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Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

Boston store annual clearing sale begins
Thursday, Jan. IA. All winter goods to be
sold regardless OF cost or value. Watch this
paper for special announcements.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

Boston store clearing sale begins Thursday.
All winter goods at sacrifice.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
Stockholders Meeting.

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of The Bee Building company will be held
in the office of The Omaha Bee, Omaha,
Neb., at o'clock p. m, Tuesday, January
10, 1897 for the purpose of electing board
of directors for the ensuing year and tho
transaction of such other business as may
properly come before the meeting. BY
order of the president. n. y. FELL,
Secretary.
D2Sd2lt m g. o
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

HofGmayr's fancy patent flour makes the
best and most bread Ask your grocer for 1t.
For Sale-A good double-seated sleigh
cheap. Room No. 8, Brown building.
Fine livery for parties and dances. Ogden
Livery, 15S Broadway. Telephone SO.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15

N. Y. Plumbing company. Tel. $50.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
CITATIONS AND STATE OF
WEATHER.

IT. indicates trace OF precipitation.
L. a. WELSH,
Local Forecast OLciul.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-15
IOWA HAS A GROWING DEFICIT
Auditor Recommends thatIthe State Stop
Building for Tine.
DEBT WILL MORE THAN DOUBLE THIS YEAR
Extraordinary Expenses Incurred in
the Last Two Years Have been
a Hcnvy Drntn Con the
state Treasury.

DES MONIES, Ia, Jan, hi-(Special Tele-
gram )-Governor Drake today received from
the auditor Of state a detailed statement of
the finances of the state. which, with rec
concentrations for future policy, will be the
chief part of the governors message to the
legislature next week. The statement shows
that there Is present deficit Of 1907 ,0I5.
This will be increased to $500 ,7O2 by Janu-
airy 1 next, provided no extraordinary ex-
penses are incurred, and not making an es-
innate for the expenses of the legislative
session, which he estimates at O,OO0, nor
taking into account an appropriation of $751;
000 which will undoubtedly be made to re-
build the Genwood Home for Feeble Minded
Children, destroyed by fire. Taking these
and other necessary items into considera-
tion, the auditor makes a total deficit of
S7O3 ,904 by January 1, 1898. The auditor s
summary is as follows
Warrants outstanding Jan. 2, 1878 593 i59
Estimated expenditures for lS97..... 22A3OI2
Total estimated w'rants for 1897. 81, ,sse, ,5sl
Cash in treasury Jan. 2 lgI.........$ l96 5S5
Estimated receipts for 1S97......... 2,l3L Lii5
Total resources. ;...".. 81, 3S3 S2S
Estimated deficit for Jan. l. 1885,. 5O2 IO2
Total $$G $50 go go
Additional Al estimated for iSS7........ iO5G26
Total dehcit: .'.......':,..... 3Uz, 'O5
Ig the appropriation for the feeble minded
children's institution is made, as noted, ana
If the special session costs 800 900, as l es-
innate, the. deficit January |, 1898, will prob
ably be S7039Oi.
Speaking of this deficit, which has devel-
oped in about two years, the auditor said:
ut is the result of various extraordinary
expenses The soldiers monument; the ex-
penditure of 100000 at the Clarinda asylum
and of 100000 at Cherokee for another
asylum; the census; the Worlds fair; the
Glenwood fire less, have all been extraordinary
expenses. We can live down the deficit by
ceasing to appropriate. We must stop build
ing till we are out of debt The last general
assembly appropriated S250,000 more than our
revenues will produce. The same thing has
been going ON several years We will have
to stop this or issue bonds"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-14

