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Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20
STORIES OF RELIEF.
Two Letters to Mrs. Pinkham.

Mrs. JOHN WILLIAMS, Englishtown,
N. j., writes:
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-I cannot be.
gin to tell you how l suffered before
taking your remedies. was so weak
that could hardly walk across the floor
without falling. 1 had womb trouble
and such a bearing down feeling; also
suffered with my back and limbs, pain
in womb, Inflammation of the bladder,
piles and indigestion. Before l had
taken one bottle Of Lydia Z. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound l felt a great deal
better, and after taking two and one
half bottles and half a box of your
Liver Pills was cured. If more would
take your medicine they would not
have to suffer SO much"
Mrs. JOSEPH PETERSON, 513 East St.,
Warren, Pa, writes:
''DEAR MRS. PINKHAMs-1 have suf-
fered with womb trouble over fifteen
years. l had Inflammation, enlarge
ment and displacement of the womb.
had the backache constantly, also
headache. and was so dizzy. l had
heart trouble, it seemed as though my
heart was in my throat at times chok-
ing me. could not walk around and
could not lie down, for then my heart
would beat so fast l would feel as
though I was smothering. l had to
sit up in bed nights in order to breathe.
l was so weak l conld not do any
thing.
81 have now taken several bot
ties of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. and used three pack
ages of Sanative Wash, and can say
l am perfectly cured. I do not think
1 could have lived long if Mrs. Pink
hams medicine had not helped me-"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20

CHEYENNE. Wyo., Jan. l9.-( Specially
Bruce Mcclellan, aged is, private soldier
In Company +, Twenty fourth United States
infantry. died at Fort Russell this morning
OF meningitis. His home is at Versailles.
Ky.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20
Rritish shin on a Crui.e.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Jan. 19.-The
British war ship Pheasant, Captain Gran
Vile Smith, has arrived here. 1t will go
into the straits for target practice today,
after which 1t will sail for Seattle.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20
Raise an Officers Salary.

OSCEOLA, Neb., Jan. 19.-(Special.)-
Polk county's commissioners have raised the
salary OF George Horst. county superin-
tendent OF schools to 81, 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20
Prof. Henry AlIcyne Nicholson.

LONDON. Jan. l9.-prof Henry Alleyns
Nicholson, professor OF natural history at
the University OF Aberdeen. died today in
his 55th year.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20

this city since 1854. has just died at the age
of "a. lie was well known throughout. this
section OF the state. lie leaves eisht chill.
drcn.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. FRIDAY. JANUARY 60. 1899.

informed the party Is preparing his biog-
raphy revealing gross palace inqulties and
describing in detail the arts and methods
constituting the "Hamidan system
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20
Dr.. Bennett Gsss'sis Go%pdny

Rooms 30 aud ~ Douglas Block, 10th
and Dodge Streets, Omaha, Neb.
Open from S':iO a. IN. tn $3.50 y. m.
aEd all day sunday.
When you write please mention The Bee.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20
American Pickles for Queen Victoria.

LONDON, Jan. 19.-Lusden & Gibson, gro
GERS OF Aberdeen. Scotland regularly supply
Balmoral castle, the queens residence, with
Heinz's Sweet Pickles, Tomato Soup, Picked
Onions, Ketchup and Chutney The goods
are supplied through H. ]. Heinz Co.'s Lon
don branch
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20

Old Resident Of Ames.
AMES. Ia, Jan. 19.-(Special.)- Jesse
Ross, who has resided on his farm ives. Of
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20
TODAY'S WEATHER FORECAST
Fair and Variable Winds Predicted
for Nebraska, Iowa and
Dakota.
Local Record.

OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU,
OMAHA, Jan. 19.-Omaha record of tenn
perature and rainfall compared with
the corresponding day of the past three
Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-20
STATIONS AND STATE OF
w GATHER.

