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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1886)
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ISvl , I'J.ilH copies ; for Aniriist , IHN ) , 18-jr.i cnnle4forSeituiiiticr ; ) , ItfcO , W.W ropius ; for Uclmiur , ISsfl , IS.OW conies ; for November , tss , tinsconies. ; ; OKO. U. T/snnioK. Sworn to ami subscribed lielorc mo this Cth day ot November. A . D. 1HST. , ISKAJ..J N. P. ifiir. : . Notary Public. S.vow plows are once more the most popular agricultural implements. A SPASMODIC crurglc now and then from Lincoln is thu only signs Indicating that Nebraska's bogus railroad commission is fctill alive. It should be quietly put out of its misery by the coming legislature. NIAHI.V : every county in Nebraska found the promise of a new railroad in its Christmas stocKing. It is to be a great year for railroad building in Ne braska , and Omaha will not be neglected in the slmllle. ir the street car company would spend a few dollars in several snow plows such 1 as are used in largo cities cast they would find less trouble in keeping their tracks open. Wooden scrapers are poor sub stitutes for an oflieicnt machine for clear ing the rails. A r\n : assessment and a low tax levy should be the end aimed at m the new charter. An uncqunlizcd assessment moans a high levy , and a high levy is injurious because il assists in obstructing the investment of foreign capital in our midsl. IK Manager Ilughitt only know it , one of the most direct lines from Omaha up the Klkhorn Valley would be a short out to Fremont by the old Doy survey. Such a road would cut out altogether the Sioux- City & Pacific from JJIair to Fremont and make Omaha the virtual terminus of the Klkhorn Valley lino. IT i.s doubtful whether the report that a largo New York life insurance com pany is investing heavily in Omaha and Kansas City real estate is exactly correct. A Now York syndicate has made largo purchases in both cities , but under the home slate law , as wo understand it , New York insurance companies are pro hibited from extended western invest ments. This is unfortunate for .stock holders and policy holders , as western interest rates are moro remunerative. is the latest sport to naturalize Itself in Omaha. It is one of the few Canadian ideas which have taken root and nourished in this country. Can- tula gave us the toboggan slide nnd blanket striped suits , and wo have recip rocated by presenting them with a largo and varied assortment of bank cashiers anil presidents who have slid over the border to escape striped suits at home. it The exchange is all In our favor. be A oo.N.STAiiin.AKY may make arrests , his but the tory government finds that the conviction of political oH'cndors before an of .Irish judge or jury is quito a diflcrcnt matter. Messrs. Dillon , Slicohy , Harris the and O'Drien ' were arraigned on Friday before Magistrate Nolan ami weni of promptly discharged , the four nationalist leaders formally justifying their charges of assault and buttery against the in- of Hpcctor who arrested them. Mr. Nolan to is n nationalist member of parliament , see mid naturally had a kindly feeling not toward the accused. Till' Now York llror// / ( / notes that In the new edition of the congressional di no rectory. Senator Van Wyck's name is ppi'llud "Van Wick" and quotes the remark - mark of a brother senator that Van Wyok is evidently preparing to be snuffed out. sion The New York leader of democratic newspaper opinion tolls its readers "that it should prove an extinguisher to his party In Nebraska If ho is.1 Wo don't will Jcucw about that , but it will certainly the provn an extinguisher to a number of rn- was publican politicians if they succeed incn- ing comparing the sonator's defeat in the faeo ot their pledges and promises. That juuch i Nil re. the deal JJIN : I'Kiii.i.i Pooitr. writes to ami of our local contemporaries that ( iuuoral Miles' was lioadquarters have been established in to San Antonio. Mr. Pooro should road Mr. the Washington papers moro carefully. sibly JUis Angeles is thu point designated as and headquarters of the department of An- than r.ona. Sun Antonio has boon for years the headquarters of the department of Texas. Possibly lion was thinking of tax thn little maiden ! which occurred a few the mouths when Geronimo's ago headquar ters were established at Han Antonio by cirder of the secretary of war while that famed "unconditional surrender" to Miles was under iuvo&'ligation by the wiv dopartoK'nt. Death or Gcnornl Isognn. Another eminent loader in the councils of the republic has passed away. The announcement of the death of General John A. Logan is a surprise as s > rul as it is startling. In the prime of life n brilliant career is suddenly closed , on the very threshold of still greater ctriinoncy. Among the galaxy of great soldiers nnd statesmen whoso death the country has mourned during the past decade few have been nearer and dearer to Iho hearts of their countrymen , and especially lethe the Union veterans , limn John A. Logan. No man In or out of congress was moro entitled to Iho gratitude of the maimed Few men who have served their coun try lor thirty years in petitions of great responsibility nnd trust have made a cleaner record. As n soldier , John A. Logan won his first laurels during the Mexican war , where he fought gallantly in the volunteer ranks. As a commander in the war of the rebellion , ho ranked among the ablest of our generals. In the national legisla ture , as on Iho tented Hold , John A. Logan was always at tlio front lighting for what ho believed for the best interests of the nation which ho had helped to save and re-unlle. Without that culluro winch wealth and collegiate education afford , General Logan was pre-eminently one of the self-made men of onr times. In all llio glory and cminnr.ee which fell lo his lethe ho never lost his head. Ho was always willnn the reach of