Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1887, Page 12

THE DRUMMER'S WIFE. Tom Holmes, IRE dfimmer sat by the parlor fire, He'd just roturn od fron \ o And his wife was busy in thy dining room ¢ Dissecting her husband's grip. Bhe took out the articles one by one LAnd glaneing them hastily o'er, Flung them down with careless hand Upon the dining room iloor. Oh, yes, and a | hin ;. ¥or to read her husbaud’s mall Ls surely not a sin, Bhe opens the letter and reads it through; It speaks of tender love, And says that souls thouch parted here, Will some day meet above. A woman’s hand had traced tho lines And anger filled the heart Of the druinmer’s wife, as she plainly saw Thelr lives were drifting apart. The letter 1 hand and with beaming eyes She went to her husband’s ehair, And, charging him with a faithless heart, Did her hate for him declare, He took the letter and sadly smiled, And his eyes were filled with tears As the stingmg words from the one he loved Fell heavily on his ears. He drew hl'r{wntlv o his side. DMlllllIlP: ) 'y llflr“"f W:fi', ! on’t be so rash; your hasty words Wound me like a knife, "“T'his letter here that you have found 1s from my sister May, Ske wrote it but the day before Her spirit passed away.” The little woman hid her face On her husband’s manly breast, And tears brought peace to the loving heart 8o bitterly distressed. vt IN THE GAP AT ELK MOUNTAIN. - R. A, Eaton tn the Chieago Current. There s a long, wide, apparently illi- mitable stretch of barren, desolate, tree- less, trackless alkali plain to be crossed before you reach the valley, over which, grand in its immensity, Klk Mountain towers. But it is a most beautiful valley, miide doubly so by contrast with the bar- ren country before it. In the mountain, perhaps more than anywhere else, has nature shown her most wonderful handiwork. In the tower- ing cliffs and deep rugged canons, she iits & magnificience and granaeur cannot be seen elsewhere. At Elk -~ Mourtain her work .is grand. Here a valley runs through the heart of the range, and on either hand are lofty peake, their bases sloping gradually down till lost in the valle; There is a deep ravine and in the sp¥ing, when the snows are melting, or late in the autumn when heavy rains fall upon the mountains, the tiny rivulet in 1ts depths is swollen to a ng mountain torrent, setling close to the foot of Elk moun- tain, as if sccking shelter and protection is a listle stone log cabin—Nina's home. Here Ni father and mother had come before her birth, and with his own hands had her father built the rough hutin which she first saw the light. The house hud long been deserted, but close by stood the kg cabin, better and larger, and in Ninw's eyes the most beautifuf house in the world. But Nina's ideas ot the world were vague,very vague indeed, for at her birth her father had said: “Our daughter shall never know of the wick- edness and disappointments of the world.” *Na, dear,”’ his patient wife had answered, “she shall never know,” and so Nina had grown up to her seven- teenth birthday with the great world ut- terly unknown te her. Standing in the doorway of her parents’ cottage, she could gaze away across the level, trecless, alkall desert where in the distance, the sky and mother earth seemed to kiss, and she knew that be- yond lay a world of which her father and mother had sometimes spoken, but of which she was ignorant. She knew not of great cities, of long, crowded streets, or of mammoth buildings towering heayenward. She knew not of throng- ing men, women, and children, or ot majestic oceans. She knew only of the long range of hills, of the verdure, of the valley, of the vast alkali plain that spread monotonously out before her. The great world, like ‘the water that surrounded Tantalus, was around her but beyond her reach, At rarg intervals her father crossed the plain to the rude settlement beyound, to urchase actual necessaries for his little famuily, but Nina never accompanied him, ~ Once, several years ago, she had thought she would sce for herself what the world really was, and she had walked a long time straight across the desert, but it looked to her always as though the world still Iay just beyond that rise in the ground—that rise which always ap- pears away in front of the traveler on the plains. The line where sky and earth seemed to meet never grew nearer, and Nina had at last returned, thinking the world was too far away for her ever to reach or even to see. ‘This was Jong before railways pene- trated the west, bringing ecivilization and creating cilies and towns on the barren piains. The'great government of the United States of America had not yot opened the country to settlement, and a vast tract of land was then con- sidered America's great desert. The spot of which I write is but little better now. At that time travelers never came within miles of Elk Mountain's Jofty top. The country was too desolate for oven the Indians to inhabit, and the transcon- tinental stage route lay far away to the north. In this retirement Nina had passed her seventeen years, seeing the e sugm day after day and year after year. Somctimes in her wildest day dreams, as she sat on a huge boulder at the Gap, she fancied herself ont in the world. ~ Not that she did not love her home, her birth-place, k Mountain, the valley, and the plafh, but at times she longed to go beyond tho horizon tosee and to know just what the great world was; but days and years gu'.lu\l and her desire was still unsatis- ed. The last time Nina's father had visited the sottlement he had heard of a com- pany of engineers that were working to- ward the ( at Elk mountain, survey- ing for a railroad which was to pass be- ;oml the range through the valley. He ad thought this to be but idle talk. Burely no l'umYnny would want to build a road across a barren alkali plain where save himself, no man ever walked. In his self imposed exile he could not know that the railroad was to be constructed mainly for the purpose of building up the country. Some weoks after, however, he was thinking of the ramor when Nina ran toward him erying: “‘Papa, see! What is that coming? Is it from