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Show v 7 ) i ..V V THE SEMI-WEEKL- Y NATION. jTi cries Jpor Veicrans Considered of Importance. of Beetles. Marches, Bivouacs of the Great War. Latest Discoveries and Inventions That Are Reminiscences & T. HYDE, riMlikm UTAH LOQAN, Vori of ItvOenthrs Cit of Ohm In Watur, The $19,900 extermination fund does not cut much of a figure with the 100, 000,000 New Jersey mosquitoes. - The road to truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, la over eggshells charged with dynamite. If any one sends you headache powders by mail feed them to the cat that sings lullabies on your back fence at midnight Omaha's smallpox golf club naturally will feel sensitive if any one mentions that the members are pitted against one another. The number of first poems written by Whittier is now equaled only by the number of oldest Yale graduates who have recently died. ' There have been too many railway accidents already to Justify any claims of great advancement on the part of the twentieth century. Something unusual in a scientific way is due from Edison and Tesla, unless they wish to remain on the seat in the rear of Marconi. ' Some interesting details have lately been published concerning the vae of ozone In purifying water. Ozone Is oxygen in a highly active condition and it occurs in small quantities In the air of the sea and of the mountains. Near Berlin an establishment has been erected for the purpose of experimenting on the effects of ozone In ridding water of the microbes It contains. Ozonized air containing from 2 tc 3 grams per cubic meter (a cubic meter equals 220.09 gallons and a gram is about 16 grains)-Ipassed upward into a tower which Is filled with flints and in its passage meets the water coming down and thus acts upon It It has been shown that, as regards water from the Spree, the number of microbes was decreased from 600,000 per cubic centimeter (.061 cubic Inch) to 10, which is practically nil. The total cost Is set down at 35 cents per 1,000 cubic feet Ozone has long been known as nature's disinfectant," and Its application to the purification of water becomes, therefore, a matter of great Interest If the cost can be reduced this mods of purification may have a chance of widespread adoption. A Car loss Bala fall. velope with a pocket formed integral with the envelope, but designed to ba detached therefrom by the postmaster to obtain access to the money Inclosed This adds materially to the cost of the envelope and necessitates the purchase of that particular kind In order to derive the benefit of the pocket George P. Herndon of Washington, D. C., has provided an Invention which attains the same results, but seemingly In a better way. It consists of a flat piece of paper of the relative size and shape shown In the picture. This paper is gummed around the edges, and On Jan. 2 of this year rain fell at in France for several hours. Periers Vassar refined The graduate is not a The rainwater collected looked like lye, school-mara as success Filipino shining She refuses to subsist on rice or like water containing clay. It was odorless, of earthy taste and slightly and board around in shacks. saline. After twenty-fou- r hours it an abundant precipitated that deposit Europe should begin to anchor things was almost slliclous. Linen entirely down good and solid. Plerpont Mor- clothes and the leaves of plants were gan is going across the big pond again covered with a considerable silicious as Boon as the weather permits. matter. As previous rains bad thorwetted the ground this pheHereafter let the great American oughly nomenon Is not to be explained by newspaper reporter be addressed L3 supposing that a large amount of Der Kaiser has said It, "general. dust had been carried into the and what he says goes, Just now. air by winds and subsequently precipitated by rain. The most probable exPrince Henry was permitted to use planation is that the water of the prefor a temporary vious rains lay in very shallow pools the Waldorf-Astorcourinternational on the surface of slliclous ground and flagship. Certainly tesy could go no further than this. that by high winds (which were obUnit fir Water. ralsfld j?tQflTi served) the wat 4erle Instance of a battery su and air has the Invented gun man, Gatling, LAjJuescenifed ns a plow that does the work of sixty rain. of accunators working under water was reedy given In Munich. The horses. Uut what can the ordinary station Lituated on an Island In the farmer do with a contrivance of that rat? Honn. When you want kind? et a frightened Isar, anduring the flood the water out of a bnrnln, horse table a blanket covered ja batteries. According to Queen Wilhelmina may eventually the Sclsfic American, one of the write a book on the model husband, batterlefhlch ran the car lines was I fcut her knowledge of the subject will completi cut