Nebraska Newspapers

    The Sioux County Journal
volume viri.
HAKKLSOX, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, .JULY !, 1S90.
NUMBER 44.
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8 PATRIOTIC v
AMlXH, dark hall. The portrait
of two old persons that frowned
down from the walls as though
resenting the modern Iimovnt Ioiik be
low; a soft, thick canift under foot, so
old that its colors hail all falI to a
dull, uniform red; u low window with
tiny, diamond-shaped panes, letting iu
more gloom than light; u small, iron
bound chest in a dark corner; heavy,
smothering hangingsthese wore the
belongings of this long, dark hall.
A door opened softly, and a modi-rn
Innovation entered In the shape of a
girl alKint sixteen years old. A soft
light seemed to dispel the gloom. It
could not have tteen her dross that
wail dark gray. Her hrowii hair curled
waywardly around n sweet, roguish
looking face. Her straight eyebrows
were drawn down Into a dark frown.
She seemed rather ashamed of wnat
she wax going to do.
She moved toward a door, hesitated
a moment, and, liending her head,
looked In lit the keyhole. She Keen fl
library with books, and more hooks
piled up to the celling. At a table nit
an old man. energetically pointing out
some spot on a map hefore him to an
other man who Is bending over It.
"You have two rouws before you,"
said Master Hathnwny. "You may go
to Concord, capture our stores, con
found us we arc bright men. but a lit
tlo setlmck like that takes the wit out
of our headsthen, while we are In
dire confusion, you can fall upon us
and win the day. Or you can net like
gentlemen, and fight tin face to face like
men. Take your choice."
"I will nee what (ieueral tinge says,"
returned the visitor. "By night, of
course."
"You ass!" returned Master Hath
away, contemptuously, "I should like
to sf you get out of Boston without a
row by dnyllght!" and he began rolling
up the maps.
Miss Iorothen promptly (led to her
own room and locked herself In.
"What shall I do?" she asked of the
pretty maiden she law In the mirror.
"Are you going to stand up and scream,
'My Uncle Caspar Is a BrltUJtf spy?
Well, my dear, that Is all thelapnse I
gave you credit for. What would
Prlscllla say? Why need I say any
thing atout Uncle Caspar? Why can't
I go and tell John Farden to tell
Joseph Warren? Ah! I've got It now,"
and she proceeded to act upon It.
First, she opened her door. Then sho
drew down the curtains. Then she
groaned. Then tossed from side to
side and groaned again.
"Dorothea," said a quiet voice at the
door, "I thee In pain?"
A groan.
Master Hatha wny came In ami laid
his cool hand on his niece's forehead.
"Poor child," he snld, tenderly; "thee
has one of thy headaches. I will go
away and let thee sleep," and he went
away, closing the door softly after
him.
No sooner had his soft step died away
than Dorothea sprang off the ld,
slipped off her shoes and shot the bolt
In the door. She listened and then
pulled up her curtains and looked out.
It was toward dusk and In a fpiarter
of an hour she could lave the house In
safety to see John Farden.
Dorothea's liosom friend was a red
hot rebel who had Inspired Dorothea
with a love for everything that was not
British. As Master Hathaway never
expressed an opinion upon the war, his
niece supposed he was neutral, or too
much engrossed In his beloved llbrnry
to trouble himself concerning It. But
Hannah, her old nurse ami Master
Hatha way's housckeeor, had confided
to our heroine that the gentleman up
stairs was a Briton. Dorothea had In
dignantly denied It and gone to see.
When It was siilllclently dark, Mis
tress Hathaway opened her window
and looked out. A large cherry-tree
grew dose by -It, and often had she
climbed up and down with I'rlscllla.
She could descend with her eyes shut,
she knew, yet a feeling of some sort
deterred her. She felt that she was
betraying her uncle, and the thought
was odious. But she strengthened her
mind with the remembrance of other
Hathawnys, dead and gone, who had
sacrltlced their homes and everything
they held dear to their king, who after
ward hung them for treason.
This seemed to give her great cour
age, for she sat uoii the wlmlow-slll
with her feet outside, seized bold of a
branch with both hands, gave a little
spring, ami Immediately she was stand
ing In a crotch of the tree. (letting
down was an easy matter, and sho was
on the ground in a twinkling, anil off
at a run for rrlscllla Farden's. She
would see John Farden In the garden
and tell him that she had heard that
the British were coming to seize the
stores.
