Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 1, 1887, Page 5

¥ wife were tre LOTS FIVE MILES FROM TOW Aro White Elephiants on the Hands of Lia- colu Dirt Dealers, BUT INSIDE LOTS ARE STEADY. EnterprisingCongregationalists Build a Church tn a Week—Two Little Boys Run Away to Be Dime vel Heroes, [FROM THE 1¥ LINCOLY BUREAU.] The great real estate boom which roamed around in this viomity last spring has subsided. The fellows who bght lots at huge prices five miles from the city do not see as much hight in the &Ky as they expected. Their semi-annual payments are coming du alus are slow, the banks don’t care to loan for such pur- poses and money is not easily obtained. As a cousequence there may be some dif ficulty in meeting payments, Large tracts of land platted 1nto lois remain untaken and the holders are as anxious for unother “boown™ as everybody 1s for rain. While this is true of outside prop- erty it is not true of inside proverty nor of any within a reasonab distance While the market 1s quiet prices are firm and whatever changoes hands S0 ut excellent figure: Susiness and desirable residence property s | SUMY prices, i during the week past ngents report considerable inquiry and the tone is bet- ter. A tew nice rains and colder weather ke the market more active, ature of Lincoln’s pros- particularly gratifying. that is "The number of business houscs and new perity residences constructed in 1537 may not be as great 1s in some provious years, bt the money expended will be tly more than ever before, The building! are much larger and more substantial The business blocks are larger and guite metropohtan. — Nonme are erected of less than three stories and some a8 many as six. The H. T, Clarke drug warehouse, is up the first story and is of the most substantial char- acter, with massive stone basement. Pames Ledwitt1s rapidly comvleting a large pressed brick block on the corner oi Pond and Eleventh streets, while the Burr block, corner of Twelfth and O Etreets, the most pretentious structure in Lincoln, is progressing finely. Sheldon & Stubbleficld have started n'nice block on Eleventh and N, the corner to be oc- cupted for banking purposes. The num ber of reully tine residences neating com- pletion is far greater than ever before. Frank Sheldon, J. D. McFarland and J. J. Denhoft cach have pressed brick resi- cos costing from $20,000 to $35,000. 'o these should be added a large num- of good frame buildings. People do not put up cheap hou formerly. New designs bave been secured and the structures are much more artistic. Nothing g0 proves the substantial pros- perity of the city as these improvements. t goes without saying now thut Lincoln 35 rapidly becoming n city of fine resi- denc nd s a desirable ’phu'v to li Wide streets and rows of shade s, with cellent transportation facilities, all joining to muke pleasant city. BREAKS THE RECORD, A new chureh has been erceted in Lin- coln in the shortest possible time. For several months the Congregational peo- ple have felt that a second church or- tion ought lo be started. The en- © took shape at that time, but the »us parties could not agree on a lo- ation and the matter fell through. Then the Methodists stepped in and s church on Seventeenth and A str place selected by some of the Congrega- tionalists. Threy pht their hands to the plow and turned back. When Rev. Gregory, pastor of the Congregationalist church, learned this, he stepped to the qront and last Saturday he purchased the two lots so nicely located on A and Sev- entcenth. At once he left Lincoln for Omaha, where ne preached last Sunday, while Rev. Maile, state missionary, filled After the morning asked the members of ested 1n the new enter- After talking the mat- his pulpit here. pervice Mr. Mail th urch inf rise to remuin. or over a few minutes a committee was appointed to have a temporary structure erected at once, Monday saw uctual work, and to-day services were held in the new church, & building 20x40 roofed With tar paper and better certainly than @ tent. It will answer until it can be de- termined whether or not the church en- terprise will be a success. The e » was held at 7 last evening. The organization will in all provability be known as the Second Congregational church ot Lincoln. E. 11. Curtire, pastor of the Presbyterian church,1s ab- ;uut on a long vacation, his health is not very good. INAWAY BOYS. Lee Bowman, son of Dr. Bowman, and n chum named Conklin, are daring young tellows. ‘Lhey are thirteen or fourteen years old and seem to have had accesy to ‘henp novels. A week or sosince they got permission