Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 15, 1887, Page 2

SHORT - SICHTED CHILDREN, Astounding Faots Developed By the Iowa Btate Board of Health, ‘THE CAUSE FOUND IN SCHOOLS. Veterinarians On the Lookout For Live Stock Discases—A Little Mili- tary Scnsation—Other News of lowa. fNapidly Growing Blind. Des Morses, Ia, August 14.—[Speclal to the Bre.|—The stereotyped question that has agitated revival circles so many years— 1s the world growing better?—can be profit- ly suspended for a little; while those in authority consider another question—Is the world growing blind? The number of chil. dren wearing glasses, seen on the streets of this elty and other large towns, Is sufficient to call attention to the subject with a good deal of surprise, Twenty-five years ago, a spoctacle child was a curlosity, People looked with mingled astonishment and ity upon the poor unfortunate and wondered why nature was so weakened. Now youngs- ters with glasses in front of their eyes, and numberless others who need glasses but don’t ‘wear them, are not uncommon. Inquiry shows the number of nearsighted children, to be surprisingly large, and the most la- mentable part of it s that their nearsighted- mess Is largely due to bad treatment in the public schools, It seems remarkable that the schools which are designed tb develop the child’s growth in all directions should be the occasion of his misfortune. But they are to & great extent in this respect, at least, not 1n- tentionally so of course, but through ignor- ance of some of the primary principles of sciencé. The state board of health has been fnvestigating this matter, and for that pur- Ppose sent requests to different schools of the state for the number of children who were meirsighted, or whose sight was impaired be- yound an average condition, The returns ro- ceived . were. in some Instances ap- in one school In Warren eounty, containing 730 pupils in average attendance, 160 are f‘” ighted. Almost one-fourth of the children l"filliflni that school have de- ive vision! Thatis a numlmll: showing, t the cause was not hard to find. 1nqui: showed that the blackboards in use in IIIR building were situated between th wl 8, thus compelling children to look at & black surface with a strong light on either #ide—just the thing to produce near-sighted- her schiool in Clayton county, P‘ attendance of 150 pupils, iere were dnly thirty-one who by actual test gnld be ragked in the normal sight list. 1n s case fiyo-sixths of the scholars had sight impaired, The reason in all that were investizated was simi- avity arrangement of blackboards or Windows/und a neglect of some of the funda- mental plinciples of optical science. If the next generation s not to be sightless it is high tirhe that school boards take measures nt such a result, but rearranging the ction of school rooms sud guarding the dangers to which children’s eyes exposed. 1n some parts of this state ! boards instead of black bourds are n the schools with excellent effect. LOOKING OUT FOR LIVE BTOCK. Prof. Stalker, the state veterinarian, nas re- turngd from Illinois where he has been mak- ?g & thorough investigation ot the new w which exists lmonF the breeding h in McLain and Dewitt counties in ’:Il# state. He was sont there by Governor afrabee in order to take precautions to ard against the introduction of the disease to 1o Dr, Stalker reports that all of the ses been so thoroughly quarantined nd taken care of that there is little pro- lity of its spreading, About fifteen cases ave occurred in stallions and sixty in brood nares. This disease, which 18 known as S‘Maladie du Coit,” disease svfinf!ng wholly from copulation, is supposed to have Dbeen brought to 11linols four years ago by an ‘rench horse. ‘The greatest care is Im‘porm being taken to stamp out the disease, and Em Stalker has called the attention of all is:deputies throughout the state to it, re- q! esting them to report promptly the first appearance or Indication of its approach. 'he veterinari of the state @ becoming r nformed and skilful men, the personel hav- ing |m,}roved very much in the last few ears, The influence and worth of the . Yoterinary department of the state agricul- fural eollege at Ames, h.n had much m‘gs c| ly zed, moone being eligable who has not a diploma #row a legally authorized veterinary college 'he president of the association is Dr. A. Morse, of Des Moines. The board of cen is composed of Prof. Stalker, of Ames, r. R. P, Steddon, ot Oskaloosa, and Dr. E. Bayres, of Al TIHE GOVERNOR'S GREYS, A little _rlliflfi of excitement lately dis- urbed thé minds of the governor's greys, of ubuque. The company is one of the crack military organizations of the stato. In soclal Eflwu it 15 the leader. It was very happy he other day when designated by the gov- ernor to act as his escort at the constitutional ntennial in l’llllldel).)hln next month. But joy turned t grief when the report it, that the Muscatine rifles had been it tendered the honor but had declined. he greys were quite indignant for a while 1 they learned that there was no occasion for jealousy. ‘The report arose through a efiuundommndlnn The Muscatine eomnll'lf. ich in drill and military proficiency is ‘without an equal in the state, attended the e:lw-l military encampment at Washing- Inst spring. ~ While there, the company a8 complimented on its tine appearance by .. John A. Kasson, of [owa, who I8 the t of the centenuial commission. He ked to the urmn of the company that wwh}be giad if he could bring his com to Philadelphia to the celebration, But. -there was no appropriation for the pni and the company had been on one ex- ursion this year, it decided notto