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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1900)
PLUCKY DEEDS OF AIODERN HEROINES. NOT A COLD PLANET. - THE MOON IS, IN FAOT, EXAOTLY THE CONTRARY. in Too uliiiblt Scientists Clnlm lt Cllnmto bitrv fur Human Helms- -Our Satellite J. AL to (J rent Kxtrcmc of Colli. 4, Astronomers mid scientists now to us that U10 old popular Idea of t o moon being n frigid body Is a On the contrary, thoy declare Unit ' ninth's satellite Is an Intensely mi body; so hot. In fact, that life as It W uiiowu on the earth could '" ,1 ..'Pii nm.m Is bo hot," says an m,.ini ,.r hi.. united States naval om "tii.n n.i crmtnre known to 31-1 ... ---- ......... iiilnn iMinlllL't Willi HOT SIT' race and live. Nor Is this fact dltlleiilt .. ,iw,. hIw.ii u... have rellecteil n m .. .. ..... know Unit , -li. U'lllll. I'lir lllSUllll-l'. .. v Vf I . . . lu i.vllllNI'il (lur 'lit. unriMf... ill ill. luuu.i 10 ji if the loin: lunar day. a fortnight of 5 of ? ir iKi'i'i'Mtiui tune. 10 uiu '; ... .1.... ..Ivnn us sun rimy as 1101 us mm . I...... 1 MM11. li.. ntinoMiihere to a , 111! (lll.lt UL'.ll. .1 ' 5 s 4, Real heroines are not as scarce as the story books would have the public be lieve. Scarcely a metropolitan newspa per is printed which somewhere does not contain the doings of a heroine, young, middle aged or old. But unlike the hero ines of the story books, the real heroine may be as homely as ginger cake and not nearly as piquant. In a string of emer gencies chronicled in the daily papers during ten days the reader will be able to class the heroism of women. Nora O'Neill, daughter of a small farm er near Aspen, Colo,, saved a Rio Grande passenger train from destruction after the most stilted conventionality. The train was coming thundering down the moun tain when Nora saw In the dusk a big bowlder lying between the rails. She dashed some kerosene over a bunch of kindling wood, laid it on the rock, and eet fire to it. The engineer saw the sig nal and stopped the train. Mrs. Kleintop of Stroudsburg, Pa., went to a woodbox aud was piling sticks on her arm, when a pilot snake nearly five feet long began to coil around her arm, which was bare above the elbow. Without moving a muscle or raising her voice Mrs. Kleintop called her husband's attention to the snake. He, with a corn knife, severed its head from the body. Then, womanlike, Mrs. Kleintop fainted. Benjamin Arkwright, a farmer near Muskegon, Mich., was attacked by a vicious bull. He defended himself with a pitchfork, but was finally tossed in the air. Still keeping the nulmnl at a dis tance with the fork, he shouted to his wife for help. Mrs. Arkwright seized a shotgun, and under her husband's direc tions fired a charge of blrdshot into the animal's flank. This routed the beast. The man suffered a dislocated shoulder and was badly cut and bruised. Nellie Bullock, 13-year-old daughter of George B. Bullock, farmer. In Spencer County, Tnd., sat playing an organ in the parlor when she heard screams from a brother of 3 and a sister of 5, coming from the front porch. She ran out and was confronted by an immense wolf. The child had no weapon, but she sprang at the creature and seized it by the throat. hanging on with such grim persistency that the animal finally broke away and fled, aftd Nellie was not injured. A Massachusetts grandmother weigh ing 200 pounds climbed fifteen feet down a well and rescued a neighbor's child, who had tumbled Into three feet of water at the bottom. Mrs. Philip Turner of Newton Center did this. She saw th child fall In and no other help was near. She seized a ladder and went down it, though the well was only two and one- half feet In diameter. Mrs. C. W. Hewitt, alone and friend less In Alaska, built a raft and floated for 750 miles down the Icy current of the Koyukuk river on her road back to the civilization of San Francisco. Hci food was from