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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20
BOATS.
a Matter In Which the World Has
Moved Very Slowly.

c' fOJ
Not a few of his readers are fully
persuaded that Jules Verne's romance
contained the first suggestion of what
was possible in the way of under water
voyages, a the Ludgate. But the
idea of the submarine boat and even
its imperfect realization are much
older than the date of Capt. Nemo's
adventures. When James 1. was king
an ingenious Dutchman made an I'M
der-water voyage in the Thames, but
the secret of his invention was never
revealed. Bishop Wilkins, the author
OF many strange suggestions, wrote a
learned dissertation on the possibility
"of framing an ark for submarine navi-
CATION" But the first really practical
man to take the matter in hand with
some success was a Yankee inventor,
Bushnell, of Connecticut, in the troub-
lous times of the wal of the American
colonies against England. He actually
built a submarine boat, and, consider
ing the imperfect mechanical
at his command it was a marvel of in
genious co%ntrivance. 1t was only large
enough to contain a single passenger,
and by means of cranks and pedals his
arms and legs had to supply all the
driving power to its oars Il rudders.
1t was designed chiefly for warlike pur-
poses and there was an arrangement
for carrying a torpedo outside, screw
ing it on to the bottom of an enemy's
ship and leaving it to be exploded by a
clock-work fuse. During the war Bush
nell made a daring attempt to blow up
a British frigate. He succeeded in get
ting under her in his submarine boat.
but failed to attach his torpedo. He
left it adrift near the frigate and got
away safely. Presently the British
crew were startled by a mysterious eX-
ploSion in the water close by, but the
damage done was confined to broken
cabin windows. The incident is note
worthy as the first submarine attack
ever attempted. A century has gone
by since then and though there have
been other operations by submarine
boats Bushnell's feat is still u%nrivaled.
He is the only man who ever went I'M
der the bottom of an enemy's ship
which shows that in this matter of sub
marine navigation the world has been
moving very slowly. Bushnell and his
fellow-countryman Fulton were both in
Paris in the days of the first empire,
trying to interest Napoleon in projects
for submarine boats and ships driven
by steam. But the emperor soon got
tired of discussing such matters. 1t is
curious to note that when he was a
prisoner at st. Helena a daring Ameri-
can scheme for his rescue included the
use Of a large type of BushnelIs boat
for the purpose of eluding the guard
ships and landing secretly upon the
island.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20
Artificial Indigo.

The large and ~well-known Badenian
aniline and soda works of Ludwig's
Haven, Germany, have succeeded in
preparing a valuable and perfect sub
stitute for indigo. 1t is a product from
bituminous coal tar and is reported to
be in every regard equal to the genuine
indigo.
The Ludwig's Haven works are noted
for many new valuable preparations re-
Gently discovered, and the Importance
of these works may be gathered from
the fact that they employ in their scien-
tiic department over 100 chemists, and
have about 5000 workmen.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20

even after all this practice Black can
not be trusted to play an air before an
audience without a rehearsal before
hand. If Prof. Fills should rehearse
him on 1.-THE Last Rose of Summer
only and the audience should demand
an encore master and pupil would be in
a quandary, for, large as Blacks roper
toire is, he couldn't strike a note cor
rectly in any air except the one he had
~rehearsed and just played.
The piano Black plays on isn't really
a piano. 1t is a system of electric
chime bells containing enough notes to
play any ordinary tune. When Black
presses a key with his paw he really
presses a button, causing a bell to ring.
But the tune can readily be recognized,
and with the accompaniment of the or
chestra flows prettily.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20
An American Grand Old Man.

Since the death of Gladstone Senator
Justin Smith Morrill, of Vermont is the
Oldest living English speaking states
man. There was about four months
difference in their ages, Gladstone
having been born December 20, 1909,
and Senator Morrill, April IA, 1910. His
length of service exceeds that of any
American statesman. He was elected
a representative to the Thirty-fourth
Congress, and reelected to the five sue
ceeding Congresses, and then transfer
red to the Senate as a Union Repub-
lican in 1867, making his term of pub
lie service forty-three years.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20
CHILDREN'S A~PPETITES.

