Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1887, Page 5

GOVERNOR'S DAY IN CAMP, The Members of the National Guard Ont On Dress Parade. PESERTER ROOD CAPTURED, The Visit of the 1tailroad Managers to Lincoln Amounts to Nothing— Republican Pzimaries in the Capital City. BEE'S LINCOLN BUREAU.| Yesterday was governor's day at the camp of the Nebraska National guards, and the soldier polished his shootingiron, dusted his uniform and appeared at his best at the grand review held at4 p. m. The governor appeared before the brigade in citizen's dress, but his stail’ was georg- eous in gold and tinsel, and vied with the brigadier general and his staff in the display made. The two regimental bands vlayed their sweetest music and the re- view and parade was one of the most striking featurcs of the camp. A large number of Lincoln people journeyed that way to witness it. The regular drills are inereasing daily in proficiency of work ana the different companies are exhibiting commendable interest in their work, The field and line officers ‘are proud of the brigade as they well may be, and Lincoln people to-day wiil have an opportunity to see the entire brigade marching through the strocts of the city on their exhibition to the city of Lincoln. THE D! The detul from the F Lincoln {FrROM THE CRTER CAPTURED, ent out for the deserter irbury company reached yesterday evening, bring- _ing Deserter Rood with them. ) had little to say and w evidently beginning to aporeciate the fact that belonging to the mliitia meant no boy's play and that desertion meant somethiug serious. Rood was early n the day conducted to the guard house, but up to 3 gelock the trial had not taken place, althodgh Major Watson, 1\1(1;:::»(\(_1- voceate was eager for the fray. It 18 evi- dent _that the exalple made will be a clincher, and there will be a good deal of hesitancy on the part of the boys before any further desertions oceur. NOTES OF THE CAMP, Captain J Hedges of company A, Second regiment, has been appointed brigade commissary on the stafl of Briga dier General Colby. The camp will close at 9 o'clock Satur- day morning, giving the soldiers tume to pack their knupsnoks and depart for home on the day trains. The tents \Vl{l be issued the coming week at the G. A. R. reunion at Omaha, and Major Franklin has all arrange- ments made so that the tents will be packed and shipped Saturday evening. Commander Russell, of the G, visited the camp yesterday. ‘I'he Second regiment band moved upon regimental headquarters, whiere Mr. llus- sell was stopping, and tendered him a serenade. Colonel Sweet welcomed him to the camp and Commander Russell re- sponded. There were no new c: reported evidently ses of foraging esterday and the guards are ng close watch upon their well to interject, ‘w\\'t!\'ur, first foraging party has not been ed, and it 1 uls the more strange au! no chicken bones were discov- ered around the mess tents at headquar- ters. SLY MANAGERS, The visit of the railroad managers to Tancoln was on the same plan as previ- ous meetings, and was simply a scheme to gain time and keep the exorbitant tar- iffs exacted from Nebraska in force as long as possible. Their consultation with the Lincoln freight bureau lasted the entire day and amounted to nothing atall. They had no definite answer to make to the charges against the excessive rates and had no proposition to make b; ‘way of settlement. ’I};ley simply states that the question at issue would be pre- sented at a meeting of the managers of Missiori river roads to be held in Chicago the coming month, and the managers evidently thought that a delay of that gmd would be followed by a cessation of ostilities on the part of the freight bureau until the Chicago meeting could i turn amount to nothing and some other subterfuge be resorted to in the manufacture of delays. But the freight bureau is not made of that stuff to be hoodwinked, and a safe prophecy to make is that Lincoln dealers will “con- tinue to replevin their Foods and take the cases into court, and the companies need not be surprised if the replevins double and treble in number, for there a growing sentiment in favor of that mode of nction, and the public are awake to the schemes for delays on the part of the roads. THEY VISIT THE COMMISSION, ‘The railroad managers also visited the members of the state board of transporta- tion and attempted to apply their delay tacties upon the board, Tt will be re- called that on the 6th of September the roads of the stato are requested to be present at the rooms of the board ot transportation, there to answer why the local rates of freight in Nebraska should not be reduced to g standard with local irates in adjoning states. The managers »n pursuing the even tenor of their policy sought to defer this meoting so that they oould bleed the state a few weeks longer before meeting imponding fate, but Judge Mason fiourm' of it entered his emphatic protest, and the board stood by him. Notice was again served upon the managers yesterday that the mecting will not be postponed und that it will be ap for hearing. This decision will leave the companies the choice to appear and show cause why the rates should not be lowered, or admit by their absence or a dismissal on their part of the case, that the board of lrnnsj}ormliou 18 right and that the rates should be reduced and that the companies have been, as is directly charged, exacting e: sive and exorb- itant rates from the peoplé of the state of Nebraska, amounting to nothing less than simple robbery, It will be all the more interesting now to wateh the action of the roads on'the 6th of the month, BUSY WITH POLITICS. Yesterday afternoon