and put piece of stiff buclSram around the sides to give it shape. If the brim is out of gear, wire that. too. and put in plain facing of velvet to conceal the wire. The top of the brim may be trimmed around with width of soft mousseline de soie and few upstand- ing osprey feathers on the left side, making very pretty bit of headgear for the end of the season.
 If your skirt is too shabby for wear, don't throw it away. But may as well tell you about the mother of five girls N ho are always well-dressed. They all work, and are personally very careless, I'm afraid, but their mother looks so we'll to their gowning that many are surprised when told of its cost.
 She never throws away skirt. After it is unfit for street wear the bottom is ripped and any extra Innings and hair cloth taken away. It is then thorough ly brushed and aired; washed, and if of a plain, serviceable color, laid in the sewing basket to be transformed into a petticoat. When one of her daughters uceds an underskirt, out it comes. to be finished with fiounces of silk or heavy lace, as the modes dictate. Many folks, 1t is true. use their worn-out skirts for
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GOOD COLOR PRINTING.
How Henry Bolton Made Some
 Unique Valentines.
Pine Blocks and R PenIknife to Work With-Found Them More Expensive Than Those in
 the Stores.
rcopvright. 1871

It was about the middle of January that 14-year-old Henry Bolton began seriously to think about St. Valentines day and the sending of valentines, and it was the fact that he had used up most of his spending money on new racing skates and other things dear to the heart of 14-year-old boy which caused him to make his own valen- tines.
 The notion was put into his head by reading clipping pasted into a scrap book which told how James Whitcomb Riley began to write rhymes when he was eight or nine years old because he had to make his own valentines or not send any. Being the youngest of a large family of children, he had only very small allowance of pennies, not enough by any means to admit of his buying valentines, as his sisters and brothers were doing. This distressed the child, and it was not till he thought out the plan of making his own colored valen- tine pictures and writing his own rhymes under them that his feelings were relieved.
 Although young Bolton decided to follow in some degree the example set by the Hoosier poet, he did not incline to write rhymes. First, he was not at all sure that he could manufacture good poetry, and, second, he did not propose to initiate anyone too closely.
 It took him a number of days to get fairly at his work He had first to ex- pertinent with number of woods, and he was also obliged to get such an edge on his penknife as it had never had be-
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The completed design is shown in one of the parts of the large cut, and you can understand how it looks if you will imagine that part printed in horizontal lines to be blue, that part printed in vertical lines to be yellow, that part printed in checks to be green and that in dots to be red. Henry had trouble a-plenty with this part of the opera tion. It was necessary to get each color on the paper in exactly the right place in order to show the design properly. Color printers term this the registry" and the pressman who is faulty in this part of the work is not likely to keep his job long in any well-regulated color printing office.
 When the work was all done the boy found that he might have bought val entines cheaper than he had made them, but he concluded that the experi- ence had been worth all the bother. and expense
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petticoats, but they do so without re- making the garment in any way. The result is an unciean, slovenly article of attire, that often hangs beneath the skirt in the back, and is a disgrace to womanldnd. The great lesson to learn is that clothes carefully washed and kept in order cut the expense of a ward. robe in half.
 Now that Persian silk petticoats are so popular, this mother has decided to use all occasional skirt of mixed goods to be made up in this way. A blue novelty goods, with red silk thread. makes a pretty petticoat with three fiounees of the same material pinked out in very large scollops. The pinl1ing is done by the small brother at home, with a set of pinlsing irons. A pale gray hendietta, which served as an Easter gown some seasons ago, is now made into a skirt that is corded around the bottom to make it stand out stiff. A deep 1ounce of cream lace, shirred on deep rose ribbon, is the trimming. Ribbon, by the way, is used instead ot
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NOT LIKELY TO ABDlCATE.
Victoria Will Keep Her Hopeful Son Off
 the Throne a Little Longer.

