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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1903)
OLD FAVORITES The Village lilackstnlth. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy mantis; Tin smith, a uiiKlily man in lie, .-.With-larse, and sinewy hands; Arid the iniiM-lfs of his brawny arms Are ttroui; tin iron bunds. hair in crisp and black and lone; His face is Jike the tan; Hi brow Is wet with holiest sweat Hp earns whatc'i r h? can, And looks the whole world in the face, l'or he owe not any num. Week in, week out, from morn till nijjht, Von can hi ar bin bellow blow; 3on can hoar him swing his henvy glcdga', With tuiMKiin-d beat ami slow, Like a sexton rinsing the village bell, lien tin ciiiiig sun in low. Ami children coming home from school. Look in at the oj'en d'.-or; They hive to nee tlie limning forgo, And hoar the bellows roar, And catch tiie burning sparks thnt fly Like chaff from the threshing floor. flf K"'' on Sunday to the church, Ami fits amoiiK his boys; lie hears the parson pray and preach; He benri his daughter's voice Hinging in the village choir. And it makes his heart rejoice. Jt founds to him like her mother's voles, Kinging in Paradise! J!e iieedH must think of her once more, , How in the grave she lies; And with bin hard, much hand he wipes ; A tear out of Ins eyes. .Tolling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Kach morning seen mime tiifk begin, ICarh evening sees it close; fomcthing nttemptcd, something done, 11 lis earned a night's repose. Thanks, tlimks to thee, my worthy friend. Tor the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life ' Our fortune must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Kach burning deed and thought. Henry W." Longfellow. The Gospel Train. The gospel train is corniug, 1 hear it just at hand, 2 hear the car wheels moving, And rumbling through the land. Get on lioiird, children, get on hoard, children, get on board, children, For there's riiu for many a more. Get on board, children, get on board, children, gut on board, children, For there's room for many a more. 1 hear the bell and whistle, A coming round the curve; She's playing all her steam and power, And straining every nerve. No signal from another train, To follow on the line, Oh, inner, you're forever lost, If once you're left behind. This is a Christian banner The mottoes new and old, Salvation and repentance Are burnished there in gold. fine's nearlng now the station, Oh! sinner, don't be vain, lint come and get Jour ticket And be ready for the train. The fare in cheap, and all can go The rich and poor lire there; No second class are on the train. No difference in the fare. There's Moses, Noah and Alvah, And all the prophets, too; Our friends in Christ are all on board, Oh, what a heavenly crew! ,W"e soon reach the Motion, Oh! how we then shall sing, With all the heavenly army, We'll muke the welkin ring. .We'll shout o'er all our sorrow And sing forevermore, With Christ and all his army On that celestial shore. ADS" THAT ATTRACT. Thousand of Bugiceetlon Are He eel ed by the Hk Firms. Of the thousand who gaze idly ev ery day at tin? glaring advertisements in the top of the street oars, there are probably very few who realize the great nmotiut of time and money spent on the designing, manufacture, ami distribution of these many-colored placards. "Any fool can write a vere an good an that," Brown or June la apt to Hay to himself on his way home to dinner. Ajid yet If thin name critical person will only send a verso of bis own com position to the people who nre adver tising some new break fust foor or lcanlug composition the chances are ten to one Uiat two days later lie will get It back again and see written on the back i the sheet: "Declined with thanks." , "I would be willing to wager," said a mail at the .lead of a large advertis ing agency, 'that I send back more mauuscrlpti (itery month tlmn any magazine In Um L'nlted Wales. i.ie number of people who think they can write advertisements seems to be with out end; tboe who really can write good ones are mighty hard to find." When advertisers once discover any body who can do clever work cither at making verses or drawing pictures, this person can command pay far out of proportion to tbe actual work that he dors. But for very one who is able to aell hie Idea at fancy prices there are hundred! of failure who do .not make enough money to pay for ne pans and Ink with which they write. One tnia who doea all the ad vertising for