Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 31, 1901, Page 7

MEDIN HEARD FROM, The Asiatic Explorer Writes a Let- ter From Central China, Dr. Sven Hedin, the indefatigable and daring explorer, came close enough to civilization to send out a long letter and then disappeared, probably not to be heard from fora year, certainly not for many months. It is learned that he has been exploring in Centtal Asia, and has begun wandering about Lob-Nor lake, the exact location of which has caused an interesting controversy among geog- raphers. The idea was advanced by Dr. Hedin that the lake really shifted its: location, or rather, that the moving ef the sand in which it lies caused the lake to change its lines. On his recent trip the waters spread north so rapidly that it was unsafe to camp on the shore, confirming his original observa- tion. A large number of very interest- ing relics of by-gone days were un- earthed on his present trip. His letter was written April 23, 1901, trom ‘Charklik, Central China. Says the London Times: “He was greatly surprised to learn, from the letters he found awaiting him, at the warnings addressed to him by King Oscar, the Swedish minister for foreign affairs, and numerous other friends, ‘to the effect that he should be careful not to expose himself to the cruelty cf the Chinese, while he laughed about the trouble in China (he himself had been ‘traveling in a ‘portion of the Chinese empire!) and somewhat amused at the idea that he might be compelled to leave his work ‘unfinished and return to Europe at once. “mm Charklik, he-says, ‘though it is a town ‘in ‘the middle of fhe Celestial em- pire, ‘there are only fifteen Chinese, and these were mortally afraid of him and his Russian ‘escort of four Cossacks. They did everything ‘he commanded, procuring camels, horses and provisions for hin» without deb and otherv carrying out his behesis with the great- est promptitude. Dr. Sven Hedin’s next line of march will be ‘through Thibet, and there, of course, as he remarks, there are no Chinese. “Looking back over his work from Ckarklik, Dr. Hedin ‘is fully satisfied with the results he has obtained. He has followed a different plan of work from that which he pursued on his first expedition in 1893-97. Then he not only took observations and made notes, but also worked at the books he intended to publish on“his'return. On this expedi- tion he has done nothing of the latter kind of ‘work, but ‘has left it all to be done when ‘he rzaches home. He had already, When ‘writing, compiled 726 sheets of maps, 150 6f them large sheets. “He calculates that he has more than twice the cartographic material he ac- cumulated on his last expedition, and hopes to be able to publish it in a large atlas of some sixty or seventy maps, on a scale which will permit of the details being shown. The scientific results of all his geographical, geolegical and hy- drographical studies ‘he proposes to publish in two large volumes of 100 each, which will form a text to Dr. Hedin has such a wealth of material‘to draw upon that he will find it very difficult to compress the popular narrative which he hopes to publish into two moderate volumes. He her however, ‘to do-so, s ‘to his future plans, Dr. Hedin does not think that he will reach Eu- rope this year. When-writing last he proposed to-spend some eight or ten dq at Charkalik, and then, having prepared his caravan very carefully for the last stage of his great journey to cross Thibet diagonally from Temirlik to the sources of the Indus, passing, if possible, a little to the north of Lake Manasarowar. As he travels slowly and maps carefully, Dr. Hedin expects that his march will occupy the rest of the year. Tf it can be arranged, he would like to visit Lord’Curzon at Cal- cutta; ‘then, returning to his caravan, Kashgar from Charklik. From Kash- gar via Ladak. He intends to send all his collections and unnecessary luggage, some fifteen horses’ loads, direct to Kashgar from‘Charklik. Froim Kash- gar Dr. Hedin does not feel that he could return direct to Europe on ac- count of his Cossacks, Who have ren- dered Him ‘invaluable services, and to whom he ‘has ‘become quite attached; these he feels bound to leave in none ‘but-a Russian‘town. Altogether, there- fore, ‘it willbe about a year from the @ate-of hi: st'letters before European geographers can-receive Dr. Sven Hed- fm with ‘the welcome which he has so ‘well earned.” ‘COMMON 'D Swetle anil Norwegian ‘Now View “Russia “With Alarm. ‘The «wrath of patriotic Sweden has been aroused ‘by ‘the action of Director Arioff, of the iron -works ‘in Southern Sweden, in employing “Russian black- legs ‘to ‘the exclusion of Swedish work- ers. ‘Serious ‘tioting ‘occurred at the works, ‘but was suppressed -when the Russi sented strong ‘representations to the government. ‘The split ‘between ‘Sweden ‘and Nor- way ‘s ‘beginning to disappear in the fece of the common danger apprehend- | ed from. the Muscovite. Since Russia's ebserrtion of Finland and its suppres- sion of that country’s ‘liberties, Sweden and Norway feel that the empire of the czar is Grawing uncemfortably near the border. Russian eples heave recently ‘been .