Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1888, Page 2

2 LINCOLN NEWS AND GOSSIP. A Buroau of Agriculture and Live Stock Industries BY DR. PROPOSED BILLINGS. Another Attack on G 1 McBride ~Tho Nebraska, Dakota, Wyom- ing and Pacific Railway Incorporated, LINCOTN BUREAT 1020 P STREET, Laxcous, Dec. 23, Dr. Bil or Tre Ovana Be } ings and pub West considerable The bill proposed by lished in the De orn Rosources, s provoking comment in Lincoln. It is coded to be as practical as the general of the directors of the labratory of the state university. At this t ik Brr representative has heard a single word in its favor. Many of his friends admit that itisa ripe piece of gall Tho erauky visionarian would have all laws the s mber number of the con work patho-biological and rogulations appertal 10 board of agriculture, or ry live stock commission, or for the suppression or pro vention of contagious or infectious in the live stock of the state, repealed and abolished, and instead a burcau of agri culture and live stock industries in the department of state. The official head of this burcau, the bill provides, shall be the secratary of state, assisted by a veter inary counselor, state veterinarian, veterin ary inspectors ‘and an extra assistant. The official head is to get £2,500 per annum in dition_to his regular salary, and the coun selor £500 additional to the salary he re- ceives a8 the director of the university ex periment station. The state ve inarian is to trot along on a salary of #,000 per year. The inspectors are to sccure & per day for all time' thoy actually employed.” The extra assistant is to receive $1,500 per year for the privilege of helping the counselor kill hogs and other animals affficted with infee tious dises And, besides, provision is mado for the employment of a countless number of clerks, or #s many as such vision ary frauds as Billings Ay deem it necessary to employ. The bl will doubticss make the mouths of petrified office and position seekers water. It 18 altogether probable that such cattle will becomo s exponents of the bill The public will be otherwise disappointed But it goes without saying that every honest, ntelligent, justice-loving law maker will op: pose it to the bivter end. *“Billings ought to be punched out of the state,” promi nent citizen of Lincoln this n His gall would put @ Sioux Inaian to shame, There is _nothing practicable, reasonable or sensible in his proposed bill Itis a notori- ous fact that he is a_disgrace to the institu tion e ropresents. He is the most profanc man | ever met, His oaths make the blood in the veins of a decentman curdle. He is a moral leper, a stench, a_blight, a disgrace to society and the university.” KENOCKED 'EM OUT, General McBride been attacked in a blood thirsty manner by a morning paper again and his friends think it foreeasts con sideral feir on the part of the railroad rangs that ho is a dangerous candidate for speaker. His reply to the attack, which appearcd over his Signature in this morning’s Call,was a complete knock-out. In the meantime the B. & M. organ is devoting much space to praising Oily-Gammon Olmstead, their pet candidate. Deweese, the B. & M. political manager, is for Watson, whilst their ponder. ous daily is for Olmstead. In case light ning should_ strike cither of thew the cry, “We did ity would be sufliciently strong— 80 they renson—to secure the appomntment of a committee ou railronds that would not be very dangerous to the A NEW RAILKOAD CONMPANY. Late yesterday afterncon artcies incorpor- ating the Nebraska, Dakota, Wyoming & Puacific railway company were filed in the oftice of the secretary of state. While yeta paper road, the stockholders are men whose names give assurance that it may material ize, and become a feeder of the leading marts of the state. 1t is intended that the road shail tap Douglas, Dodge, Washington, Burt, Dalkota, Dixon, Wayne, Cedar, Knox, Stan: ton, Madison, Picrce, Antelope, Boom, Greo- ley, Wheeler, Holt, Keya Puha, Garfield, Vailey, Brown, Loup,” Custer, Blaine, Thomas, Lincoln, Logun, McPherson, Keith, Arthur, Grant, Sheridan, Box Butte, Che, enne, Duwes and Sioux, with the ecastern terminus fixed at the city of Omaha. The capital stock authorized is §10,000,000,and the following gentlemen aro the incorporators and principal stockholders of the company: James I, Dillon, W. H. 8. Stout, J. H. Har ley, J. R. Webster und C. L. Hall.” Some of the leading citizens of Lincoln are stock- holders, CITY NEWS AND NOTES. Governor Thayer expects to beabie to visit the state house Lo-morrow. rank Childs, leading lumber dealer of Douglas, Otoe county, was in Lincoln to-day. Frank Beard, artist and humorist, do- lighted an audience at the Plymouth Congre- gational church last night With one of his popular lectures. Mike Quinlan and wife, Katie, passed last night behind the bars, They were re-arrest- ed yesterduy evening on a complaint of A. G.and 7. H. Benton, and locked up in de- fault of £500 bail Attorney General and Mrs, Leese roturned from their sad visit to Parkersburg, Va., this morning. 