the republican ward primaries were in progress and, in o few of them, the excitement attendant upon such gatherings wasnoticeable. The new primary eleetion law was 1n force and it had & restraining tendency upon illegal voting and met with approval. In several of the wards there was no con- test, but the First ward had two tickets in the field on the sheriff question and the contost was warm. A contest was also reported in the Sixth ward, but in the others there was little evidence of contention, although an outbreak at times was imminent. The following were the delegates elected from the different city precinets: First ward—H. B. Vale, Thomas Cunna- an, W. C. Lane, Lewis Otto, James At- well, A, Halter, John Fisher, Tom Lan- caster, E. B, Stephenson, Chas. Swartz, George Herdman, J. H. Threw, W. A. Johnson, J. P. Chipman, Tom Carnahan, J. H. Eursterday, W. B. Mathews, Tom Draper, P, D. Babcock. Second ward—L. W. ley, Henry Witimann, " well, Henry Veith, 8. Alexan- der, Chris. Rocke, ). C. Vanduyn, John Traas, C. B. Beach, John Dethlefs, Fred Harrison, A. Gruetler, John Ames, A. G. Hastings, 8. F. Waltkins, George Bcherrer, Thomas Wilson, J. H. Naden. Third Ward—John R, Clark, J. D, Mc- Farland, J. Bflurn. LM .Raymond, Patrick gan, J. 0. urns, H, H. Dean, T. M. fall, J. R. Richards, J. C. McBride, A.E. Hargreaves, B. F. Jobnson, T. F, Lasch, Billings- Cald- [ her presence. He did not start, but looked, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, . H Wilson, H. H. Shaberg, W. L. Brown, L. C. Burr, B. A. Knight, H. M. Bushnell, 1. C. Munger, P. K. Griffith, F. R. Wat George E. Howard, W. A, Green, J. 8. Dales, Fourth Ward—R. H. Oakleyv, John Doolittie, H.D.Hathaway, John B.Wright C. W. Mosher, I. W, Lansing, C. H. Fox- worthy, D. (i, Courtnay, M. Staughtor, A. C. Cass, R, B. Graham, W.C. Griflith, T H. Harley, C. C. Burr, W.J.Cooper, C. L. Hall, O. W. Webster, John McWhinnie, W. W. W._ Jones, Sam McClay, C.B. Fox, J. H. McMurtry, J. H. Kramer, Fifth W, McClay, R. R. Randall, L. Meyer, William H. Graham, Charles Magoon, C. M. Carter, J. S. Chump. L. Heske . F. Hardenburg, J. C. Elder, Grant Ensign, T. H. Benton, . E. Goodell, Ed Bingall, J. C. Johns- ton, Kdson Rich, M, B. Cheeney, M. L Atken, J. J. Kelley, Sixth Ward—D. L. Brace, I. L. Lyman, H. M. Rece, Brad Ringer, Cal Thompson, H. W. Kelley, V. H. Dyer. THE JUDICIAL CONTEST. The district *udm- question 48 rapidly coming to the front and promises to be at ared heat shortly. The withdrawal of Judge Pound has filled the tield with can- didates. It is stated that Frank L. Ran- som will come to the judicial convention backed with the solid Otoe delegation. M. A. Hartigan, of Plattsmouth, was in the city yesterday and announces that he will contest Cass county with Judge Chapman for the delegation from that county. Lancaster has four candidates eagerly at work to capture the county convention Saturday. They are N, C. Abbott, W. S, Hamilton, Allen Field and Thomas R; although the Iatter will cut no particular figure in the fight. It is t6o early to predict results, but a glance will satisfy any one that the Second judicial district is all torn up and that the judiciary is not entirely remwoved from politics. P - MORE THAN HER MATOH. Madge Le Baron walked home through the gathering twilight with & frown on her pretty face. “I shall be back by the 7 o'clock train,” Lyndburst Barrington had said to her the night before, and she had been down to the station to meet him, but he had not arrived, That was the reason she looked angry. Madge had been o flirt all her life, and she had come into the country that sum- mer prepared to carry on that pl nt vocation. Then she met Barrington and was compelled to confess that he inter- ested her as no man had ever done. The next evening Madge went down to meet the evening train again, prepared to give her lover & good talking to. “‘How kind of you to come to meet me, after my disappointing you so," Barring- ton said, as he advanced to he “How do you know [ was down here last night?'’ she asked. “I happened to be strolling by, and I remember that my my aunt said she might come down any day, so 1 thought I would stop a moment and see who was on the tran. He looked at her with a puzzled expres- aion on his face, but he said nothing un- til they entered the wood. *'1 have often wondered,” he said slowly, *1f you cared for me at all,” pausing in front of her. I wanta sim- ple answer toa simple question—plain ‘ves' or ‘no.” Do you love me Madge?"’ “If | cannot say ‘yes,’ perhaps 1 can not say ‘no.’ 1 think friendship does not justify an abrupt ‘no.’ I . “I don’t want equivoeation,” he br in “If you loved me, eyes, lips, acts, all would blend into ‘yes.” It must be ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ I say." Madge had never met any man so ma terful. But she answered, nevertheless. “Then ‘no!’ since you now force me to be unladylike.” ‘'L do not ask you to be unladyhke; I do no not say you are. I asked a ques- tion and I have received an answer!"" and they walked the rest of the way to the villa without a word. Miss Le Baron was very gay that even- ing, knowing that Lyndhurst Barrington was in love with her. She made up her mind that theirs should be no prosy en- gagement, she should still irt when she wanted to, and not to give up a bit of her freedom. The trouble with her plans was that he never came near her from that time forth. He was up at sunrise and oft fishing and hunting all day, and when he returned he generally asked the gentle- men of the house up in his room, where they spent the evening singing, and play- ing cards, and enjoying themselves, One evening Mudge curved herself up on a sofa and looked at the matter squarely. She must outgeneral him But how! She had tried hauteur, and it had signally failed. Now she would try a dash of “giving in,” even though it hurt her so to do. She would plant her- selt on the old footing. Just then Lyndhurst stepped into the room, cautiously at first, as 1f fearing She immediately arose to meet him. her over from head to foot without a word. She gayly sai “Don’t you think your highness is overdoing things a trifle®” Then she lost control of herself and showed her vexation. “Smmg to me,” she cried, “walk with me, talk to me, do.anything to obliterate this doletul week!"’ “Well, Miss Le Baron,” he answered, coolly, ‘suppuse we welk and talk. T'll say under the stars what [ said under the oaks, and you shall give me your true answer.” She looked at him a moment, then fairly blazed. “I'never saw such persistence. Thank heaven, I go to-morrow, where gentle- men know what i3 due to a lady, and take ‘no’ for ‘no,’ without getting sullen. Good-night, Mr. Barrington, and good- bye. 1f you ever consent to be less boor- ishly persistent I shall be pleased to sce you in New York.” He watched her out of the room and then’sat down to tne piano. She tried to think of going home as a pleasure soon at hand. Home! What had she there? Only an old aunt, who dozed in a lace cap, with a cup of choco- late at her elbow half the time. The memory of the pleasant days spent here would drive her wild in" that gloomy house. Then she acknowledged it would ve terrible anywhere without—witn- out—- She jumped to her feet. ‘e will drive ma wild,” sne cried, “banging that way on the piano.’’ She passed into the nall end looked into the drawing-room, where he sat placidly playing. “Poor fellow!" she thought, “how ean I call it obstinacy; it looks like misery written all over his features, And isn't he superb looking! Why, New York has never approached him, and he will be mine if I say it, Suddenly—can you comprehend it—she walked straight into the parlor and stole up behind him, got her arm about his neck, and pressed her cheek against his. Not a word was said for some moments. But his fingers fell from the keys, his arms dmpfod listlessly by his side, his head sunk lower and lower and lower on his breast, snd Madge felt a mist gather- ing in her oyes, a mist of happy tears. ‘Come out under the stars,'” she whis- pered; I wantto -31 ‘yes' to ’;ou." *I am answered, Madge," e "said, drawing one of her hands over his fhoulder and tatking with it against his iys. ‘“Let us not mar this moment of surprise and jo{ by a single word." "‘) don't think you'll find me a tyrant," he said, kissing her. ‘‘But come out, Madge, and let us compare our mutual miseries for the last week,"’ He led her through the low window, holding back the swaying vines for her to pass. There, arm in arm, under the stars lot us leave them, AN INDIAN RAILROAD KING. Mathias 8plitlog, An American Indian, Be- comes a Railroad Magnate. THE RICHEST MAN OF HIS RACE, Romance of the Kansas City, Fort Smith & Southern Railway— One Good Indian Who is Not a Dead One—His Life, A correspondent of the Kansas City Journal writing from Neosho, Missouri, says: Had any one predicted a quarter of a century ago that an American In- dian would build a railrond he would have been considered a tit object for a lunatic asylum. But to-day the people of Newton county, Mo., a county adjoin- ing the Indian territory, have witnessed & scene such As man has never before beheld. Matthias Splitlog, a half Cayuga and halt Wyandotte Indian, born in an In- dian village in Canada, to-day at Neosho drove the lirst spike for the Kansas City, Fort Smith & Southern railway.. ‘Lhis division of the Kansas City, Fort Smith & Southern railway was charter the t March, under the st Vs wte of Missouri, with a capi and now there are about thirty raded and ready for the iron. plitiog has furnished the *‘sinews var' out of his ample fortune, and is backed by heavy capitaiists to complele the road, and before the first of nextJan- b ave the cars running from Joplin, in Jaspar county, to the town of S}vhll\_" in McDonald county, a distance of about thirty-five miles, and Matthias Splitlog, the milliongire Indian, was probably the richest man of his race, will henceforth be known all of the country as the only Indian railroad man (at | the first) in the United States, or in the whole world. This line of road has been surveyed most of the way from Kansas City to Fort Smith, and passes through a very productive section of the countr There have been three corps of gineers surveying this line. ~ One on the division south of “Kansus City and two rther south. ‘I'wo lines have been sur ed south from Splitlog to Fort Smith, through Arkansas and the other i the Indian country. This line is projected to strike the Gulf of Mexico at the nearest and best harbor, which will enable Kansas City to reach sale water about 400 miles nearer than at New Orleans, and 800 miles nearer than New York. 