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The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
N LIFE LENoTHENiNG.
Death Rate Decreased ~ FER 1000
since lOOO-what II Means.

Death Rate Decreased ~ Fer i.OOS
since iOoO-what II Means.
In 1890 the death rate In 271 cities Of
5000 or more population was n per
1000: in 1900 the rate WINS 1875 In 1851
cities Of 5000 population and upward.
n reduction Of "a per 1000. Another
statement of special interest and sig
nifcance Just now Ia that deaths re-
ported as due to consumption. includ-
Ing general tuberculosis. decreased
from 2i5.s per 100000 of. population In
1890 to 1905 In 1900. u very. large re-
duction, due. the census authorities be-
l,eve. to the better knowledge OF the
disease and the measures adopted for
its prevention. To add nearly two years
to tho average of human existence Ia n
wonderful achievement. Its full sig
nifcance II IL not easy to grasp. Ap'
plying It to the population OF h Unit
cd states alone, now owe 70.000,0 600.
Il not less than n total OF l4O.-
900, 900 added years Of human activity
and productiveness. This stupendous
| total. divided by the years OF aver
age human life. with the recent In
crease included, means practically the
same ms an increase of 10000 0 to the
healthy adult population of the nation.
Regarded from the standpoint Of the
economist. II means also IN enormous
increase in the wealth producing fac
tors OF the country. Healthfu'ness
vigor and high vitality among a people
are the most valuable assets that any
nation can have. says Ieslie's Weekly
especially for the coming years. whei
the strnggle for commercial and indus.
trial supremacy throughout the world
Is certain 10 grow more and In
tense and absorbing. Where othei
things are equal. the country thai
grows the strongest. hardest ant
longest-lived men Is the country thai
will lead the world.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
The Irritating
y. Ely

IL there Is any living creature that
you think you know. IL is the fly. Hut
while you have seen flies, and have,
perhaps. been tormented by some OF
that family. how much do you really
know about them? The flies you know
best are the house fly. the stable fly.
and the mosquito. Their general fam
lily name is diptcra. which In given as
well to other members OF the family,
for II is legion. "Diptera" means twice.
w~inged-a term which belongs to all
two-winged insects. The larvae OF the
house fy and Of the stable ny are born
in llth. but as o as they are fully
developed they soar into the sunshine
and free air. Only IN damp days do
they care to enter houses and stables;
for flies cannot bear tn he out In the
wet. SO sensitive are they TO moisture
that they will go almost anywhere to
avoid 1t. We do rot need to tell you
that to drive flies from the house you
should darken the rooms and give the
little creatures n chance to escape into
the sunshine. They Will avail them
selves Of 1t readily enough. As the
flies OF which we are speaking develop
in filth, II is natural that clearly hu-
man beings should do their best to be
rid Of them. Flies swarming upon ar-
ticles Of food are a menace to health,
as any physician will tell you.
scientifically Considered.
To keep to the house ny and to be-
gin ut the beginning. We must tell
you that it Is one of the short-horned
diptera, its special name of brachycera
meaning short-horn or antenna, be-
cause the antennae are short. They
are also three-jointed with the third
Joint ringed. II you can look at q
! common house fly under the micro
scope you will at once see what we
mean. This fly lays its eggs In
manure or other filth. and as 100 o,
200 eggs are usually laid by q single
female. you see that a mother fly IL
very much like the famous old woman
who lived in a shoe. In warm weather
1t takes only a few hours for the eggs
to hatch In maggots or larvae: IL take.
1 only a week for the maggots to be
come full grown flies: within two
weeks they are busy starting familie,
Of their own. IL the common fly hat
no enemies It would torment mankind
far more than 1t does. Nature man
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

:: HAkdT0WN !. q. az, IS s ''::'. ' ',::.