'They attended the remains of Mr. Loese's sister to the grave on last Tuesday. The remains of H. C. Melone now lie at rest iu the churchyard. The funeral services took placerto-day frowm his late residence and the cortege was one of the lurgestever known in the city. The Stolen Bonds Case, Cimicaco, Dec. 23.--In tho matter of the stolen bonds case, with which Lawyer Cut- ting has been so promiuently identified in court during the past week, four men are now under arrest—William . Shaw, Henry Plessner, C.D. Tavlor and Otis Corbett. he latter is father-in-law of Shaw, and was, until a short time ago, a dry goods merchant at Rock Island, Iuspector Bonfield to-day sccured §2,100 in bonds stolen from Kellog Johnson & Bliss, April 25, and expects to got $5,000 worth of Coln Wamfold & Co.’s stolen bouds to-morrow. He thinks ho is on the trail of the robbers and he expects to exnose what be believes is one ot the boldest and most efiiciently organized bands of burglars end crooks ever operating in Chicago. The exact connection of the ar- rested men with the matter is not yet made clear, and no positive charges are known against them, aside from attempting to_dis- pose of the stolen securitics, Inspector Bon- field, it is snid, is satisfied that Lawyer Cut- ting is not implicated criminally in the mat- and that he was innocently dragged into the scrape through his legal connection with Bhaw, who passed the stolen bouds, When Informed of the correet nature of the case be went before the grand jury and told all he know. His story led to the arrests as abovo. Aaylor denies that he had anything to do with tho bond business, and says if Plessuer and Shaw make such charges against him he will make soie that “will olose thewm up,” e The “Haytien Republic, HAVANNA, Deo. 23.—Advices have been received from Hayti to the effect that tne dispute over the seizure of the American steamer, Haytien Kepublic, has been settled and the steamer has been delivered to the American men of war, and the latter have bonored the Haytien flag with a salute of twenty-one guns, Among the people the ac. tion of the United States government is con sidered as an abuse of power against a help less nation and this opinion is said to ba shared by some of the foreign diplomatio representatives, meral Lifetime has been unamimously elaoted president of the republic and is tak- g ehergetic stops to suppress the revolu tiou, et Harrison's Courcesy Crazed Ui, ANN ARBog, Mich,, Dec, 23.--Gustay Hor- man, @ tailor, named bis boy baby Benjamin Harrison, He wrote the president-elect of the fact and received a cordial reply. ‘Thie piece of condescansion, that Lie did not dream Pf gesting froia a presidevt-elect, bas turned his head. e bogan to imagine that Har rison must think Guetav Herman one of the biggest men in the world, and he commenced immediately to fix up his home to receive, as he said visit from Harrison, expending 1,200 of his His fricnds hav caused Herman to be scked up in an insane asylum - No Passengers Hurt. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 23, —A passengor on the Western At radroad railed at Moives station this morning, The mail agent was killed ana the ongineer, fire man aud conductor injured. No prssehgers hut train antic was de - Stabbed in a Saloon. A Swede named Chris employe at the smelting works, got into a sa loon row on Seventh stroet Leaven worth and some ohe in the crowd struck him with a knife in the neck, inflicting a severe and dangerous wound, No one has been ar rested who is an near Burglars Pat to Flight. About 2 o'clock this morning, a clerk sleep ing in a grocery store at 814 South Twentieth street found threo men in his room and opened fire on them with his revolver when they beat a hasty retreat Author of “Robert Elsy Mall Gazette much talke cussed, With “Re perhaps, to be more exact, with Gladstone’'s iew of it in the N teenth Century, Mrs. Ward sprang into notoriety., To those who had no knowl- edge of her personally, her book made it clear that she was one who not only knew her Oxford well, but was intimate with Oxford life and Oxford people and Oxford traditions. It was, therefore, no surprise to learn that befor came Mrs. Ward she w Arnold, and that she w daughter of Dri Arnold, of Rughy the niece of Matthew Arnold, and the daughter of Thomas Arnold, the editor of many old books, the writer of the “Encyclopieain Britannica®™ ar- ticle on English literature, and the author of a well known “*Manual of En- glish Literature.” Mr. Thomas Arnold, it will be remembered, became a Roman Catholic. and for a while was a sor in the Universfty of Dublin, and also at the Oratory school in Birming- ham. But he finally settled down to literary life in Oxford. In 1872 Miss Arnold married Mr. Thomas Humphry Ward, an Oxford man, and at that time a tutor of Brasenose coliege. Since then Mr. Ward has given up his tutor- ship, and is now theart critic of the Times. His authology of English verso, popularly known as Ward's *English Poets,” is perhaps the bestin existonco. Although many re the market by spic Bull's Cough Syrup wists setl more than ¢ 2 cents. Mrs. Crow. “Chile, buy a bottle de Salva tion Oil, it cure your rheumatis sar'tin.’ 25 cents, The Pall heen o velists have bout and