Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 6, 1890, Page 6

THE OMAHA BEE. COUNCIL BLUFFS OFFICE. NO. 12 ARL STREET. Pelivered Ly carrler in any part of the City, H. W, 1ILTON..... MAN AC Busixees Ovrice No, NionT EDiton, No. 2 MINOR M N. Y. . Co. Gleason coal. Council Bluffs ~,umber Co., coal. Thatcher coal, see advertisement, The Hoston store for holiday goods, Hest coal and woou at C. B, Fuel Co. Carbon C oal Co. wholesale, retail, 10 Pearl The funeral of Katie Kmma, daughter of Mr, and Mrs, George Bebbington, took place at 3o'clock yesterday afternoon from the family residence, 164 Park avenue, Rev. T. J, Mackay officiating. N, B. Tyson, John Mulqueen, M, Keating, L. V. Williams, A. A. Moore, W. C. Dicke, W. P. Aylesworth, George Dalton and J. cManuis have been drawn as jurors for the January term of the district court. Conductor Chauncey took a headlong dive through a motor car window yesterday af ternoon, He charges it to the ice, but his brother conductors hint that the fve was in the looks of a certain lady passengor. The council committee will file a report at the council meeting tonight in favor of ac- cepting the newly completed hose house on Lower Broadway. A hose wagon will be stationed there as soon as a pair of horses can be purchase! The annunl meeting of the bourd of trade will be held at the rooms of the organization tomorrow evening at 7:20 o’clock. The elee- tion of ofticera for the ensuing year will take place and there are other matters that ren- der a large attendance necessary, The Veteran Firemen’s association held a meeting at the city building for the purpo of making arrangements to attend the faneral of their. late brother, Bernard T. Connor, which will take place at 9 o'clock this morning from St. Francis Xavier's church., All members of the ussociation are requesied to mect at 8 o'clock at the city building, from which place they will proceed in a body to the church A large and v pleased audience wi nessed *The Banker's Daughter,” as pri sented by the Baldwin-Melville company at Dohaney’s last evening, This was tho close of a seven nights’ stand in this city, during which the company has played to excellent business, Reduced rates served to fill Ty seat in the house, and the performances were much better than hsve froquently been presented at the usuat prices. Ticket 14,803 drew the set of parlor furaiture, It was held by Charles McCleary, who pre- ferred to take 850 in gold, and was accord- ingly paid that ameunt, ‘Ihe sleet on the overhead wire was the cause of much inconvenience to motor em- ployes yesterday, The main Jine trains coae sisted of but one car, the trailers being dropped, aud even in this manner the cara were not easy to handle. Service on the branch lines were very irregular, and_ais- abled motors were to be found on sidings awaiting the arrival of the next train to push thein in. Cars were run all of Satur- day night to keep the lne oven ana prevent 100 heavy a coating of ice from accummulat- ing on the overhead wire. An abundance of salt was used at the curves and switches to keep them in o passable conaitiop. Con- sidcring the weather, the service, was very go0d, much better in fact than could have have been furnished b, ! s Drs. Woodbury nave removed their dental office to 101 Pearl street. up stairs, et 8. M. Williamson sells the Standard and Domestic sewing machines. 106 Main st. e Finest line confectionery, fruits, nuts and holtay groceries in the city, S. T. Mc- Atee's. cha g P. C. Miller, best paper hanging and dee- orating. The bost i3 the cheabest. e i oS, Saddle Rock restaurant, 402 Broadway, open dav and night. Firsy class, J. i Yancy, prop. L There Was Ice Everywhere. The first Sunday of the new year was anything but au enjoyable one for those who were obliged to be out doors, owing to tho coating of ice which the heavy mist and fall of slect on Saturday might had leit upon evorything. The-light rain had frozen as it fell, and the streets wero transformed into avenues of glassy smoothness, upon which locomotion was atiended with the greutest danger. The hackmen and all others whose horses were not freshly sharpened were compelled to avoid the block paved streets as much as possible, and even then equine skating matches were numerous. Fedes- trians carefully picked their way along the middle of the strects, which presented a safer path than the treacherous sidewalks, During the day several parties skated over from Omaha,the even surface of block paved Broadwey proving a first cluss skating Rground. The attendanco at the churches was very || large considering the dificulty attendant on getting about, and it wus apparent that many good resolutions were being kept for a while at least. One of those who nobly resolved to go to church attended the Broadway M. E,, and beard the prohibition sermon of Re: P. C. Fravklin, 1t 80 happened that this i dividual was one of the first to leave, and he had barely reached tho sidewalk before he sat down on the back of his heaa with pain- ful emphasis, **—, this is the first time I have been to church in six years, and I knsw something would happen,” he romarked vig- orously, as he slowly arose and picked his way tothe middle of the street, The day passed very quietly and no serions accidents wero reported. The police had all that they could do taking care of themselves, and few intoxicated unfortunates were towed in, - 7 e — Neumeyor hotel, first ciuss,reasonable rates il . Tho Ross Investment and Trust company J, G, Tipton, real estate, 527 Broadway. — e Bush & Gert's pranos, 538 Broadway. —— The Mankautan sporting headq'rs 418 B-way. N L] Fountain