Hidden In the fir-clad hills and ra-
vines Of FL Dorado county. CAL. there
Is a place called Hangtown. The place
was originally known ~ "Old Dry
Niggings," but In January. 1849. 1t re-
,eived it's new baptism.
One night three men were playing
poker in a saloon. probably a tent or
hut, when one of the party went
broke That in itself was probably
not extraordinary, but what followed
was enough out Of the common to af-
feet the little camp to no slight de-
gree. The proprietor OF the place had
faiien asleep in the room, and as it
was known that he had some dust In
his possession. 1t occurred to the gen.
tleman who had lost that a glorious OPP
portunity of replenishing purses was at
hand. Needless to say, the proposition
found favor In the eyes OF the others.
The sleeper was aroused and requested
over a gunbarrel to ante" A favor
asked in such terms was not to be re-
fused, and he responded with alacrity.
The accompanying threats OF sure
death II he "blew" were disregarded by
the victim, however. and he blew" as
promptly as he had 'anted" on tho
previous evening. The camp was wild
and wanted Justice done. No time was
wasted, and the robbers were arrested
before they had time to escape, a court
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
Troublai af Physicisns.

People expect of physicians charlta-
BILE deeds much more numerous than
those required OF ordinary mOrtals.
Here Is the naked statement made re-
Gently by a prominent physician: Il
am old now" said he, approaching
the age Of 20 years. The other day l
was reviewing my career and going
over my account books, carefully pre-
served from the beginning OF my prac-
tice. found on those books debts
amounting to 100000. for the whole
OF which I would accept IA cents. The
public would cry out Indignantly upon
q doctor who refused his art to those
unable to pay him, and every doctor
has worthy patients who take the best
OF his time and skill perhaps. and
pay him nothing. but there are hosts
OF people who seem to think them
selves justified in imposing upon him
Some OF those who me money
ride past my door In carriages"
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
I.,.h.u,ns sup.rs,lt,ons.
ING LEOPOLD II.

It Is well known that lightning plays
some truly remarkable tricks. and the
recent thunderstorms In France have
called attention to the different ways
the French peasants have of preserv-
ing themselves from its disastrous Of
fects. Some. like the ancient Romans.
believe that a skin confers immunity
from lightning, and II Is reported that
the peasants of the Cevennes twist the
CASTOR skins OF snakes round their
hats to preserve themselves from dan
ger. Some believe that silk will do
the trick, and the idea that a garment
made Of silk exerts some influence
upon the matter Is rather borne out by
a catastrophe which once occurred In
q church ut Chateauneuf- les Moutiers,
when two out OF three priests who
were officiating at the altar were Sc
verely injured during a storm. while
the third, who was dressed In silken
garments. remained quite untouched.
Some believe In sleeping on n pile of
mattresses heaped In the center Of the
room; some retire into the cellar of
their houses. and many farmers at the
commencement OF q atorm Immediately
proceed to put all their milk out oil
doors, knowing from experience that
thunder turns milk sour.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
LOST HOUSEHOLD Asrs.
English Women Ignorant of Dom So
Economics OF Former Times.

English Women Ignorant of Dom ss:S
Economics OF Former Times.
II IL a general complaint among the
housekecpers OF England. where DO
nestle help Is drawn largely from the
country villages. that IN entering SER
vice the servants are mostly incapa-
BILE OF doing the simplest household
work without supervision and that
only a small proportion ever learn.
The reason liz not far to seek. A
couple OF generations age half the cot
tages in England were schools for the
teaching OF the domestic arts. These
are no longer taught because they arc
no longer practiced. Baking and
brewing, cutting out and cutting down
clio, hes. darning and ine drawing, the
care of poultry and economical use OF
food-all those will SOC be lost arts.
as far as the cottage Is concerned.
Women used to be able to make
their husbands shirts. Give nine cot.
tage women out OF ten nowadays "A
couple OF dozen yards Of cotton and
they could no moro turn II into shirts
than they could turn a lump Of pig
iron into a dinner knife. Cooking,
even In its simplest form. is being
supplnnted by the use Of timed provis-
ions, To boil potatoes and bacon or Z %
fry a bit Of meat In the pan 10 about
as much as the housewife can do.
The cottage of today has her
pride. but II IL not In the home. She
slaves to n v hcr girls from what
she and they alike have learned to
regard ms degrading drudgery--tho
necessary work Of u house. All she
can save rocs on their backs. Look
at them when they 20 out" she says.
you couldn't tell them from the Miss
Swetstoncs themselves" But when
they so tn service they have learned
next to nothing. Least OF all. have
they learned to learn.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

