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The Washington times., 1902-07-23
PERSONALS.
PRICES REDUCED FROM

LADIES, 81; GENTLEMEN. -.
TO LADIES. SOC; GENTLEMEN. 81
ErviuE Million, the celebrated clairyoyant and
pal,nist, positively tells everything; all names
even yours; exactly what you wish to know,
etc. Hours, o to 0. 9li New York ave. NV
MI
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FOR SALE-BICYCLES.

FOR sALE-Nans bicycle, good tires $3.50.
BON $50. this Office clio
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HELP WANTED-FEMALE.

wANTED-A neat waitress, at FUsSELLs'
1927 New York ave M
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SYLVIA GORDON

Gives advice on business and social life from a
source that has no equal. Reads cards. 25c Do
not buy, sell, or go on a journey until YOU con-
suit this gifted lady at $50 Pennsylvania ave.
m
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HELP WANTED-MALE & FEMALE

WANTED-House man and woman cook, at
once; bring references; good pay. Call Gis
Acker ST. ne. MI
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~. If YOU ARE GOING TO PUT
a u n money in bank, you look for the
W a ~ safest institution; why not use the
same care when you deposit your
valuables for a loan. We have Il building and
safes made for that purpose. All business
absolutely confidential Money loaned On
watches, diamonds, jewelry, etc. Interest al
three per cent instead of ten.
II. X. FULTON'S LOAN OFFICE
Established lS7Q Sli Ninth Street NV
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TRAINS on BLugMoNr BRANcB,

Leave Washington. week days, $40 a.. H..
1:CO p. m, 1885 p. m. l:49 p. m, and G:25
p. Latter 70 I.eosburg only. Sundays only,
Bluemons.
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Tickets, sleeping car reservations, and de-
tailed information can be had at ticket Offices.
7OS 18Th St, jI1 Pennsylvania Ave, and Penn
sylyania Station. Baggage checked through
from hotels and residences.
Phone, Main 1iI1, p. R. r. Cab Service.
c. II. ACKERT General Manager.
S. Il. HAsDWICK. General Pss'r Agent
L HhOMN C,enersl Acnrf.
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Through trains from the South arrive Wash
inston 6:42 a. m, e:52 a. H.. 40 a. m, g:ij
q. m, 2:00 p. m, 9.lj p. M. and $50 p. n.
daily. Local trains from Harrisonburg. l:37 a.
m week days and $40 p. m. daily. From
Charlottesville, s:2s a. IN. and 9:4O p. daily.
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NEAR CAPITOL FOR $4,000
FOR SALE-HOUSES.

FOR SALE-Ne have number Of bargains in
northeast, from $500 upward; good location
easy terms. FUSS Il CO., COZ 18th st. nw
el0g
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WANTED-Quick. four waitresses. two cham
bcrmaids, three cooks. HARRELLS' SZi "a.
ave III
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SITUATIONS WANTED-FEMALE.

WANTED-Neat, reliable cook, nurse and
chsmbermaid will stay or go. Ill 4th st. NV.
nj
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WANTED-White vegetable cook, $50; kitchen
maids, SIS; for Deer Park today. DICKS
HOTEL AGENCY. 18th and Pa. ave. e22-S
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WAREHOUSES.

WANTED-To rent, with privilege Of buying
house with two more acres, near cars; state
terms. location. Address BOX 1913, this Office.
ul23-3
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FOR RENT-HOUSES.

FOR RENT-S05 I'd st. Sc; six room brick ;
thoroughly ovcrhauled, papered painted; good
as new; sl0sO. GEO. r. HILL, 6lj l4th st. NV.
m2O-G
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SITUATIONS WANTED-MALE.

WANTED-Care of a stable by white stable
man understanding his business; y years ex-
perienee in veterinary hospitals; city reference.
Address bon IA, this office. m23-3
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4 workinguan should have good vacation and
the only way he can have one is to save his
money tthats what he does when he buys
a suit of clothes from us that is cquaed bv
none new or old. We have them worn but lit
tle and at prices most reasonable. JUSTHS OLD
STAND go ID St. ell
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WANTED-HoRsEs AND VEHICLES

WANTED-To buy good work horse on in
stallments; must be cheap. Address Bon AZ,
this Office. m2i-3
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WANTED Situation by five good women cooks
houseworkers. chambermaids, nurses. Inquire
1922 llth st. NV. Phone, Main 2si4 y. mi
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STORAGE.

