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Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-05
Collector Holds Up Laces.

Assistant Secretary spaulding today wired
Surveyor Lafayette Redmon at Des Moines
for a report as TO why he has held up a
certain lot OF laces consigned TO LedeTer,
Straus & Co. OF Des Moines. The con-
signees have written 10 Representative
Hull stating that the consignment OF Iaces
held up by Redmon are simply samples,
having no commercial value. On the other
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-05
Die In FIRE TRAP
Fourteen Guests Perish in Another
Chicago Holocaust
VISITORS TO STOCK SHOW VICTIMS
Hotel Crowded with sightsees, Who Rush
to Street in Nightdress
TWO IOWA MEN KILLED AND ONE INJURED
Smoke 0vercomes Many and Others Leap to
Death from Windows
wo IOWA MEN KILLED AND ONE INJURED
REQUIRED ALTERATIONS NOT CARRIED OUT
Protecting walls Ordered, hut PrOpri-
etOr Fails TO Build Them, Claim
ing ns Contractors saw struc-
ture He Cannot BE Blamed.

CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-Fourteen persons
among the scores crowded into the Lincoln
hotel at 176 Madison street, met death
shortly before 6 o'clock this morning In a
fire. Death came suddenly to a few. but with
awful slowness to others. who were penned
in the death trap and suffocated or burned
to death. Some died in their rooms. some
CHANGED all in jumping and lost while 9TH
ers we're found in the Railways, wnere they
had expired with their fingers dug into the
cracks OF the floor.
All the bodies were recovered. as the
hotel was not destroyed.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-05

tcOntinued on Second PaGel
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-05

SHAMOKIN, Pa. Dec. THE Ninth dis
trict executive board Of United Mine Work
ers tonight ofhcially announced that the
district would not receive any more aid
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-08
Emigrants Must Have MONEY.

Undesirable emigrants for the Cape
have greatly diminished in numbers
since the new permit regulations came
into force. An official OF the patent
office says the bulk of those who were
authorized to take passage now con-
sisted of respectable artisans and 9TH
ers with prospects of permanent en-
ploynent. The rules, which have aow
been in force for about two months
enjoin that the would-be enigrant
must possess at least G100. or a proof
of ability to maintain himself on ar
rival.
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Alcohol and Insanity

In speaking of the increase in the
number of cases admitted DURING tbe
year 1900 to the Royal Edinburgh asv-
lum, the physician superintendent. DR.
Clouston. in his annual report was nm
able to avoid the conclusion that this
was due to a large extent to the ex-
cessive use of alcoholic stimulants dur
ing times of prosperity. attended with
brisk trade and high wages DR.. CIous-
ton makes an earnest plea for legis-
latlVe or state means for the diminu-
ton OF alcoholism. He rightly con-
tends that it is an irrational applica-
ton of the doctrine of liberty to grant
to every man the inalienable right to
render himself burden to others and
a source of degradation and danger to
the communicates Horn.
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Lessons for Barrooms.

THE first thing the man behind the
bar teaches the church is democracy,
said the Rev. Mr.. McNutt, addressing
the Woman's Christian Temperance
union in Boston.
He told of seeing subway laborers
in this city being driven off the steps
of a fashionable church on which they
sat to eat their midday meal, while, on
the other hand. he had seen barkeepers
treat them politely. and sign in front
of saloon invited all to enter and
get "a free hot lunch
The Nieux marcheur viii smile al
this somewhat artless laudation of the
'barkeep,' but there's no denying thu
fact that many fastidious church foil.
forget st. Paul's admonition that high
est education, unstinted almsgiyins
and faith sufficient to move mountains
profit nothing without that benevolent
kindness of disposition which is am
biSuously translated into our language
as charity. New York Herald
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Tho Natural DaneA

The polka is the natural dance for
the feet of the people. Take in evil
dence its origin. A Bohemian peas
ant girl was seen dancing out Of her
own head" extemporizing from the
sheer joy of her heart song, tune and
steps. This she did on Sunday after
noon in Elbeleinitz and an artist, one
Jozef Neruda, who spied her, made a
note of all he saw. The people of the
town adopted the dance and called it
the pufka (ha1f-step). In 1885 it
reached Prague and Vienna in 1870
Thence it spread rapidly through
Europe. When NJ. Cellarius intro.
duced it to the Parisians We hear that
all else gave way before the allah
sorbing pursuit, the polka, which en-
braces in it's qualities the intimacy of
the waltz with the vivacity of the Irish
jig" With becoming gravity was re-
ported the first drawing room polka
danced at Almack's and this was fol-
lowed up on May IL, 1874, with a de-
scription of the five figures. adding
that those who wished to shine should
dance the whole.
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Espen.ive Temperance. work.

