Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1890, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THE OMAHA BEE COUN®IL BLUFFS, OFFICE, NO. 12 PEARL ST. Delivered by Carrier ln any part of the City. H. W.TILTON, - =« "= MANAGER. TELEPHONES: Business Ofce, N Night Edit MINOR MENTION, N.Y. P.Co. Couneil Bluffs Lumber Co.. coal. Miss K. C. Holt returned yesterday morn- tng from New York City. The anti-Reed club will meot at the head- quarters at7 20 this ovening. Deputy Marshal Beswick is doing special detectivis work for the Union Pacific. The democratic club of the Sixth ward will meet tomorrow evening at the office of W W. Cones, The special cars ocen hunters wd pleasure se went westover the Uni Corn s reported to bevery s city mavke's and is commanding the highest prices that it has reached during the past ten years, he funcral of Mrs A. W. Coffmanof Avoca oc ot that place yesterday. Her sudden death isa great blow to her husbund and friends. The wheel club wentto Missouri Valley yesterday. The boys report the roads in ex- cellont condition and pronounce the trip a de lightful one. hie fin 0 of d by a crowd of of plastic work and modern in the city is the work as just finished in the opera house, lyery member of the team to work the thirticth degree, A. A. S, R., is called to meet. for work this (Monday) evening at the cathe dral. Byorderof J.J. Steadman, illustrious commander. The Models went to Fromont, N terday and were beaten by - club pi t pluce for the purpose. It isintimated that the Fremont club contained some first class professional players, sw paper has made its appearance in It is called the Wasp. Ttis an ud- sheet exclusively and will be printed oncen week. Mr. A B. Cline, one of the de- funct Republican men, is the proprictor, arewell sermons were preached in_ all the hodist churches in the city last night. The ministers leave this week to° attend th conference, and none of them know whether they will be returned or not. Freddie T. Lovell, the infant son of M. and Mrs L. L Lovell, died at the family residence, 386 Lincoln avenue, yesterd morming. o funcral will take 'plice from the house this aftermoon, There were many fishing and boating par- tiesat Lake Manawa yesterday. The wind was too light to make good sailing, but it was & ood day for fishing, and some fine strings were brought into town in the evening. It will require two days more to finish tak- ing the evidence in the Whittlesey divorce case. The expect to put Mrs. Whit- tlesey on the stand this morning and haveher go inito the details of the unhappy 1 led with her husband, Charles White and J. 0. Day were.arreste by Deputy Marshal ~ Beswick vesterda clurged with stealing brass boxings from Union Pacific They were locked up in the city jail and will have a hearing before Judge McGiee this morning. All hope of finding R. T. Beebe, who has been missing for several weeks, has b ied and the searching partics hay ontinued their efforts to find him, His friends believe he has fallen into the river and carried many miles away by the current, The country and the woods drew the crowds yesterday, and even the parks were comparatively d ed. There were thou- sands of people from the city strolling through the woods around town, eijoying the lories of the first sutumu day in gather- ng nuts, The electric motor company has & force of men at wension of the lino to the drving park. The work will be com- pleted and the trains running by the time the October races commence. When this work is finished the last_foot of horse car track in the city will have disappeared. The barber, Barnett, who eseaped from Officer Wiatt's street gang last week and left the city, returned yesterday. morning and was promptly gathered in. eld a long personal conference with Judge MeGee y rday, but his fate was not announced, case will be disposed of this morniug at the 7 o'clock session of the police court, Rev. Dr. Phelps, pastor of the First_ Pres. byterian church, has engaged Edward Wright, the well known stenographer, to make verbatim reports of his sermons, Dr, Phelps speaks without notes and does not Write out his thoughts, and us he desites to keep his sermons he is com pelled to callto his aid theservices of first cluss stenographer, Mrs, Hunter, a woman from Sioux Falls, Dak., s in the eity looking for her daughter, who left her severar days ago and is supposed to have come in this direction. The daughter is aftlicted mentally and the mother is nearl: distracted over her disappearance. She be- lieves she hus boen enticed away by some evilly disposed man. She _did not succeed in obtalning any trace of her imthis aity. Rev. D. C, Franklin_preachea his farewell rmons yesterday, ‘There was a very large attendance at the morning hour, and he spoke in a very feeling manuer of his work in this city, tiking for his text, “Come unto me all ye ‘Who are weary and heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest.” He referred to the most cortain “fact that he would not be re- wrned by the bishop and earnestly hoped that a greater and A better man would be sent who would e better satisfaction and would push the work of the church along faster than he had been able to do so. In the evening he spoke with special refere the work of the Grand Army of the Rej and their kindred associations, The Grand Army boysand the members of the Ladies' Reliéf corps met atthe army headquarters and marched to the church in a body. The address was au eloquent one and deeply touched the old veteraus. The board of educatio the probability of a very great. The three