The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, February 25, 1897, Image 1
- - The Sioux Gounty Journal, VOLUME X. HAKKLSOX, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2.1, 1807. X UMBER 25. TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. Comment nd Criticism Baaed Vpoa ths Happenings ol tha bay-His torical and Newt Notes. Good, sound business Judgment la one of the liest collateral a bank can carry nowaday. Lole Fuller him had many suitors, but Senator Cantor of New York seems to have won In a walk. If the Spaniard had accepted Uncle flam's offer of $100,0O0,On0 for Cuba forty or fifty years ago they would bo BOW about f.'MPl.KNt,(XHI better off. A movement Ihih been started by New York mlnltsters to boycott the tint ham newspapers and "establish an Ideal daily." This Ih Indeed a freuk country. Just aa the discovery U made that a lot of Tennessee negroes are turning white along comes a scientist with the announcement that "Americans are lie coming Indians." The only real Amer icana are Indians. A commercial contemporary asserts that patent medicine have liecotne de moralized and prices have gone all to pieces. What clue could logically le ex pected? A patent medicine always is a drug on the market, anyway. A New York paper remark that "(ierniany now objectM to American sausages," and add: "They are al ways growling over then1." We can hardly blame Jcrtnany for objecting to a sausage t liar I continually growl ing. The Treasury Department nfimuiuc that a new counterfeit ?1U bill ha Im-cii engraved recently. The f el Iowa who did It prolwibly will starve t death, for they w 111 be unable to work off a bill of that jii.e nowaday without ex citing suspicion. There la an old gentleman In Ilarri son County, Georgia, who Is SO years of nge and baa never ridden on a railroad train or taken a meal at any kind of public hotiHe. I ii mm riled in an adjoin ing town hint week and be ref lined to attend bin funeral tiecnuse lie would have to ride on the cars'. ,.n extraordinary attack of conscience seized nHn a yoHiig New York Isiok-keepj-r the other day. He hud liikcn from a house which he visited for good tnittlmw reasons a small package, which he found to contain diamond.-", lind he went to Philadelphia nud pnwn iil them. Hut learning that a servant had liecii arrested for mealing the dia mond, he returned and gave himself ill 1o the police because he could not suffer an innocent person to Ih- punish--d for his crime. The New York Advertiser notes that 1he Idiot who "did Hot kuow it was loaded," the woman who locks her children In the house while she goes to visit a nclghlxir, and the man who thaws out sticks of dynamite In the kitchen oven are doing their parts al most dally toward removing the sur plus poulat!!i. It will not do to say that tluse person should have nud the newspapers. Most of them do. Solo mon had something to my of the Im possibility of removing hi folly from a (fool even If he be brayed in a mortar. The rciiort conies from California .that an attempt Is to tie made there soon to construct an airship on a large wale. It Is to be made chiefly of alu minum. Is to lie about 1-iiMI feet In length, and the money is to come from the sale of shares in a stock company. This will make the second California airship of the year. 7'he other had no diffi culty In sailing In the air, for It was constructed entirely of feven-d Imag ination. It is not cXccted that the ailing qualities of this later craft will lie any more notable or go beyond a sale of stock. In an article In one of the New York papers on the late whiskers of John I Sullivan, a prize fighter and alwor bent of alcohol, portraits were given of the rnr,or with which said whiskers were removed and also of the intig which held the brush and soap. To the unpractjeed eye they looked al most the. same as any other mug and raior, but the service to which they were dedicated gave to them a pecu liar sanctity In the eyes of the editor of the' newspaper. Pictures of Mrs. Aster's ash barrets and Mr. Vandcr IbllPs toothpicks are next to be ex pected. Joseph Jefferson lias takeu op tlw (udgelaat-nlna undue athletic training, which, he says, "kills off more pcjile than t cure. The strain undermines the system, forces tn heart to taak far beyond Its powers, and a mault tMre la a colUpae of the life machinery totg before tha appointed Mine." Mr, Jfffmvjofl aaya tbat he met I-awrenc Barrett objm ;atn agn on a trt cor mn to Boatoa, aad Barrett said ho tu wmlfJaf for a ctr i taka nlm to a gjm aalan. "WalTa tha matter wtttt walk taf r MM iwCmmmi taat'a battar ercis than you will get at tlie gym tiuHiuni and it w ill save you the trouble of going there." The New York Tribune states that Uganda, the "Pearl of Africa," la mak ing rapidly progress In civilization. A I'arliameut haa been established, to gether with excellent police and postal systems, and the King has learned to read and write English. The credit for all this must