outm It was thought lltiLilie'crther, furnished light, e due to observation rather than etf would have to be treated in the same perlence. of the engines way. The were half In the water. Nevertheless, Perhaps that young man of Wilkes-barr- e as it was almost indispensable to light who broke a young woman's rib at least the principal streets of the while hugging her thought he was getcity, it was decided to try to operate ting even for Mother Eves larceny the submerged battery. The attempt from Adam. was successful, and the battery, which had been construc ted to give 6.000 A Wisconsin Holstein cow produces re-hours diswith b 684 pounds of milk in a week and 20 was to able of furnish 4,000 charge, butter. What does she get pounds re-hours out of it. after all, beyond the honor of during the night. The remainder was lost in discharges in the being champion? water. g is one of the few gambg Attachment. ling games in whlrh the player can get In excavating dirt in large quantities desirable exercise in return for his it is commou practice to use teams and money, or desirable money in return a Runaway Animal. scrapers to draw the dirt to a dump, Cavan of Kjra. for his exercise. thrown over. its head renders it as or else to employ a large number of docile as though there was no lire, and men to shovel the dirt into carts to King Edward plays golf whenever why shouldn't the same idea be applied be drawn away. The former method he can get a day off. Kipling knew to a runaway horse on the road? The is slow work, in view of the small what he was about in lighting out for Illustration shows this idea carried out loads which can be taken, while the the ends of the earth before his latest under the invention of Daniel latter is expensive because of the cost fireship exploded. of Chunchula, Ala., and Joseph of labor and the necessity of keeping the teams idle while the loading is Rotliweiler of Chicago, 111. If Monte Carlo continues to allow to In order that the appliance lor going on. Adam Gehringer of Philadelphia, Fa., be printed the names of the American manipulating the blinders may not inmagnates who play there, one of them terfere with the control of the horse has just patente:. an apparatus which may get so indignant as to buy the on ordinary occasions a separate pair should overcome these objections, a of cords is provided, leading back to picture of which is shown herewith. place and close it up. the carriage. The blinds are held nor- It consists of two traction wheels, supThe name of the tramp who preferred mally by springs In the bridle, being porting a steel frame, on which are to go to jail for three months rather hinged to the side straps. A pull on mounted three buckets on an endless than saw wood for two hours isn't the cords throws a lever out from the chain. The lower part of the frame Is rear portion of tlie hinge and presses Weary Waggles, but he etidently beblinds over the eyes, thus shutthe longs to the same brotherhood. ting out the vision of whatever has frightened the animal. A Michigan man claims to have loAs soon as tlie pressure Is released cated hell at a subterranean depth of on the cords the blinds resume their live miles, but there arc still philosonormal position by the action of the phers who insist that it is more apt springs. to be carried around under a hat. Eleetrlflcatloa of Clan. As long as the trusts are able to The electrification of glass on rubhire such smart lawyers it will lm bing is known to vary with the differd mighty hard for ordinary, ent specimens of fur or flannel used. An experimenter has lately noticed legislators to draw up an antitrust law that will be constitutional. that a smooth rod of soda glass is always positively electrified by gentle According to Gov. Taft sultans are rubbing with a certain piece of fur, as numerous In the Islands of Moro while vigorous rubbing gives a negaas barons in Germany and justices of tive charge, and the two kinds of elecShovel Bad Elevator Combined. the peace in the United States. This trification may be produced In differd to take up the dirt, and certainly tends to still further redure ent parts of the same rod and varied buckets the revolve through the back our respect for the title. at will. Another observer reports the of the scoop to receive the portion same results with seallngwax rubbed At Chicago recently an aged couple with silk, attributing the varying ef- load which is to be elevated to the wagon. were parted by jmverty and disease fects to differences of temperature. All that Is necessary is to attach the after fifty years of married life, the loader to the cart by a short chain husband going to a hospital and the Coil racket an Kav.lape. and start the horse, the man at the wife to the poorhnusc. And to think It is well understood that In the handles guiding the elevator Into the of how little money it would have