Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1900, Page 5

FACIS 1N CAPITOL, ROBBERY Detectives Getting to Bottom of the Btory Told by Watchman, INDICATIONS OF A FAKE ARE PLAIN Much Evidence Discovered (o Prove that the Whole Thing is Not Just What the Hero Says it I LINCOLN, Dec. ~(8pecial.)—Informa- tion has been brought to light, which may lead to a solution of the mystery surround- ing the aileged attempt to rob the state treasury on Thursday morning. A dete tive, Who has been investigating the case claims 1o have evidence in his possession, which does not verify certain technical points of tho capitol watchman's tale, and he insists that there are good reasons for believing that none of the shots heard in the bullding were fired by safeblowers. This opinion 18 concurred in by the city police authori- ties, who look upon the affair as a plcture drawn under the nfluence of a vivid imagi- nation. The absence of a motive for the promiscuous shooting makes the solution of the problem a difficult undertaking and this fact is the only strong cvidence in favor of the theory that there was an attempt to break into the treasurer's sate. To begin with, the shots described by the night watchman were next to impos- sible,” said the dectective, who is invostl- gating the caso entirely on his own re- sponsibility. “The next there was no attempt to rob the safe 18 the fact that the only implements or para- phernalla found were a sack, a chisel and a candle. It would have oeen impossible to break into the safe without using a slodgehammer and it is not within reason to belleve that the safeblowers carried oft such a heavy instrument. They the light articles that could have been carried in a pocket, but took all of che other neces- sary tools, which must have weighed at least twenty-five pounds, if the story told by the night watchman is (rue “Still another bit of evidence, stronger than all the rest, fs the conditlon of the night watchman's coat after the shooting. The watchman said the bullet went through the lapel from the inside. An examination proved that the bullet must have gone through from the outside, as the outside of the hole was perfectly smooth and clean, while tho inside was torn and jagged. The loaded cartridge found on the basement floor would also indicate that someone had stopped to reload a revolver during the shooting. As the supposed thieves fired ouly two shots it is not probable that,they dropped the cartridge. The whole affair 1s very mysterious, but It certain clues pan out we may be able to solve the prob- lem before many days.' CHILD ACCIDENTALLY SHOT Little Hazel W tally Wounded W iug a ¥ Bentrice le Watch- nter, BEATRICE, Neb., Dec ~(Special Tele- gram.)—Hazel Horton, the §-year-old daughter of Mrs. Pearl Horton of this city was dangerously and perhaps fatally shot this morning about 9 o'clock by the ac- cidental discharge of a 22-caliber rifle in the hands of L. A. Whitten, a blacksmith, who boards at the Horton residence. Whitten, Wwho also goes by his stepfather's name, El- Mott, and the two Horton boys decided to B0 out hunting and began proparing their guns for the excursion. Whitten got his rifle and set it lo the corner of the dining roon He stepped out of the room for a moment and during his absence Don Horton, one of the young men of the house, picked up the rifle and loaded it. Whitten, entering the room, picked up the rifle, not knowing It was loaded, when in some manner it was discharged. Hazel was sitting on the edge of the dining table directly in front of Whitten, and the bullet struck her, en- tering on the left side below the ribs, passed into the abdominal cavity, making three complete punctures and a fourth partial puncture of the bowels. Three physiclans ure in attendance upon the little sufferer, but have mot been able to locate or recover the bullet. Slight hopes are entertained for the child's recovery. Women Hurt In Runawny. ELK CREEK, Neb., Dec. 23.—(Special )— Yesterday afternoon while Mrs. N. Libby and daughter Anna were driving on the street their horse became frightened at something they had in the buggy and began to run, overturning the buggy and throwjag them out. Anna, who was driving, held on to the lines and was dragged a long dis- tance. At last some men on the street suc- ceeded in catching the frightened animal by the bits and stopped him. Mrs. Libby, who {8 quite old, had one shoulder and her collarbone broken, and Anna bad her collarbone fractured. Mrs. Libby also re- celved a long cut across the forehead, which has swollen so badly that this morn- ing she is unable to open either eye. The horse has always been supposed to be gentle, they having driven him for several years. niphan Roy Ishianders, DONIPHAD h., Dec. 23.—(Special.)