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Scholars and students of all grades may mo it with advantage." I T contains all theie is in the English language, compiled, pronounced and defined by tho most eminent special ists of the present day, in overy depart ment of literature, science and art. Parents Should not underestimate the value to their children of imme diate consultation of a Standard authority whenever any question arises with regard to a word. The early use of reference books by the young leads to habits of thoroughness in study prevents careless writing and cultivates exactness in conversation. You can now procure it, elegantly bound in full sheep, at tho low price of $8. Thirty-three and one-third per cent discount from publishers price. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION. MEGEATH ATI0NERY 1308 Farnam Street, Omaha, A pi jtJ? THE FIELD LLECTRIGHH Eusqnebanna Falls Harnessed for tho Benefit of Near-bj Oitirs. BURYING OVERHEAD WIRES IN CHICAGO Electrlelty I'mjei'lcil nn n ItnlnmnUt-r Vtlll or the Current In Lon don II onp I (ii Im I'roKrcxn In Otlirr I. turn. A .Maryland company which baa harnessrd tho flowing wntrr of tho Susquehanna river for factory power haH hail Its charter privi leges enlarged by tho state bo as to permit greater development of tho water power und transmit It In the form of electricity to Baltimore, Washington nnd other nearby cities and towns. This company Is the owner of valuable, water power covering about (our miles on the Susquehnnna river on both the 'Harford and Cecil county sides, and covering a fall of forty-two fee-:, from which thero will bo developed, when tho contemplated Improvements are made, 10,-OOO-horso power. Tho Susquehanna watershed drains an area of 26,900 square miles lu tho states ot Pennsylvania ami (New York, nnd tho minimum llow during tho low water period of 1893 was at this point about 6,600 cubic feet of water a second. inn united railways or iialllmoro nro much Interested In tho development of this jiroperty, as tho recent advance- In tho prlco of coal, amounting to almost $1 a ton, ha$ enormously Increased tho cwst of producing power for their railroad nnd lighting pur poses by steam. Electrical scloncc In tho last fow years has made such rapid strides that It Is now a practical, every day business question to gencrnto largo amounts ot power tiy means of water and transmit tho energy to tho busy centers of population, where a ready market Is found for all that can bo produced, especially as power can bo de livered In naltlmorc nt ono-half tho present cost of producing It by means of steam. This property Is also within thlrly-flva miles of Wilmington, ho that power can bo transmitted by electricity to that city. It Is proposed to develop tho properly by means ot a. dam across the river nnd the erection nt a power house about flvo hundred feet long, all ot which will bo built ot masonry In thn meet substantial man new, nnd will contain turbine wheels and electrical gen erators. Tho cost of this completed Im provement, Including tho Unto of wln to lialtlmore, will be In tho neighborhood of J2.600.OO0. and capitalists -In New York are willing to furn'.sh all the money necessary for this purpojo. Washington Is sHo about to receive tho benefit of tho power existing nt Groat Kails, on tho Potomac river, and cx-Scnator Oor nun la Interested In the company that ha been organized to develop tho falls at this rolnt. nnd supply the city ot Washington with 30,000-horso power Wire I iiiliTuromid. Thirty miles of overhead telephone, tele graph and electric wm circuits In tho city of Chicago limits will bo taken down aud tho wires placed underground within tho next six months at a cost of $300,000, As from 100 to 180 separate wires arc on tho lines of poles which are to be removed tho total length of wire actually put under ground will exceed 4,600 miles. Under direc tion of tho city electrician twenty miles ot overhead circuits already are being removed. Of thei total cost $10,000 will bo expended by tho city In caring for tho wlrcu of the flro alarm system, Thore are now about R00 miles of polo Unco In tho Chicago city limits, carrying approximately 100,000 miles of separate wire. Too work ot tbo next six months, it Is asserted, will bo onlv the entering wedgo