Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 21, 1889, Page 16

TH E OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY APRIL 21, 1889--SIXTEEN PAGE | Positively Last Week of Our Great Sacrifice Sale! We sold more Furniture, Carliaets, Stoves and House Furnishing Goods last week than all of the instalment houses of Omaha combined, Thousands of dollars worth of arlor Suits, Chamber Suits, Stoves, Carpets, &c., still remain, and those who were unable to call last week will still have an excellent assortment to select from. Such prices at which we are selling goods at were never heard of before, and the great crowds visiting our store would surely indicate that Omaha buyers appreciate a good thin You and your wife are respectfully invited to look through our 32 different departments, OUR PRICES for THIS W L, 145 220 40 176 56 87 150 850 125 75 156 Double Mattresses Chairs.ceeieiiuan, Tables Rockers. Folding Beds Book Cases Wardrobes Pictures Stoves. .. Gasoline Stoves. Refrigerators. Baby Carringes. $§25 WORTH OF GOODS, $1.50 PER WEEK, OR $6 PER MONTH. .worth .worth .worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth ..worth s.worth ..worth 8.50 now 4.00 now .76 now 3.50 now 8.00 now 50,00 now 5.00 now 18.00 now 7.50 now 20.00 now 12.00 now Center Tables. Extension Table: Kitchen Safes. . Pillows.... Comforts. Lace Curtains Parlor Suits. Plush Rocke Plush Chairs Rugs... Bureaus. Rolls Ingrain Carpets......... . Rolls Stair Carpets. .. Rolls Brussels Carpets worth § 4.00 now .worth .worth .worth .worth worth worth .worth worth worth worth ..worth .worth 5.00 now 1 8.00 now X 225 7.00 now 1.00 now 2.00 now 8.00 now 50.00 now 15.00 now 7.50 now .65 now 40 now 1.00 now worth THE ONLY HOUSE OFFERING THESE TERMS. $10 WORTH OF GCODS, 31 PER WEEK, OR $4 PER MONTH. $75 $50 WORTH OF GOODS, 82 PER WEEK, OR $8 PER MONTH. startin housekeeping. Bluffs, £ Open eveunings till 9 o’clock. All purchasers of $10 d witt - . B OMA A Bt fregé ik P of $10 and over presented with a set of silver-plated Tea Spoons. Peoples’” * Mammoth * Insta % when they see it. whether you wish to purchase or not. OIN LY & 50 Lounges. .... Bed Lounges. Side Boards Secretari 2 Ladies’ Cabinets. Hall Racks 5 Oftice Desks Ladies’ De: 5 Hanging Lamp: Mrs. Potts’ Irons. . No. 1 Tubs... No. 8 Boilers. . Ironing Board.. We lead, others try to follow. 5.00 $ 0.50 18.00 25.00 80.00 5.00 4.50 12.50 1.90 1.25 i .90 .60 worth 10.00 now orth $18.00 now 85.00 now 40,00 now 50.00 now 12,50 now 10.00 now 20.00 now 0 now 8.00 now ..worth worth worth vorth .worth worth worth worth .worth worth worth WORTH OF GOODS, $2.50 PER WEEK OR $10 PER MONTH. $100 WORTH OF GQO0DS, 33 PER WEEK, OR $12 PER MONTH. $200 WORTE OF GOODS, §5 PER WEEK, OR $20 PER MONTH, Come at once to avoid the rush. No trouble to show goods. Parties residing at a distance furnished with car tickets free. Special inducements to young people Goods delivered in Council ment » House LARGEST EXCLUSIVE INSTALMENT HOUSE WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPL - BETWEEN CALIFORNIA AND WEBSTER STREETS. ROSENTHAL & BRO., 200 Post Street, N. W. Corner Dupont, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 613-615 NORTH SIXTEENTH STREET, B. ROSENTHAL & CO, PROPRIMTORS. AS BILL MYE VIEWED US. The Pensive William's Impressions of Omaha and Nebraska. PECULIARITIES OF THE PLATTE. A Stream With Large Circulation But Little Influence—Mr. Fontenclle and His Interesting Family— Legends of the Aborigines. Omaha Immortalized. WEST OF THE MISSOURI, STILL DOING TIE !» rwARD Ho! Act. (Copyright, 1859, by Edgar W, Nye.) There are no palmettos in the state of Nebraska, but there are other flora, such as corn, beans, succotash, wood, cordwood and live stock in great pre fusion. The first palmetto I ever saw was at Columbia, S. C.,in November last. It was situated near the state house, and filled me with wonder and admiration. The odd endoginous trunk, with its deep scars,and then above, and crowning all, the delicate fluted dark green leaves, through which the gentle breezes were almost constantly en gaged in soughing. I looked at it a long time in silence and wrapped in profound admiration. Then I went away and got a friend to come and assist me in admiring the delicate beauty and subtle perfume of the tree. “How wonderful,” I said, ‘‘are the works of