Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1886, Page 2

AN ELECTRICAL QUARREL. The Sperry and Northwestern Eleotric Light Oompanies Have a Disagreement. AN AGED DARKEY'S TROUBLES. He Gains a Little Experience in Buy- ing Real Estate-A Passenger Train,Wrecked—The Missouri Pacific Folled—=Other News Electric Light Troubles. The Northwestern tric Light com- pany obtained temporary injunction in the district yesterday re- straming the Sperry Electric Light com- pany from interfering with their wircs. In their petition they claim that the agents of the latter company have in- dulged in the habit of cutting their wires and purloining their globes and carbon sticks. Not content with this, the peti- ion alleges that the company have placed globes upon their lights blazing forth the assertion that the Sperry Electric Light ompany were the owners of the wires, he case will probably come up in court in a few days. Last night & portion of the city wasloft in darkness, in consequence of the rup- ture between the two companies, which, for some time past, have been doing a partnership business, The provisions of this pership were, however, peculiar, and in Febroary the new president of the Sperry company ordered the Northwest- ern company to remove their plant from the building. This order was not com- plied with, the Northwestern people claiming that the Sperry company had usurped the rights and property belong- ing to the Northwestern. It is said that the latter company is in financial dis- tress, and the outcome of the matter is awaited with interest. Didn’t Fool the O1d Darkey. Samuel Osten is an old colored man re- #iding in Omaha who Yecome the owner of r time ago lie took the necessary steps, as he supposed, to gratify his desires by e tering into a contract with one Martin Quick to purchase two city lots. Samuel went so far as to pny Martin $65 on the contract, and was about to make another payment when the latter informed him that it was not n¢ ary, as an gu- rity had been discovered in the title to iand which made the ownership u Os! then demanded the r turn of the $65 already paid, but Quic refused to comply with the demand. ~ Suit was thercupon commenced in the county court to compel Quick to refund the money, and Osten was given a judgment for §35. This, however, did not i the old man’s difficulties, for Qu fused to pay the judgment. Afier inef- fectual efforts to collect his rightful dues, Osten yesterday made a complaint in the tounty court charging Quick with selling property to which he had no title. A w rant was accordingly issued for Quic arrest and will be served to-day. The crime with which he is charged is a peni- tentiary offense, and matters begin to as- us look for the accused. cked Near Omaha, ision oceurred yesterday after- noon about 2 o'clock on the B. & M. south of Boyd’s packing houso. The Union Pa- ssenger train from Lincoln was coming in over the B. & M. and a B. & M, engine going down to the round hous met it on the curve at that point. Both engines werc moving at a fair rate of speed, and the shock of the collision was severe, throwing them both from the track and wrecking them budly. The mail car wasalso ditehed, and o & sengers received a lively shaking up but none of them were injured. Engincer Jackson of the Union Pacific passenger train, was hurt somewhat about the head, but not seriously, it is thought. Con- hly the d siderable delay asione ¢ i and trains were running again last night. court , but th cle: It Did Not Go, The Jocal Missouri Pacific representa- tive made a desperate attempt yesterday afternoon to send out a freight t Knights of Labor on the Union Pacific discovered the plot, captured the train before it had gone 100 yards, and “killed” the engine, This is ihe third futile at- tempt the Missouri Pacific has made to pass the Knights, and it will probably be the last. Send In Your Applications, City Clerk Southard yesterday informed a BEe man that there was evidently a misapprehension among liquor men as to the time for filing applications for license for the coming year. *“T'he applications » and bonds,” said he, “must be filed in my office on or before March 26, accompan ied by ), the first quarterly installment of the license moncy. Only a very few have been filed so far, whilé last at this time nearly all of them were’in and ready 1o be acted on. In order to secure licenses the saloon men must hurry nong the Ladies. ast week the tadies living on Convent street held an indignation meet- ing over a long stretch of mud, where, if here had been a sidewalk, every vestige of it had completely disappe Each_concluded to contribute her pin moncy, and now a new walk greets the pedestrian whe fora only old, half buried rubber shos were ble. His Liberty Was Short. John T. Brady, the tough ex-ba who was sentenced to confinement in the county jail some time ago for an assault on Mollie Gibson, was released yesterday, his term having expired. He immedi ately hied himself to the scene of his fo) mer difticulty, and sgain Legan to raise a disturbance. Before he couid do any damage he was arrested and taken to the central police station and locked up. sl il A Small Fire, A fire alarm from Thirteenth and Doug- las streets called the fire depurtment out about 9:30 o'clock lust evening. The cause was an incipient blaze in the rear of Honry Hornberger's saloon, which sulted from the careless handling of ker osene in filling a lump. The fire was ex- finguishod with n how pails of water without any material dax e Gone to Lincol Justice Lee Helsley, formerly eity editor of the