Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 5, 1890, Page 14

THE OMAHA BEE COUNCIL BLUFFS, OFFICE, NO. 12 PEARL ST. ¥ part of the City, MANAGER Deltvered by ( H. W, TILTON - TELEPHONESt Business OfMce, No, 6% Night Editor, MINOR N.Y. P.Co, Council Bluffs Lumber Co., coal. The city council meets this evenin, The Acme ciub will entertain a_social this evening at the resideuce of Mrs. Simon Eiscman, Permit to wi fred A. Bybec Honey Creck Anyone wanting to of large mules, together wagon, shougd call ut Er Fourth sureet e The ladies of the Woman's Christian Tem- perance union will hold their regular mecting this afternoon at 4 o'clock at their rooms {u the Merriam block. All iuterested in the work invited, The funeral of Horace By lace this afte Paul's chure Al of yesterday given to u B, Kobinson, bot 1w and ( buy cheap a fine team with harness and d Davis' stables on tt will Ik from | be reserved for the mewmbers of the v , the trustces of the public library and the city oftl Articles of ineorporation of the Oddfellows Hall association were filed yesterday, The capital stoclc is fixed at §50,000 divided into shares of 10 ench. The hizhest amount of fndebtedness which can be incurred 15 &30, 000, Tt is expected that the Oddfellows will at an carly date ercct a fine building. A telegram was received from Judge Boul- ton lust ovening announcing the death of bis daughter Myrtie, aged twentyone years. She died yesterday afternoon at Charles City, Ia., after from conges- tion of the brain. Boulton, who leit on Sunday evening in answer to a telegram announcing | ous 1lliess, wasat her whenshe died, She was a lovely ymptished young lady, and her father ds wre heartbroken over her un- timely death. Bergman, having a rather dr ro cold and wa when o company of 1on him and in behlt of the Maennerchor society presented him with pold-h & v indicating his 185 and 180, Captain Kir resentation speech, short, napy {L.i.u, The recipient of the cane wa given by frionds au elegant casy chair. cold is better, : The meeting of the ladies of the Womens Christian Temperanee Union will be beld this afternoon at$ o'clock in their roomin the i block. 1t will be of special interestto mbers and they should attend. Mrs.Dr. Montgomery will give an account of the state convention at Des Moines, whichshe attended as delegate from this unfon, Other liter entertainment will be afforded. The artistic trausformation of the_room effected by the ists who have subreuted it for astudio. adds great attractivencss of the r's headquarters. has been \Allw nl:‘.d :m' ex: sive grading contract on the Northwestern ::'ilh'umlrmnlI:.ullllu present time finaing employuient for a small army numbering about five hundred and thirty men and sixty teams, and is still wanting more. The Northwestern is building a double track on the main line from Chicago, and Mr. Bray de twenty-two miles of ween Clinton “l‘("‘ Lis- , 1a, ved his instructions as ‘l)ollfinlrmui builder under such able tutors as 3.3, Brown and Gen. G. M. Dodge, and tucre is no doubt that he will get through with bis present contract in good shape. ——— lecture at Corner book Aid the Broadway known as birthday coddling scht made the and to tho ne was also His the new r Tiekets for Gillet store and Crockwell's, church, Chas, T. Bray wants to ship a lot of road laborers and teamsters to castern Iow: See his advertisement in want column. 1891, Now s the time to order yours ledgers, ournals, ete., at Morehouse & Co., Council luffs, la. Owing to my loss by fire on Octaber 27, I am compelled to ask all parties indebted to me Lo pay upat once. J. SULLIVAY. pl Killed by a Gravel Train, Louie Ficrtinio, an Italian laborer, was Xilled by a gravel train on the Milwaukee railroad yesterday morning at 8 o'cloclk, or received injuries at that hour from which he died at# o'cleck in the afternoon The nceident occurred just cast of the Mil- waukee yards near the Omaha and Council Bluffs Chautauqua grounds, Fiertiuio has been in the employ of the company for some time, and was working yesterday with a lot of other laborers on a gravel train. The train was being switched after a load of gravel bad been dumped. Fiertinio was on @ section that contained ) flat. car and the caboose, which had _been pushed down the track by the engine. Tt had reached the point where it was desived to stop, and the [talian endeavored to set the brake, In some unaccountable mauner his hands slipped from the brake wheel and he fell headlong on the track in front of the mov- tng cars, He endeavored to save himself and got partly off tho track, when the wheels caught hit, His head and body were on the outside of the rail, but the gravel car and the caboose passed over his legs, mangling them i o horrible manner from’ the hips down- ward. He was picked upand taken to the com- pany’s yard ofice and a_telephone message sent for an ambulance. He was conveyed in it the St. Bernard’s hospital. Dr, Macrae, the company’s surgeon, was summoned. An examination showed that amputution of both legs would bo necessary, but the injured man was so prostrated by the shock that the oper- ation could not. be performed at once. S wlants were administered, and every effort made to revive him, but he mever rallied enough to permit to erformance of the operation, but kept sink- ng gradually until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when death ended his sufferings, "The body was taken to Lunkley & Porter’s undertakiig establishment_and ‘the coroner notified. 