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About McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1884)
eUlnshli listeners how 'The'rainfalVfdllowi tke plow. ' < i ; I 4 < AB last as tkey break it up , you see , And turn the heart to the sun , As they open the furrows deep and free , And the Ullage In begun. "The earth grows mellow , and more and more Olt holds and sends to the sky. A. moisture it never had before" . " When itaiace was hard and dry. " "And so , wherever the plowshares run The clouds run overhead , * And the Boll that works and lets in the sun With water is always fed. " I wonder if that old farmer knew The half of his simple word , Or guessed the message that , heavenly true , Within it was hidden and heard ? It fell on my ear by chdtace that day , But the gladness lingers now , To think it is always God's dear way That the rainfall follows the plow. FA. . D. ' T. Whitney. POPULAR SCIENCE. The tunnel connecting the Lanca shire and Cheshire sides of the River Mersey is nearly finished. ' The total product of copper of the Lake Superior mines for the year 1883 is reliably estimated at 60,000,000 pounds. M. Boulez , who has been appointed vice president of the academy of sci ences , Paris , will be the president of that organization next year. A writer in the American Druggist says that oiled paper is a very good substitute for oiled silk for surgical dressings when economy is required. There were 28,810 houses built in London and the suburbs in 1882 , form ing 508 new streets and one new square , covering a distance of 75 1-2 miles. To preserve sandstone it is advisable first to let it dry as thoroughly as pos sible and then paint it or coat it with sillicate of soda. Manufacturer's Ga zette. Dr. Louvain , of Carlsbad , has met with several cases in which difficulty of breathing was due to the administra tion of moderate dose * of salycilicacid. The breathing was labored and very Tapid. That which recently excited the close attention of the observers of the Pons- Brooks comet was the remarkable changes in the intensity of the bright ness it presented from time to time. Whatever may be true of harmless luxuries in the way of drinks the Lan cet maintains that Health , happiness and work fina stimulus enough in the un sophisticated well of nature in pure waterv The Scientific American suggests the rubbing of the joints of stylo- graphic pens on which the fingers rest with the thin edge of a piece of wax to prevent soiling the fingers with the ink that escapes from the imper fect joint. Electric lights "have been introduced into a gunpowder manufactory in England. The buildings are scattered over three miles of territory , and the wires are carried above ground from a dynamo near the center of the in- cloi-ure. As a cure for * he bites of rattle snakes and other poisonous creatures the following is offered : Jndigo four drams , gum camphor eight .drams , alcohol eight ounces ; mixed and kept in close bottles. Apply to the wound and the cure is soon completed. Pollution of Well Water. Tort Herald , March 7. Dr. Frankland has recently called attention in the London Times to a case of well-water pollution which has far more than a local interest. The pro prietor of a brewery at Brentford , de pending for its water supply on a large well sunk into the chalk , suddenly found the water poisoned to a degree rendering it utterly unfit for brewing or dietic purposes. Upon putting chloride of lithium in a neighbor's wefi it was soon discovered that it made its way into the brewer's well , and it was learned that the former had been con verted into a cesspit for receiving fac tory sewage. Though the injured party brought An action against his neighbor in the chancery court , she case was de cided in favor of the defendant. Dr. Frankland justly argues that this de cision will be a serious blow at public health , as the result of "the growing pollution of rivers and streams" every year makes- the public "more depend ent on subterranean water. " There is more need than most people suppose for municipal legislation in this country to guard the underground water from pollution. The increasing insufficiency and foulness of the supply furnished through the pipes in some of our largest cities will , eventually force people to resort to pumps and wells wherever it can be safely done , as in suburban districts. That in many places this return to the primitive water supply would inure to the interests of health cannot be doubted if only the wells sunk were protected from pollu tion by wanton or careless persons. While notable instances in which con taminated wells have produced fatal sickness in a locality have often been paraded tothe discreditof subterranean water for dietetic purposes , it is prob able than contaminated river water has slain its thousands. Should the Asiatic cholera , epidemic in the east last year , resume its westward march this sum mer , the question raised by Dr. Frank- land will loom up as one of vast mo ment. The Germs of Fever. Dr.B.W. Carpenter