Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1888, Page 12

i - RS THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: - AMONG THE CRAGS AND PEAKS A Land of Gold, Silver and Eternal Snow. A LETTER FROM SILVERTON. All Kinds of Climates at Once—The Track of the Glaciers—Streams Clear as Crystal and Cold as loe Water. SAN JUuAN COUNTY, Correspondence of THE Brg.]-Silverton is the county seat of San Juan county. It islocated in the heart of the great mining region of northwestern Colorado, on the Pacific slope of the Rocky mountains. All the waters of this slope flow into the gulf of California. Its principal water course §8 the Animas river, and hundreds of tributaries fiow into it from the moun- tain slopes. It is one of the best watered regions on the continent of North America, and the perennial snows that erown the mountain tops keep the streams pure and sparkling all the year round. It is a marvelous regionof eountry, rich in mineral resources and rugged in contour, many of the moun- tains culminate over 13,000 feet above sen level, and several wear their eternal oaps of snow at altitudes of more than 14,000 feet. This bed of the Rockies is peculiar for its deep and narrow canons and gorges, and its sharp and lofty mountain culminations. THE AVALANCHE. Many of the mountain slopes are so precipitous that all the vegetation, the soil and immense bodies of decomposed rock have become loosened, and in vast avalanches have swoptdown the mount- ains for thousands of feet, carrying in their mighty embrace everything clean to the bed-rock, and filling the gorge where they lodge a bundred feet in depth. Every winter vast bodies of sncw accumulate on the brink of the mountains, break away and plunge down their long declivities, increasing in volume and velocity as they proceed, stretching out their wide arms an sweeping the face of the mountain as clean as a billiard ball. In places these ava- lanches have been known to dam large streams, and their waters have cut channels beneath them, thus leaving a compact bridge of snow one hundred feet in thic! ss, the entire summer, while a great river roared and tumbled far below. Nota winter passes that does not witness one or more ill-fated fellows swallowed up in these snow- slides. Their breadth and velocity are 80 great that it is sometimes impossible to escape them. The roar of some of the larger ones on their travels re- sembles distant thunder. SILVERTON. Silverton is located in a beautiful rk, embracing an area of 2,500 acres. ts altiude is 10,400 feet and a dozen mountains look down upon it from heights of 13,000 to 14,000 feot above the sea. It contains a population of miners aund merchants estimated at 2,500. The town is reached by the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, a distance of 495 miles #ia Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Cucha- ras, Walsenburgh, Veta Pass, Fort Garland, Conejos, Toltce Gorge, Du- runio and many other towns and re- markable landmarks. In a direct course Denver is only about 290 miles north- east of Silverton. But this line of the Denver & Rio- Grande railroad com- passes a vast territory to_get in here, and it passes over some of the most re- markable country over spanned a railroad, Mountains are seatod altitudes of from 9,000 to 11,000 feet, rive and chasms_are bridged at dizzy heights, the roadbed in places is cutinto the vertical clifis and hangs above unfathomable gorges like a thread of gassamer. It winds back and forth on the sides of the mountains, making its sharp curves and grades of 211 feet to the mile, and fin- ally here it ends for a brief period only. It 1s a marvelous feat of engineering, and is probably not surpassed anywhere in the vealm of railway building. 1t is now being pushedon north of Silver- ton, in the direction of Red Mountain, and in a few months the eircle will be completed, and this end will conucet with the Salt Lake line at Montrose, which is already completed from that oint in this diroction to Ouray, a dis nce of thirty-five miles. large force of men and teams on this side are pushing on the work, and eight or ten miles are already completed and in operation beyond hove, Soon the rich mining district of red Mountain will be greeted by this little road, giving it two outlets, one via Sil verton und the other vian Ouray and Montrose. In the near future the rond will be extended from Silverton up the Animas river to Fureka, a distance of ten or twelve miles, and oventually up to Animas Forks, and perhaps over the mountain and_ down the Gunnison to Lake City, in Hinsdale county. There 15 o limit to the building of these nur- row-gauge railronds, and these rugged and forbidding mountains appear to resont no obstacles insurmountable to e gonius and entorprise of their pro- Eumnl. Where they ave not disposed go over their tops they tunnel through them, and to get on the other sde they frequently go avound ghew. THE CLIMATE, This is.a delightful summer climate ool and invigorating. The atmosph. s as pure as nature can manuf; nd the waters are the ve elixiv of ife, They come from the vast accumu- lations of snows on the mountaing, and they sing and dance and spavkle