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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1903)
. "V OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS The Ret Cure. """I r I Kit work r-omcu rent. When they alternate I perfectly a man may prepare to enjoy real hap JF Spinas,. When they alternate perfectly a man aaaaaaaaaaal 'UI enter both l ho work and th reat thnt -?V1 Nature ) a Just old lady, Sh seldom given ui-u nun (linn hp needs. If lif. elects to live a lazy life he let bis muscles get flabby and big brain go sleepy. She never penults him to long possess a faculty or a nerve or a muscle or a sinew that he do-s not use. The proper way to keep your muscles or your brains Is to use 'em up and let nature provide, you with a fnsh upply. Nature Is assisted In thin work by rent.. One may rest sometimes by seeking a change In labor, tabor thus become a recreation re-rceatfon. To live happily in tills woild It Is not enough to know bow to work; a man must also know how to rest. The man who known' only how to' work will soon war out. If lie doesn't wear out Immediately!!! work will stiff orin some way. No man can do his best work unless be alternates It with a little play or a little rest. A man who can't drop his work from his mind ns read ily as he can drop his fools from his hands had better lake a few weeks off to study the rest question. His nerves ure not what they should be. If a man wishes to keep his nerve let him an -Pttimrs Ids-patch. agents. Theiie agents will study the local dangers an well as general danger, and at the same time will co operate with the Warden System of t!f States and the railroad protective systems. As soon as each section Is thoroughly studied, and the problem well understood, the bureau will suggest forest-fire legislation requisite to the ease In hand. At the same time the bureau is prepared to co-operate with largs owners of tree lands to establish economic methods of forest cutting and forest growing. New York Independent. OLD- .1 duration. I ) t 'P A TIOV Is frond for flnv in.in n.- w,,ncin . jwho accept It simply as .nteiieetual enlighten r mcnt and as a mcmis of intpllecliial pleasure. jlu cuucauon nas uu economical us wen as an Intellectual aspect. It gives a man or wom an appetites as well as pleasures. It creates In the individual a need and desire for brain work and a dis taste for manual labor. It arouses a wish for -luxuries and social position thnt only wealth can bring. It drives men arid wom"ii Into those few occupations which social prejudice leaves open to educated persons. There is no room In these professions for the crowd. Consequently, a multitude of the less competent among college graduates fall In their work and become dissatisfied. It would be well if the highct education were confined to those only who through superioi powers of mind seem fitted for it and give promise of being able to employ It in (he intellectual professions. livery graduating class at very university contains a large percentage of students who barely pass the tests, and who have no natural apti tude for intcllcetiial occupation. These are dumped upon the market with lofty Ideas and insufficient ahllily to back them up. IMiieation to them is a curse instead of a bless ing. It makes them take up work at which they cannot succeed, and despise and 'bun work for which God made them. Even If they find out thf-ii mistake after leaving college, it Is commonly too late to mend. The years in which they might have been learning a trade or a business are gone. They can do everything In general, but nothing in particular; ,md the man that succeeds to day is the one who enn do something In particular and do It especially well. Sin Fram-Isco Bulletin I Forest Fires. 'I' is estimated by the t'nifed States Depart ment or Agriculture, in us uuriau oi s oresiry, that the annual loss from forest tires Is above J'io.iiOt ,0O0. The probabilities are that the present year wlil show an exceptional loss -a react i in g iieiii iy or ipine uuuiur mosc ugiires. Last year, within two weeks, over !f 12.oho.ihki worth of timber and property was destroyed by forest fires in the two Stales of Oregon nod Washington alone. This year the loss from fires In the Adirondack region reached cer tainly $10,ooo,ono, and probably much more. Tim Bureau of Forestry has recently undertaken a thorough study of tin flre problem, hoping to show that these terrible losses are not