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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1898)
TALKS OV TJTKCUIMD GOME AMUSING STORIES OP UNIQUE "MATCHES." C'cmrlliis In 'liureli A ranting (llti'iirr, for Oimi I, mil to u lliii) .MurrliiKit -- I'lirlo It.litll.' CntirNllIp -Old Dull ll Oniric. A young gontleninn HvIiir In (ho city of Moncton happened lo Hit at church In n pew adjoin ing ono In which was n young lady for whom ho conceived n midden mill violent passion and foil desirous of entering Into eoiirthhlp on (ho spot, hut Iho jihuo not suiting a fortnnl declaration ho hit on the fol lowing plan: Politely handing his neighbor a Illhlo open with n pin stuck In the following verse- II Kplstlo of John, fi verso "And now I beseech thco lady, not mh though I wrolo a now com mandment tiulo thro, hut that which wo. had from tho beginning, that wo love one another." Sho letiirned It with the following: Until, II chapter, x verso: "Then h1u fell on her face and bowed herself to hn mound ami said unto him, why have I found grace In thine eyes that thou sliouldost take knowledge of me roclng 1 am n stranger?" Ho returned tho Hook, pointing to Iho xxl voise or the 11 Kplstlo of John: "Having many things to write unto you I would not write them with paper ituil Ink, hut 1 trust to come unto you and Kpealc race to face that our Joy may ho full." From tho ahove Interview It Ih rea Konaliln to stipjiofu that the marriage look ilace hoon after. A I'iikkIuk Cliitiii', When my friend .lack was leaving homo to come to Asslnuboln. IiIh aunt accompanied him to the Htatlon,. and there hnilu him an affectionate faro well. Ah the train was leaving the htatlon ho noticed his aunt In con versation with a tall, fair and ory at tractive looking young lady. Jack van much struck hy Iho latter' ap pearance and could not keep fiom thinking of her all the way, and won tiering vyhii she was. He made up his mind Hho was tho one being In the world for him. Immediately on his arrival ho wrote to his aunt asking about tho young lady. Tho reply was favorable Viola was single. Jack managed with his aunt's as sistance to stmt a correspondence. They became very much attached through their letters, and when they met for tho first time It was to he married. All arrangements ahout the wedding had hoon made hy letter. Jack found out after they were mar ried, that Viola had seen hlui that memorahle day at the station and had iuquircd of Jack's aunt who he was. It happened that they hoth confided In the name person, and as a consequence nil came out right. The old lady Is very proud of the match she helped to make, for they are Indeed a happy couple. I'lirlr KiinIu." Cinirl-lilp. In ono of our southern towns live two old darkles, idles of slavery. The old man Is one hundred ami three years old and liadMieen married seven times, all of his wives helng dead when lie mot Aunt TMia. Aunt Tlsha was elghty-three, and had lieen man led five times. She w.is a Virginia dar key, hut had boon snhl Into Alabama during slave time, and had come to this town after the war. Aunt Tlsha Is a good, sweet-faced old darkey, her complexion a daik ginger-bread' color, her face surrounded by white wooly hair. I'm lo knsttis Is a spry old mmi, although bent nearly double with age. but his eyes are bright and they glance kindly at you from bo. hind his large steel rimmed spectacles. It was several years since I'nelo kas tus' seventh wife died and he was anxiously looking for the eighth, when some friend recommended Aunt Tlsha. lie did not know her. but wan willing to meet hor. This friend pointed out Aunt Tisha to Uncle kas tus ono day on the street and he pro. posed then and theio. Aunt Tlsha answered him very Indignantly: (lo long nigger, what do I want wld yo. Yo too olo to Ink care yuef widout a wife." She calmed down, however, after reaching home, nml asked the lady for whom sho was working to write nn apology to I'mlo kastus. Koon after she had dispatched her grandson with the letter she saw. through tho kitchen window, as sho was washing tho dishes, 1'nclo kiutus coming up tho street In his old o cart. She ran out Into tho street, with the dish towel In her hand, ami hailed him. No ono knows what they wild to each other, hut they mado up Urn differences nml agreed to marry next day, she brlngliiR him (n to Mgii a paper giving her full possession of Ills