Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1895, Page 10

'TEARING A HOLE 1N AIS PILE Many Drains on the Furse of a Congrese- man in Washington, THE INCOME AND THE CUTG) Fhe Latter Runs a Close Race with the ¥ Former—The Task of ing on Salary and Allowance—In- teresting kigures. A correspondent of The Bee detalled in Jast- Sunday's lssue the many perquisites which go to swell tho regular $5,000 salary jof a ccngressman, and the many luxuries en- Yoyed at the expense of the national treis- “liry., The figures tend to confirm the common Ampression that a congressman's life, it not an ldeal happy one, Is a source of great Profit, and that the average member who fails | [ito lay by a snug sum from his salary and Lemoltiments must be a rank spendthrift. There. {6 another side to the story, which I8 generally overiooked—that s, the cost of living in Washington, A correspondent of the New York Sin. goes into the latter phase of public life, and furnishes some Instructive figures. If possessed of a bank account, says the correspondent, the new member takes up W' abode at one of the best hotels in {the city. There is always something going on, and he easlly becomes acquainted with Sthe social set at his hotel. It depends en- tirely upon himself whether or n:t his soclal clrcle extends beyond its limits. 1t married, he should by all means bring his family with ‘hilm. A wife has much to do with the social “and political advancement of a member of congress. A wife, daughter, or sister can help the new member as much, If not more, than he can help himeslf. In return, he ‘should rent a pew for his family in one of ithe many excellent churches here, and attend himself as often as possible. Should he find Totel lifa. too expensive, housekeeping s rec- ommended - in- preference to boarding. The servant question, howéver, will make his life a burden. . Washingtén seryants are the poor- est on earth, ' NECBSSARY EXPENSES. © * The Single. men. who are sent to congress are of two classes; one is the hard-working istudent; the other is the convival soul. The former does not care for soclety. He rents a room near the capitol; takes his meals at a “table board” establishment, occasionally goes to the theater or attends a lecture, but usually. spends his evenings reading the pa- pers from home, studying law, practicing oratory and writing to his constituents. A room will cost him $25 a month; table board averages $20 a month; but the same land- lady will take $15 if you say that Is your upset price, The postage bill of a New York member amounts to about $100 yearly; that of a student member about $40. The latter must have three suits of clothes, one light and one heavy suit, at $25 each. One overcoat each year at $25° will answer if his last fall coat can be worn the following spring. He does not need a dress suit, for his best sult may bo used on state days and bonfire nights. JAbout $75 each year will supply underclothing, ‘®hirts, shoes, hats, tics, etc., making a total for wearing apparel of $190. It the student member smokes, he in- variably buys three cigars for 25 cents. When in his room he smokes a pipe or chews to- bacco. Allowing 6 cents a day for “fobacco, tobacco and clgars cost $109.60 yearly, a low stimate when we consider that the average tatesman glves away as many cigars as he “smokes. TREATING HIS CONSTITUENTS. not already wormed these out of hMm (and they usually do), he, In an unguarded mo- ment, sends a copy to the hotel keeper or blacksmith of his own town. Whoever re: celves the copy, Just to show his standing with the congressman, exhibits it to all com- ers, . Right here is where the fun begins for the new congressman. Kvery voter who has seen the book immediately writes for a copy, for- getting in each lnstance to enclose the necessary return stamp. Bach letter must be answered and signed by the member in his own handwriting.. Faflure to answer letters and the use of a rubber stamp signature are great vote losers. After having written to each correspondent several times that he was only entitled to two or three coples of the book, and these were glven away long ago, and still finding an ever incremsing mail on the subject, he in his despair consults a more experfenced member. Now the latter had a much similar experlence when he first came to congress, so he consoles the student member by teiling him that it he expects to return to congress he must simply buy extra coples, About $1,500 of the new member's salary can go this way without half satistying the demand for books. Gen- eral Wheeler spends his entire salary in extra books and postage. Congressman Belden spends twice the amount of his salary this way. One member, It I8 sald, paid out $3,000 for coples of the horse book alone. Tom Johnson, during the Fifty-second con- gress, sent away many thousands of coples of one of Henry George's books, which he eleverly worked into the Record under *ledve to print.” They cost 10 cents each. THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE. As a compengation for the loss in part of the much-abused franking privilege (recently restored), members recelve a stationary credit of $125 each session. The member can either draw cash or stationery. 