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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1897)
SURGEONS OF THEM. TO TEACH THE FIREMEN HOW TO DRESS WOUNDS. The “Emergency Kit" and Its Contents —Sponge*. Bandages of All Sorts. Cotton, Morphine, Plaster and OtUalr Necessaries.___ HEN the plan originated by an assistant engineer of the Malden (Mass.) fire depart ment Is generally carried Into effect, firemen will no lon ger be obliged to wait the coming of the ambulance to ’ dress their wounds or alleviate their hurts, says the New York Journal. In every fire company there will be a man who thoroughly understands the method of giving first aidt to lie Injured. With every hose wheel will he car ried an “emergency kit,’’ containing all the necessaries for antiseptic treat ment. it has been a problem for many years just how to find a method for caring for Injured firemen at confla grations without the expenso of having a regular physician attached to each company. This new Idea seems to offer the solution sought for. This emergency kit will contain eight rolls of bandages for body and legs, eight bandages for the arms, and a sim ilar number for the fingers. There will also be eight corrosive sublimate gauze bapdages of various lengths and sizes, two drainage pans, six tourniquets for arteries in arras and legs, one box of medicated absorbent cotton, one can of bicarbonate of soda to be sprinkled over the surface of burns, one bottle of sulphate of morphine tablets, one eighth grain each, to be given for pain; one bottle tincture of benzoin; also one bottle corrosive sublimate tablets, one tablet to a quart of water, making a one-tenth of 1 per cent solution, to be used in dressing; one roll of surgeon's strapping plaster, scissors, safety pins, large and small, and one bottle of aromatic spirits of ammonia, to be used as a stimulant and to be given In place of brandy. The emergency kit will also contain sponges and other ac cessories, and all the various articles will be packed In cotton to guard against breakage. The originator of the plan advances the idea that thd firemen should attend a series of lectures by competent sur geons and physicians upon the care of the Injured at fires, practical illustra tions being given at every lecture. It would be quite possible to Instruct ev ery member of a paid fire department, from, the chief engineer to the hose boy, so that he should be able to ren der that immediate aid which in a cri sis is indispensable. But while this It 1b further suggested to have one member of each company assigned to the emergency kit, Just as there are pipe men and hose men. It Bhall be this man’s duty to see that the kit Is always In perfect order, that no sup plies are lacking, and to provide In every way against there being a hitch when anything from the kit is needed. In speaking of his plan the advocate said: “I would advise that the engine and ladder company might have a reg ular cdurse of lectures, given in quar ters, by local physicians and surgeons, with examinations. The firemen who pass the necessary examination shall receive diplomas and a badge of the Red Cross Order of American Fire men. "Nobody will deny the fact that tihe average fireman Is always ready to risk his life to save that of a friend br a stranger. His own life Is In dan ger from the first stroke of the gong In the engine house until the apparatus Is hdused after its return from the fire. No one knows what minute he will want medical aid. Yet Ignorance of the first principles of surgery may pre vent his comrades from helping him In hlB utmost need. Every medical man will support my assertion that the quick use of antiseptic dressing means many days of illness saved tor the pa tient and many dollars for the state re lief association.” . *v Th® Bible of Legitim Inin. That holy blble of pure, legitimism, the Gotha “Genealoglsche Hofkalcnd er,'* which has appeared yearly since 1764, both in a German and French edition, is said to have given moral of fense this year to the court circles in Italy. Its issue for 1897 contains no portraits of the prince of Naples and his bride, while it does contain portraits of the duke of Orleans and his bride. The editor, whoever he may be, seems thus to have decided that the heirship to the crown of Italy is a mere de facto affair with which so eminent a pen-and ink '‘kingmaker” as himself cannot U concerned, whereas the heirship to the ^crown of France is a de jure solemnity wblch needs to be impressed on the su blime personages and the flunkeys who study this annual court pocketbook.