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THE TIMES
Newspaper and
Commercial Printing
NELS M. OSCAR, Edito.
Published Every Thursday.
$2.00 A YEAR. The Only All Home
Print eekly Newspaper in Bayfielo
County
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iJKreAiiiery|i
The dairy cow to make us a profit
must be housed iu a comfortable sta
ble these cold wintry days. Thus we
admonished at an institute a few days
ago, writes L. W. Lighty in National
Stockman. “But,” said a practical
farmer, “with feeds so high and dairy
products so low, we cannot afford the
expense of building such stables as the
speaker advises. Our income does not
warrant such an outlay.”
Then another practical farmer spoke
thus: “I know my cows were very un
comfortable, and I was uncomfortable
milking and doing the chores. While
the weatherboarding acted as a wind
break, the temperature on the inside
of the stable was nearly" as low as on
the outside, and I knew It was un
profitable, but I began to feel that it
was inhuman. I collected old newspa
pers (they were plenty after the cam
paign) and pretty heavily covered the
entire inside, and over all this I put
some heavy hardware paper that cost
me but little. Next I went to the saw
mill and purchased some waste boards
very cheaply and boarded up the en
tire inside of the stable. Now the sta
ble is perfectly comfortable, the cows
eat less iujil give more milk, and, while
I keep no particular account, I know
those cows have already paid all I in
vested in the extra milk produced, and
on Sunday morning when I go to
church there is just a little less weight
on my conscience.”
Food Value of Cheese.
Undoubtedly many people underesti
mate the value of cheese as a human
food. Comparing it pound for pound
with beef, it furnishes nearly twice as
much food value. Cheese is composed
of about 37 per cent water, 34 per cent
fat, 24 per cent casein and 5 per cent
ash, while meat contains about (X) per
cent water. 15 per cent protein, 20 per
cent fat and 5 per cent ash. Full
cream cheese well cured is a whole
some, digestible and comparatively
cheap food.
A Prolific Milker.
Helena Burke, not only the founda
tion cow ol‘ the Helena Burke family,
but also one of the foundation cows of
Brookside herd, is one of the few
twenty-five pound cows having three
daughters with A. It. O. records aver
aging over twenty pounds each, says
Holstein-Friesian Register. At the time
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HELENA BURKE.
Of making her official record of 25 4?i
pounds butter in seven days she pro
duced in one day 95% pounds milk, and
later, at twelve years old, she gave in
one day during an official test 9894
pounds milk. In 1897 she produced in
four months pounds milk, an
average for 122 days of 82.78 pounds
per day. Three two-year-old heifers
sired by her son, De Kol Burke, at
tained iu official test the unparalleled
average of 18% pounds each.
A DARiNG HONEYMOON.
Bridal Pair’s Trip of Peril In Un
known Asia.
The Count De Lesdain of the French
legation at Peking and his bride, who
recently arrived at Darjeeling, India,
from Tibet, have established a record
In central Asian travel, says a Calcut
ta correspondent of the London Ex
press.
They went north from Peking tc
Minghsi and thence north again, dis
covering two buried cities. They then
traveled to the Gobi desert, discover
ing anew lake, and returned south
west to Liangchow, whence they cir*
cuited on the north to the Lake of
Koko Nur, in Tibet, and arrived at
Jonely Tsaidam salt swamps.
The daring explorers reached the
sources of the Yangtsekiang river, in
latitude 33.58, longitude 91.10. They
endured incredible hardships and at
one time saw no human being for fifty
days. They nearly perished on a terri*
ble upland mud plateau 19,800 feet
high, only four of their transport ani
mals surviving. Thence the count and
his wife struck south to Lake Tingri
Nor and down to the Sangchu river,
avoiding Shigatse, on the route from
India to Lassa, and coming straight to
Gyantse.
They found the Tibetans throughout
friendly and attribute their extraordi
nary success to the effects of the recent
■British expedition.
THE PHENOMENA OF SLEEP.
Curious Observations of Conditions
Under Its Influence.
Of all natural phenomena there is
none so mysterious as the nightly
lapse of consciousness we call sleep,
says a writer in Harper’s. It is a
condition we are born with and into,
for as infants we sleep from eighteen
to twenty hours in the twenty-four.
No appetite is more imperative; for
w'hile we may live for forty days
without food, man’s limit of endur
ance without sleep is only half that
time. In the lower animals it is
even more necessary to life, for they
die in from four to five days when
deprived of sleep.
There are various theories re
specting sleep, the chief of which are
known as the physiological, the
chemical, and the histological.
The old theory postulated conges
tion of the brain, while the present
and generally accepted theory im
plies the opposite, namely, a reduced
supply of blood to the brain as com
pared with the amount in the wak
ing state.
Among the chemical theories of
sleep is the theory of autointoxica
tion resulting from acid-waste pro
ducts (chiefly phosphoric acid) pro
duced by the activity of the brain,
and which are thought to induce a
suspended action of the brain cells
until more or less elimination of
these effete products takes place.
