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j. J H w.J 9(MWinxfrvriiKtrifirivir)nm4MtiLini 4tiiU"... rii,yi---n,r M ii Its- BIG BATTLESHIPS IN THE WAR GAME I it lOuBcoxailta0 I Si- TIK grcnt naval war gatne on the Atlantlo coast lirouKht together somo of the finest warships ewned by Uncle Sam. Seventeen battleships of the North Atlantic fleet comprised the attacking fleet, whose ob ject was tho capture of the eastern entrance to Long Island sound. Some of these mighty fighting machines, with the Minnesota In tho lead, are shown In the ao rompanylng photograph. AWILBUR P. NE5B1T ABE SHEARER'S RETURN ii r.'Jii. .7. I a TkisWl By CARL JENKINS Dolt liiLLi 7fi Ifflb,: , 1 '' L x r K - V tu n I ; t H WWsWMsWBBBMWiiWMS.Med MHIirf' " -ass"sJ'sssssfc3IMJssss""'JsM wi7ViiiHkfesflSaflhLsXESP LK,fc4birdfliiRxLBfcsBhK BP3Lv jTT3HpWiBHlBWKyWBIBMIZiSJWWBIfc. ffJJifc"' - . ."i t Mas1" .siatsssiifcTsayiiBiiiiiBMMs REAP WITH Old-Time Farmers Show Revolu tion of Farm Machinery. Veteran Swings Scythe at Ninety and Explains How He Harvested Qraln 8eventy-Flve Years Ago at DeKalb. Chicago. From the shadows of the past camo reapers of 60 and 70 years ago to tho Henry Whltmore farm tho other day, near DeKalb, and In tho role of harvesters pitted themsolves against the marvelous machinery of modern Union. More than 1,000, many of whom camo In automobiles, watched the men har vesting grain In as many ways as have been contrlvod slnco agricultural pur suits huvo been followed on the Amort can contlnont. There wns the old fashlonod cradle, tho slcklo and scythe, the early-day reaper and tho modern binder. It was a panoramic history of one of the most Important phases of the Industrial life of America. White-haired, patriarchal In appear ance, his shoulders bent with the weight of years, "Uncle" William Allen of Sycamore, swung his cradle for five minutes aa he was wont to do three quarters of a century ago. And as ho out his last swath, ho leaned on tho handle of bis cradle and laughed at the Incongruity of the picture pre sented. "Looks silly, doesn't It?" ho asked of the cheering spectators. "Times have certainly changed clnce I began har vesting."! And his old eyes followed a modern binding machine cutting a wide swath, gathering up the fallen rain and tying It in bundles. "I am 91 years old," said tho vet eran harvester as the binder turned a corner, "but If I could live 20 years more I would see even greater changes In the world than since I first began winging a cradlo In a harvest field." Among tho reapers were C. W. and W. W. Marsh, two brothers, who have lived more than the allotted three score years and ten, and who are credited with being the first to have conceived the Idea of the reaper. Their first machine was brought forth and cut a swath around the ten-acre field. As crude as It seemed to the throng of spectators, it was a marvel com pared to tho cradle which they had used for years before they brought the reaper Into being. . "I am glad to have lived to sco this day," said tho elder of the Marsh brothers. "Farming today la not what it was when we were boys. Look at that blndor. Soe how the driver fair ly satis through that ocean of grain. isnt it worth living to see? Following the exhibition In the field. uunaies or wheat and oats wore . - brought to the lawn of the Whttmori home and spread on tho grass, where It was thrashed by old-fashioned flails by men who had swung dulls long be fore the thrashing machlno was evor l reamed of. Spcechmaktng and music concluded tho day's program and refreshments Were served In old-fashioned style to the hungry harvesters. WANTED TO SHOW THE JUDGE Magistrate Calls Halt When Girl Starte to Bare Form In Court- Case Was Dismissed. Now York. William McMeehan or 298 Avenue A was so little anxlouB to see his wire outside tho Yorkvllle court the othor day that he waited until a policeman went along with hlra. McMeehan' was a. complainant against bis comely stepdaughtor, Mary Miller, a pocket edition maiden, charged with presenting a large black eye to her foster parent. ."She la all the time beating me," the man told the court. "Ho hit he first," said the tiny wom an. "Where?" asked Magistrate Stein- y? i3 ?? MWEUVFR4 CRADLES ort In n moment of Judicial Indiscre tion. The girl started to let the drapery down from n well rounded shoulder. There was a threat of a more Intimate knowledgo or the family affairs of the McMeehans. "Hold on; don't do that; this case Is dismissed," said the magistrate. "I'll see you outside," said Mrs. Mc Meehan to her husband. McMeehan said ho was In no par ticular hurry about going. He watted for a policeman going his way. SEND RATTLESNAKE BY MAIL