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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1898)
m THE EBD CLOUD CJ11KI'. V D u A ItOYAIi KOJIAXCR! HOLLAND'S QUEEN MUST SOCN SELECT A CONSORT. A Mln.itloii ITol Unlike Dial Which Con fronted the 1'ropnt giicrii of fiiRlanil When Klio Ahi'PikIi-iI the Tlilone Ciiriinalloii Xn Aii;itnt. fflllill E L M ISA, queen of tliv Neth- erlunds, will bo crowned f-ooit after 8 li v push o s li r eighteenth I) I r t li day, cm August ;il (if this year. Slit Is almost the last re p resrntntlve of of tho House of Orange, to whom 'lie crown of Groat Britain was trans feried after the revolution of UiSS. She la the only surviving child of the late king of Holland, William 111. Her lialMirother, tho prince of Orange, tiled when rIiu war, n toddler In the royal nursery. Her father was old and Infirm, and his ministers decided that the succession must he regulated at once. A otate council of senators and leputlen was held, and a law was en acted naming her an heir to the throne, with her mother as logout. Tho king died In 1S0O, when the princess was ten yeaiH old. She was pi ochi lined queen nniler n regency. Her father wus grand duke of Luxombcrg, as well as king of the Netherlands; hut in con sequence of her epx, tho princess could not he heir to the grand iltirhv, which lias passed under tho rule of the duke of Nassau and his heirs. The queen regent Is the princess of Waldeek and 1'ynnont, and a sister to the duchess ry ';nm fftt '.-' m -.V' ll Ml V. . -w- QUEEN WILHELMINA. nf Alhany, Queen Victoria's daughter-in-law. She married the king of Hol land In her youth, and Is now barely forty, nmlablc and handsome, and not without cleverness and force of char acter. Queen Wllhelniina has been carefully educated for her high sta tion. She kuows four languages, Dutch, (icrman. French and English, and her mother has sought to Interest her In business of stnte. She Is bright and Intelligent, and not without girl ish beauty. She hns a will of her own, and much natural dignity. With the loionntlon the regency will come to an end. There will be a great revel at The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotter dam, and then tho serious business of match-making will begin. It will be a lomance of roynlty like that of Vic toria over sixty years ago. As the union of England and Hanover under the samo sovereign ended when Vic toria usoonded the throne, so also Wll helmlnn hns lost Luxemburg. The royal lino Ib now nearly exhausted in Holland, as It was then in England, and the young queen Is expected to le new and pcrpetuato It by marrlnge, as Victoria has done. If she dies with out children, the throne will pass to German heirs under tho influence of tho court at Berlin, which all patriotic Dutchmen would deplore. Tho queen, after her coronation, like Victoria, will chose her own husband. It will be a toyal match of unusual Importance. In Holland, as at the opening of tho Vic torian reign, loyal hearts will be touch ed by this glimpse of a girlish queen, in her simplicity and Inexperience, playing a great part In state affairs by marrying aright. : A Cliurcli Ililllt of Coral. A church built of coral is one of the niriohltles of tho Isle of Mahe, one of the Seychelles Islands in tho Indian ocean. The Seychelles islands, which are supposed by many to be the site of the Eden of Old Testament history, form an nrchlpelngo of one hundred mid fourteen Islands, and are situated about 1,100 miles cast of Aden and 1,000 miles from Zanzibar. '1 hoy rise steeply out of tho sea, culminating in the IbIo of Mahe, which la abuut 3,000 feet nbove tho level of the ocean, and Is nearly tho center of tho group. , All these Islands nro of coral growth. The houses ure built of species of massive coral hewn Into square blocks, which glisten like white marble, and ihow themselves to the utmost advan tage In the various tinted green of the thick tropical palms, whose Immense fern-like leaves give pleasant and much-needed .shade. These palms grow an high as 100 feet and more, over-topping both tho houses and the coral-built church. They line the sea Rhora und cover the mountains, form ing In many places extensive forests, The Illurk Itaro. According to the computations of Prof, ilamy, tho black race embraces uhout