Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1886, Page 7

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SuN Daxce, Wyo., Feb. 2—[To the Editor.]—Now that public mterest matter of the disposal of government lands, and the_prebability of congres- sional action being taken relative ther to, in the near future, it behooves every man interested in the matter to let his ** light shing Some time since there apveared in the columns of the Omaha Bee, a quite lengthy article, from ‘the pen of a ** Bull Man" in laudation and defense of the baronial system of raising beef. An un- informed reader of that article would natweally infer ‘that the salvation of the hunian family, botl temporal and eter- nal, depend on the perpetuation and protection of the beef barous, and their slip-shod, hap-hazard methods of beef- ising. Thie *“ Bull Man's"" bowels of compas- sion seem strongly moved in behalf of the mechanies of the east, and the poor granger of Nebraska. He uses long columns of figures to prove the im- portance and magnitude of the cattle industry of the west, a fact by the wi that no sane-minded individual dispute. But his figures prove too much for his position and argument. He is confident that his readers will be astonished to learn that the moderate- sized state of Iowa ranks second in the union in_the mportance of her cattle in- dustry. Tapprebend that if he had added the necessary figures to represent the wealth of the dairy interests of that state he would have ~|11? further astonished his readers by h 2 to acknowledge that 's wealth in eattle, and the therewith connected, were gre that possessed by the great state of 'I'c y the paradise of cattle men, with four times the area of the state of Towa. When it is remembered that there has never been o beef raised in the state of Town, under baronial rule, it will be readily granted that the assertion that the world must_depend upon- the eattle Darons for bef is simply null and void. When the time comes for the beef barons to Hsten down and out,” s it surely will, the poor mechanic of the cast will re- e his regular rations (of beef) and of a far superior quality to that now shipped from the cattle king's pasture. It would be a sing idea indeed, n individu- n the amount required king, could not raise sstern ranges. The man ed a fit subject for a sylum who should publicly pro- t the world could only be sup- plied with agricultural produets from such farms as those owned and operated by the Dalrymples of Dakota, or the mammoth farms of Californis And yet that would be just plausible as th theory that beef farming, to be {succe: ful, must be carried on The condition of unhappy is a good illustration of v g0 ing and landlordism will do for any country, and large beof farms are just as rnicious in their tendencies ‘as are ricultural ~ farms. When the inges of the west are oceupied by small stock raiser, who will be an actual settler, and who will combine stock-raising with agriculture there will be made to grow “two blades of grass, where but one grew before,” and the production of beef will increase in the same ratio, with the dif- ference that such beef will be worth two of those that now gallop over the prairies with the fleetness of a race-horse. If this be a fact (and I challenge successful con- tradiction) we haye under the new order of things four times the wealth in stock alone, that exists under the baronial sy tem of beef raising, and we will have far more; we will have civilized society Where now reigns the wild lawlessness of the cowhoy, whose highest s bition is to repair to the frontier village and paint it a deep crimson and terrorize the surrounding community, w will have peaceful neigliborhoods of pe manent ci Instead of the isolate: and nomadic _cov mp, we will have prosperous villages, with their schools and churches. Instead of the beef baron, whose home and interests are i some other portion of the country, perhaps in a foreign land, we will have permanent residents, whose wealth, if not so_great, will belong to the country wherein the, have their homes. In short, wi will possess all that is required to constitute prosperous communities where now naught exists save desolate, uninhabited wastes, The *“‘Bull- Man” in the article alluded to endeavors cite the cupidity of the Nebraska granger by promising that o shall - Vi cents per bushel for the corn he .ishes to feed to baronial beeves. Now, in my humble opinion, the average Nebraska granger will soon learn, if hie has not alr lone so0, that his pecun- ary interests will be best served by rais- ing beeves of his own to consume his corn and grass. In onebreath the writer points exultingly to the