THE OMAHA SUNDAY 11KK: AVIUL U. 1009.
DANCERS TOE SEALERS FACE
An Industry that Employ. Four
Thousand Newfoundland Men.
WORK LASTS ONLY TWO MOUTHS
Modern Meaner, liar Replace thr
Old WNn (iallla Vmrta, bat
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Flo fiemala.
BT. JOHN'S, N. P.. April lO.-On March
in there be, an tha annual hunt for the
hair seal off tha Grand Banks of New
foundland. Thla Is an Industry wlilch
lasts only two months, tbut employi about
twenty-fire atout steamers' and 4,090 men.
whose home la the rock ribbed coast of
Newfoundland. This seal hunt has been
prosecuted for hundred of years. It yields
a harvest of from $6oo,n(io to rTuO.roo annu
ally, and like the cod fish In the same
waters, the seal has defied all attempts at
extermination. This Is all the more re
markable when we find that today the
famous Bering- seal 'Ishery Is now r-duccd
to a mere skeleton of Its former Import
ance. A Newfoundlander takes no small pride
In this sllng- venture, and his views with
regard to It are Illustrated by the story
tf tha scaling skipper, who hearing once
of the appointment of a prominent lawyer
to the judicial bench declared that "It
was an outrage to give such a fine Job to a
man who had never brought a trip of seals
Into the country." The seal folk for some
reason describe their prey as "swolls," and
In the same fashion, to "spell" an object
meant to carry It; hence we can Imagine
the amasement of the young cleric, who
on one occasion asked a burly hunter how
he spelt "swolls," and was answered: "We
ion't apel! 'em, we hauls 'em."
Little Known of Heals.
Of the natural history of the hair seal, or
"Ice-riding pinniped," as scientists describe
It, little Is known. All that Is certain re
specting their habits and movements Is that
they appear on the coast of Labrador In
the early winter and drift south on the Ice
floes, where heir young are whelped on the
naked crystal plains. They are born about
the end of February and are suckled there
by their mothers, the father keeping guard
dally while she dives into the sea In
search' of food. The herds are absolutely
countless In number. On occasions as many
as 200.000 have been seen In a single
"patch." and yet each mother will return
at nightfall to her own Infant and find
the particular hole In the Ice by which
she went down, even though the floe
has shifted many miles snd changed its
position entirely. Toung seals are termad
"white coats," being fat, downy, pallid
little masses vt blubber, with voracious
appetltlea growing with such amazing
repldlty that within a fortnight their pelt
with fat attached weight from forty to
fifty pounds. It Is at this time the ecu;
hunt begins,
A century ago it was prosecuted in
small boats by means of nets set along
the coast, then larger smacks were em
ployed and went further afield among the
floes. . Later stout schooners were built,
and then square rigged vessels and fifty
years ago a fleet of too sails put out from
the various porta of Newfoundland In quest
of the greasy spoil. In 1R31 as many as
374,000 aeals were brought in, while In
1864 the smallest catch on record was
caught, 121,000.
All Steam Sealer. Now.
The modern era In the seal fishery began
In 1WSJ, when a wooden steamer, the Blood
hound, was built. Jn Bcotland and brought
across for the express purpose of engaging
In this pursuit. The introduction of steam
marked the downfall Of the sail, and today
there Is not a sailing vessel remaining at
the work. The whole enterprise has been
monopolised by a small steam fleet railing
from St. John's, and only 4,000 men are
taken on board these.
Until three years ago It was thought that
a steel ship was unsuitable for this work.
It Is a seeming paradox that Iron should
be less strong than wood for Ice naviga
tion. However, an enterprising and far
seeing St. John's ship owner resolved upon
the construction of a specially designed
steel steamer for the sealing business and
which should also be available as a cargo
carrier during the rest of the year. This
was the chief drawback of the old style
sealer, which was a twin sister of the
Arctic whaler and Indeed sometimes used
for that business. When the Dundee whal
ing business proved a failure the ships
were bought In for the Newfoundland seal
fishery, but for ten months of the year
she looks forward to the hour with apprehension. Mother's Friend,
by its penetrating and soothing properties, allays nausea, nervousness,
unpleasant feelings, and so prepares the system for the ordeal that
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with but little suffering, as I V
numbers have testified and If VH
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Spring Announcement
1909
We are now displaying a most oom
plete Una of foreign novelties for
Spring and summer wear.
