Lincoln County leader., September 21, 1900, Image 2

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Ham Salad. Chop fine one cup of
ham; soak one cup of bread crumbs in
one-naif cup of sweet milk; add one
teaspoonful each of dry custard and cel
ery need and a little pepper. Turn all
into a sauce pan and heat thoroughly.
(Serve hot on a email platter, garnished
with slices of hard-boiled eggs.
Try Allen' Foot Kai,
A powder to he fthakeu into the hIiopr. At
this Heason your fret frel swollen, iiitvoiu
and hot, and get lirrd easily. If you have
xmnrtiiig fret. or tight nhois, try Allen's
J'ooI-Eiisp. It cools the Tret aiid makes
walking easy. Cures ingrowing naiU,
k woolen and' sweating fret, blisters und
callous spots. ItelieveH corns nud bunions
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After a man passes 40 he is greatly
encouraged if he Iuih enough hair to
net a tangle in it.
Like the
Deadly
Undercurrent
which grasps one w ithout warning;,
the mucous membrane which lines
the entire body suddenly becomes
weakened in some spot and disease
is established. It may be of the
lungs, the head, throat, stomach,
bowels, or any other organ. Where
vver it is, and whatever it seems, it
all springs from the same cause
CATARRH
or inflammation of this delicate pink
membrane.
The system is weakened in win
ter. The delicate lining is more
susceptible to irritation or inflamma
tion, and thus we have pneumonia,
grip, colds, coughs, fevers, etc., all
catarrhal conditions which may
easily be checked by one catarrh
cure re-ru-na.
That's the only way out of it.
You may dose forever you will
not be well until you try the true
cure and that is Pe-ru-na. You
may think your trouble is some
other disease and not catarrh. Call
it what you will, one thing is sure,
your system is affected and must be
treated, and IV-ru-na is the only
remedy" which reaches the right
place and dots cure.
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The director of the Paris Observa
tory states that the map of the heavens
on which work has been progressing
for nearly ten years Is nearly com
pleted. It will show nearly thirty mill
ion stars down to the fourteenth mag
nitude. Frank M. Chapman, In speaking of
the migration of birds, says the birds
which do not fear attack may migrate
boldly In the daytime, but the timid
birds of the forest wait until dark,
then mount high'in the air, and fly lu
large numbers, keeping In touch with
their fellows by constant calling.
The Pacific Submarine Telegraph
Survey, aboard the steamship Nero,
has taken two deepest casts and regis
tered the two deepest temperatures
ever recorded. The depths are 5,100
and 5,2i!) fathoms, and the .tempera
tures are 30.9 degrees at 5,070 fathoms
and thirty-six degrees at 5101 fathoms.
The new double telescope of the Pots
dam Observatory was recently dedi
cated. It consists of two very large
telescopes arranged side by side on one
mounting. The larger, of 32 inches
aperture and 30.4 feet focal length, Is
for photographic use; the other, of 20
Inches aperture and 41.2 feet focal
length, Is for visual observations. The
primary object cf this telescope Is to
measure, with all possible accuracy,
the velocity of stars that are approach
ing or receding from the earth.
The California Miners' Association
has recently published a treatise on the
mineral wealth of that State which
brings out some facts'that are not gen
erally known. Gold, of course, holds
the lead, but It will probably surprise
many to learn that the value of the
quicksilver annually produced in Cali
fornia Is 50 per cent, greater than the
value of the silver found there, and
that even the petroleum output of the
State exceeds the silver production In
value. Copper and borax rank among
the Important minerals of California.
The filtration of the water supply of
cities by means of sand filter-beds, or
mechanical contrivances,, has rapidly
advanced in this country during the
past ten years; but it Is far more gen
eral In Great Britain than here. Allen
Hazen, an authority on sanitary engi
neering, avers that the fact is fully es
tablished that the death-rate from ty
phoid fever is materially lowered by
the filtration of the water-supply. Iu
Great Britain, cities coutalulng an ag
gregate population of more than 10,
000,000 people use a sand-filtered
water-supply, and the result, it Is
claimed, is shown in London's freedom
from typhoid. In this country only
one-tenth of the towus and cities have
filtered water.