— .Westminster Gazette. y Converting Turf Into Coal. Another plan for turning to account ’forces of nature as yet dimly under stood is reported from Scandinavia, where a savant has discovered a meth od of converting turf into coal. The turf is placed in retorts and gradually heated to 250 degrees. The retorts are . then closed and the temperature kept op for seven hours. The tar and gas ' products are retained in the coal mass to the extent of 80. per cent, and the • resultant is said to contain 65 per cent of carbon', 6 per cent of hydrogen, 3.7 • water and 5 per cent of ashes. Tun coal gives about the same amount oi heat as seconds, and has been tested - both in Krupp’s iron foundry and foi domestic purposes. % \ SAD WILLIAM HENRY. v —. " 'Nother Burled In Mali Grave," Raid He. Wllliani Henry Holloway, an erring negro oH756 Greenwich street,is mourn ing •• ’cause 'nother nlggah’s buried in mah grave.” Last June William Hei> ry suddenly disappeared from his home and for several days no one knew whither he had gone, says the New York Tribune. Then they found a body iti the North river, and his wife looked at It, recognized It, wept over it and buried it. Then she colleoted HV in insurance money. Mrs Holloway wore her widow’s weeds in peace until Sunday night, when just before midnight there ca-ine a ‘‘tapping at her chamber door.” She arose and fearfully opened to the in truder. It was William Henry avd she shrieked, being convinced that it was William Henry’s ghoet; and all the eight little pickaninnies came tum bling in fright from their beds and rolling over the floor. When the re turned wanderer had assured his wife that he was himself and not a spirit he learned how he had been drowned and burled and realized upon, and his> heart grew heavy, thinking of that ‘‘other niggah buried in mah grave.” Besides his wife didn’t seem very glad to see him, and the eight pickaninnies could In no way be convinced that he was really alive. Early in the morn ing Mrs. Holloway arose and without waiting for breakfast, went to tell Cor oner Hoeber that the man whom she had Identified, wept over, buried and realized upon, and for whom she was wearing weeds, was not her husband, but only “ ’nother niggah buried in his grave.” William Henry was the picture of wretchedness as he stood yesterday morning in his home, scratching dole fully his woolly head. “ 'Nother nig gah buried in mah grave,” he said. ‘‘Times got so bad las’ June I done got discouraged, an’ I jus’ lit out an’ tra belod all ober de west, till I done thought o’ Minnie an’ how hard she’d havo to work , for the pickaninnies. Then I turn ’round an’ 1 done come back, an’ I fin' ’nother niggah buried in mah grave. I wouldn’t had ’nother niggah burled in mah grave—not foh noth’n.” PRIVATE SECRETARIES. Their Office In a Sere Road to Promo tion. Bright boys will do well to remember that there Is no surer road to promo tion, financially, socially and every other way, than that which lead* throught a private secretaryship, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. To be as Intimately associated with a man who has won a high place in the world for himself as a private secretary must b. Is to have the opportunity of studying at close range the character of a suc cessful man—to ‘‘get points,” so to speak, that may be put to very good USA hv flnv vmmor mon nrhn In profit by experience. The useful pri vate secretary) too, Is sure to make his employer think so well of him as to be anxious to aid'him, and, moreover, is certain in his official capacity to | meet many men of prominence whose acquaintance is well worth while. Daniel Lament Is an excellent example of what the clever private secretary can do. At the close of Mr. Cleve land's first administration, during which Lamont was the president's pri vate secretary, he was placed by one who held a cabinet office during the same time at the head of important street railroad and other interests in New York. Lamont proved himself a man of great executive ability and was honored with a cabinet place dur ing Mr. Clevelan's second administra tion. Gen. Horace Porter, who had change of the inaugural parade, emerged from obscurity as Grant's mil itary secretary. It was because of the qualities he showed that Porter was given the chance to make rapid prog ress in business, after the war was over, and today his name is one of the oftenest seen in print. The list of those who have used the private secre taryship as a stepping stone to great and lasting advancement is a long one. The Hearting of a Good Book. A pump may be connected with a very deep well of very good water, and yet need a pitcher of water to be brought from another source to be poured in at the top before It can work. So with the mind, sometimes. The reading of a good book helps it Into running order. WOMEN OF NOTE. Mrs. Annie Shanlvan runs the en gine* in