WHY PAY si.J0 for storage when We store for
s5cg UNITED STATES STORAGE COMPANY,
420 10th 81. nv. mss
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WANTED-By white woman, place TO do gen
eral work; viii go to country. bon 5, this
office. ell
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22
to Avoid Lightning

Nine hundred and seventy-three people
were killed by lightning in the United States
In the year 1900. OF his number POI per-
sons were killed in the open, 1853 in houses.
81 under trees and S. in barns, while tho
circumstances attending the death OF the
remaining ISL are not known. Besides this
large mortality list there we're 973 persons
more or less injured by lightning during
the same time, 327 we're injured while in
houses, 24S in the open, 81 in barns and 20
under trees, and the location Of the re-
naming are not known. From these sta
t%istics, which are compiled by the United
States Weather bureau, It can easily be
seen that Of the entire population OF the
United States one in every 40, 900 is killed
by lightning during a year.
A safe and reliable guide to reduce to
the minimum the danger from stroke by
lightning is to be drawn from these figures.
When a severe thunder storm is raging
the safest place is in the open, close to the
earth. II the body is erect It acts as an
excellent conductor for the lightning to find
its way to the earth. For this reason it is
dangerous to take refuge under a tree.
Doubtless most Of the persons who persisted
while under trees would be alive today had
they remained In the open. 1t is also in
judicious to huddle under threshing ma
chimes, sheds or in the grandstands Of race
tracks or country fairs, especially under or
near the flag stats which usually adorn
such structures. Men, like animals, are
killed, not singly, but in punches, when
they huddle together. Avoid standing in
doorways, near chimneys and freplaces,
close to cattle or near the ends of a wire
clothes line during a thunder storm. On
the other hand, there is not much sense in
going to bed or trying to insulate ones
self In feather beds. Small articles of
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22
rN-u-@ c@A- NI@~-1 C%wu~ Destructive features of the
4 SASS oSLS lNOW olyAO h Martinique Eruption

lava flows. The volcano elects ash Oapilla),
steam and boiling-hot mud, and Of the vast
volume of ash and pumice shot into the air
It is estimated by observers to have risen
seven miles and, while most Of 1t was
dropped within a radius Of twenty, miles
OF the volcano, vast quantities of the loose
ash were carried by air currents northwest
to Barbados and Antigua, westward to ia
maica. and southwark to Granada. In thus
ejecting only ash, mud, steam and pumice
stone and being accompanied by seismic
action the ,Pelee phenomenon differed from
any other volcanic eruption so far as
known.
"Other features Of the eruption were the
gases sent forth by this volcano. These
gases were of a kind that did not ignite
until they reached the outer atmosphere.
Coming up with the high temperature OF
subterranean depths, the mass was
charged with mineral substances ready to
fash into burning gas or to oxidize on
contact with the air; and the more vo-
latile materials, being of less density
than the average, were more abundant In
the upper portions of the mass. Such, in
brief, Is the nature and character Of the
Mount Pelee eruption, a phenomenon
strictly peculiar to itself, the results of
which should be seen to be appreciated.
81 travelled over the island alone, eat
ing and sleeping in the huts Of the half
caste peasantry, and a more hospitable,
honest and cheerful set Of people (once
that you are away from the rabble Of the
town. l never met in my life. l noticed
this on every hand in Martinique. The
people are taking the matter very phil
osophically, and l dare say that before an
other year they will be settled within the
devastated territory as unconcernedly as
though nothing had ever happened. They
are already returning to their burned and
ruined homes, TO begin life anew, while
in several places in the neighborhood of
the volcano the people remained through
out the eruptions.
This was notably the case at Morne
Rouge, where the priest and his little
flock braved the storm of fire and have
thus far escaped unframed. Many, IL not
the greater portion, of those killed we're
the victims of gas that took fire when II
reached the air. The gases of which I
speak come out of the crater with a puff
and ascend skyward in the form of a
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22

