Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1895, Page 3

NEWS F Bl ) e L u\nl\\'. e e e ————— e olfl ROM COUNCIL BL Office, 12 Peari Street —-H. W, Tilton, Manager and Lessee, MINOR MEN J. R. MePherson, florist; telephone 244, The Clan Stuart hol!s its plenle at Big Lake this afterncon. This 18 tho last week of v schiools openiug next Monday. The observance of Labor day promises @raw a big crowd at Manawa, Jetsse Looman and P. J. married Euturdny by Rev. T. K. Tblckstun Grand hotel, Councll Blufts. Newiy fur- pished. Recpoued Oat, 1. E. F. Clark, prop. The county beard of supervisors will meet this week to fix the tax levy and trensact other important business. | A large congregation greetrd Kev. Dr. Phelps at the Presbyterian church yesterday moraing on his roturn from the eumoer wacatlo; | The chiet paster of the old lady's scrap book has applled for the positicn of Iibrartin in Omaha. He has syldently tired of his Council Biufty newspaper job. | Not an arrest has becn made by the police since Friday morning and ufter the clearing | ent of the city jall this morning it will be mearly vacant, unless a new batch of un-| fortunates show up. | Manawa drew fts usual large crowds yes- | terday. The inke was never in a finer ccn-| dition than at prosent, There Is nearly seven feet of water on tho bar where the big| stqamers so froquently got & | The police reports to the mayor, made by the captain and chicf eich morning, showe yesterday that there were some dangerous | washouts on Madison avenue. The whale | street was reported to be bally washed out and In a dangerons condition to travelers | after night. Street Commissioner £neathen has had a large force of extra men working on the | streets for the last few days trying to| oblitcrate the traces of the late raln storms. | Beveral hundred loads of mud have been carted off the paved streets and used to flll up washouts. C. J. Smith of New York, speclal agent ap- pointed by the Treasury department to look after the Interests of the colored men in the Atlanta International Cotton exposition, was in the city yesterday. He Is a very bright oung man, with just a trace of color In his lood, but this was sufficient to deny him ad- mission to the tables of one of the local res- taurants. The usual services were resumed at the | Congregational church yesterday, Pev. Askin occupying the pulpit. His mcrning sermon was a vivid delineation of the character cf Nehemitah, with sundry helpful lessons on the necessity and benefit of Christian act'vity. It was an eloquent hint for his pecple that they had enough ST a summer re.t, and that it was now time to get to work aga'n with their usual vigor. The wholesale drugglsts of New York who visited Omaha_yesterday at the guests of the Commercial club were given a pleasing view of Council Bluffs during the day by the courtesy of Superintendent Dimmock, of the motor company, who furnished a special tralu, which took the distinguished tourists elear around the city, an opportunity being glven them of viewing the agr'cultural im- plement district, and the parks. atlon, the | o) Bickte 4 were | Farm loans made in western Iowa at low- est rates. No delay In closing loans. Fire and tornado insurance written in best of com- panies. Bargains in real estate. LOUGEE & TOWLE, 235 Pearl St. BURLINGTON ROUTE $10.75. #$10.75. $10.75. Council Bluffs to Louisville, Ky., and re- turn, account G. A. R. reunion, less than one fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale September 8, 9 and 10. 0. M. BROWN, Ticket Agent. The Hardman pizno Improves with use. Y. M. C. A, Open Alr Meetings, The open air meetipg at 4 o'clock yester- dQay afternoon, given' by the Young Men's Christian assoclation, attracted a large num- dber of people and created a good deal of in- terest. The subject was divided into three arts distinguished as ‘“He Came; He Saw; e (was) Conquered.”” It was the story of the prodigal son, revised for the conditions prevalling today. Harry Curtls, secretary of the association, Rev. Henry DeLong and Superintendent Tarkington took charge of the three branches of the subject, and told the part of the story pertaining to it. The mee’ ing was In the street in front of the as- soclation rooms on Pearl street. An organ was placed on the edge of the curbing, and pamphlets dlstributel through the cowd, con taining the words of the songs to be sung. enabled the miscellancous audlence to join in the vocal part of the sevices, which it did with nlenty of fervor. It was a novel sort of meeting and awakened unusual interest. At the conclusion the organ was picked up by several stout arme and carried up stairs, fol- lowed by the audience, s'nging the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” set to the music of “John Brown's Body." The services in the building were un- usually impressive, and were listened to by a crowd that filled all parts of the assembly rocms. Every day is a work day with Sec- retary Curtls, and he is pushing the assoc'a tion forward In a manner thit is highly pleasing. It was his fertile brain that sug- gested the open alr meeting and arranged the detalls. The result was the attraction cof many strangers in the city, who would not bave been otherwis: Parties who have Beckwith's genulne Round Oak can burn hard coal as econom- fcally as in any base burner made, except the Radlant