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The St. Johns herald., 1894-08-30
AN UNSTABLE BOUNDARY LINE.
How Some Guileless Tillers of the Sof
 Move Ii.

1 How Some Guileless Tillers of the Soil
 Move It.
 'You have heard of smuggling, l pre- sume,'' remarked guest at one of the ! hotels to @ Cleveland Leader man. ''Well," he continued, ''I ran against the most stupendous scheme in that line last summer I ever heard of. You are doubtless aware that ordinary everyday smugglers are content to transport their goods over the line from one country to another, the ob- ject being, of course, to evade the pay ment of the customs duties. The peo- pie with whom 1 came in contact were superior to such common methods, which might do for low pirates and outlawed brigands but not for live, wide-awake Yankee. and especially a Canadian Yankee. They didn't move the goods. They moved the line.
 up in the farthest easterly part of Maine there comes place where Maine stops and New Brunswick be- gins That is the boundary line be- tween the two countries. That is also where the Canadian Yankees spoken of have their homes. They are natur- ally given to farming, some of these people, and even if Mckinley did put duty on grain, poultry and other things it didn't make any difference with some of the sturdy yoeman who live alongside the line. The publication of the news of the passage of the tariff bill didn't cause them moments un- easiness.
 ''They simply went on raising their Canadian wheat and their Canadian oats. At the same time they kept their eyes on the boundary line-what they could see of it. The visible portion of this remarkable boundary consisted of upright iron posts, set at intervals of one mile through the land. Not being chnched on the other side of the earth, these posts are responsive to influence placed on them on the Canadian side. In other words, they can be taken up and reset.
 About the time these upright and honest farmers over the line have their crops in condition to harvest a peculiar thing happens. Some dark night half dozen of them go 'coon-hunting, and when they return to their fire sides they are on American soil, they and their grounds and with them the crops. The boundary line has moved and is located a half-mile or so farther toward the Arctic ocean. These guile less tillers of the soil then dispose of their products at United States prices, and some time during the winter, in some unknown manner, the boundary line takes a backward leap, leaving them again on Canadian so1.'
The St. Johns herald., 1894-08-30
MADE FOR A KING.
A Turnip-Sized Timepiece That Weighs
 Two and a Half Pounds.

A Turnip-Sized Timepiece That Weighs
 Two and Half Pounds.
 A ponderous watch of antique pat tern displayed in the window of San Francisco jewelry establishment on Montgomcf'y street, attracts the at tention of the curious. The timepiece is four inches in diameter and is de- clared by the Bulletin to weigh two and half pounds. Its case looks like old gold, but is composition of base metal. The chain attached to this watch is proportionately ponderous and bears a seal ring large enough for the finger of giant. The watch was made by John BittlesOn, of London, two centuries ago. It was, no doubt, marvel of workmanship in those days, and is still timckceper. It probably cost about one hundred pounds sterling, or five hundred dol lars in our money. The hands upon its ample dial mark seconds and fifths of seconds, as well as hours and min utes. The dial also shows the phases of the moon. This remarkable relic is not for sale. It is owned by gentle lLAdH O1 thlo CIty3 NuO ASIo 1 NO1AOSCAOA of such curiosities.
 The old watch has history of some interest. About two hundred years ago an English sea captain obtained from the king of tribe of savages in the south seas some valuable trading privileges. The king showed him many favors, and one day the captain asked the insular monarch to say what most he would like to have sent to him from London. It pleased his royal highness to intimate that big watch would suit him well. Accord ingly a watch was made to order on scale befitting his royal parsonage. And great was his pride therein. Hav- ing no pocket, he appointed a youth watch bearer extraordinary to the SOY ereign. Wherever the king went the watch bearer followed, carrying the precious royal timepiece in his hands. When the king died his sons succeeded to the ownership of the watch. They sold it to the captain of an American ship, and he disposed of it in Phila- delphia. Some time ago it fell into the hands of it's present owner, who prizes it highly. This is no doubt one of the oldest repeating watches in ex- istence. Its ring is very musical.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-08-30
LITERARY LABOR.
Value of Early Rising and Danger of
 OVerworsS;nS.

