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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1902)
Tb Hun ea hs-Jml a a bum, nuirxiwrom A.UIS05, NKBRASK Tba Toaitf King Alfonso of Spain is tneb a boy. It take the constant labor of 60,000 to make matches for tbe world. la golden when a girl pur Ilpa for tbe benefit of a young laws for a wo m a n berjelesely beyond da reach haa rained many a man's It doesn't take a United States war ttfp loaf to find a rock If there's one fnl business man Is one who other people to buy what be at want , the trusts may be like the Mis- pi River because there Is a great ratf ahead of them. h) Wilfrid Lanrler declined a peer ta. What an enigma be must be to IFBaua Waldorf Astor. FWaably RuJJard Kipling's idea of Mavea Is that It Is a place where you tot asset any of your relatives. AH civilized Ideas come up out of atgaalsm; the only trouble is, some of 1mm seem to be drifting back to the srtgTBal starting point. There are forty-elpht different species if the house fly, and each one of tbem mm tbe polished pate of the bald-head-id man for a skating rink. King Alfonso says he's going to mar ly tbe girl he wants. That's right; up, Alfey, and If she says no hit ' a good slap on the wrist. Once in a while the fool-killer neg cta bis business and somebody goes trough tbe whirlpool rapids below Ni agara Falls and escapes alive. Automobile racing has taken the lace of horse-racing at some of tbe aunty fairs. As long as tbe people can M to the stands and be safe let 'em teereh. It Is reported that tbe piano agents ire selling large numbers of these in rtraments to the farmers. Alas! Has t cabinet organ gone the way of ail Blags earthly? Sixteen bears have been killed within city limits of Dulutb within a short Jam. During the same period quite a laasber hare been seriously Injured on U flaSe street Chicago. Andrew Carnegie la going to build a POjMOgOOO home In London. Before long t aaaj be possible for the multl-mlllion-tlre to travel around tbe world and MB In his own palace every night. General Lew Wallace has made over 11,200,000 out of "Ben Hur," but he ye he would not advise any young nan or young woman to go into litera mre, as there is only one "Ben Hur," tnd, of course, but one Lew Wallace. The facts which tbe last census have sronght out regarding the boy and girl a-age-workers of tbe country are a na tonal Borrow. Approximately there are 10,000 children In tbe factories of tbe Sooth alone. In the North, despite more rigid laws, there are other thousands f laborers under a fit working age. Some day this burden of industrial wrong win be lightened. We are living longer than our fore fathers did, according to a recent cen tos report This Is a fine tribute to medical and sanitary science, but the tension of human life is only slightly revealed in the statement that the aver ige age at death la rising, higher and ilgber. Our lives are not measured oJeiy by the ."hours on the dial" and the figures on the" mortality lists. In jomfort. In the annihilation of time and ipace, in tbe provision for the en Joy Bent of existence, in tbe variety of bis txperlencee, the life of the twentieth kintury man far outranks tbe life of his forebears. A big placard In tbe window of a dothlng store reads as follows: Tbe Complete Outfit of a Gentleman for IBM." The display Includes every con terrable article of gentlemen's wear from top to toe, nlgbt gown and bouse dippers Included. What do you think tt that, you whose annual clothing bill tons under $100? You are no gentle Ban. That Is to say, you are no gentle bbb according to the Implication con BJaed In the above legend. Tou lack PX worth of being a completed gentle maa. Ask a child to define tbe mean Bsg tt the word gentleman. Nine out of aa win say, "A well-dressed man." Cbv many of tbem would Include a axorkiag mas, carrying home hla din ner pall, la the category of a gentle man? Isn't the dothlng boose legend Bjrreet? ? Doss sot commercialism edit fro saedarB lexicography? The esoteric mm B) aot looognisad, the exoteric gets 13 Cm arodX. Who looks for all the pS3afl of B fsartleman clothed In a 7 h2 Tat Cm onalttfes are often there. tl & m$mt 9 BBtne. Flaa feathers . oae of tke t U fct fcw of Cm vbtsJL Cm vutlug and uplifting character. He en tered the ministry In 1867, and for some time traveled the circuit, and from 1874 to 1S79 he was pastor cf the Church of Christian Endeavor in Brook lyn, In 1370 ill-health compelled him to retire from the pulpit. Prior to his retirement he hud edited several Im portant periodicals, among them the Little Corporal