Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 July 1899 — Page 3

NATIONAL PROGRESS. nothing Like the Commercial Growth of the United Staten In the History of Motions. In an address before the New York Press association, at its forty-third an* nual meeting recently, Mr. George H. Daniels, general passenger agent of the New York Central & Hudson River railroad, touched upon* the effects of the late war with Spain upon our commerce and industries in the following impressive words: “One of the remarkable statements of Mr. Mulhall, the British statistician, in hi$ work on 'The Wealth of Nations,* was this: ‘If we take a survey of mankind, in ancient or modern times, as regards the physical, mechanical and intellectual force of nations, we find nothing to compare with the United States, in this present year, 1S95.’ “Mr. Mulhall proved by his statistics that the working.power o:f a single person 3n the United States was tAvice that of a German or Frenchman, more thun three times that of an Austrian and five times that of an Italian, lie said the United States avus then the richest country in the Avorld, its wealth er.ceeding that of Great Britain by 35 per cent., and added that in the history of the human race no nation ever before possessed forty-one miliionsof instructed citizens. “Should Mr. Mulhalhj'cvise. his figures to-day, the differences would all be l in favor of the United States, for in the past twelve months we have denioastrated the superiority of our manufacturers in every direction, and our 8 ability to cope successfully Avith questions which have heretofore been handled exclusively bv the older nations is recognized by all the world/ “The fosur years that have interI veued between the time of your meeting at Lake eGopge and to-day have been years of great events and achievements. / “1 said at the Lake George meeting that “one of the inevitable results of the Avar between Japan and 'China - would be the opening to the commerce^ of the world of fields heretofore unknown, perhaps the richest on the globe,’ and in urging the members of the New York Press association to do everything in their poAver to secure to

tlie L nited btates a portion ot tne great cotnmerce to be developed between the western nations and these twooldcountris of the world, 1 asked three questions: “'“Shall the grain in China and Japan be harvested by machines manufactured along the lines of the New York Central, or will the manufacturers of England and Germany supply them? “Shall the fires in Yokohama and Tientsin be extinguished with engines built at Seneca Falls, or will France and, England send 4Heir fire engines to Japan and China? “Will the locomotives, to.haul the fa&t mail trains between Yokohama and the interior of Japan amj through the rich valley of China, be built at Schenectady or Dunkirk, or will our oriental friends and neighbors in the Pacific buv thdm of our English cousins?’ “I predicted, that active efforts toward the extension of American commerce by commercial bodies, supported by a liberal and broad-minded policy on the part of our government, would undoubtedly secure to the United States the blessings that come from a great and variedgconunerce, and I said that the New York Press association, and similar associations all over the country, could stimulate a public spirit that would insure the important results outlined. “At that time we had no idea that a war between one of the bid nations of ' the earth and our young republic would be fought; at that time we had no idea that American manufacturers would be furnishing locomotives to the English railroads, as well as Japanese, and no one thought four years ago that American bridge builders would go into the open market and successfully compete for the building of a great steel bridge in Egypt; nor that in so brief a time American engineers would be building railroads into the interior of China from the most important seaports and furnishing locomotives by the score to nearly every country on the globe. * “In a letter from a friend in Tokio, Japan, written only a short time ago, there was this significant sentence: *You will be interested in knowing that I have hanging on the wall of my office a framed picture of vour Empire State Express, and we expect in the near future to be hhuling a Japanese Empire Express with, an American locomotive.’ They have how- in Japan nearly 100 locomotives that were built in .the United States. In Russia they

nave over oi our loeomoxives, ana nearly every railroad in Great Britain has ordered locomotives from this country since the beginning of the war with -Spain. “In this connection it will be interesting to note in passing that the second , American locomotive <vas built at the West Point foundry near Cold Spring, on the Hudson rivey, and was called the , Best Friend, and from that day to this the locomotive has been one of the best friends of all our people. “Prince Michel HilkofF, imperial minister of railways of Russia, has, since his visit to the United States a few years ago, constructed a train on much the same lines as the New York Central’s Lake Shore Limited. “Only a short time ago, at the request of one of the imperial commissioners of Germany, the New York Central sent to Berlin photographs of the interior and exterior of our finest cars . and other data in relation to the operation of American railways. Several other countries have asked for similar information, and there is a general waking up of foreign nations on the subject of transportation, brought about mainly by the wonderful achieve* ■tents of American railways,” ,

