Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1895, Page 11

OWEN LOVEJOY IN CONGRESS \ 'u,mrly ply Mado in Answer to the COharge .7 Being a “Niggor Thief." OBJECIS TO SERV'NG AS A BLOODHOUND Ante-Bellum Strife on the Floor of Congress Lends to n Challenge to a Duel=Unduunted Cournge Displayed, (Copyright, 1895, by 8. 8 McClure, Limited.) Owen Lovejoy, of whose boldness in assist ing runaway slaves and in denouncing slavery 1 gave some account in a previous paper, was elected, in spite of the animo:ity his v'gor of speech and of actlon raised against him, four times to congr Naturally, his car in cougress was marked by many sharp con flicts with the representalives of the slave in- nover as property. It does not use the word slave or slavery CHANGE OF COURTESIES “Why, #ir, when I came up to take the oath to support the constitution a whispered buzz, balf In earnest and half jocular, passed round: ‘How can Lovejoy swear to support the constitution? How can he take the oath?' 1 could take the oath to support the constitu- tion because I believe in the constitution, because I hold to it, because my heart is loyal to it. Evéry part and parcel and por- tion of it 1 believe In; but 1 do not believe in the construction put upon it by those who } claim its_recogniton and sancton of the prac- tice of slaveholding.”” Thereupon Representa- tive Burkedals interp “No, #ir; you stand there today an infamous, perjured vil- lain, | Then Ashmore of South Carolina added es, he is a perjured villain; and he per | Jures’ nimself every hour he occupies a seat | on this floor.’ | And finally Singleton of Mississippl said | “And a negro thief into the bargain Lovejoy—Sir, before the public sentiment of the Christian and civilized world I pro- pose to hold up tol universal reprobation this | practice of slaveholding, I propose to hold it up in all its atrocity, in all its hideousness; est, and somc of these were of the mo B i it T i e f‘,l:\'q,‘fl‘.‘,‘, and, sir, that public sentiment will burn upon e Cerasry 21 1at0 while e house | this practice and ultimately secure it re- K » oval was in sessi s a committee of the whole | MON. & - fl v . R ou may kill Cassius M. Clay, as“you e ’“”,”, i o¥ .f',’f,,*,“,'?(‘ negro | threaten (o do, but ‘the blood of the martyrs teating, If the n)jn'r'r In to ascerta'n wherner | I8 the seed of the church. You may ehed R iy et e e my dogs | his blood as you shed tHe blood of my brothef by LSS 1 d0or | 0 the banks of the Mississippl twenty: years e A i T b right up to the conies | ago—and what then? 1am here today, thank :’;’“\:”:("k ;:\1.“[“4“”‘ rlu:J'y I,,’; the cas: of | God, to vindicate the principles baptized in e It tature or ::,‘.",.pf;'.,,-‘\m\'f‘(,‘,‘," '] DEMANDS HIS RIGHT TO SPEAK she was betrothed though not of her color, and her own story, of her own race was, before her marriage, sold o a libertine from the south, she being in St. Louls. She escaped, and In her flight from a fit: worse than death, she came and implored my aid Was 1 to refuse 1t? Was I to beriy the wanderer? Was I to retain her and give her up a prey to the incarnate fiend who had se lected her as a victim to offer up on the altar of sensualism? Who would do it? I woud not. Did not. NEVER A SLAVE CATCHER. “No human being, black or white, bosd or frea, native or foreign, infidel or Christian, ever came to my door and asked for fool and shelter in the name of .a common hus manity, or of a pitylug Chr'st, who d'd not 1e« cefve It. This 1 hav as long as God lets me live. I shall betray him that wandereth. 1 shall nevi done. This I mean to do ne v be- to a man | “I want to know if it hay come to this? Has not an American citizen the right to speak to an American citizen? I want the right of uttering what I say here in Richmond, in Charleston Bonham of South Carolina—You had bet ter try it.” Lovejoy—Yes, sir, I am going to invoke the aid of the general government to protect | me as an American citizen in my right as an i American citizen. “I can Ko to England today and discuss the question of a monarchical government as compared with a republican form of govern- ment, but I cannot go into a slave state and | open’my lips in regard to the question of slavery.” | Martin of Virginia—No, we would hang you higher than Haman. Lovejoy—1 want to Know you come and make me a slave? | know by what right you can by what right I want to that the say THE GENTLEMAN FROM ILLINOIS OF THE SHALL NOT APPROACH THIS SIDE HOUSE. come a slave catcher. Any one who chooses may transform himself into a bloodhound— snuff, and scent and howl along the tracks of the fiying fugltive—loll out his tongue, and lap up the dirty water that stands in muddy pools by the wayside—overtake the rifle- soared and lash-excoriated slave; (a mother, it may be, with her infant, the love of whom has nerved her for the fiight), thrust his canine teeth Into the quivering flesh, brace out his fore feet, and hold the captive till the Kid- napper comes, with fetters and handcuffs to Joad down ankles and wrist, and then re- celve, as a reward for his brutism, a pat on the head from the slave catcher, and the plaudit ‘Good Dog Bose.’ “Sir, 1 never will do this. T never will degrade my manhool and stifie the sympa thies of human nature. It is an insult to claim it. I wish I had nothing worse to mee: at the judgment day than that. I would not have the guilt of causing that wall of man's despair, or that wild shriek of woman's agony, as the one or the other is captured, for all the diadems of all the stars in heaven. “Is it desired to call attention to this fact? Proclaim it then upon the housetops; write it upon every leaf that trembles in the forest; make it biaze from the sun at high noon, and shine forth in the milder radiance of every star that bedecks the firmament of God; let it echo through all the arches of heaven, and reverberate and bellow along all the deep gorges of hell, where the slave catchers will be very likely to hear it. Owen Lovejoy lives at Princton, Ill., three-quarters of a mile east of the village; and he aids every fugitive that comes to his door and asks it. Thou invisible demon of slavery, dost thou think to cross my humble thresh- old, and forbid me to give bread to the huigry and shelter to the houseless? I bid you deflance in the name of God!" GREAT UPROAR IN CONGRESS, “One of Lovejoy's most effective and at the same (ime one of his most impassioned speeches against slavery was delivered in the bouse on April 5, 1860. Emphasizing his words by his custémary gesture of shaking his hand, with the forefinger extended, he had advanced into the area in front of the democratic seats. This was a breach of the rule which required members to speak, either from their seats or the clerk’s desk, but which had been generally disregarded; and Pryor of Virginia, advancing toward Love- joy, said: ‘“The gentleman from Iilinois shall not approach this side of the house, shaking his fists and talking In the way he has talked. It is bad enough to be com- pelled to sit and listen to him utter his treasonable and Insulting language; but he shall not, sir, come upon this side of the house, shaking his fist in our faces. He shall not come here gesticulating in a menac- Ing and rufanly manner.” Potter of Wisconsin replied “You are doing the same thing yours:lf. We listened to gentlemen upon the other side for eight weeks, when they denounced the membe on this side with violent and offensive lan- guage. We listened to them patiently and heard them through. And now, sir, this side shall be heard, let the consequences be what they may. 1 do not believe that side of the house can say where a member shall speak, and they shall not say it." Burnet of Kentucky replied: “He cannot and he shall not cross this hall in a menac ing manner. He shall not, let the ¢ quences be what they will.' He must speak from his seat.” Kellogg of Illinols said: *“My colleague shall speik; he is in order, and will not com- mit a breach of the rules of the house; he shall have his rights according to the rules of the house, and in nowise shall they be abridged or interfered with. He shall be heard upon this floor and at this time.” Burksdals of Mississippi cried out: “Order that black-hearted scoundrel and nigger- stealing thisf to take his seat, or this side of the house will do it." LOVEJOY RESUMES. During this controversy a scene of the wildest confusion prevailed, forty members from opposite siles having rushed forward into the area, shouting and gesticulating Order being at length restored, Lovejoy said 1 desire to violate no rule of the house I wish to know whether it is a violation of the rules to occupy this spaca in front of the wspeaker's chair, or any porticn of it? 144 80, I will cheerfully yield; if not, I claim the right to choose my own position.” The speaker having decided that he might occupy the clerk's desk, he resumed his wpeech, and in the course of it he said: “1 have heard it declared over and over agaln that the constitution guaranteed slavery. I deny it. In no article, n no section, in no line, in no word, in no syllable can there ba found any recognition or sanc- tion of human slavery in the constitution of the Unlted States. It is not there. It Wways recogulzes buman belugs as persons and | mother shall not have her child? ~Where is | the wretch who would dare to go up and take that fluttering and panting birdling from the bosom of