Ncbr aska Advertiser
W. V. SANDERS, Prop.
NEMAHA,
NEBRASKA
Every day Iiuh Kh now horocH, and
11 (;oo(l tunny of tliom tin firemen.
A professor of morals will ho tlio
first essential If tho country over has
a corespondent h' .school.
Tlio nffnlr or tho Congo scorns to ho
one of thoHo mailers which will never
ho tiolllod until II Ih seltluil right.
A Hrttlsh roport HiiyH Hint Amorlca
In facing a lliuhor fninlno. At any
rule, It Ib not a presidential tlmhor
faniluo.
Tho marriage of a prosperous medi
cine manufacturer to an r.ctrcss gives
assurance that thoro Is hoiio for tho
American drama.
A Ronton man Ih offering $fiO reward
for a treatment that will euro a par
rot of tho hahlt or repeating profanity.
Why not try tho ax?
Wo have It on tho word or an ICng
HhIi scientist that tho north pole, pro
Bumnhly having grown weary of wait
ing to ho discovered, Ih coming south.
There being a eyiiHlderablo Hi retch
of real oHlato Intervening between
Franco and Turkey It Ik perfectly Hafo
for tho two countrleH to make facoH
at each other.
Threo Chicago men claim to have
discovered a process by which human
hodlcH can be turned into metal.
There aro plenty already who are evi
dently made of hrnss.
Ab regardH tho hen, furthermore, she
ban one conspicuous advantngo over
tho cow. It, in harder to counterfeit,
adulterate or otherwise Impair tlio
UHOfulucHB of her output.
Several more dcsirahlo euHtoniB
than tho manufacture of dynamite
bombK would bo welcomed from an
nrclilHlle immlgrautH. TIiIk Ih a habit
which Hhould ho left with tho old
folltB at home.
A southern paper remarks that no
ono evor saw a "merry widower." Tills
Ih a very gallant, If not very accurate,
Htntomout, for naturally, gallantly
Hpcaklng, why should there ever bo a
morry widower?
Tho prlco of coal Ih decreasing, sayH
a nows roport. However, this was to
ho oxpcclod. Now the really wonder
ful thing would happen if tho price of
coal woro to decrease In tho autumn
InBtond of tho glad springtime.
A problem In all countries is to
keep tho young men in tho small
towns. Tho remedies suggested aro
many, but wo fall to llnd tho most
practical and the most potent. Tho
way to keep tho young men anywhoro
Is to keep tho pretty girls in tlio
namo neighborhood.
It is said that Madame Adelina Pat
ti plans another farowoll tour of
Amorlca. America Is pretty well ac
customed to this sort of thing, but
tho former diva should remombor that
even over horo wo have a littlo say
ing about tho turning of the patient
worm.
It Is very discouraging. Horo Is tho
Lady's Pictorial of London snylng:
"Wo do not want all women to bo
smart and enorgollo; sho who can bo
merely gontlo and charming and
gracious and shall wo not even say
helpless? maintains the Ideal of
womanhood for man to worship."
Moro mollycoddles.
Hero 1b another indication that busi
ness is Improving at homo and abroad.
Tho commorclal papers announce Hint
room on vobsoIb has been ongagod for
shipping 150,000 tons of pig Iron from
Alnbama furnaces to Modltorranonn
ports. This means not only that thoro
Ib a growing demand in tho old world,
but that In supplying tho requirements
Amerlcnn producers will have a fair
market and will bo enabled to give em
ployment to more American labor.
Commenting on the danger of trust
ing womon to run motor cars, an
Ohio mayor suggests that tho only
proper machine for a woman to run Is
tho sowing machine. Wo should bo
moro willing to contlno our women to
theso useful contrivances if they had
electric motors to drive thorn. It
would bo woll if somo of tho power
spent in driving automobiles woro ap
plied to necessary domestic engines,
which in many homes overtax the. foot
that push tho jreadles.
Aftor all, John Hay did write "Tho
Breadwinners," a novol that had con
Bldorablo voguo 25 years ago. It was
published anonymously before the au
thor had made a imputation as ono of
tho greatest secretaries of stato tho
country evor had, and tho secret was
kept, although suspected, until at last,
states tho Youth's Companion, Mrs.
