglecting the splendid trading opportunities offered by it lo enterprising merchants and to manufacturers of many kinds of mod ern, time and labor saving machinery. • Bohemia is situated in the very heart of Europe, on the highway of ■commerce between its nothern and soul hern ports and eastern and west ern markets, a day's distance from the former ports and only a few hours from the principal cities of central lEurope. Bohemia is a land of extraordinary industrial activity, great agricultural wealth, considerable financial re sources, and vast commercial possi bilities; and the land contains one of 'the most industrious and highly edu cated people of the Old Continent, where all branches of education are far advanced. Bohemia has a population of 6,318,- 697, or about 25 per cent, of the total population of Austria—26,lso,7oß. This population is about 65 per cent. Czech and 35 per cent. German. There is considerable rivalry be tween the two races, and this should be taken into consideration in deal ing with them. The commercial men speak both languages, but generally prefer to be addressed in their own tongue, and, frequently, to deal with -their own nationality. Of the foreign languages spoken, French seems the most popular with the Czechs and English with the Germans, but the younger generation is learning both languages, thus speaking for lan guages—German, Czech, English and French. Bohemia covers an area of 20,061 •square miles, or about 18 per cent, of the total area of Austria. The climate is about the same as that of New York. Of the 17 divisions of the Aus trian empire the Kingdom of Bohemia ranks second in area but first in in dustry and commerce. It is also claimed that its land is very fertile and its people industrious. Of the population about 40 per cent, are en gaged in farming and forestry, about 38 per cent are employed in manu facturing and mining, eight per cent, in commerce, railroading, etc., and nine per cent, as laborers. Only about | four per cent, of the land is not un- j der cultivation. About one-third of the industrial or commercial firms in Austria are established in Bohemia, representing about 37 per cent, of the total Austrian industrial and mining interests and about 26 per cent, of | its whole commerce. It may be added that Bohemia's contribution to the imperial revenue averages about 25 per cent, of the total amount of state taxes received. On taxes levied on real property (land, houses, etc.) the proportion is 22 per cent, and m per sonal income taxes, 23 per cent. In indirect taxes levied on beer, alcehol, sugar, wine, tobacco and mineral oil the proportion was about 27 per cent., giving a fair idea of the industry, wealth and consuming power of the population of the kingdom. URBAIN LEDOUX. HAT MAKING IN ITALY. NAPLES, ITALY. Hat making in Italy is increasing steadily. The exportation of straw hats is an important item in Italy's foreign trade balance. Of late years the manufac ture of wool and felt hats not only covered the home consumption, but ■contributed to Italian exports. The finest hair hats are made in Alessan dria and in Intra, on Lake Maggiore. Midium quality felt hats are made in Biella, Chiavazza, Andorno, Sagliano, Micca and Tarigliano. The town of Monza is the chief cen ter for the manufacture of woolen hats. Here 14 factories were formed into a syndicate or trust which em ploys about 7,000 operatives. Of the Monza production, about $1,300,000 worth is annually exported, the chief customers being Roumania, Austria- Hungary and Switzerland. The daily production of Monza averages 150,000 hats. Factories manufacturing fine hats, composed of hair, for export trade, are in various cities. The straw hat manufactories of Tuscany, ,employing about 85,000 operatives, ex port to foreign countries over $5,000,- 000 in value. Most of these hats jgo to the United States. The town iand vicinity of Carpi, in the province Ot Emilia, also manufacture straw liats, of which about $1,300,000 worth are shipped abroad. Our fine Ameri can-made soft hats should and would find as ready a sale as the Italian hats do in the markets of Europe if properly introduced. R. GUENTHER. WORLDS WOOD SUPPLY. EIBENSTOCK, BELGIUM. The demand for wood instead of diminishing, as was expected, when coal came in as a substitute, has gone on Increasing until the question of a continued supply to meet the present, rapidly increasing rate of consumption is a very serious problem. The coal mines of Belgium called for 1,742,740 square yards of wood for the various purposes to which wood is putin mines in 1903. Each year a renewal of old supports is taking place, and new ones are being put into new galleries. Railroads eat up enor mous quantities of wood in cross ties. Add to these wood for excelsior, or wood-wool newspapers, bags, etc., and one will have tons running into the millions each year. North America, Siberia. Africa, In dia, China, Korea and South America still contain great unutilized and al most unknown forests. Nevertheless, it would bo well not to exaggerate the dimensions