cigar, a strictly 10¢ cigar for 5o at the Fountain, Try one. A i Grand drawing Februury 1, Howman, e Skating at the Lake, The Manawa motor trains will commence running today, making hourly trips, at 1, 2, 4 and b each afternoon. Tho trains.are for the accommodation of the skators, The lake presents a smooth unbroken expanse of ice @8 smooth as glass, and skating parties are very popular, ‘The trains maie connections ‘with the electric motors for Omaha people, Moore & e Franklin Replies to Mackay. Rev. D, C, Franklin of the Broadway M, E. church preached yesterday morning sgainst the repeal of the prohibitory law. His nddress was In part an answer to the levter of Rev. T. J. Mackay, rector of St. Paul's, written to the nunisterial committee at Sioux City, stating his reasons for refus- ing to comply with their request to preach in favor of prohibition, A large congregation ‘was present to huar what the prohibition champion had to say, Tnere were several features that were rather unusual in con- nection with a Sunday morning discussion from the ‘fnlplt. The uruker was lu?uanuy applauded, und cries of “Amen” and “Halle- lujah” were heard from various parts of the house when sowething unusually strong tickled the more radical ones in the audience. ‘The clapping of bands and stamping of feet £ave the occasion a truly political coloring, even if the address had been of sucha na- ture as to leave that matter in doubt. ‘I'be speaker took the ground that a pro- hibitory law was equivalent to acti Dbition, and referred to Kansas 88 a o here hibition was a ‘'grand succcss.’ E- quoted from ln‘ervlc with the district udges, ~ read letter - from the LWen of the Fort Madison n1- 'y, and from Cowmissioner Hutchins. o characterized Rev. Mr. Mackay's letter s ‘“an allegisnce with hell and & compact with the devil.” That it contaiued tbe same d utty arguments thet had been ad- wvanced by thoso opposed to ibition for years past uwua predicted that the author ‘would be as speedily forgotten wnd retired to the abysmal depths of oblivon as were the 1wo preachers wio opposed prohibition when the issue was first made several years ago. At the time that they took their stand they were patted npon the back by the saloon- keepers, browers and distillers, but when the law was passod they were quickly forgotten by even th who had bat a short time be- tore professed friendship. Rev. Mr. Mackay whs now belng patted on tho shoulder by these same partics—the galoonkeepers, of whom there was uot a resfectable or decent atom from the crown of their heads to the It was the same with the vas a good fellow as long sted and then he had to go to feeding tho hogs, It was the same with Judas Tscariot—lie was u good fellow whon he was betraying his Savior for thirty pieces of silver, but it did not last, Judas Iscariot, however, was better than those compromis- ers of today for he went out and hanged himself. The reverend gentivman scored the city council and the municipal government in general. Said ho: “The most flagrant and shameful acts may be seen at wny of the poliing places of the city at election time, showing the manner in which the saioon ele- ment proposes to hold its power. Taxeit at the polling place down here on Fourth street, What ward is t brother "’ “That's the Third ward,” voluntered an appreciative auditor in the northwest corner of thn church. “‘Yes, the Third ward, Well, who does not know how things were managed there! They used t voterinary stablo adjoining as A wet nursery, and voters were taken in there and given a drink of forty-rod whisky and &2 in money and then marched out and voted. They were bought pody and soul. Remember the firemen's tournament last June, when such reckless disregard of law was exhibited that the grand jury took c of the matter and several indic ments were veturned. The president of tho council, the marshaland a policeman were allowing such proceedings 10 ¢o within a week, 1 have been ins formed, in the sanctum of one of the daily bapoers of this city, that none of the indicted partics would be convieted. Isn’t thisa shameful condition of affairs! Iam told that the mayor himself narrowly escaved indicvment,” *‘He only missed it by one vot. out on a voice from an obscure po church. . The speaker then took Tue .Brre to task for its position on the prohibition question. He referred to the interview with Mr. Ton linson, which he declared to be a gross mis- entation of facl He declared that one of the papers had offered an imsult to -y respectable subscriber by referring to the donation of a well known gambler of §25 as a Christmas gift to every charitable insti- tution of 8§10 city, as “‘a commendable act that might well bé emulated by many who muke greater pretentions to morality.” He suid that the gambler was compelled by his conselence to give the money, which was virtually the life blood of widows and orphans, and was entitled to no credit for his alleged act of benevolence. He scored the Kausas City Times as an organ of vhe sa~ loons, and stated that the report that there was a strong desire on the part of the citi zons of IKansas to have the prohibition ques- tion resubmitted was a base and unfounded fabrication that had its birth in the editorial rooms of that paper. He coucluded with an appeal for the continuance of the law and its enforcement. ’' floated ion of the AR C. B, steam dye works, 1013 Broadway. Siubrl el Hereafter the dining room of the New Pa- cific will be run on semi-European vlan, All meals served cents each, T cnt on tombstones and monu- sheet and pricelist free, L. Council Blufts, -——— Sisters of Mcrcy Concert. On next Thuraday