«p~ nearing im every corner of Sweden and Norway, but their number ‘hes some- what diminished since the enactment ef the new army organization. abo’ishins the rensant militia and introducing conscription for periods of from eight to twelve years. SHOULD. WATT FOR DEATH. Live Men Hard to Plense in the Mat- ter of Statues. Great men should be dead before stat- ues are erected in their honor, at least, y. Neither Bjornson nor Ib- ever become reconciled to fries placed in the facade of the National theater in Christiania. Ibsen took only one look at his presentment, uittered a gruff “humph!”" and has nev- er lopked at it since. Bjornson objects to his pedestal, which, he says, looks like a stack of cheeses. In Far Northland. INNS IN NORWAY. Service Is Poor But There Is Plenty to Eat. William E. Curtis, in a recent letter from Norway to the Chicago Record- Herald, says: “At intervals of eight or ten miles along the public highway, usually in connection with the skyds stations, are inns, where the traveler will invariably find the comforts if not the luxuries of life—plenty of food and shelter, bed and board. There is no upholstered furni- ture or velvet carpets or eggsheil china, but always neat, lace curtains at every window, sometimes in the windows of the stables. “There is no style about the hotels, arm] the service is poor. The household work is all done by the landlord and his wife and daughters. There are no elec- tric bells, and if you want anything you usually have to hunt for it and help yourself. It is the custom of the coun- try for travelers to make themselves at home, and you are sometimes compelled to look after your own luggage, or it is liable to be left. But you will recover it again after a time. The people are hon- est, considerate and unselfish, but un- pretentious in their hospitality. There are no locks on their doors, for none are needed. Burglars and thieves are ab- solutely unknown, “The bed rooms are barren of orna- ments and easy chairs that we are ac- customed to at home. There are 10 carpets and no rugs on the floors. All the appurtenances are plain and sub- stantial, without any effort at show and very little idea of convenience. The beds are good, but usually the only cov- er is a comfortable seven or eight inch- es thick and heavy and unwieldy as a feather bed. ‘You can’t tuck it in at the bottom nor at the sides, and it is al- ways sliding off to the floor. “The breakfast is abundant and often terrifying. You are first confronted with five or six different kinds of cheese, an equal variety of cold meats, tinned fish, smoked herring and salmon, cold boiled ham, three or four kinds of cold sausage, strips of dried reindeer meat, and half a dozen different jams and preserved fruits. You are expected to partake freely of that sort of prov- ender, and usually do so until you learn by experience that fried fish, boiled eggs, veal cutlets and other hot food will scon follow if you are patient. The coffee is usually good, and there is al- ways an abundance of thick, rich cream. There is no warm bread, but five or six kinds of cold baked bread, from wheat, rye and oat flour, besides the national ‘flatbrod,’ which no Nor- wegian table is ever without. “The dinner is a formidable affair, after the fashion of the ordinary Eu- ropean table-d’hote, with soup, fish, roast, salad, preserves and pudding; while for supper you get the same as- sortment of cheese, cold meats, iish, sausage and preserves that you had for breakfast and two or three hot dishes. Fish is the staff of life, and salmon ‘he maingtay. It is served in some form at every meal, fried at breakfast and sup- per and boiled at dinner, with strips of cold smoked salmon of a deep, rich col- or on the side at all meals. The lakes and rivers are well stocked with scl- mon trout, which are caught in nets and kept alive in tanks until needed. You enjoy them the first five or *x meals, but after you have had them seventeen or eighteen times in succ2s- sion they begin to lose their relisn. Peer is the ordinary beverage. Every- body drinks it. Claret and Rhine wine can be had at the larger hotels, but nev- er any whisky, brandy or other strong liquors. Local option prevails throuzh- out Norway, and ir the country dis- tricts the sale of spirituous liquors is forbidden.” Here