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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1900)
4 r, CSilzzi Press-Journal 03EO. D. CANON, Publisher. HARRISON, NEBRASKA Of the M.I88 deaths which occurred la Parts for the year 1890, no less than 1X314, beace about one-fourth, were dwe to consumption; 37.2 per cent of thus ptnou died between the ages of X ud 30, 60.2 per cent between those of 2 and 40. Aa Alabama geologist who has been prospecting in the neighborhood of Decatur can he has- found unmistak able traces of gold and phosphate . Wttttla fifteen miles of the city named. Ha refuses to divulge the exact loca tion, as he is operating for the pur chase of the lands and the organization of a stock company Workman digging a ditch near Sound Prairie, In Logan county. O., have Just nncovered one of the finest and beat preserved mastodon skele tons yet found In that state. Unfor tunately they damaged one of the ea ormous tusks before they knew what It was. The tusk is nine feet in diam eter at the socket end. ' The castle in which Oswald d'Aur mene, a Belgian artist, has offered Mr. Kruger a home was built by monks 309 years ago as a convent. It has had a raried career, a former owner having entertained royalty in it, and was bought only a few years ago by M. d'Aurmene, who is wealthy, and re stored all the old splendor, besides in stituting all modern conveniences and " Fresh excavations on the eastern slopes of Vesuvius have brought to light a Tast edifice. 24 rooms of which hare been disinterred, and the walls of which are covered with frescoes of a data anterior to Pompeii and of great- beauty. The director of the Berlin Museum is on the spot, and it is re torted that the Kaiser has offered 100,000 for the "find." 8everal of the European general staffs are studying the feasibility of or ganising special corps something after the Boer model. The principal difficul ty lies in the limited supply of horses at the command of the various govern ments, with the exception of Russia. The last equine census in that country Is stated to have shown considerably snore than 10,000,000 horses fit for war purposes. " Lorney L. Salley, a 70-year-old vet eran of the civil war living at Free port, Ind., received a pension of f 25 per month and applied for an Increase to 340. There was some irregularity in his affairg.and these were discovered when his application was considered. The result was that his entire pension was taken away. The old man brood ed over the matter and began to fail rapidly. He absolutely revised all food for weeks, and died on Thanksgiving day. ' " Mr. and Mrs. Paul Reicke of Callfor nla are in charge of a signal station on the brow of a lofty peak in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where they keep a sharp lookout, field glass in hand, for Ires which might break out in the : wwnraheds that skirt the railroad through the rocky wilds. If a email tame should pass unnoticed for an tear the whole chain of sheds might be consumed and the tracks endan gered. The woman watches by day and the husband by night A frank and somewhat artless stti ment of what is being done in the line of Doming the farms of the Boers is saade by a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette at Johannesburg. This enterprising person wishes to form a to buy up the farms of the i aad sell them to English settlers. The properties can be bought for a Mrs trifle. The reason why, as given by this speculative correspondent, is rnetraetira. When the Boer prisoners f war return they "will find In nine eases out of tea that their homesteads hare bee burned down and scarcely a head of stock left" They will be Jes ' tttnte and their only hope of subsis tence win be in the sale of their land far -whatever a speculative company i to give. If there were no such things as time locks a Presbyterian church at Mount Jey, Pa,, would be $8,700 richer than it fa Rer. David Conway, while pastor, was thrown from his carriage last year and fatally injured. Knowing that jeth was near he made a will leav tzg IM00 to the church, but learning tat under state law bequests must be Bade thirty days before death he caai aa order on a local bank giving 11 Cm ebnrcB 33,709 worth of bonds he ' tzl as deposit This was In the even 1 : Vsusd as the bank vaults were pro- ttil by a Usee lock the bonds could rll V da3rered till eext morning. Be- i - e time Mr. Con way was dead. rtlar held the eenrttles pending ZJ MmUUm, which has Just been he CM.eSset that the bonds most t& to the estate and divided -Zipt. Co4wayf relatives. - f .'