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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1909)
One Man' Wmr ft Cilllni a lrci.li Pnpcr from Home I'nrii Morning, "Down in the tropics we don't gft the newspnpirs from home every dny," aid the man with the tinned face, "and when we do net them it isn't n matter of skimming through them In a hurry, as a man wonihl do up here," according to the New York Sun. "A newspaper with real news from the I'nlted States Is something to treas ure up. "When tho steamer comes In that brings my week's accumulation of pa pers from home I Just eklm across the first pages to see what has happened Of importance. Just a case of looking t the headlines for me. Then I take the papers and put them In order ol their dates. "Each morning when I sit down to breakfast I take one paper. I read that carefully through from the first page to the last. If I can't ;et through with It before noon I don't hurry, but make It do for the late evening too The next day I take up the next date, and so on. We get about one mail a week, so I Just about get through with one batch when the next Is due." "You fellows beat me," he said. "I know whenever I get down to one ol the stations I always find folks who can ask me more questions about the details of articles In the newspaper that I hardly read at home than you would think possible. "It gives a man a pretty strong sens of .how quiet the life muBt be in some of those places. I should think some of the newspapers would be worn out the way the men go over every bit of news which Is almost forgotten matter by the time it get3 to them." "It Isn't tho men alone," said the ex-coii3ul, "who want to see the papers. It would amuse some folks to see the women studying up the autumn and winter styles and discussing the pic tures of Borne fur piece or heavy coat, with a thermometer up in the 90s and not showing any particular signs of falling. Of course, when it comes to the summer things they naturally wanl to know, because they have a chance to make use of those fashion hints; but the Idea of a fur coat a few de grees north of the equator Is a gooc" Joke." A passenger alighting from a rail road train Is held, In Powell vs. Phila delphia & R. R. Co., 220 Pa. 638, 7( Atl. 268, 20 L. R. A. (N. S.) 10X9, tc have a right to remain in the rallroac waiting room a reasonable time, await ing the arrival of friends who are t meet him, without losing his' rights as a passenger. A stipulation in an insurance policj that no suit shall be brought on i contract unless within twelve month) next after the damage occurs Is held in Winston vs. Arlington Fire Insur auce Company, 32 App. D. C. 61, 20 L R. A. (N. S.) 9G0, not to apply to I 6ult for damages because of tho defec tive character of repairs which the !n surer elects to make after the loss in accordance with its rights under thi contract. A town is held, in Shea vs. Whit man, 197 Mass. 374, 83 N. E. 109G, 2( L. It. A. (N. S.) 980. not to be bound as matter of law to place a barrier ir every case between a highway and a stone lying immediately adjacent thereto which, If within the limits oi the highway, would constitute an ob struction, falling over which might in jure a traveler; and It is held to be immaterial that there is nothing to mark the line of the highway. That the materially false statement the use of which In obtaining credit will prevent one's receiving his dls charge In bankruptcy must be inten tionally or knowingly untrue is de clared in Gilpin vs. Merchants' Na tional Bank (C. C. A.) 1(J3 Fed. 607, 20 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1023; and It is held, therefore, that a statement by the bookkeeper of the applicant for dis charge, prepared from books not fully posted, which is believed to be ap proximately true, but which the actual state of the business proved to be un true, will not prevent a discharge. Sb Knew tho Kind. President and Mrs. Hadley were or a train bound for New York, where Yale's president was to speak before a national convention. He made use of' the hour and twenty minutes he spent in the train by rehearsing hU speech in a low voice, using his hand to emphasize certain passages. A kindly matron who was sitting directly behind Mr. and Mrs. Hadley, and who had been watching and lis tenlng, leaned forward, and, tapping Mrs. Hadley on the shoulder, said feelingly: "You have my olnccre sympathy, my poor woman; 1 have one Jlst like him at home." ladles' Home Jour tal. A Dei-oy. The minister who had exchanger with the Rev. Mr. Talcum was much icandallzed to see Deacon Erastiu JSnowball in the vestry, after service, deliberately taking a 50-cent piece out pf the contribution-box and substitut ing a dime. ' Brer Snowball," lie