Tour early Inspection I lavtted. aa
It will afford aa opportunity of ohos
tn from a large number of exclusive
tries.
We Import In "Single ault lengths."
aad a suit cannot be duplicated.
Aa order placed now may be dllr
at your convenience.
were laid up at 8L John's ssve when hired
by an Arctic expedition or for a cruise
to Hudson bay.
The new ship Adventure Is a powerful,
strongly-built steel freighter, costing nearly
l.".m). Its lines belrg somewhat like those
of the Canadian Ice breakers. I'mm the
very outset It was a success. The method
of conducting the sesl hunt is that the
steamers, which are not allowed by law
to leave port until the morning of March
10. so tlist the young seals may have time
to ittaln a fair growth, make their way
through the Ice to where they suppose the
teal herds are.
I. oca tins; and Killing;.
This Is by no means an easy task, for
the whole ocean Is strewn with mighty
masses of crystal and every wind sweeps
them to snd fro. so that H cull for the
keenest Judgment to loocte t "mIn
patch." This Is the cht
Mis,
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and when It Is found i. r y
men out over the I c t- k' '
pinnipeds. This Is done I
a long Iron tlipij pole i,v v
Is then rut, ripen and t. c
from the carcass, the luttoi
the Ice.' When a man gets '.
pelts he makes them Into n tj
them back to the siiln 1- t
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long rore he carrtef for ti:e purpose. If
It lr. too far away tl:e men, who go In
gangs or watches, make plies of them on
a convenient "pan." or flat mass of ice.
setting a pole with the ship's flag on it
over them to establish ownership. The
men go from eight to ten miles from the
ship In their dally hunt, and when bill
iards break on them direful tragedies oc
cur. The worst of these was In 18!W, when
the steamship Greenland had forty-eight
men frosen to death and sixty-three ser
iously frostbitten out of a total of ISO.
Daily, except on Sundays, the work Is
kept up until the ship has got Its load,
then It makes for home. So strong Is
the feeling for Sabbath day observance
In the colony that seal killing is forbidden
then. A few years ago a sealing skipper's
log of an unusually interesting voyage
was published on his return to St. John's,
when this naive confession was exposed:
Sunday, March 28. This being the Lord s
day no seals were taken. Crew busy hoist
ing seals aboard and shifting coal In the
bunkers.
One of the peculiarities of the Industry
Is the fact that so m my thousands of seal.
being killed every day and left on pans
until the ship can reach them there Is an
Irresistible temptation to appropriate these
under cover of night, and In Newfoundland
there are two currrnt phrases to which
the peculiarity has given rise.
Men, Ye Swore .Noble."
The "sealing liar" Is the gossip who gets
busy shortly after the fleet sails with
stories of steamers being reported, and
the "sealing sweerer." supplies glib but
unconvincing testimony In the cross suits
which follow every season's fishery. Some
years ago a victorious skipper, in one of
these actions, apostrophized his gallant
snip's company thus: "I thank ye, 'men;
ye swore noble!"
It Is scarcely an exaggeration to say
that very little reliance is given by New
foundland Juries to the testimony adduced
In sealing cases,' and In one of the most
recent fictions, wherein . some thousands
of seals were sued for, the verdict was
for two pelts, valued at S3, aa they alone
could be positively and indisputably In
dentlfied. The Industry Is one where men walk
In dally and hourly danger of death.
Within the last two years five ships were
lost, the Leopard was driven ashore and
130 men narrowly escaped death; the
Greenland broke Its shaft and was carried
seaward, its crew being rescued In the
last extremity; the Orand Lake was
crushed and went down. Its crew being
thirty-six hours on the floe before rescue
came; the Panther and the Walrus had
a similar experience. Every ship that
returned last year was more or less seri
ously wrecked, some of them so badly
that they could scarcely limp Into port.
