Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1891, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, How Consumers COan Obtain What They Want at Home Factories. NO USE TRYING TO STEM THE TIDE. of the Manufacturers and Consumers Assoclation About the Benefits Alr rived n the Move President While the majority of the public spirited citizons of Omaha avo thoroughly aroused on tho subject of homo patronage and are not only tatking it but practicing it also, it would be surprising if some who commence to use home made goods do not become dissatisfied with the experiment. Consumers must bear in mind that manu focturers in all localities differ widely in the style and quality of goods turned out. Some manufacturers make a speciaity of producing fancy and high priced gouds for the best trade; others manufacture goods of the very cheapest quality, lutended to catch the “cheap Johin'’ trade; still others follow a middle course and produce that are neitner of tho finest nor poorest quality, but intended to fill the demand for a good article of moderate price. Some manufacturors turn out all grades of goods which are disun- guished by different names or brands. Nebraska manufacturers are like all othiers, strive to turn out the best of goods, for which a fancy priceis asked, while others make tne cheapest kind of goods. 1t follows that when & consumer has beon using a certain brand of eastern mado goods and changes to home n he may get some thiag unsatisfactory, but it_does ‘ot follow that such goods us Lo requires are not mado hero. All that the consumer can do 18 to Inquire as to the relative value and quality of the output of bome factories and then select such brands as will meet his requirements. A good many consumers are inquiring of tho manufacturers themselves as 10 which are their best brands and what dealers in their vicinity handie them. Manufacturers report that thiey are recelving numerous calls overy day over the telophone such as, “*What is your best brand of flour ard what grocer in my part of the city handles it,” or I have been using —'s best castern laundry Soap, what brand of your make is similar to this and whero e ete, If the manufacturer can not be reached call up the secretary of the Manufactuzers and Consumers association, room 604, Brx building, and let him look the matter up. Tho muufacture of cigars deserves espe- clal encouragement, as there are only about thirty-flve cigarmakers employed here, as against 700 or 800 in St. Paul and Minneapo- lis, even Sioux City being akead of Omaha in this respect. A smoker who has been buying a certain braud of castern made goods cannot expect 10 step into a cigar store and get an Omaha cigar that will exactly suit his tasto the first time trying. There arc good, bad and inaifferont Omaha cigars, and bocause the smoker is so unfor- tunate as to got a bad one on tho start uo must not condemn ail Omaha cigars, but remember the number of eastern cigars that e has smoked and pronounced vile. The provorbiaily bad election cigars are all of eastern make. The smoker, in changing onto _home mado goods, must try the different brands of the different makers until ho finds o cigar that its him, . A man who would smoke one New York cigar and because it did not satisfy his taste, argue that New York did not ‘make good cigars, would bo looked upon as lacking in his reasoning powers. A rotail cigar dealor has been_telling his patrons the past week that he had put in some Omala cigars but_that they did not meot the requirements of bis customers. It the dealor was bonest 1 his statements tho probabilities uro that he bought a box or two of Omaha cigars, and being iguorant of the different brands, unfortunately got hold of something that' did not suit his class of trade. ‘The same dealer would have 10 admit that there are a good many brands of eastern made cigars that would not give any better satis faction It is roported that some retail dealers n different lines in the city have boen doing il that they could to discourage home patron age. They are men who havo heen making a living out of tho city and sending every sur- plus dollar that they could get Lo other cities. Yow that tho people are aroused on the sub jeot they dislike to give up the habit and sce their money remain in the city, but are try- fug to sten the tide of popular sentiment. Some of them say to their customers, “home mado goods are all right for some but you would r.ot want them,” putting an em- Phasis on the ‘“you” as if tho person ad- dressed required something a little different, from the general run of people. Auothor favorite excuse is that Omaha manufacturers ask more for their goods than outsiders, which is a deliberate misropreson- tation of the facts. Other dealers tell their customers that cor- tain brauds of goods aro made in Omana, whon thoy know that they came frem fac: torios soveral hundred miles away. These enemies of home patronago have any number of such excuses and misrepresenta- tions at hand and they deliver them in the st confidential and persuasive mauner pos- goods some