Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1887, Page 11

THE NEW HOT WEATHER CGIRL The Striking Oharacteristic That Distin- guishes Her From Other Girlu. THE COMMODIOUS YACHT ALVA. The Woes of Shopping—An Adventure In July—Bald Headed Women— The Auburn Fronts—COlara Belle's Letter. New York, July 27.—[Correspondence of the Brk.]—As surcly as the summer comes around there is amnually devel- oped a new hot-weather girl, How she is generated 18 a mystery., Butsheisa palpable entity, and she always has some striking characteristic to distinguish her from the girl of preceding seasons. This time she is a caresser. This quality is quite innocent and maidenly, for her caresses are bestowed, so far as public practice goes, upon members of her own sex. I have scen her already at Sara- toga, Newport and Long Branch, and 1 hear that she is at every other American resort of any account. Her peculiarity lies in the coddling of girls and women with whom she is famliar. In a dia- logue she gently chucks the other one under the chin, strokes her hair, pulls her ear or pats her shoulder, doing it with a manner of sweet ingenuousness, as though it was an unconscious ex- pression of an affectionate nature. Each summer has its new fashions in manners among the polite, and the caresser is the outpost of 1887, As millionaires become plentier in New York, it is diflicult toimagine how people who are bound to be singular and ex- clusive ‘will find diversions sacred to themselves. Already steam yachting, that svort which a few years ago was re- stricted to half a dozen famlies, is com- paratively common. That is to say, not jess than fifty steam yachts are now afloat with wealthy New Yorkers on board. 'T'he Astors and the Vanderbilts set the fashion, and as many follow as are able. It is considered exquisitely de- sirable not to go to one of the popular resorts, no matter how generally favored or costly they may be, but to sail clear away from society on a yacht, leavin, the rest of wealth’s world to discuss an envy them. The exclusive character of steam yuchting cannot be more strikingly demonstraied than by culling one little item from the statistics on this branch of marine information. There are only seventy-five steam yachts over one hun- dred feet inlength in all America. None of these boats make less than fifteen miles an hour, and most of them are capable of a trans-Atlantic trip. Several of them, like James Gordon Bennett's Namouna, have been around the world. The Namouna 18 two hundred and twenty-six feet long over all, THE LARGEST STEAM YACHT yet built is Willilam K. Vanderbilt's new oat, the Alva, which is two hundred and eighty-tive teet long. It costs the owner of the Alva upwards of twelve- hundred dollars a month to run the Alva on an ocean voyage without spending any money on provisions for himself and guests. As a fashionable thing cannot serve its purpose without being displayed, the cost of entertaining guests enters as the biggest k'l in steam yachting. Itis said that Vai. ferbilt on the Alva and Jay Gould on the Atlanta irenpwntly spend two hundred dollars aday for their sport. When the Alva goes to sea she carries a pilot, two engineers, two firemen, a stewurd, a cook, and scven sailors. Be- sides these there are servants in propor- tion to the number of guests. The boat is not unjustly called a floating palace, for it is so arranged internally that the owner and his friends may live exactly a8 they do on shore. The dining saloon, for instance, is eighteen by thirty-one feet in measuremant. There1s a well- stocked library, and ten suites of rooms in each of which s included a sittin, room, chamber and bath room. And, there is besides a feature which is prob- ably to be found on no other ‘Fncm in the world: a nursery for children and governesses. Who shall depict THE WOES OF SHOPPING in this broiling weather. And there is lots of it to be done. Husbands gone to the Adirondacks for afew weeks, the boys have their outinf you yourself must take the nurse and imby to the sea side, and for each and all "of these e }lmditions 4 job of buying must be done. 'he stores are simply suffocating. The irls behind the counters are so occupied n discussing their last mights’ adven- tures, or the coming evening's perform- ances, that you get scant attention, A lady balt dead with rushing about, buy- ing, matching, ordering and so on, came at last into one of our big emporiums and asked for oriental lace. “Further along,” answered Miss Fresh, without looking up. (“‘And I told Henry I would not think of such a thing, and sez he to e, “Uriental lace it you please,” tosecond irl. 8 “‘Narrer er wide (the idea of him think- mg so—he kept on chafling and kinder hinted) that's all the narrer we got.” (I bet a dollar I get a letter to the house to- night. Say Jinny what be you gomg to wenr to the coterie. I'm going to put lace sleeves). **No, we hain’t got it that width. I bought some here lately and you had a great quantity. If you will spend time to look you may find it:; otherwise 1 shall see if thesproprietor will get me more, “Well, I never. Jinny, have we got any lace that width»” “No; you needn't to look. (Hurrying aside.) “But the letter that he looked for never came.’ My poor friend staggered off and lurched up against the hosiery counter. An animated conversation was here going on between four of the clerkesses cash girl, ave you this style of gentlemen's hose in number 10" *You can lvok an' see; they're all on the counter,”’ and the girl turns away, humming: “But the letter that he looked for never came, How many pairs? Four times 82 is 1.28, Cash! Cush! (But the latter that he looked for never came). Cash! (Say, Em, what'’s for me to-night?) Cash!!!” (What kept yer?) There, $1.28 out of 5. (But the let- ter that he looked for never came.’’) However, if these are the discomforts of buying at this season, the bargains are delightful to the female heurt. There was never a summer when so much could be got fo A GENUINE ADVENTURE in July was enjoyed by a lady whom [ know. It proved that the babies of enor- mous wealth could tell strange stories if they could talk. My friend went in pur- suit of a cook. She had chased this ani- multos lur in east Sixteenth street, where, in a towering rear nement house dwelt uncounted fan She had passed through a paved court, in which a dripping hydrant had formed a hidious pool, and about the slimy edges vlayed dirty, miserable children, ‘grimy, unkempt liitle hoodlums: but 1n the arms of one of the biggest and filthiest, a girl of a dozen years, was a sickly child of as many months that attracted her atten- tion. 1t was an angel-fair little creature, and the pale gold hair shown in that dismal court, 8o carefully had it been kept. The tmy fingers that lay listlessly on a grimy old rag of a fi:a icoat, were unsullied, ahd altoget! baby was an exotic among L flw w3 she picked her way through the offerisive place and climbed the stairs to & murky little room on the fourth floor. The hunted cook had one to see a place, 80 her sister said. As the visitor stood talking of the cook’s probable return, ske saw on a bed a mag- nificent cashmere embroidered cloak, a little cap of rich lace and & pile of lawn and flannel baby petticoats. The incon- gruity of this outfi, with the squaldid room struck her as forcibly as the pale flower of a child in the court yard below. “She's shure to be home by foive, mum,"said the sister,and the lady qrued to return at that hour, Going out she asked the child nurse in tlllf'l, rd who the baby was that she car- ried, “It's me little brother—fwat are ye iving me?'' returned the hoodlum, and the lady fled, frightened at the impudent remarks of the gang. Nevertheless at 5 she ventured to return, and as she went up-stairs she overtook a uch-dressed and much-flushed young womau bearing the blonde baby on her hip. Tho poor thing's face was smeared with dirt, and its little hands bore evidence that it had been ecreeping on the green and ruekln;; bricks of the court-yard. Into the cook’s sisters room bounced the girl, and, while the lady talked to the prospective ser- vant, the child was hastily cleaned and put into the rich clothes that still covered the bed. In the shadow of the inner apartment this operation was performed, while scraps_of conversation about the presence of Tim Kelly and Andy Mctiee at Jones' woods informed the lady that the nurse girl had been to a picnic. My friend hurried away and, getting into her coupe bade the driver never lose sight of & girl and & baby when they should comne out. Ina few minutes the chase began, ur Avenue A to Twenty- third street, behind a cross town car to Madison avenue, in the rear of a stage, till the girl climbed out at Thirty-seventh street and ran along a couple of blocks toa stately mansion and disappeared into the busement. The excited lady went up the steps and, when her sum- mons was answered by a portly butler. She asked to see the mistress at once. The wife and wmother soon heard the story. It was a fine situation when that nurse girl was called up and asked about her afternoon. She had been in Central park all the time—let her tell it—had had the baby in the donkey carts, and watch- ing thescups, and then rode down in the Broadway cars. No words could express the thanks bestowed on the informer. But for the discovery they were going to take the faithless creature to Kurope, Time and time again when this deliea! child was suvposed tobe taking the of the parks, 1t had been stripped of its fine clothes, in order to keep them fresh, dressed in dirty thin rags instead of warm {lannels and left to contract dis- ease in the foetid courtyard of a sicken- ing tenement building. An old gentlemam said that it was strange how women - ESCAPED BEING BALD-HEADED, while a large proportion of men hadn't o hair between them and the sky after the clock of time struck: 50. have mude a hair standing discovery. There are as many bald women as men. ‘The only known remedy for a bald man isa wig, and the best ever constructed is u glaring fraud when you get back of the ears, or close to the forehead. ‘The only substitute for your own dear lost hair, that can trick your friends, and almost persuade yourself is the toupee which is gummed on the bald pate and brushed in with such fringe as kind vrovidence has left. These arrangements must always rest on a man's mind hke ah undis- covered murder. There must always be a harrowing apprehension that the sticky stuft will relax its grip on the sealp, or that the lining of your hat will adhere to that treacherous little mat and some Iittle act of gallantry will go for you