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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1905)
irijfmiinawiwiiii mm missis jr&rma s Editor i & Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. A Wasted Sympathy. YOUNO woman attempted to commit suicide In Kansas City because she could not And work. She took n dose of laudanum, but the poltoo surgeons puttipcd it out of hot and saved her life. On the face of It, It seems pitiful, but dig down deeper and no sympathy will bo wasted. !t&Ss young woman walked the streets of tho city for two fatjs In search of employment, and found none. She had npeclul aptitude for any particular lino of endenvor in slnK llfo. She had no letters of recommendation. After frstfras buffeted nbout for forty-eight hours sho swallowed .-m&utr of laudanum, li was too bad, wasn't it, that this girl with little eatlon and absolutely no training in business life could nmi find employment? At tho time sho was vainly searching for work every nap!oymeut agency in the city had a dragnet out to find nnwoen who would do the cooking In small families for ranging from $11.50 to $5 a week. Sho could have 5 a place In a good, Christian home for the asking. A Utettsnnd doorbolls wero waiting for hor to press the button. TS&t he did not want this kind, of work. She wanted to , (something that sbo could not do, and tried to end her IKfe rather than do something that she could do. A very wise man said once that there wero three things itiutt the Lord did not know. One of them was a woman's WKtson for hor actions. Kansas City World, own particular hobby tho ull-important one, and the lists of studies have become lumbered up with the "bright thoughts" of sctrttftl generations of amateur educational ists. Meanwhile Summon sense has had a poor chance. "Only a short time ago," says Commissioner Adams, of the New York board, "I was directed by a concern with which I am connected to secure the services of two young men as clerks. There were about Ji!0 applicants for these positions. The greater portion of them were from the public schools of this city. You ought to see the letters they wrote. They wero absolutely disgraceful. The spell ing was bad and tho writing Itself was worse." Tho samo complaint comes from every quarter. The colleges complain of the bad spelling of would-be matric ulates, and even tho engineering schools assert that the engineers they turn out cannot write a report in decent English. It will bo a blessing alike to the children and the tax payers if tho expensive gewgaws introduced Into tho pub lic schools, particularly Into the elementary schools, by alleged educators be abolished and higher standards of practical etilclency exacted. Kansas City World, IcpavoriteS: 1 .fc.fr.f,fcJf.Hl--i-S1-rJ ! The liiiird ' Cockpcn. The laird o' Cockpeti he's proud and he's great, Ills mind Is ta'en up vi' the things o' tlie state; lie wanted a wife his braw hoiine to keep, ltut favour wl' seek. wooln' was fashions to 1 T) 1DI mmm& lust Common Gamblers. .IGELOW loots a bank, to gamble in wheat, and the business wo.rld professes to be shock ed. Tho race track tlend takes .$10 from his employer's till, loses It with the aid of a dope sheet, and then takes more. That Is simply Blgelow in a minor key. Thoro Is not a shad ow of difference In tho moral or ethical aspect Ttho case. They are gamblers all Just common gamblers. "Br anything, the fellow with the automobile and tho dia SMwtds deserves less sympathy than tho shoestring player, rw has to borrow car far home. 14 may bo possible to be a gambler without being a ttfcSef, but there aro more thieves made by gambling than fty I1 other causes combined. The confirmed gambler Is wswtlly devoid of moral sense. So are thieves, embryo or dual. The moral plane of the millionaire -wheat or slock gBsngcr is exactly that of the dice-thrower or faro player. SI is looking for something for nothing. If ho happens to be the president of a bank, and gambles with sacred tevst funds, ho adds the most contemptible form of crime to Ida moral depravity. If ho happens to be an alleged Xjtlfcr of society, a vestryman in a church, a prominent .rioctor In charitable and philanthropic work, his downfall nuul exposure help to unsettle the whole social fabric. Blgelow's crime fell upon the business world like nfcanderbolt. That was because a big gambler played too aecklessly. If wheat had gono up instead of down, Blge- Spw might have paid back his stealings and shone as i AcMy star In the financial Armament. Instead of wear fee stripes he might havo dealt out more moral platitudes ft future meetings of tho American Hankers' Association. Stick is gamblers' luck. A gambler that takes such dlauces lu cold blood has no claim on any one's sympathy. T3jt f those that ho drags over the precipice with him that t entitled to sympathy. Tho innocent will suffer for SKtmlilcrR' crimes to tho end of time. Chicago Examiner, Fads in the School i HE Now York Board of Education has voted to shorten the course of study In the olemen tnry schools, cutting out the "fads and fancies' and confining the Instruction strictly to cssen tlnls. Tho teaching of sewing, physical