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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1903)
f n I The first scientific society wag estab lished by Ir. Franklin. Yarn from wood pulp in now an ar ticle of commerce in Cermany. India rubber and gutta percba trees have been discovered In German New (Julpea. The first woman telegraphic opera tor wus Surah C. Hagley, of Lowell, Mass., lvu. The Chinese government has taken the first steps toward the organization of a patent system. Financial students in the Treasury predict that there will be $l,UOO,iJO,UX) In gold In the Treasury within the next five years. Her puppy having died, a fox terrier at Twickenham Ik now contentedly act ing as foster mother to a couple of young kittens. Kidder The proverb, "Every dog has 1(8 day," doesn't go in Algiers. Kasly Why? Kidder Fur the very good rea son that there every dey has his dog Two Itoinaii coins, one a sliver token of Immltian, A. 1). Si-tut, and the other m brass piece of Trajan, A. 1. OS, have been unearthed in Dowgato Hill, Lon- - don. The, Mexican Government has pur chased the major part of the recent Issue of Iiiteroceanle ltallroad Com paiiy's bonds, thus obtaining the con trolling Interest In the road. Since 1S.V) the population of the world has doubled; Its indebtedness, chielly for war purposes, has quadra pled. It was eight billions fifty years ago; It Is thirty-two billions to day. Prince Frederick Leopold, who mar rled a sUter of the German .Empress, and Is known as a strong pro-Hocr, has fitted all his men servants at his pal uce near Potsdam with Jtocr uniforms and slouch hats. Postmaster Hubbard, of Hoston, fur Dishes good evidence that the recent political campaign aroused consider able Interest in Masachusotts. Nearly twice as much campaign literature was handled as was ever before known In Lis office. A million dollar bills packed solidly like leaves In a book made a pile 2" feet high. One thousand million dol lars, the price which Europe annually pays for armaments In time of peace, equal a pile of dollar bills over fifty- two miles high. Cornell's entry of a crew for the Henley regatta has Inspired the organ ization of the Cornell Club of London. Seventy-five former students of Cornell University have joined. They are most ly electrical or mechanical engineers .-employed by Charles T. Yerkos and the new electrical establishments there. W. J. Chapelle, who died recently In Leavenworth, Kan., was manager of Ford's Theater at Washington when aj President Lincoln was assassinated, and was one of the first to reach the side of the woiindi-il President. He was T.'J years old. and had been In the show business for fifty years. He Was burled at Great Bend, Pa., where his daughter resides. Duncan Gillies, who has been chosen SpeakiT of the newly elected Victorian . Parliament, In Australia, was first i elected to that body In IM.7.) as a min ers' candidate, he being then but 23 years old. Ever since that time he has ' been a leading parliamentary figure. Mr. Gillfes, who was born In Glasgow sixty-nine years ago. Is the first Scotch man to occupy the Speaker's chair. He has declined to be knighted.- 'Vanuniamitangl," which Is Samoan for the "home of the singing bird," is the nan- given to her new residence In the Santa Cruz mountains of Cali fornia by Mrs. Robert Louis Steven son. The spot Is In one of the quietest parts of the great blue mountains and much like the old home In Vallinia. Mrs. Stevenson had a house-warming party at Vatiumanutangl recently, where she made welcome all the lead ing social and literary lights of San Francisco. Reports from Italy stale that the phylloxera Is working ravages among the vineyards of that country, and that there will be nu unprecedented de mand for American vines with which to graft the old ones. It Is reported that 1MS provinces In Italy have been Invinl ed by this Insect, and that not less than 750,000 acres of vlneland have been en tirely destroyed. The phylloxera Invad ed Italy In 1M71J, nine years after Its , first Incursion Into France. When dis covered In France It was noticed that It did not Injure American vines that dad been planted there. ' RINGS WITH EVIL POWERS. flnpcratltlona Attached to Manylblnii Apparently Boras Out, Some of the most weird and curious 'romances are associated with possess ions which appear to .have uo other purpose than to bring misfortune and trouble on those who own them, A tragic instance of this is related In con nection with the Llndsey family. According to the legend, Colin Dud ley, a former earl of Halearres. was quietly eating his breakfast when he hotild have !cen awaiting his bride at tbc altar. When reminded of the fact be hurried off to the church and, for getting the Indispensable ring, borrow ed one from a friend which he duly placed on the bride's finger. At the conclusion of the ceremony tkfl aewly made countess took t glance It tbs ring and on seeing that ltbore I grinning death's bead, suddenly f slated away. The Incident affected her to each an extent that on rccorer lug conciousness, she' expressed her conviction that she was destined to die within twelve months. And sure enough In less than that period her life came to an end. Napoleon HI. was the possessor of two rings, which he coustuantly wore, and which had belonged to his