Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1886, Page 7

I'HE OMAHA DALLY BE - i SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 1880, TWELVE PAGES. ettt S —— e et St ——————————in. WOMANSUFFRAGE INWYOMING | ;fllliQl'.\I(Tlilfllv\fl'lik'sI)liI'UT ' The 01d and the Nes s Hist A Ohapter of Tnter estir cerning Omaba. THE NEW DEPOT DESCRIBED A vast of all Kinds for the Depart- ment of the Platre, Store-Honse Supolics of I nth 1 ot i this te e termin street to Pacitie, Union minus | bld monster brac ings, over which, a smokestacks those ot a Mis agreat height. These car shops tioned. They construction, ho re the sue an institution which had long been identified with the civil and military Listory of the te, Six years ago ti 1y sting rise to are the rond men nparatively recent ppi steamboat buildings great ra cossors of terminus of the streqt mentioned was o whitewashed, low board fence. It could easily be seen from Farnam styeet, thotgh it obstructed the view of ©* everything behind it To strangers, it suggested the locai bury ing place, but to citizens 1t outhned had been crroncously. styled “the corral.’” This fence, however, which in the bright moonlight, shone with peculiarly solemn brightness, has disappeared, and with it the govern- mental buildings which it hid from view. The former has probably exvired in smoke, and the latter, th ically at teast, ‘have buen meorpor: in the buildings which later haye arisen within the confines ot the present quartermas ter's dopot on the Union Pacific track, south of the city As weil as can now he “‘corral” was established General Willinm Myers, quartermaster of the department of the latte. “The first department commander was General Philip St. George Cooke. THIE OLD CORRAL The “‘corral” had an irregular outline, teing bounded on the south by Webster, and the west by Fifteenth stréet, and on the cast by the Union Pacific railroad. The buildings were of frame with bat tened sides, and, with the oxception of the stable and shops, were painted a dull red color. The Intter were treated to semi-annual coats of plebeian white wash These structures were not remarkable for their beauty. They were intende subserve a practical purpose, and we to be paid for by government appropria tions, which, in" tliose days, were not an casy matter to influence. The contractor was the lnte Colonel Wm. Baumer, brother of John Baumer, of this city, and licuten- ant colonel of the First Nebraska re mentn the late civil war. The structures were about twenty in number, and were utilized as oflices, storage rooms, stables, mess rooms, and wagon sheds “The ofticers, however, held their places of business in the city, at one time over the First National bank building, on the corner of what <certained, the in 1866 under who was then rnam and Thirteenth streets now torn down, later on one of the floors of Hellman’s building, the intersection of the same strects, and later still, at the corral itself, when all the army oflicers were ordercd to move their headquarters to territory coutrolled by the govern- ment When the oflices were in the city, the telephone had not been discovered.” "The eleetric key had not been utilized to estab- lished connection between both points, and, ns o consequence, orders and an. swers from oflices to corral and return were borne on the floet limbs of a Buceph- alus, under the direction of the courier, Larry Mangan, Those were busy da for this gentleman, and they were busy days for his horses, which he rode almost with the energy of & ponv-cxpress driver, and the dignity of o Ney The “corral” was s when it was dyed of a murdere man. Barstow, superintendent of the quartermaster's depot, was shot and killed by the store- keeper, & man named Most, The af- fray commeneed in a simple manner, mui ended in Barstow being shot from behind. He survived two days, and hig Tast hours were solaced by the Kindly at- tentions of two men now in town, one ot whom is Mr, Frank Bryant of the ommercial National bank.” Most was ed and ac filnllwlv Subsequently, he be- came @ member of the police forée, later, tive for the Union and y disappeared. In the fall' of 1870, succeeded by Ge v, who had come from Washington. Mujor Belcher became depot quartermaster. Gen Pe 15 now on the Pacilic coast Major Beleher is in the quarter- master’s depot at Denver. In 1874 General Perry was relieved by Colonel Ludington, aiso from Washing- ton, and who is now stationed in Plal delphia, and Major Robinson now in Boston. The latter,, however, did not wait for the retivement of Col, Ludington. He was earlier followed by Maj. Kirk, now a resident of Atlanta. ‘This ‘gentle: man was the predecessor of Maj. J. V., Furey. The Iatterg n was relieved about three years ago, g firstto Santa Fe and thenice to Chicago, where he is now stationed. Shortly before his leaving here, Maj. Furcy was appointed as ac mg chief quartermaster of the depart- ment, while he also performed the duties of quartermaster at the depot. "This gen- tleman s still warmly and affectionately remembered by many citizens, whose regret over his transfer w based not less upon his ability as a military officer than as an affable, courtecus and admived gentleman 'in - civie life. It was during his administration that a question aflecting the permanency of the corral at this point, arose. It was elaimed that the institution had becn, or would he transferred to enne and simulta- neously to other points. The rumor, such as it was, was strengthened by the fact that the Union Pacific company, which owned the ground upon which tho “‘corral” stood, and which was leasing it to the government at the munifi cont sum of $1 a year, wished to resume control oyer it for the purpose of in- creasing the namber of its shops. Nearly cvery fown in the trans-Missour: country wanted the corral,’ and was willing to guarantee any inducements in order to seeure it, Omaha was aroused. Some of the people saw danger in the case, others affected to fo .