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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-09

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The Jasper news., 1910-06-23

The News takes pleasure in pre-
senting to its readers this week.
the claims of Robert III. Sloan to
a second term as county collector.
Mr.. Sloan has bee. enc Of the
most popular as well rs most effic-
lent collectors in tie county his
tory and if giving satisfaction in
every respect on frs trial entities
a man to ask for a re election then
he is unquestionably entitled to
MAKE the request.
Bob Sloan, is a Jasper county
farmer who hasn't lost his charac-
ter as Il farmer since election to
Office necessitated hi removal to
town. He owns one Of the best
farms in this entire district, 4 miles
southwest of Jasper, is an extensive
stock buyer and otherwise puts his
salary back into circulation among
the people who help to pay it.
He spends his summer vacations
on his farm, where the writer
found him yesterday helping har-
vest the wheat crop he put in dur
ing his vacation last fell.
The Webb City Sentinel, which
generally KNOWS what is what in a
political way, recently had the
following to say regarding Mr..
Sloan's candidacy:
eve know Bob Sloan-~we went
to school with him. said The Sen
tinel four years ago. Po5 was
elected county collector that fall.
We still know Bob Sloan--have
known him in the county collectors
Office the last four years, F,c has
made good, and is now making a
The Jasper news., 1910-06-23

campaign for reelection on the
theory that one good term de-
serves a second term.
Back in school Bob used to de-
liver Fourth of July orations and
make a speciality of government
and there was inculcated into his
makeup the basic idea of the
American form of government,
that two terms are enough for any
office holder, and that the second
follows as a matter Of course if the
first be we'll served.
Bob still thinks that way about
it, and he acts as we'll as thinks.
Sloan is the young candidate who
four years ago interviewed the
miners of this district underground
by the hundreds, thereby making
himself solid with the central dis
trict. Sloan is one of the keenest,
fastest, and most energetic cam
paigners Jasper county has seen,
and the fact that he has made a
straightforward, fawless record
during the administration of his
first term, leaves no ground on
which to base any opposition to
his second election. Collections
have steadily increased under the
Sloan regime, and error in the
present collectors system of check
ing up with tax receipts issued is
said to be unknown.
Mr.. Sloan's administration of
the office of county collector has
proved to the satisfaction of the
public that he is a capable, pains
taking, honest official. in whom
the trust of the people is not mis-
The Jasper news., 1910-06-23

placed.
Mr.. Sloan has been tried in the
sensitive balance of public ap-
proval, and has not been found
wanting. He has made one of the
best and most competent collectors
the county ever had. He has a
clean record as an official and as a
citizen. That he is entitled to a
second term as a reward for the
faithful and conscientious atten-
ton he has given to his work is the
plea of his friends.
The candidate states positively
that if nominated and elected for
this office, he will not again ask
the people for this or any other
office, but will occupy himself with
matters of private concern, content
to remain a consistent and active
Republican.
At last election Bob Sloan ran
close to the top ticket, and it rs of
Importance to the Republicans, in
this off year, to strengthen their
hold upon the electorate by nomi-
mating clean, strong candidates
who can poll the vote and put the
county in the sure Republican col
umn.
When the voters nominate Bob
Sloan they nominate a man OF
proven worth, of sterling qualities
and admitted abilities. He is a
man who has strength among
more than the voters of his own
party, and can poll a good vote
from the followers of other political
faiths. He is tireless campaign
er, bright, energetic, worthy young
man, a man Jasper county is
proud to claim as product, and
whom representative people ali
over the county are asking for
a second chance to vote for.
The Jasper news., 1910-06-23

Lou Pitts is attending to business a
Pueblo, Colo.
The Jasper news., 1910-06-23

Ross Dodd is confined to his bed by
sickness.
The Jasper news., 1910-06-23

Miss Evelyn Thomson is ill with
typhoid fever,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
India. Roof pweIIer..