1t was decided to hold an inquest at 10 0'clock this morning. S0 far as could be learned Fiertinio had no relat in this country except a second cousin living in Omaha, whose name could not be learned. He was tumarried and about thirty years of age. The Manhattan sporting headquarters, 418 Broadway. e J. C. Bixby, steam heating, sanitary en- gineer, 943 Life building, Omiha; 202 Mer riam block, Council Blufts. ————— A fresh lnvoice of fine cheviot suits for oung men, just received at Model Cloth- g Co. —— Honoring Horace Everett. The vestry of St. Paul's church held a meeting yesterday afternoon for the purpose of taking proper action on the death of Hor- ace Everett. Resoluticus were adopted ex- pressing the sorrow and regret of the oficers of the church in which he has been so long an active worker and member, and ordering the usual observances, “The board of trustees of the public library, where he has built his most enduring monu- ment, will meet this morning for the same purpose. In the city couneil tonight similar resolu- tions will be presented and adopted. There are many expressions of sorrow and universally kind words for the dead man, He was o man of sterling honor and integrity and never tried to shirk a responsibility or failed to meet an obligation His word was a8 zood as his bond, and if hepromised to pay & man §10,000 at 8 o'clock on a certain day ho would be at the appoiuted place several miu- utes in advance of the time. His punctuality sud hatrad of cruelty were among the strong points of his character, ———— The finest hotel in Couuci) Blufts today is the Gordon, ——— Miss Grace Osborne will organize classes udy of the German language and liters- Class work to begin ember 5 For “hér information enquire at 620 F'izst wve, THE NEWS IV THE BLUEFS. Democrats Probably Elect Both the City and Uounty Tickets, AN ITALIAN LABORER KILLED. Louie Flertinio Crushed b a Mil- wankee Gravel Teain—Prisoners Taken to the Penitentiary ~Minor Mention. \\!*I quiet, isn't ft1" 10w i3 it in the other wards?? he same thing. 1 saw it any more quiet,” ‘That was the talk heard over and over at cach of the polling places. Thero was the usual numoer of ticket peddlers, wagons with bany bands of music and all that, but duving the day there were few crowds, hittle loud talkk and no disturbances serious enough to be so pamed. The voting pro- gressed rather slowly in most of the pr cinets, and the indications were against the: being anywhere near a full vote, It having been predicted that there would be many atternpts to run in frandulent votes, much vigilance was exercised, A number of citizens had been sworn in as deputy United States marsbals, and the mayor had also on an extra police for These offici found little to do. In the secend w: rday afternoon one man was notic had voted once, and was again in line ready to cast another vote, usmg some absentee nome. It was whispered in his ear th he had not better try it, and although at fir: he made a bluff denial of his having voted before, he concl; i to ire. A few such instances occurred duving the day, but the prescuce of vigilant watchers secmed to be effective in preventing this kiud of work being done to any extent, “The polls were kept oy with the exception of the Fourth d_Fifth wards, wliere the necessary proclamation not being made at the opening of the polls, the voling stopped at 6 o'clock. At the polls kept open after durk, there was a little better op- portunity for illegul voting, but itis nov thought Wat there was any great number cas This city and county being strongly demo- cratic the question of the local result was one mainly of majority, The accurate figures could not be obtained last night, and only shrewd gue yuld be made. I'ho polis closed without an exciting event having transpired durving the entive da; Ouly one arrest for illegal voting was mad and that was a4 colored man named Fred St He was ted upos complaint of Democratic Cliallenger R. N, Whi the Secoud ward. 1t wa tended tocast a republican ticket and negleeted to qualify himself by registeri the proper tinie and had procired the neces- affidavit to swear in bis vote and had ¢ to the polls to cast it. Whittlesey had 1 informed that the darkey was fn the city on and had been ‘taken before the re Co'onel Joues, but had ve- fused to register, He was locked up in the station and will hay hearing today "T'he total votoe iz this city was much smaller pated, and was but o little of the registry. The first ast 81 votes; the 1d, 0355 third, fourth, first precinet, 302; tourth, second th, H64: sixth, irst precinct, inct, 104, ballots w ibly scratched, and there was little prospect that the count in the heavier popuiated wards would be com- pleted before daylight this morning. At 10:1%0 the count was finmished on the head of the ticket in the fivst precinct of the fourth d 200, and Bowman 183, At midnight the indications were that Bowman would run ahead of his ticket, but to what extent was merely matter of specula- tion, T'he chairman of the democraticcounty committee was claiming his election by 2,700 in the district. One