Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905, July 09, 1903, Image 5
fiimrmvn FAVORITES ! AAAA Marching Throneh Georgia. Bring the good old bugle, boya, we'll ting another song Sing It with a pirit that will tart the world iiliing Sing it as we uwd to ting It, fifty thou sand mroii". While we wore marching through Georgia. Chorus 'Hurrah! Hurrah; we bring the jubilee! Hurrah: Hurrah: the Bag that make you free! So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the mi, While we were marching through Georgia. How the darkies shouted whim they heard the joyful sound! IIow the turkeys gobbled which our com missary found! IIow the sweet potatoes even started from the ground! While we were inarching through Georgia. , ,Tes, and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears, When they saw tfie honored Hag they had not seen for years; Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth In cheers, While we were marching through Georgia. "Sherman's dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!" So the :iucy rebels said, and 'twai a handsome boast. Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the host. While we were Marching through Georgia. So we made a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train, Sixty miles in latitude three hundred to the main; Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain. While we were marching through Georgia. Henry C. Work." The Angel's Whisper. A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping. For her husband was far on the wild raging sea; And the tempest was swelling Round the fisherman's dwelling, And she cried, "Dermot, darling, oh, come back to me!" Her beads while alio number'd, The baby still alumber'd, .And smiled in her face as she bended the knee; i ""'Oh, blest tie that warning, My child, thy sleep adorning, For I know that the angels are whisper ing with thee. "And while they ire keeping Bright watch o'er thy sleepiug, Oh, pray to them softly, my baby, with me; And say thou wouldst rather They'd watch o'er thy father! For I know that the angels are whisper ing with thee." The dawn of the morning Saw Dermot returning. And the wife wept with joy her babe's father to see; And closely caressing Her child, with a bleraing, Said, "I knew that the angels were whis pering with thee." Samuel Lover. GREAT FLOATING DRY DOCK. Base Affair to M Muilt and Towed to the Philippines. The largest steel floating dry dock in the world, to float the largest battle--ships, and one that Is to bo towed 13. 000 tulles to the. Philippine Inlands will 'be built for the government by the Maryland Steel Company. The dock Is to be 500 feet long and of extra strength and weight, weighing 10.000 tons principally to enable It- to stand a voyage half way round the world. The dock will coat $1,124,000 and will be twenty-seven months In building. The builders are to deliver the great tincture on the Atlantic cost and the navy department will take up the gi gantic task of getting the dock to Its destination. When the Maryland Stcid Company undertook to deliver the Algiers dock lit New Orleans four tug boats took the dock down the Patapseo. yet the headway was Just perceptible, says the Baltimore American. The dock put to sea In tow of a steamship and two sea tugs, making only four knots an hour. It was said that the tow bill was $25,000 and that $.V),000 In surance on the dock was paid for the toyage. The dock will haye to be towed across the Atlantic ocean, through the Mediterranean sea, down the Sue Canal and Bed sea, across .the Indian ocean and up tbo China fteu to Manila. If four knots an hour Is made It will require 151 days for the voyage If no stops are made, which will be Impossible, owing to the towing hips having to recoal or wait for food weather. The tow will be the larg st and longest In history. The Algiers dock lifts 15,000 tons, Is 500 feet long, weighs 8.805 tons and coat $10,000. The new Msnlla dock la to lift from 10.000 to laooo tons. Is to be COO feet long, but will weigh 10.. 