Republican has' gone to_Lincoln to testify before United States Commission er Billingsley concorning the confession made by the conviet Pearson, of the mur- der of Watson B. Smith. The United States authorities are inclined to regard the confession as decidedly “moonshiny," but will nevertheless investigate it fully rtender DIED, MEWS~Francis R. Mews, Maich 11, 158 aged 51 years, at Colton, Cal, The vemains were brought by bis fatber, Fraueis Mews, of Pacitic Junction. lowa, to Glenwood, and there buried. —- - ft for Culifornia last eve. y he will stop at Laramie, nia City aud hold revival Bon Hogan I ning. On the wi Reno and V nieetings. g, Tuesday evening, Murch 30; AMUSEMENTS, Mary Anderson's Statuesque Rosalind Draws a Large Audience, As the people filed ont of the opera house last night the consensus of their opinions was that Mary Anderson was an irreproachable Rosalind With every step toward thewr homes, however, their high opinion of tlie beautiful actress be- gan to A beautiful woman is always an object of adnuration, and is able without genius to obtain a hold upon an audience which an unlovely woman with the greatest genius could never do. It is to Miss Anderson’s personal charms that she owes the best part of her suc- cess. As Galatea her cold, statuesque beauty was suflicient; there is no need of acting—the character does not call for it T'he part of Rosalind, how- ever, needs something more t mere comeliness and cold posing, Rosalind was o woman, composed of nd blood. She was not an idyllic reaticn of a fanciful brain, but « woman of a strong mind and marked characte istics of womanhood. No one, sceing “As You Like It” for the first time last night, would make a pronounced, definite distinction between the type of 'Galatea and the lovable maiden” of the torest. Rosalind--and it does not detract from herlovableness—should be warm-hearted, almost diffusive in her demeanor. This, lowever, does not seem to be Miss Ander* son's conception of the part. She places woman upon a cold, idealistic plane, and depicts her as an utterly intangible and an unapproachable creature. 1t may be right to place woman upon an icy pedestal of this character, butit cer- tainly is not the idea of the present centiry. Divesting the mind of the ef- fects of her great beauty and the person- al charms of her character, and regard- ing her in the cold light of dispassionate criticism one is fm'uuh to ask why, heinf.: as great as she is,she docs not surpass all criticism and become a marvelous ac- tress. There may be several reasons why s is not greater. s young, ssionless, and always buoyed up b ¢ deification has ni verienced the ‘‘sweet uses of adversi assion one must feel it. ason many a poorer actress t Miss Auderson makes a stronger apj to the hea Her G is superior to her Rosalind be the former calls for the exc of superficial qualities and the Iatter for soulfulness and insight. In each she commanded the admiration of her audience, but in neither does she thrill and overcome her anditors. The greatest actress is the ono who can muke the crowd forgetful of the arish footlights and the superficiality the stage—who makes her listeners ob- ivious of everything but the character which they see delincated. Miss Ander- son goes just to this pointand then stops. In everything under this sne is almost perfeet. She has not, however, touched a point above this line of demarkation. Notwithstanding all this, her imper- sonations of atea and Rosalind at the Boyd deserve gr commendation. Lvery detail of the art has been thoroughly mastered by her and if her audience had intellect without heart the performance would have been called verfect, Her support was excel- lent, the company appearing to much advantage than upon the previous iing. Miss Anderson lo to-day for Denver, en route for San Francisco. JOHN T. RAYMOND. The well-known comedian, John T, ymond, will appear at Boyd’s Opera o next Friday and Saturday. *“The Magistrate,” one of the greatest comedy comedy stccesses of the year, will be presented on Friday ning and Satur- matinee, and on Saturday night Mr. ymond will be seen in his *‘Col. Mulberry Sellers.” The sale of seats begins “Thursday morning at the box oflice. lessen, MEXICAN MUSIO, The Mexican orchestra will open their engagement in Omaha with a sacred concert next Sunday evening at Boyd's Opera house. - O'Donahoe & Sherfy. Call attention to their stock of LISLE THREAD, SILK and KID GLOVES, which is now complete. REGULAR MADE, REAL LISLE 11 colo Dbutton length, 25c. xtra ne TAFFETA SILK, 6-button length, all colors, at 40c 4-button KID GLOVES, all colors, at 60c per pair. These arc only a fow of the leading We invite a careful comparison They are the b value offered. We o 50 show: complete stock of Toilet Soaps, P Hosiery, cte., ete. our £00ds and save money. O'DONAHOE & SHERFY, Fifteenth St., next to the Postoflice, —— fume: Promenade concert, Exposition Build- ing, Tuesday evening, March 30; 25 cents. —— For imported male and female canaries go to Win. Gentleman’s, L ar, Hudson’s, Millard block. LA ew York 1 had an opportun- ose out a stock of L] price that will enable us to sell them at less than half price. Goods worth $1 will be sold for 50c or less, and e goods » and soon. The goods will be here i y or two and will be atonce p They comprise all kids of Wool Laces, 1 Kinds of Cotton Laces, all kinds of Linen Laces and a splendid fot of Chan- tilly and Spanish. Laces. This will be the greatest bargain we ve yet offered in these goods. N. B. FALCONER. b Launber Oflice Removed, For the couvenicnce of my customers and the public I haye moved my oflice to the corner of Ninth and Douglas street. 