Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1890, Page 17

| | P — S THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; oot el ——— e T SUNDAY. RS W A A i - -DECEMBER 23, 1800.~SIXTEEN PAGES. THE INDIAN AS A (HRISTIAN, He Becomes a Law-Abiding and a Peace- Loving Citizen, WIDE EXPERIENCE AMONG THE SIOUX An Omaha Correspondent Suggests the Appointment of a City Mis- sionary to Bring Children to Sunday School. The recent fanatical craze among the Tn- dians and the disturbance that has beea oc- casioned by it has beena soutce of much con- comn among the Christian cburches that have been laboring extensively with the Sioux. The Episcopal church, under the leade ship of Bishop Hare of South Dakota, has doubtless done more effective work among these Indians than has any other denoming- tion, and it is very interesting at this criti- cal time to learn how the Indians, who have professed conversion to Christianity and who have given up much of their wild manuer of living, are holding out in the faith and in the practice of Christian living. Dean Gardner, who corresponds & good deal with Bishop Hare, suld the othier day, in speaking of the Tudian situation : “Bistop Hare’s views upon the Indian dif- floulty [ hail with delight after reading the senseless and sensational stuff which oceu- plcs %0 much space in the daily papers, One would Imagine that the name Tndian is sy onomous with **ferocious, wild beast.” There are Indians and Indians. 1 understand that the Christian Inaians, to a man, are loyal and responsible citizens, and thisin the face of disconragements that would overpower and demoralize the average white Christian. “Scme smart seribblers in the daily papers bring ont the mouldy old chestnut and offer itto tho public, that ‘the only good Tndian is adoad Indian,” “We have nine Sioux Indians, nobly work- ing in the sacred ministry ! Aboutforty Sioux Tndians helping them as” licensed catechists! Forty branchos of the Woman's Auxiliary among the Sioux Indian women ! Seventeen hundred Sioux Indian communicants | Sioux Tndians contributing nearly £3,000 aunually for religious purposes | “But what impressions have all these solomn_but cheering facts made upon the public mind as compared with thewild antics of the heathen Sfoux Indians which have ex- cited the attention and stirred the feelings of the country, and daiiy occupied column after column of e newsppers for o wecks past? Alas! alas! as | have written els- where, wickedness presents more vivid con- trasts than virture does; its history is more picturesque, and has more of the element of the unexpected which adds pepperaud salt to life. But let it not be forgotten that ke has not learned how to live who esteems l!’IE salt- collarand the pepper-cruet the most import- ant things on the table, Bishop Hare says helooks upon the move- ment us *‘the effort of heathenism g rown des- perate to recover its vigor and reinstate itself. Many of the missionaries have long been expecting such a struggle.” i The bishop suggests that the Indian rine- leaders who have before wrought trouble should now be forever separated from their trives and that care should be exerised m administering punishment. He suys also that a difference should be made between the good Indians and the hopelessly bad ones. “The names of -all Indians are down on sponcy lists Indians are known individu- ally 410 teachers, missionaries and agents. Discrimination is therefore quite practi- cable. It will bean eventin Indian life of vast and far-reaching influence for good if, after this outburst, the Indians discover that the power which bears the sword will do it “for the punishment of evil doers and fcr the praise of them that do weil.” “Lot good sense and Christian charity ar- rest the tendency which this outbreak of wild passion will naturally have to dampen fnterest in Indian missionary and educa- tional work, and to produce the feeling that rork has been vain. ottlers have fled, not s0 much because of real dingeras because of their fears, and while they have been fleeing lone white women teachers in Indian camps have been pursuing their word without molestation and without alarm. 1 have visited several Indian agencies und have late news fromall the Sloux Indian country, but [ have yet to learn of a single case of insult, mich less of violence, offered to any teacher or missionary in any of the fifty odd stations scattered ail over ihe disturbed districtsin South Dakota.” 8o faras we have information there is some- thing in tho work of the church which the wild Indisn even when bent on plunder mepocts. A curious snd suggestivo foature of this universal plundering and destruction 15 the evident intentional sparing of the chapels and the adjacent mission houses. Not one one of them has been touched. Home Missionary Work. M. John Dale writes to the Nebraska Christion Advocate of December 20, ex press- ing his views upon the need of more home missionary work in Omaha and touches the important question in a very energetic man- ner. He compares the number of children in the public schools with the number in Sun- day schools and proves that there must be hundreds of children who are neglected and who are not inany Sunday school. These children are growing up in an atmosphere of religious indifference or absolute wicked ness. The churches, Mr. Dale says, are not reaching the masses and something must be done to check the increase of crime and vice in_the large cities. In conclusion Mr, Dale says: “You ask me what I would do. Inreyly I would say : *¢As Methodists, we should do our part of the work by finding the right man, fitted by gifts and eraces, for city missionary. One who understands the peculiar needs of the work, whose heart is all aglow with the Spirit of Him who came to ‘*seek and save those whoare lost.” There are just such men, and none others should be employed. Buch a man with such a heart, a good "ad- dress, & faculty for organization and untirin, energy sent out with the endorsement an. co-operation of all our churches and Sunday schools, paid @ salwy of enough to keep him above financial needs and a contingent fund on which he could draw, by and with the endorsement of au executivo committeo, His salary and expenses should be assessed and paid regu- larly on the first of cach month, thus releas- ’“f him from all carein that direction. f this could be doue, or some other plam devised and put into operation, one year would show wonderful results. All our churches would be benefited by accessions. Our Sunday schools