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TIDES IN THE SOLID EARTH.
In the April issue of Harper's Ma
gazine Prof. Oscar Hecker says:
'The ebb and Hood tides of the sea
are familiar pneuomena. Every one
knows that the ebb follows the Hood
tide at regular intervals of six hours,
and that the flood succeeds the ebb tide
after a similar interval of six hours.
Moreover, almost every one knows
that this rising and falling of the wat
er is due chiefly to the attraction of the
Moon. It follows, therefore, that the
Moon should afTect not only the water
but also the land, and that it ought to
produce tides in the solid earth. This
conclusion has recently been verified
by actual measurement. The Moon
produces tidal waves which constantly
distort the Earth.
"Our solid globe, by which we mean
not merely the crust, but the entire
planet itself, is incessantly deformed
by the tremendous, disruptive, attrac
tive forces of the Moon, and period
ically changes its shape according to
the Moon's position. This earth which
we are accustomed to regard as solid
and immovable, is therefore not ab
solutely rigid, but is traversed by an
elastic flood tide. There is something
strange in the thought that a city, like
New York, with all its huge buildings
is imperceptibly rising ami falling
twice a day through the distance of
half a yard. Delicate instruments of
precision prove beyond question that
this rising and falling does occur."
Now if Prof. Hecker had also des
cribed the tidal action on the Earths
atmospheric envelope he would have
shown that it is quite as powerful.
This action of the Moon on the atmos
phere gives our basis for estimating
the influence of the Moon in weather
changes.
BAILEY'S SILK HAT.
The world does move, evcii in slow
going Texas. Senator Joe Bailey now
wears a dress suit and a silk hat on
high social occasions.
Only a few years ago it was reported
that Bailey's aversion to a dress suit
wits so great that rather than wear one
he refused to dine at the white house.
This ftory made Bailey nearly as cel
ebrated in a way as the story of Sock
less Simpson of Kansas, one time
congressman.
Bailey went to Washington with a
style in clothes that suited him and his
constituents exactly. He wore the
broad soft hat on all occasions. His
vet was cut wide to show as broad an
expanse of bosom as would a dress vest.
A double breasted, long tailed, frock
coat and a white lawn tie, completed
the make up. It was the very acme
of fashion in the village of Gaiusville
where Joe lived, and if it was not the
elegant thing in Washington so much
the worse for Washington in the ques
tion of style.
The different sections of our country
have their distinctive costumes just as
the different countries of Europe, if
not so pronounced, and Texas has its
native costumes. In Europe the
native costumes are only worn by the
peasantry but the citizens dress prac
tically alike all over the world.
When the king of England wants to
please the Highlanders he dons the
kilts. Much in the same way the wily
politicians in our country when hunt
iuir votes, attire themselves after the
fashion of their constituents. Some of
them, however, are honest in their
prejudices, and wear the native cos
tume every where, even for years at
Washington. Gradually the effect of
public opinion gets in on them and
thev cease to make themselves con
spicuous by their outlandish appear
ance. Senator Bailey, we learn, has passed
the last stage of resistance which was
to wear a dress suit with a slouch hat
and is now to be seen of an evening in
a silk hat
What effect will this report have on
Bailey's home folks? His popularity
was so great that even his connection
with the Standard Oil company did
not knock him out, but will they stand
for Bailey in spade-tail coat and plug
hat? Lincoln Star.
THE TOMBS OF EGYPT'S KINGS.
In some of the tombs the sarcophagi
were still in place all empty, except
one. This was the splendid tomb of
Amenophis II., of the eighteenth
dynasty, who lived in the glory of
Egypt, 1600 B. C. a warrior who slew
seven Syrian chiefs with his own hand.
Gaddis had not told us what to expect
in that tomb, and when he had fol
lowed through the long declining way
and reached the royal chamber and
beheld there was not an empty sarco
phagus, but a king asleep, we were
struck to silence with that o.oOO years
of visible rest.
The top of the sarcophagus is re
moved, and is replaced by heavy plate
glass. Just over the sleeper's face
there is a tiny electric globe, and I be
lieve one could never tire of standing
there aud looking at that quiet visage,
darkened by age but beautiful in its
dignity, unmoved, undisturbed by the
storm and stress of the fretful years.
