Nebraska Newspapers

    TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDREN
Appalling Mortality Among the Little Ones Due
to This Cause—Proper Attention to Health of
Mothers Would Save Many Lives
Ti e number of deaths due t* tuber
culosis is tremendous. When the word
is spoken one instinctively thinks of
pulmonary consumption. This is the
form which attacks adults and which
we see daily gathering in its victims.
There are other forms, however, more
common in children, that levy trib
ute upon them without calling atten
tion to the relationship between these
diseases and consumption of the
lungs.
Dr. Jacobi is authority for the state
ment that “Tuberculosis kills as many
1 eople, old and young, as diphtheria,
croup, whooping cough, scarlatina,
measles and typhoid fever taken to
gether." in all of our cities active
steps have been taken to protect the
1 eople from the above named dis
eases Until quite recently, however,
a few years at most, nothing was done
to reduce the mortality from tuber
culosis.
Now, however, the attention of the
world, the common people and the
health authorities, has been called to
its curability and preventability.
The causes, the modes of scatter
ing, and the prevention are all being
studied, and an educational campaign
is on to wipe out this “white terror.”
The children suffer from tubercu
losis of the bones, the bowels and
ljmph glands. Tubercular meningitis
is frequently found in early life and is
uniformly fatal. Only by careful at
tention to the food and daily habits
can the rising generation be made im
mune from these varied forms of tu
berculosis.
The fact that over one half of all
babies born die before they reach the
age of five years, proves that the ‘con
stitutional capital” bequeathed them
ii small. Is the proper attention paid
to the diet, exercise and out-of-door
life of the mother? If this were done,
the child would undoubtedly have
greater vitality and could by proper
care and education live above the tu
berculosis of childhood and of adult
life.
Cause and Cure of Gastric Catarrh.
Chronic congestion of the stomach,
known as gastric catarrh, is usually
reused by one of the following errors,
or by all of them put together: Eat
ing too much or too fast; swallowing
food insufficiently masticated; the
use of such coarse foods as cabbage,
greens, etc.; mustard, peppersauce,
ginger and other condiments and
spices; pastry containing animal fats;
free fats, which lodge in the stomach
and remain there a long time; pork,
griddle cakes and burned fats—these
are the things that produce gastric
catarrh.
The first and most necessary step
in the treatment of this disease is to
remove the cause of the trouble. We
may induce activity of the skin by
hot applications followed by cold or
hot bath followed by a short applica
tion of cold; fomentations followed
by a short cold application to the
stomach. These treatments are use
ful, but the most important factor is
the regulation of the diet. A fruit
diet is best, for the reason that in gas
tric catarrh there is a great accumula
tion of germs, which are destroyed by
fiuit juice. A well-prepared diet of
toasted bread, zwieback, granose bis
cuit, etc., is also useful in these
cases.
Bedroom Climate.
A person at the age of sixty years
has spent about twenty years of his
life in his bedroom. Have you inves
tigated the average sleeping room cli
mate? If you were sent as a mission
ary to some distant pestilential spot
the climate of w'hich was as unhealth
ful as that of the average bedroom,
would you not feel that you were risk
ing a great deal for the sake of the
heathen?
On the tombstone of tens of thou
sands cf those who have died from
tuberculosis might appropriately be
inscribed, “Disease and death were
invited and encouraged by a death
dealing bedroom climate.”
To show that this is no exaggera
tion it is only necessary to call at
tention to the fact that fully half of
the tubercular patients placed in out
door consumptive hospitals make a
satisfactory recovery. If fresh air
will cure the disease, it is certainly a
wonderful preventive of it. It is not
more reasonable to deliberately
breathe impure air than it is to drink
impure water or to eat unhealthful
food or wear infected clothing.
Tender-Hearted Savages.
One of the most anomalous features
of our Christian civilization is the
slaughter house, especially the abat
toirs of our great cities, where veri
table torrents of blood perpetually
flow, the ebbing life of millions of in
nocents which die that man may feast.
Indians are not noted for being
over-sensitive; and particularly de
spise any exhibition of weakness. The
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Chinese Reformer in America.
