Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 7, 1886, Page 10

ADVENTURES OF MAJOR NORTH White Ohief of The Pawnee Scouts—His Frontier Bxperiences. COL, COLE'S PERILOUS POSITION ©onnor's Campaign Continued — A Mystery Esxplained—Sufforing, Starvation and Timely Relief. COPYRIGIITED, {Witten for the Sunday Bee by Alfrea Sorenson.) Cantain Nerth Cole Nine. 1 red T acovered 0w BYNOPSIS OF CHATTER VT Tor Cole's Communa-Disec i Tho | 1 pA Mystery Dand 1 Cole's Commnd v Sireinge Con. 1ion--1te 18f-Colopel Cole Bxplting i 1'the Deserted CampoA Ternblo k and Sturvation--End of the Cant Vi The Lost Command. A day or two after the departure of the Wioe squaws from Camp Connor, iencral Connor proceeded with his com- mand down Tongue river to its junction with the Yeilowstone, the march oceupy- ing ten days. He reached this point about the 1st of September, (186 being the time at which he expected to meet the commands of Colonel Cole and Colonel Walker at this place. Here the command went into camp and the country was scouted to the westward throngh the Panther mountains, while s were also sent southward to look for Cole's and Walker’s commands, as 1t was time for them to put in an appearance. Seven days pas<ed by without any news being recerved from Colonel Cole's command of 1,800 men, and General Connor, becoming uneasy coveerning them, as he knew they must be out of provisions, ordered Cap- tain North to take fifty of his Pawnces and six days’ rations and proceed to Powder river to see if any trace could be found of their whereabouts. Accordingly on the morning of the Sth of September, Captain North arose at an carly hour, and started out with his Paw- nees through a heavy rainstorm, which rendered it impracticable to carry any rations on pack animals. The men there- fore took only a small quantity of pro- wvisions which they could earry on their own horses, and determined to depend, in case of necessity, upon the game which they could kill. Allday they rode through a drenching rain, and after having made hirty-five miles they went into eamp in a canon in the mountains. During the night the rain turned into sleet, which continued all the next day. When C: tnin North and his men got out _into the open plain next morning they found the &torm so severe and blinding that it was impossible for them to keep their course. ‘They had never been in_ the country betore, and had no guides They traveled for about ten miles with a small compass for their guide, and the storm, increasing in severity, finally foreed them to go into eamp and remain there the rest of the day and all night, Next morning the sun eame ot bright and warm, and tha com- mand resumed the march, the sleet on- tirely d ppearing by nooh. During the day they killed some buffaloes and pro- cured a quantity of meat which they thought would be suflicient to last them for tho trip. ‘Phey frequently discovered signs of Indians, and at about 3 o'clock the afternoon two scouts, who had been kept some distance in advance, re- turned to the command and reported to Captain North that they bad sighted A BIG INDIAN VILLAGE on Powder river. The captain thereupon immediately changed his course and moved the command off' to the finally going into b canon of the mountains where they would be see by the heavy pines.” Accompanicd by three of Ins most trusty men he chimbed up the rocky mountain side, to the high- est point, where he could obtain a good view of the Powder river valley. ing his field glass to his , he looked down 1 the valley and riding to and fro, and observed smoke in the timber arising from their tepees, but from position he could not tell the size of their camp. Captain North and his command remained secreted until dark, and then under cover of the night thoy cautiously went down the Powder river to n point two or three miles below the Indian eamp, on the west side of th stream. They could find no trace of th troops for whom they were looking. Cap- tain North sent two of hismen neross the river to make a little scout, and when they returned, in the course of few hours, they reported having found COLONEL COLE'S TRAIL, which seemed to be only two days old. The captain immec crossed the whole command ove river, and taking this trail followed it up the stream for about half a mile where it crossed to the west side, where was found the place where Colonel Colo had eamped during the storm. Here A HORRIBLE T met the gaze of the command. The ground was literally strewn with dead lorses and on counting them their uum- ber footed up 900. The feclings of the men on beholding this ghastly spectacle cannot be justly described, suflice it to suy that for a time they were completely overcome with astonishmentand wonder, especially as they did not know how. the animals had come to their death, Cap. tain North's first impression wes that, as many of the horses had heer Snot through the head, se A TERRIBLE FIGHT bad tuken pMice between the troops and the Indisns, and that the troops had killed the horses and used them as breastworks Placos were also found where fires had been built, into which the bridles. saddles and other equipments had been thrown and burned up, the iron bits and rings and other iron attachments being buried in the ashes Stilllaboring under the im- ]- pssion that aterrible tight had occurred Captain North concluded that it was not #afo for him to remain there very long with a force of only fifty men, and h - cordingly resumed the march on the t which led up the Powder river to a p from which the Indian camp, had been discovered. STRANGE TO SAY the trail led right into this camp. Night was now approaching and Captuin North at once started back for General Con wor’s camp on Tongue river. Riding all night and the noxt