a big planing mill at Tulare, Cal. She also Shovels the fuel and makes necessary repairs to the ma chinery. Miss M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr College, has Just received the honorary degree of LL. D. from the Western University of Pennsyl ta at Allegheny, Pa. Gemma Belllnclonl, the greatest Italian operatic singer of the present time, has left Milan for good and taken a house at Vienna, Austria, which she will make her home hereafter. She will not accept any permanent engage ment, but will go on starring tours every season. Miss Georgia Cayvan, the actress, is an apple "fiend.” The apple is her medicine and her food, her cure-all and regulator. She eats one Just be fore going to bed, and another when she nrlees in the morning, and they always stand ready for her refresh ment during the day. John Lawrence, master of the Llr.n gibby hunt, in Monmouth. Wales, has hunted continuously for seventy years. He Is now aged ninety. In Arran, where the maidenhair fern grows plentifully, some of the inhabi tants use It as a substitute for tea. I RULES ON INSURANCE NEBRASKA FARMER MUTUAL COMPANIES AFFECTED. Th«jr Can Iimnre Country Churches, Country School Houses unit Country Parsonages—A Construction that Has Been Contended For " >' for Years. < Mutual Insurance Enlarged. Auditor Cornell has announced a decision that lias long been desired by farmers’ mutual fire insurance com panies. He decided that such companies can insure country churches, country parsonages and country school houses under section 8 of the farmers' mutual insurance law of 1801. Auditor Cornell followed this up by another that town mutual insurance companies have a right to insure mills and creameries and stores in the coun try, under section 11, of house roll No. 183., passed by the last legislature, buildings of this character, the audi tor holds, come under the head of • business property outside of cities and villages.” .A portion of section 11, of house roll No. 183, is as follows: “Such companies may issue policies on cities, towns and villages, real or personal property in this state, also upon business property outside of cities and villages, against loss or damage by fire, lightning, tornado, cyclone or wind storm, for any length of time, not exceeding five years.” The auditor's decision in regard to farmers' mutuals insuring country churches, parsonages and school houses, is based on section 8, of the act of 1891, which permits risks to be taken on de tached farm dwellings, barns, except livery and hotel barns, and other farm buildings. The auditor holds that churches, parsonages and school houses come under the head of “other farm buildings.” When Eugene Moore was auditor he permitted farmers’ mu tual insurance companies to insure ice houses and cold storage houses in the country, but would not permit risks to be taken on churches, parsonages and school houses. House roll No. 359 cov ered this point, but it was loaded down with amendments in the senate last winter and killed. An amendment per mitting companies to insure and take promisory notes in payments of pre miums is given as the principal reason why the bill did not pass. . The busi ness of insuring country school houses and churches is now open to farmers’ mutuals, whereas heretofore only the old-line companies could compete. It is considered a large and valuable field and mutual companies have long clamored to enter it. The decision allowing town mutual Insurance companies to insure mills, creamery Ijuildings and stores is not hailed with so much joy by friends of mutual insurance for the reason that mills and creameries are considered hazardous risks. Nebraska Woman Barns to Death. Mrs. Ralph White of Elgin township. Antelope county, was horribly burned and died in great agony a few hours later. Mrs. White was engaged in burning caterpillars’ nests from the fruit trees, using a kerosene torch. The fluid dripped on her clothing, set ting it on lire. She started to the house and got into bed to smother the flames. To her horror she soon noticed that in passing she had set fire to the clothing of her little child and arose to save the babe. This she accomplished at the sacrifice of her own life. When the child was saved she was afraid that the flames had gained such headway as to endanger the house and she caught up the bed clothing and rushed out of doors with the hope of smothering the flames, but the wind fanned them to such fierceness that she was fatally burned. The State's Right Knocked One. Notice has been served upon the state officials that the United .States land office officials ha~e held that the claim of N. 1*. lirood to a homestead right on a part of the old Sioux reser vation is good as against