Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 12, 1886, Page 7

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FOSTER & BRO,, Council Bluffy, Towa. write for pamphlet eontaining hundreds onfuls Trom the be 2t women and men from of Lhe countr Call or o NERVOUS —Hmuumn You are allowed a free trial of thirty days of the Lo B e ¥ il Dt oy of the e iho spoedy. relict and pen Debility, \oss of Vitality and [ red troublos. Also for n pestoration to Healt St R Tk 1 ncur ratod pamuhlet i seated envwiope maited fro VOLTAICBELT 00 Murshull, Ladies Do you want a pure, bloom- ing Complexiont If so, a fow applications of Hagan’s MAGNOLIA BALM will grat- ify you to your heart’s con- tent, 1t does away with Sal- lowness, Redness, Pimples, Blotches, and all diseases an imperfections of the skin, 1t overcomesthe flushed appears auco of heat, futl‘g‘;ue and ex- citement, 1t makes a lady of THIRTY appear but TWEN- TY ;3 andso natural, gradual, and perfeet ave ifs effects, that it is impossible to detook its application, THE RANGERS OF TEXAS. The Critty Guards of the Rio Grande and Their Dangerons Duties. How They Cleared the Lone Star State of Savages, Greasers and In- ternational Vermin, of the southern con- wey suffered less from the failure of the lost cause than did the Lone Star state. Outsido the abolition of the ‘‘peculiar institution,”* whieh existed in Te s all through the south, her losses were few not only in treasure, but in men, the wild southwest being at no period the field of bloody and decisive contlicts, Not only was she spared near- 1y all of the horrors of war, but she is to- day the only state in the union owning her own public lands and that is author ized by congress 1o keep always in the field, eyen in time of p rmed body of troops. This mounted force, which is known as the Texas rangers, is unique not only in the United States, but in the world. 1Tt is an old institution. There were rang- ers even in those days when “‘Davy?" Crockett died at the Alamo, as there are rangers to the present hour, though their duties and organization have varried with the vrog ul_deyelopment of Probably no sts fede the state. anization says a writer in the Chicago Times, was born of continual struggle with savage and semi- savage foes, from the time of the Lone Star vrepublic down to the present mo- ment, and though for some years after the - the rang not n perma- nent foree, but a, they were called out n by the state TO 1 N RAIDS and to help tlie local authorities to uphold the law. Tt was not until until 1874, when Richard Coke was governor of Tex- a5, that the rangers beeame once more a permanent force. At this time the In- dians were making it lively for the peo- ple in the northern part of the state, and as usual the United States troops were unable to make headway against them. They were Comanches from the Fort Sill” reservation. In the southwestern portion of the state the Kickapoos and the Lepans were also on the war path, and sickening reports of outrages were Dbeing daily received at Ausiin, The legistature heing in session was appealed and appropriated §300,000 to Aniz and maintain - a foree angers sufficiently — strong to protect the border counties and run down the Indians. The appropriation provides for a fr wtaliion of six ntic companies of seventy men each, [0 company to be oflicered by a cap- tain, two licutenants, thr rgeants, and four corporals. It was soon discov- ered that the appropriation would not be suflicient to support this establishment, and reductions have been made from time to time, until the companies ar now only twenty- strong, h one captain, one lieutenant, one ant, and two corporals each. In 1882 Con- rressman Upson of Bexar county intro- duced a bill in congress to refind the state of Texas $1,000,000 expended for frontier defense, but although the bill passed both houses and was approved by the president, the money has not y through some mism: ment, been paid. THE PAY OF TIE RANC is on a scale to make the mouth of a cay- alryman water. A private gets §3 month, with an allowance of $12 for a R I corporal nd the 1 swanee; a lieutenant $75 and s nee for two horses, and a captain §100 and allowance for two horses. Both oflicel and men are rationed by the state, and 50 generously that it is seldom that even a private is called upon to supplement his mess from his private * resources Whien not in the field the companies are quartered in the different little Mexican towns on the borders of the Rio Grande, , o few mile ast of E1 Paso, Brownsville at the river’s mouth, to When in the field they may be camped anywhere within a hundred'miles of head- quarters, The regular