Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1886, Page 12

A BATTLE ON THE PLAINS. ! How 8¢ven Brave Men Withetood an In Attack, A Desperate Battle on the Big Chey- ne River-The Advantageof | Cool Heads and Carelual Calculation, ! - | After the close of the eivil war four or | five bodics of cavalry were sent to the plains to serve out their unespired terms by giving the Indians a rab, At Jules burg n part of the force temted to the I south in Colorado, to Fort Laramic and thence randed to. ward the Blwek Hills, White and Indian | wnd the rest procec seouts were furni the government, and the cavalry was not long in finding Indians and plenty to do. In July, 1855, 2 force of 350 cavalry left Laramie for a | raid to tne north. With this force were | five white and seven Indian scouts. Lhe I body of troops was scarcely five miles ! from the fort when Indians were sighted, | and before going into camp for the | night at least 500 Indians had shown themselves. The Indians did not seck to obstruct the way, and there was hardly & gun tived until the fourth day when the s reached the south fork of the Big nne river. The Black Hills were t hand now, the country was nd broken and THE INDIANS HAD GATHERED until their number was estimated at 1,200, It was evident from their actions ths they were determmed to oppose further progress, The brigadier-gencral in com mand had done good fighting in Virgimia but had never seen a wild Indian before He was tor adopting the tactics practised m civilized warfare, but luckily for the command, he was an oflicer without obsti or cone The sconts warned him that a big fight was impending, and that it must be fought Indian fashion, or not & man of them would return to the fort. He epted their adviee and countermanded the orders he had given for pushing out small detatchments to charge the Indians. The idea had been to find the Indians and tight them. The camp on the bunk of the stream was defensive position, being on a blufl | covered with trees. The eamp ex- tended along a front of half a mile, tak- ing in a sort of grove. To the west there close rough was an of n quarter of a mile and then aller grove, while to the east the ground was clear for miles. The al first came trom the Indians, At d bt they sent forward sharpshoot- ers, who crept as near the camp as possi ble opened fire with considerable of ‘Ins was speedily returned from the ritles of the scouts and the carbines of the troopers, but after an hour the men were ordered to SAVE THEI AMMUNITION, During the firing & large number of Indians crossed to the north side of the | stream and opened fire from that di tiou, but they sted their bullets, It | was afternoon before the fight opened in real carnest. At least 500 dismounted Indians advanced on the front of the (‘:lylus“t:flilx;’ advantage of every rock and hollow, and although the camy could not have been better sheltered, a number of men and horses were hit within an | hour, It was soon discovered that tl real attack was to be made on the right ik Mounted Indians to the number of 300 gathered on the open geound be- tween the groves for a dash into the camp. With the troops strung outon | such long front, and having plenty to do, | a flank attack meant disaster, and the commander prepared to checkmate i Fifty men were orde under cover of the trees of the bugle seven troope: selves cut off from the main body. of them was a corporal and as saw the situation he ordered ti; make for the sceond grove. They reached this, to find it about half an acre in extent, the ground not only well co ered with trees, but broken in natu rifle Yim and dotted here and the boulders. The troopers reached grove amid a shower of bullets and rows, which, fortunately, mjured no one, and instead of trying to cover the whole | ground, they took up a position at the eastern end and threw up a breastwork of logs and rocks. While they wer working at this, eyery one of their hor were killed and the men added their bod- ies to the breastwork. . THE ENTIRE FORCE OF INDIANS now crowded in between the two groves, thus cutting oft all hopes that the seven troopers might be rescued by a charge The larger body was heldunder a very hot fire, and every man in it felt that the squadron thus cutoff would be butchered within half an hour. 1t was well for the the seven t the corporal vias a cool and level-headed ma All were veterans, but it was their first Indian fight. His first instructions were to count their ridges. Some had sixty, having just been served before the charge, others had as high as seventy-two, thus making the a g sixty-five rounds per man, In addition to their Spencers each man had & Remington reyoiver with abundance of ammunition, From the moment they in trenched in the grove atleast 700 Ind turned their whole attention to w the little command out. maintained on a complete troopers did not_fire one nearly an hour. Then, as the emboldened Indians began to ep nearer, the Spencers were brought into play for t rounds apiece, and at least twenty In- dians were killed or wounded. From a tree in the larger camp one of the scouts saw them beur off fourteen warriors in their arms and six o rht more went limping out of the fight without heip. Five hundred bullets & minute during the hottest of the fight struck the breastwork, but not one of its defenders were injured. About an hour before sundown 1t was seen that the Indians were getting ready for A GRAND ADVANCE on the isolated troopers. A sudden rush from all sides would resultin the capture of the men. Notone of the rhines bad been heard for the last hour, and no one could say whether they were dead or alive. The general belief ‘was that they were dead, The ground was favorable for the Indians to advance on horseback, and some 200 of them formedin the valley in one single line. The firing all at once ceased and with a *Yi yi the redskins dashed forward at the grove, the ends of the line riding the fastest so as to completely envelop the position held the troovers, It was assquare a echarge as white men ever made, but when the line was within pistol shot of the grove the seven