Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 19, 1903, Page 3

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1903. CURRENT NEWS OF IOWA. COUNCIL BLUFFS. MOVE INTO MERCY HOSPITAL New Building Erected by the Sisters is Now Ready for Ocoupavey. FORMAL DEDICATION COMES LATER . Bernard’'s is to Pe Used in tae Fuature Solely for Insane Patients, of Whom There Are Now One Hundred and Sixty-Three. The New Mercy hospital, erected by the sisters in charge of St. Bernard's hospital, will be occupied today, when the work of removing the fifty-six patlents from St. Bernard's to the new buflding will begin. The Mercy hoapital will be used entirely for surgical cases and private patients, while St. Bernard’s will be retained for the care of the insame, of whom there are at pres- ent 163. The new hospital ds considered one of the most complete institutions of its kind in the west. Although the work of removing the patients into the new bullding will begin today, the hospital will not be opened to the public until May 24, when the formal dodication, with impressive services, will be held. The first religious services will be held In the new hospital Friday morning, when mass will be said by Rev. Father Smyth of 8t. Francis Xavier's church. Rooms in the new hospital have been furnished: by 8. T. MeAtee, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Maurer and B. A. Wickham of thi eity and Dr. Condon of Humphrey, Neb. The new Mercy hospital represents an outlay of about $60,000 alone for the build- ing, irrespective of the furnishings, which will cost several thousand dollare more. Plumbing and heating, Bixby & Son. DODGE CONGRATULATES CITY Expresses Pleasure at Carnegle Gift mnd Prompt Action by the City Counefl second grade to the ninth grade and will be transferred to the High school. MINOR MENTH Davis sells drugs. For rent, modern house, 719 Sixth Ave. Expert watch repairing, Lefrert, 409 Bwa Officer s selling dwellings cheap. 41! e Wanted, good cook. Apply at 208 Story street, corner Third street The Woman's club will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Dalley. /Reduction eale on framed and unframed pictures. C. E. Alexander & Co., 53 Bway. Wanted, at once, boy with pony to carry Bee route. Apply at the office, 10 Pearl street. The Ideal club will meet Tuesday after- noon at the residence of Mrs, Bluff street We are headquarters for glass of all kinds. See us before you buy. C. B. Paint, Oll and Glass Co. The Oakland Avenue Reading club will meet Friday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Finley Burke. The regular meeting of Fidelity council, Royal Arcanum, will be held thii evening Walter T. Payne of Denver is visiting hiz parents on Avenue A. Ben Hendricks In the seemingly ever popular_"Ole Olson™ played to an audience at the New theater last night which filled the house to the doors. Hendricks' imper- eonation of Ole has lost none of its charm, Judging from the reception tendered him last night. Deputy Sheriff Binger of Montezuma, Ia., placed Alvin Eisenberg for safekeeping in the county jail y day between trains. Elsenberg was recently ‘arrested in Colo- rado on a charge of criminalgssauit said to have been commitied 1 Poweshiek county nearly four years ago. Henry Matson was arrested yestsrday, | charged with the theft of an overcoat be- | | longing to Floyd Lowrey from a Broad- way restaurant Saturday evening. The coat was recovered from a ond-hand store yesterday by the police, where It is Blle[exMulnon disposed of it for §1. A sneak thief secured about twenty | pocketknives and a small sum of money from the Cole-Brelsford compa. Main street Saturday night. The theft is belleved to have been committed by boys who climbed a ladder and gained access to the building through a rear window in the eecond story. The annual electlon of the Council Bluffs Trades and Labor assembly will be held Friday night. K. B. Gardiner of the % po- graphical union, who has held the office o president for two years, is » candidate for re-election. John Reable of the cigar- makers' unfon {s also a prominent candi- date for the office. Mrs. Robert Ritche, whose home at 1712 ‘s store on Metcalt on | [LESSER'S FRIENDS SUFFER | Liose Prestige in Local Political Fight of | Which He Was the Center. { PR—— [SHELTON'S SPEECH STIRS UP FARMERS Take Exceptions to His Statements Regarding the Country Schools— Hot Fight is on for Judge- ship Nomination. | (From a Staff Correspondent.) | DES MOINES, Jan. 18.—(8pecial.)