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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1895)
i TOPICS OF THE TIMES, A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. Comments and Criticisms Baaed Cpon Ike Happening of the Day Hiatori cal ant w Nn New Tork must lake better care of her lunatics. New York Advertiser. Good! It takes the average war correspon dent a tremendously long time to sus peud boHtlllties. The use of croton oil for vaccination purposes It a smull-ox epidemic Is quite certulu to be followed by grave results. A New York man linn just lwen ar rested fur stealing n Bible, lie prob ably never bud seen one before, but knew what lie needed. If the killing of Bowcn puts an end to prize fighting In thin counlry. we we no reason why Oorbctt Hliotild not found a school of oratory and elocu tion. It Is es'lmuted that there are 3,trti0 marriages a day throughout the world. We haven't looked up the statistics, but presume the divorces reach at least 5,ikk a day. A dispatch from China says that Gen eral Wl, who was sentenced to be be headed for cowardice, escaped by hir ing a substitute. Such a scheme was certainly Wei's. A new telephone company says that w ithin a short time telephones will be sold for a string and every man will own ami operate his own wires. We think they are "stringing" the public. A wealthy man dying In the East re fused to make a will, saying that he wanted his relatives to have a good light It is not often that one can be to certain that his wishes will be car ried out. Home bacteria thrive ten days In a solution of strychnine, a small dose of which would be fatal to man, but they an live only two hours In a solution of tannin which could do us uo more harm than to pucker our lips. The fact that the publication of Dr. Mary Walker's ioejn, "If You Want a Kiss, Why Take It," has not been fol lowed by any sensational episode can not be accepted as positive proof that the world is growing better. The report comes from Hungary that an agitation has been started for the abolition of after-dinner speaking. It will be hard to better the proposal of the late Mr. Thackeray, that the speak ing, like the carving, should be done at -the side An official of the Standard Oil Com pany has written a book to prove that the gravitation theory of Sir Isaac New ton Is Impossible. It long has been un derstood that the Standard Oil Com pany owns the earth, hut we believe it ought to leave the law of gravatlon alone. There has been a season of terrible murders, In each of which severnl peo ple were concerned. It would be com forting If the eye of prophecy could look Into the near future and see a series of hangings In which the same people would be concerned. Hut the eye of prophecy is unequal to the task. The possibilities of the trolley car are dally being demonstrated. At Camden, N. J., one of the machines bumped Into a can of oil, tired it with an electric spark and the whole car blazed tin so suddenly that the passengers barely scaped iM'ing toasted a seal brown. It Is beginning to lie believed that the trolley car can do anything malicious short of chasing a man up a tree. This la a good time a year to remind some folks to "keen your mouth shut" for hygienic reasons both day and night It was an old superstition that devils would find their way Into one who leaves the mouth open, but modern science gives getter reasons for using the mouth only for eating and speaking and depending on the uose for breath. Ing. Shut your mouth and open your yes, and you'll take in enough to make you wise. The "trusted bookkeeper" of the Council muffs bank who shot an In spector was paid the munificent salary of J45 per month. Hut before you be gin to feel sorry for him remember that a trusted bookkeeper In the New York Khoe and Leather Hank who received fl.V) a month managed to get away with J.TVI.OOO. The Council Bluffs sal ary may have been low, but look at the possibilities wrapped up lu It The one protection against dishonest banking which outweighs all the rest Is the relentless enforcement of the law. 1 his docs not exist In this country. The national banks come nearest to It, and defalcations and swindles are corre spondingly less. Hut banks nnd bank officers are perpetually compromising these cases. The same day that the Shoe and leather Hank In New York was robbed of fMl.txji) another bank adjusted a smaller loss without crim inal proceedings. The number of such cases which reach the papers Is large, and the number which do not Is still larger. Forgery Is rare In the Bank of England becauso for three centuries the Hank of Kngland has never compro mised a forgery, cost what It may. Only one case of dishonesty among It em ployes has occurred In half a century, nd the last was careless and not dis honest banking, the cashier who waa removed having made advances to favorite on poor securities. If Ameri can banks adopted the same rigid rule to prosecute all offenders, and If district attorn were deaf to all pleas to mhmk1 prosecution