Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 27, 1884, Page 5

‘the material which When Lovely Woman, When love'y woman's on & horse oat And finl¥ she's come nnto her street Think sh ha heeds the hay less t bekind 1 feot, tho'll stand there until doomsday, tshell get off npon her side, 1 ipe her anger, harsh language is—to slide, ly way to esc nd s y woman's on tho sidewalk, her ruling singular, Tuirn to the left, or right turn ever, Turn where the gay shop windows are, ¢ chance co give her loe rway, ivo room to her restless feet, 1« to walk over on the curb stone. Or —in extremes, on the stroot. When lovely woman's on a crossing, Wait till you seo which way sho goos, And go the other, as you love me, Or else she'll cock a scornful nose, If to the right, then take the left; 1f to the left, then take the right; 1f in the contre, then fall prostrate, Let her walk o'er your hapless woight, When lovely woman turns a corner And finds to late the men turn right, What art can sooth the lovely scorner? There's none—'tis best to take to flight. The only way your shame to cover As from her glara you fly in fright, 15 this —go wrong at the next corner, If tis & woman you'll go right. — JOE BASSETT'S WIFE. Tiamsay Morris in New York Sunday Mercury. In March, 1876, the rude, jolting stage coach which carried passengers between ‘Clairville, a Colorado mining town, and the nearest railway, station, set down at the former place a woman and a little gitl. The woman had a face of quiet beauty and refinement. Already it was snarked by lines of care, although its owner could not have been more than ‘twenty-two or twenty-five years of age. ‘She was dressed completely in black , no constitutes heavy mourning, but some clinging stuff which aight indicate a grief of three or yeara’ atanding. It gave her an air of interest, and the pretty child, holding confidingly to her hand, aided materially in attract- ing sympathetic glances from the crowd of id{cra who gathered around the stage door as its passengers stepped to the ground. The woman (she looked hardly more thana girl in spite of the careworn face) glanced about in a hesitating, holp- less way, and pulled her shawl cloger, to shut out, if possible, a penetrating March wind, Fvidently she was at a loss how to find the place which she sought. A man stepped forward from the group of idlers. He wore, like the others, a rough jacket, slouch hat and heavy trousers tucked into a pair of service- able boots, His face, bright and intelli- gent, was darkened from contact with wind and sun. Approaching the woman he said: “Perhaps I can direct you to some point which you wish to find.” *I am not lookiny for any place in par- ticular,” she replied, embarrassed. I want a boarding-house—a quiet place tor myself and little girl—and not expens- ive.” The man evidently knew just the spot for her, and mapped out the direction she was to go. At her destination she was to mention his name, Joe Bassett, and that would insure her a warm welcome. The woman murmured her thanks, and the miner strolled back to his compan- 1ons, to bo overwhelmea with questions. He could tell his friends no more, how- ever, than the conversation velated above. This oceasioned much disappoint- ment, and the sole querry was, who could the stranger be? One thing cer- tain, she did not belong to the class which usually found its way into mining districts. Joe Bassett was equally as carious as his mates, but he held his cu- rlosity inabeyance, for he had a little plan which he felt sure would obtain for him all that he desired to know. The landiady to whom he had directed the stranger was a friend of hts, He would call there in the evening and perpetrate a cautious cross-examination. Evening came, and he put his plan into execution, but it availed nothing. The landlady, willing as she was to be obliging, could tell him only that her guest’s name was Constance Mellville, that the little girl was her child, and that she was a widow. The first two statements the stranger had really made, but the last was only a surmise of her hostess, who, never stopping to think whether her suspicion was correct or not, proclaimed the widowhood an accom- plished fact. As a consequence it was not long until the whole town knew that Mra. Melville was a widow. What they wished to know was, why had she come to Clair- ville! No blame could be attached to them for not discovering this fact sooner than they did. We can safely give them the credit of having done their utmost to delve into the new comer’s private affairs. It was some timo though, before their curiosity was gratified. Then it was grat- ified through Joe Bassett. Somehow Joe had managed to ingratiate himself with the stranger, from a simple beginning, too. She had wanted some information. Her landlady could not furnish it, and called on Joe as being likely to explain what was required, Joe