is unfortunate, becauso these dealers by taking the opposite course might bo of great servico i building up the city from Ahich they are receiviug their support. It is unfortunate that any business men should bo B0 short sighted as to work against their own intorests in keoping money in the city close aud laboring men out of employment. It is unfotunato for thom because they will lose customers until they are forced out of busi- ness or compelled to fall into line with thoso who aro strivieg to build up the idustries of the city and state, “The movement in favor of home patronage is_only in its infanoy, and it 15 tho merost folly for any dealer or class of deniers to at- tempt to resist its progress. The Manufac- turers and Consumers association is forming and already has an ctive membership of 100 manufacturers, with as many moro who have signifiod a aesire to join and are only wait- ing for the secretars to call upon them and enroll their names. These manufacturers, with their 12,000 employes, representing 50,000 or moro consumers, backed by the thousands of men and women who are bound that Omaba shall become a great city and Nebraska o great state, constitute a power that will bo found irresistable. This is not taking into consideration the marufacturers located in other cities n the state, who are just commencing to send in applications for mernbership, and who will doubtless double the strength'of the organi- zation, Some of the Results. W. A. Page, president of tho Manufac- turors and Consumers ussociation, smd: ¥ou ask what good bas been accomplished by the home patronage movement thus far. T will answer, more good ten times over than 1 cau toil. Every manufacturer tells me that ho has experienced a great improvement in his busitess, More goods of Nebraska manu- facture are being sold at home than ever be fore in the history of the state. It has done more than that, (L has given homo manufac- tures & prostigs amoug local merchants that they never eujoyed before. It has given the rotall dealers a better opinion of goods of home production aud has opened their eyes their real morits. It has given the manu- facturers more confldence, because they fool now that the peoplo are with them ana you will vory soon hoar of different ones branch- 10g out into new lines of manufacture or on- larging their facilities for the output of old lines. 1 have already heard some manufac- turers discussing schomes of tuis kind. More thaa that, you will see other manufac turers sceking locations in o place where they will bo sure of receiving the patronage of a large and growing population “When this movement was started most manufacturers had Targe stocks of goods on band, which had been” accumulating, owing fo the dull times and slow moveient of g00ds. Theso stocks have beon melting away At an astonishing rate and alreaay the manu- facturers aro comuenclug to put on more help. 1 thiuk I would have no trouble in showing whore fifty adaitional mea bave been given work in the past week or ten days #s & rosult of this movement. This is Do great number, but it moans the support of 50 people, and it must be remembered that Bhe results in this direction are ouly just reduced the demand for more help witl be uch greater. Then, too, the retail dealers had on hand large stooks of eastern goods, which they have had to work off, and when they commance stocking up with home goods there will be a still greater demand on man ufacturers and another call for more help 1 notice that castern manufacturers are considerably stirred up over the rapid growth of the home patronage sentiment in Nebraska and several represontatives of such concerns that have called on me have ad mitted that thoy would either have to move their plants to Nobraska or give up this field, Their admissions furnish a most con- vincing proof that the movement is not only practical, but that it is actually proving to be a great success ““The thing that alarms them most is that the home patronage seuntiment einanates from the consumers, that the poople are do- manding home made goods. Eastern manu facturers feol that they can control a good share of the retail deal it com to the consumo; edge defeat. “‘Local manufacturers wh report that they were everywhere questione as to the progress of tho moveuient in Ne braska, and that whilo eastern manufac turers were oppose! to it as_cutting off their business, they would admit that it was tho only way to ever buila up a great manufac- turing community Mr. Page's prodiction that schomes would s00n be on foot among the manufacturers for largely increasing their facilities 1s already verified. Two of the local overall manufac turers are now making arrangements to en- large their business to an extent that will give employment to over 100 additional girls Pearl Buttons, A fow weoks ago T'ite Ber called attention to the opening of a pearl button factory by several Bohemian button makers who™ had come to this country owingto the collapse of the button industry of Austria, They have been working under great disadvantage on count of