would be largely aug- mented, and mission schools, the forerunner of churches, could be established and sus- tained. This work, in my. judgment, could be made very successful, and a gieat felt want would be supplied.” Church Notes, Rev. Mr. Crane of the Seward Street Metnodist church has just closed a very suc- cessful series of revival meetings at which over forty persons were umted with the church, He proposes to hold another vevival in afew weeks, He has secured the services of Rev. Hoopingarner, an evangelst who is said to be very successful in the work. The ladies of the St. Mury's Avenue Con- §°ol'eulflnnll church presented Mrs, Willard tt, wife of the pastor, with @ very fine gold wateh on Christmas, Dr, Thain delivered his lecture “The Evo- lution of the Yankee,"” in Lincoln last week before the Congregational club, Dr. A, W. Lamar is progressing with his series of sermons o0 character building on Sunday nignts, Hels attracting large con- ‘l’:‘lllofll and arousing a good deal of inter- es Mr. L. D, Holmes of the First Baptist church, has undertaken the establishment of & Sunday school for the poor and neg- lected childven who have mno regular home church, This Sunday school 1s held at §0o'clock in the First Baptist churchand has already @ membership of about one hnn- dred pupils. Rev. Willard Scott returned last Wednes- day from St. Jmegh, Mo, where he delivered his lecture on “The Spirit of the Puritans’ :.-‘l‘ the First Congregational church of that Ly, Rev, 8, C. Harvison of Fratklin, Neb,, was in Omaha last weekin theinterests of Frank- lin scademy. He left on Thursday for the cast whero L will solicit funds for@ mouth. The Indies of the St Mary's Avenue Con- gregational church sent away four box es of provisions, mostly clatiing and footwear, to the suflerers of western Nebraska last weok. The matter of electing officers for the Sun- day schiools for the year 1501 is now tho prin- cipal topie of consideration in many of the most infuential churches of the city. A superintendent of ability, zeal and indefatigi- ble encrgy {8 the firstand most important be considered All who have had nce realize that it is no casy task to ntend a Sunday school and do the work properly. Many of the present superinten- dents will be T 1 and the future for every congrogation in Omuha has signs of o forall who desire to work and wherever they see ,an 0ppor- t Rev. Willlam R. Henderson, the editor of the Centeal West, and Mrs, Henderson have gone to Indianapolis to spend the bolidays with the former's father. He will be gone ten days. —_—— CHURCH NOTICES Trinity M. . church, comer Twenty-first and Binney strects, Rev. W. K. Beans, pis- tor. Preaching 10:50 a. m. and 7:0 p Morning subject, ‘‘Advent of Ch Christmas sermon, Evening, Morning: a Christmas Concert.” school at 12 m., J. T. Robinson, superin- tendent, Young peoples' meeting, 6:00. Seats free. The people made welcome. St. Mary’s Avenue Congregational church, corner of “Twenty-seventh street. Rov. Wil- lard_Scott, pastor. Services at 10:30 @, m. and 7380 p. m, Sunday schoolat noon. Chapels atd o'clock. Young People’s Society of Chirs- tian Endeavor meeting 30 o'clock. Christmas scrvicein the morning, withspecial music by the choir. In the evening a New Year's sermon by the pastor and appropriate music, Southwest Lutheranchurch, Twenty-Sixth street between Poppleton and Woolworth avenues. Kev. Luther M. Kuhns, pastor. The Lord’s Supper will bo celebrated at 11 a.m. Services at 7 Subject, ‘‘The ChristChild's Birt The music at the morning service will be': Alll‘lu\{u ~H ! What M Gloria in "u“l-lfl#flI List toMy I Sunetus, erlein Schitz ... Kaufmun Bortaiansk gnus Del. . .. Layriz Nune Dimittis... 3 rsfin Tune In the evening the music will be: Anthem—To Our Redeemer's Glorlous Name....... . . Gloria Patri.. . o The Cantielo-—Magnificat, Anthom—Brightest and 1 VOMBIDIS Gen s o iy L Lgyriz terlan church, Rev. both services,” Morn- ing subject > “They aredead which sought the young child’s life.”” In the even- ing his subject will be “The three R's of Christianity.”” The musical part of the ser- vice will be as follows: MORNING, ry—Night in Bethlehem. ... i -Ch de Berlot . Attwood from Whom all Organ volunt to God... Doxology—I'r God Blessings Flow 5 in Excelsls. gewater T ..Dr. Peace Handel no Longer ossind Hymn—FHark volces, No. Anthem—How Beautiful upon the .\l‘;wn tains. . . Hy mn—Rook of Age: ; Hymn—For the Mereies of the Day, No. Organ voluntary—Festival Marcli. ... The regular choir of the church will be in attendance. Following are the singers: So- prano, Miss Alice Knode; alto, Miss Spet- man; tenor, Mr, James E. Kelby; bass, Mr. Easson; organist, Miss I E school at 12noon. ' Y, P.S. C. E. at 645 p. m., subject, **Extending the Angel's Christ- mas Song,” Miss Julla Newcomb in the chair. AllSamts’ chureh, Twenty-sixth and Half- Howard streets, Holy communion, 7:30 a.m, Sunday school, 0:80 a. m, Morning_service 1l a.m Choral evensong, 4 p. m. Evening prayer at 7:30, followed by the Brotherhood bible cluss. T'ho following is the musical programme : MOKRNING SERVICE, Tli'mu 24 ‘one VIII, 15t 0. 74 Processional. Venlte . . . Te Deurn Laudimus in'F Jubilate Deo in I Anthem--Drop Dowi, eaven (See Service for Christuus ftyrle, Glorla, Gratius n G. . v 2 Res 1 . EV Processional. . Psulty 2th Day. o It oo Woodward-Gregorlan-Hayes Magnificat and Nune Dimittis in E flat . waziiessss: BUEDDY Anthe ileilin 0 Zfon, That Hring. eth Good Tidings ... .. ....Stalner (See Offertorium Christias iy, o o Hymn 24 Hymn Reéeessional . o n 2 ‘The usual services will be held at the First Christian church, on Capitol avenue and Twentieth street, morning and evening, Preuchi and 7:30 p. m, by tho pastor, amblet. Morning sub- ject, “Living Chri 7 evening, “Reso- lutions, Their Use and Abuse,” First Universalist church, North Nie- teenth and Lathrop streets—Rev. Q. H, Shiun, pastor. Subjects: Our Cally” 730 p.m., “Poet Whittier as Inter- preter of Christ.”” Sunday school at 12 m. Trinity Cathedral—Capitol avenue and Eighteenth swreer. The Vervy Rev. C. H, Gardner dean, Holy communion, 8 a. m, Sunday schoolat 10a. m. Morning prayer, litany and sermon 11 a. m. ~Evening prayer and sermon 7:30 p. m. The dean will preach morning and evening. South Tenth stroet M. E. church, corner Tenth and Pierco streets, Rev. Alfred Hodgett, pastor. Class meeting 10 a. m., &Nw,‘hlnu 10:3) a. m.; subject, “The Wise en and Their Presents.” Sunday school, 13 m, Epsworth league, 6:30. Preaching 7 B subject, “The Father’s Promise, Seats free, Good music, Everybody equally welcome, Southwest Presbyterian church, cbrmer of Twentieth and teavenworth. Rev. R. V. Atkisson, pastor. Services at 10:30 . m, and @0 p.m. Subjects, morning: “A Christmas Sermon.” Evening, “The Short Bed and Narrow Cover.”’ Sunday school atnoon. Young people's meeting at 6:45 p. m. Seats free andall are cordially invited to attend all of these services, Kountze Memorial Lutheran church, Sixteenth and Hamey. Regular church services at 10:30 a. . and 7:50 Sabbath school at 12 m, St. Matthew's mission Sabbath school, cormer Fourteenth and Center streets, at 3:30 p.m.; Y. P, 8. C, E. at 6:30 p.m. Morning subject, “Unity in the Local and General Church.” The pastor, Rev. A. J. Turkle, will preach both moming and evening. Al are welcome, el IMPIETIES, English St. Peter never yet issueda free pass to a dude. Hell isfull of “‘gentlemen” roasting in cor- rect form, Fow angels could remain angelic through a hay fever season. Piety is thetop coat of religion,and is often 00 short to cover up the tails of creed hang- ing down behind. “Why is it there are so many vinegar- visaged Christians?”” “They keep theix ro- ligion over for use on Sunday and it sours,” Wife—Do you believe coal dealers ever go to heaven when they diet Husband (a min- ister) —No,my dear, not unless they repent of their weighs, Dr. Plexus—Why do you maintain that the bible is bebind the spirit of the age! Mr, Flexus—Because it doesn't associate tares with wild oats, Clergyman—Ah, my friend, why don't_you lay up treasures for yourselfin heaveu! Bus- iness Man—Because' T am not sure that I will ever get there to claim thom, The deuce tulie Adam and that apple, His appetite he could not check, And we the consequence mast grapple — He gave it o us 1n the neok ! I will ask you,” said the attorney for the proseution, “if you believe in a bereaftor(” *“Bjeet,” interposed the attorney for the de- feuse. He's told you already he's a pawn- broker." “Iv's a good thing people arenot treated nowadays as Anuanias was for lymg." ** Why s0l" “Whyset Why, if wo were, Begley, nobody’d be alive but you and I, and you'd be paralyzed " My friends," shouted the exhorter, ‘‘what will you do when brought to the bar of judg- “Call for beer,” broke in a Godless “Young man,” quickly retorted the ier, “we are fully persuaded that vour will be ready for “you before you reach that bar." . St. Peter— You understand that kings and rulers like you are supposed tn_bear the bur- dens of their subjects, of course. Shade of Czar—Certainly.~ St. Poter—Well, you had batter go down below and _get warmed up, for the poor fellows whom you sent to Siberia to freeze to death, oro has been some sharp things said with vespect to plagiarism in toe pul- pit. It is claimed that when a ]-rc,u'lnlr uses the words of another he should always ac- knowledge it; but the dificulty is to know when the quotation ends, One man who ap- propriated another's serman began with: ‘A certain man hath said,” but his hearers did not dream that they were indebted to that “‘certain man’’ for the whole sermon. must have been great times during *said the man who spends hie ex- na distinct devotion to society. “Ev- erybody was in the swim then, A young girl whose last name was Mack, Went to church in a new sealskin sack ; In donating her mite She squeezed it 5o tight That her kid glove cracked right 'cross the back. Sunday School Teacher—Why were only Noah and his family saved in the ark? Small Boy-—'Cause Noah was good and didn't ask nothin’. The rest wanted the earth, an’ they got it. He told his people of the awful woo The love of money brings into this sphere, And two weeks later packed his trunk to go To whore they'd pay him twenty more a year. “It is a great hardship. s it not, sir,” was asked of the Methodist preacher, *‘to be or- dered from one church to another every few years” ‘It would seem so,” returncd the dominie, “but it's a great saving in ser- mons.” g O, why does the girl in the front pew turn red, . And wriggle around ill at ease? O’ because she's forgotten her handkerchief see! And she's trying to hold back a sneeze. Bishop Hurst says of the proposed Metho- dist university in° Washington: I believe the money for the site, #100,000, will be se- cured during the coming winter, Already betw £45,000 and §0,000 have been sub- seribod.” Dr. Albert Shaw, just called to the chair of political and municipal fustitutions at Cor- nell university, is widely known by his mug- azine articles and his lectures. Probably no other American has made so careful a study at tirst hand of municipal government abroad and at home. The acceptance by the trusteas of Jonns Hopkins university, of the women's proposi- tion to endow the medical department place it in the front rank of those universitics which, to fagilitate the higher education of wouen, opens its doovs to them in one of the most importaut branches of science. George W. Willand, D. D., LL. D., ex- president of Heidelberguniversity, Tifiin, O., hasaccepted the call to the chair of ethics and apologotigs in Ursinus collego, Collee. ville, Penn, This chair was_formerly filled by Rev. J. H., A. Bomberg, Dr. Willard has already entered upon his duties. Edward Everett Halo suggests the appount- ment in_some leading univer.ity of a *‘pro- fessor of America,” who shall stand as an expounder of Americanism, Every good cit- izen is a professor of America on hls own ac- count, and also an expounder of Americay- ism, and, what is more, will fight for it if it is necessary. A college professor could hardly do more than that, but if a “‘pro- fessor of America” is required there is no one better qualfied than Edward Everett Hale. Mr. Willidm Tomlins, the Chicago musical director, is now orwanizing a number of small clisses, which are to receive a three years’ course in vocal training, and at the opening of the world’s Columbian exposition they will be massed futo one large chorus, which will sing_at the opening exercises, an epitome of what can be done in that way by children. At the recent meeting of tho board of trustees of Columbia college a large number fellowships were established worth £500 a yeur each, to be granted to graduates of a college or'scientific school for the purpose of assisting them in the pussuit of special lines of investigation or scientific research. Twelve of these fellowships are to be awarded next July, eighteen in tho following year and twenty-four the year after. 