came, It was their first meeting, and he never forgot it, for from that time foward his heart had gone into another's keeping. After the meeting, the village learned that Mrs. Melville was in Clairville seek- ing a brother who had disappeared some years previously. Now, the truth of the matter was, Joe had not gained the headway which his companions supposed., Constance Mel- ville was & strange woman whose life had been shadowed—a woman who had suf- fered, and who still continued to suffer. Trouble was clearly written on her face. 1t needed no keen observer to decipher that fact, This man who had thrown himself at her feet saw it, but he did not suspect, when he asked the reason of it, that the woman had evaded the truth when she said that she worried about the missing brother. The brother's loss was not the weight which had ‘sorrowed and darkened her life, There was something lying behind—something which never came jto the surface. About the man whose name she was supposed to bear, she never spoke, but sho fairly wor- shiped her little girl—Nii Joo Bas- sett had proposed marriage to her a dozen times, but, tnoagh{she loved him, she held back in Ja freightened sort of way. Then he began to grow moody and disneartened. When she saw this she relented, and promised to be his wife, Clairville heard the news, and Clalr- ville talked, Clairville suspected that there was a mystery about Mrs. Melville which she had not explained, and Clair- ville suggested to the young miner that he hed best probe deeper into matters befo:e he accepted the stranger as a part- nor for life, But Joe Bassett was an in- dividusl who allowed no person to med- dle in his private concerns., He neither ought advice, nor accepted su sfered masked, One thing he did, A few days before he was marri:d, he said to Constance How dead long has your husband been | until late the following night. lu.un at once, would take Nina and find She hesitated a moment, and roplied nervously “Nina's papa died throo years ago. Joe did not notice the evasive answer, and was satisfied. After he had gone, the woman’s faco became white with a wi alarm, and she ¢ ed her hands tog er passionately, saying I cannot, I cannot wreck this man's happiness by daceiving him. 1 will tell him the truth if it kills me. 1 must—I must,” But her resolution died, her courage fatled her at the last momeni, and ‘‘the truth,” whatever it might be, was kept buried in her own breast. And so she married Joo Bassett without divulging her secret. Olairville talked again. This time about the wedding, which was simplicity itself, Then tongues ceased to wag, for whatever Conatance Melville might have been, she was the wife of a man who was considered the most popular, as well as the handsomest man in the town, Grad. nally, as she became inown, and her timidity wore off she shared his populari- ty. The frightened look left her face,the lines of care faded and roses crept into her cheeks. Only occasionally did the ast scem to come back, and then the old 'ear overwhelmed her, and she would re- solye once more to lay everything open to her husband, But days went by and she was silent still. September came. Strangers flocked into the village. Some few remained, while others left again, Among the for- mer was an individual calling himself George Stanton, Hejwas a dark, hand- some man, somewhat coarse and cynical, who did not lack money and who spent it freely. He made his headquarters at the mosat noted place of resort in town, a tavern hmilinrry known as ‘“Koper's.” Unlimited speculation was indulged in as to whence he came and what his business was. These facts he carefully kept to himself. It had been safer for him had he volunteered some kind of explanation (even were it untrue) for now peeple rated him as a gambler and mystery and watched him accordingly. They gained little by so doing. He was good natured paid his bills and never by any chance got into trouble. But he failed to become pupular, People distrusted him and any person who had closely studied human character, needed only to glance at Georce Stanton’s eyes to feel satisfied that he was a devil If ever one assumed human form. Joo Bassett was going into the moun- tains, to be gone two days. He stood in his doorway, holding Nina in his arms and kissing her good-bye. The little one ad grown as dear to him as she was to er mother. Constance’s arm lay across his shoulder, and she was sayinz in an almost childish tone: ““Two wholo days, Joe!” “Inthat so very long?” he asked. “Yes. Itisthe first time we have been soperated and this little house will be lonesome with you away.” ““Try to make the time fly until I re- turn, and don't get blue. Good bye.” Thero was a dozen kisses and then he placed the child on the ground and was gone. Constance leaned against the door- sill and watched him out of sight. Even after he haddisappeared she leaned there still, heavy