go. The vernor’s invitalon to the Dubuque com- y to act as his escort was eutirely separ- and first-handed. So when the explana- n is known, the brave warriors are pla- oated, and peace and happiness once miore - melgn in camp. THE HOME FOR SOLDIERS, ‘The trustees of the new soldiers home at arshalitown announce that they will have ready for occupancy in sixty days. They congratulating ti ° I:- unusy nishing this state propriated by the legisla- fl! fl:monnu N . they will not haye to ask next winter for more money to ‘work or supply some of i ng appoint- ents. The city of Marshalltown con- buted $12,000, whish will all be expended [ In grading and beautifying the gvoung: ‘The ine will furnish accommodation for 300 old poldiers, and it Is expected that the demand will then be greater than the room will afford. Soas some will have to be turned (o u{. the trustees are debating the order of mission. They have concluded that the to be adinitted shall be the old soldiers ~ Who are now in the poor houses of the state, d there are some fifty or sixty of that class. ext shall come those who are supported in whole or part at public expense. After i such ola soldlers as are needy ana meless and are now enjoying the bounty relations or friends. Probably by the first """73 th diers home will have every goom lilled by an ol [ DANGRRO nA number of the drug PONG! tores of this clty are ing for sale cheap a lot of very bright low sponges. Thev look very clean and tive, but they are said to ba dangerou well known medical man who h A says th t at least with the warnings of the Ne ‘ork health authorities against the use of llar sponges in that oity. lu the latter ace he states that a large quantity of old ze8 have been herod up from hos- s and intirmaries, where they have been In contaglous and loathsnme diseases, d are subjected to a bath of chemicals ich brightens them up, but falls to kill the germs. So they are loaded, h A o8t dangerous mann nd he ad ybody to tnd out the pedigree of their nges before use them. It is at loast ‘word of warning that Is worth respecting. 10\WA'S MANUFACTORIES, Maost people think of Jowa as being ex- vely an ufrlcultuul state, but recent tie piled at the capital stow that i n Bg, 403 estadblishien Gapital of about $30,000, 12,000 eoployes. ‘The lotal nu [acturing establishwents is pl X persons cmplayu&. report an with ber of ced st Every . equals th yeAr shows the nilimber Increasing. Western B e e A ake wi n an sel it at a higher m el en Towa’s Finanoes, Dus Morves, Ia, August 14.—|Speclal Telegram to the Brr.]—Btate Treasurer Troombly has just completed his biennial re- port covering the fiscal period from June 80, 1885 to June 30, 1887, The report shows that the state has recelved from the different counties during that time $2,882,170.27, It has also received In addition from insurance companies $140,355,24; from railroad com- missloners, $40,302.67; fees from state officers, from telegraph and telephone $92,550.87; from miscellaneous sources. $21,080.90: transters from the school fund, us.]mm making all together $3,211.- 958,635 balance from last report, $147,151.94, Total, $3,350,110,57, In regard to the state debt Treasurer Troombly sa: As is wenerally kuown, for four years the revenue provided has not been sufficient to meet _the unusual nplgmy-rlnllons made by the Nine- teenth and Twentieth general assemblies for bu|ldmf new and extending state institu: tions already established, thereby creating a large floating debt. This, I am pleased to say, has been h?mly reduced, with evely assurance that the fall payment of the tax of 1858 and the spring payment of the tax of 1857 wiil fully meet the Interest bearing part of this debt.”” The amount of warranis out- standing June 30, 1857, was §455,057, Wwhich $26,573.42 had ceased to draw interest, leaving the rest bearing debt at that date $420,415,858, — CONDITL OF THE CROPS. Recent Rains Came Too Late to Ben- efit the Corn Crop Much, CHICAGO, August 14.—The following crop summary will appear in this week’s issue of the Farmers' Review: Copious rains fell generally throughout the west last week, re- freshing the parched pastures and invigorat. Ing more or less all the growing crops. The rain unfortunately came too late to mate- rinlly benelit the corn crob and has had httle effect for good except on late planted or low lying tields. Much more rain will be required to Hul the pastures in good fall condition, and replenish the wells and other sources o siock yater. These estimates, having been made from reports prepared previous to the rainfall, do not indicate any improvement accruing therefrom. 'The average yield of winter wheat, as estimated from our reports in different states, is as follows: Twenty- two counties ‘in 1llinois report an aver- age of 1645 bushels; six Indiana coun- 18 bushels; twelye Ohlo counties, bushels; ~ten Missourl counties bushels and eight Kansas counties 12 The yield of spring wheat in the different states is 1159 bushels in eighteen Towa counties; 143 bushels in ten Nebraska counties and 13 bushels in ten Minnesota countles. The average condition of the corn crop is estimated as follows: Twenty-two countiés In Illinois 49.5 per cent; seven counties in Tvdiana 46.3 per eent; thirteen Ohio counties 77.3 per cent; nine Missouri counties 69 per cent; nine Kansas counties 47.2 per cent; nineteen lowa counties 80.7; ten Nebraska counties 88,5 per cent and ten Minnesota counties 85.2 per cent. The Weathear Crop Bulletin. WASHINGTON, August 14.