the most humble of Ins constituents. A positive man , with intense likes and dislikes , General Logan was naturally a warm friend or a bitter enemy. Starting out in his early life as a democrat ho was converted to republican principles anil free-soil ideas when lie found the great mass of his old political associates arrayed against the union and the American Hag. The war made him not only a republican but a stalwart among stalwarts. Gmicral Grant was his ideal of republican leadership , and ho fought for Grant in 1880 with more zeal than he did for himself in 1SS1. As a candidate for the second highest office within the gift of the nation Gen- eral Logan bore himself with n dignity which commanded the respect of men of all parties. Ho took his defeat with that sublime resignation which marks the man of heroic type. A brave , manly man , General Logan was a kind and dcvolcd husband nnd father , whose conduct in private life has been exemplary. In his death the re publican party loses a gallant leader , and Ihe counlry loses1 a patriot , whose ' memory will long be cherished. Will Tliuy Ilroalc I'lu-lr I The opposition to Senator Van Wyck's re-cluction is beginning lo show its hand. Eastern journals are almost daily publish- ing Nebraska dispatches which predict the senator's retirement and tlio sclcc- a lion of other candidates lo hide them selves In the scat which he is ( illing.so well in the intercsls of the people of this state. Ever since the election there has been n systematic attempt to manufacture pub lic sentiment in opposition to Iho gcnoral L and to debauch members of Iho legisla ture elected on solemn pledges of fidelity to his candidacy. 'Jhc traveling mission- nrics of the railroads have visited every county in the state and interviewed every senator and representative who it was believed could be inllucnced. The men chosen to voice Hie will of the people ple have been assailed by alternnto argu up ments that Senator Van Wyck was lee friendly with the democrats lo bo a republican - . publican and too .staunch a republican lo look for support from t'.io democrats. Parses and promises have been distribuled with lavish hand by the railroad attor _ neys , while the irresponsible newspaper correspondents have been induced to misrepresent the situation lo eastern ho ( papers in order that eastern com ment might in turn be used to the senator's ' disadvantage at home. The game is one of bluff , hhntcrjuud bravado. It remains to be been whether a will win. If the sentiment of llio people of No "ll braska as voiced at the late election is lo ' respected , General Van Wyok will be own successor. If the pledges of men elected to represent the sentiments com their constituents count for anything , invc Charles II. Van Wyok will bo returned to for national .senate for another term. pricTl The solo isMio now is whether Iho people Neb this state uro to bo sold out by the men per whom they have honored with oflico and pan with their confidence. Will the members a the legislature ) abide by their pledges their constituents ? If they do , and wo jcet no reason to assume that they will are , the friends of General Vim Wyek "boi have nothing to fear. The attempt to "boiA create u stampede among the general's try supporters is u shrewd game to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. It has gtiii ens othur the llnmliill to JSrlni ; Iu a Ilill. Mor It was not to bo supposed that Iho ses has of congress would close without Mr. a Kandall being heard from In connection der' with a revenue measure , Nothing very earrTl definite lifts yet transpired as to what he said propo-o , but it is understood thai at wor meeting of his faction hist week it pou decided lo bring in a bill for reduc Fnu the revenue without interfering with and thotanlf. It is said that Mr. Randall was dolciratod to draft a bill , to bo ready by expiration of the recess , which will on only with the reduction > f internal of taxes. The question of revising duties the abandoned , ono ground of objection attempting such revision being that . Morrison and his friends might pos nnd in take advantage of the opportunity go further with the tariff reduction Mr. Randall would desire. It is ox- peeled that the new bill will propose a A considerable reduction of the tobacco to , and will iu nil probability abolish toil.Just tax on fruit brandies , The latter would bo especially acceptable to Ihe rep last resentatives of Virginia , North Carolina , Tennessee and Kentucky , where fruit Hilly brandies are most largely made , and Mr. not Rnndull counts upon the alliance of these , ! The Randall contingent are said to liguro on n liberal Biipport for their proposed policy , and pro fess to believe that they can rally a Pitfllcicut number of democrats to n measure simply reducing or culling down Internal taxes to paf-s it. What at titude Mr. Morrison nnd the tariff reform democrats would take is uncertain , but it cannot be reasonably supposed that they would practlcnlly surrender Iheir position by supporting such a bill ns it is expected Mr. Kandall will prc.sonl. The bill would go to the commillco on ways and menus , nnd it would be In the power of Mr , Morrison as its chairman to with hold the bill from the house. U is not very likely that ho would do this , but in order lo make nssurauco doubly suroil a understood that when Mr. Randall offers Iho bill ho will at the same time iirosnnl ii rcsoltilion asking that the committee be instructed to report the bill to the house within n certain time. Where Wo Are Weak. Cnpluin F. V. Greene , of the United Stales engineers , in nn arlicle in Scrlb- nor's Magazine on Iho snbjccl of onr de fenseless const cilles , says that Iho very elements of wealth nnd population which have made an invasion of the United Stales impossible have brought an in crease of dancer in another direction. They have built up great cities on the shores of llio Atlantic and Pacific