Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905, May 21, 1903, Image 2
u r 1 7? tj . . - - - r I If if r ti ff Tb Humci Press-Jaiml . a. mil, racvmaroB xmuaov, . . . musKi Any tish will bie if you have the light bait. A cigar in the pocket is worth a box ful in the store. It is always safer to tell the truth if you are sure you can whip the other fellow. Sir Tommy believes But haven't we heard something to that effeci be fore? It would take a man all his life to learn the names of the different kinds of cloth women wear. The American people drank more than $70.UOO.wO worth of coffee last year, but slept fairly well in spite of it. If Miss Pauline Astor winds up by marrying a man without a title it will probably be over the dead body of her father. The Polish who refused to sell bis title for $100,000 was as idiotic as the perverted American who attempted to buy it. Lucky Kentucky! The United States has paid its war claim amounting to $1,400,000, and its bonded debt is only $1,000,000. , Even wireless telegraphy has Its drawbacks. It is being employed In chess matches between vessels many miles apart. The name of the new British minis ter to Venezuela is Henry-Outram Bax Ironside. Probably this is Intended as an offset to Uribe-Uribe. The South American republics pro pose to have a Monroe doctrine of their own. But there is. none genuine without Uncle Sum's name blown in the bottle. A novelist is to go on the stage to learn how to write plays. Now if some players would go some place to learn liow to write novels the proper balance might be preserved. Three hours from proposal to wed ding is the record of a Chicago couple. fTue success of the experiment will de pend on the length of acquaintance before the proposal. A Moscow hustler who spelt only four hours out of the twenty-four left $100,000,000. Then there is hope for our baby! He is satisfied with four hours in the daytime. The German Emperor has ordered that fire engines need not stop on their way to a fire, even though they delay his progress. And yet there are peo-ple-who contend that the world doesn't Jnove. i It seems a great pity that many of the things that are the tutti-frutti of gilt-edged perfection in theory often turn out to be the cold pancakes of stern reality when the attempt is made to put them Into practice. A physician has come forward with the startling statement that gri;i vic tims must not kins one another. This prohibition seems to be wholly tmnec jessary, however, as most grip victims are sick enough without kissing. According to vital statistics, the baby born in 3!3 has three times as good chance of living as it would have had If born fifty years ago. However, the baby born fifty years ago. if still alive, will probably be satisfied with the fhance that came his way. So far the discussions of the race problem have contributed somewhat to the public understanding of Its serious ness and in lesser degree to locating the responsibility. But in the main matter of finding a solution for the .problem the Held is still clear. In view of the establishment of the Department of Commerce and Labor, It may be Interesting to note that the internal commerce of the United States last year bas been estimated by the government statistician at twenty billioa dollars. Fifty years ago It was ply two billion dollars. The manufac tures of the United States are nearly double those of Great Britain and Ire jland, and about equal to those of France, Germany and Russia com bined. Lord Cromer, sneaking at Khartum of the needs of the country, recently lid, "Except sand, crocodiles and hip- ami, of all of which there appears be a somewhat superabundant tup- ply, there la not enough of anything in toe Sudan." lr the region could exchange Its hippopotami, crocodiles and sand for railways, educated na tives and "dust" to use a colloquial Ism for money It would he reason ably happy and prosperous. This is the problem of commerce the world over to exchange what one does not want Car what one needs. For at least two thousand years the Met of tghtlag against one's fellow woontryon naa been called treason. jTk ward Ca Koeaaas used for traitor Icaant m Wto took op arms against pa tt3fc Tho law in force In Eo ZZX t was neeoed In 1332. in l r-k f CJwrd III.. Bpecttea j C"7 1 "-3 a asatltBtlag tho crioo rJCj. e ! tw; "To -." t 7 tZ3 f r)Or trJ Ct ate ti 4 '" - ' ' ," !' 