1f wise, his first official act will be td draw the cash, and get what stationery he wants from the committee rooms, or borrow it. If the new member de- cides to draw the amount In stationery, his account Is, hung in the stationery room, where every one can seo it. The result is that so long as there is anything to his credit the em- ployes make his. existence a burden by beg- ging for orders for penknives and other things. After a brief experience with the mysteries of Washington “tabls bo-rd,” and not yet hav- Ing met.and formed the acquaintance of the celebrities of the house or senate, the student member becomes restless, He first hankers after a good square meal. He next desires to mebt “congenial company, He generally finds both in the same establishment. To get the. meal he patronizes one of the uptown res- taurants. -Before e enters lie, perhaps, says to-himself: “I don't propose to spend more than $2." Before he leaves his definition of the word *‘restaurant” is likely to be “a place where people hang around to be treated to re- freshments.” As he enters the restaurant, to his surprise, the proprietor calls-him by name and introduces him to several distinguished people. As they are all delighted to form the acquaintance of a_man popular enough to defeat the Hon. Johp Doe, he blushingly asks them all to sit down and join him in elther food, drirk, or clgars, The_illustrious company With alacrity ac- cept all three invitations, The student is for hours regaled with more stories about his opponent “and his predecessor than he ever heard before. He becomes enchanted as he takes his first degree in conviviality. No, he does not feel like playing poker tonight, but ‘some other, night he would be pleased to join the gentlemen. He usually keeps his word. 1f he loses he pays cash. If he wins he recelves I O U’s, which are not worth the paper they are written on. 1t is after midnight. The cars have stopped. He must hire a cab to take him up-Capitol HIIL * Cab, $2; entertainment, $33. With a man_of strong will power, who has seen something of life, this first night's experi- ence.may be his last. With a student mem- ber it depends on circumstances and stomach whether- he- continties the experiment. If he sat at the table laughing and story telling long enough to digest what he ate and drank and woke in the morning with his head fn its 1t makes very little difference whether a statesman drinks or not, he will find it al- most ‘eompulsory to open’a wine or liquor ac-: county yHe. SImply. can't. g3t out of it; the, me% ¢ 'him: yoars. afore he was' heard:: fally. Bven the student mems ber must face'the inevitable, though he may do soi st sexpert a he ;mv'ina it, rf::afim’w W w.'e"’S"."'Txf-. constituents and callers, than to in: vits them' to' nelghboring ‘saloons. ~ He s liable to meet acquaintances in saloons who are of no political use to him, and entertain- ing them is wasting time and money, but as these acquaintances are very’polite, and ever raady to address the member as judge, gen- eral or colonel, he feels it a sort of duty to ask them to join him in “takin’ sum- thin’.” Natives of this class were never knawn to refuse an invitation of this kind. Lieaving his room to entertain a friend is Aikely to cost him $1.50, and for this sum he can buy a bottle of very fair whisky, which, it judiclously used, will last a week, pro- vided always that a servant does not own a duplficate key to the locker in which it is kept. It will thus be seen that, with no weekly game of cards in his room, and the strictest kind of economy and one bottle a week, a yearly whisky bill of $78 stares the incoming congressman in the face. Cab hire is altogether out of the question in the domestic economy of a ‘student mem- ber. He must, however, run around to the different departments. As they are in differ- ent parts of the city, he must spend money for car fare. Some days he ls likely to re- celye lstters from different constituents, which will necessitate visiting a department half a dozen limes; other days he will have very little errand boy duty to do. He can buy six car tickets for a quarter. If this item of expense can be kept at or below an Ayerage of 26 cents a day for the 365 days In _the year, the member may consider him- ““Belt fortunate, yet this item figures up $91.25 , year. . <& XNother siall ttem of expense will be the Qaundry DIl The linen'of a statesman should b at all times immaculate. Per- onal ‘appearance has much to do with his tanding among his fellow men. Ordinary mortals can have their laundry work done for $1 a week, but the linen is simply half washied, rallroaded through machinery that "tears and wears, sooner or later compelling the student member to hire some one to do ‘mending. It is, therefore, cheaper in the end to engage a woman to do the laundry work, one who can hang the clothes outdoors preferred. She will charge $1.50 a week, or $78 a year. The same woman will do all necessary mending for $1 o month, or §10 a year. THE LITERATURE BILL. fke the rest of humanity, the statesman feannot Keep in touch with the world at large Awithout keeping the local as well as his home papers. By sending the Congressional Record and a few reports to the edltors in his dis- trict; they may sond free thelr papers in return.. As there 15 not a single statesman in Washington who does mot buy two or ‘more New York daily papers, the student statesman must buy at least one New York per, besides one morning and one evening 1 paper. His daily literature will thus Bim 10 ¢ents a day, or $36.50 a year. «*7he student member may shave himself, “but-he can't hone his razor or cut his own shadr. He nay. blacken his own shoes, but he must first buy the tools to polish them ‘with. These petty items will cost him, say: Aair-cut- and shampo twice a month at 65 centi, Mith 10 cents to the boy for brushing his elothes each time, or $18 a year; 50 cents a month to keep his razors in good condition, and-an outlay of $6 will buy a good blacking soutfits These little ltems make $20. “.The student member must do something in ashington to please bis constituents at b bome, . He can't start oft specchmaking on o:floor, for it |8 rare for a new.member to ‘opportun'ty to speak the first session. s cap, however, write a speech and have ‘ib-printed; In the Record, When he sees it Ay £old type, he realizes that it needs editing. c's consideration an acquaintance will put 4y shape, and lusert “applause” and “laugb- n the proper places. The speech pleases ¢ student, and, at an expense of $200, he & lo' or woples printed and sent among ‘s coust!tuents. - He is liable to repeat this “performance about fiye times, cr until he r ‘opives: erders from home not to send any wiore specches, as the postmaster and letter carrier are ‘“cussin’ " him for putting extra work on them. Cost of this experiment, $1,000; ¢diting five speeches, at $20 each, $100. . < < “TROUBLE BEGINS, “Ruch imember of congress is entitled to a gi¥en number of books published by the gov- metimes the allotment runs into indreds. These are for h's constituent: uct his personal property; he h Aistribution of them. It may happen when, the governmeut issues rare and valuable a congressman finds his allct- ment to bo only a few coples. If the polite 4 ‘oBiclals and employes around the capitol have usual state, then he is a goner, and it will take him a whole winter and at least $1,600 to discover that he formed the wrong circle of acquaintances at. the threshold of his national no longer a student_member. v .Had heiréma‘ned-a’ student member.” he “would ‘have ‘formed few friend- ight ‘never. dave beep Here s a recapitulation'of his expenses: Room and board:.. 