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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1898)
' --I Sri tbarrison Journal. BO. D. CAM UM. Editor ud Prop. fcUBRISOH, A late idea for ladles' dress gloves Is frog-skin. They are approriate for hops. r A Boston woman left 9-M.oihi to sup port her pet parrot. Crackers shouldn't be beard of by tLastt bird: it s got a pud ding. An Atlanta paper says that "no man should tote a pistol." That's true, too; any dictionary will substantiate !i:it tatetuent. The problem. What shall we do with oar ex-Presidents? is no longer a puz ale. Sir. Harrison and Mr. Cleveland have solved It. Could the English have invented mod ern foot-ball as an expression of the national instinct for grabbing other people's ground? Conduct is generally an index to char acter, and on the stock market those, working for a drop in prices can always be told by their bearing. There's a proposition afoot to estab lish a penal settlement In Alaska. In many respects as well an latitude this might be on a line with Siberia. The Missouri man who started for Washington to dnpliea 3 Guiteau's tragedy and landed in a Chicago jail may be a '97 model, but he is geared too high. A New York physician advertises to -restore outstanding ears to their nat ural position." Gentlemen who have a few ears still outstanding will do well to bear this advertiser In mind. It Is possible to obtain a divorce In Missouri now after one day's residence In that State. Why not abolish the time limit altogether and offer a divorce chromo with every pound of tea? A clergyman In Milwaukee asserts that "the nude figures ou a &5 bill are , positively indecent." There is some consolation, then, in the thought that even If one be poor one's morals at least are uncontaminaled by the Govern ment. On an Eastern street railway were re cently exhibited specimens of the old and new passenger cars. The old stage seated twelve persons. Inside and on top, while the modern car, which occu pies less space, provides seats for forty-two, to say nothing trf the facilities for banging on to straps. Tbe old world vineyards have been of uncertain dependence for years and the output becomes more and more pre carious. The end is evident. America will be the world's greatest vineland rn the near future. Already the Cal ifornia vintage is getting in competi tion with tbe older wines of commerce. h but needs a little more care in culti vation and expertness In manufactur ing. Tile world at large has long looked upon attetnins to solve the mystery of the Icy north as foolhardy and uncalled for. A certain admiration Is provoked by tbe daring of the men willing to un dertake them, and the written story of those who have been so, fortunate as to return makes Interesting reading, tot tbe substantial benefits gained have not been sufficient to offset the dread record of tragedy attaching to the full history of polar exploration. i In our family of States, as In a house hold, there are now and then exhibi tion of selfishness and Indifference even occasional outbursts of anger. But let real trouble come, as In the case of tbe yellow fever visitation in the South, and discord ceases. Sympathy and aid are quickly offered. What finer evi dence that we are one people than this ready response when need arises! In onr.body politic, as In the human body, If one member suffer, all the members suffer with It. Some time ago a naval expert wrote an article for the Pall Mall Gazette of I.ondon, In which he said the battle ships Massachusetts and Indiana of tbe United States navy were a match for all tbe Spanish warships afloat. This may not be an exact statement, but It conveys an accurate Idea of the supe riority of our navy over Spain's. Spain has more vessels than we have, but moat of them are old and would be helpless In an encounter with any of onr ships. If there ever should be a war between the two countries Hpaln would be swept off the seas in a week. The tendency of young men In this country to embark IB tbe learned pro fessions with no especial aptitude for snythle except avoiding manual labor, 1 constantly on tbe Increase. It la greatly to be deplored, for to such fail arc Is almost the Inevitable result. The trovMe with these young men Is that tbey do not understand the dignity of manual labor. They do not realise that honor and fortune may be more read ily realized outside of these so-called learned professions than In them, and that It Is Just as honorable to swing a hammer or to bold a plow as t is to make a speec': mrrt or amputate a limb. The Dominion Is evidently deter mined that the