mem mined to force the resignation of the super- fatendent will take the initiative, and what- ouer they propose will meet the sturdy oppo- sition of the other three members, The plans of attuck and defense have been carefully matured, and a bitterand protracted strugglo {8 inevitable. Messrs, Stewart, Blaxsim aud Waiteare on the defensive, and besides being strengthened by the conviction that they e right, will havea decided advantage over Wells, Schoentgen & Hunter by simply stop. ping with their opposition anything they may ropose. Both sides will be engineered by awyers skilled in all the quirks and quibbles of the profession, and it is certain they will be able to afford entertainment for a larger sudience than will be able to get iuto the lit- tle circular chamber iu the Wasbington ave. nue buildin meets tonight, and stormy session is ™ Who are deter- ——— The Manhattan sporting headquarters, 418 Broadway, e Buy your lumber of 1'he Judd & Wells Co, 618 Broadway. s co.y —— n, noatiug, paattary eo- ding, Omdha; 22 A riam block, Council Blufrs, il R The Chautauqua_Secreta ryship, Atthe close of the Chantauqua assembly last sumn.cr the directors and stockholders beld & mecting and decided not to're-eloct. Secretary Harkness and to do away with the office entirely. The plun was to divide up the work among the mombers of the: bourd. which would save the association the amount of the secretary’s sulary and udd but a triflo more to the duties of the officers when . the work was eveuly divided. But there is some doubt expressed now as to the wisdom of such a course, and there is & growing prob- ability that ‘the association will reconsider the matter and elect & secrotary before the work for another year commences, “This action will' be hastened by the depart- ure of Prof. McDermid, who was one of the hardest workers in the association. Dunne the last assembly ho was un intelligent and indefatigable worker, and he will be sadly missed next year, A i ), Scott house, nice rooms, clean bads, fare equil to the best, §1 per day, Speciallow rates to lar boarders, 22 and .‘J N. Main st., Councll Bluffs, —— New fall goods Just receivedat Relter's, mer- chant tailor, 810 Brosdway, THE NEWS IN THE BLUFFS. A Citizen Contributes 8ome Opinions on the School Board Controversy, WHAT THE FARMERS' CONGRESS IS, Dr. Phelps Talks of the B-auties of O11 Age—More Pontoon Talk—The Chautauqua Secretaryship — News Notes and Personal To the Editor of Tie The charges against Dr. McNaughton publiished in the Sunday issue of Tue Bee are of the most vagie and flimsy character. The people cer- tainly expected, after such a storm of threats and threatened charges, that when the end came Membess Wells and Schoentgen would cither acknowledge their error or be able to produce some good reason for their position in this conflict. Thearticle is not deserving of the name of charges, and to me it seems nothing but an expression of the personal whims of Members Wells and Schoentgen Seven years of successful supervision of o schools and his repeated unanimous re-el tion plainly shows that the charge of incompe- 5 is simply a vidiculous pretext for his discharge. There is no doubt that Dr. Me- Naughton is to refute the charges, but can they be impartially tried under existing ances | What would you think, Mr. Editor, of sub- mitting any of your interests toa jury, two of whom had already prejudged you and are hir- ing las s, not only to prosecute you, but to persecutoyou! A fow days ago there was a cavd of Wright & Baldwin in the Nonpareil wherein they expressly state that they are employed by Wells and Shoentgen, s this fairpiay! What must the fait minded peo- ple of Council Bluffs think of a mock trial in which Lucius Wells and John Shoentgen have only to be persuaded and convinced by the oratory of their oan paid uttorney and by afidavits procured by themselves in conjunc- tion with H. L. H A, W. Askwith and 1. W. Kuppell! This 1% a game that is almost threadbare. [do not believe it will go down with the respectable people of Council Bluffs, This old game played with strikers, bluffers and blust rs has been tried a fewy times too often to decieve the good people here, What do you think of gentlcmen occupying the position of members of the school l)ml’nl who willso far forget themselves as to in- dulge in such a proceeding? Is _there any- thing in their conduct which indicates desire toserve only the public zood! While protest their anxiety to serve the people and advance the interests of the schools, th at the same time indulge in practices which would be condemned even in men who make 10 pretensions to high-minded fairness. What sincerity can there be in the charges The signers did not prepare those charges and some of them did not even read the re framed by Wells and s ir attorn and then at once carried o the newspapers for publica- tion. The whole thing Is trumped up, and grounded in spite work. This is ap- parent from the fut that Prof. McNaughton had been thoroughly tried 1n the position of superintendent for seven years and Schoent- gen was on the board the year previous, and both he und Wells voted for the professor t May, and It is only after Schoentgen has suffered some imaginary pique thut he at- tempts totrump up these charges and has made his boast that he will ruin McNaughton, He is now engaged in so doing. I is, 10 say the least, not good taste for men who have indulged and are indulging in theuse of such methods as these, and who are taking with them to the judement seat the vindictiveness of prosceutors, to prefer charges of