OFerworSing.
 To make literary work healthy is a simple process, depending on the mode in which each day is allotted to it, and also on the mode in which the body is physically trained and disposed to carry it out, writes Sir B. w. Richard son in the Asclepiad. The first grand point is to begin the day well by early rising. The universal experience of the wisest men of all ages is in favor of the habit of getting up early in the morning. The practice is closely con- nected with length of life. It is also closely connected with happiness and activity of life. With the early hours of the morning literary work is always most fruitfully associated, when the habit of early work is once acquired. Thoughts are freshest then; the ar engagement of thoughts is dearest then; memory is keenest then. Thus thought, method and memory conspire together, and labor becomes pleasure. Make the sun your fellow-workman.
 In the work of the day of the literary life nothing is so wholesome as to carry out the work without strain. There is always some little difficulty in getting into harness, but, this mas tered, work becomes easy enough. Samuel Johnson records that he could always work when he was forced to it; and Miss Martineau tells us that after the first quarter of an hour she found everything easy. With healthy minds this experience is common. There is, however, Q danger connected with it. that must not be forgotten; that dan ger is the too long continuance of the labor after it has become easy. With some this danger is serious. The work is so fascinating, the time goes as if hours were minutes, and the physical hours are, as it were, stolen upon. and robbed outrageously.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-08-30
MONKEYS DO TALK.
Prof Garner Returns We'll Satisfied from
 8 Residence with Chimpanzees.

Prof. Garner Returns Well Satisfied from
 8 Residence with Chimpanzees.
 Prof. Garner, who went from Amer ica into the interior of Africa for the purpose of studying the methods of communication between the monkey tribes-in other words, to learn the monkey language - arrived at Liver pool on his return recently.
 He claims that he has established beyond doubt that there is monkey language, and that it can be learned by man. He brought with him from Africa two Kulu Kamba chimpanzees, with which he is able to communicate.
 Prof Garner says that he stayed for one hundred and one days in his cage, which he had carried into the heart of a forest two hundred and fifty miles inland. This cage was massive af- fair that was chained to trees. In 1t Prof. Garner would lock himself and then await the coming of the members of the ape family, when he would try to communicate with them by means of the sounds he had learned from mon keys in America and elsewhere.
 He had with him photograph, with which he kept a record of the sounds made by his visitors.
 He claims that his visit to Africa was a great success in establishing his the ory that the monkey family has Ian guage.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-08-30
FIRE WITHOUT SMOKE.
$ Berlin Inventors Scheme for Burning
 Powdered Coal Is Successful.

Wherever there's smoke there's fire is an adaGe based on observation of unvarying physical laws, but the re- verse does not always hold good, for there may be fire without smoke, or at all events without apparent smoke.
 In Berlin, according to the New castle Chronicle, an inventor has sue ceeded in devising means for insur- ing complete combustion without the emission Of smoke, and his method has, on repeated tests, proved so satis- factory that two of the most important steamshipping companies in Germany have decided on adapting it to their steamers. In this system coal, reduced topowder in centrifugal disintegraters, is introduced into pear-shaped com bustiOn chamber lined with frebriclz, and fitted with an induction apparatus like those used in petroleum-ired fur naces, the coal dust being drawn along by a jet of steam or compressed air.
 The combustion chamber, which takes the place of furnace, is provided with two apertures, one in the center line of the boiler, occupying the posi- ton of the usual fre-hole door, while the other, on the opposite side of the combustion chamber. serves for intro ducing the coal dust through pipe, so placed that the dust is evenly dispersed over the whole surface of the chamber. After the first ignition, which may be effected by any source of heat, the com bustion continues regularly and in tensely under the action of the air cur rent, which is regulated in accordance with the quantity Of dust required to produce the necessary heat. The air or steam and dust are intimately mingled in the zone of combustion, while the speed of the current, which has served as a vehicle for the dust, is much reduced. Each particle of fuel held in suspension is by this method brought into such close contact with the oxygen necessary for it's combus- ton that this combustion is so com plete as to allow of practically no smoke being generated.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-08-30

A .InrY on q Strike.

