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Durham Chronicle (1867), 12 Aug 1897, p. 7

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IX nbalming "‘1‘. vcial The sick rate decrwsed 40 per cent. and several (tisunanged workman actu- ally begged permission to revisit the workanvs and make themselves gen- erally useful to pay for the privilege of getting the benefit of the cool air. After eXperiancing the comfort of the simple remedy the affliction of their stifling tenements had become unen- dmrable. It waslike having to go back to tne “isnter dugouts of the stone peri- od. after having known the benefit of a good toal stove. w' I catch rheumatism and (“dusumptioil and ought to sue the Government for damages. 1 would as soon let them pgrsuade me to work in a smallpox hoa- usaL" aw. - (Mulder-s. too, become interested in the experiments of the Government clmatfixmker. thopgh. as usual, the voue of public opl'mun was at first gverse to the idea of an innovation 'l‘hf’at’ men will all latch that death of mold. 'cthxked ”.19 old loggles. ”Cllgey --__ ‘ I But after a thinstntl (-onvalescents had (re-roun- e~111.LUaistt.ii- partisans of the new arrangement. the 10ch of experi- allu- prmailwl. and a Toulon hotelkeep- er E‘éldl-llh‘hf‘d an ice air restaurant that soon became the most popular pleasure rewrt i-n the l'lty. “'ho would feel his blood seethe if he could purchase the delights of a highland Camp for a. couple of dimes? That crazy twin bro- ther of the night air an rstition. the delusion that trambles a the ideas of cold water drinking in the heat. has its apologiets even (mm lecture plat- form. but In OPPRESSIVE LY \VARM WEATHER to 113135;. of la unnamed};n booth off- ts a u- e oquanco. progressive 3““? ‘h" "'9“ m‘méfz‘.“ not r um '01) . in WW School of Drug- ‘n two at tip Pin] hotels of ”than do aim. tb Wuhiqtu duly t'nluu no turneu at 43 um rate of i: peratu e of a gum-sized reduced sufficiently to KEEP YUES FROM Tue air of a very r00 made as pleasant as 3 1114 while- the outdoor at] trailing away at 96 (1 made. .March at a n 111 155K! AN ICE FACTORY mm was unpriaed to mm W I'mmprly the influence 0! cold air rem- «am: all wrts of ailments brought on M fine intense summer boat of tint .‘ Wu” d’lis headavbas subsided; he could work wxw lees fatigue and eat his sup- Wr Wxth Nu improved appetite. ”An amnesia: ticket to the bk ice vault," m. says in a pamphlet an artificial reâ€" frrcvratum. “laworhh a voyage to Trou- Milk. sur Mer; you feel as if nature mr‘ wwugbt a miracle for your bene- If’. and mitigated thl: bakel-ovem heat «- UL!) mm the interpositiun of a cool ”Will lie ”one cut [lieu-Olly as We 30" “arm Thu-I- In “later - Artificial le- mgrrauon â€"|’rurflcal "l'esln - Duclwery “a ~puuhh Physic-Ian â€" (‘oldl Will [III “III "or ”Inch. 01' “new, Dunno! the progress era of the last bunny”! years architecture has kept up “.3; me :uivanr-e of otner mechanical jam-Yrmr'. Still Ll“ Northern END” my; 5‘: r3 America must plead guilty to (Le (Large UI budefi-ng dwelling 31-11595 .n a manner ingeniously cone :y‘J-e: (u make wiater more «unfort- a‘mr <th midsummer more aiflictive. Mu; {Lat affliction Ls by no means Jami t4: the homes of the poor. Not .1: 1m slum tenements of sweltering sunny; seaport towns only, but in mum West/err. and Northern abodes of Maize the maxtyrdom of the dogdsy sea~~zz reaches a degree of grievousness LLKCMAH tr the children of the wild- khan“. and the time will come when the (“EV-£14115 uf civilizatkm will marvel at m: sului submission to am after-all nu My rruxedmlrnle veil. as we marvel at we witness-mess of savages who shiv- o-X' ..n rzm'nide tents rather than go to ta: truuhle of building cabins and fire (‘ ungueye. Murwvm'. we have not even the ex- :LM m' the ancient nations to whom tar 11am (,2' a smoke-conducting flue was tuiuailj. unknown. and WM), had to mama themselves with mining! um: mums over a hrazier of glowing nzmru M. In 1873 a chemist of the Govâ€" orermJn arsenal of Toulon, France, "(1 (‘5’! superinr's permission to assist .L La wnetructmn of 108R TU RIVAL DUAL 1RD W001]. “as with extreme reluctance that Government ("hemht went back to drudgery in the cartridge shop..but u-spondency was cheered by a bright : I" he could not return to the pleas- ;ne vault why not bring an ice I to the. arsenal and turn general rv unto wholesale comfort? innusinsm is contagious, and Cup- .ie Lamotte got permission to try. was a professional engineer, as well hemist. and soon iniproved, on his L. of a siiln-ellar