The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, June 29, 1906, Image 8
rjr . n T 153' -1 .. ajcrt'w-.'i-..i.i5ji. "X.1 . yr "i"7ZX7.3CE'Tr-K?- ii l!1' It! IP h i h rfrt','sr CORRESPONDENCE Interesting Items Gathered by Our County R-cporters HIGHLAND, KAN. Harvey Morrill of Dutch Flat was In Highland Tuesday. Ruby Boyco has opened up n tonso rinl parlor in North Branch. Fred and Clara Liggett wore doing business in Rod Cloud Suturday. A number of men from NorthBruuoh will open up 11 huge department storo in the near future. Miss Blanche McCartney of Gar field spent 11 few days this week with her sister, Mrs. Ida Young, before leaving for Omaha Friday to take up her duties as a professional nurse. Rninoy Boycc, who had the internal part of his anatomy ralsod a short timo ogo with little giant baking pow der, had the misfortune to run a snag in his oar and it is feared his drum is punctured. If tho big Injun would open up his heart and offer some of those two bit checks, which ho seems to be so flush with to his needy corrrspondent-. in place of bestowing his wompum on his brother editor, who is already burden ed with more things than he can curry, tho hereafter would look much brighter for tho correspondent, at least. To bo sure two bits isn't much, but from little there is but little ex pected. See! BLADEN C. H. Keed returned to Boise City, Idaho, last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Reed spent Sunday at the home of II. B. Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Letner visited ut tho home of Mr. Snyder last Sun day. Mrs. Wheeler of Chicago is ho. ) vis iting at the home of her father in-law, Mr. Wheelor. Miss Gladys Reed returned homo Tuesday from a several days visit with uncle, Fred Reed. Mr. and Mrs. Juntos Ray wont to Grand Island Monday to visit his brother Wulluce. John Krall returned from Beatrice Wednesday, where ho had been visit ing his brother George. Mrs. Georgo Newhouse returned to her homo Thursday, after spending u week visiting here with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. MoBrido of Cowles drove up Sunday and spent the day with relatives. Jim returned in tho evening, but Mrs. McBride will spond tho week visiting relatives and friends. LIVE STOCK MARKETS Al KANSAS CITY. TJHE WEEK'S TRADE REPORTED BY CLAY. ROBINSON & COMPANY, (LIVC STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS. C?PICG AT OHIOAQO, KAN8A8 OITY, OMAHA, SIOUX CITY. ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER. Kansas City, June 20. Receipts of cattle Monday wero 80000; trade for beef steers generally 10 cents highor, top $5.60; strong to 10 conts higher for cows and heifers; stockors ird feeders firm to irregularly higher Receipts today wero 7000 and the market steady to 10 cents higher for all grades. Tho following table gives prices now ruling. Extra prime corn-fed steers. .S5 50-5 75 BlfiViiaMlJrS 4 oo-r m 4 25-4 05 4 7-5 00 4 35-i C!5 .1 no 4 oo 4 25-4 HO .'J 75-4 00 .'1 25-3 50 2 25-2 75 4 00-4 50 .'175-4 00 .1 25 -.165 2 50-3 00 5 00-0 25 3 75-4 25 3 25-3 50 2 75-iJ 50 i Feeders Fair Good to choico heavy brand j ed horned feedors Fair i Common Good to choico stock heifers 4 25-1 05 4 00-4 25 3 25-4 00 3 00-il 50 2 50-3 00 3 00 3 25 2 50-2 75 8 75-1 25 3 25 3 50 3 25-3 50 2 75-3 25 Fair Good to choico stock calves, steers Fair Good to choice stock calves, hoifers Fair Receipts of hogs Monday wero 8500 and the market steady to strong, clos ing work. Receipts today wero 12,000, market steady to 5 cents highor, clos ing strong, bulk of sales $0.35 to 0.50; top 80.55. Receipts of sheep Monday wore 11,- 1 000, market active and strgng. Ari I zona grass Iambs brought $7.85; (wether?, $0.50; ewes, $5.75. Receipts today were lu,uou market tirm. WOMEN HOTEL CLERKS. Dntr Tlione In Kurope IiiiprpMftril n IVoinnii Traveler. In most European hotels In the small- w places tiie visitor is mot at tne iiesit by a woman Instead of by the perfunc tory clerk so familiar to Americans at homo. I think this Is because u wo in tin can be more successful In the art of common, everyday robbery. One doesn't like to argue about the prices with a sweet, smiling little lady, who seems to be exerting herself to nu ex treme degree to secure one's comfort and happiness, but If one happens to ho making short stopH here and there it is wise to put awuy suavity for the time being to the extent nt least of an occasional mild protestation. When in n dn me smiles benignly and tells you that the room you have chosen, with everything Included, will be 20 francs a day It Is well to remember that "everything Included" doesn't In clude everything by ony means. There are n hundred and one little "extras,'' like tea, after dinner coffee, coffee and rolls In your room In the morning and such like luxuries, to say nothing of service, which must be paid for first hand If It Is to bo enjoyed at all. So III j iiittii,t UMiwtiiKU in iriuuuii ittiv- lug chances ngalnst n protest and will bo enormously pleased with herself If .none Is forthcoming. It Is the same all up and down the scale of prices, but I suppose those who can afford to go up the scale never care