1 have considerabiy enlarged my yard and am now better prepar i'llmu ever to handle lumber on sm: gins, Come and see me when you want to build, FRED W, GRAY, CAl - “U.S. M. Whatsit#” New neckwi While in ity to at a For Sale—Elegant ) room furniture, ok v o chest, big mir: c., at ' bargain, PETER GOOs, 1510 Farnaw, WOOD. tiful location; quarter acre lots lot on ensy terms; twenty min- utes' wulk from Hunscom Park AdES, 1507 FARNA, SOLE AGENIS, Furniture, an yon buy firniture get prices at uglas street, oppo ! d & Pucific R nd ticket oflice removed to 13 Telephone No. 782, ——— Promenade coneert, Exposition Build- ing, Tuesday evening, Maich 50, 25 cents - What is ity Lt Teachers' Examination, Notiee is heredy given that 1 will ex- amine all persous who may desire 10 of- fer themselves as cundidates for teachers of the primury or common schools of this county at Omuha on the 27th day of Murch, 1839, Jaxes B. Bruneg, ght Franaw street Plenty of Sult Luke and native rota- toes, fresh-butter. und eggs 4t Wi, Gen- tlemin's, 16th and Cass —t Prowenade concert, Exposition Build- 25 ceuts, | It is Played with Grcat Success at the Na- tional Capital, Big Winnings by a Western Congress- man—Heavy Betting All Round. New York Mail and is a man,' said a well sional attache, pointing to a western member, “who has won $40,000 at poker since the present session began. If he keeps on in good luck he will have over $100,000 before the session ends, and when he goes home his constituents will say he has been bribed. He came here worth nothing , and, of course, when he gets back, buys a fine house and begins to drive fast horses, it will look sus- picious. But I happen to know he won Iis money at poker. 1 was present at a game in a senator’s house one night and w him win $6,000 on one hand. What the dead man's hand? Why, it is three jacks and a pair of te) It is called the dead man's hand because "about forty Jears ago, in a town in lllinois a cele: brated judge bet his house and lot on i and a pair of tens. It was the last piece of property he had in the world When _his opponent showed up he had three queens and a pair of tens. Upon sceing the queens the judge fell back, dead, clutching the jacks and tens in his hand, and that’s why a jack full on tens is called a dead man’s hand, Well, I saw the member we are talking about now win $6,000 on_ this hand. There were six gentlemen playing, and all were in and all had big hands. “One had a nine full another a four full, another three aces, another three Kings and another a seven full. 1t was a $10 ante and $20 to come in; but the first man straddled the blind, muking it $40 to come in. As all took cards there $240 in the pot to begin with. The first man bet $200. The man to his left led it, but the next man raised This put the bet to $300, and the next man ealled it. When_ it got to the Western memb who dealt, he raised it to a $1,000. red everybod exeept inguished railroad lawyer, cyer saw the i went $1,000 better, stopping to take a check book from his coat pocket and draw asight check for the amount. The congressman w this and went $2,500 better. The wyer then began to think. He looked at the congressman sharply and long to study his countenance, to see if he could form an idea of the hand he sat upon. Then he fell to studying his own hand and rubbing hus forehead in a medi- tative wi Then he laid his cards down, coolly took out his cheek book, wrote a check for $2,500, and called the congress- man. The congressman held the dead man’s hand and the lawyer three nines and a pair of sixes. Substracting the $40 he had put into the blind aud the bets he had made himself, there was exactly £6,100 in the pot, which represented the congressman’s winniugs on that hand. Did"the game go on? Oh, yes, but the railroad lawyer had a very dry cough the remaining part of the evening, and his apparent melancholy had a depressing eflect on the balance of the com- pany. So, after an hour or thel abouts, the game broke up. This railroad lawyer who is exceedingly well known west and east, went to New York the next day, and I afterward learned that he lost $20,000 one ight at poker in a room in the Hoffman house. A southern con- gressman was credited last winter with winning enough money at poker to pay off a $30,000 mortgage, with interest, on his plantation, and to' replace his old mules, plows, wagons and farm imple- ments generally with new ones. He would mnot play except at unlimited ames, and he played with a dash ana oldness that dismayed his opponents. Luck attended him until the very shank end of the session. Finally it turned, but too_late for the losers to get much of their money back. The southener went home $30,000 better off than he came. This session it has been the other way. The southener hunted up the same old nd for a few days played with his magical Iv Then unkind fortune be- gan to vouchsafe to him only small pairs, which he could never strengthen by a draw, or exasperating Dutch fulls, or tantalizing bobtail flushes. Then' the southerner took to blufling and in time ran up against a_ successive seri three aces, King fulls, four-of straights, flushes and the like with disas- asterous result; To save his life he couldn’t make a small pair evolute into threes, and to four h he iny bly drew an off-suit, lik deceptive dia- mond or an ominous and gruesome spade. So he continued to blnfl' and to ot caught. Now there is another mortgage on his plantation. In the old slavery days when a southern congress- man_wanted to