Lincoln County leader., February 23, 1900, Image 7

'THEY LIKE THE COLD.
ANIMALS
THAT HAIL
WITH JOif.
WINTER
frost and Snow Have No Terrors fo
Many of the Furred and Also Some
of the Feathered Denizens of the
Woods and Cultivated Fields.
When the grip of Jack Frost tightens
on the land, and turns the soppy 'garden
beds and clayey plow lands to irout ten
der hearts are sorry for the song birds
whose delicate beaks cannot pierce the
frozen soil. And many Imagine that ali
wild creatures feel the bitter cold and
puffer alike.
Bur this Is a mistake. For many of
the furred, and some even of the feath
ered, tribes the frost and snow have no
$etrors. The hawks grow fat in snow
time. The kestral tiuds the snow a cap
ital background against which to view
the small fry he feeds on, while the
sparrow hawk soars over the clumps of
underbrush watching for the sparrows
as they slip in and out of shelter. All
the weasel tribe rejoice.
To none more than to the domestic
pussy does the cold bring joy. It is her
game season. Wild birds of many sorts,
in the summer shy inhabitants of the
woodlands, swarm into suburban gar
dens, and prove easier prey than the
sparrow.
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i-u(,a ju lue ciuar, Luifciit days
of frost. Even short-coated fox terri
ers never seem to feel the cold, but
scamper madly over the stiff grass. And
Kt. Bernards lose their summer sleepi
ness and roll delightedly in the pow-
iery snow.
The short, dark winter days of Can
ada's grau Northwest ho'.d no terrors
for at least one creature. This is the
wolverine, an ugly, bear-like beast,
bated and feared by all the trappers,
t'nseen himself, he follows the hunters
. and watches them as they set their
traps, which they do in a long Hue ex
tending sometimes as much as thirty
miles through the dense evergreen for
est. These he visits before the gray
winter dawn has broken and takes
away the bait, himself far too cunning
to risk capture. Or, if the trap already
liolds a captive, mink or ermine, this,
too, he tears away and devours at a
safe distance. Many are the stories told
of this, the greediest, most powerful
and suspicious cieatuie of its bl.e
In the far north of the same vast sol
itudes the musk ox lives and flourishes
all the year around. Fifty belotr zero
-iloes.not.matter to this quaint animal,
with his immensely thick, furry coat.
Ills sharp hoofs are suited to perfection
for scraping away the deep snow and
laying bare the thick lichen and moss
below It. Nothing but warmth worries
the little muss ox. Mere freezing point
is to him a Turkish bath.
Another victim to warmth is the
. llama, yet It lives In latitudes which
maps mark as tropical. It seeks a nice
"oln piaee high on the windy tablelands
of the Andes, and there proves Itself of
great value to the natives. Water and
food do not seem to worry the llama,
which carries Its burden easily where
even nudes pant with distress in the
. thin atmosphere of the giant moun
tains. The camel of the mountains, as
the llama is called, small as he Is, will
carry a load of 100 pouuls.
Iozens of different creatures happily
loze the winter away outs and bears,
dormice and m::ny others. One of the
least known, and yet most Interesting
' of these, is the hamster. This little
brute is the most savage and uusocla
. ble creature known. Each In a separ
ate hole far underground, the hamster
alternately sleeps on a couch of dry
grass, or wakes to stuff himself almost
to bursting with the great store of corn
and beans he has laid up in his winter
larder. Winter is for him the season to
rest and grow fat.
A NOTED PRIEST.
Life Ptory of Dr. Edward McGlynn,
t?t. Mary's Church, Newburgh, N. Y.
Kev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, pastor of
St. Mary's Church, Newburgh, X. Y
who died recently, was an able theol
ogian and a magnetic speaker. His dif
ferences with Archbishop Corrlgan, his
ecclesiastical superior, gave him an in
ternational reputation. He warmly
espoused the doctrines of Henry George
and the stugle tax theory and made ad
dresses at political meetings which
served to widen the breach with those
In authority in the church. Previously
lie had declined to establish parochial
schools In he parish of St. Stephen's,
of which he was pastor, averring that
the public schools were good enough.
