Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 9, 1887, Page 10

Joagee Yo oo - CHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1887.~TWELVE PAGES. SOME TALES OF MATRIMONY. Benator Hawley's Lovely Bride-Elect—An Attractive Woman. LILLIAN SMITH'S MARRIAGE, The Romance of a Hired Man—An Unkind Typewriter Girl— A Queer Uolorado Wedding, Winning the World. €. C. Lord. At once to fame his song addressed, lie hoped by one ascending star, His gifts in grateful themes expressed, To all the gates of praise unbar And win the world. Time pressed, vet lie, though seeking still hroti¢h patient years, as each rolled on, No mighty place on earth could fill, Though falling 1 somewhat he won, But not the world. Then a rare maiden, fair as sweet, Approached ano smiled and fain to hear, Sat down in raptures at his feet; Then all Igl-'n plaudits filled his W fed. London Topical Tim All yisitors to the “Wild West" are acquainted with this remarkable young lady. She and Miss Annie Onkley carry the palm between them ns ‘‘shootists.” Miss Smith is of medium height, as nlumr as a partridge, and as good natured asshe 18 brisk in her merry prattle. “Now, Smith,” I remarked, *‘when I say the word ‘go!' will you just start off and tell me a8 much about your- seif as you would care to let the public know?" “Certainly; the public can know all about me that it wants,” “Very well. Are youready? Go!"” 1 guess you know I'm mar- “ ried?" ‘1 guess I do, and that Jim Kid is the happy possessor of a charming and tal ented little wife,” “Get along! Shall T tell you how I got married?” Yes, I should like to know all about “Well, in the first place, my parents were very much averse to my receiving any attention from the opposite X3 they said I was very much too young. I didn’t think so. You see, since my birth 1 had nlwnfs associated with my elders; I never had any children playmates, so I 1 suppose I may consider myself prema- turely old. Well, now, I'll just take you into my confidence. My ‘mother was = determined I should not “marry anyone, and my father seemed to have taken a decided ersion to ‘my Jim,” They tried everything to pre 1 nt my seeing him, and [ d to worry myself to death about it. This wus at” Erastina, Staten Island, N. Y., last August, ButI soon hit upon a plan. A SWEET RUSE, “1 suddenly deyeloped a mania for ice creams, which were sold m camp, right below the line of tents, and I used to be always down there eating them, Jim's tent was down at that end and when iy father and mother thought I was fillingup and making myself ill with creams I used to drop them like a shot when they were not looking and pop into Jim's tent and havea quiet flirtation. n had a boy scout always ou the watch and when miother or father was coming down the walk he would &ive a whistle and I would dive into the 1ce cream shanty again. This sort of thing went on until the 27th of Septem- ber, when we made up our minds some- thing had to be done. AlP the camp knew that I was dead in love with Jim, and he with me. My parents wouldn't listen to anvthing Jim had to say, so we had to decide for ourselves. Well, on this night I got a lady friend to come and stay with me, and 1t was arranged that the marriage should take vlace the next morning. Buck Taylor had his tent moved 1n the o&vpoaltu direction to mine, and constituted himself master of the cearemonies. You will see what he had his tent moved for. Well, the next morn- ng, the 28th—I shall never forget it—as we were going to breakfast, my father caught me talking to Jim, which nearly sent him mad; he got into a terrible rage and forbade me ever speaking to Jim . This was very funny, you will mit, considering we were just on the point of getting married. * BEFORE THE MARRIAG “‘As to Jim, my father said he would shoot him with "a shotgun if he ever caught us together again. Only fancy; and this hardly an hour before he was oing to take me for better or worse, Chings were getting very uncomfortable, when Buck Taylor strolled up and asked me to come and look at the nice way in which he had tixed up his tent. Father let me go and when we got there we found Jim and all the cowboys assembled with the justice in the middie of them, and he marrted us straight away. Just tnink, it was all over in a nunute. We don't waste much time on the other side, do we? “I went back to my parents and never #aid a word. Jim made himself scarce. 1 meant to let them find out for them- selves, aud so they did, for the papers ot hold of it and” the first thing 1 saw my father reading the next day was “A Marriage in Camp.’ ' Was a scene, on bet. My mother said she would kill erself if it was true, and my father romptly whisked me 200 miles away m New York and put me in soli- cary confinement, where I remained for weeks Eventually I got permission to o out one day to buy some ribbons, and L at once took the oppurtunity of jump- ing on the cars. After about fifty “miles of the journey was done a policeman ceame looking into all the cars. My par- ents had telegraphed to stop me. For- tunately a gentleman, who subsequently turned out to be a friend of Jim's—and, strange to say, knew me, but I didn't know him—got 'hold of the policeman and told him he would point ont Lillian Smith; and when he came to me he told the poli n that I was not a bit like her, so he never even asked my name. [ was glad when 1 got to New York. I can tell you. went straight away and oined my husband. This was the 22d of ovember Inst. and I was married Sep- tember 25, Quite a long time back was'tit* When we left for England a reconciliation was effected with my par- ents, and we are all very happy now. You know there is an old saying, “*Marry in haste, repent at leisure.” ~ Old sayings are not always true, and I have proved this one to be so, for I would not part with my Jim for anything," Romance of a Hired Man, Pittsburg Telegraph, “This hired man had loved her long, Had loved her best and first and las Her very garments as she passed For bim had symphony and song."” 8o [ quoted to myself the other night as | heard this story. A dozen or so years f“ ldyolmg man in Harrisburg was em~ Koye as man of all work about his ouse. He was a comely youth as to face and shape, and he was intelhgent. There was something in him above the menial, and, as subsequently transpired, all that he wanted was a chance, he would #o up higher. [t happened that in the ntleman’s house was a very prett aughter accomplished an gay, quite a sooiety girl, but sensible for all that. Seeing her every day it was the most natural thing in the world for the young fellow--the ‘‘hired man''— to fall in love with her, and one bright day he braced himself and told his love— her that to him “'She was the one and only lady,” as he bad said it with all his heart. But e a e e e e the hire irl was not looking with favor on nien—just then. She was shocked. »She told her si The portly sauire,” after reproving the young fcllow, and the venerable parent fired him. But the young man had blood, He gathered to. gether his earthly pos jions and faced toward tho west, He took Greeley's a vice and landed in oue of the mining towns of Colorado. There he went to work as a prospector. Do you know what the life of a prospector 'means? It means hope deferred—it means continual appointments—hard work, toiling and digging and bhunting until death itself would be n welcome release. The young man went through it all He didn’t miss a trick. Many a time he wanted to lay right down and pass in his checks right then and there, but the sand in him woulan't let him. He kept digging away in a perfunctory sort of wn?‘, until one day he struck pay dirt, and all at once he found himself the possessor of great riches. Struck it fat, i’uu like many another poor devil in the ast ditch. He sold out well, and then sat down to think, His first thoughts were of the Harrisburg girl who refused him. Ah, the old love was still there, brethren, still there. He resolved to try again. Gathering together a nice wallet fuli of boodle he hied him east, and at last landed in Harrisburg. The girl he loved was still there, but turning the corner of old maidism. Father wasdead, and things had not gone right. She was poor. The young fellow hun her up. ‘There was u scene that I hope you will not insist upon my describing, and last week there was a quiet wedding that did notget into the papers. And this is why 1 begin this story with the quotation from one of Joaguin Mitler's poems. Senator Hawley's B8ride-Elcct. Philadelphia Times: Soi circles, not only in Philadelphia, but in Wash+ ington and other cities, have taken a specinl interest in the announcement of the engagement and prospective early mudriage of Miss Edith A, Horner, of Philadelphia, to United States Senator Joseph l&. Hawley, of Connecticut. Gen- eral Hawley, who was at the head of the ceutenninl celebration 1n 1876 in Phila- Iphia, has celebrated the constitutional centennial of 1887 by finding in Philadel- phia the lady who 1s to share in his fu- ture honors and successes. They met on shipboard during Miss Horner's to her relatives in England during the sum- mer, and 1t was at the constitutional shration festivities of week before st that the engagement was ar- ranged and announced. Miss Horner will retain her position at the Blockley hospital until November,and the wedding will take place soon afterwards. There are few chapters in real life that surpass in romance the history of this brave, well-born and well-bred English girl, who has devoted so much of her life to the alleviation of human suflering. who from a home of Juxur, sea to enter the pauper hospital of Phila- delphia to help make it a pleasant nur- sury for the neglected of a great. city, and who is now about to wed an eloquent and honored United States sena- tor, the foremost man of his state. Miss Edith A. Horner 1s now about thirty years of age, but in consequence of an_active life and much out-of-door exercise, like most English women, she does not look her age. She is aboye the medium height, with n good, rather full figure and well poised head. With gray biue eyes, light chestnut hair, slightly in- clined'to curl, very pleasing features and a most charming” manner, Miss Horner is recogmzed wherever she goes as an at- tractive English gentlewoman of the highest type. An Unkind Typewriter Girl Detroit Free Press: Lawyer Leonard