day he arrived at the camp just at dark, having made the ride in twenty-four hours, whict had sumed parts of three days on their out ward scout, General Connor, to whom he reported the result of his trip, was equ nllly at a loss with the captain to ar vive al any satisfactory conciusion con cerning the deserted camp and the dead lorses. Barly nest morning the out of cawp with his w following the old trail up Tongne river to reach Cole’s commind, which was known to be out of provisions by this time. Forced marches were wade for five days up the viver, and it was evident to Captain North thuat the gencral was greatly worried concerning i ty of Colonel Cole On the fifth day out, afuer he horses had been unsaddled, Goner Counor went to the quarters of Captain North, and suid to him, “I can't endure this terrible ungertainty any longer, cap tain. I must tind Cole's” command as on s possible. L want you to take orty-five or of your scouts, and withiitty ten days ritions on pack-miles, go across the country from- this point : geueral moved hole command, con- | try to head Cole off, temporary relief. | “Very well, general, Ullstart at onee, replied the captain “Here is a letter of nstructions to € ome: Cole,” suid the general,as he handed | it to him; “and on your arrival at Pow | der.river, if vou tind the trail two days oll, you arc to send back five men to m | with'the information. You are then to | follow on with the balance of your men night and day until you overtake Coloncl Cole, 1 the trail is” over two days old, then you are to send five men the trail with the letter of instructions. and you are to return to camp. T will re- main here till 1 near from you." Captain North soon had his command mounted, and they started out at once They rode until midnight, and then rested until daylight, when they resumed tae march. " Early in® the afternoon they reached the Powder river and struck Cole s trail in the valley, which on ciose examination looked to "be less than two days old, Captain North thereupon wrote anote to that effect to General Connor, stating also that he would overtake Cole and bring the command to the crossing of Clear ereek, where he asked General Connor to meet him. The eaptain, afte despatching the five couriers with this note to General Connor, pushed forward on the trail and rode fifty miles from this point by 10 o'clock that’ night, passing two of Cole's camps, where the troops had spent the night, which proved con clusively that the trail was older than he had at first supposed, for if it was only two days old he ought to have overtaken Cole by this time. ivery now and then dead horses, which had ™ fallen in their tracks from starvation and exhaustion, plainly marked the trail, and told ATALE OF TERRIBLE SUFFERING which struck decp in to the heart of Cap- tain North, who next morning at day light pushed on with renewed eneray. At 2 0'clock in the afternoon he sighted Cole’s column moving up_ Powder river, This was on the 19th of September, just nineteen days after the time for which the command had been supplied with rations Captain North and his Pawnees rode up to the command on a full gollop, their sudden appearance creating an inde- seribable commotion and exeitement among the famished and disheartened solaiers, who cheered with THE WILDEST ENTHUSIASM and threw up their hats for j It was like the joy of the shibwrecked mariner in mid-ocean upon discovering a ship ap- proaching to the rescue. There were eighteen hundred men, ('olonel Walker having joined Colonel Cole with his command on Powder river during the latter part of August. Col- onel Cole, being the senior oflicer, had assumed the command of the united fore The men were actually i a star- ving condition, Thirty-five had DIED FROM STARVATION and oxposure, and all the rest looked thin and emaciated, and _their horses iooked no better, Many of the animals had also died from starvation remainder were mere skeleton; soldiers had cut out a little meat fron the hams of some of the horses which they had killed while a little flesh yet remain- ingupon them. Twelve hundred cavalry- men had been reduced to footmen by tie death of their horses or by reason of their being so poor and weak that they could not carry the least weight. There were only six hundred horses left. The men who had been compelled to travel on foot had became me and_ footsore and had wrapped their feet in picees of saddle- blankets and gunny sacks, and it was with great pain and_difliculty that they could walk at all. The country was full of prickley pears, and it had been almost impossible to avoid stepping on them, and thus wounding their feet almost every step. Their sufferings had been terrible in the extreme, and we venture to say that no body of soldicrs ever od through a more. pamful experi- THE STARVING M all flocked around Captain Novth and his command to get something to eat, and secing that the Pawnees bad some sup- phes the soldiers ofiered as high as five dollars each for a piece of hard tack. They had recently been paid off and had pleuty of money, which they begged the Pawnees to také in exchange for provis- ions. Captain North, however, ordered the Pawnces not to take any of the money under penalty of being soverely punished, but to immediately” distribute the crackers among the soldiers, giving two crackers to each man. There were thirteen crackers to a ration, and the 300 rutions therefore contained 8,900 crackers. The beans, bacon, coflee and sugar were distributed in like manner, each man receiving about one-sixth of a full ration. As soon as this distribution was com- pleted, Captain North reported it person to Colonel Cole, who had no idea of whe he was going and possessed 10_knowl- edge of the country whatover. He only