In the nineteenth Centurr. I have recently had the opportunity of learning , on the spot , the full partic ulars of a case in which four members of one household were last year attacked with typhoid fever one of them nar rowly escaping with her life- under circumstances which left no doubt in the mind of the very accomplished vV. * ± i ± . _ _ pehinK of * n old oewpool ; belong ing to a neighboring , .hovuw , then in course of 'demolition. ' " The bouse in which the outbreak occurred is large and airy , and stands by itself in a most salubrious situation. The most careful examination failed to disclose any de fect either in its drainage or its water supply ; there was no-typhoid in the neighborhood , and the milk supply was unexceptionable. But the neighbor ing house being old , and having been occupied by a school , its removal had been determined on to make way for a house of higher class ; and as the of fensive odor emanating from the un covered cesspool was at once perceived in the next garden , and the outbreak of typhoid followed at the usual in terval , the case seems one which ad mits of no reasonable question. On the whole , then , the conclusion * seems clear , that while the breeding ground of ordinary malarious germs is the earth alone , and the breeding ground of the ordinary exanthemata is the hu man body alone , there is an interme diate class of pestilential diseases- including cholera , typhoid and proba bly yellow ' fever in which ( as Mr. Simon tersely expressed it ) "certain : iicrophytes are capable of thriving equally , though perhaps in different forms'either within or without the an imal body ; now fructifying in soil or waters of appropriating quality , and now the self-multiplying contagion of a bodily disease. ' * Old-Time Nonsense. Or. Koota'a Health Monthly. The Minneapolis , Minnesota , Tribune recently made a "brief mention" of "Science in Story" and says that it ac quaints the youthful reader with many things of which he might be well and wisely ignorant. " The writer thinks that "children should acquire a gradual knowledge of themselves through the medium of home and school training , rather than from the teachings of books which in their -effect are little better than the prurient literature they condemn. " Considering the fact that hundreds of newspapers throughout the United States have spoken of "Sci ence in Story" in the highest terms of commendation , we are not at all piqued by this left-handed notice. The work has been-highly spoken of by such pa pers as the Independent , the' Christian Intelligencer , the New York Times , the Cleveland Leader , the Chicago Inter-Ocean , the Graphic , the Com mercial Advertiser , Hall's Journal of Health , and a host of other first-class papers throughout the United States. The object therefore of noticing this ar ticle of the Minneapolis'Tribune is sim ply to call attention to the dangerous species of old fogyism which crops cut here and there and everywhere , and which furnishes the material for our vice societies and supports such pecu liar specimens of the human family as Anthony Comstock. Considering that suuh people , however , are really scarce , it is wonderful how much in fluence they have. It is astonishing that they can get legislatures to pass laws to meet their narrow ideas. It has been said over and over again that children should acquire a gradual knowledge of themselves , and with what result ? It has been proposed again and again that they should learn certain matters from their parents , and what has come of this teaching ? As populations grow more dense it is get ting so that even children of five or six years of age , unless properly instruct ed , gather certain knowledge in a way to be a curse to them. That is , they get it from hearing vulgar conversa tion , and from what they overhear from older persons in a casual way. We recently received a letter from a west ern friend who.gave us some most re markable accounts of what was going on among little children 'five or six years old. Of the hundreds-of .papers .which have spoken the Minneapolis Tribune is the first to find fault with the purity of "Science in Story. " There have been two other unfavorable notices , one from a southern paper , be cause wer had made a lion of a black boy , and another from a paper having decidedly bourbonish democratic pro clivities. The Minneapolis Tribune bears of the palm. Four Hogs to the Cord. New York Sun. ' "Come up and' see some hogs , " said Mr. Charles Rohe to a friend yester day. The hogs were piled along Thirty-third street from Mr. Rohe's place to the corner of Eighth avenue , over 100 feet distant. "To fully comprehend the size of these hogs , " said Mr. Rohe , "a little comparison is necessary. Thus a neat little phaeton mare weighs anywhere from 800 to 900 pounds. An ordinary roadster weighs anywhere near 1,000 pounds. A good farm horse will go from 1,200 to 1,300 pounds : Of 'the twenty hogs piled along Thirty- third street , the runt weighs 866 pounds. The weights of the