Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1881, Page 7

{ THE DA ILY BEE. OMAHA PUBLISHING CO., PROPRIETORS. 916 Farnham, bet. 9th and 10th Streets, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : opy 1 year, in advance (postpaid). aonthe o months W " “RAILWAY TIME TABLE. FIME CARD CIHICAGO, KT, PAUL, OMATIA RATLROAD, MINNEATOLIS AND Leave_Omaha—No. 2 through passer & m. No. 4, Oakland passenger, $:30a. m. Arrive Omaha-—No. 1, through passeniger, 8 p m. No, 3, Oakland passenger, 4:10 p. m LRAVING OMAIIA EAST OR SOUTH BOUND, €.\ B. & Q. 6a. m.—8:40 p. m C'&N. W, 64, w,—8:40 p. m. by 68, . 8:40 p. m .C,y 8t 3. & €. B, 8 . m.- 8:40 p. m. Arrive At St. Louis at 6:25 n. m. and 7:45 . m. WEST OR BOUTHWRSTS. B. & M. in Neb,, Through Express, 8:85 & m. B & M. Lincoln Freight.—7:00 p. . U. P _Express, 12:15 p. m, 0. & R, for Linc n‘n, 10:20 &, m. 0. & R. V. for Osceola, 0:40 8. m u. U U U, . P. freight No. b, 5:30 . m. J. P. freight . P. freight o. 10 p. m.—emigrant. Y . P, freicht No, 11’ 8:25 v. m. ARRIVING—YROM RAST AND SOUTH. oo C. K p. m. ough Expres—4:16 p. m 3 clght—8:86 a. m, U. P. Freight No. 10—1:40 p Emigrant. 36 p. m. NORTH, Nebraska Division of the St. Paul & Sloux City Koad. No. 2 leaves Omhha 8. m. No. 4 leaves Omaha 1:50 p. m. No. 1 arrives at Omaha at 4:30 p. m No. 8 arrives at Omaha at 10:45 . m. DUMMY TRAINS BETWKEN OMAMA AND COUNCIL BLUPFS. Leave Omaha at 800, 00, 41 00 and 5:00 p. m. nd 11:25 a. m.; ROUTE, OPEN. CLOSE. A m.p. m. A, m. pom. Chicago & 00 9:30 4:80 2:40 Chicago, R. 00 9 Chicago, B. 00 9:00 Wabash . 12 Sioux City 11 Union Pacific, 3 Omaha & R, B. & M. in Omgha & Northwestern. 4330 7:30 Local mails for State of Towa leave but once a day, vi 3 "X Lincoln Mail is also opened at 10:30 a. m. Oflico open Sundays ffom 12 m. fo 1 p . THOS. F HALL P.M. O AEXA Business Directory. Harness, Saadles, &e. R WEIST 20 18th St. bet Farn. & Harney FF Hat and Bonnet Bieachers. Ladies got your Straw, Chip and Felt Hata northeast comet Seventsenth and C WM. DOVE Provrietor Hotels, CANFIELD HOUSE, Goo. Canfleld 9th & Farnham , P.IL Cary, 918 Farnham St 'S HOTEL, ¥, Slaven, 10th Strect, Southern Hotel Gus. Eamel, 0th & Leavenworth, ron rencing The Western Cornice Works. Champion Tron Fence & of Fancy Iron Fences, O cte, 1810 Dodge stree. . Agents for the Inteligence Office. MRS. LIZZIE DENT 217 16th Strect vewellers. JOHN BAUMER 1314 Farnham Street Junk, M. BERTHOLD, Rags and Metal. Lumber, Lime and Cement. & GRAY corner 6th and Dougl Lamps and Ulassway J. DONNER 1800 Douglas Good Variety Merchant Tailors. G. A, LINDQUEST, One of our most, popular Merchant Tailors is re celving the latest designs for Spring and Summer Goods S T gentlomen's w w A8 ever 216 1 ylish, durable, h bet. Doug. & Farn Millinery. ¢y Goods in great variet Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, the West. by Mail. . Cheapest Purchasors save 80 per cent. 115 Fifteenth Si Physicians an § Surgeons. W. 8. GIBBS, M. D, Ryom No 4, Creighton Block, 15th Strect. P, 8. LEISEN/ . D. Masonie Block. C. L. HART, M. D.. Eyc and Ear, opp. postoffice DR. L. B GRADDY, Oculist and Aurist, S. W 15th and’ Farnham Sta. us Order 'l Photographers. GEO. HEYN. PROP., Grand Central Galle 212 Sixteenth Street, near Masonic Hall, ¥irst-ciass Work and Prompt- ness gunranteen. Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting. P. W. TARPY & CO., 216 12th bet. Farnham and Douglas. Work prowmptly attended to, D, FITZPATRICK, 1409 Douglas Street. Painting and Paper Hanging. HENRY A, v RS, 1412 Dodge Street. Planing Mill. A. MOYER, manufacturer of sash, doors, blinds, moldings, newels, alusters, hand rails, furnishing scroll sawing, &c., cor. Dodge and Oth ‘strcts, Pawnhrokers. J. ROSENFELD, 822 10th St., bet. Far. & Har, Retrigerators, Canfield's Patent. C. F. GOODMAN 11th St. bet. Farn, & Harney. 8how Case danufactory,, 0. J. WILDE, Manufacturer and Dealer 1n all kinds of Show Cases, Upright Cases, a -, 1317 Cass St. proprictor Omaha Art Emporium. U. ROSE'S Art Emporium, 1518 Dodge Street, Steel Engravings, Oil Paintings, Chromos, Fancy Frames. Framing s Specialty. Low Prices. BONNER 1300 Douglas Street. Good Styles. Abstract ard Real Estate. JOHN L, McCAGUE, opposite Post Office, W. R. BARTLETT 817 South 13th Street. Architect: DUFRENE & MENDELSSOHN, ARCHITECTS, Room 14 Creighton Block. A.T. LARGE Jr., Room 2, Creighton Block. Boots and Shoes. JAMES DrVINE & CO., Fine Boots and Shoes, A good assorment of home work on hand, corner 12th and Harney. THOS, ERICKSON, § E, cor. 16th and Douglas. JOHN FORTUNATUS, 605 10th atreet, manufactures to order good work at fair prices. Repairing done, Bed Springs. J. F. LARRIMER Manufacturer. 