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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1904)
4 STARVATION OIET& 1 I mm Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. X -I he Carried and iingl IIE census report note a considerable decrease In the number of bir.bs among tlie native pop ulation of the United States. America n meu uid women are uot so much given to marrying ts formerly. Many who do marry, postpone "he eveiit until youth has passed, and for thin and oilier reason they rarely have large fami nes, and very frequently no children at all. Whether this decrease in the number of fruitful mar riages among the American born population Is the fault of the men or the women has not yet been determined, but very probably It la the fault of Loth if fault It be. The bachelor maid 1 becoming a prominent a feature In our loclal life as the bachelor man, and she has many apolo flsu. But those argument which are advanced In defense f tier position are founded upon nothing noble. They are taken from an epicurean philosophy of pure selfishness, which, If widely adopted, would put an end to the nation. The condition, however, la not so bad yet as to cause alarm. There are more men than women In the United State, bo that 'f all were paired off a great many men would have re mained unmarried. The 70,303 337 people within the area f enumeration of the last census are divided Into 3I.0T9, 142 males and 31,2-14, 145 females, giving an excess of males f 1,S16,(J7. Of the males, la.WW.KM are ringle. 14.033.7S9 aiarrled, 1.182.2H3 widowers, JM.'.x)! divorced, and 121.412 whose marital condition Is unknown. Of the females, J0.520.319 are single, 13.xi:..!03 married, 2.721.581 widowed. U4.9& divorced, and 41,331 whose marital condition Is un known. Itut the number of those claused as single Includes children and all persons under the marriageable age, so It will be seen that marriage among adults I such a pre vailing practice as still to be almost universal. The reason for the decrease In the number of marriages ind the birth rate among native women might be found In the statisilcs regarding the working classes. There are t.31U,t)12 females engaged In gainful occupations other than sgrlculture. These millions are made up In large part of Die girls and women In factories, stores and offices, and thp bachelor maid usually graduates from among them. Kan as City Journal. ' t OLD- FAVORITES I x x 4-3-44 M-H 14 14 1- Mm lho Maneuver at Mjnossav tOTHIMJ is so soothing to the wounds produced by the civil war as oblivion, and nothing makes them bleed afresh so quickly us Hie sight of a oattlclleid on which the visitor or his relatives nice passed through the horrors of fratricidal .ioodshed. When an old soldier stands on the uuigiiii or ei;j3ij.i. a jj.jiju..a uihuiw; ifclzes him, and. compared with the scene before him, a graveyard Is a pleasure garden or a banqueting hall. It takes weeks to shake off the depression. How anyb-nly could project a reunion of Northern and Southern soldiers on a Soul hern battletleld. and, not con twit with that, bring them together as hostile armies and trrs.T'e for them to flgl't over Sgnin 'n mimicry the bloody encounter that took place on that spot forty years ago, Is Incomprehensible. It was asking entirely too much of hu man nature, and It was In striking contrast with the wls lora of Charles Sumner, who, pleading heartless Rome iven as an example, succeeded In excluding from the Capi tol to much as a picture that would recall the civil war. The location of the maneuvers should have been in some beautiful spot, 1,XX) miles, If possible, from any battle Beld, and the pitting of a Northern army and a Southern trmy against each other should have been avoided like a aeatlleriee. Chicago Chronicle. mirably within the confines f university walls often havs little application In the outer world, and especially In thi business world, for which constant training and alert watch Ina are absolutely necessary to success. It is certain that no man ever gained a high position In the commercial world witlioiit Courage to face, Innumerable obstacles, enornioui risks and perils of which the scholastics never dreamed. The successful business man carries a weight of re- spo:'i:lillity for himself and others which Is comparable to! that of an able commander or a large army. lie may pause In the face of the enemy, he may right about face, be maj i retreat, or even come to a truce, without being guilty ol cowardice. The business iiimu need not fly Into the fac of labor unions In order to prove his courage to ait ail ovei theni in order to prove his power. The object of the business man Is not to display hll valor or prove himself a hero. He wishes to make the bes) IHiHsible out of existing conditions, and many a atrlke hai been averted and many a problem solved by the cool cal culations of the keen-sighted business man. To the mere looker-on this may seem like cowardlci and the wlsh(to avoid a fight. To the practical man of af fairs It Is godd business sen.e, and ought to be commende as such. Chicago