evening there will be a pleasant entertainment ut Martin Hughes’ new hall, corner Broadway and Second street, which will then bo opened to the pub- lig for the first time. Tho Sisters of Mercy will give a concert for the benefit of St. Bernard’s hospital. The best local talent has been secured and some splendid music is promiscd. e Doun’t forget the grand concert at the new Hughes hali on Thursday night for the ben- efit of St. Bernard’s hospital, The best local talent has been secured. o S O, if T only had her complexion! it is easily obtained. plexion powder. Lo Filled With the Spirit. The Rev. Dr. Cooley spoke to the usually large audience ia the First Baptist cnurch yesterduy morning despite the genuine winter weather that prevailed. His text was Ephesians v., 18: **Be not drunker with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the 8pirit; speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to God.” Introducing his subject, the spsaker referred to the present general agitation of the sub- ject of temperanée and the general desire of all good men to solve the problem it pre- sented aright. The text is an incidental allusion to the sccret of a successful Cbristian life, but is on this occasion ail the more forcible. Itisnot a part of distinct doctrinal discussion of the Holy Spiriv, but a reference to a most important trath. There is_greater ignorance of the Holy Spiriv in Christians than of the other two beings of the trinity. This is owing, first, to the fact that the Holy Spirit has uever taken a body and beconie flesh as Christ di and second to the fact that He never speaks of Hin It is His ereat business to make the Father and Son known, Both the others call attention repeatedly to them- selyes, What is it to be filled with the Spiriti 1t is not conversion, or the new birth, though theso must necessarily precede, 1t is not forgivenoss or cieansing of sin, though inseparably connected with them. 1t is not the bower to speak persuasively upon religious matters, nor to work miracle: 1t is not the condition of ordinary ohris- tian life and experience, But it is the complete po Spirit of our hearts, souls and miuds, so that our affections, our emotions and thoughts shall be controlled by Him, Who are to be filled with the Spiriti Every believer, “It shall come to pnss in tho last days that T will pour my spirit upon all flesh.” When? Constantly, ‘‘He shall abide with you,” Tho results of this blessing of the Holy Srh‘ll will be love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance and control, We shall be filled with power with God and with men, Wa shall undérstand the scriptures as never Why Use Pozzonj's Com lon by the ore, - How shall this biessing be cbtainedi By puttiog away all iniquity from our hearts, and this by prayer. — Beecham’s Pills cure bilious and nervous ills — . Dr. C, H. Bower, 526 Fire* ave, Tol, 220, sLlicy ki Blank books, all kinds, ledgers and jour- nals, 1 to 12 quires, at less than cost, Send for pricos. " Masinlo book store, Council ufls, —~——— Money loaned at L. B, Craft & Co.'s loan office on furniture, mnu{ hor WAgons, personal property of all kinds, and all other articles of value, without removal. All bus- iness strictly confidential, e Reiter, tailor, 810 Hroaawa) e ——— A. D. Telegraph Co. All persons in the city who have tele- phones can call up teiephone 179 for mes- senger boys, cabs and express wnson eta. Prompt uttention guaranteed. C. G. aahln' #on, manager, No, 11 North Main street, e — ,¥oor Humanity! The common lot Is one of sorrow, say—at least—the pessimiste, they who look at the worst side. Certainly what would otherwise be a bright existence is often shadowed by some milment thut overhangs it like a pall ohlcnrinl‘.pemelulll,v the radiance that else would light the path. Such an ailnent, and A yery COmmon one, 18 Dervousness, or in other words, weakness of the nervous sys tem, a condition only irremediable where in eficient or improper means are taken to re lieve 1t. The conourrent experience of nervous people who have persistently used Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is that it con- quers enlimlly supersensitiveness of the nerves, as well as diseases—so called—which are invited and sustained by their chronic woukuess. As the nerves gain stamina from the great tonic the trouble disappears. Use the Bitters for malaris, rheumatism, Uilious- ness and kidoey troubles, THE ELECTRICITY ON THE RAIL. It ia Supplanting Oil For the Illumi- nation of Cars. AN ELECTRIC STAIR CLIMBER. The Ingenious Contrivance of a Fronchman—A Nebraska's Boy's Invention—Stored Electricity A New Method of Propuision. Among the many applications of eloc- tricity made within the last two years, few are of more importance to the com- fort of the traveling public than its growing use us o means of illuminating railroad trains. Everybody is familiar with the inconveniencies incident to the use of, and the very insufficient light afforded by the old fashioned lamp, which, even in its best form. was dim and odoriferous, and ndded lnrgely to the dangers entailed by derailment or collision. The incandescont light is open to none of these objections, and o number of attempts have been made to substitute it for the oil lamp, but the mechanical difficulties in the y for a long time proved insuperable. These have finally been overcome. Many roads use the electric light only, while many more are preparing to intro- duce it, There ave three systems of lighting railroad trains by electricity. Firstly by the joint use of the dynamo and the storage 'y, secondly by means of o dircct current from the dynamo, and