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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1897)
SERPENTS FOR TOYS. EXTRAORDINARY MAN WHO IS SNAKE-PROOF. a M!m« Nokk Toy* With All I lie Mo*t Venomous fcerpeiit*, l«*t* Them Itlte film, noil l)oe*n't Fear Them lie rauiit lie I* I mperviou* to Their l*ol*on. IS name la Silas Sugg, anil he looks It. He Is neither pretty nor has he great wis dom. hut he can cut loose an off-hand sermon that will take the hark off, and he can handle venomous s n a k es as no other man on earth can do It. He doesn't care what sort of a snake It Is copperhead, cottonmouth, moc casin, sand rattler or side winder—he will pick him up as If poisonous snakes were us mythical as unicorns. He Is a homely old farmer who knows ihe trade of silversmith and has got religion. His immunity from death hy snake Idle, he says, Is the miracle-token of the genuineness of his mission from the Almighty. When Hllas Hugg plunges his hare arm Into a writhing, wrlgglng, hissing mass of rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, moccasins and puffing adders and draws them out again with n copperhead hanging hy Ills fangs to his thumb, a cottonmouth with his fangs so deeply fixed In Hogg’s wrist where the veins are largest and bluest that the blood comes, and the broken off poison teeth of a rattler still In his flesh, the ordinary man or woman begins to believe In miracles and Hllas Hngg. Of course all the smart people will tell you that the poison glands have In en removed from Hllus Hogg’s rep tiles and that they are harmless there fore as garter snakes. For doubters of this sort Hllas perform* some experi ments. He disengages whatever snake happens to he biting him at the time ind lets it bite a cat or dog or fowl. he permits no admission fee and re fuses to travel with any circus, side show or dime museum. He really seems to bo just a big. awkward, stu pid man with a good rough eloquence and a sincere belief in his mission to preach. Of cou’se, he neither drinks nor smokes and has all the minor vir tues that make Up the backwoods church member, AGREEABLY DISAPPOINTED. lie Thought Hite Wee HeggOtg Out She Merely Wanted the Mnetard. One of the richest, men living, whose Immense wealth makes him a target for poor people, has recently been In Paris and the way in which he repelled one of the applicants for his generosity Is related like this, sayH the Pittsburg Dispatch: On the opposite side of the hotel table sat a woman who had once been rich. "Monsieur, you Kngllshmen are so chivalrous so ready to assist those In distress." “Yen,” said the man of wealth, hesi tating Me had heard that before and thought he knew what was coming next. “Would you, with your usual gener osity, do me a favor and a great kind ness?" “Yes, madam that Is, It depends somewhat ” "Think well, monsieur, before you promise, for It Is a great kindness.” It was the same old plea that, he had heard many times before front people who wanted a loan. “I am afraid, rnaduin, that I shall have to but what It Is you wish?” "Only that you would be kind enough, monsieur, to piiss me the mus tard. You have everything on your side of the table," of Iron'* MukiiHUiii. The laws showing the relation of the magnetizing forces of Iron to the re sultant magnetism have been fixed from experiments just completed by Prof Reginald A. Fessenden of the Western university and V K. Kennedy, until lately associated with Thomas A, Kdlson. According to the Pittsburg Dispatch these two electricians have been try ing for a yeai past (o solve this law of I Iron’s magnetism. The discovery will, THE WIZARD OF THE SNAKES. The snakes that do Sugg no harm in variably kill the animals they strike. The other afternoon, in the midst of an exhortation to the ungodly to come ip and he saved, Silas Sugg snatched a rooster from a near by fence anti held it up before one of his copperheads. It took just seventeen minutes for the poor cock to lie. Silas Sugg is forty-eight years old. lie has had no education and neither of Ills parents could either read or write, lie was a failure us a farmer and lias made ills living for sixteen years as a silversmith. The religious i liuse of his character developed about t»ve years ago, when he evolved a sort of theology from the Bible, in which Christianity and snakes seem to bear about equal parts According to him Christ's mission on earth, licsidcs be ing to “ave the lost and restore peace among the sons of Adam, was to re peal that law which ordulned enmity between mankind and the snake, whose persuasions brought ulnnit the