to go Lo the country to avork on a farm. It was expected that they would return in a day or two, but more than a week has passed and no boys, A little examination discloses the act that ‘they took with them all their lothes and other effects, including some evolves jom some ranchman, get homesi sadder but w er boys. MR, M. B. Chey SURY Last might Mr. surprise by thei teemed friends. It w nniversary of their we hey refused to disclose them a most by remembrances 'wenty-five year: little more substantial Company Gin the 154th N lnteers. tlistinction “throughout the war. homesteaded a farm six miles northw of Liu honored residents of Lancaster county. UNION CLUB OFFICERS, Under th the A, S, ng and clected nown citizens: Sawyer, D. ins, C.E. Yates, F Shelion, Thomas Ewing, Jlark, Aunstin Humpre! 3. M.'Lambertson, C. T, Bogus, tewart, A. D. Burr, E. A. Hargrave, £, Utt, O, N. Humphrey, J. A, s. G. Beeson, H. J. Cosgrove, L. C. . C. Abbott, John W. McDonald, Voods, F. D Reeves and . W, Baldwin, Steps are being taken to put the club nto new and commodious quarters, hav- in fact verything pertaining to a first class club T 0 membership chairman, M. Ray- . Webster, ng reading rooms, lunch room: ouse. The committee onsists of R. H. Oakley, jeutenant E. 8. Dudley, ' J. ond, Dr. F. B, Righter, 0! W . 0. Phillips, 8. J. Alexander. IN BRIEF, Attorhey Billingsley, who is ‘also city Iderman, has returned with his hn;ij]y ‘\!; while a4 sojourn in the . mountain first at hand, and filled with tales of ndian life and cow boy experience, they have possibly fone westward ready to and awful tired, and return to their mothers EY. ney an® his d to a most charming nearest and most es the twenty-fifth ding day and the date, but 4riends found 1t out and. by prearrange- auent, in ther absence took possession of &heir house and upon their return gave ty_welcome and some ugo Mr. Cheney en- gered the service in defense of his coun- gry from New. York stafe as captain of York vol- He snw the magnificent charge @ by Pickett at Gettysburg, where he avas severely wounded, and served with He t In just after the state was ad- has "been a member of the state senate, and is one of the oldest and most ction of the club to extend he membership and reorganize into a egular city club, to be composed of brominent #itizens and business mien, the ommittee on membership met last even- following well aymond, A. J. Macfarland, * Albert Wat- ink M. Hall, F. L. George H. 0. & Oakloy, oL uckstaft, urr, ninas Sew mountains. Sain D.Cox, the journalist eapitalist and late editor’of the State. Democrat, ac- companied by Attorney . D, Reeves, has gone to Kansis City. They doubtless npr_v:- toadd to their “exchequer by the visit, J J. Imhoff and family have returned from an extended tour in the east. y made an extended Northwestern Nebraska, and_de. an address at the Long Pine qua. He is amazed at the natural ntages and attractions of that new and, as he thinks, glorious county. He expressed great surprise at the numb. of large trees, cloar streams and really chorming s has just started for the FIF D AND FARM. Producing Only the Best. ag0 Times: A few years ago a gentleman in Wisconsin who was famil- iar with the dairy business showed that the farmers of one county lost about £500,000 in a single scason by making in- ferior instead of very choice butter, He made his showing by ascertaining how many pounds of butter they made, and comparing the amount 1t sold for with what would have been realized forit had it all been sold for 50 cents per pound, which was received for a few choice lots made by parties who kept Jersey cow had excellent facilities for kecping mil were expert butter-makers, and had city custom who were able and willing to pay fancy prices for a very superior arti- cle. A somewhat similar showing w made about the same time in relation to the chicese made in one county in New York. The reports of several market towns were quoted to show that much of the cheese made during the season sold for 7 cents per pound, while some choice forcign cheese had been sold for 40 cents, and some fall cream cheese, fla- vored with sage, had been disposed for nts per poun Oceasionally a hve stock journal makes a sensation showing us how much far- mers lose by keeping inferior cattle. It gives the prices realized for a car load of fancy beeves, all pure Dblooded or high grade animals, pastured on blue grass and fattened on corn meal, and com- pares them with the sums received for “serubs” kept on a range, ranch, or prairie farm that has never been im- vroved, and wnich have never