Inevitable. The whole country has been divided Into districts, and these have been assigned to Investigating The Pate That Kills. ft ' (HIDING to tiarasranhs that anuear from A I time to time in the papers, sometimes backed I up by more or less elaborate statistics, heart disease aim paralysis are increasingly preva lent and fatal. It is not to be wondered at. This Is a strenuous age, so strenuous that men are homed along with Its rapid current at so terrific a speed and with such constant application to work that body and mind are taxed beyond their powers of endur ance. Our grandfathers, nay, even our fathers, knew nothing of the stress of life as we feel It, who are engaged In Its dire struggle to-day. No wonder that often Hie rup ture of an engorged blood vessel in the brain, or the fail ure of a sorely taxed valve in the heart, suddenly puts a Stop to it all, and the man who thought that business must be attended to, no matter at how great a cost of hurry and wear and tear, finds some day that business has to go on without him. There are physical sins as well as spiritual sins, and many men ruin iheir bodies, who would not dream 'of doing damage to their souls. The plea of necessity Is not a valid one either, for no man is compelled to sin against either bis body or his soul. And yet, as we said just now, In this strenuous age it Is no wonder that henrt disease and paralysis are on the increase. Men rush and drop. Other men rush past them a little farther and drop In their turiK It would be better to slacken, the pace, and hold out lougeV. We should get more done, and do It be'i.-r. christian Guardian. Reforming Funerals. mi -j) H Vf there Is great need of reform in funeral Tr" I ceremonials is undeniable. While It is true that I I some of the costly excesses of earlier days, es- 1 ti..r.li1lv ll, n f.mlh.uu T.eoe..slnn of rrifl "f (lint j-7-W;: ;;q used to block street crossings and Interrupt all j&&C)feJ travel, have been abandoned, (here yet remains ubuinutui. room for the hand of the Judicious reformer to work beneficently. This, at any rate. Is the opinion of the Atlanta Evangelical Ministers' Ass ociation, and that body of clergymen Is trying to do work on the reform line. What they propose Is thus summarized: "That funeral sermons and orations be discarded; that there be no eulogy of the dead, except in extraordinary eases: that there be less extravagance in the conduct of funerals; that the practice of wearing mourning be dis couraged; that no funeral services or burials be conducted on the Sabbath except In cases of emergency, and that the removal of hats nt the grave be discouraged. Not all of these recommendations will meet universal ac ceptance, but 11 would be diflleult to frame a strong argu ment In opposition to either of them. Except In rare In stances, "funeral sermons and orations" are not conducive to any good end. Many of them are positively and serious ly objectionable. There Is greater solemnity and dignity In funeral services that omit preaching. Extravagance In funerals ought to be repressed, and the rich should Rot the example. It Is unseemly to make a display of wealth on such an occasion. Only an ancient custom can lie pleaded in support of wearing mourning, The Atlanta Constitution gives its unqualified Indorsement to the entire program of the local clergy, and closes lis comments thereon with the remark that "what the world needs Is more Independence of precedent and more common sense In such matters. There is no danger of a material, pracfiial age declining to give death Its due In the matter of the last offices, but there Is every reason why an age that discards superfluities should adopt a more sensible, consistent funeral program. Wash ington Post. FAMOUS WESTERN CHARACTER. "Calamity June," Noted Wmnan fremiti ho Kcrrntly Uicii. 'Calamity Jane" is dead. She was a border character whose exploits have furnished material around which the novelist has woven Western ro uci nee. She is said to have Inspired Bret II arte to write his popular story. "The I.m-k of Iloarlng Camp," in which ho Is alleged lo have been the original of tie- character of Cherokee She bote the fears of a dozen i, -;), tl-X HT-A i r.