fail. Sugg Is very careful about his ser pents. They can btte him as much as they will, but he handles them as care- j fully or though they were glass and J he was afral-1 of bresklug them In the sutumu he turns them loose among the recks of Illinois, and he says they always r >tue back In the spring. In bis deal bos be carries a rattle snake which appears to be a line four foot st'ctiuiell of Crotalus < uiiilueutus three or four copperhead* of various ale*, which are readily recognisable as Ancisirodou contortiti. a ttve-fout e it lc«mouth, otherwise known as the highland moccasin and to opbloluglats as kn» uirodon alrufosctu and equally drsaded uader either name tavern) water mac mOM. Ai>«elrudein placi vocua the kite of every one of whtek It ordinarily itiMidered fatal Opkut ! Pigi><i say that Ike ysAsi adder, or III tempered tend-mannered Hetero-don piatyrhiau*. fas harmlsa*. rfogg has | one In hi* k-t M says tkal cals and thH'kege d t* Mtlvi bjr III# ifuim • l ltf !",*< Ift|« pititil i I !rf t|t>M»«H | fcftltt MU 411 **f lift* »A<4^4 Id itftlf I* ntf at atari f 4# * |hh tf* ii.c •«*, xh^4u It Is claimed, greatly facilitate and cheapen the building of different elec trical equipments, for by applying tilt formulae of the discovered law she many costly experiments of iron in a plan will not be required. 'I his be muse the test of one piece of metal will suffice for a group. It Is estimated that manufacturers by applying these formulae will sav< from 3o to do pgr cent in their work, and that the dis covery will prove of great Itnportam s in other channels. Til** ItiroitiN of lh<* Wheel. "Brother Jim has the bicycle face, Joe bus the bicycle hump. Sister Sue lias the bicycle leg and Tom has wheels In his head." "Any other bicycle ail ments in the family?” "Well, papa says his pocketbook Is Imdly punctured, so It must be getting pneumatic.”- Truth. NOVELTIES IN BRIC-A-BRAC. Jardiniere* of decorated faience are attracting attention. Children's cups tu Kmutlan silver af ford pleasing birthday gift*. Corkscrews with silver mounted buckhurn handle* ar* popular. Kor travelers are provided cut glass soap bote*, with sliver mountings I'agger pins, so fssuionabie for th< ttalr, ar* diamond sheathed anil bitt ed. hilver receptacle* for tou*h and nail brush** com* in round oval and squarv form*. A new idea Is the employment of colored enamel ** a tu- kgruund l-n diamond*. Thsre la a large choice of embossed silver fruit and bonbon dish** nub pitreed borders Hairpin* mounted with Mercury wing* of shell, set with brilliant*, an popular, though by bo mean* new. Out of the ordinary nr* paper kyltw b*ilhg broad gilt blade* and handle of crystal, decorat'd with gilt yy'te Hull souteniia ar* out in ape- *i d signs fur prla** These lin lode In Ing »up*. with etching* of gulf link* etc AtuacMs* l.irnoge* eauanc u* stf lev and cupper in. lode Inkstan 1* y ■*** , plsq t#* and ymall v*t»ina* gi*c*a. HORSE TRADERS’ TRICK, Uwiinaft City Dealer L(*am« Hornettiing Now In Ht. IdiuU. "I have been trading in the big horse markets, like the one here In St. lyouis. a good many years, ami it, was only a few days ago that 1 found out that the country horse trader tin give the city ehap cards and spades and then heat him at his own game,'* said Prank Pomeroy, of Kansas City at. the Lindell. "Your in nocent funner Is not half so innocent as he look or pretends. This conclu sion was forced cn me while I was at tending a sale of horses on County Court day at one of the best-known county seat towns in Mississippi. I had gone there for the purpose of buying a number of horses of certain quality for a customer In St. l/aiis. I wanted good looking, gentle stock between the ages of throe and si* years, broken to both saddle and harne.is. "Twenty or tnyre animals that met the requirements of u.ge and looks were trotted out before me, but none of them did I buy because Invariably when I expressed my satisfaction with one something happened to make me dis pleased with him. In each case I was assured by the owner when the animal was first brought out for Inspection that he was gentle and easily managed, but when I applied the test J found that Just the contrary was true. When the horses that, pleased my fancy were started out for a canter In order that 1 might, see their gait and style they would begin to rear and pitch madly and tiy to throw their riders. I thought, of course, that ‘the honest, farmer’ had tried to deceive me and congratulated myself on having caught hltn at his trick. The owners appeared to be as badly surprised by the unex pected antics of the animals as I Wits, but I, of course, thought this was only .. Ilill.. __ — Oe.isssl them protested earnestly to me that they could not understand why their offerings were behaving ho badly, as at home they were ho docile and tract able that a child could ride or drive them anywhere, “I came back to St. Ismls from that sale empty-handed. Not nutll yester day dhl I learn the trick that had been practiced on mi* lo beat me out of my purchases. 