Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1900, Page 3

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ONDAY « NEWS O F INTEREST FROM IOWA | MINOR M. Davis sells gla: “Mr. Riley," 5-cent cigar. Fine Missourl oak. Gilbert Bros. Gas fixtures and globes at Bixby's. Fine A. B. C. bear Neumayer's hotel. sclentific optictan, 409 B'd'y. photos, new and latest styles W. J Hostetter, dentist, Baldwin block. Moore's atock fond kill: worms, fattens Bee Schmidt for elegant hollday photos. Drink Budwelser beer. L. Rosenfeld. ag’. r‘;‘":{" Jeweler, opticfan. 2 Broadway. r. Reller re e of scarlet fever o Avenue B * ew line 5 & Co., 333 “lo":lls'l"“\u" Born, to d Bouth Firat atreet son Jearl Bleakney of Earling, Ia., olo‘ 1. Edson of Grace street t your work done at the p laundry, 1% Broadway " Phone W. C. Estep, undertaker, 28 Pearl street. Telephones: Gffce, 97: residence, 3. Mrs. John T. Btowart has as her guest her cousin, Miss Bila Morgan of New York. Mrs. Pearl Jones of Glenwood, Ia., 14 the guest of Mry. L. 1. Edson on Grace street W. F. Graff, undertaker and licensed em- balmer, 101 Bonth Maln street. 'Phons 508 Morgan & Klein, uphoistering, furniture repairing, matiress maiing, 122 8. Main at Mrs. George Bowen Is home from a visit f two months with relatives at Topeka, an Officer Christensen has béen placed on the day detail and Officer Bwanson on the night force. Mra. J. L. Stewart has gone to New York to witness Sarah Bernhardt in her new play, “L'Alglon Mrs, W. . Wilkins has returned from Wisconsin, where she was called by the death of her father. M Arkwright's china and water. or exhibit, 604 Mynater street, for one week, beginning nber 1. Mra, M Orvis of Denver has arrived 6 spend the winter with her sister, Mus. D. H. Kilmore, 60 Mynster street. Your wife will love you If you buy Sherl- dan coal. Smokeless, no clinkers, #oot nor sulphur. Fenlon & Foley, sole agents, Dr. F. P. Bel'lnger, who has been at Hot flvrlnr!, Ark., for some time, I8 rapldly re- covering and Is expected home within a few days. A want add In The Bee will bring sults. The same attention given to a want add in Council Bluffs as at the Omuha offce. Fremont Hawley, C. E. Alexander I'red Ewaldt of 1s the guest opytar Eagle aged 13 years, of Fourth avenie, wa# reported to the Bo: of Health yesterday as suffering fr scarlet fever 1 Miss Kate Riley of Glen avenue has been B by the death of her sls- ter, Arbuthnot, a former resi- dent of thi Egbert Avlesworth of the High school foot ball tewm 18 lald up as the result of a strain reccived during the game at Harlan on Thanksgiving day oral of th 01d this uf the residence, 338 1 ad ment will be W Walnu y At Trintty Methodist church terday Misn Herrick, th vangelist, do! address to men o bers of Den ular 0. Mudge lock from Inter- mecting of a fation will be he.d 20 o'clock at the resi- South Eighth this afternoon at dence of Mrs. Thomas on 8. Pusey has been appointed ad- ministrator of the estate of his father, the lato W. M. M. Pusey. He has filed his bond in the suin of $I0000 with Gensral G. M. Dodge and N. P. Dodge as surefies, “The Brownies Dohany's Saturday, December 8; spectacular, melodlous chor: uses, catchy music, witty lines, beautiful costumes; the most popular play on the stage. Matinee, l0c, 2c, 8oc; night, 15c, 2c, 8e, We. T o fire_department. w; cajled to | e oo Bt enty VAR F e 9 08 A last evening. A boy, box"of matches and a lounge, t atter coming out third best, were the ¢ The house was not damaged., Rev, T. F, Thickstun is still at work on his plan for establiehing a Baptist church in that portion of the rlti; Known as Streeteville. He states that he ly lacks about $200 now to ensure the success of the enterprise. A man named Curtls co ained to the police last night that he h been held r_.r W near the Northwestern watch thugs falle to_ secure any bhad non y tock his u as he Jackknife. A num ing arrang annual me f the ents to nite (g of the Towa Stat asgociatl » be held in L cember 2 nd 28, The s held in the new Auditorium All_members of St, Albans Knights of Pythlas, present at the meoti (Il be work in_th e tlon of officers Refreshments will be served the business session. Robert Stevenson w hour Saturd: Vl(q‘d with a dlsturbance at br 1 t the cor n 1. The he over a_woman and some twel gliests took part In the fracas. was the