exclaimed, in horror and amazement, ' that's plain Jlshonest doings!" "What's the matter, parson?" tho leacon asked, genially, conscious of his own rectitude, "i'a led off with that fo'-blt piece for de las' fo' years. That ain't a contribution; that's a tfmp'rary loan, as a noble example." I ntiurilriiliiif. "You must at least give that candi late credit for speaking his mind." replied Miss Cayenne. "Out it's unfortunate that people most will ing to tpeak their minds are so often Ihoee whose mentalities are more or rss unpleasant." Washington Star. Dud'a Drflnlllou. Hd, what is a pony coat?" "Something I've got to work like a tui'se for to keep your mother peaca tblt.' Detroit Free Press gooooo ooooockxooooooooocooox 90000O0O000OOOCXX000000O0(XN3O0000000CXX)00 AIT1NO for the return of Al seventy-five years is very V y I know the track on which w urmei me iruiu win ue We know the orbit of the when it will swing around tho end of a telescope will telegram for us. Inasmuch as it will tell us how late the comet may be and when it will glide into full view. Every night during the present year telescopic cameras have searched the heavens for a haxy disk of light, bo dim that the naked eye cannot see it. To Prof. Max Wolff of Heidel berg belongs the honor of having first detected the comet on Sept 11, 1909. As a tribute to modern mathematical astronomy it may be stated that he found it very nearly in the exact position Indicated by the calculations. The roturn of Halley's comet will be an astronomical event of much pith and moment, because it was the very first body of its kind for which a time table was computed, because an opportunity will be presented of re vising that time table, and because it will enable the astronomer for the first time to obtain photographs or Its striking features for comparison with photographs to be taken by unborn astronomers in 19S6 or 1987. Of such mathematical importance is the return of Halley's comet that tit various times scientists have spent months in calculating the exact period of its revolution. Even now, when comets are discovered at the rate of two or threo a year, we know only that it may be expected to become a strik ing object some time In the middle of April, 1910. Such are the accelera tions and retardations suffered by every comet as it sweeps past the planets of our solar system that absoluteness of prediction is well-nigh Impossible. Often a comet is twisted out of its normal orbit toy planetary attraction, with the result that we may lose sight of it forever. Jupiter la responsible for many such deflections. Thus, in 1886 he wrenched a comet ont of its course, derailed it, as it were, and reduced its period of revolution from twenty-seven to seven years. In 1779 a comet known as Lexell's glided so near him that it was never seen again. All told, Jupiter has captured a family of thirty comets, nd holds them by virtue of his enormous attrac tion. Saturn has similarly acquired two comets, Uranus three and Neptune six. Obviously a comet's course may be both devious and uncertain. Great Age of Halley's Comet. Of all comets that have ever been discovered, Halley's is the most im portant, because it Is the most historical. It flashed upon the world when Egypt was young and when Greece was a wilderness inhabited by savages. Perhaps it will continue to return when mankind is old and decrepit, and the earth is entering that last tragic stage of its existence when it will be reduced to a cold, dead, desolate world. Yet, ancient as the comet is, its scientific history begins with the man whose name it bears and with Sir Isaac Newton. It was Edmund Halley who urged upon Newton the necessity of publish ing that famous manuscript in which the laws of gravitation are laid down; it was Halley who paid for the printing out of his own pocket, although he was sorely reduced in circumstances; and it was Halley who so dramatically drove home the truth of Newton's immutable laws and became the prophet of gravitation, by plotting the orbit of a comet that had alarmed the world In 1531, 1607 and 1682, and foretelling its return in 1758. He was indeed the 'Ulysses who had produced Achilles," to use the words that he himself em p.oyed in describing hi3 relation to Newton. A man of 49 when he boldly proclaimed the comet's reappearance, he knew that he would die before his prediction could be verified; and so he left behind him a touching plea that reads: "Wherefore, If, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will ,not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." No Longer an Omen of Evil. When the comet blazed forth on Christmas day, 1758, it was forever Bhorn of the dreadful divinity with which for ages it had been hedged, and