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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-08-25

most invariably been N the negative.
NOW, however, a distinguished French
specialist assures us that if proper
steps be taken at the roper time per-
sons who would otherwise be Of lesa
than moderate stature can be, so to
speak, forced upward to a normal
height. This specialist is DR.. Springer,
who is the guiding spirit of the lab
oratory of the Faculty of Medicine in
Paris, and his views on this subject are
clearly set forth by DR.. Cabanes in
an article which appears in the current
number of the Revue des Revues.
With the object of artifcially increas-
Ing the height of human beings, DR..
springer recently made several expert
ments III Paris, the main reason which
lmpeIled him to do so being the dis
covery of the rather startling fact that
the stature of French men and women
has for some time been steadily de-
creaslng. The latest statistics bea-
ample testimony in this direction, and,
furthermore, they show that, while
the average stature has decreased in
france, it has increased in Russia. DR..
S~pringer's first experiments were made
on dogs. Being satisfied that proper
food would work wonders in the de-
sired direction he experimental on
several puppies, giving to some ordi-
nary food and care and to other spe-
cial food and novel -hygienic treat
ment. The result was that in the case
OF the latter there was an increase of
growth, or stature, varying from SIX
TO eight centimetres. How remarkable
this was will be seen when it is stated
that during the same time the growth
oil the other puppies was only in
creased from two to four centimetres.
ines experiments satisfied DR..
Springer of N fact-namely, that
salts, used in solution with cereals that
are being prepared as food, produce a
powerful and beneficial effect on the
pony system of animals. He also
points out that the cereals which are
prepared as food should always be
fresh, and that the food, after being
prepared, should be used as soon as
possible.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-08-25

The housekeeper who can make
meals attractive at all times and tho
act of sitting down to them a pleas
ure to be anticipated as well as real
lied, has reached a high stage of eX-
c%ellence, and if she can go further than
this and make an invalid's diet as
tempting as it may be nutritious, she
has won inc of the finest diplomas. 1t
is an unfortunate fact that invalid diet
is usually plain to mOnotony, patients
complain that everything which is
worth eating is denied to them, and
often there is much truth in their as
sertion. Milk and beef tea gain a
reputation hat is by no means credit
able, because they form the staple re-
sources on which the nurse relies, and
for weeks together appear with pain
full regularity. Too often both nurse
and housekeeper forget that the two
essential elements of invalid diet nee
essary to insure the food itself fulfill
ing its share of the treatment speci-
fed are surprise and daintiness. If
these elements are left Il or over
looked, there is small chance for the
food to be of much benefit, whatever
its own intrinsic worth may be.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-08-25
INVENTIONS OF AN INsANEMAN
One Design of a Lunatic Brought Him
"a Handsome Fortune.

One Design of a Lunatic Brought Him
"a Handsome Fortune.
Until quite lately there lived a luna
tic in Wellesley asylum, who turned
out a round dozen of inventions dur
ing his ten years stay in the place, and
some of them were really good and
useful, says a London paper. One was
a new style of ships anchor, which
holds twice as fast as the old kind, and
can be trusted never to foul it's chain
or otherwise go wrong. The inventor
had been a tailor before losing his
balance, and knew nothing of ships
and anchors. But he drew the dia-
grams and made the models for this
fruit Of his disordered brain, and one
day a nan who visited him and saw
the plans was greatly taken with them
He obtained permission, patented and
put the anchor on the market. 1t was
favorably received and at the end Of
two years the invention had brought
him $4,000. Half of this the capital
list who had marketed the anchor gave
to the two daughters of the mailman,
who were alive and sane. During the
rest of the inventors life the anchor
brought in enough to pay for his
maintenance and keep his two daugh-
tiers in easy circumstances. He in
vented other useful things, including a
new kind of corkscrew and a folding
chair.
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PERlLS OF DEATH VALLEY.
Most Desolate Spot in All the Western
Hemisphere,