only one the pollce suce arresting next meeting of the Derthick elub ‘N\ be he'd Monday evening, December 10, when the program will Angle Mrnwllmld Ct isting Teachers' Molnes De- ons will be vank and the ensuing year. at the close of s arrested at mes_Treynor, Bruington, and P. I , to make' arrangements for i | othig (o be given at the last meet- club this month he attraction for tonight at the theater 18 “Two Marrie] Wome: sald to be one of the brightest co the rond and the company is mado p of first-class artists. It Ix a mirth-provoking entertainment from beginning to end and is calculated to drive away dull care. The company, will doubtloas he rected by a Jarge audience In Councll Blu N. Y. Plumbtog Co. soclal m ing of th Dohany teiephione 250, Gravel roofing. A. H. Read, 641 Broadway. Newsboys Arrested. Tom Carter and Bob Scott are in cus- tody at the city jall, charged with larceny by embezzlement. They were arrested on | an information filed in the superior court before Judge Aylesworth by a man named Clark, agent for a Chicago and St. paper. Ho alleges that Carter and have betwoen them embezzled upwards of $50 realized from street sales of the two papers. Carter at the time of the filing of the information was behiud the bars at the eity jail, having been arrested on charge of vagrancy. Carter and Scott were arrested last sum- mer on a similar charge, but the case was never prosecuted. It is alleged that the men have spent money around the saloons, Davis sells paint. Commonwealth 10-cent cigar. WE BUY ONLY THE Best Shoes Made Cut from the FINEST LEATHER and made by UNION LABOR. HAMILTON'S SHOE STORE. 412 BROADWAY. FARM LOANS N!uilll’d In Eastern Nehraskas and lowa James N Casady, ir., 12¢ Main 8t Council Bluffs, KURD ON ARMENIAN KILLING Archdeacon David of the Christian Church of Kurdistan Lectures, BOASTS OF HIS COUNTRY'S PROWESS Comen from the Switserland of Asia to Secure A nuce for the Work of the Church Among His People, Dr. M. George Daniel of the Christlan church in Kurdestan, Asiatic Turkey, was the central figure in @ very fnteresting ser- vice at St. John's English Lutheran church yesterday, where, in the national Kurdish costume, he occupled the pulpit and told of his native country. His visit here is In the Interest of the missionary work which is being done among the Kurds. Dr. Daniel is an archdeacon In the Chris- tian church and In his country has charge of twenty-four churches and ten religlous schools. Talking about his natlve country he sald In part: “In Kurdestan there are no public schools and the government is tribal as that in biblical times. The patriarchs are at the head of the Christian tribes and the sheiks are the heads of the Mohammedan families. Although Kurdestan s a part of Turkey it is regarded as entirely independent of that country, Turkey in no manper takes part In the government and the Turkish army has never been within its borders. The Kurds are great fighters and one Is consid- ered equal to a dozen Turks. The attempts of Turkey to conquer my il country have in each Instance proven a disastrous fail- ure. “There are no they are caught. The old ‘city of refuge’ plan 18 still in vogue and when a man com- mits & murder and succeeds in escaping to another tribe he is considered sate. Aftor a period of seven years, however, a settlement must be made with the relatives of the murdered person. When a man sells a plece of property to another there are no papers to be made out, no need of & potary, The quit claim policy Is pursued, the seller moving oft and the purchaser moving on. There is no standing army, but yet every Kurd is a soldier and ready at a moment’s notice to go to the front in defeuse of his country when needed. As youths the Kurds are trained to handle a gun and there are few, if any, better marks- men in the eutire world. The people of Kurdestan are poor, but yet there are no poorhouses, Thelr wants are simple and every man is willing as far as possible to share with his neighbor. Small as Kurde- stan s some €,000,000 people live off the land, principally by raising sheep. Archdeacon Danfel was in Armenia at the time it the massacre of the Christians in 1895-96, whers he was in the employ of the government. Today he walks with & limp caused by a wound received at the massacre of Lake Van. He was suspected of carrying letters to the European powers and was thrown into prison. In speaking of this Mr. Daniel sald: £ “I was first sentenced to death, but for some reason the sentence’ was mot carried out. A twelve-pound chain was fastened about my neck and I was cast ina cell with elghty-five other wretched prisoners. It would be impossible to describe what I suf- fered. For food I was allowed but one pound a day and often this was unfit to eat, My escape was almost a miracle. A friond managed to send me in a loaf of bread a saw with which I sawed the bars of my cell one night and made my escape. 