particularly. Eleanor Franklin In Leslie's Weekly. n - OA ft i itiitt Tvwitn tun lu ttn1in llv nlr ' SOURCE OF SHELLAC. The EliNt India InncctH That Produce the IlcNtnouM SiiIiNtance. India Is the home of the Coccus lac ca, the Insects that produce the resin ous substance known as shellac. Tho ( females puncture the twigs of several different kinds of trees, among them the bo, the blluir and the butea, and the ' twigs become lucrusted with u hard, nearly transparent, reddish, resinous substance that serves the double pur pose of protecting the eggs and finally furnishing food for the young Insects. Tho lucrusted twigs are broken from tho trees before the young Insects es cape and are thoroughly dried In the sun. These dried twigs are called "stick-lac," and from them shellac and a dye nnalogous to cochineal are pre pared. "Seed-lac" Is tho resinous con cretion separated from the twigs, coarsely pounded and triturated, with Health Calumet makes light, digestible wholesome food. Economy Only one heap ing teaspoonful is needed for one quart of flour. Good corn fed steers Ordinary corn fed stoors .... Clioico corn fed heifers Good corn fed heifers Medium corn fod heifers. . . . Choico corn fod cows Good Medium ............ .... .... dinners Clioico stilus Choice fed bulls Good Bolognabulls Veal calves Good to "choico native or western stockers Fair Common Good to choico heavy nativo ! I water fii o mortar, by which' nearly all of the coloring matter Is removed. To prepare shellac the sccd-lae Is put Into oblong cotton cloth bags and warmed over a charcoal fire. When the rosin begins to melt the bags are twist ed, and the pure, clear rosin Is allowed to flow over fig wood planks or the smooth stems of the banyan tree and cools In the thin plates or shells which constitute shellac. Pure shellac Is very valuable. It Is much harder than colophony and Is easily soluble in alcohol. FIGHTING FISH. I'pcnllnr AnlmnlN Tlint Arc Fonntl Only In Slnmcno Wnr. A favorite recreation In Slam Is watching the fighting fish, a species of fish found In tho waters of no other country. The fish cannot live In unity, and If two are placed In a howl they will Instantly engage In u struggle "to the death." It is no unusual thing to sec in the streets of Slam crowds of natives chat tering and gesticulating nround n bowl containing a number of these flsh, which they bet on In the same way as more civilized people do on race horses. Intense excitement reigns among the natives as they watch the fish fighting within tho bowl. These peculiarly quarrelsome fish are very similar to tho common pike In ap pearance, with Uie exception that they are not In the possession of gills. Their fins, too, nre remarkably sharp, and these they use with terrible effect upon one another. Blood oozes from their sides, and yet they persist In fighting until perhaps only two are left alive, and then the survivors turn on one an other until only one Is left out of per haps a dozen placed in the tub. Although the fighting fish ore ex ceptionally good to eat, the majority of natives esteem them only for their fighting propensities, which affords them amusement and excitement every day. ' I.nnilon'n Lnnt Pnlille HnnftlnK. The grewsomc spectacle of a public execution in England Is happily u thing of the past. The scaffold used to be erected In the roadway outside the prison, and crowds would assemble to witness the sight, the last time a man was hanged in public being when Mi chael Barrett suffered the extreme pen alty lu Muy, 1808, in Old Bailey, out side Newgate prison, for exploding a cask of gunpowder under the walls of Cl'erkenwcll prison to release the Fe nian prisoners Burke and Casey, a mad act that killed several and injured still more. London Graphic. "THE SONG OF THE SHIRT." It Proved the Moat Popular Thins Hood Ever Wrote. During his last illness Tom Hood in an Idle moment made an Imaginative sketch of his own tombstone. He drew himself reclining at full length on a thick slab of stone, on the edge of which In large capitals he wrote, "He Sang tho 'Song of the Shirt.'" This was the only Inscription, and, as he himself has sulci, Tom Hood needs no other. How much he felt and prided him self upon the song by which he became known and loved by millions Is shown by this and the following fact: "If I were ennobled these nre the arms I should adopt," said he one day, show ing n rough vignette to a friend. The sketch contained a very beautiful and pathetic Idea. It represented a heart pierced by a needle threaded with sil ver tears, and beneath was the motto he had inscribed on tho imaginary i tombstone. "The Song of the Shirt" appeared In the Christmas number of the fifth vol ume of Punch. It was unsigned, but every paper in the land quoted it, and it speedily became the talk of tho day. Hood himself did not think It very re-; markable, but Mrs. nood had said to him as she folded It for press: "Now, i mind; Hood, mark my words, this will I tell wonderfully. It Is one of tho best things you over did." Mrs. Hood was right. The song was " . . . . - translated Into French, German and Italian. It was printed on cheap cot ton handherchlefs and parodied