in order to aid the recovery of stolen funds, defalca tions would 1 less frequent F.mperor William' sym pHtli leu seem as correct bh bis Imperial ambition Is tuilltiiited. While aiming at total aboli tion of free speech lu Germany on a uuuiIht of paramount subjects which the people should always be free to dis cuss, lie ttirnH around to send a delicate message of sympathy to the widow and family of Ie Ix-sseps. Something of Frederick the Good is In his headlong wm and may yet dominate a character full of contradictory Impulses, in which medieval despotism blends with the simple and noble inclinations of mod eru manliness. The appalling casnalltles to railroad employes are set forth In the latest re port of the Interstate Commerce Com , mission, (nit of a total force of K7.1. 0'J there were 2.727 killed and :si.72 Injured last year, making a total of dead and wounded of 34.4.V. Many a (treat battle has been less sanguinary. One would suppose that the legislative ! enactment requiring the application of automatic couplers and other appli ances on the locomotives and cars of the railways had been of no avail, but It must lie remembered that the new , system has not yet been put In actual ; operation to any considerable extent and that it takes time to get it Into good working order. While there Is special peril In railway service travel by rail seems to Is- exceptionally safe. With all the millions of passengers riding by i rail only 2!f. were killed and 3.221I in i Jured during the year covered by the , report SOME FAMOUS BELLS. They Are Hcnttcrcd All Over Kurope and the Kastcrn Hemisphere, The Invention of bells Is attributed by some of the best foreign campuno! )- gists to the Egyptians, who are cred lted with having made use of such per cussion Instruments to announce the sacred fetes of Osiris. In China they are said to have been known nearly 3.IHK) years before the birth of Christ. The Creeks and the Romans, It Is said, never used bells of a large size. Yet the hour of bathing and the opening of the market places were advertised dally by ringing bells, and It appears 1o me that small ones would scarcely have answered the purpose. In the time of Thueydldes, 400 B. C, the patrols who went the midnight rounds In garrisons and camps had h hand bell, or codon, by which the sen tinels were kept wide awake In their sentry boxes. You may read, too, In Theocritus, how the priests of Cybele, the delirious Cory ban tea or Galll, al ways Jingled during the wild celebra tlons of their festivities; and also that the priests of the Cablrl did the same while performing their obscene rites. Tydeua, one of the seven chiefs of the army of Adrastns, puts bells on the handle of his shield; and Ithesus, a king of Thrace, and a warrior of "dltfl cult and ravaging hand." used them to decorate the harness of his swift and noted horses. As we have seen, Indln and China had very large bells before the rest of the world. Two Arabs who Journeyed through China lu the ninth century have deliv ered down to us an Interesting account of the great popular Justice bells, then In use throughout the whole of that country. In each town there was a bell of a large size fixed to the wall above the head of the prince or gov ernor, and to it was attached a rope a mile or so In length, and laid so tempt ingly along the main thoroughfare that the humblest sufferer from Injustice seldom hesitated to tug at It without fear. As soon as the bell sounded, the governor sent for the petitioner, and "serious business, craving quick dis patch," met with instant and honest recognition. And even abovu the head of the emperor himself there was such a noisy friend to the people, but he who rang It without sufficient cause and his celestial majesty was often difficult to please In this particular was switched In a evry lively manner. Our Own Jessie McLean. The Hon. Mrs. Spencer Cowper, who has Just been figuring In the London bankruptcy court with liabilities of about f400,(XX) and assets of less than 8,0U0, Is uo other than the once popu lar American actress, Jessie McLean, hailing from Newburgh-on-the-Hud-son, and who achieved a great deal of celebrity lu the United States and Wen Indies In "Colleen liawu" and othe similar plays. It was at Nice that she met and married the old rake who, al though he figured In the peerage as the son of the late Earl Cowper, Is known by everybody to have been a natural son of Iord Falmerston. It was be who sold Sandrlngham to the I'rlnce of Wules. Three Dlrlslons of Life. When a little boy Sheridan Le Fanu wrote the following essay on the life of man: 'A man's life naturally divides Itself Into three partsthe first, when he Is planning and contriving all kinds of villainy and rascality; that Is the period of youth and InuiH'euce. In the siK-otid he is found putting In nractlce all the villainy and rascality he has contrived; that is ttie nowcr of man hood and prime of life. The third aud last period Is that when he Is making his soul and preparing for another world; that Is the period of dotuge." Why He Wasn't Happy. Dr. Holmes, several years ago, asked a friend: "What la your Idea of happi ness?" And the prompt answer, "Four feet on the fender," gave him great sat is taction. Some time later, perhaps a year or more, this friend found Dr. Holme In his study, sitting alone by the fire, looking not very happy. To the visitor's solicitous greeting came tha reply: "Only two feet on th fender." 