As sl9 slowly skirted tUa house, she
DOROTHEA.
saw, to her great delight, a light In
Priscilla's room. She flung a pebble
against the window mid waited. A
shadow crossed the white curtain, and
a short Interval passed, during which
Dorothea danced with Impatience.
Then the front door opened silently and
a girl rushed out.
"I knew it was you, you dear old
thing"' she cried, as she kissed our
heroine. "What docs possess you to
come here at this time of night?"
"I want to see Lieutenant Farden,''
said Dorothea, quietly.
"He has gone out to dinner," replied
rrlscllla, with kindly ltnotuoaliy.
"Come In and see me, there's a dear.
He will be back III an hour or two."
But Dorothea had been making her
f da ns; she must disguise herself uud go
to see Joseph Warren.
"litis John worn his uniform?"
rrlscllla looked at her with surprise.
"No, It Is upstairs. Dorothea, you
aren't going to dressing? What for?
Oh. do tell me: Where are you going?"
"1 can't tell you." said Dorothea,
calmly. "It I a secret. Yes, I will
dress up In John's uniform."
PrisHllii was too much astonished to
speak, so she led the way upstairs, with
out a word. Silently she laid the uni
form our upon the bed. Silently she
lied her friend's hair ns a queue ami
showered powder upon it. And then
her admiration broke out as Dorothea
stood before the glass outlining a shad
owy mustache uMin her pretty lips with
burnt cork.
"Dorothea Hathaway!" exclaimed
rrlscllla. "you are perfectly superb.
Won't you tell ue where you are go
ing?" "No." said the young soldier, with a
stiff bow. "Cood-nlght, Mistress Far
den." When Dorothea arrived at Joseph
Warren's house, she was horrified at
beholding It brllhintly lighted. She re
mebered Priscilla's remark that her
brother had gone out to dine. Oh, what
an Idiot she had been not to know that
he had come here, for Warren was his
Itest friend! Why didn't she write him?
Why didn't she with ordinary sense
leave a letter for him with rrlscllla?
All that was too late now, and she
desperately went up the steps and
knocked. The door wits thrown open
and a servant appeared.
"Tell Mr. Warren that I would like
to speak with him," said Dorothea,
majestically, and the servant vanished
rery much Impressed.
"Mr. Warren says will you please step
Into the dining-room?"
Poor Dorothea! What pen can de
scribe her sensations at being sudden
ly conducted Into a large room with
twenty gentlemen, some drinking wine,
and all looking at her. She knew al
most every one by sight, and many of
them Intimately,
"Well?" said Warren, Inquiringly.
"I would like to see you alone," she
replied, grandly.
"Speak out. We are all friends here,"
said John Farden.
So the girl soke. "The British are
going to Concord to capture our stores.
I don't know when, but they are go
ing." a torrent of questions poured out up
on her, In the midst of which she made
her escape. The result of her work
was sisin evident. The Americans be
gan removing their stores, and the bat
tle of Lexington was fought on April
lit, 1775.
If John Farden recognized Dorothea
In her disguise, he kept his ow'n coun
sel. After the war was over and he
had a wife of his own he said to her
one day:
"Dorothea, do you remember that
soldier who catno to us one night at
Joseph Warren's?"
And sweet Mistress Farden looked up
and then down, turning red and then
white, and murmured:
i) John! Who told you?" New York
Mail and Express.
An KitenuatlBg Circumstance.
Judge Noonun, of the San Antonio
District Court, Is also the proprietor of
a stock ranch In Medina County, lie
was recently called on In his official ca
pacity to pronounce sentence on a horse
thief. Snld the judge blandly:
"Are you n ware of any circumstances
that entitles you to consideration at my
ha mis?"
"Yes, your honor, I am."
"What is It?"
"The horse I stole didn't belong to
you, I think you ought to take that
Into consideration and let me down
easy." Texas Hlftlngs.
The patience ft woman has with her
children Is sometimes learned In her
efforts to land a husband.
1 he mills of the gods, which grind
so slow, would grind fast enough If
tuty were run by wind mills.
OPIUM IN INDIA.
KaraEet of the Drug in the City of
Luck now.