enormous wealth represented by the cattle industry, and in the next he “bemoans the fact that the poor cattlemen have no one in the halls of congress to represent and protect their interests, that the really poor tlemen asks of our congressmen is that there shall be no class legislation in the h cartlemen’s favor. What the poor cattlemen, the homestoader, the pionecer settler, the homeless emi- grant, all sternly demand of our law-makers, — is that the publie domain shall ever remain the heri tage of the actual settler, The id 1- vanced of adding another grade to the ,mhliu lands, to be known as grazing ands, is not only totally unnecessary, but would work great injury to the small (poor) stockmen, the ranchman, and the liomesteader; inasmuch as the grazing lands leased by the government would invariably be sécured by the stock syndi- cates, Under the existin, of affairs, until those lands are occupied by the actual settler, one man has just as a right to use them as another. The very fact that the beef barons are elamoring for the privilige of leasing the western ranges, proves conclusively that they see the “writing on the wall’ and thoroughly vealize that unless prevented by timely legisiation, their vanges will speedily be oceupied by the actual settler, who will, have already shown, put those pasture lands to a far better use than can ever be done by the exclusive stock raiser. The assertion made by the beef kings, that there are large ar of the western that are unfit for everything save grazing long-horned f cers. upon, is absolutely and maliciously false- I can remember well when the same as sertions were made concerning central and western Ne and not 5o ver many ye: The onl Scommiissioners’” needed by the govern- ment to grade the public lands are speed- ily doing the business in systematic and the manuner. This government commission is composed of lindless peo- ple looking for homes in the west. This commission, so fur, hus made no mis akos. Ifits decision 15 that land is ca- e of growing agricultural produets, lnu- decision, though guestioned 1u the cattle on the w would be cons lunati rge cattle the has been awakened to a lively extent, in the | beginning, in the end’is invariably sus. tained by actual facts. 1f the government will just mentam this commission, for another decade, the stock baron's cat: tle pastures will have grown small and beautifully less. His now extensive ranges will haye been oceupied hy ranch men, who wiil combine !urmm{x and stock-raising, keep the improved breeds of stock, and’ no more than they can comfortably shelter and feed during the inclemency of the winter months. When that time shall come the cruelty will have ceased of letting poor dumb brutes per- sh by the thousand amid the driftin | snows and arctic cold, in consequence o it owne ing both unwilling and e to furnish the poor animals food and shelter There isanother matter I wish to no- tice before closing, and that is the un necess i ttain papers are mak- ing concerning Gen. Sparks' order with- holding patents from being issued to set tlers who have made final proof. So far from congress recinding that order, and hicring its author, he should be fur- nished by congressional action, with ample means to follow up his order with thorough investigation Commissioner Sparks took the only course to which he had access to head off the innumerable land steals t are being perpetrated in eyery portion of the and I am heartily glad that the Bee is solidly supporting him I am oneof those much-abused set- bout whom the Inter Ocean and apers are so c:n'mw(l{ cuggel- ing" the commissioner, Ihave made final proof, forwarded Uncle Sam_ $200, in full payment for a_quarter section of land, and am entitled to a patent to the same. But I am unable to realize where- in I am grievously wronged by the patent temporarily being withheld. “If the com- missioner can, by withholding my pa- fent a year or two, head off” even a por- tion of the rascality that is def m‘in the government of the public domam, am content. One of the howling protests is, that the poor settler can not mortgage his land for money upon which to live. It would De a holy blessing, if this were a fact; but itisnot. When a poor homesteader is compelled to mortgage his land to some shylock who in the end invariably de- mands the pound of flesh, he had better vacate at once and save future litigation. I can mort my land to-day and get 'y dollar on it that I could if T had twenty patents; that is, provided that the party to whom I make the mortgage is cognizant of the fact of my having stri ly complicd with the requirementsof the pre-emption laws, Itis where the claimant has failed to comply with the requirements of the law that the “shoe pinches.” Tt is parties who have no rights to patents that are in the greatest hurry to secure them. he; fear the investigation demanded Iv?' Com- missioner Sparks. 