m FIELD OF ELECTRICITY Tilephono Ocmpaniei Call Up & Victory fa Washington Courts. CONGRESS CANNOT REDUCE CHARGES Effect of Men in nn.l Trolley Uno loin lirlltlon Limit tHntnncr Tr.ni. mixlrin Development in Oilier Line. The right of congref to regulate tele phone charges In the District of Columbia as Judicially determined In the negative let week. Tbo laat congress pawl a bill making $60 the maximum charge for tele phone service in the District. The telephone company resisted enforcement of the law by appealing to the court. The' District commissioner!) and pa.rons of the company also appealed to the courts. After much wrangling an agreed case was submitted to an equity court and a decision rendered in favor of the company. In nubstance the court holds that the art of congress is unconsti tutional, and that It the complainants have any remedy against tbo action of the com pany in removing 'phones of persona who refused to pay tho company rate of f TO per month, it is ut law instead of in equity. Coiiiix-t itloii Im-renm- Truffle. The competition of fleam and trolley lines for local trafflo materially increases the bURlncss both struggle for. AVheu trolley lines htretched out beyond the old horse car limit and came Into nharp competition with the railroads, it was predicted that the division of the traffic would not pay, and that one of the two would be forced from the field. Kxpcrlcnco proves tho contrary. Im proved facilities, prompt service, low rates and better accommodations have so Increased the trafnc between given points as to yield satisfactory returns to the competitors. An Illustration of this fart is furnished by tbo Hartford Courant. "We take no stock," says tho Courant, "in the notion that trolley lines are Injurious to the steam rendu. They are great builders of trade centers. They relieve the steam road of some, local travel, but they bring enough more to more than make good the loss, and the growth of cities and towns by their agencies means a largo in crease of freight to be carried. A few figures will support tills notion. Lonk at them. Here aro the comparisons between 1810 and 1&9D on steam roads: rassengtrs carried 5.l.iv3.;rt2 f2tM!S I'afsenger receipts tl5.4ji),335 JID.syC.'.'t The actual number of parsengers did de creawo about 3,000,000, but the Income from pautcngers increased about $450,000. And meanwhile tbo tonnage Increased from about 14.500,000 to nearly 16,000.000, or over 1,400,000 tons, and the receipts from freight increased about $2,300,000. Here's a general increase of Hbout $2,750,000. "While the steam business has been In creasing In this fashion, the trolley Interest has become Ittelf great. Last year the pas sengers carried by trolley were fi9.0S4.70;. This la actually a greater number than were carried by steam. The revenue of the trol ley lines was $3,010,000. No one can my exactly how these two interests are related to each other, but the evidence Is pretty strong that they help each other more than they hurt, and that the increased earnings of tho steam roads are duo In part to the development of the trolley lines. Evidently there is at present room enough for both in tbo state." Illectrnlj ln nnil Steel llllll.llnua. Is electrolysis endnngcrlng the foundations of steel and iron-framed buildings-? This is h question that has been causing some dis cussion of late. About a year and n half ngo this OucsftWn wrts brought up In relation to tbo high buildings In Chicago, resulting In an unofficial Investigation being made. This examination is said to have shown that al though stray electric currents were at work at the foundations of some of the structutes, the rate at which electrolytic action was KOlng on was so slow that no drastic meas ures were deemed necessary. In Cleveland this Important qucBt'on has been discussed theoretically by architects, engineers and electricians, but no definite conclusion has boon arrived at. One well known architect discussing the matter recently is reported as saying: "I havo been unable to find in any buildings any effect frc-m electrolysis There are several things which would pre vent this. Tho first Is that In all of the large buildings the Insurance underwriters de mand the most careful kind of Insulating on all electric wires, and a careful exam ination Is made before they aro covered. This prevents tho electric current from get ting Into the structural work. If in some a wire should become bare and form a short circuit, the point of the wire at which it touched the beam would bo t-o much smaller than the beam Itself that there is good rcaron to believe that tho wire would be consumed long before the beam or truss would bo affected to any great ex tent. It might be possible, although I have never heard of a case, for tho pipes in a building where there Ih a large amount of electricity to bo affected by electrolysis, but as far as I can learn there has been no effpet discovered In tbo steel structural buildings." That the hulls nf steel esscls aro not affected by electrolytic action In the samo way that burled water pipes are Is no sign that the foundations of steel buildings would not dcterlcrato through the action of stray currents, owing to the very different conditions existing. In the case of a vessel the area of contact between the hull and the grounding medium or the salt water is to grat as to causp practically no resistance to tho patsago of a current, whereas In high metal structures the grounding modlum Is cement, which, owing to the presence of unpacked lime, i neither a good