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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1896)
Improved Pall for Dnori. The cut shows an Improved way of using the card and wheel pull for doors. The door jamb is made very wide by nailing on a piece to the ordinary jamb. In this, insert a small pulley wheel at a slight angle, so that the rope will not pull so much across the dge of the wheel when the door Is wide epen. The weight runs up and down !n the back side of the jamb. The door should move easily so that aa light a weight as possible may be Used Then the door will 0en easily, and yet pull to with great prompt ness. With all inside barn aud stable DEvrrE roa closing hooks. 4oors fixed In this way, much trouble, ad often loss, will be avoided by cat tle and other animals getting into for bidden quarters, because of doors care lessly left open. Orange Judd Farmer. A Honnlble fttiKirention. The middle-aged woman, or one "Whose children have grown past the BBtrwtive age, should get the com tbrt there is in the pretty things Which she has accumulated. Sh hould not hoard her embroidered ta ble decorations, keep her silver wrap ed In cotton flannel bags or the 6ofa pillows put away for fear they -r.i be worn out by use. Now Is the time to enjoy them. If she thinks that it Would be better to keep them for the (Children she should remember tha: When these things fall to their pos sesion they will be out of date, but leot antique enough to have any value !eyond the sentimental one that "they were mother's." Most grown-up ehll dren take a pride In seeing their moth er's home up to date; if they do not they rerraiuly do not deserve a leg Wy of what might have made their another's life more comfortable and caore enjoyable. Grange Homes. ffirmi; Water for Stock. A plan for warming the water for ' toek during cold weather is shown in the engraving herewith. One end of "the trough Is partitioned off. and over sin re owning In the partition is fcjghtly fined a galvanized Iron box, lie water flowing freely out into this "feron box. Fader this Iron box a small stove is placed, admission being HOMEMADE WATER HKATEB. id hy means of a small door in the rou'i of the trough. With a tight tve:', the water in the trough can avc fine cli'.ll removed very easily. It l especially Important to have the ron box as low down in the trough t passible, so that the. water at the aottoin oT the trough may be warmed,. Ma well as that at the top If possible. beh, let the end compartment extend sielow the main body of the trough, so tthat the iron box may open into the towf-r part of the trough. As the wa iter Is iiea ted, it win rise, and the colder Water from the bottom be drawn In, 1b be heated In Its turn. American Agriculturist. ' ' The Farm Jlonwr, : "Mice are a great menace to the farin ear's premises. They gather from the aWld a anmmu approaches, and fcild 'nests In stacks and .ind r piles -of rubbish sod In every avaPa!il pJaee Whey can find shelter. Th.'se pest anut be baffled In every way possible. A. (ew good cats are about as snceess ffaA alee exterminators as can hi found. Seen farmers try poison, and we have "written many Rons recommending poi Won: telling farmers bow to arrange tajrfn. and the poison box la still worth Y-QrMij- in the small fruit orc.iard, lint wepMrinnre prove That there Is noth Ibai ao effectl7e in ridding the farm f Ma and keeping them away as i good est dr tw. We hare experimented Wit poison In many forms and hive Wand a partial success In the way of Mttalng ont mice. Iv.it when tht cat Tts appearance, the mouse prob- ama soon solved. ; We' unhewttat- racommend keeping a cat or two a e-vny farm. 'Waate w4 tern Foi'ler. ; Early basking or eon la important O Mve its grata front being wasted ( j ask- mmi ther vermin; Bat after j earn ba bren husked the stalks hare a new surface expo ted to ralna. As tbey are then partially dried, the stalks should be got under cover as soon as possible. If the stalks aro wet after being once dried, the waste from rotting goes on much more rap idly than before. If the stalks should heat somewhat in the mow this is bet ter than to leave them exposed to fur ther Injury by storms, with little chance of drying out, except as It will be frozeu dry by the cold of winter. This freez ing of wet stalks takes from them most of their feeding value. The Ouality of Timothy Hay. One reason why timothy hay Is a fa vorite in the markets is Its uniformity of