1only hope that he will hold the fort until some of the land perjurers are brought to time. WiLLiaM FOUNTAIN DRAPER. = - BALLET-DANCING. A Wearing Occupation and Poorly Paid. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Record says: A doctor of my acquaintance told me the other day of a case he had which curdied my blood with horror. Not becau W the worst case I ever heard of, but beeause of the mingling of dise l festivity, It was that of a young woman who was one of the dancers in **Ador ppears in tights, as do_all the dancers in that play. These tights are pulled on with the'greatest care so as not to show a cle, and ield in place by a nar- row which is strapped around the next the skin and pulled so tight that the girl is almost cut in two. She cannot do the pulling herself; it has to be done by another person and when it is so tight that she is ready to drop, the tights a tucked under it and thus kept in posi- tion. Then she dresses and goes upon the stage and dances. The consequen is thatshe has a terrible internal disease vLich ean never be cured while she is playing this part, and she cannot afford to_stop playing it, for sheis the bread- winner of & large family. The doetor argued with her on the subject, and said that if she kept on she would kill herself, and then the family would have no one to work for them, and would not have the money to bury her with. She admitted the truth of what he said, but added that all the other girls were 1 the same condition, and they had to take their chance D might not die if she went on dancing, and she certainly would rve if she stopped, It is not only the girls who dance in “Adonis,” but the girls who dance anywhere, who have a very hard time of it, for there seems to be no other way of holding up the tights than this process of strapping. ‘Lhey might be fastened over the shoulder in some way, but then, h rls have to wear the necks of their d low, that is impos- sible. The stereotyped smile of the bal- let dancer is proverbial, and is as much a part of the profession as their short sk Yet I fancy that few people feel less like smiling ™ than they do.” And I do not wonder that it is such a mechan- ical smile with them. Ballet dancing is no joke, Itis probably the hardest pro- fession that o woman can follow. You look at the cords in the neck of a dancer when she is going through some of her poses, at the strain: ing of all the muscles, and you will not envy her lot. Then, again, do you sup- pose it is any fun Afimcmg down the stage on the point of your toes? Far from it. To be sure, the” extreme points of the slippers are padded, but the toes of the are curled under, and the ugliest bare foot outside of China is that of the ballet dancer, for it is always de- formed. And for all their hard work ballet dancers are very poorly paid. The premieres get anywhere from §75 to §100 a week; if they stars they ot more, while the coryphees think themselves well paid at from $12 to $15 a week, and to earn their $12 to ¥15 a week they have had to pass years in t They should begin at four or five 1 and keep on until they are fifteen, ien they can appear in the back row of the ballet. From™ that they work their A T they have the talent, become premieres. If is a Lard life, and yet to any one looking on from the front of the house it seems to be an easy one. But this is not the odly thing about the stage that is deceptive, Lots of Cemetery About Her Figure. “Do you see that stylish looking young lady over by the door?” said Mr. George De Graggles to Mr. Carry Cowmbs, ns thoy stood together at Swilingsby's re- ception, Yes, very protty girl, isn't sho “Awfully, and don't you think there is lots of symmetry about her figure?” “Slabs of it; in fact, she reminds me of your maiden aunt, Miss Simper,” 'She does, how so?”’ “There's fots of cemetery about her figure, 100." What do you mean by that$"’ “She s all bones.” “Oh, te he, te he, be he! ! ! how deucedly clevi and don’t you know I thought first you were gomng to say it was because there is & graveyard smell about her f; teeth, and if you had I should have felt real ecoss at you, Curry Cowmbs.” ———— e When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castoria, ‘When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, ‘When she became Miss, sho clang to Castoria, Whea sho had QChildven, she gave them Castoria, JARE HOLTS LITTLE GAL Deadly Work of o Flood in Early Days in ! California, Little )lnzfll‘:s Death—The Body Found Affex Many Days—How Her Grave Was Dug and a Lead Found. The little town of Ilnstletown, € ifornia, lying dt the foot the mountains still bears some'marks of the mining camp from which it grew up. I found enough in it to interest me during my first day here, says a corrvespondent of the Chicago Herald, but my first night at Hustletown promised to be dull enough. The Metropolitan Hotel, at which I am stopping, was altogether barren of metropolitan attractions. A hard rainstorm had set in about dark, and the heavy drops clattered against the window panes and ran down themin shining streams. I strolled into the bar and billiard room, in which at western hotels there is usually abundant life and animation. The only inmate was the bartender, who, scated on a low stool and leaning against the by efrigerator, r aper, as was made manifest by the inevitable dis- play of feminine ankle that 1 descried on a corner of the sheet held toward me. The single billiard table, covered with what looked like a faded old bed quilt, wore a very distressed and woe-begone look, as if at that moment it might be suffering from a nightmare consisting of all the rable shots to which during its lifetime it had been made an unwilling '!'Il'l_\'. Several rows of shining pool »all in the rack against the wall winked in the dim it of the dingy kerosene lamps. Eight or ten cues, stained with the grasp of many dirty palms,stood up stift’ nJ prim in aline in the cue-rack, and at the end of the bar stood a large box spittoon, the fresh sawdust in - which showed the eflfects of a recent center shot. 1 shook my head at the bartender, who had raised lis eves inquiringly to_signify that I wanted no bar-room reshments, neing out the dripping window 1d seeing n bright light across the street, I turned down the brim of my slouch hat, buttoned my coat around my ed over to the little throat and seur saloon which 1s, as I had learned during the day, the favorite rvetreat of the village tipplers. A group of those “genial” customers that are wont to booze away their evenings at such en- ticing bowers of the bowl were in the place rough-looking man whose mple nose was robed in the crimson hue in which cony youth of the t sometimes paint the town, sat at a table sipping gin and water, pping it, too, with a deliberation indicatir ither an absence of-ardont thirst or a desire to make the most of the drink, which, for reasons connected with personal finance vd the prudent limitations upon the credit system’maintained at the bar, was quite likely to be his last drink of the evening. s e A Gineral,” said'to himone of the three or four like ng men gathered round the stove, “this is o howlin® bad night.” The “Ginerpl’—whether lled in o spirit of complimént for milita aps duly recorded somewhere in war annals of his country, or in the ious allusion to his vked propensity for gin and_ water, I shall not attempt to say—poised hisspoon long enough he air midway from his gl o s ]iHm to reply that it was, in- deed, *a tough "un, and getten’ wus and wus.”” And as if to corroborate this un- favorable opini of the weather, the 1in beat o nd windows with inereased tury, the wind tore head- long through the street hitting the sw ing signs a blow that made them sh with puin and rage, and the rising creck roared in the guleh below. “That hoomin’ creek down there,” re- sumed *‘the Gineral,” atter a little pause, “makes me think of the terrible night when old Jake Holt's little gal was car- ed away in the big spring nineteen year ago the comin’ spring. can allus recolleck when it was, ~ without puttin’ it down, ’cause it was the verry same night that Sacramento poker sharp, who busted the hull of us, beat my four ac Yes, it started in just like this, a ramin’ and a-blowin’ and the creek howl- in’ itself hoarse. What an awful night it was, and what a deal of bad luck and what a deal o' good it brought to old Jake Holt. Jal sce, was allus just the poorest, t, good-for-nothinest cuss anywhere round here. But he was a rich man almost from the fust hour that big storm burst ove the holler. Yes, sir, sure’s you're born, ef it hadn't been for the drownin’ of that pooty little gal down in the run there Jake might o heen :t the poor, shifless coot he was , instead o' the richest man in ts, which he 1s now."” Well,1 don’t mind tellin’ ye the story, though it's an old un to foiks houts, An invitation to “have something with me’” was accepted with cheerful afacrity, it being a western princivle to never dis- courage generous impulses like mine, no matter whether more drink is desired or not, and ‘‘the gineral” continued: “The weather all that spring_was just a little the wust you ever sce. The