others .were painted on their rounded jaws , and ran from 873 to 1,098 pounds. Twenty of them weighed 19,648 pounds. Four of them measured a cord. The breeds are known as red and'white Jerseys. "Where did they all come from ? " "Burlington , N. J. , " said Mr. Rohe. "They were raised by Mr. John Car ter. He's got some more like them , only one is larger. They dress down about 15 per cent. Those hogs had * a better house to live in than a third of the people of this city have. Each hog had a separate stall that was kept clean and sweet by con stant attention and unlimited , fresh bedding. They were cared for , just as fast horses are. They were fed on meal and milk. As a lot they are the heaviest ever brought to New York , or ever raise/ ! , for that matter. The largest one of the lot is the largest hog on record except one not slaughtered yet. " . "Didit pay ? " "Yes and no. The gratification of beating the record is always worth the expense ; but lighter hogs yield more money on the investment. " A young physician must not lose tients. If he does he will injure trade. A poor ' * 'old bachelor living alone , ' With a heart which had almost turned to atone , Had only One friend in whom he to ok pride. One friend who was nev er known to deride ? So he sang Ita prai se In his quaint old way. And these were the words I heard him say : Your silver tea pot and Wedgwood so fine , Yoursparkllng ale and your generous wine , I care not for If the cup that cheers , Is filled from the teapot which time endears. The little 4 brown teapot , homely and old , I prize far more than the miser his gold. It welcomes me 'when I'm weary for rest , "With a cup of Hyson , of- friends the best. 'GOLD IIDNTEBS. The Stampede to the Idaho JHlnes. Cor. Chicago Times. It is never too cold or too hot for men in search of gold. I have been near the Idaho gold mines three days and have seen pack trains one after another filing up the old Mullan road to the gold fields , and now I have just thawed my ink to remark that the thermometer now indicates twenty- three below. The air is still and clear , and the tall pine trees around the fort glisten with an icincss such as I have vever before seen. The new city , which lies alongside the reservation , is just beginning to bristle with hotels and stores , and the boat builders are working on the steamer propped up above the ice. Everything is going for ward in the way of preparation , and if there are not 50,000 Kien going through this place during the next six months , then somebody will be fooled. Town lots are selling at prices running into the hundreds , and every man at the garrison expects to get rich enough on his mine during the spring and sum mer to retire into -civil life. Life here is civil enough , as far as the real dis tinction goes , and I could ask for noth ing better than my place by the broad in Lieut. Kinzie's open fireplace quar ters. The hotel is so crowded that the average is two in a tied and some on the floors in nearly every room , Jand while everybody is doing his best to make things comfortable , it still falls far short of the attractions of an offi cer's mess. . All sorts of stories come from the mines. So far I have seen no one from there who is not going back in the spring. With the spirit of the oc casion strong within me , I "grub staked" a young man known to me as perfectly trustworthy. Before leaving Portland , Oregon , 1 received the fol lowing letter from him , which I send you in the original. The statement substantially agrees with what I have Eicked up in the three days I have been ere : EAGLE Crrr. Well , 1 just arrived yesterday , and I traveled en foot for eighty-six long , long miles , and it was the hardest trip that I ever dreamed of. The camp is booming , and there are 1,200 men in the mines. Snow is from four to seven feet deep. Every foot ef ground is taken , but I am going across the mountains in a few days to try and prospect some ; but I am afraid 1 can't do much for two months. They are working a lew mines , and they are showing up fine. Nine out of every ten claims have been relocated , and there is going to be some big fighting * this summer. There is only one female in the town. Men are coming in at the rate of fifty and sixty per day. My friends say they will work me into some good ground. I feel very much elated. There are about thirty miles of mines already located , and there is timber on every ioot of it. J. H. M. The officers at the fort seem to have confidence in the future developments , and they are not men to be either "en thused" or stampeded. I confess that I do not-believe .enough is known yet to warrant me in advising men 'to go. Two companies have been formed and are beginning to work on the mines only a few miles from Cojur d'Alene City. St. Joe River valley , near the lake , is to be raked open by some ex pectant men who have been down that way ; and at Wolf Lodge , between here and the mission , I am told there will be good digging. The old miners say it will be a quartz mining field , rather than placer , though some lumps as big as one's finger ( say the little fin ger ) have been shown me. They , came out of the placers and are solid gold. There are stories of bigger ones , and I have seen quartz specimens rich in "shot gold , " as they call it. They per haps came from up above , at the new mines , and perhaps from Liberia. As to "Taking Colds. " Popular Science Monthly. No man can freeze himself into a ca tarrh. In cold weather the hospitals of our northern cities often receive patients with both feet and both hands frozen , with frost-bitten ears and frost- sore eyes , but without a trace of a catarrhal - tarrhal affection. Duek hunters may wade all day in a frozen swamp with out affecting the functions of their res piratory organs. Ice cutters not rare ly come in for an involuntary plunge bath , and are obliged to let their clothes dry on their backs ; it may re sult in a bowel complaint , but no ca tarrh. Prolonged exposure to a cold storm may in rare cases induce a true pleural fever , a very troublesome affec-- tibn , but as different from a "cold" - asa a headache is from a toothache the upper air passages remain unaffected. Sudden transition from heat to cold does not change the result. In winter the "pullers" of a rolling-mill have of ten to pass ten times an hour from the immediate neighborhood of a furnace to the chill draught of the open air ; their skin becomes as rough as an armadil lo's , their hair becomes grizzly or lead- colored ; but no catarrh. On my last visit to Mexico , I ascended the peak of Orizaba from the south side , and reached the crater bathed in perspira- \ TO ino northwest slope , we were for ten minutes exposed to an ice-storm that swept the summit in blasts of fitful fury. Two of my companions , a boy of sixteen and an old army surgeon , were not used to mountain climbing and couli hardly walk when we got back to our camp in the foot-hills , but our lungs were none the worse for the adventure. Dr. Franklin , who , like Bacon and Goethe , had the gift of an- tioipatlve intuitions , seems to have sus pected the mistake of the cold-air fal lacy. "I shall not attempt to explain , " says he , "why damp clothes occasion colds'rather than wet ones , because I doubt the fact ; I believe that neither the one nor the other contributes to this effect , and that the causes of colds are totally independent of wet and even of cold.1' He Was Mistaken. The Jersejman. "Nice-child , very nice child" observed an old gentleman , crossing the aisle and addressing the mother of the boy who ' had just'hit him in the eye with a wad of paper. "How old are you , my son ? " "None of your business , " replied the youngster , taking aim at another pas senger. "Fine boy" smiled the old man , as the parent regarded her off spring with pride. "A remarkable fine boy. What is your name my son ? " "Puddin' Tame ! " shouted the young ster , with a giggle at his own wit. "I thought so. " continued the old man , pleasantly. "If you had given me three guesses at it , that would have been the first one I would have struck on. Now , Puddin' , you can blow those things pretty straight , can't you ? " "You bet ! " the squealed boy , delighted at the compliment. "See me take that old fellow over there ! " "No , no ! " exclaimed the old gentleman hastily. "Try it on the old woman I was sitting with. She has boys of her own , and she wont mind. " "Can yon hit the lady for the gentleman , Johnny ? " ask ed the fond parent. Johnny drew a bead and landed the pellet on the end of the old woman's nose. But she did mind it , and rising in her wrath soar ed down on the small boy like a blizz " ard. She put him down "over the line , reversed him , ran him backwards till he didn't know which end of him was front , and finally dropped him into the lap of the scared mother , with a bene diction whereof the purport was that she'd be back in a moment and skin him alive. "She didn't seem to like it , Puddin' , " smiled the old gen- man , sostly. "She's a perfect stranger to me , but I understand she is a matron of a truant's home , and I thought she would like a little fun ; but I was mis taken , " and the old gentleman smiled sweetly-as he went back to his seat. Burnside's Boyhood. Ben. Perley Poore , Gen. Burnside and Senator Morton , when they were boys , were apprentices in the little village of Liberty , Ind. , Burnside in a tailor's shop and Morton in a hatter's. One day the Hon. Caleb B. Smith , then representative in the federal congress from that district , was about to start on an electioneering tour when he discovered that there was a rent in his coat. Stepping into a tailor shop to have it mended , he found no one there but young Burnside , who was stitching away on a coat while he was attentively studying a volume of " ' Tactics " which he "Cooper's , propped up by a "goose" and kept open by a pair of shears. Questioning the young man the con gressman was struck with his self-re liant confidence and the unflinching look with which he returned his gaze , and unknown