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The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18

Is the earth drying mp? II Is q start
ling question; and, what Is yet more
startling, the answer given by science
ls undoubtedly affirmative. Not that
there Is any occasion for alarm. The
terrestrial water supply Is adequate for
4 long time to come. II Is not in our
lay that the fountains of the deep will
tail; neither we nor our children. nor
our children's children, are likely to
suffer from a general water famine.
The question is a real one, none the
less, and most serious; for upon the
answer depends the ultimate fate of
he human race. And this answer,
BASED upon strict scientific reasoning
ard the most just analogies accessible
% MS, Is, as has been stated. affirma-
tive. Our earth, in very truth. Is slow
v drying UP.
or all the planets of the solar sys-
ZEN Mars bears the closest resemblance
To the world on which We dwell this
is conceded. Further. II is in every
way probable that Mars is, or has been.
covered With vegetation; there is much
reason to believe that Ii IL even now,
like our oWn orb. a thcater of life.
But 1t Is older-in effect, much older
than the earth. Listen to what Per-
cival Lowell, one of the highest atl-
thoritics on this subject. says of its
present condition. After a careful SUR
vey of all the evidence he summarizes
the matter thus
1T follows that Mars is very badly
off for water. y " = Such scarcity
IF water on Mars Is just what theory
would lead us to expect. Mars Is a
smaller planet than the earth. and
therefore is relatively more advanced
IN his evolutionary career. He Is older
In age If not in years; for whether his
birth as a separate world a%ntedated
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
High Tides Acct " ellis.

The high-water marks OF several
extraordinary high tides have been
kept at Easton Point, St. MiChael's and
Oxford. What is. known as the zen.
tCnnial tide of September, 1876, has
held the record of the highest water
mark, and still holds II. although last
Thursday mornings (Oct. II tide was
within an inch Of the centennial mark.
The recent flood had a singular effect
on the flow Of the artesian wells on
Tilghman's Island, These wells aver
age 400 feet in depth, and nan OF
them have a surface overflow, which in.
creased fully double in velocity and
more in volume when the tide was at
its highest. 1t has been noticed before
that any unusual high tide is percepti.
bic in the effect it has on the flow OF
the wells.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18

Nhen the municipality had provided
comfortable quarters for that great
mass of the poor dependent upon lodg-
ng-houses for shelter, II was found
hat there was still one class for whom
10 provision had been made-viz., the
Widows and widowcrs with children
h are compelled to be absent from
ZONE during the day and have no
means OF assuring themselves of the
are OF their children during this pc
Tod. To supply this want a family
iome' has been erected, which, both
or arrangement and management,
tands alone In the history of modern
municipal enterprises. The home" IL
htuated In the poorest section of the
aty. II thus most conveniently placed
or the class II Is intended to reach.
Thcre are accommodations for about
90 small families. In addition to the
ordinary bed and living rooms there
ire reading. smoking. recreation and
lining rooms. For the children there
ire n spacious nursery and a roof gar
len. The nursery Is in charge of "A
specially trained nurse, who has sever.
IL others under her direction. Hot and
'old water baths and specially CON
'tructed small kitchens for the prepa-
alton OF Infants food are distributed
throughout the building. with all
:hese comforts and COnveniences the
'ost has been kept to the lowest Dos
'ible level. A mother with one child
pays 7S cents per week with two chill
iren, 81 cents, and with three children,
W cents. 4 father with one child pays
VI cents per week, with two children.
n.19. and with three children, Sl.23.
The charges for board are: For adults,
Ter day, breakfast. 3 cents: dinner. 8
'ents, and tea. q cents. For children.
Ter week, - cents for single child. 80
'ents each for two in a family, and 30
'ents each for three or more In a fam
ly. Although the home" has been
'pen but a few months. the difference
n appearance between the children liv-
ng there and those of the immediate
ieighborhood Is already apparent. An
thcr advantage which Is not To be ig-
,orcd Is the fact that the low charges
Ict as an incentive 80 father and moth
n to support the children ana keep
hem with them rather than have them
become a change upon public or private
harity. 1t is believed that the fam
ly home will soon come to have u
permanent place IN the institutions of
he cities of Great Britain. There is
title or no crime in Glasgow.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
GrCnI McnInI (nlrnln,nrs.