Swett, of Chicago, has returned home from his wedding tour with his bride, who ufed to be a typewriter girl in his office, and they are enjoying the reading of several hundred letters of congratula- tion which accumulated during their ab- sence. The gem of the collection 18 the following: LEONARD SyrTH, Esq., DEAR Sin: typewriter is kinder than man. T'can only say: She clicks the keys And she tickles the bell With a practiced ease No tongue can tell. Her nimble tingers fly, And1? Your Oé the latter Well, I sit by For I love her tenderly, And she? Well, she tickles the bell And she clicks the keys, And if 1 should tell My love, she'd freeze M( blood with a scornful **You,” WV hew I And so I congratulate you. Pacified His Mother-in-Law, San Francisco Report: Johnnie D. Thompson, clerk in a Montgomery street clothing house, becoming dv‘fn-rx\tul_v in love with a Jewish young lady of ‘this oity, recently married her without his mother's consent. After the marriage he telegraphed her the news, for she was living in Sacramento. Vowing that she would never forgive her rash son the lady arrived at Jackson street wharf aboard the Apacie last mght. The young couple were there to grect her,but as they were about to walk aboard the steamer the escaping steam and dark- ness caused them to miss their footing. There was a loud splush and the bride and groom seemed in danger of drowns ing but the bride is a good swimmer,and while the husband lustily yelled for help as he floundered about, she grabbed him by the hair and held n up until agsis- tance came. The brave act pacified his angry mother-in-lny, and there wasa hearty “God bless you, my children,” when the wet pair landed. Reality in Dreamland. Oakland Tribune: Twenty years ago a bachelor in Oakland dreamed of visit- ing a family consisting of parents and two little girls, who were unknown to him in his ing hours, From that time forth he continued to dream of them for a score of years. He saw the children grow from childhood to womanhood. He was present at the closing exercises when they graduated. In fact, he shared all the pleasures and griefs of this family. His friendship to the dreamland friends scemed so real that he often remarked that he felt certain he would know them in reality at some future time. Two months ago he saw in a dream the husband die, and from that time he ceased to dream of them for the first time in a veriod of twenty years. About 8ix weeks ago he was astonished at re- ceiving a letter from New York city, the writer being the widow of a cousin of his, with whom he had never had any imtercourse since his boyhood, over thirty years. The widow wrote that she wished to make Sun Francisco her future home. After exchanging a few letrers it was arranged for him to meet her and the two daughters at the Oskland wharf upon the arrival of an eastern traiu on a cortain day. On their arrival imagine his surprise to sce his dream friends. They were equally so when he related his strange series of dreams in which they figured. He told them incidents con- nected with their past lives which he could not have known under ordinary circumstances. He described theiwr for mer home, even to the furmiture and household ornamonts, which was cor- reet in every particular. The sequel is that be recently murried the widow and is living happily in thus city. Wang Kee Will Wed. Chlcflfo Herald: Wang Kee, a moon- eyed Celestial, who works at \he Com- mercial hotel, smiled a sweet, celestial smile as he tip- oed up to Clerk Sxlmon- son, ot the marriage license department of the clerk’s office vesterda; , and asked if he was Cupid. ' He was accompanied by a lawyer named Abbott, and scon was In possession of a license to mnrr{ Augusta Smythe, a twenty-four-year-old German girl. Wang said he was twenty- six years of age, and promised the clerk that he would adbere to American cus- toms and raise his family without pigs tails. The astute Chinaman protended to have been converted, but when he removed his hat to swear his cue was scen to have been neatly folded in a knot on top of his head. Queer Colorado Wedding. Leadville Democrat: On the arrival of the Salt Lake express atSalida an aged-looking man of dissipated appear- ance, accompanied by a handsome young woman, stepped from the train, and, re< pairing to the Monto Cristo hotel, re- quested that a minister be summoned, as they desired to be married. This was complied with, and soon the twain were made one. The newly married wifo re- tired to the privacy of the chamber which had pecn assigned to the couple. Not so, however, with the husband., He proceeded to fill up on whisky, On returning to the hotel ‘the man ac- tually forgot that he had been married. He went up to the parlor and sank i into drunken slumber on the sofa, entirely forgetting that s young wifo was in an agonzing suspense on account of his not returning. Next morning when she learned the true state of allairs, she fm‘ul the hotel bill and left the town in disgust, before her newly made husband was awake, CONNUBIALITIES, Miss Bishop, aged fourteen, eloped the other day with John Lee, of Oconee, Ga. ‘The groom is sixty-three years old. The bigzest wedding in sizht in Europe