Chronicle. Are Business Men Cowards? RESIDK.VT ELIOT, addressing the St. Louis alumni of Harvard, recently, called Americans cowards In that so few of them dared to stand against the crowd. He spoke with special ref erence to business men In facing conditions that exUst among the labor unions. It Is easier, loubtless, for a college president to stand aloor and my what ought or ought not to be done than to know the entire situation of affairs and then to act with dis cretion as well as bravery. The theories that work ad- The Cost and roily of War. UK war In the Far East, according to the com aW Iputatlou of a well-Informed newspaper of Paris I lis costing the Russian government at least A I :i (ukUubi u ilor nrnl the pTnpnse Is Increaslm pi,,wv - " ' -1 " daily. If the war continues for years, as thi experts say It Is pretty sure to do, Russia wll accumulate a burden of debt that will rest heavily upon many future generations. Of course, Jl.OoO.OK) a day Is not a surprisingly grea' sum for a first-class power to pay for the conduct of I war. Russia has been throwing millions after mllllont since the new policy with regard to the Asiatic portion v the empire .was put Jnto operation. Nobody knows how much the Trans Sibei I n railway has cost, but It Is au enor mous amount; and the expenditures on Port Arthur, Dalny Harbin, Vladivostok and the other outposts have run lnf the hundreds of millions. Indeed, It was pretty well knowt to the Japanese as well as to Uie rest of the world tha HiiskI.i's treasury was In an extremely bad way at thi time war was declared. Rut the $1.uo0,ih0 a day Is, after all, only a small pars of the bills Russia has to face. Her losses of battleshipi have meant the destruction of hundreds of millions of dol lars' worth of property that must be replaced, aud tin prospective capture of her great towns with their arms ments must make the Czar's heart sick. Considered as a plain business proposition, the war wltl Japan does not seem to be a very good Investment. Evci though Russia Bhould win at last, she will have to defeni her possessions more expensively than ever, and how man; years of ownership of Manchuria will be required to male up her losses? Chicago Journal. . . Selecting and Managing Men. ANY men mistakenly think that because the; TVT 1 work hard and try hard they must eveutuallj JfJ I succeed to some extent. This does not follow l3ome men carry ou great, cniti nuu uiuc apparent effort. Their success is due to skill In selecting efficient executive heads. Many i business man breaks down trying to supple ment the work of Incompetent heads of departments sltnplj because he does not know how to choose the right men. A man of commanding ability does not worry himself over de tails. He makes out his program and then selects met who can carry It out to the letter. Indeed, Is Is a slgnsol weakness for the head of a concern to bother about little details. It shows that he lacks the Insight, the bustnesi sagacity, the ability to select and to manage men who cut do things efficiently. It Is a great art to duplicate one's self In another and multiply one's self many times by selecting those who an vastly superior to ourselves, but who did not happen U have had our' opportunity to do the thing themselves. Success. DEStRf SCAVENGERS. It Is probable that one never fully credits the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind and other kinds. Mrs. Mary Austin, In "Tha Land of Little Ruin," says that the scavengers of the desert all keep an eye on one another. Never a coyote comes out of his Init io hunt, In the country of the carrion crows, but lo jks tip tirst to see vWterc the crows are gathering. It is A mif Bcletit occupation for a windy room ing, on the listless, level mesa, to watch the pair of them eying each other furtively, with a tolerable As sumption of unconcern, but no doubt with a certain amount of good under standing. When the five coyotes that ranuo the Tyon from Taster. a to Ttirmval planned a relay race to bring down au antelope strayed from the band, an eagle swung down from Mount I'lnog, buxzards materlnllz -d out of invisible ether, and hawks came trooping like small boys to a street fight Rabbits sat up In the chappanil and cocked their ears, feeling themselves quite safe for once us the hunt swung near them. Nothing happens In the deep wood tl'nt the: blue Jays are not all agog 1 a tell The hawk follows the badger, the coyote the carrion crow, and from their aerial stations the buzzards watch 8cn other. Very clean and linndsomc, quite be lying his relationship In appearance, Is Clark's crow, that scavenger nnd plunderer of mountain camps. It U permissible to cH him by his common name, "Caimp Kobbt r;" ho has enraed It. Not eo.itent with refuse, he picks open meal stfeks, filches w hole pota toes, Is a gormsnd for bacon, drills doles In packing-cases, and Is daunted by nothing short of tin. All Ite wblls ha doea aot aagltct to AN INTERESTING SCENE IN HOLLAND. !;f lllflviU'f liitsii r IS ill WE HI m am Tun picturesque attire worn by the Dutch peasantry bus a great attrac tion for artists, and the American artist shown In the Illustration Is evident ly no exception to the rule, for he is bargaining with a determined looking peasant as to the value of the uellmr garmniit which he holds In his hands. 