How loug he has been asleep! The
Israelites were still in bondage when he
fell into that quiet doze, and for their
exodus a century or two later he did
not care. Hector and Achilles and
Paris and the rest had not battled on
the Plains of Troy; the gods still
assembled on Mount Olympus; Rome
was not yet dreamed; he had been
asleep nigh a thousand years when
Romulus quit nursing the she wolf to
build the walls of that city which
would one day rule the world. The
rise, the conquest, the decline of its
vast empire he never knew. When
her armies swept the nations of the
east aud landed upon his own short s
he did not stir in his sleep. The glory
of Egypt ebbed away, but he did not
care. Old religions perished, new gods
aud new prophets replaced the gods
and prophets he had known it mat
tered not to him, here in this under
world. Through every change he lay
here in peace just as he lies today, so
still, so Cue in his kingly majesty,
upon his face that soil electric glow
which seems in no wise out of place
because it has come, as all things come
at last, to him who waits. Harers
Weekly.
PRICES OF AUTOMOBILES.
There is much speculation today a
to whether the price of the motor car
will remaiu where it is. Many pre
dict that the day of overproduction is
not far off; that we shall before long
see automobiles a drug on the market
and the price cut almost in two. Peo
ple point back to the bicycle aud de
clare that motor car manufacturers
will he as anxious to dispose of their
product as were the makers of the two
wheeled pleasure vehicle that they
will strike out ou a desperate hunt for
buyers; that when the realization comes
that the number of consumers is limit
ed, eoiuetition will loosen up the
terms and hammer dowu the closing
figures of a bargain. To those, how
ever, who are closely following the de
velopment of the motor car business
such a culmination seems hardly pro
bable. Organization, consolidation of
forces, is incessantly at work in this
new industry. With the passing of
the ownership and control of accessory
plants turning out the more essential
parts into the bauds of the big makers,
the competition of the small producer
who is merely an assembler of parts
will become nominal, only, and may
be entirely wiped out in case of any
sudden slump in the demand. The
"powers that be" will regulate the sup
ply to meet the capacity of the public
to consume. Thus the price of the
product will remain where it is, enabl
ing the motor car magnate to contiuue
to reap bonanza dividends based on his
"expanded" capitalization. From
"Our Billion Dollar Toy," in Juuc
Technical World Magazine.
APOLOGY FOR BAD FAITH.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, is disposed
to enlarge on the theory which has
been growing on him for a year or
more against the declaration of party
platforms as a guide to party policy in
legislation. In the seuate last week he
denounced the theory of adhesion to
such declaration as "nothing more or
less than a proposition to transfer the
legislative power to this republic from
the bodies where the constitution lodg
ed it over to irresponsible political
conventions."
This is moonshine. The legislative
power is not transfei red to "irresponsi
ble political conventions" because no
legislators are bouud by the party
platforms except those who accept and
stand on platforms of their resective
parties. But in all representative
government it is a settled principle
that legislators are elected by the peo
ple with a view to the policies they
stand for. How shall the people know
what policy in government the men
they vote for will represeut?
No intelligent man demands a slav
ish, adhesion to the letter of party
platforms where ,uew conditions arise
to change the methods of reaching the
professed aim. But when on long
defined issues the party policy is de
clared, and men elected on that policy
proceed to break the pledges, it redu
ces political action to the science of
gaining votes on false pretenses.
Senator Bailey and others as prom
inently as he, have given signal illus
trations of that sort of politics. His
present counterblast against national
platforms is a sophisticated apology for
bad faith. Pittsburg Dispatch.
OREGON FOR BIG THINGS.
"Oregon is a state of big things,"
said Walter Lyon, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, of MarshGeld
to a Washington Post reporter. "One
county yields 0,000,000 bushels of
wheat annually; one county produces
0,000,000 pounds of wool a year; an
other is working on a 86,000,000
irrigation project. The commerce of
one county, Coos, which has no rail
road, was 86,000,000 last year. One
county has an area of 6,000,000 acres.
"One wagon road land grant com
pany holds 80,000 acres in one county.
One railroad holds .'i 000,000 acres by
virtue of a railroad land grant act of
congress. One-fifth of the state is in
forest reserve. No state in the union
has so much land held by virtue of
wagon and railroad land grants, and
no state in the union has so few roads.
