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Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12
RIVER Is TAKING THE FARMS
Several Have Been Compelled Il
Abandon Land.

Abandon Land.
PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., Aug u.-(Spe-
al.)-The relentless current OF the Mis-
souri, river continues to give the farmers
along the east bottoms great anxiety.
Reeder Hubbel, who owns a fine farm on
the banks OF the stream sust east of this
city, is preparing to abandon his prop
erty. The river is cutting away his land
rapidly and he believes that It will be
only a question of a short time when
other farmers along the river will be com
PEELED to take a similar step. number
of years ago Mr.. Hubbel traded for this
farm and anticipated successful years that
would make him enough money to retire,
but his present misfortune will practic-
ally deprive him OF all his possessions.
The river is cutting into It's old channel
on the west side of Hobo island. This
island is becoming depopulated many of
the farmers moving to Bellevue and other
places In Nebraska. Since the spring floods
they have been in state of fear lest
they may be drowned out Peter Marko
had 200 acres on the Nebraska side near
Bellevue and IT is all gone. During the
recent flood fifty acres of 1t was eaten
up by the stream within one week.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12

DECATUR, Neb., Aug. 1-(Special)-A
party consisting of Oaklands representa-
tive business men were here yesterday
afternoon in consultation with prominent
citizens in regard TO a railroad from Oak
land to this place to be built by the Great
Northern. The visitors stated that the Oak
land Commercial club would bring all their
influence to bear on Mr. Hill to extend a
line from that city here Immediately. In
view OF the fact that the line would tap
the cream OF Burt county's agricultural
region It could not help but be paying
proposition from the start.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12
NEW TURN IN INDIAN LITIGATION
Government officials Are Served with
Injunction.

FENDER, Neb., Aug. n.-(Special. Be
fore Judge Kennedy in the district court
today Hiram Chase, attorney for the
Omaha tribe of Indians, filed two new pc
titions in the case pending against E. A.
Hitchcock secretary OF the interiors;
Colonel w. H. Beck distributing agent, and
Superintendent Mckay of the Omaha
agency. As a result temporary restrain
ing order was issued preventing the parties
named from paying out, dsposing of or in
any way controlling the funds Of the tribe
now in the treasury fthe United States
to the credit of the Omaha tribe of Indians
Under the other petition the same de-
PENDANTS were ordered to furnish bond
of 81 900 not to leave the jurisdiction Of
the court until the issues involving the
tribal money have been heard and de-
termined.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12

AUBURN, Neb.. Aug. AN
drew holland, colored man, beating his
way from Omaha TO Independence, Mo,
met with a serious accident at this place
last night in the Missouri Pacific railroad
yards. He was attempting 20 board a
southbound freight about midnight when
he came in contact with the coal chutes
and was partly knocked under the NOV
ing train. Nearly the full train passed
over his foot. He was found and taken
to the county jail. where IT was found nee
sSssry 70 Gmputats the front part Of the
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12
sheen Herder. FIght nneI.

CASPER .Wyo, Aug. I.-(special)-
Andrew Anderson was shot and killed today
by Henry Holland at their sheep camp
on Deep creek, near Lost Cabin, sixty miles
west of Casper. The men were herdeTs for
]. b. Okie and quarreled over a division
OF the range. Anderson began shooting al
Holland, who was unarmed, Holland ran
to his sheep wagon, procured a rifle and
returned AndeTsOn's fire.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12
Oherr Dies of Iniurien.

stated, but was shot In the arm by Slender
Both are young men about % years old.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12
BrfdEemen7 Beat Marshal.

NORFOLK, Neb.. Aug. n-(SpecIal.)-
FIVE members of bridge gang at Mo-
brara, Neb.. last night walloped the town
marshal when he attempted TO arrest them.
The man with the star took the count
being sent to the mat by a vicious blow
from heavy billiard cue. which is thought
10 have fractured his skull and from which
he may die. The five bridgemen were ar
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12

FREMONT, Neb., Aug. n.-(Special Tele-
gram.) -Alfred Oberg, the young man who
was injured by being run over by a thresh-
ing machine near Cedar Bluffs yesterday,
died at the hospital in this city today. The
accident happened while the threshing out
fit was turning from the highway into a
field. Oberg fell In front of the thresher
and It passed over his chest He was Is
years of age and lived at HavelockS Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12

FREMONT, Neb., Aug. n.-(Special)-
Gus Herndon, colored porter at the New
York barber shop, took a dose of corrosive
sublimate today by mistake and had II not
been discovered very soon after and stom-
ach pump used Gus would not have been
porter much longer. He bought the medi-
cine to use externally, but instead of COM
plying with the directions he drank 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12
Shooting scrape at Gretna.