Jcrediah Buxton. who was examined
by the Royal Society of London, toward
the middle of the last century. could
find mentally in five hours the exact
number of cubic cighths Of an inch in
a body measuring 23.lij,7 S9 yards by
5,Gi2.7 1872 yards by 1896 yards, bat
could not write his own name. When
taken to see Garrick in Richard III
az Drury Lane. his sole criticism was
To The effect that the total number of
words uttered was l2,iij, the number
OF words in Garrick's part being regis
tered separately MangiamClc. a Sicil-
ian hcrdhoy. who. at the age Of ten.
was presented by Arago to the Acal-
envy of Sciences in Paris, and VINO.
among other feats. extracted the cube
root of 3,7G2,ilG t-l5@ in thirty sec
Ouds, was totally illitcratc. base.
born in 1924, was . noted calculator,
but devoted his faculty to the COM
position OF tables of logari;hms. He
is said TO have multiplied together men
tally two numbers of one hundred fig
ures each in eight and thrae-Quarter
hours. The problem no doubt could be
done more rapidly by a good calculator
in the ordinary way, but the effort of
memory demanded by its mental solu,
tloa is simply s~tupendous.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
ON MARRYING A POOR MAN.
Words OF Encouragement for the Cir
Who Does 1t.

Norus :" encouragement Tor the Cir
who Does 1t.
Il have been young and now am old
said one of the charming middle-agct
women of the period, whose looks bell,
the baptismal register and who rather
enjoy arrogating to themselves the
wisdom and experience of age. says the
New York Journal. And | have reach
ed that period of life" she continued
when | can look back and see result.
and note how seldom those who are
born with silver spoons in theii
mouths, as the saying Is. have the sill
yer fork when they are grown up
When | look back and remember VIII
were the jeunesse doree of my youth
the men whose lives and positions
above all Others seemed PARTICULARS
enviable and desirable-and then looR
about me now and see how few OF those
men who were called men of pleasure
in those days have attained an honor
able and useful middle-age. I feel
that | can preach a sermon to my BOYS
and their friends with object lessons
that ought TO make II very impressive.
Some are poor. having spent health AMI
substance, like the prodigal, in riotous
living. Even those who have apparent
~ not suffered in purse or health, are
n set Of disconnected, blase, weary
Worldlings, who 90 oycr the same
treadmlll of fashionable existence year
by year without pleasure or profit.
ANOTHER thing | have noticed from my
vantage ground OF experience is that,
II only as a purely worldly maxim, hon
cSty certainly Is the best policy. Many
brilliant man | have seen who has de-
@iroyed his prospects by the crooked
ways in which he sought to better him
self financially, politically and even
socially, whereas, IL he had walked
honOrably before all men, he would
have gained the worlds good opinion
and in many instances the very thing
he coveted. Aud finally there are the
young married couple of my youth. In
nine cases out of ten those Of my
friends who married poor young men
and who gave up the luxury of their
homes to prove veritable hclpmcets 10
the men OF their choice are now almos,
without exception prosperous and in
many cases wealthy, while those men
and girls who married for money are,
as a rule, greatly in want of II. BE
good and you will he happy is the old
maxim and certainly it seems true
from a matcrialistic as we'll as from .
religious point of view"
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
When the Days Were short.

When the earth was young. says DR..
Ball. the eminent British astronomer,
II turned on its axis so rapidly that 1t
made one complete revolution once In
every three hours. rhc earth was
liquid then, and 1t spun around at that
fearful speed probably for thousands
of years. The sun caused Cycr-in-
Creasing tides on the surface of the
great liquid planet. and at last it burst
in two. But the break was not in the
middle of what had been the great,
swi~ft-rcvolving globe OF liquid mat
ter. II was to one side, and the effect
vas to throw the smaller fragment out
into space. That fragment kept on
turning. and was soon fashioned into
a globe. We see 1t to-day and know It
as the noon. The larger piece also
kept turning on its axis. and In the
course of ages became the spherical
habitable earth. The smaller fragment
of the great original globe, being held
in place by the attraction of the larger.
has been going around the earth ever
since. but has been gradually increas-
ing the distance between itself and its
primary. Some astronomers believe
that eventually the moon will get so
far away that it cannot be seen by
the inhabitants Of II planet.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18