540 00 Postage ........ 40 00 Wearing apparel. 190 00 Clgars and tobacco. 190 00 Whisky ... 8 00 Car fare 91 25 Laundry . 78 00 Mending ... 10 00 Papers .. Sa et Barber's ‘shop 29 00 Extra food and friendships—first win- JorissLy 00 1,500 00 Five speeches. 1,100 00 Extra public documents. 1,500 00 TYOERY 55 (41 devs s300ns sosnssrore$0,302 25 To offset the above figures are salary, $5,000; stationery account, $125 each session, and mileage, which is 20 cents per mile each way for each session of congress. The lowest mileage acccunt is that of Mr. Coffin of Mary- land, He recelves about $15. The mileage accounts of the congressmen from the Pacific coast vary from $1,000 to $1,400. One mem- ber, it is said, Hved a whole term on the pro- ceeds of his stationery and mileage accounts and the salary his son received as a page, but this poor fellow is now in a lunatic asylum, Congress is a trylng place for a man who has only his salary to depend upon. By practicing the most rigid economy during re- cess he may possibly save a little out of the second year's salary, but the. chances are against it. ST HGURIR LI P LIFE ON AN IRON-CLAD. Great Discomforts Salling 1 One of These Vessels. Admiral Von Werner, & high authority on Joined his guide, leaving Mr. Burrows In a ::nu of mind which almost beggars descrip- on. atagpitaria CAPTAIN PALMER'S REJOINDER. OMAHA, Feb. 6.—To the Bditor ot The Bee: Replylng to Mr. - Gilliland on the surety bond question, permit me to say that my communication to The Bee, replied to by Mr. Gillland, was written before I had any knowledge of his being the author of the bill, house roll No. 163, or before I had had dny talk with him. 1 asked for the interview, because I understood that Mr. Gilliland was acting for the telegraphers’ union and sup- posed that it he understood clearly that this bill would do his organization fio good what- erev, Inasmuch as the company that writes the Union Pacific business does not have to comply with the laws of this stata to insure employes of that road, it being a cor- poration organized outside of this state, the contract for Insurance being made in New York City, it is not necessary that they should pay attention to any laws that might be enacted in Nebraska, so that the direct effect of the passage of this bill would be of no benefit whatever to the telegraphers and would simply operate against employes whose employers are living in this state and doing business under the laws of this state. The bank clerks, and everybody occupylog a po- aition, of trust, or wishing to secure such a place, who may be required to gve a_bond, will, In case this law passes, ba compelled to secure personal bonds and place themselves under obligations to some friend, whereas under the present arrangements they can get bonds all the way from $3 to $10 per thousand. I am certainly not trying to mislead the public or Mr. Gilliland or any of his friends in the matter, simply advising them that it house roll No. 163 or senate file No. 137 should become a law the surety companies could not do business In this state. They could write for corporations whose head- quarters are outside of the state on the'r employes anywhere in the world for .that matter. Mr. Gilliland certainly misunderstood me if he understood by my conversation' that the surety companies were getting a large busi- ness in Nebraska. I said that the total surety business of Nebraska amounted to less than $25,000 In premiums. 1 now beg to assure him that the auditor's report will show that the total surety business of Nebraska amounts to less than $15,000 in premiums for the year, and that the company I represent, the Pldelity company, has paid out more in losses in this state than they have received in business originating in the state, which com- pany is one of the strongest and best in the country. It has been doing business for over twenty years. Again, I have no plan as to bonding state and federal cflicials or county treasurers. The matter has been suggested, and I agree, that with an expert special agent constantly trav- eling through the state, examining the county records as often as once in three months, the business might be conducted at a fair premium, and the result would be beneficial to all interested. Mr. Gilllland states in his letter in regard to the deposit, that the depposit ‘section 1s not vital to employes,"‘but is mcre of a protection to our employers.” The employers, so. far, have not asked for this protection. The Fidel- ity company has $250,000 on deposit at Albany, N. Y., subject to any claim that may bs brought in any state of the United States, Our total assets are $2,250,670. We have paid In losses to date, since the oOrgamization of the company, $5,480,000. If we were com- pelled to make deposits in each state of the union, it would take one and a quarter mil- lions more money than we have now to be raised by our stockholders. Would they do it, fer the sake of taking in less than $3,000 In premiums in the state of Nebraska? That is all we earned last year. Mr. Gilliland cites in the World-Herald two cases where, on account of circumstantial evidence, two honest men have sultered—one lost $200 and was suspected of steallng it, and for that reason, after the company had pald the loss to the rallroad company,. they cancelled his. bond. -The money was after- ward found where it