Callfornlan Made Custodian of Innu merable Collection of Spiders, Bugs and Strange Things. Los Angeles, Cat. A live rattlesnake held captive In a large oil can which In turn was reinforced with a wooden box arrived at tho Hollenbeck consigned to Charles Mead. Since bis receipt of the rare La trodectus manctus, or red spotted spider, the most poisonous Insect of Its kind, Smead has been made the custodian of an innumerable collection of spiders, bugs and curious living things that crawl, creep and fly, the lateBt being the rattlesnake. A friend residing in Calzona hav ing read of the fact that the hotel man had received the spider decided on a more peculiar gift and as a re sult set out to catch the snake, of which species there are many In that section of the country. In a letter ac companying tho gift, the donor men tions the manner of Its capture and hopes that Smead will be able to add to the collection which he has or la BONE ON Removal May Restore Victim to His Right Mind. New York Man Recovers Speech After Operation and Surgeons Believe Frequent Attacks of Insanity Will Now Cease. Now Haven, Conn. Removal of a piece 'of a patient's skull which bad come In contact with tho brain brought back the power of speech to Harry Wlltse or 164 Plymouth street. For six months Mr. Wlltse had been unabln to utter a word, but when Dr. Morris D. 81attery, who per frmod. tho Pernt,on ' th Presence nr n nnvun n innfa nrnmiMnni ati. or a nozen or more prominent sur goons In tho city, came Into the op erating room ngaln after leaving it to see another patient, Mr. Wlltse raised his head from the pillow, and In a dlHtlnct but low tone said: "Hello, Doc." There wsb groat surprise at tho mo ment and tho news quickly circulated to tho physicians who had been In terested In tho caso. Tlioy proclaim ed tho bellof that when Mr. Wlltse fully recovers his strength, his speech would bo as good as ever. They also bellovo that frequent attacks of insan ity, the result of Injury to Mr. Wlltse's head 2t years ago, will ceaso. The operation was performed In tho hos pital of St. Raphael. The Injury to Mr. Wlltse, who Is 36 years old, came to him when he was 16. Ho wan ploying ball near his home In Forty-fifth street, New York city, one aftornoon, when ho was run over by a team, the horse stopping on the boy's head. Ho was taken uncon scious to a hospital, where it was round that his skull was fractured. He remained In the hospital about six months, but as a result of the Injury Insanity developed. ' He waa later sent to the InBano asy lum In Mlddletown, N. Y., and after a iow y nam mere ne was released as cured, Three rears ago, however, he mnklng for the southwest museum. As yet Smead has not been ablo to decldo whether tho serpent shall ho kilted and his skin tanned and stuffed or whether to turn It over to somo of the Main street Bide show fakers. From Don Cabezos, on the Mexican border, Smead several days ago re ceived ono of the most perfect speci mens of a scorpion evor seen here. It Is five and one-half Inches In length with not a vertebra or a claw dis placed In the horrible land crab. In addition two splendid specimens of the centipede were Inclosed. A mining man residing In Lower California undertook to show his es teem for the hotel man by shipping him a pair of bats captured In a great guano cave along the west shore, They.were both dead, but preserved In such a manner that they will keep for a long time. In tho letter accom panying the bats tho .mining man tells a wonderful tale of the millions of these night flyerB that at about seven o'clock in the evening begin to leave the caves. "They pour forth In one steady stream for a period of more than three hours, all going out over the ocean la their flight. At about three o'clock In tho morning they begin to return, fly ing from the land side, having evi dently completed a big circle In their flight. Again It takes them several hours to get Inside. The caves are so foul smelling, so vilely black that they have never been fully explored." Bathing Suits In Church. New York. The following adver tisement appears in a Montclalr (N. J.) newspaper: "The Drookdale Baptist church will be In session at 9:30 tomorrow morn ing. No collection. Please bring bathing suits." None of the officials of the church who might explain the advertisement could be found. HIS BRAIN became Insane again, and was once more removed to tho asylum. White at the Institution he had lucid Inter-' vnls, followed by clouded reason. Aft er treatment for about a year he waa released and camo to this city. He mado his home with his brother John Wlltse, an electrical worker. Last summer his condition agatn