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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-05-05
(To be c~ontinued.)
THE
Peculiarities of the Race That Has Long
Governed China.

Peculiarities of the Race That Has Long
Governed China.
The Manchus, as a body. really do
not care two straws about Confucius,
though it is part of their policy to
make a great fuss, just as Napoleon
ound 1t paid best to humor the popes.
Of course, l am speaking of the gen.
u1ne typical M%anchus, who are fast dy-
Ing out and become petticoated prigs
of Cinnamon, but without a China
mans suppleness and brains. The true
Manchu has an honest contempt for
writing fellows" he has long since
forgotten his own language, and now
speaks a rough, energetic, bastard Chi
nese, called Pekingese, with a good,
honest country burr. 1t bears much
the same relation to literary Chi
nese" that Hindustani does to Sans
krit; or, better still, that the Viennese.
dialect does to German. The emper-
or of China on formal occasions, de-
scanting on funerals, Confucius, flial
French president, descanting ON right
civilization and Justice" The real
human Manchu emperor making broad
jokes in the coarse Picking brogue.
cracking melon seeds and putting at
his water pipe withal, may be com
pared with his majesty, the Emperor
Francis Joseph with a feather in his
billycock and a pot of Pilsener beer
before him, smoking a long, coarse,
Italian Avana da quindici with a straw
run through it, and exchanging re-
parties with his private cronies in
piquant Viennese. The Manchus like
sport, good living and fresh air; they
neither care nor profess to care one
little bit about the Chinese empire,
except in SO far as it is a big elastic
sponge out of which can be squeezed
at suitable intervals a rich nutriment.
The one exception Is, or was, the en-
peror, who during the first four reigns
took a keen pleasure, as we'll as a
pride, in running the vast machine as
economically and as uprightly as pos
sible, and even now there is a consid-
cradle quantity of good manly leaven
in Manchu mankind, just as there Is
in any other mankind, and it is this
minority Of good men which keeps
things going, not to speak Of the leav-
en- of good in the Chinese or Confu-
clan element, which combines with the
excellence on the Manchu side, even
as in the United States the under
stratum Of solid worth in party life
keeps things sufficiently afloat in the
Serbonian boys of populism and Tam
many hall.-Gentlemen's Magazine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-05-05

A motor carriage has recently been
introduced in France which combines
many novel features. 1t is normally
propelled solely by an oil engine, but
on billy ground is helped by an cleo
trio motor. The oil engine works at
constant speed, and when the vehicle
doe not absorb all the engine power.
the excess drives the motor as a dyna.
mo and charges the accumulators.
Then the accumulators are only used
occasionally, and they are kept fully
charged. The engine is directly con
nected to the dynamotor, which is
shunt-wound, and this is in turn used
to start up the engine. The changes
in speed are effected mechanically.
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CHAPTER XIII,
The ReuuitaI

Three days and nights passed with
out finding us able to surprise ar dis
lodge the demon who was in nossas-
sion of the cabin; without our knowing
where the ship was driving or drift
Ing to, n without a sail appearing.
A man-of-war belonging to any coun-
try we should have hailed as a pro-
t%ectOr; but on the wide waters of the
Southern Atlantic ships are few and
far between.
Hyslop rallied a little and was re-
moved into n of the forecastle berths.
He could tell us only that he had been
surprised when asleep, and had been
stabbed again and again-that he be-
came insensible and remembered moth
ing more. His distress was great when
we related the story OF the captains
fate, the death of Will White, and that
their destroyer was still in possession
of the ship and the arbiter of all our
lives.
He writhed on his bed of pain and
sighed bitterly on finding how stiff and
sore, how weak and almost blind he
had become by loss Of blood; but a
crisis was now at hand with our Gu
bano.
The evening of the fourth day after
we had saved Hyslop found the brig
still lying on a westerly course: but
whether in the latitude of Cape San
Rogue or of the Rio Grande, We knew
not; and. | suppose, it was all the same
to Antonio.
was at the wheel. The sunset was
gorgeously beautiful. The Eugene was
running with both tacks aft; and IN
der the arched leech of her courses :
could see the blood-red disk of the
sun right ahead settling in the waves,
which shone in all the co)YIs Of the
dying dolphin; while against the fam
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-05-05