tile claim of the state on the land for school land. The papers show that lirood settled upon the land before it was surveyed, in 1863, and built a house. That he has lived upon it ever since with his family and declares his intention of taking it as a homestead. After it was surveyed it was found that it was a part of section 30 in township 35 north, *tuc nut ui *:un gross opening the tract to settlement the sections numbered 10 and 30 in each congressional township were to be set apart to the state as school land, ltrood gets his decision under the rul ing of the land office that by the pro visions of another general act his prior settlement in good faith gives him a prior right. In several particulars the case is a new one to the land depart ment, and if the decision is allowed to stand it will affect a large number of other claims throughout the country which were taken under like circum stances. Interests of Nebraska Industries. Washington dispatch: Senator Allen today appeared before the senate finance committee in the interest of Nebraska industries and urged the im position of a duty of 81.50 a head oh calves, 83 a head on yearlings and 35 per cent ad valorem on all otner cattle; on chicory a cent a pound on the dried I root and 3 cents a pound on the finished product; on beet and sorghum sugar a bounty of % of a cent, one fourth of which is to go every four years, on hides M a cent a pound, 50 per cent ad valorum on gypsum. He also asked that gum chickle and fresh fish be placed on the free list and urged free lumber and free barbed wire and a duty of 50 per cent ad va lorem on asphaltum. \>terans to Raise Chickens, The Grand Army post at Seward designated a “chicken day” recently, placing a chicken coop on the public square und asked friends to donate chickens for the soldiers' home at Mil ford. As the result of the effort, Commandant Fowler has received an Invoice of sixty-five of the feathery tribe, representing all of the different breeds. They have been placed in the care of Comrade J. C. H. Estis, an ex pert in this line, who will people the woods with the fowls, while the rest of the boys will look after the fish of the stream. • V - ' ■ ' BARTLEY IN COURT. The Ex-State Treasurer Arraigned to, Embezzlement of S201,884.05. Joseph S. Hartley, cx-state treasurer, was arraigned in the Omaha police court before Police Judge Gordon on an information charging the em' bezzlement of *201,884.05 of public funds. He waived a preliminary hear ing and was held to the district courl of Douglas county in a bond in the sum of 850,000. The necessary bondsmen accom panied the prisoner to the police court and the bail bond was immediately filled out. The signers were W. A. Paxton, R. II. Townley, secretary of the Lincoln life association of Lincoln, and C. Ilevin Oldfield, manager of the American chicory compay. Paxton qualified in the sum of 820,000, half real estate and half personal property. Townley qualified for 810,000, which was also equally divided between per sonal property and real estate. Old field qualified in the sum of 820,000, all personal property. The information upon whi?h Bartley was arraigned accused him of embez zling a maximum of 8201,884.05 of state funds. This amount is mentioned in the last six counts of the information, which in all contains eight counts. This amount includes the interest on the original warrant of 8180,101.75 at tlie rate of 7 per cent. It is the total that was paid the New York bank that purchased the warrant when it return ed it for collection. In the first two counts Bartley is charged with the emliezzlement of the face of the war rant, 8180,101.75. The amount of this warrant was appropriated by the 1895 legislature to reimburse the sinking fund. Bartley is accused of having sold this warrant, appropriated the proceeds and to have paid it later with state money. Besides this variance in the amounts charged as embezzled the counts differ immaterially. In some Bartley is ac cused of having committed the embez zlement in his capacity as state treas urer and in others of having done so while in a position in which he was duly empowered to collect and dis burse moneys of the state. Some ot the counts also'charge him with hav ing turned over the embezzled amount to some “corporated body unknown.” Horses Die of Kidney Disease. An alarming disease has developed among horses in this vicinity, says a Winside dispatch. It affects ‘the kid neys and causes the horses to appear to be lame on one hind foot. Soon after this symptom if noticed, the horse gen erally falls prone on the ground and is unable to rise. A few, by outward ap plications, have been helped so that they have apparently recovered, but most have died in a few