1517 Douglas st. Books, News and Stationery. J. L FRUEHAUF 1016 Farnham Street. Butter and Eggs. MCSHANE & SCHROEDER, the oldest B, and E. house in Nebraska established 1875 Omaha, CENTRAL RESTAURANT, MR3 A. RYAN, southwest corner 16thand Dodge. Best Board for the Money. Batistaction Guaranteed. Meals at all Hours. Board by the Day, Week or Month, Good Terms for Cash. Furnished Room Supplied. Carriages and Road Wagons. WM. SNYDER, No. 131h 14th and Harney Stroets Olvil Englneers and Surveyors. ANDREW ROSEWATER, Croighton Block, Town Surveys, Grade and Sewerage Systews o Specialty Commission Merchants. JOHN G. WIL LIS, 1414 Dodge Strect. D B BEEMER. For details sce largo advertise- ment in Daily and Weekly. Cigars and Tobacco. WEST & FRITSCEER, manufacturers of Cigars, and Wholesale Dealers in Tonaceos, 1305 Douglas W. ¥. LORE! manufacturer 514 10th stre Cornice Works. Western Cornice Works, Manufacturers Tron Cornice, Tin, Iron and Slate Roofiing, Orders from any locality promptly exceuted in the best manner, Factory and Ofiice 1310 Dodge Street. Galvanized Iron Cornices, Window Caps, ctc., manufactured and put up in any part of the country. 1. SINHOLD 416 Thirteenth street Orockery. J. BONNER 1809 Dougias stroet. Good line, Clothing and Furnishing Goods. GEO, H, PETERSON. Also_ Hats, Caps, Boots, 0es, Notions and Cutlery, 04 8. 10th street. Clothing Bought. C. SHAW will pndfl)ng)lml Cash price for second hand clothing. - Corner 10th and Farnham, Dentisi DR. PAUL, Williams' Floc Cor. 16th & Dodge. Drugs, Paiats and Oils. KUBN & C Pharmacists, Fine Vanc (i1»ds, Cor, 16th and Dongis v utreets, W.J. WHITEHOUE £, Wholesale & Retail, 16th st. C. C. FIELD, 2022 N et Side Cuming Street. M. PARR, Druggist, 10:n and Howard Strects. Dry Goods Notions, Ete. JOHN H. F. LE4MANN & CO,, New York Dry Goods §.0re, 1510 and 1812 Fara- hara strect. L. C. Enewold also boots and shoes 7th & P ific. Furuiture. A F, GROSS, Now and sscond Hand Furniture and Stoves, 1114 Douzisa. Highest cash price paid for second hana gooas. J. BONNER 1300 Dougia _st. Fine goods, &c. Fence Works. OMAHA FENCE €O, QUST, FRIES & C0,, 1213 Harney St ed Icé Boxes, Iron and Wood F Railings, Couriters of Pine and Walnut, Florist. A. Donaghue, plants, cut flowers, seeds, boquets ete. N. W. cor. 16th and Douglas strecte. Tmproy s, Offic Foundry, JOHN WEARNE & SONS, cor. 14th & Jackson sts Flour and Feed. GHAHA CITY MILLS, 5th and Farham Sts, Welshans Bros., roprictors. Grocers. Z. STEVENS, 2ist between Cuming and Izard, T. A. McSHANE, Corn. 23d and Cuming Streets, Hatters. W. L. PARROTTE & CO., 1800 Douglas Strect, Whalsale Exclusively. Hardwaie, Iron and Steel. DOLAN & LANGWORTHY, Wholesale, 110 and 16th street. A. HOLMES coruer 16th and Califorula. FRANK GERMAKD, Show Case mannfactory, 818 South 16th strect, between Leavenworth and Marcy. Al goods warranted first-class, Stoves ana inware. A. BURMESTER, Dealer in Stoves and Tinware, and Manufacturer of Tin Roofs and all kinds’of Building Work, 0udd Fellows' Block. J. BONNER. 1309 Douglas St. Seeds. J. EVANS, Wholesale and Retail Sced Drills and Cultivators, Odd Fellows' dall. Good and Cheap. 8hos Stores. Phillip Lang, 1320 Farnham st., bet. 13th & 14th. Second Hand Store. PERKINS & LEAR, 1416 Douglas St., New and Second Hand Fumniture, House Furnishing Goods, &c., bouvht and sold on narrow marvins. Saloons. HENRY K AUFMANN, In the new brick block on Douglad Stract, has Just opencd o most elegant Beea Hall, Hot Lunch from 10 to 12 every d FLANNE On Farnham, next to the has re-opened a neat and complete_establishment which, barring FIRE. and Mother Shipton's Proph- will be opened 1or the boys with Hot Lunch on andafter present date, “ Caledonia ” J, FALCONER, 679 16th Street. headquarters, Undertakers, CHAS. RIEWE, 101% Farnham bet. 10th & 11td P. PE R, 3 hani and Harnes ) Tenth street, between Farn- Does good and cheap work. 99 Uent Stores. RY POILMAN. toys, notions, jewelry, &c., 513 14th bet. Farnham and P. O BACI 1205 Farn m St., Fa ~ PROPOSALS For Furnishing Horses, Wagons, and