prede cessor, Napoleon I., who was a fatalist In the fullest meaning of the term. When Napoleon III. died it was pro posed that these rings should be re moved from his finger, but the Prince Imperial refused to have them. They were accordingly buried with his father at Chlseihurst,-aml, -so far from regarding them from the same point of view as the prince, the Em peror's domestic retainers firmly be lieved that he would come to uu un timely end for discarding the rings. And when, in 1S7'.), the unfortunate young man met his death at the hands of the Zulus, against whom he was lighting for England, they saw in this deplorable event the realization of their fears. One of the best known public men In New Zealand, a wealthy resident of Hokiungl, North Island, recently trav clde all the way to St. Louis in a fruit less endeavor to have an idol cremated which had cast an evil spell out him. The heathen Idol had come to him as part of a legacy from his grandfather, to whom it had been presented by a Maori chief. Said Its owner: "I have traveled 10,0m miles with the Image, and It has brought disaster after disas ter upon me. I have often endeavor ed to destroy It, but without avail. "I once throw it under a train, and, in running to get out of the way, fell and broke one of my fingers. Then I was arrested for endangering the lives of passengers. When In London three months ago 1 threw It Into the Thames, and a drunken sailor who fished It out brought It back to my rooms, and in his rage at not receiving a reward al most beat me to death. "While In San Francisco I tried to chop It to pieces with an ax, when the ax, rebounding, struck me on the fore head with almost fatal effect. The wood is so hard that an ordinary tire will not destroy It, and I am afraid to get rid of it otherwise because of the evil results." ... The imago was a crude figure in rose wood and ebony, and about two feet long. Falling to get It cremated In St. Louis, its owner started for New York, where he was determined to have It destroyed at whatever cost. Hurled in the shadow of Diamond Head volcano, at Honolulu, Is a violin known as the "violin of death." In the space of a few months two persons who had owned It took their own lives and a third mysteriously disappeared The last victim of this weird lustra merit, says the London Tit-Kits, was George II. Scott, a sergeant of the United States army, Sixty-sixth Coast Artillery. This victim killed himself at the barracks at Camp McKlnley, but a few days before doing so he real ized the. evil Influence of the violin nni burled It as above stated. Father and Hon. What a father can do, If he will, lf to make his own experience and knowledge an Inseparable part of the intellectual anil spiritual equipment of his son. But be can do this only when ho cares mo much about it us to make It a dally, hourly object of his life, says the Cosmopolitan. So many fathers shirk the undertaking; so many , of them stand aloof and let the precious years go by, willing to give anything and everything except themscJfoB. Tjio first and great re ward, of course, Is the One that comes when hu sees the boy, upon the verge of manhood, going out Into the world to face the Inevitable dangers which confront the novice. For the life of a man differs from the life of a woman In this respect, that nt some time or other,- sooner or later, the time must come when he shall stand alone rely ing on his own strength to conquer, If he be sound and brave, to fall If he be weak and cowardly. Celestial Wonder. Tbo appearance of a new star In the constellation Perseus and Its rapid ex pansion Into a nebula, which has been going on for some time past, have revived among astronomers the the ory that some nebulae may be formed by explosion, writes a contributor to Success. About JM70 Professor Bicker ton, of Canterbury College, New Zea land, showed that' If two stars should graze one another the abraded parts, If relatively small, would have so high a temperature that they would at once become nebulous, nnd that the nebula so formed would under certain condi tions, continue to expand until dissi pated In space. The present expanding nebula has been growing at the ex traordinary rate of several thousand miles a second, and Is, In many ways. one of the greatest celestial wonders of the time. What Keally Happen. A new definition of absent-minded ness, which Is humor if not psychology, appears In tbo Indianapolis News In this dialogue: Pa, what does 'absent-minded' mean?" 'Ay boy, that's easy, LHd you ever stop to think?" "Yes." "And your thoughts ran on?" "Yea." "Well, that's It." Kmbarraaaad. "Are they lovers?" "Yes; didn't you notice bow hard It was to get them to talk to each oth er at dinner?" Justice only takes a man's port, but Injustice takes It aU. Newspapers are being sold through lutomatic machines in Ilerliu. Five hundred and thirty-two tons of cigarettes were exported last year from Egypt. t T.na An;-:le Cn T'nli,:: T;;!imi tmr- ty nominated a Socialist ticket for the city offices. Two coal mines are now in success ful operation in Alaska. They produce good steam coal. At the present time the order of Itailwny Conductors has a inoiulroT ship of more than 27.IHHI. The International Brotherhood .of Carpenters and Joiners has a member ship of l'JO.iMHJ in good standing. In Great Britain there are 1.!m5.