to tricks,” ‘and “prac tices” of “decert,” and to e Prof. Mc Naughton of “sinister motives,” A Cirz Shorthand. Miss S Ve J. G. Tipton, real estate, — A good hose reel free with every 100 feet of hose purchascd at Bixby's. What the Farmers' Congress Is. “There is a great deal of misapprehension in the minds of the general public concerning the objects of the farmers’ congress,” re- marked Ohio Knox, oue of the ofticers of the association, to Tik Bi he general belicf seems to be that it is an annual gathering of the farmers from all over the country, and every state in the union, to discuss the best means of carrying on their business, People who attended the lute session of the congress here went to hear the discussions with this idea, ; und were very much surprised to hear nothing at al about turnips and potatoes, fat stock and silos, but a great deal about national questions of legislation. Many of them came away remarking that the convention as nothing more than a political organization, and they expressed their disgust with o regular Erench shrug of the shoulders, “The farmers’ national cong is neither apolitical organizition nor a gathering of farmers to discuss farm matters, The dis- cussion of agricultural problems is altogether foreign from the jutents and purposes of the organization, as would ulso be tho case with the discussion of the fitness of any candidate for any office, state ornational. The objects of the ussociation are to procure legislation favorable tothe agricultural interests ot the country and to benefit the farmer by protect- ing his interests through national législation, The congress cannot take any cognizance of state or nm\on.lllmlili\w, but its functions are definitely defined and limited to securing the passage of such laws as will promote the in- terests of the farmers and defeating’ those that are opposed to his intorests, It has done @ great work in this line, and has exerted a reat influcnce on national legislation, The eat of the Blair educational bill is ono of its victories, and there are many others more important. "It has no politics, and will not tolerate u politician working for place and power.” To the Ladies —Miss Mary Gleason has ro- turned from her castern teip and is better Jreparcd than ever to sutisty all who want rst class dressmaking, — Hooms in the old library building, Pear] street, ——— Dr. C. H. Bower, 20 N. Maiu st. AL SO o If you wish to sell your p Juad & Wells Co., C. B, Judd, Broadway, 01 Age, Yesterday morning, at the First Preshy- terian church, Rev. Dr. Phelps preached a very interesting sermon on the subject of old age, its beanty, usefulness and blessedness, He took for his text Proverbs xvi., 31: *“The hoary head is a crown if it be found in the way of righteousness.” The speaker said that the snow white or silvery hair is here taken as & representative of old age. The way of righteousness means faith and a Godly life. The meuning of the passage is that a Chris- tian life is & crown of old age, a crown of glory, Too dark & view of 0ld age prevails. Younger people, and men and women even in middle life, scem to dread to grow old. This is unnatural and wrong. Old age is likened to winter many times. I think it ought not 10 be except in this simple charvacteristic that the whitened head is similar to snow and frost. 1 read recently an artiele that perhaps tended to induce me to sclect this #s @ subject. Some one writing likened age to the Lapland winter where there was no summer and where all was cold and dark and dreary, That man didu't know what he was talking about. Ola age is not vold, not sunless, not dark, not dreadful, 1 would speak first of the beauty, second of the usefuluess and third of the “blessedness peculiar to old age. There is a beauty pecu- iar (o every period of life, In infancy the little dimpled fiugers, the face without & line, the rippling laughter and the artless caprices of the littlo things. Who is not attracted to ababyl The child from two years up to elghtor teu—the new words, new ways and new ideas—everything changing from day to {l':s in the devel?uwnt of the powers of the y mind aod character; how beautiful! youth, 0o, the further de- 4 velopment of form, of mind, of bumap mature and spimtual _chardcter how beautiful and interesting! In middle life every flash of the eye, every movement of the featires, every gesture indicating charac- ter—how interesting a study. And then old age hns its peculiar beauty, It s not the beauty of the infant, nor of the cbild nor of the youth, nor of the middle age. Iis beauty is peculiaf to itself, but it surpasses all the others, forit is a crown of glory if it be found in the waya of righteousness. Who is 50 dear to the aged man as the aged wife, or to the aged woman as_her aged husband ¢ Who to the son or daughter is the most beau- tiful of the earth! The mother s, or the father. Old age is like unto the Almond tree with its ripe white blossoms. It is like unto the ripened grain in tho field, It 15 like the tree bending under its luscious fruit that is ripe; itis like the vine hanging with rich clusters, ripe and swoet; the gray head is the dawn of heaven, the crown of | glory. Even n sccond childhood is beautiful if there be a second childhood—but be care- ful how you call an old man & child, or in his dotage. "W are very aptto bo critial of old age. Dr, Samuel Johnson said that if a boy should come into your house and remain awhile and then when he was ready to go forget where he left his hat, nothing would be thought of it and you would pay no atten- tion to ity but if