in all the valleys and parks and on all thoe mountain slopes. It is but a fow steps here from August to January. Two thousand feet takes one up to where the suow glistens all summer, and in winter it increases the dimensions of the mountuing. In the heat of the season men can wrap themsclves in their blankets and sleep like Rip Van Winkle. It is a glorious country i which to eat and sleep. ‘altitude develops the appetite, and the fatigue incident to moun- tain climbing, . mining and other -hard work, combined with the tonic at- mosphere, invites to profound and re- guperative slumber, the s t of good health and long life. These mivers are the hardest worked men in the world, and did they not eat and sleep like rizzly bears, they would not spin out their days tosuch & vigorous old age as they do. THE MINES. All these minaes carry gold, silver and lead in combination, and many other praporties of value, The gold and silver-load ores are easily treated but where zinc, antimony arsenie, sulph tolurivm and other refractory combina- tions abound the work of reduction is far more diflicult and expensive. It is not the high-grade mine that isat all times tho most valuable. A large body of low-grade silver-lead or gold are developed into a very valua- ble wine, lllg often -becomes a fountain of wealth to its proprietors. What is Jermed the **Great San'J u-_nf' is shwply a vast system of lofty mountains, dee) canons and gorges, small parks and val leys, and everywhere abounding in min- eral wealth. By reason of its remote- ness, its rugged and forhidding charac- or, and its heratofore inaccessible na- its development has been slow, and its vast resources have slumbered unhonored and unknown. But the da, of its obscurity has past. Railroads have come in, aud resolute hearts and strong arms are taking hold with grand re- sults. Paying mines have beeen opened, mills for treating the ores have been erocted, feeble propertics have gone into the hands of capitalists, and the tido is turning in the right direction. Up to a recent period but little nore than prospecting Yad. besn done in ll this region, and even yet the showing is superficial, for the mountains are sceratched all over with little gopher holes, and diminutive dump-piles look sorrowfully out from their sides in hun- dreds of places. But whorever judi- cious mining has been done, and devel- opment obtained, a profitable mine has rewarded the miner. Supercial work never mude men wealthy or wise. The paying mines of the half dozen districts near here number twenty or twenty-five. They are styled silver properties, but many of them carry gold and are rich in lead. On upper Cement creek quite a gold district is being opened up,and a ten stamp quartz mill is in course of construction there. The entire district seems to abound in gold, and some very rich uvartz has been taken out. Be- ore the season is over other mills may be put up and a lively district inaugurated. It is about eight or nine miles from Silverton. The highest permanent mine in the world is located near here, on King Solomon mountain, at an attitude of 13,450 feet. It is the North Star mine, a very rich and profit- able property. Miners live and work up there all the year round, and in the busy season the mine gives employment to about two hundred men. The ore is packed down the mountain on the backs of jacks, a distance of four miles; to the wagon road, where itisloaded onto wagons_and hauled to the railroad at Silverton, the entire distance being about seven miles. It isasilver mine but carries some gold, lead and gray copper, and the ore averages about 3200 per ton. Messrs John J. Crooke & Co., operate the mine and it is said the roperty is bringing them in $1,000 per ay net. It hasbeen worked by the present proprietors for a period of ten years, and has shown itself to be one of the great fssure veins of this-country. Many mines would prove equally valuable and profitable under similar management and with corres- ponding development. Among the other paying properties near here may be mentioned the Silver Lake, Black Diamond, Aspen, Bear, Whale, Buck Eye, and on the Red mountain the Yankee Girl, Silver Bell, Orphan Boy, Vanderbilt, Alexandr Galena, Lion, Saratoga, Copper King, Paymaster, Candyce and others. New mills are being put up in all the various districts for the treatment of ores. Miners and cn‘)imlists are taking hold. of these golden opportunities with increased con- fidence and energy and at all hours of the day the click of the drills and the thunder of the blasts are heard on the mountains. C. L. HALL, S New Hat Cranks. “It’s a funny thing,” said a hat store clerk to a Telegram reporter. ‘‘that a man with a big head always thinks he looks well in a small hat, while a man with a littie hend imagines a large hat the thing. We show 'em front and back and side views of themselves in any quantity of pier glasses, but the man with the big cranium will leave the store having purchased a head cover- ing which looks for all the world like a peanut on o waterbutt, and the little man will toddle out with his hat held up by his ears so to speak. Kvery man to his taste, say I, but some of ‘em have