times without number. THE FIRST MONEY. It la Credited to the I.ydlnnn of Aula Minor. i It Is difficult to realize that prior to B. C. 700 there wero no true coins, that ingots or buttons of gold and silver ! were weighed nt every mercantile transaction. The Lydlans of Asia Mi nor are credited with having been tho first to cast and stamp with an official device small oval gold ingots of defi nite fixed weight, nn Invention strungc- i ly delayed, but of Inestimable "impor tance to industry and commerce. A coin has been described as "a piece of metal of fixed weight, stamped by au thority of government nud employed ns n medium of exchange." Mednls, though struck by authority, oro only historical records and have no currency vnlue. The bright far flashing Intellect of Greece saw the import of ho Ly an Invention and adopted it quickly, and every Greek state, nearly every city, Island and colony, established a mint, generally ot some ono of tho great tern njesj for jill early coin, types nrojrelj- OUR MOTTO: "Satisfaction or your money back" combined with plain figure prices steadily adhered to, has brought us a constantly growing business. Quality first, price next. Nothing but standard made, reputable goods at lowest profit prices. Always willing to and compare prices or Chicago houses. Newhouse Bros., Jewelers and Opticians. B. 6, M. Wntch Inspectors glous In character. Tiiey0enr symbols of some god as a pledge of good faith. The offerings, tithes and rents of the worshipers wero coined and circulated as money. Temples thus became both mints and banks. Our word "money" Is said to hnvo been derived from the Roman shrine of Juno, Moncta, tho earliest Latin mint. The first shape of these early coins was that of an enlarged coffee berry, punched on the rounded side with offi cial letters or sinkings, as they are called. Earth Carvatnre and Vision. One of the "seven wonders of the an cient world" was the Pharos, or light tower at Alexandria. If you have a popular account of that great structure handy, read It carefully and note that you ure Informed that the tower could bo seen nt a distance of from 100 to 150 miles. Let us see if this could pos sibly be true. The curvature of the globe is 0.09 inches to tho mile. This being true, wo find that an object 100 feet high can only be seen at a frac tion over thirteen miles. Figuring on tho basis of an earth curvature of even seven Inches to the mile, we find that the light tower In question must have been over a mile in height If visible even at n distance of 100 miles. Old Workmen, An Englishman who Is a large em ployer of labor has been Investigating the arguments of ttiose who say that a worklngman under modern conditions becomes at an early age valueless. Ho has kept a record of all accidents that have incapacitated his men for three days and upward. The people engaged lu hlB employment are from fifteen to sixty-five years of age, and he asserts that more accidents occur to men un der thirty than to those over fifty. He says, "I would much rather Intrust nu exceptionally dangerous Job to n man over fifty than to one of thirty years of age." SOUPS AND BROTHS. They Are Stimulating, bat Ilave Lit tle Nutritive Value. Soups and broths made of the meat Pe8 alo fnd w,tuout tue "J?"10" tt innnf unhatn lien nirffB. VPCOtnlllPH Or of meat substance, eggs, vegetables or cereals have little nutritive value, al though they do possess stimulating properties. A dog would starve to death In ten days If fed upon beef broth pure and simple. Soup interferes with digestion when ever u full meal is eaten. I consider it as being entirely superfluous and ad vise Its discontinuance in n substantial dinner menu. Soup, being practically all wuter, plays an Important part In conjunction with the large quantities of other liquids injected during mealtime in de laying and Interfering with digestion and iaylug u foundation for stomach trouble. Through It and the other liquids used the stomach Is not only overfilled and unnecessarily burdened, but the gastric secretions are so weak ened by dilution that they can act but slowly upon tho food mass. Here again we havo the food remaining In the Btomach for too long u period, and thero Is likely to bo produced all of tho symptoms and signs of an intoxication (dhe 7bso pUon in o tlrsystem decomposed foods. , -',, liv Ito,r ' llh n h Soup eaten by Itself or with a light meal, ns u rulo, does not act harmfully. -What to Bat show our goods with either local FEED PLUMB Has just received a complete line of FRESH Bvilk Garden Seeds Also handles Flow Feed Telephone 51. i Miss Jessie Wert INSTRUCTOR OF Piano, Organ and Voice Studio at Mrs. Josie Moran- villo's, two blocks oast of . school houBo. Phoho 201. DR. W. S. SMITH OSTEOPATH LINDSEY BLOCK! Red Cloud, - Neb. I HAVE Six Companies 8oo policies represent ing over $2,000,000 in surance in Webster county. Now is the time to get in the Band Wagon. O. C. TEEL, Insurance and Notary. Telephones: Country, No. SG; Boll, No. 08. ' Te Cure Cold a In Om Day. Take Laxative Bromn quinine tab lets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on eucb box. 25 cents. ,.r, J I ,1 i v ft JS i V