Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1895, Page 6

o INSTRUCTION IN POLITICS High School thm;n Make Rapid Head- way Under Feculty Guidance, INTERESTING FEATURES OF CLASS ELECTION Members Alrendy Know How to Turn n Committce Down—Elections by Higher Classes—High School Notes They are teaching practicai polities in the Omaha High school these days. The members of the first year who have just entered that institution were given their initial les- gon last week, and If they are not adepts in political manipulation by the time they teceive their dipiomas it will not be for lack of lastruction. Fach class at the commencement of the year Is supposed to organize and elect class officers. On Wednesday last the freshmen were brought together for (his purpose. The assemblage was called to order by Mrs. Roudebush, one of the latest acquisitions to the teaching force, and under her directions the work of organization was perfected. Mrs Roudebush | erself appointed a committee of four on nominations. She then Instructed the committee to bring in two names to be voted on for each of the offices, namely, pres- | tdent, vice president, secretary and treasurer The ‘committee, however, did not let any of its opportunities escape. To make sure of the presidency, ft submitted as the two opposing candidates the names of two of it own members, and the class being restricted in voting to the tickets thus placed in nom- {nation, was compelied to choose one of the two young men selected for them by Mre. Roudebush. But the lesson in practical politics did not stop here, Not content with a cinch on the prestdency, the committee placed the names of the other two members in nomination one each for two of the other offices, and they falled of election only because the class turned them down. The officers chosen by the class of ‘99 are: President, Odin Mackey; vice president, Miss Wilcox; secretary, Miss Schroeder; treasurer, Mr. Alvison. Wool Pickering was elected class editor. The other classes of the High school have also been clecting class oficers. A meeting of the class of ‘97 was held on Friday, September 20, for this purpose. The choice of the class for president was Mr. Frank Lehmer. Miss Laura Brunner was elected vice prosident; Mr. Harry A. Wigton, secretary, and Miss Josa Shields, treasurer, Miss Fanny Cole was elected class editor, The regular meeting of the class of '96 was held Friday, September 13. After the farewell address by Mr. Gsantner, the retir- Ing president, the following officers were elected: President. Ralph Connell; vica presi- dent, Will Godso; secretary, Mae McMasters treasurer, Joseoline Bell. 'Miss Marle Ken- nedy, was elected class editor. CHEAP LIVING A BGES, aring the Cost In Years Past with the Present. “Living and learning wera very cheap at some of the Massachusetts educationl tasti- tutions in old times,” sald a New Yorker to the Sun reporter, “and I am sorry that prices have risen at all of them. About forty years ago I was a student at Williston seminary which was then an Important preparatory school for college, and our seminary bulidings were ¢ owded with American ycuths prepa ing to enter Yale, Ambherst or Willlams. The students at our seminary were mostly the sons of farmers, or of business people, or of professional men, or of mechanics, and all of us lived as plainly as Erasmus said that bud ding scholags ought to live, and applied our- selves to our studies as closely as Erasmus or applied Pimself to hiz, It was before the manla for sports had taken possession of stu- dents, and o, as far as I can remember, it was only on Saturday afternoon that we had some fun on the grounds or upon the slopes of Mount Tom, near which the seminary is situated, or upon the water. The studcnts worked as hard and fared as cheaply as the men and women employed in the big factory of the plice, and I know that I pored over my books of Greek, Latin and mathematics for hours of the night after the factory people were asleep. “Our seminary fees were not more than $20 a term, and (he payment was not re- Quired In the case of a student who confessel inability to meet them, while Prof. Clark was especlally gracious to such a student, of whose Impecuniosity no one elss was ever made aware. The rent of my room in the semluary was, if I remember correctly, $1 a month, and every room wa: good encugh for its purpose. As for the price of table board in the houses in which students boarded, ranged from $1.25 a week up to perhaps twice that amount, for all T know. I paid $1.25 a week for victuals thrice a day. “A lot of us formed ourselves Into a club one of the members of which went out into the town and negotiated for rates of pay- ment with some housekeeper of economical mind who could perhaps accommodate twenty or thirty of us at a long table in her house. There were other clubs at which the prices were higher than at ous; but we were the Spartans, and did not care for that. Plenty of the students boarded at the houses of factory workers, whose wives pre- pared the meals, As for the dearer places, I doubt if there was any of them at which the charge was over $3 a week. At our club we had enough of that nourishing provender which s the very best thing for young students who mean to apply thelr whole mind 1o their studies without distraction. We had g0od mush, with maple molasses; we had corn bread and milk; we had fish; we bad hash, and other things. Every day in the week we had a change; and Sunday was the best day of the week. There was not a scrap of waste at our table in our club, which was for those of the students who had no coin to waste. I remember how proud we were of our scholastic poverty. “I am sure that the cost for me of living and learning at Williston seminary, in Mas- sachusetts, forty years ago, was less than $100 a year, and I earned that sum by my work during vacation. It was far casier then than it Is now for a young man of nar- Tow means to get a classlcal education. The training at the seminary was “of the very best kind and fitted a student for any col- lege. I went there to prepare to enter Am- herst college, at which I had a friend in the person of the genial sage, Prof. W. S. Tyler, afterward president of the college. ““As It was necessary for me to count my dollars after I had left the seminary, I visited both Yale and Amherst for the purpose of finding out the cost of living and learning at each of these colleglate institutions. The cost at Yale was less than half as much as it is now; but that at Amberst was yet less. I found I could get as good board for $2 a week when there as I had got for $1.25 & week when at the seminary; and I found that the tuition fees were within by narrow means, “Everything there then was for the sons of ordinary folks, and 1 was told by Prof. Tyler that plenty of