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. ' n N ii l * TH13 OMAHA DAILY BEE ; SUNDAY" . .JNUVJflMBEtt. 27. 1887.-SIXTEEN E'AGES. t I WEALTH DR. NERVE AND BRAIN TREATMENT A guaranteed specific for Hysteria , Dizziness , Convulsions , Fits , Nervous Neuralgia , Headache Ner vous Prostration caused by tlie use of alcohol or tobacco , Wakefulness , Mental Depression , Softening of the Brain , Resulting in Insanity and Leading to Misery , Decay and Death , remature Old Age , Barrenness , Loss of Power in either sex , Involuntary Losses and Spermatorrhoea caused by over exertion of the brain self abuse or over indulgence. Each box contains one month's treatment. $1 a box , or six boxes for $5. Sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price , GUARANTEE SIX To cure any case. With each order received by us for six boxes , accompanied with $5 , we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to re fund the money if the treatment does not effect a cure. Guarantees issued only by Sole Farnam Street Omaha Neb. Agent , mo , , . Denver , Col. , June 16th , 1887. Messre. J. C. West & Co. , Chicago , Illinois : GENTLEMEN' With UK ; order I gave yon the 1st o this month for 14 gross oC West's Nerve and Brain Treatment , makes in all HO gross pur chased from you in less than four years. 1 have sold in all , 40 gross , or ' 57(50 ( boxes in'all. Of this sale I have had two complaints , one about a year ago which you settled promptly by returning ( lie party his money. The other complaint reached me only a few days ago , on which you have not had time to act as yet. 1 am very inuili pleaded with the medicine and also your manner of doing business. You have always lived up to your woid with me in every particular. 1 have so much confidence in the medicine that I would not hesitate to guarantee it on my own re sponsibility if requested to by customers. I hope before the year is out that I will be in the market for 10 or iiO gross moie. Yours truly , JOHN' Axau'M , Druggist. For Liver Complaint. Dropsy Jndig@sf ion and Sick Headache , Use West's Liver Pills. Tlin l f I PTIIIT l ITM TIN \ IN THE ELECTRICAL HELD , What the Fluid Has Done , IB Doing and May Do in the World of Science. A LIGHTNING PHOTOGRAPH. Injuries to nirrts The Tlcfcer On Iho Train The Mutil an a Detective Some Elec trical Ilrcvitlcs. Electric Street Car. Tt IB used in Philadelphia , and the Electrical World describes it us follows : On this now car there are two motors , supported by two small trucks , similar to those on Reekon/aun's street cars in Europe. Each motor weighs about live hundred pounds , and the pair , when working1 to their fullest capacity , are capable of giving thirty horse-power collectively. Such power will scarcely over bo needed , but it can be called into requisition should circumstances de mand it. The n frames of the four- wheeled trucks are made of wrought ( Iron ; they have 11 very slight appear ance , yet they are of ample strength to support the maximum load with safety. The wheels are only twenty-six inches in diameter , which , when revolving at 103 revolutions per minute gives a speed of eight miles an hour when the motors run at 824 revolutions , the armature epced being reduced eight to one by means of Reokcnbaum's worm gearing , which was described at a recent meet ing of the American Institute of Elec trical Engineers. The speed of thecar is regulated by a switch which causes the motors to work in series , sin gly.or in parallel circuit , so that all the cells are always used when the car is in motion , whereby they are discharged uniformly , a result which will be appreciated by tho.se who have some experience with storage but teries. The cells in this case are of the same shape and size as those on the cai "number one , " which were manufac tured by the Electrical Accumulate ! company , of Now York. Largo as this car is , it goes round the sharped curves witli remarkable case , tint ! altogether works well , the motion ol the whole apparatus being absolutolj silent. The current is supplied b.