The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, March 28, 1895, Image 6
fla aV.JL A. -J TOPICS OF THE TJ M KS. A CHOICE PCLECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. Comment yml Critiriamit Kased Upon the Huiiruni nf the Histori cal awl New- .ou-. Germany and France have decided to twist the of the American hog. The utter vanity of worldly omp Is j again rcn-ae-!. Tin queen regent of , s-pain ha- measles, j Anna Could should uot i.,..k upon her ;:,.imiiii)i m ftiii--iit a a total loss; perhaps some of it may conn; back as alimony. Mrs. Morgan once paid Slv for a I-io lil. low ase, but Willie Iv. Vauder biit's family jar is said to have cost Lim $:;.im !.! i. I' seems lliat nowadays the cheerful Imlweile who cannot get a joh as a parachute jumper becomes a ""ujau target" wilh ! Sit- same result Cuba Is having a revolution or her I own which will keep things interesting ; iiuiil some of the Central American. : republics catch tin infection again. ! The whole Could Castellane match was epitomized in the cable inquiry of the Count's careful mamma: "What settlement?" That is all here is of it. Probably Captain Howgate now feels like kicking himself for lodging tin' ' police authorities for thirteen years, j AVill he now Hue for false imprison- I ineut? desire to call the attention of Miss Helen Could to the fact that It Is l ot absolutely necessary for an Ameri can gir! to go outside of this country lor first-class matrimonial materia!. A New York man says he caught a )' oitiito In the South Kiel on Satur day. That's the best place to catch a mosquito; unlike a wasp, the south nd of a mosquito is the harmless end. A St. Louis boy who is IT years old voted live times at the last general election "bei iAise he was asked to do It." That young man has all the oblig ing qualities which characterize the fcln.ves.sf til politician. Harvard College faculty has voted against professional foot ball. This ) may !. due to the work of the Inter- ! national Peace Assiwiatioti. whit'h sug- j g -ts fiat henceforth foot ball matches I should be settled by arbitration. Ai.lioiigh great munis think alike, it is provoking that the very day Ameri ca's wonderful new naval armor van described came the announcement that the Krupp works, in Cermauy, had turned out some remarkable fievv process armor plates. A Montana bank cashier who is un ler arrest for defalcation stoutly avers that his accounts are correct to a penny. He admits, however, that as i an official of the bank he lias loaned j lie self about S.sii.iMiii. There is truly .oleonic as well as Chesterfieldian. Pennsylvania proposes to publish un illustrated book on the birds and ani mals of the State and proposes to fur nish a copy for every school and public library In tiie commonwealth. Such a book will, of course. Is' useful In many ways, and w e may look for other States to follow the example Germany, having placed restrictions on our beef, the Secretary of Agricul ture favors a more rigid inspection of German wine, beer, etc., coming to this country', and excluding the articles not found to be pure. This Is well; but the exclusion should be made to cover al leged olive oil and a number of other food products. If the Btage only can hold out a little while longer it will be all right Mrs. George O. Ford, who as Miss Florence Wickes recently eloped and married a "Wisconsin skating rink manager whom fche had known only one week, an nounces that she Is now ready to apply ioT a divorce and that after she gets It she proposes to go upon the stage. That should settle It about a foot The cosmopolitan Chicago EveDlng Tost In Its description of the trium phant return of a Chicago survivor of the disaster which did not happen to La Gascogne called attention to the fact that "the first to embrace him with true French demonstratlveness were P. Fallon and Albert S. Loeb." This becomes more characteristically French when it Is known that the P. in Mr. Fallon's Dame stands for Tatay. If there are Americans who want to annex something, Newfoundland pre sent! Just the subject and the present stte of affairs there the opportunity. The country Is anxious for annexation. It baa a trade we want It Is divided from our continent by only a narrow trip of water. Its position, at the mouth of the St Lawrence, make 1U acquisition highly desirable. It Invites rational Jingoism. It la not strange that Emperor