Home. Magazines and direc- tions at our store. COLE & COLE. Yes, the Eagle laundry is “that good Jaundry,” and is located at 724 Broadway. Jon't forget name and number. Tel 157 1t 1o doubt about this try it and be convinced. The women of Broadway church will serve supper Thursday and Friday evenings of this week at 18 Pearl street. The Stardard piano next to the Hardman. Rigden's Great Ride, At 7 o'clock yesterday the Century club in the Ganymedes started out on thelr usual sunday century run. The starters were W. D. Curruthers, Harry Hattenhaver, Joe Boyne, Ed Shipley, Ed Duquette, Will Rigdon and Willlamson' and Bixby on their new tandem. The tandem was to be used in setting the pace. The run was to Tekamah and back Between Council Bluffs and Florence the tan- dem set a hot pace, but while going up the +Florence hill a link In the rear chain of the tandem broke. The riders left their machine and walked back to the street car line and returned to Omaha, but were unable to find a sultable link to take the place of the one broken. They had to come back to the Bluffs before the desired plece could be secured, and when they reaced Florence again and got their whe:l reidy to travel five hours had elapse. They staried cn and met the other wheelmen at Blair, returaing Bixby had no ambition to make a ¢»ntury un. der the circumstance, and Riglon tock hs place on the tandem and made the trip to Tekamah and back again, and from there to Council Bluffs, making a tolal of 140 miles. The boys all reachied home befcre 6 o'clock, making the century in the required sixteen hours, ‘An Omaha Indy accompained the crowd, and made her century easily, although the re- turn agaiost a high south wind seriously in- terferred with the speed of the riders, feet need cleaning this muddy Those wire mats with your name Durfee Furniture company are Your ‘weather. on at the the thing. HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSION, Via Burlington Route, August 29, September 10 Low rates to varlous polnts in the south, southwest, west and northwest. For full in- formation call on or sddre: 0. M. DROWN, Ticket Agent. We have ies: 4 the L. G. Knoits & Co. coal yards and will furnish all kinds of coal, weighed o cliy scales, ton and over, without and 24, | study, extra charge. A, J. Blood & Co. . Hardman and Standard plaucs, 113 N, 16, Cow ni Time In John Schoentgen, who is visiting in Ger- many with his family and making a Buropean | tour, writes a very Interesting letter lrnn\' Bonn, Germany, under date of August 15 to a Council Bluffs friend. Mr. Schoentgen has been spending several weeks in that beautitul city on the Rhine. He says: | “A person can easily pass his time In the | Riiine country, for this city Is one of the most | beautiful spots in Germany. From here on the Rhine becomes interesting and romantic. | he city Itself | about the nicest on the | | noll banks of the Rhine. There Is great wealth to be found ere. The university of Bonn is one of the famous institutions of learning in Europe. Among the 2,000 students here there exists one soclety, (corps they call it here), which 1s worthy of note. They call it the Bavaren. In order to become a member of this corps the student must have an allowance from his parents of not less than $5000. This corps has 300 members. Think of it! Many of the parents of these students live here from spring to fall. This naturally brings a great deal of wealth to the place | and makes things lively all around. 1 find that the American student at home studies much harder than the European student and becomes productive much earlier. As a rule he has no such allowance from home—not | even the scions of the Vanderbilts and Goulds, and he devotes his entire time to and not to loafing and car- ousing, as most of them do. here; yes, more than 50 per cent of them. In this respect, however, the university here is the worst in Germany. Other cities make a better showing. The Amer'cin student of technology is generally considered t e superior In all respects. Germans end Fren hmen admie it. Only yesterday 1 had a conversa- tion with a professor at the Ploytecimic school of Aix La Chapelle, one of the best in Germany, and he said that America n. W “k(‘sl the lead in all technical stud es, regardiess of any country in Europe. “I have also been observing the postoffice business here, and in many respects find it superior to the American system. The most striking feature is the cheapness of their en- | tire express system. You must understand that the postoffice department does all of the express business in small packages, also | largely the forwarding of money in place of bank drafts. Today I sent a box of cigars to my son Eddy, who is attending school at Luxsmborg, for his twenty-second birthday present. They went by mail and the charges were 15 pfennigs, or 4 cents. A few days ago my wife forwarded a large box containing dresses _and clothing for our daughters for 75 pfennigs, of 19 cents. Money orders are also much cheaper than in American, and yet T am in- formed that the postoffice department in Ger- many is one of the chief sources or revenue for the government. 