Il is most expensive temperance
work that the London county council
Is at present carrying out, but it Is not
designated as such, nor is the general
public well aware of the fact. Yet
within the last three years the Lon
don county council has devoted more
than Sl250,0o0 to the practical work
OF temperance.
1t is one of the consequences of the
extensive improvements being made in
London at present. When acquiring
property for the necessary widening of
different streets, many public houses.
with licenses and good will, come into
the possession of the council These
properties are very valuable but the
council. instead of renewing them, for
premises in the neigh borhood, is do
iberately giving them up, seeing at
the same time. that no new licenses
for these localities are issued.
In this way the number of public
houses in London has been diminished
by 103, which were valued at s1,372.-
$50.
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Drink for Old Arc,

Here Is a saying of one wise man
Of the Talmud:
Until forty years of age, eating is
best: after forty years drinking is
best"
a man in Maine has celebrated his
one hundred and fifth birthday. He
announces that he is a moderate
whisky drinker.
a great many immoderate whisky
drinkers will probably hold up this
very old person as proof that there is
no harm in their whisky habit.
a man looking for an excuse for
drinking can always find one There
is not much use in arguing with him
1t is hard enough to appeal success
fully to a man who actually wants to
stop drinking.
We shall 90 no arguing. but point
out:
First. there is wisdom in the al
mudic saying at least to this extent:
In mature years. and especially in very
old age, stimulants taken very mod
erately are usually beneficial; some
times they are absolutely necessary.
But stimuIants are useful in old age
only when their use follows upon a
temperate youth.
In other words, the young man who
leaves whisky alone and leaves alone
all other strong drinks is saving up
for his old age a remedy that will be
useful. that will help him over many
years.
1t is quite certain that the man in
Maine who was a moderate whisky
drinker at the age of los took little
or nothing to drink in his early youth
Such good effect as stimulants can
have upon the heart when it becomes
weak through old age cannot be Sc
cured by the man who has discounted
the future by early indulgence. Let
this be held in memory.
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Expert Not
Worried Over
Mere Trifles

II there is any man in the world that
could transform himself into an eff
Client burglar 1t is the expert en- com
hinations up in the Office of the safe
trust. This man knows more about
locks and vaults than all the bank
robbers in the country. He can open
safe In Boston by telephone in five
minutes, ordinarily. If bank in Phil
adelphia loses its combination there is
tumultuous ringing of phone bells
in the trusts office. and the boy at the
switchboard shouts wildly for the ex-
pert.
We'll, what is it?" the opener OF
vaults shouts into the mouthpiece, his
tone showing that he is accustomed to
such calls.
This Is the - bank. The presi-
dents gone home and the cashiers
sick I'm Mr.. - Give me TIE fig
ures, please
The opener satisfies himself that the
right man is on the other end. Then
he looks up his records. if he does not
happen to remember the figures want
ed. 1t is only a matter of a few min
utes before he is back at the phone,
and in as many more minutes the vault
in Philadelphia is opened.
1t happened the other day that a
Boston trust company was in trouble
about its combination. The safe con-
Germ was called up, and the lock ex-
pert was summoned to the receiver.
The usual request followed but by
some chance the openers good mem
CRY had forsaken him. and he had no
record of the particular lock in ques-
ton. The Boston officials swort loudly
over the wire. 1t was no use. though,
and finally they had to give it up.
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The Action of Alcohol on Muscle