Will lam should be indignant and chagrined that a Carman crew should have saved only one woman In a shipwreck when they managed to save so many of them selves A court must deal unflinching ly with the Elbe crew. There la no longer, don bt or room for doubt that the gMD did not care for the safety of any bat tbemselre. The poor girl east back by tk warea waa nearly poshed srtaf apar by os acta bearv less felluWa, while other cried "pu--ti her oft'." Win-n the fishing smack picked up the Ix'at, in the bottom of which Anna Hi acker lay more deal than alive, the captain had to upix-al to the one englishman, the pilot, to help bt-r aboard the -.mack, the other mca Lot being willing. The Herman steam ship company cannot afford to lie under the foul reproach of the conduct of such men. That the arid region, if reclaimed, would Itself till up in the l;.pse of time Is. of course, obvious, but Judge Kliiorv. of Kansas. suggests a relieving l'eat:,'e In the fact that the b.ml I eel.-, iined in this way would Is- taken up by sir ill land owners holding many homes The millions who would work their way into the new laud would be land-owners and not wage-earner. The large f:yms which in the more fertile rcgi. as huve.ls-en made to assume almost the nature of agricultural monopolies play their own part in destroying the eci nomic welfare of the masses. W ere it possible to reclaim arid America anl give It over to the small but prossTo is farmer the r suit would not only ! a temporary relief of the crowded labor market, but a permanent Itcnctit in the : ; ot bnibliiig up a large jiopulu tiou of independent laud holders. That Is a remarkable showing which Is made by the cigarmakers' Interna tlonal I'nloti, whose officials have just reported that luring the year ls'.'4 'lie union paid out JUMi in strike bone tits. $lini,T."s in sick beneti's, $t"J.l."s in deatli U-ti.-tits. and !17 4.."17 for tiie lieilclit of those out of work. The whole sum f Is'iielits p'iid out Is $t.'!". rsV.. It Is to Ik- noied that ot the vari ous Is'lietils mentioned that which is credited to strikes is the I. ist. and the President of the union reports that in addition to these payments the society successfully protected the rale of " ages throughout the great lina.i ial deprc sioti of :i4. The figures ire -vortli perusal, not only a 1111 exhliil'h.n of the beneficial workings ..f mnie .alior unions, but as au illustration that the Institution of the labor uui n entirely apart from tiie Institution of he strike has Its reasons for being and its func tions to perform. The labor union properly operated does more to obvi ate strikes than to instigate them. The Pnited States is alone among the nations of the earth in one particular. When a member of Parliament dies his surviving colleagues go oti with their work and his Interment is left to his Immediate friends. The nation does not concern Itself about the dropping out of one member of its national as sembly. His work is done. There an end. In the 1'ntted States, however, w he:: any member of Congress dies, no mat! r whether he was worthy or wor 'il -ss. Congress sets aside a day whe i 'iiombers who delight to indulge In elegiac oratory inflict their verbal dirges upon an empty house. All busi ness i;' the country, however pressing, is brought to a standstill while this luguieions and in many cases bombas tic :l!l I lleiecorolis service proceeds. Nor i this all. The speeches delivered upon an occasion called melancholy are prinle. i and disseminated al die ex pense of the 1 'lilted States. Wiio is there that In tiie course of a long life has not received some half dozen of these, and who i there that lias ever given a moment's perusal to them? Tills memorial day Is subsequent to the funeral itself, which is conducted at the public expense. Members of Con gress eagerly seek position llKin the funeral committees because they take an excursion, sometime across the con tinent at the public expense an ex cursion which Is generally turned into a Junket. The country would do well to amend Its practices In this regard. T he grief of the occasion is perfunctory as a rule and the expense Is enormous. Keating the Rounds. In several places In England at Ox ford and some of the Iymdon parishes, for Ir: t'mce a singular procession may be sc:'t: every Ascension Hay. A num ber of men and boys carrying white willow wands walk round the bounda