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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1896)
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A New York girl saved her aunt from drowning, and the papers began calling her a heroine before they learned the. aun was poor. In short, Dr. Nansen has successfully demonstrated that there are several more miles of sea water and ice up nea" the region of the pole. That there Is no more sensible animal than the horse was proved In Shelby vllle, Ind., the other day when an un caged bloomer girl caused a runaway. CoL Phoebe Couzlns, ex-United States marshal of St. Louis has come to the conclusion that the home is woman's proper sphere. Ah, Phoelie, if you had onlj spoken sooner. The science of electricity as applied to torpedo defeuse would at any time, at short notice, make the United States ports Impregnable. Such la the judg ment of Thomas A. Edison. Uncle Sam is nothing if not gallant, but if the emergency aroses and it be comes necessary to preserve his dig nity, he will tell the queen regent kind ly t ut firmly that she can no longer pla even in the back yard of the west ern hemisphere. Printers' Ink complains that the $20, 000,000 annually spent for chewing gum In this country Is twice as much as its spent on churches. The comparison la a queer one. and suggests that if the people who eat missionaries had more currency perhaps the expenditure would lie equalized. A street sweeper recently gained no toriety in New York through his refusal to appear against the gripman of a car that had injured him. His broom was set up beside the tracks, set in an lrou socket and topped by an American flag. His reason for refusing to appear against the gripman was that the latter was a workiuguian who needed his full week's wages to support his fam ily. Tin. difference in size between Eng land and the United States is hard to grasp, and many educated people have little idea howT vast it is Of course, a very little study of map and geog raphy would show, but no one thinks of doing this. A fact that should bring the matter realistically before cyclists Is that while the record frmn. John o' Grant's to Land's End is a little over three days, that from San Francisco to New York is over 'orty-three days. The British campaign In the region of the Upper Nile is bringing out the ef fectiveness of the Maxim gun. The 9,500 troops of all arms which accom pany the expedition seem to te needed for little more than a show of force, as the Maxim guns do most of the fighting. In the attack upon Firkeh, the Maxims mowed the dervishes down in swathes; and six men were found lying in a row, killed by a single Maxim bullet. A dozen careful-and steady men with these guns can put a considerable army to flight. A correspondent says that "with the Maxim guns sufficiently sup ported, and with a road for supplies kept open, the British may .recapture the Soudan." But he neglects to say what might, happen If the dervishes also were supplied with Maxim guns. A theory that has been recently ad vanced by Dr. Louis Robinson attrib utes the advantage gained by a change of air to a deep-seated hereditary In stinct derived from nomadic ancestors. A change of climate has a beneficial effect, even when Jhe change is from one bad climate to another. Dr. Rob inson point! out that the epoch during which our progenitors were savage banters, with no fix 1 abode, wag so incalculably longer than the most ex tended estimate of historic time, that It Is impossible to Ignore the Influence of snch a state of thing on the consti tution of Caucasian man as we And It to-day. That such habits, prevalent through so, long a period would be likely to leave a lasting impress on ev ery cell and fibre of th. human frame is pronounced more than probable. , The ladles of Connecticut are said to be growing more and more fond of the pastime of wading barefooted In toe dewy morning graas recommended by Father Knelp aa being, Id conjunction with liberal use of cold water other wise, panacea for all the Ills that flesh li heir to. And having found how jptesMint It la to go barefoot In the grass In the morning, many of them have . queried whether It won't be equally pleaaant to go barefooted whenever else hy ran. - Query has led to experl tMTt, and lad lea fashionably dressed otlwrwla are now discovered all over lav Bute playing the part of the "bare C3t toy" from morn to dewy ere. So Camm mat agalar winning the ' j, m ta tbe cane of the bicycle, tt Jiat torturing conventionalities, ami ttta la another era of Greek ali.i iP&j la the matter of footwear. , - r of feat Wesley Harper, . CZfm af tao faswaa imMlanla' flrai i i'srpcr Brothers, revives Interest In the history of that remarkable bouse. The common ability, unity of purpose, mutual