had any grain to eat, I'ruit-raisers otten refer to the fact that some of peaches will readily sell for $2, while others are dif- ficult to dispose of for fifty cents; th choice spring lamb is often” sold in our large cities for fifty cents a pound is cer- tain. Extra fine spring chickens ready for the broiling 1ron by the 1st of July, have also been sold for seventy-five cents per pound. The late Dr. Hull, of Alton, sold Washington plumbs in this market for $1 per dozen. He sold some pears and apricots at the same price. Black Haruburg grapes have been sold at $1 a pound during the same season that Concords found a slow sale at one-twenticth of that sum We are not justitied, however, in draw- ing the conclusion that by raisiug the quality of all the articles produced on farms such prices could be realized for them. ch_epicures that wiil pay almost any vrice for vegetables pro- duced far in advance of the scason, for fruits of large size and surpassing ex- cellence, for meats that will “melt in the mouth,” for cream cheese and for fresh butter made in the winter from the milk of Jersey cows. The number of these persons, however, is very small. If all the productsof the farm and garden were improved in quahty til they deserved to rank among delicacies the present prices for these articles could not be realized. Comparatively few people can aford to buy luxuries at the price they now com- mand. If no butter and cheese could be obtained for less than 50 cents per pound most people would be conipelled by stern ty to find substitutes for them. like would be true in relation to beef, , and vegetables of all kind likely that the demand for luxur- ies, even at the prices now demanded tor them, will increase as wealth accumulates m the country. But it is nonsense to talk about selling all the products of the farm and garden at the prices a fow very rich men can_pay for what they use on their tables, The quality of them may be raised to an ideal standard, but the pur- ers of them at fancy prices will be There will always be purchasers of strawberries at 50 cents per box, but the sales of this most delicious fruit are never large when the price is much aboye one-fifth of that sum The like is true in relation to vegetables raised 1 hotbeds, grapes ripened under glass, and spring Jamb and green peas in a condition to be cooked in the month of May. The great mass of humanity, even in a properous country like this, must be content th fruit of only a medium quality, and which can be obtained at a corresponding price. If there were no “'serub” ‘eattle in the country to furnish cheap meat, most of our people would be obliged to get along without it, as the inhabitants of many European countries do, Summer Difficulty With Poultry. Awmerican Agriculturalist: There is work to do during the summer which is often neglected because it isa busy sea- son on the farm. Ridding the fowls of lice should be attended to. en when there are no signs of !ice, they may be busy at work on the fowls, making them drooping and mopish, while no amount of food will keep them in good condition. The hen, when somewhat fat, is not at- tacked by lice when she ean reach, for she is pro d witly an oil-suck at the base of the tail, from which she de- rives oil, not only as a protection against lice, but to assist i cleaning her feathers, The large lice therefore congregate on the heads and necks. 1f the hen is poor in flesh the lice may be found on all parts of the body. The best remedy is lard and only a small portion should be used which should be rubbed on the skin of the heads and necks. The fowl should then be held by the legs, head downward, and thoroughly dusted with Persian insect powder. The quarters must also be kept very clean. Once a week is not too often to give such attention to hens in the sum- mer. Gointo the hen house at night and force a few drops of warm lard in among the feathers of the head and neck with a sewing machine cil can, To prevent disease, keep the hens at work by making them scratch for their rrain food. Overfeeding is the cause of howel diseases in the summer, or, rather, too much concentrated food is given, and not enough of bulk; 1f the quarters are kept clean, there s little danger of con- tagious diseases unless an addition 1s made to the flock by bringing a bird from some other farm. “When *‘new bloud" is anted procure a settting of eggs of the breed desired,as itis very important that when the coops are clean and the fowls free from discease, no fowls from other laces be introduced. A flock may thus e stocked with lice, or infected