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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1894)
TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION Of INTER ESTING ITEMS. daaam aad CriUctoaM Mm Cpoa ta Hlpti(. ( taa Daf-! JfeWa KM. Gakdek hose should be appropriate wear lor a lawn party. Pool moms for women seem to be a super refinement of civilization. Thk cook-book recipe is too often like the disappointing novel It does Lot come out right The dentist who devotes himself to pulling aching molars is neces sarily a painstaking fellow. Aktek children have passed the colic and teething stage you tan please their father by complimenting them. Ok cour.-e the New York is all right, but who has sto.en the differ ence in her speed between her former trials and her last oner (jt'EEN Victoria has discovered a fondness for American cranberries. Slowly but surely our country is win nine it way in the regard of European potentates. GxiDALL, the chief English maker of playing cards, has died and left $800,000. lie found the manufacture of cards a much more profitable busi ness than many have found the use of tuem to Le. One Buffalo man choked over a castor-oil capsule he was trying to give himself and another rJuf.alo man is choking over a policy he tried to put down the throats of the Ameri can people. Experience is a bitter teacher. SANDiEoo,Cal., has solved the prob lem of idleness, and lurnishes work to every able-bodied man upon her streets. Those who refuse to worn and continue to beg she Dromptly transfers to the chain gang. The professional tramp is giving Sa& Diego a wide berth. A fire in a museum at Passaic, N. J., caused a panic among the freaks. The "three-legged man," in making his escape, forgot his third leg. The principal damage done was to the complexion of the tatooed Circassian Princess. She waited to rescue some of her belongings, and the firemen Inadvertently turned the hose on her, with the result that most of the tat tooing was washed off. "Plimsoll'sMakk" is a mark placed on British merchant vessels, indicat ing the depth to which they may be loaded wth safety. It is placed in accordance with a bill enacted by Parliament, at the instigation of Mr. Samuel Plimsoll, M. P., on the sides of all vessels registered in or hailing from British ports. It must be above water, and there are heavy penalties against the shipmaster who puts to sea with this "Phmsoll's Mark" covered. Even the circumnavigation of the globe has been reduced to the busi ness of a schedule. One of the great steamship companies has beeuu a serv ice which involves rounding the Cape of Good Hoi on the outward passage and Cape Horn on the return. The total length of the voyage, in cluding sto ipages at principal sea ports in the British provinces of the South Pacific Ocean, will be a little more than the circumference of the earth at the equator. Last year America expected a visi tation from the dreaded scourge, cholera, and the United States Board, State and County and City Boards of Health, unitedly went to work to pre pare for it The result was it did not come. So observer ever before noted so grand an object lesson in the ben efits of sanitary work. It saved the country millions in money, to say nothing of the miseries and sorrows which attend such an epidemic. Will the people be as wise next year and the next? Having demonstrated the power to check and control the plague by a wise observance of sanitarj laws, it will be criminal not to enforce such laws In the year to come. TeS years ago scarcely one of the following words were common. Now they have forced their way into die tionaries, even those published in Great Britain: Antlpyrine, aqua relle, bacteriology, blizzard, to boom, to cable, centerboard, cocaine, cow boy, to cycle, dude, dynamo, faddist, flabbergast, glissade, hypnotist, Im pressionist, lanolin, logrolling, ma chine gun, maga.lne rifle, manatma, massage, melinite, mentnoi, mug wump, neoplatonism, occultism, phll atelist,; .photogravure, platinotype, polypody, prognosis, quadriform, raagefinder, referendum, rellgoslty, saccharin, ship railway, sloyd, tele aathy. tuberculosis, vaseline, and xylophone. How cone the news of a meeting beli la Batata Pa., by a large number of heirs, of a person who is alleged to have furnished supplies to Washington's army at Valley Forge. The heirs hae a little claim of about $4,000,000 that they propose to ask Congress to liquidate. So far as his tory is concerned, there were no sup plies in eiidence at Valley Forge. Evidently the legal fool-catcher has set his net in Leading. It is strange that, with all the publicity given to such schemes, the busiuess still pros pers Some people seem to be lorn with the instinct of the cattish to gulp at eiery bait and swallow the hook. Many agricultural colleges now of fer short winter courses in agricul ture. They are doing all they can to widen the opportunities for young men to get instruction in agriculture. The courses are carefully arranged and th,- instruction is practically fr.