'CUllK roil CHOLEJtA.; A REMEDY THAT SHOULD BE KNOWN TO FARMER3. Recommended by the Report of the it urea ii of Animal Ind'iatry Conve nient Feeding Cart A Wood-Box on Wheela General Form Note. Will Prevent Disease. Chief Salmon of the Bureau of Ani mal Industry, In an officially published article oa hog cholera and sw'ne plague, does not uphold the theory that ihewdlseasesarer.iused solely by germs In the food or Urluk. He says swiue will contract hof cholera In this way, but also by Inhaling the virus with the air, and less frequently by Its gaining entrance through the surface of a fresh wound. Ou the other hand, "the virus of swine plague is generally if not always taken Into the lungs with the inhaled air." The first effect of cholera Is believed to be upon the Intestines, with secondary Invasion of the lungs, but the first effect of plague Is believed to be upon the lungs, and the invasion of the Intestines a subsequent process. One or both of these diseases gener ally are at work among hogs, especially the young ones. They are estlmuted to cause the loss of ten to twenty-five million dollars' worth of hogs per year In the I'nlted States. It is understood that this winter the trouble Is more prevalent than ordinary, and this fact is cited by some to explain the phenom enal activity with which hogs have been marketed In the last two months, with the accompanying decrease of not fur from 10 per cent. In the average weight of the animal sent to the mar ket. The hogs have not been kept to fatten so long as usual, but It Is only fair to say that this may be In consid ered In part due to scarcity of feed on account of the paucity of the corn crop In nearly all the Northern States ex cept Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Nev ertheless, the suspected prevalence of one or both these maladies renders It of Interest that the following remedy should be known by every fanner who is a hog grower, since It Is recommend ed by the department as the most effica cious formula which has been tried: Wood charcoal, sulphur, sodium sul phate, and antimony sulphide, one pound of each, and sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium hy posulphate, two pounds of each. These are to be completely pulverized and well mixed. The dose Is a large table spoonful for each 200 pounds weight of hog treated and given only once per day, being stirred Into soft feed made by mixing bran and middlings, or mid dlings and corn meal, or ground oats and corn, or crushed wheat with hot water. A great recommendation for this rem edy Is the fact that hogs are fond of It, and when once they taste of food with which It has been mixed they will eat It, though nothing else would tempt them. They should be drenched with It In water If too sick to eat and most of those so treated will begin to eat soon after. The report recommends the medjclne for use ns a preventive of those diseases, Tor which purpose it ought to be put Into the feed of the whole herd, presumably In much small er quantity than above stated for sick animals. It Is said to be an excellent appetizer and stimulant of the pro cesses of digestion and assimilation so that It causes the animals to take flesh rapidly and "assume a thrifty appear ance." Of course isolation should be attended to lu cases where Infection from other animals is feared. Keep Sheep. ' Sheep," says a writer, "are a Bpecies of stock which are naturally as free frcm disease as auy of our domestic riLlnials, but when once attacked they give up easily and do not try to rally, in our own experience preventing dis ease by giving the flock common care neither coddling nor neglecting we have been fairly successful, and con sluer sheep one of the best paying blanches of farm economy. A hog dies aud we have nothing to repay us for the labor of burial; from a horse we have an Inferior hide and perhaps his shoes; a cow's hide Is usually worth taking off, but when a sheep goes the way of all flesh, It never dies In debt, that Is, Its fleece will always pay for what has been eaten since last shear ing. Keep sheep." A Handy Wood-Box. This Is a receptacle that can be rolled from Its place against the wall when the kitchen Is being swept, something that will commend Itself to the house wife who knows there Is much dirt nnd dust under and behind the heavy woodbox, but cannot move It an Inch without too great exertion. Then again, It can be wheeled out Into a woodshed where It Joins the kitchen, filled with wood and returned to Its place with ease. This box has a cover and also a front that baa It upper part hinged to let down