Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 17, 1890, Page 6

THE OMAHA BEE. COUNCIL BLUFFS ICE, NO, 12 PEARL STREET. Lelivered by carrier in any part of the CRy, H.W. 11LTON MANAGER EPHONES: N. Y. P. Co. Gleason coal, Council Bluffs Lumber Co., coal. Thatcher coal, 114;Main street. CarbonCoal Co. wholesale, retail, 10 Paarl N. Blutz and Lena Especk of Avoca were married Weduesaay evening by Justice Hen dricks, s The A. & A. S, R. will meot at their cathe dral at 7:80 this evening for work in the fourteenth. Unity Guild will meet in regular session with Mrs, Harris, South First street, this afternoon at 8 o'clock. Justice Barnett has refused to admit William Boartz, the murderer of young Donahue, to bail, and the latter is still con- fined in the county Jail. The insane commissioners 3 amined juto the case of J. Potect, who re- sides on North Sixth street. He will be taken to the Clarinda asylum today. Regular meetin R. A, this Friday o'clock, All members are earnestly quested to be present to transact important business. The three new clectric light towers aro nearly in position, but the lights can not be put up until the weather moderates, as it would be highly dangerous to attempt ti work at present. It will take about thre days to do the work. P. . Spencer and E. W, Kappell have bought out the Reflector job office, until re contly run by Grimth “& Barrett. Mr. Spe is an old newspaper man and a practical printer as well. The bar doctet for the Janu the district court contains 40 and criminal cascs, there are about a dozen crimninal cases to go before the grand jury, which will swell the total number to nearly oight huodre There will be a meeting of the Y this evening at their room, No. 802 Merriam block, at 7:50. All that'is needed o make these meetings plensant and profitable is the regular uttendance of members. Young peo ple are all cordially invited to meet with us. 1da M. Hunter, secretary. The *'grip” hus a strong hold on the post- office emvloyes. Four new cases are re- ported, which makes an even half dozen who are now incapacitated for duty, aside from those who have partislly recovered, ana have resumed work, It makes lively work for those who have tnus far escaned s debilitating influence, but Postmaster Treynor manages to get all mail matter around as usual. The stained window glass for the Fifth Avenue Methodist church has been delayed in transit, which will necessitate the post ponement of the opening exercises by Bishop Newmau on next Sunday, but as the bishop has given another date when he can be present the work will be bushed with enorgy until its completion, IFurther notice will bo givon of the exact time when the dedication will oceur, Rev. G. W. Snyderof Davenport, Ta., pres- 1dent of the Lutheran synod of Iowa, is in the city for the purpose of ascertaining the prospects of organizing an Eng theran chureh in Council Bluffs. He was here on a similar mission in the fall of 1878, when ho had just graduated from the Wittenburg theological serzinary. Hesecured the names of some of our prominent citizens for the enternrise. But the great financial crisis then swept through the country and the project was abandoned. Siuce then nothing us been done. He is here to again agitate the subject with the hope of permanent suc- cess. All who aro interested or favprable to the project will do well w inform him through the mail where they can be found. Drs. Woodbury have removed thejr dental office to 101 Pearl street, up stairs, erday ex ry term of , 812 equity from theso ok S 5. M. Williamson sells the Standard and Domestic sewing machines, 106 Main strect. oo (B J. G. Tipton, real estate, 527 Broadway. ot ol Bush & Gert’s piauos, 53¢ Broadway. Reiter, tailor, 310 Broaaway. A e The Lenders of fine watches and jewelry in the city, and the place to buy the best g0ods ut the lowest prices is the establishment without riv the most reliabie firm \,)3( hs. James F. Record of Glenwood was in the city yesterday. D. M. West, esq,, is attending to legal bus- 1ness ut Indianola, Ta. L. A. Bergman is rocovering from a se vere attack of the lufluenza. John Dohany, jr., has _gone to Portland, Ore., to visit W. G! Griffin. L. A. Devine of Aultman, Miller & C confined to s residence by ‘serious iliness. Hon. G. W. Cullison of Harlan was i the city yesterday. He is one of the trustecs of the Lospital for tho insane at Mount Pleas- ant, and was en routo home from an official Visit to that institution, AL ey . Pirst ave. Tel, 22. Dr. C. H. Bower, F. Janssen teaches zither music. Terms reasonable, 027 8d ave, L The Itoss Investimout and Trust compan y. Waterman's Cinoch On the Oirty, *The ol suying, ‘When the cat's away the mice will play,’ seems to hold good,” re- marked a well known local capitalist yester- day sfternoon. *'What's the matter now " “'Oh, nothing in particular; only I was just thinking of the action of the council last Monday night in allowing Alderman Water- man’s bill. Wnen it came up the week be- fore Alderman Lacy was present and he prompuly sat down on it, but ho was in Des Moines Monday night, and the bill went through liko a streak of greased lightning. The law forbids an alderman doing any work on a city contract, but Waterman has been doing all the repairing for the police and fire aepartments since he has beeu in ofice. All the excuse he has to offer is that he didn’t know that anybody cared about it. He 18 not even the lowest bidder for the work, but charges whatever he pleases and the bills are always allowed. I don'v know 88 he is any more to blame than the alder- men who allow the bilis, but I can’t ses why the city should not recover for such wori ‘The money is