conductor of an electric current or a perfect insulator. In Chicago electrolytic action was attributed In part to stray trolley currents, which it wnr claimed passed from the clay 60ll to tho ttlcel beams or rails in tho foundation piers, and thenco to the supporting columns of th buildings. In cities such as Chicago and Cleveland, where the overhead trolley U extensively made uso of. stray currents might possibly affect the foundations or steel-framed buildings in the way inen- Convalescents, Sufferers from Indigestion, Insomnia or Kindred Troubles. BLATZ MALT-VIVINE (Non-Intoxicant) taken with meals and at bed time will assist the dieestive functions and thorouchly tonr up the whole system. This liquid malt extract appeals particularly to the nurs ing mother it possesses the properties most essential. TRY BLATZ MALT-VIVINE.- ALL DRUGCISTS. PEEP'O BY VAL BLATZ BBEWIN0 CO.MILWAUIEF Omaba Branch 1412 PougUs St. Tel. 1001. tloned. but in New York City little danger Ij apprehended by properly owners on thU score, as the electrical survey that hava been made from time to time in the Borough of Manhattan have shown that there are I but few sts on the island where strsv 1 trolley currents exist. I I.onn Dlotiincc Trim mill union of I'oHrr It is proposed by a Michigan company to carry u current of 40.000 volts ninety miles, viz.: to Allega. Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and Jackson, the last named being ninety miles from the dam. Some two years ago the Kalamazoo company was formed for tho purpose of converting the power of the Kalamazoo river Into electrical energy and transmitting it to the surrounding towns. A dam has beta built that will give a head of thirty-two feel and the lines to Kala irazoo, twenty miles away, and to Allogan, some five miles from the dam, are In opera tion at n pressure of 25,300 votls, the volt age to be iucreaied to 40,000 on the com-1 plctlon of the lino-to Jackson. The dam has ' all modern Improvements. There arc eight turbines of the Leffel horizontal pattern, aggregating 3,000 horse-power; the generator Is a throc-phase alternating current dynamo of an Improved type; Its voltage co full load ' Is 2.300. with a rated capacity In amperei on each phase of S77. and a horse-power of i 2,500 to 2,700. There arc three mammoth ' transformers, four feet In diameter and nine feet high; the current enters them at a pressure of 2,300 volts, and leaves them at a pressure of 2fi,3W volts, and while the pressuie of this secondary current Is eleven times at great as that of the current en tering the transformers tho quantity of cur tent or number of amperes is only one eleventh as great. Dr. Louis Dell, lit Cas sler's Magazine, gives an able summary of the practice and possibilities of the trans mission of electric power. He points out tha' at the present time 10,000 volts may be considered as the standard working pres sure for most distances, that there arc no difficulties encountered in raising the volt age to 20,000, and there is at present one largo transmission system which is lu prac tical operation Ht 40,000 volts. Deyond this limit, however, tho difficulties of further In creasing the pressure appear to bo insur mountable, as the medium In which tho transmission is conducted, tho air, breaks down about that point and no longer acts as an insulator, so that a large amount of energy leaks oft from the line, and the high pressure- in tullkltntly powerful to puncture almost any Insulating medium of the size that could bo utilized practically for the insulation of the transmitting circuit line. Tho insulation of euch lines in oil tubes either underground or supported overhead offers little hope, as tho difficulty Is not only to find a cheap non-conductor that will hold oil successfully, but the effects of resonance are a serious matter and theory offers no practical method of preventing them. Then, too, the protection cf such lines from light ning is another serious and important prob lem, as the arresters usually employed for that purpose have to be set with con siderable air gar to prevent the working pressure from constantly striking across. As regard the. distance of electrical transmis sion, that is merely one of commercial limi tations to transmissions up to eighty or 100 miles, several large plants being in success ful operation at thoe distances. Experience and commercial limitations have demon strated that the transmission of from 400 to 1,200 horse-power at distances from fifteen to twenty-six miles will pay under usual circumstances. From twenty-five to fifty miles many plants will pay where the cir cumstances are particularly favorable, and In a few exceptional cases, where hydraulic power rights are particularly cheap and fuel at tho point of delivery exceptionally high, will pay in distances up to 100 miles. Tho transmitting lines for such plants are particularly reliable, the wire being very heavy and tho poles necost-arlly strong to carry It. so that weather ha practically no effect whatever upon such a line. The great- os. damage has resulted from smaller wires falling across the high voltagti lines. KlretrlcHv on Modern CminU. The. opening of the Chicago drainage canal lends special interest to the part which electricity is playing in the operation of the great modern canals of modern Eu rope. One of the most interesting of the many ways In which electricity is utilized on the new German canal from Dortmund to the Ems is as a means of propelling the heavy towboats. A trolley has been built along one bank of the