- v n i 1 -; ;sr- i ' lis "AI.AMItT JANE." bullets, reielired principally lu encoun ters with the Indians. "Calamity Jam;" waa horn in 1."2 In Princeton, Mo. Her father, J, Cnu narjr, went to the nld fields of Mon tana lu WV. "ml during the five months' trip overland bla daughter, wboM name waa Martba. became au til rt rifle abut and a daring rider, la 170 the donned the attire of a eowbov and Jollied the forces of ften aral Cuater aa a scout f be waa cbrla- teiied "Calamity Jane" by Captain Eagiiu, of the I'nlted Slates Army, whose life she saved by killing au In dian at Goose Creek. S. 1., in 172. Captain Eagiiu informed her that she was a good person lo have around in time of calamity and he christened her '( 'alainify Jane, the heroine oi the plains." - Inning her career as scout "Cnhiin ily Jane" took, part in many engage mollis with the Indians and figured in a number of thrilling adventures. Mie fought In the campaign against the Ness 1 'erees Indians in 1ST:. ac companied General'' lyok to the ll.'aek Hills, where the S.oiix were (hreaiou Ing, In is".", and was with Cns;er, .Miles and Terry In the Big Horn coun try In ISTU. lu this campaign she per formed Ihe perilous feat of carrying dispatches through n hostile country. Exposure brought on pneumonia and she was granted a furlough, which un doubtedly saved her life, as tint long afterward occurred the ('uster mas sacre on Ihe Utile Big Horn. In 1STS she was honorably dis charged from flic army and had since wandered from place tn place In Hip West. She was married to Clinton Bulk nt El Paso In l.ssi and they had one daughter. Her husband died In 1VH. "Calamity Jane's" death occur red In I (end wood, WHY THE Y G HOW0 L D. Interest A r Too N.irrow-Nreil for ' Ilrrni 1 Act ivIII-H. Women, who grow Id most quickly are i hose who - Intel e ts are the nar rowest. Those vim stay yo mg lorigi s! nre those whose minds ri ml s lilts nee fi ll by action and by changing Impr fl' ii". Those who are young, st ul .'Id ure the most Intelligent. Climate In lp lu the temperate zone, but that climate does II. tie. with nit customs, Is sh wn In I In face "f "' b'lghtiil American woman who af 2. looks older Ihnn In r free and ciillghti ne.l compatriot al 40. One of the reasons that uiiiii has grown older Inter than woman Is that he has had, n more free am) active role lo piny. One of the reasons that married women were formerly the only one who had a chance of escap ing earl age wnt tbat when the no- married passed n certain stage she was laid upon the shelf, and the she-it is n poor place fur any human plant to retain Its sap mid foliage. Another foreign visitor, this fime an Italian, comes forward fo congratulate Amer ica on tic happy nspi-cts of her youth. I.ali' marriage, which Is so often re gre.iel by eotivt titiomil philosophers amo:ig im, sis ins to this Italian edu cator llu result n it only of a healthy s -i.se of responsibility, but ef the abil ity of our w. lien to remain youi.g 1 mg.-r than is pcs-iMc In some ol.ie. na:h us. In fhis set-ret of extending woman's youth through a, one addi Uo: nl I'iKiers, our I'm eign visl.or I'm Is the secret of our good furtune. "Soine b s crs" Is a l u g iiine. It can la illy tin-ail lc-s than lif ecu jcn-s, an I yet It dues not seem (-.tagger t d, 'I ll's ex tensii'ii of W iinan's yoii.h Is obtain, d pinily by xre.se aid d if, but far more by widen d i p;oi tiinity, by wo:k, by nbundnccc of life. The w n to live long Is to live much, and one of the wisi-st (ii'ligs .(oiing America has done is fo throw open flic doors of opportunity aid of lasting youth lo womankind. Co.ller's Weekly. t 1 I I I 1 I l"H ff-tWtl-tW FAVORITES Feeing Things. I ain't sfeared uv snakes, or toads, or hugs, or worms, or mice. An' tilings 'at girls are skeered ut think are awful nice! I'm pretty brave, 1 guess; an' yet I lote to go to bed. For, when I'm tuck d up warm au' snug, au' when my prayers are said. Mother tells me "Happy dreams!" and Hikes away the light, An' leaves me Ijin' all alone and seej-' things at night. Sometimes they're in the corner, (some times they're by t lie door. Sometimes they're all a-standiu' in the middle of the floor; Sometimes they art- a sittin' down, some times they're walk in' round So sofily and so creepy-like they never iniike a sound! Sometimes they are as black aa ink, an' other limes they're white But the color ain't no difference when you see things at night! Once, when I licked a feller 'ut had just moved on our street, Au' father seal me up to bed without a bite to eat, I woke up in the dark an' saw things stand in' in a row, A-lookin' at me cro;s-eyed an' p'intin' at me so! Oh, my! 1 wuz so skeered thnt time I never slept