Yukon gold fields shall ytaM np to It all the revenue which can aaaslMy be gathered from them, and al ww laying a royalty of 25 cents a .tort on the cord wood with which tbe mlistrs thaw oat tbe gold from Its Icy afrli and cook their rations of side mi coffee. Tbe logs for their t;lli are similarly taxed, and a sat Manila! fraction of the gold they dig Is also levied uihmi by minions of her revenue stationed there. These ordi nances look rather mean, but we are not complaining of th,-m aud are not likely to institute any of the same sort la reprisal when the golddigging comet around wltl.iu our own lines. Some time ago a writer for the Farm eis' t'niou asked a very ardent admirer of Prince Bismarck what he thought was the secret of that great man's won derful Influence. In reply, his German companion said: "Mine friendt, Bis marck knows how to hold his tongue in six languages!" No doubt a saga cious silence saves many a difficulty. But Bismarck has liceu babbling in his old age. He has volunteered the opin ion that our much misunderstood Mon roe doctrine is "uncommon insolence to tbe rest of the world, and does violence to the other American States, and Eu ropean States with American inter ests." It is a very difficult thing to be lieve that such a great mind could blunder after this fashion. But then when Polonius grows old he will talk! Tbe abuse of the right of petltiou consists, In part, in an Indiscriminate use of that method of reaching a de sired end. It is a truism that the ob taining of signatures for a petition is usually an easy matter. Men sign out of good nature, to get rid of Importuni ty, because they have signed similar documents, and so on, and sometimes the body of the petition Is not even read. An excellent Illustration of reck lessness was recently furnished. A cit izen complained to the Governor of a State, because a certain criminal had been pardoned. The Governor seut for the papers In the ase, and the com plainant was found to have signed the petition for a pardon. lie had put his name to the paper without reflection, and had forgotten the fact. But when bis own request bad been granted, he Indignantly held the Governor guilty of an act injurious to tbe public In terest! The state of public sentiment In Can ada toward the United States Is not of the friendliest nature, if some one, signing himself "An English Visitor," In the St. James Gazette (London). U to be believed. He says: "Prof. Gold win Smith stands alone as a consistent advocate of the erasure of Canada from the map; aud he is without fol lowing or Influence, except that com manded by social position and Intellec tual eminence. One cannot help admir ing his courage In facing the over whelming tide of public opinioo. His obvious exasperation is the meas ure of his failure and Hie proof of Ca nadian Independence. The ant!-American spirit Is, Indeed, abvilute. I have been amazed at lis strength and inten sity. In some quarters it amounts to an almost fanatical hatred. If those Englishmen at home who have had enough of American abuse and blui ter and I think we are all getting a bit sick of It want to find themselvei in congenial society, they should ruri over to Canada, where they will hear sentiments vigorous enough to satibfy the most impatient. Everybody Is not equally bloodthirsty; but 1 verily le lleve Uiat, next to a duly on American' wheat, the most popular thing in the cyet of Canada which it is within the power of England to do would be to administer to the United State a good ringing diplomatic box on the ears. This Is not merely empty jingoism. The Canadians, who have much better opportunities of judging than we have, do not believe that the Americans mean serious business against Eng land; but they are willing to abide the Issue, even If It should come to that, although tbey are perfectly well aware that they would be the chief sufferers. At the time of the Venezuela crisis, for two days after President Cleveland's message, Canada expected war; yet there was only one feeling throughout the country the hope that Lord Salis bury would stand Arm. They knew the brunt would fall upon themselves, but every man was ready to stand to his rifle and face It. Home may pooh pooh this as empty boasting. For my part. I have been assured of Its truth quite independently by too many calm and thoughtful men not to be Impress ed by It." Three Queer Tcnn usee Farmers. "There Is In Tennesse a family of three sisters which present some of tbe most startling peculiar I ties Imag inable," said Mr. i. J. Kennedy, of that Plate. "The three Sisters live together on a farm, their