TO prevent a s~tepladder from tipping
over and steady it while in use a new
attachment has a hinged leg set on
either side Of the top, to extend out on
either side of the ladder, with sharp
points at the lower ends to engage the
fOOr.
An automatic disinfector for closets
mas a reservoir for the storage OF d
ltsinfectiug liquid, with a valve hav-
ing a lever attached to the lever of the
water reservoir, to dischage a small
quantity Of the purifier with the water.
Patent Record.
Electricity is used to operate a new
automatic bicycle pump, which has a
small motor to run the pump, a coin
being inserted in a slot to form a con-
nection between two plates placed end
to end, which complete the electric cir
cult and operate the motor.
a convertible turban and visor cap
has been designed by a Minnesota
man, the visor being suspended on ply
oted links, which allow it to be raised
or lowered as desired, snap buttons
being provided to secure the visor in
either of the two positions.
An improved blowpipe utilities a
liquid fuel, which is stored in an upper
reservoir and flows into "a spherical
chamber underneath which the outlet
of the blowpipe is set, the heat from
the latter turning the oil into gas and
forcing it cut through the pipe.
An Australian has designed a per-
petual calendar which can be attached
to any pencil, being formed OF a series
of metallic tubes, Joined together to re-
v0lVe freely, with the days, months and
years cut in the faces, to re adjusted
10 correspond with the time desired.
The hair can be rapidly dried after
washing by the use of a new comb,
which has coarse teeth, formed of por-
Gus material, capable of w~ithstanding
great heat, whereby the moisture alb
sorbed by drawing the comb through
the hair is evaporated by holding the
comb over a fame.
A newly designed street sweeper has
n of the rear wheels replaced by a
large drum, With an opening in prox-
unity 10 the end of the brush, the lat
ter throwing the dirt into the drum,
whence it is carried upward by the
revolution of the drum, and emptied
into the receptacle at the top
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-05-05
A BALLOON UNDER FIRE,

Immediate Collapse Does Not Follow,
Even When the Mark Is Hit.
With regard to the effects of gun
shots upon a balloon, the following ex-
periments were made, says the Pail
Mall Magazine. A shot was fired from
a Lebel rife at a balloon at an alti-
tude of 500 feet. 1t only penetrated the
fabric below the equator, and no ap-
preciable result ensued. After this
many shots were fired, several pene-
trating the balloon and passing out
near the upper valve. After a lapse
of six hours the balloon descended
quietly to the ground, by reason of the
loss of gas through the bullet holes.
But it appeared that, whatever the
number Of shots, the loss of gas was
never sufficient to cause the balloon to
fall rapidly. On another occasion a
shrapnel shell was fired from a seven
FOUNDER Armstrong gun at a balloon
having an altitude OF 1900 feet, but
this being above the limit of elevation
of the gun, it was impossible to hit 1t.
II any case, had it been possible to
do so, the shell would have penetrated
the balloon below the equator and
passed out again so low down as to
cause no serious loss of gas. Indeed,
a balloon loses but little Of its lifting
power-that is, little of its gas-if the
hole is made below the equator. Once
a gore was split up to within a few
feet of the upper valve; at first the
balloon fell rapidly. then the wind
filed out the tapping fabric, and it
sailed quietly to earth.
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His glance of hate TOWARD us turned
to one of wild and earnest entreaty.
"Mercy!-pardonl-ln the name and
for the love of the Almighty" he ex-
claimed In Spanish. in a tom of in
tense earnestness; but he was heard by
us with fierce derision in that moment
OF just triumph and too long delayed
vengeance.
twice the Eugene gave a lee lurch,
and each time the feet and knees of the
wretched Cubano were immersed in the
waves.
Beneath him was the abyss Of wa,
ter that rushed past the side Of the
brig. He painted rather than breathed,
and through the dusk we could see how
his aching hands turned white as his
face, and that the points of his fingers
were blood-red. His eyes grew wild
and haggard as terror chilled his cow
ard heart and agonized his soul: and
yet through the surge the fleet craft
few on!
Every moment increased the weight
OF his body and the weakness OF his
hands and wrists.
At last 1t was evident that his pow
ers of endurance could be no longer
taxed; he uttered a half-smothered
Shrek, and closed his eyes as he chung
to that slender spar, and it swayed to-
and fro while the close-hauled brig
few on!
The Iron hook in the bulwark on
which the studding-sail boom wac
hung gave way under the double
weight of the spar and of his body.
There was a shrill cry If despair, like
the parting shrek of an evil spirit,
or the skirl Of the gusty blast, as the
boom, and the wretch who chung to it
in blind desperation, vanished into the
black trough Of the sea, and, like a
corr or a reed, were swept amid the
salt foam to leeward.
The Eugene rose like a duck upon
the water, and. as If freed at that
moment from a load of crime, seemed
to NY forward with increased speed.
Twas night now, and the ship
which we had first seen upon our
weather bow was a mile astern and to
leeward of us.
Ito be co%ntinued.)
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-05-05