ot a campaign which will reduco this over head mileage by ono-half within a fo.v years, I Tho telegraph and telephono companies assign ono Inspector to every two miles of overhead circuits In the city. This entails, on tho thirty miles to be put underground at once, thi employment of flftCEii men, oach nt a salary of $1 ,000. To this Item of $15,000 annually In salaries, tho matorlnl and other repairing expenses add $10,000 more. J In tho evont of heavy storms during tho winter tho expen&o of repairing wires in tho city rnnnes from ?S,000 to $20,000 for each i storm and consequent damage. j Tho removal of the greatest number of i wires falls on the Wmturn Union Telegraph company, owing to Its many llno3 entering Chicago. The I'obtal company han but ono , line of entrnnco. Tho chango will ncccasl- ; tato tho tetpenditure by tho city of a con edderablo turn for the erection ot new elec tric light supports In place of telegraph and telephono polns now utilized for hnnglng 500 arc lights op.?rated by tho municipal light ing plants. Kli'ctrli'lly iih ti lliilmiiiikcr. Eloctrlclty prints seme particulars of the alleged discovery of Prof. Klmcr Gates of Washington, that c-Uutrlclty Is tndlroctl tho cause cf rain. According to the quoted authority. Prof. (Jatcu' theory Is that "If ono locality or cloud becomes positively charged soma adjacent locality or cloud must ncqulro a ncgatlvu charge, or vlco versa. Midway between these two oppojltely charged clouds or regions of moist air there must bo ono or mor secondary regions where their respective- particles commingle. Tboso of ono being positive and thoso of tho othor being negative they attract, cohero and form rain drops. Ono region, accord ing to tho learned proftsjsr, mny bo a cloud or vapor-charged air mass and tho other may bo either another cloud or tho earth. When disturbances of tho so-called electric equilibrium of tho ntmosphcro occur, differences In demilty. prcciure, temperature and moisture reuult. "The abovn explanation an to tho cause of rain will probably come as a surprise to per sons who have hitherto looked upon It ts simply due to a condensation In tho atmo3-phore- of moist nlr. "In support of htB theory Prof, dates Is paid to have charged a curium ot mo'st air as It entered his laboratory through an open window with ncgatlvo oltvtrlclty and n slmllnr current from another source wlih positive uloctrlclty. At a distanco between the two InletH and wlicro tho two currents mingled a mist was seen to form. When naked by the writer of thi, article already referred to how a completo thunderstorm might bo prodticcfi by such nrtlflce, Prof. dates replied that thin was done by main-1 talnlng a layer of most alt In tho top of a room and by charging this to a potential different from that of the floor below If charged to a sufllclcxitly high patentlal nnd with sufficient qulckncns thrre would retult a sudden flash and dlfchnrge, accompanied by a fall of rain upon the- floor. "If Prof, dates' discovery ever extends beyond the laboratory we may expect to sec In times of drouth Immense static ma chines Invoking rain for farmers! by charg ing the breozei as It blows by either posi tively or nogatlvely. In the same way that bombs aro now occasionally projected Into space In certain weutern districts to please unsophisticated sons of tho soil. And we nro not sure hut what tho one process In an efficacious nH will ba the other." Kleetrlrl t In London II nn i I ( n I n. Tho use of electricity In medicine and surgery has been a favorite study with cer tain "professors" for years, but last weak the Institution of Klectrical Engineers had the benefit of bearing- a paper by Dr II. 1jwls Jones of St. Hartholomow's hospital. In the course of which he gave an account of the conditions In which electricity is founl to cxerelso curative effects, and of tho ap paratun used. Dr. Jones said It was now 150 years since tho beg'nnlng of medical electricity, nnd during all ,thnt time It had to light Its way In the face of many obsta cles, tho most serious of which had been tho passive resistance of medical men them- , solves. The vitality It hnd shown under j adverso circumstances was very significant, j During the last decade progress had b'en very great, and the commercial application of electricity nnd Its