quality. Not being so nitrogenous as clover. It Is much less likely to bo injured by being wet and beating. The variation in quality is mainly due to early or late cutting, though some liv ery stable keepers prefer the fully ripened timothy, which te least nutri tious because the horse likes the tim othy seeds. Clover hay is very apt to become musty and dusty if it has been exposed to fermentation. Timothy hay will not be dusty unless cut in the bloom, and the dust Is not so injurious as that from partly decayed clover. Sweet App'ea for Hones, A quart or two of sweet apples jmt day for each horse w ill be wortii more to it than the same bulk of oats addi tional to Its regular ration of hay and grain. The apples are better than any kind of roots, and this year they are everywhere cheap and plenty. Sour apples are nearly as good, bin the horses prefer the sweet apples when they can be had. In nutritive value there is very little difference. There is much sweet in what we call a "sour" apple, which Is only called "sour" be cause an acid disguises the sweet It contains. Handy Style of Wheelbarrow. A deep wheelbarrow la more useful than one built on the old plan, be cause It will hold more, and the work of building such a barrow Is not much greater. Any one who owns a wheel and irons belonging to an old wheel barrow can easily construct one by first procuring two stout pieces for the shafts and mortising them together firmly just behind the wheel. The next mortis- must come 2 Inches from the ground on the legs at A. From this mortise the fhxir of the barrow must reach forward to B, where it Is sup ported by two false legs mortised Into the shafts and reaching within 2 Inches of the ground. The sides may be solid from the floor up. or if preferred they may extend only to the top of the shafts, and from this point movable side boards may extend upward. The only disadvantage in having the body solid te In being forced to remove most of the load from between the handles. BIO LOADS EASILY This wheelbarrow is especially useful In carting leaves, etc., and in handling heavy stones, which are loaded ujon it with ease, because so near the ground. If one doalres he may arrange a movable bottom, which will permit the load to be deposited without tip ping by merely raising the handle. Farm and Home. Watering Plant, in Winter. There Is far more danger of giving house plants too much rather than too little water In winter. During the short days and long nights, with very little sunlight on the soil, it Is hard to keep It at a temperature where the plants can grow vigorously. All the surplus water added lowers the tem perature until It reaches a point where the plants barely exist without making any growth. If the soil has much vegetable matter, huuilc acid will be developed at a low temperature aud this will poison the plant roots. Paying; Dry Koad Pant. One of the jobs which should be at tended to before Cold weather Is to save a few barrels of dry road dust to be used as dust baths for hens In winter. Nothing contributes more to the health of hens than this. Coal ashes will an swer, but they stick .to the feathers of fowls worse than road dust will, and give the birds an unsightly appear ance. The road dust Is coarser, and we think the fowls like to roll in It bet ter than In thj while, line dust thai comes from sifting coal ashes. Phosphate for Clover. Whenever phosphate is sown with grain, a part of the fertilizer Is always appropriated by the clover seed sown with it Clover Is a lime plant, and It also needs the phosphoric add that Is so helpful to the wheat The phos phate Is especially valuable when ap plied to clover that Is to produce a seed crop. J'otash Is also needed to make clover seed well, and should be ap plied in some form. Telephone Wires and Lightning. Telephone wiretj seem to have an im portant Influence In preventing light ning from nrriking, according to the In vent Ignt Ion of the (lennan Telegraph Department.- Three hundred and forty town with telephone system and WW town without them were under oboer vatlon. ' In the former UghtnJof struck three times for every hour of wtonn; in the tatter five times. Moreover, the vio lence of the lightning wan much lean In the former cases. Lite Leeds, Jr.