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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1900)
rm tn. 'i.i)iW7Si7!iwSSS5w?5S5SS: . Mm HllltiliilHI Ilcmrmurance. (Old Favorite Series 1 ColJ In till' rarth, anil the ilcrp snow plied above thee, For, far removed, cold In the dreury grovel Have 1 forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed nt hist by Time's all-severing Willi1? Now, when nlone, do my thoughts no longer hover Over tho mountains tin that northern shore, Itrstlng their wings where heath anil fern leaves cover Thy noble heart for ever, evermore? Cold In the earth, nnd fifteen nlld De cembers, From those brown hills havo melteil Into spring: Faithful, linked, Is thespiilt tlmt remem bers After such years of change and suf feilng! Sweet Love of youth, forgive, If I forget thee While the world's tide Is bearing me along: Other desires and other hopes beset mo, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong! No Inter light has lightened up my hea ven, No second morn has ever shone for me; Ml my life's bliss from thy dear life was given, All my lib' bliss Is In the grave with thee. Dut, when the days of golden dreams hnd perished. Anil even despair was powerless to de stroy; Then did I learn how exlstcnco could bo cherished, Strengthened nnd fed, without the aid of Joy. Then did I check the tenrs of useless passion Weaned my young soul from yearning nftcr thine; Sternly denied Its burning wish to hasten Down to that tomb already moro than mipe. And, even yet, I dnre not let It languish, Dare not Indulge In memory's raptur ous pain; Once drinking deep of that dlvlnest an guish, How could I seek the empty world ogaln? Kmlly Ilronte. Young (llrl's Ilox Cot. When the faddists began wearing tho box coats the general public looked askance, but as the season advunced and tho number of theso coats Increas ed tho same public Indorsed tho coat, and It must bo admitted even by tho most cynical that they are graceful for the slender figure. Especially for misses and children Is this truo. The one we illustrate Is tho simplest form possible, with seamless back and double-breasted front, conventional coat collar and rever and two-seamed coot sleeves. One and n quarter yards, 54 Inches wldo, will mako this coat for a miss of 14 years. Advice to Mother. Mothers should caro for the noses of the chlldrer. and see that they grow m TttiMk properly. The soft tissues of the or gan can be molded In early life. A thick nose can be made thinner by regular treatment, such as compress ing It dally, either with the lingers or with Instruments made with springs and padded ends so us to clBp the noBe. A clothes pin has been used, and eo adjusted as to bring nbout the right amount of compression. Many noses are wrung and twisted out of shape by the vigorous use of the handkerchief. The delicacy of the structure of the nose Is not appre ciated, comments the Bazar. Shape and size of the nose arc often of n character to cause great distress to persons. The Importance of the noso In Its relation to appearance has beeu appreciated by the modern surgeon and he docs not regard It nB' beneath his dignity to perform operations for the Improvement of this feature. Noses which an" naturally misshapen and those which havo been made so by blows and accidents are restored or modified to assume a proper shape. Persons do not hesitate to spend time, money and much endurance to have their teeth straightened; It Is often as Important to the health and more Important to the looks to havo tho nose straightened or to havo It changed to a more desirable form. MImpV Ktnii .lacker. The Eton Jacket Is the Jacket of tho spring. Its use has become universal. Old and young, great nnd small nllko recommend Its convenience to others by wearing it themselves. The one wo Illustrate Is nn especially pretty form with a sailor collar and deep pointed revers In tho front. This collar and the revers are made of velvet or some contrasting material and may bo fin ished by machine stitching or trim med with braid or appliquo work. Tho waist is mado with a seamless back, dip fronts and two-seamed coat sleeves. It may bo fastened In tho front or left open, as Illustrated. Two yards 44 Inches wide, with three-quarters of n yard of velvet for collar and revers, will make this Jacket for a miss of medium size. Oar Conking School. Anchovy canapes Spread thin pieces, of toast an Inch and a half wide and threo long with anchovy paste, sprin kle with finely chopped hard boiled egg. Allow two pieces for each per son, and servo with a quarter of a lemon. - Calve's brains a la poulette Soak tho brains for an hour In cold water; then simmer In water containing a tablespoonful of vinegar for twenty minutes; place again In cold wator to blanch; removo tho fibers. Cut thq brnlns in small pieces and pour over them a poulette sauco which is mado of n pint of whlto sauco mado with white stock, neat four yolks with a cupful of cream. Remove tho sauco