with discease. Swine Breeding, Chic; Hog: Hogs on grass should be wulmpphud with salt. Mixed with wood ashes it will be found best, or with crushed oharcoal or lime, or all three in saeh Ero rtion as one vound of salt to a peck of - each or allof the other named arlicles. eep the (Jigl rewing. With plent of grass and an abundance of skim mil there is no reason why there should be any runts among the little squealers. Watch them closely and prevent them from becaming stunted. Remember, a stunted pig never recovers what is lost. - Weaare uently asked “‘what breed shall we adopt?" and {n answer to such uerics there can be bit one answer, and that is any bread but scrub, As all but the the scrub will give the most satisfactory results, The bones of a well bred, well-fed hog repregent only about one-twentieth part of its gross weight. An animal of this nature must necessarily carry a great deal of fat, but the importance of making it well museled to keep 1t from complete degeneracy is self uvnronl to any thought- fu r:-rmn, hence, inasmuch a8 the nat- ural tendency of the hog is to fat, feeders should make it a point to counteract the evil by using the most nutritious feed, to the exclusion of fat forming food. Don't neglect your hogs, even if yon are busy upon the farm. ho profit upon hogs is a certainty, and it is onoe of the main profits of the farm, thorefore do not get into the habit of bung hole waste and epigot saving, by neglecting the wants of your stock. No one should undertake to do so much that they are not masters of all details upon the farm, and they should be especially careful to see that hogs have plenty of good pure water during the first days of the heated term, also as much shade is as practica- ble to give them, We always advise aga farm can be complete withont full facil- ities for properly waterig stock. Successful Horse Breeding, Western Agriculturist: The success of the draft horse interests in America, breeding the valuable grade drait horse for the city streets ‘from our native liorse breeding in the world. Such mares bred to imported draft stallions, r colts worth double as mueh as the dam, which is gencrally worth about $10); the le draft colt, half-blood, re 10 when three years old, and the good_ones and the higher three- er and seyen-cighth grades scll at spoudingly higher prices Now, there is no breed of horses, or any other stock, which will make such rapid improvement. The fast horse men tell us that the markets want road horses, and that if you breed to a fast high record horse, if you don't get a winning horse you'are sure to got a road- ster, all of which we will admit, 1f the dam is well bred, or recorded 'in the “Thoroughbred Stud Book” or “Trotting Register,” but the average no native American farm mare offers such encouragement, and there where the average farmer k the mistake. The successful fast-horse breeder recog. that fact, and never expects to raise u prolitable horse from any other than the best recorded mares, and it is worse than folly for a farme expect to raise even a profitable horse from n_common mare bred to the fast horse, for the market is overerowded with these small horses that have failed for speed, and are too small for coach or work horses. They are, perhaps, very nice and stylish horses, but it is a pro- duct that the American market is over- crowded with. Many of our farmers are horse poor, with increasing numbers and no market for them at what they think they are worth. Not so with the grade draft horses. They are eagerly sought out on the farm and bodght up at big prices as fast as they mature. As we grade up and in- se the size of our horses, we find the kets of the world eager to buy all our surplus horses at big prices, if the horses are only large enough, and fancy prices for the large and stylish horses. If the farmer will breed to suit the de- mands of the muarket, there is no branch of American” farmig or stock raising that insures such proiitabie returns. Indevendence ¢ Farm Laborers. The owners of farms and those who are compelled to employ labor by the month or the day have in many cases the occasion to feel that their lot 1s cast inunpleasant places. In many of the more rural towns it is coming "to be a to get satisfactory help at any price. Bven if they can be obtained they are likely to be so independent and in nt that the emvloyer is frequently brought to teel that he 13 poorly master of the situation. It is coming to be so that those who are more especially day laborers upon farms are a class of poor, miserable beings, whose only care is to get a