Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1888, Page 16

©Cmetprce. - L o 16 ~ REAL ESTATE - BARGAINS! For Sale by (O HICRS ROOM 40, Barker Block HOICE ten-acre tract, 0 West Omaha, onl ride by suburban_train: depot{ magnificent view loeation. Just the place fruit ane able gardens. be platted into fifty choice lots th » aide of three years for four to five hundred each, Can offer the whole tract for a short time at Wix1% fect, corner Juckson and Venue, one of the finest residenc sites in West Omaha, 8,50, N1 south th street, in . pertect . Mary's J Clark’s additio; grade and nicely situated, avenue aud Harney streets, & (CYORNER, 69x140, on Howard and 25th streets, t front and on grade, #,7). DR SALE An interest in ple investment property in Omaha; can offer this for $20,00). Purchasers can realize 40,000 out of thix property within three years; it will pay you to investigate this. ART front lot, XIS, on near ppleton avenue, Hanscom Place. Just o nice home, Can offer for a few one of the b i feet, on W d street, facing frent lot on Lowe avenue, uba, 1,640, nicest residence iots in Hanscom Poppleton avente,for sale on very in West ment, long time. New cable line the finest residence property in INER, 100x150 foet, on 31st_and Poppleton Avenus, paved strect, sewerage, water and oot ficent view: one perfeot grade and inagul finest residence sitesin the city. Call and FYHREE beantiful south front lots on fon aven or sale for a fe fiqure. Onl il cash required 2,3 and 4 1f e VANL L0 SECIr fiomm’m fonce ¥ it 3 you ta FEET on Harney near 11th street, splendid wholesale point, A bargain if sold soon. l;:)lulhnhln X152 feet on Tenth near 3 anc jouse property s corner 12th and Nicholas, side track in alle: 018 #4,00) profit in this lot for some one, 3 offer for a short time at #,00) 180, less than seven blocks from , with three small cottages rent- per year: room for tlfree more; s worth fifty per cent more than It will pay you to look this up; idence and grounds in Hanscom arn, furna Lath-room, city water give immediate posession. Call und holce ten acre tract with com- table house, barn, splendid shade trecs, e to city and Belt line rallway, just the fine fruit and vecetable gardens. Can 18 & big bargain if taken at once, [ESS lot with new tw tm) store bull On M. near 27th 8t. South Omaha, Will twolve per cent on the investment., Call it, price 81,500, m the finest Dusiness Lots in South L 8, for & few days at £,000, m‘ Block 4, South Omaha 6x150 feet near &B4 2th streets, only 81,200 Jots near F and 25th street, South a; the biggest bargain in South Omaha mice lots, one & corner, near Catholic h on 2ith street, South Omuha, for Tittle cottage and full lot 60x10 in South Omalia, noar ik nd G streats Tor sale at 640 Acres, choice 1and i Toward County, close to two railroads; for sale ata bar- watn. IEVERAL ool houses (o rent, ‘medlate possession. Can give im- (00 Wortn ofgoad Gmatia property to trade for first-class farm land vanch, T'WO ko00d ciear farims for salo or exchange for city property. JOR RENT Wl nice houses fa the best residence portion of the eif T AN ofter for the next thirty days, Five choice ten-acre tracts of land in West Omaha, close to the city and near regular stations, on kel Lite | R, SubIrbAD trains now runuing affo £0d Saay trunsit by u twonty-tive tween this property and W depot. 3oul take o xivk tn buving a five or ten-acre szactof land, if well situated. You can live on the land, have u pleasant and comfortable home free from city taxes, and get to and from y work §n town quieker thi to most pliaces in our iy, where slugle lot would cost &5 mch as ten acres 1 can offor you. 1 You cau raise enough off of five or ten acres to a0ore than support your family, and in two or rM)'«m\llmmvhl growth of our city will en- le you to plat the land mto chotes lots that il sell for th h‘ % 60r ten acres, ns parties y it will pay you to cull wa o Eryou have good property tosell, © orrent, call and list . N. Hicks, ROOM 40, ker Block. vly and scenre a BAL Another Version of the Allegéd Frauds inour Public Fmprovements. Oy, O To the editor of the Br: ome body has composed a letter *To the Public' and Louis Heimrod, ‘late member of the board of public works, has fathered it by ning and causing it to be. published. The real author was, undotibtedly, a well kaown contractor, who was very much disgruntle because he dia not get the cedar block pave- ment contract, J. B. Smith , obtained Inst spring. This contr us 1o think that no other should be allowed to come to this city to perforn public contracts and that aill others who have been doing public