1 " '" his realm, or to be adherent to tho king's enemies in his realm, giving; them aid and comfort In the realm or elsewhere. The Constitution defines treason In the United States as ,'Ievy1 ing war against them or In adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." Statesmen have held that such laws are uecesary. They used to believe that the punishment of traitors should Include torture. Even when they did not advocate boiling in oil, or some other horrible penalty, they In sisted that the punishment should be made as disgraceful as possible. But the enforcement of the death penalty has not leeu couimou in recent years. The last traitors hauged in England were the CnXo street conspirators, w.u plotted the assassination of the mem bers of the cabinet in 1x20. Although the youth who tired at Queen Victoria In 1S42 was sentenced to death, he was only Imprisoned and later rel.-ased. As there is no death penalty in Italy. the anarchist who killed King Humbert was imprisoned. These facts are inter esting because of their bearing on the recent conviction for treason of Arthur Alfred Lynch, a British subject, who fought analnst his country In South Africa, who was elected to parliament from Gulway while still in the enemy's service. It Is generally believed that if he bad not returned to England to take his seat in the House of Commons bis conduct would have been overlooked. Although the law provides the death penalty and sentence of death was passed niton him, that sentence has been commuted to penal servitude for life. A centry ago he would have been hanged without question. The temper of the times has changed, and govern ments which rest upon the popular wllj seldom find It necessary to enforce the' laws made when loyalty and 1 reason was directed toward an individual ruler rather than toward the people at large. The student of biology hears much of "adaptation to the environment." The phrase is useful not only In h scribing the process by which the lower spi cies develops into the liighi ri but in li.i lactt-rizing men and women in the process of getting used to mod ern conditions. Two generations ago a woman's social duties were confined rather strictly to her own town. Her sympathies were called upon by the poor and suffering of her own church, Their sole extension was to the un known txTson, for whom she packed a missionary box of books or barrel of clothing, and into those packets she poured a wealth of imagination in the effort to picture circumstances which she was never likely to see. As her children grew up and married, she made visits to their homes, where the daily routine was but a slight modifi cation of that to which they had been Ired. In a half century a miracle of change has been wrought. The morn ing paper brings to the breakfast table a famine in India, Armenian atrocities, a patriotic sjieech in Manila, or a fresh revolutionary outbreak in South Amer ica. The telephone, with Its message from a distant friend, crowds upon the newspaiKT. Even the remote ranch attaches its instruments to the barbed wire fence, and brings its sixty-miles-away neighbors within speaking dis tance. All these and other things cause the demands of modern philan thropy to multiply daily, particularly in cities where the conditions of life to many of the Inhabitants become more and more cruel. The activities of the church reach from the service of the altar to the care 'for the fouu dling and the criminal. The home It self is more exacting fhau ever, for the newly discovered laws of sanita tion demand that the housemother shall know every erucfe and crevice of her bouse, lest she be resjiousible for some injury to her children. Final-, ly, the stay-at-home has given place to "the globe-trotter." So life rushes on. Thus far the greater number of women have kept the pace set for them with a courage and persistence wonderful to see. How long they can do so is another question. Nature often helps silently In the process of adapta tion, but In this case nature seems powerless to Interfere. Women mnst do for themselves by selection and by rare whatever is to be done. Evi dently they may all Join In Mr. Mere dith's cry, despairing of any less po-' tent remedy: "More brain, O Lord!' more brain!" i For Peace Only. It Is well known that the Friend, have always been devoted to the prin ciples of peace. As they had a corii trolling Influence In the public affairs of Nantucket, there was no military organization on that island for several generations. How the matter was managed Is told by the author of "Sep temler Days on Nantucket." Whenever military companies eanW to the island for a holiday, young wom en thronged the windows and waved handkerchiefs, but there was no rle of military ambition in the town. Oncri a coterie of young men formed a train-' Ing company, and sent to Boston for, equipments; hut their elders compelled them to make the first article of their) constitution read: "This company shall t disbanded Immediately In case of war." Both Were Defet-tlve. She Ton make love like a novice. He Then we're both defective, I ought to make love like an expert, and you ought not to know the difference.' -Life. ' FDOptm aad Acres or Oroeoe. Greece baa aa may people as Michi gan and aa many