expended illegally, and 1 lieve that the city could recover it. Eveu it the city is not losing money by the deal it is puying out mouey contrary to the statutes, sui I'do nov believe in such a way of doin, business. The council does not even preten 1o do business legally, and 1 suppose that it i8 the surprising boldoess of their uperations that carries them through, 1 would like to kuow if there is no redress from their ac- tions, and 1 would also like to know just who 18 responsible for throwing all this work to Waterman in violation of the law." —_— Notice of Dissolution. ‘The firm of Schluter & Boloy Las this day dissolved partnership by mutual agreement, Isunc Boley retiring, and August Schluter continuing the business. He will coll bills due the firm and puy all indeb sgainst said firm, AvGust SCHLUTEN, Isaa0 Bovrey, e Cash for household goods, Mandel, 325 Broadway. Traveling men, Hotel Jameson is first~ class. R C. 1. steamdye works, 1013 Broadway, S e The acknowled, leading photographer an Council Bluffs is Schmidt, 220 Main street st Mrs. C. L. Gillette will Dcc.flly & portion of Mrs. Ploffr’s down town millinery store, No. 14 Main street, for the next thirty days. Jows lump coal, spot cash, $3.50 per tou, Couucil Bluffs Fuel Co, IN AND ABOUT THE BLUFES. The Board of Trade Torn By Numer= ous Internal Dissensions. QUEER MUNICIPAL FINANCIERING The Electric Light Company Demand the Allowance of Their Bill— Those Walks In Bayliss Park —General and Perional. Tréubles of the Bluffs Boomers. The daily sessions of the real estate ex- are not as well attended as the pro- moters of the scheme hoped for at the begin- ning, and they are now waiting for warmer weather in order to give the plan another r trial before determining whether it will boa ‘o’ or a fizzlo. President Judd stated yosterday that it was too cold for the mem- bers to turn out in very large numbers and, furthermore, thut the exchange was waiting to0 see what the board of trade would do. The real estate exchange is really an off- shoot or branch of the board of trade, and until it 18 determined what the latter organ- ization will do, the exact status of affairs in the real estate exchange will beconsiderably i doubt. It happens that just at present there is dissension among the members of the board of trade, and a rapidly widening threatens the existence of that body. First and foremost among the causes of dis 1 18 a disagreement regapding the sec retary, Bartram 7 Y. For weeks and for months past ho has failed to give sutistac- tion to certain members of the board, and they have not attempted to d feclings in the matter, Th among themselves und promised themsolves a change 1n this particular after the annual meeting and the election of the new oficers, Ou two occasions the annual meeting has been postponed, and thus matters rest at present. At the last adjournment it was de- cided to hold the annual election on the 25th inst., and there is a vast amount of work to be done before that time. ‘I'he question of the secretaryship must be settled before certain ones can be induced to retain their momber- Charges of immoderate drinking and dency to forget to pay justly incurred of his own while managing to unjustly exaggerate the expenses of the orgauization are m the present incumbent. Mr. Zevely, however, has many friends both in the organization and out of it, who are us earnest in their defense of him as are his enemies in working against him. They state that not only is he the best secretary tue board has ever had, but that he is devoting notonly his time but alarge partof his salary as well in furthering the imterests of the board and of the city, Aside from his salary of §1,500 us secretary of the board of trade, they state that he receives a fair income from his practice us pension attorney, aud that he also uses a good share of this in ad- ncing tho interests of the city. This, however, does not satisfy tne disaf- fected members on the other side, who insist that the secretary’s habits are not such ns to reflect credit on the board and on the city, even if he does spend his money as his friends alloge, and thoy strongly adhere to their demand for u change in the office, “This 18 but one of the matters regarding which there is a difference of opinion, and which is disturbing the peace and harmony of the organization. Auother source of earnest contro & the proposed increase of the members fee froin §25 to £50. This was suggested some time age, and 1 solicit- ing members for this year 0 has boen an nounced as the price of a membership in the body. The plan is to create a sinking fund toward the erection of a board of trade build- ing. It was proposed to set aside 10 per cent of the membership fees if fifty members were secured, 20 per cent if seventy-five were secured and 33}¢ per centif 100 mem- bers were secured. ~Lhe soliciting commit- tee on membarship has managed to get fifty names pledged for the new membership list, but it leaves out many of the old' members, who thivk the price s little too steep, and there 1s kicking and gnashing of teeth on that score. Another matter, regarding which there is a difference of opinion, is the member- ship of George H. Chawp aad J. F. Kimpall of the Kimball-Champ investment company. These gentlemen have been mewmbers in the past, but their dues became delinquent, They are now ready to come in this year and psy the $50 membership fee, vrovided their delinquent dues are remitted. Some of the members are in favor of remitting them, but William Siedentopf, chairman of the finance commuttee, will not listen to such a propo- sition, and declarcs that if they are admitted on any such basis he will at