- a saunas fa the fire " fc3a ts Paris, palled ;, -)tru msum wmcb ue , . ngz-m u4 was as- Iftxsswet eoBMsttiac of ' J crrra to Cm ratae ft t cat tee her tl a be 1 I if HANDLING DISEASE CEBSS. Millions of ravaging disease germs are fostered and fed in the bacteriolo gical laboratory which is owned by the Boston board of health. There are all kinds of bacilli, from the bubonic plague specimen which has the power to extinguish a human life in the short period of a few days, to the dull, half dead mites that require years and years of frequent, even continuous, at tacks in order to deprive man of the pleasures of life. There are descend ants of germs who did their last deadly- work in some remote part of China or India, germs which have caused much sorrow in the very heart of this city, gnawed off the heaviest bonds or friendship, and brought poverty into families that were comfortable and in dependent Maybe there are microbes that have traveled the country over in futile quest of victims, or assailed the living as well as the dead on the mysterious bottom of the sea, because this great collection is gathered at dif ferent times from mineral as well as organic matter. It is an army that could produce an awful calamity were it set at liberty and given proper di rection toward thai end. There are people in Bosfbn who fear this army to such an extent that they actually lose sight of the etreotiveucra of the method whereby it is kept and cared for, and they even allow this unwar ranted fear to interfere with business prospect3, says the Boston Transcript. Here is an example: The laboratory is located in the Sudbury building on Sudbury street Its quarters being somewhat unsatisfactory for the work, the board of health sought premises nearer the center of the city and final ly obtained an option on suitable rooms. Preparations were made for the removal of the laboratory to the new location, but at the last moment the owner of the building changed his mind in accordance with his ground less fears, and the laboratory had to remain in the Sudbury building. Pos sibly it will be taken, into the old court house after that structure has been renovated and enlarged. It may be useful, therefore, to look mto the bacterial camp, the scientific prison of so many enemies of life and happiness. Death lurks in every cor ner like a feasting parasite, without hope and without desire to escape, ev erywhere watched by the bacteriolo gists, who handle it with calm and authority. Under the conditions there is absolutely nothing to f3r, as the good health of the doctors and attend ants will attest. Every little group of germs kept in stock lies imprisoned In a glass tube, drenched in serum or agar, which, while it feeds the microscopic organ ism, also prevents its escape even if the stopper were removed from the mouth of the tube, and each tube is sealed with paraffin. No germs can rise from the media and sail in the air. They rise only when they are r, isi they are nvr dry except when the bacteriologists dry them on a glass slide over a hot fire, which kills them. All the materia! which is used in the researches is destroyed by fire as soon as the experiments are completed, excepting the glass recep tacles and (nutruments. which can be cleansed by chemical solutions. Ani mals injected with the more danger ous germs are not kept in open iron cages during the Incubation period; they are put into giass bowls and excluded from all chances of coming into contact with anything which might transfer the disease. Summing the story up in a few words, the labor atory is as safe to health as any office or dwelling house. KEEPS THE FEET WASH. The illustration snows the combined carriage lamp and foot warmer re- COMBINATION CARRIAGE LAMP, cently patented, for use in cold weath er. The object of the Invention is te provide simple and effective means by which a continuous warmth at little expense may be supplied to the feet of the occupant of the vehicle, and in which the arrangement is such as to provide a light whose rays may be di luted on the road In advance of the team. This object is attained by mounting the lamp proper directly un derneath the body of the vehicle, with the Ml reservoir located below aad at Out tear lamp. Leading from the res erved so the lama la a carved tube frr3a taw feed wtek, aad la line r. id I'rse la the glass bulTs-eye, Yrtk Ct rays are emtttei. ?r tit tM m a nettzi V contained inside the body of the wagon and a passage for smoke is formed by a continuation of the pipe. It can be readily understood that if the wick is ignited and the Vet are placed over the warming chamber and covered with a robe they will be perfectly comfortable themselves and also aid greatly in the circulation of blood through other portions of the body. CANADIAN tiHEDINO DKVICE. The sowing