oceans and llio northern lakes containing an ag gregate population of more lhan 5,000,000 Eouls , . , destructible properly with a valu ation j 1 of four thousand million dollars , ami producing annually manufactured goods alone valued at ono thousand mil lion dollars. Here is where wo are weak. Every one of this largo population and every dollar of this vast property is in , danger . , . of destruction by a hostile flout. The shells of an enemy's vessels could in a few , weeks , or cvon days , after n declar ation of war , reach every portion of it , so uUorly defenseless are onr harbors against tlio ships and guns thai have been developed during Ihe last twenlj * years , during which limo we have done nothing. Thus , dismissing the idea of invasion and conquest , as wholly visionary , the problem of national defense has simplified itself to merely protecting lifo and property against a possible enemy in our seaboard and la kcboard cities. In other words , it is . a problem of national insurance on life and properly lo provide for just Ihoso cases of danger , which arc specially cxcepltid from all ordinary policies. Ap plying an annual premium of ono per cent on the destructible property valued 'lt ' $1,000,000,000 would give $ -10,000,000 for defense , but Captain Greene says that half this amount expended annually for six years would give us a complete system of insurance i that is , harbor defenses stronger than any ships which could bo brought against them. With the application lion to this purpose of even $10,000,000 a year for six years ho says that fully Ihrco-fourllis of the lives and property on our coasts could bo placed out of danger. The country can alford this expenditure and a wise prudence urges that it ought to be ' mndo. STATE AXD TUKIHTOUV. Nebraska Jottings. Columbus has organized a board of trail . trailA A wildcat colony has settled near Wisnor. ; James Davis , of Geneva , lost a linger in cornsholler. Salem offers a water power to any one who will erect u flour mill. whoL Largo : quantities of corn are yet mi- gathered in Dakota county. Eastern capitalists are looking around Hhii for a site for a linseed oil mill , Central City will improve her water works to the extent of $7,000 next spring. Frank Miller was killed in a well near Curtis recently. A bucket of earth fell and James Hyrnes , a Hoono county farmer , was caressed by a mule last week and es caped with a broken arm and leg. The story of the young town of Clearwater - wall , Antelope comity , for 1S8U , foots $15,275 invested in improvements. Grand Island stands a good .show of .securing a glucose , sugar and starch fac- tory to cost $100,000 and employ 150 hands , hamAl Albion has a gang of young but expert hoodlums , who congregate around the postollico and invite a vigorous applica lion ot shoe leather. Howard extends a friondlv greeting- Elkhorn Valley road , niid invites tlio managers to "como and sco us'1 and bring the track along , his H. It. Tobiuilt proposes to build a largo brio block , 110x100 , thrco stories , in O'Neill next year. It will be occupied by wholesale dry goods nnd grocery house. he A district school In Sannders county is a without a teacher. A college-bred ped agogue rebelled because the flro was not built for him and threw up the job In dis gust the Superintendent ! Bowers , of the Pawnee of county schools , encourages hi.s pupils to invest iu books and magazines , suitable children , by procuring Ihem al cost price. The Uock Island extension in southern Nebraska has been mortgaged for f-"J,500 milo to tlm Metropolitan trust com pany ; of Now York. The amount covers double track. doTl The town cow is the most prolific * sub of discussion in Nebraska City. Eve : tao bridge and prospective railroads set usldu whnn the liberties of "bossy" are threatened. A hungry dog rah'ed ' the Illllsldo poul yard ' at Norfolk und feasted on nine guinea pigs , seven rabbits , some chick and n game rooster. The owner of who dog paid for the fare. Si Alexander,1 ono of the props of was Mount /ion's church In Nebraska City , publicly announced that ho will curve map : of Congo on the mug of "Hrud- " Martin on the oat Host occabiun. SI carries a hair rnzah. The Nebraska City sausage factory is so to bo the largest and best in tlio spirit world. Fifteen to twenty thousand pounds of hog are stuffed every day. San \ . Franciscans munch most of the bologna , they are welcome to It , The members of the Nebraska Press association are packing their grips pre paratory to n combined raid on Omaha ture the t'lith. Tlioy will feast on the good was the metropolis , take a farewell peep at elephant and swear off on the 1st. The old story of man's inhumanity to of woman was revived in Fremont last week his the case of Celia Johnson , the poor moro lonely mother of n fatherless babe. Under promise of marriage she was be Police trayed by ono John Miller in Ohio and shipped west to sulfur among strangers. generous family in Fremont ministered night the wants of the unfortunate simple- the . portly Just across thu river from Fremont Ed lugeul Dooley wa.s busily engaged , one evening it by week , giving his wife a practical ceeded illustration ot the " " "manly" art when taken Mills , a neighbor called "time. " last Dooley , having the best of the round , did locked relish Interference , and attacked the fowl 8ilf-oleote4 referee. Hilly was promptly knocked down and a targe suction of his scalp shaved With nn ax. Pugilist Dooley was nrri-.led. and Mr. Mills has regis tered n solemn resolve to hereafter keep at a safe distance from domestic duels. York is not satisfied , with the location of the Methodist university at Lincoln. The Republican saysi "Hut to bobcnten by chicanery bnckcd up by malice , we feel justified in giving vent to'otir righteous indignation. We ueliovo in leaving wire pulling ami chicanery to politicians" " who make that their business , but in God's name let