property, consisting of a log cabin, au ox and ox cart. Old lluli'li Churli-)' CourtNhli. I 'was at the station when Old Hutch Chnrloy's lady camo. Ho had told us why ho was thoro; so, when tho duah-lng-looklng stranger stepped from tho train, wo all know that this wns tho city lady who had been reconnnendod to Old Charley, hy a mutual friend, as a sultnblo llfo-partner, and who had now como over to have a look at Old Chniioy, and stay a whllo on approba tion. Old Charley couldn't leave his horse, so Tom Johnson ,tho mail car rier, appolntod himself master of ceremonies, and, escort Iiir hor out to tho road, formally Introduced hor to Charley, handed hor Into tho cuttor. and then tho vllo rcprolmto ho put bis arniB aroinul her ucck and klbsed TV hrr. It wnn a wicked nlntno of Tom. and Old Charley didn't like It a bit. Three or four days later the lady ap peared at tho illation alone, and told tho.o present why she was lcivlng. "II'h that plagued pet plR o' lils'n! He's Just sot on that pet pig, an' bound to have It In tho woodshed, an' every time the door's opened It comes tcarln In, racln' all over the hull house, nn' track In' up the floors! It's Just gallln'l He nays he can't bear to kill It. but ho can't keep mo an' It both." At this point Hutch Charley ran In, wildly excited. "Adi! Katie, Katie, what for you go by dor house away? What for you Hthny and marry mo notV They rot I rod to the lower end of tho platform, held a short consultation, then started toward the road. An they passed, Old Charley beamed upon the Interested group at tho door, and said: "Tomorrow we go by dor preacher an' git marrlet wuust!" Tho neighbors say that tho chief fen ture of tho wedding feast wns roast pet pig. UK 1 1 hUCHANAN. GEMS AND TRADITIONS. Wonderful Virtue .rrlhcit lit tlw Tor iloUe -KIhk .IoIiii'm KIiic. Traditions ami superstitions In con nection with precious gems are many and varied. Fo'- example, the turquoise Is believed to he especially rich 111 vir tues. The Germans claim that by Its varying shades It turns telltale on tho caprices and mnodi of Its wearer. Car dan, the famous Italian physician and philosopher, imported that turquoise mounted and worn as a linger ring secured n horseman fiom nil Injury and added with commendable caution that ho had a heiiitlful turquoise given Silm as a keepsake, but never tested Its virtues, not caring for the sake of ex pel Iment to risk his life. Shakespeare caused Shy lock to say: "Ho would not have lost his turquoise ring for a whole wilderness of monkeys." Camlllus Leonardos, a writer of past centuries, wiote much that was liitoiestiug about Jewels. He names a number that arc either no longer found or else they are creations of his Imagination. Leo nardus slates that the alecorl.i not alone renders a man Invisible, but "being held In the mouth allays thirst." The stone, doubtless of his fancy, is foil! il In the intestines of a capon that has lived seven years. Again ho tells of the bozoar, a rod. dusty, brittle and light stone, which Is taken from the body of some animal, and Is lufallibl against melancholy. He ei edits (Jueeii Kilzaboth with wearing a booar. Four famous rings of historical lntcret were those presented by l'npo Innocent to King John. Tho monarch was urged to note with extreme care the shape of the rings, their number, color and matter. The number, four, being a (quale, typified llinincss of mind, llxed steadfastly on the four cardinal vir tues. The blue of the sapphire denot ed faith; tho green of the emerald, hope; the crimson of the ruby, charity, and the splendor of the topaz, good works. The rings themselves repre sented eternity, with neither beginning nor end; gold, which was the material, and, according to Solomon, the most precious of metals, signified wisdom, more to lie desired than riches ami power. WHAT THE SUN IS. One of tlii limit MiiI1mhIi iif I'lvcii St.ir I Hi-rrllM'il. From the Philadelphia Inquirer: The sun. around which tho earth moves ut a distance of about IC.OOO.OOO o fmlles, a distance of about ICi.OOO.OtlO of miles, stars. It Is nn Intensely hot body, shining by Its own light, while most of the planets are cool bodies and do not. therefore, give out light of their own. Compared with the earth, tho sun Is a globe of enormous dimensions. To make up its bulk l.JMO.OOO bodies as large as the earth would bo icqulred. When viewed