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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

FITS stonpPd free ana permanently cured. n
FITS tflrr hrst days OF Dr. Kline IS Great Nerv
Rcstorcr. Free So trial bottle aud treatise
send TO DR.. KLINE. 9S1 Arch ST., Philadelphia, Pr
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

PEACE INSTITUTE, Raleigh, N. ca old
reliable fchool fOr rrls q officer ma teachers 10Th
lish and Latin $50 year Postal brings Catalogue
JAS. DINMIDnIE. N. A.. PriMelpnl
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

Piso's Cure for Consumption has beer
a God-send TO me.-Wm. B. Mcclellan,
Chester, Florida, sept. II, 1885.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

One good deed is worth about II
bushel improperly made out and re.
corded.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

A gun is not doing much execution
when it hangs fire.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

1t was so hot in Chicago last wee;
that IA ice box took fire.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

Poverty is Ia want OF much, but
aVarice demands the enrth.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

What is popular opinion to-day may
become unpopular opinion to morrow
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

rs very old woman that boacts Of
ncr age.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

Personal abuse is net political argu-
nont.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

Robecca Droadman is the wife Of
travelling salesman and she does not
inow where her husband is, although
he is still awe ting his return in New
York, what she does know, however, is
hat before departing IN his last trip
her husband sold her to George A..
Grccnburg for 5000. Consequently
Grcenhurg took possession of his bar
gain. She, however loves her husband
and in perfect good faith has appealed
10 tho courts to know t. the sale" was
authentic Al the parties are ltus-
gtGrs
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

There is blissCul ignorance that
comes with every diploma.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26
DINNER FOR THE ORPHANS
Celebration of Christmas at the Christian
Home.
INSTITUTION SERVES AN ELABORATE MEAL
Render nm Extensive Musical nnd
Literary Program In the Chapel
with Many Little Ones
Present.
INSTITUTION SERVES AN ELABORATE MEAL

The celebration OF Christmas at the Chris
tlan home esterday was the event OF the
day. The dlnner was the most elaborate
ever given at the institution. 1t was served
in the large dining room of the home and
lasted from / until nearly o'clock. The
little orphans most heartily enjoyed the
feast Manager Lemen and Mrs Lemen
were not permitted to enter the dining hall
until the tables were ready for the guests,
and then they were escorted in at the head
of the 25O children and the home workers.
They were treated to a most agreeable sur
prise The tig dining hall had been liter
ally transformed during the previous twen-
ty-four hours. The employees of the home
and the children had contributed to fund
for the purpose of dcfraying the expense or
repapering and painting the room. A force
of paper-haIgers and painters were put to
work after the manager and his wife had
retired, and the entire night was spent in
the work. The finishing touches were put
on after daylight, ard when Mr.. and Mrs
Lemcn visited the hall they could scarcely
believe that a band of good fairies had not
been at work while they slept The room
was beautifully decorated.
LITERARY AND MUSICAL PROGRAM.
At 3 o'clock a literary and musical pro-
gram was given by the children in the
were relieved of their burdens. Several
hundred dollars worth of beautiful pres
onts had been sent in by friends of the
home. They came from almost every state
in the union. There was am armful of toys
for every child, and every little one was
laden down with nuts and candy.
large number of visitors from the city
and abroad were present to see the children
enjoy the happiest Christmas they had
ever known. Never in the history of the
institution has there been such am interest
manifested in the welfare of the children.
and while celebrating the fact that the def
cheney that has hung over the home all
the year has been wiped out they also re-
joiced in the knowledge that many new
friends have been found to take an interest
in their welfare.
The colored people had cake-walk in Lib
erty hall last evening. Half of the negroes
in town were there, and the competition for
the prize, cake two feet in diameter, was
spirited universal j. G. Upton of Omaha,
Captain Cousins and ]. w. Morse of this
city were the judges. The grand procession
swept through the hall many times before
the judges could determine upon whom to
bestow the prize. The honor was eventually
conferred upon Miss Neatly, daughter of the
police patrol driver and her escort. An
other contest for the same prize will be
made in the hall this evening.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26
QUARREL OVER USE OF RANGE
Cottlemen and sheepmen in Colorado
Threaten Each Other
WAR MAY BREAK OUT AT ANY TIME
Cntticmcn Are Organized In Come
pnnies and Declare sheep Must
lie Kept ON other side OF
the boundary Line.