respect, firbeuraB-e and help fulness exhibited by that family of brothers, and which have built up the largest publishing business in the Unit ed States, are almoin unique in this country, where It is almost impossible to find a large family of brothers who wiU pull together in the same harness. Some centrifugal force seems always to sn1 them In opposite directions, and make family unity in business enter prises impracticable. Perhaps, as the country tills up, and the choice of op portunities becomes more restricted, this American characteristic will van ish And the example of the Harpers proves, not only how "sweet,' but how profitable it is for "brethren to dwell together in unity." Pr. Jameson has tieen found guilty In London of violating the neutrality laws in Invading the Transvaal Republic with an armed force and sentenced to fifteen months' Imprisonment without labor. All the other defendants were found guilty of the same charge, but were sentenced to shorter terms of im prisonment. The result of the trial will lie a surprise to most people, w ho expected it would be lon drawn out and would result finally In some form of "whitewash." There has never been any doubt In the public mind that Jame son was guilty of an overt act of hos tility, but it was known that he had the moral support of the English people in the purpose of his raid, and it was lie lieved that the Government would find a way to escape punishing him. The verdict must lie accepted as a direct result of the diplomatic tact of Presi dent Kruger, who has worried Colonial Secretary Uhamlierlalu from the licgln ning of the trouble. Jameson's punish ment is the sop thrown to Com Paul's protests. The Health Department at Washing ton pre'umabiy actuated by an exjeu sive experience, has leen finding out "what' the summer girl drinks. The investigations have covered a wide liq uid field, but public interest naturally will be concentrated on the discovery that "ice cream soda" enters so exten sively and frequently into the summer girl's daily program. Undoubtedly the common belief is that this seductive beverage cons sts of a little soda, a dose of sirup, a siimll lump of ice cream, and a generous filling of watei-. The won ders of science have Iwen able to reveal that the ingredients in fact are butter fa', mineral matter, proteids. sugar, dis'illation of coal oil, water, rartxmlc aciti gas, and In some cases rancid but- ter Distilled with alcohol and sulphur!? acid. It might lie an economic stroke for the jiopular young man to study up this Bubject with care and share his kncwledge with the summer girls of his acquaintance. It might prove a blow to the Ice cream soda Industry, but the valuable acquisition of facts should be ample comnsation for all reasonable young women. In one respect at leas the Dominion Canada is far ahead of us. Since ls' th-? Canadian Government has main taii.ed a system of postal savings bulks. In that country, with Its insu lation of less than S.O Ki.iKifi, there wers on deposit in these banks a year ago more than f J!,(Kto,(NK in small ac counts. Wherever postal savings banks are in ue. as they are In most clvllizej countries except the United States, the shewing is similar. In Great Britain, for instance, the deposits in IX! 10 amounted to. more than $3'JT.0(0,(hx. Th re is need in tills country for an in stitution with which those persons o' moderate Incomes can deposit their savings with confidence that their money will be perfect! sate. Banks of thu kind eouid very easily Is- estab lished by the Government of the Unit ed Stares and operated In connection with the postal department. Just a they are In other countries. The bene fit which they would be to the people is very great. The Un!ted States ought not lr nger to delay establishing the sys tem when It Is necessary only to go across the border Into Canada to find an example of its successful operation. Xo More Midnight Falls. She watched him put the package away carefully, and, womanlike, she was curious. "What is It ?" she asked. "Phosphorus," he replied, "What do yon intend to do with It?" she persisted. "Last night." he explained, with de liberation. In the tone of a man who felt that he had a grievance, "I came home late." "As usual." . ' He paid no attention to the Insinua tion, but continued hi explanation. "You may recall." he said, "that I fell over two chairs and a doll carriage and stepped on a wooden bail that threw me on the back of my neck." ,"I recall It," she admitted. "It waked up all the neighbors as well as myself. What of Itr "Nothing. Oh, nothing at all," he re plied, sarcastically. "It was a small matter, but it annoyed nie. and I made up my mlud that If you couldn't leach the children to put their things away where they belong I would at least make arrangements so that