1 bhO
Hemisphere.
Death valley is probably the most
unique natural feature in California.
1t is located in the southeast corner of
lncyo county, and is inclosed by the
Panamlnt mountains on the west and
the Funeral range on the east. 1t is
seVenty-fve miles long and at it's mar
roWest point but eight miles wide. The
prevailing winds in Death valley are
from the west. Though originating in
the Pacific ocean and saturated with
humidity in travelling the intermediate
distance, they are intercepted by the
lofty peaks of the four ranges of
mountains, which absorb all of their
moisture, SO that by the time they
reach the valley all humidity has dis
appeared. The blasts are as if heated
IN a fiery furnace, and no living thing
can survive the intense heat. Even
birds, Indigenous to the region, die. 1t
is in the months of greatest heat that
the sand storms of Death valley are
most deadly. They rage with an in
tense fury, obliterating the landscape
and dimming the light of the SUM-,
whitening the scanty vegetation and
covering the trails deep in powdered
dust. At all times the aspect of the
valley is superlatively desolate. No
spot on earth surpasses it in aridity
and tophet-like heat. During the heat
ed term an hour without water means
death. Meat becomes putrid in an
hour. Eggs are cooked in the blister
ing sand. Water is only palatable by
means of large porous earthenware
jars, common to all hot countries, sus-
pended in drafts and reduced in tenn
perature by means of the rapid evap-
GRAFTON of the moisture from the out
side.
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MISS HOME.

finest in South Dakota. Miss Howard
is well known in official and social
circles in Washington and New York.
She went to Dakota in 1887 and estab-
lished an Indian mission school sew
cnteen miles north of Chamberlain, on
the Crow Creek and Winnebago Indian
reservation. After the first two years
this school. which had been named
Grace mission, was transformed into
a government contract school. In the
charging and expanding of the school
she always received every encourage
ment from the officials of the Indian
bureau in Washington. Her contract
with the government did not expire
until June, 1897, but early in that year,
at the solicitation of friends, she de-
cided to withdraw from the manage
ment of the school. The bitter fight
waged in congress at that time against
contract schools had considerable in
fluence in her decision. She informed
the Indian Office that if the govern
ment was willing to buy her school
she was willing to sell. Special Agent
Slater of the Indian department was
sent to investigate, and as the result
of his report the government paid Miss
Howard a satisfactory price for her
interest in the school.
Shortly after retiring from the
school Miss Howard purchased a cat
tie ranch on the White river. and has
since been engaged in cattle raising.
In addition to looking after her ranch,
Miss Howard has established a store
neal her dwelling.
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Inc ottoman Empire One of the Riches
Countries In the World.

Llup1T5 Oue OI Jne Riches
Countries In the World.
u ottoman empire is, in potential
resources, probably the richest country
IN the world text to the United States.
says Golfers Weekly. For years
American n Turkish statesmen have
been endeavoring with all their power
to foster what little trade their coun-
tries have, and to create new trade
channels to commercially connect the
republic and the empire. These en-
deayors have already borne good fruit,
and the future possibilities in that di-
rectlon are infinite. The mutual rela-
tons OF commerce amount already to
millions, and it would be most unfor-
tunate hat an untoward event should
disturb in their growth these promis-
ing shoots of trade, and bring about a
distrust which would cause the orig
mating of new branches of trade to be
made impossible for many years to
come. The feeling of fellowship among
nations is to a large extent sentiment
tai, especially when there is no posi-
bic point of hostile contact. The
Turks have been educated to know
thai there is a great free nation far in
the west, foremost in all the endeavors
OF commerce, industry and technical
~lnvenCion-a nation to whom they
could without any fear entrust the
development of their magnificent re-
sources.
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Alarm Among the Puny Japs.

The Japanese are getting anxious
about their physique, which is deterio-
rating so much that the land of flowers
may in course of time become a land
of babies. The military authorities
have discovered that their men cannot
use the ordinary rifle because it is too
long for them and have been compelled
in consequence to arm them with
special short firearms. Recent in
vestigations have shown that the stu
dents are among the worst developed
specimens of humanity on the face Of
the earth, the finished product of the
Japanese university generally present.
ing the appearance of a puny, sickly,
undeveloped youth.
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CONGRESSMAN WIN. LoR1MER.

