Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1887, Page 7

SOME THINGS ABOUT WOME, The Bravest of Battles—Provision for the Girls, TWO BRAVE NEBRASKA LASSES. A Plucky Western Girl-A Pretty Car Conductor-A *Baby Among the Strong- Minded—Don’'ts. Joagquin Miller, The bravest battle that ever was fought, Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you'll find it not; "Twas fought by the mothers of men. Nw, not with cannon or battle shot, ith sword or nobler pen ; Nay, not with eloquent word or thought ‘rom mouth of eloquent men. But deep in a walled-up woman's heart— Of woman that wonld not yield— But bravely and silentiy bore her part— Lo! there is that batilefield. No marshalling troop, no bivouac song, Ne banner to gleam and wave! But, oh, these battles they last so long— From babyhood to the grave! Provide Something for the Girls. All over Germany exist what are ealled sparcassen (savings banks), which correspond in a measure to the endow- ment plan of the American insurance companies. The best known is the Wil- helmscasse, named after the emperor, who is its patron. At the birthof a girl the father and motherinsure her (kaufen sie ein) in such n casse for as much as they are able 1o bestow every year on the future of their new-born baby girl. The amount is paid annually. The casse lays out the money in behalf of the in- sured, at interest, chiefly in real estate, In this way the money accumulates, and at eighteen, or her majority, the girl is the possessor of a snug little capital, This will serve her to study any favored profession, go to some good conserva- tory, or start in business; and last, but not least, buy her trousseau, if she hasa tofollow woman’s truest mission! why cannot well-to-do Ame: n establish such away of providing for their less fortuna sisters? What a blessed gift from a godmother to a poor little girl such an insurance would be. I truly believe it would give zeal and encouragement to many true, poor parent, if by this small cconomy they could help to provide for their dear ones. 1t is better than a life insuranc for it takes away the “‘sting of death®’; all may live and enjoy the Feait of thetr economy! How much better such a yearly outlay would be, for people in moderate circumstances, than in costly toys and extravagant dress, by whic children are brought up toexpectations. Brave Nebraska Girls. New York Sun: A gentleman had just returned from a land in; ing tour in the northwest in spe: of his experiencos a few evenings related a story which shall be here in his own words. Said he: **We—there was a party of four—had reached the limit of the stage line at a little frontier town named Broken Bow, but_our destination was the valley of the Middle Loup river, a 150 miles further into the unsettled praivie, where the ouly thing to attract the eye from the monotony of the end- less su sion of hills and valleys was an occasional flock of prairie chickens or a deer, which startled from his couch in thg grass, after a moment of wild curios#y, would bound gracefully ago, given away over the crest of the nearvest ris- ing ground. Bow The day we left Broken after several hours of travel, we d a neat white school house, where half dozen sturdy children were gazing out of the open door unrebuked, i phasing vahidlotiwas i subject of much comment and conjecture in that sparse settlement, and could not go un- heeded. Behind the ildren and ly less interested than they, their teacher, a bloom- ing, healthy-looking girl of about twenty-two years, I judged, and there was something in her manner and re- fined face that was in_striking contrast to the rude surroundings and unbroken prairie. The presence of the puj could be accounted for by recalling two or three sod huts within a few miles,but we couldn’t be satisfied with consigning this fair girl to such an origin. “At last we appealed to our driver, who had not heeded our conversation, for some solution to the mystery, think: ing that, as a resident of Broken Bow, he might be acquainted with the cir- cumstances, and we were not mistaken. It was learned from him that several years ago two plucky girls came to the ‘Bow,’ as Broken Bow is usually called, which was at that time composed of but two or three houses, and was the treme limit of habitation. They came from Vermont, but with undaunted reso- rended their small supply oring the wilderness and the homestead papers and in erectin Then they began housekoey the rigors of the long ter winter came on. How they struggled and the priv tions they endured will never be known, and through all those brave girls kept a cheerful hopefulness that was positively heroice. The followin, settlers ventured to take elaim region, and, with true stinct, their first ¢ building shelter for their fam: was the er tion of a tiny schoolhouse, with sod walls four feet thick., The natural drift of eircumstances led to one of the pioneer givls being chosen as the first theacher, and thus their almost exhausted purse was replenished. By means of hard lubor they had, during this first summer, raised enough food stufls to last, with close cconomy, until the following i and then with the money earned in teaching, a small team of bronchos and some farming implements were purchased, and prosperity began to seem a thing of the near future, and to no longer be a creation of their brave hopes. Years hurried on, and the little schoolhouse of sod gave place to a more imposing structure