THE OMAHA SUNDAY UKK: .1 ANTARV L 1110.
BEIL'S TELEPHONE VISION
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Increasing Prosperity Meant Work
for More Householders.
FIFTY-FIVE NEW EMPLOYERS
Kitrmliia of
llnaacs In
l-'nrtorlra and llualneas
1 rap Means rarly
Ttoaaaad More families in
iroaav In Omaha.
M.-i! 1st it's printed hi th' .X w Yeur's
ilition of Th Hen show clfirly why
Omaha needs so many new residences and
why lhy are all filling n fast a thv
are built. Th query Ih often h-erd an to
where so many people come from to fill
all the new houses which are built In nil
rtlnns of the city each year. The figures
given nnwr the question.
Under the heHl of new Industries The
Bee printed, a list of fifty-five new con
cern which have opened up for business
In Omaha during lW.t. These new con
cerns employ between WO and l.ooo men and
a most of th-uo men are either sl.'iP'd
workmen or well paid salesmen It Is noted
that ft mnjorlty of these are heads of
families and will require houses to live In.
ivnt only have many new concerns come,
but nearly all other Industries show an
Increase In their business which mean
they are employing new men all the while.
Thin all mean an added population and
also means the grocery stores and meat
markets need more men to handli the
goods to feed them and thus attain Is the
population of Omaha Increased. Thus more
houses are needed. Omaha has fewer Va
cant houses than any city of Its class In
the country. Those who doubt the as
sertion need only to start house hunting. -
Heal estate men are working In doner
harmony with Urn Omaha Commercial
club in assisting to secure new Industries
than t ver before. The tlnte has passed when
real estate men put stumbllnK blocks in the
Way of new Industries coming to Omaha.
It was not long ago since real estate men
boosted the price of land as soon as they
learned that It was really needed for a
factory site or as a location for a ware
bouse. Now the real estate men, who meet
each week at the Commercial club rooms
are working harmoniously wit It the club
In assisting to locate new factories and
different Industries, realizing that by this
means Omaha is fast forging to the front
and growing. ,
The announcement of two new large
buildings at the close of the year has put
Omaha lit the skyscraper class of cities.
The Union Pacific gave Omaha, a Christmas
present of a new twelve-Btory headquarters
building, and, as a New Year's gift, the
Woodmen of the World announce they had
decided upon a location for their new
headquarters building which they say 1 to
be sixteen stories lilah.
The rapidity with which the new City
National bank building la being reared Into
the air was shown last week when two
stories of steel were added. At the close
of the week before the huge derrick was
placed on the top "of the seventh story.
The steel Is now In place for two more
stoiles. The work Is being done In spite
of the zero weather.
DIFFERENCE BE I WEEN US
Irlah DrnmatlHt Veati ( entrant the j
KualUbiiiun and the Ameri
can. .
The Kimilsh" ahd Ani'ei'itaii.i both chase
the dollar. The contrast' lies In w"hat they
do with it when it is caught. The ISngllsh
n an naves and husbands his dollar; the
Atnericuu spends it. Curiosity Impels the
American; he would exhaustively test life
and see what it is made of; curiosity is
his form of the prima! and powerful In
Ktinct of Kovlh. The Englishman has not
this appotlte; tic Is born blase. Have not
his ancestors long; ago discovered the van
ity of llfo and Its pleasures? He Is supe
rior to these allurements and plaoes his
happiness in a sort of solidified egoism,
solidified ai.d enlarged by the conscious
ness of unsunned heaps laid away In stocks
and shares and sound .business Invest
ments. '
The Americans have no manners; they
say so themselves In a confession which Is
half penitent and half proud. More circum
spect even than his polite neighbors the
French is the Englishman on the subject
of his manners. ' They are not good, but
that Is not because he has not taken great
pains, or that he hah any doubts as to his
completo success, but because his Ideals are
wrong'. The Americans' no-manners have
an Imaginative! basis, ure, in fact, u look
ing back and a
poetical .-remembrance of
the time when they were settlers In a ;
new land, fightlnir Indians and wild beasts
, and beset with Incredible dangers and dlf- '
ficultles, so that every arte had to be rough
0,1" well as neighborly their roughness the
unkindly side of a real kindness and often
Vtho greater the roughness the givater and
"vtiioie efficient the kindness. Vt.ur genuine
, uneiiean remembers the backswoods; his
fiiWirs befor. Mm have told the story;
ho Is of all men the most poetical; only
he puts all his poetry Into action; his stren
uous l'lii ltlun ethics despising as effimlnaU
.he strange contemplative and willful ways
of artist and poet and musician. Manners
as a brunch ft the fine .tils lie has not;
but he Is Indeed an obtuse observer who
does net soon discover behind the 110
inamicrs the old spirit of backwoods help
fulness. The Kuropean, perhaps, has the
edvantuge in the drawing room, but for
a real emergency It Is better to it ly n
an American at least It was mi stated u
me by a woman who -aiil situ had til d
both men.
