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Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-19

PLEASANT rooms, modern. strictly frst-
class board; reasonable rates; transients
taken $50 N. 18th at. F-Mstb
Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-19

MOVING household goods and pianos.
ON. Van a. Storage Co., l5l1is Farnam.
Tel. 1859. JD-Zol
Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-19

FUR1TNURE and leasehold of a Z and 49,
room modern fiat for sale; bargain good
location, rent low. Bemis, Paxton blk.
D-2o2
Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-19

1. B. EHRHART is the only expert fire loss
adjuster of the people of Omaha. Room
SIP, Brown block. B-109-19s
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

Overproduction in the carpet mills at Philadelphia has caused a temporary shntdnwn
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
Photographs of Celebrities,

Many actresses and beauties make very fair incomes out of the sales o1 their photographs. Few of the public have any idea of the sums paid by pho. tographers for "sole selling rights" Dickens is credited with being the first notability to exact fee for the privi. lege of taking his portrait A photog. rapher kept bothering him for sittings, and Dickens asked and obtained 60 guineas as an honorarium. On learn. ing this Fanny Kemble refused to sit for less than f5O, and then Ada Cayen. dish demanded and received f3OO. Mary Anderson, towards the close of her ca. reer, used to receive 100 guineas a sit. ting, and Mrs. Cornwallis West, at the height of her popularity, had nearly half as much again. Recently firm of Parisian photographers arranged with Sarah Bernhardt for a series of sittings at 50 guineas apiece; and for the priyi, lege of taking the latest snapshot O, Mrs. Langtry, firm of West End nhc. tographers had to pay f500.-Glasgow Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

Even China knows that a new cen tury is dawning. The poet Tennyson wrote not many years ago that he would prefer ten short years of Europe to "a cycle of Cathay," meaning that changes were so slow in the Chinese empire that ten years here meant more than a thousand in the fiowery king dom. But to-day there is no place In the world where history will show moIe sudden and kaleidoscope changes than that same empire of China Since the Japanese war shook the very founda- tions of their capital, the Chinese have wakened from the sleep of ages and are showing signs of marvellous activity Revolution and re-revolution follow correspondents of the daily papers have hard work to keep track of them. Con- sessions to England for the building of railways, mining of coal, gold, copper and oil are granted and revoked. Rus Sia and France come in for their share of the division of the empire lon paper) and its subsequent redivislon, Li Hung Chang, great statesman and diplomatist that he is, has been deprived of the yellow jacket" which is the robe of bis office as prime minister, and had it returned to him so frequently that the poor old gentleman must have had diff culty in keeping decently clothed dur ing the operations. The Emperor has been murdered and resuscitated Gin the daily papers, a dozen times at least Ia the past three months. In fact, be- tween the diplomatists and the news papers old China is having the liveliest times in all its mighty career. One fact seems beyond dispute, and that is that an American missionary has been ap- pointed president of the National Unl- verSity of China with unlimited means and full authority to make all necessary arrangements to give the young men of China modern up-tO-date education, including football. This will do more to make China a nation among the na- tions than anything else she could do. We hope pr. Martin will not be de- prived of his office nor his head till he has established this great institution. His position is one of enormous inhu- ence, and should be of the greatest value in fostering friendly relations with the United States and giving us the commerce to which our geograph- ical position entities us, and which We will undoubtedly obtain.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

The supreme trouble which has visit ed the Emperor of Austria Hungary as the result of an assassin's act may stay for time the fierceness of race hatred which distracts his composite empire; but Slav, German and the rest will al- most certainly renew the struggle. The controversy so far as it concerns Ian guage is strikingly illustrated by the fact that the jubilee medals instituted by the Emperor, as for service in the army, navy or gendarmerie, have en- graved Latin inscriptions. All other medals which have been issued during the present reign have borne German inscriptions. The Latin tongue Is thus the language of compromise when occa- sion requires.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
Rabv Potentates.