was. lost, and after con; siderablo correspondence, the, man was again reinstated., Another panty. had been . falsely charged :by an. enemy, and as a,result, he killed the enemy and is now on trial for his Iife. My sympathies go out to both these parties, and T will admit frankly, that there are cases where the innocent suffer, but.Mr. Gilliland will admit, too, that mot 1 per cent of the parties bonded have any cause to com- plain of the surety companies. I agree in case a bond is cancelled, or the company re- fuses to renew the eame, then on demand of the party interested, the company should state in writing why the bond was cancelled or re- newal refused. They can do that without glving the source of thelr infcrmation—at the same time, giving to the employe the sub- stance of the charge made against him, that he may take steps to refute any false accusa- tion. My company has never refused to grant a request of this kind, and I have.promised Mr. Gilllland that I would get a written stipu- lation eigned by the president and secretary of the company to the effect that they would make a statement as to the charges. I explained to Mr. Gilliland that the re- Jectlon of employes often comes from an in- timation by the employer, which only comes in this way, if they do not want this em- ploye bonded they fall to make an applica- tion for the renewal, and send in some new name. The company dogs not know why the old party is left out. Mr. Gilliland knows that it is a matter of two or three months' correspondence to issue the first bond to any party, and that companies cer- tainly prefer to retain all thelr customers, whose bonds are renewed simply by a re. newal receipt, without any correspondence, Mr. Gilliland 1s mistaken in stating that T admitted that there was such a law as the one in question in Texas. I asserted that there was no similar law in force In the United States. He assured me that Texas naval matters in Germany, describes In a work recently published ‘the behavior of armor-platea men-of-war in a heavy sea, He says: “Even with a moderate galo and sea, an armor-plated cruiser, it going against the wind, will find herself in condi- tlons similar to those of a storm—at least the crew will have that impression. The movements of the stern of the ship are vio- lent and exceedingly d'sagreeable. The waves, pushed by the advancing prow, sweep continually over the ship from bow to stern. All windows and port holes must be closed, and alr reaches the lower decks—where the had passed such a law. Not realizing that Texas was In the United States I admitted that I would not say positively what laws they had in Texas. It i= a poor state to copy from. I do know that the Fidelity Bond company is not doing any business In Texas, excepting through their home office, with corporations who have headquarters outside of the state. I was also assured by Mr. Gilliland that this identical bill was in- troduced in the last session of the Nebraska legislature, which was largely populist, It se:ms strange that any law against corpora- tions that the populists would not pass heat increases unbearably—only through the artificlal ventilators. “With the exception of the specially pro- tected command bridge, all the uncovered por- tions of the ship are impassable; thus the whole crew must bear as well as they can the bell of the closed decks. On such a ship mo one can feel comfortable, and when there is a storm in.which a sailing ship would feel comparatively at ease, tho crew of an armor-plated ship imagines itself to be in a heavy hurricane which threatens destruction at every minute. The long, narrow forepart of the ship, which is not borne lightly by the water, and which s rendered extremely heavy by the mighty ram and the armored deck, and the cannon and torpedoes, forces the ship in a high sea to pitchings and roll- Ings of such an extraordinary kind that they can not be described. The crew of such a ship 18 not only exposed to mortal dangers, but the voyages they make render them physically extremely and dangerously nerv- ous;. the mental impressions they. recelve wear them. dut and make the profession hateful.”} i Only a Few Left, Hon. Jullus Caesar Burrows of Michigan s looking for & man who put,up & job on bim, says the Detroit Free Press. 1t happened as he was passing through the rotunds of the capitol on his way to bis arduous duties as a statesman In the national balls of legislation he was stopped by a long, lank specimen who was doing the capitol in, charge of a gulde. *'Scuse we,” said the interloper, you Mr, Burrows of Michigan?" “Yes,” he replied, with bis well known suavity. “Is there anything I can do for you?" O, no; I Jist on your election, “‘Thanks," smiled the congressman. very much obliged to you, I'm sure."” Don't mention it. I'm a democrat myself, and when they told mé you was the only emgerat elected from Michlgan, 1 kinder felt that I'd lke to take an honest wan by the hand. I'm from Georgy, mysell, wheve democrats grow on trees, and ef you ever feel lonesome we'll be glad to ¥ou come dawn our way. Goodbye," and with another grasp of the hand of the gentleman from Kalamazoo the gentleman from Georgia re- “aln't anted to congratterlate you “I am should be adopted by the present legislature without a fight. I am earnestly in favor of doing everything reasonable that is demanded by any labor organization, but I do not be- lieve the Telegraphers union ought to. de- mand legislation that might be injurious to members of other unions, and particularly 80, when such legislation would be abso- lutely of no benefit to them. There Is no question whatever and there is no business man in the state who understands the surety bond business, but what will bear me wit- ness to the fact that If the companies are compelled ‘to give away on demand of a re- Jected applicant for a bond the confidential information required as to his character, standing, etc., that the companies could not trasact the bond business In this state or \n any state where such a law was in force. The whole foundation of the bond busines Is on confidential information. Even the men who are keeping check on bonded em- ployes must rely largely on confidential in- formation, which, if derogatory to a man, Is always carefully investigated, and so far ot a single party whose bond has been rejected at this office has made any complaint on ac- count of rejection. The guarantee company will not maintaln any lobby at Lincoln or pay one cent to re- main in the state. The only work that will be done against the blll 1s to present the facts to the members of the l:gislature, and 0 far I have not asked the ald of any cor- poration or employer who are interested in the bond question for any assistance in this matter. 