Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1884, Page 7

e PR RN, G 17 ST 7 B b sty o THE DAILY BEE--OMA HA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4. 1884, FURNITURE! e THE e CHEAPEST PLACE IN OMAHAJ{TO BUY Furniture I8 AT DEWEY & STONES They always have the largest and best stock. NO STAIRS TO CLIMB ELEGANT PASSENGER ELEVATOR TO THE DIFFERENT FLOORS H. B.IREY & GO., Real Estate Agents, i 23 16th and Farnam Streots. Omaha, Neh, Below will be found a few of the BEST and most DESIRABLE bARGAINS: OMAHA CITY PROPERTY. No.' 2112 story brick residence, near St. Mary's avenue, ata bargain. , ;‘Igo. 221—12 vacant lots, 1 block from street cars, same distance from Hanscom Park. We offer these lots, which are very desirable for building purposcs, at a low figure for a few days only. ; No. 226—3 lots on Saunders street, near Charles. These lots will be sold cheap and are well located for a block of stores. No. 220—Business property, rents for $2.000, pays 20 per ¢ent. Best thing ever offered. No. 235—Three houses and lots, rents for$1,200 per year. No. 241—3 lots in Bartlett's addition, very cheap. No. 253—15 acres in Cunningham’s addition. No. 247—3 lots in Hanscom vplace, No. 94—4 lots on S. 10th street. Easy terms. Each, $300. No. 102—House and lot. House, 5 rooms and basement. Lot, 60 x140, 8. 10th street, near Charles, $500 down, balance in 2 years. $1,400. No. 84—9 lots, 66x132 each, S. 10th st. $4,5600. No. 77—3 houses, 2 brick and 1 frame, on lot 66x132, S. 11th st. $4,900 cash, balance long time. $7,250. § No. 40—One acre lot and house, 4 rooms, 4 blocks, S. St. Mary avenue street car line. Very cheap. £3,700. Liberal terms. No. 11—3 houses and lots, 50x140, 8. 16th st., N of railroad. This is the best bargain for an investor ever offered in the city. $2,500. No. 90—A good house of 5 rooms, with basement and other good Must be sold altogether. improvements. Lot, 50x160. k'ruit and evergreen trees G years old. Nice residence property. Easy terms. $£3,200. i No. 19—New house and barn. Lot, 132x148. This is a very de- sirable residence property, and is offered at a low price. Wil Sex- chango for farm property. = $4,500. No. 143—2lots in Block K, Lowe's 1st addition, $150 each. No. 163—8lots 1n Boyd’s addition. $175 each. Kasy terms. No. 167—2 lots in Lowe's second addition. Each contains 1 acre, with house and barn, Bargain. No. 169—4 acre lots in Lowe's second addition. No. 179—1 lot in Kountz' third addition. New] house of 3 rooms, barns, etc. $1,800. No. 181—1 lot in Kountz' third addition, 2 houses, ete. $1,500. No. 184—2 lots in Block 3, Kountz' third addition. Must be sold together. $%200. No. 186—3 acres in Okahoma, with good 5-room house and other improvements. $3,500. FARM LANDS, No. 261—40 acres near Fort Omaha, No. 262—2 good farms near Waterloo. 240 acre farm near Osceola, Neb, $256 per acre. for city property. Easy terms. No.12—2,000 acres of improved landin Hitcheock county, Nebraska, ranging in prico from §3.50 to $10 per acre. 0. 17— 640 acres of good farm land in Dawson county, Will ex- change for city property. $3.50 per acre. No. 22—The best farm in Nebraska, 7 miles from Omaha, contains 160 acres, 2 houses, wells, cisterns, barns and all other firat class im- provements. Also orchard matured and bearing. Will exchange for Will exchange city property. (2 fxo. 107—Several valuable and low-priced tracks of land in Madison county. 16 farms within from o 12 wiles of railroad, and 23 pieces of im- proved lands, near Table Rock, Nebraska, all conveniently near market, and 1 many instances offered at great bargains, Among other counties in which we have special bargains in farms and unimproved lands, are Jefferson, Knox, Clay, Valloy, Webster slnrpy, Harlan, [Boone, Filmore, Cass, Seward, Merrick and Nuck- olls, CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED, H. B. IREY & CO., Real Estate Agents, Bouthwest Corner 16th and Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. Charley Yeng, THE ONLY Chinese and Japanese Curiosity Shop IN OMAHA, Chinese und Japanesc Toys, Chincse and Japanese Tea Cups, Tho Get uine Tmported China Water targe variety of Fancy Goods, Silk Huudkerehiefs, Funs * Puro Teas kept constantly on ¥ruits and Candies. CHARLES YENG. Corner 10thand “*" 1504 Faynam 8t., Noxt Door to Wabash Ticket Offico. fl n I. E L ARoquests an examination of his fine stock oi WOOLENS. A specialty mad FINE SUITS A D OVEROOATS, Also & full ine of Busiucss Suitings and Trowserings. Al garmont in the latostat yles and with the best trimmings, CALL AND SEE ME, J. H. CIBSON, CARRIAGE AND WAGON NANUEACTORY CORNER TWELFTH ANDZUHOWARLA™IREETS, onMAaxta, - L Particular attention fven o re alrly Lesvenworth, H. PHILLIPS, Merchant Tailor! - - - - Batls.act'cn guaranteed ) T SINEIOIL.D, MANUFACTURER OF Galvanized lronCormices, Window CapsiFnials Akyligute &0 NEB Tairteont Sirvct, Wew SMELT-FISHING IN MAINE. The Army of Sportsmen Encamped on the Iee. The Method of Catching the Delicate Little Fish—A Village of Smelt. Fishers Flylng Before a Gale, New York Times. ““If any one likes fishing through the ice with the thermometer 10° below zero, and the wind blowing sometimes at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, he can find his idea) sport just now on any of the rivers and inlets along the coast of Maine,” said **Mort ott, well known in angling circles in this city, who re- turned on Saturday from a woek’s fishing for smelt on the Maine const. “‘Smelt- fishing is now at its best up there, but the weather is at its worst. At least in the estimation of the visiting sportsman it is; but those native and to the manner bornthink itcouldn’tbebetter, Theydon't seem to mind a little mattor such as the mercury registering 16° below, and to soe their tents lifted from the ice by the wind and carried upward like a balloon is regarded by them as only an episode that adds zest and humor to_ their enjoy- ment. When I left their last Thursday it was so called that the holes in the ice froze over nearly as fast as they wore cut, even with fires in the tents, and to keep them open required a little more labor than even my enthusiasm in the sport could well overbalance. But there wero scores of fishermen on the ice when 1 left, for the smelt seemed to bite better the colder it is, and after this month the fishing gets poorer, the fish moving grad- ually to other quarters, “‘Smelt-fishing through the ice,” con- tinued the speaker, *‘does not differ much from the same mode of angling for pick- erel, but the element of uncertainly is unknown in the former sport. You may fish all day sometimes for pickerel and then be obliged to buy enough to save yourself from going home ‘skunked,’ but when you cut your holes in the ice and put'in your lines for smelt you are just as certain of being kept busy pulling out fish as you are that you bait your hook. A smelt isn't as big a fish as a pickerel, but he's a game fighter, and_there is an excitement about tending the lines that pickerel-fishing does not create, The peeple up in Maine look upon smelt-fishing as the sport of the year, and they come from miles about the country to enjoy it. Even the Indians from the far-back country tramp in to the const during the season to exer- cise their skill in luring smelt. The tackle for smelt-fishing is very simple. The line is an ordinary stout linen cord, about four feet long. To one end of this is attached a piece of lead about three inches long and the size and shape of a three-cornered file-sinker. To a swivel in the other end of the sinker is tied a pink-colored snell,made of common fiish- line, to which is attached a hook such as is used in fishing for cat-fish. The snell is two feet long. The water acting on the triangular sinker, hung on its swiv- els, keeps it constantly twirling about, and the bait, which is an ugly looking in- sect, called the clam worm, is always in motion. Each fisherman will have out an average of four lines, in as many different holes, if he seeks the enjoy- ment of thesport under the protection and shelter of a tent, or *‘house,” as the natives call them. If he, like many of the local anglers, is braving the elements with the sole intention of extracting pro- fit from the catch, and dances, and trots about on the ice regardless of extraneous aids to combat the wind and frost, he is likely to have ten or a dozen