one-tenth of tho living members of the tollman species, or 160,000,000 Individuals. Jm IPW S' AXT X r ;r TOLD OP SUVEN QUEEN3. flniTfiil Arm of cwimI European t.nillii of Itiuih. One dry the queen of Scrvla, whllo staying at Biarritz, mlbsed a valuable portion of her Jewels. A few days lat er an advertisement appeared In the local papers to tho effect that if the Jewelry were returned to the quceu she would piesent It to tho poor of Biarritz, says Talk. Two days after she received her lost or stolen dia monds by post on whk h was sciawled In printed ehnractois; "I shall be curious to see If a queen can keep her word." The queen did keep her word, and pre sented the restored trinkets to the sis ters of charity, who Immediately oi ganlzod a lottery, which was eageily subscilbed to by the vlsltois and resi dents of Biarritz, and the ti ensure wus won by a poor little seaniBlress. Queen Anielle of Portugal, who Is eotuodod the mo.it beautiful and the best dicss eil royal personage In all Europe. while driving in the environs of Lisbon it cently, heard cries for assistance com ing from a neighboring wood. She went to sec ulmt was the matter and found that a wood cutler had been In jured by a branch of a failing tice. Queen Anielle, who has studied medi cine, attended to the man's Injury, and then, with her companion, assisted him to reach his cabin. Later on the queen cnlied to see how her patient was. "Then jou are a doctor, niadatne. slmo you know how to take care of meV" asked the wood cutter, who did not know his benefactress. "Yes, my good man," was the reply. "I am sorry for that." continued the wood cutter, 'be cause 1 will never be able to pay all I owe nu.' The qnecu of tbe Belgians Is credited with many unconventional exporlmues. It I Mild tbat while parsing the summer at Spa she was glcii to taking long iidc in a pony art, accnmpaniid by Princess Clemen tine. On one of these exclusions they stopped at a farm bouse to buy a glass or milk. Nobody but an old paralyzed woman was in the house, but she ic piled Hint no milk was left in the Jugs, and that alio was unable to go to milk the cow. Never mind," said the queen, "If you will allow me, I will go to the pasture. .Inst tell me where the jugs are." A little later her majesty re turned with a half llllcil Jug ami the old farmer's wife was served by tho princess, who. it appears, gieat'ly en joyed the adventure. Tho queen of Italy Is enthusiastically following the fad for the collection of old boots and shoes of celebrated persons. She pos sesses the shoes of Marie Antoinette. of .Mary Stuart, the Empress .Josephine, Queen Anno and the Empress Cather ine of Russia. Tho Empress Elizabeth of Austria is an accomplished horse woman, and the boverelgu of a court whose aristocratic prejudices are of tho stiongest kind. She delights In her fame as a pastry cook, and Imr daugh ter, the Archduchess Valerie, is proud of her accomplishment in the methods of ancient and modern cuisine. The queen of Greece Is at the head of an association of women whose object is the moral regeneration or criminals. They frequently visit the Inmate3 of tho prisons in Athens, giving them 10 llglous Instruction and a sympathetic attention to their woes. WAS ONCE A FARM HAND. William .1. Calhoun, Interstate com merce commissioner, was one of tho early MoKlnley men In Illinois, and displayed admirable ability In his lead ership of the McKinley forces in his state. Mr. Calhoun was not a self seeker and, although In a position to accept higher political honors than that accorded hjm In his present appoint ment, he steadfastly refused. Mr. Cal houn Is about CO years of age and Is a native of Pittsburg. Early In life he was left to shift for himself and us a lad ho camo Into contact with the Mc Kinley family, nnd especially with tho president, when the latter himself was a rugged youth. At that time Mr. Calhoun was a farm hand In Ohio, loiter In life, when tho president re turned from the wars, Mr. Calhoun knew him Intimately as n young law WILLIAM J. CALHOUN. ycr und the two became friends. Then tho currents of their lives diverged and Calhoun went to Illinois, where ho lias earned a worthy reputation as a lawyer and n statesmnn. A ire;t feat. It would bo u groat feat for Journal ism If some of tho great New