He had also displeased the archbishop
by the active part he took In the Land
League movement In 1880 he was
commanded not to make political ad
dresses. He kept on, however. On
election day, 1880, he rode around the
polling places of New York in a bar
ouche with single tax politicians. For
this he was ordered to Rome to make
explanation of his conduct to the Sa
bred College. For refusing to go he
was excommunicated. Then Dr. Mc
Glynn devoted his time to preaching
Ills land theories and reorganizing the
Anti-Poverty Society for this purpose
and addressed lt meetings frequently.
For five ye.s the ban was lu force
whim kept hfm outside the church. In
1892 It was withdrawn through the In
tercession of Archbishop Satolli and
three years later he was restored to the
priesthood and sjjon after made pastor
of St. Mary's Church, Newburgh, where
the closing years of his life were made
fruitful in extending and Intensifying
Catholic belief and doctrine in a con
gregation of 7,000 people.
Dr. McGlynn was born In New York
City of Irish parents, who settled there
in 1824 from Donegal. In 1837 Edward
was born and early manifested a Ilk
ing for the priesthood. He went to
Rome at 17 to study in the College of
the Propaganda. He was a brilliant
scholar and at 22 was made priest and
at the same time doctor of divinity a
rare honor conferred upon candidates
for holy orders. He returned to New
York In 1800 and as curate served In
several churches and while so acting
was attached to St. Stephens Church,
and, upon the death of Dr. Cummings,
the pastor, succeeded to the vacancy,
'I his was at the age of 20. For 21
years he continued in this relation and
made It the largest Catholic parish In
the United States 27,000 persons being
affiliated with it. His fame as a
preacher and his great and unceasing
love for the poor as manifested', in
countless acts of charity made him be
loved by the people of all denomina
tions. He gave away the fortune of
$40,000 that his father left him to the
poor and in every possible way did all
he could to ameliorate their sufferings.
It was his exceeding interest in the for
lorn and hungry that led him to espouse
the George movement in the hope that
something might be done by the State
to lift the tens of thousands of the mis
erable poor in New York to a state of
independence. He never ceased to the
last to make the cause of the poor his
own and a great and noble heart was
stilled when the vital spark was ex
tinguished. NEURALGIA.
Something; About This Troublesome
Disease.
rain in a nerve may be due to many
causes, such as inflammation of the
nerve Itself or of the parts around it,
pressure by a tumor or swelling some
where along the course of the nerve,
disease at the point of origin of the
nerve in the brain or spinal cord, and
the like.
When no cause can be discovered fot
the pain it is called neuralgia; but the
term is becoming more and more re
stricted In Its apllcation as medical
science advances and new means of de
tecting disease in formerly inaccessi
ble parts of the body are devised.
The pain Is Intermittent in cjiaracter;
that Is to say, attacks of paiu alternate
with pain-free periods. The duration
of the attacks, as well as of the in
tervals between them, varies from a
few hours to days or even weeks.
Children do not, as a rule, suffer
from neuralgia in any part of the body;
they may have hearaches, it is true,
but those are usually due to eye-strain
or to some distinct nervous trouble.
The pain of neuralgia is usually very
acute and cutting, and Is constantly
varying in Intensity, now dying down
for a time, so as to be scarcely notice
able, and again becoming almost un
endurable, stabbing the poor sufferer
with ferocious malignity.
The character of the pain serves to
distinguish neuralgia from so-called
muscular rheumatism, the pain .of
which Is a steady dull ache rather than
a sharp, boring and paroxysmaj agony.
mere is a curious form of neuralgia
which Is called "reminiscent." It oc
curs in persons, usually of a nervous
type, who havj suffered from nerve
pain due to Inflammation, the pressure
of a tumor, or some other removable
cause, and In whom the pain persists
after the cause has been removed. The
nerve seems to have acquired a habit
of hurting, which continues Indepen
dently of the original cause.