term of enlistment m the frontier battalion is for months, and every man must provide his own horse and arms. The capt of the any is the enlisting oflicer, and in- s horse, man, and arms. There are gorous medical inspec s, for as wlor, of Company A, obsérvéd to a poor kind of s n't last siy nee has ha n with a good horse has sing than a good y indiffe a better chance of pa man with a poor mount., Nevertheless, the physique of the men leaves that of the b cavalry regiment in the United States army greatly in the shade. Th are all fine, sun- browned, h ooking young fellows, FULL OF COURAGE AND ENDURAN and possessing a splendid esprit de corps The ranger, horses are nearly all mus: tangs, with just suflicient American blood in them to lessen their “‘bucking” pro- clivities without injuring those other qual- ities which enable them to make marches under which the finest horses b the army in Missouri and would ievitably snceumb. The arms ot a r consist of a Winchester 45-calibre , a Colt's 45- calibre revolver (sometimes two), and a long hunting knife, His ammunition he carries in two of Mills™web cartridge belts, one of which is worn tightly over the ot The lower belt carries his six- shoote and his revolver eartridges. The upper belt contains the cartridges for his rifle, All the ammunition is furnished free by the state. His saddle is of the Texas model, and Ius bridle provided wi ordinary Spanish bit. A long he rope, known asa “‘cabriesto,” up at the horn of his saddle, and takes the pluce of the heavy picket rope of the cavalry outfit. It serves another purpose of no little value to a man who sleeps in blankets on his mother carth nine nights out of ten, and that is it keeps his couch free from the ingursions of the much- dreaded rattlesnake when laid in a cirele ound No snake will attempt to is coiled ss - hors ope, though unfor- tunately it is powerless to protect the sleeper from the visits of the venomous tarantula or still more deadly Texas cen- tipede. A large blanket-covered canteen for water, a pair of blankets to sleep in, and an India-rubber coat for wet weather completes the ranger’s outfit, The ranger has no uniform, but in diess resembles Neither is the cowboy and “ranchero.” he drilled us a cavalryman, and although the discipline of the foree is admirable, parades are unknown, commands are seldom given in audible tones, and there 13not 4 trumpet in the whole fronticr battalion. The WISDOM OF THIS SY can be seen at a glance. When a man's horse is his own and not the governments there is no necessity for tablo ealls,” and when his arms have heen paid for ont of his own purse and his life depends on their being in proper order parades and inspections woula be absurd. As to drill Indians, desperadoes, and cattle thieves not'to be conque of Upton's tactics, but, as experie shown, by utterly’ ignoring thes trumpet sounds nicely at a rev its notes are out of place when you Ibya knowledge nce has The but w n ain your only advantage through s prise. THE BANGER'S DUTIES. Of course-the ranger differs from an or- dinary soldier in many respects. He is a stute police oftic nd a soldier at the same time. Tu the former capuacily he performs the duty of a depaty she ed to arrest without war worn butt to the front, his knife’ list of those fugitives from - justice, with their crimes, descriptions and the amount of rewards, if any, offered for their ap: prehension, 1s issued from the office of the adjutant general of the state at inter- vals for the information of the range though what information they can ¢ rive from it without intense mental effort I ean not conceive, as the total number of those gentlemen whom the adjutant general has “got upon the list” and who it is safe to _presume ‘“‘never would be missed,” gives a grand total of five thousand. One of the strange things about the ngers is that the Texans are in a minor ity among them. Every state in the union is represented, and England, Ire- land, and France have also contributed to the muste i1l Quite a number of young men of most respectable families ve served in the force. 