being unacquainted with the English language and Amorican business methods, They have been able, however, to turn out a first-class article, equal in ever rospect to the tmported buttons. kX Councilman Frank Casper has now taken hold of the matter and proposes to buy out the piapl, makiug it a stock concern and giving the workmon an intorest in tho company. He proposes to buy thesheils n San Fraucisco in car lots and incroase the working force to fifty m the present number being only about éight Ho has received great encouragement from M. E. Smith & Co,, tho Omaha dry goods jobbers, who have contracted to take a very Iargo share of the output of tho factery. Mr. Tibbs, buyer for M. 1. Swith & Co., ro- marKes If we can’assist in putting on its feet an industry which promises to be of con- siderable value to tho city we will be pleased todo so and trust that other jobbers in our line will do the same. There is no apparcnt roason why Omaha can not manufacture pearl buttons as well as any other city in_the country. This branch of dustry which was formerly confined almost entirely to Austria has recently been conducted very successfully in Now Jersey and a piaut of tho same hind has just been opened in Dotroit.”” T'his factory will bo direct outgrowth of the nome patronage agitation, as those who are now futeresting themselves in the busi- ness would never have taken the chances had they not been coufident that the people would stand by them. Hats Made in Omaha. An_industry, now in infancy, but which promises to make a rapid growth under the fostering care of home patronage, is the man- ufacturo of hats recently commenced at 209 North Sixteenth street, by Ramser & Co. At the present time they aro employing ouly four or five people, but the possivilities of the business appear to bo great. The members of the firm came here from Danbury, Conn., & town of about 22,000 popu- lation, which is almost eutirely supported by tho hat factories, there being whirty-four of them, The Omaha firm is composed of practical wen who haye grown up in the business and they claim that hats can bo made in this city as cheaply and of as good quality as can bo made in any other city. In other words thut the east dos not possoss any advantage over the west in this branch of manufacture, As a matter of courso, eastern factorios have built up a big trade which it would take a new factory a long time to obtain, but home patronage could putsuch a factory on its feet at ouce. Tho hat business is undoubtedly working its way west and already a very large plant has been opened at Wabash, Ind., a biw b being given by the city as an inducen Louis also hasa hat factory. Omaha should have ashare of this busincss and it will have itif tho men of Omuba will come to the front with their putronage. It may bo of interest to know somethiug abour the method of manufacturing a gen- tieman’s fur hat, which many people, if they over thought on 'the subject at ull, imagine to be made out of some kind of cloth. A close oxamination will disclose the presence of fing s in tho waterial of the hat and it is of air, or more properly speaking, tho fur of animals, that these hats aro made, For this purpose tho clippings and wasto pieces of fur of most all the different fur bearing animal such as the beaver, nutrin of South America, common rabbit and Russiau hare are ob- tained from the fur cutters, Theso picces of hide are first caratea which prepares tho fur, and then cut into strips and run through a'cutter which takes off the fur. The skin being useless to tho hat trade, is turned over to tho glue wanufactu The next process is performed by a blow. ing machino which separates the coarse ha from the fur, and the raw material is then read 7 for use. ‘Tho fur is run into what is known as tho forming machine, in which a perforated cono revolving in a cylinder produces a suction that draws the fur uniformly over the coue aud thus forms a cone shaped hat fabri “Thiis cone of fur isabout as thick as a co web and two feot long by eighteen inches at the base. Next comes the hardening process which is accomplished by means of shrinking with hot water, This puts the cone in condition to bo handied and it is then turned over to the maker, who ropairs any damages or im- porfections and continues the shrinking pro- coss until tho hat, which still preserves its cone shape, is reduced in size to about ten inches in neight and the sawme in diamoter at the base. AU this stago of manufactuve, it resemblos more the dunce cap, formerly in use iu coun- try schools, than it does a gentlemun’s sty- lish derby. The noxt process ve been east is tho shaving, which takes O all the protruding hairs from the surface. Then the stiffener takes it i haud and puts ou the outside a certain preparation with a brush. Steaming the hat drives this prepration in and a subsequent vitriol bath removes the little romaining on tho surface. Next the blocker by means fof machines that streteh and press it into something more liko & modern hat, ‘Then to the coloring de- partment where it is given any shade that