living and what poor whisky they want, When engazed at work the are ready for no cause whatever to drop their tools and leave the field. We ha due regard for the protection of the rights of deserving poor people, and especially the poor laboring man, but it does m as though the present legislation for the laboring class is throwing too strong shield to secure a livelihood by any m matter how dishonorable, ners, merchants, and all who have any deal ing with them are compelled to sufler for their simple act of indulgenc L'here are able-bodied men who might earn a good living, who, if they can, will get trusted for gro ith the intent to defrand, if pos when such a one works for get more in w around a class whose only care is no s, S and ble, farmer he ealeulates to or provisions than he expects to pay for. The time will come wlien the prosperity of this country will require that there be legislation for the protection of the producers. Skilled Farm Labor. No idea has done more to repress farm- ing progress than the idea thata farm la- borer need not be skille brute strength is the mamn requisite. ‘T'his never was true, and is less so now than ever before since improved machinery has to be handled. But even in bandling such old fashioned implements as the axe and the hoe efficieney depends as much upon skill as upon muscle, It is by no means the largest and strongest hird man who will do the most work in a day. And when help is hired.that is entirely unused to our methods of farming its inexperi- ence greatly detracts from its value. The truth 15 that farming s [ trade that hus 0 ba learned if the workers atit would be effect It requires knowledge and skill in a far larger number of things than most other kind of business. In fact, it i3 never fully learned. The old- est and most successful farmer is gener- ally the most ready to learn something new about h business, and it 1s usually this habit which he has kept up through ife that has en him s success. That farmer shows only his limited idea of business who thinks that he Knows so much about it that he cannot learn any- thing more. And, though skill in farm help is desirable, it is sometimes better in rough work to have a green hand willing to do as he is told, and to learn, than one self-conceited with the 1dea that he knows everything already. Much depends upon employers. Some are themselves so conceited that few hired men are willing to try to learn from them. e e Rupture Cured. CLINTON, Clinton Co., Towa, March 26, 1836, —About +nine years ago I was at- tacked with a severe cutting pain in m: left side. I screamed at times wit agony. No remedies availed until I placed an Allcock’s plaster over the seat of pain. I wore the plaster ten days, the ain decreasing every day until was cared. My daughter was ruptured just above the naval when only three months old. She suffered little un- til she began to walk. The treatment of K)l)’liclul appeared only to nggravate er case, I procured an Allcock’s Porus Plaster and cut it in three pieces. QOue L applied over the rupture. It acted per- fectly. At'the end of ten days I washed the place with a little alcohol and vut on a fresh piece. I used afterwards two morg pieces, and after forty days the child was entirely well. I ¥m\'a never found any plasters equal to Alleock's. R. W. Meap, is not equaled in the annals of | dily sells | st water from a running stream as | well water is preferable, and no stock | AUGUST 1. 1887 WASHINGTON 1N MIDSUMMER The White Honse and Its Memories Told by the Oustodian to the Visitor, PRIVATE SECRETARY LAMONT, The Claimants—~The Maryland Far- mer and His Claim—Story of Claimwell's Life and Death— Latiway Gossip. Written for the Bee by J. F. R There is no sound of revelry by night, nor day in Washington now, such as sounded in Belgium’s capital before its fall, as Byron bas it, ncither does love look love to speaking eyes, for society that effects revelry and sentiment here has flown. The erstwhile famous prom- enudes of Vermont, Connecticut and New Humpshire avenues are deserted and the terraced residences along thes thoroughfares are closed and barred and scemingly wveglected, resembling archi- teetu aways stranded on the rocks hion, while the midsammer sun shaping its daily course from behind the capital to the Virginia hills glares merei- lessly, leaving increasing mortality in its tracks. Congress has zone and the pres ident, until way, the cab- inet is scattered and the busy correspon= dents, nothing of greatness left to write up and down, vanished too. At Spa ana s and on mountain top, the giddy