Some Of the strangest of these wild peo-
pie live in the upper Himalayas. Those
mighty mountains are spotted with nom
Aryan tribes, whose ancestors were thrust
back by our ancestors over 5000 years ago
but who stu exist. Notwithstanding. There
are hill men in Assam who have no method
of telling distances, but measure the length
of a journey by the amount of betel leaf
they can chew on the way There are
tribes who paint their faces like our In
dams, and many who tattoo and deform
themselves in various ways. The Nagas
stretch the lobes of the ear and pierce 1t
in such a way that It forms a ring of
flesh three or four inches in diameter,
They also split the ear so that II looks like
a great lump of flesh
These Nagas are found in the same dis
trict as the savages of which Mr. Robert
son speaks. They inhabit the country east
OF the Assam valley. They are Mongols
and number I'm all about 1872 600. The largest
of their tribes Is tho Angami, who have
lately come under British subsection The
Angami believe they were the first people
on earth and say that they sprang from
the dew. They call the earth their only
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28

people noted fer their drunkenness and
laXity OF morals. They dwell in huts about
ten feet high, with doorways so small that
one has to crawl in on all tours. Their
dwellings are made of bamboo and covered
with thetch, They are chiefly herdsmen
and noted for their long-horned buffaloes,
which they drive about from place to place
to pasture. These people worship the ris-
ing sun and the MOON and they have other
gods of various kinds. They now and then
sacrifice calves, with the hope that the
cows will give more milk; and at funerals
they sacrifice buffaloes, believing that
their souls will go with the dead up to
heaven.
The Todas are allied to the Firewalk-
ers, people who claim that they can trot
over living Goals without harm I see an
instance of one of their ceremonies in to-
days paper. 1t took place at Mushirabad.
where, it is related the people. by a great
fire of wood made a bed of live charcoal
eighteen feet in diameter. While the Goals
were still red, two priests. bearing flags,
jumped barefooted into them and walked
to and fro again and again over the fire.
AS they did so the people to the number of
hundreds walked over the Goals. and among
them were children of all ages. The news
paper account says that not single one
received injury, not even burn. and that
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Martyrs 10 X-Rays.


The latest victim 10 the influence OF "
rays is Mr.. Harry w. Cox, wto died the
other day in England from X-lay derma-
tits, contracted during researches and in
NestigatiOns in the science, OF which he was
a pioneer. II Is fourteen or fifteen years, re-
lates the Boston Transcript. since Mr.. Cox
took up X-ray research, and IL was early
In his Investigations that he contracted the
disease. Nevertheless he continued his work
making great improvements In apparatus
and taking out nearly eighty patents, UNI
ease compelled him to retire from active
work. A sum OF 5000 was & anted him by
the British treasury. and $1,000 was raised
and invested in his behalf Nothing, how
ever. could check the progress OF the dis
ease. Mr.. Cox repeatedly underwent opera
tions In the throat. left hand and right
arm, which was finally amputated. In
fact. ne lived under sentence of death for
over ten years. knowing that medical
science could hold out no hope of his re-
coYeIy.
The list of British martyrs alone is a
sufficiently long one II includes Dr. Hal
Edwards, Birmingham; DIR. Cecil n. Cha
worth Lyster. London; Mr.. Arthur Stanley
Green, Lincoln; DIR. David Morgan. Liver
pool DT. Thurston Holland Liverpool; Or
Hugh Wafsham. London. DIR. E. S. Worrall
London; Mr.. f. Harnack, London hospital
Mr. Reginald Blackhall. London hospital
Mr.. Ernest Wilson. London hospital; MI
+, w, Read, Medical supply association
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
The Baekwoods of India.