knew from his maps that by following np the Powder river it would bring him within ¢ ch of the North Platte river, and being that there were troops stationed on that stream, he had entertained hopes of reaching them before being completely prostrated by starvation. ~ When Cabtain North in formed him that be was now not far from supplics ho was OVERCOME WITH JOY and wept. The captain know exactly the locution of the command and thai the distance to Camp Connor was wbout twenty-five miles,” Colonel C at once ordered a commissigned oflicer with a detachment of the best mounted troops and four mulz teams to ride all that af- ternoon and evening and make all pos- sible haste to Camp Connor with a requi- sition for supplies, He directed the oflicer to return the next day as far as possible, and meantime the whole command would move up the river. U to this time tie mystery of the dead horses had remained unsolyed in Captain North’s mind, and that evening he asked Cole to explain it. 15 QUITE A STORY,'" aid the colonel, “and wlen I tell i you, you will see thatwe've had aterrible experience for the last two or th weeks, On the 8th day of September I started out from Tongue river in a feal ful rain storm, and we were attacked b Red Cloud himself with 2,500 warriors He was anxious to stop our march up the Powder river, us his whole camp, num- bering 9,000 or 10,000 persons in all, was located on the stream, and we were bound to strike it if we kept on. During this rain storm the eavalrymen were in their saddles all day long lighting these 2,500 warriors. There was 1o cessation of hostilitics until night came, when we returned to our camp, which was located onun open plain, on the west bank of the | viver, as you yourself krow. The bank of the river was about eight feet high, | The camp ran out from the bank of the | river about the | h of two eompanies of cavalr Our front was formed with fourteen companies of eavalry and some artillery, and at one end of the camp was the wagon train. The horses formed the ine of defense inside of which the sol- diers were stationed, thus being protected | na hollow square, The aniinals were | tied by the halters to the picket line, I'hey had been worked so hard during the day that they had beeawme tired out and overhcated, and when the rain turned into sleet and snow, and then troze, it clulled them to death. They were tied and could not, ot course, move about 10 excrcise thewselves and keep up a ci culation. Many of the horses next morn- ing were found standing up so stitf’ that could not move one foot in front of I the other, and we had to shoot them,” | **That explains the whole mystery, col- | onel, which so worried myself and the | Pawnees. You burned the equinments | to keep them from falling into the hands | of the Sious,” said the “Yes, us we could not ¢ of thut'kind with us.” SQulonel, why didu't you go iuto the anything ahead on | arge grove of tiniber just below your ! It ccems to me that that would you protection from the Tudians and the storm [ was out in the storm and my men had den their lorses very hard, but when the rain turned into sleet I sought protection ina | ravine | “Teonld not get into the t { Indians held it from me Captain North did not press his inguir jes any further, but he thought it very strange that Colonel Cole had not made fight to reach the timber even if it was | held by the Indians. | Colonel Cole was terwards court-martialod for lack of judgment in not woing into this very grove of timber, but owing to his former wood conduct and gallantry in the civil war, he wasacquitted with r.-lu-mmmw The next morning Colonel Cole move lis command, and the men, knowing that supplies were near, revived and marched to within sis mile mp Con- | nor before they met the supply train onits return. They had now on twenty-one days without anything to eat except the | meat of starved lorses, and they had | nearly given up all hope when Captain North came to their velief., The point at which Captain North had overtaken Cole was about forty mi above Clear Creek—where General Con- nor had ordered the captain to conduct the command—but Cole had marched forty miles above the mouth before North Veanght him. Captain North detailed Licutenant Murey and ten of the Paw- nees to return to the creek, and there await the arrival of General Connor and notify him of Cole's arrival at Camp Connor. The licutenant reached the crossing the same day that General Con nor did, the general favin 1o o foreed march up Tongue rive 1 Connor had a train of 350 with him, loaded with supphies suflicient to last the whole united command for a sixty duy ampaign. He at onee took up his march for Camp Connor, the journey occupying two days. pitin North, who was a confidant of the general, well knew that the demoral ized condition of Cole's command would frustrate all his former plans, and wishing to ascertain from the general what ho in- ded to do, he rode out some cight o ton niiles and met him as_he aporoached vith his command. Captain North gave the general a graphie deseription of the condition of Cole’s command and in- formed him of the great number of In- dians which Cole had encountered on ral oceasions during his mareh up the Powder river. “What do you propose to do now, gen- 19" asked the captain, “I propose to give the troops t weeks' rest, and then organize the di mounted men as a regiment of infantry and take the whole command down Pow der river and clean out those Indians,™ replied the general. saching Camp Connor, however, 1 of the general wera entirely ed, A mail had arrived from Fort ramie, and the very first thing that s handed to General Connor was * AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT, and upon opening it he found it to be an