and There. The Danish cruiser Valkyrien will visit New York next winter in command of Prince Waldemar, the king’s young- est son. The new Danish ministry is arrang- ing for a loan of $10,000,000, and expects to place it with American and French bankers. The total number of deaths in the war for the extermination of rats in Stock- holm was 103,196, according to the last official bulletin. It is reported that the Swedish gov- ernment is contemplating the substitu- tion of electricity as the motive power on the state railways. Isaac Mardus, a printer in Stockholm, recently deceased, although an ortho- dox Jew, acquired a fortune by print- ing the new testament. Without including married women and children, there are 11,805 Andersons in Stockholm, 8,554 Johansons, 7,763 Karlsons and 6,902 Petersons. Misses Ebba Gentele and Amalie Sau- val have left Sweden for Santiago, Chile, where they will teach Swedish sloyd in the government schools. Cable dispatches announce the serious illness of Queen Sophie of Sweden and Norway. On accours of her advanced age there is considerable apprehension. Enevold Sorensen, minister of the in- terior in the new Danish ministry, is ill with gastric fever, and has been re- moved to the city hospital of Copenha- gen. A municipal employment office has been opened in Copenhagen. Indica- tion are that the venture will prove a success and become of decided benefit to the unemployed. Four-fifths of Farsund, Norway, a smali seaport on the North Sea, was devastated by fire last week. The bank, church, school house and postoffice were destroyed and 1,200 people made home- less. Lars Battenberg of Lisbon, fiil., has ‘bequeathed $1,000 to the foreign mis- sions of the United church, $1,000 to home missions and $1,000 to the orphan asylum at Beloit, Iowa. The new parliament house tn Stock- holm is so far completed that electri- cians are installing the lighting plant. Ther will be 3,200 incandescent lights and thirty-two are lights. Two Norwegian steamers, the Uller, Capt. Boe, from Baltimore, and Agnes, Capt. Irgenson, from Philadelphia, col- Mded in Port Antonio, West Indies, on Aug. 15. The Agnes received serious damages . pr SRL TY Poultry Briefs. In the presence of the writer one farmer said; “I have the fattest hens in the country and they lay the few- est ‘eggs of any; they have the run of my corn cribs.” Too many hens have the run of the corn cribs, and are not only spoiled for present use- fulness, but are likely to transmit the same quality to their offspring. ees It is certain that more nitrogenous material should be fed. As one ex- perimenter says: “It is quite probable that no general rule applicable to all cases can be determined, for possibly the ration best suited for the produc- tion of broilers, which are forced as rapidly as possible until they reach a suitable market size, may not be best for the production of breeders in which vigor and strength are prime essentials.” In other words, it is possible to feed to birds destined as broilers more corn than to a bird des- tined to produce eggs. ses A correspondent asks how roup af- fects birds. The principal symptoms are fever and watery secretions about the eyes and nose. The fever will not naturally be noticed unless attention is called to it by the other symptoms. In some cases the head swells and the eyes are closed by the swelling of the lids. There are at least two distinct diseases we call roup. One of them is of a catarrhal nature and occurs in the winter, spring and late fall. This dis- ease is successfully doctored, so some poultry men report. The other occurs during any part of the year, but is often most destructive during the hot weather. In this disease few of the birds show a swelled head or little symptoms about the head. In fact many birds we have seen die from this kind of roup, indicated it only by a very high fever and diarrhoea. It is a very contagious disease, and can be fought best by prevention. Little attention is paid to poultry farming as a business in the West. This may be largely accounted for by the fact that prices‘in Western cities do not reach the height of those in eastern cities. The farms of the West are generally quite freely supplied with poultry whose keeping costs the farmer next to nothing, at least in the summer, when foraging is the rule. The products of these farms go onto the markets at a low price, and the general buying public is satisfied with the quality enough to buy and use it. During the entire year dressed poultry can be purchased in Chicago at from $ to 13 cents per pound. At this time (August 3) dressed hens are selling at retail at 10% cents per pound, and they are of good quality. Poultry farming is increasing in the West and there