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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1899)
M W it 1 TRUTH ABOUT PATAGONIA. Professor Hatcher, Finds Lots of Prof. Hatcher, who hao been hunt'ng lasslls down nt the earth's tip end, Is trick again In his homo In Princeton, N. J., much pleased with the rosulta of this, his third expedition to Pata gonia. He has dug out seven ton3 of the bones of anlma'.s, birds and flsnc3 Uiat frisked about on Inml, In the air or In the sea, and ate each other eagor ly G.OOO.ono years before Cod made Eve out of Adam's rib. Living, as they did, before the time of Adam, theso birds and beasts and fishes were nameless. Namcles3, but blameless, for It Is not tho fault of theso ancient creatures that they knew not the first man; It Is their misfor tune. The scientist has tried to mako tip for what Adam did not do, but ho has not done well. Adam would have done better by them than has tho man of lore, who Invariably labeled them with longest Greek and Latin names It Is pwslblo to Induce n printer to set up In type. They were born toj soon, and that Is tho whole story millions of years too soon. One hardly realizes how overcarly they appeared on earth becauso a million years convoys an In definite Idea to tho mind. It Is too far beyond any possible personal experi ence. Mark off a mile on a straight road and then nt one end of this mile mark off five-eighths of an Inch that will represent one year. Prof. Hatcher says that the Patago nlan rock formations show an antiqui ty ho hardly dares to estimate. Tho lowest stratum ho dug out fossils from extends far out beneath tho sea. He worked on It at low tldo, and tho highest Is somo G,000 foot above sea level. Washings from tho Cordilleras, the southern end of tho Andes, formod these rocks. In nil strata they aro of tho same suhUnnce the stuff tho gla ciers, rains and rivers brought down to tho sea. This deposit from the mountains began In tho early day when all there was of Patagonia was a string of mountains sticking up their heads abovo tho water and extending far toward the south pole, and It has continued ever since, as tho land has risen and sunk, tho successive ages making enormoua steppes. Three of these stoppes are above water now and show distinctly In sections In tho can yons the rivers have cut down through them. V li I I ' " ". - "V ''SV5i!".' ". W P .,;. '''ik-V'V':'X-i --T:'. -rtJ' ,-SS "w vw iitiix' ". "v-w . hluw. i ir'initvmt' 5? WlWvVS "0:5 .. "Wk.VVsVW.Hlttlif Looking for Fossils, Other Things. Tho fourth steppo was a plain reach ing as far tw tho Fnlklands, which were n part of the mainland once. Now this plain has sagged until at one point It Is 160 fathoms below the ocean's sur face. Somo thrco miles of It arc acces sible, howovcr, nt low tldo along the border beneath tho cliff that forms tho greater part of tho Atlantic coast of Patagonia. Tho tldo runs out far and comes In fast, piling breaker upon breaker with terrific violence. Prof. Hatcher had to run for It often, and had several escapes that a man with any nerves nt all would havo called thrilling. In tho first placo tho bottom that tho tldo leaves bare Is well nigh covered with broken fragments from tho cliff above. These aro of nil sizes, from a fow pounds to several tons In weight, but, heavy as they arc, tho Incoming tide rolls them over In Its tumultuous ad vance. Tho strongest boat would go to pieces there In a few minutes. On l " ; ANOTHER STRATA FORMATION. xr-$ .fe-.-- nn . W -- IIH WONDERFUL STRATA IN PATAGONIAN LANDS. f.uch a bottom travel Is dlfllcult, and one must havo n good start to got to the cllrt ahead of the tide. As there are two high tides a day there Is not much time to work between them, es pecially If ono goes out near tho low water limit, as Prof. Hatcher did. Tho professor says that sprinting over n couple of miles of bowldors with a fifty foot wall of boiling Mirf behind one Is fully as exhilarating m hurdlo racing. Onco when ho had climbed to a place of safety ho looked down nt tho placo where ho had been working a few moments before nnd saw tho waters frolicking with a whale. They threw him up as vigorously as ono of IiIb ancestors might havo Jonah. When tho tldo receded tho professor went down nnd paced oft the cetaceous mammal, which was over thirty feet long. On shoro Prof. Hatcher had a com paratively easy time. On a former journey ho had been In bed with in flammatory rheumatism for fifty-seven days, flat on his back, helpless, nnd miles from anywhere. Ho recovered, thanks to his constitution and tho care of a young companion, but he sleeps off tho ground now when prospecting nnd Is more careful about exposing himself. "I am extremely well pleased w'th our good fortune," ho s.ld, at his Princeton homo tho other tiny. "Wo got complete series of tome kinds of animals showing the processes and steps of their development In past ago up to this time; wo discovered now lakes, rivers, canyons