several large firms sal to an Inquiring visitor: "It's not always the sense we want; If something silly will attract people'i attention, It suits us exactly. Tb more Idiotic a verse Is the better wi like It, generally." Often a couplet. In which the lack o meter Is exceeded only by the lack o. Sonne, bring to tbe writer $40 or $50 A ridiculous defect, the advertiser tell you. will often be paid for hand Homely, while other verses with pep feet meter are returned by the score When passengers on a surface "or clc vated car notice a ludicrous lack a rhythm In a verse they midge eacl other, point It out, and remember tii name of t lie article mentioned Iou( after all correctly measured lines an forgotten. The chief reason for thi refusal of such a great number ol verses is that they .hnve too mucli sense in them, and therefore do no) appeal to tbe passengers' sense ol humor. .Manufacturers of the various break fast foods, cleaning compositions, med icines iinii numberless other artlclcl advertised lit the ears receive every day dozens of drawings and rhyme) proclaiming the perfection of this o that commodity. Out of these tbej usually choose those that they con sider best and return all the rest, tic casioiially, however, a particularly clever artist or rhymester is employed sobdy by one firm, and does no wort for any other. Any one who has dis played such noticeable talent can nl most name bis own price, and b pretty sure of getting it. The famoui Jim Dumps posters are the work ol two young women, one drawing tin ridiculous pictures of Sunny Jim and the other writing the catchy verses They, as well as the author of tin well known Spotless Town placards lire In salaried positions, and devot( their entire time and energy to the! specialty. -New York Times. THE WAGNERS IN BAYREUTH. A Marked Contract Between the Greal Composer's Widow and Hie Son. A visitor to Bayrcuth, who ullowi that, technically, the Wagner operai are as well given In New York as tbej are In thnt little German city whor( you go to the show as you would g( to mass, with downcast eyes and bated breath, finds offsets In the r'o turesipioness of the place, and In tlx fun you have In trying to get any thing to eat and drink, and a plaet to crawl Into at night. But he sayi It Is especially worth while to see Frnt Wagner striding about the open house. Shi; Is a queen, he says; slit has decision In every feature. Hei father, old Liszt, was a man of r tie elded countenance, even his warts giv ing a sort of distinction to him thai was not shared by his neighbors, and Frau Cosima has inherited this dig nify and force of lneln. She Is a beet business woman: Americans would re gard her as grasping, but there Is s( little money in the Old World that tin people who bustle for it cannot tak the same view of getting and keephij that Is taken in our prosperous land. She Is rich, and she- has the assur ance of a continuance of fortune It the royalties from her husband'i operas and the sale of his works. It Is understood that she Is opposed tc the reproduction of "Parsifal" la America, at least In its complete and dramatic form, and that Is the reason why. when It was given in Brooklyn, It was only as a concert, with a scenic background, and the somber knlghU of the grail In spike tailed coats and tin shirts. There Is a remarkable con trast, says the visitor, between Wag tier's widow and his son. Frau Coslum Is big nnd bony and strenuous anq commanding, while Solgfrled Is a pop Injuy sort of boy, who tries to look bigger than he Is by strutting, and who has an unimpressive face and a weak chin. Still, he has a certain musical gift. It would be remarkably If he hadn't, with Wagner for a father and Liszt for a grandfather, and lit has conducted an orchestra with a measure of success.-Brooklyn ICagle. F.h KJecteU by Volcanoes. The stories of dead fish thrown ou( by volcanoes have been revived by the recent West India catastrophes. In particular, great quantities of then! are reported to have oeen cunt Into thj sea from the island of St. Vincent. II Is pointed out by a French expert, M, (ilrardln, that these fish are simply tun denizens of the lakes formed III tin) craters during their long period of In activity. A crater first become clogged, then fills with water, and thl water Is In time peopled with fish thai Hud access to It through subterranean channels. When volcanic activity H resumed, the llrst thing that occurs II an explosion that blows the lakc-t water, fish, and all Into the air, atu distributes It over the neighboring land and water surface. Hypocrisy in Vegetarianism. Now that some of the lusurancn companies Biv Insuring vegetarians' for less thau they charge meat eaters, thero will be carnivorous persons whi will pone as vegetarians In order to get low rates. The companies may Is) driven to the employment of detect Ives to shadow their customers whti lunch downtown aud mix corned beet) with cabbage-Oklahoma Stato Capl tal. What II" Proposed 1pMIs Workman, I'm going to propose to you - Hhe-Iteally,. Mr. IMioxy, I'm sorry but He That we have tome led cream She Oh! I shall be delighted to) He Home evening when the weather get wnnnef. Philadelphia Prat. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Science and Disease. .. . TIIE warfare of science with disease Is one of those ever-old and ever-new contests which have a fascina tion for many minds. While the training of special ists has doubtless dene much to effect cures in Indi vidual cases, and while the experiments of invosiiga tors have certainly enlarged the boundaries of human knowledge respecting disease neither of these factors have contributed so much toward the control of the half-dozen more Important maladies thst annually slay their thousands as the gradual spread of elementary knowledge respecting disease mining increasing numbers of the earth's inhabit ants. The immortal Jenner has for more than a century had the credit of discovering the efficacy of vaccination and so of saving tbe lives of millions; yet it is probably true that he gained his knowledge of cow-pox, .the met bod of disieiiiinatiiig it among human beings, and the prot tion It afforded against smallpox from the simple dairy folk of OI'-'Ueest'Tshire, w ho tool loiig observed it, The world owes him a debt of gratitude for spreading abroad the Information be bad gained, but hardly for a true dis eovery or generalization in science. Fast cur worked out from many contributing sources a consisicut theory of germ diseases, and following bis reasoning i'.ehring and Itotix perfected the anti toxin treatment of the greatest contribution of pure science to the specific treatment of disease. In the case of typhoid fever, while science has done much in Investigating the causes of Its epidemics, only the gradual education of tbe public to the protection of Its food and water supplies can ever put an end to Its ravages. Fortunately, the public Is growing more and more alive to the Importance of such protection, am! tbe death rate from typhus bi decreasing, (inly the co operation of large numbers of widely scattered people can destroy the malaria burdened mosquito; but In the case of yellow fever Intelligent action by a single local health board. like that of Havana, will suffice practically to con quer the disease. Tuberculosis, again, Is (dearly prevent. Ijble by the spread of knowledge that consumptive sputum must be disinfected; and the end of cholera infantum waits on the grow th of the simple practice of sterilizing milk for Infants. In all these various directions while science has been the pioneer It remains for the slow spread of elementary knowledge among the people to work the cure.-Current Literature. A Disappearing Race. TWO decades ago the native population of the Esqui maux lands, Labrador, Greenland and Alaska, was 80.000. To-day the 'population of these countries Is only 15,000 a decrease of f0 per cent. At this rate Hie Esquimaux will soon have vanished off t lie fact of the earth. There Is somotliing about this evanescence of race as u totality which is more than dramatic it is tragic. This In spite of the fact that the Eskimos are only one of the inferior divisions of the great human family. The disappearance of a distinct subdivision of humanity as a whole shows hew dubious is the tenure of the earth when the question Is considered with regard to the destiny of human beings In their relation to the great march of historic progress. One naturally thinks of the disappear ance of the Indians in the United States as a parallel. But great, as Is the decline of their branch of the human commonwealth within recent years, it cannot relatively equal the losses sustained by the Esquimaux.