of wood, but the girl from Vermont, with her stern New I gland training, still led the children through the winding labyrinth: tions and across the chaotic wilderness of orthography. The farm began to have a value, and an oecasional speculator would survey the 320 broad acres, for each girl took u claim, and propose to pay a sum for it that would wake the eyes of the owner spurkle, but all inducements were in vain, and this summer when we passed the school house and heard the history of the courngeous girls from the lips ¢4 the prosaie guide, that farm wou!?, . va sold for enough cush 1o hava taken the isters back 10 the old {iyean Mountain state and have bought them besides a neat little b, e among their childhood friends. **\sut they have no inclination to re- turn to the rocks and barren fields of New England except for an occasional visit, and ;;rupou broaden and im- l;x\\\-e their possessions until wealth rings them comfort and lewsure, and the country about them is filled withan intelligent and industrious population. A Plucky Western Girl, Washington Letter: A Minnesota | married a government clerk four v other in the American i summer a fe: A M B e years ago and came to Washington to ive. She was a buxom lass from Doug- las county, and as intelligent as she was muscular and wholesome to look upow. Her husband loved her very hard for a while, as young husbands will; but he soon went the way of all government clerks and fell in love with a bottle and then with another woman, The Minnesota lass sat down and cried a good ery—just because it is a woman’s duty to shed a few tears over the erring —-but as soon as the proper amount of bawling had been done she stopped. She then braced up and commenced to study medicine. She attended medical lectures while the indifferent husband wasted his time and his substance in riotous living. Last spring she was graduated in medicine and now has her shingle out. She has picked up con- siderable practice during the past few months and bids fair to become a cele- brity. She is too modest to have her name used publicly as yet, but it will soon be necessary. Her husband has not paid any rent for two months past, but she has done so. The house is now lensed to her. Omne of these evenings that husband will come rolling home and be met with a few affectionate words and a club, and he will be homeless, Then the name of this independent young lady will appear, and many will now and recognize this picture. Don'ts For Girls, Don't be slangy. Don’t be affected. Don’t giggle and talk loud on the cars. Don’t endeavor to seem what you are not. Don’t be rude to your mother and slace your opinion above hers. She knew something even before you were born. . Don't be a flirt, and if so inclined strive with all your might against be- coming one. Don’t whisper at entertainments. The stage formance may be far more preferable to your neighbor than your own. Don’t say cutting things to your ac- quaintancy They may forgive, but they will never forget. Don’t be ca: in_your selection of gentlemen fr s! Discountenance all familiarities; be dignified, but kind and considerate., Don’t, on the spur of the moment, be led into doing whatever will lower your self-respect and cause you regret for- ever after! For regretis a worm that insidiously destroys the rose-coloured petals of happiness. Don’t tell your secrets! The wise woman, the woman we all revere, does not publish her affairs among the towns- people. A Baby Among the Strong-Minded. The Vermont W. C. T. U., at its thir- teenth annual meeting, witnessed a protty incident. Mrs. Phabe Stone 3eeman came into the meeting while the votes were taking, with her sixteen month old baby. Every mother of them welcomed' the baby, Lelia Stone Beeman. An escort was sent. The buby was brought to the platform. She looked smiling over the convention, Miss Willard took her in her arms, and moved that “‘the white-ribbon baby be made a delegate to_this convention.” She passed to Mrs. Greene's arms, who said: My department of kindergarten hasveceived a baptism.” Forthwith they elected Mrs. Beeman secretary. Who fears that women who vote will cease to care for children? A Connecticut Girl asa Car Conductor Ansonia Sentinel: An Ansonia young lady had occasion to act as conductor on one of the street cars one day last week, ander peculiar circumstances. In com- pany with another young lady she was riding from Birmingham, by mistake in depositing faves for both, dropped a quarter of adollar into the box from whence no change comes. The quarter jingled against the glass sides with an unusually loud sound that caused the driver to take his eyes off the road for an instant and glance in the direction of the fare hox. As his opties caught sight of the quarter settling itself down the gla toboggan, they also noticed an outstretched hand belonging to the young lady and his ears heard the sound of *“‘change please.” The Jehu explained away all thoughts that the young lady had of ever getting her fifteen cents inge, and told her the best way he saw was for her to collect three fares from the passengers as they entered the car. Accordingly the young lady, as any sensible person would do, bided her time, and from a trio who boarded the car collected the amount of her deficiency, thus balancing herself with the company’s treasury. She Threw a Cat at Him. Philadelphia Record: The inability of a woman to throw anything so that it will hit the object