At a place in the West, which the CHI
cago Evening Record calls Fadville-
presumably an imaginary place-the
ladies sit in the village council, and are
very much "u~p-to-date, especially in all
matters concerning sanitation, diet and
care of children. Not long ago Mrs.
Minerva Sheldon, a member of the viii
lage board, rose in her place and Of
fered a new ordinance. In her speech
introducing the ordinance, she said that
she had lately called on a mother who
was the proud possessor of a 2-year-old
child. The visitor was struck by the
child's brightness and beauty, and its
apparent good health.
81 concluded, naturally" Mrs. Shell
don said, that l was gazing on the
product of our most advanced ideas in
that child. Imagine, then, my amaze
ment when l heard that baby ask for q
piece of bread and butter and sugar,
and when l saw that mother promptly
accede to the unwholesome request.
81 looked at my watch. 1t was just
3 o'clock. By every rule that the most
careful students have laid down, that
baby should not have been hungry for
three hours. And yet it ate that big
slice of bread as ~ravenously as if it
had been a puppy, or any other of the
lower animals.
II felt it my duty to demonstrate
with that mother, and l did so at much
length. She heard me calmly to the
end, that unthinking mother did, and
then she enthusiastically smiled! She
said she could not agree with me, and
that she proposed to go on feeding that
baby at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, or at
any other time when it was hungry.
There are other cases of this kind in
Fadville, and the time has come to act. "
Mrs. Minerva Sheldon therefore pro-
posed the following ordinance, which
was adopted by a large majority:
Section /. Children between the
ages of / month and 7 years shall be
so trained that they shall feel hunger
only at the hours of 8 o'clock a. m, IL
O'Clock noon, and 6 o'clock p. m. They
shall on no account be hungry at any
other hour, nor just before going to
bed. They shall not be permitted tc
waken in the night and call or cry fol
something to eat.
Section 2. Parents or guardians
shall not be allowed to feed their chill
dren except at the hours designated II
Section l of this ordinance; nor shall
they permit their children to flch. pur
loin, steal, take, swipe or hook an,
kins of food, tart, fruit, sweetmeat 0
jam at any time.
Section 3. Parents shall be gov
erned in the choice of such foods a
their children may eat by a standing
committee on ~gastronOmy, to be APP
pointed by the president of the villag
board.
Section A.. Any person violating an.
section or provision of this ordinanc
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemean
or, and shall be subject to a fine not t
exceed 500 for every such ~offense, o
to an Imprisonment not to exceed on
month in the county jail, or to bot
such fine and imprisonment, in the dis
erection of the court.
Section S. This ordinance shall b
in effect on and after it's passage"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20
Dogs Wonderful Act.

This dog is Prof. Fills most valued
possession. He is the only dog in the
world that can play a tune. Probably
half the people who see this remarkable
performance believe that it is a tric4
and that the piano is fixed to play with
out the assistance of Black-that is tn,
dogs real name.
Prof. Fills laughingly destroyed tn,
fond illusion of the mar who believes
animals reason by explaining that this
Russian poodle really has no idea of
music and doesn't know A from D when
the notes are sounded. 1t took him two
years to teach the dog the simplest tune
so that he could trust his pupil before
an audience. But the reward was
great. Blacks first appearance was
made in Paris and the hit was instan-
taneous. Prof. Fills taught Black to
play the few airs in his repertoire by
the most persistent practice. No aspir-
ing musician ever spent longer hours
or more labor over a piano than did
Black. He had one advantage in that
he never had to do scales or practice
lingering or pedaling. The professor
guided a paw to one key enough times
to teach the dog its location, then upon
another and another, going back to the
beginning and repeating an infinite
number of times until the whole mech
anical process of that particular tune
was impressed on the dogs brain. But
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20
Kansas, Deadly Climate.

Summer girls should think twice be-
fore visiting in Atchison. 1t is told
that a summer girl came here a year
ago in perfect health, and that she was
SO popular hat parties and picnics fol-
lowed in quick succession. She ate so
many midnight sandwiches and ices
that she has been in a hospital ever
pretty girls health as the climate of
Cuba is to a volunteer.-Atchison
Globe,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20

