Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1893, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1893-TWENTY PAGE OUR CRlETE e e e 2 JEOARDE HENILLE CUR- 'AINS—Pricos have been cut as fol- S TOVES —-Woe offer this week only: Base Burners, Oil Heaters, Cannon 90, 6-holo 3 X - Nico F RNITURE— P.\HLOR B u'nrm-n:. Highly po'ished SUITS. . desirablo patterns, a Chamber Sets, J Hundsomely uphol= specinl drive, for tigue or 16th stered, Intest style, this week only 48c.* tury finish. cheval 16th century or an- Ingrain Carpets. or square dressers, tique finish, worth latest style : worth 30,00, this £10.00, this weel vt R ) \ week only 25c per week only $18, only $23.75. yard, worth doublo. an- cen- formerly 5 f so formerly §10 holo Ranges, $¢ S so formorl) Worth double. oW SEL0 staries, Ladies' Desks, Com- bination Library Chses, Parlor Desks, Office Desks.ete., wo offer at prices which wo guarauteo to be from 10 to 50 per cent below cash store prices. F()I.IJI_\'G BEDS. Fifty-six different style: Ask to see [ .50 Mantel Folding Bed and our $13.25 Upright Fol ing Bed, in antigue or 16th tentury fin- ish, SII)ICU(L\IH)H. OVE A Solid Oak Side- > This board, finely fin- L AL ished, well mado, s Hore e h this week only $11.76, ”‘"“ . other houses would el consider it chenp ut R e son Shovels 4¢ oach. Y week only, NESS i \ hipe 10¢ jo e 0 be i We cordinlly invite you to exam ino and compare them with any house in the iand. L.\.\‘II‘S - Hanging Hanging Lamp for $4.65,Worth $10. 65¢ b0 Blil)l)l.\'l;. Comfort Pillows., Blankots, Spreads, Bolsters, o Pillow Slips, 17c. Worth double. T ABL Dining_ Tables, 81,95, Kitchen bles, 75c. Fxtension s G i Tables, $3.85, and ¢ ) all other tables Sl e equally as low. LO\'N(? 38, Single Lounges, $4.85, worth #7.50, Bed Lounges, 0, worth 812 Chenilie Couches, $0.75, worth $16. CA\ RPETS. Linoleums, 58c. Door Mats, 28c. Rugs, $1. Stair Cavpet, 15 Rag Carpot, 20c. Oil Cloth, 19 tocke ine Roc Children's Rockers, stry Rock- Poush INDOW SHADF Lace Curtains Curtain Pole 3 S1lk Curtaing, Chenille prERMs— INWARE. On a bill of $10, ash and $1 per week. pecial and more favorable arrange- 340, ments on larger pur- 8 Kitchen Cabinot, chases- 5,50, FU RNITURE. Easel Screel Plush Chueir Bedstead T UrCHI Kitchen Table Kitchon safes$3.50. Kitchen Chuirs, Dinner Tea Séts, $4.25, Toilet Sets, 31,9 We ¢ g st stock of Crocker and Glussware in the city. sh Boiler Tea Kettles, Cofen Pots, 10c. Mrs, Pott’s Irons, Covers, ; Aund all other tin- ware cqually aslow. INMENSE building, with a large warehouse in the rear, stored from cellar to roof with everything neces- sary for housekeep- ing. Fl([“.lfl— With every purchase of $1.00 and over a handsome imported souvenir. Knives and usunl price eck only With ev vurchaso of $10.00 and over a very pretty Smyrna Rug with a choico of several hundred to select from, With every purchase of $5.00 and over, u beautiful decorated cup and saucers We are always moving toward the “King Row” of success and ever ready to jum the city. ’ \_,THE PEOPLES MAMMOTH INSTALL p at a chance to prove that our prices are far below any other house in America’s Largast Gash or Credit House, 1315-1317 FARNAM STREE the alert, as railroad managers always are, | The railroad thus gets rid of an undesirable | sors: in fact every legislator disposed to bar- mation w ued in_ the husetts pride and joy of the there is. with further changes iu the person- GOV.LARRABEE 0N RAILROADS Persistent Efforts to Fix the Complexion of the Future Supreme Bench, WILL SOON SAY “‘WE ARE THE COURTS” Pecullar Mothods of Seating “Suitable” Judges—The Lobby, Tts Influence and Ways of Worklug Legisintors, 1. @ov. Wm. Larrabee—"The Railroad Question.” The decision which the supremo court of the Unitea States rendercd in the Granger cases in 1870, afirming vhe right of a state to control railroad charges for the transporta- tion of passengers wholly within the state, was a serious disappointment to railroad men, for it was the first stop towurd wrest- {ng from them the power to avbitrarily con- trol the commerce of thecountry, [ver since that time it has been their determined pur- pose to bring about, if possible, & recon- struction of the federal supreme court in or- der to securea reversal or modification of the Granger decision. In the case of Peik vs Chicago, 94th U. S., 176, the supreme court laid down the following broad prinei- ple of law: ‘‘Where property has been clothed with public interest the