1 ran end walked sixty miles in twemty-four hours until I reached a place of safety.” Archdeacon Danlel proved himselt a most Interesting epeaker and his address was listened to with the closest attentle) ‘Wanted—Girl for hmnluwrl( 339 Beott. MAIL CLERK'S WONDERFUL ESCAPE Knecked Down and Run Over by the Fast Mail and Lives. A. N. Anderson, a railway mail clerk, had a miraculous escape last evening from boeing ground to pleces beneath the engine of the Burlington fast mail train at the local depot on South Main street. Ander- son was standing on the track in front of the platform, not realizing he was on the | track on which the fast mail was approach- | | ing. He discovered his mistake too late to get out of the way. The horrified spec- tators saw the pilot strike him, when he seemed to twirl around, and then the en- gine passed over his body, which was cought by the tender and dragged along the track for fifty yards before the train was brought to a stop. Anderson, when picked out from under the body of the tender, was uncomsclout but soon revived. Medical assistance was quickly secured and an examination showed that while he had a nmuber of severe cuts | and contusions about the head and should- ors not a bone apparently in his body was | broken, Anderson’s home is in Burlington and he | was sufficiently recovered from his terrible experionce to be sent there last night, Evidence Agninst Bu Harry Howard, alias Gilmore, and Charles Brown, the men charged with breaking into and robbing Jack Pinuel's saloon on Broad- way, will aleo have to answer to the charge of breaking into Mike Kempkis' saloon on South Main street on the night of Saturday, November 24. A gold hunting case watch with Kempkis' name engraved inside the case was stolen from the cagh register that night, in addition to a quantity of clgars and several dollars in nickels, which were taken from a clgar roulette box. Howard and Brown have been identified as the per- fons who sold Kempkis' watch at a pawn- shop on North Sixteenth street in Omaha, where they also disposed of & watch stolen from Plonel's saloon. Little 18 known by the police of Omaha whe 35 shoes advertised for §3, and $3 shoes for §2? Does it seem reasonable to you? Were they 3 or §3 shoes or is it hum- bug? If you think It s try SARGENT where there Is just on as good s can be bought for the money on earth. Look for the Bear-that’s Save Your Money .. SAVINGS, LOAN AND BUIL| G ASS'N, 388 Pearl Strest, C Blufls, la. SARGENT. | County fails in Kurdestan, but punishment is meted out to offenders when | |the side of his father, | O'Netll, or this city of Brown, but Howard has been {dentified as Gus Fritz, who a number f years ago was sent to the reform school at Kearney from Aurora, Neb. The police believe that Howard and Brown are respon- sible for a number of the robberies re- cently committed in this city. They will have their preliminary hearing this morning before Judge Aylesworth in the superior court. Howell's Antl-Kaw!" cures coughs, colds. Real Estate Transfe The following transfers were filed Satur- day in the abstract, title and loan office of J. W. Baulire, 101 Pearl street Thomas Officer and wife and W. H. M. Pusey and wife to Effie M. Smith, lot 4, Porterfleld's subdiv, s w d.... Waiter 1. 8mith and wife'to J. E. ¥. McGee, lot 20, block 16; 28 in '2%; 12 in 29; 23 10 34: 17 In 39; all' In Ferry add, Councll Biufts, q ¢ d slaseirise John L. Mayberty and wife i fred . Hill, Tot 8, blocl Crawford's add, C. 8. Lefferts and wife to James L. Paxton, acd.... Sherift to 3 block 11, Crawfor freasurer to State Savings bank, Council Blufts, lot black 3, .I‘Uornlnlulde add to Councl Blufts and Subur ban Rallway company, part lot 6, Douglas’ subdiy se! 4 qed. o Guorge Council Bluffs Rallwa company, lot 14, block 9, Bridge add, q ¢ d v John R. Arnold and wife to sam same, q ¢ d and Bridge Evans’ Total, ten trans Identify Mrs, Nix ONAWA, Ia, Dee. 2-—(Special.)