The news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1909-1911, January 10, 1910, Image 2
CHICAGOAN WHO WAS OUSTED AS MINISTER TO CHINA. o m, t i III I 7 z "V?' III TV v4.fc i rTrriiwrminfTiinrinwrHfyim mrtr ririliTfTnriinimniniwii m nrilfl ' ttflrcHMnniiYinrir-il-iTMfrHawifrwl Copyright by Dana Hull, Chicago. Charles R. Crane, after being appointed envoy to China, was recalled as he was about to sail for China and having admitted to Secretary Knox that he gave an interview on the Chireic-Japanese situation, resigned. The presi dent upheld his secretary of state and the incident caused a great stir in the diplomatic world. LIKE MILK AS FOOD Quart a Day to Family of Five Persons Is Proportion. Two-Thlrda of Supply Furnished by Cow Is Used to Make Butter and Chetn Where Good Qual ity Comes From. Washington. Although two-thirds of all the milk produced by fanners for sale is used to make butter and cheese, the other third Is sufficient to allow each person to consume on an average of about twenty gallons a year. This meaws about a quart a day to a family of Ave persons In other words, milk and cream together fur nish 16 per cent, of the total food of the average American family of to day. In some parts of the world other kinds of milk are used than that taken from "old bossy " Goats' milk Is common, especial!; in the hilly dis tricts of Europe; buffalo's milk Is much used in India; the llama's milk In South America; camel's milk in the desert countries; mare's milk In the steppes of Rsssla and central Asia; reindeer's milk In the arctic res-Ions, but cow's milk predominates entirely in the western world. Per haps no food has been more often studied by chemists than milk and lu products, and a greut deal of In formation Is available regarding the composition and properties of this Important food material. The milk which is ordinarily sold for household use la subject to con siderable variation in composition. It U owing to such natural varlutlon In composition that milk is purchased at creameries on the basis of its rat con tent. This variation In nutritive value Is in large part attributable to differ ences In the breeds ol cows kept, cer tain breeds producing more milk that contains tat than others Among the best for producing cream are the Channel Island reeds. which give a milk rich II tat that easily rises to the top. The age or the animal also has consumable in fluence .young cows producing richer milk than old ones of the same kind. In general, a well fed cow gives more and better milk than if poorly ted. but the relative proportions of rat. casein, and sugar In th. ,k afe not o greatly Influenced by .je composi tion of the food as Is the quality of the milk. The average cow of a given breed possesses certain capabilities lor pro ducing milk, but does not reach her normal capacity of milk production unless she Is well fed. When once ihe hag a sufficient and well balanced ration, neither the composition nor the amount of the milk yleid seems to be greatly Improved by either in creasing the ration or changing the proportion of the nutrients It sup plies. Disease germs may get Into milk either directly from a dlseaied cow or Indirectly from a diseased person from polluted water, or some similar way. There are many other possible sources of contagion. Among the contagious diseases to which the cows are not liable, but which may be spread by milk, the most common are scarlet fever, typhoid fever and ilphtherla The records dhow that milk is often the cause of an epi lemlc, and not Infrequently It may be traced to the milk from a single farm. Some Idea of the Importance or oillh aa human food may be gained from the lact that about one-sixth or the total food or the average tainlly Is furnfjned rv it and its products Milk from various mammals in uced la various parts of the 1,1. tint that of the cow far surpasses all other kinds In Importance. Few staple foods vary so much In composition, but, on the average, good, unadulter ated milt .should contain about 87 per cent- water and 2 per cent, solids MINUTE HAND 612 FEET LONG Planned to Be Place 1 on Top of Singer Building in N..w York to Signal Midnight Hour. New York. The longest minute hand in the world that will be in the tower of the Singer building. If a plan proposed by Commander E. E. Hay den. U. S. N., In charge of the de partment of chronometers and time service of the Naval Observatory at Washington goes through to comple tion. The towering illuminated shaft caught the commander's eye on a re cent visit, and he at once conceived the Idea of making the llumlnatlon mark the five minutes preceding mid night a mlnuto hand stretching 612 feet into tho air. The plan was first broached to ship ping men the latter part of August In a circular letter by Commander Hay den. He suggested In this that by con necting with the "minute break" of the transmitting clock at Wash ington each night the 31 search lights that now make the tower a pillar of