con- tract work for this city, heretofore, ‘should be driven out, so that ke wonld be left alone in his glory—the only pet—the king-bee con- tractor of this great and growing city. He has a few noisy and aggressive followers in the city council. Poor Heimrod necded their support, in his attempt to hold a position in this board another térm in spite of the may- or's wishes Under these embarrassing circumst ances, Heimrod felv mpeiled to pursuea course, pleasing to this little band, frequently, in vi olation of his own good impulses and botter judgment. us he has confessed to me. Some: body said something about *unduc influ ences” a little while ago, 1 think this was the most cruel case of iton record. But, finally, when it became ecvident that thé aid little band_in the couucil could not ¥ of that body and that Mr. cimrod must rétire, he was made to think that it would lessen’ his chagrin and salve over his_ disappointment to pose as a sensa- tional exposer of fraud and corruption on a post mortem basis—-and give me a kick, by attempting to leave the impression upon the minds of his readers that I was consenting to u £65,000 robbery Now 'to further show the animus of this post mortem letter, you attention is calied to the fact that ther¢ is not one word in it about the work being done by Regan Bros. & Fox, under the same specifications and exe- cuted in the same manner, nor one word about the conerete base of the ber As- t company, which is being done, always has been done, under the same specifications and i the same manncr, in this and all other cities, as J. B, Smith & Co., are doing it, ord is found about & hundred rformed or being pe His letter B, Smith & Co., recipients of the dis' nother contractor and a non- resident. — The same day that Mr. Heim- rod_declined to uct on the estimates of J. B. Smith & Ce jounting to nearly £0,000 he voted for the approval of estinates for gan Bros. & Fox amounting to over ,000, without a single objection or even a al' glance at the figurcs, “Oh, consist- what a jewel thou ar For some Teuson, unknown to me, but which scems to be thoroughly understood by others, he paid his respects to J. B. Smith & Co. only. Smith was a stranger 10 be taken in. Smith & Co., like all other contractors, are not here for their health, Like all other contractors, they are always willing and anxious to save a dollar by using indifferent material or doing indifferent work, instead of and work, whenever the 3 tives in charge will allow But no other contractors with whom I have ever had any experience, have yielded a more prompt and g aceful obedience to th requirements of the stipulations of their co tract, whenever it was firmly required by the city’s representatives in- charge, than J. B, Smith & Co. Therefore, if they have used any poor ma done any poor work, or used in the nance of their k than the specitications call for, it is the fault of the city’s representatives ‘and not theirs. The inspectors in charge so assent and confess, hence no Honest reason could be given for refusing them their pay for com- pleted work, as certified to by the city engi- neer. The time to e that good material is furnished and the work well done is during the progress of laying the pavemients, day by day, each und every day. After u district is completed it is impractical and unjust_to go back and tear it up and relay it, or deprive the contractor of his pay. This was Heim- rod’s foolish attitude Mr. Heimrod asserts that J. B. Co., are being allowed to ¢ payers of this city out of & his items as follows : Saving on shortage of tar. ving on shortage of tar ving ol shortage of tar The first item of ¥18,000, he builds up ona report of Inspe acl Donovan, as to the quantity of tar used on Twenty-second street naving district, and then highly commends Donovan. When Donovan was inspector on_another contrac- tor's job previous to this, Mr. Heimrod was persistent in demanding that he be removed, alleging that Donovan was an impracticable cravk, ete., thut the coutractor did not like him; that fie was too particular and requi 2 to rigid and technical compliance specifications, and hence a _hindrance to the proper progress of the work. Heimrod find- ing that T was not disposed to remove Dono- van, or any other inspector, at the instiga- tion of a contractor, finally became desperate and came to me one day in front of the may- or's oflice, in the presence of the city engi- neer, and begged mo most pitiously 80 re- move him as & personal favor to Loui Heim- rod. Irefused, and he loft me in violent an- ger, Shortly thercafter Donovan's service on the former job naturally