waterway, from which a motor engine gets its power. This engine travels along a track, closely fol lowing the windings of the canal and pulls it-, fleet of loaded towboats after It. lc this way tho damage which would bo done to tho earthworks on either hide of the ca nal by the undulating motions -of a steamer is entirely avoided. Experiments have proved that this meanB of transportation is from "0 to 40 per cent cheaper than steam with an annual traffic of 3,500,000 tons. At the same tlmo tho plant which furnUhes power for the towing engines sup plies all necessary lights for tho canal, as well as tho power for operating the lock3. On many of tho canals of rrance a similar scheme is used, though in that country tb traction engine used In towing travels along an ordinary road, no rails being laid. On other French canals power taken from the trolley wire along the banks is utilized by fastening a moveable motor and revolving screw to the stern of each towboat. iKIrctrlolf ' nt the lluffnlo Show. In tbo Tan-American exposition to bo held at Buffalo f?cxt year it is proposed to give the most brilliant electrical display ever attempted. The main buildings will be grouped around a court of fountains, bunken gardens of tropical flowers and an eFplanade. This inclosure of SjO.ooO ?ejuai feet will be lighted by over 100.000 incan descent lamps. At ono end of tbo court an electrical tower will rise 300 feet. From the tower, at the height of seventy feet, a cataract thirty feet wide will fall, the water breaking up as it descends under the play of prismatic lights. Surrounding the tower Is to bo a water basin with nn area of 80,000 square fert, and into thlt, adorned with foi'ntalna and statuary, will now a cascade. The electric illumination will extend to a large park lake surrounded by rising lawns and to tho "grand canal" encircling a large pcrtlon of tho grounds. I'nk. Hill Acnlul Mliit. AI.PANV. N. Y , Feb 15 -Tho bill le pcallns tho so-culled Uorton law, which permits boxing mutches In the state, was (assed In the nmumbly ti-dav. the vote standing 9." yens to 36 nays The bill hns r.ow con- to ihe senate, where it will be . . nt-ldcred by the codes committer .Vno:irl mill .VIINinirlniit, Tour t f tho newspaper In Andrew counv n edited ey preacher' front. t.ninshtone county Is ayuln agitating the tJuti..n if building a new court houi-e. 'hllt'i ottm preachers have caust1 the city ia&s to sunprch the blot machines th' iv Platte 'ltv want strt-ot livhtb. It is modfbt in it demandk and asks for only four A Hopkins girl recently btought h-r diffi dent liner to tlmo by prerntlng him wl h u popsun. The citizens of Clay county will soon de cide by election whether they will incur i.n Indebtedness of $20,000 by building a new Jail. While removing the rocks fi-"m nn aban doned well at Cameron uho other day nine snakes of different variety made their ap pearance Fillmore claims the distinction of produc-l-g the largest hog tn that part of the cour.tr The porker when alive weighed 740 pounds The president of the Woman's Christian Tempcran. union of Bethany it offrring f6 f r evidence to swure the conviction of ai.y person selling liquor. Ore ' f BrooktUild's lawyers has in his pos wrslon an nstract of 160 acres nf land in hurlt n rounty that was owned by Ik -ir l la Tile consideration was & hMllnc On Oi titx-r 14. HS. the land was deeded by Henry Clay and wife to another pem the rurrhaeo money amounting th a time u , $3.oW. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. FEDUUAHY 10, 1900. ; 1 MAJOR MCLFORD'S VALENTINE r. . . n. ...... i . , is 1 DlTorce Dtcrfis nd 11,9(3 at tte Court Houss After Long Dslij. DASHING OFFICER PAYS COSTS AT LAST rom rnr-Aniij Mniilln Major Slul foril Mnko Arriiiiur.iiriitn to trleatc llluinelf from Mnt rlmonlul Dilemma. Late in the afternoon on St, Valentine's day there wag filed in the ofllco of District Clerk Broadwell a decree of divorce sepa rating Anna Belle Pope Mulford from Major Harry U. Mulford. A bystander remarked that the document was a valentine for the major. Although this decreo of divorce was not filed until Wednesday evening. It was granted by Judge Fawcctt of equity court November 20, of last year. The Cling was delayed pending payment of court co.te an obligation which devolved upon Major Mul ford. Meanwhile, ho was In a somewhat un enviable predicament, for within a few hours of the divorce trial In Judge Fawcett'a court Major Mulford married a California woman. It was the opinion of competent lawyers that in doing so ho had taken a plurality of wives, for a divorce decree Is not effectle, so lawyers say, until It has been properly filed In the office of the dis trict clerk, and It would not be accepted for filing until costs were paid. The divorce proceedings were Instituted by Mrs. Mulford. and the major allowed the case to go by default, he being In California at that time. Two days after his marriage to the California woman, whom he met In a romantic manner, he sailed for tho Philio- pints. His bride followed him a few weeks later. Miiii'ki .Neiv Mrs. Mulford. Before the new Mrs. Mulford left for the Philippines she was apprised by newspaper dispatches of the status of her husband's matrimonial affairs in Omaha. This did not however, deter her-from following him to is new field of operation, but In the meantime communication was opened with interested parties at this end of the Hue 7 ho major's second wife was Miss Nellie Markland, said to bo the daughter of a highly rcspectablo San Francltco family. Her mother became