1 trust fully that the legislature is not going to pass any viclous bills that will do great Injury to the business of this etate without first carefully considering the ques- tion. 1 shall take pleasure in presenting the facts to them, in writing or through the mediumn of the press, and whatever action they think best will be satisfactory to me. 5, H. E. PALMER. AFTER THE SONG, Munsey's Magazine. The liquid music of her voice Hath 8o bewitched the string Phey seem to play from very zholce, The melody she’ sings. And as the pressure of my bow Awakes the tuneless wood, 80 doth she set my heart aglow ‘With her sweet Womanhood! FORE 0f CITATIEHT TR THE OMAMA DAILY B avhy e SUil:DAY THE CURJOUS IN ACCIDENTS t iy Wonder/al Qboifrerioss Known to Have Be- rl;fl Haman Beings, W0 i T LIVE SNAKESITIN. A WOMAN'S ARM 001 7¢I Sneering Out an_Eyeball—Toothbrash Swal- lowed by ¥Woman Removed Sixteen Yenfs Dutor—Qualnt Medi- "",."c'n Talos. Curlous and strange accidents are reported from time to time, and many of them would seem entirely incrédible had they not been glven fo us upon ‘the highest authotity. The case recently reported, says the New York Herald, of a man who was admitted to Bellevue hospital whose arm it was sup- posed had boen fractured by an explosion, but instead of which eleven feet of wire was found Dy the sirgeons, may be. recalled, The man, a machinist, in the employ of the Bast River Lead company, was in charge of a machine which converts molten lead into wire. It {s a stesl box, into which the-lead 18 poured, being! then forced through an aperture one-eighth of an Inch in diameter by a hydranlic pressure of 600 tons. Reach- ing the air the lead becomes hard, and, in the form of wire, |s wound on a big wheel. This aperture had become clogged, and Scanlan, the victim of this curious accident, selzed the projecting wire fn his hands, tending to ‘free the action of the machine as he had done hundreds of times on former occasions, by a sharp, strong pull. He had seized the wiro and given it tho usual pull and jerk, when an explosion oc- currad, and Scanlan was hurled to the floor, unednseidus. FELT LITTLE PAIN. On the way to Bellevue hospital Scanlan, in the ambulance, recovered his senses, and expressed., himself, as feeling all right, with tho exception of alittle soreness in his left arm, at the elbow. The swelling, which had developed very rap- fdly, made it impossible for the surgeons to make a thorough examination, but on the fol- lowing day, when this had sufficiently sub- sided, they did so, and decided that he had a comvound fracture of the bones of the arm. There was no external injury of the skin, excepting. a slight and trifling contusion a little above the wrist. It was so trivial that the surgeons gave: it no consideration, but de- cided to cut down and take out what felt like a detached piece of bone. Ether.was ad- ministered, an incision .made, and; to the amazement of those present, instead of bone, a plece of lead wire an inch in length and one-eighth of an inch in diameter was taken out. % Plece after piécq of thé wire was removed, till finally the total length' of wiro thus re- moved aggregated eleven feet, the longest pleco measuring two feet and the shortest one-quarter of an inch. The wire was found embedded under the muscles of the arm, and some of it had become wedged In between the bones of the lower arm. To cap the climax, and most remarkable of all, there was no fracture or injury.of the bones, and Scanlan, as soon as the tearing of the muscles has healed, will have as good an arm as ever. SNAKE IN HER ARM. A very curlous @nd almost -Incredible case was that of s«weman in South Carolina who bad a live spgke in ber arm. This case was related to ma by a_reputable physiclan in Charleston, and- had he not vouched for It I should not haye given it credence. When the womsn, who, s f & prominent. family, first had her lfl.c;%un ‘attracted to her arm it was by a bow-skgped’ welt, not thore than two inches long. "Xt/ grew to a foot in length and as large as #Tlead pencil.’ In the Lotidon Lancet some years ago a case was detafled’df an idiot boy, from whose body was extfacted'quantities of slate pen- ci), from onkfto ‘two and a half inches long; bits of stick, pieces of rag and fragments of wool. The boy’apeedily. recovered. Prot. Agnew 'tells of a case of an insane avoman,’in whososbody was found after death ‘a pair ‘of 'suspenders, several ;ksins, of, silk, three spools ofzcetton and two roller bandages. Drewry of the -Virginia Lunatic asy- lum gives the detalls of a very extraordinary case.. The lunatic was a:large, robust look- ing colored woman, 46 years old, who for a long time had. suffered from a disorder that led the doctor to suspect, the presence of for- elgn substances in her body. Astonishing as it may seem, a ‘job lot” of things, weighing after having been taken out, ninety-seven ounces, proving the correctness of the doc- tor's suspiclons. It was a remarkable collection, indeed, and embraced such delicacies as bits of stone, glass, slate, brick, buttons, fruit parings and clay. That the woman -had swallowed them was proven by investigation. TOOTH BRUSH IN HER BODY. Dr. Hashimcto, surgeon general of the Jap- anese army, tells of a woman 49 years old who in May, 1872, ‘accidentally swallowed a Japanese tooth brush. In March, 1873, an abscess formed n the stomach reglon, which finally burst, and from it extended the