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TALKING T0 TURKEY EATERS fam Jones' Bermon at the Exposition Baild- ing Last Night. LAST NIGHT'S COUNCIL MEETING Game Birds in the Pit-After the Sun- day 8aloon—The Firemen's Ball- Stock Yards Talk-Other Local Happenings, The *‘photogrs san eye to business, and has adont same plan s business men to dispose of his suplus stock asthe reviy 1 draws tos close. Heh Aded Mr. Excell's photo to the grot and was at the corner of the exposition building last night offering the three photos—Jones, Smull and cell—fora quarter of a dollar, There were fully 5,000 people present at the meeting inst night. After the introductory ser vices Seeretary Joplin, of the Y. M. C. A, maide wnother roquest of the audience 10 sign the petition asking the mayor to cause the enforeement of the law elosing the saloons on Sunday. He also referred to the collcetion, which was given last night for Mr. Jones' benefit. He wgaid Mr. Jones’ expenses were about $1,000 per month, a part of which was being used 1n the edueation of several young men in whom ho is interosted. He urged that the donations should be lib- al. The morning collection had been #210, of which amount Sam Jones had contribul ‘The collection this (Fri- day) eveni v » evangelist, Rli Jones announced toat Mr. Excell had ed w eall o o to Pitts- burg to fulfill an engagement and would leave to-day (Friday). He then asked Mr. Excell to sing *“The Model Church,” to which request the gentleman responded in n manner that brought forth enthusi- astic applause Mr. .fl....-g then made an announcement in advertising s book, “Quit Your Meanness,"” wh has been placed on the market by an Omaha agent. 1n response to . request announced by a gentloman in the audience, Mr, Excell sang “Where is My Waundering Boy To- night” in a manner, the thrilling effcet of which was with new boots, who was chasing a nimn- ble nickle in the rear of the room Announcing that his sermon would be brief, Mr. Jon “Bé not deceive whaisoey uption, and he tl pirit shall of the spirit r Tasting.” ‘This is one of Ingersoll's great texts, W era man soweth that shali he also re: "Thiis text is trie whetler any other verse in the bible is true or not. This text is true whether there is any_ God or not. “I'his text istrue whether there is any b | or liell or not, ‘This text would have been ust as tride if you had found itin Hume's history of England, as it is true that you and 1t in the word of God, ‘This text woilld have been true if Shakespeare had been its authior, is true that St Paul s its We know that this 15 true in the physical world about us. We know that here on the field of our country if you sow wheat you reap wheat, if you sow corn you reap corn, it you planta row of potatoesin your arden you will reap potatoes: If yoi ko nto your garden and sow arow of lettuce you don’t expuet to reap anything but lettuce. O, how seed multiplies. “Thatis not troe 1 in the paysical world around us. yonder in the arden of Kden, 6,000 years ugo Adum dropped ONE LITTLE SEED OF SIN in the garden of Eden and to-day this world is tull of sin, full of woe. Just as the seed S0wn upon the ground, eome up aud brins much of its kind and wuitiplies o hundred and thousand fold just so it is truein the moral world also, “As truly as there is u physical world about us i phy: world s but a photograph of the moral world, And the moral world is but a photograph of the physical world. In this moral world in which you and I move and lave our being, very word of my lite isa seed, every seed i d, it falls out here on this firtile N Dbraska Soil, but it falls in human hearts and me up and grow and - produce st just like the seed sown. Every one of us is influencing some one for ood or for b, *Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he al<o reap.” Let us take a gen- al view of this truth. Just a minuto and we will narrow down to personal fons. Suppose 1 say Sow whisky up sober men and wood citizens, What do you say about that? — Sow whisky, briety ‘and industry and econony. Every wan_here says “Jones that woi't do, that won't do.”” ~ Sow whisky, reap first-class eitizens. That won't do. ~ Brother 1 tell yon what it will do thouzh: sow whisky, reap drunkard. Now what ‘do vou say? (A voice, that is 5o, that is s0). ‘That is o fact, we ngree to that. - Well, brothers, when you ot your harvest, what do you want with them? That is the point, What are they good for? Now come down to plain, honest facts, under this general prineipal, will you tell e WIAT A DRUNKALD IS GOOD FOR ? What do you want to raise any more