training, organized games, physiology, liygleno and drawing will accordingly be dropped in the first year of as elementary course and attention will be concentrated (Wa the three It's. Faddists have hail too much recognition In the public s&oola of this country generally. Every crauk thinks his T Accounting for Railway Casualties. IIEUE are several conditions peculiar to Amer ican railroads which account for our large cas ualty list. The chief among those, undoubted ly, is tho Inherent restlessness of a not incon siderable section of our railroad employes, which shows Itself In the chronic disposition to move on and try some new field of work. This results in a continual change of personnel, with the result that at any given time, on any given road, there will be found a large number of employes who are entirely new to, or but little familiar with, the special local conditions sur rounding their work. Now, it Is this familiarity with the local conditions, over and above the ceneral knowledce which any engineer, conductor, brakeman, signalman, switchman, must have of his duties in the abstract it Is this familiarity wo say, that is the very best safeguard against railroad accidents, or at least against those that have to do with tho running of the trains. Second only In Importance as a contributory cause to railroad accidents is tho continual change which Is taking place in the management and official staff of our railroads, and In their ownership. As a result of the mad whirl of organization and reorganization, combinations, receiver ships, and what not, there Is n continual change of man agement from president to roadmaster. Well-established organizations and systems of management, that havo gained that smoothness and acquracy of working and that mutual confidence and sense of Interdependence, which can only come from long and successful association in the oper ation of a particular system, are suddenly broken up by fhe salo of the road or Its combination with some other sys tem; new men are Introduced Into high ofllces; and they, in turn, havo their ojvn particular friends or well-tried as sistants whom they naturally wish to introduce; heart burnings, Jealousies and disappointments ensue; and the whole operative system of tho road is shaken from summit to foundation; for tho general unrest invariably distributes itself throughout tho whole working force of the road, with a consequent lowering of discipline and more or less care less performance of duties. Scientific American. Doun by the dyke-wide n lady did dwell, At his table-head lie thought sho'd look well; M'Clclsh's ao daughter o' Ghivei'sha' Lee, A pcnnylcsH lass wi' a Inng pedigree. His wig was weel pouther'd, an' as guid ns new, Ills waistcoat was white, hN coat it was blue; He put on a ring, a sword, an' ooek'd hat, An' whn could refuse the Laird wl n' that? Ho took the gray mare, ait' rode o.m nillic, An' rapp'd at the yctt o' Claversha' Leo; "Gao tell Mistress Jean to come speedily ben; Sho's wanted to speak wi' tho Laird o' Cockpcn." Mistress Jean bIic was niakin' the elder- flow'r wine; "An' what brings the Laird at sic a like tlmo?" She put af her apron, an' on her silk gown, Her inutch wi' red ribbons, an' gaed awa' down. An' when she cam' ben, lie bowed fu' low; An what was his errand ho soon let her know; Aniaz'd was the Laird when the lady said na; An' wi' a laigh curtsie she turned awa. Dumfounder'd was he; nae sigh did he gie, Ho mounted his marc he rodo cannlly; And aftcn he thought as he gaed through the glen, "Sho's daft to refuse the Laird o' Cock-pen!" And, now that the Laird his exit had mad, Mistress Jean, she reflected on what she had said: "Oh, for ano I'll get better, it's waur I'll get ten! I was daft to refuso tho Laird o' Cock pen." Next time the Laird and the lady was seen, They were gaun arm in arm to tho kirk on the green; Now sho sits in tho hall like a weel tappit hen; But ao yet there's nae chickens appeared at Cockpcn. Lady Nairre. T Women and Housekeeping, HE simple art of housekeeping! It is because so many women have this mistaken view of the home and of home-making that ho many families are driven to-day to hotels and so many men to clubs, whose proprietors and stewards do not regard home-making as a "simple art," but as a life-work, worthy of all the special education and training that art and science can give. Tho trouble at tho bottom of nil these profitless crit icisms and discussions between men nnd women as to the rights and privileges of tho two sexes lies In the fact that advocates of men's rights and women's rights consider men and women on a comparative and competitive basis. The sexes are neither comparative nor competitive. Ono Is tho complement of the other, each fulfilling In mind, spirit nnd body distinct and necessary Junctions In the life of the race. New York Outlook. BncccKi. Success is counted sweetest By those" who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not ono of all the purple host Who took tho flag to-day Can tell tho definition So clear of Tlctory. As he, defeated, dying, On whoso forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear. Emily