\ sovoaty-fonr storage butteries ; but there are actually 1-0 cells on board , stowed nway under the seat on long boards which run on rollers to facilitate the speedy removal and replacement of the whole battery. The seals are of tin usual height and width , but they are twenty-two feet long , accommodating about thirty -four people. A MithtiiliiB IMiotofirnpli. Savannah News : Last Tuesday , the narrator continued , she was lying in bed in the sumo little room she hud occu pied for vears. her bed being near t window glazed with eight by ton glass when a torrilie thunder storm came up awl through the window , as she laj helpless la bed , she saw the lightning strike and shiver to atoms a tall pint tree standing neiu by.and it is supposci she felt the shook * for she was so fright Oncd and prostrated that she rapidly sank into an unconscious condition , mm so lingered on till next day , when she died. When the neighbors went to la > her out and prepare nor remains fo burial they discovered , to Iho grc.i stonishmcnt of all and superstition of nany , that on one of tno panes > f glass in the window against vbicli her bed stood was a perfect pho- ographic likeness of her as she had ap- ) cured in her nightcap and gown , ying in bed for so many yours. Her careworn , suffering face hud been seen o often that it was perfectly familiar 0 the neighbors for miles around , and is each newcomer glanced at the glass 10 drew back with amazement and ex- cluimcd : "Yes , it is her likeness. ' ' Appearing rather incredulous , a tall , iitelligentTeiineshCean suggested that . drive buck and see for myself. Ask- ng him to accompany mo wo drove jack. I expected to see some hitherto unobserved Haw in the glass , which the superstitious , aided by vivid imagina tion , might contorto into some sort of 'ancicd resemblance , just as wo may discover shapes in the dying coals or trace resemblances in the fleeting clouds ; but what was my surprise in stead , to sco , not an imperfect pane of glass , but a perfect one , on which was plainly visible a faint , though perfect picture of an old woman in capaud gown lying in bed. As to its resemblance to Mrs. Osborno 1 could not vouch , never having soon her , for she was buried , her death hav ing occurred three days previously , but my companion , who had known her well , assured mo the likeness was per fect. A number of people were linger ing about , wondering at the strange picture on the glass , and attributed it to some supernatural origin. I account for it on a hypothesis which , though I can not satisfactorily explain , seems to me the only reasonable ono. That section of country is rich in mineral ores iron , lead , silver , gold , manganese , niter , etc. That pane of glass , from long exposure , has lost its bright , glossy surface , and become dingy with a somewhat irrideseont film on it , caused possibly by imperceptible vapors from these abounding ores , deposited - posited thereon in the long years of nor illness. Perhaps fumes or vapors of nitrate silver , which wo know is what photographers use ( generated by the niter and silver in the earth ) , may have been in some manner deposited in the glass , this making it what pho- tograpors call a "sensitive plate. " While the glass was in this condition some sudden change in tjjo atmos phere may have occurred , and Mrs. Osborno , being in a posed position , the likeness was imprinted upon it. Bo that us may. the picture was there , and though not distinct or highly enough ilnishcd to have been delivered to a customer by a Hrst-class photo- trrnphor , it was certainly a correct photographic likenes ? , unlinishcd on that glass by some natural process and not by the hand of man. ami remains a mystery for science to solve. Victims of Electricity. Washington Post : For pome nights past unusual numbers of small birds have been obs-orvcd Hying in a dazed manner around the electric lights which illum inate the streets. At four o'clock yes terday morning , on F street were a do/.en cats. Overhead the air was tilled with sparrows , Muttering around the lights. Many flow against the glass globes aad fell stunned. Then the cats would scramble for them. Occasionally when a bird alighted on the ground to rest , a cat would stalk it successfully. Along Seventh' street , where the lights are. close together , the air was alive with birds and the street was thronged with cats. ' The street , ordin arily quiet , was noisy with the cries and fluttering of the birds. The sparrows not the unpopular Eng lish species , but smull , and pretty wood Omaha , November 21st , 1887. Messrs. Jno. C. West & Co. , f.Vifcrrf/0 , Illinois : GKNTUMKX : Ship us ten gross of West Nerve and Brain Treatment at once. We have been selling this remedy for the past eight years and have yet to learn of any complaint. The fact that you give a written guarantee with each five dollars worth , no doubt increases the sale to a large extent. The medicine has a large and increasing sale and gives good satisfaction Wo receive mail orders from all parts of the west , and the constant de mand is evidence