the skirts of the church bo kept clean from such pollution , " The Times says : "Tho land which Lincoln proposes to turn In at $1,000 nor aero , in consider ation ot the location of the Methodist university , proves to be actually worth Jf35pcr noro. Watered stock scouts to go down with the ministers as well as with oilier people. " Town Items. Monona county has $7(5,000 ( invested in school property. Prohibition papers in the stale are run by water motors. The medical examining board will meet at the state capital to-morrow. There tire 1-10 schools In Sac county , employing 803 teachers , at n total yearly compensation of $1UM8.SI3. An assembly of the Knights of Labor at DosMoines has adopted the blood-cur dling title of "Harb Wire assembly. " A now malady among the cattle around Gnthrio Center has broken out with such violence as to bo truly alarming to the stock breeders of that section. The prints of DCS Moluos have invested in job lots of spike-tall coats , white tics ami toothpick shoes in which to .shine nnd cut a swell at thuir annual ball Janu ary 21. The interior plans for the now federal building at Des Molncs have been re ceived from Washington and work will bo commenced as boon as the weather will permit. A ' claim was settled at the state audit or's office on the Slst instant which had bnou pending for thirty-two years. It was a claim on lite permanent school fund , and had been in the \Vobslcr and Hamilton county courts for many years. The Roman Catholic Mutual Protective society of Iowa refused to pay insnranco to Theresa Matt , of Clayton county , be cause her deceased husband neglected Easter duties. She appealed lo tlio supreme - promo court which decided in her favor. The Atchison , Topuka & Santa Fe rail road company will bridge the Mississippi nt Fort Madison. The bridge proper will bo 1.J125 feet in length. Seven spans will bo required , and 2.000 feet of trcsllo work nt the east end. The grade above high water is to bo thirteen feet , four niches. Iowa Cily people are in danger of hav ing j to sillier for wutit of water this win ter. The Iowa river is very low and it is feared it will freeze to the bottom. The waterworks are now partially supplied with two six-inch wells about one hun dred nnd sixty feet deep , and it is thought two moro wells will have to bo bored without delay. C. M. Stalecn , n prominent business man of Creston , suicided , after cool and deliberate arrangements , by taking poison , lie had prepared for the event by arranging his business , will and inci dental affairs with methodical and com mendable neatness. He left a letlor of explanation , charging the desperate deed to the ill-treatment of his wife , Jacob Werner , a Gorman cili/.cn of Imogene , in Fremont county , got the notion into his head that the Great Jehovah had called on him to invent a Hying machine. What lie then lacked as evidence to convince his friends ho was cra/y was soon made manifest ; by raving dcmostrations as he became deeper in volved in the intricacy of his invention. He was sent lo the asylum. Sioux City improvements for the year , as detailed by llio Tribune , show a cash outlay amounting to $1,40-1,801. This in cludes 87)00 ! ) square yards of paving , 25,9ia feet of sewers , 21 , ! M7 feet of curb ing , and $15,818 expended in grading , There were tW2 dwellings erected , which , vith repairs , cost $ ; iW,025. ; The cost of stores and machinery was $789,200. Dakota. JJrnle county has a debt of $20,000. , About GOO scholars are enrolled in the Yankton .schools , There are III ! ) children enrolled in the Mitchell schools. A Hour mill to cost $20,030 is to be erected at llermosa , Custcr county. On the Crow reservation , north of of Dead wood , there are 13,000 , head of cattle ranging. in An Aberdeen syndicate purchased 020 acre ? for nn addition ut if Kt.ODO which cost the original owner only ? 1,500. A geologist has reported to the Itapid a Citj' board of trade that a now mine in the hilly dovelopes the fact that there is ifa.000,000 in sight. Prof. Coijslant , of .Now York , who was elected president of the Hapid City School of Mines , has declined the job. This disgusted the trustees with imported talent , and they elected Frank K. Car penter , of U.'ipld City , to the position. Charles Alexander , of Sturgis , offered check at Rapid Cily in numerous places in payment of purchases. In e.ach m.stanco tlio cheek wa.s somewhat larger than the bill of purchase. In this way secured about $105 in currency , and good supply of clothing , nnd lias since I avoided arrest. A delegation from Pierre waited upon Bishop Marty at Yankton last week with request for the removal from Pierre a priest who was inculcating doctrines prejudicial to llio jirosperily of various Gambling games in that city. After able stoning to the statements of llio dele it gation the bishop sent word lo his sub ordinate nt Pierre to continue his efforts against the devices of ( he wicked and the Lord would reward Ins worn. tion ( 'nittiit-R ofa Oliuroliyard Gliosl. Cartilf Weekly Mail : 'Recently gho.st alarms have been very common in the Potteries and adjoining dislriols , and wa.s considerable excitement was caused one night this week after 11 o'clock by the mysterious movements of a figure clad in book white among the 'tombs in Shelton churchyard , near Hanloy , The nocturnal and visitor was wnlehcd by a largo crowd , work completely blbeUed tlio adjacent rhad thoroughfares. I < or souio time ( ho "ghost" put permitted lo conduct hi.s peculiar lated perambulations unmolested , but ulti with mately two members of the crowd , moro it daring than Iho rest , mustered courage When enough to approach the liguro. A closer tion inspection . convinced these persons that Each lar trom being the shadowy , ethereal ent which is said to hnvo visited ether to churchyards in the district , the gliji.stly \i.sitant of the burial ground was a really in tangible by. very The