(m0 Irade unionists, and but Loon.ooo in the United States, for about twice the population. ' - - Ten thousand cannon have been made for forty States at Krupp's Es sen works, where 47,OW work people are employed. On account of the bad harvest in Norway the government has granted ?I8,'MJ0 to farmers for the purpose of buying seeds. There is a demand for mechanics In Cape Colony, for skilled platelayers In Natal, and for first-class building trade employes in the Transvaal. Among the working women of Bel gium there are 30,000 who earn less than UO cents a day. Only 9,000 earn more than. 50 cojits and only .more than SO cents a day. The Russian government has ap pointed a commission to Investigate agricultural methods and the condi tions of the peasantry In Russia, with a view to Improving both. ' The largest fine ever Imposed upon a union workman for refusing to obey a strike order was recently assessed James McCarrlck, a former president of the Kansas Cify Boiler Makers' Un ion. McCarrlck was fined ?Lr)() be cause he remained at work when a, strike was ordered. The Piano and Organ Makers' Union of New York has made a demand on all employers for an advance of 10 per cent in wages and a nine-hour work-day. The union also demands time and a half for overtime and dou ble time for Sunday work.. About 1,500 piano and organ makers, em ployed in forty factories, join in the demand. Toronto, Canada, has started a move ment for the organization of employ ers of all kinds into, aa association, the main objects of which would be to place business upon a more per manent basis and to render strikes Im possible by providing Jn all cases for arbitration upon an equitable basis of all matti:: in dispute. Two hundred invitations have been sent out to em ployers of labor In all branches of In dustry, from laundries and liveries to the street railway company and the largest employers of labor. Iiochcstor, N. Y., has an organization known as the Trade Unionist League.) The objects of the league are set forth In the following preamble: "We are organized for the purpose of promot ing the Interest of all trade unionists' cards, labels, and stamps, and to ac tively aid In the work against nil un fair firms, individuals, or products; to take such political action as from time to time may bet deemed necessary In the Interests of trade unionists." The membership will, of course, be limit ed to union workmen, but members of every local In Rochester are Invited to become Identified with the league. ACCURACY OF FAMOUS ARTIST. "ingot H pa red No I'ulns to Make III Picture Correct. Tlssot, the distinguished painter who died recently, while at work on his "Life of Jesus," took extraordinary pains to have every detail absolutely correct, and he Nattered himself that he had not made a single error until oue (lay, when he happened to show a critic, a waicr-eolor drawing In whkn the parable of the barren fig tree was depicted, relates the St. Louis Star. Known. g that this drawing was In tended to form part of the series en titled "Life of Jesus," the critic ex amlncd It very carefully, and finally said: "I nm Just wondering why there are so many .aloes In tills gar den. Do you lutend the scene to bo lypleol of the time of Christ or Is It in an ordinary scene, suitable for uny time?" "Jly sole object In painting that gar den was to depict a familiar scene In the life of Christ," answered the paint er, "and I assure you that. I have taken the utmost pains 'not to Intro duce Into the scene anything which would bo out of harmony, with that epoch." "Nevertheless, you have made one blunder." replied the critic, "for It Is a well-known fact that alow; were not Introduced Into the Holy Laud, nor Into any of the' countries Kdjolnlng (be Mediterranean, until after the con quest of Mexico by the Spaniards. " Tlnsot at once laid aside all other work, nnd did not rest until he. had removed the objectionable aloes, from the garden. How Ha View. 'Yes; we refused to offer tbs yaung Inventor a prlxe." - "Then he didn't fly In his airship?" "No; he flew In a rage." OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTSi The Rush for New Land. ANY one seeking to understand the movement of settlers Into the Canadian Northwest from the United States has only to look at the conditions in Illinois ttiid the other Commonwealths that were carved "out of the fertile lands of the Mississippi Valley less than 100 years ago. Here a very large propor tion of t ho farms are cultivated by men who do not own them, while the real owners, who are either descendants of the' original settlers or men grown wealthy in trade, hanking or oilier pursuits not directly connected with the soil, reside in the cities and towns that dot the region. With wealthy men everywhere seeking profitable invest ments for their idle thousands the price of the fat corn lands of the West is prohibitive so far as the farm tenant Is concerned. If he pays a cash rent of $5 an acre, which he iloes in many Instances, he is gambling heavily on the beneficence of the seasons that make up the year. When lie can go to the Canadian Northwest and get cheap land in a country of "wheat and cattle the temptation to be his own landlord is likely to be irresistible if he Is of an enter prising disposition. There are many