The loss of so many of the old style boats
enables the owners to replace them with
ships of the modern type, and this year
ees four of them In commission t ho
Bonaventure, the Bellaventure, the Boe
thlc and the Florixel. The first three are
designed to serve as ordinary freighters
during the year. The Florlzel Is a still
more ambitious departure; it Is a ship
of 2.000 tons, with passenger accommoda
tions for 100 saloon and as many steerage
passengers, and Intended to he run as a.
tourist craft between St. John's, Halifax,
and New York, when not employed In the
seal fishery. It Is fitted with wireless
telegraphy, and for the first time on re
cord the Newfoundlanders hope to he
apprised this year of the dally movements
of the sealing fleet.
Is to love children, and no
home can be happy without
them, yet the ordeal through
which the expectant mother
must pass usually is so full
of suffering and dread that
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Guckert
McDonald,
Tailort
317 Sooth Fifteenth Street
ESTABLISHED 1887
BREAD LINES IN LONDON
Thousands of People Are Oat
Work and Near Stanration.
of
EFFORTS AT RELIEF ARE WEAK
reemployment n Vnr More rresslnsr
Evil In Knnland Than la Gener
ally Realised, as Indlrated
by Stories of Misery.
LONDON, April 10. fncmrloymjnt and
the resulting poverty, bringing thousands
how many it Is Impossible to compute to
tiie starvation line. Is a far more pressing
evil, even a more immediate danger, In
this country than Is probably realised
either here or abroad by the general pub
lic. Early last autumn It Is not too much
to say that the British government looked
forward to the coming winter In a spirit
almost of panic.
t'nemployment and distress were reported
on such a scale frmo all parts of the king
dom even then that alarm, and very se
rious alarm, was felt as to what might be
the result when the real pinch of winter
should come. As It happened the most
serious part of the year went by without
anvlhlne: more alarming coming to pass
thnn previous years have witnessed. But
the widespread unemployment, poverty and
distress remain, and with them the ques
tion of what they are to lead to.
So far the alarm they have Inspired In
a weak kneed government has led to s cer
tain amount of panic legislation which,
while leaving the root of the evil un
touched, hns served as a sop to the leaders
and organisations, which vaguely threat
ened trouble. The ill considered and worse
applied old age pension act and other leg
islation affecting the legal status of trades
unions and the relations of employers and
employed, which have been too fully de
scribed to need more than a bare mention
now, have been the work of a panic
stricken government too anxious to pacify
the mob they fear to consider the welfare
of the masses, who, beyond question, are
In need of assistance based on prorer
economic principles.
Pearfnl Poverty Known of All.
Nowhere more than In London Is this
need so evident. In no city Is squalid,
starving and ragged poverty so forcibly
thrust upon the attention even of the cas
ual passerby.
In the warm weather the turf of every
public park Is thickly strewn throughout
the day with the sleeping forms of the un
employed, among them, no doubt, a cer
tain proportion of deserving poor and un
fortunate people. When th days arc cold
there does not seem to be a street In Ixin
don that has not at every yard a ragged
and hungry looking beggar to open the
door of a cab, and beg, articulately or
mutely, according to the distance of the
nearest policeman, for a copper.
Thousands of these are wastrels, unem
ployed becaune they are unemployable.
Excluding them and the ever Increasing
number of youths who have learned to do
no sort, of work, and the pitiful army of
broken women, 5,000 of whom made a
rathetle spectacle sliuffling through the
streets of the West End on the day of the
opening of Parliament, there must, It Is
calculated, be at least 25.000 unemployed
men In London who have the will and the
ability to be hard working citizens, but are
yet near enough to starvation, thousands
of them, to take advantage of the several
schemes, public and private, who provide
them with their Uttle food once In the
twenty-four hours. That may seem a
strange, perhaps an ungracious way In
which to refer to charity offered and In
many, cases accepted In a proper spirit, but
It connotes a truth which will be apparent
from what Is to follow.
