Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1893, Page 13

v > -3 T 4 L BCHOES OF THE ANTE-ROOM Installation of Officers in Many Masonio Lodges Last Week, WORKMEN'S GREAT PICNIC AT COURTLAND News of the Week Among the BSecret Soote! of Omaln—Goats Prefer Grass This Hot Weather—Fra- ternal Happenings. The tnstallation of oficors by the Anclent, Freo and Accepted Mason lodges of the state has been occupying the attention of the Masons during tho past two weeks. Tho Ewing lodgo instaliea its oficors Saturday ovening, July1, & small number of invited guests witnessing the ceremonios. Follow- ing tho installation ceremonies a banquet was given by the ladies at the leading hotel of the city. The officers installod are as follows: I V. Hileman, W. M.; W. R. Bolding, 5. W.; B. C. French, . W.; D. Brion, T.; G. H. Benson, 8.; A. A. Ege, S. D. . A. Combes, J. D.; W. W. Bethea and F. It Bignold 8s.,'and O, W. Farrell, T, Biue Valley lodgo of Wilber held & public installation tho samo evening, the visitors being nunicrous. Tho coremonies wero per- formed by Dr. L. K. Goodell, ted by J. H. Grimm. Chaplain Diffenbacher delivered a short and interesting addr The follow- . ing are tho oM G. H. Tracy, ) F. Dodson, S, W.; C. B. Goodell, J. W.; J. F\ Chaloupka, T.; §. C. Heliker. Kylo, C.i ¥ DR y UD.iR. M. Thompson and W. L. R F. Clarke, T. lodge No. 160 of Hay Springs in- its officers Saturday, July 8 (St. y). Tho new oficers’ are: C. Pat- W W.i K. M. Godffey, S.D.; Joo + B.'Cornell, tyler; C. B. Mays, T., and M. P. Musser, S. The oficcry instalied by Wisner lodge are as follows: N. C. Sears, W. M.; I. D, Deily, 8. W.; W. Armstrong, J. W.; L. S. Strain T.; H. Kinzel, 8.5 A. J. Wi John's d terson, W. M.; W. M. Iord, S. W Mosser, . D. I Fink; L. Rutle lowing are the newly installed of- ficers of Amythyst lodge No. 190 of ( A. P. Tarbox, M.; L N. Froman, S, W Hugh ; X, S's. (e lodge No. 160 of ' 1ts new officers as follow W. M H. Mills, Burnham. 1cDonald, g R L. Williams, 8. D.; Allen Hop® kins, J. D.; C. H. Snider, tyler. Thero will b a_special meeting of Ne- braska lodge No. 1 at k Sunday, y the fun William vited. > Masou's hall, at'1 o'clock p.m., to attend services of our late brother, Rouse. All master masons in- 1 Duffie, master. Knights of Pythias. Dauntless No. 50 is the name of the new 10dge rocently watituted at Wood River by Grand Chancollor Dale. The Shelton, Gib- bon and Grand Island lodges sent deliga- tions, among which were numbered some good workers. The ofticers of the new lodge are: H. M. Joues, .C.;S. N or, C. C. D. F. Miller, V. A. B. Kerk, P.; C. W Hooten, M. of W.; W. A. Colwell, K. R. and 8.} J. Forsytho, M. of F.; C. W. Morcer, M. of E.; M. I. MoCnrty, M. at A.; L IL Shick, I G.; M. C. Wingert, O. G. Another new lodge fs Olympic No. 82, of Battle Creck, institutea by Grand Chancel- or Dale. Union lodge of Madison had the work in charge and it was all night's task. The oficers are as follows: R. D. Bceott, past chancellor; J. M. Bush, chancel- lor commander; J. J. Daniel, vice chancellor; 3. F. Hester, prolate; Ed Tanner, master of Worrick, keeper of records and ; William Bates,’ master of finance; L. Knescl, master of exchequer: A. G. Moyer, mastor at srms; A. Callun, inner guard; W. B. Fuerst, outer gunrd. The' infant lodge of the jurisdiction is 1nt'nlcll at Scribner. Grand Chancellor Dale nstituted the same under tho most auspi- elous circumstances. The officors chosen are s follows: George Huffm A. nisky, C. C.; Henry Sch . Schuitz, T L3 HL ewonstoin, K. R. and S.; 1. [dclmaier, M. of F.; H. Boll, M. of E.; C. Ehlers, M. at idel, I G.; Can T Tellyet, O. G. . division of tho uniformed rank will soon be organized at Neligh Tho second aunual ball of Saladin lodge of Stlver Crock, rocently given, provod an en- Joyable success. ‘A fino piano now graces the lodge rooms of Couer do Leon lodge. Hon. Will B, Dale, grand chancellor of Ne- ka, was i Omaha Monday evening and attended the meeting of Myrtio lodge No. 2. He was accompanied by several members of the Columbus lodge and they were given an exhibition of the work of Myrtle's team, The knight's degree was conferred on two candidates. Mr. Dale pronounces the order in Nebraska 08 _prospering boyond measure, new lodges being instituted regularly and the membership climbing up steadily. The Omaha knights ha commenced talking of the reception and entertainment for the g rand lodge, which mvenes in this city in October, As sev hundred mem- bers of th from all parts of the state will be present it will prove no easy mattor to handie the crowd, but the Omaha boys are noted for meoting all demands and when it comes to dispensing hospitality they are perfectly at home. Order of the Enstern Star. Fidelity Chapter No. 46 of Shelton in- stalled the now ofticers Weduesday evening. Subsequent to the interesting cercmonies refreshments were served, and the evening passed in social intercourse. The officers are as follows: W. M., Mrs. J. H. Heather- ington; W. P., J. F. Lippencott; A. M., Miss Ella Bradley:'C., Miss Nellio Harman; A. C., Mrs. J. W. Owen; S., Mrs. C. S. Bailey; ., Mrs, B. . Sammons; Ada, Mrs. M. k! Gilbert; Ruth, Mrs. Georgo Mortimer; Esther, Miss Hello Bentley; Martha, Mr: A. H. Morris; Electa, Mrs.” 0. C. Hancock C., Mrs. J. . Lippencott; W., Mrs. W. H. Beutley; 5., George Thomas; 0., Mrs. G. C. Paxton, Clay Centor chapter installed officers Tuesday evoning as follows: W. P, H. E. Stein: W. M., Mrs. Jennie Stein; A, M., Mrs. Ida Gillette;'S.. G. A. Shike; T., Georgo Mrs. Nottie Gardner; A, C., Martin; Adab, Mrs. Emilia Shike; Ruth, Mrs. Sarah