Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 16, 1891, Page 3

\ 4 - - Ve THE HE OMAHA BEE COUNGIL BLUFFS, OFFICE, NO. 12 PEARL ' o T elivered Ly Carrler in uny part of the City H. W, TILTON, - =« =« MANAGER TELEPHONES: Pusiness Office, No. 1k Night Editor, No. % e— MINOE MENTION, X.Y. P Co. Couneil Bluffs Lumber Co.. eoal. Craft’s chattel loans, 204 Sapp block The veteran firemen are preparing fora May pole party on Muy 1. Regular meeting of th tion, A. A. S. R, this evening. dash Martin Yearington has made application to be sent to the old soldiers’ howe at Marshall- town, A decree of divorce was granted yesterday by Judge Thornell in the case of Flaherty vs Fu.aherty, Another evening session was held last evening in the district court room in the dam- agesuit of Vaughn vs O'Neill, Mr. and Mrs, Pattorson entertained a large number of ir friends last ning at a v party at their residence, 504 Sixth street. There w ral bad cases of the blues in the fire department yesterday on account of the outcome of Dempsey vs Fitzsimmons. Leonard Everett has been appointed to fill the vacancy in the vestry of St. Paul's chiurch which was caused by the death of the late Horace Everett. ~ Thn report of the city libraran for last month shows the number of hook-takers to have been 8,261, There were 4,350 visitors and 2,960 books taken, A vordict was rendered for the defendant in the 22000 damage suit of Graham vs the Northw n raflw which has been on trial in superior court. A meeting of the Veteran Firemen's asso- clation will be held this evening at Rescue hose house No. 8. Election of officers other important business will be transac A special mecting of Excelsior 250, Ancient Order of. Free and L will be held this evening for des »¢, Visiting brothers are invited to be present, The three-months-old daught er of M Mrs, T. M. died morning a lung troubles. The funeral oce day afternoon a2 o'clock from th 810 Avenue F Thomas Messon, the express driver for Phelps Brothers of Omaha, who cun into Georzo W, Lipe's buggy Wednesd leased by Justice Patton yesterd - plover crossed the river and settled with Mr, Lipo for the damage his ‘man had done to the vehicle. The rise in rates which yesterday from the Bu at Chicago did not show up to any great o tent. An rin the teleeram ‘which was sent to the local officials notifying them of the change in the sale of tickets” was respousible for the false report. The Covell electric hight case is still drag- ging along in the supecrior court, althoy theattorneys had hoped to finish yeste The defendant was placed upon the st the afternoon and was put l‘\ aha e cross-questioning by Emmet Tinley, lasted until time for adjournment. Louie C. Zoff, the fifteen-year-old son of Murs, Martha Zoff, died at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday night, of paralysis of the brain. The death was very sudden, the hoy being poparently in good health untii buta short g badore vfs death, The funeral will oc- urat 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the family residence, 15 Harrison streot, The appraisers completed their work yes- terday afternoon on the stock of H. Biseman & Co. The timated the value of tho stock at &1,104. What step will next be taken it s impossible to say, as the attornoy in the case claims that he himself doesn't know. No settlement is pending vet, and un- less something of that_kind turns up in the near future the stock will be sold. The guardianship contest over Rosa Holden occupied the day in the district court. The child was put upon the stand yesterday after- noon and questioned concerning her home at Mrs, Gardner's, She stated that she was al- was treated well there and preferred to re- main with Mrs, Garduner rather than with Alexande The taking of testimony was completed and the attorney's argiments begun James S, Ha died Wednesday night at St. Bernard's hospital at the age of sixty- five years. The deceased had lived in Coun- il Bluffs over thirty-five years and was well known. He had been receiving treatment for paralysis at the hospital about two years and it was this disease that caused his death. “The funeral services will be held at f past. 8 o'clock tois morning in St. Xavier's Catho- lic charch. Judge R, C, Hubbard, who co ncluded his terin of ofice on Tuesday evening as com- Juander of Union Veteran Legion, No, S, went out of office with the regret of all the anembers of the organization, During the past two years he has been commander of Abe Lincoln post as well as Veteran or Azation, and so well has he conducted the af- fairs of the orders that not 8 whisper of criticism has been heard. A warrant was issued in Justice Patton’s court yestorday for the arrest of Frauk Kane on the charge of wilfully disturbing a religious congregation. C. B, Howard was the prosecuting witness, he belng one of tho assaulted on t the Fifth avenue Methodist church, whon Kane held his seauco there on the 16th of last November, After Kane has al on the charge of disturbing the peace the new ease will confront him, The re| published in the mewspapers it the fanily of Mr. Hommermeister, liv- ¢ at 417 Bast Washington avenue, wero in & destitute condition owirg to the enforce- ment of quarantine vales during the sickness aund death of their little child, was entirely without foundation, The family and friends are very much annoyed on account of the publicity given the matter and ask to have it corrected through Tur Bee They arein comfortable circumstances and ask only the -Ku.puny of the public and their friends in the loss of their child, who did not die of diphtheria. Today is the time set for the fnauguration of