of Chicago, the National Sunday School Teacher, and Hearth and Home, 'and the Independent of New York. After his reliracy from the min istry he devoted himself entirely to lit erature and produced a large number of biographical sketches, historical works and stories, the best known of the latter being "The Iloosier Sehool master" and "The. Circc.it Ridr." While not an author of the first rank, bis works are extremely popular and his books for youth are among the best and most useful of their kind. All his literary work, indeed, reflected the high character of the writer. Few persons who are familiar with the genesis of slang and the condition under which it flourishes will challenge the statements of Dr. Edward Brooks, head of the Philadelphia public schools, to the effect that slang not only culti vates inelegant forms of expression but results in a low'ering of the moral tone of those who use It. On this question Dr. Brooks takes direct issue with Pro fessor G. Stanley Hall of Clark Uni versity, who is wont to publicly expa tiate upon the usefulness of slang in aiding boys and girls to acquire "flu ency of speech." There Is little doubt that the possession of an extended vo cabulary of slang tends to "fluency of speech." It naturally induces a ready and easy flow of words, which consti tutes "fluency," but what kind of flu ency is it? Why should fluency in the use of incorrect. Inelegant speech be en couraged or cultivated In children or in grown people? An easy flow of words can hardly be said to be an ac complishment if tbe words are coarse, vulgar or Inelegant distortions of the mother tongue. Neither can It be con tended that such "fluency" Induces the habit of accurate expression of ideas. The employment of such a vehicle to convey Ideas are unworthy the serious attention or thought of any person who makes any pretension to refinement or rational thinking. Clean thinking and correct speech go together. Pure En glish Is naturally the vehicle of pure thought and high ideas. It is itnios slble for a person to think ennobling thoughts In slang. Unrefined or vulgar thinking is naturally clad in the ragged rhetorical raiment of the street. The troubles of the bicycle trut have led to expressions of wonderment at the collapse of the bicycle fad, but that had begun before the trust was formed, and there is no mystery as to Its cause. The first of them was a reaction against this common American fault of 'overdoing things. Men and womeu half killed themselves by riding too far. Every pleasure trip became a pleasure exer tion, In which the weaker competitors were painfully exhausted. An absolute disgust for the wheel followed among the victims, many of whom would nev er mount a wheel again after one such heart-breaking and body-racking ride. Another cause was the cheapening of wheels, which brought theni within the reach of the plainest people and raised social doubts among tbe aristocrats, who could afford to pay f 150 per wheel. Tbe incursion of the commoners came just in time to save tbe liverymen, who were about to expire, and brought back to the horse some of his old value. An other cause in many places wag the de testable condition of city streets and country roads. Except on a first-clas road, a bicycle is a sorrow, and the bi cycle rider soon exhausts the delights of a few boulevards and an occasional highway that bappeni. to be !n fair con dition. He wants variety and novelty without getting them at the cost of ter rifically hard labor and of considerable bodily peril. It is said besides that the exercise Is not as beneficial as some oth ers, but under favorable conditions It affords a pleasant means of getting about and seeing town and country, and the probabilities are that the pres ent reaction will be followed by a per iod of Increasing and healthy demand for wheels. In fact dealers and repair men say that this period has already begun. Troubles or Map-Making. The geological survey of the United States has issued a report showing that although twenty years bas been devot ed to mapping out the country, the larger part of It is still unsurveyed. In some of tbe Western sections the work Is attended with the greatest difficulties and dangers. Recently a party sent to man northern Montana was obliged by tbe severity of the weather to climb Calf mountain do fewer than eight times the last 1.300 feet on foot be fore an opportunity was presented to get a photograph of the surrounding country. Tbe photograph ic method is employed In all aucb wild regions. When tbe negatives were finally se cured It was after waiting all day In