linesto care for, spread over an area a hundred feet around; and if the fish are biting good he will have but little time to think of the cold, as he will be kept busy hauling up his lines and_keeping the holes open. ““It has only been within a few years that such a _thing as smelt-fishing under shelter was known. The fishermen had either to stand out unprotected against the gale and storms that seomed to bo kept ‘on tap’ along the coast for use at any moment, or pull up their lines and go home. To be sure, they could pile up walls of ice and thatch them with pine boughs, but as it frequently is nec- essary for tho fisherman to change his location and the ice barricades could not well be taken along, the building of them was generally time and labor thrown away. By the way, that is a peculiarity of emelt-fishing. The fish may be biting 80 that you will be kept constantly hop. ping from one hole to another to land your catch. Suddenly your ‘tip-ups’ will cease to tip. The smelts have taken it into their heads that the locality is not safe for them, and have moved.” Well, in a case of this kind, as I said, the an- gler would find his ice and pine boughs useless, and he would have todesertthem to hunt up the spot to which the fish hid changed their base. But one season a man named Job Secor, went up from Boston to try smelt-fishing, He tried it for a day and froze ono foot and both ears, and then went away. But he didu’t go home, He went to Belfast and had a heavy wooden frame, ten feet square madé by a carpenter. He procured some sail canvass and covered the frame with it, leaving an opening for a door, The frame was on runners. When the *house was finished he had it drawn up- on the ice and placed over the holes he intended to fis&n through, Then it oc- curred to him that he might add still further to his comfort, and he bought a small box stove, rau a pipe from out of one side of the holse, started a roaring {:iuu»wuud fire in it,” and, seated on a ench, fished as comfortably as if he were in his room at the hotel watching a stove-pipe hole in the door, The house was secured to the ice bygrappling irons, If smelts coased biting in one spot, he simply loosencd his grapples, shoved his house along on the runners, and ‘squat- ted’ in more favorable quarters. No one who fishes for smelt simply for the sport there is in it has gons on the ice since then without one of the houses. Many who make & business of smelt-fishing have adopted the plan, and now, in the height of the season, a stranger going for the first time, to any of the rivers or in- lets along the coast would imagine that a small army was in camp there, —— THOSE PISTLES, The Btory a School Teacher Told (o Her Spelling Class, San Francisco Examiner: A teacher was instructing hor class lust week on the necessity of knowing how to spell, *‘Boys and girls,” said she, roversing the pracedenco of sex in opening. so uy to suit the occasion, ‘‘once upon a time there was & man who was very rich, Hehad an awfal lot of money, and he got more gold every day m the easiest way; for all he and his partnere had (o 45 was to turn a kind o kolow, and the other people in the country whorothey lived came up and gave them all the money they asked for. Well, he bought everything around him that he wanted. Then, when he couldn’t see anything elso in sight,ho thought he'd buy & set of presidents, senators and congressmen, 8o as to learn what moves to make in a big game of chess that he was playing with a fellow named the Na tion. So he went to a city that is named after a fatigued, yot patient and cheerful half-a-dozen-times secretary in the mayor's oftice; for only there could he pick out the kind of pieces that would suit him, Mo was a great, smart man, like all heroos of true stories, children. But ho loft his partners be- hind, and he wrote to them of how he was playing his game. Then one of thom sent fora doctor and died, and then tho letters that he had gotten were printed in the papers.” Involuntarily the teacher opened The Examiner and turned to a dispatch from Santa Rosa. Johnny Smith took advantage of her in. attention and buried a spitball straight into Billy Brown's eye. Then Mary