Tuttle; Esther, Mrs. George Cinuamon; Martha, Miss Emma Cummins. Independvnt Order of Odd Follows, A now lodge has been organized at Grant with a charter membership of twenty-five, Tuesday of this week will bo Odd Fellows day atthe Fremont Chautauqua assembly and o large number of Omaha members of the order will be present. The orator of the day will bo Representative J. S. Hoagland of North Platt, Rebokah locge No. 44 of South Omaha has installed the following officers: Mrs. A. V. Miller, N. Mrs. Goorge Housmau, V. G.; albot, T Miss Cora Morrison, R S. Tho Omaha lodges iustalled newly elected ofticers tho past week. Monday night State lodgb No. 10_installed its ofticers, Allemanen lodge No. 85 Wednesday evening, Canton Eazra Millard No. 1 Thursday evening Omaha lodge No. 2 Friday evening. Tues evening of this week Boacon h»}u. No. 20 will install its oficers. Modern Woodmenof Americs. A camp of Woodmen was instituted at Il Gandy last wecek, with a large charter mem- borshup. Following are the oficers of the camp: V. C, B F. Willlams; W. A, J. M. Caress; E. B, 0. N. Call S. K Douglass; K., J. L. Brown; W., 5. T. Dixon; 8., William ‘Thomas ; board of managers, D, N, Callender, C. C. Banks aud John Penuer. he members of Ivy camp, No. 2 Noighbors, attendod the funeral servi their depurtod neighbor, Mr fleld, yesterday afternoon at seryices wore held at 644 South Se avenue. ‘The date for the csmp 120 at Courtlan: souncod for Tuesday picnic to be beach has of this week. iven by an- The committes fn charge s composed of W E. Cady, C. H. T. Riepen, J. B. Van Gilderand C, W. Reed, with D. 1. Thornton as master of ceremonies. The afternoon will be devoted %o amusements and some of them will be worth miles _going to witn The follow- Ing races and prizes hiave been arranged for : Gentlemen's sack race, sack of flour; ladies’ egg race, souvenir spoon; fat men's race, walking stick; gents’ running race, Wood- man gold pin; Iadies’ running race, silk para- s0l; gents’' walking race, pair of sippers; gents’ boat race, box of cigars; Iadies’ boat race, pair of kid gloves. Lunacheon will be servod at 6:30 o'clock and dancing will be commenced at 7.30, The Gate City orches- tra will provide the music, and the Wood- man are antiei Anclent Order of Umted Workmen, Omaha Workmen celebrated the natal day in approprinte style. A basket picnic at Courtland beach was the feature and it vroved a maguificent success. Fully 500 Workmen and their families feasted at the beach under the shade trees at the noon hour. During the afternoon and evemng they joined with the vast throng assembled there in the festivities and had a royal good time. Hebron ledgo No. 123 has elected officers as follows for the ensuing year: K. H. Ieadloy, M. W.; Robert Kalston, F.; H. Hockett, O. W. Hobenseo, K.; B F. Young, . §.: J. A. Ators, R'S.; Charles Howell, G. M. Fowler, L. W.; Aaron Wilkinson, O, W. Wahoo Workmen colebrated the Fourth in grand stylo. Tho Jocal lodge gave a regular old style Fourth of July celebration. The people of that town and the county turned out in crowds and fully 3,000 of thom were there. The speeches woro good, tho music fine, the fireworks beautiful, and everybody had an enjoyablo time, Monday_of next week will be Ancient Order of United Workmen day at the Fro- wont Chautauqua assembly, and it will be made an occasion of great interest to tho members of the order. At 2:80 in the after- noon Grand Mastor Workman Tate will de- liver the address of the day, and there will be speaking by other prominent members. The Omaha lodges havo endeavored to se- cure n large enough crowd to run a ‘specinl train on that day, but tho project has been abaudoned and itoso who ave inclined will #0 on the regular trains, one fare for the round trip being announced. A large num- ber will attend. Union Pacitic lodge No. 17 of this city has elected tho following oficers: Willinm H. Woods, P. M. W.; Heory MeCoy, M. W.; Jobn O. Palmer, 1 Woodside, 0.3 George B, Johnston, R.; 3 S, R. Patten, R.; O. Hoch gan, 1. W. . Faith, O, Womersley, J. P. Lord, Howard C Campbell, éxamine Washington lodgo of this city the ensuing of H.; 0. 27, Dogree of Honor, as chosen ofticers as follo ear: Mrs. William Turn on, C. of H M. Sm liam Tay of BE.; Mrs. Lou Pixley, R.: ) Mitehell, F.; Mrs. C. W. Beach Mi: , R.: ) Mattic Stringor, Mrs. Lohues, I W Mrs. Innes, O. W. The grand lodge of the Degres of Honor for this jurisdiction will assemble in Geneva in October. 'The lodges aro proparing for the annual election of representatives, which takes placo in the near future. 1G1OU There are 20,000 German Catholics in San Francisco. Rev. Dr. Samuel Hart, a professor of Trinity College, Hartford, and scerctary of the House of Hishops, has been elocted bishop of the Episcopal church in Vermont. There are forty-seven Chinese temples in the United States, valued at 202,000, claim- ing 100,000 worshipers. Forty of théso tom- ples are in California, four in New York, two in Idaho, and one in Oregon. Rev. Dr. W. H. Furness is the only sur- viving member of the class of 1820 (Har- vard). He is 91 years old, but though_ho is the senior alumnus Dr. Russoll of Barre, Mass., is one year ahead of him in the span of life. he most liberal _contributor to the Meth- t Episcopal Mission 1n Singapore is a nese banker, Mr. Tun Jiakkis Ho gave $£1,500 for the mission in that city, and col- lectod from his Chinese friends nearly £5,000 more. Probably the largest idol in the world is the “Sleeping Idol” in Bangkok. It is at least 160 feet long, and is made of brick, and heavily gilded. The feet are fivo foet long, and the soles are