such queer notions it’s all Lean do to keep from laughing in their faces while trying on hats for ’em. Tuke darkies for instance. Any man of sense knows they look best in & neat black derby; But no—it's a pearl white derby with them, or nothin.” Somo of the more high-toned darkies will stand before the pier glass for minutes at a time admiring themselves in high white silk hats. Mind you, not felt, but silk; and they'd buy ’em, too, if they wern’t afraid of being laughed off Sixth avenue. “Irishmen’s tastes generally run to plug hats, no matter how unbecoming they are. We can seldom persuade them to take white hats in any shap Germans often show poor taste in select- ing hats. They invariably prefer the little flat derb; a hideous looking thing—and the more fashionable it is the better. The more sensible of thein buy soft, low-crowded, cloth hats, which suits their bock beer complexions to a T. Americans are the most sensible and tasteful of all our customers. They know a becoming hat when they see it. and it's not easy to fool 'em on a hat that don’t fit or look well. “The biggest mistakea man can make when selecting a hat is to bring a end tohelp him choose. In ninety: nine cases out of one hundred friends don’t know half as much about what’s becoming as does the man himself. Consequently, when a man gets a hat that really looks well, the smart friend siays, “Take it right off. The boys'll guy you out of town.” the poor fool buys a hat that makes him look like a horse with the blind staggers, and goes out contented until he gots his eyes opened.” L Beecher's Drummer. 1t is astonishing what a lot of chest- nuts are knocked off the trees st men die) and labeled B Lincoln, Josh Billings, ete., » New York Times. Beecher flying in all directions. t man, who claims to have heard everything that Beecher said in public relatos the following story he heard Beecher tell about a New York nmer. The said drummer was de- tained in a small town in western New York, and, not being able to get out of the place until Monday thought he would attend a revival meeting and sec if he couldn’t unload a fow dollars’ worth of goods on the deacons ecarly Monday morning before the train puiled out. ivery man, woman and chid in the egution arose except the sleeping drummer. As the people sat down aguin the drummer awoke with a start, and be fore he had time to convince himself that be was not a caliope engaged to Baroum for the season the preacher shoute *All of you who want to go to hell stand up.” only the last two words, stand up,” the drummer lenped to his feet and stood alene, to the amazement of the people. Steadying himself against a high-backed péw, he looked at the evangelist a ‘moment and said: “Mp, Parson, I don’t jist cateh onter what you're drivin’ at, but youand I seem to be in the minority on this vote. Guess we're beaten., Coume outside aud 1’1l treat.” Suuday School teacher (illustrating the “still, small voice.' ) —What is it, dear child- ron that mukes and unhappy after you have done sorethin, vl._v‘::\‘m‘yuu ought not to do? Dear (-Mhl—x dickin’, ’ 5 ueka were on the gui v SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1888, ~SIXTEEN PAG COSSIP OF THE CREENROON, Storles of Plays, Playactors and Playmakers. THE TRIALS OF THE HEAVY MAN. Brittania Hissed—How They Put on Tights—Stage Struck Girls— Actresses a Century Ago —Dramatic Notes. Heavy Men. Dramatic Times: The lot of the heavy man is not the most enviable thing in the aramatic profession. Met- aphorically he gets all the kicks and cuffs that are administrated in the play, and he is the worst paid of all the, im- sortant mombers of his company. Jeavy parts are often the most im- portant characters, and they are always the most thankle In England the latter condition is even more marked than it is in this country. Over there a heavy man gets nothing but hoots and hisses from his audiences. There have been cases where English heavy men have played villians so well that they were Koomd by mobs of people on the street. It is a mark of esteem when an actor plays a heavy part so well as to deserve hissing. But at the same time when the esteem extends to universal and violent personal execration, the heavy man’s existonce is not ran(iorod particularly joyous. Few heavy men rise to prominence in this country because there is little re- muneration and little encouragement in this branch of the business. There are few men who play villians who receive anything like the salaries of comedians or juvenile actors. Yet, if a villain’s part is badly played the whole piece is turned into ridicule. The heavy man’s department of the drama is not a pleas- ant or a desirable field. Putting on Tights. “So you want to see me put on my tights, do you?” said one of t[:o trapeze women to a female reporter of the New York Sun as she took out of her trunk the scarlet silk and plush combination. “Well, in_the first place, we sit down and put them on like stockings,” and haring her legs she drew. on_her foot what seemed like a cardinal silk stock- ing, over it pulled a little shoe of satin with a soft sole, tied it around the ankle with silk straps the exact color of the tights, and then