Interested In Major Mul ford's affairs. Just what kind of a lecture. If any, the major received from his wife and mothcr-ln-law, is not on record, but something must have been done to incite him to action, for ho exhibited indifference at first. Prominent attorneys are authority for the statement that had Mrs. Mulford, the first wife, been so Inclined, she could havo had tho divorce decree set aside, Immediately after the major's second marriage. Then ho would have found himself in a most em barrassing dilemma. But Mrs. Mulford de clined to take such action. As soon as the divorce was granted by Judge Fawcctt she left for Washington City, her former home, where she Is living with relathcs. It Is said she Is heartbroken. Her allega tions upon which she secured divorce were extremu cruelty and desertion. When Judge Fawcett, the trial court, heard that Major Mulford bad married before the divorce decree had been recorded, bo taid: "If Mrs. Mulford makes application to me to have that decreo set aside I will grant her request in two minutes." MrN. Mulford Ik I'opulnr. Mrs. Mulford is well known in Omaha is a most estimable woman, who shrinks from such notoriety as would have resulted had she caused the decree to be nullified. She has many Influential friends in this city. Just where the money for costs came from and bow Major Mulford was induced to make payment is not clearly established. He may have sent the money from tho Philippines, or friends in this country may havo ad vanced it for him. All that is knor.-n is that a friend of Major Mulford, living in Lincoln, brought the required amount to Omaha and settled the issue. By the termE of divorce Major Mulford must pay to his divorced wife $K.OOO ali mony. It is payable in Installments of $1,000 por j ear. The Mulfords have a son, the cubtody of whom was awarded to the mother. Before Harry Mulford entered army bervlre he was a bank clerk in South Omaha and was so popular that his prospects appeared to be of the brightest. Ho mar ried his first wife in Washington City in Oc tober. 1RSS. For heveral joars they were prominent In Omaha social affairs. COl'NTY ATTOIIMiVS HA I) AVOItIC, -Kl'Cto to ArrnlKii n 1'rUouer nnd Cne i Thrown Out. Tbe first thing Judge Baker did when he opened court yctterduy was to dismiss th easo of tho State againtt George McClure, who stood charged with attempting a crim inal assault. Tho county attorney had neglected to ar raign the priboner for pleading and the op posing counsel took advantage of that tech nl .thsy to set his client free. When the mai.er was called to Judge Baker's attention lengthy argument resulted. Tho deputy county attorney in charge of the cabc wanted to explain. Judge Baker gave him ample opportunity. Page after page was read from a ponderous array of law books and at the adjournment of court Wednesday cvcnlnc tho matter was btill unsettled. The author ities cited r.ecmcd to agree that a prisoner cannot be plnccd In Jeopardy for the aamt crime but once and it was held that when ever a Jury 1b sworn to try a case the de fendant l ia jeopaidy. It was further held that until a defendant makes a plea there is no issue before the court. Judge Baker instructed the Jury to find a verdict for the defendant and MsClure walked away from the court house In great glee. Laura Birch was the complaining wit ness. This l only ono of many instances where defendants have been set free with out trial, becaube of some blunder on tb( part of the county attorney. One of tht roost recent cases is that cf James Crandall charged with burslary. After tbo Jury haa been sworn It developed that the prcsecu lion bad omitted to summon the most im portant witnesses, so thero was no alterna live but to dismiss tho case. To llrciii it lliuiWriiit' AkxelK. Thursday afternoon Robert E. Lee Herd man, trustee of the estate of L. L. Thotna and L- L. Thomas & Co., bankrupts, filf a bill In equity against Huyden Bros.. Med & Olmstead and the Commercial Nations bank, the suit growing out of the failure o L. L. Thomas & Co. The bill recites that the bankrupt com pany was tbe proprietor of tbe shoe depart roent of Hayden Bros', department store an , that ahortly before they filed their petltlot In bankruptcy, and while that act wjs con template. It told, or protended to brll, tij ono Arthur Hazcltcn tho Hock of boots an ! shoes, which was worth $25,000 or JS0.0O for tbe sum of $S.5fti: that the money to tho purchase was furnished by Hayden Dror and that when the stock was paid for the sum of $1,200. owed by tbe bankrupt ecu pany to the Haydens, was retained by tia firm, together with $2,500, which was pal to the Commercial National bank on a dtt owed by Thoma & Co.. but not then due that of tbe proceeds $500 was paid to McCo & Oltnttcad em n prc-cxUtIng debt and u attornejs fees In the bankruptcy proceed lags; that $250 was spent by the member of the firm in a trip to Colorado and tha the remaining $4,000 was paid into the hand of tho trustee after he bad qualified. The trustee now asks the court to declar the sale to Hazelton to bo null and void, a also the bUbseaurcit transfer tn Hov, I further, that the payments to Hayden, t M'Coy Olmstead and to the bank be de dared to be a preference of tlaims as for bidden by law and to issue au order loa the money be rU ln;o the band cf the trustee. The case comes up at the May term. slim; tiii: wiihc-kim; compam. Kmployo Injured Willie Dciiiol lull I ti k II ii I ltl I tin Wnnl l)iimnsc. Three suits, Instituted against the Chi cago Wrecking company In the Douglas county