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Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-05
Money for Striking Miners.

PANA, H., March 1.-THE arrest of Pri-
yate f. o. Elder OF Taylorville and a num-
Der OF other soldiers led to a report that
a mutlny had broken out. Elder with two
other p%rivates was sent home today.
About $4,000 was paid to the union miners
today, making almost $50, 1000 distributed by
the state organization since the strike began.
Another large company of negroes will leave
Pana Tuesday for the Indian Territory.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-05
PENSIONS FOR WESTERN VETERANS.
Survivors of the Civil War Remem-
bcrcd by the General Governments.

bcrcd by the General Government.
WASHINGTON, March 4-(Special.)-The
following western pensions have been
granted:
Issue of February II:
Nebraska: Increase-Reuben Borton, Mo-
brara, So to IS; John Cornell, Whitney, SIG
to S24; John l.. Richards, Dewitt. SIG to 81;
Jacob Beemer, Fremont, So to s.. Reissue
and increase Especial, February 1S)-James
X. p. Fowler, Dannebrog, IS to S12.
Iowa: Original-George Hill, Arlington,
SO. Increase-Jacob Van Vie, Mason City.
Sc to $40. Reissue-Lewis Murray, Floyd,
Sl7. Original widows, etc.-Belle Dufiield,
Bloomfield. So.
Colorado: Original widows, etc.-Susanna
Markee, Colorado City, IS.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-05
Our Easy Terms.

On a bill OF $40. 90
$1,OO per week or $500 per month
On a bill OF 5000
sl.25 per week OF $3.50 per month
On a bill Of 5000
$3.50 per week or $500 per month
On a bill of 5000
$500 per week or $500 per month
On a bill OF $75 200
s2.25 per week or $500 per month
On a bill OF 10000
$3.50 per week OF $4,000 per month
On a bill Of 10000
$500 per week or $500 per month
Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-05
90 =

DR.. Humphreys Famous Specific
For Grip, Influenza and Stubborn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
LITERARY NOTES.

John Morley has, it is said, received the
handsome fee of $4,000 for his work on his
Life of Gladstone"
The biography of Coventry Patmore, which
is now in preparation, will be published next
autumn. Its chief interest will probably be
in the correspondence with celebrities, which
is to be included.
The house at Hampstead, favorite place
for American pilgrimages where Keats
wrote his lode to a Nightingale is threat
ened with destruction, to make way for
jerry-built suburban villas.
Only 500 copies of "a Girl in the Carpa-
thians,'' says a current item, were sold in
Chicago, until publishers changed the title
and called it THE Adventures of Girl in
Trousers" Then $4,000 copies went like hot
cakes.
The English publishing world is seeing
revolutions indeed. John Murray pillar of
English literary conservatism, has taken
into partnership Mr.. Bliss, formerly of
Bliss, Sands q Co., and is about to publish
novels.
Prince George of Prussia has just pro-
duced one-act drama, 'Praxedis," at Han
over, and it is said to be of sound merit.
He writes under the pen name of G.. Conrad,
and is the author of several successful
books and plays.
The announcement made that the Canad-
ian government has declared that it is too
busy to Iegislate on copyright provokes
angry comments in the publishing and lit
erary world of England. Canada's plea is
that the new treaty with the United States
claims prior consideration.
Miss Anna Farquhar. who has a serial
story, THE Professors Daughter" now
running in the Philadelphia Saturday Even
ing Post, is said to have drawn her charac-
ters from real life. The residents in the
vicinity of Noyes Beach, Rhode Island,
where the scene of the story is laid, pro-
TESS to recognize the various personages of
the tale.
The most popular books of the day, ac-
cording to the Bookmans monthly record,
continue to be chiefly of foreign origin.
"Roden's Corner" by Merriman, an Eng
lishmen. has disappeared. but it's place is
taken by "Cyrano de Bergerac." by Rostand,
a Frenchman. The latest list of the best-sell-
ing books is this: 1.-THE Day Work" by Kip
ling; 1.-The Battle of the Strong" by Parker;
1.-The Adventures of Francois" by Mitchell
Red Rock" by Page; "Cyrano," by Ros-
tand; THE Castle Inn," by Weyman. Just
two are by Americans.
It may allay the doubts of those novelists
who go in fear of Duplicating the titles of
forgotten books to know, on Mr.. BirrelTs
authority, that in English law there is no
copyright in the title of any book, and that
the writer of a new novel is at liberty, If
he is silly enough, to call it THE Egotist -
or East Lynne" or by any other name
that has already been adopted. One of Mr..
BirrelFs most enlightening lectures deals
with the subject of literary larceny, and it
who are in the habit of pilfering other peo-
ple's writings without Acknowledgement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05

