Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1887, Page 9

COAL! The best of hard and soft coal handledin large or small quantities. Try our Carbon City coal, isnext. if not quite equal to Rock Springs. $6.50 per ton; $3.50 half ton. To accommo- date increasing demand for coal in small quan- tities, especially to roomers, and other con- sumers who find it inconvenient to ourchase by the ton, We have coal in sacks for promnt delivery, without extra charge for drayage. Price, Hard Coal $1 Per Sack Carbon City Coal, T5¢ Per Sack. COAL.Wood, Coal & KindlingKindling! Patronize Home Industry. Klndling | And help give employment to workingmen and boys during the winter. All leading grocers sell our prepared kindling in bundles. They keep n@ other, for ours is the best, cheapest and most convenient én use, and the more used the more employment is given ihe workingmens Sold at one bundle for 5¢ 6 bundles for 25¢ 25 bundles for $1 Ask your grocer for it, or order direct from us, and take no other, unld you order our loose kindling, sawed and split ready for use. 12 bushel for $1. Or 1 crate for 75c, or 1 crate cedar block $1. Omaha Wood & Coal Co., 517 North 16th Street. W. P. SPAFARD, Manager. Yards and Factory 12th and Nicholas st., Telephone 530. We employ numbers of men and boys atour factory in the manufacture of kindling, and in sawing and splittiny stove wood, and as we buy the best of wood and in large quantities,saw and split the same by ma- chinery, and have the only fully equipped wood yard in the city, we are enabled to sell at the lowest market price, and cut in any desired length and fineness, Our prices arve as follows for the best of hard dry wood: Delivered to Any Part of the City One- Half Cord. $4.00 4.00 Per Cord $7.50 8.00 8.50 4.25 2.25 9.00 4.50 2.60 This wood is all well seasoned,good body hickory, oak and ash, and full And 0“]3" Kinds m coal m Pmponion m measure guaranteed. Good, dry, soft wood at $1 less than above . prices. Special prices given on large quantities. Persons hayving Qllamy their own teams, $1 per cord less than above, ACHIEVEMENTS OF WOMEN. s e o and e : Know who she 16, punme it 41 ABOUT LIARS AND LYING. Bweet Shy Girl—-The Charming Pad- One-Fourth Cord $2.25 2.25 Cord Wood, Sawed in 2-ft. lengths Sawedin 12 or16 in “ Sawed and split, morally unable to tell the truth, When the truth would better serve their pur- poses, they choose a lie. They harm no one but thegmselves, as th lies are never malicious, and refer usually to their own affairs, g yed events and scenes which they res lated us uctual occurrences, Utilized in fiction, their inborn propensity to exs aggerate common events became valus able to the lovers of exciting fiction. an imported costume seemed not at all out of place. _He found it quite neces- sary to introduce the subject of the price of stock. or the crops, but. insteod was 8oon in the midst of a discussion upon the latest books, pictures and lege and she had the salutatory at com- mencement. She likes to talk of book: pecially found of Hawthorne's and she thinks the ‘‘Marble Faun of the prettiest things in literature. She is fond of poetry, too, the daughter of a Cuban whose name became familiar to this country, or at Ella Wheeler Wilcox Says Liars are least to the readers of the newspapers, ‘1 found out who she was, She was dock Girls. JOHN J. INGALL'S DAUGHTER. A Lady Farmer—The American Girl— A Modern Cleopatra — Woman's Worthy Work -- Charming Traits of Girls. Sweet, Shy Girl. John James Piatt, O, sweet, shy girl, with roses in her heart, 'And love-light in her face, like those up- grown, Full of still dreams and thoughts that, dream- like, start From fits of solitude when not alone! 3ay dancer over thresholds of bright days, ‘fears quick to her eyes as laughing to herg lips; A game of hide-and-seck with Time she | plays, Time hiding his eyes from hers i bright nelipse. O gontle souled !—how dear and go od she Blessed by soft dews of happiness and lov Cradled in tenderest arms! Her mothe kiss Seals all her good-night prayers, Her father's smile . Brightens her mornings. Through the earth shall move Her child-sw the while! The Paddock Girls. New York World: Among the girls entirely new to Washington will be the two Misses Paddock, the duughters of Senator Paddock. of Nebraska, who takes Van Wyek's seat. They are both y bright girls, and both highly ac- complished. Miss Hattie, the elder, is a brunette, under medium height, with dark brown eyes and hair. She is fond of society and is full of common scuse. She is a womanly girl, and is proud of coming from the west.” Her sehool life, has however, been spent in the east, and she ix literary in her taste. She is a good French scholar, and is fond of the languages. She was born in Neb- raska. Her sister, M ot soul, not far from heaven Fannio, is just sweet seventeen, and she rather more of o blonde than a brunctte. slender, she has . hundsome face, very prett nd a vich growth of dark- prown hair. Both of the girls look somewhat like their mother, who has been 1 Washington society before. They are rather proud of the Paddock family, which is onc of the oldest in America,and which eamo to this country in 1640, and which is connected by mar- riage with some of the most distinguish- ed fumilies in New