The histological theory accounts
for sleep by the partial retraction of
the treelike branches of the cortical
brain cells, so that the nerve cur
rents are broken or rendered ineffec
tive for the production of conscious
ness. It is claimed that such a con
dition of the brain cells has been
found in animals which were sud
denly destroyed while asleep.
Such are the principal theories of
sleep; while it has yet to be admit
ted, as Dr. Weir Mitchell observed,
that “we are simply driven to be
lieve that it is a state of the nerve
cells —and why not of the nerves?—
in which they became functionally
actionless in a variable degree,
Whether this is true also of the other
cell structures of the body w r e do not
know; and sleep may be a universal
function, as would seem reasonable
to those who believe that plants
sleep. It is sure that the sleeping
brain contains less blood, or it cir
culates less, than the brain awake,
and this is the limit of what we
know.”
Natural sleep has been defined as
mental rest produced by an appetite
resulting from fatigue. But the idea
that mental rest means mental inac
tion is hardly tenable, inasmuch as it
quite frequently happens that the
solution of unsolved problems is the
first thing to appear in the conscious
ness on awakening, and thus the
mind must have been operative while
asleep.
It is commonly supposed that the
greatest depth of sleep occurs about
the end of the first hour. This, how
ever, is not invariably the rule, ac
cording to my own observations in
the Cook County (Chicago) Insane
Asylum, made some years ago, when
I spent two successive nights in
hourly testing the depth of sleep by
light, sound and touch. A majority
of the ten cases I had under observa
tion showed the greatest depth to be
at about 3 a. m. More recently Drs.
Sante de Sanctis and N. Neyros, at
the University of Rome, tested the
depth of sleep in four normal per
sons by pressure upon the temple.
One of these showed the greatest
depth of sleep in the second and
fifth hours, while the others showed
the greatest depth between the first
and second hours.
Cuban Funerals.
A funeral in Cuba, is an interest
ing spectacle. The hearse, which is
as large and gaily decorated as a cir
cus van, leads the procession. Behind
it comes the carriages with no one in
them. Then follows the mourners on
foot. These mourners are always
men, as women are never allowed to
attend burials.
The body is interred in a grave
usually occupied by two or three or
even four other bodies and then the
cabs carry the mourners back to
their homes.
Oftentimes the coffin is rented
simply to carry the corpse to the
grave, where protected only by a
shroud, the remains are buried. The
graves are gorgeously decorated with
flowers made of porcelain. This or
nameutatidn is overdone and gives the
entire a tawdry appearance.
Graves are leased and as soon as
the surviving relatives fail to pay
the exorbitant rents the bones are
dug up and unceremoniously thrown
in one corner of the graveyard, Where
they may be seen piled high.
Effects of Heat on Milk.
Dr. Jensen, chief of the Swiss bu
reau of superintendence over the
milk industry, says that it is a com
mon error to suppose that milk sub
mitted for a considerable time to the
temperature of 120 degrees Fahren
heit is better for nourishment than
that boiled for a short time. When
the heating is prolonged the altera
tion in the valuable properties of the
milk begins as low as 100 degrees,
but with quick heating it does not
begin below 110 degrees. Tuberculo
sis bacili are destroyed by heating to
105 degrees for five minutes, and
such heating does not alter the prop
erties of the milk. Dr. Jensen ad
vises that the pasteurization of milk
to be done in the home, and but
shortly before the milk is used, care
being taken not to go above the tem
perature necessary to kill the patho
genic germs.—Exchange.
Austria, remarkable for its large
eaters, has the highest death rate.
!M CHUiI
J. E Markel Tells About His
Big; Panama Contract
EGGS ARE 10c APIECE
He Expects to Provide for 20,000 Men
at a Time —Board Will Cost from
45 Cents to $1 a Day—All Sup
plies to Be Shipped from New
York Direct.
J. E. Markel, who obtained the con
tract to feed the workmen on the Pan
ama Canal, began the business of feed
ing people nearly fifty years ago,
when, as a hoy, he took a contract to
feed workmen on a big flatboat be
tween St. Louis and New Orleans, on
the Mississippi river. He was raised
on a farm near Mark Twain’s place, in
eastern Missouri, and alter his experi
ence on the flatboat he settled clown
in St. Louis to become a baker.
Next he drifted to the west, and in
1872 began operating eating houses
along the Union Pacific, with which
road he continued for thirty years.
His great experience in feeding
crowds placed him in a positon to bid
intelligently for the Panama contract.
Regarding the contract and Lis plans,
Mr. Markel says:
“The contract runs for five years. I
was first invited to go to the isthmus
by Mr. Wallace, and I was studying
the conditions when he left. I kept
watch of things and continued my in
vestigations until I found out just
what was wanted. I spent a whole
month down there, and when I finished
1 knew what was necessary and knew
just what I was bidding on. The re
sult was that I got the contract.