— Election of officers for the ensuing year of Doniphan lodge No. 67, the Royal High- landers, was held in Masonic hall last even- tng. The newly elected officers are: A. L. Koch, I. P.j J. R. Hilsabeck, C. C.; H. T, Ingalls, secretary, and John Schwyn, treas- urer Chrixtmas Ser FREMONT, Dec. (Special,)—Special Chrismas services were held at nearly all the churches in the city todyy. Altars and Stop Coughing There's nothing so bad for a cough as coughing. Every cough makes your throat more raw and irritable, Every cough congests the lin- ing membrane of your lungs. Cease tearing your throat and lungs in this way. Take Aver’s Cherry Pectoral From the first dose the quiet and rest begin; the tickling in the throat ceases; the cough disappears. here’s nothing so good for a cough as Ayer's Cherry Pec- toral, Three sizes: 25c. 50c., $1.00. 1¢ your druggist cannot supply you, sond us one dollar and we wIIL‘u] press ‘:lr‘ll)l:l B e e R charges prepatd. Be 5 Beatest Axpress otice. Address, J. & AYER COu Lowell, Mase, Indication that | TIHE chancels were draped with festoons of overgreens and holly and Christmas hymns and antbems were rendered by the choirs At the Methodist, Congregational and Bap | South Omaha News . | tist chure the evening services were almost entirely given over to musical se It = understood that the three charter lections. At the Congregational church the | committees have about completed thelr la cholr was assisted by a large chorus and | bors. The next thing in order will be & Plambeck’s orchest Under the direction |.mass meeting to go over the three charters | of Prof. Preston a Christmas oratorio was | now being prepared given at the Methodist church. On ac- count of the snow and the slippery condi- tion of the sidewalks the attendance at the morning services was rather light Attorney Wells, who is employed by the Commercial club to draft a charter, sald yesterday that his work is nearly finished. but 0| o his charter Mr. Wells provides for an the evening the churches were filled excise board to control the sale of liquor Court At Daketa City, and manage the police department. This DAKOTA CITY, Neb., Dec. 2% (Special) | “XC18¢ board is to consist of one democrat —District Judge Guy T. Graves held an | 904 one republican, each to be elected. The adjourned term of district court here yes. | MAYOT is to be ex-officio chairman. It s terday, hearing a number of petitions, mo- | **5¢rted thAt if such a board is created the tions rolice department will be taken out of pol- In the divorce suit of Lucinda Heales | 'tIC8: AS It Is now, the mayor has absolute against Robert Heales, the petition of | “Ptrol of the police and he can dismiss | plaintift for divorce was withdrawn and a | ©F ppoint policemen at will i decree declaring the marriage null was| AnOther thing provided for in this char- | sntored o8 & cross bill of defendant ter 18 a tax commissioner. By the election of such an official, with a salary of $2,000 | a year, it 1s thought that the valuation of the municipality can be increased to where it rightly belongs. At the present time | the valuation is $1,800,000. By increasing the valuation the levy can be reduced and this will have considerable weight with men of money who are looking for a place Mrs. Frances McCarthy was allowed tem- porary alimony of $100 and the case agalinst her husband, M B. McCarthy, was set for trial at the February term of court A motion to retax the coste in the Me- Allister habeas corpus proceedings was sub- mitted and taken under advisement by the court s to invest Table Roek A, 0. U. W, It has also been suggested that the sal- | TABLE ROCK, Neb,, Dec. 23.—(Special.) | ary of the mayor be increased from $500 ~The Anclent Order of United Workmen |to $2,000 per annum A suitable sal- lodge at their last meeting elected the [ary will, it is asserted, insure to the tax- followlug officers for the comlag term:|payers the entire time of the chief execu- James Tillotson, master workman; A. A.|tive and will tend to promote honesty in Widdefleld, foreman; Boyd Phillips, over- | municipal affairs, The treasurer's salary seer; E. C. Phillips, recorder; F. H. Tay- | 18 to be increased from $500 a year to $2,000 lor, finuncier; G. R. Martin, recolver; A. |and the salary of a deputy treasurer placed F. Hansen, guide; Edwin L. Porter, inside | at $1,200. Under the existing conditions watchmarn man 0. W The lodge is Fellers, a the treasurer Is not allowed any compensa- tion for his deputy. In the event of the outside watch- in a flourishing con dition salary of the treasurer being lncreased and J. E. Houtz, United States revenue col- | provision made for paying the ealary of the | lector, who had been here on a hunting | deputy all fees and interest would go 10| expedition for a couple of days with our | the city. Now the treasurer recelves the local “nimrods,” returned home yester- | interest on dajly balances and is allowed u day. 2 per cent commission