Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1889, Page 12

B a e # | | s “WAS EVERY INCH A FICHTER - mains. Itis proper to mention here . mow the residence portion of the city. ? counted by the millions. RN W e B TR IR Y d r THE 1505-1507 Douglas Street. Silk Department., Still another sweeping reduction in Chinn and Pongee Silks. All thut are left of our 75c, 65c and 4%, to be cleared out on Monday, at 89¢. And all our 95¢, 8 on that day at Algo, all the Colored Pongees at 75c. The balance of our finest grades uf' Chion and Pongees for 874. On Monday we will also show a full line in very desirable shades of Colored French l"l\f‘]\cn at $1.00, worth $1.35, and all our best grade of Colored S 75¢, worth 89c. Our leader in a 25-inch Black Gros Grain Silk, always sold by us at $1.75 on Monday will be given away for $1.25, The same quality in a Black French Faille, sold by us for $1.75, will be let out on Monday for $1.25. We have a splendid assortment of evervthing that constitutes a first-class silk department at prices that nobody can touch, ahs, at Colored Dress Goods. UNUSUAL VALUE FOR MONDAY. ‘We will show the handsomest line of Henriettas, Cashmeres, Foule Twills, Brilllantines, plaids and stripes which have been sold during the season for 65¢ to 87ic per yard, all the uniform price Monday, only 50¢ per yard. We will show a superior line of Frénch Foule Twills, in 46-inch all wool, and in all the choice colors, at 65¢ per yard. @ will show a choice selection of Paris novelties in Brilliantines, just the thing for warm weather, as it does not catch the dust. On display Monday at $1.00 per yard. We will show an extra quality 54-inch All Wool Cashmere at $1.00 per yard. Excellent value for $1.35. ——————————————— | N. B. Falconer, i We will show wonderful French Challles (specially atone price Monday only, 50c per yard. Linen Department. In this department we will offer many nd 67¢ 10 be sold gracial bargains on Monday and ail | we TOWELS. 300 doz TOWELS. TOWELS. price 18c. 100 dozen Knotted I TABLE 2he and 30c. ‘ DAMASKS. 1 case 60-inch Turkey Red Damask at 49¢c, worth | 1case 62-inch Cream Daw heavy, at 48¢, reduced from 6 1 case 62 to 66 inch Damask at 75¢. regular price $ NAPKINS. NAPKINS. 50 dozen worth $1.3: 75 dozen at $1.75 per dozen SPECIAL AT duced fre 0—The - $2.50 per dozen. secure a dozen. Linen Lan Robes. MONDAY. price on them that will quickly. | Lot L.. at 50c. Lot IL., at 65¢. These Robes are worth twice the amount we ask. Samples Sent by Mail. O ST 148 T s < v value in rted) n assorted Damask and Huck Towels, large size, all at 12{c, regular inge Damask and Huck Towels all at 19¢, reduced from k, extra y tine Croam 8 heavy at $1.00 per dozen, vy German Napkins m $2.50. finest and best Napkin ever seen in Omaha at We have ouly about 85 dozen ieft. Call early Monday and | We have decided to close out our en- taro stock of Linen Lap Robes. We have arranged them into two lots, and put a sell them A SR SRIIIRC 3 AGENT FOR THE STANDARD FASHION PATTERNS. The phenomenal success of the Standard Fashion Patterns is the hesgly proof of their surpassing merits. 3 WHITE Dressing Sacques AND BLOUSES. MONDAY Lot L., at $1.00, worth 81.75. Lot 1., at 81.25, worth $2.01 Lot 111, at Lot V., at $2.0 Ve 3 Lot V., at #3.00, worth $1.50. heso are al! new goods made of the finest material and style. FLANNEL BLOUSES. We ave still selling the $2.85, $3.85 and 88.75 Blouses. They are the best value for the money. We have also received a sample line of Children’s White Suits, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 ye: old. As they are soiled a little we will close them at half price. Special Sale of Black Jerseys. Just received aline of Black Jerseys bluck only. with smocked bretom front, at $k Beaded Wraps At $6, $B.35én§9.s I$5l0.89, $13.50 Those are special prices for Monday. B The Standard Patterns are fitted upon living models, and each size is tested before being g approved. } If measures are correctly taken and directions care{ully« followed, a fit is guaranteed. OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1889—SIXTEEN PAGES. B.FALGONER N. B. FALGONER, 15051507 Douglas Street, Hosiery and Underwear. 