acres aa West Vir gUrta. The moat natural thins; In the world for i woman to Ao la to mo, i GOOD Shot iJtorieS j HHMMmUH HUM I s 00 A gentleman who was discussing vith the late Dr. Parker the problem f a future existence exclaimed: "The Fact is, sir, I am an annihilatlonist. I believe that when I die that will be (he end of me." "Thank Cod for that." Ir. Parker replied, as he show ed his companion the door. In bis reminiscences of C.eorge Washfiigton, ITrTElfward "Kve'retOfaTe tells of the general's anger at Mon jiouth, when he met General I-ee. Washington asked Lee why such a folumn was retiring, and Ioe said that the American troops would not stand the Britisli bayonets. Washington re plied: "Yon d n poltroon, you have never tried them;" The appointment of Vice Admiral Lord Charles Beresford to the com mand of the English Channel squad ron has brought to light a new anec slofe. It appears that he consulted Sir Frederick Treves, whom King Edward considers the lest doctor in the world. "Tell me the symptoms." said Treves, As the admiral enumerated them the doctor became more and more Inter ested. "Excellent, charming, splen did," cried Sir Frederick, as the symp tom were unfolded to him, and when the list was completed, said: "My dear fellow, let me congratulate you. You have the rarest case of the cen tury. You are the lucky dog that here tofore was thought to be-extinct." The chief wit of the lalioratories of the Sheffield Seientiiic Schools of Yale University is a chemist who has an uneouquerable affection for an ancient tan-colored "lab." coat that has long Hood guard ltetwteii sulphuric acel ind its grateful owner; hence it is full tif holes. Being criticised in a "josh ing" bout on account of his "holy" font, the reactionary butt found an (icnltig for one of bis clever remarks. "Never you mind about the holes in Diy coat." said he, "these holes are all fight! anil don't you make any mistake slsmt it. They are the most useful things In a coat. If there were no bles in a coal, how the devil could you get Into it, and these holes In particu lar, they are the most useful holes in the world: they save washing; all you have to do Is to use 'em when you j want to wipe your hands on your cuat. and you don t get the coat dirty, lr you had boles a-plenty you wouldn't need a 113' coat at all." William E. Curtis says that when a certain new Senator delivered his tirst (great speech in Congress, and was looking around for compliments he ap proached Senator John P. Jones, the I venerable philosopher from Nevada, (while the latter was smoking his pot . luncheon cigar in the cloak-room of the I Senate. "Iid you bear my speech on the Philippine question?" inquired the Senator. "I certainly did," was the reply. "May I ask you what you thought of it?" ! n go mI speech," : ejaculated Jones. The young Senator's face lighted up with pleasure at the compliment as he resumed in a coii (identia! way: "Senator Jones, you are lhe father of the Senate, and I am the 'youngest child, and I should like to ask your advice. Having beard my fcpeech, you can sec what I am capa ble of, and I would be grateful if you would be good enough to tell me whether. In your opinion, it would Ik; better for me to qcak frequently or hold myself in reserve?" "Young man," said the Senator, "you've got .1 il-n good vocabulary, and If you'll take my advice you won't make aiiy more speeches until you have culti vated your Intellect up to it." THE TUNE IS OUR OWN. A Few Hemtrki Conccmiag our Pat riotic Sons. Many Americans In visiting England have been surprised and flattered when a British military band has played the air of "America" and the English crowd bas risen to Its feet and doffed its bats. Similarly, English visitors to this country have got up and bowed is to a compliment when an American sand has blared the same tone. It has taken time It each case to convince the hearer that "God Save the King" and "America" have the same air. ut course, the Briton has become Indig nant over the theft of a national air, forgetting that the colonies, with (heir allegiance to a British king, had a claim to the melody and on their re Volt could fairly set their own new words to It. The charge of theft and of musical poverty In America has Inspired a patriotic association In little Ithode Island to offer a gold medal to any body who shall compose a new and "a better" air to Dr. Smith's inspir ing words. Rhode Island denies that Great Britain Is musical, and affirms that our own country (whose coon songs as played by Sousa's band have captured King and Queen, and become the burden of every whistling news boy, coster and clubman In London) has a degree of musical talent and cul ture which even Genua ny cannot rival, Therefore It Is Impatient under (he charge of stealing the most venerated of British