on all delinquent — taxes collected. The charter under which e 'm::::m...:- Newn \"n .. | the city is now working allows the city Chicken thieves have boen dofng o thriv- | Proposed charter the clerk will get $1,600 | ing business in the vicinity of Burchard | @ year and the deputy clerk §900. Provie- | h Neligh expects to have a new opera | lon is also made for the repairing of paved house before another season fa ended. | ptreets, the establishment of sinking funds Hartington will vote on the 2ith on the propoaition of jssuing bo'ids for the erec tion of an electric light plant Mr. Wells said that his idea was for the pahe Rushville Recorder and the West | subcommittees of the three charter com- Yoint Democ : among the Nebraska | ocs to ge ethe d ¢ upon papers which hong ahe Nebrask | mittecs to get together and ngree upon numbers. the best points in each of the charters sub- Miss Lizzle Hess, whose home was near | Mitted and make one charter. When this m‘k‘n’v‘ ks Killed by Jumping from a | has been dome he thinks o mass meeting bugi e team was running awoy and 4 . e revised charter sub- she Vesaime tHhtency and | will be called and the revised chartes sub- | Sherlft Bdwards and his debuty of Stay. [ mitted for approval | ton county arrested a man who had stolcn | Councilran Ed Jobnston of the council 1:@"":: 4:: ‘x"!-:'!l {;:In;-:rr:x:-.r Cresicn. They | cnarter committee has put n a great deal | Jgements are being made for the | ©f time on his charter and it contains a erection during the coming feason of ' | Ereat many very good ideas. Mr. Johnston | ew ¢ atholic church at Joriend. Tt i to be | is probably as familiar with municipal at- | "“',:""I‘ :‘_‘I‘"““"’ o fairs as any person in tho city, and his | on the rexervation ort of (L dr. wis | “Ugscstions will Crtainly be given the con- | huum |n the prairie with his throat cut | sideration they deserve. The citizens’ com e, and some of his Indlan compani mittee is also Lringing out some excellent had been on w spree and iU s thought ho | [y X 10 hved St R was killed by them, ideas and if these committees can agree a | The B. & M. raiiroad is preparing to|charter suitable for the needs of the city change lts fine between Omaha and Platts: | willl be framed. All of the charters under | mouth and in doing s will change tne | congidgeration provide for crease Place ‘of erossing the Dintre rvap 18 £ | consideration provide for an increase in | made @ proposition to the commissionsrs | the police and fire departments. This is | -"f v""w county to sell ity present bridge | necessary on account of the rapid growth | D Tallen I}::-'xl'xy'f::“'L’.‘ = ‘.w of the city and the constant demand for | folk and left their wagon ih the better protection of life and property. a livery burn. It was rophed of a quan - - tity of ‘goods during the right, which were tion nx. subsequently found conced e | o3 o : An employ. The suggestion made in The Bee of yes- ¥ WHs artestie tercay by Former Clerk Carpenter and | charge of committing the Pl il RGBS LL Mayor Kelly is being favorably considered The person wro disturbed the congrega. |bY business men. Oue merchant said ihat tion last Sunday by coughing is requested | F® Was perfectly willing to pay an occupa- | to call on Dillon’s drug store, South Omaha, | !100 tax providing others were compelled or Myers-Dillon Drug Co., Omaha, nd get | 1© 40 the same thing. He referred to the a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar. U al. |Occupation tax levied by the couneil four ways gives reltef. ycars ago, Then a few paid their tax into v —— | the treasury when it was due, but the ma- ANTON KMENT DIES OF SHOCK robbery jority did not, and finally the matter was dropped. Perhaps when the suggestion is Well Known B corsidered by the council the amount of the tax mentioned yesterday will be in- ved Sat- A creased, as It is claimed that at least §$10,- 000 should be raised by this means. Should | a tax commissioner be appointed this occu- | pation tax could, it is asserted, be collected | impartially, no favors bing shown to any- Anton Kment, who had the reputation of having the most ex-councilman, a man friends of eny of the Bohemians in the d city, died at St. Joseph's hospital at 4 o'clock | °n® Sunday morning from infuries receivel Sat- | A urday. While roturning home late Satur-| - New Yeur's Wecemion, oo day afterncon and crossing the Burling- | JFs: De . FOTmen, Previfent of Ts PoUt) ton raflroad tracks ' at, Fourtaenth and [OFR18 HOSPIA tesccation, AASOURees M ots, M ent wi hya | YERIOEARY 0 ! M fason strets, Mr. Kment was struck by a |4, "o ioiation would hold o pound soctal passenger train. There was a blinding and reception at the hospital. The hours of the reception will be from 2 to m Every man, woman and child in the city is fnvited to attend. *“Come and bring a pound of anything,” said