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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
Four Ugliest Beasts.

There are four beasts in the wide
world that can give long odds in the
way of ugliness to anything else that
lives. One of them is a monkey, a
grewsome looking animal called the
bearded saki. This is so utterly GRO
tesque a beast that it would scarcely
be safe to let a child or nervous per-
Sol see it. The beast has a sort OF
beard and a counteuance unlike my
thing else in shape and lines. The
monkey itself is not particularly saw
age, but is SO hideous that the natives
of it's country, South America, say that
no beast of prey, however hungry, will
tackle it. Then there is a tree-climb-
ing beast that is as queer a nondescript
as one could hope to see. 1t has a
sharp face and long, jointed fingers,
and is called the aye-aye, from its cry.
This looks like one of the most appall-
ingly weird of all those strange beasts
Il sees in Nightmares and cannot get
away from; but, like the sakis, it is OF
a gentle disposition. 1t lives in South
Africa. Then there is the Tasmaniap
devil of the Antipodes, which is as saw
age as it is ugly, and, lastly, a species
of Asiatic ground rat called the bund.
STRAY Stories.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10

there is a matron of honor, and, in one
case, the entire set of bridesmaids
was replaced by a half-dozen very re-
cent brides. The matron of honor is
the more common evidence of the new
convention, or whatever it may lie
called. however, and she bids fair TO
hold her popularity for some time to
come. She undoubtedly had her
origin in the sentimental pledge so
often made between two girls that
whoever married first should have tho
other for maid of honor, in some one
case 1t having evidently been deter
mined to carry out the vow one de-
gree farther, and to serve each other,
whether married or not. History fails
to tell us anything about this first
original case; all that we know is thas
the precedent of a matron of honor in
now established. There are those to
whom this is a cause for regret. The
real old-faShiOned WeduIng, such 80
our grandmothers knew, offered such
a fine opportunity for future weddings,
the bridesmaids and ushers being in
Varlably young men and young wom~
en- OF a susceptible age and condition
n heartily alive to the possibilities
of being thrown together in this way.
In very suburban instances, the at
t%endants, when the ceremony was
over. used to pair off, every Jack with
his Jill, and follow after the newly
wedded couple right down the aisle
in a way that could but suggest that
they follow their example as well.
Married ushers and a matron of honor
have changed all that. In its second
airy capacity Of promoting other we'd
dings, the wedding is not what it used
to be, say those who know the old way.
Not so, say we all of us. The new"
wedding may look less obviously like
a matrimonial market, but the chances
are, and, in fact, all evidence goSs to
prove, that young people may be de-
pended upon to be young people under
any condition of circumstances.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
Lighting the Drawing Room.

There is no room in the house the
lighting of which demands more care
and attention than the drawing-room,
The novelist delights to write of the
"brilliantly-lighted drawing : ROOM"
but this is a mere figure of speech
every woman who studies the comfort
of her guests knows that a somewhat
subdued light is preferable for an
apartment in which very little reading
or writing is done and where CONVEX
~sation, music, and perhaps a little mild
filtration, are the principal occupa-
ton. Whether gas or oil lamps are bet
ter for the purpose is a mooted ques-
ton. If the former is used, the globes
should certainly be tinted or covered
with colored shades. The light Of oil
lamps is softer, and the combustion
is not nearly so harmful to walls, cell
ing, ETC., as that Of gas; but where
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
Recent Inventions.

For use in picking fruit a new de-
vice is formed of a sack, to be secured
to the person, with a short, flexible
tube connecting a f1aring mouth to the
bag, and a longer tube suspended on
the end of a short pole to reach near
by fruit and deliver it to the bag.
In a new device for measuring bolts
of cloth without unrolling them a f1ex-
ible strip of steel is graduated for bolts
of different widths, the measure being
inserted in the bolt midway between
the inner and outer folds, to obtain the
approximate width of all the folds.
A new attachment for window sash
balance is designed to ring an alarm
when the window is moved, the shaft
on which the pulley is suspended being
extended through the window casing
and ending to a pair of clappers, which
are revolved inside a bell when the
window is moved.
To raise water from the ocean level
by utilizing wave power a new appa-
ratus has a rigid structure set near the
SiOle, Will d lOuS lIuSSeu lever DIV
oted to rise and fall when actuated by
a float at the outer end, a pump being
set at the short end of the lever to
raise the water.
An improvement in rocking chairs
has been patented by a Massachusetts
man, the under frame of the chair sup
porting a pair Of fiat springs, which
are free to rise and fall under pressure
the rockers resting on the springs and
forming a spring seat and rocker COM
bined.
Envelopes a be rapidly and neatly
opened by a new implement, which has
a metallic base to rest on the desk.
with a fange on one side, at the bot
ton of which is a thin blade of steel.
which enters the fold of the flap and
cuts it off as the envelope is drawn
through.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
Explosive Force of Cordite,