and mountains, and settled that somo Inked have out lets (lowing Into the Pacific Instead of Into the Atlantic, ns all tho maps of Patagonia Indicate today. Although we did not settle nil tho disputed points wo had in mind when we set out wc return with as good n Mini total of Information as we could ho pa f,or. Wo havo tons of specimens and hundreds of photographs. Tho photographs I shall have ready for exhibition soon, but the fossils must wait. Wc have not yet dug out of their matrices all the specimens of our former expedi tions. Dr. Srott Is busy with them now. Wo shnll have all wo can do without chisels nnd catalogues for tho next three years. What Other Thought. Lewis Carroll, author of "Allco In Wonderland," told with keen relish of a rebuff given him by n llttlo girl who knew him only as u learned mathema tician. "Havo you ever read 'Through a Looklng-Glass?'" he asked her, ex pecting nn outburst of delight. "Oh, dear, yes!" she replied.. "It Is even more stupid than 'Alice In Wondcr Innd!' Don't you think so?" Words worth could not conceal his chagrin when ho henrd that his neighbors, tho farmers, described him ns "a daft, Idlo body, who went moaning nbout tho hills nnd had not wit enough to ratso n field of oats." Tho following nnccdoto of Henry Clay wns told by ono of his personal friends: Wnilo making tho Journey to Washington on the National road, JiiEt after his nomination ns enn dldntc for the presidency, he wns trav eling ono stormy night, wrapped up In a huge cloak, on tho back sent of tho stage coach, when two passengers en tered. They wore Kcntucklnns, like himself. He fell nslccp, and when ho awoko found them discussing his chances In tho coming campaign. "WJiat did Harry Clay go Into politics for?" said one. "Ho had n good bit of land; he had a keen eye for stock. If ho had stuck to stock-raising he'd have been worth his fifty thousand. Uut now ho doesn't own n dollar." "And," tho great Kcntucklnn used to ndd, "tho worst of It was, every word of It was truo!" It was characteristic of tho man that nt tho next stopping-place ho hurried away and took another coach, lest his critics should recognlzo him nnd bo mortified at their unintentional rude ness. "Tulkoil Down To." To ono who wIsIicb to help tho un fortunate, a knowlcdgo of human na turo Is as necesanry as tho good will. Well meaning but tnctless persons of ten underato tho Intelligence of thoso whom thoy seok to help, and allow their Intercourse to bo marred by nn atmosphere, of patronago nnd condo censlon. An Inmato of a Now York tenement houso recently said to a woman whoso llfo has been dovotod to good deeds: "I never had a chanco to learn much, but I don't llko to bo treated as If I hadn't any understand ing. I know good language from poor, nnd I'd rather hear words that sound educated, oven If I don't exactly know whnt they mean, than to bo talked down to as If I woro a baby." A Million Dollnr for Tito Inlnmli. An American syndicate la reported to havo recently paid a million dollars for two small Islands, La Cruza nnd La Ramon, off the shores of Cuba, They aro said to bo rich In Iron, and hero comes In the syndicate's fipo!al rainbow they aro declared to bo his torically and unquestionably tho Is lands to which tho buccancors who sacked Panama carried tho cnptlvo women and nil tho treasures looted from that rich town. Tho syndicate finds basin for tho hope that this plrato hoard may still remain, and may bo discovered, (Inn (Juration Too ."Wiiiif. From tho HoRton Evening Tran script: Toinownll-It'a n wlso man who knows when ho Is well-off. Pago Yes? Tomewcll Jnckard told mo that everybody wns talking nbout my new book. Page And what then? Tome well I was foolish enough to ask what they said. A iNEWSJ'APEli ST(M PUDLISHBD UY A WOMAN IN YUKON REQION. I'rlntrd mi n Tjpn filer Mnlir I '.a AiH'iirunr Monthly, SrIU fur a Dollar Copy uml It In (Irtitt DtMllllllll, To n San Francisco woman belongs tho distinction of being the only femalo editor nnd proprlotor of n newspaper throughout tho length and breadth of tho great Yukon region that land of snow and Ice, of hardy pioneer and of gold, cays tho San Francisco Examiner. Hut Clnia IS. Wright. Just pust 30 years of age, bears her distinction modestly. "It's Just a matter of business," sho says, "l find It pays, now that I havo passed tho experimental stage with my publication, and money Is whnt I am nftor." And nuch n unique publica tion ns tho Rampart City Whirlpool 1st Hh motto, "Wo ain't so warm!" gives an Indication of tho paper nnd Its pub lisher. Established In Jnnunry of the present year, as a twclvc-pago monthly publication, Its advertising business has Increased to such proportions that the energetic publisher had to Just dou ble tho number of pages, while tho cir culation far exceeds tho total popula tion of tho placo of Its publication, men, women nnd children a circula tion that no other Journal In tho world can boast of. And