ries of the parish and afterwards dine together. This custom is called "beat ing the bounds," and arose In olden times, when parish or village boun daries were not so accurately marked out as they are nowadays. It was once a great ceremony In country districts. The choir sang hymns, the parson rea 1 the Gospel for the day under a tree hence styled the Gospel Tree and oc casionally boys were whipped, or thrown Into a river, or bumped against trees at certain spots, the better to Im press upon their memories the exact position of a boundary. This was nil done In good part, for the lads were re warded, and during the procession mon ey and other gifts were distributed among the poor. His Real Meaning. "Poppa, w'at did Jeff'son Hmlf mean, w'en he tole sister Celestlne she looked 'romantic,' slttin' out dar on de back po'ch?" asked little Clay Peters. "Out dar on de back po'ch, las eben In'?" inquired Mr. Peters, looking in the direction Indicated, as if for Inspira tion. "Yeseah." replied little Clay, tils face alert with curiosity. "Well," said Mr. Peters, rubbing his chin thoughtfully; "Jeff'son am younj an' foolish, an' dere's no telliu' exactly w'at he meant But w'at he moa' likely war lutendin' to say war, dat destine looked rheumatic. Dat," continued Mr. Peters, raising bis voice, as he caught sight of the flutter of a pink calico skirt In the next room, "dat, my son, am nachelly de way a young female pusson w'at alts oat on 4e back po'ch ob a cool ebenln' will look mighty quick, ef she don' look It already." woman will aay her boy la bad. kt she will not allow others to NOTES OX EDUCATION. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU PIL AND TEACHER. How the Voice of the Teachrr Maj 1'rovoht St lu ol room Dituirjrr and Disobedience -State I niforniitj in Text liooka Not AIwiom lcirl.lr. "Tiie fcst-hcMilriWiiu Voice.' There is no do.ibt whatever that in many insiaucei the teacher herself creates in the sclnsd risen the inatleu tiou. disorder and rebellion which she is constantly endeavoring to pre-.ent or remedy What may !e termed the "school-room voice" Is more provoca tive of disorder and di.solwdieuce than all other causes combined. We are all susceptible to the influ etice of voiees. Occasionally we hear one that roust's every element of our nature into the most violent, and what often seems the most Jiir-asniable, antagonism to the speaker. "I itm never hear that woman speak," said a bright young college student of one of her instructors; "that I don't Just long to cuff her ears; yet she Is otic of the loveliest ineuilsTS of the fac ulty." We are all famlllur with that quality of voice whose effect Is described In the significant words, "setting one's tft!i on edge " and really the meta phorical expression is often l lie literal truth. We generally eom-elve, too, a dislike for the person wh se voice Is not agreeable to us. and are obliged to Teacher (as a mouse runs across the 1 here's no cause for alarm. go through an elaborated 'oglcal proc ess of mind in order to free ourselves from the prejudice so engendered fortunate If we can succeed in our en deavors. Children are even more tutfeejrtlble to voices than are adults. They are quickly woj or repelled by them, and although they are theniselv.-s probably Ignorant of the cause certain tones arouse in them an obstinate, sullen and rebellious spir.t Contempt, too, for the speak'.r Is sometimes excited, as in the case of the bad boy tvho whis pered to his neighbor w hile he pointed to his "esteemed principal," "Jest hear her! You might know we'd got com pany. She's got her dressy tone on." Tones make far more Impressions than words. Try to cull a child to you. aud uo matter what hard words you use to him if the tone Is a caress'ng one he readily responds to It Call him the most endearing terms in a harsh tone and he !s effectually repelled. We hear persons talking in un adjoin ing room. Perhaps not a word of their conversation is Intelligible to us, yet we confidently assert, "They are very angry," or, "They are very much amused," or, "Somebody is in trouble." A good voice Is "an excellent thing" In either man or woman, but to the teacher It seems to be one of the essen tial elements of success. The sus ceptibility to Its influence uion the part of the child, the fact that he can not escape from It no matter how irri tating It may be, and the necessity for the teacher to