'I lie more patches there are the greater becomes the value from an artistic standpoint. . vituperate the chipmunks nnd spar rows tii at whisk off crumbs of comfort from under the camper's feet. The Camp Robber's gray coat, blnck and white barred wings nul slender bill, with certain lib ks of perching, accuse him of attempts to pass him self .off as woodpecker; but his lie havlor Is all crow. He frequents the higher pine belts, qnd has u noisy, strident coll like Jay's; nnd how clean b and the frisk tailed chlo- iminks keep the enmp! No crumb ot paring or bit of eggshell goes nmlss The cunnlngest hunter Is bunted It turn, and what be leaves of his kill Is meat for some other. If I Were a Voice if I were a Voice a penmaiive Voi That could trarel the wide world through, ( would fly on the beams of the morning lii'bt An! speak to men with a gentle might. And tell them to be true. I'd fiy, I'd fly o'er lnd snd sea. Wherever a human heart might be, Teiiing a taie or singing a sung, In praise of the right ia blame of the wrong. If I were a Voice a couaoling Voice I'd fly on the wings of air; The home of sorrow ani g.iiit I'd seek. And eaim and truthful words I'd speak To save tht-m frtmi dwfimir. I'd fly, I'd lly o'er the crowded town. And drop, like the happy sunlight, duwn Into the heiru of s iCfcriug nieu And teach them to n-yiUt again. If I were a Voice a controlling Voice I'd travel with the wind; And, whenever I ssw the nations torn By warfare, jealousy or scorn. Or hatrp.l of their kind, I'd fly, I'd fly on the thunder crash, And into theor hliuded bowwns flanh; And, all their evil thoughts subdued, I'd tesch them a Christian brrther bood. If I were a Vol e an Immortal Voice I'd speak In the people's ear; And, whenever tbey shouted "I jberty," Without deserving to be free, I'd niake their error clear. I'd tiy, I'd lly on the wing-t of day. Rebuking wrong on my wirld-wide way, And, making all the earth rejoice If I were a Voice au immortal Voice. If I were a Voice a pervading Voice I'd seek the kings ut earth; I'd find them alone on their beds nt night And whisper words that should guide them right Iyessons of priceless worth. I'd fly more swift than the swiftest bird. And tell tliim tilings they never lienrd Truths which the agps for aye repeat. Unknown to the statesmen at their feet. Charles Mackay. A man has no right to give his wlfi a way when she boasts before company considering that she never glv bin away by looklug surprised when lit offers her the rocking chair when com nan la nrts PURITAN BLUE LAWS. Btatutis Ho Severe as to Seem Impos sible Were J.nf'orced, It is generally admitted, even by the advocates of u sterner religion than Is 3Uu!iy pi'ofensed hi tula twentieth Ci.Il tury, that the .Sabbath was made for man, and this interpretation Includes recreation in the Injunction to rti. In the days of riiritnn dominion there Is as little doubt that the Idea prevailed most cflectuully that man wus made for the Sabbath. This rellglou of a people who be lieved In taking literal interpretations of the Old Testament as their guide In the government of a country which they bad misnamed the "land of the free," reached the height of Its Impos sible demands at the middle of the sev enteenth century.' A statute framed In Boston In 1G53 regarding the penalties for breaking the luwg of Sunday ob servance is the severest of any formed before or since, and shows what a day of dismal gloom this day of rest must have been. In the days of the Puritans an ob servance of Sunday meant an attend ance at all the cutirch meetings, and it meant little else. Worship In the pub lic meeting bouse was compelled by law. When the bell tolled out Its sum mons, all must go, willing or other wise, and notwithstanding the dllllcul ties In the way of the journey. This often meant a trump of many miles over rough ground where one carried his footgear In his bands. At the time this severest of all stat utes was piissed In Roston, no one was allowed to go anywhere on Sun day except to church, unless there was some extraordinary need or the errand was one of mercy. No one was per mitted to go from one town to another on that day or to enter any public house for a drink. Guards were sta tioned ot the edge of town Saturday tiigbt nt sundown to see that no vehicle passed either In or out of the city from that time until the close of the follow ing (iny, and labor of nil sort wus pro t!Mted. Lrsren children were not allowed to be seen In the street nor young men 9inl women to promenade. In fact, it was because the worthy town otlh ials had beard of the grievous misdemea nor of childish laughter in public high ways, and bud been Informed that cer tain young people hud committed the offense HKiilust Cod of walking In the fields on the Lord's day, that the stat ute remilatlngg penalties for these faults bad been enacted. It was of no more avail