district court, have been transferred, upon the application of the defendant, to the I'nlted States circuit court. The first case is that of Edward Cramton. a former employe of the company, who wants J25.0O0 damages for Injuries received by reason of a timber falling upon him while be was helping to demolish the mining building at the exposition grounds, which resulted In the dislocation of his right arm and the breaking of five ribs. August Neck, a former employe of the company, wants $5,000 damages for Injuries received by falling from a timber upon which he was standing while wrecking the liberal arts building. As the remit of this fall his hand and wrist were so lacerated that ho'has never recovered the use of them. Thomas Barlow, who asks $5,000 damages, has besn unable to uso one of his feet since It was struck by n board thrown from a high place while be was employed In wreck ing the auditorium. Thise three cases will come up at the May term of court. Autt'B of tile Court. The tedious and many-aided Dodd hlldren case Is still holding the attcnt; in of Judae Kstelle. The point at Issue row Is applica tion to havo set aside the habta? corpus Judgment rendered by the late Judge Scott. Some tlmo during this week. It is ex pected that Judge Kstelle will hnnd down his decision tn the mandamus action of tho county commissioners against Arbn Frank ex-clerk of the district court, ine decision will be written. W. S. Babcock, the South Omaha police Judge whote seat Is being or, tested by Pat rick King, and against whom Judge Kev sor has rendered a decision, wants a new trial. Application was filed In the district clerk's office this morning The usual al legations i-f error arc set forth. John XI. Sloan, who claims to be a llneai descendant of .Michael Darnda. who married the IndUn woman, Taeglaha lladinJu cf the Omaha tribe, has instituted suit ugainst the United States government to compel the secretary of the interior to recocnlzo his right to enter land under the ad of i.oir.-''ss setting aside lands to be entered in sever alty by members of the Omaha tribe. AVVO.MI.Mi' ritKllls TOItlf MIM umber of Vnlunlilc Dlsrut eric Are Mnilr of Ancient ltiic-. CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Fob. 10 (Special ) Prehistoric mines of greater extent than aro known to exist ilsewhero in America havo been found near Hartvlllc. Joseph L. Stein, a mine operator, who Is probably bet ter acquainted with this field than any other man, was In Cheyenne today on his way cast and urged the desirability of hav ing an investigation made by the government or some of the larger universities. All the evidence, says Mr. Stein, seems to point to the existence In Wyoming previous to the coming of tbo Indians of a people differing from them in many essential re spects. Thirty miles north of Hartvlllc are ancient mine workings, shafts and tunnels more than one square mile In extent. Noth ing hat. been found to show tho methods by which tho mines were worked. No tradltlots acnong the Indians tell of the people whom they supplanted and the Indians themselves resorted to the mines only for a supply of ochre which they used as paint. This was perhaps the object of tha older miners. Knives, spearheads and axes found there are all of the rude workmanship of the stone age, and although copper and Iron ores were taken out, no implements made from these metals have been found. Of the age of the mines there seems to be no doubt. Paint mills, hammers and neck laces were found by Mr. Stein at depths of from sixteen to twenty feet under a solid formation, the making of which must have required many centuries. Nearer Hartvllle are caves onco used for human habitation. One of the skulls found there has been sent to tbe Smithsonian In stitution, but its classification is not yet known here. Lund Hill In Minth Dnkotn. PIERHE. S. D., Feb. 13. (Special.) The holders of siuill bunches of cattlo on the rango are strosuly opposed to the leasing bill now before congress, which pro vides for lousing government lands west of the ninety-ninth meridian in large tracts for grazing purposes. The small holders take tho position that if such a bill should become a law they would be crowded off the rango by the men or corporations who are financially able to lease any amount of land they want and cut tbe cnan with a ".v bead of cattle out of any range privilege. The holder of large bunches of cattle say it will work Just la tbo opposite direction. That they will lease definite locations of several townships and by fencing hold their cattle in a mailer space than they now occupy by allowing their stock to range without re straint, and tbo small holder can cosily lease a tract large enough to provldo hay and grazing for his cattlo at a less expense per year than he now pays for round-up privileges. New I'mkIim-a lu Wyo m Int. CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Feb. IS. (Special.) Twenty new engines for the Union Pacific are now being conbtructcd at the Taunton locomotive works In the cast. These en gines will be very similar to the recently purchased 1,500 and 1.T0O classes, which are among the largest freight engines in tbe woild. Tbe new engines will be numbered 1,900 and will take the place of the 1,700'6 between Laramie and Rawlins. The 1.700's will then be sent back to tbo Nebraska division. Tmo Conl llnrpren founder. NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-The coal barges Blossom and Alice Tryon foundered oft Port Chester, N. Y.. Tuesday morning with six personr, all .f whom were probably lost. On the Tryon were the captain, his wife and two children. Their names iij-e not known. On the Illuvsom were the cup tain') brother. Charles 11. Lacey, and Aaron Wiener, a deck hand. Kr-. n.