order relieving him form the command ot the District of the Plains, and direet- ing him to turn over his district to Gen- eral Frank Wheaton, a regular army officer. General Connor, upon starting out on this campaign—the war of the rebellion being over and volunt troops bemg mustered out every day—feared that when he got well info the Tudian country and had his plans arranged for a cam- paign, orders might come to relieve him just at the time when he_should be about to crown his efforts with success. He therefore determined to cut off communi- cation, and left strict orders with his ad- jutant general, George F. Price, at Fort Laramie, to detain wll oflicial mail for him at that post until his return. Not- withstanding these directions, the very order which” General Connor had taken such pains to prevent reaching him, had now come. It had no doubt got into the mail through some mistake or carel ness on the part of the adjutant at Laramie. General Connor was very much grieved and chagrined upon reading the order. He considered HIS CAMPAIGN A FAILURE thus far —notwithstanding there had been several good fights and quite a numbe of Indians kilted—and he felt very relue- tant about abandoning it without making any further effort to bring it to a success. ful termination. There was nothing for him to do, however, but to obey the in- structions, and he ut ouce gave orders to his troops to prepare for the march to Yort Laramie, where General Wheaton was in waiting, He then directed five ambulances to be got ready for bim, and tuking quite & number of his officers with him, including Captain North, he started for Fort Luramie, arriving there in the first week of October, after a five days journey, the distance being about 230 miles. " The general turned oyer his com mand of the distriet to General Wheaton and proceeded to Camp Douglas, at Salt Lake, whence he was ordered to Wash- ington, where he was promoted to the rank of major-general of volunteers, and was then mustered out of the service. His troops ived at Fort Latamie about ten days after his departure, and the volunteers were ordered to their res- peetive states and mnstered out ‘I'he time of enlistment of the Pawnees expired on the 15th of October, and_Gen al Wheaton informed Captain North he would ecither muster the scouts out of the service, or order them Lo the reservation to relieve a company of th Seventh cavalry, and that North should have command of the post during the winter, Captam North accepted the lat- ter proposition, and immediately started with the Pawnees for their reservation, distant six hundred miles. They reached home without anything of interest oc: curring on the way, and in Avril, 1866, they were musteréd out. Captan North spent the summer at the agency with the Indians, In the mouth of October he received the ap pointment of trader for the Pawnee tribe from President Andrew Jackson, and he conducted the trading post during the nter of 186667 [1O BE CONTINUED NE) -~ The Man Who Drove Dow St. Nicholas: This Couut Sandor lived in « line mansion on the hlossbherg i Buda. He was very fond of horses, as all Hungarians are. and his feats horsemanship were rot only ecccentric but dangerons. He would force his horses to plunge down from rocky heights, to seale almost perpedicular chitls, te dash across the Danube upon ting cakes of ice, toleap over streams and chasms, and to clear fences, walls, and even moving carringes at a single bound. One of his most foolhardy escapades oceurred one day in the year 1827, There W in the city of Buda along and steep stone staivesse which connected the lhigher section of the town, around the Schlossberg, with one of the lower sections, known as Chris- tian street, his staircase was not far from the mansion of the Count San- dor, and on that particular day the count had for his riding companion” a German artist named Johann Prestel, as bold and daring a man as the count. Suddenly, as they they drove past the staircase, the count, almost without a word, turned his four-in-band toward the steep passageway, aud flicking his long whip above the éars of the leaders, drove the team headlong down the stuie How the wheels must have bumpod and rattled down the steps! The count u very expert driver, and could guide his plunging steeds with much skill and ©ase, 8o that his ride down stairs was not us fearful or dangerous as it would have with a less skiltull driver; but it was wild enough us it was, aud even the bold ar- tist found the s long enough for such a down: mber as the er SUNDAY. | Stairs, | FREAKS OF WOMEN AT WORK AND PLAY. An Analysis of Woman's Nature by George Sand. LOVE Some Good in Old Maids—The Spank- ing Instince and the Craze for Tricy The Horsce whip Girl, IN PAIRING Mother's Girl, Julia 1 May. Sho sits securely by my side, My bonny litle lass! The world 1s cold, the world is wide, 1 lei the cold world pass: With Mary smiling up at me. 1 care not what the world may be. She looks 1nto my faded face, My Lonny little lnss | But does not see the wrink Where Time's rougl footstens pas Shie measires me by Love's own rile, And thinks “Mamima is beautiful.” d place She asks me many curjous things, My bonny [ittle lass ! “Be ange!s shaking ont their wings?" She says, when snow showers pass. T Kkiss her happy face and say. “Angels have surely passed Uiis w She lod ks at me with serious eyes, My bonny little lnss! Right up to the mind the sweet thoughts rise, “That through her Iaghes pass, She pats my cheek, with smile and nod, And'softly asks: “Docs you know God | And though 1 eanuot answer her, My bonny little lass! er little questions quaintly stir “The rippling words that pass- 15 God a Quaker? “eause, you know, He thees and thous the verses 8o, She holds her head My bonny