troopers sprang out of their fort, openced out in skirmishing order, and the way the once balls from those carbines sereamed among the In ~ dians was something to make one ch The men hadn't fived three rounds L before the line was wavering, and as the kept it up the charge degenerated into a " mob, There was cheering, yelling, - shooting, and rushing to and fro. Be- L tween the reports of the Spencers we got the erack of the revolvers and the snap of the rifles, but the smoke settled down #0 thick that all uh.ju'ls were speedily D, fl:‘ out. While we cheered our comrades . THE BRAVE DEFENCE ey were making, no one had the least r of eseape. You can, therefore, judge of our amuzement when, after thé “qeers had seemed to fire n volleys five times,the seven troo ng in under the smg ee of them were wounded d three with arrows, but none serious Iy, ‘They had fought with a plan their plan hiad been 1 succuss The defence and escape was a matter of wonderment to Indian fighters as well as green hands and particularly so in the loss to the Indians, Three months later when a sort of truce had been patehed up they admitted a direct loss from the de fence of these s<even men, of nineteen Killed, eleven wounded and ten ponies killed' or rendered useless, They with drew without making another Serions attack _upon us. having suffered a total loss of thirty-two killed and about a many wounde Capt. Swiftand His Vallant Five, A defenee 1n which were combined pluck. endurance, suffering and despera tion was that of Cap Swift and_ his five companions, near the forks of the B'g Cheyenne. They were all citizens, and all on their way into the Black Hills country on foot. Swift had been a cup tain in a border company rused to fight Indinns in northern Nebraska, and was the only one in the 1ot who had ever a hostile. Swift and found the other three the forks. ul 1t should push further Every man was armed with a Win. chester and two revolvers, and cach carried several hundred roundsof ammu nition. ‘The men had broken camp five miles below the forks, and were on the south bank of the main stream, when they we attiacked by thirty-tive mounted Indinns. The whites were on foot and the shelter of timbe though they were harrassed for a couple of hours, no one was hurt, and the march was not greatly wded. However, as they reached the forks two companions prospectors near wis west in com pany the force of In dians snddenly inereased to over one hundred,and as they not only barred the way but cut off retreat, Swift realized that the little band must go into ¢ and prepare for a sicge. They drove the Indiins down the south fork wbout half a mile, until getting possession of u blufl which was well covered with timbe il here the ntrenched. A natural sink was deepened with hatehets and knives, v rocks and limbs were piled up und the edges, and the men got into the rifle pit, knowing that the odds were twenty to one, and that there could be not the faintest hope of reinforcements. he Indians could not D) ch the blufl exeept under fi After they had maintained a fusillade for upward of an lour without harm to the purty, they sent forward aflag of truce half breeds who could speak Engllsh tolerably well, Swift went forward to the edge of the timber meet him, und the men in the pit warned to be on their guard ag: treachery, and to shoot down any other Indian who sought to approach while a pariey was being held. The half breed came forward without fear. It was evi- dently his object to get near enough to see what sort of a defence the men had erected and to be sure of their number, but Swift had baflled him in this} meeting him outside ot the timber. The two were ia rifle shot of both forees, and as the half breed rode up he demanded the immediate surrender of the party He said that 120 Indians were on the ground with othc ternoon, and that it was folly for the whites to think of holding out against sueh aforce. 1In case of surrender they would be disarmed and set at liberty to make way out of the country, but if the s were compelled to tight them to asur thev could expeet no merey. Swift replied that his party did not seck war with the red men. They were going into the Black Hills with hundreds of others to_prospeet for gold, and onl asked to be let alone. They had been s tacked without provoeation, and they should fight to the vitter end. The half breed bhad his rifle lying 55 his saddle while he talked, winle Swift 1 s, The tain suspected what wonld follow his refusal to surrender. The half breed once more put his demand, and as it s refused he suddenly raised his weapon and fired at Swift, and then wheeled his pony. The men were not over ten feet apart, and the bullet passed between Swiit's left 1 his side, cutting through his coat. Had he raised to fire a return shot he would have been a dead man, for the action of ned on the half breed was the signal for fifty Indian rifles to ring out. ift dropped inhis t 1cks and crept” back to the rifle bit unarmed; but he was revenged before e reached it. One of the men had kept the half breed covered with his Winches- ter, and as he turned to gallop away he recerved a bullet in the baex which flung him from the saddle and left him dead on the ground. The redskins had been beaten at their own game, and they vent to thew chagrin and yells and individual demonstrations. In ten minutes they were fiving all along the line, and some of them took adyan- tage of the ground to approach within ud ‘anger in shouts | pistol stot of the rifle pit. Swift's iiistructions to the not to waste a bullet, Tl s had to expose themselves more or less, and by watching for opportunities and keep- ing cool the men in the pit made some telling shots. Before sundown they had Killed or wounded a dozen savages and men were forced the others to exercise far greater caution. Not over thirty shots were fired from the pit during the afternoon. As it of water be- night approached the v gun to be felt. No one had had o drop Since the morning. One of the men crept back to the bank of the river to see what the prospects were for getting down to the water, and he was