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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

profession, the student gets her training
and her living for nothing. There is the
young woman who longs for new sensations,
who has grown tired of society and becomes
imbued with the perfectly human desire to
have a chance" and so gives up seething
soda water and goes In for seething sociOlo-
gy. There is the broad-minded woman who
has known sorrow and longs to lead a fuller,
richer life so that in remembering the
misery of others she will forget her own.
Then there is the woman of temper
ament. A hospital is the place for a logical
development of temperament. There is the
romantic young woman. who seems de-
pressed and whose face would encourage a
relapse rather than recovery. Sentimental
lists whisper that she has taken TO nursing
because of a wounded heart, though what
particular soothing effect nursing other
peoples husbands, brothers and babies can
have upon a wounded heart is a MYSTERY
that few can solve. And, last of all, there
is the healthy ambitious girl who is de-
pendent upon her own exertions for her
livelihood, who is fitted by nature for the
life she has chosen and who possesses the
qualifications that insure her success from
the beginning.
And so they all pass in review before
the head nurse. AS many as possible are
taken on trial. For the first three months
the aspirant is on probation" She is as
signed TO tasks that will test her sincerity
and endurance. She scrubs, she cooks in the
diet kitchen, she makes beds, and only very
or at an operation. During all this time
she is watched. The head nurse soon dis
covers potentialitieS. She can easily detect
the spurious from the real enthusiasm. At
the end of the three months the wedding
out process begins, and the proportion of
those who remain is small. Life in the hos
pital is not without its destinations. 1t is
always with regrect that a rejected candi-
date hears the verdict.
If she has come forth from her apprentice
ship triumphant the pupil nurse now begins
her career in earnest. She is gradually
intrusted with more responsible work and
finds herself a part OF the great machinery
of a city hospital. Besides the regular
training of the sick room the pupil nurse
is required to learn the things that especial
ly distinguishes her from the nurse of
former days. Every hospital of any pre-
tensions whatever has in attendance a staff
Of competent lecturers. The best practition-
er that a city affords usually goes to the
hospitals for the trained nurses lectures.
General surgery, anatomy, bandaging, bac-
teriology, electricity and a host of other
subjects that relate TO the study of medi-
cine are talked upon. Certainly the gradu-
ate nurse goes forth well equipped TO battle
disease.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

These are only four of the many hundreds,
from the elm pest in the topmost branches
TO the jug-necked chrysalis of a sphinx
moth-ofering us the riddle of a winters
shelter buried in the cold. dark earth.
Is everything frozen tight? Has Natures
frost mortar cemented every stone in its
pitcher-plants, and see what insects formed
the last meal of these strange ~plants-ants,
flies. bugs, encased in ice like the fossil
insects caught in the amber sap which
flowed so many thousands of years ago.
Or break through the ice of a brook or
pond and you will find the unexpected, in
deed. When you see hundreds of tiny
spheres, each surrounded by a row of hooks,
do not pass them by UNDECIDED, but watch
them at home for a time. To go "SpOng-
ing" you think perhaps that you need a
skiff, a sp-onge-grains. and the crystal wa
tiers of Key West under you, but you are
mistaken. Your little spheres are the win
ter eggs or buds or spores, as you wish to
call them, of the fresh-water sponge
sponge as real in structure and appearance
as in name.
Hibernation is a strange phenomenon, but
very little understood; so when you come
across a stiffened butterfly, a torpid frog,
a bat stretched in the death-like sleep,
take them home, thaw them out. and care
fully watch the awakening. Then freeze
them up again, and place them back in the
care of old Nature. and you may lave made
them yield up their secrets to you, without
harm to them-which, indeed, they may re-
member only as a strange dream which
came to them during the long sleep.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

mel forgot to mention that il was not
the Demon Rum, but the Demon Soft
mkt at the mere sight of a con-
fectioner's or a drug store l experienced
a mad desire to rush in and have an ice
cream soda. Remonstranoes had no eff
feet. When 1 read in the paper that in
yesterdays hot spell twelve persons had
been Frustrated by the heat and fifty
one by the soda fountains. l laughed the
warming to scOrn. But at last my turn
came. One day. after putting away fifteen
glasses of my favOrite beverage, l did not
feel well. / went 10 a doctor. After 1 eX-
planned matters he drew such a picture of
the future condition of the coats of my
stomach that / UP all my will
power and resolved TO reform from that
moment.
Brethren and sisters, 1 am a changed
man. From that hour 1 have never
touched soft drinks. When the hot weather
comes ] indulge in beer-with moderation,
brethren and sisters-that is to say, with
as much modera ton as you can reasonably
expect from a thirsty man in summer. And
1 feel. brethren and sisters, like a fighting
cock"
Notwithstanding which statement a mus
cular Christian advanced upon him at this
juncture and put him out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