raise a poker stake ho would ‘sell a nigger,” but now he must sell a few mules or mortgage his planta- tion, and, of course, the latter is much the simplest plan, The Danger of False Teeth, Xenia (0.) Dispatch: A singular acei- dent, which resulted in the death of David Strong, nged 68 years, occurred at Medway, a small village near the Clarke and Green county line, yesterday at noon. Mr. Strong was engaged m eating his dinner, when he suddenly commenced to choke and grow black in” the The members of his family at once went to his rescue and tried to relieve him, = but were unable to do so, and & messenger s dispatched for a physician, Before medieal assistance arrived Strong was a corpse, death having resulted from strangulation., An examination by the physician showed that he had partially swallowed the upper row of his fals teeth while engaged in eating his dinner, and that they had lodged iu‘h throat in such a manner that he was unable to dislodge them or make the members of the family understand what was the matter, - —~ Children cannot be injured by too much Star Cough Cure. It has no opiates. - A Little Lame and Started Early, They were stunding on the front step and he was saying, “'I'could die tor you," when the door opened and her father and a pair of No. 12 boots came out. The young man darted for a deep shadow. *I thought that thing smd he could die for you," suid the parent; “‘where's he gone now?"’ Well, pa, judging from the size of these boots, I guess he's gone to arrange for the funeral.” dxpress: “There known congr three re. Texas Siftings: The barkeeper of the Gently Dreamingsaloon remarked to Gus de Smith that his, barkeeper' ant at the University of Texas s your son studying? asked . So you are gof Y e At a paper mill in Lewiston, Me., the following letter dated Brunswick, Noy- ember 11, 1866, recently was found “Hiram, your actions at the husking bee last evening left me no longer doubtful as to what course Ishould take. I thought Leared for you, but I was a fool, and now am punished for my folly. Inclosed are the lock of hair. the picture and the ring you gave we Periips the ring will it somebody else's finger just as well. June."” MARCH 24, 1886 EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF. Owmana, Mareh 20,~~To the Editor:— rmit me through'the eolumns of your paper to presen} the views of a working: man upon the eontlict between labor and capital which is mow assuming such gigantic proportiotis as to threaten not only the established order of things but for a time the ' well'being of the “bread-winner’] as well. Let every one who thinks the lot of the average workingman a pleasant one, go try it on, and there will be a radical cliange of opinion, thorough and com- plete, in a short time He will find that his labor is a dommodity bought by the capitalist as he buys his food and other supplics necessary for the carrying out of his business, i. e., making money; that his well-being as a man with a soul ana body to care for, and perhaps a family of little ones to provide for, is not consid- ered—that is notthe (-mnlnrl'r‘fl business. Should he be foolish enough to complain, he will be given to understand that the employer is not running a_charitable in- stitution and if he don't like 1t he can quit. But oan he quit? In most in- stances he can not. He must eat, have clothing and shelter, as nature requires it. Men do not cat simply because they like to, but because they have to, there- fore he dare not quit, so he struggles on, sces his family reared in poverty, their education hampered by want of proper clothing to enable them'™ to attend school regularly, and finally are compelled to turn oat to work at an carly age in order to_help maintain themselves. Wm‘kinfi;m-n se 1 this and try to remedy it by combinations called “‘trade unions,’ thinking that by combining they can compel a recognition of their wants and command respect. We all admit that “‘in union there is strength,” and while something has been accomplished, much more remains to be done, and I fear trade unjonism as at present covstituted will not be the instrument for that purpose. Conceding that capital is grasping and sclfish, is not a trade union nearly as bad? How many members of labor organiza- tions are such tor the purpose of benefi ting their fellow-workmen? Isitnot a selfish reason that animates some when joining such org: tions? 'To better self by combining with his neighbor is the idea, and whenever the union ceases 0 be a m to_that_end, his interest therein grows cold and probably dies al- together. Did the striking moulders at Chicago take a thought as to the effect of the - tion uvon the Jaborers and helpers thrown out of work thereby? 1 Does the Omaha brick hen satistied that he can get through on nine hours per day at forty-five cents per hour, bother him- ause his hod-carrier's pittance is reduced by that arrangement, or will he when winter comes again and compe. him to ‘‘knock 6ff * (he claims a high rate of wages becatse of this season of idle- ness), hesitate to do Jaboring when many laborers are idle? *No. Should you ask him why, he probably would say, ‘‘be- cause I don’t have to;” "in other words, ‘“‘because I am the strongest and looking out for myself.” The unenviable pbsition of the work- ingman of today’cannot, I think, be charged wholly;to'the oppression of cap- ital. The perniciops teachings of th resent day nru,lux'gcli' respousible. The inborn selfishness of humanity has been strengthened dnd dntensified by them. “Every man for himsclf,” make your own way in the'world, and kindred catch