hearted, wishing that she had confided to him long ago that secret which to-day seemed to prey on her mind more horribly than ever. She sighed wearily and turned to her house- hold duties. ~ But there was alwaysa shadow before her, behind her and stalk- ing on each side of her. Was it a pre- sentment of coming evil? Late in the afternoon Nina grew tired and fell asleep. The place was doubly lonesome when her prattle had ceased. Twilight drew on apace. The shadows were com- ing, and with them a chill night air. Constance was closing a window when a heavy voice said: “‘Hello.” She turned like lightning, her face blanched to death’s own color, then stag- gered to a chalr, staring fixedly at a man ing the open door and gasped out: “‘Merciful Heaven! George Stanton!” ““Well, yes,” responded the new comer coolly, “I'still lay claim to that title.” ¢My God, man!” she whispered breath- lessly, *1 thought you were dead.” “] suppose you got that from the newspapers,” he replied. ‘‘There was a report of the kind, but it was a false alarm. I'm worth any number of dead men yet.” He had entered the room and had seated himself in a chair. The woman sat staring out of a window—white, woak, bewildered, wondering what would come next. The visitor said presently, with a sneer: “Married, aren’t you?”’ “Yes,” she muttered, while the hot blood rushed swiftly over her face, disap- pearing as qulckly, and leaving it paler, if anything, than before. ~ There was a dangerous light creeping into her eyes. ““Does your husband know your hist- ory?” ¥~]Iuw dare you,” she cried, springing up like a shot tigress, her visage trans- fixed by hate. ‘‘How dare you ask me such a question? You are an infamous coward, Four years ago when I was but a girl, you wronged me as foully as a woman can be wronged. Then, like the scoundrel that you are, you deserted me, Now you come here, where people are ignorant of my past, to try and blight my life again. But you shall not do it.” “Why not?” ga asked, with an effort at indifference. Constance Melville had shown him a shade of his character which he had not suspected before, *‘Why not?” she echoed. ‘Do you know the people amongst whom you live? Beware of them, Ihave but to ublish you to this town to see you lynched from the nearest tree. Remem- ber that, and don’t force one too far. "_ *‘Save yourself the trouble of publish- ing me,”” he replied maliciously, ‘‘Your husband, I believe is away for two days. When he returns I will tell him an inter- esting story. Good day.” Then he sauntered carelessly out of the house—the little house which a few hours betore had been lit with happinees, ;‘nd :vhich now held an aching, breaking eart, Constance fell back into her chair, trembling, moaning, The scene with George Stanton, brief as it had been, and bravely as she had defied him, had taken nearly every vestige of strength from her. She had supposed the maa dead; had believed confidently that she a'one was guardian of her m[‘;ernblu history. And here was the dead returned to life returned to confront her with her old wretchedness, now, when she had just he | rolled DAILY B EE SATURD OMAHA i ey & 1 | her way across tholmountains to the rai way station. tht, A and the rain It was elove | sudden storm had ! came down like a deluge. The thunder threateningly and the lightning blazed hercely as the door to Joo Bas sott's cottage openod, and a woman, heavily shawled, emerged therefrom, She carried a child, closely wrapped, and took the road to the mountains. The water poured along it in gutters, and only during the fitful flashes of lightning could she see her way. She reached the outskirts of the village when a heavy step arrested her. She had well-nigh walked against a man in the darkness, There was a vivid flash of lightning and Joe Bassett and his wife found them- selves face to face. Inthe darkness he laid his hand heavily on her shoulder and muttered: « **Where are you going!"’ “I don’t know,” she answered pite- ously, He leased forward and took the from her arms, saying only: *‘Come home."” They walked back silently in the driv- ing storm, Once inside the cottage Joe said: “I didn’t go to themountains;tho boys postponed the trip. On my way home I dropped into Ruper's. A fellow there took mo one side and told me—a story about you. I it true!” ““That he was Nina's father and not your husband.” “*Oh, Joe, Joe! listen to me,"” shecried affeightedly. He did listen, She told him every- thing, kneeling at his foet. Then he lifted her in his strong arms, kissed her forgivingly, as if she had been a child, and said: “Go to bed. child I'll be back soon.” He went down to Roper's. There were half a dozen men there. Stanton had gone to his room. Joe unbosomed his wife's story. (They are not so partic- ular about those things in some parts of the west as they ate east.) Tho boys lis- tened intently, and the speaker wound up by saying: 'vo told you this because I know ou'd hear it from that scoundrel up- stairs. 