-f that the move would prove only a childish seare, Theso also claimed that the alloged individual or sot of individuals, who, in some mysterions manner, were always conspiring o “cripple’ 'Omaha, were really a myth. More practieal eitizol however, met, vesolved, went to W ington, sceured an appropristion about $30,000 to be expended. f new governiint depot “at Omuha.” They r turned jubiluntly and then found ‘that certain interested parties desived to have those §30,000 uscd to enlurge the grounds of the present fort, and, up ment, to have the “corral’’ establishe: The project filed. A subscription was - dertaken and with the amount obtaing #5,000 the site of the prosent qu master’s depot, a part of the shul‘ = was purchased. Some delay w porienced in granting the government the title it desived, but that was finally aweomplished, and’in 1850 the work of elearing the ground and creeting the buildings was commenced TR NEW GOVERNMENT DEFOT, ‘The place was taken possession of in 1881 and the chango been somewhint romar cly a year oid, with™ the blood Pacili 1 Myers was Ad ui | whicn ol in it hias | in banishing their tros transferred into roads have ¢ of other It is no long the “corral ways @ misnomer, at the re of Can \ the present in tain Mt charg spoken of by those who the viting hillside lias been 1 su day Al (way It is sit Twenty- on e It com Ted by desire the uated nd name t< and is bounded n v rond upon which is fence studded on d Ta m From {his h insures L stone W 1l rown “ two the on Twenty 1y of which er of v th tr s located n st northe i ing an in porfect ¢ almost proper gate. On the wateh-honse three men stand watch those who enter and go the same time look out for fire. ‘To the left is a cindercd road lead ing to the north, passing on the wei il north sides four large frame warchouses Y0x30_ foet. In the first of stored grain; in the next, timbers in the third, “iron supplics; wlin the fourth, stationery and leather findings Further mg on the north side of the enclosure is the brick oil house, with a large barn for hay,also H0x30; and an ice house 10020 feet. At this point the en- closure is bounded by Twentieth street, along which the line runs for a short dis tance, theneo extending obliguely along the Union Pacitic track to Twenty-sce ond street, Keeping well in with the line, is a stable of 100x30 feet, capable of accommodating forty-five horses, then is found the coal shed with « capacity of 100 tons, following which, in succession come two wagon sheds, 1 wood shed, an- other stable and a one-story brick build ing in which are the blacksmith, wagon, carpenter, and harness stops. In the first of these last mentioned, the presid- e vulean is Johin Moodie, a well-known son of the land ot the *‘brown heath and shaggy wood,” white the attending cy- clops is James Green, ot the island of which his name is expressive. Surrounded by all these structures, are quartermaster's depot and the subsist- enee store in one large building, and the office of the superintendent of the yards with adjoining carriage wash room The depot proper is a handsome build ing, consisting of a center part of two stories high and forty-five feet square, flanked on cither side by a wing about cighty-five by thirty feet. In the southern of these wings are the commissary sup phes, comprising everything to be tfound in a first-class fancy “or stiple grocery. In the northern wing is stored quite du amount of personal goods belonging to ofticers, while in the extreme northern part is the clothing storehouse. In the central building are located the oflices of Depot Quartermaster, Capt. McCauley, his chief clerk, together with the other clerical employes of the depot. These are Messrs. C. H. Townsend, Thomas McGrane, E. Parmelee, Will Browne, George C. Ward, A. Wilson and E. W. Duval. Larry Mangan, the gentle: man mentioned above, still acts as messenger. John Wallace, the superin- tendent of the yard, has been in the army employ for twenty-cight years. ‘The sup- plies contained m all these buildings are used to supply Forts Bridger, Douglas, Laramie, McKinney, Niobrara, Omaha, Robinson, Russel,” Sidney, Wuashakie, Montezuma Creek and Du Che: sides Camps Medieme and Pilot Buttes, and Cheyenne and Ogden dopots On cither side of this depot i beauti- ful lawn, that on the east stretehing to the nor¢h and terminating ata storehouse in which are stored probably seventy lockers with records tl have accumu- lated during the last fifteen year: The luwn on the west is of triangular form with a rounded terrace front facing s building. The grass is in excellent condition, and the surfaco is as bright as exceeding care and sunlight ean make, while thronghout its whole extent not an inequality may be distin- suished. At intervals, it is studded with cutalpa trees, with top-heavy branches and ugly leaves. Those trées, Captain MeCauley says, with theirslim trunks and heavy boughs, break easily in the wind, and do not em to have found fayor with those in carc of them. Little patches of geraniums contrast nicely with the bright green of the grass, and add considerable beauty to the scene. On the border of each of these plats, Wl the roads, run brick drain: nks at intervals, into which the @5 of the road flot, thus prevent- ing the accumulation of mud at the bot- tom of the grade, and keeping the drain tiles from being clogged, The sides of the depot are in many parts overrun with creeping vines, and in some places these latter clamber al- most to the windows of the sccond story, where there is a peculiarly brilliant com- bination between their lively hue and the red and white stripes upon the awn- ings of the window These aesthetic and grateful embel- fishments, as well as & number of prac- tical improvements, are to be credited to Captain McCauley, & genial, scholarly gentleman, who, a8 successor of Major Furey, hasbeen incharge of the depot tor three years p: As ‘one turns to leave the depot, he eatehes an excellent view of the pretty part of the city to thesouth, Theascents and hills ar studded with trees, half disclosing, half concealing beautiful little homa2s nestling beneath. Through the openings the walls of the new Brownell Hall may be scen, while, farther to the south, by following a range of blnfls, the eye race the fuint outline of the "Missouri, rolling seemingly on their crests. The depot itself, in its surrounding rtakes of & more rugged and retiri in the sol ity of a wood tl whi its erection was the first to destre E. A O'Bme inc entr n anee covered in little v it turns and ward ove 1 at these is ehraska. NonrroLk, Neh., Aug. 20.