—Following is the weathet'crop bulletin of the signal oftice for the week ended August 15: ‘The temperature during the week has been decidedly warmer than usual in the central valleys, the daily excess ranging from 3to 5 degrees, and 1n the region from Texas north- ward to Nebraska the daily average excess ranged from § to 9 degrees. The rainfall has been _slightly In excess In the drouth re- glon of Northern Iilinols, Southern Wiscon- 8in, Southern Michigan, Fastern Kansas, Nebraska and Southern Minnesota. and this morning Tenenl rains are reported in the drouth reglon from Missouri and Iowa east- ward to Ohio. In all other sections the rainfall was less than usual. During the past four weeks less than 25 per cent of the usual rain raln fall has oec- urred {n_Southern and Central Illinots, estern Kentcky, Southern Missourl, and Northerp Arkan 38 than 50 per cent of the rainfall occurred in the states of the upper Mississippi valley, and the greater }mnlon of tho rain reported In this section or the month, fell during the past week. Reports from Ohio. Indiana, lllinofs, Mis- souri, Nebraska and Kamsas Indicate that the rains came too Iate to gause amy marked improvement in the already damaged crops. —— The Weather. For Nebraska: Ligyt local showers fol- lowed by fair weather in eastern portion, falr weather in western portion, variable winds, slight changes in temperature. For Jowa: Fair weather in eastern por- tion, local showers followed by fair weather in western portion, northerly winds, géner- ally variable, stationary temperature. or Dakota: Local showers followed by fair weather, light variable winds, slight changes in temperature, A Survivors of Kebel Prison Pens. The second meeting of the old union soldiers of Omaha who were captives in rebel prisons during the war was held yesterday afternoon in Custer Post lodge room, G. A. R.,, 8. 8. Auchmoedy 1n the cheir, W. Ss Seavey, secretary. Action towards the entertainment of the ex- army prisoners throughout the state vis- iting Umaha during the coming encamp- ment of the G. A. R.in September was taken and a permanent oiganization ef- fected. The design of an appropriate register, giving in detail each prisoner’s record from the date of his capture to the day of his discharge or escape, was pre- sented and adopted and a committee on by-laws appointed. et Letter From the Ex-S8heriff of Chau- qua County, New, Yor! MAyviLLE, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1885.—I am lad to say from a ]om}) personal exper ence with ALLCoCK'S POROUS PLASTERS that [ am able to endorse all the good things that have ever been said about them, and supplement these by saying that 1 frankly believe their value cannot be estimated. Their breadth of useful- Dess is unlimited, and for prompt and sure relief to almost evur{ ache and pan the flesh is hair to, no other remedy, in ither external or internal in certainty and rapidity. i have used themw at one time for rheuma- tism, another for backache, again for bronchitis, always with the same result ~—u speedy cure. L. T. HARRINGTON. —— A now lawn tennis costume for men is as follows: The upper part of the trousers is baggy and wrinkled. It closes in at the knee by a long tight band four ches wide extending to the swell of the calf and fastened with not less than five buttons. Garters can be dispensed with, s — ExpPosURE to rough weather, getting wet, living in damp localities, are favor- able to the contraction of diseases of the kidneys and bladder, As apreventative, and for the cure of all kidney and hver trouble, nuse that valuable remedy, Dr. J. H. Mclean’s Liver and Kidney Balm. $1.00 per bottle, B Mrs. Lena Hall, a wrinkled, coffee col- ored woman, recently a plled to the health commissioner of St. Louis for a burial permit. She sald that she was one hundred and seven years old, and could not live much longer, and wanted to make all the necessary preparations for her death while she was able. She was much msfiusted at being told that ante- ax.orawdm urial certificates were never ued. R — In making the assertion that Pozzoni's medicated complexion powder is entir ly free from injurious or deadly poison. we do it upon the authority of a thorough chemical anal It is one of the oldest face powders in American market, and is usod in the famalies of some of our most prominent medical men who have personally acknowledged to the proprie- or that they not xul: considored it harm- es8, but esteemgd it hlghlrv beuneficial in very respeot. 1d by all druggists. et For Sweethearts aud Wives, A fine filled case watch with Elgin works, for either lldfir entloman, for $30 for one watch at m & Akin, A RACKET IN THE BARRACKS, A Tough Ralses a Row with the Sal- vation Army, The proceedings of the tass drum evan- gelists now occupying the ancient coun- cil chamber were elghtly dis- turbed last ovening by Alex- ander Owens who is belioved to be & raw recruit, late of the Princess rink barracks in Chicago. Mr. Owens opeE:ed his evening's devotions at the White Ele- phant by fiilling his soul with enthusi- asm and his stomach with gin. Tt was just after the sixth hymn that Mr. Owens reached army headquarters, and he was ripe for anything devotional, from a lovefeast to a Sunday school pi nie. He sat patiently through a reci of experience on the part of a young 1cmnlo|roopnr. when the man with the brass horn started up ‘‘We'll get there by and by, tu the tune of ‘‘Johuny get the gun.'” " This was too much for' the soul- ful Owens, who_only knew ‘‘Chippy, get your hair cut,” to that air. He went through the Iyric in such a loud tone of voice that the other hymnists abandoned the field and let him roar it alone. The gentle Salvationists stood this for a reasonable length of time, until theirr annoyance, like Job's sufferings exceeded human endurance, and a squad of soldiers was then