melodies. , It Is vain, however, to hope, for , a popular acceptance of a new tune for "America." The present air has been ung on too many glorious and signifi cant occasions to the words of our heart-filling hymn to be surrendered to the British. When we were forced to break loose from that oppressive notber wo retained the common law. tha language, the absurd utttm or Is weights and measures and whatererf seemed to our sires to le desirable. We retained "Yankee Hoodie" and the air of "America." putting our own words to each. More than a century and a quarter has endeared to us these tunes, and we shall keep them. When Gen eral Sherman visited Ireland tie found that the melody of "Marching Through Georgia" belonged to an old Irish s uig. but it has been hallowed to us by the camp-lires .of thousands of Grand Army josts and Is ours tcyoml sur render. Cultured musicians have complained of the quality of our national airs, which Include "America." "Ha?! Co lumbia." "The Star-Spangled Ba'.ner," "Columbia, therein - -t he Ocean" (which suggests that Columbia is an islei and several war songs. Still, they have not bcn able to produce a mel ody of such conspicuous merit as to win Instant popular admiration. It may be association alone which en dears "America" to us, but there Is no escape from the fact that we all love it and are stirred by it; ami we sIkiII cling to it in spite of any com plaints from the untmiura! mother country which undertook to spank us without provocation and h:st us in con sequence. Philadelphia Record. EEETLE DIGS GRAVES. How and Why It I arics Dead Ilirdi and Insect. The gravedigger lieetle was the sub ject of an interesting experiment that a young Philadelphia n, a student of the biological department of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, recently con ducted, says the Philadelphia Record. He secured four healthy gravedigger licet leg and put them in a wooden box tilled with earth, along with a very small dead sparrow. The beetles 11.1 sooner perceived the bird than they began to dig alongside of it. For four hours they dug, and at the end of that time they had a hole made that was six or seven Inches deep and three inches square. Now they went around to the other side of the sparrow and gave, all to gether, a giiod, .strong push. The bird dropped into the grave nicely and the beetles covered it over with loose soil. The young experimenter kept the beetles for a mouth. Muring the month they buried live birds, three grasshop pers, two' butterflies and a young mouse. Their Ikix came to resemble a cemetery. "Why are these lieetles gravedig gcrs?. What Is their motive?" To tlTTs question, which was put to him by many visitors, the student would reply: Gravodigging Is their way of prop agatlug their species. They get hold of some little dead thing, dig a hole beside it, lay their eggs In Its flesh and bury It. The eggs, after a time, hatch Into larvae. These larvae must de velop under ground, and during their development they must eat. Well, thanks to their thoughtful parents, they are born in the midst of food -they have on all sides of them the car rion lu which, as eggs, they were laid and buried-atid thus they feed boun tifully, and grow big ami strong, so that on their emergence from the soil they are beetles to lie proud of. And as soon ns they emerge they become grave-diggers lu their turn. American I'roMM-il yle. A number of American journalists have Indofsed the prediction of Prof. P.iandi'r Matthews that American writers are destined henceforward to set the standards of prose style for the English speaking world, sajg the London Iaily Graphic. The reason given that there are so many t them certainly will not bear examination. It might, as plausibly be argued that the standard of purity for wj.er should be set by the water of Lake Superior because there Is such a lot of it. If American prose ever liecomes a model for writers of prose, it must lie because the best prose is written In America and that Is not a state of things to which the process of literary evolution seems at present to be tend ing. For. curiously enough, American prose has got worse pit her than bet ter since the days of Emerson and Hawthorne. Its present note Is fluen cy rather than distinction, and the voluminous sentences of such stylists as W. I. Howeils and Henry James seem the work of students laboriously experimenting with the language, and not of masters of their material In stinctively molding It to its proper uses. Wise Toad of Worcester. Among the favorite stories of Sen ator Hoar is a tale of a remarkable toad, possessed of an Intuitive know! dge of antidotes. "1 was out In my garden otie day," said the senior Senator from Massa chusetts, ''and noticed a toad hopping along toward the veranda. At the edge of the low flooring waij a