little lnss! Her eyelids droop, her tired lips rest, Her thoughts o' dreamland pass: While bending down to Kiss that euil, I hiear her whisper “Mother's girl!” zainst my heart, Woman Sins and Suffers, an attribute ater than virtue, and that it should S cognized, cultivated and devel If, however, one 18 possessed of a conselenc re factor which so seldom enters into the problem of life— indifference is impossible. But since there are so few whom this proposition aflects it need scarcely be considered. It is, of course fullest - man, since wom- an’s nature being more exquisit, emo- tional and impressible, ine: ble of entire and unalloyed ‘indiffercnce. A woman, 1f she is cunning and shrewd may seem more indifferent than the most indifferent men, and yet all the while be suffering the extremest torture. By this I do not wish toinsinuatethat woman is more conscientious than man, for that would be declaring man the less moral of the two sexes—a thing which there is much reason tor doubtin, Man_is strong, and morulity—when it exists in a degree beyond the sweep and sway of sense—must, fecessarily, be an attri- bute of strength. So its opposite, or perhaps I should gay'its counterpart, im- morality, standing in, the same relation to weakness that morality stands to strength, is most likely to be a part of woman's nature; far4oo often her chiet trait. The peculiavities which make woman the pecr of man in religion, make her also the peer in immorality. She 1s a bundle of contradictions and incon sistencies,and has a million chords, which, if touched, vibrute in her heart; and therein lies her peril. . Heart and soul are more to her thun brain and conscience. In fuct, when the first two are stirred, the others are forgotien. | Nay, even mor they are stifled and crushed out for the time. She acts independently of them. without the power of resistance—with- out knowledge or volition. Alone, by herself, sho_does bravest battle against that which is 18 atonce woman's bliss and destruction; but to turn her upon the man she loves—if she does that she s too inferior a woman to be worth any man’s thought or love. A true woman— on in whom there is genuine nobility— finds more sweetness in trusting than in doubting; and to doubt her lover, when all the vehemence of her heart and soul arestirred,is to her the greatest and most dammingsin she can commit. She may doubt the propriety of a thing, and argie against it mentally, but sct her pulses throbbing, and thén—away with ration- ality! Repentance may be and nearly always is hers, but istance—never! Woman plunges into sensuous sin with all her faculties duiled and blunted, save those which impel her on. She does not act indifferently, but unconscionsly. Man in this s directly her opposite: he acts recklessly and regardless of conse quence. With women, ther for the time no consequences. Every fibre of her being has been set ting, and no longer « rational, reasoning creature she zocs on as if swept forward by a resist- less stream, into the very thing from which her delieacy shrinks in her ealmer moments. Man ~ sins voluntarily and against the constant admonitions ot his conseience. Indifference is the same to him that tenderness and quivering sensi- bilities are to women, only, in the end, she weeps bitter tears of woe and repent- ance, while is indiflerence stands him in good stead. It is generally the nature of man to be indificrent. That is the suson why man's love seldom lasts be: yond his honeymoon. And perhaps it is wisest 50, 1f man’snature was as der, elinging and sympathetic as wom- an’s, commerce would never have been organized; because with the propen: ties and finer sensibilities of the two sexes alike, man could never tear him- self away from the recipient of his caresses, and so the at world of business would stand still. Those whose glimpses at life are wholly superficial, can not, of course, understand this, but no man or woman with enough courage to look below the surface can fal to see that I have spoken the truth. 1 do not belieye that it is conscience which keeps woman from or makes b regret oxcesses, mental or otherwise, but that it1s the same exquisiteness of soul which aver sends her o the directien which the world calls wrong, She sins and she suffers, and both from the same cause She suflers beeanse the sin she does shocks and hurts the same sensibilities whose pulses tempt ‘her into sin. Man stifles and smothers his conscience will fully---premeditatedly. It is a hard battle for him, but if is one which he never has to fight the second time. With the first blow his conscience is wounded )ast healing, and eagh succeeding shock at dulls and blonts- him the more, nntil his indifferenee ik as complete as a ' piece of fine art. With woman no such thing 18 possible--at the first plunge she re: solves herself into two distinet and sepa- rute personalities. One is seeming indif- ference, the othey is a perfection of mis- ery and degradagion which deepens and increases with each new sin---almost with each successive breath From this she neyer redeems herself; suffering becomes a part of her existence, and the clashing continues upon the tender, sensitive and vibrant chords of her heart until death breaks the last one. falling in Love. 1 rule, writes Grant Allen in the course of an entertaining article in the Fortnightly Meview, prefer tall women, while tall men admire little women. Dark rs by preference with fair; the commonplace ofien runs after the origainal. People have long noticed that #his attraction towards one's oppo- site tends to keep true the standard of the race; they have not, perhaps, so gen- erally observed that 1t also indicates roughly the existence in either individual Short m 1886, ~TWELVE of a desire for_its own