Spain is always the land of the In fante. To-day 1t is the kingdom of an infant, just as it was sixty-five years ago, when the kings grandmother, Isabella H., aseended the throne at the age of 3, assuming the actual govern ment when she was 13. If our own Prince Alfred had not declined the crown of Greece in favor of the Dane he would have been king at 19, and carried on the traditions of the many child-monarchs of Great Britain, in- cluding his mother, the Queen, who was only IS when she was wakened on that historic night in June at Kensing- William w., was dead, and that she reigned in his stead. Henry III. had become King of England at the age oi dO: Edward III. at the age of 15, Rich- ard II. at the age of II; Henry VI. aI the age of 8; Edward ". when he was 20. while his son, Edward V, became king at the age of 13, which agai. proved an unlucky number, for he was murdered in the Tower with his only brother. the Duke of York, after he had reigned less than twelve weeks. Henry VIII. was only IS when he came to be king: his son, Edward VI, was just 10 and was dead before he was 15, while his would-be successor, the hapless Lady Jane Grey, was proclaimed oueen before she was IS, and lost her pretty head before she was 19-Ens- i{s;, Illustrated
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
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Overproduction in the carpet mills a Philadelphia has caused a temporary shutdown.
 The employees of bicycle factory 1T Toledo are on strike against a sweep ing reduction in wages of 75 cents { day.
 Next to the cigarmakers, the carpen ters have accomplished more in the short-hour movement than any other craft.
 The membership of the Cigarmakers International Union is taking a vote on proposition to abolish the out-of- work benefit and to reduce the death benefits about 20 per cent.
 The musicians of Denver, Colo, were enjoined by the courts to prevent a strike at the Tabor, Grand and the Broadway Theaters of that city.
 Plasterers and hod-carriers at Bloom ington, ILL; barbers at Louisville, Ky, and Syracuse, N. r., are forming To- calls, and the labor unions of Kentucky are organizing a State federation of labor.
 After the idleness of four years, the 112-inch mill of the Glasgow Iron Con- pany, of POttstown, Pa, has been put in operation, as was also a 65-inch mill of the same company, giving employ ment to nearly 600 men.
 In his annual report Henry Lloyd, of Boston, President of the United Broth erhOod of Carpenters and Joiners of America, recommended the abolition of the referendum, so far as changing the laws of the union was concerned. He also recommended the establishment of an out-of-work benefit, the payment of higher dues, putting permanent organ izers in the field to build up and strengthen the organization and the equalization of the funds of the local unions. The proposition to withdraw from the American Federation of La Dor was defeated in convention.
 The Western Federation of Miners has made the Idaho State Tribune its Omclal organ ana SelecleQ J. R. S0Ver- eign, ex-General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, as the editor.
 It is reported in the labor press that the Japanese contract laborers in Ha- wall are organizing into unions, with a view to testing their rights of person al liberty under the United States regime.
 The National Labor Tribune says that the finest steel mill in the United States for the manufacture of hoops, cotton ties and bands, will be erected at Monessen, Pa, by the Monessen Steel Company, at a cost of $40O,OOO, and over POO men will be given employ ment after the first of the year.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
Alsama or AItamaI,a9

There can. l suppose. be no that in the lines in ''The Deserted lage''-
 To distant clines, dreary scene, Where half the convex world intrudes be Through torrid tracts with faintine stet
 go
 Where wild A1tama murmurs to their " lrs Goldsmith is alluding to the River tamaha in Georgia, the colonizatio which had taken place not long Def But his expressions are not very a rate. So far from being torrid in strict sense of the word. the latituo the mouth of the Altamaha is n than 3l degrees. No part indeed of present United States is located wi the tropics But, besides this, althe there are certainly rattlesnakes al believe, scorpions of certain specit: Georgia, there are no tigers thei wait their hapless prey" which poet reckons among the horrors of region where some of the inhabitant Auburn have gone. Notes and Ques
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