-e. Many have attended the e winter schools of agriculture with profit and plea-u:e- Mure will do so. There never was a time when there was greater need for young farmers to have ail the instruction in agri culture they can possibly get. The winter school of agriculture cannot give them all they need, but what it dues give them is most valuable. The educational work of the chuol does not stop when tne students re turn home. Not a lew will continue the study, readng and investigation com menced while in attendance at school. That is one of the objects of the short course in agriculture, to stirt the young farmer in the right road. Through these snort courses the agricultural colleges have gained students for the full, regular courses. The circumstances attending the execution of Painter at Chicago were sickeningly horrible. Ky the break ing of the rope the wretched man fell several feet to the hard floor be low. Mutilated by the fall he was taken back and suspende 1 aain until the physicians pronounced him dead. Whether be was conscious and suf. fered from the fall before the second suspension no one can cay with cer tainty, but it was an accident which should not have happened. There bad been ample time for preparation the weight of the prisoner was known. and it should have been a simple matter to provide a rope capable of holdimr the weight tlrmiy and se curely. It will not be a matter of surprise if the dreadful details shall arouse a public demand for some kind of reform in pub lic execution by which such an acci dent as this will be Impossible. Painter's hanging was something more than punishment. It involved unuece-sary torture, and this is not included in the legal penalty. Itought never to occur again. There is no reasonable excuse for it. The opinion has been openly ex pressed during the last half of 1893 by men of high standing on the other side of the water that a great war cannot be put off louger than the co uing spring. Italy is now in tne throes of civil war, and the report is just at hand that France is lending the revolution in Sicily material help. Late accounts have it that Germany has succeeded in the construction of a perfectly manageable balloon, which will convey very considerable amount of freight, but it is said the Germans are keeping everything about the balloon In the dark. It is suspected, however, that when war comes these balloons will be used for dropping dynamite bombs on belligerent war vessels, headquarters, and cities. Cer tain metropolitan journals more than a year ago made the suggestion that balloons would be made to do just this kind of service in war, and if en tire success can be achieved in the cases we have named it will almost certainly lead on to radical revolu tion In the art of war among nations. Of course it must be conceeded that a good deal of the talk indulged in at the European capitols. and a good many of the statements that are sent out regarding the war prospect are merely sensational; at the same time we cannot reject everything of the kind that comes to us through the common public channels. Didn't Know What Work Was. Farmer Hard fist What under the sun is the reason that boys are such no account critters nowadays? Here is our son, Jasper, pretty nigh crazy to leave the old farm and try to git a job in town. Mrs. Hardflst (meekly) Perhaps he thinks the work won't be quite so hard. ' Farmer Hardflst Work? Why, shucks, Polly, be don't skurcely know what work is! He hain't done a thing since supper but milk the cows, feed the horses, slop the hogs, split and carry In the wood and kindlin's, shell a little corn, ketch the colt, and turn the grindstone for mu about half ao hour. He's tad all the rest of th t me to himself, extent the few min utes It took him to mend the bridl I broke thlsmorem. W.at In th" name o' thunder makes all the boys so crazy to leave tbe old farm? Life. Gira a friend a club, and be very apt to bit you orer the head with it. THE SERVANT QUESTION. rt Teud Problem DprMdlsf aaew la America and fcaf land. The servant-girl question is again engrossing attention both in the East and in England, savs tbe San Fran cisco Argonaut. Tbe revelations of Elizabeth L. Banks, an An erbau "newspaper woman" who went out to service in London aud then related her experienceao the i aiiers. are read with avidity. In Newloric, Miss Kate Gannett Wells is lecturing mothers ot families, whom she holds responsible fur the inconveniences of modern senant-gir ism. lu both countries the trouble is that the line between mistress and servant is not drawn with sufficient distinctness: tbe relative duties of each are too vaguely defined: tbe mistress is al ways complaining of the encroach ments of the domestic, and the later is resenting the selfl-h thoughtless ness of her employer. The servant says that the mistress does not seem to rememter that cook and houe- made have feelings: the mistress wails that her servants