50 dozon Ladies' improved Ingrain Onyx Black Hose, made from ingrain thus giving GREATER YTH AND WEAR to the fabrie nd combining at the same time the ex- cellent qualities of dye which have been thoroughly tested and approved in previous season Every pair guaran- teed stainless, 50¢ per pair. 75 dozen Onyx Fast Black every pair gua d stainless an will ot erock, nt 25¢ per pair. 50 dozen Ladies’ Black Lisle Hose at 8lc per pair, worth 60c. Sale price 3lc. 50 dozen Ladies’ Fast Black Hose at 16ic¢ per pair, worth 20c. 50 dozen Ladies’ Pin Stripe Ho 12;.- per pair, worth 22c. Sale pr Hose, d at 50 dozen Boy Fast Black Ribbed Hose at 25¢ per pair, worth 35c. Sale price 25c. 50 dozen Ladies’ Swiss Jorsey Ribbed | d! Vests at 85c each, worth &50c. Sale price 35¢. 60 dozen Ladies’ Jersey Ribbed Vests at 25¢ each, worth 35¢. Sale price 25c¢. 60 dozen Ladies’ Gauze Vests, long and short sleeves, at 25c, worth 35c. Sale price 25 90 dozen Ladies’ Jersey Ribbed Vests at 16c each, worth 25¢. "Sale price 16c. 60 dozen Ladies’ Jersey Ribbed Vests at 15c each, or two for 25¢. Just received one case of Infants’ Fine Wool Vosts and Bands. These goods are of H_\o finest texture and made from Australian wools, especially for infants’ wear. We have all sizes and styles in these goods. Prices are the lowe: 65¢, worth 8 Black Goods Dep’t. ' SECOND FLOOR. Groat sale of Fine Black Dress Goods on Monday and all next week: 40-inch Silk Warp Henriettas, 75c, worth $1.00, 40-inch Silk Warp Henriettas, 81.174, worth 81.50. All Wool Henriettas, 75¢, worth $1.00. 43-inok Binck Brillinntino, 760, worth 42-inch Black Brilliantine, #1.00, worth $1.25, 40-inch All Wool French Cashmere, 50¢, worth 65c. 40-inch All Wool French Cashmere, 40-inch All Wool Nun’s Veiling, 59, worth 75¢. Laces. Laces. Laces. We wish to clean up our Lace stock, and as we have a great many short lengths of desirable patterns, we will ivide them upin the following lots: Lot 1 at 1c a yard—1,000 yards colored and cream Lace Kdgings, actually worth from 10c to 25¢ per yard. To- morrow only lc. Lot 2 at 56—500 yards of Laces from 8 to 10 inches wide, worth from 50c to 31.00 per yard. At 5¢ yard. Lot 8 at 25c—100 yards of All Over , worth as high as $1.50 a yard, at 25¢ ya —40 yards of 42-inch Black v Lace Flouncing, would be 3.50, at 81.75. .00—25 yards 42-inch and 60-inch Black Lace Flouncing, selling as high as $7.50, at $3.00 yard. . Remember, the above are all short lengths. Veilings. Veilings. At 81.50—All our ‘““Jane Hading” Veils, worth as high as $3.75, at 81.50 each, At 6c—Chenille Dot, Composition Dot and Parisian Veiling, worth from 250 to 40c a yard, To-morrow at be. Notion Department. 25 dozen French Plate Mirrors, size 4x7 inches, at 474c, worth 750, Received a nice line of decorative (paper mache) Wall Pockets, Brackets, otc., at be, 8c, 10¢, 160, 25¢ and 85¢. 10 dozen Leather Pocketbooks at 25¢, worth 50c. 10 dozen Full Loather Patent Frames, 75¢, worth #1.25. Our line of Fans {s complate. We show an elegant assortment in satin, plain and painted, feather, gauze, plain painted and embroidered Japanese nov- elties in large assortment. Domestic Devartment ‘We will continue all of the bargains of the past week in this department, with the addition of many new ones. ‘Weo have just received 5 cases of Figured Lawns, gunmnwud fast colors, and will place them on sale Monday at be per f'nra. A tull line of Dress Ginghams at 50, Latest stylos Satines, 8tc. Best quality English Flanuelette only 12¢e. Challies, 50. All of Wm. Simpson’s Linen and Silk_Finish Calico at 7Tic. These are handsome goods for wrappers, having the appoarance of the finest satines. We have the most complete and best stock of 10c and 12f¢ Ginghams that can be shown in the city. N- B. FALCONER, Mail Orders Promptly Filled. Dr. Miller's Reminiscences of FPio- neer Journalism in Omaha. WEBSTER AND THE REPUBLICAN. His Work in Organizing the Party in Nebraska and His Intimate Re- lations With Lincoln's Admin- istration—Mason and Slidell ‘Wielded a Vigorous Pen. Resuming the narrative about early newspapers and newspaper men, 1 sug- gested a discussion upon Colonel E. D. ‘Webster,who was the first really strong man on, and who was actually the founder of the Omaha Republican. Before I discuss my old friend and his active life here at about vhe time the republican party was born, I mention the incident thatin 1857 the Weekly Times was started by W. W. Wyman, who came from Wisconsin here in the eurly days, and was once our Ppost- master. He was the fatherof A. U. Wyman, our distinguished fellow citizen, who