slid her foot into a wooden clog. *These are real French clogs my husband brought over from Paris; we can’t get them heve.” After the other foot was similarly at- tired she stood up and smoothed and stretched and rubbed on the long elas- tic silk tights as a lady would rub on a new glove. “You see the webbing is heavy cotton at the top so it won’t tear when I pull it up.” A narrow leather belt, one-half an inch wide, wasbuckled tightly over the tights around her waist, and then the fine work began. With one leg in the air she pulled and drew on the strong webbing, kicking and bending and curving the leg at the same time, and when no suspicion of a wrinkle or looseness was left she went through the same process with the other log. “You see those little buttons. Thoy are tied into the tights. You can't sew buttons on to spun_ silk, you know, s0 we put them underneath and tie them around on the right sides with tapes; the tapes we tie round and round our weaist, and then tie them tight. These buttons are %5 gold pieces. T get awfully stuck for a button sometimes, so I tie in the gold picces for good luck, and when I got short up for money 1 go through a lot of old tights and I'm all right again.” Actresses a Century Ago. Nineteenth Century: Strange con- trasts and anomalous situations were the result of the familiar intercourse of all classes and contribute not a little to make the society of the last century so amusing to us. Perhaps the greatest anomaly of all was the position of ac- tors and_actresses. An antiquated law deprived them of all civil rights; they could not appear as witnesses in a court nor fill any public post. They were sent to prison for the slightest peccad- illo on the mere whim of the court au- thorities, and if they died while follow- ing their profession were refused relig- ious rites at the burial. Adrienne Lecouveur was taken out at night ina cab by two porters and buried in a hole hastily aug at the corner of the street. Yet Adrienne Lecouveur was so sought after in her life time that she com- plained that she could not comply with all the invitationsshe received lrum the great, and that their attentions pre- vented her from enjoying a peaceful and quiot life. The actress Clarion was an intimate friend of the Duches Villeroi and Duchess de Duras. Not onl but actors infatuated the le . The actor Mole received from Marshal Richelien a costume worth 10,000 franes, and Fleury from a noble friend a dress which had only been worn once, and for which 18,000 rancs had been paid. Two ladies—one nch, one Polish—fought a duel for an actor, The French woman was wounded and locked up in a convent. Quaint incidents of all kinds illustrate the relations between the st and its patrons. Actresses were sometimes present at state concerts, and on one oceasion Sophie Arnold was seated next to a duchess, who exclaimed disdain- fully: *Honest women should wen badges to distingaish them.” ‘*Then you would wish,” replied the actre %40 give the public a chance of counting them.” Britannia Hirsed. A certain tight-rope dancer, says an exchange, hus been performing in New York, and in the course of her equil hristic feats she appearved in costumes of divers nations, When she waved the tricolor of France there was much ap- plause; on her advent as “Germania,” the audience was immensely enthusi- astic: when she materialized us a daugh- ter of Erin, and faunted the green banner, the plaudits o denfening, and enthusiastic shrieks rent the air. On her advent as “*Britannia’ she was hissed; but when the band struck up the inspiring strains of the *‘Star Spa gled banner,” and the fairy of the tight vope appeared as *‘Columbia,” there was not a hand to welcome her, as the putriotism of the audience had been ex- peuded in cheers for “Germania” and and “Erin” and revilings for “Britan- nia.” Noteven a hiss, which would at least have been o ognition, was left for the symbol of ou one of the many str the wind’s course. Stage Struck Girls. York Graphie: The young vay from her home in Philadelphia and was found in this city as a *eadet” in a chorus of 200 girls gave her family a great deal of unuee- essary trouble, One of hor relatives, almost dis- tracted, belioved that the girl had been kidnaped, and went all the way to Omaha to follow out a clew. ily was distressed beyond measure. De- toctives were huvvied to and fro, the chiefs of the police wu every city of the i and - thepe ws that indicate New woman who v i was bustle everywhera, While all this search was going oh the young lady was calmly surveying ‘Her reflections ina mirror in the dressing room of a theatre and preparing, in! Hg'sh-r‘uh»rcd tights, to go before an audience and exhibit her graceful figure, 1f this young wotnan had not reached an age when such_treantment would be improper, we would saggest that she be well skaken and sent o bed early, but as she has passed the age of bib and tucker she must be handled differently. A stage-struck girll is rarely cured. The mania is not like other manias. It does not seem to wear out, unless the soeker after histrionic faute is kept con- tinuously at the bottom of the ladder, despite her ambition to rise, and this doesn't