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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1910)
; v r nOONTAlNaWNG AW AWeRICACV PASTCWe (Joy WMDON FAWCETT TlKoybfv y WALDotf rWCerT iS&. ' '" k m rzL. -m fc i ire&tfiv . vTuifc? jtjkcii I IXLFvfUVy 2.JW- , . X'TBSMI - i r:ssk& p- . m lite- "-u i&S&ISiMS -f K 1 1 !iMSimiMKiAy'rlg?TiJmjff T jiWaaalT1HIHWEffnirrBffT i I llJE8gSal.Km 4 I B B 'jMg?.JMaaaaataa1aaaaMJUam; AJMrafc JuSTy ?!& 4 PMrffl:-MimJB.rBW aaJrJlaaaaaa?mJ"aMi.f'T' r' JiTJJ TA.Ma, .aaaWMlaaaaaaaaalaaayaaaaT f H if (-. . bK"l ML IUPPSBEBjgHBS " " , . Vh ''" ?y?wx-'j i a opportunities ANY PERSON'S nro wont to think of mountain climb ing or :it least mountain climbing that Ih really worthy or the name aa a form of pastime for which one must Journey to Eu rope. Soma of the people, even, who havo apprecia ted all along that this con tinent afforded opportuni ties for mountain climbing equal In every respect to anything offered by tho snow-clad peaks of Swit zerland are not aware that a goodly number of Btren nous Americans are now talcing advantage of these Some people, to bo suro, started their careers as mountain climbers In tho United Stute3 and have confined their Indulgence In tho sport to the mountain regions of Yanlteciloin, but they aro purpasscd numerically by tho subjects of Uncle Sam who first becamo converts to moun tain climbing In Switzerland or other foreign parts and then camo homo perhaps to discover that wo have Just as difficult ponies under tho Stars and Stripes as can bo found In any part of tho old world. Sometimes fato steps in and makes what might bo termed an Involuntary convert to Ameri can mountain climbing. A oaso In point Is that of Charles B. Hughes, governor of Now York, who hns recently been appointed to tho United States Supremo court Mountain climbing is the pet hobby of Governor Hughes, and for years ho spent overy summer In Switzerland scaling the peaks. Then came his election to the gubernatorial posi tion and with It now responsibilities which In effect made it impossible for him to engago in a prolonged vacation far from home. Thereupon Governor Hughes and his son who Is llkowlso a mountain climber turned tholr attention to tho Adirondack:) and hero ho found peaks that aroused his enthusiasm, for thoy aro clad In a denso forest growth that Is qulto as ballllng In many respects as glaciers and crevasses and tho governor discovered that a mountain G.000 feet high may test tho mettle of a pedestrian quite as fully as sonio more lofty peaks. Mountain climbing In tho Adirondack, in the Whlto mountains of New Hnnipshlro nnd In tho Blue Rldgo of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vir ginia has been an accepted summer sport for some years past, but it has grown tremendously in popularity of late. Some of tho experienced cllmbois who enjoy tho sport only when It In volves hazards that test tho steadiness of eyo, clearness of head and sureness of foot In tho maximum dcgieo are wont to regard nono too seriously tho assaults of tho amatours on tho mountains cost of tho Mississippi, but it must be admitted in defense of mountain climbing in tho cast that it has brought color to tho cheeks and sparklo to tho eyes of many a woary city dwellor and in not a few instances It has served as a preparatory school for climbers who have later bocomo experts In a nioro exacting environ ment. In tho west, on tho other hnnd, wo havo mountain climbing that, from every consideration of danger and daring ranks with any Rlmllur ac tivity abroad, although, to bo suro, nowspaper readers hear much less about It. Perhaps this latter clrcumstanco Is duo In part to tho rarity In Amorlca of those harrowing accidents which cost the lives of so many mountain climbers in Switzerland. In tho southwest tho trip up Mount Wilson In California hns becomo a popular diver sion for both men and women and tho Grand Can yon of Arizona that great gash In tho earth 13 miles wldo and a mllo deep Is affording an equivalent of mountain climbing that Is without a rival or a counterpart, sconlcally or othorwlso, on tho other sldo of tho Atlantic or Indeed