dis Elsmere,” or Mr. ery profes- edios are advertis akes the Lo before. pushed into ments , Dr d, and'drug Price onl e An Angel in a Car, New York World: A newsboy took the Sixth avenue elevated at Park Place ye 1y, and, sliding into one of the scats, fell asleep. At Grant street two yvoung ladies got on and took the seats opposite the lad. Presently the younger girl leaned over and placed licr muff under the little follow’s dirty cheel. n old gentle- man in the next seat smiled at the act, and without saying anything held out a quarter with a nod toward the boy. The girl hesitated a moment and then reached for it. The next man just as silently offcred a dime, the woman across the aisle held out some pennies, and before she knew it the girl, with flaming cheeks, had taken money from every passengerat thatend of the car. She quietly slid the amount into the sleeping lad’s pocket, removed her muff gently from unc his head without rousmg him, and got off at Twenty-third street, including all the passengers in a pretty little inclination of the head that med full of thanks and a common secret, — A Great French Art School, Baltimore American: Julien’s art schools at Paris are, as they deserve to be, increasingly popular. ‘In the four schools therc are about 600 students, many of them really fine professional artists, who feel the need and refresh- ment of study in such a course, and un- der the four great painters of the world. Of the four, Laurens and Lefebre are the most sought for, as they are the strong men of the Beaux Arts. The work done under them is truthful and earnest. The models pose at 8 o'clock in the morning, and study lasts from then— with an hour, from 12 to 1 o'clock, as intermission—till 5 o’clock in the after- noon. There are no holidays the year round, except Sunday and the 14th of July 13 the men’s schools the course is very much the same asat the Beaux Arts. The curriculum of the women’s school is not quite so severe, but much the same, and the present 3 coming much nearer it than hithc The American women of this are reckoned among the stronger workers, Itisa temptation for those who love art, for its own sake, to linger here studying and working in this at- mospher, full of the beautiful, gaining that strength, the lack of which is so often felt in A year Valorous, But Discraot. Chicago Tribune: Angry woman (stopping in front of building)—John, thisis where the Yelper is printed. That editor’ill never call a reception at my house u shindig again—the villain! Have you tho cowhide all right? Come on. We'll go in! Husband (bursting with rage, but re- taining his presence of mind)—Maria, I’1l stay out here to see that no one en- ters to intervupt you. Here's the hide. Lay it on well—the cowardly coundrel! It you bave made up your mind to buy Hood's Sarsaparilla do not be induced to tako anyotlier A Boston lady, whose example is worthy mitation, tells her experience below: “In one store where I went to buy Hood's Sarsaparilia the elerk tried to induco me buy their own lustead of Hood's; he told me their's would last louger; that I might take it on ten To Cet days' trial; that i¢ T did not liko it T need not pay anything, ete. But he could not prevail on'me to change, I told him I had taken Tlood's Sarsaparilla, kuew what it was, was satlsfied with it, and did not want any other. When I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla T was feoling real miscrablo with dyspepsia, aud so wieak that at times I could hardly Hood’s stand. I looked like a person in consumpe tion. Food's Sarsaparilla did me so much g0od that I wonder at mysclf sometinic and my friends frequently speak of it.” My ELLA A. Go¥F, 61 Terrace Street, Boston, Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. §1; six for 5. Prepared only by €. L. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar THE OMAHA DAILY BEK: SOUTH OMAHA Vs, ciation, estate and rental hart's office Sat Rental Agents’ At tho of raal agents held in John F. Rit meeting night, o permanent orgnization was sloct n F. Ritchhart pres o president, W. B, 1 B, Waugh treas Protective asso urday mad dent, William S, Cook v Berry secretary and Dav ur The Rental Agents’ ciation of South Omaha was the name adopt od. Moetings will be held in President Ritehhart's office the first Friday evening of each month, Uletide P The Presbyterian and pal oh parations, Methodist Episco ecorated for the Cbristinas Sunday schoc entertainments this evening. At the Mothodist Episcopal hurch, Mr. and Mrs, Santa Clause will be present to all the childven, and an excelient literary and_musical programme has been prepared. In the Presbyterian church a surprise awaits all who may attend A New Sub Mr. Perkins of ing to build a st @ from Omaha t Porkins is receivin one man having given ¢ now has no doubt but will be a success. reties will be gaily rban Kailroad Joe, is in the city arrang oad or motor u Heights, Mr encouragement, Donus of §00, and hat lis undertaking ¥ell Through a Ohute. Thomas Mahoney, night agent of mont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley company, Saturday stepped off near the foed-mastor's oftice and fell into a cattlo