to the of fender of that early day to plead Ig norance of the law than It Is to-day. Still, to make assurance doubly sure that all Inhabitants knew what these Sunday laws were, ministers were re quired to read them from In front of the meetlng-honso twice during the year. Then woe to any one who chose to Ignore them, for the hand of Inex orable law, not tempered by mercy, was upon him. Pn rents were responsible for the misdemeanors of children between the ages of 7 und 14. Over that nge they were required to receive themselves the penalty of their own misdoing. Kor breaking any of these laws the first time, the- punishment was a severe reprimand from the chief executive of the town. If any daring child escaped for a moment the family corral to frolic upon the public higliwny, this untoward action would not full to bring bis parent Into open disgrace. Tkctw Maka Break fumt Food Look Like Highest Lsmrj. The hardest fare that six strong men and a boy of 15 ever kept alive on was the daily menu of the Windover's survivors, who were cast up on the Irish coast near Kilsepg. TLey lived for sixteen days ou stewed ropeyarn, without a crumb of anything else to help digest it, except water; aud tLough it made them ill, they kept ! alive on it, and did not waste away j very murh. j The Windover was a bark carrying salt between Spain and the States, j with an Lnglish crew, and she was dismasted and abandoned about a thousand miles out ou the Atlantic. Three of her crew were killed by fall ing masts, and two others were wash ed overboard; but the seven others took to the whalt-bout and art out for Rrilain. Reiug in too much of a hur ry, they took too little fool, but three large butts of water, besides the tank the boat already held. The re:ult was they ate up their provisions In four days, but had water enough for a mouth, and, after starving two days more, they tried boiling lengths of tar red hemp rope into a pulp and swal lowing it. They had a keg of parafflne wax, and though it made them very 111 at first, they eventually contrived to live on the boiled hemp, the tar, boiled to a Jelly, adding to the nourish ment of the rope. Two men who went to a small Isl and off the Irish coast a little while ago kept themselves going for ten days on a diet almost as bad. They landed lu a boat, which was smashed by a wave on their trying to relaunch her, and they were left on the bare, rocky Island, which has only a slight scalp of coarse turf, without food. Fortunately there was 8 spring on the Island, but nothing In the way of food but gulls, which they could not catch, and nothing to make a fire with as a distress signal. There are not even any shellfish, as there Is no beach, and the pair hud to subsist for the ten days on cold, raw seaweed washed up by the tide. Tor two days they starved, but after that they tackled the seaweed, making three meals a day of It, until rescued. A diet of boots Is one of the com monest of last resource foods; and, though it Is hard for a well-fed per son to Imagine that any one could mas ticate nnd digest shoe leather, a pair of lonr sea boots will keep a man alive for a fortnight, If he has a little water. Ixmdon Answers. LONESOME SHEEP HERDER. His Duties Simple Feeding:, Watering jind Protection of Flock. The herder may live In a tent, but he is just us likely to sleep right out doors, rolled up in his blankets aud tarp'; it may be that, where the feed Is uniformly good, a rough cabin with some outlying shelters will be erected. His duties are very simple; he must take his band, day by day, where there will be sufficient feed and water; he must keep them banded together and must protect them from wolves and coyotes. In fact, his duties are alto gether too simple; the stories of herd ers driven Insane by the loneliness and monotony of their lives are sel dom overdrawu, and only a few out of many are told. From day to day and week after week he may go without seeing a sin gle human being, nothing but sheep, sheep, save his almost human dogs, and scarcely a sound In all the great treeless waste, save the Incessant, mo notonous, distressing baa-aabaa of the band. Who can wonder that, when night falls, and these sounds gradually die down to silence, the herder, resting In the sweet relief, suddenly rises in anger to slay the foolish sheep whose untimely voice would start the whole band Into the noise that has oppressed the day? All over the sheep country In the mountains you may see what are locally known ns "herder's monu ments;" they are piles of stones which have been slowly gathered by the herders and built into fantastic forms, the attempts of the men to save them selves from the Insanity that comes from perfect idleness. Frequently they find the blenched bones of a man on the bench lands, a herder who has yielded; whose mind has given way under the strain of the great wastes nnd the life with the bund; who lins shot himself. His band hns wandered '. away, dropped over a precipice, or co nlesced with some other band. World To-lay. American men of letters continue t gravitate eastward. Booth Tarking ton, the