PAPILLIoN, Neb., Aug. n-(special)-
Today the constable from Gretna brought
in James Curley for shooting at John
Slender. Curley was the aggressor, It is
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12

rested and Jailed. They are being held
awaiting developments in the case of the
wounded man. The bridgemen are said to
have been drinking.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12
In Desperate srraits

are many, who could be cured by Dr.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption
soc and 81 90 For sale by Sherman & Nc.
Connell Drug co.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-12

foot above the instep. holland says that
his home is at Independence Mo-, and that
he has a father living at that place.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Let the boastful man have his own
way. He won't listen to you anyway.
The only way TO tell love story, aft
err all, is in kindness and good cooking.
1t is too late to congratulate some
people after they have been married us
long as a week.
A great many people have con
sciences that would require an alarm
clock to wake up.
Artificial roses never appear to so
poor an advantage as when they bloom
on girls checks.
Come to think of II, II you hate any
one don't you hate his laugh more than
anything else about him?
A pesslmist is one who sees the time
ahead when he will break with friend
and therefore tells the friend nothing.
An optimist sees only eternal friend
ship and tells the friend all.-Atchison
Globe
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
EOISON'S TRIUMPH.
An Incident In the Great Inventors
Start In Life.

DR.. Norvin Green, for many years
graph company, once said that but
for the dullness of himself and his as
sistants Thomas A. Edison might new
er have obtained the confidence and
support of the great corporation. Ed
lson had been trying for months to In
duce the officials to take up some OF
his inventions until they began to re
gard him as a bore
He went to the main office one day
and was greeted by DR.. Norvin Green
and the other officials with sneering
smiles. DR.. Green said: MIR. Edison,
we are unable to get into eommunlca-
ton with Albany, and large amount
of important business is in peril.
suppose that since you know more
about telegraphy than all of the rest
of us combined you can locate the diff
ficulty"
Whether Edison noticed the sneerlng
tone or not, he quietly answered. Il
can locate it inside of two or three
hours, sir
Dr. Green and the others laughed out
right, one of them saying. Edison, you
have now fully demonstrated that you
are crank"
Edison never smiled or addressed
word TO the speaker, but looked ut DIR.
Green and said, "lf | locate this diff
Guilty In two or three hours, will you
take up my inventions and give them
honest considerations"
Yes. | WILL" said DR.. Green, "and
will do 1t II you succeed in two days"
1t was very simple thing. and yet
Edison was the only one who had the
comprehensive mind to think of 1t In
stantly. He did not tell them for many
years afterward how he accomplished
the feat, but he did 1t inside of one
hour.
Edison went to the main offices,
where he was known as an expert OPP
orator, and called up Pittsburg He
asked for the best operator there, nam
ing him, and then told the Pittsburg
man to call up the best man at Albany
and direct him to telegraph down the
line toward New York as far us he
could and report back to Edison as soon
as possible. Inside of an hour Edison
had this telegram:
81 can telegraph all right down to
within two miles of Poughkeepsie, and
there is trouble with the wire there"
Edison went back to the office of the
president and gravely announced that
If train should be sent to Poughkeep-
SIC with materials for the work they
would find a break In the line just two
miles on the other side of Poughkeep-
sic and could repair 1t that afternoon.
They begged him to tell how he had
found 1t out. and he replied:
by knowing more about telegraph
ing than all of you put together, as DR.
Green has said"
They located the break, repaired 1t,
and DR.. Green took up Edison's inven-
tons, and that was Edison's great start
In life,-Youth's Companion.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
THE TERM "lDtoT."
In the Original Greek Ii simply
Meant IA Private Person,