of these wood supplies. Many African forests are really com posed of nothing better than thin bushes, and Siberia is already being systematically subjected to deforest ing, which will also begin in Korea in the near future. North America, however, once the possible wood storehouse for the world, has not enough wood to sup ply its own demand notwithstanding its 506,555,000 acres of wooded area. Even now it is dependent upon Can ada, which, with its 798,133,000 acres of forests, represents probably the largest single area of any country in the world. Canada sends its entire surplus to the United States. Al though large territories of forests, es pecially in China, Korea, India and South America remain to be utilized, it is certain that the question of the future wood supply of the world, now attracting the attention of economists, will continue to excite great interest. The continuation of the present wood consumption, without comprehensive reforesting, will, within a century at the latest, result in a great and very important scarcity of the wood supply WM. C. TEICHMANN. SUGAR CANE IN MEDEIRA. FUNCHAT,. Sugar cane was first introduced in Madeira by Zargo about 1425, and sub sequently was transplanted to the West Indies, where its extensive culti vation has produced so much wealth. Cane growing retrograded in Madeira owing to carelessness and the destruc tion by a grub. Vineyards and wine making became the industry, which in turn was almost ruined for a time by a fungus. Sugar-cane planting was resumed, and to-day is a steady indus try in the lower irrigable parts of the island. The tenant system in vogue, however, reduces the acreage produc tion about one-half. On a given space of 2.5 acres, on which I have obtained reliable statis tics, with the cultivation of the crop by the landlord himself, the cost, of culture, manure, water, etc., amounts to $432. For the sale of young plants nnd the yield of crop—4o,soo kilos (kilos equal 2.2 pounds) at 50 cents per 30 kilos —the returns are $790, leaving a profit of $358. The tenant system bring 3 the production down to about 2,000 kilos on 2.5 acres. The method of refining sugar by Hinton & Sons, of Funchal, Is the suc cessful Saudet chemical process for the extraction of beet juice applied to cane, practically minimizing the per centage of loss under the old system of double crushing to an irreducible four per cent. Under this process, after the juice has been extracted by crushing, it is concentrated by evap oration and purified by chemical treat ment, following which it is cry» tallized by a centrifugal machine com posed of dual cylinders, one of fine net and an inner solid one. These 'jeing subject to a proper revolution ary velocity, the liquid elements are thrown off, leaving a deposit of sugar crystal, the residue o£ juice being aft erwards distilled Into spirit, while the pulp resulting from the initial process of crushing is converted into operative fuel. The consumption of the mill, which employs over 300 laborers, la about 500,000 pounds daily, represent ing an approximate value of $4,000. MAXWELL ULAKE. NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE. The number of hogs slaughtered at Frankfort, Germany, decreased from 125,161 in 1904 to 115,797 in 1905, while the number of horses killed in creased from 1,137 to 1,408. Norwegian butter is rapidly grow ing in popular favor, especially in England. In 1905 the amount export ed from Stavanger was 600,000 pounds, an Increase of nearly 200,000 pounds over 1904 and 325,000 pound* I over 1903. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, CCTOEER IS, 1906 TRUST TRIAL Brings Out Evidence from Mr. Cuthbert AN IMMUNITY BATH is Taken by the President of the Manhattan Oil Co., an Auxili ary of the Standard. Findlay, O.—Evidence was brought out Thursday by the state in the trial of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio for conspiracy against trade, showing the ownership of the Manhat tan Oil Company of Ohio to be in the General Industrial Development Co., of London, England. Also that the Manhattan, which buys and pipes crude oil, does not compete with the Standard, but does compete with in dependent companies. These facts were brought out in the testimony of F. T. Cuthbert, president of the Manhattan. A similar criminal suit to that on trial is pending against his company and he testified under the order of the court, which renders him immune from future criminal prosecution. Explaining the nature of business done by the Manhattan, Mr. Cuthbert said that before he became its presi dent the company did a general oil business; that it owned producing properties, pipe lines and a refinery at Galatea, O. It had disposed of all but its pipe lines to the Ohio Oil Co., but he did not know who was now oper ating the refinery at Galatea. The Manhattan Co. now does exclusively a pipe line business. In doing so it buys the oil of the producer, trans ports it to storage stations and sells it to S. P. Trainor, purchasing agent for the Standard, who also buys oil from Joseph