Dickinson. URGES DEER AS FARM PRODUCT corn, peas, bran, potatoes,, etc. It cost about lc a day to feed, a deer, as tiiey aro good rustlers and munch anything n the way of vegetation. "The deer Is fast disappearing from tho woods, nnd unless they are domes ticated and bred like other classes of ve stock they will disappear, like thn buffalo nnd the mastodon nnd tho soul- yoloose." "What is a seullyoloose Mr. liar rls?" nsked tho correspondent. "Why, a Hcullyoloose Is but what' the use of describing a Hcullyoloose when they nre nil dead?" The correspondent agreed that there was no use talking about an extinct species, and brought the conversation back to deer. S "I would strongly urge every fiiniilt... who Is prepared to take care of ft bunch of deer to begin a herd and grow a few every your. No other ani mal pays so large a dividend, consid ering the small expense and trouble of coping the deer. They will thrive In ny woods lot mid a six-foot fence will retain them. They live to n trreat age: the does breed regularly twice a year, and they ar,o uniformly healthy. Tho meat Is easily kept and is the most delicious for tnble use that man can treat himself to. It Is u king's dish when fresh, and dried venison is recog nized as a luxury by. all opicurfes. The lorns make beautiful ornaments, tho bucks sHcdding their horns once a year. The skins are valuable and the milk of deer Is tho sweetest aim richest of any. "In fact," concluded Mr. Ilnrrls, "I am a deer enthusiast, and I wish moro ariners would diversify to the extent of raising deer for their own tables and the markets. 1 have none for sale, understand, and have no other interest n these beautiful animals than my love or thorn to look at and to eat." and WNsnXciu Mfco the culture of ten, silk produc tion, which confers an enormous bene fit on China, and has now becomo an fiatflspensnble Industry to the world, Is Hit- most modest occupation lmaglna Ife. In "Through China with a Cam ata," Mr. Thomson describes the vari ous progressive steps through which K&a staple passes till It is ready for tho Atoms of China or Lyons. Tho eggs of the silkworm aro hatch- aT nbout tho mlddlo of April. The T&eat season to obtain them for expor tation is in March or tho beginning of April. The young worms, when hatch ed nro placed on bamboo frames and Jed on mulberry leaves cut up into amall shreds. As tho worms Increase $ alzo they are transferred to a larger nsmber of frames nnd aro fed with lfettvcs not so finely cut; and so tho , sccs3 continues until, In their last istege, the leaves aro given to them sratlfo. After hatching, tho worms eon tone eating during five days, and then Bleep for tho Srst tlmo for two days. When they again awake, their appo se Is not qulto bo good, and they usu any eat for four dnys only and sleep again for two days moro. Thou they ml for the third time for four days and r.ns for two. This eating and ro- oao Is usually repeated four times, ml then, having gained full strength, they proceed to spin their cocoons. The task of spinning occupies them from four to seven dnys more; and when this business Is completed, three days aro spent In stripping off the cocoon, nnd some soven days later each small cultivator brings his silken harvest to the local market and disposes of It to nntlvo trnders, who ninko It up Into bales. Tho quality of the silk is first of all affected by Uio breed of tho worms that spin It, then by the quality of tho leaves and tho modo of feeding. Silk worms nre injured by noise, by the presence, nnd especially tho handling, of strangers, nnd by noxious smells. They must bo fed at regular hours, and the temperature of tho apartment must not be too high. Tho greatest defect In Chinese silk has been duo to tho primitive mode of reeling which tho natives adopt. Shanghai Is tho great silk mart, nnd thore, about Juno 1st, tho first season's silk Is usually brought down. It Is never the growers who bring tho silk to tho foreign mnrkot. These grow ers aro Invariably small farmers, who havo a fow mulberry bushes planted in 8omo odd cornor of their tilled lands, and tho rearing of tho worm and the production of silk by no means mo nopolize tho whole of their time. It is only a spring occupation for the wom en nnd younger members of their fam ilies. Everybody claims that his thunder bolts come out of n clear blue sky. Tho Wonderful Tibetans. If nnother nationality wero needed to round out und complete the British "family" something resembling the English, Irish, Scotch and Welsh, but a compromlso between their various qualities It is suggested that such a nation has been brought to light in tho Tibotuns, who seem to combine all tho traits that have made tho Brit ish nation what it Is. They are, first, exceedingly devout In religion; thoy appear to bo remark able business men, hard-headed as any Scotsman, having a keen eyo for open ings, nnd drive hard bargains; nnd thoy aro said to bo as full of humor- ous sentiment as tho wildest of Irish men. They celebrated Ohrlslmns last year, and took to tho festival as to the man ner born. A company of them, at tired in tho most grotosquo costumes, paraded under tho leadership of a white-bearded