its mother and say, ‘It is mine; T will sell it like a calf; I will sell it like a pig? The same argument that proves my right to my personal liberty proves the right of every human being to his. The argu- ment that proves my right to my children gives the same sacred cldim to every father. They, as I, get it from God, and no human enactment can annul that claim. No, sir. Never! CHALLENGED TO A DUEL. On the 11th of April following, during the session of the house, Pryor demandel of Potter a personal explanation of the language usel by the latter in defending Lovejoy on this occasion, and of a correction in the report of this language, which Potter had made and Pryor had subsequen‘ly erased. Potter mada an explanation which should have been entirely eatisfactory; also asserting his right to make the correction, and denying Pryor's right to erase it. But Pryor was de- termined not to be satisfied, and evidently had an ulterlor object in d>manding the explana tion; and, replying to Potter, he said: “The gentleman says he stands by his lan- guage. 1 am very glad to hear it. I under- stand him then to give me the liberty of construing his remark as I please. 1 will put what construction I please upon it, ani whether or not he stands by it, the sequel | demonstrate.” To which Potter replied, Lt it demonstrate.” THE WEAPONS UNSATISFACTORY. The result was a challenge from Pryor to fight a duel; which Potter promptly accepted, naming as terms bowie knives at five pice terms which he well knew Pryor would not dare to accept, as he was a small man, whil= Potter was a large, powerful man, and in his western pionser life, had become familiar with the use of the bowle knife. Pryor de- clined on the ground that the propozed terms were beneath the dignity of a gentleman to accept; and so the matter ended. But a laughable incident grew out of it, wh'ch Love- joy used to relate for the entertainment of his friends. On the diy following the challe g2, while the result was still unknown, bo'h Pot- ter and Pryor were absent during roll call, and when Potter's name was called a Quiker member rose, and, in a quaint voice, said “Mr. Speaker, I am informed that the gen- tleman from Wisconsin had a prior engage- ment.” And when Pryor's name was called a moment later he rosa and again, saying, ‘Mr. Speaker, I hear that the gentleman from Virginia has gong to be as clay in the hands of the Potte A single incident will illustrate Lovejoy’s noble generosity and freelom from viniic tiveness toward his political perzonsl enemi: Coming out of the cap'tol at Washington lite one night, after a protracted session of the house, during a furious storm and drenching rain, he found Crittenden, one of his bitterest enemles, without any means of get'ing away and, offer z him a seat in his carriage, which the old gentleman was glad to accept, took him safely to his hotel. Lovejoy did not live to see the real'zation of his hopes in the successful termination of the war and the final overthrow of slavery, which he had predict:d. In the fall of 1863, while visiting friends preparatory to resuming his seat in congress for the fourth time, a change was observable in his appearance and demeanor, a shade of sadness marking his usual vivacity In social intercourse. After a brief attempt to discharge his con- gressional duties, Increasing illness compe’lel him to seck rest in retirement; but he showed his continued Interest by sending in a speech to be read, and, in Februiry, having par- tlally recovered, he again attempted to re sumo his work; but the effort was too much for his enfeeblel condition; that fearful scourge, Bright's disease, had marked him for its victim, and he was again compelled to retire; going to friends in Brooklyn, where ho dled March 25, 1884, at the age of 53. PHILIP ATKINSON, e All Free, Those who have used Dr. King's New Dis- covery know its value, and those who have not have now the opportunity to try it free, Call on the advertised druggist and get a trial bottle free. Send your name and ad- dress to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills free, as well as a copy of Guide to Health and Household Instructor free. All of which Is guaranteed to do you good and cost you nothing. Kuhn & Co drug store. e The great Hamburg, Germany, grapevine, which was planted in the year 1771, and is now sixty inches in circumference, 18 the largest in the world. LINK OF THE ELECTRIC CHAIN Harnessing Mountain Lakes to Electric Ma- chinery in 8alt Lake Oity. SPEED TRIAL IN BALTIMORE'S TUNNEL Incandes- for Inereasing Popularity cent Lamp=Blectric Subur of Power Salt Lake City did not wait for a demon- stration of the value of water as a prodhcer of electric power. Long