Attentively watching the Amciicaii and
the English In their behavior I discover
f subtle contrast. The American seeks
opportunity to do you a service, v. Idle it
Is the prldA of thu Englishman to bo
lerved. "Service is honorable," was the
motto of medieval Europe, proud in its
hciiilllty. To serve, to render continual
service at the call of affection, fidelity,
gratitude, family allegiaucc, loyally to
leader, love'for your sweetheart, rever
ence for age or weakness, to serve even
for service's sake, m the dream of ro
mantic poetry and ancient chivalry. I'roud,
elfish commerce reverses this and pro
nounces service to be menial. Can it be
that herelu Ainer'ctt is medieval and Eng
land the modern, up-to-date nation? The
peasant races ol Europe whom change has
not touched may be brought with him to
the new world this noble fragment of an
ancient world. Pe.haps we may all r-tdrn
to it. Civilisation has often had to retrace
its footsteps.
In the English home the husband rules,
In America It Is the wife. I know the poet
Milton thought tha wife should be a pretty
and pleasing drudge; 1 know that the Purl
tan husband liked his wife to be a drudge
and preferred her plain featured, and I
know that French gallantry likes her to
be a subtle wanton; 1 know also that Wil
liam the Conqueror flogged with a stirrup
leather the young lady of hla choice whom
he afterward married. These are great
authorities, but what have the primal In
sill eu to tell us? What do the low lyrics
y? Intei rugate a geiieruuit young ma.t
of any vuuntty, having his first and strong-
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Getting Best Results in Home
The Practical Square Houae.
The easiest house to plan and the cheap
est to build Is what we term a suuare
house, meaning a house under one un
broken roof wIUi as few breaks In the
vail as possible. For the man who builds
on an acre of ground it Is not necessary to
plan his house within a single rectangle
and many pleasing effects are obtained
In the Kngllsh domestic style by planning
the house somewhat rambling In appear
ance. For the average city lot not ex
ceeding seventy-five feet In width, a house
planned within a single rectangle is' de
cidedly the most practical, especially if
the broad sldo of the house Is placed
toward the front.
There is a great variety of styles in
which a square house can be designed, the
most permanent of them being the modern
ised colonial style. In other words, the
colonial style adapted to modern reuulre
ments. . Bettet shaped and linger rooms
can be obtaincu in a scuare house for u
crtuln amount of money than in a
hom;e Irregular In shape built at t'.ie same
cost, un.i of the advantages of a siuiare
house Is the homelike assemblage uf thu
rooms on the first floor. The kitchen, of
course. Is seeludijd. but all of the other
rooms .uid reception hall, each connected
by vi ry wlila openings can be drawn to-
ftethrr In one large, roomy Interior, giving
the t fl'ici of llstancs and overcoming the
slHii-hrfe'eliii;j which one experiences when
sittlni, In a ro'im entirely enclosed, being
connected with the adjoining rooms only
by narrow doors.
