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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1900)
irwjiminiwiinMJ! THIS MONKEY IS A FULL PLEDGED FARMER. HWMWHIlMMlMMM ivvfeaft 16 'i One tiling New Jersey has which cannot bo found elsewhere In tho whole wide world, find that Is a farm ing monkey. This monkey la a small gray beauty of the goutler box and hr ago Is 22. Her name Is Mattle. Bhe lives on Samuel barren's farm, near Tremley. Mattlo 1b a trained farmhand. Under direction she feeds the swine nnd milks the cows, and helps to cultivate a good sized vogetablo garden. She plants and hoes nnd picks the fruit, and even assists in packing II for ship ment to market. And when tho money comes from selling tho ptoduco, tho result of the sweat of an honest mon key's brow, Mnttlo Is given some of tho coin. This, her "owner says, she carefully doposlts in an iron church savings bank, whore Mattle has accu mulated nearly J200. And Mr. Far ren says: "Were jt not for Mattle's vanity and consequent love for fine apparel she would in time own her own farm." Her cleverness and the things she does may bo shown in a page from her dally life. Mattle sleeps In a small trundle bed near that of her master. Farmer Farren, In a picturesque, vine covered cottage, surrounded by tall trees and flowers and ferns. Sho al ways awakes at exactly 5 o'clock in the morning, and takes a long, thin etlck, which she keeps for that pur pose, pokes it into tho cages of the THE FAMOUS PLEIADES. Why They Are Particularly Intercntlng to the Ahtronomttrft. The problems presented by tho group of Htars known as tho Pleiades are among the most Interesting In astron omy. It can have been no mere chance that has mussed thorn from among their fellow-stnr3. Men of ordinary oye-slght see but a half dozen distinct objects In the cluster; those of acutor vision can count fourteen, but It Is not until we apply the space-ponetrnt-Ing powor of the telescope that we realize tho extraordinary scale upon which the system of tho Pleiades Is constructed. With the Paris Instru ment Wolf In 187G catalogued G2G stars In the group; and the photographic survey of Henry in 1887 revealed no less than. 2,326 distinct stars within nd near 'tho filmy gauze of nebulous matter nlways so eonsplcuous a fea ture of tho Pleiades. Tho Pleiad stars are among those for which no meas urement of distance has yet been made, n that we do not know whether they are all equally far away from us. We see them projected on tho dark back ground of the celestial vault; nnd can not tell from actual measurement whether they are all Bltuated at the same point in space, but we may con clude on general principles that tho gathering of so many objects Into a single close assemblage donotes com munity of origin nnd Interests. Tho Pleiades then really belong to one an other. What is the naturo of their mutual tie? What U their mystery; and can we solve It? The most ob vious theory Is, of course, suggestod by what wo know to bo true within our f own solar system. We owe to New 'ton the beautiful conception of gravi tation, that unique law by means of which astronomers brwo been enabled thirty canary birds and tho twenty white rats, which also sleep In ec centric Samuel Farren'a cozy bed chamber. Tho angry protests of those smaller nnd less lntclltge't pets Invariably arouses tho sleeping farmer, and when ho reproaches Mattlo for breaking In on his morning slumbor, she Jumps up and down with a distressed expres sion of countenance, tapping herself on the chest with one linger, shaking her head from side to side and chat tering violently. She believes in eating, does Mattlo, In food for man and beast, and for manbeast, too, for she likes her own sharo Immensely. So she liberally tills tho bucket for tho chortlng hogs and scatters grain for the myriad chick ens and geese and for tho beautiful carrier pigeons, which she greatly nd mlres. While the carriers eiH Mattle will stand within their coop.wlth arms akimbo ami small head critically perched on one side, will regard them with evident pride and with high ap proval. Farmer Farren describes Mat tie's day's work as follows: "Then nway to tho cow pen, for there old Pretty nnd Drlndlo Betty arc casting wistful glances over their shoulders, wondering when they will be milked. Mattlo delights In milking cows. Her milking stool is higher than that of the avorage milkmaid, for Mat tle Is not one-third as tall and her to reduce to perfect order the seeming