Tie word idiot is itself of interesting
history. Its primary Greek significance
was that of Il private as distinguished
from public person. Our words
idiom. idiosyncrasy, etc. are from the
same root. The idiot In Greek was sim
ply one not engaged In public affairs.
The beginnings of the degradation of
the word are shown in Its application
soon to the common people as distin
guished from the upper classes. 1t was
then applied TO unprofessional and lay
people and soon became the Slurring
title of the unskillful and awkward.
BY slow degrees 1t became applicable
TO the stupid and at last to the imbe-
cile and idiot AS late as the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries the word
was still used In its earlier senses. This
long sad history speaks Indirectly OF
the pathetic history of the imbecile. IL
he was not killed or starved to death
by neglect. etc, he was usually reduced
10 the condition of beast either about
the house or fields or was actually
driven into the woods and forced TO live
in caves, among wild animals, etc. In
1899 Itard took wild boy" found In
the forests of Ayeyron arsl tried to
teach him. The ability of the wild
boys and wolf children to live and the
number that did so shows that idlocy.
rs we have later learned, Is of nll de
grees and that mind may be various
ly defective in some ways, even ldiotlc.
but In others with capabilities well pre-
served. Blind Tom the pianist and
the large number of mathematic idiots
are examples that show how far we
are from understanding the real nature
of idlocy, and they more than suggest
the partial retention OF sound mentality
Of the defective. the possibility OF selz-
Ing upon the one or few normal or even
highly developed faculties and per
haps bringing others into coordination
with them and to normallty. The court
fools and testers OF the olden times
were often such partial idiots and de-
fectives, and they truly lived upon
their wits" which We're often better
thnn those OF their masters
Medicine
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
THE VALUE OF OPALS.
Ii Mainly Depends On the CoIors
shown In the stones.

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shown In the stones.
Veins of opals are usually met With
In soft formations where nothing above
ground indicates their presence. The
search for them, therefore, often re
quires considerable time. But it is not
extremely difficult, for opals are gener-
ally found near the surface. Indeed. Il
was thought for long time that they
were not to be found as deep as twelve
feet below the surface. This opinion
has. however, given way in the light OF
evidence. because opals of great value
have been discovered ut depth of fifty
feet.
The value of opals depends upon sew
eral considerations, Of which the prin-
cipal one Is the color. 1t Is important
that they should be bright and not pre-
sent streaks or spots alternating with
uncolorcd substance. The most valua-
BILE are those which have red fires or
mixtures of red and yellow, blue and
green. Opals of single tint are of lit
tie value unless the tint is particularly
striking and the figure beautiful. In
deed one of the essential qualities of
the opal Is the arrangement of the fig
ure, which sets off strlkingly the hue of
the stone.
When the figure Is quite regular and
distinct Ii Is the more valuable, much
less so when the grain is quite small
and irregular. Sometimes the color APP
pears as single blaze or with figures
regularly spaced. 1t may then be Of a
fine ruby red and is much sought after,
but oftenest the uniform tint is only
green or reddish and has but little bril-
liancy.
The cutting is very important for the
opal. Thus thick stone will be much
less beautiful than thin stone, which.
ON losing part of its volume, loses also
the figure The foundation tint contrib
utcs much to the beauty. 1t ought to
be transparent, slightly milky and har-
monte fully with the different reflec-
lions of the opal which, when 1t Is real
ly beautiful, presents a variety of hues
infinitely pleasing to the eye.-Jewelers'
Circular-Weckly.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
THE VALUE OF EXAMPLE.

To have your child truthful. be truth
full
70 have him temperate. be temperate
In all thugs.
To have him kind TO others, be your.
self Kind to others.
Prescribe healthful amusements ana
so far ny you can take part In them.
Prove To him by your life that good
name Is TO be chosen before great
riches
Teach him that riches are not to be
despised. but should never be got by
doing harm to others: that when ac-
quired should be treated as n trust, not
MS hoard.
To have him honest present to him In
yourself living example OF honesty
The chief part Of child's knowledge
comes through observation. Acts mean
more TO him than speech. Philadelphia
Inquirer
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
THE SPY SYSTEM.
II Is the Very Soul of the Govern
ment In Russia.