Kang Yu Wei, formerly secretary to
the emperor of China, but now a ref
ugee from the wrath of the empress
dcwAger, has arrived in Oregon,
where he hopes to find relief from
bronchitis, from which he has been
suffering. Nearly seven years ago he
took a leading part in reform move
ments in China, thereby rousing the
anger of the dowager empress. She
ordered his arrest, but the secretary
fled and sought refuge on a British
war vessel. There is a standing re
ward of $100,000 for his capture. He
urges his countrymen to study reform
methods and then carry the work back
to their native land.
Minister Fined for “Toting Gun.”
Rev. Wayman Niles, a well known
minister of Wayne county, W. Va.,
admitted carrying firearms because
his ministerial duties often made it
necessary for him to travel at night,
and sometimes through a country in
fested with bad men. The plea did
not go with Judge Wilkinson, who
imposed a thirty days’ sentence in
jail on the parson and ■. fine of $25.
Pope Pius to Leave the Vatican.
The pope has expressed his deter
mination to go to Castel-Gandolfo, a
village on the northwest side of Mount
Albano, fourteen miles southeast of
Rome, for a few weeks, when the
weather improves. The pope’s health
absolutely requires a change of air
and scene. Castel-Gandolfo, among
numerous other villages, contains the
summer residence of the popes, which
has not been used as such since Plus
IX shut himself up in the Vatican as
a protest against the deprivation of
bis temporal powers and the occupa
tion of Rome by the Italian troops in
1870.
Boy a Master of Languages.
Martin Sitera, an A. D. T. boy in
Omaha, speaks five languages—Bo
hemian (his own), English, French,
German and Spanish—and hopes ere
long to gain some mastery of Greek
and Latin. He was born In Cernikov,
a small village of Bohemia, but came
to this country about four years ago.
Though but 14 years old, he is an om
nivorous reader, devoting every apetre
minute to his books.
interior of a slaughter-house, however,
is said to have proved too much for
their powers of self-control. The Chi
cago Record states that “a party of
fifteen Blaekfoot Indians recently vis
ited the killing room of Armour's
plant. One fainted, three more were
ill, the rest covered up their eyes
They were hurried out of the place
into the fresh air.'’
A Good Reform.
The abominable practice of wear
1 ing long skirts for the street is dying
! out. Pretty as it is to see a summer
dress negligently trailed over a
smooth lawn jeweled with daisies, the
sight of a woman dragging her gown
in the street, sweeping up the filth
and collecting millions of microbes,
is a revolting spectacle; and yet with
a long skirt the only alternative is
to hold it up a practice which in
duces cramp in the arm, as well as
cold fingers in winter, and gives a
decidedly ungraceful walk and atti
tude.
A Cure for Cold Feet.
An excellent and simple remedy
for cold feet is the application of cold
water. Step into the bathtub, let the
cold water run in a little faster than
it runs out. Standing in the water,
rub one foot with the other, rapidly,
ten or twelve times. Then change and
treat the other foot in the same man
rer. Keep up this alternate rubbing
for about three minutes. The feet
will have become very red. and as you
step out of the water, you will find
them burning and glowing with the
warm blood biought into them by this
means.
Some Chinese Baths.
A traveler in Mongolia writes:
"There are some hot springs on the
i read about twenty miles north of i
Chiugpeng. The place is named j
Tangshan. The arrangements for ;
those anxious to benefit by their heal- I
ing properties are very primitive. A
row of twenty to thirty wooden boxes
the size of an ordinary packing case
is ranged beside the road. In these j
sit bathers of every age and both
sexes, with their heads protruding. :
Attendants with buckets continually j
refill the boxes from the springs. For 1
less luxurious bathers there is accom- j
ruodation in a pool which has been .
dug out close by. In this they squat, j
scooping up the water and pouring it
cn er their heads with brass basins. It
is curious to reflect that establish
ments like Homburg and Aix-les-Bains
have had their origin in such begin
nings.”
Training the Skin.