an old man should be guilt of such an act, people would say “'he is fail- ing; his old age is getting the better of him." But he has only done what the youth did. But even if they do develop iuto a second childhood, what is more beautiful! When the renowned Dr. Knott was lying on the bed which proved to be his death bed nothing 80 soothed and rested him as for his wife to sing to him the same song that his wmother had sang to him in the cradle, **Hush my child, lie still and slumber, Holy angies guard thy bed," and no prayer was sweeter to him than “Now 1 lay me,” Life was filled with visions of bis mother who had beeu dead for many years. Jesus says: *‘Unless you become like little children you cauuot eiter into the kingdom of caven.” Why then point the finger of con- tempt at old age, and say “second childhood, ' when there is'a beauty, & heavenlineSs and @ holiness about that which you call “second childhood.” Secondly, the usefulness of old age. God has some use for old people or would not have spared them o grow old. There are difforent views as to how many years it takes to con- stitute old age, Itis the old men of the generation who are doing the work. Point the finger of scorn at them and you are pointing it at God almost, *“There is a dead line at fifty” some say. It is asilly saying. Men are never better fitted to fill responsible positions than after they arefifty, They have studied from observi- tion, books, men, God and _duty. Who are better fitted than they ! God never forsakes the old, Moses Wwas eighty years old when he ‘beheld the burniig bush at the boginning of his leadership of the children of Israel, and one hundred and twenty yeurs old when God buried him and the limiis of human life were then the same as now, as shown by the ninetieth psalm, “'three 'scove years and ten.” Paulwrote those epistles that are richest in what he called his “aged life.” John of Patmos was from ninety to one hundred years of age, doiug his work at the city” of Ephesus. Caesur was fifty years old before he ever saw a military camp, Sir William Herschel, to whose works is attributed more of the knowl- edge that underlies the science of astronomy thon those of any other man, did that work in his luter life, He was learning the solar and sidereal systems of the heavens at eightv-twe mosthenes became the orator of the world because an old man met him while he wus dejected and despondent on ac- count of his failure, aid gave him counsel; Frauklin was fifty’ when ne commenced the study of philosophy; Socrates began learning to play mu ustruments when he was extremely old; Gladstone, the grand old man, of Englind, everybody knows is old: D'Isracli was an old man; Bismarck is old; Emperor William was old; Thiers of tho E'rench republic was eighty-two when he laid down his life work; John Quincy Adams was ix when he bewan his lifé's work, even having served as a representative, d States senator, having been upon the supreme beneh and having sorved four years president; John Wesley, at eight ‘L have not had the sense of weariness for eleven years.” 1 could name them by the hundved - numes that have become famous in old life. 1 turn, age. thirdly, to the blessedness of old 10 not ignore the fact that it has its and trials, but what perfod has not! Old age has mot than any other period. It has s 10 53, i3 cessation from uctive wouk; it has many another thing that other people think are dreadful, but they don’t seem so dreadful when you come into them. With Paul they can say: “I glory in my infirmities; when I am weak, then am 1 strong. >~ Old age is blessed in its memories; the events of the pust life ave surrounded with aglow of light and beauty. You can make old age beautiful. Let your life be such that when you look back upon it you will have nothing in your own conduct to" ro- gret. Does the old man_or wonan fecl dis- tressed because the memory is failing! It is not; the body, the instru- ment of the memory, is dull but the mind is there; you canuot blight it, It willuever bo dull, You cannot take out of your memory a single day; the mcidents of the memory are held now as by a coil spring, but at last the power of the memory will assert itself; it will crowd to the front, and everything you have ever known will pass before you; nothing can drop out of your memory except that which is unworthy o be remémbered, and that Jesus Christ washed out with his blood. Then thero are the biessings of rest—such rest as you have never had on earth, now near at hand; un- ticipations of home—such a home as carth never gave you. You are lvoking forward to the place which He says Ho has prepared and made ready for you, to take up the work aguin which you_have dropped here, to go on for evermore, Your Saviouris coming to take you; you will see Him: you will see God: you will see friends who have gone before; you have been dim of vision, but you will see’ again perfectly. You will' sce he iy with gates of pearly stmets of gold sorathims and cherubims. with harps and crowns; you will see the saints, thoe re- formers, ‘the apostles, the prophets, the patriarchs; you will sce Adam and Eve, und angels, who would not be glad to be released from the imprisonment of this life with such a prospect in store; you will notsee through aglass darkly, but fuce toface. * * Poncede Leon sought in the Floridas for the fountain of perpetual youth; no wonderhe sought it. It is said that un eminent physician bas dis- covered the elixir of life which is to be intro- duced into the system by hypadermic injec tion for the purpose of prolonging life. P haps e has found it. I think that the pro- cess of indefinitely prolonging lifo will be discovered. God will direct somebody to that, which shall be the nullification as it were of the sceds of disease within us, that we may live on und on, so that to fulfill the seripture achild shall 'die atone hundred and still be a child. But whether this be true or not the Christian religion has done more for old age than anything else, It wips away the tears from aged eyes and fills them with its glory. 