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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1896)
5WT! &VP .pfl nMWwpifcrti'WWttWw?B Mlrr'.H' ' ua 6 THE IlKD CLOUi) CHIEF, CTIDAY, !)KC 1. 1H5I6. raHMprcrm-iW maam, h - mmmammmmm. .MrilMMMiP' 4mm.-WW I b IVi IS It ir GLASGOW UliKSSKl). PANGS OF POVERTY FELT THURC. NEVER forMirntln, TriKl mill Miitiiipollr Arc Alniint I'liliinni II - .Mm In' llu-rlmily I'li'l Hupp) tin- Mntlit Ptilillr miner lili Sine ctiil. NOTAHLF munici pal scheme lias lllM'll htMI'tOll in (ll.'lKgOW, whole tlio uiml"!pnl awt'.jnrl , ties have erected it series of lodging houses, which co'ii hlho comfort ii nl cleanliness' with cheapness, says the Iliifltoii Transcript. When tlio municipality luwl provided mmfnrtnblo quarters for that Brent miss of the poor depenilciit upon lodg- nghoiiscs for shelter, It wan found I Jiut there was still one class for whom 10 provision had been made- viz., the vldowH mid wldowcnt with children vho are compelled to he absent from lonio during the day and have no neaiiH of assuring themselves of tlm Jiro of their chlldien iIiii-Iiik thlH po loil. To mipply thlH want a "family ionic" has hcen elected, which, hnth or arrangement and management, stands alone in the hlwtnry of modern nunlclpal ontorpiisoM. The "home" is iltuatcd In the pooiost section of the ilty, ami thus most conveniently placed 'or tlio class It Ih Intended to reach. There, aie iiccoinniodatlonH for about iG5 muall famllleH. In addition to the irdlnnry hed and living rooms there ire reading, smoking, recreation and lining rooms. ."or the children there ire a spacious nursery and a roof gar len. The nursery Is In chaw of a meclally trained nurse, who has sever ii others under her direction. Hot and :old water haths and specially con itructed small kitchens for the prepa atlon or Infants' food are distributed hroughoiit the building. With all heso comforts and conveniences the ost hns been Kept to the lowest pos ilhlo level. A mother with one child jays 78 ceiita per week; with two chll Iren, 1)1 centii. ami with three chlldien, IS rent. A father with one child pays 1.1 cents per week; with two children. 11.10, and with three children, $1.2.1. The, charges for hoard are: For adults, icr day. breakfast, r cents; dinner. 8 cuts, and te.i, i; cents. For children, icr week, l,r, cents for single child, :i! cuts each for two In a fainll, and :i:i cuts each for three or more in a fa in ly. Although the home" has been ipen but a few months, the difference n appeal ance between the children II v iik there and those or the Immediate lelghborhonil Is illicitly anpareut. An ther inhumane which Is not to be Ig lored Is the fact that the low olniges id as an Incentive o father and moth, tr to support the chlldien mid keep hem with them rather than huc them lecomo a ehnvgo upon public or private, harlty. It Is believed that tin- 'fam ly homo"' will soon come to have a icrnianent place l.i the Institutions or he cities of flreat llrltaln. There la Ittle or no crime In (llasgow. PEW ARE FREE. nine I'll I uiii'li'H nr llorriii h or I'rntnt nciil IViii or Until lli'iiiliilicrc. .Most men are ashamed of their aiporstltloiis because they hate to be laughed nt. jet we have known many to make fun of the we.ikne.-hcs of atltera lie icly to keep their own coin age up. aas tbe New ork Pi ess Ncarly all of the greatest men ill hi.-,- ' llil-v urn. th.. vtcll.ilH nt n ll!v ..,,,.. I htltlon Maishal Save, who met and inirthtcw armies, lied at the sight of a cat. Pit r the (lieat dared not cioss a hrliige Dr. .lohiisoa would not enter any door or passage with his left foot first, ("aivar was thrown into convul- ,.!.,..,, I., ,1. . ,. I ..I ,1 1.... ,. niiuin i. mo miiiiii in luillllier, luccil j KllzabiMi could not bc-ir to hear the' name of Mary of S.otland mentioned.! The wi id "death." or Its Fiemh equlv- I alent, would so disconcert Talleyrand ' ns to uiiiii nim lor an uusiiit'hs. if a ha cro-no.l Montaigne's p.uh he was miserable for a month, imagining all ror s or horrors. Voltaire, the fearles;) inciKir. shook with alarm on hearing rooka lawing on his left. Rousseau 1 (Hiked tinder his bed every night be fere ronrlag. Lord Hyron suc.