sanitarium. By em of pipes and force-ventilators vanilucted currents of ice air into .riil sew-Imbfloor offices. and by and his. every workshop store-room and :ratory of the mist building. .DOW'n the ire vault the mercury shrunk e to the freezing point. but in trans- sum to upstairs apartments the cur- Ls of wimter weather 1'0!qu be reg- .ed to euit individual predilections. v mulii be turned into May or aundmcted ml secom am every rawry of he ire VI 2 to‘t‘he fr AIR WILL onerous nousss IN m-nsunmsn. ii LIES FROM BUZZING. f a very roomy office was :xswnt as a mountain) spring. outdoor atmosphere was Ivor (flutes. an mks-hop. store] e vast building t. the mercury 11ng point. but irs apartments weather ('Uult mlividual pred turned imto May or (-ontimuing the process mflux 1 ball the tem- wuld be D the Boast 'of 3Dawesantatimes‘ Hulaâ€"head~ ed Whig!) alpne has_preven_tqd the general -b.troduction of the most bene- xeial Invention of the last 200 years, but its opponents can no longer de- iend their position on a basis of san- itary arguments. 'A hospital physici- an of Santiago de Cuba convinced him- seltj. and before long all his neighbors and visitors that ice-air is nature's rem- edy for a large number of climatic dis- otrders, including that scourge of the tropics, yellow lever, itn its most mal- ignant forms and in all but its last stage of development..- Reasoning fromfilhe familiar fact that fevers are rarer i1n Ihigh latitudes and more frequent in summer than at any other time of the year, it occurred to him to ‘y‘tr the effect of an artificial winter.” In his capacity of manager of a large fever lazaretto he surround- ed one of the northside wards with blocks of ice till the had reduced the temperature some 40 degrees, and in defiarme of hearsay prejudices, inâ€" structed his attendants to bathe he temples and wrists of their patients with towels soaked in ice water. The old plan consisted in (lapping the pa- tient1 111 a sweat box, stuffing him with drugs and letting him drink nothing but warm barley broth, and there is an anecdote of a sailor .‘to whom the horror of approaching death suggest- ed the means of self help. 'His impas- sioned appeals for a cooling beverage had been answered with threats of a straight jacket. but one night, when the candle burned law, he got out of bed and tiptoed his way to a chamber where his slumbering nurse kept a PAJLFUL OF ICE \VATER. And only about a year ago a corres- pondent of a French medial journal called attention to the remarkable ef- fectiveness of ice air for the cure of dyspepsia. Having noticed the raven-l ous appetite of a dog that by some. ao- oident that had been locked up all night 1 in the sto-reroom of an ice factory, he I conceived the idea of improving his own digestive vigor in the same manâ€" ner, and got permimion to enter .thel refrigerator, dressed like Nansen for a I tussle with the North Pole. During, the preceding eight months he had in‘ vain tried every dyspepsia cure he could hear 01. but after breathing an air. that seemed to come straight from the l haunts of the fur-seal he felt that he could do justice to a full-sized dinner, '1 and SOLID got so anxious to try that he . emerged before the end of half an hour and made a rush for the next restaur- ant. 'l‘he waiters, who had known him I. to taste a dish here and a piece. of cake there and then leave with a sigh I U‘ 1981‘“ Were surprised to see him eat as thuugb he IIlJUSL have been West and ' lost his way in the ‘ PINE FORESTS OF NORMANDIE. Besides. the new specific worked with- I out the least appreciable had after ef- . fem. lue pills will irritate the ali-i iueutary organs into a feverish activity I followed by a depressimg reaetionfiill The ice had not yet all melted, and he drank and drank till the pail was al- most all empty. 'llhen, snatching a piece of ice, he squatted down near an Open Window and ruflmd “himself all over. till he felt that a new lease of life had been secured, and that his fev- er microbe-s had beaten a retreat. To obviate a relapse be dressed himself.