I would know where they are when I come home after lodge meeting to-night. The phosphorus " ' "Pooh!" she retorted, contempt nons ly, "you'd have stepped on an electric light If it had been in your way last nlght'-Chlcago Evening Post. "One of the hardest things In making a speech." said the old campaigner, "la to aa just what you mean." Tea," was the reply, "that's pretty hard. Baf once Iff A While, It's a good deal harder to mean Just whit on aa." Waab- Ington ft tar. am. Loading Fodder Made Ensr. Low wagons are a great convenience, greatly lessening labor In filling silos, hauling fodder, manure, etc. A num ber of low frames to tie attached to or dinary wagons have been illustrated In these columns during the past year. t. X. Buckingham, of Iowa, describes In American Agriculturist the fodder loader shown. It has been used in Iowa with very satisfactory results. The timbers a a are the hayrack sup ports on a wagon high or low. The loader is attached at b b. by means of a long lmlt; c is a 2x which extends under the wagon and has a sharp Iron point at d; c is attached to the loader at e e e by means of a long bolt form ing a hinge Joint. The shock Is laid crosswise, and no matter how large the shock, when the team starts, the iron point d catches in the ground and throws the loader up over the wagon, dropping the fodder on the rack. Two or three shocks can be put on at once. The loader Is left on the field. Make of material sufficiently strong to hold tlie number of shock put on each time. Clip the Oueen'a Winca. From long experience In managing an iqiiary. we have (tunc to the conclusion that clipping the queen's wings Is a decided advantage. So swarms will then escape to the woods. The owner Iran go from home, attend church, with- j out having his mind disturbed with thoughts of losing swarms In his a! iotice. It Is ls-tter to do this than run the risk of losing excellent queens and kwanns. The bees will never leave for good if the queen docs not ai-company them. This, of course, has reference to first swarms, as neoond warins may 'sue at any time, with a young queen fully fledged, like Minerva from the head of Jove, ready for Bight and legiti mate business. These latter can also be prevented by opening the hives after they have cast swarms, examining carefully the combs and cutting out nil queen cells, but one In each hive. If this Is done no si-ond swarm will issue. Oilman's World. Floot.nif Fence. An excellent water fence Is shown herewith. Some short cross logs sup sirt one, two or more lengths of stout rails that form the bottom of the fence. Holes are bored In these. In which up- in I i rlL. SKCI KK Ff.OATINO FKX E. right staki-s are driven to stipjiort the upper rail. The lengths of fence are chained together. The outer log is an chored up-stream and down-stream with sufficient length of chain to per mit the rising and falling of the fence. This plan Is splendid for tide water rivers, .and good wherever the rise U not likely to be so sudden as to wah It away. Kjatem on the Farm. In every department of lalxir the ev sential to success is a systematic meth od. System is especially needed In farm work, ticca use thrift of so ninny living things is in the power of the fanner. There should lie a regular hour for feeding stock. Animals soon learn the hour for their meals when given regularly, and are Impatient of delay. Bawling, bleating or squealing for an hour before each meal doe not hasten the development of fat In calves, lamb or pigs. At other times (he food is given too soon, the animal not being hungry and not prepared to make the best use of it. There shonld be a cer tain hour at which to begin feeding In the morning and a time at which to quit feeding at night, or rather evening, for we don't believe in feeding after dark except In the shortest December days. The farmer who feeds his stock by lantern light during spring mid fall months will be apt to get crops in late aad pick corn till holidays. The fam ily meals should not vary ten minutes from the! specified time, neither should the men ever keep meals waiting. Chil dren should be off to school on time, neither too late or too early. They will be more apt to have their lessons on time If everything Is regular at home. The work Is so much easier to do when arer one knowa hie time and place;,1 .NOVEL FOlillER I.OAI'KU. rTr.ll! f V, life Is pleasanter and happy time com oftener. System preserves health, for we know that worry kills more js-r-sons than disease. The Van Ieman Ptrawbrrry. Some years ago an enthusiastic strawberry grt-r. realizing that a new strawberry was needed to tak the place of the Wilson and Downing as a fertilizer ami. at the same time prove a healthy, productive, linn market ber ry, sowed a lot of Crescent seed crossed by Captain Jack, w eli. -tested