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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1906)
Editorials OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS NATURAL PEST KILLERS. nVniM-IMM Im vim. nmirnnrliit.xl XI 00.000 for I tho Importation of parasitical Insects to I devour tho gipsy moths, the qucst'on urines I 1... It. .. 1 1 . 1 1.... .... . ,t ( u.wtl WIIUUIUI UllUlllCT 1IJM UM luumi iiiiij mil rauwn bo needed to Import something to rid us of the parasitical Insects. If this sounds pes simistic, remember the Btory of the English sparrow. If less money were spent In Importing experi ments nnd more were rationally devoted to udequate pro tection of our native birds, hundreds of thousands of dol lars would be saved to agriculture nnd horticulture. Out of some thousands of birds native to North Amer ica scarcely a half dozen have prdved to be Injurious Instead of benellelal. Tho cuckoos, warblers, chickadees and many of our other common birds have proved to be lnvaluablo ns destroyers of gipsy moths. The rose-breast-ed grosbeak cats grout numbers of the potato beetles, and tho scales aro attacked most vigorously by the various titmice. Tho ornithologists declare that even the hated chicken hawk destroys so many snnkes, Insects, mice and other small predatory animals, and so few chickens compara tively, that It Is a benefactor rather than an enemy to tho farmer; while the amount of corn the crow destroys Is much more than offset by tho vast number of Insects ho consumes. They say that a bird which deserves much more con sideration than It gels, either from the Audubon Society or tho law, Is the quail, one authority estimating that every qunll Is worth a dollar to tho farmer for each of nlno months In the year and 50 cents for each of the other three months, Its service being In ItH consumption of seeds of weeds, Injurious Insects and worniH. Rational protection of our native birds costs little, and It ennnot fall to give marked results In tho country's food production. Cincinnati Tost. Ington, whose sole desire was for the establishment of free representative government. Lincoln's unselfish toll for the preservation of the I'nlon raised him on a pedestal so high that the party bosses of his time scarcely reach to his feet. The vogue of the boss Is as short as the gratitude of his followers when he has no more favors to grant This is a government by parlies, and party managers are necessary ; but the people seldom forget that the great principles for which their parties stand are of more Im portance than the personal fortunes of any Individual. youth's Companion. yvy THE "BOSS" AND THE STATESMAN. iEN of two distinct types rise to prominence In public life the party "boss" and the statesman. It Is seldom that one man com bines In his own person the characteristics of both, for they spring from different Ideals of public duty. the success of his party becauso he desires to profit by the opportunities which acconipany victory at the polls. His motto Is, "Win; honestly, If possible; but any way, win." Out of this policy spring all the frauds and scan dals of political campaigns. Tho frauds begin In the election of delegates to nom inating conventions. Contesting delegations are sent from districts where the machine Is weak, and tho (lacked con vention gives them the seats to which others have been fairly chosen. Tho other steps In the process are fraud ulent registration to make a majority In a doubtful dis trict, purchase of votes, and dishonest canvass after the polls tire closed. Such practices are not general, nor even frequent, but they have been common enough to be responsible for the continuance In power of more than one State boss. With in a few years the ranks of such Itosses have been greatly thinned. Some of them have died, others have lost their control of their party. The standard of political morality la perceptibly hlgh' than It was. The other typo of man is Indifferent to political ma chines. Ho makes his appeal direct to the people. Ills object is and the more statesmanlike he is the more steadily ho pursues that object -to carry out principles aud policies, not simply to carry tho next election. No mere party manager In American history enjoys a fame to bo compared with that of the high-minded Wash- AMERICANS ABROAD. I HWSPAPKRH are printing the customary I I summer Htorles of crowds of visitors from I J I t, country flocking to Europe and over- iiiiuiiiiK i in nuipis mm pnunc piaces. rue treasury statistics show that about 150,000 Americans go to Europe every year, and the estimated average expenditure of this army of visitors Is $1,000, ho that European hotel owners, store keepers, transportation companies and other purveyors to slgMweers receive about $150,000,000 annually from the overflowing American pocketbook. The money spent by 150,000 Americans In foreign lauds containing 1200,000,000 people or more seems like a small matter, relatively, but It cuts a large figure In the balance of trade and In the international banking exchanges. Tho United States sells annually to foreign countries mer chandise valued at upward of $500,000,000 more than tho value of merchandise Imported. Here Is a huge balance of trade which must be settled In some way. If Europe were required to ship gold In payment for this difference, foreign banks would he In the stress of a financial crisis In a short time. Of course, the Americans who go abroad have no purjiose of saving Europe from this condition, but as a matter of fact the $150,000,000 of American money that aro spent In Europe every year help to maintain an equilibrium, in interna tional exchange, without which there would be a serious derangement of the current of trade among nations. Kansas City Star. 1 jlpl TRAINING FOR MATRIMONY. iIIE worthy bishop of Uipon laments that England bas no schools for engaged