-. NoIi-h r.uil Com in cut. It Is estlmuted that every graduate of the Atchison High school costs the people $;no. Tho great excitement over the discovery of zinc has worked nruund to Nemaha co u ntv. The farmer of Dickinson county have contributed three carload? .jf porn and over $Su0 In cash '.o the famine ufferern In India. Charles Price, nn Atchison boy who went to South Africa before the war, has Joined the British army and bus been mude a caDtain. Fifty per cpnt of tho broomcorn raised wen of the Mississippi in istu'wnx raised In three Kunsaj counties lteno, MePhcrson and Rice. Senator Baker, on tho authority of Colonel D. It. Anthony, will not i h can didate, for rr-election if Charley Curtis la renominated for congrebs. It looks a little as though the lioont in favor of Eood rouds had mare than wlndv tnlk In It. Many meetings are Iwlng In Id throughout th- state In the interubt of be.tcr highways. All the borBliu:-i seed purchased by the government for distribution 450 bushels a your, or twenty-live quarts to each con uretaman ootntJ f'om tne furni of a Kan hhs girl, a Mlb 1 of Medicine LodKe. Miss Best is paid $1 n bushel for tho aod. Chancellor Snow of the Stato university has been asked to write an article on Kan bas for the supplenunt to the Encyclopedia UrlUnnlca. The nrtlcle In th encyclopedia was written In ISM, and the chancellors urilclo will bring it up to date. The ar rangement arc under the mnnasrmnt of tho London Times. A. E. McKensle, stnte, grain inspector, says: "1 havo been traveling over the state lately and I observe that the uc-reujv uf wheat is apparently as largo as It was last your, but the prospect at this time Is much better than It was then. The wheat look letter, has a botier start, U btronger and healthier than it was a year uko. There huve been numerous rains latelv and the wheat crop Is 1n tine condition This sno.v is ceneral over the Mate and It will prove to be a very ImiHirtait U'tieflt to the grow. Ing crop. Good luck for a few mcnths means an enormous wheat yield this year ' CULLED IN POLITICAL FIELD Gossip of the Preliminary Operation! of the Campaign. DEMOCRATS TO APPOINT STATE DELEGATES I'eiul IletMceii the JncUkonlnn nntl County tlr crncc Mnj- lie Ile um rd for tiiv Control of the Dflccntlon. The democratic county committee will meet Saturday to take steps for the naming of a delegation to the state convention for the selection of delegates to the national convention. It Is probable the contest be tween the two club factions of local democ racy will be milder than It was during the recent primaries. Both sides claim control of the county committee. The committee will prwbably decide to hold no primaries, but will resort to the decidedly undemo cratic method of appointing delegates to he stato convention under pretense of econ omy. A member of the Jacksonlan club de clares that there will be no coated over the state delegation, as "no one rares who goes to that convention, and no one In Douglas county cares much who goes to the national convention." "The county domocracj-. however, does not appear to bo so apathetic on the subject, for It has declared Its preference for R. L. Metcalfe for delegate-at-large. Although. the course of Editor Metcalfe in the re:ent fight was such as to exasperate the Jacksonlan leaders and to leavo rancorous memories threatening future controversies of the Bort, It Is probablo that even If the Jack sonlans dominate the county committee meeting, Mctcalfo's pretensions will be rec ognized as a peace policy. A conviction Is current among democrats, however, that nothing which the Hcrdman boys and their friends can ever do will square them with Metcalfe, who is said to bo decidedly sore over the publication of tho Molso gift enter prise letter, which ho has charged up against the Hcrdinans. Councilman Stuht Is bound to run as tbo candldato of the populist party for council man from tho First ward, and now presents the following letter as a certificate of his standing- "HEADQUARTERS PEOPLE'S INDE PENDENT PARTY. LINCOLN. Neb.. Feb. C. Hon. Ernest Stuht, Omaha My Dear Sir: Information having como to me recently that you have seen fit to sever your connection with the republican party and to havo allied your Interests with that of the popu list party, as chairman of the state com mittee of said party, permit mo to con gratulate you on tbls magnificent adventure of your life. I have always regarded you as a gentleman of courage in your official actions I have noticed that you have guarded well the interests of tbe taxpayers of the city of Omaha. "Now, believing that you arc seeking tho opportunity to assist in the promotion o: tho cause which you have espoused, 1 am pleased to state to you that at tbe last meeting of tho state committee of the peo ple's party I was empowered and authorized ' to appoint a committee of flvo from each nationality, whose duty it should be to as- I slst in the organization and promotion of the principles of our party within the state. , "I. therefore. In compliance with this resolution, take great pleasure In asking you to accept the appointment as thus out lined and trust that it will meet with your approval and that you will be pleased to engage In the work which lies before you, and that you may thus be able to materially assUt in thn advancement of this work among the German-Americans in Nebraska. 