Kngland. Miss Ingalls. Miss Ethel Ingalls, the daughter of the president of the senate and acting vice president of th nited States’will be one of the brightest and beautiful of all the flowers. She was nineteen only last month, and she was graduated at the Georgetown convention last year. A trifle over medium height, she has a slender, willowy form, and her cheeks are full of the warm red blood of the western plains. She has beautiful dark brown eyes and her rich growth of hair hangs down in fluffy waves above a fore- head which is intellectual in its cast. She has a beautiful mouth, and her face is full of soul. She is proud of the west, and she thinks with John J. In- galls that there is no place like Kansas, She is highly cultured, fond of litera- ture, and is a very bright conversation- alist. Sha was ono of the brightest girls of her class at the Georgetown col- Tall and though there is nothing soft or senti- mental about her, and her first poet love, so a friend tells me, was Whittier, t er at thirteen ng him for one of his poems. ‘To_this the poet replied very kindly. She likes both Shelley and Longfeilow very much,and she once told me that she thought Haw- thorne wrote the purest English of any of the modern novelists, and that he had not marred one of his lovely images by an unlovely thought or expression. Miss Ingalls writes very fluently, and during her college i was noted in literary society. s the gift of a good letter writer, and she is a girl of radical ideas. She does not belie N the decollete dress, and her dre: S debutante will be, says her petticont of white surah, with dress of crepe de chine, trimmed loops of gauze ruffles, with the corset cut square and filled high to the throat with old lace. She will wear long white kid gloves and her flowers will be roses. Miss Ingalls will probubly be one of the k riders of the winter. She s o love of equestriumsmn from father and mother, who are both good riders, and she sits a horse very well. armer. New York World: Mrs. Buckingham, of Vacaville, county, Cal., is a guest at the Bucking- ham. This lady has become conspicu- ous not only on the Pucific const but upon the Atlantic as well, by the fact that she has wrought out so successfully an important problem in behalf of her own sex. A “Lagunita Raucho” she has demonstrated that a woman with brains, istent energy and can cultivate the soil quite 5 fully as her lord, Leaving her luxurious apartments at the Palace hotel, in San Francisco, less than four vears ago, Mrs, Buckingham took up abode in a lovely valley, forty miles away, shut in by beautiful hills. She had purchased 200 acres of land which, with the exception of a few fig trecs, peach trees and a small vinyard of grapes thirty-six years old, was cover ed with stubble. After careful nursing of these trees and vines to bring them back to their best possibilitics, she planted twenty acres more of fruit trees of different kinds. The secret of this lady's_success lies, no doubt. in her unwearied attention to all the details of her business. As she walks, in the shadow of her own *‘vines and fig trees,” she talks with them as with loving friends, and she finds un- ceasing delight in their compan‘onship, She is sure that they are conscious of her presence, and that she can interpret their thoughts towards her. An abun- dant harvest has been gathered this year from cherry and peach trecs only three years old. Next year sixty men at least will be required to gather the fruit. rkets and transportation are studied carefully and putrons are met face to face, either at the ranch or in New York. Skillful manageme to a rave locality, where irri unnecessary, warrants her fruit to be the first in the market. Last year, while visiting friends in Boston, a gentleman was invited to call on her. She was represented as a woman who ploughed more land than any man in the country, and could drive o four-in-hand with ease. Expecting to see a brawny Amazon, he was conscious of keen embarrassment when presented to a lady whose bearing was unmistaka- bly that of a person of refinement and culture. Instead of rough homespun, musjg, ending with the most interest- ing *ulilin'ul topics of the dav, A Predecessor of Mrs. Cleveland. Utica Observer: 1 noticed a remark- able instance of the ups and dows of ‘Washington society in one of the street cars here yesterday The car was crowded, and a number of young men, some of them were extreme dudes, had seats. No ladies were standing, except one colored servant girl. At this mo- ment a fine looking, gray-haived lady, richly dressed, entered the car. She was over the medium height,as straight as an arrow, and she had one of the kindest and most beautiful faces I have ever seen on an old woman. Every line of her fuce was refined, and though her thick hair was of a silvery white, her bright blue eyes were full ot life. She wore mourning, and there was a crepe veil fastened to her bonnet, She stepped into the car, and, seeing there were no seats, she unassumingly caught hold of a strap and prepared to stand. She did stana for two squares, and none of these Washington dudes rote to give her a seat until they were asked to do so by a gentleman standing beside me. Still this same lady was once mistress of the white house, and she