any whero In tho world. Tho Yosemlto valley, with Its sheer walls of rock and other frenks of naturo, offers probloma that havo commanded tho respect and Inciden tally fired tho ambition of mountain climbers of overy nationality, whllo Alaska has In Mount Mc Klnley a peuk that 1b genornlly accounted ono of tho most difficult In tho entlro world. Generally speaking, mountain climbing In America has reached its most pretentious development In tho Pacific northwest and In tho Canadian Rockies. In tho latter region tho Switzerland of Amer ica thero are glaclors as formidable and as In teresting as any expanses of enow ami lco In for eign landB und tho snow-capped peaks of Mount Hood and Mount Rainier havo afforded to tho pcoplo of Oregon and Washington constant object lessons that havo proven an Incentive to moun tain climbing. Swiss guides havo boen brought to tho Canadian Rockies for tbo benoflt of new world mountain climbers, but to tho credit of our patriotism bo It said that most of the guides In our own western mountain regions aro Ameri cans. Several mountalncllinblng clubs havo been organized on tho Pacific slopo and climbing expe ditions are carried out yearly, women as well as men participating In most of thoso excursions to great altitudes. No mention of mountain climbing In Amorlca, however brief, would bo complete without refer ence to tho development of mountain climbing by tiUMxijs:!tst!mK:!ii::jit:::::j;::::::t:: mechanical means In this country. A cog railroad that carries sightseers to tho top of Mount Wash ington. N. II.. has for years been an adjunct of Now England's highest peak and a comfortable hotel on the summit limbics tourists to be con tent In this realm of .perpetual frost and to enjoy the sunrise and sunset effects. A similar railroad, ot more remarkable fiom an engineering stand point, carries non-athletic mountain climbers up Pike's Peak In Colorado and In the same state the Moffat road conveys tourists to the crest of tho Great Divldo In standard coaches drawn by locomotives of tho regulation type. Thero aro "mountain climbing" railroads In California and similar highways havo been proposed for tho ponkB of tho Pacific northwest, whereas congress has been appealed to to permit a venturesome capitalist to install nn Inclined rnllway from tho rim to the depths of tho Grand Canyon. World s Oldest Bellmakers Amidst tho tnwdrlness, tho racket and tho alien squalor of our modern Whltechapel road stands a quiet, tidy, old Georgian house, and to one sldo of It an old-fashioned, oak-shuttered of ilco, tho London Chronlclo says. Uehlnd this uu assuming exterior thero ntUI, In fact, prosporn "tho oldest established business of any kind In England," nnd that "business" is bound up with all that Is highest and holiest and most endeared to tho national heart. For over tho door, In plain English a refreshing change from tho Yiddish posters thnt flaro in tho Bliop windows nil around wo may Btlll read tho slmplo legend, "Mcnrs & Stalnbank's Roll Foundry, Established 1570." Hero, then or, at any rnte, not far awny while Shakespearo was still a schoolboy and two centuries before Schiller hnd arrived to lm mortallzo tho bell In splendid song on tho eternnl emblem of mnn's ascent from earth to heaven thero wns being molded tho world's mightiest mu sic by Just such honest, Blmplo-hcnrtod follows ub may bo seen oven now busying themsolves by pit and furnnco in tho nctunl foundry beyond a llttlo courtynrd. To toll tho exact truth, tho original foundry of Queen Elizabeth's tlmo was Just across tho way. It waB moved to Its present site In 17.'18, tho existing houso bolng nt that tlmo a country Inn called tho Artichoke, Btnndlng then among pleasant Holds. Without n break from thnt day to this, though proprietors havo changed once or twice, tho work of bell founding has gone on be hind those quiet walls. Tho list of famous bolls that havo boon, as ono might say, "born" out of dull earth In these lowly products is almost bo wilderlng. For, indeed, at tho present moment, thoro Is only ono other Important foundry In England that, namely, of Loughbermigh dovo ted exclusively