the world»"” Shading his eyes with his hand, her father gazed in the direction to which she pointed. “It is a body of horsemen, darling, " he said, slowly. “Yes; they are from the world.” He took Nina’s hand in his and, with his wife, stood in the doorway as the horsemen rode up. One of them, who wore a broad-brimmed hat and whose face was sunburned by exposure, dis- mounted and came up the path toward the house. “Allow me to introduce myself," he said, lifting his hat politely, *‘1 am super- intending ‘the building of a railroad in this valley, which will pass through the range. My name is Milburn, and yours?’' Ho looked inquiringly at Nina's father. “John s':dwxmh and my wife and ter.'" m glad to meet you,” continued Mr. Milburn. “It was ‘a welcome sur- prise to me to see the smoke curling from the chimneys of a awvilized dwelling in this valiey, and I could not deny myseif the p! re of coming in to make tho acquaintance of its inhabitants. The nurvoxmz party are encamped over there,” indicating by a jerk of his thumb the direction whence hé nad come. *‘I understand_ that the gap here at Elk Mountain offers decidedly the best route by which we can cross the range, and myself and com panions are now on our way up the val- ley on a tour of inspection. I am_very giad to have met you, ladies, and you also Mr. Edwards, and with your per- mission 1 shall be pleased to pursue our acquaintance,” Mr. Edwards bowed, and, tipping his hat ¢ n, Mr. Milburn rejoined his com- panions, anda the party galloped on up the valley, while the family in the door- way stood watching them uniil they had disappeared in the Gap, I'hese were the first strangers Nina had ever seen, and she looked upon them with eurprise. There was nothing strange and weird about the inhebitants of the world as she had always imagined, Why had her father called it a wi d and guarded her from 1t so jeal- ? She had scrutinized Mr. Milburn , and he had a pleasant tace. He did not loook vicious or dangerous. It was very strange. She was sitting on the doorstep beside her mother, still won- derin what there was wrong in the when, an hour or two later, the pers returned. *Very little work needs to be done at the Gap,” remarked Mr. Milburn, as he drew rein before tho door. “Dame Na- ture must have been planning for a rail- way when she designed this valley. It will not be long now before trains are running. We are fairly rushing the work." “Yes,” said Mrs. Edwards, coldly. So brief a reply surprised Milburn. He had supposed she would be delighted with his apnouncement, but it secmed positively to displease her. He paused a moment at a loss what to say. Then ven- tured: ““I'nfs is & beautiful country.” es," replied Mrs, Edwar us before. Receiving so little encouragement to convers, Mr. Milburn bade them adieu and rode 3 ou don’t call this a beautiful coun- try, do you, Mitburn?’ asked one of his companions, who had overheard his re- mark, “I do not speak my mind when 1 eall it such,” he answed. ‘I am sick and tired of breathing this dry, hot, stifling alkal dust.”’ *‘And roasting by ba; night and early morn, i party. Thav is it exactly,” replied Milburn, o far as I know there is not a single redeeming feature in the entire country except that little valley. That is decided- ly beautiful.” “It’s adaptability to our purpose makes it scem so at least,” said a third one of the party. The engincers had dreaded crossing the range, having anticipated great trouble here, and now that they had found the ground so admirably laid out for arailway, their happinesssearce knew bounds. When Milburn came up the valley next day, he found Mr. Edwards pacing thoughtfully to and fro in front of his cottage. After an exchange of greetings, Milbrn said: s, briefly, nd freezing at added another “It really seems a pity to break mm upon your privacy here so sud- denly, but hope it will not disturb you.”” Then secing so solemn an expres- Zion on Mr. Edwards' faco, ho added: “The only inconvenience to you that you must be on the ?nl vive to keep your stock off the track. If a cow and a train meet on the edge of the ravine there at the gap, it will pro\mblly afford you an op- portunity to sccure heavy damages from our company.” He spoke humorously, but his words failed to brighten the countenance of Mr. Edwards. The ad- vent of the railroad seemed too serious a subject for Mr. Edwards to smile ever so faintly over. Millburn was puzzled. It was to him a mystery that so intelligent aman as Mr. Kdwards appeared to be should object to that which would fur- nish him ecominunication with the world, which wnuld bring neighbors for his wite and societn for his daughter. The family seemed to him sad, and in his kindly heart he resolved to do what lay in his power to cheer them up, to enter- tain_Mrs, Edwards, amuse Nina, and win Mr. Edwards from his misanthropy. It did not take the surveyors long to reach the valley at Elk mountain, and in a few days more they carried the chain past Mr. Edward’s cabin, Milburn tried to ex“lnin to Nina his rod and transit and his calculations about which she seemed curious, but found it a most dif- ficult task and soon abandoned the effort. Now that the surveying party was en— camped in the valley, ho was in and out of the Edward’s cottage almostdaily on one pretext or arother. Sometimes he called to bring them a new book or magazine, and again to tell them of some funny occurence of the day. His cheery manner soon made him a wclcome visitor, at least to Nina and her mother, who sometimes walked up the valley with him to watch the pro- ress of the work. It was a wonder to them how he could superintend so much and do so much and be every man’s head and yet 50 often _have leisure to stop at the house for a little friendly talk, But he managed to find a great deal of spare time, for he enjoyea the socicty of ladies, to which he had so many months been a stranger. When at the Edwards cottage he some- times read aloud, but more often spent the time in talking. He was an unusual- ly interesting conversationalist, and be soon perceived that they enjoyed his talk, while they were not cultured enough to appreciate the literature in which