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TH E NORTHWESTERN, BENNCHOTKR A GIIISON. Ed* and Pula LOUP CITY, • - NEB. The saccharine produced in Ger many last year was equivalent in sweetness to over 1,000,000 centners (60,000 metric tons) of sugar. Peasants in Donegal, Ireland, are anxious to find a good market for the large quantities of honey with which the country is favored. The honey in dustry is almost a new phase in Done gal life. "Now would I give a thousand fur longs of sea for an acre of barren ground," says Shakespeare’s character on the storm-smitten vessel. The win ter's tale of wrecks on our coasts has begun, and in the agony of great peril how precious must seem a single foot of American soil beyond the waiting reefs and treacherous sands! The Elyseo Palace hotel, at l aris. Is so largely patronized by English people that when, Just before the ar rival of President Kruger, his agent. Da. Leyds, andeavored to secure rooms for him there, the managers refused to let him have them at any price, with the result that President Kruger was forced to take up his abode else where. Now Buffalo contributes to tbs di vorce scandals of the country. A di vorce “mill” has been discovered there, which has secured with secrecy and celerity by means of deception, brib ery anu intimidation. Scores of the cases have been uncontested. A search ing investigation is now being con ducted by the trial justices of the su preme court, but already great harm has been done. George Benjamin Clemenccau, now a “struggle-for-llfer” in Paris, earning a scant living with his pen, was ten years ago one of the foremost figures in French politics. Clemeneeau was thrown up to the surface of affairs by the revolution of 1870, and from that time until 1891 he was as conspicuous as any character In Paris. Arising with the storm of the revolution, he sank in the excitement of the Panama affair. Search for the casket containing the remains of Charles Coghlan has been abandoned at Galveston. The noted actor died there in November in 1893, and for some unknown reason the me tallic casket containing the body was still in Galveston when the terrible tidal wave swept over the place Sep tember 8 last. The casket was swept from the receiving vault and is now believed to have been carried out to sea. In Vienna there is a school for wait ers. The first course is devoted to a theoretical exposition of the art of serving at table. When the pupil3 have sufficiently mastered the princi ples of the art, they are allowed to practice on two ladies and two gen tlemen in evening dress who dine at one table. The professor watche3 t.he operation, and sharply calls the waiter to account If he uses an ordinary cork screw instead of an automatic one, or carelessly puts his finger in the soup. If he should be without gloves, he is shown how to conceal the fact by means of the serviette, and so forth. There are 1,900 pupils in this school alone. The east end of Paris, like that of Ixmdon, is at present overrun with ruffians of the Hooligan type, who are known as "les ceintures bleues,” be cause each wears a blue belt as the sign of his villainous associations. Last week opened with the arrest of several gangs, which consist of youths aged from 15 to 17 years, who are evi dently a continuation of the masked robbers of Montreuil, at present await ing trial. They employ women as de coys, and their practice is to make midnight attacks on villas and shops, using considerable violence when op position is offered to their depreda tions. Scores of extra police have lieen drafted into the district, and it is hoped the end of Parisian Hooliganism is nigh. A secret society called the Home Makers has a large membership among the foreigners in the mining districts of Pennsylvania. The purpose of the organization Is to provide and main tain pleasant homes for Its members and those dependent upon them, and as gossipy, careless wives and mothers are held by them to be the cause of a majority of the unhappy.lll-kept homes and neglected children, the society be lieves the members have a right to use every possible means to see that their homes ar not neglected. A member who corrects his wife by beating her must do so only after all other means to Induce her to do her duty have failed. The society pays for the de fense of its members when arrested for wife beating, and in case of conviction pays the fine. Italy’s parliament has just voted at the request of the government an an nuity of 1,000,000 francs to Queen Mar guerite, as owing to the fact that her husband's will has never been found, she remains unprovided for. The money thus voted, however, will be a source of no expense whatever to the national treasury. For with much good feeling and sagacity her son, the new king, has arranged to surrender to the national treasury a million francs a year from his civil list as long aa bis mother lives. Feud That Has Waged Incessantly For Several Years. A dispatch, printed in the newspa pers last week, although it attracted little