running over toothed wheel to turn ].
pointer on a graduated dial
Railway cars are easily changed from,
broad to narrow gauge by an Australian
patent. the wheels being attached to tha
axle BY screw threads several turns ~
spreading them. with levers and raicbats
to lock them in either position.
An Englishman has designed a brush for
cleaning bicycle chains which viii engage
all parts Of a link at the same time. a
confcal brush being placed In the re.r't.es
with parallel brushes on either side which
clean the outside portions of the link wbila
the central brush is working inside.
Firemen are protected from getting
burned by a new hose nozzle. which has a
small tube attached to the inner wall of the
nozzle, with the rear end open to receive i
small portion of the stream. which flows
through the wall of the nozzle and enters
a port to be directed on the fireman.
Letters and other postal matter can be
weighed on a handy little pencil attach
ment. a metal tube being placed at the
rear end, carrying spring and sliding
rod inside, the latter having a hook AZ
the end to hold the letter, which draws
the spring down and indicates the weight
Drivers will appreciate an improved rein
holder, consisting of a vertical post clamped
on the dashboard, with T-head al the ton
from which depend spiral springs having
clamps at their free ends to engage tina
reins at any desired tension and relieve a
portion of the strain from the drivers
hands.
For use in timing Photographic exposures
a new meter has diaphragms of different
aperture to restrict the passage of light
through an arrangement of glasses on the
focus plate, the aperture being regulated
to sharply define the view, when the size
of the diaphragm indicates the time of ex-
posture.
A Chicago woman has invented flower
pot which holds water enough to prevent the
plant from drying up if left for some time,
the saucer on which the pot rests having
a compartment arranged around its rim for
the reception of earth or other material 10
retain the moisture and feed it slowly to
the roots.
In an improved Photographic printing
frame the spring arms which hold tine back
of the frame in place are attached to the
sides of the frame by automatic CatcEes
formed of an L-shaped piece Of metal piV-
oted in~the frame so that pressure on the
short end swings the long end over the end
of the spring arm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05

Mitchell, two years ago The suit is brought
under act Of the Legislature awarding S5,00J
TO the next Of kin Of any person meeting
death at the hands Of a mob, Mitchell. a
colored man. was under sentence of life
Imprisonment for criminal assault when
mob took him out of jail and hanged him
In the course Of recent speech in the
New South Wales Legislature Mr.. Fegan
an anti-liquor member. said: Whisky
makes men genial for a time" adding that
this effect soon wore OF and left the drink
or III a worse mood than ever. The Official
report next day made him say. Whisky
makes ne genial for a tine, and MIR. Fegan
was subjected 10 so much cham in conse-
quence that he threatened TO resign his seat
The advent Of Queen Wi1helmina to the
| throne has not put an end to her studies.
She continues to pay frequent visits TO the
museums, especially to the fine collection
of prints in the Rijksmuseum at Amster-
dam, accompanied by one or more experts,
and now Professors J. de Louter and J. }.
NJ. de Groot, OF Leyden, have been APP
pointed TO instruct her Majesty. respective
| iy, in the principles of political economy and
| in the customs and institutions of the
natives Of the East Indian archipelago
The marriage of Mime. Patti to Baron
Cederstrom came TO a painful pause when
about half completed, it seems, because the
marriage license had been left at Craig-y-
Nos castle instead of being taken along to
Brecon, where the ceremony took place.
After the performance of the ecclesiastical
rites the bridal party went into the sacristy
to discharge certain formalities before the
registrar. He refused TO nnish the marriage
without the license until finally persuaded,
after the bride had wept in vain, by Lady
Faudel Phillips.
Professor James, who presided at recent
meeting in Boston Of the Society of Psy
chieal Research, related a curious case of
clairvoyance that had occurred in Lebanon,
N H where the body Of q drowned woman
had been found by a diver acting on direc-
lions founded on the visions of a hypno-
tized subject The divers testimony was
matter of fact and circumstantial and was
that, moreover. of a skeptic in these mat
tiers. He had made an unsuccessful two
days examination of the region looking Tor
the body, and the hypnotic suggestion sent
him TO me exact spot. A perfect alioi was
established tor the hypnOuZed woman, who
could not have oeen q witness OF the
drowned Womans death. Professor James
suggested that an accumulation of Well
authenticated cases of the above kind would
probably in time suggest some means OF
measuring them and or formulating a law.
The February born shall find
Sincerity ana peace of mind,
treedom from passion and from care
If they the amethyst will wear.
Notes and Queries.
Why shadow the beauty of sea or of land
With a doubt a fear?
God holds all the swift-rolling worlds in His
hand
And sees what no man can as yet under
stand,
That out of life here,
With its smile and its tear
Comes forth into light, from eternity
planned
The soul of good cheer.
Don't worry
The end shall appear.
Elizabeth Porter Gould.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05