—To the Edi tor: For soveral woeks froquent rains have helped all interests but hay making, The outlook for corn, flax, late potatoes and vegetables is very promising. Ouly on new breaking and very poor tiilled land does the corn look inferior. From the Missouri river to Neligh tho nppear- ance of the crops is mueh the same—as good as could be asked for, The prawics wo a deep green, and tho fall foed snperabundant. Wild frmt 15 aso in abundance. Thus, afteran unprecedented July, the heat and dryness has not really done mueh damage, and it has eansed the harvesting and haying to be done in extra good order. Reports from the northwestern homestead ien are also favoravle, so the condition of the thou- ands in that region who have recently settled is likely to be comfortabie, and the railvoad building will give them em. ployment at good wages. The soldic reunion at Norfolk has commenced under favorable auspiece The new insane asylum at Norfolk is up fine appeur in the di rush for Unit tes lands in the north. western part of the state has rendere local sales slow in northwestern Ne- Urask8, where good fine land ranges $6 to 813 por acre. Immense amounts of hay have been put o sim the broad valleys of thie | aad A fiue rain this morning in the norti- J. A. Bext, uel from disorders ns, and are always wonderfu! effects of Dr, ver und Kidney Balm bies. $1.00 per OLD poop of the nrit iticd at the . Mol bottle, | [ALONG [ The W THE lerfy RIVER BANK. That Have T Place on the Levee, aken A VALUABLE SECTION OF OMAHA Extensively Used for Business Purposes—Something About the Squntters, Now y part of Omaha b progress and change more clearly than the strip of ground between the bench, on which Ninth street is located, and the river. The fiest sight that greets the eye of the stranger in Omaha, if from the north, south or eust umns of smoke that from the ufacturing enterprises in vart of the city, but the old resident sees through the eloud of smoke, and back of these industries, the seene of some of the most exciting events in the carly history of Omaha. When the enterpri ing citizens of Council Bluffs crossed the river in 1854 to lay out a town, in order to keep up with their then rival, Crescent City, which had a town on the Nebraska bank in Florence, they had to forge their way through a marshy swamp inorder to reach dry land from the west bank of the river, This st of vs existed for i number of years, until, along in the '60s, the river took o more easterly course north of the city, and left the bottoms above low water mark, dry and sandy. The ecity proper was at this time rapidly covering the available land near the river bank, and this newly formed real estate was soon in the possession of as tough a class of eiti zens as ever formed the rongher element of a frontier town. Dance houses and saloons of the lowest order lined the levee and made the place an unhealthy locality for the uniniated Rob: her were of nightly ocenrrence, and many a Sfloater” was picked up at towns down the river, who lost his life on YTHE SANDS" as the levee was then called. The an- thorities, out of respect for their personal safety, considered “‘the sands' beyond their jurisdiction, and few of the unt- less crimes of various grades committed in that loeality were ever made subjects of police investigation. A volume could be written of the tragic happenings on “the sands” in those eventful days.” But Omaha was growing and as the “made” ground was raised above the water-mark and beeame firmer in character it beeame desirable for manufactiring sites and ra road yards, and the squatters and toughs who fiad held possession were forced to i ol wnd give way to the demands of the husiness interests of the city. They have yielded reluctantly, however, and have onl moyed foot by foot euch new enterprise has' made ts de- mands upon them. Many of them yet remain and in some places occupy huts that touch the very water's edge. The old timers who live on the bottoms havereceived additions to their number until their huts now oceuny almost every foot of ground not used by business en- terprises from the packing houses below the city to the lake on thenorth, They are buried in under the railroad tracks below the bridge in places almost inac- cessible to the unimtiated. The peopl their places of abode and methods of liv: ing form an interesting if not entertain- ing study. ‘Tney represent all elas from the laboring man with the big fam- ily, whose wages are toosmall to grovide better quarters, to the sneak thief who uses his home fis a biding pace and thy drinsing bum who has no” other choice than to live where he is allowed to. The places of abode are as varied a: the character of the occupants. Some live in dugouts under the railrood tracksor the blufl, others seck shelter i tents, old box ears find ready tenants, 1d some of the more fortunate sandhillers boast of real houses and are looked upon with envy by their less fortunate neighbors. ¥ew of these yeople own the ground upon which they ive but occupy it becanse it is not claimed or used for other purposes. They have, as a general rule, large fami- lics of ehildren who, without care or edu- cation, witl form a class of citizens more worthless and vicious than thoir parents. George Hoagland, the piox ibe man, was the first to encroach upon the domain of the sand pirates, and his lum- ber yard, located nearly twenty years ago, Was the first enterprise of any im- portance that was located on the sands. The Willow Springs distillery eame next, being established 1 186)." Then fol- lowed Har & Foster, who who were afterwards suc W « The Chicago lumber yards, the smelting works and