fashion may demand. Once more under the blocking machines its shape is still further improved. ‘A preparation is now applied to the inside of the hat which stiffeas up the crown, Thus far the bat is not a hat according tho manufacture’s uso of that word, but known as a bodie, Atthis point the work of the Omaha manu facturer commences. He buys tho bodies in the cast and finishes them up bere, but it is the finishing that really makes tbe hat. 1t1s all hand work on the better class of hats. In this operation fine sand paver is used, so fine in fact that to the oyo it appears like s piece of smooth manilla paper, “I'he brim has to be put in shape, that is given the latest fashionable roll.” The bind- fog, trimming, ete., is put on and the hat is ready to bo placed on sale. ‘s Omaba firm is figuring on putting in & plant to cost about §10,000 that will enable it to perform the wholo operation of man- ufacturing hats hero. Such a piant would have & capacity for turning out fifty dozen hats per day and could employ 200 people or even more when running to its full capacity. They could make hats to retail at from & up. The building up of a factory of this kind requires & largo amount of capital, but plenty of men could be found with the money 1if thay could be reasonably sure of belng aole to sell the goods made. Cold Lead, Tno people of Omaha should be proud of the Omaha Stot and Lead works, which is the largest and most complote establisnment of the kind in the United States. Thore are only thirteen In this country, and none west of Omaha excepting the one at San Fran- cisco, ho Omaba shot tower is the Iatest built, havine only been recently comploted, and for that reason 1s fitted up with all tho latest appliances. very one remembers the small boy and bis exporiments in melting aud casting lead. to is | commencing to be felt, but as old stocks are | A favorable amusement with him is to pour PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. | selted load through u sieve hold above a tub of wator, By thls means ho caa turn out rounded pellets which by courtesy might bo called shot. Modern ingenuity has not been able to in- vont any botter way and the method em- ployed i tho finest shot tower 10 the country is essentially the samo as that practioed by the small boy Tho Omaha stot towoer is 112 feot in height, built of timvers 2x# inches, lnid flat and bolted together. Beneath tho towor is a well thirty-six feet in dopth The lead bars from the smelting works are taken to the top Hoor wnd melted in kettles holding about eight tous of the metal. A spout in the side of the kettle allows the motal to flow In a steady stream into an iron pan of the same shapo aud style as the ordi- | nary long handled frymng pan in use in every household. The bottom of this pan is perforated with round holes, through which the lead drops to tho bottom of tho well, Tho size of the hole 5120 of the shot which it is desired to make. On its way down the lead assumes & spherical shape and by the time it reaches the water at the bottom of tne well it has sufMiciently cooled to retain its form. Thisis the object in building such a high tower, as a less fall would not give tne metal time tn harden and it would flatten out on striking tho water, The shot dropped by the same pan will not all bo of the samo size, as for oxample, & pan calculated to drop No. § shot will drop some No. 5 and some No. 7. From the well the shot is elevated by ma- chinery similar to that used for grain in a mill and is carriod into a_screon, which ro- moves the pieces of motal which did not form shot on the way down, Then the shot passes through the dry where heat re- moves the moisture sull clinging to it after its bath in the well. The shot is next allowed to escape onto an inclined table made of 1argo plates of glass, & space of about two inches being left between the plates. The perfectly round shot make a splendid run down this table, leaping over the crev- es between the glass plates without difti- culty. The imperfect shot o rolling and sliding down the table, sometimes jumpiug oue or more of the opeiugs, but eventually faulin through, where they lie "as wasto material until taken to the melting room to be maae over Again vhe shot is pisked up by an olevator and carried tnto a breakidg eylinder, which separates some of the siz rom thére it is again made to run the gauntlet over a glass avle, Next it goes which separates tho s1z0s. consists of a sories of metal cylinders perfor- ated s0 as to lev the aifferent sizes drop through. The first lets out the smallest sizo, which runs down a spout into its compart- ment, the next cylnder lets out the next size, and so on to the end. Then the shot_is ready for tho polisher, which removes the dull leaden look and puts on a bright smcoth surface. From this maclime tho shot drops down into the weighing mackine, which 15 so con- structed that after twenty-five ponnds has run out an automatie slide stops the shct. A slight turn of the cup shapea recoptaclo bold- iug the shot allows 1t to escape into the bag and at the same