a mite It's almost a II iik when I'm had I see things nt tiifrht. Lucky thing I nin't a girl, or I'd be skeered to death! Bein' I'm a boy, I duck my head an' hold my breath; An' I am, oh, so sorry I'm a naughty boy, an' then I promise to be better, an' I say my prayers again! Gran'mu tells me that's the only way to make it right When a feller has been wicked an' sees things at night. An' so when other naughty boys would coax me into sin, I try to skwush the Tempter's voice 'at urges me within; An' when they's pie for supper, or cakes 'at's big an' nice, 1 want to but I do not pn.s my plate for them things twice! No, ru'1ier let Starvation wipe me slowly out o' sight Then I should keep a-livin' on nu i-ein' things nt night! Eugene l-'ield. The l-CM(lelirc. Mr. Ilerllby looked nt Ids latest ph -logrnph, taken In his Sunday clothes, and bis gaze, bespoke keen disappoint ment. "Ol'd never 'a' hud this tuk If It hadn't been for Mil in children felling me about ths improvements in photo graphing!" he muttered, holding the card upon which his likeness was mounted fanhor mid furl her away. "Improvements, Is If? Ol'd loike lo show this plclur solde be soldi wld the wan OI had twlnty years ago, and lave it to annybisly which o' thlui Is the belt her inn n o' lue. There's an old, anxious, tired-out look to fills new wan Unit wns nl vor In the other. "'There may be Improvements in phn toKrnphltiK," said Mr, Herllhy. as he deposited the eublnet sized card face down In Jils table drawer, "but OI've jrlt to aee thlm." We don't know what the "courage of one's convictions" means, unless It la to eat corn off tbe cob by taking It to roar fingers. Home, Sweet Home. 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble there's no place like home! A charm from the sky seems to hallow ns then1, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home! An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain; O, give me my lowly thatched cottage again! The birds singing gayly that came at my call Give me them and the peace of mind dearer tliiin all! Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home! John Howard Payne. DROPS SPORT FOR WORK. Clarence II. Mnckny l"ollowinr in Ilia Fntlier's Footsteps. Seldom has such a radical change been wrought in a young man's mode of life as in that of Clarence II. Mnc kny since (hp death of bis father, John W. Mackay, a lit tle over a year a.o. l'reviors to that event young Mackay w as .ne of the piymt of the richer set of Am ericans. He w: s fond of society, was an all round athlete, and owtnd one of (he best Id- K,v ,' JQ- "... fal C. It. MACKAY. racing stables in the United Stales. Immediately' on the death of his father be cabh d to his llililier to sell nil the horses, and they Were sold at a sacrifice. He wanted to be fr. e to lake up the conduct of ills father's business affairs, and since then has let nothing Intel f. re with this detcrmbia tlon. He now occupies one of ihe most prominent positions In the busi ness world as president of the Postal Telegraph and Commercial Cable C im pulses. Ills rule fur business succe-s Is to devote ills attention strictly to his task rind to follow ns closely as pos sible In the footsteps of his fatlnr. The son had a careful schooling lu order that be might lit neoeptuhly On position of Ihe elder Mili-kay. As n director of the Postal Telegraph Com pany every brunch, every di-lail of the plant and service was pass, d before iilm. It wns his father's aim in life to leave his son prepared to carry on the work he had begun In various di rections, and the son has ace. piml It and Is manfully fullUlitig his father's wishes. A Pacific cable was one of the i lder Maekay's bobbles, lie believed In its practicability and In Its ultimate suc cess as an Invent mi tit. When he d'ed his son Clarence look up the nnfinlshed work and carried It through to success ful completion, Mr. Mackay Is In his office In New York ever (lay from U lo G o'clock, and bin capacity for business la tre mendous. Ills inly recreation Is taken at bla summer borne at Itoslyn, E, I , or on tbe yacht wblcb dally takes him to and from bis office. His Ilosiya j AFGHAN IS A FIGHTING MAN. home Is one of tbe finest In tbe coun try, and was built to suit the tastes of his wife, who was Miss Katberine Duer, of New York, and whom be mar ried In 1808. It cost $1,000,000. Mr. Mackay Is charitably Inclined, but his benefactions are done in secret. HUNDREDS OF