bald- headed. One might in a theater a gentleman with nice dark curls clustered on his temples, and gently touching his shirt collar, was taken with a sneeze us he looked at a pretty girl sitting in a draft. *Who—is—she—ee?" sneezed the man, in an interrogative way. As he did so, a little, dark wave of hair lifted, and, as he threw his head back, the toupee, so carefully plustered, sailed thro the air and fell on a lady’s lap. On the man's head was a bare, round spot as big as a teacup, and the Iittle gobs of shoemakers’ wax that had lately held the levanting toupee in among his true hairs. The ) shall tell what a bond of sympathy lay under her hat-brim?), tenderly raised the deserter on a fan and thrust it over his shoulder. Not all the serpentine locks on the head of Medusa ever cur- dled the beholder’s blood as that little piece of wig did the poor man's, when he looked on the fan and saw what he supposed was on his head. He pocketed it and fled, an utterly wretched, heart- broken creature. But I started in to tell of my discovery. Emma and [ wanted to make a gold-dog out of the little black spaniel. © went prowiing through some funny places_in Sixth avenue for bleaching fluid. We found a pair of rooms on a second floor g’ilven over to the sale of what was called the ‘‘defiance front,”’ The woman in attendance said they dufied detection, and were so called, but Em thought they made you look warlike, and acted n a chip on the shoulder invitation to fight. I represented that 1 HAD A BALD AUNT m the country, and made myself so leasant that the woman laughed and et us into the secret of the trade at once. ‘“*How I'd like to be an assistant here a little while,” said I, “You muy if you like,” was the reply; "mi«' girl is off picnicking somewhere* 1'd like a little help this afternoon.” Em and I took oft our hats, and pinned big blue checked aprons on over our good dresses. In came alady known in New York society, whose versonal ap- pearance has been noticeable many years on account of herlovely snow-white hair, The womar took her behind a curtain, and [ grabbed a handful of hair pins followed right in. She removed a he! rope-colored mass of lace and flowers that went into that lovely hair beauti- fully. She unhooked a mysterious rub- rd. She took out invisible hair nd, Oh! Moses and the bullrushes i which you were found, there was a transformation sceno from her nose to the bump of revelation away oft on the back of her head. She was an unbroken coust of scalp. Not u hair dashed up to show where once the locks rolled in. believe I showed the astonishment 1 felt, for the wigmaker said: *You arn’t well, Mary Ann; L*uu:s these hot days are too much for you.” Sol went out to Em and got a little air. The next customer wgs a raw boned creature with tremendous soltaires for carrings, and a profusion of curled black hair filling the front of her peek hat. Em stood up to wait on hez. “‘Let me see the defiance front,” said he, “That’s not & match for my hair,” said the customer ) ," replied I blandly, “butit would suit your fair skin so well that you might touch up your own hair with our great ausiferous aurora fluid till it did mateh.”’ Th ly smirked acd said, “Dear me" and ‘‘drea suz, and finally, *“I'm a good mind to try that front on.” “Your hair is pretty thin on top," said *'T wear these false pieces through the summer to rest my parting.'’ You're ill again. Mary Ann,” said the prr;]\r' tress, coming in; 'l tend to this lady." < And she sold to her the auburn front, gave the 165 hairs that belonged to the costume their tirst bath in auriferuous # sold her two bottles of the fluid 2o on with, and a switeh to twist in when her own bair got the right shade, CLaRA BriLg, IN THE FIELD OF LITERATURE The Mania of Authorship—A Review of Some of the Latest Books. COLUMBUS AS A STAGE HERO. The Story of Metlakahtia—The Fed eral Constitution—Thoughts For a Young Man— The Magazines. It was & thoroughly appreciative ob- server who gave expression to the wish that his enemy would write a book. Whether in hisday men became authors and then passed into oblivion is a matter of which no account is given, but it is to be presumed that then as now there was no more dangerous pastime than the uttering of thoughts and ideas in book form. As in all occupations which ver- mit the parading of one’s productions before a critical publie, there is about ‘‘book writing,”’ a great enchantment. From the Alpha to the Omega there is a passionate interest in the work that absorbs the very life of the author. The fact that his manuscript may only be created for the waste-basket does not diminish his passion; so the enchantment may not who!ly be laid at the door ot n‘mn‘n innate vanity and desire for noto- riety. t is wonderful the number of “books’* produced in this country; and yet there are perhaps as many which die an inglorious death at the hunds of the critical ‘‘reader” of the unfeeling publisher, It is not always the bad ma- terial which meets this death, nor all the meritorious which passes to the printer, for there have been many productions the reading public have been called to peruse which are simply abortive at- tempts at literature, while many really commendable works have been cast aside ignominously by unappreciative critics, numbers of which have later been res- cued from untimely graves and, placed before the world, have won many enco- miums and been treasured as worthy works of worthy authors. 