he was interested. Meanwhile Milburn pushed his work rapidly, and it was only a short time till the roadbed was laid through the valley to the terminus beyond. All day and ail night for wecks, a seemingly endless procession of wagous and teams of every description, convey- ing all manner of merchandise, lumber, hardware, furmture, the thousand and one things necessary for starting a new town, now crossed the range by the rough road leading past Nina’s humble home. She saw the people on foot, foot- sore and weary people riding lean and jaded ponies, families journeying m covered wagons, people driving or lead- ng horses and cattle, an endless array ot men, women and children, all hurrying on and on, through the gap to the new town beyond. And there they could not wait even for mere board shanties to be erected, but pitched tents for homes and for.shops, or made use of their ‘‘prairie schooners.” At night the irregular strects were mado hideous by the howis of staggering drunken men, by the shouts of desperate outlaws and gamblers, and by the riff-raff of both sexes and of every nationality whose coarse, loud songs and noisome laughter made the darkness horrible. They had fled from justice in states to this new settlement, where every man was his own judge, the swift bullet was the only law,and death was king of all. A great crowd, gathered from the slums and prisons of the east, poured hkedu mighty torrent before the rail- road. Inthe mdst of all these desperadoes, the Edwards fclt safe in havingso strong a friend as Milburn. He was so kind to those under him, so sternly just to evil- doers that even the most hardened wretches feared and respected him, and protected the Edwards’® for his sake, One early morning late in August, Nina could see from the huge boulder at the Gap, the smoke of the engine draw- mg she construction train. reat gangs of men laid the ties and rails and drove in the spikes through the Gap and up the valley at whatseemed to Nma at an alarming rate. The hoarse voices of the workmen shouting to one another, the shrill shriek of the locomotive, the ring- ing and rattle and banging and clatter were terrifying to the simple maiden, ac- customed as she was only to the singing of the birds and the low sighing of the wind as it swept down the valley. The two months which had elapsed since she had first seen Milburn had seemed to her like a pleasant dream from which this bustle and hurry rudely awakened her. She hstened with tense nerves as the gang and train disappearc up the valley, and the noise grew fainter and fainter, and finally died away in the distance. It was quite late in September. The great ralroad was completed, and the new town at its terminus had been named Milburn, in honor of the skillful engineer who had constructed it. The citizens celebrated the driving of the last spike as only the inhabitants of o new town can celebrate. ‘T'he hurrahs for the new road, the repeated cheers for Milburn, the gay banners bearing bis name, the speeches praising his inde- | fatigable energy and skill, all caused Nina's heart “to throb end swell with pride in the man she loved. And to think that he, the centre and admiration of all should still remember ber, speak to her, smile uvon her in & fashion even more friendly than ever be- fore! But the road is finished. It is turned over to the company and Mil- burn's work here 1s done. Nina's heart sank within her at the thought. A special car for his accommodation was side tracked at Milburn a fow days after the celebration. He would take it the next evening for the east and to-night he had ridden over to bid the Edwards good-by. It wasa sad {mr\ing to Mr. and Mrs. Edwards and Nina. Mr. Mil. burn had said his adieus to her parents, and now stood out in the moonlight with Nina. He held his horse’s bridle in his left hand which rested on the pommel of his saddle. The animal pawed the ground impatiently while Milburn lingered for a last word.” He was sorry to leave Nina to her monotonous life,but very thanktul for his own sake that his work in that dreaty country completed. “‘You have added greatly to my happi- ness down here,’" he said.” “Some time I shall have occasion to visit Elk mountain agam, and [hope you will not have for- gotten me.” spoke kindly but s words sounded like a death sentence to N He took her hand. It was as cold a3 ico and trembled in lus grasp. She tried to speak but could not. Only an inaudible mur- mur came from her quivering lips *‘Poor child,” he thought to himself. “‘Her lifc is indeed a lonely one.” “'Good-by, Nma,” he said aloud, and stooped and kissed her, pityingly: then, dropping her hand, he placed his foot in the stircup and sprang into the saddle, The horse, anxious to be _awav, galloped swiftly up the rond, and Nina rer alone, standing like an 1mage carve marble, on the spot where Milburn had left her. She histened to_the I'n}!ill beat of the horse's hoofs bearing him from her as she knew now forever. ~ She listened till the faint echo Lad died away, then turned sadly toward the house.” Some bright ovject, lying in her path, sparkled in the moonlight. ~ She leaned down and picked it up. It was a slver matchsafe which she recognized as Mil- burn's. She pressed it to her lips, then hid it in the bosom of her gown, while she strained her ears once more to catch, if she might, the faintest echo of his horse’s footfalls; but she heard nothing save the gentle ripple of the little ravine. He was gone, gone forever! For a few days past the sun had streamed down fiercer and hotter than Nina had ever known it to do before, and the intense heat had melted the snows upon the mountain tops. During the night a drenching, furious rain-storm had swollen the snow-fed streamsto a torrent, which rushed down the valley, filling the gullics and ravines to over- flowing with the suddenness which only mountain streams know. ‘To-day the waters were raging and rrying everything before them. The ficreo bearns of the morning sun, rapidly dry- ing the rain-sonked ground. shone hot upon the swirling waters. Never b had Nina seen the rivulet in the main ravine 8o full. Many a time during the day she came to