the strike among the telegraph operators ana station agents of the Milwaukee railroad. There are only two men at this point who will be affected py the strike, viz, the day aund night operators at the yards. At T o'clock this morning they will retire from their posts and give up their placesto their successors. The strike grows out of the cut in wages which was instituted some we ago all along the line. The committee which Wwas seut cast for the purpose of inducing the company to reinstate the old schedule of wages Was unsuccessful, and the present strike was agreed upon. Chairman Casper of the fire the coun Lodge of Perfee- Work in Ka. rred residence. was_ordered for fugton headquar which a committes in il has ordered an_investigation into s made against Pireman Nicholson Alderman Swmith at the mecting on Wedn ¥ night. In talking about the mat- ter yestsrday Casper expros the opivion that somebody outside of the firo department *'had it in” for soveral membors of the vari- ous companies, and intimated toat he was not sure that they did nothave the same kind of a feeliug for the chairman of the commi tee. The department scems to be getting” along much smoother than some peoplo de. sire to see it. The investigation will, how- ever, be conducted impartially, and if = Fir man Nicholson has been doing wrong he will probably be required to givea very explicit explanation. C—— The best 250 hose in the country is to be found at the Boston Store, Council Bluffs, either in gents half hose, in wool or cotton in ladies' ull wool or cotton, in misses all ‘wool or cotton. Boston Store, Council Bluffs. ——— Royal Arcanum, The regular semi-monthly meeting of Fi- delity council, Royal Arcanum, will be held this evening at 7:80 o'clock. Among other important business which is to be transacted is the installation of the following officers : Regent, G, M. Gould; vice rles Beno; orator, C. L. Felt; secretar £ Cav.n ; treasurer, A, W. Rickman ; guide, O 1). Haign; warden, H. Anderson; sentry, A. g)nlrymrm; past regent, I'. B. Warner; trus- #tees, J. Patterson, I, E. Cavin, W. H." Rob- anson, S —— The most complete line of blankets and comforters, hosiery and underwear in the clty is at the Boston Store,where good goods, low prices, cash and one price to all1s their rule, Bostou Store, Council Bluffs, THE NEWS IN THE BLUFES. ! | Property Owners Threaten to Enjoin Tm- provements Asked for by Mr, Paul, THE UNION DEPOT SCHEME STILL ALIVE A New Confidence Game—Harrs Yields to Fate and Matrimony ~To Air the Trottiers— Minor Mention. J. W, Paul, the weil known Omaha real estate man,was in the Bluffs yesterday after. noon with a fuil sized grievince. He is the owner of a large tract ot land in thenorth- western part of the city which he purchased for speculative purpose Among other things he owns all the land on both sides of Twentieth street from avenue G to the leveo, and the majority of it from avenue G south to Broadway, He has been working for some time past to engincer an ordinance through the council providing for the grading of the entire street from Broadway to the river, He at last succeeded, and the ordinance was passed authonizing the raising of Twenticth street to permanent grade as far as Avenue G, and to & temporary grade from Avenue G to the river, T'he contract was let and everything was apparently passing along swim mingly, But when it came to sien- ing the contract and beginning the work, tho other men who owned property in tnat viciu- ity set up a he They didn’t want to go to the trouble and expense of filling up the street away out there where, as the said, no- body ever went. In fact, they gave it out cold that if any attempt was made towar goiugon with the work they would hav injunction issued Mayor Macrae had not yet s d he consulted C 't in regzard to the matter. In accord- ith Mr. Stewart's ad he post- poned signing the contract until the attorney should have time to look up legal authorities. In the meantim e work is at a stand- ill, and Mr. only alternative is to put on a smiling face and give the Council Bluffs real estate own vaking over the coals for trying to stop public improvement, igned the con- Attorney It in Sl Alive, A new tack has been adopted in the con- troversy between the citizens aud the rail- way companies over the depot facilities in this city. A petition has been prepared and signed by the mayor and the board of alder- men and will bo presented 10 the state rail- commissioners asking them to step in and compell the railroads to provide decent places for their passengers to sit whilo they T'he petition states that Council Bluffs is n city of about thirty-five thousand inhabi tants and that niue railroads run into the ¥, of which six have no passenger depots in the city, and no place provided for the safety, comfort and convenience of the citi zens and the general traveling public, The commissioners are then aslked to take tho e legal steps to compell these six comuanies, viz, the Chi Burlington & Quiney, the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Coun- cil Bla the _Stoux City & & Northwe rn to wger depots for their sev- and the Chic eract suitable pas eval ronds in this city. Who drafted tha pe some doubt, but whoev proceeded upon the theo depot seheme which las men so many slecpless boomed ition is a matter of was apparently y that the union sed the business nights and has been by “the newspapers with such dos al, has fallen through forgoodand all, ength of time which has clapsed since the public was last informed by the depot committee that the union depof was now a sure thing, probably had something to do toward bringing about the