the body of a moose which she shot near the river s edge and turn' bleu aboard the tloat. Miss Darda Polyot of South Brewer, Me., was onereu ?0 If she would go up a spidery iron ladder 120 feet to the top of a new chimney. She put on short skirts and went up like a monkey. She got tne o and the cheers of all the men in town and some of the women. A SHADOW OF THE ROCKIES. The mountains from my window lie' out' rolled Their solemn peaks with coronals of snow O'er which the fires of dawn and sun' set flow. And keen, high ridges by fierce winds patrolled. , With evening comes a mighty shadow cold Across mr doorway as the sun sinks low. And, high above, the loftier summits show Faint, as- the twilight tames their out lines bold. Then from the heights the spirit of re pose Steals earthward, with the peace that long has lain Secure amid the deep untrodden snows A. shadow stream, for which my soul Is fain. That from the towering peak of silence flows. And pours its balm upon the tolling plain. Century. 805 THE TALISMAN. o 00 in eo8 rtrtlOLA LEIGH was Bwcet enough y to fascinate any man who was a judge of beauty. It Is not singu lar, therefore, that Bert Dalton nnd Carl Deverenux were In love with her. Bert was tho more manly of tho two. He had no very exalted opinion of Carl and warned Viola against his atten tions. So, after a summer's flirtation with her, Mr. Carl Devereaux was going away to Boston to be married, and Bert Dalton But Viola was not discouraged. She went homo and opened a little glass lidded box, Avhere, in a fragrant nest ff dried rose leaves, half a golden heart lay shrouded with a narrow pink rib bon passed through It. Bert Dayton had the other half; bo bad broken It In two pieces In tho days beforo Carl Dovereaux had come, like a serpent, Into their Eden. "You shall keep one, Viola," ho had said, "and I tho other, and If I am at tho world's end, Viola, It wilt bring me back to your side." Tho years crept by, and tho people began to talk of Viola Leigh as an old maid. And yet she was not unhappy In her quiet way, and so Viola lived serenely on. Sho was sitting at work at her Are In the November afternoon, when Mrs. Deacon Sprlggs knocked at her door. "Alone, eh?" snid Mrs. Sprlggs. "Well I'm dreadful glad to find you at home. The fact is we're getting up a gift box for the St. Miles mission In New York, qnd I've come to get a con tribution from you." "I shall be glad to give all I can," said gentle Viola. "Well, we calculated you would," said Mrs. Sprlggs, drawing out a crumpled sheet of paper and a paper of pins and a pencil. "And we thought, dear Miss Leigh, If you could spare us some of your cranberries " "With pleasure," said Viola. "I will send a box down In the morning." And after the box wns gone Viola came Into the sitting-room with a trou bled face. "Hannah," said she to her maid, "I have dropped a pink ribbon from my neck a pink ribbon with half of a golden heart attached to It. See if you can find It when you sweep the carpet" "Sure, miss, It's bad luck to lose tho like o' that," said Hannah. She looked with falcon eyes for It, but never found It. The patron of St. Miles was unpack Ing the Lyndcdalo box when the rector canio in. "Goodl" said he, rubbing his hands. "Another box, eh? Well, we need It, for I've an Idea our poor little people won't have any too much good cheer this winter." "It's a box, to bo sure," said she; "but there's not much in it." "Charity In good earnest," said the rector, with a good-humored grimace. "But here's a box of cranberries. That looks something like it!" "Yes, sir, and sugar to cook 'em in," said Mrs. Worth. "That's what people don't often think of." And she turned to tho relnspectlon of Mrs. Nuttonton's mildewed "comforta bles" Just as tho rector started at tho sight of something like gold through the berries half of a golden heart, with a pink ribbon passed through it. "Good heavens!" ho