Harness for the Indian service, Sealed proposals for furnishing eighty (80) work horses, two (2) buggy horses, fitty (50) wag- ons, one (1) light spring’ wagon, fiffy (50) scts double harness for the Indian service at Otoe eh., will be received by 5) o'clo ictuics ouglas v Goods y the undersign- Tues- p. . bids will he o specifications a 1 namely: The work horses must be botw ages of four (4) and seven (7) years, not less than fourteen (14) hands high and to weigh not loss than nine hundred and fifty (050) pounds, broke to double harness, true to work' and perfectly sound. The huggy team will bo sub- ject to the above conditions, and in addition must be good travelers All Horses will be sub- {osted to.a thorough triai and inspection heforo heing recoived. They must be weighed at the agency in the presence of the agent. Wagons to b narrow track, three (3) inch thimbles, spring seat, top, box, bows and ers—covers to be of twelve (12) ounce duck t wagon, three (3) springs, with top, Har- ness to be plain, back straps and collars, full leather tugs, complete, Al theaboveto be delivered at the agency at th of th ntractor, not lates loss there should be de itract, W All Dids check or eq nository, by u certified d States do- ont for at the bid, the United ing award shall tract with good, 4 to the terins of rued to the bidder. rough the Indian of- soon s practicable goods cject fny and all bids is reserved. ids will be received for all or part of the above, and should be endorsed, *‘Proposals for Farnishing Horses, Wagons, and hariiass, ote., as the case may be, and addressed to the under signed at Otoe Ay coungy, Neb, v E. WOODIN, U. 8, Indian Agent. Otoe Agency, Neb., June 54, 1581 y and sufficient suretics, his bid, otherwise to | Paguient will be ma ngton, L the delivery o o 98.d3w NOTICE. J. M. Stanton (tull name unknown) Har- riet Henn and Mary Shillock, non-resident defendants will take notice that Milton Hendrix, of the county of Douglas las, in the State of Nebraska, did on the 7th day of M 1881, file his petition in the District Court of the State of Nebras- ka' within and for the said county of Dou las, against the said Stanton, riet Henn and Mary Shiilock, impl with George Mills,” Maggie MeCormic Josiah 8, McCormjck, Matthew T Patui and John N, Patrick defendants, setting hat by virtue of a deed issued by the er of said county, he has an abso- lute title to the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section nine, (9) township fifteen (1 r thirteen (13) e, in said Douglas coun ty; that you and each of said defendants claim to have some interest in said land, and pray he may be adjudged to have au indefeasible title to said premi but that if his title should be helc he may be decreed to have a lien on said land, that it may be sold to satisfy the same, and that you and each of you be for- everbedebarred from setting up or asserting any right or claim th ad the said J.M Stanton, Harriet Henn and Mary Bhillock are hereby netified that they are required to appear and answer said ~peti- tion on or before the first day of August, 181, MILTON H DRIX, By CrarksoN & HUNT, his attorneys. Dated Omaba, June 23 1881 wlitd | countr THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TU 000D BAD LANDS. Real Nature of the Misnamed Mauvaises Terres, Large Deposite of Lignite —A Country as Productive as the Average of New England. Correspandence Chic go Tribune GLENDIVE, ON THE YELLOWSTONE, July 10.—Every one has heard of the bad lands along the Northern Pacific, and believed in them. Even those who repudiated Gon, Hazen's state- ment about a, repeated by him at md hand, did not doubt that thero was in this territory a vast tract of worthless land. The Indians had called it the bad lands, and the Cana- dian voyageurs had followed with *‘Les Mauvaises Terres,” The eastern idea of them is that they conmsist of an illimitable stretoh of desert land, whitened with alkali and worthless for any purpose. Nothing could be more mistaken. The real bad lands are as different from this as the real Dakota is from Gen. Hazen's Dakota. Gen. Hazen was as unsuccesfful in his descriptions of this territory as he has been in his predictions of the weather. At the head of the Upper Hart river, 140 miles from Bismarck, the traveler over the Northern Pacificsees an abrupt change in the character of the