'strides toward it of late years.
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NEW SIAMESE ENVOY
Mr. Phya Visuddha Chosen for the
Impqrtant Post:
He Is a Typical East Indian, and W711]
Divide His Time and Abilities
Between Washington and
London.
Siam is again represented at Wash-
ington by a minister plenipotentiary,
and the kingdom of Central Indo-China
is once more to maintain a legation at
our capital after an intermission of sevj
eral years.
The new Siamese envoy, Phya Visud-
dha, came some weeks ago with quite
'a party of his countrymen and their
wives. Phya Visuddha made a visit
{to the west to make a study of some of
the industrial schools of the country,
and will leave shortly for London,
,where he is also accredited.
' Minister Phya Visuddha is a typical
East Indian in appearance, although
fin some respects be strongly resembles
‘ his Japanese cousins. He is below me-
,dium height, and while not of stout
_-build, he has a compact, well-knit
frame. His complexion is of a yellow-
.ish olive hue, his hair jet black, and as
Straight as an American Indian’s; his
eyes are quite Japanese in their almond
shape, but they are as shrewd and pierc-
ing as they are oblique.
He comes from a family of the
Siamese nobility, and through his fa—
ther is allied to a princely house. He
was born in Bangkok about 35 years
ago, and was educated in the native col—
ileges of that city._ After leaving school
he entered upon his profession, the law,
but five years ago was appointed sec—
retary of the Siamese legation in L0n~
don. In 1896 he was made charge d’af—
fairs, and last spring he was raised to
the rank of envoy extraordinary to
both London and W'ashington. He is
married and has three children, and up
to this time his family has always re-
'mained in Siam. His manner is rather
of the orient than of the oceident, but
there‘ is an unaffected cordiality in his
handshake, and he speaks English flu-
. ently.
On his western trip Minister Phya
Visuddha was accompanied by the sec-
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HON. PI—IYA VISUDDHA.
(The New Siamese Envoy to the United
States and England.)
retary of the lcgation, Lewis Bateman,
a young English gentleman, whose
parents went out to Siam before ”his
birth, where for many years his father
was engaged in business. Mr. ITzite-
man was also born in Bangkok, and
spent his early boyhood there, and is,
in consequence. as familiar with the
people and their customs as a native.
He was educated, however, in England.
“Minister I’hya Visuddha, which, by
the way, is pronounced as though it
were spelled Peer Veesooddah,” said
Mr. Bateman, “is immensely interested
in educational matters, and his trip out
to Chicago was largely to investigate
the western schools. Siam is wakening
in many ways, but in nothing more than
in her desire to overcome the ignorance
of her people. For many years it has
been the custom of the government to
send a few young men to Europe, Eng-
land and America for a technical educa-
tion, and within the last half decade
several large public schools have been
established in Bangkok, where Eu-
' ,opean arts, sciences and languages are
taught. The effort is being made to ex-
tend these schools throughout the king-
dom and to have them for the girls as
well as the boys.
“Siam is very enterprising. Her na-
tive name is Muang Thai-kingdom of
the free—and, although her people are
a little too near the equator to ever at-
tain the Yankee’s idea of freedom, yet
they have been taking some mammoth
_ The
Iast two kings—Malta Mongkut and.
Chulaongkorn—have both been aggres-
sive men, and have tried to introduce
modern enterprises. There are two
lines of railroad running through the
kingdom now and more, are under con--
1
struction, while ,telegraph lines inter- 1
sect all sections of the country. Bang;—
kok, the capital, has a population (.l.
nearly a million, and it has electric.-
roads and lights, telephones, elevators,
modern residences and business blocks.
While we have but a small standing
army and navy, we have that which oil’-
sets it——no public debt; our exports
double our imports, and our trade with
the western world is increasing every
year.”
Poisoned Baker’s Bread.
People have been poisoned with bread
containing salts of lead, which came
frein the timber used to heat the oven.
The Paris council of hygiene has, there-
fore, forbidden the employment of
painted or unpainted wood from old
houses, old sleepers impregnated with
creosote or sulphate of copper, and dis-
used blocks of wood paving for heating f
ovens, on the ground that poisonous
volatile salts may arise from them and
deposit on the roof or floor of the oven.
Copper Near El (Janey. \_
An immensely rich copper mine has
been located near Evaa'uey, in the prov-
ince of Santiago _de Cuba.
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fidiblvéhii scrip».
“fire-Fence Telephone System' Put i
in Operation by Progressive
W'estern Ranchmen. ,
The stockmen of Southwestern Kan-
sas and northwestern Texas and Okla-
homa. are keeping pace with modern
improvements and are no longer to be
isolated from the rest of the world.