PIANOS RUINED. Flood Caused Lota of $200,000 in Musical Instruments. More than 500 pianos were totally ruined in the recent floods In Kansas City. The piano bouses of the city are busy tearing apart the water-soaked instruments, saving some of the hard ware, and sending the polished wood to the kindling heaps. "There is no salvage to a soaked pi ano," said a prominent piano man. "Wheli they get wet up to the keys fliey are ruined." Tbe J. W. Jenkins Music Company iost two carloads of new pianos that aad not been unloaded from the cars. They were soaked and rendered useless in the boxes In which they came from the factory. Then there were approx imately S50 rented pianos in the flood. These are a total loss to the dealers who bad placed them in the various homes. A piano is made up of very delicate parts. One line-looking instrument which had apparently fared well in the Immersion was all in pieces at the workshop of the Jenkins Music Com pany yesterday. It did not look to be a ruin, good only for the scrap heap, but that was its announced condition. The polish on the outer surface was as flue ns ever. All the interior mech anism was in apparently good shape. But there were faintly perceptible warnings and a trace of rust on the metal. The keys bad become swollen and warped until they were immov able. It is the Intention of the companies who have damaged pianos to make some experiments with the better ones in an effort fo find out whether it be possible to rejuvenate the instruments. But every piano house In the city has announced that it will never send out for sale or hire any of the instruments that have been flooded. The collection of damaged pianos In the Kansas City warehouses embraces Instruments from the aristocratic $1, 500 symphony in mahogany to the humble .$l."i0 kind in imitation of some thing which It Is not. And they are all valueless. The salvage Is not worth more than the cost of taking the instru ment to pieces. "The hardware in them," said one of the men at work wrecking pianos in the wnrerooms of F. G. Smith, "is all that can be saved. It is worth about GO cents in each Instrument." Tbe value of pianos destroyed in the Kansas City flood exceeds $200,000. Kansas City Journal. GERMAN CABLE CONSTRUCTION. Seeking Connections with All Im portant World I'ointa. Consul General Guenther. at Frank fort, reports to tbe State Department the following information: "A new era in German cable con struction began with the laying of a cable to Vigo, Spain, a distance of about 1,:W0 miles. "During the last seven years Ger many has laid 7,375 miles of cable, at a cost of over !f7,0O0,0O0. " In IS! IS a cable, 73 miles In length, was laid be tween Sassnitz and Trclleliorg, and in 1S09 German Southwest Africa was connected with the international tele graph system by a cable 154 miles long. "In 1!KJ0 tbe first: German-American cable between Kmdcn and New York, via tin; Azores a distance of 4.81.'i miles was laid. At about the same time Germany put down the tirst Ger man cables along the Chinese coast, the cable Tslutau-Chefoo being 2S5 miles and that, connecting Tsiutau and Shanghai 4i!S miles long. The year BHll witnessed the laying of the fifth cable between Germany and England, connecting Bnrkuni and Baktou, n dis tance of UNO miles. The telephone cable between Fehiuarn and Baalaml was laid In B) "The construction of a second trans A tin ii Mo cable between Eiinlen and New York, via the Azores, lias been commenced, and if. will. It Is expected, be ready for service before the expira tion of th' next year, (let-many is also contemplating an increase of her cable net In Kaslcrn Asia and the South Sea, by const met ing cables betw een Alena do and Guam and the Pnlau l.slunds and Shanghai. "It is said that the growth of Ger man Interests, both military and com mercial, will In the future require the building of more cables by Germany, Independent of foreign nations. Ger many now lias cable works and two cable sfeauiers." Trouble rhen. Ascum Of c urse, your wife always Insists upon your doing her bidding. llen'jeek Not always, (luce she got mad hecnu.