One of the yexed questions which brought about the recent Indian out break was the encroachments of the white men on their timber. The off, cial reports of the superintendent of logging for that district show that much of-the dissatisfaction comes from
 the sale of timber by the half-breeds,
 mixed bloods and squaw men. The following figures are given: Number of feet sold by the quarter-bloods, 15,- 547, ,S20 feet; number of feet sold by half-breeds, 2,261, ,270; number of feet sold by the "squaw men," 1,611, ,996; numbe' of feet sold by the full-blooded Indians, S45, ,339. Naturally the mixed bloods are better able to do business from their knowledge of the English language, and they make contracts for the sale of timber which the fuli-blood- ed Indians do not understand and hence resent. Often the mixed bloods obtain the consent of the Indians by fraud and
 thea seu out his claims thus obtained.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

He-of course If I hadn't meant it
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

pr. J. B. Learned offers a new cure for insomnia-a cure which he has tried on himself with success. After many vain resorts to nostrums and tricks, he invented series of movements which, being carried on in bed and acompan- led by slow, deep breathing, induce muscular fatigue, redistribute nervous force, and thus dispose the whole body to repose. Might it not be just as well to take some orderly exercise before going to bed, and in the open air? More fortunate still are they who can distrib- ute this exercise over their working hours. Centuries ago 1t was observed that "the sleep of laborlng man is sweet"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
American Hotels in Cnha.

AS Havana will undoubtedly attract a large number of winter guests, busi. ness men of New York contemplate es. tablishing a mammoth hotel there. Early in the progress of hostilities many capitalists realized that Cuba, and especially Havana, was a fruitful field in which to invest, and one of the most patent avenues appeared to be a provision for visitors to the land of which so much has been recently writ ten and said. The advantages of Ha- vana as place for people of fashion to winter was early exploited, but in most cases the schemes were held in abeyance pending the cessation of war fare. Now that the war Is over, there is no reason why such schemes should not be perfected.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
Everybody Warned.

An Arizona rancher has posted the following notice on a cottonwood tree near his place: My wife Sarah has left my ranch when l didn't Doc q Thing Too her and I want 1t distinkly understood that any Man as takes hel in and Keers for her on my account will get himself Pumped so Full of Led that some tenderfoot will locate him for a mineral claim. A word to the wise is sufficient and orter work on fools."-Denyer Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

The remarkable woman who is now the real ruler of China by the abdica- tiOn or assassination of the emperor has played an important part in China in recent years. She was the secondary wife of the Emperor Hien Feng, who fled from Pekin in 1861 when that city was occupied by the French and En- glish. As the mother of Tung Chi, who
 succeeded Hien Feng, she was raised to the rank of empress, and has ever since made the Chinese court a scene of intrigue for power and place. The principal wife and the secondary were jointly appointed regents in the place of Tung Chi, who was but a boy, and these two ruled China for twelve years, when the boy emperor ascended the throne. He reigned but two years, dying in 1875. His widow soon follow ed him, whether by the decree of heav- en or the will of the ex.regents has all ways been a mooted point. When Kuang Su, the recent ruler, was de clared emperor at the age of 4 years, the two expresses again became re- gents, the joint rule lasting six years, when the elder empress died, leaving the present dOwager empress in sole possession of power Kuang Su as cended the throne in 1889, but owing either to lack of ability or to the de- signed course of education to which he had been subjected, he remained boy in intellect, and 1t is not surprising that the abitious dowager empress has once more come into power with Ii Hung Chang as her favorite minister.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
FANCY NAMES FOR PoIsoNs.
Danger Lurks in Many of the So-
 Called Headache Remedies.

Danger Lurks in Many of the So-
 Called Headache Remedies.
 Tn his quarterly report on the health of the borough of Chorley, Lancashire, Dr. J. A. Harris, the medical officer for the district, calls attention to the indis- criminate sale and purchase of the various so-called headache powders. He states that under his direction the county police obtained six or seven samples from different shops in the town and had them submitted to andy sis. In every case the quantity of the excess of the maximum dose of the drug allowed in the British pharma- copoeia. These remedies belong to the class of the analgesics, the members of the group in common use for this pur- pose being acetanalide or phenylaceta- mide, phanazone, and phenacetin or para-acet-phenetidin Their properties were fully considered in the section of pharmacology and therapeutics at the meeting at Edinburgh, where Profes- sor Stockman (Glasgow) opened a dis cussion on the ''Therapeutic Value of Recent Synthetic Analgesics; Their Benefits and Attendant Risks" There was a general expression of opinion that these drugs required to be handled with the greatest possible care, and that slight error of judgment with regard to dosage might be followed by disastrous results. All these substances depress the hearts action, and in toxic doses diminish the force of the respira- tory act. The danger Is not Obviated by selling a poisonous drug under a fanciful name.-British Medical Jour nal
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