“ quickly as possible Gand slipped out 111- t0_night and darkness. Bil doctors as- embed his escape to temporary insan- ity, “caused by after effects of quin- me,” but about a week after they found the supposed corpse Adancim-g a_ horn: pipe; a-n-d in as satisfactory} state of Pipe. and in an satisfacwry a state 9f mum as she had ever enjoyed in Ins e. at last the jaded. orgamsm sinks into a torpor that defies the resourves of a drugstore. But ire air begat an ap- petite. which. like love, dares all thivngs wml endures all, and it then occurred to the eXperimenter that cold weather has zen exaetly analogous effect on the habâ€" itual gluttons of the Arctic circle. Aft- er weathering an undiluted blizzard a tribe of Melville Islanders can devour (t walrus. blubber and all, and wind Up with a couple of Moravian missionaries and busiiness considerations have oblig- ed Swiss landlords to exclude Oberland hunters from the privileges of the table d‘hote; they have been known to use a tablespoon. instead of a fork, and con- tinue to help themselves till additional supplies had to be procured from. a riv- al establishment. The idea of utilizing that plain hint of Nature must have occurred to thous- ends of Southern dyspepties but the idi- (rtiu dread of cold dranghts nipped all their projectsim the bud. Yet there is no shadow of a doubt that sleeplessness. chronic headaches 1nd limusness 1011111 be relieved by the same pres1ripti1un that cures languor 111111 la1k of appetite. Among the na- tiv es of the highest habitable latitudes 14 em unsumptmn is known only from hearsav. and a general revision of our medual system may follow the recog- nition of the {an that human beings 11111 easily SU'RV'lVE A DEGREE OF COLD Lust wiJl kill out the microbes of near- ly every contagious diseaseâ€"smallpox, perhaps not expected. A .few years ago a mum of patients were taken out to the. pest-house an one of the Bay Lxlands. near San Francisco. and in a. sudden squall the man at the tiller- ropes slipped his helm and five small- pox patikénts were pitched ‘ngrbpard. _ '1 M3 were resLueLl 331th difficulty and for nearly an hour were exposed to a keen Marc 1;“ ind almost freezing the mater erpping from their soaked clothv ing Judging from prevalent notions their Lhances of recovery would have been slun indeed but all five left the hospital cured three weeks ahead of their fellow-patients. One indep endent inquirer of the last century. Dr. Alb- ert Sydenham seems to have anticipated that discover3, and in his treatise on' the cure of srriallpox advises to reduce the temperature of the fevered patient in everyp possible way, by cold sponge baths drinks of cooling beverages and cataplasms of crushed ice. It is, indeed more than probable that the hospitals of the future will be ice- houses. but the chief value of the refrig- erative plan is, after all, its effective- ness as a remedy of domestic discom- fort. [t is not too much to say that its skillful applknation will turn city life in midsummer fromafearful afflic- tion into a blessin and that with its aid the tenants an ordinary tow-n cottage wfll be out and out more com- forta lo than the guests of a fashion- able mm: resort under present cir- consumes. Dn autdoor leboror, who he been at work :11 any in m «altering um: "THE DURHAM CHRONICLE, August 12, 1397 will gloat over the plOSpect of getting back to his bracing 0001 home as t. half- frozen hunter would rejoice at. the thought of his return to a snug chimn- : ey corner. ' YV Vunu . yam “I: v-0 - BEEFYKQ return to a snug chimn REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS, ey corner. bglwhich English workingmen were en- a ~. 7 ' . ed to obtain cheaper food. Mr.Grun- 0N EXTRA UbLX DAXS dy thinks, was largely due to the strike, expeerenteI-g will clhmckle at the idea 3 though it had been advocated before of beatilng the Dog Star Demon at his , the strike took place. Another law which craziest tricks and turn on cold air enâ€" ' was of great benefit forbade women ough to make a pail of stale water as and children under eighteen years of drinkable as a highland fountain, just I age to be employed in the cotton mills as De Quincey mth a store of good ' longer than ten hours a day. This law fuel and double-screened windows. liked was not only a good thing in itself. but to see the blizzard fiends try their it caused the workers generally to worst, and answer their raging howls think and agitate for a ten-hour day. With a whoop of defiance. . . and some ten years after the great No more melting butter and dripping strike of 1842 there wasa general strike sansages, weary afternoons and dreams I for ten hours: which malted successâ€" of Purgatory; there will be parlor re- I fully, and which was the beginning of fr' erators and municipal lee-air com- | better times in the matter of hours of p; 195 with a network of‘pipes, andfor 1 labor L2 nearly all English industries. According to Mr. Grundy's descrip- tion of this strike it must have been one of the greatest labor-struggles that ever occurred. In 1842 the condi- tion of the cotton workers in Lanca- shire, Yorkshire and Cheshire, had be- come so bad, owing to the introduction of machinery, that a general strike movement was brought. about without any organization and at first without leadership. 