snow melted and 1an down the mountains, leavin' their brown sides bare a sight sooner than I'd ever seen it do before. he drizzlin’ rain never missed a day, It rained just all the time, slow and sometimes harde sun didn’t shine, and for days and days together we didn't see o patch o' blie sky. Great banks o’ mist went sailn’ slowly along the sides of the mountains, hidin’ ’em from the sight of everybody on this side the run. A shower of rain drops fell out o' the pines with every breath of the wind. Rain, rain, rain. “The snow kep meltin’ and the ,ppountaing was check- ered with cuts s the red clay down which streamed’ the rain and melted Everythipz _ was damp and drybody felt blue enough to ypizen, and 1 don’t know what we should hev doné if it hadn’t been for a few blessed pagkn o' cards, Al this time thie run had kep creepin’ up the banks. ‘From a little stream that you almost could stand and jump across times, .3 zafbefore long to rushin’ ngrin lik hlé old Missouri ' on a bender, ‘Jake lived in g little y up the blufl, on t'gther side o' the It wus mean, tumble-down sort place, for Jukey just as Isud, was a account feller—a shiftless kind who never had the knack o’ gettin’ along Jike other folks. If he ever tried to do anything it never panned out as it would a done for anybody else. Hard luck was allus at his heels. " He took up more 'n a zen different claims hereabout, but they never amounted to nothin’ while fetlers all round him we making bi; money right along. Jake was a dJonal for every poker game, and everybody allus hated to set in with him. They lived poor enough in the little shanty up the bluff there. I don't know what they'd a done if it hadn’t been for Jake's wife, a tearin’ smart woman, who took in washin' and did a little sewin’ and mendin’ for the neighbors, while Jake Was s}wmlin' what money he got agin the golden gate bar. “effiley hiadf & Tittle gal, as pooty a little thing as ever you see, with eyes as blue as a pool on the top of the mountains, and hair that shone like streaks of bright gold in the rock. Her nume it Muggie, aud at the time I'm tellin’ about them these o no- he must a bin seven or eight years old, She was just as cute, and pretty and smart as they ever make ‘em, and “Jake was mighty,_proud of her, as well by might be. Why, I've scen her come down to the Golden Gate and take Jake home up the mountain when it was so late the stars w beginnin'to fade out o' sight before the sunrise “One night a lot of us was over to the Golden Gate. I was playin® poker with the Sacramento chap I “spoke of and another feller I didn’t know, but who feemed to be a friend o' his'n he creck had riz about three fect that day, and it looked mighty scary for every thing in its reach, Cy Parker, who owned ‘the saw-mill a'little above, had been pokin' round with a long pole pretty much all day to see how high she vas, and how fast she was risin’, and he looked mighty solemn, I tell yon. Folks living in the houses along the banks had moved out, and just before dark every body in town had been watchin' the bridge, fearin' every instant to sec it car ried :l\\:\f. It 1l rainin’, and the wind and the waters were trym’ to see which could make the most noise. We kep' ona-playin', me and the nento man and tue other feller, not carin' for the flood nor anything else. Jake and the other boys who had got tired watch- in’ was snoozing around the hot stove "Magine my feclin's, if you can, when 1 ;iul a hand on tl cramento chap’s deal with four Kings in it. 1 backed her for all I had just as yowd a done, stranger, and the Sacramento chap stayed! But [ill me with buckshot if he didn't show over me with four pesky aces and scoop in the pot. That wound up the me for me, I sat down in a comfortable place by the stove with a night-cap of my reg- rogin and w Daylight was stealin’ in through the drippin’ winders. It was still rainin’ and_the wind was still howlin® just about as it is now. All at once I heard somebody callin’. What I had 'magined before was a wild, scared voice I was now sariin about. Lwoke up the boys and we went out to see was the matter, It w hard to believe your eyes. The mill was gone, the bridge was gone. - Every house that stood any where near the bafiks had been car aw Trees that were high and dry before were bendin! their boughs before the ragin’ waters, apd the boilin’, tum- blin’, foamin' ¢ 5 tearin’ along full of logs, lumber, drift wood, wreeks of houses, and everything you could think of. . But_we didn’t stop to look round much. For dhere on the side o' the ereck down to the w edgd was Jake's wife standin in the gray mornin’ with hersdiands at nher chin, clutchin’ an old fadcd shawl around her head, and