\\j \ \ 10 TIIT3 OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUN DAT , 9 , 1895. Prominent House Furnishing Establishment in Trouble. THE PEOPLE'S FURNITURE AND CARPET COMPANY is in trouble. During last January when their buyers representing them went to the mar J ket they made heavy contracts in order to secure the most durable goods , It is generally customary among large manufacturers to give the exclusive sale of their products to any dealer in a city who shall contract to take the greatest amount of goods. To be brief , contracts were made by their agents to the extent of $172,000.00 , and these goods they are absolutely obliged to sacrifice or go to the wall , They have , therefore , no other alternative but to sacrifice their goods , without regard to cost. Tomorrow the greatest sale ever started by any codcern in the west will begin , and it will ever be noted for its daring and reckless slaughter of prices. POSITIVELY NO GOODS SOLD TO DEALERS. EVERYTHING SLAUGHTERED WITHOUT REGARD TO COST. Carpets Furniture and Matting Bedroom Suits , Compulsory Sale price. . , Bedsteads , Compulsory Sale price All Wool Ingrain Carpets Compulsory Sale price 42 l2c Siboboards. Compulsory Sale price 45c Matting Compulsory Sale price 2Sc Extension Tables , Compulsory Kale price. Ba ) > y Carriages 7Gc Tapestries Compulsory Sale price..45c Parlor Suits , Compulsory Sale price Baby Carriages lilco above cut , Sale price 30e Oil Cloth Compulsory Sale price 17c Lounges , Compulsory Sale price like ab.ivo cut , Compulsory Tills S-pleeo I'lush I'urlor Suit , polmhoJ o.k < { JJO 25e China Sale . lot Compulsory Sale price Mattlnp Compulsory prico. frumo , Compulsory ssilo price VMUi Plush Rockers , Compulsory Sale Price . . Velvet Carpet Compulsory Sale price..85o Hull Racks , Compulsory Sale price Moquet Carpets Compulsory Sale prico. . ,87c P m SsrfeA * .This Ilundsoino Cordirery Fringed Couch- Compulsory Sale price Antique Refrigerators A fjooil twc-buruor Gasoline Stove , Compulsory Sale price Compulfaorj SaU'price Three piece antique Ocd Suit , Compulsory Sale Prico. . . a This Inrso I'ollslioil rime KocUor , $1,85 Compulsory fc.ilo Piluo , This Beautiful Whitb Iron Bad g&siBEBsgg fo Stool \Vovon Wire Springs 75c si/.c4 feat 0 inches wide and 0 footO inches long1 Compulsory Sale prico. . . Compulsory Sale price . 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The summer school Idea has spread In America with amazing rapidity of late , "summer Institutes" and "summer astern- biles" springing up In all parts of the coun try. Ctmutauo.ua leads In popularity , though the school at Martha's Vineyard enjoys the dis tinction ot being the oldest and broadest In Its methods. The flrst summer school ever founded was that Inaugurated by the eminent naturalist , I'rof. Agasslz , an Penlkeso Island , the neigh bor of Martha's Vineyard. The Chr.utauqua school of pedagogy was last season placed In charge of the president 3f the Teachers college of New York , Walter li. Hervcy , Ph. D. Ho will again be Its dean this season. With an able corps of assist- ints , principally professors and Instructors from the Teachers college , he puts Into prac tice the methods of teaching adopted at that Institution , the finest of Its kind In exist ence. The Cliuutaun.ua school of pedagogy , known li the Teachers Uetreat , offers for 1S95 courses designed to meet the needs of teach ers In elementary and secondary schools , In normal and training schools , and of school principles. Seven departments are open- psychology and pedagogy , methods of teach ing English literature and composition , na ture study and primary methods , botany and geology , experimental science , form , drawing and color and expression. In a number of the courses laboratory and field work are Included , and In all the courses opportunity Is given for definite work , toward a well defined aim. A progressive course covering three years , supplemented by definite reading and study to be done be tween times with suitable tests , leads to the Chautauo.ua teacher's certificate. The num ber and variety ot the courses enables the itudents ot the retreat to return year after year without duplicating their work. The observation classes are an Important and. Interesting feature. These number ai pupils the little ions and daughter ! ot the summer cottagers , who are taught by the re treat profeisora that , tbe studtn ) teachers may learn the practical ways of applying their theoretical knowledge of