thirdly by means of charged storage hatteri The first system is the most expensive, presenting all the advanta- ges of the second and third, and has been found to yield the best results. When a car is to be equipped on this system the first work 18 that of wiring, the St. Louis P Dispatch, Ix- perience has proved that it is best to carry the wires on the roof of the car. A molding is run from end to end, with branches extending to the panels | tween the ventilators when side 1llumi: nation is desired, the branches being dispensed with where only central il- lumination is intended to be used. Tn the latter case the wires are dropped through the air tube of the ordinary lamp, in tne former are led through the side paneis of the coach. The mold- ing®ontaining the wire is tinned over and soldered, fully protecting the wires and preventing leakage 1nto the car. The wires so placed are very little af- fected by oscillation and the chances of abrasion, two of the greatest dificulties formerly’ to be overcome, are reduced to a minimum. The average cost of wiring a car is 100, The power is furmished by a Brother hood engine and an Fickemeyer dy namo, which are placed in the forward end of the baggage car, inclosed in an iron lattice measuring throe and a hatf by five and a half fee The engine is fed by steam from the locomotive, the gaugd usually showing o pressure of apout sixty pounds. The dynamo has an electro-motive force of sixty-eight volts, and develops sixty amperes at a revolution of 800 to the. minute. A dy- namo of this size furnishes 120 lamps of sixteen candle power, more than enough for a long train. A connecting device for joining cars, not unlike the air- brake, is used. Bach car carries a storage batter; fastened to the bottom, containing thir- ty-two cells, and as this is partly in use at all times, furnishing 80 per cent of the power when thedynamo is running, and all of it when for any reason it is stopped. Thirty-two cells are used, be- cause the lamps are of a high voltage. ‘I'he box and battery weigh 1,300 pounds toa car. During the day or when the lights are not in use the dynamo is run anumber of hours to charge the batter- ies, so that it 18 not necessary to re- move them until disabled by ac- cident or worn out. The principal part of the electro-motive power is fur- nished by the dynamo, but in casc of a failure of steam or an accident the stor- ago batteries can be relied upon. ‘s reduces the chance of a failure of light toa minimum experience baving proved that the lamps are ineffective during only a traction of 1 per cont of the time during which they are in use. This system is 1n succesaful operation upon the hmited trains between New York and Chicago, upon the vestibuled trains of the Atchison, Topcka & Santa Fe, and upon some ovher roads. Another system of the train lighting which finds favor, principally on ac- count of cheapness combined with ef- fectiveness under ordinary ecircum- stances, is that by means of a dynamo similar to the one deseribed above, without the aid of the storage battery. Where this system is employed auxili- ary oil lamps arve nlways carried to be lighted should there be a failure in the dynamo, ’ A third system, and one in use by the Pennsylvania railroad, the Boston & Albany and a few others, is that of movable sworage batteries. The cars lighted by this system carry a number of storage-battery cells on each car, which are charged for a single trip and removed and recharged at its end, This system is said to be the cheupest of all, but many doubts as to its efficiency have been expressed, The light furnished is suid to be a little more expensive than o1l and a little less expensive than gas. The cost of an electrical‘equipment for a train conaisting of a baggage car, mail car, smoking car, day car, three sleepers and a dining car on the system of dynamo aud storage battery is very heavy. The lluggugf car will cost 81,850, the mail car $127, the smoking and day cars $461 each, the sleepers $504 each and the dining car $486, a total of $4,187, There is a large depreciation in the value of equipment through wear and tear, and an expert electrician is allotted to each train, This makes the running expenses large. It has been calculated that a train consisting of a baggage car, two day cavs, and the sleepers costs to supply for a year with electric lighting $2,067, This would be #5.64 per day, Novel Kleetric Stalr Ol'mb»r, The employment of elevators in large public buildings is now 8o well recog- nized as an absolute necessity to the very existence of such buildings that their instaliation is considered a mattor of course. But the large number of clevators in office buildings has made people accustomed to their use, and the wish has often been exprossed that some arrangement mlfit bedevised by which elevators might be iustalled in ‘private houses. Thus far, however, the obsta- cles which have stood in the way of the successful accomplishment of this scheme have been many. A rather neat solution, therefore, of this problem is an arrangement which was exhibited in Paris in the machinery hall, This stair climber consists of three parts. The first of these is the fulde, which consists of two parallel flat iron OMAHA DAILY BE®. MONDAY, rods supportod o iho balustrade: sec- ond. a movabld jatform, which is sup-" ported by and guided by the rails; and third, a motor.