at which she aims was rather qnéerly demonstrated in a London street the other ng. A young person of sixteen who was walk- ing along with a cat in _her arms was suddenty seized with a desire to throw something at a_young man of her nac- quaintance, and, for lack of a better projectile, caught pussy by the tail and fung her at him. Of course the young man was unharmed, a cat went through a shop window, the S. . T. P. 0. C, T, A. took up the matter, about six police- men were required to arrest the girl, and she found horself with & fine ‘and costs of 18s. to pay, unless she preferred fourteen days imprisonment. time she will know her limitations and will lay the cat in the young man’s arms, pull its tail, see him duly pun- ished and suve her money. % Next Pretty Girls in Hard Places. New York Covrespondence Kansas City Times: There has been crented in New York city a class of young ladies who work for a living as’ te ors, typewriters, socretaries, and ntellectunl oceupntions. Because several scandals have become notorious among them, careless tongues wag recklessly, but as a rule they are just about the nicest, loveliest girls in town, A t})hilnnlhl‘upic matron of millions said to me: ‘‘Half the stories these girls tell are of the test their characters ure put to, the approaches they must forever guard ngainst, the insults they must forever pocket or digest. One young woman I know of secured a place s secretary to a lawyer on one day, the next day he flung his arms around her and kissed her. Another had 4 carry manuseript 1o an office eveyy now and then, and one doy the white-haired head of the ‘Qh\ce v6wed he loved her. He sai’, he was unhappily married By ho hoped that would pro- vOkS, ner sympathy and not her dislike, An employe of the customs service, not 80 far from here as to be outof this state, was sent to search a suspected woman smuggler, and when she under- took her task the smuggler proved to be a man—a very keen-witted practical humorist. One concern in town, which employs hundreds of girls, put detec- tives on the sidewalk to (pruvcnl them from being insulted out of doors by lFr- sons waiting for them to come out, The detectives would be move useful inside the building. But the subject makes me wax warm as I ponder over it, and 48 the things .which I know about women’s work besida man pour in on my intellect like a young Niagara. You would also be indignant could you know the swm of torture girls put up with to keep the floorwalkers and superinten- dents from falsely representing them and getting them discharged, the armor they have to wear to keep employers in their places, the things they have to hear and to see in silence, knowing there is no redress but to throw up their livings.” Where the American Woman Fails. Harper's Bazar: It seems impossible that an American woman,with the dowry of quick intelligence and imitative faculty which she possesses,which make her if she chooses so clever an artist, so skilful a musician, so honorable in her desire for the higher education, so well dressed and so bien posee, ns she al- most immediately becomes after con- tact with the world, should remain so oblivious of the evident proprieties which she shocks at home andabroad by her conduct in public places; yet here is where she fails, She talks and laughs at the opera when an artist is singing. She behaves worse at a matinee than any other woman in the world. She crowds, shoves. shows temper and a lack of g feelin, An Amerlean does not in her o&)e a always behave quietly and like a lady. She gets up, turns her back on the audience, ad- justs her dress, laughs and talks audibly to her cavalier. She has no sense of the etiquette of public places, 1f she were & man she would be hissed. and once or twice in the history of man- kind she has been hissed,and she should be more frequently hissed, until she learns to respect the feelings of others. The absence of reverence, that atmos- here in which many women are rought up, makes her commit these vulgar sins in public. She is impatient of advice and angry at the implied doubt of her knowledge. Toa woman who is frivolous and made up of vulgar vanity, it may be very agreeble to see men stare at her from the pit as she makes herself conspicuous at the opera. It may repay her to see herself in the columns of the newspapers as a fast, 1oud) young married belle, Bub when she goes to n European opern house she receives an intimation from the police that she must behave better or be put out. Foreigners say that decorum in public is not a peculiarity of American women. The American owes this patriotic duty to his flag. He should aim at correct- ing all public exhibitions of bad man- ners, such as loud talking in a private box, no matter by whom done. The more prominent the social position_of the woman the greater the offense. She has had an opportunity to know better. Bad manners may be the uuLurul:plng of ignorance and of vulgarity, or they may be the assumption of the noveau riche, who pretend in that way to show their power. They must remember that it was by such ~ presumption that _certain French ladies were brought to the guil- lotine in 1797 and later on, and that there is a guillotine called public opin- ion which may behead them some ‘Hu_w Americans can do everything well; why cannot they learn to behave decently in public places? Why should not an American woman be low-voiced, thor- oughbred, quiet.