The cordite used by the British ar
tillery has a balistic power, that is, a
proJectile force, nearly four times as
great as the black powder previously
employed. In the 3-inch 12-pound field
piece, where formerly four pounds of
pebble powder was the service charge
but one pound of the cordite is now
used, and increased safety is secured
owing to the fact that the cordite
charges are not exploded by being
struck with bullets, and the danger
from the explosion of the ammunition
carriage thus eliminated. If the cor
dite is fired in a chamber which it COM
pletely fills, a pressure of 120 tons to
the square inch results, as against 43
tons with the black powder, but in &C.
tual practice a vacant space is left in
the powder-chamber, so as to keep
down the maximum pressure to Is tons
in the bore of the gun.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10

tales the little people v aisper-whis.
per for fear the foxes will neal and
take offense-about the deeds of mari
the fox. They are popularity supposed
to take up their abode with those
whom they ~fancy-and, alas! also
with those whom they do not fancy.
And sometimes it is hard to decide
which is the happier. For the foxes
must be fed. And as there are always
many in a family, and they do not Wis
1t singly, much rice must be consumed
for them. Good luck comes from their
arrival, however, but it is liable to be
changed into direst ill-fortune at any
moment. For the foxes are exceed
lngly sensitive, and a word carelessly
spoken, nay, even a thought
times, will serve to send them off in a
huff, and then all sorts of misfortunes
Will follow. When a man is seized
with a fit in Japan they say He is
afflicted with foxes or He has made
an enemy of the foxes" A story is told
or a woman who kept a little shop
where rice IA sold. Every night a
eoi "oLldH eHIeIeu the SnOp, DOuSnI
some rice, laid two coins down upon
the counter and left without saying a
word. The woman would place the
coins in a drawer, and think no more
OF them. One day the woman entered
the shop, bought her rice, but as she
turned her back the shopkeeper saw a
long white tail hanging DeIow her
dress. She cried out, and the woman
disappeared. Rushing to the drawer
where she had placed her money, she
found some coins and. some dried
leaves. Half of the money she had re-
ce1ved was good; the other half had
been bewitched, and had turned back
to dry leaves. Families not having
foxes are not allowed to marry into
those having them, as when the foxes
attach themselves to a family it in
cludes in it's affections all it's members,
even to those most remote. One of the
most famous families in Japan claims
its supremacy to be due to the good in
fiuences of the foxes who have taken
up their abode in hat family.-New
York Herald.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
Preserving Milk by Pressure.

At the West Virginia agricultural
experiment station at Morgantown re-
markable results have been obtained
through the application of high press
ures to milk inclosed in cylinders.
The effect Of the pressure is greatly to
increase the length of time during
which the milk can be preserved. The
general conclusions from the expert
ments are that pressures from thirty
up to 100 tons per square inch will
postpone the souring of milk for TWEEN
ty-four hours. Thirty tons pressure
continued for one hour generally de-
lays the souring just about twenty
four hours. A similar pressure contin-
ued for ten or twelve hours preserves
the milk for from three to five days.
Ninety tons pressure for one hour
postpones souring for four days.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
This Horse Is q Great JumDer.