been "Scotty" was crouching close to
the back steps when they arrived, and in an
instant his whole body took on an attitude
of attention. He was hungry, and there
was a breakfast close before him-if he
could only catch ii. Silently he pressed
his body closer to the ground, and, slowly
as the hand of a clock, he moved toward
the busy group of slate-cOlOred birds. In
his eyes there was a cruel look which had
never been there before, and which became
intensified as he drew nearer TO his prey.
AT last he altered his legs well under him
and, leaning forward. he sprang forward as
thrown from a catapult. There was a
''whirr" of small wings amongst the scat
feathers as the Juncos flew away-that is,
as all but one flew away; ScOtty crouched
on the spot where he landed. switching his
as well as he could with his teeth buried in
the body of his victim. In that hour self
reliance was born in him. No longer did he
proWl about the gardens or new beseech-
ingly on the window stills; he seemed to
realize that he could satisfy his hunger
only by capturing living creatures, and
these he hunted from daylight until dark.
And 1t did not take him long TO find out
that more game was TO be had in the woods
than near the houses, so into the woods he
went. and made his home in the hollow of a
FALLEN tree, into which enough leaves had
drifted to make him a bed. Often he went
desperately hungry, and once he almost
starved to death, but a rabbit now and a
squirrel then, kept the life in his body until
T. AhSs AlNh IN AAAA6 UNI RAAt1 W -
turn, and when they came in, tired and list
less from their long journeys, he found them
easy prey after the wary creatures he had
hunted during the winter. And when they
began to nest, his work became easier still,
and he could either devour them in the
nest or fall upon them as they Numbered
about on the ground. As a destroyer he
was worse in some respects than a fox or
a skunk, for he could climb, and nothing
was safe from him. Among other birds,
he kIned pheasants and grouse, and dur
ing the spring, summer and autumn. he
destroyed more game than any other crea-
ture in his territory.
The following winter was a very hard
one. and in spite of "Scotty's" greaat cum
ming and agility, he often went hungry for
days at q time. One bitter night as he was
stalking, half famished, over the snow, he
started across an open space in the forest.
Next morning that open space looked like a
battlefield, and indeed ii was one, for the
snow was plowed up for many yards around
and dyed with blood. Feathers and gray fur
were strewn in a wide circle on the outer
edge of which lay a mangled horned owl,
with his mighty talons buried TO the hilt
in the back of a gray tom cat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

- $500
he was surrounded by a group of
I admiring children on the veranda
tLIGli of a summer cottage in Maine.
The youngsters stroked his fur
and pulled his tail, and arranged and rear
ranged a blue ribbon on his neck. and the
big cat evidently enjoyed it all, for. in
stead of running away, he marched about
with arched back and tail erect, rubbing
his sleek sides against the legs of his play
mates.
For a week or two after this 1 often saw
this cat, an enormous gray fellow, with
black bars, romping good-nauuredly with any
member of the household who would play
with him. But one day a telegram came
for the man who lived in the cottage, and
he and his family made immediate prepar-
ations to leave for the West. In the general
excitement nobody thought of the cat until
the question. rs pussy goin'. too" called
attention to the baby, who now appeared
with 'Scotty," his head clasped tight to
her bosom, and the rest of his body trail
ing on the floor. All the children wanted
to take him, of course. but their mother
and father, realizing the difficulties in the
way of taking the cat, decided to leave him,
believing that he was popular enough to be
we'll looked after by the neighbors. And
in this they were partly right. for as soon
as the house was vacant, the big gray cat
found a warm welcome at any of the other
cottages he chose TO visit. But by and by
the autumn came, and, with 1t, chilly days,
which drove the cottagerS, q few at a time,
back to the cities. on the first of October
the last family left the place, and "Scotty''
was alone.
For a little while he got along without
hardship. The weather was not very cold
yet. and in a barrel at the back of one of
the houses he found scraps which lasted
for several days. After that he began to
get hungry, for the first time In his life,
and he wandered from one deserted garden
to another. hunting for something to eat.
Now and then he would leap to the window
sills of houses where he had often been fef,.
and NEW plaintively in hopes of gaining
admittance.
One morning when he had been without
food for two days, there came a furry of
snow, and with IL a flock of juncos, which
alighted in the yard where the scraps had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03

nee the epidemic of safe blowing
and burglary has been going on
Superintendent Kruger has fire.
quentlya night had the patrolmen
discard their uniforms and ap-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03
THE TRAINED NURSE.
The Sort of Woman Who Takes the
Training successfully.
Philadelphia Record.