tussih.
Russia is pre- emincntly the land OF
spies In Moscow In the streets agents
Of the police are stationed every 600
yards. In addition secret agents watch
the houses day and night, one being al
lotted TO every four houses, and In
every house Is another spy the porter
Go where you will, you are never out of
the watchful eye of the police. You
brush against spies In your hotel, as In
the theaterS, in Il restaurant, as in the
drawing room of Il friend. 1t Is ride.
ulously easy to recognize those you
meet In the fashionable resorts. They
have evidently been instructed TO dis
guise themselves as gentlemen, and for
one of them the livery of gentleman
is frock coat, silk hat and always,
by rain or sunlight, an umbrella. The
famous third police! \ stranger might
fancy that in an open cab, talking
French or English to his friend, he
would at least be safe from surveil-
lance. But his friend will touch him
significantly and speak of the weather.
The fat cabby on the box, somnolent,
with white hair and good paternal
eyes, may be a spy more skilled In the
languages than the travelling stranger.
and If the cabman has been found
lettering near the great clubs, the ho-
tells or the embassies the chances are
strong that he is. A subtler police
than that of the third section the akra-
ma, which has Its qualifications In every
capital In Europe and Amerlca--com-
pletes this great system of espionage.
Its mesh is over every man In Russia.
Success.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
HE HATED MUSEUMS.
pborenu CataIogued Them n. the
Catacombs of Nature.

Tborenu GntnIogued Them ms the
Catncombs of Nature.
| hate museums. There Is nothing so
weighs upon my spirits. They are the
catacombs of nature One green bud of
spring, one willow catkin. one faint
thrill from migrating sparrow, would
set the world ON its legs again. The life
that is in n single green weed Is OF
more worth than all this death. They
are dead nature collected by dead men.
| know not whether muse most ut the
bodies stuffed with cotton and sawdust
or those stuffed with bowels and flashy
fiber outside the cases.
Where Is the proper herbarlum, the
true cabinet of shells and museum Of
skeletons, but in the meadow where the
flower doomed, by the seaside where
the tide east up the fish, and on the
hills and in the valleys where the beast
laid down its life and the skeleton Of
the Traveller reposes on the grass2 What
right have mortals to parade these
things on their legs again, with their
wires, and. when heaven has decreed
that they shall return to dust again. to
return them to sawdust2 Would you
have a dried specimen of world or
picked one?
EmbalminS is sin against heaven
and earth-agaInst heaven. who has
recalled the soul and set free the servile
elements, and against the EARTH which
Is thus robbed of her dust. | have had
my right perceiving senses so disturbed
in these haunts as TO mistake verlta-
BILE living man for stuffed specimen
and surveyed him with dumb wonder
ms the strangest of the whole collection,
for the strangest is that which, being
in many particulars most like. Is In
some essential particular most unlike
Thoreau's Journal In Atlantic
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
1Jtn,nte mud politic.

The climate of Australia Is the chief
factor In fashioning Australian poll
ties. If IT is advanced II Is because
the sun there has forced an early de-
velopment Girls here reach maturity
two or three years earlier than In
America, and countries count by gen
erations. Meanwhile perpetual sum
mer and continual sunlight are sapping
individual energies. Even he Ameri-
can who comes here soon hnds that
sustained hustling Is ply steal impos-
slbillty. Let him spend tree or four
years In the country. and he VIII cease
to wonder at the laws for an eight hour
day and tie early closing of shops.
The winter Is only another summer
cooler It Is true, but not cold enough to
be inyigorating --Burrlss Graham in
Book lovers Magazine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08

A squirrels natural term Of life Is
from fifteen to twenty years. and in To-
callties where they are little disturbed
they multiply with extreme rapidity.
Indeed. In the early history of the
United States they were so numerous
In certain localities as to be almost a
plague, and large sums were annually
paid In bounty for the scalps. In the
west large hunts were organized by the
early settlers In order to try to reduce
their numbers. as now 1t Is found nee
essary to do to prevent the jack rab-
bits from becoming a scourge TO the
farmers On these hunts thousands of
squirrels wer killed. and yet from all
accounts their numbers were not great
ly reduced.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
llIa HnllY CnnIeI