of grass and other fine grain evenly is a difficult task when attempted by hand and most of the patent seeders offered for sale are too costly for the average farmer to in vest In, especially when It is taken into consideration that the seeder will only be used once or twice a year. With the idea of providing a cheap and simple apparatus, which will sow the seed rapidly and evenly, a Canadian in ventor has " designed the apparatus illustrated above. It consists of cloth sack suspended from the shoulder and provided at its single lower corner with a fuunel leading into the distri buting lube. The funnel has an in ternal gate to limit the amount of grain passing through. In the outer end of the tube is arranged a series of deflecting fingers, which aid materi ally in the distribution of the grain, which is accomplished by swinging the tube from side to side while held in a slanting position, the grain falling GRAIN-SOWING APPARATUS, toward the outlet as long as the end s held downward and the gate left open. Owing to the length of the tube the area covered at each swing is consider ably greater than could be seeded by hand. MuAclea and Brain. In one of bis recent lectures at Clark University, Prof. Angclo Mosso of Turin averred that "Physical edu cation and gymnastics serve not only for the development of the musclf-s, but for that of the brain as well." It is becoming evident, he said, that 3 3 much time should be devoted to muu cular exercise as to intellectual extr cise, and children should begin read ing and writing only after they are nine years old. Muscular fatigue ex hibits phenomena identical with in tellectual fatigue. Nerve cells show on the average every ten seconds a tendency to rest. It Is probable that only pirt oi the brain is active at the time; the various parts relieve each other. The more mobile any animal's extremeties are, the more intelligent, other things being equal, he is. China' toil Flrlili. China contains some of the richest coal deposits in the world. Last fall Professor Drake of Tientsin visited the coal fields In the province of Shansi. which were examined by Baron von Richthofen in 1870, and found that they are of Immense extent. The coal area is said to be greater than that of Pennsylvania, and the pnthracite coal alone contained in these fields has been estimated at 630,000,000 tons. The Shansi coal beds are so thick and lie so uniformly In a horizontal posi tion that the practicability has been suggested of running long lines of railroad tunnels through the beds so that the cars can be loaded In the mines all reaiy for distant transpor tation. To Protect tbe firrat Kadwaoda. It was reported at the recent meet ing of . the American Association tor the Advancement of Science that tn redwood forests of the Pacific coast are now practically all in the hands of private owners who hold them tot lumbering purposes. Since the redf wood rivals the gigantic sequoia If size and interest, It Is deemed a nut ter of scientific Importance that t should be preserved, snd the assocli tion approved the action of Its bo tan -cal section in favoring the purcba and preservstion of a public park i the Ssnta Crus mountains coverlis more than 25,000 acres, and oecupl i largely by the primeval redwood fc - est. Woaaarfal Va4aWa Slafa. in aLuivinr the variations in tie light certain stars In the clusjr known aa "Messier 3," Professor B ey has found one star whose chsns are so rapid that In thirty nunuietii Mi, mnn than aa entire msumltuer i. k mnrSm bUDSttSS mOTC ttpfl aa wvsiei wwpw - two and a half times aa bright a11 was at the McJaaia awter ava- ariih a rmtUUf atfaMBt UrUbBf, Their entire ferted ctf a-- u Mal9uras to tls I ad. r- ezr? ..i i a i j ' WAVS THAT ARE DARK. "She told me I looked pale," said the eerious-faced girl on the car, "and so she took me upstairs and put some rouge on my cheeks and sent me off to the party feeling like an Easter egg. "She said I was lovely, however, and I admit that I thought the embellish ment rather becoming when I gazed in the mirror at my pinky reflection. But I had a miserable time at Mary's. I had forgotten to ask my hoates3 whether my complexion was a fast color or not, so w-hen the rest bobbed for apples in the most ridiculously un dignified fashion, I was obliged to ab stain for fear of emerging many shades whiter than when I went In. "Also, though my face became very warm from dancing, I did not dare to pass my handkerchief over it, lest the senseless linen absorb the rich, warm blood that mantled my blushing cheeks. "I was never so still and uncom fortable in my life. I spent my time endeavoring to catch surreptitious glances of myself in the many mirrors that adorned