fnlldutlpnid fNeCOIu.
Gloomy misanthrOpists may bark back
to the olden days and say I'VE did quite
as we'll without a trained nurse" but the
accurate ones will admit that the woman
who nursed intuitively did her work I'm a
.bungling way, and good fortune rather than
good management was responsible for hap
by results. AT all events the trained nurse
has become an accepted fact; prejudice
against her is gradually melting away, and
few people are so poor that when the
serious illness afflicts the house, they do not
send for the trained nurse.
AS an occupation and as a means of
livelihood nursing is becoming more and
more popular every year. Every season
the women come in large numbers TO the
big hospitals. Sometimes they come from
the city. and sometimes from obscure towns
and villages near by. In the ranks of the
women who seek the training schools there
are to be found several types. There is the
young girl fresh from the country. who
grasps at this opportunity to see the busy
life of the city and secure her living at the
same time; for in nursing, as in no other
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03
Natural History Study


He first time that l saw "Scotty,"
he was surrounded by a group Of
admiring children on the veranda
of a summer cottage in Maine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03
Philadelphia Ledger.

Philadelphia Ledger.
Brethren and sisters" said the stranger
who had just risen. II want 10 confess that
i was once the slave Of drink. L"
Amen Hallelujah!" shouted an enthu-
sfastic old lady.
II was a mere child when I 1egan To
form the pernicious habit. Perhaps my
parents were 10 blame for not looking
after me more carefully, but we will let
that pass. / grew up to be a young man
and my appetite grew with me. At last
the demon obtained such a mastery over
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-03
THE INTELLIGENT NINA BIRD.
1t Has for n Companion n Perfectly
Black Parrot.
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
A dealer in Washington has lately pur-
chased a nina bird, one of three speci-
mems of that species in Washington. the
other two, a male and female. belonging
to the superintendent of the Capitol. These
are without doubt the finest talking birds
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-08
THE MESSAGE.

The message Of President Roosevelt
to congress is a vigorous document
and treats all departments of govern
ment in about the same manner that
a good, broad-gaged sensible business
manager would treat the questions
affecting the business interests of his
company. The presidents strokes
are long, hard strokes, the kind that
get there. He attributes our general
prosperity to high individual aver
age OF citizenship and to the longlcon-
tinued working Of our governmental
policies.
He treats the question of capital and
labor in a broad=minded manner, rec
ognizes the rights of organized labor,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-08
BostOn's Blank Votes.

The ballot law of Massachusetts,
has been recommended for adoption in
other states because it compels the
voter to express preference for each
candidate and thus in theory favors
"split-ticket' voting. It has another
curious quality the number of blank
ballots it produces.
Parker for president had 10, 600
plurality in Boston, but about 5000
ballots cast were not marked for this
Office at all. Douglas plurality was
33,078 in the largest vote cast, but
even for governor there were 46, 125
blanks. For lieutenant governor
there were 1851 blanks, for; secretary
of state 1915, ard so on in generally
increasing ratio until 1926 blanks
out Of a total vote Of only Sc, 634 testi-
fed that twenty-four per cent of the
voters didn't care pencil mark who
was to be sheriff.
f Eventually the Boston problem is
not to get the voters to the polls, but
to make them take the trouble to vote
right through the 'bill Of fare'' when
they are there.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-08

AS a result of the Interstate COM
MERGE law convention held at ST..
Louis in October the executive COM
mittee appointed to present resolutions
and memorials to congress, to the end
that the interstate commerce commits
sion may be clothed with sufficient
powers to compel and enforce reason
able railroad rates, has begun an
agitation OF the question that will
force congress to enact suitable legis-
Flation. When the law was enacted it
was. supposed that the commission
would have ample powers to secure to
the commercial interests of the coun-
try such railroad tariffs as conditions
from time to time would warrant, but
courts sometimes nullify legislative
action, and such was the case in the
maximum Freight Rate Decision''
of 1897, which practically robbed the
interstate commerce commission of
everything but its salaries Suisse
quent legislation has helped matters
some, but the commission needs the
power to enforce what it deems rea-
sonable tariffs, and the country will
not be satisfied until congress grants
the relief demanded. The Quarles-
Cooper bill now pending grants the
relief demanded and the commercial
and agricultural interests OF the
country will stand back of the demand
for the passage of the bill.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-08
tinent question, docs it Pay to
Raise Scrubs?''