once resign his membership in the organization. It is ar- gued that since it was through the efforts of the board of trade that the $20,000 was se- cured with which to purchase the new hotel site and was presented to Messrs. Kimball & Cnamp, they ought to at least be willing to oy in their delinquent dues to the board. So the metter atands, and as above stated there is 8 deal of work to be done before an avnual meeting can be held with any degree of success, Many of the members feel thut there is no use in turning out to a meetin that can only result 1n a wordy jangle i they say that they will stay away uuntil they are rgasonubly certain that some amicable agreement can be arrived at which wiil - sure the harmonious working of the board for the remainder of the year. It is to be re- gretted that there is any dissension among the members, as the board has done much for the city during the past twelve months and there is urgent need of its continuance the coming year. Watch the Sunday morning papers for the announcement of the Boston store’s first annual @igantic clearance sale, to commence Wednesday next, January 22, and last for teu Boston Storo, Council Bluffs, Fotheringham, Whitelaw & Co, bl ossas 2 Dr. H. S, West, guaranteed dentistry. No. 12 Pear st over B oftice. e ‘I'he water runs when Bixby plumbs, The Manhattan sporting headq'rs 418 B-way. — President Wright Protests. At the last meeting of the city council the bill of the electric light company, amounting to 72 for lighting the ciyy during the mouth of December was rejected, and sent back for correction. The council maintains that the eity 18 entitled to a reduction of $250 because the electric light company failed to have all the now lights running by the 16th of December, when the old charter expired. Mr. Wright states that the new charter pro- tides for seventy-five or more lights, for each of which the oity shall pay annually $100. He bus sent in the bill for December at the usual rates, as the new lights were not. started until the firat of the vear. He claims that he was here ready to begiu work on the new lights on the 11th of October, but the council did not locate the Lights until No- vember 0, deluying him uearly a month, Asige from this he was given to understund that he would need but ten miles of wire, which he purchased, but after the lights were located he was compelled to purchase eignt miles more. The Erlw had advanced in the meantime, and that wmade a differance against him of $156, In view of these facts, and because the city is alleged to be respon- sible, he insists that he is entitled to the “‘amount of the bill under the old rates, e ISP Watch the Sunday morning papers for the announcement of the l3oston Store's first aunual gigantio sale, to commence Wednes day next, January 22, aud Lo lust ten da; Boston Store, Council. Bluffs, Fothering- bam, Whitelaw & Co, e e S ptain Clough, When the members ‘of the night foree re- vortea for duty at police headquarters last evening, Chief Lucas read a letter from Mayor Rohrer announcing the ‘appointment of Oficer A.S. Clough to the position of captain, Clough has been on the foree but a short time, Lis appointment haviog been formally upproved at the lust meeting of the council, but he i1s well known to the oitizens of the Blufts, as be bus resided here for a uumber of yoars. He hus a good reputation, wnd while of an affadle dis Sl.rnn. bids fair w be stern isciplivarian, He appears 0 be KLt man for the place, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: 'PRIDAY, JANUARY 17. 1890. and if such [s the case it will soon become apparent. The need of a good captain has long been obvious, and it is hoped that with the new appointment a change for the better will be waugurated. In enforcing all orders tending to uphold the law and ordor of the city, Captain Cloueh will meet with hearty port, and he enters upon tho duties of his office with the best wishes of all. - e Why Not Work the Vags? Numerous complaints have been made re- garding the condition of the walks in Bay- Liss parik. The snow that fell on Sunday and Tuesday has not been cleared away and narrow beaten tracks are now the ave- nues for travel, instead of the br arti- ficial stone walks. The city has an ordi- nance compelling private citizens to remove the snow from the walks in front of their property within twenty-four nours after it falls, under the ponalty of a fine, but for Bayliss park, in the very heart of the city, there is apparently no brovision. There is probably as much travel through this park as on any street in the city, with tho possible exception of Middle Broadway and Upper Main, yetuo attempt is mnade to clear the walks, aithough more than double the specified time has elapsed since the last fall of snow. It is a matter that calls for the immediate atten- tion of the aathorities. Vagrants are con- fined in the city jail and are being fod at the expense of tho city, and there is no reason why a shovel brigade should not be exercised at this time of the year as well as in the summer. There are numerous crossines that are now as nearly impassible on account of SnowW us they were a few months ago on account of mud, yet no attempt is mado to improve their condition. Thia is work that should be done, and the plan of working the vags will settle it. The city has the shovels and tho vags, and all t is necessary is to effect a successtul combination, ettt ity A BABY POSTAGE STAMP, Ths Effigy of Don Alfonso XIIL the Spanish Stamp. Letters which have recently arrvived from Spain, says the Youth’s Com- panion, have borne a new postage stamp, marked with the efigy of the king of Spain, Don Alfonso XIII. This