—The (indictment of W. R. Lesser of Tama, la., | in‘the United States court in Nebraska for falsifying his accounts after he had been uspended from office, where he was cting s United States land agent, created n great deal of surprise in political circles in lowa, where Lesser is well known, though in his home towa of Tama there was little | sympathy expressed for him. Lesser has been active in politics for years. He was United States Indian agent at Tama under | Harrison and sought reappointment to the position under President McKinley, but local opposition caused him to fail. He then secured a place in the land depart- ment by the efforts of State Senator Pen- | rose of nis county and through Senators | Gear and Allison. Lesser is owner of a | newspaper at Tama and has carried on a bitter factional fight in that county. Now that he has been indicted the factional feeling has become stronger and the inci- | dent bids fair to drag down both Lesser and the political friends who have supported him many years, Farmers and Thelr School Before the recent meeting of the State Teachers' assoclation in Des Moines the then president of the assoclation, Charles Shelton of Simpson college, uttered words deprecatory of the yural schoole of lowa. He was quoted as saying that 75 per cent of the instruction of the rural schools is useless and 75 per cent of the money ex- pended on rural schools is wasted. This ungualified assertion has raised a storm of protest from the people of the state. The newly-elected president of the assoclation, County Superintendent Witter of Muscatine, | has felt called upon to repudiate the senti- ] PROTECTION FOR CONTRACTORS Object of the Substitute Lien Law that Has Been Presented to the Legisintare. LINCOLN, Jan. 17.—To the Bditor of The Bee: There was introduced last Friday by Senator O'Neill of Lancaster county a bill known as senate file No. 62, which I8 ‘an act to provide a lien for labor per- formed in building, repairing or removing any house, mill, factory, bullding or ap- purtenance thereto, by virtue of a contract or agreement express or implied, and to provide for the payment of labor.” This bill originated with the contractors of Omaha and Lincoln and proposes the repeal of the present lien Jaw and the substition of a lien for labor only. The lien law had its origin in the general desire to protect labor in the right to its lawful earnings and to provide a means of securing payment for labor in case of fail- ure or dishonesty on the part of the em- ployer. - This law became general through- out the country, being known as “the me- chanics’ lien law.” In recent years it has been amended and enlarged until its author would scarcely recognize the original en- actment. The Nebraska statute provides that the owner of a building shall be holden for any materials furnished for his building, in any amount, regardless of any contract between him and the contractor for the building, and regardless of any prior payment to the contractor, provided the lien be filed within the requirements of the statute. The natural result {s that no conditions of re- sponeibility are required of tLe contractor on ordinary jobs, the dealer in building materials invariably looking to the owner of the property for the payment of his bills, always being careful to secure a cor- rect description by lot and block number of the property to which the materfals are delivered, this being considered of more importance than the business standing of the contractor. Doubtless this is an exdellent law for dealers in bullding materlals, yet who would advocate that a general etatute should be adopted which would extend the measure ot special protection to all other lines of busi- ness? 1In practical operation this law has resulted in bringing into competition with old established and reliable contractors a class of incompetent and irresponsible men who have nothing to lose and who thereforo often figure building far below its actual cost, leaving the owner loaded up with llens after he has supposed his bills all paid. The abuses and unfair competition which have grown out of the operation of this law have brought the contracting business { The average mam weighs about 140 pounds and the average woman about 120. If ic ou want to realize how heavy that ug something about those weights and see how long your hands and arms can bear the strain. \ If you can stand it a full minute, you are doing remarkably well, or sore FEET A foot-bath before retiring is helpful, but it does not go far enough. The strained, tired-out muscles and ligaments call for something strengthening, just as your stomach calls for food. . The kind of strength needed for sore, tired feet is the kind of strength to be found in Omega Oil. Give your feet a good bathing in warm Did you ever stop and think that your C d water, and get all the impurities out of the feet hold up that big weight for hours at Avenue E, was destroyed by fire Saturday | afternoon, as a result is not only left home- | ment of Shelton, who 18 a candidate for the | 10 R O N iRt roLta o, s AR . MATTERS