chute, receiving and painful injurics about the ankles, back and head the Fre. railrond the plank sovere the City. in A. O. H. hall Notes About Alittle dance was held Saturday night George Palmer spend Christmas The city council will mect block this eveniog. Mrs, Joseph 0. Enstman visit fricnds in Topeka, KKan. Contractor Joan Murphy went to Auburn Saturday to spend Christinas Daniel Murphy is bedfast with malaria and a complication of ailments. The body of Miss Mary Ficlder shipped to Angola, N. Y., yesterday George I, Russcll, of Swift & Co.'s eleri cal force, is quite ill and confined to his home, Good Will Lo an interestiog meeting Saturday istalled the ofticers. has gone to Paimyra to in the Rowly left to- was », Kmights of Honor, held night und rtindale, has gone to istinas dinner, as he has ¢ the last seven years. the_abscnce of Joseph Randall in Wis., John_Smith 15 in the pre rument of Arthur W. Saxe's Albion tc done dur Durir Chicago, and, two weeks for within left rumor says, will with a bride. Simon 8. Reem holiday sheep at has been stated Christmas cattle. D. Bruner, of Springview, has purchasod the furniture in the Reed hotel, and about the middle of January will take possession of the establishment. Coart No. 108, Independent Order of For. esters, Wednesday eveuing will hold 1ts ree. ular somi-annual mnecting for the election of ofticers. All members are requested to be present, Androw Garlick, an employe at the Ar- mour-Cudah; ing houses, Saturday af- ternoon shiced the end off the'index finger of his left hand. A surgeon was- called and dressed the member, Satur )3 cattle were slaughtored at Swift & Co.'s packing house, the largest number of cattle ever slaugitered in one day. Thero were 55 hows and 137 sheep killed, making a total of 1,225 head. At 1 o'clock to-morrow afternoon the mar. iage making Mr. Manley W, by and Miss G Glassou man and wife, will be perfor at Miss Glassou's parents’ home, N and Seventy-fourth streets. Frank Kuhln and Lena Trippner, Cl A. Hogeland and Pinz, Isadc S. Van Sanv und Surah M. Bomgarteu, and Nathan L. Demick and Lois S. Hawilton, all of South Omuha, have takon out holiday ‘marriage ir- censc John A. Pierce, employed on_the grading west of the stock yards, Saturday afternoon hud the large toe of his left foot so badly mashed by a grader that amputation was necessary. While he was at work beside the machine the horses backed, running it o his foot. The opening of the new Methodist Episco- pal church Sunday mornlng called out a very large congrogation, completely fillmg the basement room. The Rey. T. C. Clen- dening, presiding elder of the Omaha dis trict, preached the sermon. An elaborately preparcd programme was carried out, Do as vou please when you please to do right; and you will always do the proper thing in"taking Bigelow’s Posi- tive cure for coughs, colds, and all throat and lung trouble: Pleasant to take and cures speedy. 50 cents and 81, Goodman Drug Co. 2o A Standing Offer. “You say Mr. Hankinson proposed to you last night, Irene? Why, I've had a standing offer from him for the last two years.” “Likely -enough, Laura. He didn’t make me no standing offer, though, It was all he could do to get up off his knees when I refused him. He was in earnest this time, Laura.” A L YOUR OHRISTMAS TURKEY, Is it Ordered Yet? If Not, Wait a Moment. If the housckeepers of Omaha could all see what Tur BEE man saw last evening greatly would they marvel, and if their Christmas orders were not already placed, they shortly would b Such fowl! Such beefll Such mu ton!!! But for your benefit a fuller d seeiption will be given. In the first place, the beautiful festoons of ever- green, the sprigs of holl with their i red berries, attractively speak of Christmas cheer from ey part_of the large show room. The west wall is closely hung with the fattest, most ap- ng-looking quarters of young beef you ever saw. Itaised and’fed by the Bay State Cattle company, these threc- yeir-old Hereford beauties dress to Woigh over 1,000 pounds each. They wero killed with especial care by Ham- mond & Co., und it is_worth anybody time to make a special trip to see the quarters before they are eut. The Southdown mutton and lamb are fat and luscious enough to make one hun- ary after a full meal, just to look them, The carcasses have been deco- rated in a masterly way by some adept with artistic knife, for even a butcher’s knife may be made to do artistic work on the fy white and pink covering of a well-fed animal, Then there are young Chester white porkers, for roast- ing whole, to delight an epicure. In game there are venison,black-tail deer, elk and antelope, with rabbits and hare as fat and plump as you could desire. Then the poultry!” Such a display of Turkeys, Geese, Chickens, Ducks,Prai- rie Chickens and Quail as would be wilder a hotel steward to seleet from. There is nothing wanting that the son affords from pork to sausage or plain beef to the most delicate flesh a table ever saw. Do not [ail to see Adum Snyder’s Christmas stock at 1,011 Far- nam-st. And do not wait until the handsome display i8 broken into, but go early to see an unequaled sight, Aaincin Sl Hawley's