This talk gives one a peep into the
backwoods OF India. This peninsula is a
world in itself. Hindustan has more ma
lions than the continent OF Europe, and
more races than you will find on the
hemisphere OF the Americas. Every locality
has it's own tribes and peculiar castles, and
here and there are peoples of whom our
world knows nothing Men like those
described by Secretary Robertson are scat
tered through the forests of the different
sections OF India There are queer col
lections OF Mongols on the borders OF
Tibet. strange forest dwellers on the
NilKiri hills and aborigines on the various
islands, and in Kashmir and Beluchistan
one finds peoples and customs which differ
as much as those OF the Eskimos and tbs
Anglo SaXons.
There is one great class here known as
jungle people. They live in the woods
and are about as savage as the natives of
the Kongo. They believe In witches and
witch doctors and make bloody sacrifices.
wild dances are a part Of their worship.
These people are generally known as Ami
mists and they number 100000 or 100000
They live In all sorts OF ways, feeding
largely on Wild herbs and fruits, and dwell
ing I'm caves or temporary shaeks which
they leave when they seek new location.
In the eastern Hlmalayas are the Nagas,
the descendants of the ancient snake wor-
shipersl They are head hunters and now
and then raid the lowlands.
In southern India are the Yanadis, who
have round huts made Of brushwood-and
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Progressive Strides and Developments World

fan TO play upon a cake of Ice deposited In
a washtub. The air, chilled by blowing
over the ice rapidly lowered the tempeTa-
ture of the room.
OF all the machines commonly used by
man.
Germany leads the world in the number
of electric furnaces used for smelling, re-
filming and casting purposes.
The Northern California Power company
has recently opened their new water power
plant at lnskip, near Redding, thereby add
ing 5000 horsepower to their lines.
Few people realize that the gasoline en-
CINE would be impossible without cleo
tricity 1t is the tiny electric spark which
at the proper moment releases the hidden
powers of the gasoline vapor.
The high power electric searchlights with
which vessels are equipped on the Great
Lakes prove most useful in the early spring
nights when the water Is covered with a
partially broken ice field. by means of the
liz lat, openings are located, thus often
say ing many hours OF delay.
Chicago's new city hall will he one Of
the finest in the world when completed
al least electrically speaking as il Is e
contain % 900 incandescent lights, l,SG
horsepower in motoPs. 900 telephone outlets
800 floor boxes. IA electric elevators. q
complete electric vacuum cleaning system
with about twenty-five outlets on eacf
floor. 100 electric clocks and eighteen
private branch exchange telephone boards
in the United States there are $500 -
telephones i'm use, representing about SO
600 COO capital. or about 800 for every tcle
phone There Is i'm this country 10 20
miles OF electric railways using S9.2l6 earn
and capitalized at A.57 00100) There arr
500 central stations costing N.5lOO coo
earning $4,000 900 and developioG 2,WtO
horsepower. In all about 81 90 G0 600 Is
invested in the electrical business in III,
United states.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28

Grays Inn road; Mr.. A. j. Morey, Medical
Supply association Gray's Inn road; Mr.
Arthur Stow, st. Bartholomew hospital;
MIR. A. c. Cosser X-ray apparatus manu-
facturer: Mr.. w. Hlliar. his assistant.
In America DR.. Mihran X. Kassablan Of
Philadelphia was recent victims
The majority OF these men suffer acute
and incessant pain for which there is no
known relief. Most of them have suffered
amputation and operations, and many have
lost the use of their hands. The disease Is
a progressive one. growing steadily but re-
lentlessly so that in many cases one opera
ton Is succeeded by another. and as soon
as the disease has been checked In one
quarter It breaks out elsewhere.
DR.. Howard E. Ashbury, assistant pro-
fessor Of surgery at the Johns Hopkins uni
verslty, an X-ray operator at the Hebrew
university and st. Joseph's hospitals for
self-protection, while operating the APP
paratus stands behind a wooden screen
lined with lead and containing lead glass
window. This glass while perfectly trans
parent, is composed of so per cent of lead,
and is impervious to the Roetgen rays. At
his office on Cathedral street, Baltimore,
DR.. Asbury operates his N-ray apparatus
from a room adjoining the one in which the
When asked why lead is used as shield in
preference 10 other metals, DIR. Asbury said
that metal was one Of the few things that
ara really impervious TO the actinic rays.
1t is not the ray which is directed upon the
patient under treatment or the substance
TO he Photographed that Is harmful. said
the specialist. The ray Is most helpful. and
is used largely I'm the treatment OF certain
diseases. IL is projected by the apparatus
from the Crookes tube directly upon the
substance to be photographed when a skia-
graph is desired. and does not reach the
operator at all. Contained within the curl
ously shaped glass tube, or more properly
speaking glass bulb, are what are known
as secondary rays, and these are the
dangerous ones. These do not reach the
patient i'm any appreciate degree, but
often, to make doubly sure that these
harmful rays are not directed upon the per-
son to be treated or photographed, the "
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Ga.oIine-EIcctric Cnr..