snow-white lignro displayed much of uneasiness on llio approach of llio Iwo sot active men , whoso njuasiires for its cap were not to bi > circumvented. Fight useless and dlssoltition in thin air impossible. So Edward Hauptmann , n I had corponil in the llanley volunteers , had to duced quietly submit to the unpleasant process sions jielng led into the crowd ho had done best to terrify , and afterward to the disagreeable experience of being raced lodged in the llanley police cells by nights Constable Smith , to whom ho was 1 did handed over by his captors. came The operator had secured a woman's " ( ires : ; , which , being too small for a accommodation of his somewhat fnmo and commanding liguro , he 'Iho held before him , expanding tensely his arms , and by this means he suc What in his practical joke. Ho was know before the magistrates on Tuesday donco. , but , considering Hint ho had been up all night , and that ho had uf- All home iniulreatinont from stone were throtving on the previous night , he Door discharged with a cautiou. A DOCTOR'S ' COCA SPREE , Ex-Surgeoa General Hammond Experiments in the Oanso of Science , HE SAYS IT IS NOT A HABIT. Soiuo of the I'Tcc ( ( < i Produced on tiio Human Syatcm I'cntilo Who Are Not Tnlkntivo Itecoinc Ho lly KM Use. Nuw i'oHic , Dec. 23.-fSpcc.l : l Cor- rcspoiulcnco to the HII : : . ] Ex-Surgeon- General W. A. IIiniinoii'l : ' has been on n tcrrlflic fierce for science. I < there a co caine habit ? Dr. Hammond says tlicro is not , and that ho knows , because lie lias experimented upon himself for the ex press purpose of finding out. Ho and a few ether army surgeons wuro acquainted with the peculiar qualities ol coca twenty yonrs agoand nsotl it ton limited extent then , but they were able to oltaiu only n small quantity , and did not make much use of it. in practice , because all the properties of the dr c had not been de veloped and exhaustive experiments worn not practicable. Dr. Mnrasol , a queer little old man \vho came to America - ica as a political refugee from Europe , bringing a store of strange knowledge , a mysterious history and some singular habits , and settles in Fall Hiver. knew know the virtue of coca and used it in his practice n dozen years ago , producing results that mizzled other physicians , lie earned much of his unique knowledge to the grave , but disclosed the secret of the use of coca in cases of nervous prostration and brain exhaustion. The Jocal anaesthetic properties of cocaine have been know but a short lime , and it lias . . been charged that the use of the drug induces ' , n habit similar to the opium habit , which holds its victims in abject slavery. Dr. Hammond has used coca wines , fluid cx'raots and other forms of the drug , but has discarded the 'fluid extracts because they are badly borne by the stomachand the wines ' because they contained tannin and ' extractive matters and diflorcd so much in their olfecls. He found that two grains of hydro-chloride of cocaine to the pint of pure wino was the proper prepa ration and produced all the beneficial effects and none of the deleterious results. Thou ho began a series of experiments with hypodermic injections of the by- drochlondo , to ascertain whether the stories about the cocaine habit wore true or falso. "At first I injected one grain and ex perienced an exhilaration of spirits simi lar to that produced by two or three glasses of champagne , " said Dr. Ham mend to your correspondent. "My in tellectual powers of imagination in creased. The physical sensation was a delightful undulating thrill. 1 was in a very happy frame of mind a sociable mood and no doubt would have been quite agreeable company. The after ' cll'ects were inability to sice ) ) until 5 in the morning , and a hcadacho when 1 got up. The next night I look two grains , and , in addition to ( lie sensations described , 1 felt a desire to write. I had begun a letter to a friend , and under the inluicneo of the drug 1 extended what would have been a missive of moderate Juugth lo an epistle covering a wide vi : iety of topics and forty-eight pages . _ paper. It proved to bo correctly written and coherent , and gave much satisfaction to llio receiver , but 1 found that I had treated diflnsoly of many things that ordinarily I would not deem worlh men tioning. If n man were desirous of writ ing to fill space , or utterly exhausting a given subject oven to Iho most trival details , I would recommend him to fill his inkstand , get u ream or two of paper and plenty ot pens , and have a physician give him n hypodermic injection of coeaiuo. If you want , to condense your subject , don't ' take cocaine in jargo doses. No doubt a moderate quantity taken in wine will stimulate the imagination , and enable one to write more brilliantly and with less effort than ho otherwise could. Eugene Sue never wrote witlioul a bottle champagne at his elbow , and the luxuriance of his imagination displayed the "Wandering Jew" mav be at tributed In part to the effects of the wine. The difference between cocaine and alcohol as stimulants is that alcohol has ger tendency to lower the mental and and moral tone and brntalixo the nature , ing. while cocaine has a refining , softening effect. Under the iniluenco of moderate den doses , I became rather scnlimonlal , and said nice things to everybody. The world was going very well and Iliad a favorable opinion of my fellow men and women. Them wa.s not a bit of pug nacity about mo , and I didn't want to out light , argue , or d smite with anyone. lime "Tho next time 1 increased tiio dose to three grams , which iinlinibored my tongue in the most astonishing way , I wauled lo talk , and I did talk , not in the oratorical manner , but was just purely was loquacious. When nobody was present if talked to myself. There was no disar rangement of the mental faculties , no disorder of the process of thought. 