a driving snowstorm. Tben there was a lull of a few seconds, during which six snapshots were made. During tbe other seven days the snow waa unremitting. Cuwpaa as Fodder. Tents made by H. J. Waters of the experiment station at Columbia, Mo., bare demonstrated that eowpea bay or clover hay la superior to timothy aa roach food for fattening cattle. Ha made three tawta, using steers of differ eat ages each time, aad found that tba animal galBOf moch more lean ob tba eewpea aad etovar hay than oa the tim othy. Thai wa baUere, tts all b oa fcaad Wmm tit 1 tt 1-H r I I OLD i FAVORITES ril f r r l t Kr-r H Mil ttt LITTLE BREECHES. ( don't go much on religion, I never ain't bad no show; But I've got a middlin' tight grip, sir. On the handful o' things I know. I don't pan out ou the prophets, And free-will, and that sort of thing But I b'lieve in God and the angels - Ever siaee-oae flihi-lasri prig. - - I come into town with some turnips, And my little Gabe came along No four-year-old in the county Could beat him for pretty and Btrong, Peart, and chippy, and gassy. Always ready to swear and fight And I'd larnt him to chaw terbacker Jest to keep hia milk-teeth white. The snow came down like a blanket As I pussed by T assart's store; I went in for a jug of molasses And left the learn at the door. They scared at something and started I heard one little squall. And bell-to-split over the prairie Went team, Little Breeches, and all. Hell-to-split over the prairie! I was almost froze with skeer; But we rousted up some torches. And searched for 'em far and near. At last we struck horses and wagon, Snowed nnder a soft, white monnd, Upset, dead beat but of little Gabe No hide nor bair was found. And here all hope soured on me Of my fellow-critter's aid I jest flopped down on my marrow-bones, Crotch -deep in the snow and prayed. By thin, the torches was played out, And me and Inil Parr Went off for some wood to a sheepfold That he said was somewhar thar. We found it at last, and a little shed Where they stint up the lambs at nigjt. We looked in and seen them huddled thar, So warm, and sleepy, and white, And tbar sot Little Breeches and chirped. As peart as ever you see, "I want a chaw of terbacker, And that's what the matter of me." How did he git thar? Angels. He could never have walked in that storm. They jest stooped down and toted him To whar it was safe and warm. And I think that savinjr a little child, And fot ching him to his own. Is a darned sight better business Than loafing around the Throne. John Hay. FOR A HUDSON BAY RAILWAY. Dream of Canadians Now Likely to Become a Reality. The statement a few days ago that the Canadian government has equipped a party which will begin at once the exploration of the vast wilderness ly ing north of the Great Lakes seems to Indicate that the project for a Hud son Bay railway, which bas been a dream for many years, may become a reality in the near future. Little is known of the character of the coun try between the lakes and James' I bay, but what has been heard from j hunters and Indian guides leads to the ! belief that the section Is wealthy, with deposits of coal and ore, with great forests, and with land suitable for agri culture. The task of surveying these exten sive tracts will be a stupendous one, and the Canadian government does not expect that the labors of the survey ing party will be completed within two years. Although Canadians realized the wealth of the Hudson Bay country, and talked about a railroad for It for more than twenty years, they finally were forced to stand aside and watch Amer ican capital do tbe business. The first step was taken something over a year ago, when a road was built north from Sault Ste. Marie Into the forests In the Moose River country, chiefly to carry pulp to tbe mills at tbe "Soo." While it is by no means certain that this road will ever get as far north as James' Bay, it Is beaded that way. From the "Soo" to Moose Factory, the southernmost point ot James' Bay, Is a distance of about GOO miles. The Moose river, from Its headwaters at Brunswick Post, seventy miles north of the Csnadian Pacific line, Is 425 miles long, and tbe road would follow Its course for the most part, not much allowance being made for deviations. The upper stretches of tbe river run for considerable distances through muskeg, or swampy land, and for a long stretch the surrounding country, though heavily timbered, Is compara tively level. It would not offer any more dif ficult problems of engineering in rail road building than have been solved satisfactorily In tbe pineries and swamp landa In northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. It Is not certain that the stories of tbe vast mineral wealth of the Moose river country sre Justified, for little prospecting bas been done. But aside from the timber, a rich farming coun try undoubtedly could be opened along the vsHey of that river by a railroad. Men who have traveled through from the American line to James' Bay re port abundant evidence of the rlcb fer tility of the soil. With a railroad, that section, now a AMAtara waste, would become one of the richest agricultural sections of Can ada. Tba argument made against Its agricultural development la that short seasons would make diversified agricul ture iBpoaslbie aad that grain would not thrlra. Tbom famRtar wlC tba country. the Moose river Is not so much snerter than that of Manitoba, one of the greatest wheat belts of the world. Fif ty miles south of James Bay tbe cli mate Is not affected by tbe changes of tbe sea. Every Hudson Bay post bas Its garden patch, where all kinds of vegetables are raised. The development of these rich farm ing lands would, It Is thought, be a big Investment for any road. The Moose river drops 1,000 feet In 425 miles, and, being a constant succession of rapids, offers wonderful opportunities for man ufacturing through the development of Its water power. WAS A FAMOUS FIGHTER. Portrait of Gen. Ciark iiaas in '.We War Department. In the office of the Secretary of War there bangs a fine oil portrait of Gen. George Rogers Clark, which is of Inter est just at tbe present time, as it is this Gen. Clark who figures prominently In a popular novel and play. Moreover, the painting attracts additional Interest from the fact that its origin and how It reached Its present place are ques tions which no one now In the War De partment seems to lie able to answer. The portrait shows the General in the old buff and blue uniform of our fore fathers' times, says a writer In the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His face is rather of tbe puritanical type, with a high forehead, close-set lips and a Arm and rather sharp chin. Gen. Clark was born In Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1752, but spent tbe greater part of his life In Kentucky and Indiana. In 1778 be raised a small vol unteer force In Virginia, crossed the Ohio, reduced nearly all the British posts between the Mississippi and tbe great lakes and arrested the Incursions of the Western Indians. His marches through the pathless wilderness were so rapid that he generally took the enemy by surprise, his prudence so great that be rarely lost a man, and his daring has never been surpassed. In attacking Vln cennes In February, 1779, he was five days in wading his army across the val ley of the Wabash, flooded with melted snows for a breadth of six miles, gener ally waist deep and sometimes up to the shoulders an exploit that paralleled Hannibal's crossing of the Thrasymene marsh. Gen. Clark was variously employed by the State of Virginia and the United States up to 1786 In maintaining pos session of tbe western country and sup pressing Indian hostilities. He died in 1818 near Louisville, Ky. This conquest and armed occupation of the northwest territory by Gen. Clark was made the ground on which the Count de Vergennes and the Ameri can commissioners obtained for the United States, by tbe treaty of 1783, a boundary on the line of the great lakes rnstead of the Ohio River. THEY OWN 700,000 ACRES, And Over 30,000 Head of Cattle Koam on Tbeir Lands. It requires no small degree of finan cial genius and administrative ability to acquire and maintain a tract of land 700,000 acres In ex tent On this area from 30,000 to 40,- 000 head of cattle are constantly roaming and fatten- 1 n g for market. I Jl f A I-and and cattle are Yi ''1 ownt'd by the fa rV I mons Turkey Track VV?" I (5 a 1 1 1 e Comn.inv which operates In u. a. Packard. Sonera, Mexico, and in Arizona. Its members are Bur dett Aden Packard and W. C. Greene. Packard is a native of Portvllle, N. Y. At 23 be located In Pennsylvania and went into tbe oil busness, remaining until 38S2, when be located In Arlr-ona, settling at Tombstone. There he took up mining, and later went Into the cattle business. All Hlrloin. Holman F. Day's "Pine Tree Bal lads" tells In verse a number of stories that actually happened "down In Maine," and are remembered there to day by old narrators. One relates to Barney McGauldrlc, a landlord of that State, at whose bouse famous men irk ed to stay, that tbey might enjoy a merry joke. Barney was always loyal to bis friends. At one time