1 know one company that had in its ranks at the same time a young doctor from Waslington, D. C., whose fiunily moyed in the highest society circles, an ex-British r r, and an ex-oflicer of the swell New York Seventh regiment. The companies are all full in winte with the :\p)]u'u:\('h of summer many get tired of the hard life and at the termina- tion of their six months take their dis- charge and try something less harassing and dangerous. few have mo than two or three years' cor vice to show outside the offi veteran of the battallion is Seiker, who joined in May, 1874, and served ever since without losing a da, He commands company D, which he en- tered as a private—a company which has the reputation of having killed more In- ans and “rustlers’ — cattle-thieves- y two in the With the ranger O] 18 THE SUPREME VIRTUE. on courage in & man to be what chastity is to a woman, and he sums up this article of his erecd in the laconie dic- tum o hates cowards.” Unlike the cowboy, against whom he is pitted on oceasions when the latter runs amuck, or cuts barbed-wire fences with his patent nippers, contrary to the statutes in such cases made and provided, he drinks but seldom, and never to excess. Like sol- diers, the rangers always go in twos, but allude to their second selt in fron pa lance as “‘my partner.’” hazy notions of international will follow thieves and murder s miles into the neighboring |'«-fmhlix- of Mexico, them, anc bring them aeross the without extr tion or any other papers, and with the most sublime contempt for the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo. Indeed, if the rangers cared much for the nice points of and *‘cor international law the Americans living on the Texas side of the border would be defenseless against raids from Mexican robbers who, half across the river, would be s in their own countr The 1 spectable Mexic: do not object to this virtual ignoring of the boundary line by the rangers, and there is only one in- stance on record where it gave rise to diplomatic remonstrance on the part of the Mexie: government. This was in f 1881, and under the fol- irenmstance: About the Iatter part of 1880 man named Conklin started a young little paper lled the Sun in Socorro, N. Mex. He a handsome, gentlemanly young fellow, and soon made a host of friends amohg the American population. A church fest held 'in the town on as eve, of which Conklin was the During its progress two ns, brothers, named Baea, isy, and Conklin_expelled voom. Eunofrio Baca procured a nd s Conklin was going home v his wife, the younger brother pulled her apart from Tim, while Bunofrio Christy manager young Mex: were ver them from r escape. Some time after Sergt. Gillett, of the rangers, arrested the younger Baca, at the little town of Isleta, on the Rio Grande, and delivered him over to the New Mexican About a month or so after- Both brothe ward Gillett heard that Eunofrio, the elder brother, was engaged as a clerk in a store at S: little Mexican town about fifteen 1 outh” of Puso del Norte, and he determined, without wait- ing for extradition papers to effect his capture. The gallant ranger took with him a corpor: company named Loyd, and, crossing the river without »xciting any suspicion, got elose to tho , 10 the shelter of which and ont of tion he dismounted, and, leaving » with Loyd, rnshed in on Baca who was behind the counter, calling on him to surrender or get shot. Bac - rendered ut once, and he was got up on the horse behind Loyd and the rty started for the river. The news spre like wildfire among the Mexicans, and the people turned out to give chase. Nine heavily armed men followed the rangers, some without saddles, and hav- g only a rope around the horse's nose, The rangers were four miles from the river, and, in order to prevent their stock playing out, the prisoner had to be chunged frot one horse to another. The Mexicans fired several shots, but, fearing to hurt Baca, their. shooting wis wild They halted on their own side of the riv- : rangers crossed safely to the The following night I s turned over to the sherilt of Socor- 1o county, and the next day he was LYNCHED BY A MOB, Young Baca was well connected, being the nephew of the probate judge of the county of El Pas nd the latter went wild over the thing. He appli governor of Chihuahua, who offe ward of $1,500 for Gillett and Loyd, dead or alive 'he Mexican g‘u\'n'rnmunl opened correspondence with Mr. Blaine, who s then secretary of state, and at one time it was thought that the two rangers would be turned over to the ten- der mercies of the Mexiean authorities, With the death of Judge Baca, who had guaranteed the reward out of his own pocket, interest in the matter soon died ont, and I had the pleasure only last year of seeing the men on whose heads a price had be nong the spectators at a 150 del Norte, f sketeh of the ] force which hus suc ing the state of hosti poos, and Lipans, besides givin, fimnl account of the few hostile Apaches that have ventured over her frontier. The 5 s of the rangers as Indian fighters s cansed the introduction of a bill into the present congress to provide for the orgunization of a similar force to (if pos- ) put an end to the Indian w Mexico and Arizona. Check! “Can I get