Is that of Helen Betty de Rothschild with Baron Gustavus Van de Haar, Thelady has a snug fortune of §30,000,000. Mr. J. K. Wright, whoadvertised for a wife about a vear ago, is now the proud father of a bouncing boy. Our advertising rates can be ascertained by inquiry at the counting- s the Minneapolis ‘I'ibune, 1t is ||311|l4|r4-4l in P’aris that Count and Counte: ener have separated. Counte: Telfener is the younger ter of Mrs, Mackay, and on het marriage with the count she received a_ handsome dowry from her brother-in-law, Mr. Mackay. Miss Mary Hurst Purnell, eld: of Littleton B, Purnell, and Dr. n_Ral- ston Lovell Gould, of Washington, D. C., statistician in the United States bureau of labor and lecturer at Johns Hopkins univer- sity, were married Tuesday ~afternoon at Woodland, Baltimore county, the residence of the brides father. A very romantic marriage has just taken vlace at Stark-’s station, Ga. 1L 5. Iaines, a h"ll?_’l ph operator at Dalton, and Miss Ella Phiilips, an operator at Sugar \ alley, courted over the wires and met by appoin ment at Starke's station, where ‘thev were married under a big hickory tree. They went from there to Daiton and_then departed tor their respective posts of duty. There is {ouu‘ man in Dakota in hard Tu He fell in love with a eirl, but her nts did not like him. In attempting an opement he succeeded in getting his sweet- heart out of tho house only to be arrested for burglary by the cruel parent when he stole back after her clothes, and to be com- witted to jail by the justice of the peace whom he had retained’to marry him. Edwin McElroy, who was married Sunday night on the stage of the Buckingham thea- ter, in Louisville, to Miss Agnes McDonald- Fulter, of Chicazo, is spending his honey- moon rather lonesomely in a cell at the jail. Mr. MecElroy is munager of the Steison Vaudeville company, while Miss Foller was one of the stars, The ceremony was per- formed on the stage of the theater in the presence of an enthusiastic audience. A supper and congratulations followed, and it was about ¥ o’clock in the morning when the newly wedded couple retired. There was a knock at the door, which the groom opened only to be contronted by a constable armed with a writ, who insisted on McEloy paying a_week’s board for bis company atonce. ‘This he could not do and he was led away to Jail, leaving his bride to meditate alone. — - TABLE SERVICE, aughter New trays have a basket-finished surfaco aud scalloped edge. Others are in satin fin- ish, and a novelty has what is called a spun finish. Many of the most el ‘ware are done by pr ant sets of fine table e order, and are al- most unknown outside of the circle of friends who dine from them. Ice cream sets are either in oblong or square shapes. Cream is frequently served in long bars, in which case the oblong dish with square corners is preferable. Cut glass Is growing fn favor, and is very generally used. There are, however, some specimens of pressed glass that only an ex- vert can distinguish from that which is cut. Pickle castors and regular castors for sea- soning vary but little in style from those with which we are familiar, A new pattern is in the shape of a wheel,0and is exceedingly pretty. i3 Vegetable dishes are shown in several shapes. The square, low dishes are perferred for breaktast uses. ‘I'hey have covers, and are either in solid color with bands of gold, or in white body with colored decorations, New oatmeal sets have cream pitcher, bowl, and the plate upon which the bowl is placed, The new decoratiens are in gold and filieree upon dark grounds; brick red, ¢hocolate color and blue lay color are popu- ar. Atfamily breakfast the hostess pours the coffee and sends 1t by the waiter, or, if the ta- ble be small and the family relations intimate, the cups are handed about by those who sit next to the hostess and the servant is dis- missed. Water sets are in basket pattern and also in satin surtace with tloral decorations, The newest sets have_pitcber, drinking cup, slop bowl and tray. New ice pltchers are larger at the bottom and smaller at the top than formerly. Very few have procelain linings. Dishes for sauces of various sorts, bone dishes, roll trays, dishes for boiled corn served on the ear, asparagus dishes, cheese dishes, sardine, scolloped oyster, pudding and butter dishes are but a few ot the lesser pieces that go to make up the harmonious and complete whole. New celery dishes are in long slender boat shapes, with ends turned up gondola wise, Berry dishes are shown in various elegant decorations, many of them with the kind of fruit they are intended to hold, either on the stalks or in masses: small deep plates or dishes come to match the bowl. ‘The foundation of the table servi by what is ordinarily known as the h dinner set, which may consist ot about 125 to 135 pieces, according to faney. To this num- ber Is added every variety and form of dish, plain or fancy, that ingenuity can suggest. Again, the dinner ; there are some hun- dreds of pieces that must be added to make up the fashionable complement, For breakrast sets there are fruit plates on which oranges or grapes ave served. Theso are often done in most elaborate style, One handsome set has a truit bowl and twelve lrlmw. 