1t is the seiting sun that sheds its overthe skiesand gilds the mountain s and floods the valleys, the setting sun ing westward—and then' it is the rising sun—and for you it will rise in jmmortal glory, Let meén say what they please, re- ligion transforms your hoary head intoa crown of glo - Hose at cost. We are gomg to quit handling garden hose, and have doubly the largest stock in the city. To close out we will sell ull gradcs and fixtures at doad cost, for cash. C. B, Paint & Oil company, Nos. 1 and 3, Masonic temple, e Money atrelucel rates lowad oa chitte and real estate secarity by B. H, Sheafe & Co First-class dressmaking by Miss Wallac over Catemen's buok, cor. Main st. and 5th ave. e e Will Have a Fontoon Bridge Sure. A representative of the Cleveland bridze company will spend the greater portion of this week in the city of Omaha workiug the scheme to build @ pontoon bridge between the city and Cut-Oft island. He will come authorized by his company to enter into negotiations for the work and to closo the deal s quickly asit can be completed. Ho will also be prepared to give bonds to fnish the bridge ready for trafic within sixty days from the date of signing the contracts, He will have conferences with the men most in- terested und will lay the matter before the council. Oue of theplans proposed is to have the city vote bonds to pay for the work, and to I | they can eat then | things, they look so ofly, and I feel 1 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 arrange If possible to divertall the taxes realized from the rgp.-ny on the island to redemption of the fionds, “If this can be done the bridge can be huilt without cost to the city. Tho saloons’ on the island and other sources of revenwe will afford enough money t0 pay all the expenses of maintaining goo government on the island, and the taxi' derived from real estate and personal property will amount to enough in two or three years to pay for the bridge. The city's bonds conld be floated at once and made redeemable in five years and the money realized could be used in paying for the work, and by the time the bonds matured the island taxes would providea fund that would be more than suflicient to_redeem them. The only thing in the way for the successful car- rying out of such ascheme is the question of legality, whether or not the city has the right to use all the taxes for one purpose. The plan is considered feasibl all who have considered it and jt is re ed as tne best means of solving the problems that the rapidly ncreasing importance of the island prosenit. 1t will not be_long until school houses will be requived in the n and if a free bridge is built the pu tend the schools on the bottoms eral enterprising and pro- sive citizens at work on the heme, and itis fully matured it will be presented to the council. The Cleveland man will pro- bably be before the council at its next meet- ing, — - e Sal Our retail furniture business, with good established trade. Stock is first class and well selected. Reason for selling, are going into the exelusive johbing trad Any one wishing to gointo bnsinoss should investigate this, as it is one of tho few golden opportunities of a lifo time. A. Beene & Co. P e Fashionable wool suits made by Mrs. L, Simmons, $5 to §7; silks, $7 to 10, GIRLS WHO SAY “DARN IT." A Gentleman Who Confesses Weakness for That Kind, 4 Pittsburg Dispateh: T like a girl who will say ‘darn it’ oceasionally,” r marked a prominent Pittsburg offic yesterday afternoon, “and one that will put vim into the exclamation, too.” The speaker, being a highly moral mun, and one held upas an examplo of what honesty and integrity will accom- plish, besides being of unimpeachable manners, naturally aroused curiosity by his statement, which was appeased by the following: “There’s more get up, energy, and ambition about such a girl every time than thereis about one of those pain- fully proper maidens. I don’t insist upon that accomplishment in my list of requirements when girls apply to me for positions, but at the same time, if [ hear asmothered ejuculation when things go wrong at the typewriter or desk, I con- sider it a good recommendation, and al- ways find that [ have in the ulator a good employe, Tt isn’t always a sign of joor breeding or vulgarity, in my opin- ion, but it is the ural outhreak of a girl possessed of an impulsive, ner nature, that can’t endure defeat or being retarded at b wbor—in fact, one th annoyances annoy. . On the other hand, take the excruciatingly primmiss who is never provok: into an under breath lamation, and she lac the qualities of push and determination that make a success of the business of life. Ten to one she’s indolent and simply works to put in the time and draw “her salary—takes no interest and is not affected thing that causes distur ve me the girl that will say ‘darn it’ every time, s hoaas - 4 Bringing 42,000 Seals From Siberia. The steamer Karluck, belonging to Alaska Commercial company, arrived in San Francisco recently from the far north, bringing the large catch of 42,000 seals from the Siberian