The people are rising up against this
policy of wholesale landlordism, and
the government is cooperating in the
effort to shake loose the grip of the
holder of idle lands.
Oregon, as well as the entire North
west, is filling up with settlers, and
there is plenty of room for them.
There are thousands of acres of rich
agricultural lands and billions of feet
of matured timber ready for the first
comers. There are thousands of acres
of coal fields with 6,000 tons to the
acre. The county of Coos has 40,000,
000,000 feet of standing timlier and
400 square miles of coal, with only
2.r,(M)0 population."
There have Iieen few emergencies
that have arisen since Nebraska be
came a state that either demanded or
would justify the calling of a special
session of the legislature. And this
demand that Mr. Bryan is making on
his party for an extra session to enact
the referendum is founded on no neces
sity arising out of the needs of the peo
ple to gain relief from business distress
or unjust or unbearable political condi
tions, but is borne of some political
entanglement that Mr. Bryan dreams
now n.euaces his own uncertain politi
cal future. But why should the peo
ple of a great state be put to the ex
(teuse of holding au extra session of the
legislature in harvest time to save from
embarassmcut a self seeking politician
who has thoughtlessly involved him
self in the meshes of his own double
dealing on the liquor question? The
referendum is only a subterfuge and a
mighty poor one at that. A good deal
less than half the people believe in that
nonsense anyway and there never has
been a demand for it that sprang from
the grass roots. It is one of those
dreams that have been written in poli
tical platforms by shallow brained re
formers who expect by law to change
the nature of man and the course of
the universe. The referendum would
in no manner simplify the enactment
laws, or the administration of justice;
ou the contrary it would make more
cumbersome, uncertain and costly that
due process of law that the constitution
guarantees. Falls City Journal.
W. F. Porter, who was frequently iu
the limelight during the old populist
days, is agaiu in evidence, this time as
a candidate for the nomination for
railroad commissioner. Mr. Porter
kept things stirred up during his pre
vious career as officeholder, when he
was secretary of state, furnishing al
most as much newspaper copy as
Roosevelt does now. His chief assest
is a remarkably strong pair of lungs,
and he was always noticable in popu
list conventions a few years ago. He
will be remembered as "Porter-put-it-back,"
but in his announcement as a
candidate he objects to the name, say
ing that he took no money from the
state that he was not entitled to, aud
says he docs not owe the state a dollar,
"the supreme court to the contrary
notwithstanding." Beatrice Express.
Ze 6ine of Golf.
lie bad conic over from France and
tiad just been asked to give bis views
cu the ancient game of golf. With
much gesticulation be did so.
"Ab." be said, "your game of golf!
Yees, I know biui. You put on ze tunic
so red ns ze Ingleesb rosbif under
neath done. You strap your sack of
sticks on ze back of a boy twice so
small ns ze bag.
"lie scrape a mud pudding to make
balance a leetle white ball. lie make
three bad tries to balance him, then
very angry you call aloud. 'Feur!
Then you what you call address ze
ball. and. ma foi, your address is some
times of Ian-mage to make afraid.
"You strike, and ze ball And himself
in ze long grass.
"You call aloud for ze nib lunger
stick and beat ze ground till your part
ner say. ITo. chuck It! You say But.
my friend. I excuse myself to repeat
what you say.
"Ah. my friend, you are a great na
tion, bat your golf game gives me
what you call ze pip!" Pearson's
Weekly.
ATCHISON GLOBE NOTES.
A Vicious Doctrine.
The new Socialist mayor of Milwau
kee has his good points. Wishing to
appoint a thoroughly competent man
as health commissioner, the mayor
went to Chicago, aud found his man
in Dr. Charles B. Ball, chief sani tan
inspector of that city. He offered Dr.
Ball a salary twice as large as he was
receiving iu Chicago. The best fea
ture of this offer is the fact that it was
not made to some Milwaukee medicine
man as reward for political services
rendered. In Germany, noted above
other countries for the excellence of
its muuicipal governments, it is not
unusual for a city to go beyond its
borders in search of a mayor, as train
ing for the work is considered a quali
fication. That seems a pretty good
idea, whether it be socialism, or some
more popular name.
This country still clings too closely
to the vicious doctrine of Andrew
Jackson that to the victor belong the
spoils.
"Working" Father.