feature of the day was the universal scratehing of G, W, Cullison, democratic can- didate for district judge, and the substitution of the name of Walter I. Smith, the repubii- can,. At4o'clock W. H. Ware, Smith's op- pouent in Council Bluffs, conceded Smith's election and ceased to make any furtber fort. Only a few of the country precincts re- ported before midnight, Belknap township ave Reed, 161; Bowman, 92, a net republican gain over the vote last year for Governor Boies of rson gave Reed, 114; Bow- man, 92, republican gain _of 6. Kane, out- side of city, Reed, 16; Bowman, 3. Knox, Reed, 165 Minden, Reed, 20 Bowman, 162, Reed, ;' Bowman, 189, Pleasant, Reed, 25; Bowman, 100, el For stout men's clothing ecall at Model Clothing Co., L. H. Massler, Mgr. until 8 o'clock, secor See Gillett’s view of the Holy Land to thoroughly understand Talmage's sermons. Masonic torple, Thursday cvening. Tic Coruer book store aud Crockwell's. BOSTON STORE, Council Bluffs, ‘The cold weather is fast approaching, Now is the time to lay in your winter supply. ~ We ought an immeénse Stock of winter goods of v description long before the high tarift was spoken_of, and for cash, giving us every bencfit. Wo give our customers the full benefit of our purchases, read the following low prices and judge for yourselves, but bet- terstill, call and compare our goods and prices with those of other markets and the saving can plainly be scen. BLANKETS, Wo have just reccived another large in- voice of blankets, including white, scarlet, natural wool and sheeps gray, which will be Flu«‘cd on sale Monday morning at the follow- ng low prices : 10-4 white blanket, 6c (special). 10-4 white blanket, $1.00, was $1.1 10-4 white blanket, $1.75, was §: 10-4 white blanket, §.00, was $2.34, 10-4 all wool blanket, §3.50, was $4.25, 11-4 white bl A 11-4 all wool blanket, §.00, was §.75, which we guarantee all wool, full size, and best £.00 blunket in the markets, California blankets in beautiful colored borders, heavy weight and lavge size at §7.50, $0.00 and $12.00, 10-4 gray blunket 1,19, was $1.3: 10-4 gray blaniket $1.4 5 11-4 gray blanket §1.75, was $2.25. 11-4 gray blanket §2.15, was .39, 12-4 all wool, extra large blanket $4. 5,00, We handlea full line of Dr. Price's sani- tary, all wool blankets, which we can recom- mend to be made from pure natural wool, and come in fourdifferent mixtures of natural wool, sanitary, stieeps, gray and blue grays, at the following low prices 10-4 blankets $1.00, 11-4 blankets 5, 12-4 blankets & We also show extra value in searlet blankets 30, sl wool blankets &9, $3.50, $4.25, 8 aud §7. Notwithstanding the combination on com- fortables we own our goods 10 per cent bet- ter than last season’s prices and are prepared to save you the same on all purchase: xamine barguins at 7be, Bosto: gham, Whitclaw & Co. Leaders and promoters of low o 401, 405und 405 Broadway, Council Bluffs, [a. The McKinley Bill Has not affected the prices at the People's installment house. Everything goes at the same old figuves that have made our patrons lad all summer, defied competition ad made t possible to furnish & house from top to bot- tom atlittlo expense. Our specialties this week will be the Peninsular heating stoves, cheapost, neatest, most_economical stove in the world. Mandel & Kleln, 320 Broadway ——— Dr. A. H. Gillett of Chautauqua fame will give his lecture on Palestine, with stere- optic illustrations, at 7:% p. m. Thursday, November 6, at Masonic Temple. The lecture is under the auspices of the M. M. A. and the proceeds will be devoted o the new M. E. church, Admission 25 cents, Taken to the Pen. Sheriff O'Neil has returned from Fort Madison, where he took five prisouers, sen- tenced to terms in the penitentiary. They were: Wilson, one year; Grandy, eight years; Davis, six years; Fox, ten years, and Williamson, three years. The trip was devoid of any startling inel- dents. 'ox, who blubbered so freely on re- ceiving his sentence, and who secmed 0 be [ shaken by We thought tuat be, an 25, was should thus as und with the is, who | innocent m be treated or el as any wasted 1o te o d man, * 1 running over with his negro dre | Davis made Fox a constant t fox s fun, and tormented bim continually, to®he amusement of all except Fox himself. At the depot, while waiting for the train, a com- sany of show people scemed much interested u learning the history of the man_in irons, aud one gentleman, who seemed io be the manager of the troupe, interrozated Davis, wio gave the desired information, while the ladie: eved cl their nature of the crimes n had committe This one { forgery; that one had stolen a and buggy; another had committed ary, and so on until Davis came to Fox. an totell in the plainest of English what Fox had been guilty of, but the ladies scattered in quick haste, and there seomed no further desire to satisfy their curisity. On reaching the penitentinry Davis wa recognized at once by MeCice, the colored m who is serving a fifteen years sentence for shooting another davkey atthe Ogden house a fow years ago. Cuff Johinson, also colored, who was sent from here a few years ago for murder, is said o be one of the hardest working and best be- haved prisoners n the penitentiary. A short time ago broke out in the shops, and Cuff was mainly