BEFORE COUNCIL President Rohres ‘of the Council Bluffs free public library received a letter yes- | terday from General congratulating the city on securing an in- | Grenville M. Dodge | At 108 Broadway was obtalned by less, but almost destitute., All her belong- ings were burned. Temporary shelter for Mre. Ritche and her thrge small children yeaterday. Mrs. Ritche's husband died a few weeks ago, since when she has sup- creased donation from Mr. Carnegie for & ported her family by washing. library building. General Dodge also in- | closed a copy of his lotter to Mr. Carnegie's | private secretary, thanking Mr. Carnegie The petit jury in the disteict court has been summoned for today one week earlier than arranged for at the opening of the term. The first jury case on the assign- for increasing his gift, which was evidently | ment is that of the McCormick Harvesting done at the urgent solicitation of General | Machine Compan Dodge. Carnegle, follows My Dear 8ir: T have recelved a telegrar from Mr. M. F. Rohrer, president of the free public library, Couneil Bluffs, Ia., Totitying me of your response to mine and other letters, asking for an increase of the donation to Council Bluffs. Mr. Rohrer informs me that they have received your | Jetter and that the city council has passed @ resolution guaranteeing 37,000, officlal notification of which will undoubtedly reach | ou. Y5%1sh to express my heartiest and warm- hanks to Mr. Carnegle for his action in this matter, and to ure him that there is no one who appreciates this more than I do, umcmly it comes from an old eomrade in raliroad work, ‘whose friendship I so greatly value, and which unavoldable circumstances have prevented my renewing, as much as I should ifke to. Y know there Is no donation he has made to lbraries that will be more far-reaching than this for Council Bluffs. I shall take reat pleasure in doing what I can to see {hiat this donation Is carried out in the line I _know Mr. Carnegle would have it. It so pleases me to know that the mone already been voted by the city, whicl 1 think will be suffielent to purchase the ite. Very truly yours, 3 ” Y T ERENVILLE M. DODGE. Mr. Rohrer stated yesterday that nothing would be done toward the acquiring of a site for the bullding until after the city council had amended the recently passed ordinance so as to prcvide for the'levying of §7,000 annually to maintain the library, and officlal notice of same had been sent to and approved by Mr. Carnegle. N. Y. Plumbing Cc., lersphone 626. Grayel roofiing. A. H. Read, 126 Maln St. Library and Electric Conduit Ordi- nees Scheduled for Aet at Meeting. At the session of the cfty council tonight two importaat matters will come up for ac- tlon at the hands of the aldermen. One will be the amending of the ordinance passed last Monday guaranteeing the levy- ing of at least $5,000 to maintain the pub- lic library 8o as to make the amount $7,000, the latter amount being the condition on which Mr. Carnegle increased his donatton from $50,000 to $70,000 for a public library Putlding. The other important matter to come be- fore the council will be the ordinance re- quiring the placing of all electric wircs in underground concuits within a prescribed arca in the center®of the city. It is sald the ordinance will be passed, as the judiclary committee to which the matter was referred has secured from braska Telephone ccmpany its acceptance of the conditions requiring it to furnish the city room in its conduits for the wires of the municipelity's fire and police alarm eystems. The proposed ordicance, which has been redrafted since the last meeting «f the city council, provides that the octluits co ordered shall be constructed and n opera- tion by the fall of 1904. The oriinance in- cludes besides the wires of the telephone company those of the telegraph and elec- tric light companies and the feed wires of the motor company within the area desig- nated. Another Hea Steve Free. The first healing stove given by William Wulch to his coal customers was awarded to the Christian home. Another has been put up on the same plan, and during the next thirty days will bo given away free to one of his customers, Hefore ordering your coal call at 16 Nor'h Maln street or ‘phene 128, Examinations in the Schools. The first semester of the school year in the public schools of Council Blufts will close this week. Today, Tuesday and Wednesday will be devoted to examinations and promotions will be announced Thur day and Friday. While there will be th usual promotions in the grades, there will be but few changes of pupils from oue bullding to another, except in the Washing- ton avenue school, where about seventy pupils will be promoted from the elghth- m———————————— LEWIS CUTLER MORTICIAN. 28 Pearl 5., Councll Blufts. 