—_ —_ ING. ar Col- ther fa- ired in s train n Rail- ey cars track. 5 Raut- 10spital . Jere- uniden- f age; id his Cross-: = nd the . The ty and the ac- h rate train going trolley WwW. H Ryan, rapid around on the i8 car, k, and motor 2} same > up. ED. lachin- ember- ciation ational hanics tween zaniza- mn will The will be bf Ma- merg- 1arters vill be dquar- ciation . and ill ar- The , com- naking anized United SAS. » Used quired ers at y will pplies, - otner nearly 1 they AT. camps reams, en six- S. yorld’s almost result- 2struc- Feen struck Cross- killed htning e dur- a safe mitted Nimi- him. ly of a la- TS eX- late. s that at the ill be f the pany, clared > been d out etting thou- all to | Ohio e ter- inting ith a gheny was inson they sewell uburb an at- Wine, Akron n two indow it his vissed the at the y dis- ween ber of ounc- le for Ap a SSE a N ———— KUROKI SON OF A POLE. Father On Deathbed Asked Him To Get Vengeance On Russia. Gen. Kuroki’s nephew, Josake Oshi- ma, a student at the Berlin Technical University, has written to the Tage- blatt correcting a story which ap- peared in the Patrie of Paris, to the effect that Kuroki is half French. Oshima says General Kuroki’ S, father was -a Polish nobleman hamed Kurowski, who after the revolution of 1831 fled from Russia and after be- ing in the Dutch service in Borneo settled in Japan, where he married a Japanese woman. On his deathbed, Oshima adds, the father .of General Kuroki charged .his son.to avenge the wrongs of Poland upon Russia. FITS permanently cured. No fitsornervouss= . ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great . NerveRestorer,$2trial bottleandtreatisefree Dr. R.H.KvuiNg, Ltd., 981 Arch 8t., Phila., Pa, The International Seamen’s Union has 40,000 affiliated members. Piso’s Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of throat and lungs.— Wx. 0. ExpsrLey, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900, Neuralgia 1s said to be successfully treated in Italy by the use of blue light. Giants in Indian Territory, One of the delegates sent by Indian Territory to the Democratic national convention was C. A. Skeen, who stands six feet three inches in: his stockings and is a big man even for his stature. Mr. Skeen, a most vera- cious man, it ‘would appear, said in af interview: “I am sorry that none of the big men of the territory was able to attend this convention. They were all busy, and so they said that the little fellows, who are mot much use at work, must come along. Some of the men in the territory are so big that they are not able to travel. The car seats and the hotel beds:are all too small for them. So they stay at home. But that is no hardship for a man who lives in Indian Territory.” Oldest Clock in England. Peterborough cathedral has the old- est working clock in England. It was erected about 1320, and is probably the work of a monastic clockmaker. It is the only one now known that is wound up over an old wooden wheel. This wheel is about 12 feet in circum- ference, and the galvanized cable, about 300 feet in length, supports a leaden weight of 300 hundred pounds, which has to be wound up daily. TORTURING PAIN. Half This Man’s Sufferings Would Have Killed Many a Person, But Doan’s Cured Him. A. C. Sprague, stock dealer, of Nor- mal, Ill. writes: “For two whole years 1 was doing Soiung but buying medi- cines to cure my kidneys. I do not think that any man ever suffered as I did and lived. The pain in my back was ¢o not sleep at night. I could not ride a horse, A. C. SPRAGUE. and sometimes was unable even to ride in a car. My condition was critical when I sent for Doan’s Kidney Pills. I used three boxes and they cured me. Now I can go anywhere and do as much as anybody. “I sleep well and feel no discomfort at all.” A TRIAL F REE—Address Foster- Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cts. A Blow to Heiress-Hunters. A French court has decided that the Duke de Valencay has no claim to the fortune settled upon him at the time of his marriage to Miss Helen Morton of New York, who recently secured a divorce. It is still better news that the nobleman is forced to pay all the casts of the divorce suit. All Duchess de Valencay had to do was to give up her title. It is a noticable fact that all the dukes and counts who are dying for love of American girls are also pinch- ed for a little ready money. Perhaps the French court's decision will dis- courage the heiress-hunting business or at least lead the successful hunters to treat their captives decently. 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BOBO DDOOODE td dd PPIVIIPOPPIVIPIIVOOIOIO0P GOOLE ALLAELLLE LL AA ALALAALAALALAALDLALASAS DA PIPPI IVVPPITPIVIPIOPIPIPOIIRD EASY AND SURE lanein Send b 2-cent stamps o for first lesson and de- mee—— | SCTiptive matter fully explaining our sys- tem. We guarantee to teach any ball room ls selected or re- turn tuition. We refer Tani to Seetnd Nation- | Ero Security Co.. Ak- |ron.as to our respongi- | bility. Address |THE BARRON CORRE- | SPONDENCE SCHOOL AKRON, 0. J a EE EOL TLE + SORES 3 WHERE A ALL ELSE FALLS. Use #17 re. Sold 2 nis Five [Xe FL LE dle I . tion of such bad that I could In Military Operations. 