There is a fierce dispute going on Just
now as to the relative merits or de- ;
merits of opium, says the New York
Times. Many eminent men In the sclen- i
tifie world openly declare that opium
is a blessing. The government experts
In the country where it grows go so far
as to say that opium is a blessing in
stead of a curse to the natives. How
ever, the vast majority of mankind
will long lie of the undivided opinion
that opium is the most all-crushing
curse that afllhis man. The enthusi
asts, or. rather, extremists, of the In
ternational anti-opium society picture
the condition of India under the ban of
opium in the most dreadful manner
possible. According to one of these
men, all of the 000,000,000 of human be
ings In Asia are exposed to the evi.s of
the opium trade as legalized by the
British Covernmcnt. Iu order to derive
a revenue from it the Indian Govern
ment Issues licenses for the sale and
consumption of this lwiisonous drug in
vile places In all large cities, like Cal
cutta, Bombay, Madras, Lucknow, and
Maulmain, and in all towns and vil
lages of India and Burmah. These
licenses are riot Issued for the purpose
of limiting the sale of something that
can not be prohibited, hut they are
Issued with the requirement that the
holder of the license must sell a stipu
lated quantity or pay a forfeit! The
more sold the more revenue the Eng
lish crown will receive. As the opium
Is bought from the government agents,
of course It Is known how much the
holder of the license sells. A member
of Parliament who was most bitterly
opposed to this traffic he Ieen travel
ing through India gathering facts and
seeing for himself what the condition
of the natives Is under an unrestricted
use of opium.
One of the opium dens of Lucknow Is
graphically described. There Is no
si-crecy aliont selling or purchasing
the drug; it Is handled as would be
sugar, flour, or the other necessities of
life. Entering with the customers, you
will find yourself In a spacious but very
dirty court yard, around which are
ranged fifteen or twenty small rooms.
This Is the establishment of the gov
ernment collector the opium farmer.
The stench Is sickening, and the swam
of flies Intolerable. Enter one of the
small rooms. It has no windows and
Is very dark, hut in the center Is a smal
charcoal fire, the glow of which lights
up the faces of nine or ten human be
ings men and women lying on the
floor like pigs Iu a sty. A young girl
fans the fire, lights the opium pipe, and
holds. It to the mouth of the last comer
till his head falls heavily on the body
of the Inert man or woman who hap
pens to He near him. In no groggery.
In no lunatic or Idiot asylum, will one
si-e such utter helpless depravity as ap
pears In the countenances of those In
the preliminary stages of opium drunk
enness. Here one may see some band
some young married woman, 19 or 20
years of age, sprawling over the sense
less bodies of men. Here Is a much
younger girl sitting among a group of
newly arrived customers singing lewd
songs ns they hand around the pipes.
At night these dens are all crowded to
excess, and It Is estimated that there
are some 14,000 people In Lucknow ab
ject slaves of this hideous vice.
There are those, however, who have
radically different opinions on the
opium question. The use of the drug
In America or Europe nnder vastly dif
ferent climatic conditions has nothing
In common with the use of it In its na
tive land. The Bishop of Calcutta, on
being asked for an opinion on this sul
Ject, said among other things that
"while admitting that there are evils
arising from the use of opium, we are
of the opinion that they are not suf
ficiently great to Justify us In restrict
ing the liberty which nil men should be
permitted to exercise iu such matters.
Medical testimony seems to show that
opium used In moderation is In this
country harmless, and, under certain
conditions of life, distinctly beneficial.-'
One distinguished native, a, high of
ficial of I ho Indian museum, was rather
sarcastic when asked his opinion on
this subject. He said that the opium
habit was much preferable to the alco
holism of America and Europe, and rec
ommended the Introduction of the drug
as a substitute for alcohol.
European Police Officers.
Loudon police sergeants or rounds
men are pnid from $s.50 to $12 a week
and constables or patrolmen from p to
$H. Iu Dublin the wages are half a dol
lar less. In Glasgow the highest pay
for a constable is $0.75. for a sergeant
$H; nn inspector gets $70 a year, and a
superintendent from $ 1,200 to $1,500.
The SI. Petersburg chief of police
draws $2,500 a year, a sergeant from
$.'00 to $100, Hint a patrolman from $'.50
to $220 a year. Paris pays $5.23 to $t.r0
to patrolmen (agents) and $7 to rounds
men. Patrolmen get from $225 to $2f)
a year at Vienna, from $2!t0 to $.'500 at
Amsterdam, from $200 to 320 at Brus
sels, where detectives may rise to $IN0.
The Turkish policemen get $3 a weak
anil the native policemen of Culcutta
from $4 to $4.50 a month.
Some people spend no much time
telling what they Intend to do that
they have no time left to do anything
else.
THE SILENT STEED.
ENORMOUS GROWTH OF THE
BICYCLE INDUSTRY.
l.'ae of the Wheel Is Not Fad
-It llaa Come to Stay, and Ita
Admirer .Number Millions Some
Statistic.