an atmosphere so slight that we cannot
detect it. And owning to this thin
ness of air there will be few clouds. and
little IL any rain: even the winds will
subsidc into insignihcance. At the
poles, however. and on the heights.
snow will still fall, and on the .'@'N
snow will still fall, or at any rate frost
will be deposited in large quantities:
and the melting Of the ice caps thus
formed will furnish the whole available
supply of water. The streams from
this source. which will be fairly abund-
ant in season of flood. will be care
fully guided through an intricate sys-
tenn of canals and stingily boarded in
huge reservoirs, whence II will be
drawn for irrigation and other ncces-
sary uses. Gold and silver will not
be half so precious as this beautiful,
transparent liquid of which we are so
lavish; wealth will be measured I'm cub
ic feet OF water. and a spring or foun-
tain will be more valuable than n
mine. Nor can this be called a mere
fancy picture. To all appearances it
Is exactly the state Of affairs which OBJ
tains on Mars at the present time.
The whole ocean bed. therefore. will
be like a vast valley of the Mile
fertile, indeed. but rendered so only
by incessant care and the highest en-
ginoering skill; while above and around
1t will lie a chill Sahara. a desolate
ana Inp1lV UnHtn nnNpt with Ghnup-
ers, unprotected by any veil of cloud,
It's impotent atmosphere scarcely suf-
ficient to drift its Astounding dust. All
over it will be scattered the unvisited
remains of the cities that we know.
and its plains will be furrowed with
great rivers. 1t will have but one re-
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18

irary, is remarkably iner', au:ering in
to combination with roiuc,"nce. and
freeing itself wi h X,raord.nary facll
ity: - compounds are notably uasta.
Bile, often to the e@,ent OF being VIC
lently explosive. emf It Is IS useless
for the m~ein,cac.cc Of life as ashes u
feed a fire.
our Lynd Earth.
We conclude. therefore, that the at.
mosphere, whi,g IL ba.cmes less in No,.
ume and density, viii at the same time
d%eteriofate in quality, and the lung.
OF man must needs accommodate them
selves to the change by g.adNal,y p"
larging their capacity. Thus the yer!
constitution ana aspect of the human
race will In the course Of agos suffer
marked alteration. And what will be
the final outcome? 1t is . disheart
ening picture. Even the scanty supply
of water which we have thus far as.
sumed, must at length begin to fail: II
will no longer be sufficient for the en-
tire population. Unavoidably some nus
perish. There is no imaginable alter.
native; and who shall 1t be? II Is i'm.
possible to conceive of any other solu.
ton than a struggle for bare existence
ilercer than anything which history re.
cords-a conflict In which the s%tronges,
and most INSCRIPTIONS will constantly
prevail. Such a condition Of thing.
means. Of course, a rapid reversion tC
savagery; and that. in turn, will but
hasten the end, for the elaborate sys.
ten of works necessary to make this
decadent world habitable can be main.
tanned only by a strong and wise gov.
eminent under a high civilization. II
this fails, the last degenerate remnant,
of the race will soon be extinguished-
the sooner tho better, when that sad
stage Is reached. And what next? 4
last poor mother earth. dry an,
shrunken with age, the bloom of flower
and leaf quite faxed from her checks
her face SCARED and pitted with tn,
tombs of all her offspring, will lie a.
dead and silent as the ghostly noon.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
THE RED CLOUD CHEF, FRIDAY, DEC. 10. 1886.
POPULAR
How the People Understand the Rornt'
gen Ray.

HOW " fOpif tnifFNftbn NV bpVhN-
gen Ray.
Last week | was assisting at d large
bazaar by holding "a small Roentgon
ray galley, comprising a Crookes tube.
glowing. etc, says u letter in London
Lancet. As | in my temporary role OF
curator encountered many gems of ex-
uuisite unconscious humur, | venture
TO forward you a specimen or two as
showing how a newborn scientific dis
coyery Is understood of the people"
IN elderly gentleman of prosperous APP
pe9ranCe objected that the show was
rot 'u~p-to-date." AS he had read
somewhere in a newspaper that now
YOU can see the liver palpitating and
the heart circulating" Two elderly la
dies entered the small room, and, SOL
EMMY seating themselves. requested
me to close and fastcn the door. Upon
my complying. they said they wished
"to see zach others bones" but | waa
mot to expose them below the waist
line" each wishing to view the ap-
parently dismantlcd osseOus structure
of her friend first, A young and anx.
ious mother asked me to see II her
little boy had really swallowed a three
penny bit, az he was uncertain him
self. She had read in the papers that
a great doctor. Sir Something Blister
tfact). in speech in a large meeting
in Liverpool u little while ago, said
that a %halfpcnny had been seen in a
boys "sarcophagus,' A young girl of
the domestic servant class. taking ad-
vantage of her opportunity, AZ she
thought. and my se=, asked me in con
tidence II I would look through her
young man unbeknown to him while he
looked AT the picture, to see II he was
quite healthy in his Intervals"
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
4 Cheap Meal.