7 indicates trace of precipitation.
l.. A. WELSH
Local Forecast Official,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
Adyices from Manila announce that

,Advices from Manila announce that
our, peace commissioners recently gave
reception and dance notable for its
brilliancy and gorgeousness. We read,
however, with some misgivings that
there was display of gorgeous ma
tive toilets and many jewels were
worm" Now we do not wish to be
captious or hypercritical, and we sin
cerely desire TO do everything possible
to promote love and unity in our new
possessions, but we cannot contem-
plate possibility Of "native toilets"
without feeling of restiveness. Some
of the big newspapers have favored us
with a number of views of the new
sisters In their native costumes, and
we have no hesitation in saying that
they were far more adaptable to the
requirements Of the bathtub than to
the public usages of polite society. We
know that the weather there is warm
and that allowance must be made for
oriental social customs, and yet we
must contend that the thought Of
Filipino executing the two-step in one
of these native costumes in crowded
and brilliantly lighted room is not
pretty one. Indeed, we fear that the
couchee-couchee will not be sanctioned
by the moral element of this country.
Let us entertoin our new sisters and
brothers in reputable, dignified and
Christian manner If possible let us
have an ice cream festival or church
fair or a mite sociable, but no more
dances In native costume.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
STRONG ROOMS.
Remarkable Expedients Adopted to
save Some FabuIoua Fortunea.

X markaOle EXpedient0 Adopted to
Save Some Fabulous Fortunes.
The Bank of England's strong room
is one of the largest in the world. The
foundation, 66 feet below the street
level, is bed of concrete, 20 feet thick.
Above this is a lake seven feet deep,
and above that thick plates of iron,
specially manufactured to resist both
skill and force. Anyone attempting an
entrance from above would find SIM
liar bed of concrete, similar lake, and
similar plates of iron. The walls are
impenetrable, while the doors are one
foot thick, weigh four tons each, and
are made absolutely undrillable. w.
w. Astor's valuables are stored in the
Office of the Pail Mall Gazette, in one
of the most remarkable strong rooms
ever erected. 1t is steel throughout
and covered with half an inch of solid
concrete. The door. also of solid steel,
weighs over two tons, and has the
most remarkable lock which the in
genuity Of Chubb has ever constructed.
The whole cost fabulous sum, but
this is not surprising, when we are
told that Mr.. Astor locks up about
fS,000,0O0 worth of valuables and
money in this room. The Imperial OF
toman Bank, Constantinople, had n
marvellous steel fort built for it some
years ago. 1t is built upon water
bearing rock, and on the top of the
rock foundation is four-foot bed Of
-
length 40 feet and width "a feet. The
steel walls are surrounded by mason
ry and concrete six feet thick through
out, while the whole comprises nearly
80 tons of steel.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

posed Of such simple substances, but II
mineral matter be added the product is
often poisonous to some degree. A few
years ago in France the Government
seized a factory which employed sui
phate of iron in its mixture.
Imitation coffee beans can be distin-
guished easily from the genuine by a
careful examination. Nodded as they
are, the artificial beans present uni
formity Of structure, which is entirely
foreign to the real beans. Again, arti-
hcial coffee beans will nearly always
sink when put in water, while genuine
coffee floats. There are several simple
and good tests for ground coffee. When
little of the coffee is taken and press
ed between the fingers or squeezed in
the paper in which 1t is bought, and it
will not form coherent mass, it is
pretty sure to be genuine, but If the
grains cake they IRE not coffee. Even
chicory grains will stick to each other.
for they are comparatively soft and
open, and adhere without difficulty
when squeezed. In water chicory and
cereals will soften quickly like bread
crumbs, while coffee will take long
time to soften; genuine coffee grains
Will float, as will the whole beans, but
chicory or any other sweet root will
soon sink. Chlcory or caramel will
cause yellowish or brownish color to
diffuse rapidly through the water, but
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
How to Irrirate crons.