words are responsible for, and have jus- fied many great wrahgs against the laws of God and the dictates of humanity, and while labor unions are a ‘‘means to the end,” and_are therefore valuable, they will not be the instrument that will eventually better the condition of the m; Having scrved their purpose they (the unions) will pass away to make place for other forces that in the fullness of time and the goodness of God will com- pel a recognition and the practice of the divine command, “love thy neighbor as thyself.” N s NOTICE ! Proposals for Real Estate, Bids will be received by the Trustees of South Omaha up to Thursday, March 25, for the purchase of the N. half of the N. W. quarter and the N. W. quarter of the N. E. quarter of scetion five (5) township fourteen (14) Range thirteen (13) Doug county—120 acres more or less. This is what is known as the “Orchard tract” of the Syndicate lands, It is only a little over a mile from Hanscom Park and about one-half mile northwest of the stock yards. It lies beautiful and will make elegant property to subdiv Will be sold in 40, 80, or 120 acre tracts. I\ S one-fourth c; 5 at7 percent bids| ved, any or all lic right to rej A. Upton, Address M. 13th St t, Exposition Build- ing, Tuesday evening, Murch 30;25 cents, LI For Sale. Livery stable of thirty years standing; doing « fine_business, only reason for selling, a desire to retire from busines Will Tease the building for a term years. Geo. W. Homax 13th and Hurney Sts. s, good grados and a square Low pric I Lumber Yard, 13th & Cala deal. Centry Frederick’s Hat Store moved to Creigh- ton Block, 15th St., near Postoflice. - Lawton & Mole, Printers, 15th and Dodge. WanteD:—To pur ¢ one or two lots for cash, east ot Thirtieth strect, Ad- dress, giving location and lowest cash price, 1. 7, BEE ofii Frederick's Hat Store moved to Creigh- ton Block, 15th 8t,, near Postofli —r—e———— At 1001 8. 13thiSt. is the place to buy buildin, per, carpet felt, mouldings, doors, windows, blinds, cte., at very fow prices. o . F. LymaN, Lo A “U.S. M. What is e A - N¢yypagt News, Newport has:proted most popular of Acre Lot Additionsi 120 ucres were pur- chased October ast,! THE ROUGHESTIPART OF WHICH we have sold ih:40 &cre tracts to several purchasers, W¢ now ofler for the first time " TH II}.h'I‘.l‘Aa' OF NEWIPORT, Come and see the ground Aus, 1507 FArNaM ST, Sole Agent. ——— Surgieal Pre prices at the Central and California, Instruments at ription Dry, Fine line Cheney & Oleson’s store 1307 Farn Before buying Lumber Yard, ~-~ — We will take a few more Omaha loans at low rates, J. W, & E. L. SquIgk, Council Blufis, lowa - If you buy lumber anywhere without first getting Hoagland's prices you will lose money, city e A Beautiful Store, The finest and most complete Art Store wesi of Chicago is Hospe's, 1518 Dougglas - Dr. Hamilton Warren, kclectic . Physi- cian and Surgeon, 703' N. 16th s near Webster. Day and night promptly dttended to. cally LETTER - WRITING ~ CRANES. | Queer Folks who Ask Questions and Make Suggestions, Perpetual Motion, the Tin Mine De- lusion, and the Search for Hidden Troasures. Washington Star: rAt the time that President Gartield was shot a new speci of people seemed suddenly to have sprung into existence, and under the eu phoneous name of “cranks” acquired notoriety that was almost as widespread of their head and chief—Guiteau, This city seemed al onceoverrun with this odd variety of the human race, and finally the public mind got in such a con dition on this subject that it was not safe to make an odd remark in the hearing of a stranger without being at once sot down as acrank, After six months or so of cranks and crankism there was not so much said on the subjoct, and gradually the matter disappeared from public at- tention, except the name of erank, which is still reteined, and which people in the playfulness of their friendship are fond of applying to eaclt other. In view of this it may sound strange to say that the cranks numerous as ever, and sm manifests itsolf in a_groat ricty of forms. The government lette: ag is where this phenomenon is found in the highest and best stage of develop- ment, and it may be of intercst to those fond ‘of statistics to know titat the ratio of these letters to the rest of the mail shows a steady increasoe year :\(Iur% ar, Of couse they can be all W1ikdeH MHUGE L et AL BRSO cranky letts but it would do the writers an in- justice to allow them to restunder the im- putation which this word conveys, For some of these letters are without doubt from the inmates of insane asylums, and mply a collection of words and’sen- tences without any intelligent meaning. One of the most voluminous correspon- dents of this class is a man, who some years ago got the idea that he was at the head of the treasury department. From nis room in a remote insane Tum he has for years managed the fiseal affairs of the government, and in the execution of his functions he finds it necessary now to sharply rap the president over the knuckles and then sternly thre: to allowd the payment of He also keeps in communi the heads of all the departments, so that if they commit the errof acting con- trary to his financial policy the fault will be thel not his. Outside of this a anks comes another, nking nextin point of numbers and per- sistency. That is that numerous class of persons who believe in perpetual motion. The s hardly a day pusses but that ope or more applications for a patent for perpetual motion machine is received at the patent oftice. For years and yo these applications have come pouring in, and the ems