The Herald. (Carbon, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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Travel Stopped by Mud
“About twenty miles north of Jujiiy,
tn the Argentine Republic, there is &
plaro locally known as E! Voiean,”
writes a traveler. “It is reputed to
be a mud volcano, tlov.ing across anti
'town the valley. As I passed I exam-
ined i! with some Interest, but found
it. was not a volcano at all. There the
valley was about one and one half
miles wide. To the left or west there
was a chain of hills, rising perhaps
at their highest, i>oint 2,000 l'eet. above
life river hod. One of the highest of
these peaks, a very massive mountain
on the eastern side, was mainly com- ’ found to
posed ol’ fine, pasty, argillaceous mat- | rainfalls,
ter that. In wet weather held water
.like a sponge. The side of the moun-
tain nearest the valley had broken
away and slid through a somewhat
narrow gorge into the main valley
and poured its flow of mud completely
across it. Always in wot weather vast
masses of this slulf slide down the
hollow, conelike sides „of the moun-
tain into the valley, and, together with
millions of tons of th.e myd already in
the valley, all take up water and
tremble and shake with tire least
vibration like a jelly on a hot day.
"Of-course, while in tliar condition
the lio-f of the valley is guile impass
able. The mud-slide can only he pass
ed by keeping up the hillsides, on an
) extremely difficult and very broken
| road situated on the opposite side ol
the valley. Usually no one attempts
U) travel while the mud-slide is in n
bad condition. The place presents
some terrors to the natives, and weirt
tales are told about the suddenness
with which the volcano works; bu
if the tales be analyzed they will hi
he connected with heart
HAD UNIQUE DEVICE
BANK WATCHMANS SCHEME OF
ROBBERY REALLY CLEVER.
Mysterious Disappearance of $100 Bills
Remained Unsolved Until Death of
Highly Esteemed Employe—Was
Never in Life Caught Napping.
"Long after the surrounding cour
try is quiio dry this spot retains it»
moisture. The damp mist that fill:
the valley with greater or lens den
sity, according to the amount of moist-
ure drying out of the mud-slide is gen-
erally referred to as smoke from the.
volcano. Rut there is no volcano: of
this i was fully satisfied alter riding
over the mud-slide and examining the
momjialn sldos.with a powerful glass
from a distance of about a mile.”
Tobacco a Good Poultice
j “Last, summer I was taking a spin
one day in a light trap out in the
country, and in attempting to pass a
farmer's wagon on a narrow road my
trap was overturned and I was thrown
heavily to the ground, sustaining a
badly sprained ankle-;-- George Max-
well says.
“The farmer came running up to
assist me and when lie found what
was the matter returned to his wagon
anil came back with a tew tobacco
leaves under iiis arm. 'If you'll let
me make a poultice out of these and
place it on your ankle it will he all
right in the morning,’'be said, and as
I was about five miles from a doctor's
office, with the pain in my ankle some-
thing fierce, I told him to go ahead. It
couldn't do me any harm. 1 thought;
and it might have a slightly cooling
effect while 1 was driving hack to
tow n.
"He dipped the leaves in the water
of a creek near by. then hound them
pain in my ankle was much lessened
and decided to give the poultice a fair
trial, in the morning when I awoke
there was absolutely no pain in my
ankle whatever and only the slightest
suggestion of a swelling. I was able
to don my shoes without trouble and
that day attended to business as if
nothing had befallen mo.
"Since then one of my friends suf-
fered a sprain and consented to have
a leaf tobacco poultice applied which
resulted in his case just as it did in
mine. I have also tried it. in other
Instances of slight injury, where there
was pain and danger of swelling, and
have found that invariably it relieves
the pain .within a remarkably short
apace of time and generally prevented
any swelling. A friend of mine claims
to have tried it with good results for
a slight attack of rheumatism, and I
have no doubt, that it attin'.l'y cid what
he claim.'; for it, but. at any rate, for
sprains <t similar injuries I am now a
firm nd\ooat:> of the .-.iirplo, homely
.tightly around my .ankle, with the aid remedy to tvhicli I was introduced by
of a handkerchief, and assisted me my accident
into my vehicle. When 1 reached my 1 month4 ago.
rooms 1 was surprised to find tii.it the * crat.
in tie
■our l ry
o. O’,, t
a few
d'e—o-
Odd Hats on Election
Severn! very peculiar bets, which
were made in this county an to the
outcome of the recent elections, have
come to light, and not a little incon-
enience is being occasioned the
d
’losing party in some instances.- Here |
is one, that the Liberals should not
.got a majority in the Maritime prov-
inces. A young man agreed with his
friends to use a hemp sack as a night
shirt, for one week. !f the other lost
'he was to He down for the same length
(Of time. The young, man with the
‘hemp pajamas is down with nervous
(prostration, tut the/doctor hopes to
cuffed. Finally a smalt <age was de-
viled which, worn in a spec-ally cor.-
i tructe i pock-t. lends the appearance
of a mammoth tumor to a limb other
wife Apoilo-iiko in symetry of mold.
