The Sioux County Journal,
VOLUME VII.
HAKKISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1895.
NUMBER 23.
DAVID'S RASH WORDS
SAID IN MY HASTE, ALL MEN
ARE LIARS."
Bar. Dr. Talmage Pre ache to Great
Multitude oa the Dancer of Peaalm
lan The Gospel of Cheerfulness A
Place of Safety.
Pessimism a Bin.
When Rev. Dr. Talmage came upon th4
stage in the Academy of Music at Nw
York Sunday afternoon, be found before
him an audience such ai is seldom seen
in any public building in America. The
vast apace waa crowded from anditoriimi
to topmost gallery, and the aisles and cor
ridor literally blocked, while many tho'i
aands who had come to hear him preach
crowded 14th street and Irving place, un
able to gain admission. He took for his
f abject "The Ihtngers of Pessimism,1'
the text selected being Psalm cxvi., 11,
"I said in my hasje, all men are liars."
Swindled, bel rayed, persecuted, Dni'id,
In a paroxysm of petulance and raw,
thus insulted the human ruve. David
himself falsified when he said, "All men
re liars." He apologizes and says he
was unusually provoked, and that ho was
hasty when he hurled such universal !
nunciation. "I said in my haste," and so
on. It was in him only a momentary tri
umph of pessimism. There is ever tnd
anon, and never more than now, a dispo
sition abroad to distrust everybody, aid
because some bank employes defrutid to
distrust all bank employes, and because
some police officers have taken hribes to
believe that all policemen take bribes, and
because divorce cases are in the court to
believe that most, if not all, marriaRe re
lations are unhappy.
There are men who seem rapidly com
ing to adopt this creed: All men are liars,
scoundrels, thieves, libertines. When a
new case of perfidy comes to the surface,
these people clap their hands in glee. It
gives piquancy to their breakfast if the
morning newspaper disclose a new ex
posure or a new arrest. They grow 'nt
on vermin. They join the devils in hell
In jubilation over recreancy and pollu
tion. If some one arrested- is proved inn
cent, it is to them a disappointment.
They would rather believe evil than good.
They are vultures, preferring carrion.
They would like to he on a committee 10
find something wrong. They wish that,
as eyeglasses have been invented to im
prove the sight and ear trumpets have
been invented to help the hearing, a cor
resonding instrument might he invented
faPj-'i,' ,noe to brinj nearer a malodor.
, " A blwlii View,
Pessimism says of the chnrch, 'The
majority of the members are hypocrites,
although it is no temporal advantage to
be a member of the church, and therefore
there is do temptation to hypocrisy."
Pessimism says that the influence of
newspapers is only had, and that they are
corrupting the world, when the fact is
that they are the mightiest agency f ,r
the arrest of crime, and the sprend of in
telligence, and the printing press, secular
and religions, is setting the nations free.
The whole tendency of things is toward
cynicism and the gospel of Hmashup. We
xcuse David of the text for a paroxyism
of disgust because he apologises for It to
all the centnries, but it is a deplorable
fact that many have taken the attitndo
of perpetual disgnst and anathematiza
tion. If the theory of the pessimist were ac
curate, society would long ago have gone
to pieces, and civilization would have
been submerged with barbarism, and the
wheel of the centuries would have turned
back to the dark ages. A wrong impres
sion is made that because two men falsify
their bank accounts those two wrong-doer
are blazoned before the world, while
nothing is said in praise of the hundreds
of bank clerks who have stood at their
desks year in and year out until their
health is well nigh gone, taking not a pin's
worth of that which belongs to others for
themselves, though with skillful stroke
of pen they might havo enriched them
selves and built thetr country seats on
the banks of the Hudson or the Hhine. It
Is a mean thing in hnman nature that
men and women are not praised for doing
well, but only excoriated when they do
wrong. By divine arrangement the most
of the families of the earth are at peace,
and the most of those united in marriage
have for each other affinity and affection.
They may have occasional differences and
here and there a season of pout, but the
vast majority of those in the conjugal re
lation chose the most appropriate com
panionship and are happy In that relation.
You hear nothing of the quietude and hap
piness of such homes, though nothing but
death will them part Hut one sound of
marital discord makes the ears of a con
tinent, and perhaps of a hemisphere, alert.