to be no discouragement on the part of those who are struggling with this problem. When a man_gets the idea once he generally sticks to it un- til he dies, and if he does not manage to inoculate someone else, the idea spreads of its own accord and the ranks of the experimenters ure kept full After the perpetual motion ¢ reached a certain stage in th ments they generally make a patent office to see about getting out a They are not told that their la- re in vain, but they are simply asked to furnish a_working model. Of course they haven’t a working model. They expect to have one soon, when the) have attended to one little point Which needs some slight changes. In the meantime, lest some one else comes in and gets a patent for the samo, they will file a caveat or notice of the kind of in- vention they propose to get a patent on, 1t is a sad commentary on the, hopes of such inventors that the majority of the applications for patents of this sort are in the form of caveats and never reach the next step in the process, A very great number of Yoopln are under the impression that the govern- ment had offered a reward or premium for the invention of a perpetual mation machine, and such requests as this are ¥ common: “Please tell me what the premium of- fered for the invention of perpetual mo- tion is; also, whether it is to be used a propelier to drive other machinery. answer at your ea t convenicnce would much oblig The patent office lar reply to just such requests, they had become so numerous that it was impossible to answer them all. The vperpetual motion people have been fanmhar to the president and the heads of departments for years,and they would probubly feel lo them, but just now a new craze, so to k, is enlivening the monotony of offi- respondence, This is expressed in such letters as th (D} heen informed that the govern- a reward of §3,000 for the disec tin mine in this coun try. I should like to know if it is corrcet and what the conditions are?”’ Wi uch mformation came from, who first started it, may be put down a$ one of the my, s of the human mind. While its origin is a mystery there is no doubt but that it has a wide circulation, for just now the letters in ene after the other, all making inc s about L tin-mine ‘premium. - The perpetual-mo tion Y.-nm.-, the tin‘mine people, and the people with all sorts of notions and ideas contribute a very we portion of the contents of the government letter-bag. Then there are the requests that come from mothers, sisters and wives for lost futhers, husbands and sons, whose disap- pearance so sudden and unexpected has illed them with alarm, and, after ex- hausting every other means, they at last appeal to the government to help them, The confidence and faith which some of the writers manifest in the power of the government is sometimes very touching, and it is diflicult to frame a reply that will be convincing. "The appeals for help are not always for lost relatives, and there is rarely a quest made so unique as the following “While I was a soldier in the Mexican war I found out near where the Mexicans had deposited several thousand dollars, and I have spent the best of my time since then to find out its ct location Thus far I have not succeeded, and I had come to the conclusion that the v way to get atit. I want you to write to me whether there is such a thing as a mineral rod, and whether it will work to money; what the chance will be for me to get one, and if you will assist me. Iam an old man and a poor man and have not much money to spend | Twill be well offif I can get something that will work to this place, and am wi ling to divide with any who will fur nish me with the proy anetism.” The writer might well be clussed with the searchers for the fountain of perpet- ual youth, in the faith and confidence | which he has manifested in the scarch for hidden treasur -——— Atkinson's (the leading Millinery and Hair Goods Emporium) have moved to r spacious rooms 1n Masonic temple, 16th st. and Capitol ave., where they will in future be }.1‘ asee to greet their many patrons and friends - You can buy furniture cheaper. of A L. Fiteh & Co., 12th st., bel Farnam and Dou glas, than any other place in tho city S - Promenade concert, - Exposition Build ing, Tuesday evening, March 30; 25 cents INDIAN JUGGLERS. Their Tame Cobras Not Always De- prived of Their Poison Teoth, ke, writes George Augustus , to think that the snakes are always harmless which are brought arouud to house doors and hotels in Ind by the jugglers and samp-wattahs, An almost universal opinion exists that these men extract the poison-fangs from the ser- pents kept in their baskets, and that any body may approach and play with them y s their exhibitors, This is by means the case, and many of the reptiles which hiss and ~ coil about in the Indian yerandahs are as deadly as any to be found in the jungle. These people tame and familiarize their snakes, especially the cobras, which » then disinclined to strike, and become quite playful and friendly, <o that, unless suddenly fright- ened or irritated, they dart at ihe hand of the snake charmer without erceting the poison fangs or even opening their mouths. It would, howeve be - ent and very dangerous if a strang trifled with some of these basketed sor- nts,and the samp wallahs themselves oc- casionally fall vietims to the recklessness or confidence with which they tle their captures. The maharajah of Benares was kind enough to send the entire company of his palace jugglers for our entertain- ment. ‘They performed with much adroitness the usual series of Hindoo