numerous smaller industries followed in rapid succession. When these first improvements were made the bottom lands were considere of nominal value only. It was a com- mon oceurrence in the early days when muking a real estate deal ‘to throw in a dozen bottom lots at 5 or $10 each, Aftor the location of the Union Pacific railroad in 1864, the lots at the foot of Farnam and Douglas streets be- gan to appreciate, and were sold in that and thetwo or three following years as Ligh as $100 cach, Land in the bottoms has developed great value within the past two or three years. Fred Drexel paid $20 a foot front when he located s stone yard on Joncs reet, near Sixth, a year and a half ago. The last sales of lots in_thut immediate \-ininilr were made at $75 per foot front. These lots run throngh to the next street, being twice as deep as thoy are in the business part of the city. All the bottom land between the Union Pacifie bridge on the south and the foot of Californinstreet on tho north, is monopolized by the Union Pacific and the Burlington rail- road companics, except the few lots owned by individuals. No other rail- roand company has a track there and it1s not likely that any will be permtted to get a foot hold there. The smelting works, the largest in the world, ocenpy Tands which belong to_the Union Pacitic railway. The deposit of slag and waste material from the smelt- ing works has vaised this ground high above the water mark and greatly on- hanced its value, The Belt railway has obtained grounds on and north of Cali- fornia stroet, adjacent to the Union Pa- cific property. The waterworks company s improvements have very matenslly in- ased the value of bottom lands in the vicinity of their works, Within the past year @ number of new enterprises ha konght locations on the lands, among them being Benzen's ice house, Howell's lumber yurd, Coot'’s shops, the Barber Asvhalt Co.'s shops, and others of lesser hote, These improvemonts have taken all of the available lands of the levee and made it one of the busiest portions of the city. The value of the Improvements that have been made ean be estimated only by hundreds of thousands of dollars. The bottoms were formerly subject to averflow frow the river, but of late this has been prevented by lilling raisidg the general level, At the foot ot wand Douglas strects th has been raised from six to twelve feet, and is now entirely above high-water ark. In Apnl, 1851, a steamboat tied up tos warehouss of the Union Pacitic railway company, located at the corner of Chicago and Eighth streots, and there unlonded” a8 ecargo of freight. Thas wis the hughest water ever known at this point and the bottoms were coinpletely inundated, In steam- boat days, fron 1558 to near the elose of the war, the steambont landing was near the present site of the water works, I ws the stamp of e comes the col it man located this was about t \ the r mile ed city that at that point wis al%0 a ferkiy danding near the same named from a simgle large elm tree that near the, bank until it washed wway, In the fafl of 1856 it was thonght that'the landitig? conld be established at or near the fout 8f Farnam street I'he citizens contributed the ry moncy aind men werl €miployed to grade a pas way down the bank a little east of the site of the Union Pacitic head quarters building. The money run out before the work: was completed, and it was not until two or three v that teams could pass up and down the grade. Wi, F. Swoesy was the, foreman on this work. It was the s street grad ng evor done in ind started a k that has troubled the aldermanic minds ever sinee st joby - SOCIAL PUSHING. hat May Be Mastered by Any One with a Sufticiently Thick Skin, London Period: Theve are some peonle who are born into a society of dull spectability; others whose talents earn for them an entree into a larger world of talent and notoriety, and others whose long ancestry them admission among n herd of nonenties of equally long descent, Others, again, whose birth and’surroundings haye placed them in a sphere of homely commonplace, but in whom weaith and ambition spire long ings for a higher cirele of gentilivy. Prominent among these latter is the social pusher. ‘The successful social pusher is a person to be admired; he has an_object in view, and though & sea of difficultics rise between him and the goal of his ambition, by exertion, by ingenu ity, by hook or crook, he attains that cud. Let us take the rich commercial man, or rather the rich commercial man's wife. for your femal: social pusher is a f: more determined animal than your male, Her ambition usually consists in a prof sional acquaintance, a visiting list com posed of the wives of men belonging to one or other of the different professions. Mr, and Mrs. Buggins, a wealthy leather sellor und his wiie, are asked to « formal dinner party given by Mr. and Mrs Bodgers, wholesale candle-maker and wife. Arrived at the mansion of the Bodgers, Mrs. Buggins discovers that her dear friend has captured the renowned dentist, Mr. Larnsitt-Gumm, The Larn- gitt-Gumms are evidently the raisond’etre of the banquet. Mr. Bodgers leads Mrs, rnsitt-Gumm into the” dining-room; Mrs. Bodgers s led by Mr. Larnsitt: wmm. Mrs. Buggins, who happily finds herself seated on the other side of Mr. Larnsitt-Gumm, remains in a fever of anxicty until she can gain the great den- tist's attention. The great dentist is flat tered, 15 bogged to dine with the Bug- ginses, and Defore the dessert o day is de cided upon for the dinner. In the draw- ing-room, before the return of the gentlemen, Mrs. Buggins has obtained an introduction to Mrs, Larnsitt-Gumm. She has informét her that Wednesday is her day, and>stin begs that Mrs. Larn- sitt-Gumm wili*dat) and bring her daugh- She asks ‘what is Mrs, Larrs.tt- Gumm’ and volunteers to call o its very next recurrence. ‘‘Probably reasons Mrs. Buggins, “the Gumms being professional,smost of their friends will he professional,’ and in this manner she hopes to extend her acquaintance among this most pespectable and well-nigh dullest class ot people. But the pro