stand motionless upon 1ts bank, fascinated by the stream winch seemed to typify the torrent of emotion now surging within her. This c\'n!nln§ M:lburn through Elk Mountain Gap, homeward bound. The thought followed her all day, and at nightfall grew more than she would pass could bear. She went out into the darkness. Her heart was heav; as a stone within her breast. With his departure, all the joyv of her life vanished. When she thought—aud she never ceased to think—that he had gone, never, never, to return, the blood seemed to stup in her veins, and the air scemed 8o stifling that she couid not breathe. On the great boulder at the mouth of the Gap she had often sat musing, years before the advent of the road, and many times since its completion had she gone to watch the train speeding by. She would go to the boulder now. Per- haps Mr. Milburn would be out on the platform as his car passed and she might catch llul mpse of his face in the moon- light. It lacked only hzalf an hour of train time now, and so up the vally she bent her steps, her hands clasped upon her bosom, her eye fixed upon a star twinklin&z through the clouds scattered overhead. She walked so slowly that when she reached the gap she could see the faint glimmer of the headlight of the locomo- tive far away up the valley, glittering faintly, disappearing a moment behind somo ehif o cluster of soant pines, then reappearing, flitting like some vertible will-0'-the-wisp. She had almost reached the boulder when she stopped horritied as she saw before the sharp curve which the railway made around the deep ravine at its side, The tiny rivulet, swollen to more than bank full, had washed away a portion of the track and was now pouring over the road bed. raging like a flood. She realized at a glance that the train, rushing around the eurve in the dim, un- certain moonlight, would be dashed into the angry waters in the deep ravine. Was not he whom she loved upon that train? She seemed at once to see the overturned cars, the broken timbers, the pale faces of the drowned Ifing ghastly in the sombre moonlight. She heard the groans of the wounded and dying. She saw him, who was so dear to her,brought out from the wreck, bruised and man- gled. cold and pale in_death, his great eyes still open and gazing sadly and be- seechingly upon her. Her breath came quick and gaspingly. She would save him, she must save him, she must and would save him—but how? had told her once that a bright light on the track alwavs warned the engineer of danger; that a blaze many times had saved a train from destruction. But there was no time to turn back to the house to procure a hight. Suddenly she bethought hersetf of Milburn's match-safe in his pocket and the single match within it, Ah, here was her chance! Rushing through the shallow, foaming water on to the solid track beyond, she ran as fast as possible toward the on- coming train, her only thought bein, to save him whom she loved above else. As the train drew nearer she struck the mateh. It flickered a moment. She touched it to her handkerchief and the flames blazed forth. Butno whistle from the onmae replied to her signal. hewlh“ ‘ii\l’ it lenixd? Coa! nog.tlln train stoppe ‘ould not the engineer see the blaze in time to save bis life? Still the train. rushed on nearer and nearer, and hor handkerchief was almost consumed. Stilt no whistlo. In & moment she h3d touched the fast dying flame, lg the thin, white muslin of her dress. 'The delieate fabric blazed up brj hllz. ) Did the engineer see her signal now? Yes, and one, two and three quick, re- sounding whistles answered it. It had'taken but a moment; she knew she had saved him who was dearar to het than her hife, and with a cry of joy, she sank forward upon the track unconscious, The cruel flames leaped vp and enveloped her completely, Mr. Henry Milburn, sound asleep 1n his berth in the princely drawing-room car, did not know when the train stopped at Elk mouuntain. He did not know when the train men rushed forward and ex- tingnished the fatal flames which had saved his life. Ho did not know how gently they raised the almost unreconiz- able form of Nina and how tenderly the, bore her down the valley to her father's house. He did not know how long the cars stopped while the men turned the current of tho water and replaced the rails to allow the train to pass slowly and safely over, or how it rushed on nto the night and left the father and mother weeping over their dead at Elk moun- tain. Dearest Nina, thou uncrowned heroine, thy father and thy mother would allow thee to drop into oblivion, but [ will arald thy last deed to the world that he who knew not of thy love and knows not of thy death may read, and all the world may know of thy love, of thy bravery, of thy heroism, of thy death. RELIGIOUS, Bishop Potter will o~cupy his cottage a Newport during the summer. Bishop Granberry, of the M. E. church, south, will attend “the campmeeting to be held this year at Marvin eamp grounds from the 2Sth inst to the Sth of August. ‘Tho Rev. David Bergey.the oldest preacher o9 the Mennonite church in this country, died on Tuesday, azed eighty-four, at Ship pack, Pa,, where he had preached 'for wmore than'sixty years. Dr. MeKim, of Christ chureh, in New Or- learns, L., is urging upon the diocese the advantaze and necessity of forming ehurch Sundav Sehools for the colored population taught by white teachers. Beginning Saturday the mer Zion chureli, at n_davs’ camp mee Jubileo singers from Cleveland and Pittsbure will be present, and an excellent order of exer- cises has been prepared. Dr. Morgan Dix, the chief ity chureh corporation. the w America, receives $15,000 yearly, D - iam L. Taylor, of the Broadway tabernacle gets the saume amount. e doos literary work and lecturing that brings up to $20,000, Charles Hall, of the Fifth avenue Presby- terian ehurch, New York, is paid $15,000. He 18 very eloquent, and his ehureh is crowded atall services. Dr. Parkhurst. of Madison Square church, gets $12,000. He hasa larze and distinguished con :regation. Cyrus W, Field is one of the pillars of the chureh. A memorial chiapel, to cost $15,000, is to be built in Buffalo as a testimonial of a churc| man’s gratetul remembrance of the late Rev, Edward Ingersoll. ' Tt is the cift of the late Elam R. Jewett, who was the pastor's life- long friend. It is to be of bine limestone,thie dimensions being ¥ feet by 52. Official statistics just made public show that in Gireat Britain the mel ciety of Frignds. include 7, 8,080 females, the total indicatin of 73 during the désominational year. iis income Ad- lerents also as well as members have In- creased. e Grace church, San Francisco, which kas the wealthiest; congregation of any in the eity, has just been newly decorated in Byzantine style. 