fact in 1tself is nothing at all remarka- ble, since the postage stamps of every monarchical country bear the portrait of its monarch., — But the fact that the king of Spain is less than four years old, having been born May 17, 1885, and the further fact that the'stamps of the kingdom have heen marked with his eftigy but a short time, make the circumstrnce an inter- esting one. Nover before, we believe, has a post- age stamp borne the portrait of a baby monarch. There have been many child potentates, but Don Alfonso XIII. is the first baby who has reigned over a Euro- pean country since the introduction of che use of postuge stamps. To this generation, which considers the postage stamp almost as much a necessity of life as food or raiment, it scems hard to believe that forty years have not gone by since postage stamps came into generaluse in Burope and the United Sta No doubt this new baby stamp of Spain will be sought for, at least for a time, by thousands of stamp coltectors for its novelt Itis quite sure, h 2ver, to become common. But within a few years Don Alfonso, growing so old that he may fairly cluim to be “'quite a big boy,” will need a new postage- stamp, and then perhaps another and another still before he has become a mau, so that people who preserve these amps will possess a record in postage- stamps of a young king’s growth from babyhood to manhood. The present stamp is quite a pretty one. It is printed in several colors, ac- cording to the denomination, TR FOOD AND FORTUNE, The Relative Importance of Couk, Authors and Politicinans, George T. Downing, the keeper of the congressional restaurant for many years, and a man of considerable wealtn, was an orator of no mean ability, says the American Analyst. Many's the lecture he delivered, for each of which he gota round $100. That he should have devoted the major portion of his time to providing food ~ for men’s stom- achs when he was well fitted to dispense intellectual pabulum excited much com- ment among his friends, one of whom asked him pointedly why he did not re- nounce the kitchen Tor the library. *I seek the dollar, and there is more money in the restaurant than in the field of literature,” was the answer of this cultured African. And then he added that men of all degrees of cul- ture, as well as those lacking italto- gether, entertain higher opinions of their cooks than of their law makers. “Every man is a gourmand 1n degree. My popularity is due solely to the fact Hthalicea prepare and serve palatable hes. The world is full of hiteratours and orators, but good cooks are not eusy to be found,” Adirondack Murray, the versatile Boston preacher—who in the palmy days of his pulpit sway was termed tho ‘‘Beecher of the Iub”—after his re- treat south went to Montreal and en- gaged in the same businessas Downing, being in no sense ashamed of his ing, declaring that eating is the chief necess| of life, and that there are honors for the caterer as well as for the author and statesman. ,However, the hero of the New York mountains lacked the latest requisite for the management of a first-ciuss cuisine, At Washington there lived for many years and finally died a book-seller named Taylor. Mr. Taylor haa a son in the army and another in the navy, both of high rank and most estimable entlemen, The book-seller, a man of igh literary taste, placed eating at its proper estimate, rightly declaring that el L Ay s e wrote a book, his only published writ- ing, in which he recited all he knew about table anecdotes. The volume, now very scarce, abounds in charming little stories of great men’s tuble weak- nesses. All will recall the hope expressed by Mvr. Pickwick’s friends that the jury in the Bardell breach-of-promise suit had had a good breakfast, One of the most successiul lobbyists who ever lived said, after twanty years of contact with sen- ators and representatives at Washin ton, that he never talked with a hungr man. “I take them at dinner or im- mediately afterward, Your hungry man s savage and little disposed to grant a favor,” on el Supreme Ju Lic 8’ Giwns, The supreme court is a place of tradi- tions and precedents, and aven the eus and make of the gowns of the justices are so well defined by custom that there is but little scope left for the individual taste of the owner. An authority on this subject says vhat the gown is mude of large, straight widths, says the Washington Capital. At the bottom it is three yards and a quarter wide, and it comes down to the ankles, The gown has a parrow hem around the ttom and a broad one straight down the front. At the top it is gauged to a yoke, which is short on the shoulders and forms.a deop scallop ut the back. The sleeves are a yard and a guarter and reach to the hands. One woman has made those gowns for the last*forty years, and she gots $100 for each one of them. They are all made alike, thes only difference being in the material, the chief justice wearing black Chinese satin, while his associates ave robed in black silk. The chief justice always Wears a new gown when *m swears in a president. The new gown is always subject to a good deal of criticism by the.older justives, aud its fit is closely scanned, OF INTEREST 0 THE FARMER Som> Statistics About the Sheep Business in Nebraska. DRESSING FOWLS FOR MARKET, Its Importance in Obtaining Good Prices—Keep Stook Dry in the Winter — Kducating the Horse—Profit in Hogs. The Sheep Business in Nebraska, Investigations made by the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture go to show that about 800,000 sheep are now being wintered in Nebraska, says the Western Stockman and Cultivator. mates of sheep being fed in Nobraska, previously made by