1 have never been in favor of the United States government owning the raflroads, but 1 do belleve it could suc- cessfully carry on the light express business at a great profit, as well as at a great finan- clal saving to the general public, and all through the postoffizes of the country. U1 read with greit delight in the Paris edition of the New York World a few days ago that the lowa democracy in conveat'on at Marshalltown had decared in favor of honest money, and thereby sustained the president of theUnited States and his cab- inet.” GOING OUT OF BUSINESS, Still Greater Reductio Buy your dress goods and silks of us Mon- day. Fine wool dress goods at one-half whole- sale cost. 75c and 85¢ all wool novelty black dress goods, now 46c a yard. All our finest novelty $1.25, $1.50 and $1.76 dress goods at one price, 69¢ a yard. 750, 85¢ and $1 dress goods Monday 39c a yard. Another deep cut in silks. We intend to sell every yard of silks and dress goods in our store before leaving' this city. 200 pairs ladies’ muslin drawers, with ten tucks, that were 45c and S0c, Monday 2lc a pair. Ladies’ 75¢ night gowns, Monday 46c each. Ladies $1 and $1.25 night gowns Monday 75¢ each. THE LAST BIG LINEN SALE. Every yard of table linen in our store will go Monday. 72-inch half-bleach $1 table linen Monday 59¢ a yard. Five pleces of 72-inch bleached satin dam- ask, that was $1.25 and $1.50, will go Mon- lay at 89c a yard. We have In stock two pieces of 72-inch finest quality double satin bleach damask that was $2 and $2.50 a yard. We close them sut Monday at one-half price, choice $1.19 1 yard. NEARLY GIVING AWAY CLOAKS. Every ladies' fall cape in our store must g0. All $6, $6, $7.60 and $10 capes Monday at $2.98 each. Ladies' $2, $3 and $4 capes Monday at $1 each. Six ladies' $15 mackintoshes Monday $7.98 each. Come in Monday. Only a few days left to close out every- thing slick and clean. BENNISON BROS. 0OR EVENTS. lenty of Plnces Where the Multit Can Be Entertanined Today There will be no lack of entertiinment to- day, and the multitude can have its pick of a number of places to go. The chief attraction, of course, will be Union park, with its magnificent string of horses, and the great racing card arranged for the day. Naturaly it will draw the greiter part of the multitude, for the man or woman does not live who does not enjoy the excitement of the races. The coniitions promise an ldeal raciug day. The track is as near perfect as it can be, and the jockeys are talking about some record breaking. The Labor day demcnstrations at Lake Manawa will draw thousands. The Amer can Railway union men estimate that the attend- ance will reach 5,000, and they have made arrangements for the entertainment of that uumber. The majority of these will coma in on the morning tralns on all the ro ds centering here. One-half fare has been se cured on ail the divisions, and every road wil no_doubt bring its tra'n loids. Clan Stuart will plenic st Big Lake. Wagc will leave the Boston store at 11 o'cock. The Clan is an hospitable one, and invites ail of its frienls, espec’aly the members of Andrew socie'y. Each pary is expec ed to bring a lunch, and everything else that may be useful ir aiding in having a good time. All the banks, business houses ard offices will close during the day. The post-flice will be opened and mail deliveries ma‘e in a cordance with rule governing all holidays. LABOR DAY OUT Read Davis' ad. Davis aheap. The Hardman plano wins many frien sells hammocks C. B. kindergarten opens September 2. rke W. Muller In lown Again, Rev. George W. Muller, who is fondly re- membered by s:veral Council Bluffs people, has returned to lowa again. He has estab- lished headquarters in Des Moines, at the Kirkwood house, of what Is known as the Iowa Liberal league, whose object is to promote moral sentiment that will ob- literate all objections to breweries. The brewers all over the state are being asked to contribute liberally to this league, with the assurance that It will mean a brewery in every locality where one is desired regardless of all hostile legislation. Muller had a rather checkered existence here, He was lterally t all things unto all men, but was chiefly iden- tified with the Coxey movements and Jim Weaver's campaign for congress. HER ARRIVAL HERE UNLUCKY. Mra: Emma J. Smith Brondway and Excapes. In than five minutes after she ar- rived in Council Blufts last night Mrs. Emma J. Smith of Booue, Ia., was robbed of all the money she had and was screaming for help in vain. Mrs. Smith fs a professional nurse, and has been engaged in Omaha. She Footpads Robs on less came over on one of the electric trains last night at 8:30 to see if she could get som thing to do here. She got off the train the Northwestern depot, and started up on the south side of the street, intending to stop at one of the hotels in that vicinity it she could find one that did not have a sa- loon attached. She had reached E ghth stret street In her unsuccessful search when she was selzed and robbed. As she passed under the trees on the street corner she observed some one standing on the walk behind her. In an Instant after she was grasped by a strong arm and her purse, which was attached to her belt by a chain, snatched from her. She screamed lustily for help and in her strug- gles obtalned a good view of the footpad, who appeared to be a negro. After he tore her purse from her he ran down South Eighth street and disappeared. Anumber of people were attract deby her screams and ran to her assistance, but the thief eluded them. She reported her loss