}m!itc and welldressed,, as well as beautiful. English critics say that the American young man of fashion is too dead-and- alive, and the young women too noisy. An American girl does too much as she pleases. She becomes the most pam- pered of wives or the most independent of spinsters. She can be author, artist, teacher, doctor or lawyer, as she thinks fit, and she can everywhere be re- spected. But when she behaves out- rageously in public places, making everyone around her uncomfortable, she must expect to be hissed; and it in Europe, spe must know that her posi- tion will not be respected. American society is very patient, it tolorates eccentricity in woman, but it is getting fmpatient of loud talking at the opera, high hats, and late comers, horsy girls, and women who dress like men, who at watering places and by the sea’ show no knowledge of etiquette of public places. HONEY FOR THE LADIES. Plush is coming into fashion again. Enamel is being largely used in jewelrs Felt hats are exceedingly fashionable this season Moire is again the rage for gowns and gar; nitures. Monkey fur will again be popular for muffs and capes. Puffed sleeves will nolonger be seen on the streets, One hand in the dough is worth two feet in the dance. A girl who powders may well be said to bloom like a flour, Black trimmings are the fashion of the mo ment in colored fabrics, The long pile fars arc best for boas and for Dbands on long wraps. New winter mantles are frequently in red- ingoat shape with visite sleeves. The average length of the scal coat is twenty-three or twenty-four inches. The thing that a woman always knows best is how some other woman pught to dress. Sixty-one women in all have made the as- cent of Mount Blanc. Of those only three were Americans. Wraps, long or short, are trimmed with furs, but th season advances, Velvet round hat ¢ of high favor. with ostrich plumies. Mile. Aimee wore a 840 corset with every dress, and had o maid servant to lace her otas yet worn will be as the in the Boulanger shape Phey are nearly covered ana Woman's Prison and Reform- r Indianapolis is managed exciu- Wilcox gener the dark—by their Now that they have commenced to call it lies’ suffrage,” cook and chambermaids ! nardly favor it. The newest seal turbans have high comical crowns, flat on the top, and cdged with a brim of ottor or beaver, Two American girls have been telegraph operators at San -Luis first women operators in Mexico, For the coming gay season are in process of construction, both here and abroad, what are called ‘“‘art toilets,” after old models by English painters, . A new style of sleeve is full down to the bend of the arm, slightly drooping J““ isep ;s wi licensed as Potosi, the under the elbow, and finished by & plain wristband. ‘The woman who can't make 2 gan, perate burglars out of 4 treo-trun couple of street-lizhi shudows on the side- walk never vas married. ,The tyles for the winter seem to be prin- Cipally distinguished by revivals of past fash- ions, among which the polonaise is probably the most marked example. “No girl gets along well without a mother," says & moral contemporary. This may be true, but hereabouts girls work harder to get mothers-in-law than they do to get mothers. Mrs. Joseph Kepplar, wife of the Puck ur- tist has a diamond broock set with large stones which revolve for eight hours. It s wound up like a watch, and tho effect is daz- aling. Red hosiery is again “fashionablo with Parisiennes, and also the beautiful quadrille stockings, such as black cross-barred with gold, blue with red, or suede with blue or plum., A new cloth, called “Himalaya," has long, seft flecce, like that on Himalaya shawls, and is very effective, either as trim- ming or ae the lower skirt under a wool polo- naise, Plain silks, and especialy black silks, are still much in favor,and the convenient fashion of wearing a jacket bodice of different mi- terial from the skirt is likely to maintain its ground. The tiny puff curl combs of - tortoise. shell are out in gold and silver tops.. Their of des- and a Are very busy this week unpacking nfir winter goods, and placing them before their cultoi mers, who are confident of getting the best when purchased at THE NEW YORK AND OMAHA. They are having a great run on their NOBBY CHEVIOT SUITS AT $10 to $16.50. These mt- have no equal either in style or price in this city. You can buy a good WORSTED OVERCOA! FOR $6.50, or an EXTRA FINE ONE FOR $15 to $25. As to UNDERWEAR, you can get a suit all the way from $1 to $3.50, and higher, lnelndhi: the very best importations. If your boy needs a hat 25c will buy one at the NEW YORK AND OMAHA, and 100 other styles ranging in price from 50c¢ up to $5. 