beautifully inlaid with f-pearl. uld's daughtor is erocting a church at Roxbury, N. Y., to be dedicated to the momory of the great financier. Unadorned, it is to cost §150,000, and its furnishings are 1o bo of the richest that are admissable in a house of worship. X yoars ago there was not an_organized Universalist church in_California. Now there are six, with 480 commuanicants. Four churches have been erected at a cost of over $100,000. They have raisea over £0,000 dur- ing the past year for church work and over £0,000 for educational and charitable inter- ests, 'he Board of Managers of the Domestio and Foreign Missionary Society of the Pro- testant Episcopal church have made their annual apppopriations for work in this coun- try, amounting to $258,435. Of this sum $7,- 890 is for work among the colored poople in the south, and $i1,205 for work among the Indians. Rey. Dean Gunn,priest of the Church of the Immaculate Conception of New York city,will probably be selected to fill the vacant chair in the soe of Concordin, Kun. At a recent meeting of the archbishon and bishops of the dios e, held at Dubuque, Father Dean's name was the first choice of the threo sout to Rome. The committee on the observance of the twenty-fifth anniyversary of the consecration of the first bishop of Albany, which occurs next year, has decided to build a cnupter houso as @ fltting recognition of Bishop Doane's labors. Itev. Charles S. Olmsted of Cooperstown is secretary of the commit- tee, which desires to raise 25,000, ‘When President Dwight of Yale conducts services in tho collego chapel ho usually pro- faces his prayer by saying: “Let us unite iy prayer.” At the close of last term, however, he rose in his dignified manner and obsorved | “Gentlomen, this is tho last timo wo shall meeu for dovotional oxercises during the present collego year. Lot us thereforo unito in prayor and thanksgiving.” The Yale men are wondering if he reatly meant it. An edition of the bible in Syrine, which is s00n 1o bo issued by the American Biblo socioty, almost simultaneous with tho dis- covery of one of the carly Syriac texts of the new testament in an eastern convent, leads to curious refloction, says the New York Tribuno. Among tho Syrians the testament had its erigin, and the remains of their old tovts are af groat value to modern olars in settling the wonrding of the criptures. Yet our missionaries turn round and spend years in travslating from Enghish for the p t inhabitants of western Asia the book which in a measure came tous from their fathers, Truly, the candlestick seems to have been taken ‘away from some of the churches, e All the cooking at a club house in a west- ern city is done by electricity. The meats broiled by the procoss are so quickly cooked that there is little chance for them to lose either juice or flavor, and for that reason they are nearly perfect, All sorts of uten- sils and apparatus are now manufactured enience in eloctric cooking, as the visitor to the Electric building at the World's fair will discover when he sees the tea kot- tles, coffce pots, sauce paus, broilers and chafing dishes. The electric ovon is an ad- mirable invention, fitted with a glass door thut it is unnecessary 0 open while the cooking is in progress, aud a thermometor that shows the exact degree of heat in use. The ovens do not heat the place where tl aro used, as they are of Russian iron lined with wood and ashes, thus preventing radia- tion. They are lighted by incandescent lamps. Electric flat irons that one may iron with all day are also to be had. —— A Polater for Bioyele Riders. Trvin W. Larimore, physical director of Y. M. C. A., Dés Moiues, Ia., says ho oan con scientiously recommend Chamberlain's P: Balm to athlotes, gymuasts, bicyclists, foot ball players and the profession in geheral for bruises, sprains and dislocations; also for sorencss and stiffness of the muscles. Mr. Larimore has used two bottles of Pain Balm aud is_enthusiastic in his praise of the remedy. When applied before the parts become swollen it will effect a cure in oue-half the time usually requed. It U.; “nE I also cures rheumatisw. For sale by drug- siale. EVE'S DAUGHTERS TEMPTED Woman's Serpent of This Day Begniles Her o Drink. ALARMING SPREAD OF ALCOHOLISM The Drink Hablt Gathering Dangerons Hondway In the Highest Social Raniks of New York—What the Doctors Think About Jt. Three cases, very similar and very un- usual, have erept into the New York po- lico roports of the past four weeks. Taken as isolated facts they were sad enough, but as straws, showing which way the wind of custom blows, they were of startling sigmficance. The chief figure in each of these cases was a woman of education, culture, and position, and of sufcient beauty and womanliness to win love. Yet, at the head of each pitiful tale was written the word-—drunkard! The mysterious case of Minnie Porter was the first. She was taken from the Iverctt house, where she was suf- fering from the effects of a prolonged debauch. She died in Bellevue hospital, sufficient consciousness to make any statoment. The second was the case of Mrs. Bruce Crane, the wife of the artist. She was brought into the police court in a state of intoxication. Her husband accompanied her and broke down com- plotely as he told the story of his in- effectual efforts to reform her. She was sent to some institution. The third woman was Mrs, Frank W. Palmer, who was found dead in her room at the United States hotel. Alcoholism was thoe cause. She had been reared in wealth and luxury, had been carefully oducated, and had led the choir and played the