80 MP
From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Not many horses trained in steeple-
chasing and ridden by skilled jockeys
could make a clean jump of twenty
one feet. When George King, the cow
boy, started out to "round up a herd
of cattle that was pasturing in the
valleys of the Santa Ana river he in
vited an Indian, Juan Machado, to ac-
company him and help him in the cat
tie driving. Machado was on the point
of agreeing, when King said joking
ly: We will take our guns along and
we might get a fat bear" Immediate
ly the Indian appeared to be in a state
OF abject terror and refused to take
the trip, assuring King that the grizzly
bear always overheard such threats
and that hunters who announced their
object were sure to be eaten up. Laugh
ing at the Indians superstition, King
started on without him. A day or two
afterward he was following a lonely
trail alone. The trail led through a
dense thicket and was neal the border
of a dangerous gulch. Suddenly the
pathway made a sharp curve and dis
closed to the cowboys sight a monster
grizzly gnawing at the quivering flesh
of a newly killed yearling. Now, of
all circumstances calculated to excite
a grizzly the interruption of his meal
is the surest. Therefore when the
mounted cowboy rode almost upon
him he rushed forward with a terribly
ing growl. The little hol Sc needed no
spurs, but darted onward through the
brush with incredible swiftness, the
angry bear following close behind. In
a moment the horse and rider were on
the edge of the gulch, and there was
no room for turning. King and his
horse both knew that. There was but
one thing to do. King raised the
bride reins, the little horse gathered
her legs beneath her, sailed straight
through the air-and landed safely on
the edge of the opposite bank. The
chasm was twenty-one feet across.
And the Indian said: 81 told you so.
told you the bear would hear you"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
The testers Trick.

Peter the Great was once very neatly
caught in a trap by a jester attached
to the court. The jester was noted for
his cleverness in getting himself and
his friends out of difficulties. 1t hap
pened one day that a cousin of his had
incurred the cars displeasure and was
about to be executed. The jester there
fore presented himself before his i'm
perial master to beg for g. reprieve. On
seeing him approach, the car, divin-
ing his errand, cried: 1T is no good
to come here; l swear l will not grant
what you are going to ask" Immedi-
ately the jester went down on his
knees, saying: Il beseech your i'm
perial highness to put hat scamp
cousin of mine to death" The czar,
thus caught in his own trap, could
only laugh and pardon the condemned
man.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10

The rate of fingernail growth is
thus touched upon by Edward Blake
In his Study of the Hand" The pace
OF growth varies very much, not only
at different ages, but in different in
dlviduals of the same age. Influenced
by many external and internal condi-
lions, the pace also varies in the same
person, from time to time. 'Observa-
tons as to the growth in men at diff
ferent ages show hat at p years the
nail was replaced in 126 days, at 81
years in 159 days, at 80 years in SO
days, at SIS years in 10 days, at Ct
years in 144 days. 1t is curious that
in this growth the Hswiftest grower was
a tuberculous subject who had a sharp
attack of blood splitting during the OBJ
servation. Sea air is said to quicken
the growth of the nails, profound
grief has been credited with the power
of destroying them.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10

lamps are Nsed, excessive care must
be taken in cleaning, filing and trim
ming; for a smoky lamp does more
damage in an hour than half-a-dozen
fiaring gas jets would do in a week.
Now, as to the position of your lights.
Do, pray, avoid that institution of
suburban dwellings, a center gasalier
dependent from the ceiling. Not only
does this ruin the ceiling, but it spoils,
for the time being the appearance of
any woman who stands or passes be-
meath it. Try the experiment. Stand
beneath such a light with a hand mir
ror and see how prominent are the
cheek bones; what haggard lines ap-
pear On the face; and how deeply dark
are its depressions. If you do this,
you will agree that the center gasalier
is a cruel mistake. All artificial light
IN a drawing DON should come from
brackets placed against the wall
though standing telescope lamps are
nearly as good, and possess the addi-
tional advantage that they can be
raised or lowered at will. for the height
" I "HANh "ilili.l"l i6HI ID pldCeu is VI
more Importance than many people
imagine. Carefully adjusted, it is real
ly an aid to beauty. Brackets should
be fixed about five and a half feet from
the floor, so that their illumination
should be about on a level with the
face Of an individual of an average
height. Of curse, all such lights must
be shaded, the favorite tones being
pink or yellow; but this, of course, de-
Ponds largely on the hues prevailing
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
SCIENTIFIC TOPICS.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.
can't Tread on His Toes-Hammer
Hand sling for Observation-Disclosures
for Firemen-The Growth of the
Finger Nail-RecenU Inventions
Searchlights for Firemen.