000 tons sod will cost $1,124,000. It will consist of three pontoons that will form (he flooring of the dock and two aide walls, all ef ateel. In tbe AlfloM dock these Ave sections are toftad together and are separable, but la tbo new dock the sections will be til permanent. Tbe dock la to be a aatf -decking one, the largest pontoon beta tbo middle one. la ardor to dock this section the I Her ejator pontoon will be soak tbe bwMm paatna tad tBea pumped out, raising the lara-er section. The self-docking system of the Ma nila dock will be different from that of tbe Algiers dock. The dock must lift battleships two feet out of the water a situation that increases the stability of the-ship flf ten or twenty times. To sink the dock to receive a ship water is admitted to compartments In the hull through about twenty valves admitting a vol ume of water as large as a man's body, occupying about an hour's time. The Algiers dock baa lifted the bat tleship Illinois in one hour and fifty seven minutes. The dock will be con structed in an excavation near the beach and when It is readr to be launched the strip of land holding back the Patupseo will be cut away, the water admitted, when the big structure will float. HARD TO TELL AGE OF FISH. Pile Not a Criterion, for the Food Supply determine This. "It Is easy euough for a man to study up books and then come out and announce that he has certain theo ries about animal life," says Man ager Spencer at the battery aquarium to a writer In the New York Com mercial Advertiser, "but when he studies the living animals themselves, If he Is fair-minded, it won't be very long before he'll begin to acknowledge that theories are of little value and that the more a man learns the more he will realize how little be knows. "A man came here one day with his bead Just bulging with natural history secrets and theories of marine life. He told nte that he had found a way to tell the age of fishes and got (julte indignant because I refused to agree with him. I've studied Ashes for a good many years and believe that it's an utter Impossibility, to tell their ages. Size can have little or nothing to do with ages. The trout are a good example and like all other fishes their growth Is governed by their food supply. In Rome locali ties, when range and food supply are restricted, trout seldom grow to large size. In other localities, such as the large lakes of Maine, the fish reach a weight of from six to ten pounds. It Is no uncommon thing for a trout to be placed in a well and remain there for a dozen, fifteen or even twenty years, and when taken out weigh les? than a pound. "When I was a boy I lived up In Vermont. There was a trout brook running across my father's farm. The batiks were narrow and grassy and the waterway cold and quite deep. There was one big trout which always stayed In one bole under the bank. He was not so very large, but pertiaps weighed a pound and a half. When I wanted to scare him out I would stand and joggle the bank above him and he would go shooting up stream, but would Invariably n-turn to his hole. Year after year I tried to capture that trout by j spearing him and year after year I fulled. Trout were scarce In the brook and I have every reason to be lieve that It was one trout I pursued year after year. In ail the time the wily fellow hardly grew an Inch, and It was only another proof that the age of fishes is not determined by their size. "Some men assert that the age of the oyster can be told by the layers of lime In the shell. While It may be possible. It Is as far as we know only theoretic. Trout are peculiar fish. It may surprise a great many people to learn that trout are often found In salt water and, In fact, thrive in It. Eight or nine years ago a ,trout nearly eight Inches long was caught In Gravcseud bay. Tbe trout was placed In a funk of salt water at the aquarium and lived for many months." GIVc8 FORTUNE FOR HAT. New York Socletr Woman Kipend $ I, (IV) for Head Decoration It Is enough to make even the most extravagant daughter of Eve exclaim to learn that a New York society woman recently paid $1,050 for a sin gle bat, says the Philadelphia Ledger. The hut was ordered from a Fifth avenue milliner who bad managed to secure the cream of society's custom. The price originally named for It to the Intending purchaser was $1,800, but It was found that less material was requln-d than first anticipated, and $150 was deducted from the esti mate. Four Itusslnn sable skins, alsnolutely flawless and of the finest quality pro curable, were used In making. Tbe largest of I he skins, all of which were of the costly east Siberia quality, measured fourteen Inches In length, and the fur was of a rich dark brown, fine In texture and very glossy. The hat frame was a big flare, rolled slightly on the left side. Great skill wss required In covering It with the fur In the most artistic manner and without the aid of scissors. There was no trimming whatever except In the sable tails, which were utilized to the bot advantage. When the hour for trying on the hat was at hand considerable trepidation was felt by the bead milliner. If the customer did not like It, the matter would take