sole means of suMst ence, and work early and late to turn a livelihood. Two of thern work la tha field; the third does the cooking and other housework. "There is but one period of the year when any member of tbe trio has any thing to say to any other member. All during the winter, spring and summer they go about Wielr business with the seal of silence on Mirtr lips. When fall comes and the crop Is harvested they break the silence, am then only to quarrel over the division of the pro ceeds. When eaefi has succeeded In get ting an that she thinks jiossible, silence reign again until the next harvest time. The sisters, as you may Judge, have made a name for themselves. They are known far and near as the 'deaf ami dumb triplets, although such a title Is scarcely appropriate." Wash ington Post. Itack to the Old Proposition. Miss Perklnson My ancestors came over In the Mayflower. Miss Westlake Indeed! 1 suppose yon were too young, though, to remem ber much about It, weren't you? The "HcorcherV' Way. Walker-Tbe way of tbe transgressor Is hard. Rrder Is that so I stoat tsk a spin over It some evening on my wheel When a man's temper la raffled his brows are usually kail Pf We all thought Pyrites Sam was a fool the very day he struck the caui, but were not absolutely certain until tile night he came in with his (sickets full of pyrites of Iron, and taking each man aside privately Informed him, with many injunctions as to secrecy, that be had discovered and located a brass mine. As a rule we had grown vi ry tired of initiating every tenderfoot that came along Into the mysteries of quart milling: showing them the dif ference lM-twcen gold-bearing quartz and country rock; between a true lis sine and contact vein; between gran ite, porphyry, schist, spar, serpentine, quartzilc. etc.; of trends, !';'s, spurs, angles, etc.; of shafts, tunnels, slopes, winzes, and drifts; of the manipula tion of the horn spoon or gold pan; how to distinguish the resultant sediment. If gold, from mica, pyrites or sulphur ets; in a word, teaching them in an hour or two all we had learned after years of toil and privation. We had reached this stage of the "tired fin-ling" when Sam brought in his "brass" rim-cI-mens, and not a man of us would tell him what it was. "t'h-huli," we said, as he carefully exhibited his di-ccptive-looking And. What did we think of It? Why, it was a great tiud and very high grade ore if it was brass. "If" why, of course it was brass; look at It; auy 1 i iy e n, lid see what it was. We admit ted Uiat they could; yes, anytsxly that knew anything at all. So we permitted Sam to work away In Ignorance ou his claim for two weeks until he received returns from the sample sent to Los Angeles for assay. Then the "Bras Monkey," as Sam called It, shut down, and he went to prospecting again. We LOOK T1KKK, never asked him any questions, out he volunteered the Information t'. ;t It was of gixxi ore, but at that dl' .ince j from a railroad It could not be br :dlel at a profit. One day one of the boys found his certificate blowing als,.t the camp. It contained no figures, only a statement of what his find cumtisted. and that hereafter to Insure an answer he had letter Inclose a stamp, as the of fice could not afford to lose the postage In replying to the queries of alfalfa miners. The finder tacked this on to the postofllce door, but Ham only grin ned, and said "we ell got to leom." lie was so persistent ami Industrious In his determination to "strike it rich" that we finally liegan to have a fellow feeling for him and to appreciate his pluck; sympathy he did not need. He was jolly and good-natured, did not drink to excess and was never known to turn a card for money. In a friend ly game in his tent the suggestion of "draw" at only a dollar limit was al ways met by lils quiet statement that he never played for money, that he wa raised different, and, besides, his mon ey "came so hard" that he knew he would be a bad hater. He wan always ready with bis sympathy when anoth er's ledge "pinched," "petered" or "broke off," and encouraged hi in all he could: always had a song or a story for a bad night; and In Uie event of sick ness or inj iry bad some simple remedy In the way of poultices that his mother "used to use." In fact, he wat one of those happy-go-lucky, light-hearted fel lows, handy slsnit camp and a friend to every lsdy, but one could not get rid of the impression that he 'Vlldn't have any more sense than the law allowed." Therefore, It was accepted as a matter of course, when a tenderfoot struck camp one day In the first stages of des ert fever, that Sam should