'he bowl has a wreath of grape eaves and fruit around the upper edge, and oranges, peaches, pears and other fruits in the most periect colorinzsand with the vary- ing green of the!r respective foliage. Gawme sets have been the subject of no lit- tle care labor, with what results the su- perb specimens now on exhibition will best lustrate. The deer, buifalo, wild boar, pheasant, turkey, grouse and water fowl of all sorts are used in the decorations. They are tor the $most part shown in their native wilds, the forest, hillside, stream and mountain lake, forming the charming and appropriate background and surround- ins, Fish sets show some attractive novelties in design. - Among the most beautiful are bor- ders of sea green, with sea weeds, coral shells, the lotus, and almost every form of marine plant and flower. An order r:'l“'ntl{ tilled by a private artist of note was for a fish set in_water bloowms, sea lilies, pond lilies, and similar flowers were shown in I\IlllA! larze size, and below wers miniature tish of wvarious sorts. There is a difference of opinion &s tothe most desirable torm for the plates on whieh oysters are served. Some ultra esthetic peo- ple wsist that the indented plate with the place for each of the oysters is too much like the restay t, and they serve the oysters on A plain plate. This is, Luwe\'al. a atter of Indiviaual opinion, and does not prevent the use of any elegant and costly oyster Pplates upon thé most fashionable iables. Coffea cups have returned to the old form with straight sides. The wide flaring shape was beautiful, and preferred by seme people FOR THIS WEEK. We call special attention to our enormous stock of BOYS' CLOTHING! Suits for $1.50, §1.75, $2, $2.50 and upwards, Our large line of single pants, for B0¢, 650, 75¢, 85¢, £1, $1.15 and wupwards, Ourlarge line of flannel shirt waists, Qur large line of boys hats and caps from 25¢ upward, Fall Overcoats. Our' $6.50, $2.50, $9 and §10 fall overcoats are the greatest wonder to our competitors, who cannot understand how we can do it. But never mind, ‘‘we get there just the same,’” and nobody need go with- out a fall overcoat when they can buy a splendid worsted coat for $6.50. on account of its graceful curves, but it cools the coffee too rapldly, and the straight shape has tor this reason superseded it in popular favor. Saucers are rather small und shal- low, broad on the bottom, and curve sharnly up at the edges. Breakfast plates are smaller than formerly, and tho latest shapes are very flat, Meat sets ordinarily ‘consist of sixteen or eighteen pieces, 'The platter, one or thres vegetable aishes (the former is the usual number, althongh some dinners have more than one vegetable served with the roast), a gravy tureen and sauce boat if two kinds of sauce are served, and twelve plates. Acces: sories in the way of bone dishes and the like may be made to match or not, according to faney. e colors are strictly in accord with life, and the rims of the d solid color with gold decol desiens, Designers and manufacturers of fine china seem to be at variance upon the subject of soup plates, New samples are shown in deep shapes with broad bottoms, while others are very flat, so shallow, indeed, that there is theszreatest difficulty in handling them when filled. They vary in size also, but the best taste and judgment approves the deeper plate of medium size as the more sensible and it will doubtless supersede the other al- together. New tureens are in bowl shawves or square. In the former style are sume beauti- ful specimens in decorative desizns. Some of them are not unlike punch bowls or salad dishes., Meat sets are handsome and characteristic. One that has attracted p great deal of atten- is done in landscape with domestic ani- Als grazing, Beeves, far and sleek, stand shallow pool or drinking from a running , \ghile others lie about on the grassy with looks of contentment on their aces, Sheep and lambs stand at a watering trough. Small and half grown pizs gambol on a lawn, pne particularly fat and mischievous tellow haying overturned a pot of plants at which he looks in evident sur- prise. Several calves stand by a low gate, one resting his head on the shoulder of his fellow. While decorated china has for some yvears ast been the object of @ moderate degree of nterest, yot artistie taste has done its utmost toward the production of single piec entire sets that are in a truly arti masterpieces of deeoration. Since regular courses have became customary, not a for dinner, but for breakfast and other meals, the cultivated tastes of the hostess have de- manded variety and profusion in tableware, the former as’ a gratitication to herself and entertainment for her friends, the latter for convenience and safety, as hasty washing of plates is necessarily "attended with delay and danger from too rapid handling. It has, therefore, come to be the eustom in well-to-do households where the formalities of fashion are observed to have the service for each course as distinct and characteristic as pos- sible, every effort baing made to secure de orative designs and shapes that shall best suit the purpose