tangle of planetary evolutions. Tho law really amounts, In effect, to this: All objects suspended within the va cancy of space attract or pull one an other. How they can do this wlthoiv. a visible connecting link between them, is a mystery that may always remain unsolved. .Hut mystery as It is, wo must accept it ae ascertained fact. It Is this pull of gravitation that holds together the sun and the planets, forc ing them all to follow out their proper paths. Why should not this same gravitational attraction be at work among tho Pleiades? If It is, we must suppose that they, too, have bounds and orbits set and interwoven, revo lutions and gyrations far more com plex than the solar system knows. The visual discovery of such motion of ro tation among tho Pleiades may bo called one of the prosslng problems of astronomy today. We feel sure that tho time Is ripe, nnd that the discov ery Is actually being made at the pres ent moment; for a generation of men Is not too great period to call a mo ment, when wo have to deal with cos mic time. New York Post. Fuclltli Officialdom Trljn I'p. The British peerage Is getting to bo a sadly complicated thing. Even ofll claldom trips up not only occasionally, but frequently, In trying to get thlpgs right In tho Court Circular. It Is al most a regular occurrence to seo In that Interesting publication, and In othor offlclal documents a list of cor rections which straightens out the er rors in the titles of a lot of somebodies or nobodies. It Is possible that even tho American newspapers are more uniformly correct fn tho spelling of tho naaacs of English royalty nnd no bility, and giving their titles, than tho Court Circular. nrms arc not nearly so long. Her lit tlo hands arc quirk nnd strong, gentl and soft. Sho cannot carry away tli milk palls, but this Is dono by twj llttlo girls Mary and Flora." On her way from the milking stooi to tho truck patch. Farmer Farroi says, Mattlo occasionally spies a stranger approaching through tin grass-covered rond, nnd this Is so un usual that tho little beast takes alarm at once and, rushing to the kitchen, seizes tho dinner bell nnd wields It with wildly clanging effect. And If tho farmer Is far nway In the fields and does not hear tho loud nlarm nnd tho two little girls nro too busy at egg finding Mattle takes It upon herself, with mnny a well-aimed stone, to chnso tho intruder away. The vegetable garden Is Mattle'i special pride and pleasure. She loveq to till the soil nnd to reap the reward of her labor. Mr. Farren says she glories in her wealth, and if you aro an approved visitor nt the Furron farm Mattle will, after a careful study of your physiognomy, to see whether she can trust you, take down the lit tle Iron church und open It. Then, he says, she will take out the pennies and nickels and dimes and quarters and pile them up in little heaps of uni form height so that you tnny more easily seo how much she really has. Then you nro expected to count out the money and express your surprise. EXCLUSIVENESS LOST. Nenport la In Hunger of Using; Oterrur ly Ilia Common Herd. Social prophets are beginning to say that Newport will not long hold its own as tho most exclusive of Ameri can summer resorts, although nor,? of them has yet named a place likely to succeed It, nor indeed has that matter been touched on at all, says the New York Sun. They assert that the Rhode Island town will follow the example ol Saratoga and Long Branch und thin lose its character through precisely tin same causes that deprived these placet of their former glory. They call at tention to the fnct that the number t newcomers every summer at Newport grows larger and larger. Villas form erly occupied by exclusive members ol Newport society nre rented and sold to wealthy families from other partn of the country and their owners either go abroad or retire to some other place. The other place has not yet been settled sufficiently for any town to be nnmed as a possible successor ta Newport, so the present nttltuda of so cial prophets Is destructive rather than creative. Opponents of this view as sert that no similarity between New port and Its two predecessors Sara toga and iAing Urnnch could ever ox 1st. It Is always the hotel life thnt has nover been characteristic of New port, for so many millions of dollan are Invested In costly residences that the character of the town can novel change entirely. What. UlnnlnK'iit MaiiururlurM, Birmingham, England, turns out every week 300,000,000 