The discovery of the part played by
Infected rats In the dissemination of
the bubonic plague has led to a new
Interpretation of a passage in the First
Hook of Samuel, describing a fatal
sickness which affected the Philistines
after they carried off the Hebrew Ark
of the Covenant. Mice are mentioned
lu connection with the epidemic, and
this fact, together with the descrip
tion of the efforts of the disease, loads
Doctors Tidswoll and Dick of the Hoy
al Society of New South Wales to the
conclusion that the epidemic, described
in Samuel wits an outbreak of the bu
bonic plague. This carries the history
of that disease St to years farther bark
than it had previously been recorded.
THE SOUTH'S SMALL FEET.
Shorter Thun Northern Feet ami with
More Aristocratic luatepg.
"There Is no doubt a marked differ
ence," said the manufacturer to the
New Oilcans Times-Democrat man, '"in
the size and shape of the average foot
north and south of Mason and Dixon's
Hue. A groat deal of nonsense has
boon written about the so-called "Cre
ole last,' but the shoe best adapted to
high-class Southern trade does pos
sess certain distinguishing features of
its owu. It Is shorter than the North
ern shoe, to begin with, and has a much
higher Instep. The difference lu the lu
step varies from one-half to otie and a
half Inches, which is equivalent to say
ing that a man with a typical Southern
foot could not got Into a shoe made on
a typical Northern last. The Creole
model cuts less of a figure In the trade
now than it did formerly, for two rea
sons: First, people wear looser t jot
goar at present than they used to and
the distinctive points are not so notice
able, and, second, au Immense num
ber of Northern folk have come Into
the South and the local manufacturers
cater to their patronage with a consid
erable percentage of the factory out
put. lUtt the uatlve Sou thorn customer
still calls for a short, high-arched shoe.
"In the old days every Southern gen
tlomau had his boots and shoes made
to order and the Impression is even
now pretty general that no factory
made article can possibly lie as good
as the hand-built wares turned out by
the antebellum craftsman. That Is a
great mistake. A high-class machine
made shoe Is better than anything pro
duced by hand, for the simple reason
that the stitching Is absolutely uniform
throughout. In hand work no two
stitches are of exactly the same ten
sion, but on the machine they are as
like as so many peas. The result of
this uniformity Is that the shoe holds
its shape better and lasts longer. That
Is one point out of many. The only
question is that of being fitted, and
last-making has been reduced to such
an exact science that there Is no diffi
culty with any foot not absolutely deformed."
GENESIS OF GLASS WINDOWS.
They Were Not Used in Dwelling
Till Long Alter Their Discovery.
The method of preparing glass was
known long before it was thought of
making windows of It. Hich people In
Home had their windows, or the open
ing of their baths, filled with mica or
transparent stone. It Is supposed that
glass was used for windows during the
reign of Titus, fragments of glass plate
having been found at Pompeii, which
was destroyed in his reign, but the first
certain mention of this use of glass Is
found In writings of the third century.
St. Jerome also sneaks of It as used A.
D. 422. Benedict Biscop introduced
glass windows In Britain A. 1). 074,
though they may have previously been
brought iu by the Homaus.
The oldest glass windows at pres
ent existing are of the twelfth century
and are iu the church of St. Denis.
They appear to have been preserved as
part. of the old church, which was
erected before the year 1140 by the Ab
bot Suger, a favorite of Louis le Gros.