on a serious aspect, and If It hud to be remodeled much trouble would result. But all fears proved groundlose. The purchaser expressed unqualified approval of the effect and the entire staff of saleswomen agreed with bT In thluklng It vsatiy becom ing. It afforded her exquisite satis faction to be assured that the style was an exclusive one, and that there never would bo tbe slightest danger of seeing a duplicate In tbla or any other country. Bhe banded In her check for $1,060 with the nonchalant air of mm who pays for a flaa of aoda. What aa anllmlted atoak ef aeme people hate. J. T. Trowbridge's "My Own Story" will be printed In book form next au tumn, and is sure to be one of tbe "books of the year." A tourlBts' edition of George Whar ton James' "In and Around the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Ari zona" is announced by Little, Brown & Co. u. Appietou & uo. will publish in New York a posthumous novel called "'Twij,t God and Mammon," by Tire- buck Young, a writer of great promise A memoir by Hall Calne will preface the book. A large part of the so-called litera ture of our time is composed of ashes. It Is dead when It Is made; it Is with out warmth and without beauty; and mountains of it could not Influence om normally-constituted human life. Charles Egbert Craddock Joins the frateruHy of historical novelists this year with "The Spectre of Power," a story of the French and Kugllsli strtig gles early In the eighteenth century for the possession of the Mississippi Valley. Prof. Goldwln Smith is bringing out through the American Unitarian Asso ciation a small but significant book called "The Founder of Christendom,' which is remarkable as a clear, con else and masterful presentation vt the character and mission of the Founder of Christianity. A short time ago 25 cents a word was considered a fabulous price for a publisher to pay a writer. That was wnen .Mr. Kipling was at the height of his vogue. Now we have the strange case of Dr. Conau Daylo, who is to receive nearly $1 a word for a num tier of short stories. Ir It any wonder that everybody Is writing books, asks tbe New York Sun. J tie M. Clark Company has In preparation a novel of life oil a Mon tana ranch by Frances Parker, a real ranch girl. She is a daughter of Dr. Dayton Parker, of Detroit, 22 your old, and has lived on her fufher'b ranch among the Bear Paws Moun tains all bcr life. Her writing is said to have the Western dash that might be expected of such a girl. .virs. Mirali Cowcll Le Moyne, the well-known actress, Is the possessor of some rare copies of first editions, among which are authors' presenta tion copies given to her while she was In England. Among these are several of Tennyson's works and one or two of Browning's. Bret Harte and Walt Whitman also contributed to this In- teresting collection. Thoroughly ap preciative of the best Jn literature, these works have been kept In perfect condltlou and are highly treasured. The amount of money Mrs. Hum phry Ward received from Harper's Magazine for the serial rights of her "Lady Hose's Daughter" Is flu Interest ing subject of current comment. Miss Jcannctte L. Gil.ler, the well-known literary agent and editor of the Critic, surmises that Mrs. Ward could bavo received no less Hum $i-,(KM) for tha serial rights; to this Miss Gilder adds the royalties on the sales of the book, which are estimated to be something over $l.r0,00(), says the New York Times. Miss Glider asserts that "ther Is no doubt that Mrs. Humphry Ward Is the best paid of living novelists." But tbe publishers are reticent as to the figures In the case. EE' 1811. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS A Wise Voter. The Democrats or Rochester, N. Y., eager to get out their full strength at a recent election, sent word to H. B Anthony, 17 Madison street, marked "Democrat" In the pool book. Just be fore the last day of registration, that "unless you register you cannot vote." According to the Ind!nnaoHs News, they got the following answer: "In response to your notice of this kind In 1S72 I did register, and later voted. For this I was arrested, fined one hundred dollars and sent to Jail you will excuse nie it I decline to re peat this experience. "Susan B. Anthony." A The Isthmian Canal. IiEM ARK ABLE change of opinion has taken place in regard to the best route for the Isthmian Canal. Fourteen mouths ago, when the House passed the Nicaragua?! bill,, the Panama, .route-had few advo cates; only one newspaper in New York championed It, :iimI the state of feeling at the time is further Illustrated by the fact that this champion was