legislature may fix a limit to that which shall in law be reasonable for its use. This limit binds the court as well as the people. If it has been fmproperly fixed the legislature not the courts must be appealed to for a change.” o one of the Granger cases the same court used the following language: “We know that this is a powey which may be abused, but that is no argument against its exist- ence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to tho polls,” Fourteen years later, in the case of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. ul Railroad company vs. Minnesota, decided in October, 1890, the same court rendered a decision so indefinite that the lawyers differed much in their opinion as to its meanipg, and it ap- pears that tho members of the court who made the decision also differed in their opinions as to the meaning of the decision, for Justice Bradley said in his dissenting opinion, in which Justice Gray and Justice Lamar concurred, that the decision practic- ally overruled Munn ¥s. New York, sub- mitted in October, 1801, and decision ren- dered February 20, 1802, and opinion de- livered by Justice Blatehford in referring to the Minnesota case, after quoting the above statement from Justice Bradley, said: *“But tne opinion of the court did not say so, nor did it refer to Munn vs, Illinois, and we are of the opinion that the decisionin that case 18, a8 owill be hereafier shown, quite dis- guishable from the present h It is thus appareat that this court has ad- hered to the decision in Munn linos, and to the doctrines anuounced in the opinion of the court in that case, and those doctrines have since been rovcatedly enforced an the decisions of the courts of the states. Judge Brewer, whose zeal for the defense " of corporate interests secws to amount almost toa craze, wissented. He said: I disseut from the opinion aud judgwent in these cases. The main proposition upon which they restis, in wy judgment, radically unsound, ‘It is the doctrive of Muun vs. Lllinois reafirmed. The paternal theory of government is to me odious. Justice Field and Justice Brown concur with we io this digsent.” h should be remembered that Justices Brewer and Brown were both appointed to the supreme bench by Presiden’ rison, Rallroad Tools in High Places. ‘We have overy reason to believe that un- hu:l‘:wyuoyuu Upited States are on nel of the court, danger of its deviating from the sound principles of law laid_ down_ in its decision in the Granger cases. Railroad at- torneys have been repeatedly raised to seats in the highest tribuna! in the land. So great is the power of the railrond interests, and so persistent are they in their demands, that unless a strong public sentiment records its protests their candidates for appointive oftices are but too apt to be successful. Re resentatives of the railrdads sit in the con- gress of the United Stat others are mem- bers of the national campaign committees of both of the great polit arties, others control the politics of the states, and thewr influence reaches to the white house, whether its occupant 1s aware of it or not. Other in- terests iu Liie pust have succeedea in secur- ing the appointment of biased men as judges of the supreme court who afterwards’ could d upon to rerder decisions in Will the people profit by their experience or will they be mdifferent to the danger which surrounds them until nothing short of a political upheaval can restore to m these rights of sovereignty of which thoy have so insidiously been deprived? Humau gratitude is such that oven high- minded men who, through the influence of the railroad Interest, have been placed upon the federal bench, find it impossible to divest themselvesof all bins when called upon to decide a casowin which their. bene- factors are interested, Such is the human mind that, when clouded by prejudice, it wilt forever be blind to its own fault, Even the members of so high a tribunal as the ele ommission, which decided the dential contest between Hayes and ' could not divest themselyes of thelr preju- dices; each one, republican or democrat, voted for the candidate of the party with which hie had cast his political fortune. “Whim and Greed” of the Moejority, Last Jaunuary, in an address delivered before the New York State Bar association at Albany, Mr, Justice Brewer reminded his hearers that the rights of the railroads fat s secure in the eye and the custody of the law as the purposes of justico in the thought of God.” And