for which the ware is in- tended. ation or in fa m ina ‘The largest university in the world Is Ox- ford, in England. It consists of twenty-one colleges and five halls. Miss Rose Cleveland has begun her daties as teacher of American nlstur{ ina young ladies’ boarding school near Central Park, New York. Prof, Newton, of Yale, says that the fresh- 8 this year will number over 200 and be the largest on record. TI'nescientitic school will have 100 students in the new class. The election of the wifeof Senator Blair to be a trustee of the New llampslire normal ol, is said to be the first instance of a an being chosen to a state institution there. Professor Luey M. Salmon, the new occu- pant of the chair of history at Vassar college, began her career asan educator in Iowa, having been for six years the principal of the Mc@Gregor high school. Prof. Dana, of 'Yale college, reached San Francisco last week from Hawaii, where he spent one week studying the crater of Ki auea. e had examined the voleano forty seven years ago, and found on his recent visit that it had not aged a¢ much as he had in the intervening years. Rufus Magee, our ministor to Norway and Sweden, has given the Indiana state univer- sity, in which he was once_ a studen:, a copy of a map made in 1452 and 14%6, showing the geograpber’s idea of the world at that per- 10d. The original was found in an old Rus- s\lau library by Baron Nordenskiold, the Arctic ’g;lnmr. and the only other: copy in this country is owned by Harvard university, ‘The Indian children of Alaska no longer wear a tag of tin with a number, in order that if truant from school they might be identified. School commences in September, ana continues forty-four Ve addition to primary English the boys are taught cooperage, carpent and cabinet ing, and the girls are nstructed in sewing, knitting, cooking and different household duties, It is stated on good authority that there are now in New Engiand 191,000 people who can neither r 00 in Penn- sylvania and 241,000 in New York, while.the total of the whole country reaches nearly 6,000,000, or ten per cent of the population. 1t is reasonable to believe that, outside of the great cities which have public libraries, sixty per cent of the population never read any- thing but the personal the newspapers, One of the boys at the Byran, Tex., agri- cultural and mechanical “college has been paying his own way by working on a farm. few weeks ago he found that he must abandon Lis studies for a time or run in debt. Some of the other boys learned of the situation, put their heads together. raised $100. and loaned it to him for six years without interest, ‘They also voted that the money, when paid, should be left with the treasurer of the college as a permanent loaning fund for use In similar cases. items and locals in e A Dummy Waving a Handkerchief. Newark News: Itisa custom among railroad men whose homes 3 gitaated within view of their passing trains to be always on the platform of the cars and to salute their wives or other mewmbers of the family, who are generally at the window at the time when the trains pass. The conductors and brakemen have come to regard it as a duty on the part of their families to be at the window, A certain conductor on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, whose home is near Urange, is very particular ve this custom observed, and only red yesterday that his wife,for an te period,has been circumventing him by having a dummy dressed in her clothes near the window with a fluttering handkerchief that gave her husband _the dea she was there waiting to salute him, Hats. Our hat department is simply im- mense this season, and for $1.25 you can purchase’'a good stiff hat equal to hats bought elsewhere for $2. Other stiff hats for $1.50, 82, $2.530, 83, Our soft crushers sell for 50¢ and 7oc. Soft Hats from 75¢ Upwards. Underwear, Our lineof underwear is selling at lower prices than has ever been seen before, We call your attention to the goods shown in our window which we are selling at 15 Per Cont Cheaper than other Houses can Sell Them for. NEW YORK & OMAHA CLOTHING CO 1308 Farnam Street. WHERE MAGNOLIAS BLOOM. An 0ld Omahan Descrihss tho Baautisy of Florida. THE VILLAGE OF ASTATULA The St. John's River—The Products of the Country — Some Poetic Nooks—The Delightful Asrarrra, Lake county, Fia,, Oct 8.-— To the Editor of the B Having been a resident of your prosperous city for some years past, and now a resident of this state, and having numerous friends among your readers, who are ignorant of the vast and fertile country contained in this peninsula, I wish to give them a few facts in regard to our part of the sunny south, which comes as near being 2 poor man’s country as it 1s possible for any land to Lake county is an offspring of the old counties of Orange and Sumpter, and is now only about three months old, but is taking many steps forward in the line of advancement. Itis situated in what is known as the lake region or orange belt of Florida,com- mencing with the St. John river on Lake George on the north and east, extending sonth and west embracing the sheets of water called Lakes Eustis, Dora, Beaus cinirre, Harrs, Griflin, Lady