anytoing ou a check I have herer” said a polite traveling man to a hotel elerk, as he stepped up to the coun- n looking through his pock- out 108 replied the clerk, curtly; have anything to do with 8 We require eash only." “‘But, my dear young man,” continued the traveler, still fumbling in his pocket- book, *“'this check is—" It docsn't make any diffe what it is,” interrupted the cler| area stranger to us, sir, and, we do not take ches { “So I heard you “But me no buts, sir,” again inter- rapted the young mar ve can't recog nize it and that ends it.” as 1 said, ind,” “Well, now, you ought to,” persisted the traveler, plaintively, * for it's a wmighty cold day and I cun't go without my Iu\el'mml.”hlltl he threw down a loak-room check with a yingle that Jjerked the elerk clear ont into the middle of the offi JAMES P S PEARLINE has be conie recognized as the best wishing prepar ion ever fuvented, [t has relieved w ay of the old wear and tear, and cl s from justice in the state. A | the dirticst fabric without injuting BOUCICAUL'I, WOOED HER, And Induced Her to Reject a Nobleman ‘Who had Asked for Her Hand. Story of Agnes Rebertson's Courtship, Marriage #hd Abandonment by Playwright Boucicanlt, “About the year 1851, says the New York World, *there was playing ata Glasgow theaffe A very young, pretty and extremely graceful girl named Agnes Robertson. Her fathor was a picture- frame maker, and his bright little dangh- ter was his joy and pride. At that period Mr, and Mrs. Charles Kean, who wore then at the zenith of their popular- ity, went to Scotland on a starring visit, and played at the theater of which Miss Agnes Robertson was a valuable mem- ber, She acquitted herself so admirably in the small parts allotted to her, was so attractive in person and amiable in dis- position that Mr. and Mrs. Kean, who were about to manage the Princess' thea- ter, invited her to become not only a member of their com but to reside in their home under their immediate pro tection. This generous ofler was cousid- ered and accepted with gratitude by the young lady.” The Princess' theater, under the management of the Keans, was an instant suce Mr. Kean was appointed the director of the court theatricals at Windsor castle. and Miss Robertson became 4 vorite with the aristocratic followe the the theater. Society and the clubs talked of the migoune features, the grace and petite elegance of Miss Agnes Rob- ertson, who gained additional prestize by being the ward of the Keans, who were held in high esteem by the most ex- alted society, ~ The charming young actress had admirers and suitors in plen- ty. The tavored one was the young earl of Hopetown, Who proposed for her hand, but at the suggestion of Mrs. Kean, who had a wholesome dread of a messalliance, she prompted her pretty ward to sugge three months to think over the offer that the amorous young nobleman might con- fer with his mother and settle everything satisfactorily, in order that there would be no future reproaches or heartburnings. Mrs. Kean had heard from a friend that the young snitor's mother somewhat ob- jected to his marrying an actress, and she had the happine of her ward too much at heart to submit her to any pos- sible humiliation, The young gallant was tenderly toid by his lidy fair to ‘bide wee’ and he submitted with good g “It was here that Mr, Dion_ Bouci appeared uvon the scer Dumas’ drama, “The Cor: for Mr. Kean; the play was a g cess and the adapter was appointed the assistant stage manager of the theatre. Among other piecs he translated a little Gymnase comedietta called “The Prima a," in whigh Miss Robertson enacted the heroine to y ion. Anything more finished, or fascinating or duinty WiS never seet the London stage The public croyded to see the young ac: tress and Boucicault lost his heart, or his head, or both — but whatever he lost Agnes Robertson's fate was scaled, All the world knows that Dion Boucicanlt is a singularly able dnd accomplished man, and posse a tongue that would ‘charm the birds off a bush,” as the - ing goc And =0 he addressed himself to the task of winning the heroine of his little come: There Le no_doubt that opportimities and importunity are powerful factprs in winning a woman, and Boucicault weéll knew this, As the stage manager he had incessant opportu- nities of being near the lady, and that he used his tonguae deftly gio without saying. Of course, he knew that she had been ed in marriage by Lord Hope- town. He regarded this obstacle by no means seriously. He said toan s nt- ance: ‘This is a race of title and cash verses brains. Observe which wins,’ “Boucicault occupied a suit of ele- gantly furnished apartments quite