York pa pers would undertako tho management of the proposed war for which they aro equipping correspondents. Moreover, It would be quite an unprecedented feat and the enterprising pupor which would undertake It would have tho ex clusive right to tho news and ought to sell accordingly, Thoro would then bo also a splendid chnnco of keeping tho newest journalism "at sea," whero It has been for soveral weeks, nnd n potBlblllty of dumping It In for good,- Provldenco Visitor. rrofemtlon! Tropin of Iluly. There aro 233,000 peraous In tho trained professions In Italy. EDMrXDTATTMRRAMi. FAMOUS HORSEMAN AND TURF PATRON IS NO MORE. for Ni-ai-l) forty Vo.ir lie Had Iteen the I lf.nl of llio tlreat IIui-i-.mi tion firm fouuili'il l "(Mil T,tl" In tlio rvr noil. CA BLE dispatch a li u o u n ces t he death of Edmund Tattersall. head of the great Loudon h o I'M1 auctioneer ing llrm of Tatter sails. Owing to th In llrinltlcs of age. Edmund Tuttcrsnll Iiml mil boon no- &4&r&L rf 41 11 MA MfZXt jy r- -"7 1 I m the ill the business for the last two years, during which period It was un der the management of Granville Tat teisall, but to the end he wan the guiding spirit which ill tated the pol icy of the llrin .and lils was the per Minallty that foimed the connecting link between the past and the present. The history of Tattorealls and tbe English .Jockey dub dates from almost the same year the former being rounded In 1 700 and the latter In 170S --and In many ways they hao repre sented the pi ngi ess and giowlh of the English turf. The llrm, whose name and credit are almost as famous as that of tho Rothschilds, owes the foundation of Us foi tunes to the great turf and stud career of one of Eng land's most fatuous hoiscs. Highflyer, the property of Richard Tattersall, "Old Tat." whose methods of business and traditional honesty and courtesy have been continued to the prer.eul day. "Old Tat" was the rounder of the llrm. Excepting only didders and Eclipse, Highflyer was the most cele brated horse up to that date on the rjOOOOOOOf r? O o o 0 o o o V '00000 EDMUND English turf. Though in training only two years ho won .")0,000 In stakes, a large sum for that period, and was beaten only once. Inscribed upon u tablet which marks his last resting place Is this epitaph: "Hem llcth tho perfect and beautiful symmetry of tho much lamented Highflyer, by whom and his wonderful offspring tho cele brated Richard Tattersall acquired a noble fortune, but was not iislinined to acknowledge It." At Hyde Park Cor ner In 170G Richard Tattersall estab lished "Tatterealls," nd there the business wns conducted until istj.", when It wns moved to tho present quarters near Albert Oate, Hyde Inrk. Ho soon secured a complete monopoly 111 tlirt IniHlnnsM nnil iirnaimtAfl .....I i ... . .: ..."..,. ...... men no ucenmo pare proprietor of the London Morning Post. Later, on nc- jount of disagreement, he established he Morning Herald as n rival, but it was not a financial success. After serv ing a term of throe months' Imprison ment on conviction of libeling the luko of Richmond Mr. Tattersall ihaueed the politics as well ns tho not. Icy of his paper, upholding tho prlnco of Wales, Mrs. Fltz-Horhort and Fox, vho later became his Intimate friends. Richard Tnttcrsull lived to a rlno Did age, dispensing hospitality with a generous hand at Highflyer hall, find inducting his great business In I-rin- Ion and at Newmnrket, Tho business was continued by his ion Edward until tho latter's death, in 1810, when Richard, of the next gen 'ration, succeeded. Upon tho death of Rlchnrd, In 1859, tho succession fell to Richard und Edmund Tnttcrsall, tho .alter of whom has Just died. In this country It is dlfueult to real x.i the enormous Influence nnd power jf a firm like Tattersnlls. it has at jnco a completo monopoly of tho good nill nnd esteem of tho country. Tho Jrtu conducts all tho thoroughbred tales, besides many others. To the public at large, especially In this coun try, Tattersalls Is best known as tbe Fettling place each Monday for all bets made by members of the .Jockey club, being the fliul tribunal for ad judication of all betting disputes con nected v. Hit racing. Thus Tattersalls today lepresents to the sporting world of England a combined Bank of Eug hind and a supreme court. ABUSE OF