Take for example the Illustration ac
compnnlng this article. The entrance is
In tiln center of the house. As one enters
a good view Is obtained at a glance of
the Klairuay, the art glass windows above
the landing, -the library, the living room,
with its pleasing fireplace and the side
board In the dining room. The rooms on
the second flooi are grouped around a
broad hall In the center of the house,
which Is well lighted by the windows in
the stair UtndiiiK. This arrangement is far
i KUpriinr to the lony and narrow hulls one
to often sets hi t.'iii; and narrow houses.
; Since u square house provides less wall
sin fact t' the weather in proportion to the
amount of Hour space in square feet, it is
est passion, and what does he say? Is not
his hilnd all contact uf adoration, the atti
tude of an Inferior to a superior? And
she what response does the fair one make
to her lover's adoration?. Or set into the
confidence of an old couple long used to
each other, and how will they reply? 1
answer for them that, while the husband
wlil praise the wife to the skies for good
sense, tact and wisdom, she will show her
fcelf to be the critic, probably the satirist,
although an affectionate satirist, not a
fault escaping her loving eye. It Is for his
faults she loves hlin; she knows she is Ills
tutelary genius, made so, as I believe, by
the sacred maternal Instinct planted In her
from the beginning, and he knows and ac
cepts It. It Is a blind, groping Instinct that
will employ Itself on anything it can lay
Its hands on, a curious, subtle instinct that
regards the husband aa a sort of first born.
We men are the worker and fighters,
and all that our womenklnd expect of us la
that we be forceable. with them to find
the wisdom. We are creatures of ex
cess from birth to age; it ia for them- to
find temperance, sobriety, sense of propor
tion; our faults are their opportunity. It
bores a man. to be admired by his wife. It
is the wrong sort of woman that worships
her lover and loses him like the poor
Ophe'la. It is an ill-guided house where
the woman does not rule. A house ruled
by a man Is a relic of barbarism. A woman
has the secret she rules by serving.
In America, so far. they have no class
feeling; in England It abounds, it circu
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aims to give me intending home
buiider advice on subjects such as
buying itiu lot, plaiynng the home,
.cuing the contraci, cuooslng the
materials, etc. Piuiileniu uooul front
doors, windows, stairways, fire
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questions that could be anticipated
are answered and the book should
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about to plan a home. It is pro
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Arthur C. Clausen, 1136-37-J8 Lumber
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easier to heat, taking less radiation in the
first pluce, which means a reduction in the
cost of the heating plant. Here is an Il
lustration. If the plan accompanying this
articht were built entirely as shown ex
cept that the library and the chamber di
rectly over It be taken out, there would
be much less floor space, but the same
amount of exterior wall surface, for the
wall going to the inside corner would be
identical in size and shape as the walls
going around the outside corner Of the
llbn&ry as it is planned. Corners and
angles in any kind of mill work always
run into considerable expense, because of
the labor involved in making them. Take
the paneled beam ceiling or an elaborate
wainscoting or stairway. Few people real
ise the amount of labor It takes to neatly
lates, it penetrates everywhere, and gets
into every home. It Is the air Englishmen
breathe; the old men and old women give
exhortatlomi and the children prattle of It;
for orn unmarried maids live by it; they
are the depositories of its traditions. Its
oracles and its sikeswomen, It Is the
vthulebone in their stays.
Vet It Is all comparatively recent; Shake
speare and the Elizabethans knew nothing
uf It; it Is about as modern as the steam
engine. John B. Yeats in Harper's Weekly.
THE SHAME OF THE COUNTRY
Record ot Lynching for the Year,
Eleven Whites, FIftr-ulue
Met; roes.
Eyucliings in UHM have numbered seventy,
the highest number recorded since VM.
The victims numbered eleven whites and
fifty-nine negroes.