The most remarkable case in Texas legal history was tried recently at Oakland before Justice English-Mrs. Ella Halloway vs. J. II. Van Alstyne, says a Houston correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The case consumed the day and was given to the jury at night. Before retiring the jury demanded that each man be paid his fifty-cent fee. The justice de- murred and ordered them to bring a verdict or they would get no fee. The jury retired and in fifteen minutes en- tered court. They had a sealed verdict. Before turning it over to the justice the jury struck for their hard-earned fees. Under protest the justice gave each juror fifty cents. He opened the verdict, which read: ''The jury cannot agree. 2 This enraged the court He demanded the fifty cents each juror had been paid. The jury refused and the court ordered them locked up until a verdict was given pro or con. After being out another hour the jury reported that they were still unable to agree. Judge English then demanded the return of the fees. The jurors refused to sur render and a fine of two dollars and fifty cents each was assessed and their incarceration ordered. A compromise was finally reached by four of the jury returning the fees and the other two paying the fine of two dollars and fifty cents. The higher courts will be in fiicted with the case.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-08-30
Novel Enropean sacieties.

Among the novel societies incorpo- rated in Europe recently is ''The Soci- etv for the Protection of Nonsmokers, 9 in lower Austria. The members, al ready numerous, propose no campaign aganst smokers, but they intend to accomplish, if possible, the strict en- forcement of the regulations regarding the prohibition of smoking in certain railroad-train compartments, public buildings, restaurants frequented by men and women, street cars, concert halls and other places of public amuse- ment. They wish to prevent smoking,
 if possible, in all public places. Circu- lars are to be sent to rcstaurant-lleep- CTS asking that rooms be set apart for nonsmokers Branches of the society are to be established in Vienna,
 Prague. Bruenn and Graz. Influential names are on the roll of membership.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-08-30
New Use for Rubber.

! Good results are obtained by using rubber in connection with an anchor rope in equalizing and relieving strain in dredging, and in measuring the depth and swiftness of currents. For merly a severe strain was caused by a sudden jerking in pitching vessel. This is now overcome by what is called a rubber accumulator, which consists of seventy rubber discs or buffers on middle rod, so arranged that by com pression they act as spring. The buyers are cylindrical in shape, two and one-quarter inches in thickness. and separated from one another by metal discs one-eighth of an inch thick, and two inches larger in diameter than the rubbers, which on expansion do not overlap the metal surfaces. In this device it is found that compress sion can be had of five feet, which is sufficient to distribute the strain along the entire length of the ship. The ap- plieation is made by running the rope from reel located aft to the middle of the foremast, and then passing it through the rubber accumulatOr to the end of the anchoring boom, which is a spar thirty feet long. From this the rope with two ohuHdred-pound weight attached is dropped vertically into the
The St. Johns herald., 1894-08-30
Japanese Lacquer.

A first-class piece of Japanese lac quer-work can scarcely be scratched with a needle. 1t requires almost the lifetime of native artist to bring it to perfection. Hundreds of coats of thin lacquer are laid on at consider able intervals of time, and the value consists not in the choicenesS of the material, but in the amount of labor spent.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1894-08-18
CHOLERA lNFANTUM

mat most dreaded summer complaint occurring mostly among
from six months to three quickly cured v
the Of HUMPHREYS SPECIFICS and For sale NV Il.
druggists.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1894-08-18
HIS WIFE.