-Wbflt Is Hardfroot dolus this seaaon? I haven't. beard ofj blm. Walker-Flaring tha Dane. Leeds Yoo don't soy! He moat Have struck Ittrk. Walker Tea, t btre's com mis sion Inquiring into btl amarity. Pltta burg Newt. I 2 MOVED. POWDER-HORNS. Tha Beat Dcrica for Carrrlaa; Looaa Gunpowder la Tim of War. Powder horns have become quite rare, and aro carious objects for the tudy of the collector and the historian. Like coins and inedate, from wbi-h the collector may find out many Inter esting facta about the past, po-wder horns which have been decorated with pl-tures and luwftptloDu give much In formation concerning the geography and history of famous placet! and events. The use of horns of animals for -ar-' rying gunpowder was Introduced into America from England and France, but the exact date when they were first used in Europe Is not known. Certain ly K was not less than three hundred and fifty yearn ago, as can be seen from the dates on specimen In Kuro pean museums. Before Improved gun and cartridge were used, the curved horn was the lsst devl-e for carrying guniKrwder In war time for the use of the muzzle loaders ami flint-kx-ks, and the bonis were ustii even with some of the later guns those that were tir-d by pemis tiou cups. A durable horn could lie had easily aud cheaply. It was quickly prepared for holding the gunpowder, and. more over, It was strong enough to witb Ktaud the rough usage to which boms wen often subjected, as in skirmish fighting or making long marcher through the wllderneHS. The horns neither rust nor decoy, even if buried in the earth for a century; and. If the plugs are properly fitted, the iiowder w ill keep dry, although carried for days in the rain. They can le flouted, or dipped In the water, without harm to the jxnvder within, this Is-ing a matter of the greatest importance during the Colonial ami Revolutionary wars, when bridge! were hardly thought of ami armies had to wade through swamps and streams of water, often up to the necks of the soldiers. In order to prepare the horn for the soldier's use, the ends were stoppi-d by wooden plugs and were securely fast ened to a strap which was worn under the left arm and over the riglit shoul der, the curved horn fitting the left side of the waist of the wearer; and a uiore graceful equipment could not lie de slriM. Iuring the eokml.-il times and during the Revolution, w hen a soldier volun teered or was ordered out for active service, he was generally required to come provlditl wlrti four articles, name ly: gun. powder born, blankets, and ku;i-ai k. The Government furnished t!e rest of the iMfoutrenieiiUi and the outfit of clothing. A military order required every jkiw der born to be marked with the own er's name, so that it could be quickly returned to him after Is-ing filled at the powder wagon. St. Nicholas. An Old Trick. The amount of fun that memlters have when out on their trips te equaled only by the amount of enthusiasm that they Inspire by their songs. Coming up from Jackson the other day, one of their old Jests was successfully played. The word was passi-d "around and, when the brakeman entered the car, one member looked at his wat h and. not lieing satisfied with the result of the Intqiection, asked the brakeman what time it was. The brakeman ac commodatingly told the Inquirer, whereat the seventy-five memliers of the club shouted in chorus, "Thank you kindly, sir!" The brakeman dropped his head and sneaked crestfallen away amid the laughter. Fretty soon he came back. "Say," said he, "if you will piny that on the conductor, I won't say a word alxmt It." The Ikj.vs agreed to it very readily, and, when the conductor entered he was nuked the time of night. He pulled out his watch :md gsvc the h ;r to the in quirer. "Thank you. kindly, sir!" shouted the dub In unison. The conductor willed and went hur riedly out. lie came back in half nil hour with the remark: "iKiyou know what you made me do? I called Lancaster, when I should have called Logan, and my head ain't exact ly clear yet." Heveral years ago. the amc trick was played at one of the meetings. The di rector turned In his place on the stage awl asked if some gentleman would kindly give them tle time, as they had to catch a train. A man rose In the au dience, drew forth his watch, doubtless with a rhrlll of pride, and told the lend er the hour. "Thank you, kindly, sir!" shouted the boys, and the man sat down as if lie had been struck on the head with a maul. Columbus Dispatch. A (Singular Incident. Three weeks ago a well-known eltl r.en dropiied dead near the door of the Natkinal Bank of Troy, New York. A grt'at crowd was attracted, and the rumor became current that the bauk had failed. This precipitated a run, and the sum of S13f.0i0 was drown out lu a few hours. The bank was com pelled to close Its doors, but the bank examiner declares lhat the depositors will Is paid lOo cents on the dollar. Anllqalty of Olympian Gimet, The Olympic games were probably tlK oldest athletic xiru, and their origin Is lost In antiquity. They are said to celebrate Jupiter's defiat of the Titans. Pawning Idols lit China. It Is quite n common thing In Shang hai for needy natives to pawn their Idols In order to buy food. Married Men and King. The latest suggestion made In the Col umns of a London paper is that mar ried men should .venr v.oi'.