actuated by a desire to :.iwart the building of any canal. Now, however, there is hardly a voice rained to mourn for abandoned Nicaragua, and we have engaged to spend millions, hundreds of mil lions, on Panama. We have agreed to pay the Panama Canal Company $40,000,000 for its rights, unfinished work and other property; we have agreed to pay Colombia $10, u'Ki.ooo and an annuity of $2o0,000, and in addition to this outlay there Is the cost of construction, which is estimated at $2To,oiKi,000, but may, and probably will, be much more. As much as this has already been sunk in the fourteen miles of ditch already completed by the old Panama com pany, and thirty three miles of more difficult work remains to be done. Fourteen years and $250,000,000 are plainly very scant estimates of the time and money which will have to lie expended before the Isthmus Is crossed by a navigable waterway. But the rewards will equal the ex penditure. Public Opinion. residence there. The condition of the roadways la any neighborhood is an unfailing sign of its progress. The organization of good roads associations, local. State, nation al and International, Is doing excellent work In spreading Isformatioi-, exciting Interest and securing needful legisla tion respecting the movement. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Ei Interesting Wheat Experiments. jt XPEIUMENTS In Colorado and Wyoming point to the development of a species of hard wheat that will yield bountifully In the arid regions. In 1896 a Col- oradoan, Mr. Robert Gauss, planted some improved Fife, wheat and left It to take care of Itself. The harvest gave barely enough wheat for seed the next year. The crop from this seed was much better, and each year since the grain has gained In productiveness. In 1002 Fred Bond, State engineer of Wyoming, planted half a pint of this acclimatized seed near Cheyenne at an altitude of 0,030 feet, and another half-pint at Buffalo, altitude 4,700 feet. The first lot threshed !iy2 pints and the second 21'j pints. No water was artificially given to either plantation, and the rainfall at Cheyenne was only 6. ,"38, and at Buffalo 4.00 Inches. If experiments on a larger scale are equally suc cessful, Mr. Gauss, as the Geographic Magazine-says, has reclaimed nearly 400.000 square miles of land. The whole arid and seml arld West will eagerly await further experi ment. Indianapolis Journal. The Minimum Wage. INDIANA has a minimum wage law, enacted in 1001. It provides that no one employed on work done by or for counties, cities or towns shall be paid less than twenty cents an hour. The act was passed at the demand of organized labor, and the purpose, of course, was to estab lish a standard minimum rate of living wages. While k was not believed that the State could enact any law mak ing a minimum wage In private business, It was Imagined that municipal corporations could be required to pay a minimum wage or more for work done which would be come a common standard. The Supreme Court of the State has pronounced the law unconstitutional, as being an improper interference with tbe liberty of contract. If the Legislature has the right to prescribe and enforce a minimum rate of wages, it also has power to prescribe a maximum rate, and need not confine Itself to wages, but proceed to fix the prices of corn and potatoes. The court concludes that counties, cities and towns stand upon the same footing as private or quasi-public corporations, and cannot be compelled to pay more than Its market value for any property or labor.-Boston Herald. The Alien Invasion. ISN'T It a little foolish for us to talk of "tbe American race" and "the American character" as if they were es tablished and recognizable facts. In the face of a move-, ment which is vastly altering the population of our land? Within the last forty years 16,000,000 of aliens have come to our shores. There never was a race movement like that before. The Norman Conquest of England waa microscopic; the Invasion of England by the Jutes, Saxons and Angles was insignificant; the descent of tbe barbariana upon the Roman Empire was a small affair, compared with the Invasion of the United States now going on. In tho retrospect, all the great movements of population recorde In history are seen to have profoundly altered the charao ters and affected the careers of the countries to which they moved, and we may be certain that the national character and the national destiny will be no less materially affected In our own case now. In the nature of things, the effect will not appear at once; the newcomers are poor and of slight