During the past lew years, Mr.. Lee
Jones, honorable secretary OF the Liver.
pool Food association, has labored I'M
feeding and starvation, and every day
he feeds some thousands of school chill.
drcn. Each child is given one pint
Of thick soup and one slice of Jam and
bread. For this they pay one-half pen.
ny-one farthing defrays the cost of
the food, and the other farthing pays
the working expenses. The meals pro.
y!ded are, we are informed. practically
vegetarian, Mr.. Lee Jones conceived
and began the scheme, and In view O,
the anticipated development OF the as.
ISOLATION, he has been appointed hon.
orable director.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
SEVER serves ButtCT,

One of the leading caterers Of New
lork-a man who has probably spread
as many fashionable dinners as any
other man on the contiuent-w vas re-
Gently questioned about the use OF
bread ana butter plates at table, lie
said: II never serve buttcr-ahsolute-
~ never. | do not own a butter plate,
| neyer-this Is irrevocablc-seTyo but
ter At any dinner or supper which |
stand sponsor for. Why should |?
Everything is accompanied by
its own sauce or relish, al
ways sufficiently rich, and but
ter Is unnecessary as the traditional
nth art wheel, II is never used at
he private tables of those New York
families who live correctly. Occasion
ally | have a protest, | did not long
aEo,atter a dinner IN which | pride my
self each year. One of the guests, a
man, came To me to give an order. say
ing at the same time that he had re.
Gently dined here and was much dis.
appointed, or course, | urged an eX.
pliCit statement, and he finally told me
that first there was no butter-tC
which | pleaded guilty hut explained
that my rule in that particular wa.
inyariable."
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18

naming use-it will have become the
cemetery of the world, both the old
and the new. The great valley below,
which is to us the bottom of the sea,
will be dcnsely crowded with a popula-
ton which will admit of no increase.
How the people OF that late ana de-
ching age will solve the difficult prob
lens that will confront them it is hard
ly possible even to conjecture, but meet
them they must, or perish, \ highly
patornal form OF government would
seem to be inevitable, for the water
must be parcelled out with the utmost
wisdom and impartiality. and no waste
can be tolerated. Navigation, of course,
will be a thing OF the past: even the
fishes will become almost or quite ex-
tinCt. More than this, man will doubt
less have suffered actual physical mod
ifcations, gradually brought about by
The changes in his environment. Some
of these will be due to atmospheric
changes, for the air, besides being
much diminished, will almost surely
he impoverished In its most vital ele-
ment. It is a very suggestive fart that
to-day the proportion of oxygen r. only
about IN part in five; we are pretty
safe in assuming that the proportion
was once considerably greater. Oxy-
gen is an extremely active element,
eagerly entering into combinations Of
various kinds which lock it up in solid
or fuid form. Nitrogen, on the con-
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
FEW ARE FREE.
Tome Pet tnnCirs ar uorrors Of 'FRONT.'
ncnt People of Both u~rmi,phcrcs.


n"nt r"orI" at no,h Uc~mi,phcrcs.
Most men are ashamed of their
mporstitions because they hate to be
laughed at. yet we have known many
to make fun of the Weaknesses of
others merely To keep their own u
age up, says the New York Press.
Nearly all of the greatest men in his
tory were the victims of n silly super
stitlOn. Marshal SAKE, who met and
o%yorthrcW armies, fed at the sight of a
cat. Peter The Great dared not cross a
bridge. DR.. Johnson would not enter
any door or passage with his left foot
first. Caesar was thrown into conyul-
sions by the sound of thunder. Queen
Elizabeth could not bear To hear the
name OF Mary of Scotland mentioned.
The wCrd death or its French cuuiv.
alent, would so disconccrt Talleyrand
as 20 unfit him for all business. II a
ha"5 crossed MOntaignc's path he WAS
miserable for a month, imagining all
sor,s OF horrors. Noltairc, the fearless
mcckor, shook with alarm on hearing
rocks Cawing on his left. Rousseau
looked under his bed every night be.
fore retiring. Lord Byron sucpumbcd
before the weakest prejudice and was
a victim of all the petty supcrstitlous
Of his day. Andrew Jackson cut of
the tails of his hounds and buried
them under his doorstep, believing this
TO be a sure means of keeping the pack
from wandering away, Washington
would make a wish and bow nine
times to- the new moon, Garfield, who
locked in a glass all day. dared no,
come face to face with one in the
dark. We might go on and name hun.
drods of similar cases. Great an,
small, Old and young, weak and strong
all have their superstitions.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18

