Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 October 1893 — Page 5

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THE WHITE CIIY Rotes ,pf Most Interest to Women. Mr. Editor:—I read Si Slocum's articles ou the world’s fair and thought my self back again in the beautiful white city. Uncle Si was 6ure there aud sure saw about all that a man crould belikely to 6cc— though he missed some of the arts nearest to womans heart and' witji your permission I will describe a few of these. Iu evert home we see that women are interested in embroidery. Therefore I will speak of that department of att first. Each nation is represented with exquisite needle work. The Russian and German embroidery is very rich and heavy, much is done iu solid gold aud silverThe Spanish embroidery is the most delicate-s-both i» tiut and texture. The foundation for many screens ami pannels was a thm open silk resembling bolting cloth. The thread was tine filieeeU in delicate shades looking more like water color tinting than needle work. Then there were landscapes pictures done in silk and faces with as varied expressions a> though the artist had used a brush instead of needle. Indeed it was won- , derful—the perfection of art. So far as I saw neither England or America distinguished Jjerself iu this department. Though in ceramic art American women jhave the envy ot their foreign sisters. Miss Mealy, of Washington, had a display of gold china which attracted universal attention. It is beautiful iu design aud looks as though wrought of pure metal. The process is her own invention. Another exhibit was by Mrs. Frackeltyne, ot Milwaukee, of some large jars, water Vessels ami a bowl of a warm gra\ color with blue underglaze decorations iu relief, which were much admired. The bowl of this display was .bought and presented to the captain of the Spanish caravels, and will he taken to Madrid ; one of the jars was „ pu rehashed for the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. They the most exquisite laces may be seen uj_ the woman’s building also beautiful dressessmni the case <>f minature tiguies in was representing thereiguing queens troiu the sixteenth century to the present time; the individuality of each is remarkable. There is a crowd about this/exhibit continnallv. And in the fine art building let me say that American artists ■ carried off most of the prizes, both in sculpture and painting. To any student in art this is a ’most wondei ful priviledge to go there and fill ones soul with the real aim in art. Art is not merely to produce harmony of color that will ’ please the eye. But it must reach the deeper senses. There, hung on all .the walls around you see a.story told in color—told with feeling—that appeals to and holds you fixed. But to appreciate one must behold for himself. It is likely to be evening when ope emerges from this building and as he loiters in the twilight there is a feeling of sadness with the thought that all this exquisite beauty is only trausjtory. At eight o’clock the electric lights illumine the entire place and as we witness the fantastic and unreal displays at the fountains sending up their sprays of water in every shade or color of the raiu bow and note the surroundings we are moved as never before by an earthly vision. Then pomes the soft musical sound of the chimes which seems more than ever to tell of decadence. Hoping you may not think me presumptuous ami promising not to call agaiu, I remain a friend to the public.

We want to introduce the Demc f ?bat into every home in this section ol 1 the country, and cau only do this successfully by the aid of our friends. We -a3k all who feel interested in having this paper steadily improve and flourish to aid us in gaining subpcribers until w.e have doubled out present number. If any one contemplates taking it and will send us his or her address, we will mail a sample copy any time, and will be glad tt have their assistance in building up the paper, which has growu largely duting the past year.