'The most striking features are the frasco of the nave and the paneling of the walls, the rich ‘Oriental borders and the Javish gildinga, Women who render great service to the toman Catholie chareh receive trem the popa as a mark of distinetion the den Rose, ‘This honor.has been conferred upon Miss Caldwell, who gave 3301.0)0 to the ne: Catholic university in New York. The wife of Genernl Sherman is the only other woma in America who has been favored by the pope in the same way, ‘The best-paid minister in New York is Dr. John Hall, a brainy man from the north of I eaches to $200,000,000 ey he smallest chureh in tow e m lite to Robert Bonner, of ho found him preaching to a small congtezation in Dublin and induced him to come to America, He el ary of §20,000 a year, and makes £5,000 by his news- paper aad magazine articles. At arecent meeting in Exeter hall some valuable information was given regarding Christian missions in Turkey. The general report was in the last degreo encouraging, Dr, Murray Mitchell spoke warmiy ot the work done by American missions, begun in Constantinople seventy years ago. The Rev, Dr. Farnswortl, of Civsarea, “head of the American_ missions in that district, gave a general review of the progress made since 185 In 1833 there were only sixteen 5 churches with nearly 9,000 members, of whom 000 were added Jast v Now also there are more than 10 native ordained pastors and 150 licensed preachers. It was claimed also that excellent work was beinz done hoth in Constantinople and in the British-Syrian schools, Until the last few years Franciscians have bheen almost unknown in England since the time of the reforination. About three years ago some Franciscan priests established themselves at Upton, one of the suburbs of London, under the guldance of Father David Fleminz, and such has been the success of the enterprise that whereas there was not more than 500 Roman Catholics In Upton when the Franeiseans commenced, there are now at least 2,000. The change, however, it s been brought about in larze part by immi 100, numbers ot the London poor havinz been compelled by the extensive demolitions In the city to seek shelter in the outskirts. t , the Franciscians are rejoicing and they have lhut built for themselves a very handsome place of worship in Upton. A "Roman Catholic church is a noveity in that place. — - IMPIETIES. **What was the text this morning®” asked a stay-at-home husband of a church-going wife, “Many are called, but few are chosen.’ “What jury did be have reference to A nero preacher in a South Georgia county asked his congregation the other day for a short vacation. An old sister objected, giv- Ing a8 a reasor “dat do debil nevber takes o hollerday, but he git1n his wu'k ev'y win- ute.” On Whit Sunday a rector In Shropshira, England, celebrated the communion with water instead of wine, because the church wardens had neelected to provide wine for the service. A Brooklyn preacher, who had one mad on total abstinence, once prop celebrate the Kucharist with buttermilk. orristown Herald: The Rev. Mr. Tal- ma:a says there will be pianos In heaven. It Is feared that the reverend gentleman, in one brief statement, has undone all the good he has accomplished during the many years he has occupied the pulpit. ~ We have heard "swmal.lmlo angels”” drum on pianos in this world, ¥ In the coursg of ' prayer last Sunday an 0il City clergyman asked the Lord for raiu. In going home from church a little five-year- old asked her ‘mother why Mr. —— prayed for rain just before the Fourth of July, Mamma was unable to answer the question satisfactorily. On the afternoon of the Fourth le shower laid the dust, and the same little tot said to her mother: *“Well, r. didn’t pray very hard.” ‘I'he newspapers of the far west are re. markable for nothing it nos for thair touch- Ing obituary notices. A New Mexico paper, for Instance, chronicling the recent death of a prominent citizen, says: ‘‘His tired spirit was released from the pain-racked body, and soared aloft at 4:50, Denver time.” The Ari- zona Howler, not to be outdone, recently ended a long obituary potice of another ‘prominent ertlzen" with this elegant and pathetic sentence: *1’eath loves a shining mark, and she hita dandy when she turned loose on Jim."” ——— In advance of the sickly season render yourself impregnable; a malarial atmos- here or sudden change of temperature s fraught with danger: use Dr. J. H. Me- Lean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier. $1 per bottle e nake suring _four feet in length is sal wnnu'%nnkuud near Dan- ville, ILL, recently, on, A husband duly trained shall be A model of sagasity, Should understand especially e marvellous capacity, Tlie clever perspicacity Of woman’s wisdem and esprit, Compared with his opacity ; Should listen silently when she Indulzes in loguacity, And trust unhesitatinely Her knowledge and veracity. It now and then she chance to be Comparatively tacit, he venture the audaeity I’ speak a word respectfully. If she unnoticed pass it, he Must show no pertinacit No masculine pugnacity, But humbly wait, and patiently, Mo swallow with vorac Whatever erumbs of wisdom she May drop, and to her precepts he Should cleave with meek tenacity. 