the students earned during the months of vacation a part, if not all, the money which they needed for college expenses. Forty years ago Amherst was a g0od place for an aspiring youth not over- burdened with filthy lucre who wanted to get a classical education, and it had a fac- ulty the members of which encouraged a student of that kind. One of the very best of the professors there then was Dr. Bdward finchcnck. the distinguished American geolo- st. ‘'When 1 began to get my education at the seminary there were among my fellow stu- dents not a few young men who have since won fame or fortune. I would like to give you the names of several of them who are now among the foremost citizens of New York, but it is poesible that they would not care to be reminded of the days of mush. “‘I think it is to be regretted that the cheap old times at our American educational in- stitutions have departed, and that the chances for the poor young aspirant are not as good as they used to be. The amount it would cost one of my sons to go through the sem- inary and college these days would be at least twice or thrice the amount it cost me. ‘When I told my oldest boy about my ex- nditures as a student, and how I earned hem, and how I studied day and night, he smiled. “1 read in MacMilla Magazine a while ago an account of U er living of man of the students at the old Scotch universiti forty or fifty years ago, when the writer of the artfeln wie a frosiman at ons of them, Ry tofd of firmers boys trudgiog on foot over the moautulus from their homes to the caliege, eatrylag on thelr backe a sack of oatmenl, ont of wnieh they wosld ndke thelr own porridge fur u month or longer, till they went home and got another saek, besides, verhaps, a striog of red herrings. Ashamed of their poverty? Not a bit. They were go- of that made the porridge and buttermilk the pride of their Nfe. It was learning tley were after, and happy they were to cultivate it on oatmeal. 1 Al not euffer any such | pressure In mg coliege ysars in Massachu- setts, but tie reading of that essay fn Mac- millan's Magazios brought back those happy vears to my mind, and taught me that even our board at $1.25 a week at Williston sem- tnary was living fit for a lord,” Y. M, SCHOOL. Diversity of Contem- plated by ¢ ttee, The educationa! committee of the Young Men's Christian assoclation has been busy for a long time outlining an extensive series of classes and educational features to be con- ducted this winter. The committce consists of Dean Gardner, Mr. A. P. Tukey and V. 0. Strickler. One of the first plans of the committee was to secure a thoroughly com- petent director for this large school of young men. Mr. H. A. Ruger, recent graduate of Beloit college, was sccured. Over thirty | classes, educational clubs and series of lec- tures have been arranged and all will be con- ducted if there Is sufficient demand for them. The subjects to be taught run from reading and spelling up to Latin and embrace espe- cially Industrial and mechanical subjects which would be of value to young men work- Ing at skilled trades. The commitlee is out- lining a work that may result some time in institute work comparable with the famous Cooper institute of New York City and the att Institute of Brooklyn. A beginning is 0 be made this year in technical work and a room fitted up for instruction In wood- turning, if the committee is able to induce some friend of young men to invest $75 in benches and tools, efc., to equip this new department. A competent teacher has vol- unteered his services, which is equivalent to as much more. The committee is bound to start this department if it has to start with tho limited outfit of tools now in use in the assoclation building, a jack knife and gimlet. In the elementary branches, which are es- pecially designed to be of benefit to young men of foreign birth, but not, however, lim- ited to them, reading, spelling, grammar, (elementary), elementary arithmetic, practice in writing, geography, and local topography, will be taught. These studies will be espe- clally designed to be helpful to men prepar- ing for civil service examinations. In the commerclal branches, which will be thor- oughly taught, and be under the direction of one man, will be embraced bookkeeping, pen- manship, commercial arithmetic, business cor- respondence, shorthand and typewriting. The industrial branches will embrace me- chanical drawing, first, second and third year work, including the fundamental principles, the use of instruments, projections, intersec- tions of solids, machine details, cams, gears, pulleys, astembly drawing, mochine designs, cte. The advance work will be adapted to the individual needs of those engaged in dit- ferent trades. ‘The architectural drawing will embrace the elementary principles, geometric ©rms, plans, elevatio A new class in free hand drawing will be introduced if de- manded, and will be under the direction of a competent instructor. This work is es- pecially adapted to those engaged in pursuits where judgment of the cye and hand are needed, such as lithograhping, designing and drafting. The course will cover free hand work from casts, pencil and pen and ink sketching, prospectives, elements of design, technical applications. Wood work will em- brace practice in the use of tools, work in joinery and in dimensions. Especlal atten- tion will be given to carpentery and if de- manded a course will be shaped fo that it will lay the foundation for work in pattern making, and if possible a lathe will be added to the outfit and wood turning taught. A special courze in physics will be introduced to be of value to those engaged in mechanical pursuits. This course will include kinemat- ics, dynamics, light, heat and sound. Bspe- cial attention will ‘be given to electricity. Encouragement and opportunity will be given to the formation of clubs of electricians and steam enginecrs for discussing their problems and work. This will be In addition to the national branch of the school of electricity, which is now being held at the building and 1s included in the curriculum of the associa- tion. Algebra and higher mathematics will be included in the classes if demanded. In tho languages French, German, Spanish and Latin will be taught if classes of ten In cach branch register. 