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V, t High Plateaus of j v jr J V it Jf " r" i jj pi; ; n r a k$L, & i. Si Ji L-9- j JV jr 3& o j f J 7 O The black and shaded areas on this map nre from 6,000 to 10,000 feet above the sea. They are perfectly healthful. The Guas Ngishu plateau, TRAITS OF GEN. STOESSEL. Kouropatkln Selected Him for Defend er of Fortress. It was Gen. Kouropatkin who In flated that Uen. Stoessel should be put In command of Port Arthur. Kou ropatkln said of him: "Stoessel la a bad tactician. Put him against equal force, against a Gourko or a Skobeleff, and you'll find him tricked aud cut to pieces In four-and-twenty hours. But stick him behind one'of his own earth works, where there's no question of maneuvering, and all the forces of earth and hell will not prevail aealnst him." "Gen. Stoessel showed himself to be a man of singularly few words," write an English- critic, "though his "'ftPeuni addresses to his troops after well an his dispatches to the czar, were couched In phraseology which seemed to have been equally borrowed from the Psalms of David and the pages of Victor Hugo. Otherwise, he was ever brief and even abrupt of apeech, "this fortress-holder with the tall, bulky but rather ungainly figure and face so little suggestive of the conventional hero. "He could wire Hugoesque dis patches of victory to the czar," this ame critic continues, "though to the company of soldiers which sent word that they could no longer hold their post his only reply was: 'But you can die, then!" And die they did. 'What I order can bo done,' was his rule, and all breaches of discipline were Inventor Claims Diagram 1 1 ini" TgV--j.j Diagram howimo homzohtal section M. Andre Gambin, an inventor, says lu a communication to the Paris edi tion of the New York Herald that he Iihi made a discovery which will make it possible for ships to go COO knots an hour. According to this inventor the time may noon come when people can breakfast In London aud dine in New York. It will be necessary to discard Few Buffalo in Existence. TbeTe ore now only 1.333 American Vion 1n existence. The various herds v;m the number of each are as fol lows: Pablo-Allard, etc., herd, on Flathead Indian reservation, Montana, 330; running wild, west of Great Slave lake, ECO; In the Austin Corblu park, New Hampshire. lfiO; herd of .Tames Philip, Fort Pierre, 8. D., 90; herd of Charles Goodnight, Goodnight, Tex., 50; in llanff Kocky Mountain park, Canada, 43; In Yellowstone park (Inclosed), In Bronx park. New York, 32; in Yellowstone park (running wild), 30; herd of John E. Dooley,, Utah. 30; herd of G. W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), Oklahoma, 28; herd In Lincoln park, Chicago, 20; herd of Burgess & Han nan, Iatana, Iowa, 20; herd of J. J. Hill, Cardigan, Minn., 18; la the Cin cinnati Zoological park, 16; herd ot C. J. I-nander, Bancroft. Iowa, 10; in Philadelphia Zoological park, 9; Cen tral pntk. New York, 6; Denver city part. 6; Buffalo city park, 4; St. Louis city park, 4; Montebello kennels, Philadelphia. 4; herd of Frank Rocke feller. Belvlderc, Kas., 3; in parka at East Africa Where White Races Can shown in solid black, is the area which the British government has of fered to Jewish colonists. No Brit ish settlers have yet been invited to punished with the most merciless se verity. 'Carry out the sentence," was his Invariable reply to court-martial recommendations to mercy; 'it will save live.-; in the end.' A dealer who was found to be selling putrid tinned meat to the soldiers he sentenced to be locked up for three days and fed exclusively on his own poisonous stuff. "Never popular before. Stoessel soon came to be the idol of his offi cers and men. who recognized him to be the sotil and beacon of their glorious defense. 'People say,' wrote a correspondent In Port Arthur, 'that Gen. Stoessel never sleeps; for when all the city is in darkness a light alone burns in his headquarters,' and, it might he added, in his heart. Apart from his own stout heart, which never failed him, another constant source of his courage has been the inspiring' presence of his wife." Barred Cut Shakespeare. There Is one family in Brooklyn that does not lake much stock In Mr. Shakespeare. The eldest daughter is getting close to graduation in the grammar school and some knowledge of the bard and his work is requisite, according 10 the notions of Supt. Max well. This little girl took home "The Merchant of Venice" as one of her class books and read a bit of it aloud to her father. The