and httle Lake Harris, with Lake inland sea as it can truly be c twenty-nine miles in length and se iled, ven- teen n width, affording a protection from the cold north winds and frost, containing as it does, a dedly fertile and healthy section ot country THE ST. JOIN RIVER with its magnificent steamers serve as one of the many outlets to the north, and with five lines of railroad connecting for all points at Tavares we find no trou ble 1n regard to transportation, and the traveler, producer,and business man can~ find ample and good means of traunsit for their lines of merchandise. Lying directly south of littie Lake Harris and west of Lake Apopka, we find a continuous chain of high land or hills called Apopka mountains. Standing on the crest of the highest we see some twenty miles to the northwest the growing city of Leesburg, at the head of Luke Harris., Then directly in front wefind the enterprising town of Astatula looming up out of the pines. To the east is seen Tavares, the great railroad center of south Fleri and Mount Dora, a beautiful village, hoth overlooking Lake Dora. On the south we find the broad expanse of open county aronnd Lake Apopka, while in the distant haze the shape and smoke of two handsome steamers are to be seen plowing their way around the shores, gathering up the products of the ket gardener and orange grower, and distributing supplies for the numerous business houses to be found at each land- ing. glere on this crest the most fastidions critic of nature can stop for hours, and, resting in the cool shade of the pines, fanned by gentle breezes wafted from the gulf and ocean, and when his reverie is over, he descends with ever the same conclusion— IT 1S COMPLET Down the mountain side wander, at each turn finding some new scene or flower to attract and divert. Through the Double Run, with its cool and mossy banks and fish innumerable, on through the dense Hammock, where we find the magnolia, sweet bay palmetto of every description, and ferns of all varieties, from the delicate maiden hair to the larger varieties, whose leaves measure fully six feet to the top. Everything is to be found here that is looked “upon with wonder and admiration in the green- houses aud conservatories of the north. Coming ont of the Hammock we pass through a belt of live oak gnarled and twisted and into the high vines once more with fragrant breezes blowing the scent of the sweet bay berries toward us, we arrive at lust at_the village of Asta- tula, named very justly from the Semi- nole language (Astatula meaning sun- beams.) In the evening the sun going to rest over the western hills sheds its beams for miles across the waters of the llttle Lake Harris, and dirict to the mll on the cast where the town is situated. This prosverous village, located In the dense pme and Hammock land, has steadily improved in spite of the hard freeze of two years ngo, and with good railroad and lake transportation bids fair to become one of the most prominen i south Florida. We find here the rich pme 'and of first grade for orange and other members of the us family and the hammoc ith decayed vegetable ter Jake the much beds which al to the market garden. g the crops that ave raised here for prolit and home nse we find the orange. lemon, lime shaddock or grape fruit guava, bannana, pineapple, pinto peach, LuConte, pear, Japanese persim- mon, Museatel grape and last but not by any means least the strawberry, OF OTHER PRODUCTS people are giving esvecial attention to the following: Corn, eotton, jute, hemp, artichoke, ASparagus, cassava, tomatoes, string,and lima beans, peas, squash, water melons and others of the same nature One of our citizens cut trom a Musca- tel grape, two vears old this summer, over one ton of the fruit,and found ready saks for same at twelve and a half cents per pound. Arvother picked from a three- vear-old Pinto peach tree two and a ulf bushels of fine grade fruit, and as Apopka, an [ this peach comes in bearing i n May the product finds ready bushel i sale av $13 per in Jacksonville, g Not wishing to weary my friends with too much of a good thing I will simply say, come down and spend a fow weeks this winter with us, and while those gen- tle forty miles an hour thirty-five below zephyrs are blowing across the Ne- T you can pull off’ your coat and go fishing, or eat oranges with us. LENOX, - OR THE LADIES, HONEY Braiding is immens popular, Mrs. Cleveland wears a 57 glove. China crape I8 much used for bridesmaids’ dresses tuis fall, All the silks of the season are very soft, with lustrous surface. [mmense buttons are teatures in the garni- ture of fall costume Royal purple will be the fashionable color for the coming season, ‘I'he rage for the antique in jewelry is every day more marked. ‘I'rim figures would be more conspicuous if some of the trimmings were discarded. Ribbed silk underwear grows in favor and is shown in vests and union suits of various kinds. A charming house dress forthe winter is of gray silk, with little clusters of wine red stripes. Neyw soft felt bonnets and hats are brought out in all the fashionable shades to match costumes, Most of the tweed costumes are now made suitable for utility