spider's web straight across his path. Mr. Toad didn't observe It, and, plump, he landed squarely In It ThlB unceremo nious and 'burglarious entrance nat urally provoked the resident spider, who was strongly of the opinion that his home was his castle. Accordingly, he proceeded to give the toad a iiost vicious bite. Instantly the toad hopped back on the lawn, found a bit of plan tain leaf and chewed it Then back he hop'icd and bit the same obstruc tion, with the result that he got an other bite. Seven times be repeated the attempt each time going back to the plantain for an antidote for his wounds. At Inst he succeeded 'In de molishing the spider's web and bopped on bis way rejoicing." New Tork Tribune. ' Never draw eight draft on a blind men. 8 Hint for lloiucinukcr. "In mv one-servant establlshmeu J says a housekeeper, "I have discover ed by experimenting that the weekly wash h lessened by the use of a bare table at breakfast and luncheon. Square linen plate doillcVare at each cover, two larger ones, also square, He diamond wise through the center of the table. P.etween their poluts is a smaller round or square dolly upon Which stands the centerpiece of ferns or other growing plauts. I buy the hem-stitched dollies for both the plates and centerpieces, as they are much easier laundered than the fringed lines, keeping, however, one set of the latter, which are prettier, for Use If a friend spends the night or drops in to luncheon. In this way one tablecloth lasts about five days, which allows inly three in two weeks to be laun dered. The small dollies are more easl ly laundered than a tablecloth, and more satisfactorily turned out at the hands of the inexperienced laundress. To protect the table 1 have cut from fheets of asbestos, pieces round, square or oblong, as the case may lie, to tit under tho various dollies. A little rub bing of the table with a flannel cloth twice a week keeps it In perfect con dition, anil the arrangement Is much liked by the household. A housekeep ing friend has made herself for the fame use two or three sets of blue dculm plate mats and centerpieces The plate mats are round and are fin ished with a white buttonholing. The centerpiece Is a large enough diamond to cover the whole center., and Is simi larly buttonholed around the edge. For the glass water pitcher a round lac quer tray which Just holds it is used. Margaret Hamilton Welch In Harper's Bazar. wmmm Bridal wreaths of orange blossoms were first used by the Arabs. As the orange bears fruit and flower at the same time It Is considered to 1 an emblem of prosperity. A Roumanian girl on seeing the new nioou Invokes her thus: "New qui-cii! Iu health thou hast found me. In health leave me. Thou hast .found me unwed, leave me with a handsome husband." In Toledo the Board of Aldermen lias made a nile that henceforward women shall be 'debarred from em ployment as clerks or stenographers in the service of the city. The places are wanted for voters. The first needle used In England was made In Queen Mary's reign by a ne gro, who unfortunately died before Im parting the secret to any one. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth the art of ticedlemakliig was rediscovered by a German, who imparted it to an En glishman. Housewives in Florida scrub their floors with oranges. In almost every town lu the orange-growing district women may be seen using oranges for scouring. The fruit Is cut In half and Ihe exHmed pulp Is rubbed on the floor. The acid of the orange cleansi-s thor oughly and after the application the boards will be as white as the most particular critics could desire. To Enlighten Chlntae Girl. To Miss Martha Bernlnger, of Cata wlssa, Pa., has fallen the honor of be ing appointed the first secretary to China by the Young Women's Christian Association. Her work will be prin cipally among the 20,000 girls employ ed in the silk and cotton mills of Shanghai. These girls receive 10 to IS cents a day for tI 1 V M rl,la, "'""e there 'j - are 7.000 of these girl mill workers. KISS BI RNIM1KR. It is planned to es tablish an association house there and conduct night schools on the same plan as that which has proved so suc cessful In this country. Miss Bernln ger will leave for China at once. Little Fault in Kocial Life. A fault In the young Is to form some feverish admiration for one or two par ticular friends, often of a o-caed luperlor social standing. TIicm; are referred to constantly; they are held up as patterns, oracles and patrons. In private circles and public place Ihelr names are loudly mentioned 'In the hope of and desire of impressing bystanders. At bazars. In the lobbies uf theaters, at railway stations, In rail way carriages, and. Indeed, wlierever the company may be described as mixed, this distressing form of whet (s known as brag Is very much In