de. tailed to suppress the ‘‘sweet singer,’ gently if they could, for blz if they must. As soon as Owens caught sight of the advancing skirmishers ho checked his melody and prepared to re- the attack. Jumping into the sle, he announced to the assembled army that he was the thumper from Hardscrabble, and that it would take a whole brigade with a Gathng battery and two troops of ca to make him let up on his style of worship. ‘The noise reached the streets and two policemen re- sponding thereto, removed Mr. Owens with some ditliculty and much violence. On the way to the station a number of Mr. Owens’ friends tried to deliver him, with the result that two of them fell into the clutches of the police, and the trio languish in the ‘‘booby-hatch, AMUSEMENTS, Production of an Entertaining Plece at Metz's Garden, Last night, Baurer’s & Puls’ dramatic company appeared at the popular place of amusement 1n ‘‘Der Onkel aus Amerika.” The audience filled the open garden, and the play was presented with an attention to detail, and at the same time an appreciation of the several charsacters, which, dis- played, in an unusual degree, the versa- tility of the performers. The play abounded in character sketches, each of which was rendered with excnediuli care and_ability. The cast, at least, so far as the leaders is concerned, was strongly made, and the result was a performance which frequently convulsed the audience throughout the™ performance. It was one of the most successful performances ever given in Metz's garden. Next Sundl&evuumz the celebrated actor, Gustay Hartzhein, will appear in a l«-x.llmfi role, and will be supported by the excellent company of the theatre. b et Lk Personal Paragraphs. J. H. Green left last night for North Platte. Warren Switzler and family, who have been passing the heated term at Lake Minnetonka, have returned. The Rev. J. N. Crawford, of Indianap- olis, Ind., who has been a guest of O. P, McCarty for three or four days, left last night for Fulton, Cal. —_——— Every Reason But the Right One. Salt Lake Tribune. Edward Atkinson, 1n the August Cen- tury, usses the theme of ‘“Low Prices, High Wages, Small Profits and What Makes Them,” in an exhaustive paper. In our judgment, he gives every reason except the right one. He strains to make it appear that they have come from natural causes: that the conditions of the precious metals, or their ohanged conditions since 1873, have had no marked eftect. But he admits that the great decline 1n prices began in 1873, in the year that silver was demonetized. He admits, too, that the prices of all kinds of proverty, like food and clothing, are less than at any time since 1850, when the gold of California, and, a little later, of Australia, “‘began to effect the money volume of the world.” His next effort is to show that the poor are the ganers by the fall in prices; that the capitalists have suffered. Here is his most potent mistake, for by capitalists ha refers only tomen, who by their energy, carry on the great works of the world. But he makes other mistakes. His references to laborers are in almost every case re- stricted to either skilled or half skilled laborers; those who add to the work of their hands a large proportion of the work of their brains. = Indeed, he admits that the wages of the gle common laborer have grown no better, while their avility to obtain work is being every year restricted. He ignores the fact that the prices of skilled labor have been parti- ally sustained by labor organizations, by strikes and other arbitrary means adopted by the organized bauds themselves, to maintain their rights. By deliflnuunfi the men who carry ou the world's wor! as the capitalists, he makes another mis- take, for this class of men almost nvari- ably keep all their means in active em- l:loymam. and are frequently paying eavy Interest on sums equal to their capital. In his consideration of the question he only incidentally men- tions the class that is sapping the life out of the business of the country. ‘We mean the fixed capital class, the mén who toil not, neither do they spin, but they loan their money and collect their interest, and to meet their interest the men of affairs have to both toil and spin incessantly, and as this writer admits at coustuntly Foducing profits, The fixed capital class have not suffered; rather when they collect 64 ger cent they find that with that amount they can purchase of the world’s products and of the com- ‘mon labor of the world,the same amount that a little while ago they could pur~ chase for 10 per cent. Again this article assumes that the farmers, notwithstand- ing the falling prices,are making money, but is frank enough to exvlain that this is duoe to the fact that within a few years past, through labor-saving machines and reduced cost in transportation, the ex- penses of the farmer huye been reduced, often, 50 per cent. But with all this the absolute fact is that, considering their investment and the amount of labor they perform, farmers are worse paid than almost any class of people, and their condition is steadily growing worse. 