'Mr. Sphtlog has secured 235,000 in local aid, to be pad when the first thirty-five miles of steel is taid, and about thirty-live miles more of rigit of way. There has been secured in the di- vision south of Kansas City $5,000 in township bonds, §2 thirty miles of right of w the aggregate 100 miles of right of way, with thirty miles already graded, tied bridged, over $100,000 in subsidie®, be- sides several thousand neres of timber, coal and mineral lands along the hue of the road. The oceasion of driving the first spike on the main line of this new road was a matter of more than ordinary interest to the people of Neosho, After music by the Indian band, from territory, and by the o band, Mr. r Smith, auditor of the coustruction company, held the spike in position and, in four bold strokes, Mr. Splitlog drove the sbike cted white ¢ given for wtthias Splitlog, Neosho and the enterprise, after which many came to the track to look at the spike The motive power and roiling stock for this road are being carefully sclected that everything connected with the road may be of the best and for the comfort an oty of its patrons. Mr. Spiitlog was born in the and while a boy was apprenti carpenter and millwright, and, although his wages were only $7 ber month, young Splitlog thought he was getting tich. He imbibed a love for machinery and inven- tions, which has made his life a useful and eventful one. In the year 1842 young Splitlog joined the Wyandottes, who were the last of th Indian tribes then 1n Ohio. By the treaty of the Upper Sandusky they ceded to the United States their lands™ in that state, and received mn exchange land in what is now Wyandotte county, Kan, In 1813 Splitlog” came west with some of the tribe, ana feund, after his arrival at Westport landing (now Kansas City), that he had only 50 cents in his pocket. He indue old Indian to go his se- curity for the price of an axe. With this axe lie cut cordwood for the steambonts cents P e, und, after paying for the axe, which cost §2, he soon saved enough to buy iim @ pony About the year 1816 Mr. Splitlog mar- za Barnett, a grandnicee of Harry the old Indian who went his sc for the price of the axe. Her father was head chief of the Wyandottes when he died in 1838, Her mother was a part Wyandotte and part Sencea Indian. They have a family of five children—four sons and one daughter. Splhitlog was never idle, and in most of his undertakings he was succe: At an early day he built & mill at W dotte. During the border troubles of 1855 and 1856 we find him one of the lead- g men of his tribe, and he was the man selected to carry the news to the people of Lawrence that the pro-slavery men were about the beseige the tow The streams were swollen, the night was in- tensely dark, and Splitlog was the only man who would undertake the perilous journey, which he made before daylight the next morning. A few years later we find him as George P. Nelson's trusted engineer, while plying his steamboat on the Missouri river, and when General Sterling Price besieged Mulligan at Lex- ington, Mo., he went down the river on the steamer Sunshine to Lexington and assisted in manninga battery with gond eflect, unti! for want of water, Mulligan was forced to surrender his handful of men to Price, who had more than ten times the number, Later on he served in the state mulitia, until after the famous Price raid; and a few years after the war he built a steamboat on the Detroit ri By the treaty of the Upper Sandusky the” Wyandotfes were not allowed to alienate their lands, but in the year 1835 a new treaty was made between tie Wyandottes and the United State. which severed the tribal relations of the Wyandottes. Xftor the ndoption of this treaty Split- lot began to speculate in real estate, and, although he can neither read nor write he has been one of the .most successful speculators in the neighborhood of Kan- sas City, and is to-day worth over $1,000,000. About fourteen years ago Splitlog moved to the Indian Territory, and located on Elk river near the Mis. souri line, and about four miles from Tuff City, and recently he became inter- ested in _a silver mine in McDonald county, Mo. With his characteristic energy he began operations at once. He hired a mining expert named B. F. Re- 3\11 !rum Chieago, to mw@j&!‘)!:ngl fhe beh ions at the mines, and, becomin, convinced that to develop the mines an build up the town of Splitlog a railroad was necessary, he, in company with others, set to work in a wnK which has brought about the results that we have to-day witnessed, and which promises muoh for Newton county and Southwest Missouri, Many interesting incidents could be written in connection with the career of Mr. Splitlog's useful hfe, but none that could be of any greater credit in the his- en- SEPTEMBER 2. 1887 tory of anyone than the two following statements made by Mrs. Lucy B, Arm- strong, the widow of & ‘Wyandotte mis- sionary, who is still livingin Wyandotte Kas, Shesays: “Splitiog was always known as an honest man, I have never heard of him charged with being dishon- est or tricky. “While he is nolt & member of our church, he s still a very exemplary citi- zen, and on one occasion, when heard a man say that a certain neighbor must be o bad man because others spoke ill of him, Splitlog promptiy reproved by aske ing: '\\'hv‘ man, did you ever hear how come people talked abbut Jesus Christ?’ ™ Thus, we have the character of this na- tive American aptly portrayed. First, while he has been to an extraordinary degree exempt from the abuse of the slanderer's tongue, he has the charity not to believe every evil report circu- lated about his neighbor. prets. e, Truly a Household Remedy. 240 Beprorp Av.,, BrookLyn, N. Y., Mar. 13, 1884, 1 have usee ALLCOCK'S Porous PLAS- TERS for the last twenty years. They ura truly a housdhold remedy. If one of my children has a cold and wheezes, I put an ALLCOCK'S POROUS PLASTER on the chest and one between the shoulder blades. If any of the children have croupy coughs, or coughs of any kind, [ place the Plaster up around the throat; the soothing i parent almost always in two 1f they have a disordered stom- Plastér placed just below the chest s mukes digestion perfect in half a If there is un?' looseness of tl 018, anccompanied by coidness of the 8KIn, two A1.CoCK'S Porous PrLasrers applied over the stomach core in from two to five hours. I notice particularly that these Plasters never abrade the skin or canse the slightest irritation. From my own expericnce I know they never fail for rheumatism, pains in the back or lumbago. C. MIDDLEBROOK, —— HER LONG-LOST BROTHER. After Thirty-Five Years, Mrs, Reed Thinks She Has Found Hin KENNETT SQUARE, August 28.