DENVER, Dec. 25.--Advices received from
Routt county indicate that war between tho
cattlomen and the shcepmen may break out
any day. For the past few days cattlemen,
raugemen and others interested in MAIN
tanning the range OF Routt county for the
benefit OF cattle. have been congrogating in
the northwestern portion of the county at
point on Lower Snake river. The men
came in twos and thrces and in companies
is we'll mounted and thoroughly armed Mess
wagons accompanied many of the largest
outfits and every preparation appears to have
been made for lengthy campaign. There
are fully 250 men in two camps on Snake
river.
Military rule has been adopted and the
men are divided into companies, each COM
pany having a captain with a commander
n-chief in charge OF the entire force. No
ono is allowed to come or go without being
accounted for This prccau-
tion is due to a report which was received
to the effect that Grif and Jack Edwards.
the principal sheep owners have secured the
services of large force Of men to meet the
cattle owners. The present trouble has been
brewing for some months and feeling has
been running high, especially in Browns
Park county. where the greater portion of
the sheep are now ranging. The Browns
Park men say their cattle range Is being
utterly devastated by the sheep. The stock
mon will request the sheepmen to remove
the sheep across the boundary line and IL
they refuse will assume the task themselves
and maintain guard to enforce the bound
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26

OF gold in the form OF sponge or gold leaf,
are jammed and pushed and pounded into
the worlds teeth. TO be carried around for
n few years aud then borne To- the ccmeter.
les, which thus become vcrtable gold mines.
Every china set with It's pieces bordcrcd
with gilt helps to depete the worlds stock
OF precious metal; every cup in the BARRIERS
shelves, handsomely lettered with the name
OF the customer to whose use it IS oNclu-
sivcly devoted takes a certain amount OF
gold from the visible supply; every plated
collar button, though sold for dime, helps
to exhaust the worlds gold. Rings and car
rings and brooches and bracelets become
dirty and are cleaned, and every time they
are subjected TO this process a little OF the
gold Is removed. silver articles blacken
from the gases In the atmosphere the black
coating Is rubbed away, without a thought
that 1t Is silver which has been altered In
appearance through chemical action. Every
great fire burns up some gold and silver;
every ship that goes to the bottom Of the
ocean carries with 1t more or less of the
precious metals. Coins are daily lost from
hand or pocket and never found by the
loser, Sometimes they are picked up by
other persons. but as frequently ac not they
are covered up In the sweepings or mud OF
the streets, thrown into the dust wagon
by the registered voters who transact this
part of the city's business and 80 to the
dump, where they are lost forever. Not a
cine common tonic now being made of this
metal while much more vanishes into the
systems of once bibulous citizens anxious to
be freed from their bondage to the cups that
inebriate quite as much as cheer. In each
and every case the destruction of material
is complete In large establishments where
gold and silver are worked into various
formg some OF the waste may be recovered;
the carpets and pieces Of buckskin used to
catcA the filings are burned; the bags used TO
transport coin and the barrels In which 1t Is
stored are similarly treated, but no human
skill has yet been able to devise ways aud
means TO prevent loss from abrasion or re-
cover the metal worn away. In one way or
another the loss Is continually going on,
total loss that must be replaced from the
worlds mines 1t Is well that these appear
to be ineXhaustible; that every year new
mines are opened, new fields abounding in
precious metals are discovered; that new
processes which cicapen the production arc
invented. for were this not the case in
comparatively brief period the jewelers. and
the photographers, the dentists and the
china makers, the painters and the publish
ers, the doctors and the electrotypers, the
Chinamen and the Hindoos would use up or
hide away all the gold and silver and COM
pei us to resort to system of bartering for
everything we need in daily life.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26
POWER LOST IN sHAFTING.
Great Source of Waste in Ma.
chinery Described,