for Does a drunkard make a good” m nic Does o drunkard make a good merchani Does o drunkard make a ood fawyer? Does a drunkard make a good editor? "Does a drunkard meke @ good school teacher? In the name of God if you sow for a harvest of drunkards, what are you going to do with them after' vou get them? 1 throw out these general statements here: you take a moment and think of them at ‘your leisure, 8 cards, reap first-class literary scholars, wou't do. Sow cards and reap sover, indus- tripus workingmen. ‘Lhat won't Sow cards and reap ectual giunts, That won't do. Whena fellow 1y what does h reap? Sow cards, reap gambling, now wl o you say to that? 1 will teil you another thing, we will never reformthe blackle s of this town until we reform the family cireles of this town. (Amen.) I say to you in all due respect to your social statils in this town, a man and wife and his neighbor that will sitdown and play progressive euchre and play for a prize; the one who played for that prize und won it, and the one wio played for 1t and didn’t win it, but lost it, he is as much agambler in the sight of Godl us any black- leg that runs a faro bank in this town. Now Lwill ell you another thing, you need not talk aninst gawmbling, you need not talk against the fearful ruin of gawbling, when o have got u manufactory in full blast urning them out up at your house. And the sin of gambling with eards would play out on the tack of the earth if we could stop the manufacturers making them, don’t you see? Sow cards, reap gamblers, Dony it will vou, How can a man gamble with eards when he know how to play them, that is the point, Ol but you say, I am not afraid_my children will camble. Yes, siv, that is just what is the matter with you, old fellow.” If we could Just get you scared onee you would reforu, (Laughter), Butabove all things, brethren, if we mbers of any church, [ don’t care which one, there is not a enureh'in th Catholie, Methodist 1 resbyterian, Ky patian o Chiristian, thit has not U out against card playing and dancin theater-going with all the cannons at their command. And when an Episeopalian, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyt ‘atholie or Christian says, “Our ehurel don't objeet to these things,” you are totally wgnorant of what the chureh hath said, orclse you are wilfully talsitying about’your chureh. = | know what 1 ain talking about, and I defy vou all tothe test. The Episcopal chureh has tundered out U0 uBistakable teriny against these worldly amusciuents; aund it on have read Up yai ouzht 1o know it. The resbyterian has thundered out in her grand councils against these things, and ought 10 know it The Methodist churel has thun- dered out in Ler ral conference against these things, aud every plous man and woman on eanth know it is wrong, and say it is wrong. Amen brethren. (Awen, amen.) Applause and laushter,) Sow cards and Teap gambiers, reap vamblers. Now if you think you need any more gawblers, Ko on; but if you think you have not enough, it you dou’t think Omaha has enouxh gauiblers, you are the greediest people 1 ever saw on gim- bling, 7|:lu:|lll'l'.) 1 believe, yos, 1 would hold up for a year or two for _you stocking the market now. Sow reap gamblers, ‘The logic itself 13 as clear as the wind of God, ad it is as resistless as the fudement of Godg you can’t dodge it, you Taniot getaround it. ‘Then BOW PALLOK D and reap what? Reap plouy [ “Uhat won't do. Anybody knows that is a lio. (Lawghter.) Sow parlor dances and of a rush both cattle and hog scales can be brought into use. in shape to handle all the hogs that are likely to come here. ns and reap 1 mean & danee called a german don’t mean any people tuat are desiznated as Cincinnati s Thanksgiving W They will soon be p0 Much For the Last mght at ten minutes to cight by the conncil clock there were four persons in the chamber in which the loc holds its meetings Southard, a Bee reporter and two others, Of the councilmen meeting not one had appeared. The clerk ir and called the meeti and germans. Sow parlor danc ball rooms and reap germans; mans and you will and sow spider- reap half a thimbleful (Continued laughter.) y thought 1 m and reap ball rooms than are coming to the Om taking them on an av ve stock men have been There is an o ap spider-leged dudes These were Cit; heard to rema re to hold a And now we take you up on th practical illustration of the text. want to say to you a few thing € on this point, hear ¢ t question of this nine What will become of our childre thick as the stars of gambling hell at does the work ANOTHER RAILROAD DISCRIMINATION come to