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Wilkinson. Oct. 1893. To Editor Democrat: It might be of some interest to those who have not had the opportunity of visiting the western half of the Sunflower state to know somet hing of its climate and occupation of thcF people. Wichita comm is situated in the (westeru half of the state between town 16 and 21 south of range 35 and 39 west of the 6 p. m. of the state of Kansas, consequently being in the second teir of counties front the Colorado line. It was first settled about 8 years ago but owing to a few failures of crops which is so common to all new couu- | tries, most of the settlers moved out bu,t beiug encouraged by the “ood crops of "91 aud D2 most all of them have come back. We have two railroads which run through the central part of the county viz: Missouri Pacific and the Atchison Topeka & Satfta Fe branch. | Wheat is the main crop of the western belt, though considerable corn, cane, broom corn, rice corn and a few other varieties are grown. Indiana corn don't do m well owing to the high altitude and the dryness of the atmosphere though considerable ot it is raised. The cane is cut up in the i fait for the fodder and the heads snape<t off the rice corn and threshed. | Very little work is required to put in j the wheat, four crops can he raised j otf ot the ground before it needs | plowing by disking it between times. I From one-half to one bushel is -all that i- sown to the acre which - in a ! good season will bring from 20 to 30 bushels to the acre. It has the promise of making one of the main wheat raising belts of tlve state. The atmosphere is light with cool nights and hot days during the summer months. It has an altitude of nearly 3.000 feet, so it is very similar to tffat of a mountainous country in climate. Little short curly grass called Buffalo grass grows on the prairie and is good pasturing both winter and summer. The blue stem grass extends to within 50 miles of the Colorado line and the Buffalo grass from there out to the i mountains. The country is very level , and basins, or more commonly called . Lagoons and buffalo wallers, are tb«; principle drainage of the country.’ They are circular ponds varying from j one half to five acres in size on the level prairie. The streams flow from west to east and are tributaries to the Smoky Hill and the Arkansas rivers. Very little if any timber glows on l the river save a few litile plumb and i currant brush. The rivers look more j like deep ravines cut in the dead level prairie with perpendicular walls on both, sides varying from 75 to 90 fees, in height. Water on the prairie'is generally reached at about 80 feet, as sheet water js all that a person cat strike. The riiyers run oh a levej, with the'sheet Water. Most of the people in the country live in sod houses built from the pari riesod. They, make a very comfortable house, being cool in the summer and warm in the winter and if laid I up in the right sea-on and plastered they \\fiii last from 10 to 12 years. Large herdes of buffalo and antelope used to realty /over the prairie, but since the country has been settled up thev have been hunted and killed out i and now all that can he seen is their. I paths that they used to travel in goling or coming from ’he streams of I water j Wichita county hp four enterprising towns of which Leoti is the eoun,ty scat, besides it has several other smaller places where mail is delivered- A big flouring mill was erected in Leoti this spring with a capacity ot 75 barrels pAj^day giving ns a home market for iPnsideruble of our wheat. Though this country is yet in its infancy it has the promise of a bright future. I Mrs Leat Vaxsickle.

Tui country is settling down to business again. The little object lesson provided by Wall Street seems to have taught New York bankers what [they did not know before, that the j Western people cannot be driven anymore than tnev can be persuaded to 'accept the gold basis. Secretary Carlisle has requested the resignation of Joseph L. Throop Collector of the Terre Haute Revenue District, and it is given out that Josiah Jump, of Terre Haute will be appointed to the position as soon as the resignation of Collector Throop reaches Washington. Mr. Jump is the law partner of Hon. John Lamb. He is indorsed by both Indiana Senators and Congressmen Bretz, Brown and Cooper, Congressman Taylor has indorsed Geo. Dixon of Evansville, lor the position.

WEBSTER’S ELOQUENCE.