chinery Described.
Some interesting experiments were con-
Quoted recently by C. ii. Benjamin, professor
of mechanical engirS ering at the Case School
of Applied Science at Cleveland, to deter
mine by actual observation in factories of
various kinds just what loss occurred
through friction in transmitting power by
belts and shafting from the engines to
the driven machines. The resulting figures
of loss must prove startling to factory
owners, and they will also serve as a guide
to engineers.
The observations were made in sixteen
factories, each engaged in a different kind
of work, relates the New York Sun. The
method of making observations was as fol-
lows: During the daytime when the works
were in operation and the machines were
running, indicator cards, showing the work
being done by the engines, were taken each
hour. Then during the noon hour, or at
night, when the engines were driving only
the shafting, similar cards were taken,
and when these and the first ones had been
averaged the difference between the power
required to drive the whole shop was found,
and this reduced again to a percentage.
The most startling loss was found In
bridge material factory, where the shops
were spread over a lot OF ground. Eighty
per cent. In this factory the machinery is
the shafting there. In a planning mill the
factory 1t was nearly 20 per cent. II was
II per cent in a stamping mill and 65 per
cent in q boiler and machine works. The
average loss for heavy machine shops was
found to be 62.3 per cent. The average
for light machine work was 55.1 per cent,
and in but one instance did the loss fall
below 47.3 per cent.
In this one case the percentage OF loss was
SO small that II must serve as a serious
commentary upon the character OF the work
generally done in putting up shafting. This
was in a steel screw works and the loss was
only 145 per cent. In this factory the ma
chinery Is all of the automatic type, very
compactly arranged. and the shafting had
been put up in the most careful manner.
The shafting was in perfect alignment and
ran in hard cast-iron boxes without babbitt
metal. Ii Is supported by very rigid hangers
and was oiled by hand instead of wick oilers.
The results OF these observations were pre-
scented to the American Society OF Mechanical
Engineers at It's recent meeting in paper
by Prof. Benjamin and tables were given
which showed the number OF feet of shaftng
run In each OF the factories under observation
and other features of the tests.
One explanation OF this immense loss OF
power, Prof. Benjamin says, is economy in
either the quantity or the quality
of the oil used This cuts down
the apparent size OF the bills
for shop expense, while the coal and water
bills go piling up. Where the loss is due to
an extended and complicated system OF shaft
ing he suggests that 1t would be we'll to in
qure whether a saving could not be made by
using electricity for transmitting the power
Many factories have already found that this
was the readiest means of economy.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26
Colony ut TopOIobnmpO "A Thing of
the Past.


the Past.
Albert r. Owen and his famous Topolo-
bampo colony are again before the public,
but probably for the last time. The colony
has heen noted for years as the largest eX-
ample of an attempt to found colony or So
cety on practical lines which would en-
body the ideas OF holding property in COM
mon devoting all effort to the enrichment
OF the whole community and other sociulistic
and communistic dreams. But, like all
other attempts of like nature. says the San
Francisco Examiner, the venture is not
success. and now the Mexican government
has taken a hand and revoked Owens con-
cession to the land occupied by the colony
in the state OF Sinaloa. The effect Will be
to summarily dispose OF the ideal commu-
nifty, whose members-all OF them now poor
and without frlends-must work their way
back to the United tSates to face the old con-
ditions OF competition and survival of the
fttest.
The colony was started about eight years
ago under a concession granted by the Mex
lean government to Albert II. owen, an east
ern enthusiast. Work on quite a large
scale was started developing the undoubt-
edy rich section bordering the Rio Fuerie
and several hundred colonists were attracted
from various parts OF the United States.
Most OF them were poor people. The colony
had no money, but transacted business In
script called Credits" every member Of the
colony receiving these for work or produce.
The Affairs were managed personally by
Owen and few friends, who took matters
into their own hands entirely too much to
suit the Independent colonists. who left as
soon as they could-at least those who re-
tained enough money. Others were com
PEELED to remain there and work.
Owen inaugurated many impracticable inn
provements upon society as II is organized
in other communities but the colonlsts.
either through obtuseness or an inability TO
reform their natures, were unable to follow
the new rules with much success. One OF
the rules was that desire for gain should be
eliminated. making all property common with
a benefcient company to look after the for
tunes of all The industrious and thrifty re-
belled at this when they saw the lazy and
result was the same old story-failure OF the
communistic idea in actual practice.
Owen had several ambitious ventures on
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26
A PHILosopHIC ENTERPRISE.
4 Man who Believed In Yielding;
GrncrfnlIN to tho IncNitnbIc.