at the police station, and as she was penniless the chief sent her to the Women's Christian Associa- tion hospital, where she will be taken care of as long as she desires to stay. Her purse contained something over $5 A KNOCKER. New Mixed Dri That is = Parn. Iyzer | Way. A new drink has struck Chicago. Tt is not a drink for the club man, the eonnofs-eur of ntoxieants, or the woman who, in the sanct'ty of her apartments, loves to sip the sweet juices of the grape or the honeyed cordlals of Curacao or Paris. It appeils to one class of persons, and one only, and that is the host of \mpecunious drunkards, d, and its users are known by the euphonious designation cf zim-zams, It is thus explained by a concceter of mixed drinks: “There comes a zim-zam,” remarked the head bartender at a downtown hctel, as te slipped a stick into a lemonade for which a bell boy was waiting to carry to a t'pplng rowd upstairs. The siifa'y bystander {urned in the direction indicated by the b:r- tender, only to have his eyes rest on a ycung man of apparent weak character. There wat a pallid lock on his face anl a shilting g ance in his eyes, and, summed up, there was not an fota of decision in his entire makeup. “Don’t know what a zim-zum 132" said the bartender, litting his voice in s rprize in answer to 4 query. ‘“Just watch that fellow and sce the drink for wnich he calis and you may understand. He will call for a z'm. A 2zim is a mixture of brandy, beer, Rhine wine and absinthe in equal parts. The whole makes only one-half of a whisky glass. What commends It to its users is its power, for one dose, or half a glassful, is guaranteel to in- toxicate. M:st of the fiends are ot well pr.- vided with money. They want to reach the condition that comes to the drinker who uses only stralght drinks after the abso:ptien of many glasses. Without money, was it not for the zim. this wculd be an imposs'blity. Some one working on the theory that mixed drin’ Intoxicate sooner than stra'ght drinks in- vented the new tipple and it caught on Imm dlately. Do many ue it? Well, I gue:s th there are not less than 10,000 devotess in this city, and they are as much slaves to it as the smokers of oplum are to the drug that brings them at first delight and later death, for tie habit presents not only an oppor.unity for getting a cheap drink, but it has a fascina- tion from wiich its users apparently canmot —_———— TO SLE 18 GOOD. 1 Be Taken, Though, How ren Lic When Asle Sleep 1s regarded as the time when. only good arrives to the sleeper, says the Woman's Journal, and In the case of adults this is so; with children, however, the matter is differ- ent. The actual fact of sleep is good, but the matter of sleep is not always so by any means, for during these periods of reposc a child may confract a habit of position which will cause a lasting deformity. In the first place, chilren are often put 1o sleep always on the same side. The mother finds them less restless so, and thoughtlessly lay them that way. Sometimes this restlessnese is caus:d by physical defects, but it mainly arises from habit. No creature on earth is more liable to habit than a tny, sof: baly that you wouldn't think could possess any distinct quality. A mother, for some reason peculiar to herself, finds it most convenient to place the little one on its left side, we will say, for about three days; when the fourth day arrives, master baby decides there is something wrong if he is put on his right side, and forthwith begins to squirm and twist until he fidgets himself awake. Mamma places him on the other side and he serenely seitles himself. Constantly lying on one side will make a difference In the size of the limbs upon that side, and will even cause that side of the face to remain smaller than the other. dren_will also draw up one leg in thef: sleep. This, too, becomes a fixed habit, and by the time the child has learned to walk, a ifference in the length of the two lower limbs will be noticed, a misfortune which might have been ‘avoided had the mother been careful to watch the habits of the sleeping baby. In the bringing up of child- ren it is not so much the care over larger things that counts, but the constant watch- fulness against the “little foxes that destroy the vines.” I ¢ it Go at That. queer stonecutters Harper's Bazar. Hackett lost his second wife lately, a sorawny and shrewish woman, whose loss was not an unmixed sorrow. Still, the dea- con dutifully decided to give her a monu- ment. Being rather “near” he haggled with the village stonecutter as to the size of the slab, and finally chose a very narrow one, at a bargain. The inscription was to be as fol- lows: They have Maine, rclates down in Deacon SARAH HACKETT “Lord, she was thine!" But the stone was so narrow that was no room for the latter letter, stonecutter left it out, with this result there 80 the SARAH HACKETT. “Lord, she was thin!" — Trespassers Invade Yoxem WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. port of Captain Alexander Rogers of the Fourth cavalry, United States army, acting superintendent of the Yosemite Na- tional park, has been received at the In- terior department. Captain Rogers reparts that a great deal of work has been done by his troops in keeping trespassers off the park. From one partof it over 20,000 sheep have been driven, and some trouble has been had with cattlemen. There