are now hundreds of establish- ments scattered through Illinois and adjacent states; but there are near our big cities no such poultry farms as we find around the large cities of the East, where prices for poultry are relatively high. . As an illustration of this dif- ference in prices we note that a South Water street (Chicago) firm reships a very large part of its game birds to Philadelphia, because they can pay the freight to that city and get enough for their birds to return a handsome profit over the price they would get in Chi- cago. Alleged Process of Preserving Butter. In the endeavor to find something that will save time, be cheap, and neu- tralize the effect of dirt in the milk, many milk men are hoping and wish- ing for a preservative that will be cheap, chemist proof and sure death to bacteria—a most impossible combina- tion. If every handler of milk would tack up in the northeast corner of his memory the fact that any compound that will poison bacteria will also poi- son man, there would be more pure milk, less court fines, and a general im- provement all around. The following is an official report on a mutch lauded and wonderful compound that was go- ing to revolutionize the dairy business, a few months since: Consul Freeman, Copenhagen, under date of April 22, 1901, says: “T am in receipt of so many inquiries from the United States in regard to the reported discovery of a new and suc- cessful process for preserving butter, meat, eggs, etc., that I am led to sug- gest that notice be given in the Consu- lar Reports that the so-called discovery is a failure. The alleged inventor ap- plied for a patent, but his application was rejected. The sealed package of butter which was presented as a test of the process bore a notary’s certifi- cate as having been sealed up in 1900, but it was proved that the butter had been preserveed only a few weeks—the date, February, 1901, having been sur- reptitiously changed to read February, 1900.”—Hoard’s Dairyman. The Pennsylvania Fight on leo The battle over oleomargarine in Pennsylvania seems to be going in favor of honest goods, at least in the domain of legislation. The oleo bill recently passed is about as stringent as the New York law. Whether or not it will be enforced is another question. In the past the State officials entrusted with the enforcement of the law neg- lected it to such an extent that they were accused of being in the employ of the oleo makers. The scandal growing out of this alleged connection resulted in a change of officials, and it may be that the effect of the agitation on the new ones will prove salutary. It is pretty well accepted now among horticulturists that in replanting transplanted plants the earth should be packed as hard as possible over and abcut the roots. This packing brings the carth into close contact with the ‘eeding roots and the air spaces are ob- ene With a little moisture the plant can soon get: into - “Trees ats % growing con POLISHED SHIRT BOSOM. How One That John Drew Wore Almost Broke Up an Act. John Drew, es is well known, is most particular regarding nis dress, both on and off the stage. He was playing in “The Liars” two seasons ago on the road, and his itinerary included nearly two weeks of successive one- night stands. His man attendant always looked arfter the clothing he wore at the theater, bringing to the actor's dressing room shortly before Mr. Drew appeared to dress. In one of the small- er cities the valet had sent Mr. Drew's linen to a laundry, and the actor found, when about to don it, that the bosom of his dress hirt contained a polish which disgusted him. He said things. But there was nothing to do but wear it, polish and all. Mr. Drew had a long speech in a scene with Arthur Byron. The latter at once observed the unusual polish on Mr. Drew's shirt front, and while he was delivering the lengthy di- alogue, Mr. Byron, though it was not noticed by the audience, began to ad- just his hair, straighten his tie, and otherwise complete his toilet by the aid of the polish on Mr. Drew’s shirt. A roar went up from behind the scenes, and Mr. Byron’s joke nearly spoiled the scene.—New York Times. Point of Superiority. “How is your daughter getting on with her piano lessons?” “Splendidly!” answered Mrs. Cum- rox, ‘We are very rroud of her. She is so very classical and accomplished that she never thinks of playing any- thing that anybody wants to hear.”’— ‘Washington Star. A Son’s Devotion. Wallace, Mich. August 26th:—A striking example of « man’s dutiful and attentive care of his mother is seen in Mr. Osesr Swanson of this place. Mr. Swanson’s mother has suffered much with Kidney and Urinal Trouble end Female Weakness. 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