country and places, proper position to discharge the dirt taken to prevent this domestic tragedy. and, in fact, sometimes In the city, It Into the wagon, There Is nothing comIf Mr. Carnegie were not so set on li- is often difficult to obtain postage plicated about the apparatus and It Is braries he might see In this Incident s stamps. To obviate this In nvenience not liable to break or get out of or- most worthy way to dispose of some of it has been proposed to pi o il.lt an en der. his vast wealth. m. sub-statio- ia end of the war, and Aunt Becky" she Hatches of the Night. The fires are out, the camp's asleep. y. is called And all around so bloomin still. the war Anne Graham after Shortly There's not a light for miles and mllea was married to David Young, a carpenon the ill; Except the field-lam- p And they are strange, Gawd, awful ter, and also a soldier, who had strange. for the in Canada fought queen during The things wot rise to left and right Black forms which make me awear and the Fenian outbreak. This ceremony crushed the hopes of a certain young start, A ragged sentry of the night. northern soldier, whom "Aunt Becky" to-da- Poor Nobby Clarke, we 'ad a bet; I spun the coin, made a guess. Just when a bullet pinged along And put 'Is 'ighness out o' mesa; The sergeant, too, most anxious like, E must poke up 'is ginger 'ead In time to see the ehrapnel buret That dropped 'lm in the donga bed, A aulper on the kopjeeslde, A bullet whistlin down the pass; And then my captin lyin' low And dutchin' wildly at the grass; But I must keep the law 'e kep' Oh, soldier man, you must not run. But you must go the road 'e went. And fight the fight which 'e begun. Carrlw a Cola for Ioatagr. may he secured to the envelope by moistening it, the proper coin being Inserted in the pocket thus formed before the flap is sealed. When the letter reaches the central office, the pocket Is opened and the stamp applied. In view .of the recent Installation of the free rural delivery and collection of mail in many country districts this idea should prove especially valuable, as it saves the collector trouble of purchasing the stamps when he reaches the main office, a task which he is at p'resent often called upon to perform. In the city It will be convenient to drop the letter In the mall box without the necessity of a trip to the nearest accommodating The cost of drug Btore or the device is small, and they can be purchased in large quantities to insure their being at hand when wanted. n. I Aye, they are strange, lad. awful strange. The things wot I 'ave seen and done; I dare not think about them now. The fights wot we 'ave lost and won; But, spite of all, I old it good To shut my mouth and keep the law. Until I find the 'ldilen death And Join the chums 'oove gone before. The fires are lit, the camps awake. The korfee's stewin In the can, X 'ears the stumpy section cook for the ord-l- y man; The guns are rumblin' thro the mist. The convoy's gettin' under way. Bo roll your soakin blankets up And stow your ragged kits away. W. Monro Anderson In London Express. Famous Civil Wir Khm There resides In Des Moines, Iowa, the oldest and most noted war nurse living. She Is familiarly known as Aunt Becky, although her name is really Mrs. Sarah Young. When Sumpter was fired on Anne Graham was a girl of 17; her two brothers and many of her friends had enlisted, and Anne longed to be a man that she might enter the ranks with the boys who marched so bravely away, leaving a great gap in the homes. When news of the wounded filled the papers Anne decided that if she couldnt fight for her country, she could at least care for those who had so bravely risked their lives in the cause. Two years after Sumpter was fired on the One Hundred and Ninth New York Volunteers was organized in her town, with Benjamin F. Tracy, after- - . ampe- ampe- Wagoa-Loariln- scoop-shape- Spanlsh-Amerl-ca- Record of Una Reglmant- At a recent reunion a comrade vividly told of the various battles that h the Massachusetts regiment was in, from that of the Wilderness down to the close of the war. On May 6 the regiment was fighting in the Wilderness, but was not in the thickest of It has seven killed, twenty-thre- e wounded and four missing, but among them was no officer. Five days later they were throwing up breastworks before Spottsylv&nla court house, and in this movement three men were lost. The regiment was in front of a thick wood, and so misty was the weather that the soldiers could not see a rod Into it. The charge. Comrade Read stated, seemed like rushing into the jaws of bell. Position was taken about six rods in front of the rebel breastworks and the regiment lost 100 men in that affair, thirteen of whom were killed outright. Forty pieces of artillery and many prisoners, however, were captured. For three days the regiment had very little to eat. At the battle of North Anna