that there is merit. This makes ninety gross that wo have had and we hope soon to make another order so that our total sales will be one hundred gross , which we think will be as gratifying to yon as to us. Youis Hespectfully , C , F. GOODMAN , Druggist. sparrows were evidently migrating by light , and had been diverted by the ; lare of the lights. When dawn came , hey wont their way. Another curious incident was afforded jy a Hock of wild gcoco. Their path was directly down Seventh street , and Jio brilliant glare served to entangle them. They circled around and around nuking their loud characteristic cries for some time before they got straight ened out. The Ticker on the Train. Now York Star : That telegraphing Tom moving trains is an assured suc cess , was again demonstrated yesterday when a dispatch was received at the Star ollico from a train moving fifty miles an hour on the Lehigh Valley railroad. Every message so sent gives addi tional weight to the arguments in favor of the svstem as a preventutivo of rail way collisions. Rv its Use the class of accidents arising from negligence , care lessness or forgetfnlness of station oper ators , may bo wholly prevented. Under the present system , an order must bo given- ' ' a train is at the telegraph stall . if the omitted or forgotten at tl > . i particular moment the oppor tunity in lost , line a fatal and costly acci dent may bo the result , while with the now system communication with the train always existn and may bo availed of at any moment. ICvery train is converted into a tolc- graph ollico by this system , and the pub lic is able to use it for any of the follow ing purposes : Passengers on the train may bn reached by friends in the city ; instructions sent to business houses ; police or detectivu assistance sum moned ; escaping criminals apprehend ed ; passengers recalled after starting on a journey ; stock and grain quota tions sent ; general , political or sporting news transmitted ; unsworn to all mes sages sent may bo received , and in case of accident on the road the conductor can instantly communicate the fact to the train dispatcher. It is claimed by the Consolidated Kail- way Telegraph company that their sys tem will largely prevent the possibility of railroad collisions , and that the cost of ono or two accidents , entirely pre ventable by the use of train telegraphy , would in many cases bo sufficient to equip the road with the system. ol * Klcctrlclty. The last number of the Gisundhoits Ingonieur contains a paper by Prof. Uobroilawin , of St. Petor&berg , on the comparative use of gas and electricity for lighting theatres. Referring to the interesting experiments inado by Prof. Pottenkofer and Dr. Renk , Prof. Do- broslawin , with the assistance of Drs. Kowolkowsky and BosiirotY , made last last February , during the three days' carnival at St. Petersberg , when the largest crowds till the theatres , experi ments on the temperature aad ventila tion of theO rosso" and "Alexander" theatres , lighted with gns and the "Muriur" theatre lighted with electricity. The. o three the atres gave each two perform ances. daily , and each held about one thousand six hundred people. The thermometers were so placed as to ho on a level with the audience. The car bonic acid was determined by the Pot- ten kofcr method. As every theatre goer knows , the temperature fulls be tween acts , and it was found that the temperature in the galleries , did not fall as rapidly as in the parterre. As a result , the professor thinks that people ple seated in the parterre are more apt to take a cold than those in the upper parts of the house. The highest de gree of temperature by electric-light ing was Ii5 degrees C.and with gas 33 dugrees C. The professor does not think that the difference of air is noticeable with either kind of lighting. Finally , the professor concludes that electricity is far superior to gas from the stand point of health. Kloctrlclty vs. Hanging. Governor C. P. Johnson of St. Louis says : I think the day iu not , far distant when the hangman's noose will bo done away with. There uro so many things attendant on a hanging that are not humane. The horrors of the human mind when contemplating such a death have been betrayed in "Tho Execution , " in the "Ingousby Legends , " better , perhaps , than Victor Hugo's interpreta tion ; yet neither of them could describe that worst of all men's failing moral fear. Regardless of the stolid features when the death warrant is being read , there is no indication of the uwful mental drama going on in the bruin. It must of nature