* "The motor is an eleos tric_one which acts directly upon a windlass, to which a chain is attached which puils up the platform upon which the person stunds. Fach of these little elevators from story to story is inde- pendent of the other, so that one per- son night be aseending from one story to another while the other is descend- ing. The motor cah be made to turn back- ward or forward, or to stop at will. b the person on the-platform, by the si ple movement of & small switch o nected to the motor by flexible conduc ors and by which the current is reversed in the armature without changing the position of the brushes. The magnots are fod by aspecial shunt. in which the current is always in the same direction. In this way the motor may be turned in either direction for rising or descond- ing. The design of this elevator is due to M. J. Alain Amiot, and, with the ready method of distribution of power afforded the elactric current, ought to find many applications in private housos. A Nebra kn Boy's Invention T. M. Barney of Elm Creek, s Kearney Hub. is the inventor oi a won- derful machine which he calls a tele- graph transmitter. The lad explained the working of the machine to a Hub reporter and it appears to be particu- lrurl_v adapted to the use it is intended or. The machine is v simple working. It n\o\mv%nu wheels and holds a stationary yeleil or fountain ben with an adjustible holder that al- ows it to move as freely as if held be- tween the fingers, The operator sits at a writes s message, holding justable peueil, n Ch top of the maciin and connected with an paratus, from which the ordinary tole- graph wire runs to any given point where tho wirves are connected with another similar machine, which pul- sates and moves the pencil backwards and forward or in any direction auto- matically, muking letters exactly the same as is being done by the opeérator sending the message in its At the » adjusted lectrical ap- Stored Elcetr.city. There is one place, at least, in the country vhere the uso of stored elec- tricity” for® running cars secms to be u success. It is on tho Beverly & Dan- vers railway, a three-mile line connect- ing the two towns named, says thoe Do- troit Frée !Press. The road is by no means a level one, or even a straight oue; but the cars are run at a rood rate of speed, as good as the ordinary elec- tric cars with overhead wires, The batteries, ready stored, are put in the cars from the outside and placed unde: the seats Jach set will run a car forty miles with a single charge, so that by using two, séts n car can be run eighty miles. Thebatteries are charged with a thirty-horse power engine, and the process takes eight hours for the double equipment of six cars. The company ms ‘that the cost of the plant is less than the cost of the over- head wire system, and that the running expenses are not more than hali what they would be with the wires. It isa little remarkable, however, if this is true that the Boston company which has just put on electric_cars should have adopted the‘overhead wire system instead of the gtorage battery. Dan- vers and Beverly are within twenty miles of the Hub, and the Boston com- pany. must have known about the work- ings of the storage battery line. Spite of this drawback the story 18 so full of promise for the future of the stroet rail- way that we hope true, E'vetric Rallways. 1n the United States and Canada 6453 miles of street railways are operated electrically, using 1,280 cars (motor and trailing), the details of which appear in our directory of electric railways. Ohio has the greatest number of miles of electric railways,while Pennsylvania, with only one-third of Ohio’s electric railway tracks, hus the greatest number of cars propelled by clectricity, says Electrical Industries. New York state stands next to Ohio in total length of roads, as well as number of cars. Mas- sachusetts comes next with 76% miles and 118 cars; in u short time, however, Boston’s extensive electric railway system will place the old Bay siate far aheud of all others. In addition to the 113 roads in opera- tion there are 45 electric roadsin course of construction, aggregating 5124 miles (of which 230 miles are in Boston), for which 647 motor cars are under contract (800 being for Boston). Tanning by Electricity. According to the Monitor Industrial, recent experiments on the continent have rendered 1t probable that the tan- ning of leather is to come within the circle of electrical industries. Only empirical attempts have as yet been made, but success is claimed by the ad- vocates of electrical tanning. The pro® cess is simple. ‘The dressed hides are steeped in asolution of tannin,contained* in huge revolving cylinders,which turn slowly upon their axes, while a current of electricity is passed through the so- lution. The time necessary to thor- oughly tan these hides is wonderfully shortened—from one to four days in Place of twelve months, Tt is cloimed that leather prepared by this means is fully equal to that cured by the old process 1n strength, solidity and flexibility. The action of electricity in thus has- tening the tanning protess is not thor- oughly explained as yet. Should the process prove practically valuable, however, there will be little delay in getting at the golution of the phenom- enon, which, perhaps, mn¥ result from an increased pgn_qtrnfing orce given to the tannin, or perhaps the gelatine 18 rendered more readily soluble and thus more easily combined with the tannin. An Automatic Fog Signal. A new fog slgpaling apparatus has lately been perfected in England which is of sufficient merit to attract the atten- tion of all those interested in the sav- ing of life and property at sea,says the New York Herald, 1t calls into use electiicity, which admits of the signals being automatigally worked and at the same time records every signal as it is iven on a basid of graduated paper. 