buttons, 4.00C miles of wire of dlfferont slzos, flva tons of hairpins, GOO tons of nuts and 20,000 pairs of spectacles. Those to whom tho tcnn"Tho Yellow Peril" tins become fnmlllnr look upon It nH a bugbear arising from the pres ent situation, the Ido.i that the despis ed Oriental might even In the courso of n century become a dominating world power being considered not worth a second thought. Neither the phrnso nor the Idea, however, Is by any means new. The word of Lord Wolseley. which nro todny taken almost as a text by students of International af falrs, and upon which tho novelists aro busily building fanciful talcs, wore spoken nearly a down years ago, but In view of recent developments nro morn Interesting tliair ever. "A Yellow Peril menaces Hie world," he said. "The coming battle of Arma geddon will be fought between the Anglo-Saxons and the Chinese. For 1100 years past the Chlneso hnvo been un der Tnitar tyranny. Tho Manchus have ruled by the simple expedient of chopping off all the most advanced nnd capable heads lest reformation should benln. "That the Chlneso nre the subject race of the Manchus should never be forgotten. The day of the Tartar tyr anny must reach Its tether. A Chl neso Mohammed or Napoleon, a groat lawgiver or general, will arise, rouso tho Chinese hundreds of millions from their threo centuries' slumber, nnd lead them forward and onward. They will take to tho profession of nrms, nnd then will hurl themselves upon the Russian empire. Ueforu the Chinese armies as they possess every military virtue, are stolidly Indiffeient to death, and capable of Inexhaustible enduinnce the Hussions will go down or will Join forces with them In the capacity of leaders. Head of League of A Jb Mrs. .Llda II. Hardy, who Is to load the League of American Mothers as Its president for the coming year, Is well fitted for tho position. Not only has she three sturdy youngsters of her own, but for several years past hIio has been deeply Interested In the worn- MRS. HATIDY. en's work connected with the church of Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, at Topcka, Kan. Go License Gambling. Kansas City Is to llcenso gambling, and this without any state law or lo cal ordinance. The newspapers of that city annouueo that tho mayor and chief of police have decided thnt It Is Impossible to. prevent tho plnylng of drnw nnd stud poker In rooms adjoin ing hotelB. They hnvo decided there fore to permit tho violations of tho law to continue, nlthough they will drnw tho line at faro and crop shooting. Tho licensing Is to bo dono by a system of lines. Onco a month tho keepers of all poker rooms will bo arrested and brought beforo tho pollco Justices and fined $50 each. No attompt will bo mado to sclzo tho paraphernalia of tho gambling rooms, as Is required by tho law, Tho gamblers aro naturally well content with tho system, Inas much aa It will, as thoy say, "keep out "Then thu Chinese armies will match westward. They will overrun India, sweeping the British Into the sea. Asia will belong to them, nnd then, nt Inst, English. Amei leans. Aus tralians will have to rally for a Inst desperate conflict. So certain do I re gard this that I think one ll oil point of Kugllsh policy should bo to Htralu every neive and make every sacrifice to Keep ou good terms with China. China Is the coming power" The (lei man euipnror considers this "yellow danger" a real and a great one, and his cartoon of a few yoatx ugo representing Europe at bay ngalnst tho yellow race inpi-fscnlri his opinions to day us expressed In his recent speech before the Reichstag, "Chinese" Mod don, who pei hups knew tho Chinese mote Intimately thtiii any American or European, hold them In high esteem, whllo admitting their defects. The latent possibilities of the 100,000.000 of Chinese lie declared to bu Illimitable, In contrast to theso views Is tho opinion of dipt. Herman Hauptmnu, of normany. who has made several trips to China and has had excellent opportunities to study tho question from every point of view: "Tho Idea that tho Chlneso could overrun Europe," ho snyH, "Is rank nonsense. It might perhaps be a pos sibility, but there are several reasons why It could not occur especially without the help of Kussln. "It Is 4,000 miles from Pekln to tho Russian frontier, a distance greuter thnn the breadth of tho United Stutes. American Mother. tho small fry and shoestring gam blots," giving a monopoly to those who pay their fines regularly. Che Peril of