FAITHFUL DOGS. Mrtlr DrltcM In Alntii lio slmw Ni .Vlriey. The Alaskan dog is almost human In intelligence. He weighs about 100 pounds. Heavily laden, he will travel sixty miles a day. hays the St. Paul Dispatch. With twent dogs In a team no two of Miein are in a straight Hue fioiu the driver. When unhitched for the uli;lit they pit? upon the first blan ket that Is thrown upon the snow, and theie they stay. When you crawl Into your sleeping bag and pull a robe over It the dog will K,.t under the lobe. I'n less you ate careful he will be inside of the b.ig in die morning. The anl inal's eiiiluiance Is phenomenal and they mo capable of strong direction. The a ie gieat lighters. A tra-ler who icduitly returned from Alaska says of tho treatment accorded these faithful animals- "The whip that Is used on thoni is the oruolest tiling of Its kind that t known to man. Thirty root in length ami two inches thick near the sboit handle. It has a lush ton feet long that cuts like a knife. The Russian knout Isn't to bo compared to It. When a dog In struck you hear a sharp yelp and then our sleigh whirls past a bit of fur or possibly a piece of bloody skin l inK on the snow." OLD-TIME LEGISLATOR. The liiMirlos of travel enjoyed by every on today were an Iridescent dream In the eaily MOs, and no one suffered more from the Inconveniences of travel than preachers, doctois and TATTERSALL. legislators, whose several vocations forced them to take frequent Journeys. Before the hnlcyon days of railroads - -and passes It was a task of some magnitude to attend legislative ses sions from remote districts. Just how our early lawmakers In tho west pic pared themselves for u Journey to the seat of legislative action Is shown in tho accompanying picture, which is n faithful reproduction from uu old daguerreotype. The portrait represents Aspah Whit- IH3FORE THE DAYS OF RAlLr ROADS, tlesey of tho Wisconsin state loglsla. ture, In tho gnrb ho woro while jour neylng from his home, about thlrtj miles from Milwaukee to'tho state cap Itiil. Ituola'x IiutciihIiii; l'opiilutlini, At the present into of Increase the population of the Rusnlun emplro will, In twenty years, teach 17'i,00(),000; fig ures which explain tho confidence with which Russians look forward to the fu. ture ' vim, NUJtSEIlYQFTJIKSEA DISCOVERY OF THE WINTER HADITAT OF MARINE FISHES. Off North Carolina Sliorm Clulnm Hint Flh Do Not SI I r a to to IIMant Ite glim, but .Merely Heck tlriaUr unit Calmer Deptha. The most Important discovery In :onst Ashing so far has been made by tho Ilsbernien offshore at Beaufort, N. L, and there is reason to believe that there will be far-reaching refliiltn ob tained In the future through Improved methods of deep tea seining, says the 3t. Louis Globc-Deinociat. In the two winter months of .laui'iir nnd Febru ary nil of our littoral species of llsh disappear almost entirely from the waters off our coast and llsherincn nre compelled to fold up their seines ami wait until spring for the reappearance of their favorite game. Scientists have concluded that the Ashes go to mine unknown region or depth of the ocean to breed during these two cold months, and upon their return in the sptlng they aro accom panied by Innumerable hosts of young fry. The discovery offshore heio is nothing less than that of a winter nur sery of our littoral species of llt-h. From six to eight fathoms below tho surface of the water the ArIi have been fc.iind to be literally swarming In countless numbers, and books and seines let down to that depth Invariab ly bring up i Itii hauls. The discovery is important in modifying our prevail ing methods of catching marketable food llsh and In cheapening the supply In winter and In furnishing the needy workers with employment at an oil' sea son. Naturalists have hcl!ccd for somo time that most of our sea food Ashes migrated to warmer climates In winter, as our birds do, and returned in the spring, but now It seems that they merely swim offshore some dis tance and drop down Into deep cor rugations and i cumin happy and con tented until spring returns. The llsh aro found off Beaufort and Morehead City In deep holes or con ligations. A great variety of food Ash is found In this winter nursery, such as the red drum, gray 1 1 out or weakllsh, spotted sea trout, bluellsb, iroukers