Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1894, Page 2

NEBRASIA STOCK BREEDERS Annnual Oonvention of the Association to Be Held at Columbus, PROGRAM THAT PROMISES GOOD THINGS Ias Before Him a Feast ested In Br 1g Such Bofore Offered President. for Thos s Was ey n Ne i th 18.—(Special at 3 o'clock F order the annual COLUMBUS, Neb., to The Bee.)—On Tue: dent Filley will call session of the Improved Stock Breeders asso- clation of braska He of the most intere body has yet held. It Wednesday and Thursday, gnquet on Thursday night, gl sgdtes by the citizens of Columbus, C preparations have made to entertai the visitors by the people of Platte county's sapital. One of the most important associations of the s is the Improved Stock Breeders assoclation, organized a number of y ago by men who had the highest welfare of the state in mind, nd the good that s been accomplished by this worthy organiza tion is‘not computable in dollars and cents. 1t has been migratory in character, holding sessions at a number of different points in the state, and In this way it has been brought into close contact with the actual breeder of live stock and tiller of the soil Th are men engaged in the improvement of agriculture in the state who are regular attendants at these meetings year after year; no matter how far the place of meet- ing may be from their homes they are always on hand to participate in the dis- cussions and to receive the benefit that is to be derived from contact with the ad- vanced spirits in their particular line of work. Of course, care fs taken each year that representat ple men shall be pre- pared with practical papers upon the various subjects connected with ad- vanced agriculture, and the program of the forthcoming mecting will be an excellent one in every respect. The president of this ass Blijah Filley of Filley, Net extensive farmers and ono of the largest pattle feeders in the whole western coun- try. He has occupied the president’s chair for two years and for many years has been Retively engaged in promoting the welfare ©of the assoclation. Mark M. Coad will read a fraft horse industry, and since he is not only a practical breeder but an extensive Jmporter as well, his remarks will be list- ened to with interest. The swine industry will by C. H. Searle of Bdgar known breeder of Poland China and worker In_the alliance camp, Hon. J. V. Wolfe Mr. H. J. Henryx of Monroe will read a very interesting and practical paper on “How to Make the Karm Pay,” and since he has made the farm a profitable venture even during the dull times, the grain grow- ers of central Nebraska will do well to listen to a recital of his experiences. R. M. Allen of Ames, manager of the largest cattle feeding plant in the western vorld, who has made extensive experiments In growing the sugar beet and using them a8 a profitable food, will give his experience to the members of the association Prof. Ingersoll, professor of agriculture at the State unive will deliver one of his characteristically interesting and instructive addresses. Hon. 8. M. Barker of Silver Creelk, known to every one for 100 miles around Columbus, will have something that is thoroughly prac’ tical to say concerning the shecp industry. Hon. J. B. Dinsmore of Sutton, promi- nently identified with the cattle exhibit at Lhe Columbian exposition, will give his im- ressions of the cattle industry and describe n his clear, lucid style that which e saw At the great World's fair. Mrs. A. M. Edwards of Fremont, one of the greatest stock breeders in the country, will read an interesting paper that should be listened to by every woman in central Nobraska. Hon. W. Summers, deputy attorney gen- pral of \'.»hnmn. will_deliver an address, and Chancellor Canfield will be present, and those who have heard this versatils, edu- cated gentleman talk will feel it no hard- ship to go 100 miles to hear him speak for fifteen minutes. It is hoped that every intelligent farmer within a reasonable radius of Columbus will be present and bring his family along to receive the benefits that certaimly will be derived from the papers that will be read, and from the discussion of practical subjects by leading men through- out the state. WESTERN lay sl to will preside over ing meetings this will continue ove concluding with en the del- i me been o ate ciation is Fon. one of the most paper on the be represented and that well TURF MATTERS. Notes of General Interest to Horsemen AlL Classes. The Council Bluffs track will soon present A busy and, to the horseman, attractive scene. About the 1st of April A. Fullager, trainer for William A. Paxton, jr.'s Key- stone farm, will move all the animals in training at that farm over to the Bluffs track, where they will receive their finishing education, preparatory to entering the com- ing racing campaign. Bighteon head of ani- s will be in this stable, including the at 3-year-old, The Conguo 17 Mr. on has a new one in the green pacer, Frank Melbourne, recontly purchased from A. Cole, the western representative of the Chicago Horseman. This is the horse that at Wilcox, Neb., last October, drove Ab- dallah Wilkes out In the third heat of the frec-for-all in 2:15. Frank Melbourne went the last half of this mile in 1:05 and the last quarter in thirty-two seconds. Ho has been driven three-cighths of a mile in forty-seven seconds, a 2:05 gait, and has res peatedly shown his ability to go miles in Detter than 2:15. Mr. Paxion will enter him up through the big eastern circuit, and it Iy gafe to say that it he stays right he will Do inside the money every time he stafris in the green classes. Mary, 2:201, will also be in this string and will be set to pacing. She amade her murk last year, as a 3-year-old, under the tutorage of Mr. Fullager, and ho thinks she will be one of the greatest 4. year-old pacers that will be out this year. Phenom, the Director colt that took a halt mile record last year of 1:21, will also be in the stable with the above horses, and My Fullager does not hesitate to say that ho thinks him the making of a great horse. Tis colt has shown a half as a yearling in 1:17, and with his head, legs and way ot golng It 1 not saying too much to prediot that he will be a credit to his sire and his great family. Clinton Briggs, last year a member of the firm of Pyle & Briggs, has a splendid string of horses at Lincolu in charge of Dick Til den, one of the west's greatest