—This little town revels in a sensation resuiting from the meeting of a brother and sister who have been separated for thirty-fiv years and who to each other hay an s dead. Recently there appeared in several newspapers the following y son If any captain or seaman of New York or Long Island knows the address or whereabouts of Isaac Reed, asaidor, who lived on Long Island followed the water, and will correspond With his s ter, Catherine Reed, Kennett squar Chester county, Pa., they will confer a great favor, To a Philadelphia Times reporter who led an her when the personal was pub- ished Miss 1 cheerfully gave tne following stor) Her brother, Isaaec Reed, was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1816, and when two years old, she being then an infant, their parents died, and they were sent to the Chester county poorhouse. [s: mzined about six “years and_then tiuken by rick Dunlap, of East tord township, to be raised. not treat him well and T was Brad- Dunlap did he went to live » place, who away from was going to sea on a whaler, in Catherine was given to Phabe Anne Woodward,of East Marlboro township, to be raised, ‘Two years later divs. Woodward went to Kennett Square and Catharine lived with her for twenty years, when Mrs. Woodward died. In 1872 Isanc Reed visited East Bradford and remained two years. He then sup- d his sister had been adopted and en the name of peopie whoraised her, since the Chester county poor house oflicials kept no record of who had taken her he coula not find her, and 1n 1874 he went away, saying he was going to Laver- pool. Last fall she heard this while on o visit to Kast Bradford, and, by the advice of counsel, she ndopted the aboye method of tinding him. Miss Reed is a seamstress, who, though she still goes out sewing every day, owns several houses in Kennett Square, and 18 aid to be worth some $10,006 beside, of which $3,000 was left to her recently. She lives alone and this brother is her only known heir. At the time the per- sonal was published there was living at Deer Park, Long Island, an Isaac Reed, who was shown the advertisement by a friend. Mr. Reed at once began corre- spondence with Miss Reed, and the cor- respondence was kept up for some time, and finally Miss Reed, feeling that she had at last found her brother, in- vited him to call on her. This he did last week, and now she is confident that it is he, who for thirty-five years was lost to her. The meeting of the couple was most aftecting, and the sister will not let her brother leave her. Mr. Reed said he no longer is a sailor, and that during the last seven years ho has lived on Long Island, working at rpentering. He seemed overjoyed at ving found his sister and has’ not yet decided what to do. It is probable, how- ever, that his sister will remain 1 Ken- nett Square and that he will stay with her. The most de e constitution can safely use Dr. J. H. McLean’s Tar Wine Lung Balm, ‘it is a sure remedy for coughs, loss of voice, and all throat and lung diseases. 25 cts. a bottle. e cice o oot THE OPIUM HABIT IN IOWA, An Assertion that There are 10,000 Victims in That State. A newspaper paragraph has been seen in many of the state exchanges, says the Davenport (Ia.) Democrat, which states there are 10,000 victims of the opium habit reported in Iowa by the state board of health, The statement was so shock- ing in the number of its victims that a letter was written to the state board of health asking what authority there was for it. Under date of August 11 Secretary Rennedy wrote to the Democrat-Guazette [1 the current report was evidently based on an investigation made by Dr. Hull, formerly a member of the board. Tt originated in o paper prepared by the doctor which was printed in the last biennial report. The doctor stated in his essay that he had printed and sent to the sts of Towa 1,500 circulars request- formation on the subject. The re- plies received by him numbering about 123, too small a per cent to be of much use in getting exact information covering the entire state, reretary Kennedy says in reference to the state- ment before alluded to—that 10,000 cases of the opium habit have been reported— that there 15 abundant reason for believe ing the number of victims of the habit is far in excess of that given. He adds that it is erceedingly difficult to get the facts ainst the objection of druggists and the concealment of the yictims. In this connection it shou}d be said that the state board of health denies any responsibility for any of the statements made either in its published report or in the newspapers. The paper by Dr. Hull 18 vouched for only by its author. ‘I'he doctor does not show in his paper that he hasinformation which will warrant the news item 8o widely published, He does say, however, and his words will bear repeating, that “opium 18 to-day a greater curse than alcobol, and justly claims a greater num- ber of helplncl victims, which do not all 00?’ om the ranjs of reckless men ahd fallen women, but the majority of them are to be found among the edu: cated and the most honored and useful members of society; and as to sex, we may count out the prostitutes so much iven to this vice and still -find females ar ahead as far as numbers are con- cerned.” —_— Thirty Tous Pressure is given toevery cake of Colegate & Co's Cashmere Bouquet toilet soap. It wears away very slowly. JOHN RUSKIN'S INSANITY, Cliaracteristios of This Mania—His Life at Brantwood. London Dispatch to New York Sun: For some time it has been whispered in London that the rea! cause of John Rus- kin's inability at intervals to prosecute his literary labors is a breaking down of his mental powers, and that the accounts otill-detined jlIness which are circulated concerning him cover what are in reality more or less protracted periods of virtual insanity. A careful investizgation of the matter contirms but too Glly the sad rumor. o Evcri one knows something of the life of Ruskin, so long a prominent figure as a writer and critic. His father was a wine merchaat, who enriched himself by enormous and profitanle dealings in sberry, and left to his son a fortune of £7,000 o year, which was considerably in- creased on the death of Ruskin's mother, His liberality, too, is unbounded, and for years he has supported a list of pen- sioners—broken down artists, writers, ete., whose multitude night frighten the purse of a*duke. Even now he refuses to acknowledge the fact that he is rela- tively poor, and the friends who look af- ter his financial interests have endless difficulty 1n inducing him to diminish the enerous outpour of his mon ives now upon the profits deri his books, amounting to about £2.000 to £3,000 yearly. Even with such an income his liberality has led him to such straits that he has consented to the publication of a cheap edition of his works, which heretofore he would never sanctio Fortunately ho possesses in his ings an almost mexhaustible supply of woalth. Now and then a picture disap- pears from his walls, and its whereabouts remains a mystery to all except the Lon- don art dealer Christy, who is Ruskin's great friend, until 1t commeuces to be talked of as being 1n the possession of some less appreciative but wealthier owner. Hisknowledge of ard causes him to possess only articles of the highest value. The country house in which Ruskin lives 1s Brantwood, beautifully and ro- mantically, but unhealthfully situated at the e of a hill into which it is, in fact, partially built. Itas denscly surrounded , and is near the ¢ in the beautiful region. He has several rooms fitted up for writing. In one is a portrait by Raphael of himself, and on the table are two quaint inkstands, one of which was tormerly used by Galileo and the other by Petrarch. Mr. Ruskin takes ink trom them alternately, but has a decided preference for that which fur- nished inky immortality to the mathe- matical inspirations of Galileo, so differ- ent from Ruskin’s own For a long time Ruskin has suffered from the peculisr trouble which has caused him much speculation, and dur- ing that time his almost constant nurse and companion has beep his cousin, Mrs, Arthur Severn, who has devoted herself to him with great unsellishness since the divorce in which his unhappy marriage culminated. Mrs. Severn’s influence over her eminent cousin was greater than that of any other person, and so great is his esteem for her that he has made over to her his houseanl all its troasures, to be- come hers athi s death. The presenc attack began in April, during Mrs. Severn's absence from Brantwood. It took at first an unusually violent form, during which he labored under excitement and was utterly uncrolled by his friends. He was extremely fond of children,and he had adopted in a sortof a way a num- ber of children of poor villagers. Strange as it may seem, this led to much un- pleasant talk on the part of some of his neighbors, so much so that Mrs. Severn and her husband were compelled to in- terfere This neci y interferenco b Mrs. Severn appeared to irritate the s man very strongly, and before Mrs. ern had ‘been back muany days his rw culiar indisposition took the form of a violent dislike to her. He began writ- ing letters to friends all over the king- dom, in which he. spoke of her very harshly, even accusing her of a desire to drive him from his own house, which he had given to her. Finally he ordered his valise to be packed, and ‘took up his quarters at the Headwater hotel, a little country inn, accompanied by his falth- ful valet Baxter, who never leaves him, and is not in the least influonced by the fact that his master discharges him at least twenty times a month. During the period of his illness at the inn Ruskin continued to write letters about Mrs. Severn, but a characteristic of the great man is that he does not seal njs letters, but always leaves that un- pleasant task to the less distinguished lips of the faithful Baxter. The latter, of course, appreciating his master's irre- sponsible condition, delivered all of the letter: efully to Mrs, Severn, and thus was avoided a great deal of unpleasant- ness which Ruskin himself would most keenly have regretted upon ceasing to be his second self. After a brief stay at the inn, Baxter was ordered to pack up, and his master went to live at a cottage of a former vent, now pensioned off. Here his liber- ov- ality; great under all ciroumstances, de- voloped ftself to a great and ecoentric de- gree, He had with him his check book, and despite the entreaties of his valet, he began distributing checks right and loft to the little children of the servant with whom he had taken up his abode, and to a numbor of vilingers, The checks were rellgiously cashed without exception, as far a8 can be ascertamed, those who re ceived them not feeling certain perhaps that the donor was irresponsibie, and when Mr. Ruskin, his excited condition temporarily abated, returned to his home it wasto find his bank account