country. It turns from a rolling prarie lots of country with no people in it, as the porter in the Pullman palace car put it -into a broken, fallen-in, ragged territory. BUTTES OF ALL SHATES rise abruptly. These are ribbed with deposits of sand and of different-col- ored clays with occasional seams of lignite. Nothing is regular except the uniform horizontal level of the layers that form the buttes. The buttes are large and small, peaked and casselated, round, pyramidical, and grotesque. At one point a huge Newfoundland dog is shown in pro- file standing on the slope of one of these huge piles of clay. The de- posits have been made evidently by the action of water. Tmmense masses of burnt clay, great dep of scoria, show that fire has been an as- sistant of water. Geologically, the Bad Lands are unique. entists have not discovered the secret of the manufacture of these singular forms and contrasts, Appearances indicate that once the Bad Lands were a high rolling district, underlaid with im- mense beds of lignite. This lignite has burned out at irregular depths, and the soil above has subsided un- evenly. The fire burned the red clay into terra cotta, great red banks of which are to be seen in the sides of the buttes. THE WHITE CLAY it made so hard that it had to be blasted for the railroad cuts. The mineril earths were melted into scoria, which is mixed in with the terra cotta. The wash of rain—for it does rain pro- fusely in Dakota, notwithstanding Gen. Hazen and the overflow of streams has completed the manufac- ture of the surface. This theory is strengthened by the fact that several beds of lignites are still burning. One of these, several miles southwest of the Little Missouri, burns with a roar that can be heard some distance, and it can be seen glowing at night. It is much resorted to by the game in winter. In this singular country Nature provides a stove for the game in cold weather and keeps it burning. Whatare called the Bad Lands ex- tend on both sides of the railroad for thirty miles on an east and west line. North and south they run for 150 miles. Similar bad lands are found in Montana and Colorado, separated from the Dakota Bad Lands by fine prairies. They seem to be geologic islands, just as the Adirondacks are. Clay and sand are the materials of buttes, and the ample spaces between are well grassed, THE TOPS OF THE BUTTES are covered with soil as fertile as that on the ground beneath, and vary in area from a mere point to tens of acres. The Dakota Bad Lands extend to Centarl Butte, which can be seen thirty miles away. What attracts the eye of the casual tra aro the cu- riously shaped buttes with innumera- ble valleys between. There are such minor curiosities as great petrified stumps of trees, of the trunks of which no tr remain, Mineral nsu-ings are found of varous kinds— alkali, salt and sulphur - besides springs of sweet water, A few trees are to be seen, but their growth is not luxuriant. The Indians called these the Bad Lands because they were so difficult to traverse and because it was 8o hard to make a trail through them. White men have avoided them Yor the same reason, The troops that had to go west in 1873 iumus it hard work to get through. It took the railroad nine months to make its right of way, Heat has made the clay so hard that it had to be blasted. The Bad Lands have always been a great game country, Black-tailed deer, antelope, mountain sheep, cin- namon bear, and buffalo have always been abundant. Buffalo are still found. At Little Missouri wo found two buftalo calves, captured a few days before out of a herd of thirty buffalo near by, Indians and hunters have always have always found the game in tho Bad Lands fatter than anywhore else. Good pasture is found' in the valleys, and even on the summits and buttes. Water is scarce, but is to be had in sufliciont quantities. All through there are in the hollows and caves natural stables which give pro- tection from the roughest rigors of winter. GAME KNOW A GOOD COUNTRY, and the antelope, black tail deer and buffalo would never have made their favorite haunts in really bad lands. iood game conntry is good eattle s v cattle feeding in the hills which w driven in there last fall, and fatter or more prosper- ous bulls and cows could not be found. They had found their own shelter and food all through the severest of winters