'his paper fortaa complete register of the signals, and is documentary evi- dence in case of dispute as to whether or not a vessel was sigualing when a collision ocourred, The apparatus consists of a single switch which is placed on the vessel’s bridge so that the signalling can be controlled by the officer on watch, When it is desired to blow the sigual whistle or to begin the automatic -innnlhn.i. whatever its nature may be, the lever is turned to the ‘‘under way” notch if the vessel be moving, and the electric cur- rent at once begins working the valve of the steam whistie at roflulur intgr- vals, conforming to what thel aw speci- ties. Should the vessel be at anchor the switch is turned to ‘‘at aachor,” and the bell is rung in the same way, The register consists of the band paper Eroperl_v subdivided and moved along y clock work. A traveling pointer, actuated by an electro-magnet, pricks the paper at every sound of the bell or JANUARY 6. 1890, whistle. The sigr made at will entirely tho automatic mechanism by pressing a button which closes tho oi cuit leading to the bell or whistle. lling _2an also bo A New Method of Propalsion. Harry W. Smith, a Newark, inventor, has constructed an electric railroad on one of the wharves of that city to dem- onstrate a new principle in electri pulsion, says a New York » the Chicago Herald, It not only away with overhead wires, but continuous currents as well, [t is a conduit system, but the conduit is with- out a slot, and is practically water tight and air tight. To koop it dry a blower or exhaust fan will keep air constantly circuluting through it. The condnt is placed midway between the rails, and in the full size model it is made of wood, with a series of heavy brass plates on top. In the bottom of the conduit is a copper strip insulated from the conduit, The brass strips forming the cover of the conduit are four or five feet in length and aro rubbed by copper brushes, wh conduct the current to the motor in the car There is no flow of current outside of the conduit exept directly under tho car. Elsewhere the current is flowing peacefully along the copper rod in the bottom of the conduit, Connection be- tween the copper rod and brass plates is formed by permanent magnets pre- ceding the brushes under thoe car. These magnets pick up successive pal- fets or levers in the conduit, and the pallets form contact botween the rod and the plates. soon as the car passes one of the strips the levers dvop of their own weight and break the civ- cuit in the conduit, Ono of the rails is used to form the other half of the me- i eireuit, ns in overhend systems. model car carries six por- ons rapidly with a carrent measuring seventy voits. A practical vond is to be put down in one of the suburbs of Newark. *neumatic Signal Balloon successful experimonts made with o signaling enet, Eng.. by means of s cin be sent to any dis- night or day in cases of ., siys the Electrical World. The apparatus consisted of a smail balloon held captive wo wires. The wires are connec! with two electro- maguets of special: construction acting upon a cylinder of compressed a1r, which worke a set of arms, and the code being known, can be read at a ereat distance. At night a special colored fire isem- ployed. which produces a light of great power. The wires are worked by meuns of keys and battery, and are fastened to a drum, which, in ¢ the balloon was injured by being fired at, could be i stantly drawn in o as to prevent losing the apparatus. The whole apparatus, including the machine for making the gas, only weighs fifty-two pounds, and can be carried by oné man, An Electro- pme very were ‘recently batloon which mes; sparks. San Salvador is the first of the Cen- tral American republics to establish telephone service throughout its ter tory. Count von Moltie is the latest patron of the phonograph, The instrument was shown him a short time ago and tho venerable general repeated to it the strange and aporopriate sentence from Goethe’s “Faust:” ‘‘Ye instru- ments mock me with wheel and combs, with cylinder and haudle.” As a remedy against ‘‘electrical sun- stroke,” as the atfection 18 called that attacks menexpo: to the intense rays of the electric arc by means of which metals aro fused and welded, is a veil or mask of glaze taffeta, supported by a wicker head piece, and pro- vided with goggles of gray gluss. A curious mishap to a submarine ca- ble is reported from South America. The cable failed to work, and on geing out to repair it the body of an 1mmense whale was found entangled in the cable to such an extent that it was unable to extricate itself and, being unable to get fresh air, the huge leviathan had been suffocated. The electric light is making its way in London, the wires being all under ground, and the streets all over the city will soon be illuminated by it. In interior use, however, there isa grow- ing distrust, the numerous accidents in this country having directed attention to its dangers. With alternating currents ivon con- ductors emit very loud sounds, which increase with the frequency, whereas copper havdly emits perceptible sound. These mechanical vibrations in the case of iron conductors are thought to be very injurious to the durability of the insulation. The latest development of the electric light is likely to prove of great use for venicular traflic. A small incandescent globe and reflector are placed on the forehead of a horse, insulated wires are carried along its body to a small battery stowed in the trailing vehicle. The current is turned on at pleasnre, and an unmistakable blaze of light illumines the