other parties, put the number at about 500,000 head. The former number which isseveral thousand above the actual figures given by the Stato Board is probably not far out of the wa It is said that a lurge part of these sheep are ewes and yearlings. This purt of the stock is probubly merely wintering here and is not being corn- fod for the spring market, but will be kept for stock and wool-growing. To the extent that thisis true the market will be relieved fromn the pressure that has been anticipated in some quarters when these sheep arve to be ran in next spring. A good many of these sheep have cost comparatively high figures, and although feed is quite low it is stitl a problem whether the cfforts being made to consume our excess of corn at home by sheep feeding will prove profit- able. Some idew of the cost of feeding wethers for the spring market can be had from the following facts reported to the Stockman by a Colorado mau who is feeding 12,000 head of Mexican sheep in one of the countios of Kansas which borders on Nebraska, und where the conditions are about the same as they are anywhere in the best sections of Nebraska. Thereportsays: **I have 12,000 sheep and they consume about four hundred and fifty bushels of corn and fifteen tons of hay per day. I pay 133 cents a bushel for the corn, $2.50 to #3 per ton for hay, $3.25 per ton for millet, $2.50 per ton for sorghum, and & per ton for alfulfa. Besides this I wiil use 200 barrels of salt, s0 you see there is a good deal of work and ex- pense connected with this business.” No mention ismade of the number of meun employed or wages paid, so that this important expensc item is only to be guessed at, or “estimated,” as the Inglish say. At this very low cost of feed, and placing the labor expense at only $10 per duy, it will cost about $18,000 to feed this lot of 12,000 sheep five months, or . L5 per head. If these sheep cost anywhere near the prices good fecding wethers have brought in the South Omaha market during the past three months it will take very stiff prices for mutton in March and April next to make them pay interest on the investment of $30,- 5,000 which they represent. It will be a doubl® misfortune to the Nebraska farmers if the sheep feeders in Nebraska do not make money this year. 1. It will discourage the feeding of sheep in the future, 2. It will tend to break up - the flocks of stoek sheep now being founded; and out of which should come one of our most profitable industries. There i8 no question but that it is by converting our corn and hay into high priced ‘products such as wool and butter, instead of heavy, cheap products such as cattle and hogs, that we will be able to solve the problem of railroad freights, ard also get the Jargest financial rewurns for the labor and capital put into a farming business. Dressing Fowls for Mark t. looks when it is {first exposed to the public guze. The quickuess of sale and price are governed to u great ex- tent by tho style in which 1t hus been prepared and the appearance it ex- Libits when tirst opened in a distant market. Different styles of dressing are re- quired to suit the various markets of our great cities, says a writer in the Albany a\ Y.) Cultivator, but all de- mand that dressed poultry shall be fresh and cleaun-looking, plump, well rounded and reasonably symmetrical in shape. When prepared for the New York market poultry is partly drawn and partly undrawn, the head and feet being retained, as weli as the tail and the outer wing quills, This gives the bird a very lanky aud ungainly apped ance, though it enables the purchaser to tell the sex and very nearly to de- fine the age of the bird. At Pittsburg and the southern mar- kets all poultry is plucked clean and prepared reidy for market, which, 1t seems to me, is (ar preferable. To begin with, the fowl must be in good condition and properly fattened, so that the yellow fat may gleam temptingly through a clear, healthy skin. In order to take on readily’ the requisite amount of flesh and to be free from un- sightly pin feathers, the bird must be near maturity and possess its full com- plement of feathers. Ship 1n clean, well-ventilated boxes or crates, each plainly marked with the name of the shipper and the dealer to whom it is sent, together with its gross and net weizht; and be sure to notify the receiver by mail of the qual- ity of the shipment made, and to give explicit directions concerning its dis- posal, Try to have each fowl in the crate as near the same size as possible; one or two thin-fleshed, lanky speci- men’s will lower the price of the whole lot. If it is necessiry to market such pack them by themselves. Poultry should be dressed the day be- fore shipping and kept in a cool place in the open air .gver night, each fowl being placed so' as not to touch any other in order’that all may become shoroughly cold, ;On no account, how- ever, should fresh meat of any kind be allowed to freeze,us there is danger of it souring quickly upon thawing. Choose dry »m.v:l'a weatner, when it is turning colder rather than warme:, This in our coyntry is our greatest trouble, we agever know what a day will bring forth, and it is the saddest thing in the world to wakb up next morning after having had & nice lot of poultry dressed and hear the rain pouring down, as it is almost sure to do with us in win- ter when the weather suddenly turns warm. Before killing the turkey suspend it by its feet, head downwards. then place its head upon a wooden block, conven- iently arranged, and sever the neck just below the head with one quick blow from a sharp ax. Allow it to bleed freely, as this renders the meat clear and white and causes it to keop