this, with tho pa per selling nt fl a copy no reduction for term subscriptions and tho over worked publisher unable to supply tho demand at that. Did you ever stop to consider tho labor Involved In getting out nn ordinary nowspnpor, with ltd almost humnn typesetting mnchlnes.lts corps of nows-gathrrers and editors, nnd Its lightning presses that turn off ninny thousand copies In nn hour? If you havo, mako another pause nnd glvo thought to the labor devolving on this undaunted California woman, with not a soul to atfllst her but her daughter. There Is not n single typo In Rampart City; n printer's "stick" would bo n curiosity, whllo there Is not even n elder press, much Iosh a printing prrHS nnywhero nearer than Dawson, somo hundred miles away. A plain ordinary typewriter makes tho Whirlpool, with tho manipulation of Mrs. Wright and her dnughtor Dorto. In tho old days In Snn Francisco Clnra Wright supported herself and llttlo Doris after tho death of hor husband, ten years ago, by sten ographic work, and when sho went to Alaska In Juno of Inst year sho took along tho mnchluo that hnd long been tho means of her livelihood here. That mnchlno is now proving a satisfactory substitute for pressca. Advertisements and reading mntter, editorials and headlines nre nil tho same, capital let ters doing service for all dlsplny typo, whllo small ndB and reading mnttor go In tho lower caso letters. Ilelng business manager, advertising solicitor, circulation clork, mnnaglng editor, city editor, local staff.composltor nnd press woman combined, It Is no wonder that tho Rampart Whirlpool Is not published moro frequently than onco n month. A weekly publication under such cir cumstances would bo almost nn impos sibility; n dally Issue would mean men tal and physical collapso. Not In tho least elated over hor multiplicity of titles, not crushed by their weight, Mrs. Wright sets nbout her dally tasks with dauntless courago and rejoices aver tho fact that with tho growing business tho days havo lengthened proportionately, for every advertisement, every news Item nnd each new subscriber means Just so much moro fingering of tho typewriter. When tho rush to the Klondlko sot In sho determined to go to tho now EI Dorado. It wna not until Juno, 1808, however, that sho wns ablo to mako tho start, and then ngnltut tho ndvico of her friends, nnd unac companied savo by her ten-year-old (laughter, who had been left fatherless almost from the tlmo of her birth, Mrs. Wright started for Dawson by way of St. Michael. Arriving tltcro sho en countered so many people returning to tho states, with most wonderful tales of tho Klondike region that sho deter mined to cast her lot on tho American side of tho boundary line. According ly she went to Rampart City, tho cen ter of tho vast gold dlscovorlos on tho Mlnnok nnd IU tributaries. No thought of starting a newspaper entered tho lady's head nt first. Sho had gono to that country for gold, and tho pro clous metal lay burled deep In tho ground. Sho mado n pcrsonnl Inspec tion of tho different creeks nnd gulches In tho district nnd located several claims, while' oho acquired an Interest In soveral others that had been located. After tho streams frozo up and dcop snow covered tho ground, Mrs. Wrlghl made frequent long trips to tho claims, enduring perils nnd hardships that many strong men shrank from. , Mrs. Wright conceived tho Idea of Blurting a newspaper upon her return ftom ono of theso trips, when tho In tensely cold, dreary, sunless days af forded llttlo opportunity for n woman of hor energetic temperament to "do something." So In Jnnunry of tho present year tho Rampart Whirlpool fcegan Us career under circumstances as unfavorable as thoso usually attend ing the cstnbllflhhmcnt of rural publi cations. Hut It has prospered oven be yond tho hopes of Us projector nnd each month since then It has mado Its nppearanco regularly. Tho flrat num ber wns a wonder from n Journalistic standpoint. Not a sheet of whlto pa per or ovon tho finer quality of brown ould ho obtained nt uny price thero was none In nil that vast, desolata re gionand oven tho coarser grndes of wrapping paper woro held nt n pre mium. Finally, after ransacking ev en y business placo In town Mn, Wright found a quantity of reddish brown pa per,almost as thick and heavy ns puste board.nnd with thLi and hor typowrltor cot out the flr3t paper published on tho American sldo of tho Yukon. It wns sixteen pages, 8 by 12 IiicIiob, tiojnrt nnd neatly stitched by tho publisher on hor sowing mnchlno, nnd ovory copy wns sold as roon ns It wns bound, min ers standing In lino In front of tho Whirlpool office waiting their turn for tho privilege of paying (1 n copy for tho little shoot. Since thou noma of tho dinicultlcs that bcot Its path nt tho stnrt have been overcome notably, tho trouble to secure pnpar-nnd now tho Whirlpool Is printed on lino manlln paper. That the editor Is possessod of n Inrgo bump of humor Is shown In the