Seep, treasurer of the Buckeye Pipe Line Co. In what is known as the South Lima field, where the Manhattan and Buck eye pipe lines both buy oil, the price paid to the producer is five cents a barrel less than in the North Lima field, where what are regarded as the Independent companies make their purchases. Asked to explain why this was, Mr. "to protect our pipe lines from the encroachment of com petitors." A WORLD-WIDE QUEST. It Is Being Made for a Havana Banker Who Stole $1,000,000. New York. Cablegrams to all ports in the world were sent out Thursday asking the authorities to keep watch for Manuel Silveira, the Havana banker, who is accused of having absconded with more than si,- 000,000, thereby causing the assign ment in this city of the banking com mission house of Juan M. Ceballos & Co., which failed on Wednesday with liabilities of between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. It was announced here Thursday that Silveira is not on board the steamer Carmelina, on which he and his family sailed from Havana. It was said that the present whereabouts of the Carmeliua are known and the destination of the other steamer to which it is said Silveira and his fam ily were transferred two days out from Havana has been ascertained. William V. Rowe, receiver of the wrecked firm, said that every effort was being made to apprehend Silveira, who, he said, was a close personal friend of President Castro, of Venezu ela, and had important financial rela tions with the head of the South American republic. Detectives have been employed to run down Silveira and their opinion is that the Cuban banker will strain every nerve to reach Venezuela. CUBS ARE WHITEWASHED. National Leaguers Lost the Third of the World's Championship Games. Chicago, 111. —Thursday's game be tween the Chicago teams of the Na tional and American leagues was a battle royal between Pitchers Walsh and Pfeister, and the American league team won, 3 to 0. Twenty-one batsmen struck out, for 12 of these the cx-edit goes to Walsh. In addition he gave only one pass, and allowed but two hits, in the first in ning. Thereafter the Nationals, until the ninth Inning, never had any sort of a chance to score. According to the official count, 13,- 750 enthusiasts, encouraged by slightly warmer weather, were pres ent when the game began. Pfeister, the left handed pitcher, went into the box for the Nationals. Hi?"control at first was good, but by no means per fect. He quickly steadied, however, and pitched superbly until the sixth inning. It was here he went to pieces and the game was lost.. After the first innipg Walsh held the Nationals completely at his mercy. A Disastrous Collision. Montgomery, Ala. —A passenger train on the Louisville & Nash ville railroad from New Orleans and a freight going south collided Thurs day near Flomaton, several persons seing injured, some seriously. Both engines were demolished. Explosion was Fatal to Three. New York. Three men were killed and a dozen others ren dered uftsoiiscious by an explosion and fire Thursday in the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel under Long Island City. CAMPAIGN IN iii:WYORK Candidates Hughes and Hearst Ars Doing Some Tall Hustling to Secure Votes. Klniira, N. Y. —William It. Hearst on Friday formally accepted the democratic nomination for gov ernor of New York state in a letter addressed to W. J. Conners, chairman of the democratic state committee. Before a large audience Mr. Hearst spoke last evening in the Lyceum the atre and then left for Ithaca, where he was scheduled to speak. The theatre where last night's meeting was held had been engaged and billed for a musical comedy, hut Mr. Hearst bought out the comedy company's claim, paying, it is said, a bonus of S2OO. The theatre was packed to suffocation half an hour be fore the time for the meeting to be gin and a large and vociferous crowd filled the two streets in front and on the sides of the theatre. A feature of the speech was what most of his hearers took to be a re pudiation of the support of ex-Mayor Van Wyck, of New York City. When he said: "I do not want the support of any ice trust mayor," hearty ap plause greeted this sally, as did also his declaration "that if any lackey of the trusts has not yet departed from our purified party let him speak up and I will help him togo speedily if not gracefully." Seneca Falls, N. Y.