Mrs. Holmes. “We need so many things that it is hard to make suggestions for donations.”” Continuing the | president of the association said that the Fospital buttons are still selling and that #now at the time owing to a high wind, and it is supposed that on this account th approach of the train was not noticed Mr. Kment was badly bruised internally s well as having his left arm and leg erushed 50 that amputation was necessary. He was removed to the hospital at once for at- tendance, but his vital force was not suffi- elel endure e shock ol 3 era- | Ten thousand inches? Oh, no; you wouldn't ,:.,:" 105 80¢kee b BCR (oL o= dopein |the fund for a hospital building was | understand that come to think of it. You ARton Kuient waa!born {nCounty - Case | STO¥I0E see, ona of the things peculiar to our busi- lavia, Bohemia, in 1850. He came to Amer- Riler Taanent: :"“':.‘ :‘( :‘?‘1‘: ;:';;.'h:v'}' .."Il,l.’;"":\“,"',‘r""f,‘,. Ht\;n- lea twenty-two years ago, and at once| (oroner Bwanson notificd Undertaker | of it dimensions in inches amounts. to. moved to this city, where his residence | preyer that he would visit South Omaha |gay. for example, that it runs 48 by 38 by has since been. At firat Mr. Kment was|yometime today to make arrangements for | 4o ja o 124- A plate glass frame am engaged In the grocery business, but very (ne inquest to be held over the remalns (o safe erate might be the. AR b woon he became Interested In the vocation |of william Riley, the man who was run | sy raue tne 1 Aot heen porze’ o of housemoving and he has followed it ¢On- | ovor by 4 motor train Tate Saturday niEht. | ovetem orlgineed: 1ts s ol oy thr pene | tinuously up to the present time, ~MF.|y; making o statement of the case C. L.|pess. probably, for ‘it seems to have been Kment has taken a prominent part in Bo- | popter, the motorman on the train, said | poscn USRSt 0TS S LA homlan social life, having been b Active | (hat 1t was s0 dark and stormy that he | e oo o oy " arpose ( polftical worker in the Second ward and | ouiq not see Riley, who was walking be- | ‘inones'—shape. mot specified- worre ex. an officer in many of the Bohemian socle- |\ woon the tracks, until it was too late to et k“‘l T M Te ex- m-u‘. H.’» vas ele ..l-.l to ml.-“m;.m-:l mI ("x:l»;_,m. ey pagied.ta Konp:as glosetathe o bines . spring of 1895, serving for two years. Li SN i fall he was a candidate for nomination oa Shipments from ¥o ond hand boxes they have to stand for un- the republican ticket for the Board of Edu- | An official of the Stock Ya company | #Y0ldable deviations ’ cation, and afterward ran independently by |gaid yesterday that of th 0 cars of 4 Cu h wities of the Trade, petition, falling of election. Since his resl- | stock received at (his market last week And that brings up another rather cu- dence i tho clty he has been an active |44 cars, or 31 per cent of the entire pe. | [1OUS thing about the trade. Whenever we member of the Ted Jed Sokol, having been | ceipts, came from Town Legin to buy the ‘extras’ from a firm, a Of the total Towa shipments cighty-nine cars were cattle, 351 hegs and six loads of sheep. lTowa hog re- ceipts have been increasing for some time and the stock yards people look for a con president of the organization for a num- ber of years, and for longer than a decade | its treasurer. He was deputy to the grand | lodge in the Jan Hus lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and a past president of the |tinvance of these big shipments Radbalacky. o Bohemian secret soclety Ho was president also of the Bohemian Magic Clty Gonuip. Burying Ground assoclation Dr. W, J. McCrann i reported to he im- The funeral arrangements have not been | PTOVINE. : completed, but the interment will be at |, SRl Mitchell s complnining about the | treatment he I8 rec ving from the Omaha the Bohemian cemetery on Center street | police and the services will be at the mew Tur-| Washakle tribe of the Redmen will give ner hall on Thirteenth street, at 2 o'clock | & Drize mank ball at Workmen hall a weck on Tuesdsy afternoon, -There will be|Tn *OWEEL 0 o e Glooney ks ceromonies based on the rituals of the | met with & serlous neeldont at the Vanons varlous lodges of which Mr. Kment was a | flats, remains about the same member. Mr. Kment's death is mourned by effort is to be made to wecure for a wite and five children, Rosa, Tillte, [ QMitha the next annual conventlon of the Mamie, Viasta and Emma, the oldest of | “muocire “commell fs billed for a meeting them being 14 years of ago. tonfght, but some of the members hive ex ik pressed a doubt about there being a quc JUDGE OGDEN'S CONDITION | " (& Engineer Beal denles the statement ma in an uptown paper that he will r fuse to accept the Ssewer constructed in District No. 108, Chief Engineer King of the Stock Yards company #aid yesterday that lumber for —— the Teairs to {he