coust. There are 20,000 more to come from that coa malking the entire season’s catch of the Siberian coast 62,000 seals, which is more than three times what the new North American commereial compuny has secured, says a dispatch to the New York Tribune. The Alaskn company, while it held the sealing privilege for the Pribyloy islands, ig- nored the Siberian coast sealing privi- leges,which itreceived twenty years ago. Now it purposes to develop the latter fishery if it can sccure another leuse. The present lease vires this year, and the Alaska company is building school- houses along the Siberian coast to cor mend itself to the Russian gov. and thus get the valuable fran Six of the crow of tho twenty of the poaching sealing schooner C. H. W hito were brought to this city by the Kar- luck from Siberin. While in the Rus- sian waters eighteen men from the White, three in a boat, were sent out, seal-hunting. A fog came up and they lost track of the schooner. After rowing about for two days two bouts reached Coppor Island and surrendered to the Russian officials. Nothing was seen or heard of the other men and it is feared they wero lost. w a - A Girl’s Composition on a Caterpillar. New York World: The caterpillar is a craling thing and hears all over its backand fannic fourd one down her bucke and it made me crall like everything birds eat caterpillavs and give them to their children to eat. I don't see how thoy are such horrid don’t know ho Catterpillars climb trees, the other day I saw a big, big cat- terpillar and he "was so horrid that I took a stick and kild him with it and threw it away to let the swill man take it home period caterpillars have 1,000 or more legs he may not have so many, and he may have more the big ones have more than the little I gess that but I don’t know. Cuterpitlars eat flies and other insects such as ants, miscatos and others like that. ~ Also they eat leaves, plum leaves und in short all” kinds and some flowers, too. Some have baby caterpillars; in short all of them. Caterpillars drink water, in short anything they can geot. Caterpillars, [ cafinot say much more about caterpillars, but one’ good rool is, never throw a caterpillar ata man or ybody for it gives them such a fright. I have told you all they eat, drink, how many legs it has,and the rool. A cater- pillar can elimb, you cannot. Ma be some of you can, I can’t,but most of the things that a caterpillar can do we caunot, and most of the things thut we can do they cannot. —_——— Tonquin Dogs as Sentinels, Dogs as auxiliavies of the sentinel are coming to the front, suys the London Standard. It appears that a kind has been discovered in Tonquin which has been converted into a vigilant and fero- cious sentinel. It is tall and powerfully built. The way it is trained may be ex- pected to elicit the protests of that Animals’ Guardian of which we an- nounced the other day the forthcoming issue. When these dogs are wanted for military service they are tied up and na- tives are engaged to beat and otherwise ill use them, The French soldier’s duty on the other hand, is to feed and pet them. If, then, at night, they are fas- tened to asentry-box they naturally give the alarm direcfly an Aunnamite or Ton- quinois approaches. Thoy can distin- guish the native from the European hy the scent though either should lie con- cealed, About this method of training there seems to be a good deal of unnec sary and eruel ingenuity, Our English dog-fanciers would probably be willing to undertake. the training of sentinel dogs on terms much easier for the dogs them- selves, HOW JOCKEYS ARE TRAINED. Methods in Use for Reducing the Weight of Ridere, *'HARD SWEATING" AND ITS FINAL RESULT Some of the Best Known Jockeys and the Amount of Flesh They Will P Off Before They are in Proper Form for a Race, I have been very much interested in the methods of training adopted by men who are engaged in athletic sports and callings of various sorts. Many curious facts have come under my notice ina rambling way, but I doubt if anything is of more interest to a casual man than the manner in which jockeys reduce their weight in order to ride at'the num- ber of pounds preseribed for themon the vace-tracks, writes Blakely Hall in Frank Leslie’s, Any man who has fr quented the Russian baths in New Yor hus doubtless observed at times the small, attenuated, and sometimes skinny figures that recline in the hotest corn ot the Turkish room, or soak with mol ancholy determination on the hottest slab of the steam room. They take no notice of their surroundings, but it is to be noted that the bath attendants treat them with elaborate andalmost ab- surd respect. Once in a while a bather comes in who sits off ata distance and zes with an almost idolatrous affection oneof the skinny little men or boy: I'his particu ither 43 in ail proiu bility a racing man, and he feels the keen admiration which all race-goers entertain for a successful jockey. We pay the jockeys well enough in America 1 insure a better lot of youngsters than the turf boasts today. not, as a rule, a just and prope of what theyowe to the public or to sport, and so much loose and eriminal riding is tolerated, particularly on what are known asthe win: tracks, that the boys huve grown eloss in some instances and eriminal in oth There is one quality, however, which I sdmire in all of them, and that is their tre- mendous perseverence and pluck., I have knowna jockey to go into a Russian bath in the morning after tuki pur- ticularly rigorous course of medicine, undergd the most trying ex perience with the extreme