3 As to music, a vocal class wiil be formed for especial work in choruses and glees, and development of the voice. The orchestra will be reorganized and a banjo, mandolin and guitar club will probably be formed. Elocution and publio speaking will be added and will b2 under the direction of a competent teacher. Prof. Homer P. Lewls has consented to give a series of lessons on political economy. The Current Topic club will begin its work in November. A series of talks on commercial law will be given in connection with the commercial course to be arrangzd for with the principal of that department. The committee has under contemplation the orgauization of a law class to be instructed by the leading attorncys of the city, which will, with a three years' course, prepare a man to stand the examinations prescribed by the state for admission to the bar. A stereopticon will be placed as a perma- nent fixture {n the assoclation hall. by the courtesy of Mr. N. M. Ruddy, and this will be used for illustrating the frequent lectures and talks of an educational character. Many of these talks will be given at 9 o'clock in the evening, at the close of the classes, in order to give students an opportunity of at- tending. A series of health talks and les- sons on “First Aid to the Injured” will be given by leading physicians and surgeons. In all of this work the committee has been aided by the very ready help and co- operation of instructors and professional gen- tlemen in the city, very many of whom have cons>nted to give a course of instruc- tion and lectures without charge. Arrange- ments are being made to give instruction In any of the branches which there may be a demand for among the young men in the city. The educational director, Mr. Ruger, will be glad to meet any wmen who desire to form classes in any department. Some of the above classes are announced with the understanding that they will not be organized unless ten register. Classes begin on October 14 and continue till April 1, and will be free to $5 and $10 members of the association, with the addition of a small registration fee for each study. The committee has under arrangement a course of instruction in the English bible, which will be most valuable. With_such opportunities as these offercd by the Young Men's Christian association, the young men of Omaha who are engaged fn making their liveliheod can gain a very generous education in almost any line in which their inclination or trade turns. The instructors secured for each department are men of recognized abl- ity and experience and will bring to the night school enthusiasm in their work as well as long experience. BEAUTIF 1001 HALLS. What Has Been Done by Prinelpal Teach: at Long. It 1s a happy circumstance that it is not often necessary or even convenient to enter an empty assembly room or a vacant hall. Our churches, theaters, auditoriums, ete., are closed almost upon the heels of the lingerer and left in mute lsolation until custom or occasion agein calls the human mass to ani- mate them. “A banquet hall deserted” is the most dreary and desolate conception of which cne poetic mind was capable. Just in proportion as a church or a theater ccases to be simply an assemblage room and becomes in and of itself an artistic creation, it ceases to be chilling and stifiing; but a’ spacious, bare, expressionless room must always be un- canny and depressing. If it so happens that (his apartment be well garnished with forbid- ding transom, crowned doors and vacant-eyed ventilating windows the effect is perceptibly heightened By virtue of necessity such compartments must sometimes exist, and unfortunately in some cases their season of utility is of such an intermittent sort that they cannot have thelr chilly nakedness screened from human eyes. For example, each school house of con- siderable proportions must have a hall which is large enough to allow its several hundred children to pass back and forth in seve lnes of two or four abreast. Manifestly the hall is & necessity and pos- sibly, too, since most of them are so ugly, that aiso is a manifest necessity. The old-fashioned hall was a mere passage- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MOUnAY, SCPPEMBER 30 180 way, dark, narrow and forbldding, but It at ieast had ‘the merit of practically hurrying you Ihrough It, you were so anxious to get out and to be rid of the impression that some- thing from bebind might catch you. Halls Iiko dress skirts have for years been widen- ing, and the newest are the widest. As most of Omaha's school buildings are [ new, Hittle fauit can be found with thelr halls st id R ; {as to spaciousness, light and alr. Those B 1o, e kroat scholirs, 4nd the (houBhL | Which were bullt & hait dosen yeArs A0 ArS | encambered with projecting wardrobes, which | aro hopelessly suggestive of resort bath houses, and are irremediably ugly. The new- est buildings have the best arrangement, yet this large, airy, vacant-looking apartinent causes you to stare, then hurry beyond its nakedness, 1f you do not believe that these halls are depressing watch some sweet little girl as she steals timidly (hrough when she 18 alone In the place. Watch some active boy and see the effort he will make with heels or hands, or both, to introduce natural soul-inspiring commotlon into the vast still- ness if he finds himself alone. Go yourself into some hospital, poor house, or other and more extensive Institution, and feel the offect of the vast reaches of bare, expressionless whiteness, and remember thai while the hall of @ school house is much smaller the child is alfo tmall, small enough to be affected by a less expansive environment. A guest receives his first and strongest impression from the reception room of his host. The reception room of the school room can be made an active educative force, as well as a pleasing, edifying introduction to all that lies beyond. The new Long school building is a perfect model of what can be done in the way of decorating and beautifying a hall. Upon the walle of the two halls are hung thirty-four testefully framed and properly hung pictures. During her visit to Europe Miss McShane, the principal, collected many valuable and inter- esting photographs. They constitu‘e the most important part of the collection. Directly opposite the front entrance is a fine Berlin photograph of the Coliseum at Rome, being two and one-half by three and one-half feet, It is a wonderfully clear representation of that amphitheater that seated 100,000 of the representatives of an older civilization. The Inscription over the entrance can be plainly read. From Athens there are three views, the Thesian, Parthenon and the Olympiad, each full of interest. An interesting group of Egyptian scenes comprises a near view of a section of one of the pyramids, Pompey's pillar and the obelisk of Hellopolus, which alone remains to mark the site of the once femous city. Then there is an excellent view of the group of pyramids, the Sphinx, and a glimpse of the classic Nile, with its quaint village asleep 'neath the palms, At the left of the first flight of stairs hangs a large photograph, showing the biblical scenes wrought out by Gheberti in the famous bronze doors of the Florence baptisiry. Two delicately coloréd photographs show the “Bridge of Sighs” and the doge's palace upon the