flame could be made to stop for the first second of each minute, giving an exact time signal vlsiblo to all shipping In port Lieut Ridgley Hunt and Ensign R. S. Dent of the branch office here have been sounding ship masters for the last fortnight, and without exception they favor the plan. It has been In dorsed unofficially by the Maritime exchange. Fall Trade Starts Well. New York. Dispatches received here indicate that fall trade Is open ing up well In most sections and nu merous re-orders are being received for staple goods. Hank exchanges this week at all leading cities In tho United States are $2,740,469,893, a gain of 21.8 per cent, over last year. How Rockefeller Got Job Tells Cleveland Sunday School Boys That They Must Earn and Keep Good Reputations. Cleveland, O. John D. Rockefeller told the Euclid Avenue Baptist Sun day school how to get a Job and hold It. "You've got to Ret a reputation he- fore you can get a Job. and you'll have to work to hold It." This is Mr. Rocke feller's philosophy. "A boy does not have to be smart." he said, "but he must work as hard when his employer Is away as when ho Is watching." Mr Rockefeller told of his own ex periences In getting a Job "I was a boy like some of you then and f.he trouble I encountered always makes me remember It. I was almost discouraged when I got a Job It was In the morning when I found a place wbers there was a little ray of hope I was told to come again "they would let me know'" Mr Rockefeller told now an old gen tleman who knew him when a young lad had been questioned by his pros pectlve employers "It is the ame way 'vlth boys now." he continued "Employ 5rs"wlll Inquire of , your acquaintance especially of your pastor mid teacher, so you ran i-ee It Is not only proptr but profitable to be honest "Mirny boys get pcsUlons. but they I ITALY TO RENEW ITS FORESTS Extensive Operations In Rea" ore sta tion Have Been on for Forty Years Progress Made. Washington. Italy, which has suf fered extremely in the past from the ruin which follows the removal of pro tective forests, is now among the lead ing nations working for the conserva tion of forest resources, fc'xtenslve op erations In reafforestation have been going cn for 40 years, and the Italian secretary of agriculture has Just pub- usnea nis report on the progress made In that time. This report Indicates that tho Ita lian government Is keenly aware of the value of forests to the rnnnrfv and that It is determined to bring its deforested lands into a forested state as soon again as nosiblo. To uttatn this end. planting operations have oeen conducted on government land to such an extent that during ttb icst 30 years 122.000 acres havo been plantfd In 25 of the provinces of Italy. Of this area, C9.000 acres, or approximately 108 square miles, were planted In tho year 1907 alone, causing i.n outlay of nearly $2,000,000 and giving employ ment to a large number of men. Reafforestation has been carried on so vigorously , that there now remains only about 36,000 acres of government land in need of planting. In addition to conducting planting operations on a largo scale, the Italian government has during the last 40 years distribut ed over 130.000.000 young trees and 237,600 pounds of seed, an amount suf ficient to restock approximately 100. 000 acres of land, to the Deoole In an effort to encourage planting and sow ing by private persons. As the forest area of Italy amounts to only Bllghtly more than 10,000,000 acres, this plant ing by the government and private persons amounts to approximately one-fortieth of the total forest area of Italy. Further steps must be taken by the government, however, before Its loiest policy will prove tho success of some of Its European neighbors. Forest Urea still continue to be the cause of heavy damage. During the year 1907. 1,294 fires were reported with an estimated loss of $194,400. While this amount is insignificant when compared with the yearly loss from fires in the United States. It Is largo, relatively speaking, and would be viewed almost as a calamity in the better managed tSerman forests Of these tires, 94 were duo to criminal design. 267 to culpable negligence. 132 to accident, and tho rest to unknown causes. Fire, however, is not the only ene my or the Italian woods. The small landowner otten fells recklessly, and sometimes with good excuse, because of the heavy taxation of limber lands. Large tracts which used to be covered by a thick growth of chestnut have, even during recent years, been strip ped of every tree. Like all other countries where for estry Is successfully practiced. Italy must not only resort to planting the cut-over areas, but must also perfect a system of fire protection -nd enact laws to relieve timber lands of exces sive taxation. MINISTER WANTS $100 LESS Asks to Continue Working for $700 a Year, But Presbytery In sists Upon $800. Marksboro. N. J. One of the Inter esting questions that tho Newton Presbytery. In session at Washington, will