for so many years was at the head of the, treasury of the United States. The Times, like all the papers ‘of those days here, was a weekly and democratic in politics. Another incident of our mewspaper Nlife was the Omaha Democrat, started in 1858 by Hadley D. Johnson, which lived about sixty days, and died without much fuss being made over the re- that Mr. Johnson was one of the orig- inal organizers of our territory. e was an lowa manof a good deal of strength and ability in a way, differing with everybody who agreed with him at once, and a good writer. Before the territory was organ- ized, he was sont as a squatter delegute, a8 you might say, to congress to urgo the recognition of Nebraska as a ter- ritory, and might be called our first delegate, having no legal status, how- ever, as such. Mr, Johnson lived in these parts many years, always a respected citizen, and was once the owner of 820 acres of ground right in the heart of what is 11 he could have gone to sleep twenty- five years and not disturbed his own ssions his fortune could now be But he was fmpressed with golnr further west, young man, and growing up with the country, and he landed in Oregon, more than twenty years ago, selling his prop- erties here. “At a late day he removed ' to Utah, where he still resides at an advanced age. The nextnewspaper incident was the Telegraph. It was coincident with the arvival of "to msflnuuc telegraph in Omaha and took its name from that circumstance. It proprietor aud editor was the late Major H, Z, Curtis, sou of Major General Curtis, and brother of “Samuel R. Curtis who s wow with us, This per was the first daily printed in the city. It did not live & year, however, and gave way to the Omaha lwgublhmn. which was issued in the month of May, 1858, by Mr. Frederick Suyder, better known " here s Fred Suyder, and a man by the y Brown. It soon came under control of the late Dr. G. C. Moo- : nell, grandfather of the nt editor ! of the World, Mr. G. M. Hitchcook aud | then there troversy in the then rormative stages of the republican party in this territory as to lead to all sorts of trouble. Omaha Republican. began such & factional con- It was then that the late Mr. Thurlow Weed was called upon to suggest some man to come to Omaha and edit the Mr. Weed sent our valued friend, Colonel E. D. Web- ster, who after many yeurs of absence, has been for several years pasta well known citizen of this city. He has had large stock interests in Colorado and Wyoming. Mr. Webster bought the paper 1n 1859 and continued to edit it unld he sold it to Mr. E. B. Taylor and Mr. McClure, two years later, in 1861, at the breaking out of the war. I want to speak of Mr. Webster per- sonally without going into the in- cidents of his Omabha life which were sometimes - exciting and always interesting. Then, as now, he was always one of the most active and ready men that ever controlled a news- paper or undertook to organ He was the real organiz the republican party in _t/ ) and took charge of it with a high hand. He would fight at the drop of the hat, either through his columns or otherwise, and the bitterness which he brought upon himself from the two factions into which he very soon divided the republicans of this city and terri- tory, L will not attempt to describe or characterize. Myr. Webster has had a career. With the advent of Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward and the administration of that government, Colonel Webster was called to Washington, and there be- came and continued during the life of Mr. Lincoln the contidential secrotary of Mr. Seward. In that office he was charged with grea\ trusts and responsi- bilities, and acquitted himself with en- ure credit in a service which enabled him, perhaps, to know more about the inside official slife of the great men of that period than was known by almost any other mun in the country outside of Hay and Nicolay. Speaking of the duties with which he was charged in the cmtical period of the war, which caused the seizure by one of our naval vessels of Masou and Slidell, Mr. Webster was th au who delivered in person the wa it from Seward for their delivery out of Amer- ican custody, und they were aliowed to go hence, Itis u fact that, under con- ditions then existing, and the possibil- ity of & conflict with Great Britain, if 1t had been known that Mr. Wobster had that order in his pocket