presided over part of an administration which ly was as brilliant as any in_our y. It-was John Tyler's daughter, who is now an inmate of the millionaire Corcoran’s home for old ladies, and who, notwithstanding her reduced circum- stances, is as fine a lady as lives in the world to-day. I vecognized her as she took her seat, and as she did so the con- trast between now and nmrlf’ fifty years ago entered my mind. She was then as much feted and toadied as Mrs. Cleveland is to-day. She must have been fully as beautiful as Mrs. Cieve- land, and I doubt not the society col- umns were full of her doings and her dresses. Then street cars were un- known, and her brother John, ‘‘the handsomest man in Washington,” drove his four-in-hand, Now John lives off his income as a treasury clerk, and his sister is dependent upon the benefuc- tions of a millionaire. Truly Dame Fortune cuts strange capeérs in this world of ours! A Modern Cleopatra. As the storm-door of the Iroqueis club clanged in the blast ‘after the de- parture of a brave, and two of us were left alone with our amusement, the m: on the other side told me this story,says the Club Gossip man of the Chicago Mail: You saw the man that just went out of the door, his recollections the other day. He had been glancing over one of the morning papers. It dropped out of his hands and he sat a minute looking at the ceil- ing. He said as soon as he came to realize where he was that he had just read of Minnie Clifford’s suicide, by a dose of chloral, in Denver. I paid no attention, save to ask mechanically, ““‘Who the devil is Minnie Clifford?” Then he told me the story of a singu- larly beautiful and ill-fated woman. “One day.” he said, *‘T had nothing else to do, and waiked into the legisla- ture of Colorado. I took a seat in the allery, for it presented the more won- erful spectacle. It was crowded with strange fuces. Among the faces was one peculiarly attractive to me. It was that of a certain girl, and when I asked one of the honorable gentlemen from one of the gulch districts who she was he threw oue leg over his desk, pushed back his long hair, and said, in a care- less w ‘That’s Donna Isabella; that's He was telling me some of during the revolution in that country in 1869, if 1 rvemember correctly. Ter father was driven from home—that is, he escaped—which is the same thing in a revolution—and the daughter found herself in that section of this country where men and women are judged like horses, by the metal they possess. A short time after my first sight of her, in the attire of her own country, I had oc- casion to go to Leadville. 'When a man has finished his day’s business in Lead- ville he has only one thing to do—that was the situation at the time I was there—and that is to go to a gambling house. I wandered into one of them, and was not astonished from all I had heard. The place was magnificent in its ap- pointments. There I saw the face that had attracted me in the legislative gal- lery. She was dressed as Cleopatra, and was in the whirl of the game. Her dress and manner had the same effect upon men about her that the glitter of a snake’s is said to have for the ob- ject it first charms and then destroys. { remember now that her beautiful arms were encircled by golden snakes, the eyes of whieh were flashing dia- monds. “A few night after that, after hours at another gaming house it was an- nounced that a ball would be ‘inaugur- ated after midnight. I saw the ball.and I never expect to see such slvh-ndor. such reckless magnificence as Isaw at this ball in Leadwille, Here was the Donna Isabella of the legislative gal- lery. On this occasion she had prac- ticed some deception—not the first of- fense of that sort for he knew—by disguising herself as a jockey. As soon as she removed her mask. however, and a murmur of applause went up in the hall she quickly disappeared. “One Christmas eve in 1878 T was a one of Christine Nilsson's performances in San Francisco, With a party I oc- cupied a proscenium box. 1 discovered that the Donna Isabella, the Cleopatra, and the jockey was one of the occupants of the box opposite. I don’t wonder that the eyes of that beautiful artist, whom we all went to see and admire, should seem to be fixed upon the box where the Cuban beauty was, attired in a complete suit of seal. Have she was the elegant woman in the grab of magnificent res- pectability. I think there were only a few present who knew this beauty, and one of theee wasa United States sena- tor who afterwards took me to this woman’s home. ‘I shall not try to tell you what that home was, I have an idea that you known it would be magnificent—a word which I am conscious of having worn out in this story. But there was one thing about it that you wouldn’t expect; I know Ididn’t—a library of o five thousand volumes. The books were not such as you would expect to find in the possession of such & woman, but I must tell you that this woman was a linquist, a sculptress, a pianist, lobbyist, gam- bler, adventuress—not all at once, but in the order I have named. I do not mention it as to the man’s discredit,for 1 can understand why he called, but this woman entertained Oscar Wilde when he was the cra and he bowed low be- fore her captivating beauty—her beauty was not so much of the face