old man did not like the cuss words, and when she read about the "damned Jew" there was trouble in that simple little household. Ship Will Go 500 06 00000 0000 2y5i 000 00 060000 OOOOOOOOOOO ggjjj oooooOOOOQ p showjno vertical, sbctiom op'Typhoomoid scrap heap the hulls, screws, turbines and all the old models of ships and to build them according to new designs on strictly scientific principles. The new boats are to be called "pneumat ic suction" or "typhooned" ships. The principle which he says he has discovered consists in placing in front of a specially constructed ship a con all the old Ideas concerning the re- Pi ttsbnrg. Toledo, Rochester, Omaha, San Francisco. Winnipeg and other places, 3(1; individuals or small num bers In tht hands of various persons, 36; in Germany and other foreign countries, 111. The Art of Resting. To understand how to rest is of more importance than to know how to work. The latter can be learned it one will give one's mind to it, but the former is. an act sonic . people never acquire. Rest necessitates change of scene and activities. Lounging is very often tiring, sleeping is not always restful, and sitting down with nothing to do is simply Invoking weariness. A change is needed to bring into play a different set of faculties, and to direct the thoughts into' a new channel. The woman who is weary and heavy laden with care'flnds relief in active employment, with freedom from re sponsibility. The brain worker gener ally finds her best rest In playing hard. Rest may be found In many different ways, but It is quite a mis take to expect to find It In Idleness. Live and Thrive the Nandi and Mau highlands, bul British farmers are settling on the Kt kuyu plateau. The land is said to b rich and easy of cultivation. "Put that book away, Maria," said the horror-stricken father. "I'll write to your teacher about that." And he did. He said: "Teacher That book of William Shakespeare's is no good and I don't want my daugh ter to read any more of it. I never let her read dime novels anyway, but I don't think it's very nice to put books with swearing in them into the hands of little girls. I never heard of this man Shakespeare, but his stuff is not the style I want my little girl to read. E. P. Roc is bad enough, hut that's moral." Brooklyn Eagle. Why He Wanted Time. Four year old Freddie had a visit the other day from his five year old cousin Walter, and the two small boys were playing marbles in Freddie's yard, when Freddie's mother called him to go to bed. The little fellow begged for just a minute more, and several times it was granted. Finally his mother become insistent, and tho i-mal! boy came to her holding out a bag full of marbles. "Mother,'' he said, "if you will give me only a minute or two more I'll send him heme busted, and you can have half the marbles." Money of Wartime Days. A Lawrence bank received a unique deposit, the other day in the form of several hundred dollars in the 50, 15, 10 and 5-cent scrip of war days. The bills have been kept in the home of the depositor for forty years. Knots an Hour fc751 C rV fcgg -o O v sistance of water, to throw on the trivance he calls "typhoonoid" or wa ter sucking cone. This cone, by revo lutions imparted by a horizontal shaft similar to that used for screws, will crt;ate a vacuum in front oi the ship which will be drawn forward by pneu matic suction and fly, as It were, through a vacuum, just as letters do through the postal pneumatic tubes. Congratulations Poured in on Him. Three good old southerners of calm consciences and unimpaired digestions were swapping anecdotes at the sen ate. They were Senators McCreary and Daniel and Representative Meyer. "Daniel and I were in the house to gether," said Mr. McCreary. "One day when he and I were sitting side by side a telegram was brought to him. He opened it, looked pleased as he read it, and then passed it over to me. It announced the birth of a son, for which I extended sincere congratu lations. Only a few moments later a half dozen telegrams were brought him in a bunch. He opened them, looked pleased, as before, and soon passed all the messages over to me to read. They were telegrams of con gratulation announcing his election to the senate. I promptly congratulated him again, and with renewed cordial ity, for, as far as my knowledge ex tends, Major Daniel is the only man who received on the same day and within the same hour the gratifying news that a son had been born to him and that he had been elected a United States senator.' Washington