fessional social pusher is of a more am- bitious and of i tar more daring and audacious cHiracter. Mrs. Fishdr-Brown is a fine spi of the most highly developed pusher, Mr,, Fisher-Brown is i generai practitioner in that locality which has for years beeh Khown as Notting Hill, but which the snobsthere resident have lutely agreed to ‘eall North Kensington. B, some odd chance Mr. Fisher-Brown i called in to attend the great Fitzgubbins He pulls the great t through short attack of illness. reat mun'’ wife, as a small compliment, sends the Fisher-Browns a card for of her in- diseriminate afternoon gatherings. Mr: Fisher-Brown sees opened before her of dramatic and literary ae- es; she accepts the invitation, complete outfit for the ocen- with eare, wndarrives one of And now the social pusne begins her operations. Miss Helen Verry, the idol of an English and American theatre-going public, 1s announced; a few meaningless civilities pass botwe and her hostess; she move room to find a seat, but the social pusher is well to the fore. She waits for no in- troduction; she ru up to the actress, shakes her hand : ionately, says she s admired her ever since she (the social pusher) was in the nursery, and dear papa took her to the theatre for the first tinie. This is, at the very least, “‘rovgh” on the popular actress, who miy be tiir- ty-five, looks barcly twenty-five, and is told this by & woman who' looks$ a good forty-five. Miss Verr, wys that she is much flattered, the social plsher says not at all, she has always been anxious to make her acquaintance, “and when may 1 come to see you, de , for 1 menn to come and see you, I am so de- lighted to mect you at List.” Miss Helen Virry, longing’ to cseape, mentions an afternoon upon which sho will_be ‘at home” to most of her friends. Need we remark, the social pusher takes this for an invitation ana does not fail to put in an_appearance upon that afternoon? This is a successful push, and the pusher scores an easy success. There are othe celebrities from whom the social pusher cannot so easily wring an invitation, With these must be employed a diflernt modus operandi. The social pusher, for instance, introdu himself to Jones, the fashionable tenor. Jones refuses to rise to any bait thrown out to capture an invitation, [he social pusher asks in tones of the deepestinterest when Jone, gets any rest, for, s4ys the social pusher 0Nes SINgs every evening, goes out every afternoon, knows everybody, and is met everywhere, When does hie contrive to getany rest? Jones admits that he al- ways spends Sunday afternoon ut home reading The Referee and dozing; that is his only relaxation. *0,”’ thinks the so- cial pusher, Ythat is the time to find you at home.” Fhe (nllowin,f Sunday, winle Mr. and MrsiJones are luxuviating in a littie leisure: before dressing for & big dinner, tio soein) pusher calls, is ad: mitted, stays several hours, and bores the fashionable tenor to death, overhears Jones, with mageuline tact, muke a re- wark to his wifa anent a certain recep- tion to be given by them within a few lays, and the soeial pusher’s departure is arly bought st the price of an invita- tion.~ The sogial pusher then enrolls himself among: the tenor's intimate ac- ntances, contrives to find out the days when hejgiyes a party, always drops in the day beforesalways Securing an in- vitation, andydy his constant attendance at every enserfainment given by the Joneses, begins to be looked upon -as quite a standing dish by the celebrity’s friends. Snubs are of 2 avail; the soclal pusher is pachydermatous The art of social pushing is thus easilys explained. Any one with suflicient cour age and a sufliciently thick skin may in due time secure an entrec mto whats soever house he pleases, always provided that the portals ave not guirded by an armed force; for arms alone are suff ciently potent to exclude the energetic and determived pusler. - 17 is doubtful if wa aY, more than men, if th nevs were always in natural working order. Femule weakness can not exist if the blood be pure, and its purit, upon the proper action of these organs; to regulate them use Dr. J. H. MeLean's Liver and Kidney Balwm. $1.00 per bottle. An Art secnres n would suffer at liver and kid- Elcetion in Which Wom ndidates, An n A Husband Who Vigilance Against Eluded His Wif et Vsl " I bel club writesa correspondent of the Detroit Frec Press, and last spring we decided that it wd of members to Wyoming territory 1o sec practical workings of We hoped that a done for our caus new legisl whi woman's rights would be a good iden to send one n woman suflrag b the great deal woul in state by e I was to be ¢ imformation living and &0 wanted all the we L cousin in yming andat the request of the sisters ved to go. 1 must say T was sur at the methods used to obtain conld obtain. 1 have Wy lug prised votes ameek sort of a man, different from the other members of the Hopkins family Day after day he staid at home, taking p of the children, while Elmina, his wife, was clectioneering, for w candidate for an oftice. This just suited me, for it gave me a capitalchanco to get the desired facts as Taccompanied her in her tour among the voters, One day she drove the shaggy little pony up to set tlor’s shanty; before going in she said “Ido hate to go among such people, but one must, you know, for every vote counts.” So she smiled sweetly on the stovenly woman who met us at the door and sard: “Mrs. Higgins, my duties are many and my leisure moments fow, which must be myexeuse tor not eoming sooner.’’ Just then” & hungry looking pig trotted inas if thoroughly at home. L knew Elmina was shocked to the v deptis of her soul, but she was equal to the oce: sion, and said: O, what @ cunning pet pizic you haves so tame and aocile, to.” ~Then taking up the baby, who was eat ing bread and molasses, and whose face and dress were both far from clean, she exclaimed: “And what a dear, cute baby you have; how old is it, and low many toothies has it got, and whatis its name™ Murs. Higgings replied ; es, mum, we think he's aright peart young un, Ilis name is Abraham: He hez four teeth, and kin say pap and mam rale plain when he's mind to. Lhen Elmina said “Next Taesday, vou know, is e ! s L kiow you have no way of getting out, I will be glad to send ‘my pony wnd bugey after you, and do bring ea care of." “Wal, wall” snid Mrs. Higgings, “ef that don’t beat all creation. T'm “gittin’ pop'lar, I must say, fur Miss Bennett was Jist over yisterday and promised to sen’ her kerridge out to tote me in, and I promised to be read Too b mum! I'm rale s I am, indeed, an’ her runin’ agin' ye as she is makes it scem Wusse 14 Another woman said: ‘No, ma'm, I'm not a votin’ woman, not by no means, but take oft yer bunnits and set to and take a bite with us, fur dinner is jest ready, and my sister in Missouri sent me a lot o' dried apples which I've cooked up inter as good sass as you ever see.’ Wedechned, howe kindly at most places when she found out said: “L don't want nothin’ to do with no woman’s rights palaverin’ around me; L an’t voted yit and never expect ter vote, My man does all that kind o’ bizness fur this ranch; and I don’t 'low that he's agowin’ to vote fur no woman, not ef 1 knows myself, he an’t.” At last the eventful day arrived. El- mina was not so well known as her two opvonents, one being a man, the other a woman, for three candidates were in the ficld for nearly adl the oflices. She hired a large hall, borrowed rocking chairsand eradles from her constituents, and then the tircless pony went to and fro, bring inold women and mvalids, some of whom had not left their home for years before. They were duly in- stalted in the easy chiirs. Some were knitting, some piccing quilts, and for those who smoked there was plenty of pipes and tobaceo. Many of them rocked a eradle with one foot, so that the mother of its occupant could work outside try- ing to influence doubtful voters A Tunch with hot tea and coffee was served at noon to a merry crowd. A motley group it was assembled there, and what a babel of tongues! Yet in justice 1 must say all was_ peaceable, with no_ery of fraud in the land. 0 Eimina had been in doubts as to how Theodore felton the subject of woman suflrage, and she had a fear in her heart that, in spite of his quiet acceptance of the houschold duties which she had put upon him, he was not in favor of women cither voting or hold- Ing office. She said she was greatly op- posed to it in the beginning, and although he said nothing sgainst it now she half feared he sull held the same views. So we plotted to keep him uway from the polls on this day. Providence seemed to aid us, for the baby was far from well, and =0 Elmina said: It is too bad, Theodore, but you will really be obliged to stay with poor little dear; you know she will have nothing to do with a stranger, especially when she is sick, or I would hire 2 woman to stay, and we will try to get home in time for you to go in betore the polls close this ¢vening.” The town was only half We meant, however, to be unavoidably delayed, or protend we had been, My cousin said nothing, and 1 really wiis quite indignant to see a Hopkins show so livtle spirit. About 4 o'clock in the afternocn Ei mina, who had been suflering all duy from headache, came to me and said: **1 am obliged to o home; my head is grow- ing more painful.” So [ accompanicd her, When we arrived there she said to her husband: *I am so sorry you cannot 2o to town, but I am suffering with ner- vous headache and cannot attend to the baby; please keep the children as q on whom we cailed er. We were treated . but_one woman, who Elmina was, supper for you, " )0 s After he had”IEE Tho Toom sho said 1o me: “There, 1 am nlmost glad it has turned out this way. for I tell you the contest has been clse to-day.’” After sl was snugly in bed I went to the kitchen, and presently my cousin said “Lam just obliged to aftend toa few chores outside and can finish in half an hour; if you can manage to keep t buby quict it will be great help to me it does not matter if supper is late looked at the ciock; yes, it was safe; he would surcly not try to go to town now; it was half-past 5 o'clock. Just after he wentout I' heard the clatter of horses’ hoofs, but_supposed it was a ncighbor pussing. A little asfer 6 Theodore came in, looking innocont enongh, and asked me if there had been mueh of u crowd in town or much excitoment over cluetion The next morning Elmiva insisted on going in to get the r The | first thing we hourd arriving was a_friend of Ler hust saying: “Theodore came wighty losing his vote, I tell you; only i minufes to spere wlien ho got here. could not see any use of his going off home on a gallop after coming in so fast.” mina looked at me in surprise, 1 at h in dismay. Those “chores’ were to ride swiftly to town, casthis yote and come home again before we wouid miss him. as possible and Cousin Frances will' gu. | My cousin Theodore seemed to be | as o | ction | the sweet baby, too, for he will be taken 4 | : | mile distant, | of her going in or com | M Elmina was defvated | ing the lots vemnining, by and we both think to this od to swell the ad gh he never wounld Elmina‘sex 1 fow votes, day that Thec verse majority, al tell who tie voted for for the campaign and large, and her husband money and give a mortg s erty to s but h vor od ind I do not think het grudged the m y s w could not live th anot with its ex ind rivalry I wor horrow W A election had to cure reproach says sho thron canyass FOOLISH MEN, Mashoed on Chorus Girls, Washington Correspondenc polis Nows: 1 have wly men the fact, 1 beliove, that wo have t mer opera v that it is the fash st now, But 1 did not remark upon the wretty chora and the sad inroads made by t the_congt heart and You al how ¢ f y comely wo man is upon éspeeially you old rounders city. There is o ways o time in every man’s life when he is ‘mashed n Sho may b a leading lady orsome little ballet dancer in the second row, number four from the right or left, as the ease may be. 1f you are young and tender you si ont and have cyes only for ner gracceful movements. If she gives vou a wicked glance oyer the foothghts