1 met at the sales stables across the river one of the country horse trailers I had met at the coun ty seat sale. He laughed when lie saw me and cajoHy told of how be had put up a job on me when I was In his town. He explained that the horses I first selected and then refused to buy v.ere In reality as gentle as their own ers had represented them to be but that, he and his partner had discovered a chemical liquid which when poured on any part of a horse's anatomy cov ered with hair in a few seconds after its application soaks Into the hide through the hair pores and causes such Intense pain us would make the gen tlest horse pitch and rear like a wild pony when first saddled. These ras cals found out that there was a de mand for the horses I had selected and concluded to beat me out of them so they could buy them at a lower figure than I had offered. They sneaked around when the owners were not boklngand dropped this liquid on each of my selections just in time for the fluid to take effect on the animal at a critical time, I threw up my hands when this explanation was made and took off my hat to the man who made it."—tit. Louis Republic. Curious Dinner at Jertihn, An American traveling in Jerusalem describes In the Hartford Fourant i'll Interesting dinner he ate recently at a hotel in Jericho: "We sat on the porch of the hotel at Jericho,” he wrote, “after a dinner at which wo were served with butter front Norway, cheese front Switzerland, marmalade from London, wine from Jerusa lem diluted with water front the well of Elisha, raisins from Ratnoth tJilead, oranges from Jericho (in no respect In ferior to those from Jaffa or the In dian River, Fla.), and almonds from the east of the Jordan, smoking Turk ish tobacco, which, like the Turkish yiupire, is Inferior to Its reputation, and a cup of coffee from the conn t grocery of Jericho.” Tt>« lllg It mil llrltlgr. The highest bridge of any kind In wt" norm ix uiu 10 ue the l,e-, river viiduct on the \ntofuKUMia railway m liollvltt, South America. Th« place winr« thla h(cheat railway airmture hoe been erected lx over |hc Mo'.» rap* Ida III the uppet Andea. un.l ix bet w e* .1 the two aldex of a canon which lx alt* uated lo.taw feet from the level „f the I'aclAc. Krom the eurfac* of theo reaui to the level of the ralla thla ceiebiotel bridge la exactly «3tH, feet h the length of the principal a pan u ‘to fret, and the dbdance Iieiw-<.|| the abuimeitta la no.' feet The gauge of the road la ] f.rt g Inch*, m I the tretne cruee the bridge at a e“>4 30 to lea an luotr I xlaltxOanal I'll*. Krom the Weekly I ehrf rcpn \i Jfl * veiling |utty t> . ntly tin |*,.,., had ! buatled out of the tuuai to anaitge acute itelalla uf tupper. or eomeihtng I'urlug her aheence a young man *aag a eenllMeUtal ballad t.> the lMc(,.<. agony of the ompaa. The hoeteaa returned fuel after he had Retailed A* he had to leave early he app*t>a«b«d to teak* ht» farewell 1 (loud night M>d the bootees With the uaual •!<**• ul amiability tlutal nlgbl I ha #■ a». i* row can t etng " The young man t rinteuaed and S«d Itnnxyiranta pndiaei bard ear* n muta*twine m the vnlrtw if fittwu c*wi yearly which bi h|*iu ii t , fft p» Inbablmn* the nierwge ft «tr*al I k»r lt«l* being t» end tn Uerwuy yio.> A UOAiil.Vr n uaack. THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH A REAL HELL. Ilnvr K«rtlU|U*kr* Ar.i furl ti ?r*<l In • Ili«9 Mollimi ItmvcU In l»i«t If M ll»'* markable That <jnwk«*4 Ar« ho I rw In Number »« Th«*y Are. UAKING, It seems, Is the natural and constant condition of the earth. This is the coi elusion of modern science. We have Just been warned In the state of New York that we are subject to earth quakes. Even In quiet., steady-going England, they have lately felt shocks. What Is the original cause of an earthquake? It Is possible that there are several causes, but seis mologists are generally agreed that there is one very common one. Deep down In the earth's crust something •mashes. There Is a jarring and the resulting shock Is sufficient to send rattling to the ground the strongest of men’s works on the surface of the earth. This sudden breakage Is then the