Hay has consonted that tho credit
which belonged to her dead husband
shall bo given to him In an account
of tlio book In "A Manual of American
Uteraturo," recently published.
IN RADIUM FACTORY
INTRICATE PROCESS OF MAKING
PRECIOUS ELEMENT.
Tons of Ores Treated for Two and
Half Months in Large Sifting
Tanks to Obtain Minimal
Fragments of SaltB.
t London. Physical theories have, In
the course of the last fow years, un
dergone something like a revolution,
duo to tho discovery of radiations,
glvon out from certain substances,
which radiations, although in
visible to the eye, manifest
themselves by the most varied effects.
The typical representative of theso
substances Is radium, or rather Its
chemical compounds, as tho element
Itself has not yet been isolated. Owing
to the scientific Interest attaching lo
thie wonderful substance, and the
practical uses It Is liable to bo put to,
especially In medicine, It will not bo
anilHs briefly to record tlio compli
cated processes required In its manu
facture. Apart from their being some of the
moBt Interesting substances known to
men, radium salts aro tho most
precious of all chemical compounds,
one kilogram of radium bromide be
ing estimated at about $80,000,000.
Owing to this extreme costliness, it
will bo understood that tho amount
of radium generally bundled In labora
tories must be rather minute; and, as
tho effects of radium are of extraordi
nary Intensity, those small quantities
aro quite snfllclent to show any phe
nomenon hitherto discovered.
In order, however, to give an Idea
of the enormous amount of material
required to produce, even such min
ute quantities as a few milligrams of
radium salts, It may bo said that whole
Sifting Tanks In a Radium Factory.
wagon-loads of diverse ores have to
bo submitted to a lengthy treatment
In order to extract from them some
minimal fragments. Hy discontinu
ing the various operations at. a ulven
stage tlio activity of tlio radium salt
can be varied at will, according to the
special purpose it is Intended for, and
a whole scale of different intensities
can thus be readily produced.
At a special radium factory recently
installed at Nogent-sur-Marne. the
most varied ores are treated, and on
their arrival aro all taken to the
crushers, whereas their further treat
ment varies according to tho kind of
matorlnl. Tho method described In
tho following applies more particular
ly to pltchblend, or rather to pitch
blond rosldues as obtained in the man
ufacture of uranium which nre the
moBt Important of radium-holding ma
terials. The "gross treatment" Is car
ried out in wooden tanks and cast
iron tanks provided with stirring de
vices. Each ton of rosldue will re
quire five tons of chemical; and r0
tons of rinsing wnter.
As radium sulphate always remains
at tho bottom of tho vessel, it
is
found there at tho conclusion of tli
dirroront oporntlons (lasting about
two and a half months), when ono oi
two kilograms of impure radium bro-
muio win no obtained from each ton
of residue. Tho activity of this
ra
dlum-holdlng salt hardly oxeeedB GO
to
CO. Products of higher activity are oh
talnod by "frnctlonnttng" namely, b
submitting the mixture of salts to
series of successlvo crystallizations
in puro water, and In water cental
ing Borne hydrobromlc acid.
While tho first fractional operations
aro still carried out on a commorcl
basis, tho moro nilnuto onorntlmin i
il
quired to treat tho products of highe
activity aro necessarily perfonnod ii
tho laboratory of skilled chemists. A
tho end of this difficult treatmom mil
ono to two milligrams of bromide aro
found to remain from each ton
original residues, but this minimal
amount shows an activity 2,000,000
times higher than metallic uranium
Tho most Important nnrt of the fun
tory Is tho laboratory, whore chemical
analyses ami spoctrosconle testn
carried out, In addition to measuring
the activity or each product, as w
ell
as of the emanations they nre liable
produce ,
to
RAPID RISE OF GEN. BARRY.
Career of Army Officer Recently
Named for Promotion,
Washington. The rise of Hrlg.-Clen.
Thomas H. Marry, recently nominated
as major-general, Ice Oon. C. It. Hall,
retired for age, has been rapid. Horn
in Now York In October, 1855, ho was
graduated from the Mlllltary academy
In June, 1S77. After three years' serv
ice in the cavalry and 17 years In tho
infantry ho was transferred to the ad
jutant-general's department with the
rank of major in .January, 1897, and
became colonel In that department In
Gen. Thomas H. Barry.