Effort nt Itellef n Fallore.
Municipal attempts at providing relief
work have, generally speaking, been a
failure In Ixjndon. Labor colonies have
p-oved a costly failure. Street cleaning
and other sanitary work, with very oc
casional snow cleaning, seem to have pro
vided more work for communities than
unemployed,
A recent article In The Bee on the poor
law as It now exists shows that it pro
vided no remedy. The food nnd shelter of
the workhouse, to which every destitute
man has a right, only prevent the recipient.
If he Is a bona fide worker, from looking
for employment, while for the loafer they
provide the attractions of a free hotel
which he enters and quits at his own sweet
will.
But there are attempts made to provide
the hungry man with one meal a day In
order to give him some measure of physi
cal strength to prosecute his search for
employment. Day after day and night
after night the Church Army feeds thou
sands of these derelicts. The Thames
Embankment near Charing Cross Is the
assembling place. Here are some impres
sions gathered personally for the purpose
of this letter not many nights ago.
What is true of one night is true of every
other; the people and the weather change,
but the pirture Is otherwise always the
same. It was an hour before midnight, a
cold winter night with the snow lying on
the street and a bitter east wind blowing
that had driven Into shelter all that had a
shelter to seek. But already a long shiv
ering queue of men and youths are wait
ing, and every moment adds to their num
ber. Starving;, bat Orderly.
Policemen are there In charge, but their
services are never wanted. The hungry
crowd waits In silent, orderly misery, and
no late comer tries to filch the place of one
who has arrived before him. Take them
all round, these men do not give the lm
prtssion of being useless wastrels, neither
drunkards nor criminals.
The marks of pain, hunger and sickness
are stumped on n.arly all. A talk with
some of them may be taken as giving the
measure of the rest. Their talk is free
from pose or hypocrisy, for their lnter
v'ewer is there In the guise of one who,
like themselves, is waiting for his meal
ticket.
The first man spoken to still showed
considerable traces of better days. This,
In thort, was his story:
"I am 48 years old and since my seven
teenth year I worked as a boiler riveter.
My wages rose to an average of 50 shil
lings a week; with a family of six I put
little by for a rainy day.
"Ten munlhs ago I was dismissed, with
many more, from the firm with which I
had been working for eleven years the
reason was simply slackness of trade. For
tight months we kept the home together,
then It went.
"You can guess the rest. The parish
guardians are looking after the children,
my wife Is In the workhouse Infirmary,
and 'full up' or trade's scarce' Is the an
swer when one asks for any kind of woik.
I walked about looking for work two das
and two nights without any food or shel
ter before I could buck up any courage to
fall into these ranks, but I'm glad I've
done It: It has helped to keep body and
soul together, and I'll manage to regain
my feet somehow this summer."
Lay On MMdle-Aaed.
Here, no doubt, one saw one of the re
sults of the employers' liability act. When
dismissals are necessitated by slackness of
KITVHKN C'AHINKTS W are
agent for the celebrated McDougal
Kitchen Cabinet, priced ran fro from
8I..-.0 to 7-V.
J Oaf P aVe a rnsnn PurPr'se 'n store for this week's slioiiers in connection with
- the many pood values always to be found in our Drapery Department.
LBCG wtirtcinS This week we are offering special inducements in LACK CURTAINS. There -
are about 1,200 pair of Lace Curtains of which we have only two to six pairs of a pattern, that must be closed out at once.
We have gone through the entire stock and have marked each pattern at reductions from 20 to 50 per cent and in many '
cases even lower. These prices will undoubtedly induce rapid clearance and the early buyer will secure the best values.
"We list a few of the values this sale offers:
We are exclusive agenU for the Vulcan Gas Ranges. Gas range
like Illustration with four burners, three small, one giant burner and
one simmer burner. Oven in this range is eighteen Inches instead of
sixteen Inches. All corners and base are made of malleable Iron, mak
ing a substantial solid stove. All trays and burners can be rernoved
for cleaning, price connected in room $17.50
Other ranges from $10.00, $13.75. $15.75, $17.50, $19.75, $21.50
and $28.00, these pftces are for stoves connected in your kitchen.