ment. It is difficult heré to amples, but everybody the subtie psychology there are involved innumerable minor clements, physieal and mental, which strike us exactly because of their abso lute adaptation to form with ourselves an adequate union. Of course, we do not definite scek out and discover such qualitics: instinet works far more intui tively than that; but we find at last, by subscquent observation, how true and how trustworthy were its immediate m dications. That is to say, those men do so who were wise enough or fortuna enough to follow the earliest promplings of their own hearts,and not to be ashamed of that divinest and decpest of human in stitutions, love at first sight [ do not doubt that, the world on, & decper sense of moral responsit taral compl ve definite Knows how, in of falling in love, in the matter of murringe will grow up among us, But it will not take the false direction of ignoring these, our pro foundest and loliest instincts. Marringe for money may go:; marriage for rank may go; marriage for position may go; but marriage for love, I beljeve and trust, will inst foreve Men in the fut will probably feel that a union with their cousins is positively wicked; thata union with those too like them in person or disposition is at least undesirable; that a union based upon consuderation of wealth. or any other consideration save consid tions of immediate natural impulse, is base and di ceful But to the end of time they will continue to teel, in spite of doctrinmires, that the voice of Nature is better than the voice of the lord chan- cellor or the royal socicty; and that the instinctive desive for a particular help- mate s asurer guide for the uitimate nappiness both of the rac cand the indivi dual. It is not the foolish fancies of youth that will have to be got rid of, hut the foolish, wicked and mischievous in- terference of parents or out siders, A maids L me: “What is Love?” A, gazin the stars above, int trembling in their dewy lizht, ! from the beauty of the night as sudden inspiration ziven— laiden you ask me what is heaven.” My arm aronnd her waist was twined, Her ead upon iy breast reelined, Upon her Tips I laid a k ‘T'he sweet epi Wihen soft lier dainty 1i)s were rive With, **Dearest, this is very heave T pressed her form with warm embrace, And wazed nto her happy face, SLthank thee for the auswer wiven, In that you tell me this is b by von blue stars I swear to thee that this EPILOGUE, ‘Thus heaven is love, and love is heaven: ‘Che only heaven to mortals eiven, “Lhe only glimpse of Paradise ‘That falls ipon our eartiily eves: And o intense its blaze you find “That love, though sweet, Is ever blind. A Natural Womanly Instinct, shington Post: One of tho strong fen ie instinets is to spank. The little girl of 6 spanks her doll, even while the sympathetic tears voll down her cheeks, She keeps up the practice when grown to young ladyhood, upon her little brothers and sisters, if she be fortunate enough to ha 1y; and from then on her clildren and grandehildren—or some- bodyelse's children and grandchildren— receive the benefits in a matured form, of an art learned in infancy, until she goes henee to a better land, and even then, perbaps, a wide field for the exercise of her powers is before her, among the little angels in Heaven. One day last week a young man saunt- | cring about the National museum saw two very pretty giris examining a terra cotta vase which stood in one corner of the room deyoted to exhibits of that war In the bowl of the vase several unclothed urching were represented as playing, while one litlle cherub |, with a chubby and dimpled form, was leaning over the edge, evidently atlempting to reach his companions and innocently offering an | ful temptation to spanking femininity. The young ladies stood before the orna- | ment for some time in apparent admira- tion ot the excellent workmanship, when suddenly a thought scemed to strike one of them. She looked cautiously around to see if she was observed, and secing no one, for the writer was hid behind a pil- lar, and no on» eclse was in sight, she smiled happily, took the glove from ofl her right hand, raised that member and administered to the little ciny 1mage most thorough spankin, 1f it was a f mple of het skill in that direction he futire children are entitled to heartfelt pit he Horsewhip Girl, Washington Critic. style of wirl on at present, A LeITOr 10 SIANGerons man She's as smooth as a_picee of siik velye But she's built on the horsewhipping blan. She's a ladylike sort of young woman, With a sprinkling of vizorous dashi: And the man who's at all disrespectinl Is strungg up at the eud of her lash. She's a lady, right straight from the shoulder, ne's 50 inodost she won't advertise What her womanly mind is devising In the way of & pleasant surprise, Don’t you know that's the way with some women : They're so thoughttul,and gentle.and sweet, “That even in horsewhipping a fellow “Thev desive that surprise be complete, That’s the style of the girl on at present; And the person who thinks he must say Wihiat he can of the lady unplensant Would do well to be moving away. Our Unmarried Daughters. Thomas Hughes says there is a peeuliar about the words ‘‘one’s own” which it takes a manor a boy long to find out, but I doubt, says a writer in the Philadetphia Press, if there is a woman who from babyhood has not recognized Let us then think with mors consileration than s heen our wont of those women who have never taken unon themsclves the pleasures and of wedded life, but whose lives have been given up to other - more than Ve those of the mujority of their wedded sister. One such woman has eharge of a house nold whose inmates arc an invalid | mother, u feeble grandmother, and a chelor broth She