Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 August 1897 — Page 3

THE DAILY BANNER TIMES, GREENCAKTLE. INDIANA-

HOW THE $35 000 000 Bl’Q WILL, BE EXTERVT HATED.

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MISSION OF TilF YACHT MOMO ON LAK to ST. LOUS.

SALT VS. FRESH WATER.

Internnf ionnl Rncen for Ihr Coveted SeHWMuhHku Trophy Will He Wou b> the UeMt Fresh Wuter llout. NEW YORK, - Snugly packed on a flat rrolght car traveling northwards Is Uncle Sam's yachting hope of 'U7, and right behind Is another Hat cur loaded with his secondary hope. Last year the Canadian end of John Hull, in the person of George Herrick Duggan, came into New York waters with his smart little boat (llencalr, and carried back with him the International Challenge Cup for small yachts offered by the SeawanhakaCorinthian Yacht Club. It is the mission of the boats on the flat cars to w’rest this cup from Canada’s grasp

M ON II TIM BUE

or so it will be definitely settled whether it is ettlcacious. If favorable results are attained, similar baths will be constructed in all the large stock | yards at the different shipping points, and no expense will be spared to crush

the bug for good and all.

I The curative process adopted is that

j known as dipping, and was suggested

I by the success met with in treating

CAUSES SPLENETIC FEVER ';.'>id<n 1 ; rt with the sulphur

dip. 1 he dipping tank for cattle consists of a large wooden vat about ten

FACTS AM> FANCIES,

ITS extermination WORTH 000,000 A YEAR TO CATTLEMEN.

A clever bit of forethought occurred to a popular young woman In New York not long ago, and perhaps her example might he copied to advantage by some of her fellow citizens. She suddenly realized that the purveyors of news were probably the only people who were unite prepared for her death. Every well ordered newspaper, she illsered, keeps a “biographical file,”

of

tired of this. For several days ha had been presenting nickles at the window and the presiding genius had Ignored the obvious demand of the coin, and bitterly inquired how many. On this particular morning the youth pushed his nickel out with guile in his soul. "How many d'ye want?" barked the

man Inside.

"Five!" replied that youth.

He said it loudly and clearly and ho got his five tickets. He had just time to run and jump aboard before the gate

HOW COLUMBUS KNEW, Among the various predecssors of Columbus In the voyage of discovery to the new world Lief, the son of Eric the Red, is probably the best known, various statues of him erected by descendants of the northmen in America helping to keep the memory of his daring expeditions green. That a Frenchman should also have beaten Columbus by landing on the American shore not liter than 1488 is devoutly believed In France. More than that, the patriotic French aver that it was from the Spaniard who served under the French commandant on that occasion that Columbus obtained the knowledge which made him so positive when all the

world was doubtful.

This Is the story, as told by M. Edmond Neukomm, in his recently translated work. "The Rulers of the Sea.” For more than a century the hardy Norman sailors had been trading from Rouen and Dieppe to tho western shores of Africa, accumulating wealth and experience along the grain, the ivory and the gold coasts. In 1488 those regions having been pretty thoroughly

OUR BUDGET OF FUN.

SOME GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. Th« Hportamaii amt th* Tam« Claum — A Olfhratiou In lloomtown -A Proposal Oimlilietl for tho Place—Not a WUc Pro poo It Ion.

and restore it to its legitimate place explored and exploited, it was deter-

... „ „ where Is a ready-made obituary , lt , feet deep aud forty feet long, holding each individual of public intcrest. walt-1 clanged, and as the train moved on the about f>.000 gallons. The cattle are ing for publication whenever bis ° r j ticket seller, black in the face, rushed

a riicmicni nii>pi»K until nrvi.ed, i driven in through a narrow chute nt her demise may be reported. out am i howled in impotent and inco-

Wlth her. to think was to act.

Which It In Believed X\lll Elfeelu-

’nlly Remove the Evil.

OMAHA, Neb., experiments now successful several will be added to

—If certain

progress prove millions of dollars

tho wealth of the

cattle owners of the Southwestern and Middle West States. The cattlemen of Texas would alone be enriched to the tune of *15,000,00<i a year, as their cattle would command an increased price amounting to that sum for the annual sales. The other Southwestern States with large cattle interests would also protlt In proportion, the total prospective gain amounting to $35,(too,W)

a year.

This neat sum all depends upon the ability of the Government authorities In killing a little hug. Of course, there Is more than one bug to kill: In fact, there are several millions of them, and they are Increasing all tho time. One of them takes up its habitation on a line, healthy steer, and In a few minutes It divides itself Into two bugs, and In due time these In-

crease themselves to four.