often huppen. The friends of Miss Hay, the young woman who caused her relatives so much anxiety when she could have easily set their mindsat rest, hope that her passion for the stage will in time wear itself out, and they will pro- vide her with a chaperon to watch her. We trust this may be successful, but stage-struck statistics indicate that the chaperon will be worn out before the girl. A Danseuse In a Rage. London Daily Telegraph: A terrible case of mutiny has occurred in the Paris opera house, of all places in the world. A youthful coryphee, who was going through a rehearsal under the careful superintendence of the dancing master attached to the establishment, suddenly grew muun&m becauso the choregraphic professor had found fault with some of er movements. She accordingly as- snmed the appearance of a fury, and soizing a pair of soissors made several diabolical lunges at the too-critical pro- fessor. He, being naturally an adept in the speedy and skillful manuevring of his limbs, dodged aside from the dan- gorons damsel and her instrument with the greatest alacrity. The points of the scissors, however, pierced the profess- or’s cont, and inflicted some Wwounds of a slight character on his flesh. The en- raged danseuse was promvtly carried away from the foyer de la danse of the opera, and no doubt she has lost ir- revocably her chance of appeuring either as a ‘‘glittering star” or a “twinkling satellite” of the French ballet. Nilsson's Fad. Mme. Christine Nilsson has a hobby of collecting tapestries and fans. Her collection of the former is said to be unique. Most of her fans have been given her by eminent people. The finest one she has was presented to her by the Thakore Sahib of Morvi, and is made of gold gems and feathers. Another, which was given her by a Russian prince, as an exact copy of the Queen of Oude’s famous fan. It is made of white silk with sticks of 1vory and gold, the whole being covered with diamonds, rubies, pearls and emoralds. The Empress Eugénie once gave her one which formerly ‘belongod to Mme. Dubarry, and was paitited by Boucher, while another, presented by the city of Yunicu, isof silver fllagree and point ace. ! MUSICAL _AND DRAMATIC. Joff d' Angolis has bpon ¢ugaged for three years by Colonel McCaul{. J. K. Emmet_has purch ased some $12,000 worth of furniture to decorate is Albany castle. Mrs, Langtry has been offersd $75,000 profit on her ranch which she purchased a few months ago. : Lioyd, the English teaor, was paid $5,500 for hus serviecs at the recent Cihcinnati mu- sical festiyal. Mrs. Bernard Beere,, & favorite English actress, will be seen in this couutry shortly after the presidential election. A new comic opera, “Castles in the A, by Byrne and Kerker, will be among Ed- ward E. Rice’s coming season’s novelties. A theatrical manager is said to be prepar- ing to place on the boards ‘A Bar of So It will doubtless bo played by a scrub c Louise Rial will star next season in a new play now being written by her brother, Leonard Grover, who will also manage the tour. Edwin Booth is_reported to have recently aided the veteran Edmund S. Coonor by pay- ing off a 31,000 mortgaze on the latter's homo at Paterson, N. J Mrs. McKee Rankin is to appear next sea- comedy drama dealing with life igland, which Clay M. Greene is now writing for her. fAnita Fallon, a California Mary Anderson, is to_invade New York next season with “Desdemona,” a role she is said to act with surpassing sweetness. Anumber of the company which has been supporting Jarbeiu have been engaged by Miss Jennie Kimball for either ~the Corinne_company or the Kimball “Mer: Maikers.” Hoyt's plays are to be produced in London and Willie Kdouin will be a partner in all tho yentures. *“The Rag Baby” will be tried first, then **A Hole in the Ground,” then the “Tin Soldier.” In the reprosantation of the inflow of the Hudson, in “Lights and Shadows,” a huge tank of 2,00) gallons v is used. Water is pourcd on the st lons per minute. Blondin, the famous rope-walker who crossed Niagara Fall nearly thirty years has arrived from Kurope to bogin s of ‘tacrial” matinces " under Imre Ciralfy's management ut St. Georze, Staten Island. Lately, during a ballet rehow Paris opera house, a young dauc mutinousand app2asad her anger by stab- bing the ballet master with a pair of scissors. He was not seriously hurt, but the praty of- fender is minus a good position. “Nero” is to be the Kiralfy outdoor spec- tacle, at St. George, this summe a will excel the “I*all of Babylon in gorgeousness. A menagorie. of live animals will be among the properties, The Staten Islanders are putting iron bars to their windows in caso the lions aud tigers get loose. Thers have baen over sixty pirates on the road this year. “Erminie’ suffered the most, there being seven companies, “Jim, the Pon- man,” had two bad troupes playing it with- out quthority; “*Huzel Kirke'' and “Bsm alda” ono each; the “Still Alarm' one, and three **iivangeline" companies, Mike Kelly, of the 13)stan base ball club, has signad a contract with Charles Hoyt to play the part of the gosd nitured man in his new farce “A Brass Monkey.” He is to join Mr. Hoyt's company at the.cioso of each ball