Q street viadict would Former Judge Charles Ogden has rallied | reach he in wout three weeks. from the attack of heart failure, with | The annual mecting of the I 8. C. elun which he taken in the court house on | NIl bO Beud at the ‘parjors of the Reed Saturday morning, to such an extent that | ficers for the onauing year will b eloctod tho attending physicians feel safe In say- | John I Sevkora, an o'd resident of Sout 5 : ity o fble | OmAN, died Sunday night ot his resident ing be is out of danger and will by Qiana. died Bundey night at his residencs, to be about in a few days. Judge Ogden | vears. Mr. Hevkora has two sons iieine spent a comfortablo Sunday aud, aside | in Boith Omaha, T 3 Sevkora, the driik: from belng excessively nervous, he was | Bitf, wit brof, Frank Scykora, principal bright and cheerful. To guard against a loss of rest, the otherwise unnecessary pre- | A cold, cough or la grippe can be “nipped caution of keeping the sick voom perfectly | in the bud® with a dose oF two of Fole: quiet was taken, not even intimate friends | Honey and Tar. Bewaro of substitutes belug allowed to converse with him. The | Dillon's drug store South Omaha; Myers- physicians say (hat Judge Ogden's malady | Dillon Drug Co., Omaha was acute heart failure, but that there is vo danger of a relapse. DIED. ate : g ROHLEF, EARL—One of twin boys of Mr. Only Safo Medicine for Children, and ‘Mrs. Henry Rohlff, aged 6 months, The tender little insides of children are [ ' ave Sunday morning ne o rulned by violent purses, pills or liquids. | Funeral Monday' afternoon at 3 o'clock 4 ; ve. | from ' ihe Tamily residence, Twentv-ifth Carcarets are pleasant, harmless, elfective. | " feavenworth streets. — Interment at OMATIA DAILY { Tribune. | collecting china in Yokohama, silks in Hong ]Kl‘ng_ be interesting to him. He walked through his sheds, where a palr of ripsaws were | screcching through the broken ends of a | line of battered drygoods boxes, and out into the receiving yard behind. There a canyon-like alley fed between the half- | ordered ruins of two huge pyramids of | bexes es,” he said, here and there tapping one affectionately, “I've got them here from all over the world. 1 manufacture, 10c, 26¢. b0a Druss! Tvergreen cemetery, ANl triends invited | clops. “And bear that! Why, my old grand- BEL: D 1( PACKING BOX BRORERAGE Remarkable Travels in ftrange Lands o." MONDAY, MBER oy 1900, e inge up saplings Kkvocking it ought to use half the Ler, who lived were ever whole before hoopiron cleat of -and who used | twenty-acre blocks of hickory | for batten straps—was always | nto his apprentices that thought they | timber and twice the fecond-Hand Wooden Cases, bruins. Yet he didn't have to worry any p cost of lumber. It was the of the thing he was looking at ADORNED BY TRANSPORTATION STICKERS | Lora’ o her teils of srandud's onee enteh | Sl ing bim nailing on those old hickory | : v vk it : ‘elraps’ from above instend of from be- urious Features the Manufacture flow The old boy just shut his lips to- and Sale of Cawes—Natlonnllly | gotler tight, ripped those ‘straps’ off like Revealed by Packing Box Styles. : [ -— l Every one has felt that there is a cer- tain fascination and romance attached to the hatbox or steamer trunk returning home beplastered, criss-crossed and parti- | colored with the transportation lubels and “stickers” of three or four continents and as many oceans, but it can have occurred | to few that among the battered packing | cages which ¢ heaped up in many down- | tcwn vacant lots are wooden travelers of | cxperiences as diverse and of mileage as | great as those of their lcathern fellows of stateroom and hotel. Yt such is the | rather curious truth, relates the New York There are Penobscot pine boxes | now in New York that have been junket ing around the world for the last five or ten years. They have speut a summer in Paris, wintered in Beriin, stayed a while or curios in Kurachee come zigzagging homeward They have way of Cape Town, Rio and London and have lald here consumed with Wanderlust until the fate in the inner office of some big exporting | house has lifted a finger and bidden them once more begone “‘round the world and back again.” The owner of one of the largest packing | case factories and repairing yards in New Yerk City went into the matter at some length. It was evident that certain phases of his business had by no means ceased to mend, cut down, buy and sell, but for the most part my business is one of pure ex change This is a sort of box brokerage. or. even better, box clearing house. And there are more of them in every big ship- ping port on earth. Boxes aren't destroyed wantonly; they are gradually racked to picces, but they're used as long as tinker- ing will hold them together. Broken up | they're worth, maybe, from 5 cents to 20 | cents as kindlingwood, but it