Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1901 — Page 2

Comte de la Vauljc <*T and His 'Balloon,

The Comte de La Vaulx last week made an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Mediterranean sea in a balloon under the escort of two French naval vessels, is one of the most daring aeronauts in Europe. This young nobleman is in love with his exciting pastime, but he has likewise a desire to help his country and to benefit mankind. Last year he attracted the attention of the world by making ope of the longest balloon voyages on record. He and a companion crossed a large part of the continent of Europe In his balloon, the “Centaure.” They traveled upward of 1,300 miles through the air and alighted none the worse for the journey. Vaulx’s constant companion in his aerial flights is Casttlion de St. Victor, who, like his daring friend, is a nobleman of an old and aristocratic family.

The new governor of Porto Rico was a classmate of the governor-gen-eral of the Philippines. Judge Taft and Judge Hunt were friends throughout their course at Yale and graduated together in 1878.

Ruiaia’ii Success in Manrhurla.

A correspondent of the London Chronicle who recently trave sed Manchuria, g ves s me inter sting detai s showing how complete is the Russification of that io m r Chin se province. Ten years ago, when he traveled over the same rout'*, t e dragon banner of Ch na flo ted at all Its s ati ns. and not a Co: sack was t be s en. New every vest'ge of C ;ia<se control has disappeared, the Ta tar v 11 g rs have been ousted from thfir ham s and the C-s a k cu'p sts have be >n extended 700 mi es up the Amur r ver. Not a single Chinese oflfie al representative remains in t’’at regi n. Russian officers collect th' t'x*s, commaid the inland nav 1 d <ks and a e in Charge of the Ch n ss shipbuih’int

Loui-S'Cille Girl and J f V* Her Titled Fiance.

Miss Patti Ellison.

Miss Patti Ellison, the Louisville girl who is to marry Sir Charles Henry Augustus Frederick Lockhart! Ross of England, is a descendant of I one of America’s most distinguished . revolutionary families. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ellison of Louisville. Her great-grand-father was General Charles Scott, i third governor of Kentucky and a general on the staff of Washington SJr Charles is the third largest landowner tn Great Britain, his estate. Bainagowan Castle, Parkhill, Rossahire, Bennington, Lanarkshire, being rated at 356,600 acres, with more than 3,000 tenants. His deer forests are the moat extensive in Scotland. He has many interests in Canada, copper mines in British Columbia and in the Klondike.

The marriage is to take place in the middle of November, After spending the winter months In London and in Scotland Sir Charles and Lady Charles will return to Montreal, where they will reside for a year. Sir Charles is the ninth of his title, to which he succeeded in 1883. A lieutenant of the Seaforth Highlanders, he rose to the rank of major of volunteers in the campaign in South Africa. His education was received at Eton and Trinity. Cambridge. He is fond of sports, is a skillful athlete, and is a crack shot. He has invented a rifle which has won him some fame.

British Conscription.

Kitchener’s demand for 25,000 more men ready for immediate service in South Africa is interpreted by semiofficial army and navy journals as equivalent to resort to conscription. The decline of volunteering, the worthlessness of city riffraff for military duty, point- to the more respectable manhood as the only available contingent whence the new and urgent call for fighting men can be satisfied. A year and a half ago motion was made in parliament that the ancient constitutional law of compulsory military service be put in force in such modified form as would not make it unduly burdensome upon the people. The ministry objected on the score

yards. Russian gunboats command the river pat ag s a d R issdan c vil administration extends to all the chief cities and ma kts. The Mu trovite dominance is equally matked in private business enterpr set. The only thing le*t of the former Chinese regime is the accumu atcd fil h in the streets, ever which Cossack or< e ies dash with the ind fference of lif long familiarity. The sig fficant festive of this sweeping change is the fa t that the Mancinis rather like it. The e nomad Tartars never had much sympathy for the foss'liged conservatism and absurd • cer-mo, iali.-m that seem so dear to the Chinaman. T eir ind p ndent spirts revolted again-t the abject kowtow demanded by every petty Chinese official.

Sir Charles Ross.

that the volunteer system had not shown itself inadequate and that "balloting for service” under the ancient law would "inevitably lead to conscription, which if put in force would provoke a reactionary feeling against the War in South Africa.

A few months later, however, an act was passed "to increase the usefulness of the volunteers” in “great emergencj. rhe militia, the yeomanry and the volunteers have hitherto been free from compulsory service abroad. According to tradition that was the duty of the regulars exclusively. The reserve and the auxiliary have been maintained as home defense, with no exception of being called into action. The yeomanry are an ancient corps of mounted men with an organization of their own.

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They find that they can speak freely and informally to Russian officials, and they appreciate the difference. The Russians a’so are developing the mines and industries of the country with amazing energy, and have brought prosperity in their train. Tartars who formerly worked for $1 a month now can earn 50 cents, or even |l, a day. The Russians do not trouble the natives with any sanitary or social reforms, and the r ideas conflict with none of the ancient prejudices of the Mongols. The net result Is that the Manchas are faitly reconciled to Muscovite rule. The silent methods of Rues an conquest have availed to ann x th s new empire without a struggle. On the whole the change app ars to be as beneficial to the Manchus as it is profitable to the Russians, for, when all is said, the Russian government Is to be preferred t<j that of the Chinese Empire.