bo the agony of agonies. The neck twings and the tlesh fools the noose long before it is adjusted. The knot that is to knock into instantiineou" insensibility the scaf fold's vi dim batters away at the ear until every muscle , of the neck is stretched to the tension of stool strings ; the veins , like whipcords , are dilated with rushing blood that lircs the brain with the lividness of a hundred hells ; while standing on the trap a man must die a do/.on deaths before the life spark expires when the hemp is stretched. I say that this death is not humane. As I view it , electricity should boused and the criminal shocked to death. This is not only instantaneous , but it could bo administered at an unguarded moment to the felon. Ho should never know when ho wus to die , and therefore ho would not bo living in that horrid con templation of a set day. I think the time is not far distant when this method of execution will be adopted. Klectrie IlrevitieH. Numerous electric railways arc under wav in California. A special exhibition was made on the North Metropolitan tramways , London , a few week's ago , of the Elieson motors , propelled by storage butteries , which hud run HKX ( ) miles since August ( I , currying Hl , ( KK ) passengers at u cost said not to bo more than two-thirds that of norse traction. The Van Dopoole company will begin operating u roud in Brooklyn in a few days. A mill to turn out b6ums and angles has just been started at New Albany , Ind. Ind.The The Edison electrical people at New Yorl ; uro to erect a fcJOO.OOO building. A Cleveland company will put up a largo motor factory in .lorsoy City. A largo electric light plant will soon bo erected at Roanoke , Va. Allentown is to have ninety-eight electric lights and llio naphtha lumps. Ono of the lutest attempts to harness the forces of nature for the service of man is the adaption of a windmill for the turning of a dynamo , the electricity thus obtained being stored in suitable batteries , and afterwards used in light ing beacons for the benefit of the marl- time interests. There is a station of kind near the mouth of the Seine , and considerable success has been obtained. An electric organ is building for Jtho Burg theater at Vienna , Austria. The organ will bo supplied with a cable up ward of 1000 yards in length , running all around the stage and the orchcbtra. It hits several operators' stations , at each of which the organ cun bo woukcd. The chief station is located in the orchestra , the others in differentpartsofthestago. The same theater is already supplied wito olectrio light to avoid the danger of lire. Kansas City , Mo. , Nov. 12,1887. Messrs. John West & Co. , C/i/Mf/o / , Illinois : GENTS You will please ship us at your earliest convenience 2.1) gross of your West Nerve and Urain Treatment ; also three gross of your Liver Pills , as onr stock is getting low. We tuke pleasure instating that we have now been handling your Nerve and Urain Treatment for the past six years , and in which time we have sold about fifty ro s with uni versal satisfaction to nil parties , with but one or two exceptions. It is goods that can be sold on its own merits , and recommended by all drug gists as a specific for what is claimed of it. Please see that our goods have your earliest attention for shipment. Yours truly , II. W.EVAXS , Druggist. HOW SWORD BEARER DIED , Inspector General Armstrong Tolls the Story. A CHAPTER ON INDIAN WARS. Interest ins Details of the Recent Trouble and How the Troops Sqiiclclicd It Sitting Bull's Lupllelty. St. Paul Globe : General F. C. Arm strong , Indian inspector , who has been located on the Crow reservation since the trouble begun which culminated in the death of Sword bearer , has arrived in St. Paul. Ho gave a detailed ac count of the causes that led to the re cent disturbances on the Crow reserva tion , which , ho said , had been brewing for the past two years. The most of the mischief was done last spring when Sit ting Bull , with a party of Sioux warriors , numbering about 100' , came to the Crow reservation and pitched his camp almost within a stone's throw of the Ouster monument and began to har angue the Crows. Ho made a strong impression upon the young mon of the latter tribe , and especially when lie begun to recount his exploits in his con tests with the whites. Another weak point that ho played upon with great stress was the fact that the Crows did not receive the same consideration at the hands of the government that his warriors did , and ho was partly right. Owing to the fact that the Crow's helped themselves in muking