1 tell you more, and that is, that Il shoot him on sight, so help me heaven,” He walked out into the storm again. Half an hour later there was a scene of wild excitement at Rogers. A man, white and terrified, yelling for mercy, was strugg'ing with a furious mob. The next day’s sun shone on a ghastly picture. Hanging to a tree on the out- skirts of the town was a man’s body. His face, livid and distorted, was almost unrecognizable, and his clothing, drenched with rain, was covered with mud from being dragged over the roads. Neither the feet nor hands had been pinioned, and the corpse swung at the mercy of the winds, It was all that remained of George Stanton. e STOP THAT COUGH By using Dr. Frazier's Throat and Lung Bal- sam—the only sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness and Sore Throat, and all diseases of the throat and lungs, Do not neglect a TRANSIENY SPLENDORS. The Grand Occasion of Barnum’s Visit to Oma A Day of Gathering Muliitides and General Festivites - The Niyht's Disturbing Elemonts The lowering elouds of the early morn ing which, continuing until noon, threat- ened at intorvals to precipitato a shower, doubtless withheld from the city many whom the presence of the immortal cough. It may prove fatal. Scores and hundreds of grateful people owe their lives to Dr. Frazier't Throat and Lung Balsam, and no family will ever be without it after once using it, and discovering its marvelous power, Tt 1s put up in large family bottles and sold for the small price of 75 cents per bottle. Sold by Kuhn & Co. and C. F. Goodman. — Defining His Position FuLLerox, Neb., Sept. 25, 1884, To the Editor of Tr Ber. 1 noticed in your daily issne of Sep- tember 23rd a comment upon supposed utteranges of mine made before the sen- atorial convention in the acceptance of my nomiuation for senator from the twenty-seventh distrlct whith you copied from the Cedar Rapids Era, wherein you charge me as being a ‘‘straddler” on rail- road legislation. This doubtless is accounted for through the inaccuracy of the quotation made by the Era. This is what I said: *‘I am not a mo- nopolist neither am I an anti-monopolist in the sense which theso terms are used to represent political factions, but a re- publican,and if elected will protect the interests of the people of the 27th sena- torial district to the best of my ability. On railroad legislation my convictions are in accordance with those principles avowed in the national republican plat- form, The principles of public regula- tion of railway corporations is a wide and saiutary one for the protection of all oclasses of the people, and we favor legislation that ehall prevent unjust discriminations and excessive charges for transportation, and that shall secure to the people and to the railways alike the fair and equal pro- tection of the laws. 1 do not wish to be misrepresented be- fore tho people of my district. Iama republican, and as such stand for elec- tion; and if elected I shall endeavor to carry out theprinciples enunciatad above, Yours, very respectfully, 1 Geo, MEIKLEIOHN, — — 4100 Doses One Doliar” is true only of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and 1t is an un- answerable argument as to strength and economy, DIED, CASEY At St. Joseph's hospital Thursday night, Thomas casey, aged 30 yoars, The remains were taken to Drexel & Maul's undertaking rooms, from where the funera will take place this to Holy Sepul cher, COTTER~In this city September 25, at 4:30 o'clock p, m., Johons, wife of Garrett Cot- ter, aged 47 years, Funeral will take place this Septem ber 27th, at 8 o'clock a, m., from the late resi- dence, 2319 Chicago street, to St, Philomena’s cathedral, Tuterrment at Holy Sepulchre cemetery, RAAPKE.—September 25th, Herman, son of 1. Raapke, Funeral Saturday September 27th at 9:30 a, ., from residence, Badaly R own, He was going along 80 slowly that his shadow soemed to be pasted fast to the sidewalk. Somcbody said he was lazy; but he sadly said he was doing the bost he could, ard his trouble was debility caused by long dyspepsia. *“Then why don’t you take Brown's Iron Bitters,” said & spry neighbour who was passing, “‘I was run down badly, but this Bitters did wonders for me,” Mr, Thos. Jones, Nowark, Ohio, says, ‘I was so debilita- begun to experience peace and happi- . al ' neas, What should she do? Confide in :f.fti,‘:":‘\:fcd“.'.’