July, 1002, less than six years ago. As
a brigadier general of volunteers he
served In the Pekln relief expedition
and In the Philippines. For those
services he was made a brigadier
general in the regular army in August,
1H0H, and now stands fourth In that
grade, his seniors beings Gens, runs
ton, Carter and Hllss, In the order
named.
Gen. Harry Is now in his fifty-second
yenr, and will not retlro until October,
WW. With the exceptions or Gen.
Funston, who Is his junior by ten
years, and Gen. Pershing, who Is five
years younger. Gen. Harry Is the
youngest officer of brigade rank in the
nrmy.
For several mouths past Gen. Harry
has been in command of the army of
Cuban pacification, and it is announced
that he will remain on that duty in
spite of his promotion.
GETS IMPORTANT POST.
John R. Wise Appointed Superintend
ent of Chilocco Indian School.
Washington. John It. Wise, for
many jears a resident of Washington,
has been appointed by Secretary Gar
field as superintendent of the United
States Indian school at Chilocco, Okla.
This Is one of the largest and most. Im
portant Indian schools In tho north
west. Mr. Wise was graduated from the
University or Wisconsin In 1888. Ho
entered the government service in
Washington In 1801 In the record and
pension office. For over 12 years ho
was employed In the office of the com
missioner of Indian affairs. He was
designated by the secretary of the
Interior in 1808 as manager of the
United States Indian congress held in
connection witli the trans-Mississippi
JOHN E . hJE
exposition at Oinnha. For the last
threo and a half years Mr. Wise lias
served as assistant superintendent of
tho Carlisle Indian school.
Success Attainment of Ambition.
Success Is the attainment of laud
able desires, and tho successful man
Is he who faithfully performs his duty
towards himself and all tho world bo
Bides, and by doing so confers happi
ness upon himself In tho knowledge
that ho is fulfilling his divine mission
hero in tho hopo of an eternal rewnrd
heroaftor.
Her Good Work Recognized,
Mrs. W. S. Penbody of Colorado is
called tho mother of Mesa Vordo Na
tional park, becauso of the Interest she
has taken in tho preservation of tho
relics of the mysterious cliff dwellers
of Colorado.
IN MEMORIAM.
A laurel wreath for each koo1 Kruy bond,
Honor for ouch of tlie hcium they bear;
Tvars for tho blood that they had lo
shod,
KlgliH for the 111 that they had to share;
Love for their hopo when hopo had lied
From the weak who cowered In palo de
xpnlr. Fame, but not for the hIiiuiio of those
Who fell for u cause that was better
lout .
CheeiH for their love of the gallant foes
Whose bayonetH by their own were
crossed;
Love for the grace that the hero hIiowh
To tho vanquished foe who Ii.'ih paid the
cost.
A laurel wreath for each good gray head,
Cheers for the heroes inarching by;
Tears for the blood that they had to shed,
For each of the Ills that they boro a
nigh;
Love, for their faith when the BtreaniB ran
red
Arid despair was written across tho sky.
- S. 15. Riser.
SCYTHE HIS
MEMORIAL I
Remain in Tre Where Youth Huns It
When He Went to War .
WHEN the territory about Waterloo,
In Now York stato, was sparse
ly settled the principal industry
was the hewing of timber from the
forest along the Seneca canal.
At a point known as Log Landing,
midway between Geneva and Water
loo, the woodchoppers woro wont to
gather and tell their stories of early
Indian fights, and hero young Hyman
Johnson, a farmer boy, first learned of
tho impending disaster to the union if
tho southern states were allowed to
withdraw from their early affiliation.
One day In ISOt Johnson, who was
then 21 years old, was mowing a lot
on the farm. A neighbor drove up
bearing tho tidings that tho call to
armB had been sounded. Without hesi
tation the youth walked to tho house
and placed his scythe In the crotch of
a young Halm of Gilead tree. His
mother asked him what the matter
was, and he said:
"Mother, Lincoln needs men. I am
going to war."