and came out in the best condition. Grazing is not the only use of the country. At Walker's Camp, seven miles east of the Little Missouri, last summer, the men work- ing on the road had a first rate gar- den. Buch vegetables asbeets, turnips, cabbage, potatoes and radishes grow well. At the Little Missouri, in the veory heart of the Bad lands, the sol- diers in Capt. Baker's command, sta tioned here to protect the railroad | men, have made on the top of the Butte, ten acres square, 150 fectabove the river, and over a large lignitemine n garden where they raise all kinds of vegotables. Some New England peo ple visited the bad lands last year and frankly confessed their surprise that a graining country so good and a farm ing region as fair as the average of New England should be known by any such name. The Northern Pacific railroad 18 glad to pay €2.25 a ton for the lignite found here. This lignite, which looks like an inferior sort of crumbling soft coal, and_when burn ing smells like peat, is found here in rab doin great quantities. It is an a domestic fuel, and is made t locomotives, Nature, which mad the clay so hard here that the rail roads had to blast their way through it, has provided compensation in UAST QUANTITIES ON TERRA (0TTA and scoria, which furnish the best ballast without limit, There are good springs, one of which gives its name to Sully Sprines, and water is found by sinking wells a moderate depth, Gen. Haupt, the enterprising general manager of the Northern Pacitic, has conceived the happy idea of sending to Titusville for a digger of oil-wells, and a full set of tools. With these the whole question of the water-sup- ply will be scientifically tested all through Dakota. There are the Bad Lands along the Northern Pacitic. It is a district thirty miles by 1560, with no alkali lakes or wastes, with good ‘pasturage, fair wheat and garden lands, watter- ed, though not plentifully, giving cat- tle better shelter and food than the surrounding country, and yielding in- exhaustible quantities of lignite for fuel, and terra cottaand scoria enougl to ballast the whole Northern Pac roads. These are not bad L they are only not sogoed as the prairies that roll around them. WHITE HOUbE LIFE. Domestio Affairs at the Executive Mansion During Ordinary Times. Washington Cor Philadely The week which was ushered in last Saturday morning was revolutionary to all the peaceful and regular pur- suits of life. Besides the share we, as citizens of the republic, have borne in the general sorrow, the local shock was inexpressibly severe and painful. Gen. Garfield, as a citizen of Wash- ington, had fibres reaching out toward many lives, and high and low hav felt the sore pain of their wrenching. The genial habits of his home were well known among us; habits which have not materially changed with his change of residence from the plain, square house on I street to the Peo- ple’s Palace on the avenue. The morning he was hurt, the president, always a cheerful, talkative man at the table, had been particularly entertain- ing at the breakfast hour, He did not converse about the approaching trip, but its anticipated rest and pleas- ure inspired a merry mood. ‘There were at the table with him his sons, Harry and James, his private secreta- ry, Mr. J. Stanley Brown, and his telegraph operator, Mr. O, L. Judd, whose respective functions require their all-day presence at the Execu- tive Mansion, and, therefore, make them regular guests at the family table; they, however, occupy lodgings outside. Dr. W. H. Hawkes, the classical tutor of the elder sons, is a treyuent meal-time guest, and uccuyi- ed, on the morning referred to, the seat at the president’s right hand, “Jimmie” holding his accustomed po- sition at his left. Dr. Hawkes was one of the proposed excursion party on the New England trip so tragicall interrupted but an hour later. Mr. Brown and Mr. Judd were to remain on duty atthe White House during the president’s absence. The former had just returned from England, and Pross, e = the Lu‘cui:h,-m had many things to ask him about his observa- tions and experience during his brief trip. “Did you happen to hear any Englishman jest while you were gone!” he inquired. Mr. Brown couldn’t remember to have done so, and then Gen. Garfield, who is the autocrat of his own breakfast table, and with unconscious and graceful