the Creator. Who could fashion the fronded palm or paint the delicate fringe of foliage that crowns the graceful palmetto? Man may strive to do it, but he will never suc- ceed. How beautiful, how wounderful, are the works of the Maker,” **Yes,” said a low voice, which em- anated from a full set of vank whiskers near by, “‘but you are mistaken about the name of the maker of that tree. It was made by the Columbia 1ronworks of this place.” I now decided to abandon the tree and admire something else. The Platte river isa queer stream. It has a very large circulation, but very little influence. It covers a good deal of ground, but it is not deep. In some places it 18 a mile wide and three- quarters of an inch deep. It has a bed of quicksand, which assists it very much in drowning people, The Platte MAKES VERY LITILE FUSS, About it, but succeeds in being quite fatal. You might cross the river withe out even getting your hose wot, and then again you might find that in cross- ing the stream you had struck an en- tirely new country from whose bourne no traveler retur: Nebruska is bounded on the north by Dakota, on the east by Iowa,on the south by Kausas and on the west by Colorado and Wyoming. The chief productions are fruits, inoluding osage orange and lima beans. Cereals of all kinds abound here, including maize or Indian corn, in great profusion, broom grn.wrul-um aud Percheron horses. he chief industries include agricul- ture, running for the legislature, and ship building. - Nebraska is a very rich state with re- sources on every hand, which as yet huve hardly been tried or fairly started. Coal infests the bowels of the earth. Boundless areas of rich farming lands await only the agrieulturist humorist, who is supposed to tickle them with the hoe (the westward ho!)in order to make them laugh forth heartily with abund- ant harvests. The air is pure and whisky 1s abundant. Hostile Indians are now quite scarce, it being almost impossible to get enough for a mi Wild geese, water cress, pizen weed, politicians and the Salvation army thrive well here. Farms in Nebraska ave very valuable, ESPECIALLY THOSE ON FARNAM STREET in the city of Omaha. Omaha was founded by Fred Nye at the close of the war. Nye, who is a Spaniard by birth, with rich Castile blood in his veins, discovered the site of Omaha by accident, and immediate- ly started a paper there which was fol- lowed by the arrival of several thou- sand people, who came there to sub- scribe for the paper. After founding the paper and build- ing a court_house, Mr. Nye became the heaa of what is known all over the civilized world as the Nye family. From Omana this hardy and energetic race moved eastward, and with its refine- ment and cultivation soon made itself felt in Boston and Skowhegan, Me. Everywhere the name became the synonym for remarkable strength and rigid integrity. Manly beauty charac- terized the males, and female beauty seemed to confine itself maiuly to the women and girls of the tribe. In 1804 Messrs. Lewis & Clarke, who were doing a general discovery busi- ness. camped at WHAT IS NOW COUNCIL BLUFFS, They held a treaty with hostile Indians at this point, under the provisions of which the Indians were ficmly bound by those present to avoid killing the Messrs, Lewis & Clarke. They also deeded a few counties to the white man in consideration of 20 cents worth of beads and a fine tooth comb, to them in hand paid. It is thought that Nebraska was dis- covered by Coronado in 1541, at a point which is between Gage and Furnas counties, The Omaha Indians now number about one thousand souls, [ was about to say, but they have associated with the white man so much that I will just say there are 1,000 head of them., Some of them at times fly in the face of indus- try. The Lndian by nature seems to re- luctantly part with his perspiration. Lucien Fontenelle, born in New Orleans about the year 1800, went to the west in 1824, where he soon began to move in the best Omaha Indian society circles, He was always in- vited to attend the best and most re- cherche scalp dances, where he would trip the light fantastic toe till “‘the wee sma’ hours anent the twa,” as [ read in a paper once. It was not long then until Mr, Fontanelle won the heart of a young Indian squaw. It was but the work of a moment to walke her his wife. She did not play on the