Electricity. This has been called tho electric nge. The prnlces of tho mysterious fluid which now docs so much work for man hnvo been sounded by orators nnd poets. Civilization, It Is declared, hns been advanced a hundred yenrH by hurnesslng tho forces of the lightning. Now como calmer minded men to point the othor side of tho picture. For If elect ilclty bus done miuKi to relieve man of labor nnd to make life easier, It Is also responsible for much destruc tion both of life and property. Every new electric Invention adds ono moro danger to tho many which now beset tho residents In crowded cities, whore such Inventions aro chiefly used. Sta tistics on tho subject, recently gath ered, are fairly startling. Falcon Island "Reappears. Falcon Island, In the Pacific oceun, which originally emerged fiom tho sea after the eruption of n submarine vol cano near Truga, and remained abovo tho surfuco for precisely thirteen yenis beforo vanishing two yeats ago, is re ported by tho IIiHIjIi cruiser Porpolso to be reappearing nnd to bo a serious menace to navigation. It was nlno feet out of water at the end of May and muy bo a mountain now, for all any body knows. TecK! Ton in Trouble. Ferdlnund W. Pock, Jr., son of tho United States comm'ssloncr general to tho Paris Exposition, got Into a fistic altercation with an army oflicer In a enfu chantant the other night, nnd has over since been trying to recollect thu details of tho dispute, says a Paris ca blegram. In conjunction with Arthur Urnckott, son of Major Hrackett, also of Chicago, young Peck has been do ing his best to 8ho"v Pirlslans how to havo a real "hot time." Down tho bril liant boulovnrds tho Jolly pair has marchod as "Lords of Ciea(lon," flinging money to tho four winds in There Is only one railroad nnd that I. controlled by Husnla and could bo do-, stroyed more rapidly than nn army, could move. The way Is across a coun try of wild mountains nnd frozen plains that nro almost unsottled, nnd that could not furnish food, shelter or provisions for nn army, whllo tho diffi cult lea of transpoit would mako It Im possible to carry supplies. "UiihsIu is protected by tho Ural mountains, the Caspian sea, CaiionMi mountains and tho Hlack sen. A few thousand men could defend tho fnrdi of the I'ral river from hosts. To reach Km ope through Constantinople would icqtilio vessels, which tho Chlneso would mil have, and even If Ihoy had, tho fleets of tho nations assembled ,nt tho llosphnrus, nnd nrtlllory In tho, forts nt Constantinople could "Ink. them as fast as they wero landed with troops. Thu possibility of tho Chi noso pom lug down Into India Ifl to bo dismissed. Tho entire boundary of In din Is defended by tho Hlmnlayn mountains and again by tho vaBt rich tablo land of Thibet with another rnuuo of mountains to tho north ol that. Theio would bo only a fow mountain passes, at most, to defend. "Tho only way In which tho Chlneso could ever overrun Europe Is by tho slow process of migration, nnd that could como only by the decay of tho white races. In other words, tho Chi nese must lliHt overtake us In point of civillzutlon anil becomo mentally and practically our superiors, beforo ovor they could crowd us out and rule In our places. Hut If Hussla should be come allied with China and Jnpau? Ah, thnt Is another question. That day will never como." J A true western fashion. Tip seekers marked tho young men ae "easy." In a cafe Ferdinand was exceedingly dem onstrative and by all possible ges tures sought to attract the glances of tho prettiest woman In the crowded place. Her escort, a dapper young- sol- I W. PECIC. JR. dler, wearied of tho pantomime, at last rushed over to the gay young man and ejected a choice vocabulary of French profanity. Then there was a fight, aiases, plntes, knlveij and forks flew llko a hailstorm, and the Americans landed on the sidewalk with a half dozen waiters on top. They wero arrested and when their Identity was discovered the pollco politely ro. leased them. Tho fifth centenary of the death ot Chaucor occurs on Oct. i5, and nn at tempt Is being mndo In London to In-i duce tho Court of Common Council to orect a statue to tho poot in tho Guild Hall. Chaucer was born In London, but no aultnblo memorial has eyo been erected thoro. Tho Prlnco of Wales has been pro sonted by a nrltlsh ofllcor with the ftword which Oeneral Cronjo woro dur ing tho early part of tho Boor, war. ' J1 A timasmmmm MPifliWBMBa 'aarxitSf 'r ;- -UtwxjiaS5lcT-r.s n :ttlffiCTMWB MwUjaaB..ttft. -tr-i