The one letter that ought never to have
been written, printed in a newspaper,
makes more talk than the millions of let
ters that crowd the postoffieo and weigh
down the mail carriers with expressions
of honest love.
Hark, from the Tombs.
Tolstoi, the great Kuasinn author, is
wrong when he prints a book for the de
preciation of marriage. If your observa
tion has put you in an attitude of deplora
tion for the marriage state, one of two
things is true in regard to you you have
cither been unfortunate In your acquaint
anceship, or you yourself are morally rot
ten. The world, not as rapid as we would
like, but still with long strides, Is on the
way to the scenes of beautltude and fo
licitity which the Bible depicts. The man
who cannot see this is wrong, either In
bis heart or liver or spleen.
Look at the great Bible picture gallery,
where Isaiah has set up the pictures of
aboresence, girdling the World with cedar
and fir and pine and boxwood, and the
lion led by a child, and Bt John's pictures
of waters and tree, and white horse car
airy, and tears wiped away, and trumpets
blown, and harp struck, and nations re
deemed. While there are tan thousand
thine I do not Uka, I have hot sees any
4toconrMs.iK far Use mm of 04 far
twenty-tve ysaja. TW klftfdoa It ootav
lag. The carta to preparing to pat a
bridal array. We need to be getting our
anthems and grand marches ready. In
our hymnology we shall have more use
for "Autioch" than for "Windham." for
"Ariel" than for "Naomi." Let "Hark,
from the Tombs a Doleful Cry!" be tub
merged with "Joy to the World, the Lord
Is Come!" Really, if I thought the hu
man race were as determined to be bad,
and getting worse, as the pessimists rep
resent, I would think It was hardly worth
saving. If after hundreds of years of
goHpelization no improvement has been
made, let us give it up and go at some
thing else besides praying and preaching.
My opinion is that if we bad enongh faith
In quick results and could go forth rightly
equipped with the gospel call the battle
for God BDd righteousness would end with
this nineteenth century, and the twen
tieth century, only five or six years off,
would begin the millennium, and Christ
would reign, either In person on some
throne set up between the Alleghanies
and the Rockies, or In the institutions of
mercy ami grandeur set tip by his ransomed
peoplu. Discouraged work will meet with
defeat. Kxpectant and buoyant work
will gain the victory. Ktnrt out with the
idea that all men are liars and scoundrels,
and that everybody is us bad as he can
be, and that society, and the church, and
the world are on the way to demolition,
and the only use you will ever be to the
world will lie to increase the vr.Ine of lots
in a cemetery. We need a more cheerful
front in all our religious work. People
have enough trouble already and do not
want to ship amrther cargo of trouble in
the shape of religiosity.
The Gospel of Cheerfulness.
If religion has been to you a pence, a
defense, an inspiration and a joy, say so.
Say it by word of mouth, by pen in your
right hand, by face Illumined with a di
vine satisfaction. If this world is ever to
be taken for God, it will not be by grouns,
but by hallelujahs. If we could present
the Christian religion us it really is in its
true attractiveness, all the people- would
accept it and accept it right away. The
cities, the nations would cry out: "Give
us that! Give it to us in all its holy mag
netism and gracious power! Put that
salve on our wounds! Throw back the
shutters for that morning light! Knock
off these chains with that silver hammer!
Give us Christ his pardon, his peace, his
comfort, his heaven! Give us Christ in
song, Christ in sermon, Christ in book,
Christ in living example!"
As a system of didactics, religion has
never gained one inch of progress. As a
technicality it befogs more than It irradi
ates. As a dogmatism it is an awful fail
ure. Hut as a fact, as a re-enforcement,
as a tiansfignration, it is the mightiest
thing that ever descended from the heav
ens or touched the earth. Exemplify it in
the life of a good man or a good woman,
and no one can help but like it. A city
missionary visited a house in London and
found a sick and dying boy. There was
an orange lying on his bed, and the mis
sionary said, "Where did yon get that
orange?" He said: "A man brought it
to me. ne comes here often and reals
the Bible to me and prays with me and
brings me nice things to eat." "What is
his name?" said the city missionary. "I
forget his name," said the skk boy, "but
he makes great speeches over in that
great building," minting to the Parlia
ment Honse of London. Tho missionary
asked, "Was his name Mr. Gladstone?"
"Oh, yes," said the boy, "that is his name,
Mr. Gladstone." Do you tell me a man
can see religion like that and uot like it?