The usual effect of a draft of cold
air upon the back of the neck is a cold
i and a sore throat. Many years ago
Dr. Brown Sequard, an eminent
French physician, devised a means by
which sore throat from this cause
might he prevented. By blowing upon
I the back of the neck with a pair of bel
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lows, increasing the time each day, he
trained his patients until they could
endure this treatment for half an hour
without injury.
It is not necessary to be exposed to
a draft of air on the back of the neck
in order to obtain this result. By
means of the cold bath, the wet-sheet
rub, the shower bath, towel friction,
etc., the skin may be educated to con
tract on the slightest increase of cold.
Daily exposure to the contact of cold
air is of the utmost importance. It Is
because of the tonstant exposure to
cold that the Indian’s body is "all face”
—the skin of his whole body has
learned to take care of itself.
Dr. Lorenz Strict Teetotaler.
At a banquet given to Dr. Lorenz,
wine was served. He pushed the
wineglass aside. Someone enquired if
he was a total abstainer. He an
swered:
“I am a surgeon. My success de
pends upon having a clear brain, a
steady nerve, and firm muscles. No
one can take any form of alcohol with
out blunting these physical powers;
therefore, as a surgeon, 1 must not use
any form of spirits.”—Journal of In
ebriety.
In Harmony with Nature.
Modern science as well as experi
ence has shown that contact with nat
ural surroundings, especially fresh air,
sunshine and the ozoning emanations
from growing plants, has marvelous
health-imparting virtues. In these
natural agencies is active the power
which created and maintains all things
and which is constantly communicated
to all living things as the essential
condition ot continued life. The more
closely man comes to Nature, the
more deeply he may drink from the
fountain of life and healing. To live
in harmony with Nature in the fullest
and truest sense is to live in har
mony with God; and to live in divine
harmony is to be happy.
BN THE SEE Trail fi ALASKA
Th« ftMO> «nd tin «ll«»n tt* «ll«»n »nd
Oti Khlmner <tnd ihtn on the eun Mi'cs
The trail crtsp and oracklln* and crum
bling 'neath he®).
That crunch®* lU hardnees. vo« leave*
not It* *eai
MjiM Malemute leader!
Mush, husky Stampedsri
To th® trail
with th® mall!
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VThat ear® we for bllsierd. though It
bluster and blow
The woolly may whistle cr well In Its
woe'
CTer fast frosen river through overflowed
creek.
O'er glare ice as smooth as your laJy
love’s cheek
Mush’ Msietnute leader’.
Mush, husky Stamped*-11
To the trail
With the mall'
Ill
To ion« we boot tiding* eadness end
sorrow. _
And behind us mull leave heavy heart* m
the morrow; ^ ^
Yet other* rejoicing, end other*, at rest
Be it sigh* tears, or laughter, they're at
our behest—
Mush! Malemute leader*
Mush, husky ftaiupidert
Th the trail
With the mall
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" ATV7LLEH CASTLE
cooncu arr. acajaa
From Cape Prince of Wales to Unalallk.
From Candis «• Council and dawn «
irwn^Tortt Norm. and 8af«ty to far
gkasaway.
And up the broad Yukon from
Bay
Mush t Malemvu ieadart
Mash husky Stampedorl
To tho trail
With Us man I
Neath the rays, white and fitful. of hold
Northern Light.
|Or the cure of the moon or the darkness
of nlcht. -
| Oi the star-tfudd*d heavens or sun
triggered sky.
[ W« have but one wetcbword. it’s Get
there or die! •’
Mush' Male mute leader!
Mush, husky Stampederl
To tho trail
With tho man i
n
No usviot rrlgV as. go obstacle ^
lr deylidh* or darkness. by nlcht or by
day
Risk safety health lift but btvirt lest
you fall.
For remember! you carry your Uncle
dam's mall—
Mush: Malemute leader*
Mush, husky Stampeder?
To the trail
With the mailt
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COLLECTION OF TINY VIOLINS
Too Small to Make Music, Yet They
Are Not Toys.