time the slide_opens and an- other twenty-five pounds of shot is weighea up. TAnothor macine sows the end of tho bag and tho work is complete. The wholo operation from tho time tho lead loaves the iittlo until the shot is in bag ready for shipment is done by machinery. and the most of it is automatio. Buck shot is run in molds the same as riflo balls, Lead pipe is mado by casting tho lead around an 1ron core, e Cook’s Extra Dry Champagne is one of the most _delicious beverages in the market. Ouce tried it will always be on your tale. CONNUBILALITLES. is governed by the into the sorting machine, This machine Sommervills Journat, Ho loves me, he has often sworn, With all his deepest soul: But when we two are married, oh, Will he briug up the coal! Ho suys that little children aro His heart's supremo delights But wili—cxcuso me whilo T blushi— He sootho tho baby nights! Ho seems quite gonerous just now Quite liberal; but will He, some day when I buy a hat, Refusn to pay the billf L lovo bim, I confess, and yet These questions vex my mind. Well, I must do like other girls: T'll'simply go it blind. Ata wedding in New Haven recently two rings wero used. Tho girl about entering old maidenhood never objects to a boy caught. No matter how bad a man's handwriting is, tho girl who 15 in love with him s always willing to puzzle out his lotters. In the marriage of Miss Guinness, tho at English brewer's nicce, to William Kinloch, a *'stout” heart scems to have woun a fair lady. Mr, Wilde, who married Mrs. Loslie, is sure to staud high in the estimation of who- over meets him, siuco ho is six toet four inches tall. Uarrio—Georgo has uasked me to bo his wifo. I hope he loves me. You don't suppose that he wants me only for my money ! Kate I don’t know, but somo men will do anything for mone; Clara—Towser knew when you were com- ing. Ho recognized your name when we called it. Tommy (breaking in) —Yes, wo said hore comes that feller that's goin’ to got left on Clara, and ho wagged bis tail. In Now York on the 16th. Miss Alice Bay- vd King, duughter of Edwara King, was warried to Herman Le Roy Edgar, a son of William Edgar, who was at one time commo. dore of tho New York Yacht club, The marriage of Miss Mary trick and Mr, orge William Childs Drexel, the voungest son of Mr., A. J. Droxel, the banker, will take place the first week of November at Viu towu, N. J. Miss Irick belongs to an old New Jersoy family ‘Tho approaching marriage of Mme, Barrios to a member of the Spatish pavliament will recall to many readers her picturesque caroer, torced into marriage with the dictator of Guatemala, sho soon camo to love him, and her lifo shows that she was faithful 10 him until tho end came. The mere facts of her lifo would furmsh any novelist with the ma. terials for a romance. Miss Blunche Havemeyer, daughter of Theodore A, Havemeyer of New York, and W. Butler Duncan, jr.,were married at New- port on tho 15th. Among the bridal prosents wero a furnished nouse in New York and £200,000 in money from the bride's father. “Tho young couple will maie a tour around the world on their wedding trip. The revival in theatrical cu es of the rumor that the foreigner whom Marie Jansen is to wed is the redoubtable Thomas Ochil- troo of Texasgrecalls to the Chicago News tho report that *Ochiltree saved Mavie's life some years #go, when that fascinating ac- tress was bitten by a centipede at Galveston, He dosed he -huol(y with Houston whisky, on the principle of ‘simila similibus curan- ' A notable wedding took place in the village myrna, Aroostook county, Me., the other The groom, Moses Clark, had burie two wives and reached the respectablo age of 70 years, but he was lonesome and longed for a third companion to make things smootn for him on life's homestreteh. Accordingly he layished his ripe and discroet affoctions upon Mrs. Robbins, the survivor of two hu bands and 73 summers. Tho affection was mutual, the courtship lasted just one day, and on Sunday the well preserved two were made a happy one. On tho following evening a big crowd from tho surrounding towns, headed by @ brass bend, serenaded the elderly couplo at their residence. The old gentleman treated all hands generously and contributed to the general entertainment by dancing a reel. - - Van Houten's Cocoa—"Best aud goes far- thest.” Potwsville’s Monumer ‘The soldiers’ monument at Pottsville, Pa., was unveiled last weok. Geueral Horace Porter of New York delivered the oration at the unveiling, which was wituessed by fully 15,000 people. Governor Pattison presented the badges to the surviving members of the | First Defenders, which ropresents companies from Pottsvilley Alleatown, Lewistown and New Ringgold, which were the first soldiers at the national capital during the late rebel- lion. Tho monument was orected by volun tary contributions at a cost of #5,000. The city was gaily decorated and the celebration was In every way a Attlog one. UNDAY. OCTOBI | ECHOES FROM THE ANTEROOM. R | The Workmen Oelobréto the Order's Twen- ty-Third Aniversary. | COLONEL COCKERILEL" ON THE ELKS. The Oddfellow's