She wed the buttons his shirt rapidity
And took the spots from off his clothes
ity,
She creased his trousers till
BILE
And when he gowled her something than
peaceable.
She cleaned his russell shoes for him. unmaka:
BILE,
And took his cuffs and they were tax
able.
She put his money in the bank with great regularity
That other viewed her dress despair
ity.
When he blue she baced him something
drinkable
And talked about the ship his unsuitable
She let him buy his cigars with inconsbe
And thought
She listened to the jokes sprung gged at the best NJ
them,
And when she couldn't ggge she approved rest Of
She did not drag him off to call undraeabe
And when he had fit her tongue quite unwaea
ble
Sne brushed him she brushed him him spick
and spankabe.
And showed him why the schemes planned not ALWAYS
quite planabe
But she had for quite unlka
ble
And when it to beauty, why wasn't very ookabe
She did not care to out much. She society,"
She had time for heathens talk on petv
And neighor said Of him. laughter quite sati
How did he come to marry her? 1t really is miracle"
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1894-08-18

many what used to be considered pre
negatives has stolen his clothes advancing
termined the
saddle and mounting away precisely man. The woman
in boomers bicycle horse cheering spectacle
who want to get their rights They getting
rate In fact it becoming alarmingy evident that the
feminine kept up
be forced to the position held by Mrs Leases husband
Della Foxs opera called The Trooper" about
pretty mlner who falls in love with and soldier
teacher OF fencng that she
him. disguised trooper to the barracks that she takes the
Of her supposed rival and fighting DUEL
she for jealousy and then the happily Miss
Fox will play The part of milner the trooper and
grande dame.
heheaened disruption department
mova the military headquarters romOmaha point
have naturally occasoned much comment in the metropolis
Many people that there a probability removal
aze for the first time the advantage accruing
from the military station The purchase Of supplies is
necessarily large SCALE and the presence Of the military
Omaha contributes materially the volume of business
transacted In addition the department
tai headquarters gives the city considerable Importance And
socially the city derives distinct benefit
officers connected with the department have identified
Omaha their absense would
be keenly felt Some OF the officers particularly popular
There noticeable change this
week. beyond the fact that wholesalers beginning
from the shock of the failure Early during year
they learned to expect large fall trade result
acreage of which planted and
able prospects for abundant crop.
The humiliation prospects blow and
has taken time for merchants both wholesale
throughout the state and Iowa from the
ualy however they becoming fmer and
the of affairs Retrenchment the day;
expecting little they making their light
b While the situation discouragng this
that wholesalers better the emergency
before lends bright the situation light
feel that they must bear up well they same
may be said OF the retail trade.
The passage of the tariff bill already a very noticea
BILE effect business the Stocks and bonds
and command better price, Importers
preparing for order Of things and is
ton Of time when matters will be adjusted will
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1894-08-18
THE COURIER

within the failure crops this
of returning confidence indpuabe in ITSELF matter of
Importance all Nebaskan business and all others alike at
this the credit the state The collection and assignment
Of Nebraska and inadequate seriously
damage credit The incoming legislature should make it point
amend laws enable creditors they do
in other states leading naEcer recently voice to the sen
crop failures did hurt nearly badly the
do popu and free svertes bad collection laws
and calamity howes With fair just and equal Law collections
and mechanics and other liens law that
would the disadvantage of the honest debtor
undue advantage the dishonest creditor but would equally
tec both parties law such operated other the credit
Of Nebraska would be raised to the level which should stand
and there would be difficulty in securing money for
vemens and loans The east recognizes this country the most
productive and valuable the United States Eastern capitalists
like have lands and its benefits profits but
not like to invest their where there danger losing and
only just that they should be protected this
Confidence the east returning Prosperity will follow
remains with Nebraska confidence
its laws and investments order
W ALSO The strike at South Omaha matter the past Affairs
generally to be quetng down. and adjournment
congress. the general situation should improve
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1894-08-18