hkhrv. Sharpless and Crystal City, of tliest but two proved valuable, one, named the Van Deman. and which was a ('apt. Jack cross, and the liody Jane a Sharpie cross. The Van Detnun showed signs of superiority the flrt season, and for several seasons since has given very satisfactory results In many extensive commercial berrj fields. It has been tested In twenty seven States and with generally fa vorablo results. Farm and Home. Do A way with the f will Iturrcl. Because a hog will eat anything Is n reason why It should lie either offered or allowed to eat decaved. odorous an.) on.. f..,..i t. i ,. .i 1,1 . .... .. ..... ,. ' t in rAjn-. irij i ii.i , 1 1 1 1 i it.fltclv the hoir will be eaten bv our selves or soiire one who would like H be as squeamish alsuit taking anything that Is unclean Into their systems. There ought to lie no such thing as a swill barrel, holding for weeks and even months a comiiouiid of sour milk dish washings and other refuse from the kitchen or table. There is no rea son why the daily product of swill should not be eaten as soon as made. Every day's neglect to disjiosc of it lessens its value, Itcsldcn the dangei which every neglected swill barrel It io the health of all in the house, or eveij In the neighborhood. Poultry Pointer, Buckwheat is fattening; when sparingly Is egg producing. Sell the culls as soon as iKisslble, In order to save feed and give more room. Do not set the drinking vessels toe low; If you do the fowls will scratch dirt into them. Let tlie nests lie In a dark place. The hens like It N-tter. and are lews liable te tcqulre the habit of egg eating. Fowl left to nelet their food, doubt less would take seeds, ln.swts and grass. We should come as near as pos sible supplying these preferences. If your hens lay soft shelled eggs It is because there is not enough lime In their food. Feed them grit gravel, oyster shell, plaster or ground bone. There is considerable difference lie twecu selling eggs for 10 cents and 25 or 30 cents a dozen, consequently it will pay to pin k them In salt. Salt Is cheap, find packing eggs iu it docs not destroy it. Captain lleaton, the well-known Eng lish game fowl enthusiast, once paid ?.r,im for a black-red game cockerel, and 'he results proved the purchase to have been one of the ls-st Investments he ever made. The bird formed tlie foundation ot his now famous flock. Horticultural Hinta. Fresh lime for snails. The nicer the appearance of fruit the better the price. If plums are to be shipped long dis tances forward by express. AppleH are selling in the State of New York at n cents per barrel. The first year after the tree Is plant ed is the time to prune and shape the tree. How much did the garden contribute to the supiHirt of the family this sum mer? Don't haul your fruit to market in a lumls-r wagon, but use a strong spring wagon with a large platform. It saves your fruit from mashing. If you mix windfalls with picked fruit they will detract from the fine qualities of your fruit, from tlie prices and worst of all, from the excellence of your reputation. Keep them separate. If the ants are cutting the leaves off your fruit trees fasten a wisp of loose cotton around the stem of the tree be twecn ground and the first branch; the ants tangle In this mid can't climb over It. In packing fruit for shipment no pur pose is served by ventilation other than the escape of moisture. The contact of fresh air hastens decay. Have the package on the outside as dry as possi ble. Just after the gathering of fall ap ples price are usually low; better profit would be obtained If they could la held until the early winter months. Ict them be sorted and stored In a per fectly dry room, with a very low tem perature. Ir, Flck haa shown that winking la more frequent as the retina bewmes more fatigued, and It haa been fouud that In reading at a distance the num ber of winks per minute Is 1.8 with electrical Illumination, 2J& with gas light, while with weak Illumination, which barely permits reading, Ui number la per minute. T- V ' '-' ' J mm Vnnvlni in Action. A correspondent of the Companion win visited Mount Vesuvius last year nd again this summer found that con ildeiable changes had occurred In the flow of lava which broke through the ilde of the crater in 1KW. He was In formed by Prof. Palmleri. the director at the observatory on the mountain, that the same eruptive activity which produced the great eruption of : s'ili going on, and that another ipow ?rf jl outburst of the volcano may take place at any time. Another Karly Wan. Mention has been made in this column 9f tin, opinion of Prof. Marsh and other lavants that the au.'lent human Nines lis.'overed Ju Java by Doctor DuNiis a yea or so ago must have lieloiiged to a being of human characteristics, Jet not no fully developed