—ln speeches delivered on Friday in Yates and Seneca counties, Charles E. Hughes, the republican candidate for governor, took up and answered the assertion made by W. It. Hearst at Corning Thursday night to the effect that the net result of the life insur ance investigation as conducted by Mr. Hughes was the substitution in the Equitable Life Assurance Society of "Ruthless Ryan for harmless Hyde." Mr. Hughes declared his op ponent was insincere in making such a statement and could not "fool the people." He pointed out that the Ryan pur chase of the Hyde stock was made be fore an investigation was ever or dered. and naturally before he had anything to do with the subject. Mr. Hughes repeated his charges of in sincerity against Mr. Hearst. This has been the keynote of all his later utterances. ONE RUN WAS ENOUGH. Chicago Nationals Whitewashed Their Opponents in Game No. 4. Chicago, 111. —The world's cham pionship baseball series is again even, the local National league team on Friday defeating the American leaguers, 1 to 0. Each team hao now won two games. Curiously enough, both National victories have been on the American grounds, while the White Stockings have earned success on their rivals' field. Altrock, for the Americans, and Brown for the Nationals, the pitchers who opposed eacli other in the open ing game, which was won by Alt rock's team, again contested for su premacy. Brown was at his best. He showed nerve, speed, control and in telligence. He gave only two passes and allowed only two hits. He held the Americans hitless until the sixth inniwg, when, with two out, llahn hit clearly to center. Jones, however, promptly ended the inning by Hying out to Schulte. The Nationals earned the run which won the game. Chance sent a fly to short right field and reached third on sacrifices by Steinfeldt and Tinker. Evers placed a single over third base and Chance scored. The attendance reflected the im proved weather, the official count showing 18,385 paid admissions. This was the last game in which the play ers share the gate money. Total re ceipts for the four games wore $61,- 855, of which $33,401.70 goes to the players. Of this sum 75 per cent, will goto the members of the win ning team. BUSINESS BULLETIN. Reports froir. Every Branch of Indus try Show Great Prosperity. New York. —It. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Lower temperatures brought out much business in seasonable linej of wearing apparel and most reports from wholesalers tell of the largest volume of trade ever transacted. Shipping departments are limited in activity by inadequate railroad facili ties and this difficulty is becoming aggravated by the free movement of grain and coal as the season advances. Official crop reports covering condi tions on October 1 indicated most satisfactory grain prospects, but dam age has since reduced the yield of cotton and caused a violent rise in prices. To this fact is due some ir regularity in trade and collections at a few southern cities, but most cen ters report expanding business and confidence regarding the future. In the leading industries it is impossible to secure prompt deliveries, even contracts for shipment during the first quarter of 1907 being difficult to place with steel mills. Failures this week numbered 217 in the United States, against 214 last year, and 28 in Canada, compared with 25 a year ago. King of Moonshiners Is Fined. Richmond, Va.—Wayne It. Gcoch, known to the revenue officers as "King of the Moonshiners," plead ed guilty in the United States circuit court Friday to indictments charging him with conspiracy to defraud the government. Judge Waddill fined him SI,OOO. The Earth Shook. Albuquerque, N. M. —The most severe earthquake shock in months was felt at Socorro, N. M., Friday The shocks lasted ten min uter. No damage is reported. Expert with Bow and Arrow. Nero Perry a:i old Chickasaw tieod man, who lives on Caddo cm*k, in the Chickasaw nation, supports himself by hunting gamo with n bow and arrow. Though 7G years old, lip can send an arrow into a squirrel in the tallest tree. Perry went to the Chickasaw country in 1828 from Mis sissippi with Jim McLish, his old mas ter. They settled on the banks of the Caddo creek, where they built the first house erected in the Chick asaw nation. Here they lived until 1861, when McLish died, then the old place rever.ted to Perry, and there he still lives. WHO SHE WAS SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E PINKHAIVI And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of '73 M Caused it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. Tli is remarkable woman, whose maiden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass., February 9th, 1819, com ing from a good old Quaker family. For some years she taught school, and became known as a woman of an alert and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa thetic nature. In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham, a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They hail four children, three sons and a daughter. In those good old fashioned days it was common for mothers to make their own home medicines from roots and herbs, nature's own remedies— calling in a physician only in specially urgent cases. By tradition and ex perience many of them gained a won derful knowledge of the curative prop erties 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 pressly designed to cure the 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 rare combina tion of the choicest medicinal roots and herbs found best adapted for the cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu liar to the female sex, ami Lydia E. l'ink ham's friends and neighbors learned that her compound relieved and cured and it became quite popular among them. All this so far wasdono freely, with out money and with- it price, as a labor of love. But in 187.1 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 nial year dawned it found their prop erty swept, away. Some other source of income had to bo fotind. At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was made knowu to the world. The three sons and the daughter, with thsir mother, combined forces to NO MORE MUSTARD PLASTERS TO BLISTER. I THE SCIENTIFIC AND MODERN EXTERNAL COUNTER-IKRITANT. CAPISICUM VASELINE EXTRACT OF THE CAYENNE PEPPER PLANT A QUICK, SURE. SAFE AND ALWAYS READY CURE FOR PAIN.