Incrigtse is eight, followed by sixteen thirty-two. sixty-four, 1-K. and so on Indefinitely until the once healthy

iteer lies down and dies.

It can readily be seen that a bug of this kind is a tough customer to deal with. Ordinary cattlemen refer to it as the fever tick; learned cattlemen speak of it as the splenetic fever tiek, and scientists who have wrestled with It call It the pyrosonia bigomlnutn. Hut ns the plain fever tick it is best known and most widely cursed by every one who has suffered from Us

depredations.

(tn account of It there are now nineteen counties In Texas under Federal quarantine. These are Randall, Stirling. Glascock, Howard, Borden. Lynn, Lubbock, Garza, Hale. Swisher, Wilbarger, Mitchell, Jones, Scurry, Ford, Fisher, Hardaman, Haskell and Knox. This quarantine is merely temporary and ns soon as the conditions improve It will be lifted by the authorities. The full-grown tick is less than a third nf an Inch long, and is very harmless looking. Hut, though small aud ordinary, it is an effectual bar between the vast cattle pastures of the South- j cm States and the reh grain fields of the Middle and Northern States. ; One result of the depredations of this bug Is that the Middle West is always short of cattle to feed, while the South- i eru States, with an abundance of cattle, cannot develop them to their full

growth.

The bug does not kill the Southern cattle, but It stuuts their growth. It Is fatal to cattle raised uorth of the boundary, and if means are found to effectually exterminate it the Middle West cattlemen, aud particularly the stock yard owners in this city, Kansas City aud similar central points, Will be as big gainers as ihe Southern cattlemen. Southern cattle bring the ticks Into the stock yards, aud the bugs iuitue- | diately attack the Northern and Middle West cattle. The Insect eats its way j Into the biood of tho victim, destroying the red corpuscles. It is estimated that in a 1,000-pound steer there are fifty pounds of red corpuscles, and so active are the operations of the fever germs, disseminated by the tick, that ten pounds of the fifty are frequently destroyed within twenty-four hours. The small peiceutage of deaths among Southern cattle is due to the fact that from the time the calf is dropped inoculation by ticks begius, aud It becomes fever proof. It passes through a natural form of vaccination, but the Northern animal, not having these preparatory advantages, succumbs to the ravages of the tick. While It does not kill the Southern cattle, it retards their growth, and If It could be effectually squelched It is estimated that each animal, when placed on the market, would bring on an average $5 more than the ruling prices for some years past. To ranch owners who market five, ten or twenty thousand head a year a gain of $5 per bead amounts to a considerable sum. Innumerable menus have been tried for the extinction of the bug, and all have proven failures, but now It Is believed that the problem has been solved by the adoption of a chemical bath for the Infected cattle. The experiment Is now being tried at Fort Worth, Texas, and within a fortnight

the end of which is a trap door bn! nneed over the edge of the vat. When the steer steps upon the trap it swings downward with a sudden plunge, completely submerging the animal before it begins to swim toward the ideated incline on the other side of the tank.

at once lietook herself to the main office of a prominent New York dally, and frankly asked her question. It was ns frankly answered. In fact. ^ from a pigeon hole there was drawn! an envelope containing a fairly aecu-,

^* ,e : herent wrath, for he had discovered

a blank wherein might be written the date of her death. Inclosed with this was to use the young lady's own ex pression -“the most atrocious photograph imaginable." She read the notice w th Interest, correcting one or

turning to

the guile of which he had been made

victim.

"Keep the change for your politeness," the blithe youth called back to him as he danced upon the platform. Since then the blithe youth s nickles have passed unquestioned at their face

value.

The first plunge brings the ehemicnlj rate account of her life up to date, and

solution Into contact with every tmrt of the steer’s body, and so deadly is its effect upon tli» fever ticks that they are said to die almost instantly. The solution employed is a mixture of crude petroleum, or black mineral

oil, and a small percentage of earlxilicj two minor errors, and then arid. A layer two inches thick is the editor, said:

placed In the water, and when the] "I’ll send you a decent photograph steer emerges from the tank its body Is] tomorrow 1 couldn't stand having completely covered with a thin coatingi that thing published after 1 was dead, of the stuff. The solution is said to when people might have forgotten how

have no injurious effect upon the 1 really looked."—Hurltau. cattle, while It Is deadly to the tick.)