q MIL I'm TO Douglas County upon the small fraction =,
Of the b Tt aTackage equal to the length Of the west hail
later oriticissee; Nellher does the $66OS1, referred to in a
Union PaCisn represent the assessed valuation of The
trackap acme depot and depot grounds, right of wsVe
1t mereIv ~ terminal facilities in the city OF Omaha
the citSH represents the distributive share accr,Iins 70
entire 81 Omaha' on the lawful mileage basis OF the
and leaves n OF the Union Pacific line in the state.
In yaS and bridge, which is distributed to and tnaSxnadd
line from I9EumIys town or school district along the whoIe
~ Douglas county to the Wyoming boundarv
terrnirnea provision of the Nebraska law oujrIn ~.
over he values Of railroad property to be distributteds
fact that rdi a. lires for taxation, accounts for tbe
counties "aih line, as certified to by nearly ali ~ tbna
per cent 9Sffott US line represents from thirty to forty
counties, while in Douglas county n nj
very much less than those percentages u'S
and he NJ again to the difference between the Iowa
OF raiiro tSepraska law with respect TO the distribution
that in in ~ valuations for taxation, we would explain
machine w Nv the law requires the valuation of railroad
railroad Eli ny repair, shops to be distributed over the
sbnnoo mlleage' while the Nebraska law makes s1cb
WoSId sttbPyect to separate local assessment and taxation
excbsneah me resldent taxpayers of Omaha be willing 10
Other IsS the Nebraska law foY the Iowa law? on the
towns n ~ might not the residents of the counties.
MI mslo ana school districts outside of Omaha he gIsd -
distrfb such an. exchange and to have the taxabIas Nai, 90
as Is done in Iowa and many other sra tes Ss
u maintenance of railroad terminal pacbIro -
rep5dr shops and headquarters is not to any raat t amu
mn Nit necessary on account OF the business Of the conn.,
benedtt "a 99", those communities receive the exclusive
and .hesdquaTters,a and i n recaL t3bTatiSn Of such shops
enPIoyment OF many hundreds Of people AZ" the
word lscurrilous" has been edItorisIIv usad 4.
~ articles and the editorial commenfs tbersaoor Ooth
~ ~ eksmlned for scurrility or misrepTesentattoDne
ann TO give exact facts and figures, as annonncsSdg H. NE
most competent and reliable authorities' IeavinsSS NE
that the people OF Nebraska are fair Win mtn me belief
Wsho, with complete and accurate information bee4pIe
interests in the vital and Important mater of Ioh ne s9 all
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22

steel or iron, as a knife, kettle or key, do
not attract lightning, as it is popularity
believed.
II is established that lightning does not
strike as often in cities as in rural dis
tricts. The reason for this is based on a
scientific principle. During a thunder storm
the moisture in the air is surcharged with
electricity. This electricity is attracted to
the earth. When the force that is drawing
IL toward the earth becomes strong enough
the electricity follows the easiest path, and
because upright objects, as trees, houses
and men, are better conductors than the
surrounding air and are therefore the
easiest path. the electricity passes through
them into the earth. In cities the cleo
tricity in the air is attracted to the earth
by hundreds Of conductors in the shape of
sky-scrapers and high chimneys. There are
no such conductors in the country and the
electricity in the clouds is allowed to &C
cumulate so that when 1t gives away it
breaks with great force. The country is a
theater with but one exit, while the city is
the same theater with many exits.
When these facts are considered the
wonder is not that so many people are
struck, but rather that so many people
escape. The fash will not infict harm,
as one who lives to see the fire need
concern himself no more with that dis
charge.
II one has been struck by lightning the
first thing to do is to go to work to re-
store consciousness, as lighting oftener
brings about suspended animation than
somatic death. The condition OF a person
struck by lightning is much the same as
that Of a person rescued from drowning.
Try to stimulate respiration and circula-
ton. Do not cease in the effort to restore
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22
'I'"o Gr.al . mas.

In almost every neighborhood someone
has died from an attack of eelie or cholera
morbus, often before medicine could e
procured OF a physician summoned. A re-
liable remedy for these diseases should be
kept at hand. The risk is too great for
anyone TO take. ChamberIain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has un-
d0ubtedly saved the lives OF more people
and relieved more pain and suffering than
any other medicine in use. 1t can always
Be depended upon.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22

An up town reader Of the Philadelphia
paper tells of the break made by a tot
Of the family who was one of a party Of
little girls at a recent strawberry festi-
val in the Vicinity of her home. She had
been valiantly boasting Of the manifold
advantages of belonging to her family,
and had managed to hold her own against
the vainglories and ingenious discourses
of her companions. They had gone from
clothes to personal appearances, then to
interior furnishings, then to the number
of tons Of coal consumed in the home of
each during the past winter, and finally
brought up at parental dignity. The min
ister's little girl boosted;
Every package that comes for my papa
is marked ID. d."
AN every package that comes for my
papa is marked M. d." retorted the
daughter OF a physician Of the neighbor-
hood.
Then came a fine snort OF contempt from
the hero OF this anecdote. Huh" she ex.
claimed. Every package that comes to
our house is marked Cod There,
now!"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22