~ %s
elder Lorimer, who was a Presbyterian
minister, moved with his family to Chi
cago in 1870. Tie following veal he
died, and his family was left in almost
destitute circumstances. The present
congressman was then a boy of 10
years old, and he was anxious to aid
in supporting his mother, brother and
four sisters. The family lived in a
neighborhood where all the people
were comparatively poor and many of
the boys sold newspapers. They told
young BILLY" Lorimer that he could
make money if he would start out and
hustle in selling newspapers. He
made 81 clear profit. This was the first
money that he had ever earned, and
he took it home and gave it to his
mother. Later he secured a boot
backing kit and soon did a thriving
business among the sporting men Of
Clark street. Aid. Michael Kenna,
known as 'Hinky Dink," remembers
him as a bootblack. When he was Is
he gave up the bootblacking business
and worked as clerk in different places,
including Armour & Co. and Nelson
Morris. While in these last two places
he learned all branches of the packing
business and became an expert in each.
While with Morris his health COM
menced to fail, and he secured a posi-
ton as street car conductor and
worked on the different car lines for
five years. While in this position he
showed his ability as a leader and Or
ganizer, for he was the moving spirit
in forming the Street Railway En-
ployes' Benevolent association.
In every position that he has held
and in any business in which he has
been engaged, he has been an indie
fatigable worker, or as his friends say,
a hustler. He was successful as a real
estate dealer and as a coal merchant.
He is now successfully engaged in the
manufacture of brick, and for the past
few years has made many profitable
investments in stocks. In congress he
has distinguished himself and has Sc
cured the passage of many measures OF
great Importance to Chicago and Illi-
nois, and has been prominent in de-
batting some of the great national
questions.
He does not use tobacco in any form
and is an absolute teetotaler. He
V uses profane language and no
one has ever heard him utter a vulgar
word. He has a remarkably even tenn
per, and if he does get mad nc ono ever
knows it, for he shows no sign of an
ger. He is always for Cancellation and
harmony if possible, but if they cannot
be secured, then he is for war to the
knife. He never went to school a day
in his life, but is, nevertheless, a fine
scholar. He has a large and well-se-
lected library and is a great reader.
His favorite books are those written
by Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo,
and he has reread them many times.
He likes these authors because they
portray the phases of humble life with
which he was acquainted in his youth.
He is devoted to his family, and his
leisure time is spent in the company of
his wife and two boys and six girls.
He still takes care of his mother. and
every comfort that his means will al
low is afforded her. His most promi-
nent characteristic is his devotion to
his friends. He never forgets a favor,
OIL a kind, honest word.
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Sweden.

] In cold and cherries weather a
great concouIse of working people
gathered on a hill in the outskirts of
Stockholm and listened to their ora
tors, adopted resolutions and finally
adjourned in the midst of a binding
snowstorm. A speaker who attracted
not a little attention was a Norwegian
woman named Mrs. Anna Sterky. Be-
tween the speeches songs were sung,
and but for the weather a pleasant
time was spent. About 10000 persons
took part in the meeting, and every
thing was conducted in the most
orderly manner Meetings also took
place in Upsala, Orebro, Ekilstima,
Malmo and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS San
ders, in Chicago Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-08-25

In Spain there are some ten million
of migratory Sheep, which every year
travel as much as two hundred miles
from the "delectable mountains"
where the shepherds feed them till
the SHOWS descend. These sheep are
known as transhumantes, and their
march, resting places and behavior are
regulated by ancient and special laws
and tribunals, dating from the four
teenth century. AT certain times no
one is allowed to travel on the same
route as the sheep, which have a right
to Craze on all open and common land
on the way, and for which a road nine
ty yards wide must be left on all in
closed and private property. The shep-
herds lead the flocks, the sheep follow
and the flocks are accompanied by
mules carrying provisions, and large
dogs which act as guards against the
wolves. The merino sheep travel
four hundred miles to the mountains,
and the total time spent on migration
there and back is fourteen weeks
The Spectator.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-08-25
FOUND LARGE SUMS OF MONEY
h Kansas Soldier with a Nose for ND
den Treasure.