The lyiiuhliiss occurred In twelve states
and on territory. New Mexico. As In
previous years, crimes or alleged crimes
against white women and murders caused
most of these summary executions.
One case occurring in Cairo, III., com
bined buth causes and resulted in the
placing of the city under military control
for several days. The ?a:ro lynchings
were the only cases of the kind that ' oc
curred north of the Ohio river during the
year.
Several double lynchlngs occurred at vi
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fit all the little angles and corners of this
class of work. The same principle applies
to the exterior work. While the writer
, does not advocate designing all homes In
a severely plain box-like manner, there are
i so many people who must positively bring
' the cost of their house within a certain
I figure that It is well for such people to
bear these facts In mind and approximate
them as closely as practical for purely
economical reasons.
If the cost of the house is not limited,
that is a different story. Under these
circumstances a man would usually have
a good sized piece of property to start
with, on which he can spread his house
out as suits his taste and, requirements.
Few people give the attention to the pur
chasing of the lot that the Importance of
such a purchase merits. About all they
know, or think they know, is that the lot
should lie level and If there are children In
the family that It would be near a school,
also convenient to some car line. It dots
not occur to them that some of the must
beautiful spots in Minnesota can be found
Just outside of the cities where one can ob
tain acres for what they would pay for a
.single city lot, with thu car lines now
within a few blocks that will extend much
further In due time. The same conven
iences as to light and telephone can
be had in such places with only a slight In
convenience In the water supply uml the
disposing of the sewerage, a condition which
every man has to contend with who builds
in u small city, and seldom thinks any
thing of It. As long as a man has to take
a street car it should make Utile difference
to him if the ride I a 'a little longer and the
advantages over city location In a thickly
populated district aro considered. The
children of a suburban home may have
a little farther to go to school, hut tho
uncontaminattd pure air which they
breathe on the way will more than make
up for the inconvenience of the distance.
A good designer can plan a home for any
location, but he can give a man a great
deal more for his money in the way of a
convenient arrangement if he is not con
fined to the requirements of a city lot,
and can muke a much more attractive
home If he is able to associate that home
with nature's untrauipled handiwork.
llous points in the south, and Oklahoma
furnished a quadruple lynching, with four
cattlemen us the victims.
In the following record the word "lynch
ing" has been l.tld to apply only to the
summary punishment Inflicted by a inco
or by any number of citizens on a per
son alleged to have commuted a crime.
By states the seventy lynching cases here
recorded are classified as follows:
Georgia, 11; Texas, l'l; Florida, S; Louis
iana, 7; Mississippi, 7; Alabama, 6; Okla
homa. 5; Kentucky, I; South Carolina, 3;
Aritunsas, 3; lilino'i, 2; New Mexico, 2;
Missouri. 1; W'tu Virginia, 1. Philadelphia
North American.
Buying Loit.
'An American who was in Naaareth
long ago told lue a strange story. 1 did
not believe him, fur it cannot be true,
lie said that In America people buy i1ok!"
and the mere suggestion of so ludicrous
a transaction sent the assembled group
into paroxyBius of laughter.
"They do." 1 replied.
The pompous former tnaor fell into
such convulsion of merriment that his
rotund face grew the color of burnished
copper.
"Buy dofis?" roared his sons In a chorus
of several languages. "Hut what for?''
Never having settled that question en
tirely to my own satisfaction, 1 parried
It with another. "Mow do you get a dog,
If you want one?"
'W-w-w -why." , answered the eldest son,
wiping the tears from his eyes, "if any
one wants a dog. he tells some one else,
and they give hint one. Hut who eter
wunts a dog." Century Magazine.
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RIDICULED AS A UTOPIAN DREAM
What the rroft-ssnr ml4 About
the leTlee Thirty tears Age
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HcildlilB.
One evening last week there was held in
New York City a dinner In honor of the
directors of I ho AFsoeluted Press, lino of
its features was the most interesting de
velopment yet known In the possibilities of
the telephone. Each of the eighty guests
found ii telephone receiver at his table.