3% O difficulty of military op- ji erations in the Far East N is more conspicuous than that caused by the almost XK entire absence of roads fit for military use. With good military roads the Japanese could have reached the Yalu River in three weeks instead of three months, and a decisive battle with the Czar’s forces along the: rail- way could have been fought long be- fore the commencement of the rainy season. But without such roads, the movements of an army are extremely slow and difficult. The same difficulty was the most conspicuous feature at the time of the Boxer uprising. The whole civilized world was kept in suspense for many weeks by the lack of suitable roads for the advance of the allies on Pekin. In Europe the building of roads oec- cupies a high place in the minds’ of statesmen and military leaders. They would no more think of neglecting the preparation of roads for military use than the recruiting of men or the man- ufacture of guns. Nearly all the lead- ing European Powers pay out large sums for roadbuilding and largely with a view to possible need in time of war. In the early history of our own country the need of military roads oc- cupied a large place in the public mind. Most of the statesmen of that period are on record as heartily favoring ap- propriations by Congress for building national highways, which in time of need could be used for military pur- poses. With this idea in view the Na- tional Pike was constructed, and a doz- en other great roads were authorized by Congress, and millions of dollars were spent. in their construction, Sev- eral of the roads planned, but never finished, were in the South. The bad- ness of roads was one of the greatest obstacles with which the armies had to contend during the Civil War. That the United States ought to be well supplied with the best of high- ways, which in case of need, can be used as military roads, seems too evi- dent for question. Yet the construc- highways appears for more than half a century to have oc- cupied scarcely any place in the minds of statesmen. "This apparently anom- alous situation is, however, easy to ex- plain. In this country we have be- come so accustomed to looking on the building of roads as the duty of the farmers that the whole matter is left to be worked out by local communi- ties. - The idea seems. to be that the farmers should build the roads for the Government to use as it may have need. State Aid to Road-Building. The road improvement law in Mas- sachusetts requires the State roads to be fairly apportioned among the dif- ferent counties. This provision, to- gether with the smallness of the sum annually appropriated, has made nec- essary what the State Highway Com- mission calls “a fragmentary distribu- tion of State highways.” The amount of road to be built in one locality was limited at first to the maximum of two miles. The present road map of the State, therefore, shows these roads only as spots apparently scattered over the State, although the intention is, of course, to join them ultimately into systematic lines. The effect of this distribution has been to give the whole people of the State some knowledge of the value of improved highways, and this knowledge has manifested it- self in annually increased appropria- tions of State funds for this purpose. The State Aid law of New Jersey allowed the application of the State’s contribution to any section of road not less than a mile in length where the “local property owners were ready to contribute ten per cent. of the cost. This law has had much the same effect as that of Massachusetts, and has so disseminated a knowledge ot the value of road improvement throughout the State that the appro- priations for State aid have steadily increased, and the pcople in many lo- calities, who were formerly opposed to any State action, are clamoring for the State’s assistance. The State of Connecticut has fol- lowed the same plan as that of New Jersey, and the State of Rhode Island hes limited its construction to half- riile samples, one in each of the dif- ferent towns. total Road-Building Hints, If a road goes over a hill when it aight go around, the labor. and ex- pense put upon it are absolutely wast- sooner ‘its direction is better. . If a road is not rounded up and surface drained, it should be, not only for present use as an earth road, but as a preliminary to macadamizing. If it is not under- drained in all wet spots, this should be the first work done. Nothing, in- deed, will pay better for present use than putting in tile or stone drains. In laying out a road, straightness should always be sdcrificed to obtain a comparatively level surface. Al- though this is one of the most import- ed, ‘and ‘the changed the ant principles connected with road building, it is one of the most fre- quently violated. There is no objec- tion to an absolutely straight road, but graceful and natural curves conform- ing te the lay of the land add beauty to the landscape, besides the value of property. changes: SCIENCE NOTES. Flammarion; at Juvisy, has subject- ed specimens of the (Sensitive Plant, and others, to red and violet rays. Those under violet and blue glass had made no progress after four months. Those under red and orange had achieved “extraordinary development.” It is kncwn that typhoid germs will not live in blue light. Interesting experiments are being conducted in various places in order to ascertain the effects “of light and electricity upon the growth of plants. At Helsingfors university, Dr. Lem- strom has showered static electricity from a Holz machine through pots con- taining cereal seeds. These seeds grew 40 percent faster than others in pots where no electricity was used. The Japanese dentist does not fright- en his patients with an array of steel instruments. He draws teeth with his thumb and forefinger. The needful skill is acquired only after long prac- tice, but when | it is a attained the ‘oper- ator “can extract several teeth in a minute withcut removing his. fingers from the patient’s mouth. His educa- tion begins with the pulling out of pegs pressed into soft wood, and ends with the drawing of hard pegs driven tightly into an cak plank. The Japan- ese skill in athletics. is- acquired from the same patient practice. Af . The world’s best timekeeper is said to be the electric clock in the base- ment of the Berlin observatory, which was installed by Professor Foerster in 1865. It is enclosed in an air-tight glass cylinder, and has frequently run for periods of two or three mcmths with ‘an average daily deviation of only 16-1000 of a second. Yet astronomers are not satisfied even with this, and efforts are continually made to secure ideal conditions fcr a clock by keep- ing it not only in an air-tight case, but in an underground vault where neither changes of temperature nor of barometric pressure shallever affect it. Pa Jf pie Mr. Edison says that he is