It Is a high rade, light
weight, strongly con
structed Oo-Curt, ab
solutely draft proof, an
shown tia.00
Without storm cur-
tain, for $10.00
We have others up
from 9-60
We are agents for
the Victoria Suction
Carpet Sweeper, the
price is $3.60.
trade, out goes the steady man of 48. for
In spite of figures to the contrary given
by some large employers of labor, the no
tion holds that the man over 40 is a greater
liability risk to his employer than the
younger man.
The next spoken to was a man wno
looked In poor health. His wife and two
children were being cared for by- an aunt,
poor enough herself, while he searched for
work. A brass founder by trade, he had
been six years In his last employ when dis
missed. "They told me th'y were sorry to part
with me and some others, but they had to
as orders were slack. I am a trades untnn
man," he added, "and that's been my
curse.
It s like this. It I try to get some work
at my trade I must not take a Job unless
they give me 2 a week. If I worked for
less I should lose all the benefits of my
club, which I have paid these sixteen
years.
'Tor the first twelve months I was out
the club allowed me four shillings a week:
row I get nothing, and I have been out
seventeen months. It It wasn't for the
Insurance on my life I should have broken
with the union before this and probably
been at work now at my trade, though
on a smaller wage. I know others Just In
the same fix."
This man's story is a very common one.
Unable to get work at his trade union
wage, he must remain Idle or lose the
benefit of years of Insurance.
Specimen 1'lece of Flotsam.
One of the moet dilapidated looking1
men In the whole crowd, his clothes a
mere amorphous bundle of rags held to
gether with pins and string and his foot
gear nothing but wrappings of sackcloth,
was certainly a hopeless case. Neither a
drunkard nor unwilling to work, he con
fessed that, to Judge from what possible
employers hud told him. he was "nothing
more pr less than an encumbrance."
four years ago he was In possession of
an Inherited Income of 2.500 a year. Find
ing it sufficient, he got into debt, tried
to recoup himself by speculating on the
Slock exchange and now found himself
destitute and helpless.
At midnight an officer rf the Church
army arrived and gave every man a slip
of paper which was good for a bowl of
soup, with the proviso that he should do
a certain amount of work. A quarter of an
hour's walk brought the whole contigent
to the Church army tents. As this lot ar
rived about 100 men were departing.
Throughout the twenty-four hours the
tents are filled with shifts of men, each
shift remaining three hours. On enter
ing each man receives a pint and a half
of thick Joup and a thick slice of bread.
After eating this, they are put to sawing
and chopping and tying up the small
bundles of kindling wood that are uni
versally used In Ixindon.
At the end of the three hours each man
again receives the same quantity of food
he had on entering, and on going out gets
a ticket entitling him to a bed for that
night In some lodging house.
In the number of unemployed whose lot
was followed on this particular night were
several Americans. They were men who
had either come over on a single ticket
with little or no money to go on with on
tlx tr 'arrival or had crossed as cattlemen
and found themselves entirely without re
sources and unable to get a passage back.
Two Hellef Armies.
The Church Army, which Is, of course,
entirely supported by voluntary contribu
tions, feeds about fto men In this fashion
twice or three times a day. The work done
by the men helps to piy expenses, but the
deficit on each man aided amounts to
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tewart
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$7.00 Brussels Lace Curtains, sale price $4.75
$8.00 Brussels Lace Curtains, sale price $5.00
$25.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price 917.25
$30.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price $12.75
$35.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price $17.50
$21.60 Saxony Brussels, sale price $13.50
$24.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price $14.25
$15.25 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $10.50
$20.00 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $12.50
$11.75 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $7.25
$8.25 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $4.75
$3.00 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $2.10
$5.25 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $3.75
$3.25 Battenberg Lace Curtains, sale price $2.50
$11.75 Cluny Lace Curtains, sale price $8.50
Many other Lace Curtains at similar reductions.