for convenience when the wood Is low, Handles on either end make the bos easy to move. Spraying Bllsjhted Pear Trees. W have known blighted pear tree tn lira and grow after th bllghtad por tion have been cut out, showing that wfcra th disease has not gon far It asay bt checked. This fact makes ot doubt th reconwn datlon of Mr. Ma- W00D-H0X ON WHEELS. hati to spry the trees with Bord'aui; mlr'ure, claiming t t vLl check : 'ter It has beguu. In all cases ct't.mg out of tli. part that the blight has affected t.bo:;d precede the spray ing. 11 uib that has once blackened with the blight cannot be restored and Is better off the tree than on It Ameri can Cultivator. They Make Good Garden Tools. Broken pitchforks can be made to serve In the cultivation of the garden. The cut shows a broken-tlued fork, and neur it the same, with all OARDKN TOOLS FROM BROKEN FORKS. the tines cut to even lengths, and the shank bent so as to bring the tines nearly at right angles to tho bandlo. In Its new form It makes a spiendld Implement with which to loosen the soil and to cut down weeds. The Coat of a Pound of Poultry. The cost of a pound of poultry meav depends very much on the mode of management and the food used, tho sumo as with any other class of stock. It Is well known that the yield of milk from a cow Is regulated by the extent urn! quality of the pasture and the amount of grain consumed. The cost Is not estlmuted upon the amount of food, but by a comparison with the re ceipts from the products. Si) certain quantity of food can be estimated as a dally allowance for the season that something depends upon ilf condition of the fowls. If warmer sh Iter Is pro vided in winter, of o.ursp, :.ie cost will Iw lessened, as a sniollei .unount of food will le necessary for . creation of animal heat The heus must tirst warm themselves before they can be productive, and the food must lie regu lated to fit the requirements. It Is es timated that each pound of poultry will cost 5 cents, but there may be misman agement which will cause the expense to amount to double that sum. We are al! willing to aHow a maximum cost provided there Is a good yield of eggs from the flock. A flock that pays noth ln entails a total loss. If a hen should lay two eggs each week In winter she should more than pay her expenses, Toultry Keeper. Feeding Cart. It saves time and encourages the proper feeding of pigs to keep the mnte i ial near the eaters. Then If the troughs be many, a slop barrel on wheels will save the back. A tight box and cover Is still better, for It Is easier to mix the food, and with a flat bottom it keeps stirred by the motion of the cart Again, it requires no bent axle. The en graving shows a model feed box. The axle first had two sticks laid ou It 2x3 Inches, long enough to support the box needed, and reach forward for handles or shafts. The box In bung under tho axle from these shafts by long bolts vhlch bind box and shafts together rolldly and hold the axle firmly. The bolts are shown at 1, the axle at 2, and the place for the cover to the box at 3. At 4 a two-Inch faucet Is screwed Into thr box, and from It the slop flows Into a trough conveying It to the feed tiougb. This may be pushed along and made to feed sixty to one hundred hogs In an hour readily. Farm Notes, Good stock and low prices will glra better results than poor stock and good prices. Potatoes and apples should be han dled carefully, and not rolled down Into the cellar through shutea or dumped out of wagons. We buy over 30,000,000 pounds of cur rants from foreign countries and yet It Is a fruit that thrives in nearly all sec tions of the United States. No kind of fruit need be lost If there Is no market within convenient distance tbo fruit may be evaporated. It Is not difficult to dispose of fruit In some form. It Is said that there Is not now a single merino sheep In England. The British farmers make a specialty of mutton In place of wool and consider sheep very profitable stock. As soon as the ground Is rrozen cut away the old wood of the blackberries and raspberries. A good shovelful of manure around each bunch of canes will benefit them when they start to grow In the spring. Onions are Imported Into this country every year. We do not grow enough of them for ordinary use, while the sup ply of small white onions for pickling Is seldom up to the demand at any period of th growing season. While less than 300,000 acre were devoted to other cereal In Scotland last year, 1,000,000 acres were sown to oata. Scotland la not on of our com petitor In th wheat tin, but th wheat crop of India la 0 pr cant great er than In FEEDING CART. TEACHERS' MEETINGS PLEA FOR BETTER ORGANIZA TION AND MORE ACTIVITY. Work of the Hchool-Hoom la Greatly Unified, Himplifled and Intenaitied by Good Teachera' Gat herioa'a-Instruction in Manual Training. An Iowa Teacher Talka. It would be an Interesting compila tion if all the experiences of Iowa teachers in local association meetings were put together for the professional to read, writes one who