GFind Lodge at Lin- Next Meeting Yo be at Omaha ~General ewd and Notes Among the' Lodges. coln— North Omana lodgo No. 150, Ancleat Or- der of United Workmen, oelebrated the twonty-third anniversary of the order last Mouday night in a fitting manner. The lodge room on North Twenty-fourth street was lavishly decorated with bunting, flags and evergreen, aud the symbolic lotters of tho order, done 10 evergroan, Wers sus- ponded in the center of the room An intgresting programme was p consisting of rocitations and musical bers, both voeal and fnstrumental. Tho re of tho evening was an addross by D. Liwyd, a momber of the order, slation of the Ancient Order of United Workmen to the Ladies and Wives of Mombers Tho add and was deli manner. ‘The speake ress made during the ninoteanth contury in tho arts and sciences and also to the still ater progress made in the way of provid- ing protection for the living dependent ones Ho dwelt upon tho uncertainty of lifo and the necessity of some sort of provision being made for the protection of the loved ones from want. A beautiful picture wus arawn of the protecting arms tbhrown about the be- reaved families b the grand societios of which the Ancient Order of United Work men is one of tho foremost Theso orders, in & measire, take the hus band’s place in caring for the family. They also exert a strong influenco on the homes of the mombers, T'here is a constant inter- change of ideas in lodgos which is a means of producing a greater senso of the precious- ness of the home. The speaker said that the public opinion-of v is chivalrous, Ho referred to the chiv alry of the olden times whon knights sacri- ficad their Iives for those thoy were protect- ing, and said that _the men of today aro fully as chivalrous as thoso of voro. This principle of chivalry haunts tho lodges and thoir mom- bors caten the inspiration. T'he motto of the order, Charity, Hopo and Protection, he likened to the southern cross which guides the mariner. This motto guides tho membors to. highor and botter ves. The speaker said that lodges reprosent one of the most remarkable features of the life of today. The history of Masonic lodg ch back to the earliest times, but the history of these lodges is comparatively re cont. ~ They aro a part of the church’s failure. Tie church had ignored the impor- tant function of tho secular needs of men and 15 now suffering the cousequences. The speaker predicted that tho day would como when the chureh will rocover this lost ground and these beneyolent socioties will by uscless. In closing,Mr. Llwyd said the ladies should remoumber that these lodges do not rest upon mou's seliishness, byt upon tho carnest thoughtful care which men of mind and seri- ousuess have for their wives and children, and upon their unselfish love of fawily and home, At the conclusion of. the programme a lun- cheon was served in tue supper room and a short time was passedin a social manner. ‘The eutertainment was & success in every respect and refiected credit upon the commit- tee haying the matter in chargo. Tho com- mittee consisted of Messrs. willlam Christ- mau, L. S. Tradell, J. . Davis, R. B. Car- J. 1. Smith, R.J. Sanders and John White. pseuted, num- a most interesting one an earnest, thoughtful rotorred fo tho pro The Hiks. Colonel John A. Cackerill, who has re- cently presonted to the Ilks of St. Louis a handsomo statue, made the following speech. It contains so much of what is true—so much of what is a roal defoucoand & manly defonce for those who have mado the music of tho world, that no one can fail to approciate it: *‘An organization based upon the impene- teable principios of chiarity, justice, brotherly love and flaelity mast endure. Such an order is the Beuevolent and Protective Order of Llks, A fow years ago, 1n the city of New York, a littlo group of meu—members of a profession which for more than two thousand yeavs has amused, instructed, entertaiaed and uphifted humanity—met and laia the foundation of this society. They had, in their precarious tives, feit tue noed of comradeship, helpful- ness and oser fraternity. "They builded botter than they knew, for what prophetic oo could have foroscon the grand structuro which would rise upon their sleuder foun- 1on, and which today has supportiug pil- lars in moro than balf the states of the union’ “In the eyes of the cold and austere world our founders wore, perhaps, of the class sometimes stigmatized as ‘vagabonds’ —those children of genius who have doao so muci to ooautify and enrich the world. Blot from our annals the works of ‘vagabonds’ and how little is loft to admire! What an aching void is loft in literature, art and scienco! “We wipe from thousands of canvases the glorious tints of artists whose pames will live till the end of tima: we obliterate much of song and poetry and romunce, and consign to impeuetrabie limboes of dariness the shin- 1ug names of Shakespeare and Byron, und Goldsmith and Keats, aud Shelley and' Poe, ad countless numbers of childven of wen, who, with pen and brush and chisel,have p pled'the world with the