Won Ita Way to Popularity.
HE bicycle has a
current call on at
tention that Is quite
as alworblng as"the
Presidential possi
bility." Fair belles
and buxom ma
trons who once
Mk
blushed at the men
tion of the bloomer
and derided the
wheel have come
to look with favor
on the new departure and device as sen
sible and invigorating Ideas that have
come to remain. Business men, whose
dignity might appear opposed to be
striding the bicycle, and staid old gen
tlemen, who declared their equeetrian
days were to remain things of blessed
id
xCaKl
TIIK ASSEMBLY KOOM.
ncmory, have been olserved on the
"whirling wheel renewing their strength
and youth. It would be difficult to re
call anything In recent yrs that has
attained a popularity more quickly or
more universally than the bicycle. Its
appeal extends to all classes and all
localities; and aside from Its advan
tages as a common or uncommon car
rier and a health-lift, It promise to be
come a powerful factor In creating
sentiment In favor of and obtaining
legislation that shall secure good roads
I'MK I.OKDON HANSOM CYCLE.
consummation devoutly to be
1.
tenia nd for bicycles hns so far
I the supply last season that
ilitles to Increase the output
ultlplieil rapidly, but It Is
' hey cannot supply the current
Advanced statistics state
. . . p wards of 1,250,000 bicycles will
made In 18i)d. More conservative
and accurate estimates Indicate that
IN THE BRAZING
the total output of bicycles this year
will not elfMil Koo.OOO, and over one
half of them will bo made In Chicago.
Of this aggregate probably 70 per cent.
s.r cheap wheels; the high-grade Id-
cycles remaining limited and in great
demand. The Urtal output of lhil." was
over 500,000, yf which one-fifth were
for women; this year about one-half the
bicycles will be designed for the fair
sex. It is estimated that with wheels
of all classes enlisted, ancient and mod
ern, there will be nearly 2.."S!,ooo
cyclers in the United States this sum
mer. The Lesgue of American Wheelmen
now uumlsjrs 41.000 members. The
first ten States in order of their rep
resentation are: New York, Mas-sa-ehusetts.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin. Cal
ifornia, and Connecticut.
The new model bicycles show many
Inventions and Improvements over the
old wheel. The prominent feature of
the 'IMi wheel Is the larger tubing, one
and oue-eigbth inch being used, an lu
creaue over the three-quarters ami seven-eighths
Inch tubing of two years
ago, the points of advantages being a
stronger and lighter wheel. Racing
wheels will weigh from sixteen to
eighteen pounds, road wheels from
twenty-three to twenty -eight pounds,
and women's wheels will average a
fraction over twenty-two pounds;
heretofore they have been twenty-six
pounds and upward.
People are given to pondering over
the price of the bicycle and seem to
think that they can be turned out as
readily as cheap watches, or old-fashioned
sewing machines. There is a
flood of Ignorance and misinformation
on this point. There are bicycles for
sale this year that range In price from
$00 to $H5, but $100 Is the standard
price which high grade wheels com
mand. One make of wheel still sells
at $115; last year It was $125. Keen
competition has reduced the price 50
per cent, what It. was three years ago,
while the expense of placing wheels
on the market, it Is said, has advanced
in a much larger proportion.
An Individual who had charge of an
Exposition exhibit was recently accred
ited with the statement that there was
a combination or trust controlling the
price of bicycles, and that said trust
would not expire until next October.
This is all the talk of a mental specu
lator. There Is no bicycle trust; compe
tition Is too keen, and the demand Is too
great to necessitate such a combina
tion. The bicycle trust may come, but
it has no existence now. As for that
cheap wheel from flowery Japan, it Is
still a long distance away from reality.
In a well-regulated standard bicycle
there are a variety of features, viz.,
the frame, front wheel, rear wheel,
front fork, sprocket wheel, crank shaft,
handle bars, seat-post, chains, mud
guard and pedals. This necessitates,
all told, from 100 to 110 distinct parts,
not counting spokes, chain links, or
parts of pedals, which brings the ag-
DEPARTMENT.
gregate up to 1,000 parts. Thetw parts
are all of the finest tempered steel, a
number of them tool-steel, and tome of
thetn are hnnd-tooled. Machine's have
been devised to do ranch of the work
formerly done by hand; but they are
very expensive, and have been hard to
obtain, in view of the enormous de
mand by numerous factories that have
established of late.