attention, was Important a? chronicling the renewal of a war which, except for a few intervals, has raged for the last half dozen years as fierce ly as the fighting between the Boers and English in South Africa, or be tween the Boxers and the allies in Chi na. This is the war of the herders and punchers, or the sheep and cattle men of the west. That a herd of 3,000 sheep were driv en over a precipice and nearly all i killed would seem to people who know little of the contentions between the ! cowmen and sheep raisers, or of life in the west, an act of unparalleled barbarity. However that may be, it was only repetition of similar acts of i woolly odor that cattle will not toler ate. The sheep eat all the underbrush and destroy the young trees, and the thousands of sharp little hoofs pack J the soil, so destroying its porosity that j the grass will not grow after they | have passed. A single fleck of sheep \ will thus devastate a strip of land a half mile wide; 10 flocks following one another in parallel paths will destroy an area of grass land five miles wide ' and hundreds of miles long. These facts, taken in connection with the constantly shrinking pasturage, ! supply the reasons why the cattle men j hate the sheep raisers ar.d have tried to drive them from the land. In their contentions the cattle men have al ways had the best of the fight, while But in 1871 a herder took 2.000 sheep to Montana, which have increased since then to something like 4,000,000. The sheep then took up claims along the water courses, leaving to the cow men the dry land away from the streams, which they had fenced off from the cattle. The loss of the enormous free ranges is gradually turning the cattle men into farmers, who feed their cattle In sheds in the winter—in the north with corn, in the south with cotton seed— and in making mere farm hands out of the once free and independent cow boys. The vast roaming herds of cattle are gone from the western plains forever, and cattle raising has become the pro saic business of turning grass and corn free range remains there may be found into meat. However, wherever any free range remains there may be found the last expiring evidences of the former glory of the "cow business.’’ nUtliHtly UifTereiit Types. The physical and mental differences between the cowboys and the sheep retaliation that have been frequent since these two classes began to como Into collision on the ranges. The average person will naturally wonder why there should be such ani mosity between two classes of men en gaged In similar pursuits in a country which has always been termed the "free and boundless west,” where every man was supposed to have an equal chance with ev*ry other, and where there was room for all. In the beginning there was plenty of room for all, but there came a time when the settlers cut up the country Into farms and the land available for free pasturage shrunk until there was room only for the strongest. But this was not the real owte of the contentions between sheepmen and cowmen. It arose from the difference between the two classes of live stock. Cattle stick closely to their ranges, and, no matter how they scatter, they can usually be found within reason able distance from home. Mhftctp Ruin l'mture Field* Sheep, on the other hand, are noma dic and gregarious. They march across the country in huge flocks, as many as 3,000 being cared for by one man and a dog. But wherever sheep have fed the cattle will not go. A flock of sheep will clean up a range, eating the grass down to the roots, destroying the wa tering places and leaving behind a the sheep herders seem to have the best of the argument. The days of the “free range,” when the grass belonged to whoever chose to take It, are numbered.. When the ) great western plains country was vir gin land and pasture there was room for all. Hundreds of vast herds of cattle ranged up and down the land, never conflicting and seldom meeting. In the summer they drifted from Tex as to the northern boundary of the country, and when the “northers" be gan to blow, heralding the approach of winter, the herds moved to the south before it. Then came the settler, and while he was despised by the cowmen as a "nester,” open opposition did not ap pear until he put barbed wire fences around his place. As the settlers grew in number the fencing off of the ! range became a serious menace to the cowmen. I.tttle Free I .mil I.eft. Little by little the settlers en croached, until now the only free ranges left for the cattle are in West ern Kansas and Nebraska, the western portion of Washington and Oregon, parts of Wyoming, Colorado and Montana, a small portion of Utah and j the land leased from the Indians in the Indian Territory. The great Texas ranges are owned or leased by the cat tle men, as they are in many of the western states. 1.—RANCH AND SHEEP HERDERS’ CART 2.—KILLING BEEF FOR CAMP 3.