Jones, who wondered what the story was about, asked, “‘Is that all, teacher?” “No," continued the instructross; “‘these letters, before they were sold to overy one that had five centa left after the screw was turned round, had to be translated into English, Those of you who read Josh Billings’ writings in tho almanacs after you study your lessons know what ‘the American lan. guage is. Woll, that's the style of composition this rich man used, It was natural to him becauso he had nover boen taught to spell. Who can FROST BITTEN AND BURNED. John Peterson is Canght in a Blizzard, and Wanders for Three Days., A Terrible Story of Hunger, Cold and Exhaustion—He Still Lives, but Ohristmas was Aanything but Fostive. Chegenno Leader, Decembor £0. John Peterson, who was supoervising the erection of a stone house at Searight's anch on Peison creek, about sixty miles west of KFettorman, started for home Sunday last on horseback, expecting to reach here before Christmas, to be with his family. His route was to Rock Creek, and thence here by rail. During the day he was struck by a blizzard. Not having gloves or overshoes he began to get cold and got from his horse to walk. The animal proved hard to lead and Mr, Pot- erson had to frequently turn around to burry him up. 1".....f|,- the horse got away from him altogether, and Mr. Peterson followed with the hope of catch ing him. It was during this time that he lost his way. He had no other recourse than to walk, with the hope that he would strike a trail of some kind. Thus he continued until Tuesday, camping out at night as best he could. He had matches with him but could find no wood until at this time. He made a good fire, but having no protection could guess how he spelled ‘any?’” Instantly two score of hands went up, and Billy Brown mado uso of the occasion to re- taliate on Johnny Smith for his attack, Threo guesses were allowed. One said, " another, “‘ainey;” and a third, But the teacher told them that the rich man’s orthografy was ‘‘enny,” and said; “*Now, how do you suppose he wrote ‘God Almighty? O course ho couldw’t spell ‘God’ any way but cor- rectly, but he wrote it with a little ‘g’ and ran the two words together, making them ‘godalmite.” This word was very froquently misspelled by him, children. He seemed to have a great horror of correct English, and never spelled one word of a sentence right if ho could help himself. Now, boys and girls, you see how necessary it is to know how to spell. This man is_ brave, honest and up- right, and yet, because he has no ac- quaintance with the dictionary, people are down on him. Now we'll take up the history lesson. Johnny Smith, what kind of a governmentis this?” Not wait- ing for Johnny's answer, the reporter withdrew. On repeating the tale to a rising young law luminary, he whispered; “‘Don’t mention it; but I didn’t sleep for six nights translating those epistles for the Colton trial.” e e Angostura Bitters are_endorsed by all the leading physicians and chemists, for their purity and Wholesomeness, Bewaro of coun- terfeits, and ask your grocer or druggist or the genuine article, prepared by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons. | — A LONDON SOANDAL. The Old Windham Affair Revived— History of the Case, The affairs of the unhappy Windham family—the Windhams ()fl‘}url’olk—whioh excited so much painful scandal more than twenty years ago, are once more bo- foro the public, says a London letter, and although the proceedings in connection with them have not been fully reported, and indeed they have in part, at least, been heard in camera, it is probable that we shall have more about them before long. It will be remembered that nearly a quarter of a century since Agnes Willoughby—as she cheose to call herself—was the talk of gay London. The daughter of an honest carpenter named Rogers, sho began lifo as a bar- maid at Highbury farm, but quickly graduated in the Haymarket. Here, in the course of her lively career, she be- came acquainted with a young Norfolk squire of great wealth—namely, Mr. William Frederick Windham, of Feli- brigg hall, whose general behavior, moro like that of an idiot than a sane person, gave rise to inquiry