Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1888, Page 16

16 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: B ———— [ ———— BRI - o g g B ot ades s auaib BT o NDAY JUNE 10, 1888 ~-SIXTEEN PAGES. BENNISON BROTHERS B S ARE STILL SMASHING PRICES! | You can buy first class dry goods next week at the lowest prices ever quoted in Omaha. We are over- loaded and must unload, the cost or ! cost, is not considered during this sale. ENORMOUS SALE CF Bought at Less Than i Original Value. Consisting of Plaids, Stripes, Checks, Lace Stripes, also plain India Linens, all at one price Monday, 10c Yard. Worth up to 40c. ANOTH ER LOT OF FINE WHITE GOODS 6c. We have about 88 pieces of this line, all new--just in Saturday in Plaids, Stripes and Checks; worth 28c yard. On sale Mon- day at 6c. SWISS Emb. Flouncings 49c. 10 pieces 4B-inch Swiss Em- broidered Flouncings, elegant goods, on sale Monday, 49¢ yard; worth 78c. BENNISON BROS, BLACK Taille Francaise, $1.48 For one week we will offer the greatest value in Black Faille Francaise €ilk ever thought or heard of. Remember, one week only. Every yard warranted. $1.48 per yard. At this priceitis indeed a smasher. FANCYSILKS 3 71/20. 88 pieces fancy Foullard Silks, also fancy Brocade Silks, all col- ors. Just for fun next week 874c yard. Boys’ Bicycle Hose =25e. 100 dozen Boys’ fancy clouded Bicycle Hose. Can’t wear ’em out. Only 28c¢ pair. CHILDREN’S HOSE 25¢. 100 dozen Children fine ribbed Hose in blacks and colors, all B to 8j—25c pair; worth up DRENY GOODS 48c. 100 pieces all wool fine Dress Goods in Serges, Fancy Striped Nun’s Veilings, Diagonals, &e., 40 to 46 inches wide, all colors; none worth less than 78c; all at one price Monday just to reduce stock, 48c yard. LADIES’ Toilet Baskets, D Ce 1000 Ladies’ Toilet Baskets, very useful in any household, only Be each. LADIES’ FANCY LISLE HOSE 21c. 60 dozen Ladies’ Fancy Lisle Hose, also solid colors, Monday 2lc pair; worth 40c. Summer Corsets 75c¢. 100 dozen Ladies’Summer Cor- sets, made of double thick net, and every one warranted not to break. Our |sale price 78c each; worth $1.28. | ) LOOK! At This! S—— MOURNING PINS ¢ A BOX. Ladies’ Stamped Aprons, already made for use, 23¢ each; worth 50c. Y psilanti Dress Stays, 2¢ a dozen. Silk Veiling, all colors, 4¢ yard. Tingel Cord, 8 balls for lc. Elastic End Dress Reeds, 2¢ a set. Corset Laces, 4 for 1c. Dexter’s Knitting Cotton, 1c a ball Needles, 3¢ a paper. Safty Pins, 2¢ a paper. Silk Arasene, 20c a dozen. Tourist Ruching, 2¢c ayard. Silk Ruching, 15¢ yards worth 50c. PINS, 1c a Paper, Larmels! Car Moquette Carpets, $1.2! Body Brusells Carpets,$1.00, Tapesty Carpets 50c, 7Bc. Ingrain Carpets,20c. A good Ingrain, 88c. Our special sale of B86¢c Ingrains continued. Beautiful Hassocks 28¢, worth B80c. SPECIAL VALUES IN China Mattings. We are bound to close every yard of Carpet regardless of cost or value. Don’t Fail to visit our Curtain Sale next week on the 3d Floor. Take elevator. You can save 50 PER CENT On Curtain Shades. Remember, we make over old Carpets, refit them, and lay them at Bottorm» Prices. Only expert Carpet Layersemployed. We also employ an experienced man to take diagrams, and tell you just what your Carpets will cost laid. This being our first Season we have only No Re- And the very latest Designs. old patterns to work off. member the place. SWISS ' Emb'd Flouncings, OScC. 8 pieces 42-inch very fine Swiss Embroidered Flouncings, beauti= ful patterns, usually sold at $1.80. Our price during this smashing sale, ©8c yard. Oriental Lace Flouneings, 39c¢. 10 pieces Orietal Lace Flounc- ings, 42 inches wide, in ecru and white, on sale Monday, 89c yard; worth double. Faille Francaise Silks, 79c. 28 pieces all silk Faille Fran- caise in evening shades only. You can buy them for three days at79c yard; would be cheap at $1.10. Satin Rhadama, 89c. 10 pieces Black Satin Rhadmas, in the best value ever offered Omaha; for one week, 89c yar cheap at $1.28. LA DIES’ SILK MITTS, 256¢. dozen Ladies’ fine Silk Lac Mitts in black and colors, 28c pair, worth BOc. Ladies’ Lisle Gloves 18c. B0 dozen Ladies’ Frame mad¢g Brilliant Lisle Gloves, black and colors, 18¢c pair, worth 40c. OPAQUE SHADESY 25c¢. Great bargain for two days only,Monday and Tuesday; 1,0 best Opaque Curtain Shades withl handsome dado, 6,7, 8 and 9 l'eeg long. Your choice for two_day! 28c each, actually worth 78c¢ tQ' $1.50 each. ot My 1 ; 8Ysc. BO pieces fancy stripe Bouretf Ginghams, never sold at whole= sale forless than 12{c a yard. o‘ closed this little 1ot at a low price on sale Monday 8ic a yard | WHITE5 DRESSES | C. 10 dozen hildren’s White Dresses, age 1,2, 8 years; a beau~ tiful little garment. Gretchin style, pleated waist at the low price of B9Yc each, worth £1.00. CHILDREN'S DRESSES $1.48. 