Something curious in the way of
miniature violins is to be seen in a
violin-maker's shop on North Ninth
street, says the Philadelphia Record,
though the collection is of no prac
tical utility, the instruments being far
too small to be used in producing
music. They are interesting chiefly
as showing what patience and skill
were brought to their making.
There are six of them, each wTth a
bow. The largest violin is not over
two and a half inches long in the
body, while the smallest hardly ex
ceeds an inch in length. Each of them,
however, is perfect, with keys which
turn, a bridge, sound holes in the
belly, a sound post and a tail piece.
Each of them has strings and it is
possible to tune them, but the notes
they give out are so high in the scale
I as to be far away from what might
properly be termed musical sounds.
The bows are as complete as the vio
lins. with real horsehair, a screw to
tighten them and all else to be found
on the practical bow.
The collection is displayed in a lit
tle wallcase with a glass front, about
a foot square. It came from Ger
many. where the violins were made,
and its owner does not know why the
instruments were constructed unless
to show what the workman could do.
He says it would be more trouble to
make one of them than two violins
of the ordinary size.
Russell Sage Leaves Old Home.
At last Russell Sage has been driv
en to abandon his old home in Fifth
avenue. New York. An advertisement
has appeared offering a long lease of
the place. Mr. Sage has been induced
to leave largely because business
places are taking possession of that
part of Fifth avenue, and his decision
to move marks a victory for Mrs.
Sage. For a number of years she has
been trying to persuade her husband
to let the place go. For a time Mr.
Sage was obdurate, but finally con
sented to move temporarily farther up
the avenue. Fp to the present time,
however, the aged capitalist persisted
in his intention some day to return to
his former home.
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Dwellers by the Pole.
According to the census of October
1901, there were 11,893 inhabitants in
Greenland, an increase of 1.377 since
1890. This increase includes 441
Eskimos discovered by Capt.-Holm'in
1894; the actual increase was there
fore 936. or 8.9 per cent. The Euro
pean population of Greenland in 19ul
was 272; in 1890 it was 309. The larg
est villages are Sukkertoppen, with
382, and Julianshaab. with 393 inhabi
tants. The Hast Greenlanders are .of
pure Eskimo blood. The remainder of
the population is greatly mixed. The
birth and death rates vary greatly
from year to year.
Consumption claims 31 per cent in
the north and 28 per cent in the south.
About 13 per cent of the deaths are
from accidental causes, chiefly drown
ing. In 1901 about 84 per cent of the
population sustained themselves by
seal catching, fishing and hunting.
The remainder are conected with the
administration missions and trades.
TRAINING OF FRENCH CHILD.
English Writer Points Out Differences
in Home Life.
Let me take Felice Boulanger
(which isn't her name) as a typical
French child of my experience, gained
after nearly three years’ residence in
France.
She is one of five children ranging
in age from her brother of 16 to the
youngest girl of 6. Felice has a skin
like the sheen of a pearl, (which is
marvelous considering the amount of
indigestible food she bolts five times
a day); big. deer like eyes, long
lashed; daintily shaped but seldom
clean hands; a thin, rasping, and pet
ulant voice even in her merriest
mood, and a physique like that of a
starved and homeless cat—narrow
chested, spider legged, and stamina*
i less generally. Vet she seems full of
\itality—nervous, irritable vitality—
eats as much food as an English nav
vy. and certainly has. as my American
lady friend says, “heaps of sense.”
| But to see the child eating is painful,
though interesting in a way.
An English girl of 11 years of age,
, like Felice, would be sent to bed at,
say. 9 o'clock. Felice and her type
and her younger sisters sit down to
dinner at 6:3<i p. m. and stay up until
11 or later, listening to the conversa
tion of their elders.—Louis Becke in
the London Mail.
Particular About the Color.
! A clerk from a well known law firm
went into a down town drug store the
other day and said:
"Can you let me have a piece of rib
bon. such as you tie around cologne
i bottles? You see. there’s a rice old
lady in our office who has just made
i her will and we want to tie it up in
i style.”
“1 thought lawyers used red tape."
said tIk5 druggist.
"Oh, red wouldn't do at all in this
| case, ’ said the lawyer's clerK gravely.