Some Of the more congested districts
along the Southern railway will be relieved
by gasoline-electric cars which will be OPP
Grated in place Of the old steam trains.
During the month the steam passenger
service in the Greenville territory viii be
car service.
pany experimental with the new gas
electric car produced by the General Elec-
trio company and this experiment has
proven so successful that number OF the
ears will be ordered for short line service
The gas-electric car is virtually a power
station and an electric car in one with a
space set aside for baggage. In the front
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28

IN twenty European countries combined
not more than one-half as many (2.5s3,-
V0l We're In service Englands quota is
said to have been zoe 200. In many Instances
Foreign telephones, like the telegraphs, are
managed by the postal authorities. and
more than one European government has
deemed ii worth while to investigate the
methods which are employed I'm the United
States. Major w. a. j. O'Mears. engineer
in chief of the British postoffice, who
crossed the Atlantic for the purpose, has
made an elaborate report on his observa-
tons. lie has much to say about the
simplicity OF the administrative methods Of
the Bell company. the wonderful technical
advances which 1t has promoted and the
inherent superiority OF the telephone over
the telegraph for long distance communi-
cation In the saving Of time. To these ad-
vantages, comments the New York Tribune,
is PROFESSIONALLY due I'm a large measure
the wonderful expansion of the telephone
business in this country. Perhaps. also,
something may be attributed to the lively
appreciation OF their privileges by Ameri-
cana
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28

High up in the HimaIayas the reverSe
is the case. The Bhotiyas. some of whom
] saw during my trip through the noun
tains, practice polygamy, that Is, one
woman will have several husbands. This
IS so with the Thibetan and others of the
far north. and sometimes with the Jats of
the Punjab and the Santas of Bengal. 1t
is still common along the whole Hima-
layan range from Assam to Kaslfmir, and
also among the Todas of the Nilgiri hills.
Such marriages often a matter Of
bargain and sale. IL there is a pretty girl
in the family and man falls in love with
her he pays so much to her parents, and
possibly comes into the house as her hui
band. After time a second lover may APP
pear, and without the first husband can
offer large sum to secure exclusive pos
session he pays his price and joins
the circle. ] am told that it is entirely a
question Of money, and that the man who
can afford 1t can have a wife to himself.
In such marriages the children are looked
upon as belonging to the women and their
fathers can lay no claim TO them.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Among The Andnn,nn..

During my stay in India l have met
some Of the British officials who have
charge of the Andaman islands These
islands have long been penal settlement
OF India. They lie in the Bay of Bengal,
slirtlng the east coast. They are largely
Inhabited by aborigines who correspond to
our Negritos and live much like them.
Their homes are the forest. They move
about from place to place, putting up shell
tiers of leaves and twigs wherever they
camp. They wear practically no clothing
and are not unlike the pigmies of the
E(ongo They have black skins and fTizzly
hair, which is so shaved as to leave cir
cular patch as big around a tin cup on
the top of the head. The women are the
BARRIERS and every wife dresses her hus-
bands hair. Both women and men are
tattooed.
The eyebrows are usually shaved, and
sometimes the whole body is gone over
l am told that when the English officers
first came to the Andamans the natives
were cannibals, clad chiefly in a mud of
red earth. They worshiped god who
was an evil spirit, spreading disease They
believed the whole world was flat. and
that their islands were it. They thought
this world was balanced on top of a very
tall tree, which at the last day will be
loosened by an earthquake. When that
comes to pass they believe that the living
and dead will change places and that the
angels and devils will keep shaking the tree
and thus prevent mankind from going up
the bamboo ladder which connects It with
heaven.
They think also that the devil dwells in
the sea and feeds upon the bodies of those
who are drowned. He has submarine boats
and carries a net to capture all mankind
who falls into the water.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
The NAeAs STRETCH TIE EAR LOBE