1f the worst fate that can betall a human isthe authorship of a book,many have met severe fates in this worid and " hundreds are following them every week in the year. The fate of millions of pages of manuseript. which was but sweetuess wasted in the desert air, the poverty, the trials and tribulatiens of some of our greatest authors seems to to have no retarding effect on the rising generation, in every third family of whiich bobs up serenely some born au- thor, ready to shake the foundations ot the literary world with the inspired pen. ‘To discourage the writing ot books by any one is an error; from the most ob- scure corner may come the sweet per- fumes of a rose, which blushing unseen may cast a fragrance throughout the garden of literary flowers. No man or woman was ever severely injured by the preparation or the study in- cident to the compiling of the manuscript, but it can truthfully be said that the ma- jority of those who get into print are the ones upon whom pity may be properly and lavishly ln:s(owg«l, *n ThE life_and charactyr of Columbus has been placed before the reading pub- lic in many various ways, but it was re- served for Daniel S. Preston, formerly of England, to produce the great discoverer as the hero of a play. G. P. Putoam & Sons, of New York, are the publishers. *Columbus: or a hero of the new world— an historical play’* is the title. The author has blended the prusaic history of his hero's day with nteresting dialogue and dramatic scenes 1n such a way as to make his production a decided treat. Lake all heroes, Columbus, develops in this work a wonderful amount of vir- tues; the manner in which he cherished his pet ideas, the patience in which he made known his plans toa sneering world, his ndventures and his trials and finally his triumphs are all portrayed n a «llccidedly creditable and interesting style. % he finis where Columbus, stands re- coivmf the congratulations of Queen Isabella, is intended to appear a most novel and beautiful tableau. Columbus mentions a vision he had of the future, at which appears an apparition most ap- ropriate; a foreground at first alone vis- ible, of gently undulating heights, em- bosoms in its midst a fertile and irrigated plain. Beyond are the cl ed spires of acity. Upon the declivities of the hills recline in fourfold grouping, the allegorical impersonatio f the States of the American union. The mist which at first hid this scene from view rises further and discloses above the plain,and distant, a rugged and inaccessible moun- tain peak. The precipices below are lost in cloud. Upon the peak's summit, having in its rear the glory of the rising sun, stands Genius, the fairy character of the play, who, robed in white and wreathed with laurel, recognizes the great discoverer with a smile and indicates to him her daughters in the plain below. The mists rise higher when above, and to each side of the mountain peak ap- pears a luminious empyrean, within which, 1n as many groupings, are recog- nized with vagueness forms and feutures of colonial, revolutionary and national celebrity, until, from each of these, emerge with sudden vividness the im- :uzles ot Columbus, Washington and Lin- coln. 1t was the failure of the playwright to secure a producer for his offspring that converted him to an author and brought his work into_book form. It is u ques- tion whether it will ever be fortunate or unfortunate enough to secure a place on che boards, but certain it is that ‘its liter- ary merit alone will preserve it as a most worthy addition to the useful li- las pro- duced, **The Fortur " whien cannot fail of appre the writer is to explain the im- portant resnlts of the science of language. The style is conversational, and the en- thusiasm of the author soon infeets all who follow him. The book is especially valuable to teachers, writers, lawyers, ete., and is a most interesting volume for the genaral reader. A »*x Tue latest contribution by Algernon Charles Swinburne is “Select Poems,” kmblislm(l by Worthington & Co., New Cork. The assortment is some of the best of this popular English poet’s pro- llucllliuus. and is well worth a place on the shelf, * & Joux F. Baker, LLB., of the New York bar, has in book form *The Fed- eral Constitution, an Essay.” The book is a yaluable one, replete with useful in- formation; the argument is strong and pointed, the reasoning logical, and the on work worthy of the subject, From the early history of the colonies to the latest amendment to the constitution the work is replete with a strong disertation upon the foundation of American goys ernment, including foot notes and judi- cial decisions upon the same. G. P, Put- nan & Sons, of New York, are the pub- lishers, * v Tue public is indebted to Messts. Funk & Wagnalls, New York, for ‘‘Hints on Early Education.” This work was first published sixty years ago in London an- nonymously. Its authorship has been attributed to a sister of Elizabeth Fry, the philanthropist; but the name of the author nover nprelrml on the title page, though it passed through eighteen edi- uons W wm T}{ i3 nt discrimination exhibited all lhl the little work make it a vals lo_assistant to mothers and others enj in the care and struction of the you:.. » THE new edition of “A Few Thoughts for a Young Mnn,"la.flornce Mann, and published by Lee & pard, of Boston,is just out, and if thwnng men of to-day would read and profit by the nuggets of wisdom contained therein, the world would be much better that they had lived. As advice to thé young his words of truth and wisdom have _run, in the eurs of the young und ol for many years, and aided many in seeking the right vath and adhering to it. This little work is no less valuavle than other productions of Horace Mann and should be read :nlh care. e “DoroTiY THORN of Thornmn,"}a’y Julian Warth and published by D, Lathrop, Boston, is & late work which can truthfully be called a first-class American novel. 