instantly killed by a bullet fired from the other”side of the stream. His fate was not known until darkness ecame on and a second man went to look for him. The bank was very steep, twelve or fourteen feet high, and it would have been ex- tremely diflicult to get down to the stream had there been no dan, The attempt to secure water was abandoncd for the time, Al the provisions in the party were in a raw state, and, of course, no flire could be lighted. Soon after durk the fire of the Indians ceased en- y. They probably reasoned that it was only a question of a few hours mory when the white men would fall into their hands, and they had mamtained such a hot five through the day that their ammu- nition must have been running low. Tne death of Wolcotteast a gloom over the party, but no one weakencd. Along toward midnight, when _everything had grown very quict, Captain Swift tried for water. A cottonwood leaned off oyer the bank until one in its top would be over the water. A canteen was lowered by a rope after Swift got into position, but some shght noise was made, which caused the Indians on the opposite bank to open fire, and before Swift could de- scend from the tree a bullet wounded him in the calf of the leg. He crept back 1o the rifle pit and bandaged the wound, and in fifteen minutes would have given a year of his life for & pint of water, Various methods for obtaining what all now rc od for were suggested and rej There was only one. way. It must be got from the tree if at wll. An hour or two after Swift was shot & man named Cooper crept out on the treo and lowered the canteen, He suceeeded in drawing up a few swallows of water, and at once hastened to Swift. The captain’s wound of course set him in a fever, and while he could zulped down a quart he had only a gill, Badior zitlrned ta the tres, aod in low: g the canteen lost it. Another rope was extemporized and a coffecpot low- ered, Butthe Indiuns in some inanner got a hint of what was going on and ag: ppened fire. While Cooper was not wounded, he was driven to the pit, and all further hope of securing water | was abandoned. Not a man slept a wink during the night, it understood that the Indiaus might make arush any moment. As early dawn came # shot was fired from the top of a tree in the edge of the. grove, which struck & man named Abbot in the head i met | coming up in the | P were killed and twenty-one wounded in veing generally | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: and killed him instant immediately followed Tt was at once discovered that two Indian sharpshooters had cli during the night, and SUNDAY., AUGUS { WASHINGTON MILLIONAIRES. Who and What They are and How They ly. A second shot , but hit no one mbed into the tree from their eleva- tion conld_look ‘down into the rifle-pit 4 " They could not be seen, buf two of the Have Made TheirTortunes. men opened a rapid fire on the tree, and - fter about twenty-five shots had been fired both redskins we John W, Thompson—Tha Three Queer re tumbled to the ground. Thelt fall was tho signal for Willards—Other Millionaires the ball to open all along the line, and A Fortune in Asphalt—Tel- \ain the bullets whizzed over the pit ephone Bell, Warder, like legions of angry bees. The Indians and the Mcleaas, were pretty cautious avont exposing themselves,” but during the forenoon — three of them were seen to drop, either Carpenter, writing from hard hit or killed outright on to the Cleveland Leader. From noon to 5 o'clock not a_shot was s y fired on cither side, and from 5 to sun- | : shington is fust becomng a city down the Indians fired only about a | of richmen. = There are ten men here | dozen times—<uflicient to warn the white | now worth £500,000 to. one worth that men that the scige was still on. Hunger | ymount in 1860, The statesmen them now compelled the men to'eat raw bacon | gjves are richer and not a fow of them wnd flour, and the torments of thirst were W e fherensed. Swift sulered far moe than NOW 0wn property here. The two rich the others, being wounded, but not a | est citizens are W, W. Corcoran, who has | complaint passed his lips. He was too | given away three-fourt!: much as hic stiff and sore to leave the pit, but about | is now worth, and John W. Thompson, wereed that all | | | 10 o'clock one of the m try for water swam ¢ bank at least did not, th prevent the men from ross nd were It was Foster who went out this time, and he had the vessel when a bulle off, a second struck the and a third went through the coffee ched the pit unwonnded, however, He ¢ and Swift advised that expose himself. They around them and got from chewing them, an ing broke t soon bes e Indians intended t he alor spirits, An hour advanced on the pit, ¢ ing along nnder the be find fond the pit, but desperate as the wery rapidly, and they line, wer the line, ned had Killed within ten other a panic ocearred Indians rose up m 1 be the fire by jump. Some of the While they could not elimb it were whooping and shouting ali | and s b fter daylight the w There were only four men to de- not so great. ‘Chey tired cooly yot not only halted the but at one point where'three bucks ke them before they had made The four men had the six rifies, 1en volunteered to Indians had located under the or ey were at hand to getting water | who is one of the most enterprising men in the distriet. Corcoran is the wealthi est, and he is probably worth several mil lons. He has given away not less than §13,000,000 or 14,000,000 1n charities, and ntout on the trec | o is giving all the time. o began lifo R AL us clerk in his father's shoe store, and [ am told that his father was a shoemaker, One of Corcoran’s first entorprises was in the dry goods business, and he kept s stoek of his rifle, pot no one else should dry goods store in Georgetown. I think dug up the roots § - slight consolation | e was connected in this enterprise with \l again the morn- | George Peabody, w ard_beeame ne evident that | so noted o millionaire ) tinish tl vork. | Both Corcoran and Peabody got their art in connection with Elisha Riggs, a metl n ool | v o of Goorgotown and. Washington, ole