consideration; does any one expect that they will re main so for many generations? Doesn't every one who will take the trouble to think about it know that in the worlds of business, polities; and even "society," the sons and daughters of those who fought for American independence already in many cases have to give way to the descendants of those who were coming ashore, with their packs on their backs, out of the steerage, a generation or two ago? Philay delphla Public Ledger. T: New England Thrift. HE proportion of men and women who retire on small competencies is doubtless greater in Massachu setts than in any other State In the Union, unless it be Pennsylvania, which is the other State of Dn Benjamin Franklin's residence. But a man who has even the most robust respect for the thrift of the people of Massachusetts must be surprised to learn from the report of the State's Bureau of Labor Statistics that there are more than 45,000 such persons 28,000 men and 17,000 women. Two-thirds of them are native born, too. ; These persons who have retired on competencies aw apparently not, as a rule, the owners of large fortunes. Indeed, most men of large fortunes, it Is safe to say, do not retire till physical Infirmities compel them. In the list are an amazing number who are farmers more than 8,500 whereas less than 3,300 were merchants. Even the re-i tired blacksmiths number 359, and there are 1,076 "labor ers" on this list World's Work. T 0 The Cause of Good Roads. NE of the most striking evidences of the civilization reached by Borne are the remains of her great high ways. It l said that 50,000 miles of roadways were built by the Romans, structures which In their decay are the envy of the modern road builders. It is a reflec tion on the American name that In the older States, which have been organized communities for more than two cen turies, there are thousands of miles of roads that are practically In no better condition now then they were In the early days. In Pennsylvania there are thousands of miles of roadway maintained In no better fashion than they were at the beginning of the last century. The value convenience and pleasure of good roads are admitted. Thev Improve social conditions in the countryside and Invite Save the Big Trees. HE giant sequoias of California form a natural won der and beautiful scenic feature absolutely unique. How far the rumor that their existence Is In danger may be true Is not quite apparent, but it seems cer tain that the Calaveras Grove at least Is threatened with extinction. It must be remembered that there are at least five hundred trees in California wfoich are really entitled to be called giant trees, and that these are found in many rather widely separated groups. The Mariposa Grove, near the Yosemlte Valley, Is ow.ned and cored for by the State of California, while the United States holds at National parks two tracts of land on which big trees stand. Tho Calaveras group, the first to be discovered, contains about a hundred very fine giant trees, and has been well main tained and preserved. It is private property, and, of late years at least, has not yielded a reasonable profit on the price paid by the present owner, $100,000. There Is, there fore, great danger that the trees may be cut down and sold -It Is said that a single sequoia might yield 50,000 feet of lumber. It seems evident that California should have pur chased the Calaveras Grove at the very moderate prlco named above, but the State authorities have hoped that tho United States would buy the tract as a National park; Con-1 gress, however, bas seemed averse to this, and has refused an appropriation for the purpose. It Is now suggested that a public subscription should be made, or that an Individual benefactor should present the famous grove to the nation.1 In one way or another the destruction threatened should be averted. New York Outlook. HAS MUNICIPAL ICE FACTORY A Matter of Hpclling. Justlce Morgan J. O'Brien, while or. his way to his sent at the dinner given by tbe Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, spied among tho guest Abe" Gruber. He looked at the little lawyer for a second and then said. with evident amazement: "Why, 'Abe,' what arc you doing here 7 This Is a gathering of Irishmen. sons of K.rln." "Ho am I," said Gruber, "I am a son of Erin, only our people spell It differently A-a-r-o-n." New York Times. woman An Km tuple of tiood Lack. "Do you believe In luck?" "Sometimes. See that fat with the red hat over there 7" "Yea." "Twenty-two years ago she refused to marry me."