'The story is a pretty one carrying with it the usual moral, but woven with sush simple elegance as to be decidedly attractive. Like its title the entire tale is old fashioned and plain, and this very fact it may be makes it more interesting. Certain it is, how- ever, that the character aund lifo of Dorothy Thorn is worth Iolmwlug and can be done so to the permanent benetit as well as to the temporary entertain- ment of the reader. * » Ligutexant Jonx P. FiNLey, U.S. A, is the author and the lnsurance Monitor, New York, the publisher of a very inter- esting and valuable treatise on ‘“*Torna- does.” The book containe valuable in- formation, without donbt the result of many years ot labor and observation of the subject. Ascertained facts are used as the basis of every statgment and the book is filled with pertinont illustrations The author has thoroughly and system- atically dissected his subject, and the parts and parcels are treated in such a way as to bring one on familiar terms with the dreaded king of the elements. A careful reader of this book will not lack for the wisdom to foretell the cy- clone or to save himself from injury when it bursts in all its fury. The work is entirely devoid of superfluous language and while written in & _smooth, interest- ing style, is a practical, common sense presentation of fucts‘lmll observations. ' Tug story of *‘Metlukahtla,” by Henry S. Wellcome, author, and Saxon & Co., New York, publishers, % a tale ot a com- munity of native British Columbians now seeking refuge under the folds of the American Hag from persecution of church and state. Thirty years ago their people consisted of some of the most fe- rocious Indian tribes of this continent, glorying in such traits ss treachery, and such practices us cannibalism. Wm.Dun- can began a single handed mssion among them, educated them, told to them the story of the cross in the sim- plest manner and gradually introducing peaceful industries finally conguers their wild passions and works a marvellous transformation. Tne story is a tale of life, a history in fact but penned in such a pleasing vein as to rob it of the usual dullness of fact and clothe it with the interesting arb of fiction, The author has performed his task well and the work is worllly a careful perusal. e JAM M. Luvrow has mingled fact with ion 1n a delightful manner in “The Captain of ihe Janizaries.” The book is a story of_the times of Scander- berg and the fall'of Constantinople and is Interesting throughout. Funk & Wag- nalls are the publishers, * *™x THE prevailing discontent in the pres- ent process of selecting our president and vice-pre ent is the apology, Charles O'Neil, LL.B., offers in presenting for the consideration of the reading public, “The American Electoral System.”” The work isa valuable one to every man who loves his country and the disdussion of matters affecting its interests. It is a sound, strong book, cne in which it pays to in- vest and containing many things which cvery American should ponder upon. Putnam & Sons are the pablishers. THE MAGAZINES, THE veteran in the magazine field, Harper’'s, 1s at all times attractive, but the August number 18 especiully so, re- plete as it is with stramgand interesting articles upon the topicsof the day. The charms of the great Niagara are done full justice by the trenehamt pen ot Miss Welch, whose portrayal of many delight- ful tramps 1n the vicinity is beautiful in the extreme. Edward Brown gives an entertaining and instructive sketch on **The Irish Party in Parlinment.” ‘‘Sea ‘Wings” is the title of a study of sails by Robert C. Leslie, which with its sixty-six drawings makes a most interesting peru- sal for all interested in nautical arts. In a well written article G. O. Shields tells of experiences ‘‘Hunting the izaly,” and ward Pyle gives a thrilling narra- tive of *“I'he Buccaneers of the Spanish Muin.” Rebecea Harding Davis,Charles Dudley Warner, and other well known writers, contribute to make this number one of the most hlte:ostlng yet 1ssued, * SCRIBNER'S for Au, ‘nst gives the places of honor to the fifth installment of *‘Un- published Letters of ‘Lhackery’’ in the several drawings. ““The Picturesque Quality of Holland” is an interesting ar- ticle from the pen of Géorge Hitcheock, a young American artist, who has illus- trated his subject with several excellent drawings. Sclections from the letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne under “A Girl's Life Eighty Years Age,” gives interestin, views of society in ye olden times. Prof. Shaler of Harvard universt, sented by an instructive p: tific