The baby camel is curious looking
little creature. but one which you
would hardly select as household pet.
Like all young beasts, it is playful, in a
modified. solemn sort Of way and Is ms
clumsy ms It IL odd to look upon.
Some one has said that If II camel
were rid OF its deformlty 1t would be
quite respectable appearing benst.
But the hump Is in nowise deformlty,
and n camel who possessed pride of
race would die of shame If such thing
were TO happen to him. In other words,
he would be a camel freak. And with
n baby camel as his hump grows apace,
consequential.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08

The American or the French woman
never allows herself to be daunted by
the fact that she has not been en-
dowed by nature with good looks or
good figure She dresses as carefully,
carries herself as grandly, as her beau
tiful sisters and indeed assumes rather
more of an mir than they, with the
happy result that America and France
seem to have no Ill dressed and no
really plain or ungraceful daughters.
We Englishwomen are too modest and
fancy we are altogether hopeless I'M
less we have good material on which
to work.-London World.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
SECOND RENAISSANCE.
Another Revival of Art, Il Is Claim
eel, Is Needed.

Another Revival of Art. Il Is Claim
ed, Is Needed.
In order to reform our present stereo-
typed methods of art we want see
ond renaissance. For long years we
have done nothing but turn out from
our colleges young men stuffed with
useless scientific lumber, and they very
quickly lose 1t all, and there is nothing
to take It's place. This is not to be Won
1cred ut when throughout Europe
there Is such neglect of art in our ed
ucation. 1t may be replied to me that
the inventions of science compensate
for the deficiency, but these Inventions
are almost exclusively If not quite
mere Increase in the power af the bod
lily senses and faculties the telegraph
in that of the tongue, the telephone In
that of the ear, the railway in that of
the legs. the Photographic science In
that of the eye-and these inventions
leave In ignorance the more intellectual
part of the individual. Your portrait
can be taken, your voice boxed up-thls
Is eXtraordmary-bu the soul which
NoiiihldIuo' INV bou NhiNh 10 4" sA'
head, is forgotten.
And yet the means for altering this
state of things Is near mt hand, Is be-
meath our eyes. We have still the same
nature that inspired those anonymous
Sc 1lptors 10 give us the Gothic. we still
have sufficient number Of Gothic
masterpieces intact-so many epitomes
of nature, as l have said-to show
what can be done by the man who
starts with his vision open to her
teaching -Auguste Robin in North
American Review.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08

Eight days after n baby Is born In
Russia Its hair Is shaved by priest.
This IL shipped off in four places on
the top of the head TO form cross.
The baby's godfather collects the shorn
down, plnchIng it up with wax from
the tapers. 1t is then thrown into the
baptismal font. If the little pellet
sinks there is great sadness In the
baby's home, for the Russians believe
that the child viii die before year
has passed
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
Preventative Peat.

Peat possesses wonderful antiseptic
and preseryatiye qualities owing to the
presence Of tannin, iron aud other sub
stances in 1t. Here is an instance: At
the time of the coyenanters. 1885,
three men were shot at piece called
Crossgelloch on the moors above Old
Cumnock in Scotland. In 1t25, when
a monument was being erected to their
memory, the workmen came upon the
corpses rolled In their plaids. The bod
les were In exactly the same state as
when they were buried. The moss had
preserved them as If they had been en-
halmed
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08
naI,erf Hurus' Muse.

Robert Burns. though he had the
choice of such works as the Spectator,
Locke OH the Human Understanding"
and Pope, together with odd plays of
Shakespeare. which formed the staple
reading of his home. nevertheless owed
most to an old collection of songs.
This" he says. was my wade mecum!
pored over them during my rest or
walking to labor. song by song, verse
by verse, carefully noting the true, ten
der and sublime from affectatlon and
fustian. / am convinced | owe to this
practice much Of my critic craft, such
as II is"-All the Year Round.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-03-08

The first life insurance policy of
which the details are on record resulted
In a lawsuit William GIBBONS insur-
ed himself on June 10. 1888. for 1888
against dying in twelve months. He
did die on May IS Of the next year, and
the disguised underwriters (the com
pany OF those days. contested payment
on the plea that he had lived twelve
months Of twenty eight days EACH
Worlds Work.