light assumed the cl clerk and called the roll. more loads is 80 obsti- shippers who K but when a shipper s to come to Omaha, instead of giv- y the long haul punishment he 15 m anpears to ement between all the roads to A day or two ago two prom- inent shippers Towa with two I them over to & commission firm at the yards to the city and for a fow min- and then a few faint expressions re- minding one of an expiring sigh upon reached the ear, and were 1, “I can’t be present loads of eold riding aroand in heaven, you wide open on thes akes hold of every part of let_you and I begin to think abont our ehildren. before we leave here, you mark that, 1 woulc rather leave my boy &~ pure have nothing to turn over to him_ when he twenty-one years old but bless you my % to Chieago, as 1t won't be lon, 20, to pay his fare back upright boy, and [ le “I'm staying at home becanse the other boy” and a “Barlow” knife said thoy were golng to do 50." than to turn over & sy stem of railroads to a o O I sipated wreteh, tarther than their nose— You shut your eyes to in the universe except to_the mighty dollar and to-day’s interests, Go it, any a man sa S am sorry for a man pointin hislifeathome. are watching : “I'm going to the firomen's bal don't want to o ked for a r - Here there was a long judicial pause, P i always been in the habit of doing when in Chicago, but were astonished to learn s would be given them. happened that neither of the men had noney enough to pay their far and as the walking was not extra good 1n Towa they were foreed to return to the ards and borrow Such treatment does not discour- age men from coming to the Omahi mar- ket but makes them all the more mined to come, on the council committee on conference with regard to amending the charte all the law T ean find o the subject. chiliren rou Know you don't When you are dead and no power in_this world ¢ into the chureh and _get them to lve right. ching your examp! you just say to your husband you ean stay out of the church If you want one it may be that N : eet youteidren | “1f you want me to attend you can send armsafterme “Lain't going to go. conncilman ought to remain at home on Thanksgiving night and enjoy his din- I think a good children will stay a I whethier you do or not.” that shall lie mothers be mighty “Goodrich,” Fathers and careful how yoo talk before your c {0 you'curse in'the presence of your A Happy Event at the Exposition during my trip to Chicago, and ' tilling The firemen’s ball oceurred last night at the Exposition Anncx, and attracted something like 200 couples to an indul- in the pleasures of the dance. The L moothly, nothing oc- curring to mar the serenity of the ocea- sion, unless it called out the be GOD PITY TIE OLD 1] of a father that will swe of his children, ) s n big night down my way. rin the presence I : The father that sows the ] next Tuesday. heart full of the seeds of damnation in the cirele of bis own home. was the most profane man [ ever heard taik. 1is little son Willie. down the streetway one da teipped him up, and when he recoy self he turned around and ou hardly ever heard eome 1is father hey tirned and said: Willie, 1 that you the Tittle fellow Said, and th turned to the gentlemen and said and I won't leave the house to make Omaha A man_in our town a8 big as Minneapolis.” “Pell them ot there after I go to _That's what they do in Chic where Mike and Charley ;n\.uli Just bought a ludder to reach to sueh a strain of d but n slight ripyl least mar the pleas A programme of twenty- five dances kept the merry throng busy until about half pa: the oceasion, ary to state that the EAReA LG AR LY One point worthy of ath’ while I Tive, thiere, but he had sowed hi full of the seed of damnation, a harvest of ruin before his little boy was four sver a man soweth that 0 protanity and vou will en: sow vulgarity and you will reap it in_your childre kind words and you™ will r Many a time a mother has siid to the L L wish you wouid quit that quar- How did your ehilire rn it from you and hat T won _on John il wetling a new R SBRt nd there. wa ; irooly got it on my | throaghout the entire a fair the most per- fect order was pra By this time it was evident that Thanks- giving and 1 qud and on motion of the reporte Committee of arrangemen(s— Al 5 Barnes, Captain ' W. Webb, Captain ' Ruane, Captain G. A, Conlter, Ted W. Redfield, D. P. Bea Master of Ce FUN FOIt THE cmonics—Ilon. Thomas Assistants, Hon. C. S, rich, Hon. M. Lee, » Game Bird Fights Afternoon, About half a hundred of the leading locul sports met yesterduy afternoon at a4 convenient location outside the city