to bellmaklng. Thus tho famous "Bow bells" theniBolves, In renllty nmong tho aweotest and truest In tho world, woro mado at Whltechapel. Tho presont "tenor," as the deopest bell of a poal Is always called, wns cast hero in 1738. It wolghod 2 tons and it Itself replaced n bell rronj the samo oourco that hnd boen founded In 1009. Tho legen dary bolls of Whlttlngton's time can, of course, hardly bo laid claim to. Among other noted Whltochapol bolls are tho great bell of Westminster, weighing ovor 13 touB tho largest ever cast In London; the "clock bolls" of St. Paul's, hung In 1700, and still In use; "Great Tom" of Lincoln cathedral, a famous bell that could be heard 13 miles off; "Groat Poter" ol York minster, which was for a tlmo the largest boll In Englnnd, nnd, not least, tho great boll In Montreal cathedral, weighing 11 tons nnd tho largest over shipped a significant ambassador of an old faith to a new world. Quito npart from tho eternal poetry that has woven itself around tho being and becoming of bells, there Is hardly an Industry that has about It a moro Individual charm. These men of tho Whltechapel foundry aro no mere journeymen mechnnlcs. They have been bred to tho work, most of them, from their carllost years. Tho art of bell founding Is handed down from father to son. In the samo Whltechapel foundry thoro aro no fewer than threo generations of ono family working sldo by flldo today and flvo generations of tho samo family havo worked there tho grand father for An years, tho groat-grandfather for moro than half a century. Peoplo who talk of "Jangling" bolls as being unmusical have certainly no honest boll founder to blamo, for no bell can bo unmusical unless it Is badly mudc or badly rung. Indeed, overy great bell has to bo so perfectly proportioned In shnpo, filzo, weight and thickness that each part of it shall sound n rightly differing note nnd that tho result shall bo a porfect chord. In this way, whllo tho "lip" which tho clapper strikes gives out tho "fundamental note," the "wnlst" must sound a third higher, tho "shoulder" n fifth higher and tho top of It tho exact octave. So tho whole boll gives out n chord of which each noto fades Into tho other. It In this harmony thnt lingers In tho ear and gives tho boll Its peculiar magic. After tho bell la founded, If It sounds sharp anywhere, It can, with groat care, bo filed down by nn upright latho till tho right tono 1b produced. If It soundB flat nothing can bo done and It Ib tho ambition of boll moldors to turn out a boll that shall bo exactly right as It comes from tho mold. It Is pleasant to hear that In splto of all now fanglod cynical objections this sacred old Indus try is otlll flourishing. From tho Whltochapol foundry bollB havo gono forth In tholr hundreds In theso last years to overy quarter of tho world from Buenos Ayres to Quoboc, from Calcutta to Colombo, from Hongkong to Tasmania. Even Amorlca with a 45 per cent. Import duty has come to England for Its bolls. Ono of tho largest recently mado at Whltechapel will doubtless sound as sweet In tho oars of Chicago as did tho bollB of Fulham to Queen Elizabeth when she camo gliding In hor royal barge down London's silver river. MINING OF SEALS Old Circus Man Tells How Tricks Arc Taught. Balancing the Ball, Denting the Ditim and Cymbals Are All Based on tho "Nature of the Brute." Now York Tho more spectatoi usually thinks that trained seals aro tho finest product of the circus nn lingerie; but according to an old trainer, It Is a Hlmplo trick to teach them tholr fonts. The cardinal prln clplo Is, not to ut tempt to make an anlinnl do anything contrary to the nature of Its paitlcular species. To bo successful, then, tho trainer must know enough about the habits of tho animals to eniilil" him to III tho tilcks to tholr needs, lie must not try to make an elephant climb or a lion play the drum. "You begin with one seal, a lot of llttlo pieces of fish, and a bit ol string. You lot the seal sit on his podeslal, which ho likes to do by na ture; then you throw him ono of tho pieces ot fish, and he naturally and taslly catches It. "Not you tie a pleeo of fish on l.ho