throngs are making a holiday of hfe and the eity rescmbles the theatre after the play, with the cartain rung down and all the lights out. Rural excur- sionists from the adjoining states, sceing the sights, constitute little processions and give a throb of life to the dead sur- roundings. With the mercury exceeding the Iimits of a hundred they mount the dome and look through glas: Potomac lazily awaiing commni the vator of the monument be Jud up for repairs, its chron- ic condition, they uncomplainingly valk up ats five hundred and fifty fectof height and became apostro- phos of admiration at the sights scen 1rom the greatest architectural altitude i the world, A truly good time is the summer vacation for a visit to Wash- ington, beeause ofticial ceremony being reluxed, one may roam through the pub- lic buildings at will. The stalwart special policeman on guard at the pi dent’s house drops s Hounslow H ‘staud and deliver' style, ath which he as sumed in season in demanding your card as a condition precedent for” en- trance, and graciously escorts you through the east room und the red room; through the blue room and the green room, with its faded and tarnished Louis Philipe furniturs of sitk and gold, He grows communicative, too, does the stalwart special, and points you out the exact spot where P're: the court Presbyterian chaplain, formed the nume of Folsom mto Cle: Jand and becoming reminiscent he tells you of the muny fimous occurrences in the very same room, how the first mar- riage, that of Marin Monroe, the pres dent’s youngest daughter and Samuel Gouvern ir, the New York citypost master, was solemnized in 1t _on March 9, 1820, how Harrison and Tyler were | buried from it, the former hounded to death by oflice scekers, the latter killed by too much Washington monument tone laying; how it became a f cognizable remains of wportion of Tylor's cabinct and other distingwished dead, blown into eternity by the bursting of the great cannon Peace- maker on the aboard the Princeon, February ; how Dolly Madison ana Harrie b in her day held receptions in it which forms a great part of the social history of the coun how the nation’s tears” fell in it over the dead body of Lincoln, the man with the child’s™ heart and the giant's will, and how in it were sung the wed- ding paens of Nellie Grant and Algernon Sartoris, the Englishman, a gentle- man born and a prize-fighter made, whose passport to distine- tion was his ability to give a blow that would kill an ox, ‘with lightaing quic ness, and to receive one that would drive a pile, with a smile. Through the doors of rooms barred ‘in senson.” the stranger may enter during the dog days with the gratilication of curiosity as his only oven on, may take a peep intothe presic room, look at leisure i which the indefs superhuman eleric Grover does bor that will play 1 the next cani- ance of democratie rt specinl will show of Dauiel, the great retary. The S. S, even in vaeation, be- e ears and the state il the loss of his oflicial station, that Daniel, the secretary is a curious creature. Nature has givén him a flat-shaped head and a repellant mouth and art has accomplished for him the mistake of confounding arrogance with good breeding, but the little feliow for all that is a power, a grand penjandarum with a button on top and upon his breath ‘“‘erook the pregnant hinges of the knee” ! his temporary 1y, him the priv and only private se will not tell visitor cause the walls b ment wounld en before him. Alas for Dan! position is neither a family inheritance nor a family heirloom. There will come & time when the knee of sycophancy will unbend and he will find *none so poor to do him reverence.” I satone pleasant Sunday afternoon last spring in Lafayette park conversing with the son of an ex-piesident of the United States, an old man now, bent and gray and poor in worldly goods, but who in his day was to the white house what Lamont is now, receiving the adulation and homage of men. There ] on the walk, a gentleman of 1 whose bear and §0 courteous and prepossessing to elicit my comment. “That m said my compunion musingly and watery eyes, “is worth upwards of a million dollars. I knew him when him his fir eretary, by as him to obtain a big mail contract. s gratitude was then, that of a dog, dy to lick the hand' of his master. Now in our changed conditions, he passes me with averted head aud forgetfulness.” Power is =ho:l-hvcd.. Richn-:']n:uu wings. was penniless and I gay inl fe, while private The regular army of claimants are left to swelter and to worry and to live and die in visions of wealth'which