'Phone 1. | man wanted. Crandall and McF the Ne- ! againgt Harcourt. The trial of Lewls Seldon and Wayne Shoup, The letter of General Dodge to [the barber and porter on the Northwestern- Private Secretary Bertram, thanking Mr. | Union limited passenger train charged with robbing a railroad detective, Is spe- clally assigned for Tuesday. Howard Eldridge, a bright and manly 10- year-old boy, Is stranded in the city, and is ing cared 'for by the police af the city jail.” The lad has been working for a far- mer near Red Oak and Saturday evening started to go to his home at Fort Dodge. After paying for his ticket as far as Coun- cil Bluffs he had only 40 cents left, and this he had (o spend on something to ‘eat. The police expect to secure the lad transporta- | tion to his home today. v Willlam Ellsworth of Taylor, la., aged 51 years, dled at an early hour vesterday morning at_the home of his brother, J. A. Ellsworth, 1020 Sixth avenue. He leaves a wife, two eons and two daughters. Mr. Ellsworth was a_member of the Odd Fel- 1o Modern Woodmen of America and ‘Masonic fraternal organizations. The re- mains will be taken to Taylor today, where the funeral will be held Tuesday affernoon. under the direction of the Masonic lodge of Quick, The new Presbyterian Mission church on Eighteenth avenue, between Ninth and Lenth streets, was opeend yesterday after- noon_with dedicatory services, conducted by Rev. W. 8. Barnes of the First and 'H’;Arvey Hostetler of. the Second Presby- terian churches of the city. The musical features of the services were in charge of the choir of the First church. The services at the mission will be in charge of utu- dents from the Presbyterlan Theological seminary in Omaha CRANDALL DENIES SHOOTING He Can Aubi, Evidence Against Him Strong. Says Prove a but (From a Staft Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Jan. 18.—(Special Tele- gram.)—An cffort was made today to sccure from Stephen Crandall, in jail atiAdel, his statement of his conneetion with the shoot- iug of Marry Pattee at Perry. Crandall denied any connection with the affair and claimed he could prove an alibi. He sald his wife and father and other members of the family would testify that he was at home all that night. Partie3 visited the Crandall home, two miles from Perry. The wife, who is ill, sald she could not say whether Crandall was home all night. The father said Cron- Qall had come home at 7 o'clock and had gone to bed In & room by himself, but he could mot say whether he was there all night. Two women living in Perry state that they saw and recognized Crandall in Perry at 11 o'clock that night and he wes with another man they did not know, but whose description fits that of McFarland, the other rland had been jointly convicted of larceny and Me~ Farland cannot be found Pattee Is still alive and has a falr chance of recovery, but leading residents of Perry say that if he dies there will be great danger of lynching Crandall, as beliet there is strong he was oue of the thieves. DECIDES TO LIVE YET AWHILE Perry Man Who Took Laudanum Sue- lly Pumped Out by the Doctors. PERRY, Ia., Jan. 18.—(Special ‘felegram.) —Bert Orbin, the man who tried and so nearly succeeded in crossing the night by the laudanum route that he was said to be dead at onmc time brought back the streets the latter part of the night to work oft the drug's effcct. Tonight he is said to be about well. A motice is in a local paper sigued by his wife warning the drug stores not to sell him any liquor. His get- ting some through a friend caused the trouble between them yesterday. It Is was finally probable that Mrs. Orbin will prosecute 1f she can find out the guilty party. HYMENEAL. Erhitt-Sheldo: FAIRBURY, Neb., Jan. Miss Anna 8. Sheldon, the soprano singer of the Sheldon Sisters' Quartet Concert | troupe, stole a march on the rest of. the | troupe by going to the Presbyterian parson- | age last evening and marrying Joseph F.! notice of the The Sheldon Sisters’ quartet has made a \omcert tour Erhitt, giving her sisters event after it had occurred of the state. Very Near a Crime, To allow constipation to friends | river last | to life and walked around 18.