One of the best short cuts in water
ing all crops planted in rows is the use
OF small tubes or boxes made of lath
They are made by saving common
plastering lath in three pieces, sixteen
inches long, then rip one piece in the
center and nail together with two or
three penny nails, SO the tubes will be
square, the width of n lath, about IL
inches on the outside, and little less
than three-quarters of an inch on the
inside. This will also allow a stream
of water sufficiently large for ordinary
soils. These tubes should be placed
one at the upper end of each irrigation
furrow, connecting 1t with the feed
ditch. Have the feed ditch as near
level as possible. If the feed ditch has
too much fall the wash will fill w the
ends of the tubes. 1t can be remedied
by placing checks or sluice boxes at
proper intervals with gates sufficiently
high to back the water up far enough
to make the water stand nearly still.
Occasional cleaning of the tubes with
n small switch is all that is necessary.
With this arrangement all that is re-
CURED to irrigate field is to turn the
water into the feed ditch and let 1t
run until the ground is thoroughly
soaked, which is a saving of great
deal of time and attention.-F. s. Cal
kfns, in st. Louis Globe Democrat,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

The more that is learned about the
details of the abduction of Marion
Clarke in New York the more farcical
do the laws relating to this species of
crime appear, says the Chicago Times
Herald. In the case Of the Clarke child
there was no motive except that basest
of all. desire to extort money from
the distracted parents. Does anyone
suppose for minute that the crime
would have been attempted If the law
provided an adequate penalty for It?
Is it not evident that the leniency with
which the offense is treated, together
with the possibility of large financial
gain, is an actual incentive to con-
scienceless people to undertake 1t as q
business enterprise? Is there any 9TH
er crime which promises SO large re-
ward, If successful, and for the perpe-
tration of which there is SO little to be
feared If the offender is caught? The
answers to these questions show the
crying need for a change in the laws
relative to kidnapping. The punishment
should be commensurate with the Of
Tense. AS well might one say that
three months in the county jail is a
proper penalty for manslaughter as to
contend that a years Imprisonment is
adequate punishment for the abductor
of child. Nor can the matter be dis
missed with the assertion that the
crime is of comparatively infrequent
occurrence. On the contrary, the rec
ords show there are many such cases,
and there must be a large number of
which the public never hears. These
crimes, among the cruelest and most
dastsrdly possible, never will eease OF
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
and sold in the country, and he ex-
planned to the Investigators the results
of his tests

For instance, he found pure" alco-
hol that had been made Of menthol and
wood sap; brandy that had been man
ufactured of burnt sugar and water;
bread that had been made of potato
flour, and even then adulterated with
alum and sulphate of copper, sub
stances dangerous to the health of the
consumers of that sort of bread; cider
made Of tartaric acid and colored with
caramel; candy made Of glucose and
artificial essences and colored with
poisonous substances; canned goods
which had been preserved with salts of
copper; butter which had been manu-
featured from ordinary animal fats
and starch, and in which there was an
excess of salts; beer that had been
made of burnt sugar, licorice, Quassia
and grains other than barley; cheese
that had been made of oleomargarine,
with salts of mercury in the rind; cocoa
and chocolate that We're compounded of
sugar, animal fats, flour and starch and
ferruginous. earths; cayenne pepper
that was made of ground rice and flour
and salt and a sprinkling of red lead:
flour that was made of alum and
ground rice; cinnamon that was made
of cassia and plain sawdust; ginger that
was manufactured of mustard and
tumeric; gin that was composed alto
gether of mixture of water and sugar
and alum and turpentine; honey in the
comb that was made Of glucose and
cane sugar, with the comb nodded of
paraftin; lard that was made of starch
and cottonseed oil and stearine, and
containing alum and caustic lime; mus
tard that was compounded of flour and
tumeric and chromate and sulphate of
lead; artificial milk that was sold as
pure condensed milk" and made of
burnt sugar, annotto and water; fruit
Jeliies that We're made of gelatine and
apple parings and favored with arti-
fetal essences; mace that was made of
bread dust and venetian red; pickles
put up in salts of copper and alum;
fruit preserves that We're made of the
common pumpkin and colored with
dangerous substances; sage made of
potato starch; powdered sugar, the
base of which was rice -four, and
which contained also salts of lead and
tin, gypsum and marble dust; tea that
was made of common leaves and treat
ed with gypsum, china clay and soap
stone; vinegar that was made of burnt
sugar and sulphnric and hydrochlorc
acids; wines made of artificial alcohol
and water and colored with anilines.
From the testimony of the witnesses
before the committee it would seem
that more time and ingenuity are ex-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
Box sMoKE-uousE.