farmers, also, who have small holdings In the Middle Western States and who are tempted to sell by the high prices which such lands now command. To take their money and go to the new regions of Canada, where one acre of Illinois land will buy 200 acres of equally fertile soil, seems to them a highly sensible action. The descendants of those pioneers who "tamed the wilderness" have lost none of the enterprise which was their chief heritage from their fathers. While the United States dislikes to lose these enterpris ing men of Its own blood. It cannot think that they will cross the border with any desire to be false to the new flag which protects them. On their own fertile acres they should be loyal Canadians as they have been loyal Ameri cans. Chicago Daily News. Revenge Costs Too Much. N politics, business and In society generally the man who spend his time trying to get revenge Is a fool. Even when he gains his revenge he loses something more valuable. Revenge may be sweet, but It costs too much. It was the wise maxim of an ancient sage that we should ever conduct ourselves toward our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend. Most enmities spring from misunderstandings, and it happcus often that bitter foes, when they come to know each other, become the best of friends.' One's enemy is seldom as black as he Is painted, and as none of us is perfect ajl of us ought to be chari table. It Is better to win one's enemies by kindness than to intensify their enmity by doing them harm. Only a coward will refrain from doing right for fear of making enemies, but only a fool will make enemies for the gratification of his own petty passions. Every man relies in some measure on Ids friends. We cannot live or prosper except by the good will of our neighbors. Shrewd men, knowing this, never raiss an opportunity of making friends, and they endeavor to conciliate, rather than an tagonize, their enemies. Every positive man, and especially every man that does his duty, will have some enemies. That cannot be helped. Human nature Is Infirm and human interests ore so con flicting that one cannot be everybody's friend and remain an honest man. But one can exercise some worldly pru dence nnd endeavor to multiply friends rather than ene mies. San Francisco Bulletin. Don't Worry. ONE of the most curious phenomena of human life is the way in which troubles and misfortunes exhaust themselves and vanish Into nothing. Something may occur or may threaten to occur which will worry a man exceedingly. His spirits will sink, his appetite will lenve, sleep will quit his bed, and he will go about moiling, dejected and thoroughly, unhappy. In company WHEN SUMMER DIES. (ilorien of a Summer lnjr Jlown on the Ohi Kuriii. ,LelVi.go back to the old farm for a day just to catch a glance of fading Indian summer and the yawning time of year. It is a lazy month. Old Moth er Nature is sleepy. She sits with hands folded and waits for the white mantle and the long rest. The country is Beautiful in spring and gorgeous as I lie slnnnier wanes and every valley lKTOlii'es an art gallery. In the early morning we leave the old farmhouse, snuff the crisp, keen air and start out on a tramp. There Is no smoke, no rumble of trucks and Jar of trolley cars. Miles away a hound on the trail Is baying, and the xouud Is wafted over hills and mead ows clear as a bell, and it arouses the wlhlncss In our breast and takes us back many years. Let's walk, let's cover miles and get Just as far front f rouble and worry and Misfires us wo can. Why, this Is the abode of peace. It doesn't seem possi ble Unit' strife and "passion anil wrong can -exist so close tu the earth's bosom. -We pass through the old orchard, gather late apples tint t. somehow, have a llavor Hint Is lost when the fruit leaven Ihi' orchard; follow the crooked path that winds like a great serpent across the pasture, labor across the new plowed yelds and find the smell of fresh earth grateful. Here's the brook. We fished tin-re' once wllli bent pins. There was only1 " warm sunshine In those days-sunshine and butterflies. IIjw good life was, when we were young! And there Is the woods, no longer gloomy and 'mysterious, but gor geous with all tliw glow of the peacock, painted by frost and sun, every tree a rajubow, every bush n bouquet. Isn't It strange that nature makes death so attractive? Listen. Jo you henr the music? Chil dren arc laughing. There Is a har mony In the natural mirth of little folks more tuneful than anything that man has ever written. It Is no sweet thut even the phonograph has failed to reproduce It, and I'l never rings clearer I liau down on the old farm when there Is a hutting expedition on. ' Takes us back about 40 years rton't 'lt?