beings of fiction, which we cherish as we o our loved ones, and have filled us with iuspiring thoughts which mako oursolves nobler and better—we revero our founaers,” siasonic. The capstone of the Chicago Masonic tem- plo av State and Randolph streets will be lid h imposiug Masonic ceremonies Novem- b No decision has ye} bean reached as towho will deliver the oration on that occa- sion, but it 1s sottled that the ofticrs of the grand lodge will parform the interesting ceremony of placing the capstone, which is one of tho most interosting coromonies kuown to the Masonic fraternity. Thore is o mild sensation among the Masons at Columbus, O., concerning the charge made against C. B. Camoron of tho M. C. Lilly company of baving revealed Masonic secrets to a Woman who had sued nim for breach of promise. The Masons of Scotlund recently unveiled a splendid statue of Robort Burns at Ayr. Prominent Musons froui every part of Scot laud aud England were” peaseat, and ov 0,000 people attended to witaess tho cere- mouy The members of the.Order of tho Eastern Star held a mite social st Saturaay nightat tho residence of Mes. G. k. Coon, 1614 North Nineteenth street. A, large nu presentand & most onfoyable e passed. High five wax the principai bojoy ment of tho avening, aithourh a song by Miss Myrtlo Coon was a delighiful yuriation from the euticing game. “The grand chapter of iiowa held its thirty eighth aunual convoestion at Boono 0 Thursday and Eriday,0f:dast week with 150 delogatos present, ‘Lue following .Micers welo elected for the emaing year: William Wilbraham, Gresco, grand high priest; C. 5. Fletcher, Atlantic, deputy graud nigh pricst; F. W. Craig, Des Moines. grand king; L Elseffer, Hampton, grami scribo; Alfred Wingate, Des Moiues, re-clectod_graud soo | rotary; T, J. Van Horn, Mount Pleasant, r electod grana treasurer. Council Blufls 'was selooted as tho next place of meoting. The graud treasurer’s roport showed the assets of the grand lodge in bonds to be #5,500; re- ceipts for the year, 85,442 and expenses, ote of the ohapler it was con 1 not to separate the subordinatoe chap s aud counclls. L0 O F. The annual session of the grand lodge grand encampment was held at Lincolo week Ihe eloction and last of ofticers for tho year resulted as follows: Encampment Grand partriarch, J. J. Byer, Lincolu; granc sonior warden, J. . H r, Hastings; grand high priest, H. M. Uttley, O'Neill; grand junior warden, A.A. Albright, Nebraska 1891 —-SIXTEEN 25, | City; grand seribe, 1. P, Gago, Fromont; | graud treasurer, Samuel McClay, Lincoln | reprosentative to sovereign grand encamp ment, Gooree H. Cotting, Kearney. Grand lodge ~Grand master, Georgo L. Loomis, Fremont; dopnty grand mastor, A, H. Weic, Lincoin; grand warden E. J. O'Noill, Paw- neo City; grand secretary, L. P. Gage, Fre- mont Tho veteran jowel the ordor who "have for twenty-five years, the following: " V. M. Mercer of Gibbon lodgo William Saxauer ot Omaha lodgo No, D. Black of Centennial lodge No. 150, John D. Neweli of Blair lodge No. 14, E. C. Barmore of Cortland lodge No. 104, A. D. Clino of Lincoln lodge No. 0. - “ IMPIETIES. glven to members of Veen in good standing was conferrod upon Tho naves of a church do uot comprise the rogues in the congregation. Polly—Can you see aaything in tho new mimstor! Jack—Yes, you can seo your im ago in his coat 'ho church at Dinkeyvillo burned last night.” “Good gracious!” “Yes, burned with all jts contents—pows, pulpit, biblo and and all.” “Holy smoke!" There are cighteen counties in Minneso without a Baptist church, This, as the Min neapolis Tribune justly observes, is a ro- mackubly poor showing for a land 'so full of ks, One's faith in the oficacy of prayer is sadly shaken by tho news that Mr. Stead has computed that 800,000,000 appeals are offered up to heaven overy year iu behalt of the prince of Walos. Hossleigh —1 notice that tho ministers in Lexington, Ky., have been denouncing Lorse racing from their pulpits. Colton—Tuat’s it That’s it. They ought to have known enough not to bot on fayorites A good story is told, but nobody 1s bound to believe it s an article of faith. A rustic deacon had to announce that the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, M. A., would “star’ it at the chapel. He did so to the following_effect ““The ‘Rev. Hugh Price Hughe's Ma. will preach;” he added, with that love of amplifi- cation 'which 1s habitual in his class, *‘we hope the old lady will give us a good dis- course,"! arson who had had arish to a large An exchango tolls of a call fromn a little countr and wealth one in a big city. He asked timo for prayer ana_considoration. Ho did not teel sure of his light A month passed. Einally somo one met his youngestson in tuo stroet. How is it, Josiah," said his neigh. bor, *is your father going to B—1" “Wel answered the youngster, judiciously, is still prayin’ for light,” but ‘most things is packed.” An inventor recently wroto to a wostern Presbyteriun Sunday school offering to sell or rent a new development of the slot_m chine. 