murky surroundings. English electrical experts say that all the main trunk, telegraph and hghting wires in England could be put under ground for $30,000,000, and that al- though the sum is a large one, the na- tion can well afford to expend it. Phonographs are to be put in the postoffice of Mexico, to be used by per- sons unable to write, in ovder to send messages to friends thtough the mails. Lord Brassey’s London house is lighted by electric lamps inclosed in seashells of the greatest beauty, whose transparency sheds a glowing reful- gence over the whole apartment. From experiments made in Rich- mond, Va., with electric heater it seems robatle that a passenger coach can be Knpt warm at an expense of 2 conts an hour, the current being supplied by a dynamo on the locomotive or tender, i The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMEN I' is only put up in larae two-ounee tin boxes, and is ap absolute cure for all sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and all skin erup- tiol ‘Wil positively cure all Kinds of piles. Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT- MENT. Sold by Goodman Drug company at 25 cents per box—by mail 30 cents. A STOKER'S LIFE, The Men Who Feed the Furnaces of Ocean Steamships. The stokers on one of the great ocean steamers work four hours at astretch in a temperature frory 120 to 160 degrees, says the Popular Science Monthly. Their quarters are close, and they must tuke care that while feeding one fur- nace their arms are not burned by the one behind them, Ventilation is fur- nished through a shaft reaching down to the middle of their quarters. Kach stoker tends four furnaces, spending two or three minutos at each, then dashes to the air pl‘lw to take his turn at_cooling off, an aits for another call to hfil furnaces. When the watch is over the men go perspiring through long, cold passages to the forecastle, where they turn in for eight hours. One man, twenty-eight years old, who | was interviewed by s reporter, had been employed at the furnaces since he was fourteen years old, He weighed 180 pounds, ung was ruddy and seem- ingly happy. He confessed that the work was terribly hard, but ‘it came hardest on those who did not follow it GAS FOR COOKING AND HEATING. The ideal fuel is gas, control and is Scientific inve more of its nutritive propert ood steak unloss you h Blectrio Light company have for cooking and heating. heaters and cookers ave the groatest su. QUALITY. ECONOMY, No. 210 Main $t. COUNC NEW MEA prices t down to the lowest noteh, kept in the buteher’s lino, regularly. But if we get plenty to eat,” he said, “‘and take cave of our- selves are all ri Here's a mate of mine, near vs old, who has been a stoker life, and can do as good work as [ ean. Stokers never havo the consumption, and rarely catch cold. Their grog has been knocked off on the English and American lines, because the men got drunk oo often and the grog did them much harm. When T used to take my grog I'd work just like a lion while the effects lasted. " I'd throw i my coal like a giant und not mind tho heat a bit, but when it worked off, as it did in a very few minutes, I was that woak that a child could upset me. Take a man dead deunk before the fives and the heat would sober him off in half an hour or give him a stroke of apoplexy.” Mrs. Winslow's unexcelled teething. oothing Syrup ia an medicine for children while 5 cents a bottle. Sogascaan A STORY OF THE WAR, Adventures of a Rebe! Gun-Boat Among Farragut's Men-o'-War. Factsabout the cf war, which, had they been known at the time,would have changed the complexion of affairs in many battles, are still coming to light, says the New York Star. Sunday, hav- ing oceasion to go aboard the British steamship Lassell, T had a chat with Mr. Weeks, the cond officer. Su burnt and bewhiskered, and a picture of u typical sailor,the conversation with him turned ‘to nautical matters, and gradually to the revolution in marine war-fare caused by the building of the Monitor. “Do you know,” he sad, **I was on board the confederate gnn boant Lowmsi- ana when Farragut began his journey up the Mississippi, and had he “known how we were fi in theve he could have captured the boat without any dif- ficulty. The Louisiana was hurriedly built by joining two tuge together and an endeavor was made to arrange the two tugs’ shafts so as to work a large wheel between the two boats, The deck of the boat was covered with a flat roof and slanting sides made of three feet of g oak logs with the bark on, in turn with a foot of railroad iron. When Farragut passed up the er the Louisiana was sent out to meethim, but after going haif a mile the engines failed and the boat was transformed into a floating fort. She carried eigh- teen guns. While in this condition we were grappled by the United States man-of-war Brooklyn and another frigate. Before being grappled we used both our broadsides on them with con- siderable effect, hut after that we could not use our guns, owing to the smoke caused by repeated dis- charges from the = two men-of- war. Our ports were not large enough to allow the escape of the smoke caused by their guns, and it soon became so thick that we could not see each other, The two frigates peppered our iron roof without ayail, and finally drew off and we drifted down the river, where we grounded. When we were able to open the vents in the roof we found that more than & quarter of our men had been rendeved nnconscious by inhaling the smoke. Had the men-of-war continued their firing fifteen minutes longer it is sate to say that every one of the 100 men under the roof of the Louisiana would have been