- I'.it!T:ili Enquirer. How the New Law Hits Bankrupts. AMEASniB of great Importance to business men and lawyers-and. Indeed, to the whole community-is the bill which was signed by the President recently, aud by which the batik ritptcy law of 1S0.S was materially amended. We observe. In the first place, that by the new law pre ferred creditors of a person who soon afterward becomes a bankrupt, are not debarred from having other claims pass ed upon by a failure to surrender the amount received, in pursuance of a decision of the Fnlted Slates Supreme THE MORALS OF MANNERS. "Now, Aunt Margaret, it Is a rainy afternoon, and I want to have it out with you about my 'bad manners,' as you call them. I've been here Just a week, and you have spoken to me seven times about my behavior. Here's the list, as nearly as I can remember It. "You told me I mustn't whisper in church, even about something In the sermon. That was the llrst day I was here, and It wasn't a very good begin ning, was It 1 "Monday 1 talked too loudly on the street. Wednesday I was scolded for eating a chocolate bonbon In a street car, th'. ugh I was dreadfully hungry. Then I didn't put on my gloves to go over to Hal tie's, nnd I didn't look up from my book or rise when you und giaiidma cunic Into the room. You ob oeU'd to mo fixing my hair at the con cert last night, and this morning you cil Iclsed my eating my cream toast with a spoon. Instead of a fork. "Now- It seems to me, Aunt Margaret, that If I am to put my mind on all ihise trifles 1 shall think about myself from morning till night, and presently hi the most self-conscious prig in the world. That would be worse than these lapses from your code of manners. Don't you really think so?" That was Helen's case, and It whs not such a bad one. Her pretty face looked vry grave over It. Let us try to deal with her trouble ai the wise Aunt Margaret dealt with it To think of one's behavior nil the lime Is 41 little like thinking of one's fio, lies or one's eyes or one'i clevcr ii -h. But underneath most .of these iippurcir.ly arbitrary rules Ilea the gen eral law' lli.it no one shall do anything lu the public eye to attract attention to h rself. Loud talking, eating, toilet nuking are non-social acts; that is, ,!i, y Ignore Ibe clnlin of society that one person shall do what would be n'.nful and confusing If til did It at tbe . i iti time. ' Again, the mark of respect for age iml position tint n moral reason for Ita exist nee. The quick perception of the diphtheria, probably FAVORITE MODELS IN MILLINERY. fitness of things Is the mark of true breeding. Whatever the conventional demand Is and It Is substantlnally the same the world over It Is based on a sense of proportion, on an unsclllsh wish to make life easy and pleasant for others, and on a Just feeling of one's own place In the general order of the world. Gloves, forks, chairs, voice, gesture, are nil to serve one end the nrt of gentle living. To think about that nrt not about one's self for one year or Ave years Is the time spent. If one may acquire It so that at the end of the time It "conies as natural as life." Grain from Ancient l'ompell. As Bosco Iteale, a place not far from rompell, there were recently unearth ed some Jars of grain which are con sidered ns ornong the most curious and Interesting of the mnny thousands of antiquities exhumed. More than eight een centuries, as all the world knows, have passed since unfortunate Pompeii and Herculaneum were overwhelmed und buried Itencath ashes and In if a from Vesuvius. During more thau sev enteen centuries the herdsmen wan dered with their flocks above the burled cltlea which had disappeared from sight, and no one knew their z- Court, a preferred creditor may now retain the amount paid, provided, of course, the payment was not fraudulent, while at. the same lime-, as regards debts unpaid, he will share the rights of other creditors. Another important amendment provides that the appointment of a receiver for an insolvent corporation shall be deemed an act of bankruptcy entitling the creditors to choose their own trus tee. Among the objections to a discharge which are in cluded in the new law Is the giving of a false mercantile statement, or the proof that a voluntary bankrupt has sought to go through bankruptcy more than once in six years. The bill just enacted also adds to the list of debts from which a bankrupt, cannot be relieved by a discharge in bankruptcy. Among these additions are debts to the wife and children, and alimony; also any sum due under a Judicial decision to a seduced woman or for the support of an illegitimate child. We note, finally, that the list of cor porations permitted to go into voluntary bankruptcy will hereafter include mining corporations, and that the fees of referees and trustees are to be Increased on an average of about "i0 