and itinuy others. Last winter the Ashermeii, with deep sea Hues, managed to make big hauls over these winter pasture Acids. They let down lines from Ave to ton fathoms and brought up big game. But this was soon considered too slow work, and special deep-sea nets were manufactured for the pur pose. These nets woro heavily weight ed and when sunk to the proper depth they brought up eiioimoiis hauls of Ash. This winter tho Ashing has been bet ter thnn ever. Improvements have been mnde upon the nets and the ilsber nien have been scoring wonderful stic ceshcs In tho first Ave days of Fob niary 102,000 pounds of trout and 125, 000 croukcrs worn caught In this man ner about two and one-half miles off shore from Fort Macon, near tho sea buoy, where the deplh averages six fathomn. Tho Ashing has been so good in places that tho men hno made as high as $70 each in one day. Men all along shoio out of employment are flocking to the place to take part In the Ashing. A man provided with a decp sea lino and hooks, who Is willing to endure the hardships, can make a good living In this way. But It la no easy woik to operate a Hue six to eight fathoms In length, with several pounds of lead and a live-pound llsh on tho other end. Some of tho line fishermen come In at night witli a boatload of Ash, but their hands are so cut nnd mutilated tbat they are unfit for work the next day. Thick buckskin gloves on the hands are necessary for the proper protection of the skin. A new Eort of seine has been used here this winter for the first time. It Is designed Just for thl3 deep-water fishing. It closes up In tho shnpe of a long, nar row eolpot, with n heavy weight at the lower end. It dangles over the side of the Ashing smack by several ropes, which aro manipulated either by tho men or a tackle. When tho lead l caches the bottom the selno is allowed to rest there for somo time while tho men spread It open. This Is done by means of ropes. Four rowboats leave tho smack and each one pulls u rope attached to it comer of tho seine. Thus it is spread out on tho bottom of the F.ea directly under the Hocks of sea Ash. Then It is gradually hauled up. A deep pocket In the bottom of tho selno is quickly Ailed with so many Ash that they threaten to break through tho meshes by their very weight. In each haul fishermen bring up at least fiQO pounds of Ash. Tho numbers of the Ash seem Inexhaustible. When ono hiding place is pretty well cleaned out the Ashermen hunt around for nn other. The bottom of the sea off the const hero Is undulating, forming deep hollows or holes, In which the sea fish hide. They uro nover found on the ridges of tho bottom, but always In tho hollows. Consequently tho fisher men carry sounding lends wltTi them In search of a now hiding place or winter nursery. When tho wnter Is six to eight fathoms deep they drop the net nnd leave It there for a short tlmo before hnullng It up. If they strlko it rich they haul It up and let It down un til their boat Is loaded. A l'rolltiihlo limlnriii. Smith Thcro goes a young man who Is but 25 years of age, yet he has suc ceeded In accumulating $ 100,000 in cash ,-nd real estate, all mado by his own pluck and perseverance. Brown In deed! What business Is ho engaged In? Smith Thnt of son-in-law to old Hullyon, the banker. DANCES DEMORALIZE SCHOOLS Coloraito Conimnnlly AulUtcri Over 1'eenllar Condition. Superintendent of Public, Instruction Grace Espy Patton has received a let ter from an Indignant citizen of Mcok er. In which complaint Is made that the order and decorum of tho school Is seriously threatened because the school board permits tho desks to bo torn up and the school used for a danc ing academy, says tho Denver Times. After describing tho condition the school was In, tho writer Bays: "This wns nil tho result of using the school house for u public darning hall. Know ing that nn otderly school could not bo kept in this sort of building, I ask ed permission to arrange and fasten the desks, This was given, and I la bored for days (Saturdays) to get thin accomplished and now have a very tidy room. The board of directors then de cided, so I was Informed, that tho school building should not be used for any purpose, except such as would not require the lenioval or disturbance of the furniture. But now