Father never has had a chance to
prove it, but it is his opinion that this
is what happens every night at home
when he turns the corner near the
house: "There comes father," says
mother. "Now, Susie, you are his
favorite, so you ask him outright to
take us all to the show tonight. If he
refuses, you set up a howl. Johnny,
you scream, and Mary, you -ay you
might as well have no father; that the
little Brown children who have no
father get to go to all the shows. Then
1 will look at him reproachfully, and
say, 'John, you ought to be ashamed
of yourself to deny the poor little
things a little pleasure like that.' If
he still refuses, childrcu, I will dress
you all up after supper and take you
down town for soda water, and we will
start oil' looking abused, and forget to
kiss him good bye. Here he is at the
door, children, now don't forget your
parts. And if he is good natured, this
might be a good chance to ask for a
new pony, a lawn swing, aud permis
sion to buy a dog."
Roosevelt's Heroes.
Nearly every man has his horses
whom he worships in greater or less
degree, ranging from Alexander the
Great, to Jefferies or Ty. Cobb. Our
living ex-presideut is no exception to
this rule, and he lists his heroes thus
in chronological order: Timoleon,
Hampden, Washington and Lincoln.
Of the first, it is quite possible you
never heard, and knowledge of the se
cond is perhaps limited with many to
mere mention in Gray's Elegy.
Timoleon was a native of the Greek
city of Corinth some 2,:00 years ago.
He was a fighter, and his first great
achievement was to save Corinth from
the designs of his brother, Timoyhanes
to establish government by himself,
instead of government by the people.
Later, he established democratic gov
ernment in Syracuse, a Corinthian
colony in Sicily.
John Hampden lived and died in
resistance to the efforts of Charles I to
overthrow the British constitution, and
establish a despotism. The other two
heroes are heroes to most Americans.
The Awakening.
The world needs wide awake, pro
gressive people if it would progress,
but you hear a lot of foolishness, and
worse, about this awakening business.
When a wise reformer needs a follow
ing to applaud him, and keep him in
spending mouey, he appeals to the
people to awake to their interests, aud
fight some Great Wrong, which they
hadn't i.olircd, and which likely
doesn't exist. He wants them to
march in parades, and attend mass
meetings, and neglect their join' and
ciops, iu order to give him n good
start. Of course he doesn't put it that
way, but that is the way it Imp-tens in
a good many instances. The people
are really awake, and doing about the
best thing for themselves when they
are attending to their own affairs, as
repulsive as this idea may seem to men
who have no affairs of their own. The
awakening you hear so much about in
connection with divers dreams and
schemes, is really a good deal the
reverse: it puts the eopIe to sleep, or
makes them lazy aud shiftless and dis
contented, and robs them in the pro
cess. The Crazy Streak.
People are worrying each other
crazy. You can't find a man who
doesn't complain of neighbors who an
noy him needlessly.
The courts are full of neighborhood
rows; all of them due to lack of ordi
nary politeness and fairness.
We Americans indulge in Big Talk
about big subjects, and then indulge
pretty habits that respectable people
should be ashamed of.
The Town Row is everywhere an in
stitution; everywhere the people are
worrying each other crazy. They
-would be much lietter off, if they
would be polite and fair, but nothing
can influence them to be more sensi
ble; insanity is growing rapidly. The
cost of taking care of the insane is the
biggest single item of public expense
in New York state.
Successive federal census show that
in the country at large there is a steady
and ominous increase in insanity an
increase that is out of all proportion to
the growth of population. In 1880
there were in the asylums of the United
States 81 6 insane persons to every mil
lion of the population. The number
had risen to 1,182, and to 1,862 in
11)00. At the same rate of increase
the census that is now being taken
should show aliout 2,800 insane asylum
inmates to every million of the popula
tion. And by the same token more than
half of the inhabitants of the United
States will be in the madhouse by the
cud of the present century: half of the
eopIe will become keepers and train
ed nurses for the other half.
For Women Only.
Mrs. Delbcrt Allen, of West Union
N. J., a frail little woman, was yester
day presented with her eighth child,
and it had been less than twelve years
since the first child came. The Lord
had sent the child; the Good Book
say3 so, aud if there hadn't been seven
before it, with the pain of birth, the
care and the work and worry, Mrs.