process Is so gradual as to be imper-
ceptible to man. Just as of old, some
portion of moisture is constant
ly sinking deeply into the bowels Of
the earth, never to reappear; while an
ether portion Is every moment entering
into chemical combinations which con-
vert it into solid substance. II little
of this is ever released, The world
now is in a transition state, and prob
ably is near that stage of evolution
most favorable to the existence and de-
velopment of intelligent beings. In
the remote past the conditions were In
compatible with life; in the remote IN
ture life will again become Impossible,
and the lack of water will presumably
he the prime cause of its final disap-
p%earance. Let us now endeavor to
trace the series of changes by which
this will be brought about, n their
progressive influence upon man II hui
man institutions. Only the drained
fields OF what is now the bed OF the
ocean will be suitable for occupation
by the human race, Even there little
water will remain. though in the low
est depths a few intensely saline lakes
win linger, their desolate banks crust
cd with salt, their waters more intol-
cradle than those of the Dead Sea. Just
as the waters will have become scant,
so the air will have become thin. Such
apparently is the case on Mars to-day;
and the moon has no air at all, or has
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
backing Scoldins Women.

That the practice of immerslng noisy
swing at the close of the seventeenth
century is evident from the Chamber
lain's Roll for the City of London, is
sued by the Historical, Manuscripts
Commission. The ducking-stool pro-
vided, with the new chair for ii, and the
Dparatus bought for branding felons
on the face, are among the entries.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
GLASGOW BLESSED.
PANCS OF POVERTY NEVER
FELT THERE.
Corporations. Trusts and Nunopolics Are
Almost Unknown - Wake Everybody
Feel Happy the Motto Public Owner
ship Successful.
a s,ru. nm

NOTABLE munich
pal scheme has
been started in
Glasgow. h g the
municipal au,hcri
ties have erected Il
series of lodging
houses, which cou-
bine comfort I'd
cleanliness with
~cheapness. says the
Boston Transcript.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18

j. T.. Barnett, a Chicagoan arrested
for theft, said that his occupation was
"breaking in" new shoes for second
hand dealers. In this way very poor
stock is made to look as If II were
good enough to stand considerable
wear.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18
where win You Get the Money?

A pleasant guess is to name how
many dollar bills would be required to
weigh as much as a $50 gold piece.
Answers fiuctuate between 300 as the
lowest and 1900: the correct number
being t~hirty-four.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18

He: How are you? Keeping strong?'
She: No; only just managing TO keep
out OF my grave" He: "Oh, I'm sorry
TO hear that."-Iudy.
The Red Cloud chief., 1896-12-18

ours or not his smaller size, by causing
nim to cool more quickly, would nee
a~ssarily age him faster.
"But as a planet grows old its
oceans, in all probability, dry up, the
water rctrcatiug through cracks and
cavities into its interior. Water thus
disappears from its surface, To say
nothing of what is continually impris-
lncd by chemical combinations. Signs
If having thus parted with its oceans
We see in the case Of the moon, whose
so-called seas We're probably seas in
their day. but have now become old sea
bottoms.
As On Mars.
"On Mars the same process is going
,n, but would seem not yet to have
progressed so far, the seas there being
midway in their career from the real
longer water surfaces, they are still
the lowest portions of the planet, and,
therefore, stand TO receive what scant
water may yet travel yer the surface"
Mars, M. l22-l23)
Here. then, arc not one, but two, i'm
prcss'ye object lessons, and any care
ful reader will readily perceive that Mr.,
&c we'll assumes as unquestioned that
lis analogy is strictly applicable to
he earth. Mars has gradually dried
! away. until Its surface Is like a desert,
through parts Of which the streams