a fight between game The man who ged to provide the rats for entertainment ct, making a The meeting your husband? Yesterday with her husband at the breikfast table and grabbed a tart and threw 1 liead “and missed at Illll'f husband’s it e niotio, n 188n m Whitchous she hit the mott, s head, but didn Where did your Awful, awful. learn how 1o, quaire Mealio, C. limits to witness cocks and a 1 had been eng second feature failed to fulil postponement nee Floor Munagers—W. Webb, Thomas Lodges, Joseph Vandoer- orge Windheim, ish, W. h. Ellis, heard you s er, I ann grown.” ouzht a grown mother to sy a t want her little girl “to say. I like the way you good old terians used to tram your ehildren. Maxwell was brea ani born I remember when L was seventeen N old, the tirst time 1 ever fowe, it was on Sunday, and to let'me go over to the grave yard.” father would not let Lim go vard on Sunday aised his boy a s uor or an oath or a lie, - escaped his lips, 1t is a thousand ect your children tha Adelaide Moore, has arranged for the utiful v oung s, Miss Adelaide Moore, at Boyd’s opera house, on next Wednesday ¢ nights, December 1 and 2. tators were not disnppointed, howeve sked to leave found abundaut amusement in English actr i wis ettt Thabman it pounds, ind s b led his opponent b betting was in favor of the tions of the ds were orna- ol gafls and did The birds had been pit- ted but a few minutes when it became ev ident that the extra weight of the blag red would more than counter-balance the S 1 meness of the silver- The gamey grey was ove in his attacks . upon his After a bloody and ing five and a | red that outs Lyons for Wednesday night, 1y night a double bill, v cee of “The Happy P’ s charming my thologic silver-grey, who gave i more gamencss. mented with two-inch sts effective work. times better to pri Iet them run awhile and th in upon them and brinz them back. You “our children wust have some onjoyment. draw the line Moore while AY INTO THE DEVIL'S HANDS ALITTLE.” throat trouble mixing with ntirely recover, split-foot they ex i d to be stronger than last th, that also 8 3 this promises to be a memorable engage- shail he reap.” who said he was born & a hard shell, but he thanked ¢ ool Presbyterian wife to raise Youget a good, sensible woman who h; ard shell and raised chty antagor A Neglected Little Passenger. and flew out of the pit sterday brought when he recov, sccond match was between a L s00d mothier and if she does 1 sport, and ar I about enterlaining at pu @ little church shindigs she will ‘do 1o raise children. fathers here 1o she will make a owned by a NOt KNow as mu girl whose destination was Omalh , however, there was weighed a trifle over ot the hittle one, w5 half pound lighter | 1€ the devot to me Depot Policemin Green had the child conveved to the rooms of the Women's Aght, o\ kreatést blesaing | Tounds, and an bestow on_our children is to set | U9 them a good example, produce your life after you are dead and tat soweth to the flesh the flesh reap corruption. that soweth to the spir 3 st tight, and t taken in the bout, the favor of the v e fight both birds were blinded, and the contest ber a livelier in! being slight] -nds could be notified of little girl s: with a Mrs. ehteenth st 0 she had come her shall of the spirit 1f we have sowed wron seed what 1 will tell you, change the sowing, that is the only thing we can_do, and thani God et What docs tha You huve be doing right. bad example y birds were severely punished. finally got home n paralyzing ass that sent the brass back from the pit. shed rich amusement for son that ludy her arrival, afely cared for by the of the association until Mrs. Scott calls for her charge. of the time ery one of s child will be 3 n doing wrong, go to Where you liave the spectators, ta good exan Gus Nelson was picked up by the pol stly state of intoxica- ained that he ch and chuin. I incoming and outgoing terday was exceedi as usuil on holidays, the id ing to settle their Thanks- Juict places than let youand I from this day | The Only Visible Result of the Jones dieact a good examplo be- ren and live richt before th and try to train thewm for heaven lite. When I go I want to say as a man safd once who w and his friends gathored around nds and said heaven Brother, brothe lust might in a be tion. He compl, The oniy acf robbed of n gold effect of Sam Jones' three we work was that taken at yesterday exposition building calling upon the mayor to see to the en- forcement of the law requiring the sa- loons to be ciosed on Sunday. Jones' sermon Scerctary Joplin caused the followin: distributed among