a new meat deal er came to town, and tried to secure the landlord's trade. "I have always bought meat of Jed Haskell," said Barney, "and I guess I won't change." "But," said tbe other, "old Haskell doesn't know bis business. He doein't even know bow to cut meat" "Well," drawled Barney, "I've al ways found that be knows enough about it to cut sirloin steak clear to the born, and that's good enough far me." BllndneM la Increasing. The proportion of sightless to seeing persons bas been watched with especial Interest In Great Britain and the lat est statistics Indicate that It has fallen In a balf century from about 1,020 In tbe million to some 870, or more than 14 per cent. This decline bas been so timed as to show pretty conclusively that it is tbe result of better conditions of living, improved surgery and doubt less a decrease In tbe ratio of perilous to non-perilous employments for the masses of the people. A woman gives birth to a boy, and, with care and devotion, ratoea him to years, and makes a man of him. After twenty-five or thirty years of her Influ ence be marries, and In six months they are Mying bis wife "made" him. It la as bard for a now hoaband to live np to aznoatadoM at It lor tbe The United States produces 25 per cent of the world's coal. A combine of all tbe peanut factories In Virginia Is under way. Mrs. J. C. Smith will supervise tbe construction of tbe lake channel In tbe St. Louis fair grounds for her bus band. During" July the Pressed Steel Car Company turned out an average of 103 cars per day, of a total value of $3, 250,000. It Is told that the gross membership of the labor organizations who are con nected with the American Federation of Labor exceeds 1,000,000. An attempt is being made to con solidate the leading malleable iron foundries of tbe country, with capital from $16,000,000 to $20,000,000. One of the results for England of the Boer war Is that the wages of the working people fell off nearly $8,000, 000 last year, as compared with the previous one. New York capitalists are promoting a $25,000,000 trust to take In all the ax manufactories, handle manufactories and grindstone factories In this coun try and Canada, the plants to be op erated under one management The production of Iron ore In France Is centered principally In three districts that of the northeast, or the Mcur-theet-Moselle, Is tbe most important, producing 4.500,000 tons of the 6,600, 000 tons or Iron ore mined in France annually; that of the Pyrenees, pro ducing 250,000 tons, and that of Nor mandy, 150,000 tons. The monks wbo manufacture tbe Chartreuse liquor In France have let to an American syndicate tor ninety nine years their cloister, factory and grounds. Including the mountains where the wild plants required for the liquor are gathered, together with the recipes and good will. The rental Is said to be $2,000,000. A census report on tbe manufacture of locomotives In tbe United States during the census year 11)00 fixes the number turned out at 3.046, of which 2,774 were built In twenty-elgbt Inde pendent establishments and 272 In twenty-six railroad shops. The Inde pendent concerns employ an aggregate capital of $10,813,703, and pay $10, f't,61t for wages. Cornelius Vanderbllt, the millionaire inventor, keeps balf a dozen mechan ical draughtsmen busy on drawings of bis inventions. When in New York city Mr. Vanderbllt spends most of bis time with tbeso draughtsmen In bis of flee on tbe seventeenth floor of a busi ness block on Broadway, where may be seen models and drawings of fire boxes, coal cars and other devices which hi bas patented. Statistics compiled by Carroll D Wright show that the business of tak ing summer boarders footed up the rather startling sum of $0,609,304 In New Hampshire alone In 1899, and It has, to all appearances, steadily In creased since. Not sentimental results alone have followed Governor Rollins' Ingenious conception of tbe Institution of "Old Home Week." The annual visit of so many of tbe sons and daughters of the State from all over the country has revived their recollection of the agreeable New England summer ell mate and has boomed the summei boarder industry. Ben Tlllett, wbo has returned to London after a tour among the labor organizations of tbe United States, has Issued his report on the position of American labor. He dwells upon the buoyant and hopeful demeanor of th workers, and tbe prevailing frankei and more businesslike relations be tween capital and labor than prevails In England. The power of unionism seemed to be growing. American em ployers are more scientific than those there, and