Inning tho evening Caruso and Slczak sang
over the wiro, and each guest, taking down
the receiver at his plate, could hear them.
Following tills eminent men In Washing
Ion Commander 1'ctiry, Andrew Carnegie,
Alexaii'l r UrnliHin r.' ll and Admiral Ches
ter delivered speeches Into the tar of each
guest. Each speaker was miles away.
In view of this astonishing end success
ful telephone experiment extraordinary In
terest attuches to Alexander Uraham Bell's
view, expressed thirty years ago. of the
possibilities of the then new Invention. In
a paper addressed to the members of the
English company organized to Introduce
the telephone in that country Prof. Bell
delivered a prospectus of the future of the
invention on March 23, 1878. U. N. Bethell,
one of the leading telephone men of the
country, was present at the dinner, and he
referred to this prospectus of Mr. Bell's.
It Is reproduced by the New York Times as
follows:
".U has been suggested that at this, our
first meeting, I should lay before you a
few ideas concerning the future of the elec
tric telephone, together with any sugges
tions that occur to me in regard to the
best mode of introducing tho Instrument to
the public
Modest Claims.
"The telephone may bo briefly described
as an electrical contrivance for reproducing
la diant places the tonca and articula
tions of a speaker's voice so that conver
sations can be curried on by word of mouth
between persons In different rooms, in dif
ferent streets, r In different towns.
"The great advantage it possesses over
every other form of electrical apparatus
consists In the fact that it requires no skill
to operate the Instrument. All other tele
graphic machines produce signals which re
quire to be translated by experts, and such
instruments are, therefore, extremely lim
ited in their application, but the telephone
actually speaks, and for this reason it can
bo utilized for nearly every purpose for
which speech is employed.
"The chief obstacle to the universal use
of electricity as a means of communication
between distant points has been the skill
required to operate telegraphic Instruments.
The invention of automatic printing, tele
graphic dial instruments, eta has materi
ally reduced the amount of skill required,
but has Introduced a new element ot diffi
culty in the shape of increased expense.
Simplicity of operation has been obtained
by complication of the parts of the ma
chine, so that such instruments are much
more expensive than those, usually em
ployed by skilled mechanics. The simple
and Inexpensive nature ot the telephone,
on the other hand, renders It possible to
connect every man's house, office, or man
ufactory with a central station so as to
give him the benefit of direct telephonic
communication with his neighbors at a
cost not greater than that incurred by gas
or water.
Future Possibilities.
"At the present time we have a perfect
network of gus pipes and water pipes
throughout our large cities. Wo have
main pipes laid under the streets, com
munlcating by side pipes, with the vari
ous dwellings, enabling the members to
draw their supplies of gas and water from
a common source.
"in a similar manner it Is conceivable
that cables of telephone wires could be
laid underground or suspended overhead,
communicating by branch wires with prl-
vute dwellings, country houses, shops,
manufactories, etc., uniting them through
the main cable with a central office where
the wire could be connected as desired, es
tablishing direct communication between
any two places in the city. Such a plan
as this, though lmpracticaole at the pres
ent moif.em, will, I firmly believe, be the
outcome of the introduction of the tele
phone to the public. Not only so, but I
believe in the future wires will unite the
head offices of telephone companies In
different cities, and a man In one part of
the country may communicate by word of
nioutlT with another In a distant place.
"I am 'aware that such ideas may ap
pear to you Utopian and out of place, for
we are met together for the purpose of
discussing not the futuie of the tele
phone, but Its present.
"Believing, however, as I do that such
u scheme will be the ultimate result of
the telephone to the public, I will Impress
upon you all the advisability of keeping
this end in view, that all present arrange
ments of flie telephone may be eventually
realized In this grand system.
LeHalligr System Irseil.