end of your string. iukI Hwlng It to ward the seal, ho catches that, too, and you keep moving away from him, and swinging the unsaid to him fiom an Increasing distance. Now you aro icady to begin with the hat or cornu copia, placing and lying a bit of the fish up In the tip of It, you toss It to tho seal. Ho Is doxtious by nature, and his nose, detecting the Huh up In tho cone, quickly seeks It. W bites It out und tosses tho cono aside. Ho foro long he comes to associate that cono with his loved fish, and he will catch any number of similar ones, and toss them aside when he falls to find what he wants. That's all there Is to the tilck, ou see. "Ilalancing the big rubber ball Is based on the same principle. Tho ball Is soaked In fishy brine, and thrown to tho seal. Ho gets the odor and tries his host to get Into the ball and Hnd what he's after. This re suits In his balancing tho ball on his nose, a feat for which his quickness, 11 1 fTTTlillf Seal In Balancing. his aiipplo, muscular neck and his natural feeding habits aro all adapted, and then ho gets his piece of fish as a prize. "Tho man working with seals thinks to himself, 'What else do seals do naturally,' Anil tho answer comes, 'They like to slap and beat round with their front nippers. Hero la the basis for a good and effective trick. Down on the side of the pedestal on which tho seal Is placed, an automobile horn Is fastened, or a llttlo drum, or a tin pan. Tho seal, In tho excitement of being red, slaps with his lllppor for all ho'B worth, and you can seo thnt with a few simple adaptations, such as tying a cymbal to the Hipper, for Instance, a seal baud Is assembled and sets the audience wild by Its comlo and clever peiformance. "It's all so simple, you know when vou aro on the Inside." Galileo's Telescope. Very few peoplo aro aware that the first practical telescopo, which Galileo used in discovering tho satellites of Jupiter in January, 1C10, Is still In ex istence and preserved at tbo Museum of Physics and Natural History In Florence. It Is about aon years since this In strument wns first turned toward tho heavens. Unlike the present astronaut leal typo, It had a concavo Instead of a convex eye-piece, Just like tho opera glasses now In use. When Galileo first exhibited his new telescope to tho dogo and an enthusi astic assembly on the tower of St. Mark's In Venice ho waa overwhelmed with honors because It waa thought that tho Instrument would give tho soldiers nnd snllors of tho republic a great advantngo over their enemies. Ancient Treasure Unearthed. Tho nntlquarlan trensurea rocently uneaVthed In Gothland consist of 1, 904 whole colna and 85 Imperfect coins, n fragment of tho bordor of a clasp, a portion of a bucklo and some plain pieces of silver. The most rocont of tho coins dnto back to the mtddlo of tho oloventh century. Tho oldest are 28 Arabian coins, which appear to havo been uaod ob ornnments. Among others are 1,. 115 German coins and 720 Anglo-Saxon pieces bearing tho efllgles of King Eth elred and of King Canute. Rural Life Robbed of Its Terrors. Stolla Are you afraid of cows? Bella Not with my hatpins. RECOGNIZES A GOOD WORK Ex-President Roosevelt Pays Enthusl. astlc Tribute to Mission Hospitals. In Uganda, Mr. Roosovolt responded to an Invitation to open a new addi tion to the Mnngo (. M. S. hospital. Mr. Roosevelt said. "Long befoto I eiiino here I had known of the wnk thai was being done In Uganda, and felt particularly anxious to seo It. Hero you have a particularly Intelligent native race, which has already developed a very Interesting culture of Its own, a cul ture both political and social. And tho great work must of necessity bo to try to help thnt nice onward, and to try to do It lit a practical fashion, and to do It so that the doing of It shall bo primarily u benefit to the race, and, secondly, a benefit to your imu peoplo from whom you come. "I have the strongest feeling as to the good that Is being done by tho medical missionary. There must bo sonio visible fruit in tbo life and work of tho man who preaches It his preach ing Is going to have a very great ef fect upon those to whom he