before the master in lunacy, which lasted thirty-cight days, and resulted, to the great surprise of the public, ina decision that ‘“‘mad Wind ham,” as he was called, was perfectly capable of managing his own affairs, Young Windham married Agnes Willoughby, and the ill-assorted couple took up their residence at Fell- brigg; but quarrels arose and they parted, Mrs. Windham to return to London, while her husband, impoverished by his excossos, took to driving stage-coach between Norwich and the reaside as a means of getting a living. About, this time a son and heir was born, and the husband and wife were brought together again, At last the esack-brained squire died, and the preperty had become so in- volved thaé chere was actually not money enough in the house to buy him a coffin, and “mad Windham” was burried at the expense of the man who had horsed his coach. The court of chancery took pos- session of the estates and of ~ the infant, turning out Mrs., Windham “‘bag and baggage” with an allowance of £500 a year on the condition that she should hold no communication with ler son un- til ho should have attained his majority. He wassent abroad, to India and other distant countries, under the care of a tu- tor, and his mother went to settle in Boulogne, The boy is now 18 years of age, and, having returned to England and commenced a university career at Cambridge, his mother has thought fit to roturn also, and bas been found visiting {uung Windham at college in direct vio- ation of her agreement. Vice Chancel- lor Bacon has consequently had the par- ties before him, and has threatened that if they persist in defying the court he will commit them to prison, in the meantime stovping Mrs, \&’ dham'’s allowance, “The ‘‘accumulations” * in Norfolk are again looking healthy for the coming squire, who is making a nanie as a sporting man if not as a classic, 1t is hoped that in time he will restore the re- putation of his ancient family; yet it is greatly regrotted that the master in lunacy did not see his way clear to a deci- sion which would have caused the estates to fall into the hands of another branch of the family, represonted by the son of Gen. Windham, Brain - Food botanical extract s the Brain and positively cures us Debility, Nervousnoss, Headaches ural losses, and all weaknoss of System; it never fails, %1 pkg. A At :I\rnymnh or Allen’s Pharmac R igures are given to show that Cedar Iupids did & jobbing trade last year of §11,854,000; that within a twelvemonth soventeon additions have been made to the aty, and the population increased 5,000, and that $1,078,760 weat iuto new buildings aud betterments, Figures are not keep warm without hugging the fire. As a consequence he burned his overcoat nearly off his back, his shoes and other parts of his garments sharing the same fate. Wednesday morning he started out tho same way, but suffering intensely from hunger and fatigue. At last he obsorved a peak or knoll which seemed familliar to him, and he felt he must be in the vicinity of Reed's ranch, about eighteen miles north ot Rock creek; but of this he was not certein, However, he soon found a trail and did not go fifty yards until he struck the main road. He now discovered he was about five miles south of Reed’s ranch and within thirteen miles of Rock Creek. His strength was fast failing him for he had eaten nothing since Sun- day. and the thought of reaching a hos- pitable roof nerved him up. On he struggled until at last tho welcomed sight met his gaze—Reed's ranchin the distance! But this was too much for him, Either overcome by intenso joy or a giving way of exhausted nature, ie fell flat on the snow. Here he lay; but not long, for he knew he could not survive long lying there, s0 he commenced to crawl towards the ranch, which was about half a mile distant. To him it was a painful and seemingly never ending journey. At last ho reached the gate of the fence which encloses the ranch and nature refused to do any more, and had not kind friends been under the hespit- able roof of the ranch, he might have died there. Buthe was soon found and had to be carried into the house. He was well cared for that night and Fridn{ he was taken to Rock