be talking during the greater part of the time, nil emphasize the necessity for the tone to be au agreeable at any rate, not a disagree able one. There are many teachers who con tend that pleasant tones ire Impossi ble In the school room; not that they are not desirable, but that the large ness or the noisiness of the room, the Inattention or disorder of the pupil, make the use of them out of the ques tion. Such teachers believe and main tain that It Is only loud, hard and sharp tones that can have the effect of secur ing the attention or quelling the dis order of a room full of children, and regulated their voices on that assjmp tlon. There could not be a greater mis take made. Moreover, no bad quality of voice can be constantly nsed without Its having a bad physical effect upon the speaker. A natural tone la always sn agreeable tone. Natural voices can ever, at least, give offense, although some possess far more sweetness than others. A hard, sharp or nasal ton Is tadlcatloa of a wrong use of the vo- ' . - aod this wrong list parnst. e.t 'n .i"duce iDcalciul le inj.iry to l be throat an' lungs T at ners, more than any other class of persons, are pmne to this misuse of the vt.i.-e and the collseqriellt physical suffering and cisuiiilny. "How tenele-r should till;" -.MI be considered in a subsequent article. It Is cei lam thai they should Is- -iHe to talk easily, to talk agreeably, to talk in sin h a way as to produce no iujury to the .cal organs, aud at the same ti'io- to do this talking - a vit amount of which i- so in-cess iry- in a way to sc. ire attention, command 'c n-ct.iind qiii' t disorder. All this is a very easy thing to do provided the te-e-her k'iow as she should know-luw lo ui it. The School Journal. Old Time V h. To-day, Tin- Maine sehoolboy w ii.) hanged himself because his leach T scolded III IIJ 1'iilst have bis'ii extremely eiiliive. The old way was to put iacis in tiie teacher's chair or to lay for ' il l 1--b'nd a woodpile with t Int. tlor.cn waler-soaked snowballs whe;; he went Icune from school at nigh'. lioslou Globe. Tent of the Teacl.tr. The test of the teacher is eflii ieticy. Not the showing he is able to make in an examination, but the final result he can produce ill the character of those who come from under Ids hand. ThU efficiency is not the sort that can be counted upon always to work un in crease of salary. Hut to leave a last ing mark on the mind and character of a pupil is tiie unmistakable sign of the real teacher. And the source of floor) Now, keep your seats, children i this tower lies not In the teach er's acquirements, but dis-juT In the very liber of his character. "Words have weight when there Is a man behind them," said the prophet of Concord. It Is the man or woman be hind the Instruction that makes the real teacher a great deal more thun a mere Instructor. Kd ward Kgglestou. rung of the Si hoolma'mn. Talk. talk. talk. To your Tommy and Harry and flick. "Mural suasion" thpm till You could wish with a w ill For the reign of the old-fashioned stick. Talk, talk, talk, And endeavor to vocally prod, 31 - To the virtuous way. " The bad boys that each dny Need a dose of the old-fashioned rod. Talk, talk, talk. Hut the boy of tiMlay is uo fool, - And "suspension" ' a jest A vacation a rest From the arduous duties of beliool. Talk, tulk, talk, As they struggle with needle and threni' How to hem and to fell And to back stitch you tell, Though to seamstress' trade you're not bred. . - - Talk, talk, talk. With a class of but twenty or less, One with fingers and mind I'nto sewing inclined Might secure a good lesson, I guest Talk, talk, talk. With a roomful of sixty or more, Such a lesson that might - " t. He a source of delight Just becomes a detestable bore. Talk, talk, talk, We are patching old garments with nsw. It is really too bad, Hut to match this new fad All our schools should be changed through and through. Talk, talk, talk. But oh, where on the face of the globe, Tell me where I can find Me s new-fangled mind, " And the patience ascribed unto Job.' Talk, talk, talk, And tben read the new rules of tha board. If you venture to kick You'll be dropped, oh, so quick- Ly, and that you can hardly afford. A curiosity arrived In Baltimore on a ship Just from Hong Kong. It was a "chow" dog said to be the kind the Chinese raise to be eaten. Birds are covered with feathers be cause those combine the highest degree of warmth with the least weight HELPFUL FARM HINTS SUGGESTIONS FOR THE AGRI CULTURIST AND STOCKMaN. A Farmer' Refutation for Honesty I Worth Kvt r) thing Komi of Churn tljat I Ktremcl- Popular Hundy Hoisting It-vice. Atioe the Aerune. Th-- fat liter w ho Is content w Ith aver ii ge crop- -old in the average condition must ac-t pt oi ly average price-. He who pri"!'