very largely tte given to Christian missionaries, who have been diligently at work there, often amid great discouragement, for many year. The favorite Radical cry In Kugland, "I'ganda should tie utiaudoncd." which baa leeu repeated more often than. Cato'a demand for the demolition of Carthage, may now well tie hushed. To find oil any good map of Aula the City of Klrln, which by the new treaty la to be the Junction of the Russian and Chinese railway systems, draw a line went from Vladivostock. and an other northeast from Port Arthur; the Junction of the two straight lines will fall near KIrin. Now draw a straight line from Klrin northwest to Irkutsk; this will show approximately the route of the Siberian Railway through Northeni Manlclnnia. The Chinese railway running northeast from Tient sin In to be extended to Klrln. a ml will have a branch to Port Arthur. An Manlchurla Is about tin big a Texan, In about the same latitude as New York, ha almve ;1.ipio,(hii people, and plenty of fertile soil, the mining devel opment will be very great. Science has discovered an infallible: test of typhoid fever ill w hat is known 118 "the blood test." A drop of blood taken from the lobe of the e;ir. or the tip of the linger of a (inspected ty phoid patient, ami sent to tlie labora tory on a card, Is mixed with sterilized water and a fraction of It put on a mi croscopic slide. To tins a drop, or a portion of a drop, of pure typhoid cul ture la aihled. The slide Is then put under the ml-roscoM'. If the bacilli move and keep separate, there is no ty phoid in the blood of the person under examination, if the bacilli cluster and stay quiet, typhoid exists, or else lias existed in the system within six years, n i.iitjter whlrli can le very easily learned from lite put lent himself." No febrile dis uses, no nialirln. or any other malady in the Mood will cause this concentration of bacilli. The test Is therefore lihuolutc. Things have been looking up wonder fully for some of the old wood -engravers in the last year or so. When the various pi. olographic processes of en graving bean to be w idely used seven or eight years ago. wood-engravers, who had been eainii'g forty and fifty dollars n week, suddenly found them selves hard pushed to make twenty dollars, and many found It Impossible to obtain any work whatever. At first, the photo-engravers expected light a:id aiids to do between them all the wo'-k of making the plates. When this Idea proved to lie Impracticable, they turn ed reluctantly toward tool work on the etched plates. When this stage had Itecii reached, the times begun to bright en for the old wood-engravers, and more and more of thi-ni were employed to work over the plates after they hail left the etcher's hands, (iradually, too, a higher grade of skill came Into div imind. The consequence Is that the in comes of engravers are on u rise. At present. In some cases, photo-engraving may Is- said to be used only to do the rough work of cutting out the plate. It is then handed over to a skillful u graver, and every Inch of It Is gone over with painstaking skill. The result Is a combination of the best effects of photo-engraving, with all the light and sliiulo and color that have been asso ciated with wood engraving. Joseph M. McCillhtgh wns one of the old rntf nf Journalises, strong, deler niined, rudely vigorous, terrlllcall.v jxir tlsan, who have lunile blstorj' hi this country, lie ssses:ed Indomitable i-ouraKcati'l thosi- physical chami-tiTls-tlcs that in all ages have hccij found essentia) to sm-ci-ssful and continued leadership, lie had mi unequalcd ca pacity for hard work; his js-rslstetice at the tasks he bsk iisin himself was something formidable; bis sole thought' was for his newMiper and his Interest In affairs was more purely Journalistic than that of any man of his time. To him the globe wns n little thing com pared wit!) (lie St. Ionls rjlohe-Dcmo-nut. He was a maater of fence, knew the tierce and carte of public iIIhciis mIoii thorfMighly, but preferred the Hall. He had a burly hatred of cant and hum bug and smug double dealing and wns cruelly destructive of convenient pro teins. In tlie days before "Journalistic enterprise" became- a description of profligate expenditure he was a marvel of during. Even In hla declension Mr, MeCullngh waa an Important figure in American public life, a strong, com manding man, who looked upon the world coolly, lovd hla work ami per formed It with isiwer and courage. Hla death la a (rent loaa to the public Ufa of America, but a greaUr loaa to atngla mlnded and Intelligent totirnaUam. A tear In yoor trouaaaa will Bwrar wrr you aa loaf a fM n to Ifaor- un of It GOWNS AND GOWNING WOMEN GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WEAR. Brief Glance at fancies Feminine, Frivolous, May bap, and Yet Offered ia tha Hope that the Heading Prove If estful to Wearied Womankind. Ooaaip from Gar Gotham. New York correapoudeni-e: RITICAL attention Is sure to be given to