20 dozen Children Chambry Dresses in pink, light blue, navy.' 5191521 Douglas St. UNDER MEMORIES ~ BURIED. Recollections of Some of Those ‘Who Rest in Prospect Hill SILENT DEVOTION AT THE GRAVE. Men and Women Who Have Left Im- pressions Upon the Community in Which They Lived— A Talk in a Grave. An Honr With the Dead. The sun was setting behind the western hills. The cemetery on Prospect hili was all aglow with golden light. A few moody peo- ple were threading its solemn avenues or bending i deep communion with some loved one who had crossed to the opposite shore. "'he radinnce secued especially designed to Xeep back, s long as possible, the hour for the gathering of shades and the falling of dew, because, it is then that to most people the cemetery becomes a place to be avoided. Like Tix Bee man, the isolated mourners had spent the greater part of the afternoon within the solemn precincts. They had been in the sunlight, where, the move intense the heat, the more beautiful appeared the mar- bles, contrasting so favorably with the bright green sward upon which they rested. Phey had also been in the wooded nrecincts, the avenues of which are canopied with trees of early and luxuriant growth, and aloug th sodded avenues 1 which light, at inter- vals only, falls, and then through the open ings in the trees, which may be penctrated only by the light of heaven. In this crypt Jike purt, however, they had lingered long est. It seemed more conducive thought. There was hittle to dist the occasional whistle of ood bird, was about the only sound thut ob traded from without, being entively 1 har- mony with the time and place, COMMUNING, Communing with the dead is not 10 pensive ol atten a prac tioe of generul observance. Tn this part of the world, it may be said that this is the case, because of the distance ut which, from those in life, lie the remains of those who bhave been fervied o'er the stream Buch certainly is the case in the ueighbo hood of Omuha. Our cemeteries are re- moved und difficnlt of aceess, und the signs of the times scem Lo P ater re- moval in the coming years, Nevertheless, there had beeu several peonie on rounds @Quring the day who had overcome ull the attendant dificuities. and bud spent . few hours in unconventional association with the dead. Oue of these particularly steack the writer's attention. She was young und slight, with 4 wealth of wavy biown hair, bazel oyes and features that ad been chis eled by no unc u haod. s was puale almost extremely 5o, though the effect” was doubtless heightened by the sombre mourn fngin which she was attived. Thesexton said SHE WAS A STRANGEK She had Hist decorated the ve in @ wellkept lot, und then rosting her self upon an iron bench in a cor mer of the enclosure had remained n that position for a ‘couple of hours. She seemed obiivions of the occasions sing and repassing of the sexton and s m and the subdued rewavks which visitors dropped as they walked by inno way dis turbed her reveri were rimmed with red from weeping, but there were no sobs. The expression of the features wus that of a lady whose greut sorrow was felt in the heart, and required httle or no out- ward demonstration o ussert the fact There Wk & carriage i wailing st the gate, wlo which she stepped, and — without - wor of direction was driveu to the city. ‘Y'be grave over which xhe bad mourned was newly made. 1t was that of a former residest of Omaha, but the mourner, who was shiet It was clearly an alfair of the beart, & secret not UnCOWNO cemeteries where, sometimes, unbidde: lovers give proof of devotion greater tha that of those who bave been stirved aud ve mm«lhy @ return of the waster passion in FUEIN INPLUENCE, 7 " but leave an iatlueuve bebind us that sur terian clergyman, wh ves,” once exclaimed a Presby- long since was gath- ered to his fathers. The influence nay be for good or evil, and in threading these paths and recalling the names of those who are sleeping on either side one cannot but be impressed with tie fact that thew memory lives, and that the influence they exerted in life, in a measure at least, extends to those who knew them only in their woris. Thesc men are to be found in almost eve part_of the cemetery. Their graves are Ly almost every specics of stone and some with shabby tablets which