"Haven’t you heliotrope or peiTiaps
I mauve?"
| In a few moments the ribbon was
| brought forth and trie young lawyer
i vent away satisfied.— New York Sun.
NEITHER FISH NOR BIRD.
*_
Jed Brooks Finally Found Proper Defi
nition of Osteopath.
The following story comes from
York Harbor, Me.:
“Say, yer know thet litterrary chap
thet hed the Furness cottage up on
the hill two years ago last summer—
Mark Twain. I b'lieve they called ’im.
Gee! ye’d never think ter look at ’im
thet he could write books!
“Wal. he uster come over ter my
house an’ set fer hours to a time while
I spun yarns an’ told ’im abaout York
folks an’ tilings. Seemed ter be reel
socible like—liked to ter smoke an’
talk, an’ joke with an' old fool lik^
me.
“Wal. one day he comes ter me look
in’ kind o' worried like, an’ his hair
was all ruffled up like he'd been aout
ir. a stiff nor'easter, an’ he sez: ‘Cap’t
Brooks, can you tell me if there is
an osteopath at the harbor?’ ‘Wei,’
sez I, 'the' mebbe, but 1 ain’t never
ketched one on ’em, an’ I've been
fit bin’ here nigh onter forty years.'
He looked at me kind o’ queer, an’
then sed he guessed he’d go up ter
the drug store an’ enquire.
“Wal, 1 went home an’ told the old
woman abaout it. an' she sez: ‘You
big fool, Jed Brooks, ‘tain t no fish,
'tis a bird.’ So then I went inter the
best room an’ took doown the cyclo
pedium my boy Steve had when he
was ter Harvard college, an' I'll be
durned if it want no fish at all, nor no
bird, either, but a new-fangled kind of
a doctor!"—Harper's’ Weekly.
His Diamond Vanished.
Stocksby came home to dinner look
ing glum. When his wife asked him
the reason he said:
“I had a diamond star searfpin when
I went out this morning, didn’t I*.
Don't see it now, do you?
“Well, a fellow has been calling on
me for a week about a scheme in m>
line of business that seemed pretn
good. He never sat. down, but walked
about as he unfolded his plans. Ner
vous sort of chap. Occasionally he
stopped and picked a bit of lint oil
my coat, or peeled one of your pro
cions hairs off my collar. He seemed
to see a bit of thread on me half waj*
across the room. You find plenty ot
men who have a habit of picking a<
your clothes like that, and I paid nc
attention to him. although it made me
nervous.
“This morning he buttonholed me
on the street close to the office. Could
not come in, lie said, feeling around
my collar for bits of household raa
terial I h^d brought from home.
Would call again. It was not until
an hour later that I discovered my
diamond pin was missing. Oh, I was
easy for that fellow."
LAUNCH TO SHOW SPEED Of TWENTY-SIX MILES HN HOUR
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HIGH M7rn&> IXklTSi7TH3? C2XKV3IVCHILD.>' ZXEMZL MV Y C
Mr. George W. Childs Drexel placed
a contract for a high speed launch of
the twin screw type. She will be
equipped with two Speedway gasolene
engines, each having six cylinders six
and one-half inches in diameter by
eight inches stroke. The speed guar
anteed is twenty-six mils an hour.
The boat will be 62 feet over ail. Her
stem has a moderate rake forwaid,
and the stern, which is of the tor
pedo plan, has nearly the same rake.
There will be a good freeboard, with
little sheer, and there is some depth
to the forefoot, the keel running down
io its deepest point forward of amid
ships and then rising easily to a Hat
surface at the propellers. The for
ward deck line is moderately full,
with turtle back finishing at the sides.
There will be three cockpits, the
forward one for the helmsman, the
middle one for the motor and engi
reer and that aft for passengers. De
tachable spray hoods will be arranged
for the cockpits. The materials ol
construction will be of the best
throughout. The planking will be
double. The inner skin is to be oi
white cedar, and the outer planking
of teak. The plank-sheers and deck
are to be of mahogany.
MANY MESSAGES AT ONCE.