piano and so made him a good wife. She was a re- mavkable woman in muny resnects, and as she walked through the spucious halls of her home, her lootfalls sounded liko a game beunbag at a quiet social, Shoe dressed plainly in an army blauket, and in addition to her house- work, used to catch muskrats during the winter, She became the mother of five half-breed children, Her husband died in 1840 as a vesult of his efforts to comn- bine busidess with delirium tremens. Whisky at that time in Omahu was often attended with fatal results. Tt would remove warts, corns and bunions. Mr. Fontenclle used it frequently in order to avoid exhilira- tion. Finally it began to afford not only board and lodging, but also spec- tacular entertainments, during one of which he expired, leaving four sons and one daughter. Logan was finally killed by the Sioux, after having made a good many e I DEMON RUM Albert ablackimith up to his death, since which little is known of him. He was thrown froma mule in a vertical di- rection, and when he struck the town Jhis soul had fled. The mule’s injuries were slight. Tecumseh was killed by his brother-in-law in a drunken frolic. He was a lovely character except when drank. When he was drunk he fre- quently said things which he afterward bitterly regretted. Mrs. Fontanelle had the ill fortune to seo one of her little sons coming home from school with a spear inserted in him, one day, from wkich he died. She found out that the deed was done by an Iowa Indian, She concealed an axe under her blanket and, telling him to look at the beuutiful sunlight which bathed the entire landscape and flooded it with glory, she spat on her hands and, swinging the ax about with great vigor, buried it in the center of the low, coarse brute. Wiping the ax carefully with her pocket handkerchief, she re- turned to her home and wrote up the oceurrence for the local papers, laying the blame mostly on the deceased for the unfortunate affair, Omaha is situated in the eastern part of the state, her feet being bathed by the waters of the Missouris The Mis- souri carries quite a quantity of Ne- braska down to Louisiana every year, but replaces the loss by leaving large deposits of Dakota in the meantime. The Missouri is quite a wet stream, however, compared with the Platte. In August sprinklers have to run up and down over the parched bosom of the Platte. Nebraska was organized as a territory May 23, 1854, and she figured promi- nently in the great Kansas-Nebraska bill introduced by Stephen A. Douglas, the fight over which wus undoubtedly the skirmish in the eavly gruy of the morning of that day, which at its close found the negro of America a free man, but out of a job, a citizen with a ballot, but a dull market for it, a sovereign with no possessions, a prattling infant suddenly requested by the law to be & full grown man. Slavery does not exist in the state of Nebraska to-day, and politics is said to be very pure. I gather this from the papers. ‘The republican press admits the purity of the REPUBLICAN PARTY IN NEBRASKA, and tacitly the democratic papers refer to the chastity of the ballot in that party, Iam glad to know this at a time when corruption seems to creep into politics elsewhere and embitter the lives of the many, even driv- ing out of publ life many who would otherwise be willing and almost glad to mix up with it, I may truly say that it is really theamen- itiés of publie life which have kept me out of it. I dread opposition and vitup- uration at all times. Vituperation, bitter words and paucity of votes have kept me out of politics and deprived the country of a man who would other- wise have shone with a degree of intel- lectual polish in any positon to which he might have been called. I may speak further of Nebraska in my unext letter, giving two or three col- umns of thrilling statistics and bright, riacy gossip relative to the crop, acreage and mean tempearture. I may also s]puak of the prohibition l w 0 ovement in Iowa, showing how it has embitterved the life of the saloonkeeper and.built up and fostered the drug storo inat ad, also showing the great fall- ingoff in the consumption of whisky, and so forth, while the price of liniment has gone up 100 per cent. BiLL NYE. -~ HONEY FOR THE LADIES, Stockings must match the dress or clse be fine black. “Tho Spanish flounce 18 very