Instruction. At Martha's Vineyard the summer Insti tute offers additional Inducements for the training of teacberi this coming season , In cluding Instruction In all grades , from the kindergarten- primary through , the regu lar college courw. A presentation ii made of the most practical and philosophical methods of teaching. lieshlcs these two leading summer schools which are offering special departments In pedagogy , others younger , but promising , are being formed In many and widely separated localities. Sonic are state schools , as the Connecticut one , and that at Plymouth , N. H. , which Is the only free one In the country. The National Summer school at Glens Falls , N. V. , Is doing good work , while the Vir ginia ono Is on the same plan aa the Insti tute at Martha's Vineyard. The new school at Ann Arbor , In connection with the Unl- > erslty of Michigan , has a school of peda gogy. At the Agricultural college , In Lan sing , Mich. , whoso botanical gardens are noted , the summer students camp out. Har vard university has Its summer school at Cambridge , Mass. Even New Jersey lays claim to one , the Avalon Summer assem bly , at Avalon , Including a school of forestry , whllo the Brooklyn Institute has opened a summer school at Cold Springs , Long UlanJ. CATHOLIC SUMMER SCHOOL. The great and growing Interest In and the marvelous success of the Eastern Summer school , which llclI " 8 ft ! session In New London , Conn. , In the summer of 1S92 , and Its second and third sessions at Pittsburgh , N. Y. , the last session having a dally attend ance of from 1,000 to 2,000 enthusiastic peu- ple , but more particularly the permanent lo cation of that school In the extreme north eastern part of New York , a site Inconvenient to the great multitude of western Catholics , led to the establishment of the Western or Columbian Catholic Summer school. This action was hailed with delight ; clergy and laity vied with one another In expressing approbation , and th : entire press , regardless ot sectional or religious views , accorded It unstinted praise. As In the case of the Chautauqua movement , everybody realized that It was merely a qu stlon of time when more than one Catholic summer school would bo organized In the United States , and , Im mediately upon the permanent settlement of the site for the Eastern tchool , western Catholic papers began to voice the stntl- mcnt of their section for a Catholic Summer assembly more conveniently located for west ern Catholics. Persuaded by this sintlment , and In response to an urgent Invitation , a number of Catholic clergymen and laymen met at the Columbus club , Chicago , on March 17. 1S94. to consider the question of establishing a Western summer school. The outcome of the meeting was the establish ment of a Western summer school at Mad ison , WIs. , the first session ot which will begin July 14 and close August 4. The ofllcars of the school are , Rt. Hev. S. 0. Messmer , president ; H. J. Desmond , vice president ; Charles A. Mulr , treasurer ; E. D. McLoughlln , M. IX , secretary , Fen du Lac , WIs. HOW COLLEGES INVEST THEIR FUNDS. It Is of special Interest to know In what forms the property of our colleges , amountIng - Ing to (100,000,000 , Is Invested , says a writer In the Forum. In presenting- the facts I make use of reports sent to me from be tween 100 and 200 of the representative colleges , and also ot reports ot presidents and treasurers of these colleges. From these reports I Infer that at least four-fifths ot all the productive funds of the colleges are In vested | n bonds and mortgages. Few colleges and a few only have a part ot their endow ment In stocks of any tort. A few ot them also , notably Columbia and Harvard , have Inveited In real eitate. The facts ai to certain representative colleges are Illustra tive : Cornell university has about 14,000,000 In bond * and about 12,000,000 In mortgages ; hat property ot 1362,000. , of which MS,000 are In buildings , $21,000 In bonds , $323,000 In mortgages ; the University of California has somewhat more than { 2 000- 000 , equally divided between bonds and mort gages ; Wesleyan university has $1,126,000 , of which $31,000 are in real estate , $200,000 In bonds , $77,000 In stocks , $686,000 In mort gages ; ot the $3,000,000 possessed by North western university , $150,000 are represented In buildings , bonds and mortgages , and the balance Is embodied In lands and leases ; the property of the University of Pennsylvania , more than $2,500,000 , Is divided Into $357,000 In buildings , $514,000 In bonds , $127,000 Jn stocks , $429,000 In mortgages and the remainIng - Ing million Is , as the treasurer describes , "In other values. " Harvard's Immense prop erty Is changed In the forms of Its Invest ments more frequently than the property of many colleges , but of Its eight or more millions , railroad bonds and real estate rep resent the large share , the amount ot bonds exceeding the value of real estate. Colleges have few United States and f6\v state and municipal bonds , but they do own large amounts ot the best railroad bonds and ot the bonds of water works companies , some what also of the bonds of street railways , and also small amounts of the bonds of the counties of western states. As my eye runs down the list ot securities ot Cornell uni versity I find a record of county bonds In several western states , as well as railroad bonds , but county bonds seem to pre dominate. Turning to a college of quite a different position and history , Washington and Lee , In Virginia , I find that , out ot $600.000 , $234,000 are Invested In securities of the state of Virginia ; that town and county bonds are represented by a few thousand dollars , and that railroads In the south represent the larger part of the balance. A college of a different environ ment and condition Is Rochester university , New York. Of Its $1,200,000 , $335,000 are in railroad bonds. bonds.GOLDEN GOLDEN JUBILEE. The University of Notre Dame , the leading Catholic college of the midwestlll cele brate Us golden Jubilee during the coming week. Twenty-five archbishops and bishops ot the United States and Canada will be present at the celebration , and three days will b3 devoted to the jubilee. The exer cises will be opened Tuesday morning , June 11 , with pontifical high macs of thanksgiving , celebrated by Most Rev. William Henry Elder , archbishop ot Cincinnati. The sermon will be preached by Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul. The afternoon will be devoted to an In spection of th3 various departments of the university , the commencement exercises of the preparatory class In St. Edward's hall and field sports on the Drownston hall cam pus. In the evening the alumni exercises will be held In Washington hall. The committee In charge ot the celebration hat decided upon a heavy bronze medal ai a souvenir of the Jubilee. Two bars of bronze are joined by a broad ribbon of gold and blue , and bear the beginning of the Inscrip tion "Nostrae Uomlnao Aur. lub. " Pendent from the lower and narrower of the bars hangs the medal proper , a disk of bronze larger and heavier than a silver dollar. In the central field of the obverse the main building ot the university Is figured in mod erately high relief , while the Inscrip tion "Unlversltate Fellclter Condlta , MDOOCXL1V. " fllli the raised margin. The reverie ot the medal b ar within a wreath of oak and laurel the rest of the motto , "QulDQuages. Ann. Colle-gl. Confirm. Alma Mater Rite Celebrabat , MDCCCXCIV. " In the third decade of the present century Very Rev. S. T. Dodln , the flrit prleit or dained lu the United Statei , was performing Missionary work In the northwest territory. In his travels through northern Indiana he was Impressed with the natural beauties of a tract of forest land on the banks of the 5t. Joseph river. He recognized the possi bilities of so admirable a site and determined to secure it for a college. In 1830 he pur chased 600 acres of land from the govern ment , paying $1.25 per acre. The 600 acres purchased by Father Bodln In 1830 had been conveyed by deed to the bishop of Vlncennes , who approved of the design ot establishing an educational Institution. In 1812 he took the Initiatory step by offering the tract known as St. Mary's of the Lake to Rev. Edward Sorln , on condition that the latter should , within a certain time , erect and maintain a building to serve as a college. Father Sorln , a priest of the congregation of the Holy Cross , a missionary society founded In France during the latter part of the last century , and six brothers of the same com. munlty , had In t ! . preceding year accepted the Invitation ot Bishop de la Hallandlere to establish a branch of their congregation In the dioceseof Vlncennes. The bishop's offer was accepted , and November 26 , 1842 , Father Sorln and his companions first saw the spot where they were to establish the university. At the beginning of an unusually long ana severe winter the little colony found Itself In possession of the land. Notwithstanding the determination of Father Sorln to proceed at once with the erection of a college. It was August , 1843 , before the cornerstone of the first edifice was laid. The next spring It was completed. The flrst commencjment exei- clses were held In June , 1844 , and during the same year the legislature of Indiana conferred upon the Institution a charter with the title and privileges of n , university. In April , 1879 , the university , with Its treasures , was burned > Jo the ground. In * the following September , the main building , which now stands , was- completed BO far as was necessary for the accommodation of stu dents. Since 1879 additional buildings' have been constructed frgmntlme to time. FADS IN iniffi SCHOOLS. When the public isohools get away from the rudiments of anuEngllsh education , says the Atlanta Constitution , the tendency Is to drift to the special I fail a of certain reform ers , who are entemhlljr tinkering- away at our educational system. One good thing about our old-fashioned , schools was their freedom from these new-fangled notions. They trained up a race ot men and woman whose Intelligence ami culture are the crownIng - Ing glory of Americano citizenship , but they did not study oncxtdurth as many text books as are now ileeil" In the schools. If they wanted to frail loot something about alcohol and tobacco they learned what they wanted to know at home. Their time In school was devoted to the elementary studies , and the teacher who paid too much atten tion to matters outside ot a practical Eng lish education was never wanted long In one place. Something1 will have to be done to re duce the number of textbooks smd special studies or the schools will do the children of the poor very little good. PENSIONS FOR TEACHERS. The Illinois legislature paseed the bill pro viding for the pensioning of Chicago teachers. The pension fund Is to be raised by the moderate assessment of. ,1 per cent on the salaries of teachers and employes In the school * . Of course It may be swelled by contributions from outalde sources. It Is , however , expressly provided that no money shall be appropriated frtjn the city treasury for thin purpose. Tha scheme U , therefore , wholly lelfViupportlng1 and Is for tbli reason unobjectionable from ( be standpoint of extra expense to the comraujjty. Thoee who bene fit by It are teachers and other employes whose continuous service In the schools has been twenty-five years In the case of men and thirty years In the case of women. The bill provldca for the retirement of Its beneficiaries on half pay , but the highest pension Is fixed at $600 per annum. The pension funds will be managed by n board of trustees , two of whom are to be chosen by the school teachers , the others will be mem bers of the Board of Education. An Im portant provision of the bill Is that no teacher or employe can be discharged with out trial and any person discharged will be allowed to withdraw the assessments paid Into the pension fund. i : < liic tluiml Notoi. The commencement week of the University of Pennsylvania began last Friday. Although General 0. O. Howard has de clined the presidency of Norwich university , Northfield , Vt. , he will deliver an annual course of lectures at that Institution. Among the orators for commencement week of the Missouri State university are Dr. Thompson of the Episcopal church , Dr. Keanc of the Roman Catholic university at Wash ington , Mr. Duncan of St. Louis , a hardshell Baptist , and Dr. Angell of Michigan. The catalogue of the University of Colorado for 1894-5 presents a comprehensive review of the work of that educational Institution. H was Incorporated In 1860 , but was not for mally opened until September , 1877. The at tendance during the past school year was 396. "Every unprejudiced observer of the work of our schools has noted , " says the Boston Globe , "the tendency to 'crowd' teachers. When theorists and notional folk of both sexes are gently but firmly sent to the rear , and common sense rules In schoql committee conclave a new and blessed day will dawn In the educational world. " Seth Low has followed his magnificent gift to Columbia college with the founding of scholarships to the amount ot $60,000 In Barnard , an Institution devoted to the higher education of women. These scholarships are to be divided almost equally between New York , where Barnard Is situated , and Brook lyn , where Mr. Low resides. Philadelphia recently honored the memory of Stephen Glrard , and his name has many claims to be associated with those of Penn and Franklin. It was the old Quaker mer chant who led the relief movement In the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 , who advanced to the government In 1812 the $5,000,000 nec essary to secure the treaty of Ghent , and who left for a college an endowment which now amounts to $14,000,000. Mr. Mulhall , the British statistician , notes that 87 per cent of our population over ten years of age read and write , and says that "history produces no Instance of a nation with 41,000.000 Instructed citizens. " The de crease of illiteracy In twenty years Is an other notable feature of our progress , 20 per cent of the population over ten years of age being illiterate In 1870 , against 13 per cent in 1890. 1890.An An English educationalist of reputation proposes to introduce Into the education of young women and girls the principles of chivalry toward the male. sex. He main tains that this has been entirely neglected In the teaching of girls , and while boys have been taught to pay duo deference to women , the girls have not been taught that they owed any consideration to any one , either of their own or the opposite eex. The result has been selflih and Inconsiderate women who accept all chivalrous attentions from men as a right , without a thought that they owe even the courtesy ot a thank-you In return. "Ilio Essential Klainonti of Rll Accimitu llurotcnpe. III. Geocentric astrology , as heretofore stated , Is that system of astrology which takes the earth as Its zodiacal center. It Is that sys tem which requires the age to bo given to the minute , and the longitude and latitude of the place of birth given. In order that an accu rate horoscope may be made. It Is a system that Is complicated and technical , and to be a good astrologer , according to this system , you must be a good mathematician , and the more you know about astronomy the better will you be able to handle the subject In telligently. Modern astrologers of this sys tem are In many cases greatly misunderstood , many thinking that where they delineate a character , that It Is fate , and cannot be changed. Such , however , Is a mistaken Idea. The astrologer claims that he can tell you what part of the body Is diseased , or Is liable to disease ; pan give the part of the "body that U diseased , but cannot tell you what kind of disease will attack the pirt , but the diagnosis can go so far as to state whether the disease will be mild or severe , whether It Is liable to result In death or not , if not properly handled. They claim that the pre disposition of the child can be given , which may be guarded against by proper manage ment. It Is claimed that persons suffering with chronic disease , that the doctors are unable to definitely diagnose , can be diag nosed to a certainty. This Is contrary to medical teachings , but they say It will pay physicians to Investigate the subject. Those pertons who are suffering with unknown ail ments , or of diseases that have been diag nosed , but which treatment does not affect , or falls to relieve , it will pay to Investigate this subject. It will , If It Is what Is claimed for It , throw light upon your case. It does not In any respect aim to take the occupation away from the physician , but to better enable htm to Intelligently administer to suffering humanity by means of preventive medicine. If experience and Investigation will enable us to point out In Infancy the organs In the body that will be affected , and the time they arc- most liable to diseases ot these suscepti ble organs , It will be a great adjunct to the great army of physicians who aim to prevent disease , rather than treat It when once es tablished. It has been pretty conclusively proven that all nature Is made up of about the same ma terial , and that her laws are about the same , whether active or passive. Some men are more Intelligent than others ; toino minerals rarer and more expensive than others ; the strong always predominating over the weak. The laws of nature must be obeyed or the judgment will bo severe ; the phytlclan tells you that he simply assists nature. Astrology alms to point out to us the defects In the natural law that will govern the child when born , and In this way permit the physician or guardian to properly nourish the child and guide It toward the good and away from the evil. Make a circle , say two and one-half Inches In diameter , Inside of which make another from the same center , two Inches In diame ter , and Inside ot this circle another small circle , using the same center In each case. The last circle should be about one-fourth of an Inch In diameter. Mark your circle north at the bottom , or nearest to you , east to the left of you , south where north would naturally be , and west at the right hand side ot diagram. Then draw four lines from the cardinal points , north , east , south and west , to the center , dividing the circle Into four quarter * , each quarter containing 90 degreei. Divide each quarter Intb three part * ot 30 degreei each , and you rihave a I c rcle divided by twelve lines and spaces. A r wagon wheel Is a good Illustration of tha- above. The lines dividing tlio circle are called cusps , the spaces houses ; lionco wo have twelve cusps and twelve mmiduria houses. The zodiac thus formed represents1 a circle of the heavens and extends clear aroiiml the earth , one-half being for the vlsl- blo planets , and the other hnlf for those that are not visible at place of birth. The Una that runs fiom the center to left hand sldo of the diagram Is called the cusp of the first house , and reprepcnts a line drawn horizon tal or parallel with the earth's surface. Tht next line below this and nearer tqt you In the diagram , strictly north , Is the cusp ot the second house ; the next one below this the cusp of the third house , and the next cusp of fourth house , or mid-earth And so on around the circle until you come to tho- cusp of the tenth house , which is called the mid-heaven , being directly opposite the mid- earth , or cusp of the fourth house. Tho- space between cusp of first .and second houses. Is called the first house ; that between the hccond and third cusp the second house , and so on around the circle until you havo- reached the point of beginning. We begin at the west because the earth revolves from , west to cast , or makes Its revolution so we- are traveling toward the east and see tha sun first In the cast , It seta In the west be cause wo travel east and from It. The planets have a real motion and two. apparent motions. The real motion IK through the heavens , in the order of the signs , from west to east. When above tha horUon the move from the right or west , toward the left or east. When below tho- horizon they move from left to right , and seemingly toward the west , although- astrono mers still call It toward the cast There fore the planets are always moving toward the east. When Venus Is an evening star observe her apparently rising In the cant. , moving up the heavens , till she retches th mid-heaven or cusp of the tenth house , then descends and disappears In the west. This Is one of Venus' apparent motions , and sucli a motion of a planet Is called "rapt motion" and Is really no motion at all , but a phe nomena which results from the motion of the * earth on Its axis , as It revolves toward the east. The other apparent motion Is called "retrograde , " and IB defined as go.ng In a contrary manner , but a planet HBVT moves In a contrary manner , but only appears to be moving back In the zodiac , contrary to the order of the signs. For a fuller ex planation the reader Is referred to works on astronomy , which will d agrarnatlcally ex plain it. The reader should learn that tha top of a map ot the heavens Is south , and the left and right being the reveise of the geographical map. Th reversion Is the re sult of projecting nil's equator , and other mundane clr Into the heavens , where the cciuator receives the name of equinoctial ; the "Tropics" of Cancer and Capricorn are called the signs , "Cancer and Caprlcornus. " A "Celestial House" Is another name for * a sign ot the zodiac. Thus Aries Is the celes tial house of Mars , Taurus of Venus , Nemlnl of Mercury , Cancer of the moon , Lso of th sun , Virgo of Mercury , L'bra of Venus , Scorpio pie of Mars , Sagltarlus of Jupiter , Capri- cornus of Saturn , Aquarius of Uranus , ana Pisces of Jupiter. It will be seen that a number of the planets have two celestial houses. A person born In the signs Saglf tarlui and I'Ucei have Jup.ter lor their rut * Ing planet , and If the aspects are good , th * person li expected to be successful and ac cumulate wealth. As Jupiter Is the plinet that controls the wealth of those born with Jupiter KB ilgntflcator , we also nay : Ariel It hli own house ot Marc , Taurui ot Venui , an $ 10 on. ( To Be Continued. )