terminated, and Heimrod hasténed to have him assigned to duty on Smith’s work. From that time for- ward he has sung Donovan's praises. Every- one can draw their own inferences from this particular incident. During Ponovan's first ten days of inex- perienced” service as inspector of tar, he re- ported the quantity poured on Thirty-second street paving districts, and it was found by reference to the city engincer's estimate of the number of yards of pavement laid in said district, that instead of the two gallons of tar per yard required, there had been only about an average of one and three-quarters gallons poured on 108 vard of pavement, Vhen Mr. Donovan was confronted with this fact he frankly said: "It was my fault. There was plenty of tar there, and 1 was ot liberty to require the luborers to pour on just as much as I pleased. 1t is not the fault of the contractor. 1 thought I was getting tvo gallons per yard, but the result proves J wasnot. It wes the resultof my inexperience in this dcpartment, but, here- T will se that_we get the full amount required.” Since which time Mr. Donovan’s reports have shown that we are getting the required amount, sometimes a lit e over and sa times a little "I'his is the only foundation in fact Mr. Heimrod pre- tends to basc his mountain of $15,000 fraud (figuring an average of cne gallon per on Smith's cont of 10 cents per “The other #47,500 fraud, he all concrete buse of Smith & Co. The method of figuring, by which he arrives at this con- clusion is s0_fallacious ana_ cireumlocutory that it would be a waste of time aud space to review it. 1t is sufficient to say that the pav. ing contractors ure never calld 1 to fur- sh a Portland cement concrete, for u base for heavy sub-marine masonry or foundutions of forts, harbors and sea walls, referred to in Heimrod's posthuntous letters but Mr. Heimrod did not know this fact. The speci fications of the cities of America, where con- crote buses are placed under’ pavements, arc uniform in this respect and just like our own, which says that conerete base shall be composed of one measure of Ameri- can cement, two measures of sand, mixed into a mortar ad broken stone in such quans tities as will give u surplus of mortar when rammed. In this respect, our specifications are un exact copy of the Washington, D. C., specifications, where nearly all their pave. ments are underlaid with concrete base. The Waushington - specifications were ulated ment, for i would be 88 Without an enduring ingfoundat author ments—| cements and concretes, s that tho proportion of broken stone “should be determined 1 accordance with the princi- ple that the volume of the cemunting sub- stance shiould always ve somewhat in ¢ of the voluma of voids in the ¢ to be united.” Mhen on p work on cemonts and s that one barrel three barrels of sand. and broken stone, muke a concrete which pos- sesscs & crushing strength of 13 pounds per square imch, when two wonths old, and is the standard American coment corcrete gen- crally adoptcd upon _government works, and that it possessess sufficient - strength in foun- dations and thick walls for any position in which concrete is used. Under our specifi- cations’ contractors are required to follow General Gilmore's formula, except that we douot allow the use of Lub bwo barrels of formed in this city is_entircly devoted to who happen to be th pleasure o Smith the tax- W0, and gives 818,000 and unyield- Gilio on pave sand instead of th hence our concret: that mueh stronger, This taking one barrel of sund'was a’precaitionary. me sure us against the liability, of our being weakened tao much through th manner of measurements of material® on the streots, in doing ' work hastily:.in other words, 80 a8 to. e on'.the safe side. It Avis under. -the O spevitica: tions that - Smith = contrasted . to * work. 1f the contractors are made to fulfill' the re- quirements of ‘o ions, each and v dag as the progresses, our con- base will be all right, In this matter, s obtaininiz the right quantity.of - tar and all other matters connected with public work, we are depondent upon the busincss taet, fidelity and integrity of our inspectors who are i daily charge of the work I find that the obtaining of persons for in- spectors, possessed of all the qualifivations und elements of character necessary to e 1 to properly exfo the part of ‘public tors, with vifications of their coutracts, who are willing to serve seven or eight months of the yéar for only $100 per month, is the most difficult problem to solve, in connection with my duties, Mr. Hemrod says he found the co only five inehes thick in “some® Smiith's