never ma- terialize in the passage of their bills. ‘They never leave W#shington, seeming fascinated with the place, the more as their hopes deferred” intensify. Their Shabby genteel appearance and worn out, pinched faces, suggest poverty all the more bitter because concealed from the reach of charity. They live, God knows where and how but they cling to life with un act of faith in the speedy pas- sage of their claims as the basis of "their years that bring them naught but poverty and Imnfcr, and heartache to chier the light of life for many of them, goes out in the insane asyluni or the pauper ward of the poor house, - The claims of somo of these wretched people are as faneiful as the mirage; of others, meritorions as any ever adjudicated, but lacking con- gressional and lobby help for want of influenco and money they grow mil- dewed in pigeon holes andd are forgotten, Better have the worst claim with & good lobby, than the best, with i merits a8 its only commendation: **'Tis true, 'tis pity; and pity 'tis 'tis true."” One of the old traditions of the cape itol, illustrative of congressiona towards an honest claim un by its own merit, and verifyin, say- ing of the late Jere Black hat the United States is the most obdurate cred itor and the most careless debtor," is that of the young farmer who sought from | congress adamages for the loss of his crops sustained by the vandalism of Cockburn and his British soldicrs in their raid through Maryland in Angust, 1814, He viewed the transaction as’ a purely | busimess one, relying upon the justic | his government as his trust, and hs | made out an itemized bill of his loss, he | started on horseback before daybroak | for the capital, intending to finish h business and retiirn home by early can- dle light. Arriving at the eapitol he hitched his hors to the wooden paling surrounding the building, and entered Congress hall. The day waned and the night came, but the rider returned not to s impatient steed. Other days and nights came and went, until weeks grew into months an theyin turn were suceceded by ye The fruitful steed had died of s bones { be awaiting his master 1on and his bleached dust; the wooden pail- n ing having rotted was replaced by an iron railing and still the rider came not Old esmen and old part ad i old enstoms had ehanged eud a new gen- eration had come to play its part when one day there emerged from the eapitol a very old man, bent and gray, hobbling on astick and earrying an itennzed bill of damages, crumbled and worn with age. It was the Maryland farmer re- turning Lome to die with his bill unset- lml,“ * * * x A sadly pathetic case of one of these clmmants’ misel ending with the wretched story of “his life, last fall, came under my own observation. 1 formed the acquaintance of Claimwell, we will eall hom, in common with others who knew him, through the introductory medium of being tirst compelled to listen to his great expectations to result from con- gressional legislation, and then contrib- uting to relieve s immediate short- o ol A familiar figure I as about the bars of Willard's and the Ebbitt house. His story iple but sad. Just before the dec! ot the r he was in the border 1bout to in operations on & heavy mail con- tract, the onttit of which in horses and wagons, ete., had cost hun $50,000. Being loyal to his country, and refusing to sub- seribe nee to the confederacy, his mail outiit cized and he fled north to save himself from prison. He fought battles of the union and when was declared, finding himsclf penniless, he foolishly entered the congressional Is king relief for his confiscated property—and W lost. His day of worldly peace ended the moment he pre- sented” s petition. It was a famous claim and its ramitications were volumin- ov In session and out Claimwell prose- cuted it with his life’s best ende but tne substance proved shado 0 for when committees did not reject it tor it of evidence or some informality necessitating a fresh beginning of ye of Labor and it got its appropriate on the calends jourred by feat did not iscourage Claimwel however, it served but to rencw his ardor for fresh endeavors; he grew forgettul of all else save his el tlis wife died out of it and he marri in 1t agnin—a yellov haired woman with w voluble tongue and a black silk dress, who loved him with tender devotion, and had abiding inith in the final passage of his claim. She beeame a part of it and prosecuted it with vigor, and often her voluble tongne wonld hold a committee when her husband would be unabic to obtain a nearmg. No figure was better known at the capitol