through a telescope dark spots may often lie seen upon tho sur face of the sun. If one of these spot he carefully noticed, and observed again after a few d tys. it will bo found to have moved farther toward the wes'ern side of the sun's disk, where Il finally dlsappeais. After an Inter val it reappears on the eastern side, and arrhes at the position where It was II rat noticed in about twenty-five days, furnlhhlng us with proof that the sun rotates on Its axis In that time. An rnloliiK Wlfc' VVuy. San Francisco Report: J. p. Mof f.ttt, a well-to-do cltUon of this city, hail tumble with his wife ami on De cember 20, last, he published a notice that he would not bo responsible for his wife's bills after January I. The lady was quick to see her opportunity. She realized that for ten days between the dates mentioned her husband would bo responsible, so she went all over San .lose and bought everything she wanted and a ftw things that she did not want. Sho was quite pleased wlMi her biiccess and managed In the ten days to buy up several thousand dollars' worth of goods. When tho bills camo liome the husband tore his hair. Ilut tho shopkeepers demanded their pay. They were told to go and whistle for It. Now- suit has been brought against tho hard-hearted husband, and In nddltlon to the original bills ho may have to pay court costs and lawyers' fees, .Miiii.ikImi; Her. Pretty Wife (poutlngly) -That Mrs. Ho Plnlno has a dozen dresses hand somer than the only good ono I've got. Smart Husband A homely woiniin like that needs rich nttlre to attract atten tion from her face. You don't. Owel ty wlfo subsides.) Now York Weekly. ADOUT CAnGOYLES. Munj of Them Wrr I'luo Work of Si iiliiire, Let us look at some of tho old rain water spouts, or gargoyles. It Is only recently that the word gargoyle has found Its way Into our dictionaries, says Chnnibtr.i' Journal. Kvcn tech nical glossaries of repute passed It over a few years ago. hut now It Is not only Included, but chosen for Il lustration, In lexicographical works Unsure enlivened with wood citlB. TIiIj advance In public estimation Is prob ably tho result of the exception wave In tho watois of sanitary science now passing over us. which has drawn at tention to the manner our ancestors made provision for tho limitation of one of the evils with whkh they had to contend. Wo find our predecessors not only contrived a means to prevent tho damp that would have ensued If rain water had not been diverted from fall ing olT their roofs Into the foundations of their bulldliiRB, but so treated these dlschaiglng spout heads from their gut ters as to make them rIvc considerable ornamentation. The application of the term gargoyle to these conerlvniicea Is said to bo due to tho dragon-like character that was at first given to them, coupled with the fact that there was a particular dragon known by that name that kept the district around kouon In trepidation. Directly these fantastic spouts ranio Into use they were treated as works of art, In so far as two wero never made alike. TIhmo who have studied the subject aver that many of them are line works of sculp ture and they arc often so adroitly placed as to bring out the salient points of a fabric and conduro to Ita pleasing effect. They were employed from about the middle of the thirteenth century, and were gradually Improved In form and delicacy of design nnd execution. At first they wero some what short and thick, but after a time were made longer, to project further, and with more elegant iletalls. A THRIFTY INDIAN GIRL. .Miiri-jliu; Her Wiih it Mont llxrcllcnt III- ciliiUMit Tlirrn VrnrH' Niitlug. Ill 1S02 the "Soger" school was built In Oklahoma territory, among a colony of Clieyennes nnd Arapahoes, consid ered among the wildest, most back ward and nonprogressive of all In dians, says tho Omaha Hee. Fortu nately the supeilntendent of tho new school, .Mrs. John Soger, had already gained their confidence In another ea paclty, so that when they were asked to put their children In school they said that they would, as soon as they were weaned. And they carried this out literally. One of the girl pupils, who entered the school when It was opened, has had quite a remarkable record. Having no previous educa tion and leaving her really savage home for the first time, sho hns dem onstrated what education Is doing and will do for tho red man. There