.tu upk SmEpy Tiop her husband—tell him all? He would s forgive her, she felt certaln, but that| Srezson’s Soft Hats in great variety a3 could not silence George Stanton's|Saxe's. mwitf tongue—that could mot prevent the e ——— whole town from knowing her shame,| 10 AND CoaL alZienzon & Bro, -Im and from sneering at the honest man who had married her, She must go away, anywhere from Clairville. She could not face her husband after he had heard her secret. He would not be back Bhe would When you want a fashionable Hat go to Saxe's, opera house, Sole agent for ““Knox,” the world-renowned Hatter, MW &Pt L —— Fau. Style Hats st Saxe's, Opera House Block, mwitf Barnum would have drawn here yester- day. Novertheless the streots were thronged with a full turnout of local res- idonts and a generous supply of sight- seors from the provinces. The first grand feature of the day's fostivitios was tho street parade. The procession formed at the grounds and ascending Sixteenth streot to Douglas, onst on that thoroughfare to Tenth, thenoe to Farnam, and countermarching out Farnam and Sixteenth street. The line of march was short and the column itself scarcoly more than brief. The brevity of the parade was more than equalized by the superb charactor of its dlsplays. Scarcely a foature of the whole pageant but that was interesting; the allogorical tab- leau wagons, floats and chariots were re- splendent in their glittering coats of gold, while the usual tedium of blank and box- like vans was relieved by the generous opening of all the cages, filled with rare and strange wild beasts, The fresh and clean properties, the neat persons of the “knights and ladies” and the well con- ditioned appoarance of the animals stood out in pleasing contrast to the jaded and dingy air of the customary circus exhibits, At noon, the menagerie and museum tent was thrown open to the public, and throngs began to file into the mammoth pavillion. The appointments of this de partment of the show are beyond critic- ism. All the various and marvellous products of nature, in her most diversi- fied forms, were here presented with that lavish and profligate disregard of cost which characterizes alone the en- terprizes of the great Barnum. Jumbo, the modern mammoth, the Goliath of the lower animal kingdom, prodigious in bulk yet tender and gentle asa lamb, whose purchase from the Zoo manage- ment, wrung countless tears from British youth and plunged Mr. Barnum into the mazes of Knglish chancery, was the cen- ter of attraction. The *‘white” elephant whose ashen skin consecrates him to Burmese adoration, shared in the inter- est of the spectators. Chang, the Chi- nese giant, whose exalted stature marks him as an extraordinary man, the two midgets, dwarfed from birth, the Zulus, Afghans and Nubian Bedouin, rendered prominent in late years for their heroic atruggle against British encroachments on their tropic domains, the Nautch girls, with pliant and voluptuous, though dusky, limbs, the kilted High- landers, with their wierd, marshal pipes; this wonderful aggregation of races and nationalities constitutes the advertised “Congress of Nations.” The previous remarks upon the animals in the street parade is applicable to them the same under canvass, heightened by the ad: dition of numerous other beasts and birds. The capacity of the main tent, as claimed by the managemont, is for 15,000 persons. Upon this estimate, at least 8,000 witnessed the afternoon perform- ance. The programme of specialties, athletic, equestrian, comic and fantastic, {s to be compared with nothing that has heretofore appeared in Omaha, The be- wildering magnitude of its perfect excel- lence absolutely detracts from its effect. The spectator is dazzled at the [lsimul- aaneous exhibitions of strength and skill, d is lost in the attempt to direct his attention. A detailed review of the fea- tures of the circus and hippodrome is impracticable, and a passage of favorable judgment on the whole will serve the purpose, At the night performance a crowd even larger than that ot the afternoon gathered unger the tent, but the elements which had threatened during ihe morning now proceeded to action, The drenchingrain poured through the canvass and the high gale toyed with the large tent as though premeditating its destruction, The programme was but half finished when the situation grew decidedly alarm- ing. All money paid for concer tickets was refunded and the audience quickly evacuated, Fifteen minutes later every portion of the great fabric was struck, put away in the wagons and the whole caravan in motionfor the depot. Although no accidents are reported many of the visitors must have encountered great hardships in reaching home through the ugly night, as the conveyances were not fractionally adequate to the pressing demands of the multitude when the stampede began., Under the courteous guidance of Mr. D. L, Thomas, the press agent, a Ben man was given an intelligent and com- prehensive tour of the whole exhibition. The question that most forcibly strikes the observer in thus being ehown the operating intricacics of the colossal es- tabli:hment is. how can the dlscipline bo maintained, which is 8o necessary to its management! That th is only done after rigorous tr and heavy expenditure is apparent, Six hundred men are employed throughout, and