longer Pluck the fowl at oace while still warm, when the fathers come out without diffi- oulty, and there is less danger of teur- ing the tender skin, Keen Dry. I believe it isa good plan to turn the stock out ut least a little while every day during the wiuter whenever the weather will permit, says a contributor of the Nebraska Farmer, But L ques- WE WERE BURNED OUT! _ But do not propose to stay out, and here we are, ready for businoss, at 833 SOUTH MAIN STREET. Our Black Peerless Soft Nut ana Lump OCoal takee the cake. of our Hard Coal i8 not excelled by any on the ma-ket. ber the place. Buy it once and you will want it afterwarde, The_quality If you want goud Hard Wood cheap call on us. Remem- SAPP & KNOTTS, Fuel Merchants, No. 33 Main Street. GAS FOR COOKING AND HEATING. tion the economy in letting them out if they must tramp around Knee deep in mud or manure or when it is raining. A cold rain chills the body and ¢old wind chills the feet, ana more feed will be rvequired to make this up, and thus in- crease tho cost. It is always an item during the winter to have the stock as comfortable possible, and certainly there is a cold comfort in allowing the stock to tramp around in the mud sim- ply because the weather is sufficiently mild to let them out. A good shelter 1s necessary for the comfort of the animals, but it must be dry underfoot as well as overhead, and especially g0 in cold weather, and it is as nece ry that their feet should be dry as their bodies. aid materially in this; drylots or at least dry weeds from the stables or sheds to the watering troughs will be an important itom is raining or the ground is cold and muddy keep the stock under shelter; if the teams must be taken out the mud should be wiped off clean bofore they aro left for the night. With thoe rest of the stock there is but little oceasion for getting their logs nnd feet wuddy if proper pains ave tak Spreading Manure in the Winter Manure muade in the winter should, when it is possible, be spread as it is made, on the land where it is to be used. It isafact thascannot be con- troverted, und has been abundantly proved, both by reason and practice, that manure is never worth more thun it is the day it is made, says the Ne- braska Farmer. Nothing is added to it, but usually much is lost from it by the lapse of time. Iixcepton steeply slop- ing ground, the manure is safe from all danger of loss, and is put where it will do the most good when it is spread on the land direct from the stable. There is no more handling of it, and if it is rained upon all that is dissolved from it goes into_the soil, just where it is wanted. Hence it is a convenience and an economy to spread it gathered. aul the manure and as soon as u wagon load is Educating the Horse. The man who undertakes toeducate a horse labors under some disadvantages that do not arise in the education of children, says the Horseman, A tutor iy commonly svoposed to bo the superior of his pupil physicaliy, mentally and moraily, and gencrally has the im- mense advantage of using a language common to both. The teacher of the horse knows nothing of his language, if he has one, while he has to deal with an animal far surpassing him 1n phys: ical power, and whose special senses ave all more efficient than his own. The ear of the horse catches the sound far too faint or too distant to be heard by a man; his eye enables him to gailop on a track that his rider could hardly see on his nds and kvees, or to travel safely in the darkuess of night. His taste and smell direct him unerringly in the choice of herbage or in the re- jection of water from a contaminated vessel, while his sensitive mu: i oracle he appeals to as superior to all other pnwcr}ul senses in deciding upon the danger or safety of any suspected object. Profit in Hogs. 1insist that there 18 as much profit in hogs as there 1s in steers, but they should run out and have the same ad- vantages, writes George W. Hoffman in the Rural New Yorker. There is but one better animal to enrich land, and that 18 said to be the sheep. Hogs' are better than cows or steers to enrich land. T would turn them out with the cattle; they will eat a great many weeds and grasses that the cows wiil not. Of course you will have to keep better fences and to ring the hogs, but with the appliances of today two men will ring 100 in a short time. We can grow almost anything on hog pasture. At the present price of corn, buckwheat and barley I think there is as much profitin pork at 5¢ per pound as in any- thing we could raise. We used to think there was more profit in pork at 8ic or 4c than there was in selling grain when it brought more than it does now. I would cook the food; youn cannot make a profitout of anything if it is not well taken care of. I would bed my hog with straw; it will make more manure if nothing more. Farm Education, A business query which every head of rural affairs should make at this season is this, says the Farm and Home: Is every field, every crop, every animal under my care or 10 my ownership doing the very best possible in thrift and pros- perity towardsthe increase of my riches? f on close scrutiny a single instance be detected which might be improved let the betterment be made before you rest, and afterwards watch it closely to see that it does not fail. Not for one hour should a *‘leaky business syvstem’ be al- lowed to continue. Repair it if the nation have to wait while the soldering is ceing done. Thrift on the Farm, We have often said that it is the mind of the farmer that firstneeds fertilizing. Thut doctrine is believed, and accepted in Wiscopsin; hence our efforts, as a state, along the line of farm education, says