arve without excuse. T. B, CUMING One of the most prominent menof his time, and still known as the first governor 6f Nebraska, sleeps in a triangular lot at tne intersection of three of the avenues. A fence encircles the place. The grave is in _one of the coruers of the enclosure. At its head is a simple marble cross, showing the effects of aze. The inscription, among other things, tells that the pioncer has been dead over thirty years. The boughs of a large tree vend over th ve and in the gloom the little mound seems to be see seclusion, us if to avoid the gaze of . Watson 13, Smith's tragic h is called tothe mind of every passcr-by in the tall plain shaft with rose carvings which st anove his grave. Here m neople. stop, veflect, and marvel that the celebrated leader of proliibition should have met so mysterious, 80 1Y nful a death, emetery i shing_character- istic. It is that of a boy named Willie Zim- merman. He was buried in 18574, The grave is surrounded by a plain board fence. Soon after the burial, u father or mother or, per- haps, brother or sister, planted a little twig, then' doubtless moved — aw. The twig thrived and flourished and year by year grew insensibly to those around until to-day u large and healthy tree with copious branches and fourteen years of age gives shade to wany feet around. GENERAL STRICKLAND, Adjacent is a squave marble shaft with urned summit, the mouldings on each side bearmg the device of three stars. 'This 1s par- tially inclosed in the embrace of the wrms of pleof small trees, but one reads with hie knight's bon st. His soul is with the saints I trust,” the G, A R, in Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty.” A gallant soldier and "a irue patriot.” These scriptions are appropriately in- bed upon as many shields, because the Id upon the fourth side tells that the waft marks the last bivouae of a soldier, General Silas A. Stricklund, who, it will be remembered, died ten ago. Tue writer saw the unveiling of the monument & year luter, and heard the panegyr eliv- red on the occasion. It was on a day when every soldier’s grave around was decorated with tiny national colors, and when the: he ism of the nation’s defenders wus extolle in @very hamlet in the land, But no patriot deserved ater meed of praise than did the hero whom bis associates had selected that day to honor, MAJOR THORN[TRG, The grave of Mujor Thorubirg arvrests the attention of one who knew of the fate of that well-known oficer. It will long recall the story of the fatal Milk expedition, massacre and Meeker hor- How the troops were surprised, sur- rounded, compelled to throw up breastworks, used their mules as barriers between them and the pitiless bullets of the suvive foe on the surrounding bluffs; how the survivors we J by the colored cavalry which fought way to the scene, and how, finally, by slow and easy stages the remains of the leader wy brought bhes for inter- ment, Oanly a few weelks had elansed siucs the major hud left town with alt the avdor of o man who was prepared against odds. 13ut his lust battle is over aud Le now rests be yond the reach of criticisu or censure and lives in the memory o# those who Kuew Liw and knew him best. DECORATION Phere has not been a day sinee my boy was buricd that there has not been on lis grave a boucuet of flo ¥ The speaker was C. A. Haldwin. He stood ou the sodded lot whizh contains the r Frank. nains of his son Benind hiw rose the mamumoth col umn which marks the resting place of the dead. The father was w g the flowers and superintending the ecreetion of an iron feuce with spear-head palings. This is cor- tainly the most beautiful and vest cared for lot in ghe cemetery. 1t 18 tended by the sex tous and receives i daily vasit from the par- ents of the deccased. as a velvet carpet a kept lawn. The turf is is as level 1d as beautiful as a well- The front curbing shiclds a bed of flowers, which, when scen by Tuk Bee man, consisted of seven rows of tulips, white ated, pink and_crimson. They consti- tuted u valuable selection but Mr. Baldwiu said the ranks had been decimated by rob- bers. “This fence I am putting up to keep off the soul of somo_people hereabouts the crime of sacrilege. They come here and steal my dear boy’s flowers, but { don’t think they will be ablé to get over these pickets, do yout” ik BEE man had his doubts, but secretly entertained the hope that if they attempted t0 do so, some morning might find them im- paled while in the commission of their inhu- man act. DAN ALLEN. Adjoining {5 the lot on