as the man of to day. The name "ape-man" has lieen N'Stowed upon the creature supfiosed to lie represented by the bones In ques tion. Recently Prof. Xehring has dls Mvered, near Santos In Brazil, a hu man skull of a low tyie, which Is de ncr'N'd as agreeing Iu some respects with the skull of the "aie-tiian," but as Indicating, also, a much higher capac ity. Some fragments of Implements of i '' ,riK'n- ,l,f' of tUh'' an'1 .onus of the lower law of a toothed i whale, were found near the skull. Wonderful Frather Work. Among the strange trllics of men i bout whom little h known are tlie Cfumacocos, living on the upper Para guay river. An Italian artist, Slgnor Boggiani, who visited these people not lon ago, has given a vivid descrip tion of their appearance and customs. Like all wild tril-s In warm countries, thV" wear very little clothing, but they pxiel in the art of making personal tidcmmonts from tlie feathers of birds. Tb'h country aNiunds with birds of the most beautiful plumage, Including pafots, toucans and trognns, whose fiiulier are dazzllmr In color, rhetts ivltp gray plumes, muk dii' ksof a glos sy '"lack color egret.i with feathers of pure whit'1, and sissmbllls of a delicate pink hue. The Chumncoios combine all this wealth of colored and graceful plumage in an artistic manner, and some of these savages tail and of per fect shape, walk their forest glades in habiliments more brilliant, if less am ple, than a Paris m sliste could pro 3u e Tremendous Gun Power. Recent discussion of the best means of protecting our harbors in case of war has called renew ;d attention to el penitents on the power of great guns. The result of one of these experiments hiw Ix-en used as an argument In favor of placing guns of Id inches calibre at cetl'tln points on the -oast. In the case refitred to a projectile weighing l.Sof) pounds was fired from such a gun. The taigfft consisted of a compound plate of fteel and Iron 20 Inches thick, and a second plate of iron 8 Inches thick, ba -ked by a mass of squared oak tim ber 20 feet thick, barked by a granite wail 5 feet thick, lichlnd which was 11 tee, of solid concrete, while the rear of the target consisted of a fi-foot wall of brick. The projectile, fired at close ranee, passed through the 28 Inches of iron and steel, through the 2ft feet of oak, through the 5 feet of gran' I p. thiough the 11 feet of concrete, and mote than half way through the 0 feet of brick behind them nil! What, say the advocates of heavy guns for coast left nse, would be the chance of any ha'tle ship In existence against such l ptxijertile as that ? Tipping Hudann Par. A curious result of the slow changes tf ievel going on at various points of '.he earth's surface has recently lieen pointed out by Prof. Bell of the Geo raphlial Survey of Canada. This Is a itraduul tipping up of the shores of H;;.lsou Bay, as If some gigantic power we- engaged In an attempt to empty !hat great baslu of water Into the ad lolning sea. One of the earliest Indi cations of what was going on came to the attention of the officers of the Hud ton Bay Company when tbey found that the water at the mouths of the riv ers where their posts are stationed was ridually getting shallower and navi gation consequently becoming more dlRVnlt. Examlnatlor shows that the shore Is lined with old lunches of sand and gravel lying as high as fifty feet or 'jiore above the present level of the bar When Hendrlk Hudson, In 1010. discovered the great body of water that beau bis name, he wintered with bis ships, on the east coast of the bay In a harbor which has now disappeared, or it least has been so far dm I tied off as no longer to tie recognizable from his Jescrlptlon. Napoleon After the Battle of Dresden Prof. Hloanc's "Ilfe of Napoleon," lu the Century, takes up the "Collapse of the Western Empire." In describing the end of the Grand Army after the battle of Dresden, Prof. Hlonno says; The night of the 7th was spent in Inde. dakm as to any pne or all of these Ideas, but In active preparation for the re treat; any contingency might be met or a resolve taken when the necessity trose. During that night the Emperor took two warm bat lav, Tlie habit of ILS IN L 5 us led ud slums had induced attacks of nervous' unw. and these were not diminished l.r hi.. huiJ of in re. To allay these and other ailments, he hal had recourse for some time to frequent tepid bathe. Much has been writti-u about a myste rious malaily which had lwen steadily Increasing, but the burden of testimony from the Emperor's closest associates at this time indicates tiist in the main he bad enjoyed excellent health throughout the second Saxon camla!gu. There were certainly internals of self Indulgence and of lasitnde, of cxes. ive emotion and depressing self-examination, which seemed to require the off set