—Mrs. Johm Douglas of Onawa, daughter of Mrs. E. J. Nizon, whose mysterious disappear- ance has occasioned so much anxiety and trouble to her relatives and friends, ha fully {dentified the satchel contalning the dreeses, crepe, shoes, skirts and rings and pins worn by her mother when last seen. Otker members of the family have also identified the articles and there can be no rcasonable doubt that Mrs. Nixon was the woman who was drowned at Marshall- town, I in the Iowa river, found July 12 and burled there. Mr. Arthur Nixon, a son, returned from Murshalltown today and says the identification s complete nd final and that his will be removed to Atlantic and buried by who dled twenty years ago. Mr. and Mrs. A. Kindall are to be at home here after January 1. They were married at Waterloo, I on November 26. Mr. Kindall is an Onawa attorney and his bride was formerly Mrs. Cora C. Me- Pherson. ‘ase to Test Liquor Law. GRINNELL, Ia., Dec. 2.—(Special)—A case to test the new features of the liquor law, which forbids the taking of orders in this state except from persons author- 1zed to dispense the same, has been started at Unlon. Attorney McLaln had a man come there and take an order for the pur- pose of getting the case started. County Attorney Silwold was put onto the plan and had the man arrested. He was taken mother’s remains | before a justice and fined $50. The case was then appealed and will go into the district court. An adverse decision will be met by the defendant and the case will be 'taken eventually to the higher Colifts, where the constitutionality of the law will be finally settled. Vietim of Gasoline. BIOUX CITY, Ia., Dec. 2.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The town of Hornick, this county, was threatened by a blaze in a frame bufld- ing in the midst of business structures and Mrs. George W. Kingsnorth was fatally burned, dying in four hours. Mrs. Kings- north was cleaning a carpet with gasoline in a closed room in which a hard coal fire was burning. The fire ignited the gasor line, Mrs. Kingsnorth's clothing was burned from her body and the destruction of the structure seemed certain. Prompt assist- ance squelched the fire and Mrs. King north was cared for. y Killed by Playmate, GRINNELL, Ia., Dec. 2.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Fred Lahn, a boy living at Bello Plaine, was accidentally shot and killed by the discharge of @& shotgun in the hands of Harry Treloor; a playmate The charge struck young Lahn in the calf of the right leg, tearing away the liga- ments and causing a horrible wound. He was urable to stand the shock and diel thres hours afterward. The boys were about 14 years of age. Treloor was ex- plaining the mechanism of the gun. Killed by & Fast Frei, GRINNBLL, la, Dec. 2.—(Bpeclal Tele- gram.)—John W. Hill, one of the oldes and best known citizens of Montour, wi killed by a Chicago & Northwestern train near that place ahont * pears to have been walking down the track toward bis home whea the Colorado lpn-v CIAL, WES(OUUNG, Wab Pabsilh (i stepped off the track on which lhe (‘aln- rado special was approaching only te step directly in front of a fast frelght east- bound. Death was instantaneous. Dedicate a Church. CEDAR FALLS, Ia., Dec. 2.—(8peclal Tel- egram.)—The §$12,000 Baptist church was dedicated today. Rev. Walter M. Walker of Des Moines delivered the sermon. The entire $5,500 debt was raised. Towa News Notes. The Panora Poultry club had & very sue- cesaful poultry show. Ex-Governor Boles, who owns a fine stock farm in Grundy county. lost ten head of fat cattle, stolen from his pastures. Ham Kautzman, formerly editor of the| Beacon Light at Yankton, 8. D. and at Neb., 18 now editing a cigar store in Panora, la, Ed Fritz of Atlantic has been commis- sjoned an assistant veterinary surgeon in the volunteer army and expects to be sent to the Philippines. SCIENCE SCORBS AGA A Prep that Will Dest Dandruff Germ Discovere Finally the scientific student has discov- ered a certain remedy for dandruff. When it first became known that dandruff is the result of & germ or parasite that digs into the scalp and saps the vitality of hair at |an agreement made between Plerce the root, causing falling hair and baldn blologlsts set to work to discover some preparation that will kill that germ. After | a year's labor in one laboratory, the dand. ruft germ destroyer was discovered, and it 1s now embodied in Newbro's Herpicide, which, besides curing baldness and thinning | bair, speedily and permanently eradicates | dandruff. “Destroy the cause, you removi tho effect. T Yok Press: A woman has got to| something. 