There are probably seventy-five es
tablishments iu Chicago that are mak
ing from 200 to 500 wheels. The out
puts of the largest factories may b es
timated as follows: Western Wheel
Works, "O.ooo (five grades); Feather--stone,
ijo.uoo lilve grades!; Monarch, 40,
OOO (four grades); the Fowler, 0,000
(high grades only); Bambler, 30,000
(high grades); Imperial, 25,000 (high
grades); Kenwood, 20,000; Thistle, 15,
OoO thigh grades); Adams & Westlake,
lO.ooo (hii'h grades), St. Nicholas Mfg.
Co., 40,"HHj (four grades); Windsor, 7,
000: lavidson, 6,000 (high grades); Czar
and Czarina, 5,000; World, 7,000; Shirk,
5.000; March, 3,0(X); America, 5,000; Na
poleon and Josephine, 4,000; Standard,
2,500; Kldorado. 2,500; Iroquois, 1,200.
A tii,i tlirojgh one of the largest fac
tories of high-grade wheels on Wash
ington boulevard may indicate to soma
extent the new and heavy mechanical
appliances used in making the modern
bike a thing of finished beauty and
streng-h. Jut where to begin Inspec
tion ud get at the start of the wheel
is a ticklish task.
All parts of the wheel are made In
this factory except the wooden rims
and rubber tires. First observe the
new automatic screw machines. They
are expensive and complicated ma
chines, cutting from solid bar tool steel
the cones and cups used in the healings.
The latest and heaviest hit of machln-'
ery is the automatic sprocket cutter.
A string of thirty-five circular pieces
of drop-forge steel, seven inches In
diameter, will have their heavy dentist
try or teeth cut every time this ma
chine "does a turn." This used to be
a very slow and laborious work, con
stantly requiring the care of an at
tendant. The new automatic machine
does six times the work of the old
machines.
The great reduction of weight In
modern wheels has been attained
through the new method of making
frames. Instead of using small bars:
of solid steel light, tough, weldless steel
tubing is employed. Again, In making
the Joints there Is an economy in
weight; Instead of heavy, old-fashioned
castings the joints are now brazed ono
pieca into the other beneath the heat ot
a blow-pipe, with spelter and borax.
Vibrations always begin in the weakest
part or Joints of the frame. In this es
tablishment the anti-vibrating rein
forcements are used, adding immensely
to thtj strength of the frame.
A wny from this neighborhood a row
of little furnaces are blowing their
caloric energies into tough Joints of
cherry red steel, by the long rows of
slowly revolving lathes, drilling cones,
cups, cutting nuts, nipples, and screws,
and all the lesser parts of the wheel
that Join to give to It strength, light-
TIIE FIKST BICYCLE.
ness and stability. In the polishing and
buflin? department the whirr of many
wheels makes music like the drone of
angry bees, and sparks fly like tiny
meteors as the bits of steel touch the
emery wheels. Every small piece is
carefully polished before It receives a
coating of copper, which renders It
Impervious to rust. The plating vats
remind one of a big laundry, save that
there are no ruds nor washboards, and
an aroma of nitric acid fills the air.
Balls, nuts, sprockets, crank shafts,
adjusting screws, clamps and handle
bars are strung on wire like so many
delicacies in a Chinese market, and sus
pended In the copper bath. After treat- .
tnent in this solution all parts are
nickel-plated, and ready for adjust
ment Among other new mechanical
devices are a series of special Jigs, or
testers, that make the forms exact In
alignment. Then there are hardening
furnaces of special design, in which
metals have chemical treatment for
toughening. The enameling furnaces
are another important feature. It Is
claimed that the colored enamel will
not crack, despite various tests put
upon it. (Black enamel having a rubn
ler base frequently does not stand tho
test, of wear.) The wheel spokes are of
needle wire and may le tied In a knot
without destroying strength or elas-j
tlclty. Kvery part is specially tested)
for strength and the strain It will beat)
before It Is allowed to take its position
In the bicycle. I
The bicycle is giving a new impetus1
to mechanical Industries, and has evi
dently come to stny.
Shoots for a Living.
Miss Winnie Simpson, of Uarfield,
Wash., makes quite a snug amount of
pin inouey by shooting squirrels. She
handles a gun. to better effect than1
many of the men in that region, her
average being thirty squirrels a day:
She also distinguished herself lately
by winning the first prbA n an ora
torical contest open to both exes.
Hal Hal
Tomtnie What Is a tailor's goosej
Pop? I
Pop I suppose It Is what he make
iick trousers on. Yorkers Statesman,'
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