1t is stated that for the year ending July 25 1890, there were, in New York state, 800,000 children of school age, who did not attend £chool for any part of the period. Tho aver- age daily attendance at public school fell 1,000,000 below the population of school age. Tho ‘average annual salary of teachers was only $436,71. The cost of maintaining the public schools was $17,302,471, of which $10,- 422,172 was pad to teachers, Since 1879, it is stated, 345 Indians have re- ceived instruction at the Hampton institute, and the judgment of the principalis that ouly twenty-five of the entire lot have been “dis- appointing.” *For peovle not compelled to work for their food,” the vrincipal says, “their conduct is most encouraging, All ex- cept tho twenty-five bad ones have done from fairly well to excellently well as_teachers, catechists, farmers, mechanics, teamsters, herders, laborers, clerks, ete. The thirst of the southern negroes for knowledge is illustrated by the experience of Atlanta university. The flood of students this scason, which is expected to continue until Christmas, is already so great, says the College Bulletin, that “after filling all the availuble space in our buildings, we have al- ready had to go outside to accommodate tha last arrivais until all _practicable facilitios in this direction have bean exhausted.” New buildings are an absoluto necessity 1f the noble worlc of the institution is not to be cir- cumsecribed. Tl WINTER SPARKLERS. Drake's Magazine: A mun, deserted by his friends, is apt to have an all-gone feeling come over-him at times. Drake's Magazine: “I feel out of humor,” remarked the funny man. ‘“That's the way you feel when you write your jokes, isn’t it asked his friend, St. Joseph News; ‘“What awfully r billiards Missen plays, doesn't het" wHoar Only natural, though.” ““How sof “He's a detective, and you know they can't handle acue.” Fliegends Blatter: Absent-Minded Pro- fessor (to his pupil) —Well, my dear boy, so it is time for you togo to bed? If 'you should dream of your father tonight pléase give him my compliments. The gas meter stands in the cellar cold, Barely earning its salt in summer But in winter it's worth its weight in gold, For then it’s a regular hummer. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Life: “Yer look bad,Jim. Been under the weather?” “Sorter. Today's the first time I've been out-er-doors in three months,” “What was the matter with yer?’* “Nothin’; but the judge wouldn't believe it.”” The heated summer term is o'er; The perspiration leaves the brow. The man who used to shut the door, Will always leave it open, now. —Washington Post, Washington Post: “Didn’t the poet from whom you were reading refer in one of his lines to the ‘germ of immortality " inquired Mrs. Brixton of her husband. “*Yes; but it does strike me as carrying this microbe theory too far.” Detroit Free Press: The Arabs have no “hello!” in their linguage. The nearest they come to it is to throw a stone and hiv & man in the back and then ask him as he turns around: “Does it please heaven to give you good health this morning !’ Flicgende Blatter: Secretary of the Clar- ity Society—The rich and good Herr Von Kuicher has just told me that you are likely 10 be put out of your house this cold winter's day for non-payment of rent. Who is your landlordt ‘‘Her Von Kuicher," Puck: Distracted Woman (at the police station)—0, sir, I have lost my poor old father! This morning he wanacred away, and I fear, for his safety,as he is totally deaf. Police Sargent—In that case, wadam, we will soon find bhim. He 15 walking on’ the railway track. Chicago Tribune: “Your husband, I hope, Mrs, Upjohn, ' observed the good pastor,who was making his quarterly call, ““remains con- sistent in his walk and comversation (" “N-not quite,” she replied. “When he has to get up in the night and walk with baby bis conversation is dreadful,”” DISCOVERER OF ELECTRICITY, The Man Who Prepared the Way for Frank= lin and Moore. A HUNDRED AND" SEVENTY YEARS. It is That Length of Tims Since Ste- phen Gray Discavered Conduction and Insulation —Small Boys Made Useful. “He was a meritorious philosopher,” Tyn- dall says, by way of it epitaph. Living, ho was something of a recluse, making quecr experiments and keeping the results to himself until he found the grave very near to him, and theu he told what he had learned while almost in the article of death,writes Park Benjamin in the New York Herald, 'There are more tears than there is laughter in the history of human discovery, and the fallibility of human justice is no- where so vividly shown, Stephen Gray lived and worked, and died — poor, of course, and & charter house pen- sioner, Tyndall’s brief eulogy, an occasional men- tion in the electrical treatises, and that is all that one finds to prove that he existed, un- less, perchance, delving into the old tomes of the philosophical trausactions of the Royal society of London, one reads there with astonishment how this man was the first to discover electrical conduction, avd the first to send the electric current over cords and wires, aud the first to discover clectrical insulation. With Stephen Gray starts the electric tele- graph, and it is his story of 170 years ago that is to be retold here, Gilbert's list of electries, publisned in 1600, showed that there were many things other than the amber which, when rubbed, would attract light bodies, and this hist had been in- creased by the Jesuit Cabeus, by Robert Boyle and by others. It is hardly possible to repress a smile on tinding Gray, at the begin- ning of his work, seeking for now *‘electrics’ aud explaining how he took a hair from his wig and rubbed it and found it to be elec- trical, and then, as if to make it quite certain that the electricity was not at all de) upon the fact that the hair came own head covering, he procured *a fine hair from a doz's ear and discovered the same vir- tue in that," BThen he rubs pieces of silk ribbon and bits of linen, paper and wood shaving and leather and gold beaters' skin, and finas that all these, too, become elostrical, and that paper crackles and gives light in the dark. The device which he employed to test the electr cal condition of these hodies was a feath suspended by a piece of raw silk, but why he uses silk, or'that he even thought that’the silkk had anything to do with preventing the electrical charge communicated to the feather from running away from it, does not appear. Eight years elapsed before he found out the why and wherefore of it. Probably the world does not know more than a small “fraction of the experiment, made and results obtained Gray in this in- terval, nor how much