In yet another instance two young
men of contrary political opinions,
who were paying attention to the
same girl, and found -ach other dread-
fully in the way, agreed that the one
whose party lost in the election should
give ground and allow the other
clear field. Up to that time the ab-
ject of their regard had shown abso-
lutely no preference. The young Lib-
'save his reasofi if election is not spo- (>raj on the night of the election turn
ken of in his bearing for the next five
pears.
ed up smiling, but found her gym
l athy with the banished Conservative
Another young man got. stuck on ' and that he could make no headway
the whole Dominion, anddwas obligat-
ed by liis agreement to carry n rat in
his pocket for nine days, There was
nothing said as to whether it was to
bo a live rat, but. as cold storage was,
(tinder the circumstances, out of the
(question, a carcass seemed likely
'iirfiVp nt
vtO
’prove objectionable. The rat showed
‘Itself a veritable "Brindamnur." anil
with his suit. Revealing, in an un-
guarded moment, the compact entered
into bet ween the two, he was-prompt-
ly ordered to the right about for malt-
ing her favor the subject of a bet.
Now neither of the lovelorn youths
venture near the house, except at
night, when they watch-' the shadow of
their lady love as it flickers on tho
could not, be kept muzzled or hand- f window shade.—Halifax Mail.
Loved Ones Gone Before
O hearts that nrv<T to yearn!
O brifnip-InK tt*;r.rs that ne’er an? cJrtc^;
The (Trad; though they Depart, return
AH though tlu-y hail not. died!
The living are the only dead;
* The dead live-—ne\ ennoie to dir ;
And of ten, when wq'mourn th< hi fled.
They never, V re '■«•» nigh!
And though they lie beneath the waves,
-Or sleep within th“ ehijrihynid dim.
(Ah) through how many different graves
•. God's children go to him!)
Yet every grave-gives up Its dead
Ere it is overgrown with g^ass;
Then why should hopeless teats be shed.
Or need we cry, “Alas”.? v
Memory,
■ il'od with
Ol- v.hy should
gloom.
And like a .sorrowing mourner craped.
Sit weeping o>r .in t-inptv tomb, -
Whose captives have escaped?
'Tis tut a mound—ntid will be mossed
Whene’er the summer grass appeals-
Thr loved, though Wept; me never lost;
Wt- only, lose- our it arst
Nay, Hope may whisper with the dead
By lendlrg. forward where they are;
But Memory, with a backward triad
Communes with them alar.
The joys we lose are hut forecast.
And we shall lb d thin; alt once more;
We lock behind ns for the Past.
But lo! 'tis alt before:
Fighter Fond cf Candy.
Melton Prior, tho London war cor-
respondent. says Gen. Fuluishima is
one of the hardest workers in the
Japanese army, neither r.mokes nor.
drinks and has an unconquerable love
for sweets. Mr. Prior called upon
him to protest against the manger in
which correspondents were being kept
away from the fighting line. The gen-
eral mildly replied that this was ac-
cording to strict rules, whereupon
Prior lost his temper for a moment
and indulged in some emphatic re-
marks, The Jap warrior looked at
him blandly, and with a smile held
out a small box, saying; “Have a
sweet, Mr. Prior.’’ Whereupon the
humor of the situation appealed to the
correspondent and a pleasant chat
tnllow*4-
Hsircss Fine Candy Maker.
In the slightly improbable event that
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt.'already pop-
ular among New York's debutantes of
the season, should ever find herself in
an inipecunioug condition, she would
bo able to make a fair living as a
bonbon cook. Every school girl can
make taffy of course, but the Vander-
bilt bud named looks on that as a
rudimentary affair. She is learned in
the construction of nougats, cream al-
monds, chocolate creams, caramels and
even candied fruits, all of which she
is able to manufacture with the skill
of a French confectioner. And she
delights in preparing such confections,
the result being that her churns revei
in all sorts of tcc-thsome things with-
out squandering their allowances ir
sweetshop's. •
The cashier of a bank in a western
town discovered one day at balancing
time that his cash was an even $100
short. He went over hU notes of that
denomination, after trying to account
for it in various ways without success,
and found one of them was missing.