Sv.gcr had sapphires pounded tip and
mixed witfi the glass to give It a blue
tint. A writer of the period accounted
It one of the most striking instances of
splendor which he met In Vienna In
1458 that most of the houses had glass
windows. Another authority, Felibieu,
snys that In his time (1000) round glass
discs were set In the windows of Italy,
and we find that In France there were
glass windows in all the churches in
the sixteenth century, though there
were few in dwelling houses. The
manufacture of window glass In Eng
land was begun In Crutched Friars,
Loudon, early iu the sixteenth cen
tury. . LAW AS INTERPRETED.
Statute to license and regulate the
business of commission merchants, or
persons selling agricultural products
and farm produce on commission, la
held, in State ex rel. Beek vs. Wagener
(Minn.), 40 L. It. A. 442, to be a valid
exercise of the police ' power, and not
au infringement of the constitutional
rights of such merchants.
A statute making it unlawful to work
more than eight hours per day In mines
or smelters is held, iu re Morgan (Colo.),
47 L. it. A. 52, to be in violation of con
stitutional guaranties of liberty and the
right to acquire, possess and protect
property, notwithstanding a decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States
holding that the Federal Constitution
was not violated by such a statute.
Service on a person of a notice of suit
agalust him In another State, made only
five days before he Is required to ap
pear, and when it would take four days
of constant traveling to reach the court,
giving him but one day, and that Sun
day, to prepare for the trip, without
any allowance for accidental delays, is
held by the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States iu Holler vs. Holly, U. S.
Adv. Sheets. 410, Insufficient to consti
tute reasonable notice or due process
of law, though the suit Is for the fore
closure of a lion upon laud within the
jurisdiction of the court.
The Insurance of Children.
Children are insured In this country
with Industrial companies In the same
manner as adult members of the fam
ily. They are Insured as members of
the family for the purpose of providing,
lu return for a weekly premium of
either 5 or 10 cents, for a respectable
burial at death, and for the expenses
of the last Illness. The average pre
mium at which children are insured Is
0 cents, while the average amount paid
at death of children under 10 years of
age Is about $.-!0. This amount Is
barely sufficient to moot the expenses
of burial lu the large cities.
The youngest age at which a child
Is insured Is 2 next birthday, and at this
agv, lu return for a 5-eout pre'iiluiu. th
companies will pay $8 If th. child dies
during the first three month of policy
duration; $10 If the child has boon In
sured more than three months, but less
than six months; $12 If the child has
boon Insured more than six, but loss
than nine mouths; and $15 if the child
has been insured more than nine
mouths, but loss than one year. At
the age of 3 years the amount which Is
paid after a policy has boon one year
lu force is $17; at ago 4. $20; at age 5.
$24 iucroaslug gradually until age 10
is reached, when the amount paytble
at death, iu return for a 5-eent pre
mium is $120. In other words, the
amounts gradually increase, although
the premiums remain the same. Les
lie's Weekly.
The last request a woman usually
makes to her most Ultimate frloud, Is
not to tell her age.
Every year, as a man's rheumatism
becomes worse, it seems to take longer
for sprlug to come.
AMERICAN SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
He Organized the Chinese Army and
Gave It High Standing.
An American is entitled to the credit
if credit it is of reorganizing the
Chinese army upon a basis approach
ing its present efficiency. Frederick
Townsend Ward was a soldier of for
tune and a native of Massachusetts. In
1S00, when the Taoping rebels were
everywhere successful, Ward, who was
20 years old, and had served in the
French army, found himself In Shang
hai. He organized a band composed
of men of various nationalities, and of
fered to capture a city for a fixed
price. The first achievement of his
small army was the capture of the
walled town of Sungkiang, which was
held by 10,000 rebels. As a reward he
was made a mandarin of the fourth
rank. Ward then cleared the country
nround Shanghai, being paid so much
cash after each victory he won. After
a while he disappeared and was next
heard of when the natives attacked the
city In large force, when Ward appear
ed at the head of three well-armed and
well-drilled native regiments, who res
cued Shanghai. Thereafter he became
one of the leading men in the defense
of Shanghai. He adopted the Chinese
nationality under the name of Hwa,
married the daughter of a wealthy man
darln. and was made a mandarin of
the highest grade and ndmlral general
in the service of the Emperor. General
Ward died as the result of a wound
received in directing an assault on
Tsekle. The Chinese paid him th
highest possible honors after hia death
by burying him in the Confucian ceme
tery at Ningpo. Ward's successor in
command of the Chinese forces was
Major Charles G. Gordon "Chinese"
Gordon.