"The plan usually presented In regard
to private telegraphs is to lease such
lines to private Individuals or to com
panics at a fixed annual rental. This
plan should bo adopted by you, but In
stead of erecting a line stretching directly
from the one to another 1 would advise
you to bring the wires from the two points
to the office of the company and there
connect them together; It this plan be
followed, a large number of wires would
suon be centered In the telephone office,
where they would be easily accessible for
testing purposes. In places remote from
the office ot the company simple testing
boxes could be erected for the telephone
wires of that neighborhood, and these
testing places could at any time be con
vened Into cintial offices when the lessees
of the telephone wires desired intercom-
municatloii.
"Jn rgard to oliier pn t-ent uses for tha
telephone, the instrument can be sup
plied so cheaply as to compete on favor
able, terms with speaking tubes, bells and
annunciators, as a means of communica
tion between different parts ot a house.
This teems to be a favorable application
of the telephone, not only on account of
the laige number of telephones that would
be wanted, hut because It would lead even
tually to the plan of Intercommunication re
lerred to above; I would therefore recom
mend that special arrangements should be
made for the introduction of the tele
phone luio hotels and private buildings In
place of the speaking tubes and annuncia
tors at I'lesent employed. Telephones sold
for this purpose could be stamped or num
bered In such a way as to distinguish
them from those employed for business
purposes, snd an agreement, could be
signed by the purchaser that the telephones
should become forfeited to the company if
used for oilier purposes than those speci
fied In the agreement.
Popularity Probable.
"It Is probable that such a use of the
telt phone would speedily become pop
ular, and that as the public became ac-
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TRACKAGE PROPERTY
We offer for rent the building located at 914 Farnain
street, which is a one story and basement building.
Dimensions are 20x86, approximately 3,300 sq. ft. An
addition to alley could be built to suit tenant. This is in
the wholesale district, being convenient to car line. For
further particulars call
The Bee Building Co.
ruonaa ouia. Ma; 17th and Farnam St3
Independent 1838.
customed to the telephone In their houses
they would recognize the advantages of
system of Intercommunication, wnen
thla time arrives I would advise the com
pany to place telephones free ot charge
for a specified period in a few of the
principal shops, so as to offer to thoRe
householders who work with the c'entral
office the adldtional advantages of oral
communication with their tradespeople.
The central office system, once Inaug
urated In this manner, would Inevitably
grow to enormous proportions, for these
shopkeepers would thus be Induced to
employ the telephone, and as such con
nections with the central office Increased
In number so would the advantages to
householders become more appurent, and
the number of subscribers be Increased.
"Should this plan ever be adopted the
company should employ a man In each
central office for the purpose of connect
ing the Vires as directed. A fixed an
nual rental could be charged for the use
of the wires, or a toll could be levied. As
all connections would necessurlly be made
at the central office, it would be easy to
note the tjrae during which any wires
were connected and to make a charge ac
cordingly. Bills could bo sent In periodi
cally. However small the rate of
charge might be, the revenue would prob
ably be something enormous.
"In conclusion, 1 would suy that It
seems to me that the telephone should
immediately be brought prominently be
fore the public as a means of communi
cation between bankers, merchants, man
ufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers,
dock companies, water companies, police
offices, flio stations, newspuptr offices,
hospitals and public buildings, and for
use In railway offices, in mines and op
erations. "Arrangements should also bo speedily
concluded for tho use of the telephone In
the army Mid navy and by the I'outal
Telegraph department.
"Although there Is a Bleat field for the
telephone In the Immediate present. 1 be
lieve there Is still greater in the futuie.
'By bearing In mind the great object
to be ultimately achieved, I believe Ihat
the telephone company cannot only se
cure for itself a business of the most re
munerative k'nd, but also benefit the
public In a way that has never previously
been attempted.
"1 am, gentlemen, your obedient sei
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"ALKXAKDISK C11AIIA.M ljKl.l.."
WHAT ARE DOCTORS DOING?
About Time for Medical Science tu
Abate "Seoerae of the
-orlb."