A minute search failed to find it,
and (lie loss had to be charged up .in
the way sp.ch things are.
Some weeks later the same amount
was missing again in the same mys
lerious way.
When it happened a third time—
this after a long interval—the cashier
was replaced by another man; not
that, the officers distrusted him, but
they wanted to see if the presence of
the new cashier would make a differ-
ence.
it didn't. The $100 bills disappeared
one at a time at irregular intervals,
and no one could ever account for
their loss in any wav.
After this had been going on for a
couple of years the night watchman,
"ho was also tho janitor of the bank,
died. No one over thought Of connect-
ing him witli the disappearance of the
bills, and the day after his death tho
local papers printed short obituary
notices of his career as a selvant of
tile bank, telling in how high esteem
he was hold by its officers,
Curiously enough, with his death
name an end of the strange disappear-
ance of the bills. No one in the bank,
.however, connected the two things.
Several months after the janitor’s
death the bank was fitted out with
new office- furniture, and when the
workmen ripped away the woodwork
)!’ the cashier's desk the reason for
tile disappearance ol’ the money was
explained.
Under the sloping lop of the desk
was a steel plate suspended from its
center by a piece of stout twine that,
ran through a ring ar.d then led down
between the framework of the parti-
tion to the cellar, where it ended at
’another ring caught on a nail in one
of the joists, '
A few moments of experimenting
showed how the janitor had worked
his highly original "graft." When bo
i ei^Fd money he would open the
empty cash drawer at night, lower tho
Iilate and cover its under surface with
paste. Then he would haul it un
under the sloping desk top.
The next day when the cashier was
away from tho desk at luncheon,
which he always ate at a table near
his window, the janitor would go
down in the collar, unhook the cord
and let the*plate. which was suspend-,
oil directly over the compartment con-
jtainirg the $100 bills, drop down on
the top of one. The paste would
.make it adhere firmly to the plate,
.anti then he would haul it up under
the desk top. At nigiit he could re-
move it from the plate at. his leisure.
Of course; he ran the risk of hav-
ing, the Cashier go to the drawer while
he was working ids device. Rut the
janitor had studied the officer’s habits
so closely that he never was caught
napping.—New York Press.
HERE'S THE NEW WALK
,ormng
-Is al
With the New Year-
Least Striking.
A new walk is coming in with the
i«*w war. It is already here, but it
viil take- until the dawn of 1905 to
a-come perfect |n it. It is different
rorn any other walk that, was ever
men, though in certain ways it re:*em-
des the Grecian bend, which was the
imbitiou of our mothers and grand-
nothers in 1870.
The new walk requires these
Mugs:
Wide shoulders and a little waist.
High-heeled shoes with wide soles.
Rig liips and fiat back.
A certain carriage which is known
is the military carriage.
The girl who is getting the 1905.
v. alk would do well io visit, some near-
by military station and study the sol-
liers. If she can get a West Point
tadet to teach her so much the better.
Tlie new walk will bo the military;
walk with certain improvements and
chances.
To get really to walk stand erect,
and throw back the shoulders. Now
expand the chest. Now square tho el
bowl;, holding them down to your
sides, not out. Now draw in the ab-
domen. lift, the feet high, and walk.
The first time you try this you will
feel like a. trussed chicken. Tho sec-
ond time it will not be quite so bad.
After a while you will gei the hang of
it. just as you get the hang of the bi-
cycle, and you will be able to work it
a!! eight.—Washington Times.
TO RESTORE CANTEEN
WOMAN'9 ARMY AND NAVY
LEAGUE PETITION CONGRESS.
Since th« Canteen Was Aboilahed the
Army Hae Greater Drunkennesi
than Ever, Proving the Abolition of
the Well Regulated Army Saloon
to Be a Mistake.
PALM LEAF HAT TRUST.
Exporters Form Combination—Prices
Will Ascend.