-umhed before the weakest ptejudlce and was a victim of all the pe.ty superstitions of his day. Andrew .l.icksoa cut off the tails of his hounds and buried tin in under his doorstep, believing thh to bo a sure means of keeping the pack fiom wandering away. Washington would make a wish and how nine llinra to the new moon. Oarlleld, who looked lu a glass all day, dared not come Hue to face with one In the dark. We might go on and name hun dreds of similar cases. Orcat and small, old and young, weak nnd strong - all have their superstitions. "HrriiUn In" Xi'v Slioi'H. J. I-'. Harnett, a Chlcagoan anested for theft said that his occupation was "breaking In" now shoes for second- hand dealers. In this way very poor s.ock Is made to look as If It wero good enough to stand considerable wear. Where Will Vim (let (he MiinejV A pleasant "guess" Is to name how many dollar bills would he required to weigh as much as a $20 gold pleco. Answers fluctuate between 300 as the lowest and 1,000; the correct number being thirty-four. 'Hume 'l'liliu; Are Iletlcr I. eft 1'iimilil." Ho; "How are you? Keeping strong?" fiho; "No; only Just managing to keep out of my grave." He: "Oh, I'm aorry to hear that." Judy. (MhVtekA ATirr-A(Ut LZ. M POPULAR SCIENCE. Ilntv hit I'l'iiiilc I 'ihIitmI ii ikI Kill ttll). Last week I was assisting nt n largt bazaar by holding a iituall Hoentgui lay gn!lo'y, comprising a Ciookcs tube, glowing, etc., says a letter In London Lancet. A a I In my temporary lolc of curator en 'oiinioroil many gems of ex quisite unconscious humor, I ventute to forward you a specimen or two as showing how a new-born scleiitlllc dis covery Is "tiudersluod of the people." An elderly gentleman of piiMpoimis ap pearance objected that the show was not "up-to-date," as he had "read somewhere in a newspaper that now you can see the liver palpitating and the heart clrculatliiK." Two elderly la dles entered the small room, and, sol emnly seating themselves, reiiucsted me to close and fasten the door. Upon my complying, they said they wished "to see each other's bones," but I was? "not to expose them below the waist line," each wishing to view the ap parently dismantled osseous structuie of her friend Hist! A young and anx ious mother asked me to see If her little boy had really swallowed a three penny bit, as he was uncertain him self. She had lead In the papers that a great doctor, Sir Something Hllstor IfaeU. In a -speech In a largo meeting In LHcrpool a little while iiL'o, said that a halfpenny had been seen in a boy's "sarcophagus!" A youni; girl of the domestic servant class, taking ml Mintage of her opportunity, as she thought, and my so", asked me In con lldence If I would "look through her young man unbeknown to him while lie looked at the picture, to sec If ho was quite healthy in his Internals." Wlii'ii the Kiijh Were Slmrt. When the earth was young, s.iys Mr. Hall, the eminent British astronomer, it turned on its axis so rapidly that It made one complete tevoliitlon once In exery three hours. The earth was llipilil then, and It spun around at that fearful sliced probably for thousands oT years. The sun caused ever-Increasing tides on the surfare of the great liipiid planet, and at tast It burst in two. Hut the break was not In the middle or what had been the great, Hwirt-i evolving globe of liquid mat ter. It was to one side, and the effect was to throw- the smaller tragiiicut out Into space. That fiagineut kept on turning, and was soon fashioned Into a globe. We see It to-day and know It as the moon. The larger piece also kept turning on Its axis, and in the course oT ages became the spherical habitable earth. The smaller fragment of the great original globe, being held In place by the attraction of the larger, has been going around the earth eer since, hut has been gradually Increas ing the distance between Itself and Its primary. Some astronomers believe that ccultinlly the moon will get so far away that It cannot be seen l the Inhabitants of our planet (irriil .'Mciiiiil Ciilniliitiir. .lercdlah lluxtoa, who was examined by the Royal Society or London, toward the middle or the last century, could tlud mentally In live hours the exact number of cubic eighths of an Inch In a body measuring 211.1 iri.Tv'.i mds by fi.i! 12.72 yards by .II.Ui'ij v.inls i it could not write bis own name hen taken to see (larrlek In "Richard III at Mrury Lane, his sole crlti. im w ih to the effect that the total nuniiici of words utteied was 12.11."). the mmi'ier I of words In (Jarilck'n part b 'ns ceg s ! tercd t-eparately Maur.lanu le Ian henlboy. who. at the ,iue ! was presented by Arngo to t'w J. .1 ! i I... 1 W 'O, I t ii- pn-v of Sl,t,lt',,a ' 1'-"is- i11"1 UlUOllg Oilier icum. CMi.in.,1 i- l-OUt of a.TCo.in; t l.