Instrumental in putting it out. His actfon on this occasion has won for him much good feeling Sheriff ¢ Ul carefully avoids giving any publicity as to when he proposes startini away with prisoners, When a dayis thus publicly announced there are toomany friends who gather at the jail and depot to say th goodbys, and this is bothersome and anno ing, as it requives extra vigilance to prevent horse burg He be articles being passed to the prisoncrs, and there 15 too much talk to suit the sheriff. Hence e generally slips away quietly with them, ana often nothing is known amoug their 'friends about their departure uutil they aresafe i the penitentiar) gt Experts and families who have used the tea in the imported Japanese tea-pots sold by Lund brothers, pronounce it the best to be obtained in the city. It is direct from the custom house, freshly packed, hermetrically sealed. The tea-pot alone retails from $1 to , but you get a pound of the best tea and_a Landsome, highly beautified teapot for $i. They are going fast. 25 Main street. 1.G. ipton, veal estate, 527 Broadway. For boys' and children’s suits durably made and at lowest prices, call at the Model Clothing Co. nt line of Molton oversoats s ut, Model Clothing Co. Res. Ogden house. An el duced r: at re- Dr. Seybert. Tel. 140. Gents' underwear in great variety to suit all at Mossler, Mgr. t prices Model Clothing Co, L. H Buy your coal and wood of C. B. Fuel Co., 597 Broadway. Telephono 136, S gy The City Council. _Fourteen members of the council present at a brief session of that« body I night. A communication. from Vice Presilent Hol- combe, asking a permit for the Union Pac railway company to use the sidewalk spac on thesouth side of Jones street east of Ninth, was referred to the commttee on viaducts and railways. A resolution was adopted giving the street railway company permission 0 narrow the curb line on Thirty-second ayenue, to give room for a double car track outside the eway. ‘hairman O'Connor of the streets and committe was granted further time to o a roporton the claims of the street sweeping contractor for September and October. The regular amounting to & council adjourn were st ordinance, ed and the ening. appropriation S00.00, was pas: Phursday —~— PARAGRAPHS. e PERS AL C. E. Babeock and daughter left yesterday for New York, to be gonea week or more. Mrs, B, Rosewater returned yesterday from u four weeks® visit with relatives in Cleveland, O. e DR, TALMAGE'S FIRST CIGAR. Howit Tasted and How He Felt After Smoking it. The time had come in our boyhood which we thought demanded of us a ca- pacity 1o smoke, writes Rev. T, De Witt Talmage'in the Ladies’ Home Journal, The old people of the household could abide neither the sight nor the smell of the Virginia weed. When ministers came there, not by positive injunction but by a sort of instinct as to what would be safest, they whiffed their pipes on the ba tep. Ifthe house could not stand sanctified smoke, you may know how little chance there was for adoles- cent clgar-pufiing, By some rare good fortune which put in our hands three cents, we found ac- cess to atobacco store, As the lid of the long, ow fragrant box opened, and for the !irst time we owned a cigar, our feelings of elution, manliness, super- io-ity and anticipation can scarcely be imagined, save by those who have had the same sensation. Our first ride on horseback, though we felloff before we got to the barn, and our first pair of new (veal squ s) we thought could nev be surpassed in interest, but when we put the cigar to our lips and stuck the lucifer match to the end of the weed, and commenced to pull with an encrgy that brought every facial muscloe to its utmost tension our satisfaction with this world was so great our tempta- tion was never to want to leave it. The vigar did not burn well; it re- quired an amount of suction that tasked our determination to the utmost. You see that our worldly means had limited us to a quality that cost only 8 cents, But we had been taught that nothing great was accomplished without effort, and so we pulled away. Inde we had heard our older brothers in their Latin essons say, omnia vincet labor; which translated means, if you want to make anything go, you must serateh for it, With theso sentiments, we passed down the village street and out toward our country home. Our head did not feel exactly right, and the street begun to rock from side to side, so that it was uncertain to us which side of thostreet wb were on S0 we crossed over, but found ourself on the samo side we were on before we crossed over, In- deed, we immagined that we were on both sides at the same time, and several fast teams driving between. We met another boy who asked uswhy we looked 50 pule, and we told him we did not look pale, but that he was pale himsel!, We sat down under the bridge and began to reflect on the prospect of early decense, and on the uncertainty of earthly ex- pectations. We had determined to smoke the cigar all up and thus got the worth of our money, but were obliged to throw three-fourths of it away, yet knew just where we threw it in case we felt tter the next day. ting home the old people were frightened and demanded that we state what kept us so late and what was the matter with ue. Not feeling that wo were called to go into