4 Kansas Soldier with a Nose for ND
den Treasure.
1t would seem that Lloyd Brown, a
Wichita (Kan.) soldier boy in the
Philippines, is possessed Of either a
good nose for hidden money or of that
robust imagination which has led so
many Wichita writer's on to fame. In
a letter to a Kansas City paper he
says:
When we captured Iudan we found
S72, 800 in Mexican money. We had
taken possession OF the hospital and
l went upstairs to find a place to sleep
and thought / would look around and
see what l could find. l saw some
sacks that l supposed to be filled with
grain, and l took out my knife and
ripped n of them open. You can
imagine my surprise when, instead of
morse feed, there rolled out dollars and
half dollars. In the moment that it
TOOK me to regain my breath from the
shock occasioned by finding more than
l could carry OFF, the sergeant major OF
the Fourth cavalry came up, and as
hC uapPSLSU 10 KNOW Wner6 the cOlOQel
was, reached him and reported the find
as his before l could find the
colonel. The money was turned over
to Gen. Schwan, and I have learned
since that the sergeant major was
given a part of it. l have gathered up
coins from nearly every country of the
world. While | was on the south line
we came upon a large stone cross away
up in the mountains, and at the bottom
OF the cross was a crack tire inches
long and n wide. We camped there
that night, and as l was sitting near
by l noticed several natives drop some
thing like money. When they had gone
l tried to get into it but could not.
mat night some one tied some horses
to the cross and it fell down, reveal
ing a hole nearly deep enough for a
man to stand erect in, which contained
about eight bushels of pennies, which
had been accumulating there for hun
dreds of years, no doubt, for l found
several old coins, the oldest bearing
the date of 1904. Nc one took any OF
the money except as curios."
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Hold Up Your Head!

Hold up your head! Your teacher
has probably dinned that at you until
you are tired of hearing it, but it can't
be too often urged. 1t is the only way
to keep your shoulders back and avoid
that "stoop-shouldered" condition that
brings on lung trouble, spinal trouble
and a host of other ailments that help
to make Il short life and a miserable
one. If you go around with your head
looping forward you will soon begin to
feel as "hang-dog" as you look. You
get as slouchy in your dress as you are
in your attitude; you become irresolute
as to speech, absent minded, and a
poor, sneaking counterfeit of the boy
or girl you ought to be. Hold up your
head physically and it will help you
to hold up your head spiritually and
mentally. You will breathe deeper.
walk freer and see more of the
world. The earth is beneath with its
mud. The sky, trees, human faces and
hundreds of other interesting and
beautiful things are so high I'D that
you will NOT see them at all unless you
throw back your shoulders and lift I'D
your head to its natural and honorable
place. A bent head will always make
the shoulders round, the chest hollow
and the gait poor, for your tendency is
always to be pitching forward. Don't
do it! Hold up your head,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-08-25
OLD RIV Err A
VIII Float "a Flatboat Down the Treach
erous Yellowstone.

D"h hAO ACdCl
erous Yellowstone. v
Livingston (Mont.) Correspondence
Chicago Inter Ocean: An attempt is
being made to navigate the Yellow
stone River from this essIy to the Mis-
souri,, and thence to st. Louis. with a
craft that will carry about 100 tons
OF freight. Livingston may be said tc
be at the head Of even canoe naviga
ton on the Yellowstone River. and
this is the first attempt in history to
navigate the stream with anything
approaching a boat. Many attempts
have been made in the past to float
down the river with skiffs. but they
have been uniformly unsuccessful, and
each summer adds to the list of vic
tins claimed by the river from those
n have been foolhardy enough to
make the trial. The Yellowstone Joins
the Missouri at Fort Buford, about 500
miles northeast of this city, and for
about half the distance flows through
a succession of canyons, and at short
intervals below this city breaks into
rapids extremely dangerous and diff
cult of navigation, even for a skiff.
An old Mississippi River fatboat-
man named H. C. Sharpless last win
ter announced his intention of con-
structing a ftatboat, loading it with
bones, petrified wood and other far
western curiosities, and, with the first
sign of high water in the spring, float
ing down the river. He had had his
craft ready for the trip at her dock
at the foot of Lewis street, with a par
tial cargo, amounting to perhaps so
tons, for the last ten days, waiting for
the SHOWS in the mountains to make
their presence known in the river.
The looked-for food having arrived,
the Saragossa, as he calls his vessel,
weighed anchor to-day and started on
its 5000 miles journey to St. Louis,
where Capt. Sharpless expects to dis
pose of his cargo of bones, etc. If the
craft meets with no mishap it is ex-
pected to arrive in st. Louis some time
this fall.
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The whistIing Tree.