cony pelled his removal to the state asy lum In Norwich for a few months. Last December Mr. Wlltse was again taken to the Norwich asylum. After a month there his condition became such that he could not utter a sound and re mained in that state until tho other day, when tho operation was perform ed. Now he talks rationally to his nurse, and the attending physlclanB be lieve that he will be cured of all Insan ity before long. BOY'S MILLION DOLLAR HOME $25,000 for Furnishing Apartment for Little Russell Hopkins Also Have Private Zoo. Now York. RubboII Hopkins of At Innta, consul general from Panama to this country, has Just purchased a $1,000,009 house at 1045 Fifth avenue to? his baby son, John Randolph Hop kins, who was born two months ago In tho Hotel St, Regts. The baby's grandmother, Mrs. J. J. Lawrence, will spend $25,000 in fur titshtng a suite of rooms which are to serve for the nursery. The roof of the house will he cov ered with a steel wire case and con verted into a playground. Ono end will be used for a small private zoo. Three Pastors In 100 Years. Claysvllle, Pa. The Claysvllle United Presbyterian church celebrat ed Its hundredth anniversary Sun day. The church holds a record in that it has had but three continuous pastorates In Its 100 years' existence. Tho present pastor. Revr Alexander McLaohlln. has bean with thn ihnni 1 since 1872. (Copyright, lgn. by Associated Llteratr Presi.) Abe Shearer had been born on a farm. At six years old he was picking up potatoes as his father dug them. Between ten and twelve he put In two winters at the district school and learned to rend In a slow, uncertain way. He could also spell tho easy words If not hurried. Arithmetic was almost a scaled book to him and ho rejoiced when ho had added seven and four together and was assured that his sum of eleven was positively correct From the ago of twelve It wns all hard work and no chance. Abe wns a good hearted fellow and a hard worker, but ho grow up a boor. Mary Raxter was a farmer's daugh ter. As Boon, as she was old enough ito lift tho churn dasher It waB placed tin her hand. To bo n farmer's daugh ter meant feeding the chickens, peel ing the potatoes, using tho lirooni and .helping otherwise. She also went to school for n terin or two. She learned more and faster' than Abe, who car ried her dinner basket for her, and sometimes took her hand for the long mllo walk. They were always In lovo, It seemed, but nothing was spoken of marrlugo until Abo hud reached tho age of manhood. In Intellect and In tuition the girl was the superior, and yet Abe was Btrong and rugged phys ically und was looked up to. One day aa Abo was working In a field by the roadside an auto In which four girts were riding met with soma accident They were girls from the city stopping at a summer resort two miles away. The hired man was called to and he responded. After half an hour he 'was lucky enough to find the cause of the trouble and remedy it, but that half hour had worked a change In him. Abe had never been In a city. He had never seen a handsome girl. He had looked into the face of Mary Baxter thousands or times, but never to ask himself If she were homely or good looking. He had seen her In many dresses, but he had never thought or style or harmony or colors. She had been Just Mary to him. She was nei ther a flirt nor a coquette. Their talks as lovers had always had a sober .tlnge. The girls In the auto were full of talk and laughter. Abe wondered that ,God had made them so handsome, and (that money could buy such hats and dresses. He came to them In a hick ory shirt and overalls and with a rusty straw hat on his head and they flat .tered him. They praised his strength and admired his sunburn and freckles. They said If they ever married It would be to men like him. And as a climax the handsomest and most mis chievous or the quartette whispered In the hired man's ear as the auto was ready to proceed: "It Is a case or love at flrBt sight with me. Meet me this evening at eight o'clock by the big willow tree Just this sldo or the hotel. Don't fail me." Abe Shearer had never thought much of himself. He had done some !blg days' work and bragged of the rec ord, but he wasn't vain or egotistical. He was Just a farmer's hired man and ,was content with his lot But a new epoch had come into his life. He had been praised and flattered by hand some girls. He had won the love of one of them without making the slight est effort on his part Ho knew for 'the first time that he was handsome as well as strong. Abe's old straw hat 'was cocked on his ear for the rest of the afternoon, and the family won dered at his superior air aa he sat at the supper