line | and Riggs, Peabody and Corcoran have ach redskin work- all amassed great wealth, st shelter he conld CORCORAN'S PILE, Coreoran was not very successful in dry goods, and Riggs establhished him as anker - Washington in connection with his son. He succeeded in banking, showed a good deal of nerve in making investments, and gradually acenmulated a good cap When the Mexiean war broke out the Hew York bankers were wid of the bonds of the United States, 1 as they were,and become, the odds nds of each ‘hirty or more iy for a'rush, but 1 i their revolvers were lying beside | and Coreoran got the placing of the loan e ok e Smergency | whieh | Ho went (o London to do this, and did SH) . HHBPRIAR o e by not succeed very well there. — When he twenty minutes. ‘The baflled Indians | S3me back to New York Wall street tried retreated back to their old position L A e } short. He quietly bought them, and after about 9 o’clock withdr their going was not suspected tor hou They went en n even a scout behind. had secured water and took « look over t cany left blood st ters had not thrown aw: ns to prove t ioux, who w s a scout at Fe authorities ths A Dog ployed nd that the v whipped. number k wounded at the tight, selves fair ported the and the asserted that the number of whites w fourt ', —— Literary “‘Adventures of an ( of the most humorous lished, and superior Di tation. Her from a ston tventure and thos and humor should not book. It is handsome will be sent in paper co or 1n cloth for 50 cents J. S Ogilyie York. The illust ber of the Magazine of beautiful little album 1 sses of seven ponie behind, and there w ry,” which has attained a wi w so quictly that other leaving not atime they found that he had the whole thing in his hands The bonds went up n ? s hike a shot and he made a nice thing out When the four men | 55" "He has also made a_great deal of he battle ground. | moeney in lington real estate, and had been 1s property all over Washington. He lives just opposite the White hous swrounded by a big g , and his house is the one in which Daniel Web- ster used to liv It is richly furnished, but Coreoran is too old to enjoy it very well, Heisa 1, fine-looking, fat old fellow of eighty-sik, wha has a body ser- yant in hvery to hold: his arm as he moves about in - and outcof his car over Washington. He dresses well, man of eultu nd edueation, and known all the prominent public men for yea His real property in Washington is assessed at $801,464. A BANKER MILLIMONAIRE. W, Thompson must I h as afterward em- wt Sully, told the at thirteen Indians Indians felt them- Other indians re itled at nineteen thirty, but they rtes. I Maid,” is one John be about books ever pub- | thirty years younger than Corcor to A Bad Boy's | is a good looking man with & ined le repu- | complexion and @ blue will dr : good talker, is noted for ‘his common e who o S one of the shrewdest and fail to this spirited menof the capital. ly illlustrated and wer for to an has made all his millions himsclf, he had something of a eapital when he eame from New York city about the time Pieree resident and opened a plumbing establishment. He found a city of less than 50,000. Property was low and plumbing and gas fitting w very erudely done by the Washington ‘ptember num Art would mak by themselve: numbcr opens with a suggestive paper | workmen. Mr. Thowmpson soon got a on “Artin Australia,” by R. A, Steven- | foothold. He invested in real ate, son. W.J. Hel oa writes of “Some | and in 1872 he red from the plumbing New York Theaters,” with illustrations of the ( cum and the Madison three which exh and beauty of teeture. “Current reent methods of many Quentin Metsy, who those strange: the present urticle on Art” by Annie B Watt’s descriptive Rapid Spey” giv tic account ~ of the mountains and lochs of while Claude Philipp Picture Gallery at D¢ which he thinks deserves to much better than it is ing contribution on the sub mile Headgear,” by teaches resignation to but comparatively low. that intercept our v with vivid presentmen torial, of the extraord of the cighteenth conty illustration in the num Nunnery at Bruyes,” and a noteworthy pageis filled with Aust verses, daintily set in erick Barnard’s drawin, limited, New York, #: The Quiver for Septe lwul!‘ icularly solid articles it gives t mday Question,” that ms of the clas; benefitted objeet seriol of museums i article on Budha Prophets in the Past,” in the Lake Distriet Times,” by Re valuable liints in the matter of 1 with religious papers on it mosi the Art” large number of recent picture arming picture ud galleri iy 1 deseription sino, the Ly- Square theatre blishment a vich man. He had been vays actively mterested in distriet at- airs, and he now beeame a member of common council over the then legi > government of the city Ie be- 1d rgely and street car mers running from Norfolk to N and he is the the hero of | president of the Metropolitan the “Romance of L-mk of Washington, which has been the leading bank here since the s of Mad- the art ~l~.’ 10se story 15 one of than fiction is rominent 1son. He has made money right along €8s and still makes it, though 1 think he now feels as thougli about to retive. He t Ly regi lives well at Washington. and has a fine s describes "“The | brown stone mansion just next to that of rehester House,” | Chief Justlee Waite on I street. He is be known | in the swim of fashionable society, and A very enter has perhaps more influence than any ct of >+ | other rich man in Washington. Richard Heath, HE WILLARD BROTIE] the present high, , bonnets and hats w at the theatre t, literary and pic are ali ri and common report puts cach of them down as a millionaire There are three of them, Joscph, Henry, 4 lite d and_Caleb, and a_ queer trio they are! inary head-dresses | oo Willard is the oldest and the _richest. iry. - One exquisite | §ge owns the largest part of Willard's ber is. that of YA | horel, and he has lots of real estate and fi()\\wnlm-lll bonds. He is wortl least ctween one or two millions, but he lives in an old brick house with green window shutters close to the business part of F street, and the