her dress sonkin' wet and switehin® in the wind. “Jake,” she called i seared, wild voice, N e ove Jake give a sudden start, turned whost, reeled us if stunned hack ‘o, s if it was the est word he ever spoke in all his hife. never forget, if Ilives to be a hune the shriek of that poor woman as she fel heap to the ground. (¢ see, she'd sent M Jden Gate to get might fall into the run it he home alone while full. Everybody thought she must a ben on the bridge when it went down the crec took on awful. We got up a party of us and went_ sarchin’ down both banks for the poor little girl’s body. We didn’t find it for purty nigh a week. The rain had stopped, the sun was shinin® brightern ever, and the creck had gone down agin to where it belonged. It allus seew to me if that tree down there v claspin’ that poor little dead gal in his arms in a kind o' savin’ like way. tangled in the branches of alen tree about mile down m, and partly kivered up with le we found her. It was o purty was a little clearin’ neaq f some big trees that the fust bi was chipperin’ round in > ereck o murmurin’ as if sorry 1t it had done. On the other sid the mountains, bristlin’ with pine s that shone in the sun they had been varnished. There wasn’t no grave- yard here then, and Jake, who didn’t be- ¢ in chure and regular funerals and such thing, allowed he'd bury her right there in the little cleavin’. One of us went back forJuke’s wife, and to tell the folks who hadn’t heerd sl There was a preacher in the sarchin’ party, a chap that hed been tryin’ to get up some religious meetin's in the hall ¢ the Golden Gate. When everybody little prayer, and blamed if what that preacher 1 about that poor little dead gal theredidn't start the tears a-flowin’ in everybody's eyes. ake, who said as how no one but £ should dig that grave, took a pick that one of us had borrered from a min near by. Almost the first lick he struck Jake stopped sudden, turned pale and rubbed his eyes with his fist. But every- body knew Jake was feelin’ mighty bail, and'it’s a purty hard thing, stranger, for aman to dig a grave which he’s goin’ to bury his only child in. Then Jake took another li Then he stooped down and looked hard at the gravel he'd just turned up. I looked thar, too. Wha Gold, s gold; just as you're standin’ agim that vight thar, in diggin that grave for his dead gal, Jake-struck the biggest lead ever struck in this county. “The parson who saw the gleam o’ gold in the gravel said somethin® about its bein’ nature’s sermon on Maggie, or nature’s tribute, or somethin’ like that, and Jake kept ¢3 diggin’ till the g was done. Thaen welowered her into it, sovered her with pu and then Juke filled the o up with dirt you could see the gohf’gl unin’in st every shovelfull, “That big house up yonder on the bloff, with the towgrs and coopalos, verandos and all themysort o' things, be- longs to Jake. t's on the samo place where his old shanty used to stand. = But folks say that pay gravel, as rich as it has made him, his never paid Jake Holt for the loss by whichhe struck it.” e The Kinship Between Politics and Beggary. s brought the A tramp w before Ju Dufty. The cl bhegging on the streets, S0 you deny begging on the str “Certainly I'do, your Honor.” “Why did you hold out your hand and fF yourhut ¥ once mixed up in New York ities and was a.candidate for civil } , and I got into the habit of takin, off my hat a tretehing out my hand to shuke with the voter: nd I never could break myself of it afterwards,” -~ A Small Certainty Better Than Pros- pective Perquisites, “My child, it is necessary you decide between them.” “But I ean’t, mamma.” “You love them both? v.” “Well, which has the largest “Henry has $75 aweek and has only #30.”" “Then do not tate; marry Henry.' ‘‘Yes, but 2 has very large perquisites, mam- nd you' know—" My darling, quisites don’t last, and § v i ‘ge interest on prospective perqu — should A Crowed Week, Mrs. O'Toolihan—Mrs. MeGillicuddy, darlint, wull yezbe pn hond at the wuke this blissed noignt? Mrs. McGillicuddy (weakly)—Ah, M 0'Toalihan, the good athtick pre sarve us, I fear not. What wid the ball at O’Lannigan’s on’ Chewsday noight, and the supphrise pa-arty at Maloncy's on Winsday, an’ the O'Shaughnessy daice on Thoorsday, an' the growler ween toimes, it's not Mary Aun Mc Gillicuddy that has the stringth to sthand the fistivities at all at all, i been found., § TEIE CESAPEST PLACT IIT OMAIIA TOBRUE FURNITURE, BABY CARRIACES, Fiey Is AT DEWEY & STONE'S One of the Best and Laryest Stoclss in the U. to Select from. No Stairs to Climb Elegant Passenger Elevator. M. BURKE & SONS, LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS, GEO. BURKE, Manager, UNION