1t is probably true that the skilled laborer oan, considering the cost of fooa and clothes, earn as much as he could in 1873, but this does not make up for the loss suffered b, e who produce the food and clothing? But at last the writer reaches the dis- cussion of the precious metals as bearing upon the subject, and to that we desire to devote a few words, With most exas- perating coolness he refers to gold as “the only legal unit of value in this coun- try!"”" BSince when? Why, in 1873, whe! the great decline in prices which he re- fers to began, Then he asks: *'If the true cause of reduction in prices has been the appreciation or rise in the metal gold, would it not of necessity happened that the Prica of labor would have been affected in the same way? Would the price. of estate been “affected in e same 'l{"' The answer to the first . question is,the price of skilled labor bas only been goods, KH mafntained by a steady fight, by strikes, by labor unions, etc., bn the part of the laborers themselv ether with the tremendous works-which have been car- ried on in mining, settling new states, building railroads, eto, ad ours been an old country the price of skilled labor would have fallen previsely as fast aesil- ver has seemed to fall, which is the price which gold has advanced to. Common labor has fallen in just that ratio. That real estate has held'its own is because of the increase of 50 per cent in the popula- tion since 1873, begause of increased markets, labor-saving' mackines, and be- cause men, not knowing what else to in- vest their money in, have been glad to put it in real property, The writer asks agai 1f the cause of the reduction in prices had been an increased scarcity of gold, would not capital, when meas- ured by the gold standard, have been able to secure to itself a constantly increasing rate of interest or increaset’ That is precisely what it has done in ef- e capitalist who had a mortgage ,000, drawing 7 per cent, on a far. mer's farm 1n 1873, collected $70, or for- ty-five bushels of wheat. In 1879 his $70 bought fifty-six bushels, and now the same sum buys eighty bushels. Again, this writer errs, or rather reasons from the wrong wauy, when he says ‘‘the earn- ing power of capital has decrensed, as represented by the current rate of inter- est.,” This does not prove what ho sceks to prove, because abundance of money offered at low rates is in itself a sign of the steady shrinkage of money, whil causes & steady falling in pri for it shows that money 13 80 much better than any form of business, that men who possess it prefer to loan it at low rates rather than invest it in any farm property. Cheap money, cheap interest, means simply that the owners of money dare not invest it, That, if continued, means certain disaster to a country. It meuns that the measure of values has been lengthened, that it re- vuires rive pecks of wheat to pay for the bushel borrowed a short time before; i means it reguires four feet of cloth to make a yard; 1t means that it requires in any product of man’s toil, $1.25 to pay an” indebtedness of $1; it means in truth that because of the dishonor placed vpon silver by dishonest legislation, the public and private debts of the republic have been increased 35 per cent for all pro- ducts which men can produce to pay thoir debts with, have been reduced in debt-paying power by. just that percent- age. —— UNWRITTEN LIBELS. The Defaming Portraits in the lllus- trated Press. Philadelphia Record: Byron's defini- tion of fame, ‘‘to be killed in battle and have your name misspelled in the Ga- zette,"’ will have to be amplified. To the armory of the negligent or willful pos- thumous defamation has been added a new weapon. The illustrated press will not only musspell the name of adead man, but it will pillory himin the re- membrance of his friends and Yosw ity by publishing what Milton called a *‘mis- created front,” paipied off upon the world as a portrait. °* In the hands of artists the pencil has been made to do greaf service by that exaggerative wit of expression which in caricature magnifies the faults and follies of mankind without ‘such disfigurement as to destroy resemblance. Nast's pictures of Tweed 1n 'Harper's Weekly made the face of thay, ‘famous rascal as notorious in every part of the United S as the quality of his crime was re- markable. This wag a great work in the interest of municipal reform. Itis a question how long the public taste will submit to the' violent and vul- gar ordeal of pletorial inveracity unaer which it now sutfers. When, the other day, it was reported ofi_doubtful author- ity that Ex;)lorur Stanley was Kkilled in the heart of the African’ continent in two or three different days, it secmed to the 1llusirated journals of the country a necessary thing to publish to the world with the news of hisdeath a presentation of the lineaments of the deceased. The result is something appalling. Perhaps 100 Stanleys—looking no more like each other, or like the real Stanley, than * George Washington looks Rutherford B. Hayes—are circuiating throughout the country, like Satan “going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it.”” There 1s, of course, a childish pleasure in looking at pictures, and men and women are but children of larger growth; but there is alsoa weariness in being perpetually iooled, There is another consideration, It isa well settled principle of law that a man or a woman has a right to such good fame as gond conduct presupposes. 1t is libelous tn defame character. Have not men and women in private station also a right to freedom from misrepre- sentation as to their personal appear- ance? The press pays no resvect to one's property in ones own image. 