before Niagara on the east and Americar river on the were made subservient modern necessi- ties, the enterprising men of Zion were in the field, and will presently join Sacra- mento and Buffalo as a link in the chain of electric cities. Detalls of Salt Lake's power are descrbied by Mr. George H. Suy In the RElectrical gineer. The main source of water sup- ply Is the sublime Wahsateh range, over- shadowing Salt Lake City, The range is studded thickly with water streams, caves and pockets, fed by the springs and drainage of the mountain, the overflow from which has always been utilized by the Mormons for the fertilization of their valley farms. The | grandeur and beauty of its peaks and lakes ire unequaled even in the Berpese Alps, and Lake Blanche, with its setting of snow-man- tled cliff, will suggest to the traveler in cen- to the Matterhorn. This and seven other of the Wahsatch lakes, lying, still, dark and solemn, at altitudes of 11,000 to 13,000 feet, to be the means of filling the valley with light and gladness. In the pictu Big Cottonwood canon, where the blocks for the ponderous and imposing Mor- mon temple were quarried, these waters are are now below teing dammed and converted into a power hat will develop the resources of Utah in mines products and manufactures to an extent almost unparalieled in the history of the west. The Big Cottonwood Power com- pany has practically completed its plans for the generation and transmission of electric power from the varioas water supplies in the Big Cottonwood canon, thirteen miles south- east of Salt Lake City, for the supply of light and power within the limits of the city, and to the factories and small towns in the vicinity. The power station Is located in the canon, at “The Stairs,” fourteen miles by pole line from the distributing station of the Salt Lake and Ogden Gas and Electric Light company, in Salt Lake City. The avatlable supply of water will produce 58,800 horse power per day of twenty-four hours. The final cost of the complete development is estimated at $300,000. The company's affairs have been so well administered that much more than half the power to be developed has already been disposed of abeolutely, and the guaranteed total revenue from completed contracts is over $100,000 annually. Although the com- pany is confining its operations for the pres ent to “The Stairs” supply, it has other val- uable water rights partly developed, by means of which it could at any time largely sup- plement its output. BALTIMORE'S ELECTRIC FLYER. Whirling under the heart of Baltimore at {he rate of sixty-one miles an hour was the novel experience of a party of men on electric locomotive No. 1 of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company, relates the Baltimore Sun. This record was made in the locomotive's first test of high speed through the tunnel. F. W. Murray, an old and trusted engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio, stood at the con- troller. Approaching the south portal of the tunnel 2 ‘speed of only twenty miles an hour was developed, owing to the curves and switches at that place. The start was made with an casy forward glide of the locomotive. Enter- ing the tunnel the engineman twirled the wheel around, fixing the controller on speed'er notches. Under the impetus thus given the locomotive dashed forward. As steady as a palace car, owing to the absence of vibrating parts, it flew past the double row of electric lights which illuminated the tunnel at a speed that seemed to blend their glimmer into trails of light stretching to the north opening of the tunnel. So smooth and steady was the motion that the rapid rate did not appear un- usual. All on board kept firm grips on their hats as the cool air of the tunnel whistled through the cab. Engineer Shepard stood at the speed-record- ing apparatus watching the movements of the instrument. Nearing tha northern portion of the tunnel the power was shut off and the speed was reduced. The announcement was then made that an actual speed of sixty-one miles an hour had been attained. A smile.of intense satisfaction overspread the counte- nances of the electrical experts at this re- sult, and Dr. Duncan expressed himself as greatly pleased with that test, Much Interest was manifested in the per- formance of the flexible trolley during the trial. This feature of the electric locomotive has attracted general attention, and many queries have been made as to its adapability for even ordinary service, not to speak of fast speed trials, The trolley mechanism was closely watched during the trip, and at the epeed maintained it took the Iirregularities ot the overhead structura with apparent per- fection, there