table, it seemed aa if he had been lifted up into another .sphere. Abo was Farmer Baxter's hired man, and he waa therefore under the eyes of the girl he was going to marry. She noted this sudden change in him quick er than the others, and she know the reason of it She had been In the orchard while Abe was at the auto mobile and she had heard tho laughter 'of the girls. After Abe had finished the milking and put on his Sunday suit Mary di vined where he was going. Sho asked no questions and made no comments. She of all the household was awake at midnight when Abo stumbled upstairs. Ho carried a puzzled, disappointed look next morning but she had no com ments. At four o'clock that afternoon the rural mall carrier hailed tho blred man from the road and gave him a let ter with the remark: "You must be getting up among tho high-toned, Abe. Bet you that's a love letter from one of the good-looking girls at the hotel," Abe sat down under a thorn-apple tree and opened the llttlo robln's-egg colored envelope. On tho datnty sheet of paper within wore written the words: "I was detained last night Please be there at tho same hour this eve ning." "By hokeyl" exclaimed Abe, as ho flourished the noto around his head; and that superior air came back. The girl had not kept the tryst last night but she was all right She wouldn't disappoint him again. When darkness camo Abo set out as before. Father and mother looked at Mary for an explanation, but she had nono to make. It was an hour after midnight this time when Abe came in. He was sullen and moody all next day, and no letter was received, but at .night he went away for the third time. It was growing daylight when he came borne-and the watching girl saw him go straight to the barn. Every line of his figure showed dejection and yet! sho seemed to read a certain determl- nut. on In his step. She dressed and reached the barn to find him adjusting a noosed rope to a beam. "Abe, I know all about It," she said, as she took tho ropo from his hands. "Come and sit down here." "What what you hero fori" he de manded. "To save you from making a bigger fool of yourself. Sit down and hear somo plain talk. No, then, who ara we? You are Abo and I am Mary. Neither of us Is educated and both or us are plain faced. Wo have lived a furm llfo all our yours. Wo know nothing of the life lived in the cities. Our wuys are different ways. Abo. you would hardly know how to ring a doorbell, and I'm sure I'd bo as awk ward ns a cow In a lady's parlor." "I say we are Just as good as any body!" shouted Abo as ho wiped a tear from his eye. "Just ns good to Hvo and dlo. Just ns good wlillo wo stay In our own world. When we get out of It It's a different thing. Abe, can you think of me, with my crudo education, with my awkward ways with my plain face with tho llttlo I know or tho world, be coming tho wire or a rich man and holding a place In society?" He was silent "The other day you repaired an auto In which four girls were riding. You got puffed up over what they said. Poor boy, you didn't know that they wero having fun at your expense. Your looks and talk wero a Joke to them." "Scat 'em!" growled Abe. "And you dressed up and went away to meet one of them by moonlight Sho was Just fooling you, Abe she didn't appear." "But she said she said" "That she loved you. Oh, Abe, where was your sense! It was all fun and mischief to her. Why should she lovo you? Why mate with you? Your world is for you and hers for her. And and when you found that she was Just laughing at you it was to hang your self! Abe. there are fools among women, but oh, tho fools among men I" "It's time to get tho palls and do the milking," said tho young man as ho rose. "Is that all?" asked the girl, as she looked up. "Why, if you want to be kissed you'd better stand up, and if you don't know that I want our wedding day jumped ahead three months then you'd better find out before another dinged auto comes chuggln' along with a lot of tltterin' gals for a load!" The Exceptional Young Man. The exceptional young man, says Orison Swett Marden In an article In Success magazine, Is the one who looks upon his employer's Interests as he would his own, who regards his vocation as an opportunity to make a man of himself, an opportunity to show his employer the stuff he is made of, and who Is always preparing himself to fill the position above blm. The exceptional young man is the one who never says: "I was not paid to do that;" "I don't get salary enough to work after hours or to take so much pains." He never leaves things hair done, but does everything to a finish. The exceptional young man is the one who studies his employer's busi ness, who reads Its Hterature, who Is on the watch for every Improvement which others in the same line have adopted and which bis employer baa not, who Is always improving him self during his spare time for larger things. 