It is estimated that a thousand cattle] Over the affairs of an uptown west

can be dipped in a day, consequently side elevated station presides a glumpy, ] tb( , m n|u , ti le „ge of set the expense Of the bath per head Is a grouchy ticket seller who takes P ar -j | lal)its nml reposeful action. Some

very small Item. Some of the experi-1 tieular pleasure in growling at tho mentalists claim that two and even travelers as if they were offering a three dips should be giw'n l() make personal insult to him by attempting

Professional Contempt.—“I hynhs dnt do gentmen you wuks fob is or tine

picture painter."

"Yas,” replied Ernst us Pinkley, "he kin paint pictures good ’nough. Hut yoh orter see de way In* done slop do whitewash aroun' when he tried ter

kalsotuine de cellin’.**

Central Park is visited daily by men who spend hours there, and are of great service to the police. They have i passed the summer of their lives, most

the cure absolute, and this done should It be found that

will lie to p Ur( .t ia8e tickets. In a large aparta single nlont ] louS e lives a blithe youth who Is

; r “m • li ' > ‘X- >••>« “** ,loslr, “ 1 n '* u1 ^ | now rejoicing mightily because he has

got even and a little more with the

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even

ticket man. Every morning this blithe youth goes to the sialion and purchases a ticket. Every morning, no matter what the coin which he otters in payment, the insulted ticket seller

snarls:

“How many d’ye want

Hut one morning not long ago he got

! habits and reposeful

| make a specialty of guarding the flowI ers and shrubbery. More to them than the Imniuii blossoms under the over- ! hanging branches is the least of the petals which falls from the growing blooms above the little upturned faces below. So jealous are they of the publie property that they not infrequently ] embarrass tin* regular police by insisting on the arrest of some absent-mind-ed damsel who tins plucked a leaf or ] two to assure herself that the greenery

•>” and every Iculiar charge of others, and woe In*' | ,h ‘I >>est salt water boat tl,at_ could be

is real. The forbidden grass is the petide the reckless lad whom they catch j

In the act of

signs.

within the domain of Uncle Sam. The Seawauhaka boys are sending the twenty-footer Momo to boat the best boat Canada can produce, and as a trial horse the Alnnka Is also being sent northward for the double purpose of tuning up the Momo, and, should anything happen to her, of sail-

ing in her place.

The International races will be sailed , on the waters of Lake St. Louis, about ten miles from Montreal, under the auspices of the Royal St. Lawrence ] Yacht Club. The first race will be ! sailed ou Aug. 14, nml on alternate [ days the remaining races of the best ’ three out of five will be sailed until the series Is completed. Advices from Montreal say that there will be three | races sailed and that Canada will win them straight, but Now York yachting men regard this in a Pickwickian

sense.

In the Momo they feel certain that they have the speediest small yacht that was ever built, and there are sev- | eral substantial reasons ns a basis for : t liis belief. There is only one cause ] for anxiety, and that is that Lake St. Louis Is a body of fresh water. This, it is feared, may make considerable difference with the conqueror of everything of her kind in salt water. AH of the Canadian boats were built with special reference to sailing In fresti water, while the New York boats, with one exception, were built on the usual lines of salt water craft. The exception was the Mary, which was built at Lake Ownssee, near Indianapolis, and brought East by her three owners, Henry S. Hicks, E. H. Pierce and Dr. George Edwin Hunt. These three men are first-class fresh water sailor men, but the inland boat never showed prominently In the salt water. Yet on fresli water she proved a genuine witch, and while the Momo could sail nil around her *n Long Island Sound, these conditions might be reversed on

Inland waterways.

For these reasons, It is regarded ns something of n gamble to send a salt water boat against a fresh water craft, and if Canada should again give a drubbing to Uncle Sam’s boat Ids yachtsmen will attribute the defeat not to Hie superiority of the rival craft, but to the fresh water. Yet. on the other hand, the Glenenirn was built on fresh water lines and handled by a fresli water sailorman. but It wolloped

mined by the leading traders of the two cities to undertake a more pretentious voyage. The choice for the command fell upon Jehan Cousin, a bold ami well trained mariner of the ripest experience, though only 25 years old. The second in power, his lieutenant, was named Vincent Pincon, or Plnzon, a good sailor, but no friend to Cousin, and placed In his position through outside Influence, not by his captain’s

choice.