“What the commission wanted and
what I am going to furnish is a sys
tem of substantial meals at reasonable
prices, so that the employes on the
canal can afford to buy them and will
be in condition to return the commis
sion in labor the worth of their wages.
“For instance, the Jamaica negroes,
now about 4,000, employed on the canal
are scattered along in camps from one
to two miles apart, there being thirty
camps along the forty-seven miles of
canal. These camp3 have from 200 to
300 negroes each.
“The houses are built especially for
the purpose and are thoroughly sani
tary. There are strict rules for keep
ing them clean. The negroes have to
have anything cleaned up by a certain
hour .each morning. The houses are
thoroughly scrubbed once a week and
fumigated every two weeks. They have
comfortable canvas beds.
“But when it comes to eating, the
only things they can afford to buy with
their money, as things now are on the
isthmus, are sugar cane, bananas and
such stuff, and a man can’t stand up
and do a hard day’s work on such a
diet and give back the value of his
wages, are 10 cents apiece, salt
fish is 40 cents a pound, fresh meat
from 50 cents to a dollar a pound, and
everything in proportion.
“Now, we are going to offer them
three meals a day with such stuff as
coffee, bread and meat for breakfast;
coffee, bread, fish, two kinds of vegeta
bles and pie or pudding for dinner;
and much the same for supper, at 45
cents a day, or sl4 a month.
“For the white men, of whom there
are 1,500 now, and there will be 3,000
later, we will run hotels. Two are now
finished, and the number will be In
creased to ten. We furnish them first
class board at $1 a day, and rooms at
$0 a month each, making the cost of
living $36 a month each.
“Before these prices were made we
figured it out with the commission that
laborers generally in this country have
to pay from 40 to 50 per cent of their
wages for living purposes; and clerks
and other salaried men in cities about
the same proportion. So we figured on
the canal to keep down the cost of
living to between 40 and 50 per cent of
the wages.
“The Jamaica negroes get from $1.75
to $2.25 silver each a day. This is from
90 cents to sl.lO in gold, so the com
mission held the cost of living down
to 45 cents a day. Most of the clerks
get from $l5O to $175 a month and no
one gets less than SIOO a month, so
their living is also made -comparative
ly cheap.
“I shall assemble all my supplies at
New Yo r K for shipment to the isth
mus; my buying will be done wher
ever it can be done to the best advan
tage. The commission Ship* ffiy sttifl
for me on refrigerator steamers at a
rate that just covers the actual cost; it
gives me cold storage rooms at Colon
also at fcost, or just a little above cost.
“Practically everything will have to
be shipped. There is absolutely noth
ing that can be bought on the isthmus.
The natives are too worthless and lazy
to raise anything. As fine fish as I
ever saw can be caught on the isth
mus, but the natives never catch
enough to amount to anything.—New
York Sun.
Parisian Examples.
Each arrondissement of Paris Is
compelled by law to wash, scrub, pol
ish and generally renovate tho exterior
of its buildings, and all must be com
pleted by Oct. 1. Two arrondisse
ments are washed' every year, and in
ten years the whole city has been
cleansed and beautified'. If the same
law were adopted and enforced in Lon
don and our great cities, wliat a strik
ing contrast it would make! Imagine
Liverpool wash!—The House* B’eairti
ful.
Censorshio in China.
The censorship is a <rery real thing
in China. There, any one who writes
an objectionable hook is punished with
100 blows of a I?ef' T y bamboo and ban
ished for life. Any one who reads is
also punished.
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g lerk N. M. Oscar
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Services every Sunday at 10:30 a. in. and
7:30 p. m. Sunday School at 12 100 u Prayer
Service every Thursday at 3:80 p. m
SWEDISH LUTHERAN.
Services every other Sunday. Pastor’s
residence Cor. Pine Street and Seventh Ave.
West.
ST.JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Rev. G. La Pla Smith,gVicar.
First Sunday in the month; Morning
prater Litary and Sermon at !0;30 a. m.
Other Sundays; Evening prayer and Ser
mon at 7;30 p. m. Sunday School every Sun
day afternoon at 3:15.
ROMAN CATHOLIC
BEV. FATHER ULBIC PETRI
First Mass Ba. m.; High Mass, 10:30 a. m.
Baptism, 2p. m.; Instructions, 2:30 p.m.;
Vespers, p. m.
Friday 7.3>p. m. Stations and benedict on.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
REV. EUGENE COOK.
West Fifth street. Services every Sunday
at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sabbath School
at 12:00 u. Epworth League at O:3J p. m.
All are invited.
GERMAN EV. LUTHERAN.
Services will be held at 10:00 a. m. except
last Sunday of the month. Sunday School
every Sunday at 11:00, C. GUtekunst,
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