3,000,000 PEOPLE WERE IDLE. This included the weavers themselves and persons of every other occupation whom they obliged to leave work. The small tradesmen and manufacturers were obliged to close their places, the teachers Ln the schools. had to send their pupils home, and the strikers even prevented the passing of. vehicles up- on the highways by massing themselves in compact: bodies through which no horse could be driven. During the six weeks industry of ev- ery kind was entirely suspended in the district affected, it being estimated that in the neighborhood of prafiies with a network of pipes, and for a. few pennies eadh housekeeper will be able to reduce the indoor climate to the exact temperature which the sun- scorched Bedouin: eXpects to find on his arrival in the shady bowers of Eden. a unique form of enforced sympathy strike, which Mr. Grundy has never since seen duplicated. He had some- times wondered at the tameness of la- bor struggles which he has since ,wit- nessed compared with what he saw in his boyhood’s days, but as he remem- bers his feeling on the great occasion, in was simply one of satisfaction that. the strikers should relieve him of the necessity of going to school. Mr. Grundy having been very young at the time this strike occurred, most of. his information about it has been gathered from reading. The incidents which he remembers are principally the forcing of his teacher to dismiss school and the obliging of his father to sus- pend business. Mr. Grundy's father was a. batter, having a shop of his own and employing a few hands in the town of Ashton, near Manchester. The strikers came in a large body, and it was only necessary for one of them to say: “Put out that fire, Grundy,” and the hat- ter immediately suspended all work in his little place and sent his men home to wait for the strike to be over. back to their work at the end of six weeks without having obtained any in- crease of wages, or any shortening of their hours of labor. It was not long. however, until Parliament. as 8 result of this strike, began to pay some at- tention to the condition of the weav- ers. and laws which served vqry effect- nally 30 ameliorato their condition were No more moltimg butter and dripping sansages. weary afternoons and dreams of. Purgatory; there will ix; parlor re- frigerators and muxn-i-cippl .loe-air oom- ‘v 'w-- vâ€" wâ€" Mr. Grundy's recoilection of the mat- ter is that much sympathy was dlsplay- ed for the strikers by the 00,093» and that the latter were of very httle use so far as breaking the strlke of the weavers was concerned. The Stl‘LkB _was_ lost,_hewever. the weaverg 891133 When All Kinds of Industries Were Nearly all a Stamlsllll for SIX Weeks â€" The Greatest Labor Struggle 'l‘llat liver (Dc curl-ml â€" Ignorance of the People 'l‘hme [Dan's - The Strike “as Loni. Thomas Grundy, of Pittsburg. was a participant in some. of the famous strikes which occurred in England for- ty or more years ago, and his recollec- tions of the manner in which they were conducted and his comments up- on the good which they accomplished are interesting just now. Mr. Grundy is now upward of 60 years of age, and has been a hard worker in the labor movement nearly all his life. He drew his first. inspiration from a mob of striking weavers, who when Mr. Grun- dy was seven years old, called at the schoolhouse where he was beginning his education and compelled the teacher to give the scholars a vacation. This was Mr. Grunt” remembers seeing bodies of the strikers marchinz 1110118 1116 highways thickly massed together and filling the roads from side to side as far as they could be seen. They were always armed with clubs, and when marching would line up close togeih' er, each grasping the club of the man on either side of him, and SO weavxng themselves into a solid mass. In this way it was rendered impossible for any- thing or anybody to occupy the road but the strikers, and their ob'ect of forcing a general suspension 0 busi- ness in the district was obtained. This was only for a little while, however. as large bodies of the troops of the em- pire were ordered into the district held by the strikers. and soon obliged them to