which has been erected a monument to Dan Allen. The dead n is unknown to many Who now throng our streets, so rapidly have we grown, yet it is but four years since he died. The wt saw him in'his last hours, and found him, cven when death scemed to be scarcely beyond the a competent and re- liable witne ¢ which,a few months con party to obloquy the penitentiary. days later a man stood over h nd bore fto the fact th ased hud never been known to tell a lie. And yet he was o gambler, Disbarred by conventional- ity from u social life, in which he might ofhierwise have appeared, he mingles in death in common with those who in life con- temned his calling and himself. A beautiful wmemorial identifies his grave, aud the place is in good preservation THE HOMAN VAULT. There is a suggestion of antiquity and the custom of other days and places, in the gabled vawt of the Homan family, the last member to enter the portals of which was the founder Henry, the venerable pionecr himself. Here also slcop the remains of his wife, and where that sleep has not been dis- turbed for year: The entrance is now marked by a new slab with appropriate in- scription, presenting an appearance sugges- tive of the fact that the vault had been closed for all time. A BEAUTIFUL WO Over the grave of Carrie , wife of am P. Brown, stands, if not the most rtistic, certainly the most unique monument in this city of the des 1t is of white mar- ble, sculped into @ seamed rock about three rht, upon which stands a broken shaft to which is lashed, with o heavy rope, al e rustic ¢ross. enclosure is out- lincd with rustic posts in_keeping with the style of the monument. The 1dea is some- and cles testimon what elaborate, difficult perhaps of being understood, theless such as to attract 'neral attention. In a small granite tomb noted for is taste and simplicity, O. ¥. Davis slecps, after long life of goodness and usefulness. Long @ resident of Omaha he died away from home and his nzme still survives him in the com- ny he formed as also in several humble nefices which his munificence has estab- lished. AN UNTINFLY DEATIL ot far sway u large block of stone tells of » W n Samuel Yates,son of ; inlookea for close hanksgiving fand friends perishing in was brought > fic had but a buoyiey his with the annou Long Istand sound , 109, but never to fill the pla months before vacated in the and Lope of promising manhood 8o, also returned [Cara Millard, whose were peacefully elosed by strangers and who also slecps within sight of the city in which his fivst ucial veutures were hazarded. A FAIR OF VAULTS, A large plaster coverea vault with an oval roof, iron dorr painted white and lettered in wilt I8 that of the Mills family, one of whom, nawed aiter the fathor, 2 M. Mills,still vesides in Omaha. It 'dates back to 1878, whon Mrs. Mil's was iivet laid within, L another vault stands in this vieinity which creeping plants have covered with a dar it aud luxurious folisge. In this Mis. JohnM. Ciarke has long been sleep- ing. A SWEET SPLIIT, The erave of Rlanctie Deule ismarked by urned shaft, out in it there is little o recall to wind beauty, gentleness, amiability ad talents .of this youug womun, whose Praise was upon every lp. Two locul as socintes, one of whom'has swee Leen, unfor- tunately, called uwn{. paid tributes in verse to her character, both of which were as beautiful as the inspiration and are still pre- served by many an ardent admirer. Nine years ago the young lady, like the sweetest note in a delightful composition, dropped from among her associates and her place to them has never been supplied. EVERYBODY. As one walks beuneath these waving, shadowy trees, he finds the name of almost every prominent family, e leading society in Omaha. There are here the rest- ing places of the Hitcheocks, the Caldwells, the Browns, the Detweilers, the Drexels, the Peabodys, the McConnells, the Barbers, the Boyds, the Redicks, Shinns, the Goodmans, the Kountzes the Grifiins and the Lowes. There are also sites where lie members the army, Knights of Pythias, lows and Masons. There are corners too where was returned to earth the miserable wretch who was called a pauper. In fact so representa- tive of everything and everybody is this piace that it strongly illustrates the verse that one in Omaha can scarcely find a door where death’s dark shadow has not passed vefore. ON THE EDGE. The sun had been down for some minutes, The cemetery was full of shadows. The wind was from the north. The air was damp and chilling. The.leaves rustied with a