further on they were told that there are today $11,000,000,000 invested in railroad property, —whose owners in this country number less than 2,000,000, persons. Can it be that whether t immense sum shall earn a dollar or bring the slightest recompense to thoso who have invested perhaps their all in that business, and are thus siding in the development of the country, depends wholly upon the whim and greed of that great majority of 60,000,000 who do not .own & dollar?” It may be said that that majority will not be so foolish, seltish and cruel as to strip that property of its earning capacit; I suy that so lorg as constitutional guar- antees lift on Awmerican soil their buttresses and bulwarks against wrong, and so long as the American judiciary breathes the free air of courage, it cannot. Unfertunately judicial buttresses and bul- warks have not always been lifted against wrong. Judge Taney, like Brewer, sup- posed it was left at his time for his court to reserve the peace and provide for the safety of the nation; but history has shown that we cannot depend upon that high tri- y for safety when it iscontrollea by k or weflicient men, " When we consider what *“that great qma- Jority” hias done for this country in the past, and is doing for it at the present time, and especially when we contrast its sense of justice and right with the weakness and in- ability of some of its public servants, does 1t not seem to be a little presumptuous for them to assume that “the danger is from the multitudes—the majority with whom 1s the power,” and that were it not for their superior wisdomw and patriotic action this great governwent of the pww:, by the peo- ple and for the people would be a failure? Mr. Lincoln never feaved '‘the whim and greed”’ of “that great majority,” but he had avall times impliciv confidence in the great mass of the people, and they in return had full copfidence that no temptation of wealth or power was sulicient to seduce his in- riLy. \We caunot dismiss this subject without referring to @ stratagem which railroads huve in the past repeatedly resorted to for the purpose of removing from the bench tud:u of iudependent minds whom th ave found it impossible to control. This iy e consists of a well disguised bribe, by which a federal judge is chauged into a railroad abtorney with a princely salary. judge and gains a desirable solicitor at a price at which they could well have afforded to pension the judge. The following is a copy of a broker’s circu- lar letter sent to prominent bankers of Towa, and shows that even the clerk of the United States court is not overlooked: .., June 30, 1892, t to sale at par and interest, e, July 5, 1892, T Six Payable when de- . Endorser, Judge the mauker, Is clerk ircuit‘court at & the well known attorney of 8 Railway compun L atated €0 us to be worth $160,00 1000, "'Can you use it? How Legislatures Are Worked. ‘Whilo railroad managers rely upon servile courts as a last resort to defeat the will of the sovereign people, they are far from los- ing sight of the importance of controlling the legislative branch of the government. By preventing what they ave pleased to_call unfriendly legislation they are more than likely to prevent friction with public opinion, and they avoid at the same time the risk of permanently prejudicing their cause by an adverse opinion upon a constitutional ques- tion, which they may find it necessary to raise in order to nullity o legislative act. There are three distinct means employed by them to control legislative action. Kirsi, the election to legislative offices of men who are, for somo personal reason, adherents to the railroad cause. Second, the delusion or even corruption of weak or unscrupulous members of legislative bodies. Third, the employment of professional and incidental dobbyists and the subsidizing of newspapers representatives for the purpose of ng members of legislative bodies and their constituencies. There age probubly in every legislative body a number of members who are in some way or other counected with railroad cor- porations. No doubt a majority of thess are personally irreproachable and even so high- minded as to always postpone private for public interest, yet there are also those whose political advancement was brought about by railroad managers Yor tne very purpose of having in the legislative boay servile members who could always be refied upon to serve their corporate masters, Nevertheless, were railroad interests