housc-to-houo dis tribution had called Into existence many new Instruments and modes of treatment, while the study of medical electricity was j being helped by tho simplification of the means for obtaining tho current. The dls- covery of the X-rnyw nnd their application i to medicine nnd surgery had dono good by bringing electrical apparatus Into inoro ox tended use. Most of tho London hospitals bad electrical departments. At St. Har tholomow's about COO raseJ woro referred annually to tho electrical department from all quarters of the hospital, excluslvo of tho cases for tho X-ray photography, tho numbers ot which wero oven greater. There was no branch of medical practk'o upon which tho light of criticism beat more fiercely than upon medical electricity. From conversations with engineering friends the lecturer was disposed to thlpk that tho num ber nud extent of tho applications of elec tricity to medical practice wero not gen erally realized by electrical engineers; In deed, any reference he hail observed at all to medical electricity In the proceedings of the institution and kindred societies had usually been one ot disavowal and dislike. He theretoro felt that In making the present communication ho wns undertaking the lnslt ot trying to show that electrical applications had a large and legitimate field of useful ness In medical practice, that It was qulto possible to practice medical electricity with out thereby becoming an cutccst nnd that the advertisements ot clectropathlc or mag netic appliances did not represent the posi tion of medical electricity. Xiiierlemi l'.ntfrirlc Aliroml. United States Consul Itldgely, at (Jcnova, Switzerland, In his last report tells how an enterprising American Is stirring things up In thnt old city: "Some two nml a half years ago Henry 13. Ilutlcr of San Krnnclsco, Cal., was In Geneva. He found n congested population, badly served by old fasbloned steam tram ways nnd horse ears, ami tho Idea of secur ing control of tho frnnchlso of tho principal companies and organizing a new company for tho operation of a street railway sys tem on the American plan occurred to him. "Butters and bis associates bought the Narrow Gaugo Street Railway company of Geneva, which operates somo forty-four mlleo In the city and suburbs. They nlso secured tho franchises and 'property of two other tramway companies, which owned sixteen miles In tho heart of tho city and Its environs. Tho price paid was $1,254, 500. They also secured tho right to con struct nnd operato a line on the famous lakcsldo drlvo from Gonova to Vcrsolx, a distanco of some five miles. "Tho engineer under whoso minarscment the new lines are being constructed Is Ste phen D. Flolrt of Now York and lloston. Nino nillcfl of track has already been laid. One, nt least, of tho new lines will bo In operation by Juno 1. Tho Amorlean over head trolley system Is being used for the first tlmo In Europe." lMci'Irlciil Note. The sixteen electric floats built In New Orleans at a cost of $12,000 have been sold to Dnnver for an exhibition thero ami fiom Denver they will bo ent to Wichita, Kan., for tho next M.root fair to bo held earlj In October. They woro modeled after the Omaha flonU. One. of them, named "Tho Kr.i of Electricity," Is said to be so dazzling that ono cannot stand within fifty feet of It and look nt It without Injury to tho ce This float alone coat $7,000, Theso floats arc built on car truck provided with motorn, which nro operated tha tamo ns thoso on trolley cars by current takon from an overhead conductor. It has bojn found that alternating cur rents of high frequency and low potential may bo used to sterilize liquids. The ob jection to olcrtrlclty for this purpose has nlways been that n.currcnt powerful onojgh to do any gocd would decompose tbo liquid, thus rendered usclcus. An apparatus liaa been devised for tho treatment of wino which conslstH ot a small tube, through which the wine passc3. lnsido tho tubo thero In a series of metal disks, which aro Insulated nnd connected with tho currant. Tho speed with which the liquid passes through tho tubo can be regulated easily and tho current kills the microbes and tends to preservo the wino. A resident of Perry, Okl., who Is an editor and an electrician nnd who during , the past year has couducted a series of experiments