It bus probably occurred to Inuuiiieiable
sufferun from what Is generally known
as the "common cold" that It Is about time
for medical science, which has coped suc
cessfully with much more serious prob
lems in disease, to abate a tlislreminn
malady which has been aptly designated
"the scourge of the north." In every
household there is a favorite remedy, hut,
as a matter of fact, no effectual cum Is
known.
In a recent Issue of the British Medical
Journal It Is pointed out that the disease
Ut not one, but many, Its symptoms .being
due to various germs.
The wldespreud belief In cold baths
and the process called "hardening" Is re
Jected. Even the hope held out some time
ago by I r. P.enham, in Ills report to the
Hrlllsh Medical association, that a vaccine
may cut short an attack or make It toler
able, Is nut received with favor, because
Them In
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the microbe of the common cold is not al
ways the same; hence It would be neces
sary first to discover the Identity of tho
particular bug or use a mixed vaccine.
Tho writer In tho Journal quotes Dr.
Kuhn, a German authority on the preven
tion of colds, who believes that they are
not usually contracted from other persons,
but that a chill affords to microbes al
ready In the nose, throat or mouth condi
tions favorable to their activity by alter
ing the cutaneous circulation.
This Is all very well, but it leaves us
exactly where we were wltli a cold la our
heads and nothing to full back upon but
quinine, hot lemonade, nasal sprays or tha
old grandmother remedies of smelling salts
and blackberry tea. Philadelphia Press.
AROUND WQRLD WITH GRANT
Boston Man TelU Interest) nt Stories)
of Fauiona Cruise of the
Uencral.
William P. Will, who sailed as secre
tary of General U. S. Grant on the famous
cruise around the world on the United.
States steamer Vandalia In 1877, tells many
interesting stories of that trip.
In those days the Vandalia was looked
upon as the most beautiful ship In the
American navy and It was because of its
Attractiveness, graceful modeling and spa
cious cabin room that It was selected to
carry the ex-presldunt. Before the vessel
left for Europe the cabins were thor
oughly renovated and fitted out especially
for the comfort of Grant and his family.
Among the many humorous and tragla
incidents of the voyage, howuver, the in
cident that most impressed Itself on tho
mind of all on board the Vandalia waa the
meeting ot Grant and GarabaldL After
visiting several Medeterranean ports 1M
ship steamed into the harbor of Naples.
Grant, was standing on deck near his cabin
admiring the scenery of the harbor and
the excellent view of Mount Vesuvius,
when a rowboat came alongside carrying;
an oldish man with a bushy gray beard.
The man was dressed In an old military
uniform and had a wooden leg. Grant rec
ognized the lono figure in tha rowboat asj
Garabaldl and with a cry of delight has
tened to the side of thl Vandalia.
"Garabaldl made rather slow progress
up the ship's ladder, because of bis wooden
leg. As he reached tha deck the band
played an Italian national air. I wan
standing directly behind General Grant,
and, therefore, could hear everything that
was said, a privilege that the muslo of tin,
band prevented the other men from en
joying. Garabaldl grasped General Grant's
hand, exclaiming, 'Welcome to the Mutat
of America.' Aa General Grant heard tha
words of welcome and felt the pressure of
Garabaldl's band, he began to ory,
"Garabaldl embraced the general, cry
ing, too, as ho understood Grant's reply;
No, general; you are tha greatest general
the world has ever produced.' Still weeping,
Garabaldi shook his bead. While the baud
finished playing the American national
hymn these two great commanders stood
there hugging each other, and crying over
each other's shoulders. Those who saw
those two great strong men weeping from
tho mere pleasure of meeting each other
could not keep from crying, and there was
not a dry eye on the whole ship. It was a
siRhl such as 1 had never seen before and
never expect to see again. Boston Globe,
Heath from lllooil Polaon
was prevented by G. W. Cloyd, Plunk, Mo.,
who healed his dangerous wound with
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