signs himself "The Village Schoolmaster" lu the Iowa Normal Monthly. There would be the tale of the ambitious organization which opened a winter's work with full-fledged constitution and by-laws and a set of offices that made provision for a place for every one who was eligi ble to membership. There would be, also, the tale of the organization that was so free and easy, with no formal Inauguration, no set time or place for meetings, and no heavy system of any kind to induce formality and death. The recital wot.id Include that associa tion where every member wat so anx ious to do tha nothini' was accom plished; and the association, too, where everyone was anxious to throw the la bor and responsibility on the shoulders of some one else. Out of all the confusion of aim and means, which these efforts have discov ered, much good has come. The work of the school room in many communi ties has been greatly unified, simplified and Intensified because of these occa sional teachers' gatherings. The young teacher has been many times enlight ened, and her daily duties made plain er. The experienced teacher has often been taught that her long-used methods aud devices are not tne best. And In many other ways good has been accom plished. But ' The word Is used advisedly. The teachers of Iowa are often referred to lu complimentary terms. The low per cent, of Illiteracy in the State Is often held up, and the men and women through whose efforts this condition of affairs has been reached and retained are lauded as beings of high Intelli gence and great devotion to their work. Yet, In comparatively few localities has tlj's boasted Intelligence or this much lauded devotion lcen able to success fully exert Itself in .je line of effective association In teachers' organizations. Who Is not familiar with the ordinary routine of such meetings? The chair man, always an earnest and enthusias tic teacher, calls the meeting to order. If any business is to bo done it drugs, two or three making all the motions and doing all the voting, The papers prepared for the oocaslon, or the ad dresses less formally Introducing a sub ject for discussion, are given one by one for the consideration of those present. The question is thrown open for gen eral remarks. And the clock ticks. Perhaps, ashamed of the lack of Inter est or knowledge shown by the great majority of the membership, some bold er spirit ventures a review of the Intro duction of the subject; but even this breaking of the educational Ice does not embolden the mass. And again the clock ticks. Another and another subject Is introduced with the same re sult And the clock ticks an adjourn ment. The ambitious, active teacher, who sees the possibility of advancement in a live local educational meeting, be comes disgusted. She does not care care whether she attends any more of the dead ones or not, and is glad to find an excuse to stay away. The teacher who is really so timid, or so ignorant of the right view or a right view of the topic under discussion, that she can not properly express herself in a public gathering, finds no encouragement or help In such a dead meeting, and Is therefore not so strongly drawn to at tend another. Will anyone claim the situation has been overdrawn? Let him speak. In truth, the story has not been half told. Teachers within walking distances of many such advertised meetings very often pass the place of meeting on their way to town, to visit some friend or to go somewhere else. Is there not a large number of teachers In every county who are never seen at the educational gathering except under compulsion? What Is the reason for all this? Let someone tell. Is there not a large num ber, also, whose voices are never heard In such places, even though they may often attend? They always decline to prepare a paper or lead a discussion when asked to do so by those who ar range the program. They are not sure they will be present; or they do not know anything about the subject; or they are too busy; or their health Is not good. No trouble to find excuses when one doesn't want to do a thing! And yet these very people can find the most fault with those who do tuke part; can present, in many Instances, as good a discussion in some cases a better one than that to which they listened. If anyone can explain the reason, the writer would like to learn It. This article Is written, not to find fault, but to suggest a discussion that may result In opening the eyes of the class or classes of teachers referred to. If these silent creatures can be brought to see how they are standing In the way of their own advancement as well as In that of their fellow teachers, the educational world will be given a de tided Impetus toward greater activity, a better, higher and more professional life In the great mass of Its members. Peripatetic Pedagogy. Dr. J. M, HIce, the well known au thority on public school education, deals In plain criticism when bo thinks it Is needed. Having pointed out to the public schools In his article ln the Forum, what