the new gowns of late February, and so plentifully that the transition period has come to be considered a test of a woman's Judg ment In dressing. About February the well-dressed wom an begins to feel that her winter clothe are shabby, yet It la hardly time to go In for spring jlj, togtf, especially a all our cold weath er has been since Christmas. She wants something new, yet If she Is wise she knows that as yet there honestly Is nothing new. All she can do Is to make some tasteful new adaptation of the styles already In hand, with a -wd eye, of course, to the probnbi: . The probabilities Just now are ;,. h Instead of silk for almost all p.nposes except linings, sleeves small, though that Is settled, braiding, and skirts trimmed, lirlght colors, sashes, ovcrsklrts distinctly on the horizon, tiny frills and dashes of WIXTEK AVD SI'III.VO KPFKCTS ni.KNDBD. black, may also be regarded as Huh; straws of fahloii. And in fnsiilon, as elsewhere In architecture, you caiuiot make bricks without straw, so look out for your straws. In a street dress it may take the form of the gowu at the head of rhls col umn, which was In light-gray cloth, the skirt taking tabller effect from its over lapping side seams. Its blouse waist was of emerald-green velvet, with high stock collar to match ami a wide corse let belt of liberty satin in t'i same shade. Over this was a novel jacket whose back was cut in the usual way, but whose fronts were pleated Into the armholc lu the manner Indicated. Its very high collar flared at the edge and wa cut in one with it. The Jacket was made of the gray cloth, with green liu lug for the loose fronts. " Planned on a lens elaborate sculc for the same purpose were the second and third pictured models. The first of i these was lu dark heliotrope cloth, skirt and coat embroidered to match. The 1 high collar was edged with astrakhan, and the lining was taffeta of the same ', Mhade. The other w as of hav.mn brown i serge, and Its skirt was trimmed with I lace nicdalllnim, bordered and connect I ed by narow silk marabout. Above this j was a Hue of narrow brown cord. The ! bodice showed a band of lace Across the front, and lac point adfed wltb mara bout were added to tba valvet collar. The wide coraalat bait and bow ra of brawn velvtt, and a Jannty Start t II I AVOTHia MID-aiAtOV MODBfi. white eau de sole with cord garniture and maralsiut edging completed ft. lu all the lace used the design was out lined with gold. The stock belt Is a modification or the lsslice ls-lt, which i a little trying to a plump figure. The stis k belt starts at the back, being laid in folds and reach ing half way up tlie figure at the back back. These folds rapidly narrow as the licit passes alsiut the waist, till in front Ihc licit Is only about an Inch wide. Here the very narrow ends cross, returning to the back, anil at the middle of the back they knot, the full ness of the ends spreading as they fall down the skirt, while the loops are Illril OF MATERIAL AND COLOR. turned to lie downward below the waist line Instead of up. The trick a Unit this belt Is that it must be very carefully made, so that though it seems to 1h Just a matter of folds narrowing, all the ex tra fullness is really cut away, and there Is actually hardly more than au Inch width of gisids In front or in the ends. Fullness Is cleverly restored under the knot at the back, that the emls may fall with sash effiK't. The sloping line of the top of the belt from the back to the front Is very becoming mid restores a long-waist ed effect that is lost In the all around bodice belt. Although common snse gives full en dorsement to cloth for mid-season gowns, velvet is used a great deal more than It. was In the beginning of the win ter, and so much of It seen that the fact deserves mention. These dresses are almost invariably very handsome and It Is not at nil surprising to find in them the latest expressions of ingenious and tasteful dressing. This point is what leads to putting two of these cost ly dresses in the remaining pictures, for even if reproduction in velvet Is not to be thought of there's a chance for con triving with less expensive stuffs, with tin? newest and best, that the fashions afford as an easy winning. The first of these dresses the fourth In the lllus- IN TWO SHAflKS OF VELVET. t rations had a Russian green velvet skirt, trimmed with green, spangled white erepon. Its blouse waist was nile green surah, striped with lace Inser tion, and had a deep cream lace yoke, with a collar to match. It was finished with a black lace figaro also covered with spangles. The belt and the bow on the collar were black velvet, and the green velvet sleeves had wrist frills of white surah nud spangles on the puffs, Bteel gray velvet gave the skirt of the other costume, and an Insertion of rrenin guipure sprinkled with Jet beads trimmed It, The Jacket bodice wns of mauve velvet and had a short slushed tin sq ue edged with spangled lace, and girdle and yoke