a code of temperance, promptness and silence is established, which rivals the strictures of a prison, With the departure of Barnum the local circus season of 1884 is done, and the community turns for public diversion to the more refining, if less resplendant, pleasure of jthe theater. In closing the chapter on this great featare of popular amusement, it can be said for Barnum, that this year, of all others in the history of his well known public life, he pre- sented ashow unrivaled in the excellence, purity and interest of its many sided at- tractions, SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS, Interesting Exercises at the ¢ Throughout the Day, At tho eamp meeting now in progress at the fair grounds a very interesting program was gone through with yestor- day, A large accesssen of visitors ar- riving last night swelled the number of people on the ground to nearly six hun- dred. The tents, snowy and trim, pre- sented an attractive appearance and the Large pavilions in which the serv ices were held, especially when lit up at nigh made a strikirg and picturesque | view agains the rombre rround of the dark and storm-threatened ek Above the din of th, solemn notes of [ and foll the pro: the prea in weird eadence, Rapresenta. mark of refi foeling and the deep fer yus devotion, forcible, plain and honest creed. To use tho words of an elder at tho grounds, *‘Wo believe the seventh day is the Sab. bath day, and that the ltnow: but we fix our faith on the c'ear cas truths of the bible,” THE EXERCISES, Tho oxercises were begun in the morn- ing by a discourse by Elder Wilson. e began by saying that the true way to feel a religious faith & to so foel it that it will shine in every thought and action. In theve extraordinary times, the abil- ity and activity which would have suflicd ten yonrs ago for any achove- ment wosld not avail, With adaancing time came increased knowledge of men and material and a greater power was new requsite to enable man to deal with his surroundings. as each day’s develop- ments made those more numerous and complicated. We are approaching now nearer and nearer to probation, and the slgns which were to mark the coming of tho Lord, as laid down in Daniel 1T and VII, and Matthew X XTIV have been ful. filled. It is not our privilege to know the day or the hour of the Lord’s return. Everything goes to show that the affairs of to-day are precisely those prophesied in the message of the three angels (Mathew XNIV-XXXIII). For forty years this stirring meossage has gone abroad. The scriptuie teaches that such a mossage would go out to the world, OTHER FEATURES, After tho discourse an intoresting bible reading was held. The leader would ask a religious question and then refor by chapter and verso to the words of the holy biblo which answered it. in- stantly the leaves of five hundred bibles would rustle, and the first to find the an- swer would rise and read italoud. Out of the entire congregation there were but a fow who did not manifest the most ox- traordinary famillarity with the sacred work—a familiarity plainly resulting from constant and devout study, which would put to the blush tho machine re- ligion of moro ease porsuing sects. THE EVENING SERVICES, But the most interesting part of the procoedingswere reserved for the ovening. As Tre Bee reporter entered the large pavilion his eye encountered a vast con- grogation listoning to tho strains of tho organ and the deep notes of Brother Hallenbeck’s voice as he sung a hymn, Brother Hallenbeck is blind but he plays the organ with perfect facility; and sings the church music with a deep forvor. When the music had ceased, Brother Farnsworth arose and addressed the assembly. & BROTHER FARNSWORTHS DISCOURSE. Brother Farnsworth spoke of the sab- bath, The seventh day, ho said, was ordained by the Lord to be the sabbath day. He wrought the creation in six days, and he rested on the seventh. The commandment was that the seventh day was contended that which day was observed so on some other day. So 1t was with th mental abuot it, the universe. a truer, nobler and better man. Separate services were begun in the SCANDINAVIAN TENT where sorvices in Danish it was congluded ELDER HALLENBECK formerly of Iowa, whose darkened eyes = and palid visage looked particularly sol- emn, arose and addressed the congrega- tion. He read his text from a ralsed let- ter biblo and spoke in decp and solewn tones. Tho audience listened devoutly to his words as he exhorted on the prac- tical religlon they professed. porter left, “I'ho programme for to-day will bo sub- stantially the samo as that of yesterday. The meeting will continue, it is expected, until October 6, | —— COMPLETED T0-DAY, The Grading on Farnam Street to be Finished To-Day. Making the Greatest Thoroughfare in the Gate City. To-day if rain does prevent will wit] ness the closing of the grading on West This great