-PRICE 15c. —IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES—AT ALL DRUCGISTS AND DEALERS. OR BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF 15c. IN POSTAGE STAMPS. DON'T WAIT i TILL THE PAIN COMcS-KEEP A TUBE HANDY. A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster, and will not , blister the most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and curative qualities of the article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve Headache and Sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pair.s In the chest and stomach and all Rheumatic. Neuralgic and Gouty complaints, A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in tha H household and for children. Once used no family will be without it. Many people say ',' it is the best of all your preparations." Accept no preparation . of vaseline unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not eenuine. D SEND YOUR ADDRESS AND WE WILL MAIL OUR'VASE LINE PAMPHLET-WHICH WILL INTEREST YOU. CHESEBROIJGH MFG. CO. 17 STATE STREET, NEW YORK CITY I 111 IB IIIIM II 111 111 l I m Hill T I II I I II I II Minim 111 111 pameliitepjfpi STOVE POLISH iPILL -* SPA ™ I ■HMwrwrnrMwrMMMOiß ——■ —— n—wn i— ■■ MM mi win wwiiwMwr———rTTiu^f^nwuJ I Hurt, Bruise or Ppraiii St. .laculjN Oil relieves from pain. m Somehow it doesn't, sound just right when a spinster uL.ka foi a match. Mr*. U'iliHlow'H So(ifhti)| Syrup. For cJiii<li ei» teeming. ■ •lien-* tm* , ..m.J, .r.mrr* In j ihun» 4 ftllajtf cui«j»wui<Jcwti> . 'wcaboltl#. People with real troubles never ad vertise them. l'T rNAJI FADELESS DVES produro ' the brightest and fastest colors with lea# I work and no inuss. i Onions and whisky form a com bination calculated to put. almost any ' happy homi? out of commission. restore the family fortune. They argued that the medicine which was so good for their woman friends and neighbors was equally good for the women of the whole world. The Pinlchams had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory was tho kitchen, where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of bottlesu Then came the question of selling it, for always before they had given it away freely. They hired a job' printer to run off some pamphlet* setting forth the merits of the medi* cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham'* Vegetable Compound, and these were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York, and Ilrooklyn. 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* ily had saved enough money to com' mcnce 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 its manufacture. Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not live to see the great success of thia work. . She passed to her reward years ago, but not till she had provided means for continuing her work as 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 tbatcame to her attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice— and there were thousands —received careful study, and the details, includ ing symptoms, treatment and results were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with hundreds of thousands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and represent a vast collabora tion of information regarding the treatment of woman's ills, which for authenticity aud accuracy can hardly be equaled in any library in th« world. With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her daughter-in-law, tho present Mrs. Pinkham. She was carefully instructed in all her hard-won knowledge, and for years she assisted her iu. her vast correspondence. To her hands naturally fell the direction of the work when its origina tor passed away. For nearly twenty five years she has continued it, and nothing in the work shows when the first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham, now the mother of a large family, took it up. With women assistants, some as capable as herself, the present Mrs. Pinkham continues this great work,and probably from the office of no other person have so many women been ad vised how to regain health. Sick wo men, this advice is "Yours for Health" freely given if you only write to ask for it. Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound; made from simple roots and herbs ; the one great medicine for women's ailments, and the fitting monument to the noble woman whose name it bears. 3
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