y
Raise Scrubs?''
In applying a remedy, do not lose
either your head or your figures. Do
not rush out, sell out your cheap cat
tie at ruinous prices, but select and
save out your best females, buy a
good bull, not a 81 ZOO one that has
been spoiled for breeding by high ft-
ting for show herd purposes, but a
good, we'll lined bred bull, that has
been bred, fed and handled for useful
development, that has the vigor and
stamina to stamp his breeding and
individuality on his progeny, and 60
to work with this simple and inexpen-
sive outfit and raise steers that will
bring the top price anywhere, and
heifers that will sell to your neigh
bors for breeders at the top of the
market, to start their herds with when
they become as intelligent as yourself,
and have ''caught on, ''and you will
find plenty of them even now who are
looking for them at good prices.
What [ say of cattle is equally true
OF all other stock. But cattle is your
every day stock. There is always
market for them. They will always
sell for cash, and nearly always for
what they are worth, either for breed
ing, feeding, the dairy or for beef. E.
[ would in no way disparage the,
breeding of other kinds of stock. for
they all have their useful purposes.
but would respectfully ask why YOU
buy stallion for from 81 900 to 81, 500
each, stable and groom him for the
whole year, with nowhere the steady
market for his product, while you are
either neglecting your cattle wholly
or hunting for a fifty dollar bull to
use on your herd to produce an arti-
Gle that has a market value every day
in the year, good Or bad as you make
it by your intelligence or lack of it.
Brother farmer, buy slate and
pencil, do your own figuring. and
profit by the result. An hour each
evening with it will make you more
money than your days work; without
it. You will be happier with the re-
suit and have more sympathy with
the stock dealer who is using the same
method to get out even on the scrub
stock you have sold him at IL cents
per pound to make room for your con-
templated Improvement. A word to
the wise ought to be sufficient
Yours respectfully,
e John Cooper.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-08
Didn't Recognize the Joke.

A West Side man heard a Joke. new
to him, the other day, and the first
thing he did upon reaching home for
dinner was to tell his wife. ''Mary,"
he said. there's a new joke that's
mighty good. One man says: The
theater caught fire last night Did
they save anything the second man
asks. Yes says the first, they car
ried out the program. Isn't that a
good one?" His wife said it was,
and the next day she tried it on her
grocer. "Mr. Blank,'' said she,
there's a new joke for you. One
man says. The theater caught fire
last night Another asks, Did they
save anything:?' 'Yes.' replied the
first, they went on with the program
and finished it, Isn't that fine
joke?" The grocer said it was excel
lent, but conidentially acknowledges
that he hasn't yet seen the point
Kansas CITY Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-08

Tolstoi does not think very favor.
ably Of the attempt to secure consti.
tutional government in Russia. As
to the outcome he says: ~ ..
The country and the people are.
too great, and the gulf between the
present government and the peo-
pie, in some respects. is too vast.
to permit sensible forecast at this
r time. ~ ........ ..z.
But declare that, whatever the
outcome, one sure result of the
whole matter will be to delay true
social amelioration.
This movement, which is hailed
as the dawning of new era of
liberty, is but a new obstacle in
the path of true progress.
:, The real uplifting of people
socially and governmentally. can
be attained only through religious
and moral Regeneration of all the
individuals constituting that peo-
pie.
Political agitation, whether by
peaceful propaganda or appeals
to existing powers of government,
must have fatal effect.
Is it not possible, however, that re.
ligious and moral development of a
people depend much on civil and pc.
litical environment? Had we waited
over here for the dawn of religious
and moral regeneration before we de.
cided to hook up as a great republic,
our progress would have been very
slow indeed. ssReligion, morality,
nor anything good in human kind can
ever grow toward a perfect develop.
ment without a government more or
less free.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-08
FIGURE FOR YOURSELF.
Does it Pay to Raise Scrubs? A HEARTH
Heart Talk to Farmers by John Cooper

Does it Pay to Raise Scrubs? A Heart-to-
Heart Talk to Farmers by John Cooper.
John Cooper, former president of
the State Agricultural society, sends
the following communication, which
will prove of interest to our farmer
readers: soAS
St. Cloud, Mimi, Nov. II, 1904. =
The lessons of the past two years have
answered this question to the full sat-
isfaction of every thinking man.
While scrub stock has ranged from
no demand at all up to from IL to
~ cents per pound in South st. Paul,
nevertheless, good finished grade
steers have been ready sale from 81
toss cents per pound, and for the
past six months has not been below
these figures in this market, and which
is a good liberal price for good cat
tie at any time or place. Make your
own figures and draw your own con-
illusions.
,f it is fact that a scrub steer does
not weigh more than two-thirds as
much as a good grade that costs no
more to raise and feed, there is a loss
of one-third to start with. AS to
difference in price. you can figure as
we'll as I. Do SO and note the result
It will not only surprise you, but viii
furnish the answer to the above per.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-08

The Unto will. issue its regular
Christmas edition next. week. It will
be a sixteen page paper, illustrated
with holly and mistletoe borders and
containing a lot of good Christmas
reading. A feature of the edition
will be the first installment of Frank
Baum S fairy tale of Kris Kringle, a
very pretty Christmas story that will
run during the holiday season.