A Vienna paper, in an article believed to be officially inspired, .congratulates the Sultan of Turkey upon being re- lleved of the Island of Crete. In order that there should be no appearance of partiality it should congratulate the Queen Regent of Spain upon her re- lease from responsibility for the gov ernment of the Spanish possessions in the West Indies and the Philippines.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
Modern Transmipratiou.

"Often when look at you" he said to the beautiful woman whom he had met in North Dakota, 'ft seems as if must have known you in some former state.''
 Well, that isn't very wonderful she replied. You used to know me in two former States-when I was mar. ried and living in New Jersey. Tom, don't you remember Nell Giddington p
 Then 1t all came back to him, and he confessed that he had gone out there for the same purpose.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
An English Dozen.

I was in a we'll known lamPshop with friend the other day. He wSs seeking some of those stubby candles of generous diameter which are used as night lights in sickrooms. Tie price was 50 cents a box. "A dozen in box?" he asked. "No, H." "But why not dozen?'' "Rox isn't big enough, said the shopkeeper. ''But why don't they make the box big enough!7 asked my friend. Because they're English. " That was all.-Time and the Hour.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

An exchange says: "A St. Joseph girl who had no faith in banks or bureau drawers, placed $40 and her jewelry in one of her stockings, put the stock ings on and went to bed. In the morn ing she found her stocking and the con- tents gone" What! Lost leg?
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

''All you have to do to win woman" |" says Bigamist Hecking, f'is to tell her she is beautiful, then tell her you love her, and she'll give you her hand right away" There are exceptions to every rule, as many young men in all classes of life can testify.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

A novelist writes: "Adolar was be- witched. Never had the countess seem- ed to him so beautiful as at this mo- ment, when, in her dumb grief, she hid her face" She must have been a very beautiful woman.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
Why She Left,

"Yes, we lost that good girl that told you about"
 What was the trouble?'
 "Why, she left the water running in the bathtub and it leaked through ana she caught cold. She said she wouldn't stay in house where they didn't nave water-tlght floors" '-iy.1yeland Fiain- dealer.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
He Cop1dn,t ITnd.r.tand Ie.

"Pa," said the Alderman's little son, ''ls there any truth in the story that George Washington never told lie?"
 'Yes, guess there is," was the reply.
 'Well," continued the embryo states man, ''I don't see how he ever got his pull in politics"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

A cry was raised: Stand back! A lady has faintedy And men and wom- en alike crowded to see the spectacle and to shut off the reviving air. This only goes to prove that 1t is not best to create panic by raising a cry. No end of mischief is done all over the land, and has been done all through the ages, by people who are officiously noisy
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
The F-iehtfuI Sahara.

No fewer than 12O00,00 acres of land have been made fruitful In the Sahara desert, an enterprise representing Per. hapa the most remarkable example d irrigation by means Of artesian wsfaz which can anywhere be found
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
Ouitc TheatricnI

'You might have known you could not win with play called The Katy did," said the rural uncle.
 "Why?" askei the nephew, the man. ager, who was staying on the farm for the summer.
 "Katydid's sure sign If frost" and the old man chuckled to think how well he was up in theatrical terms.-Indian- apolis Journal
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

Altogether 1t Is more the timber Ques- ton than the liquor question which is to blame> for the outbreak, though doubtless whisky played its part there as we'll as elsewhere.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
An Extreme Case.