-.ti) in ihii - nids, wiin totally Hilton- ! -. born In 1S21, wan a noted iti ul r but devoted his fu-ulty to tin- com position or tables of log.irl'.h n lie 1 Is said to have multiplied tog' titer men- 1 tally two numbers of one h:uilrd fig ures each In eight and thr e qu.trtor hours. The problem no doubt con 1 1 he done more rapidly by a good caKiilator lu the oi dlnary way, but the eff.n-i of memory demanded bj Its uicut.il solu tion Is simply stupendous. Ncicr oret Under. One of the leading caterers of New York a man who has prob.i!l pii,ui as many fashionable dinner i as any other man on the continent was re cently questioned about the use of bread and butter pi, ties at table lie said: "I never servo butter absolute ly never. I do not own a butter pi ite I neveithln Is It revocable bciw but ter at any dinner or supper which 1 stand sponsor for. Why r-hoiihl I? Everything is accompanied by Its own sauco or rclijli, al ways sulllcleuily rich, and but ter Is unnecessary as the traditional filth cart wheel. It is never used at the private tables of those New York families who live correctly. Occasion ally I have a protest. 1 did not long ago.after a dinner -jn which 1 pride my self each year. One of the guests, a man, came to nie to give an order, say ing nt the same time that he had re- i cently dined here and was much ills- appointed, or couise, 1 urged an ex- . niiclt statement, and he fimillv tnbi nm that first there was no butter to which 1 pleaded guilty hut explained that my rule. In that particular win Invariable." Itiii'lilni; Srnlillll? Women, That the practice of linnipraliiK noisy women lu ponds or streams was In full swing at the close of tho seventeenth century Is evident from tho "Chamber lain's Roll" for the City of London, is sued by the Historical Manuscripts Commission. The ducking-stool pro vided, with tho now chair for It. nnd i ho i.iaratus bought for branding felons on tho face, aie among the entries. ,. :' ..Jcrj'vr '-:,, ..- .. , . lie Itiirnt- ly!H4iSJliiii(.jfiT- ..sSM&W fAy&&'JiE7lMWr&'mS.5 '" ---'Wiite--. ftS-fefiia . 7ilr!K7W"wLWy." . H4 At-jarrTA- jl-; t- Is the earth drying up? It Is a start ling question; and, what Is yet more tnrtllng, the ans.ver given by science la undoubtedly alllrmallve. Not that there Is any occasion tor alarm. The terrestrial water supply Is adequate tor i long time to come. It Is not In our lay that the rountnliiH or the deep will rail; neither we nor our children, not our children's children, ate likely to surfer from a genetal water famine. The quest'on Is a real one, none the less, and most serious; for upon the anwer depends the ultlninte rate of he human race. And this answer, jaHod upon strict scientific reasoning mil the imnt Just analogies accessible :o us, Is, us has been stated, nlllrma tlve. Our earth, in very truth, Is slow v drying up. Of all the planets of the solar sys tem .Mars bears the closest resemblance to the world on which we dwell thld Is conceded. Further, It Is In every way pi nimble that Mars Is, or has been, :overed with vegetation; there Is much reason to believe that It Is een now, like our own orb, a theater of llfo. Hut It I older In elTcc, much older than the earth. Listen to what Per clval Lowell, one or the highest au thorities on this subject, says or Its present condition. Artec ,i careful sur vey of all the evidence he mimniarlzeJ the matter thus "It follows that Mars Is very badly off for water. such scarcity ot water on Mars Is Just what theory would lead us to expert. Mars Is a smaller planet than the earth, and therefore Is relatively more advanced Hi his evolutionary career. He Is older In ago ir not In yeats; tor whether his birth im a separate world antedated aura or not his smalli r sk'.e, by causing