makes the hon happy for them, and with what return | for this sacrifice of her girldhood? What are her privileges? She cannot order g dinner exaetly to snit bherself or have it served according to her own ideas, and to chango the hour of a meal or sk a friend without first holding a family con sultation would be considered high trea- son. It is possible that even mothers are a little too scllish and exacting toward their unmarricd daughters. There 15 a widow with_three unmarried daughter: uncertain age,"” It would be @ cided convenience to the musician of the family if the piano could be moved to an other part of the room. She speaks to her mother about it. The reply is: 'l see no reason, Emy, why it should o moved; it has no trials'and difliculties 1o overcome, and of them it is required that they shall be always cheerful] and amia: ble. There is another family with one marrie jghter still at home. She does much of the housekeeping and the fanmly sewing, but her recreation, thut which she loves above all eise, is her »alette and brush; and yet even hier time is not her own. She has not one uniu- terrupted hour during the day. Patiently y after day she puts uside her canvas to fit on mother’s dress or sew onfather's buttons or see that the s room 18 made ready for mother's friends, and un- PAGES. BROWN PARkK The latest addition to South Omaha, only two blocks south of busine center of South Omaha and two block cast of the great Hammond Packing House, Large and Choice Lots, Wide Streets and Al- leys, Fine View, Easy Terms. Lor further particntars call on MORRIS MORRISON 422 South 13th, 2d Door North of Howard ' The OMAHA STOVE REPAIR WORI DEALERS EXCLUSIVELY IN STOVE REPAIRS. Our stoek includes repaivs for all stoves ever sold in Omaha and the we it. Remember, it is your stove we keep vepair for, M. 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Besides the certainty of receiving back the 100 francs in gold, you can win four times a_year, and so come into possession of a fortune. Weofler these b nds for §30, in monthly installments of #2, or for cash at §25, as long as our sup- plylasts, Money can besent by registered letters, money orders, or by express,and in return we will forward the bond.” The next drawing will take place on Novem- ber 80th. For further information apply to, Bertiy BAxkine Co., 305 Broadway, New York. N. B. These bonds are not lottery tickets, and are by law permitted to be sold. off till comes. ‘T'his young woman is whose burdens are heavy up of numberless trifles, Can we not by adittle more thought for her who thinks 50 often for others add something to her pleasures? some future time, which never | eause it is harder tp propel than a bioyele, If the Ameriean woman wonld do more straight out walking it would be far healthier than gigging around in a heavy pulling tieyele. When roiler skating was a furore look how the girls overdid the thing ealled healthful exercise. They never knew when to stop, and continuei violent exercise for hours at a time. Tho trieycle I confess is a better and moro healthful medium of exercise for women than roller skating. They will carry it 100 far; tricycles will be everywhere, and | the result will be itwill be overdone, and sooner she gets out of the better [ the reaction will relegate the noble pas- by the time she is old enough to possess | time to innocuous desuetnde. Yes, let any money, to know exactly how much | the tricycle become popular; onr women she has, where 1t is_invested and what | will not walk. It is not amusing, but it ought yearly to bring in. By this time | they can find sport in the three wheeled also, she should have acquired some | “‘calisthenie carriage.’” knowledge of business——bank business, - - referring to checks, dividends and so on —and as'much of ordinary business as she can. ‘To her information of w prae- tical kind never comes wmiss, especially the three golden . which nave vory - rare . excep No invest went of oyer b cent. s really safe: trust no with your money without s h ought to be as strict between the nearest and dear- cst friends as between strangers, and, lastly, keep all your afln from day to day in as aceurate order us if you had to die to-morrow. The mention of dying suggests another necessity—as soon us you are twenty-one years of age make your will. You will not die a day the sooner: you can alter it whenever you like, while the euse of mind it will be to you and the trouble it may save to those that come after you are beyond tetling. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon every girl who has or” expeets thut not undésirable thing, *“a little income of her own,) what a fortunute respousibility this is and how useful she may muke it to othe Happicr than the lot of many mairied women is that of the “unappro- priated blessing,' as T have heard an old maid ealled, who has her money, less or more, I her own 1ds, and can use it us she chooses, generously as wisely, without asking wnybody's leave and being acconntable for it to no one. But then she must have learned from her youth upward how to use it; she must not spare any amourtof trouble in the using of it, and she + console herself for many a lou.'y . gret—we are but human, ail of us—with the thougnt that she has been trusted to be a steward of the Great Master. Such an old maid often does as much_good in her gene tion as twenty marricd women, type of a class beeause made ‘Women and ‘Money. Contemporary Review: Every girl who is not entirely dependent on her male relations—a position wnich, con- sidering all the ups and downs of | SAM SMALL'S WATCH. Jeweler Wants Pay for it Some Silverware. A recent Cincinnati dispateh says: An attachment was issued yesterduy for gold wateh worth $150 and silverware worth §200,purchased lust winter by Sam Small, the revivalist, of Abraham Stei- man, jeweler, and not paid for, has ere ated considerable talk here, particularly among churchgoing people. The story is that in_addition to the watch and sil- verware Sam Small bought diamonds to the value of §700. The dinmonds wero yard for, and a note for thirty days was ven for the other articles. Smull writes ‘oronto that the rev work has been so pressing upon him that he forgot all about the note The Rev. Dr. Joyce, of St. Paul's Meth- odist Episcopal Chureh, speaking of the matier to-day, smd: “I have no donbt that Small has a mania_for purchasing such things, a fact which a keen dealer could, no doubt, yery casily discover. 