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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20
MASTERY OVER FEAR.
The Power Of Mind Over Matter In 0o
ments Of Danger.

The Power Of Mind Over Matter In 10.
ments Of Danger.
It would be interesting to know how
many courageous people are really APP
prehensive and cowardly at heart.
Many a recklessly brave soldier has
confessed that he went to battle quak-
ing with fear perhaps as Overwhelm-
ing as that which prompted the de-
serter to flight The great difference
between them was that of moral fiber.
The one was of stuff stern enough to
ensure his fidelity; the other was
craven, body and soul.
Mere hardihood of feeling is simply
an affair of the nerves. A person may
be endowed with it, or he may not,
and consequently his only responsible
ity lies in nobility of action. A lady
who had preserved an absolute calm
uess of demeanor during night OF
great danger at sea. was afterwards
complimented on her courage.
did really behave well?" she
asked, in some surprise.
ike heroine. When those hys-
terical women screamed you didn't
open your lips. and you only moved to
make them more comfortable.
II am glad" she replied, with sigh
of relief. II was SO beside myself with
fear that you wouldn't surprise me if
you said l screamed. too. actually
looked in the glass the first thing next
morning. to see if my hair had turned
white.'
''But how did you manage to conceal
your fear??"
''Oh. l kept saying to myself: Re
member. you are not 20 make fuss.
set my mind on that"
What sort of a man makes the
bravest sOldiere" asked some one OF
an old officer who had often been tried
by danger and was never found want
ing.
"Well," he responded. after some
thought, Il should say it is the man
who keeps the steadiest grip on him
self"
Very few people. indeed. have a
sufficiently high estimate of the power
of mind over matter, in moments of
danger. A young woman-One OF the
modern young women who do not
hesitate to express an opinion-does
not think that boys are. by nature.
more courageous than girls. For she
says:
ut is a recognized tradition that
men are to be brave, and so, when
they are afraid, they say nothing about
it. Woman may scream without for
feiting her good name; therefore she
allows herself that privilege"
This young philosophers logic may
be defective, but it points to the very
evident fact that, while any one may
be conscious of fear. it is only the cow
,rd who allows it to obtain the mastery
of his actiOns.-I outA's Companion.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20
ITALIAN MACARONj.
The Process by Which This Wholesome
Food Is Made.


Food Is Made.
Macaroni is an Italian invention, and
though the process of its manufacture
is very simple, it has never been pro-
dnced so successfully in any other
country. This is said to be because
Italian macaroni is made from a pecul-
lar kind of wheat named grano duro,
or hard grain. At first it was import
ed at considerable expense from the
Russian territories on the Black sea.
This grain which is now extensively
grown by the farmers Of Southern
Italy is said to possess a much greater
amount of gluten than other varieties
Of wheat. and to be therefore better
adapted for the macaroni manufacture
Its kernel is very small. After the
wheat has been washed it is hulled and
ground and passed through several
Stoves to separate the finer from the
coarser flour. Five qualities are
obtained by as many siftings,
the last the finest that can
be made. The -four is mixed with hot
water to the consistency of stiff
dough, and is then kneaded by means
of a wooden pole fastened to a post and
worked up and down upon the paste;
or the cheaper grades are often made
by treading the dough with the feet.
When the paste has been kneaded for
long time it is put into trough or
iron vessel containing large number
of small holes of two sizes. the paste
passing througn the smallest becoming
vermicelli. Over the larger holes are
little copper bridges. from which cop
per wire passes through each hole, and
this makes the hollow tubes of the
macaroni. When this vessel is filled
with the dough press is driven in
upon it. and as fast as it is forced
through the holes workman takes up
the snacaroni or vermicelli. as the case
may be, and lays it across line to dry
in lengths OF two or three yards, after
which it is ready for market. A cur
rent Of hot air passing through the
tubes and strings as they are being
formed partially cooks them, and they
are dried by ho:-air currents, so that
in preparation for the table no long
cooking process is necessary for this
fOOd.-ChicdQO Inter- Ocean.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20
THE BRYANT HOME.
The Picturesque Plsos Occupied b. Has.
old Goodwin.