tricks. They made the mango tree b ripe fruit from a seed, swallowed fire and swords, disentangled inextricable knots, and, having mixed together in water and drunk up three powders, red, green and yellow, one of them brought wl emed the same powders forth from his mouth in a dry state again. Then they produced a large selection of snakes, of which three were cobras, and one ot these was made to_dance to the gourd and ban- sula, striking again and again mean- whilo at the hand of the per- former. A doubt being expressed by somebody as to the lethal powers of this creature, the chiof juggler declured was \rily. 6 dantwalion, and had poison teeth. *If the sakeblog would su ply & sheep or goat, they might qui see whether he spoke s true wo Eventually a_white chicken was pro- duced, and seizing his cobra by the neck, the juggler pinched its tail and made it bite the poor fowl, which uttered a little cry when the_sharp tooth punctured its thigh. But being placed on the ground, the chicken began to up rice with unconcern, apparently unin- jured. In about four ~minntes, however, it ed moving hither and thither, and began to look sick. In two minutes more it had dropped its beak upon the ground, and was evidently p: Iyzed, aud unable to breathe freel, another minute it fell over upon its side, and was dead with convulsions within ten minutes after the bite. At Pahlan- pur, the snake charmer, for whom we sent to ecatch n serpent, said to be infest- ing the compound, had just died 1 bite from one of his own captive snakes. b Egyptian Progroess. English 1lustrated Magazine: Egypt is not at a standstill at present; it is moving faster, for better or for worse, than it ever moved before. And this is true of its an- tiquities as well us of other things; the an- cient cities are being in the prosent day dug away and their earth spread on the ground as n fertilizer; and this is going on at such =« et some have almost entiroly disappe: ed alrealy, ‘and . fields of corn h taken their others are dismissed to half the si were a gencration or two back, and are still diminishing every day. And the time does not secm ve ar distant when searcely a site of a city Ibe able to be identifi Certainly ot will have exhausted its antiquity before England exhausts its coal fields And up the Nile tombs are opened every year, and fow discovered. " In one sense we just beginning to explore Egypt, treasu ns to be exhaustibl that is only be our attack” from another and terrible truc sense, cexhausting itself, the natives are lessly digging, and unless we look to it pretty quickly, the history of the country will have perished before our eyes by the destructive activity of its nhab- itants. Never before has that land of monuments been so | ly worked on; daily and ly the spoils of ages past are ransacked, and if of marketable value are carried off; but whether preserved or not is a_small matter compared with the loss of thei connection and history which always re sults in this way. 1f ‘we are not to incur the curse of posterity for our vandalism and inertness, we most be up and doing in the night way. fields are on Rea) Estate Transfers. The following transfers w Mareh 22, with the county cler reported for the BEE by Ames' Real Estate Ageney: 0. P, Stebbins (single) to Wm. W, K :‘,m, 1t 16, blk 7, Hanscom Place, Omaha; w nd wife to Bernhard C. Hen- town of Eikhorn, Doug Nolte rides, 1t2, bl “(single) to_Franklin . 1, Hiliside add. W. Lyman and wife to Georze Vradenburg, 1t 6, bik 4, Dwight & Lyman'’s Omaha: —8550. Amsbary of sely, A Drake (single) and others to John en, It 8, ik 5, Drake's add., Onialin; 3 Cocke, It 4, blk Hanscom Place, Omaha; w. S1,10, John Simmonds and others 10 the’ public, dedication. Bristol st Smith, ¢ Ada ¥ Christia et _extension through nwif of 9, 15, 13, Douglus county Lyinan and wite to Chiarles J, bilk 17, Dwight & Lymans add., Omaha; d., $550. Larmon ) d wife to L. Har- Awbler Place, Omalia; W, d., W, ¢ Tyt — - What is ite"” moved to ( e Postoflicy Cheap Gas. Use albo earbon with city gas and 80 ver cent of cost. For sale by W 15th St. beautiful hat store in , full of the new spring st stock, lowest prices. sh- vederick's ghton bloc style hats. Larg Dunlap b aie Al 3 Purify Your Blood, Among spring preparations, do not neglect that which is wost important of all—your own body. During the winter the blood absorbs many imparities, which if not expelled, are liuble to break out i scrofula or other disease. The b spring medicine is Hood's Sarsapar It expels every impurity from the blood and gives strength o overy function of the Sold by all druggists -~ Every Woman Knows The The human body is much hke clock or watch in its wovements; if goes too slow or too fast, so follow all the othe nd L org f organs works imperfectly, perversion of funetional effort of all the organs 15 sure to follow. Hence it is that the numerous ailments which make woman's life miserable are the direct is sug of the sbrnormal action of the nierine tem. For all that numerous class of symptoms—and_every woman knows them—there is one unfailing remedy, Dr. Pierce's orite Pre the fuvorite of the sex. od d time results; if one | MAY WHEAT SELLS AT EIGHTY A Reaction Sets in and It Hangs All Day Around Eighty-One, TRADING ON A LARGE SCALE The Heaviest Day's Business For th Past Three Months — Other Speculative Markets Firmer, CHICAGO GRAIN MARK Cr1cAGo, March 23.