organ in an Episcopal church, Three such cases, ono following close upon the heels of another, would seem to without regaining have some unusual significance. Did they indicate that there is an incroase of drinking and drunkenness among women? If so, what is the In the first place, there i crease. This fact wuse? such an in- wus questioned by some of the sources of information con- sulted by the New York Sun reporter, but it is proved by tho reports of Belle- vue hospital, as well as by the police recors The register at Bellevue shows that in 1888 the number of femalo alco- holic patients was ) thore were in 1800, 1, 1,154, and in 2, 1,211, Th s an increase of 366 cases, or about 38 per cent in four yeu se, there was a definite increase in population during the same time, but the ratio was far less than that of the advance in aleoholism. These reports show another interesting fact. Of the 875 cases in 1888 only four teen were fatal, while of tho 1,211 cases in 1802 there were fifty-five who died in the hospital. This shows that the fatal cases were more than trebled during the period when the admissions increased only 37 por cent. Drunkenness is there- fore nov only much moro general among women, but the vice is also bocoming more destructive in its consequenc This record of facts tallies well with a statement made by Dr. W. E. Brill, iting physician to Mount Sinai hos- pital. The reporter asked Dr. Brill if he considered that alcoholism was on tho increase among women. “As a habit, porhaps not. But as a diseaso, yes,” replied the doctor. “*What is the distinction between the two?” o “By ‘a_habit’ of drinking, I mean taking wine with meals, or regularly, without any striking effects. ~ Dipso- mania, the name by which physicians call alcoholism when it is a disease, is a morbid appetite, which r at inter- vals with irresistible force. species of drinking is on the increase. The cause is nervous degeneration, to which Americans are particularly liable.” T. B. Crothers, M. D., in an interest- ing article recently published in a medi- cal journal, says:~ “Tho term alcohol- ism is generally used to describe a class of cases which ‘have become disease by continued and excessive use of alcohol. In reality an increasing number of these cases begin to uso spirits in excess sud- denly and pass rapidly into the chronic state. The use of aleohol is only a symp- tom and the cases are not those of true alecoholism, because they are due to other causes. Inebriety would bo a more aceurate torm.” Dr. Crothers goes on to say that the moderate drinker of the past has ina measure disappeared. Now we have the impulsive, maniacal drinker, who, after brief preliminary stages, becomes an excessive user of spirits. In this class come the periodical incbriates, who, at fixed intervals, develop an un- controllable appetite. The interval be- tween these attacks is often exactly reg- ular. Inone caseit was ninety-one days and two_hours; in another, = sixty-two days and four hours. It is this abnor- mal, diseased appetite for liquor which Dr. Brill says is growing more common among women, Admitting the fact that drunkenness is more prevalent, the question avises as to the class of society in which it has gained the most ground, It is true that there has been an increase in the drink- ing habit among the lower classes but it is not a striking one. Such institutions, for oxample, as tho Isasc T. Hooper Home at 210 Second avenue, accommo- date about the same number yoar after year, with but little varlation. The Magdalen Homo on Eighty-eighth street has received about 260 inmates a year for the last twenty or thirty years, with very little differonce among the annual records, The police reports show an increasing percentage of arrests of women of this class, but observant men and women of the world claim that it is in the upper ranks of society that aleoholism is muking its gains, The statement has been often made that New York society women are more given to drinking intoxicating liquors than are the women of any other city in the country. This is unquestionably true if the range of comparison is lim- ited to northern and western places. It may be that the traditional use of liguor in the south brings its cities nearer to the merk., One thing, however, is ab- solutely certain, and that is that in no cily in the United States, San Francisco perhaps excepted, is there so general o public indulgence in wine by women as in New York. San Francisco, furthermore, is not exactly a parallel case, for the class of women who drink in public there is of a distinotly diffor- ent order from the society women of New York, The time-honored remarks about the feminine habit of snatching fifteen min- utes from an arduous shopping tour to lunch off ice cream and cold water must be revised. l’erl\u])s it is because their mothers followed this custom that the present geueration thirsts after some- thing hot and stimulating. At any rate a growing proportion of feminine shop- rs, and callers, and matinee goer ave taken to dropping into their favor ito restaurant _and ordering something which comes in & long-stemmed glass and is not taken with a spoon. l At Maillard’s the essentially fominine THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDA¥! JULY 9, 18! 