The New York fire department is
about to add a complete portable cleo
.ric searchlight plant to it's apparatus.
he ~searchlight wagon will go to fires
with the engines, ETC., and it is be-
lieved it will add greatly TO the eff
cheney of the force, both in saving life
n property. 1t resembles a fire en-
CINE in general appearance, but instead
OF a pump it has an engine and dyna-
mo. There are two searchlights. each
with an eighteen-inch lens. These
will be carried on a platform behind
the drivers seat. They can be useo
either from the platform or removed
ana carried to any desirable point of
vantage, all communication with the
generator being kept up by means of
flexible cables which are insulated with
rubber. The lights are provided with
devices for quick regulation, so that
ne light may be spread out over a
wide area, or confined and directed to
any particular point. The purpose of
the apparatus will be to aid the fire.
men in laying the hose, setting lad
ders, ETC., also to light up the front of
buildings where people may be in Ian
ger and to project light into the build
ings themselves.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
II Thou wilt Ease Thine Heart.

If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart.
Oirge.)
If thou wilt east thine heart
OF love, and all it's smart
Then sleep, dear, sleep!
And not a sorrow
Hang any tear on your eyelashes
Lie still and deep,
Sad soul, until the washes
The rim O. the sun Tomorrow,
In eastern sky.
But wilt thou cure thine heart
OF love, and its smart
Then die, dear, die!
IT'S deeper, swceter.
Than on a rose bank to lie dreaming
With folded eye;
And then alone, amid the beaming
OF loves stars, thou'lt meet her
In eastern sky.
Thomas Lowell Beddoes,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10

in the decoration of the room. Rapid
strides have been made of late years
in the manufacture of shades OK all
sorts, and the woman must indeed be
hard to please who, at a good fancy
s~tationer's, cannot find something
pretty to suit her tastes. Just a word
as to piano lights. If it is possible,
place the instrument so that the light
from II of the wall brackets falls
on to the music oven the left shoulder
OF the pianist. If this cannot conven-
iently be done, take care that the
candle brackets fixed 10 the piano
itself are a good length, and that the
little shades, while shading the eyes
of the player from the glare of the
candles, reflect the light directly on
the music.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
Developing Pullets.

AS we drift into the early fall W.
find many things to attract our at.
tention in the poultry yard, says Coun.
try Gentleman.
We are between seasons, as it were,
and without eggs. We see our moulters
dropping off. and long impatiently for
our pullets to begin. We may expect
a beginning from our young stock the
last of September, perhaps. Meantime,
our duty is not the less difficult; in
fact, we must not neglect these young
sters. They will not lay early unless
we do our utmost to develop them. II
might just as well be thoroughly I'M
derstood that pullets do not lay until
they are fully developed. The sooner
we can perform this feat, the quicker
will they begin to earn us something
and repay for the outlay they have
cost us in the past.
Developing pullets is not as easy
matter, unless it is understood. Crowd
ing food into young, growing stock is
the worst thing possible for them, un-
less they are given absolutely free
range. AS has been written many
times in this journal, the frame must
be formed first before the young
chicken can carry flesh. Therefore
Transforming food, like wheat, oats,
bran, middlings and the like, is the
proper food for such a purpose. Corn,
which to the inexperienced seems the
only food for chickens, is not good ex-
cept in small quantities, say one-third
to twO-thirds of the Transforming
food should be given. The proportion
OF corn can then be increased.
We do not believe in feeding grow
Ing chicks whole corn at any time.
They gulp it down too quickly and it
simply hangs in the crSt and digests
slowly. Cracked corn, on the contrary.
answers the same fattening purpose,
and from it's size is more difficult tC
eat. In other words, they have to
work harder to get it, and that is just
what we are after. Chickens are not
hogs, and should not be fed in the
same way. The hog has the peculiar
ity of eating it's food in a gulping
ner, and it matters little how bulky
or how coarse the God may be. A
hog has a stomach which seems never
to cause him indigestion. Indeed, from
its stomach we derive the pepsin which
helps digest the food in our own, when
nature refuses or neglects to act.
Chickens, on the contrary, are sub
ject to Indigestion, and they must be
fed carefully and judiciously at all
times. Not having a stomach, the food
digests from the crop by degrees, and
is then passed into the gizzard to be
ground up. The trouble with the
chickens is therefore mostly in the
crop. Any food that has a tendency
to mat or remain bulky in the crop may
cause a disease called crop-bound. This
is one of the most troublesome and
many times most dangerous of dis
eases. If care is taken to feed what
will digest naturally, the developing
process will continue regularly, and
the chicken will grow accordingly.
Again, food cannot be ground up in
the gizzard without the material for
grinding it. This is nothing but small
sharp stones, called grit, and these are
as necessary as the food itself.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
The Land of Tnpsy- Turvey.