than that of the yellow- hared iy with the voluble tongue and tie black silk dress. How the coupl, lived, no one knew; that they were v poor was no seeret; that they had lodg- ing on a buck street was known; but t source of food supply could be ac- counted for only on the theory that they were fed after the style of the babes in the wood, for they would disdain to ac- cept charity, excent it eame as a loan, to be repaid at compound interest when the claim passed. The cruel years of waiting o scourged and killed every- thing tor them but hope. Ientered the Ebbitt house dru onone hot, sultry day last sumum after the long session’s close which had o when within ten of Claimwell's calendar number, and sitting upon one of the seats, dozing { Mrs. C., yellow-haired k-t ascever. She was unconscious of my presence until I saluted ner, and then, like the soldier eanght napning on guard, her ready tongue found flucit excuses for ner position “Really, really, she must be pardoned for stepping in from the heat to await the car, she believed she felt for & mo- ment, droopy.”’ The woman lied; she was played out, fit for a_hospi aded, worn, I, (if such a oue exist) for American claimants du the rec of congress, and the wa the car was anoth myth, for the meant for her extra woman rattled on with und visions and “UHad 1 heard how was to passage? How glorious the prosvect, its final award at the very beginning of the “‘next session” was positively assured by the leading senators and members who haa prom- ised their earnest co-operation, And did where she could get a stylish (y furnished. It was so much ling with salesmen, selecting and fitting carpets; and hesides remain in Washington during the session, as they had calea lated to go to Eurove in the spring, M C. and she only wanted the house for the purpose of entertaining the kind friends who had stood by them during their long trifle of the f: gance. the How the delusion Spe old furnitur they would ouly contlict for their rights, Did know of such a house availabler” the claim was as far from pussage the day of its introdactory petition. @ Under the pretext of being on my way to lunch, and the precicusness of time consumed in trying to reeall just such a , which [ could lo- cate with more ' liesure, xed the woman to Losckam's cafe opposite against her earnest protestation that she had just a half hour before lunched, and secompanied me only in hopes that 1 could think of a real estate agent with the house ot her choice vacant, the womun's nerve and courage was of The Spartan kind: She could starve easier than solicit food. I assumed the role of host, and there were no dainty dishes or- vitality, During the recess they haunt the marble corridors and wastes of frescoes in the capitol, preparing addi- tional evidence and shaping events for their success ut the coming session Dapper committee clerks know them and fly at their approach as congressmen sneak into their seats through by -ways to avoid them, while door-keepers and pages iuy them on the stair ways when having uothing else to do None but. these woary claimants them- selves know their hearttelt yearnings, their heavy erosses, their struggles for dercd, but nourishing beefsteak and roast beef with appropriate settings of wbles, washed down with claret and coffee. God! how the woman ate; like one who was famished. | felt that day that I could decipher the iutricacics of my title clearer to above, for 1 had obeyed the divine command, “Feed the hungry.” The *‘next session’ never came for poor Claimwell. 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YMONp, == MERCHANT 15th Stroets- long maintained nd which never downed brakes, ye of poverty and want and misery with despair and hopo running a ce continuously, almost neck to neck, ended in the day close before the vietory was announced, Give it whatever name_you will, envel- ope it on the records of public mortality in seientific Latin as you may, the real cause of Claimwell's dennse’ might be written as an epitaph on his chanty arave in the word: ‘Done to de: claim.” with a government —— Seeds That Germinate Quickly. ‘The human system is a fruitful sol, and among sceds that germinate most pidly in it are those of rheumatism and ¥ light cold, brought on by sitting in a_draught, wet fect or damp clothes, will develop either of those abominable painful adies with un- ant rapidity. The proper prevent- is agonizing vegetation is Hos- Bitters, a medicine tendency to either of the malad: named, and soothes the aches which they cause. 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