(V..ig rings. A GARRULOUS MAN CURED. The Inaealona lie rice of a Tortara-I Landlady. He thought he waa Infallible, and ' would argue for hours with any one ; who had the impunity to contradict blm. Everything about bim indicted ( the man of Iron will and unchangeable diissitkin. His features bore traces 1 of the Indian warrior, while bis tower . ing form and grim mustache increased ( his resembhvne to the mtui who knows it all. His name In Smith. He te a bachetor and lives In Raveuswond. But . he has been cured of his ailment, and the good suburbanites wonder who caused the change. He does not argue any longer, but walks alsiut with a de jected air, showing that his spirit baa leen broken. The miracle was acconipUfhed by his landlady, and this i the story of bow Khe did it. After the banks closed it was Mr. ! Smith's cnotoin to sit each evening ou j the porch of his Ravenswood home for hours. Visitors would come and go, but Mr. Smith would bold the fort. H had opinions of his own and woe to him who dared to dispute tlieiu. Any npjio sitkin to his views would lw met with a flood of orator)1 which would cower the dissenter Into obedience. One evening he argued the folly of ex pensive dreiwes with his landlady. She laughed at him, and he liecame furious. "Now. don't excite yourself," she said, "for I have beard the doctor say you re subjct to spasms, ami we will let the matter nt for the night." Mr. Smith, flushed with victory so easily won. retired from the scene. Imagine his surprise, liowever, the following evening, when he was en gaged in conversatkm with an old friend, win) assented to all of Mr. Smith's view. "Hut why ik) yon agree to every thing?" asked Smith, after a pause. "Well, confidentially, between yui and me," whispered bis friend, "I have heard you are subject to fits aud that arguments of a violent sirrt are ait to bring thern about." Smith ail nothing that night ami went home. Several nights later a young wtnnan came up to him and he ls-gan to talk to her.. She apeaivd to le afraid of him and only nodded to bis assertions. She ket a respectful dlstam-e all the time, ami when he asked her if she was afraid of blm she asked li i in soinewluit pityingly: "Have yon hnd tbctn i .,. "Have I had w!:.:!?" M;:-t -d out Slinlli. "Why. fits, of course. I heard you had them every time you were contra dicted; Isn't it true?" Smith turned on his heel and left the young woman standing and wondering. She thnu not know If the rumor Is true, but Mr. Smith's landlady finds no trouble with her t-oardcr. He 1s-b not argue any more, and now believes that others know Just as much as he does. Chicago Chronicle, The French iioy. Our lsiys do not take the social polish until much later. I have heard Ameri ca ns ex pn-ss surprise t the childishness of big iKiys whom they saw playing at marbles or with Uqw at an age when their Isiys play foot-ball. It is because these Iroys ' allow themselves to lie watched, n-sirained, and reprimanded by timid mothers much longer than theirs, and the boys theiiuudvtit are not generally im-hiied to the daring under taxlngs that tempt young America us. Their affect km for Robinson Cruxoe is very Platonic; tlicy do iurt long to run away to sea, nor even to get on the rmf to learu tlieir lessons, like a little fel kiw 1 met in the country out West while visiting lib. parents, and who, when I expres-wd my surprise at his lerch. said. "Well, If I slip. I enn hold ou to the, chimney by my legs!" And saying this, he made the gexture of clasping the big chimney Iwtwecn his Iwire and extremely short legs, more scratched than words can tell, under their torn knickerbockers, our Isiys are evidently girlish In '-ompiirixoii. On the other hand, a French youth of eighteen Is stupefied, on making the acquaintance of English or American