preaches. That visible fruit can bo shown In many different ways, and one of tho moat clllolont ways of showing It la by Just such work as Is being done In connection with this building, which It will nnturally be a itourco of pecu liar pride to myself to have my naiuo associated with, and which I now tako pleasure In declining to bo open." SKIN BEAUTY R0M0TED In the treatment of affections of tho skin nnd scalp which torture, dlsllg tiro, itch, burn, ncnlo und destroy tho hnlr, as woll aa for preserving, puri fying nnd beautifying tho complexion, hands nnd hnlr, Cutlcura Soap nnd Cutlcura Ointment nro well-nigh In fallible. Millions of women through out tho world rely on theso pure, sweet nnd gontlo emollients for nil pur poses of tho tollot, bath and nursery, nnd for tho sanative, nntlscptlc cleans ing of ulccrnted, Inflamed mucous sur faces. Pottor Drug & Chom. Corp., Boston, Mnsa., solo proprietors of tho Cutlcura Remedies, will mnll froo, on request, their lntest 32-pago Cutlcura Book on the skin and hair. Lazy William. "You are advertising for a chauffeur, I seo, Mrs. Do Pnysto." "Yes, wo had to lot William go last week." "I thought you woro woll pleased with him." "At first wo woro, but n now broom Bwcops clenn, you know, and wo found that William was luzy. Ho wus fine at washing tho windows, spading tho gar don, pumping tho vacuum cleaner, mowing tho lnwn, tending tho furnace, running errands, pressing clothes, sweeping tho walks, polishing tho lloors, oiling the furniture, preparing the vegetables, waiting on tablo nnd doing tho dishes. But ho wns lazy. Ho used to go to sleep at midnight regu lnrly, no mnttor whero ho wus. Many a tlmo Mr. IJo Puyste has loft the club for homo nt two o'clock In tho morn ing nnd found William snoring in tho car outside, linnglno how It must havo looked to our friends to boo our chauf feur asleep in tho strcot!" Conditional Piety. Two Scotch fishermen, James and Sandy, belated nnd befogged on u rough water, woro In some trepidation lest thoy should novor get nshoro ngalu. At last Jamlo said: "Sandy, I'm steering, and I think you'd better put up a bit of prayer." "I don't know bow," said Sandy. "If yo don't I'll chuck yo overboard," said Jamie. Sandy began: "Oh, Lord, I novor nsked anything of yo for llftcon years, and If yo'U only got ub aafo back, I'll novor troublo yo again, nnd " "Whist, Sandy," said Jamie. "Tho boat's touched shore; don't bo be holden to anybody." Short Stories. Had a Reason. "Why don't you call your nowspaper tho Appendix?" nsked the enemy ot tho political boss. "Any special reason Tor wanting mo to do so?" "Well, It's a useless organ." A DETERMINED WOMAN Finally Found a Food That Cured Her. "When I first read of tho remark nblo offects of Grapo-Nuts food, I de termined to Becuro somo, says a wom an in Salisbury, Mo. "At that tlmo thoro was none kept in this town, but my husband ordered some from u Chi cago travoler. "I had been greatly anilctcd wlUt sudden attacks of cramps, nausea, and vomiting. Tried nil sorts of romedles and physicians, but obtained only temporary rollof. As soon as I began to usg tho new food the cramp disappeared and havo novor returned. "My old attacks of Blck Btomacu wero n llttlo slower to yield, but by continuing tho food, that troublo has disappeared entirely. I am today per fectly woll, can eat anything and everything I wlah, without paying tho penalty that I used to. Wo would not keop house without Grapo-Nuts. "My husband was so delighted with tho benefits I received that he hns been recommending Grapo-Nuts to his customers and has built up a very largo trado on tho food. Ho soils them by tho caso to many of tho leading physicians of tho county, who recom mend Grapo-Nuts vory genornlly. Thero Is some satisfaction In using a really scientifically proparod food." Road tho llttlo book, "Tho Road to Wollvllle,"in pkgs. "Thoro'a aRoason." Krer read the above letter? A aen one appears (ram time to time. They are reauiae, troe, ana (all ol knmaa latert. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa , -fT-.-yT--r..r , ......- , ..ww ... ij...- .. &asgg$$si MEBBBBBBBV4t'- '-aBBBBBBBBBal