when he passed through New York, and he had sold his state secret for a price, he could have made half a dozen fortunes for himself and friends on the money markets. Mr. Webster us a wrier was ready and forcible, and never spared an en- emy or betrayed a friend. He was as genial and kind and cordial on one side of his character as he was aggressive, severe and sometimes savage on the other—all in an editorisl way. His industry in attacking and de- fending against assaults through the pressled him into more or less of personal conflict with his enemies. Some of these antagonisms were very amusing, always ending in some adjust- ment chat saved him and others from serious violence. Mr. Webster is still among us and one of the best known men in our section who recognizes everybody, and very proxurly.uv his friend, among whom I wish always to'be classed. 1 close what I have to say to you about the Republican to-day by saying that it was first issued as & weekly, always up to 1862, when it assumed three editions, tri-weekly, and was made a daily' two yoars later, in 1804 joined the prob n party. I old Cicero managed to kecY a house in town, and his country villa was very fino and had once belonged to Sylla, a Quaker geotleman of mild manners, but who had died before Cicero got the villa, probably at a reduced price and on promises to pay for it in the future on the instaiment plan. The house of Claudius sold for £00,000, equal to about $450.000. It may have been a comfortable house, but would ve looked shabby enough in New York or San Francisco beside some of the houses there—for example, Mr. Stewart’s $4,000,000 house. SMALL POTATOES IN TEXAS. Mr. Coccillius Isadore, a Jewish gen- tleman. [ apprehend from his name, bequeathed 4.116 slaves, 3,600 yoke of oxen, 27,000 head of range cattle, and £500,000 in money. He might have SOME ROMAN BLOWHARDS. The Insignificant Goulds and Van- derbilts of the Eternal City CICERO WAS A GREAT BORROWER General Brisbin Dabbles iu Ancient History and Finds Some Mug- wumps—Banquets, Wakes and Circuyes—Iitome vs, Texas. Blooded Romans. ForT ROBINSON, Neb. 9.—[Cor- respoudence of THe Bre.]—When we were boys we read a great deal about the fortunes of great Romans, but these would not be thought extraordinary in London, Paris or America in these days. If these old Romans who boasted of their wealth to all the little world of their day, could have lived until now they would probably have very little to say about their possessions, once thought to be illimitable and never to be ex- celled by individual fortunes. Croesus, who is still bhanded down to us as an example of great Roman wealth, only possessed about $3,000,000 in our money, and would have felt almost ashamed of himself in Now York be- side somo of our millionaires. For ex- ample, what would he have thought when told Vanderbilt conld buy him fifty times over or Jay Gould seventy- five times over, and many others twenty times and ten times. A man died in France not many years ago leaving £20,000,000, and another French finan- cier when ‘informed that an English- mun of his acquaintance had left only £2,000,000, exclaimed: “Oh, I always thought he was rich, but it appears, poor fellow, he died u com- paratively poor man.” Croesus used to say no man could esteem himself rich unless he could out of his own revenues maintain an army, yot Pliny tells us Croessus was worth only about £2,000,000 or $10,000,000 in our mouey. Either armies were very cheap in Craessus’ day in Rome or Craessus was blowing. This fellow CRESSUS WAS A MUGWUNP anyway and not to be believed. Casar of course had a great deal of money (I mean Julius the great), for he could take it from whoever had money. This Julius Cacsar was o great spendthrift, and we are told by an old army officer that Julius was £300,000 in debt before ever he hela an ofice, but like a Col- orado legislator, when he once got into office he was not long in catching up with his expenses. Claudius boaste of his debts, and Trollope informs us at times they rose to £600,000. Cicero was not rich but he was a good borrower, At one time he bought one of the finest houses in Rome and borrowed every dollar to pay for it with. Still Mr. Anthony Trollope says: “He did not owe more than a Roman gentleman of rank ought to owe,” Great Scott! what an example for Ward and Fish and all the ex-bank cashiors in Canada! Cicero, when