Is at pres- ent no penalty for trespassing except ex- pulsion from th: park. Captain Rogers says that if there were a penalty of fine or im- prisonment the park would be easily kept clear. te Park. ‘The aunual re A e Stmply Followiug Inxtructions., Washington Star: “You say that I'm not altogether objectionable to your parents,” he sald ruetully, *“No," she replled; “‘father and mother both speak very highly of you." “Then why does that big dog assault me every time I come near and chew a piece out of my clothes? “Oh, you musn't mind Brutus. He's trained 0 do that. Aunty has gotten almost enough samples from him to make a lovely patch-work quilt, at | PITTSBURG OF THE WEST Massive Industrial Poug!ntinn Upon Which Pueblo Rests, AN ABUNDANCE ‘0F NATIVE ORES x En version in loyed in Thelr Con- anafndtured Article wuen Deserib pues of the City. PUEBLO, Aug. 19.—(Correspondence of The Bee)—This trip has beej to me the most instructive of any that I have taken. It has furnished more direct information of the world, its people and their varied industries. Pueblo Is a very neat and practical business city of about 35,000 inhabitants, and is cer- tainly very appropriately styled the *Pitt burg of the west.”” The Arkansas, Fountain and furnish abundant water. Lake Minnequa covers 186 acres, is supplied direct from Charles river, and is sald to be in many places twenty-five fect deep. All kinds of fruits, grains and vegetables do well here, and although this is probably one of the most productive mining regions in the world, yet I find that the agricultural pro- ductions annually exceed in value those of the mines and quarries. Here we see the grandest triumphs of sclence and the practi- cal benefits of irrigation IRON AND § At the steel works and found the processes about as follows: Iron ore ig placed in a large furnace with alter- nate layers of coke and other fuel. When the ore is melted the slide at the bottom Is opened and the melted iron flows slowly down a sand trough about eight feet long, elght inches wide and six inches deep. When it reaches the end it is turned into a side trough about the same size, about twenty feet long, and at right angles with the first. As the liquid passes along this lateral trough at a slight inclination, it turns at right angles again and fills about twenty-five small troughs, each about six inches wide, four deep and thirty long. When this lower sec- tion has been filled, an opening is made in- side of the main channel, about four feet above the first, A spade is set in the main channel just below the last opening made, and the liquid is turned into a system of canals the same as in the first and lowest sec- tions. This is repeated until all of the melted iron has been run into canals On account of a slight resemblance to a line of nursing pigs, the short and small sections are called pigs and the larger original sec- tions are called sow: A pig weighs about 100 pounds. In the blast that we saw there were over 500 pigs and about an equal num- ber of pleces of the larger sections. This pig iron is then broken up and is melted with old iron of all kinds. It is subjected to a blast of hot air which raises the melted iron to a very high temperature and burns out much of the carbon and other impurities. The melted iron is then poured into a large conical, revolving retort and the transforming process is completed by means of intense heat and a strong blast of air that furnishes oxygen to increase the heat. This is now liquid Bessemer steel and is in condition to be ghaped as desired. It is first poured into swinglng moulds about ten inches sqi nd four feet long. As soon as the steel is sufficiently solidified to keeps its form it Is passed between heavy rollers until its length 1s a lttle more than doubled. It fs then cut in the middle and the pieces placed into a coke furnace.. After being sufficiently heated, each piece f5 passed between heav rollers until its fibers are arranged long tudinally and its length is a little more than doubled. It is then_cut in the middle and the pieces reheated. Each plece is then passed between rollers that perfect the longi- tudinal arrangement of the fibers, increase the length to about thirty-two feet and shape a perfect steel rail. | The rail is then passed on and a short plece is sawed from each end to make the ends square and the rails of uni- form length. The rails they were making were thirty feet long and weighed 760 pounds each, 3 Iron and steel bars and rods of varlous shapes, sizes and lengths are made in a simi- lar manner. There are 800 names on the pay rsll. of the work s hot and dangerous, but the wages are satisfactory. The work goes on day and night, each set of men working elght hours. None of the steel works or smelters stop for night or Sunday, but the men work only elght hours in twenty-four. The three large ore smelters, Philadelphia, Pueblo and Colorado, employ probably 2,000 men and are shipping enormous quantities of gold, silver and lead. ARTIFICIAL ICE. The manufacture of transparent ice was found very interesting and instructive. The water {s pumped from the Arkansas river, distilled, filtered through nine feet of charcoal and then is passed through sponges to take out any small particles of carbon that might be carried In the water. The water is then hoiled to drive out the r. It is then