Oriental Rug Sale
The stock of Oriental Rugs for spring have arrived and are now placed on
sale. Every district in Persia, Turkey and the Caucasus is represented on our
floors. Anatolian, Hamaden, Shirvan, Beloochistan, Dachestan, Bokhara,
Kazak, Kelim Guenji, Cashmere, Tabrez, Sultana, Irans Bergamus, Shiraz,
Khiva Rugs, and many others included in this stock.
To force rapid selling we have marked every piece in the entire collection
on a very small margin of profit. We suggest an early visit to our Oriental Rug
department where expert salesmen are in attendance who will
take pleasure is assisting anyone who may require their good
judgment and knowledge in making selections.
Everyone is invited to inspect this grand collection wheth
er they wish to purchase or not.
6 pence a day, the weekly loss since No
vember averaging about 70.
The Salvation Army Is the other great
relief trganlzatlon. From 1 a. m. to 8 a.
m. Salvation Army officers distribute soup
tickets to the crowds of starving and seml-
starvlng men that assemble on the em
bankment and elsewhere. This ticket Is
good at one or other its halls for a bowl
of soup, a slice of bread and an hours
rest In a warm well-lighted room.
No applicant Is refused, and as in tho
case of the Church Army no questions are
asked. It Is assumed that no man will
stay out In the open till midnight in bitter
winter weather for a basin of soup unless
he be tn desperate need. On some nights
over 1.000 men are fed at the hall visited
by the writer In the same week that the
Church Army tents were visited.
The same kind of men were seen, only
In the bright electric lighted hall of the
Salavtlon Army the desperate misery of
the crowd was more plainly to be seen.
It was easy to pick out a great number
whose looks and bearing showed they were
still trying hard to keep themselves from
out of utter depths. Old men, young men
and mere boys were there.
Condition la Desperate.
There were three things that were, per
Spring Debility
Is marked by loss of appetite, by weak, tired,
languid feelings, and if the blood is very impure,
oy pimples, boils,
It is a condition in which
hard to overcome the germs of infectious and
contagious diseases, which invade the system,
here, there and everywhere. The white blood
corpuscles, sometimes called
little Soldiers la the Blood
because the; fight the germs of disease, are too
weak to do good service.
It is a condition, therefore, that not only
makes you feel sick and miserable, but also ex
poses you to danger.
The extraordinary efficacy of Hood's Sarsa
parilla in Spring Debility has been proved by
the largest volume of voluntary testimony in
the world.
Hood's Sarsaparilla cures all spring troubles,
restores appetite, gives strength and animation,
cleanses the blood, clears' the complexion, and
builds up the whole system.
And it is no trouble to take it only three
small doses daily.
Boils and That Tired Teelinf.
"It is from a sense of duty that I recommend
Hood's Sarsaparilla and write you this letter.
Every spring I would have boils break out on my
body and as the season became warmer, would
have that tired feeling. This weakness and ner
vousness unfitted me for labor, so I began to take
Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring medicine, weigh
ing only 132 pounds. I am glad to say it did me
a wonderful amount of good, purified my blood,
overcame that tired feeling, made my nerves quiet
and steady, and my weight has increased to 190
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. Beaton
Sixteenth Street.
We are exclusive arenta for the Bonn Dry .tr Syphon Foreelaln-Unea
Befrtgeratora. These refrigerators are constructed on scientific principles,
and the latest product of advanced Ideas In this direction.
Wood work is of selected oak and the hardware of solid brass polished.
The latches have patent lever catches that draws the door absolutely tight,
and prevents the escape of cold air. The construction Is such that other
manufacturers would call extravagant, but thev do not pav the Ice bill. The
Syphon that divides the provision chamber from the Ice chamber Is lined with
heavy galvanized iron porcelain, and cannot break, wear out or get out of
order. We have these refrigerators on our floor, readv for Inspect Ion, and
Invite criticism, prices ranging from $38.60, $38.00, $31.75, $28.60. $28.75. dow n
t 919.00
haps more Immediately noticeable than any
thing else. First, the desperate hunger of
many, shown by the wolfish wsy they
seized upon their food. Second, the utter
physical weariness of those who had been
tramping day after dny In a vain quest
for work; no more eloquent proof of this
could bo needed than to sec a man In the
prime of llfo fall fast unWp sitting on the
bench In the warm room before his lips
had touched the food he held In his hands.