leading banker Omaha recently said that parties who
Withdrawn their deposits in the last year and half bringing
back with indication that has actually
the ground In explanation OF this fact that
the question whether they had deposited the bank before
vaably they follows: YES but want
careful examination Of the bills ample evidence
stated that they have been buried the ground In
the banker states that their deposits have enormously
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-16

take effect from the date of the selection
and approval, provided that any land SO
reserved which shall not be reclaimed
within five years from the date of selec-
tion and approval, and as to which the
state has not expended or caused to be
expended the sum of SO per acre In re-
clamation work, as now required by the
desert land law, shall be released from
reservation and become ject to dis
posal as other public lands after procla-
nation therefor by the president. The
states accepting these condition are au-
thorized to make all necessary regula-
tions and contracts for reclamation and
cultivation of arid lands by actual set
tiers and receive patents thereof on due
proof, restricted, however, to not more
than 100 acres to any one person, the
proceeds derived from the sale of said
lands to be held and expended rs sepa-
rate fund to aid the work of reclamatlon
All lands exclusive of timber and mineral
lands, which will not without irrigation
produce some agricultural crops, are
deemed arid lands within the meaning of
this act. The lands can not be leased or
disposed of in any way save to secure
their reclamation, cultivation and settle
ment.
This action by Democratic congress
gains additional Importance when we
consider that 1t is the first step toward
defining policy touching the national
governments plans toward the arid
region. In this we see the beginning of
mammoth enterprises and the consum-
nation of a campaign of education that
the west has waged earnestly for years.
We are glad to see the Democratic party
90 thus on record, 1t was the first to
show by it's national platform declara-
tions of friendliness for the arid region
and now it is the first to brush aside the
ignorant opposition of the eastern farm
err and take this initial decisive step in
favor of state system of reclamation.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-16
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

Now that the tariff matter is practic-
ally settled, look out for veritable in
dustrlal boom. The fat flyers who were
able to run things their own way, under
the Republican administrations have not
let their wheels turn for months, hoping
thereby to influence congress to let the
Mckinley bill stand. AS result the stock
of manufactured articles is lower in this
country to-day than it has been for years
Every cloud has a silver lining and the
bright side of Democratic methods wi.
soon be showing itself in the business
activity this whole country will expert
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-16
ARID LANDS AND DEMOCRACY.

Congress has almost cleaned up its
urgent work for this session and ten days
hence it Is likely TO adjourn. At present
the last of the appropriation bills, the
sundry civil bill, is pending in conference
and while there are in it many items that
the house persists in refusing to join the
senate in agreeing to, there is one feature
of the meaaure which has been agreed to
by both branches of congress that is of
great Importance to western people
This is the amendment which provides
that to encourage the reclamation of the
arid land and the cultivation and sale
thereof in small tracts to actual settlers
there is reserved in each of the states to
which the desert land law is applicable
and also the states of Nebraska and
Kansas and the states that may be
formed out of the territories oil
Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma anG
Utah, 100000 acres of the surveyed
arid lands in said states and respectively
to be selected within ten years after the
passage of this act; the reservation to
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-16
why Take the Wabash

For ST. LOUIS?
Because it is the shortest line; the best
equipped line; runs free chair cars, Buffet
Pulmans and gives you ample time in
Kansas City for supper.
For TOLEDO OR DETROITY
Because it is the shortest line; avoids
transfer across the city in case you are
going further east, and makes close con
nectons with all trunk lines.
For NEW YORK or BOSTON?
Because it has solid through service
from both Chicago and st. Louis, via
NIAGARA FALLS; gives forty minutes
stop at the falls at seasonable time in the
morning.
FOR ALL OTHER EASTERN POINTS
Because its service is uniformly good
and you can make no mistake in asking
for tickets VIA THE WABASH.
G. M. HAMpsoN, Cont Agent,
1924 18th st.. Denver, Colo.