particulars, and not wishing to increase our parents’ ap- prehension’ that we were going to turn out badly, we summed up the case with the statement that we rast miserable at the pit of the stomach, We had mus- tard plasters administered and caveful watching for several hours, when we fell asleep and forgot our disappoiptment and humiliation in being obliged to throw away three-fourths of our first oigar. e —— The Rate of Reading. An average reader gets through 400 words & minute W DNKSDA Y GO0D NEWS' FOR FARMERS, | Boon to Be the Most Prosperous Classiu the Land, THE HARD TIMES ARE NEARLY OVER. tor Collier of the New York Ey- periment Station Says that the Agricultural Millentum is Now Close Upon Us, Dr. Peter Collier, director of the New York agricultural experiment station, in arecent addvess at Ovid upon “The Future of Agriculture in the United States,” presented facts and opinions which have a vital interest not only to agriculturists, but to everybody who cats brend and meat, says the New York Sun. Dr. Collier believes that hard times for farm are almost at an end, and that soon they will become the most prosperous class in the land, He makes this broad prophecy: hat agriculture of late years and at present has failed to bring the pecuni- iary returns which it might all must ad- mit, but that the prospects for the fu- ure of agriculture in this state, and in his country are forbidding I do not be- lieve, In fact, at the risk of being thought optimistie, I wish tp be placed on record as predicting that to the best of my knowledge and belief we are about entering upon an era of agricultural prosperity the like of which as a people we have never known, and which pros- perity is to be permanent,” In presenting the reasonsforhis opin- on, Dr, Collier deals with some signi- ficant facts groupod in an interesting way. He s: “IMirst lot us seek to learn the cause or s of tho present icultural de- pression, since obviously if it or they can be removed the depression must ceas: We find upon investigation t in this state of New York, at least such depression is not due to a diminution in the fertility of our lands, If we take the aver- ago yield of our leading farm crops, corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, and hay for the pust quarterof a century and divide this period into those from 1862 to 3 1871 to ‘79, and 1880 to '88, we find that the average acrenge yield of these five erops, the aggregate value of which is 92 per cent of the fotal value of our leading favm erops, had len off but 1.6 percent during the second period from the average yield during the first period; and the average yield of the third period was within 8:6 per cent of whatit was during the first; and this diminished yield is perhaps due ingreat measure to le carveful cultivation which the low prices of farm products seomed in many cases to excuse, il they did not justify. . “On the other hand the average mar- Iket value of these five crops was, duving the second period mentioned, only 75,6 per centof what it was in the first, and during the third period dropped to an average of only 669 per cent of what these crops upon an average sold for during the first period. In view of this great fulling off in prices itappears to meneedless to seelc further for causes -Ithe vecent and present depr and I think no one cun doubt that with a restoration of prices tosomething ap- proximating what they were, a revival inagriculture would speedily follow. I cannot accept eithor the explanation wholiv of ‘over-production’ nor the con- clusion that 1t 15 long to continue. To me it scems that this over-production is relative rather than actual, that it is determined rather by the ability to pur- chase thanby the actual needsof the consumer. To take for illu ion our manufactures, certainly there is of these products of labor an énormous supuyl but docs this in fact surpass oras yet even equal the reasongble desives’ or legitimate needs of our people? “Now, during the decade before the present century, from 1790 to 1890, the annual per itaw consum ption of sugar inthe United States was less thun ten pounds (2.65.) In 1840 it had increased to only 15 pounds. It doubled during ~ the mext 20 years, being 381 in 1850, and during the past 80 years it has again nearly doubled, since the present annual per capita con- sumption of sugar in this country is nearly or quite sixty pounds. Can any one believe that with such arecord there is reason to question the general pros- perity of the country? “As with sugar, so is it with many another article of consumption by our people. 