reinsmen, About April 9 this stable will be removed to tho Council Bluffs track W. D. Denton, a young trainer with slderable of a reputation, will have training stable at the Bluffs track ot on a public He has SERIES TWELVE. FEBRUARY 19, (894, A g 52 U SN T eyl COUPON. World's Fair Art Portfolio. To secure this superb souvonir send cr bring six coupons of Wiis serics bearing event dites with 10 cents in coin to ART PORTFOLIO DEPT, Bee Office, Omaha. already several horses engaged from Iowa towns and will undoubtedly do well. B. H. Latta of Tekamah, Neb., is training a very promiging colt that had some experl- at racing last year. Barly in the he will move to Council Bluffs and this colt's education on the mile ence eprir finish track. Art Fverett and his father, who owned tho fast Lyons, Neb., track, have moved to Texas, wlere the latter had large land holdings. They took thelr string of horses with them. It Is probable that there will be no meeting hereaftor at Lyons and that one of the fastest tracks in America, where several world’s records have been made, will be grown up to weeds by the time the next racing season arrives. It is more 1 probable, judging from present indications, that there will be less than a dozen large meetings in the west this v meotings will make the ones that are held more profitable and will solve the question of paying out he mile track discussion has beon re- opened in Omaha. When Omaha builds a mile track, equips it and holds a represen- tative meeting, she will be entitled to recc nition as a_representative sporting city. Hut Gabriel has got a promise out that will probably be redecmed before Omaha does thing. tries have closed for the Omaha sale and Manager Short announces that the character of the animals to be sold insures a great sale. Harry McCormick of Omaha has sold to Bennett Bros., Brockport, N. Y., his Pello- tier stallion McCormick. Tolleth & Rulefson of Fairbury, Neb., have told to the same par- ties Valid, 2:18, by the ne sire, and Krider & Gage of the same place havo sold to the same parties Harry K, by Consu o Zibble, the well known western Norseman and trainer, has returned from his Colorado trip much Improved in health. Dick Tilden says that he tested Newsboy, 2:12%, a little a few days ago and that he showed him more ‘speed than he was cver capable ot before. . A, Hart has been employed to train the Meadow Brook horses at Lincoln the coming ason. There are several good openings In the west for drivers of known ability who can furnish certiflcates of character. It {8 pretty generally conceded that St. Joseph has about given up the idea of holding a meeting this year. Perfal, the great yearling colt that gave Chandler and the rest of the colt contingency such a surprise at Sioux City last spring, has been sold and was shipped to Italy, where he safely arrived a few days ago. Hickory Hill farm at Holton, Kan., will have quite a stable out this ceason. Mr. Linscott announces that he will campaign King Sprague, 2:16%; Otto W., 2:13%; May Brino, 2:26%, ‘and several youngsters by the above stallions, It will be a surprise it King Sprague ever becomes a race horse. Every mark he has ever got within my memory has been a race against the watch. Still, e may prove a race horse, as it Is well known that George Linscott would adopt any plan that would save money. alesburg, I1L, will build a mile track patterned after the four-cornered affair at Terre Haute. Conqueror, 2:17, has gained fully 100 pounds since le went into winter quarters. The big fellow is just as anxious to race as ever and ir: his work fights just as hard as ever for his head. Ab. Fullager has great hopes for his future. It is reported that the Maltese cross of the Sanfa Anita stables will be sent over from California to the east this year. Creston, Ia., one of the western cities that has gained a reputation for giving liberal purses and always paying in full, is out with an announcement of twenty-one stakes of $600 each for a trotting and pacing meeting to be held the last week in August. Entry blanks can be secured by addressing R. H. Hanna, secretary. HOWARD PAYNE'S PROMOTION. Union Pacific’s New Passenger Man Coming Next Month—Rallway Notes. All doubts as to the coming of Howard Payne to the desk of the assistant general passenger and ticket agent of the Unfon Pacific have been set at rest by the state- ment at headquarters that the circular an- nouncing the appointment of Mr. Payne is printed and will shortly be bulletined.” The Union Pacific has been without an assistant general passenger agent for several years, Mr. Payne not cven having the title com- | Plete, as the word ‘“acting” was attached to the designation of the office. Mr. Me- Kenzie, chief clerk in the passenger depart- ment hos been filling the duties of the as- sistant general pnssenger_agent, at the same time looking aiter the routine work of the office. Few changes are anticipated in connection with Mr. Payne's eoming, the office work remaining in charge of the pres- ent clerical fore The Sfoux City Journal has this to say of Nebraska farms: There is a marked emigration from east- ern and southern Iowa to northeastern Ne- braska_and the countles along the Paclfic Short Line. Tt {s interesting to note in this connection a refutation of the statement, which has frequently been made for polit: ical effect, that a farm renter cannot make any money or get ahead. Quite a number of the lowa farmers who have recently bought theso Nebraska lands have been renters, and some of them have paid as high as $2,000 and $3,000 in cash, besides as- suming incumbrances on their new home: Perhaps a larger number, however, are actuated by the fact that they can sell their Towa farms for $80 an acre and buy just as good, it not better, land for from 310 to $12.50, which they belleve will reach a fignre equal to the highest in Towa in a much shorter time than it took to buill up those values. Another reason is that many of these farmers have sons and daughters growing up, and they want to secure farms for them where the families can all bo together. One Shelby county acres for himself and 320 acres, to be divided between his two sons, in the vicinity of Brunswick. Carloads of emigrant movables are going out nearly every day now, about one car- load to a family, and many who have bought Nebraska land have gone back to arrange thelr_affairs and get ready to move In a