as in her bearing and power of fascination.” e One result of Sarah Bernhardt's tours in in this country has been the removal of the prompter's box from the center of the stage in the P St. Martin theatre' Par the stationing of the promptor in the a8 in American theatres, The reform is likely to be followed by other Parisian play- houses, More Often Born than Made. SOME DIFFERENT TYPES OF LIARS Fashionable Lies that Do not Count— Women with Whom Lying is a Disease—Portaits of People that Many will Recognize. Written for the Bee—Copyrighted. “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” ‘We are all liars to a greater or less de- gree, but that lamentable fact does not lessen the enormity of the crime. Ionce say a charming lady, in the presence of several guests whom she had been entertaining, tuke a card from her servant’s hand, scan it with a slight frown, return it, saying, “Tell the gen- tleman I have gone to bed with a vio- lent headache.” The servant bowed and conveyed the message—thus in- creasing the number of liars by two. Faihionable lies of this kind are not supposed to count in the catalogue of sins, but it seems to me they are like arasites which destroy the delicate eaves of a plant after a time. They 1n- jure and blunt the finer perceptions' of vight and wrong. A gcmlemunfiuid a wager with a lady {he other ‘evening that she could not live through the ¥ollowing day without lying, unless she hurt the feelings of some of her friends by seeming rude- ness, She lost the wager. declaring that she found polite lies absolutely necessary, as he had said. Tdo not believe them necessary, however, and I am confident we would win and retain more friends in the long run if we built our daily lives on a foundation of absolute truthfulness. The moment I detect a man or woman in a lie, however trivirl, my interest and respect is lessened, and I am sure other people are ifluenced in the same way. | The moment my lips have uttered a polite lie I feel a decided lessening of regard for myself, and am conscious that silence or tact could have saved me from the foolish error. The liar who possesses a good memory may make a success of his profession for years without detection. It is seldom, however, that the art of lying and the art of remembering are combined in one person. I remember a woman in my own pro- fession, who told me in our first inter- view that she had received 875 for a short article which had recently ap- peared. On our se meeting she spoke of the matter again, and said she received $50 for it. few days later I heard her mention it to a third party as having brought her $25. 1Ilearned af- terward that she was paid 815 for the article. Had she recollected her first statement I might never have doubted her word. Lying is like the opium habit. I have known people who began to tell “white lies” for convenience, and ended by be- coming the most absolute and shameless liars on every occasion. In some cases lving is a disease, and should be treated as such, I know two ladies who are otherwise excellent in character, and both are valuable members of so¢ devout church member high s ing, and foremost in all good wor charity. Both these ladies seem physically anq ks 0f One of these ladies is fond of telling the most marvellous stories of herself and her friends, th ad- ventures, their extensive , their wide travels, their intimate ncquaint- ance with renowned people. If you re- peat these fairy stories after her you cover yourself with humiliation, ns they are almost entirely fabrications of her brain. If you disprove her statements to her face she looks you in the eyes, and smiles, and emphatically declares you misunderstand her words. Hercon- versation is sparkling and bright, and you are amused and entertained highly, until you discover her gift for improvis- ing. The other lady’s talent runs more in a mercantile v?mnncl. She makes a purchase in your presence for which she pays 810, * Leta third person enter the room, and she declares smilingl that she has just paid $20 for the arti- cle. If you correct her she insists that you are mistaken. Her doctor’s and dentist’s bills, her servants’ wages, the price of her bonnets and boots, are all subjects of exaggerated statements She has, like the majority of liars, a memory like a sieve, and’ consequently contradicts herself a dozen times in as many hours. Her friends all acknowl- edge her unfortunate peculiavity, but sheis s0 kind hearted, and possesses so many other admirable traits, that she is tolerated in spite of her lies. It seems to me that both of these ladies need the serious attention of some specialist on diseases of the brain. I have heard an opinion expressed that women are less frank and truthful than men. If this is true, it is due to their education. Women are taught to conceal and men to reveal their true natures from the cradle up. Women are taught that the world expects them to be statues of decorum, and that it is merciless to the one who by word, at- mosphere, or act indicates that she could step down from hor pedestal. Man is taught that heis a human being of varied passions, liable to fall into error, which the world quickly for- gets and forgives. He tells the truth about his nature and his temptations, and the world listens, sympath admires. ‘Woe unto the woman wl how free from sin, confe: o her best friends that she has ever in thought, even, been stirred from her role of abso- lute decorum. She is forevermore branded ‘‘doubtful.” Consequently she hides trom the world, and, if necessary, lies to conceal her real human self from detection. 