—(Special)— poison your | presidency of the State college. At El1- ridge, in Scott county, a farmers’ institute was held. last week and all of one session was taken up by the farmers with discus sion of Shelton's assertions and a discas- slon of the rural school problem. A large number of the representative farmers of the county were present and they evinced the livellest interest in the toplc and showed great familiarity with the schools | and school work in their community. Presi- dent Shelton was alternately denounced and pitied and finally a resolution was unanimously passed to the effect that “We condemn the assertion as false, slanderous 1 misleading, and refer to ths experiences the county superintendents of the state, based on the quality of the work dome by rural pupils as compared with pupils of | graded schools.” It is probable that it | President Shelton should ever by chanch get into a meeting of farmers he would get | into a hot discussion on the rural schools of Towa. His words have stirred up the patrons of these schools and aroused gen- eral indignation in the state. Republican Primaries Early. The republican primaries in Polk county are to be held in about six weeks. The county committee determined upon March 6 as the date for the primaries some time ago and an effort has been made to secure a change to a later date, but without avail. The contest will come chiefly on district judge, as there is to be one selected to fill out a part of a term. Governor Cum- mins refused to choose between the candi- dates who were before him and named ex-Chiet Justice Glven to occupy the bench until after the election. There are two avowed candidates for the judgeship and the line will be sharply drawn between the east and the west side of the river, and almost equally well drawn between the laboring mea and the corporations. One of the cardidates has always trained with an exclusive set, while the other was form- erly a coal miner. There are a large num- ber ‘of candidates for county offices. Knights of Columbus, ‘What will be practically a state meeting of the Knights of Columbus is to be held in Des Moines February 1 next. The local society has arranged for a big banquet in connection with initiations on that date and invitations have been extended to about 500 from other parte of the state, A program which will include many of the leading Catholic speakers of the state is belng arranged and it will be the largest gathering of the Knights of Columbus ever held in the state. The soclety has been growing rapldly of late. Towa Insurance Feen. The state executive council has been makicg investigation into the subject of fees paid to Iowa insurance examiners by the companfes examined. It was found that there 18 no record of these fees in the office of auditor of stafe and nothing to in- dicate how many examinations have been made. An inspection of the letter-filés and other records of the office has disclosed that in the last four years there have been | examinations made of about seventy-five companies. The larger part of this exam- | of the term of the state auditor, who has { Just retired. The records, as far as they disclose anything, show that examinations were made on elmultaneous days, in citles widely separated. The movements of the examiner must have been ewift indeed to have covered the ground. Now the council bas requested of all companies to report the dates of examinations and the fees | pald the examiner, If this is done it is confidently expected that it will be shown that the companies have been the subject of more or less extortion in the past. 10IL FAMINE FACES ILLINOIS | Carbondale Redue. | to Cai | Rockefeller Fal to Supply Kerosene, CARBONDALE, Ill, Jan. 18.—Candles and tallow dips are now used by many per- s0ns in this region on account of a scarelty of keresene, wkich is for sale only in small quantities at 30 cents a gallon The Standard Ol company's Carbondale office 1s unable, it claims, to secure a sup- | ply of ofl. . | B — EXPLODING BOILER KILLS | Baltimore & Ohlo Locomotive Blows Up, Couple Are Dead and Like Number Injured. BALTIMORE, Jan. 18.—Two men are dead and two others are probably fatally in- body. Dr. King's New Life Pills cures it|jured as the result of the explosios today and bullds up your health or no pay. 25e. For sale by Kubs & Co. of a locomotive boilor on the Baltimere & Obio railroad near Monrovia. ination work was done the last four months | sible to secure reasomable profits or pay the wages which labor has a natural right to expect. The introduction of this bill at the initiation of the organized contractors of Omaha and Lincoln is the result of months of careful investigation and s but the expression of the unanimous protest of contractors all over the state against the present condition. We belleve that ability and experjence, coupled with business in- tegrity, are entitled to a fair share of pub- lic confidence and patronage in this bust- ness as well as other lines of business, and that 1f the building interests are left to thelr natural development that ability and experience will meet with thelr reward. The present lien law is a plece of cldss legislation of the grossest type, contrary to public policy and should be repealed. It will require a pecullar stretch of logic to show that the lumber or hardware dealer is more entitled to the fostering care of the law than the coal dealer, the