from the flro and ndd It slowly to tho eggs and cream, stirring all the time. Put it again on tho flro a moment to thicken, hut do not let It boll. Add ono tablespoonful of butter slowly, a small piece at n time, the Juice of half a lemon, n dash of cayenne. Fill In dividual paper cases with tho mixture nnd place on tho top ono lurgo broiled mushroom. Aspnragus soup Two bundles of green nsparagus, ono quart of white stock, ono pint of cream, thrco table spoonfuls of butter, three of flour, one onion, salt and pepper. Cut tho tops from one bunch of tho asparagus and cook twenty minutes in salted water to cover. The remainder of tho as paragus cook twenty minutes In tho quart of stock. Cut tho onion Into thin slices and fry In tho butter ten minutes, being careful not to burn; then add tho asparagus that has been boiled In tho stock. Cook flvo min utes, stirring constantly; then add flour, and cook flvo minutes longer. Turn this mixture into the boiling stock and boll gently twenty minutes. Rub through a sieve, add tho cream, which has Just come to a boll, and also the asparagus heads. Season with salt and pepper. A single wild trlbo of western In dians Is using forty-ono kinds of vege tables which are absolutely unknown to the majority of cooki. SCIENTIFIC TOPICS. CURRENT NOTESOF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. A Combination Ax and lilt The In tention of m Canadian (Irnlni A Con tlnuouiljr It ruled Soldering Iron -Klec-trie .Iglit Telegraphy ttleclrlc Light Telegraphy. A patent has beeu granted to Carl Zlckler of llrunn, Austria, says tho Telegraph Age, on a system of teleg raphy by means of electric light. In this method of wireless telegraphy, sig nals are transmitted by means of rays emitted from an nrc lamp, the rays of short wave length (mostly ultra-violet ruys) being tho ones made use of. Theso rayH nro sent out from tho sending station nt Intervals corre sponding to those of telegraphic sig nals and In the direction of the re ceiving station, where they produce weak electric waves, by which the signals are made visible ns sparks, or are made audible by telephone or elec tric bell, or, If preferred, may be print ed by Morse nppuratus. Tho most se rious objection, however, to the new system Is the lack of speed, for so far it has been impracticable to arrange transmitters nnd receivers to accom plish more than 8 to 12 words a piiuute. FfgtiMng llnll Ullli Artillery In Styrln, and in the country around Urescla In northern Italy, the vine yards are protected against hailstorms In n most warlike manner, About three years ago Uurgomaster MorlM Stlger of Styrln Invented a small can non, having n funnel fixed upon Its mouth, which was discharged at tho clouds when hail threatened to fall. Tho charge used was two or threo ounces of black powder, nnd the effect produced was the prevention of tho formation of hall. Now a new stylo of breech loading, rapld-flro gun has been substituted for St Igor's pattern of cannon, and thoso guns are being placed at 800 stations In the neighbor hood of Ilrescln for tho protection of the vineyards. Tho vortex of nlr shot from the gun rises nbout a mile and a quarter from thu ground, and Its whis tling sound is heard for a quarter of a minute after the discharge. Tho Fate of Andrie. An effort will be made this summer to ascertain definitely the fate of An dree, by following n cluo that Is thought to be Important. In Septem ber last a buoy bearing a metal pinto with tho words, "Andrce's Polar Ex pedition," engraved thereon, was pick ed up on the north coast of Prince Chnrles Foreland. It was recognized ns the buoy In which Andreo wns to place a message and drop It after he had passed tho pole. It was empty, nnd scientists have Inferred from thnt fact that, since It could not havo float ed from the polo to Prince Charles Foreland, and" since no renson was ap parent why It Bhould be thrown out, it was merely a fragment of tho gen eral wreckage of the balloon. It Is supposed that moro will bo discovered by tho searching party, nnd it is hoped more light will bo thrown upon what Sir Martin Conway calls "this mysterious tragedy of exploration." Combination Ax and lilt. Lumbermen.carapers, enrpentera and wharf builders, and many others who have to work with heavy lumbers, nnd who have but limited fucllltles for carrying around a number of tools, will welcome the combination ax and augur which Is here illustrated. The ax-hcad contains n receptacle in which a bit can bo rigidly adjusted ns desir ed. In the end of the ax handle is a small hand-grasp, similar in shape and capable of rotation Just tho satno us the ordinary brace handle. Maxlme G. Lambert of Canada, the designer of this device, asserts that an nx lends Itself admirably for uso as a brace as the heavy head forms a convenient grip for the hand nnd its weight makes It easier to operate. A Fly Dance. Morris Gibbs describes what prob ably thousands of our reudcrs have observed the very curious hovering, or