questioned by a corre- spondent of the hnnun Bee about his debts, candidly admitted them, and said: “Know, then, that I am s0 much in debt that [ should be willing to con- spire if any one would accept me.” He shoula have woved out here and l flercer an been counsidered fairly rich in Rome, but would not to-day be set down as a rich man in Texas. The old Romans knew how to entertain, however. The is where we can learn wisdom from the ancients. Just think of it! Croesus, when he was a candidate for the senate, gave a feast of 10,000 tables, to whil all the citizens of Rome were indis- criminately invited. What a Umted States he would have made! But now no senator would do that, even in Omaha, a small city when compared with Rome. A GREAT WAKE, Then Cwesar, to celebrate the funeral of his daughter, gave a feast of 22,000 tables, with an accommodation of three guests at each table. This Casar was a great fellow to feast as well as fight and often gave suppers_to which 60,000 people were invited. He was no mean churl who limited his invitations to dine to congressmen, foreign ministers and big bugs. When Cwmsar was elected everybody could hope to stick their legs under the mahoguny of the white house. Ilven the Irish were invited. And Ciesar blowed about it, too. He said one day to his postmaster.general, JohaniusWannamaguss:* L have brought togethor more gladiators, boxers and wild beasts than were ever produced under any formep. administration in Rome.” ‘But the postmaster-general said he did not.ocare much for such things—only for prayer meetings, Sun- day schools, and sueh.’ MAYBE HE LIED, Whether Casar liod or not we have no means of kn()wlh%, for his old army officers are now all déad, and even the pensioners of depéndent pension bills, with few exce] ?‘pufi, have run out, and those l‘:; t. ,know nothing about it—not a wemsn oven in New Jersey who was kissod by Ciesar is left alive, 80 wo must guess at much in his history. Augustus Ciesar, who was an- other Cawsar, and # great man, left a document attached to his last will and testament, in whigh he told the Roman people he was entigled to the gratitude of the public because he had exhibited 8,000 g{udh«tum and brought more than thirty-five thousand wild boasts to Rome to be killed in the circus. A BIG TIME AT THE COISEUM. Titus, also, was a jolly fellow, and to celebrate the opening of the Coliseum he brought to Rome 5,000 wild beasts, which were let loose and killed by glad- iators. The next emperor was a mug- wump named Probus, and he out did them all. He brought to Rome, for a single show, 100 lions, 100 lionesses, 100 Libyan and’ 100 Syrian leopards, 300 boars and 600 gladiators. Having gath- ered these he caused the eircus to be planted with trees to resemble a forest, and let loose 1,000 ostriches, 1,000 stags, 1,000 dogs and 1,000 wild boavs. The z’uh the gladiaturs killed,and then the populace ostriches and stags. NOW, MR HARRISON. Why couldn’t the late democratic hunted the boars, mugwump administration have done something of this sort instead of monlk monkeying with the tariff and spending its time foolishly with the civil service commission? But Mr. Hareison will give us a show, seo if he don’t. Not only a show at the offices, but a real, genuino circus. Time are very dull, 50 dull, in fact, it is hardly ,worth ones whilo to live, unless they can be a mem- ber of the legislature, and we can’t all be legislators, you know—the legisla- tion won't go around. J.S.B. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. _ Sir Arthur Sullivan is composing the music for a grand opera. W. G. Wills is writing a costume drama for the use of Isabel Bateman. Carl Rosa, the well-known musical direc- tor and husband of Parepa Rosa, is dead. No less than ten London theaters ware closed during. the first five days of Passion week. . Mue. Minnie Hauk recently conciuded a series of very successful performances in Leipsic. ““That Doctor Cupid” has passed its one hundredth periormance at the London Vau- deville. Miss May Amber has been engaged as leading woman in Louis James' company next season. Robert G, Morris has written a new play called “A Wife's Sin,” which will soon be produced. ‘I'bere is a rumor that “King John" may be the subject of Mr. Mansfield’s next Shal- sperian revival in London. _Graco Hawthorne proposes to produce an English version of “‘Theodora” at the