undertaking which was begun against considerable opposition will make this street more than the most sanguine expected, Taking s probably the greatest contract of its kind ever lot by the city Farnam street. it all in all it council, Ever since the n center, at of wich is in front of Dr. t's residence near Twenty Seo The deepost cut on tho east doepost p C 8. H ond streot. inches, beyun that the earth cuts would bring the fill to lts pro per elevation, but the calculations were | ‘omewhat erroneous, consicerable being akon from other points desiguated Ly The fill extends from Six." the councll, bask moents the \or's voice rose tives from every partof the state were present,and on oach countenance was the th Day Adventists havo a Lord will soon come again; when, we do not pretend to should be observed as the sabbath, It it mattored not long as one out of the seven was set aside as a Sabbath. This, the speaker said, wasno more logical than it would be to observe the fourth of July on Christmas day. These days each occurred once a year, but there was something monumental about the fourth of July which would not be satisfied by its pretended observance Sabbath, There was something monu- It commemorated the the Lord's rest after his labors in creating Nor was the Sabbath dnl{ merely a day A hymn was then sung by the standing congregation andall then knelt tn prayer, D 60 wero_held, The singing was then resumed and after Mr, Hol- lenbeck was still speaking when tho ro- iddle of July, the time the work began, nearly 100 teams and 200 shovlers have been employed upon it, being all that would labor to work of changing It has been simply to | _ cut down the elevations upon each of the contract and move the earth into the where there is deep flil, the end of the work ls nearly in front of the court house, being 13,5 feet, and on the weat near T'wenty I'ifth 10 feet and 2 1t was estimated when the work was taken taken from W ont h to To enty-second streets, and re 1 | quired nely 5,000 cubic yards as shown | by a rough estin,/ate of the city engineer to bring it to the j'roposed grade. The com: ion ot this contract makes farnam of gradual _desoentt from Twenty Sixth to the river, but 1§ will vary how ever at difforent points, The people liv ing near Twentieth stroot ave somewhat disapointed in the result of the erade, It was thought by them when the project was propesed that they would be able to 800 the whole of cast Farnam street to tho river but owing to the steep aseent | botwoen Sixteenth and Eighteenth thoy arojunable to do so. This has been a great and custly ua- dertaking for the city. Already it hay pald out for damages agreed upon result ing from the change, 14,400; and 4,600 is atil} pending in the district sourt. In addition to this, the removal of 90,000 cubic yards takon to make the fll will cost the city £17,000 more, making a total of nearly §35,000, Bosides this, Mr. Kyner, the coatrac. tor on the Farnam street grade, has brought Twontieth from Farvam to Dav- enport to the eatablished grado. The work of making the fill on Twentioth bo- tween tlarney and Farnam will begin at once, The earth will be talten from Zightoenth just south of I'arnam, mok- ing the former atreet at the point just named of the uniform width. — - A Wrotched Lie Refuted, There can be no truth, says the Chica- go Nows, in the story that as tho Rev. Goorge C. Miln was playing Hamlet in s Toxas theatre the other evening, a dog rushed on the stage and tore the clerical actora tights so that the sawdust ran out of his falso calves. All who have seen the Rev. Miln know this is a silly le. The Rev. Miln does not have to resort to the employment of spurious calves—it would te an egregious superfluity for hiny to do so. He has wonderously developed lagsand his calves areso plumpand chubby as a matured cupid’s, Those who have be- held the Rev. Miln in the Turkish bath or disporting in the big tank av the West sido natatorium are our authority for the statement that the Rev. Miln’s nether ex- tremities closely resemble plano legs, and wo remembor to have heard it rumored during that gontleman's first rendition of Hamlot in this city that he was afilicted with varicose veins. 1t is said that the Rev. Miln’s bhiceps are so abnormally de- veloped that he has to be survoyed with a quadrant, theodolite, ete., whenever he is moasured for pants, tights or breecher. Wo have often thought that if the Rev. Miln wero to wear his bangs a trifle long- or, doup his back hair ina braid, and attire himself in a low bodice and abridged skirt he would present a specta- cle worthy of the most ravishing cory- phoe bald-headed humanity ever gazed upon. Sawdust, indeed! Why, his are limbs that would weigh down the beam though all the biceps of the Boston ldeal chorus were placed in the opposite scale, and as for his calves, such aro the’r mag- nitudo and symmetry that a mere glance at them is suflicient to make the average opera-bouflist turn a deep bilious green witn envy. TUTTS “ PILLS 25 YEARS IN USE. The Greatest Medical Trinmgh of thL Ago! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. o " fappetite, Bowels costive, Pain in Tive bends with 'm dull sensntion in tho rt, Pain under the shoulder- ing, with ndl n feeling of hi Wearinens, Dizziness, Fluttering at of physical rest. Itshould be a day of | Meart, Dots beforothe eyes, Hondacho prayorful roflection, n day on which tho | grer e FMeE oTer Kok S bR "und true christian would renew the events of the week from a prayerful standpoint CONSTIPATION. and seek wherein he could make himself [ to such cascs, one - J 8 are especially adapted SRR dnupafl‘cclyu such n change of feeling as tonstonish tne sutlerer. etite,and cause the oy Inerense LB BPetilin tho aystem 1 “Tregu MY '3 Murray SeaN. Y. TT'S HAIR DYE. GRAY HAIR or WHISKERS changed to & axms{ BLACK by & singlo n|\{llhml.lon of This Drg. 1t imparts anatural color, Acty instantanconsly. Sold by ‘Deuggists, ot ent by express on receip . 'om«;’é.u Murray St., New York. LYON & HEALY, 00 Sts., Uhlongo. Tho nse of tho torm ** Bho Line" In connoction with th corporate namo of a groatxoad conveyn an kdoa of ust what roquired by the traveling pub lo—# Short Line, Quick Tims and tho bost of' accommoda 1] M flons—sll of which are fum shod by tho groatest raiiway in Amerlca, (zosco, MlmwAvkEE And St. Paul. I8 owna and operatos over 4,600 milos of orthern Tiinols, Wisconein, Minnosots, lows akota; and as 8 main lines, brauchos and connee tous roach wl tho great Lusinos contros of dht Northwoet and Far 1t naturally answors $he desoription of Short L Bost Route botween Chloago, Milwaukoo, St. Chicago, Milwaukeo, La Ohioago, Milwaukoe, Abordocn and Ellendale Chloago, Milwaukee, Eau Claire and Stillwaser* Chioago, Milwaukoe, Wausau and Morrill, Ohicago, Milwaukoe, Beaver Dam and Oshkosh, Chicago, Milwauks Ohicago, Milwauk Cliloayo, Milwauk Chicago, Belolt Ji Chloago, Elgin, Rockfo Dubuque, Ohicago, Clluton, Rock Inland and Cedar Rapids. Chicago, Council Bluffs and Omaha, Ohicago, Sloux City, Sioux Fallsand Yankion Chicago, Milwaukee, Mitchell and Chamberlaln, Rook Islund, Dubuque, 8t. Psul and Minneapolis. Davenport, *almar, 5t. Paul and Minneapolie. Pullwan § eopors and tho Finest Dining Cars 1o the w-rld aro run on the main lines of the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY, and overy attontion s pald to passengors by courteous employes of the Company. advantage upon the contract, The — 6. 8, MERRILL, Gen'l Managor. change of grade proper extends from AV H. CARPENTER, Gon' Pass. Agh ™. 3 The | 21 CLARK, Gon'l Bapt. Sixteenth to Twenty Sixth street. The | ™ G eiPoun, amt. gont. P Agh WILBOR'S COMPOUND OF ‘[{PURE COD LIVER OIL AND LIME. Liver OIl will bo pleased d, from_di ( professional gentlo puro Oil and Lime in suh ant to the taste, and its effects in Lung cowplaints oro truly won lerful. Very many persous whoso ces & were ronounced hopeless, and who had tiken th clear LIl for & lony without wi rked effect, boon entircly cured by using this propar urs ket the genulne, Mavufectured only by A. B. Wilbor, Chewlst, Bostan, 80'd by all druggists have . ITISNELIABLCn S \ tn ouring| Kidney & Liver’ Troubles, Tiagder, Urinary and Liver Disoason, Dropey, Gravel and, Diabotes, HIQGHLY RECOMMENDED. It oures Biliousnoss, Headacho, Jaundice, Sour \ Btomach, Dywpopaia, Constipation and Piles.// IT WORKS PROMPTLY and cures Intemperance, Nervous Disoasoss Qeneral Debility, Excesses asd Fomalo_ Woakness, USE IT AT ONCE, Tt restores the KIDNEYS, LIVER and BOW. ELS, to a healthy actlon and CURES when all other medisines fail. Hundreds have besn saved ‘who have boen given up to die by friends and physiolans. lee 1,85, fend for Nlustrated Pamphletto, HUNT'S REMEDY CO., Providence, R, L. b SOT. 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CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000 e Tickota only 85, Shares In Proportionsa oy Lonigiana State Lottery Cimpany. "' e do Aeveby certify nat we supervise the @i« rangements for all the Monthly and Sem-Anmuias Orawwnga of the Louisiana State Lott A and in perion_manage and controk Romeaty: fatrmets, and . good Jait somanes att las, and 10e authorize the sompany 1o use. this oepe tificate, swith fac-vimiles of our vignatures atiashed in its advertlsements.” U ¥ CoMMIsaIonung Inoorporated In 1868 for 35 yoars by the legislatuse for oducational and charikable Parposee—wiin s ape 18al of $1,000,00—t0 which a reserve fund of over 8560,000 has kinco boon added. By an ovorwhoiming popular vole {48 tranchise was mado & part of_the i state conshlbution adoptess Pepember 8d, A. D, 1879, 1'he only Lottery ever voted on and en- dorsed by the people of any State. 1t nover soalos of postpones. 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