near the theater, and he managed his affaire de coeur so skillfully that Miss Robert- son, after the performance of the first vieee in which she appeared, would instily dress and spend a_ furtive hour or g to the Kean or some time, two with him before retiri residence. This went on Mr. K nightly prog his protege. was greatly but kept his counsel, and one night he followed her in disguise, and as she was ringing Boucicault’s bell he stepped up and simply said, ‘Miss Robertson, I he- lieve. Now Iam satisfied,” jumped into cab and returned hastily to the the- amme of shocked, The result of tnis discovery was an animated e with the Keans, when the young actress confessed her love for Boucicault, announced that an alliance with Lord Hopetown was out of the ques- tion, and that, in point_of fact, she felt she would greatly prefer to retire from the proteetion of her kind patrons. The adroit touch of the Mephistophelian Dion was obvious to this movement, The rest was plain sailing. Miss Robertson took quiet lodgings near Boucicault: he soon seceded from the the- ater, angements were rapidly made to visit the United States, and Miss Robertson came over in 1852 or 18 nd played her first American engagement at Montreal. Boucicanlt followed a few weeks after, and the two took up their quarters as man and wife, it being under- stood that Miss Agnes Robertson, the “Fairy Star, as she was called on the play bills of the' duy, was Mrs. Boucicaults When the dramatist arrived in this city he had very little ready money, In Lon- don he lived up to everything he earned and, in fact, had passed through the ‘val® ley of the shadow of debt,” and it was an opportune moment for him to leave land for pressing financi an hz- acial reasons. He told American friend after his pros- I s here set in that he landed with less” than $100 i his pocket, but he added: ‘I came over as the A!:u»lln of the \ thenew world,’ For some time his aposteliogmission did not pro- duce very murm\‘pg results, and ad inter- im his wife, whp, hid made o pronounced 088, suppaitod him sumptuously. She a handsome sulary, and one night in Bostoh Mr. Boucicault stepped | unsolicited on,th the stage and announced | that she was his wife. This fell like a thunderbolt mfirmr(lm dudes and mash- ers of the perigd, fvho knew nothing of the Boucicaulg’ ¢onnection, The ‘Fairy Star’ was thengublicly talked of as Mrs Boucicault, arfilig'was not loi boefore .. and Mrs;; Dion Boucicault filled the ters up and down the land in the se- ries of b degnyty of which “T'he Colleen Bawn' is a nofahly example. “After a |n».r’;..| of ten years had elapsed the Boagidaults returned to Eng- | land and played'with great success at the London Adélphir The dramatist then lavnched out in his domestic expenditure, Several children were born to him and he leased an enormous mansion near Kensington and entertained in the most extravagant style. His expenses must have run up to $30,000 a year; he leased in addition u theater on of the river, wcurred h the result was bankruptey a famous London jour: popular manager, wrote of the dr N e s, and now mat- ist: ‘He went to Ameriea, amassed a far- tune, returned to England, and squan- dered it like a Bramagem Sardanapa- lus. “There was truth i cault must haye nette years' acting and playwriting in thi country. . At this period a scandal oecur- red in ‘Which the name of & yery besufi- ful woman, now a resident of New York, was. very ‘seriously cowpromised.” The | this, for Bouei- $200,000 by his ten mous letter enlightened | affair got into a police court and thence into the papers. Boucicault's excuse for being at the lady's chamber at 2 o'clock in the morning was very naive and sweet ‘I went to lend her some books,” asserted Boucicault, and the court shricked with laughter. 'Watts Phillips drew a lovely airicature of the doughty and amorous Dion in the moonlight, with his ! perched on the back of his hes to show off his broad, : sive brow, staggering unde volumes, some trembling from his arms | and labelled ‘Ovid's Art of Love,' ‘The | Decameron,’ ‘Marion Lescant ot ide omne genus ' The wags of the comic papers had rare fun over this escapade WVhen matters were a bit squared up in England the Boucicauits returned to this country, played n engagoments with more or less success, and all went fairly well for a time. Then a final separation took place, and one day Mr. Bovicault publicly announced that Mrs, Boucicault was not his legal wife, and that in the yus fact that he had four grown up children and agrandehild Mrs. Boucicault promptly denied the statement but failed to say where and when sho was married, = and further stated she would apply