1 talked coherently and correctly , and I am certain that if 1 had been in the lecture was room I should have spoken much bolter than 1 usually speak. I was perfectly to restrain the impulse to talk , but over was pleasant lo speak and 1 enjoyed dips myself hugely. There was an abnormal tive quickening of Iho faculties' , the mind'H the operations were rapid and tlio imagina vivid. Headache followed. nine moro "Then I doubled the quantify of the cocaine , and became somowhbt intoxi cated. The scribbling propensity re the turned , nnd I wrote voliiminiously. I ing . preparing a medical work , and my feel mind was full of Ihe subject matter. feet What I A'rnte. was an introduction to the lias and 1 thought it a very brilliant in production. Ideas came thick and fast Harac I was persuaded that my composition wad going to eclipse aiij-lhing that sey eyer done in that lino. Wliun I 20 il away and wont to bed , I congratu to myself that I should bo satisfied my n'ght's work when I should read over. 1 didn't sloop at all that night. lined 1 looked over my famous introduc in , 1 found it to bo arrant nonsoiiHo. bricks sentence was complete and coher in itself , but none had any relation feet Iho other , although all wotv in the " general line of ( he subject I was treating IhLs the book. The stnlf read as n whole much like a dream. Jl was a ines.s onu ci . ragged disconnected ideas and notions , uallv down in a disorderly fashion und con taining matter that did not belong to an introduction. Hut in spite of the . i.s ! rampant disorder of ideas , no hallucinations such tiinnol as are pro by hasheesh , no grotesque delu miles or insane imaginings. The mental there machinery wis : running with the miles governor belt thrown off , and the brain don , so to speak. Eight grains , throe and Inter , produced similar effects , but special not write , mid the sensations bo- in the rather painful than agreeable. "The next night I determined to make the moro severe test , and so subjected olfnring makn eighteen grains within twenty minutes. rcsulis were stunning. 1 became in the exhilarated and finally oblivious. Tlio I did , or thought , or tell , 1 don't willscnd , except from circumstantial ovl < Jilivtrio . 1 got to bed in some way. In the any morning I found the library In disorder. with the volumub of two large cyclopedias nerve The opened and unaltered about the \Vilto , as though 1 hud been searching/or No something and could not find H 1 lotrcd. not tho. slightest recoliot lion of touching a book or wanting lo look up anything. Any brilliant Idea I might hnvohnd undur the infltionco of eighteen grains of cocaine cnin Is irrecoverably lost to the world Hut ' I have vivid remembrances of i most preposterous headache that luster two days and refined to succumb to coul baths , I cured it with strong eoffco. Then I stopped the experiments. I acquired r.o habit and had no dilllcully in quitting the use of cocaine. Experiments upon others and observation of the re sults of administering cocaine in cumula live doses for three months In cases re quiring such treatment have satisfied me that tlicro Is no cocaine habit. When used to cure the opium habit by persons ignorant of the proper way ol using it , cocaine has produced bad effects , but nn opium cater has n habit of having a habit and no will power , and if ho were to take sawdust as a substitute for opium ho would acquire a sawdust habit. Take the opium or mornhiuo habit away from the patient and administer cocaine properly . . , . erly and will the you euro opium habit without introducing a cocaine habit "Ouo singular olluot of cocaine is that It will induce people to speak who are alllictcd with silent melancholia. A woman who had not spoken for nine months began to talk within four min utes after 1 had injected four grain's , and In ten minutes she talked at a rale thai made up for lo t time. Nothing could stop her. Whether this properh of co caine is benolleinl and desirable dc pcntls , perhaps , upon circumstances. " OM.VU JAMKS. CAPE CANSO'S WOOD SEFIPENT. A KiirmorV tlH.ii | | > eiirnncc Aitrlltu- ted to tin- Voracity ol' a Bit ; Sniilcc. C.vri ! CANM ) , N. S. , Pec. 15. An el derly man named Cavonor wont to his pasture about one-third of a mile dis tant from his house , about dusk Decem ber 1 , to drive homo his cows. When ho had had about time enough to el back , and his family were expecting him , his daughter heard the cows in the yard , and opening the door as she thought to meet her father , she heard him call for help in an agonized voice from the di rection of u long , narrow lake , one end of which he would have lo pass on his way homo. Kho answered his cries and ran toward him , but before she could reach the spot his cries grew weaker and then ceased altogether. Tlio girl summoned help. Iho men for miles around turned out with lanterns and horns and scoured the woods all night , but without finding any clue to the missing farmer. Next day the lake was thoroughly dragged and explored , nnd the search has been continued with out result over since. The mar. is miss ing and there Is not the slghtcst clue to his whereabouts. Some of Hie searchers remembered that they had noticed a track through the woods from the lake , as though a big man had pushed his way and I Biuippcu the twigs and bushes in Ins progress , Im there were no footprints. Then the miss ing man'.sson' , who had milked Iho cows the evening of the disappearance , re marked that the milk was heated , as though the cows had been run homo lee fast , and they also seemed to bo fright ened. Some of the people advanced the theory that the man was carried off by one of Iho Nova Scotia wood serpents , in whoso existence , so seldom have they boon seen , many people have not believed at all. $ A young man of good character and position here told the correspondent of flic Sun that in September last as ho was coming to Canso , ho saw something which appeared to him to be an old dry log across