bave no affec tion for her. Over.and above all this, the question of wages is an unceasing source ot inction. l lie market vasue of a trained servant is constantly rising. The mistress thinks she is badly treated when a S' rvant whom she has trained demands an advance in consequence of the training. In this city, John Ch.n.iman has eltiowed the servant-girl out of the kitchen, to the advantaze of the em ployer. He is not so quarrelsome as the Irish girl nor so lmpertinent.and he does his work better. He has his drawbacks. He will not stand inter ference, and be thoroughly under stands that his relation with his master is a business relation, into which sentiment does not enter. He will leave a house where hehasscrved for ten or twelve years without a pang; whenever a Geary law, or other similar enactment, reduces the suit- ply of house-servants he will insist on an advance of wages with a child like and bland smile but witn iron firmness. He is a master or econo mies. But his morals do not require looking after, and he is almost in variably honest In the East, the handling of the servantgirl question has suffered from English example. In the old davs, the servants were "help." and dined at the family table. Their footiog resembled that of the valets In Moliere's comedies, who were con fidants and advisers ot their masters. Hut with the influx of English man ners, new relations between the mis tress and maid were imported. Helps became servants, and dioad in the kitchen. Thus far no harm was done. The house-maid could not have felt at home in the family circle, nor could the remarks she injected into the general conversation bae been Improving. But the mistresses of American hou-eholds went further, and seemed to desire to Ignore tbe ex Isteneeof the maid, except as an In strument of service. They avoided recognizing her in the mornings iind only addressed her to give her an order. This was a wholly unneces sary slight to the girl. It was En gl sh. An Englishman will call and dine at a house for years, and never by word or look recognize the ex istence of tbe man who for all that time has opeued the front-door for him or changed his plate at the table. Tbe Englishman's idea is that be be long's to a different order of created beings from the butler and the foot man, and that his self-respect would suffer If he addressed them except on official business Thackerav hit oil the notion when he tells of an En glish Duke, who being addressed in a crowd by a stranger, beckoned to his Aide-de-camp to answer the re mark. It does not seem that the spheres would crumble if American ladies admitted by word and act that their servants are human beings. Th lr soc;al position might survive in juir ing about their health when they are ill. But a mistress of a household will undo the benefit of kindness If she breaks down altogether the con ventional barrier between mistress and maid. A servant who is placed on a footing of absolute e uality with her mistress will not perform good work, and wnen It becomes necessary to exercise authority, the attempt will involve a quarrel. Shipping Molaxflp in Hulk. Almost all the molasses which comes from Cuba to the United States is brought in the same tanks In steamships that are used to carry petroleum as a return cargo. The ships' tanks are al-out sixteen feet deep and bave a neck seen feet deep They are i umped full of oil at Brook lyn or Philadelphia, then taken to Havana, and the oil Is pumped out into the tanks of the refining plants there. Molasses is brought from the interior of the island in huge hogs heads which are erupted Into storage tanks. A suction pump drawing about 10,000 gallons an hour fills each ship's tanks to within about two feet of the top that amountof space being required for the expansion of the molasses. It might l supposed that the petroleum would have a bad effect upon the molasses, but it has been shown that the;contrary is the case, and as nearly one-haif the im portation Is made into rum and tbe balance refined Into sugar, a little oil Is not of much ac ount. The tanks are cleaned after the molasses has been pumped out by turning 1 1 a powerful steam jet, which wast es down tbe sides and liquefies whatever molasses may he left In the h ttom of the tank, and tbe suction pump finishes the work. A cargo of molasses, which formerly required ten or twelve days, can now be unloaded iu forty-eight hours, while tbe difference in cost of hand- ua to eay nothing of tbe saving of time, amount to a large sum. Tbe tfrst attempt at handling molaes In bulk was made by the brig Novelty in 1877. She was fitted w'th a lining and ber whole; hold was used without partitions. She made several trips between Matanras and Boston, but was not successful as a dividend earner. Mnce the pnsent system of dividling a vessel's hold In to tanks was devised and put in prac tice on steamers the profcts of the trade and the steamship companies have largely Increased. Albany Ex press. Oleatial