heat of the estab lish- ment until he had lost four or five pounds by what is technically, and perhaps ac- curately, known in this system of train- ing as “hard sweating,”” and then go out and put on a suit of thick Aannels, a heavy cardigan jacket, and an overcoit, and walk and run ten milesin the blaz- ing sun. The medicine would have been enough to weaken any ordinary man and take the pluck out’of him, but the jockey would undergo the whole of this :xhausting regime and show up at the track to ride at 2 or 3 o'clockin the afternoon, weighing seven or eight pounds less than in the worning. He might be pallid and almost too weak to sit in the suddle, but he had got down to the proper weight, and thut was re- rd enough for him. When it is con- ed that these boys are merely skin and bones to begin with, it can be seen what a tremendous strain on the consti- tution it is to work off so much weight. I remember one instance when ( i- ar son, who is, T think, in the opinion of most race-goers, th most intelligent, plucky, and _wide-awake jockey in the countrry, took off eight pounds in twelve hours in a Russian bath, from 6 in the evening until 6 the following morning, I have never heard of any authenticated instance of another jockey taking off as much as this. I have not gone into the subject ensively, but, as [ said at the outset, it has always been of a good deal of interest tome, and I have watched the joc carefully, Anybody who thinks that itis an easy mafter for an athlete who is trained down to the 5t ounce in_ weight to take off cight additional pounds in twelve hours should try it. - There ure very few men, even among those who wre carr ing from twenty to fifty pounds of supe fluous flesh, who can reduce themselves more than & pound or a pound and half during along bath, rrison isa slight and slenderly-built man, and as he al- ways keeps himself in condition summer r, he does not e sily run to flesh, so that he does not experience the resistance that many crack riders do in taking down his weight. MeLaughlin, for a long time Gar- rison’s rival, and a jockey who did much to build up the fortunes of the famous Dwyer stables, has had to yield to in- creising weight. Heis what traigers speak of us one of the ‘“hardest re- ducers” in the world, and it is almost impossible for him to keep anywhere near his racing weight, The effect of this was to practically drive him out of thesaddle atthe very time when his carcer promised to be the brightest on the American turl, A jockey who can ride as MeLaughlin nu(f [¢ ison have done is sure of an income of any- where from §15,00 to $30,000 “a year. Most of the jockeys rise to Sucer from the positionof ignos It can be easily understood that th are many inducements to keep w within the racing weight. McLaughlin goos into a Russiun bath and takes the most extreme treatment in the hottest rooms for three or four hou By this he manages to get off s three pounds, Then he is rubbed rubbed, and put throu suge treatment, beside wearing s ers” overy day and doing an enormous amount of exercise. With all this he pdown to a good figure, “It is just as natural for some men to be fat,” an old trainer of MeLaughlin remarked once fn my hearing, “as it is for some to be short’or call. If naturc wills it that way there’s no use of fryin’ to run agin it,"” Little Bergen does not have much trouble in reducing his weight, as he has seldom been above 112 pounds, He runs all the way down to 100 pounds and he easily reduces himself four or five pounds,” as the occasion warrants, by going into the hot room of the hath, curling up in a corner and _simply lying there while the prespivation rolls ot of him. Once ina while he uncurls him- self, goes to the plungo and rubs his head with ice-water, then returns to his former position and stays there pluckily until he is down to the proper weight. Tarral is another ecasy reducer, He usually tukes the hotroom for two hours, then swims around in the plunge for a long while, and r turns for another hour in the intense heat. If this is not enough he puts on a sweater at the track and plods around in the dust hour after hour, until he i fit to ride at the weight set out for him on the card, Jockeys like Tarral, Ber- gen, and say ( whose weight is about one hundred and ten pounds, are not 50 much worried by the phantom of R e n s aas AR ght ay the broad-shouldered and big-boned boys. Many jockeys of the latter build are sure, steady, clear-headed boys, with plenty of pluck and strength and the other qualifications that go to make up a successful jockey; but they have to undergo such extraor- dinary tortures to keep down toa weight which will not place a crack horse at a disadvantage in a race, that they got 1 nervous, irritable, and lose their skill, notion co, SPECIAL NOTICES, COUNCIL BLUFFS, The difference between a perfectly healthy and robust man ‘and a man who has reduced himself by juternal and ex- ternal means until ho is 0 nervous and weak that he cannot hold himself up, is awidoone, A strong dose of brandy be- foro the race commencos may pull to- gether a few of the failing energies, but it does not give the rider the cool judg- ment and thorough balance which comes | of perfect health, That is one reason why some of the boys who ave naturally smill and thin haven big advantage on the season’s mounts over much more clever jockeys who are handicapped by big frames or a disposition to grow stout. There scems to bea great difference, 100, in the abilities which jockeys show toward reducing themselves, An hour in steam heat with one man will