The single ship, whose name has not been preserved, set sail under orders "to run out the African coasts coming after those of Adra and the Congo,” for which she was laden. By the advice of Abbe Descaliers, the most learned geographer of Normandy, Capt. Cousin set his course for midocean, Intending to sail west and southwest until he came upon a current which, so it was believed, ran strongly toward some point in southern Africa. Plnzon, an older and more conservative sailor, disapproved of this plan from tho outset. When the Azores had been passed and the ship was permitted to drift with a southerly current which was popularly supposed to head straight for the infernal regions, the Spaniard began to incite the crew to mutiny. This coming to the captain’s ears, he administered a severe rebuke in public. But, to the surprise of every one on board, a few days later land was sighted to the westward -and this was ! the first glimpse ever caught of America by southern European eyes, as tho ! French maintain.

S»il Tale of Leetle Feet. CORBEAU er*z z* tine man once. An’ keep ze gen’rai

store;

He sell for beest mos' ev’rytheeng. An’ for ze white man more. One day he ope’s for miner men One l>ox of dyna«

meet;

An’ zis ees wot make —^ one sad tale For Riley leetle Feet. Ze pants weetch Riley wear before, Me aeeve to Feet aftalr; An’ when Feet pool bees band behlne He feel ze pockett zare. Zat poekett eet was large an’ beeg; An Feet have one treeck bad; He like to till eet up wlz theengs Weetch once some one else bad. An' when he come to J. Corbeau To bin point* eheeken wheat, Ze firs’ theeng zat bees ee light on Fes Corbeau’s dynameet. Behole! he knows not wot eet ees. Rut habit, she ees strong; He pools some een zat pocket beeg— Fy gar! ees not zat wrong? Wlz something else he try ze same. Rut zls time he ees late; J. Corbeau turn an’ see It done. An’ zat wot seal bees fate! Hees eye ees green, bees cheek ees red, 11 ees hand she grab a cane; An’ while Feet run out by ze door, He ketch heem by ze lane! He moist hees hand’ he raise hees cane! He turn up leetle Feet! He lieet heem once wait* Feet sect down. An’ strike ze dynameet! ! ! Ze coroneur, she come blmeby, An’ when she view ze street. She could not tell weetch wa-s Corbeau, An’ weetch was leetle Feet.

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-Done in French Canadian.

Everything

THE MOMO, WHO WILL DEFEND THE HONOR OF UNCLE SAM IN CANADA.

ill tin* Sound. So

dcfyiug the " warning I , ' vo ,n ' ,, , n wntor I

| I lie Momo is owned ny a syndicate composed of Clinton IT t^rnne, her do- j signer: his brother. Hurry M. Crane. I and their father. .!. II. Crane. The I latter is also the owner of the Alnnka. ^ which lie Is sending to Lake St. Louis ! at ids own expense. The Momo will I bo sailod by a crow consisting of the ] two Crane boys and Harry Stnckpole. | and it is believed that she will be In f trim for a trial spin on the lake about | flu* 3d or Itli of the month. This will give ten days for tuning up, and will ] also afford abundant time for bor crow to study the eccentricities of the lake. Should the Alnnka unexpectedly show superior fresli water abilities she I will bo substituted, but this is not ! looked for, as the Momo has repeatedly ! lien ton her in all kinds and in every i variety nf weather, from a dead calm , to half a gale. Hut there are several shrewd men, and one of them Is J. H. Crane, who believe that Alanka will

outsail Momo on the lake.

The Alnnka Is a regular freak boat. She looks like a big mahogany saucer. Her beam is carried well forward Into the bow overhang and well aft into the stern overhang. This gives increased length and power when the boat heels over, ns, when her rail Is awash, sin* sails on nearly the whole of her overall length, thus giving an unusual increase of power. She is a measurement cheater, too. ns her long overhangs, fore and aft, and her ferryboat bow, with rounded and descending b1(1i*s, give her an overall length of 31 feet, against a water line length

of 17.0 feet.