for a divorce, It is doubtless a ha |.l case, after living with 1 man over twenty years, to be delibe ately branded as a mistress and Bouei- cault, by his recont marringe in Austra- lia with Miss Thorndyke mfirmed in some respects his damaging statement,or else renders himself amenable to the Taw for bigamy. “A curious page in this uulmrpy busi- ness is that two of Boucican]t's daughte and his son (whom people eall ‘Dot’) went to Australia with their father and assisted at the Fhorndike nuptials, their unhappy mother meanwhile residing in obseurity in a suburh of London. “This story of a family breakdown in ce of the ser family love and honor, this record of shatt lives and woful division is sad enough in all ence. In this rowfulstory, like many e beging in one way. What is this yt It is h]}- the I of masculine an of femmine faith; by want of abiding gratitude on the part of the stronger for that which a weak woman s when she lays her life in the hands husband and yields to him the de- on whether the rest of her years shall s in honor and happiness or in heart- ache and neglect, An alienated hushand the world open to him; the afironted finds u prison in her home. Society will not permit her the freedom which the hushand arrogates. She must suffer, she must conceal, she must act a part before the eyes of friends, chained to her torture and moral ruin by the double manacle of a more sensitive conscience and of maternal love.” - The Bell Telephone Company and the People. New York Times, The people would shed no tears if the Bell telephone patents should be declared null and void. The monopoly that has been established upon these patents by the American Bell Telephone company has few friends except those whose friend- ship has been bought and paud for. For many reasons it has become obnoxious to tire publi 7 It demands and collects from the peo- ple enormous prices for the uses of the telephone instruments. The company hus testitied that the cost of asct of these instruments—a transnutter and a receiver—delivered to its inspecting de- partment is only $3.41. For the use of these two inst it charges to o local company nnual rent of $14, The rent in this ¢ aid to be $15. On March 20th, 18! had 20 transmitters and rec use, and its receipts from rent for the preceding year had been $1,069,442. By the company’s own admission the cost of these instruments was on 64,000, and the value of its telephones for the ealen dar year 1885 was entered in its state- ment of assets at only $358,319. Still, upon this investment of less than £600,- 000 it demanded and received from the local exchanges an aunual rent of nearly §2,000,000! Here is an enormous annual profit of 830 per cent. which the Bell company ex- cts from the local exchanges. These ex- changes must take another profit from the subseriber. Let ussee how much this profit is, About one year ago a_person thoroughly familiar with the telephone business estimated thes cost of wive, in- struments, exchange plant, &e., for an exchange of 4,000 subscribers in this ety 000 a year, and the expenses for wother, the dis- salaries, repairs, & at $79,200 a year. On the other hand, the receipts for the e from 4,000 subseribers at an average annual payment of $175 would be $3700,000 so that in one year the entire plant would be paid for, the running expenses met, and a surplus of $256,500 laid aside for kholde Thes gures may indi- ate the of the profit taken by the lo- xchange from the subscriber. The Bell company, not satisfied with the enor- mous prolits derived from the rent of in- struments, now shares the profits of many hanges by holding the stock of organizati For example, it holds a ¢ rest in the Metro- politan company, of this city. What perc ge of the capital paid in cash the dividends issued by the Bell company represent it is diflicult to ascer- tain, An oflicial statement nted to the Massachusetts legislature when the company king_ for permission to inflate its e 1 from $10,000,000 to £30,000,000 shows that onfy $110,000 was into the treasuries of the three com- nies that preceded the Bell company and were merged into it. Afte 302, 100 in stock had been issued the company stated that $3,103,000 had been paid in cash and that § stock to the Natio orty valued by that company atl $830,000. The Boston Globe and papers have declared that the stoc! heen watered seven times, or by giving to holders for each or seven new ones, sorthat the v which wasat one time very great, diluted until the profits do not appear to exceod 17 per cent. But it 1t be true that the total amount of cash invested did not 500,000 had been paid in vy for prop: v comp; on; exceed $1,000,000, the