take off apound whileit will not reduce the weight of another three ounces. They tell me that Spollman was one of the 0 readiest reducers that ever went inton T bath, He was knownon one occasion to | JIOR RENT take off seven pounds in four hours. His weight in summer was usually 130 pounds, while he usually rodeat 111 pounds. It is said that Spellman on one occasion, having to ride at a light weight at short notice reduced his weight in one night from 111 pounds to | 8 104 Hmn-uls in a little less than 1 five hours. He was ways the source of more ¢ s alarm to the at- tendants of the bath, for they could never tellexaetly how ho was getting on. He would walk ‘into the hotlest corner of the steam-room, wrap a wet towel around his head, curl up in a chair with his head resting on his folded arms and i sed, and sit like a. Sphinx for hours, Once in a while oneof the the attendants who knew him well would go and speak to him, but the b would not answer a word or raise his | head, They were always afraid he had fainted from exhaustion or had sue- cumbed to an accelerated action of the heart, but they were afraid to disturb him. After sitting two or threo hours “in this position he would uncurl himsel drift to the outer room and drink a bottle of ice-cold beer, Then he would resume hisformer position and remuin there with the thermometer at 160 or 170 degrees of heat, and the pevspivation dripping off of him steadily WieR G finally” got out of the bath and hadbeen thoroughly well rubbed, he was invariably 1ight enough to ride, Spellman died about two years agoon Sixth avenue. It was at first thought that he had been robbed and murdered, but the covoner decided that he had fallen and hit his head against one of the pil of the elevated railrond, causing concussion of brain which resulted in his death, Jockeys are very caveful o take off no more than is absolutely neces For instance, if they weigh 112 pounds und have to ride at 110, they take off exactly two pounds and not another ounce, Tho more they reduce themselves the weak it muakes them, and they never punish themselves unnecessarily. They are of course always careful in the matter of diet, and most of thew keep in training in winter as well as in summer, They uf- fect the Turkish rooms Il K Mrs W, luffs. TR exchunge 30 acres, Voo Kansas, well improved. 100 acres, Chautaug Co, Kan, proved acres. 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Dodge & Co., 55 Brod why, £y Apply ave inge in business will sell stock of and fixtures, all new snd first cla discount, 1f sold withinnext® days. | about $2,50, Adares el Blufrs, DORSAT | i drive then B8 Maln YHAN lifetime. New O-room house, hot L water il s and ol . For sale on easy terms. On Ve, block from moton six from postofice. W. W, il rer, 3% Pearl st. Joge re tlon Con For infore entopt, or Chrls Stra b, D) rooms, with | pun 4 1085 por [ week ; 1t for salo rplace fn on easy to t popul the city. 8 W 8w Seott. W7 Broad wiy. OR S ALE--Or will trado for a gonl roul m. stiilion No. 600, roecistorerd in Vil Dr. Arhibild,” dum by Kontucky ts old, A pply toDr. Nucrae den land, with ain st., Councll or Rent— houses, by J. R. Rice. 10 Blufs, V 0 youcan huy ahoeon nd incuse of your death atany timoleave your fumily the homo ¢lear onthe following torms: A lome worth $1,60) at $12 per nonth Ahone worth $1530 at #15 per nion U A lome worth $2,00) at 224 per month A lome worth £.030 at # 3 per nonth 3 A lome worth #,00) at #4 jor mon th. articularly.” In [ Otler priced homes o o Lers 2 first room the temperature is usually | abave AoLiily payientsfinalidostinolpal in the second it hovers about | nidress thedu l0& Welle oo o5 1o fuk dry heat, and in the Russian, or | C I neil Blull's, por room, the temperature is usually dry heat. Tho rigorous DRIVING PARK. training which the boys undergoin these Fall Meeting, October 7to 10, 1890 baths rather disposes ‘of the theo: ! think, that Turkish baths cause heart B4,000 IN PURSES. PROGRA MME: disease. If they had any such effect as MONDAY, OCTOBER 7. TILY pay rent wi the saine terms, The that, all the jockeys would be killed off in aweek at the begining of the racing season, At one of the lurgest baths in New York, which was started in 181, there have been only two deaths from heart disease in twenty-nine years, and the bath has an average of 60,000 bathers a year, This hardly shows that the héart is affected by the Russian or Turkish baths. On account of objections made by the other bathers, the colored jockeys are not allowed in any of the public baths of New York. Some time ago one of the proprietors of a bath here issued tickets o a prominent colored jockey, and two or three of the tic d by the boy, but the opposition and indignation on'the part of the other bathers com- pelled the manager to keep the young jockey out. He maden great row abont it, and there was finally a compromise on a money basis, ik Sucked Gas and Died, Henry Mersman, a life prisoner con- fined for murder in the Ohio state prison, committed sufcide in his ¢ a peculinrlarly ingenious manne ing the pages” of a newspaper, he them into tubes, and telescoping them together made o long pipe, one end of which he slipped over a gas jet, ana taking the otherend into his mouth luy and sucked the gus into his lungs, death resulting ina few minutes, 13 OCTOLER 9, PRGG: st oe -For-A1l Trotting - Purse Yeurling Trotting Race—Stnke N THURSDAK, OCTOBER 10, Puarse. Pur Co Address all communleati A H. GIBH 21 South 14th St Surgical Institu —AND— Private Hospital. 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