take entire charge of hint and dose hltn with w(ld sage and ' 'squaw" tea and concoct ap petizing dishes from bacon, beans, rice tnd flour. Homo of us dropped In oc casionally on our way to or from work to learn the patient's condition and (o ffcr suggestions, but Ham was coosld sred h"sd nurse. As s "aiayar," OMiaiiaJ or Cbagres RITE5 DAM fever Is not to Is compared to desert fever. The latter drags along and hangs ou day after day, wwk after week, and although the patient may be able to crawl about he Is weak, debili tated and nerveless ami "don't care a rattle out of the Isix" whether be lives or dies. This was thf condition of that tenderfoot. During the middle of the day hedrnggisl himself about the camp In the sun, but . ... ,t-r of the time he spent in his bunk in his tent. One night, w hen most of the iniys were assembled in the "Bedrock." Sam came in. and. going n.i to the bar, drunk alone, contrary to his usual custom, then turned his back on the crowd, leaned bis elbow on the bar and gazi-d out into the darkness, at the same time twisting his mustache fiercely, as if worried over something. "What's wrong, Sain? Patient dead?" some one asked. "No," said Sam, "but he's a-layln' up there wishin' he was. I tell you, part ners," he continued, turning to the crowd, "I've been in hard luck mvself o've all of us, I guess-an' seeu oth- ers in hard luck, bin thai sor cuss up there's In the hardest streak of luck I ever see. He's plum down to bedrock au nary color." "That's nothin,' Sam: we've all b'-cn there many a time. What's the maiter out of grub?" "Now, he ain't out o" grub, an' won't be as long's Sam's got any; but It's somelsxly else. I got a letter for him to-day on the stage an' took it down to him. After he read It he Jest turned ovej with his back U me an' laid quiet, but purty soon I shifted to where I could set his face, an' I'll lc denied If PAKTNEIIS; LET'S ANMVEK BESSIE'S PK.AYEK." be wasn't cryln' yes, sir, cry in' like a Imby, he's that weak, you know. I sjiys to him easy tike, 'What's the mat ter, pard? "'Nothin',' he says, 'only more hard luck.' "'Girl gone back on you? I said, thlnkln' to be clmerful an makln' up my mind to Josh him. "'No,' he says; 'It 'ud a-ls-ea betlor for her If she had long 'go. Head that,' he says, an' handed me this," concluded 8am, as he drew a letter from his iock-et- It was dated from au Ohio village and read as follows: "My Own Dear Husband Your lov ing letter received yesterday, but it found us, oh, so down -hearted and wishing for papa. Hear husband. It seem that our troubles will never end. Mr. Uhoades has changed his mind and will foreclose the mortgage. You know be said before you went away that if we paid the Interest up he would let it stand a while longer. Well, when the mortgage was due I sold the an! took some of the money you left me to live on aud paid the six months' buck Interest. Now he says, as the mortgage Is due, he must have his money and will foreclose. 1 tried all the companies and banks to Isirrow the money lo pay him, but they nil say that 1X000 Is too big a loan on the place; they won't loau over $l,."(Hl, and be won't take a second mortgage to secure the other f.VSI. Yet It does seem hard, when the place ought to le worth three times 9 1, OK). I've tried every way to sell It. but I cau'l gift no one to give anything alwve the mortgage. Eveiylsidy knows It is mortgaged and are waiting to buy It nt Sheriff's sale. Uhoades knows tills, too, aud now he says It w ill save us lots of trouble and costs If we will give him a quitclaim deed and surrender peace able possession. I begged him to wait a while, but after lie had learned you had gone out to the mines he said he would not wait a day; that you were on a wild gMe cuase, and, dear husband, he even Intimated that he believed you were never coming back to us. That made iiai sngry, and I may have wild thlnn to him that I should not, but I could not help It. Now. dear husband, I can not stay here after having sold the cow; there Is nothing to do here, you know, except washing and ironing and house-cleaning, and I am not strong enough for that. Mrs. Simmons will take Bessie and let her help with the housework and go to school, and I will sell the chickens, pigs and furni ture and rake little Charlie and go to Cleveland to try to get sewing or some thing. It will lie, oh. so hard, but It can not lie helped. Now, dear husband, do not worry: we will get along some way. Kemember the words of the prophet: 'Once I was young, but now I am old, but never have I seen the righteous forsaken or their seed lag ging bread.' Now. dear husband, take