—BRANDING CALVES herders are as great as those of their respective callings. From the very na ture of his occupation the cowboy is a wild, free being. He breaks the savage and almost untamable ponies to the saddle and then rides them. His work is swift and vigorous, and his charges are the great, strong, free bulls and cows that have never known the touch of the hu man hand. He lives and endures hard ships with others of his kind, and his pleasures are as fierce as his work. His is the strenuous life. The sheep herder, on the other hand, pursues his solitary occupation afoot his only companions being a dog and the thousands of stupid sheep, which have no individuality, and are mad deningly, monotonously alike. The very loneliness of his occupation has made the herder either a morose and sullen brute or a poetic dreamer, with all the fight worn out of him. IIow Sheep Are Often Killed. The west still rings with the stories of the conflicts between the cow men and the sheep raisers. When the flocks began to grow in the west the cow men fought the herders as Individuals. Their resentment was at first merely personal. Whenever a cowboy found a flock of sheep on the range he stood off and with his rifle picked off sheep after sheep until he had exhausted his am munition. When he could bhoot no more he rode off, greatly pleased to think that he had left behind a badly scared shepherd and had caused a loss to the sheep owner. If the herd r showed fight he, too, was killed. A clever cowboy discovered a sure method of scattering a flock of sheei and making it move on. He gathered up a few hundred head of wild steers, and with his'companions drove them pell moil through a flock. This maneu ver was usually bo successful that it became a favorite source of amusement for the ’’punchers.” RABBIT AND CAT. JKfrna Frien<1*tilp Flint.* Hetw^n Two Denver Animala. Dug* and sats have been known to become last ft leads, but for a cat and a rabbit to becoma Inseparable com panions is out of the ordinary. R. II. Jones of 130 Archer street has a rab bit and a cat which are boon compan ions. The rabbit belonged to a neigh bor of Jones. One day it strayed into the Jones yard and got acquainted with the cat, says the Denver Republic an. The admiration was mutual. They became the best of friends, and from the minute the rabbit met the cat it has not been to its own home. For more than a year the two have been together, eating from the same dish and sleeping together in a box in the rear of the yard. The cat will not play with other cats, but makes a com panion only of the rabbit. They rotnp about the yard together and now and then the cat will climb a tree. The [ dogs of the neighborhood have learned j to keep out of the Jones yard. For j one to come into the yard and ap proach the rabbit Is canine suicide. The cat bristles up at once and makes It so interesting for the intruder that he is always glad to scale the fence and get in the street. Not All Drad. Joe Mulhalton may be incapacitated for work, hut he has some very apt imitators growing up in the southwest ern country, whence so many wild, weird stories come.—Minneapolis Tri bune. WINTER EVENINOS. Tlruant Way to Spend Them In Woal> Carving There are some who have long urged the extension of home or domestic in dustries to bc‘h town and village workers. By 1_ue industries is meant I those handicrafts so many of which I could be carried on in the workrrs’ own homes—rich or poor—and which would do much to interest and to In crease the income of those engaged in them. When wre look at the industries carried on in the workers’ homes abroad, especially in the rural dis tricts, it docs seem rather surprising that we should lag behind. In Switz erland watchmaking, except at Geneva, is mostly carried on as a domestic in dustry. In the Jura, parts of the watch are fabricated in nearly every house by some member or members of the family. Silk-weaving in Zur ich, Aargau and other cantons is car ried on by means of looms lent to the workers. in Germany the famous Black Forest clocks arc almost entire ly a domestic industry, while toys in any quantity come from the Thurin gian workmen. In Austria home in dustries are common, spinning, weav ing. wood-turning, wood-carving, em broidery work, basket-making, straw plaiting, etc., being very extensively carried on in this way. There is every reason why thousands in our great towns, in our small towns and in our villages might apply themselves to some form or other of handicraft work as the winter season comes and when the evenings are so long. Work such as that contemplated—wood-carv ing, fret work, repousse work, bent iron work, wood turning, embossed leather work, modeling in leather, etc. —are not difficult to learn; the tools required are not expensive, and with a little industry and some organiza tion, both pleasure and profit would accrue to those engaging in them. In tne country districts the question of organization is more serious than in large towns, though it is a detail not impossible to overcome. It is a very remarkable thing that we should im port so many hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of knlckknacks and of little articles