1808 Farnam Street. o straight tops are finished in filigree or frosted work set with a row of small brilliants or other gems. The novelties and colorings in ostrich plumes are worthy of attention. The shaded and two-toned effects are particularly ele- m]m',nud will no doubt be _extremely pop- ular. An Towa girl who was voted the hand- somest girl in the county fainted away three times in succession when the joyful news was brought to her. A different man caught her each time, A lady interfered with an impatient driver in Lynn and started o stubborn, balky horse attached to a_heavily loaded coal wagon by giving the animal four apples and then sim- ply saying, “Come along.” . Wide breton vests are pretty for youthful dresses. They are now made to reach only | to the waist line, being embroidered across | the top like a yoke, and draped at the waist by o soft sash or a stiff-pointed belt. “Just think,” said Mrs. Walkin to her modiste, “the Very next day after my new black shit was sent home I ‘was called to go out of town to a funeral” " “Wasn't thut nice!” was the absent-minded reply. Set of furs, consisting of & cape or large collar, deep cuffs and a muff to match, are brought out for young ludies wear in all the fashionable furs, seal, beaver, fox, lynx, caracal, and the gray Australian opossum. Plain silk velvets are largely imported and will be used for cptire costumes, and also for conts and hasqlics, with fine wool skirts for day wear, and! for low bodices with those of silk or lace for dress occasions. Pearls are the fhvorite stones worn now. The ear-rings &ro cnormous, but invariably composed of asingle round ball. It cannot be too large, with as trifling and insignificant a setting as your jeweler can make. A woman at the.Summit County (Ohio) Tn- firmary is slowly ut surely turniug black. She is scemingly in good health, and the physicians are unable to ascribe a reason for the gradual change of color. Lorgnettes framed in repousse and_etched silver are in big demand, as are the lorgnetts in silver cases. Opera glasses in silver cascs are equally fashionable and will figure con- spicuously this scason at all places of amuse- ment. In ladies’ pdekétbooks the newe vle is the medium long, narrow leather one,siightly curyed at the bottom so as to render it con- venient to clasp in the hand. These pocket- books are trimmed with pieced work in sil- ver. A worthy old lady offers the following ad- vice to girls: “Whenever a fellow pops the stion don’t blush and stare at your foot. st throw your arms around his neck, look him full in the face and commence talking about the furniture.” The paper upon which the fashionable belles of to-day trace their large English scrawls is cither of the finest cream-laid mat satin, or going to quite another extreme, consists of the coarscst grocery-paper sort, dark-colored and rough-finished. or late autumn traveling gowns are obelin blue, nuns' gray, and golden_fawn- colored cloths, garnished with braiding or soutache bands in_applique, and_combined with moire or corded silk of a decper shade. The skirts to these are plain, and when braided are nearly covered with this trim- ming in fine Arabesque patterns, High collars on dresses aro going out of vogue, except for those intended for street, out of door, and travelling wear. Indoor dresses are made to be worn with large fall- ing collars of lace, while a dog collar of bon or velvet, lace ann bead trimmed is fast- ened round the neck with a jewelled pin or fancy buckle. ; In every dress dark velvet bodice will be wor over airy skirts of lace, tulle Many of these aro cut low, w -y of Juce or other diaphanous fab or the shoulders, and very effective toilets show the tulle skirts laid with bands of vel- vets corresponding with the bodice; these bands arranged to simulate stripes. The V-shaped or square cut openings in full dr bodice, instead of being left severely plain, with a simple pleating of lace inside, arc now draped with folds of crepe lisse or silk guize; this much resembling a fichu or berth, T'wo young women from the «ast have se- cured 100 acres e o1 nd on Butte s G , and have gone to w it and live upon the land, as the law requires. They have jianted fruit’ trecs, from which they will early realize handsome profits through ready sales. Ono of the ladies is & fine nd her pictures and de- ld to @ publisher of They camped all summer in splendid health. English walking gloves of finely-dressed dog-skin or Swedish kid, to wear with prom- enado costumes, are produced in most of the cloth shades, for matching the toilet. There are golden tans, both light and dark, browns in various handsome tones, deep copper col- ors, olives, dead leaf, maho , Orange low, and vandyke browns alot of r dest tan in the color. These fasten smoothly over the wrist by four buttons, and are made with pique-stitchal seams, and_embroidered on the backs with stitchings of black silk or that of a darker shade than the glove itself. o P et IMPIETI Minister—And | there were “Giants” in those days. Young lady (to New York base baller, in a whisper)—I wonder what clubs defeated them ‘When a Hatlem minister mentioned ‘‘death on the pale horse in his sermon half the :flno{x looked around the church for red-headed rls. —— Minister—And do you like to go to church with your paplégiid mamma, Bobby 1" Bobby ;nu-linml 10 be Bon-committal) —Well, I guess iike it as wellas pa does. A Lowell clgbgyman denounces baseball from the pulpitys I§is suspected that he must have tried to ulpige & matched game some- where during his summer vacations. A religious weekly says: “The man who whistles hardly ever swears.” It is different with the men who hears him. The latter hardly ever does anything else at such times, By decree of fashion Sam Jones is deprived of his spider-legged dudes, those inspirations of his fertile wit. Ho will now have to preach against the extravagant waste of raw ma- terial, The rain falls on the just as well as the unjust. On & wet Sunday, however,the churchman gets wet going to church. 