Clarendon Dawdler is the most hope lessly lazy man ! ever knew"
 Doesn't he do anything at all?"
 Do anything? He doesn't even blame his parents for not bringing him up differently
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
LOCATING A COUPLET.
A Familiar Quotation Ascribed ts
 Butler Is Placed

A Familiar Quotation Ascrfbed ia
 Butler Is Placed.
 Few popular quotations have mora engaged the pens of critics than the fol- lowing:
 For he that fights and runs away Will live to fight another day.
 These lines are almost universally supposed to form part of "Hudibras, l" and so confident have even scholars been on the subject that in 17S4 wager was made at Bootle of 20 to that they were to be found in that inimitable poem. Dodsley was referred to as the arbiter. when he ridiculed the idea of consulting him on the subject, saying, Every fool knows they are in 'Hudi- bras. -"
 George Selwyn, who was present said to Dodsley, "Pray, sir, will you be good enough, then. to inform an old fool, who is at the same time your wise worship's very humble servant, in what canto they are to be found?" 1 Dodsley took down the volume. but he could not find the passage. The next day came, with no better success. and the sage bibliophile was obliged to con- fess "that man might be ignorant of the author of this we'll known coupIet without being absolutely fool " But Ter has indeed two or three passages somewhat similar. The one that comes nearest is the following, in 'Hudibras, " book 3, canto 3, verse 243:
 For those that fly may fight agaim.
 Which he can never do that's slain The fact. however. is that the counlet 1 thus erroneously ascribef tc t''e a..-...or of "Hudibras, occurs in small vol | tune of miscellaneous poems by Sir John | Mennes, written iH the reign of Charles ! u.-Exohange.
 My Sailor of Seven My ailor of seven. yo,'r snip be clipper, -a sturdy the Heart of it's dear little Remember. lest later you learn 1t with
 wailing,
 The oceans of life are not always plain
 sailing.
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The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

As the saying goes it may be all right to move heaven and earth to beat po- liticaI opponent, but the earth in the case shouldn't take the shape of flung mud.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
HUMOR OF THE WEEK
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN
 OF THE PRESS.

Odd, Curious and Laughable Phases of Human Nature Graphically Por' trayed by Eminent Word Artists of Our Own Day-A Budget of Fun.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

Simultaneous with the Dons having to get out of Cuba there came sugges- tions of a new American railroad there. Thus both nations were making tracks, but in different ways.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

An old colored man wisely explained the reason for the overthrow of many good causes by saying: Don you know dat you cain't nebber put ign'rance Ober intellergance, an mek it stay"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
His Rennrt.

She-Did you sound papa this after noon concerning cur marriage?
 He-Yes, I sounded him, and I'll bet everybody in the block heard it when l struck the bottom
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

A New York girl imagined she had been transformed into a turtle. But, really, now, if she had been transform ed into a turtle, her case would have been much harder.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

She-You said a uOment ago that you thought the world was becoming less lovely every day. Did you really mean that?
 He-Of course. If I hadn't meant it I wouldn't have said #.
 She-You needn't come next Sunday evening. I remember HOW that have another enga cement.
 It was only then that he realized how he had lost q girl whose father was worth millions.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
\ sumcient Diet.

A quart of milk, three-quarters of . pound of moderately fat beef-sirloin, for instance-and five ounces of wheat four, all contain about the same amount of nutritive material, but we pay very different prices for them, and they have different values for nutriment. The milk comes nearest to being perfect food. It contains all of the different kinds of nutritiye materials that the body needs. Bread made from the wheat flour will support life. It con- tains all the necessary ingredients for nourishment, but not in the proportions best adapted for ordinary use. A man might live on beef alone, but it would be very one sided and imperfect diet, but meat and bread together make the essentials of a healthy diet. Such are the results of experience, and the ad- vancing science of later years explains them. This explanation takes into ac- count not simply quantities of meat and bread and milk and other materials which we eat, but also the nutritiye in- gredients or nutrients which they contain.-New York Ledger.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
Her Suggestion.

He-1 have never done anything ir my life that I'm sorry for.
 She-Well, why don't you do some thing some day and run the risk of be ing sorry or glad of it?
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24

Young Robir-on lwho has very good opinion of himself. and has just been introduced)-I think I've met your uncle, Mir. Ernest Brown, at dog shows?"
 Miss Brown-Oh, yes, uncle will go to those dog shows, and meets the most appalling people Punch.