knowledge afterward overed, or perhaps never since discov- ered, died with him. He puolished the rec- ords of some of his experiments, and dictated an account of the rest of themon his death- bed. Although it was pcl‘fi’cllj’ well known that an electrified body would attract au- other body, Itwas uot atall kuown whether or not one body could communicate its own electrical condition to another, and this last Gray undertook to find out. He says, in referring to his experiments of 1728, that long prior to that time he had noticed that a glass tube, if rubbed in the dark, communicated light to bodies. Just now he does not explain. Nor have we any knowledge what this experiment was. But at all events, touching as it were accidentally the very uttermost boundary of electrical science as it is now (the curious relation and probable identity of light and electricity), he wonders why, “as the tubo when rubbed in the dark communicated alight to bodies, it might not at the same time communicate electricity to them.” So be made alittletube of glass three and one-half feet long by a little over an inch in diameter, and, R erb keep it clean in- side, put corks in the extremities. Being u cautious investigator and not wishing to dis- turb his experinents by overlooking condi- tions, he thought it would be advisable to try whether the rubbed tube actea any differ- ently when the corks were inserted in the ends. Not that he supposed that the corks would have any effect, but he thought it was just as well to see that they did not. So he rubbed his tube before the corks were put in and rubbed it afterward, applying it both times to asuspended feather, and the tube attracted the feather at one time just as well as it did the other. But whether by accident or design is not khown, on one occasion, instead of present- ing the glass tube to his feather, he pre- sented the surface of the cork. And then, to his surprise, he saw the feather behave just the same us if the glass itsell had been ap- proached to it. Here was an answer to Bis question at once, for the clectrical vir- tue of the tube had certainly been commur cated to the cork, despite the total dissimi- larity of the two substances. Ttis easy to imagine the lood of questions which must have pressed upon him at once for solution. 1f the electricity will go from the tube to the cork, will it go from the cork to anything elset Over how long a cork will it travel! Willit travel over anything else but cork! Fortunately for Gray the answers wereall within the reach of his scantincome. His first experience was to iusert a wooden rod four inches long into the cork and fasten an ivory ball on the end of the rod. And he saw that this ball. cven at that distance, at- tracted and repelled the feather as well as the tube itself did. He then increased the length of the rod and found the result the same. And then for the rod he substituted iron wire and brass wire in lengths of two or three feet, and still the same result. And then he hung the ballby a piece of pack thread from the tube. Still the same hap- pening. Then he asks himself, can this vir- tus be communicated only to an ivory ballt Aund if not, to what elsef The things he hung on that pack thread were extraordinary in their variety. Here is a list of them: A guinea, & shilling, a half- pomny, 8 piece of block tin, a piece of lead, a re shovel, tongs, an iron poker, a copper teakettle which he says “succeeded just the same whetherempty or full of hot or cold water,”” a silver pint pot, a brick, a_tile, a piece of cnalk, various stones, including the loadstones and sunary vegetables, all of which worked perfectly well. Then cawme the question, how far would the electricity travel? So for the wire two or three feot long he substituted his fishing rod, adding joint after joint, and still the electricity ap- parently ran to'the ond of it. And then . he substituted other rods still longer and finally he got long pieces of pack thread, forty or fifty feet in length, But when the thread became as long as this, it was troublesome to suj:port, so he fastened the line by loops here and there to the beams of his room. Now he got into trouble, for the electric virtue. as he called it, no longer appeared at the end of the line, Nothing daunted, he searched for the dif- culty and found it, The electric charge ran off the lne through the loops to the beams, and so it did not travel the path which was intended forit. But finding difficulty is one thing and overcoming it 1s another. 8o for along time Gray was ‘puzzied. He dodged the cbstacle by “continuing his experiments with vertical ines only, getting the desired length by dropping them from the tops of buildings, “One fine June day of 1720 Gray goes to “Otterden place’ to give his friena “Mr. ‘Wheeler” a specimen of the experiment, and he shows Wheeler how electricity will run down a wire thirty-four feet high, Wheeler is astonished but not satisfied. He does not see why the electricity cannot be made to travel over any distance on a horizontal line, But the question of supvorting the thread comes up again, and finally Gray reaches the conclusion that if he uses som?lefllm which is quite strong and very thin the electricity, or avleast some of it, will not be able to get through the thin loop and will stay and travel along the thicker thread. So he decided W try supports of silk, And then, Wheeler and bis servants as- sisting, they put up a line eighty feet in length'in & long gallery and the electric chorge goes easily from ead to end of it Then Wheeler boldly proposes to_double the line, carrying it back to lu amrlhn{ point: and again the vesult was successful. The investigators become enthusiastic; they go out doors and put up a line nearly 300 fect long, and the ball at the end of the thread at- tracts the feather as strongly as before when the tube connected to the other end of the The discovery of electrical uction 18 not only complete, not only is it proved that electricity will travel over long lines from place to place, but Gray has reached the border of another’ great discov- ery equally important. Wheeler, always wanting a longer line, proposed returning the longest cord they had yet used back on itself. This was done, but the welght of the line being considerable when it was shaken by the rubbing of the tube the little silk threads which held it up broke, Thereupon they got some pieces of brass wire of the same thickness as the silk loops and supported the line on them. The wire held the line up _all right, but the