size of the dividend will appear, for the net earnings of the company in the year ending March 1, 1885, were $1,710,802, to say dividends from stock in loc to the face value of over §22,000,000, held by the parent company. Theso figures are referred to for the purpose of showing how great the tribute is which the Boll company exacts from the people for the use of instruments that cost very little nothing 1 compinicy and for serviee that is by no means good One result is that Bell and his associates a enormous ich. The burden of charges is heavier in this city than it is elsewhere, for the ann rent ranges from §150 to $216, while in other it is much less, and in some states is limited by law to $36 a To exact these enormous percentages of profit from the people is extortion. -~ A Considerate Husband. “For whom are you wearing that weed on your hat, Podsont’’ My wife.? Is she dead#” b; but she's thought I'd put j see how bad I'm g gone.” and I \c might el when she's —— When Baby waa sick, we gave ho: ¢ When sho was a Child, she cried for Castoris. When she became Miss, sho clung to Castoris, Whe slie bad Clildren, sbe gave tham Castoria, wtoria, THE CHEAPEST PLACE IN OMAIIA TOBUY FURNITURE, BABY CARRIAGES, Elc. IS AT DEWEY & STONE’'S Oneof the Best and Lurgest Stocss in the U.S. to Select from. No Stairs to Climb. Elegant Passenger Elevator. M. BURKE & SONS, LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS, GREO. BURKE, Managor, UNION STOCK YARDS, OMAHA, NEB. REFERENCES:—Merchants and Farmors' ank, David City, Noh., Kearney National Bank,Kon ¢ ney, Neb.: Columbus State Bank, Columbus, Neb.i MeDonald's Bank, North Platte, Neb. Omaha Natlonal Bank, Omaha, Neb. Will pay customers' dratt with bill of 1aing attachod, for two-thirds value of stock. The Smartest Woman Lowsville. Horald kin® about smart women,”’ said a passenger from ille, ““you oughter know my wife the smartest woman ever | saw ‘Nebraska National Bank OMAHA, NEBRASKA. he's I'hey can’t none of 'em get ahead o' my Paid Capital 250,000 usin. Why, the other day, young | Efid up Capital ..............$380, George Hodgers took dinner at our | SuplusBiay1, 1680, . R6,000 house. MHe's engaged tomy darter An- [ H, W, Yares, President. geline, Party nice young man, too, but AL E. Totzans, Vice Prosident. the old woman nevér had any too much | W. H. S. Huanes, Cashier, confidence in him, sl DIRECT OIS . “‘Father.) she often says to | W. V. Mo, Jonx there’s something about that George | HoW. Hodgers 1 don’tlike. He scems nice, ive much confidence in him. I'm afrand he's a little weak.” “Susan she prides herself on her abil rad human ure. And she kin She's got me sized up so fine *ttake dvink down town fore P but I don’t THE IRON BANK. Cor. 12th and Farnam Stroets. neral Banking Businoss Transaotod. There was pie. Apple pie, ““How do you like the pie, Mr. Hodg cod him, ‘1t splendid,’ said George, made it?? ““Angeline,’ said the old woma lout her gittin onto it when 1 | — ¥ it home in tho evenin’. Well, as T was wsaying’, Georgo was in 0 diner. | Railway Time Table ers? my wifd OMARA, Tie following is the time of arvival and de- parture of trains by Contral Standurd {ime at e ) e locul dopois, Trains of the C., St. P., M. & Did she, Indeed?’ young G O, nrrive and dopart from their depot, corner went on, ‘Well; she daisy pie. r‘:') thlx;nd\\\'.vl-m]‘r]}ly.-uu ting on ‘Hm n,lu My mother used to make the best apple | M. . & Q. and K. 0., 81 J. & C. B, from the pit 1 over eat, but this beats my mothor's | B &Bi.dopots allothers'from the Union Pciia pie all to pieces.’ BRIDGE TRAIN: “Ann that's j n s just where young ( et put his foot into _it. e in't know it, 13 10:00 but he did. Right there is where he gave himself av Y ‘who idgo tratns wii N0, fopot at 6z ‘Omaha u “Just I thought,” said the old 1T A, woman, after he and e had gone i into the H):\rln “just g I thought. CONNEC LINT George Ho weak, recklessshift Arvival and departure. of teains from, the less, dent fellow, and he shall | transferdepot at Council Bluns: DEPAR faughter of miy ou mean, my dear I, entirely i the d What do 1 mean How dull you men a1 ARRIVE, N # Iln- 't you sec? Why don’t you learn to read human nature?” Didn’t A hear George Hodgers o and admit,r 0 M Bxpre CHICAGO, MILWAUKE -Mail and 1 Expt out in plain words, and _before yon and me, that his intended wi could make better pie than his mother? And_do you g'pose I'd go and give my darter into'th hands of '« Y nd thoughtle: one of the dear d man in that we ce to be used agn him in aft ¢ T read human nature too close for that, Azariah Tompkins. George Hodgers will never amount to a row of beans, and you can tell him as 