Gracefully to the Inevitable.
The hardware dealer came up to attend to
enelooking old gentleman, who had
been drawing something with a lead pencil
on the wrapping paper on the counter, says
the Washington Star.
There" the customer said. holding up
the results of his efforts, you see that
drawing?"
''You mean that circle?"
TITS circle as near as | could approx
mate 1t without instruments. ] wish to
submit that as the plans and specifications
for an augur / desire to purchase a tool
that will bore hole just that size"
you want it for very exact piece of
work?"
Eyes, sir"
The dealer sold him the augur, and then
remarked:
"If you are builder I'd like to show you
some new goods we've got in in the way Of
carpenters tools"
ut wouldn't be OF the slightest use. This
will be my debut as an artisan. II | weren't
a human and sympathetic person | wouldn't
begin at this late day in life. but ] know
just what | want done, and ] won't trust
it to a hired man. Every night for the last
three weeks l have heard cravings around
the woodwork in my sleeping ROOM"
Mice"
at must be mice. Now, these animals
have their communities and thoronghfares
just the same as people have
"You ought to set traps for them"
at wouldn't do any good. AS soon as you
catch one, others will come. A certain area
of available territory is in the economy of
nature expected to support a certain number
of MICE and there's no use in trying to de-
populate 1t. The best thing to do is to
arrange 1t so they will make as little dis
turbance as possible. / am even-tempered,
but | confess that the gnawing annoys me.
But it's evidently occasioned by some plans
for street extension that they have decided to
carry out, and there is no use in delaying
the undertaking by interfering with them
So have located the spots where they are
operating and taken the measure of hole
they have already gnawed. Now / am 60
ing to take this augur and bore holes wher
ever they're needed, thereby greatly facilitat-
ing their endeavors, and securing to myself
several hours of much-needed sleep every
night"
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26
VENTURES WHERE ICE is TOO THIN.
Small Boy's Life Saved by the Cour-
age OF u Railroad Man.

SEuIl BOy's Lie SnNcu by the tOur-
age of Railroad Man.
Carl Jensen, a 12-year-old boy, had n mar
row escape from drowning yesterday after
noon while skating on Spoon lake near the
Union Pacific transfer. For about a quarter
OF an hour he was in deep water before aid
could be brought to him. But for the brav-
cry of Mike Melvin, a Union Pacific hostler
he would undoubtedly have been drowned
The cold snap has not been sufficient to
make the ice thick enough to sustain much
weight. Especially was the ice thin on the
larger part of the lake. Only the smaller
boys ventured out on the large Spoon and
Jensen was one of them. He was skating
about near the center of the wide part of the
lake when he broke through. He could swim
a little and managed to grasp hold of the
edge Of the ice. This kept continually break
ing under his weight and his cries for help
soon brought large crowd about the place
Owing to the thinness Of the ice no one
dared for time to approach the hole where
Jensen was making a desperate effort to
keep his head above water
In the excitement two High school cadets
started out to the rescue. They managed to
get within about fifty feet of the boy when
the cracking of the ice frightened them and
their courage failed. William Carruthers
was one of the first on the scene AS he
ran to where the boy was foundering he
loosed two reins from the harness of horse
btduulHB anu tObSCu out 10 lHe
two cadets. They got excited and threw
the rens toward the boy, failing to keep
hold OF the other end.
The boy In the icy water was crying pit
eously for help all this time and would have
given up in another minute when Mike Mel
vim came running up. He was warned not
to so on the ice, as II would not sustain his
weight He never hesitated an instant, but
dashed toward the boy. His rapid motion
sustained him for time, but before he had
reached Jensen he broke through. The wa
ter where the boy was is fully fifteen feet
deep Melvin swan toward the rapidly fail
ing boy, breaking the Ice as he pushed his
way forward, AS he reached the boy he put
one arm around him and with the other sus-
tanned his own weight Some panks had
been brought in the meantime and one was
pushed out to the two High school boys
Melvin had taken hold of the reins as he
broke his way through the ice. The cadets
pushed the plank ahead of them and man
aged to get hold of the other end of the
reins. In this way the man and boy in the
water and the two cadets held on until
bridge OF planks was built out to them by
the men and boys who had come to the
rescue.
Young Jensen was taken out and managed
to skate to the shore when he was carried
TO one Of the neighborng railroad sheds and
his clothes dried before he was allowed to
go home,
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26
Aluminium nurfnI CnsI.ets.