about half as deep rs the hole. If a
couple or three joints of old stovepipe
are at hand, place them in the trench
with the upper end coming out under
the box near the center. An old elbow
joint makes this an easy thing to do.
The other end of the pipe is to enter
the hole. Then cover the pipe over
with the loose dirt thrown out. Also
bank up the smoke-boX and calk all
cracks possible. There will be enough
smoke escape at best to insure the re-
quired draught.
When ready for the fire, start one in
an old kettle or pan. Cobs make the
best material, being easy to handle and
keep we'll When a good smoke is go
ing, set 1t in the hole prepared for it,
and cover over with boards, or better,
Il large piece of sheet-iron, tin or some
thing of the kind. Bank this up so as
to keep the smoke from escaping, and
you are in fair way to soon have
some first-class bacon. The box will
smoke from two to three hundred
pounds at a time. 1t is inexpensive,
easy to construct, and what is most
essential, success.-Ohio Farmer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
Jersey Cow Namcless.
Property of Mr.. A. j. Arthur. Winner
of first prize at the Royal Jersey Agri-
cultural and Horticultural shows,
1894 'Y5- SO '97-'9S.


1t does not pay to make any false
motions in hoeing, especially if killing
weeds is the object. Above all, do not
either cut off the leaves of a weed or
allow others to do so before uprooting
it If you want to kill it. We had hired
man once who persisted in spite of all
we could tell him in striking twice
with his hoe to destroy a weed With
his first blow he struck the weed. lust
at the surface of the ground, cutting
off all the top. Then he struck deeper
and turned UP the root. Invariably If
a rain or cloudy weather came that
weed grew. 1t was simply transplante(l
under the best conditions for growing,
much root and little top. We let the
man go after few days trial to re-
form him, but without effect. He was
too stupid to know how to handle a
hoe.-American Cultivator.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

1t is universally agreed that a heavy
clay soil is best for the pear. There are
various reasons for this, the principal
one being that clay soil is always rich
in mineral fertilizers, while a sandy
or gravelly soil is deficient in this kind
of plant food. But the clay soil, though
rich in phosphates and potash, may
not have them in available form, and
may need a dressing in spring of these
minerals in available form. Trees on
clay may need dressings of available
potash and phosphate in the years
when the tree is bearing. On sandy soil
the pear tree always needs these man
ures. The pear roots deeply, so that it
is never affected by droughts, and in
clay soils it doubtless draws mineral
fertilizers from the subsoil below where
the roots of grain and other crops usu-
ally grow. 1t is a great mistake to
allow the tap root of a pear tree to be
cut off before 1t is transplanted.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

All during the ride up Lincoln ave-
nue. the young man smiled at the aged
gentleman opposite him. The latter
fell to reading newspaper, but now
and then he would look over the ton of
it and meet the haunting eyes of the
young man.
All Of sudden he laid the paper
aside and arose from his seat. He grab
bed one of the "hold-on' straps and
tugged at 1t frantically. The conductor
did not notice his attempt apparently
to stop the car, but it nearly drove the
young man into Mysteries. "Oh, what
Rube!" the old man heard him NUT
ter, and then as though the efforts of
the aged gentleman had softened his
heart he said: I'm do it for you," and
rising he pulled the motorman's bell
When he had tugged it the regular way
the old man resumed his seat.
The car came to standstill at the
corner. The conductor opened the rear
door, but no one inside moved.
II guess it was that young Teller
over there" answered the old man,
noddlng toward the youth.
Dye waater git OFF," inquired the
conductor, with a snap.
"Why. no." stammered the youth.
Il thought that the elderly gentleman
did, and rang the bell for him. He
was pulling one of those straps"
Every one saw the position the old
man had placed the young man in and
all eyes were turned on him.
He REDEEMED. what did you do 1t
for?" asked the conductor, turning to
the aged passenger. 81 jest wanted to
show thing or two to that young cox
comb over there" was the reply. And
he added as the youth ducked for the
open door, Il guess did it."-Chicago
Democrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21
TIME TO PRAY.
How Senator Turpie Led Off for a
Bashful Preacher.