la a system In nearly all the government Indian schools by which those pupils who are both Industrious and frugal may earn money In the sowing room, on tho farm or In some one of the school's other Industrial departments. Of course, this must be outside their regular work. This young girl, after taking a regular course as a scholar, was judged capable of filling a silailcd position. In tho course of a short time sho tilled not one but several, and worked in the sewing room besides. Out of her savings alio bought a wa gon, harness, team, organ, bedroom set and a tewing machine, all In view of her piospectlvo marriage to a young Indian to whom she wns engaged, and when they were married sho took enough savings with her to build a nent home. All this was accomplished in tin ee .veins' time. The Cjitu of Truth. What a marvelous completeness there Is In a ucrlpturo record! It i omuls the cycle of truth, ocnlng with a paradise In which there was neither mourning ncr crying, nor travail ; nar rating, lu pages stained with blood and tears, man's bitter heritage, soil caused, of wearinc?:i and woe; and ending with tho new heaven miC earth, on the air of which no stilled gronn, nor sigh, nor dirge enn ever break. The pain of mlsuuilerstnndliiR will bo no more; since wo shall see eyo to eye, and know as we are known. The pain of suspense will bo no more, beciuifo wet t-hnll behold tho purposes of (iod In 'their ultimate and benefi cent outworking. The pain of waning love will bo no more, because In that happy land, as tho chlldion sing, love Is kept by a Father's hand, and can not die. The pain of bereavement will bo no moro. becauso death cannot In trude Into that glad City of Life. No cyprean tree Rrows there, no moitrn Iiir garb Is ever scon In those streets, no funeral cortego ever winds Its slow length along thein.F. Ii. Meyer. I'nilse for the Dulic. The Huko of Wellington once said: "The greatest compliment I have hnd paid lu my life was once when our follows got into a scrape In tho north of Spain and had been beaten hack In some dlhorder. 1 rode up and rallied tlinm mid led them back and they re covered the lost ground. Just as I rodo up ono of the men stopped out of the ranks and called out: 'Here comes tho man what knows how.' " Cornhlll Magazine. Huh I'nr U Thiil? "Ladles are requested to rcmovo their hats ns far as poFElble," wns In scribed on the cards of ndmltslon to a recent cntcitalument In the suburbs of lloston. ik NEW MOOX .ii;sT nis(YWPj?p.iri 4j - - v The Lonii Somjltt tti iW I he nowH that Dr. C.oorgc Wnltemath fif Hamburg, (Icrmany. him discovered the long-sought bccond satellite of the earth will bo received with great Inter est by nil astronomers nnd by the peo ple generally. For centuries the Idea that there might be a sownd moon at tending tho earth has been euteit lined by sonic astronomers. Various obser vations of circular spots seen crossing the surface of the sun, and unknown luminous planets In the sky. have been thought to lend piohablllty to the the ory that thoro Is such a second moon attending our planet. Occasionally It has been located by astronomers. Ac cording to one astronomer, the sec ond moon of tho earth Is very close to tis, so near, In fact, that It goes around In iibout three hours nnd twenty min utes. According to other theories, It Is at a greater distance from tho earth. Sonio ono suggested many years ago that the reason tho earth's second moon was never seen was because It traveled round tho earth at such a dis tance and with such speed that It kept eontlnunlly on the sldo away from the sun, and consequently was always In the carth'H shadow, helng unllluni liiptl by the sunlight and having no light of Its own, It would not In such a situation be visible even as a faint star, hut If Dr. Wnltemath's discovery Is correctly reported, It would appear that the earth'rt second moon Is much morn distant than tho moon wo know. The icpott nays that the distance of the newly discovered moon Is '1 7-10 times greater than that of the old moon. That would make Its distance 018,000 miles from the earth. Or. Walteniath fays Its diameter Is 700 kilometers, which would be about 140 miles. In that ie spect then It must very much resemble some of the larger asteroids, such as Ceres, Juno and Pallas. Compared with the larger moon, Its volume according to the discoverer, Is ns 1 to l'Ja. Its