of utility principally because our own people do not them selves know the way to produce them. Take the case of wood-carving alone as an illustration of what is meant by the inexpensive character of beginning it. Here the learner requires at first three chief kinds of tools—namely, some gouges, two or three flat chisels and a veining tool or two. With these he may practice simple designs. A lit tle later he may go in for some carv ing punches and a few other tools, all of which, from the very start, would cost him but very little. The art, too, is by no means difficult to learn by any one who takes an interest in it. What ho has eheifly to remember is not to copy too slavishly the designs of others, but to show his originality in creating designs and work of Iiis own. What applies to wood-carving applies in the main to all these do mestic industries. A PRINCESS SOLD. A M'jinmilled I)itu{;litf*r of KameNfH II. Auctioned Off. Unlike good wine, princesses of an cient Egyptian lineage do not appear to increase in value with time; at least, that was the experience of one of the daughters of Rameses II., when she was offered at auction by Mr. J. C. Stevens at his well-known rooms,King street. Covent .Garden. Perhaps th’s was because she was unable to put the dots to the i’s and the crosses to the t’s of the auctioneer's eulogy of her vari ous interesting points, a circumstance not to be wondered at, considering she has been dead and mummified since, circa. 1333 B. C. But in spite of her antiquity, the eager crowd of bargain hunters at Mr. Stevens' wonderful sale probably knew more about her, in some respects,than she had ever known herself; for the X-rays of modern science had been brought to bear upon her cerements, with the result that photographs of the body beneath had been obtained showing the position of the hones. In spite, however, of this, there seemed to lie no particular de mand for her remains, and if her spook happened to be pervading the fragrant neighborhood of Covent Gar den at the time it must have had its feelings hurt at seeing the "lot” go for ten guineas. Rameses II. is reputed to have had a good many children, but that would scarcely account for the fact that a daughter of him, who stole men’s hearts nearly thirty-three cen turies ago, should have fetched only ten guineas. And she was remarkably well preserved, too, and inclosed in a neat casket,—Eondon News. Where Cow* Wear Karri !»!?*• A cow in earrings, indeed, seems an oddity, but in Belgium every cow must wear them. The director general of agriculture has decreed that all cattle are to wear earrings after they have attained the age of three months. Breeders are obliged to keep a record of the cattle raised by them, and on the ring which is fastened to the crea ture’s ear Is engraved its number to prevent the substitution of one animal for another. Incandescent I.lclit Not Harmful. '•he medical faculty of the Univer sity of Heidelberg hns made a very in teresting report on the effect of incan descent lignt on the eyes. After hav ing carefully weighed all the pros and cons of the question, the verdict is that the incandescent light is not harmful. For lighting large halls or places o' entertainment electricity is especially recommended from hygienic points of 1 view. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON III, JAN. 20, JOHN 12: 23-33. Golden Test—“We Would Sec .Tonin'*— John U!:'JI—The Greeks Seek Wisdom from the Savior or the World — lu the Temple, » 23. “Jesus answered'* to this feeling and expectation. ”rl hem,'* the desciples and the Greeks, in the presence of the people. Yes, ho says, “The hour is come.” The long-expected time Is at hand. "That the Son of Man should be glorified-.'’ liis real glory manifested, his reign begun, his royalty acknowledged, his high posi tion us the Messiah recognized, the re demption of the world entered upon. 24. “Verily, verily,” words emphasizing a great and important statement. Jesus brings the truth before them by an illus tration. "Except a corn (grain) of wheat fall into the ground and die,” etc. A grain of wheat, though containing in it *elf the germs of life and possibilities of vast harvests, yet remains alone, unless, planted In the earth, it dies In giving birth to the plant that grows from it. 25. “He that loveth,” places first in tils affections, 'his life.” The Greek word Is often translated soul, as in v. 27. "Shall lose it.” Lose all that makes life worth living; lose even the earthly rewards which he called his life, and, much more, eternal blessedness. "And he that hateth his life.” Treats It, when It comes In conflict with his true life, as if he hated it in comparison; sacrifices, when need be, those outward things which ure de sirable and blessed in themselves, which worldly men seek chiefly, and which seem to make the life oti earth happy and worth living,—honors, riches, pleasures, power. But note this is to he for Christ’s sake and the gospel's (Mark 8:35). “Shall keep it unto life eternal.” Life here is another word in the Greek, life in the abstract. 