work, and then figures done or will do this scason af f thickness, and & nother mountain shor on concrete of £32,000. So have 1 found it thus occasionally on all contractors’ work. This is liable to be the case some- times, even though the inspector on the work is commander of the situation, and faithful contractors ave always exceedingly careful not to furnish more material than they are ated to. they are liable to shade s, unless watched ve general rule there are six n)u'hl'xn( concrete under the pa nt laid this yea are pushing a large amount of work in a rushing and improvident manner, in many respects because the public demands it. Yet, notwithstanding to the contrary what Mr. Heimrod has been made to say what he may hereafter say, the publ his city, this season, his been done well, and at fairly reasonable prices. better, in my judgment, than heretofor 1 doubt v wuch if any other ci larger experience in the management affairs than this has had, can better results, In_econclusion, public Much . and with no of cit boast of @ the unseemly attitude of istituted, has been a matter of much 1 my part, and the fact that I have be 2 to imphse this character of an epistle upon a_reading pub- lie, or incur the liability of having my silence misconstrued, is still another_source of r gret, A. D BALCOMBE, Wm. Black, Abingdon, Iow cured of cancer of the eye by Dr. Red Clover Tonie, which cure disorders and dis liver and kidneys. appetizer known. Drug company was Jones’ 11 blood wses of the stomach, The best tonic and 50 cents, Goodman —— A Double-Headed Engine. New York Journal: A queer looking machine dancing around among the switches and side tracks astonished the railvoad men at the union station in St. Loy few days ngo. It looked about much like aloco- motive as a two-headed girl does like a St. Louis belle, yet it moved bacl forth at lively speed. 13 ily as forward. if, in fact, woway either backward vd, and stopped and started as casily as any en- gine that ever entered the switchyard. 1t looked like two locomotives bereft of their tenders and joined cab to cab, only there v but one smokestack, and thut rose from the center of the ma- chine, and the coal’ bunkers sted astride of the boilers like old-fashioned saddle-bags. The muchine is really a double-headed locomotive, built on a new principle, d i train of cars s mile a minute all day long. Itis nvention of Dr. Christian lih\ub, of New York, reer who got the hest part of his scientific training in Germany, and who has been studying railvoad prob- lems, and _especially the comotive building. for n of a century, The inventor terms the new machine a central-power locomotive. The cab is in the center and a boiler runs from it to each end of the machine. The cyl- inders are abreast of the cab, on either i nd are placed vertieally, so that istons havea perpendiculur stroke ead of horizontal, as in the ordi locomotive Below each eylinder is a disk, which connected to the piston rod with a crank lever, and by means of which the reciprocating motion of the piston is turned 1nto rotary motion. Connecting rods run from the disk each way—that is, what would be forward and backward inan ordinary locomotive—to two sets of driving wheo!s, und thusthe machine is driven. There are no independent trucks, h as support the forward end of an or- inary locomotive, The whole machine rests upon four pairs of driving wheels, and cousequently there is no dead weight. Tvery part of the machine, and the supply of con' as well, adds to its drawing power. Besides, the ma- chine is perfectly balanced. That is to say. there isan equal amount of mate- rial on cither side of the central point in the cab, and there will be no pound- ing of tracks. The mnew locomotive woighs fifty-five tons,or five tons less than the heaviest locomotive hereto- fore built, but it has a greater drawing powe The boilers receive heat from two fire chambers, which may be connected or disconnected, as suits the occasion The inventor claims that the fu completely consumed; so thoroughl fact, that there are no sparks. E omy of fuel is one of the advantages claimed for the new machine. Tt is said that it has drawn a train on twenty pounds of coal per mile at the same specd for which an ordinary locomotive would requive T pounds. The new locomotive was built at the ant locomotive works at Paterson, J.,and the experimental trips w made on New Jersey railroads track: Dr. Raub’s engincer made ten miles with it in five minutes one day on a wager. If his engine proves to be suc- cessful in actual work it is intended to build others and equip a line from New York to