'The base ball man postpones the game and keeps himself dry. . It may be a little sacrilegious to speak of it, but the fact remains that the miracle of turning water into wine is frequently formed right in modern days. A clergyman on a sultry afternoon paused in his sermoen and said: ‘I saw an advertises 7 Christmas boo and find thems ly per- this country and in these ment last woek for 500 sleepers for a rail- road. Ithink I could supply at least fifty, and recommend them as good and sound. Miss Belle Hunt, who is traveling through the interior of Kentucky as an evangelist of the Sam Jones pattern, told an audicnce at Nicholaayille that @' they had come to the meeting to have fun there would be no preach: ing, and that they were on the road to hell. A minister down cast took for his text a Sundays ago Isaiah Ix., 4, and then preached on “What I Saw in’ Omaha.” Do you know, we always thought that Isaiah had Omaha right in his mind about all the time he was prophesying! This is hard lines on Council Bluffs and_Sioux_City, but somo commentators may bo found who will | favor those cities, unlcss, indeed, Dakota should get onto the revision first. “Good Monday marnin’, Mrs. O'Raherty. Aw’” was ye to church yiste'day?” “Troth, an’ Mrs, O'Flaherty, does ye think I'd be stayin’ at home on sich a beautiful day as was yiste'day and the new foll sthoiles out? If ye want to see sthoile ye must go to church on a purty day; an’ 1 declare to goodness I was ept 80 busy obsarvin’ this an’ that bonnet an’ sich that I could naither pray nor listen 10 the praycher. An’ for a wonder I didn't sce ono woman asiape doorin’ the cntire sar- mon, so busy was they_all lookin' at_nich othet’s new fixin's. Mary Ann was disap- pointed in her new hat an’ she didn’t go; but she'll be there, tank, God next Sunday an’ knock the shine aff all v thim." it BRIGHT LITTLE FOLKS. “What kind of boys go to heaven?” asked the superintendent. “Dead boys,” yelled a member of the infant class. “Why, Nettie, you have put your shoes on the wrong feet.”” ° ““What will T do, mamma? They're all the feet I have got.” “No, darling,” said a Burlington mother to a sick ohild, “the doctor says Imusn't read to you.” “Then, mamma,” begged the little guoy svon't You please Tead 1o yourself out loud " Mother (to four year)—If your dolly has s0 naughty s you say, Flossic, why you give her a good whipping? Flossie (thoughtfully)— Cause I don't b'lieve in that sort of thing. An Auburn miss of three summers saw a funeral procession the other day and earn- estly asked her mother if the man on top of the hearse was the one who killed the people he carried inside it. ““Mama, said a little one of four, whose father pays very little attention to the din- ner hour, “Papa is just like the moon, isn't et “Why, my dear?” “Bedause he comes a little later évery night.” A West side three-year-old showed an ap- preciation of things the other day. “Won't you give me a kiss, deart” coaxed o lady. I don’t want to,” said the little one. _“‘Oh, give the lady @ kiss. Florence,”. snid her father. *Qv kiss her, papa, 0o like to, A small American damsel of four years Deing once chided by u grown-up _sister for talking of marriage—with the admonition rIs should not, think of getting —replied, with the utmost amaze- ment at her elder sister's ignorance: “Why, 1 thought about it when I was only two!? “Mamma,” said a little’ six-year-old girl the other day, “I'm 80 tired and sleepy. 1 wish you would put me to bed rightnow.” “Why, my dear, what makes you so worn out to- night? ' “Oh, it's 'cause we've been playing Buffalo Bill ‘all day, and I've been —the buffalo,” “Mamma, can't Fred stop tal to sleep? I've said my prayi and I don’t want to talk any more, and_have to say it again.’ “Can’t you talk without saying your prayers over againi” replied Eddie's ‘mamma. “No, mgma; doesn’t_the or say, "Now I lay me down to sleep?’ 1f ie down to sleep we don’t talk, do we?” Little Mabel, five v but that she has p of the ways mother the other d; ing: “Say, mamm mar lking and go ers six times now, & jotng ked up £5ue knowledge She said to her , aftera fit of decp mus- s papa before he “Who was papa? 1 that he s now.” ¢ ’ 0 youl Was he just man that you mashed Alittle four-year-old_chubby faced boyasat clenching his fingers around i silver dollar at the Sunday school service at the Mothod- ist Episcopal hin Tyrone, Pa., on Sun- and later reluctantly surrendered it to a on who collec tributions to the ) fund, saying afterward: ©I didn't it to Mr. B—; I wanted to give > Lord." mother took him to a Chri convention and he was so much that he wasa ve after, to be corrected several timés. After had talked with him scriously for some nanghty action he exclaimed: T guess you will have to take mo to unother convention, Won't you mamma y A young financier, aged 4, who was given § cents for every mouse caught in a small trap, finally usked leave tospend the pro- ceeds, The nurse was told to go wherever he led her, to see what he proposed buying. He passed all the toy and candy shops, but paused before a hardware store and, pomtin 10 the window, exclaimed triumphantly: * buy more mouketrap, Fanny " Our little three year old is fond of oranges. One day, when he had caten @ large one ho came 10 mamma and wanted more. *How many are there in the dish?’ asked mamma. He counted them. _“Just three,” he said. “Very well,” was the reply, “there is one for papa, one for mamma, and one for you. You can Have one.’ He ate it, and_then wanted another, “How many are left]" asked mam- ma, “Just two,” hereplied, “one for papa and one for me.