ejaculated, "It is Viola's token. I should know that bit of gold In Patagonia. And how comes It here? Yes " glancing at tho lid of the package, "tho box Is from Lyndo- dale. It means It must mean '' And the staid, 30-yenrs-old rector blushed like a schoolgirl as ho stood looking down at the golden talisman. Alone nil alone! Viola Leigh was sitting down to her solitary dinner, with the snow clicking softly against tho window panes out side, and tho Maltese cat purring on the hearth within. "I don't feel like eating," Viola said, as tho door bell sounded. "Who should come here, Just at dinner time, of all hours in the world?" Viola started to her feet with glowing uueL-KH una eyes that shone with fitful revered fire, and sprang forward. "Bert!" she cried, holding out both ner nanus, "It Is Bert Dalton." The rector advanced smiling. "Viola, are you glad to see mo?" "Oh, so glad. But how did you chance to come?" "You sent for me, Viola, and I came." "I sent for you, Bert?" Ho drew from his pocket the little goiu innsman. "Look, love; it was In the box of ber ries j-ou sent to the mission. And al- tnougn you did not kuow who the rec tor of St. Miles " v x f 1 - ... inueeu, 1 uju not," protested uiusuing viola. "God knew, dearest." In a low and reverential tone, "and He has brought ub luijeiuer aner all these years." "Miss Viola," whispered itn who had been endeavoring to attract uer mistress' attention for some time, behind the kitchen door, "shall I sot mi another plate?" "Of course, Hannah," said Viola radiantly. "But, VloIa"-the rector had come close to her now "Is It to bo with us as in the days of the golden token?" "If you thlhk I am worthy of it Bert." ' And so the old love became new again, and Viola and the rector of St Miles live happily together in the little village of Lyndedale, where they spent un uium uupiiy uays or the little gold talisman. Bathing In Caracas. Bathing In Caracas Is generally done In the open air-that Is, the bathroom in tho house is nlraost an unknown lux ury. In tho first place, a bathroom in doors would bo too close for comfort, and, in tho second place, tho plumber's art Is not practiced to any extent In every court-and almost all' tho houses in the Venezuelan cnnltni n provided with them-there is tho inevit able fountain, whenco Is derived im water supply of the house. Attached to tho fountain Is a largo and dee., hmui generally about four feet deep and us many broad. Into this the water runs continuously and, by stopping up the escape In tho bottom, you may quickly provido a full bowl of creau, sparkling but not cold water. Into this you plunge, with no other covcrlne tbnn n.n sky and enjoy yourself to the full, car ing noiuing ror 1110 world or the neigh bor who Is watching you from tho .w of the adjoining house, whero ho u smoking awny tho mosquitoes and oth er insects or mo tropics. nit- ilnllv Ili.Jlt temper the action of these rays-not by .lnpedlng their passage, but by bear ing aloft the cloud-veil which the sun i-ni.. fmm-niir oceans to form a pro tecting canopy for us-the surface of the lnoou must necessarily becotno In tensely hot even before tho middle of the lu 11 in- day. It is true- that the absence of nn nt inospliere must cause tho moon's hunt to be ranhlly radiated away into space It Is our atmosphere which retains our heat and acts lu regulating our tern perature. Thus at the summits of lofty mountains, where the atmosphere rare, notwithstanding the Intense heat of midday, so rapidly does this heat nnss awav that suow forever crowns the mountain heights. Yet, although the moon'a heat must pass away even more rapidly, this does uot prevent tli heatlnu of the actual surface of that satellite anv more than tho rarity of the air prevents the Alpine travole from feeling tho action of the sun's dl rect heat even when the air lu shadow Is Icy cold. "Sir John Hcrschel long since point ed out that tho moon s surface