St. Louis with them, It is intended, furtner, to reduce the running time between the two cities to twenty-four hours. A single locomotive will make the full trip, but the engi- neers will be changed tnree time: The postal authorities at Washingjon have already signified their readine to transfer ‘mail contracts to trains drawn by such locomotives as soon as speed shall be demonstrated in actual work . Dr. Raub, the inventor, resided in St. Louis for many years, and during the war he superintended the construction of iron clads at Carondelet. The main fentures of his new locomotive we patented seven yearsago, and ever si then he has been engaged in perf and simplifying the details and in pre moting greater economy in operntion, S'JACOBS 0], For Neuralgia. FRESH TESTIMONIALS. %0 Minutes. " Trvingien. 1 May 32,18 s, vt Senepsl s in hoad and tace had Those daze: e tried B Jacobe Oi, wes il W St el *399.11G U321 JO ISey SI0O(] 2y I, 6ITTI "LHIYLS WVNAVA 6ITI SHOTdVd ONIHLOTO LI4SIN CURRENT TOPICS. American admirers of Lord Tennyson are apt to feel more pleasure in reading the “Idylls of the King" than any' other of his lengthy poems. It will be a shock to these to learn that he 1s not to be in any sense con- sidered as the author, and that his blank verse is sunply a rythmic paraphrase of the prose of Sir Thomas Malory, a Welsh monk of the fifteenth century. In the reign of Ed- ward the Fourth there was a hiterary renais- sance of a strong character, due to the intro- Quetion into England of the art of printing by Caxton. Malory took as the basis of his story a number of tales by French trouveurs about Arthur and his court. It has always ‘been supposed that these had their origin in Brittany, but it has been found impossible to trace them further than the twelfth century when they appeared in the French languaga a3 lais by difterent writers. Geoffrey of Monmouth during 'the /same century used them as authentic history to the great dis. may of all scholars who haye studied his hi tory of British kings. In whatever way they reached the French trouveurs jt is certain that these poets gave to them the local color- ing of the twelfth century and of the French manners of that time. Malory followed in the same bad course to give them the local coloring of England, and of the fifteenth cen- tur Malory’s English is strong and ra his imagination was weird and powerful and he was a fervid christian, all of which com- bined to make his ‘“‘Morte d’Arthur” very pleasing reading. He did not possess the gitt of construction; consequently his story is really a string of episodes. But he is en- titled to credit for everything which the reader has found pleasing in Tennyson's “Idylls of the King.” * Statements have often been made that the secds of gram and thebulbsof flowers, which have been found in tumulus tombs, and in the sarcophagi of pyramids, and in the mas- tabas of cemeteries, around the ancient Memphis, had been planted, and had sprouted, and had come to maturity. The flowers were always prodigious specimens of the beautiful, and the grain was full cared and like yet un- like our own. Whoever follows up one of these stories and gets to the foundation head invariably finds it untrue. It is not known that grain was ever found in the wrappings of a mummy, and if it were by some accident among those natronized corements its vital- ity would quickly disappear, and it would be reduced to carbon dust. A Cincinnati paver is reviving the old yarn, and states, circumstantially, that David ‘Drew received last year some wheat seed found within the linen folds of a mummy tukes from a tomb near Memplis, and planted it. It grew rapidly, and at the time of cutting measure from six to seven feet. The leaves were not different from ordinary ‘wheat, but instead of an ear there is a heavy cluster of small twigs, and each twig is thickly studded with kernels, each of which isin wseparate iusk. Mr. Drew has beecn made she victim of a bad joke, for this is the description of mod Jowarri also called bajri, whieh is not wheat atall, but a member of the great family of haliga e or buckwheat. Experiments were tried with the cereald found in the jars of the lacustrine dwellingd, but nothing came of it. They were apparently perfect, and as they were surrounded by masses of car- bonized seed, the hope was entertained that those in the center might possibly ms of life. This hope proved deiusive. The Mr. Gillam, a caricaturist' of Judge, who cut his throat in a frenzy, superinduced by congestive chills and by an overdose of quinine, was not the artist’ whose signature 80 well kuown in connection