At a recent meeting of the New
York Academy of Sciences F. S. Lee
and w. Salant presented a paper de-
failing the results of some recent in
vestigations they had been carrying on
Jointly to ascertain the effects of all
cohol on muscles. 1t appears. accord
ing to the paper, that they used pure
ethyl alcohol and the isolated muscles
of the frog in their experiments, and
found that the muscles which had alb
sorbed moderate quantity of alcohol
would contract more quickly, relax
more slowly, perform a greater num-
Der of contractions in a given time and
become fatigued less rapidly than mus
cl 8 without alcohol, the effees being
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-08
PALMISTRY AND SCIENCE
Proof That Readings of the Human Hand Have
Logical Basis

1t appears that palmistry, stripped
of the nonsense ald ocCu tism in viii II
il has been befogged by itinerant gyp-
sizes and fortune-tellers, has scien-
tifc basis. DR.. William G. Benham,
who has made a life study of the hui
man hand from purely scientific
point of view. gives the results of his
Investigations in volume just issued
by G. p. Putnam's Sons. called The
Laws of Scientific Hand Reading
The volume is a sort of modern teXy
book and guide to the real truths
which the human hand contains.
DR.. Benham declares that there is
so much information in the hand it
will be surprise to many. and even
when it is seen how logical. rational
and even commonplace hand-readins
is, perhaps it will then be taken out
of the occult class, to which II dis
tinctly does not belong. and placed
among the other rational means at
the service of mankind whereby they
may be enabled to gain a better
knowledge of themselves.
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Temp Topics.
Zen Who Think Point Out the VGlNo Of
Total Abstinence.

most pronounced in from one to three
quarters of an hour after the liquid
had been absorbed AS to whether the
alcohol exerted this influence upon the
muscle substance itself or on the
nerves within the muscle they were
unable to determine nor could they
make out whether it acted as a food
or In some other manner In large
quantities. however, they found it to
be detrimental, diminishing the whole
number of contractfons, inducing early
fatigue and even abolishins the con-
tractile power altogether AS yet they
have not studied the after-effects.
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Liquor in Various Countries.

Very much has been written on the
nse of Alcohol in England. France, Ger
many and the United States, but for
the most part by persons more or less
biased in their opinions. Very often
such papers have been inaccuratety
written by persons entirely inexperi-
enced in dealing with statistical mat
ters, and hence they have very little
value to those interested in the real
facts. In the Fortnightly Review for
January, 1902. a professional statisu-
clan with more than twenty years eX-
perience, gives. a short paper on this
subject, with a graphic representation
of the condition of the drink question
in these countries. He finds thu there
has been steady increase in drink
consumption per head of population
during each fve-yeariy period from
1886 up to the present date Compar-
ing the period lS961900 and the period
from 1886 to 1890 he finds that the per-
centage of increase has been smaller in
Great Britain than in any of the other
three countries. while Germany and
France have had the largest relative
increase. In the United States, how
ever the increase of 90 per cent in the
consumption of alcoholic liquors per
hSdtI VI 10 StiS uuS w al
increase in beer drinking. while the
consumption per head of wine and
spirits has declined.
The current criminal statistics for
England record a material increase in
prosecutions for drunkenness during
recent years. somewhat proportional to
the increase in consumption of liquor
ne French drink more spirits, more
wine and have a larger total consump-
ton per head than any of the other
three countries. Schooling notes as q
most striking fact that the consump-
ton of liquors in the United States is
very much lower than in any of the
other countries. The American total
per head is less than one-haf of the
total consumption per heaa in any of
the other three countries.
The superior sobriety of the Ameri-
can workman, as compared with Eng
lishmen has often been noticed. and
observation in social grades higher
than that of the artisan tends to show
that American superiority in this re-
spect is a general superiority not con-
fined to workmen only. Schooling be-
lieves that the developed alertness ana
prompt energy of the American may. it
is quite likely, be due in some part to
this relative abstinence from alcoholic
drink.
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"A Surprised American
>o New Workers. Fine Opportunity o Form
o