Alternating Current Allows Duplicates
Over Same Wire.
The invention of new methods for
sending a number of messages simul
taneously over the same wire con
tinues, and one of the most recent (A
these is due to Prof. Mercadier of the
French High School for post and tele
graph. In this method an alternating
current is employed whose frequency
depends upon a tuning fork having a
certain definite number of vibrations.
The current of such an interrupted
circuit can be broken by an ordinary
key, and signals transmitted over the
line wire by an induction transmit
ter. On the line at the distant station
are a number of so-called monotele
phones, which respond to current of
one frequency, and are tuned to the
forks in the circuits at the sending
station.
Thus each particular circuit has its
own telephone, which is connected by
tubes with the ears of the receiving
operators and responds to the signals
made at the sending station. In all,
twelve transmission circuits are pro
vlded. so that twenty-four messages
can be sent over the line simultane
ously. A double line, or metallic cir
cuit. is required, but otherwise the
apparatus is comparatively simple,
and involves merely the adjustment
of the tuning forks and suitable con
densers and inductance coils.—Week's
Progress.
Lew Field's Latest.
Here is Lew Field's latest scholas
tic story about his young son, Josepn:
“The other morning Joseph’s school
teacher asked if any boy in the class
could speak a sentence containing the
word ‘foregoing.’ Joseph promptly
raised his hand, indicating that he
was ready with the sentence.
"Well, go ahead, Joseph,’’ said the
teacher.
“ ‘Last Saturday afternoon I went to
papa's theater to see “It Happened in
Nordland." Uncle Charley Fields was
standing at the door. Three news
paper men came up and shook hands
with him. Then they al! walked away,
and pretty soon I saw the four going
into the Dunsmore Cafe.’ ”—New
Y"'k World.
FRESH SALT WATER ICE.
Exposure to the Sun Makes Iceberg's
Surface Fresh.
It is often asserted by mariners
that the apex of the larger icebergs
are entirely free from saline matter
and that this is conclusive evidence
that the berg originally forms on dry
land, proving the existence of a great
continent around the poles.
It may not be generally known, how
ever, says the English Fish Trades
Gazette, that salt water ice if exposed
to heat—to the summer sun — is
thereby freed from salt.
Dr. Hamer quotes the experience of
Arctic explorers—Nansen and the
duke of Abruzzi—who describe
the mineral salts of sea water as be
ing separated out like hoar frost upon
the surface when the temperatures o
from 30 degrees to 40 degrees cent
are recorded, and who note the almost
complete freedom from saline taste
of the water obtained from projecting
ice shafts “which have been exposed
to the rays of the sun during a sum
mer, and are tnus freed from the
greater part of their salt.”
For some time prior to 1800 travel
across Pennsylvania had been in
canoes and in river barges propelled
by poles or along the shores of riv
ers by horse and foot ai^d by inter
vening portages on Indian trails, con
necting points on the different rivers.
The Philadelphia Pittsburg national
pike was built upon such a substantial
basis that wherever undisturbed one
still finds the gracefully^modeled
at dies of solid masonry almost intact,
after more than a century has passed.
The completion of the Old Portage
railroad by the state of Pennsylvania
in 1834 put an end to the time-hon
ored “coach and six." with the many
picturesque and commodious inns and
taverns along the line of this broad
macadamized toll road, which with
its substantial construction was. in
point of endurance, second only to
the Roman military roads of Great
Eritain.
This Old Portage road was con
structed from material brought from
England. The British government
sent over experienced engineers to in
struct the Americans in the running
of the stationary steam engines used
upon the inclined planes of the road
in the Allegheny mountains. The rail
road's highest point was about 2,700
feet above sea level; being only 200
feet lower than the neighboring hill,
which is the highest point of the Alle
gheny mountains in Pennsylvania
The road consisted of ten planes, five
of which were on either side of the
mountain, and intervening levels. In
1S35 the canalboats were so construct
ed that they could be taken in sections
and hauled over the mountain on flat ,
cars, without disturbing their cargoes. \
The rails were secured to stone sleep
ers twenty inches square, which were
sunk in the ground.