'L'he country is filled with such atrocious pic- torial misrepresentation that it falls little short of caricature. Sometimes enterprise in this form of sensationalism leads to strange under- takings, For example, in a late trial for murder the judicial proceedings were snmilhed. first, by a picture of the mur- erer. Poor devil. It wus perhaps a merciful mischance that the picture was nothing lhike him. Then followad the presiding judge (duly labeled), the prose- cuting attorney (labeled), the defendant's counsel (labeled), and the twelve jury- men (labeled). Without the names be- neath them not one of the pictures could have been recognized, With the Iabels what was the whole publication? Was 1t not an outrageous libel upon the murderer and the court, and a fraud upon the public to whom the publication was sold? If ever a casa of misrepre- sentation of this kind shallbe tried under the statute prohibiting libelous publica- tion 1t surely will go hard with the offending party, It is bad enough, heaven knows, to suffer this form of in- dignity and imposition at the hands of the legitimate 1illustrated papers, whose Ricturcu are their main stock in trade; ut when the political and literary news- papers take up this offensive weapon in 1ts most outrageous form il is high time to cry a halt. "It is none too soon for the l(-fal trial which shall check this method of libel to begin. g I had intended o say a word about the particular enormity of this newspaper of- fense as applied to wonien. Their looks Are a more important pgoperty to them than the male mind ean fathom. They are more sensitive to this form of defa- mation and more powgrless to resent it. But I desist. The cowirds who defame women with conceits that need the as- sistance of so-called art to convey mean- ings they dare not put in written words will on! { be too glad td know the pain they inflict. —— The bankruptey of-the malodorous Lord Colin Campbelk'seems to be com- plete. The offici ement of his af- fairs puts his liabilivies® at §78,110, and his assets at $350. About $25,000 of the former consists of lawyers’ bills for ser- vices 1n the late notorious divorce case. Ho has an allowance of $2,000 a yeur from his futher, not available for credit- ors’ claims, R The distriet commissioners at Wash- ington have decided that no more fire alarms shall be runE from church or tower bells, and that bells on street car horses shall be prohibited. They argue that fire alarm bells are worse than use- less, exciting the people, and drawing crowds that interfere with the firemen, and that the bells on the horses make un- necessary noise and do not prevent acei- dent, i G. A. K. Attention. Badges' and. charms of all kinds a specialty, vrices reasonable” and good Edbolm & Akia. AN ELECTRIFIED HOUSE. Electricity Put to Every COonceivable Do- mestio Usa, WITHOUTAPARALLEL ANYWHERE The Summer Residencs of Mr. John- son, President of the Edison Klece tric Light Company—Wonders tul Things Accomplished, The following abstract of a description 1 the Electrical World shows what is undoubtedly the most remarkably diver= sitied use of electricity for houschold purposes in the world [or rather it shows the manifold shapes steam power can be converted into, for after all, it is steam that evolves the electrie light and force.] As an examplo of the modern use of electricity in domestic employ the new summer residence of Mr. . H. Johnson, the president of the Edison eclectric light company, stands probably without a par- allel on this continent. In it electricity has been put to work of every conceiv- able nature, and the results obtained must evidently conduce greatly to tho comfort and enjoyment of the inmates. The summer residence of Mr., Johnson is situated on a lofty eminence two and a half miles back from the depot at Greenwich, Conn, It stands in the mid- dle of alawn of thirty acres, command- ing a view of more than fifty miles of Long Island Sound, and is the highest location overlooking the water between Maine and Florida. The house is a large three story structure in the colonial style. It is surrounded by wide porticos, which can be illuminated at night with all fancy effects and 18 surmounted with a tower which has become a miniature signal- service station. At the rear of the man- sion1s a long row of buildings, com- mencing with a hardwood finished barn and stalls for fifteen horses, running into a carringe house; & mynamo-room, over which are the sleeping apartments for men; then the boiler-room, and ending up with a large bowling-allew and bul- liard-room. The steam plants consits of sixty-five horse-power tabular boiler, of the best make, fitted with patent furnace and a new revolving grate bar. The steam piping is fitted up with all the latest im- provements, including a grease extractor and a patent trap for removing the con- densed water from the piping. The heat- ng is ncoon:rlishud by meuns of along underground conduit, which, starting out 1 the open lot back of the boilers room, runs into the cellar ot the man-~ sion. Here the conduit endsin a reser- voir filled with coils of steam pipe. In winter the air is driven through the con- duit and over the coils by means of a Sturtevant blower, operated by an inde- pendent Sprague motor, which issituated at the other end. Thus all the air that will be brought to the housc is heated before it gets inside the building, and then by a system of independent air passages fitted with electric dampers, which are actuated by thermostrats placed in each individual room, the air for each room can be turned oft at the entrance of the building independently of all the other rooms fi is thus possi- ble to p the temperature at exactly 70 degr during the winter. In the sum- mer it is arranged that all the water which is brought to the place for any rurnusc passes througn the coils situated u this air chamber; cold air is thus forced throughout the house in the same way as the heated air is done in the winter. It is easy, therefore, to keep the tempera- ture at 75 degrees during the summer months, 1tis also arranged that either the live steam or exhaust steam can be utilized for heating purposes. The electric hght plant consists of a