would cost | from 53 cents to $2 to replace them with new. You've got to remember that lumber is going up all the time and the littlo leaks in business are being much more closely looked after now than they used to be There arc lots of big wholesale houses here | that never think any more of throwing in | the box with a city order. Of course, they | have to with out-of-town shipments, but | they look on it as % or % per cent gru- | | tuity and don't give it if they can help it If they part with their cases they have to buy new ones. to Destination, “A box doesn't lie here long. They're on one eternal swing and pendulum around the world. You see, we brokers know just what each size and sort is best suited for. It it's a hat case from f it's more than likely to be the sort of ease wanted by the hatters here and the same with every other style and shape, whether they've held fine china, drygoods or copk sloves. Besides, there are no very great diffcrences in boxes. The transportation companies sce to it that they're all built of pretty much equal strength—they've got to be able to stand the smash without breaking their backs, you know—and as for shape you can’t ring in many variations on the four simply square. Size is about the only thing to bother us, but that's generally a matter of only having to alter one dimension. The saw s put through half or a third of the way down and the cleats nailed around | the top again. But we find it wisest to try to keep such a supply on hand that we can give a man just what he wants without | having to make any alterations. We follow | the plan of the express companies in hav- ing our trucks make regular rounds down- town. They pick up the ‘extras’ and take orders at the same time. Sometimes they can fill a rush order without coming back to the yard. “Most of our business is taken by run ning contract, though. Just now we are shaping up 10,000 inches for a big Japanese export and import house over on Broadway certain size—that which they get most of-— Is settled on as the standard. It's called their ‘box," and when they send us smaller nes they bill them as one-half, two-thirds and three-quarter boxes, etc. Similarly for the larger ones, they are one and one half, one and two-thirds and o on, as the case may be. There's no such thing as a regular, standard size to apply to every ody. It would seem on the surface to be 4 mighty confusing and inexact way of doing business, but it's the simplest in the | long run. Customers find that debit and credit differences are about even. We calculate on hitting the size of a box within an inch or two and I reckon the shipping | clerks of the average Broadway concern | are about as conselentiously, exact on thelr side of the fence merica doesn’t lead in boxmaking You've heard that the Germans are the | best packers in the world? Well, it's sim- ply because their box men have given them fhe best packing cases for it. You'd think they filled one of them with plg lead and | dropped them on their corners from third story windows as a factory test! There's o Dutch box"—it certaluly seemed to be | solid as a chopping block—"the wood's | some sort of larch or birch, but it's often cnly pine. And they don't use the same welght of lumber that we and the English do. With them it's the way they f their battens and put in their nails. It's the mechanics of the craft they make count. See how badly battered its been and still it hasn't a corner that's begin- nitg to be loose yet “The English build big. heavy cases of orway pine and thelr timber must cost them a fine old sum. They hold together, true enough. Nothing but blastsing pow- r could open some of them, it's often | cemed to me. Duj there's about as much ace stupldity as solidity in their putting to getber. Look at that!"—and he thumped a hulking big packing case, which gave | out such another dull, sullen booming as | rumbled forth from the cave of the Cy- | I've 4 woman taking an old binding off a kirt and lald them across dad's back for | a good ten minutes before he had him | nail them on again. Sometimes I think inherited the good of that licking. I krow I mortally hate to see a stupidly made box, whether {t's turned out on this €ide of the world or on the other. What the J Can Do, French run to all sorts of fanc notions—barrel and firkin shapes, rivetted | cleatings and what not. But they don't | put in the strength that's necessary and | the wood they use is o great deal too dry and brittle for the purpose. It's the Japs | who have the wood exactly suited to the trade. 