Men who Judge persons n events
solely by outward appearances and
without intimate knowledge Of them
think President Roosevelt harbors
some resentment toward Senator Han
ma because for a time the latter at
tempted to prevent Col. Roosevelt's
nomination for Vice-President at the
Philadelphia convention, says a WASH
ington correspondent. He does not,
and never did. When Col. Roosevelt
was In Washington a few weeks be-
fore the meeting Of that convention
he cxacted from Senator Hanna u
promise that he would make Roose-
yelt's nomination for Vice-President
impossible. The senator did his best
to keep his word. There never was
any misunderstanding between them
| about II.
When the popular demand for
Roosevelt's nomination became too
| strong to be longer resisted Col. Ro0se-
| Welt agreed to leave the matter to Sen
ators Hanna and Plat and Mr.. Odell.
now Governor OF New York. They
consulted and agreed that Roosevelt
should be nominated and that Hanna
should nominate him. 1t was all ami
cable and without the slightest ran
cor on anyone's part, and as everyone
now knows (though not all could see
1t at the moment. least OF all Col
Roosevelt himself) 1t was the wiseset
and strongest thing that could have
been done.
! President Roosevelt and Senate,
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
Good Lincoln story.

A characteristic anecdote OF Lincoln
dates back to the time when there
we're so many fires at the national
capital that suspicion Of i~ncendiaries
was entertained. and various northern
cities began to offer the services OF
special IRE brigades. The authorities
Of Philadelphia in particular were most
urgent and sent a special committee
to wait on the President and urge him
TO accept the services Of such q brigade.
The committee was tedious and long.
winded, and the President was anxious
TO get back to the public business
which demanded his attention. Fin
ally, seeing no prospect of a termins.
ton OF the interview in the usual way
he interrupted one OF the orators In
the midst Of a grandiloquent flight by
saying:
IAN. yes, gentlemen. but It Ia a mis-.
take 10 suppose that l am the head Of
the fire department In Washington.
am merely the President Of the United
States"
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
How I GaMurn!l Town
Got It's unpeetit Name.

was convened. and fiogging and exile
were chosen as a sentence in keeping
with the cnormity Of the crime.
The promptness with which the
whole procedure was gone through
might have served as a warning
to wiser men. But this was not the
case with u gambler-robbers. Next
day they appeared In camp very drunk
and very noisy. vowlng dire vengeance
on their publishers. Such ignorance
and insolence was too much to ask any
respectable forty-niner to stand, and
at n mass meeting Of r~ighteously in
dignant miners. hastily convened, the
decision to hang the men was made.
This sentence was carried out az
promptly as the previous me-. The
crowd marched down the street to .
big oak tree, and there with a dozen
husky pioneers at the long end OF each
rope the bad men met their fate. There
after the miners said "Hangtown"
when they referred to the little Sierra
camp.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
Has Its Place in
Natures Great
Scheme. ~ ~ ~

ages. however. to keep her balance,
even with a fiy. Tiny parasites de-
stroy many OF the larvae before they
have half a chance to develop. In tho
autumn you will ind n fungous srowth
choking the life. out OF the flies that IL
infeets. Have you never found dead
flies on the window pane, their bod
les wrapped in an odd sort OF winding
sheet made of very fine white threads
sticking out In every direction? II
you haven't you may look for them
this autumn, and feel that you have
learned something of the tragedy
which came into the life of 4 Hy.
The Horscny.
The commo stable fly. or horseny,
is Of three kinds. The large mourning
horseny Is OF II uniform black; the
white lined fly differs only in dress.
being of the same annoying species:
the smaller golden headed horse and
OK flies have banded wings. The fe-
male alone sucks blood. while the male
feeds daintily upon flowers. The lar
vae. however, are carnivorous.
The mosquito and the black fly We
speak OF together because of the
equally painful discomfort OF their
bites; but zoologically they differ a lit
tic. The mosquitoes are culicidae, cut
lex being Pliny's name for the fly.
They have featbery antennae and q
fringe of hairs on the hind margin
Of the wing. The larvae develop In
the surface Of stagnant pools. AS the
larvae have a respiratory tube open
at the tail end, they rest vertically
lear the surface OF the water, head
down and the tail at the surface. In
order to breathe through that end
The reason they are killed by pouring
Kerosene oil over the water Ii that
the oil makes a llm through which
they cannot breathe. which literally
smothers them to death. The black
flies. on the other hand. are long
horned flies, the nematOcera. Wha,
hoy In the Adirondack woods thi,
summer, or In past summers, has not
seen and felt them? The femalei
alone. like the female mosquitoes, ar,
the blood suckers. The larvae ais,
live and develop on the surface OF th'
water.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
ROYALTY TO VISIT us.
KING LEOPOLD or BELGIUM PLANS
A CRUISE TO THIS COUNTRY.
Tho brother OF tho c~x-Emprcss os
Mexico to Come over In ia. Yacht
Little Prospect Of v Generous Rsccp-
ttou by Polite society.