The discovery that mosquitoes are
responsible for the spread OF malaria
is giving rise to exalted hopes of ban
ishing one of the most dreaded
scourges of the tropics. Maj. Ronald
Ross researches in India show that
this is probably the only source OF
infection, and give grounds for be-
~lieving that not all kinds OF mosquitoes
are dangerous. Thus far the spotted
winged mosquitoes seem to be the
only offenders, the malaria parasite
having been only found in two species
of these creatures in India and one in
Italy. Their breeding places are rare
in India, being only shallow puddles
of rain water that do not dry up under
a week or more while the common
species find breeding places near every
dwelling-the "brindled mosquitoes" in
pots and tubs OF water, and the gray
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-05-05

Can the arid lands of western Kan
sas, Utah and other states subject to
drought be made to raise crops regu-
larly ear after year, and that without
irrigation? H. W. Campbell, a farmer,
formerly of Brown county, South Da-
kota, claims that they can. He has
originated a method of cultivation
which, he asserts, never fails to pro-
duce crops in the sun-baked territory,
no matter how dry the season may be.
His plan Is based upon the theory that
droughts are caused not by lack of
sufficient fall of moisture, but by too
rapid evaporation. He plows the soil
deeply and subpacks the lower por-
ton, thus forming a shallow water
reservoir under the surface. The top
strata Of earth is then p%ulverized as
fine as dust and kept so by frequent
STRINGS, forming a fine dust, which
chokes the pores of the soil, cutting of
evaporation and leaving the moisture
in the earth to be drawn on by the
roots of the growing plants.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-05-05

1t has recently been ascertained in
Germany that Illuminating gas of a
low candle-power, when used with in
candescent burners, will give extreme
ly good light, and in some cases even
better than a richer gas. So extensive
is the use of the incandescent NANTES
that in certain cities, such as Magde-
burg, it has been proposed to gradual
ly reduce the candle-power of the gas
from IA, the present value, to 10, and
then to 8. AS the poorer gas contains
a considerable amount of hydrogen, it
is quite as useful for this purpose, and
as there have been devised recently
improved methods for making water
gas, which is particularly rich in this
substance, it is believed that the cost
OF gas can be considerably cheap
ened.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-05-05
SCIENTIFIC TOPICS.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.
Fire-Escaps Easy to Use - Scissors
Like Pie Cutters-How Electricity
Kills - Curious Results OF the Cold -
Recent Inventions.


Although with Ine increasing use OF
electricity for power, lighting and
chemical purposes the world sees in
creased %precaution against accident,
there are occasional exceptions to the
general rule OF safety, and the question
how a powerful electric current acts on
a human being is therefore a matter of
vital interest. DR.. r. H. Cunningham,
who has given this subject a good deal
OF study within the last five years, re-
counts in "The Electrical World" eX-
perlments which he has made on some
OF the lower animals. These tests lead
him to believe that the first and most
immediate effect of a powerful shock
Is to interrupt the heart beat. 1t does
so by impairing the automatic ten
dency of the muscles to contract rhyth-
mlcally and in unison. An effect known
to Psychologists as "f5rillation' is pro-
duced. That is to say, the separate
hbres of muscle that should act to-
gether fail to harmonic, and thus neu-
tralize n another. One result of the
quasi-paralysis is that the cells at the
chief c%enters, where sense and
will reside, lose the nourishment which
the blood supplies and on which they
rely for life. Thus robbed. they rapid
ly die. Furthermore, the electric cur
rent often checks respiration. If the
volume is small and the potential Cor
electric pressure) light, this effect is
only family observed. Bui stronger
currents, especially if prolonged, in
terrupt breathing more positively, and
thus lead to asphyxia. Commissions
are frequently an attendant symptom.
h revival of an animal that had
seemingly been killed was effected by
DR.. Cunningham in the following man.
ner. He aimed to restore the activity
OF the heart by two agencies; he in
jected into the arteries what is called
"defbrinated' blood. and at the same
time gently stimulated the organ with
electricity. So much laboratory pre-
paration would be required to repeat
this procedure in the case of a man
that it could hardly be employed eff
fectively in cases of pure accident, un-
less the necessary means were close at
hand, in consequence of unusual fore
thought. 1t is doubtful whether a cen
trail light or power station will ever be
equipped with these facilities for re-
storing injured men, and it would
who had received an apparently fatal
dose of electricity to the nearest doc
tor.
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LITTLE THINGS
That Sometimes Decide a Mans rD.s In
Business.