An Illantratlon.
There is an old-fashioned mother in ;i
farmhouse. Perhaps she is somewhere in
the seventies; perhaps 75 or 7fL It is the
early evening hour. Throngh spectacles
No. 8 she Is reading a newspaper until to
ward bedtime, when she takes np a well
worn Isxik, called the Bible. I know from
the illumination In her fnce she Is reading
olio of the thanksgiving psalms, or in
Revelation the story of the twelve penrly
gates. After awhile she closes the bh
and folds her hands and thinks over the
p at and seems whispering the names of
her children, some of them on earth and
some of them in heaven. Now a smile is
on her face and now a tear, and some
times the smile catches the tear. The
scenes of a long life come back to her.
One minute she sees all the children smil
ing around her, with their toys and sports
and strange questionings. Then she re
members several of them down sick with
Infantile disorders. Then she sees a short
grave, but over It cut in marble, "Suffer
them to come to me." Then there is the
wedding hour, and the neighbors In, and
the promise of "I will," and the departure
from the old homestead. Then a scone
of hard times and scant bread aud strug
gle. Then she thinks of a few years with
gush of sunshine and flittlngs of dark
shadows and vicissitudes. Then she
kneels down slowly, for many years have
stiffened the joints, and the illnesses of a
lifetime have mado her less supple. Hur
prayer is a mixture of thanks for sustain
ing grace during all those years, and
thanks for children good and Christian
and kind, and a prayer for tho wandering
Injy, whom she hopes to sex come home
before her departure. And then her
trembling lips speak of the land of re
union, where she expects to meet her
loved ones already translated, and nfter
telling the Iord in very simple language
how much she loves him and trusts lil:n
and holies to see him soon I hear her pro
nounce the quiet "Amen," ami she ris'.'s
up a little more difficult effort than
kneeling down. And then she puts Iirr
head on the pillow for the night, nnd the
angels of safety and peace stand sentinel
about that couch In the farmhouse, and
her face ever and anon shows signs of
dreams about the heaven she read of li
fore retiring.
In the morning tho day's work has be
gun down stairs, and seated at the table
the remark Is made, "Mother must have
overslept herself." And the grandchil
dren also notice that grandmother is ab
sent from her usual place at the table.
One of the granchlldren gone to the foot
of the stairs and cries, "Grandmother!"
Bat there la no answer. Fearing some
thing in the matter, they go op to tee, and
nil asanas right-tat ajsctnelas nnd Bible
oa the ttaad, m4 the eorera of the bed
re MMotfc. and the teen h)
white hair a
snow on snow already fallen. But her
soul is gone up to look upon the things
that the night before she had been reading
of In the Scriptures. What a transport
ing look on l"er dear old wrinkled ft.ee!
She has sees the "King in his beauty."
She has been welcomed by the "Iamb
who was slain." And her two oldest sons,
having hurried up stairs, look and whis
per, Henry to George, "That is religion!"
and George to Henry, "Yea, that la re
ligion!" Hells-ion Defined.
There it a New York merchant who has
been in business I should say forty or
fifty yean. During an old-fashioned re
vival of religion in boyhood he gave bis
heart to God. He did not make the ghast
ly and infinite and everlasting mistake of
sowing "wild oats," with the expectation
of sowing good wheat later on. He real
ized the fact that the most of those who
sow "wild oats" never reap any other crop.
He started right aud has kept right. He
went down in 18S7, when the banks
failed, but he failed honestly and never
lost his faith in God. L'ps and downs
he sometimes laughs , over them but
whether losing or gaining he was growing
better all the time. He has been in many
business ventures, but he never ventured
the experiment of gaining the world and
losing his soul. His name was a power
both in the church and in the business
world. He has drawn more checks forj
contributions to asylums anil ,.n renes
and schools than any one, except God,
knows. Ho has kept, many a business
man from failing by lending his name on
the back of a note till the crisis was past
All heaven knows about him, for the poor
woman whose rent he paid in her last
days, and the man with consumption in
the hospitul to whom he sent flowers and
the cordials just before ascension, aud
the people he encouraged in many ways,
after they entered heaven kept talking
ubout it, for tho immortals are neither
deaf nor dumb.
Well, it is abont time for the old mer
chant himself to quit earthly residence.