Rialto. Besides these, there are two beautiful sketches of famous cathedrals in Venice. There are a number of photographs of the masterpieces of Raphael and Guied- ureine ahd other old masters, together with many clear little etchings and several dainty water colors. One group over the stairway is noticeable—a study of still water, a view of the Hudson and a splendid bit of ocean water in thres guises. Millias' “Angles” is there, and Landseer's famous ‘At Bay" and “In the Sanctuary.” These and a group, hakespeare and His Friends,” by Faed, are steel engravings. In the cighth grade room hangs the plcture of a curious relic. It Is one of the Pompeiian fountains, which recent excavations have given to the world. The photograph shows well the curious designs and intricate pat- terns inlaid. Aside from all which would create a taste for art, there are the portraits of Lincoln, Washington and other historical heroes of this and other lands, and our heroes of song, Lengfellow, Whittier, Holmes and others those, in fact, whose faces make our hearts bzat high with love of home and country. In this hall or reception room at Long is a good plano, upon which stands a fragrant tuberose. It is not a place to hurry through, but one in which to linger and learn. Miss McShane is convinced of the value of her “art gallery” and expects to add to the col- lection year by year. In the cold weather recess 1s held in this hall, and the children spend the time looking at the cuts, learning of them and listening to good music. All the teachers are Interested in the matter. Miss Hutmaker has just purchased for her own school room a very handsome colored copy of Raphael's “Cherubs.” So the task is not hopeless. Halls may be beautified. ““One swallow cannot make & summer,” but one picture is a beginning, and will cover with thought a limited space of blankness, “Let the child be shielded from dreariness and blankness. Next after he is shielded from hunger and cold of body, let him be protected from hunger and cold of soul.” Educational Notes. The parochial schools of New York City are taking care of much ot the overflow of the pupils from the public schools. The cost of education in the schools of New York City is $31 per pupil per year. The total cost of the city schools Is $6,000 000 per annum A number of important chang:s have been made in the Catholic University of America at Washington. Women are to be admitted hereafter, but, while they will be eligible to any d:gree conferred by the university, the thirty-four free scholarships offered to male students will not be open to them. Carroll D. Wright, United States com- missioner of labor, has accepted the chair of economics in the McMahon hall of phil- osophy of the Catholic university, Washing- ton. The chair was. lately endowed with $50,000 by the munificence of Joseph Banigan of Providence, R. I, and will be known as the Joseph Banigan chair of political science. The Standard, the well known Baptist Journal of Chicago, In speaking of the wide- spread charge that Prof. Bemis was dis- missed from the University of Chicago at the instance of the Standard Ofl company, because he had criticised trusts in some of his lectures, declares that the charge is not true, and that the real reason for the mismal of the professor has never yet bsen given to the public. It is generally under- stood that the Standard makes this state- ment on high authority, The principal of a Chicago school finds himeelt in deep trouble over a proposition to credit pupils on the number of grass- hoppers they catch while out studying natural history. He promised a good mark for every twelve grasshoppers brought in by the pupils. For som: reason which fsn't quite plain, the boys in the school are in re- volt against the reward. There are three boys and 397 girls in the game, and the boys havs been catching the grasshoppers and selling them to the giris at 10 cents a dozen. Twelve of the girJs bought 144 grass- hoppers from the three boys, and the three boys turned in thirty-six grasshoppers them: seives to keep up appearance. This reached the other girls, and an understanding was made that no more grasshoppers be bought and (hat no attempt b: made to catch any As a result, the principal's plan to rid the Chicago fields of grasshoppers will fail sig- nally. Among the Graded Schools. Vinton school is enjoying some new fixtures and furnishings, Superintendent Pearse is not at home to the public on Saturday afternoons. His office is not reopened after noon. Mrs. M. V. Gannon of Chicago, formerly Miss Mary Johnson, of Castallar school, is the happy mcther of boy baby. Miss Ida Street, formerly of the High school corps, has just accepted a desirable position in a college in one of Chicago's suburbs. One of the little boys of the Lake school first grade, Ferdinand Hieser by name, met with a terrible accident last week. He climbed upon a switch engine and fell under it, losing "'s leg. Superintendent H. M. James of Tacoma, Wash., in writing to a friend here says “Do we like the country? Yes, better and better as the days go on. Such beautiful fruits and flowers and such a pleasing climate —only its so far from home.” Miss Emma R. Pugh, well known here as the first primary training teacher, is about to take the examination to be admitted to the bar at Spokane Falls, Wash, Miss Pugh has been evry thorough In her preparation and has practicaly tested her fitness and ability In her chosen fleld. She is likely to be the first woman admitted to the bar in the state of Washington. A number of changes have been made dur- ing the week. A room was closed at Clifton Hill, and Franklin and ‘ebster, while a Central Park and Long one was opened. This glves the Long school the sixteenth room, and flls the building. There are over 800 children m attendance. Miss Dawson trausferred from Webster to Long. Miss assoclation, held last was elected manager and_Austin Collett sec- retary, with Will Gardngt las captain of the foot ball team. a beautiful white mas side of the front doord(The space in_ the center of the arch above the door has been reserved for the coming class of 1900. ¥ anywhere. He s i L Kl Pleard was changed from Franklin to Cen- 5RO g Heard at the mh Sehool. The first number of Tha tenth volume of the High School Register made its appear- ance last week. A movement Is on mr the production of a number of light ¢ fes by High school puplls during the year. There are 480 puplls enrolled In the fresh. man class, which makes jf, the largest class that has ever enurrdn{;p High school. At an Important mebting of the Athletic ontny, Harry Tukey The class of '95 has greffed to its memory r{\! jlab at the norh Whiat promises to be a''very popular ad- dition to the senfor work has recently been adopted. The scholars will be given the opportunity of making a