the audience for signs ion showing a tangible urned to his f union servie is true, live right and go the I to his' wife said, my poor, pale, tired wife 1 have been so much ng dinner in mo are 1o you so long, | “on the road.” ew more days and “we will mect ud then turning to his childre paba has not breath ildren but remember pap: 1 Live Just as your father 1 would ratlier say ‘that to my 16 to die than to leave Paragraphs, morning tov man, of Sioux City 4 J. Mies, of Odell, I, ading Thanksgiving with 'Mrs. left yesterday for her home. Haas and daughter, Miss Beatty Hans, of Allegheny, Pa., are visiting her children when I e them the wealth of Rothehilds, If I can only live so that 1 can say to my chilaren, live as your father has lived, then T will b to ineet my children Hon, James E, Boyd, Mayor ot Omaha: We would respectfully eall your attention to section 15, chapter 50, compiled statutes of 4 0 Wwho shall s and Stewarts, millionaire and ex- millionaires at any time pommonly called Sun- tirst day of the week, for every such of- v, shall forfeit_ and tense, the sum of $100, @ been elevatod by the votes of the ople 0f Omaha to a place of distinetion and onor, and we have the right L ask at_your ptand strict enforcament ot quoted, which requires the closing of_saloons on Stnday. Mysteriously Shot. about 8 o'clock a number of boys and girls were playing in front of the home of Mr Leavenworth street, when nd Dave Bacon, a lad about thir- rs of age, exclaimed that be had D ination showed that ly grazed on If all so-called remedies have tailed, Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures, & shot was The Hong Kong Overland Maii of Oct. £ homas Stey yeling tour has famous, arrived her from_ Caleutta in amey Wing Sang. ds were collocte and of them b tures of cit afterwards, ring the signa- s who attended the meot- the boy hid been n abdomen by a bullet, tired the shot could not Le locrted. the Indo-Chma com- As most of L . Stevens some time ago set oyt tor a tour around the world on his bycle as special for The can sporting paper. Mr. ¥ hiad acqanplished his journcy as intended to f Mery, Smarkland and n, and obtain passports for a journey from the Russian minister, 0 Meshel, however, he that he would allowed to go oy. Afghun roud an the Afzihn J. T. Bell, from a committee prev- the following > adopted by a Jinted, report resolutions, rising vote: Whereas, The open and notorious sate of intoxicating liquors in the saloons of our city t & reproach upon us of wembran Outing, an A s croup, Carol dauznter of I LT, B, and Jesst age 5 years and 5 months,” after an illness of tiree days. Vaneral from residence, 1608 Olilo street, 27, to Prospect Hill, L. W, Phelps ofticlating, far as Teheran ol Sunday has broi southern Siber as a community, throughout the land as a rticular, hindering her growth and retading her material | 0Nt lawlass oity 1 | through Mer When half wa, Off to Europe, Mr, Henry Mies,formerly in the liquor, veal estate business, visit of thi penses of the re greally inereased by this worality and eriminals multiplied, and \ iered more burd Wihereas, The sins of the parents i this regard will certainly by moral tone of of our children, reared under such debasing innuences, theretore be it Besolved By this assemblage of o Ouisha, property holders and othe her welfare and good fame, that we eall upon Major James E. Boyd, ce Stenberg, Mu was turned months to Europe. he will visit his parents and his old home in Germany, besides taking a run into some of the udjoining countries, fruitin the lowered rom Caleutta to Hong b intends to procecd 1o om Canton he proposes tray- Stolen Property Recovered, eling by rond to Shangh, On Wednesday night a wolf robe stolen from Dr, Tilden’s office on Douglas onet found the erty in a baway house on Cupitol s where the thief had exchanged it couple of dollars, rshal Caminings, h Ching may odman, Sehr ord, Goodrict, Dailey, par’ and Cheney, to ab unforee the law, which prohibits, under penalties, the sale of intoxicating Itis directly in the in- terest of good government, sceurity of per- son and property, and its strict amnd enforeement 1s une of the duties and obliga- tions deliberately assumed b solemuities of their oftie Stock Yards Talk, The Stock Yards company h: men at work yesterday morning building new pens and dividing up the large pens 50 45 to accomodate the heavy run of hogs. They will cover several pens near the cattle seales, so that in case he least peri part of his tour. lone are very gi n the shape even of the caravan roads wbe found in_eastern Turkesf , the people are