became an object 'of dispassionate scientific study. Newton's conclusion that, in accordance with the laws of gravitation, comets must describe el lipses, parabolas or hyperbolas, was brilliantly verified. A comet is more than a neat mathematical problem. Although no longer an omen of evil, it is still wrapped In a veil of mystery which has not been wholly torn away by the physicist and the chemist. Indeed, it is only within the last few years that really plausible theories to account for cometary phe nomena havo been advanced. To understand Just what these theories are we must first pick a comet apart, as it were, and regard it as we would a dis membered watch. s In a general way, it may be said that every comet comprises a nucleus an envelope (called the "coma") surrounding the nucleus and measuring from 20,000 to 1,000.000 miles in diameter, and a long tall which streams behind the nucleus for sixty to a hundred million miles or more. From all that has (been gathered, astronomers have decided that the nucleus is prob ably a heap of meteorites varying in size from a grain to masses weighing several tnna pnrli- a hran . it.. , . , - ...,., aismuuiea graauany along the orbit. eventually perish unless it restores its That disintegration does occur has been At first the barefoot youngster Larns the game upon tin; city's lots. rhen the prayerful, doubting player Facing the ogre manager unit his con ATCHISON GLOBE SI3IITS. There is never plenty of time. The more a man amounts to, the susicr he is. Somehow, we always hate to see i woman handle a gun. How we all adiniro discipline whin it Is applied to r.cmeoue else! You can't v.crU and worry at the ame time to good advanlas. A man who worries throws rocks, ul jis troubles, ami hits iiiai.-cl!'. It is as important to i.eep nut of ourt as it is to l.u p cut or debt. l;t oi men b.U'c ilUico . : red thai tl nit dan,;iMouM to a . car to a lict. An i!:i'i:;ppy woman always It; An ii ii i . r tl.au an un'.iappy m:,n. Kwrv i.'. mi r ,:re.-'-(a. m.;iiu o;!;f r ia:;' i il : i ol r.n i ;; 1. MruMe ( 1: ;: :. A li :;e tctit cf t lie Irlcir.l. ol' a un'cr ii '.u :i he f.lvcj juu a .juall. V.'i- u-.-vii c.uo much for the wo.;ia;i :K :i a- "a r;r.;!;.r Lixiity wo::r.ir,." river, i. a la; tnr i::tirid:i to 1 tju T. ho up iu itru" to gat an early start. It !s ;.l.ays .-'lie to !t Hint the man ha but ; r. ;:.til a U lint i:iteie;!eil. OOOOCttOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ITallev's comet after n In nun nf over much like waiting lor a train. We the train will speed toward us; but ou lime or noi, we cunnoi Know. comet, but not Jhe exact miaute tho sun. A photographic plate at perform the functions oT a celestial -nan? Buuuurea mat us elements are It follows that every comet must nucleus by collecting stray meteors observed time and time again For THE FIVE AGES tract. Then the minor star to whorn's accord ed The cheers that always will attend HOUSEHOLD HINTS. If It be neiessary to stir rice, use a tori;. Always add a pinch of salt to your cake: it will Improve it. Use vinegar and a copper cent to remove paint from windows. Always cook oats in boiling water iin.l sprinkle them In a few at a time. Mop off linoleum once a month with boiled linseed oil and it will look liUe new. I I.) a now broom in a good soap t-ul-i miff a we i i and see bow much lcrrer it will hist. lv'( p an oyster shell In the tea k"itbi and the lime will collect on It and not "a the ..iiics of the kittle. IT you will add Fait to your starch tee cloUc.i will not stick to the i.oi.s; H.o add a little lard to make ( li t It ) lihliie. en laundering r.tarrhed articles in v:- !r always add lorax to the e. anh Mi l the ciuTs aad collars will r. lo- ..Iripe. !' : ! '.Ins cne t ablespoo-.ful of but ter or a 1 :M t i p of irenm to the bat ler. p:-ii :4; s can be l),(;nl without f;iea v.i !!: g I.MIe. example, Blela's comet, which was discovered In 1826, burst into two frag ments, which drifted apart a distance of one million miles. Thus It became a twin comet. Eventually it disappeared as a comet, and in Its stead we see a shoal of meteors whenever we cross Its track every six and a half years. It is possible that the comets of 166S, 1S43, 1880, 1882 and 1887, all traveling in approximately the same path, are fragments of a single large body which was broken up by the gravitational action of other bodies in the system, or through violent rencounter with the Bun's surroundings. The Comet's Tall. The luminous tall which streams behind the nucleus, and which Milton s regarded as "horrid hair" that "shakes pestilence and war," is startling, to say the least Despite a length which, as has been stated, may exceed a hun dred million miles, it Is so dlaphanouBly