Banks-I see that somebody has in
vented a sail which will enable a BIZ
cycle to run before the wind at the rate
of fifteen miles an hour.
Harper-Geel Wouldn't hat come
in handy if somebody would turn in
now and invent a continuance of some
kind to make the wind occasionally
blow in the direction a person wants
to rider"
Generally the Case.
He married to get a home, you know;
He was weary of clearinghouse
fare;
He married to get a home-but, oh,
You can seldom find him there.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20

fruits and eggs may be pulverized in
the same manner.
But these are substances that may be
frozen, though not to the same brittle
hardness, by the ordinary cold of win
ter. Let us now try something more
refractory. Mercury remains liquid ct
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20

Can you show me any good, de.
batable reason, sentimental or econom-
ic, why we shouldn't annex Hawaii?"
inquired the argumentative citizen. "Of
course can" replied Senator Sorghum
promptly. "The sugar trust doesn't
want us to-"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20
Testing Paving Bricks.

Bricks for paving are 0 tested by
tumbling them about in a vessel or
drum about o~ne-seyenth full of the
bricks. Periodically they are weighed,
in order to determine how rapidly they
wear out.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20
After Which He Died,

'Is the crying of an infant in the
night" asked the newest boarder, "a
call to arms?" Sometimes" admitted
the Cheerful Idiot. "And, again, it may
be only a bottle cry. 1t all depsnds."
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20
Mutual Confession.

Cornelia-Now that we're engaged.
Orlando, l think l ought to tell you
that my great-grandpapa did a years
Imprisonment. Orlando-O, that's
nothing. I've done five myself.-Ally
Sloper.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20
Kidding Plants of Insects.

The amateur horticulturist would
have a comparatively easy art to pursue
were it not for the innumerable insect
pests which are sure to infect house
grown plants unless they are most care
fully tended. The remedies that have
been suggested for the avoidance of
these insect pests are numerous, but
none is SO effective or convenient of
application as the occasional fumiga-
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20

it was extracted. Raw beefsteak may
be frozen until it rings, when struck,
like a piece of bell metal. While in
this condition it may be broken into
fragments with a hammer and pounded
into powder. Butter, similarly treat
ed, may be reduced to a fine, dry dust;
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20

ton of the plants with tobacco smoke.
An ingenious contrivance that makes
this remedy still more effective is
shown in the illustration. AS will be
seen, it is an arrangement consisting
of a pipe bowl with a shortened stem
to which is affixed an india-rubber ball.
Uhe stem of the pipe is open al the
upper end and when the ball is squeezed
air is drawn through the bowl, which
is filled with tobacco and lighted, and
dense clouds of smoke are expelled
through the %orifce. as shown, clearing
the plants in a short time. 1t may be
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20

used with equally good effect upon
ants nests, ETC., while its sphere Of
operation also includes the fumigaton
and disinfection of rooms.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20

81 concluded, naturally" Mrs. Shell
don said, that l was gazing on the
product of our most advanced ideas in
that child. Imagine, then, my amaze
ment when l heard that baby ask for q
piece of bread and butter and sugar,
accede to the unwholesome request.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-08-20

81 looked at my watch. 1t was just
3 o'clock. By every rule that the most
careful students have laid down, that
baby should not have been hungry for
three hours. And yet it ate that big
slice of bread as ~ravenously as if it
had been a puppy, or any other of the
lower animals.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-01-27
African Dwarf Palm.

Of late years the dwarf palm SO abun.
dant in Africa has been protitably util-
lied by French artisans, the leaves, it is
stated, furnishing 80 per cent Of fiber
which is extensively used as cheap
substitute for horsehair, according to
the following process: The fiber is ex-
tracted either by hand combing or by
means Of drums with needles and knives
worked by steam power. The green fiber
is twisted or curled in its raw state and
finds several applications. The black
sort is at first dyed in baths of sulphate
Of iron and logwood, then twisted and
again dyed. This fiber, it is alleged.
possesses two advantages over animal
fiber, which have led to its extensive
employment, it being exempt from ill.,
sect destruction and some IS per cent
less expensive than horsehair. There
are, it is said, large works in Algeria,
where the leaves are bought in large
quantities and the fiber cleaned On u
commercial SCALE In Oran one factory
prepares daily some 60 bales of 200
pounds each. In another, by particular
process, firm prepares the material
black and brilliant, without smell CT
dust, at the rate Of 80 tons per month.
AS material for the coarser descriptions
Of paper it has also proved servioeable.
New York Sun.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-01-27
Should Plays Re Printed:

Moliere Oh tcted to the printing OF MS
n,avs on the ground that they were
meant to be acted or the stage, with the
costumes, scenery ard illusions per-
tanning thereto, and not to be reau ia
the closet It was also inferred that
Shakespeare entertained the same notion
es Moliere. seeing how Indifferent he
was as to the fate Of his plays SO long as
they were popular on the stage. Ihere
is also the explicit declaration OF Hey
wood in the following terms: -,
at hath been no custom III me OF ali
other men courteous readers) to COM
nit my plays to the press. The reason
though some may attribute to my own
insuificiercy, 7 had rather subscribe III
that to their severe celsuro than ~
see1ing to avoid the imputation OF weak
ness to incar greater suspicion OF hon
estv. for, though some have used dou-
tl6 sale of their labors first to the stage
and after to the press, here proclaim
myself ever faithful to the first and
never guilty Of the last. y
The autasr of the most successful.
comedy Of modern times exhibited the
same Indifference to, or rather dislike
Of, the printer When 1.-THE School For
Scandal met with so brilliant q recep-
ton, from its first appearance on May
5, 1777, Ridgway, the publisher, agreed
with Sheridan as to its publication, but
he never succeeded il getting the manu-
script. He applied to the author in vain.
and at length got an answer. Sheridan
said that he had been 10 years endeavor-
ing to satisfy himself with the style O.
the play, but had not yet succeeded.
The printing Of the play was done in
dependently of the author. He presented
a manuscript copy Of it to his married
sister, Mrs. Lefanu, at Dublin, to be
disposed Of for her own advantage to the
managers Of the Dublin theater. This
brought her 100 guineas and free admis-
sions to the theater, and it was from the
manuscript thus procured that the Dub
lin edition was printed. Notes and
Queries.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-01-27
Els Musical Choice.

"Eothen" Kinglake was great friend
Of Nine. Olga de Novikoff during her
sojourn in England, wher one feature
Of her entertainments wa. afternoon
musicals to which none but dilettanti
were invited. On one occasion Kinglake
presented himself, and as an intimate Of
the house was admitted. He retired to a
corner and listened attentively. Madame
was surprised, but pleased, and ap-
preaching him said: (Which order Of
music do you prefer, my friend-classic,
Italian or the Wagnerian school? fancy
you do not know our great Gli,:\a?"
II assuredly am fond of music,' ho an
Ewered, "hut my taste is perhaps Pc
culiar. AS an instrument I prefer the
drum" Madame took measures to pro
vent his being admitted to these Assem-
tlies again.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-01-27
An Unimposing Corona.io. proc.er .;on

Miss Mary Grace Thornton, dauch.
ter OF the British ambassador, describes
the coronation Of Alexander III of Rus.
STA in Century. The writer says: 'Iwas
certainly disappointed in the bit of the
procession that looked forward to
most-the deputies des Peuplades Asi.
atlques soumises a la Russie, which
promised to be the most original, some.
thing that one could see in Russia ONLY
The opening of the procession was char.
acteristic: Kozlov, the head of the DO.
lice, and ~ policemen. Then came the
emperor's private escort, very handsome
IN red and gold, two Cossack regiments.
the Cossack deputies, and my friends
the Asiatics. No wonder I didn't find
them imposing, for just as they were
passing the bands struck up the national
hymn, the horses started, and the den.
utles became a confused mass clinpino
to their horses names The owner of n
very beautiful yellow silk dressing
gown-all their costumes looked like
dressing gowns-kept his head and his
Seat, but l saw the khan Of Khiya,s
huge black fur hat bobbiug ND and
a'2Wn In most un-khan-ny way"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-01-27
A Corral OF Bulls.