During tho winter this country Is 10
have n royal visitor In the person OF
King Leopold Of Belgium. Leopold 10
to make u yachting cruise In American
waters and II IL his intention to visit
New York. Washington, Annapolis and
other points Of interest In North and
South America.
King Leopold is a great European
traveller and spends n good deal Of his
time In gay and wicked Paris. Perhaps
II Is because the French capital Is gay
and wicked that Leopold is attracted
to II, for he IL sportively inclined. He
travels freely about without any Of
ncial protection more than is bestowed
upon the ordinary citizen. He affects
the society Of actresses and though In
his Goth year is always ready for q
lark. Once In speaking to a newspaper
representative on the subject Of police
protection he said; Precautions have
ever proved Intellectual, All the prom
inent men killed were surrounded with
precautions. l prefer going about this
way, Ia unguarded as you are. Besides.
I would just rs lief be killed as feel
that detectives were constantly all
about me-"
King Leopold was born In 1885 and
assembled the throne In 1865. beside
being ruler of Belgium. he is the. alb
solute ruler OF that vast region In Az
RIGA known as the Congo Free State.
His sister is the hapless ex-Empress
Carlotta Of Mexico. widow Of Maximil'
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

Jack Downing "a doTned at last"
said some would-be wit among the
swaying figures on the ball floor.
Brain fever"
The words drifted into the conserva-
tory where Madge vas sitting. and for
a moment she thought the lights had
gone out. Then they Elazed up again
with ten-fold brilliancy, and at the
same time the white light Of reason
and common sense that had been 50
long obscured in the girls soul flashed
out with all It's old power. shattering to
atoms the shell of worldliness and
scepticism which had closed around
her heart.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

The bird fauna Of Iceland Is credited
by Henry II. Slater with 1903 species.
or these 3 are residents. q summer
migrants. 81 occasional visitors. and Is
rare stragglers. The land birds are
few, including only z residents and s
that come in summer to breed, but the
most interesting birds now probably
are the northern wren, the great
northern dive and the Iceland falcon.
Singing birds are few. There are l6
species OF ducks and gees, and z birds
OF prey, but the rock ptarmigan Is the
only game bird.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

Should the plans of a big southern
steel concern be carried to completion,
there will In the near future be erected
al Thomas, near Birmingham, Ala, a
steel plant to cost 81 900. 900. The site
for the plant. which 1t Is proposed to
use in conjunction with two blast fur
naces now operated at Thomas by the
concern, has been chosen and there's
every probability that work on the
mill will soon be begun. 1t will be
one OF the finest plants Of the kind
In the south.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

In the course of a trial an English
Judge In reported to have said: s"The
laws OF God and man both give the
party an opportunity to make his de-
tense, IL he has any. ! remember to
have heard 1t observed by q very
learned man upon such an occasion
that even God himself did not pass
sentence upon Adam before no was
called upon to make his defense.
ADAM says God. where art thou?
Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof
l commanded thee that thou shouldst
not estT And the same question was
put to Eve Also"
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