present action. Tt was a matterof considerable comment on the streets yesterday that the wayor and aldermen should sign a petition which could only be surmised to be pointing toward the cousummalion of the union depot enterprise. The petition is worded that the ercction cither of aunion depot, or of several local do- pots, may be what is wauted. It reads, how- ever, as though the local depots would suit just as well, and maybe a little better, Ttis stated that a similar petition is being pre- pared for general circulation among the busi- ness men, Bargains in blankets and comforters at the Boston store, Councii Bluffs, this weck, Horse blankets and lap rooes at cost at ‘Theo. Beckman's, 227 Main strect. The Foy Was Too Sharp for Him. Wednesday afternoon a young man entered Toller's grocery store on Lower Main street and ordered a small bill of groceries, His purchases amounted to 24 and he re- quested the grocery man to send enough change with the delivery boy to break a $20 bill, which was the smallest bill his wife had, He left orders to have the goods sent to No, 210 BlufY street as quickly as pos: stufl vas fixed up and tho boy was given $i6 in change and dispatched to the address ven. When he arrived there the customer waiting at the gate. “Give me the nd I will go in and get the §20 bili," d the fellow the boy jumped cut Th GuUest was 8o novel the 1 suspicions and he refused to part with the cash until he got hold of the bill that needed to be changed. His suspicions were not allayved when the fellow protested that they had the diphtheria in the houseand his wife could not see anybody and the boy must not go in. Finally the boy asked him to as- sist in carrying the baskel to the rear porch where his wife could hand out the bill with- out exposing any person. The fellow took hold and helped carvy the basket around, still insisting on the” boy giving up the change. When the porch was reached mat- ters came to u climax and the fellow broke and ran It was simply a new confidence scheme and the caution of the boy prevented it being suc- cessfully carried out. The people living at the house ind ordersd no grocerics and the fellow w who expected to get the money into his possession upon tha pretense of getting the bill changed aud then skipping while the boy waited. J.C. Bixby, stoam heating, sanitary en- gineer, 203 Mo rriam block, Council Bluits of the that it Pomona Brand Hoarhound tablets will re lieve your couh. Pomona stamped on each tablel. ~ Ask your druggist or candy deaier for them, To Air th ro*ters, A scheme is now on foot which will be of interest to those who ure fond of fast horses and who enjoy trying their speed. Avenue G is to be raised up to grade from Fifteenth to Thirty-second street, provided the sent of adjacent property owners tained and made wto a The city now has no one can spced his horse with. out fear of molestation by blued-coated of- ficials except West, Broadway, aud that being paved it is altogether to hard on the animal I'he new road will not be paved. Mr, J. W, Paulof Omaha is one of the originators of the plan, but he is backed by a large number of Council Bluffs ~ and Omaha men. The scheme has been considered before, but whenever it has been tried the country in the vicinity of the tract which bad been seleet as the field for operutions has built up so rapidly that it had to be abandoned. The names of the property owners are mow being secured and every effort willbe made to gain their cousent to the grading of the street. con- an be ob- race track, place where Tho Boston store, Council Bluffs, is show- ing special value in blankets and Gomforters for this week. Special prices on ladies and gents under- wear this week at the Boston Store, Council Bluffs, He Married the Girl. Mrs. McComb, whose connection with the George Harris-Maggio McComb affair was noticed in these columus a few days ago, ap- peared before Justice Patton yesterday morn- ing and withdrew the charge of seauction which she bad mude against Harris. The latter, after skipg the sceae of his troubles on this sido of tho river, weat to Omaha and bad been living thero in peac until —an officer appeared upon the scene with a warrant for his ar rest. When confronted in cowrt he admitted that his claim to have h mar riage cortificato was just s joke. Ho said he had nothing against the girl, aud w to marry her right then and th would oniy give him time to get a licenseé So the license was obtained and the two hearts that bad been one to all outward up- pearances for o | ast were legally united by Judge Hoisley et The Council Bluffs Mu: its business at 5 Broad ent management of J. C. 1 tae public for its past patronuge we hope Lo meet our old customers again, as well as many new ones. Covxcit Breees Musie Co. Council ©1pfs Good Enoneh for Hin A strange sort of & rumor got into circu- lation by some means a few days ago that Judd Wehis & Co,, the heaviest real estate owners and deulers in Council Bluffs, were thinking of closing out there interests here and investing there lareo capital in Chicago. The rumor had evidently been created by some person unfricndly to the firm. It was «dited by the public, but it 3 o pretext by the Bk reporter for a call upon Dr. C. B. Juad, the principul member of the pioneer boomer of the cit “1 have heard . “but I thought it to contradiet I can the fact that 1 have ago for the handling g from © Co, will continue ¥ under the pr nge. ‘Thanking opened an office in Chi of my ecle Lelt business, which has #rown into immeuse magnitude, and <olely upon the merits of the articles. There may be plenty of pilt-edged Chicago investments but perfectly satistied