1t is estimated that the per capita consumption of breadstuffs amounts annually to an equivalent of fully 8 bushels of grain, mainly wheat and corn, ‘making the fullest bread ration of any nation in the world,” as the statistician of the Departiient of Agriculture declares, Indeed it is proverbial that as a people we areal- most prodigal in our expenditures for food supplies. But I wish to call atten- tion to thie several points which to me appear to prove that we are upon the eve of what [ believe will prove the golden age of our agriculture, 1. The population of the country is very ropidly igepeasing; from 1860 to 1870 it incredised 23 per cent., and from 1870 to 1880, 30 per cent.; so that, if the same increase is eontinued, as there ap- pears no reason to doubt, the pre census will show a population of 000; but the inerease of those living in cities has been more rapid. There were in 1880 nearly 13 times as many people in the United States us in 1790, but over 86 times as many living in cities in 1880 as in 18%0. The increase of population was from 1860 to 1870y 23 per cent.; of those living in eities, per cent.; the in- creaso of popwlation from 0 to 1880 was 80 ‘per cent, but of those living in cities 40 per cent; from 1860 to 1880 the increase in population was 60 per cent, but of those living in cities, 123 per cent Nearly one-fourth of all our people live in cities, and since then the number has vastly increased, and I think relatively s0. We see, then, that iculturally the consumens ave increasing far more ru}lidl’v than the producers, *2, The numberof farmsin the United States has nearly doubled (96 per cent increase) from 1560 to 1880; while the average ucreage in the farms has dimin- ished during this same period cent; both facts of very great signifi- cance as evidence that theurea of arable ea 0 1 land was diminishing relative to the in- | gled for some minutes, The water was | sired, crease in the number of those who de- sire to engage in agriculture, **3. While the area in farms increased from 1860 to 1880,82 percent the improved land in farms increased 75 per cent, showing that increase of tillable lands , NOVEMBER | was mainly secured by improving lands already occupied. Yy wernge crop-producing eapae ity of our soils is diminishing From 1866 to 1886 the to our leading erops increased while our population incres during this period (9 per cont, and wh ing points to the fact that our ble land is largely occupied —us wit- ness the haste to possoss Oklahoma, und the off im by irrigation the 1 reg ywest—there appenrs that our population will not steadily increase. At peesent 0 per cent of our products consumed at home, or H3per cent not counting tobacco and cotton, It sear apponrs as a rdous prodiction that within five years and perhaps oven sooner, he fome de nd n equal the supply of our agricultural pro- ducts, and then, if they are wise, the rmers of the country will be the mus ters of the situation, and those words of x,.l><.1.-.»-x||.:.| *Agiiculture is the basis and strength of all national prosperity,’ i1l be recognized as sober truth, *Awaiting, then,as [ think we may.in confident hope the good time so near ag hand, what, we may stop to inquire, are the duties of the hour: and I would say first, study economy in production. Let me indicate the pos=ibilities, yes, the probabilities which lie in this on or the intelligent farmer. Two of our leading New York daivrymen secure practically the same average product in butter from their herds,and their results are nearly three times the aver sults secured in the state. But one of these feeds a ration sting 14 cents daily per cow, the other, getting no bet- ter result, feeds h L ration costing exactly double, 28 cents per diy. But one cent a day saved upon the dairy cow of this state means a saving of ov $16,000 o day, 0 saving of nearly $t 000" & year,” This is one of the probléms upon which your ex station is engnged, *“But Iwishto siy aword asto what seems to me the wisest policy to pursue for the immediate future, have scen that if there is any over production it must obviously be of those products which are exported, and they few in number; corn, wheat, m cotton constituting as [ have said cent of our exports, Ontheother hand, we import annually over $300,000,000 worth of agricultural products, i of which may be, I am sure, profita’ ly pro- duced in thiscountry,for example, sugav and molasses, wool, hides, barley, fiber and horses, these alone aggregating $170,000,000 in value, or 65 per cent of our imported agricultural products. To me it would seem wise to diminish by a little the production of these products which are in excess of our want seek to produce those produets for wh the demand exceeds the home supply. “*Let me mention only the matter of ar and molasses, for which we ly expend about 100,000,000, T have ample of sugar in my possession repre senting the result of an extended exper ment with several hundred tons of ¢ which I have no doubt canbe produced at an expense not exceeding one cent a pound; and, within twenty-five miles of where we now are was produced at a great profit a sample of syrup us good or better than any sold in the state of New York,” dovoted per od iment e RICH COLORED MFE Exam aves in the South Who Have Grown Wealthy. Tt will probably be surprising to know that in Galveston there is a coloved man, who is worth over Chicago Tribune, His name 3 ter, and he hasa fine mansion in the most desirable residence portion of the city; and, what will most surprise Chi- cago people, his wife employs nothing but white servants, How did Sylvester getrich? Well, he got a stavt in poli- tics, then ran a saloon and gambling house for colored people for u few ye then went into real estate and specu- lated. He isshrewd and successful. One of the most successfui and wealth- iest real estate men of Houston is acol- ored man, His name is Milton Sterrett. He owns a fine residence surrounded by immense grounds, all terraced off and planted