Creek, ronching Lord the same day, As may readily beimagin- ed, Mr. Peterson was a forlorn looking creature when he reached the ranch, tat- tered, torn, charred, frostbitten and fam- ished—as much dead as alive. In his wanderings he was frequently among an- telope, black-tail deer and cattle, but hav- ing nothing buta jack knife could kill nothing. Ho also saw several bear. Had he had a gun he could have killed a beast of some kind and made some sort of shel ter with the hide, beside preventing hunger. While he is able to be about, as a mat- ter of course, Mr. Petersonis bound to suffer physically from so severe s shook. He was examined by Dr. Crook and found to be suffering moro or loss from congestion of the lungs. The skin has peeled from his nose, and he feels all over as if he had been run through a threshing machine, ground to pieces and suddenly put together again without be- ing healed. e —— A CHAPTER ON CORAL. How the Harvest Is Gathered from the Sea—An Odious Incident of Human Industry—The Coral in History. The coral familiar to us ax mateFfsi for ornaments grows at the bottom of the sea, branch downward, in the fcrm of single sprays oras shrubs. Hero and there they join together into copses, and sometimes évon combine into leagues of rudy forest. These are what the dredg- ers call “‘beds,” and here it is that the pitiless boats assemble for this strange harvest of the sea. Under the ominous shadow of the overlying fleet the coral- makers, conscious of danger, shut them- selves up like tiny jasmine-blossoms clos- ing, and wait for the worst. Then from the boats are heaved overboard hugo beams of timber with monstrous weights attached and fanged and clawed with prongs of iron, These sink down among the red-branched bushes, and as soon as they are fairly settled at the bottom the boats begin to move, and the abominable machines, scraping and bumping, smash go, their way through the brittle folia ruining myriads upon myriads of homes every inch they go, and lying waste every minute the result of long years of patient industry, We who live above the ground think, and with reason, that our earthquakes, cyclones, and storm waves are very terrible; but what are they compared to the horror of these visitations, when for months together the long-toothed dredges pass and repass over the densely-crowded habitations of the coral community, scraping down their forests by the roots, and crushing whole nations at every turn/ Backwards and forwards, and from one side to the other, the pitiless engines of despair are dragged. Each time they break the tragmentg of living coral strown upon the sea-bed Into smaller bits, until at last the tiny pieces are ground up into dust, and the nets bring up nothing, Where there had been a dense forest of rosy shrubs, each twig set thick with delicato star- like flowers—really the polyp-creatures that built up the hiry-lnm!l' t,mre is now nothing but a horrid wreck of sand and seaweod, splinters of rock and pounded coral. The water-babies have all gone away in terror and disgust, and the garden lies a waste. Eyen the wretched dredgers desert it. Their havoe being complete there is no induce- ment for them o stay, for they know that they have ruined the bed forever, and are off in search of fresh scenes to ravago. Whether or not the tiny things that work under the sea so busily to make us our coral, are capable of suffering what we call “pain,” the desolation of their lovely spaces filled with happy life is an odious incident of human industry, Na ture, it is true, works always upon foun dations of ruins, and the very coral we prige s itscll the sepulchor of many sug- » cossive gonerations of animaleules and is built up on layers of the dead. It does not add, however, to the charms of the beautiful substance which ladies and children wear in ornaments to know that it was wrenched off from the plant when alive and all studded, enveloped in fact, with the flower-like bodies of the little coral makers, When it first reached the hand of man it was covered with a soft, red bark, as it were, dimpled all over with what might bo buds, and from which, whon the coral was happily living, down in the depths, animal