river live men were lost. At Cold Harbor the loss was heavy in taking the fort. While throwing up breastworks with bayonets and tin cups the regiment lost about ninety men. Company I joined the regiment just after that battle, and when it reached the front it had only sixty men. After the company had joined the regiment the was so decimated that it could muster only about 200 men for duty, although about 900 men had joined the regiment For a week it faced the rebel army, and Its lines were constantly charged. Fifty-eight- it Fifty-eigh- th 99 Ping-pon- simple-minde- had nursed during the struggle, and who lost his heart to the maiden who had brought him back to health. Besides being an army nurse of wide reputation, Mrs. Young is the founder of two state sanitary associations, one in New York and the other In Iowa. The first had its beginning' in Ithaca, N. Y., when she was a girl at the outbreak of the civil war. The latter was organized in Des Moines, at n the beginning of the war. Army Srrvlcu la Grrminj. From a return lately laid before tlie Reichstag, it appears that last year 1,645,846 young men became nominally available for service in the forces of the German empire. From this number, however, large deductions had to be made; 135,168 men had emigrated without leave, and 97,819 were absent without leave from other causes; 573,-7were set back for a year, 25,175 had entered the army, and 1,209 the navy as volunteers; 82,116 were detailed for Ersatz reserve, others were found medically unfit, others were disqualified for other causes, so that finally only 222,667 were drafted into the army, and 6,184 Into the navy. re Con-ner- th and son, at the head of the regiment. Anne Graham had found her opportunity. Mr. Tracy knew the family well, knew of Annes ambition, and also of her skill in a sick room. He immediately secured her a permit to join the regiment as a regular army nurse, and she proudly marched to the front with the One Hundred and Ninth Volunteers. Anne went into the work heart and soul, and with a thorough knowledge of her duties, which soon won for her the admiration and respect of the surgeons and the devotion of the soldiers. She served during the remainder of the war from the Wilderness to Petersburg, caring as tenderly for the rebs as she did for the men of the north. Both the blue and the gray had reason to reverence the name of "Aunt Becky." Mrs. Young tells an amusing story of how the sobriquet of Aunt Becky' came to be bestowed upon her. The boys In the hospital, feeling a tenderness for the young girl who worked so earnestly to relieve their sufferings, persisted in calling her "mother." The title was given her by a young captain whom she brought back to life by careful nursing, and all of the boys took It up. She objected to the name, being a girl barely out of her teens, and feeling that the title added too many years to her life. One day she reprimanded. In a joking way, a young soldier who had used the familiar term. Dr. French of the hospital corps, who was sitting on a camp chair near by reading a paper, glanced up long enough to call out; 'Til give you a name that will last as long as you live." What is it?" inquired Sarah Graham. ' Aunt Becky," was the reply, and he spoke with prophetic significance, for "Aunt Becky she remained to the A Rrmlnlaeeare. I am glal to hear from SergL Grim-sha- w. He was sajd the colonel. awarded a medal of honor for bravery at the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, where he captured a rebel flag. In that charge our brigade lost 135 men, killed and wounded, but we captured Gen. Govan s brigade, entire, with battery and fort, commander and Btaff, Early in October we guarded the prisoners back to Atlanta, and marched them into the prison pens which Gen. Jonnston had prepared for we uns. I made the acquaintance of Gen. Govan on that march, and It was renewed after the war under very pleasant circumstances. Chicago Inter Ocean. flow Shatter Joined Regulars. papuis are relatof the civil war, applicant for a first lieutenancy in the reorganized army, and had working In his behalf a congressman whose knowledge of army affairs was very limited. One day this congressman sent the following message: Dear Shatter I have just returned from a visit to the secretary of war. I find that It will be impossible to have you appointed a first lieutenant, that rank Is now full. However, the secretary Is willing to appoint you a lieutenant colonel, which is the next best thing. Will that do?" Some of the Kansas ing how, at the close Gen. Shatter was an u Death of Muck Hawk War Yutaraa. Henry V. Andrews, one of the few surviving Black Hawk war veterans and a pioneer of Illinois, was buried recently in Canton. 111. He was one of the first of the whites to give the alarm before the Fort Dearborn massacre, and for many years was a government scout. ' |