must be heated at lunar midday or, rather, a the time of lunar mid-heat, correspond Ing to nbout 2 o'clock In our after noon to a degree probably surpassing the heat of boiling water. "Not alone does the moon Itself pos boss this extreme heat, but It rellects n certain amount thereof on the earth And this Is not nil; tho moon gives out heat by which It has itself been warm ed. Nor must these two effects of re llected aud radiated heat be confound L'd. The distinction between them may lie Illustrated In the following man ner: If on a bright suuinier day we take a piece of smooth, but not too wcll-pollsbed metal, and by means of It teflected the sun's light upon the face, i sensation of heat will be experienced Jwhlcb Is reflected sun beat; but If we Kvalt, while still holding tho metal as ilescrlbed, until It bas becomo quite hot under the solar rays, we feel sensation of heat from tho mere proi jmity of the pmto to the face, even .when It Is held so as not to reflect sun ieat. There can be produced by this I'xperlment first, reflected heat alone before the metal has grown hot; next, the heat which the metal gives out It self when warmed by the sun's rays; and lastly, the two kinds of heat to gethcr. when the metal Is caused to reflect sun heat and also (being held near the face) to give out n perceptible quantity of its own warmth. It Is the last stage of the experiment which produces the same effect as the reflect ed and radiated heat of tho moon upon the earth's surface. 'But we must not think that the moon adds materially to the beat of the summer weather. The actual Increase of temperature derived from the sll very orb can bo easily realized when we consider that If the moon were ex actly as hot as boiling water we should reccivo from It Just as much heat as would be derived from a small globe as hot as boiling water, so placed as to preserve the same ratio of size and distance as the moon does to the earth." It Is tho general opinion that an old woman's life has been useless if the can't make bread, and fire. TROGLODYTES OF AFRICA, Manners and Customs Unchanged for Beverol Centuries. If you want to bo introduced to the slowest people In tho world you must visit North Africa and make your way across uie scorcning uesert that separ ates rrom wie rest or the inhabitants fit Africa tho race known to tho nn. cients ns the Troglodytes, from the Greek "troglols," a hole. Tbev jglvcn this name on account of the habit of living In holes In the ground a habit that prouauiy owes Its origin to tho fact that old Sol In that quarter is a very merciless old tyrant, and llfn above ground is scarcely bearable ex cept when the sun has retired for tho ulght. Tho Troglodytes aro In th lino nt caravan travel, and are visited by theso ireigm iruuis ot mo African desert. no ouismo imiuenco Has been able However, to wean them from their an! cient habits, their antique garb, and their peculiar manner of living. So far as Is known, the manners and customs of tho Troglodytes have not changed since Bible times, and any ono coming upon a group of theso people In the present day, and comparing their ap pearance with descriptions extant that some historians, have regarded aa fabu lous, will sco that they are precisely tho same now as they wero many con-' turles ago. A Troglodyte city Is the most curious dwelling place In the world. From tho exterior it presents the aspect of a Roman circus. The habitations are DAnONESSVONWARrlSS Wife or Oerin,,,,,.,?. 'f Wns a.. ." ""'It IbmA "fan iit, - -'i Whs An Amef Maud lUioHevelt U vin. J . viii-na vuu nwliriZI'llul..!.. '. Hlf )''I HM been recently ! W iH.er froinarrm. ;;gjJWl of the bolL-H or Wushi 2 A.e 'Ml. turn ago. Hliu Is nn 1 1... 111 ui uiu iiiKllt'Ml lyp0. iK'nutif, , "Uli united mid well bom ,1' tl'llllUII llllli i is l.wnv IMHV L'Jt'M m'l 1 1..-"ui Hint In di'llenin r r "''".M ' "MI1L.. II. . '' is Hiemlor ami grn.criii a . . the llooHovolt fnn.iiv ' !Bbi: cumhIii of Governor It,...