now and then you go to the theatre every night If she catches you at it and gives a halt smile of recognition, you blow in yow spare change for flowers, and perhaps hang around the stage door for a glimpse ut If vou are an old bird and are familiar with the bald-headed row you are more practical and find out where she stops, introduce yourself and meet half a dozen of her companions over a cheap hotel luneh and Lurn that they are very interesting, very ignorant, often very homely and not worth another visit The mash is rmless, ‘This_is the chorus girl and ballet dancer. When you strike higher you find the chase more excit ing costs more money and often more heartaches, Lhe lady is aceus tomed to your Kind and plays you for all you are worth, chielly for her amuse- ment, just as she has played seores of young bucks and bald-headed old duflers before you just as she will play scores after you our flowers, your Tunches and champagne all go the same voad. But, us every man must have it once, perhaps it is quite as well to have it yours, A friend of mine, living in the interior of Pennsylvania, was here last summer and got “stuck™ on a summer opera girl same down several times during the season, and I thought it was for an oflice. When he confessed that he came here to sit in the front row to look upon and hear a sweet singer 1 was somewhat astonished, for ne'wus a man of the world, It was a clear mash He had not dared to eall on her, but sent her flowers every night i the usnal way. [ happened toknow the Ly, and told him 1 would cure him. 1 would in troduce him the next time he came down When 1 had ealled and explained the situation to her I telegraphed him, and down he eame by the next train. It we a bad ¢ Well. they met, got ac quainted, and my friend went home that mght cured. e found his charming singer stout, coars atured and ten years older then he had supposed her. He was utterly abashed in her presence, so | great was his disappointment, thongh was very elever and ordimarily pleasant lady I aim reminded of his cexperience by other similar instances. Judge 3 of this city, has a son who is just budding into manhcol. He was studying law, but all at once became so suddenly de moralized that the father anxiously songnt the cause. He watehed the young man pretty closcly and found that he spent every mght in a certain seat at the sum- wer'opera. The old man at once di vined the trouble. He had been there in his ¢ Finding out who the girl was he »d his son with kis fool ishness. He asked why he didn't call on her and have a good time —he would take him around and sce her himself. And he did. They found her sipping beer in_a eheap lodging house, clad in a dirty Mother «, and the paint still sticking to her eyelashes and danbing her brows. A dirty child, her offspring. was tugging at her wrapp. and shereated the young men very con- temptuously. The ‘sc vy quickly settled the young man’s passion. He re turned to the Inw perfeetly cured. There is a r 1 I could name needs the same sort of treatment goes to the opera every migh, has big money in flowers, and s in n bad way. L said it was quite as well Lo get this complaint young; when ou arc old it strikes in and comes a little \ard. Well, this old gray-haived con- gressman is making himseif the langhing stock of the eity. The fun the gir out of it is simply immense. all up to his game, and cast Iis seat the first thing ever began by taking a bos, but o box atfracts too much attention, and is expensive, and he soon settled down to a particulal chair. His flower bill must be enormons, and his champagne suppers, and—but 1 don’t know whether he has’ pushed his case as far us ehampague suppers, much less diamonds Who Got At of the He t: SODA ENGINES. Curious Locomotives Being Built at the Baldwin Works, Philadelphian Record: At the Baldwin Locomotive works there are in course of contruction forr locomotives which are designed to be run by soda, which takes the place of fire under the boiler. Soda has much the same power coal with out any of the oftensive gases which ti fuel cmits. ‘The engines are now nearly finished, and_ are to bo shipped within two weeks to Minneapolis, Minn., and are to be run on the sireets of that city, where steam engines are forbidden The engine b much the smne appear- ANCEe 8 It is abont six- teen fect long, entirely boxed in, with no visible smoke stacks or pipes, ns there is no exhaugst orr The boiler is of copper, eighty ad one-half inches in dimeter and fitteen feot long, having tubes running throngh it, as in ten boilers. Insi er will be placed five tons of soda, which, upon heing damypened by 4 jet of stean, produces an mtense heat, Wheu the soda 15 thor onghly satuated, which will occur in about six hours, the action ceases, and then it is necessary to restore it to its original state by forcing throngh tho boiler a stream of super-hested sieam from a_ stationary boiler, which drives the moisture entively fromthe soda, when it is again ready for use. The t steam from the eyliders is used to s: rate the soda, and by this means all refuse is nsed. I'hese engines are the first of their kind that have been built in this country, and are being constructed under the supe vision of George Kuchler, German en gineer. The engines will ha out the same power as those on the New York clevated roaas, and will adily draw four light cars. Soda eugines are now used in bserlin and oth European cities very suceessfully. and they also tr the St thard tunnel, under the Alps where steam engines eannot b 1, e use thy length of the tunuel venders it impossible to devise a system of ventila- which will carry off the foui gases gene rated by a lacomotive. So overpowering would 1hose gases become ihat suflocs as 11 tion woul $70,000 2 heen sold by Bell & MeCandlish Dodge straer, in Waost side and vicinity, in Ui past few months. 