5 s HONEY FOR THE LADIES. The famous reticule Is the Marguerite pocket, The fan of seven sticks is the fancy of the moment. Lovely tinted ribbon trimjdressy morning camisoles. ‘The latest shado of name of wave blue, T'he neck is dressed as high as ever in spite of the hot weather. Clusters in colored fall style in ladies’ ring: Dutch patterns ore utilized as models pretty sumimer costumes. It 1s pre dicted that ruoy and emerald will be the favorite gems this séason Chaste designs in hairpins d diamonds and rubies are Manufactured mildew ap of the artificial mossesaud 1 Paris, Savannah has a company of female wilitia. The company is comjp: of thirty-two young women, captained by Miss Anna Goeble, A very handsome and fashionable ring is a rood sized turquoise suirounded with fine brilliants. A bracelet with a semicirele of diamonds or hyacinths imbedded in it ieads amony the fashiol s, ‘There 127 occupations now open to women, but nursing gives more employment to them than the other 126, One of the prettiest lace pins of the season 1s white enamel representing a tea rose, with diamond center in old gold setting. Pin-head dotted white muslins are revived for young girls . They are worn over colored slips or white ones at pleasure. It adds to the beauty of the cecided yellow or faney colored diatmonds mounted i bril- lianis to have the shank set with brilliants, Pretty white lawn frocks for hou are sold for 3235, “Tho suit eonsists of a plain, full, tucked skirt. a d basque. A band of inverted coffee beans in pink, yellow,and green gold and platina consititute one of the most dainty bracelets to be found. A choice of styla of bracelot is composed of square checks of pink aud yellow gold and platina ornamented with rubies and dia- monds. Yachting is the most fashionable amuse- ment of tho English this season, and yacht- ing costumes are absorbing the attention of the ladies, As long as the Princess of Wales I3 the leader of fashion on the otlier side of the water we will have hizh and close throat and neck dressing. Ssme exquisite blue green takes the mbination lead the for rated with y popular, rS upon some wers sent from i wear camisoles or morning sacques for ho wear are made of em- broidered mushin in “all over" designs, with borders to match. China crape shoulder searts and small white and tinted shawls with aeep netted fringes, aro the favorite piaza wraps at watering places. ‘T'he wigwam shoe novelty in house s soles, the uppers piecs of leatiier. A woman not very old who lives in Can- ada is the mother of twenty-four children. It may not be_improper to stato that she i not a society woman. the coming summer ppers. It has separate nd soles being all of one In ladies’ rings the latest fad is to wear the four combination stones on the same finger, ‘The set in four rings alte'nate- ly—-ruby, sapphire, diamond and emerald. A woman died at Norwich, Cony weck from swa'lowing an orange seed. woman was very small and the orange seed Ve ze. There is always danger in ex- last (e empress of Japan expeet; d States in October. She Francisco, come east by w San v Sa Lake, Omaha and Chicago, and return in two months by the southern route, Home dressing sueques for the breakfast table and morning hours are of white French Iawn, and_come in_improved shaves, and they ate as frequently trimmed with fucks and hems only as lce and embroidery. In centlemen’s rings aro seen a ruby set in two diamonds, a sabphire set in two ~ din- monds, a cat’s eve setm two diamonds. A snake with diamond and sapphire setting and monogram rings will be much worn. It is no longer considered good form to have five or six different kinds of wine served with the courses of a fashionable din- ‘Three wines are now the correct num- and sherry, champagne, and ftine old port are the thrée preferred by the best din- ner givers and diners out. Amateur dressmaking is a fashionable rage ineland at present, An exhibition of ar- making by ‘amateurs recently t attention in London. Profes- sional dressmaking has been improved by etfort of the amatenrs, and several col- 1 and high-horn women have profession of dressmaking as a eans of livelihood; For domestic wear around the houso are preity dressing sacques and blouse waists of speckled, dotted, striped, and sprigged linen lawns and pereales, intended for wear with colored wool or cotton skirts. The collars and cuffs of these garments are scalloped and buttonhole stitched with colored cotton, red, blue, pink, or lilae, to ateh the dots or lines or ligures on the lawn or pereales of the waists. Receut news from China Is to the effect that 1t is no longer fashionable for the women there to have swall feet. The ma- _lnmy of the Chinese ladies now have lar, eet—that is to say, feet in proportion to their bodies. No change, unfortunately, has yet ken place in the women’s idle and monot- onous lives, all manual labor, such as sewing, embroidery, cooking, and washing, etc., being left for men to do, A Michizan woman, who probably had much time to spare. has made a unique dress, Tho material is common spool thread, white and the entire dress 1s hand-crocheted work, beautifully flowered and_strong, and 10.000 vords of thread wera used in its construction. The sleeves are crocheted In the proper spape and are fastened in by a lock-crocheted stitch, Itis very beautiful and Mrs. McCormiek six months completing it. There are thousands of women with little or nothing to ao. They pass their leisure in making fancy work—a wide term for In- eonceivable follies in the wav of alleged home decozations. They woald confer far more rlenlure on their friends and elevate the artistic sense of the world a deal more if they turned their attention toward devising pretty garments for themselves. The char- acteristics of individuality should find a menl!mu for expression in a woman's gar- ments, As was customary last year, summer mus- lins, lawns and other gowns of washable kinds are being trimmed with velvet collar and cuils, with a liberal sprlnk[lnm of velvet bows and ends scattered over the bodice and skirts, These are ve) nd greatly add :to the appearance of & light-colored toilet, but it 15 always necessary to have them fastened in a manner that admits of detaching them when the inevitable day of their visit to the laundress arrives. The very smallest of safoty pins are of come mendable value for this purpose, and by sim- vly tastening the pin inside the bodice or skirt they are rendered Invisible. Black lace is made into all sorts and shapes of mantillas, One attractive model is the following: The lace is made In elose corsage style with as 1uch_length allowed to the waist as possible. Some of the models are then belted, some are not. The loose open sleeve, also of the lace, reaches to the elbow only. A black lace ruffie twelve or fourteen inches deep 15 slightly gathered and applied to the lower edga of the jacket. Stmu of the ynbelted shapes have stole fronts which reach half way down the length of the dress skirt. For very hot weather are sunple =HILL & YOUNG=— 1213 Farnam Street. FURNITURE, CARPEHETS, STOVHS House Furnishing Goods. 