overdrawn, although fortunately to noserious extent, The nature of the unfortunate man's malady then entirely changed. All ex- citement disappeared, and, ill physically as well as mentally, he took to his bed in a sad, melancholy, almost silly condition. He soon conceived the notion that his extravagance had made him poor, and that he ought to not eat,since he could no longer afford to supply himself with food. The result might have more serious—for Ruskin's spirits were pitifully low—had not his good friend Mrs. Severn hit uvon a plan for cheering him up. She in- duced-him tomake out a check for £50, bad it cashed, and convinced him that his checks and his credit were still good hf’ piling fifty gold pieces on a little ta- ble beside his bed, where he could finger them. The result was very encouraging, for in a few days Mr, Ruskin was up and about, andso tiuch like his old self that Mrs. Severn felt able to make a trip to London. Unfortunately the improvement did not | very short time Mrs. Severn recei m in London inform- ing h at her distinguished cousin had had a relapse and was in a worse condi- tion than before, being very violent and excited, She started at once for Brant- wood, taking with her this time a nurse specially trained to cate for the insane. The nurse was left at the hotel, and Mrs. BSevern hastened to Brantwood and sought to prepare her cousin for the nurse'’s ar- rival, but the case was too serious to allow of preparation, for Mz, Ruskin wis very i\l indeed, and utterly unsuited to be argued with. = He was in bed, and s0 excited that the le pictures had been removed from his bedroom wall for fear that he would destroy them in throwing things about. The nurse was sent for. He demanded to see hor, and asked her if she was a nurs When she admitted it he asked 1f she was not a mad nurse, His anger was unbounded when she confessed that she did a little nursing of all kinds, and his irritation was expressed in a very curious way. “Why," said he, “you want to nurse me,and you know nothing ubout the book of Esther. You shall do nothing but pty slop The nurse had togo. This took place about a month ago. Since ~then Ruskin has partly recovered, and he was able to leave Brauntwood. S e There are many cheap cosmetics of fered for sale, which claim to contain nothing injurious to the skin. This is all bosh, all, or very nearly all are com- pounded from the most deleterious and poisonous drugs in the materia medica. 'hey destroy the vitahty of the skin, making the consumer prematurely with- ered and old. J. A, Pozzoni guarantees his medicated complexion powder en- tirely free from all injurious matter, and will gladly pay 8500 to any {»rncuenl cl st who can find upon analysis the sligntest trace of white lead orarsenic,- Use none other and you will never rogret, Price 50 cents and” $1.00 per box, Bold by all druggists and perfumers. RS Conkling Regrets. EvansviLLg, Ind.,, August 20.—Fara- gut Post, G. A. R., are making groat vreparations for the reunion of the Blue and the Gray in this city, from Septetem- ber 20 to 23 inclusive. A nnmber of prom- inent generals of both sides have accepted invitations. Among those whose engag ments prevent them from coming is k Senator Roscoe Conkling, of New York, from whom the vost received the follow- ing letter to-day: NEW YORK, August 20.—Gentlemen: It is an honor highly valued to be invited as one of the uesfi ot Farragust post, G. A. R., at the approsching reunion of surviving soldiers who fought on one sideand the other in the late war. 1 beg you to receive my thanks, and pelieve my regret sincero at belng unable to take part in observauces of s0 much interest and significance. My earn- est sympathy and hope go with every move- ment and idea having for its real purpose to weld together all seotions and all classes, and to make our country throuzhout all ~ its borders united, prosperous and great. Could wish or act of mine decide, every community and neighborhood in all theland shall be crowned with the fullness of peace and progress as much at the South as at the East, West or North, The brave men who faced cach other in battle can be the best teachers and the most genuine actors of this creed. Glad that the reunion is to occur, and never for- getful of hospitality and kindness received in the past from the soldler and tne people of Indiana, 1 trust the occasion will be an event of enjoyment, pride and success. Cor- dilally your obedient servant, L08COE CONKLING. FLAVORIGETRACT Dr, Price's Extracts, Vanilla, Lemon, Orange, Ete. prepared from th: t.rn‘entl'ruiu. flavor deliciously. f Scena In one of the PRICE BAKI_‘.\‘I‘I POWD! 0 Departments of MPA E LA I T IN THE WOR] the Y'S MANUFACTORY, ORLD. seclal Flavoring Extracts * TIMELY ADVICE. Urnheeded May Cause AnyAmount of Trouble, More Important Testimony Voluntarily Offered by One Who Has Been Through the Mill, MR. W. G. HENSHAW. ‘or tho last aixtoon year shaw,who was city lnmplight yours and is now phait Paving com hivd no uphall ting Whilo n boy and Iivine at Tathor's country neo on Long Talund Sound, Now A practioe of ROINK N swWiHming fr ¥ timos & duy whon the wonth Auitavle, by this moans 1 developed cntareh in its worst form. throat wnd hoad was gtope pod up &t <1 couched and hawked up 110 Dlow my noso consiantly, 1 hal nt dull focling in my o s then 1 got deaf gradually but so sures nidMr.W. . Hen, *for a number of bor As. th Iy that 1NECAME MUCH ATARMED This was not found thit 1 through my d i nbeht 1 o nostrils at al T had & tumor growing talked doctor and inmy n callad a polypus Qies o no avail, and when Six weoks g hit & fresh cold, which caused the catarrh v lungs, my condition was not ut greatly nlarmed my wifo. ike choking, then T ol T could not sleop wt night. T would have violont spells of coughing which would cuuse me 1o vomit, “AST gnid beforo, my wife thut on the | sisted that 1 go an was loth to stop work, b Inst Monday 1 congulted Dr. J. Cresap M Ramgo Block, this city, who said he could mo. This I was williig to beliove, but did not eim of how quick part of my troublos could be lievod. Why, sir. ho removad this entire poly- pus In two or th \utes: hore, you soe it ln ho bottle 1 hi and then made an application to my disonsod throat. 