readiness absorbs the conversation, al- ways leaving something worthy of re- membrance in the listencr’s mind, launched off into a_sprightly disquisi- tion on the gravity of the English character. The president enjoyed the meal with hearty appetite, and when it was over Mr, Blaine called with his own carriage to take him to the depot, The country has grown sadly familar through the teeming columns of the press with the changed condition of affairs at the White House since the tragedy which startled the world on that fair July morning. You know all about that southwest cham- ber, august with pain hero- ically borne; m know about the watchers there, the quartet of dis- tinguished medical attendants, the stately visitors who come and go at the mansion, the sympathetic, serious faces of the seven cabinet ladies hoy ering by turns about Mrs. Garfield in her great trial, the cohort of press representatives gliding in and out on their great mission of conveying news to the sympathizing multitude —all theso features are more vivid in your minds just now than the normal con- dition of the representative American home, It may your heart and mind to forget these sad details a lit- tle while in recalling the accustomed order of the houschold, broken in upon first by Mrs. Garfield's illness, then by this later Llow, but to be re- sumed, please God, in happy days to Meal hours at the White House un der the present administration been as follows: Breakfast at 0, lunch at 12, dinner at 3, and supper at 7. Several different schedules were tried before settling down to this, When General Garfield was in con- gress a late dinner was unavoidable; but in the new life they were glad to be able to fix upon a dinner hour bet- ter suited both to the aged mother and the children of the household. In the cozy family dining room the president’s seat is midway the length of the table on the west side, and Mrs. Garfield sits uplmllw, with Har- ry, hereldest, a decided “‘mother y," as near her as the presence of almost constant guests will periit, DAY, JU | duced. LY 19, 1881. while Jimmie sits correspondingly neat his father, where also *“Grandma arfield has an honored place. She is always waited on first whoover olse may be pres- ent, Mollie sits at the mnorth of the table, and the two younger boys re disposed n little promiscuous according to the exigencies of the case. Harry is 18, tall and graceful, with the regular features of his mother. The down of his manhood a his checks, Jimmie, 16 y , is neatly or quite as tall as his brother and broader shouldered, with the Saxorr hair and large features of his father, whom he bids fair to resemble strongly in person and intellect. Mol lie, aged 14, has the dark brown h. of her mother and the linements of hor *father not unhandsomely repro- When womanhkood has soft- ened the charm of her face she will be very fine looking. Since the trouble came I notice that the newspapers writers speak of her caressingly as “dittle” Mollie, but she is already as large as her mother and of the ‘‘bounc- ing” type of girl. Sheisa great pet with her father. Trwin, aged 11, and_ Abraham, aged 9, u already know, through de: ptions, especially the former, who is the occentric one, possibly the genins of them all. He is named for Gen. MeDowell, and insists that his name ust be always written not Ir- win M, but Irwin MeD. Mealtime is wlmost the only one time the president has lately had with his children, and he devotos himself in great part to them at that time, after asking ques- tions on some interesting voint of Harry, or James, or Mollie, to draw them out, and then explaining it at considerable longth, instructing by the Socratic method, as it were. This is a pleasant record of his schoolmaster days, of which also a gleam appeared, you will remember, on the very even- ing of the tragedy, when he asked a messenger if wany telegrams had been received. ‘A great many, sir, expressing sympathy for you,” was the reply “Sympathy with, not for, you should say,” replicd the president, pleasantly. “You must bo careful of your grammar,” The food on the White House table is serupulously well prepared and well served, Mrs., Gartield insisting more strongly on than did Mrs. Hayes, who was tolerably punctilious, but did not make so much a fine art, a consecra- tion, of the table rites as does Mrs. Garfield. An