youths of his age, to meet with some thing lhat si-cms to him another kind of childishness; I mmu that Isiylshm-ss wnlch, up to a certain jsilnt, lusis for life In all Anglo-Saxons. He finds blm clf much more of a man, because he really has a greater Intellectual fund, more general information, a more high ly devekqied critical sense, a riper mind already much refined, and quite en franchised from fhe simple Instruction given at (he lycee. Century. Novel Punishment for Theft. Yewterday happened the first act of theft on the trip. We camiied within a quarter of a mile of the village; groiqis of natives brought meal, pea nut a, eggs, etc, and traded with my men with the greatest conttdeiK-e. One of my men was bathing In a pool near by, and left his cloth and knife near the trail; a party of natives passing seized the knife and ran away; hearing of this, I quii-tly took from n man in the Imma a very fine ss-ar, and refusi-d to return It till the knife was brought lmck. The natives saw the justice of this, and trading went on as If nothing hod hap pened. This morning the knife was re turned, and so I handed Nick the sjiear. Century. Lion-Hunting an Ancient Nport. To hunt the liou was kingly s-iort from the earliest times, and the Egyp tian monuments show that all kinds of bunting, as well as fowling, was followed for pleasure. What a great deal we have to be thankful for at this time of the year that we haven't a sense of smell so flue that we can detect the odor In a dead fly! There are some people who regard U as a proof of a poetical soul to feel sad when the leaves begin to fall. GOTHAM SOCIETY QUEEN. MRS. WILLIAM C. WHITNKY will soon succeed to the va cant throne of queen of Goth am's society. Such at least seems to be the understanding among those who are familiar with faahlouable Intelli gence. Since the decline and fall of Mrs. William Astor Gotham society has been queeulcss. It was thought for a time that young Mrs. John Jacob Astor would be elevated, but the fact that she is a FhiLadclpliian ruined her hopes. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, recently Mrs. W. K. Vanderbllt, aspired and waa crushed. She will live abroad hereaf ter. Mrs. Cornelius Vondervllt cannot assume the headship of the butterflies on account of her husband's Illness. Mr. Whitney's new wife Is Just the lady for the crown. She Is 30, entranclngly beautiful, and as the wife of Captain Randolph had entree to the very best drawing rooms of aristocratic Kugland. She Is eminently fitted for leader of the smart set by reason of her wealth, fam ily and experience. As mistress of the big Whitney mansion at the corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street she will be brilliant Chop Wood for a Hnaliand. There was a novel wood-cutting con test In the Seventh Ward of Wllllams port. Pa., the other day, In which five young women took part. The girls are all employed In the Lycoming rublier factory, and, having a holiday, they turned their time to good account, be sides settling a much-disputed ques tion as to which was the most entitled to a husband. The girls are Bess Mayers, Flora Mahl, Llllle Mahl, Llllle Dunlap, Belle Oouldy ami Mary Rus sell, all pretty, vivacious young women, who earn their own living and make good wages In the rublier factory. In a banter the other day one of the girls promised that they have a wood-chopping contest, aud the one who proved wooD-notrixo match. herself to lie the champion cutter should be entitled to a husbuiid. while the others. It was agreed, must wait two years lief ore joining fortunes with her best beau. The girls, each with a br.nid-ncw ax, bedecked with red, white and blue rlb tsins, marched Into the back yard of Widow Ilanmau's home aud made an assault on the woodpile. Widow 11 art inn n Is a helpless invalid, she hav ing fallen and hurt herself qnite badly last winter. Her daughter 1-ou works In the rublier factory, too, and she was one of the movers In the wood-cutting scheme, although she took no part lu the contest. Five loads of hemlock slab wood, cut to stove lengths, had been delivered at Widow Hurt man's place the day before the girls paying for it so there was plenty of material for them on which to test their strength and skill. Hut the way the ribboned axes flew and tongue wagged was only equaled by the shower of split sticks that gradually piled themselves up around each chopping block. William Raskins and Joseph Schell were there as