being not the slightest hitch or jar in its operation. The trolley shoe glided with remarkable precision through the elec- tric conduit, at one moment bringing out the full extension of the flexible shaft, then dip- ping down to within a few feet of the loco- wotive, running on one side and then on the other, and not a single spark or sputter was to be observed. When the locomotive was first used with heavy service trouble was encountered, owing to the heating of the trolley shoe. This was due fo the fact that the overhead conductor had been in position for some time, and not having been used an accumulation of scale had developed, impairing the contact of the trolley shoe. No further trouble has been found since this scale was removed, and a recurrence of the difficulty is not expected. The burst of speed resulting in the develop- ment of a rate of sixty-one miles an hour was made on the heavy grade of the tunnel, and the engineers sald it was equivalent to sev- enty-five miles an hour on a level track. The performance of the locomotive was such that they would not hesitate to run it at that or even a greater speed if they had a sufficlent stretch of track for the purpose. Locomotive No. 1 was not designed for fast time, and the result of its latest test is looked upon as an indication of what may be expected from an electric locomotive speclally designed for such a purpose. SUPERIOR TO STEAM. Much has been sald of late about the Nan- tasket and Mount Holly electric rallways, which have superseded steam lines, but it seems from a lettter in Engintering News, written by Superintendent George Maclzod of the Kenticky and Indlana Bridge company, that the electrie line belonging to that or- ganization is not only the oldest electric line in operation on steam railway tracks, but possibly the only one on which a large number of electric and steam trains are run the same roadbed. Prior to August, the company operated its suburban line n Louisville, Ky., and New Alba Ind., by steam, running trains every thirty minutes. It was decided to change the mo- tive power to electricity, however, because a more frequent service, every fifteen minutes, with a correspondingly increased travel, could be had at a lower cost per passenger mile. The line comprises 2.11 miles of double track road and two miles of single track. The latter {5 on a viaduct in Louisville and on the company's long cantilever bridge over the Ohio river, which also carries two road- betwe ways. The electrlc trains use the bridge and tracks * In common - with the ~ frelght and passenger trains of the Baltimore & 0o Southeastern railway and the Southern rallway, and the company's own switching engincs, which transfer fre'ght between the two c'ties. About 270 trains are run over this 4.11 miles of main track daily of which a little more than half are electric trains. The road is operated on the block systom. There are ten stations on the line and schedule time of the electric trains, in- cluding the ten stops, is seventeen minutes for the 4.11 miles. The electric cars are twenty-elght feet long, inside measurement, and those used as motor cars have vestibu'ed ends; the trains consist of two trailers and a moter car, the latter having two fifty-horse power motors. But one accident has occurred in the two years since the system was put In operation, and that was a derallmeat due to a misplaced switch. Mr. MacLeod closes bis letter as follows: “Our experience for the past two years with the electric service proves to our satisaction that the safest, west | tral Burope the rugged and awful profile of | THE OMATA DAILY BEE: SU IND cleanest, mpeediest and most ecorb vical method of handling suburbaw phssenger trafe on steam rallways 1s by trod ey cars opera’ing on the same tracks with #tew¥ trains of all classes, and that this can bé #6ns successfu without danger to the trolle¥'ears or deten- tion to or Interference in #ny way with the steam service ALUMINUM BY FLECTROLY One of the first uses to whigh the current geverated at the large Niagara falls electric plant has been put is the. manufacture of aluminum from bauxite , by electrolysis What the value of such a source of electric current may be to factories In the neighbor- hood of Niagara, to say nothing of those ut a distance, Is suggested by the fact that, al- though the present aluminum syorks are con- EPTEMBER Y| 20, 1893. : — — | First Colored Baptist church of Mownt Wash- | Ington 4o get two old cars and turn them into a church, In the Montana Methodist conference at Helena the question of admitting women to the general conference on the same footing as men was decided in favor of the women by a vote of 34 to 4, The idea of founding