some up start takes u notion that they must have nnotlier dance In tho sehoolhoiise. and. In spite of my earnest protest to the board, seems to have secured their consent. Tbe county superintendent nor the board of directors have provid ed me with a copy of tho school InwB of Colorado, hence I am unnblo to Judge whether It Is lawful or not to uso u public building for dancing purposes; but It seems to mo that even If It la not contrary to tho letter of the law, It certainly niiibt bo to tho spirit of the law. You well know that any public gathering in a district, especially any thing like a dance, Is bound to draw olt the minds and attention of many pu pils from their school work, thus de moralizing and antagonizing tho work of the school. It Is n common occur rence hero for little girls of 12 to 14 years of age to go to dances and danco I bo whole night. You can well under stand the damnable Influence upon ten der young girls and boys of such do ings. I think, too, that when such n thing as a dance Is held right In tho sehoolhoiise tbe evil influence Is doub ly great. You will oblige mo greatly by giving jour decision or tho law an to tho lawfulness or unlawfulness of using public buildings In this stnte for dancing. I do not know whether the desks will be torn from the floor or not for the danco tonight, but, It such is done, can the teacher bo compelled by law to teach again before tho school building Is restored to tho samo order ly condition as that In which I left It? II must be remembered, In considering this question, Hint a public dance, as conducted here, Is a public evil. There has never been a dance held thoro but that empty liquor bottles have been found on the premises or right In tho pupils' desks. Please oblige mo by a prompt reply to my questions." Tho llanleitt Metal. The hardest metal is titanium. Tills metal was flrst recognized by Mr. Grc gor In 1701, but Its properties were not satisfactorily determined until 1S22, when Dr. Wollaston examined It and described it as It occurred In Its per fect metallic and crystallized state, In tbe slag or an Iron furnaeo nt Merthyi Tydlll in South Wales. Tho rorm or the crystals Is the cube, their color re sembles that of bright copper, they nro suflliiently hard to scratch rock crystal and their speclllc gravity Is C.3. Ac cording to M. Diiiuas, the order of met als with reference to hardness Is as fol lows: "Chromium, rhodium, which cannot bo scratched with glass; nickel, cobalt, Iron, nntlmony, zinc, scratched by glass; palladium, platinum, copper, gold, silver, tellurium, bismuth, cad mium, tin, scratched by carbonnto of lime; lead, scratched by the nail; nnd potassium und Eodlum, which aro ay soft as wax." lllrilH In f.rry Sea. There is no part of tho ocean tha.t Is without birds. Tho seaman plows the waters with his craft; ono boundless expanso of sky and water meets his glance, no ship, no boat Is to be seen, but there sweeps before him that mighty flyer the wnndorlng nlbatross, which knows neither distance nor soli tude, regardless nllke of storm or calm. So It Is with those oilier ocean wan derers, the stormy petrels. I.lko the nl batross,. they linvo no distinct circle of distribution. They wander over nil the sens, nnd cover such enormous dis tances in n day'H flight that no distinct limits can bo ohslgncd to their habita tions. They are at home, and bravo the storm In every latitude nnd In ov cry sea. A Xoifl Hat-Trap. The Sclcntillc American describes nu Invention which It calls "a humana rat trap." The Inventor assorts that not only are ordinary traps cruel, but they tend to dofeat their own purpose, because they reach rnts nnd mice to b wary. Tho now device Is a wldo-open trap, which is so arranged that a rat entering It Is clasped around the body with n rubber band, which carries bells and Is covered with tufts coated with phosphorescent paint. The trap dqes not Imprison tho rat, but simply turnis It Into a scarecrow. TIjIb, tho Inventor thinks, would bo tho most effectual method of ridding a hoiiEC of such pests, Klrctro MuKiiet ut Work. Electric magnets capable of picking up a load not exceeding live tons art used by an Illinois steel company to transfer steel beams or plates from on part of the shop to another, 4 ,y -i i v W 111 M (tl irn, - 'vrjNnPfc y