8cience Confirms Legend. Dr. Albert Cann or the Heidelberg Cancer institute announces the result or certain experiments which show that the human organs contain quan tities or radium or some allied radio active substance. Anatomical speci mens which could not possibly have come Into contact with Isolated ra dium showed all the qualities asso ciated with radium. Dr. Borness, an other investigator, announces that the brain substance Is radio-active and un der certain conditions irradiates a faint glow. Science, he says, has al ways derided the idea of the halo, or nimbus, with which the Savior and the angels are depleted. But .now scl enco comes to confirm the religious legend. The nimbus Is a fact, Invis ible indeed to tho ordinary eye, but perhaps visible In another age and under abnormal conditions of the body and mind. Indoor Air and Health. Dr. Luther H. Gullck of tho Russell Sage Foundation, New York, calls at tention to the need or further study of the effects of indoor air upon health. "This air," be says, "Is somehow not aa good for us, even under the best conditions or ventilation, as the .open air." He quotes Drs. Thompson and Brennnn or New York aa thinking that wo ought to do away with all systems of ventilation, and use simply natural ventilation open windows. On the other hand, Dr. Leonard Hill of Eng land finds the Plenum system of ven tilation superior In Its effects to open windows. But Dr. Gullck holds that present conditions are -not right, and that It still remains to discover what must be done to make Indoor aa healthy as outdoor living. I (SSi "V ZM V II I II X J There's ono uro way to make It cool When It's a hundred In tho sliaJo, And all the helps you ever knew'll Fall to brink- yon the slightest aid: Though by tho wnrmtli you are dis mayed. This plan will make each broiling street I.lko to a snow-heaped wintry glade I'll write tills verse about tho heat The poor, perspiring rhymster who'll Not let his spirit be dismayed But will observe this anclont rule Can bring the chill for which we've prayed; In negllgeo am I arrayed Tho blighting simoon breath to cheat; 'Twill get cold; beta may now be IsJd-. T'll write this verse about the heat. The weather Is Just like a mule; 'Tls a perverso and fro ward Jade; 'Twill now grow frigid as at Yule, The heated term shall hero be stayed. Tho sun's hot glaro will dim and fade. Who knows? Wo may have snow and sleet! My melting work shall be repaid I'll write this verso about the heat L'ENVOI. Friends, prithee no more be afraid. A hundred times I've done this feat To cool things off I havo essayed I'll write this vorse about the heat TOUCHEO. iwSpjjll Tho eminent pianist Is simply making the keyboard sizzle with the violence of his fingering, when a fat man In a rear seat Is asked by his neighbor: "Hasn't he a wonderful touch?" "Wonderful ?" asks the fat man. "Wonderful don't begin to tell It Why. I gave up $3 for my seat and he hasn't played a blame thing that I haven't got the music to for my pi anola at home." Polarized Him, Probably. A teacher at Cornell swallowed by accident a capsule containing sixteen small steel compass points, which had ,been placed In the capsule for safe keeping. It Is Btated that a surgical operation saved his life. As the compass always points to the north, some people might think that Dr. Cook could have treated blm suc cessfully. However, It may be that the poor man was operated on by a doctor of .geography. But for the short time he kept the icompass points he must have been able to exert, a great deal of animal magnetism upon those about htm. At a Quip. "There goes Green. He took up with a new healing cult last week some peculiar sect which argues that' ev erything is nothing and nothing Is everything." said White. "Yes," replied Black. "I had heard of it He told me he simply couldn't swallow thn medicines that his old doctor was giving him." "Huh! Shouldn't think that was half as hard a task as swallowing the claims of tho everythtng-ls-notblng fellows " Appropriate Term. "Servants or the people, Indeed!" sniffs the angry citizen, discussing the office holders. "Servants of tho peo ple! There never was a greater fall acy." "I don't know nbout that," comment ed another taxpayer. "Did you ever try to induce your cook to let you run your own house?" A Crusher. "Don't you know, I think you would bo nn Idcnl valentine," "Ycr? And to whom would send mo?" 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