much revived for summer wash dresses. The Directoire redingote isa feature of many stylish morning toilets. Silk or satin petticoats will be de riguer with gossamer gowns this season. There will be no abatement in the demand for really handsome lace dressed this Lace that is to be put upon a was fabric should always be surunk before it is used. The flat collar of our mothers and grana- mothers is now an accomplished fashionable atural colored pongees will be styl trimmed with white lace or embroide on flat. Many of the new parasols have covers of lace or net or thin gauze embroidered in Per- siun patterns. A wide sash of rich texture and gay color gives the cachev of style to the simplest black costume, A favorite lace hat will be of black dotted net with border of fine black chantilly shirred upon silver wire, India cashmere combined with velvet or moire 15 the stuff chosen for many of the most stylish spring suits, Trains threaten to reappear upon the street. Paris already puts tbhem upon all house and ceremonious toilets, ‘The wash silk, now so much used for un- derwear of both big and httle people,is a fuil yard wide, und sells for &1 & yard. An authority declares that to be stylish you must first’ buy your parasol and match all the rest to it, both in tint and in outline, Silk will take quite a prominent place 1 dressy out-door attire at the var ious resorts next season, and youug as well as middle- aged women, Toques and capotes are still very small, yet large enough for the milliners ‘to show their taste and skill in arranging novelties in trimming. China silks, Henrietta cloths and silk mo- hair in pzachblow shades will be very much used for tea-gowns and negligee costumes as well as ior afternoon toilets. Wraps will be small and extremely including jackets, pelerines, visites, mantles of all forms, and lircton, Galant, and Pyrenean peagaut capes. Green flowers will bloom on spring hats and bonnets, Not contentwith leaf garlands and abundant intermixturesof foliage of all sorts, many of the new teques are half cov- ered with roses of shaded.greén velvet and brightened with gold galloon. A pretty fancy for fromt ttimmiog is a scarf formed of two lengths of wide Chan- titly, reaching from the foot #6 the throat, where it is shirred into a turned down collar and caught in at the belt with @ither a silver clasp or band of moire ribbon. Very large flower brooasles will be used for rich evening dresses, With either very light or very dark grounds.l' There are few medium tints, These textiles dre worn with plain corded silk as a foil tos more effectively 8ot off the design. The Boulangist hat 15 & broad-brimmed structure of straw, and a broad band of rib- bon which falls in two long ends, 18 wound round it. On one side of a recent model was @ bunch of carnations with a long trailing garland of ‘‘graines depinard,” or spina gone to seed, in imitation of the general's epaulets. Russet red shades will be fashionaole both forthe sea side and the river. Some of these costumes are made of striped flannel, with soft blouses of white crepaline. Very jaunty ulso are the summer wool jackets, which turn back with the directgire revers, and do not fasten, but may be drawn well over tue chest. varied, and Abe e A new opera, “Gorinshka,” by Auton Ru- binstein, will be brought out at the lmperial opera of St. Petersburg during the prisent season. THE CARMENT WAS SHORT. A Now and Oharacteristic Anec- dote of Abraham Lincoln. THE MAN TURNED HIS BACK. Chauncey Gets Even With Editor Avk, ctor Irving's Son -Lige's Sly Marriage—How Booth Ac- quired His Smoking Habit. A White House Reception, The following true story of Abraham Lincoln is related in the New York Sun in a letter to the editor of that paper written by Maj. Gen. Schuyler of that city. He said: -send y story to publish. A telegram was received by Gen. Scott an- nouncing the victory of the union army under ‘Little Mac’ and ‘Rosy’ i mountain, West Virginia, July 11, As military secretary [ had previo under the commands of turbed the president five night. When I knocked for the sixth timo at the door of the president’s bed chamber, he appeared exhibiting some little vexation, 1n a red flannel shirt, whichi out of modesty he was hold- ing down in front. He said: ‘Colonel, U y : ‘Mr. President, T was i you the same question.’ ‘T have not slept much since this civil war began.’ he rejoinder wus: ‘Indeed, Mr. President, T regret to have to disturb you s0 often (I had to doitseveral times almost every night), but you know, Mr. President, I am under authority and must obey Gen. Scott’s orders without question.’ *'0n, colonel, I understand that very well; T have been disturbed at every hour of the night to-night and poor Mrs, Lincoin also. [it was vthen aboutd a, m. ] She is now asleep and I hated to disturh her, but she has got my dressing-gown twined around ber feet. So I have had to come outin my red shirt. ither [ have grown too long ov the shirt has grown too short, I do not know which. “But I said: ‘Mr, President, th gram I hold in my hand will give you the greatest pleasure. It is the an- nouncement of the first victory of the union army.’ « **But, eolonel, what am T to do?’ ** *Oh, Mr, President, [ think we can manage that. If you will allow me for once in my life to turn my back on the president of United States you can let go and I can pass the telegram over my shoulder.” ** ‘Do so, colonel,’ said he. I faced about and passed the tele- gram over my shoulder. He i pondered 1t, read it aloud, and asked if there was anything in corroboration of the telegram. He was answered that there was, when he said: ‘Colonel,’ and there wus & happy rythm in his voice, a ripple of merriment and satisfaction, ‘Colonel, if you will come to me every night, and every hour of ¢y night, with just such telegrams as that, I will come out, not only in my red snipt but without moy shirt at all. Tell Gen. over my shoulder to be duly placed on me good night, “The door closed, and so closes one of the many characteristic ificidents in the life of the martyr president in which I had the honor officially to be a participant.” W. J. Arkell,. of Judge, returned 10 York recently. with office seeke 1S Wi . with a_peeulis New Yo say here’s no rest for the wicked.” Mr. cell tells a good story of how he M. Depew. was worsted by Chaunci Arkell was On a recent Suturday M more than ever over patriots, who wish to ser ir country 1n time of peace. dnd his office in the Potter building was choled up nearly all day vl of the men who were seeking influence with the new Administration, he ad- dressed nine very agreeable letters to Mr. Depew, asking him to take care of “his friends” as he called them. Then Mr. Arkell congratulated himself on having got rid of nine of the hungry Republicans. His “*ghoulish glee” wus only tempovary, however, for when he reached New Y he found that thirty-six men w ing his arrival at the Judge oflice ving a letter from Mr. Depew ding them to Mr. Arkell as “hjs friends.” Mr. Depew sent back four for one, and Mr. Avkell says he will not attempt to down Mr. Depew again. Mr. Henry Ir . of New College, ing, Oxford. is strikingly like hs father in personal appearance. Says the London 5 He is slim, long-legged, very with heavy dark eyebrows, black i a crop, piercing eyes, profile. The resemb- lance, in fact, is so remarkable that he has frequently been pointed out as “young Irving” in the streets of London by many people, who, for all their confi- denco, were reully guessing ut the truth. Mr. Irving the younger shows consider- able promise of dramatic power, and as his ambition is the stage it is probable that in a short time there will be mater- ials for anactive scribe to write a smart article on the “lry (2 Mr Henry Irvie r takes great inte » career of this son of his. Itissaid thaton the young man’s arrival at Oxford many of the New Col- Jege dons, especialy one of a pushing turn of mind, whose great aim appears to be regarded as an authority on the great subject of the drama and” an inti- mate with the leading people on the stage made overtu, very largely to young irving, but that they were very considerably astounded and dismi when they found that the freshman not at all inclined to submit Lo cross-ex- amination and to answer their short stions pr as if he was in the schools, s ‘contrary, he showed a very decided disposition to lead the conversation in a light and airy fashion, pooh-poehed the busar, joked the war- den and snubbed the would-be dramatic don on one or two points on which he showed pretentious ignorance, nnd, in fact, gonerally conducted himself as it he were dealing with human beings in- stead of dons. And