The treatment of neuralgia Is often
most difficult and unsatisfactory, for
If the cause cannot be determined the
physician must work at random. The
first step must be to relieve the pain
during an attack, which Is often possi
ble only by means of powerful an
odynes. A neuralgic sufferer Is usually below
par physically, and, therefore, tonics,
nourishing food and a change of air,
when possible, almost always do good.
Youth's Companion.
Good fortune seldom travels around
in un automobile looking for you.
IlEV. DR. IDWJUII) M'GLTNN.
A wholesaler In this city had one of
the brightest and most impressive lec
tures on advertising read to him by a
country subtenant last week that he has
ever heard in his life. This country
merchant is not one of the ordinary
merchants. He Is a character in his
way, a Hibernian, and with his full
share of the proverbial wit. This mer
chant lives in a small city of the State,
and buys the better part of his goods
in this city. Hcwas on a buying trip,
and, passing a wholesale house, he ob
served paper napkins In the windows.
He went in to look at them, for he had
sale for such things in his store.
"An' do ye have paper napkins to
sell?" he asked of the wholesaler. He
did have them, he said. "An' how the
divil do I be knowin" that ye have pa
per napkins to sell, If I don't come
down here and happen to see them in
the-windy? Why don't ye till a man
ye have paper napkins? ' Why don't ye
advertise in the Commercial Bulletin?
Thin we'd know what ye had to sell."
The merchant told him that he did ad
vertise in the Bulletin, which was true.
"Ah, yis," said the merchant. "An'
how do ye advertise? Ye put a cut of
yer buildin' in the paper. Now, what
the divil do I be wantin' to see the cut
o' yer buildin' for? I don't care for
yer old buildin'. It's what's in yer
buildin' that interests me. If ye have
paper napkins, say ye have paper nap
kins, and don't be a showin' us a pic
ture of your big store. That's the way
I'm goin' to sell these paper napkins
I am buyin' of ye. I put an advertise
ment in me paper at home to tell the
people of me town thet I have paper
napkins to sell and the price they have
to pay for them, and be the powers
they come and buy thim." This whole
saler told me that he had more good
advertising sense rubbed into him in
ten minutes by this merchant than he
had found in books in tUa past ten
years. Hardware Trade.
Cost of Living in Paris
"To prove that we are economical
young women shall I tell you how much
we pay at the pension?" writes a girl
in the Ladies' Home Journal, who, with
a girl companion, Is travelinz In Franca
and giving the benefit of her experience
to gins who may go to the Paris Expo
sition this year. "The tariff card." tacked
on the wall of my rose-twined Marie
Antoinette room, says the price is nine
francs. Then how do I come to be pay
ing only seven? One learns over here
to marchnnder 'to haggle, to bargain.
If madame's prices read 'from seven
francs,' and you write to her asking If
sue can let you have a room and at that
price, she will pobably reply that the
only rooms she has unrented cost ten
francs. But If you are wise enouzh to
ask her if she has a room for seven
francs the answer will be 'ves We
are, of course, beyond the nale of the
bathtub, electric lights and big tips; the
maid who cares for our room is satis
fled to receive a modest fee. and it is
with a thrill of delight that we pick up
our candlesticks and say 'good-n'ght'
Just as they do in novels. We are com
fortable and happy on two dollars per
day. The fact that we are alone does
not bring us a moment's annoyance, nor
suu.iect us to any unreasonable re
straints." Wagner in Archejr Koad.
"I'll tell you," said Molly Donahue
(who was giving a musicale), "play
'The Ride of the Walkyrles.' It's so
cute."
And Wagner bounded Into Archey
Road. He was soon perhaps the most
unpopular stranger that ever visited
that hospitable neighborhood. He
charged the circle of dlss'dents and
left them helpless on the field of battle.