montii or so. Most of them sell off their caitle and take with them a team, their household goods and perhaps a few farming implements. Eightecn or twenty carloads will go to Osmond between this time and March 1 f 1 eastern Towa, and about the same num- bor are about to locato In the vicinity of Plainview. asl Chief Enginecr ‘ebraskon und Gulf. Kimball and General Me- Numara of the proposed Eastern Nebraska and Gulf line are at Fremont for the pur- pose of going over the country between Fre- mont and Sioux City with the intention of as- certaining the most acceptable route and se- curing information to be used in the direc tion of the engineering party that will be put in the field shortly From a gentleman who had an interview with Mr. Kimball Friday it is learned that: tho company does not intend to build from Sioux City to Omaha, or to follow the river south from Sioux City for any consid erable distance. It iy stated by The [ informant that It s the intention of the company to build from Homer in an almost direct line to Fremont, that Wahoo s a prospectiva point on the line and also Lin- The lnpression among railroad men that the building of the Eastern ebraska & Guif will depend upon the success of J. J. | Hill's designs upon the Sioux City & North- orn rallroad 1s gaining ground, and the opinion is that it, in connection with the Sloux City & Northern, Is a part of the plan HIIl has for carrying his system Into the heart of the great corn and live stock dis- trict of tho countr, e Manual Training hers Orgunize, CINCINNATI, Feb. 18.—One of the results of the international congress on education in Chicago last July is the organization of the Manual Training Teachers Association of America, to secure co-operation in study and experiment for the development of manval training and to promote the pro- fessional intevests of fts teachers. At A meeting of class room teachers the plan and scope of the assoclation was con- sldered and a committee on constitution was | appointed. The constitution reported was The officers of the association are Kilton, Springfleld, Mass., presi- S, Waite, Toledo, vice presi- Robbius, Frankfort, Ky., secre- tary and treasurer. 'l HI‘ O\IA]IA DATLY BEE: #MONDAY, LAV, \IFFT ATLOUISVILLE Annual Business Session to Begin Its Actual Work Today. WILL INSERT THE LITTLE WORD WHITE S0 ax to Dis- od stitntion to Be Amended pose of tho Color Qu and Al Summer Meet, tlon for Location of the LOUISVILLE, Feb. 18.—Today was spent by the delegates to the League of American Wheelmen, assembled in caucus, The As y Park and Denver crowds boomed thelr towns for the summer meot, but the atten. tion of the majority of the delegates was de. voted to the discussion of the proposed White amendment to the constitution. Tho fight on this auestion promises to be a bits ter one. A proposition from the opponents of the amendment was made tonight to the effect that the vote on the question should be by secret ballot Instead of the constitu. tional aye and nay ballot. The eastern dele. gates for the amendment do not care to go on record as voting against it, but are willing to vote for it in secrat session. Both the presidential candidates, Charles F. Luscomb of New York and Th Sheridan of Chicago, are on the ground and the electioneering Is warm. Luscomb holds that faction which favors the drawing of the color line and his supporters confidently predict his election for two reasons. They sas they have a majority in the league in favor of the white amendment and In addition have a decided advantage in the fact that Sheridan’s followers favor attach- ing $3,000 to the office of president. —This fiyer to the Sheridan platform is considered a jonah. Practically all of the delegates have ar- rived and are quartered at the Galt house. A. A. Zimmerman is working with the Asbury Park crowd for the summer meet. The assembly convenes tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock and the sessions will probably extend over four days Outcome of the Winnepeg Curling. WINNEPEG, Man., Feb. 15.—The final struggle for the Grand Challenge cup and the Walkerville trophy and medals which takes place on Monday will wind up the big Win- nepeg curling bonspiel. The rinks of D. Clarke and James Mitchell, both of Win- nepeg, will fight it out for the cup, while for the Walkerville trophy it will be a three- cornered fight, the last three left being the rinks of W. F. Payne and Marke Fortune, both of Winnepeg, and E. J. Rochen of Fort Willlam, Ont. The other results of the bonspiel were as follows: Galt trophy, won by Rochon of Fort Willlams, with James Courtney of Rat Portage, Ont., second; Truckett trophy, won by rinks of Dunbar and Smith, repre- senting the Winnipeg Thistles, with the rinks of Smith and Ferguson of Regina, N. W. T., second; Royal Caldonian tank- ard and medals, won by St. Paul and Du- luth rinks; Consolation _trophy, won by Plackett of Winnipeg. In the polnt competion two curlers are high, with 38 each, Nettleton of St. Paul coming next, with 36. The St. Paul and Duluth rinks left for home this morning. Vi restling at Lyons. LYONS, Neb., Feb. 18.—(Special to The Bee)—A big wrestling match s being planned to take place here in a fow days be- tween Scott Miller of this place and a noted wrestler from Kansas City, Mo. The match is for $200 a side, with a forfeit of $50 in case either fails to meet his antagonist. . AMUSEMENTS, “In Old Kentucky"” at Boyd" “In Old Kentucky,” given at Boyd's last night, abounds in strong contrast. There Is plenty of Incident, quickness of movement and so much of the old time, healthful morality that it comes as a welcome relief from the play reflective of hothouse pas- sion, frail Magdelenes, and still fraller male types of the same degencrate class with which the stage of today Is surfeited through the vicious demand of a depraved taste. It has more merlt than any of the dramas of the south which have been given to the stage recently and is a fit companion piece to be hung alongside “Shenandoah,” which still stands unrivalled as a picture of slorm and stress in our country’s history. The thread of sentiment which runs through the entire fabric of the play Is one that fouches the heart by its sweetness and simplicity, while the plot in the machinations of the villain does nothing but furnisi an interesting motive and uphold honor, prob- ity and charity in that phase of the greatest of'all