-......!. .,c: after her debut m nvv y ' u, criiiMplcimiiH beiuuy ' "tot elusive net, but .. " . . ? ? n IONS lllNH 111 M lollL' !...,! . "N face win Imr f,,. i . a4 W winters with h..r ,.,,...? VV(m nlliiuu von . 0UlltliBi With whom she fr, abroad. Tho iicnmlniarico with n!"' ....... . . ,.. ii.iwnrai.itPn u,. . -.fl Washington, when tlio diplomat i ,!l built In layers one above tho other, ana trance from the otitsiue. a. w.u v.n of the house open on the Interior of ti e circular city. Had. habitation ban "lor and a window. To get to them you climb a flight of Htop cut In tho wall, which brlngH you o tho lower layer of houses. If you wish to go higher you climb another pair of mops to the houses above, and from hum to the third row. If you aie visiting some one living on the top of tho pllo. Iho doors are all f.iHtoned with tho most primitive lock, which Ih turned by means of a wooden key. Besides providing protection from their enemy, the sun, tho circular habi tations with tho dead walls outside form a strong fortress to guard the In habltunu from the attacks of neighbor lug tribes. In these umro peaceful days, however, they have no such four before thorn, and so they use tho wa led city mostly for storing of crop, whllo they live lu holes dug lu the ground within tho walls, and frequently change their position In search of pas. lure for the anlmalH. The ago of the cities Is imnu'iisr. Iho exact date when they were built Is un known, but It Is believed that they antedate the birth of Christ. Tho people ate peaceably disposed, In which phase of character they are superior to most other natives of Northern Afrlrn. Thoy are Intelligent and hard-working, tend ing their flocks and farming their laud with patient energy. The approach to their country Is so dllllcult and danger ous, on account of the frightful gorgon It Is necessary to traverse, and the risk of being overcome by tho deadly sirocco, that the Interesting people have boon disturbed but little by Huro peans. Now that arehoologlstH aro turning their attention to the undent people, something more Is being learn ed of them thau was known heretofore. St. l'nul Dlspntch. LAW AS INTERPRETED. Signature to a paper by mark made by a person for the purpose of Identi fying himself as a party thereto Is held, ... I.'ImI.m. Ilniiui,,.. fUMu I J7 I. It C05. HUlllelent to constitute a good , !" ''- for Cera, ....nn.iir,. t rnmmm, law without nnv,t0."0t Mub " "l'"l''"u .ll.iintlnn tli.icusi lit n m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f account, oven though they imrUw witness. 1 ..... . 1 . f ...J..,.,.. 'i'i. ....h 1 I 111- .HUIIIBUUIC JWJ HAHONKH VOX KWAItTZK.XITin, Inched to tho German legation, ft! Huron was also principal of an Into! tossed of ivcalth. Baron wns 3.") yenrs old wbfnbfal mot the beautiful American girl fell In love at llrst sight, tt'tntti Baroness von Orendorn took bnita abroad, the baron followed, and Wr little romance had for a baekpal many Kuropean countries. Tbmiu a wedding by and by In (!criBia,i:l tho bride said to her friends: "linii Imvo married my dear (Icrmiatol If ho had been plain Tom Smith, till ABLE TO SKATE ON WATER. Horr a rierrann Heu Captain Mom hi Hliocs Thirteen Feet Lonf. dipt. Grossmauu, a German u3r,k the Inventor of a pair of slioci form lug on water. Ho recently KatunoH bltlon on the Uhlneat Worms neuiii now and Imiioslng bridge scroti & streniu named. Tho shoes are tn2esl tin, weigh twenty-two poundsfack.cJ together arc capable of sustslalp An assessment of nn annual charge for the use of common sower under n statute Is held, lu Carson vh. Sewngo Commissioners of Brockton (Mass.), -IS I j. It. A. '-'77, to be lawful, although the person assessed therefor had previously been assexsed for part of tho cost of building the sewer. Probate of n will by a court having Jurisdiction of the matter