Mr. Donahue's eyes showed panic. He
clutched Mr. Dooley by the arm and
raised blm to his feet.
"Come on! Come on!" he said in n
burst of rage that at last mastered all
domestic tyranny. "We'll lave here
while they'se a shtick Iv furniture left
In th' house."
"But where ar-re ye goin?" Mrs. Don
ahue asked.
"I'm goin' down to the rollln'-mllls."
he said, "where I can hear the hammers
peltln'; where I can have quiet" La
dles' Home Journal.
Not to tin Prematurely Shelved.
I do not believe that old people should
consent to be effaced simply because
the riotous advance of youth around
them Is pushing them to the rear. Love
does its mistaken best to efface them,
it is true, giving them the easy-chair
and the sheltered corner, and saving
them from all exertion, and Insisting
that they are to be waited upon, and
their work taken out of their hands.
Maturity has no right to let Itself be
laid upon the shelf too soon. There Is
one glory of the rosebud and another
glory of the rose; one beauty of the
growing grain and another beauty of
the ripened sheaf. Margaret E. Sang
ster, In Ladies' Home Journal.
Charity Is religion with it coat off.
ANNUAL SNOW FIGHT
ENGAGES ATTENTION OF ROCKY
MOUNTAIN RAILROADS.
Days of the "Bucker" Are Past, and
the Rotary Cuts Its Way Where No
Power at Command Could Push
Through Danger f the Old Method.
Thirty-two miles of snowsheds cost
ing $04 a foot, or a total of $10,813,440,
represents the price one transcontinen
tal railway had to pay before it could
run Its trains over the Rocky Mountain
division of its road. That was merely
the first cost; since that outlay fully
$1,000,000 has been spent annually In
keeping the sheds In repair and the ex
posed tracks free from snow. During
the summer months when even lu the
higher passes the sun and warm winds
serve to keep the permanent way clear
and free there Is little to do save the
ordinary run of repairs and reconstruc-.
tlon, but aloug about Oct. 1 all this is
changed.
Little flurries of snow on the level
and a gradual but continuous spreading
of white on the tops and in the upper
crevices of the mountains give warning
that the hard, desperate battles of the
winter months are at hand. The super
intendent takes a trip over the road
with his assistants and a careful In
spection of the sheds and tunnels is
made. In divisional headquarters the
rotarles and the old-time "buckers" are
overhauled and prepared for use, and
as the middle of the month approaches
the watchmen who patrol the tracks
are doubled. In the various baggage
cars are placed great wooden safes
packed with condensed foods. Beef in
the form of extract, canned soups, con-
A SNOW CUT AND
dlments and hard bread, enough to feed
100 persons ten days, are carefully de
posited In these moving stoiehouses,
and from then until the coming of
spring they are Inspected and overhaul
ed once each week by men detailed for
the purpose.
Within twelve hours,, if the fall of
snow is continuous, the plows go out.
Each is accompanied by a gang of
shovelers, and a straight drive Is made
for those p.sses and ci.ts wh re x
perlence has . foretold the greatest
depth. If the now is moist and flaky,
quick work is made of the banks; but
If cold weather has really set in and the
snow has been frozen Into rounded
granules, the proposition Is entirely
different. In the first case the damp
masses remain where they have been
thrown by the plow, but under the lat
ter conditions It Is Impossible without
the most strenuous efloit.i to keep the
glistening, frozen pellets from sliding
back onto the tracks. Cases have been
known when a comparatively light fall
of snow has blocked a mountain track
for forty-eight hours.
In the old days when the rotarles
were weapons of the future and the
nuow had to be literally "bucked" by
main force from the tracks, casualties
were numerous. The type of plow used
was a home-made affair a product of
the railroad shops. It consisted of a
re-enforced and strongly braced boxcar
as a base, upon one end of which was
built an Iron-tipped plow shaped some
thing like a lofty cowcatcher. Near the
top the sides were so arranged that the
snow masses were directed iuto the air
at an angle.