flow- ors, clear as crystal, used to hold out their beautiful tiny stars of blossom, They were, of courso, really alive. Their potals wero arms, with which thoy caught passing food, and when they went to sloop or were frightoned they closed thoir petals just as flowers or sea-ano- mones do. Yet, though each one can behave ae it likes upon the apot on which it grows, it can not move away, for its body is joined to its neighbors. The whole of the bark of the coral is thus seen to be a continuous layer of coral-makers, a whole colony of Siamese twins together with as many independent heads as there are flowers, but cnly one body among all theso myriads. To break off a branch of coral from a plant is, therefore, to snap a flying thing in two, and, before we can have as much as a head, we must mas- sacro thousands of the tiny things by which it was made, No wonder, then, that in times past, before the secrots ot the sea had been found out, men were puzzled with coral, It was somotimes picked ud in sprays and sometimes in water worn beads; so they called it a plant. thinking the beads were its fruit, and from this one evidence, as they supposed it to be, of submarine for- esta, the ancients fabled ont for them- selves an ocean-bed covered with vegeta- tion, and peopled it wiih the most de- lightful creatures of fancy. Mere it was that the herds of the sea-gods pastured, and that the shepherdess-nymphs of the deep tended their wythic flocks, In these forests of imagination roamed the wild beasts of fancy—the sea-lion and sea-leopard, the sea-bear and sea-wolf. There were fish-birds which flew about among the branches, feeding upon the white berries that men call pearls. And very mystic and potent was coral, in medicine and witcheraft. Children wore little twigs of it as charms against the Evil Eye—and to this day the old super- stition survives in the ‘‘baby's corals,” to bo seen in shop-windows—and in a pow- dered state it was administered for the most serious ailments, Some said it had sprung up from the sea bed where the blood dripped from Medusa's head as Perseus bore it off across the ocean, and it was a talisman, therofore,of surpassin power for all who lived within sound of the sea. It even calmed the storms and appeased the whirlwind, and, worn by sailors, guaranteed them safety upon the waves. These fancies of its occult prop- erties survived for many centuries, and in Italy to this day women, unconscious of the old world significance of what they are doing, wear coral amulets. Fashion, however, in coral has changed, as in everything else, onco upon & tl( could not be too deep-colored, and in the oast thebrightestvarietiescommanded the rice of precious stones. Conservative Chinastill clingstotheold scarlotcoral,and a sphere of it, */ d, good-colored,of in weight an ounce, than any gem, in consequence of its be- ing used as the crowning ornament on top of the mandarin’s cap of state. Every- wheroe else the pink coral has superseded the red. At one time all that was in the market was natural, but—such are the demoralizing eftects of fashion—the so- called pink coral of modern ornamentals most of it the common red baked until it becomes light enough in color to suit the latest taste. But, whether artificial or natural in celor, coral still ranks among “‘the treasuren of the sca,” and the pos- session of good beds is a source of revenue which no mation can afford to neglect. Indeed, it might almost be worth the while of England to use the coasts of Malta and of Cyprus as coral gardens, and lay them down with ‘‘seeds” from tke ruined forests of the Algerian coasts. — Horstord’s Acid Phosphate, Unequaled. Dr. R. M. ALExANDER, Fannettsburg, Pa., says: ‘* I think Horsford’s Acid Phosphate is not equalod in any other preparation of phosphorus'” . L ——— IOWA 1ITE Des Moines has twelve railroads The building improvementsin Dubuqué last year cost $1,803,000, George Adams, Keokuk’s only colored lawyer, has been charged with embezzle- ment, William Hammond, one of the earliest settlers of Waterloo, died last Friday night, aged 67. He loaves an estate va- riously estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000. The ‘**unknown