master, and worship It. Their homes are
villages surrounded by stockades and
guarded by thorn bushes and nettles. They
come into them through sunken paths, the
entrances being protected by doors Each
tribe has its chief, and the people have a
blood brotherhood, like some of the African
tribes.
Another of the Maya divisions is known
as the Aos. These people were once motor
ious Shareholders, and they sacrificed the
slaves which they caught in war. Another
is the Semas who until recently were head
hunters and did not scruple to entertain
guests and STAY them when off guard.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28

which is located a powerful gasoline engine
which drives an electric generator. The
electricity generated in this way is used to
drive the electric motors beneath the car.
The car is operated with a simple con-
troller handle with all the ease and con-
venlence of the common street car. IL can
be stopped, slowed down, accelerated or
reversed without starting and stopping the
gasaIine engine A car of this type is
capable OF making "A large number OF short
stops and still maintaining its schedule.
The new cars will carry fifty passengers
and their baggage at a speed of forty miles
an hour.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28

development on Transformers,
There is no better example of necessity
being the mother of invention than the hI-
cepuon and development of the oscilio-
graph, says the London Times. The STUDY
of alternating current transformers and
arcs rendered imperative some method OF
vsualizing the shape OF the current wave
for the examination of its form under vary
ing conditions Joubcrt ia France put for
ward in 1880 what is known now as the
point by point method, but In America
he was probably anticipated, by a very
short time, by Morton and Thomas. The
development of TINS method has led, step
by step TO the beautiful instruments "a
Hosptaler and Franke-to mention only
two The amount of ingenuity and in
ventlVe power exerted Is as remarkable as
can be found, PROBABLY, 10 have been ex-
pended on any other piece of apparatus.
In 1891 and 1888 Blondel in France sug-
gested no fewer than three different types
OF instruments. two of which were consld-
erably developed; OF these one the bifllar
type. has been perfected in England by
Duddell, In Germany by Siemens and HAL
sllc, and in America by the General Electric
company. This Northumberland, IN pfih-
ciple Is a moving coil galvanometer where
the coil Is replaced by loop supported al
It's closed eBd--is a typical continuous in
strument to be oonuasted VITA the point
TO point" instruments, by which success
slve readings are taken and plotted as a
curve either by an observer or by auto
matte means. The former finds the more
favor on account Of lis capabillty Of show
ing and recording transient electric pho
nomena. while the latter can record only
single points on curves separated from oaca
other by many scores or hundreds OF inter
mediate ones, thus finally showing more
or less average curve, which may suffice
In many cases.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28

Roosevelt has been hunting In New Guinea
all the men Of one tribe live in such quar-
ters, and their wives bring them their food.
In Masalland the girls and young war
riors have a common house to themselves.
Among other tribes of the hills OF Bengal,
the young mems hall is erected on a plat
form, and the girls house is nearby. The
men sleep in berths, and in the girls
house there are always two or three maid
ems sleeping together. In addition there is
sometimes an old woman chaperon. l
am told she Is often half blind and spends
but little time on her Job
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Onccr Queries.

How tall must a man be to be above
suspicion?
What is the best fertilizer to use in rails
ing objections?
What kind OF knife Is used to carve out
ones destiny?
Can you settle mans hash 5or him II
he Is a vegetarian?
What sort OF a pin is used to pin ones
faith TO anything?
May Il be said OF colored lassie that
she is born to blush unseen?
Can mllionaires be put down among the
popular airs OF the day.
II marriages were made In heaven would
a lot OF old maids commit suiclde?- Boston
TranseTlpL
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28

Women with More Than One Hus-
band.
Polygamy is common throughout most
parts of India. There are something like
60, 900 Mohammedans scattered over the
country, who by their religion have the
right to four wives and there are 2O,OO0'OOO
Hindoos, each of whom has as many wives
and slave girls as he can support.