elec- trie virtue no longer ran over its path. “And now,''says the record, ‘‘they were convinced that the success thoy had before depended on the lines that sipported tho line of communication being silk and not on their being small.” And thereupon they strengthened their silk loops and they in- creased the length of their puck-thread line and found that they could send the charge overit when it was'i65 feet long. And thus they found how to keep the clectricity on the liné, and so the discovery of electrical insula- tion was made, T'o recount, the curious things which Gray did 10 order to substantiate and verify his re- sults would take far more space than' is here available, At one time we see him hanging up boys by the neck and heels to find out whether they would transmit the electric efuvia, which he determined that they did perfectly well. And then ho finds that he can transmit the electric charge not. only to a boy but from one boy to another. And then he discovers that it 1s not necessary to hang boys up, be- cause he can insulate them just as well by standing them on cakes of resin or glass. And this he does with remurkable suc But his boys do not seem to have had a happy time of it, for Gray about this time became afflicted with a desive to investigate the sparks and orackles which electrified bodies gaye forth and which he noticed par- ticulurly to occur when his rubber tube was applied toa suspended poker, tongs or fire shovel. And so, having hung up a small boy by silkc cords and applied the tube to his feet or hands, he observed with wuch interest (which, it is needless to say, the boy did not share) that the unfortunate’ youth felt him- self pricked or burned whenever anybody ap- plied their hands to his face, although the saue disagreeable phenomena did not occur ‘when they applied their hands toany vor- tion of his" body through his clothes, éxcept upon his legs ; where he felt the pain through his stockings, though they were very thick The boy finally objecting very forcibly to such treatment, was aced by a rooster, and doubtless the objections of the rovster resulted ju the substitution of a large “sirr- lown of beef.” Gray's 1ast memoir relates mainly to the curious light which appeared at tho eud of bis conductors and the strange explosions which occurred there—all to him manifestations of the electric fire. singular, indeed, as even to seem “to be of the same nature’ with that of thunder and lightning.” This was the first suggestion of the identical character of lightning and electricity. Whether in him there would have been an earlier Franklin 10 one knows, for hiere his life and his experi- mente ended coincidently. The two great discoveries of conduction and insulation are enough to win a full measure of fame for any man, no matter how tardily they may be recognized as his, for the endless cobwebs of wire and their glass supports which carry the signals of the telegraph all over the face of the earth, or the slender copper thread im- bedded in the rubber which serves as u path for the current under thousands of miles of ocean, are but repetitions of Gray's puck- thread line with its sitk support. g HONEY FOR THE LADIES. Cosmetics used here cost £40,000,000 a year. Cloth bonnets are more popular than those of felt, and anovel trimming for these is the material Inid on with the edges raw, with an applique garniture above of bluck and gold. White crepes de_chine, flowers embroidered in natural colors, are beautiful for cvening dresses. ‘Ihexe crepes comein forty-five inch width, with a hem- stitched hein. Chiffron mousseline is a new material in- troduced in Paris during the summer and appearing hore: this fall, It is a eriikled sitk muslin, and adds oné more to the list of airy-fairy fabrics. mong the most stylish _and elegant capes are those of black mink skins with the fash- fonahle Queen Anne collar, the front of the cape being fitted to the figure. lhe English red coats, the gay red-cloth Spanish jackets for afternoon drives, and the dark Spanish surouts and redingotes for walking are much in favos, Some of the handsomest toques and bon- nets have crowns of cloth or felt, studded with steel or jot, with the brims of velvet, andgiltor steel ornaments are used in pro- fusion. The simplest and most popular style of street costume for ordinary wear has the clinging skirt of straight breadths, with a jaunty short jacket in reefer style, or a three- quarter length coat. A correspondent notices that the majority of literary ladies seem to affect certain colors for their gowns. It is also thought that they mostly work in brown studies, and prefer their books to be read. A~ superstition lile- wise exists that they affect blue stockings. A new device, which will be_of interest to hosicry dealers in the United States,has been recently patented in_several European coun- tries and en application for a patent is on file in the American patent office, It consists of a combination_ stocking and garter made by ruuning a rubber clastic band through a welt at the top of the stocking. The ends of the elastic uppear outside of the welt,and may be arranged to fasten with a button'or a fancy clasp similar to those used on kid gloves. Among the fashionable rough goods are cameD’s hair and English serges in long clan tartans, and cheviots with fine brilliant lines of crossbars of vague, indefluite colors charmingly blended. The plaids are used by oung women for skirts and diagonal drapor- s, with jersoys of cuirass bodices of (;‘um dark fabric when a plaid corsage is not liked. The smaller figured cheviots are beautifully made up by French and English designers, with lapped surplice bodice and velvet plas: teous, the skirts in round full English fash- with sprays of ion. Faced cloth and storm serges in plain colors and largely imported by wholesals houses for autumn and winter costumes, ‘These come in all the silver-blue shades, the plum blue, with purple in it; the dahlias or red plums, the porcelain green with less of vellow and morc of blue than formerly, yet wholly different from the drake's neck or eacock shades ; the cigar browns with much vellow, the Vandyke and mahogany tints of reddish cast, anda new vieux rose that is the exact davk purpleved shade of aJac- queminot rose the next duy after its cutting from the bush Of all the rich women of America Mrs, Philip D. Armourof Chicago is the house- keeper par excellence. She is a complete mis- tress of all that tends to make howme best, most, beavtiful and most attractive, She is particularly well