Hoard’s Dairyman. We find in ‘Wisconsin that the quickest way to en- rich the soil is to enrich the mind of the owner with a more and better knowledge—knowledge that fits the necessities of today. In order to diffuse that knowleldge, agitation, discussion, and co-operation must be had, It has become patent to the Wisconsin farmer, if uot to the Vermont farmer, that the methods and understanding that would bring a fair degree of profit forty years ago will not do it today. The philosophy of our whole community-life, as & na- tion, has changed iu forty years. In order that we may maintain the same relation between revenue and expense of living and the conduct of furming, that was had forty years ago, new methods must be brought into practice. To secure o general adaptation of such methods, to enhance tlm profit of the farm.and prevent its decline in fertility and final abandonment, the whole mass must be agitated and made to sce the waste of old error, and the economy of new truth, Cooking, An A physician says the old-fashioned cooking of our grand- mothers, such asis lamented now, would mauke a nation of dyspeptics inside of u year, We should think it would, but we don’t suppose any of their cooking has been preserved, A doughnut covked by our grandmother fifty years ago would be pretty hard to digest, no doubt, but no more so, perhaps, than one cooked two duys ago by & young lady graduate of a fashionable cooking school, e Spencer on Land Aat/onalization, Alreudy within the pust few years I have twice pointed out that these opin- ions (made to appear by those who have Good bedding will | in this, and when it | The ideal fuel is gas. It gives the grentest degroe of heat, is always unde control and is absolutely without dust ana there ean be no accidonts from its use Scientific investigations huve shiown that food cooked by it retains 20 per cen more of its nutritive properties than if cook good st Electric Light compn for cooking and heating. EVERY D RAN ECONOMY, GREATEST HEATING ¢ ABSOLUTE SA Ty, R1C LIGHT FIXTURES OF ALL ¥ CALL AND No- 210 Main St. COUNC circulated them widely different from what they reall by the omission of accompanying opinions) were sct forth in my first work, published forty yeurs ago, says a writer in the Popular Sei- ence Monthly, and that for the last twelve or fiftéen yoars [ have refrained from issuing new editions of that work and have interdicted translations, be- caus 1gh I still adhere to its gen- eral principles, 1 dissent from some of the deductions. The work referred to— ties—w political cthies—absoluto ethics, or that which ought distingmished from rolative political ethics, or that which is at present the nearest practicable approach toat. The conclugion reached concerning lund- hip was renched while seeking a is for the right of property; s ussigned by Locke appearing to me invalid. It was argued that a satisfactory ethical warrant forprivate ownership could arise ouly by contract between the comunity, as original owner of the inhabited area, and individual memoers, who became tenants agreeing to pay cer- tain portions of the = produce, or its equivalent in money, in con- sideration of recognized claims to the rest. Andin the course of the argu- ment it was pointed outthat such a view of land ownership is congruous with ox- isting legal theory and practice; since in law every land” owner is held to be tenant of the crown—that is, of the com- munity, and since, in practice, the su- premo right of the community is as- serted by every nct of parliament which, with a view to public advantage, di- rectly or by proxy takes possession of land after making due compensation. ocial Sta- political to be, as - Snider, the Tireless Reader. Do you remember Snider, the walk- ing phenomenon?” asked a dime museum manager of a St. Paul Pioneer Pross man. *“‘Used to walk nightand day in various museums, couldn’t stop, would die if he was off the track fifteen min- utes, drew immense crowds, proved the best freak card ever played in this country. Well, let me give you some inside ligures in the Snider fnko. **Along, about three months before Snider was sprang on a guileless public 1 found myself every day running up aguinst something in the papers about the wonderful Snider down in Tennes- see, & man who couldn’t stop walking long enough to eat his meals, and who had worn a path around his cottage six inches deep with his perpetunl itiner ancy. Everydayand overy weelk I suw these stories in the papers. It caught all the exchange editors in the country, and their shears couldn’t diginto a paper fast enough to rip out something new about Snider, how he was standing it, how his gait was in- creasing, how he had refused tnousands of dollars to go to the dime museums, how he proposed to die on track, how badly his wife and family felt, and all that sort of rot, you know. Well, at the end of three months the museum got Soider. All" this vrevious advertising hadn’t cost anything, because of the kindness of the exchange editors. Sece? You know how Snider drew, of course, but do you know how the snap worked? No? Thought not. Yes [and a dreamy 100k crept into the luminous orbs of the museum man, half sentimental, half speculative]; yes, there were two Sni- ders—twin brothers. looked just alike, droessed just alike, While one was ta ing his quiet snooze in the little cot- tage, you remember, beside the track, inaceessible to any in the audience, his brother was spinning around the laps as if he were chased by bloodhounds, This is, truly, a wicked, wicked world.” il B g Finest lino confectionery, frufts, nuts and holiday Rrocerics 1n the' city. S. T. Me- Atee's, —_——— Save 80 per cent on tombstones and monu- ments. Design sheet and pricelist free. Kelley, 203 Broadway, Council Blufts, SPECIAL NOTICES, COUNOIL BLUFFS. FOR SALE AND R:INT. JIL“TItA DE—100 acres of clear Kansas land, rtly improved; will trude for a $,01 of dry goods and groceries, or wiil tride ) acres for E40)) stock Of groceries. Address +03 Avenue C, Council Bluffs, Ia, VW ANLED-—A first-class cookgalso chamber- mald; wages 85 per woek. None but com- pitent uoed “upply.” 