grocer or the purveyor of any other commodity. Most dealers in lumber sell coal also. Should you buy of one of thege gentlemen a ton of coal on credit and fall to pay for it he would have all the remedies at law of the ordinary creditor and no more, and they would be found sufficent. On the con- trary, should you buy of this same dealer a bunch of shingles to patch your roof and likewise fail to pay for them, it would be quite a simple matter for him to secure a virtual mortgage on your home by filing a llen within the statutory time. This dis- tinction may be entirely proper, but it so, let it be at once extended. to the man who selis shoes, clothing, groceries or any other necessary article of consumption. This, in brief, is the case of the con- tractors, and they are ready to defend it against all comers, feeling that the public sense of justice and fair play will justify their contention. They have no paid lobby or campaign fund, but they are willing to take ‘the public into their confidence and ask that fair and impartial consideration be glven to this proposed measure. FRANK G. ODELL, Secretary Lincoln Contracting Exchange. DEATH RECORD. Fgneral of Colonel Thompson. SIOUX CITY, Ia., Jan. 18.—(Special Tel- egram.)—The funeral of Colonel J. K. P. Thompson, the prominent banker, Grand Army man and politiclan of northwestern Towa, was held today at his home in Rock Rapids. The ritualistic service of the Ma- sonic order was used, the Knights Templar acting as escort. The services were in charge of Rev. Zickafoos of the Congrega- tional church and the funeral sermon was preached by President Dan F. Bradley of Towa college, of which Colonel Thompson was & trustee. The services at the grave were in charge of the Grand Army and were very impressive. Knudt E. Lemen, BIOUX FALLS, S. D., Jan. 18.—(Spectal Telegram.)—Knudt E. Lemen, city assessor of Sioux Falls and a well known resident of this city, died at the family residence in this city today of consumption. De- ceased was a prominent member of the local Woodmen, Masonic and Elk lodges and also of the famous Minnekaha Mand- skor Singing soclety. He was brought back a week or 5o ago from New Mexico, where he had gone in hopes of his life being pro- longed by a change of climate. A widow and three children survive him. Mrs. Sarah Nelson. FAIRBURY, Neb.,, Jan. 18.—(Special)— Mrs. Sarah Nelson, wife of J. R. Nelson, former county clerk, died last night, aged 64 years. Mrs. Nelson was the mother of L. M. Nelson, assistant cashier of the Harbine bank, and had lived In the eity for thirty yeafs. She has beem a promlinent member of the Christian church, where the funeral services will be held tomorrow. Nate Thorp. WAHOO, Neb., Jan. 18.—(Special)—Nate Thorp, the little sen of D. M. Thorp, man- ager of the Goldenrod Telephone company in this city, died very suddenly at his home this morning. His death was caused by spasms. Bogota Ofcer Dies, PANAMA, Colombia, Jan. 18.—Lieutenant Mitchell, a graduate of Annapolls, who was an officer on board the Colombian govern- ment gunboat Bogota, died here on Satur- day night of yellow fever. Several of Bo- gota's officers left here for the United. States about two weeks ago. Lieutenant Mitchell then was prevented from accom- panying them by iliness. Lorenz Coldly Recelv. LONDON, Jan. 19.—Dr. Lorens, the Aus- trian surgeon, left here for Vienna today. He said before starting for Austria that he had been rather coldly received by many English surgeons, who viewed his methods with suspicion. a time every day ? That is why your feet are sore and tired at night. That is why they ache, itch, burn ,and swell. Omega Oil. you. The Oil will go in through open pores, and strengthen and comfort your feet in a manner that will astonish pores. Then rub the feet thoroughly with the clean ! have been troubled with sore feet for the last nine months and have tried pumerous remedies without any relief. very highly of Omega Oil. it to be just as represented. 1 cannot praise it tao highly. 1 consuited my druggist, who spoke By his advice I decided to give it a trial and found My feet were so sore that I could not walk across the room, and now I can walk as great a dis- tance as any one without any sign of aching feet. MRS. PAESSLER, 2853 Woodbrook Ave., Baltimore, Md. Omega Oil is good for everything a liniment ought to be good for. SEND TREES TO PALESTINE | Experiment to Ses if They Will Grow in the Arid Seotion of Holv Land, SOME OF THE CHARACTERS IN CONGRESS Haste of a Few Women Blocks a Wholesale Distribution of Tur- keys in the Government Printing OMce. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—(Special)—Su- perintendent Smith of the Botanic gardens | on Thureday of this week sent a consizn- | ment of native American trees to Palestine for the purpose of ascertaining whether | they will grow in the arid reglons of that country. It is a well accepted theory of | sclentist that the arid sections of the world are caused by the absence of trees | and, there being nothing to hold or retain | the molsture, the land becomes baked and parched and only here and there patches of short native grass brighten the face of nature. While we are sending to, Palestine & number of the native trees of America, Prof. Charles Bessey of the University of Nebraska stated in a report to the secre- tary of agriculture that he has discovered & number of forelgn trees that he is con- fident will grow on the arid plains of west- ern Nobraska and it is understood the ex- periment of growing these trees will be made this year in the western portion of the Antelope commonwealth. & Characters in Congress, For the last four years congress has missed Rowland B. Mahany, for two terms representative in the house from one of the Buffalo districts. Mr. Mahany was a stren- uous young man who added to the galety of debates and to the entertainment of the galleries. Mr. Mahany was witty and apt. He had a clear, ringing voice, a pleasant manner of address and a pleasing presence. There are ¥wo men in congress now who are frequently heard and one of whom is always attractive. He is Cushman of Wash- ington. Cushman is a tall, gaunt man, with & penetrating voice, a keen sense of humor and & past master of the art of satirical expression. The other is John Wesley Gaines of Tennessee, who takes himselt seriously, 1s utterly devoid of humor, who speaks on an average of twice a day and who mever yet said anything which was remembered next morning. In the mext congress Mahany will prob- ably have two very able successors. One is Fred Landis of Indiana, a young man with energy enough to run a ten-horse power engine and suficient ability to make him- self heard as well as felt in congressional Qebates. The other is J. Adam Bede of Minnesota. Both men ‘wre known in Wash- ington. Bede was & newspaper correspond, ent and a congressional clerk here some years ago. Afterward he was appointed marshal for northern Minnesota by Presi- dent Cleveland. He @id not hold the office very long because he objected tb the fed- eral regulations.which probibited nfficlals trom taking an ective part in politics. He resigned. Later he allied himself with the republican party and he has been elected to congress from the district which sent “Charlie” Towne to the house of repre- sentatives. Unless Mr. Bede has changed his natural bent since he was Jast here he will 2dd much to the attractiveness of congres elonal debates and will frequently inject something worth hearing into the dry discus- slons. The coming of Meesrs. Landis and Bede is anticipated with pleasure by mem- bers who enjoy a little levity and an occa- sional parliamentary scrap, but this feeling | of coming pleasure is not shared by Messrs. | Payne, Dalzell and other leaders, who look upon congressional proceedings as second in solemnity only to religlous gatherings. Trees Go to Parks, Two or three years ago Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture began the distribution of trees in addition to garden, field and flower seeds among mem- bers of congress. These saplings were divided into two classes, crnamental and useful. It was koped’that the reciplents of the young trees would report from time to time to the department as to the success which they met with in this new line ot arbor culture. But these hopes have not yet been realized. Now a new departure 1s contemplated. It is proposed to get into communication. with the euperintendents of parks in all the large cities of the coun. try and to secure thelr assistance. These superintendents who are willing to ald in the investigation wifl be supplied with young trees of specles forelgn to thelr neighborhood and they will be asked to care for them properly and to report prog- ress. It is belleved that the result will be the acclimatization of a number of beautiful | foreign growths heretofore little known in the United States which will add much to the beauty of urban breathing places ana that possibly valuable nut and fruit-bearing trees will be added to the list of native growths. Women Block Turkey Deal. There are in round numbers 4,200 em- ployes of all grades in the government printing office in this city. In the winter of 1888-80 there were about 3,000 men and women employed in the building. Probably that small army of servants of the gov- ernment never heard how fifty-five girls employed in the bindery prevented the dis- tribution of 3,000 terkeys on the day before Christmas, 1888. Mr. Peters, chlet clerk of the Navy de- partment, told the story to a party of navy officers the other evening. “In November, 1888, sald