Palm loaf hat exporters, who have
for years past engaged in almost daily
commercial strife while purchasing
.hats from the rural makers, have
’formed a combination, with tho result
that one price now prevails for the
different grades instead of several as
(heretofore, reports Consul Birch ol
Malaga, S'yain. The export of these
hats to New York, which is their only
market, numbers between 3,000,000
end;4,000,000 a year. They are made
from the narrow leaf of the palm
■grown in the adjacent country dis-
tricts, where thousands of families,’
’from grandfather to children not yet
in Their teens, aie from January to
December enraged In working ttie leaf
into shape. These people compose, by
(he way. probably tho most indus-
trious' nml prosperous working class
of southern Spain. They'bring the.
hats and Malaga on - the backs of
mules and dispose of their wares to
local merchants.
Prior to the formation of the “trust"
hats were sold to the highest bidder,
but under the present arrangement
one house buys all of them at a fixed
price and divides with other dealers.
The combination pertains, however,
only to the. purchase; of the hats, each
merchant offering them to New York
buyers at his own figure.
■ "God Reigns and All Is Welt.
"God’s in PiM ticavin—dll's right
the world."
Hymn to the City.
Net In the solitude
Alone may man commune with heaven,
or nee
Only a savage, wood
And sunny vale. th> present Deity;
Or only hear Ills voice,
Where I ho, winds whisper and the waves
rejoice.
Even here do X behold
Thy steps. AXmignty!—herq, midst the
crowd.
Through the great, city rolled.__ ,.
With everlasting murmur deep and
loud—
Clinking the ways that wind
'Alongst the proud piles, the work of
human kind.
Thy golden sunshine comes
From the round heaven, and on their
dwellings lies.
And lights their inner homes;
For them Thou filial With air the un-
bounded skies,
And gmst them, the stores
Of ocean, and the harvest of its shores.
Tjiv Spirit Is around,
Suiekehitig the restless
Sweeps along;
And tills eternal sound—
Voices and footfalls Of the numberless
throng— "-. 1
Like the resounding sea.
Or like the rainy tempest speaks of
Thee.
with
. - Hubert Browning.
No sparrow falls, no flower lives Its day
Without 1 iis loving care that guards al-
ways
Who shall His wonders tell?
Fod reigns and all is well!
Tit* stream of living water ever flows,
Tn; wilderness shall blossom as tho roee.
i.oi e Conquers d, atii and hell.
God reigns and all Is wtif!
lit-, love aeeepts His children's sacrifice.
To blend with angel-tones our praises
rise,
Our songs of triumph swell,
pod
None asks
cross.
The poverty of life, the pain and loss.
The solemn passing-bell. ,
Of youthful hopes,"their knelt
Itlhgs in our hearts;, yet love and mercy
sweet
In benediction make our lives complete.
God reigns and'all Is well!
—Martha A Kidder. ,
relgnfk_jxnd all is well!
in vaths^for help to hear the
mass that
Lillian's Thoughtfulness.
It is not absolutely certain that
Lillian Russell expects her audience
to join in singing the choruses of her
songs when she returns as a star In
"Lady Teazle,” but it is positive that
she wants them to understand what,
she is singing about For she has an-
nounced that she will have all the
lyrics printed in pamphlet form and
distributed nightly to the audience.
Miss Russell explains that she wants
her auditors to he as familiar with the
lyrics when they leave the theater as
they are with the airs. The pamph-
let will contain an introduction by
And when the hours of rest
Como, like n calm upon the mkl-sra
brine,
/limhinj? its billowy breast--
The quiet of that moment, too, Is Thine;
It broaches of him who keej s
The \ast and helpless city while it
sleeps.
—William Cullen Bryaiit.
Giant Horse.
Oregon Queen is reputed to be the
largest three-year old filly
A very promising and significant
development In the canteen contro-
versy is Involved in the recent ac-
tion of the Woman’s Army anti Navy
league, says the Washington (D, C.)
Post of Dec. 5tli. The resolution
adopted at the last meeting of the
league sufficiently explains the eon-
templattsd movement:
‘’Whereas through a misapplied
teal and a lack of appreciation anil
understanding as to the reasons why
canteens or post exchanges wera
originally established at army posts,
as well as a misconception of tho
manner of conducting the sales of
beer; and whereas a three years’ »rst
forbidding the sulo of beer or light
wines on any government reservation
lias proven detrimental rather than
beneficial to the enlisted men; and
whereas the Woman’s Christian Tem-
perance Union has influenced tho
Congress of the United States to
abolish the canteen by the act of Feb-
ruary 2, 1901, be it. here
"Resolved, That the women of the
Woman’s Army and Navy League,
whose object has been for seventeen
years to work for the general welfare,
the contentment, and amusement of
our soldiers and sailors, shall present
at the next session of Congress a peti-
tion urging that the canteen or post
exchange, with the same conditions aa
to a restricted sale of beer and light
wines as existed prior to February 2,
1901, bo restored at an early date.”