of a physical stimulus; but on the whole, natural causes, complex but not inexplicable, sufficiently account for the suleqtlent disasters. INDISCREET LETTERS. Never fafe to Pea Mattrra Which Yon Want to Keep tv-crct. Harriet Martineau. who was very deaf, always shifted her ear trumpet when any one asked her a question she dl 1 not wish to answer. The late Cy rus W. Field apparently did not bear a question that It would ! indiscreet to answer. He had another good habit Lct'crs that If seen would cause others pa. ii or might be misunderstood lie de stroyed as soon as h? had read them. The following true story proves the wisdom of Mr. Field's practice: A dist'nguished educator had. with considerable difficulty, persuaded a millionaire to found a college. Tlie ed ucator was to have been Its, president, but unfortunately he neglected Aaron llu-r'i advice: "Talk, as much as you please, but don't wriie a word." The founder, an uneducated nian, was full of crotchets which, if express ed 'n the deed establishing the college, would have greatly Interfered with Its CiUcatlonal work. Tlie educator. Irri tated by the labor It required to elimi nate these whims from the founder's mind, one day wrote a complaining let ter to a clerical friend, in which he nar rated his trials, and ended by saying of the rich man, " Is an ass." The clergyman, a careless, absent mlndiHl man. put the letter into his hat, an 1 called at the office of a law linn to transact business with one of the part ners. While in tlie private office he left bis ha: outside, and one of the lawyers, seeing the letter, and knowing the handwriting of the addn-ss, read It. Of coutse he was not a gentleman, and wa.i without moral principle; and his subsequent conduct showed him a mis chief milker. I Lt retailed the con. cuts of the letter to a nephew of the founder, who was bitterly opsweil to his uncle's proposed disposition of his properly. lie report ed It to the uncle. Tlie college was font tied; but the ed ucator was never Its president. He died a broken-hearted man, through the eairlessticss of his clerical friend and the meanniws of a legal Paul Pry. The Public Kervlce In ( til na. Kx-Sccrctary John W. Foster, who wne the coiitldentliil adviser of the Emperor of China In the peace negotia tions with Japan, contributes a paper on "The Viceroy LI Hung Chang" to the Century. Mr. Foster says of the Viceroy: He does not regard the competitive educational system of admission lo the public service as a tcrfect method, a in! more than once he lias recommended to his Emperor material modifications In the existing system. But it mtwt be confessed that it has stood the test of centuries with much benefit to China, and Its practical operation has demon strated that It possesses two merits of tmattlinable value to any nation; first, it brings all the offices of the empire within the reach of the lowest subject; and secondly. It diminishes the Incent ives to, anil opportunities of. corruption and favoritism In securing entrance lino official life. But ill China the com petitive examination ends with the ad mission; beyond that step promotion must come through other methods. LI Hung Chang secured the right of ad minslon to office through his assiduous application to study, and every succeed ing step In his upward career has been attained by his own genius ami capa city. Cowboy Way of H hooting. lMir some years past the cowboys uf the wild and woolly west have employ ed a process called "fanning the ham mer lu using their pistols. To do this, they either take the trigger off or tie It back, and woik the action by striking the hammer with the thick port of the palm of the hand. This method has the advantage of discharging six shots In the time required for the self-cocker to discharge I wo by the ordinary method. I he requisites for use of the pistol In this way are a large hammer, a pliant mainspring, extremely smooth action. and a cylinder-stop operated from the heel of the hammer instead of from the trigger. Tills style of pistol has N-come so popular thnt one of the big Fasten firearms companies Is going to put a line of trlggerless pistols on tlie ma--ket. The tools for their mnunfnctur.i liave already been completed, and tho new type of revolvers will soon tv on sale. Huburlmn-What do you suppose I have raised In my garden thus far this summer? Visitor Well, If you've had the same weather that we have I Im agine you must have raised your um brella oftener than anything else. Boa ton Courier. We refuse to feel flattered by the so licitude with which a man who baa something to sell Inquires aNitit our health. "They eey a piano sounds N-st when Itstandsneara wall "I think It sotmda beat out In a tea-acre lot ."--CulL-aga Record. drtnkiiiic strong coffee to prevent dro A 1 .. ' ft t . V J ',