> “But where is mine!"said the astonished mother. “Oh,” he replied, quickly, “T've eaten it.” It was at_a Sundayschool exhibition, and the superintendent was showing off the re- sults of his labors, During the exercises he asked the children who could tell him any- Tiog ¥ chur wan't to give his ma thing about Peter. Noone answered. The question was rv&lcnl«l several times, till nally a little girl held up her hand. Well, my dear,” said the superintendent, ‘‘that's right; I am glad to see there is oue little girl who will put these larger boys and girls to shame,” The little girl came forward to the platform, and was told to tell the audicnce what she knew of Peter. She put her finger in her mouth, and, looking vsry smiling, said: “Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Haa s wife and couldn't keep her; Put her in a pumpkin shell, nd then he kept her very well.” Amid the roar that followed she hurried gaily to her seat. S oadtod 4 My dear young friend,” he said solemnly, “if you are 80 fond of beer at your age, what o you suppose you will be when you 'reach your prime?” ©A politician,” respouded the youth, DR, OTTERBOURC. 13 s34 Dotgn S, Omads, Neb, unl Debility, (1oss of sexual guntanteed or money refunded, power), Nervous Debility, Blood Disorder Charges low, Thousinds of cnses cur ence are important. ~ All medicines especially prey and “Special Diseaso VATE DISEASESI] ote, A REGULAR GRADUATE IN MEDICINE AND SPECIAL PRACTITIONER Authorized to treat all Chronie, Nervous (PR (Whether caused by Imprudence, Excess or Contagion) Seminal Weagnoas, (night losses) Sex- Curable cases | . “Age und experis d for cach individual case. NO INJURIOUS OR POISONOUS COMPOUNDS USED. No time lost from business. sent everywhero free from g ’ All our printed I tory of disease, ef troatment, Secrec 70 OF breakage, to., for 4 conts in Ktamps, observod either in person or by mail. 2106 und 7108 p. n1. Sundays included. CONS Patlentsat a distancoe troated by letter and express, NO DELAY IN FILLING ORDERS, rature embracing a Symptom Lixt, on which to get a full his. o, end_for_torms and trial Stato your case Medicine OFFICE HOURS—0t012 a, m., ULTING ROOM, NO. 4. SINGULARITIES. An Evart (Mich.) woman has a duck that has four wings. A woman in Castile, N. Y., opened a head of cabbage from her ' garden one day last week, and found a bird's egg imbedded in the center of the head. There i8 a cotton plant at Narcoossee, Fla., ‘which is over five feet across the branches and has from 850 to 400 blooms, buds, and balls, It contains cotton in all' its stages, and from the swelling bud to the mature ar- ticle itself. 3 A coyote in Walla Walla was attacked by an imniense hawik that hit him fair on tho back of tho head, The coyotewould duck its head, then make & snap at the hawk, but could not reach 1t, and at the end of twenty minutes was literally pecked to death, A twelve-year-old lad living in Maine dreamed that he stood by the death-bed of his mother in Boston, she then being on a visit to that city. Thirty-three years after the dream was fulfilled, not only as to the event and locality, but ‘as to cértain minor details iu the chamber of death. A mule during the great flood in April, 1886, in Autauga county, Alabama, floated with the tide and lodged 'in an oak tree near the McNeal Smith landing. When the waters went down the mule was left lodged in the tree. The bones and skines, dried out by the wind and sunshine, are there yet, and ata distanco still look exactly like a mule hanging in a tree. William Bernshouse, of Hammonton, N. J., has two broods of young lhu‘lrinhms run- ning about his barnyard. The eggs were found in the woods where the mother birds had made their nests, and were taken home and put under hens and hatched suceessfully. Thus far the young birds have given nosi of a longing for bush life and perfect fr dom. One of the mostremarkable cases in med- jcal annals, as summarized in a French journal, has reference to w sixfingered family, 'covering five generations and includ- ing twenty-seven individuals, The first in- stance in this line was that of a man, born in 1752, who had six toes on one foot; in the second generation a son with six toes on one foot and &, daughtor normal; ghird genera- tion, this daughter had five chfidren, includ- ing one son and two daughters each’ having six fingers on each hand; of the fourth gen eration, the daughjer last mentioned had cight children, incliding one son and two daughters each having six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot; of the fifth generation, a daughter had three children, including & son doubly deformed like his mother, and a_son with six fingers on each hand, the feet being normal. Moreover, one of the two daughters of the fourth generation —with only the hands affected—had eight children, several of whom were normally developed, but the rest were deformed as fol- lows: One daughter had an oseous thicken- ing of the digital ext yand on the outer border of the ftn metacarpal; one son had six finzais on each hand and six toes on each )foyt‘i and another son had six fingers on each hand, RMINT DROPS. A rolling pin gathers a good deal of dough. Small ideas and big words make a painful combination, There are no rounds of drinks in the lad- der of success. The man who carries a long head is never a headlong fellow. The man who wants the earth or nothing generally gets away with the latter, It is sometimes easier to tell all you know than to conceal what you don't know. It is better to have an aching back from labor, than an empty stomach {rom laziness. Any man can cut coupons, but aman who can cut a good pair of trousers is hard to find. v in the world “I am not in 3 very much of a fellow.” ase is reported of an_eccentric and hu- gentleman down town chloroforming ters before cating them on the half- The Georgia exhibitions are opened with ity. If Kentucky were to have one, uld doubtless be opened with a cork- “No, my son, a mouse does not grow into a rat any more than a dude ever becomes a man. Quite a different race in either case,” We thi carn that a train was run a distance of cight miles through Texas one day last week and was never robbed atall. 