3~SIXTEEN PAGES. bill of fare, with I8 oroquettes and ‘ tlon. Tho umversity has prospered reatly salads and fce ‘orbam, does even turn the pEgé to announco the sherry ocobblers, milk punches, egg nogs, and other conooetions with which the less reckless feminine thirst is as- euaged. At the Brunswick, Delmon- ico's, the Waldorf, or any other of the fashionable restaurants, the fairest and most irroproachable wemen may be scen any day sipping cocktails, cordials or French™ liguors, In_the evening, the ladies at fiilmhlu drink whatever is or- dered by the hos The more harmless of wines, such as claret and sherry, ave apparently for- saken in public. It is champagne at tho dinner or theater party at night, and it is a cocktail or some ligueur in the af- ternoon. The home dinner and lunch are the oceasions when the regular table wines are in uso. There are hundreds of women who drink to this extent and are not by no means counted as_ vie- tims of the liquor appetite. Where they will be in fiv yoars it is not safe to pred Perhaps they will be drinking brandy, whisky, cologne, anything with alcohol in it, to satisfy their mad craving. And then they will die in dilerium tremens and the doctor will kindly shut the door on the family skeleton and* sign a death certificate with a long Latin name of some disease of the nerves, those mod- ern scapegoats of the ills which flesh is heir to. A well known woman physician, who has had fifteen years practice in this city, says that she has about ten alco- holic subjects on her list of patients. She does not make a specialty of the thing. These cases came to her by acei- dent, as it were. She would be sent for because the woman or girl was ill, and would, on answering the call, find the patient unmistakably under the influence of liquor. “In such cases,” she says, “I never make any romark about it. It is of no use at that time. But the next time I go I say frankly: ‘See heve, weren't you under the influence of liquor the other day?’ They always deny it, but after a little talk T' get them to admit it, and then comes the whole story, and a sad enough story it is, too. The older women, T find, have acquired the habit through social drinking. They take wine at their meals, o glass of whisky or acocktail now and then through the day, and after the social round is over and they are in their own rooms they drink cnough ‘*night caps’ to send them stupidly to bed “under the care of tho maid. By noon the nextday the drunken stupo Any calls in the mean- time elicit the information that madame is suffering from a severe headacho. You know a headache covers a multi- tude of sins.” “What do these women drink?” “Whisky principally. Sometimes brandy. If they cannot got these the; will drink cologne or anything contain- ing aleohol.” “How much do they drink?” “It differs in different cases. Most of them will drink several glasses of whisky straight. The cases which trouble me most are the young women—the g With thew it is almost always a hered- itary appetite. They take it first por- haps in some sickness, and it needs but a short time for the case to become one for a physician. One girl, a patient of mine, has at times & amad craving for . She gots—well, drunk—and he is filled with disgust and re- morse at the thought of what she has done. She promised me faithtully somo time ago that she would nevar touck liquor again, but it was not long betore I was called there in haste and found she han been drinking heavily. “She told me afterward that aftor she gave me the promiso to quit she had thrown away every drop of liquor in tho house in order to be free from the temp- tation. She got on all right for a time until a slight illness came, and with it the longing for liquor to stimulate her. She said s devil sbemed to whisper to her to take just a teaspoonful, but not to take any more. She sent out and got a quart of whisky and took the teaspoon- ful. That was enough to make her crazy with the appetite, and she drank the whole gnart. It would have killed her if nausea had not saved her by bringing it all up again. That was three months ago, and she has kept her promise since then, but’—and the doc- tor shook his head. . “It is hereditary with her, poor girl.” Dr. Grace Peckham Murray said that it is not possible to tell whether drunk- enness is on the increase. She admits that drinking is, however. This in- crease, she says, is merely a roaction. Forty years ago it was more common than it is now. Every one, even minis- ters and good old deacons, kept all sorts of “hard” and *'soft” drinks to offer to their thirsty guests. Intemperance be- came such a great evil that a reform was necessary. Sho thinks the tem- perance movement has seen its height for the present and that a reaction has again setin. The pendulum is swinging back again _and hundreds of families who never had wine on their tables ten years ago ave serving it now. Still,another woman physician said that in many cases the habit of drinking was procoded and accompanied by the cigarette habit. The extent of tho pre- valence of this habit among girls and women it would be hard to estimate, and the tobacco habit, 80 the learned doctor says, induces both thirstand nervous de- rangement, both of which conditions make heayy bids to alcoholism, As for tho causo of it all, one man says it is an accompaniment to the increased laxity of morals in critics, particularly in New York., Another saysit is be- cause of a lack of religious sentiment in the community—two answers which spell the same thing. Another says, and yot others, that it is because this is a uxurious age, and the people who have acquired wealth are living at a home stroteh gait, and alcohol is the whip that helps them kecp the pace. However that may be, the serpent which, according to (tradition, lurks in the bosom of the wine glass, has appar- ently begun a second, temptation of Eve, and Eve, alas! seoms inclined to listen as she did of old. —l Hot Woather Ynsurance, For 25 cents you ean_insure yourself and family against any bad resilts from an attack of bowe! complawt during the sum- mer, Chamberlain’s lollo, Cholora and Diarrhasa Remody s & crtain eure for these Qisoases. 