versed in theartof cooking, and many of her leisure moments are deveted to originatibg and preparing choice dishes, Mrs. Armour's recipes are famous among her friends for their never-failing excellence and are in great demand among all the wealthy young matrons of her acquaintancg. Thert are thonsands of yonug women be- tween the ages of sixteen ‘aud twenty-three in New York city who are working ten hours adey for 81,82 and & a week, These are the salaries paid girls who run checks, but the other class hold more responsible positions, Some of them stem tobacco “leaves, others work in cracker factories, clothing shops and dressmaking establishments,some wrap cura- mels in papers. wash watchcases, tag goods and check off boxes of merchandise. Buu the great majority are clerking in the large retail stores, where the willingness of comfortably circumstanced girls to work for small pay has produced an over-supply of labor. How these dependent little womeén manage to pre- serve their moral and physical life is beyond conjecture, ————— A Charming Memory, No improvement have been so marked, s0 signally perfect in attainment, in the last fev years, as the numerous luxuries which have been introduced in transeon- tinental travel, Instead of harrowing recollections the tourist now has left to him when his journey is completed, u charming memory of perfect train se vice and palace dining cavs, The ar- rangements this winter for dining cars on the Union and Southern Pacific roads is something far in advance of anything in that hitherto attempted. . | R Eiliote. for the Amorican ADDITIONALSPORTING NEWS, What Joe Murphy Says, President Thurman of the American a¢ ciation hias not made many friends in the vi- cinity of Chicago by his bold declaration mado here that he would oppose any attempt made by the Western association to secure equal representation with the league and as- soclation in the national agreement. While this city has no direct connection with the Westorn association, is seems to be the ren- dezvous for its playors and oficers and it draws the greater partof its players and equipments from here. As a rosult the sym pathy of all in this locality is with the West- ern in its attempt to rise to the digni of a major league. | see no reason why it should not be given equal rights with the associ- ation and league, Even the most ardent ad- mirers of the former body will not declare that it was a much stronger organization than the Western in any particular last season. The Western had “an evenly balanced cir- cuit, with a majority of its clubs more than holding their own financially, aud it was con- ducted with more credit to itself than has been the association the past two years. Can the American say truly that it had two clubs 10 1ts circuit that cleared expenses last sea- son! Tthinknot. It was an unovenly bal- anced aggregation of Internatioual league and Assoclation _cities, and in every particular, except poseibly playing strength, was infer: ior to the Western, w it has " the assur- to dub “a minor league.’* Mr, Thurman may succeed i his ends to make the Ameri- can a stronger body than it has ever been in it history. Suppose he does! How much will it surpass the Western? The latter is as firmly established as the other, and to my mind should be accorded full righ It has no Von der Ahes, Barnies, ete,to make themselves and the ' league thoy represent ri- diculous. Besides, in Mr. Krauthoff they have as able a president as Mr. Thurman, s the latter will probably find out if he comes against the westerner in any discussion. Arbund the Office Stove. Pitcher McNabb has again signed Denver, while the deluge, Mr. Flood, been released from reservation, Hawes of Minneapolis and Eddie anof Lincoln are at Lowell, Mass., both pining for a slice of advance. Tim Hurst has never been even thought of in connection with the management of the Omahas, Minneapolis need 1ot worry over the Gate City's chances next year, she will be in it up to the neck. Billy Hart, Lincoin’s stellar pitcher, “sticking” type in the Times-Star oftice, Cin- cinnati. Judging from Billy’s *‘stick’ work out here last summer he must be up among the best “comps’” of the Queen City. Manager Cushman of Milwaukee opens up a billiard hall New Years which he will en deavor to make the ball players headquar- ters. Haven't heard whether there is a fau- cet connection or not, but it is probable, Van Horn of Denver is aftor “Chippey” MecGarr and Young Fournier of last season’s Bostons, It would be Fournier than any- thing that has yot happened if Van securos the versatile Chippey. The St. Paul Pioncer Press fixes the makeup of Milwaukoe's club for next season as follows; Thoruton, Griffith, Clausen and Benwick, pitchers, two right-handers and two left-handers: Westlake and Kreig, cutchers; a new man for first base; Welch, second base; Alberts, third base; Schoch, short stop and captain ; Poorman, right field ; Pettit, center fleld; Dalrymple, left field, with an extra ivfielder, Elme with has he doesn’t know whether Auson willuse him next year or not. Hesays he hasn't heard from Anson since the season closed, and as the Chicago club will have CIiff Carroll, Duffy, Ryan, Wilmot and himself s outfielders he 'is “likely 10 go somewhere else. Foster says he'd rather play with Miuneapolis than anywhere else, but supposes it is impossible to get back into the good graces of the bavon. The king is passing away the winter hours husking corn on his father's farm at Minnetaha, According to Mr. Krauthoff the Kansas City club still has a bona fide claim on Jack Pickett, but he says that he does not want Pickett. Hedoes want Sowders, who was taken from him by Johnme Ward. He told me recently that what he wanted more than anything else was a short stop and 1o get a good one the Kansas City club would be willing to formally release Pickett and Sow- ders. Mr. Krauthoff says that the money paid by the Wagners for’ Pickett was simply the costs of the suit and a bonus for its dis- mussal and that Pickett has never been re- leased from reservation. They haveno in- tention, however, of playing Pickett on the Cowboy team, While all the magnates have been striving to settle matters they have notgiven so much attention to players, and as a result & western manager has crept into the camp and_signed one of the best pitchers in the late Pee L., and, from all accounts, will be able to hold him. The club is Minneapolis and the player is Gumbert of the Boston team. The Minne- apolis people got an inkling that Gumbert wanted to