asking eagerly for details of the re-
ports about the Kaiser current in
America. These the New Yorker fur
ended by asking:
What do you personally think of
him?'
Il am afraid replied the young
man, that my opinion on that subject
is not of much value. l am the Kaiser
himself
The American sprang to his feet III
amazement. The Emperor cut his
apologies short.
My friend" said he. you have done
me service. 1t is hard for me to
learn the truth about what is said of
me-just as hard as it is for people
far away to learn the truth about me.
But, with Gods help. Will show them
what is said about me is wrong"
And no one says the American
in telling the story nowadays, need
say anything about the Kaiser to me.
l know man when / see one"
1t has taken the world many years
mate of the ruler of the German ma
ton. but it has been found out by
now. or. at any rate. those whose opin-
ion is worth anything have done SO.
Twelve years ago people talked OF
the mad emperor
Nowadays he is referred to as the
cleverest man in Europe
The latter view according to those
who know him best is far from being
an exaggeration.-New York Times.
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One summer day in 1890 a New
Yorker visiting Berlin strolled to the
Lustgarten, and. sitting on one of the
benches, contemplated the fine build
ings around him. He did not know
German, asked some questions of
young man who had sat down beside
him
This young man was Enthusiastically
a German, but he replied in perfect
English, remarking that he presumed
his interlocutor was either an English
man or an American. The couple chat
ted for half an hour. and the American
became more and more astonished at
the nlinuteness OF the others knowl-
edge of the archaeology of Berlin. He
knew the history of every building II
sight, told the American just those
things that the guide books do not
tell, and. withal. was so courteous and
unaffectedly cordial that the heart of
the tourist warmed to his unknown
guide
At length the conversation drifted
from the past to the present. and the
New Yorker made a remark about the
opinion held in America of the Kaiser.
In those days the young War Lord"
was regarded as a dangerous firebrand
--ag an irresponsible monarch who
might any day plunge Europe into
conflict. 1t was even said that he haS
shown evidence of insanity.
When this subject arose the young
German suddenly changed from
giver OF information to a seeker of it,
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In the preparation of this book"
He says, my ambition has been so to
present this matter TO the public that
they would see ii from a novel point
OF view. and by disclosing the logical
basis on which il rests. presented
without vesuge of mysticism or oc-
cult halo, lift it from its position as an
etfete superstition and place IT among
the modern sciences. My ambition has
been to make palmistry not an amuse-
Iaent nor cent around which cr1nks
might congregate, but a study worthy
of the best efforts of the best minds.
When we can tell our sons and daugh-
tiers what sphere in life they are best
fitted to occupy and what studies they
can best master we shall have largely
reduced the failures of young men and
women. We can prevent the marriage
of people whose Compartments make
it absolutely impossible that they
should live together tremendously,
then we shall have largely decreased
the number of divorces and wrecked
lives"
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Would Eliminate Private Gain

Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, British
Secretary Of State for the Colonies.
proposed government control of the
liquor traffic as the safest way OF
minimizing its evils. He suggests the
total elimination of any idea of pri-
vate gain in the retail sale of liquor.
Mr.. Bright, Mr.. Forster. Mr.. Glad
stone and many other leading English
statesmen have advocated the same
idea. 1t is substantially the Gothen-
burg system applied to English CON
ditions
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NOVEL CURE FOR SNAKE BITE.
Mosquitoes Save Mans Life by Draw
ing Out n RattIer's Poison.

ing Out q RaLtler's Poison
"Talkin' about rattlesnakes," said an
Erie railroad brakeman, did you ever
hear how the mosquitoes saved a mans
life up near Gulf Summit, in Pennsyl-
vania, last sumner?
"Well, while getting out railroad ties
over back of the Summit, Abe More
house was bitten in the leg by a rat
tlesnake. A doctor was at once sent
for and the leg was bandaged tightly
above the wound. 1t was expected that
Morehouse would die before the doctor
could come up the pike on his wheel,
but he didn't. Just as soon as the leg
was barred to put on the bandage, it
was attacked by a swarm of mosqui-
toes, and when the doctor arrived he
found the man as well as ever and
lively as a cricket, but the ground was
covered with dead and dying mosqui-
toes They had sucked the poison tom
Warehouses; wound and saved IS usa
This was hard on the mosquitoes. but
/ presume Warehouses; life was worth
saving"
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ally be taken with considerab BILE grain
of ss.it. AS authentic as most is the
account OF the first meeting of Mozart
with the young Beethoven, which took
place on the latter's first visit to Vi
emma in the year 1887. Mozart, then
at the height of his fame, asked him
TO play, but. thinking his performance
a prepared piece, paid little attention
TO it. Beethoven, seeing this, entreated
Mozart to give him a subject, which he
did. and the boy, getting excited with
the occasion, played so finely that the
composer of Don Giovanni" stepping
softly into the next room, said to his
friends there: Pay attention to him;
he will make a noise in the world
some day or another"
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Agony Of Bank Officials
a. Small Thing in
His Eyes - - -