The truth of the saying that li,tls
things may often times play an i'm
portant part to mems affairs when the
men least expect it was illustrated one
day recently. See that young man
over there" remarked an insurance
friend of his, pointing to one oil his
clerks working away industriously at a
desk in another room. We'll. he got
his place in my office through the strik-
ing OF a match, although h doesn't
know 1t. | was standing at the en-
trance of this building about a month
ago, waiting for a friend to come down
the elevator, when that young man
approached me with a letter of recon-
mendatlon and an application for en-
ployment. had made it known a few
days before that needed another clerk
n he had heard of it. However,
had almost made up my mind to take
on a young man who had been to see
me the day before. and was about to
tell the last applicant so, when he pull
ed a match from one OF his pockets to
light a cigar he had been smoking. but
which had gone ont. Sorry, sir he
said, balancing himself on one foot,
while he lifted the other so as TO admit
OF his striking the match on the heel
OF his shoe. Sorry, for | would like
very much to work for you, and | think
l would have made you a good clerk
h understanding incident made
me think so, too. Right at ne young
mans elbow was a great Italian mar
bic column upon which were the marks
showing where man matches had been
struck by vandals too utterly indiffer-
ent to the rights OF others to refrain
from indelibly stamping their vandal-
ism upon property to restore which
would have cost hundreds of dollars.
1t would have bee the most natural
thing in the world for many a man to
have scratched that match on the mar
Bile column, and the fact that this
young man chose to use the heel of his
shoe instead showed that he was
thoughtful and conscientious, two very
excellent traits. l was so impressed
that | told him to come and see me,
and the result of the visit was his Sc
curing the position. And his month
in my office has shown that | made no
mistake in sizing him up."-Philadel-
phia Inquirer,
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A Traveller in Siberia Tells OF a re-
markable occurrence among the frozen
regions Of hat country. In the in
tensely cold nights, he writes, the ST.
lence was sometimes broken by a loud
report as Of a cannon This was tbs
bursting of one of the ice bubbles on
a rivera phenomenon l had neither
heard nor read of before. The streams
coming down from the hills were
frozen on the surface some six to nine
inches thick. The water beneath
flowed faster than it could escape, and
the pressure, on the principle of a by
draulic press, became irresistible.
Firsv, the elasticity OF the ice was seen
by the rising of circular mounds some
six to eight feet high. The bursting
point came at last, with a report like
an explosion. The water escaped, but
soon froze again. | have seen scores
Of these ice hillocks in a few versts OF
The river.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-05-05
AMERICAN TRANSVAAL FUND.