u living , they did not receive us full rations as the Sioux and especially in the matter of beef. This was not lost sight of by the wily Sioux chief , and ho taunted the Crows with weakness in permitting such a dis crimination. "My people would not stand it , " ho said on ono occasion , "and when the white men would' not ucccdo to our demands1 wo wont to war with them and forced them to give us more. Many of them were killed , usthut monument ment ( pointing to the slmft erected to the memory of General Ouster ) will show you. Don't give in to the white mon , and they will treat you as they have the Sioux. " Such language inflamed'"tho young bucks of the Crow tribe. "There is a good deal of human nature in an Indian after all , " said the general , "and like readers of dime novels , they were anxious to display their powers. And no ono was moro instrumental in keep ing alive this feeling than "Gheos-ta- Pnsh , " or "Wraps-His-Tail , " who has been moro recently known as Sword Bearer. Ho acquired this lust tltlo from the fac Unit ho curried a cavalry saber , which ho told his followers was a talisman , and all that ho hud to do waste to point it at the white soldiers and they would drop dead. As a medicine man ho exerted a powerful influence in the tribe , and was ably supported by Crazy Head , who is a mixture of negro.Piegan and Crow , and Deaf Bull , both of whom counseled rotulitory measures against the whites on every occasion. This trio kept matters at a fever heat , and it was at their suggestion that the last raid was made by the Crows against the Pieguns , during which a number of horses were taken and the cattle of the Indians , and some of the white settlers were slaughtered by the raiders. "Returning from their successful foray about the latter part of Septem ber , Sword Bearer and his party de termined to fire into the agency build ings , although they did not evince a disposition to kill anybody. It was about dark when they made their way into the reservation , shooting and fir ing rifles in the air and slrh ing to in cite the other Indians into an insurrec tion. One of the interpreters was stand ing in front of the trader's store when a member of the raiding party walked up to him , pressed the muzxlo'of tlio gun against his breast , then slowly raised it above his head and fired it off. Fear ing trouble , the agent sent for a com pany of cavalry , and they arrived on the scene the sumo evening , but no ut- tcmpt was made to arrest the partici pants , owing to the darkness. The next day , however , Sword Bearer , was called into the agent's ollico and given a good talking to. According to the interpreter , who was present at the consultation , the modi-cine man was very haughty and declared that ho would never consent to bo arrested and locked up in the guard house. That was the time ho should have been taken into custody , but the agent did not understand the tenor of his remarks and permitted him to go buck to his people. " "Things went on from bud to worse , until finally I was ordered to the reser vation and the aid of the military was invoked to arrest the offenders. All tills time Cra/v Head had been profess ing amity with the whites , but wo learned that while ho would talk very smoothly when with us , as FOOII as ho returned to the tribe ho would reverse his language. This was demonstrated the night preceding the skirmish in which the medicine man was killed and the Crows taught a lesson that I do not think they will over forget The demand has been made for the surrender of those concerned in the fir ing into the trader's store , ono of whom was Cra/y Head's son , and who is ono of the eight prisoners now confined at Fort Snelling. Indian police wore de tailed to keep Cra/.y Head , Deaf Bull and Sword Bearer under surveilanco , and while these three was consulting together in u lodge , ono of our mon wus outside and heard their conversation. Cra/y Head was foremost in favor of lighting the whites and counselled strongly against surrendering the poo- pi o that wo had demanded. The con versation was reported to mo by day break the moaning of the light and the troops were posted where they could command the situation. On an open plain between the reservation and the bluffs on the opposite side of the river , the Indians wore encamped and all their movements were plainly visible from our camp. Sword Bearer , accom panied by a single warrior , announced to his followers that ho would ride all around us and that wo could not harm him. Accordingly ho started out , wav ing his saber , apparently unnoticed