ming her with a look of cool curiosity,
she composed her face and summoned
up all the self-control she possessed.
II will go home now. IL you please.
Mr.. Foster" she said coldly.
y
"He has simply been overworked,
my dear child" the old doctor repeat
ed, soothingly. las you know, his
father was obliged to go to Europe for
a prolonged vacation; and that threw
the whole responsibility of the bust
ness on the boy. He has carried the
weight nobly for one so young; but I
warned him weeks ago that he was
OVERRIDING, and must slacken his pace.
l suppose he couldn't see his way clear
to do it. He has a trained nurse and
the best of care. and we'll pull him
through all right"
Although Madge went home con.
WINGED that she had flattered herself
too much In thinking that her insig-
niicant doings had brought about
Jacks illness, she was not entirely re-
assured. Even II she had added little
to the load he had been carrying, she
had done nothing to tighten 1t, and
she might have done SO much. She
had not dreamed 1t was SO heavy.
"And while he was toiling like a
slave, you-you were flirting with Dick
Foster" she said contemptuously to
the pale, face that confronted here az
she took the fading flowers from her
hair and shook down the shining coils.
Jacks hands lay like wlthered leaves
on the snowy coverlet, and the wan.
shriveled face on the pillow seemed
hardly human. but his eyes were bright
with returning life and dawning hope
HAS the princess escaped from the
tower at last? Is 1t really the old
Madge?" he whispered, doubtfully.
"It Ia the old Madge. DEAR" she
answered, tears and smiles struggling
for the mastery Of her mobile face. II
spite Of the doctors injunction az Il
excitement. "Mr. Anderson il down
stairs. We are the best Of friends nov
and he brought me here. Shall ! tel
him to come up7"
Not Just yet" said lack. happil!
studying the face bent over him. an,
finding In 1t all he had 30 loved-an'
more. The cynical curl Of the lips wa
gone, the dewy freshness had com
back to the eyes,. and brought with l
a sweet, grave womanliness that ha
never been there before.
1T Is worth far. far more than
brain fever COSTS" he said at last. wit
q sigh of satisfaction.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

His Imperial Japanese Majesty Nut
su Hito, the 1891 mikado OF the en-
pire. always wears a simple uniform,
and never goes about alone. When the
mikado had his first photograph taken
he exclaimed that II he was as ugly as
1t represented him to be he would
never sit for his portrait again. At
the emperor's request the Japanese le-
cations in other countries refused to
issue his picture. In truth, the mi
kado is q plain man, somewhat bow
legged and pigeon-toed. but he has an
air of majesty none the less. He has
shown himself a wise. good and able
ruler.-Chicago Journal.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
P.a.rsw.Ll . Lo,sr ct Blni.ras.

Nj. Paderewski. like other mortals oil
less note. has his hobby--namely, bill
iards. He plays nearly every day when
he a spare time from practicing and
composing. and is q very fair one. II
think | like billiards." he says, 'be-
cause 1t not only exercises my eye and
hand, and keeps them In training
even when ] am amusing myself. but
1t also produces In me the delicate
and refined artistic feelings which l
have SO often to express on the piano.
as when. for instance, ! play my favor.
its Chopin"
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
Somewhat Hurried.

Gen. Fred Grant says the Fillpinos
arc quick to see a joke" We'll, those
who did the running while the general
was there must have been quick about
1t or they couldn't have seen 1t at all"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08
The Relations of the
Two Republi-
can Leaders Pleasant
ROOSEVELT
and HANNA

Hanna have always been warm friends.
They have a sincere affection for one
another. as men Of their bold. frank
type are prone to have.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

Don't consider II smart to be fiR-
pant. All men OF brains despise a sill
ly talker. and nice women shun them.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

The so miles between Milan and
varese, italy, r covered In 30 min
utcs by the third rail system.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

righteousness is the richest reward
Of the right.
The Red Cloud chief., 1901-11-08

to himself, as he descended the steps;
5 and yet his feet were still unsteady
and his head curlously light.
It would have been easy for him to
give Madge up had he not firmly be-
lieved that the s~weet-souled. dewy-
eyed girl who had o his heart still
dwelt somewhere within that cold and
worldly exterior, like a princess shut
In a tower. waiting for some bold
knight to release her from the spell Of
the enchanter.
II fear I'm moi the Knight" he
thought sadly. as he walked heavily
down the street: and still, he could not
,decide to give her up--not Just yet.