Persons who have served as army officers
have often remarked upon the extreme care
taken in perfectng small property accounts.
An instance has just occurred in Chicago.
Some time ago three small hatchets, of the
total value of 50 cents, were missing from
a subsistence storehouse. They might have
been stolen, dropped into hole or buried,
all that was known being that they were
missing. The lieutenant colonel in charge
of the storehouse reported the fact to the
secretary of the treasury, who commune
Gated with the secretary of war, who APP
pointed a board of survey to make an in
vestigation. The board consisted of a major,
a captain and a lieutenant The board spent
the better part of Friday last investigating
the matter, and finally signed and forwarded
to Washington a report stating that they
were unable to locate the hatchets or ac-
CONT for their disappearance, but exonerat-
ing the lieutenant colonel in charge from all
blame The chances are the property will
never be accounted for, and the lieutenant
coIoneFs accounts can never be closed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

There were $50 visitors to the congress
sionaI library in washington during the last
fiscal year.
At Fort Scott an old darl1ey was sentenced
to five years in the peniteatiary. AS he was
leaving the courtroom he turned and said /:
"Jedge, eff L git a pardon will you sign it?'
Mrs Julia Dent Grant, widow of General
Grant is now more than seventy years old.
and, having grown quite feeble, rarely leaves
her Washington home. Her sight is rapidly
failing.
Mrs. Schley. wife of the admiral, declares
that since her husbands return to Washing
ton she has hardly had a chance to see him,
so numerous have been the demands upon
his time
President Eliot, OF Harvard, warns the
New England Sabbath Protective League
that ''it VIII not do to attempt to dissociate
pleasure and the Sabbath. Good people take
more JOY than bad, and God delights in
every innocent pleasure"
Benjamin A Church has begun suit
against Champaign county. Ohio. for 5000
Tor the lynching Of = relative. Click
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Society is founded on hero worship.-Car-
lyle.
It's the biggest woman who always calls
them nighties.-The Bachelor.
ManySa man is generous to fault, if the
fault is his own.-Feminine Observer.
Many a girl lives to regret the dag she
married her ideal man.-Chicago news.
To be ignorant of ones ignorance is the
malady of the ignorant.-A. Bronson Alcott.
Some women seem to think that industry
consists of making doylies and calls.-Puck.
Don't borrow trouble: borrow a dollar,
you'll have more fun with it.-Philadelphia
Times.
God has to take some people out Of the
world to set their money in circulation!
Rams Horn.
The names in the Lambs Book Of Life
are not copied from the church register.
Rams Horn.
Men can retain animosity immensely
longer than women despite all ideas to the
contrary.-Feminine Observer.
A low voice is an excellent thing in
woman, but it cuts down her attractiveness
by telephone.-Chicago Record.
They say reasonable amount o. heas is
good fer a dog-keeps him from broodin'
over bein' dog, mebbe.-David Harum.
We paste newspaper clippings in scrap
books only to discover that the item OF
value is on the other side.-Chicago Record.
The pessimist kicks because of the thorns
on roses, while the optimist rejoices be-
cause of the roses on thorns.-Chicago
News
i've often had to notice that man'll
sometimes do the foolishlst thing or the
meanest thing in his hull life after he's
dead. David Harum.
The newspaper is one of the foremost
wonders of the modern world. The family
that does not take, and read carefully, at
least one newspaper, is not living in the
nineteenth century,. A. Broadus
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05