Victoria Will Keep Her Hopeful Son Off
 the Throne a Little Longer.
 Notwithstanding the prominence giv- en by a London paper to areport that Vic toria wlll abdicate the position of queen of England and empress of India in fa- yor of her son, Albert Edward, it would be best not to be too certain of that un- til the necessary papers are ail signed, sealed and delivered. The house of Hanover is not much given 10 abdica- ton. Victoria's grandfather was in- sane during considerable part of his reign, and regent ruled in his stead for many years. But George was not much inclined to submit to a regency when he was known to be insane, and as to abdicating he did not do that at all, but came within fraction of reign ing so years. Victoria has done the same. though the fraction necessary to complete her 50 years is smaller than was that of George III. at his deatb.
 The notion that Albert Edward is badly needed on the throne of England 1s no doubt very prevalent among the members of the princess set, But this is a very small set as compared with the people of Great Britain, most of whom know that it is entirely immaterial who Is on the throne of England. The king, or queen, is said to reign, though not to rule, a very nice euphemism, which means that he or she has the nomlnal title of sovereign, without possessing any sovereignty; that the real sover- eighty is vested in q committee of the two houses of parliament, who do not care a bawbee whether they rule the country in the name of Victoria or of Albert Edward. If they ruled it in the name of Ahkound of Swat they would advocate precisely the same measures that they do now, and oppose the same as now. It is only when the British electors change their minds at general election that any change of policy oc- CUTS, which being interpreted means that the majority of the house of com mons, elected by the people. rules Great Britain, ignores the royal family when it pleases, and makes dukes and maruises. earls, viscounts and barons at it's will.-Louisville Courier-Journal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-14
SCIENCE IN THE SOUTH SEAS.
The Wonderful Use to Which the Phono-
 graph Has Been Put.

graph Has Been Rut.
 There seems to be no end to the bene- fits accruing frem scientific discovery, A sydney paper gives an illustration of this in describing a novel use to which that wonderful instrument, the phonegraph, has been turned.
 While one of the ships of the Australian squadron was patrolling the south seas recently she came up with sailing yes gel which an officer Ut once boarded The stranger proved to be craft en- gagged in recruiting kanakas for the Queensland plantations. The naval of. ficer noticed that there was on board an Instrument that is not usually con Eidered essential for navigation, and asked why photograph should be in- oluded in the ships outfit.
 He was told that before the vessel left Queensland the captain visited some of the sugar plantations where South Sea islanders are employed, taking with him camera and phonograph. Here he went into the business of photograph ing groups of islanders on the planta- lions. also taking individual pictures of
 