Millinery and Art Store, Have you visited this fine store just opposite Hospe's? They have the pret- tiest specimens of ari uneedle work, drawn thread work, fine millinery goods, paintings, embroidery work, just the thing for a Christmas present.” If you have not seeu their selection of presents, do so at once, for it is the most hy in the city to-day. 1616 Doug- yesterday turn has been dressing some Swift & Co.'s and not, 1 dressing the compan rles S0t 7 MONDAY, THEIR PEEULIAR CHRISTMAS. Tho Silent Celebration of an Bocen- fric Sect. NOT A TIME FOR REJOICING. Their Life of Celibacy—Preparation for the Solesin Day—The Shaker their Only I in_ Common. Dance nner Christmas Among the Shaker HRISTMAS butonce a year, and part of the globe the comes in every civilized happy day which com- memorates the begin- ning of the reign of peace and good will on earth There is probably is obscrved in some way. no of people in the whole domain of western world who celeb glad Christ holiday in peculiar mar than do the yet industrious brought considerably ago, by the good old “Mother Ann Lec There oral of these strange people in the United States, and all enjoy the sam plonsures—if there can be any such thing in their lives—and all believe in the same Their principal occupation seems to be the radiation of purity. Years ago these honest but misguided people discovered that the seriptures directed all men and women to live apart. They believe that be- cavse the Messinh did not marry, it is a sin for them o do so0, and consequent! there is but one love in their lives their love of religion. The Shakers have a manner and style peculiarly their own, and worship God in every breath. Believing as they do in the Messinh, they think it a duty to sclebrate the birth of the Savior, and their service on Christmas is a most strange and pecaliae one, and very beautiful in many respeets, and im- presslve from its devoutness The remark, *Still as a Quaker meet- ing,” is an old one, and those who have attended the divine services of these devout people know that not a word is spoken unul the “*spirit moves,” and so it goes from Sunday to Sunday through- out the ar, until Christmas comes, which with them means a greater day of devotion. The day to them does not bring the joys, pleasures and dissipa- tons of the world. There is no giving und receiving of gifts among ¢ ether: there i3 no belief in good Nicholas; no Christmas trees and no pleasures: in fact, nothing but praying and singing. No preparations are made for the glad festival. The morning be- fore Christmasg the cclibates go to the little church in couples. The men go themselves and dress in the conven- tional black, with broad-brimmed ts. They gaze straight before them and never smile, for to smile is a sin 1 their belief. The women follow the men in couples and wear Shaker bonnets of vellow straw, -gray gowns, aud a large handkerchief covers their chest in primitive simpliol Quictness reigns throughout the day, in fact, never a word being spoken, a3 the spirit does not move. The people stand there like statues for hours, never moving. At sundown they leave the church and go to the dormitories and retive. Christmas morning they go to the church again and pass the holiday i yer, song and religious gloritication. They stand perfectly quiet and mute until the “spirit mov when eachone gives his or her experience, for on this day they delight in testifying to their great and complete happiness. A Shaker church is entirely different from the “world’s people’s” church. There are no seats and pews for the Shakers, so they arvange themselves on the opposite sidc of the room, leaving a big open pace in the center. One of the elders makes a short address,then all lapse into quictness. After about a half-hour’s time about a dozen of the younger people. either male or female, or hoth, enter the center of the open space and begin & solemn march. The Shakers sing beautifully, and their tunes are remarkably pretty, sprightly and quick in_charicter. and havea wonderfully fascinating air. The rich, deep buss voices harmonize per- feetly with the clear, sweet and high tenors and sopranos. ~ Almost irresist- ably the feet and hands of all commence keeping time with the rythmical beats. Soon the entire body of Shakers are moving around the singers. As the music inereases the men and women ecir- cling around become 5o imbued with the beating of the notes that their bodies swing and rock, their feet dance and shufile, their hands and arms swing and beat the air, all in perfect keeping with the music. This grows morc intense until the worshippers drop from sheer fatigue. Quictness again reigns for nearly an hour.when the same perform- or with, and _then over again and again until sundown, when all repair to the dormitories to enjoy the only meal during the year in each others company, for on every other day, the men and women eat by themselves, The Christmas dinner of the Shakers is not like the Christmas dinner of the world’s people. There are no wines, fruits or delicacies, no laughin, nd talking. Their dinner is sumptious and palatabie, and consists of roast turi duck and chicken, bread