per cent of the fees hitherto allowed by law. Harper's Weekly. New Tendency in immigration. X alluding to the fact that during the six months end ing with the close of l'JUJ, 3J;!,041 aliens entered the Fnited States, Commissioner Sargent, of the Immigra tion Bureau, points out that the great bulk of this army of newcomers promptly sought employment in the towns and cities, especially in the East, instead of spreading throughout tbe country and assisting to populate the farm ing regions of the West. The change that has come about In this respect is marked. Formerly the majority of our immigrants came from Great Britain, Germany and Scandinavia. Those from the last two territorial divisions of Europe made llielr way In great numbers to the West and Northwest, where their energy and industry made them valuable fac tors in building up the prosperity of the agricultural Com monwealths which play such important parts in feeding die nation and producing the surplus food products which the United States send abroad to furnish means of subsist ence for the masses of the Old World. This general distribution of the immigrants was whole some on every account, since it tended to equalize the national population. Now, however, the people who come to our shores are chiefly from Russia and the south of Europe, and their tendency to stay In the cities increases the congestion in Industrial centers, while it leaves a marked scarcity of lahor on the farms of the West, where, during most of the year, the demand for workers at good wages is keen and constant. How this trend toward concentration Is to be overcome is not apparent. But it is manifest that it is a much less healthful development; than the former practive. It is far better that the Immigrants who are now arriving In such multitudes should bo distributed widely over areas where the population Is comparatively scarce than that they should herd together on the Atlantic slope In 'colonies" which tend to make the progress of Americanization slower and more difficult. Philadelphia Bulletin. The Increase of Crime. THE statistics of crime as set forth In a report made to Congress by Dr. Arthur MacDonald indicate that for thirty years past crime has been increasing In the world. In spite of the progress of education and the labors of philanthropy, mental and nervous diseases, suicide, Insanity, Juvo"uilo crime, and pauperism are at present increasing faster than the population. This in crease, due apparently to concentration of population and increased strain on (lie mental apparatus of mankind, does not necessarily imply that the world is growing worse, but merely that It is changing. An increase of crime may be an Incident of a development that In the long run will be salutary. Dr. MacDonald's report accompanies a bill to provide a laboratory for the study of the criminal, pauper and defective classes, in the hope of discovering the microbe of crime and eliminating it. Harper's Weekly. act locality until some statues were exhumed by accident In 1748. In 1755 the great amphitheater was uncovered,, aud since then systematic exhumations' have been carried ou, revealing riches of which nolsvdy had ever even dream ed. They are still going on, and not long ago a find of silverware ir.i Jew elry was purchased by Baron I loth s chlld for four hundred thousand francs and presented to the Louvre In Paris. It was In a court attached to one of the buildings revealed by the excava tions that the series of large earthen Jars was found, arranged chess-board fashion and filled with grain, Just as they h.d been l(ft by those who ha1 created this curious granary nearly nineteen hundred years ago. New Klcetrlo Itoari. An Austrian engineer Is working oti plans for a rallwny from New York to, Chicago upon which cars might be run at 123 miles an hour by electricity from Niagara, A love affair that Is proper and sen sible Isn't very entertaining, either to (he parties concerned, or to the goa slpa. A skunk la nr really powerful until you kick It CARE OF CUT GLASS. Vayl to Avoid Breaking or ChippiagT Costly Pieces. A housekeeper whose table furnish ings are always beautifully clear and shining as If new gives the following hints for the care of cut glasses, espe cially of such pieces as are too valu able to be washed haphazard with the other tableware. Use only tepid water and tbe purest castile or other good soap for the jleansing anil.rJjising of such, articled ind manipulate a small, stiff brush during the washing in order to get