run into galvanized iron vats that hold 400 pounds. These vats are set into larger vats that ‘contain brine. Three cooling pipes pass along two sides of the brine vat. The brine is used in these outside vats to lower the temperature below the freezing point without solidifying the water. The temperature of the brine is lowered by passing ammonia vapor through the pipes. Strong liquid ammonia is put into a large vertical cylinder. Steam pipes pass through this and raise the temperature of the ammonia gas to 350 de- grees, and the pressure of 180 pounds to the square inch. While the gas is kept under this pressure it is passed in pipes tnrough several vats of cold, running water until the temperature fe to 50 degrees. The pressure is then suddenly removed by having the gas pass through a very small opening into the larger pipes that pass through the brine. The volume Is increased 2,700 times that of the liquid. The tempera- ture Is lowered so suddenly that the frost on the outside of the pipe shows the exact shape of the end of the expanded column. After the gas has taken enough heat from the -brine to freeze the pure water in the Inner vessel the gas of course is raised in temperature. The pressure of the gas following it forces it into cold water, by which it is absorbed under pressure, becomes again liquid am- monia, and i€ pumped back into the cylinder to be used again. The gas and brine are managed so that the water freezes at the bottom and sides first, thus driving the little air to the center, and causing all expansion upward. The expan- sion in a 400-pound block Is almost two and one-half inches. 1 looked through a block and could distinctly see the watch dial. other rivers EL. rolling mills we Most CASTING IRON I was much iInterested in the casting of hollow iron columns. 1in casting very large columns they use a small hollow iron cylin- der for the Inside of the ore. This has a number of small holes, through which the heated vapor can pass; Around this straw or hay is wrapped, .dnd this is plastered over smoothly with. alay. When dry this Is placed inside of a:large hollow cylinder that has a lining of ‘elay. The melted iran is poured in betwéen the core and outside cylinder, Some of the smaller cores are made of cheap floyr, molasszz. and a iittle sand. These are baked, and are then given a coat of plumbago, - {They can be used but once. Ore is welghed (by the avoirdupols tom. The assayer's ton }s 29,166 milligrams. One milligram of silver Fepresents ten ounces per ton. We find that the crucibles made here of Colorado clay are much better for luboratory use than those magde in Ge.many. The clay is about 65 per cent,silica and 35 per cent aluminum. They are prissed by heavy ma- chinery, and are baked about a week. CITY IN GENERAL As Pueblo is situated right in the heart of the great coal, iron, oil, silver and gola flelds, it Is, of course, the great jobbing center for all of these products. ~All of the numerous manufaeturing plants are run- ning full force, I have never seen more substantial and beautiful public and private buildings. Ths grounds are also beautiful. Both boards of education certainly merit the gratitude of the people for the most ex cellent condition in which the schools, build- ings and grounds are kept. The business blocks, wholesale establish- ments, union depot, banking houses, and opera houses, are said by traveling men to be among the best on our continent. They are substantial, commodious and beautiful structur The hotel accommodations are COLUMNS. excellent, and Pueblo can certainly take good care of 10,000 visitors at any time. 1 noticed that the streets, alleys and yards were remarkably clean. In the southeastern part of the city there Is a small Mexican settlement. The houses are mosily adobe structures. 1 was surprised to find this set- tlement so clean and orderly. WILLIAM REECE. —ae—n DST. the Hand of tdence Ininly Visible. 1 was riding along the path of a cyelone which had cut a wide swath across the coun- try the day before, when I came to a settler seated on a block of wood In front of the ruins of a pole shanty, says the St. Louls Republic. Everything had been taken away down to the puncheon floor, and the dozen fruit trees around the house were lying up- rooted. “How fur hev yo' he asked as I rode up. “From Scottsville." “My old woman blowed away in_that di- rection, and I thought you mignt hey seen her. But Was cum, stranger?” 0, sl Mule went at about the same time, I guess. He was a big white mule.” “I haven't seen them. Then you have lost everything?" “Everything, _stranger—wife, mule, twelve hens, house and furniture. minit _they was all here—next minit was all gone.” “Were you home at the time?" T askel. “Oh, yes—right here to home.” And you neither blew away nor got hurt?" “Neither one. Come through it all as sound as a dollar.” “Where were you when the cyclone struck the house?” “‘Waal, the hand of Providence seemed to be in it. Me and the old woman had a row out in the garden and I chased her into the house. She turned on me ke a cat, got a good grip and heaved me down the cellar through the open trap-door. Then she got a rockin' cheer and sot on the trap and rocked and hollered to me that I couldn't git_out till I knuckled under. She was a- rockin' when I heard a boom bangi and I got out of the cellar to find things as you now see ‘em. Wouldn't you sorter call it the hand of Providence, stranger?” “Well, perhaps, but what are to_do?" “Nuthin'—nuthin’ ‘tall, "cept to be thank- ful that I was pitched down cellar instead of the old woman. If I'd bin carried off, and she left, they'd never got over blowin' around how they made me take wings and fly away on the clouds of the mornin’. Goin’ to Georgetown? Waal, take the fust road to your left. If you should meet the old woman you'll kncw her by her skeerd and humble look.” dog One they v you going HER LOVE SOUGHT tting n Fort the Loyal Girl Yanked 0 from Poverty After being separated for five years, Tmo- gene Johnson and Thomas Iverson came to- gether in Perth Amboy last Monday says the New York Sun, and renewed a courtship which was broken off by her father in Denmark. On Thursday evening they were made man and wife by Re Ole Jacobsen, pastor of the Danish Luther- an church. In Denmark the Johnson family was well- to-do, and Imogene was the only child, Her lover’ was one of a large family which had only thrift and honesty to recommend it The young woman’s father objected to Iver- son's attentions and forbade him to speak to her. The lovers were separated. Iverson grew melancholy, and because of his troubles, his family removed to America The Iversons found their way to Perth Amboy, attracted by its large Scandin vian population. There the son got work and for a time all went well. Then mis fortune came upon him. He lost his occupa- tion and was unable to get another place. He refused to be a_burden on his parents and left his home. He worked at anything and everything that he could find to do, but he eked out only o miserable living He was ashamed to let his betrothed knew his condition, and more than a year ago ceased communicating with her. Last February her parents died. Al their property went to their daughter, who at once determined to find her missing sweet- heart. She wrote to friends In America, who {nformed her where he lived. She toc passage for New York, where she arrived a week ago Saturday.’She came to Perth Amboy and sought out Mrs. Nells Jacob- sen Orsoe, whom she had known in Den mark. Ivérson had found tevvorary em- ployment with Jens Jensen, a_tottler, and he was found asleep on the flocr ot' Jen- sen's establishment, not 500 yarcs from the house In which his sweetheart was waiting_for him. He was aroused, taken to the Orsoe home, and admitted to'a room in which were Mrs. Orsoe and Miss Johnson Explanations were made by the lovers, and they soon were planning thelr mar. riage. It was a comparatively easy matter, as Miss Johnson exhibited the equivalent of $14,000 “which, she sald, was just about half of her_ fortune. Together they sought Rev. Mr. Jacobsen on Thursday night and were marrled. The young couple rented a house in a good neighborhood and are furnishing it from cellar to garret ————— JUICE OF THE POPPY. History of Oplum Manufacture in the Fl ¥y Kingdom In a work by Dr. Edkins, a distinguishe Chinese scholar, who was for forty years missionary in China, recently reprinted as an appendix to the report of the opium commis sion, the responsibility for the introduction ¢ opium into China is traced on the basis o “Information from the Chinese side.”” It i the prevalent opinion that British interfer ence forced China to import opium, and thai it British pressure were removed Chinc would cease to use it. Premising that it was not till 1637 that the British Bast Indix company established relations with China and not (il 1781 that the company took the oplum trade Into its own hands, Dr. Edkin: proceeds to set forth the facts as stated u Chinese historical documents. The poppy was brought into China, he finds, by Arab traders between the seventh and elghth centuries A. D. Its cultivation in China began in thc eighth century and the Imperial Pharmaco poela of 973 mentions it. The editor of the official Chinese Materia Medica of the elev enth century remarks: ‘‘The poppy is found everywhere.” The Arabs, Portuguese and Dutch preceded the British East India com- pany in the opium trade in China. Opium smoking, according to Chinese his torles, had its orlgin from the efforts of a Ming emperor (1628-1644) to suppress tobacco- smoking. But the practice of tobacco-smok- Ing was established and the only effect of the Interdict was to cause opium to be used along with tobacco, or instead of it to eke out a diminished supply. Opium-smoking be- came most_common in parts of the empire that had béen most given to tobacco-smok- ing. In 1720 opium-smoking fell under the imperial interdict, but the trade in opium continued as before,the annual Importation being 200 chsts, By 1767 the quantity had grown to 1,000 chests, under a tariff rate of 3 taels per chest. It was received at the cus- tom-houses of Amboy and Canton, and the items In the books show that the proceeds of the tariff on opium were remitted to Pe- kin, When the East India company took the oplum trade into its hands, in 1781, the drug Beecham's pills-are for bilious. ness, bilious headache, dyspep- sia, heartburn, torpid liver,diz- ziness, sick headache,bad taste in the mouth, coated tongue, loss of appetite,sallow skin,etc., when caused by constipation; and constipation is the most frequent cause of all of them. Go by the book. Pills 10c and 25c a box. Book free at your druggist's orwrite B. F, Allen