1t costs but 25leents. For saie by druggists. —— EDUCATIONAL, Tho anuual school censts shows & gain of 2,000 children in Minneapolis. The senior living graduato of Brown uni- versity, it Is belleved, 1s Rev. Dr. George Ware Briggs of Cambridge, Mass.. & mem- bor of the class of 1525, who is now in his elghty-fourth year, Rt. Rev. John J. Keane, rector of the Catholic university at Washiogton; Rev. Thomas R, Lounsbury, Episcopal bishop-elect of Massachusetts; Hon. Richard Olney, attorney general, and Hon. Robert T. Lin- coln, ex-United States minister to England, were reciplents of honorary degrees at the Harvard commencement. Chancellor Sims of Syracuse university has renewed the announcement of his in- tended retirement, made at the semi-annual meeting and withdrawn at the unauimous request of the board of trustees. He has oc- cupled the pogition for nearly thirteen years, and stated at the semi-annual session the other aay that he felt that the time bhad come when Lo neoded o change of ocoupa- under his charge. Ex-Senator Dawes of Massachusetts, it 18 undersiood, will accept the leotureship in United States history recently offered to Dartmouth collego by Gardner Q. Hubbard of Washington, & graduate of Dartmouth in tho class of ‘41, Mr, Dawes will lecture on the civil and political history of the United States since the civil war. Mr. Hub- bard 1s one of the warmost frionds of the venorablo ex-sonator and was espeoially in- terested in tho testimonial given to Mr. Dawes by his Massachusatts 4rionds on his retiremeont from public life. In order to encourage young men to pre- pare_themselves for the profession of jour- nalism, tho proprietor of the New York Her- ald has founded prizes fn six conspizuous American institutions of learning. These prizes aro to be awarded annually at Har- vurd, Yale, Princoton ana_Columbia, 8t the Colloge of the City of New York and at the University of Now York. The awards are 10 bo made on commencement day or at any timo chosen by the faculty of each institu- tion. Tho prizes are to bo medals or small sums of money, equivalent in every caso to the annual intercst earned by $1,000. Any undergraduate member of the senior class or special student of satisfactory standing, who has taken the prescribed course of his col- logo or university in political science and Buglish_literature, may competo for tho prize. The competition is to bo in the form of essays in IEnglish prose on subjects of con- tomporaucous intorost in the foroign or do- wmestic policy of the government of the United Stat —— INDUSTRIAL MATTERS. Hats cost Americans §00,000,000 annually. America produced 204,818 pounds of alum- inum in 180, Ten thousand coal miners are on strike in Kansas and Missouri. The colored peoplo of Virginia, pay taxes on property valuod at $13,000,000. South Carolina is the largest producer of phosphates in the world, leading with 600,000 tons. A tinplato factory at Eliwood, TiL, has closed, being unablo to como toan agreement with its mon on the question of wages. Atypeof firearm has been invented in Fagland by which compressed gas is utilized instead of powder as a propelling force. The total production of the six beet fac- tories 1n tho Unitod States was 97,083,833 pounds, against a total of 12,004,835 pounds lust year. In Bengal, Indin, there are threo harvests reapod overy y ase and oil seeds in April, the enrly rice crop in September, and the great rice erop in December. Sxperiments made at Glasgow, Scotland, h lap-welded stoam pipes show only & slight differonco in the matter of strength between the solid plate and the weld. One of the latest mechanical improvements metal working is -a system of rolls for pping nnrrow plates of steel into a bar, which is much stronger than a solid piece of the same size. Tt is reported that New Orieans is to have one of the largest cotton manufactur plants in the country. The amount involved 18 stated at £2,500,000, but nothing tangivle has yet developed. A recent mineral find is about to be devel- opod in the Chickasaw Indian reservation, south of Guthrie, Okl Immense beds of as. tum, rivaling those of the island of “Trinidad, have been found near the Arbuckle mountains. The quality is tho very best and tho quantity sufticient to pave the strocts of every city in tho west and not show any dimnution in the supply. The problem of silent machinery running appoars to have been broaght a step nearer solution by the introduction in_Austria of cog wheels made of pressod raw hide, which are to work in conjunction with wheels of cast iron, steel and other metals. The new wheels aro said to possess great strongth. Thoy do mot require lubricating and are, therefore, clean in operation. It is claimed that they substantially reduce the vibration of the machinery in which they are used. They can be had ready madeor in the form of raw hide disks for shaping by the pur They aro supported by a wooden framework and after being cut the wheel is covered with a shellnc solutiou. The greatest draw- back to the new wheel is its comparative ex- pansiveness. Those who are interested in the treatment of sitver bullion and other products of silver mines have given considerable attention of late to a new method of reduction and vofining, of special value, it is clained, in respeet to facility and economy, as com- pared with