Third, the almost complete silence of them
all as they seemed to hug their brief spell
of ahelt-jr and warmth.
Before touching upon the other London
relief work of the Salvation army there
are two or three other charities which
may be mentioned, the sole object of which
is to give a meal to a desperately hungry
man. Scattered over Ixindon are a number
of soup kitchens the prganlxers of which
sell books of tickets at the rate of three
hahfpence each to the puhllc, wlio In their
turn distribute them among the poor.
Eustace Miles, the tennis playor. nnd his
wife havo also started distributing meal
tickets on the Thames Embankment, on
similar lines to those of the church and
Salvation armies. Beginning in a small
way this fund is steadily Increasing, and
eczema and other
it is esDeeiallv
pounds. I was constable in my little town for
many years, able to handle the best of them, all
owing to the benefit I derived from Hood's Sar-.
saparilla." Robert II. Despreaux, Middletown,"
N. J., Jan. 23, 1909.
Pimples and Poor Appetite.
"I ain well satisfied with my experience with"
Hood's Sarsaparilla, and if ever I need a blood
medicine again, I shall certainly take it. In the
spring I had pimples and boils all over my back,
with poor appetite, and general nin down
springy' condition. One course of treatment
for my blood bad done me no good, then I turned
to Hood's Sarsaparilla, which did the business
just right. It gave me a good appetite, and drove
all the impurities out of my blood. Every oppor
tunity I have to recommend this medicine, I glad
ly do so." II. P. Boyce, Battle Creek, Mich.,
Jan. 11, 1909.
USf-Hood's Sarsaparilla effects its wonderful
cures, not simply because it contains sarsaparilla,
but because it combines the utmost remedial
values of more than 20 different ingredients, eaeh
greatly strengthened and enriched by this pecu
liar combination. These ingredients are the very
remedies that suoeesaful physicians prescribe for
the same diseases and ailments. There is no real
substitute for Hood's Sarsaparilla. If urged to
buy any preparation said to be "just aa good,"
you may be sure it is inferior, costs less to make,
and yields the dealer a larger profit.
Get Hood's Sarsaparilla today, in the usual
liquid form or in the chocolated tablets known a
Ssrsatabs. 100 Doses One Dollar.
CIUKTSMAN FVUMTl UK We are
Omaha nnd Tlrtnlty amenta for Ui
frtiftinal Ciustar Stickler Craft5iiian
Furniture.
We make a special
ty of mads-to-order
window hangings, we
famish estimates and
original designs
which are adapted
for speolal purposes.
In tlu, last si or seven weeks it has pro.
vldcd over 42.000 meals.
There are numerous other societies, which?
fltat ulm at the one meal In t wenty-fouP
hours for men wh. would otherwise gi
focdless the whole ,!. The resources of '
every one of tli.ni arc stretched to the ut
most, but all combined they luir.lly do mora
than Just touch the surface of London's
starving poor.
The Sulvotion Army n.tik.s n h. rlous at-'
tempt to find rcgnlur employment for tho,
likely men whom they collect on tha
Thames Knibankmeut nnd elsewhere. It '
has a labor bureau which keeps In touch '
with employers to whom selected men aro
sent as vm-imcl, occur. It has five work
shops of Its own, h, which they i-tart men
nt paper sorting finding for as many as'
there Is room work which covers the cost
of board and lodging and an average of
about 4 shillings weekly In money.
To these men the way Is always open fop,
promotion In the Salvation Army organiza
tion Itself, and outside employment Is also
found for many, thus nuklnt; room fop
others from the streets.
Last year tho Salvuiion Army In London
found employment for 22,41-3 persons, and
4,177 In Its own factories.
eruptions.