Mr. Peters, “Secretary Whitney postponed the preparation of his annuai report until a very late day. In fact, it not until the Thursday before the Saturday on which it must be mailed that he began the dictation. But he was & rusher when he started, and the document was written, printed, bound in pamphlet form and mafled before midnight on Saturday. “The secretary himself visited the gov- ernment printing office and watched the work of the compositors, pressmen and binders, and was greatly pleased over the interest which everyone seemed to take in helping us out. On Tuesday of the follow- ing week, just two days before Thanksglv- ing, Mr. Whitney sent for me and sal: ‘Mr. Peters, 1 wish you would go to the market and buy a turkey for each and every employe of the government printing office.! * ‘But, Mr. Secretary,’ I replied, ‘it would require 3,000 turkeys to fill that order.’ ‘It makes mo difference 1 5,000 would be needed, buy them. “‘It {s impossible,’ I sald, ‘thers are not 3,000 unsold turkeys to be had in Washing- ton today.' “ “Then,’ sald he, ‘ascertain the names of the men who had the principal part in get- ting out the report, get a turkey for each today, and order the necessary number, 3,000 or 5,000, and see that they are de- livered in time for Christmas.' nder these instructions nine turkeys were sent to the printing office that day. The mext morning the secretary recelved ten letters. Nine were notes of thanks and the other was a letter from fifty-five girls in the bindery who demanded a turkey each because of the part they had taken in get- ting out the report. As soom as he had read that letter the secretary of the navy sent for me and handing the letter over sald: “Mr, turk Peters, business.’ Nothing further was necessary. The Christmas distribution was not made and all on account of the haste of fifty-five women 1o get recognition for their serv- fces." 1 bave gome out of the A Man Badly Injured. Or painfully hurt, burned, bruised or wounded gets quick comfort from Bucklen's Arnica Balve. It conquers pain. For sale by Kubn & C MEASURES BRAIN FATIGUE German Professor Invents New Ine strument to Sbow Human ‘Wearine: BERLIN, Jan. 18.—Among the curlous exhibits that the Prussian ministry of pub. Ne instruction will fnclude in its educa- tional display at the St. Louis exposition 18 an apparatus for measuring mental fatigue which {s widely employed. It is called dn aestheslometer and measures the sensitiveness of the skin which - corre- sponds directly to brain fatigue, the sen- sitiveness diminishing as the mind wearles. - Dr. Schrader, professor at the Kaiser Wilhelm gymnasium at Hanover, has per- fected an Instrument that measures the time elapsing In the sensorium after men- tal exertion. The principle upon which it is based is that mental work produces a fatigue of the nerve centers. The measure- ments of fatigue during classroom work generally shows that history makos but a slight call on the mental power. Geometry and Latin are far more exhausting. During the study of Latin the nerve power is rew duced one-quarter and memory eppears to suffer greatly. FORECAST OF THE WEATHER Snow 1is Predicted West Today ‘morrow, to Fan To- Over or WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Forecast: For Nebraska—Fair and warmer Monday: ‘Tuesday, anow. For lowa—Snow, with rising temperature Monday. Tuesday, snow or fair. For llinols—Falr Monday; warmer. Tuesday, falr in south, snow er rain in north portion; variable winds, becoming fresh southeast. For Kansas—Fair and warmer Monday. Tuesday, warmer. For North and South Dakota—Snow Mon- day, with rising temperature. Tuesday, snow. For Missouri—Fair and warmer Monday. Tuesday, fair. Loeal Record. OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU, OMAHA, Jan. 18.—OMcal Teoord ot (ot perature’ and precipitation compared with the coresponding day of the last three years: 1903. 1902 1901, 1909, Maximum temperature.... 30 44 44 8 Minimum temperatu; » 2 % 2 Mean temperature......... 24 33 34 33 Precipitation ............... .00 .00 .00 .00 Record of temperature and precipit 8L Omaha for thls day and Sinice MATh T Normal temperature Excess for the day Total excess since Maj Normal precipitation Deficiency for the da: "fotal rainfall since Mg Deflclency since March 1 Deficlency for cor. period, Deficlency for cor. period, Reports from § CONDITION OF THE WEATHER. uopedpPag -esodway wnwxER Omaha, clear Valentine, clear.. North Platte, clear Cheyenne, clear... Salt Lake City, clear. Rapid City, clear.. ¥ on, cloudy . Williston, cloudy.. Chicago, 'snowing.. 8t. Louls, clear 8t. Paul, cloudy. . Davenport, clear... Kansas City, clear Havre, cloudy. Helena, clear Bismarck, snowin| Galvestor, cloudy.. T indicates trace of precipitat L. A 3 BLSH, Local Forecast Officiad