T%e Intense Moving: Tower of the Great Orator's Grand Outbursts. Lord Chatham is accounted the most consummate of English orators. In my youth I greatly admired that passage iu his speech on the address to the king in ITT* in which, referring to Lord Suffolk, vho had defended the employment of the Indians in the war against the colonies, he exclaimed: “From the tapestry that adorns the walls the immortal ancestor of this noble lord frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.” It is a very striking passage, but I once heard Webster say grander words, Itwitson June 1?, 1843, when I was one of« that vast throng gathered at Bunker Hill which to'*' Webster raise his outstretched arm up to the newly completed monument and heard him say: “It is not from my lips—it could not be from any human lips—that that stream of eloquence is this day to flow most competent to move and excite this vast multitude around me. The powerful speaker stands motionless before u.s.” I felt the thrill which ran through that vast audience, and I saw their uplifted eyes and blanched cheeks and joined in that respousive shoot which told as no words could tell that we had heard one of the most perfect passages in all oratory. Webster could also be dull—in his later years very dull. Those who heard him in his prime are quite angry when one doubts whether he ever could have been as,papular an orator as Everett or Choate pr Phillips. Fe w now live who heard him in those early days, when he was at his best. I, who heard him often between 1S40 and 1850, never heard him at his best but once, and then only fora few minutes. The circumstances were these: At the festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, gathered in the hall of the Fitchburg railroad in 1849, Mr. Webster presided with admirable grace and spoke of his native state Hs persons would like to hear- her spokeu of. His speech, though interesting, was not particularly striking until passing from our own affairs to those of Hungary, then in her struggle for liberty, he said: “I see thatithe emperor o Itussia demands of Turkey that the noble Kossuth and his companions shall be given up to be dealt with at his pleasure. And I see that this demand is made in derision of the established laws of stations. Gentlemen, there is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirl windTias its power, and the earthquake has its power, but there is something among men more capable of shading despotic power than the lightning, tlie whirlwind or the earthquake, and that is the excited and arojised indignation of the whole civilized world.” Before we were aware of what was com ing his majestic form began to tower and his eyes to kindle, and his voice soon caught the keynote of the vast building till in an illusion of the senses the lightning flashed, and the whirlwind shook the place where we were sitting, and the firm foundation rocked us with an earthquake.—Century. r f A Marine Marvel. One of the marine wonders of the work! is the great barrier reef of Australia. This stupendous rampart of coral, stretching in an almost unbroken line for l,25<i> miles along the northeastern coast of Australia, presents features of interest which are not to be equaled iu any other quarter of the globe. . Nowhere is the action of the little marine insect, which builds up with untiring industry these mighty monuments with which'the tropical seas are studded, more impressive; nowhere are the wonderful constructive forces of nature more apparent. By a simple process of accretion there lias been reared in the course of countless centuries an adamantine wall j against which the billows of the Pacific, j sweeping along in an uninterrupted coarse | of severaj thousand miles, dash themselves iu ineffectual fury.' Inclosed within the range of its protect ing arms is a cairn in- : land sea, 80,000 square miles in extent, dot- ] ted with a multitude of coral islets and presentiug at every turn objects of interest alike to the unlearned traveler and the man of science. Here may be witnessed the singular proc ess by which the wavy, gelatinous, liviug mass hardens into It one, then serves as a collecting ground for the flotsam and jetsam of the ocean, and ultimately develops into an island covered with a luxurious mass of tropical growth. Here again may be sgen iu the serene depths of placid pools extraordinary forms of marine life aglow with the most brilliant colors and producing iu their infinite variety a bewildering sense of the vastness of the life of the ocean. —Pall Mall Gazette.

Message Treatment For Sprains. Dr. Husenblith of Paris says that effusions of blood in sprains are very rapidly reabsorbed by massage. Ia practice the injured articulation is at first imaiersed in very warm water in order to dilate the superficial vessels, after which preparation of the affected region massage is performed outside of the injured part; it is then gradually approached, a very gentle stroke being applied to it at first, followed by more vigorous frictions, thus gradually producing insensibility. When partially obtained, a more or less energetic kneading is pursued, according to the varying degree of sensibility experienced by the patient, and to the massaged part is finally applied a compressive bandage' with wadding, which is wrapped in a flannel or linen band. If the sprain occurs in the inferior limbs. Dr. Kosenblitn—contrary to the ordinarily commended pract ice of avoiding movements for a shorter or longer period—advises the patient to walk as soon as he can do so without feeling great pain. Walking, he says, adapts the auricular surface in a natural way and actuates the venal and lymphatic circulations by the muscular contraction. Tile Dog Toll’s Tower. Tell’s tower, which figures as a landmark in the ordnance survey of England, is a building on the seashore near West Kirby, Cheshire. It was built by Mr. Camming Macdona to mark the resting place of a remarkable dog. An effigy of the animal in stone guards the door of the vault containing his bones. On a slab of slate, the gift of Mr. Assheton Smith, you read the following tribute to his numerous virtues: “In memory of the great St. Bernard dog Tell, ancestor of most of the rough coated champions of England and himself winner of every prize in the kingdom. He was majestic in appearance, noble in character and of undaunted courage. Died January, lSTf.* —London Tit-Bits. Nature’s Safety Valve. There is a common belief that alcohol fcives new strength and energy after fatigue sets in. The sensation of fatigue is one of the safety valves of the hnman machine; to stifle the feeling of fatigue, in order to do more work, is like closing the safety valve so that the boiler may be overheated and explosion result —Mew York Telegram.

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