1 haveheard the objection offered that if we all speak absolute truth we must speak ill of many people, I do not believe it. There is no ‘l\umm being so depraved that good cannot he spoken of him. It would be an inter ing experience if we should all experi- ment for an entire month in finding the excellent quality to mentiom in euach person we meet, and keeping silence concerning his or her faults, Silence, however is often made to serve as the helpless handmaid of liars. I can imagine no more despicable lic than the one conveyed by silence when speech is needed to defend the reputa- tion of some victim of malice or envy. Many a name has been shadowed by the significant silent lie of one who shoutd have spoken the word of defense. I am afraid thisis a phase of falsehood more feminine than masculin Liars, like poets, are more fr born than mad education can no matter uently \in methods ar - al of onr great liavs in child- hood. Their vivid imaginations por: A child should be taught to_consider aslight prevarication as a departure from morality, and strict truthfulness of speech, even in trival matters, as one of the highest virtues. However lightly we may speak of telle ing ‘“‘white lies,” we all feel an instines tive respect for the man or woman who has won a reputation for sincere truthe fullness, and we have but to builp oue own lives on the same foundation to b regarded in the same light. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, s g EDUCATIONAL. Mrs. Young, of Fall River,Mass., has given £500,000 to build a public school house in that city to be the finest in the world. It is rumored that Ohio Wesleyan univere sity at Delaware has received a 20,000 donag tion to its conservatory of music. David Dudley Field, of New York, will dee liver an oration on Dr. Hopkins at the nex$ commencement at Williams college. OHaverford cpllege has followed the Amherst rule and now admits to its freshman class those students whom their scholar teachers . will certify us adequately prepared and sube Jects to its matriculation examination ounly those who cannot obtain such a_certificate. The proposed new gymnasium for Yale will be built of brown stone, trimmed by soma lighter material, and will cost £300,000." The plans have been approved, but President Dwight has not definitely granted the pro= posed corner lot diagonally opposite Peadody museum, Prof. Stokes, M. P.. for Cambridge unis versity, will, ii is reported, resign the presié dency of the Royal society at the anniversay meeting, in conscquence of the controverso which has taken place among the fellowsover the alleged introduction of politics into the affairs of the society. The university of North Carolina, on thé 12th of October, celebrated the ninety-fourth anniversary of the laying of tho corner stone of its oldest building, the Old Fast. The principal feature of the occasion was the ade dress, which was delivered by Captain A. D, Jones, one of the younger alumni from the capital city. John Hopkins university is in a most prose perous condition, and every year shows ime provement in equipment. A statement mada by authority of the president, Prof. Daniel C. Gilman, shows at this time, immediately prior to the Christmas recess of 1887, there arc, in addition to 156 students belonging to the'state of Muryland sixteen from Pennsyls vania, twelye from Canada,seven from Japan and onc each from Germany, England, Italy, Russiu and China, The Ramona Indian Girls' school at Santa Fe M., is voted to the education of young Indian girls, principally Apaches, The ers propose a tribute to the memory of son, after whose novel their school They are now putting up a new building to cost $30,000, and to accommodate 150 pupils. A feature of it is to be 8 memors ial room to Mrs. Jackson, which will be fine ished and furnished with a special view of perpetuating her memory. Thy schoel is ace complishing practical results in the way of educating young Indians. Price Greenleaf, the hermit millionaire of uincy, who left the bulk of his fortune to Harvard college, will indirectly help many & poor scholar to a successful career. The col ege authoritics announce that the income the bequest amounting to $12,000 & year, will be distributed, beginning in 15880, in_sums ranging from $150 to $250 to students who can not meet their college expenses without aids Froshmen and persons who have been ade mitted to advanced standing are eligible fow these scholarships. The college will receive n;‘[llin'ulinnn for the next academic year up % May 1, 1388, — Storm calendar and weather fores asts for 1888, by Rev. Irl R, Hickdy ith explanation of the “‘Great Joyiam Period,” upon which our planet is now enteving, mailed to any address, on re= pt of a two cent postage stamp, Write plainly your name, postoffice and states The Dr.J. H. McLean Medicine Coug . Louis, Mo. . B. NEWMAN & COMPANTY, 1216 FARNAM STREET, OMAHA, NEB. SUITS. 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