1 am, with great respect, yours, "J. H. ED.MISTEN. ' Chairman of the Committee." Referring to the strained situation be tween tbo populists and the democrats, Mr. Stuht says: "We populists have got th" democrats in a corner. They have got to nominate me and pull Mr. Drexel off If they want to have tho populists Indorse any of their other candidates. The populists have not nominated any democrats except the candidate for mayor so far, and they will not budge until after the democrats accept tbe three populist nominees, of which I am one. That is whero they have the best o: the democrats, you see. I am elmply run ning on my record and that Is as good as any democrat can want. I challenge com parison with tho record of Mr. Drexel as sheriff. He has a suit for $6,000 pending against him now in the district court for fees which he has failed to turn over to the county. If tho democrats prefer such a man to me 1 will show them that I can win without their nomination." HOWLS' UK! KOOII ill'I'PLY, Olllcinl ltejiorts Show How They rilled Their Storchounen. Intimations and statements have not bean wanting to 6how how thoroughly the Boers in South Africa went to work to prepare for the war with Great Britain. Most of these accounts, however, have had refer ence to tbe obtaining of munitions of war. There Is ho doubt. reportB the New York Times, that the burghers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State were Just as thorough in providing supplies of food. . Some Cata on the subject are contained In i a pamphlet Just issued from tbo United State Department of Agriculture. This publication only brings tho matter down to Juno 30, 1S9S. but tho figures contained In it show tbe Boers began their preparations j as far back as 189G. i In the figures given showing the distribu tion of agricultural exports from this cjun try nothing Is reported relating directly to the Transvaal. The exports are credited to Britlth Africa and Portuguese Africa, these containing the seaports through which the stuff for the Transvaal and the Orange Free State pawes. Canned beef is n representative article. The figures. In itounde, shipped to British Africa for flvo years are as follows: 1894. 507,183: 1895. 1.371.7C4; 1896, 3.019,493; 1897, 5.319.302 and 1698, 4,122.467. Tho shipments of the same staple to Portu- ! gucse Africa e.hows even greater disparity I between the earlier and the later shipments, ' thus: 1894. 96; 1895, none; 189G, 457,570: 1897, j 791.230, and 189S, 838,797. ' Then salted, or pi.kled. beef may be con slderii. To Portuguese Africa the ship ments were bmall, but from nothing In 1894 they increased to 20.200 pounds in 1897 and , over 20,000 In IMS. British Africa, however. took from us tho following quantities, in pounds, during the five years lucluslve of 1891-9S. respectively: 202.22C, 17S.105. 113.- . G50, 371.800 and 579.800. j Bacon to British Africa Jumped from noth-! ing in 1891 tn 5..477 pounds in 1897, and hams from 11.810 In 1891 to 135,109 pounds In 189K. Shipment to Portugueso Afil:a of hams Jumped from nothing during the first four years to SS.G&j pounds la 1S9S. Salted cr pickled poll; ser.t to Brltl.h Africa ranged from as low a 4l.5rt ia 1895 up to 11?.. 300 pounds !n 1897. Little of the article went to or by way of Portjguese Atriea. Tho ilgures for lard are much larger, thus: Btltlsh Africa, for flvo years, respectively: 280,021. 291,209, 41C6C3. 1.192.806 and 1.700.- 293. Portuguete Africa: 1.G00. , C1.917, 11C.750 and 189,912. Lard oil Is another Urge itcen for Britlth Africa. It increased from 105,113 gallons m 1891 to 300,744 gall, ns In 1897. These are the significant figures for corn In butbels British Africa (for five years ri-epectlvely) 1,000, 570, 2,331,069, 1,183,897, FATAL ECONOM 1 1 ' 1 Ml i I VERY old maxim declares that it isn't econ omy to pick up pins ; the time is worth more than the pins. Similarly it is not true econ omy to do without Ivory Soap: your health requires the daily removal of the bodily excretions which are discharged through the pores of the skin. These tiny mouths must be kept open, and they should be opened only with a pure soap. IVORY SOAP 99SS. PER CENT. PURE. rMt .... ? tm 233.274. Portuguese Africa. C2. 3, 154.032. 307,55. Ii0.'.i$2. Cornmeal Eent to British Africa Jumped from 25 barrels in 1S!)5 to 77.011 ia 1SHS. No oatmeal was sent to British Africa In 1S94 and 1805. The following years. lSf6, 1807 and 1S9S, show the following fig urea In pounds, respectively: SS.SOO, 403.052 nnd CG7,7flS. Rye sent to the ports of British Africa amounted to only 9,329 bushels In 1SDC. Tho next year the figures v ore 03.2G4. Then follow amarlng figures for wheat. British Africa took only 47.794 bushels in 1S95, but tho following year she took 2.2&C 374, and tbe two succeeding yoars, respec tively, 2,524.094 and 2.S23.S63. For Portu guese Africa there were no shipments In 1MM-5, and only 1,971 in 1S9C. But In 1897 they amounted to 837.CG5. and in 1&9S to 2,358,515 bushels. Wheat flour to British Africa jumped from 9.G74 barrels in 1895 to 195,163 barrels in 189G and 259,305 barrels In 1S9S. British Africa took 220 bushels of "beans and peas in 1895. Tbe next year 19.42S bushels were shipped, and in 1897 3G.173, the quantity the following year being 24, C31. Portugueso Africa, which had taken none tho previous years, took 1.C96 bushels in 1897. There was an Increase also In dried ap ples. To British African ports there were sent In 1S94 479 pounds. In 1E97 tbe quan tity was 30,800, and in 