and butter, cream, and vegetables of every kind3 well cooked and in the greatest abund, ance. The women occupy one side of the table, the men the other. The elder sits at the head andinvokes divine bless ing, then each man and woman rises nl- ternately, and lifting their right hand, suys: *‘God is lovel” They then be, eating, and during the not a word s spo ch one ping himself or to what they desire. Thay drink an enormous quantity of milk during the meal, At the conclusion of the Christmas dinuer all rise and sing: . The clear voices of the celibates make the banquet room ving with o soft und charming melody. The hands and feetof all keep tim After the song theelder raises his eyes heavenward and chants o prayer which all join, after which they from the room in couples, the men to- gether and the women by themselves. and go to their domicil The remain- der of the night, while the werld out- side is enjoying itself in every conceiv- able dissipation, is given up to song and prayer, and all night long th voices of the Shaker sisters and broth- ers are heard through the halls, The Shakers are kind-hearted and generous. They are very hospitubl and it is one of their principles to en- tertain and honor all who come into their little world. For days before Christmas they find great pléasure in sending good things to the poor in the neighborhoeod, and no matter how peor aman may be' he is sure of a good Chy istmas dinuer if he lives in the neighborkest of a colony of shaker 8 ¢lass the ito the rer Shak- ors—those s o colibates who from England, than a century ove more colonic doetrines. ance is gone o | e more | Much more 24, 1888, DECEMBER A RRY JOKER AT EIGHTY, How Poor Richard's Philosophy Cheered His Declining Vears, Reviewing John Bizelow's edition of the wmin Franklin publisted by a New York ficm, a writer in the Philadelphia Record says If it be true that in a wo have often an index to must it bo that thomselves—not the fruits of study search, but the | by business or by friendship man in his real light, his weakness and faults, unconsciously ¢ the noble side of his nature, and furnish u bettor idoa of the impress which he made upon his time than could the most elaborate biography. Franklin's thrift and shrewd noss have often been commented upon He had a nephew named Benjamin Macon whom he rec mended to Strahan, the .ondon publisher, as being honest and in dustrious, But the young man did not prove ssful in business, and Prauklin accord 1y wrote the following letrer to St nin Macom writes me that he ha you &30, which I um pleased nd am glad you have not seut him the greau parcel of books which you men tion he has wrote for. He 18 a youne lad, quite unacquuiuted with the worid, and, 1 fear, would be much embarrassed if e went suddenly into dealings too deep for his stock. The people of those sslands might buy bis books, but 1 know they are very dull pay and he would find it impracticable to collect the money when it ouglit to be sent you. Pray keep him with bounds; let him have good salable sortments, but small, and do not suffer him to be morc than £50 pounds in your debt, if o much: it is bust for him to proceed gradually, and to deal more as Ins stock and expericnce in crease, I am thankful to you for prudently delaying to send what he Indiscrectly wrote for until you had advised me of it." One of the most delightful tters in the volume on account of its unconscious egot- ism, simplicity and_quict sarcasm is that which refers to an annoyance growing out of his nurrow escape from drowning off Staten Island. He complete works of 1 just man's handw s ch his writir and rs which are suggested will show the his splay han ““The letter of yours inclosed is from the widow of a Jew, who, happening 10 be_one of anumber of passengers that were about Y years ago in a stageboat going to Nev ,'and which, by the unskillful manage ment'of the boatman, overset the canoe from whence I was endeavoring to get on board her near Staten Island, has cver since w ried me with demands of gratia for having, as ne pretended, been instrumental in saving my lifc, though’ that was in no danger, as we were near the shore, and you know what an eoxpert swimmer I am,‘and he was no more of any service to me in stopping the boat to take me in than every other passen ger, to all whom I gave a liberal cntertair ment at__the tavern when he arrived at New York, to their genmeral satisfac tion at the time: but this Hayes never saw me afterward, at New York, or Branswick, or Philadelphia, that e did not dun me £ noney on the pretense of his being poor and having been o happy s to be instrumental in saving wy life, which was really in no dang In'this way he got of me sometimes a double joannes, sometimes u Spanish doubloon, and never less; how much in the whole I do not know, having kept no account of it, but it must have been a very consider able’ sum, and as_he neither incurred any risk nor was at any trouble in my behalf 1 have long since thouzht him well paid for any little expense of humanity he might have felt on the occasion, He scems, however, to have loft me to the widow as part of her nin hisold age his letters have the charm, the patience and tho shrewd but cheerful philosophy which characterized ail that he wrotein his younger days, when his mind was strongest and clearest. To George Washington he writes My malady renders my sitting up to ite rather painful to me, but 1 caunot let my son-in-law, Mr. Bache, part for New York without' congratulatiig you by him on the recovery of your health, 'so precious to us all, and on the growing strength of our new government under your ad ministration. For m own pe: al ease 1 should have died two years agzo, but though those years have been spent in excruciating pain, I am pleased that I have lived them, since they have brought me tosec our present situation. 