1f it isn't people, it 18 pets; | if 1t {sn't pets, it is the heathen. \wmn Eve first met Adam she Rm’“"’ dldn't think much of him because hie didn had #0 much the monkey ll.ll{\l be- calso half the tme they wore talking baby ta Very few women will be wholly happy in heaven, because the \ur‘ ones most o them felt sure they could be sorry for will be there, too. The first shock & woman gets in her hus- band is when she finds lth he didn't know aa much about how the election was going Some other woman's husband. Prol trouble lludyln1 [i | bounds. \ WOULD TINGER THE LAWS Towa Temperance People to Ask for Some Important Amendments, REAL DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTIO Towa City and An- er Still Lives There—Lib, Education=Lit}, on Over Farm Paper. One Died in a DES MOINES, Dec. 2.—(Special.)—The temperarce people of lTowa, or at least those who are malintalning an organization to oppose saloons, are mot satisfied with the present mixed prohibition and license law of the state, but will move for some important amendments at the next sesslon of the legislature. The anti-saloon people complain most of the discrimination in favor of citles of over 5,000 fuhabitante. In an county contaluing no city of that size it 1s necessary (o seoure the signALUTes of 6o per cent of the voters of the entire county in order to suspend the operation of the pro- hibition law and license saloons. This is necessary whenever it Is contemplated that liquor shall be sold outslde of any city. But the law may be suspended in any city ot 5,000 or over on petition of more than G0 per cent of the voters. The temperance people clalm that in practical effect this gives aaloon license in scme cities of the state when the sentiment of the county as a whole I3 overwhelmingly opposed to saloons; thus, & small majority in & city will over- ride the wishes of a large majority In a county. Inasmuch as the county is the unit of expense in the matter of prosecutions and convictions the temperauce people say this system is unjust. They will ask that | the 50 per cent clause for cities be stricken out. Mr. Abrams, state superintendent of anti-saloon work, says that with a few such changos the law will bo satisfactory to the temperance peoplo and they will cease to fight the saloons In countles which favor it. Towa people have been somewhat sur- prised to learn that there bas been living in the state for many years one who was a real daughter of the revolution. This was Sarah Van Reper Baldwin, who died last week In Mount Pleasant, at the age of She was a daughter of Cornelius Van Reper of New Jersey, who served s a soldier in the revolution. She was a member of the state chapter Daughters of the Revolution There is another daughter of a revolution- ery soldler living in Mount Pleasant-—Mary Morgan Lemley, aged 99, whose father was a Virginia revolutionary soldier. To Rducnte Librarians, Towa now has a library commission which has set about arousing addod Interest in free public libraries. One way in which this 16 to be done 1s by the education of the lbrarlans and fitting persons to become lbrartans. Provision has been made for conducting a library course for the speclal benefit of !brarians and those desiring to become proficient in the handling of Iilraries, this course to be a sort of summer school course at one of the state educa- tional fnstitutions. The trustees of the State Normal school at Cedar Falls have made an appropriation for this purpose and it 18 lkely the trustees of tha State univer- sity will do likewlse, and thg school will be held at one of these plata’, - Agricultaral Intdfedts, It 1s expected that when fbe Towa Agri- cultural department glves out its figures showing the size of Iowa crops for this year the Agricultural department at Wash- ington will receive some surprises. The Towa people have accurate