straight-line engine 11x14, and two No. 10 Edison dynamos of 200 amperes cap- acity each, The are also two sets of the Electric Accumulator company's bat- teries, of thirty-five amperes each, mak- ing 120 cells n all. The pump room is situated at the side of the dynamo room, and contains the Eumps which furnish ~water for the oiler, the house and barn, and all the other arrangements introduced on the premises. Water is obtained from three wells, one of which 151,200 and another 700 feet from the house. The pumps lo- cated at the spring were made by the Hartford Air-Pipe company. They operate by air, compressed in the pump room by meaus of the compressor pumnps, each of whichis fitted with an independ- ent Sprague motor. There are four dif- ferent pump circuits going to three dif- ferent tanks in the house, the two largest of which hold 8,500 gallons each, and the smallest of which is in the laundry for domestic nse. These aro fitted with auto- matic floats which open and shut the pump motor circuits, and thus start and stop thein automatically. There 1s also a water tell-tale which is run to_the en- gine room, showing the engineer the exact hight of the water in the tanks. The engine and pump-room are fitted u| i hardwood with nne oil finigh, and all the copper is Inghl{ Po]ishnd and lacquered and all the instruments and dynamos are finished in polished mahog- any. The floor 1s laid in hardwood, and handsome chandelicrs adorn the walls, The barn is tinished in the same style, lighted, of course, with incandescent lamps. The cleaning room is fitted with electric motors attached to curry comb and brush for cleaning the horses, and hence animmense amount of time and labor is saved. Two winding drives reach the house, lighted on either side, as shown, by slen- der lamp posts, each surmounted with an Edison lamp, These circuits are con- trolled independently from the dynamo room. ‘I'he gate at the main entrance is fitted witih a Sprague motor, which can be worked automatically either by the driver_or from the house, and it is ar- ranged 8o that it will give an alarm at the house whenever the gate is opened. The driveway leads to the house in a large arch entrance, from which hangs a magnificent chandeher, ‘The verandas that extend around the house on both stories are furnished with two circuits, one for lightuing purposes, on which each chandelier is represented a piece of Iarge ox-chain, & new and very neat de- sign; while clustered around on all sides are sockets for the nsertion of additional lamps for decorative purposes, over two hundred of these being on the front of the hous T'he main hallway 18 finished in quar- tered oak. The ceiling is composed of eight graied arches, each capped with a miniature sun made by Tiffany & Co, Belind these are Edison lamps, whicl flecting through the different thicknesses of glass, gives the well known outline of a man's face looking from the sun. “The dining room 18 finished in the samo style, with eight handsome chandellers arranged on different circuits, partially for service and partially for decoration, ‘T'ne parlor is finished in whitewood, and the library back of it1s finished in rich red cherry. On the upper floors the rooms are also finished 1 carved woods of different colors, and the lighting circuit for each floor 18 brought to a switch-board, which controls the entire floor. ‘lhere is also & separate imluruuduut cireuit running through the house called the ‘‘pilot- light'" circuit, ‘This eircuit includes one lamp in each room of the house and can be controlled independently on each floor. . At night it can be . connected to the burglar alarm so that, although con- trollable in other places while the alarm isin _its proper position, if the alarm should ring the lights are immediately lighted and eannot be turned off any- where except at the alarm, which is placed 1n the proprietor's bed-room, The arrangement is such that the ground may also be illuminated at the same time. In a recess in the main hall are ar- ranged a long-distanee telophone and a telo-barometer, telo-thermometer, and other registering instruments, furnished by the Telemeter company, of New York, so that by merely looking at those dialy, there can be read at a (lnneu the temperature, both indoors and outdoors, the steam ))reslure on the boilers, the amperes of current flowing out from the digerent cireuits, the velocity of the wind. together with all the othor data furmished by a signal service station. The tennis ground near the mansion 18 lighted in anovel manner, Here cast- iron boxes, about six inches square, are eunk in the earth at short intervals. Each box is covered with ?Into glass and within ench is an Edison light backed by a strong reflector. Thus at night when all surrounding lights are turned out and these are thrown on,the rays of light pro- jected into the air will make tennis play- ing possible and agreeable. An electric fountain is bemng ar- ranged for on the same iden as the one operated at St. George, 8. 