referees. One of the young men, however, hnd a more direct Interest In the contest than being judge, for one of the glils was his sweetheart, and, necordlng to the com pact, If she proved one of the losers In the contest ho would lie compelled to wait two long years before she could become bis wife. For four hours the wood-chopping went ou; the girls got red in the face; they rolled up their sleeves until their plump, pink arms were bared almost to the shoulders, and whacked away at the hemlock blocks as though their lives Instead of a husband dceiidcd upon it finally 12 o'clock came, and at the end of that time there were five weary, perspiring girls and five big piles of nicely split hemlock wood for Widow Hartman. But for thu life of them tha referee could not decldo between the pile of wood cut by Miss Duulap and Mlae Buaaell aa to which waa the larger. And, Indeed, after raking over all the sticks ami counting them separately. MRS. WILLIAM C. WIIITSKV. f h discovery was made that the two girls bail cut exactly alike. The con test was declared a draw. And now all the marriageable young men of the seventh ward are casting their eyes with favor In the direction of these fair young women who so gallantly demon strated their ability to cut firewood. Ianuer in Mock Marriasea. Not a few giddy girls thluk it Is a huge joke to participate In a mock mar riage, yet such events have often led to serious embarrassments. Marriage is a matter too serious to be trifled with. Judges In the courts have fre quently lieen called upon to dissolve the ties thus thoughtlessly entered Into, sometimes. It is sad to relate, with the connivance of ministers of the goel and magistrate who ought to know better than to play the part they do In these affairs. If a clergyman were to announce that a baptising issil would lie opened some vening, fitter lu the church or elsewhere, and that he would perform the rite of baptism as a public entertainment on the fattest woman or the tallest man In the nelghlsiSjood, theje would le no more sacrilege than there Is In a mock wedding gotten up for a public show. Place to Keep a Bicycle. An Ingenious Kngllsh woman has de signed a cabinet for the bicycle In tbe form of a hall table and natstand. Thla cabinet can Is- made of any wood and finished to suit any style or color. The sunken panels are filled In with Japan ese leather paier, lioth in the doors and on each side of the mirror back. All the ordinary requirement of the en trance hall are supplied, but naturally the Inferior required a good deal of skillful arrangement to afford the great est amount of ao-ommodatlon with the least possible space. The flap In the cabinet aliove the opening doors la CABIXCT roB IHCVCLB. hinged, to throw back, so that Uie bi cycle can go lu without any alteration of the handle bars. Then the floor Is fitted with grooves and draws out alto gether, to be used as a "home trainer," while in Its proper place In the cabinet It serves to keep the bicycle In position. There Is plenty of room Inside for all the bicycle lielonglngs, as well as tbe cleaning apraratus. How to Keep Wrinkles Away, A simple preventive against the ap- tea ranee of wrinkles Is this: Saturate a aoft towel In very hot water, wring It and apply It to the face, keeping It there for at least twenty minutes. Then dry the fa-e very gently. This must be done Just before going to bed. Wheti traveling, If the skin is very sensitive, do not Iwthe the face except at night and In the morning, and then throw a few drois of tincture of Im-iizohI Into the water, so that It may be made soft and agreeable to the akin. Ladies' Home Journal. Grace Howe M Klnlejr. Niece of the President-elect, who will lake a prominent part Id Washington society during the next administration. Boston Post Walatcoata for Pair Wenrera. Vesta of cream lace over while tiatln are very dressy, and nre particularly chic with the all black braided tailor made gown. Pretty serviceable vest fronts are made of gay phi Id silks or striped vel vets. These nre finished with the full pouf, which Is held In place by small enameled buttons. ' For morning shopping excursion noth. Ing te smarter than the bright little scarlet waistcoat of smooth cloth, but toned high to the throat witu dull gold or old silver buttons. Any son of eiceaaive decoration la not considered too much for the little vest, which tena to be a neceaaary part of every gown, whether It Is made with or without a picket. ! I