have to decide Is whether Rev. F. A. Lott of Newport. Pa., shall be allowed to accept a pastorate of the Presbyterian church at this place. The only objection thus far offered to the candidate Is that he does not ask for enough money. The presbytery has made a rule not to appoint a pastor for the church In question at a salary less than $800 a year, whereas Mr. Lott is willing to accept $700. Mr. Lott has a daughter he wants to educate, and he has figured out that, with the free tuition offered to children of ministers, he can accom plish his desire on the $700. That sum Is, therefore, enoug?) for him. and he will not ask for any more, aa he hates to be burdened with wealth. do not hold them. Why? They never do their work tboiourhly and their employers must do It over after them. Remember, boys." he continued, "that is no way to begin UM." Stork'a Genercus Visit. Florence, N. J. Tho stork has been very generous to this place once more, having visited seven homes in two days. In each case tho little newcom er is a girl. On a previous visit of like generosity the htork was partial to boys. One of tin lltttle strangers Is a mite of a girl born to the wlfo of William Emlcno. Slio weighs but a pound and a half, but is perfectly formed and healthy, even If sho would look lost in a jar of preserves. Never MUsed Vote. South Norwalk, Conn. Nathan Rob erts, a retired sea captain, 96 years old. walked two miles to the East Nor walk polls the other day and cast hla vote for ihe swenty-filth time in his home town While Capt Roberts has been around the Horn and the Cape of Good Hope many times, he has never missed a voting duy at homo since he became a voter The tnnn who uses religion as a cloak Is bound for a climate here no clonks are needed. ROSE GRANDLY TO OCCASION Bobbs Convincing Proof That He Was Capable of Act of Generosity at Times. The evangelist had got everybody worked up to a high pitch of emo tional generosity. Men and women all over the church were throwing their possessions Into the contribution plate. One man removed the pearl studs from the front of his shirt and placed them among the contributions. Another gave his watch and chain. One woman literally threw her dia mond necklace Into the plate, while from all sides came rolls of bills, acarf-plns, Jewels of all kinds. "Those of you who have come un prepared," said the cxhorter, during a lull in the proceedings, "will have time to go homo and get their gifts, for I shall continue this meeting for three or four hours yet." "Fine," said Bobbs, rising hurriedly, and starting for the door. "I'll be back In ten minutes, Doctor," and out he sped. The enthusiasm continued," and the great fund rolled up, and yet there were many who kept tab on liobbs. He was not a generously disposed per son as a rule, and they were Interested to see what he would bring with him to devote to the cause, and they did not look In vain, for In less than the allotted time liobbs returned leadlne his mother-in-law by tho hand. Harpers Weekly. NOTHING LIKE LEATHER "A dime's worth of beefsteak, please!" "A dime's worth, sonny? Why, that won't be much for your dinner!" "I don't want it for my dinner! I wants it to make some hinges for my rabbit-hutch!" Physical Culture for Drummers. "There is no reason why you should Dmit your nightly physical culture acts while traveling," said the confirmed drummer. "This set of movements. ieslgned especially for people who travel In chairs, brings every muscle of the body Into play. 'No. 1. For the grip. Reach under the seat ahead of you and try to pull out your footrest. Don't expect to be successful. "No. 2. Vary by Jerking board from sido to side. Continue till well winded. "No. 3. For the lungs. Rise and swear. "No. 4. Rend forward from the utv right position and try to break the board off by pulling it upward. This effort, though not often crowned with success, is a splendid developer of tho back muscles and should never be omitted. "No. 5. Sitting on the floor with the feet firmly braced, grasp the board tightly with both hands, pull with all your might, and try to lift your body off the floor. Some people object to this exercise on the ground that the mechanism might work and Beat the athlete with a sudden painful iolt but never fear. No one who ever had experience with footrests would think of such a thing. "No. 6. If you Btill have streneth enough, try to raise the car window; then end by calling the porter." Kan sas City Star. " A Novelty. "Poor Clyde Fitch," said a young playwright sadly, "was alwavs readv to give advice and help to Juniors. "I once described to Mr. Fitch a climax that seemed novel and strange to me. But Mr. Fitch said that novelty and strangeness had little value In climaxes real human Interest was the thing. "He Instanced an extraordinary, a quite unique climax, that would vet be bound to fail. "In this climax the hero, a chan with wooden legs, stumps breathless ly across the stage as fast as his two wooden