1., last year, and ice-freezing machines are also being installed, to be driven by Sprague motors. Not content with what has already been accomphshed, Mr. E. H, Johnson proposes to do still more with the cur- rent, a recent idea of his, which will probably be put into practice, being the attaching of an electric motor to the lawn mower, so that the attendant need only guide 1ts motion without exerting any pressure upon the machine, The entire premises are wired for 500 Edison lamps and the character of the work makes it evident that great care and ingenuity were displayed in their arrangement. The magnitude of the work can be judged when we consider that for its completion there was re- quired over 50,000 feet of wire of the fol- lowing kinds: 10,000 feet of double and 5,000 feet single Waring cable; 20,000 feet ot Callender cable, 20,000 feet of Grimshaw wire, 8,000 feet of Clark wire, and 100 feev of twenty-wire-cable, e REAL ESTATIE. Transfers Filed August 13, 1887, Eva Fitchett to Hans Nelson, ‘lot 11 blk 3, Brookline, w d...... Charles Corbett and wife to E E Finey lot 6 blk 5, Denises add, q ¢ ......... Norman H Brown to Thomas Donehe; lots 10 and 11 blk 10, Patrick’s 3n AdAW Ao oouiiiiniinsine . Henry B Mulford et al to Georgiana V Mulford, lot 6 blk A, Mulford & Grossman’s subdiv, w d o ateiee Matnewson T Patrick and wife to John H Grossman, lot 10 blk 9, Pat- ricks 2d add, W d...oeiiiiiiis . Henry D Reed etal to S R Slauson, 12 blk 1, Sheridan Place, wd.. . Lilian M Jacobs to Fred Mohle, and 8, Walnut Hill, w d. Lilian M Jacobs to Fred M bik 8, Walnut Thill, wd. . Matthew L Van Scoten an Kate Keeweit, lot 4 blk M, Camp & Eday’s subdiv, wd.. Matthew L Van Scoten to Lar: son, lot 5 blk M, Van Camp & Eddys subdiy, wd . Johin Burleigh et al to Gus Erickson, lot 14, bik %, A'S Patrick’s add, w d Lew W Hill toJane Martha, lot11, k 6, Park Forest, wd.... . James Mageath to Lillie R Foote, 1ot 18, Windsor place, W duvuesesssen W 11 Motter and wife to John H Du- mont, undivided 4, e 14 lot1, blk 5, Love's 2nd add, wd....... it Solomon Bergman and wife to Otto A Schneider, s 2 lots 9 and 10, blk 1, Saunders & Aimebaugh’s add, w d, Alex McGavock and wife to Hemon Go(ll(lhnrg. 8 22 ft of lot 5, blk 267, Edwin S Rood and wife to Adolph Newman, lot 4, blk 6, and lots 10and 15, blk 7. Albrlent's annex. wd.... Augustus Kountze and wife to John Croft, n i of lot 14, blk 6, Kount: Bd, wd .. . Jamos G Mej Marsh, lot 77, Windsoz place, w d. Larmon P Pruyn and wifeto James N Drake, lots 8, Pruyn-s sub to Millard & Caldwell’sadd, w d ...o0 v0oovnes Larnion P Pruyn and wite to George Hammond et al, lot2, Pruyn’s sub of Millard & Caldwell’s add, w d...... George Hammond et al to Larmon P Pruyn, lot 3, Pruyn’s sub of Millard Caldwell’s add, w d aeke Fannie L Sloman and husband to James H Denise, lot 2, block 6, Je- rom Park, wd. .. . A J Hobine et al to Fannie M Sioman 1-7 interest in Linwood Park associa- tion, wd.......... sresenens .. . 1,500 M F Martin and wife to Frank Col- petzer, part of blk 100, wd.. e 16, Josephine Millerana husband to Milly Hockenbirger, n 18 ft of lot 1, blk Lottie Motz to Miily 1, n 88 ftof lot 1 blk 207, q c.. Henry B Mulford et al to George F Schwartz, lot 9, blk “A,” Mulford & Grossman’s sub div, wd. Van Twenty-nine tion August 11, Lee Roy Mavne to Jas Davls, lot 1 blk 6, Central Park, wd......... Patrick Hoctor and wife to R ¥ Max- Vl‘ll. lot 15, blk 1, South Omaha Mary Bostwick et al to Hl M Bostwick undiv % lot 11 blk 6, Sulphur Springss add, q ¢ d...... Henry M_Bostwick an vin'H_Frederick, lot11, blk 6, Sul- hur Springs add, wd..... Chas K Collins to_Lena Reich blk 4, Potter & Cobb’s add to South Omaha, wd....oooonne veeras B{mn B Hadley and wife to Fdear R Dustin, lots 9 and 10, blk 2, West Side add, wd...... sere seeiiease City of Omaha to Wm Coburn, begin- ning at s w cor B 347 Omaha, n 153 w20s132e20 to beg, ged.....eeiuns Albert P Frasier and wite to Jas Bon- ner, w % lot 14, Pelham place, w d Ibert A" Gibson and wife to Fre- ‘mont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley ?"fi"x"s over n 140 acres of ne X soc Sally M Wagoner to Fremont, 'Fik- horn & Missouri Valley railway, over B2 Brighton.... L W Colby and wife to ward, 8 155 {t of wi§ neif transfers, considera- 0-15-13 Le Rnny May 3R Ma: blk 3, Ambler place, w d . Le Roy Mayne to C & M. ), o 3 bk 7, lots 3, 4, 11 blk 14, lots'5, 6,blk 17, Contral Park, w d 3 Wm L McCague to Aibert M Grant, lots 5, 6, blk “0,” Lowe's add, w d.. Omaba'and Florence Loan and’ Trust Co. to O K Briggs, lot 1,blk 90, Flor- ence, w d.. 3 Fanny L Farmor ' to . mann, lov 17, blk 8, Sulphur Spring add, wd........ West Farnam Street lhmdmi: as tion to Fannie M Sloman, lot 4 6, Jerome Park, wd..... Henry BB St John and wife to K E Fenney,lot 1 to5, blk 1,lot 16 to 20, bl 1, lot 1'to 5and '16_to' 19, blk 4, lots 4, 8,5, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, bik 5, 10ts 7, 8, 9, 10'and 19, blk 8, lots 2 to § and 12 to 2, blk 6. lot 1, blk 7, Solomon's add, q ¢ d. Henry B St John and w Fenney, undividea 3¢ of n 52 ft, lot 6, blk 5, Denise’s add, w d . Eimer E Fenney to Home Investment company, lots 1 to 5, blk 1, lots 16 to 20, blk and 16'to 19, blk 4, lots 2 2 nd 12 to 2, bk 6, lot1, blk 7, Solomon's add, Elmer £ Feunuy company, n 82 10 flome Tvestinent tv of lot 6, bik 5, Den- 1se’s add, w Boissiiianninnionses Hugh G Clark and wife to William W Biogham et al, lot9, blk 8, Dupont place, wd... . Chris A How to Edward D Evans, lots 1 and 2, blk 7, Hawthorn, wd.. C W Hamilton and wife to Christian ¥ Haxthausen, n i lot i4and n ¥ lot 15, Sunny Side add, w d 0 C W Hamilion and wife to Anto) Sorenson, 83 lot 14 and 8 3 lot 15, Sunny Side add, wd.... 2,150 That Tired Feeling ‘The warm weather has a dobilitating eftect, especially upon thoso wlio are within doors most of the time, The pecullar, yet common, complaint known as “that tired feeling,” is the result. This foeling can be entirely overcome by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, which gives new lifo and strength to all tho functions of the body. “1 could not sleep; had no appetite, I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and soon began to sleep soundly; could got up without that tired and languid feeling; and my appetite improved.” R. A. 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