Allen might have realized that it was
the work of the Lord. But eight
babies arriving in less than twelve
years rather dims a woman's percep
tions of the work of the Creator, aud,
instead of realizing that the Lord was
to be praised for his gift, she got the
notion in her head that her husband
was to blame.
The doctor had gone, and the nei
ghbor woman who cared for her, had
left the room. The babies came so
often to the Allen home that it was
not regarded as necessary to keep the
father from work, and, when he got
home that night, it was his first inti
mation that he was a father again.
He entered the bedroom door, the wife
looked at the little burden on her arm,
the eighth iu less than twelve years,
and, forgetting the Good Book says
the Lord gave, and only the Lord can
take away, she put the blame nearer
home by reaching under the pillow for
a revolver. There was a shot, ami the
father of the eight children fell to the
floor dead.
We leave all discussion of the ethics
of this proceeding to the women.
They know even belter than Theodore
Roosevelt, who complains of raee sui
cide, what it means to give birth to a
child, and some of them also know
what it means to have eight in les-s
than twelve years.
MISS ELDER IN "MR. OPP."
.Miss Donna Hell Klder has made for
herself an enviable reputation as a
teacher of expression. Many of her
pupils are occupying prominent places
in the public eye as professional en
tertainers. As an interpretive reader Miss Klder
takes first rank. She is able to show
hundreds of exceptionally strong tes
timonials from the ablest critics of
the country. Her press notices have
been many and favorable.
In securing this refined and cul
tured artist for the Chautauqua pro
gram the management feels that it has
been exceeding fortunate. Miss Klder
will probably render a monologue
abridgment of the fascinating and po--ular
problem-story "Mr. Opp." during
our assembly, hut she has a large and
widely selected program upon which
she may depend when the occasion
seems to demand.
FROM PULPIT TO FACTORY.
George L. McNutt. the Pull Dinner
Pall Man, who will speak at our Chau
tauqua this season, has a heart brim
full of sympathy for the laborers all
over the land. His experience in don
ning their garments and working with
them in the shops has given him the
inside view so necessary to intelligent
treatment of the subject.
.McNutt deplores the unequal divi
sion of profits and points out reme
dies. He is as a voice crying in the
wilderness for the man who works
with his hands. He has something to
say for this man. He says it in an ex
ceedingly interesting way. There is a
heart interest in his lectures that
gives them a value with the people.
They are so thoroughly up-to-date that
you can see the "new" on them. His
is not an old prosy rant on bad con
ditions, but a modern treatment of so
cial progress that deserves to be
heard.
The singing of Uurton Thatcher pro
duces sensations of genuine delight.
His rich baritone fills the tent. Ills
selections are the very best. Tiie
peoplo prolong his programs as much
as they can. He is generous, toe He
will please our Chautauqua goors
greatly.
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Punislment In Persia.
Amen; the Persians the usual mode
of punishment Is the bastinado, from
which men of tin highest rank are not
exempt. It Is indicted with very great
severity, frequently so as to render the
sufferer almost a cripple for life. The
victim is thrown upon his face, ami
each foot is passed through a loop of
strong cord attached to a pole, which
is raised horizontally by men. who.
twisting it round, tighten the ropes
and render the feet immovable. Two
executioners then strike the sole alter
nately with switches of the pomegra
nate tree well steeped in water to ren
der them supple. A store of these
switches Is generally ready for use in
the pond which adjoins the courtyards
f the houses of the great. The pun
ishment frequently lasts for an hour
or until the unfortunate victim faints
from naiii.
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His Unfortunate Investment.
it's astonishing.' the old settler ia
tin little town was saying, "how real
estate has advanced in this town sine.
I came here. The comer lot this build
ing is on. for instance, sold once for
$4iO."
"What Is it worth now':' asked the
stranger.
"Five thousand."
"Well. it had a chance to get rich
by iiuestlim in laud yourself. I sup
pose o:i li.. light some real estate';"
-Yes: I bought one lot just otie."
"That has increased in value, hasu't
itr
"Yes: over 100 per cent."
"That was a goal investment."
"Xot so awfully good, mister." said
the old settler gloomily. "I paid $P
for it. and it's worth $7. now. but lts
In the cemetery. The way I lis-iire it
I've lost a heap of money by not dylnir
forty years ago." Youth's Companion
k. F. RE6TOR. Ticket Agent
Columbus. Nebr.
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