50! u like that the mateh is oft’” what Susan said, and what Susan says goes, boys. The mateh is off. Itell you she's’ the smartest woman in Louisville.” ¥ enough to surrende rights of a1 firnish the L. Expross... A 018 XOCITY & PACIFIC 1x ity Matl Paul Bxpress, WESTWARD. r. | UNION PACIFIC, O, & REP, V. Mail and B 1. & M. IN NEB. wil and ) .. Night E L LR ol A Hotel Porter's Fortun Philadelphia Press: John Carroll Dbt ek o days ago from his late r No. 915 South Seventeenih street, d-shouldered man of eye, but wonderfully nd as hard of musele asiron. Vis- itors to the Colonnade hotel during the past fifteen years knew him well. He w' Plittamouth. . was there ull that time as head V“ rter, B and he was a taithful one and br! Depart, BASTWARD. He died Tuesduay, leaving a fortune esti- R 2 B A 0 | 0:00 Via Plattsmouth, ... ! mated at $100,000. About four years ago he fell heir to a fortune of some §60,000, Ieft him by an uncle who 1 died at Oil fler having grown rich by iny and transactions, oil YARDS TRAT . Omub Carroll accepted his good luck as he did ne to him, good It opt Sunday: that cxeopt Mon thing els D, duily d, in a quiet, philosophi leno chang \\f te and, although he was able to buy a three-fonrthis of the people whose lugeago he handled, he still v respectful d de itial, and aceepted tips from peo- ple whose every penny he could mateh with a dollar, His earnings as head por- ter were, owing to his popularity with the patrons of the Colonnade, ver sometimes reaching, it is said, § He had invested his savings with y C, datily a'v. 1w erin his manne 1 s¢ FOR YOUNG AND MIDDLE-AGED HEN ONLY $1 BY MAIL, POSTIAIDL. ILLUSERATIVE SAMY ble foresight in real estate. e used his inheritance in the same way, and at his death he was the owner, it is thought, of thirty or forty houses, and was a member ¢ of several building assoeintions, A L A Broom Famine, leveland Leader: The tidy house- | Kkeeper who deftly bungs her braom away n @ corner when she | using it, is probably little re that a corner of a difierent sort for brooms is anticipated in the futuve. A manufacturer of brooms | es that an actual *broom famine” is anticipated within the next four months This prospect grows out of the fact th A Great Medical Work on Manhood. Exhausted Vi Ality, Norvous and Physical Dability ne {ii Man, rrora af Vonth, and the s done Drosert Wone ot which 1s | ehronic djsonse ho Tor 23 yaurs |y the 10 rated sample, . ded the author uy the Na. to the ifon. A. P, Bissell, 'l A el Assooints on_account of the extremely low pri <50 "tha Lourd the Feudor it re: of broom corn, which haye riled for the T2 1 worth moro totn e young and Iast fow yoears, its growers in Jarge nun of Ll cone bers have become discouraged, ind have turned thewr lands to other crops. The broom-corn crop is also a hard one on the soil, and under these eircumstances o wisaian vl corn can not be made topay. They | ol is country 1or the pest were compelled to sell their erops last L o aastecte year at from 2 to 4 cents per pound, when | rolt ¥rao it ought to e hrought 7 to 8 cents, The prospect now is that the prices of that commodity, which has been selling i clulty, Suol ~kill of all other lately in this market at from 10 to 1% iy siclang a 8 cents per pound, wholesale, will soon bo | fiented succcs ;'i‘x‘.fé,“”" ut an instance of fuilure. worth 15 cents, and as the scarcity of the R e article has only begun to be felt it s said | ~—r that 23 cents 3 likely to be the point | ' reached lv this case a broom which is now worth 35 or 40 cents will soon bo e ar Ine worth 50 cents. The stock said to have i H i his time L r, in | }.,]Ii.l‘.,'x’.‘ I A\..jl nl’f”l‘w,,”,’,‘,,.‘ g ,’\.;“, ”l.' ','f | Carrying the Belgium Royul and United States stated that there are not more than 1,000 | Nall, sailing ovory Batuday tons on hand; 500 tons were d oyed by e o et o ety ot | Betwean Antwerp & Hew York outlook is, therefore, for “higher priecs | ma mun . 9 on brooms, . 70 THE RHINE, GERMANY, ITALY, HOL AP R : We accidental rd the following | LAND AND FRANCE. dinlogueon the strect yesterday rom $90 to §100. Excursion tip from Jones, Smith, why don't you stop that ). 1 Calun §30, and Exeursion disgusting hawking and spiiting? ut low rates. - Poter Swith. How ean 17 You know 1 am a ! Gouopal Agouts, 5 RPosdeag martyr to eatarrh ! s, Frauk B. Moores, W,, 8t, L J. Do as Idid. I had the dis inits | & P tickit ugent. worst form, but I am well now. | HARRY DEU EL 8. What did yon do for it | J. 1used Dr. Suge's Catarch Remedy, |~ It ‘cured me and it will curo you | 4 8. I've bewd of it, aud by dove I'll try it | 3 7. Doso. 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