Post. " ' ' I By Earl M. Pratt, The paragraphs are written for thregfhousand newspapers and mag-azirs- jffteen years ago I wrote an "all th year round" bookmark and in tylded to photograph it for this let ter. : But not much over fifteen minutes ago a man told me that he did not be lieve that I would ever be able to write a letter -ntfiich would increase the accuracy of the reader of it three per cent. Some other men and I think other wise, and here is the announcement of tho fight I am ready to make. My doubting critic thinks that peo ple will read and say "yes," and then go on just the ssme as ever. My goal is to be-able to write some thing which people will read and say The United States Battleship Maine Salvage company has recently been incorporated in the District of Colum bia for the purpose of entirely remov ing from tho harbor of .Havana the uattleship which was destroved on Feb.. 15, 1898. The United States government hav ing relinquished all claims to the bat tleship, it becomes the property of the Cuban government, which has made earnest efforts to secure its removal, especially because it forms a serious obstruction to the navigation of the harbor. The Cuban government has finally entered into a contract with this com pany. By recent action of the Cuban government, the time for beginning the work has been extended to April The Maine in the 19, 1905, and the time for the comple tion to April 19, 1906. It is the purpose of the company, first to remove the bodies of the sail ors and their personal effects, and then to make the undertaking a finan cial success by the recovery of all valuable articles, such "as arms, can non, coal, machinery, etc., and the un injured part of the battleship itself. It is also proposed to admit visitors to the wreck after the cofferdam is pumped cut, charging an admission fee, and after the ship is floated to ex hibit it at the principal ports of the Lord Nelson and Soap. "As occasional squalor is the worst evil of poverty and labor, so cleanli ness should be considered the greatest blessing of luxury and ease," argued Mr. Frank Prindle in expatiating on the mora1 force of his own business, which is i e importation of soap. 'Howe' he continued, "those in the seats . f the mighty are not alto gether without reproach on this sub ject. It i. i well authenticated fact, if not genert. lly known that the celebrat ed Lord Nelson had not washed his nands during the last eight years of his life, and Napoleon shunned a bath as though he was a cat. "A clergyman once told me that he believed the expression 'cleanliness is next to godliness' referred to moral cleanliness and that the fashionable dally morning bath was of little con sequence to health or habits. We should, he said, polish our maimers as well as our teeth, make our temper as sweet as our breath, and cut off our peccadilloes as well as our nails." What Father Did. Employed in the family of the late Gen. William G. Ward of Grymes Hill, Staten island, there was an English housemaid who was questioned as to what her father's occupation was. "O, father just sits." "What do you mean by that?" "Well, you see, ma'am, father's just the living image of Mr. Gladstone, and when the artists want to paint a pic ture of Mr. Gladstone they sends for father, and he just sits." New York Times. Wu Ting-Fang in Hard Position. Wu Ting-Fang, formerly Chinese minister to this country, is now con nected with the bureau of commerce and learning in his native land. The head of the bureau is a very conserva tive old official, the next in rank be ing a young prince, who is completely dominated by his superior. Under the circumstances it is not believed that Mr. Wu is pleasantly situated, he be ing a man of progressive Western ideas. Object Lesson for Clergymen. Dr. Macnamara, M. P., said at a clerical conference the other evening that if the clergymen of London were to spend a week under the present housing conditions of the poorer classes they would return to their homes .the next day the most violent set of Socialists that ever breathed, and their first act would be a demon stration in Hyde Park. She'd Tell the Hens. Mistress If you want eggs to keep they must be laid in a cool place. Bridget Oi'll mintion it to the hens at wanst, mum. To Raise Wreck of the Maine Oak Park, Illinois. nothing, but think a minute a day in a way to make less errors than they have been making. Am I more accurate than two, ten or twenty years ago? Yes, I am, and because I am 1 am doing some things successfully to-day that I could