Aluminium coffins are the latest and are of
uniform width, square ends and vertical
sides They are finished with n heavy mold
ing around the bottom and at the upper
edge, and with piasters at the corners and
a round nodded tol Aluminium caskets are
not covered, but finished with the metallic
surface FURNISHED. The noncorrosive quail
ties OF aluminium, as well as the lightness of
the caskets. recommend them. A siX-foot
aluminium coffin weighs about 100 pounds.
They are, however, very expensive.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26

foot. amorR others the construction Of a rail-
road through parts Of the states OF Sinaloa.
Sonora. chihuahua and Coahuila. The gov
crnment in consideration Of forfeit Of $4,000
in bonds OF the public debt and a contract
10 survey the public lands along the railroad
and to settle 500 families on the lands within
two years granted him n large tract OF land
perhaps 100000 acres. This contract was
dated in February, 1890. and owen, after six
years OF struggling against human nature,
has failed Hts concession has accordingly
been annulled II is believed this will mean
the speedy dissolution OF the Sinaloan
Iffnpia
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26
Fine opal rings ana Plus at wollman'
Printers, Annual Rail.

The fifteenth annual masquerade ball OF
Bluffs City Typographical union at Odd Fell
lows hall was attended by large COM
pany, the event being one OF the most sue
cessful of the kind ever given in the city.
Many and varied were the costumes worn.
Excellent music was furnished, and an eX-
tended dance program was enjoyed.
f. c. simmons was master OF ceremonies,
assisted by the following committees, in
charge OF the entertainment: Arrangements
j. NJ Thomas. J. II. Dietrich and T. r.
Drake. Floor-W b. Fisher. George Irwin.
J. II. Lewis. c. NJ. Maynard. J. ]. Kirley and
George w. German. Reecption-D. NJ. Mic
oil, George w. Ryan, II. C. Bante. Arthur
Pickering, G.. ID. Riggs, o. p. Black, A. A.
Hesler and John Hinkel.
Souvenir programs were given to all the
dancers, which were quite artistic Several
OF the members of the union had devoted
much time and thought to getting them out
and as result the work was perhaps the
finest ever produced in the city
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26
Happily blended.

We venture to say that our store is the
best arranged in the city, filled with rare
gems of diamonds, fine jewelry, watches and
chains, slvcrware and silver novelties.
We make specially low prices on table cut
lery, carving sets and full tea SETS quadruple
plate. C. b. JACQUEMIN & CO.,
"a South Main street.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-26

Jones-You say you want to make money
quick?
Smith, do. That's what I'm after.
well. here Is your chance. The shad
lays $4,000 eggs in twenty-four hours"
well, what OF it?'
Hear me out. Put your wits TO work
and get up cross between the shad and
tho barnyard hens. and you can make $780,
900 a day."