preserve the peace and desist from interfering with the affairs of those who desired. to carry on business. '. Cobden. Bright and other great Eng- hsh statesmen took 9?. their cause, and A PARTICIPANT’S RECOLLECTION OF THOSE STIRRING TIMES. investigations and dfncuissions, réaulâ€"t; GREAT ENGLISH STRIKE Every one knows that certain species of ants keep “aphiides” just as men do milk cows. to supply them with the sweet liquid they secrete. Therefore it is not so astonishing to find that these marvelous little insects keep pets. which apparently of 'no direct benefit seem to amuse them. The pets are general- ly beetles and crickets. which live on the best of terms with their hosts play- mg round the nests in fine weather and retiring into them on wet days The ants have actually been watched car- rying these pets of theirs from place to place during their migrations. 7 In. W " Yet» that other wmmmkmmu D m 3308.: men, but it was to no purpose. Several were notified that'they were discharg- ed, but this produced no effect upon them or the others. Mr. Grundy thinks that among ignorant workmen, that is. among those who are ignorant. in the matter of education obtained from books, there 'has been as a. rule more loyalty to each other displayed than by those who are‘fairly well educated. At any rate they stuck together upon this occasion. and won their strike so thoroughly that there was never af- terward a general return to theold ractice of working twelve or fifteen urs a. day. In the mill where Mr; Grundy was employed. too, the mana- ger, after the ten-hour system had been in force for some time, (filled the workmen together, and expressed his satisfaction with it, sayino: that the re- sults obtained were much more satis- factory from the standpoint of the pro- prietors than under the old way. To the Men YM 00., London, Ont. Scamp-We (”5“);ch Wynn!“ gm ed. the good effects of which are std] felt. The . '__C_â€"_.â€" â€" wâ€"wu-uw- Mr. Grundy was employed in a cot- ton mill himself at the time this last strike took place. The workmen sim- ply quit when they had worked ten hours one day. and so inaugurated a movement which was successful. Mr. Grundy says that at that time there was so little general education that many persons could not tell the time of day by a olook. and so in passing around the word for the inauguration of the strike everybody was instructed to stop work when the clock pointed straight up and down, this being a method of securing a more general un- derstanding than to say 6 o’clock in the evening. In the mill where Mr. Grundy worked the clock was watched all afternoon and when the time came there was a general rush for the outside of the mill. The foreman had the gates lock- ed and proceeded to harangue the work- THE MADDEN YEAST 00.. London. PETS OI‘ INSECT wrotherwohivo Dealers in Watches, Clocks, J ewelry- and Spectacles, Silver and Flat Wars of all descriptions. Repairing a pecialty. Upper Town, Durham. The “Chronicle“ is the only 12-? age Local Newspaper In Western (mull-lo, lube Postmaster-General has decided t9 authorise the isue of partial sets of jubilee. stamps to meet the demand for “7811118.; : I . o County of Grey. including a valuable W Power. Brick dwelling. and many eleziblc- building loL-I. will be sold in one or more lots. Alan lot No. 60, (ton; ‘2. W. G. P... Township of Beminck. 100. acres. adjoining Town plot. Durham. . , . Mortgages taken for part purchase money Apply to JAMES EDGE. Oct. 2nd. _ Edge Hill, l’.0. CMINI nxcn. 35c. GOLIO, (HINDI-Ell, CHOLEIA- MOBBUB, DIARIIIOEA, ovszutenv, And all ‘0'." COIPLMI'I’. OI N. B.â€"To ensures first-class job the hides must be salted as soon as taken Horse "idea Cnv Ililcs, [Hg Durham Tannery. :Relz'ef for .Lung 'TT’OZZZDZQS v In ”NSI‘MMION and all [1'36 0 DISEASES. fiPl'l‘I‘lNG or 3x00». 0 . COUCH. IONS 0F AI'I’IS'X‘I'I‘E. DEBILITY. the hem-nu ot um . . uncle are non manifest. . By the-aid ofThe "D. 8. L" Emulsinn, I haves“, . rid 01S hackmg cough wmvh Ind tr mblvd ms or over a yvlr. and bath: gamut ruumdmubly in . weight. liked this l-Lmuh-mn av “(-11 l w“ glad . when the nuns mule alumni. Lu x au- :1. . T. H. WINHIIXM. (f E ,lenntrul . 50c. and 8| nor Battle 0 mwxs uwncnc: 00., m, Mournm O SATISFAC [ION GUARANTEED â€" IN THE Tom 0F DURHAM, SKINS, 14300., Tanned 'Suitablo a‘ RU'BES .hd COATS by the new process, which for Finish and Softnoss cun’b be bent. A. GORDON Robe Tanning. EDGE PROPERTY THUS. SMITH. FOR SALE EMULSION?

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