dancing, habit of a species of two winged files, which assemble in groups of from 20 to 100 or more, In some spot sheltered from the wind, and In dulge in a fantastic dance for hours at a time. The motions consist of al ternate rising and falling in periods of t, few seconds, and over a distance varying from one to four feet. The In fects seem to become so Interested In their sport, if sport it is, that they cannot be driven away from one an- other, but Immediately re-form their companies when disturbed. Many spe cies of Insects havo tho habit of hov ering In the air, some In parties only and sumo singly. N Wealth In Michigan. At the Intest annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Prof. I. C. Russell called attention to the re cent discovery thnt many of the swamps nnd lakes In the southern peninsula of Michigan are rich lu cal careous marl, suitable for making Portland cement. Although partly composed of shells, the Michigan marl Is principally a chemical precipitate which Is still being formed, The pre cise method of Its formation In not yet understood. The supply Is practically Inexhaustible. largo cement works have lately been constructed, others nrc In contemplation, and Prof. Rus sell says that Michigan can easily take a leading place lu that Industry. Cottt Inuoiialjr llrnled Soldering Iron. Pluiubeis, tinsmiths, cautierlcH and many other trades nnd manufactories will be glad to learn of the recently patented soldering Iron, Illustrated herewith, the novel feature of which Is thnt It never grows cold while In use. Of course It Is self dented, containing within Ithelf a gasoline burner fed by a reservoir located Just below tho handle. In order to make it effective the vaporizing fluid das to lie fed to the burner in very small quantities, nnd this Is accomplished by humus of n needle valve operated by a rod pro jecting through the dandle, so ns to be conveniently opened nnd closed by the operator. The ndvnntagc of hav ing an Iron that never grows cold, In thnt it enables the workman to do more rapid nnd effective work, Is so apparent as to require mere mention to be appreciated. William C. Herbert, of Cannda, Is tho patentee of this in teresting soldering Iron. Ciirlmii Origin of Flavor. Among the most remnrkable glimpses Into hidden corners of nature that recent scientific advance hns af forded are the freqnont discoveries of mlcro-orgnnisms In unexpected places, where they produce phenomena here tofore supposed to nrlso from other causes. For Instance, Dr. A. Potter son of UpBaln, Sweden, hns ascer tained that In preparations of meat nnd fish containing, for purposes of preservation, salt to tho amount of 15 per cent, mlcro-orgnnlsms grow luxuriantly, nnd he concludes that the flavors and odors that ure peculiar to various Bait conserves nro due to tho micro-organisms with which they arc crowded. To Coltliate Mettlr. Tho fact that nettle fiber hns of late been found to produce tho finest tis sues obtainable from nny vegetable source, hus led to a project In Ger many to Introduce tho cultivation of nettles in the Kamcrun region of Af rica. If the experiment Is successful, tho enterprise will be undertaken on n lnrge scale In connection with tho weaving Industries. Notei. It Is proposed to build n suspended bridge at Duluth, over the ship canal, similar to that over tho Sclno at Rouen. Tho city power house Is to supply tho current. Consignments of vegetables grown on the farms of the Cuban Industrial Relief commission havo arrived and they have met with high favor. The potatoes arc said to be superior to tho best Ucrmudas, as they havo not tho Insipid swcctnesB of tho Bermudas and nro more mealy. According to the Engineer the daily total of water supplied to London dur ing lust November was 201,281,064 gal lons for a population estimated at 6, 010,144, representing a dally consump tion per head of 33.4C gallons. A lnrge percentage of tho water was obtained from tho Thames. A French nnturnllst quoted by Pop ular Science News asserts that "if the world should become blrdless, man could not Inhabit It after nine years' time, In spite of all the sprays and poisons that could bo manufactured for the destruction of insects. Tho hugs nnd slugs would simply eat up all the orchards nnd crops in thnt time." Prof. Ellhu Thomson has pending, ready for Issue, a patent on what ho calls tho "sun furnace," which ho claims Is adaptable to smelting ores and generating heat far moro Intense than the electric furnace. Metal lurgists eay that it Is well adapted to glass-making nnd manufacturing of carbide. Tho application mado by Prof. Thomson Is a wide one, and after carefully studying It at the patent of fice, ho has been granted a complete novelty. Tho Invention Is likely to Interest mining men and large smelt en of ore. JSP'APl h THE ODD COlLNtiil. aUEER AND CURIOUS THINOS AND EVENTS. St. I.nuli Him Movable School- -Cat llrlnglug lt a Dog t'nele Nam'i 1'nrin flu Ih of Ceremony Japiineie Htiop plug