An English Duster.

The ordinary feather duster in the hands of the housemaid has the faculty of stirring up the dust and causing it to alight elsewhere about the room instead of cleaning it up, as should be done. There are

already in use pneumatic dusters, which will draw the dust into a tube connected with the brush, but it was impossible to use them for light work on account of

the motor necessary to run tl»e suction fan at the end of the hose. The illustration shows a duster which applies practically the same principle but with the suction arrangement inside the back of the brush. The mechanism is formed of front and back plates, with a flexible fabric joining them and an internal spring to hold them normally apart. The handle is attached to one plate and the brush to the other, with a valve at the rear lof the brush. A slight pressure on the I surface to be dusted closes the bel-lows-like plates and shuts the valve to prevent the outflow of air through the bristles, and as soon as the pressure is removed the opening of the bellows I sucks air in through the bristles, ■ drawing the dust with it. As’Hhe 1 plates again close the air Inside is fil--1 tered through a second valve, leaving ! the dust inside, inhere it remains until the duster is opened for cleaning.

Minnesota is called the “Bread and Butter State,” and rightly, too, for the last year her mills turned out 26,630,500 barrels of flour and churned over 60,000.000 pounds of butter.

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Mistakes of the Polar Bear.

Nordenskiold found that the white bears generally went through a long performance of s'a'klng his sailors, clearly on the m staken conclusion that they were seals. As the men were clothed partly in sealskin, it was a very natu:al m stake. But the interest of the story lies in the generalisation made by the bear. The bear said: "There are two or three seals, one standing up on its flippers in a very unusual way. I will therefore stalk them unseen es long as I can and when they see me pretend to be doing something else." So the men, with their guns and lances, who wanted to shcot the bear, had the pleasure of seeing him carefully crawling behind rocks and ice hummocks, making long detours this way and that, and every now and then clambering up a rock and peeping caut ous y over to see if the seals had gone. On the open snow the bear would saunter cM in another direction, and then, falling flat, push himself along on his belly with his great front paws covering his black muzzle, the only tiring not matching the snow about him. Just as the bear thought he had got his ‘seal” the latter fired and shot him, a vicim of false analogy.—The Spectator.

Mrs. Dyer's Heart.

McCarron, Mich., Oct. 21. —In April last the sensational case of Mrs. Samuel G. Dyer of this place was reported in these columns. Mrs. Dyer has suffered for years with a very bad case of Heart Trouble and was cured in a few weeks by Dodd’s Kidney Pills. Since then Mrs. Dyer has received hundreds of inquiries as to her condition and many may be Interested to hear that she is at present enjoying the best of health and has not had the slightest return of the Heart Trouble. Formerly she had to sit up in bed for hours to get relief; now she goes about as smartly as any lady of 62 years in the State. Dodd’s Kidney Pills have made many friends in Chippewa County through their cure of Mrs. Dyer’s case, and have proven beyond doubt that their cures are not only very complete, but absolute and permanent.

Early Vermont Barred Circuses.

Not until twenty years ago were circuses allowed to exhibit in Vermont, but the circuses used to skirt three Bides of the state closely, and it was most gratifying to the proprietors to see the way in which men, women and children of the Green mountains used to troop across the border into New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, to enjoy the feasts forbidden to them at home.

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Foreign Names of Corporation*.

A social club in Pennsylvania, named Deutsch* - Amerlkanischer - Volksfes.t Verein applied for a charter of incorporation, but was refused on the ground that the name was in a- foreign language. On appeal to the Supreme Court, however, the charter was granted, the court holding that there is no requirement under the statute that the title of the corporation shall be English.

The McKinley** Little Girl.

The National Magazine of Boston has the unique magazine feature of the month. This is a portrait of President McKinley’s little daughter, Katie, who died at the age of three and a half years. The portrait, which has never before been published, adorns the first page of The National Magazine for October.

Humor in the Century.

The November Century—in many respects an unusually striking number —will begin the magazine’s thirtysecond year, which is to be a Year of American Humor. It will contain humorous stories, etc., by Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Oliver Herford and other humorists.

The November Delineator.

A seasonable atmosphere rises from the various useful and valuable features of the November Del neator. The styles shown are these for early winter; the dressmaking article tells about the making of coats; the fancy needlework article bears upon Thanksgiving and Christmas gifts.

Queen Elizabeth's Red Nose.

Elizabeth, in her old age, had a red nose and was very much ashamed of it. One of her maids of honor has left a very curious account of the scrupulous care with which the queen’s nose was painted and powdered before any public appearance.

China Imported 3429,000 worth of beer from Germany last year.

People and

Fumoua a* a Golfer. Miss Genevieve Hecker of Noroton, Conn., who won the national woman's golf championship, is. In the field of woman’s athletics, the most remarkable young woman In America. Although only 19 years old, she has three years of fame as a golf player behind her, with the probability of extending

GENEVIEVE HECKER.

her conquests to cover English and Scotch links. The final great game, besides being her last fc. the season, was the last she will play before she becomes the wife of George Jenkins, her lover since school days. The wedding is to take place before Christmas. Miss Hecker is the daughter of the late John V. Hecker, who was a millionaire flour manufacturer.