with the opportunities presented i Council Bluff where the salety is us great as placing your money in gobernment bonds, and infinitely superior to Chicago realty on account of triply superior results “We have not touched a picce of property in Council Bluffs that has not been the means of making us money, and we have built homes for hundreds of people in the city who aro not ouly thoroughly satistied with them in every way but who could seil at an advance todav that would bring them abetter interest on their investments than they could have found in any other divection. “We have invested of dollars in Councd ¥ pust yeurs, aud we aro so well isfied witli theé outlook for the that our avrangements for the comin provide for much hoavier investments. have built some of the bost resid Council Bluffs, which we 3 terms and at prices that ar less than tho people conld have built. themselves with the best figures to be obtained from contract ors and ull cash payments. Wo ar to do th he reason that we av sale dealers in lnmber und building mate and furnishing all the material and employ* ing our own men to do the work we can pive better figures than any contractor can give. The character we are buiiding are all first we will erect, any kind of a purchaser may desire, let him farnish the plns, sclect’ his lot, and build his house far cheaper than he can do it and give him his own time to pay forit. We are gomg into the business much more extensively than before, and will increase our fucilities the purchase of building material from st hauds. We are so well satisfied that Council Bluffs is all_ri are suro we will furnish haidsome, modcrn homes for many more people beforo the year ends. f thousands in the but house th The American been promp and parcel de s 110w prepared to give al attention to express nd wood of 0. B. Fuel Co., Telephone 135, e FERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, R. S, Ryan left for Denver last evening, . J. Chambers has returned from Texas, Frank Stubbs has returned from a western trip. Henry C. Gleselman has gone to Macon City, Mo., tolive. Irank S, Pusey and wife left for Denver yesterday afternoon. Miss Lenore Garretson of Osceola is visit- ing Mrs. J. J. Steadman, W. E. Hazen, examiner for the department of justice, of Washington, D. C., is in the city. Mrs. Woodhurst and Miss Carrie Hein- sheimer of Glenwood were in the city yester- day, the guests of Miss Cora Woodbary, A. B. Cline returned yesterday from Den- ison, where he went to attend the sickbed of Mrs. Cline’s mother, who died last Tuesday. W. D, Kirkland has returied from Des Moines, where he attended the state conven- tion of Modern Woodmen, Mr. C. G. Saun- ders of this city was appointed alternato dele, othe head camp which meots in Omaha in 1893 Mr. Johnson R. Carrothers of this city has just returned from Des Moines, where ho was inattendanco at the state camp meeting of the Modern Woodmen, 1t has bheretofore been the custom of the order to appoint deputy head cousuls promiscuously, but under the new arrangement there’ will be but ono appointed for each con- ssional _ district, in each stato where aternity is represented. Mr. Carrothers has received the uppointment for the Ninth congressional district, und while present at the meeting in Des Moines ho had conferred upon him the hounor of being called upon by the head consul to exemplify the secret worl of the orderto the entire ‘state dclegation. He has also recently been apointed agent of the Woodmen's Accident association. The best, French cook in western Towa is at. the Hotel Gordon, Council Bluffs, — The Council Bluffs Paint and Oil Co, has ovened up under supervision of assignee. Cash patronage solicited, ——— After the Railroads, Considerable fault is being found by the ownersof property on South Seventhand Eighth streets with the neglect of the Rock Island and Milwaukee railway companies to raise their tracks at their intersection with those streets. An ordinance was on tho verge of passing about a year ago com- pelling these companies to raise their tracks in order that the streets might be brought up to grade. The companies asked the couneil to wait until spring and they would do it of their own accord, The ordi- nance was accordingly allowed to rest, and the railroads did the same. The jumping off place of five or six feet still remaigs where it was then, and there are s yet no sigus of it being removed. Great success, Reliable g Fair dealin Bottom price At C. B, Jacquemin & Co., No. 27 Main street —~— What a Man is Made Of. Huxley's table of weightsof the differ- ent parts of the average human body, often roferred to asamost interesting compilation, has now been largely su- pevseded by a table prepared {)y a 'rench chemist, which gives the pounds, ounces and grains of the different ele- ments in a human body of the average of 154 pounds, It is as follows: Elements. Lbs, Oxygen........ 1t Hydrogen .. Carbon. ... Nitrozen Phosphorus Calefum . Sulphur Chiorine Sodiuu (salt) Tron o Potassium. ... Magnesiaw Sillca Total.. 0z, G | ceveccenme occcrroctSonn! 