In wiralesH telegraphy, claims to havo transmitted messages over 1,000 ' miles. Ho asserts that when his system Is perfected messages can bo sent 25,000 miles as readily as 100 miles. However, ho has given the public no Idea of his methods and until ho does tho scientific world will bo , Inclined to look In a rather skeptical way on his claims. I Kloctrlc llatlrons aro used exclusively In many large laundries; their advantages aro i apparent. Tho halt can always bo con- ' trolled so ns to keep tho Iron at thci right tompcrature. thus qbvlatlng tho danger of spoiling a finished drees by smut from an Iron hented by gas. i OYSTERS AND THE TRUST Enull Po.'Bibility that ihi Combine Will ImproTO the Quality. USUAL BENEVOLENT IDEAS GIVEN OUT llorxc Triiillniv Htilcx. Memphis Scimitar; David Harum was a gnoil horse trader, but a recent transaction In horseflesh, which was made by a well known Mumphlan, shows that thero aro othcts who know how to get tho long end ot a horse trade. Several wcoks ago this Memphis man saw a flno buggy horse which ho thought he wanted. He located tho owner and asked i tho price. "One fifty," was the reply. After looking the animal over clcscly aud trying j her speed, he concluded It was a good trade, nnd without more ado wrote a check for the amount. The next day ho found that the ' mare was as blind ns a bat, but this did not hinder her speed nor detract from her gen eral appearance. Ho drove tho animal for several weeks and succeeded In attracting tho admiration of another lover at horso flush, who made a proposal to purchaue. "Woll." said the Mcniphlan, "I gavo one fifty for her, but I will let you have her for ono slxty-flvo." Tho prospective owner looked tho animal over and concluded he had a bargain. Ho paid over tho money anil tcok tho mare. When tho animal was unhitched tho first thing she did was to run against a post nnd then, by way of emphasizing tho fact that sho was blind, fell over a barrel. Tho next day tbo buyer camo back to tho Momphlan with blood In his eye. "Colonel, you know that mare you sold me," ho began. "Well, sho's stono blind." "I know It," replied the colonel, with an easy nlr. "You didn't say anything to me nbout It." said tho purchaser, his face reddening with anger. "Well, I'll tell you," replied tho colonel. "That fellow who sold her to mo didn't tell mo about It, and I Just concluded that be didn't want It known." Tho now owner took his medicine and Is now on tho lookout for a friend on whom ho can even things. W. W. Mayhew. Merton, Wis., says: "1 consider Ono Minute Couch Cure a roost fccn4?rful medicine, quick and safe." it Is tho only harmless remedy that gives Immedi ate results. It cures coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, grippe, whooping cough, pneu ' monta and all throat and lung diseases. Its rsrlv iMin nrpvent.i ronsumntlnn. PhlliSran j always llko It and motbern endorse It, Home SeorH of the Trnile HIviiIrfiI ! Drntcru Uunllty nf the Rnoiln Sold I niler I'op ulnr Nnmrs. Ono of tho promoters of the proposed ojster truat, In Bpeaklng to a New York Tribune reporter a few dajs ago, said that thn object ot tho combination was not only to roduce the expenses ot production, but to Improva tho quality of tho product; that tbo formation of a trust, while It would havo no effect on tho retail prlco of oysters, would control tho output to such an extent as to withhold from tho market all but tho better grades. "Tho forces which operate In making oys ters good or otherwise," said Eugene Hlaclt ford, "cannot bo controlled by any man or combination of men or means, and that part of tho combination prospectus which hints at Improvement In quality is ridiculous. Oysters chnngo In quality, nnd that Is a fact known to all oyster dealers and to all stu dfnts of tho subject. Tho blue point oyster, for Instance, was known for years as the best In flavor. It brought a good price and no ar gument was strong enough to convlnco some people that thero woro other good vnrlotles. Then It foil off In quality, became poor nnd tastelrss and this took place when the samo conditions prevailed as when It wns acknowl edged to be the most deuirablo nrtlclo of Its class. This matter of deterioration has been tho eubject of much research for years and somo years ago I made experiments nt Cold