legs will carry him. A wom an, brandishing a butcher's cleaver, is lu pursuit. The woman overtakes the man. She upsets him. Kneeling, she brandishes tho cleaver about his artificial limbs. "'Herbert Mnnnering,' she cries, 'nay me the six weeks' board you owe. or I will cut both your wooden legs off!" Human Vanity. "Why do you object bo Beiiously to snapshot portraits of yourself?" "Because." answered Senator Sor ghum, "they violate all recognized rules of procedure. What right hat any photographer to take a man't picture without giving him the cus lomary ten minutes' grace to fix hif necktie, brush his hair and arrangt a pleasant smile?" Accounting for It. "1 have been here half a dozer inics to see you and to day Is the firs ay I have succeeded In finding yo i." "Yes. I lost my ralblt foot thi oni"i?" jrrj WAS NOT GRATEFUL REV. HENRY DISAPPOINTED IN COL. BULLION. High Hopes Raised by Story He Had Read Were Rudely Dashed, Though He Had by No Means Been Forgotten. The little country clergyman had Just read that very charming anecdote now going the rounds of the press telling how Mr. John W. Gates, the other day, on meeting the minister who had married him 40 years ago, after greeting him warmly, said to him: "When you married me I only gave you a five-dollar fee, but I'll make up for it now," and drawing out his check book he drew and presented to the astonished clergyman a draft for a thousand dollars. The little country clergyman rubbed his eyes when he read this, and then he read it aloud to hl3 wife. "That is perfectly splendid," ho said. "It certainly Is," replied the good lady. "By the way. Henry, didn't you tell me that It was you who married Josephine Hickenlooper to Col. Bul lion of the Shingle trust?" "Yes; it was 33 years ago. He paid me two dollars for tying the knot," re turned the clergyman. "Well, I should say," Bald the good lady, "that If these millionaires are going to make a habit of this thing it wouldn't be a bad Idea for you to meet the colonel casually some day and re mind him of It." "Curious coincidence," Bald (he little minister, "but do you know, Maria, I was thinking that very same thing myself." "Well, Henry, dear, don't let any grass grow under your feet." said Ma ria. "If I were you I'd go to New York today, while this anecdote Is fresh in the public mind, and sort of get in touch with Col. Bullion. Who knows but that he has Just read it himself and is thinking of you at this very moment!" Hence it was that the next morning found Rev. Henry lingering about the portals of the massive office building in which Col. Bullion attended to business, and sure enough along about eleven o'clock the impressive figure of the colonel was to be seen making Us way through the crowded high way. "Why, Bill, how are you?" said Rev. Henry, extending his hand, as Bullion entered the corridor. "Morning," said the colonel, glower ing at him" darkly and trying to get by. "You don't seem to remember me. Bill." said Rev. Henry. "Don't you re member that 1 married you to Jo sephine" "Remember you!" roared the colonel. "Remember you? I'd give $10,000 If I cou'd forget you. You are my most persistent nightmare. When 1 think of what I got for that two dollar bill I gave you 35 years ago for tangling me up for the rest of my natural life you ought to thank your stars I don't Jump on your ding basted neck. Get out of here!" And Rev. Henry went back to his flock. Harper's Weekly. Prayer and Politics. David H. Lane, the Republican lead er of Philadelphia, was telling stories at a Republican banquet. "And it's always a mistake," said Mr. Lane, "to mix politics and religion politics and prayer. "There was a preacher out Cinna minson way who mixed politics and prayer to his cost. He prayed on the eve of a general election. " 'Grant. O Lord, that the great re form party may all hang together.' "'Amen!' cried a scoffer. " 'Not, O Lord,' resumed tho preach er, 'In the sense in which that profane scoffer would have It understood; but let the party hang together In accord and concord.' " 'It's all one to me, the scoffer again Interrupted, 'what cord it is, so long as it's a good, strong one.' " His Position. "Yassah! Yassah!, Hoi on a min ute, if yo' please, sah! Dess lemme tell yo' how 't Is!" expostulated a col ored citizen who was down on tils back and being elaborately chastised by a larger and somewhat harder headed gentleman of his own race "I'll pay yo' de money If yo' puts de argymunt to me in dls mannah. Yas sah! pay yo' do money right now. widout no mo' o' dls beailn' and horn merln': but I want It understood, sah, dat I Isn't no ways 'thuslastic 'bout It. I bows to de indelible when 1 meet it, sah. but I keeps muh 'thuslasm to muhse'f yassah, keeps It to muhs'ef to de bitter end!" Puck. Bumped By Buttons. "I came pretty near getting killed the other day." said the flat dweller. "There are two buttons on one of my waists that I can't button to save my life. I generally ask some of the chll dren on