SUN DIALS OF ANCIENT TIMES.
How the Flight of the Honrs Was In
dlcated to Children of the Desert.
It Is probable that the earliest sun
dial was simply the spear of some no
mad chief stuck upright in the ground
before his tent. Among those desert
wanderers, keen to observe their sur
roundings, It would not be a difficult
thing to notice the shadow shortened
as the sun rose higher in the sky and
that the shortened shadow always
pointed in the same direction. The
recognition would have followed very
soon that this noonday shadow chang
ed in its length from day to day. A
six-foot spear would give a shadow at
noonday in latitude 40 degrees of
twelve feet at one time of the year and
of less than two feet at another time.
This instrument, so simple, so easily
carried, so easily set up, may well have
begun the scientific study of astron
omy, for it lent Itself to measurement,
and science is measurement, and prob
ably we see it expressed In permanent
form in the obelisks of Egyptian sol ir
temples, though these no doubt were
retained merely as solar emblems ags
after their use as actual instruments
of observations had ceased. An up
right stick, carefully plumbed, stand
ing on some level surface, may, there
fore, well make the first .advance up
on the natural horizon. A knob at the
top of the stick will be found to ren
der the shadow more easily observed.
Knowledge.
RIGHT AND LEFT FACES.
Physiognomies Which Are Stumbling
Blocks to Photographers.
"One of the principal obstacles in
the way of successful portrait photog
raphy," said an old-time local expert,
"is the asymmetry of the average hu
man face. The features of ninety-nine
people out of a hundred are deniably
asymmetrical in other words, the
right and left sides are different In
size, shape and general contour. We
don't notice this variation unless our
attention Is attracted to It, but It is
there all the same, aud for some rea
son that I am not able to explain it Is
generally emphasized by the camera.
What I say applies, of course, to full
face pictures only, for wheu the head
Is turned slightly the deviations are
scarcely ever discernible.
"Among men asymmetry often lends
great strength to a countenance. Bis
marck was a striking example of that
fact, and so was Gladstone. If you are
skeptical take a full-face picture of
either and cover onthalf of it with a
card. Then reverse the process and
examine the other side. You will be
surprised. In fact, you will discover
four different m?u, all distinct types."
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Squirrels by Thousand.
Colorado has sold sixty acres of tim
ber near Devil's Head Mouutaiu, where
it Is estimated there are 30,000 gray
squirrels, which have lived aud multi
plied there for years, protected by pub
lic sentiment. The squirrels will be
evicted by the woodcutters.
Working Children.
In Coburg-Gotbn there are 5.455 chil
dren under 14 years of age employed at
their homes In making buttons, dolls
and toys for the factories. They work
from four to six hours a (in v.
After a mau passes tlfty. he Is second-handed
as surely as an old wagon
that the owuor is willing to sell at less
than half Its original value.
A night latch Is like a tombstone
whea it Is put up for a late husband.
GHOSTS ARE PLAINLY VISIBLEJ
Some People So Constituted that They
See Supernatural Beings.
There is no doubt that a person may
apparently see objects and hear wordsi
which another person close by cannot)
see and hear. Such impressions are to
be referred not to actually existing ob-"'
jects, but to the action of the subject's!
miud. Dr. Abercromby tells us of one
patient who could, by directing his at
tention to an idea, call up to sight the
appropriate image or scene, though the
thing called up were an object he had
never seen but had merely Imagined.