blinds of his house are ul- ways closed. He is asort of u hermit, though 1 would hardly call him a misanthrope. He is a tall, well built man, with slightly stooping shoulders and & big head covered with fivir as whito in Dobson’s dainty frame ot Fred- 5. —Cassell & Co., () a year. mber_op “Workingmen on bearing testimony s supposed to be 1sly to'the opening | s nowly washed wool. He has heav. on Sunday, an | ovehrows of silver, and under th 1 as one of the “False | fnok oyes shine out at vou as he talks. Sunday Mu-m":i He is a ‘churey member, and_attends the Iruth tor the | proghyierian church every Sunday. He J. Hiles Hitchens,giving | j1wave drosses in the hewest clothes. Wling, | His Tnen is of the whitest, his shoes of The Dream of 1 Hapsaan; M Of | the blackest and his kid gloves, often ;;..mm. qu~ Soldier,’ "'id on The | oroqm colored, are always now and fresh. urning Bus The serials still leave | Hii'oiMoe is in'strungo contrast with his us in pleasant suspense, and there are | gregs” You reach it by a pair of shackly two short stories, one with a seapeg stairs, and it looks more like the room of son, and one with a troublesome daugh- | gt S i Jo0 RS I (TR L EO0m o ter, to be reformed through suflering, | the workshop of a millionaire, Upon while another serial, “Mrs. Scott's | jis mantol are ity or sixty Daughters,” begins with promise, little 5-cent ink bottles, "the ~contents - AGAINST CREMATION. An Official Declarati rd has wsed, hut which s will not allow 5 not noted for of which Joe Willar his natural aequisitivenc him to throw away. He on From the Vat- ican on the Subject of his genevosity, but he 1s asharp business Crematic man and m lias been the moying The Holy Ofiic been asked by | spring of his iife work. e came he v the oremation of | with liis brothers from Vermont. Ther m:m‘y Catholics about the dead, a custom whi tending in Italy. The dered the following decr 1. Is it permissible societics whose 2, Is it permissible e own body or that of matedy The most eminent dinal fathers, inquisit ters of the faith, after and for a long time examined the vro- id nd posed questions sulted the rever cided to reply: To the firs{ question the socicties mentione tion with the Masonic will be subject to the pe upon Masons. To the second Guesti Upon tins report by holy father, Pope leo ) has approved and confirmed the tions of the most eminent fathe! has decreed that they shall be transmitted to rectors of parishes i shall take pains to i neerning this eulps ing the human bod they sh to their care. aim is to inc custom of cremation of the des 1 turn from it the tlocks cutrusted were four brothers at the time, but on of them, Edward, died m* the army. 1 am told that Joe sold milk at one time in Washington, and he afterwards went to lifornia and made some money there, ck he and Henry rented ard’s hotel of Ogle Tay- ich is rapidly ex office has just ren- to afili e with P ase the 157 1 | When ho came | o one's | what is now Wil ither to any one else ore- | lor, and Caleb acted as their clerk and errand boy. They made moncy at hotel and reverend car- | keeping aud in time bought the building rs-general on mat. | and improved it until it nOW occupics liavinz seriously | half the block THE FEUD OF TWO RIOH BROTHERS, In the meantime Caleb Willard made some moncy, and after a while he bought, ftor advisors, ing con- have de- in ¢ tion with his brother Henry, n and if | the Ebbitt house. [t waus a small afliir at d I i the tiine and there was grocery store sec members | on the corner occupied by part” of the nee inflick:d | present structure. The hotel itself was arther down F street than it is now. Caleb wanted to extend the Ebbitt house, and with this view wunted to buy the grocery. It was worth perhaps $20,000. esolu oe. who owned the Willard hote), just s, and the way, feared Caleb’s competi- 1d he has tor years been trying to prevent Caleb from extending the Ebbitt louse in every possible way. i agminst him for this groc and told that Caleb had to pay $75.000 for it, or nearly four times w it was worth, before he could get it. The next lot be- on negatively. made t0 our ITL., his holiness n order that they struet the faithful able abuse in burn- wd in order that x 22 1836, ~TWELV . PAGES low the grocery wae worth per haps about $12,000, and the two Iots below this belonged to Henry Willard Caleb wanted to extend the Ebbitt house in this way also, He | was about to buy this lot and then build the Lbbitt on down over Henry's two lots, but Joe came in again and bid the sroperty up so that Caleb had to pay s,: 000 for what was worth $12,000. Caleb secured it at last, however, and the Ebbitt house now stands on these lots It is as big as Willard's hotel and quite as popular, Caleb runs it himsclf and you may sce him in it every day He is a smooth-faced man of about lifty, in com- mon business clothes, and walks about with an energetic air~ The feud between the two brothers «till continues and Joc owns alittle story and a half structire werhaps ten feet wide, which adjoins the bbitt house on F street. It separates the Ebbitt from an_ immense building which Caleb owns just below it, and though Caleb has tried in a number of ways to buy Joe's shanty, Joe will nc sellit at any price. He Keeps it in spite of his brother, and it is & monument of the quarrel of the two millionaire Willards. He has provided against Cr b's getting it in his will, T am told enry Willard ismore of a man of poli ties and soviety than his two brothers He has been commissioner of the District of Columbia and you will see his name conneeted with the fashionable entertain. ments of the capital A RICH CLERK It is not often that government clerks become wealthy, but Sam Norment, the president of thic’ Central National bank, is a millionaire and was once employea in the government departments Lo left the departments to o into business and he had a large lamber bus ing the wi He is shrewd business man and a great deal of his woealth has been made in Washington real estate. He owns thirty or forty houses over Washington, and he paints the interiors of these in nearly every