were white aatln. Tha yoke waa almost hidden by trimming of clbellne edged with lace, and a num ber of Elbcllne tails fell over the lace epaulcttea. If It la a bodice that la needed to help tide over until spring atyle are set tled, there Is a form of blouse that In well aeleeted material will serve vet7 prettily till we can aee where we are at It I made of crepe, mualln, aoft Ilk or velvet, and la accordion pleated. Copyright, 188T. Africa Imported from America and co nammed MT8.300 pounds of oar oaoMd meat, and paid 1100,792 for Umbo. ml TOriCS FOR FARMERS DEPARTMENT PREPARED OUR RURAL FRIENDS. FOR Best Time to Kill Timber Makinc Good Batter in Winter Wholesome Advice to linsbsnds Mice and Hab- bits in the Orchard. Time to Kill Timber. My experience lu cutting bushes or healthy timber Is that uo time in the year will kill all, but I Hud a big dif ference in the time. 1 have best suc cess cutting sprouts and deadening youug sprouts In the dark of the moon. August Is the best month, but July and Septemlier will do. Dry, hot weath er Is favorable for this work. The best success I ever had in my life in cutting bushes and deadening young timber was several years ago when the sign wa in the heart In the dark of the moon in August. Very little sprouting was needed after that cut ting. "But," says one, "what has the moon and sign to do with the life of trees?" Peal the bark from bushes In the dark of the moon, then again lu the llglit of the moon, and see how much easier It peals; also, cut a few hoop-poles. Those cut In the dark of the moon will continue longer clear of worms anil rot than those cut in the light of the moon; but many people have too much faith In signs and the moon. We nil know the top of a tree dies without a root; much the same a root will die with no top to support. Thus we see by cutting an old or ma tured tree, if bushes are closely sprout ed, they soon will die. Jacob Faith, Missouri. Mukinu Butter in Winter. With care in making the proper ar rangements, gissl butter can readily be made in winter, and the cost be not materially Increased. There must be fresh cows, (iissl, warm, dry shelter, plenty of gisid food and water, proper arrangements for handling milk and cream so as to secure the desired tem perature from cream raising anil butter making, and with these essentials good butter at only a slightly Increased cost per isiiind can be made. Hut the qual ity must lie good to make the most out of It, as the consumer demands good butter In winter tlie mi me its in sum mer, and the price is largely determin ed by the quality at all eiions. Mas sachusetts Ploughman. HumIiiiiiiW. Do not Judge husbands too harshly. I have looked the situation over very carefully, and I am convinced the blame is not so much or the heart, as some may suppose. These labor-sav ing appliances In the house are not provided many times simply because the farmer's wife really feels she can not afford them; but all too often they are not procured simply because the husband has never given the matter a serious thought. "Cloud husbands," this Is written for you. Consider how much money you have expended to make your farm work les burden some, and then compare your labor saving implements with those in the house and see if yon have done nil you can tn save the strength of her who works on uncomplainingly. Country Gentleman. Mice and Knbbit in the Orchard. In tlie winter season in periisls of deep snows, rabbits and mice are apt to do a deal of Injury to unprotected orchard trees. Where it Is anticipated It can generally be prevented, but to those young In the business it often oc curs that such a catastrophe is never dreamed of. In the case of mice, their work is always Is-tween the earth and the top of the snow, where orchards are clear of grass or weeds about the base of the trees as they should be. To pre vent any Injury from them it is a good plan to mound up earth about the base of the trees ns high net snows usually cover. Practical Fa rmer. Ponltrr Points. Plumage, symmetry nud so on de pends upon the sire. Observe which hens are the best lay ers and breed for them. It Is from well-matured parents that vigorous offsprings come. (ilve fowls all the range and exercise that the weather will penult during the winter. Strong, Ntliuulntlng -food has n ten dency to disorganize the stomach and produce Indigestion. Hetter results can lie obtained by giv ing a warm feed In the morning and warm water to drink. strawberry Culture. There are many regions without a supply of home-grown strawberries, and for every such section there Is an opportunity for some wide-awake farmer to build up. In a small way, a business that will bring to him much better returns for labor expended than he Is wont to receive from any ordinary crop. I say In a small way, because few will find It profitable to grow more than will supply snch a section as they can cover by wagon and realize retail prices for, unless exceptional shipping