A CHEAP WINDMILL. Gow an Incealoai Nebraska Farm** Coiulracteil One at an Expense of Just $1.50. In the great arid west district several enterprising settlers have bought or fixed up various kinds of windmills, pumps, hydraulic rams, etc., and made the dry, parched desert blossom as the rose. One of the most enterprising of these industrious people is J. L. Brown, of Buffalo county, A’eb., whose “gi* devil” mill, illustrated herewith, was made entirely by him of cast-off farm material except $1.50 for pas pipe for axle, A similar mill can be made, of new material for five or six dollars. This mill has furnished water since l!>94 for house, stock and a tcn-acijC fruit farm. Mr. Brow n’s mill fans are made of coffee boxes and are two and onc-half feet wide, the wheel being nine feet in diameter. Holes are punched in the gas pipe axle to fasten the arms to. The crank i3 of two by four pine fastened

'■'W r ■ HOME-BUILT WINDMILI* to the axle by a three-eighth bolt. The w*rist-pin that works the pitman is a one-hulf wood screw three inches long screwed into the cx-arik. The lever that works the pump is probably seven feet long and is a two bv four pine. The fulcruntfln all cases should be one-quar-ter the length of the lever; then it will not break the pump nor the mill when struck by sudden gusts of wind or when running art high speed. A weight should be fastened to one of the fans to balance the weight to some extent of the plunger of the pump; how heavy it should be can best be determined by trial. Mine is about one pound; the well being about 2G feet deep it does not take, much power to lift the water. , The wheel has eight fans. Many make them with but four, but eight are better,, as it runs steadier in any wind whether heavy or light. The box is made just large enough for the wheel to turn nicely. If made too large, it does not work so well. Set four two by four pine scantlings in the ground to rail the boards to with one on each side of the wheel on top for the axle to rest on. The box for the axle to turn in is cut into the two by four, another piece is held in place over the journal by wood screws to hold it down. This has run since *94 and has worn but little in thaf, time. The wheel is never kept from running whether occupied to the pump or not, as to lock it when not wanted for raising would be moie apt to break the wheel than to let it run. Mr. Brown says that “it takes a stronger wind to run it thrfn it does a well-made mill of the standard makes. I presume it is more useful here than it would be in other places, as our prevailing winds are north and south; we seldom have winds from any other direction that would work any wheel. The pump is more useful in seasons of drought than at ahv other time because we have severe drought here or.ly in seasons of high wind.”—Farm and Home. A NEW ERA COMING. The Introduction of Motor Power Will Necessitate the Making * of Better Roads.

The propelling power of the future, n rural districts as well as in the cities, will be electricity and compressed air. The horseless age is almost upon us. Great factories are now preparing to turn out motor vehicles by the thousands and hundreds of thousands, and there is little doubt tha$ only a few years will elapse before they will be in general yse throughout the country. Not only will motor and compressed air vehicles be used for pleasure conveyances, but they will be used for doing the work of the farm and conveying the products to the markets and shipping points. The Use of this kind of vehicles will necessitate the making of better roads. They will prove an inestimable boon to the farmer. Their advent into general use means a new era for him. They will do away with much of the drudgery of farnl life and add in numerous ways to its pleasure and profit, They will greatly lessen the cost of transporting to market his products, thus enabling him to realize more for his labor, even at the same prices. The care and expense of keeping work animals will be a thing of the past. But unless the people of the country bestir themselves for better roads the cities will enjoy these luxuries for a generation before they can be made practical in the rural districts.—The State's Xhity. And Do It Wtthont Delay. Call your neighbors together and devise some way for making the roads good in your vicinity. The fruit and vegetable garden and the orchard combined make an excel* lent home sanitarium.

MARIA TERESA UREA. The Mexican “Saint" V.'ho la Said to Me Endowed with Divine Power* ;_ / The young Mexican girl, Maria Teresa Urea, who is devoutly believed by the Mexican Catholics to be endowed with divine powers, is novvsomewhere among the Yaqui Indians in Sonora, Mexico, and, although they are the fiercest tribe in that republic and Irreconcilable in their hostility to the whites, they revere her as a priestess ind obey her as if she were their queen. There is something strange about “Santa Teresa,” as they call her. She is a modest, unassuming Mexican girl, the daughter of a small farmer in Sonora, with very little education, but at an early age she developed remarkable hypnotic or mes^meric powers, which cause the ignorant peasants to j look upon her as more than human. A touch Df her hand is believed to be a cure for every mortal 4vil and one of her prayers of intercession a passport to paradise. She does not claim divine power, but