Last Hoars of Great Men.

No life had more in it of terror than Napoleon’s, yet he said, on his dying bed: ’’There is nothing terrible in death; he has been my pillow for the last three weeks, and now he is about to take me away forever.” Louis XIV was happy in his death. ‘‘Why weep you?” he asked his friends. “Did you think I should live forever? I thought dying had been harder?” Sir Philip Sidney would not change the joy of his last hour for “the empire of the world.” "Let me fall asleep to the sound of delicious music,” said Mirabeau; and Humboldt, the naturalist, exclaimed in his dying peace: “How grand these rays! They seem to beckon earth to heaven.” Sir William Hunter wanted, a pen “to write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.” But surely the most beautiful farewell ever - addressed to the world was that of Keats. “I feel the flowers growing over me,” he said in a phrase which, as a thing of beauty, is a joy for ever.

Labor Chief Is a Preacher.

Rev. Sheldon A. Harris, the Dwight minister who was elected as vice-presi-dent of the Illinois Federation of Labor at the recent convention in Joliet,

REV. SHELDON A. HARRIS.

was formerly a mission worker in the neglected districts of Chicago. He was born in Pennsylvania Feb. 2, 1852, and came to Illinois in 1859. His father was David Allen Harris, an officer of the Merrill horse, which served with distinction in the civil war. Rev. Mr. Harris began life as a wood machinist, ne became a salesman for a Chicago house, then entered evangelical mission work and spent four years among the poor. He was ordained in 1880. He located in Dwight in 1900. He is chaplain of the Sons of Veterans of Illinois and belongs to several fraternal orders. His sympathies have always been with the labor unions and the poor. He says: “I believe in Christianity, but not in churchianity.”

The Connecticut Election.

The result of the vote in the constitutional amendment election in Connecticut last Monday is the adoption of two amendments, which are now a part of the organic law—namely: the election of state officers by a plurality vote and the enlargement of the state senate. The first of these reforms was carried by a majority of over 20,000 and the second by over 35,000. * The main feature of interest, however, was the vote upon the proposition to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of securing reform in representation and doing away with the anomaly of a little town or village having the same power in the legislature as a city. The sectional character of constitutional reform is illustrated in the returns of the election. Of the city registered vote only 35 per cent was polled and in the country toWns 83 per cent, but the urban vote was substantially solid for the convention, as well as the vote of the larger factory towns. The seventeen cities of the state gave 30,024 majority for the convention and the rest of the state 8,867 against it Of the 168 towns forty voted for it.

The Presidential Train.

When President Roosevelt decides to take a short rest and goes to his Oyster Bay home he will find waiting tor him at the Long Island railroad depot In Brooklyn what will hereafter be known as the “presidential train.” It will consist of a special engine and combination coach and one of the two famous club cars used by the mll ionaire t avelers .on the line on their trips to their slummer homes. This car is now being refitted and when completed will have all the comforts of home without being gorgeous.—Chicago Chronicle.

Awarded th. Hi K he«t Prine.

Buffalo, N. Y., Oct—The Now Domestic Sewing Machine Co. has today been awarded, at the Pan-American Exposition, the highest prize, the coveted gold medal, for the best family sewing machine.

Takes No Money from Pupils.

Professor Hubert Herkomer, although generally accounted an Englishman, is really a Bavarian. He refuses to accept money from his art pupils and is an enthusiastic cricketer.

It i$ announced that the leading feature of Pears n s magaz ne du; Ing 1932 will be the popular science article, carefully and fully illustrated, while the articles on natural history will, as they have always done, have a prominent place in the magaz ne.

Irrigation has c inverted the South American desei t'valleys near the city of Mendoza into some of the most productive vineyards in the world.

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Last year 500 000,000 feet of lumber were exported from the Pacific coast, and 300,000,C00 feet sent East by rail.

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Western Australia is making heroic efforts to develop farming industries, especially the growing of grain.

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Some men are so liberal they are continually giving themselves away.

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The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

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Hljheat Award on Cocos and Chocolate

Buffalo, N. Y., Oct 10, 1901.—The Judges at the Pan-American exposition, Buffalo, hare awarded three gold medals to Walter Baker A Co. (Limited), Dorchester, Mass., tor the superiority of their breakfast cocoa and all of their cocoa and chocolate preparations and the excellence of their exhibit This Is the 87th highest award received by them from the great expositions in Burope and America.

First Westen Boer Baby.

The first Boer baby born in the west, and perhaps in this country. Is the infant son of Dr. and Mrs. T. A Beddy of Denver, Colo. The parents came to this country, in 1898. They were born in the Orange Free State and educated in the public school there. Before the war broke out, Dr. and Mrs. Beddy went to New York, the former to take special training and the latter to continue her musical education. Then, with the war came loss of property, and Dr. Beddy concluded to remain and practice In this country.

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