light and subtle that It is dim cult to compare It with any earthly fabric. The air that we breathe ha a dense blanket in comparison. Several hundred cubic miles of the matter composing that wonderful luminous plume would not outweigh a Jarful of air. By reason of Its fairy lightness, it is possible for a tali occupying a volume thousands of times greater than the sun to sweep through our solar system without causing any perturbations in planetary movements. The earth itself has on more than one occasion plowed through a comet's tall, and no one was the wiser until the astronomers announced the fact, months later, when they had finished their computations. Because comets have whisked us with their talis it must not be inferred that collisions with fiery wanderers are likely to occur. Such cataclysms happen only in Jules Verne's novels and in the Sunday newspaper. The alarming possibilities of a collision were appreciated long before the days of sensational journalis When Olbers calculated that Blela's comet would pass through the earth's orbit in 1832, a panic ensued. No one thought of Inquiring where the earth would be. It was not until Arago renssurlngly figured out that the earth would be 50,000,000 miles away when the passage did take place that the run on human emotion was stopped and confidence restored. The chances In favor of a collision are, roughly, one to 281,000,000, and then only once in fifteen million years. A blind sportsman, bent on duck-shooting, stands a better chance of hitting his target than the earth of ramming a comet. No celestial phenomenon has caused more perplexity than the ghostly sheaf of light we call a comet's tall. In a day, In a few hours even, the form of that wonderful gossamer may change Hence it is that periodic comots are identified when they return, not by the length and arch of their tails, but by their orbits. These alone are permanent When a comet Is first seen in tho telescope, It appears ns a diminutive filmy patch, often unadorned by any tail. As it travels on toward the sun, at a speed compnred with which a modern rifle bullet would seem to crawl, violent eruptions occur In the nucleus. The ejected matter is bent back to form the cloak called tho "coma." With a nearer approach to the sun, the tail begins to sprout, in creasing in size and brightness as it proceeds. Evidently there is some con nection between the sun and the tall, something akin to cause and effect. When the comet rushes on toward the Bun, invariably the tail drifts behind the nucleus like the smoke from a locomotive. But when the comet swings around the sun and travels away from it, a startling change takes place. The tail no longer trails behind, but projects in front, as if Borne mighty solar wind were blowing It in advance of the head. The phenomenon has long been an astronomical riddle. Here was a kind of matter that refused to obey the laws of gravitation and yield to the enormous pull of tho sun. It was thought,or a time that the tall was flung away from the sun by stupendous repelling electrical forces. That electricity plays its part in the formation of the fairy plume is conceivable, and even probable; but recently the physicist has discovered a new source of repellent energy which very plausibly explains the mystery of a comet's tail. This new source of energy is nothing less than the pressure or push of the Bun's light. Solar gravita tion is a force more powerful than many of us perhaps realize. If It were possible for you to live on the sun, you would find yourself pulled down so violently that your body would weigh two tons. Your clothing alone would weigh more than one hundred pounds. Running would be a very difficult athletic feat. Light pressure must Indeed be powerful if it can conquer so relentless a force. A Tail of Dust and Soot. So much has been discovered about the particles that compose a comet's tall that the more progressive scientists of our day have accepted this In genious theory. It has been discovered, for example, that the delicate tresses of a comet are to a large extent composed of fine particles of dust and soot. Before we can completely accept the view that light pressure forms this train of soot we must ascertain whether tho pressure or light is capable of accounting for the flashlike rapidity with which a comet's tall changes A comet may throw out a tail sixty million miles long In two days Is it ac tually possible for light pressure to accomplish that astonishing feat Arr henlus has computed that SCC.OOO miles an hour is the speed of a light-nun particle of one-half the critical diameter. Because they are only one eighteenth as large as this particle of critical diameter, cometary dust grains would be propelled over