Alderney cow from the Mentor home furnishes delicious milk and cream; the tea and coffee are triumphantly good; there is abundant fruit at breakfast and dinner, and there isdelicious soup always at lunch, followed by choice cold meats—beef, fowl, and ofton game. This is a re- finement on the ‘‘codfish and prunes” of the Hayes lunches, which, how- ever,were perhaps, maligned. Flowers from the ample conservatories adorn the table at every meal. When guests are formally present there is titlle need of change in the menu; there is simply a substitution of a larger andfiner set of dinner servico. Stoward Wni. Crump, who was Colonel Hayes' (m](‘l‘!y and came in with him to the White House, remains in that capacity still, and is now the presi- dent's special nurse, lifting him in his stout arms as no other can. There was a change of cooks when Mrs, Gar- field came in, The rosy health and strength of her husband and family is due, no doubt, in a great measure to this lady’s thorough belief in the gos- pel of good food. Conscientious, lov- ing supervision of these matters in the past is one of the ways in which her strong though quiet nature has expressed itself to them. In timo of health she sits cheerful,] but silent rather than otherwise, at table, a listener to her husband and her;boys. She dresses neatly, but very plainly, at breaksast and lunch, but makes a more elaborate toilet for dinner, usu- ally in rich black silk. The after- dinner hour the president has adopted for recreation, going down-stairs to the billisrd-rooms usually for a_gamo wity his boys, or his friends, Tt is a favorito game with him. Col. Rockwell or Gen. Swaim, who are more than frequent guests at his table, ofter join him at this diversion. Mrs. Hayes, whose devotion to flowers was o specia converted the billiard-room of Grant regime, which adjoined the state dining room, into an additional con- servatory—there were only eleven pre- viously —making a fine artistic effect with the foliage disclosed to view from the dining room windows. When President Garfield came he re-estab- ed a billiard room, for which his pre- decessor had no occasion, but placed it in the basoment, in the room that Fannie and Scott Hayes and the two or three little companions who shared their studies had for a school room, their governess being an accomplished young Virginialady. Tt was a subject of frequent query why with that large house at their disposal Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, who so delighted in their children and in the sunny side of life, should have fitted up a ba ment school room, Gen, Garfield, be- lieving devoutly in plenty of light and air, promptly transfe the shrine of the scholastic deities in his new home to a cheerful northeast chamber in tho business part of the mansion, where the morning sun could shine upon the bright young heads of his sturdy boys. Don Rockwell, the son of Col. Rockwell, studied with hisown sons. Their lessons for the day have ended at 1 o'clock. He holds their tutor in high esteem and pleasant per- sonal relation to himm:]}, and made the {selection with serupulous care, calling him away from a lucrative med- ical practice in Helena, Montana, be- cause of what he had been told of his rave gift for training boys, as de- veloped in four years' teach- ing at Phillips’ lemy (Andover) and clsewhere. During the present dark days at the White House the studies of the sons are naturally sus- pended, but Dr. Hawkes is on duty day and evening at the mansion, ren- dering quiet, skilled service in many ways, Liko all who come in personal contact with the president, he has an enthusiastic devotion for him, and he seems to me to upf)r\:hulnl his condi- tion more profoundly than any other medical gentleman with whom I have conversed, When the others were al- most hopeless of him, Dr. Hawkes said, with brave courage, in answer to my question, ‘I think his chances are about eyen sixes.” The Best Life Proserver: THE GREAT WESTERN CLOTHING HOUSE. M. HELLMAN & CO, Spring Suits ! All Styles ! IMMENSE STOCK AT WILDLESALE AND RETAIL. The Largest Clothing House West of Chicago A Department for Children’s Clothing. We have now an assortment of Clothing of all kinds, Gent's Furnishing Goods in great variety,and a heavy stock of Trunks, Valises, Hats, Caps, &c. 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