a modern university | in Jerusalem has met with the approval of the Hebrew Journal, which says: “Steps have already been taken to collect the necessary | funds, and the Alllance Israelite Universelle | has recelved numerous large donations for the | purpose. ~ Such an institution would be of | value in developing the ewltural progress of the Holy Land to keep pace with its rapid strides in material prosperity.” Rev, Dr, R. 8. McArthur, structed to produce 65,000 pounds of pure ¢ § of Calvary Bap- aluminum & day, the complete success of | Ust church, New York City, had a pleasant the electrolytic process has convinced the | Dut brief stay in Japan récently. He saw managemer.t that the doubling of the re- |Much to admire in the achievements of the sources of the factory by its means is a | Missionaries in Japan, and he advocates hold comparatively cimple matter. More pots are | \NE here next year a grand convocation of to be put in as rapidly as possible, until 10. | Missionaries of ‘all sects, to be met by emi- 000 pounds of the pure metal, worth in small | BeNt clereymen —and _evangelical workers quantities 50 cents a daily. The process is containing oxide of aluminum, umina, which Is to be changed into pure aluminum, are arranged in long rows in a large reduction room. Each pot is lined with carbon, the lining forming the negative elec- trode in the process of reduction, The posi- pound, is described turned out tollows or al tive pole consists of a row of copper rods, terminating in a huge carbon anode, which extends fnto the pot. The oxide, in a pul verized state, looking very much like flour, is placed in the pot, the carbon a nodes ex- tending through the mass, and the current, carried by great copper rods through the entire length of the row of pots, is turned on. The electricity is allowed to do its work for twenty-four hours, after which the pure aluminum is drawn out and cast into in- gots. By the new process the aluminum, which is separated from the ore by the ac- tion of the electricity, and the fluxes used to facilitate melting, accumulate about the negativo electrode, which in this case is the carbon-lined bottom of the pot. The ingenu- ity of this arrangement fs evident. The tre- mendous current heats the carbon of both the lining and the anodes to the point of whiteness, and the melting of the ore by this heat is an important factor in the manu- facture.of the metal. As it is ladled from the pots it looks like ordinary lead heated to a red heat, but when poured into the molds it glistens with almost snowlike whiteness, and the roughly cast Ingots thus produced have the luster of polished silver. LIGHTS VERSUS LAMPS. A short life and a merry one Is to be the guiding principle of the new order of lamp manufacture. At one time an {ncandescent lamp cost so much that it was made to last as long as possible, even if it had to be run at much below its nominal candle power. Now lamps are cheap, and people ins'st on having light. A significent sign of the ten dency of the times is that the twenty-five candle power lamp is daily being put in in place of the original standard sixtee: candle power lamp. It is assumed that when Bdison adopted the sixteen candle power standard for his lamp he took what was probab'y a very good average of the illumination given out by the fiva foot gas burners the country over.” But during the last fiftecn years the gas standard has been raised through im provements in maunfacture, and whereas twenty candle gas was once scen, the larger cities of the country now, average well up to twentyflve candle gas. The public has not been slow to see this, and now demands a unit of light at least equal (o the prevailing standard gas unit. The central stations fortunately for them, realize ghe situition, and the use of high economy lamps is grow- ing. It is noted, too, that the‘time-honored 600 hours of life is not nearly so.often insisted on as formerly. Indeed, the spcific requ're- ment now commonly made 3is fof a lamp tha' will maintain its cindle’ power at h'gh economy for from 300 to. 400 hours. Tha introduction of lamps of twenty-five cindle power, although already started upon, will doubtedless be gradual, as/It must naturally be accompanied by a corresponding chinge in the fittings, cut ou's, wigng, ec., if ap- plied to existing }nsm!hllon:. KNOCKOUT NAILS. Three or four innocent lopking nails that project about an‘inch abdbe the sidewalk in front of 131 Canal streefifurnished: amuse- ment yesterday for hotel runners, cabmen. bartenders and a whole. let of other people, says the Chicago Times<Herald. Under the sidewalk is an electric light wire which charges the nails. When any pedestrian struck his foot