fifteen or twenty minutes talk on any subject that will in- terest them. This will require extended preparation on the part of the pupil and a thorough knowledge of his subject. A num- ber of the semfors have already intimated a willingness to undertake the work, s isincnc o odern Benuty. Thrives on good food and sunsh'ne, with plenty of exercise in the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms w th its beauty. If her system ne ds the cl ans ng action of a laxative remedy, the uses ihe gentle and pleasant liquid laxative, Sy up of Fige. —il HERO OF THE WILDS, For Forty Yearsx n Wanderer in the Interior of Alasxka. Among the arrivals in Seatt'e, Wash,, re- cently wag a man who had never before seen a rallroad traln nor a telegraph line, He was a white man, too; a man of intelli- gence, and one who had traveled as many miles as most men of his age. It wa* Rich- ard Willoughby, familtarly known as “Pro- fessor” Willoughby, one of the most pic- turesque characters of the northwest, says the Seattle Post. He came in from Juneau, Alaska, on the steamship Willapa. The €ights and sounds of a civilization to which he has been a_stranger for nearly half a century were of course a revelation to him; nor was he himself a less interest- ing object to those who met him. His arance s such as to attract atten ve feet eleven inches tall, and welghs about 165 pounds. Though slim of frame, he s erect, despite his three score years and ten, and his muscles have been made hardy and vigorous by his many con- flicts with Indians and wiid beasts and wind and weather. He came out to California among the '49-ers, but leaving that state before its ent name was adopted, he pushed his v northward to the Frasér river, and has mined and prospected from - that Stream as far north as Cook's inlet. He was in at Silver Bow basin, at the head of Gold creek, within two days after the dis- coverers had landed there.” He has himself made di; s of no common value and He made the first discovery of coal in Hoona island, and also discov- ered coal on Killisnoo 'island, the cl which he afterwards sold to Charles Bart- lett of Port Townsend. He built the first trall up Gold creek into Silver Bow basin. He is known the entire length of the Alaskan _and British _Columbla coast as “Prof. Willoughby.” "He is remarkable for his success in dealing with the Indians, He goes anywhere among them alone, and knows all the chiefs personally. His' only troubles with Indians hi ome through an_uprising when he .would Jjoin “the boys,” as he calls thé, and go into the fight. fi( is needless to cAy that such a man has had a variety of 'the wildest kind of adventures. One of (hese, of which he told, will serve to illustrate his romantic personal history. “Four years ‘ago,” he sald, “there was an ugly ‘bear in' theiinterior, known far and wide as ‘lub-foet’ en account of a wound received from, some hunter. The bear was known to hdve killed four Rus- glans and nearly as many!Indians. 1 took two Indians and a_padk o dogs, and went after ‘Club-foot,’ determined if possible to get him. It was winter and the bear was in nis den. I brought, him out by blast- ing with ‘dynamite. ' The dogs stood no show with him whatéver, and he chased them as he pleased. The Indians and I closed with him, und after a hard fight we got him.- I had his hide and his pe liar “crooked lame paw for a long time in_my museum." This museum is oné of! the wonders of Alaska. Prof. Willonthby! lives - all -alone in a plain double-board cabin on the water front, just to the right of Carroll's wharf, at Juneau. One of the rooms, his living room, is fitted up with some degree of comfort. The other, thougn roughly fin- ished, contains treasures which are the envy of many a university museum. It is one of the points which all tourists from the east are sure to visit, and accounts of it have been published In several of the eastern papers. It contains a fine collec- tion of fiigunll«‘ bones, rich furs and rare hides, minerals of many kinds, a sea cow, a Russian red sable, a lot of old guns and flintlock _pistols, and ‘a number of Indian curios, most of them presents to the pro- fessor' by his friends” among the Indian chief Of all the storfes he has told, none, per- haps has so challenged the credulity of ordinary mortals as that of “The Silent City,” as he calls it. Ninety miles north- wes( of Juneau lies a great glacier, miles in length, and with an abrupt face 300 feet in height. Standing on the summit of this ice mountain at midnight some years ago the professor relates that he saw an in- distinct figuring in the water beneath him which attracted his attention. He re- turned at noon the next day, which chanced to be June 22 and thére far below the surface of the water he saw plainly the streets and quaint buildings of an an- cient city. What was stlll more strange, he saw, or thought he saw, figures of people in the streets. He took a companion ack with him. but the city was no longer to be seen. Several times he returned to the spot, but the strange view had van- ished. Once more, and this time on June 22, he chanced to'be there, and once more, like John on Patmos, he saw the unearthly city.” Tt occurred to him that only once a year did the sun reach the proper angle to give the vision. The next clear anni- versary of that day he took a friend, and what was more, he took a camer: To- gether they photographed the buried city, and men who have seen them say that photographs from that negative are still to be had in Juneau, showing plainly the “turrets quaint with fvy blent of many a ruined battlement.” e Troubled with Perlodical Dysentery. Henry P. Silvera of Lucea, Jamaica, West Iindia island, says: “Since my re-overy from an attack of dys:ntery fome fen years ¢go, it comes on sudde:ly at t'mes anl makes me very weak. A teaspoooful of Chamb rlain's Colie, Cholera and Darrhoca Remedy taken in a little water gives me rel'ef 1 cou'd get a dozen testimon'als from peool> here who have been cured by this remedy.” e T WEATHER FORECAST. Warmer: r, with Winds Shifting to Southerly for Nebrawka. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—For Nebrask: South Dakota, Oklahoma, Indian territory, Kansas and Colorado—Warmer; fal shifting to southerly. For lowa and Missouri—Fair weather; slightly warmer; northerly winds, shifting 10" sutheriy. Loenl Record. OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU, OMAHA, Sept. 2.—-Omiha record of tem: perature and rainfall, ‘eompared with the corresponding day of the past four years: i Jba5. 1804, 1898, 1892, Maximum temperature..,.” 56 Minimam ‘omperaturei 8 48 62 & Average temperature..,!. 