couples. It Is an oversight from which our own coun try also suffers. There Is no end of schools of law atid medicine, schools of typewriting and trade, dancing, dramatics, cooking, cor respondence, china palntlnc. wood curvlmr and leather burning by mall. But no benevolent million aire has yet endowed a preparatory school for matrimony. Yes. matrimony Is the most Important condition of life and Hhould command the most careful preparation. A few primitive prescriptions of boueset tea, sulphur and treacle and llannel and goose oil are passed down from generation to generation, but the truly scientific courses of the lecture room and laboratory still remain to be founded. In Franco a paternal government after the ceremouy, presents bride and bridegroom with an attractive little booklet of advice about family affairs. We have not got that far In England, or this country. But when we come to think of It, there Is a school, too, kept by Experi ence, where folks can learn a few things about matrimony as alxnit most other subjects. The bishop of RIpon Is free to Improve upon it if be can, but, for our part we do not believe there Is any better Instruction to be had any where. And then let us not forget what Dr. Holmes said about training a boy "The best time to begin is a hun dred years before he is born." Pittsburg Press. ANCIENT CAVE DWELLERS. fHrniftt New Mexlvun nnce AVUomo Illnior)' la u Mytery. While much Is hoard of the cliff dwellings of the southwest, It Is not generally known that the United States government has assumed super vision of a park which contains Indis putable evidence of a race of people . .. cliff dwellers or their descendants, the Pueblo Indians. The cliff dwellers built walled houses on the ledges of cliffs, but these cave dwellers simply scooped out holes In the solid rock. Here they must have lived like wild animals. In some of the steepest cliffs will be found row upon row of these caves. The doorway will be from two to five feet thick. Then comes the main probably used for storage, as they will not average over six feet In diameter. Some of the rooms have been rudely plastered, and smoke stains are to be found In them, but little else has been discovered to shed any light on the manner of life of these ancient cave dwellers, who must have lived when the petrified forests were green and when strange monsters roamed the CLIFF-DWELLINGS AS THEY WERE IN THEIR PRIME. that far antedated tho cliff dwellers, ancient though the latter were. In Pajarlto Park, about twenty miles from Sauta Fc, aro tliousauds of cave dwellings, which must- nave been in habited by a race totally unlike the room, which Is a circular, oval, or rec tangular hole In the solid rock, from 0 to 20 feet In diameter. The ceiling Is generally not over four feet high. Some times there are small rooms connected with theso living rooms. Those were earth. Not even tho cnule hammers and other implements of the cliff dwell ers could have been theirs, or some such Implements would have been found. S 0LD s Lpavoritegj Tilt .Sour of I he Shirt. With Angers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch, stitch, stitch! In poverty, hunger nnd dirt, And still with n voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of tho Shirt." "O men with sisters dear ! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch, stitch, stitch! In poverty, hunge rand dirt; Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. "Work, work, work! My labor never flags. And what are its wages V A bed of straw, A crust of bread and rags, That shattered roof and this naked floor, A table, a broken chair And a wall so blank my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there. "Oh, hut for ono short hour A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. A little weeping would ease iny heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!" With Angers weary nnd worn, With eyelids heavy nnd red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rngn, Plying Jier needle nnd thread. Stitch, stitch, stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt. And stiill with a voice of dolorous pitch Would that its tone could reaoh the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt." Thomas Hood. HOW WAX TAPERS ARE MADE. The MKiiufauture of Xltfht Candle und l'Ariitllned I'aper. In the manufacture of wnx matches and the long and slender tapers which are known as rats de cave (cellar rats) the method Introduced Into France by Pierre Blesmlare In the middle of the seventeenth century Is still In use, says the Scientific American. The method Is practiced to-day In the Carriere factory at Bourg la Relne, near Paris. Thy cords of which the wick Is composed pass livto a basin of melted wax heated by a small furnace, from which they are drawn through a perforated plate to a large wooden drum which Is turned slowly by hand. The operation Is repeated two or three times, the size of tho hole through which the cord passes being Increased each time. When the waxed cord has attained the required size it is wound on large reels In skeins of 400 or 500 meters (about .1,500 feet), which are boxed and shipped to wholesalers. It is also furnished In lengths of from a to 10 meters (10 to feet) folded ns often as may be required for conven ient packing. These tapers are now used chiefly by wine merchants and by sextons In lighting church candles. The very short and thick candles call ed veil lenses, or night candles, are composed of n mixture of wnx und stenrlne. The moulding machine differs considerably from the apparatus used for ordinary candles, although the prin ciple of the operation is unchanged. After the little candles have cooled the attendant removes them from the moulds and conveys them to women, who put them Into tin cups, which pre vent the escape of melted wax during combustion, and pass them to other