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It is announced in_social elreles at Wash- tneton that Miss Mollle Garrield, danghter of the Iate President Gartield, will be mar- ried soon to Stanley Brown, who was pri- vate secretary to President Garfield, On the heels of the report that Mary An. derson’s brother Joseph is to marry rence Barrett's daughter, Gertrude, the rumor from London that Miss Anderson lierself is enzaged to Forbes Robertson, the vas her leading support the last time she tour=d in her native country. Miss Jennie, daughter of secretary Lamar, is to be married on the 21st inst. to her cousin, Mr. W. H. Lamar, a young attorney of Washington. The ceremony Is to take place at the old homestead of Mrs. Secretar; Lamar, at Macon, Ga. Quite a party, includ- ing the father of the bride expectant, will go from Washington to be prescet at the mar- riage. Mehemmed Bey, a handsome officer in tho Cireassian guard of tho sultan of Turkey, has recently been married to the sultun’s sister. ‘The lady fell In love with the oflicer several years ago, butas hé was poor and undistin- guished, the late sultan would not permit them to be married. Ahdul Hamid, how- ever, was persuaded to permit the Hmrrllr?, and ‘Mehemmed, having been made a pacha, was chosen to’ represent the padishah at Queen Victoria's jubilee, Paris Letter New York World: The topic of conversation among Americans at Lord Lyon’s gurden party was the approaching matriage of Miss Winnaretta Singer with the prince de Scey-Montbeliard. This dauchter of the late I[saac Singeris worth $1,500,000 in her own right, but she eultivates her talent for painti assiduonsly as thouga she intended to n_ her livelihood. Her mother. now the duchess de Campo Se- lice, would have been much better received in Paris as Mrs. Siger than as the duche twenty thousand franes a hospital at Turin,and as a reward the king of y revived the dukedom of *Campo Selice,” which belonzed, the present duke claims, to his anc 5 several hundreds of vears in the past. The family of Scey-Montbeliard is one of the oldest in France, and from the cleventh cantury its memoers have been princes of Scey and counts of Mountbellard. 'The reign- ing house of Burgundy was allied for genora- tions with the Scey-Montbeliards, and the new prinees will nuinber amonz her cousins tlie Grammonts and Beaunffremonts, Neuf- chatels and Brejennes. Active preparations are being made at the menagerie in Central Park, says the New York Evening Sun, for the approaching nup- tials of Mr. Crowley and Miss Kitty O’Flaherty, the iynlln - chimpanzee who ar- rived last week from Banana Point, Africa. Miss O'Flaherty isstill occupyincapartinents in the west end of the monkey house, and as yet has not seen her future lord and mast She has held daily receptions sinee her rival, and is mueh admired for her amiability and general sweetness of disposition. Those who are best acquainted with the young lady sav that Mr. Crowley is a lucky monkey in galning so accomplished and charming a bride, " Mr, Crowley, who is about to becoma a Benediet,is still in his large and airy apart- ment in the Lion house. Ile watches with great interest the carpenters and iron-work- ers who are engaged In preparing a room to the south of Liis room for tho accommodation O'Flaberty. Mr. Crowley has, of . not vet met his ruture bride, but 'Mr. Jake Cook, the keeper, has told him all about her, and he is impatient to see her and claim her'as his own. She will probably move into the cage next door to Mr. Crowlev’s sanetum n about a week, and he will have an oppor- tunity to see her, but at first through iron bars.” Mr, Cook will act as a cham the absence of one of the gentler sex), and will arrange all the matters appertaining to the dowry and the details of the wedding. Among others who are expected to b sent at the ceremony is Henry . Dixe will give his famous monkey reminiscence: at the wedding breakfast. * Invitations for the reception are in great demand. :n by he D DRAMATIC. MUSICAL A W. J. Florence is fishing for salmon in the wilds of Canada, George Holland, the actor, is to have a the- atre at Phila amateurs only. Mrs, Pottel ur early in October, She will appear in New Y ork. A young Amerlean baritons named Saxon 1s 1o becon:o a wember of the Boston ldeals. Rosina Vokes is visiting Lotta at Lake Ropatecong. T'he two comediennes are warm friends. Miss Emma Abbott has returned to Paris pleased with her new opers, A Pretty Lit- tle Devil.” “Uarbor Lights,” after arun of 5L3 per- formances, has finally been withdrawn from the London Adelphi. £ Muwe. Sarah Bernhardy don Lyceum opens on the production of “Theodora. Muie. Janish returned from California last week and salled immediately for Europe, She will return to New York in August. next season will open She will, it i3 said, Shakespearean roles season at the Lon- I iust., with the confine herself to alone. Charles Wyndham, the London eomedian, is going to Berlin to play “David Gorri in German, he having mastered the lan- guage, Miss Mageie Mitchell’s novelty for next season is her new play, written by Mr. Howard I, Taylor, and entitied “The L ittle Sinner.” “Cleopatra’s” season—Mrs, Langtry’s sezason at the Fifth Avenue theatve will begin on September 15, She will probably open with the production of *Cleovatra.” Edward G. Gilmore, of Niblo's New York, has leased IHer Majesty’s theator in London, and expeets there to produce spectacular plays, the scenic detalls “of which will be got up by [mre Kiralfy, Adeline Stanhope