--bsck to the time of stone bruises nnd battered fingers and red cheeks nnd healthy iippl!l and a TABLE CRICKET AS PINGPONG'S RIVAL IN LONDON Plngpong Is to be matched by table cricket, which Is expected to soon have as many devotees as the other young game. A demonstration was given at a public ball in London recently and the thlug pronounced a suc cess. The bat Is n diminutive affair, as are also the wickets. The chief feature of the game, however, Is the "bowler," which Is an Ingenious arrangement of springs which pitches (lie ball at the wicket In n most baffling way. After a little practice even a novice at the game makes a first-cliiss bowler. The real skill Is demanded on the part of the batsman. He has a small bat, about an Inch and a half long, with which he must guard his wicket. The field Is arranged with pockets for catching out the batter, and the whole plan Is arranged to conform closely to cricket. The game has already liecome popular In Iindon, and Is likely to spread to America. It Is thought Its predicted success here may Increase the Interest of society people In real cricket Itself. thousand things that fade away when we are no longer young. We used to bo In Just such n party, and the dog looks Just like the stump-talled dog we had. Why It must lic--"Coine here, Sport, come here, good dog" It Is useless! Thnt was 40 years ago. Time doesn't turn backward, even for old men who have made fame In the business world. We can watch th happy children, breathe the sweet sir of the country once In a while, gaze he will be sad, however gay the others. He will carry about with him that dull pain In the breast which is the symptom of worry and proves it really a bodily as well as a mental ailment. ; For a few days this state of mind will last Then, grad ually, the clouds will clear away and the mind will have peace again. Nothing may have happened exteriorly to porduce this pleasant effect. The facts which gave rise to the worry may be just as they were before. The change has taken place within the mind, and the cause of It lies not In any outside event, but in the Interior of the mind itself. Worry and grief consume energy and soon exhaust the mind and body. With exhaustion comes quiescence, which Is the beginning of ease. Reaction sets in, and the spirits, like water, soon regain their proper level. Worry cannot alter a fact. It is, therefore, a foolish waste of energy. The man who worries Is as silly as a man who would run after an express train that had an hour's start of him. He cauuot do away with an awkward state of facts by worrying any more than he could overtake an express train by running; and after worrying a while he finds him self In the same case with the mi(n that has chased the train, baffled and clean forspent. He has had his trouble for nothing. San Francisco Bulletin. Crime Is Decreasing. THE average man, if asked for his opinion on the sub ject, probably would say that crime Is increasing. Matt Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton detective agency, and one of the most expert and experienced criminal catchers in the country, takes the opposite view. He grants that carefully prepared statistics of crime tend to sustain the popular impression; but, he says, these statistics and the circumstances on which the popular belief are based are both deceptive. The principal cause of the common opinion that lawless ness Is growing is undoubtedly the wide publicity now given to crimes by the newspapers. Every murder, embezzle ment or highway robbery which happens In any part of the country is telegraphed within a few hours, not only aa formerly, to the newspapers of the immediate vicinity where the crime was committed, but to those of the entire country. The morning paper presents a complete panorama of the criminal, as well as the business, political and social events of the preceding twenty-four hours not of any par ticular section of one country, but of the world. The aver age reader makes the mistake of failing to consider that the crimes be reads of now are those of the civilized globe, while those he read of a few decades ago were mainly those of his immediate neighborhood. Kansas City Journal. English Words Good Enough. WHY should the operator of an automobile be called in England or America by the French word "chauffeur," instead of by the good old Anglo-Saxon word "driver," which the English apply to their locomotive and other engineers? For no reason in the world,, except that sort of intellectual dandyism which causes some men to say that they "trans port" a thing instead of that they "carry" it; that they "purchased" what In reality they just "bought;" that an author's or a painter's best work Is his "chef-d'oeuvre," Instead of bis "masterpiece;" and that causes many literary fledglings and most scientific and philosophical writers to clothe their thoughts in long, sonorous words not infre-; quently Invented by themselves which nobody but a pedantic professor of rhetoric can understand or be ex cused for using. "The bane of philosophy," says Walter Bagehot, "ls pomposity." And mental and verbal dandyism is the bane of the talking and writing of too many men who have got sufficient education to despise the simplicity of those less taught than themselves, but not enough culture to appre ciate the beauty and power of simple, clear English, nor to see how it. Is emasculated when words from other tongues are mixed with it. Kansas City Journal. at the show, and memory must All the gaps and do the rest. We've Been the bags filled with nuts, I he dog chase Imaginary game Into a brush heap; we've eaten lunch In the woods and drunk from a spring and our hearts are filled with the glory of It all. We have been closer to the power thnt rules the world and make the seasons, and we are glad that N has been given to us to lire oat anoth er tatofc r day. Cincinnati Past r I, "X ,' , t, V ; A w