never rstitious or Juni may upsct Woman Against Woman. Fanuy Hamilton caused the arrest yes- terday of Faony Martin, ove of the in- mutes of her house, on the charge of the reeny of $15. Miss Hamilton was ar- rested “as complainant, leased on bail. to be trusted maliciously-minded indiy f Mr. Stevens we wish him bon voyage. sle as carried on by Mr. Stevens is by no means & pienic, and though the expedition is somewhat guixotic, we can ire the courage sical endurane and’ one suj Botl were re- not but adu determina- tion and ph, its accomp only had one accident to his machine, and that was when . cleven of the spokes fn handling it. Sneak thieves raided C. liouse at 1619 Capitol avenne yesterda and seeured two gold watohes and a gols Blevens has Persians broke OVEMBER 26, 1884 BURST HER BOILER. al Explosion of a Tug in the Dast River New Yonk, Nov. 2,—The boiler of the tug Sunbeam, lying near a pler tiver, exploded this afternoon. The owner and three men on board were blown up and killed. William A. Hodgkins, steward of a s hooner laying alongside, was blown into the water and has not been seen since. Edward Bradshaw was also blown ever board, picked up and saved. The tuz was blown to pleces. One body was picked up at Seventy zhth street frightfully mangled, and another on Ward's isiand; The captain and crew of the tug all g killed, the cause of the explosion cannot be learned. An eve witness said the tug scemed to be hifted bodily out of the water, then fell back and blew in pieces. After’ the explosion a large piece of the boiler, bent in every conceivable shape, passed clear over a_schooner and fell on the pler, What was left of the hull sank atonce. I'he capta of the tug was Christopher Parks, aud the name of one of the crow is believed to be Robert Senchon Roosicrs Excit Wanasn, Ind, Nov. ‘here is much tement in Rochester, Fulton county, over the belief that the son of Jasper Eastus tins been buried alive. He died to all ap- pearances Tuesday evening of lung disease. At the funeral services Monday signs of lite were manifested and burial was postponed, Yesterday two physicians said that the chiid was dead, but another doctor of hich stand- ing believed the boy alive, and advised against burial. In spite of the remonstrance 1% interinent took placo. Boycotting Detroit Brewers, Derrorr, Nov. 25, —Trades council and district assembly Knights of Labor, repre- senting about 70,000 members, last night put a boycott on beer brewed by the Voight, Kling, Strohl, Gobel and Hacuck brewing companies, the object being to break up the browers’ association, which has been engaged in a long war with the brewers’ union. T'ne employing brewers talk of arresting some of the most prominent instigators of the boycott for conspiracy. —_— New Jersey Greased Lightning, PHiADELPHIA, Nov. 25.—A storm, ne- companied by eyelonic manifestatians, swopt over the center of Gloucester county, New Jersey, this afternoon. At several poin electric — wires touched — the tree branches along the streets and the electrical current was s0 strong ns 10 set ire to the trees, g Cel ting New York's Evacuation. New Yonk, Nov. ‘I'he anniversary of the evacuation of New York by the British celebrated to-day by flying the is on the eity hall and other city” depart- ments at full mast. e R n the East, W YORK, Nov. 25, —Advices to the As- socinted press are to the effect th snow_storm prevailed to-day in northern ew York :llnll northern and western Penn- sylvania. A PECULIAR CEREMONY. How the Sioux Dedicated the Sacred Standing Rock to I Plenty. The most interesting ceremony e witnessed at Standing Rock, the great Sioux Indian agency near Fort Yates, writes the Bismarck correspondent of the St.Louis Globe-Demoerat, was thatof Nov. 13, when the “standing rock,” for which named by the dusky war- was unveiled. The rock of itself 1ot present an imposimg appearance and were it mot for the traditions and legends of this, tne most famous and warlike of all the northwestern tribes, would be p: 1 without cliciting more than a easual remark, The Indians have been taught, and firmly believe, that the rock I 15 about five feet in height and when dis- covercd was standing on its smalicr end —is the petrified form of a_young squaw who died while in the act of zppealing to the Holy S the return of her vicked tru. penrs the stone n worshiped, and sinco the return of Sitting Bull and his band trom that bloody expedition in which Custe nd his w?du-rw w slaughtered, 1t has been the covered a erished idol of the re- luctantly reforming Sioux. But, not- withstanding its enshrinement in the ts of