The golden text for a certain Sunday
school was. And the child grew and waxed
strong in spirit" duke II, 400. Little
"Ted's" hand went up like a flash when
the superintendent asked: Can any Of
these bright. smiling little boys or girls
repeat the golden text for today? All,
how glad IL makes my heart to see so many
little hands go up! Teddy. my boy, you may
repeat it, and speak good and loud, that
all may hear" And they all heard this:
And the child grew strong and waxed
strong in spirit like 2:40."
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22

"Apropos Of the st. Pierre disaster 1t is
worth while to read that part of Lafcadio
Hearn's description of Martinique dealing
with Mount Pelee. This book appeared in
1887 and in it Mr.. Hearn says:
"fIs the great volcano dead? 80
Nobody knows. Less than forty years ago
1t rained ashes over all the roofs or st.
Pierre; within twenty years it has uttered
mutterings. For the moment it appears to
sleep, and the clouds have dripped into the
cup of its highest crater till it has become
a lake several hundred yards in circum-
ference. The crater occupied by tn. lake
has never been active within human mem
DRY. There are others, dificult and dan
gerous to visit, because opening on the
side of a tremendous gorge, and 1t was one
OF these, no doubt, which has always been
called La Soufriere, that rained ashes over
the city in 1881"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22
Criticisms Unfounded.
Railroads Pay Tax on Every Item of Their Property.
Union Pacific Bridge is Taxed in Every County, City, Village and
School District Along the Railroad Line.


The Railroad Tax Bureau has recently been invited
by The Omaha Bee to explain why the east half of the
Union Pacific bridge is assessed at $S4, 900 i'm Iowa, while
the west half of the bridge is listed for only $3.50 ia
Nebraska, and this subject was again referred to in
Mr.. Rosewaters editorial Of Sunday, June 18th, and
Wednesday, June 18th. Although we very much doubt
the good faith Of the invitation, we nevertheless cheer
fully respond.
To begin with, the proposition as stated is erroneous
and misleading, as are nearly all Of the criticisms
emanatng from the same source.
Under the Iowa law, railroad bridges across naviga-
Die streams are expressly excepted from the unit assess
ment OF railroad property as fixed by the State Board, or
Executive Council, and are made subject to separate as
sessment by the local assessors. Under the Nebraska
law as construed by the Supreme Court, these bridges
are included in the valuation and assessment fixed by
the state Board and are in that way distributed over
ana taxed in every county, city, village and school dis
ulct along the respective railroad lines in the state.
We quote from the decision of the Supreme Court I'm
the case of c., b. & Q. r, r. Co. VS.. Richardson County,
relative to the Rulo bridge, as follows:
What was the purpose of the Legislature In reouir-
ing the right OF way, roadbed and superstructure of a
railway to be assessed as a unit? The common-sense
view OF the subject would seem to be that such purpose
was to enable the proper authorities to distribute the
avails OF taxation equitably among all the municipal
suodVlsi0ns through which. a road may pass, in the
vision bears 70 the total number of miles of road within
IN state treating each mile as equal in value to every
under which any, particular portion of the road is con-
structed. 4 railroad might have vast terminals at one
though IT extended through a dozen Counties ~. snnTbe.,
DIVISION N which these terminals are located is not,
other localities by reason of the mere accident Sf Iocs-
tton, but must share. its advantages with these Others
pro rat a.. Lhaf EVIDENTLY Is the reason behind and
The $3.50 referred TO in the interrogatory and edt-
toIlal does MOI, represent the assessed valuation of the
bridge at all 1t merely represents the mileage pro rata
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22