case the same and puts as lttle paint to the square possible. Norment's favorite pints are white for all the woodwork ex- cept the base boards, which are a dirty brown Sam Norment lives well here in Wash- ington, and is a_pleasant fellow to talk to. He is, I should judge, about sixty vears old, and may be set down as worth Teast a nillion.” His wife i 50 4 rich man's daughter, and he has a prospect of being in time the richest man in Wash- ington. TELEPHONE 1 Televhone Bell lives in Washington now, and his house cost him more than $100,000. He stands high up in the mil lions, and ms father-in-law, who lives here also, is a millionaire. Mr. Warder, of Ohio, is another mil- lionaire who h: tely settled in Wash- ington, and his investments in Washing- ton property are now made by the tens 'S MILLIONS, ot thousands. Heis building blocks of houses here and there, all over the city, and is putting up a magniticent residence xteenth strect. . L. Barber is a'man who has made A FORTUN 1 TRINIDAD ASPHALT, Barber eame here comparatively poor, t inthe top rinidad. It but he found a luke of asp of & mountain m the Isle of is the best asphalt in the world, and Barber has secured the right to] it from the British government by the payment of a royalty. He has now one of the f.nest houses in the city. It is @ magnifi- cent stone mansion with many towers and turrets. Itissituated on “the hills above Washington, and the grounds about it comprise’ several ucres. Old forest trees surround it 1s very near the house of Sen - ber and Senator Sherman formed a syn- dicate and bought 200 acres surrounding this house. They have sold it oft in lots, and have made, T suppose, a fortune out of it, as it bidsfair to be a part of the fashionable Washington of the fuwre. cnator Sherman owns considerable Washington real cstate and his_ house here is worth $40,000. William Walter Phelps has lands here and Don Cameron owns a block or so of land worth about a dollar a foot, The McLeans, the news- paper men of Cincinnati, own nearly L000,000 worth of Washington houses and lands, and they buy more eyery month. CAL In speaking of to mention his n keeps a little inters the B WILLARD'S MANIA, eb Willard 1 forgot ania for repal Tle army of carpente id rround, and he person- ally superintends these. He lives in & rambling brick house on Fourteenth which he Las made into a_very nt hom few slight additions and plenty of paint. He is now remode ing into a business building the residenc witich John Quiney Adams used to oc cupy when he w. and 1t is funny to see he doesit. First he deeiddd to add one story additional, then he tore all this apart and built up A couple of more storic He put in a stone front and is now taking it out again, and it is hard to tell what the s when he gets done a number of other well _to do, building will be 1i withit. There arve men in Washington who ar and not a few who are very rich, I don't think, on the whole, money counts for as much here as it does elsewhere, Wash- ington society does mot worship the golden ealf as much as does New York, and wman can have less money and be more of & man here than he ean in any 2lse in the United States. Of course money has its weight in Washington, but the first question is not what a man_is worth, but what and who he is. Brains and blood count for more than stocks and bonds, and 1 know few v rich men who are too poor to get the standing i shington socicty held by some a year politicians, —~—— Jewel Frauds, Pall Mall Gazette: There is consterna tion just now in the Palais Royal, and the jewelers of Paris have found the selves the dupes of wh s not yet be pronounced to be a fri List y they were the vietims of a diamond fraud. The gems found at the Cape were more plentiful and of inferior quality to the genuine diamond of fifty years ago. The fire was less brilliant and'the stoncs had yellow tinge. An ingenious mampu- or steeped them in w0 violet dye, and chemical process they came forth from the ordeal a pire and brilliant white. This industrious investigator received as the reward of his research a recompense of onths’ imprisonment, and the Palais Royal jew- elers were for the moment comforted. But now things ure going wrong ngain. Tiiere are some splondid rubics in the market whose genesis it is very diflicult to account for. Tested chemically, they answer the true definition of the Oriental analysis shows thom to consist of its constituents—and notlhing else. he chemist is satistied, but the exvert has his doubt he five is not so bril liant, and the @ certain yellow tones which the true gem has escaped, It is suspected that o diflicult problem has been solved, especially since it is found that these gems when broken up do not follow & reguTar line of cleavage, 1s & erystal should, but split in all dircetions. Itis suspected that Swiss artilicers have learned how to melt a number of small rubies and consolidate them into one. Ten carats’ weight of ruby sparks would be worth about ten shillings. One ruby i by some of ten carats would be worth some hun- dreds of pounds. The subject is a seri- ous one. and there both chem nd lezzal difficulties in its treatment. Experts are now employed to ascertain how the thing is done, and then the judges will decide whether the procdss or sale amounts to fraud - A Liverpool paper published a notice that & ready-made elothing house in that city would give away o *hand-me-down'” for each purec cherry stones, containing 1,000 sent ss here dur- | "ising pupil, guagoes In New Orleans a young swoman is sus cessfully carrying on a large dye-house, while another is an extensive manufugs turer of hoxes . The first actress in the Shah's domine ions is the wife of & German elockmaker, who is now appearing 1n a Persian play, She ean declaim in five lane THE RIGHTS OF WOMANHOOD, A World of Advice and W in Verse, dom Conveyed nggestions for Wives on the nent of Husbands- The adapted from the Freneh, Stde of Marriage Mary Macdonald, a young FEnglish tions for the air Sex, woman, was recently publiely decorated [ with the medal of the Royal Society for | the Protection of Life from Fire, for havs [ ing, at the risk of her own life, saved that of & workman England has thirty-cight women for y_ww AW guardians, and Scotland nine, Zach one of these been re-elected Woman's Rights. A, Lo in Tomple Har A woman's rights: What do those words old-w wisdom do they has . Ry some of them for the fifth and sivth time, o 1 Gty TiTe Lol ot B tey showing how satisfactorily they disclarge their duties, Ihe right to minister to those that need; Mr. Albert Bierstadt has sent his exe \\‘E il t Song the weary to beguile A quisite painting, “An Indian Summer in ofF peace the hungry heartsto | New Hampshite,” to Mrs. Emily T, bh: - T Jo, | Uharles, in “token of his appreciation of And clicer the snd and lonely with & smile. | Hor it A Storm o the Rtatiorhorn, The right in others' Joys a joy to find: which is described as a rave picce of de- Il It divine to weep when others w“mnwm J . wee) | hen Mr. Godey was asked why he Ihe 1ight 16 be to all uncensing kind did not raise the standard of his Lady's Phe richt to wake and pray while others | Book he replied: 1 am not making a slecp, magazine for the few, but a magazine for the Kliza Janes. Thoy are in & vast ma- T'his s hard on the women, but [ at"Mr. Godey, dying, left a fortune of F2,000,000 or 3,000,000, proves that he was right Instances of women engaged in agri- £ht to be noble, right to be true, st to think rightly—and richtly to do; o be tender, rieht (o be just, ghit to be worthy of infinite trast. be the Tittle ehildren’s truest friend, To know them in their ever-changing mood culture are not rare, and many of them Forgetting Self, to labor to the end | o sstul. One’ of these; Miss Du T'o be a gracions influence for good. , of Madison Parish, La., manages . i plantation. On the principle that o be the ladies ot creation’s lords, super i sse g As mothers, daughtars, sisters or as wives; i AL I L To be the best that earth to them affords, IS in farming, she hl.‘w:" looks after 1'0 be to them the music of their lives. the plows, hoes, drains, leyees, stocks W and mills lll\;" llln;‘li(\ \l\\':”“vui.l‘h and honor to be free The New York World suggests the ; plished, finding rests | ostablishin e vight [ “rivial round’” o sphere tsee; | Citablishment The right, in blessing, to be tully blest, of “ladies’ elubs at the watering places, us a relief to the women upon whose hands time hangs heavily and a preventive of the gossip and chit to be patient and strong to endure; mischief sct afloat from confabs held in Rizhit to be Toving, right to be gool hotel bedrooms. A moyement to organ- These are the nights of the true womanhood. | ize a club of this Kind is on foot at Mount Right to be perfect, rizht to be pure, For Wives and Husbands. Desert GlovElinaeD A sunshiny | . The annual report of the Young HUTBARNB TR G ey, benutiful home | Women's Christian: association, of Lon worth having, worth working in and for, | 40N, States that twenty new branches If aman is breezy, choery, considerate | have been formed within the year, in cluding seven new institntes, thusn King the total numher of branch and sympathetie, his wife Sings in her s throughout, heart over her puddings and her mend .and. renews her youth in the | Jondon and its suburbs 123, with & mem- ferls of his approbation and | bership of The receipts showed You may think it weak and | 40 increase of ncarly $8,000 over 1854, childish, if vou please, but it is the ad- | Miss Stoneman, whose plucky fight has mired wife, the wife who hears words of | securcd the passage of the bill, and its praise and s smiles of commenda- | indorsement by Governor Hill, admittin tion, who 15 capable, discreet and exceu- | Women to jractice law in the state o tive! T have scen a timid, meek, self- | New York, isa leading member of distrusting little body fairly bloom into | faculty of the State Normal school strong, int woinanhood under the tonic and cordinl of companionship of a hushand who really went ot of his way | to find oceasion for showing her how for threc years was regularly articled in an Alba w ooftice She is about thirty- five years old, and belongs to a fawily well known in'western New York. fully he trusted her judgment and how | Lueretin Mott recognized her hushand fully he deferred to her opinion. as the treasury of the family firm, but Now, if you will permit me, I will give | she did not hesitate to draw “ordors some suggestions to the wives also. Be- | Miss Authonv tells how tia once cause your husband is a lover of peace | said to her v, L going to give and quictness, and does not always pay you back 1 your own coin, you must not think that your continued” scolding thee £50 to earry on the work.” Then, turning to James Mott, she sud: “Out 1 Wl | of that corner of thy pocketbook where fault-finding make no more impression | thee put my pay for ke e pin house, upon him ‘than the fall of water on a | mending thy clothes, cte., plesse hand duck’s back It sinks in, and “stillwaters = Susan the money.” Jumes was too just ran deep,” you know. These quict men woman to withhold his hand are perfeet voleanoes sometimes when Demorest’s Magazine Miss endurance censes 1o be avirtue. There | [laiahton. w EirIo eRllen are times when “the last fes breaks | Vionw. in N TR DTSl the camel’s back.” If you were sweet ine, V. Pijids ©(Questic and gentle to your lover; continue to be ' of the Dy o " 4o soto your husband, if you wish to retain hus been republis! his ffeetion and loyalty. I am aware | {o the middle clae that some men are not very su 1 think more would be willir the golden beams if ti adopt the halo plan. shing, but | pinents that women lead, in general, to refleet | such adle lives. Itis not thought tit that i wives would | woman shouid have any regular work unless she is absolutely competled to sup = port herself. Parentsteach their daugh- Marriage a Scrious Chingz. ters that it is not fratzoenhjk (genteel) to urd Evening Post: Truly mar regniar occupation: at all events is fous thing. The young ms who kisses your choek s ) tenderly, whose low words of love are now <o graceful to your_car, will not always be thus. That glowing color will fade from