re- stricted to the votes of these men for their support the public would probably have no use for alarm on account of the presence of railroad representatives in legi bodies, but as mady other interests seck favorable legislation railvoad men are often enabled to guin support for their cause by & corrupt bargaia for votes, and it is thus possible for them to- double, triple and even quadruple their original strength by a policy of reciprocity. Asn congress and state legislatures, so these representatives of the railroads may be found in our city councils. I'he leaders of the railroads in congress and in the logis- latures of the various states usually rely upon discretion for obtaining their end, but railroad aldermen, with but few exceptions, seek to demonstrate their loyalty to the caus® to which they are committed by a zealous advocacy of extreme measures, and will not wfrequently even gain their end through the most unscrupulous combina- tions. 1f their votes, together with such supoort as they obtain by making trades, are not sufiicient o carry out ordefeat & measure which the railroad interests may favor or oppose even more questionable 1neans are employed to gain a sufficient num- ber of votes to command a majority. Outright bribery 18 probably the means least often employed by corporations to carry their measures, While it may be true that the vote of every weak and unscrupu- lous legislator is a subject of barter, money is not often the compensation for which it is obtained, 1t is the policy of the political corruption committees of corporations to as- certaln the weakness and wants of every man whose services they are likely to need, and to attack him, if his surrender should be essential to their victory, at his weakest point. Men with political ambition are en- couraged o aspire to preferment, and are as- sured of corporate support to bring it about. Briefless lawyers are promised business or salaried attorneyships. Those in financial straits are accommodated with loans. Vaig wen are flattered and |1‘1\1:1 newspapor no- w.-uly,‘y, Others tc 6 en passes for their families and thel lends. s):“ pers are glven advantages o ratesover t) competi ter his vote adwiy receives for it compensa- tion which combines the maximum of vio- lence to his self-respect. What the Lobby is Made Of. Those who attempt to influence or control legislative bodies in behalf of interested parties are called the lobby. As a rule the lobby consists of promiment politicians likely to have influence with members of their own party; of menof gooa address and easy conscience, familiar alike with the subject under consideration and legislative proceed- ure, and last, but not least, of contidential agents authorized and prepared to enter into secret negotiations with venal members. The lobby which represents the railroad companies at legislative sessions is usually the largest, the most sagacious and the most unscrupulous of all. Its work is systematic ana thorough, its methods unscrupulous and its resources great. Yet all the members of a legislative body cannot be bribed either by money or position or favors, Some of them will not vote for any proposed measure un- less they can be convincea that it is for the public welfare. Thase legislators, if their votes are needed, are turned over to the per- suasive eloquence of those members of the lobby who apparently have come to the capi- tal moved by a patriotic impulse to set erring lezislators right on public ques- tions. Their familiarity ~with pub- lic matters, their success in pub- lic life, their high standing in political circles, their apparvent disinterestedness and their arguments all combineto give them greav influence over new and inex- perienced members, In extreme cases in- fluential constituents of doubtful members are_sent for atthe last moment to labor with their representatives, and to assure them that the sentiment of their districts 1s in favor of the measure advocated by the railroads. Telegrams pour in upon the un- suspecting members, Petitions in favor of the proposed meusure are also hastily oir- culated among the unsophisticated constit- uents of members sensitive to public opinion, and are then presented to them as an unmistakable indication of the popular will, although the total number of signers forms a very small percentagze of the total number of voters in the districts in which these petitions were circulated, A common method employed by the railroad lobby