Lon- don Princess’ theater in the autumn. “Robert Elsmere'’ may still be seen at the Union Square theater, Now York, although the piece met with a chilling welcome. Mr. Osmond Tearle turns up as the director of the memorial performances given in thetheater av Stratford-on-Avon, France thinks that it has a new dramatic avthor—Jules Lemaitre, the author of “Revolte,” recently produced at the Odeon. It 1s rumored that Sarusate, the violin vir- tuoso, and Otto Henger, the rival to little Hofmaun, will visit the states together next winter. “Marion Terry now takes the place of Mary Rorke as Mrs, Errol in the perform- ance of “The Real Little Lord Faunticroy™ in London, It is said that the English comedian, J, L. Toole, has received a flattering offer to re visit the United States, and that he is also consiaering a proposal to play in Australia. “onsieur Ma Fegpmme" is the name of the latest production” at the Palais Royal in Paris. It is the tale of a henpecked hus. band, who conceives the notion of getting a aun;-in-luw vigorous enough to manage fll- wife, There was a good deal of enthusiasm in Daly's theatre, New York, when the regular soason came to an end. Bverybody was called before the curtain, and Mr. Daly made @ speech, in the course of which he alluded to the recent successes. Mr. David James 18 about to begin a new course of tho Butterman in *‘Our Boys," this time in the English provinces. He must have yllynd the part some thousands of time,more roquently even than Mr. Couldock has enacted Dunstan Kirke. Henry E. Dixey has decided to continue playing “Adonis" next season. At presout the comedian is coilaborating with William Gill, the author of “Adonis,” whose latest effort, “Jed Prouty,” has just been staged on a new play. Mr. Dix: has severed his partuership with Mr. E. E. Rice, but will continue under his management, receiving & percentage of the receipts us salury. Miss Fanny Davenport hus presented to Louis James the play, *'Gomez de Vezas; or, A Noble Heart,” whi wius at one time in the reportory of her father, the late E. L. Duvenport. Mr. James has decided to pro- duce the play next season. The scene is laid in Spain in the time of Francis L ~Thestory treats of a high born father and son, who, unknown to each other, are in love with the SAWO WOIIBL. & BURIED HIS GRAVE DICGER. Some Good Stories About Men and Other Animals. POSTMEN WHO CARRIED AXES. The Ludicrous Blunder of an Irish Emigrant—A Torilling Ride on a Wild Hog's Back— Waltzing Ostriches. The Curious Side of Life. In 1800 an English regiment was serv- ing in Holland, and at Egmont-op-Zee crossed bayonets with a French regi- ment, A ball, fired during the retreat of the latter, passed through the jaws of a soldier of tho former, named Robert Hullock, who, in the course of the after- noon, was buried in a sand-hill where he had fallen, by a soldior of his regi- ment named CRrnes. During the night Hullock recovered, and, having been lightly covered with sand, crept out and crawled to a picket of his regiment posted near. He was sent to the hospi- tal, recovered, and was serving with his regiment in Malta in 1806, Ten years later a man of his regiment died and Hullock was ordered to dig the grave, at which he was found on the arrival of the body for interment, still at work. though it was then nearly ten feet deep. On being asked the reason for muking it so unusually deep, he repiied: ‘*Why, sir, it is for poor John Carnes, who buried me, and I think, sir, if I get him that deep it will puzzlé him to creep out, as I did.” On the burial service being read he proceeded to fitl up the grave and actu- ally buricd the man who ten yeurs pre- vious had buried him, A year or two since a wealthy and ec- centric Boston lady, who w: unde- cided what to do with her money when she was through with it, saw on the streot a young man whose face at- tracted her so strongly that she turned and followed him until she saw where he lived—the distance, fortunately for not being very great. She had in- ies mude, found that he wasa young m just out of college who had’ come to Boston to study medicine. She con- trived to see hiw several times without his remarking her, and each time she became more and more convinced that he was o feilow of honor and of groat promise, In the end she took him home and adopted him, to the great in- dignation of various people who had been keeping