aim to cool more quickly, would nec essarily age him faster. "Hut as a planet grows old Its aceans. In all probability, dry up, the water retreating through cracks and cavities into Its Interior. Water thus liappears from Us surface, to say nothing of what Is continually Impris incd b chemical combinations. Slgnc jr having thus parted with Its ocean.i we see lu the case or the moon, whose ?o-called seas wero probably i-eas In their day, but have now become old sea bottoms, Ah nil Mill". "On Mars tho name process Is pelng in, but would seem not yet to have progressed so tar, the seas thorn being midway lu their career from the real seas to arid and doprossod deserts, no longer wnter surfaces, they nre still the lowest portions of the planet, and, therefore, stand to receive what scant water may yet travql over the surface." '.Mars. n,. 122-12:1.1 Here, then, nio not one, but two, Im iiess'vo object lessons, and any cate ful 'ciider will readily perceive that Mr l.c.voll assumes as unquestioned that ,s analogy is strictly applicable to .ho earth. Mars has gradually dried iway, uutll Its surface Is llko a desert, through parts of which tho streams 0mX nyi tt:V from the melting Ice caps still descend In Hoods at certain seasons, making a system or irrigation possible; and It Is a well known tact that the telescope icveals what appears to be a network or canalii all over the planet's disk. The moon, being much smaller, has reached a still more advanced stage Water is as essential to the lire or a world as blood to the lire or a man; and the moon Is like a dried and shrivelled mummy, dead lor ages. Its almost alt less sky ir sky It can be called Is without cloud or rain; the basins of Its lakes and the beds of Its ancient seas are empty; Its parched rocks are unclothed with verdure, and appear like a tagged mass of hardened slag. Such is a perished world In Its last es tate, the icsult or the complete disap pearance or water from Its surface; and, If scientific reasoning Is of nny value, there Is little room for doubt that the eaith Is on Its way to a condi tion equally deplorable. For the teach ings of geologj and chemistry lead to the same conclusion. There Is no doubt that there was once far more water on the earth than now-far too much. In fnct. Vast oceans or hot and turbid brine raged over almost Its en tire ftirface. The murky nlr was torn with storms or which wo can form but the faintest conception. Over what little land there was the acid laden rains poured with Incredible violence, eating ami wearing the hard rock tin til finally a soil was formed capable of sustaining vegetable life. Then the waters slowly cooled and ideared and subsided. riiuiiKe Niiw l'riKrcihn;. They are still subsiding, though the process Is so gradual as to bo Impor ceptlblo to man. .lust ns of old, somo portion of moisture Is constant ly sinking deeply into tho bowols of the earth, never to reappear; while an- i.thcr portion Is every moment entering l"to chemical combinations which con virt It Into solid substance, and llttlo of this Is ever released. Tho world now Is In a transition state, and prob ably Is near that stage of evolution most favorable to the existence and de velopment of Intelligent beings. In the remote past the conditions wero In compatible with life; In the remoto fu ture Hfo will again beconio Impossible, and tho lack of water will presumably he the prime cause of Its final disap pearance. Let us now endeavor to trace the series of changes by which this will bo brought about, and their progressive Intliienco upon man and hu-1 man Institutions. Only tho drnlned : fields of what Is now tho bed of the ocean will be suitable for occupation by tho human race. Kven there llttlo wnter will remain, though In tho low est depths a few Intensely saline lakes will linger, their desolate banks crust-. cd with salt, their waters moro Into"! erahlo than those of tho Head Sea. Just as tho waters will have beconio scant, so tho air will have becomo thin. Such ' apparently Is the case on Mars to-day; uud the moon has no air at nil, or has Dkt'zifrixreif?tm.9. -j .wb inizmwmmrmmirm'- r- t an atmosphere so slight that we cannot detect It. And owning to this thin ness of air there will be few clouds, and little if any rain; even the winds will subside Into Insignificance. At the poles, however, ami on the heights, snow will still fall, and on the--).''