play in tho Western association, and they found out that he was not under re. serve by any league, and so signed kim Whether or not the contract was conditional or not is not known, but the chances are that it is absolute, and that if Boston has an as- sociation team Gumbert will not bo a member of it. This is prettysure to be thecase should Mr. Krautoff succeed in his scheme of getting the Western association admitted to full membership i the national agreement. Curry Foley, the Sporting Times' excellent correspondent from Boston, suys in his last: am sorry I disappointed’ Sandy Griswold on the Louisville story, but he muist bear in mind that I was not in the league at that time; and even the men who were playing with the Louisville crooks did not know how they fixed things, nor did they ever know that they were crooked until the men were expelled. Craver was always under sus- picion, but like others, nothing coula be roven against him until the time of the Louisville exposure, I have no doubt but what O'Leary told Mr, Griswold a more in- teresting story than the one that I penned, but I gave facts and O'Leary did not. Dan O'Leary knew nothing whatever about the Louisville men, nor he ever meet one of them until they were ex- pelled. O'Leary was playing away up in the wilds fof Minnesota (Min- neapolis) at that time (1876-1877), and the only one he ever knew was Devlin, with whnom he got acquainted in New York state during the season of 1878 when he (Devlin) was working hard for reinstatement. played with O'Leary the year after the men were expelled and he did” not know or claim 1o know anything about the case. O'Leary has a memory like an oyster—it's always asleep—and the fact that he cannot remem- Dber half of the funuy scrapes he has been the hero of during his checkered ball career, shows that he would be a_mighty poor au- thority for a man to bank his movey upon. Misceilaneous Sports. Turkey shooting on the beach across the river this arternoon. T'here will be a cocking main, seven battles, #10 @ battle and $2) on the main, at Rowles' road house this afternoon. Ed Rothery has just received by express a coop of seven magnificent black-breast reds, which will be **ordered” for introduction n the pit later in the winter, Jack Prince has been telling western men ¢, in days of old, when times were —chiily, 0,000 spectators, and that ho believes the same thing will be repeated in Denve O Jack! O Jack! The “ladies’ safety starter” is among the novelties in ’cycling suntivies across the water. By means of this device a mder can muke a standing start without dificuity by placing one foot on the floor and the other on the pedal, when taking the saddle. After a n-nl.lu shove the saddle will spring automat- cally into position. Frank Parmelee has received direct from England & new 7 pound hammerless Greener, price $500, and will make immediate rations looking to a contest with J. A, field cup, em- blematic of the championship of the country, Perhaps a orief sketch of the Kansas Ciiy champion will interest local trap shots. It follow Elliot was born _in Mansfield, 0., Ju 55, and 1s the sori of Dr., R. Elliott, who moved from Maustield at the be- ginning of the late war to southern Illinols, known us Egypt, and after the war moved o Kansas, where Elliott lived until he married, when he moved to Missouri, ultimately sot- tling in Kansas City about five years ago. Elliott is five feet te % in height and ghs 185 pounds. He bas been always @ ong advocate of the organization of the western sportsmen for the protection of game and the elevation of sportsmanship, It et of his life to ex: field shot. He has | personal effort to encourage gentlema kucl. in lndividual contests uud W do away with the wranyun’ that has characterired so many of them, and he will always suffer de. feat at the trap from a skillful ovonent rathor than gain success by collusion in anys thing dishonorable. His matches are alway up and up. He is the owner of and control Bl Shootlig park, where all reputable sportse men are welcome. - Dr.Birney. nosoand throat. Beebldg. htm~imy Statisties collected abroad show that for short distances, as 1,000 yards, wire cables furnish the most efficient” means of transmit- ting power, but for greater distances, as 5,000 vards, electricity is by far the least wasteful of all methods, PROCLANATION. By order of his Royal High- ness there will be given at the “oliseumn, New Year's Eve, December the j3ist, a grand Carnival Masquerade and Fancy Dress Ball. His Royal Highness, King Folly, hereby commands all persons in Doug- las County, including South Omaha, Council Bluffs and Omabha, to lay aside dull care on the above evening and ap- pear at the Coliseum to partici- pate in the festivities. The Regent Duke of Figaro and Horatio Giggles, Chancellor of the Palace of Laughter, will usher out 1890 and usher in 1891, Good ' luck, happiness and prosperity in store for all who attend our Carnival and Masquerade, New Year's Eve., December 3ist, This will be grandest, most fantastic and elegant affair ever given in the West, The Coliseum is being especially decorated by an stern artist for this occasion, Two bands of selected artists will furnish the music. Come and welcome prosperous 1891, Rejoice again in the defeat of prohibition by celebrating and feasting. In order to encour- age our subjects to come in beautiful costumes, his Royal Highness has appointed three judges, who will give to the most comical, elegant and best represented character masks, $500.00 in valuable prizes, Carnivals are very popular in Paris, Rome, Venice, Kansas City, Lincoln and Council Bluffs. In order to give my subjects a chance to enjoy and blow themselves I have in- structed the Mystic Circle to spare no expense, but to make this Omaha's first carnival a dream.. Gentlemen'’s ticket, $2.00. Lady’s ticket, $1.00, Family Boxes seating 8 per- sons, $15.00, The street rail- way company will run cars all night. [ Signed] His Royal Highness, By Horario GIGGLES, Chancellor of the Palace., i150’ THE OPPORTUNITY == ——0F THE SEASON! TO facilitate matters, we have divided our immense stock of fine custom made SUITS AND OVERCOATS into four (4] lots and marked them at prices that will insure a speedy S50 E want to call your attention to the SUITS AND OVERCOATS /we are offering at the |abovenamed price. Look in our window; come in and we will show them to you. Remember the price, $15.00. T st Ena | Puper, Wail slontaing 1 o, P. WINDHEIM, 0616 5. 16th Street, Omabay and Paporbang an n well ol KING FOLLY,—