1 often wish we could get hold of it for the repairing. It's as leathery as steeped ash and as light as whitewood Those are Jap boxes on top there.” He sprang the side of a rather warworn look- ing case in and out admiringly Tough as @ bow, isn't §t? Yet you can sce its | age and the usage it's had by the brown- | ness of the wood and the way it's marked and battered. “Ard 1 can show you, too, by this box the amount of traveling they do. In the first place look at that.” One corner had been reinforced by wooden pegs. “That's been done in the east somewhere, but not in Japan, for there they only use wooden nails on very small cases. Battens have been put on some time or other—you can see that by the cleanness of the wood at the ends—and that isn't Japanese, either. It's been cut down, too; that's plain by the hifting of the ‘middle. There's the Brit- ish government stencil; there’s a German mark and the twisted wire binding is Yan- kee. And I suppose if I were a Sherlock Holmes I could read you all those other crosses and crowsfeet on it and prove hat it's been on the road the life of a freight car and done the itinerary of a | tramp steamer. And in this yard there must be dozens more that have heen as far and at it as long. We get boxes that have been browned in fires and others that hava been under the their wood's bitter with salt. But none of them get any rest. They're snatched into the repair shop only to be whirled out of it again to some other corner of the world. Some of them have | been through our yard three or four times, The men seem to know them. 1 couldn't | tell you how, for there's generally years between their visita. One old English sock- dologer has through five times, at least. ‘The men have put a cross of nails on him and call him “The Wandering Jew,' " “Everyone who sed Chamberlain's Cough Remedy speaks well of it,” says Mr Faward P iller of Abbottstown, T ¥ ple who once use this preparation are sel dom satisfied with any other. There nothing Mke it to allay a cough or br 1p a cold. It is pleasant to take, too. | TIM HEALY, THE TERROR, | sea been 18 ¢ the Stormy Petrel Ish Pollties, Timothy M. Healy has been expelled from the Irish parliamentary party. Those who know ““Fim" are doubtful if he will stay expelled. He has been for years a sort of stormy petrel in Irish politics, and one never knows where or how he will turn up. Tim" is now 45 i old, relates the York Tribune. He was born in Bantry, Cork, but went to England at an early age and settled in Neweastle. In local debating societies he took @ conspicuous part, and was prominent among the Irish socloties especially. Late in the 'T0s, when Charles 8. Parnell began his fawous movement, | with the solitary assistance in Parliament of quaint Biggar, he attended meet- ings in tle and was struck by the force and keenness of Healy's debating and | argumentative powers. When Parnell came here to appeal for American aid he brought over Healy as his sccretary. In those days Parnell's word was law to most of the Irish constituencics, and he had Healy nominated and elected to represent Wexford Borough in Parliament. Healy jumned into promi- | nence at Westminster during the prolonged sbates on Gladsto land nct. It was said then that Gladstone, Parnell and Healy were the only persons who thoroughly un- derstood the land bill. Healy gave his whole attention to a study of the measure walch ood-sized volume-—-and his suggestions and criticisms received great attention. In 1881 Healy, with . P. 0'Con- nor, attended the Land league convention in Chicago, and while here he made speeches all over the country, During the stormy scenes attending the passage of Gladstone's coercion act Mr. | Healy was one of the foremost figures on | the Irigh side. Cool and self-possessed while nearly everybody else in the house | was affected by the prevailing excitement Healy kept pouring sarcasm and invective into the ministerial ranks. He appearcd to have no reverence or respect for uny- body or anything and used every weapon calculated to annoy or worry his opponents. Healy is not the polished orator that Saxton is, nor is his style of declamation so impassioned as that of William 0'Brien, He is more analytical, more searching, in his discussion of men and measures, always seeking a tender spot whereln to insert his knife and then turn it around. He is, too, something of a verbal caricaturist and has probably no equal in the house in his capacity to seize on personal character istics and mannerisms for the purpose of mimicry or exaggeration. During the years when the Irish mem- bers were trying to make life miserable for Gladstone, Harcourt, Foster and their assaciates, Healy was one of Parnell's most valued licutenants, He began to break away from his chief when the lat- ter's infatuation for Mrs. O'Shea became known to the inner circle. Healy said lit- tle, however, until Parnell insisted on foisting Captain O'Sheu on an Irish con- stituency at the time that the scandal in progress, although not publicly known. Healy was then quite outspoken among his colleagues in criticising nell and when the divorce proceedings laid bare everything to the