^oniesses that she does not understand the source of her influence. Her family were Catholics, but she has never been strict in her observances of her religious duties. At the same time she recognizes that there is something within her that gives her the unusual influence that she enjoys. In 1S96 I saw her at El Paso, a plain 1 looking girl of 21 or 22 years, in a . speckled calico dress and coarse shoes, j with a black shawl thrown over her j head. Iter hair fell in two braids to her waist, and she looked much younger than she really was. She was then living under tlic care of a gentleman named Aguirre, the editor of the Mexican paper at El Paso, having been compelled to leave Mexico by the authorities, who accused her of trying to incite a revolution. A band of fanatics somehow got a notion that she was to be the mother o.f Montezuma, the long-looked-for Mexican Messiah who is to liberate the peons from servitude and restore the splendor of the empire that Cortez plundered and overthrew. Restless and dissatised politicians took advantage of the mania, and, in the name of Saint Teresa, organized a resolution in Sonora and attacked the ebstom house and barracks at Nogales. Mr. Aguirre may have given the movement some encouragement, for he is an exile, and is “wanted” by the Mexican police. ^But I was assured that Teresa was not involved in any way. Trustworthy people told me that she was.just an ordinary sort of girl, without any special force of character or intellect, but possessed of a mysterious power like that of the magnetic girl who came out of Georgia a few years ago and seemed to have the strength of a locomotive in her slender fingers. Santa Teresa has some such physical peculiarity, which gives her a mesmeric influence over people to whom it may be applied, and she has cured hundreds of sick and lame and blind. The Mexicans hang her portrait over their little shrines beside that of the Virgin Mary, but when we talked with her she - laughed at the suggestion of her divinity, and indignantly denied that she was to be the mother of the redeemer of the Aztec race. She is now living the \ aqui Indians in an obscure mountain village in Sonora, which is constantly visited by pilgrims'and sick people in search of her healing power, . E. Curtis, in Chicago Record.

EARLY CAMP-MEETINGS. Aroused the keenest Interest and Were Led by Ministers of Vari» ons Denominations. The first camp-meeting in America was held on the banks of the Muddy river, in Kentucky, in August, 1799, and was conducted by the McGee brothers, two eloquent evangelists. It lasted for little more than a week, and the novelty of it and the success which attended it were so marked that theye arose an immediate demand for a continuance of this form of worship. Accordingly, the meeting was suecdily followed by a large number of campmeetings throughout the west. - So great was the interest they excited that in some instances a single meeting was attended by two or three thousand persons, resulting in the complete desertion of the neighboring towns and settlements for the time being. The first camp-meeting marked the beginning of a revival of religion which assumed such proportions and wrought such widespread good that it has passed into history as the “great revival.” It was the reaction following the period of doubt and unbelief, that swept through the country in a glorious wave of triumph. The earlier camp-meetings were not held under the auspices of any particular denomination. People Qf all churches and ^11 phases of belief attended them and took an interest in their management. Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist and other ministers conducted the services. Denominational differences were cast aside. All churches were merged into one in the tide of revivalism. But after the first excitement roused by the ‘great revival’ died away, this particular form of worship became a Methodist institution. Other denominations gradually abandoned it and left it to the Methodists, who have maintained it to this day, and continue to find in it a source of good and a no less worthy means of salvation than on the occasion of its establishment 109 years ego.—Clifford Howard, in Ladies’ Home Journal.

INVENTED FOR THE CYCLIST. — To prevent bicycle wheel* from throwing mud and water on the rider's back a new device is formed of two arm* pivoted on the rear axle to support a small roller in a position to take up the mud before it can be thrown off. For use in discharging puncture-clos-ing compounds into bicycle tires a new receptacle is fitted with a Gliding bottom, which is pushed in after the nozzle is attached to the valve, tEus forcing the heavy liquid into the tire. In a new bicycle chain adjustment the hub is carried by a plate sliding in a slot in the rear fork, with a screw bolt headed in one side of the plate and running through a fixed lug pn the side of the fork to draw the plate in either direction. The lower brace on the chain side of a new bicycle frame is used as a gear case, the single tube being replaced by a flat casing, with channels formed at the top and bottom to cover the chain and heads at cither end, which surround the sprocket wheels. ' In a newly designed bicycle lamp the oil holder is of tubular shape, with clamps to attach it to the lower tube of the frame, just back of the head, the wick tube extending out at right angles to carry the burner and reflector, which can be tilted at«any desired angle. An improved automatic bicycle pump is clamped directly to the center of the hub, with a lever at one end which engages an adjustable screw at every revolution of the wheel to operate a piston and force the air into the tire, the head of the screw being within reach of the rider without dismounting. / MEANING OF STATE NAMES. Michigan—Indian, “great lake.” Minnesota—Indian, “cloudy water." Ohio—The Shawnee for “the beautiful river.” * Connecticut—Indian name, “a long river.” Iowa—Indian word meaning “drowsy ones.” Kansas—In Indian means “smoky water.” "iViseonsin—Indian for “wild and rushing channel.” Alabamar—An Indian ncme, meanins:, “Here we rest.”

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