asphyxiated.” Lol A Good OGne, Mr. W. H. Baldridge, druggist, s- condido, California, says: ‘*Chamber- in’s Cough Remedy is the best solling medicine I handle. In fact I sell more of it than all other cough wmedicines combined. Everyone who has used it speaks in glowing terms of its effvien- cy.” For sale by all druggists. SPECIAL NOTICES, COUNCIL BLUFFS. FOR SALE AND RiNT. J081-A set of lodge books: finder wiil be 4suitably rewarded by returning to O, John- ston, 712 Broadway. R RENT—-One 1-r00m hiouse on Kourth avenue; one elght-room houss on Bec ond avenue, and one eight-room house on Tenth street; all fittea_ up with all modern conven- 1ences, W. W, Bllger, Pearl street. OT8 for sale in Oak Pa dition. Easy terms, monthly payments. . L. Hall sts. enwood ad- and lots on or. Crossand rk an House Doble, OTIOE—If you have real vstate or cnattels you want to dispose of quick, list them with Kerr & Gray, Council Bluifs, Ia, R EXCHANGE -% or 4 stocks of general merchandise to exchauge for good farm lands and cash: involce from #.00) ‘Lo #12,00), Address Kerr & Gray, Council Bluffs, T, REAL BSTATE-flougut and wold su1 changed. Special attention given to ination of titles. W. C. James, No 10 Pearl st ) i TRADE for stack good lot in Hastings Neb, Inquire 13 dwaj # Vest Broadw Jir0i BALE or lent—gurden land with houses, by J. K. Rice 102 Main st,, Conncll Biutrs, 'OR EXCHANG E—A good new 6-room bouse 0 exchange for an improved 8) acre fa) in western or central lowa, Keor & Gray, It will pay vou to investignto this, T ress 08 modern times, MERRIAM BLOCK, It gives the greatest dogree of heat, is always undo solutely without dust ana there can be no accidents from its uso tigations have shown that food cooked by it retains 20 per con s than if cooked in tha old way. s tried one cooked by gas. made it desirable in point of economy 1o You nev The Council Bluffs *ate n us and uns e ‘hoir They combing READINESS FOR USE, SATING CAPACITY, NO LOST 1 No. 211 Pearl St UEFS, I0WA. T MARKET! 305 BROADWAY. The best Beel and Veal in the market. | h | I Jverything of the best quality and rd, Suusngre, Oysters, and everything I'vee delivery to all parts of the city. ¥ GRAY, Proprictor. WV ANTED At aongo, stook ot gracerice of general mdse, thit will invoico ahout #4,000, In exchange for & Jin good fmprovad roncrty noar tals plaeei bl in cash. Aildress orr & Gray, Couneil BIufls, W ANIED — At once, draughtaman, Apply ofl architect, room %51 Merriam on Conncl Blufs, i o block, 1108, OFFIcE: W. 1L M. Pusnt OFFICER & PUSEY, BANKERS. Corner Main and Broaawny, COUNCIL BLUFFS, 10W Dealers in forelyu and domestic Collections made and taterest patd on Dosits. I Murphy_fi;fifificturing (o, 18t Avenus and 21st Stroet. SASH DOORS AND BLINDS. Band and Scroll Sawing, R and Planing. Sswing of aliKinds, P e Kindling wood £2.50 per load delivered, Clean sawdust by the barrel Z5c. All work to be tirst-class, * Telephone 22, “Your Patronage Solicited’ . 27 Main St., Over Jacque min’s Jewelry Store. A Elestric .Truss tectors, Efo, Agents wantea, DR, C. B. JUDD, Counctl Blu A.A HART, —FIRST-CLASS— Jowelor and Waich Ropairer Has rmjmvarl from 110 Main St. w0 537 Broads way, Fine watch work a specialty ana satige faction guarant A full line’ of hoilday £0ods and noveltie 606 Browaday ) NOLDS Fashionable Confoctionors, the very latest novelties for bunquets and vate parties. Ohoice frufts, hon-tois, hioeos . buttercups, and old fashioncd molusses candy a specialty, Orders for parties and mail opders prompuly Blied, 320 Boadway, Coueil “. o F. M, ELLIS & C0., ARCHITE CTS AND BUILDING SUPERINTENDENTS, Rooms 43 and 432 Bee Buliding, Omuiia Neb, and Hooms 244 and 216 Merriam Block, C suncil Blufls, Towa, Correspondence Solicited. BELL & BERLINGHOF, ARCHITECTS ND SUPERINTENDENIS. Room 2, Opera House Block, Council Blufts, Towa. — J.D. Bln(l.'sl)n(llll. E. L, BRuGAnr, Pros yice 1'r CiAs, R, HANNAN, Cashier, o NG) CTATE CITIZENS' STATE BANK, OF COUNCIL, BLUFFS, Paid up Capital. ... .. $150,000.00 Surplus ..... o 35,000.00 Liabllity to Depositor: +3356,000.00 Dinxcrons—1. A, Miller, K, 0. Gl E. Simgart, B, K. Hart, 3 b Kawadaon Cia. 16, Hunnan, Transact' general banking businesy Largest'capital und surplus of any bank in westera lowa, 1nterest on time deposits M. H. CHAMBERLIN, M. D)., EYE, EAR AND THROAT SURGEON. Detoetive Vision a KNES ACCURATELY PIGAC given 10 chron ther nOEVOUs uflection ot prover treatment of the oy p for pmphiet. Best of reforoncon givel o, ed with sucoess by mall after first cop At once, & youn Nadress &, 208 FoisaLEor Excange-Tho furniture and lease of &85 room hotel doing & bix business in eastern Neb, Price, #8,00; $1,600 case bal, on ensy terms, or Will take 14 in good real estate. Address Kérr & Gray, Council Blufrs, N EW improved real eatate to trade for unim provea Omaha or Council Bluils property C. B, Judd, 606 Broad ian of good ce. VHE WEST BIDE BUILDING BOCIETY of Council fluffs invites the attention of men s totherr ¢ 1 Homos 1n this elty, terms of purchase Under thib pian than b that 8 better site, nel be od t can he effectod individual action, and borhood and surround- 4b by purchasing sad fm- 1o mrrm distriets 3 e undersigned will furuish i S R ey AL ers. open 0 M, room 203 Merriam block, lugs. G 1 2 Cas| urchaser ot Hore, Tueticket whi entitle tho chance in the following prizess t-1 beautitul Gold Cown Heator, prico 40, 1 20d—1 i l'.‘ flower stand with' arches al distributed fmmen: HHUUAII’A; fit:‘lh older to ‘These vrizes will be the date given, 8. E. MAXON, Achite:t and Superntend:nl, > Room 281, Merriam Block, COUNCIL BLUFFS, - IOWA( Refractive Troubles n #poclalty >