STOCK YARDS, OMAHA, NEB. REFERENCES:. ney, Nob.; Columbu Natfoual Bank, Omalia, Ne orchants and Farmors' Bank, David City, Neb., Kearnoy National Rank,Kea # - State Bank, Columbus, Neb.i MoDonaid's Bank, North Platte, Neb, Omab n, Neb, Will pay customers' draft with bill of 1ading attached, for two-thirds value of stook. COUNGIL BLUFES. ADDITIONAL (‘i'l'\' NEWS. Death of Fayette Smith, announcement of the death of mith caused much sorrow to his large circle of friends here, who will read with some interest the further de- riven by the Maryville (Mo.) 5 The Last Tuesday morning Mr. Smith lett | B his home in the best of spirits, little dreaming that it wonld be the last time that he would ever meet his family in this world. He was at Westho t the time of his death, He was wei arain in one of his elevators at t » when onc of the large cast beams over head that supported the seales suddenly broke letting a large hopper, then containing 19,000 pounds, fall on him crushing both | legzs, one into'n shapeless mass. He lived from 11 o'clock in the morning until 12 o’clock that night in ny, when his soul took its departure to the one who gave it. He was but 41 years of age, just in the prime of life. re the he aches, not in his fami who were intimately acquainted with h feel that his loss as citizen to this community is er than any other man in ity L nergetie, full of life and public enterprise—though never boasting or telhng of what he did—there are hun- dreds who can say that his purse was always open to sufferig humanity, He leaves awife and seven children to mourn his loss, to whom the entire community join in extending their heavtfelt sympit- with which the Freeman extenas its; hat on the last great day all will and happy reunion. The funcral services will be held to-da the 1 o'cloc After th s the body will be taken in charge by the Masonic fraternity and buried by its rites and ceremoni i The Man Makes the Difference, St. Paul Pioneer Press: Quoth an up- town undertaker yesterd SGe Grant’s coflin cost about §1¢ look at this coflin. It is a composi red cedar, metal and solid sily every way it is an exact pattern Grant’s coflin, and I will sell it to you, trimmed and adorned as his was, for $350. It makes all the difference in the world in the price when it is_known who the person is that is to he therein. You orany ordin: izen could lie in that coflini for a price ing from $190 to 0. It would cos rhilt, Gould or Grant just about $10,000 to oceupy the same coflin, of ——— A Georgia Judge's Difliculty, Atlanta Constitution: Drummers stell good stories. One day tain commereial pilgrim was in the wire- grass region and stopped at a town while the superior court was in session, After doing up the place he dropped into the court house, principally beeause there was nowhere else to drop. While he w there one of the lnwyers handed an orde to the judge for his signature. His honor put on his spees gravely and began to sean the writing sfowly.” He made very little progress, but stumbled from word to word with the greatest difliculty and halting. The drammer leaned over to a stal- wart countryman and remarked: “Your j doesn’t seem to d writing v ) “Read writin’, h--111"_exclaimed the disgusted man, “he can’t hardly read readin’,”? al- o He But it on Altogether too P ersonal a Ground, Foge (to tender young damsel) ““All philunthropie work is bound to haye some effect on the world sooner or later, Miss De Clare. Now, as to the move: ment in question, if we don't see any good resulting from 1t, our children or our grandehildren will,” Miss De Clare (vising w flush)—*'I beg to inform you, Mr. Yogg, that neither our children nor our grand children will. You put it on altogether too personal a ground,” -~ ith a crimson “Twyenty years ago, wking of the chi d attitude of the public toward the society with which his name is identified, “twenty years ago 1 had trouble to get’ §5, but only a few nights ago my door-bell rang dnd I was \ded @ check for §25,000 from 1. 1 Clallin's estate.” /s Honry Bergh, = A well knowt ¢ieegyman, having list ened to an enumeration of the qualifica- tions required in the pastor whom a Meriden, Conn., congregation wanted, remarked to the members of the commit- «d upon him that they had id advise the congrega- ange NERVOUS DEBILITATED MEN, You are allowed a free trial of thirty days of the use of Dr. Dyes Celobrated Voltalc Tielt, with, Flectric Sus nsory Appliances, for the epeedy relicf and per. BEAGORY gure of Nervous Debitity. \ow of Vitaity HNanhood, and all kindred troubles. Also for Jnany otber dlscases, Complete Festoration to Health, Vigor, od Fmarantecd. 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