has seftled to go wil Heien Dauvray next season. She was olfcred engagements with “Travers House” aud o Open et ROSENTHAL & CO., Proprietors. We Keep a full line of IHousehold nings until 9 o’clock. No connec= appear in Dion Boucicault’s new “Meg Mor rilies™ in San F'rancisco. Miss Agnes Huntington will next season Do a member of the operatic organization to be known as the “Original Boston Ideals,” along with Barnabee, Macdovald and Toim Carl. Miss Huntington will sail this week for Europe. ignor Diego Do Vivo will direct the eon- cert tour of the famous bravura singer, Mme. Hma Di Murska througn the United States next winter. Mme, Di Murska contemplatos traveling ali around tne world—a feat which she has already accomplished. Maud Powell, the young American violin virtnoso, who has appeared at the New York Philharmonic society and “other concerts, under Theodore ‘I'homas’ direction, has sed a three years contract to appear in the principal cities of the United States and Europe. Mr. Henry Irving, Miss Ellen Terry and the London Lyceum Theatre company sall from Southampton by the steamshlp ‘Aller, for this city, on October 25, Mr. Irving en- gagement will open at the istar theatre the second week in November. Henry Irving has engazed Mr, Charles Pingaz and wifo for the London season of 15389, Mr. Pingaz was tormerly a member of Mr. Irving’s company. but tor several sea- sons past has been playing in the United States, and recently closed an engagerient as leading man with Gus Williams. ‘The manager ot Mr. Thomas W. Keene says that that vigorous exponent of tragedy will surely resumo his professional next season, n‘,[zlnuhlgl his tour in Chicago early in September. r. Keene has xmd been acting in Halifax, Noya Scotla, It said that his health is completely restoreds L EDUCATIONAL. During the past yeu, the endowment of Beloit colleza, Belolr, Wis., has been in- creased 000, The new freshman class is the largest in the history of the college. "Phe public_schools of this country now employ over 300,000 teachers, and pay them $62,000,000, a ‘mot very flattering an- nual average of a little more than 8200 each. Governor Alger, of Michigan, wants the board of regents of the state university to es- blish at Harper hospital, Detroit, a clinieal school in connection with the university.and oflers to give §10,000 to start the fund neces- herefor. he advance of education in 1ndla I8 marked by the postofiica statisties for the ten yoars ending Maren 13, 155, The number of lotters [ncreased from 119,000,000 to 250,000,000 per annum, and the inorease In the number of newspapers scnt was no less than 115 per eent, Mount Holyokeseninary was founded fifty years ago by Mary Lyon, who desi cowbine’ domestic duties’ with intellect Dursuit: ts alumnwm assoerations have raised a sum_of money, called the “Mary Lyon Fund,” for the ‘endownment ofgthe principal’s chair. Meadville (Penn.) Theological semina has conferred the degree of bachelor of dl vinlty upon Marion Murdock, pastor of the Unitarian church at Humboldt, Ia. This is first instance of the kind in America. She is about thirty-six years old and a very cloquent pre 8 A Pennsylvania State College assoclation was organized by the presidents and profes- s0rs of the Pennsylvania colleges. It has for 1ts object the consideration of all Tnmmn- affecting college standards and college sub= jects, Fitteen colleges have already con= nected themselves with it. “There are sytmptomns of a strong movement to get President Gilman, of John Hopkins universit, ornia as president of the state university. Professor Holden hav- ing in accordance with the original under- standin ¢ retired from that position to take charge of the Lick observatory, Fourteen young women puplls of the Packer Institute are making & summer tour in Kurope for study and pleasure in cbarge of Mrs. 8. D. Wilson, recently an instructor in the institution, and for several vears & resulent abroad, They are all art students, xtmd their ages range trom sixteen to nine cen. A Miss Squire has been elected an assoek ate of the British stérthand society, Aceord= mg to an English paper the enlarged study of shorthand by women in England and the interest taken to enlarge the number of stus dents of the feminine sex nl»eu prospects of o remunerative profession for women as re- porters and sceretaries. ‘The total number of candidates under ex amination in New Haven last week tor the freshman classes in the academic and selen~ titie departiments of Yale, including preli- minaries, was 14, against 252 last year. In- cluding the examinations at other places the number was about 545, against 476 last year, "The number applying' for the present fresh- man class in the academic part is 231, Statistics have just been issued as to the number of women who haye studied at Rus- sian universities In 1556, The total number of female students amounted to 779, an these 243 studivd philology, and 536 different branches of mathematics, 557 belonged to : Greck church and 130 were Jews, 748 unmarried and 31 arried ; 473 of the 5 were daughters of noblemen, officers ernment officials, 89 were daughters of n priests, 125 of merchants, 117 of pris eitizens, 10 of peasants, 4 of soldires and oreigners. ‘That the zeal for fe- tion in ussia s still as great us cver is shown not only the above LZur but also by the fact that a Warsaw lady h recently given 15,000 rubles tor a hizh sehool for women to be buailt at Wars: Several members of the faculty of Cornell university have been granted leave of ab- senee for' a year to earry on the advanced studies of their specialtics in Furope. Pro- fessor Waterman ‘I Hewitt, who is at the nead of the department of German ianguage and literature, and A. N, Prentiss, professor of botany day. t afled trom this port last Satur= Hewitt will devote & year P'rof o completion of a work on *Ihe Polith« Social Lite of Germany,” at the uni= centers ot Germany, Secandinavi and England, Dr. James Low, professor o yeterinary seicnee in the same faculty, wil use a year's leave of absence in edeavoring on beh tha vovernment to eradicate the prevailing cattle discases in the herds of the Weatern stalow