5] A Good Chance for Grave Robbers. Within a few days past, at Vietoria, B. C., un Inaian burial has taken pluce in due and ancient form, and above ground on the reserve. Atthe head on cither side weve placed two white flags. Over the top of the wooden cover is spread a gray blanket; on one side of it is a oracked glass, and in front there is a gilt-framed mirror, near it being dis- posed hundkerchiefs and pieces of gay colored chintz. firm and the | OMAHA DAILY BEE 3 [T HAS A MONOPOLY 1N TIME, Millions Worth of It Sold"Ever; Year by the Wes'ern Union Telegraph Company. HOWIT IS RECKONED AND PEDDLED OUT, You Push a Button and Clocks Over the Country avo Reg- ulated to the Sun' Crossing, An One million dollars’ worth of time is sold by the Westorn Union telegraph company overy yeur, says Rene Bache in the Chicago Times. It enjoys what is practically a monopoly in the market- ing of this commodity in the United States, and a vigorous protest against it has been addressed to the government. Private astronomical observatories all the country complain that such business as they would otherwise do in of selling time is destroyed by it corporation. To make all this wry to explain that the big naval atory at Washington considers it an important part of its business to determine and give away to any one who chooses to ask for it abso- lutely correct time at noon each day. Experts pnid by Uncle Sam make the computation and press the button at pre- cisely 12 o'clock, thus communicating the hour to the various departments in the city. The Waestern Union is per- mitted to have its instruments in the room whence the message is sent, with an attachment to the button, so that the news is flashed directly from the ob- servatory, without even the aid of an operator, all over the United States; reaching oven so distant a point as San Francisco within the spuce of not more than one-fifth of a second—for such is the utmost twinkling required for the passage of an electric spark through 3,000 miles of wire. To accomplish this the telegraph company is obliged to take all other business off the wires, each day just beforo 12 o'clock. Threo minutes and a half before noon arrives operators in all parts of the country cense sending and recciving messag and devote their attention to attaching wires in such a manner as to establish unbroken connections from Washington with points in every section of the union to which the lines extend their ramifica- tions. A dozen seconds before the time bell is to strike, a few warning ticks come flashing along, and at tho very moment when the sun passes over the seventy-fifth meridian,a current gives a single throb from Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Pacifie, inform- ing an expectant ion of the time of day. Of course there is a difference of three hours between Washington and San Francigco, but that difticulty is got over by dividing the whole country into four perpendicular strips, cach strip, getting its clock by the time of the mer- idian that bisects it from north to south, This strip is always one hour later than the next stripto the east. When you get to Chicago you put the hands of your watch one ‘hour back; having reached Omaha you set them an- other hour rearward, and upon arciving in San Francisco, you find yourself still one hour in advance. In this way the noon signals sent out from Washington serve to indicate 11a. m. for Chicago, 10 a. m. for Omaha, and 9 a. m. for San Francisco, Now, the wuy in which the telegraph company makes money by distributing the time in this manner, is by selling it to the people all over the United States whoj have clock- and find it of importance to keep them right. In this manner it keeps cors rected by electricity to absolute solar time no less than 7,000 clocks in the city of New York alone. Kach clock is charged for this co $15 a year, which makes an income of $105,000 so derived from tho metropolis only, Doubtless quite $1,000,000 annually is ob- tained from the setting of clocks once a day in the populated centers, small and large in the union. All that the com- pany is obliged to pay for the time which it sells for so v yearly sum, is the costof maintaining its'instruments at the oflice in Washington. But it must be remembered that the cost of stopping telegraphic operations for four minutes in the busiest part of each day through- out the entire country is not inconside able. Novertheless, the profit is suf- ficiently great to cxcite the indignation of the private observatories, which wish to sell time themselves, against the Western Union. They tend that, although they are able to make and deliver an equally good and accurate time themselves, the pres- tige naturally attaching to government time drives their product out of the market and ruins the local trade thoy might otherwise find profit in. Who is going to buy time of them when the same commodity s to be purchased at a cheap rate from the national astron- omer? In response to their protest, ad- dressed to the secretary of the navy, the latter hus replied that anyone is wel- come to the same privileges “enjoyed by the Western Union company in' the gei- ting of time free of charge; the Postal telegraph for example, is welcome to put its own instruments in and flash the message of the button whithersoever it listeth, As things stand at present the government is glad to extend in any fashion the courtesies of the hour to 60,- 000,000 people and more particularly to secure the accurate dropping of the noon timeballs in all important seapor in order that mariners may be able to correct their chronoweters, This last was from the start the prime object of theservice, So far as the expenso of ob- taining perfectly adourate time is concerned, the Western Union or any other concern could establish and run an effective plunt at a first cost of $5,000 to 2,000 a year, The clocks that are set every noon in a thousand cities and towns by a single pressure of the button in Washington are equipped with a peculiar electric contrivance, so that the current passing ‘through them springs the hands of cuch timepiece simultancously to the ‘pbint of 12, The observatory does not réckon its time by the sun, bul