Collision. Astronomers are yet discussing the new star which suddenly flared up in the constellation Auriga In February, 192, and which afterward turned into a nebula. The general opinion is that a collision of some kind oc curred out thofo in the heavens It is plain that it must have been a pretiy serious collision to produce a bla e visible some millions of millions of miies away, indeed, the puzzling thing Is thai so great an outburst of heat and light should so soon have disappeared. If two suns, or two great worlds had met in full career and smashed one another, the heat developed would have suillccd to make them glow like a conflagration in the sky until long a tr the new star in Auriga had lo-t Its brilliancy. On this account the opinion seems to be gaining ground that the col lision to which tn appearance of the new star wasdue must hae ccurred either between two swarms of me teors, or Irf twt e i a huge solid, daik body and a cloud of celestial dust If it was the meeting of meteor swatms, then he smallnessof tne in dividual met ors would account for the rapid loss of light after the sud den biaze at the moment of the en counter; and if it was a solid sphere, an extinguished sun, for instance, plum; ini: through cosmic dust or scat tered nebulous matter, the fact that only the surface of the ereat lody would probably be heated I y the col lision might account for the quick fading of the star But what a glimpse into the mar vels of surrounding space is supplied by such facts and theories as these! How filled must the heavens be, even where they seem the blackest and most vacant, with scattered meteors, celestial dust clouds and wandering bodies that once, perhaps shone as living atars, but now are dark and invisible except when fired Into tern porary brilliancy by collls on! In view of such facts it no longer seems quite as wonderful as it ome did that the earth, traveling with the sun through tbe universe, contin ually encounters strange particles of matter that come darting down through Its atmosphere in the form of fire-balls. Knowing how well the air protects us against such missies, one can look forward with a uanimity, and even with eagerness, to the possibility that our globe may sometime m et a swarm of straying meteors capable of illuminating the atmosphere so brill iantly that the light may even at tract the eyes of dwellers on other plaueta, and set them to wondering what strange thing has come to pass upon the earth. 1 pheltl His Itoputat Ion. We genearally find that a person who brags is usually a coward, but in this case the old man upheld bis reputation. An old cobbler in Amity street, who was largely patronized by the young bloods once boasted that noth ing was cat able of fiighteniug him. Two young men once determined to put his courage to the test. One or them pretended to be dead, while the other went to the cobbler and asked him to sit up all night with the corpse. The old man, who bad some pressing work in hand which had to be delivered next morning, took his leather and his tools with him, sat down near the supposed dead body, and set about his task. At midnight they brought him a cup of cafe noir to keep him awake, which he gratefully partook of, and then immediately resumed his work. The coffee, however, put him in such a happy frame of mind that entirely forgetting the presence of the corpse, he struck up a lively song, beating time all the while with his hammer on the lapstone Suddenly the im aginary corpse raised itself into a sit ting posture, and exclaimed, in a hol low voice: "People ought not to sing when keeping wat' h over a deathlied." The cobbler shook his head, gave the young man a smart rap and said: 'People shjuldn't talk when they are dead." This was the last time anybody tried to frighten the old cobbler. Value of the Krle ( anal. The Erie canal Is often called a priceless inheritance to the state of New York, and it Is conceded by the press, also by hundreds of eminent statesmen, that the state of New York has Income the wealthiest In the Union through the agency ot the Erie-Hudson waterway, which con nects the gr. at chain of lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. According to the evidence of highiy-respected merchants given before legislative In vestigating committees ' the actual direct cash lieneflt to the stale from canal commerce In foots up to over 1 2, 000,000; and the indirect benefits in various ways to the masses throughout the common wealth are simply Inestimable. liuffalo News. Another Three. Someone has said that the three hardest words to pronounce consecu tively are, "1 was mistaken." Let the person who believes this aster tlon try his artlulatlng power on the names of the lakes In .ho State of Maine th ee, for P. stance lluknz tyahnb, i'H.uornumjfohlo, Mahoga-pragobgug. REAL RURAL READING WILL BE FOUND IN PARTMENT. THIS DE- Value of Corn Kodder a eleruilned by Eiprrlurnt-Winter EierrUe- for Live Sturk-lluw to Feed Straw Stabling (oai lu Wet Heather. Corn fodder. 