in Towa has been 10_arouse by ingenious argu- ents the prejudices of the people of one D tate against those of another, or ofone class against those of another class; for iustance, the east against the west, or that portion of the state the least suppiled with railvoad facilities against that which is best supplied; or the river cities ugainst the interior ; or the country people agminst the city people; or the farmer against the merchant, and al- ways artfully keeping in view the oppor- tunity to utilize one side or the other in their own interest. S INDUSTRIAL NOTES, The Chesapeakeoyster beds employ 80,000 persons. No nation has made so rapid increase in the tonnage of stewmers registered the pass twelve months as she United States. Until 1859 no pig iron was manufactured in Pittsburg. [n 1888 a total of 1,775,267 gross tons were produced. Nearly a hundeed establishments are en- gaged in the mawafacture of bronze powder in and near thevities of Furth and Nurem- burg. . It took four months for four men to do seven inches of a cashmeze shawl one yard wide, working from 5 in the morning till5 in the evening every day, so it was har lIv 10 be wondered at that two yards should cost neorly §000. There is big news to be told about alum- inum. It is now on the market at 65 cents pound, aud a thousand fresh uses for it have been discovered. Already it has drivén sil- ver out of the arts to some extent. It has almost superseded the latter metal as foil for “gilt" work, because it i quite as beau- tiful and can be beaten into leaf nearly us thin as gold leaf. The production of it h surpassed that of nickel and will soon ex- ceed that of uornwr and lead. In fact, aluminum is degtined soon to take the place of lead and copper to a lar(c degree, well as that of irof, wnen It becomes cheap enough. ———— (Cure indigestion " and Dbillousness with Devuvm'u Little Barly Risers, MAKE WAY FOR THE TURI(S] The Day They Lord It Over the Rest of Fowl Creation, SEASONED MEDITATION AND MASTICATION The Whys and the Wherefores Discussed ucidated with Historleal Stufling —Reflections on the Day We Celebrate, Age does not wither nor custom stale the festival of Thanksgiving. It has become a part of the national life, and its influenc transcends the physical features of the fe: tival. Tt comes at a season of the year when the bounties of nature are inventoried and the bounteous blessings thercof may be properly acknowledged, And to give eclat to the spirit of thankfulness the inner man is gorgeously eratified. Then there is the mirth, the cheer, the fellowship of the gen- uine feast which serve to drive dull care away. And there ure abundant reasons for thank- fulness this year. The banker sees in his replenished hoard and stiff rates much cause for joy. The borrower may rejoice in being accommodated. Reawakened industry hums a joyous lay and erstwhile smoxele: chimneys belch soot and thankfulness. S ver clouds have taken a golden hi Gran- aries groan with nature's pounties. Politi- caily, tho g. 0. p. hus earned its exhilaration ; its opponents may rejoice for the favor of existence. We have seen thrones totter and dusky crowns roll in the dust; war's comic front bristling in other lands; monarchies trembling on the points of bayorfets and ex- cessive taxation; divine righters making footballs of the popular will; civilization marching with rum and gun in the dark continent, and the quixottes of Spain pump- ing lead and sense into ihe Moors—all these we have witnessed while enjoying peace and national concord, Wherefore let us igedi- tate and masticate and be duly thankful, Oue of the Big Four, With the Fourth of July, Memorial day and Washinglon’s birthday, Thanksgiving day is ove of the four distinctively American festivals, but though distinctively Americ: the sentiwents that inspire them—Thanks giving day, faith; Washington's natal day, hero worship; Memorial day, love; and the Fourth of July, patriotism—are common to all peoples of the earth, and only for excel- lent reasons of our own have we selected the times. whep we ourselves shall celebrate these universal feelings. The Thanksgiving day sentiment is indeed a far descended one, it being an inheritance from the first races of mankind of the elation they felt over nature's yearly la American Indians and other barbar! having to this day ceremonies of their own in celebration of autumn's bounty. As a spirit of religion developed this feel- ing grew into a worship of deities that