In the Irish house Of commons Of 1898
during debate on the leather tax the
chancellor OF the exchequer, Sir John
Parnell, observed that Sin the prosecu.
ton of the peasant war every one ought
to be ready to give his last guinea to
save the remainder Of his fortune" Mr..
Vandeleur replied that "a tax on leather
would press very heavily on tbs bare.
rooted peasantry of Ireland" The Post
in 1912 made the following statement:
I'VE congratulate ourselves most on
having torn off Cobbett's mask and re.
vealed his cloven foot. It was high time
that the hydra head Of faction should be
soundly raped over the knuckles."
The present Duke Of Leeds is reported
to have accused the late government of
making direct attack on the brewers
oy means OF side wind. Only the other
day l noticed, in The Standard, l believe.
that Sir Francis Scott, reviewing the
troops after the Ashanti expedition.
said that they were no doubt disappoint.
ed at having no lighting, but if there
had been there would have been MANY
absent faces here today" It was during
the late administration that one Of the
IRISH Whips telegraphed to Dublin that
the silence Of the Irish members would
be heard in the house Of commons no
longer Nv
twas the celebrated Sergeant Arabin
Who' at the central criminal court, in
formed the prisoner before him that "if
there was a clearer case of a man rob.
Ding his master, that case was this
case and after passing sentence con.
GUIDED, II therefore give you the oppor.
tunlty Of redeeming a character ire.
uaevably lost. London Spectator
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-01-27
chattel mtg on hoYses-$6O.

chattel mtg on horses-$6O.
Paul Smith vs. 0 r Smith, lien on saw
logs-$97.
John Hall to T Winston ct al, chat'l
mtg Estus sawmill machinery, etc-$4OO.
CS Butlsr to John Hall, lease OF the
Estus engine and boiler.
LIZ Carney to Emma L Simpson, chat
mtg on piano-$l50.
Columbia River Wheel Fish Co to A NJ
Hilton, rel of chat mtg on personal prop
erty-$79.sO.
Elizabeth Keeran to J Dierning, mtg
on nwl4 sec 2S-l7-7-$175.
Ross Pinckney to Andrew Peterson.
rel of mtg on lot IL, Dabney's Water
Front, Aberdeen-$35.
CECox to c A Keil. mtg on lots !, 2,
8, 4, s., blk 63, r Minis add, Cosmopolis
$3.50.
Christina Kyser to Geo II Emerson
assignment OF mtg on nlaof sw14 and s]a
of nwl1, sec l5-l9-l2-$225.25.
Creech Bros VS. VIM Miner, sr, lien on
foundry. ABERDEEN 1920.
Alonzo Elliott VS. l. 3 Brent, lis pens to
forecose mtg on NJ. Of nel4 and ne OF
nw14, sec 1-20-l0-$300.
Mary b Moak to HughB Mcneil, rel Of
mtg on lot l, blk "a, Hoquiam add Aber-
deen-$400.
J r Thompson to A j Stewart, chat
mtg OH house on lot Il, blk 81, Aberdeen
$50
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-01-27
BEAUTIFUL JAVA.
rts Scenery Said to Be an Example Of
Tropical Perfection.

Tropical IeT1eCIou'
The scenery Of Java is, I think, trop.
teal perfection. No sameness in the
landscape wearies the eye. All is valley
and mountain, cultivated with beauti.
fn1 crops-irrigated ricefields, emerald
green stretches Of tall, waving maize,
small thickets of bamboos, gracefully
bending to the breeZe-or covered with
a tropical verdure only equaled in beau
tv nv the forests of South America. Be.
ing only midday when we arrived at
Tassil,malaya, we ordered tiffin and two
carts to be ready an hour later to take
Ms on a 20 mile stage to Bandjar. So at
2 o'clock we were once more EN- route in
the usual conveyances Of small awning
covered carts-each drawn by three
ponies-one for ourselves and the other
for the baggage. For the first few hours
we passed frequently through small viii
ages, where the ponies were watered,
and our drivers chatted with the fruit
sellers, and smoked small tapering Gig
arettes, which they bought for quarter
penny the packet.
The last part Of the journey was
through tall jungle, and as the sun had
set some two hours before our arrival
at our destination, it was no easy mat
ter for the drivers to keep the road in
the inky darkness. Finally long, steep
hill took us down from the comparative
GOODNESS of high altitude into the
fetid swamps where lies the town OF
Bandjar. At first sight you would think
these swamps inhabited, in such myriads
do the firehies fit to and fro, or hang
motionless, lamplike, in the misty air,
giving one the idea Of the lights OF
some distant village. All the natives
here, as elsewhere in the island, hold
the white man in great awe, and as
you pass along all doff their huge brim-
med hats, and some kneel BY the way
side. In such towns in the interior az
Bandjar there are no hotels, but the
Dutch government provides free stop
ping houses for travelers-dirty, tumble
down places for the most part-where a
caretaker will look after them for q
consideration. - Westminster Re.
view,