-Clevelaod Tlaln dealer. Her Ability. "Going on tbe stage? Tea, bnt caa abe actr "Well. I abould aay so, abe com pletely captivated tbe jury when abe waa teetlfylng la ber divorce case." Pblladeipbla Bulletin. Nothing caa keep aome men from dot- fool trtcka. The writer of this la on of (been. City of Wolverhampton In Kaiilanil Hncccaafnllr Conduct One. The first municipality In England to establish a municipal Ice factory under the approval of the local government board Is Wolverhampton, says the Mu nicipal Journal and Engineer. The board has authorized the council to make Ice and sell It to its customers and will allow any surplus to be pur chased by other traders. Despite the many objections that were raised against this undertaking, on the grouud that It was too doubtful for any municipality to assume, tho offi cials went ahead with their plans. The council fortunately decided to Incorporate with the Ice factory cold stores and this union ef Interests yields better results than If the cold stores were undertaken alone. In fact the men Interested In the work felt that to cut out the manufacture of Ice from the scheme would absolutely ruin It from a financial standxilnt. Tho estimated demand for Ice In Wolverhampton Is about 1,500 tons a year and a manufactory producing seven tons a day could meet this con sumption; but to provide for any pos sible Increase In the city, a plant of ten tons output per day was Installed and arrangements were made so that this could be Increased to twenty tons If iiev-essnry. The cost of the build ings aud Insulating waa estimated at $2H,500 and for Uls necessary machin ery and appliances $18,750, making a total of $17,250. It is estimated that the running expenses will be $10,005, which includes 2'j per cent allowance for depreciation and sinking fund and Internet on tho loan. The cold atorea have a capacity of 24000 cubic feet, which If let at 20 cents per foot will produce $4,800, and calculating on four months, 1300 tons of Ice at fd.23 per Ion, would bring In $8,128, a total of f I2.A28 and a profit of ll.OO. Tbe borough engineer, after ooaaMer ing the different mctboda of commer- THE NEW BRITISH SUBMARINE DESTROYER. This Is the type of the new submarine boat destroyer which boa been approved by the British navy. In addition to carrying the regular torpedo tube and projectile In the bow, the strange craft Is equipped with nn "outrigger" .torpedo, charged with thirty-five pounds of gun cotton, which Is pushed against the submarine or other ship to be destroyed. dully producing cold, such as' cold air, liquefaction, vacuum, absorption and compression systems decided on the one In use. This was the one In which the cold Is produced by an ammonia compression machine. The three prin cipal methods of transmitting the cold were the direct expansion system, In which ammonia Is directly expanded Into a aeries of tubes hung from the celling; the brine circulation system; aud the cold air current system, In which the tubes, whether dry or wet, are placed In a chamber and air Is caused to flow over them. Mr. Brad ley chose the last as the most prefera ble system. The cold Is produced by the evapora tion of anhydrous ammonia In a series of wrought-lron colls submerged Id a rectangular tank containing brine. In the brine are the molds In which the Ice la formed. The cold brine congeals tbe water In tbe tanks and the clear Ice la produced by tbe use of hydrau lic agitation gear, by means of which the email quantity of air In the water Is extracted. After the ammonia has been evaporated In tbe Ice tank oalla tbe vapori art drawn back Into (he compressor and delivered Into an am monia condenser on the roof of tho engine house, where they are liquefied. The work of cooling In the cold rooms Is produced In a similar manner,! but Instead of the evaporator colls be ing submerged In a tank they are built up In the form of a battery. Thla la placed In a duct which la so arranged that air Is drawn In at one end by means of an electrically driven faa, and being cooled by tbe colls, is dt-i trlbuted from the other end to the vari ous storerooms. Tbe advantage of tbla system Is the entire absence of mois ture on account of tbe cold, dry air used, and a further advantage hi tbo fact that the whole power of tbe ptaat may be concentrated In any one place If It Is desired to cool aucb room re Idly. Kleotrtotty la tbo atot. In England tbe Sunderland tewa council bas decided to aupply, elec tricity for tbo lighting of tbo work-' moo's dwelling awaed by tbe araale ipallty on tbo poany-la-tbe-alot arta- clple, one pea ay to pay for aa ota candle power Bght toattag Ira aad aao- n aaan.