walking gowns, without any additional wrap, A woman waiting for a train in a New Ha- ven railway station the other day had eight cross-eyed children with her. Very low-crowned bonnets have appeared at last, but it {s safe to assert that it will take fully two seasons and perhaps more to make them general, Whole dresses of black or colored Lyons velvets will be much worn tins winter, and the handsome new plushes will also be used in the same way. _Gay Roman-plaided or Persian-striped ribbons, about an inch and a half wide, are worn again, but mostly unde® velvet or linen turn-down collars, A concert toilette has the full front and skirt in Henrietta cream-color cloth, with ruby velvet walst, trimmed with garnet- beaded passementerie, Miss Franeis E. Willard will preside over the national convention of the #Women's Christian Temperance Union at Nashville, Tenn., November 16 to 21, Green leather is a new caprice for bags, belts, card cases and purses. This new leather Is a light green tint and is in raised designs, like those of repousse sil It has been learned that extremely tight lacing produces softening ot 4he brain. It has long been known that softening of the brain vroduces extremely tight lacing. Miss Oloff Krarer, of Ottawa, 1., a native Esquunau, from the eastern coast of Green- land, has been lecturing in Chicago. She is thirty years and is only forty inches high, A startling novelty is the introduction of blue gloves. They come in shades of Gobe- lin biue, so fashionable at present, and many of t|rmm have the strips between the fingers Does your wife play the piano?’ *1am sorry to say she doesn’t.” “Does she play any kind of a musical instrument?” “None whatever.,” “Hey! That's a rare accom- plishment.” Iur is to be a popular trimming the com- ing seasen for Indoor and morning dresses, Chinchilla tur is also to be popular for trim- ming gray velvet, with which it forms a graceful contrast. The proportion of men to women in the lical profession is thirty-five to one. here are now 2,50 women holding first- class medical diplomas, and all_of thel have won their sheepskins since 1550, _The 1,000 girls employed ina Liverp factory have been organized into a fire bri ade, with regular apparatus and drill, The have several times demonstrated their efli- ciency when the tactory was threatened witn destrirction, Mrs. Cleveland is reportod as saying that she would never sit for a photograph again while she remained mistress of the white liousg. Some of the prints used as tobacco signs are said to be the cause of her taking this resolution. oung woman living at ', appropriated a horse, 55 and started out to see the country last’ week. She reached Lar- amie in time to be weleomed and cared for by the sheriff. Many of the new plaids are conspicuously large and gay in pattern, but there are case of other designs, especially among rict. e; pensive materfals, that are exceedingly taste- ul and attractive, blending with plain fab- rics with excellent eftect, The silver girdles which have zrown so rapidly in favor the past season, it is pre- dicted, are to be superseded by ropes of beads, links of passementerie and fur rolls, mateh: inga suit entire from head to foot—dress, hat, gloves, shoes and stockings—is again to be the mode, An odd faney in stockings is o wear two pair, the outer one being ot silk or net, with broad meshes, Red net is worn over black silk stockings, blue over gray and pink and heliotrope over white. For those in mour ing come black ones, to be worn over under- stockinzs of white, ‘There Isa revival in the fancy for jerseys of both silk and wool, but they are no longer plain and closely fitted, the preference being !ur arions gathered waists, som having yokes, while others are shirrad on the shoul- ders and drawn down in plaits to meet a vointed half-girdle of velvet, Plush mantles for the autumn are made in visite shape with slinz sleeves, and fancy vests covered with beading or gimp the shade of the plush. Another model is a sim- ple shoulder-cape reaching to the waist-line, with long searf-ends that extend in some €3 quite to the toot of the dress-skirt. Mrs. Mitehell, the widow of Alexander Miteh ell, the Milwaukee raiirond maenate, has quit | that city and will live in California. She had. fitchell, who adispute with her son, Johnil. Gueided ¥o sell the fine MItahell mansion in Milwaukee, and that 18 said to have pronpted ler change of residence, Mrs. Mitehell i paid $20,000 a year from her late husband’s estate, A pretty girl set up a boot-blacking chair in Wall street. She was an alert creature of sixteen or so, dressed In Jaunty neatness, and altogether an object to miake the brokers turn around for a_second look. But her e terprise failed. No man nhad the moral courage to mount that chair and submit his boots to the brushes of & girl, and she got no eustomers, 'f1ELDS T0 EVERY MOVEMEN: OF THE WEARER. Owing to the PIAGONAL o the N NG, HEAL te Corsct ever wori. TTY HROS, ™ Removed one block south to corner Tith and Douglas Sts. New brick buildiag 40 new rooms for patients, OMAHA MEDICAL & SURGICAL INSTITUTE. Cor, 18th St. and Cap OMAHA, NEB. 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