46 55 6 70 Precipitation ...........s./ 500 14 164 .00 Condition of temperaturé and precipita- tlon _at”Omaha for e day since March , 1595 Normal temperature Deficiency for the ¢ Normal precipitation. Deficiency for the days ? To'al precipit tioa s nce March 1.19.43 inches Defictency since March L........ 7.3 inches Statiol 8 b om. Reports from Statfors at 8 p. m. ] L] STATIONS. STATE OF WEATUEM, I * uopwdIeLg ) Clear. Clear. OClear. Part cloudy lear Part eloudy Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Part cloudy Omana .. Nortl Piail Valentine. ... 53 ssksEsee . gs8 ar. |Clear, C.car. Giear. Clear. T indicates trace of precipitation. LA W Obaerver, goss e S ———— (CHICAFO GAS AND WHISKY Trust Stocks in Which Wall Street Finds Its Greatest Interest. GOLD SHIPMENTS MAY BE ENDED SOON Exeltement Caused by n Coffce Fiem in Its Desire to Be Revenged on the Bond Syndieate for » Suub, NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—More Chicago In- terests have appeared in Wall street during the last week than at any time since the recent bull movement set in. The Interests have been discernible in various quarters. In at least one case they have effective in- fluence. There are still involved matters of large consequence whose results depend upon developments of the coming week or two. Whisky Trust and Chicago Gas have been two conspicuous stocks in which Chicago has been most interested this week. In Gas there have been conferences every day attended by half a dozen of the biggest law- | vers in New York, relative to the develop- ment of plans by which it is hoped that the trust can be relieved of the continual embarrassment which at present exists. At these conferences long legal opinfons have been submitted from two of the most con- spicuous attorneys of Chicago, setting forth what action in thelr opinion can and should be done to give the property a legal status. Out of these con- ferences was evolved some days ago an elaborate memorandum forwarded to Chi- cago and now probably in the hands of the torney general of fllinots. It is under- stood, howe that the sponsors of this proposition have really no authority to do what they are suggesting can be done. At least one of the men most prominent in all these reform plans is known not to have any ownership of consequence in the gas company’s securities, KNOWN TO BE COMMITTED. Some of the Chicago directors of the trust are known, however, to be committed earn- estly to plans for the furtherance of what on the surface seems to be soucht by the memorandum forwarded trom New York to Chicago. One of the rather humorous features of the tallk on_this score heard in what are practically Gas circles here appears in the suggestion that Attorney General Moloney has suddenly become converted to the idea that the credit of Chicago is being damagel by his prosecution of the case against the Gas trust. These same people who now are picturing Moloney in a penitent mood have for the last vy been fervent describ- ers of the horns that spring from the Moloney scalp. One of the Wall street men most largely interested in this Gas deal—a speculator credited with large profits in the market price of stock—tells me that he be- lieves ‘‘ev will bhe settled” before the end of October, and the authorities of Tllinois will be showing their amiable dis- position toward the company and the trust be making more money than ever before was possible. What is of most interest to Chicago in this authority’s view, howe is a suggestion which he drops to the effect that through the negotiations, and one of the most important results of fhese negotia- tions, there will be opportunities opened for making advances in the price of gas Chicago consumers. When existing tions are quoted to him his answer is “There are more ways than one to kill a cat”—whatever that may mean. Wall street has not been much astanished —has not really been astonished at_ ail— that Chicago millionaires (Nelson Morris and others). who were some time ago fired out of the Whisky trust control, are now on the verge wetting back with just as much power as they ever had, and with all their old opportunities to turn an honest penny. If ihe negotiations pending between these western wreckers of the Whisky trust and the Wall street “reformers” go through successfully a scandal will be evolved of no secondary sort. If only a fraction of the charges which have been made in and out of court against the old Whisky trust man- agement be true somebody ought to go to jall. If to help along a Wall street deal all ‘these charges be quashed and all the strutting reform we have heard so much about be surrendered, Illinols ought to tackle. the whole gang. It is stated, and apparently. with officlal _sanction, that the negotiations are at the moment interrupted, but it is so openly added that it is believed that the ald managers of the Whisky trust will before long consent to procecd and that—this is with a special eve upon the Stock exchange tape—everything will be thoroughly harmonized. GOLD EXCITEMENT SUBSIDING. There is a subsidence of Wall street's excited interest in the gold situation. It looked at the beginning of the week as if the exportation = movement had ended. Authorities identified with the government bond syndicate nt on record as declaring that further shipments of the yellow metal need not be expected—that the export move- ment had run its course, and if the gold market was to have intetrest in it from this time on it would most likely be inter- est_incited by shipments of gold from Europe this way rather than from here abroad. This was exceeding! cheerful Wall street_got quite enthusiastic over it. A good many traders who had been holding back thought this proclamation—official It seemed- gufficient reason to go in and v stoc Kven Europe came into the market. Lon- don had been holding back a long while, At the beginning of the recent bull move- ment British investors and speculators took kindly to the notion that money could be made on the long side of American stock: and when St. Paul was in the fifties ani other similar American stocks ten or twenty points lower than they are now orders on a large scale were executed here for the account of the foreigners. But as the mar- ket rose this element in the market grew less and less conspicuous, till dur- ing the last month or so it has heen no- where digcernable until the beginning of this week., As the week went along, how- ever, s began to ooze out not altogether agrecable to people who had gone Into the market on the theory that we were at the end of our gold exports. Indeed, before the week was half over, It becamé known that at least one biz firm was ready to g0 on with the sh'pments. This is a South American trading establishment, being par- ticularly strong in the coffee trade here. Yesterday the rumors which all the week had been more or less nebulous crystalized into an_ official announcement that_ this talked-ahout shipment would be $1,500,000 and go abroad on today's steamers. Abounding exp’anations are cur t to make it appear that this shipment is of no consequence. It s quoted as a “special transaction,” and In a lot of other ways has been characterized as having no stock market bearing. All these speclal pleas are silly. SETTING FOR A SNUB. Back of the shipment, however, T appre- hend there is really something more than the reflection of ordinary trade conditions. 