How Senator Turpie Led Off for a
Bashful Preacher.
Former Senator David Turpie of In
diana is man of intense nervous de-
velopment. He says so himself Any
one who has ever seen him for five
consecutive seconds is willing to take
his word for it. AT times the states
mans popularity takes the form of
Feasibility, and when the wind is in
that quarter thoughtful persons.efface
themselves as eXpeditiously as is con-
sistent with practicality. Not that the
Senator is Intentionally abrupt. 1t is
merely the natural idiosyncrasy of the
great. On one occasion, the President
of the Senate being delayed in reach
ing the Capitol, Mr.. Turpie was re-
quested to preside Mt the opening of
the session. The unusual prospect
brought out the nervousness in more
pronounced shape than was ordinary,
and when the Hoosier assembled the
steps leading to the Presidents seat
with the chaplain-a new chaplain, by
the by-in tow, he was really SO i'll at
ease as TO make his position painful.
Something Of this feeling communi-
Gated itself 70 the new preacher, who
followed in apparent bewilderment,
and awkwardly took the wrong posi-
ton. This further embarrassed Tur-
pie, who stood surveying the stand
ing quorum and at loss how to make
beginning. For several seconds the
chaplain looked blankly around Sud-
denly Turpie, who had grown more
and more confused by the parsons in
action, caught up the ivory gavel and
brought 1t down with terrific nervous
force on the desk. Then wheeling
round to face the affrlghted cleric the
Senator shouted, Pray, you,
pray!" And the chaplain prayed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-21

The popular notion that person can
not have too much Education" was
vigorously assaulted by Coils P. Hunt
ington at the annual banquet to officials
of the Southern and Pacific Railway
Companies held at San Francisco. Mr..
Huntington, in fact, declared that the
cause of much of the distress in the
country at this time is generalization
of the masses" In the course of his
address he is reported as saying;
While preparation for professional
life requires advanced knowledge, il
seems to me that the vast majority of
our young people spend too many of
Their vigorous years of youth inside
Schoerooms and not enough in the
practical work of life" 1t is useless to
dismiss this declaration with the OBJ
servation that Mr.. Huntington is not
an authority on educational matters;
that he is more familiar with finance
and railroading than he is with the
theory and practice of pedagogics.
There is just enough truth in what Mr..
Huntington says about the distress OF
''over-education" to entitle it to serious
consideration. Mr. Huntington's name
belongs in the long list of Americans
who have achieved signal success in va
rious departments of endeavor-com-
mercial political, industrial whose
educational opportunities in early life
were very limited compared to those
that are offered to the youth of to-day.
1t is also noted in reading the biogra4
phies of men who have achieved sue
cess in this country that great many
of them enjoyed the distinction of being
at the foot of their classes in school or
college. The question raised by Mr..
Huntington's observation is: Are we
gradually substituting big and ponder
Gus looking curricula for the genuine
education that developed the best
men of our times? Is the modern high
school graduate, who has been loaded
with Latin, trigonometry, botany,
chemistry and psychology, better ''edu-
Gated" than the country boy who has
learned "reading, writing and arithme-
tic," but in addition to this knows all
about the birds. the beasts and the
crops, who has cultivated the mechan-
ical and constructive instinct by daily
use of the implements of the farm and
who has developed a strong body as a
vehicle for receptive mind? The
question suggested by Mr.. Huntington
turns, therefore, largely upon the mean
ing of the word education" If it is
mere book learning acquired within
the walls of the schoolroom without
much contact with nature, with men or
with business. it will hardly be denied
that too much Of 1t is a handicap rather
than O. help in the battle of life. The
popular notion that book Education" is
the sine qua non of success is already
crowding the professions and purely
polite pursuits of life far beyond legitl-
mate demands. 1t will take long time
to rid the public mind of the notion
that the boy that can carry home from
school the largest armful of books is
getting the best equipment for the bust
ness of life.