by the so-called ‘‘fixed” stars which are so far off that their po- sition with relation to the eurth does not change uppreciably within a few months or years. Star time is the only true time, therefore. The oporator looks through a big telescope an; ches for a given star that he knows to cross the plane of the meridian. As it crosses he records what moment it d 80, 13 shown by a star time clock with a twen- ty-four-hour dial. Then he consults a printed table, that shows him at Just what number of hours, minutes and Sec- onds the star in question must actually have crossed the meridian plane. The table is right, and by as much us the star time clock differs “from it the latter is wrong. No attempt is made to set the star clock right, allowance being simply made in consequent caleulations for the error thus discovered, which amounts only to a fraction of a second in some days, Next the corrected time, as taken from the star clock, is re- duced to sun time, which requirves some ove figuring, inasmuch as the star yoar ono day longer than the sun yéar sun time or “standard” time clock stands close by, and the amount that this varies from the truth having been ascertained allowance is made for the ecror in send ing the noon stroke all over the country At tho observatory all the chronomet made for the navyare tested and rogulated before they nre sent out on vessels, cach one of which is supplied with three first-clnss chronometers, as well as one that is half used up, called a “hack,’ for carrying about and for rough sery generally. "It takes twenty-one weel of testing to properly regulate and prove a chronometer, and part of the trial consists in subjecting the instrument to the action of cold in an ice-box, and to heat communieated through steam pipes, Each chronometer, when given out, is accompanied by a chart telling just how itwill vary under certain temporatures, A curious hibit now shown at the observatory includes oight chronometers that went down in the great galo that swamped a fair part of Uncle Sam’s navy at Samoa. Their glasses are broken and their wolrs are 8o far used up that they are no good any longer. The astrono- mer of the National observatory, Prof. Hall, who made the famous discovery of the moons of Mars not long ago, spoke of those two interesting satelites as being each ubout the size of a forty-ncre lot. Revolving about the planet like two pretty little golden shuttles, one of them presents the phenomenon of travel- ing around more than threetimes as fast as Mars himself does. Thus is pro- duced a very surprising appearanco of things from the pointof view of the Mar- tian inhabitants, who see this rapidly moving moon seemingly rising in tho west and setting in the east, while its companion in reality circling in thesame divection with it ‘ata specd compara- tively slow, rises in the east and sets in the west. In this way both moons are scen in the heavens at once, one going one way and the other the other. They are doubtless dead spheres, like the one that pursued its endless journey around the earth, and are not supposed to be made of green cheese. It isan aston- ishing fact that these two moons of Mars, so recently discovered, were re- ferred to with much accuracy of descrip- tion by both Voltaire and Dean Swift in their satirical writings, thus anticipating astronomical science, at which their sarcasms were aimed, by a century It was all guess on their part, but assuredly one of the most remarkablo guesses ever made, Describ- ing his voyage to Laputa, which was in- habited by a people given over to the science of astronomy, Guiliver s “They have likewise discovered two lessor stars or satelites which revolve about Mars, whercof the innermost is distant from the planet exactly three of its diameters, and the outermost five of its diametors of the planet; the former olyes in the space of ten hours, and ter in twenty-one and a half hours.” Now, the fact is, as discovered only the other day, that Mars really has w6 moons, an inner and outer one. The diameter of Mars being a little over 4,000 miles, Gulliver’s estimate for the distance of the inner moon from the planet was about 12,000 mil whereas it is actually 10,000 miles away, Forthe outer moon Gulliver gives 20,000 miles as the distance, which is really only 15,000 miles, So he was only 2,000 miles off the fact asto one moon, and 5,000 miles us to the other. Gulliver men- tions the time of revolution for the inner moon as seven and a half hours; it is actually ten hours. The time for the outer moon is set down by the imaginary traveler at twenty and a half hours; in fact, it is a littlo over thirty hours. Pretty good for a guess at moons that never ~offered to human observers until a century later the slightest evidenceof their existence,* Voltaire described the Micromegas,an inhabitant of Sirius,who left the great dog star for a visit to the solur system. *“He traveled,” wrote the sutivist, *‘about 100,000,000 of leagues after leaving Jupiter. Consting by Mars, he saw two moons cireling around the planet, which have hitherto escaped the observation of astronomers on the earth,” Prof. Hall has named his moons Diemos and Phebos, after the at- tendants of Mars, who are spoken of in book xv., of Homer’s Iliad as helping to accoutre the god of war for conflict, He spake and summoned fear aud flight to ygke His ‘stecds and put his glorious armor on. Prol Hull says he has little doubt that Mars is_inhabited, perhaps by human beings like ourselves, Conditions there are suitable to such life and strongly re- somble those found on earth. Its mor eccentric orbit takes itat times in it journcy around