26. "If any man (would) serve me, let him follow me.” Let hint act out the above principle, as Christ had done and was about to do. This Is Christ's answer to the request of the Greeks. "And " acre j uni. in enuracier, in glory, ill his kingdom, in companionship on earth, and in heaven. "There shall also my servant be." There is no other way to where Christ Is. and whosoever walks in this way will certainly come to where Christ is. "Him will my Father honor." As he honors Christ: making him par taker of the Joys and rewards of him wtiom he serves. 27. "Now is my soul troubled.” Agitated, like the sea in a storm. The word rendered ‘'soul” is the same word as that rendered “life” in v. 25. (Compare especially Matt. 16 : 25, 26.) It is the scat of the natural feelings and emotions. There was a real shrinking from the darkness of tiie death which was at hand.—Elllcott. Jesus found it difficult to live up to tiie principles he had just enunciated. If it had been easy for him. lie would have been no example to his followers, who do find It difficult. "And what shall I say? Father, save me from tills hour." That is, tiie agony of his trial and crucifixion. "For this cause.” To fullii the duties, and bear the agonies it brings, "came 1 unto this hour." 28. Therefore he will say something entirely different, even, "Father, glorify thy name.” "Not my will, but thine be done.” "Then came there a voice from heaven.” The plain implication of the narrative is that tills was an articu late voice, the words of which were un derstood by others than Jesus, though not by all,—Abbott. "I have both giori tied it. and will glorify it again." The Father had glorified his name by giving Jesus daily and hourly the power to do and to bear all that had been laid on him up to that moment. 23. "Said that it thundered: others said. An angel spake to him.” The whole multitude heard a nolce; but the mean ing of the voice was only perceived by each in proportion to ills spiritual In telligence. 'i bus the wild beast perceives only a sound in the human voice; the trained animal discovers a meaning, a command, for example, which it imme diately obeys; man alone discerns there in a thought.—Godet. 30. "Jesus answered" the discussion among tiie bystanders. "This voice came not because of me (for my sake).” Tho inward assurance was sufficient for his needs. “But for your sakes," including the Greeks who had come to see him. 31. "Now. (the hour of vs. 23, 27) is the judgment of this world," as representing all that is opposed to the kingdom of heaven and its principles. To an extent of which now v.'e can form no conception, it was a world without God, plunged in Idolatry, worshiping devils.—in open re bellion against God. "Now shall the prince of this world." The title "prince of this world" v. as the regular Rabbinic title for Satan.—Elllcott. it is perfectly nat ural that evil beings should exist in the spiritual world ns they certainly do In this; and that some leading spirit should assume control, and organize the forces of evil, as is certainly done in this world. That being is called Satan, or the devil, the prince of this world. "Be cast out.” "The ‘casting out' is from his authority and power, or from the sphere and region in which he has borne sway."—Pres. T. uwignt. 82. "And I, If (contingent on his choice, but he had decided) I he lifted up.” Upon the cross, us explained In the next verse. The word for lifted up is usually ren dered "exulted.” It was by the lifting up upon the cross th.it Jesus was exalted to be Prince and Savior. The Son of man was lifted up, like the serpent In the wilderness, that he might be seen. The cross brought Jesus into the notice of the world more than all hiH teachings and deeds of mercy could have done without It. It has ever since been the center of the world’s history. "Will draw all men unto me.” Or towards me. Christ cruci fied was and Is (he nttractive power, drawing men to himself. All men. Not merely all nations, people of ail ages, but all men. It docs not mean that every one would become a Christian; for the facts ut that very time refute such un Idea; but he was attractive to human nature; even those who were opposed were drawn. They hated the light, but they could not help looking at It. And in the end the whole world will be drawn to Christ. Prison Abjure* Mince Pie*. Current gossip avers that the Char lestown state prison h abjured mince pie as a steady diet for the prisoners because the medical experts declare that It impairs the health of the in mates and tends to increase the death rate. 1’lonty of Our Otvit. Mark Twain suites tiiat iie found some sixty-four different religious sects in South Australia. Being fairly well supplied ourselves, we shall not have to import any of these Australian sys tems.—Boston Transcript. Pint KnMro.id Train)*. There is only one train in the coun- i try that exceeds fifty miles an hour in speed for 10b miles’ run. and that is the Empire State Express. Great Bri tain has twenty-one.