. N snow will still fall, or at any rate fnwt will he deposited in large quantities: and the melting or the Ice cans thus formed will furnish the whole available supply of water. The streams from I this source, which will he fairly abund ant In season or Hood, will be caie 1 rally guided through an Intricate sys- tern or canals and stingily hoarded In huge reservoirs, whence It will be drawn for irrigation and other neces sary uses. Gold and silver will not I he half so precious as this beautiful, transparent liquid of which we are so i lavish; wealth will be measured in cub ic feet of water, ami a spring or foun tain will bo more valuable than any mine. Nor can this he called n mere fancy picture. To all appearances It Is exactly the state of affairs which ob tains on Mars at the present time. The whole ocean bed, therefore, will be llko a vast valley ot the Nlle feitlle, Indeed, but rendered so only by Incessant care and the highest en gineering skill; while above and around It will He a chill Sahara, a desolate and deadly waste, iitiwet with show ers, unprotected by any veil or cloud, Its Impotent atmosphere scarcely sur flclent to drift Its abounding dust. All over It will he scattered the unvisited remains of the cities that we know, and Its plains will he furrowed with mo nan onuterateii ciiannels or our great rivers. It will have hut one ro- miilnlng use It will have beconio the cemeteiy of the world, both the old and the now. The great alley below, which Is to us tho bottom of the sea. will ho densely crowded with a popula tion which will admit of no increase. How the people of that late and do ll nlng age will polvo the dlfllciilt prob lems that will confront them It Is hard ly possible even to conjecture, hut meet them they must, nr perish. A highly paternal form of government would seem to bo Inevitable, for the water must be parcelled out with the utmost wisdom and Impartiality, nnd no waste can be tolerated. Navigation, of course, will be a thing of the past; even the fishes will become almost or quite ex tinct. More thnn this, man will doubt less have suffeied actual physical mod ifications, gradually brought about by the changes In his environment. Somo or those will he duo to atmospheric changes, for tho air, besides being much diminished, will almost surely he Impoverished In Its most vital ele ment. It Is u very suggestive fact that to-day tho proportion of oxygen Is wily about ono part In five; we aro pretty safe In assuming that the proportion was once considerably greater. Oxy gen Is an extremely actlvo element, eagerly entering Into combinations of various kinds which lock It up In solid or Ould form. Nitrogen, on tho con- liar. Is remarkably Purr, Miteiing In to (omhiii'itlo-i with relueti'iicu, nnd freeing Hsrlf wl h oiumotdin.iry fncll Ity; i.- compounds aie notably unsta ble, or. en to tin o;te:u of being vio lently explorlvc end It Is as tmclea? for the tim!ii!e;.t'-.ce of life as ashcsi U f'Ml a fire. (till Dim! Kuril). We conclude, ihcnfoio, that the at moAphcrc, while It b onie-j loss In vol ume and density, will at tho sam Hmr deteriorate In quelity, and the lungf of man must n-ods accommodate them selves to the oli-meo iy g-adual'y ! Iniglng their c.ipr.cliy. Thus tho vcr constitution and aspect of tho huniai race will In the cause of ages suffei marked alteintlon. And what will hi the flnnl outcome? it is n dlshcart onlng picture. Kven the scanty stippl.v of water which wo have thus far as sumed, must at length begin to fall; It will no longer be stilllclent for the en tire population. Pnavolilahly somo musi perish. There Is no Imaginable alter native; and who shall It be? It Is Im possible to conceive of any other solu tion than a struggle for hare existence llorcer than anything which history re cordsa conllict In which the strongest and most unscrupulous will constnntl uevall. Such a condition of thing. means, of course, a rapid reversion tc navagery; and that, In turn, will but hasten the end, for the elaborate sys tem of works necessary to make this decadent world habitable can bo