1. All parts of the corn plant con- tain valuable food materials the dry matter containing neirly the same composition, says the Philadelphia Press. :2. The corn stubble and busks on tain nearly ',0 per cent of ttie total digestable matter produced by the plant, ai.d the blades only 11 per cent. '. Com husks or shucks contain 72 per cent of digestible matter. 4. Corn stubble or butts contain 64.5 per cent, of dige-tible matter. 5. Corn blades ot leaves contain 64.2 per cent, of digestible matter. '. Top corn fodder contains .'." ier cent of digestible matter. 7. There is more digestible mat ter contained In the corn fodder from one acre than In the ears. 8. Ihe c rn fodder from one acre yields as much digestible matter as two tons of timothy bay. There Is enough digestible mat ter produced by the corn todder grown in the Southern States to win ter all tbe stock in those States if it were properly preserved and prepared in a palatable form 10. l!y cutting and crushing the com stalks cattle will eat and utille nearly all of them. 11. Corn fodder furnishes a food rich in digestible cartiohyd rates. 12. t orn fodder, when led alone, will nearly maintain cattle, but should be supplemented with some food rich In nitrogen when feeding for the pro duction of growth, flesh, or milk. Winter KlerrUe for I.lve Ktcx-k. On disputed questions men are apt to take views that are extreme. Amid the din of the battle of controversy there is danger mat the truth will tie obscured for the sake of momen tary vlctoty. It Is to )c feared that so it has leen with this question. Some have contended that all cattle need exercise, and daily, in winter. Others have claimed that they do not need any exercise, and yet others, In cluding tin- writer, have said that the question is yet undecided, since instances are on record wherein beef breeding stocks and dairy cattle have been kept tied in the stall the whole of the winter for years .n succession, and without any apparent harm hav ing come to them in consequence. On the other hand, It has been affirmed, but apparently without sus taining evidence, that since keeping animals tied thus is unnatural, It must Inevitably lead to an undermin ing of the constitution and stamina of the stock. In considering this question we should bear in mind that the improvement made in the various breeds of live stock during recent centuries has been made possible by subjecting them to artificial condi tions and that the highest attain ment in utility, for the time being at least, has been attained when the divergence from these conditions has been greatest. Exchange. How to Feed Straw frolltably. There are some farmers who keep stock of such poor quality that they cannot afford to feed it grain. Tnelr only way of wintering stock Is to pro vide coarse fodder, like straw and cornstalks of which enough will be eaten to sustain life without much chance of adding to growth or llesh. There is no profit in this for unless there is some gain by increased weight the maintenance ration will cost more than the Increased value of animals in the sprins. There seems to be more reason in the objection of those who have the best stock that they cannot afford to feed it much straw. They surely cannot If corn be the chief grain fed, lor both corn and straw are largely carbonaceous. Some grain or other feed that contains more nitrogenous nuirition will make straw feeding more rofltable. With a large feeding of bran or wheat middlings considerable straw will lc eaten. So, too, it will when linseed or cotton-seed meal Is fed. Sheep that are fed b'-ai.s and bsan straw will eat the straw of other grains in considerable quantities to vary their ration, which has not enough carbo hydrates. t'rlbliliK In the flflil. It saves a good deal of labor in husking corn to throw the ears in a txix as they are husked. Some will fall outside when fast husking is at tempted, but It is easier to pick up the scattering.! han to leave all fin the ground. There Is a further saving In the fict that these boxes at night may I piled one on another to the height of four, or five, or six tiers and a couple of wide boards laid lengthwise of the crib will protect them fiom ruin or smoke. Those who grow sweet corn for se d often provide bxe. to hold their entire crop, and leave the corn thus crlblied In the field until it Is dried out enough to market With slatted boxes: built up one row wide corn will dry cut very fast. The boxes need not le very expensive Hlrble I nder Ktraw Siaeka. Provl ed the stac Is held up by strong wooden supports, a stable un der the stack makes one of the best, cheapest and warmest winter shelters for any kind of stock, says an ex change. It "ho'lld )f built so that auima.i cannot cat away the stack here 10 hs no i pelts, as they will often do when fnd to get their liv ing f om -'ack. In olde i times t'.kof hay "-ere often loft to bit ,t.i.er' away young stock, with tbe result of wasting a good deal of tbe