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, FRONT OF ROTARY PLOW.
25fefc prJ ii
When m particularly heavy and tight
ly packed drift was to be tackled it was
the custom to place one of the crude af
fairs in front of from six to ten engines
and charge the drift with a flying start
of a mile or two. If the drift consisted
of granulated snow frozen Into separ
ate particles, the enormous mass of
Iron went through it like a heated knife
through butter. ' In the wake of the
plow came an army of shovelers, whose
duty It was to bank the scattered
mnsses far enough from the track to
prevent them sliding back. This was
difficult enough and victory came only
after herculean labor-.
Sometimes It happened that the drift
in the cut was composed of damp snow
and had had time to settle and become
packed. Then the perils of snow-buck-lug
became perils In truth.
The "bucker" with Its powerful mo
tive force of seven or eight locomo
tives was hurled bodily at the drift and
one of two results followed. Either
the drift was broken or the "bucker"
crumpled up like a toy of cardboard.
The fate of the crew of several men de
pended on what Artemus Ward called
"their nat'ral born luck." Stories are
still told of the catastrophes occurring
during one hard winter many -years
ago; of how In one Instance a "bucker,"
three engines and fourteen men were
burled in a mass of snow for ninety,,
hours, and that when the rescuing
party finally reached them the Impris
oned men were found encased at the'.i
posts like the baker of Pompeii.
tragedies. The Invention of the rotary
plow has made the clearing away of
obstructions a comparatively easy task.
In appearance the rotary plow is like
a huge box car strengthened with
heavy iron girders and plates. The
front end Is square and open, and with
in can be seen a great steel-winged
wheel somewhat similar to the ordin
ary windmill. The edges of the open
ing slope Inward and are strongly re-
enforced with Iron. The "auger" or
wheel revolves upon an axle, and aa
the plow is forced against the drift the
snow Is eaten away and blown through
funnels pitched at an angle above the
machine.
It Is seldom that more than two en
gines are required to push the rotary,
as It works by cutting Instead of brute
force, like the old-time "bucker." Rail
road men are great admirers of the new
order of machine, and they never fail
to praise Its efficiency.
Mar c Twain on the llor.
Mark Two In has met the Boer, and .
this Is what he says of him:
."He Is deeply religious; profoundly
SNOW SHED.
ignorant; dull, obstinate, bigoted; un
cleanly In his habits; hospitable, honest
In his dealings with the whites, a hard
master to his black servant; lazy, a
good shot, good horseman, addicted to
the chase; a lover of political independ
ence; a good husband and father; not
fond of herding together lu towns, but
liking the seclusion and remoteness and
solitude and empty vastness lyid silence
of the veldt; a man of mighty appetite,
and not delicate about what he ap
peases It with; r,-il satisfied with pork,
and Indian corn and biltong, requiring
only that the quantity shall not be
stinted; willing ;o ride n long Journey
to take a hand lu a rude nll-nlght dance
interspersed w.th vigorous feeding and
uoisterous jollity, but rendy to
twice as far for a prayer meeting.
ride
No Morn N t r rrln I'owler.
The manufacture of nltro-glycerln
powder for the use of the army will Ihj
abandoned and the army ordnance de
partment will adopt a pure soluble cot
ton powder, similar to that used by tlx
navy. The decision for this change In
brought about by on accident which
recently occurred at Sandy Hook while
testing a 0-Inch gun and while us u
the smokeless powder made for use In
8-Inch guns, but with the grains cut In
half. The charge, on this occasion,
gave a pressure of over 80,000 pounds,
which exceeded the pressure gauge of
the gun. Several parts of the brcccu
mechanism were Injured.
Somehow a man never fully compre
hends the story of the widow's might
until she starts out after a second husband.
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