A few months ago the ranchmen of
Seward county, Kan, met to propose a '
plan of connecting their ranches by
telephone facilities, utilizing the barb—
wire fences instead of setting poles and
stringing wires. It had been demon-
strated that a. fence wire worked per-
fectly for a telephone connection. The
scheme was favored by the stockmen,
and a local company Was formed, with
headquarters at Liberal, that being the
nearest telegraph point. ‘
. Lines have since been constructed
and are in operation, extending from
Liberal over the whole of Seward, Stev~
ens and Morton counties, Kan, and
have reached out into Beaver county,
0. T., and Hansford county, Tex. Many
of the ranches in this. ideal grazing
country are situated miles from rail-
road and telegraph facilities. Some of 3
the owners are compelled to travel 50
Thus ‘
ad< ,
‘miles to reach shipping points.
will be quickly seen the great
vantage to be derived from this enter-
prising move. It not only affords them
an opportunity to transact business
among themselves, but they have ar-
ranged to get market quotations daily
from the telegraph station. This in-
formation is invaluable to the cattle
kings.
In addition to the lines now in opera-
:tion further extensions are to be made.
The success of the wire-fence tele-
phone first established between Liberal
and Brown ranch on Sharp creek, a dis-
5tance of ten miles, demonstrated the
.value of the ire'a, and another line will
,be started to Beaver, O. T., and one to
'Hardesty, Tex. ' ,
These extensions will require but lit-
.tle outlay of money, nothing but the
labor required where fences can be-
used. When this cannot be done the
surveys follow the streams where the
timber is used for poles. This energetic
move has awakened a lively interest at
the markets. Wichita, which has be-
come a large stock market in recent
years by reason of its packing indus‘
tries, is making an effort 'to have a
branch of the line reach that place.
,This would put the ranchmen in talk-
ing distance with commission firms, to
whom they sell stock. _
The plan is one of untold advantage
to stock owners, and will be pushed
until the complete benefits have been
derived.
HOG- SCALDING SWING.
-\Vit!i Its Aid One Man of Ordinary
Ability Can Dress :1 Large
Aninxal Alone. .
This hog scalding swing- almost ex-
plains itself. The two erotched posts,
a a, are nine feet long, set firmly in the
ground about six feet ayart. The cross
piece b must be plenty strong to sup-
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HOG SCALDING MADE EASY.
A rope (I, will be of great
port lever 0.
Hook, 6, is to slip under
assistance.
gambrel.
end, swing round to table, i, take hook
out of gambrel and stick through low-
erjawand scald theotherend. Darrel, g,
should be kept two-thirds full of water;
the one-inch pipe, h, is eight feet long, '
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bent in middle, or two pieces four feet '
long connected by a six-inch piece with
elbows which enter the barrel between
the hoops, as shown. Of course the
fire boils the water. By my swing I
dressed a SOD-pound hog alone—«L. L.
Glover, in Farm and Home.
. ' PROFIT 11V SHEEP.
it Exceeds by For the Income Realized
from Any Other Kind of
Faun Stock.
A shepherd can make from 25 per
cent. to 50. per cent. on his investment
in mutton sheep, according to his skill.
A good breeding 'ewe can produce
enough wool to pay for keeping her.
A ewe can be kept in thrifty condition,
being fed such coarse fodders as straw,
clover hay and corn fodder, with one—
lmlf pound of grain daily when she re:
quires it, at a cost of one cent per day, .
during the period of most expensive
feeding. To pay for her keep she needs
to produce no more than ten pounds of
good wool, 'and that a mutton ewe can
do. In addition to the wool the re-
turns from .a ewe will be at least one :
lamb—the a “erage ol‘ the mutton breeds
is,nearer one and one—half.
lasts derived from our
foods at market prices, mutton can be
'put on the market _on foot. for at least ;
three cents per pound. Such mutton us
can be furnished at that cost should
weigh 150 pounds. Here is a profit of
$4.50 from a sheep under the mostmod- .
.. crate circumstances.
I have known
ewes of mutton breeding to
each year a clear profit of ten to fifteen
dollars—Farmer’s Tribune.
The day of the big, heavy-feeding
nh-eép seems to have passed, not to re-
«zurn‘, andlhe demand for younger
: hutto’hs is: u steadily growing one.
a (I. In vat-m mvrm
After hog is scolded on one i
From the ,
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experimental g
work it is safe to say that, charging
produce 3
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iBelgica Expedition Has Returned
from Antarctic Seas.
'.' First Party to Passfhe \Vinter In South
Polar Sens—Active Volcanoes
Found—Voyage a Scien-
tific Success.