not do five years ago though I had the opportunity. How have I become more accurate? By reviewing each day and studying a better way. By remembering that there are others who have feelings and perplexities. By believing that every person knows something use ful to me. By remembering that the best friends are made out of those people who doubt your ability or pur pose. By holding to the idea that a little gain is better than none. Ask me questions. This means you! United States. It is also proposed to manufacture articles of brass, bronze and copper found upon the wreck into mementoes to be sold with certificates of American and Cuban officials as to their genuineness. Should it be found possible to re pair the damaged part of the vessel, it will be placed on the floating dock at Havana, and tho battleship com pletely repaired. It is believed that the steel and iron have not been materially corrod ed by the action of the water owing to the protection afforded by a thin marine growth upon all surfaces. The actual work in Havana harbor will be begun very soon. The cofferdam will be circular in form, with an inside diameter of 354 Proposed Cofferdam. feet in the clear, thus providing a clearance of 15 feet at each end of the battleship. The cofferdam will consist of two eccentric timber walls spaced eight feet apart in the clear, each wall be ing composed of three-inch planks dressed to a uniform thickness, laid flat and spiked together. The walls are to be tied together at intervals by solid radial partitions, also composed of three-inch planks dressed to a uniform thickness, laid fiat and thoroughly spiked. Engineer ing News. Humors of the Law. Law and equity are two things which God has joined together and man has put asunder. When a prisoner in Justice Maule's court was asked whether he had any thing to say why sentence should no! be pronounced upon him, he replied: "I wish God may strike me dead if I stole the ducks." Maule waited for about a minute, and then said: "Pris oner, as Providence has not inter fered I must. Three months' hard labor." A mayor on taking his seat on the bench for the first time informed the bar that during his year of office he would spare no effort to be neither partial nor impartial. Address of Sir Albert Rollit in London. Millions of Diamonds. By and by precious stones ought to be as plenty as they are in fairy tales. Thus one is apt to infer from the gov ernment report on the jewel mining industry. Nearly every country nowa days makes some contribution to the general stock. South Africa produces $26,000,000 worth of diamonds every year; from every 4,000,000 tons of blue rock excavated at Kimherley, a ton of diamonds is obtained. Pearls are found in varlous parts of North an(J South America, emeralds in Colombia, rubies and opals in Australia, and sapphires, emeralds, cat's-eyes, gar nets, topazes, amethysts, turquoises, beryls, chrysoberyls, chrysolites, tour malines and a dozen other precious stones in dozens of other places. Our own country paid $31,479,223 last year for jewel imports. Bostonian's Genius Recognized. Philip Hale, the eminent Boston musical critic, has long held an en viable position among musical littera teurs as the most erudite and incisive of contemporary musical critics. Mr. Hale studied for the law and was ad mitted to the bar four years after his graduation from Yale in 1876. Sub sequently he studied music in Ger many and the organ under Guilmant in Paris. He has been prominent in musical journalism for more than a dozen years and editor of the Boston symphony prcgram books since 1901. It was Mr. Hale who originated the admirable mot concerning Edward MacDowell. "MacDowell," observed Mr. Hale on a certain occasion, "is a genius not a Boston genius, but a real genius." A Lump, at Least. "Say," sneered . the neighbor who was always' butting in, "what's the use o' your planting anything. You can't raise anything?" "No?" replied the hot-headed man. as he dug a hole lor another "I'll bet if I plant my fist in face It will raise something." bulb. your UMBRELLA THAT FOLDS UP. Designed for Traveling Men and Good for Absent-Minded. The earliest form of umbrella had the faculty of folding, but for a long time there has been an effect on the part of inventcrs to reduc-3 the bull: of the rain shield when folded. This bas been dene in a measure in recent designs by making a handle which was detachable, and for the purpose of packing the umbrella in a trunk or suit case this device answered. An umbrella capahle of folding In