donsare not human beings and do not like 1o be treated as such. An incident in Hallord'slife which il- lustrates his secretive power, which i essentinlly necessary in a PPriv tary, is found in the way in_which he was married, says the \Washington S His wife wis teaching music in a female seminary of the Mcthodist per- suasion in Tudianapolis when she at- tracted the attentioh of Mr. Halford, and a warm attuchment spring up be- tween them, removed to Franklin, Ind id - subse. quently to Elgin, I1.. but separation did not ¢ool the ardor of the young people, who corresponded rggularly, nlthough the parents of the young lady had no idea that matters were assuming a ser- ious shape. Miss Fitzgerald at length wrote that her family were to go to *hicago on a visit, and that she would bis hiowe in Cina Johurie from New | accompany thew. ' Tlioy proposed to re- EASTERN OFFICE: 333 and 335 WEST BALTIMORE, COR. EUTAW STREET. | with good nature and }mhtum'ns. [ tury Blaine’s handshake is A L tagarala iatonge | cay iatne ahandanake N 1é main about three hours in Indianapoli journey. 2 II:xl!md thought tl opportunity to havi tied, and e made.his arrangements ac- cordingly. When the family reached Indianapolis Halford met his fiancee at the depot put her into a carrviage, and they were driven to a ministers house, where they were quietly made man and wite. When her family were ready to vesume their journey, their dmlg\)nu‘ now Mrs, Halford), althougn the old folks knew nothing of the affair, was at the depot to accompany them. Halford bade his bride good-by, she was whisked off by the train, and he returned quietly to his work at the Journal ofiice.” He did’nt see his bride for six weeks. By that time he had made arrangements for her reception, and he went to her home in Elgin to fetch he: There he revealed their relations to her parents and took his wife to her new home. Onl one or two of his most intimate h'icn(f‘; had any idea that he was married until he brought his wife to Indianapolis. 8 at would be n good the nupital knot Mr. Booth acquirs in 1 his great fondness u somewhat unusual uner, says ithe Cincinnati BEuguirer. nherited a4 disease from his Jnthcr, Junius Bratus Booth, which ne 51 ta- ted the use of tovacco in order that it might be eradicated from his system. Since then the actor has,used tobacco almost incessantly, only giving it up at times of illness, Somo years ago while playing “Tago’ to Sulvini’s “*Othello” gement in New York City he sed with vertigo, and, fainting away, fell over the foot lights. The at- tack was brought on by the use of brandy and soda to stimulate the nerves, which had b wly weakened by use of tob: , overed from the attack in a very short time. He has been repeatedly warned of the danger he runs from his habit. He has always laughed at his physicians when told that paralysis would result from it, through a stoppage of the blood vessels: of the brain or hemorrhage of the brain, or that the result would be the com- plete loss of his voice. for tobacco sinner Finch, of Providence, John Bright with genuine Fineh years ngo was corporal tish army, and, when stationed got into troubbe with his er over a young Irish lass, Tuhon, who finally became h’s wife and the mother of his nine Finch was court-martialled and sentenced to fifty lashes. His wife hastened to London and sent a note to Johu Bright, imploring his assistance or her husband., Her request was and owing to the Quaker stateman’s interference the court-mars ings were quashed and Core 'k was spared. Blaine is f, and he rec overrun es them all It is not uncommon to see fifty gentiemen in his room together und the Secretary moving around among them, greeting with visit each cordially and every few minutes giving evidence of bis remarkable memory of names and fac There are indications thut the S y i proud of his accomplishment in this dire for he likes to astonish visitors b, speaking their baptismal name, as well as their surname, in greeting, Secres markably full and strong. lets his hand linger in that of the cal and emphasizes his remarks with good warm pressure. e There @ times when a fecling ot lassitude will overcome the most robust, when the system craves for pure blood to furnish the elements of health an: strength, ‘The best remedy for purify- ing the blood is Dr, J. (. McLean's Sursaparilla.