sorry that his appeal to the President over the head of the Commissioner of Patents had gotten before the public as he had hoped that it would be the means of quietly bringing about some much- needed reforms in the administration of that denartment of the government service. The great inventor, who does more business with the patent cffice than any other individual, says there is great opportunities for improvement. The methods are very loose and the examiners and other attaches incompe- tent. Appointments are made without any regard for personal qualifications and it sometimes happens that a young man is taken frcm the counter of some dry goods store and put to work in some capacity in the patent office in some capacity requiring considerable technical knowledge. Ten Inches to the Foot. Professor W. Le Conte Stevens, act- ing on the theory that the metric sys- tem can only be made popular in this country by adopting its decimal plan while changing the present names of familiar weights and measures as lit- tle as possible, suggests the following Let'the yard be made equal to the metre; let the foot be made the fourth instead of the third part of a yard, and let it have ten instead of twelve inches; let the pound be made equal to half a kilogram; let the quart equal the litre; let the ton be 1000 kilo- grams; let the pint, gallon, peck and bushel be defined in terms of the quart. Professor Stevens points out that in this way the inch would be shortened less than 2 percent, but he admits that even this slight change would inconvenience mechanical engi- neers and machine manufacturers. Submarine Garden, Charles Kratz has brought a world’s fair idea from the tropics, and a Mex- ican submarine garden is to be erected on De Balievere avenue, north of De Giverville, The exhibit will take the form of a huge tank, upon which will float boats with glass bottoms, through which the occupants can look down upon a gen- uine sea garden, transplanted from the warm waters of the Mexican coast. Nature will be improved upon, it is stated, by having mermaids, sea ser- pents and other legendary beings half hidden among the waving sea grasses. Application for the permit was made over a month ago, but Mayor Wells withheld his approval of the bond till yesterday. Parlor Fireworks. Among the newest fireworks, ac- cording to the Baltimore Sun, are the parlor variety, which a child can han- dle with safety and which can be set off in the house without danger of fire. This pattern includes diamond rain sticks, Roman candles and cart wheels. The fire and sparks from these designs are harmless and may "be permitted to fall upon the flimsiest kind of materials without igniting it. In the larger designs for outdoor use the newest is the Gatling candle, which consists of a bundle of Roman candles arranged around a centre piece like a Gatling gun. The effect is very pretty Worshipped the “Auto.” A large number of people in the cap ital of Kolapur, India, on seeing a mo tor car for the first time, prostrated themselves before it. declaring that it was moved by an invisible god. Several very large and stanch car ferryboats are being built for the E lish channel. Each boat will be ¢ to carry 16 cars, freight or passenges and they will be operated betwe Dover and Calais. .he has somethi FINANCE AND TRADE REVIEW MARKETS CONTINUE FIRM, Railway Earnings Hold Up Well—Cut in Prices of Steel Wire Causes Comment. | R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review of Trade” says: , Confidence in con- tinued jmprovement of trade has been somewhat. unsettled . by sensational events ‘in the wheat market, and the lack of harmony between labor and | capital. It is becoming evident that estimates of the wheat crop must be reduced, although other agricultural news lis much better than usual Some disappointment is felt by 03 who counted upon an early resunip- tion of activity in building operations and other industries Jabor controversies. Otherwise news of the week has contained much of an’ encouraging nature. In several manufacturing linés there is less idle machinery and visiting ‘retail buyers have stimulated .jobbing -trade, espec- ially in dry, goods and: kindred lines. Railway earnings thus far reported for the first week of August show a small gain of 1.4 per cent as com- pared with last year’s figures, where- as recent preceding weeks showed more or Jess loss i comparison with 1903. A genéra) reduction in prices of wire products, averaging about $5 a ton was announced by a subsidiary company of the United States Steel Corporation, and aroused more inter- est than was warranted, because this public action js only in line with what has been done. heretofore privately, according to rumors widely circulated. It is difficult to estimate how much further this war of rates may be car- ried, business being sufficiently dull to stimulate competition. A few small reductions in prices of cotton goods were made, notably in leading lines of bleached muslins and these changes produced some weakness in the tone of other departments of the primary markets, although list prices as a rule remain unchanged thus far, the policy of buyers has not changed, the general disposition being to await developments in other lines. Failures number 226 in the United States, against 238 last year, and 24 in Canada, compared with six a year ago. Bradstreet’s say: The feature of the iron trade has been the open rec- ognition of conditions claimed to ex- ist for some time past in finished products. A wholesale cut in steel prices, particularly in wire and nails, has been announced and existing pools in some products, notably struc- tural material and plates, are report- ed shaky. Light rails are being cut in price, and even some heavy sec- tions are selling below the $28 stand- ard. Uncertainty as to how far the cuts will go restricts buying and also affects the cruder forms. There is no particular change to ncte in. pig iron. MARIE ETS. PITTSBURG. Grain, Flour and Feed. 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