!'v ati.'. thing and puts It on tie market in pri.iie condition is 1he oi.e who i going to make sales first and get top prices. The aveiage man cuiiies ali-iie 1 1 ! .-r. No matter what you I. live to -ell put it in tiie best possible coiidiu ui for market and -co to it that you can adopt H.e same raiio thai we oin-e saw in a barrel of apples in the Last. When the l.ead was taken out of tint barrel tie re was exposed a printed slip wl.ii h said: "This package was ptoilueii! ai. d packed by John inith, wlio guarantees that when you see the top you see the whole." The commissi..!! man told us he never had any trouble with anything that man sent 'n. for Ids repiiiutioii l ad lieen made. He not only packed his fruit and vegetables ill the let lllllllller. but Sot t ed the sizes, an. I when the package was opened the buyer knew Just w hat to ex poet from top to bottom. We know a f irmer w ho takes his grain to market and dumps it wherever the buyer tells him to. niid is then asked how uiauy bushels he has. His grain is never look ed al nor weighed by the man who has bought it for years; If it Is not In good condition he Insists on Inspection, but , if he knows It is all right he unloads j i .. , H 1 1 and get- hi- pay. A reputation of that , kind is worth more than a good farm, for it brings a greater return. Honesty is not only the best pi lley, but It Is ab solutely necessary to linal success. Carelessness Is the costliest habit a far mer can fall into, and trickery, while It may seem to succeed for a lime, must cost more than it comes to lu t lie end. Tartu News A Hiirrel Churn. The Illustration from 'in exchange shows a favoilte form of churn where the work Is all done at home by hand. Nobody who Is anybody now uses the old fashioned dasher churn. It Is too b.n k breaking. It explains Itself. t THK llAlini.l. (Ht lt.v. swings and oscillates and brings the butter. Whether one Is a believer or disbeliever ill washing butter, lie Will stop churning when the butter Is lu the granular state, the size of grains of wheat. Then the buttermilk is drawn carefully off. Some good butter makers dash water cooled to (!2 degrees upon the grains of butter and then turn the barrel claim over a dozen times more. Although i lie churns usually do lot provide for it it is well to have a strainer of somewhat coarse wire be neath the buttermilk vent to cat eh the lumps of butter that would .ith ;r wise go out with the milk. WindlaHtt for l)roHinic Href. When cat tie are killed on the farm It is usually a diflleult matter to hoist the carcass in order to skin and dress It proM'ily. lilock and tackle are often not at hand, and even when readily obtainable, the place where the bi-ef must be killed frequently does not have u Hiipiort high enough or strong enough to hold the heavy ani mal clear of the ground. The hoisting device shown In the accompanying illustration from the American Agri culturist Is unexcelled for simplicity, cheapness and adaptation to farm butchering. Where other devices use HAXDV HOISTING DKVH K. complicated windlasses or long levers for hoisting, this differs from all of them in simply using the gambrel stick for a windlass, and the hock Joints for the bearings In which it revolves. As the supiortliig ropes may be fastened to any strong, hifh object, the plan may be used with any gam brel stick by Imring holes and Insert ing short lever arms. The illustration shows It used with an ordinary der rick of three legs bolted together at the top. The supporting roiiea are fastened to the two outer legs, thus suspending the carcass, and are wound around the gambrel stick windlass. Early Tomatoes. Esrly tomatoes bring high prices. One way to get them Is to begin now, and sow the seed In a boi, keeping the box In a suitable place In the bouse. When the plants are large enough transplant them to a cold frame out- Islde which Is carefully protected and -7- y mm m w-ll cov.