The court of inquiry which the President
has decided to convene will not investigate
charges against General Miles, because none
have been filed against him nor are likely
to be- The court will investigate as to the
truth or falsity of the repeated charges of
General Miles regarding the quality of the
meat furnished the army. He will, Of course,
be given opportunity to substantiate his
charges. II he succeeds he will be vindi-
Gated and if he fails there will be sufficient
ground, without further proceedings, at
least for his removal from the command of
the army The President can no more ignore
General Miless repeated charges than he
could General Eagan's grossly improper
language before the commission. One must
be taken cognizance of as much as the other,
and if General Miles fails to make his state
ments good he should suffer the conse-
quences. The President will show decided
lenency in not taking any action against
him before ordering a court of inquiry and
he would be fully justified in making the
inquiry include the propriety of the COM
handing general of the army making news
paper charges against the heads of indie
pendent military bureaus not directly under
his command, and, by implication, against
the secretary Of war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
THE PERIL OF PROPHECY.

The revelations which human invention
and scientific investigation have caused dur
ing the century which Is closing should lead
dogmatic theorists to be more chary than
they have been in making predictions based
upon existing conditions and assumptions.
The men who>ridiculed Fultons steamboat
times. Those who jeered at the application
OF steam TO railroads were men who at
tempted 10 show its impossibility by the
knowledge and experience Of their times.
Those who predicted the failure OF all at
tempts to make practical telegraph were
the majority OF those who we're the learned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
Apen Picture OF Damnseu..


Compared with Jerusalem, Damascus is
Partisan. The Jerusalem air presses heavily
with its melancholy past Half a score OF
sects make it a rendezvous for pillage or for
mummery, and its memorials OF imperisha-
BILE events have to be looked at through the
dust of persisted dynasties. 1t is mystic,
solemn, arcane. Damascus IS practical,
positive. and even merry. The wall of Israel
sounds along the arid valleys OF Zion, but
Damascus sings & voluptuous carol Dy
means of its lce-cool. tabled river. The
tinkle if it's bells mingles forever with the
gurgle of its waters, and above all you hear
the silVery laughter of the Syrian girls ana
catch the dancing humor of their dark eyes
through their little wells. Jerusalem has lts
austere character to sustain. It's temples are
tonbs It's weight Of poignant history keeps
it grave. But in Damascus you are uhde!
no obligations 10 the past that the presS91ts
cannot make you forget. It's lnnumeFap(le
shuttles and armoTies call you back 70 lils
busting exigencies of life. The cofee oazalS
defy melancholy So this stranded cry ~
the shores of time-the gold on Wh e,S
mosques never corrodes-basks IN tle s sa,,
and eats figs merTily just as u GA "A0'
Saul of Tarsus journeyed that way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
WHY DEWEY STOPPED FIGHTING.
1t Was Not to Eat Breakfast, as the
First story Had 1t.
]. Ill stickney, in Harper's.

J. l.. Stickney, IN Harper s.
do not exaggerate in the least when
say that. as we hauled off into the bay,
the gloom on the bridge of the Olympia was
thicker than London fog in November
Neither Commodore Dewey nor any of the
staff believed that the Spanish ships had
been sufficiently injured by our fire 10 pre-
vent them from renewing the battle quite
as furiously as they had previously IouSht'
Indeed we had all been distinctly disap-
pointed in the results of our fire. Our pro-
jectiles seemed to &c too high or too low
just as had been the case with those nreu at
us by the Spaniards. Several times the
commodore had expressed dissatisfaction
with the failure of our gunners TO MI me
enemy. We had begun the hrlng AT LOO
great distance, but we had gradually
worked in further on each of the turns
until we were within about Z,oO0 yards at the
close of the fifth round At that distance,
in a smooth sea- we ought to have made a
large percentage of hits; yet, so far as we
could Judge, we had not sensibly crippled
the foe. Consequently Commodore Dewey
hauled out into the open bay at the END OF
the fifth round to take stock OF ammunition
and devise a new plan of attack.
The gun captains were well satisfied with
the result of their work. Whether they had
q better knowledge of the accuracy OF their
ann than we had on the bridge, or whether
they took it for granted that the enemy
must have suffered severely after so much
fighting, L do not know; but, at any rate
they We're eager to go on with the battle:
and were confident of victory. i told one or
them that we We're merely hauling OH lot
breakfast which statement elected the APP
peal to. Captain Lamberton, as he came past
a moment later:
For Gods sake captain, don't let US stop
Now. To hell with breakfast"
When I told the commodore that ] in
tended to attribute our withdrawal to the
need for breakfast, he intimated that 1T was
not a matter of much Importance what rea-
son / gave so long as / did not give the
true one. And so the breakfast episode went
to the world as a plausible excuse for what
seemed like an extraordinary strategic
manoeuvre-one which has been the subject
of more comment than almost any other
event during the battle. Many people nave
said 10 me that it would be pity to spoil so
good a story by telling the truth; but as the
commodore will be sure to let the cat out
OF the bag some day l may as Well let her
h.. Ear. frppdOTn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05