theordinary procecding in vogue. The process, m question, it app is much shorter and cheaper than any other in use, with the additional advantage of less handling of the metal being required, the important fact being stated that silver is thus refined to 9.95 and gola to 9.90, both of these points representing the maximum re- quiroments. The process makes a_completo soparationof the gold, silver and copper, and, as the operation employed is known as the' wet process, it does away with any resort to matting and roasting furnaces. i — NEW INVENTIONS. A micrometer screw, having its bearing pivoted to calivers at the end of one of the calipor legs. A steel or fron box column composed of flanged bars, each riveted by a flange to tho web of one of the adjoining bars. A pair of tailor's shears with a noat spring support to reliove the hand of the woight of the shears when cutting long lengths. An automatic boiler cleaner in which the water circulotes from the boiler into settling vessels and thence back to the boiler. A machine for making cans, including all the operations of cutting the tin, putting the parts togother, scaming, wiring and burnish- ing. A substitute for rotten stone for polishing wood, consisting of oil and sulphur boiled together and mixed with turpentine and salt. A power oparating stone cutter surrounded by a weighted jacket and suspended to trun- nions, whereby it may be moved and held in aifferont positions. 4 to0l box comprising a single block made up of slabs so grooved and fitted that a tool may be readily inserted or taken out without interfering with other tools. A roofing plato constructed on the edges with moldiags, having transverse strengthen- ing ribs adapted to engaye with similar moldings on the adjoining plates, A mercury thermomoter with a transpar- ent scale board, having throo concave sidos, on which are shown the fahrenheit, centi- grade and reaumur scales respectively. A grained arawing paper flat on one side and on the other provided with regular pyramidal projoctions, whose apoxes are arranved at oqual distances from each other. An improved nosepiece for eyoglasses, having two neat lateral pads projecting backward from each of the vertical clips, whereby the plasses are more securely hold at any angle. A machine for breaking pig iron, consist. ing of a reciprocating hummer, carrying dies, arranged stepwise 80 as to strike the pigs in succession, aud mechanism for feeding tho iron forward, A transit frame for pile fabrics,constructed with arms engaging with sliding rod, which provent one layer from pressing against the nextone and having pins which hold the cloth distended, A flexible tubing formed from a helical metallic strip, which is so coiled that the convolutions form cones, one within the other, and are secured by pins and holes on the edges of the strip. A tool for removing burrs from the interior of B pipe, consisting of & body provided with o longitudinal cutting edge and clearance spaco and a series of stop shoulders o bear azainst the ond of the pipe. Frouch 1ngenuity has contrived an im- proved stono-cutting saw of remarkable effoiency—a circular saw having its edg set with black diamonds in the ne way as the straight blades: butas the strain on the diamond is all in one direction, the set- ting can be made much firmer. ——— History istory. All impartial historians give to the Norsemen the honor of being the dis- coverers of America, says the St. Louis Republic. However, but few of them ever give the name of the real discoverer According to the most authentic records monks from Ireland discovered Iceland about the year 725 A, D. About 135 years later’ the Norsemen (knowing nothing of the discovery made by the Irish monks) also ran afoul of the little boreal island. In the year 874 these BENNETT'S GRAND SOUVENIR SALE. NOW IN FULL BLAS' EVERY ONE ANXIOUS TO GET ONR HAVE YOU GOT A TIOKET YRT? FURITURE. Since moving this department on sec- ond floor our salos have incrensed daily. Our large stock of flne and medium priced goods at extremely low prices is what talks. [n order to olose out our stook of refrigerators and baby ovar ringes we will soll thom at cost this weel. Ice boxes, 84.25 and up. Re- frigorators, $5.95 and up. Baby oar- ringes, $3.50 and up. Conter tables 26c and up. Now is your timo to get one. JEWELRY. Everybody can afford to own a good watch now. Our goodsare tho best and prices the chonpest. Wo begin as low as 980 for a watch that will keep good time and run up to $25. In making thoee prices wo have not taken into con- sideration the cost. RAZORS. Those who shave thomselvos and bar- bor's, attontion! Lot of razors to close at75c. You may find just the ono you want in this lot. Thoy are a bargain. Cost will “‘cut no figure” in Ll\lsl watoh, clock and jeweiry salo. S-day ong strike clock, $1.98. Pocket knives, argo assortment best goods made, 56 and upwards. All guarantoed. If & knife breaks wo give you u new one. HARDWARE. Axe handles, 25¢ kind to close at 5o each. Hammocks, all at special pri Wash boilers at bargain prico of 65c. Garden hoes, ¢ each. Garden scts, 20¢ per set. Tea kottles, ali copper, 98¢ nud 8110, WOODENWARE, Spice cabinets only 480, ‘W ash boarde, 10¢, Double-handle market baskots, Sa. We are unlonding todny A CAR of woodonware, which will be on salo Mon- day nt very low prices. In the lot are 1,200 bushel baskets, to bo sold for 100, Churns of all kinds at bottom prices. 