The Picturesque Place Occupied by Hae.
old Goodwin.
Some recent newspaper paragraphs
have directed attention to Cedarmere,
for many years the home of the poet
Bryant, in the picturesque little viii
lagd of Roslyn. on the north shore of
Long Island. Roslyn lies on an inlet
of the sound, about twenty miles from
New York City, commanding beauti-
full view of the water and the distant
hills across the sound. Bryant him
self once described Cedarmere as "a
little place, in a most healthful neigh
borhood, just upon the sea water, along
an inlet of the sound, overlooked by
woody hills, and near a village ssirting
several clear sheets of fresh water fed
by abundant springs which gush from
the earth at the head of the valley"
1.-The house of seven gables,'"
writes a correspondent. '.is still in the
possession OF the family, being now oc.
cupied by Harold Goodwin. a son OF
Parke Goodwin, Mr.. Bryant's son-in-
law. Many of the poets effects are
still in the house. In the library bis
desk and chair remain practically rs
he left them. and in tho same room
are the paintings given him by the
American artists. The house is kept
in good repair and the grounds are in
excellent order. The old oak, favorite
with the poet, was blown down-or
fell-last year. The logs are now be-
ing seasoned SO that they can be made
into furniture and souvenirs for MEM
bers of the family and intimate
friends"
The house is large and rambling,
the frame being at least a century old.
1t has broad piazzas. from which
charming views Of lawn and water are
to be had and, standing in spacious
grounds, presents 10 the eye lines at
once quaint and graceful. -BoOE-B Buyer.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20
iNSIDiOUS DRUGS.
Something About Anti-Pyrine and Simila
Seductive Remedies.

Something About Anti-Pyrine and Similar
Seductive Remedies.
At late meeting of the doctors of
France at Marseilles part of the pro-
gramme was an excursion to Algiers;
and before they sailed one among them
announced the preventive virtues of
anti-pyrine in sea-sickness. Now"
said he. there is an opportunity to
test its value in a way rarely occur
ring. Here are a hundred and fifty
doctors of us going to sea, not one of
whom is sailor. Let US all take the
drug, sail across the middle sea like
veterans and enjoy our little trip like
old salts"
Adopted. So every doctor armed
himself with capsules OF anti-pyrine
and began to take them as the ship
swung out of the dock aud headed for
Africa; and in half an hour after
ward that society. without ex-
ception, was laid out They stuck
manfully to the remedy, determined to
give it fair play; but when they landed
In the morning, dragged-0ut, dllapl-
dated-looklng set, the vote that anti
pyrine was q miserable delusion in
sea-sickness. passed by large vote-a
strictly unanimous one.
Az temporary relief for headache
it has considerable value; but it is as
insidious as choral and even moro
seductive All these drugs have about
the same biography. They come in
with trumpet blast and beat Of drum.
heealded IS absolute cure-alls, spread
themselves among the people like
pestilence, are eagerly seized by youth
full physicians and helped along, and
gradually subside out Of public sight,
leaving behind some victims 70 their
power who live and . host Of graves.-I
D.. Hxtekinsox. IL Axseriees AdgasisG
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20
THE PRAIRIE SHRIMP.

A Southern Writer Tells Western Farm.
ers How to Utilize GrasshOppers.
The grasshopper plague in Mime
sofa has assumed so serious a charac-
ter that the farmers around st. Paul
have decided to pay 81 bushel for the
insects, in order to stimulate the efforts
for their destruction. In Venezuela,
recently. a prize of $4,000 was offered
to any body who would invent means
of profitably converting locusts into
grease or any other useful article. We
can not claim originality for the idea.
but why not adopt the Indian system?
The aboriginal farmers Of the plains.
we have been told heretofore. do not
regard the grasshopper as an unqual-
fled evil. When their wheat crops
grow undisturbed by these insects the
Indians eat the wheat after it has been
prepared in the usual way. When the
grasshoppers come and eat the wheat,
however. the Indians eat the grass
hoppers. In this way they are always
sure of a good crop of one kind or the
other. and are happy in any event
There is authority for the statement
that fried grasshoppers are not unpal-
atable. the testimony of white men
who have dined on them being that
they have a ''rich. nutty taste" not I'M
like peanuts. or something of that sort.
and that thu most sQueamish person
would enjoy them if served up in bat
ter or under some other name. We do
not care to press the subject too far.
but why not give the frisky visitors q
chance to redeem their reputation by
transferring them from the field to the
kitchen-from the furrow to the frying
pan? The Indian holds the oyster and
shrimp in scern, and his, We know. is
a blind and unreasonable prejudice.
Why not learn from him at the same
time that we teach him to esteem our
delicacies? Let our friends in Mime
sofa, then, name the grasshopper the
''prairie shrimp" for instance, and
gather him in and make the most OF
him.-C Charleston NeUs.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