The Kansas Historical Society is very
active and energetic body, and is said to
have collected and classified a vast amount
of matter relating to the history and devel-
opment of the State. 1t has lately taken
steps to encourage the compilation and pub
lication of local histories in towns and coun-
ties. This is a wise move. for in every COM
munity may be found old residents who have
either fund of information or who possess
documents or newspaper files Of value-mat-
ter not likely to be secured except through
local effort. These county histories. Of
which several have been published in In
diana, usually make entertaining reading
even to those who have no personal interest
in them, and are invaluable to later gen
Grafton for the statistics and family infor-
nation they contain, if they have no wider
scope. Indiana has a State Historical Soci-
ETY.. but it is apparently in a moribund con-
ditlon. There is a tradition that occasion
ally document comes to its hands and IS
slowed carefully away where no man can
disturb II, but further than this the public
has no acquaintance with its doiugs. The
society should come to life and encourage
the spirit Of historical Investigation IN the
community. It would be well II e were
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05

In Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's 'Reminis-
cences" in the Atlantic Monthly she
tells how immensely amused Charles
Dickens was on one occasion when
ne heard her address her husband
as darling" Mrs. Howe apparent
~ sees no reason to this day why he
should have laughed over this occurrence,
and the innumerable women who are adj
dicted to the use of pet names in public
are doubtless equally obtuse; but on the
other hand, a large number of people can
quite understand his point of view. The
most of these however, are not so much
amused as astonished at the bad taste shown
by the habit so common among American
women of ''dearing'' their husbands on all
occasions even when the accompanying re-
marks are far from loving in character
Nothing is more frequent than to hear a
woman in crowd address her spouse as
dear in tone that suggests both vinegar
and ice, and to follow up the appellation
with a fretful, uncOmplimentary or scolding
speech. The use of dear and darling
and the like becomes so much a habit that
the users do not notice their own words,
which are therefore meaningless and ridicu-
bous. Many a one since Dickens's time has
laughed over them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05

and at the same time stamping upon the
concentrated mind the clear-cut outlines of
the individual ideal This consciousness is
to be maintained until one feels a spirit Of
repose or restfulness. a quiet, gentle state
of mind tending to calm the whole life Then
one should turn once more to the. great
marching world Of beings and things, bear
ing with one this spirit Of restfulness and
peace This proceeding suggests the course
of the Hindoo Yogi or deyotee, who, with
his eyes fixed on the end of his nose and his
thoughts on nothing. sits with his legs folded
under him until they grow there. He also
may acquire a spirit of restfulness and peace
in the course of time, but it IS not the gen
eral understanding that he adds greatly to
the sum of human happiness. However, it
may be assumed that the American variety
of mental and spiritual development is an
improvement on that of the Hindoo, and that
the results will be more satisfactory. And
1t may be accepted as certain that no nerv-
Gus, restless American who ''enters into the
silence will stay there long enough to para
lyze his body, whatever may happen to his
mind. AT all events, good many people
here and there are taking an interest in this
peculiar development of the century, as the
conventions and multiplication of periodicals
prove, and it is just as well for the unregen-
crate followers of the old thought to keep
an eye on it and see what happens.