Ways. Colt WIO an Ounce. "The Chinese have u strange Idea of table delicacies," said a gentleman who has taken much interest in local mis sion work. "A few days ago 1 received h small Jar filled with a peculiar brownish paste, which was sent tr, mo us a present by a young Chinaman who used to have a laundry here, but is now living lu San Francisco. A letter which accompanied the gift ex plained that the paste was a combina tion of peanut buds nnd ginger Jelly. That sounds like a Joke, but It Isn't. If you will break open the kernel of a peanut won will find nt the base a little cone-shaped formation. It Is tho life germ of the nut, nnd, if planted, would develop Into n tree. As my friend Wong explained to me, the nuts nrc first roasted, and then these min ute growths nro carefully extracted. They are so small It takes many thou sands of them to .fill a tencnp, lidt when n sulllclent number are collected they a h put Into a mortar and gtoiind Into n fine Hour, which Is sub sequently mixed with the ginger "lly and rubbed down to a smooth piite. That sent inc was about the conslst ency of cream cheese, and It had n pe culiar aromatic taste that was rather pleasant. It Is one of the queer souil confectlons that the Chinese like to nibble at between courses, and It costs 10 an ounce. I have eaten n little of the preparation, but I don't think I'm npt to acquire a taste for It." Now Oilcans Tlmos-PrmoOrnt. The Colli of Ceremony. One or the Tibetans was dressed In white, ono in black, with square-cut caps. Tartar physiognomy, very dark complexions and long pigtails, and were well known to our people, sayn Sir Richard Strachy lu the Geographi cal Journal. They appioached us making iniiii.v polite bows and, taking off their caps, presented the cloth of ceremony, as was becoming from In feriors to superiors. This Is a form which Is universal lu Tibet and ex tends Into China, though I do not re member ever to have heard an ex planation of the custom. The cloth we received was of cotton, badly wo ven, but of Hue textuic, nbout tho size of a small handkerchief, hut so dirty as to show thnt It had frequently per formed slinllur offices of civility be fore. The more wealthy clusses em ploy silk Instead of cotton cloths, tho legend, "Om mane padme hum," be ing commonly woven lu dnnuiBk nt each end. The sale of these cloths )f ceremony, I wns given to understand, constituted n government monopoly in this part of Tibet. Uncle Nam'a Farm. Pcoplo who were amused In th days of Holman, nt that great economist's suggestion that potatoes Instead of flowers might bo planted In the grounds nronnd tho public buildings, may not be aware that Undo Sam has a great garden of spring dellcaM'is around the Capitol building, says tho Washington Star. The first garden delicacies of the season nro found 'there. On the southern slope of tho lawn, under the protection of t'm ter race and exposed to tho sun, tho dan delions have begun to sprout, iimtyeE terday some old women nnd children who know the sccrctH of tho soil were out with their baskets gathcrlni; these "greens" for the table. Mushroom' ol the best vnrlety, ns well ns dandelions, grow In great abundance on thin broad lawn, and It is u source of sup ply of "greens" or mushrooms almost from the time snow disappears until winter comes ngnln. d panel Slumping Way. Time is of no consequence to tho Orientals, nor nre they eager to self. Their Idens of trade aro very peculiar. You are compelled to ask them wheth er you can tee articles nfter their stat ing thnt they dnve them In tde storo. Ten pieces of nn article sometimes coat twelve times tde cobI of one. Tdey will not sell 100 nt n less rate, but Int-Ist on you paying extra because of tho largo quantity desired. They frankly tell you their price to .Inpan eso customers nnd then that foreign ers hnvo to pay about CO to 100 per rent more, nnd laugh. In the largest dry goods store in Toklo, B0 clerks nre seen kneeling down upon tho fioor of tho largo building, but no merchan dise is visible. It is kept In fireproof (?) structures In the rear and carried to and fro for customers' Inspection by numerous boys. Henri School-llonae to Children. St. Louis has movablo schoolhousos. fn fact, Bhe has wrought out a now version of the old story of Mohamme I and tho mountain and a new applica tion. Like tho mountain It has been found necessary that when scholars will not come to the school, the school must of necessity go to tho schobrs. Theso buildings havo been constructed In such u mnnner that when no longer required nt one site they can quickly bo taken apart and, If need he, moved to another. They are 24 by 30 feet, In side measurement. When theso novel echoolhouscs aro set up and ready for occupation they will accommodate six ty desks, and havo been fount to be satisfactory and comfortable In all re tpacts. The cost Is extremely raoder- ate when the results achieved nro considered. A Klhr'n Marvelous Kpreit. On a Hummer's evening you may seo Arcturus