1 know him very well, and I "have never cen anything in his conduet that not consistent with hus ehristian ch ter. Nearly every man has a weakness to resist, and that appears to be Smull’s. But he is honest, m‘ I don’t think ai rwas felt by Steinau of the loss of his ney. 1 think had he come to me I could have assured him that I would get the money from Small for him. I know + have been reports that these men, Iland Jones, have been loose in s expenditures, but I happen to know that Jones has expended $4,500 in- ehari- ties; that he is now supporting four roung men in college for the ministry, Who otherwise would be unable to gradi: ate, and that Jones gave the $1,500 which sed the camp ground at Carters- So, you see, his expenditurcs ght direction. Small will be here on November A man with his hoss ought to be very careful with whom he deals, I bave no doubt ne will pay the bill when be arriyes.” -~ - What Man is Composed Of. The Age: From a chemist’s point of view. man—and woman, we suppose — consists of thirteen elements, Five of the constituents are guases and eight are solids. ‘Tho largest constituent is oxy- gen, of which the average, 154 pound, or cleven stor man holds 97.20 pounds, e latter, the great supporter of com Hustion in'the human body, exists i condition of utmost comy jon. If the 97 pounds of oxyen were set free from the body it would fill a space of 1,000 cubic. Of hydrogen the eleven-stone In the field of ilustration, which is now | only holds 15,30 pounds; but, if set free, carried to 4 point of exeellence and pro- | this quantity would gxpand to 2,750 cubic fusion never before attalned, the work of | feet. The wmount of nitrogen present s women plays a conspicuous part, both in | 5.50 pounds -of chlorme, 1.35 pounds; of designing and oxceution, fluorine, 0.22 pounds, or 8.5 ounces. The above five if sot free, would to sether 11 a0 space of about 4,000 cubie Fret. Nood we bo surprisod if, ' with bl these gases bottled up within him, v the average wan has occasional fits of explosion when things do not happen to o smoothly with him, We might' earry speculation further, and expluin how the different solid elements of the human framne concentrated, would form various bodies. Suflice it to suy that the d constituents comprise carbon, 8110 pounds; phosphorus, 115 pounds; sulphur,” 022 pounds o 8.5 ounces; besi metals, base nmietals or metalloids Piiere ure no precious metals in the Luman body, and even the baser kinds presentare not found in- quantities sufli cient to offer inducements to mining companies. ‘The most abundant metal 18 ¢ | exaleinm, 5.80 pounds, the basis of lime; nest follows potassinm, 0.15 ponnds, or 2.5 gunces; then sodium, 0.16 pounds 2.4 punces; then magnesium, 0.11 pounds, or 1.8 ounces; and, lastly iron, 0.1 pounds suy, 11 ounces; grand tolal 151 pounds.’ ‘Luis, however, is only one way the chemist has of looking at w man. The VAFIOUS are chewicully con bined with each other, forming com pounds oo BUBIErous o menton, | the nature amd . composition of i there 15 no Beed 10 ouler, A and per Woman's Work in Litoratura. Milwaukee Wisconsin: There is at the present time a larger proportion of women _engaged in authorship, in the United States, ut least, than ever before Of the literary product of the United States during the last month, women wrote 10 per cent. of the magazi c- les, 83 per cent. of the poems, and 22 per cent. of the new books, This literary work of womeu is mostly confined o the writing of novels or short stories, although an oceasional work of history, biography, or eyen of science bears s feniinme nawe. In one depart- ment especially are women taking the lead, and that is the production of juve mie books and the conduct of juvenile magazines, There never was a time in the history of the world when the chil- dren had 50 many. so valuable or 50 en tertaining and nstractive books and magazines prepared for thew, and this is mamly done by v ud done well, Practical Educatic Some of the best ladics’ seminavies in the country not only teach cooking wid marketing us a part of their regular course, but also give instruetion in dress cutting and millinery. Cassell seminary, of Auburn, Mass., announces the latter department of stidy in ils prospectus It 13 Intercsting to note that while the movement 1o teach the more practical branches of knowledgze 1n our puble sehools has m but slow progress, the dea has made strides - develon ment among th ter of seniina ries cluss A Oraze for Trieycles, v York Mail: Tl o for tricy cles has started among the wouen folks, suid a noted wheelmin to-day to a M and Express reporter, snd he spoke length of the henelits to be derived from a physical point of view Itis or cise when not indulged iu Women are never woderate in cruzes like men. They cannot stand as mueh physieal labor us men, yet they fre- quently attempt iu the smusement line to dotmore. 1 dau't think tioyeing a Althy thie stand-up 1l you m an thie - bieyele, Bit of courss exeruise clements ) iich is. plenty of wialeson thice wlicel eoncern, ve