1t bore the legend: *‘Drop a nickel in tho slot, and see a horetic get kicked out and in accordance with this statement, the inventor saia that a nickel would cause tho picture of a Presbyterien church to appear, from which presently a man, presumably a ctic, would emergo as though vigorously ected. As an object lesson this is vivid euough, but it is just a littie tao_provious, Maybe o heretic will be kicked out. —— EDUCATION AL, “paw of the Plans have been completed for a girls' nor- mal school in Philadelphia, to cost $170,000, The Board of Education of New York will ask un appropriation of $4,627,832 for the sup- port of the public schools of that city tho coing ye Mrs, Phaebe Hearst, widow of Senator tlearst, nas endowed five $00 scholarships for young women at the California state university, Miss F'rances E. Willard proposes raising a fund by which to attacha professor of total ubstinenco to the new American university in Washington. By the deatt of Mrs. Barnard, the widow of the lute president of Columbia college, that institution will come into the possession of an estate amounting to 850,000, Ix-Senator [ngalls will assist in dedicating Salute You! the Threshold of Our New Store, S. From 207 15th Street. Bet. Farnam and Douglas. We shall ---Busily for come. be here many moons to money, be it $5 or $50. roof in this city. Suits to order, Others copy enough, but they can’t prod the garments for the same money. We make to order.garments, our 20 to § PAGES a library on the sito of the house in which ho was born at Middleton, Mass. While in the east this timo ho will deliver several lectures Tho walls of the National Library building in process of erection in Washington are about half up. 1t will cost over 5,000,000, There are thirty-threo arches on the four sides of the building, and it 18 proposed to ornament the keystones of these arches with reprosentative heads of the thirty-three races of mankind A stubborn firo broko out fn the attic of East Divinity hall at Yale university the other night and before it was brought under control damaged the building to the extont of bout $10,000, The greatest dawage was caused by the great volume of water poured upon the fire. The fire was caused by a do foctive flue. About sixty of the theological students who roomed in tho building suffer o loss of from £100 to #50 oach on books, furniture, clothin veral of tho pro fossors whose recitation rooms wero in the building sustain heavy losses through tho damage or deatruction of private libraries. Dr. Birney cures catarri, - FOR MUMAN Show Its Merits Europeans. Ler Poixt, Neb., Oct. 10.~To the Tue Bee: In the last issue of Tum WerkLy Bre is an articlo calling attention to the exporting of corn. I am giad to bave you do this and hope you will push it. At the annual session of the I Natlonal congress, held in Council Bluffs last year, 1 introducod a resolution asking congress for an appropriation for the purnose of present- 1ng the merits of corn in its various forms as buman food to the people of Europe with the view of increasing the export demand. Iho rosolution passed and an appropria- tion of $2,500 was made for this purpose. This is beine expended under the dircction of the secretay of ngri- culture ns you mention. Howover, it only pays for one agent abroad, and tho secretary writes me that wo ought to have several more. I have vbeen commissioned delegate from Nebraska to tho next session of the Favmers' congress, which convenes at Seda l1a, Mo., November 10, and shall bring tho matter before that body again with the ulti- mate hope of gotting un increased appropria tion from congress. The time is now ripe for pushing this matter in Europe, and it is not likely that any additional md can be obtained from the general govern. ment within eight or ten months, when it will be too late to affect tha price of this year's crop. Meanwhile the great corn statos coutd woll afford ~to raise the necessary funds to send qualified agents abroad at once, under the direction of the secretary of agriculture, who should have {ull control of the money and agents. If the state boards of agriculture of the great corn states would cach _appropriate §2,000 for this purpose I believe it woutd return many fold. Colonel Murphy writes me that the only sat- isfuctory way o reach those people is by oc- cular démonstration, and we ought to send more Colonel Murphys overthere without if we affect tho movemont of this 3 crop. Keep agitating tho question and we may get concerted nction. Yours truly. W. 5. DELANo. ‘h. Boo bldg. CORN FOOD. A Schemo to Among ditor of “armers’ Her H eve y, Jenny, will you have mo! No, Why not, Jenny? 'Cause you carry in your pocket, Tom. Why, Jenny, ouly a bottle of Hal Sire Cure Sytup. 0-0-0-0! Tom. 0-0-0-0! Jenny, leaux Tom. bottles this 15 Cough Tab e Retired. George H. Perkins, Unitod States navy, at his own request bas been placed on the ro- tired list, after forty vears’ servico. Captain Perkins distinguished himself during the lato war as commander of the United States steamer Chickasaw at Mobilo Bay, Ala. 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