women, who label nnd pack them. Parafllned paper Is made simply by drawing long rolls of paper by means of a series of cylinders through a steam heated trough containing a solu tion of pnrafllne nnd stearic add and thence to a large wooden cylinder on which It Is rolled. A UNIQUE MARKET. It In In Pulrltunkn, AlimUii, In It I eh TniitinH DlMtrlct. The world's unique game market Is In Fairbanks, Alaska. Fairbanks is on the Chlena river, In the rich Tanana district, of which It is the thriving metropolis. It lies close to, the arctic circle and In common with other com munities In the valley or tho Yukon has an average temperature of about 10 degrees below zero during the months of November, December, January, Feb ruary and March, says the San Fran Cisco Chronicle. At Intervals during tlve long winter season the thermometer goes ns low as 75 degrees below the -.ero marl;, but such an excessive tempera ture Is not absolutely necessary for the successful operation of the Fairbanks gamo market, although, it Is true, the Intensity of the arctic cold Is the chief factor in establishing and maintaining the town's claim to distinction in the Item of Its game market. It Is almost sujwrfluous to suggest that the unurkot, operating as it does only during the months' named, Is spared the olrocnBO of artificial refrigerating apparatus'. Now, here Is where the novelty be gins. Instead of skinning the gamo and curing up the carcass as In the or dinary, everyday market, the deer, tho moose or the bear, as the case may be, is simply stood up on the floor of the market, which Is located In one of tho principal buildings of the town, and allowed to freeze solidly, or. probably it lias frozen solidly within thirty min utes after it was killed. The low tem perature that continuously prevails per mits the keeping of the game In tlila shape for months at a stretch, as once the carcass Is frozen there Is no de cay until the freezing weather Is over. One may enter tile market nnd order a bear steak cut from bruin, who has occupied a particular corner In the es tablishment, looking for all the world as if he were alive, for several months, or a haunch of venison from tho deer that has been In another corner for un equally long period; or, perchance, a choice cut of the lordly moo.se or tho kingly caribou that have been malclng lifelike poses In other sections of tho market. Or, If It be a mountain sheep or a goat that the fancy craves, tho si.mo opportunity Is offered for selee 'ou. Tho animals appear Just as they did In life, and the person who vlslto the place for the first time is apt to Imagine himself In a menagerie rather than a market. The flavor aud quality of the gamo under such conditions is said to 'be un excelled. The freezing process und the length of time that Is allowed to elapso between the killing and eating of the animal seem to Impart to the flesh u tenderness and ripeness that arc char acteristic. Tho market attracts attention to I to location by placing on the sidewalk be fore Its door, Just as the cigar man puts out his wooden Indian, a bear, a moose, a stag or some other animal from Its stock In trade. Last season the samo bear -was used for the purpose every day for five months, and was then cut up Into steaks that were pronounced to be the most delicious that had ever been eaten In n locality that Is famous for Its woll-lluvored bear steaks. WHEELING THE BABY. Opinion of a Youiik Lawyer Who Trundled a I'erftutbulutor. A certain young lawyer, whose busi ness connections bring him much in toucli with some corporation Interests, has not had his head swelled by his rapid rise in the last few years, and has otoed some of his wife's ambitions to (limb the social ladder. He has i baby daughter to whom he Is very much devoted and occasionally, on a Sunday afternoon, will take the young ster for an airing In her perambulator. A few Sundays ago the lawyer and his wife were out with the baby car riage when they met the head of ono of the big concerns for which the law yer holds a retainer walking with a friend. "I never was so mortified in my life!" exclaimed the wife, after the magnate had passed. "You must not wheel tho baby car riage in public again !" "Nonsense," replied the husband. Ills further remarks were interrupted by his brother, who had been hurrying to overtake him. "I heard a compliment to you Just now, Jim," said the brother. "You know Steele, the traction man?" "Just met him," said the lawyer. "So did I," said his brother. "Ho was talking with his friend about you. I heard him say, 'A very promising young lawyer must be a decent sort of chap, too. He's making a lot oe money, but he Isn't too proud to push his own baby carriage. I'll have to' keep an eye on him.' Pretty good, wasn't it?" The lawyer's wife hasn't had any. llnng to say nbout the family dignity since- the incident. New York Globe. The PIorlxtN c-Iee. Florists are no longer content to dec orate flowers with several dollars' worth of ribbon. That cannot be mado to tost enough, whatever the quality off the rlhhnn may be. So it has becomo the fashion this spring to tie up tho boxes in ribbons. From the most ex pensive shops there aro sent out now boxes bound at one end with broad rib buns which add at least several dollars to the price of each 1mx. Sometimes sun II bunches of the llowers Inside aro tied under the rlbblmn as an Index Vto the contents of the box. T.nM t'hiuiee, .Mnyhe. "And why," asked the gefen one, "do all the friends of the author go to seo the play on the' first night?" "Because," answered the wise one, "they want to make sure of seeing the play." Cleveland Leader. Muklnu It Mode.Ht. Mrs. MoSmlth The material for my new bathing suit will cost $:j a yard. Mr. McSmith Well, take tills quar ter and buy more of it than you did last year. Cleveland Leader. 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