HISs Roam. NIAoAEA Co, n I'll
March a 1856
About q year ago was taken with q
severe pain in both lungA was first at
tackled with violent chill, then dreadful
pain and then cough accompanied by con-
siderable fever. It looked very much like
q bad attack Of pneumonia. A friend Of
mine procured five ALLCocK's PLAsTERs.
One he put under each arm, one under each
shoulder blade, and one on my chest close
around my throat. In few hours the
and broke out in profuse perspiration.
fell into profound sleep, and the next
day was almost we'll. / wore the Plasters
eight days afterwards, and have never had
any trouble since.
WILLIAM A. SAwYER.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

"A rather inconvenient disability
which affects a well-known naturalist
is color blindness. 1t is difficult for
him to distinguish insects from leaves,
yet he keeps up his pursuit with en-
thusiasm. us that a bu. terfy?" he
asks of a friend as Il great red and
brown creature settles on a green Leaf.
1T looks like leaf to me-"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

THE difference between the discount
clerk of the bank and the book-keeper OF n
barber shop is that one shaves the note
while the other notes the shave.-WeSterR
PlO,cman.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

IT is to be assumed thzt the dealer IN
SHIPS Canvass employs none but competent
SailSmcn.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

DANGER Signaled by a Cough is averted
with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

To Consunrsiv~x and Dclicat" Persons.
Bakers Norwegian Cod Liver Oil'' heals
the lupgs. builds up waste. and strengthens
Jno C. Bake: & Co., Philadelphia.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

THE hes: tn ng to do in drowning erler-
eency-reward the mau who helped you 10
emer se.-Puck.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

The honey-bee ie n re yular merchant. It
cells combs for living.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

A SHIP caulkcr ought to be q good mu.
stefan, SO that he might tell when he has
the right pitch.-Tcras Siftin1s.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

THROAT DISEASES commence with a Cough,
Cold or Sore Throat. 'BrOwn's Bronchial
Trocltss'' give immediate relief. Sold only in
boxes. Price % cts.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

THE effects of strong drink are indeed
appalling. The man who gets drunk in
the street is more than likely to end his
daze in the lock.up-NerchaRt Traceier.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20
Iaking Laccs

Is excusablc, because involuntary in the
rheumatic One severe twinge is sufficient
to make any one twist the cOuntenauce out
of shape. Persons troubled with incipient
rheumatism might save themselves years
OF pain if they would only use Hostetter,s
Stomach Bitters At the start. Signally Ell
cacious is it. TOO, for neuralgia, fever and
ague. dyspepsia, debility, inactivity ot the
kidneys anC biliOUsness.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

"MoNEY has WINGS" says philosopher.
So have some houses; but a no sc can not
6y q money can.-H2rper's Bdzur.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

"A Philadelphia engineer estimates
that horse can draw on an asphalt
pavement three times as much as it can
on Belgian blocks and six times a.
great load as it can on cobble stones,
and estimates that the wear and tear Of
wagons and carriages on Belgian blocks
Is about ten times as great as on asphalt
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

HANDSOME women ought to make expert
duclists, is they arc often al sWvr AS'
poiuts with each other.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

FAMILIARITY has never bred much con-
tempt for tho business end Of wasp
DetrUu Free Press
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

A WICKED coal-de ller's motto: Tho
lighter the weigh; the heav OR the prof
itS.n
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

IT is O mistaken notion that won ms
nature is t. be eXtravaSant. Doesn't =
corset Indicate desire for i small wastet
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

HERE to-day and gone -lnorrow-the
man who borrows a 1ve-dollar bill from
yOu..-BOstOn Courier.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