subjects from a po; view, wnile Prof. Weir of the Yale art school writes of ‘“Ine Revial of the Handicraft.” I\ R. Sullivan contributes the fiction under the title of he Last Rembrandt,”” which is particularly pleas- point of ing. k number of other well-penned arti- and several excellent poems o plete this number which is a very i esting one throughout, * A DECIDEDLY interesting paper of holi- adventure is *‘Snubbin Through y'" which appropriately opens the August number of the Century. In this number General A, W. Greely describes an episode of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, under *“‘Our Kivigtok." This is a curious and interesting contri- bution. Jocl Chandler Harris begins a story entitled “Azalia,” which is pleas- ingly illustrated by Kembler. “Is 1t a a Piece of a Comet,”“is a question which William Earl Hidden attempts to solye of the meteorite which® fell near Mazapil Mexico, in 1885, The Lincoln history is the usual feature and maintains its inter- I war articles, an interesting ongs of the War," numerous papers on various subjects, and many excellent portraits combine to make this issuc u decidedly interesting one. * ' Hox. Davip A, WL second paper on “The Econgmic Disturb- ances Since 1873," in the AuZust number® of the Popular Science moenthly. Ex- president A, D. White continues his ‘New Chapters in the Warfare ot Sci- ence,” and ‘“The Falls of the Mississ- ippi,” by J. A. Keys is an interesting paper advancing some new and curious features in regard to the Father of Waters. A nutsber of other entertain- g contributions grace this number, among which are ‘‘Astronomy with an Opera Glass,” Mr, Serviss' third pu*{er on - that interesting topic, and ‘“The Metal Art of Ancient Mexico” by H. L. Reynolds, Jr.. an instruetive subject well handied, ‘Throughout this number main- tains the reputation of the journal as an 1amarmlnnu{ and iugtructive period- 1gal. 4 . A s contributes his AROUND NIAGARA FALLS. Its Stupendous Power—The Beauties of the Soenery. NEAR THE DEVIL'S HOLE The Whirlpool Rapids—The Few Peo- ple Who See the River—A Spot of ¢ Which Americans Harper's Magazine for Aug While hundreds of tourists visit the Falls of Ni- agara every season, not ona in a thous- and actually sees the river. But with the “frecing of Niagara" celebrated by New York state and Canada, July 15, 1885, the river experienced a new birth, Hereafter, in the true spirit of this international bond, the traveler, having enjoyed restored nature at the voints comprised within the limits of the International park survey, may ex- plore Niagara river to where, actually freed from its high, precipitous mural boundaries, it pours the w aters of our upper inland seas into the broad Uatario. Here culminates the historic interest of the Niagara frontier, as at the Whirlpool niodern rock-readings tell us to seek & clew to its geological past. For of few other rivers may it be suid that they have a threefold charm, apoealing alike to artist, historian and man of science, True lovers of Niagara hope that the day is not far distant when the Interna- tional park will consist of not merely a mile strip on the American bank, but a firuqd double boulevard, running from uftalo to Youngstown, and on the Cana- dian cliffs from the Horshoe Falls to Queenstor:. As a sight for country villas, Lewiston Ridge, with the unnumbered beautiful drives in its heighborhood and its picturesque historical associations, must, as the cities of western Now York grow in wealth and population, become not less famous than the cliffs of New- port. Below the cataract the Niagara, al- though comparatively few tourists dis- cover this fact, has a beauty and grand- eur no less imposing than the falls them- selves. Not content with its mighty plunge of 135 feet, the river goes surg- ing and tossing down another 104 feet in its rocky bed over the obliterated falls of a preglacial stream, the remains of a third cataract beicg still perceptible in the Whirlpool rapids. At the Whirlpool the river untwists itself like some mighty serpent from its sinuous contortions in this coecave prison, to pour itself an emerald-green wave intoa channel at right angles with its former course, and henceforth trends northeast with many a gentle curve. Not until we reach Lewiston Ridge do we turn our backs on the Niagara's stu- pendous exhibition of power. From this height, described by L": her Charleyois as “‘a frightful mountain which hides itself in clouds on which the Titan might attempt to scale the heavens,” 1s a view worthy the expansive canvas of a Bierstadt. ~ The table-land terminates abruptly in an escarpment. Beneath stretch boundless meadowlands as rich as any in agrieultural Eugland. They slope gently to the river, which, coming headlong down the gorge, with the leap and roar of the Whixfipuul upon it, grm‘- ually subsides into a_tranquil stream as the bold outlines of the banks above Lewiston fall away into broad, smiling laing, Across the gorge is the Bunker 1lill of Cunada, crowned by its lofty shaft. Few monuments in” the world have 8o imposing an effect in the land- scape as the longly form of Brock tower- ing in the blue clouds far above the heights of Queenston. Nesthng under the shadow mountuin is Lewiston, so na for Governor Morgan I , of N York. At the extreme north, be; village of