1S9S 27.177. Other Items show miner increases and many kinds of exports remain about sta tionary, the largo increases In every case being of non-pcrlehablo foods. ULWioiiATi: ripi: howl Cnrvlnita llcprrnen t the I.nlmr of ICIuhteru Vr:ir. Rov. Adolph Ebel of St. Michael's Roman Catholic church, who died In Chicago last week, was tbe maker of the famous Colum bus pipe, once exhibited at tho World' fair. From early childhood; reports the Chicago Chronicle, ho displayed a genius for sculp ture, and whllo pursuing hie studies In Rome for the priesthood be availed himself of the many opportunities presented to cul tivate b' love for sculpture. He was sent to America in 1S75, where he camo In con tat with many German priests who had brought over with them a great number of meerschaum pipes, which they gave to him. The love of eculpture still remaining with him he evolved the idea of producing a pipe which should be among pipes what St. Peter's in Rome is among churches. It took him eighteen eais to comple'e his tack, averaging ten hours, or, as he computes it, G.570 days, or 7S.840 hours Tho principal part of the work was done in his cloister cell, but the pipe accompanied him on his travels and the many localities he visited afforded him a great many oppor tunities for elaborating a number of the figures. An Idea may be gained by the Infinite zeal and patience It required to complete the pipe by a description of It. Tbe length of the bowl Including tbe cover Is six Inches, the circumference two Inches and the length of the stem U twenty-one inches. Tbe sur face of the bowl It eighteen square Inches, on which is carved over 300 figures, and there are nearly peventy figures on tho stem. The figures are divided Into dlffermt classes Flowers, lilies, rosebuds, grape Slightly Used Pianos are tin' kind wo art' ovornfocketl on at proM-nt-iilnnos that must go nt once to ninke room for tho nt'tv ntock nlromly duo. Tlioy are all high ftradi) lnntnt niontc, in tho very latont Htyle cases and hIzck. A fow Mioolal prices thnt may interest you: One upright Itof-o-wood pluno. full size, $S.V, tormn. $10 rat-h and !t a month: one upiicht Km erwtii piano, price $05: tonus, $15 oah and $5 u month: ono uprlelit Kmcrxin piano, price jjir,; tonus, Mfi cash and a month; one upright ICrhe piano, largest size, oak cube; price $135; terms, ifiri cash and 7 a month. Some uow pianos at flOO lo-s than factory prices. All on easy terms. A. HOSPE, Music and Art. 1513 Douglas. Drex L, Shooman's Misses Shoes as fitted by us plve comfort to plowing fiit. We hare special salesmen lu that tUpnntucnt selected fur their years ot ijieilenee nnd ndaplaMllty at til Urn; misses' nnd children's foot. If the feet aro properly lit tod while rowliiR there will be no trouble lu nfter yens. Our missed llsht calf and heavy dcniKOla shoes at $1.50 are made so as to aid tlit salesmen in llttins the foot A sooel flulm; sh e will wei.r longer aud give more satlsfactl. n lhau auy two luixalu counter pa!i that arc made Just to sell. Our shoes muke friends that come to us again nnd agalu. Same lu tho ladle' spring heel at if'J.00. Drexel Shoe Co.v Ul VARNAM STkEKT. .nrt. . tki tet ei.ri.t.fi leaves, grapes, violets, palms. Architec ture! Is represented by the following figures , Ionic, Dorlr, Moorish and Roman. lso (windows, lattice work, cupola, n rebus nnd others. In the animal kingdom he has I dragons, hyenas, leopards, alligators, sharks. turtles and scrpentc. Also Mary, Chrloto- pher Columbus. Juan Perez, St. Joseph, Co I lossus of Rhodn. missionaries and Indium. jAnd a grtnt many others, Including stars keys, swtirds, Mutonlc emblem, harps and ! flags. From Its earliest Inception the pipe was his constant companli n and had Journeyed with him from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mex ico. It has had its adventures also. In Oc tober, 1884, the missionary was on a sleeper bound for Louisville from Chicago. About 2 o'clock in tho morning tbo tralu was de tailed. Hln car, the last one on the train did not leave the track and fire consumed the entire train. Notwithstanding this tb precious plpo was raved. On another occa sion, a Sunday in November of ;891. ho wa conducting services in n Ft. Paul (lai church. During the ceremony a chandelier with twelve oil latnr. fell and exploded, in a short time tbe entire church was In nsbes. nnd nt tho risk of his life he saved the pipe. The following year, while on n train on tho way to Chicago from St. Louis, he had a still more remarkable exper.ence. Owing to the sultrlncs of tho June night he re quitted that tho porter leave the window in his berth cpen. His grip, containing the pipe. Fjme money nnd his overcoat, was at the foot of the bed. At midnight he fell Into a drowsy slumber. t- awake shortly and find tho grip had been stolen. A re ward was offered. Ihe hawwhops of both St. Louis nnd Chicago -were searched to no avail. Two weeks later he received a Irtter from tbo superintendent of police stating that his grip together with tho contents bad been found In a cornfield. A number of years ago he becamn very much attached to one of his pupils OMn Vogelsang. The master and pupil became very Intimate, n that ten years ago. long boforo the finishing of tbe pipe, he wilefi tt to his devoted young friend. INVALID CHAIRS. Wo carry in stock a large line of rolling and reclin ing chairs for the use of invalids and cripple, Cn or bend for lltiutrateri Catalog, irt nnd I'rlcrt THt ALOE & PENfOLD CO., Uaformltr Brnce Manufacturers. 1408 Farntun OMAHA. Op. Paxton Hotel. iff