they ought not to- dot he haa now shown them what tbey ought to do by successfully planning and ac- 1 - - ""i rompllshlng a "school excursion" baaed' on the nethod of teaching by travel which is an established accessory of school education lu Germany. It waa carried out last June, when he conduct-" ed fifty-three teachers and associate over a journey of 1.NJ0 miles, from In diana to Washington, D. C, and re-' turn. This unique experiment which the towu of Anderson, Iud., was so progressive to undertake, ought to be the foreruner of many more such ven- tures In peripatetic pedagogy. Teachera Watch-Worda. Like teacher like pupil. Attend carefully to ventilation. Good discipline is a great time saver.. The good teacher Is always enthusi astic, i Calisthenics each session are impera tive. Let everything be doue decently and in order. Tlie stillest room Is not always the busiest. Be neat and prompt In preparing all reports. Much useful teaching Is done without talking. Education is a drawing out; not a filling up. Let there be plenty of original work by pupils. Successful teachers are continually experimenting. "Short lessons thoroughly mastered" Is the safest maxim. I'upils are refreshed by variety In work as well as iu play. The school room is the training ground for citizenship. If you wish your pupils to Improve their English, improve yours. I'upils will be judged by what they can do; not by what the teacher knows. The real work done by pupils in a subject Is exactly proportionate to their interest in it. Appeals to the superintendent to ad minister dlclpliue should be the last resort. Keep the supplementary reading books and other such property in titly condition. The cupboard Is the place for them. To accomplish anything collectively, men require discipline and able leader ship; as witness the church, the army, the navy. How much more, then, do immature children need the same two auxiliaries to successi Marshall School Manual. A Hchoolroom Idyl. Ilnw plainly I remember all! Tho desks, deep scored aud blackened. The row of blackboards round the wall. The hum that never slackened; And framed about by map and charts, And casts of dusty plaster, That wisest hend and warmest heart, The kindly old schoolmaster! I see the sunny corner nook His blue-eyed daughter snt In. A rosy, fair-haired girl, who took With us her French and Latin. ( How longingly I watched the hours For Ollendorff and Caesar! And how I fought with Tony Towers The day he tried to teuse her! And when, one day, it took the "Next!" To stay some Gallic slaughter, Because I quite forgot the text ; In smiling at his daughter. And she and I were "kept till four ' . To study, after closing." We stopped the clock an hour or more While he, poor man, was dozing! And there he sits, with bended head, . 0 er some old volume poring (Or so, he thinks; if truth be said I He's fast asleep and snoring), And where the shaded lamplight plays Across the cradle's rocking, My schoolmate of the olden days Sits, mending baby's stocking. Ladies, Home Journal. A Good Showing. The Journal of Education Is elated over the small number of truants among the children of school age In New Y'ork and inquires: "How is this for the schools of America? New Y'ork City has a third of a million children in the public schools, and the truant officers In 1893 made more than forty thousand visits upon children whom they thought ought to be in school. They found but seventy-three children In the entire city In the whole year who were not In school because of poverty. Think of It! In that year of notori ously hard times, a third of a million children In the schools of one Ameri can city, but seventy-three kept out from poverty, and but fifty-three who stubbornly would not go to school!" ,. Manual Training- Taught. Fqj- .several years manual training has been one of the branches taught in the Brookllne, Mass., public schools. All the arts which underlie the manu facturing Industries and which apply In many trades are taught in the me chanical departments, and helps the pupil to decide as to his true destiny In the commercial world. So much In terest has been shown by both pupils and parents that the limited quarters have become over-crowded, and in con sequence thirty thousand dollars have been appropriated for a new building. The new building is to be modeled af ter an old English school bouse and will bo unique in completeness and excel lence. Notes on Kducation. The income of Oxford University is 350,000. The Tea body Library Is the best In the I'nlted States. There are 2,Ht)0 students In the Uni versity of Michigan at present I'upll teachers In British board schools earn nt first two to four shillings a week. One-sixteenth of America's college students are studying for the ministry. The first school for the training of the blind was established at Paris by Hauy In 1784. The late Ctar founded an education al establishment for women, In th commemoration of tha marriage of hi daughter, bearing th nam of th Xenla Inst! tut. V 1 j.