pointed end cf the brush. ‘The physiclan, after vainly attempting to extract the brush, contented himself with cutting off the projecting portion. Although the opening healed after this, a disagreeable feeling continued. Thirteen years later—in August, 1886—the pain and, swelling returned, and about two months later an- other abscess formed. On adm'ssion to the hospital, in Octcber, 1888, two openings were found in the stomach reglon, at the bottom of one of which the probe came in contact with the forelgn: body. Finally, on November 19, 1888, the patient was put under the influence of ether, one of the openings was enlarged, and the brush extracted. Five weeks later the openings had all healed, and the patient was restored to perfect health. Dr John B. Tyler of Kansas, Mo., relates the case of a man who after arising in the morning blew h's mose violently, and to his horror his left eye popped cut of the socket. With the assistance of his wife, it was im- mediately replaced, and a bandage tied firmly over it. He then saw Br. Tyler, who found the upper 114 much swollen and slightly dis- colored, but there was no hemorrhage. RESULTS OF COUGHING. An English jury some years ago wrestled with the question whether a man can cough hin'self o pieces. Evidence was adduced to show that under certain abnormal conditions of health bones may be broken during life by muscular efforts or by violent coughing. In the case thut was submitted to the jury it was proven that the patient, who at the time the accldent occurred was an inmate of an infirmary, had, owing to a violent and prolonged it of coughing, fractured several ribs. A woman 29 years old was attacked by smallpox. She.gave birth to a child on the sccond day of the eruption. The smallpox ran its due .course and desquamation, the peeling of the sking followed. While this was going on & fiy entered her mose and. de- posited there; i} 6ggs, which were soon fol- lowed, by lagvae, ; Fever, intense. headache and rapid mulidpligation of the larvae set in. Various things were tried, but without re- sult, Finally-fobslations of chloroform were tried, and at the, first trial seventy larvae were expelled, _This treatment was repeated every day and chnulemly relieved the pa- tient. Experinfents with some of the larvae showed that at first chloroform caused very active movemdnts! after which all move- ments ceased’and ‘complete inetria ensued. SWALLQWING THE TONGUE. Cases of sulfccation from worms in the air passages sometimes occur. A boy, b years old, yomited & round worm. In the fol- lowing night (¢ was then seizéd ¥ith an attack of in which he dIfd: At the autopsy a worm was found in the alr passage or tube, doubled on itselt and _entirely obstructing the air passage. s Swallpwing, the tohigue Is another of the strange accidents that medical men have met with, and cases are on record where suffoca- tion has been”caused by this accident. Some of these cases Of tongue swallowing occurred while the individuals' were aleeping. Spontancous combustion of the human body {s still doubted by some medical men, yet it is conceded that theré occasionally occurs an abnormally increased combustibility of the body, which may &ccount for cases of alleged spontaneous ignition. In & work on spontancous combustion Dr. Ogden asserts that of thirty-five authors who have treated on this subject five were entirely sceptical, three ‘belleved in increased combus- tibility only and twenty-seven believed in spontaneous ignitability as wehl. THOSE MOST IN DANGER. To burn the human body, under ordinary TIAD AM FEBRUARY 10, 1895 Don’t Mortgage Your Health. Neglect to pay the mortgage or interest on your property if you will, but don't neglect your tezth, for by so doing a mortgage on your health, which should be more precious than gold. g : The Best Dental Work now within the reach of AW ST TELEPHIONE 1085. 0 Dr, Bufloy's Camphorated Tooth Powder. For sale by leading druggists. clrcumstances, fs well ¥nown to be no easy matter. What, then, is it that occasionally imparts to it €o abnormal a_susceptibility to flame? Here medical theories are still at fault. ‘Liebig found that flesh saturated in alootiol would burn only until the alcohol was consumed. The attention of “heavy weight” membera of'the community s called to the fact that it 1y generally the fat, elderly, alcoholic sub Jects that have been shown to manifest ab- normal_combustibility. Dr. Clendonen, coroner of La Salle county, Tilinols, relates a peculiar case of spontancous combustion. He was telephoned to go to Sen- eca, a village in the county, to hold an in- quest on the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. R., who were found dead in their farmhouse. On ar- riyal ho Impanelled a juty of the most,in- telligent cltiaens, one of whom was a phys- clan, Tlie first thing that attracted speclal atten- tion was the peculiar sickening odor which pervaded everything in and about the large framo farmhouse where the deaths had oc- curred. Both the man and the woman were addicted to the excessive use of whisky. The man_was found lying dead on the floor by his bed in the room adjoining the kitchen. In the kitchen all the furniture was found in its usual place. A tallow candle on the table, one-third burned, appeared to have been extinguished by Mrs. R., as it was her custom to be the last to refire. A hole was found burned through the kitchen floor about two and one- half by three feet square, ASTONISHING DISCOVERIES. Upon examining. this opening in the floor a mass of cinders was discovered on the ground beneath. Upon examining them they found the skull, the spinal bones of the neck and half of the spinal bones of the back, which had become reduced almost to cinders. They also found part of the thigh bone and a large part of the hip:bone, and these also were almost burned to cinders. The feot were found in the shoes, the left one reduced to a cinder and tne shoe partially calcined.” The other foot and shoe were re- duced to a_complete cinder. The other parts of the body were reduced to a very-light cinder, leaving no shape of the former