virtues, which touches belief in tho good rather than the bad in man. The char- acter studies are all true to the life, with no attempt at exaggeration, but homely types of ‘a class that ave fast disappearing before the onward march which Henry W. Grady magnificently told of in his speech before the New England society when he drew his graphic picture of the “New South.'” The comedy is of a fresh and wholesome kind that wins approval by the force of its quaintness and its thorough originality. There is no straining after effect, but scene follows scene with admirable sequence, making a most perfect ensemble, and herein is the chief strength of this drama of contemporary life. The author bas lived amid the en- vironments of a “‘Blue Grass” home, he has absorbed its influences, he has wandered over the mountains of “Old Kentuck,” he has lived with the makers of the white liquor and has loved its women; in short, he has simply woven into a conpected whole a dramatic gem, with devotion, loyalty, courago, the guiding themes, backgrounded with ex- citing incidents that are as intensely inter- esting as they are novel. One of the most amusing and withal in- teresting features of the performance is the pickaninny band, their antics and gambols before they drift into horn blowing being a picture that Mr. Brown could only paint. No such musical brganization was ever sgeen before on the stage, nd the manner in which they execute the ““Washington Post’ march was as delightful as it was fresh and new. Of course the horse race is exciting, quite as much so as the race in the *County Fair,” although the finish is only seen, but the interest is well worked up, the people in the cast, and they are all splendidly cast, subordinating themselves to the rapld movements which reaches a thrilling climax when Madge brings Queen Bess a neck ahead of her compelitors under the wire, Laura Burt plays the heroine, Madge Brierly, and she has never done anything quito 50 well in all her+stage career as the portrayal of this mountain girl whose inborn goodness was emphasized through agsoc, tion with the wild creatures that inhabited the tree-covered, rock-crowned highlands of old Kentucky. Her dialect s very like something written by Mary Hallock Footo, and it breathes of pure, unsullied nature It is o character study most artistic in every detail Next to Miss Burt, Gustave impersonation of a faithful old negro servitor atands out most prominently as an idyllic pleture of wnconscious devotion, and it is played with consummate tact. Char) rad- shaw, who was with Lotta years ago, has a delicious part in a fine example of the ch 1- rous Kentuckian, Colonel Sandusky Doolittle, who loved for twenty years, but never had courage enough to avow his passion. A man who could look squarely into the formidable barrel of a revolver unflinchingly, but to to look Into the deep blue eyes of his sweetheart was out of the question. His dialect was good and he played it In a breezy, unconventional mann Harry Malnhall as the Lorey, in love with Madg part, ‘although his dialect was a thing of shreds and patches.”” But Mr. Mainhall is not a dialect actor and wisely refrained from Frankel's moonshiner Joe made much of his | What ix evidently to him the impossible Edward Holland as the warm-hearted hero was excellent; he was manly, earnest and painstaking in all his scenes and he deserved to win the “best girl in the whole world Winnipeg - i The company throughont is strong, the play the beat of its kin® seen on the local stage. tr—t “Eight Bells" at fll!r-nlh Street. “Blght Bells,” tho guccessful nautical pans FE IH{U:\RY ]‘) 1891, LONLY RUNNING T0° COVER tomimic comedy which the Brothers Byrne | Reasons Why More Footpads Are Not Caught are responsible for, bogan a week's engage- ment at the Fifteenth Street theater yester- day, the audiences fosting the capacity of the house at both performances. Suggested by Hanlon's “Le Voyage en Suisse,” “Eight Bolls" shows great iiprovement over its predecossor, the séhsstional features being much stronger In every way. One can hardly appreciate the scene of a ship com- pletely turning areund unless the ship in “Bight Bells” fs seen, and then tho conviction will ‘come that no more howlingly funny act was ever devised. It is not (o the lines of the play, for they are des cidedly vapid, but to the clever gymnastic work of James, Matthow and Andrew Byrne, who continue the life of the performance, aided by a well balanced company, embracs ing Ben T. Dillon, L. ¢, Wetter, J. W. Parr, Miss Helene Byrne, and a number of less prominent people, that the success of .the comedy is attributable, From the rise of the first to the fall of the last curtain everybody is working and working hard It is go from the beginning to the end, and so humorous are some of the situations that the audience shows a disposition to resent the excellence of the performance, for laughter toward the close suggests the explosive sounds from tired lungs and throats. “Right Bells"” is one of the big successes of the sea- son, opening yesterday to considerably more money than when the company appeared at the Farnam Street theater a year ago. There is observable throughout the entertainment a desire on the part of the clever Byrnes to keep the comedy up to its original attrac- tiveness, and they succeed in giving a very entertaining and catchy performance. Individual mention might be made of the Juggling of Matthew Byrne, who has con- siderably elaborated his ‘“‘turn’’ since last in Omaha. The imitations of L. C. Mettler are remarkable and eaught the fancy of the audience, while Miss Helene Byrne and Mr Dillon gave a bright song and dance. Taken in jts entirety “Right Bells” is a nautical wonder and deserves its success. —————— POPULARIZING SONGS, Paid for Working Up a Cra A comparatively new cently been started in New York and the larger cities of the United States. It is the utilization of professional singers In popularizing songs and ballads. There never was a time in the of this country when so many songs were issued as are printed various music publishers overy day in the year. Enormous sums of money are in- vested in this pursuit, and each publisher is trylng to make a hit with some song. It is a well known fact that not ome in 200 songs published is ever heard of by the public, and those that do become popu are made so by the most indefatigable ad- vertising and liberal expenditure of money. A notablo example of this, says the New York World, can be found in that strange mixture of triteness and inanity, entitled “The Bowery.”” This song can still be heard in nearly every hamfet in the United States. But it was written threp years before any- body ever heard of it., Yet, having been peddled about the courtry by a peripatetic theatrical company, dinged in the ears of thousands of persons, it eventually obtained recognition. The same argument holds good regarding other sougs,, such as “Daddy Wouldn't' Buy Me a Bow:Wow,” “When the Days Grow Longer,” apd others of a like character. Up to within the past two years the popular- ity of a song depended entirely upon accident No deliberate attempt was made to bring it into public notice, and the publisher always regarded the success of' a song as a lot- tery. But recently means have been taken by wide-awake publishers to bring a catchy melody ‘into/public favor by hiring men and women to stng it. - This is notably the case with Ju Aldriol Libbey, a baritone of flexible voice and wide range, who has earned more monay- in the popularizing of songs than any other man In America. To him is due whatever credit may accruc from bringing cut that phenomenal craze, “After the Ball,” and the later success, “Two Little Girls in Blu Ho has just closed a contract with a prominent music publisher in New York City, by which he recelves $25 per week for sing- ing a song in order to make it popular. This gives the enterprising singer a yearly in- come of $1,300 for singing one song. In addition to' this comfortable salary he re- celves each week 300 copies of the song, from the sale of which he derives $5 addl- tlonal per week, making a grand total of more than $3,500 per year for merely intro- ducing the song. His regular salary as a singer in a theatrical _company—at $130 per week— 15 nearly $8,000 per annum, which makes a grand total of nearly §$12,000. This, how- ever, includes a contract with only one pub- lishing house. He has other equally ad- vantageous arrangements by which an addi- tlonal $5,000 per year fs added to his income, not to mention a half interest in a music- publishing houso, which he has earned by the same method. Seventeen thousand dol- lars per year {s a very comfortable income, Indeed, for a man who sings only two songs each night and refuses to respond to more than one encore. It should be understood that the circum- stances alluded to above refer only to suc- cesses. A great deal of money is spent in trying to make songs popular which never succeed. If, after a week’s trial, Mr. Libbey or any other of his confreres find that a particular song does not *‘cateh on,” he im- mediately abandons it and tries another, This method is continued until a_responsivo chord Is struck in the bosom of the audi- ence. and after that it-is comparatively plain salling with the vocalist, for when a song is popular in one town it'is usually success- ful in another. et W RESULT OF NEGLIGENCE. Snug Salaries industry has re- history cheap by the City Compelled to I ¥ ¥ for the W idening of Many Streets. City Eugineer Rosewater will call atten- tion In his annual report to the number of additions to the clty that have never been passed upon and confirmed by the council In a number of instances the platters have evinced a miserly tendency to set apart nar- row lanes for streets, thus putting the city to the necessity of widening the same at a subsequent time and paying large sums for the property thus taken for public use. Last year the cost to the ecity on this score was about $200,000, and although some of this was taxed to the same parties who received damage awards, 1t still necossitated a conslderable tax agains§ property at large. Over. §100,000. was thus,pald last year In ash and (he remainder will have to be paid this year, In peaking of the ahatter the city englneer said that considerablecill feeling was created when he was in office; several years ago, because he refused torapprove addition plat laid out in this way, asi he held that if g property owner wanted 4o lay out an addition he should make the streets wide enough to answer the purpoke of the public. He also held that the sireefs in new additions should be made to gonform with those in the older portions of\the city, and the re- sult was that the couficll wonld not approve the plats submitted His did not prevent their being quietly lu’fm(m through at a later time, after he ‘had gone out of office, and ever since that, tinfe the councll has been making up for, this short-sightedness by widening the narrow lanes at public ex- pense, when in justice to the taxpayers the plats should have been rejected until such time the platters were willing to dedi- cate strects of reasanable width. The ir. regularity in street lines was the result of the same oversight and could hardly be remedied now, so the innumerable jogs and offsets will have to remain as a perpetual eyesore. e New Tricks in Ih-nllnlr\ Dental surgeons have patented process for {mitating gold filling in false tecth. This is done by burnishing gold foll upon them in the mander commoniy termed “fire gilding." body would be likely to suspect that grinders showing plain signs of repair wero artificlal. Several applications have been made for patents for processes for setting diamonds in the teeth—in th front teeth, of course—holes belng drilled to recelve the gems, and Placed in Jail, SECRET OF MANY HIGHWAY ROBBERY TALES Parties Get Into 1 Toll These Stories to Themselves culiar Cases Des, 0ld Patroly Scrapes a eld Some y often we read in the daily papers of people belng held up, brutally beaten and robbed,” sald a police officer the other day, “and never stop to consider whether there is any truth in it or not; neither do we think of how the police have to weigh these matters in order that no mistake be made in the capture and punishment of innocent per« sons, “The alleged hold up of William Williams not long ago recalls to my mind some ir stances of persons reporting to the police that they had been robbed, when, in f they spent thelr money gambling or in s other foolish way and said they had been as saulted merely to hide their own misdemean. ors or to remove suspicion from themselves This Willlams matter is a case in point, The report came to the police that a man had been robbed and nearly killed, and, in fact, left for dead, out in the vicinity of Fort Omaha. The police made a careful search of the neighborhood, and suspicion fastened itself upon two men whom Willlams had de. scribed as the ones who had assaulted and robbed him on the night in question. The men were tried, found guilty in police court, charged with highway robbery and confined in the county jall to await Wiiliams" disposition to appear against them. During their confinement the goods alleged to have been stolen from Williams were discovered in a pawnbroker's place and Williams was identified as the one who put them there. It was plain that these men were innocent of any crime and they were released. The case was plain. Williams had left home in the evening and become intoxicated, pawned his goods and, as was afterward proved, he had had a fight with a friend and, coming out second best, took this method to recover Lis goods and to throw the blame for his mishap on some one else. And there are many cases just such as these are, and while to all appearances the complainant has been held up and robbed, yet really he has met with some mishap, and as to inform the police that he has been robbed would set him right before his friends, he takes this method, little realizing, perhaps, that he may be doing a great injustice to somebody. PATERNAL BOOT DID IT. “A year or so ago a case similar to this was brought to my notice, and for a time we had_every available policeman in the city working on it. There was a young fellow living near Maple and Thirtieth streets who was in the habit of calling upon a young lady who also resided in that locality very much to the displeasure of her parents. One afternoon a report came to the police station that a young man had been knocked from his horse, badly beaten and the animal stolen. A de- seription of the horse was left at headquarers \d cvery officer was on the qui vive for some bold highway robber and horse thief. The young man who owned the horse had reported the robbery himself and even of- fered a_reward for the recovery of his prop- erty. Things wore on and the bold horse thiof was never apprehended. One day a few weeks after the reported robbery an old man came to the station and asked to sce the captain. He sald: ‘I have seen and heard cnough of this reported robbery in my neighborhood and have come to tell the facts in the matter. This young man has been coming to sce my daughter much against my wishes, and 1 have repeatedly told him to stay away. On the night of the alleged assault and robbery he came to call upon my daughter, and I just proceeded to kick him off. This I did and turned his horse loose, and, as for the animal being stolen, there is no truth whatever in it. The norse, after being cut loose, went home and was sent to the country by its owner and then reported stolen.’ “Also about that time the police were notified of a robbery that had taken place under the Eleventh strect viaduct. The man who was supposed to have been held up came to the the station himself and reported the case and even showed the mud on his clothes as it he had been knocked down by the footpads. The case was fully investigated it was found that the man had been down to the Diamond gambling house and lost all his money and, being drunk, went to sleep under the viaduct. He told his story because he had thus spent his week's earn- ings and did not wish his wife to learn of it. “And still another with which a_well-to-do business man was connected. During the night his store was found open by the police. Ho was notified and came next morning. Ho at once declared his store had been burglarized and $17 in money taken. It was afterward learned that on the night the store was found open he had been out with a party of friends and, running short, had simply gone up to his store, ook the $17 himself, and, being very drunk, went away leaving the safe and store wide open. A CROOK'S DODGE. “But the most peculiar c: have any recollection was one with which I had to deal shortly after going on the force. 1 was patrolling a Thirteenth street beat one rainy night and had just taken shelter out of the beating rain when I heard a cry for help and at the same mo- ment a sound as of some one falling in the mud. I called out and asked who was there. The cry came back, ‘I have been robbed and cut and am bleeding to death.’ I ran over and found a man lying in the mud and bleeding furiously from a wound in his wrist. I took him to a saloon across the way and gave him such ald as lay within my power. I hardly knew whether to arrest the man or not, but finally I con- cluded to take him to the station. About the only thing he had was some old coins of an ancient date, Some of these we kept, but returned the rest. A few days after- wards Julius who ran a saloon’ on Thirteenth stree at that time, reported that his place had been burglarized on the night in question and some liquors and old coins taken. The man I had found in the Strect gave the name of Thompson, and he was arrested for this robbery and acquitted. He had cut his wrist on a bottle. Having stolen some whisky from Nagl's saloon and not having a corkscrew, he broke the bottlo on the curbstone and a piece of the glass struck him on the wri This same fellow 1s now serving ten years for grand larceny in the penitentiary at Ll incoln.'"” we. of which I egur Habit. Lawrence New- A Vietim of the Vin “I ouce had a patlent, comb of Rochester, N. Y., formerly a phy- slcian, but now an angel of commer said to the Globe-Democrat, ‘“who polsoned her- self with vinegar. I was never a burning or shining light in the medical profession, and henece it is not surprising that the case baf. fled my investigation for a year, though I have the consolation of knowing that four eminent physicians who were called in for consultation attributed the lady's evident breaking-up to four different causes, nona of them remotely « neeted with the real one. The chief symptom was lassitude and deathly whiteness and the lady, who had no other companion but an rant, though faithful, colored attendant, finally dled before reaching her 30th yoar, Subsequent tigation proved that ‘she was a vinegar flend, and that, while refusing food of all descr piion, she was rinking large of vinegar. As the habit W she secured stronger grade until finally she was drinking acetic acid but very slightly diluted. There are cases on record of persons who have been poisoned by over- doses of vinegar, taken to improve the com- plexion, but this Is the only case I ever heard of any one acquiring a vinegar habit and pursuing it steadily until it caused death, quantities upon her Aunt Barbara Chose the Smoker, Aunt Barbara ls an old negro who lives In Armour avenue, near fitth street, says the Chicago Record and her daughier make a living by laundry work in South Side families, and have to do a gvod deal of journeying on the cable cars. Almost the first day the smoking cars were put Into service on the State streot line the old woman had to take a ‘mammy Thirty | selt trip down hafled the was about She and car rear to Twenty-second street train at Thirty-fifth street to step aboard the front when the conductor shouted from the car: “That's the smok The old negress pald no attention warning and he repeated It, but she got aboard. A man on the platform repeated “This Is the smoker,” and still the warning went unheeded. The train went its way, and Aunt Barbara was about to seat her near the door, when a brisk colored boy spoke of the smoker again. By this time her ire was up, and sho spoko her mind. Settling herself first and drawing a twist of native leaf from her bandanna bundle, sho turned to the last speaker and sal to his when as I is know old you gots as old folks knows as much as oung folks. I'm goin' to smoke, and I'm bin’ to do it right now. When I wants to hear fum you, I'll let you know.' With that she produced a cob pipe, filling it, struck a light dexterously began pufling you'll and, and RONCADDE REEF. A Dangerous Loeality—Origin of the Name Kearsnrge. A member of the staff of the 1 Engineering News who visited, in locality where the Kearsarge says Roneador reef is about nine miles long and four wiles wide. The odge of the reef is simply a range of jagged coral rock, with a lagoon of shoal water inside. Outside It pitches down very suddenly, and there is water fully 3,000 feet deep within a mile of it The Inside turtles, and it York the ew 1891 of the reef is the abode of is from these reefs that we et our turtle shells. At the extreme west- ern end of the coral reef is a little coral 1sland about 800 feet long and 600 wide. The early vegetation on this reet is a sparce amount of turtle gra and the only life to be found are myriads of “booby birds” and “frigate birds” which go there hatch their young, What makes this reef very dangerous for Is the fact that the northwe: trade winds blow in its direction. In addition to this there is also a very heavy and powerful current running right around the toward the west end of it. These two con bined with the powerful suction drag an un- wary ship toward the coral reef to destruc- tion. The loss of the Kearsarge recalls to the Louisville Courler Journal an interesting peech made at the Lake Mohonk Indian conference last fall by Prof. J. H. Gilmore of the University of Rochester, because it gave an answer to the question, which has been often asked, whence the famous vessel derived its name. Prof. Gilmore, when Invited to address the conference, said that he had that day taken his second lesson in Indian dialects, and then alluded to his first. During the war the secretary of the navy wrote to the governors of various states asking them to suggest names of Indian origin for naval vessels. The governor of New Hampshire, who was Prof. Gilmore's father, devolved the task upon the latter, and the first name that occurred to him was Kearsarge, which was adopted. Kearsarge is the name of a mountain in w Hampshire, and its Indian origin was taken for granted. Some time afterward, however, Prof. Gilmore was looking over an old map of New Hampshire when he came upon the name “Hezekiah Sargent's Moun- tain.” The evolution of the present name is thus indicated by the professor: ‘“‘Heze- kiah Sargent's Mountain, Kiah Sarge Moun- tain, Kearsarge The name of the Kearsarge, therefore, was not Indian, but a combination of Hebrew and Indo-European. Hezekiah s Hebrew, meaning “the strength of Jehovah. Sar- gent comes directly from the French, but traces back to the Latin servicus, meaning z or servant. This little story is not only a pleasing bit of history, but illustrates the danger of ing etymologies on trust. There a haps, other so-called “Indian names” that have no better claim to the distinction than Kearsage mountain. to e Philosophically Considered. Foolish indulgence begets ingratitude. Love has never learned to balance his scales. There are few amendments to unwritten laws. High-priced men are employment. Slovenly wives put night keys in their hus- bands’ pockets. There are no means for satisfying an un- natural appetite. A bad policy is mighty poor backing for a good principle. Many divorces originate in neglect of the smaller courtesies, A few funerals often conduce to a large increase in population. Good husbands are bad mothers-in-law. It is sald that it requires long practice to enable one to think well on his feet. Most of us lie down to it, and forget to get up in time to do anything. e Big Mastodon Tusks from Alaska A prospector who came down on the steamship City -of Topeka to Seattle from the gold fields of Alaska brought a number of curious relics of that far-away region. The most interesting of the collection Is a t of ivory tusks of enormous size, the re- mains of a mastodon, A great tooth w 50 found with the tusks, which were di ered in a deep canon several hundred miles back in the mountains from Juncau. The size of the tusks in question Is some- thing phenomenal almost a semicirele, the ¢ ng ten feet by actual measurement, tapering down to a voint from a thickne hout six inches, where the tusk projects from the head, The clements of ages have apparently had but little effect on these mastodonic orna- ments, for the surfuce is almost smooth, and nearly as hard as rock, and the com- bined weight of the two tusks eds 250 The tooth found is of irreguiar probably fourteen inches six through, and weighs ten cen least often out of seldom troubled with shape, inches pounds, Mrs. A. E. Lanter Bush's Mills, Ohlo, Strained Nerves Palpitation of the Heartand A Ceneral Break Down The Cood Effect of Hood's was Marked and Permanent. “0. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. “Gentlemen: —I was taken down sfek Iast December, and bocamo very weak with nervous trouble, palpitation of the heart, and a general break down. 1 & good physielan, but lin. gored along, getting no bester. Icould sit up only about half & day, until the 13th of March, when 1 concluded I would give Hood's Sarsapa- Hood's*#Cure- rilla a trial. \\)leulm‘l ssed it a Sars?: par! 1s grounded, | island | | ng agent HIS CASH AND HIS WATCH | Traveling Agent Mooro Followed from Lin- coln to Be Robbed in Omaha. LEFT LYING BLEEDING AND SENSELESS ne a White Negro Who Were We Vv Plenty Away. Man snd a Rewarded by of able Booty to Get Time A highway robbery was committed at the corner of Seventeenth and Chicago strects soon after 12 o'clock yesterday morning. The victim Moore, travel- Supply com- the Granite was M. T, the has W Co-operati offlc of pany, which an in block. Mr. Moore has five or six months, of the spends at goods and transacting company. Saturday night he left the Rock Island train which a city at 12:30 in the morning. When he left the hotel to take the train noticed a rather tall, roughly dressed watching him rather closely. Ho boarded the train and the man did likewise. The stranger stood on the platform a mo- ment and then followed Moore into the car. No words passed between the men, and in fact Moore pald no particular attention to the stranger, although he could plainly see that he was looking at him every now and then. The train reached Omaha and Mr, Moore and some other friends left it. They ame up town and after a while scparated, each going to his home, As there wero no cars running Moore started to walk. He lives at Twenty-ifth and Durdette streets, and walked very rap- idly. He went north on Sixteenth til he came to Chicago st t; here he turned west, id had reached the corner of Seventeenth hien a loud noise was heard some distance aw; nd Mr. Moore turned to see what it s. Scarcely had he done so when he was seized rom behind and told to hand over what valuables he possessed or he would ba hurt. Mr. Moore was so overcome that he aid not comply instantly, and another man came up and struck him a blow on the forchead, knocking him down and tempora- rily stunning him. While lying on the side- walk his clothes were gone through and everything he had was taken—a gold watch worth $100, $55 in cash, the result of colloes tions ho had made in' Lincoln and all his papers. When through searching him the robbers concluded to take his ovgrcoat, but they heard some one talking and hurriedly left. They took along his satchel, however, which contained all the contracts he had made and some private papers. LAY SENSELESS FOR AN HOUR. After an hour le recovered his senses and endeavored to get up, but for a few minutes he was unable to_do so, for eyery time he made an effort fo arise the blood would gush from the wound in his head. Finally lie got on his feet and iooked for an officor. He found one on Sixteenth street and related the case to him. A thorough search was made, but it resulted in no clew whereby the robbers could be located. The officer stated to Moore, however, that he saw two men, a negro and a white man, following him as he came up Sixteenth, but that he took no particular potice of them at the time. The case was worked on all day yesterday by the detectives and Moore accompanied them part of the time, but while there are several suspicions there Is not an absolute clew. Moore says the white man, who struck him with the rock tied up In a handkerchie, was the same who left Lincoln on the train with him. He remembers him best by the half beard and & gray slouch hat he wore and says he could identify him should he seo him. A trip was made to Council Blufts to learn, if possible, anything that might have been seen of the men there, as that the end of the conductor's run who took the train out of Lincoln on which Moore came to Omaha last night. He could not be found, and it is likely the highwaymen have #o thoroughly covered their tracks that they will escape. Part of the $65 that was stolen belonged to the company, for which Moore was the agent. This was given him by another agent in Lincoln named Richardson to bring to Omaha, as it would save him the trouble of sending it. The manager of the company was seen yesterday and sald that their orders to Richardson were to send all remittances by express and in no instance allow any one to bring them. Moore received notice last week that he would be no longer needed by the company and the night of the robbery was his last in its employ. He was a good agent, but the cause of his discharge the company Tefuses to state. e i Cineinnath Rods. CINCINNATI, Feb. 18.—Chief of Police Deitsch of this city, who caused the arrest of Anarchist Temmens last night, has in his office a complete directory, giving the name, occupation, residenco and personal history of every anarchist or person of an- archistic tendency In the city. There are, all told, 125 in the city, and all their move- wents are watched. been with this and about three company days out Lincoln, selling for the Lincoln on ves in this week he pther busing he man AM Us MM l~1N an) BOYD'S " A POSITIVE 1\1\[) SIGN IN OLD KENTUCKY Tt has the unmistakab'e flavor of thoe blue grass and the color and spirlt of good old Kentuc SEETHETHRILLING NORSE RACK SCENE. HEAR THE PICKANNINY BAND. A TRUE PIOTURE OF KENTUCKY LIFE, ach, TONGUIT AND )MORROW NIGHT, AL HIT, No ralse In prices. 55 s04ts at 50 BOYD'S| W"‘,P:’;:‘y'f’s-fl;;:;:;;“vl'eb 1-92-23-24, Mutinoes Thursd ay and Saturday Frederick Louis WARDE: | JAMES. In four Suniptuous Scenle Prodiotions, ey Wkeines, The Lion’s Houth, {hursany Steht. . Francesca da Rimlnl Othello, - - - Julius Caesar, e, 760, $1.00 and $1.60. And $1.00. SPECIAL HOLIDAY MAT. THURSDAY. Friday Night. Saturday Nieht, A Pricen (nights Matineos 151h ST. THEATER TONICHT:! THE GREAT BIG SUUCESS, “EIGHT BELLS! Tutroduciig the world-famous BROS. BY RNE Everything new. A new lastact full of startiing mechanienl effects, ‘Matinecs Wednosday and Sut- Urday. Extra matinee Thursday, Washinglon s birthduy First Conarogational Church, Monday Evening. abriary 191, EIGHT O'CLOCK, POPULAR PRICE conld get up and go all about th 1 I lave never enjoyed perfect h but am now taking my fifth bottle of Hood’s Sarsapa Fills, and know it has helped me wonderfully, I have used Hood's Pills, and think them ex cellent.” Mus. A. K. LANIER, Bush's Mills, Ohlo. Mood's: Pillg aet easily, yot promptly wud. | efficiently, on tio liver and bowels, 2. i W ny Mi8, 3. 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