—[Speclal Telegram.] =WnEAT—Nine out of every ten room traders came on 'Change fully imbued with the notion that wheat was going lower. They had thirty reasons why it should sell down to e, and none why it should soll bo higher. Accordingly nearly everybody had a Jag of stuff to dispose of to the highest bid- der. Buyers wore scarce, and the price struck Soe, a loss from yestorday's closing of Lse. That proved to be the bottom. The outside began to be heard from. Orders to buy a little poured in on the commission houses and the market turned. Consider- able wheat changed hands at 80¢, but more was bonght at 80 @80!5c on the back track. There was a steady buying by brokers as well 8s commission houses, and the bears grow MOre nervous every minute. A report gained currency that Cudahy was buying in the Wheat he had sold yesterday and that he was clearing up the last of his long standing trades, many of which stood him a profit on the decline in prico of 2% a bushel. 1t was said, too, that Ream was cov- ering; and another rumor was afloat to the ef- fect that Armour was in the market with large buying order Hillsbury's name was also handled about as a buyer, When S0}gc was reached on the reaction, a large number of room traders, who had sold near the bot tom, came into camp, carrying the price up ‘o 8llge, where it stuck for a long time. At one time, along about 11 o'clock, May touched but Sle seemed to be the price about which the hardest fighting was done, and the price did not get far away rrom thero durtng the last two hours and a half of the morning session. News from the seat of the strike rly looked for, and the depression in stock market was used as a weanon to hammer wheat, but with less effeet than on previous days. Transactions in the wheat it were probably larger in the acgregate than on any single previous day for three months. During the last hour business was comparatively dull, and the active traders who had been in the crowd all morn- Ing took a breathing spell. They agreed that an enormous amount of short wheat had been bought in on easternand local accounts, and that foreigners had been the best buyers of long wheat. Reports also reached here that the exporting houses were the froest buyers in New York. There ageneral dx‘spualllon displayed to discredit the reports of purchasing of long wheat by local and northwestern capitalists, and the belief was prevalent that the bulk of the buying was to cover lines of shorts, Where the milllons upon millions of bushels of wheat came from to enable the bears to close their trades with- out “kiting” prices was a mystory that nobody seemed able to solve. “It must be country whe said several. Relzning quotations at 1 o'clock were 81@S1%c for May, and 823%c for June. Corx—Corn was strong and active, Lighter recelpts at primary points, couled with the fear that the strike might seriously affect the great corn carrying lines, served to brace up the market and stimulafe buying. May advanced from 35%c to 89, where 1t closed. T'rade was lively until noon, when it slacked up. OATs—Oats were quiet and firm, and an advance of ¥c 15 noted. ProvisioNs—Provisions were firm and rather better prices were obtained. Light receipts of hogs and increased local and out- side inquiry stiffened the market considera- bly. Pork scored an advance from yesterday of 10¢, lard 23gc, and ribs Tie. No ralding was attempted during the duy, nor was any effort made to boom prices, AFTERNOON BoARD—May wheat sold down to 80Jc on the afternoon board and closed at B0 @0'gc, with Juns at 82, the weakness in stocks and on Wall streot ap- parently the cause. Corn was a shado off, Provisions were lower and closed weaker than at any time during the day, 2:40 p. m.—Puts on May wheat, 0% @i0e; calls, Slige. Chandler-Brown Co,'s Report. The following report of Chicago's speenla- tive markets is furnished the Bre by W, P, Peck, Omaha representative of Chandl Brown Co., of Chicago and Milwauke tWeak cablesand thesmall decrease of 810,000 bushels in the visible supply of wheat caused ayweak opening this morning. The starting point was J@le below last night's closing, The crowd were heavy sellers at the start, but not much long wheat came out, and the market soon became firm, though the con- tinued spread of the labor troubles caused a very uneasy feeling, and was a drag against improvement. Exporters reported a good demand for May wheat from the other side, and some long buying for coutinental aee count. Sawyer bought 50 loads, and Nightin- gale had some buying orders. New York re- ported 5 loads taken for exyort. Corn—Firm and higher; May sold at 3¢ Provis Firn 2:90 p. w.—Wheat we bles have weakened the E Hwicoff. Lor) s oINS Marc May June August Conx= March.. Avet Muy.. Junn O Mas A June LARD— Murch April May June . Polk— x322 sgse Juie BHORT Kips— Murch — M Ju oo cose sssa CHIVAGO LIV CiicAGo, March Speclal Telegram CATILE—AS receipts were very light the day and for the week thus far, salesmen were demanding considerably higher prices. STOUK, | ‘Themarket was slow to open beeause of the difference in the views of buyers and sellers, § and when business was commenced it was doue at very uneven rates. During the morn- [ ing a majority of fhe buyers considered the market no wore than strong, but some sales- men said prices were 10615 higher, and one Or 1wo were ore pronounced in their views. | Opinions differed greatly, and many dealers | | | | considered that prices were not quotably hig Sulpping steers, 1,830 to 1,50 1bs, £4.4065.005 1,200 to 1,50 1bs, $4.00@5.30; ¥.u 10 1,200 1bs, $3,75@4.75, Hoas—The market was active and pr fully 10¢ bigher than on Monday, and 234 #0c higher than a week ago. The best assort- @l heavy and prine buteher pigs sold to-duy a8 #4004 00, and good 10 chioice mixed and L}