Youngstown, and comt ning the angle at the beadland of river and lake, we descry the white ramparts of Fort Niagara, whence the gallant Pou- chot, begirt with enemies, looked out in 1758, vainly attempting to discover mov- ing among the trees the battalions of his allies from the Detroit river. Exactly opposite Fort Niagara lies ‘‘fair Newark, ance gay, rich, and beautiful,” present- ing to the water’s edge her ancient front of crumbling fortresses and gray church towers, With the American, pedestrian- ism has become almost as favorite a mode of exercise as with his English cousin. One of the finest autumnal tramps this country affords is a walk up the gorge of the Niags No tour afoot in the Swiss Alps is more exhilarating. On the one hand are the organ tones of the turbulent river; on the other, the steep, weathor-beaten cliffs, shagey with forest tr and of appalling te.ght; and the cloud-embosomed form of Canada’s hero follows the retreating footsteps, as if, weary of the vague isolation of the higher atmosplere, he would fain keep companionship with humanity below. The whole series of rock strata com- posing the sides of the gorge is laid bare up the perpendicular American bank,like the layers of a well-regulated jelly-cake. A stu {0‘ this rock wall in the course of a walk from Lewiston to Suspension bridge not oulgv shows the various thick- ness of the different strata, but gives a clear idea of the nature of the erosive process by which, according to recent surveys, portions of the cataract recede at the rate of three feet a year. Hard layers of the Niagara ana Clifton lime- stone alternate with the soft shales of the s. Beginning at Lewiston as ip, the upper stratum of one increases in thickness to the falls. Here the mighty force of the caturact constantly washes away the foundation of soft shale on which the limestone rests, and thus undermined,the hard upper rock breaks of The narrow road by wl pedestrians descend from Lewiston esearpment pur- sues a winding z1gzag course, its pass: broken two secondary te Along this steep precipice, deseribed by Charlevois and Pouchot in their memoi as though it were one of the most dif! cult passes m the Alps, was visible, until vecently, the remains of an old tramway, ‘‘the first railroad in America,” In the days when Lewiston and her neigh- bors over the river e flourishing trad- ing posts, here began the portage arcund the falls. At this point all the goods in process of transportation between the akes underwent transshipment. The heay: were raised and lowered on a sliding car and cradle moyed on an in- clined plane by a windlass. Up and down this narrow defile passed a motle, procession of European traders, Ameri- cans and Indians, To the ‘‘trois mon- taignes’’ came Father tlennepin, his port- able chapel on his back, and with him that bold adventurer who threatened to make “'the griffon fly above the crows;’ for while there is nothing in these decay- mg river towns to recall the fact, we are actually in the whhorhood that wit- nessed the birth of America's magnificent inland commerce. The walk tip the gorge is made easier by leaying the train where the engine slows up this side the mountain. Near by arellm exposed foundations and an- chors of the ohl suspension bridge. The remnants of its heavy cables flap and sway across the gorge between Lewiston and Queenstown like an emvty clothes- line. ~ At our left is a tunnel cut through the side of a rock. 1t looks like a ruined arch; but although the surrounding country is rich in_trndition and history the banks of the Niagara are not crowned with eastles. Some one in the party re- members that Mr. Benson 4. 1 Bag aekergh of | ip tho yiggg:iu‘f’mfi 4 , HOWE & KERR, FURNITURE 1640 DOUGLAS STREET, ~ (Op)osite Falconer’s.) SOUTH SIDE RESIDENT TRACT ADDITION TO FRIEND, NEBRASKA. At Auction Sale, Thursday, August 4th, at 2 p. m,, Sharp. Sale without Reserve to the Highest Bidder. Friend, Nebraska, has two thousand people. Is on the main line of the B. & M. rosd 88 miles west of Lincoln. The K.C. & W. railroad is surveyed through the town bonds will be voted for it,and the division station on the new line will be at Friend, The town is one of the best shipping points in the state. Terms of Sale—One-third cash, lance on easy terms C.C. PACE and BEN O'RHODES, Auctioneers, Lincoln. WHITE ISHBURN, Proprietors. B’EA\R IN MIND WE ARE SELLING Furniture, Carpets, Stoves and Household Goods Of every Description, on Credit at Cash Prices. PEOPLES' INSTALLMENT HOUSE 613 N. I6th St., Between California and Webster. ROSENTHAL & CO., Proprietors. RILEY & McMAHON, Fstate and Loan Brokers, Real 3810 South Fifteenth Street. 