the warriors, the rock has of been removed from the place in which it was diseovered, and its frequent Is aroused among the whites losing its civilizing and pact fying influence upon the Indi ERVING Til That the standing rock’” might be pre- served _as the suered idol of the tribe, Major McLaughlin, the thoughtfulagent, announced to Sitting Bull and us fellow chieftains that 1t would be placed upon a pedestrial, veiled, and on a given date, with prayers and thanksgiving. it would be unveiled to the sun-god, and that eyer after it should there rewain, undisturbed and unmolested. The pedestal was erceted, and last Sat- urday morning the chiefs and their fam- followed by the entire populution of the Indian city, numbering over 5,000, atind tread to the holy spot. al hours the Indians sat in council, discussing the legends con- nected with the wooing maiden whose s hid been hushed by n wrathful God and the process of petrifaction, and man- ifested such uneasiness s to who should be honored with the duty of offering the prayers and painting the rock. It was decided that no man who had becn guilty of sin should touch the rock. Sitting Bull deelared that none but the purest man in ull the tribe should perform the sacred service, They must” scarch and catecise until they tind a man whose hfo had been absolutely pure, that the holy rock might lose none of its purity. A hundred’ chiefs hud been questioned when “Fire Cloud,” of “Firc Heart's" bund, was ehosen, And now another difliculty arose, for, according to the Indian superstition, no Indiun could remove the veil. Just as they were about to depart in despair, Major MeLaughlin walked quictly to the ith uncovercd head removed the veil, The major then delivered an appropriate speech, telling the tribe that he had found the rock, sacred to the fn- dinns and of great historie interest to the whites, frequently disturbed, and now that he had built for it a pedest had been dedicated to the Great Sy he trusted that it would be ever guarded from the hand of sin, and be preserved for their children’s children, until all had reache appy hunting grounds peyond the dark river, FIRE (LOUD'S PRAYEL the close of the major’s speech 4 Cloud,” the pure Indian, whose purity had heretofore been ¢ disgrace by his tribe, stepped for and for over an huur daubed and sm the sacred muiden with paint, prayiug ss he swung his rush. As interpreted, the prayer was remarkable, for it was the lirst time 1o the history of the that an Indian had prayed for Their prayers are usually for victory with the tomahawk and scalpme ki or for an abundance of food. ~ But Fire Cloud prayed for peace and the purific tion of the Indian heart; he asked for giveness for the sins and transgressions of his people, and pronnsed thie Grest Spirit that (he fearless Sioux would fc ever proteet the holy “standing roc His prayer closed with an_appeal to the Great Spirit for an_abundance of rain and bountiful crops in the future. A few mysterious waves of the paint brush, several additional daubs on the fuce of Lthe rock, and the ceremony wis closed, the Indians n:lurninr( to their tents with uplifted hands, clianting 1o the Great Spirit, and keeping time in the conventional Indian heel-and-toe dance. "Y'o the whites, who but & fow yeurs #go saw these savages 1eturn #s prisoners from the bloodiest and most horrible war in the history of frontier life, the scene was impressive and aflfecti MONE . we\l §pent 1S Money save & ¢ will buy a bottle LLEN'S LSAM Remedy M. THERY, AGED NINETY, 1is Romantio Life and Ilis Buorial in Paris Letter London Daily News curosity of the rds was aroused loungers on but by three mouners. by six horses and handsome mourning coaches the ceremonies, Luné A safe and Sure for CO\QS, Couahs s CO“S\““?(\Q“ Trose atilicked withy NSUMPTION should buy the \grge botte and be canvinced of XS merits. T CONTAINS NO that & family who couli pay £300 fc funeral should bo utterly friendless limited to u couple of Chaise and with such a slender following of mourners w v, ame of The: tive of Athis, in Picardy ber of & vory poor and numerous family. Little Poncet ad to turn him but his mother gave hima little peddier's basket con- tatning noedles, pins, thread, tape, and s, The boy, why it is n iden that he ought and made for that spending two mouths on the ro: he got there he fell in with the e a_schooner ealled the Isabelle, who was pleased with his brightness and proposed to take him on g sailed for Rio Janeiro. the voyage she encountered foul weather and narrowly eseaped going down, ptain, who was delighted with Thery ve ahd encerful