harshness unusual in the warmth and _sunlight. There was no piping of ‘the birds. The living had de- parted from the cemetery,and the writer was alone with the majority. ~ Suddenly a pile of fresh carth appearcd in view on the eastern declivity. Itincreased in size with shovel- fulls at_irregular_intervals. A grave was being dug. Tue Bee man approached the opening. A yoyng man_was laboring with his shovel in the depths, and moodily ex- changed greetings with the scribe, He was in a hurry and perspiring freely. The grave was for an old citizen who was to be buricd on the morrow, and the young man was striving to finish the job before dark. His work was nearly finished, and between shovelfulls vouchsafed @ word to the writer's queries, The interview was unsat- isfactory. Half of the answers were wafted way 10 the sunny south, and the repetition was irksome to Mr. Rufus Pruitt, who was playing the part of a notvery loquacious ve-digger. The north wind, too, was chilling Tie Bee man, and_about’ to compel himto give up the talk when Mr. Pruitt said: “If you want to hear ifle. jump ~down here, because hurry ! It was a delightful undertaking to inter- view & man in a grave! IN THE GRAVE. ‘The writer dropped and landed on the bot- tom, the bank of which was. above his heud. The north wind whistled still higher over the mound of loose earth on one side. The ture of the place was fifteen degrecs rmer, But there was the smell of earth, displaced for the first time simce creation. 1t was damp, dark and madoderous, There was scarcely rcom to stand without leaning against the sides, and the:sextou’s shovel kept the visitor moving from ead to end. “How long have you been in the business (" asked the writer. “Fourteen years." “How long ure you going o remain{" “Until 1 die or am discharged.” “Did you ever know a sexton to diet” ou'll have to I'm in a I never did.” “Do you know of any old sextons?" “In Geenwood, New York there are eral Tho have been digging for fifty years. was George Medlock sexton,” tle boy cd 4 ghost( “How lor “5ince I was a i “Did Geory 1 don't know. “Did you ! don’t believe in ghosts.” Do you like this business in summer and wintert” e “Money 1 it “Enough for 1 any newsy per men buried here > They know fashionable funerals in Owaha are dearer than life and life is al ready dear enough to them so they go away wnd die in some other place. That makes the undertakers mad. Scveral of them told me they'd like to bury some of you news paper folks." Here Mr. Pruitclooked at Tuep Bee suspiciously and leaped with his shovel from the grave, which was now finished, The writer opined M= Pruitt bad intcotions of man accommodating some of his sober-visaged friends and ho too, leaped from the unfurn- ished apartment before the sexton could drop his first shovelful. He turned away trom the grave. A thousand lights were flashing from plain and hillside and starting for the city of the living with a light heart, Tue Bee man left behind him the city of the dead. SINGULARITIES. Tn Dawson count, a man while out fishing caught a six-pound trout, an eel three and one-half feet long, and killed a rattle- snake six feet long, having fifty-six rattles, An_ old horse at Beaver Falls, Pa., long noted for its slowness, suddenly became re- markably lively, aud now is about as frisky as a colt. There are some who think the an- imal has gone insane, A Georgia man has a three-legged chicken which, it is said, when it grows tired of walking on two legs, corkscrews itself over i hops along on the third in a highly en- ining and original manner. Mr. Joseph Cromwell, of Xenia, O., has a Pekin duck, which on four suc ive days has laid four eggs that were all different in color. One is perfectly white, one a pale green, one un ash color, and the fourth one is entirely black. John Jones, living near Fairburn, Ga.. has an old family house cat that is nursing and caring for a young rat, bestowing as much attention upon this adopted child as she does herown kittens, with which tne rat gets along peaceably. The fish commission car reached Atlanta, Ga., the other day, when a singular incident oceurred. Change of water was found neces- sary, and artesian water was_supplied. In- side of an hour 65,000 young fish were dead, and near 3,000,000 eggs are supposed to be killed. Berry Miller of Dade City, Fla., killed an alligator fourteen feet long, weighing 600 pounds, Within him was found an alligator six feet long. The veretbra is as large as that of a four-year-old steer. ~ The monster was very sausage, and fought