by the soldiers. Just as soon us ho wus separated from his tribe some distance , a company of cavalry was ordered to intorcopt'him and bring him into camp , dead or alivo. Sword Bearer divined our motive , and , turning his horse , gal loped back to his camp , the soldiers pursuing him. The Indians opened ranks to receive himimd when our men weroatclobo range firing begun from the Indian side and a corporal was killed and two soldiers were wounded. To show the perfect discipline that was maintained , not one of the cavalry men returned the fire , and it was not until the Indians begun a second attack that the welcome order came. Then it was that Sword Bearer was picked oil by a sharpshooter , and four of his companions were killed by the same lire. The troops began closing in on them , whereupon the Indians scat tered and sought safety on the rcporva- tlons , the fall of their leader having a very depressing effect. Such was our position , that , had it been deemed do- binible , wo could have covered the field _ with ( lend Indians , and thN , the Crnw ( afterwards said , showed that the whit' ' ] men did not want to harm them , for ij they hud kept on firing not a single 6nu would have escaped. When wo weni over into the Indian camp wo found that ] they had dug rillo-pitsand the one conn puny of cavalry engaged dislodge them. Another Itiineo Victim. New York Times : Captain Thomas C. Ring , oiio of the oldest and most re-i speeted business men of Newburg , Now York , wus recently accosted by a younj man who claimed to bo an old acquaint unco , and si id that ho had bought tickets for a book entitled a "History of Orange County ; that lie had drawn , two sets , and that , as ho only wunteit one , ho would DO pleased to make a , present of the other to the captain. The stranger look the captain to the house 72 Montgomery street , whore there was another man , who figured as agent for. the books. Ho said the books hud not yet boon received ; us tba , printers bud disappointed them. Ho then produced the tickets and suh they hud a chance to draw for a iirix.o. There were on the table two puckngjw of money , each purporting to contain ] SOOO. . * Ring and the first man each1 drew four tickets or curds' , which , when , ' compared with the chart , showed thaft each had drawn * .r > , ( MM ) . The protoiulo book agent said that he was acting fey other persons and wanted to be satisfied , that the two wore responsible men. , The man who had brought Ring to the * house said his name was Rumsdell , and lie was well ncfjuainled with Hiinoii ( Rumsdell. The book agent insisted ] that Ring should show that ho waa x worth So.OOO. Ring went to the bunk and got $ l2,00\ ! ( \ , worth of Erie railroad and Newburg. Gus company stock that he owned , am ? returned. The book agent said ho could not certify that the sccurilicH were all right , and King would have to product ) towncity or go\eminent bonds. Ring returned to the hank and got , JX)0 ( ! ( ) in Albany city coupon bonds , also bis property. The book agent was sat isfied with those. Ho said ho had tu cert if v to the president of his company that 'ho hud seen the amount in that sort of bonds. The man Ring hud first mot hud in the meantime satisfied the book agon ! tlmt ho was responsible. Then the book agent said they hud been very fortunatu in the drawing , and they hud two inorti chances. Ring said lie would not draw any more. Rumsdoll then took the curds from Ring and drew for himself and Ring. The book agent said win had lostand seized Ring's bonds. Ring demanded his properly , and threatened to send for the police. The pretended book agent jeeringly said ho would go to the police station with him. Whllo the wrangle was in progress the bondn disappeared' Ring i-ays ho does not know how. The two sharpers then made their escape with the bonds. There Is no trace of the swindlers. Ring bus been treasurer of the savings bunk hero for many years , and has am ple means , Tl'o bunk is not concerned in any way in the transaction. A cable dispatch from Paris , of Octo ber 1(1 ( says : The government him grunted a" concession to the French Cable company , with interest guaran teed , for a cable connecting Bru/.il.Con- trul America , the Antilles anil New York. Fifteen million francs to con struct the cable have been subscribed. It Is said , mid admitted , that an amicable understanding exists between the Western Union and Postal Com panies us to rates. This roportJlitiH cur. roney in spite of other reports thut thft iKstal is to bo made thu nucleus if u bigger opposition thun ever ,