statistics which show that the men at Washington are not quite keeping up with the pace set by the lowa agriculturists. The contest for secretary of the Iowa State Agricultural soclety promises to be inter- esting. Frank Briggs of Sas Clty s an- nounced as a candidate, also J. 8. Trigg of Rockford, Phil Kell of Des Motnes and the present secretary, George Van Houten of Lenox. Van Houten was secretary of the Horticultural soclety many years. Trigg is & well known writer for farm journals. Kell 1s editor of the Spirit of the West, a horse- man's paper published here. The Towa State Hortlcultural soclety will hold {ts thirty-fifth annusl meeting at its rooms in the state house December 11 to 14. Among those on the program for papers or addresses are: R. P. Sper, Cedar Fulls; J. A. Callison, Des Molnes; A. F. Collman, Corning; Henry Schroeder, Sigourney; W. F. Stelgerwalt, Carroll; G. S. Bacon, Des Molnes; N. K. Fluke, Davenport; M. J. Graham, Adel; M. J. Wragg, Waukee; E. R. Hodson, Ames; W. A. Burnap, Clear Lake; E. E. Little, Ames; Fugene Secor, Forest City; 8. J. Counselman, Carlisle; R. G. Barrett, Des Moines; A. T. Erwin, Ames; H. E. Summers, Ames, John R. Sage, Des Moines. Litigation Over Newspaper Property. It 18 a good mewspaper property that will survive the endless litigation that has marked the career of the Iowa Homestead, one of the farm journals published here. The property was built up some years go by J. M. Pierce, Henry Wallace and § Stewnrt, and it became very valuable, Then came the inevitable fight for control, which first came as & contest between Plerce and Wallace. This was fought through the courts with injunctions, claims and orders for a serles of years and finally, as Wal- lace had started another paper of similar character, a settlement was made and Plerce and Stewart rematned fn control Then the charter for the old company ex- pired and Plerce ousted Stewart as adver- tising manager and the property got back into court again. Now the distriet court has ordered the property to be sold under and Stewart, but confirms tlie right of the for- mer to cut off the salary of the latter. A recelver will be appointed and the prop- erty ultimately be sold at suction. In the meantime Plerce rematns in control and will probably carry the case to the supreme court. But he has bullt a handsome four- story brick block for his property and the Iitigation does mot stop the revenues Letson Balllett of Baker City, Ore, under indictment here for alleged fraud in connection with the sale of mining stock. voluntarily returned to Des Moines to face his accusers and stand trial. He claims that the indictment is the result of spite work and that the charges made here and in Oregon against him are without foun- datlon, The new clerk in the land department of | the secretary of state's office will be H. T. Soberson of Alla, Buena Vista county. Light, Detrolt Journal: The grief and chagrin of the designing Circassfan, upon ‘earning hat she was to be divorced, knew no ou called me the llght of your life, guee!” she protested, bending her great dark eyes upon her lord, accusingly, “Ah,” truly,” sighed Mustapha, 'for he | loved 'this wayward creature still. “But DECEMBER 3, 1900, m) creditors fnsist that I get along with a chgaper iluminant! ereat Fatima wept afresh TWO RESULTS OF STORMS, Disappearance of the Nuzeards at Galveston and Cedar Key “One of the most curious results of the great Galveston storm,” sald a gentleman who has lived for a number of years in the tempest-swept city to a New Orleans Times reporter, ““was the total destruction of the buzzards. From time out of mind the lower end of the fsland has been a fa- I vorite hauut of these birds and they coult be seen there any day by the hundreds After the storm it was generally supposed | they would flock to the scene of‘ruln and the appearance of the nolsome creatures was looked forward to as an inevitable finishing touch on the horrors of the great lrmnurupho But, much to our surprise, none were to be seen and I have been all over the island and find that they have ab- i solutely disappeared. A good many of the olg-timers sald they had taken refuge on the mainland and would be back again in a few days; but weeks have elapsed and none have appeared. The only explanation is that they either perished on the spot during that terrible night of were blown out to sea and drowned “In speaking of the matter the other day an old fisherman told me of an almost similar occurrence off the coast of Florida He sald there was a small island below Cedar Keys that was formerly a great re- gort of buzzards; In fact it was known among the natives as ‘Buzzards’ cay.’ For come reason or other the big birds made it their rendezvous and the spot was or tically surrendered to them. One night abeut ten years ago a terrific tropical storm came sweeping up the coast and this little island seemed to be directly in the path of the cyclone center. At any rate. It was swept clean and the whole colony of buzzards were drowned, The fisherman told me that scores of them were washed up on the mainland and not another one was ever seen on tho cay. The new generation avolded 1t finstinctively, Perhaps they bave A way of handing down such tradi- peaking of the destruction wrought by the storm on the lower end of Galveston sald another Texan who had list- ened to the buzzard story, “the frightful wind that night uprooted and carried away threo gigantic oak trees that have been known for vears as 'Lafitte’s grove’ Ac- cording to tradition, the epot was one of the buccaners’ numerous places of rendezvous and 1 scarcely need add that he 1s reputed to have buried a fot of treasure somewhere in the neighborhood. The oaks were sup- posed to mark the place and I am sure it 18 no exaggeration to say that hundreds of pepole have hunted for it at one time and another. The trees themselves were largely re ponsible for keeping the legend allve and now that they are gone I dare say it will dle out. “It the true history of treasurc-secking along the Guif coast could be writtes tinued the speaker, “it would make a volume as big as an unabridged dictionary and as thrilling as a dime aovel. T used to know an old negro who llvad Corpus Christl, Who was regular center of in fection for the treasure fever. It is my private opinon that the old rascal was half crazv, but he pretended to have information that Lad been handed down to him from his grandfather as to the burying of a chest full of gold and jowels, by pirates, on the south coast. He never (0'd the story the same way twice hand-running, but when he got a wonderfully clrcumstantial fashion. I heard him tell it once myself and, sitting there in his little cabin in the light of a candle, with the sound of the distant breakera in my ears, I must confess he thrilled me clear down to the soles of my teet. It T could have started out then and there nothirg cou'd bave prevented me from joining an expedition to dig up the chest, but when I thought it over by daylight I concluded that the old man was a triple- plated llar. A number of others belleved his yarn, however, and at least a dozen we!l- equipped parties went out at various times on the strength of it. One of them was backed by a banker noted for his hard common sense. “I never heard of any of them finding anything, although they dug up the sur- rounding beach until they made it look like a section of honeycomb.™ Superiorit andling Trai It 1s estimated that if automatic signal- fug were introduced at the intermediate sig- nal boxes between Waterloo und South- ampion, says the London Telegraph, the London & Southwestern would save between thelr system alone. boxes is, of course, meant places on the Hue—other than rallway stations and posi- tions from which points are controlled—at which semaphores are now raised or low- ered by human agency for the safe work- Ing of the trafic. The distance between London and Southampton is seventy-nine miles. If 8o great an economy could be effected on a comparatively short stretch of line, what saving might not be obtained on the 15,000 miles of raflway in England and Wales? On the basis of the London and Southampton estimate the calculation works out at over $5,000,000 per annuw. In the United States automatic slgnaling 18 in force over long distances by means of | what 18 known as the electrical track cir- |cult system. There is a signal post with | three arms which show automatically the state of, not one section of the line ahead, but three. For instance, you may see the top arm “off,”” the second one “on” and the third one “off.” That tells the engine driver that the first and the third sections ahead