1am now finishing my cighty- fourth year, and probably with it my carecr in life: but in whatever state of existence am placed hereafter, if 1 retain any memory of what has passed here, I shall with it re- tain the esteem, respect and affection with which 1 have long been, my dear friend, yours most smcerely. Mrs, Catharine Greene, one of his ost friends, is written to' after this fashion : “My friends here arc numerous, and I enjoy as much of their couversation as I can reasonably wish; and I have as much health and cheerfulness as can well be expected at my age, now cighty-three. Hitherto this hfe has been tolerably happy; so that, if I were | ailowed 1o liv over again 1 should make no objection, ouly wishing for leave to do what authors do in the second edition of the: works, correct some of my crratu Among the felicities of lifo I reckon your friendship, which [ shall remember with pleasu 1s that life lasts, being eve my a urs most_affcetionately.” And to his niece, Mrs, Patriage, he siys on the same subject : “You kindly inquire have not of late much People that will | | | fter my health, I | ason to boast of it, live a long lifo and drink to the bottom of the cup must expect to meet with some of tho drcgs, However, when 1 conside many more terrible maladies th body is liable to, I think mysolf well 1 have only three incurable ones—th the stone and old age—and these, notwith. standinz I enjoy many comfortabié intarvals in which I forgat all my ills und_amuse self in reading or writing, or in conversa- tion with friends, joking, laughing and t l.) my- ing merry 8 es, a8 when you first knew me, & youug man about ifry. MEXICAN Mustang” conquers pain, Makes MAN or BEAST well again! Pears Soa Fair white hands: Brightclear complexion Soft healthful skin. YPEARS'-~The Great English Complexion SOAP,—-Sold Everywhere.” 1T WON'T HOLD, Byron Reed's Opinion of the St Claim (o Omaha Property. A telogram in Tik Suspay Beg anuounced that a representative of the St. Louis firm of Helfeinstein, Gore & Co. had commenced Suit to recover a large amount of real estato n the eity of Omah: nd thereby hangs a tale. It is told by Byron & Reed, and dates back to the time that Omaha was a front thirty-two years ago. it tells how $65 then invested in Omaha real now worth millions. Robert Shields Lnmediately after com in o geveral mercantile empted a few acres of land north of covering the ground now kuown as the De nise, Paulsen, 12, V. Smit and Reed additions, At at the spot whero r2 & llor now have their brewery, but moved down to Farnam street, where he built the first warchouso on that thoroneh fare. Although altered and onlarged, it still stands, and at_present is_occupied by John Canlficid, the stationer. Business, however, became dull, and in 1858 the St Louis firin sued him for %5, which he was unable to pay, and the ‘sherift attached the lands question. They were sold for the amount, 1d o shoriff 's deed shows they were bought in by Helfenstein, Gore & Co., who were the vlantiffs, but who, after that, paid no furthor attention to their purchase until Saturday last, when Mr. Helfenstein sent Mossrs. Guthrie & Young to look after his interests. The story a8 you have it, is very nearly true,” said Mr. Reed to a Ber reporter, “and Tean very well rocolloct ircum stances, but Mr, Helfenstein has no claim that ean_ be enforced, Any title he may have had in the lands has gone by lapse of time, as can be shown by the suit against the Patrici estato in_the United States district court, and the verdiet was against the do fendants, and aithough they talk avout bringing'it to the United States supreme court, I doubtif they will. Helfenstein has not even as zood a claim us there was in that case. When the sale took place thirty yeu aco, there was no money paid, but &5 was endorsed on the claim of Helfenstein, Gore & Co.against Robert Shiclds. Th asherifi’s deed and put it on roc there is nothing to show that Shields di pay them the money since then. If they did not receive 1t, they should have gone on and taken possession of their property, but they did not do it, and the laws of any action for the recover within ten years. Howoeve passed from Skields to outside parties bufore the suit was brought, and they have since di vided and subdivided it, until the present To make their claim good, Helfenstein, & Co, should have recovered it from them twenty years age. Besides that, Shiclds never'r d his patent until after the suit had been decided against him.” “How much1s the land in controversy wort towt ostate is first saw Omaha in 185 here he cny business b, ldlewild, Foster that time he lived vorth millions—that is more than 81, 000,000—a good deal more. It stretches out to where the colosseum now stauds. You'll fiud cases like that comiug up every day, and in every city, especially when they expericnce a rapid growth like Omaha, A% 1 vemember Shields, he was not a very geod business man, and ' the St. Louis firm that sued hum were then in the wholesale gro. cery business. I think Shields has a brother now living in Surpy county, and I saw him a year or two ago. 1 don’t know whether Rob. ert is alive or dead now, but I know he left tor California shortly after the sherif’s sale.” An Absolure Cure. The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT is only put up in large two ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands, and all skin erup! tions, Will positively care all kinds of piles, Ask for the ORIGINAL -ABIETINE OINT. MEWT. Sold by Goviman Drug Co., at % cents per box—by wail 30 conts. Pl et Wesh ington After the Irauguration Magazine of American History: He stood six feet three inches in his slip- pers, was splendidly proportioned, ovenly developed, and” straight as an arrow. He had a long, muscular arm, and probably the largest hand of any mun in New York. His uniformg and his marvellous will-power s have most attracted the attention of the world, which were, indeed, but the index to a manly self-poise founded upon the most perfeet self-control. His enthusinstic welcome to the presiden- tial chair, by the people of all ¢ without any division of interest, in this age like a poem; yot he meet it with unrufled composure, He ses roends able to had come to the front when there was an oceun of problems to solve, of forms and ceremonies to be adjusted, But in- dustry was one of his cardinal virtues, and he did not scek to be aflicted with waste moments, His personal influe ¢ tied as a knot of steel the conflicting forces together, He was dignified even to a lofty reser while at the sam time his irresistible magnetism dis- proves the notion that he was cold and unsymputhetic. His breeding was that of a gentleman, he was fond of socicty, conversed well, enjoyed humor in a quiet way and was sensitive to the beauty and open to the'appeal of a good story. —~—— Agreed Upon a Verdict. Grxeva, IiL, De The jury in the case of John A, Baucreisen, chief of the Aurora division of the Brotherhood of Loco PRORESSIONAL DIRECTORY ATTORNEYS CHURCHILL & CARR, Lawyers. Rooms 403 and 40 First Nationat Bank Telophon e 584 —— MUSH CLINTON A, CASE, Teacher of the Spanish Mandolina, With Max Meyor & (0. PHYSICIANS DR, EDWARD E, SLOMAN, 2208 Farnam Streot, Office Hours—& to 0:30 &, m , and 1 to 4 and 7 to 8p.w. Telephone No. #74, Omaha, Neb, J. E.JENKINS, Physician -i- and -3 Special attention to e Office at rear of Morrell's Drug 8 1ith and Chicago Strests, oman M. D., “Surgenn. f “children, re, 8. L, cot, MRS, DAVIES and EMMA J. DAVIES Homeopathic Physicians, Diseasos of Women and Children a sy 403 North 15th Strett, Telephone o JAS. H. PEABODY, M. D., Physician -:- and Surzeon. Restdence, No, 1000 Capitol Ave. Oftice, W Blk, Telephone, restdonce, 125; oMice, ol DR, ROSEWATE Physician -:- and -:- Surgson, Ofice —Rooms 3 and 4, Continental Block, N. B cor. 15th and Douglas Sts, Reside M3%.15th O. S. HOFFMAN, M. D., Physician -:- and -:- Surgeon, Ofice—N. W, Cor, 14th and Douclas, Ofjeo tale: phone, 463 restdence telophone, 41 1E ESSENTIAL QUALIT Durability, Evenness of Point, and Workmanship. nples for telal of 12 differont etylos by mail, on WLof 10 cents in stamps. Ask for card No. . IVISON, BLAKEMAN & €0, * R Beware of Frand, a3 my name and the price A on the botiom of all Wy adverti-cd which protect the wea again. 3 and Aerior goods. 1 a e oifers ahliaw e at 4 reduced pri says e has them without my name aud price ¥ on the bottom, put bt down as a fra W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE, .o CENTLEMEN. The only call $3SEAMLISS Shoo smooth in- side. NO TACKSor WAX THREAD tohurt the feet, easy a3 hand-sewed and WILL NOT RIP, TO THE PUBLIC. The recent clrcular ae the New England Laster protctie o e o fone iming e il Lol Renghts d In oft evary e o1 Cler RD tatemcnts made person o persons who will prove all This offer will hold good wntll i afa eireuler 1o be true ry Iat, 1580 W. L. DOUGTAS, Brockton, Mass. For sale by Kelley, Stigea & € Geo. S. Miller, 612 North 16th St. and LOMBARD INVESTMENTCD, Boston, Mass.; Kansas City, Mo. Capital & Surplus, §1,500,000 This company has openea an Omala oflico and i prepured to furnisn money prompily on im- proved city and farm property. 'NO upplications sent away for apyroval Louns closed and pald for without delay. JOHN W, GISH, Managor, 909 South Tith Street. First National Bank motive Engineers, charged with dynamite couspiracy by the' Burlington road, agreed upon & verdict this afternoon, but Judge Wilson would not receive it on'Sunday, and it will not be made known tll morning. MUSTANG LINIMENT l ! l RADIANT HOME STOVES. 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