the sun further away from that fireat source of heat,so that its winters must be moresevere; but cold is modified by atmosphere, and it is known that Mars has an atmosphere because clouds are frequently seen obsouring its surface, The planet, the diameter of which is one-half that of the earth, is about equally divided as to its aren be- tween land and wate Its poles are capped with ice and snow, and these white caps, plainly visible through the telescope, increase’in size in winter and diminish in the Martian summer. Prof. Hall has nodifficulty in seeing through the mighty telescope a$ the observatory the wonderful *canals” mapped out by Schiaparelli, the Milan astronomer, on the surfuce of Mars, These canuls, so- called, because they do not ook likeany- thing else in particular and also because they seem invariably to connect sea with sea, intersecting every which.way, must be several miles in width as well asthou- sands of miles in length. Whether they are great roads, canuls, bridges, or other sort of public works, there is certainly nothing approaching them in this world. But Prof. Hall does not think that they are artificial atall. Though entirely at a loss to explain them, he supposes they are - natural markings on the planet. The question whether other planets are inhabited s always an interesting one, Itis certain that the four great outer ones—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—cannot support animal life. Their density is small and their consistency more or less liquid and gaseous. Jupiter, the biggest of the planets, the diameter of which is more than ten times that of the earth, is a sun not yet quite extinguished and even now giving out heat. From time to timea spot appears upon its surfuce, which is a black hole in the midst of the fire, big enough to drop the earth into, Saturn is hot too. while Neptune and Uranus are 8o far off that nothing much can be ascertained about them, bheyond the fact that Uranus has four moons and Neptune one. There may be life on Venus and Mercury, though it must bo warm, inasmuch as Venus is a third nearer the sun than the earth, and Mer- cury is not halfso far away. All these planets, together with the sun around which they revolve, are tra ng with a veloeity uble directly north toward constellation Herculess. ~ Doubt. less the solar system on this mighty journey is pursuing the puthof a vast orbit around some central point un- known, Once it was thought that this point was Sirius, and againt that it wus Aleyone, in the Pleindes; but neither is true, Our sun and its system are but asmall affair altogether, anyway. W hat we cull the orb of day is only one of the size of Sivius,~ And even this lat- tor giant sun is far surpassed in magni- tude by over g0 meny olber suns that are wheeling through the heavens with their constellations in plain sight. To ney of To Soft Coa GOING LIKE What is ? e e e = e vt e ) Consumers. HOT CAKES. Our Celebrated Jackson, Illinois, COAL AT $4.50. Best: in the market. Nothing like it. Order carly and avoid the rush. A. T. Thateher, Telephone 48. make them more beautiful, these suns arve of different colors, Vega, in the constellation of the Lyre,has a huge sun of an exquisite blue tint, Siriusis white and Alpha—one of the several giganite suns in Orion—is blazing red. o DISARM THE INDIANS, A Plea for the Protection of Settlers in Northwest Nebraska. Cnaonoy, Neb., Jan. 14,-~To the Editor of Tug Bee: Itis stated én some of the papers that the Indian trouble is likely to be settlod without disarming the Indians. The argu- ment in support of this idea is that the In dians need arms in order to protect thoir per- sonand prope zainst unscrapulous whites, We micht askis not the strong arm of the law suflicient protection for Indians as well as for white men? Does the governm: en. courage the white man to goarined with a Winchester, a revoiver,a war club and a hatchetin order to protect nis property against lawbreakers, and to insure peace with his neighbors he fact i a white man would bo as prompt soverely pun- ished under the Jaw for ing with the ht of an Tndian as for violating any other law. The inate spiit of justice prompts men to protect the weak and fnorant against all who would take undue advantage of their condition. But put arms into the hands of the ignorant and vicious Indians and the notions into their heads that they may use them, and you will at ¢ «all sympathy and the sSpirit of protection and toleration withdrawn by the whites, and the two classes become enemies, each ever ready to mistrust aud take advantage of the other. 1 have lived in Nebraska unear the Indians for twenty years, and know the spirit of people of the northwest, and I will freely say that the idea of them taking advantage of uni- armed Indians, or to molest them in person or property, is false, The Indians have not a single grievance against the settler at this time. Thy notion held by the ofticers at Pine Ridee agency, that the In- dians need arms to protect themselves against the whites, was born in the ageney intime of war, when cowboys and scttlers showca a disposition to protect their prope: which cost them years of toil and privation, and their loved ‘ones agaiust the puinted, bloodthirsty robbers who were on the war: path and daily running off their stock and causing hundreds of settiers to abandon their homes, never to roturn, Because the settlers and cowbe disposition to get after the Tnd this matter before this whole populated, and all the y spent in building their homes is wors wasted, is no reason for supposing that they would molest the Indians in time of peac The fact is there is