1,200 market baskets, 8¢ each. Larga line wiliow clothes-baskots cheap. RBaskets of all kinds. Now is tho timo to got your baskels of us lower than ever before. They aro all new. Fresh stock just being un- londed. ANNEX BASEMENT. Pictures at half price. White woolen blankets, to close, at your own pricos. runks and valises, cut pricos Crockory. A big wnd varied assort- ment at very low prices, Toys and novelties. Roys' ocarts, whoelbarrows, wagons, doll huggies, all in the Annex Bascroont atlow prices. Bo sure and inquiro about tho ticket and GET ONI, which will entitlo you to a SOUVENIR. Thoy are to bo giver only to thoso who trade with W. R. Bennett Co., 1502 to 1512 Gawnito! Ave. Omaha Loan and Trust Co SAVINGS BANK., SIXTEENTH AND DOUCLAS STREETS. Capital $100,000; _Liability of Stockholders, $200.000 PER CENT /w0 on SIX MONTIS 44 nar oant onDIIRE B MONTUHS" Csrtiflc ites of Doposits 4 por oont lnterest vald on banka A.HOS : v enterprising sons of the Vikings had | planted a colony on the island, which soon became a_flourishing settlo- ment. In the year 893 Eric the Red dis- cover t of Greenland and | skirted along it for many miles. In 995 ono Bjarni, who was makinga trip in | his uessel from Norway to leeland, was driven from his course and finally found himself, vessel and crew, in a_harbor on the coast of Nova Scotia. These facts, being indisputable, should accord to Bjarni the individual honor of being tho discoverer of the Western continent. But the Scandinavian historians, when press- ing their claims of being the true discoverers of America. scldom mention Bjarni, sceming to prefor conforring the honor upon one Licf, a son of Erie tho Red, otherwiso known as Lief Ericson. This man Licf scems to have deliberatoly left Icoland with the avowed intention of planting a colony in the New South- wost—this some five years after the fate- ful voyage of Bjarni, who was the real pathfinder to the new world. Erieson’s colony was landed at what is now Rhodo Island (known in Norse history as **Vin- land”), and wus maintained for many years—according to some writers, until finally wiped out by the plagu The Republic is not exactly in favor of changing “Columbus Day” to “Bjarni Day,” but history is history and must bo truthfully recorded *‘though the heavens fall.” P BEFORE THE MAST, A Boy's Prospocts in tl Nuvy. Boys of good character, who have no physical defect, and who can read and write fairly well, are admitted into the nuvy betwden the ages of 14 and 18 years, says Harper's Young Poople. Betweou 14'and 15 yearsa boy must measuro 4 foot 9 inches in height, and weigh not less than seventy pounds; between 15 and 16, 4 feet 11 inches, and eighty pounds; between 16 and 17, 5 feet 1 inch, pounds, and between 17 _and t 2 inches, and 100 pounds. They must serve till the age of 21 as boys and junior scamen, and after that ago they rank as seamen or petty officers. They are now allowed a’ sum of ${5 for outfit, a fact which considerably en- hances the advantages of the service. To discover the exact number of petty officers on board u fully equipped ship is by no means an easy task; but, at all events, the number of these minor prizes is encourngingly large, while still higher up, as the final goal of the common sailor's aspirations, are the substantial berths of the four warrant officers—held by the boatswain, the carpenter, the gunner and the sailmaker—whoso pay and privileges aro tho same as those of the junior officers. And now as to the rates of pay: The pay of boys enlisted as third-ciass ap- prentices is 39 a month. the next promo- tion, to second-class apprentice, brings #10; the next, to first-class apprentice, 811 a month, IFurther on we have second-class seamen apprentices, with $19 a mongh, followed by first-class soa- men apprentices, with #24 a month, these two grades corresponding respec: tively to ordinary seamen and ablo sea- men, or uimpl{ seamen, whose pay is also 819 and #24 a month. It can thus be seen that a first-class seaman apprentice and an ablo soa- man get each the seotablo sum of $288 a year, which is $128 in excess of the highest suin puid to a first-class seaman in the British service, the only other navy in the world worth consider- ation on the scove of pay and promotion. There is, besides, the daily ration of 30 cents, which runs through the ship from the apprentice to the commander, for, strange as it may appear to some people, Unele Sam distributes just the same fare United States 10 the officers as to the apprentice, and that, too, onlsewhen on sea duty. There are no other allowances whatsoever made to the officers: they have to fur- nish all their own mess equipments and everything else. e Satoty of Prisoas. Abundant evidence is daily forthcom- ing that prisons ave not by any means to be relied on for the safekoeping of those whose liberty has been temporarily ro- stricted by the pronouncement of the law. Given a cortain amount of patience, ingenuity, alertness and nerve, and the chances of a criminal's eventual escape from enforcad confinement be- come, in many cases, quite appreciable, Should, howover, the latest improve- ment in prison construction be adopted this possibility would be reduced to a minimum. It is proposed to build celis of iron or steel intercommunicating pipos in which water would bo main: talned under pressure. The theory of the inventor is that an attempt to break out of a dungeon thus constructed would result in damage to the tell-tale tubes, 513 DOUGLAS 5=~ KIMBALLPIAND’ the smallost puncture in which would cause & leak, of which quick notice “ounts OE JR STREET MAKES THE BEST Photograph REASONABLE RATES FOR The Best, 1520 LTHYHUYNIA Douglas Streo. FITSCURE (From. Prof. W.1L.P¢ S. 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