influence prompted him to say : "You should be a cadet at West Point ! " That remark changed the young tailor's destiny. He sought and obtained an appointment to West Point , but he never forgot the neat and trim habits of the tailor shop. The Country Editor. Danville Advertiser. The country editor lives nearer to his readers than the city editor does. The country editor knows by sight and by name a goodly proportion of his sub scribers , and to a large extent he is fa miliar with their family history. He personally congratulates them upon the birth of n , child , and sympathizes with them when death takes a loved one from the family circle. He attends'the funerals , the weddings , the anniver saries , and all other sp'rts of gatherings. He joins their societies , religious and otherwise , acts as president or secre tary , or as a private member , discusses questions with them , writes essays and delivers speeches. He is , a trustee of all sorts of local enterprises , and tries to make himself generally "useful as well as ornamental. " How to Make Things Hum Wall Street News. A smart-stepping citizen of Tennessee was in New York a few days ago to see about raising money for a proposed railroad line down in his county , and , wh'en asked to explain , he said : "There's no explanations about it. This is to be a railroad 200 miles long. " "But about the company ? " "Oh , that's been organized and all the of ficers elected. " "What's the capital ? " "Five million dollars. " "How much stock has been taken ? " "About § 300 worth. " "What ! Only § 300 worth ? " "That's all , mister , and if you fellers down here will only pitch in and gobble up the rest of it , we'll go ahead and make things hum. " Too Strict. Texaa Sittings. In Germany the police regulations are very strict , and any violation of them is promptly punished. The people have a holy terror ot the law , Two gentlemen happened to meet in Berlin , and the following conversation took place : Have you heard the dreadful news about Miller ? " "No , what is it1" "He was in a boat in the river. He fell overboard and was drowned. "The water was too deep " "Didnt he know how to swim ? " "Dont you know that all persons are forbid den to swim in the river ? " AGENT FOR THE - * 1 : > fw -i J8 ' COz COO tt ttO -4 O > i * ttH O H > co iii . * o Sold Low for cash , or on easy payments or Teat ed until the rent pay ? f < . r the organ. , M. A. 8PALDING , Agent , . . HcGOOir - - NEBRASKA. STOCK DIKECTOKY DENNIS M'KILLIP. . Ranch on Red Willow , Thornburg , Hayes County , Neb. Cattle branded "J. M. " on leftside. Young cattle branded same as above , also4 'J. " on left jaw. Under-alope right ear. Horses branded "E" on left shoulder. FOR SALE. My range of 1,000 acres of deeded land in one body , including the Black and Byfield hay lands ; timber and water with two good farm houses and other improvements. Convenient to No. 1 school privileges. Situated in the Republican val ley west of Red Willow creek. Call on or address * J. F. BLACK , Red Willow , Neb. WILSON. Stock brand circle on left shoulder ; also dewlap and a crop and under half crop on left ear , and a crop and under bit in the rizht. Ranch on the Republican. Post- office , Max , Dundy county , Nebraska. HENRY T. CHURCH. Osborn , Neb. Range1 : Red Willow creek , in southwest corner of Frontier county , cat tle branded "O L O * ' on right side. Also , an over crop on right ear and under crop on left. Horses branded " 8" on right shoulder. SPRING CREEK CATTLE CO. Indianola. Neb. Range : Republican Val ley , east of Dry Creek , and near head of Spring Creek , in Chase county , J. D. WKLBORK , Vice President and Superintendent. JOHN HATF1ELD & SON. McCook , Neb. , Ranch 4 miles southeast , on Republican river. Stock branded with bar and bay 65 on left hip g J. B. MESERVE. Ranch , Spring Canyon on the Frenchman River , in Chase county , Neb. Stock branded as above ; also " 717" on leftside ; "O.L. " . on left hip ; " 7" on right hip and "L. " on right shoulder ; "L. " on left shoulder and ' 'X. " left . Half on jaw. under-crop left ear , and square-crop right ear. PHELPS. Range : Republican Valley , four miles west of Culbertson , south side of Republi can. Stock branded " 161" and " 7-L. " P. O. Address , Culbertson , Neb. THE TURNIP BRAND. Ranch 2 miles north of McCook. Stock branded on left hip , and a fewdouble cross es on left side. C. D. ERCANBRACK. STOKES & TROTH. P. O. Address , Carrico , Hayes -county , Nebraska. Range , Red Willow , above Car rico. Stock branded as above. . Also run the lazv ci brand. . GEORGE J. FREDERICK. Ranch4miles southwest of McCook , on the Driftwood. Stock branded "AJ" on the left hip. P : O. address , McCook , Neb. W. N. PROCTOR. McCook , Neb. , range ; Red Willow creek , in southwest cornerof Frontier county. Also E. P. brand on right hip and side and swal low-fork in right ear. Horses branded E. P. on right hip. A few branded ' 'A' ' on rieht hip. ALL LIVE DRUGGISTS SELL. gPRING BLOSSOLTI * * UC ( iciBJtT Anti-Bilious and Dyspeptic Oira.