 and the Solomon group.
 Edison's invention was then brought into service, the best known among the Islanders being asked to speak into the photograph anything they would like to tell their friends at home. Large numbers were induced to give an ac- count of the sort of life the Kanalsas were having on the plantations, and to tell any other news likely to interest the old folks at home in Maikolo, Am Ibrym. San Christoval, Malaita, and other islands.
 After he had secured good supply of these messages, the ingenious ship master sailed for the islands, and when last heard of was making good use of his material. Many of the photographs had been transferred to glass for use with the lime-light, and with the pho tographs and the phonograps he was able to give exhibitions of life on a plantation that changed the doubts of the natives into an enthusiastic desire to emigrate.
 At the lime-light show the captain would produce a full-sized picture of an absent friend, a native well known on the island. and to the amazement of his dusky audience would make him speak words of greeting from his plan tation home in Bundoberg-1,0oo miles away. Whatever misgivings bad been felt before the photograph was pro- apcsd were at once dispelled when the lime-light picture of their friend ad- dressed them in their own tongue, and in voice they had known so well when he dwelt among them.-Youth's Com panion.
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enough. He had considerable trouble in making the transfer, and he tried several plans. The one he finally adopted was to trace the design on transparent tracing paper with a lead pencil. Afterward he laid the trac- ing paper face downward on each of the three blocks in order and then rubbed the back of the paper with the smooth end of an ivory paper cutter, taking care not to let the paper slip. When this operation was finished, the entire design was visible on each of the blocks in misty blacks. Then he cut away all the surface of one of the blocks excepting those parts bearing such portions of the design as were to be printed in red. From another block he cut away all but that which was to be blue and green, and from the third all except that which was to be yellow and green. The appearance of each of the blocks after it was cut can be read fly understood from the small cut ac- companying this articles which shows the block for the red.
 After the blocks were all cut the boy took proofs in black printers ink of each. To take these proofs he linked the face of each block with roll even- ly, then laid piece of paper carefully on the block and then pressed the paper closely down on the surface with piece of felt-faced wood, which he tapped lightly with mallet.
 Then the boy cleaned the blocks thoroughly, and, having got his col ored printing ink, he proceeded to print each color in his turn, putting on the red first, the yellow next and the blue last of all. It will be seen from the pie lures of the proofs that only the hearts, the lettering and the band and arrow ends on the quiver were printed in red, that the big heart and a portion of the vine were all that was printed in vel low and that the quiyer and the vine, including the flowers, were printed in blue. When the three paintings had been done on each piece of paper used the leaves and stem of the vine appeared green.
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fore. If he had been possessed of 8 little more money, he would have been able to make much better selections of tools and material; but, as in that case he would not have made his own val entines at all, it was perhaps just as we'll as it was. The wood he finally chose was we'll seasoned pine, an un- duly soft and easily-splitting wood per haps, but one which is readily worked and to which very smooth surface may be given.
 Before he began on his blocks of pine, which he had most carefully planed to as smooth a surface as pos sihle. he devoted some time to design. Over and over again he worked it out on sheets of paper, and over and over again he threw the designs away. It seemed to him that he never would be able to get his ideas in good shape, and more than once he thought of giving the task up altogether. But each time he got to that point he remembered that no man ever won the prize of suc- cess without overcoming some serious obstacles. Then he would begin over again, and after dozen failures or more he got a design that he thought would do. It was not very artistic, and it showed certain crudities that even he could perceive, but it was good enough to enable him to show what he could do, whether it would be consid- cred pretty valentine or not, and by this time he was more interested anys way in the outcome of his experiment for its own sake than he was in making a pretty valentine, and no doubt that was why he persevered so well.
 After the design was finished he had to transfer it, reversed, to three of his carefully prepared blocks of pine. He did not use the ends of the block as an engraver would use boxwood, but smoothed each block along the grain with plane under the instruction of carpenter of his acquaintance. It was his intention to have his valentine printed in four colors, green. red, vel low and blue, but he had learned from a printer that grain could be produced by printing blue over the yellow and that three blocks would therefore be
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that, with the right side up, brushing it brisl0ly until the nap is raised.
 A buckraan or net frame should be purchased. The crown of this frame must be low and fat, the brim turned up and Auted. If your old hat was en- tirely of velvet, you will have enough to make a plain crown, and d shirred brim of 1t. If not, use the velvet for the crown, and get smooth-faced cloth or silk of the same color for the shirred brim. This hat may then be trimmed on the left side with outstanding feath- CTS of some kind If you have three ostrich tips, curl and wire them into prince of Wales plume, as explained in these columns some weeks ago. If you have none, buy rather thick egret, and fasten it on the left side with a few loops of ribbon or velvet, and a jeweled buckle. On the same side, to- ward the back, three crush roses, one beneath the other, may be arranged in such way that when, the hatis donned they appear to be fastened in the hair. On the right side of the crown place similar bunch of roses.
 This hat is very pretty if made up of black velvet, with roses in shades of heliotrope, and it's cost should be very slight.
 Your hat, however. may be flat felt that needs retrimming. It is probably broken only where the hairpin is in- serted. Remove all the old trimmings and thoroughly brush the hat, Wire inside the crown at the bottom and top,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-14
Brains Bigger Than Mans.

According to Prof. Max Weber, of Amsterdam, the only animals which surpass man in the absolute weight of their brains are elephants and whales; but there are several that rank ahead of him in the ratio of the brain weight to the total weight of the body. All of these, however, are comparatively small animals. Among them are many monkeys and certain members of the squirrel and mouse families. No ani- nal of greater bodily size than man has brain which is relatively as large as his. Upon the whole, it seems that mans mental superiority is due rather to the quality and organization than to the size of his brain.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-14
Natural History.