1@hN "
In the land of Topsy-Turvey-
How l wish that l was there!
Where everything is upside down,
And common things are rare;
Where hard works always easy;
Where the night is always day;
Where troubles recreation.
And the grown-up people play;
Where rivers climb the hillside;
Where the skies are clover green;
Where all the hidden things of life
Are clearly to be seen;
Wher fairies are The people,
Where the people are the elves;
Where milk comes from the we'll
springs,
And the horses drive themselves;
Where things go by c%ontraries;
Where the homely have good looks;
Where the burglars are all honest,
And the readers write the books.
All, the lane of Topsy-Turvey-
IT'S an iridescent dream!
A spot where things are what they're
not,
And nev what they seem!
l want to go and live there,
For l rather like their way
OF having everybody
Growing younger every day.
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
Poultry Notes.

The country hen must not be given
free range if that range includes
shocks of corn. 1t means ultimately a
hen so fat that she will not be good
for laying and will be of little use for
the table. The writer does not remem-
Der ever having seen an excessively
fat hen reduced in fat to such an eX-
tent that she went to laying again.
Practically a hen once fattened goes
out of the reproducing business. Old
hens have a tendency to get fat and
they especially must be kept away
from corn in unlimited supply.
Keep the hens out of the hog yards
and hog-feeding lots. The hen that is
given access to these places is sure to
become fat and lazy, She will in time
take on SO much weight that she Will
be of almost no use even for the Ia
Bile. We recognize the difficulty OF
doing this, in a large number of cases,
but the farmer must know mat it is
imperatively necessary to restrict such
privileges if be wants to succeed in the
production of eggs and poultry flesh.
In case the yards are so arranged that
exclusion is impossible it will be ad-
ylsable to keep the fowls yarded dur
ing much of the day, permitting them
to roam only after their crops have
been well filled with the food that is
serViceable for producing eggs and
flesh. With full crops the fowls will
care less to hunt grain, but more to
collect a supply of grass, when that is
obtainable.
Fresh eggs the year round is the de-
slderatum with the consumer. Any
deterioration in quality discoverable
by the eater means a certain loss in
the demand. Every purchaser of any
product knows how quickly he stops
purchasing when he begins to find
his purchases bad in quality. The
rule applies to eggs more than
to most other products, because an
egg even slightly stale savors of
putrefaction and is disgusting. Could
we know that all eggs are strictly
fresh the sale would be enormously in
creased. 1t is, therefore, to the inter
est OF all p~oultrymen and farmers to
produce a steady stream of eggs the
year round, and not have them com in
overwhelming supply at certain sea-
sons OF the year. More attention should
be paid to producing fall and winter
eggs that an equilibrium may be estab-
hshed. With proper control of the
egg supply there need never be any
thing but good fresh eggs sent to
market.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-10
Japan's Quaint Foxes.

In Japan, with it's quaint. gentle peo-
pie and its quainter, geJtler beliefs,
even the foxes are not the same as
they are in other countries. Here a fox
is a plaything, a creature to be harried
and torn to pieces by dogs for sport.
In Japan it is well to address a fox
by the most honorable titles, to treat
him kindly, place food for him, and be
very glad when he goes. For in Japan
foxes have great power, and it is not
well to offend them. Many are the