most viciously until killed. A bird’s nest was found recently in South Africa in a skull, probably that of some un- fortunate Kaftir. One portion of tne skull had already fallen away, exposing the hollow cavity of the head, when the Cape wagtails, in search of a_sheltered ana cozy place, se- leeted it for their nest. While two men were fishing in the Hudson river at Nyack, N. Y., on Saturday, they found a ebox floating on the water, In the box was » hen setting on fifteen cggs. They took the box up and carried it to the she Yesterday the eggs hatened out, and the result was thirteen pretty chickens and two dimutive sea gulls. R. Compton, postmaster of Volo, Il claims to have discovered a peculiar phe- nomenon in _the woods in Fremont, Lake county. As described by him, it consists of the natural ingrafting of a burr oak tree upon a white oak. ‘The burr oak leans against the other from the ground up, and is dead. The dead trunk, however, seems to go right through that of the living white oak, and t branches of both varicties of tree, all green and vigorous, mingle together 1 about equal proportions. 2 Szl Religious Activity. The vavious veports made to the Methodist Episcopal general conference held in New York,and the Presby- terian assemblies in Philadelphia and Baltimore, together with the founding of a great university by the Roman | Catholics at Washington, do not indi- cate that the people of this country arve | growing indiflerent in respect ligion. It appears from the add Bishop Merrill to the Methodist con- ference that, since tho last confer- | held, the membership of the 1,769,554 to er chureh has iucreased from I 9,005,985 that the ghurch has uow 12 | m ical seminaries, 6 colleges and | 154 academies for the cducation of cin- | didates for the ministry. The valus of this school property is estimated atover i 000,000, The magnitude of the mis- | sionary work done by the Methodist | inferred from the 00,000 are annually spent aae now 111 conferences of the Americay chuy way be ment that #1. upon it. Ther under the coutrol chureh, THE TALHATIVE GRIPMAN. Ho Expresses Himself About Spot. ters in Vigorous Terms. SAYS THEY ARE A NUISANCE. His Opinion of an Electric Light on the High School Grounds—The Gripman Indulges in a Political Talk. “Good morning,” said the reporter as he sank into his accustomed scat beside the gripman one day last weck. “G'mornin’, responded that individual in tones so gruff that the scribe shivered. “What's the matter with you this morn- ing?” was asked. *Nawthin’,only I'm hot,” responded the cable engincer, as he let go the cable. : “Well, what is the matter now?” said the e ter enough. Say, young man, do you know this ‘spotter’ business makes me tired potter business,” said the re- porter; “what do you mean?”’ *Just this,” said the gripman, *“For some time we have had on this line two smart Alecks in the em- ploy of the company, who make it their business to count the passengers on another man’s train, and when off duty get on und ask questions such as ‘How many did u carry last trip? and_so on, and I sus- Dect they report the resuli of their investi- gations to the office.” *Well,” interposed the reporter, *you need not kick. All you have to do if to run the train: the conduc- tor is responsible.” “Well," said he, “it makes me tired tosec n man work agiinst his own crowd. They know that there is not a man on the line who would knock down a nickel and whaut's the use of its There is no chance for robbing the com pany now, auyway. A man would be foolish tot well enough aid the gripman, as he slowed up 10 A slecpy horse car puss, ‘1 will give you an item. Are_ you aware of the fact that a 7,000 candle y electric light on the ' high school inds would be a thing of beauty and i if one wer e, 10 1 mean this, t ¥ » without any ‘one’s knowle \d then one of these dark nights about o'clock suddenly turned on. I 'would give dollar to be present when the grounds we illuminated, Oh my,” and the gripmun com- pletely lost coutrol of himself and carried a fat passenger two blocks beyond his desti- nutipn. matters | hat is a , sir,”” he continued, wh at last straightened out, Wi fact, “13ut speaking of Rome reminds me of travelling, tinued the gripman, “and 1 am g to discuss politics u fow just for 4 change. 