As it is toward veiling, he shuts the safe,
puts the roll of newspapers in his pocket,
thinking that the family may like to reud
them after he gets home. He folds up a
$5 bill and gives it to the boy to carry to
one of the carmen who got his leg broken
and may be in need of a little money; puts
a Ktamp on a letter to his grandson at col
lege, a letter with good advice and an in
elosure to make the holidays bnppy, then
looks around the store or office and says
to the clerks, "Good evening," and starts
for home, stopping on tho way at a door
to ask how his old friend, a deacon in the
same church, is getting on since his butt
bad attack of vertigo. He enters his awB
home, and that is his last evenlngon
earth. He dues not say much. No le.;t
words are necessary. His whole life has
been a testimony for God and righteous
ness. More people would like to attend
his obsequies than any house or church
would hold. The officiating clergyman
begins his remarks by quoting from the
psalmist, "Help, Lord, for the godly man
ceaseth, for the faithful fall from among
the children of men." Every hour in
heaven for all the million of years of eter
nity that old merchant will see the results
of his earthly beneficence and fidelity,
while on the street where bo did business,
and in the orphan asylum in which ho
was a director, and In tho church of which
he was an officer, whenever his genialify
and beneficence and goodness are referred
to, bank director will say to bank direc
tor, and merchant to merchant, and
neighbor to neighbor, and Christian to
Christian: "That is religion. Yes, that
is religion."
A Changed Man.
There is a man seated or standing very
near you. Do not look at, him, for it
might bo unnecessary embarrassment.
Only a few minutes ago he came down off
the steps of as happy a home as there is
In this or any other city. Ffteen years
Bgo, by reason of his dissipated habits,
his home was a horror to wife and chil
dren. What that woman went through
with in order to preserve respectability
and hide her husband's disgrace Is a trag
edy which it would require a ShnksN'are
or Victor Hugo to write out in live tre
mendous acts. Khali I tell it? lie struck
her! Yes, tho one who at tho altar ho hud
taken with vows so solemn they mado
the orango blossoms tremble! He str;ick
her! He made the beautiful holidays "a
reign of terror." Instead of his support
ing her, she supported him. The children
had often heard him speak the name of
God, but never in prayer, only in prof m
Ity. It was the saddest thing on earth
that I can think of a destrojed hoi.ie!
Walking along the street one doy, an
impersonation of all wretchedness, he
saw a sign at the door of a Young Men's
Christian Association, "Meeting for Men
Only." He went In, hardly knowing why
he did so, and sat down by the door, and
a young man was in broken voice and
poor grammar telling how the Ixird had
saved him from a dissipated life, and the
man back by the door said to himself,
"Why cannot I have the Ixird do the same
thing to me?" and he put his hands, all
a-tremblo, over his bloated face and said:
"O God, I want that! I must have that!"
and God said, "You shall have it, and
you have it now!" And the man came out
and went home a changed man, and
though the children at first shrunk hack
and looked to the mother and began to
cry with fright they soon saw that the
father was a changed man. That home
has turned from "Paradise Lost" to "Par
adise Regained."
Tho wife sings all day long at her work,
for she is so happy, and tho children rush
out Into the hall at the first rattle of the
father's key In the door latch to welcome
him with caresses and questions of "What
have you brought me?" Tlxy have family
prayers. They are altogether on the road
to heaven, and when the journey of life is
over they will live forever in each other's
companionship. Two of their darling
children are there already, waiting for
father and mother to come up. What
changed that man? What reconstructed
that home? What took that wife who
waa a slave of fear and drudgery and
mad her a queen on a throne of affection ?
I hear e-rnlspef all thro ugh this assem
blage. I know what yon are taring:
Than reUftoal Tan. that's reilgtoar
My Lord and ny Ood, aim oa aaore of ttl
THE FARM AND HOME.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM
ER AND HOUSEWIFE.
How to Detect Adulterated Honey
Mixed Qniiim the Beat for Pant urea
Cleanliness as a Coemetlc The
Color in MiLk Odds and Ends.
Adulterated Honey.
There la much prejudice against
honey because of alleged adulterations.
