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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1898)
- - - - - - - - - r-------- - - - - ' - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE OMATLIA DAtLY B1E : 'I1VESDAY , AtGtST 10 , 1898. - - - - - - SIHRTENINC ) COllEGE YEAR Tendency of Recent Years and Ith Posib1o Da.ngerz. ) NOT TWO HUNDRED DAYS' WORKING TIME l'ruf. % ILcslei'-i the I'reucnt - TIdtfl ) . niul Contrn.t It with CoIh.g ( ' ContIItton Sixty Yenri .go. Prof. Cha1e P. Thwng , liD , LLI1 president of the Western Reserve unkerstty , rtte ! to the New York Indeenent on "The Tendency to Shorten the College Year. " lie saye : That the college year Ic no thort Ic cvi. ( lent enough. In proof of the propoeltion I Precent the following table. whIch hs been comIIcd by one ot my associates of the Adelbert cotlego faculty : . TILE COLLEGE 1EAfl. Total Totat S College lieNet. . Year. ces. Year. Collego. Davt. Days. Dnys , Adelbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 22 Amherst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2S' ni 2tS ilowdoin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i j i3rown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 2S 246 . Bryn Mawr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 2 22t Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G 19 2t7 Cleveland College ( for weS - S alan ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 21 252 S Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 21 227 Cornell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 26 241 Dartmouth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2s6 32 i - ] Iarvnrd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 2t 252 S Tohni IIopkim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 22 216 MIchgitn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 1t 227 IInneota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 19 250 Oberlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 21 250 Penneyhnnla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 17 235 I mttli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 36 236 Vassar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2I 53 2.11 .e1Ies1ey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 37 213 \'iI1Iam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 3.1 240 I Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2S0 30 250 In these twenty-one colleges the average , number of working days In each year Is 242 , ir one substract from this number the thirty. I six days etanding for the thirty-sIx Sunday3 , of the college year. and also thirty-six other ayz composed or either the one whole holt- day of each week or the two half holidays of each week , which moet colleges , though not 1 nIl , offer their students and professors. one finds remaIning only 170 days as represent- , tog the positive working time of each year. Thit slgnlflcant as this relatively short. time te , it. becomes more signifIcant when one remembers - members a form of the college work of which - the general public has small knowledge. / " 1 Most colleges have an examination period I at the close of each term. In case the cot. lego has three terms In each year , this exam- loatlon pertod usually does not cover more than a week at the close of each term. But In case the college has. Instead 0 ! the old * method of three terms of twelve weeks each , two half-years of eighteen weeks each , the examination period in certain Institutions Is longer than three weeks and In others - shorter. The larger the college , on the whole , the longer is the period of examination at the close of each semes- ter. At Harvard and Yale the larger part S of three weeke Is consumed at the close of each of these periods. In a word , some Ove or six weeks are used In testing the value of the 'work which the student5 have S done. Therefore the 170 days , the number of days standing for the college year. Is stilt further to be diminished by some forty days. Of course the ermInation period Is valuable - ble ; it haB L greater value. In a sense , than any other time of equal length in the college - S lege year , but. it does not represent that S agreseive movement In scholarship and education which the ordinary week repre- sents. It is therefore plain enough that the college year has become pretty short. Luokiiig IIne1.ivar.i. ,1e.p , snI sbortness , be it said. represent - sent t tendency. lor In the last two- thirds of this fast. flvin century the nor- mal college year has been cut off from being S one of some forty-two weeks to being one of some thirty-four. thirty.flve tr thirty. six weeks. Let me give certain facts. In the year 1S31 the summer vacation at Dartmouth - mouth was of four weeks , the winter vaca- tton of six and one-half , the spring of two S and one-half-i total of thirteen weeks. At the same time the annual vacation In the University of Vermont was of twelve weeks , four weeks In the summer and eight in the wInter. In Middlebury the summer vaca- S tion was also of four weeks. the winter of seven and the spring of two. In Bowdoin S the summer vacation was of four weeks , the winter of eight and the spring of two. In Williams the entire vacation was of thlr- S teen weeks. divided between the summer of four , the winter of six and the spring of three , At Harvard the summer vacation S of six weeks came before the commenceS - S t ment , which fell on the last Wednesdoy in August ; there were also two weeks at Christmas and two weeks in the spring-a totaL of ten weeks. Brown had a vacation , also. of thirteen weeks ; Yale , one of twelve . . weeks. one-half of which was in the sum- mar and two weeks at Christmes and ( dur weeks in the spring. Princeton bad a vaca- don of six weeks following upon the cam- rnencement time and of lIve weeks in the spring. Columbia had one vacation from the commencement , which fell on the first Wednesday in August , to the fIrst Monauy in October. S The University of Virginia had one va- ce.Uon , running from July 20 to September S 1. Western Reserve had two vacations , five weeks in the summer and two in the win- ter-a total of seven weeks. These facts indicate that sixty years ago iud more the ordinary college year con- slated usually of forty weeks , In many cases of forty-two. and at least in one of forty. five. In a word , In two generations the length of the college year has been lessened by about one-fourth , It is to be noted that the long vacation in several colleges fell in the winter time. This custom arose simply from the fact that many men in that early time were support. ing themselves. Many men are now supporting - porting themselves al8o In the college , but in the early time the best method of securing - curing self-support was teaching the country - try school. The country school was kept in the winter time ; therefore the custom of the college adapted itself to the need of many indigent students. The names of some of the best men in American lIfe might be cited who made their way through cot- lege by keeping school , But as schools , oven In the country. have come to be kept , not fill weeks in the summer and twelve Ia the winter. but rather thirty-six weeks , the opportunity open to college men of using c4 winter vacation in this way has gradually - ally closed. CUIINe uf ( lie 'cndency , The causes of this tendency toward the shortening of the college year are manifold ; some are general , others special and local. One reason , doubtless , lies in the change in the social customs of the Ame iCan peo- pie. A summer vacation , and a long sum- met vacation , has come to be the rule for many people. It is tilnicult. if not. impos- 'q slble. for the college to go against a social . ; custom so firmly lmbedded in American life lie is the long summer vacation , S A further reason Iks in the demands of 4be college professors. The number of teachers in the American college who go , abroad each summer rapidly increases. For such i trip and residence a long time Is necessary. It. is also to be said that the J practjce of American teachers going abroad is to be prwnoted , Their worth to their eel- leges becomes greater. } 'urIhernioc , the writing of booka is now reg'ardaU as one ot the duties that devolves , upon the college te-acher. i3ueh work can be done only In the face of special dliii. cuitlea while one Is going through. ordinary college routIne. But summer offers a fittiog opportunity to * composition. I recently asked a professor in Yale college , who Is I an author of several books demanding muCh research , how he was able to write them. His laconic answer was : "Ia the vacation. " It is at once to be said that the shortened college year and the lengthened vacation have arisen rather from the demands of the professors than from the demands of the students. The element. , too , of the summer's heat has relation to the question. Colleges are becoming more and more urban , ieee and less niral. The disintegrat- jag influence of the heat is more felt In a college placed as harvard and Yale are now placed than it was felt In the villages of Cambric and Now haven of sixty or even thirty years ago , Like American life , the college is becoming metropolitan. Slgniflcniiee of the Chnnge. The significance of the shortened college year is far greater than it might appear to be at first thought ; for I cannot doubt but that there is a certaIn relation , positive anti vital , between the usefulness of the college to its students and the length of time that the students spend in the college. Of course , certain men get as much from a college In one week as other men get In four weeks , certain men get as much In one year as other men get in the whole course ; but it is not to be doubted in gen- erat that a certain length of time is fleece- sac ) ' for the student to receive that rich- flees of culture and that disciplIne of train. lag whIch it is the purpose of the college to bestow. The college cannot do as much for its men or women in thirty-sIx weeks as it can In forty-two , antI certainly it can do much less for them In thirty weeks of advancing instruction than it can in forty. At this point the current discussion as to the shortening of the college course from four years to three has value. At the present - ent time In not a few colleges thirty weeks represent the advance work that the students - dents are doing. Sixty years ago these same colleges were offering their students - dents forty weeks of work in each academic year. If we could restore the academic year to its former limits of forty weeks , and lessen the number of years by one , we should have as long a period of progressive work In the college as we nose have in the four years of thirty weeks each. It is also to be said that the forty weeks of four years of sixty years ago represent 160 weeks. Today four years of thirty weeks each represent 120 weeks. We have , therefore - fore , cut out practically forty weeks from the whole college course of the present time as compared with the course of half a century - tury ago. Such a diminution In time repre. sents a very serious diminution In the power which the college has over its students. It is not to be doubted that the shortening of the college year gives to the people the Impression that the college Is prImarIly an opportunity for leisure. The college is of course an opportunity for leisure of a car- tam sort , but the people have the idei that the leisure of the college student and of the college professor is a leisure for laziness and not , as the truth is. a leisure for work. For people are constantly asking themselves : "What is the need of college teachers or college students working only eight or nine months when most of us work ten or eleven ? " Whatever , therefore , should tend to deepen or to promote the impression that college people are indolent and lazy should at once be done away with. We ought through the colleges to impress the people that there is one place In the American life where there is leisure-not an hour of lets- uro for indolence , but weeks of leIsure for the most Important and satisfactory service. Itcvero Currents. Any tendency in American society that looks toward the depletion of Its highest and noblest interests is usually accompanied with an opposing and correcting movement. This shortening of the college year has been accompanied with two movements , one that irna been in progress for thirty sears and the other of more recent origin. The so- called summer school is the antidote of the long summer vacation. But the summer school Is chiefly ordained to serve those who are teachers and not those who are pri- manly students. In the summer schools in various colleges are found a few students of those colleges , but the students are few compared with the hundreds of teachers who are also mem- bers. The summer schools has some value in doing away with the evils arising from the shortening of the college year , but the value is not great. But a second method is emerging which may have great worth. It lies in the college having tour terms in a year rather than three or two. The best. known illustration of this method is found in the University of Chicago. In that institution the academic year consists of four terms of twelve wedks each , A student can remain in college three years of four terms , or he can spend four years of three terms ; or , if ho sees lit , he can prolong the time of his academic residence before going up for his degree to any period which may seem to himself and to the university authorities fitting. Such a method may become the usual one in the American college. It is , however , dltflcult of application for the reason that It can be applied in only such colleges as have a large teaching force. Wherever It is used the teachers in the departments must be sufliciently numerous and the variety of tastes sufilciently diverse to permit , in the vacation periods. a proper number of the teachers in each department to be In service - ice in order to insure the giving of proper instruction. But the success which this method has met. with In the University of Chicago baa great value In any consideration - tion of the doing away with the evils aria- lug from the shortening of the college year. I1diicrttionnl Note'i , The Board of Education of Chicago proposes - poses to introduce sewing and cooking In the public schools , The enlarged City of New York contains 702,162 children of school age , with 9,152 teachers , of whom 8,730 are womea. There are 405 school houses and school property worth $43,000,000. $ The amount expended on the public schools last year was $10,576,770. The annual school census taken by the secretary of the Board of School Directors shows that the school population of Milwaukee - waukee has increased 1,471 since last year. The total number of persons of school ago in MIlwaukee at the present time Is 93,633 , as against 92,174 In 1897. The state superintendent of public in- atruction reports that the attendance on the count' toachers' institutes in Kanea has fallen oft 25 per cent this season , and that this decrease is caused by the abandonment of teaching by many persons as an occupa. tion on account of the insulflcient and constantly - stantly decreasing wages paid in Kansas. Dublin university has sustained a great ! o by the death ot Mir Aulad All , who held the chair of ArabIc anO litnaustanL tar thirty.sevea years. in iwmIIate succession to Dr. William \\'right , who was appointed to the profassorshIp of Arabic at Cambridge. and to the post of keeper of the Syrian manuscripts in the British Museum. The Mir was a native of Lucknow , but was a master of the English language. l'nid l'nrt on lila UnIform. A young man named Mitchell , who came from the country to seek employment. wet a stranger near the Tenth Street depot , to whom ho explained the object of his visit. This stranger was looking for a young man to ftll a responsible position at the depot. After a conversation the stranger engaged Mitchell and extracted $10 from him as the first payment on a uniform. The stranger gave Mitchell a receipt for the money signed "A Russet Apple. " .tuetlon Store l'ruprlt-tor F1nid , Sam Adler , proprietor of the jewelry auction - tion rooms at 1311. Douglas street. was Itneti Igo and post by Judge Cordon for sellint Carl Marqerstatlt a brass , vatcb as a gold one for $17 The watch Is worth about fl cents Marqerstadt had a written guarantee given him by Adler in which the latter had guaranteed that the batch was gold , FLORISTS IEET IIERE TODAY Annual Convention of' the American Society Comes to Omaha , BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY OF FLOWERS Competitive lIxiilIitt One of the Unst tingnlfieent 1Jcr SIiv-n-I'inns for the Wcek' Vria .kre Complete , The fourteenth annual convention of the Society of American Florists will be opened in the FIrst Congregational church in thit city Tuesday morning. This wIll be the first meeting of the associatIon held west of the Mississippi river , and only twice before baa It met as far west as Chicago. The exposi- tlon is the motIve power which brought the society to Omaha this year , asd so far as the members have visIted the show they are satisfied - isfied the choice is a wise one. The convention will continue In session till Friday afternoon. The program for the week is a varied one and possesses much interest - terest for those engaged In horticulture. The meetings , as well as the trade exhibit in the basement of the church , will be open io the public. This exhibit will have an in- tetest for all lovers of Ilorers , The church , which has been the scene of many beautiful floral displays during the past , has had noth- lag to compare with that which is now being put in Place. Three long tables through the room in the basement , with others along th walls , will ho filled with all kinds of plan ? . , represeting the florists of Boston , New York , PhiladelphIa , Buffalo , Dayton , 0. , Chicago and Milwaukee , with others from ebraska and Iowa. The exhibit will be closed while the convention is at work , and also whIle the judges are making their examination of the several displays preparatory to deciding upon their awards. PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE COMING TrnnsmniMlMsiiti .tt'.sociat tu Opems Its I'irst SCI4)II in Omaha , Iiejinnim Tic4ln ) The Transmiasisslppi Photographers' asso- elation will have Its opening meeting in this city Tuesday afternoon in the Thurston Rifles' hall. The organization Is a temporary - rary one incident to the exposition , that artists - ists in the transmisslssippl country might be brought together through the impetus of the exposItion to exchange Ideas and receive suggestions from each other as to the progress - ress of their work. The attendance , bow- ever , is not to be limited to the states of the Misslssiippl , for there are several already - ready in the city from > ew York , Michigan , W'isconsin and other state3 farther east. In connection with the regular sessions there will be displays of the work by visiting pho- tographers. The session will continue three days and the local committee an arrangements has prepared a program of entertaInment for the visitors. On Tuesday evening there wilt be a lantern slide exhibition , when photographs will be thrown upon a canvass and criticised by the photographed from a professional standpoint. Wednesday evening the visitors be taken in a body on a tour through the Midway at the exposition. The bill for Thursday evening has not yet been prepared , but it is possible It will be In the shape of a banquet. ANOTHER CONVENTION CALLED Secretary Watiplelt .tnnuu mices time Date of the Seenimil Dirict - Dezuocratic entimerIuw , \v. F. Wappich , secretary of the demo- cratic congressional committee for the 5cc- end district , has issued a call for a congressional - gressional convention to be held at Creigh- ton hall in this city on Saturday afternoon , August 27 , at 2 o'clock , to nominate a candIdate - dIdate for congress. It is expected that the populist and silver republican conventions will be held on the same day , but they hare not yet been called. The silver republican committee will meet Thursday afternoon to decide upon a call. The democratic convention - vention will have ninety-one delegates- sixty-nine from Douglas county , twelve from Washington county and ten from Sarpy county. w. A. Poynter , fusion candidate for governor - ernor , and C. J. Smyth , the candIdate for attorney general , will address a meeting of the Jacksonian club Tuesday evening. The meeting s1ll be held In the club rooms , and its object specially at thIs time Is to enable Mr. Poynter to meet and become acquainted with "the boys. " JURY CENSURESTHE COMPANY lteNuit at the Coroner's Inquest Over the IlenmniImM of Little 'tYiliie hlimriey. An inquest over Willie Hurley , who was killed by a Street car on South Tenth street , was held by Coroner Swanson. P. Thompson - son , the motor man who was running the car that killed the boy , testified that the boy was not on the track until the car was within a few feet of him , and that it was absolutely impossible to stop the ear in time to avert the accident. Herman Walker , conductor - ductor on the car , was also a witness in the case , as Was Otficer McGuckin , but neither of them saw the accident. Hannah Christensen - tensen was in front of her borne when the accident occurred , but could not see much because of the darkness. After remalniag out some time , the jury brought in a ver- diet exonerating the motorman of crfrminai negligence , but charging the street car corn- pany with negligence of the public welfare in its faIlure to supply all ears with safety appliances. The jury also reported that South Tenth street is in a dangerous condition - tion between the car tracks FEDERAL BUILDING NOTES , James L. Paul , a Chadroa merchant , has filed a petition in bankruptcy with the clek of the federal court. Charles Pickens received a consignment of Japanese curios through the custom house yesterday. The collection includes all sorts of vases and idols , parasols , swords , bric- a-brac and other Japanese articles. Deputy United States $ tarsbal Allan arrested - rested Iave'olf , \\'hitu Shirt , Wa-she-da- 'Ye and Ansley White for selling and taking liquor to tbe Omaha reservation , They were arraigned before Commissioner Sloan of Fender on Saturday and were all bound over to the federal grand jury In the sum of $500 , which they furnished. WIlliam liartell , who was arrested on a charge of passing counterfm'it r.ieney with Intent to defraud , was given a hearing before - fore Commissioner \'appich yesterday. The testimony developed that liartell passed a counterfeit dollar on a saloon keeper , but there was nothing to show that he knew that the money was bogus , and , as he stoutly attlrmed his ignorance of the nature of the money , he was discharged , 'hnt ( 'a uses i'imim ii. ' C CloggIng of the pores. The little plug in the center of the pimple is called a black. head , grub , or comedone. The only real S preventive is Cuticura Soap , the most em- cleat skin purifyIng and beautifying soap in the world , as well , aa purest and sweetest for toilet , bath , and nursery. It is the only preventive of pimpIe , blackbeads , red , , rough , and oily skin , red , rough hands with I shapeless nails , dry , thin , and falling hair. ; and simpte baby blemishes , because the only L preventive of inilanunation and clogging of the pores. the cause of zmnor aeetlons of the skin. scalp , and hair Sale greater than the combIned sales of all ober skIn and 1 complexIon soaps , TAX IS NOW TEN YEARS OLD tpper Iougins Street l'roperty Oviiers .i'Ia that Its Colleetlon lie vow llnjoined , Several property owners along Douglas street , between Twentieth and Twenty- fourth , have begun an ihjunetion suit In the district court to contest the collection of the special paving and curbing taxes levied by the city in the winter of 1SSS.1SS9 for the improvement of that portion of the street. They are John S. Caulfield , Gladstone - stone Brothers company , A. J. Katz , Emma Meyer , Robert V. ' . Patrick , John flush anti Clarke Capon , anti their petition was filed with the clerk of the district court yesterday - day , the city of Omaha and County Treas. urer George Iletmrod being made the de- fendants. The ordinance creating this Improvement district waa passed August 29 , 18SS , and the ordInances for the paving and the curb- log were respectively passed October 16 and November 2 of that year. The city council was to have sat as a board of equalization on December 13 and 11 , but the cententIon Is made by the plaintiffs that. the council did not sit on the 14th , and that they bad never been notified of the intended improvement and assessments. The ordinances levying the special paving and curbing assessments was paessed January - ary 26 , 1SSO. The paving taxes ranged from $247.92 to $359.48 , and the curbing from $44.95 to $05.18 , the taxes aggregating 32O1S.S6 for the paving and $374.31 for the curbing , that is so far as the plaintiffs are concerned. They therefore ask that the city be perpetually enjoined from attempting to enforce the collectIon of the taxes and that the said special assessments ho annulled. The effect of the suit would be to prevent the sale of the property for taxes. The street was pared with cedar blocks and the paving is pretty nell worn out by this time. IortnIitv Stntis1ic , The following births and deaths were reported - ported to the health commissioner during the twenty-four hours ending at noon yesterday : Births-C. K. Lomnerat , 1420 South Thir- tcenth street , girl ; W. A. Noble , 3511 Burt , boyV. ; . J. Genray , 2416 South EIghteenth , boy ; J. T. Brennan , 1919 South EIghteenth , girl : Frank Nusleln , 913 North Twenty-fifth avenue , girl ; John Larson , Eighteenth and M , boy ; Joseph Craw , 417 Harney , boy ; LeRoy - Roy Hilborn , 2556 Cuming , boy ; Charles Placek , girl. Deaths-'illle Hurley , 906 Oak , 9 years. killed by ears ; Charles Krufae , Twenty- ninth and Walnut , I months ; James Connor , 1311 Pacific , 8 days ; Roy F. Johnson , 1932 Vinton , 1 year , drowned in tub ; Andrew Michie , 4110 North Twenty-eighth avenue , 44 years ; John Newman , 501 South Thirteenth , 4 years ; Cecil J. Cornwell , 2701 Howard , 40 years ; R. S. Burnharn , 1821 North Twentieth. 23 years ; P. Johnson , St. Joseph hospital , 41 years , LABORER IMPALED ON A BAR .ini inn Johmston aieetM a l'robnbty Fatal .teehiicmt in mm Sewer Trench , . .Julian Johnson , a laborer , residing at 318 South Twelfth Street , fell into a sewer trench at Twenty-seventh street and Fowler avenue at noon yesterday and his body was irtipaled on a sharp iron bar that was sticking - ing upright in the bottom of the trench. The iron entered hi body between the thighs anti penetrated to his Intestines. He was removed - moved to the Swedish hospital. Hi wound the attending physician thinks will prove fatal. Johnson is employed by the contractor in charge of the excavation. At the time of the accident he was endeavoring - deavoring to make his way to the bottom of the trench , whrcs. Is nineteen feet deep , by climbing down its sides , using his elbows against the stde of the trench. He struck a soft place In one side and his elbow slipped , allowing him to drop to the hot- torn. AT ARMY HEADQUARTERS. General Sumner , commanding officer of the Department of the MissourI , arrived in Omaha yesterday from Denver and returned to Denver last night. Captain Brewer of the Seventh United States cavalry has arrived in Omaha and wilt assume charge of the recruiting station f the Seventh cavalry , which Lieutenant lJay has been contlucting at tne t'ark note ! . During his stay in Omaha Lieutenant Day recruited eighty-six men , of which number only one was colored and was sent to the Tenth cavalry. Captain Hiram II. Ketchum of the Twenty- second infantry , died at his home at Avon- on-the-Hudson on last Friday. Captain Ketchum was born in Canada February 14 , 1844 , and 1908 would have been his retiring year. He served through the civil war as a private and was appointed to a second lieutenancy - tenancy in the Thirteenth infantry in 1366. He was later transferred to the Twenty- second infantry and in 1867 was made first lieutenant. In 1812 he was promoted to a captaincy in the same regiment. Shlclt lVftImoimC Liceimse , The policemen at the Omaha depots are having considerable trouble with persons ho insist upon their right to solicit room- era and boarders without having the regular - lar hotel runner's license or being under the restrictions that are placed upon such runners. Women who have rooms to rent solicit roomers In the waiting rooms cC the depots and when asked to show their license pre indignant and contend that they are not doing anything that requires a license. The trouble has become so prevalent - lent and many of the offenders are so persistent - sistent that. it is probable that some arrests - rests will have to be made to put a stopto the practicO. Fire nt Donohmime' , A lire of mysterious origin broke out in the frame double cottage at 1510-12 North Twenty-ninth street , and caused damage of $250 to contents and buildings at 4:30 : yesterday morning. The buildings are owned by Charles 13. Donohue. and are occupied by himself and family. As no fires had been lighted during the day in the houses it is Mr. Donahue's belief that the fire was caused by an incendiary. iltieI.ien'S .trnleu Salve , TIlE BEST SALVE in the world for Cuts , Bruises. Sores , Ulcers , Salt liheum , Fever Sores , Totter. Chapped Hands , Chilblains , Corns and all Skin Eruptions , and positively cures Piles , or no pay required. It is guar. anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box , For sale by Kuhn & Co. Armsfull of Shoes- Leave our store' every day-buying crituert SO easy cowadayml , There are the 1,5O wliito cauvaa Oxfords at 25c -most like givIng them away-there are the broken lot4 of misses' anti chIldren's tan shoes at $1.00-tile kind we've been sellIng all summer at * 1.O anti i1V't- just because we haven't all sizes of any 0110 klilll ( the vrlce hits bet.'ii hhlrule 1.tXJ -you Chill Il&itl ii.i the lot omewliere all e'liilclri'n's slzee , 11 ½ to J , uuiti inite size. , S'1. , ; o 11-they're good value til * 1.7 : ) , but don't wiint broken lines So the lrice , 1.OO. Drexel Shoe Co. , Onsalan' . iJv-to-dste boc House , 1l9 FAIlNt.fl STREET. OIA11A IS ± 1 hEALThY CITY Lta.3 Ser1on Sicknc Prevails Than for Se'reral Years Past , YOUNG DOCTORS FIND IT DISCOURAGING Peolile Ihepressingly S'cll with o Sign of an Himlilernie Hither osv or ilcrentter to Give the 1)octor. 's'ortc. The practicing physicians of Omaha say that there never was a time when the general - eral state of health was better than now. The inoderato weather ha. not. brought on the usual ills of summer , and the many changes which the public have been given by the meteorological bureau have been with few dire results. In comparison with past summers this one Is said to be equally as healthful as any for many years past. There have been a few cases of sunstroke , and exhaustion from the heat , and some doctors reported that they had heard of none at nil. Some of the younger doctors think Omaha is entirely too healthy for their business. One said , when asked about health around Omaha : "Healthy ? Well I should say it was ; it's painfully healthy here , I don't wish anyone bad luck , but people are alto. gether too hearty and robust around this region to suit me. " Another young medical school graduate said he guessed people weren't paying out much money to the doe- tore this summer. The grounds at the exposition were con- sitiered good as far as the sanitary conditions - tions went with the single exception of a sewer on Twenty-fourth street , which seemed to have some defect , and the sewerage - ago was not. carried off properly. Otherwise - wise the sanitary conditions of the grounds were in almost perfect condition. Omaha a llenlth City. S. K. Spalding , health commissioner of the city , said : "Reports from all over the city are favorable and show that the city is in fine health. There Is no epidemIc and has been none for many months. A case of scarlet fcver was reported here several days ago but upon Investigation It was found that the case was imported from Denver - ver , and did not come from any bad influences - ences at. Omaha , Last. month there were several cases of diphtheria , but I have not been informed of any lately , and know of none in the city. Typhoid fever is decreasing - ing in the number of its victims , and only a few patients are suffering with this dis- ease. A good many colds. sore throats , and other ailings of a like nature , resulted from the changes from warm to cold weather , but nothing of a serious nature. I have not had a single case of heat exhaustion all summer - mer , and the warm months just past are as healthy as any we have bad for several years. Omaha would be the most healthful place on earth to live In if our board of health could only compel the city to stop its dumping of garbage and waste matter on the bottoms north and east. of the city. " GOOD YEAR FOR CATTLEMEN Price is Satisfactory anti 1Irlng Coil- si.ierable Money to lime Stanch- Cr. ' 1'nvket. . "Nebraska will market more cattle this year than ever before in its history , " said I J. S. Alexander of Valentine , who is In Omaha taking In the expoeltion , "and the price is so satisfactory that the wealth of the cattle raisers of the state will be greatly increased. Since. the first of August there have been some shIpments of cattle from northern Nebraska and South Dakota , but the largest movements of cattle will come a little later. Omaha and Chicago receIve most of the cattle from the northwest , other packing points having little hold on the shipers. Railroads are working hard for the business and sending out stock extras hich make such good time they take precedence - dence of passenger trains and everything I is sidetracked for them. " When the regiment was removed from Fort Nlohrara the people of Valentine and the surrounding country were afraid that the Indians on the Rosebud agency would make trouble , but so far , Mr. Alexander says , they have been very peaceable and the settlers apprehend no trouble. , v. t. Baker , who has the contract for supplying the Standing Rock Indian agency with beef , returned yesterday from his trip and says the ranges are In fine condition. The plentiful rains of the past few weeks have made plenty of grass. Cattle are few and there will be a. light supply , Many of the big ranches , such as the Ogalalla and the Hash Knife , are closing out. The ranges are not being taken up by farmers , but lots of smaller cattle outfits are coming in and thco are able to feed better and turn out more cattle than the larger ranches. PUTTING OUT RAISED BILLS Two Men amid a Wonman Working Very Succeiifnhiy in trnnizim and 'ieimmtt , Nearly a dozen raised $2 $ bills were put into circulation Sunday by two men and a woman , who are supposed to belong to a band of bogus money utterers who have been circulating counterfeit money and raised bill throughout Illinois and Indiana recently. The bills were passed on street car conductors and Bmall tradesmen. Government Agent Donela has several of the bills and he and his men and all the available city detectives are looking for the utterera of the bills. The objects of their search are described as follows : A short , thick-qet , blond man about 35 years old ; a tall , dark skinned man about the same ago , and a young woman stylishly dressed and about 20 years old , The first the police heard of the trio was from a Sixteenth street shoe dealer , who lost a quantity of his goods through them. The raised bill they are uttering shows that an expert hand Is doing the work. Time bill is raised to the $5 denomination by pasting a figure torn from the corner of a $5 bill , over the figure two on the raised bill. So skillfully I. the work done that it is quite unnoticeable. A week ago the trio worked South Omaha and vicinity and it is only within the last , - dltl p 'I " C4 :1 : ' "ft ) - i1-q41 ' : et.t " , "re " 0 . 0t' 1ii\Tflj , , AX , , i , , : S I . f . I'I , / / I 1' , T1 I I - , lc\j I : - - ,2-TV Evcrybody surrenders t B'tt1e Ax. _ There fs no greater hardship than to 1 ck- prived of your 0 5 and any one who has once chewed Battle Ax 0 will give up most any thing to get it. lOc. buys a Larger piece of Batte ! Ax than of any other ) kind of high grade quaIi , , whenyou buy aain. , few days that they have begun operating in Omaha. STRIKE LEADS TO A SHOOTING Noii-Inion Mcii Fire Into a Crowd of Stritring Miner" , lujur- iii9r Several. PANA , Ill. , Aug. IL-The coal miners' lockout here reached a climax today when a serious shooting affray occurred on the highway near the city limits leading to the Sprlngside coal mine. This is the only one of the four large coal mines in Farm that is attempting to do any mining. But seven non-union miners are working here. The seven go heavily armed to and from the shaft , in addition to being under guard of S operators and deputy sheriffs with rifles. The union miners have been trying to Induce these few non-union miners to cease work by congregating on the roads and pleading with thew as they would go to the shafts in buggies driven by operators and deputy sheriffs. Today several hundred union miners were congregated on the principal highway leading to the mine when Ed Jones and James Palmer , non-union men , rode up on horseback into the miners' lines , and without any provocation , it is said , other than the miners asking to talk with them , began firing into the crowd. at the came time retreating as fast as their horses would carry them , but not until they had emptied their revolvers into the miners' ranks. Andrew Toomey had his right hand badly shattered by a ball and Michael Yermacavich was shot in the thigh. One other unIon miner Is alleged to have been seriously wounded. The union miners quickly rallied , and headed by William Baker , who ha.I narrowly escaped , with a shotgun which Ito secured at his home near the scene of the shooting , pursued Palmer , the non-unionist , to his borne , where he had surrounded himself - self in his doorway by his female relatives to prevent Baker from shooting him. Lnter Palmer and Jones were arrested and taken to the city jail , which is surrounded by soy- eral hundred miners and Citizens. Excite- meat is Intense. Muppo.emi 3iurmieresi. in JaIl , PINE BLUFF. Ark. , Aug. 15.-Miss Rachael Morris of Clarendon , Ark , , accused of beIng accessory to the murder of John Orr , is believed to be in jail here. For Some days admission to the jail has been absolutely refused those not otilciaily cnn nected with that institutIon. Reliable ier- sons passing the jail obsered a young white woman seated at the window of a room which is occupied exclusively by women. While the authorities denied that Miss Morris was in the jail , they made no attempt to explain whom the woman was , except to mention that she was held as a murderess. WHEAT YIELD IN NORTHWEST Crop .ot UI , * 0 tIme Great One of iSilS- 1tiimtlIts Hetter titimmi Last Year. MINNEAPOLIS , Aug. 15.-The Journal today - day prints the annual crop estimate of spring wheat for Minnesota antI the two Dakotas , made by its commercial editor , H. V. Jones. Mr. Jones has for several years made a personal - sonal inspection of the situation in all three states and has been fortunate In approximat- log the quantity and quality of the yield very closely. He estImates the yield this year for the three states at 190,000,000 bushels , as against 130,000,000 bushels in 1S97. This is distributed as follows : Minnesota-Yield , 88,000,000 bushels ; acreage - ago , 5,500,000. North Dakota-Yield , 63,800,000 bushels ; acreage , 4,700,000. South Dakota-Yield , 30,000,000 bushels ; acreage , 3,000.000. The average yield per acre shows less increase - crease , however , than the total yield would indicate because of an increase of acreage of about 2,000,000 acres. There will be some surprises. The glow- lng reports to the trade for the two weeks will not be sustaIned with unanirity. There are weak places anti the crop cannot fairly be called a "bumper" yield , though the total yield is well up to 1895's famous record. On the whole , the present crop lacks much in the evenness oryield that characterIzed the crop of 1895. The crop is spotted , although the quality will be considerably better than last year. which was the dIrtiest and moat mixed crop ever harvested in the northwest. Minnesota has raised a more even crop than North or South Dakota , and has suffered - fered comparatively little from hail , while North Dakota lost heavily in the best wheat. area. and South Dakota lost considerably in one or two counties. The crop condition in the three states is favorable for all grains and products. Corn is especially favored. Minnesota corn prospects - pects have probably never been equaled. South Dakota has excellent corn and even in some sections where the wheat yield is light corn Is good. There is some corn- plaint that. oats Is light , due to hasty ripen. Ing in July ; other sections show heavy yields. Rye and barley appear to be above the average. Flax Is making a great In- ord. The acreage has been greatly increased - creased and there has never been as clean a crop grown in the northwest. Potatoes I promise a good yield generally , with almost I entire freedom from bugs. Sentiment in the country is that farmers will not sell wheat freely at lea than 70 Cents 00 the farm , when in a position to bold. 4 S The Hospe Piano-- 'II .A. ness' pIano reekIng lililille uppi'oval -the deisiand bus been iiiiil is iiow' for t' ' ' a 1)1:1115 : ctL1-tihIH "IIosle" piano gives 3'otl the idain ease In oak , walnut , flIts- hogan3' or Cireaslan walinit , In all tue latest veneers-tlie pinflo Is buIlt cx- c'ltislvely of hard vnods from fouiidation plates up , of the finest rnrtterlril , ritfl the latest llflirOVel action-built ex. ) pressly for Mr. I1osie from Ide ovn design-the prIce Is the popular one , as we can afford to sell It for WJ less I thats tile more elalorately car'c'tl orn's. I "Alniozo" coutirues to draw the I crowds , A. HOSPE , Music ar An 1513 Dougl s S Many Wear Iasses- Becittige they neglected the first warnings - ings of the tired eyes-many an eye can be cured completely by prompt ac 45) tion-no sliosiht ' - reason svliy you s'eiir 7 glasses iilwtsya-we hare In tills depart- ' lnnt a CoilhileteIlt graduate optIcIan that " 4IP ssill inuko ti scIentifIc exainhisation I ' the aid of the latest and niost Improved , . . , apparutus in tise w'est-these exilinitia. tions are free-we grind our own luils , . ' anti know to a certainty that they will ' c S be what your eyest heed , Consult us t'lifla In the chy , ) C\cf ' 5) cfocr TheAloe&PenfoldCo 'c9 ° i t.dlna 3c1utIfl Optlclzi& , 1403 Farn .m afreet. Opo3ti : Pi.xtea .LeleL f OMAHA. , . - - - - - - - - -5-- - - - - - - S _ _ _ _