care of your health, and if you do not find anything out there soon, come back to us. we miss you, oh, so much. Every night Bessie prays for her pajMi, 'way out In the mines,' and that he may find something rich. You may be sure that I echo her prayers. Write as soon as you get this, dear husband, for I can not slay here long. Your lo lug wife, "M AGGIE." This letter was passeii around; two or three started to read it aloud, but ! they broke down, and it was silently passed from one to another. It was well for Mr. Blioades tha' he was not In camp. "He told me nil alwiut it." said Sam. "They was five acres In the home place that he got from his father's estate close to town, an' he bought five more Joiuin', luortgaglu' the ten to make up the balance of the money. He'd a-made It all right, but times got hard, an' first ! one, then anotner of them got sick an' he had to keep on a-mortgagln'. He j see he could never pay out, so he come out here lo see If he couldn't strike It, leavln' nearly all the money they had with his wife, an' this cuss Uhoades sayin 'that he'd let the mortgage stan" I anuther year, now dern him. See that stain there? That's from a bunch of j apple blossoms that was In the letter; I he 'lowed they must a been from the yellow harvest tree back of the garden, poor cuss. Take keer (f yehr health, dead husbanV an 'him a-layln' Hat of his back up there In his tent, without money enough for a month's grub. 'Come back soon to us' huiii-m. l.ook here, pardiiers, let's answer Bessie's prayer, an" show this feller Uhoades whether mlnln' Is chasln' wild geese nr not. Meblie Sam's a dern fool, an' I know he ain't got much money, but be can rustle. I'll go puny nigh my . ou it there's fifty; who's all in ou It?" and he slammed two twenties and a ten on the bar. It was Jut like Sam, and whoever heard an appeal like go unanswered In a mining camp? There were fifty men In the room, and every man saw Sam's ante, and those that did not have that amount borrowed It from their friends. In a few moments $2, fs;0 In gold lay piled on the bar. Sam's eyes glistened as he cornted the mon ey. "Everybody's In on the game," he said; "won't one of you ccm : down and see what he has to say?" "No nonsense, Ham; you take It down, an' tell us what he says to-morrow." "No, I'll be derned If I do. Home of you fellers got to come along. I ain't a-goln' to play this hand alone any longer." So three or four of us went with him. Well, there Is no use going Intr- details. What would you or any othir man say tinder the circum stances? Finally he wanted to give us a note or send a mortgage back as se curity, but we laughed at him, and all of os crawled Into our blankets that night conscious of having done some thing that might balance something ese ou the debit side of the recording angel's ledger. lie was too ill to travel alone, and at last, after repeated urg lngs. Ha in was Induced to accompany hi in. "You can bet your life," said Ham, "that I'll give Mr. Khoudnai the camp's resiMe's," Not long after that mypartncr and I left the gulch and drifted Into Cripple Creek. One day when court was In ses sion we dropped In to sen how a court organized under the code operated. "Well. I'll be d ," muttered my part ner as fie pointed to the prisoner's dock. There were two men In It, Pyrites Harn and the tenderfoot. The air seemed to grow suddenly close In the court r om, and we went out. "Them fellers V" said an officer In an swer to our Inquiry; "why, they're two of tbe slickest sll round -on men In the West. They're on trial now for taltin' a mine su' doln' a tenderfoot np for almut ten thousan'. Miners? Why, man, they're experts; raised In the mines; show Via a plto swe anywhere lietween British Colombia and Mexico, an' they'll tell you what district It's from. The officers been ! a looklu' for 'em for mouths, but they've Is-en hldiu' out some place down In Southern Californy. I guest they thought their last trick had been forgot, so they come out." At noon we went down to the jail, and were allowed to see the prisoners. "Hello, Sam; how's Uhoades?" "Hello, hello; how's the boys down si Tough Nut?" and Sam and his partner grinned. "Look here, Sam, you done tbe camp up In good shaK and you know ws won't squeal, but tell us about It." "Sure; but then they aiu't nothin' to tell; this Is my pardner, an' there was no fever, no Uhoades, no Maggie, no Bessie, no Charlie, no mortgage, no form, no cow. no no apple blossoms, no nothin', but Jest me au' him." "An' fifty d n fools," said my part ner as we went out. He made a brief mental calculation, then said: "Sam was there