old man, representing Father Christmas, and danced to weird, Inharmonious music In the hap piest fashion. Thoy made fun of great dignitaries, nnd even of ono who was dressed up as tho Emperor of Ohinn. A delightful people they appear to bo, and Lassn, too, seems to be full of reminders of tho right little, tight little island. Mb. Mllllngton, the au thor of "To Lassn at Last," says ho saw in tho shops looking-glasses mndo in Austria, ptnknlves made In Ger many, nnd n certain populnr typo of English bicycle, Texas Farmer Raises AulmalH Finds Them Profitable. "Itniso deer and live at homo. Plant a fow acres of fawns and watch them grow; observe their antics and noto their beauty from day to day, and you will becomo a deer enthusiast. You will quit cotton and becomea deer cul turfst." This Is the advice of It. H, Harris who, with his brother, J. M. Harris has a beautiful park on their farm near this city, which park is stocked with deer, says a Clarksvllle (Texas) specia to tho Galveston News. There are twenty of theso beautiful animals In the Messrs. Harris' collection, and they aro an attractive sight. The young ones aro never still except when asleep and they nro not heavy sleepers. Their gambols would amuse a stoic, and they are a delight to all persons who sea them. "About three years ago my brother nnd I secured six deer and placed them In our park, which is a shady grovo adjacent to our old homestead, said Mr. Harris. "Tho Increase in tho tbreo years has been far boyond our Expectations. We havo used several on our table, and at this tlmo havo twen ty, all from tho, original stock of six In addition to this we have given away nnd shipped many others to different parts of tho country, ono as far away as New York State. Tho docs bear two fawns every year. Wo find the young ones born in captivity very do die and healthy. We have nevor lost one from sickness. Thoy subsist on less food than any other animal their size, and will eat almost auythlng that edible, such as cotton seed 1 GOLD FROM SEA WATER. Kxpcriiucuts Prove Ihut Briny Deep Ih a Greut Trcutmre llouac. It has long been asserted that gold exists In u state of solution in the sea, nnd that In the many nttempts to ex tract it some lias been collected nnd precipitated, but It is admitted that failure has attended every effort at extraction on a commercial basis. Tho announcement Is now made, however, says the Clnclunntl Enquirer, that a new process has received the sanction of no less a person that Sir William Ramsay, professor of chemistry In University College, London, olllcer ol the French Legion of Honor, corre spondlng members of tho Institute ol France, membiS of scientific and phil osophical societies In nearly every civ ilized country nud tho author of nu merous scientific papers and treatises The new process 1b patented, but no further description of it Is given than that It "bears a certain resemblance! the treatment adopted in tho mines the Wltwatersrand" (South Africa). It is said that a syndicate, whos title nnd address are not given, has been quietly picking up favorable sltei on the English und Irish coasts, and has now acquired rights over some 50 miles of foreshore. The securing of extensive foreshore rights Is neeessnry because the sea water must bo abso lutely pure to obtain the best results from the new process. Therefore, fac tories and pumping stations must bo established well out of reach of pass ing steamers, tho bilgo water from which would contaminate tho sur? rounding sea nnd derange the process of extraction. Some forty years ago active experi ments began which showed that gold In minute quantities was dissolved In many rivers and streams and later ou a measurement of gold In sea water placed the amount at about a grain In each ton of the water. A grain of gold being worth about 4 cents and the tons of water In the ocean being placed at 00,000,000,000,000, It staggers the mind to attempt to compute in dollars th prodigious total value of the gold I the ocean. Should tho new process do all that Its friends sangulnely claim for It, gold would almost become a drug on tho market; but it Is considerately remark ed that "It would obviously not servo tho interests of tho synldncet to se cure gold In greater quantities than the market could absorb. Moreover the Arm of flnanciors whom wo believe to bo mainly concerned In tho develop monts Is far too deeply Involved in high llnnnco to engage In nny opera tions which would have an unsettling effect upon tho currency." 3 Bogging tho Question. A good but vieionary man, banished to tho Caucasus for his socialistic tho orles, received a visit there from Her mann Fast, and talked a great deal to his guest nbout the evil of money, and me uunii uone me numnn race by clvt uzniion. T IlinltnUi ... I.I .LI. ... x vim kiiiii run VlOlt- nP ttAII ,1 menus had been a comfort to vou,' remarked Fast "So It has been." "But you forgot! How could tWy come hero without money?" "Very well. They could havo walked." "Whatl Could Mr. , Neavo hava walked from Australia?" i Tills upset tho thinker's calculations,' but In a fow moments ho concluded: "No, but be could have begged a pat sage "