columns of tho Whirlpool, for ovon tho ordinary local happenings am re corded with n frontier broozlncss that Is qtilto refreshing. Mrs. Wright has n comfortable cabin, which Ih nlno tho publication ofllco of the Whirlpool, nnd sho declares that sho will not return to Snn Francisco until sho "innkns hor pile," which sho confidently expects to do from her mines nnd from tho qucor llttlo shcct.whlch wns established moro to glvo employment to busy hnndo nnd brain than In tho hnpo of profit, but which Is nlrcndy earning n hnndsomo Incomo, thnt will bo applied to devel oping her mines. EYES ARE TAXED IN VACATION Muiiy IVrt tho llrfoti or Tliolr Outing In Impaired VUlmi. It Is not gcnorally known, but Is nn unquestioned fact, that tho vacation season Is tho worst In tho yonr for tho visual organs of many people. Thoro nro several reasons for this. Tho prin cipal of theso woro referred to by n loading specialist tho other day, "Per sons going nwny for their summer's rest or coming back to work," ho said, "almost Invariably use their eyes while on tho train. If thoy do not road, thoy watch tho scenery. You seldom sco a person reclining comfortnbly oven on n 'high bnck' paying no nttontlon cither to n book or the fence posts Just outside tho window. Tho worst of It Is that tho bonks thnt nro sold on tho trains arc usually in tho poorest of print. Tho paper Is chonp and thin nnd of a dull color drnb or gray rather than whlto. Tho typo docs not show up nearly as distinctly as It should. When traveling by train nnil rending you try to hold tho book or paper steady, but tho typa Jiggles Ir- regularly bnck and forth ns tho result of tho motion of tho car nnd tho slink! ness of your hnntl. Your eyes also do n great deal of dancing, not only In pursuit of tho bobbing letters, but In addition because you aro also shaken about moro or Icbb by tho motion of tho trnln. Imnglno tho effect on tho muscles of tho cyol First, mind you, tho cyo Itsolf has an unsteady root; second, It Is trying to fnsten Itsolf on thnt which Is moro unsteady stilt. I wonder moro people nro not bothorcd with dcfcctlvo sight. Uut reading In not tho only 111. Fix your oyo on things closo to .tho car on fiowerB, fenco posts, culverts, treca nnd the effect la as bad as would bo brought on by read ing. Why will peoplo porslst in In juring thcmsolves7 You don't have to havo tho toothncha long boforo learn ing Its cnusQ and attempting. n euro, but peoplo go on ruining their cyos right along for tho sako clthor of kill ing or economizing a trlflo of time. A headache Is tho first warning, hut that becomes common after a whllo and Is not heeded nny moro than n hendncho that follows unwleo eating. Thoro Is closer connection with tho stomach on tho ono fildo nnd n hcadacho on tho other than mo3t pooplo Imnglno, but pcrhnps tho public somo day will bo willing to watch out for its cyea as well ns with them, Just ns It is Do ing taught to tako caro of its teeth." Tho Thumb Murk Tent. It seems an nstonlshlng thing thnt tho natural signature, tho Impression of tho thumb or flngcr-tlp, Is not used to greater extent than It Is for purposes of Identification, If tho thumb bo lightly pressed upon a surface smeared with printing Ink, und then pressed upon clean paper, an Impression Is ob tained which In distinctive for tho par ticular Individual who owns tho mem ber. No two thumbs or fingers nro alike In tho arrangement of their mul titudinous lines, nnd n seal which can not readily bo mislaid or lost. Tho French police use this test to nssuro themselves of tho Identity of n pris oner; but surely tho system could bo usefully extended, A newspaper cor respondent who recently pleaded for such nn extension of tho thumb-mark test stated that onco wncn abroad ho was In great straits for money, al though ho hold cheques for a consldcrn bio amount, simply because ho could not provo his Identity. If tho local banker hnd only had an Impression of his flngcr-tlp, ns well ns authority to pay, nil difficulty would at onco havo vanished. Tim Altornntlve. Tho responsibility of inking human llfo undor nny circumstances Is tre mendous. Justlllablo as It may bo to kill In self-defence, wo cannot but ndmlro tho wonderful Bolf-control of un Armenian who preferred to dlo rather than live with blood upon hla handn. It wns during tho horrlblo massacres In Armonla. A natlvo, saya tho Rov. Qeorgo II. Hopworth was em ployed In ono at tho railway stations. Ho whs standing on tho platform when the mob npproachod. A Turk who know tho man to bo n fallitful servant, hand od him u pistol, saying: "It lo an put rago, tnko this und defend yourself, It is good for six of tho rascals." Tho Armoulun took tho weapon, hesitated for n moment, then handed It back with n groan. "I cnn"t do It," ho said. "I had rather dlo than commit mur der." In less than ten mlnutos ho was n bruised nnd blcodlng corpse, and tbo flcnda hud darted on tho track of an othor victim, j r- r? --j-1 '---