evi dence. The shouting of nicknames ind Christian names at moments when, l.i ordinary Intercourse, one would not to addressing anybody, Is also done li order to advertise some small de tree of Intimacy with the well known, see In contrast to these offenders, there Is the less aegreslve type who is her self the leader of a little knot of fol lowers who are not tu accomplished, or so happily situated- not so popular and less authoritative than herself. In all "these cases one finds that the leader speedily degenerates Into a prig or .1 tyrant, and the followers, from being devotees, liecome, by normal stag1, critics, malcontents. secr"t reliels. and, eventually, defiant enemies. In the early stage of the formation of one of these social coteries, the followers sit around an Idol, and glgsde or stare during her encounters with any pers-ui not of that curious circle. A wise moth er would check the Ix'gluiiings of this practice, which can be seen even at little children's parties, where nurses, governesses and fond elders apparently combine to distort the sweetness and the Imiocense of their young charges iuio in'utiog pretentiousness. John Oliver Hoblies, In Success. To One Woman. Ton say that you are but a woman you Who are o very wonderful to me. You tell me there is little you can do. Little, indeed, that all the world can tee There nre not buttles on the open plain That you can fight as 1, a man, enn fight; But who shall nay your life is lived ii . vain. If all my darkened days you have kept light? Oh. little noniaii hcnrt, be glad, be glad That von nre what God made yon! Well I know How you have nerved me when the day was sad, And made me better yea, and kept me to 1 Be very glad that you in your white place. Your little home, with folded hands can lie A nilent influence to whose fource I trncn Toe little good there ever was in me. To hi" n womrtn! Is there any mor That roil have need to be from day to day? How ww.derfiil to have your heart your store Of purity and goodness and to say "One that I love is nobler since I cam; One that loves me is better for uiy " sake." A womiin! Oh, there Is no greater nnnn 'Khnt ever on the mortal tongue shall wnke! Windsor Magazine. The llealthfiil Turkish Hath. Turkish baths are out of the reach of poor people, who, perhaps, need them more than their richer neighbors. Superfluous flesh can be kept down by a weekly Turkish bath and many n f - "j Mictions like rheumatism and neural- r gia will sometimes disappear In its , warmth and moisture. For women with weak circulation there Is noth ing like it, and the feeling of Ilght hcarleilness and renewed strength Is never duplicated until after the next bath. The skin Is capable of a high polish and the fioast of our English sisters Is the beauty of their skin. To secure It they disearibil' sponges and soft clothes, and substituted cocoanut liber and rough towels. Even the flesh brush was brought into use, or rough mittens, which forced tile blood to the kin surface. Perhaps this could not be done all at once, because feminine bodies had been pampered and the skin was ten der. But 1he polishing process, which was. begun with a soft towel, did the work of toughening It. and then rough treat. inent was all the kind that was en-J'J'''I- An Untidy I'cttlcost. For a petticoat that hn fraye4 around the bottom, cut off an Inch all round, bind with velvet binding to match, aud just above put a couple of rows of narrow ribbon velvet of th same color, and it will look as good as new. When making a pettlcost It Is n good plan to get an extra piece that can be used for a new frill to put around tlje bottom when the petticoat Is half worn. Health and Iteautr. A dally bath Is a great protection from Infectious disease. Hartshorn 'will relieve Irritation or pnln caused by the stings of Insects. The Immediate application of cold over the site of a blow will lessen or prevent discoloration. lUw meat as steak, will have a similar effect In case of cuts wash the part, draw the edges together and cover with ad hesive plaster. In the case of a finger, toe or other part easily so treated, en 1 Ircle It with the plaster. Then liaud iige and keep the dressing on for some days. Keep In your kitchen or In soma other handy place a bottle of liniment for use In case of burns or scalds mndii of equal parts of linseed oil and lima water, shaken together. It should be applied Immediately the accident oc curs. Saturate a piece of lint or soft, linen In the liniment, lay It smoothly on the Injured part and cover well with cotton wool to exclude the air. This treatment will soon cause the pain to cease and If the dressing be uudisturlicd healing will soon result In case of severe burns or scalds al ways send at once for a doctor, bnt you will do welel to use this remedy while awaiting bkqoaiaf. ( V V