Co, 365 Canal St., New York. Annual sales more than 6,000.000 boxes. FIRST NATIONAL BANK puiadys Council Bluffs, Iowa. CAPITAL, . . . $100,000 WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. WE DESIRE YOUR COLLECTIONS, ONE OF THE OLDEST BANKS IN IOWA 5 PER CENT PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS CALL AND SEE US OB WIUITE, o had been a legul tmport for from yoars. The people demanded oplum, the ofe fc! smoked it, and although the import was forbldden by law at the caplial, it was permitied by the constituted authorlties on | tho coast. Tt follows, if the Chinese records | aré correctly read, that the Anglo-Chineso war of recent date was not the beglnning of the oplum evil in China, and did not force upon the Chinese an unwonted and undesired article of traffic ¥ 00 to 300 | e MOST A NCAST Danner County of the U a in the Value of Its Farm Products, There has been much rivalry among coune ties In various states over the claim of su- perlor fertility and productiveness. Tl largest agricultural county in each state cc cerned makes claim to supremacy in this re- gard, a claim sustained in the case of many western counties by much valuable oratory Recently, says the New York Sun, an | authentic statement of the agricultuzal | products of the several states mado | ita appearance, and it shows that the banner | county of the United States, so far as agri- | cultural products are concerned, is Lancaster | county, Pennsylvania. ! The farms of that famed and beautitul | county of southeastern Pennsylvania, on thd | Susquehanna river border line, yielded, in the year recorded, produce to the amount of $8,000,000. Next in the value of agricultural products 1s. St. Lawrence county, New York, with a total of $6,000,000, though the com- parison is hardly a fair one, because the area of St. Lawrence is three times as large as the area of Lancaster. The value col- lectively of the farms of St. Lawrence county is $32,000,000, while those of Lancaster are valued at $70,000,000. Lancaster has much better raiflroad connections than St. Law- rence, and, moreover, is closer to a desirable market for agricultural products, Third on the list of fertile American counties is Ches- ter, Pennsylvania, whicu has an en- viable record for chickens and dalry produce. It adjoins Lancaster county to the east, being nearer Philalaiphia. 1t is smaller by about 25 per cent than Lancaster, and yielded last year $5,- 800,000 in agricultural products. SHIL further to the sast in_ Pennsylvania, but beyond the Philadelphia line, is Bucks county, noted for its market gardening and producing in a year $6,400,000 of agricultural products. Bucks county Is 610 square miles in land area, but it very neatly cquals in the yield of its farms the most fertile and productive of the New England counties, Woresster, Massachusetts, the products of which, ac- cording to the table at hand, were $5,600,000 a year ago. Worcester county is literally in the middle of Massa chus for it extends clear through the state, in the most central part, from the New Hampshire boundary line on the north and the Connecticut and Rhode Island boun- dary on the south. It is an important agri- cultural county—the most important in New England—but Is larger, as has been seen, than any of the fertile Pennsylvania coun ties with which it ranks in value of products. The sixth of the very productive farmirg counties of the United States s Colusa county, California. In area it is larger than the three Pennsylvania counties together, and has a record of $5,300,000 of agricuitural pro- duce. Colusa county Is in the northern part of the state, and it is not supposed by any patriotic Californian that the time is or can be very far distant when it will rank at the | head of all the counties of the United States, even though now it is the last of those which have passed the $5,000,000 mark in the pro- ducts of their farms in a single year. When the reports from the Missouri, Kansas and | Nebraska wheat farms are in (his year a claim for a place somewhere near the top may be made, but the fact is that‘corn grow- ing or wheat growlng counties stand rela- tively low upon the list when compared with those whose products are much diversified. Americans Ank; WASHINGTON, Aug. Fava, Italian ambassador, informs the Department of State that a prize shooting contest, in which the Italian government desires Ameri- can_marksmen to participate, will take place at Rome on September 20, in connection with the festivities commemorating the union of the city with the kingdom of Italy. ANAS AN ECZEMA 2255 of this disease, 1 visited Hot Spri; and was treated by the best medm men, but was not benefited. When allthings had falled I de- ROM=sss months was termined to and in four entirely cured. The terribl: eczema was gone, not a sign of it left. My general bealth buill up, and I bave never had any retuin of the disease. od S.8.8, and ;7 CHILDHOOD yetknown a failuie U eure. 7, [rwin, Pa. GEU. W, IRW Nover falls o eure, even when all other rumedios have. Onr treatisoon blood and skin dienasos mailed freo to any address, s AAAS A NSNS, WIET SPECIFIC €O, Atlans, Ga. Searles & Soarles 1416 Farnam St. SPECIALISTS. Al torms of Blo shin Diroasse ogd and oured tor fifo wid the poi: son thoroughly cle: ed from the system . 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