To Aid Widows and Orphans of the
BncrA
A pathetic appeal Of the committee
of Africander and Bond members of
parliament was issued at Cape Town,
Oct. 10, 1899, signed by Messrs. N. F.
DeWaal, Joseph N. hoffman. J. H.
Hofmeyr. Thomas P. Theron and D.
j. A. Van Zyl. which says among
other things:
What may, what can, we colonial
Africanders do in this sorrowful time?
Join in the work of warfare with the
weapons? The law and our duty as
British subjects forbid this, even
should other circumstance not oppose
such a course of action.
But what neither the law MOI the
duty of the subject forbids, and what,
moreover, agrees in every respect with
all principles of religion and human
fty, is the offering of help to the
wounded, to the widows and the
orphans"
In the name of the Africander bond,
on behalf Of the citizens of the South
African republic and their noble ally,
the orange Free State, l sppeal to all
Americans to show their sympathy
with the brave people who are now.
in the words of John Hancock, liter
ally offering all that they have, all
that they are, and all that they hope
to be, upon the altar of their country,
fighting to the death the arrogance
and imposition of the great British
empire, in order to remain free and
independent, as did our American
torefathers in 1776 and 1912. THERE
WILL BE NO BOER WOUNDED ON
THE BRITISH-AMERICAN HOSPI-
tai SHIP.
Send to me your subscriptions,
small and large, and l will send the
amount to Mr.. c. c. de Villiers, Cape
Town, the honorable treasurer of the
committee of the Africander bond, to
be expended under that appeal. sent
$4,000 on Feb. 20, 1900.
GEORGE w. VAN SICLEN,
American Treasurer. :,
No. 141 Broadway, New York City.
Feb. "a, 1900.
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Most Of The nre-escapes installed In
hotels and similar buildings, where
they are required by law, are simply
makeshifts, hardly suitable for women
or children to manipulate, as they usu-
ally require some. daxterity and consid-
cradle muscular eXertiOn on the part OF
the user. In the fire escape here shown
the descent to the ground from a win
dow or other egress opening can be
made comfortably and without exer-
ton. All that is necessary is to seat
oneself on the bench shown, which has
previously been hooked to the window
ledge or other convenient point, and to
grasp the two handles at the sides.
Mechanism concealed in the box I'M
derneath plays out the rope from two
reels or drums, which are SO arranged
that the rope on each side will be
played out at d uniform rate to pre-
vent the fitting of the boxing or cas-
ing. The gripping tubes at the sides of
the box, through which the ropes pass,
permit the control Of the rate of de-
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-05-05

1t has been proven by abundant in
vestigation that one prolific source of
epidemic disease is found in the ina
bility of the germs of such diseases to
lodge in the mouth around the teeth
and gums. A physician examined the
teeth of the children of a certain
school. He found disease germs pres
emit in almost every case. By careful
watching he discovered that those chill
dren whose teeth were kept cleanest
suffered less from epidemic diseases.
The neglected condition of the teeth
is, therefore, a common cause of i'll
ness; indeed, If m takes the trouble
to observe with what rapidity the tar
tar and cheesy matter accumulate
around the teeth Of people who are
out of health, they will not be long in
making up their minds that a thorough
and judicious use of the tooth brush is
not very far from a means of gree.
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SMALLPOX DISTRIBUTORS.
How the Germs Are Nurtured and tn
Disease Is Spread.

BOW the Germs Are Nurtured and the
Disease Is Spread.
1t would seem that people will never
learn to be careful. The recent alarm
ing spread of that dire epidemic,
smallpox, throughout different sec
tons of the country has been traced
by physicians and s~anitarians in many
instances directly to the moldy and
rotting layers of paper and paste
which cover the walls of many houses.
The practice of laying layer after layer
Of paper on a wall, using common
flour paste, is especially calculated to
create homes for disease germs. Peo-
pie could not do more to effect such a
result if they tried. The rotting vege-
table matter affords caves from which,
are ready to dart forth the infection
at every opportunity. There is nc ex-
cuse for this practice, as walls and
ceilings can be coated with a pure,
clearly and sanitary material like Ala
b~astine, for instance, at no greater ex-
penSe. Alabastine is a rock-base
cement, which incorporates itself with
~ "oi il ICllluS. IL 10 easily dp-
piled, comes ready to mix with cold
water, requires no washing or scrap
ing before renewing or retinting, is
beautiful, long-lasting and safe.
For walls that have been infected,
nothing is equal to Alabastine as a
disinfectant to render them pure and
clean and the rooms once more habit
able.
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mosquitoes" IN cisterns, bitches n
drains. The problem of dealing with
malaria, therefore, is greatly simpli-
fed if the present conclusions prove to
be correct. 1t is simply necessary to
drain or treat with chemicals the COM
D~aratively few pools yielding spotted
winged mosquitoes, and the disease
viii very soon disappear through the
determination Of its carriers.