The Momo is a lietter looking boat than the Alanka, but that Is not saying much. Beauty was not considered In the drawing of her lines, everything being sacrificed to speed. She has tho same overall and water line lengths ns the Alanka, but, with ten inches cut off her beam, she has not the saucerlike look of her sister. Her bow Is sharper and her stern tapers more gracefully. Both are centreboard boats, and are fitted with novel devices for shipping the centreboard In a reefing breeze some four feet aft of the normal position, thus preserving the balance between the centres of effort and lateral resistance. The Canadians have not yet decided upon the boat they will enter in tho International races, as their trial series will not be completed until Aug. 4. A dozen laiats were built for tho express purpose of meeting the challenger, four of them being owned by a yndlcate headed by Mr. Duggan, he being the designer of the quartet. For more than a month the dozen boats have been tried out, and the one standing the best chance of being selected is the Avoca, one of the Duggan four. In any event. It is believed that Duggan will hold the stick in the boat finally selected, ns he is the cleverest amateur J sailor In Canada, and Canada is out «« ] hold the trophy at all costa

On nearing the coast canoes paddled by, strange looking, unabashed, yellow- I skinned men came out to greet the ves- | sel with offerings of new and delicious | fruits. Cousin embarked amid firing of guns and the shouts of the natives, and nailed lilies of France to the tallest of the neighboring trees, taking possession of all those parts in the name of the most Christian king, Charles VIII. Now the country thus unexpectedly come upon is stoutly set forth by Cousin’s countrymen to be Brazil. Tho current by which he was carried, they say,Is that which leads from the Azores almost to the mouth of the Amazon. The tradition of the voyage, which is preserved, mentions the partial exploration by the ship of what was believed to be an arm of the sea, to which tho name "Maragnon” was given, and this is Identified with the Amazon itself. There, too, were to be found the most valuable woods, gums the most precious, furs exceeding in value anything known, while the ornaments of the aborigines attested the abundance of gold. But as all this was not “running out the African coasts,” the voyage was continued to its proper destination, Cousin returning to Dieppe early In the year 1489, after the man Plnzon had given renewed trouble. According to the French authorities, a sealed packet containing a full account of the extraordinary journey was deposited with the proper officers In tho city hall. They further believe that the Vincent Plnzon of this expedition, degraded and disgraced for his mutinous conduct, returned to his native land. Here he fell in with Christopher Columbus, becoming soon after the commander of the Nina, in that most memorable of all voyages in 1492. It only remains for the French to account for the loss of the paprs left by Jehan Cousin at the Hotel de Vtlle in Dieppe, and what may be called the "plagiarism from the French" of Columbus is established—In their estimation. And this Is not difficult to do; for on July 22, 1694 (a good whilV afterward, to he sure), the British under Admiral Berkeley bombarded Dieppe, and by the aid of a skillfully constructed fireship wiped it from the face of the earth. Which ended the story of Cousin's discovery of America. Men of Letter*. Of the following letters from London Tit-Bits, the first shows how to be amusing though not Irish, and the second how to be witty with a good

chance.

An autograph-hunter, begging a wellknown journalist’s autograph, wrote: "If you deem the request unwarranted on my part, send the refusal In your own handwriting and with your own signature, that I may know it is authentic." An Oxford undergraduate wrote to Dickens: "Sir . Seeing that you Insert rhymes in your serial, I send you

some.”

The reply was: "Sir . We don’t insert rhymes without reason.”

Mr. Y'orker (as the powder mill blows up)—Good heavens! What’s that? Real Estate Agent That’s tho town booming. Let me sell you a lot.—Up-

to-Date,

A Propoflal. "I have a proposition to make." Ah, how these words thrilled the deal little maiden! For months she had waited for th'*m expectantly, and now, as they fell In sweet cadence upon her ear, her little heart fluttered, and with accents crowded full of suppressed Joy, she softly

said:

“What is It, George?” "1 know,” he answered, “that we are happy as we are, hut still I have been thinking of a c hange which I feel would bring to me a delightful sense of relief after my anxious and painful waiting; and so, dear one, what I would ask is this ” He paused. The maiden bent her listening ear to catch his trembling words, and after a moment of breathless silence, the question came: "Darling, had you Just as soon sit for a while upon the other knee?”—B.

W. T.

Not a Wise Pioposltlon* Prosperous Manufacturer—I think it would be well for us to do something for our employes to prove to them that we appreciate their services. How would it do to give them a wine supper? Associate—I’m afraid it wouldn't do at all. Prosperous Manufacturer Why not? Associate—We would have our hands full.

Tame Game.

% ST ' ^ - Gunner—I was hunting yesterday and bagged seventeen duck. Bunner—Were they wild? Gunner—No; but the farmer who owned them was.—Up-to-D»te. Uiiatllleti fur the Place. Kitty—Miss Antique has searched it vain for employment. Jack—I would think she could secure a place in a second-hand book store. Kitty—Why? Jack—She’s a back number.

It Might Have. Brush.—"I see that new English painting. ‘The Vampire,’ has caused a lot of talk across the pond.” Madison.—"Did It represent a Jer&ey mosquito at work?"