151 Broadway, Council ufs, R SALE OR TRADE—Stock of stationery, involce about #4100, one-third casn. 3. H! mb, Masonic temple, Council Blufls. TED Competent girl, family of two, I it Wfllfr]lfllli, AMrs, J. F.Kimball, HOY 4th ave, N OTICE—1t you have real ustate of cuattols you want to disposs of quick, hist them with Kerr & Gray, Council Bluirs, La, OR EXCHANG E—A good new Groom house 10 exclinngo for A kmproved #) were farm in western or central lowa, Keir & s FPVHE WEST SIDE_BUILDING SOCIETY of Council Blutfs invites tho attention of men working un sklaries and other Orsons of Moaer: ate MmokUS L (helr CO-0perstive plan for securing homes in thiscity. 1t is belleved that betier terwis of pur-hase and credit can he effected under (his pinn than by fadividual action, and that & better site, nelghborhood and surround- ings can be secured than by purchasing und i proying fnacpendently uud i scpurato dlstri n 1 " the city. The undersigncd will furnish io- oruiation and show the property to all_inquir- ers. Office open from 7 1o ¥ on week day even- ings. C. M. Koss, room 203 Merriam block. 7 i house lately ocou- 10 MeAtee, ADply ab 601 Vitth ANGE -4 or 4 stocks of goneral or good farm 3 85.00) Lo $14,000, Address Kerr & (iray, Council Blutfs, Ia, lfl“u 3,000 to #4,000 you can buy a nice, new cloan stock of hardware, stove and Uishop in one of the best locations’ in Western low., 1f you want_u hardware business would bs loased Lo refer yoy to rellwble parties that Eaow all auout our Uusiiess, Very satiatuctor, reasons for selling. 1t will pay you 10 i “u A Address B 4, lutfs, o5t e office, Council wk unless you have tried one cooked by gas, y have made it desirabie in It will pay vou to investigate this. heaters and cookers are the groatest success os modern times. MERRIAM BLOCK, BLUFFS, IOWA. as intended to be a system of | in tha old way. You neve The Council Bluffs G point of oconomy 10 use gna Thoir new gas They combine READ [LLN NAMINE No. 211 Pearl St OTS ror «ale in Oak Grove and Greenwood ad- 4 dition. Easy terms. Houses and lots on monthly payments. T, L. Doble, cor. Cross and Hazel sty, At aonce, stock of groceries or dse, thiat will invoice about age for $250) in zood improved ar this place: bal in cash, Address ouneil Blulfs, '“'.\M' DA girl for gener Mrs. HEJ. Evans, 108 South JORSALE or Excance The furniture and Tease of a5 room hotel doing & big business in enstorn Neb, Drice, §8,00; 81,500 case bal, on easy terms, or Will take s in' £ood renl estate, Address Kerr & Gray, Council Blufs, property u Kerr & Gra, J EW tmproved roal estato to traas for unlm AN provea Omaha or Council Bluils property C. B, Judd, 603 Broadway. ox- Va0 to exam- 10 Pearl st. TRUAL RSTATE -loagnt aad mlt anti changed, Spacial attention ination of titles, W, C. James, JQRSALE or ltent—Gardon land with houses, by J. R, Rice 102 Main st., Council Biuifs, Oheaper Than Kver. Everythiug in the hardware line at Shugart & Co,'s, Boys, the prices in skates haye been cut in two, and the finest_wnd largest lne in the clty to’ select from, While the skating is so §00d come in and get a bargain, Kocollect that every 8 purchase entitles the person to a charice in tho grand drawing to take plice January 1. BELL & BERLINGHOF, ARCHITECTS AND BUPERINTENDENIS, Room 2, Opera House Block, Council Bluffs, Towa, THO%, OFFICER, W. H. M. Puskr OFFICER & PUSEY, BANKERS. Corner Main and Broaaway, COUNCIL BLUFES, 10WA. Dealers in forelin and domestic exchange Collectionsmade and faterest pald on time do- vosi E. L, 8HpGAnRT, re Vice Pros. CrAs, R. HANNAN, Cashier, CITIZENS' STATE BANK, OF COUNCIL, BLUFFS, Paid up Capital - 518 Surplus . 35,000.00 Liabllity to Depositors....335,000.00 Dikkcrors—I, A. Miller, F. O. Gleason, E. L. Shugart, E. E. Hart, J. D. Edundson, Chas, R, Hannan, Transact’ general bauking businesd Largest capital and surplus of any bsnk in Northwestern lowa, Interest on time deposits 3. D. KDMUNDSO! 0,000.00 F. M, ELLIS & CO0., ARCHITECTS AND BUILDING 8§ UPERINTENDENTS, S. E. MAXON, Archite.t and Superintend nt Room 281, Merriam Block, COUNCIL BLUFFS, - IOWA, M. H. CHAMB EYE, EAR AND THROAT SURGEON, Defective Vision and efractive Troubles a Specialty i O GLASSES Al Spocinl att headaches, sod other i Joitty of which are caused by ocuinr 8, 00 ATO entirely curable by Droper trestment of the ey Hend stamp for pauiphiet. 1 on application. Catarrh trented with success by wall after first con sultation. est Of references g1voi €Ol BIOADWAY AN 11 BIafTy Bavings Bank, ~—THE: J, A Murphy Manufacturing Co. 1st Avenue and 21at Street. SASH DOORS AND BLINDS, Band and Scroll Sawing. Re-Sawing and Planing. Bswing of allKinds. Poren lrackeis. Kindling wood £.50 per load delivered. —Cloan sawdust by the barrel Zc. All work to be firat-class, * ‘Tolephone 22, “Your Patronage Solicited." Electric Trussas, 4Bulrs. Chast Pro- tectors, Ete, Ageots wantea, 5 DL e, B, JUDD, Councll Blufrs, la, No. 27 Main St, Over Jacque- min’s Jewelry Store. DRUCE & REYNOLDS Fashionable ~ Confoctioners: he very latest moveltles for hauquets w Private parties, Ohioico fruts, Bonabe chass atea. buttercups, wnd old fadniosed ulolussey candy a spectally. Orders for partics and e grders promptly” Blied, 6 Bowdway, Cous