Tho fact that this resolution passed
without a single dissenting voice con-
tains nil the comment needed as re-
gards one aspect of tho matter, but It
must be considered also that this
league Is composed of women Imme-
diately connected with the military
service and, therefore, sincerely inter-
ested in its welfare. The wives, sis-
ters, daughters, etc., of army and navy
officers are In far batter position to
speak with knowledge and authority
than women who discuss the canteen
only In a theoretical way. These lat-
ter no doubt sincerely believe that the
abolition of the canteen removes
temptation from our soldiers and sail-
ors, thereby elevating their morals,
improving their health, and generally
exalting the service. They have sought
and, for the moment, achieved this
consummation, ajid without inquiring
into the practical results of tho sup
posed reform, they tell themselves
that their work Is good and must be
perpetuated. The women of tho
league, however, see what the others
cannot see. The evil fruits of tha
rum shop, the dance house, the vicious
deadfalls that have sprung up on the
ruin of th# canteen are before them
hourly. They know that the existing
law has not checked the consumption
of liquor by the men, but has, on the
contrary, increased it. The effect of
the law has been, simply, to release
the practice from rational control and
endow it with a license. There was
beer drinking in tha canteen, but it
was subject to official observation and
susceptible of restraint. The drink-
ing outside of the canteen is no long-
er limited either as to quality or quan-
tity. What was once convivial recrea-
tion, kept within hounds of decency.
Is now an unbridled orgie, a brutal
revel, ending much too often In dis-
ease and crime. The facts are notori-
ous. Any one who really wishes tha
material good of the soldiers and sail-
ors and Is willing to seek that good
by practicable methods, can have tha
last doubt removed by consulting tha
official record.
It will be interesting to watch the
course of Congress when tho issue
shall have been fairly joined. Nearly
four years ago, the canteen law was
repealed at the Instance of certain
well-meaning persons. Since then
every one really Interested in the wel-
fare of the men and the moralo of the
service—Interested, we mean, to tha
extent of ascertaining the practical
results of the change—has come to
realize that the reform In question op-
erates a curse rather than a blessing.
There Is infinitely more drunkenness
among the men than there Was be-
fore, while as for degradation, disease.
in the
Straw in Egyptian Brick.
The ancient Egyptians had a proc-
ess for making bricks which rendered
them very hard yet easy to work. An
American engineer, Mr. Acheson,
thinks ho has discovered their secret;
says the London Globe. The Egyp-
tians used straw, and by boiling straw
in water and mixing clay with it ho
John Kendrick Bangs, who, together
T r,es?°nsib!0 for , lnSubordTn“aUom\;Tg7nVrr'lmro7ai:
the book of Lady Teazle. Ity, these have multiplied incalculably.
The truth is flagrant. It cannot bo de-
nied or explained away. Everybody In
a position to know admits it with sor-
row but Without reservation.' The
ieamie, therefore, will approach Con-
gress armed with absolute informa-
tion and Inspired by Intelligence as
well as sympathy. The organization
Is composed of women whose sincer-
World. She is nineteen hands high, j follnct that it gave hard shanelv hriek-s i/L J? i ** their
......... I ‘J?1Jk, k"0,wleds* 's authoritative. Thus we
teat did not crark nor deform in bak- shall soon know whether Congress la
no ir ua>
weighs 2,2(70 pounds, is perfectly
formed, a Chestnut Sorrel with Silver ! jn[. Analysis nroved the effort fine IITl.' »wwi ywugrwi la
• , , , ln*- analysis provtu me enect quo open to reason and common sense or
mane and tall. She was bred and to tannin dissolved in water. Further prefers the company cf 1U
raised by Sol King, of Cornwallis, and j experiments showed that from ifc to 1 masked delusions.
was three years old on May 20 last, per cent of the tannin of commerce — - —
She is now owned by C. W. Todd, of added to the resistance of the brick. ' Take a lesson from this: It Is the
Albany who will exhibit her at the The process also economizes water, gteady-gaited horse that covers tha
Lewi.-, and Clark fa.r, MO*.-Portland , and such bricks dried In the sun are Brcate8t number of mile. In a da/with
Oregonian- I even more solid than those of the kiln. tll# «fforL
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