commonest cause of earthquakes. The smashing Is due to the unequal contraction of the earth. This planet Is losing Its heat, and In the process It •ontructs. If the contraction were equal all would be well, but It cannot be, for the earth's crust Is made of materials of varying consistency. One part offers more resistance than an other, but at last It gives way under Hie overwhelming accumulation of the contracting force, Then there Is a break, called a fissure, In some vast stratum of rook, true side of the fissure as It sinks down grinds against the other, which Is sinking slowly or not at all. The Jurrlng caused In lilts way Is something difficult for the human mind to conceive. If a mm could hear the sound without uny Intervening longation of valleys beneath the bed o the ocean, and even the submerg ence of works of hitman construction. The western Khoren of South Amer ica have risen more rapidly than nny other region of large extent on the world, and this Is also more earth quake shaken than any other. At Val paraiso, during the last. 22' years the i rise ha* been nineteen feet. For the seventeen years prior to 1817. the rise was eleven feet. Similar remarks ap ply to Japan. It Is probable lhat some earthquakes are the result of Internal explosions. Water In vast quantities falls down through a fissure of the earth until It reaches a superheated rock. Then If Is turned Into gas with a suddenness that makes an explosion. Volcanic eruptions nre presumably the result of these explosions. If has been observed that when a volcano Is active the surrounding country Is generally free from earthquakes. An earthquake, as we feel It, Is a series of waves of vi brations trav eling through the ground. The force Is transmitted from one molecule to another, while the parti cles themselves hardly move from their original position*. Jus! ns a blow struck on one end of a stick will drive away a ball resting at the other end. although the «tlck Itself remains In one place. A slight shock striking a house In the rear will shako the cornice from the front. The vibrations run upward di agonally from the ground at the rear to the front. The source from which an earthquake originates Is called the "origin,” "focal cavity” or "centrum.” The point or area on the surface of the ground above the origin Is called the "eplcentrum,” The awful earthquake which destroyed Lisbon In 1755 had Its eplcentrum In ihe sea bed fifty miles from the coast, The waves which rolled down upon the dimmed city rose to a height of sixty feet. Off the coast of Ireland, 500 miles away, they were five feet. Even In the West Indies they wire felt. In Japan, In 1854, an earth quake wave which caused great loss of life was thirty feet high. The same shock produced a wave eight Inches high at. Han Francisco. In 1868 Peru was visited by a very destructive sue flood In B. C. 4000. In other word*, he l a* furnished a scientific explanation of the biblical deluge. lie predicts I mother great flood for A. I). GI00. THE CARE OF BOOKS. ( lilldrrn NIioii^ lie Taneht l-.srly to l ow- Tlirei nrf(lriin llo**#**lon*. When we w.«re children we were taught that It wan next door to a crime to destroy books. Of course, books are not as expensive or an hard to get now as they were a quarter of a cen tury ago, but all the same they are too valuable to waste or throw away, de clare* the New York I-edgcr. Children *hould lie taught, how best to take earn of book* and ought never to lie permuted to throw or hang them about or tear them In pieces. They should he encouraged to accumulate volume*, and to do this must have a place In which to keep them Good, plain book shelves cost but little, and every child *hould have a set. In one well ordered household there are five youngsters, between the ages of 5 and ID years. Each child has a bookcase, one of the ordinary, plain sort that cost |4 or ID. There are cur tains made from the skirts of worn out dresses or of paper muslin, for the family ha* but little of this world'* goods to use, and every dollar, even every cent, ha* to be counted, Hut there Is In tills household a spirit of consideration that will not allow In terference with private property, and each member Is expected to take care of hie or In i own possessions, to hit responsible for them and to exercise absolute control and ownership over them. Especially Is It. the case with books and lop*. These are borrowed and loaned only with the owner's con sent. New IssikM are carefully cov ered and mark 'd with the owner's name, not only on the cover, but also across the first page of the