in the finest flowers and shrub- bery, and keeps a landseape gardener to attend it, Ho was a waiter on the hoats between Galveston and Houston before and during all the war, and made eye thing he has in real estate deals duri the last twenty years. He owns scve lurge plantationsand is worth at le $400,000, Then take Senator Fort Bend coun! ‘When the war closed and he was freed, he lived on ¢ plantation belonging to his mistress, whose husband and two sons were killed, leaving ber alone in the world, She had given him a goodelementary cduci tion; he was shrewd. By attention to business he soon acquired a good furm, In a few years he added toit, and bought in the plantation formerly owned by his misf und had two other large ones on the Brazos in ten years more, His old mistress being reduced to pov- erty, he undertook to care for her, He said when he was elected to the state senate that he owed all he was to her kindness, and that he felt it his duty to care for her. And hesent her back to her native state—Virginia—and regu- larly remits to her, and has done so for fiftéen years, $150 every month. He - is popular with whites and blacks, demo- crats and republicans, and studied inw 50 that he could depend upon himself to manage his immense plantation and ranch interests. Senator Burtonis worth over #500,000, Then Henry Black, the sh tle ranchman of Tom Green und counties, is worth nearly $500,000, has made it all inless than fifteen ye: Aore these men southern negroes? Y every one of them. But the largest plantation owner and the heaviest farm iand tax payer in the vich county of Lemar was a light col- ored mulatto named Harvey. Ho died a few weeks ago and left a” widow, who will be able to pull through, probubl as her husband left four lirge plant tock farm, some city prop- nda big bank account left her a snug little in- on hislife sor 18,000, - A Heroic *outhern Girl. Judge James P. Mcleer, a membergof the bar of Virginia, and who happened to be on the Louisville & Nashville train coming to New Orvleans the other night, furnishes the following to a correspon- dent for the New York Times: ST was a passenger today on the Louis- ville & Nashville train, which was five hours late. Before reaching the long bridge beyond Biloxi the engincor, running at full speed, observed a negro on the trestlework near the north end. The negro, observing the approaching train and hearing the warning sig- nals, turned aside and clung for a moment to a telegraph pole, He then left his place of safety und ran for the next pole, in his excitement forgetting to jump to the water, a_distance of per- st C. N. Burton, of He surance polic fully | I SAVING uaoa.sm' NLINESS, DURABILITY & CHEAPNESS, UNEQJIALLED, No 000m WHEN HEATE‘E ALL COAL UNDER COVER, CARBO Wholesate and HARD and n T The above cut wagon, by which three tons of coal left in the clusively by us, OFFiC H, wagon. 10. PEARL ST, B, OLLARIC Manage ¢ on J. clephone FOR MEN ONLY MAGIC CURE | VOUS DI or LOST ov FATLING MAN- 1000; General and - NER: kness of Body and s or execssesin O1d or 0D fully re- or_ monoy live days' treat- Securely sealed from 1y Co.. Omaha, Nob 1 Hotel, Cor, Uith and Dodeest T OFFICER & PUSEY, '‘BANKERS. Corner Main and Broad way, COUNCIL ‘BLUFFS, IOWA, Dealers fn forefan Callectior deposit vation. Cook ite Office, St.C and domestle exchange s mude und interest pald on time COUNCIL BLUTFS STEAM DYE WORKS All Kinds of Dy 1 Higheststy o of t Pabries made to lool s new. Work promptly done and delivered in uil parts of thecowitry. Sendtor price list. Co AL MACH P ro| 1013 Broadw \ Novihwesteru ninz done in the Land Stadned B por, run with all possible specd, She into the water and pulled the dying man to the shore, where he dicd in a_ few moments. This daring, hevroie deed was observed by a trafn full of passengers, wio, from their position on_the bridge, were unuble to render help. B BANISH Oterwise, Dr. eSays, the Fate of Pompeii Awaits Gotl Rev. T. De Witt Talmage delivered in v Yorls the other night the fivst of a ries on tiie holy land and surrounding count The text was part of the thirty-s nd se of the 104th Psalm: “Ile tonchieth the hills and they smolke he congregation were carried in ney to th es in the museums ay aples and at the entrance to the buried city of Pompeii, **From the pictures to be seen on the walls in these mnse said the lecturer, *“the City of Pom poii not fit to live. herefore God touched the hill at < of that city on August 4, in the ) nd wiped the wickedest city on earth out of existence.” He argued that science and revelation did not disagree in regard to the ancient history of this world, **Weo will hold on to our biblesa little longer,”” he said, *“All the brains of this count nd of the world are com- ing out on tl ide of the bil Wash- ington was i believer. Gladstone is o Hundel, Hh) hed ILS. ars, wes for the de- struction of eitics characterized by one particular sin. Of the seven cities which have heen destroyed by voleanic action the sin w always the same, and if the Russian, I"rench and American literature of a purticular demoralizing sort not banished from our news- stands and the ludies’ parlorsin this country God will let loose” some of the monstors which he has chained up in ng the i 50 A s vol is hills about our cities voleano in