such a space that it can be carried in the hand satchel, or even the pock et, has been more recently made. This had been arrived at by making the handle, ribs and braces all tele scoping. WThen the umbrella Is closed after having been raised the extreme outside portion of the ribs close up under themselves and the braces break or fold so that the cover of the umbrella occupies a much less length than the ordinary umbrella, but the hulk is somewhat increased. When the parts are distended they are held firmly together by the spring bearing of the overlapping pieces. When the umbrella is raised it dif fers from others of the ordinary type in only that it is neecssary .to pro vide an opening at the points where the elbow in the rib is formed. Theso openings are covered with loose flaps, the presence of which are not obtru sive. The collapsing umbrella is es pecially designed for traveling people. BELIEVE IN THE FATES. Modern Greeks as Superstitious as Their Forefathers. "Some of the superstitions of the old mytholcgic religion .still prevail among the peasant classes In Greece," said Dr. George Horton. "Nor are the educated classes without such be liefs, such as that harm ensues from looking at the moon over the right shoulder, the belief in the three fates, the evil eye, the vampires and the nereids in general. Dressed in black and appearing as old women, the fates are supposed to come down from Olympus three days after the birth of a child, and to hold a meeting to determine its fate. Consequently, a table containing many dainties is set out for their invisible enjoyment. Es pecial care is taken lest the old ladies be enraged at not having enough good things to eat. ' "No woman desires to be left alone after her child is born, believing that the ugly old women may become jeal ous and wreck some awful vengeance. Smut is therefore smeared on the faces of the youngsters so that this jealousy may not become excited. "The young Athenian women fre quently go to the ancient tombs near Athens, and, calling upon the fates, beg them to reveal the identity of their future husbands, singing: 'From the top of Olympus, where are the fates, where Is my own fate?' " Washington Post. HUNTER TREED BY WOLVES. Hungry Pack Turn Tables on Minne sota Sportsman. Henry Temfehr, a business man of Chisholm, Minn., came to the court house to-day to claim $20 as bounty for a wolf pelt in his possession. He had a harrowing experience getting his pelt, according to his story, which is vouched for by Judge Brady of Hibbing. Mr. Temfehr was hunting north of Chisholm a few days ago, and while returning to town toward evening a pack of wolves assembled and threat ened to attack him. He sought safety in a tree, and he thought It would be easy work to despatch tjie pack, one at a time, from his safe perch in the tree, but after firing one shot, at which he came near falling to the ground, he changed his mind. The wolves scattered about, realiz ing their danger, and watched from a respectful distance. All night the wolves kept their coveted prey in the tree, and Mr. Temfehr, althougu warmly cothed, came near freezing to death. During the first part of the night he fired a few shots at the beasts, and when, numb with the cold, he climbed down in the morning, he found one dead wolf. It is supposed the other wolves hes itated to eat their dead companion for fear of meeting a like fate. Duluth Correspondence St. Paul Pioneer Press. The First Americans. Recent explorations of ruins in Yucatan bring to light wall paintings that show In a vivid way what kind of people the prehistoric Americans Saved Horse With Broken Leg. Prof. Ward, chief veterinarian of the University of California, has per formed a distinct and valuable service to the animal kingdom by successfully setting the broken leg of a horse. Heretofore the only cure for a broken leg has been to shoot the horse. Dr. Ward and his assistants etherized the animal, set the broken bone and band aged the leg in a plaster cast several inches in thickness. After the plaster set, the animal was allowed to stand up' or lie down, as he chose. Six weeks sufficed to completely.- restore, the limb. The bone has knit and (her horse will be put to light work in a few days. When the plaster was re moved, the animal was pronounced sound. V I i ' i i f 'I i ' MONUMENT' TO ETHAN 1 ALLN " - .