his counte- nance; those manly himbs, now so full of youthful energy, will totter beneath the burden of discase; that deep voice will lose its melody. Will your love be proof s one that pays, they Many daugh this, and : point, but 1 idea rema rning money ditable to women, and hundreds choose to live mi bly on a small and insceure income i r than double or treble it by work. T is quite a ve even c; against all these chanz Will it grow diflerent st rd for men and women. stronger in the days of trial? On the Itisno honor for a man to live idly on otherhand, have you no fears that when = his income, but it is the highest honor for your bexuty is but a thing of the past | g woman. ' If & man is content with 1 your husband will ccase to [ov he will turn to those wi persons are yet made beautiful by the summer of lite? Pause, oh, pause and question your- self thus, and should no misgiving then you; th nali fortune, and makes no endeivor to inerease it, h energy, but fol woman it is a ek « gentility.” Of marricd women she “Practically, the lot of a married v i come to your heart, go fearlessly to the | js endurable, because me better th: n nuptial altar. United to a person wortl the laws, but legally, it 1s teerible; of your love and respect, whose heart 18 | has as good as 1o vights; she is i connected to your own by the eleetric | Nothing belongs to her unconditionally. chord of sympathetic natures, marringe | Whatever she carns by her head or bands will prove a blessing inde and heaven | js the property of her husband will have you in its holy keeping be claimed by him, even thou abandoned her for years; and the inter Woma of such mone; Cincinnati - Enquirer woman is dangerous. fs s settled upon her Le A handsome | fo marriage can only be paid to her | With ber husband’s consent.” She con- A woman has ncither love nor respeet | cludes by counsching women to enlarg for the man she ean rule, their svlicre of occupations and not to 1 One bad woman can keep a whole | deterred by the fear of an cmploymenk borhood in hot water, not being considered genteel. A woman who is not jealous of her - - husband is not in ove with him WHERE THEY SIT. “This world is full of beautiful women, but a truly good woman is a rarity. Different Kinds of Traveiers O T'wo things always trained for action— served While Traveling. a woman’s tongue and a mule’s heels. Niu ases out of ten when a woman says she hates a man she 18 inlove with him, Woman is the sweetest and bitterest @it of God to man A woman will confess to almost o thing but to the fact that she is grow old and ugly. The devil 1s Merchant Travele i how some people enter a car | they sity A lady will walk vacant seats, often the entire | the ear, then come back again and y- | one of the scats she has just passed, | often aftershe is scated change to other,just exactly like the one she le at home or ¢ you noticed and where wst o dozen length of tuko nd ck as he is never as bl never exactly 5 desid painted, and & woman is never as inno- | abroad. cent as she appears. The old traveler walks dircet to the If you want to keep a woman's love, | hest seat in the cant, i, ¢., keep up a slight but steady flivtation with | the one neare: 1 on the her most hatcd vival, shady side, not beeause it rides easier,but When o woman gives you her love | it is safer in case of an accident. The don't taway on'ice for safe-keeping. | o, t, neyer pusse nt seat af the ear Better Keep it in the warmest corner of | js your heart, o if she calls for it at any | time you can return itin the condition | 1y way nearly The iall boy or his sister must the window, and usually flattens his ot 10 10%0 she gave it to you, against the glass if itis not_open, he be- fihiz on iris knees o the seat, we' mean A Mool Wife, the small boy on a small journey. If the Pid-Bits trip lengthens out he willger all over the A man’s wite shonld car hefore he gets to the end of * the trip, yery good, “The buekwoodsman will take the first § il Duttote sow; seat inside the door whether the car is mesblo work erowded or empty, and will put his en- She mustn” shork, H L v d ne'er a sl D3 Eew. tire family on the one seat if he can ARLUERRA B0, X squeeze them in between the arm of the She shouldn’t buy seat and window. If its down - Ken- A cake or puy, tucky or Tennessce they will take off But mix herself the dough: Home-made things are I'he best by fare, hats and bonnets and mike themselves at homie 5 he colored brother or sister from As husliauds always kiough, down South hunts u window before he Of bonnets, two docs o seat, raises the sash quickly, A year should do, passes his body through to the waist, and Of selskin saeques, not on 1o people he has told good-bye he shouts Because in debt aggain, “Goo’-bye, goo-bye. Give mylove por gt 180N WLl gobk 10 Aint Mary, Goo-bye. You must For thlngy wives oughi o shu, | write,” while'the person yelled at _is s The hetter halt innocent of writing #s @ babe. When nisonits way he sinks into a the one where b is, a8 good as any; Should smile and lalf th And never have the blue ! seat For home is wher | he stays there, looks around with a smile Man rests frou car of sutisfaction, is glad he is alive, and 1 smokes and reads the nues, R v 1R e A Expressions of ! and gladdest of all that the car 15 sup- A wife's true lof | plied with ice water, o luxury that docs To husbands should be said, not appear in his every day li Wien And then ne'll kneel | & colored peapl isannounced ., A prayer and kfeel | the ice wateris advertised as one of the Glad that he isn't daid, | aftractions —— - Women of the World. Little Juanita, the tiny daughter of N 3| a graduate of the college in Ph The women of Syducy, Australi w York is to have a female dentist, | Jo \quin Miller, hus been creating Iphia ion at the Grand hotel, in th , play | skills, by her extraordinary re tions. ericket. Two clubs recently played n | She recites hke an experienced uctress mateh game ana looks a veritable baby, with cuvls Mrs. Lee, & young American woman, 8 | aud short skirts, and has to “be liftea on cousidered by Coquolin his wost prom- | the table to be scen.