the road , but wheiv he came near it , to his great astonishment a great reptile whose head was on the one side of the road and its tail in the woods on his the other side , gave two or three sweeps with its tail and darted into the forest , making the brush crash with the velocity of its progress as though an elephant was going through. The serpent's body seemed to bo about the si/.o of a cask in diameter , its length over thirty feet and its head , which he saw plainly , about three times the size of an ordinary tea- in kettle. The old farmer's disappearance has her given a now and fearful interest to this young man's account of the wood er- She pout , and the people round about can lind no other explanation of the mystery than that the missing man was carried oil * the and destroyed by one of these amphib was ious man-eating monsters. " " RAILROADING""UNDER THE SEA , n - The Kli-Ht Train OUCH Tlirotijrli the $ Severn Timnol. of Cardiff Weekly Mail : Thu first passen ? trains passml through the giganlio lube linking the shores of Monruouthsliiic good Gloucestershire on Wednesday morn ous . Ucfore those on board quite know where thny were a shrill whistle , a sud man darkening for it was now nearly next broad daylight and "We are in ! " told Ihom Ihoy were "in" and rushing down a to clearly perceptible decline towards a was point n hundred feet below the bed of the Iwo broad estuary. In a trice tvntchcv were ment and windows- down , the first to keep Titus , Iho other to tesl Hie ventilation. The madu inrush of the ice cold air , as clear and .lack pure as the Irip across was being made in Iho old way over instead of stable under the Channel showed the hitler all right. The submarine journey such il may be called -proved to bo moro like a run through a pretty deep other cutting Ihan through u tunnel four and a nim qiiarlcr miles long. For about three minutes and a half after entering there Alice no mistaking ( ho fact that a sharp There gradient was being descended. Ihon a where. momentary rumble as the train passed to tlio curve of the are for the lube In the center and then the locomo - ' , at an over-decreasing.speml , climbed opposite gradient , to emerge once intodaylightin eight minutesforty- seconds. grove VUN'riI.ATIO.N' Ol' TIILTirNSKk. As before remarked , the. ventilation of tains tunnel is little short of perfect. Dur- trees. tiie construction of the work u fan 18 ald " in diameter , discharging (10,000 ( cubic of air per miniito , was used. This now been replaced by a fan10 fuel ' von diameter and J2 feet wide , made on the 'wined principle as those used at the Mer with and a portion of the Metropolitan little tunnels. The tunnel is 20 fuut wide and if m feet high from Iho double line of rails years. the crown of the arch inside Ihe went brickwork. The r.ilis uro lind on longi tudinal sleepers. The tiinnul has boon ) iit throughout with vitriliud bricks set Hid cement , and no loss1 than 75.000.0110 Duke have been used iu this work. This every vitrllled brick wall ha.s a thickness of U His in the crown of the nrch beneath the ho "shoots , " but us tlio tunnel rises from erty lowest point on u gradient ono in I'O way unit one in 100 toward the ( iloii- then ' .ilor.ihini .side .thin thickness i.s grnd- I'o reduced lo 2 leet ! i inches. tcr Ul'JIUl ( JKKAT TL'NNii.S. : worl Tiui lotul length of the Buvorn tumid n | ( ire miles , 0-4 yards The St. Guthard lot p i he A is Hi mile. . .Mont CtmiK tumid 7j left , Arlbcrg luiimtl ( Aiislna ) OJ | miles ; canand cans , IN a tunnel in Mnnchiisctlb IJ vanibhud. - ; thn .Siaudrg' ' ' tunnel , on tlio Lon and N'orthwoblcrn. is it milus long , Mimlr.v of the Iho Hex tunnel rut her JOKS. Itut the feature of the Sevitrn tunnel lies closure n fact that Vj milus of it have been constructed from 4i ! feet to 100 fuel below you . bud of a rapidly-llowing tidal estuary , Duimnitl i.s a engineering dimciiltios which it the most remurkabln tunnel in known world. ful Voltaic ; Hull Co. , .tliii-Ji.-ill , Midi ] It their rolrbratud Voltaic Belt and Hull's Appliances , on thiity rtnys1 trltil , t < > demand. man ( yonne or mhhlhi-atii'il ) afilU-ted thoiuselve nervous debility , loss of vtality. Inclc < > t pcoplo low and vl or , anil jiieuteirt r.i < iiul ! > d luront No to thfin foi ildustntcd iiamuhlct lice. reputation rlsu ! Incurred , asjililrrlv day * ' trial h ul.- intrjnM'- . kills A TALE OF TWO LIVES. Alloc OMes nml TrnrjAV. . Titus , Chicago Ilorald : A dispatch from Philadelphia yesterday records the lm pending dentil of Alice Oate ? , tiio once tatuous opera botiffo nrtlstc. The dis patch status that she is slowly sinking , nnd that her physicians say there is no hope of her recovery She is pns.ung away a victim of consumption. Mrs , Oatcs wo called her by that iii'ino , though she baa had n do/eii others must bo now well on to forty years old. aho began her singe career in Chicago , and therefore Chicago has something of an interest in her. According to ( . 'harluy Clayton , who is an authority onnull manors , linrlirst appearance on anvstago was as an olxoure chorus girl at the old Canterbury mn.su ballon I'lar- born street. The fair Alice plodded along In her humble way , and finally being cast for the loading part in n burlo.sqim , "Field of the Clolh of ( Sold. " at Crosby V opera . house in KHOT.sliu made a great hit" After ( the very lirst performance she became - came a t > tar and was so billed. Old Chicagoans - cagoans will remember tlio "Field of thu Clolh of ( Jold.