- , - . - -To. Be Erected by Vermont SonsVcr? . American Revolution. . - - Wiliiam J.. Van Patten of Burling ton, Vt., has given the Vermont Sons of tho American Revolution a part ot the old Ethan Allen farm, known as -Indian Rock, in tl at city, Icr-the pur-' pose of the erection of a memorial tower lo Ethan Alien. - , ' It (s estimated, that the . tower ' will cost about $3.jw. Plans have' hecn prepared under the direction of Mr. Van Patten. The design will be of a told, military order and Tsill be jMUng and appropriate for the purpose. The tower will be 40 feet high and 24 feet square at the base, the battlements being 'wide enough so that the top will correspond., with the base. It will be built of marble, to be quarried near the spot. - The tower will be erected on a spot", the elevation of which is 200 feet affording an extensive view, of the surrounding country. -- The history of Ethan Allen farm-'ls of much interest. Before thepevolu tion it was owned by a torywho. on i account of his loyalty to Jere'at Brit ain, was foreaft tf s?avirthe country. His estate was subsequently confis cated by the state of Vermont and the property turned over to the land com missioner of Vermont.' By him 'it was sold to Gen. Ethan Allen, and be was living upon it at the of his death ' in 1789. The farm then became the . property of Gov. Van Ness, and. was . known for half a century as the Gov. Van Ness farm. The land fronts on the ' beautifnv : Winnoskl river. -The name Indian Rock was given to the spot by reason ' of the legend that" it was an outlook , for the Indians for long ages before the white man came to this country. The Indians of the Connecticut valley. . were wontio make long pilgrimages into this beautiful valley, to forage, and when near this spot would dis- . embark and send their scouts to the top of Indian RQCk to' keep an outlook for enemies. It is believed that the " very old grove of: chestnut' trees on the Ethac Allenfarm sprang fron.- , the seei -sa"rit he" native, t-"' they 1h ougny j 41 ." to .ju&aL w. Conned ijt ifeyTatey Vermont. ... The l;s;igmers of the Kevolutics have bti bronze tablet on tb rock, marking the site upon the -Mad-side, as belli g the residence of Ethan Allen at the time' of his death, which came from k fall as he was driving ': s load of. haj. V J -J ' ' ' y 1 " -- TO REMOVE THE -4 CIGAR BAND. Simple Device That Will Often Pre vent Spoiling Good Smoke. -. Only a few years, ago Jhe placing of a band around a cigar was.-unknown and when it appeared first the band of paper was to be seen only around the finest brands of smokers. At first it w-as a badge of excellence, , but later was adopted oy all cigar manufacturers who advertised their goods, and the band developed into a mere means of identification, which has often had the object of preventing substitution of inferior' goods. The use of the band has become so , general that there seems to be a de mand for some means of readily re moving the" same. One might thiiVt that this was a matter of no difficulty, but it is a' well known fact to Cigar smokers that most brands are placed on cigars so tightly that it is difficult to remove them. In attempting to re move the band with the finger-nail or with the point of a knife it frequent- ly happens that the wrapper of the cigar is so punctured or torn as to 1 injure the smoking quality of the.--cigar, if not entirely to destroy It. To facilitate the removal of the band an inventor has conceived the idea of making nse of a thread, string . . or cord under the band, having the -ends thereof projecting beyond the edges of the band brought together and tied into a knot, forming a loop. This loop can be readily taken hol of by the thumb and finger and by pulling on it the band will be readily Severed without marring wraoper in the least. This severii device1- may be placed under the band 'after the band is put upon the cigar. or it may be put on, the cigar at jtne time that the wrapper is placed there on. - , ' . .' . Trick of Clever Swindler. i. A man wearing the uniform of the S city tramway department recently boarded a Glasgow car and told the conductor that he had been sent to p.- relieve the latter. The. conductor .' handed over his tickets, punch and !. . cash, but on proceeding to the car barns he discovered that the story r was false. The bogus conductor re-Sj-i-mained on the car for about teir Ima- vk r- ittaa htwI then rllRAnneflrMl T t, : Woolly Calf in Vermont. John W. Averill of Barre, Vti ! owner of a heifer calf whose 1 covered wth a black wool inst hair.' 'Tfc calf is a little over , re, , Not Strong on Orthography A Cape . Porpoise citizen ree letter the other day upon .wfcfc. " the address, "Cape. Porpnst Me ..