1t wasa gravel-train. California has an_clectrical girl, and when she rubs her hands together ‘they emit flashes, A fellow should think at least twico before he asks for one of those hands. A cold-blooded scientist has undertaken to give an analysis of a kiss. A little practical expericnce will give a clearer idea of the sub- ject than volumes of analysis. Shoemakers may die, but it isn't proper to say that they breathe their last. You can't be too careful when using the Emglish lang- uage. It wasn't made to jump on. No man can hope to win the lsve and ro- spect of his fellow beings, who refers to a milch cow. The man 80 lost to honor as to use that word, would not hesitate to speak of & silch Aress. “Is the sense of smelling more pleasing than tho sense of tasting(” was the subject before a western debating club in a barroom. Uncle Joe was the last to speak upon the neg- ative, avd all were anxious to hear him de- liver himself, Walking up to the barkeeper he called for a hot whiskey punch and drank it off with great gusto; then turning to his opponent he handed the empty glass to the leading disputant and thundered out: *Now smell it, you varmint " It is needless to add that Unlcle Joe “brought down the house,” wnd also the decision for the negative, ——— Lily Langtry is going to b married—at least that is the revised gossip n New York Proprietor Omaha Business College, IN WHICH I8 TAUGHT Book - Keeping, Penmanship, Commercial Law, Shorthand, Telegraphing and Typewriting. 8Send for College Journals 8. E. Cor. 10th and Cavital Ave, qualitied ve e generat tion duly adopted by 1 of the School Dise ity of Douglas, in the " s hereby glven to the of sald school dfstrict, that at tion to be held Tuesday, Novems ber th, 187, the following question and propo- sition will be submitted to a vote of the electors of said distric Roard of [ aha, in the Nebraska, trict, Dollars to-wit: Fd it and authority Do given to the tion of the Nchool Distriet in county of Douglas, in the state of to {ssue the bonds of snid school diss Der, of the denomination of #1,000.00 each, daf Jaruary Ist, 18, and to bear interest at the rate of five pe nually at York, principal ta become due from’ the from the sale of said bond: purch the erection of school buildings as One site timated ca e site mated cosf v jont' per annum, pay Kountze Brothers', bankers, date thereof, in_the sum of Two Hundred Thousand 00,000}, the said honds to o 200 in nume able semi-an- Now in twenty yeurs roceeds arising 0 be used in the ot school sites for sald district, and on #th and Jackson stre 8t of #8,500.00, t of £2,000.00, Hamilton street near Eurekl street at the estimated cost of #,000.00, s at the e in West Bide Addition at the esti- One site in Ambler Placo Addition at the esti- mated cost of £,000.00. One site corner 9th street near Bancroft at the estimated One site ditfon at the estimated cost of One site cost of $,000.00. on 14th sireet near Pi corner of hth sireet and at the estimated cost of ¥7,000,00, One site corner of Franklin street and 35th, at the estimated cost of #,500.00. ki One scho at the estimated cost of #10 . hool building on Zird street near Nicho- me s croft, at th Tool bulldin RECTING BOHO ol building on at the estimated cost of $40,000,00, ho estimated cost of #23, rk Forrest Ad- 0.00, Tickory stroet on #ith street’ near Bane 000,06, Oné school building on Hamilton street near Eureka street, at the estimated cost of £2,000.00, One school building in Lake's addition, at the estimated 1 votes regarded issue of said honds, and all votss cost of 32,50 and considered ‘a5 au Fes” on sald proposition will be izing the snall ba regarded and considered Le against lssuing sald bouas. Also, th will, 41 nik it the afores: o following question and proposition o e manner, be submitted: aid proj 1l said Board'of Education in addition to josed expenditure for the pur- chaso of school ¥ftes aud the croction of sehool buildings from the proceeds of said bonds, be authorized to expend the following sums, t6 be Tealized belonging auired sum of §0, to sald school distric 00000, from the sale of school property now and Dot re- for the use thereof, as follows, to-wit: For an addition to High Bchool building, the For school building on Bonlevard street near 21t street, the sum of £2,000,00, All votes “Yes' on sa regarded o regarded as against sald proposed expe ure, and {d proposition will be onsidered as authorizing said Jroposed expenditure, and ull votes “No* sha U By order of the Board of Education of thi School District in Omaha, in it hand and ln7h' affixed, this 20th day of October, A, e 0 1 H.T. CLARKE, Presid; 4. B Pipkx, Secrotary. — oRl fr. 8. Attes! e 0f Nebras) pereof, 1 have hereunto et 1 caused the seal of sald School B the county of L