When meeting a friend in the street he
eould not be sure whether the appear
ance was his friend or a spectral illu
sion till he had tried to touch it and had
heard the voice. Goethe saw an exact
counterpart of himself advancing to
ward him, an experience repeated by
Wilkie Collins. Sir Walter Scott re
lates that soon after the death of Lord
Byron he read an account of the de
ceased poet. On stepping into th hall
Immediately after he saw right before
him, in a standing posture, the exact
representation of his departed friend,
whose recollection had been so strongly
brought to his imagination. After stop
ping a moment to note the extraordin
ary resemblance he advanced toward it
and the figure gradually disappeared.
Some of the cases narrated by Sir
David Brewster are particularly In
structive. The subject was a lady
(Mrs. A.) and her hallucinations were
carefully studied by her husband and
R!r David. On ous occasion shs sr
her husband, as she thought, who had
gone out half an hour before, standing
within two feet of her in the drawing
room. She was astonished to receive
no response when she spoke to him.
She remembered that Sir David had
told her to press one eyeball with the
finger when the Impression of any real
object would be doubled. She trie to
apply the test, but the figure walked
away and disappeared. The simple
scientific experiment diverted heu at
tention from the creation of her mind,
and this, no longer being in sole posses
sion, could not maintain Itself and was
dissolved. Another hallucination took
the form of her dead sister-In-Iw. The
figure appeared In a dress which Mrs.
A. had never seen, but which had been
described to her by a common friend.
Westminster Review.
TRADE OF TIEN-TSIN.
An Important Commercial City of the
Chinese Coast.
The bund, or water front, gives one
some adequate Idea of the commercial
Importance of Tlen-Tsin. The docks of
Liverpool or New York, although many
times greater In extent, are not more
crowded and busy. Here the lighters,
anchored In the river, just across the
way from the great warehouses, are
loaded with cargo to be sent out or
which has Just been received from the
ships at Taku. There are mountains
of bales done up in matting and bonad
securely with iron for their protection
in their long Journey to the uttermost
quarters of the globe; there are boxes
and casks of Chinese make marked
London or Hamburg, and In the midst
of all this merchandise throngs of half
naked coolies swarm like Insects, in
sects furnished with lusty and never
silent voices. There are tons of wool
from Mongolia, camels' hair, skins,
charcoal, and soda from Siberia, mats
and grain. One now and then has whiffs
of musty perfume, the breath of orien
tal bazaars, splce and sandalwood. It
Is one of the busiest spots in the world
and can furnish a succinct object les
son to one at all interested in the prob
lem of our commercial relations with
the far east.
Born Among the Bulrushes. "
There Is a variety of grebe (colymbus
minor) which hatches its young on a
regular raft. Its nest is a mass of
strong stems of aquatic plants closely
fastened together. These plants con
tain a considerable quantity of air In
their cells and set free gases In the
process of decaying. The air and the
gases Imprisoned lu the plant make the
uost lighter than water. The bird usu
ally sits quietly on Its eggs, but if. any
Intruder approaches or any danger Is
feared the mother plunges one foot In
the water and, using It as a paddle,
transports her floating nest to a dis
tance, often dragging along with it a
sheet of water plants. A naturalist
who frequently watched this remark
able removal says: "The whole struc
ture looks like a little floating island
carried along by the labor of the grebe,
which moves lu the center of a mass
of verdure." Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Chinese Postal System.
The postal system of the Chinese em
pire Is still In a primitive condition.
It Is carried on under the direction of
the minister of war by means olf post
carts and runners. There are 8,000
offices for iwst carts In the eighteen
provinces, and there are 2,040 offices
for runners scattered over the empire.
There are also many private postal
couriers, nud during the winter the
foreign customs office maintains a ser
Tlce between Pekln and the outposts.
Every time a thoughtful man looks
arouud his house ho sees purchases
that convince him he has been fool
with his money.
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