-o I d;d. She look me to auction with her one day, and some how we got to bidding against each other without knowing It. Philadel phia Press. : . Ills Measurement. "I don't see bow you can say that this convict Is n man who measures up to (he highest standard." "You don't V. Well, the liertfllon sys tem Is the highest standard I know of." Haiti more News, " ." Tlie man vvlio Is always talking about how much work he does, should remember that some people work so hard 'hat they don't have time to tell about It Pecnliaritfea of tbe Army Created by Abdurrahman. The Afghan Is essentially a fighting man, says the Loudon Times, and, though the army which Abdurrahman created lias, in the main, so far mada for peace by securing the internal tranquillity of Afghanistan, even th old ameer discovered in the latter part of his reign that It was necessary t keep it occupied, but that it was do easy to find suitable occupation for it. The discipline of a standing army la such a(country as Afghanistan is apt to get lax iu the idle times of peace. Under an oriental military despotism the army-exists for active lighting, and all its Instincts rebel against lonjf periods of inaction.- It wants the ex citement and, above all, the opportuni ties of iudividual aggrandizement and enrichment which active service alone furnishes. For a long time Abdurrah man kept his army fairly well occu pied in putting dowu all his own, rivals and subjugating the tribes whose loyalty he had cause to suspect. When that was accomplished Kufirs tan, with its "pagan" tribes, offered another outlet for the martial energies of the Afghan Muissulmilns. But In proportion as the successive delimitations of boundaries and spheres of influence have diminished the area of doubtful ownership with in which the military appetite of tht Afghan commanders could be grati fied without any serious risk of exter nal complications, the task of provid ing occupation for the Afghan arm has become more and more difficult, and with the maintenance of internal peace that difficulty must go on In creasing. The sops which Ilabibullah has from time to time thrown to his army in the shape of increased pay and improvid rations show that lie himself is alive to the difficulty, but measures of that kind can hardly be regarded as more than temporary makeshifts. One Is bound to bear in mind in this connec tion that the lighiing ins. nets of the Afghan have always prompted him ia the past to look toward the sou'h. rather than the north. The plains of India, which his fathers repeatedly ransacked, are still to him the leg endary land of conquest and booty, and if once be came to bilieve that the English were powerless to arrest the forces of Russian gravitation, he might well be tempted by prospect of such stakes as Bus: ia would spread before him to exchange a h sing for a winning partner. PRETTY CHILD'S IROCK. This is a chic frock, for a little mlsa of six to ten years, made of white India linen, trimmed with tucks and insertion. The zouave jacket Is of white canvas, trimmed with stitched canvas bands. A broad soft satin sash, of light red, ties about the long blouse waist. The widc-brimmcd straw hat is trimmed with a wreath of faded red and yellow roses. A .New Dance. It Is predicted that the American cake-walk will soon give way in Paris to a new dance which an a.-complished French dancing master has Invented, says a c- rrespondent in The Beacon. It is caibil Ihe 'voll-dance," and la dcserllnd as follows: "Kach lady wears a wrap of mousse-line de sole or other lilmy tissue thrown around her waist, and waves the free end.-, as she dances, and the men attempt to look as 'regence' as possible, and use their closed crush hats as dancers in the graceful old pavane u. d their three-cornered one. The dancers form ih line, barndoor dance fashion, and to a tune half waltz and baif gavotte the room Is filled with graceful filiat ing forms, to which the black coats of the men make an effective back ground. Tbe effect Is a pleasing one, and the dance, when well done, Is al most stately." The i lilt Men mire of Hnccess. "Was your auto race successful?" "Successful? 1 should say It wast There were two chauffeurs killed, and three owners mortally hurt, and live Innocent bystanders cent to the hospi tal, and one auto climbed a stone wall and hung Itself down a frtepp ellif, and another auto threw off Itrt chauffeur and is now careering wild ly across Ihe country and terroii.lnn the community, and Iloskln's new touring car crossed the Verliilne ravine at a single hound and then Jumped on the roof of a gamekeeper's cottage, and well, It certainly was the mot spirited and thoroughly enjoyable run we have ever had." Cleveland rials Dealer. What haa become of the old-faatv letied woman who made marble cake!