mass, ordinarily called Its weight. Is as 1 lo SO. If this Is so, the relation of tho masses of our two satellites Is a very singular one. ns It happens to be almost precisely tho samo as the rela tion of the earth's mass to that of the moon. That Is to say, the earth weighs about eighty times as much as the moon, and according to Dr. Walteniath the old moon weighs about SO times ns much as the new moon, which ho Is said to have discovered. Hut It dif fers from the present moon In ono very OIL CRAZE IN INDIANA. I'lithrtlr Story of mi Old Mini' (irutl lnil for rnitiliiri'il ICIrhrt. Indiana now has the oil fever almost as bad as Pennsylvania hnd It more than a score of years ago. Near tho town of Peru two unsuccessful efforts wero made, but finally a little syndi cate was formed to try again, says the Philadelphia Press. l.'p to tho tenth day after tho drill was started no ono paid any particular utteutlon to the work, unless It was an employe lu tho railroad shops, who would stop whllo passing to and from his work to Inqulro how deep the holo was or chat a few minutes with tho workmen, hut beforo the sun set on the ekivcnth day every man, woninu and child of tho S.000 residents know that oil hnd shown up In the pipe and on the following day, when the black. Ill-smolllng stuff began to How over the top of tho casing tho excitement became- wildly, uproariously Intense. Many small fortunes havo already been made ar.l others will he realized by persons who less than a year ago wero scarcely in comfortable circum stances. One of tho most notable of thM0 Is Chillies Artls, an old colored raftn. He had grown old and beconio Infirm In the performance of odd Jobs slsOfaKK F- r V New MaN,(v .Un-Named iVMPWn the Moon sepn rSS1 riA"B,URG v - . . , -w ,. .. mt Second Satilitc ol tdc Kartli Discovered hy a BY GAKKHTT P. SUKVISS. remarkable particular. Tho nvcrage densitv of tlm crenf mnmi la inUU n... that of iho earth, while accordlm? to I Jr. wnltomath'3 figures the nvenmo density of tho now moon must bo about tho same as the earth, hi other words, while Ii Is a very small body, It must bo heavy In propoprtlon to Its size. In regard to tho oITect which such a body revolving mound the earth (as Ur. Wnltemath says It does, In a period of about 177 days) would have upon our planet, It may ho remarked that tho only certnln Influence that any heaven ly body has upon the earth Is In the raising of the tides In tho ocean, and In the atmosphere. Now u body weigh ing only 1-80 ns much as the moon, and at tho samo time more than 2, times further away, would possess prac tically no tidal Influence. The height of the tide which it could ralso In tho ocean would be measured only by hun dredths of an Inch Instead of several feet, as In the caso of the old moon. Its Influence upon tho ntinosphero would bo correspondingly slight. Nevertheless, a body of such a mass as Dr. Wnltemath says Iho new moon has would unquestionably affect the motion of the old moon to a poiceptlble degree, and might account for tho Irregulari ties In the motions of the moon, which have for long puzzled astronomers nnd which In fact were partly the cause of the original speculations concerning the existence of a second moon. As lo the visibility of tho alleged new moon. It may be said that If It were capable of reflecting the sunlight as brllllnnt ly as the larger moon does It ought not to bo a difficult telescopic object to see. It should appear to be about one-two-hundredths as great as the full moon. Allowing for Its greater distance. It would then. If Its serface Is equal In power of lellcctlon to that of the moon, show about one llfteen-hundredths or tho light that Is received from the moon. Kvldently, however, It cannot be a body as bright as that, otherwise it would he plainly visible to astrono mers and would have been discovered long ago. We must suppo.se, then, that Its reflecting power Is remarkably small lu order that It should have succeeded so long In concealing itself from the ken of astronomers. When this new moon Is actually added to tho list of known bodies belonging to the solar system, Its discovery will bo one of tho most remarknblo achievements In the of labor for his neighbors. Ho owned part of a lot which was drilled and when a well was sunk It proved to be tho best ono lu tho district. For tho first few days It produced fiOO barrels