seuson and play with it until the opening of tho next oneat a salary, ivis said, of $10)a week. M irgaret Math whos» M nazer Hill does not expie changad her mind and manager, and od a coatract with Messrs, Tompling and Gilmove. There' will bo litization, of course, Miss Mather ‘has( married the con-! ductor of hor orchestra:sinve making the contract with Manager Hill. M 1z0tts an 1 Anglig now ballet, “Rolla,’ has made a hit at the Eden theatre, Paris. T' roveals the adventures 6f a poor seulptor, who Lyves aud is belived Uy the daughter of a Floentine noble. He has a rival in an in- triguing count, who makes the sculptor's life a terror until Michaol Augelo intervencs, and thea the yoius couple are made happy. In Corporation Pockets. St. Louis Post-Dispateh: At Chicago the vote of California will be cast as President Stanford, of the Central und Southern Pacitic roads, may direct, und of the great state of New will go there in the pocket of President Depew, of the New York Central, The Missouri delegatina will come 1o St. Louis with Vice President O'Day, of the "Frisce road, at its head, and will doubtless travel on free passos furnished by him. It will be intorest- ing to. compare the pumber. of po:ket the contract with until 1533, has delogations attending the two conven- | tious, respectively, in charge of railroad offigialy. - o 5 TIMES SPECIAL SALE! | Monday, June llith, will be the Fifth Great Special Sale of S. L. Andrews & Co., and each one excels the previous one. This time our first one will be CHILDREN" are good colors for children to play in; are wear resisters, Monday onl KNEE PANTS, size 4 to 12, 180 per pair, or 2 pairs for 250, They We will gell to each person only 2 pairs for one day-—= No. 2.—A FULL SUIT FOR BOYS from 4 to 13 years, dark mixed; as good to wear as any one can sell; lined alk through and well made; and all that ails this st is the pricoe, which is $1.60. No. light brown checked suit; actually worth $5.00, $2.25. $1.60. $2.25. Thes $1.60. 3.—A CHEVIOT SUIT FOR BOYS from 4 to 18 years of age, pleated coat with bélt, kueo ponts, nlcq » bargains we will give until all are gofie for $2.25. 1.60. $2.26. No. 4.—Two styles of CHEVIOT SUITS FOR BOYS from 4 to 13 years; coats made in the Norfolk atyfe with belts and pleats, knee parfts; the color is just right not to soil and they are great wearers. Their real value {8 not less than $5.5 ) per suit, but as we own them for just about the price of the freight on them, we will show mothers, fathers and boys that we can make prices on GOOD CLOTIIING never before quoted in Omaba. Get one of thoso suits before they are all gone at the unheard-of low price of $2.50. $2.50. $2.50. $2.50. DAYLIGHT CLOTHING STORE, S. L. Andrews & Company, S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas Sts. Mail orders from the country promotly filled. Why She Didn't Go to Glory. She had suffered with the phthisic and had taken tons of physic, And whole barreifuls of bitters and whole loads of nauseous pills; She's been troubled with miasma, and all choked up with the asthma, And been shaken for a month or two with ague and the chills; She had the yellow-fever, of which nothing could relieve her, And the rhenmatism lamed her so she could not go about; And she groaned with tousilitis and the most acute bronchitis, And she suffered endless tortures from the twinges of the gout. v She had tried old-school physicians, Christ- ian scientists, magicians, Indian doctors, olectricians, and magnetic healers all, And drank tons of nauscous liquor, but grew ever sick and sicker— And Lhuygo! the undertaker to prepare her shroud and pall. ; Then great auction sales of laces advertised in various places i Caught her foverish eye one morning—and she leaped up sound and well! She shook off death’s stiffening rigor, and with most emphatic vigor She grabbed her husband’s pocketbook and rushed down-town pell-mell. ————— HONEY FOR THE LADIES. The maiden decks herself in white, Her hair with garlands wreathes, And tells of the youngfonions' might With every breath she breathes. Belva Lockwood has a new spring_bonnet, but it is the same old presidential bee in it. A realistic raspberry in bright garnots is shown among the heads for new bonnet pins. The latest fad_among New York girls is getting up a collection of dummy cats for house decora tion. - Thistlo pods and the fuffy crown of the dandelion are a good second to the wheat ear in fashionable favor. Linen blue, a very soft shade, is a fayorite for fancy wool stuffs, while buff is equally liked in the sheer cottous and linens. Lace is beyond peradyenture the garniture of the season, and the finer patterns of Irench lace among its best bargains. Many of the newest hats seem to aim at the flower garden effect, $o many various and wonder stivring are the blossoms they carry. Spring bonnets have fallen. Those which cost, carly in the scason, about 50 cents, can now be bought for §28.50; extra trimming, $7.57. A thick band of shaded rose petals, held in place by green leaves and ribbon loops, is anew and favorite garniture for evening gowus. To the so-long-worn veils of spotted tulle just _reaching to the nose, havs succeeded