On the Old Portage road the best
time for the forty miles between Hol
lidavsburg and Johnstown was twelve
hours. Express trains on the Penn
sylvania railroad now run a closely
parallel distance over the Allegheny
mountains in a trifle over one hour.
The passenger traffic on the road in
those days was usually limited to one
car each way a day, with a capacity
of thirty passengers.
In 1854 the Pennsylvania Railroad
company bought the Portage road
from the state of Pennsylvania. Com
mon rumor says that at this time the
state legislature was ‘greased'’ and
that not a cent of the 147.000,000
which was to have been paid for the
road was ever received into the treas
ury of Pennsylvania.
Reoort
Real Sea-Serpent
Rudyard Kipling has seen his sec
ond sea serpent, according to a story
which comes with some seriousness
from Cape Town. People who read
Kipling's first sea-serpent story
thought it was merely a brilliant piece
of fiction. This second sea serpent
story is not told by Kipling, but by
the skipper of the steamship Arma
dale Castle. The sea serpent was
seen—in fact, it was struck by the
ship and probably killed—while the
Armadale Castle was on her last voy
age to Cape Town, in latitude 3 de
grees south. Mr. Kipling was aboard
the ship.
Commander Robinson is not sure
whether the creature struck was a
real sea serpent, a queer whale or a
greatly overgrown shark. Whatever
it was, the thing was hit by the bow
of the ship where, in all properly
regulated fishes, the pectoral fin ex
ists. The head was doubled across.
the port bow and the tail trailed away
along the starboard side. The vio
lent struggles of the creature to free
itself front its painful and embarrass
ing position led to its striking the soft
brown paint of the "boot-topping’’ on
the ship’s side with the powerful fluke
of its tail.
This was observed by the boatswain
and some of the men who were watch
ing the affair through the side ports
immediately over the tail of the fi-h.
The marks enabled the commander af
terward to make fairly accurate meas
urements. From mark to stem it was
forty-five feet. In girth it was appar
ently about the volume of one of the
ship's lifeboats at the broadest part,
say eight feet in diameter, very grace
fully tapering away toward the tail.
The body appeared to be of a green
ish-brown color with large dark spots
all over the back and sides, the lower
parts being of a dull white.
It was first observed by one of the
seamen, who heard a knocking against
the ship’s side. When the news was
passed along the decks all the pas
sengers. young and old, perform* »<i a
mad stampede into the forecastle to
look at the unhappy prisoner. Tkt
engines were stopped as soon as pos
sible and reversed, but fully a quar
ter of an hour elapsed between the
first discovery and the final clearance,
by which time the creature was either
dead or completely exhausted, for it
sank slowly, tail first.
Telephone in the Woods
ST — =="■ 1—-1- -- _ -■ - _a
“I’ve been reading.’’ remarked a
citizen who spends five months of
every year in the woods, “that the tel
ephone is a gieat convenience in the
wilderness. The Electrical Review
says that throughout the forests, from
St. John to Vancouver, the telephone
brings the lumber camps into touch
with one another, letters are read to
lumbermen snowed in i>0 or 100 miles
from civilization and the human side
of life is made warmer and more vivid
by this means of communication.
“A telephone does heat up consid
erably anywhere, especially when it
won’t work; but I’m inclined to think
a telephone in the wilderness is a
great nuisance instead of a great con
\enienee. What an angler, hunter or
botanist wants of one of the things is
more than I can understand. They’ve
got the Adirondacks fixed so that
there’s a push button in every other
tiee, and if you stub your toe a
waiter’ll pop out of the bushes with
a champagne cocktail or a telegram.
That’s all right, perhaps, but why not
slay in the Waldorf?
“A telephone in the woods is a
good thing for game, though. We had
our cabin wired to a village down at
the end of the railroad one summer.
Never again for me. I’d be riangline
for trout. ‘John, John,’ would come
my wife's voice, resounding through
the aisles of pine and hemlock.