story or reading matter. Name* on the flyleaf may he obliterated or torn off, but when placed pern** the beginning of the subject matter they are apt to re main and are easily Identified. Moving K*triionllnury. Years ago the husIwsM of shoring up 1 IMAGINARY DRAWING SHOWING THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH. > inllcs of earth It would strike him dead. Millions of tons uf matter are Involved Ir. such a cataclysm. The falling wall of a Assure may grind against Its op posing wall for several thousand feet, lu such a case no buildings within hun dreds of miles of Us surface center con remain standing. Sometime* It must lie Inferred several of these Internal smashing* of the earth take place with in a limited ares and within s short tlm« of one another. Then whole con tinents are shaken The smash fre uusntly occurs at a "fault" tu a strat um of rink This Is a place where the stratum la weak or there Is an actual gap The correcting force grinds the two edges of the ruck together, or else s mightv weight from above crushes down through the Weak place tJeolog lets ttud traces of the** vast distortion* uf tha »nrth »s»*d on 'h* surface by the denudation uf ages There Is one striking Illustration near hvalan.he lobe. In the Adirondack# The surface of our earth Is forever moving up and down ttk# the wave# of the terni This ' U one of ike est.rnal a«*ompanimenis of tke Intel list emnektng and grtndtng ikat iak«* yie* Where elevation »r j subside roe I* gleateet there are earth uuako com mol * si Aa a pruof that elevation he* taken pia e eustW* point to raised Wache#. ##*-worn ( Sim te *sd - >al teefv and 4k rr mam* of e-an *«a organum* all of , e HI. V are found on .oasis high shove ; ike -vet of ike hlgkeet ltd*# I'tuel : that v ,i He id ei ■ e kae taken piaa* >* turn- I irked by submerged for****, t|te pro* j c khIoii of waves, one of which was sixty feet high. They were felt at the Sandwich Islands, 5.5*o miles away, within twelve hours, and In Japan, 10, ooo miles away, on the next day. They were also felt In Australia the next day, Their rate of speed was 370 miles an hour, Mouth American coast towns have been repeatedly devastated by these waves The Brat movement usu ally observed Is a drawing back of the waters, and this Is so well knowu to (reseda the liiiush of largs waves that many of the Inhabitants have used It aa a timely warning to canape toward the bills and save themselves from the terrlld# rssciloa which so quickly fol lows. I*rofeueor Kudolf Kalb, of Vien na. has original and startling thsurlas on the sublet! uf earthquahns He b** llevea the Inner portion of the earth so be Bind In the crust above this BuM reservoir are cracks and channels Into which by the attrsc'tlton of the meats and aun the BuM la drawn tin enter itvs Ikeaa i rac k# ending tak es place, i and there are ircnaandooa explosions of tetrthls reaction which So quickly for i cask diet urban*** As Kalb umsims tint nsrthquehea are wholly dne to the ; inmnisN of the sun and atone, ha • an predict Ihety occurrence lie has ! done thta and sained a tremendous , celebrity In sunihsra Korope In Itfl he ptedbded the UealtUc live ontth- , quake nf tbdtuau. nht< b earned for hue a eubq|tetlc «■«« In ISft be pSe- 1 dialed the erupt ion of hHnn He has a leu v c(U»»e-l by the same Iheotlcu why there should bate bees a grunt I itud moving ordinary sized building* was considered somewhat risky, and waa one which only experts were will lug to undertake. Kecently It became desirable to move a chimney and the Idea waa suggested that It might lie moved intact. Of course It Involved some special preparation, but the task waa successfully accomplished. The chimney waa »5 feet high, weighed * hundred Iona, waa at,ten feet square at the base, and had outer and Inner walls eight Inches thick. Its dsstlna* lion led over rough ground, with grades up and down, but the job waa coot* pleled without accident ur damage. There waa neither crach nor flaw la the maauury when the chimney waa set down on Its new foundation This la the taUeel and heaviest thtmuey that haa ever been looted Another rhlrn> n«t U feet high waa safely transferred and thtfse two are. It Is believed, the •Wit ones ever taken from on# place to another We* Se (Jetet. “.kb." said th* city matt, often hate I ttiehed I could hate led as peace ful and quiet a Ilf* aa you ' l*ea*«. ful and quiet P* reiurted Ike farmer ' I gush* t ie raised a double set of stepchildren etgkt boys ladlanapo* It* Journal !• « tWMltr t«»C Where are you g-ung my pretty maid’1 “Put a basket is put tkat chestnut ta, ‘