Pickaninny Jim was enthusiastically enjoying his favorite dainty-pig's feet.
 Nanny" he remarked, Unit do seem CT shame"
 ''Whut is you got on yoh min dis timeo"
 T kain' hep 'specldn' dat sumpin's wrong when CT pig hab only four feet an hyah's tell dat CT no-count centi- pede hab mon a hundu'd.' .'-Washing- ton Star
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-14
THE LATEST FASHIONS.
New York Girls Now Take Solid
 Comfort in Bath Robes.
Smart Attire For the Neck-Hoyv { Shabby Hat May Be Retrfmmed -Economy As Applied to
 Petticoats.
New York Feb 5o

It is about this time that hats begin to look sha,bby-too early to buy a spring bonnet. Yet it is not wise to spend much on a winter hat, which would probably be out of style next year.
 A very modish hat may be made from velvet, with the addition of some flowers and feathers. Perhaps the hat that you are now wearing is of velvet, or trimmed with it. Rip the velvet oa, brush it eare- fully and steam it. The best way to do this is to place Q colander over q yes sel of boiling water. and the velvet over
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-14
Energy of the Human Heart.

It is said to have been proved that If the energy of the human heart could be transmitted it would run a sewing machine or small printing press night and day. This power is measured by calculating the fuel value of the food which the stomach. acting as furnace, consumes. The professors and students of the college at Middletown, Conn.,, required 3,925 units of heat per day, a carpenter used 4,650, and blacksmith S,s5o units. An average citizen con sumes 4,550. A unit of heat or caloric contains 772 foot pounds of energy. or force to raise 772 pounds one foot. In 4,550 calorics there is little more than 1oo-horse power. This power IS the vital energy of a man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-14

to electrify an audience on a public occasion, but for all ordinary purposes it does very well.
 In it's character as a walking cane the violin is an ordinary-looSing stick, rather big in appearance and suggestive of the days when it was considered "swell' to carry telegraph pole canes. At the thickest part it is about an inch and a half in diameter and tapers down at the ferrule end to about half an inch. The handle is a crutch, which the player unserews to get the instru- ment in readiness for use. A cavity is thus disclosed in the center of tie cane, in which are kept the bow, the bridge and the key that is used to tune up the strings. At intervals down the sides of the cane there are metal bands, which can be unscrewed and taken off. When these are removed one-half of the cane can be taken away like lid, and the strings, keys and tail piece of a violin are revealed. All that remains to get the instrument ready for use is to fit the bridge in it's place, tighten the strings and screw on the handle of the cane for chin rest. The tone of the instrument is like that of an ordinary cheap violin, but in the hands of a master it may be made to do wonderful things.
 Of course the chief recommendation of the instrument is it's novelty. In the correspondence that accompanies the sample sent to this country, it is related that German violinist has a favorite trick of keeping an engagement to play without bringing his violin.
 When he has sufficiently enjoyed the consternation of the assemblage over his forgetfulness, he proceeds to re- move the outer shell of his walking stick and produce marvellous melodies from the queer-looking instrument dis closed in the interior. The trick, al- most worthy of the late Magician Hermann, combined with the skill of the violinist, never fails to win tremen- dous plaudits.
 The canes are made in handsome woods, with silver handles if the pur- chaser wishes, and with the bands that keep the shell in place of silver, en- graved with the initials of the owner. With these embellishments the violin cane is an attractige-looking article for a well-dressed man to carry.
 An instrument similar to the violin cane in design, though much less com plicated, and quite t.s novel, is the walking cane flute. 1t is made in two sections that screw into each other like the sections of B fishing pole. When used as cane the end with the ferrule is fastened on to lengthen the stick. When it is desired to use it as flute, the handle is removed and the end piece unscrewed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-14
The Meaning of Dreams.

To dream of a goose implies sitting for your picture. To dream of heaps of gold indicates misery and avarice; a few pieces, honesty and industry. To dream of children portends a serious diminution in your income. To dream of knave implies meeting an old ac- quaintance. To dream of seeing king or queen denotes a great disappoint- ment. To dream of seeing the devil implies visit to your lawyer. To dream of reading romances indicates loss of time. To dream of catching a weasel asleep indicates great cleverness. To dream of fattery indicates sickly appetite and want of taste.