Not long after the wire had been va
Gated there was another ring, and the
opener found himself again in CONVEX
sation with the same people. This time
it was request that he come to Bos-
ton at once, hiring a special train If
necessary.
There's too much to do here in Office
hours. I'll take the regular train sun
day"
Argument was of no avail, and the
Boston bankers had to wait. The COM
bination was lost on Wednesday, and
for che next four days they had to bor-
row all the cash they needed from
other companies. The Inconvenience
they endured by reason of inaccessible
papers may be imagined.
This did not worry the expert, how
ever, for he knew that nobody else
could fill his place as we'll as he and
so there was no danger of his being
discharged. He had been with the safe
concern for great many years, and
his imperturbability was not to be up
set by trust company's temporary
troubles. He left the Office at the usual
time every day, had his dinner at
home, and slept just as easily during
those four days as though there were
no such things as bank safes. In
speaking of the occurrence he said:
why didn't | go? The idea, Do
you know there are six or eight banks
that lose their figures every day? 1t
was better to leave one of them in a
lurch for four days than to have them
all in trouble for one day"
Urgency alone makes eloquence in
PRAYER
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Strong Drink a Mocker

Remember. above all. that the truest
thing ever said of strong drink is that
1T is "mocker."
Every sensation that comes from
whisky is mockery. Every promise
based on whisky is mockery. The
strength of whisky is mock strength
The friendships of whisky are mock
friendships. How often have you seen
such hideous mockeries of friendships
drunken men with arms around each
other protesting friendship eternal?
Whisky mocks hideously all the sacred
feelings in life and it destroys them
all
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Some Reasons for Temperance.


What does a young man lose by not
drinking spirits?
In Che first place ii is necessary to
cultivate the taste in the beginning
Why cultivate il at all?
In the second place, admitting all thu.
usual sophistry about moderate drink
ing, whisky means the loss of time,
loss OF money, loss of clear mental
thought.
There is Boosting. lying. vacillation.
procrastination. self-delusion in every
glass OF spirits.
How many millions of men-on their
dying bed-have wished ferventiy and
mournfully that they had never tasted
spirits.
Did any dying man ever regret a
temperate life?
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a Whito Nisht in s,..nx Ho,Iox.

fhe old Dutch church that Irving loved
Shows all its windows thick with frost
Deep are the SHOWS upon its roof,
Its ancient groves in drifts are lost:
The Icy pond and ruined mill
The bridge beyond the willows. where
The headless horseman rode by night,
Is built of carved marble now,
The winding road is smoot h1y white,
The bushes sheeted specters pale
In Sleepy Hollow's haunted vale.
But in the woodlands snowy heart
little brook I cannot see
Among the stifIiy frozen reeds
Still keeps its merry spirit Free
And with steadfast faith sublime
Sings of the Joys of summertime
-Minna Irving in the Era
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QUEEN & CRESCENT
u r . U T E. ~

me hest Line to New York, Phila-
delphla, Baltimore, Washington, Gin.
e1nnati, Chattanooga, Birmingham and
all points in the East
Through Sleeper, New Orleans to
New York via Chattanooga, Bristol,
Lynchburg, Washington and Pennsyl-
vanfa Railroad.
Pullman Sleeper, New Orleans to
Cincinnati.
Dining Car Service on both New
York and Cincinnati Lines serving all
meals.
Coolest. Cleanest.
on application.
Geo. H. Smith,
G. p. A,
R J. Anderson,
A. g. r. A.
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Mozart and ReethONen.

The stories of how men of genius
have had future fame predicted for
them In their early youth must gener-