15 lots in Patrick’ add, from $1,000; $400 cash dow ance to euit. 2 Corner 36th and California, 189x150, Several cheap lots in 8outh Omaha, nice acres in Bontield cheap. HILL & YOUNG, 1211 and 1213 FARNAM ST. FURNITURE Carpets, Stoves, House Furnishing Goods. Weekly andiunlhly Pay- ments, Some desirable trackage lots. 5 ncres good trackage, cheap. Good bargains in all purts of the city, A fino aore in Washington Hill Book, and it is well 2to say here a pre liminary reading of this careful Piulunun vastly enhances the enjoyment of a tramp u;?ugn the battle country of the 1812, Near the Devil's kole where the rail- way goes into the mountain, we leave the track and mount the ridge. From the top of the cliff overlooking this awful chasm is another sweeping view of the river north and south. i’oerlng down into the depths of the leafy gulf, it seems almost impossible to conceive in the syl- van calm of this peaceful ferny solitude that it could once have been the scene of a murderous ambuscado. Passing the squatter sovereignty at Suspension bridge, and pausing midway on the hanging viaduct, we have a full view of the wonderful and many times deseribed Niagara gorge. Great white ulls are circling over the narrow rock - ound chasm, in the bed of which flows the emerald-green river. The perpin- dicular cliffs, 300 feet high, through which the stream makes its tempestous passage, stillelad in the fading russet tints of maples and eims, among which the se- vere outlines of tall pines stand forth like black priests, mounting the gorge, up and up in solemn file, carrying us back into that remote past when tirst the Jesuit fathers visited the nation which ave to the river, on either side of which camp fires burned, its musical name. Crossing the bridge, we witness at the Whirlpool on the \Canadian side “the culminating act of the Niagara drama,” Littla known,and less appreciated by the «-norulny of travelers, to the thinker the Vhirlpool 18 the most fascinating spot along the river, more awful in the mys terious swirl of its waters and the ity res 1ts pust involves Compressed within these narrow limits is the drainage of half a continent, Two of the three sides are steep,rocky precipices like the rest of the river gorge. The other is a sheer slope of primeval forest, at which the water rushes with the tremendous force ac- quired in its swift descent, To account or this wooded declevity earries one far deeper into the fathiom] @es than any possible ealeuiations o the period re- quired for the falls to dig the gorge from Queenstown, war of cataract itsel Frequently naccidents oceur old “which ecanse sprains and brai Dr.J. H. Mcl in the an's Voleanie Ol La menthas for many years been the con- stant favorite family remeny. e —— Kayaking in Greenland. From an illustrated sketch of some personal experiences by General A W, Greely in the August Century, we quote the following: This dangerons eraft is gradually dying out in Greenland, and only the brighter and more smbitious boys acquire it. Practice must commence at a tender age, and must be continued assiduously. .~ Jens had a pride and do light in the art, such as was unususlim | his settlement, For those wha erscen n Laoyak [will haperfoe! a " shuttlo-shaped be ) sisting of a woolen frame:work, which is fastened together generally by seal- skin thongs, und over which is stretched a coveripg of tanned seaisxin as neatly ang tightly as In the sheepskin of a drum-head. The skin covering is so well tanned and is sodeftly sewn together with sinew thread by the Eksimo women, that no drop of water finds its way through skin or seam. ‘The use of seal thong in uniting the stanchions gives great strength and equal elasticity, allowing with impunity great shocks whieh other- wise would destroy so frail a structure. The boat is usually some fifteen fect long, and from 1ts central point gently curves upward-—from a width of twenty and adepth of ten inches—to pointed ends. Both prow and stern are care- fully armed with a thin - molding of-wal- rus ivory, which is a protection to the skin covering when the hunter spinning through the water, strikes small ice, or, inlanding, 8o throws forward and up- ward his kayak that bont and man slide ily and safely up the edge on to the surface of a floe. ‘T'he only open- a_ circular holo with a “bon wooden ring, itssize being strictly lim- ited to the circumference of the hips of the lurgest hunter who is to use it A waterproof combination jacket and mitten of oil tanned seal skin 1s worn by the hunter, who tightly laces the bottom to the ring, so that no water can enter the ka Thus equipped the innuit seas that would swamp any other o W plunges safely through the heaviest surf. A single with 1 blade at each end, in skillful and trained hands propels this unbaliasted, unsteady eraft with great rapidity, and it moves through the water at a rate curying from five to ten miles an ording to the character of the sea and the exigency of the oceasion, The oar properly handled les an ox- pert to rise to the surface, if, as happens at times, the boat is overturned. ‘The kayak of the Eksimo is probably unsurpassed in ingenuity by the boating device ny other savage people of the ssential points of lightness, and structural strength are velously well adapted to the varyin and dangerous couditions under which an Bskimo provider secks his sea game, This tiny eraft with all hunting gear ghs “searcely tifty pounds and wilk a load of some 200 pounds besides its oceupant, —— Colic, eramps and paing in the Stome ach arc quidkly subdied by taking a few drops of Dr. J. H. Mel 1's Voleanie Oil Liniment on sy, ormined in gyrup, ——— An Abbreviated Question, Now, what would you think’of it, M., 1t you had a pretty youns sr., And an impudent ehiap Should sit in her And refuse to get up il - Chicako News: Fi hatehed from a n e'd kr,? n ostricnes have ji st of seventeen fers s at Mount Fairy ostrich farm Diega, This is the best record eve meriea, . ‘Thers ire oIRY_biza Lrmnow,