-1 It was the lint of tlm ICuglish-spoakitig comic operas , follow ing in the French school ot To.steo and Aimce , and the idea that any American girl could get oil' all this fun in English was n novelty. They went at II with a wild whoop , " , lust about tins time , " saja Deacon Clayton , "Alico married lames A. Oates. She was billed for three years or more as 'Mrs. .lames A. Oatcs. ' " The Herald writer rumembor.s her well , as in April , 1STO , nlio was playing over on the West Sldo at what i.s now Shelby's academy. It was si Monday night , and a great housn. It was bcfoio l ho days of bill buard.i and nil that. Monday nights were great in those dnjs Hie bigge.st of the week. What is now tlieiaul ( ) house wa * then Iho "Slim-man,1' and strangers were told that all over the river "was ruins. " The only hotel \vnn the Sherman ; the only theater open was the lialstcd street allair , and tlioro WIM "Mrs. James A. Oates. ' Opera company. " Oatcs died of consumption in 1S7I. llM widow succeeded to his huviui'.s-t. and took care of her bank account. Il was something like Jslt ! , ( 00 at that lime. One of the men she .siilisciinuiiily mot was Tracy W. Titus , a Chicago boy. Titus lirst came upon the scene in IbUK or ' 01 , when ho sold tickets at the great sanitary fair held here , as- all know , for llio benefit of soldiers in the war. "Tlioro is a pretty good joke , by the > vay , re.spoeliug that , " said a friend of Clay ton H who was near , "Do you remem ber , Charley , how they all wanted to got on to the Saturday racket1 Mr. Clayton blushed u little , but ho finally said : "O , go ahead ; I wasn't in tlio deal , though 1 h.ul the chance. " "Well , I'll tell yon , " .said the ollnr man , "what they did. ( Jut of that Satur day business alone Tracy Titus and the oilier fellow made $ ! ) , OOJ each in hvxs than ninety days. They feet aside out ) day , Saturday , I think it was , as 'Work- in nian's Day , ' on which the ad mission was lo be5 cents. Well , now , who would remember that distinction * On all other days it was 00 cenld. For Iwo years Ol ) cents came to bo understood as llio regular price of admission. Hut on Saturdays it was ! W cents , and that tiie general public did not know. They would plank down halt a dollar , gel a ticket , and never wait for change. Tracy Titus and the other chap cleaned up $5.000 on that liltlo deal. Ui-toro that , however , Titus had been gallery ticket man at one ot tlio theatres. He was there before Sharpe or Kedlicld. Now don't laugh. I'm not * going back of the Hood. 1 know Kodfiold came in about the time of the revolution of ' 118 , but Titus was really there before that , As a matter of fact Tracy Titus began theatrical career with Alice Oat us. llo was hired by Mr. Oates to bo airoiit and treasurer of the Oatus company. Any how , the grass roots had not sprouted over Ins grave indeed , the ink on Hie undertaker's bill had _ hardly dried- before - fore an adjacent justice of the peace had given the lair Alien to Mr. Titus. This brought the two to San Franol.seo 1675. Alice Oates was thun a star of magnitude and orbit. She could select own range vie with Mercury , ( he Moan , or dispute the field with Saturn. twirled her lingers under the nose of John McCnlloiigh , and told Millionaire Kalston , of the Hank of California , then "angel" of the stage , that ho : i miserable "old jackas. " Mivt. Oatei was then at the vury/.cnilh of her iH-ospority. She had in July , 1S75 , fia.OJO tiio Union National bank of Chicago , $10,000 in the Uoatmcn's Savings bank St. Louis , a lot in Now York worth 5,0IO ! , and bur pookotbook was never cmpfy. She had her company with a route ahead , and was rich , prosper , and , like people in her cimdiliun. saucg. Trasy Titus , the -Sanitary Fnir was her husband and treasurer. He met Emily Melville , to whom ho proposed a ou.sinuss arrangement to go Australia. She accepted. A company formed ) they went , and for years they were the great amuse success of Iho anlijiodti.s. Tracy , who sold gallery tickets in 18i ( < ) , SIOT.O'JO in Australia in two years. Thompson , the great antipodal book-maker , got the most of it. A racing , a dog cart , a tandem and Mhj Mdlvillo got the rodt. Mr. Tilus is now an invalid at thn Sliorman house. He had a benefit the day , which nulled enough to mind lo L"os Angeles , where oven his most loiu'fnl friends o\pucl to leave him. Oates is dying in Philadelphia. is a lesson in these two lives .some . Who on the stage will bo I he lirst profit by itf , * Y I-'lorldn'a Most FamoiiK Orange Oi-ovo Hold. Florida Horalil : The famous Dmnmitt on the Indian river was sold on Monday last for $ : il)00. ( ) The grove con between il.OOO and 4,1 Oil bearing . Judge J. C. Man-y said to a Her reporter : "Tho grove ha.s qiiilo an interesting nstory. It was lirst .settled nearly forty rs go by an old pioneer Georgian Diiniinitt. who left his own niato , his family , his negroes and his , and , Jiliing the looation , he MiUJml ami nmiaiiied undisturbed for many . After his death the properly to I : is heirs , who sold it to a Mrs. Sciuiylora , wealthy lady of New Yorl. . blio soon after tired of tint i.snlnfion , she diHiiojod of it lo the wol ! known and Duchess ot Caslcllncia , whom body in this slain will reinunibur. dnko , who was an Italian , concoivud idea that if he Durcliatjrd Iho prop ho could impon a nnmh r of his countrymen over hen- from Italy , and run a sort ol tilth ! dukedom hims.-lf this end ho brought oynr quilr a iiitm- of inimigniiil.s but th < > ( tchcmu didn't ; , for when Ihoio fi-llows came OVHI- they , saw thuir nubln landlord did my : them t\- > much for llicir labor as American orange growers , so they tlio diiKu and went with the Ameri and Ihndiiciil draimsof Caitolliieiu . Aftur that thn properly by . conveyances cauio into | HC > MSHIOI ! ) Florida Fruit company , who gnvo mortgage of f..O.iHMl , upon which fore nroe.ci'dlngs were instituted u- > already know. This , you .SL-O , then , condensed account of the famon.i grove , whose oranges njv the world pver tor thuir wondur flavor. is rumored Unit the supply of Dr. Cough Syrup is not equal to Iho . JruggielH should jirepau- tor till emergencies < u rely on them for this remedy. preparation could have made snt-n ; i as SaJvatiuji o | | has , without intrjnM'merit of the higlmv't ordu > " 't- ' pain. Price 25 cth.