with. brilliant campaign pictures, but his brother, whose signature was Victor, ———— All doctors recommend Ja, et Ay An Tllinois woman who died recently took to her bed nine years ago, declar- ing that she would mever leave it till she died, because her son married a girl she did not Jike, aud she kept her worde . is’ Brandy. guus up and . down thy line, A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT! 18 ‘S1B02IOA( pPU®B $9ING J0J-PO[BOT[) PUB JYSTIY S IO[TE, JURYOISI JO OUIT SAISUNXY puB qiodng ¥ THE STORY OF “"SKEERY LUOY.” A True and Characteristic I chent of 3 the Terrible War. Sarge in the Atlunta Constitution: eery Lucy?” hat’s what they called her,” said Plunkett, us he chunked the fire and seated himself in the corner. “As a little girl at schoc ers called her *Timid Luc but all the scholars knowed her as ‘Skeery Luey,’ for she went by that name among all the settlement folks, and her own daddy and mammy said the name suited her character. ' “When she growed up and got mar- ried she was just the same, and when John, her old man, would be alittle lata in getting home at night he'd fiud her shut up tight in the house, with the doors all locked and every table and old bench and chairs piled again them, and when John would knock av the door and tell her who it was, he’d have to stand and wait till she moved these things away before he could open the door, and then ne’d scold her for being such a dunce, but she’d just laugh and say *You knowed I was ‘skeery’ fore you married me.” ““The name of ‘Skeery Lucy’ clung to her for along time, and I guess she de- served it, for she'd squeal at a lizard or frog and take a fit, almost, if she sced a snake, but when old Sherman came down here she done what most any man would er bin erfraid to do, and they quit calling her ‘Skeery Lucy’ after that, and that's what I want to tell you erbout.” “She was left with four little child- ren to scuflle for when John weunt off to Virginia, and 1t was mighty hard get- ting along at best, but as the armies got nearerand neaver things ot scarce and searcer and Luey got scarier than ever. The big guns could be heard for along time before we seed the Yan- keys, and Lucy just looked like she couldn’t stand it, and the folks in the settlement said she'd die some day just from fright and anxiety. “But everybody had to scufffe, and one morning Lucy waked up with not a crust of bread in the house, and the children were swinging onto’ her dr and apron and crying for something to eat, and there was no other way but for her to start out and get a little meal for ‘em. She shut the children up in the house and put out across the field to the mill, and they, poor little things, had been taught by their mammy to be afraid, and there sat, all in a huddle, » seared as bitts at evervthing t cpacked or made a fuss, and whispered to each other. P b Lo R T S P “Sherman’s army W on the move, making for the railroad—they'd got down the night befove and Lucy didn't know it. “Hardee'’s army was moving to mee’ the Yankeys and to keep them from gett ting to the railroad, and Lucy didn- know nothin bout that. 1 “She had just gone to the mill and stepped upon “the platform, when down through the woods came Hardee's line of battle at a double-quick, and before she had time to think they were past, throwed out skirmishers, pecting every minute Yank “Sherman’s line was coming tow: Hardee, and it was only a question of n few minutes till the fight would begin. _ucy thought of her little children shut up in the house and knowed how scared they'd be when they heard so many men marching. She dida't know yet that it was a fight. »She started in house, intending 1o get the Hardee's troops did. But Old Sherman was coming to meet them, and it would only be a manute till there would be warm times between Luey and her house. “The skirmishers be, to pop their d here, the teach- a run toward her ! e before e ———m——epe come a battery dashing through a road unlimbered in a in the woods, and wwinkling and lct in, and then the fight had started. **Lucy’s house was hetween the two B ced a shell hit the chimney and seatter the bricks and rocks. She thought of her four children that were huddled up and couldn’t get out and she didn’t stop. The balls were flying thick from one line of battle to the other,but she dashed through Hardee's line and went up through the cotton patch the same as a deer. The soldiers screamed, ‘Come back; lay down! you'll be killed,” and sich like, but through it all she went and dashed ergin the door and fell in ermsoug her little children. *Just then a bomb struck one corner of the house and scattered splinters everywhere. The children were cling- ing to her and screaming at the top of their voices. Another shell hit the house and tore away one gable end and the minne balls were pattering the same as hail. She grabbed the smallest child up on her left arm and made the rest jine hands and then took hold of the end child’s hand and out they dashed into the open field between the two armies, “The Yankey line was the first to see themas they went stumbling, falling, and rolling over the cotton rows, and they yelled like madmen: YA truce, a truce, a truce!’ ‘‘Then Hardee’s men seed what was the matter and they waved their caps and jumped up and down and yelled: “*7A truce, a truce, a truce!’ “*In less time than it takes to tell you the firing ceased and a hundred men from Hardee’s line rushed for the children and Lucy and the first one to them grabbed ‘em in their arms and were back over the hill in a minute und the fight went on. * * * » » vs never been called ‘Sheery Lucy’ from that day to this, and old Sherman said the next day that he would erlost the battle rather than to have killed so brave a woman, hut there are others who suy that any mother would erdone the same thing.” e Denver's t Girl Baby. Miss Harve, who returned to this city the other day, after many years’ ab- sence, was once the owner of a good big purt of what is now the most valuable coperty in the city, says the Denver News. [t was given her by the ci of Denver us a testimonial for being the “first girl haby” born here, and she might at this time be deawing a big in- come from it had her father considered it of sufficient value to keep up his tax payments. As it was, he let it go now, instead of being the heivess of mil- lions, “our tirst givl baby' nightly sings living at a variety theater on Hol- ny street. When Lish Har ling announcement izens made the one day - in neing half-c: start- in his little Jin up on the hill, it day for Denver. A meeting v inimediately, and it wis resol carvied unanimously thut ti an honor to Auraria, as [ then called, and that a committec appointed to welcome the little and present it with a substanti monial of the citizens’ Thes resolutions were spr upon the reeords of the eity, tnd dozen of the lewdin i up to Lish Harve forme eir dutic half w brought i pr was little niittes could raise to present to the littlc one, and after these had beer sented and a speech or two made; dur lu( which. the ‘laby slept, the com- mittee, decided. thuat the little lady Id have !l the land in sight wet alveady staked off, Loy Lish Harvey walked to bis front door, and land he spring. It is 1 it for two barrels #100 a barrel, and a mul was not accepted. Th is to-day worth probably country then. claimed and nobody wanted it. week before present sito bank, now worth flour, and didn’t get the flour, either. was d it until the unvl to levey taxes tous carried two guns and a piece of chal came around, Lish 10 pay up, and invited th to take the land. use forit, and for three or four years Chicago Tribun Mrs. stand this much longer. turn over a new 1 with tearful sh'll *plyin’ for d'vorsh. hushb’n’ little shquirt of a Furopeun king, Nan-p (hic)—2 ————————essme DYSPEPSIA, SICK HEADAGHE. Not ouly re cured perma sin Cure, Price Wea box. All druggis To e stock of WIEAR grades ard gnalities in the well knownd makes the Hoirovad, Vieuna, Natural Wool &« s hopped | thie | 1t they are w withw . o whas! with his fingers indicated wha( thought would suit his offr rded that he aftere ard offered to dispose of the whole of of flour, when worth that Jim Bas alued at ). His offer land he claimg 000,000, t thing in the Nobody owned what he Only & a citizen had offered tha of the German National 0,000, for a sack of owned, Land” was the_cheupe In due time the land sc ected by Lish ed to the baby, and she owned wsaut ofieials began When the first ubiqui= tax collector, who in those dayg antly refused tax collector The latter had na was held Then in abeyance. tha town began to grow, and the value of the town with it. lator came along gathered to himself the baby’ of owners since then, and millions of dollars hav Finally a real specus share. It has had thousands changed hands over it. -~ He Was No King of Servia. *‘Absalom,” said “I cantiot If you don’t af 1 shall leave you!” xclaimed Mr, Rambo, ympathy, *“’f you do not sphoil ~your happinesh by I may not be besht ', but I'm no_(hie) Rambo resolutely, Nanshy,” th’ wor wnshy ! 1 ilke by most medich ly with Hahn's G nmm." | L PAY YOU present NDER | o tnine MIEEN comprizine - alli tair prices. 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