a day and soon settled down to -ISO, which It has discharged every day for a month or more. The old man gets oue-sI:;th for his share and when ho was notified to go to tho bank at the end of the first week for his money ho waited until near tho closing hour and walked nil tho way back to his cabin with uncovered head. Another KWIo of roiuprll. Another Homnn villa has been dug up nt Hoscoreale, on tho slopes of Vesuvius, near Pompeii, where tho great find of silver ornaments wns made two years ago. Tho walls are covercu with beautiful frescoes, chiefly landscapes and marines Ono repre sents a bridge over a river, with an mick' 'lahlng with a line. Four wino Jars wero In tho collar and soven Hkcli'i'Us havo been found In tho cx cuvat.'on, C'ani'ur from llntlni; .Meat, Tho olllcers of a leading London hos pital believe- that tho gonoral Increase of cancor Is due to excess In moat ca-t- ius. 1 , y 3f S. .M-4 lf I I I (krnja Astronomer. l& history of astronomy during tho nine teenth cditury. It Is known that In ISM Profissor liarnaid, then nt the Lick Observatory, discovered a tftnull moon revolving with gieat speed around tho planet Jupiter, and much nenier to that planet than its four larg er moons. This new moon of Jupiter is only 100 miles In diameter, so that it Is considerably smaller than the new moon which Dr. Walteniath has dis covered revolving round tho earth. The famous moons of Maw. discovered by Asaph Hall In 1S77, are still smaller, the largest of them probably not c. ccedlug seven or eight nillca In diame ter. So that as far as size goes there Is nothing at nil Improbable In the exist ence of the alleged new satellite of tho earth. It docs not appear whether Dr. Wnltemath has seen tho now moon or not. Reference Is mndo In one repent to "Its appearance with a telescope. ' according to which It shows "a Biuall reddish disc with white streaks." hi usiuuch ns our moon Is too small to re tain n sensible atmosphere upon its sur face, a body so minute as tho nevl dis covered moon can not be expected to havo any atmosphere at all or to have been at any time an inhabited body. It should rather he compared with mete oric bodies which circulate around the planets, and by the capture of which It Is perhaps possible for the larger planets to furnish themselves witii an indefinite number of moons. It is In tel estlng to leinenilier that not long ago. during an eclipse of the moon, preparations weie made at one of tho large observatories to photograph the sky in the neighborhood of tho moon in order to discover whether any sat ellite of the moon existed, the Idea ln ing that not only may the earth havo undiscovered satellites, but even the moon may be tho center of a simll.it system. The following data will accurately ror Ase Star Gazer Have Had An Idea There 'a$n Second Moon. but No CetlaJ Looked Upon Her llashful reco 7.VoUi describe and locate the new moon to all astronomers: Average period. 177.00593 days; side real perlod.l 111.7 1.11 days; dally move ment, :i.0ia 1.19:5012 degrees; nearest tlm earth, April S, at noon, Greenwich time; farthest from tho earth, Feb. :i, at 0.72 hours; diameter, 700 kilometre.'! (94.1 miles); volume, 1-12J of the large moon; mass (about), 1-S0 of the largf moon. Two Cronim of Iron. The crown of koumnnla Is composed of gun metal- made. In fact, out of n bit of old cannon captured nt Plevna; that of Portugal has goms In It which have caused It to ho valued at $S,000. 000. Tho Iron crown of Lonihmdy. which, by the by, Is the oldest dlndoiu In Kurope. Is 'only six Inches In diam eter. The question usually nsked by thoso who behold it for tho first time Is, Whcro Is tho Iron? For to all ap pearances tho crown consists of n broad circle of gold ornameutod bv mi enameling of flowers. This, however, lu hut the outward case within tho corner rests the Iron Itself. it rt fashioned out of one of th0 nails by which Christ was fastened to the cross Tho crown now rests in tho Cathedral" of Monza, Italy, and Is' under the earn of tho monks of the establishment These holy men rail attention to thn' fact that while no attempt llljS CV(r been made to clean tho baser metal still there Is no sign of rust upon It--n fact which conclusively proves kg sacred origin. UN IIiikIiicmh, hrink Hlgbce knows how to take people. Coley He ought t-?, ho drives a cab. .-Il !i i ,'.'.: 't I nC.i. rU- ' " "ml'.