1 have it on what seems to be good auth ity that when the millionaire government bond syndicate was organized and all the big and little bankers of New York w trying for a slice of it this coffee importing firm, with its close relations to the exchan; et, wanted to be taken into the profit- muking bond scheme, and it offered to take a good, big interest, but was rather fcily informéd that the syndicate was a combina- tion of bankers, in which there really wa no_appropriate place for mere tradesmen. Thus snubbed, the coffee brokers went their own way quite awake, it has appeared to all the weak spots in the syndic tion. Every time the syndicate put exchangesrates and seemed about to su ceed in inducing shipments of gold from Europe his way along would come this firm of “mere tradesmen” and play hob with the whole exchange market, keeping shipping rates at points where not only this firm itself was able to send the vellow metal abroad at a profit, but where al there would be temptations for other out- side establishments 1o get into the gold ex- porting humor. This is one of the reasons which some peaple have quoted lately as explaining smaller announced profits for the govern- ment bond syndicate than were generally expected, the official memorandum of the rofits Issued a week ago not being at all n accord with the big expectations Wall street had counted on. Perhaps that sta ment was not quite complete or expli Possibly a supplementary statement g with _it. Perhaps good business policy m not have dictated that the statement for the public eye should be the statement of financlal accounting. 1f more bonds are had, If more financiering is to be done for the ‘government, it doublless would be just as well t0 have the general public get’ rid of the notion that thls recent financlering meant too many millions for Wall street manipulators, H. ALLAWAY. About the Apple Crop. The big red apple was In the olden time an emblem of solid comfort and content. It is very much in evidence this season. In southern and central 11'inois ani throu h- out the fruit belt of the Northwestern staies the apple crop is, according to the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the finest for twenty years, and in most localities It 1s up to the stand- rd In quantity as well un_abundant yield of favorite varfeties, and cun Indulge themsclves as they have not | many years, es are low, era will storé thelr upples for shipment This will not Interfere with supply for the pr a low rate, rates na 1t whl bring. There is now greater demand than ever before for Amerl and this will probably Tuence on the prices for goo But after all has been s apples will be within reach of ne all of the people, and those who ha been users of the frult as they wer v return to the enjoy ples in Europ. will' probabl Governed Trading rices on Satarday. CHICAGO, 28— Buraged came more aggressive in th today and the wheat market sesslon ended with the shorts against 61c compared with 6i%c at one time of the day OMMIA LIVE STOCK MARKET Weck Closes with the Usual Light Run od All Sorts, | [CATTLE STEADY AT THE LATE DECLINE Tardly Enough Offered to Exelt Competition, hut All Soon Sold omw Advance Again In Price. SATURDAY, Sept. 2. tecelpts and shipments for the past twenty-four hours, as compared with the | previous six days, are as follows: RECELTS, Cattle. Hog Horses. | September o LGSE 48 September 27,0000 1834 407 | September 25,0000 3549 | Septembe September 4. R SHIPMENTS up a trifle, weak and lower. T e se last night, the general tendency favored the buying side and there wi nervous and evideritly badly made active efforts to cover, responsible sirength. Cables came highe markets were. The Liverpool corn trade news c tion to the fact that the world's shipments requirements and says that this ‘act attention vorld's stocks de- rate ‘of 400,000,000 a condition must eventu tart demand. d 16,000,000 bu, was an increase of 10,000,000 bu, at and flour from both coasts last week ek ‘previous ) This has changed the es mates on the visi 16,000,000 b, dropped to under 1,000,000 bu. The scarcity from the winter wheat states are coming to the centers for wheat and All this has frightened shorts and amount of covering, wi the manipulation gth has been the early at Gl there was a big December sold %c, and then up ir- tegularly, and with more or less excitement, 848 to 66%c. her disposed to go its own and that would have downward, but it could not resist the strong influence brought to bear upon it by wheat in the oppos tember was_worth yesterday, and May rested at from 20%c to e direction. for September May started 20%c and as high as 2 )ts by rail were 630 15,797 bu., and the out inspection was closing as above, Oats very firm and price: and wheat, independence was shown. from 20%c fo Zlc, up to from 2 and closed Yc higher, at 21%c bid. day before and Prices started 1oy Recelpts of hogs for the week at d on the corresponding wee ,000 are looked cloting prices October pork ry 16c lower. . While October T%e lower and Janua rd declined 7e, 3 bs are unchanged and January shows only stimates for Monday: corn, 600 cars; The leading futures ranged as follows spring_ straigh , nominal; No. 3, 26@d7c; 4@0.45; dry’ salted shoulde 1%; whort clear sldes finished goods, 1.22, ‘The following were the receipts and shipments . Hogs, Sheep. Horses, D L, T The total recelpts for the week were as follows: Lo, Sheep, ecolpta this week b e Cipts last w A heavy receipts for week, while sheep receipts, 1 n for the previous weck, ress of the receipts for the oor- 'k of 1804, LE-The week closed with the usual light receipts, only “forty-one fresh loads being In the' yards, as against sixty-six loads yesterday. he ‘market “as a whole did not show much change from yesterday's closing mar- Ket, o far as values were concerned, There were only a few fat steers here, not enough o make much of a market, buf what there Nera sold at prices steady With yesterday's decline. Cows and heifers were In good demand and the fifteen loads offered soon changed hands. The pri re about the ame as yesterday. The yards were soon leared of Killing cattle, th y being ex- ceedingly unpleasant and one in a hurry to get under ghelter. The vards were ractically deserted by the middle o Vorenoa y the middle of the The stockers and feeder trade was flat so far as country demand was concerned. As a general thing