high up in the south or southwest lu .lime or July, and furtder down lu tde west In August or Sep tember. You will know It by Its red color. That star has been Hying straight ahead ever since astronomers began to observe It at such n speed that It would run from New York to Chicago In n small fraction of n min ute. You would hnvn to be spry to rise from your chair, put on your hat and overcoat and gloves and go out on the street while It was crossing tho Atlantic ocean from New York to Liverpool, And yet If you should wntch that star all your life, nnd llvo as long as Methuselah, you would not be nble to Me that it moved at all. The Journey that It would make In a thousand years would be us nothing alongside its distance. t'nt minting Dp a Hog. "The veterinary hospital on North ampton street, lloston, Is nt present sheltering mi Interesting pair of guests n 3-dny-old pup and Its foster moth er, n healthy cat," sayH a lloston pa per. "The mother of the pup Is a small lloston terrier, the property of a well-known lleacon street man. It became necessary to do the Caesari an operation, nnd the mother was una ble to nourish her offspring. Dr. Geo. II. 1'oss, who performed the operrtlon, found a cut who was engrossed lu tak ing care of a family of kittens. Tho kittens were disposed of, thu cat was blindfolded, and the puppy was given Into her cure. Ruth of tho dogs nro doing well." Snake Itlto In India. Fully twinty thousand of tho popu lation of India nte annually killed by snake bites. The most deadly of all Indian reptiles appears to be the co bra dl cnpello, which Is greatly dread ed by thu bare-legged Hindoos'. With n view to t educing thu mortality, tho government tried the effect of offer ing n reward for snnkea' heads; but, Instead of diminishing thu number of these reptiles, It only Increased It, as It was discovered that tho nntlves woro breeding the snakes in order to sccuro the rewaid. School for Scnnrinl Cloned. Springfield, Mo., women havo organ ized n "don't speak evil" society, each member signing this agreement: "1 do hereby holemnly pledgo my word to speak n-i evil of any woman, wholher such report be true or not. Any viola tion of this pledge, however, does not release me front Its subsequent obliga tions, which arc to continue for all time to come." This Is Interpreted to mean: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try ugnln." Origin or Hurrah. W. J. Sprntley thinks there enn bo no doubt that the Egyptian soldiers in ancient times wc'nt'lnto battle to the Inspiring cheer of tho "Hoo Ra! Hoo Rn! Hoo Ra!" And If the av erage questioning man asks why, ho replies with this: "Because Hoo Ra (In the tongue of the ThotmeB nnd the Rnmescs) means 'the King! tho King! tho King!'" 4ti .J Hairy Coat of MamniaU. A hairy cont, or tho remnants of one, Is n characteristic possession of all mammals, and one of tho two or threo special badges of difference between them nnd birds, fishes or reptiles. The hairs nro tubes, of horny material, moro or less cylindrical, which are se creted from the apex of minute nipples depressed In the surfnee of tho skin, Tho substance continues to be secreted at this root pushing the hair forward not only until Its normal length has been attained, but afterwards us fast as it wears away at tho end. Tho axis, or center of a hair consists usually of cells containing nlr and forming a "medulla" or pith, outside of which Is n fibrous horny coating, nnd this again Is covered by plntes whoso edges over lap downwards, like shingles on a roof. Soiiib Heir-Made Women, Sarah Bernhardt was u dreBsmakcr's apprentice. Adelaide Nellson began life as n child's nurse. Miss Rrnddon, tho novellst.plnyed smnll parts In tho Brit ish provinces. Charlotto Cushman was the daughter of poor pcoplo. Mr.i. Langtry is the daughter of a country parson of small means, but tho old story of n face being n fortuno proved truo In her case. Tho great French actress, Rachel, had as hard n child hood as ever fell to tho lot of a genius. Ragged, barefooted and hungry, oho played the tambourine In tho streets, nnd snng nnd begged for a dole. Chris tine Nllsson wns n poor Swedish peas ant, nnd ran barefooted "In childhood. Jenny Llnd, also a Swede, wub the daughter of n principal of a young la dles' boarding school. More Wlrele Telegraphy. Perry (Okla. Tor.) Special Chicago Chronicle: Peter Parson of Ponca City, Okln. Ter., who Is an editor nnd electrician, and who during tho past year, has conducted a series of ex periments In wireless telegraphy along his own lines, by means of his Inven tion, claims to havo transmitted a mes sage ovor 1,000 miles. Last summer he frequently talked with persons In Arkansas City, Topeka and Oklahoma points. Ills theory Is that distance makes no difference, and that when hit system Is properly understood Intelli gence can be conveyed 25,000 miles as readily as 100, As yet he has given the public no Idea of his methodB, and h steadfastly refuses to do uo. 6 ESSEM mamMJP-H