The musical or whistling tree Is a
native of the West Indies, Nubia and
the Sudan. 1t possesses a peculiar
shaped leaf and pods with a split or
broken edge. The wind passing
through these causes the sound which
gives to the tree the name of whist
ler." In Barbados there is a valley
filled with trees of this character, and
when the trade winds blow across the
islands a constant moaning, deep-toned
whistle is heard from it. a species of
acacia, which grows very a%bundantly
in the Sudan. is also called the whist
ling tree by the natives.
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Miss Grace Howard, daughter of Joe
Howard, Jr., the New York Journalist,
is the cattle queen of South Dakota.
During the past five or ten years South
Dakota has developed a number Of
men who have become wealthy by
raising cattle, but it remained for Miss
Howard, a former New York society
belle, to prove that a woman of good
business judgment and energy can
hold her own with the most expe-
rienced cattleman and rear a fortune
from the industry. Miss Towards
property, "Grace Ranch" is one of the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-08-25
ROMANTIC CAREER
OF CONGRESSMAN LORtMER
OF ILLINOIS.
From Newsboy and BootbIack 60 a
Position ms One of the Nations Leaders
In Politics and statesmanship-Bis
Early Life.

Among the many romantic careers
OF prominent Americans few stand
more conspicuous than that of Con-
gresham William Lorimer Of the sec
ond Illinois district. He is the recog-
nized leader of the republican party
in Cook county, a power in state and
national politics and one of the strong
est men in the house Of representa-
tives. When a mere child he was
thrown upon his own amid
the toilers of Chicago. With persever-
ance seldom equaled he has fought his
way to the front.
William Lorimer was born in Eng
land in 1861. When 5 years old he
came with his parents to this country.
After being in a number of places, the
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pany and the overcoming of the phys
ical problems incident to the operation
Of a line through a mountainous re-
gion, where snow and ice were COM
non much of the year. Sir William
has carved out his own fortune. His
father died when he was Is and left
him to support his mother. He Sc
cured a place in the railroad yards,
and by steady application to his work
and hard study gradually rose to his
present high position. He has great
ability and can well be classed with
Americas greatest railroad men.
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SAINT" ROBERTS AT wooLWICH.

n of eight placed in the institution
as a memorial of the jubilee. Oddly
enough, all the eight windows have
figures of living people, which in itself
is a startling departure, for the por-
traits of living people are rarely put in
such memorials. 'Bobs" appears in
his full dress as field marshal. and as
a background the window has a view
of Kandahar, in memory of Lord Rob-
erts' greatest achievement up to the
time of the jubilee.
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His Merchandise,

a minister's little daughter and two
little boys, the SON of commercial
travellers, were talking about their re-
spective papas and what they did. One
little lad said: MY papa sells Shoes"
and the other said: Mine sells paper
and, turning to the little girl, What
does your papa SELF" For a moment
the child hesitated, but, not to be out
done by boys, she replied with the air
Of a duchess, MY papa sells talk"
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VINO seemed to be the captain. He
walked to a particular log, stood on
one side OF it. close to the water, and
then uttered peculiar cries. The other
gulls came and perched on the same
SIDE OF the log, which, under their
combined weight, rolled over a few
inches. The gulls, step by step, kept
the log rolling until the barnacles
showed above the water. The birds
picked eagerly at this food, and the
log was not abandoned until every
barnacle had been picked.-Golden
Days.