"What, Hyman? You, ray son, go
ing to enlist?"
"Yes, but do not. fear any harm will
come to me. Tho war will bo over In
a month. The southerners cannot face
the troops from tho north for more
than that timo. When I return I will
mow tlio rest of tho lot. Leave my
Bcythe in the tree until I return."
His regiment marched to the front
to the stirring martial music, and was
often in the lighting lino. The mother,
true to the words of her boy, left the
scythe as it had boon placed. Johnson
camo home a year later on a furlough,
and laughed at the almost forgotten In
cident of the Implement and Its posi
tion. He inspired hopo in tho hearts of
those who thought of nothing else than
his safo roturn by saying: "I will yet
be back lo mow that lot."
Soon after returning ho was cap
tured in a skirmish and becamo a pris
oner in a southern pen, from which
escape was impossible. Disease Inid
hold upon him-nnd he died surrounded
by enemies. He was burled in an un
known grave with hundreds of his
eomrndcH.
Meanwhile tho tree grew apace and
tho blado became partially imbedded
in tho trunk of tho tree. Tho handle
rottod away, but tho steel remained
fixed in tho wood.
A general proclamation was Issued
from tho White House declaring one
day should bo sot apart as a time for
memory of thoso who had fallon
while defending their country. It was
the first Moiuorial day. Word of the
proclamation was carried to Mrs. John
htm, but sho had no gravo to decorate.
Sho fain would strew a few (lowers
upon tho spot wherein her boy lay, but
its location must over remain a mys
tery. Kneeling in the garden, she
offered a short prayer. Then she
plucked a fow lilies from tho plot sho
tended dally, and, making a wreath,
sho boro It to tho troo which gavo
such a grim reminder of her sacrifice
to her country. With a caress she
reached up and hung the wreath upon
tho scytho point.
Memorial day has long becomo an
established anniversary. Many years
have passed bIuco Mrs. Johnson was
laid to rest In tho village cemetery.
The old homo is exactly as it stood in
tho day of tho civil war, but is occu
pied by auothor family.
Takes Snapshots of Guests.
A woman well known for her lovt
of amateur photography as well as
hospitality, has, evor since her mar
riage, carried out the plan of "speed
ing tho parting guest" by taking a
snapshot of them. Tlio result Is In
the guestroom, where a frieze of pho
tographs shows tho gallery, making
an interesting collection, and ono that
entertains every new visitor that tbt
room shelters.
Again the Practical Joke.
A volatilo bartender of Rochester,
N. Y., noting that a patron. Edwin Bar
rett, slept soundly in tho saloon,
heated a copper coin until it had
reached tlio white stage and then de
posited It on tho knee of tho slumber
ing one. The Joke was entirely suc
cessful, as tho coin burned the flesh,
caused blood poisoning and necessi
tated tho amputation of Mr. Harrett's
leg above the knee.
Smallest Visible Things.
Fow persons would guess that fhfl
smallest things visiblo to tho eyo aie
tho stars. Yet, according to a high
authority, such is the case. Great as
many of the stars are In actual magni
tude, their distance Is so Immense that
their angular diameter becomes insen
sible and they approach to tho con
dition of geometrical points. Tho
minute disks that they appear to havo
are spurlotiB, an effect of radiation.
Greatness.
There Is a kind of elevation which
does not depend on fortune. It Is a
certain air which distinguishes us, and
soeme to destine us for groat things;
it Ib a price which we imperceptibly
sat on ourselves. By this quality we
usurp tho doferronce of other men:
and it puts us, in general, more above
them than birth, dignity, or even
merit itself. La Rochefoucauld.
What, Indeed?
What Is the cruel pleasure which
carries sorrow and bitterness to tho
heart of your brother? Where is the
lnnocenoy of an amusement whose
source springs from vices which ought
to lnspiro you wfth compassion and
grief? Joan Baptiste Massillon.
Changed His Mind.
Once there was a bachelor man who
said that talk was cheap, but one day
he got married, and then ho learned a
heap. For when his so-called better
half doth speak of gowns and such ho
finds her talk is different it coBts him
mighty much. Chicago Daily News.
Lincoln Directory
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