-red. to keep out the frost. In the prop.tr x-asoii put il- plains in the ..pt n gn.tii.d Care will have to b iis,.i. as the plants are quickly In jured by cold. Ti c- ;rae A polc-OaM. l.'verv now and then a piragMpli ap pears 'in the papers, sajs Median's Monthly, about a grape vine v. Inch has wonderfully produced '.ickorv nuts! The suppose. fact has cV II been used to pmve that pollen has au imcie li ile inHiience In modifying lia raepr of a fruit! If any one would only take the trouble to cut one a io-s. he would see into the little i I :ie;. N the Insects have made for themselves. The gall is formed by a small lly of ' (Vcidomyla. It Is a remarkable fact that each species of the gall fly family has its own form of the gall. In some way tills results from the varying pow er which obstructs the growth energy. A large rock falling Int a stream turns a larger find differently formed current than a smaller one. The acid deposit ed by one Insect is more or less obstruc tive to the formative energy than the acid of another. T his is only the gen eral principle. No one. so far a the writer knows, lias workej 'l.e .natter out lu detail. Obi Clover Feel. i We have sown clover seed that we know was three years old, and it t anm up as thickly ns seed that was of the previous year's growth sown in the same field. The old seed is lighter ill color, a keeping It exposed to light for a long time lias faded it, but its germi nating j vers ate not impaired. We havp no doubt flint clover seed retains its vitality much longer than this. Wherever a crop of clover seed IsgroiMI the seed remains In the ground, as a good deal of it always shells while It Is belli" V.rv sled. Mich fields produce . . i . my year" after without i;g. Vc" i ' n during the u . I. i lover seed must ' . M't with water In t : -Uo. tie ,-trh ;; 1 seeiil that It could i having swollen until ilv io germinate: hut the facts show that the seed Is not Injured by several repetitions of this process, or else that the clover seed, like some others. Is slightly oily, and 'inly germi nates when it Is moistened near-lise surface of the soil and under favora ble conditions for light and warmth. A merieiin Cultivator. Carrot s Teed. Carrots are highly relished by horses. A few carrots. f.-d raw, after being sliced, will prove a delicacy to cows, and fed once a day they will promote the appetite and keep the animals In good condition when other foods may nol be acceptable. Carrots are used by some dairymen as a regular food for cow:-., In order to give a deeper coin to the b tier, and are highly esteemed by them for that purpose. Cooked ami thickened with bran they make au ex cellent mess when fed warm on a cold day. A Stone I.atbler. To assist In loading stones, we have found the simple ladder shown in the accompanying Illustration of consid erable value, s.iys an pvhange. It r Hon iminvn tom s. consists of two strong oak pules Joined by means of a 1 Inch pin a foot from each end. The mles are about three Inches In diameter. Place one end of the ladder on the ground and the other on the wagon and It Is ready for use, and saves lots of lifting. Linseed Meal. This Is recognized In stoci feeding a a valuable food article. In protein nutrients, those parts of greatest valuo In a food article, It is second only to cotton seed meal. At the same time It Is a food that from its oleaginous nature has a healthful effect on the digestive organs of the animals to which It Is fed. The large proportion of food nutrient contained, together with the healthful effect of the same, renders this artlela especially desirable. Note. The harrow and the roller ar among the most Important of the farm tools. Without the liberal Use of la,th the small grain crops can hardly b put In properly. Chnreoal Is almost a necessity for hogs.. It cost Is but little, and all that Is required Is to place a large piece in the pen dally, as1 the hogs will easily crush It for their use. In some classes of farm products overproduction ha not so much to do with the depression of prices as has poor quality. This applies equally to products so widely different as cattle and fruit. From the time an egg dropped un til It be consumed It loses both bulk and weight. This process gon 0D much more rapidly 0 hot weather hence the difficulty of procuring fresh eggs In summer. When this evapora, tion can be effectually stopped the en remains sound and good for a rnit length of time. x Y Wl F 2jc ' ' J w fin.u'1. Am i -i.tt t. -A ' J i-t'Jfc j e I all Ai.jJ'