1 breathod through my noso” at once, somothing I bave not dono in years. 1 have been onconstant treatinent since, and now have in a large measuro regainod my senso of smoll. 1 bave not_beon able to smeil anything before for eight yeara. My catarrh is krontly benefitted, my honring i coming around all right, and [ am cortain_the doctor will 800n huve me as well ux I over was. 1 wont home Monday from the doctor's oflice and siept allnight & quict slecp, something 1 have nos done for so long a time [ can't remember. M{ gtrength and desire for work has returned. don'tket up in the morning foeling ns tired ag beforo [ wont to bed, as I used to do. 1feel like & rostored man.” Henshaw ia well known about town, and the truth of his story oan_easily bo verifiod by calling upon or addressing him at his uddress ubove given. only annoy ing Why, sir, 1 fe condition so nlarmed When catarrh has existod in the bead and the upver part of tho throat for any length of tima ~-tre patient living in o district whoro people are sub, to catarrhal affection--and the dis- enso has been lort uncured, the catarrh invark ably, somotimes slowly, oxtends down the windpipo and into the bronchial tubes, which tubasconvey tho alr to tio difgront purts of tho lungs. The tubes bocome affooted from the swoliiug and the mucous arising from oatarrh, and, in some instances, bocowe plygg up. so_that the air cannot got {1 as froely as i should. Shortriess of breath followa, and the patient breathes with laborand dificulty. In either case there 18 a sound of oraockling and wheoezing insido the chost, At this atage of tho disenso the brouthing s usually more rapl than when in beaith. Tho patient has also ol dashes over his body. The pain whioh accompanics this condition i of n dull character, felt in the chost, bohind th broast bone, or undor the shouldor blade. ’l‘hi puiin may come sud go-Inst fow days aud thot bo abaent for gevoral othors. The cough that oceurs in tho first stages of hronchlflgl rTh 8 dry, comes on at_Intervals, hacking 1 oharaos ter, and {8 usually most troublesome in th morning on risng, o goink to bed at night an it may be in tho firat evidence of tho digeaso ox- tonding into the lungs. B Somotimos there aro its of ooughing tnduced by the tough mucus 8o violont as to cause vom- iting. Later on the mucus that i raised, is found to contain small particlos of yollow m tor, whioh indicates that the smal lunizs are now afactoa, With this otten streaks of blood mixed with the muous. In 80mo cages tho patient bocomes vory DAl haa fever, and oxpoctorates before any cougl apears. In some cases small masses of cheesy gub- stance are pit up, which, whon pressed bo- tweon the fingers, emit u bad odor. [n other onscs, particies of u hard, chalky naturo are 8pit up. The raising of cheesy or chalky lumps indicato sorfous mishief at work in the lunks. —~— When a porson with a delicate constitution hns a tendency to catarvh or consumption— whether this tendency is inneritod or results from taking it {3 noticonblo that invarinbly ' 1oses flosh and loses howing that the nutrition is inter- uld at one d under influences that will resto ctivo nutrition und tend to- invigora constitution. 1tis to be remombercd that fn every case the prosonce of caturrh 18 i ovide { predis- position to_consumption, and no mutter how &light the nttack may bo, it should bo treated with the greatest cnro’ and the treatment should bo continued until all tiaces of the catarrh have disappeared. 1f the outarrh is allowed to r tubes in the lungs—which condition is indie od by tho 8pitting up of u yellow matorial - o immediate Attontion to ‘the maludy is da. nded or serious lung trouble will result ach the smaller arch, it i8said, 13 nino times out of ten the causo that produces consumption, and heneo no ono can afford to neglect i cuse of ontarrh, howover slight. [t 18 ensily curcd i takon in timo and treated regularly and correctly by & specialist. I loft to ftsoll it is rare without & change of climute, but with e cold it gots m troubles tending always a littlo until & cure’ becomes diticult and sou impossible. Insuch a climate as this, the throat should be a8 enrefuily and frequently looked afier asthe toeth, Yos, much more carctully looked to, ag troubles of the thront aro more ous than dental troubless iwnd, wh tor cause only anne s and pain, lung discase, usully the result of catarrh, Kill one out of overy seven human beings born on the entire ko DOCTOR .Cresap M'Coy Late of Bellevue Hospital, N.Y AND DOCTH Columbus Henry Tave Oftices 310-311 RAMGE BUILDING Cor. 15th and Harney Streets, imes 113 Omaha, Neb. Where all curable cases are treated with aue 3 edical disensos Lroated skiifully. Con. prid, Rhou- mail $1 9 1011 8w, tp.om Tte uys includod, Jondence b5 Prompt witention. Muny discascs are troatod successfilly by Dr McCoy through the muils, and it i 1113 Dossi. ble for those unuble to make & lou v o ob tain successfui hospital trewcn at tholr hoiies. No let cred Ao Pt nied by 40 in s Addross all letie to D, J. €. McCoy. rooms Gl wad 311 Ruwge Building, Ouuba, Nola