thos®bf spider-web that are even more be- coming. It is astonishing how pretty the home! girl you have never scen cun look when she is softly talking nousense to you through the telephone. The ladies of Charleston, S. C., have or- ganized an “ice mission,” which will aim lit- erally to give the needy ‘‘a cup of cold water, in His name.” The best dressed woman on the Pacific coast is a Chinese girl. More than ever do the toiling men folks of that region yell, “The Chinese must %o." A St. Louis physician has cured a woman of chronic nervousness by compelling her to spond four weeld’s in a boiler factory, where she couldn‘t hear herself talk. Mixed flowers ai ylish if not artis! and upon lace head gear, which must be the lightest, should look as though the, been merely dropped iu place. Overskirts are not cut in set fashion any more, drapery being obtained by tacking the breadths of the gown to the foundation quite at taste, caprice or couvenience. Striped plush is thr ter's cloaks, but we still indul hope that thoso in authorit, a change of heart before that time, It may be true that old maids look at the moon in the hope of sceing a man, but it cau't be said of them that they ever go out the actsof a play to sec one. , With coat ol to match, can smilingly face whatever fate may send in shape of garden or coaching party, or almost any summer fete. Many features of spring toilets are so un- mistakably masculine that it occassions no surprise to learn that some of the women Who dare have got to the length of carrying canes. A lady writing on ki on the forehead b intellect. But it iy does not &) .y highly for the intellect ot the man who does the Kissing. The popular sizes of shoes worn hy the Chicago girls are said to be fives awd ons § in remarks in St. Loais jour nd scvens must be run to- gother, thusly: 57 Small, close-fitting jackets of cloth, either gray bioge, dark blue, brown or black, are The preferred wraps for very young womnen, and admit of wonderful variety in the mat- ters of cut, braiding and buttons It is altogether useless for an unsatisfac tory young man to plead to the girl that their union has been decreed by fute. Giris don't care half so much about the de a8 they do about the docraes of fashion. Mrs. Caldwell, wio has just rece golden rose from the pope for her §300,00 henefaction, is a niece of the late General John C. Breckiuridge, and otherwise a n charming young lady just twenty-three, with clear-cut features and the half of a for tune estimated at 5,000,000, IN JEWELRY. had uys that a kiss NOVELTI A pine cone in vavigated gold is a pleasiog pattern forsingle and doublo prong hairpins ad flower brojches are still in good and many of the older desigus are stone 0wl heads, with tiny ruby oyes, still weet with favor amoug lovers of odd scurf pins Lesigas in enameled flower brooches have received an addition in the shapo of a Japan eso flower not uulike the wild vose. “The eolors ard whits and piak, biue and white and wottled A handsome bracelet consists of sjuares Roman gold linked together, e square haviug in the conter a poarl on a raisedsct ting, while the four gorners ave sot With matehed turquoises. ‘Au ‘acourate copy Of wn aaciont Ko uw | | i | | | tear vial, in mottled oxidized silver, is a pe- culiar pondagt for a queen chain, An Egyptian head of moonstone sot in gold. the sides of the head dress being richly Jeweled makes an attractive brooch. A pair of branching antlers, in oxidized and bright silver, having a a small rose dia- mond sot at the tip of each spur, is a unique pattern for a brooch. A silver croscent in oxidized silver finish, and havinga spray of for-get-me nots in enamel sunk into the surface, is a tasteful design in brooches. The assortment of enameled fish scarf pins has been extended until now the piscatorial tastes of all can be suited. A gamey bass in natural colors, and carrying a jbroken fsnell streaming from its mouth, is o pleasing. pat tern, s A pretty and seasonable novelty in parasol handles recently seen has a hinged cover at the head which opens with a spring, reveal- afan roady for uso. It is made in both plain and frosted patterns of handsome responsee designs. —— Famous Old Ships. The Resolute scoured the Arctic seas in search of Sir John Franklin, says Chambers’ Journal. She was frozen fast in the middle of a wide waste of ice and abandoned by her crew. The ice setting outward from_the frigid zone bore her southward,and after a remark- able drift she was picked up by an American whaler. The United States government refitted and returned the derelict to Great Britain. She lay un- cared for at her mooringsin the Med- way for several years, and was ulti- mately taken in” dock and pulled to pieces. A suite of furniture was fash- ioned from her onken timbers and pre- sented to the president of the republic. Small pieces of her were smuggled out of the dockyard, and many a wooden article is held dear at Chatham asa relic of the brave old discovery ship. The duel between the Shannon and the Chesapeake (June 1, 1813) forms an interesting page in the history of the struggle between the United States and Greav Britain from 1812 to 1815, The Americans had crowded