young man” found dead in Des Moines turns out to bo Jas Porter, eon of a farmer residing four miles southeast of Runnell’s Station, No cause has been assigned for the suicide, _—— ONE OF THE me Itl | 12 WOMAN'S SxCRET, She is over-worked, poor thing! Proud, honorable, faithful, womanly, she determined to keep expenses down,and do the work herself. Right nobly has she done it, but at terrible <tote The sparkle that was in her ve when she was a bride is gone. azer once plump and rosy cheeks a2 now hollow and colorless. She used to step lightly and gracefully, but now she drags one foot after the other with painfulweariness. For tie sake of the family she does not mention kicor aching back, r > acutely-painful nerves, her rheu- matic twinges, her dyspeptic troubles, or the heavy weight she feels in her right side, that tells her her liver is oing wrong. She thinks nobod_f knows about all that, and she will suffer on in quiet and unrepining pa- tience. Alas! her secret is an open one, for it tells its own tale. Whisper this in her ear, she ought to know it: Madam, Brown's Iron Bitterswoill healyour back,calm your nerves, killyourrheumatism,drive out vour dyspepsia,andcoxrectyour livers Dollar a bottle. Nearest druggist. The use of the term ** Shor Line” In connoction wi corporate name of a great road, mn"‘? yaan kioa ot ush what uired by the travoling pub- Tel% Shote Lines Quick: Rime LINE, e W tions—all of which are furn. Ishod by the greatest railway in America, (Orroaco, [V ImWAUREE And St. Paul. Tt owns and operates over 4,500 miles of road & Northern Tilinols, Wisconsin, Minnosota, Towa and Dakota; and asi ta main lines, branches and conn tions roach all tho great business centres of # Northwest and_Far Wost, it naturally answers the description of Short Line, and Best Route between Chicago, Milwaukeo, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Chicago, Milwaukee, La Crosso and Winona. ilwaukeo, Abordeen and Ellendaie ilwaukee, Eau Claire and Stillwater® 0 ilwaukeo, Wausat and Merrill, Chicago, Milwaukoe, Beaver Dam and Oshkosh, Chicago, Milwaukeo, Waukesha and Oconomowoe.. Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison and Prairiedu Chies. ilwaukeo, Owatonna and Fairibault., oloit Janesvillo and Mineral Point. Iin, Rockford and Dubugque. linton, Rock Island and Cedar Raplds. , Council Bluffs and Omaha. oux City, Sioux Falls and Yankton Chicago, Milwaukee, Mitchell and Chamberiain. Rook [aland, Dubughe, St. Paul and Minn 3 Davenport, Galmar, St. Paul and Mianeapotis Pullman Sleepers and the Finest Dinin world are run on the main lines of the itk DILWAUKER & 8T, FAYL ous employes of the company. 8. 8. MERRILL, A. V. H. CARPENTER, Gen'l Manager, Gen’l Puss. Agend, J. T. CLARK, GEO H. HEAFFORD, Gen'l Sup't. P AV E —WITH— A FALLS bRANITE. And your work is done for all time to time to come. WE CHALLENGE The World to produce a mo.e durable material” for street pavement than the Sioux Falls Granite. ORDERS FOR ANY AMOUNT OF Paving Blocks —OR— BEST PHYSICIANS TESTIFIES, Specifio hn mv practico 11t the bestcom- o. 1t iy entirely \lll % of roots 1 have heon using $wi r quite s long time, whice gro n am familiar, with its hi s wan ob tained fros d safo rom- edy forul kind, polso \umor, and ore has never been a fullure 1 have cuj blood taint in et e with 1t, after | Iy failed by approved mothds weat with mercury Todide of potassium, FRED A. TOOMER, M, D. Purry Houston Our tiwo on Hlood and Bkin Diseases froe to applicants, THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO, N Drawer &, Atlanta, Ga, Nebrask; fldbrnice ~AND~ Ornamental Works MANUFACTURERS OF GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES Dormer Windows, FINIALS, WINDOW CAPS, TIN, IRON AND SLATE ROOFING, PATENT METALIC SKYLIGHT, lron Fencing! Croatiugs, Balustradus, Veraudus, Oftioe aud Ihnl] Rallings, Window and Cellar Guards, Ete. ¥, W, COR. NIN"H AND JONES 818, WAL GAISER, Mauages, MACADAM! filled prompt! Samples sent and estimutes given upon application. WM. McBAIN & CO., Sioux Falls, Dakota. MeCORMICIE'S Patent Dried Fruit Lifter. AS USEFUL NO DEALER oA ’ ™ GROCERY Groceries STORE ; i CAN AFFORD 45 & PAIR OF ¥oxn correa e Wishout v,