world the ‘“un- crowned king of Ireland” had no bitterer | critic than his former secretary. After Parnell's sition the Irish par- liamentary party in a chaotic condi- made a was was tion. Justin McCarthy was induced to ac- cept the leadership solely because of his charming personal qualities. But Mr. Me- Carthy was altogether What Shall We Have for Dessert? This que every day. 00 good-natured stion arises in the family Let us answer it to-day, Try Jell-0, a delicious and heaithful dessert, Pre- pered in two, minutes, No boiling! no aking ! add bo water and set to cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Rasp- berry and Strawberry, Get a package at your grocers to-d 10 ¢t for coughs, co and throat disease Dr. Kay‘slflng Balm Regard to Quan No Typographical groportions of each Kind. wery article in CHRINTM AN FINE Prices on Dolls have beer been selling them at up to th ar price: Regualar price, $8.00, Cut price Regular price, 4, 1.63 Cut price ... Regular pri 2, Cut price Regular price, $2.08, Cut prico RUSH-A This ONE CE! probably to for ited . but they will be s ALL ALBUMS at less than cost We will sell ALL IRON TRAINS Only four HATR HORSES left all £1.00. DOUBLIE COASTERS, regular $1.00, ular price $ seale below ent just according Regular 10¢ Doll T is real and not a typographical error 0, cut price, § A GUTTING AFFAIR| At BENNETT’S You Will Not Find any Misstatements in tity or Prices- Errors in Prices. our immense holiday trade has reduced onr stock to small Cut prices are made to close ont GOODS, DOLLS 1 reduced from what we have his date and you will find the to the size, quality and regu- Regular price, $1.95, price E Cut Regular price, $1.38, Cut price Regular price, $1.38, Cut price | neguar price, s, Cut price his quantity is lim- s long as they last pld as above quoted g without vespect to cost Teather bridles, saddles 300; all regulur price nd blankets out pri rice $1 cut to The-you will make These are all TRUE statements, W. R. BENNETT GO. Fifte nth and Capitol Av and retiring to keep his followers in line. Healy gave him more trouble than all the others. He had tasted freedom and was apparently unwilling to be any more an chedicnt follower. Perhaps he believed that Parnell's mantle should have fallen to him. He had a considerable following among the Irish members of Parltament and among the Irish constituencies, but was never able to win support reach the leadership. $1,000 Worth of Good A. 1. Thurness of Wills Creek Coal Co., Buffalo, 0., writes: “I have been afflicted with kidney and bladder trouble for years, sassing gravel or steres with excruclating pain. Other medicines only save rolief. After taking Foley's Kidney Curc the result was surprising. A few doses started the brick dust, like fine stones, etc., and now I have no pain across my kidneys and I feel like a new man. Foley's Kidney Cure has done mo $1,000 worth of good.” Take no substitute. Myers-Dillon Drug Co., Omaha; Dillon’s drug store, South Omaha. cnongh to 10N PASS sulltva Pasmen i Senator “Tim" Sullivan, as a procurer of THE CHAW Dry-Dolln railroad passes from even the most parsi- monious of rallroads, is without an equal, reports the New York Times. He has the | ability to get at the right men in the rail- offices while other political loaders stand and Kick their toes in the ante-rooms of private secretaries. Here is a Httl incident of the way in which the senator works things to the benefit of his con- stituents who may either want to travel or who have a friend who does and who objects to paying the regular railroad schedule The senator handed to the proper party at one of the railroad offices the other day a list of names of men to whom he wished passes issued. There were about thirty of them in all “Oh, 1 say, senator, road isn't this putting it a little strong?" asked he to whom the list was presented. “There are thirty names here. Our folks will not stand for that many passes in one day, you know. You'd better cut it in half.” “All right, colonel” cheerily the senator. “'Cut it down then." The st was handed to a clerk with In- structions fo pare the list down by half and give the senator passes for the re- mainder. Tho senator eyed the clerk as he took the big blue pencil and began chopping out the names here and thero. “Hold on a bit,” shouted the senator. Don't bear on so hard with that pencil or responded I won't be able to make out the names you have tehed out “What difference does that make, senator?" hm'-w-hll\ queried the clerk, as he halted in his work. “Why, 1 want that list back, and to- morrow 'l come in and get the passes for those you don’t fssue them to toduy. See?” Hisx Per nnl Schedule Atlanta Constitution: “Marse wrote the old colored citizen, “ef you thinkin' er anything ter gimme in do ut be you'd lak ter I needs. 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