10y W 2 by partics purehas Worth of lots - { AMONG STUDENTS. I DUELING Custom at the German Uni- Student Lifs at Leipsio. A Barbarons | versities SIXTEEN DUELS IN ONE DAY. the Combatants— Theire Weap and Defensive Armor Reminiscences of the Avistos cratic Field of Honor, Appearance ¢ s eston Nows Leipsie | (‘-ml‘\ ten ad ferred v i impress tioned in my to attend the tighting corps n \ and ly have writ had not de Yo you my sof n German duel. T men st that I had an invitation iext mensur of_one of the A triend met me at ek wo took the \boring city in the police are not so here, and where conse psie students do most of o v or two earl | &4, & 11¢ train for Prussin, wiere trict as they quently the 1 their duehin We reached the student hall on the out- skirts of the eity, where lighting was to take place, just they were about to | begin. At S o'clock the room was filled with students from the two universities Hall e and Loipsic, wearing the caps « colors of their respeetive corps, smoka drinking beer and cating theirbreakfs In o fow moments the first pair of v tims were brought on, their right art, being bandaged with sifk wrapping: pads srotecting the neck and chest about the hoart, and strong steel goggrles over the eyes. The company left their beer and breakfast and gathered cheerfully around the combatants. In the centre of the ting the floor was covered with a_large piece of canvas, on which the positions of the fighters were marked in white ehalk, and ually distinetly with numerous red stains, which showed that the canyas was. not used for the tirst time, The seconds took their stands on either side with drawn rapiers and ecrtain_ in- signia of their respective corps. The umpire took out his watch and note-book, in which to record how many *‘bloody ones'’ shonld ve reecived on each side,and then the fun began Jin - weapons!” SReady ! SFire Tive four schla- et in the air, the seconds drew back and the prineipals slashed at each other as if for life and death. The weap- ons clashed in the air, and sparks flew, and then “‘Halt!” ctied the seconds, knocking up the swords—one of combatants had reccived a blow. umpire stepped up to examine the eunt thin, red streak was seen on the 1 cheok of oone of the men, and the umpire called out: “One bloody one on the side of the Leivziger Landsmannsehatty the MONSUE . procee “Join weapons! “Ready!” “Los were atit again, the blood by this time oozang out plentis fully from" the gash and staining the white snirt of the wounded man. “1Talt," was called again, and another thin stream of blood was scen starting from the roots of his har. An- other “bloody one” was recorded The fight went on fora few moments,and then a pause was declared, s the young fellow, who had now received three cuts, w v so profuscly that he had 1o be looked after and freshenedup a bit. The two took their seats on chairs that were placed for them, the doctors and seconds busied themselves about them, while the others went back to their beer and their breakfast, Ina fow minutes the fight was ealled again, several more cuts were recorded, until one of them severed a small arte which had to be immedi- ately attended 1o, so the mensur was de- clared *“ex.” The number of cuts on ch side was announced, and the bioody vietims were led off into another room and turned over to the doctors. In about half an hour they came back with their heads bound up and looking alittle pale from the loss of blood, but otherwise very unconcerned, and well satistied, I think, to have gotten off with losing a prece of nose or car, or having a lip cut through. One man was in the room who hud stunlly had 2 picee of his nose cut off, and, of course, made for life & disagree- able object to look upon. I do not know when [ have had all my sensibilities so offended by this bar] ous custom which I witnessed that dav-— the utter uselessness of it all, tl personal disfigurement, the idle expend i ture of blood, time, and energy, the rough levity disguised under a show of politene: id “ehivalry,” the beer-drinks ing and eating going’ on in tne snme room with the bleedimg and bandaged faces, to me more terribie and disgusting, and it was only with a strong eflfort that 1 forced myself to o through with it as onc of the thi I must see. One must admire the coolness with which the students go through this part of therr education, the fighting—being wounded and being sent up afterwards. But one must at the same time pity them for having so poor a way of showing their manliness. The whole thing isa kind of sport to them. Sometimes o duel is the result of ill-will, sometimes of a chal- lenge for some fancied aflront, but usu- ally’it is a prearranged trial of skill, just as'we havein base ball, foot ball or boxing. Sixteen of these duels, such as the one I have ribed, only more or less bloody or serious in their consequences, were fought that « Two of them lasted toe full twenty-five minutes and one of the men could scarcely stand. One poor feliow had n picee of solid flesh, about the size of a small orange plug, so it looked to me, completely severed from his forehead by n eurious twist from the vapior, which” is three fect long and sharpened like a razor for about a foot from the point. Of course that put an id to that duel and the wounded young man was hurried off to the hospital, where, L suppose he will spend several weeks, and can scarcely expect to escape without a scerious disfigure- ment. The picee which was eut out of his forehead was immediately seized b; one of the doctors and immediatoly re placed, but the students seemed to think that it was very doubtful if it could ba made to grow buck, This little mcident seemed o sober the party for a_moment, but only for a moment, — Another moen- sur ne on, and i a few minutes the stecl was clashing ngain, beer glasses attling, und nothing more was thought of the unlucky young fellow who had Tns forehead cut open. I'did not stay to watch the end of the play, but went out for a stroll through the picturesque streets of Halle, Aftow the fight was over I rejoined the Leipsic ~and we got home wbout 9 o'cloek t, three of the party with broken and all wearing slonch hats and pads for fear of detoction by the i at 7o' | heads, | black police Dwinig o the d1age porfiiely frst Riciny returne A it feau FENVE