were suppased to preside over the crops, like the beautiful goddesses Demeter of the Greeks and Ceres of the Romans; and still later when mythology had been cast off, remnants of the same ides remained in the “harvest homes,” and similar, though differently named, festivals of all nations when the grala garnered and the fruit heaped up, merry makings and dances went on beneath therays of the harvest moon. But it remained for that little band of Pli- mouth pilgrims to give a spiritual signifi- cance 10 these gala times—to provide a fit- ting soul for so fair a body, an act eminently in-conformity with this religious people; while the Awerican nation at laree, many decades later, widened this feeling into one of atibnal import, so that this week in- stead of fifty-five people observing it, as was the case in Plymouth 272 years age 000 are particivants in its good ohieel ‘Phe first oficial Thanksgiving of which there Is any record in this country was again o Massachusetis affair aud the proc) Bay colony for October 16, Other ofticial occasions of sin cind are registered as occurring in 1654, and from then on until 1680, when the form of the recorded proclan indicated that it had become an annual custom. The First by George. Tne first Thanksgiving day proclamation ever issued bya president was signed by George Washington in 1780, The original is in the possession of Rey.J. W. Wellman, who inherited it from lis grandafather, William Ripley of Cornish, N. [I. This proclamation was issued by request of both houses of congress, through th joint com- mittee. The text of the proclamation follow- ing the preamble is: Now, thercfore, I do_recommend and as- sign Thursday, tho 20th aay of November next, to be devoted by the people of the: states to the service of that great and glort ous Being, who is the benificent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That wemay then all unite in render- ing unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the People of this Coun ous to the r becoming a Nation: for the signal and mani fold Mercies, and the favourable tions of his Providence in the Cou Conclusion of the late W Degree of ‘iranquility, Union and I which we have since enjoyed; for the pe: ful and rational Manner in which we b been enabled to estabhsh Constitutions of overnment for our Safety and Happi ad particularly the nation instituted ; for the civi with which we are blessed, and the wmeans we have of acquiring aiffusing vseful knowledge; and in general, for all the great and various Favours which he hath been pleased to confer upon us : ‘And, also, that we may then unite in most humbly offering our Prayers and supplica- tious to the great Lord and Rulerof Na- tions, and ch him to pavdon our ional and other Transgressions usall, whether in public or Statious, to perform our several & tiue Duties properly aud punctuq der our National Government a Blessing all the people, by constantly being a ment of wise, just and Constitutional L direetly and faithtully executed and obeyed to protect and guide all Sovercigns und na- tions (especially such us huve shown kind- ness tous), and to bless them with good Government, Peace and Concord; to pro- mote the Knowledge and Practice of tr Religion and Virtue, and the increase of Science among them and us; and generally to grant unto a1l Mankind such a deyrec of Temporal Prosperity as he alone knows to be best. I A jiven under my Hand, at the City of New York, the third Day of October, in'the year i Our Lord One Thousand, Seven Hundrea and eighty-nine, G, WASHINGTON, Tho Thanksgiving proclamations issued since the time of Washington” have usually been less elaborate. From Washington's time down to Lincoln the custom was intermittingly followed. But only since 1858 can Thanksgiving be said to have been a fixea and universal American custom, and in that year the goy- ernors of the diffcrent southern states utited With their eastern brother officials in issu- ing Thanksgiving proclamations, and thp o mple set by Lancoln in 1803 of issuing » Thanksgiving proclamation suggesting tho last Thursday in November asan appropriate day has been followed since without break by every occupsnt of the presidential chair. e Way We Celebrate. Ot Thanksgiving rites assuch there are but few in existence. In this country the day has always been presumably of a religious nature; and great is the horror frequently expressed at its latter day deterioration, But it is & fact that even 1n