hay and towards spring having an overturned stack, killing calves ard sheep lmpris med under it. There is little of th s kind of wastefulnese among farmers now. Tbe wonder is that such management could ever have been so common as it undoubt edly v. as The Jeawlea Cirape. The Jessica is a variety of which originated in Canada, early, with small bunch and and of tfood flavor. Like the erape It is lerry, 1 sla ware, it has the fault o' setting too many bunches and if allowed too ver tar it is not as good nor so early ai it should I. Nearly al". kinds ol grapes need thinning, which is easily done by pinching off one or two of the blossom buds on each shoot just as soon as they Income visible. Two bunches are enough on any shoot, and some of the latter varieties are more sure to ripen If the bunches oo a shoot are reduced to one. V hat One Man Keallxed- My hens yielded me a protlt of 12. 93 a head, oesides the eggs etc , we used In our family, and that would carry It up to over $3 per head, writes a bright man to the Massa chusetts Ploughman. My sales were at common market prices. I don't Keep any fancy stock, no thorough breds mine are mixed breeds. This is only one of the things on a small rami that makes small farms pay. I don't know of any o;.e who has been able to come up to those figures witn sales at ordinary market prices on mixed hens. Farm ote. Monky spent fnr Ba trces '4 wel1 Invested if they are cared for after setting. If best of all fruits are grown, there Is little danger of overstocking tbe market Ik well done, either root grafting or budding will give long-lived trees. ' In order to keep up a supply of small fruit, plant several varieties which riien at different times. Rvk Is good for a young orchard and if it is near the poultry yard will furnish excellent winter pasture for fowls. It Is the comfortaUecow which fills the pail with milk and the milk with butter fat Bemcmber this to ur proflu Cakeki'l packing and handling, clean, stout packings and a near-by market are the three desirable things for profitable fruit growing. It is generally admitted that for stock cooked food Is the lit, but the labor and fuel required for the pur pose adds too much to the cost of the food. Tintow dish water around fruit trees, currants, gooseberries, etc Coffee grounds are said to be valuable when put around shrubbery and flow ering plants. . Wiikn buylug sheep it is Just as well to get those which are prolific, so long as they have other desirable qualities in addition. Tbe Shrop shires Dorsets and others are of Ibis class. Wheat bran Is an Indispensable . feed for butter cows. Even on the best pasture a daily food of bran will pay well. It has recently been as certained that the heaviest bran is not better butter producing food than that wh ch Is lighter. It should not weigh more than eighteen or twenty pounds to the bu.ihel. Pumpkins ought to be promptly re instated in the position they held In the estimation of the old-time farm er. They furnish an excellent addi tion to the food of swine and milch cows and can lie grown at very little cost Put In a Held of them with the corn, if you think It will not pay to grow them alone A pooii farm need not necessarily remain so. A good farmer will make his farm a savings bank. It may ie quire several years to bring it to a high degree of fertility, and the farm er may be compelled to live In a fru gal mariner, but in a few years the farm will b- more valuable and the farmer wealthy. Beginning at the totto i) and gradually improving is a sure road to success. On k of the best modes of educat ing the boy to tbe importance of pure-bred stock Is to buy hlrn a few pure-bred fowls and allow him the proceeds. It will not be long before he will familiarize himself with tbe ' "points", and legln to advertise his birds and eggs for sale. He will then be disposed to study the points and characteristics of animals, and take a great Interest in all classes of KtOCIf. , It Is the Mind That Mens. How do we see? Did von ever i-hin to think'.' 1 have asked quite a num ber of people lately, and tbey reply; With our eyes, of course, how else?" or words to that effect Did you eer realize bow much of our Tislon is mental? We see nothing properly and definitely until tbe mind lends its perception. We may be gazing at apicture, yet tie unable to see any thing but a confused mass of color because the mind is seeing faces of scenes a thousand miles away, per haps. Call the mental vision back and the figures on the canvas take their proper places, at once we see the picture, Or shut your eyes. v.aii uu nut bvo tne iace or inose vou love or hate as clearly as you ever saw them with tbe physical means of sight? How many times ne glances J at his watch, yet, when asked the time as he replaces It in his pocket, is unable to tell simply because be looked cnly with tbe eyes and not with the mind also. Boston Adver tiser Wiikn a man helps his .m, her work, she has to dron what. .h. t. ' doing to wait on him.