days, partial paralysis setting in and the horse not seeming to suffer much pain. As many as fifteen fine animals have succumbed to the disease near town, and many more are reported to have died in the country. Some people think the trouble is caused by feeding millet and others ascribe it to tne damp weather, while still others think the breaking down of the kidneys has been caused by the extra exertions horses have been oblig ed to make this year on account of the unusual mud. The fatality is especi ally alarming from the fact that very few horses are being raised now, mak ing it probable that good horses will be very scarce soon, and consequently valuable. No effectual remedy has yet been found for this equine disease. High School* Moat Protect Themselves. In answer to the many questions re ceived from over the state regarding the dillingof the high school law State Superintendent Jackson has sent out the following letter: "In answer to many Inquiries with refer ence to the decision of the state supreme court declaring the free high school law un constitutional, I submit the following: "As 1 understand It. when u law Is declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. It Is as though the law had never been In effect, lfowever. there Is a brief period allowed dur ing which time a petition for a rehearing may bo presented. It Is possible that a re hearing will he asked and that a favorable decision will yet be handed down. "In the meantime, each high school affected should take such action as will protect the Interests of the school. Some high school boards have required students to pay tuition, the board giving receipts stating that in case the county puys the tuition, tho amount will be refunded. “In regard to tho legal features involved, I would respectfully refer you to your county attorney, who is lu a position to know your exact situation.” Memorial Dar Program. The office of the adjutant general of the G. A. K. has issued the memorial day order. The order of Commander in-Chief Clarkson, issued from Omaha, is supplemented by the department commander, John A. Qhrhardt of the department of Nebraska. The orders are that as May 30 this year falls on Sunday the Memorial day exercises will be held upon the preceding day, Sat urday, May 29. Attached to the order of the commander-in-chief is Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Preparing to Entertain the Teteran*. Prompt and active measures are be ing taken to make the Grand Army of the Republic reunion, for the eastern district of the state, to be held in Ne braska City, July 2, 3, 4 and 5, a success in every particular. Committees on finance, speakers, general arrange ments, etc., have been appointed. It is proposed to combine the regular Fourth of July celebration with the re union exercises of that day. Invita tions have been extended to well known orators to be present and speak. Printing Board Organises. The state officers comprising the state printing board met and organ ized according to law. Auditor Cornell was elected chairman and Secretary of State Porter was chosen secretary of the board. It was decided that as no appropriation had been made to pay the salary of the expert clerk provided for by the bill that no appointment to the office would be made. Frnlt Prospects Good. Fruit prospects are better now than for several years, says a Juniata dis patch. All kinds show an exceedingly heavy bloom, and if not injured by frost or otherwise, there will be fruit in great abundance. Especially is this so of the cherry and plum. The farm ers arc nearly done seeding and are pushing the preparation for corn plant ing. Wheat and rye look well and the ground is in such good condition that everybody is looking forward to a most bountiful harvest of all kinds oi crops. THE NATIONAL GIJAfil MOBILIZATION OF T».i MILITI/ * IN NEBRASKA. OtHcera of the Department Looking? Int< tlio Matter and a Report Soon to lie Made to the Secretary of War —Viewing Sites for the Great Encampment. Mobilization of the Militia. Tile investigation of the officers oi the department of the Platte, says ar Omaha dispatch, into the conditions at tending a mobilization of the national guards of the several states at Omaha m 1898 are nearly completed and a re port will probably be made to the sec retary of war within a few days. The information called for by the war de partment from General "Coppinger, commanding the department of the Platte, includes information regarding the availability of the land surround mg Omaha for such an encampment, also the cost of the maintenance of a large body of troops at. this point and the probable cost of transporting ihese troops to nnd from the encampment. Investigations have been made of