main tained only by a strong ami wlso gov ernment under n high civilization. II this falls, the last degenerate remnant of the race will soon be extlngiilshcd the sooner the better, when thut s.vl stage Is leached. And whni next? A last poor mother earth, dry am shrunken with age, the bloom of flowei and leaf quite r.irfcd irom her cheeks her race hcarrnl and pitted with tin tombs or all her offspilng, will lie a. dead and silent as the ghostly moon. ON MARRYING A POOR MAN. WonU or Km (inrii(;eiiieiit fur the (ilr Who lliiei It. "I have been young and now am old.' said ono or the charming mlddlo-agci women or the period, whoso looks belli the baptismal register anil who rathei enjoy arrogating to themselves th wisdom and oxperlenco of age, says tin New York Journal. "And I havo reach oil that period of life," she continued "when I can look back and boo results and note how seldom those who an born with silver spoons In their mouths, as tho saying is. havo the sil ver fork when they aro grown up When I look back and remember wlr were tho jetinesse doreo of my youth the men whose lives nnd position' above all others seemed particular l enviable and desirable and then look about me now and see how few of those men who wero called men of pleasure In those dnys havo attained an honor able and useful middle-age. I feel that I can preach a sermon to my boys and their ft lends with object lessons that ought to make It very impressive. Some aie poor, having spent health and substance, like tho prod'gal. in riotous living. ICveu those who have apparent ly not suffeied In purso or health, aio a set of discontented, blae, weary voiidling3, who go over tho same treadmill of fashionable existence year by year without pleisuie or profit. uother thing 1 have noticed from my vantage ground of experience Is that, ir only as a purely worldly maxim, lion eit ccrtainlv Is the best policy. Many brilliant man I have s-eon who has de royed his prospects by tho crooked ways in which he sought to better hlm oelf llnanelally, politically and oven -oi tally, whereas. If he had walked Honorably berore all men, he would have gained tho world's rood opinion nnd In many Instance the very thing!" he coveted. Ami finally there are the viiing married couple of my youth. In nine cases out of ten thoro of my friends who married poor young men and who gave up the luxury of their homes to piove veritable helpmeets to the men of their choice are now almost without exception prosperous and In many cases wealthy, while thoso men and gltls who man led for money are, as a rule, gi catty lu want of It. 'Ho pood nnd you will be happy' Is the old maxim and certainly it seems true from a materialistic as well as from v religious point of view." Ill;li Tlilet A 11 cot Weill. The high-water marks of Heveral extraordinary high tides have been '(opt at ICnston Point. St. Michael's and Oxford. What 13, known as tho "ceil tinnlnl tide" .of September, 1870, has hold the recoid of the highest water mark, and still holds It, although last Thursday morning's (Oct. 1) tldo was within an Inch of the conteimlal mark. The recent flood had a singular etfeel on the flow of the artesian wells on Tilgliinan's Island. These wells aver age -100 feet In depth, and many oi them have a surface overdo v, which In creased fully doublo In velocity and more in volume when tho tldo was at Its highest. It has been noticed before that any unusual high tldo Is pcrccptl bio In tho effect it has on tho flow of the wells. A Chi'iip .Me:il. Dining the past low years, Mr. Ix;fl Jones, honorable secretary of tho Liver pool Food association, has labored un tiringly to lid tho seaport of under- fer-dlnir nnil Rtnrvntlnn nnil ncn,.. ,!.. I he reeds omo thousands ot school chll- drcn. Kach child Is given ono pint of thick soup and ono sllco of Jam and I hi end. For this thry pay one-hnlf pen- ny one farthing defrays tho cost oi I the food, and tho other farthing pays , the working expenses. The meala pro. vlded are, wo nro informed, practically vegetarlnn. Mr. Leo Jones conceived and began the scheme, and lu vlow ol the anticipated development of tho ns- Bociiiunn, no nns oeen appointed ho I orablo director. 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