Indiana novelist, who has been nearly a year in Europe, spending most of the time in Rome and Paris, de clares his purpose to live in New Vork for a year or more aud give his time to studying and writing stories of political life. This probably n ans that he will stay there jennar.ently and it will be interesting to observe the effect. It varies widely with differ ent people; Howell and Bret Harte, for example. Moucure Conway's autobiography should be one of the most reniarkabla books of the season. lie is !J years of age aud thirty years of his life were spent in London. He is Virginian by birth, connected by family tics with the Washiugtoiis and other historic Virginians. His book will present a rare and Intimate piclur-j of life iu the South in his boyhood in the '4i's and To"8 of the last ceutury. It will pre sent also the matter of the author's conversations with Emerson, Thoreau. Hawthorne, Lowell, Garrison, Tenny son, Iii.sruell, Carlyle, Rrow ning, Glad stone, ISurue Jones and many other men of distinction. Hamlin Garland describes himself at novelist, dramatist, and farmer. Writ ing to a friend recently of his farm at West Salem, Wis., he says: "My llfo here goes on like the hands on a town clock. I w rite three hours in the morn ing, and work in the garden, do car pentering or build fences in the after noon, go to bed at nine, and rise at half-past six the next day, to take up the same routine. ... I sold twenty-five dollars' worth of straw berries and forty dollars' worth of early potatoes but that sounds too much like boasting. . . . I've got the dog-gonedest patch o hublianl squashes!" One of the literary periodicals squints a trifle toward sensation in an announcement that "it will be news to the reading public that Russia haa a counterpart to the shrine of Lourdcs" in the Sarov spring on th site of the liLi of St. Seraphim, unl promises the story of the canonization of the saint a year ago, when the whole royal family took part iu tha ceremony. The magazine's announcer Is mistaken. It is not "news," unless, perhaps, to a few. The story was told lu print some time ago of how a her mit of a century or so ago was really one of the czars, who, suspected, justly or unjustly, of having joined in tha murder of his uncle, abdicated tha throne and lived ever after as a "holy hermit." "The reading public" haa been told all about the growth of tha absurd myth. In this period of Lewis and Clark celebrations the appearance of a Una library reprint of Gass' Journal Is espe cially pertinent. Sergeant Patrick Gasa was the dominant figure among tha rank and file in the celebrated expedi tion across the continent, and although an entirely unlettered man, his diary, brought out In the first years of tha nineteenth century, was one of tha most valuable contributions to the lit erature of tho subject.. It has, bow ever, been for many years unavailable The volume Is edited, with an Intro duction, by Dr. James K. Hosmer, and has an analytical index and fac-simllea of the quaint original illustrations. The same house will also- issue a "Short History of Oregon," compiled by Sidona B. Johnson, which will cover the early discoveries, the Lewis and Clark explorations, settlement, govern ment, Indian wars, and progress. Preenuitonnry Tte'itnient. The Hutch peasant lives with canals nil about him, nnd reaches his cottage by way of n drawbridge. Perhaps it is In the blood of the Dutch child, says a writer In M. A. P., not to fall Into a canal. At all events, the Dutch moth er never appears to anticipate such a possibility. One can Imagine the average En glish or American mother trying to bring up a family In a house surround ed by canals. She would never have a moment's pence until the children were in bed. Rut then the mere sight ota canal to the English child suggests the delights of a sudden nnd unexpect ed bath. Au Englishman inquired of a Dutch woman, "Does n Dutch child ever by any chance fall into a ennui?" , "Yes," she replied, "cases have been known." "Don't you do nnythlng for It?" con tinued the questioner. "Oh, yes," she answered. "We haul them out again." "But what I mean Is," explained the Englishman, "don't you do anything to prevent their falling In? To save them from fulling In again?" "Yes," she answered, "wt spank tham." WHAT RUSSIANS DO WITH THE HEADS OF CHUNCHUSES. The struggle of the Cossacks and other Russian troops against the Chi nese mountain bandits known as Chuncbnscs Is fierce and unremitting. So far the campaigns against (he bri gands have only resulted iu scattering f"K ''.Hi'r,;"'j, L LJ FATE OF CHl'NCIIVSKS. the robbers, not In exterminating them. When the bandits are cauglJt nllve o terrible fate awaits them. They tiro summarily tried and executed. their beailB being hung n loft In bas kets, as shown in the illustration, turn the grewsome spectacle may be a wnrnlng to others. The Cbunchusea are bitter In their hatred of the Slur troops nnd will doubtless cause troubla before the war Is ended. It's a mean nutomoblllst who wlB run over au Innocent child unless b la In an awful hurry. f s -, rV V 4f '