The Standard-Union, of Brooklyn,
~ prints the following special cablegram
; from Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of Brook-
lyn, surgeon of the antarctic expedition
E On the Belgian steamship Belgica:
“Montevideo, Uruguay—The Belgica has
> arrived here. All well. Our antarctic voy-
' age' has been a. complete success.
“Much new land in \‘v‘eddell sea and open
. ' water to the far north discovered. Active
E volcanoes were also seen. I come home di-
rect by steamer.
l “The Belgica will not return for another
1 winter, as originally planned. ,Vv’e los't men
by accident. but none by disease. .
. “COOKIE
1 Brief as this dispatch is, it tells
= enough to show that the little Belgian
' expedition has indeed achieved a. bril-
l liant success. It has discovered the
' first new land found in antarctic waters
for 58 years, or since the expedition of
Iloss in 1841. The details given in Dr.
Cook’s dispatch are very meager, but
these facts are established: .
The new discoveries of landhave been
made southeast of the termination of
South America. The discoVeries are
probably south of 74.15 southern lati-
tude, the most southern point attained
by \Veddell iii 1823, though they may be
to the east or west of his route.
The reason favoring the probability
that they are south of VVeddell’s
furthest is that, if they were to the east
or west of his route, they would very
likely have been seen by Morrell in 1823,
or by Ross in 1843.
It seems unlikely, however, that the
Belgica reached a point very much
nearer the pole than that attained by
Weddell, or Dr. Cook would have men-
tioned it as one of the most important
successes of the exepedition.
It will be observed that the Belgica
found a vast expanse of open water,
just as Weddell did, 75 years earlier. He
entered a perfectly-open sea. N 0 land
was in sight, but he saw'three icebergs.
Whales were in ‘abundance, and birds,
chiefly penguins, were in enormous
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(Leader of the Belgica Expedition to the
South Pole.)
numbers. In the same year, about 700
miles to the northwest, Morrell also dis-
covered a nearly ice-free sea.
It appears from Dr. Cook’s'dispatch
that active volcanoes were also dis-
covered by the llelgica. The only other
antarctic volcano in eruption that had
hitherto been seez’; was lirebus (12,000
.feet), on Victoria island. It is not.
known whether the volcano near,
named 'Icrror (11,000 feet), is in active
condition.
The Belgica, under command oi
Lieut. Gerlache, set sail from Antwerp
on August 16, 1897. She was a Norwe—
gian vessel, which Gerlache fitted out
for polar work. He was assisted to a
5 large extent by the Belgian govern-
ment. The scientific stat‘t‘ included
Lieut. Dance, who was to be in charge
3' of pendulum and magnetic observa-
: tions; Dr. llacovilza, naturalist, and Dr.
iAretowski, geologist. Dr. F. A. Cook
joined the party at Rio de Jauiero, leav-
ing Brooklyn on February 20, 1897. He
‘Was to be surgeon and ethnologist, and
his experience in the arctic region was
expected to be of much service to the
expedition. .
Gerlaclie did not expect to winter ii
the antarctic regions. After spending
'the southern summer of 1897-98 in ex-
plorations, his plan was to go to Aus-
I tralvia for the winter and renew his re-
; searches the following season. The Bel-
igica, however, was not heard from
' again until 15 months after she started
from Terra'del Fuego for the little-
known Graham land to the south. She
'is, therefore, the first vessel that has
spent a. winter in south polar waters.’
The Belgiea has spent two summers
and a winter in the antarctic. She will
bring home the first records of south
winter
; polar phenomena during the
months. She has found lands in a re—
gion that was white on the maps, and
has considerably lessened the area of
unsailed antarctic waters.
.' that few polar expeditions have been
richer in experience, interest. and re-
sults. The liclgica has shown agafii
‘ that it is not always‘tlic most costly :iu_-:l
ambitious expeditions that reap the
best fruits of polar research.
Lectures for Artisans.
Hanover is to establish a series 05
lectures and demonstrations for the in—
struction of artisans and apprentices
1 in all trades, and it they are found suc-
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‘ outthe empire. They areto be model
- workshops and exhibitions of
timatcs. The first course of lectures
will be to cabinet-makers, locksmiths.
being taken up one after another. the
intention being that higher instruction
in all shall be placed within reach of
every learner or operative,
tools
and machinery, together with instrur- ‘
. tion in bookkeeping and in making 05‘ l
“ one Evenino GAZETTE
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mains or SPINACH.