body. The clothing was entirely burned. The woman had weighed 180 pounds. The remains, however, after having been gathered together, were placed in a box that would hold less than a bushel. The entire remains weighed twelve pounds. The evidence disclosed the fact that the woman had been a habitual drinker, had drunk more than a quart of whisky during the previous day, and was intoxicated when last seen alive, at 8 o'clack at night. It ap- peared as if she had burned on the floor, with- out a struggle. i Why, however, the floor did not continue to burn was a mystery. The pine joist agalnst which the remaning cinders lay was slightly charred, and no other evidence of a blaze could be found. The skull and hip bone were really the only evidence by which it could be told that a human body had been cremated there. FREAKS o0F ' BULLETS. Bullets have besn known to flatten round a Done, as if the bone, having beerr broken, had Deen thus joined tcgether by the pliant lead. In one curious case a bullet went exactly six timen {n and out of a skirmisher's bady, with- out doing him any serious harm. Kneeling when firing, the ball traversed the ribs, en- tering one side, and making its exit at the other, and finishing its erratic course by en- tering and’ finally taking its departure from the other ‘arm- of that curiously perforated soldier. A very curious accident happened to a commercfal traveler in Omaha, who was walking from the rallroad station to his hotel in a gale of wind. As he turned a corner an English sparrow struck him in the face. Its bill pierced his eyeball, and ruined his sight. THE TH A PULL. (Being a blast from the bugle of America’s most prominent citizen.) Chicago_Vanity Fair. I can do what I please,—see! And none of your jaw for me! Respect the law, did you say? . Why, what for,"any way? I'm the man with a pull! If T want to, I'll shoot,—see! Go on, squeal! that just suits me! * I've got barrel-loads of grease For the courts and the police,— T'm the man with a pull! I stole the ballot boxes?—me! Maybe so, but—prove it, see! You can't come no Lexow game On yours truly—not-the same! I'm the man with a pull! The Marquette'll get me to the bar? Augh!—they dunno where they are! There is them at City Hal Ag'll bail me out at ‘call, I'm the man with a pull! Conyict me of a steal—eh? Don't you go to getting gay! There's his worshipful, the Mayor, A#'ll gee me treated fair. I'm the man with a pull, L' ENVOL DId you ever hear an eagle scream, Or a locomotive blowing steam? Free? They never were one-half as free As the man with a pull—which is me! s 0il Burning Locomotives, The Southern California rallroad is prob- ably entitled to the credit of first introducing ofl-burning in locomotives in regular passen- ger service in this country, Locomotive No. 625 of that company has been equipped with the Booth ofl-burning apparatus, a device which has been derigned after a long period of experiment, although the patents on it have been taken out but a short time. Wil- am Booth, the designer, was formerly mas. ter mechanic of Peruvian Central rallway, but, of late, has been conducting the experi- ments on the Southern California line, belng alded by Master Mechanic Prescott, who has had wide experience in similar experiments. The equipment makes very little change in the exterfor appearance of the engine. The fuel tank holde a little over five tons of oil, and is placed inside the water tank, so that it is surrounded by water, there being six feet of it on the back of the tank, eighteen inches on the sides and fronts, and six inches on the top. It is provided that an oil- tight manhole, and has a gas vent on top, so that any manner of shaking will not allow the ofl to escape. For the sake of safety there are two safety valves, one on:top and the other on the bottom. An apparatus is provided to shut off the flow of oll to the engine In case the supply pipe becomes broken from any cause. Two burners are used, with steam jets In each, by which the oll is sprayed Into the fireboxes, —-———— An Tuterior Sprout, ‘A child will instinctively put everything it finds In its mouth,” sald T. D. Wedge- worth to the Cincinnati Enquirer. “A friend of mine had a 2-year-old boy, who met with & pecullar experience in that way. His mother is an amateur florist, and among her collection were some small bulbs which grew in water without the assistance of any soll. One of these was swallowed by the baby. It did not cause any pain for several days, when the child writhed in agony. All known remedies for stomach trouble were tried without avall, and the physiclans could not understand the case, as the pain grew greater ocnstantly, and the child began to swell. An operation was finally performed, and the bulb discovered and removed. It had al- ready sprouted, and in a day or two more would bave put forth leaves. The child re- covered after the bulb was taken from it." Set Teeth. Best Teeth Painless Extractio! ADY ATrENDanT. Cousult Dr, ROlfifld | strong you place all. “A stitch in time saves nine,” especially true when dealing with your teeth. e $ 5 00 . 7580 50¢ BOOKS AND PERIODICA A handsome and appropriate calendar comes from the enterprising Chicago publish- ers, Laird & Lee. Each page has a distinct leaf printed in appropriate color, photo- graphed from nature and accompanied with a suggestive maxim. The Truthseeker Annual and Freethinkers' Almanac, 1895, aside from its calendar of events bearing relation to liberallsm, contains an elaborate review of “‘Free Thought in the United States;" a paper, “The Old and the New,” by Robert G. Ingersoll, contrasts the past_and present In religious belief; Helea H. Gardner asks “What Are Women Here For?"; Samuel P. Putnam tells of “The Freethought Federation of America,” and other papers in a similar vein characterize the contents. The ‘Truthsecker company, 28 Lafayette Place, New York. The Philadelphia Record Almanac for 1895 has made its call with the usual condensa- tion of useful facts and figures. A large portion of its space is devoted to the election data of the state of Pennsylvania and the