A DUTCH timepiecc-the Watch on tn
Rhine-LIc.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

The gross earnings Of one hundred
roads for October were 81. As, O58,
against $29, 1914, AS ir 1887, an increase
q tl2S, 583.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

Social anomsly-the fact tint people
vino "get on" should he well OF"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

WHENEVER 4 man builds. no matter
what manner of house he erccts, he needs
q site OF land
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

TIMELY assistaEce--the loan your Uncle
ele<.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

CU-s 6 BOD !iSure-an, :pert sculptor.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

A PRIVATE affair mu ~ket.-Pech.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-20

-Four Books Learned in One Reading.
AYear's Work Gone in Ten Days.
From the Chaplain OF Exeter College, and
Houghton Syriac Prizeman, Oxford.
Coli. Exon. Oxen. Sept. 1855
Dear Sir:-ln April, lsS, whiic thinking OF
taking Orders in September. suddenly received
notice that my ord nation examination wru
b held In fortnight. had only tn (1U) days
i'll which to re,,are for the Exam. 1 should
recommend y'cr's rreparat on in the case Of
anyone SO utterly imp epa:c as Was; but your
ay,teOs had so sfrea?fheDsd my nd.nrG. DaenO, y.
that WAS able TO remember aud give the S.st
Of any book Gff r Z d"ng i o"c>. 1 the,efo
read Light:oO', Proctor, Harold Browne. Mo-
helm, &C.. &c. once, aud was s.c:e.sIn, IN ~
one OF the nine paCers. Tue present 3D. shop OF
Edinburg knows the facts. faithfully yours.
tErv.l JAMES MIDDLETON MACDONALD. MAI
To p II. A Lois t:e :31 + fth Ave. n. Y.
Perfe. w taught by correspondence. Send for
Prospectus.
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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-11-22
THE NATIONAL WASHINGTON

are so large that if they were rung on Trinity
Church all New York must hear. There is a
bell at Kiota as big as haystack. and at Nara,
the old Capital of Japan there is a single bell
which contains SO tons of copper, and in which
two six-foot men could stand one on the head
of the other and not touch the top. This bell
is eight inches thick, and it was made over
thousand years ago. Every temple of Japan
and the temples are numbered by the hun
dreds of thousands-has its bell, and there is a
gong fastened to the front of every Buddhist
shrine for the waking of the gods. The Jap
anese bells have no tongues, and they are rung
by being pounded from the outside rather than
from within They do not hang from the
roofs of the temples, nor from bell towers upon
them, but they have little houses of their
own down upon the ground, or temple
like structures. built for them, in which
they are reached by steps. The bell forms
the town clock of Japan, and the hours
are ruug upon these bells. All day and all
night man times the hours by clock or
watch and when the hand reaches the proper
point he goes out aud rings the bell for the
town. He does this by pulling beam hung
upon ropes back and forth so that it strikes the
bell, and in some places he registers each stroke
by the movement of stone from one place to
another, in order that he may not forget and over
strike.
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SCIENTIFIC CHAT.