the quiet prevalling in the feeder divisfon is looked' upon as only a natural reaction after the very large demand of falr week. As prices -on this classof cattle are now all of ¢ to 30¢ lower than a week or ten days : ought to be a large increase In the demand for the week to come. Present low prices must stimulate country buying. HOGS—There were thirt loads of hogs in the yards, ainst thirty-one fair run for the last day of the lay's advance was llowed by & stlll furtier improvement In the market tod The general market was 6o higher and reas ably Gactive at the advance. As high as $4.15 pald for one good load of heavy hogs, as ngainst $1.10, yesterday's top. The bulk of the hogs so0ld today at $3.0063 In spite of occaxional reactions the hog mar- ket s gradually dropping lower. After two oF three days of steady decline there fs usually a slight upturn, but ‘the advances fall short of making good the declines, leaving the general lency of the market downward. On the first the “month b cre selllng at $4.2064.40, o UK al $4.30@1.33, or G0c higher than the buik of the hogs brought on today's market, 1 hogs were selling at $4.80G 4,70, SHEEP—Light recelpts and @ steady market tells the whole stor CHICAGO LIVE STOCI, Few Cattle Received in Demand at afr Prices. CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—The few cattle recelved today were In falr demand at the decline of yesterday, natives adapte the requirements of shippers and dressed beef being from 20c to 40¢ higher than a week Common to hoice steers are now selling at from §2.60 to 10, with extra_grades s ¢ largely nome at from $2.80 to §4. (e are pare larly dull, and good 10 1,660-1b, are slow at from $.23 t The best Texans are offered at from 1ic to 2c lower, the being about from 16 16 26 ndy WelRhts of rangers and from 2o (o, e "cn heavy and inforior lots. more 0 fresh and stale h were offored ¢, wnd with o falr local and shipping demand “(he pens. were soon emptied A further improvement of t G, males etng largely at 10 for packers and about 4.8 10 $4.90 for shippers. Heavy hogs ld at an exireme range of from $3.75 to $4.45 for_ shippers, mixed at from $336 (o $4.80 and light at from $4 to $4.85. Mog are between Lo and toe higher than @ weck ago, and the b heavy sell at $1.75 lower than a year ago an $2.25 lower than two years ngo. Tess than 8,000 sheep arrived today, and sales were made at unchangel prices, native sheep being I demand at from 150 to' 32 for inferior o fro from R Kansas City LIv SAS CITY, 2. Recelpts, Market slow Texas cows, and about native cows $2.2004.00; bl HOGS—Reccipts, 4100 hoad; shipments 700 head. Market strong to 106 higher. Hulk of sales, $4.10 @45 heavy, LG40 packers, $.00G4.90; mixed, $3.8044.10; " Tights, $3.600 Yorkers, $3.8504.06; pigs, $2.6003.80, SHEEP-Receipts, 130 head: shipments, 600 head. Market steady; lambs, $2.00@4.00; muttons, $2.503.00. - Stock in Sight. Record of recelpts at (he four principal markets for Saturday, Sejtember 28: Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. South Omaha ....... LOSL 20 48 Chicago WU T 12000 2,500 125000 1301000 Onthe Prolusy exchanze today the butter mar- ket was firm: b dairy, 8@ FINANCIAL REVIEW. Rates for Money Vir for the Week. he extra call for sed demand in the LONDON, Sept. money, due to the incre requirements, money market, a lly unchanged. of colonial borrowings, will shortly ask for Seen only slightly rates were was some talk expected that a heavy loan to cove: ar expedition. stock market has been occupled with a little fresh to almost mon though the other high can railroads were further ntral showed the only note- worthy decrease of 1 per_cent, and runk shiowed and 1sts of 2 per cent; Reading St. Paul, 114 'pe rapidly on foreign buying and has im- heavy dealings continue ompanies mbers of new pecially In west- d of the Russinn Thistle, One of our readers in Macoupin county, T linols, writes to/ ask whether it is true that Russian thistle is dyIng out in the Da . it 8 understood, the , and where d taken strongest root, says a locality whej supposed it h the Chicago In reply we have to state that this report to be true localities where mous height, 1t has this y, four inches. able botanis We are told that in Krown to but that this so-called to a fumily of plants that thrive only upon land possessing saline properties, and that exhausted the These plants may flourish for new lands of the west, impregnated with @a year or two on the or other saline these are exhausted the plant Manchester Textile Market. MANCHEST through Neal's August business has been done pecially in yarns, which are now d de proportionately, but was not easily sal approximation many mills having to refuse business be- wid " already Kansas City’ . Al ten Km0 1a St. Louls ... 50 80 400 Totals .. 3OSl 1900 4,688 LOUR. 531563, dpenied ea 0 buy rea and adva % and higher than yest ; Septeml ull without the market, which advanced in sympathy with i tosed atiove yesterday; No. 2 miged, cash, ; September, 28%c; Decomber, %c} 550 205 A — Sironger for speculative market on ace count of the adyance elsewhere, hut no trading. Spot, stronger; No. 2, cash, 18%c bid nber 114¢; December, 181¢ bid: May : bid. RYE—Dull; No. 2 oftered at but no bid, FLAX SEED-Higher at for spot. TIMOTHY D1 nehunged. CORN MEAL~—$1.60G1 a5 cast (rack, HAY—Falrly active; cholce tmothy and prairie scarce and In demand, while the market flooded with low' gradés, which dea know a0 with Separator creamery, 18G20c; fancy IS Y —$1.2: D-Quiet: sules, 4 cars at $2.07 har 1310, Spel but b ehort, . 4000 bhie.: Wheat, 40,000 00 b oats, 000 1 v, % NTS r, 000 bbis.; wheat, 33 7,000 bu, i . t Market. 28.—Wheat has bee Auring the past w 1ption Terings were both 1ight rease in quantity afloat did not affect ti . Ameri- 0 advices completely cantroll White 61 0 18 higher on the week and red has advanced about 4. ©arcels, Duluth, afloat 2is. Spot firm and 61 higher. Maize is firm and 3d to 61 higher. Mixed American, for January delivery, sold at 1is Parcels were quiet and firm. Harley was firm, with an upward tende Oats were slow and firm, JAMES E. BOYD & CO Telephoue 1039. OMAHA, NEB. COMMISSION Grain, Provisions & Stocks Room 111% Board of Trade. Direct wires to Chlcago anl New York, Correspondents: John A. Warren & Co. ¥, P SMITH (Tel. 120 8. M. STANVORD F. P. SMITH & Co0. GRAIN and PROVISION® Room 4. N. Y. Life Bidg.,, Omaha. Branch offices at Fremont and Columbus. Al orders placed on e Chicako Doard of Frad Cortcapondenta: * Schwartz "Dupes & co.,wm: ™ er, Fluc fo., Bt. Louls. B First National Bank, Omaba lAnGll E;nv:x Ah-r OUF COmpIcle DOOK eXe I.m uing MARGIN IlAhl{'{fl nd TRADING PEEIAGATE MARESS 238 BXPLAINED. wila" (o vaier ™ ok, hen and ta references furnished, ARBOGAST & CO.. MEMBERS CHICAGO "OPEN BuA TRADE, 223 Traders Bullding, cu-..o.nu -