Quaker City. As per announcement in December number of The American Journal of Politics that Journal for January appears under the title: The American Magazine of Civics. No change in ownership ‘or management has been made and the change of name is made that the name of the magazine may more clearly indicate its purpose and character. This perfodical occupies a field peculiar to itself, since no other is devoted entirely to the discussion. of the social ‘and economic questions that are agitating the public mind. The January number contains a particularly table of contents. The article on “‘An- International Paper Currency,” by John F. Hume, will attract wide attention, as will also the symposium on “The Benefits and Dangers of the Recent Election,” by Hon. John Wanamaker, Charles A. Brinley, esq., James M. Beck, esq, Hon, William B. Alll- son and Hon. Willlam J. Bryan. The re- maining articles are: “‘An Argument for the Single Tax,” by Isaac Felnberg; “The Doc- trine of Malthus as it Relates-to Modern So- ciety,” by Louis R. Harley, A. M.; “Gold and Silver Both,” Prof. H. A. Scomp; *‘What Ails Unskilled Labor in America?’ by P, Vedel, C. E.; “Some of the Dangers of Free Coinage,” by Arthur B, Dale; ‘‘The Deca- dence. of Home Ownership in ‘the United States,” by J. A. Collins; *“The Church and the Labor Question,” by Henry H. Barber, D. D.; “Ethics and Politics,” by Howard MacQueary; ‘“The Failure of Government in the Indlan Territory,” by Hon. W. M. Fish- back, LL D. Andrew J. Palm & Co., 38 Park Row, New York. CONKLIN'S HANDY ' MANUAL—Compiled by Prof. George W. Conklin. Flexible cover, 25 cents; library style, 50 cents. Laird & Lee, Chicago. In this Mttlé book are nearly 500 crowded pages of useful information and a collection of maps covering all quarters of the globe. It is a household ‘encyclopedta and world's atlas all in one. THE WEALTH OF LABOR—By Frank Loomis Palmer. Cloth, 219 pages. The Baker * & Taylor Company, 5 and 7 East Sixteenth . Street, New York. nis “The wealth of labor,” says Mr. Palmer, “canngt bo determined by the wealth of na- tions.” China, during a long period one of the richest of nations, was notorious for the poverty ‘of its labor, and many countries, in the poverty of thelr youth, have been con- splcuous for the wealth of their labor.” The writer advances a new statement of the rela- tions of. foreign exchange, which, while ap- pearing sound, is quite intricate and theoreti- cal. Admitting the correctness of the theory, there is no plan or method proposed whereby it could be applied or whereby in practice the lines 'of demarcation could be determined on which should be based the prohibition or stimulation of foreign trade. The principal valua of the book lies in directing attention to features of existing economic doctrine that are untenable and demand correction. CAMPAIGNS OF CURIOSITY—By Elizabeth L. Banks. OCloth, 208 pages. F. Tenny- son Neely, Chicago. The book narrates the journalistic adven- tures of an American girl in London. Under various disguises she seeks employment in household service and other work. It will not interest American readers as much as if the fleld chosen had been an American city. VISTAS—By William Sharp. _Cloth, gllt top, uncut edges. Stone & Kimball, Chicago. ‘Whichever way we view life we are con- fronted with, vistas, the realm of imagination being a very breeding ground of vistas. Mr. Sharp’s vistas are dramatic episodes, inter- views with voices, winds, dead souls, spooks and men and women with real flesh and blood. They occupy a pecullar field d can be viewed in every imaginable way—there is such a mingling of -the tangi- ble and the intangible, the possl- ble and impossible, the flesh and the spirit, the personal and the unpersonal. Beyond the grave and on both sides of the grave the peculiar dramas take In a border land where everything is spooky and we are con- fined within our little prison of apprehensive flesh to be appalled and terrorized in turn by the awful surroundings. “Finls,” one of the vistas, might well be termed a dream of con- sclence. It is a reflection of after life—a ghostly wandering amidst strange volces and noises heard in the deep gloom, a prey to awful fear. ‘‘The Passion of Pere Hilarlan" 1s a strange creation, in which the falth of love and life Is pitted against the selfish wor- ship of dead deitles and the divorce of duty from devotion to the living—to the life that Is here and is today., ‘‘A Northern Light" is a fantastic portrayal of the terors of an evil consclence. A NEW GOSPEL OF LABOR. By A. Roadmaker. Paper, 50 cents. 8. Weg- ener, Seattle, Wash. The burden of Mr. Roadmaker's gospel is to impress on the reader's mind the extent to which “the times are out of joint,” in doing which he presents numerous statistics that are convincing, even If the experience of the average Individual did not already suffi- clently impress this fact upon the mind. It is In offering a solution or remedy, however, that the writer lays greatest stress, and here the reader is not so lkely to approve his propositions, though he may be in complete harmony with its purpose. The plan in- volves ihe issue of flat money to the extent of $40 per capita, which is to be loaned to workingmen's unions or organizations In the purchase of establishments through which to become thelr own employers, The govern- ment 1s to have a first and only mortgage on the establishment and is to appoint an agent to keep accounts and represent the government In guarding its interests against misappropriation of funds, but the agent shall not be empowered to interfere with the conduct of the business. Coal mining is the first industry to which the plan is to be ap- plted and other industries afterwards unti all labor becomes supplied with the neces- sary capital to be independent and free. How $40 per capita would go far enough to achieve such a result 1s not explained and there is no provision by which the loans are to be paid, interest of 1 per cent, and wear and tear being all the requirements to be exacted. 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