the stoop as I go out to but ton them, but that day I thocght I'd have It dono In the elevator. The ele vator man was so gratified that I hon ored him in that way he forgot all about running the clevutor. Let it go buttoning my waist. N'pver .. t again till It nearly bumped the life mi of both of us In the teu.ir. No Further Use for Him. "You are discovered!" exclalmer' he two detectives in the same breath "All right." replied Bill tho Burgla is he calmly stepped out of the win ow Into the free ulglit air; "tha inch of it is settled. Now go ahem nd hold your controversy." GUARANTEED AS SURE CURES Some Remedies That Leave Russian Surgeon Completely in the Shade. Dr. Metchnlkoff, the distinguished Russian surgeon, states that the re moval of the large intestine will ward off old age. Inspired by tho tremen dous value of the discovery, says the Chicago Record-Herald, our scissors editor has gone into investigating on his own account with tho following results, all of which are absolutely guaranteed: The amputation in infancy of both legs of a male child will keep him from walking away from his nurse while she Is talking to her cousin, the policeman, and getting lost To cure a man of an Insane devotion to the game of golf the most effective method is to cut off bls arms at the elbow Joint This has never been known to fall. A child whose teeth are pulled the-' moment they appear will not suffer In after years from the toothache. The Metchnlkoff method of warding off old ago la considered by some per sons to be a trifle drastic. A cup full of arsenic mixed with paria green will have the same effect if taken inter nally three times a day beforo meals. Spinal meningitis 1ms never yet been known to attack any one who had taken the trouble to have his spine wholly removed boforo reaching the age of maturity. Decapitation between the ages of ten and 15, though a somewhat he roic measure, will prevent tho hair from falling out and thereby enable you to avoid premature baldness. To cure a dog of barking at night only a slight operation is necessary. This consists of removing all that section of him that rests between the back of his ears and the point of juncture between his body and his tall. The same operation is effoetiv? In keeping cats from quarreling. An excellent cure for a gnawing hunger will be found in thrco portions of rare beefsteak, two pounds of mashed potatoes, a chicken-ham pie, four helpings of suet pudding and a welsh rarebit taken whenever you feel the fit coming on. The surest preventive at a fit is an English tailor taken In frequent doses. i A ROUNDABOUT WAY -rV "Which Is the quickest way to get to the station?" , "Roll, sir." ' Her System. ' Mr. Compton prepared to have one of his serious talks with his small, vl aclou8 wife one of the talks which always ended In bis being completely routed. "I want to speak to you about the household money, dear." he began, In his most calm and Judicial tone, al though tho fact that Mrs. Compton stood behind him. 'rylng to brush his hair the way it did not go Interfered with the effect of his words, he knew. "I don't understand how It Is that when I give you an unusual .amount you spend It all. and yet when I don't give you so much you seom to get along all right." Mrs. Compton left her unsatisfac tory task and stood before him. wide eyed. "Why. I should think anybody could understand that." she said. "When you can't give me so much. I JuBt save out the Items that como over the amount and pay them up the first week you give me a lot. and put them, down then. It's Just the simplest kind of thing! But. then. I've always thought men didn't understand simple things as well as complicated ones." Youth's Companion. Subtraction That Adds. Tho air was sweet with the smell of willow wood and the artificial limb maker was adjusting a delicato metal spring In a superb leg. "This one of a pair of legs," he said, "I am making for an aviator. They are longer legs than his own were. His height before the accident was only five feet six; now, with these lega, he' will be five feet ten. "Men all like to be tall. And short men, when, as sometimes happens, !hy lose both legs, gratify this uni versal desire for height by ordering wooden legs of an excessive length. "Yes. paradoxical tlioigh It seems, cm a abort man's legs off, and he be comes taller." Take Her Choice. "You know tho engagement between Jack and myself Is o.T. and I asked him to send back my presents and a lock of my hair that 1 gave him." "Well?" "Well, ho sent a servant this morn ng with a laigo racket containing In iimierable locks of hair, from gray to laxen. raven to red. with n messago .hat I could choose from among them .ny own P!operty."-Lippin(.otf8. No Lack of Courage. "I was thinking how the army air hip would revolutionize things lu ono espect." "What is that?" "When tho military air corps Is an stabliBhrd fact It will no longer be a JlKurace for a soldier to fly." .,1 ,ll t r 111 r ' 1 I JU. I tr-