nothing for the Indians to shoot except white men and thei stock, and 1 have a nice ehromo for the army officer or government official who will give a single reasonabie excuse for permitting a larze body of suvage Indians, who are wards of the gove and ammu- nition in las It1s true the go ernment owes the Indians just what it agreed togive them, and 1t is the duty of the go ernment to see to it that the Indians aro not robbed by its ofiicials and contractors and innocent blood shed as 8 consequence Aud _ while government owes the Indians, who live in absolute idleness, much, it also owes something to the hardy pioncer settlers who havo paye the way for civilization by taking their lives iuto their own hands, and built schocls, churches and cities on the trackless prairies, All the settlers ask is that the Indians be disarmed, that it be made unlawful to sell them arms or ammunition, and that they be totally prohibited from hay- ing arms of any kind at any tine—at least until they have cheaper game to hunt than at present, The Indian question will not be scttled until the government. abandons the policy of keeping large bodies of them together.” If ributed thronghout the dif- tes in small settlements surrounded 3 people, with _whom they and their children _woula come in daily contact ina business und social way, th would v s0on lose the habits of the savage and in time become self-supporting citizons, present method of handling the Indi very unsatisfactory to all parties concerned, ‘The idea of keeping thousands of them to- gether, talking theirown language, making no effort at improvement or seif’support, keeping the savage nature alive by permit. ting them to chaso and kili the(r beeves on issue day as they would so many buffalos, would lead a ‘stranger to suppose we wero trying to keep them in their natural state as a relic for future generations to behold, Some are educated in the cast and then permitted to return and loaf in complete idleness and take on again the habits of the savage. Un less the Indians are disarmed people will leave here by the hundreds, as thoy will not live in a count adjicent to thousands of well armed savages who ace likely to again break out as soon as the soldiers are removed, The people at Washington seem to have plenty of time to investigate the matter as to whether Sitting Bull was murdered or not, and why a brave officer should not know the difference between o smooth-faced painted buck with & gun in his hand and a blanket over his head, and @& squaw in the same uniform but the don’t seem to have tried to inve gate the condition of the settlers who have been compelied to abandon their homes and stock on account of the Indian trouble. A little investigation would reveal the fact thut any half way settlement of this trouble will be fatal 10 1he prosperity of tho northwest But if the Indians are disarmed and properly supphied with the necessarles of life, this country will recover confidence and prosper- ity before the summer is come and gone, G. A EckLes, show a — How to Avold Choking. The substance which causes choking may either be at the top of the throat, the entrance to the gullet, or low: down, If at the upper partof the thro prompt action will often remove it, cither by thrusting the finger and thumb into the moutn and pulling the obstruction away, or, if it cannot be reached 80 as to pull it away, a picee of whalebone, a quill, or even u penholde —anything at hand--should be sei and pushed down asa probang, so s to forca tho substance down the gullet, Tickling the back of the mouth with a feather, 5o as to produce sudden retehing will sometimes dislodge it, or a sudden splashing of cold water in the face, which causes involuntary gasping. Should the patient become insensible before relief can be afforded, it must not be assumed for certain that death has taken place, and such remedies as dash- ing cold water inthe face and on the chest und appl ammonia to the nos- trils should be continued until medical ald ar A Littie Boy's Courage. A boy seven years old who died of diphth . Adele, Quebee, lust week, displayed remarkable courage Sitting on a chair near the stove, he 114 Main Street SPECIAL NOTIOES. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Try Dr. Miller's home troate K10 saanag,. RAth I LAd r. Miller's pile pistiles: palonloss ul graarantecd tocure, Forsale i Connell Bluffs and Omaha only by Mrs. A A uith, NS, I3t st and Mes, G, E. Higging, 1016 Leavenworth'st., Omaha, Kind by young k00d refers ences, » Beotthouse, N, Maln st., Counell Blulvs. JOXCHANGED Thre 4idouble Paisle shawl with W m Royal Arcanun onnight of Decemher 27, 1800, AT Stophienson, 1S Washing now “dark centol Wil ety moavenue, and | et their own Salary 80 s0e T Coune for branch off nd - commissiol No. 607 Willow avenu, WANTED A #5 per month curity roquired el Bfufs, OWA furims for sale. als fruit | & Van Patte (OR SALE or Rent—Garlon land, with bouses, by J. 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The poor little fellow had scarcely disposed of all his worldly goods whed he fell back in his chair and expired, e o Beating in Stencil Lettering. A novel stencil is now employed fop putting on large lettering on railway cars, The open spaces are convered with brass wire netting of about ones elghth inch mesh. A short, stiff brush is used, with which the workmun beats the stencil instead of rubbing it, and so gets a good body of thick whitelead upon the ear. This lettering is suid to keep bright much longer than that put on with the ordinary stencil, which "cannos be thoroughly brushed in without dans ger of the paint creeping under thq plate,