the walls," quotes the Baltimore New. "I was self-conscious and absorbed, and I've no doubt every man there considered me a brainless idiot "When I got home I found my com plexion was Intact. It hadn't rubbed off in epota or done any of the horri ble things I expected it to; but it looked to me dreadfully as If it had come out of a battle. "TMa trie mv tinti ...i. r;m.fT 'boughten' beauty, and it's going to be my last," said the serious-faced girl, emphatically. "Up to this time I have pinched my cheeks when I wanted them flushed, but r can't recommend this method, either; it gives one such a spotted look, quite as if spinal men ingitis were about to supervene." "I bathe mine in scalding water when I want a good color," said the girl next her. "A cloth dipped in the boiling liquid and then held to each cheek until it is scarlet is the pre scription. Then dash on eau de co logne, and by the time one is ready to go out one's skin Is delightfully pink." "That makes wrinkles," said the third young woman of the trio. "Mullen leaves are good enough for me. Get your country friends to send you a box of them. They're fuzzy things, and one will act as a cosmetic half a dozen times. " 'Course there's no color fo come off they're green. It's the fuzz that iiaukes one's checks red. Grandmother told me about them. She used to use them when she was a girl. Every one did then, she says. I think it's vulgar to spread the 'bright vermill'.on on the tenderloin,' as my brother says." And then the shopping district was reached and the young women filed out soberly, leaving a couple of highly edified men In the seat In front of them. Worked Both Way. "I can't have lost all my good looks," said Miss Northslde to her best friend, Miss Shadyside, "for I can still obtain a seat in a crowded street car." "Oh, we!!,"- replied Miss Shadyside, "you know the men will give seats to old age as well a3 to youthful beauty." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Ahead of ItlDt. Chimmle "Dafs McCorker de heavy weight me cousin iwed ter go ter school wld m." Billle "Dat ain't nuthln me brud di;r had free front tee' knocked out by him onct." Brooklyn Life. (latitat; Tired of It, "What makes you look so unhappy, little boy?" Small boy (sobbing) "Nobody never calls me good unless I am a-doing sometbln' I don't like to do." l-ondon Tit-Bits. roKCE or as bit. Hs (on the way to the fancy dress ball "Wait a minute, my dear, while I turn up my trousers." Xatarall. Young Stone"! spoke to the chem ist aad he advised that I should " Doctor (Interrupting) "Oh, he gare you some idiotic advice, I suppose." Stoae "He advised me to see yon." Tlt-Mta. BOs Befits. Be Toa .ellmed as Matter born? Zat was a treat foot the Oreet feat, you mean, count. He Ah! tea. you climbed him more aa taee! Paaea. . I lif Her Valuation. Biggs (to cabman) What will you charge to take me and my wife to Blank's hotel? Cabman Half a crown, sir? Biggs And how much for taking me alone? Cabman The same half a crown. Biggs (to his wife) There, my dear, you see how much you are valued at. Tit-Bits. MotlirrlT Advirc. "Johnny," said the St. Louis mother, "I want you to quit using that low, vulgar language." "Why, mother," replied Johnny, "Shakespeare said what I Just said." "Then you mu.st quit associating with him," said the good woman. "He's not a fit companion for you." Limited Ownerihlp. "Your children seem to be pretty well behaved," remarked the friend. "They're not my children, then," re plied the hen-pecked man. "My wife only admits that they're 'our child ren' when they're bad, when they're good they are 'her children.' "Phila delphia Press. HOW KIND! Willie Mouse (to chum) "What a nice, kind man he must bo who pro vided this safe refuge for us!" 1 1 tha Floor. "What de newB fum Marse William at de capital?" asked the colored con stituent. "Well, the paper Bnys that he 'has the floor.' " "De goodness gracious! Is he drunk already?" Atlanta Constitution. Made a Find. Hetty Looking over the dictionary again? Evidently you find it intensely interesting. Uertha No, not interesting, but amusing. It spells words eo different from the way I spell them, you know. Boston Transcript. Eaalljr Explained. "There Is a man in the east end who hasn't heard the election returns yet" "What a stupid! Doesn't he take any Interest in the welfare of his coun try?" "Yes, but he's deaf." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Like All the Reat. "My wife learned French in weeks." five "Well, Professor De Verges says her French is as good as any spoken in our neighborhood. Indianapolis Jour nal. U reedy. Hlldred "It makes me so mad for somebody to eat np all the nuts before soup Is served." Malabar "Especially when you were about to grab for them yourself? I agree with you." Boston Transcript Profeaaloaal. . Winks What advice did the doctor give you when you went to him this morning? Blinks He advised me to go to some other physician to whom I didn't owe 5. Answers. A Jolat Wardrobe. "Do you like your new cook?" "Oh, yes, I haven't worn my silk cape but once since she fame, but, gra cious! I'm not going to bother her about a little thing like that." Indian apolis Journal. Itlaeovery. "You seem to have discovered the secret of keeping a servant girl, Mrs. Hill." "Yes. Several years ego I fqund a maid whom my gowns exactly lit, and I have had no trouble since." Denver Times. Simply KiUU. Miss Pepprey Ursclous! You don't nrean to say that you absolutely do nothing? Lnony Aw, weslly, I don't even do that. My man attends to ev'wytbing, y' know. Philadelphia Press. ' Irrational. Mrs. Jones Oh, doctor, Is my hus band still IrrstlonalT Dr. Dosem Extremely so. When I told him your mother was coming to morrow he smiled. Judge. ' Saaaearaan. A woman doesn't talk through her bat unless It happens to be a nev one. Philadelphia Record. The Inexperienced maid wants to be a man's Irst lore, but the wise wld ow prtfsrs to be his last if rroaa Kotlilag 10 eO.U0.oee. The late banker Abraham Wolf?, of New York, whose estate has Just been figured up, left about $20,000,000. And yet he was never reckoned among the heavy millionaires. He began his ca reer as an office boy, without a penny, worked his way up. He never talked about ihs wealth or splurged with it, but when be made his will he didn't forget to remember generously every employe in his banking house, from the highest to the lowest OLDEST UM IN A12ERICA Tells How He Escaped the Terrors of Many vv inters byUsincj Tcruna. jt mi - Mr Isaac Crock, the Oldest Man in the United Stales. Mr. Isaac Brock, of McLennan coun ty, Ter., has attained the great ag of 111 years, having been born la 1788. Ho is an ardent friend to Po runa and speaks of it In the following terms: "During ny long life I have known a great many remedies for coughs, colds, catarrh and diarrhoea. I bad always supposed these affections to be different dlseas.-s, but I have learned from Dr. Hartman's books that these affections are the &ci3 aai are properly called catarrh. "As for Dr. Hartman's remedy, Pe runa, I have found It to be the best, if not the only reliable remedy for these affections. "Peruna ham been my stand-by for many years, and I attribute my good health and my extreme age to this remedy. It exactly meeta all my requirements. "I have come to rely upon it almosC entirely for the ninny littlo things for which I need medicine. I believe it to bo especially valuable to old people." leaac Brock. Catarrh Is the greatest enemy of old age. A person entirely free from ca tarrh Is sure to live to a hale and hearty old age. A free book on ca tarrh sent by The Peruna Medklao Co., Columbus, 0. Genius recognizes nothing but gen ius. P.heumBMo and Gouty Affections fllaap-ix-ar after clemming- the system with Gar field Tea-a blood purifier made of herb bjkJ recommended by phyatclana. Cunning is about the poorest coun terfeit of wisdom. I So not believe P!o' Cure for Consumption bas no equal for couh and coUU. Joh! F BoTSa. Trinitv Sprinir. 1 ml. Feb. 16. MKtt When you tell a secret it is no longer a secret LOSS .OF MEMORY Is often derived from an unlooked for source the Kidneys. Odorous urine or that which scalds or stains Is an In fallible proof that you are progressing towards Brlgbt's Disease or one of the other forms of Kidney Trouble all of which are fatal It permitted to grow worse. rwrd wfU ka pals far a caee of tieckarba, nwioiuom, lep ItaiMM, wrakDMM, loae of vi tality, lortplKiit kldsty. blaadrr and arlnary illaorotn, that caa aot tie cured by MOBROWS UID-flE-OIDG tfc rt n-ln!!S? dlworrry for akattircd aertr aud thin linvrln-4 blond. NEI1BAHKA AMD IOWA aaople oarad br KM-ne-oUta. In writing tkem plaaae Drle elamped addreeeed euteJepe. Mm, LIIIt Pmtt, 1010 f ML, Uwoln, Kb. Mn. Hut-l lUudrrwa, V. M.rk.t St., Beatrlr, Nl. Mr. II. L. Snwll. MH Ohio St.. Onwhd, Neb. William y.lmrorrman, nii Wblo Ht., Kafcaqne. Krttnk ltanl, ?tl Kl,, Kst 1mtique. Mra. P.mma llan'-x-k, IM lsth St., Dabnoae. K. L. Nan I.. Hi Intra St., Dubuque. Morrow's Kld-ne-olds are not pills, but Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents a box nt drug stores. JOHN MOtROW h CO., CHEaitrs, aariafSet. 0. For T l'rie Ski Tnar Asia! ASM rollLTBV U- W. Irkeai at Coaaeany. ;up. Vaal, Ultra and for.. I'otatoee, Ouloua la Canoad l.o'a. iiMner,"ra attar, t. Oaaaha W. N. U.-OMAHA. No. 50-1900 1 i j . . .tTC VWi v XataWaBaBBaaBSfWJaBBBSBami PATEtlTOsP V -IT