the Chesapeake with inexperienced landsmen, and had made ready, it is said, a feast on shore for the crew on their return flushed with victory. The unexpected happened as usual: the American frigate became the prize of tho ship of the mother coun- try. The Shannon also broken up at Chatham, and parts of her hull were sold at a premium, v Prancis Drake’s tiny ship, the Golden Hind, at a still more remote period came to a similar end at Dept- ord. A chair made out of her timbers istreasured by the university authori ties at Oxford. The Betsy Caius brought over Will- iam of Orange to this country in 1688, and was cast away in 1827139 years later. This historical ship, that helped to change a dynasty, was over one hun- dred and fifty ye: old when she censed her combat with the winds and waves. [ 3rothers, a wooden brig, built at yport in 1786, is eyen now ploughing the waters of the North sea. Wenotice: a good model of her in South Kensing- ton museum. he is one of those box- like craft that sailors say ave built by the mile and cut off as they ave wanted. The Robort, a wooden barkentine built ag Barnstaple just ten years aff S, Victory is in active ser ) Truelove of London, an American-built burk of 1764, would appear to be the oldest trader in this country, or indeed in the whole world. The Goodw built at Sunderland in 17 built at Whitehaven in vated Society at Madrid, Madrid socioty was curious to meet and Mys, Curry. says o letter to the \ndelphin Times, as they heen pre- by the singular report that the v representative of the United State: was a Protestant ¢ nan, o ravs avis to send to the most Catholic court in Lurope. As Mr also, s, and afternoon nd dances that have been the elite of the aristocracy and political world, Though neither Mys. Curry nor her spouse yet speak Castilinn “nently and French imper- fectly they get aiong exccedingly well with the Spaninrds, and when the con- versation f'ars they skillfully take their Junger guests to the drawing room, here dancing is always going on, and they lead t! v 's to the splen- did” dining voomw . you see the belles of the capital and grave states- men wage war on sandwiches, balas, pates, icod punch. and other daintios. The salons of the United States lega- tion are now fitted up with taste and luxury. ‘The curiositics and art objects brought back by My, and from the excursions to *Tangier, Andu- lusia and Italy ave hung upon the or coquetsishiy cast about the corners and on tables with r good tuste by ! , who is also very mucl wrds for the elegd f hor toilets, Thesa social duties do not pre Ministor Cur from ying on some very succassful diplomatie ‘negotiations with the Spanish government, and he quite a friend of the minister go affairs, Senor Moret, kve Spanish literati and savants declare that, with the exception of Jame: and richne Ameriean minister so woll-informed, 50 itiemauly, and so scholarly 8 man as fu him, whom they oxpected to find only adry, staid Bavust clergyman. . Curry | Rus- | | Lowell, they have never met in an ' THE UARPENTER AND PAINTERS | Have gone. First rate fellows, at the same time they are a nuisance to have around. Our stock is all ready for ouse tomers; marked and in its proper nlace. We mention this because for a day or two after our opening some of our Quse tomers were unavoiddbly delayed. Our clerks, rush peculiar to a new enterprise and this,—new that—new ever: tl%ng. Well we have come tostay. ave been asked how long we would be here. Perhaps the low prices made them think that we belong to the nomadic class of merchants. We don’t; weare going o do our business on the fair, square and equitable plan, If wo can’t do it this way, wo will let it alone. We expect to'advertise more o® less, sometimes 1n the Bee. (We don’t know much about the newspaper here, but they all seem to say that the Beo i8 a good advertising medium.) Sometimes we will advertise by cireplar, half a dozen ways, in fact, One thing you may rest assured of, and that is, gaods will be justas represented. If wo have 500 of agiven article. we won’t say 5,000; what do you care whether we have 500 or 5,000. So we won’t bother the news- paper men to publish any lies on our account. s We are going to give a uniform cour- tesy to all. We havn’t got an obsequi- ous bow for the millionaire’s wife and a different kind for the laborer’s wife. Why should we? ~ Their money looks just the same in the cash drawer. Our store is painted red. We had this dono 80 that you might readily find us, just 4 doors above 15th stree! Next week we will perhaps give you a detailed bit of prices, but then you will save us lots of trouble if you will Just step in and give us 6 or 10 minutes, YOURS, TURPIN & (0, GREAT 5¢, 10¢ & 25¢ Store 1509 Farnam St iSummer Coats Called For A supply equal to the de- mand, may be found upon! our tables, of this Negligel cout with walstcoats to) i | | i | h. ( y aro all of approved styles and materials, fine Vongee silks, serviceablel serges, in groy, white or blu ey fannels for base| ball, and biack slpaccas ol | extra lengths, made expe . [/ iy -~ (/ A new festure N 3/ conts 15 the broad front and| ( /)/ facing keeplug the garment! > well il shape. | A i v