the worker does not give the maximum of work for the minimum of wages, as be does in England. Tll lett maintains that In England the1 highest quality of skill and energy Is claimed by tbe employers to constitute what they call average ability. In America, on the other band, superior proficiency always received extra com pensation. Trlala of the Dry Good Clerk. Clerk-Thls Louis XVI. material la $10 a yard. Customer Well, haven't yon any Louis XXX. for 30 cents? Monnd Bleep. We sleep the soundest between three and Ore o'clock In tba morning. An hour or two after going to bed yon sleep very soundly; tben your alamber grows gradually lighter, aad It la easy enough to waken on at one or two o'clock. Bat when four o'clock comet you are la such a state of aomBolenes that N wobM tab a groat daal to w&k- 20 MILLION BOTTLES BOLD ITIIT YA. Happln" I" ot p!n, and rrll ton have been made happy throuh belr ear-d br St Jacocs Oil of RHEUMATISM. NEURALGIA, TOOTHACHE, HEAD ACHE, LAMENESS. SCALDS. BURNS. SPRAINS. PRUISES nd all p'nt for which an eitemal rem'dy can be applied. It never falh to cure. Thousanda who have been de clared tncurahie at batha and In hospitals have thrown away their crutcbea, belne cured after uslnf St. Jacobs Oil. Directions hi eleven lanruare accompany every bottle. CONQUERS PAIN Justice of the Peace Henry Dundy, of Jersey City, recently married Mrs. Mary Becker, and tbe ceremony wat performed before a mirror. Tht bjidegrooro officiated as tbe minister, and. looking In the glass asked tt usual questions of his own reflection, and answered tbem himself. Then he pronounced the couple man aDt) wife, kissed tbe bride twice, onri for the Juslcte, and once for th groom, and tben started on bis honej moon trip. A Wonderful PilL Freedom, Mo., Nov. 3. A splendid remedy has recently been Introduced !s this neighborhood. It is called Dodd'l Kidney PIUh, and It has cured linen matism right and left. On every band may be heard stories of the remarks ble recoveries and from what has bees stated already there seems to be n case of Rheumatism that Dodd's Kid ney PIIU will not cure. One of those who has already tested the virtue of Dodd's Kidney Pills it Katie Anderson of this place, whs says: "I can't say enough for Dodd's Kld ney Pills. Tbey have helped me se much. I sunereo very severely wits Rheumatism. Five boxes cured mi completely. Tliey are certainly tbi most wonderful medicine I have evei ued." Osage County abounds In Just such esses and If the good work keeps oa there will soon be no Rheumatism left In this part of tbe State. A professional "Wild Man ot Borneo," named Calivn Biro,' a oe- ?ro. went to a hospital at Syracuse, N. Y., to have his horns removed. Under hla scalp a silver plato bad been ingeniously Inserted, In which stood two standards. Into these standards, when he was on exhibi tion, Bird had screwed two goat's horns, and thousands ot people have paid to see bis boros and bear him ba k. PUTNAM FADKI.K.SS DYES pro duce tbe brightest anil fastest colors. The Cathedral of Gothenburg, which was only built In 1815, thrent ens to collapse. Mm. AilKttn'a fun-inns Buckwheat ixinUf the flneat BnrkwhPSt rakin. . Ready In a moment. Auk for It. Ri-fuse sulmtltute. France's St clely of Dramatic Au thors collects fcr its clients sns t8M,000 a year. Mm. Amtln'a Hurkwhoat Is tbe rrl thine: rives yon the renl penulne old buckwheat flavor. Be sure and ft the onnlne. No amount of millinery can evti operate as a substitute for a woman's sweet smile. Energy all gone? Headache? Sttm acb out of order? Fimply a case oi torpid liver. Burdock Blood Bitten will make a new man or woman oi rcu. An'Irlsiiman In speakloK of an ac tor said: "lie acts thq part of i dead man true to life." Piso'i Cure for Consumption cured mi of s tennciouj and jeristfnt cougb.- Wui. II. Harrison, Til W. street New York. March '. 1001. What a relief it would be if musi cians were born instead of being madi by practice. Good News by Wholesale. A rx.stal card sent from Billvllle t ono of the absent brethren reads: "Dear Jim: fiuthln' but orxi news to tell you: Your trap paid of! the mortgage, your brother brok o ut o' Jail, an' your daady hus Ji-M got $1,000 out the railroad for iut- oln' over bis leg. Ain't Provldcnn provldln' I' Atlanta Constitution. Newest Imported Dallies. Violets, roaes and daises have dis appeared fiom tbe dollies used foi ceremonial table setting. The new est lupoitatlons are plain white, li heavy Irish embroidery. CASTOR I A For IaJaaU aad CUldraa. Tki Iti Yci Kin Ahrtn CcrU Bean the Bagaataraof i ' i 4 boys: Taay are bowtiaf, faaart Chtt Cm