the country immediately adjacent to Omaha and a number of locations have.been found which are suitable for an en campment such as proposed. Two locations in particular have been viewed with especial favor. Both are entirely suitable and it is thought that both are obtainable with little or no expense, One of these is the country in the vi cinity of Miller park and old Ft. Oma ha, together with the rolling land to tlie north and west, making a tract oi about 600 or 800 acres in extent. The other site which is regarded very fa vorably is in the vicinity of Council Bluffs. The land lies near the Union Pacific transfer grounds in Council Bluffs. It is on what engineers would designate as the “second bench"’ above the river. -It lies west of the transfer and includes about 700 acres. The matter of securing the land in the vicinity of Ft. Omaha for the en campment will be brought before the executive committee of the exposition, and the securing of the land on the Council Bluffs side of the river has been placed in the hands of Director Lucius Wells and George F. Wright oi Council Bluffs. They will lay the mat ter before the mci-chants’ and manu facturers’ association of Council Bluffs at its next meeting and an effort will be made to secure the necessary amount of land. If both of these tracts can be seertred the encampment will probably be di vided intp two divisions, one division being located on each of these tracts. This will allow of opportunities for maneuvering of the two corps as oppos ing armies. The Claim Not a Valid One. Gov. Holcomb refused to approve claim No. G80, Thomas II. Pratt, watch man at Nebraska bhilding at the world’s fair as by contract, for #3S5, He says in his veto: “It appears from ihe papers connected with the ease mat this claim was before the claims committee of the house and by them rejected and was afterwards inserted in the senate and during the closing session of the legislature, concurred in by the conference committee and in corporated in the bill. The committee of claims in the house, with whom I have conferred, are firmly of the opin ion . that the claim is not a valid one against the state. It is a claim for work done as a watchman as the Ne braska building during the world's fair. It appears that the claimant worked but a short time assuch watch man, until he was discharged and it is admitted that he has received pay foe the time which he worked. ijmdei these circumstances I cannot appre ciate the merit of this claim.” Corn linined In tho Cribs. An Exeter dispatch says that farm ers are beginning to find out that cribbing corn in open cribs doesn’t pay. Several have been shelling during the past ten days, and after shelling out two or three loads have found in such bad condition that grain men eould not use it. In nearly every case of an open crib it was found that the middle was badly damaged, in some cases be uuiji save any of it will be to immediately sort out by hand all that is sound , anil dispose of it. For by June 15 none oi it can be used. It is believed by s good many he ve that the foreign buy ers who cribbed 150,000 bushels last fall will lose not less than one-tenth, awing to the bad condition it was in when it was put in the cribs. Theii cribs, however, are well made and roofed, which may make a difference. Nebraska Land Deeialon. The United States land office at O’Neill has just decided the case of Jens A. Jacobson against the state oi Nebraska in favor of Jacobson. It in volved the southwest quarter of sec tion 36, town 35, range 14. upon which Jacobson settled in 18U4, and made permanent improvements before the permanent survey had been made, and before he knew that it was a part of the school section. When he settled on the land it was not known whether It was in South Dakota or Nebraska. The decision was that Jacobsen was entitled to file on the land. A similar case bhas been brought by N. P. Brood, involving the . northwest quarter of section 36, town 35, range 13. Compilation of New Lawn. A. E. Sheldon has been employed to arrange for publication of the acts passed by the last session of the legis lature and signed by the governor. The work of compilation is for the pur pose of having the acts printed in the regular session laws volume, which is issued after each session of the legisla ture. A Job for Kx-Congresaman Andrews. Washington special: The absence o1 the president from the city has not de terred the office-pickers from making up their paper slates. The rumor was renewed today that ex-Congressmai Andrews was slated for the auditor ship of the treasury for the interim department, which office has beer promised to Senator Thurston and by him, it is generally understood, to Mr Andrews. The place is worth S3.600 i i year for four years. Mr. Andrews 1 when he left Washington, was quits I well satisfied that the office would b: 1 tendered him. ’ Life and Health Happiness and usefulness, depend upon pnrv blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla makes pure blood. This is the time to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla* because the blood is now loaded with lmpurW i ties which must be promptly expelled or health will be in danger. Be sure to get only Sarsa ilOOCl S parllla The One True Blood Purifier. $1, six for (9. Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. H/wwf’a mil*, cure nausea. Indigestion^ nooa S Mills biliousness. Price 390. = --- .| All Eicrtric Lnaip. A German inventor has invented an electric oano lamp. Tho handle of the canc contains an incandescent lamp, the two poles of which arc con* nccted with the plates of a battery. Below this is a small chamber to carry tho battiry fluid. When it is desired to use tbo lamp tho cap is token off and tho can ) inclined do that tho liquid it contain nr,;!lc;i ;a contact with tho clrctro i A cur rent is thus produced tear, wi.l, it is asserted, keep the light £vi!i£ for an hour. BINDING OF GRAIN. S Why McOrmirk Changed from • fitft to a Right Hand Hinder, When binding was done by hand the left hand cut harvester was a ne VV itu the left hand i machine the | heads o' tbo i. Brain are at tho ff left hand of the I man doing the /binding, so in ' taking ont the bundle 'with the band around it, ■ whether the man turned to the front table or to the back table he kept, his position toward the bun ■HHIIIH uie iiscu—mat Is. with the heads towards his left hand; hence, in making the tuck he shoved the ends under the hand toward the heads. Grain is handled by the shocker by grasping Into the heads, as * shown in the illustration, and the tuck should therefore be toward the heads, so that it will not pull out. The applications of roller bearings ttr grain cutting machinery was made by J. G. Perry in 1869, and his patent, No. 86,584, for an improved reaper, showed and described various ways of using roller and ball bearings in harvesters. Unquestionably the most practical and satisfactory applications of roller bear ings to binders and mowers has bees made by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. The Particular form used by them was patented in 1882 and is now to be found in all McCormick machines. The especially valuable fea ture of the McCormick roller hearing is seen in the form—or cage as it is called—which holds the rollers from running together, and if for any cause :he cage Is taken from the shaft tbs rollers will not (all out and get lost. In order to avoid the McCormick- pa tent the other harvesting machine com pany who claims to be the originator of roller hearings in harvesters has cnt oat the metal in the ring at the ends of the rollers. If the cage is taken, out the rollers slip out and become ailed with grit, or worse, get lost. The methods of the McCormick Company result In an annual saving of many thousands of dollars to the farming public. New devices are not embodied in their machines until long and' oft repeated trials have shown them to be practical. It has been the same with roller bearings as with everything else —McCormick experimenting is dome at McCormick expense. 1 ha Kkoptzi. I The St Petersburg correspondent of the Standard tells this story: A banker and his niece, who are mem bers of a religious sect callod the Skoptzi, or self-mutilators, were sen tenced to fifteen and ten years’ im prisonment respectively. The banker tattooed a cross on his niece's breast, and mutilated himself. Mutilation is a penal offense in Russia only when it is prompted by religious motives. Pino's Core for Consumption is our only medicine for coughs and colds.—Mrs. C. Be tz, 439 8th Ave.,Denver, Col.,Nov. 8, ’95. Ancient Counterfeiting. Counterfeiting was as profitable in ancient as in modern times, and far more common. It is considered by gxperts impossible to detect an an cient counterfeit 'from a genuine coin. Counterfeiting ancient coins in modern times has become a regu lar profession, and most of the counterfeits are bettor executed than the originals. Educate Tour Bowels With Cascarate. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. Wagner's Piano. ^The pianoforte upon which Wag* nor received his oarliest teaching in counterpoint and composition from Theodore Wcinlig, of Leipzig, has been added to tho objects in the Wag ner museum in Vienna Tho I*ofc »R(1 tho Kettle. Gorman Grocer—Mine frendt, dot old glay bibe makes a tam bad schmell. Mr. O’Rafforty—How the divil do yoz know how mo poipo smells when Vor stirrin’ up ycr sour krout?— Texas Siftings.