of him have no train on them, but that the second one has, Thus the driver knows as he goes along what the state of the line is in advance of him. For miles he has noth ing but these automatic signals to gulde him. No sooner does his train get past one of these posts than up goes the signal to dacger and there it remains until ho has got clear of that section and entered the next, which, of course, he will not do un- less the signal ahead of him shows that the next section is clear. The automatic signal, in fact, presents the block system in per- tection and without the risk of human error. Really our American cousins are very clover In the manipulation of their ruilways, We cannot hold a candle to them in many respects. On the other hand, thelr | Ingentous arrangements for Insuring safety sometimes go side by side with what would seem to us the most risky of enterprises, For Instance, glven four tracks—two up lines and two down—it is no uncommon thing to see all four used on occasion for trafic in one direction. Nothing short of an invasion and the necessity of concen- trating troops at a moment's notice would iduce our rallway managers to think of following such & practice, which is un- doubtedly a survival of the old days of single tracki Touching, Harper's Bazar: ‘Love, lecturer, “Is a mystery. It exista, and yet Wt _does not. oes N0 harm, it costs us Botkine. 3t raakes ne happy.” And vet it cannot be seen, nor can It be touched Lovo—" At this point a sad-eyed man arose and continued the 'OUI IN ONE PRICKLY ASH BITTERS Oures the KIDNEYS, the LIVER, the STOMACH and the BOWELS, seun wEnicings s ont soLLAR. hold of a fresh listener he recled it off in | & $35,000 and $40.000 a year on that part of | By intermediate signal | left the hall. Some one who knew him whispered to the ‘ecturer You must not mind him." said he, -for | he has just been caught ndmnn worth in a breach-of-promise sult, and what you sald | about love not being touchable rather touched him | FAIR AND WARMER TODAY Wenther Varia Includes - Prognostication e Win to Northerly. WASHINGTON, day and Tuesda For Nebraska—Falr and warmer Monday; Tuesday fair; northerly winds, becoming variable. For lowa—Fair Monday westerly winds, becoming variable. For Mlssouri—Fair Monday; colder in southern portion; Tuesday fair; variable winds, For North Dakota—Cloudy and warmer Monday; probably snow or rain in wesiern portion; Tuesday snow and colder; variable | wind For South Dakota—Fair and warmer Mon- duy; Tuesday colder; probably snow; varl ble winds, For Kansas—Falr Monday; western portion; Tuesday fair; winds, For Colorado—Falr Monday; eastern portion; Tueeday fair; winds. For Wyoming—Falr Monday; enstern portion; Tuesday fair; winds, For Montana—Cloudy Monday with rain or snow in western portion; colder in north central portion; Tuesday snow: colder in eastern portion; westerly winds For Western Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory—Fair Monday and Tuesday; north- erly wind For Iilinols—Falr Monday and Tuesday; colder oxcept fn northwest portion; winds becoming fresh northwesterly. For New Mexico, Arkansas and Tennes- see—Falr Monday and Tuesday; varlable winds For Eastern Texas—Fair Monday, except probably rain In eastern portion; Tuesday fair; winds mostly fresh northerly. Locnl Record. "E OF THE WEATHER BUREAU, OMAHA, Dec. »fficial record of tem! perature’ and Iy olpitation compared with the corresponding day of the last threo years 1000, 1899, 1898, 1897, |47 88 Dec. 2.—Forecast for Mon- and Tuesday; warmer in northerly warmer in variable warmer in westerly Maximum inimim o | Prectpitation 00 .06 Record of temperature and prec at Omaha for this day and since o ratire ... B diy Normal tem| xcoas for t Total excess since March 1 Norm precipitation iclency for the day 0 rainfall aince March 1 «8 since March 1 seessaae clency for cor. perlod, 18,0 4:51 inches Deficlency for eor. perfod, 1895... 335 nches tations at 8 P temperature... raperature. L0 (2078 inchos 88 inch BTATIONS AND STATS OF WEATHER. Choyenne, ¢ | Balt Lake C Rapld City, | Huron, cloudy . | Winliston, cloud | Bt Paul, raining . | Davenport, cloudy | Kensas City, cloudy’ Helena, cloudy . Havre, cioudy Bismarck, cloudy Galvestor, raining’; 7T indlcates trace of pregipitation. L. A. 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