three months an' his pardnor one, an' they cleaned up twelve hun dred an' fifty each; not bad, 'specially when they was hidin' out from another trick they'd turned," Across the street I saw a building with swinging doors and red windows. I poinied to It and asked, "Whafll you "ke. Jack'" "I 'low It'll take about four fingers of hot Scotch to settle my stumuilck" and In? took it. St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat. FASCINATING PAWNSHOP. Few Persons Clin (o Itjr Without a Look In at Its iuiJow. Few persons can pass a pawn brokers' window without stopping to look In. says the New York Evening Sun. It contains so much suggestive interest, so much that speaks of asso ciation and history. No parvenu prod ucts or things of mushroom growth, such as stare at one from the windows of shops that preach the gospel of the brand-now. Each article of the pawn broker's stock-in-trade has Its reason for being there. Its own little tragic significance. The eloquence of the In animate object Is never greater than when In a pawnbroker's window. Wedding rings, love tokens, meual and badges, how they set one to syeoii lating upon their past, and the why and wherefore for their present! Often one is tempted to himself settle their future. Class pins and fraternity badges In the paw tibroking plight are esiiecliilly suggestive, and more espe cially if one lie a member of tbe class or the fraternity. Unconsciously one soon forms the hnbll of never passing a loan shop In any part of She town withoiii stopping to see If any of his class plus are being held as hostage. There Is a conscious pride at the dis covery that more pins of some OtlieK fraternity are In dNgrace. The re-t demptlon of the pins follows as a mat ter of course. As many of them are marked with Uie name of the owner, It Is often possible to return them, In which case the finder has all the righteous glow ot Die good Samaritan. But whatever the result, this sort of rescue work Is always Interesting. If Impossible to trace the owner the pins make a significant collection on lhlr ownaecoinit; when unhampered byany sttiblsini facts tli Imagination can in vent their histories to suit itself. It Is worth noting bow few badges of wo men's societies one ever finds at tbs pawnbrokers'. The times are replete with clubs and classes and fraternities of women, lsth In college and out, buf their In signia, it would HpMar, are rarely pawned. The contrast with the num-. ber of men's badges that are so fated Is remarkable. Any one who makes a sillily of the pawnshop windows and the pawnbrokers themselves, Indeed, will assure you of this. The unexpect ed hapS'iis when the badge of a wo man llnds Its way Into a loan shop. California ( .rloli firm, ( Mi rich-farming is one t the most in teresting of Califon la's tariely of In dustr1c. Alsiut twelve ears ago Ed win Caws-ion brought oner a cargo of forty-two ostriches from South Africa. Th7 thrived on his Norwwlk and Paaa-, deiut ranches, and now jtie proprietor has over three bundredj native birds and Is increasing his "troop" at tha rate of about one hundred chicks year ly. J.a average ostrich weighs about two hundred ami fifty pounds nd stands seven feet high. , Every few months the "ripe" wing and rsJl-feath-ers of the mature birds are plucked or cut, without any ln or discomfort be ing caused to the birds. The feathers are variously dbqKised of In single plumes, tips, boas, capes, ollsrs, etc. While the great bulk of tbe product g'Mt to the wholesale trsde, the ostrich-farmers carry on qurtf a retail business for the occomnKKlatton of their patrons. The ranch, reached by electric car from Los Angwles, trs a Mecca for tourists. There Is a protec tive Import duty of at per cent, on os trich feathers, and under Its bttoeflotat Influence this "Infant Industry" a thriving so well that It is only a;i of time lief ore California will !e , to compete successfully with JaMcaa producers for the entJie American) mar ket. That this marki4 la a valpable one Is shown by the fact that tha1 Uni ted Klutes now annually consumes aliout thirty millions of dollars' worth of Imported ostrich feathers. Baa Frameset) Argonaut. More Precious than Oolit. At last, after man; dangers, she bad braved the terrors of tfie Chllkool pass and had rejoined ber lover on the Klon dike. "Are you glad to see me?" tbe ashed. "Do you still think thst I am worth my weight In gold V "In gold?" be cried contemptuously, as be folded her to bis frosea bosom. "My dsrllng, yon are worth our weight In hssh." The farther a man cau look Into tbe fulutt tha fewer creditors ho seas. h ' . j!' at ai t - I