the same 865,000 miles ia less than four minutes It follows that the solar radiation would experience no difficulty in tossln out a tail of sixty million miles in two days. OF BASE BAIL. success. Then the baseball wonder who com mands Respect and salary In five figures. FACTS ABOUT NEW YORK CITY. Over 200,000 people work ut night. There are 132 department stores. employing over 50,000 people. Over 476,000,000 gallons of water are used every day in the greater city. The transient hotel population Is figured at 230,000 people a day. The hotel properties are valued at over $K0,O00,00O. A child is born every four minutes, and u death occurs every Beven min utes. The city contains 8,000 lawyers, .1,0' ifj actors, 3,000 act reuses, 6,000 ar tists, 10,000 musicians, 1.1,000 ste nographers. C9.000 salesmen and sales women, 1,900 farmers, 1,600 undertak ers and 852 female barbers. The population is now 4,800,000. London's population is D00.000 more, but New York Is growing seven times as fust as the British metropolis, and should become the largest city In the world Inside of 10 years, The popu lation increases at the , ratio of fife to one, compared with the increase of the rest of the country. And so ho plays hlH part. The fifth Ago Blurts Into the haa hn and a scat upon the bench. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Buckles were first made iu 1680. The Belgian navy is the smallest in the world. Barometers were first mudo by Tor ricelli in 1613. The London police an eat ovpi- ma. 000 people a year. Moscow has the lowest priced dally publication. It costs a firthlng. Young Lone Wolf, a Kiowa Indian chief. Is a Rantlxt mlniui,. n,, i ... . u.diw . no i a a Carlisle graduate, and reads In his Creek testament every morning. There are mora than ini w vuw.u J 'J II1UIO III Ult M facturing chocolate In the United u . .. . oiKiets. Japnn'a postal and telegraph receipts for 1908 were $18,730,000, a gain of $225,000 over 1907. Londoners live, en an average, to an age of 57 years. In most parts of England the Btandard is below this. Elizabeth Akers Allen, who wrote the famous poem, "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother," fifty years ago, U 77 years old. Horn ia Maiae, she began to writs when sho was a girl of IS, DYNAMITE ON A FARM Experiment of "Shooting" the Soil Successfully Tried in Pitts burg, Kan. DR. WILLIAM HAMM'S PLAN. Nearly 3,000 Farmers Saw New Means of Loosening: Earth and Many Aro Converts. Farmers in this section are greatly Interested in the scheme of using dy namite to loosen up the subsoil of fields being prepared for cultivation, a Pittsburg (Kai dispatch to the Kan sas City Times says. Three thousand persons watchod a demonstration of tho system given on the grounds of the Manual Training School. Dr. William Hamm of Vienna was tho first to recommend the use of ex plosives in agriculture. Ills idea was that the lowest strata of the soil could not be reached by any of the agricul tural implements now in use. To demonstrate the feasibility of the idea a number of interesting experiments have been conducted by agricultural departments over the country, among them that conducted by the Kansas department a few days oo. The demonstration was bo satisfac tory that many farmers are planning to follow up the scheme on their farms a.i soon as possible. If all the farm ers who ro talking of trying the ex plosives in farm work really make the attempt It Mill eoon be a common oc currence l.u this part of the state to drive out in the country and eee farm ers "shooting" their ground as stead ily as if they were following the plow. One-half of tho shots were fired by battery and the other half was by fuse. The dynamite was in etlck form and a quarter of an inch in diameter. It contained 25 per cent of nitrate am monia powder. The sticks were placed twenty-five feet apart and holes were drilled to a depth of three feet. The shots fired by the battery seemed to give the best results, seemed to shake the ground better and leave it in a better condition, 8 the whole surface of tho ground was shaken Tat once. Tho boII was thoroughly pulverized for a distance of six feet from each shot. Cracks ran in each direction from the shots, showing that the ex plosions had left fissures in every di rection under the ground as well as on top. It is estimated by those who have experimented In this class of ground culture that each shot leaves a reser voir where several hundred gallons of water can collect and furnish moist ure from the bottom, instead of re ceiving all of the moisture from tho top, the water thus carried into the ground feeding the roots of whatever is planted much more readily than it all the water came from the surface. PEANUT SHELLS CAUSED