OF planting far less expensive than those
formerly practiced and have so reduced the
percentage Of failures by a proper selec-
tion Of species and care in planting that
money invested in raising timber crops In
some parts of the country is reasonably
certain to bring good returns. This is es-
pecially true in the middle west, where
is scarce and there is a good market
for all forest produce.
The principal tree selected for planting
in the sandhill country, the tree in which
the government puts its confidence, Is the
bull pine, OF rock ~pine-plnus ponderosa
scopulorum of the Rocky mountains. In
the wet valleys along the rivers this tree
has been found growing naturally, and It
seems specially adapted to the soil and
climate.
A dozen years ago the Bureau of Forestry
made an experimental planting Of bull pine
in Holt county on land that showed the
average conditions OF the sandhill country.
Although the plantation was partly de-
stroyed by FIRE, what trees escaped showed
a remarkable growth. Exposed to the dry,
hot winds which sweep over the country,
in a place where the rainfall is seldom
above twenty inches a year and often as
low as seventeen inches, this hardy western
pine has grown from fifteen to eighteen
feet.
The minimum rainfall under which trees
will grow is reckoned at twenty inches,
aud under such a condition they are usually
dwsrfed. scrubby and unfit for timber. But
In the sand hills the bull pine has shown a
rapid and even growth and promises to
develop into a fine tree. The reason for
this lies in the peculiar nature OF the soil
and in the drainage conditions Of the coun-
try.
once a Sea Bed.
The sandhill country occupies about =
third Of Nebraska and lies in the center Of
the state. Biologists believe the country
was once the bed OF an inland sea whose
sandstone deposits, under the wearing in
nuence OF the prevailing northwest winds,
have crumbled into sand and been heaped
up in drifts and mounds.
The sandhills have been piled at right
angles to the wind. that is, from south
west to northeast. and this Is the course
taken by the rivers which flow through the
country. II is the general belief that a
| great underground flow OF water passes
through the sandhills and drains the entire
area.
1t has often been observed that no mat
ter how dry the season may have been or
how long the hot winds may have been
blowing the sand only a few inches beneath
the surface is always moist. Trees with
roots long enough to penetrate into the
damp, rich soil hnd abundant nourlshment
and thrive accordingly. The bull pine has
a long tap root. which goes down straight
as a plumb TO the wet sand beneath. How
yer scanty the rainfall this tree is secure
from drouth by reason Of It's store Of mois-
ture under ground.
Making a Forest.
The Bureau Of Forestry has planned TO
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22

- AVpiNSUN' " u. I. Ms MEDICAL UiIeeloI
years against the mental and physical suf-
tertng Of lost manhood that the Institute
mas decided % distribute free trial paeka-
ges 20 all who write. II Is q home treat
ment and all men who sufer with any
FORM OF sexual resulting from
yo9thrul folly premature loss Of strength
ana memory weak back, varicocele, or
selves al home
The remedy has n peculiarly grateful eff
feet %, warmth and seems TO act direct
70 the desired location giving strength end
development lust where IL 10 needed. II
cures all the Ills and troubles that come
from years OF misuse OF the natural func-
t9ns aud has been an absolute success in
All gases. A request TO the State Medical
Institute, r0 Eiektron Building, Fl. Wayne
IND, stating that you desire one of their
free trial pacNages will be complied with
promptly, The Institute IL deslrous OF
reaching thai great class Of men who are
upeble TO leave home 70 be treated and
the free sample will enable them 20 see
how easy Il : TO be cured Of sexual weak
mess whsn iee proper remedies are en-
Rloyed. The Institute makes no .~restric-
tons Any nan who writes Will be sent
q free sample, carefully sealed in a plain
package so that its recipient need have no
Year OF embarrassment or publicity. Read
AEAAEA Eeaassted 70 YutA without dslaxs
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22
First Aids for Those
Injured.

animation in less than an hour as you
value the life Of the sufferer.
The method used to restore respiration
is immaterial. A good way is to initiate
the motion Of respiration by alternately
COMPRISING and expanding the lower ribs.
Do this gently but persistently at the rate
Of twenty times per minute. Keep the
body warm by the application of hot nan
nels, bottles Of hot water, hot bricks, or in
case Of an emergency warm clothing from
bystanders. Rub the limbs upward SO as
to fore, the blood to the heart and brain.
Two or three persons can do this, re-
Numbering all the time to make but one
stroke, and that toward the body. so as
to force blood TOWARD the heart. Rub
firmly, but energetically. Three things
are to be borne in mind; do not give up,
keep up the effort to restore respiration
and keep the body warm by rubbing and
hot applications. When swallowing ia cs-
tablished a teaspoonful Of warm water.
wine, diluted whisky or brandy, or warm
coffee, should be given. When conscious
ness is restored encourage sleep.
DO not give up, keep at work, and send
for a physician.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-22

OF the visible effects Of lightning stroke
upon the human body little more can be
said than that sometimes burns have
been noticed, and frequently red markings,
which are localized COMPOSITIONS of the
small blood vessels Of the skin. These,
because of the branchings and net work,
have led to the ~fancifuI idea of photo
graphs Of trees. The effect Of lightning
is to cause a temporary paralysis Of the
respiration and the heart beat, which, IL
allowed to continue, will deepen into
death, but when treated as above described
will generally pass away.