against the nails he would receive a shock and go down in a heap. Cabmen and hotel runners around the Unifon depot saw a man hurrying to catch a train yesterday morning. When he got in front of where the nails projected he shrieked and was sent sprawling into the gutter. His satchel went one way and his hat another. As he gathered himself up he £a'd he had becn struck by lightning, but as there had been no flash he was scon convinced that he was mistaken. While this man was brushing the mud off his clothes another man came along and stubbed his toe against one of the nails He, too, was sent sprawlnig. The source of the trouble was then found out, and for hours the spot was watched by an amuse- ment loving crowd. Late in the afternoon Officer Derrig heard of the nails, and he re- ported the case to the fire department, The fun was soon stopped A WISE RULE The wisdom of the rule of enjoining the stoppage of electric cars on the near side rather than on the farther side of the street 15 demonstrated by a correspondent, who says that, having stopped before crossing the line of right angle travel the car is much more likely to be under the thorough contro! of the motorman than if it were driven across the intersecting thoroughfare at full speed. While waiting for cars passengers have a tendency to stand at the crossing, and as the train rushes by them before coming to a stop under the old method, many men, and even some women, are tempted to clamber aboard and take a seat while the cars are still in motion. There fs the same temptation for passengers to alight in order to avold being carried too far. Under the new plan intend Ing pas:engers approach the cirs as they ¢ome to a stop, walking toward them and not with them, 1t Is sald that the near-crossing stop, which has been conclusively tested in Balti- more and other eastern citics, saves many lives and accidental injuries. The managers of many lines say tney will never go back to the old method, and in some states there is talk of inducing legislation to compel all transportation lines to adopt the new system. A SICK BENEFIT. A novel idea in telephone practice has been put into execution by a New England company. A letter has been sent to all physiclans In New Hayen stating that in many cases of sudden attacks of illness a telephone from the house of a patient to the residence of a physician would be of the greatest value. To meet this need the com- pany. announced that upon the request of a person in the city limits, endorsed by the physician attendant, a telephone would be placed in the house for a period of thirty days for the sum of $5, and if the family wished then to continuélthe service the same rates would be mada for ‘each succeed- g month. The plan proniises to be an unqualified success, as there'is something f satisfaction in it for every one concernzd. The calls on the doctor willibe more numer- ous, and by the time the patient recovers the telephone will probably have become so indispensable that it will bes kept on, to the manifest benefit of the company. ELECTRIC SBALING. The escape of gas has always' been a source of loss and deterioration in th euring of char- pagne, but heretofore no ‘perféct process of air-tight sealing was known.i Champagne bottles are now sealed elactrically, and the escape of gas 18 made impossible. The cork and part of the neck are covered with a thin layer of copper electrically deposited. The deposit may be gilt, silvered or given any desired shade, in &pecial baths, and the process can be extended to the sealing of bottles for mineral waters, preserves, and a varlety of products. The neck of the bottle vered with a conducting substance, such £ ck lead, zine, or copper powder, and plunged into a galvanic bath, which is pre- pared for the electro-deposifion of copper. The bottles are simply inserted in holes in the cover of the bath, neck down, and when a layer of 2-10 to 3-10 of a millimeter of copper has been deposited the current is stopped. e RELIGIOUS. v The venerable Father S. R. Beggs, a plo- neer of Methodism in Illinols, died at Plain- fleld, II1., recently at the age of 94. When the cable and trolley cars replaced the horse cars in Baliimore the plan of selling old cars at low prices was adopted and the cars were put to a varlety of u They have been made the cabins of houseboats, peram- bulating dairy lunch rooms, cow stables and chicken coops, but it has remalned for the from Europe and America There has been computed the latest scientific and statistical sources accessible,” a tive table of the di tribution 'of the people of the globe accord ““on the basis of ing to their religions. This table Is pub- lished in the Deutsche Kirchenzeitung (Ber- lin). The population of the earth is esti mated at 1,500,000,000, distributed as follows urope, 381,200,000; Africa, 127,000,000; Asia 34,000,000; Austral'a, 4.730,000; Americi, 133 0,000; total, 1,500,000,000. ligions are represented by 'he leading re following fig ures: Protestant Christians, 160,000,000; R man Catholic Christians, 235,000,000; Gree Christians, 105,000,000; total Christians, 500,- 000,000, Jews 8,000,000; Mohammedans 108,000,000; heathens, 812,000,000; total non- Christians, 1,000,000,000. Rev. Robert J. Fulton, who died at th Jesuit college in San Jose, Cal, re- cently, was not only one of the most emi- nent Jesuit priests in this country, but a ri markable man in other respects. He was a Virginian by birth, related to some of the leading families of that state, and to ex terlan father and a Roman Catholic mother, who after her husband’s death became a nun, and was for years, until her death, mother superior of the convent of the Visitation at Georgetown, D. C. Robert Fulton was a page in the senate when Webster and Clay were members, and his first desires were to enter the army through West Point, but he changed his plans and became a priest. e e A WOMAN'S BARGAIN, Madeline O, You will love me? Ah, 1 know As men love—no better dear. Worship? Yes, a month or Tenderness? 'Perhaps a year., After that, the quiet sense Of posseksion; carless care, And the calm indifference That all married lovers wear. Bridies. Blame you, dearest? Not at all As Fate made you, %0 you stand; As Fate made you, o you fall L Far below Love's high demand Yet how strange is Love's deep law! I can look you through and through, Tracing plainly Nature's flaw In the heart she gave to you; Knowing all my heart must stake, All the danger, all the fear, And yet glad, even so, to make This, my losing bargain, dear! e bt i S ple Russi urvel n Dal wrote two tales which were published in the Moscow mewspaper, says a writer in the Westminster Review.' In one of these one of the characters is a gypsy woman, a thief. She hides herself, and they seck, but cannot find her; the local authorities are ap- plied to and they also look for her In vain Dal served in a government office, and for his “offense’ was called before the authori- ties and fold to choose between writing and service. The censor represented the matter to the emperor in the following manner Although Dal by his story inspires the pub- lic with distrust in the authoritles, yet he does it without evil intention, and the works do not on the whole contain anything harmful, he considered it sufficient to cen- sure the-author, Again, ' Count Uvaroff, in. writing a book on Greck antiquities, had-a great deal of trouble with the censor. - He was not per- 5 mitted to refer to emperors as having been killed, but. was ordered to state that they had died or perished. DEWEY & - STONE FURNITURE COMPANY. Special S eptember Sale BOOKCASES Over 200 s'yles in oak and ma- hoguny. 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The people are friendly; schools, chirches newspapers, wre plenty; railroad facilfties fine and a soil whosé richners 18 unsurpassed, all invite the enterprising man who wants to bets ter his own condition and that of his family. Two and Three Crops Can be Successfully Grown the Same Year Timber s abundant—Lumber is cheap—Fuel costs nothing—Cattle are easily taiscd and fattened—Grazing 18 fine all the year. CLIMATE Ie healthy and delightful; land and sea breezes and cool nights, The mean temperature is 42 to 66 degrees. The average rainfall is b6 Inches, No extreme of heat or cold; sufficient rain for al 20 TO 40 ACRES more money and makes It easler than the best Garden products are a_wonderful yleld and all rries, peaches, plums, apricols, —grapes, pears, all small fruits, are sure and profitable crops. crops, roperly worked makes you ?m»»u-n» farm in the west. bring big prices. —Stra figs, early apples, in fac NO HOT WINDS, NO HEATED TERMS, NO CULD SNAPS, NO CROP FAILURES. lo ralsing district of the Sout 3 and a location rom which you Tead our fruite and gapden truck sold on Oricans markets in NO DROUTH NO FLOOD, NO BLIZZARDS, NO LONG COLD WINTERS. The great fruit growing and vege soil that rais anything that gro the markets of the whole country. the ground and piaced In Ghicago, St Louls and New 12 to 24 hours.—In this garden spot of Amerlca. The Most Equable Ciimate in America. 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Carefully selected frult growing and garden Tanas in tracts of 10 to 20 mcres we now offer on liberal terms and reasonable prices. Correspondence solicited, GEO. W, AMES, General Agent 1617 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb.