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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
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There fs no greater hardship than to 1 ck-
prived of your
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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.
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-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 ,
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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 , . '
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