But anyone who knows the taste of
good honey cannot be deceived, albeit
the honey made by bees has a number
of distinct flavors according to the
flower from which It is made. Buck
wheat honey is known by ita dark color
as well as its peculiar flavor. White
clover makes the whitest, and, there
fore, the most popular honey. But to
many tastes honey f rom linden or bass
wood flowers Is best of all. It is a little
darker than clover honey and a better
flavor. Modern scientists have discov
ered for the bee a labor-saving device
that Is almost as beneficial as are the
new inventions for saving human la
bor. The bees can make many pounds
of honey while they are making one
pound of wax. So modern apiarians
furnish the bees foundation combs
bought much cheaiier than the bees can
make them, and set the Industrious lit
tle Insects at the work that they can do
best The bees build up from these
foundations, fill the cells with honey
and cap them. The same comb can be
used many times over, for with care
the honey can be taken from it and It
restored to the hive. Tli'x to a skilful
apiarian makes the honey cost much
less than it used to do. It :ilso sells for
much less. Pure honey 1 a cheap and
healthful food. It ought to be more
generally used than It Is. When bought
In the comb no good Judge of honey
need be deceived. The bees may be fed
with candy and water, aud thus Induc
ed to fill the combs with Inferior honey
to that made from flowers In the old
fashioned way. Ex.
Bulky Food for Hons.
Twenty years ago Joseph Harris stat
ed to me that "In feeding pigs he could
do better with three bnshels of corn
and one bushel of potatoes than with
four baghels of corn."- I know this to
be true from experience, and state the
fact to show that we cannot take the
chemical food value of a grain or vege
table as a strict guide In practice. The
potato, for example, has a very poor
food value chemically compared with
corn or wheat, yet practically It is
worth more than a bushel of corn, as
stated above. In 18(15 I fed hogs on
wheat with unsatisfactory results. The
wheat oost me 37Vi cents per bushel,
while corn wag $1. A large per cent,
of the wheat kernels was undigested.
If the grain was boiled the hog would
not eut enough to make any gain. In
fact, alter two or three days they would
refuse It entirely. Soaking In cold wat
er, nnd allowing It Jo sjLni:0. until fer
mentation set In was the only waf I
could prepare It so they would con
sume enough to make any gain. If the
wheat is crushed and fed as slop It is a
profitable ration. It must be remem
ltered that bulk plays a very Important
part In a profitable hog food. The pig's
stomach must be distended. Grass-fed
hogs do better than those kept in pens,
for the reason they have larger stom
achs. Until experiment stations recog
nize these facts, their chemical analy
ses will amount to little. Baltimore
American.
Cleanliness a Cosmetic.
The thorough cleansing of the sur
face of the body will do more toward
Improving the complexion than all of
the applications ever Invented. It can
not be too strongly Impressed upon the
minds of young persons that three
fourths of tho eruptions and pimples
are traceable to thorough washing of
the face and neglect of the remainder
of the body.
The much-washed portion Is made to
do duty for the entire system. It Is, as
a matter of fact, much better for the
Complexion to avoid a thorough wash
ing of the face, provided the body Is
neglected. The reason for this is ap
parent when one considers that tho
pores of the remainder of the skin are
till closed with perspiratory matter,
and that the face and hands furnish
She only means of egress for the Impurl
ls of the !dn. Having to do not only
alible Ctity but tenfold duty, what
voojer that they become overtaxed
nil weakened, and that n good crop of
tlmples and other eruptions Is the re
olt 7 Orange Homes.
It Pays to Tost Your Cows,
A cheap ami convenient tester may
be made as follows: Take as many
tumblers "or Jelly glasses as you have
cows; All each one to the brim with tho
milk from one cow and let them stand
for twelve hours, and you will get a
fair idea of the cream or butter pro
ducing capacity of your tows. We do
not recommend this to take the place of
f he Babcock, or even the churn, but any
sort of a tent Is better than nono at all,
In that once a dairyman gets started In
testing his cows with a home-made
tester be la not satisfied until he uses
the churn teat or the Babcock.
There la probably do dairyman who
hires a new hand bnt that for the Orat
few months keep clone watch or
to find out what kind of a man he Is,
but bow many dairymen are there who
know how many pounds of butter each
cow will make? There came to our
knowledge recently an Instance where
a farmer was milking two cows, one of
which woe Just fresh, and the other
was due to calve in a few weeks. He
was making over six pounds of butter a
week besides what cream bis family
used. As the milk from the cow due to
calve became bitter, it was given to the
chickens, and to the farmer's great sur
prise the yield of butter fell off about
one-half. He was always of the opin
ion that his cows were equally good,
but a test revealed the fact that one
cow made as much butter a few weeks
before calving as the other made a few
weeks after. It is really very little
trouble to save one cow's milk separate
ly for seven milklngs, and our word for
it. It will pay, and pay well, too. You
would uot keep a worthless hired man
aud pay him a good man's wages; why,
then, should you keep a poor cow, and
give her a good cow's rations and care?