the Puritanic records of the season more mention is made of the feasting than of the prayer—presum ably because the Jatter may have been sup- posed to be_plways with ihem. Nowadays the religious part of the day falls someswhat into the background. The church congrega tious on that morning are 8o slender as Lo call for ‘“union meetings.” People must hurry home to dinner, and still more lately the march of athletics is pushing even the dinner aside, and the outdoor sports of tho day are the things that take up the time and the atteution of the generality of the people. DBut slill the home gatherings are kept up and the turkey, the cranberry sauce, an igious Liberty New England rt, the pumpkin pie, ave brought on the rd cach yeal brate the retura fo annual v ksgiving. 1t was Whittier who wrote Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from east and \d from south come the pligrim nd guest, When the sy round hix board The old broken links ot affection restored, When the care wearied mun secks his mother ired New Englander secs once more, Aud the worh matron smiled whero tho glel d before, ofstens ‘the lip, what brightens the THICAL NOTE! Drawbaugh, the telephono vatented un electric counte after weighink an article puts i in paper bag. ot Construction com| 1 meeting closed a_cont 't & Co. of St. Louis for of the immenso clectrical Niagara and the menced immediately. ident of New York has cigar lightc an electrio b ted jar whicl burn ten or fifteen minutes. A push button opens and at the samo time causes vic spark to be generated, which ignites the gas. Av tho close of thie year 182 thore were in Switze 3 clectric lights ran by water- fall pawe hreo plants for electrical transmission of power, 12 cumulator or storage and 1,0 and clect Tl candescent run_ by s of water power was | tof are lamps 9,716, oly of telegraph and telephone poles uppears to be giving out. Cedar makes the best pole, but tho consumption of these 21 50 great that of late years chest- aut has bo soly used, but iheso ave algo becoming A good chestnut pole. two feet long is worth from $3 Lo 4. avo scavco at that. The cost of now equals thecost of wiro and labor) wd a fow more will use up tho sup- ply of chestnut 'he Manchester, Bng., Courier suys: Th tion of various American patents i 1 togive a great impulse 1o electr) 4l engineering, since o vractical monopo), by 8000 come to un cnd. 1t i3 under: n London firms are prepar- fng to supply incandescent lamps at 4 muo chieaper vate than that at present 4~xllnnf, At tho same timoe o gentleman interested inl Clectricul enterprises says that th inventor, has o, which, automatically, ny at o ot with S the constru povier. house at work will be com= invented an The gas is collected in ny gas to public will be by no means & certain gainen) by the lowering of the price. ‘T'he old lamps! were excessively dear, but they seldom gov; out of order, ho danger with their sues cessors will be that repairs will be necessary, at very short intervals. According to our informaant, no great cheapening of clectrio! ighting, combined with effecliveness, can be expected for some time to come, Various probiems connected with storage have irst 1o be solved, and the experts do not seem much nearer their explanation than the were five or s1x years ago, In tho last issve of tho Electrical World reference is made to a series of calculations intended to determine tho efficiencies ot coal aud electric stoves for cooking, and although the calculations nre necessarily only very crude, they are of some interest. The cooks ing efficioncy, that1s the ratio of tho heas used in cooking to the total heat in the coal, was found to be three hundredths of 1 per cont. Adding to that the heat used in heats ing the water in the articles themselve s well as that for washing, the total all da; fciency was found to be 4.2 per cent. Prof, 'yndall obtained 6 pe Similar cal \t‘llp tions are made for an clectric stove to do sume work, and it is found that us far actua! cooking is concerned elestrical cook- ing is ubout 10 per cent cheaper, but it be- comes 95 per cent more expensive if the water is also heated. Heating the water in a coal heater is therefore suggested, whicl will have an eficiency of 50 per cent, & theu do the cooking in an electric stove in Wil case thera will be practically no difers ence in eMeiency, Iu conclusion it is stated that the electric oven is bound to come. - Little pills for great iils: DeWits's Lit Eavly lisers.