political life as do- mestic and social, purifying is needed or the voleano will burst forth,” English Farms Vacant. Anenormous number,of farms have vacunt this haelmas, and all lund 1t 's Lo be extremely probuble that lund owners will have them thrown upon their hunds, asin most count there are half a dozen vacant loldings for every eligible applicant, says the London World, In lz:nn]»hin K ent, Sussex, and ot her coun- tios, where the prinei owners \dy have thousands of ncres unocous jied, the prospect is really very seri t is nearly impossible to let ar farms on any terms, and even good gr ing furms will only find tenants atre duced rentals. The Kent hop farms ave reported to be difficult to let even at half the present vents. Chur Church W Service by Telephone. vice is now supplied to the haps filteen feet, Despite theengineer's warning signals, he stopped; bowed his | head and the pilot of the engine crushed | his skul and knocked him Into tho | water, whero he floundered and strug- | two aud a half feet deep, and five or six | big, stulwart negroes stood by and re- | | fused to runin and try to save the un- fortunate man's lif | “From a house near by a beautiful girl | luhomoulghmnnummerl was seen o public by telephone in Birmingham, England.” Transmitters are upin the church, so that :ribers to the tolephone can hear the service and the sermon at their private residence, if de At the end of the choir stalls, on tho top of the lectern and the read: ing desk of the pulpit the smull metallie- cased transmitters ave placed, and they are so regulated that tl und is gath- ered in without requiring the voice to suby [ be directed especially 0 them. and earried into the cellar or coal house if it is 20 feet None scattered on the ground. [GITIZENSSTATEBAN . Of Council PAID UP CAPITAL SURPLUS AND PROF LIABILITY TO DEPOS Dinecronrs-1. A, M | Bluffs, i 15 TORS,, ). Gleason, B, E, 1art, wndson. Charles wan. Teansact goneral L nz husle arest eapital and sarplus of ang Juthwestorn [iva. REST UN TIME DEPOSITS, bunk in s J INTE RY AND CLEAN AT ALL COAIL:. GO. Ratail Dealers in SOFT COAI.. I'IMES. shows our new self-dumping retail delivery f coal canbe unloaded ina minutd away. No Us=ed ex= Yard, 16th Ave & Fourth St P, COUNCIIL BLUURES, 1a, ice. 300, rd, 340, Y GRAY G0 “What shall T doon Clristmas d I mygray goose should rin awi We don't expect onr gray £oose to i awa but we shull allow the following to et awa on Chiristmas day 1 harrel ulited sugar, 50 1bs M W Java eo e, 200 1bs R. T, Davis' No. 10 flour, 10 bushels of potatoes. 5 1bs. st tea getuway. and 12 yo 14 YO AT0 WOl b 10 KBow further particus alest ud at e sune Self 5 per cont. hand sell for cush. and are L0 SIVE 0T euStomers 8 poreent 1S WHAT YOU DO FOR CASH iy We buy for abl s of White T i soap for .. Dars of by f: : indry soup pond pound o per pound per bushel ood Broom 1y per pound Wvy hewns per poand Crackers per pound lirec lon vos ofbread for Must 1es, per e Ol = per Potted L, per e Deviled L, vor ¢ Two oz bottie lemon o trict Two oz bottle vunili oxtriet i 1cless ams per w0 R.T. Davis T Duvis, 11 Gold medal, per Buge, Norion & loViour AL Rattler, try 1t porsuck Allzoods w. ounecs (o G rranted us reprosented and 1 « pound. Welgh v 2000 s ung don’the deceived by your ligh priced grocers man. A ocor wishing to sell out on ED.N, BROWN'S, C. 0. D. Fourth Street and Broadway. Counci} g Bluffs, lowa. ATTEND Strictly to businest” 1s aaplendid motta. ext success I every 1ine of human ensryey |t Uyhim wio holds to somy adoptad spe ity WESTERN Pe ple are progressive, full of encrzy. aul moue; muking scliene: pecial train ng Vusiness. Ly Th b d pabilc sehocly sing mi o Western Lowa. COLLEGE, sole e thy wal usfe well ats cain W. 8. Paulson. { Council Bluffs, 1owa. Tustice of the Pe Oftice o W ST LR, Broudway, Council Riuffs, lowa, Sims & Saunders—Hitemeygat Law, "',.':.i federal courts, Rooms i, 4 and 5 Shugurt Benobloek, Counell Blufts, lowa. A0 s e e SPECIAL: NOTICES. COUNCIL BLUFES. — 1. R men for work 14 s porbise No. 12 Seott st ANTED—A il 15 or 10 ye .,u.u[fr‘,’ VAR, Swanson, NS WOr e JOR 8 i toen Way, Cou WV ANTED A good gt to dogencral louses Work: Apply abiet Fifth ive. ok n Tho brick block, No. & 8, T W. Squire, oo A ehaico uear uir g 1 iiires. W ANTED iy s mareiod store in country 1w Viuts caporie ence; A No. 1 refarencess good bookkeeper, K Bee ofice. Council Blufrs. POR RENT MoMahan _throostorg. Miin sty with sinile nllfi wilde 1. W, pos tlon 1my Do 10,003 Singl TRy HouS Saun sale Good five-roc s diforent p OO 0V reourt b lots for and lot ders street cheap. J. It [OR SALE Complote set of tiners tool A sl stock of tnware ati birgiloe 1 at room 18 Me block. dosir Nortl Davidson, 635 Fifth avenue, 0 stoves it cost to olosoout. Headquarters ) tor hard maple house moving rollers an@ Jacks, 1D, Auy & Co. 020 Main sticet MU ‘or sale choip, & sphn of goo@ :\ ’\\ Ll\n :nlul»»-«whhlblmllu-v; “wnl WagoRe pply to Frod Davis stables on Fourth stree ueur Fitth wvenue. » FPYWO s0-acre farms for sale abargain. W. A, Wood & Co. Jror saLt stock o 4=y eur-old o <4 Maln @ -y The sto fixtures of 4 wel roce s, will sel ¥ wnd fixtures: lso thrg® 5 for sale, nquire of T, “ Srith & Sou, Council Blufs, B 16th ave (OR SALE or Rent—Garden land, wi Ilu’l‘l“u”" Ly J, B Bloe, 104 Main st, Coun