Is held, lu Chicago Title and Trust Company vs. Brown (III.), 47 h. It. A. 708, not to be 1 out a coat to his back." subject to collateral attack yenrs after ward by a proceeding to annul It, mere ly because of the Incompetency of one of the witnesses who attested It. Sale of goods received on consign ment, when made on tho same day tho goods were received, ns part of the sale of the entire stock, fixtures, goodwill and business, Is held. In Borneo vs. Mnrtuccl (Conn.), 47 L. It. A. fiOl, to be outside the scope of tho consignee's authority, and Insufllclent to pass title, oven to an Innocent purchaser. A charitable gift to n foreign cltv Is upheld In succession of Mounter (I.n.), 48 L. It. A. 77, under a treaty nrovlalon authorizing such gifts to citizens of a foreign country, nnd notwithstanding the fact tlmt when the will, took effect the city had not obtnlned n necessary permit to take the gift, and Its capacity ' 10 inne 11 was suspended until tho per mit was outaincu. A girl 17 years of age. who enters n convent for the purpose of becoming a' nun wimout naving obtained her nnr ents' consent. Is held. In Priotn at Alphonsus Convent of Mercy (La.), 47 11. A. oou, 10 he subject to the rlnlms of her parents, although she had been received In the convent on the supposi tion that she had obtained such con. sent, under such c rcumstnn. it held that she could be released hv writ of habeas corpus, oven If the girl was willing nnd anxious to remain In tho convent nnu was under no actual re. stralnt. Murphy's Intelllaoiit Murphy, when ho lived In tlm l.nal. "'""' nuiireu ins uinnket with tho pup, but when ho shifted to town ho uu 10 oreaK me pup of Its old hnblt. First time ho caught it In lm.i im t,ii,.i It out. Next tlmoToby heard him com ing, and Jumped up quickly, but Mur- "'."" suspicious, put his hand on "ou ami round it warm. 'I'hnn thnm. was trouble for one small dog. That uujr io ,,p earnestly watched Mur phy cooling his dinner by blowing oa it. Following dav Murnhir 1 fit II 11 fl 1 tl.nn -. 1 . 7 . ""' eu quietly up stairs, and observed the nun Mn.in on the bed for nil ho was worth. That i.ui is now in a circus, and Mumi.v 1. a gentloraan-tho dog earns enough to keep 'em both.-Sydney Bulletin. Fed by Ant. It Is certain that nuts Intenfinnnii- sanction tho resldenco of certain In sects lu their nests. This Is .the case, for instnnce, with tho curious blind beetle, clavlger, which Is absolutely do. pendent upon ants, ns Mulloy first pointed out It seems to havo oven lost the power of feeding Itself, at nny rnto it is habitually fed by tho ants, who Hiipply it with nourishment as thoy do ono another. Barriers Well Looked After. "Paulino Biff is very exclusive. tn'i- she?" "Oh, yes; sho never, never Introdueoa an ellglblo man to any other girl."-? luuianapoiis Journal. People almost universally tempt for a girl who Is "boy struck." I " BLLaT. OIIOSSHAMN ON WATKB weight of more than lil'O POundfc,0,J aro nbout thirteen feet long provided with'threc-blnged at flukes, which admit of easy . 1 -nr.i movement wl warn in 1110 wmur. -- . ti uses a paddlo to assls hln I tvntcry promenade, and finds 11 wj :lally useful in turning. It J 1... t,nniv lives by tbeose una pu fvw ;hc bo shoes. Kxumt of tl.o Florist B"""j Tho florist business lu the VM l. ...onus an unlmporu'J nines w " . .hnttberewi udU8try- '8J e"1" ' . .Tally to I lvalue ot n" !. " , n nts $10M COO,ow nnu 01 jn.iH.-u . -MtM 000. There are no ; ifl tnbllshmcnts In tl.o un t voted to tho growing of plants glass. Well Preserved. to VlkHll . .. 1 in in u What Is bciievou wq l.n Imnn IIIIC II Damendorf, In. Schleswlff. anfl P . ..... Tr.l Xfimonm. H ,UP ...v, served, had red hair, and wa . ,,-r.nlnn clothlUgi . ... WttS DUriuu nnvvf Bouiu ""- coven""'''! Knnnna acres 01 ...ntrfWO uw,- -- oiiineci iw land which is " --' qualified nppiicam.. , .terms wun m - - 1(J m eon that wneu --- run tho houso.