disposition during the ago, sold at Rio the 4o and sct up in_ busines: rge fortune, which he left eventually *d his business, and Like tno p: the story, those of The: OP)UM PRICE 25%50%.3/20 a bottle 41 prugossTs seu 4T to o to Hu The Isabelin A Book that every father and torrible Tesults’ due to Karly Viee shooner and hery, who contint died six oF seven wed large fortune his will he desired that s remainsshould ken back to Fra lid not keep up relations for ne ny member of his ¢, the state will cont ol those who put themselves his kinsfolks to the enormous which it appears he has not WEAX, NERVOUS PEOPLE And others euffering from connections, Ve wihing e possessed. When he ance in 1806 the sons were being used ¢ hy Napolcon, went in that w 190 WAZAEN AV.. Ghirace, WOODBRIDGE BRO'S,, State Agents DECKER BRU. PIANOS Omaha, Neb. the eannon y. Itis probable that he v from his nutive 1sequences of not drawing for the conseription, PLACING A STREET CABLE. co Ropes the Best- How y Are Laid. San Franciseo Chronicle s substituted istern setion of the Anew cable for the old one on the r 10,000 feet I 10 the engine house b 1t wis made in San Francisco, the com : having become convineed that the in this ecity is supe manufactured in thé East or Germany, all having been given neisco-made cable w ern section os the ro. nd was hanled s put in on 1 couple Tho Sanden Electric 25,829,850 Tansill's Punch Cigars *| were sbipped during the past 5, Without & drom- ceording to rfection of the wire, the amount of ng out of the ropes mainly due to rich is contine sing the eable. is not, ns many ima ction of the grip, The” principal troubl breaking of the individual wires which tfrequent in the c aking in mc . the grip does not : THE PATON ter of the rope, whe WIRE GAUZE OVEN DCO bending and 18 THE LATEST IMPROVEMENT ON THE traightening of the it passes over the pulleys at cither end of ind breaks the up” of the surrounc contrivanee ng strands, and by a nd the rope is rep permitted to pass . The operation of putting in To vlace the section from the engine house to Montgomery rminga dummy ack the gerip few fect east In the rear of the dummy the sed throngh an opening and To the sec Liolu 08 Practical Results in Baki ITS TITE eel, was attached. tod, shoull ba onoked of the old cable was uttached to the re: of the dummy and When the dummy owell street, ut the foot of the hill, drag- ile behind it on treot and the new one in place in the slot, theseelion of rope which agged out was detached from r dummy ut the top of asped the underground cable, the section of the old cable been drageed out The other end Gauze Door , faciiitating the process of cookinw, Alind A avor ey d ging the old ¢ u ot ually cooked with less ConMUIBIALD OF face of the & i the wolght of meats uces larger Loaves of Braad, wk, and roiaotod the dummy VEUION QUALISE 0 OF TUL FOOD COOKED IN 1T, OPINION O: cent off and o Tiunire, ws compared 18 not only more equiily Six or eight dummies had thus descended the hill and were standing on Montgom- ery ayenue by the time tha new rope was $END FOR ILLUSTRATED GI EXCELSIOR MANF'G €0., ST.LOUIS. CHARTER OAK BTOVES and RANGES are S0LD IN NEBRASKA as follows A Strange M London Tclegruph committed at Vienna on Thursday night, extraordinary cir- November 4, nd-bookseller of cumstances ans, on the b pen he employed, was stubbed in the neck and fell dead on the ground at 10 o'clock at night, in the center of the ity, at the very gale of St crime, but ee manag D as 50 well aimed that not ment’s stragele ensued, and th in calling for the polict, fell d d of the even- ing with a lieutenant general’s widow whom he intended to his sixty-three and his three dead althy, but lost much capital in printing #n expensive edition of the murderers has id the only theory put for anarchists” had money from him, ing threatened him with death if » not given, kept their ate the many persons who are con wing letters from IMMERMAN & FRAKE P. BOYER & CO. Kall’sSat a3, Vaults, Time ocks \\'.unl is that some t, O:uaha. Neb. )44 N ikl tinually rec “CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH munding money, " “ Hotel men of New York are all happy vivrs RASINE 220 NAME PARER. { years when (i us at present the rush of people to New York no one custom and that it | Wigwam € flux is due to the better condition of s sent large persons to the metropolis to buy g numbers of | Hayward Bros. silver plated und gold Jined cake bus kets, $3.00 and upwirds, at Evnoy & Akix, (Suceessors to Edholm & rickson) 15th aud Dodge, vpp. P 0O,

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