every particle of dust out of the cut ting. Then submerge Hie piece in boxwood sawdust aud allow it to re main some little time so that the saw dust shall absorb the moisture and clear the glass. The softest of clean cloth without any nap about It should be used for the final wiping and pol ishing. Common white potato peelings should be used for cleansing the hot-, torn of carafes, decanters, aud. vases. The shot frequently employed for this purpose is apt to scratch the glass and leave marks that show from the out side. Tbe potato peelings should be left In the articles over night or for M'vcral hours and then be washed out with tepid water. Experience proves that the short life of many articles of rich glassware is due to the abrupt changes of temper ature to which they are commonly subjected. A tray or dish that has been used for ice cream, sherbet or any very cold substance. If plunged into hot water, is almost sure to crack. Likewise a pitcher or tumbler which has been filled with ice water If put suddenly into hot water or placed too near a Are or hot stove, will show the effects. There is no risk tif breakage where tepid water is used for cleansing. A piece of cut glass should never be taken from a china closet or closed cabinet where it has been in a pro tected atmosphere free from draughts aud put immediately in contact with a marble table top or other cold sub stance. If the carafe and tumblers to be used for iced drinks be put into moderately cool water for a time be fore they are used their safety is In sured. Something of the same forethought must be taken in guarding cut glass objects from harm as is practiced with a delicate child or a pet animal. Un der ordinary rough handling the glass will lose Its luster and crack or chip. But with a few precautions Regularly observed there is no reason why a piece of cut glass should not be pre served intact and brilliant for genera tions. Chicago Inter Ocean. CAPTAIN PASSOW A JOKER The St. Louis Skipper Is II u morons and Long-Headed. Capt. Passow of the St. Louis was being discussed at the Maritime ex change, says the Philadelphia Record. A skipper said: "1 have known Passow for years. He is quiet and grave, but a joker it bottom a long-headed chap, whom nobody can beat. "There's a story about Passow in his young days and a sailor who at tempted to malinger under him. This tailor, as soon as the ship was out )f sight of land, heaved a loud groan, jcgan to limp and said, with tears in his eyes: "'Captain, I must lie up for a spelL This old leg of mine is being wrenched ) nd twisted cruel with rheumatism. I'd like to work, but it's an impossibil ity. I'll go to bed now.' "Passow grunted and the sailor, kind Df smiling around the lips, hopped off ileck. He got In bed, lit his pipe, be fiui to read a stack of old magazines ind novels had a high old time. " 'No, I can't move. I couldn't walk I step,' he'd say, when anybody ques lioned him, and then he'd give a loud, deep groan. But as soon as he waa ilone again he'd resume his reading ind puff away at his pipe comforta bly. "Passow told the first officer he had nice heard a funny story about a ma lingerer and his detection, and he said he'd put this story to the proof and lee if It would work In real life. "So, at 11 o'clock that night, he had in alarm of Are sounded, and, by Jove, Hie first man, to come leaping and bounding up on deck like an acrobat ivas tbe sick man. Tbe captain, after he had told everybody he was Just try ing the (ire drill, said to the malinger er, with a hard look: " 'Sudden fright cured your rheu matism, didn't it? I'd often heard of mich cures, but never believed in them till now.' " 'It certainly cured me, air,' says the sailor. 'Something's cured me. It must bo that. I'm certainly all right ignin.' "The men all gave a scornful laugh ind even the captain sneered. That malingerer was worked double the bal- inee of the voyage." Ilryond Imagination. "Don't you think," said tbe gener-Diis-mlnded man, "that you would feel more kludly toward your political ri val if you could Imagine yourself m his place." "My dear sir," answered the ener getic man, "mere Imagination wont do. I'm going to put myself In bin place If It can possibly be managed, lie has one of the beat places In tbe povernment service." Washington, War. ' As soon as a man gets rich, his wtf begins to hire a girl to do the cooking, and he doesn't fare aa well M waea they were poor. Those who lore yon: Hat fm atjp itlier proof t&aa taatr wartl . ' I I.' V f M ' -u