facilities are enjoyed. Bnt the quan tity of strawberries a small town will consume when furnished a continuous supply of flrat-claaa fruit la something Mtonlahlnf. Many who eonalder the gritty, half-decayed specimens usualljr offered by the dealers as luxuries quite beyond their reach, will buy well-filled baskets of fresh, clean, well-ripened berries by the dollar's worth. Exchange. Farm Notes. Sunlight is a great tonic and health giver. No stable should be without a window on the sunny eide. When it is time for any sort of work to lie done push it along as fast as pos sible. Never let it push you. It costs no more to hire ten men one day than oil" man ten days. The imrk commissioners of New York City have lieen spraying the tall elms, oaks and other shade trees of the city with an old fire engine, and tlie ap Iiaratus works so well and is so rapid and economical that many large or chardists who have seen It at work pro ixise to adopt it. - Spraying by steam will be a new wrinkle, truly. Mutton can Ik- produced at 50 per cent, less than the cost of beef. Experi ments made in England with choice sheep and (little showed that sheep stored in their bodies 12 per cent, of the food (demonstrated by increased weight), while cattle stored up only 8 lcr cent., thus proving that for mutton alone, leaving out the value of the wool, sheep are more profitable thnn cattle. Hoard's Dairyman says: "The man who would set up a stove out of doors to keep himself and his family warm differs only in degree from the man who fails 1o provide adequate sbelteT for his stock; and the man who keeps two fires running where one would suf fice is just as wise as the one who feeds stock that does not bring him n profit' E. Williams nd vises the use of corn stalks as a shield for young ieach and apple trees. He selects a large stalk, cuts off about two feet of the lower end, splits it. in half, removes the pith, and clasps it around the young tree, tying on sivuivly. If two pieces are not suf ficient, add more prepared the same way. Kabbits will leave them alone, and it is the Is-st kind of protection for the tree. The German potash suits are not caustic potash, hence they do not dissi pate ammonia by hastening fermenta tion when applied to manure. Instead, they form a compound with the am unmin, thus helping to keep It. from washing. The nitrate of potash thus formed is tlie most powerful fertilizer known, and it is one that can be ap plied to nearly every kind of crop or fruit with benefit Pea and beau straw are much liked by sheep, and, as they are somewhat more nutritious than hay, it is desirable to grow them for the flock. Beans are not. eaten with relish at once, but the sheep soon get accustomed to them, and then eat them readily. It is the best way to chop or coarsely grind them with corn or oats. One pound a day will be excellent for the ewes right along from this time on. The American Sheep Hreoder says: Keep the sheep's feet dry and clean while they are in tlie stable. It Is quite unnecessary to disturb the manure on the floor if it is kept dry niid well lit tered. The packing of it under the feet will prevent decomposition, and keep the floor letter In every way for the sheep than if it were cleaned every day. Plenty of common land plaster should be sprinkled or scattered over, the lit ter. This will prevwit all Imd odor. "Water Volcano." The famous Volcande Agua, or Water Volcano, with Pacaya and Fuego, are the three especial features of the nigh borhood of the city of Guatemala. Pacaya and Fuego are fiery volcanoes of tin! usual type, but Volenti de Agua emits torrents of boiling water and mud. nfter place, mala. In 1541, its first great eruption the Spanish occupation took destroying the city of Guate the ruliis being still visible In places above the bed of hardened mud. Now known under the name of Ciudad Viela, the walls of the old Spanish town suggest an American Pompeii. The water volcano is still active, at Irregu lar Intervals pouring out its boiling contents. Explanations are numerous, the most proUnble being the existence of u subterranean lake beneath the mountain, the waters of which take the place of lava in other eruptions. The mountain is 14,(M)0 feet high, and the cloud of steam that always hangs over its summit gives It a very un usual and peculiar appearance. Kstros. io yew know," began the summer boarder, "that . tlie pounding of the steak by your cook awakened me this morning at sunrise?" "So?" said the placid landlord. "It was a real poster sunrise, but bein' as you didn't order It it won't cost yon more'u tfl fer extra." Indianapolis Journal, A Masterpiece. Jinks The death sentence was a beautiful piece of word painting. Blinks Yes; 1 noticed how the doom-. ed man hung u ion the word.. Wash ington Times. Crnal Revaaaa, : 'T aee yon are able to be around thai morning," said the axle. ' - "Those puns make mt tired," askl ta wheel. "If you start again I win Da to turn on you." Wow York World.