DEATH. Peanut shells poured Into the cook stove at her home caused a column of flame to shoot upward, which Ignited the klmona worn by Mrs. Kate Hoov er, of York, Pa., and before the flames were extinguished she was fatally burned. Mrs. Hoover is 24 years old. She had enjoyed a lunch of peanuts, after finishing which she went to the stove and poured the shellB into the fire. With her dress ablaze she hur ried Into a neighbor's house, and then ran again into the open. She was fol lowed by the neighbor, who threw water over her, extinguishing the blaze. Her bums extended from her feet to her head. The I uitttnlnablp. Kill Hitting yearned to tmtlgfy The men who rrKklHe. When bo resolved that he would try To make a name and rise They said be was too young as yet. A few years onward rolled And then with courteous regret They BHld be was too old. He once vus slender as the limb Thnt isrowD upon a tree; Then broader outlines came to him, Quite comfortlntf to see. Approval still he fails to win; HIb friends assure hi in that Whllo once be may have been too thin At present lie's too fat. He eats too much or not enouKh; lies oversud or gay, His languug-e Is a bit loo routrh Or too ornate, thev snv. No wonder that bis frame of mind (J rows steadily more glum. How can be ever hopo to tlnd The happy medium? Washington Star. That the aurora borealls, or north ern lights, Is an electrical display Is evidenced by the, fact that during a recent wonderful exhibition of this natural phenomena It was impossible to use the Atlantic cables or the wire less stations. The government of Urazll has d(ter mlued to develop iron smelting and the Iron and steel industry generally, and thus make use of the vast deposits of iron ore which exist in several por tions ot tbe country. COLD BATHS AID TO EEAUTT. Cold water will enable corpulent women to acquire sylphlike forms. Di vine Myrma, stage diver and sw.mmer. is the discoverer of the secret. Sines childhood, the diver, whose real name Is Ethel May Donough, haa been a devotee of all aquatic sports, and through these, she Bays, she learned how the form can he molded Into lines most desired. "Bathe every morning in the outer air until it reaches a tem perature of 45 degrees," she says. "When outdoor bathing Is impossible, the bathtub is a fair substitute. With one-half pound of salt added to a tub of water the effect is better. The bath should be taken one-half hour after rising and the same length of time before breakfast." PERUVIAN MUSIC. t The native tniiKle at Peru. ajvordln to Geraldlne bulnens, the author of a recent book on that country, is exceed ingly interesting and strange. It seems fitting that the people of such an unusual country the children of a unique social system should have a characteristic style of national music. Certainly the yaravis of Peru are un like any other music. When first I heard their plantlvfl notes come wailing through the night air, I listened spell bound to this new thing. As I came to knew and levi the ancient melodies they tssk hold of mo in a strange way. There is surely a similarity ia spirit and construction between these Iadlan paravis and the sobbing lyrics sung by the exiles of Babylon. They ar intensely patriotic, and deeply mourn ful. "The memory of foraer wrsngs has tinged their most pBa!ar songs with sadness. The young mother lulls her infant to sleep with verses, th burden of which is sorrow asd despair, and the love songs usually express thi most hopeless grief." Indians are always singing. Far out On the pampas away from all human habitations, I have beard Strang Kccbua words crooned by little shep herd boys; harvesters, as they toll up hill with their immenaa loads of bar ley, invariably sing some plalatlvo olj soug, and families traveling along th dusty roads unite their reloes to strange part-harmonies to walling melodies In a minor key. I GUILLOTINED BY PAPER COTTEB. mm 'llie liiMt man ever guillotined in America was John Drey, who fell t his death under the keen blade ot huge paper cutter iu a paper mill al Whippauy, N. J. Drey was employed by a p:'.pcr company, his duty being to see that sheets of paper were prop erly placed under the knife, which regularly fell and rose, cutting thou sands of sheets at each fall. A piece of paper fell awry athwart the knlf plate :.nd I)rey, in stretching over it to fiti al'.'li'i n the sheet, slipped and fell just as the knife came down. DEVELOPMENT. Fast lnterurban trolley cars. Telegraphy und telephouy without wires. The electric propulsion of vehicles and boats. The luminous arc lamps which turn night Into day.. The tclharmonlum, which produces electrical music. The powerful tlectrlc searchlights which are visible for a hundred ml'.o ' ) i :j! 771 ' , yV. if 1