If we are in the dairy business for fun,
why, then, let us keep on in a hap
hazard manner; but if we are in it to
make a living then we must follow It
in the most careful and painstaking
manner of which we are capable. Na
tional Stockman.
The Hot-Water Bag.
When the India-rubber hot-water bag
Is as Inexpensive as It at present, It
becomes almost a duty to possess one.
The water to fill them Is always attain
able, and the comfort of the possession
will amply f repay the expense. Fre
quently they relieve pain in a far sim
pler and more effectual manner than
does any medicine. A bag placed on
the side of the neuralgic face will
cause the blood to flow to that part and
bring nourishment to the starving
nerve. A lit of indigestion may be
overcome In a similar manner. The
weak heart may be assisted by a very
scantily filled bag being placed under
the left arm, against the side. In the
summer hotel on a rainy day it will
make one quite fearless of the half
alred sheet and chilly bed and thereby
ward off that attack of the "blues"
which cold, unseasonable summer
weather often produces.
Then again, carefully concealed in
Its dark-colored bag, what a comforta
ble companion for a long, cold country
drive. Many as are the blessings of
the hot-water bottle, It must not be for
gotten that it is also a source of some
dunger. Always see that the stopper
Is absolutely tight, and never use It
without a thick cover.
Many a painful burn has It given,
er-peclally to an unconscious patient or
to an old person. In old age, the circu
lation being weaker, the vitality be
comes low. A thick cover will keep
the water longer warm as well as in
sure against burns. Filling the bag
quite full will also cause the heat to be
retained for a longer time, but will not
be as comfortable aa when half full.
When not In use, the bag should be
emptied. Good Housekeeping.
Odds and Knds.
When the eyes are tired and weak if
they are bathed In slightly saline water
they will soon become soothed.
To keep layer cakes from sticking,
put paper In the pan, grease It, then
sprlukle'of flour. The paper then peels
off readily.
A simple plan for disinfecting rooms
consists in putting a saucerful of salt
In the middle of a room and pouring on
It a dram or two of sulphuric acid. The
fumes that arise do the work of disin
fection. Nothing Is better to ward off colds
and pneumonia than good digestion and
a freedom from fatigue. This does not
give license to overeating and laziness,
which are actually as weakening as the
reverse, but again points to the golden
mean as a good motto to live by.
Flannel skirts which have grown too
short from washing may be lengthened
and at the same time beautified by add
ing a deep frill of woven lace. Or tho
Bklrt may also be taken off the band
and sewed to a cotton yoke, which
should fit smoothly across the hips.
To prevent oilcloth, patent leather
and similar materials from sticking to
gether when rolled, purchase a few
sheets of paraffin-Impregnated or other
wise prepared paper, and roll with the
material. This will prevent the stick
ing, also tho fading of the colors or
gloss by keeping out air and moisture.
The evaporation of the oil is likewise
prevented to a great extent
Try some way of amusing your child
If he cries during his bath a cork
which will bob about with every move
ment of the water, or an egg with the
contents blown out. In fact, any little
thing which will amuse a child will at
tract his attention and prevent his cry
ing during the process of bathing. Once
the child Is broken of the habit of cry
ing this trifling amusement will lie un
necessary. Spots come so easily that It may save
a great deal of trouble to know what
will remove them. If tea or coffee are
spilled over a daintily embroidered
cloth the stained part, while still wet,
should be held over an empty basin
while boiling water Is slowly poured
through the tinea. If a little care be
observed In the handling the cloth need
not be crashed, and when the wet part
baa barn dried ad Ironed the cloth
in took an
BANK OF ENGLAND NOTE8.
Fifteen Hundred Million' Worth of
Them Issued Every Tear.