‘What?’ I'd say, mad clean through
Your Boston brokers want to talk
with jou a minute.’ Or I’d be almost
within range of a deer and that same
■John’ would come floating on the air
from the shanty. ‘What?’ I’d have
to call back, and the deer'd be in the
next county. New York’s waiting;
long distance,’ the servant would hoi
ler. ‘Line's held open for you.’ The
only trout I got that season was a
tame one I bought of a man who fat
tens ’em for market, and the only
thing I shot was the ace of spades. I
tacked it up the last day and blazed
at it for spite. And now,” he con
cluded. “when I go into the woods
the central office can't find me with
a guide and a brc.ss band.’’—Provi
dence Journal.
Forcing Port Arthur Gate
One hour before midnight you could
see once more the same men who had
applied the explosives in the day
making for their victim. The founda
tion of the caponiere was made of
concrete, sand and steel plates. It
could turn the largest and most pow
erful shells ever manufactured by men
into a loud and foolish joke. The men
carried this time a large quantity of
gunpowder. This they applied to the
cracks made by the former explosion.
The white heat fuse was applied.
The report certainly handled the
serene silence of the midnight with
out mercy, tore it into pieces. This
time there was a large rent made in
the wall. Night, once more, rocked
the confusion back to peace and there
came into the rent a number of Rus
sian heads. Some of us laughed.
Quick as a flash the rifles of our men
greeted them. Wide as the rent was,
it was not quite sufficient for men in
haste to pass, and for the third time
we made the preparation of explosives.
At 14 minutes past 4. in the still dark
hours of the 28th. the earth about u§
shuddered as it had never shuddered
before, and we saw a hole in the wall
that was over one meter in width
and considerably over one meter in
height. 1 hrough this hole our engi
neer threw in over twelve sacks oi
explosives. The caponiere was choked
w ith fume and smoke. The ash gray
of the breaking day and the most
sinister gray of the smoke from the
explosives creeking like cowardly
ghosts from the hole in the wall was
broken by silvery flashes here and
there. They were the icy blades ol
our men rushing into the caponiere
through the confusion of the ex
Plosion. A crash of arms, groans,
sounds of falling bodies, of broken
steel, shrieks with which the life flew
away from the clay, all mingled and
melted in a confusion far %beyond pen
and brush. A few moments later the
sun-round flag waved from out of a
torn hole over the covered caponiere
a welcome to the new-born day —
lie s Monthly.
T ruth and the Freeman
He Is the freeman whom the truth makes
free.
And all- are slaves beside. There's not a
chain . . ,
That hellish foes confederate for his harm
Can wind around him. but he easts it off
With as much ease as Samson his green
withes.
He looks abroad into the varied field
Of nature; and though poor, perhaps,
compared
With those whose mansions glitter in his
sight.
Calls the delightful scenery all his own.
His are the mountains, and the valley
his.
And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy
With a pr tpriety that none can feel.
But who, with filial confidence inspired.
Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous
eve.
And smiling, say: “My father made them
all!’’
Are thev not by a peculiar right.
And by'an emphasis of interest his.
Whose' eyes they till with tears of holy
joy.
Whose heart with praise, and whose ex
alted mind
With worthy thoughts of that unwearied
love
That planned and built, and still upholds,
a world
S« clothed with beauty for rebellious
man?
your earners. ye that
Yes. ye may fill
reap -
The load£l soil; and ye may waste much
In senseless rot; but yet will n«.»
"r„ce:r >" r X or
or lisurpat'l.m, alia u.hno'i£inY“rnn'i
ApPr°K?if* “ K “i™Sir.
And has a richer use of vours th,
WweJSm
Brings its own evilwith,?* evi?ry d*Y
tor he has wings that nei»H>ake! U les»
pain, K nal ne,ther sickness.
Nor penury can crin«i« „
No nook so narrow but £r confine;
there but he spreads them
AMth ease and is at larire Th.
sor holds ge- The o»pres
H a k„„„ whHi %
And that ti^bfndU htoii'*£,OU8 of a cha'n;
Whom God delights "n SanriV?in t'1**™]11*
dwells. b ln- and ‘n whom H«
■William Cowpor.
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