Some interesting facts in respect to populations
were noted in " "Demographic Study OF the Dimi-
mutton or Increase of Families recently read by
DR.. Gustave Lagneau before the Academic de
Medicine All aristocracies and close bodies of
men have gradually lost in number, and would
have become extremely reduced without OCca-
sional mixture with new blood. Between 1888 and
1854 the Sovereign Council of the city of Berne adj
mitted 4S7 families to citizenship. In l7S3 only los
of these families had escaped extinction. Out of
453 BarOnets created by James and Charles l be-
tween 1911 and l64S, only I07 of their titled repre-
sentatiyes remained in t73 In l8l0 only eight out
of 50 noble families existing in l4U0 had escaped
extinction NJ Benoston de Chateauueuf, after
scrutinizing the pedigrees of $50 noble French
families, found that their average duration 800
years. The great burghcr families of the Hanse-
attic towns of Holland and Venice disappeared rap
idly not Of the original patrician families of
Zealand is now in existence. Laine, carefully ex-
amining 81 charters of cities In LanguedOc Bur
gundy, Lorraine and Brittany granted at the end Of
the 18th century. authenticated 3l4 noble families
only represented in ls40 by II survivors. Among
the poor. the extinction of small tenant families
appears almost as rapid. Out of l27 families exist
ing in the Commune of Marjguy- OrXois, now in
the Department of the Aisne, in 1855, only IL ap-
peared to be i'll existence in 1886 The struggle for
existence in Angio-Saxon communities must have
the same effect.
The opinion has lately been expressed by Sir
r Rawliuson, the eminent architect, that the old
Eastern plan of securing foundations by forming
deep wells and then filling them up with concrete
has been too much neglected, for in this method
security is afforded for the lofiest structure in the
most difficult ground. Masses of concrete or Of
brick or stone work placed on a comPressb!e sub
stratum, however cramped and bound, may prove
unsafe, solidty from considerable depth being
alone reliable. Enlarging the of base or
foundation by fooiugs can be resorted to, but mere
enlargement of may not in itself be sufficient
A lofty structure which is to stand secure must
have solidity sufficient to maintain each part in
the position in which it is first placed. Again, a
heavy embankment or heavy pile of building fire.
queutly disturbs the surface ground at a distance
of many yards, the subsistence causing a CORE
spending rise around or on either side as the case
ha Paw tba a r.
foundation in compressble ground ought not 10 be
less than one fourth the intended hight sbove the
ground; that is for shaft of 200 feet the founda-
ton should be made secure by piling or by well
sinking and concrete to depth of so feet.
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brought copper, silver and tin to the priests
that each might have his part in the great
bell, even as our children each want to give
enough to put brick in one of their new
churches. Maidens brought their silver hair
pins, and the molding of the bell, which was
done in public, was the occasion of a great re-
ligious celebration of rejoicing. These are,
however, of the past. Japan to-day casts no
such bells; or if so, they are the result of pri-
vate work. During the revolution some of the
best of the old bells were melted, lam told, for
the gold and silver that was in them, and 9TH
ers have been taken to foreign lands. There
are, however, thousands yet to spare, and in the
curiO shops you may find many an old-fashion-
ed, bowl-like gong which has served to call up
the souls of many worshiper's departed an
cestors, or has reused Buddha from his Nirvana
to attend to the wants of his followers here be-
low. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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"What viii it cost me, Uncle Rastus, to have
my coop whitewashed7"
g KANT tell yet, sab, till ! makes an esti-
mate OBJ de size and dimenshuns."
That night the owner was disturbed by q
loud noise in the hen-coop.
" Hi, there!" he shouted from an upper
window, what are you doing there2"
It's Unc Rastus," was the reply, and he's
figgern' on dc size an dimenshuns oh de COOP"
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of the same age played upon the samisen,
which is long, banio-like instrument, and to
the music the other girls danced. Their
dance was a series Of postures, and they
acted the song in pantomime. The dancing
girls of Japan are brought up to the profession.
Many of them are well educated and some of
them are fine Chinese scholars. They were
until within the past few years. am told, the
best educated women of the Empire; but since
the revolution the standard of education among
the higher classes has been raised, and you will
now find Japanese ladies who can talk English,
and there are schools for women all over the
Empire.
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The Difference.
D ~. vi c., 7

Customer-WelI, I guess I'll take these pants.
RuDupaginstrne-Ya, mein frient, tree tollars
is very cheap.
Customer laghast)-Three dollars3 Why,
you had them marked dollar and half in
the window.
Rubupaginstme-och yal dot means elm toll
lar und feefty cent? fer Won leg
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-11-22

I took such a dinner
at the Shukinro, aud
we had three geishas
and two singing girls
to amuse us during the
meal. They were pref
ty, well dressed Japan
ese maidens, and they
sang and played before
us while, dressed in
japanese gowns, we
took food with chop
sticks. One of them
was about 13 years old
and another might
haua hnan Oh A ~, II
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I hear these bells
ringing out the hours
as l go to bed at night,
and in the morning
their music is the first
sound that comes to
my ears. 1t is wonder
fully sweet, and to the
Japanese whose soul
appreciates the senti-
ment wrapped up in
them they must be
even more attractive.
Nearly every one ofthe
larger of them has its
poetic history. Some
were made from the
offerings of men, Won-