To begin with, the Bank of England
note is of variable thickneas oa the
same sheet In point of fact the paper
is thicker at the left hand corner to
enable it to retain a keener Impression
of the vignette there, and It la also con
siderably thicker in the dark shadows
of the center letters and beneath the
figures at the ends, says the Brooklyn
Eagle. Counterfeit notes are lnvarU
bly of one thickness only throughout
The printing is done from electrotypes
the figure of Britannia being the de
sign of Maclise, the late Royal Acade
micianafter the paper has been first
damped with water in the exhausted
receiver of an air pump. Even the
printing Ink is of a special make, and is
manufactured at the bank. Comparing
a genuine with a spurious note, one ob
serves that the print on the latter Is
usually tinted with either blue or
brown. On the real note it Is a very
deep shade of velvety black. The Ink
used in the plate printing Is made of
Frankfort black, which is composed
of linseed oil and the charred husks
and some other portions of Hheniah
grapes. The notes are printed at the
rate of 3,000 an hour on a Napier steam
press, and the bank Issues 9,000,000 of
them a year, representing roughly
about $1,500,000,000 In hard cash.
Each note Is distinguished from all oth
ers by the number and date added to
the denomination, and auy person pos
sessing this information can at the
bank ascertain to whom the note was
Issued, when it was issued, when it
was returned to the bank and who pre
sented it. The practice of splitting
bank notes for fraudulent purposes has
been prevented by the printed surface
being alone made to receive the water
mark. Only the faintest possible trace
of it would be retained on the spilt off!
portion. Each note has thin, rough
edges, uncut, not to be produced by any
mode of cutting paper that is not made
expressly for the purpose. In addition
to the above precautions there are se
crets connected with the preparation
of the pulp from which the paper is
made, chemical compounds being Intro
duced at the time of manufacture,
while the water marks are frequently
varied, and even the ink has mysterious
Ingredients introduced into it.
CELLS SUNK IN THE EARTH.
Two Airless Dungeons in a New Jer
sey Prison Being Iaily Used.
In the county Jail in New Brunswick,'
N. J., there are two dungeon cells the
like of which cannot be found in the'
prisons of even darkest Siberia. These
dungeons are entirely underground.;
They are stone cells, bnre of all furui-j
ture save a filthy mattress. An iron
ring Is fixed In the floor, to which the
prisoners who are unfortunate enough
to be confined there are chained. Jbe
6tone dungeons in the Weathersfleld,
(Conn.) State prison, which heretofore:
have been ppoken pf as the only re-'
rnalnlng relics of barbarism In this
country, are palaces of luxury wlien;
compared with tiie damp, dark under-J
ground holes of the Middlesex County'
jail. The jail is under the charge of
Sheriff Richard Servlss, of Middlesex
County. He is a kind, easy-going fath
erly old man, who was elected to tho
office a year ago. His residence is m
the Jail. The care of the prisoners has
been Intrusted by him to James Grady,
a well-built, middle-aged man, who
tries to do the best he can, but believes
in putting men Intp the .underground
dungeon T'to keep things quiet after 9
p. m.," as he said to a New York World
reporter. There Is absolutely no venti
lation In these dungeons. There are
three steam pipes overhead, and when
the trap-door is closed, and even when
it is open, the atmosphere Is deadly.
The dungeons have been in use for
many years. . t ,.J
Not "Doctoress" Nor "Doctorlne."
"One of the English medical Journals
which I take," said a lady who has the
right to sign herself "M. D.," "Is devot
ing considerable space In its correspon
dence columns to the momentous ques
tion as to what to call ua. By 'us' I
mean the whole fraternity, so to t peak,
of women doctors. One would say sim
ply 'woman doctor;' another prefers
'lady doctor, a third 'female practi
tioner,' and others go as far as 'pn
sideline,' 'doctoress,' and even 'doctor
Ine,' which of course at once sugtresta
oleouiargarlue or some such artificial
nnd altogether unnatural composition.
"Now, for my part, and 1 think I ex
press the feeling of the profession gen
erally, I don't want to be called any
thing but doctor. Either I deserve the
title or 1 do not If I do not then cer
tainly the State has assumed a grave
responsibility In turning me loose on
the community to go about like a roar
ing lioness seeking whom I may de
stroy. If I do deserve to be designated
as a doctor then I want that name and
nothing else; I will not be satisfied with
any modification of It Into 'lady doctor
physlclenne,' 'female practitioner,' or
any other name which begs the whole
question.'
South AMoan Indoatriee.
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duce and exports wool, wheat and-
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