a ¢ -ful ye on the old lady’s property with a view to its going to certain charitable institutions. In loss than a year the young man proved all the old fady’s skill in reading his face to have been a delusion and a snare by running off with all her loose cash and a lot of the silver. She was too sensitive to the scandal to have the matter followed up legally, bur she abandoned all faith in physiogomy and burned her will, Any one who reads this story from the Americus (Ga.) Republican” will con- clude that hunting wild hogs is pretty lively business: For several yeurs past a large wild sow has been devastating the rich cornfields of the Muckgloo- chee, in the western part of Sumter couuty, near the pluntations of Robert Stewart, A, L. Fallis and othars, and it 15 estimated that she destroyed 100 bushels of cora, if not more, for Mr. Stewart alone last summer. She had been run with dogs and shot at so much that the people began to think that she bore a charmed life. She had be- longed to Colonel A, K. Schumfert, but ran away seven or eight years ago and took up in the swamp. Sunday morns ing it was learned that she had been seen by some of the neighbors, so that A. L. Fallis and Jim Deese got a dog and a gun and started in pursuit of her. Protty soon the dog began to bay in tha swamp, and Fallis went into the bushes and mud to see what was up. He went too far, and the old sow saw him beforo he saw her. Making a lunge atthe dog, he re« treated, and she was right on Fallis, who made a spring to climb up soma little saplings as the hog dashed by. The sapling bent, and mhs was in the mud and water ankle deep, and the hog was about five feet distant, with bristles erect, eyes green with rage, and an enormous mouth, bristling with tusks two inches long, going for him like a lion. He began to pray and to yell at Deese: *‘For God’s sake, come quicklyl Make haste. Oh, Lord, do como, Jim; run, for God’s sake!” Before he got through the sow was in reach, and he grabbed her by the ears and hung on for sweet lhte—calling for Deese and the Lord at the top of his voice. The old beast cut him once or_twice on the arms with her tusks and threw him around in the mud, but he hung onto the ears as his only salvation, The dog put in u lick or two, but this only al- lowed Fallis an opportunity to jump on her back, where {m yelled and prayed for assistance. Deese got into the swamp by this time, thinking that the hog had Fallis in the mud on his back and was tearing him 10 pieces. He got there and found him on the hog's back and nearly exhaustea. He pulled his knife and ran to his friond’s assistance. the hog trying hard to serape Fallis off by running under the bushes, Deese made a lunge at her thront as she plunged at him. The knife cut about & pound and a half of ment out of her neck, and the blood bed gan to flow rapidly. The fight went on until the hog was becoming exhausted and Fallis was beginning to think that hq would be unseated in spite of all he could do. His fingers were aching by the tension of the grip he had to Kon.. His asms wore blosding, and' b was shaking from exhaustion us if he had u buck ague. The dog made a snap at her hind legs, and the old sow went off at a double-quick, carrying Fallis deeper into the swamp, with Deese and the dog running on u{tor worrying her. At last Fallis was thrown off, and the hog and dog disappeared, Deecse got his gun and followed the bloody tralf a fow hundred yards and shot her. She measured seven and a half from her snout to her tail, was three four inches high and weighed 285 pounds. Fallls ~says this is the first time he ever remembers praying in his life; the first time he was ever scared, and he would rather stay unother five years in the war than flght & wild hog. Insinis on a Black Bhee An old-fushioned housewife h‘n,.n Clif- ton (Pa.) will never permit her husband to be without at least one black sheep in nis flock. She has get a notion that it 1s not healthy to wear stockings with any kind of dye in the wool, She cards the wool into rolls by hand, just as peo- ple did three or four generations 8go, spins the rolls herself and knits hor own stockings. Once a tree fell on her black sheep and killed it, and her hus- band had to hustle around and find an- other. Tt took him three days and miles of travel, but he finally came across & black ewe lcmb fiftecn” miles awsy a0d bought it ) s e