1 notice that t trats have chosen Cleveland and Thurman for their candidates. It is a strong ticket, but I am not a democrat. Who the republi cans will nominate I don't know, but for that matter, 1 do not care, 4s I am not a blican. Oh, you need not smile: I am not & prohibitionist, either, and althol B, Fisk is a good mun, I shall not vote for him. ne of the parties seent to understand what the political issue of the hour 18, It is not tarifl or free tr General ton High protection will not enhance our sit tion, nor low tariff improve our condition, any more than the prohibition of the manw facture of whisky will preveut drunkennes \ Towa or Kunsas, Al the politicians ar at sea as regalds the country's needs. ‘I'herc is nothing the matter with the tariff, pro 1eetion 18 not needed, free trade is ubsurd, prohibition is vidic i “Well,” said the repor s the gripwal pauscd, *‘what is the dificuity € he currcuey,” was the résponse. r 0 “1ut what is' the matter with the ¢ Gold is at par, our financial s of the best in the world, what is the “What the country nee gripman, “is an expansive currency, one witlch vin be adjusted to meet the deémaid of the people: Wi times are hurd and tho sponded the re feet 'before you and cry for shoes; when the wife of your bosomh clamors for a new sealskin; when, your oldest boy wants 50 cents to go to the' cireus, and your littie grl asks a quarter to send to a foreign missionary society then, I repeat, 18 the time N an expansive cure rency would be apy The great pol- itical parties have ignored this question, and we are left without a hope.” “But how,” said the reporter, “are you going to remedy the dificulty you men- tion ¢ “By issuing responded the “Yes?” excl that benefit u “When you were in hard circumstances one-dollur bill could be stretched into ten,!” replied the but here is your jumping off place; y.1? n india rubbe pman solemn med the seribe, currency,” how would gripman, 200d-b, A man may chin and a man may work For the [ H But he 't go a-fishin’ and observe prohibi- tion, Because he ain’t built that way. "Pwas ever thus since childhood’s hour, My fondest hopes proved shadows thinj Just now I usked for whislky sour And, blank the luck, he gave me gin! Men may be the lords of all creation, but some women beat all tion, There is a place in Pennsylvania which is called Econoiny, but itis nota summer re- sort. Mr. Chaska's paleface wife will probably Amcricanize her hushand by spelling his name Chas, K. A blind “fortune teller” s advertised in one of our exchanges, but how man be a good seert One of the main questions of the age in re- gard to some men, is not what they live ont but why they live'ont A man in Connecticut, who built a fancg barn, stole eight tombstones from a graye- yard to build his mangers. “Well,” said an undertaker, “I'm not much of a fighter, but when it comes to boxing I can eusily lay out any man.» A St. Louis gambler was trampl ed and: killed by & runaway horse a few days ago, His last words were; “That's a horse om me,"” can a blind 1t is when a wan has been mentioned in the newspapers as “‘one of ou r most promin- ent citizons” that he begins to stay out 1at@ nights, When the pompous porter of the palaco car appearcd on the scene, the little girl ex claimed: “Oh! ma, T didn't know Mr. Pulls man was a colored man ! The w lord bec n who was kicked out by his land- pay his rent suys Foc remoy cs are one *fire.” Bachelor philosophers have observed that the first baby generally gets about ninety- efiy par cent of the pirental discipline tha is devoted to the whole family of childre A N e T 2 followed by a doz. I L if you feel one of those cheerful self to your trousers, eu possible wa; “1 wondec whaat's wrong at mansion! The bells are all mufiled, the side- walks covered with _matting, and the doctor just drove away.” Why, haven't you licardd Their pug has pneamonia.” A coroner's jury, summoned into the death of a sailor from his bunic and killed, conclusion that “the deccase through an accident of berth.” Attaching him- Jurage him in e very the Fahlerie's to inquire was thrown ahed the sage met bis death Who says that advertising does not pay? A Chicago burglar overlooked 850 in & bus reau-drawer, and the papers 8o announced, He returned the ne gt and not only se- cured it, but a suit of clothes besides. An ¢ ys: The imnortant quess tion Will the coming man vse both ! Phe impo! 1 on with the yo 10 hias stop) nd th U= lar hour with his girl, when he hears her father descondin coming raan us , s, “Wiil the gaunt Wo'f of Lunger howls wt the threshold when . the little' ones thrust their | will rewain The ilooth-Harrett company will p one nizht stands next scason, and in Ho Philadciphig and Chicago the organication our weeks each. R - e Aaas oo . \ I § 1