Spring Harbor with Prof. Hashford Dean of Columbia by which wo hoped to dctermlno tho causes ot oyster deterioration. Close examinations of tho oystor wero made by Prof, Dean at various times during tho sen son. Tbo food on which tbo blvalvo sub sisted, tho quality and quantity taken, were all closely watched and this Investigation waB carried on over two years, but, unfortu nntoly, these were good years, and- no re sults were obtained ns to causes for degen eration or deterioration. Put our exami nations established tho theory that varia tion In quality Is duo to tho supply of dia toms upon which tho oystor feeds. "After his first two weeks of llfo the oypter becomes a fixture and must take tho food which Is brought to blm on tbo tides. Great drouths will mako him . thin and small, abundant rains will improve his condition nnd there are many similar uncontrollable agencies which have n direct bearing nn the oyster's condition. No man can tell with any degree of certainty what tho quality will be from ono season to another; the product of a bed may bo plump, fat and of good flavor In September and by December It may have run down to such nn extent that It could not be recognized as tho same stock. (louil nml It ml !ear, "I bad a remarkable experience a few years ago in oyster culture which will Illustrate my point. I visited a place In Connecticut where there was a mill pond opening on Long Island sound. I ate some oysters which had been taken from the pond and thought them the finest I had ever eaten. They wero fat, plump, slightly golden In color and had a delicious flavor. I bought a large quantity and sent them to friends, who were ns loud in their pralaco of the oysters as I bad been. I went back to tho placo, took a lessee of all the oyster territory that I could obtain and employed a practical oystcrman to take charge, plant und look after the property. The conditions werof of tho most fnvorablc kind; tho waters ot tbo sound ebbed and flowed through the pond where I planted tho superior oysters and I ran tho place for five years, but was never nblo to get as good an oyster out of It as In the first year. Some natural causes wero at the bottom of this deterioration nnd they nro beyond tho ken of mnn. This happens nt all beds. There aro good yearu and bad years, and how can a trust control such mnttcrs?" This chango In tho quality of oysters Is the cnuso of tho rotation In popularity of the various varieties. Middle-aged men tell of tho tkuo when tho big Saddlo Hocks, which camo from ,Iong Island sound, commanded tho highest prices, nnd wero considered tho best. They hecamo poor and unpopular, and the beds havo been exhausted. Other va rieties have hnd tho same fnte, nnd for that reason tho people who know how the quality fluctuates do not order any particular va riety, but lenvo that to tho dealer, who usually knows from which bods tbo good stock Is received. "Wo nro compelled to carry many va rieties of oysters on our bills of fare," said tho proprietor of n popular restaurcnt, "be- causo there are so mnny peoplo who nre cranks on tho subject. A man will, some day when ho Is In good form nnd properly primed for tho occasion, find a certain variety of oyster Just right, and after that tlmo ho will nlways order that particular kind, nnd If It should grow poor ho will blnmo mo and not tho oyster. When the oyster gets too poor we stop taking it, but lenvo tho narao on tho bill of faro and servo somo other good vnrlety, nnd by the pious fraud wo satisfy the customer nnd keep his trade. Of course, most varieties have somo distinguishing characteristics which nro known to tho oyster experts, but that class is remarkably small," In proof of this atscrtlon It was said that tho llttlo Cherry Stono oyster from Virginia beenmo so popular nt ono tlmo that all sorts of small oysters wero sold under that name, nnd as long as tho size was satisfactory tho rest scorned of ilttlo consequence to tho buyer or the consumer. The samo Is true of tho Llttlo Neck clam. "There Is not an oyster or chop house In tho country that does not havo Llttlo N9k clams on Its bill of fare in the season, but tho real artlclo would not no sufficient to supply 5 per cent of tbo demand of Now York. om: ok ikioi.uvs chomks. Story or n I'okt-r (innic In Wliieli He "Wiin i'nk -ii In, Speaking of tho Chicago saloon keeper, McGnrry, who Is suppesed to bo the proto type of Mr. Doolcy of "A-r-lchcy road," a former resident of the Windy City tells a good story In the Now Orleans Times. "Mc Garry was not only a most picturesque character himself," he says, "but he had several old cronies who were almost equally quaint and racy. Ono of them was Colonel Cleary, a sbrowd old Irishman, who had mado a fortuno as a contractor, nnd waa Incllred to bo something of a sport. Ono evening tho colonel was beguiled Into a poker game in which a very smooth card sharp named Jim Forbes wns sitting. Korbco passed himself ort ns a livery stable keeper from Cottnge Grovo avenue, and claimed to know nothing ubout tho game, but when ho bogan to win ovcrythlng In sight tho old man's suspicions becamo aroused. " 'What did ' say ycr name wan, sor?' he asked, peering over tho top nf his glasses. " 'Forbes,' replied tho gambler; 'I havo a livery stablo uptown. " 'Um-m-m,' grunted the colonel, 'an' ye don't play poker much, Mr. Forbes?" ' 'No, very seldom,' mid tho other good nnturcdly. 'In fact, 1 hardly know tho cards.' " 'U-m-m-m.' "Tho colonel said no more, but got up several hundred dollars loser. A few datt afterward ho was drinking a bottlo of wino with Mlko McDonald, tbo famous old-time sport and politician, when ho happened to notice the sol-dlsant livery man sitting In one corner of tho barroom reading a paper. " 'P.y tbo way, Molke,' ho said to Mc Donald, 'there's a poker gamo on the wist lido that's made up of a lot of rich dudes that ought to lose n hit of money Jist for to tacho 'cm a lesson. D'y know of any shmart young feller now that's a proflsslonal chnte an' a good talker that I could give tha tip to ring himself Into the gamo an' Bkln tho wholi crowd?' "McDonald glanced around the room. 'Why, yes,' ho paid, 'there's your very mnn. Oh, Jlmmle,' ho called, 'come here a minute! Mr. Forbes, shake hands with Colonel Cleary.' "Tho old man Jammed his fists deep Into his pockots and turned on his heel. 'I huh plcted ns mooch,' he said dryly, as ho walked out of the place." Aftrr l.nKrliMio AV'hnt f Usually a racking cough nnd n general feeling of weakness. Foley's Honey and Tar Is guaranteed to cure the "grippe cough" and mako you strong and well. For sils by Myers-Dillon Drug Co., Omaha; Dillon's Drug Store, South Omaha. AVIiiiCh WmiiK wlfli KiuiKimf An easterner traveling through Kansao re cently heard a great many tall corn stories nnd thought ho would tell some of them In u letter home. This was how he did It: "Mcst of the streets nro paved, the grains of corn being used for cobblestones, whllo tho cobs aro hollowed out nnd used for newer pipe. Tho husk when tnke off whole nml stood on end mnkea a nice tent for the children to play In. It sounds queer to hear tho feed men tell tho driver to take a dozen grains of horse feed over to Jackson's livery stable. If It wero not for soft, deep soil hero I don't sec how they over would harvest tho corn, n tho stalks would grow up In thn air ns high as a Mothodlst church steeple. However, when tho oars get too heavy their weight presses the stalk down in tbo ground on nn nvorago of ninety-two feet; this brings tho car near enough to the ground to bo chopped off with nn axe," (irrnt Men I'nll Out, Chicago Tribune; Now It chanced that Pro Ilono Publico, whllo taking a stroll, fell In with Vox Popull. "It nlways makes me tired," ho said, "tu see your name In print. You are such nn infernal humbug! You never ipeak for anybody but yourself, and you know It!" "You mlscrablo fraud!" hotly responded Vox Popull. "You never advocated a public measure In your life that was for anybody's good but your own and every man of senso knows It!" At this Juncture they wero nbout to clinch, when Veritas happened along, and thoy both fell upon him and gave- him a severe thrash ing for being tho Illggest Liar on Earth. All llllH)-. "Whpro Is your mother, Johnny?" "Playing golf." "And your aunt?" "Hho Is out on her bike." "And your sister?" "Sho Is gone to the eymtiaslum." "Then I'll see your father, plc.mo." "Ho can't rome dqwn now. Ho Is up stnlrs giving tho baby a bath." tw tbo a The Kind You Hava Always Bcatf, Blgnatcre Of OASTOHIA. Atari j$ .ie Kind Yoa Have Always BcujiW OAS?OZIXA: Bean tis L h' Y'J "S,e WW3,S