The. Homely Vegetable Is Said to Pos-
sess I‘Vond‘ertul Medicinal
Properties. 9
We are all familiar with. the patent
medicine sign which commends itself
to us by these cabalistic words: "‘For
that tired feeling!” Now, those who
may object to buying bottles and hot-
tles of this cure for weariuess may ob- _
tain the same results by the liberal use
of the common everyday spinach. The
French call this homely vegetable the
scavenger of the stomach, and now our
own medical men are awakening to its
wonderful medicinal 'properties. It
contains salts of potassium, iron and
(other things which conduce to a good
complexion, long life and a cheerful dis-
position. The man with a disordered
liver 'and the woman with a bad-com-
plexion should contract the spinach
“habit, and these things will be rectified.
A chemist says that this article of food
contains more iron to the square inch
than “the most renowned ferruginous
remedies.” So convinced has the medi-
cal profession become of the value of the
once despised spinach that it is said
to be an important factor in several
new and popular tonics. The iron in
spinach is easily assimilated, and the
vegetable is easily digested. The fact
that spinach has such a. remarkable ef-
fect upon the complexion will recom-
mend it to the girls, and its beneficial
effects on the liver will recommend it
to the men. In short, the virtues of the
vegetable are so numerous that it would
'take a long time to tell them, but if the
spinach habit grows to anything like
the proportion reached by the oatmeal
fad, we shall shortly turn into a strong,
iron built, fresh-complexioned, anti.
bilious nation. I
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Japan‘s Minister at the Mneeiiln.
PHILADELPHIA. April 29.——By spe-
cial appointment Minister Komura. the
representative of Japan at the national
capital, visited the Commercial muse—
um yesterday. Director Wilson Showed
him about the buildings, explaining the
methods of administration of museum
affairs and describing the various ex-
hibits. The minister was extremely im-
pressed and expressed his appreciation
of the work the institution is doing in
fostering and developing trade between
foreign countries and the United States.
He was particularly interested in the
exhibits from Japan.
BEYOND APPEAL
Words of Praise for Smith’s.
Green Mountain Renovate!-
Come from an Eminent
Professor.
wmam H. MMJJ, F. 8.8.
80., of Wesifield, NJ, Author
of Many Medicflexl-Buoks.
Endorses without Stint Smith’s Green Mounv
tain Renovator.
long as’ aremedyis truly sci-
entific, and actually does‘good.
" it is recognized by the most
liberal physicians and the best
chemists. “‘
Smith’s Green‘ Mountain
Reuovator for blood and
nerve-troubles is a remedy
that was formerly_.pre- ,
scribed by Dr. Mack, a ' ' ' '
prominent physician living in Vermont. It
was used extensively there by this doctor in
his practice and accomplished a. wonderful
amount of good, and now for over forty years
it has been used by the people living in that
state to remarkable advantage.
Prof. Morse, of VVestfield, N. J ., who has
devoted his life to the study of new remedies,
and has probably investigated as many different
preparations as any modern therapeutist, ex-
cepting perhaps Sir John Lawes, writes among
many other complimentary phrases concern-
ing Smith's Green Mountain Renovator, the
following :
“ I find at the _outset that this is a vegetable
remedy, and that it did originate with aregular
practitioner. In fact, physicians prescribe it,
and no one over thinks of calling it aquack
medicine. It puts the blood back into order
when it has become depraved, I could not
choose a better term than to say it renovates
the blood. Having done that, every function
is normally performed, and health insues as a
matter of physiological course. It gives tone
and elasticity to the organs, which by reason of
the blood being impure and out of order are
debilitated and languishing. Doing this, it
must needs be a remedy for functional disorders
—diseases of the liver, kidneys, stomach, skin,
bladder-and other organs. In its mission of
adding vigor and strength to the system, it re-
‘stores health and strength to the nerve struc-
Eures. You could call it, if you please, a. food
.or nerve starvation.
any one connected with the St. Albans Remedy
Company they are deserving of kind thoughts
and words for pushing this medicine, Which is
mild,~pleasant and harmless in its action, while
peing permanent and efficient without subject-
ing the system to any violent reaction.” _
The above interesting comments on this pre-
bamtion, which we are so fortunate as to
have preserved to us to-day, will be of interest
to all suffering frOm disordered blood, broken
uown nerves and the many kindred ills-that
come from such affections. '
We would advise everyone seeing the need of
a tonic and a spring invigorator to try this
most potent and harmless of known prepara-
tions. The good that will be accomplished
shoemakers and tailors, other trades. : by a single bottle Of this Will prove that it has
intrinsic merit. _
The St. Albans Remedy Co. guarantees its
action, and‘will refund the cost of the preparas
tion in every instance where everything is not
. accomplished that they claim for it. .
Though I do not know _
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