Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1889, Page 16

THE s OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1880.-SIXTEEN PAGES, GOLD DOLLARS for FIFTY CENTS - Would not be a better bargain than the tremendous low prices we are making to reduce our enor- mous steck of Furniture, Carpets, Stoves and Housefurnishing Goods. Although ourSpecial Sale last week was a grand success, we wish to give you " One More Week of Bargains. 22 Parlor Suits $25, reducded from $35 ..............................801d elsewhere at $45 58 Red Lounges $9.25, reducedfrom $14 ..............................80ld elsewhere at $18 120 Oak and Mahogany Chamber Suits $11.50, reduced from $17...s0ld elsewhere at $22 71 Wardrobes (assorted) $12.50, reduced from $18... 267 Extension Tables $3.75, reduced from $6.50.. 875 Wood Seat Chairs 33c¢, reduced firom 50c¢... 86 Kitchen Cupboards $3.40, reduced from §6........ 34 Cook Stoves $9.25, reduced from $15 . .............cooiiiiiiiinn.. .sold elsewhere at $22.50 <.v.......801d elsewhere at $8 .s0ld elsewhere at 65¢ cieeiviin....80ld elsewhere at $7.50 sold elsewhere $18 3,500 yavrds Ingrain 29¢, reduced from50¢............................s0ld elsewhere at 65¢ 75 pair Lace Curtains $1.25, reduced from $2.50...................80ld elsewhere at $3.50 66 Baby Carriages $6.50, reduced from $9.........................s0ld elsewhere at $11.50 85 Ice Boxes $5, reduced from §8..............................vv ......801d elsewhere at $10 75 Gasoline Stoves $3.50, reduced from $6.........................80ld elsewhere at $7.50 45 Bureaus $7.50, reduced from $10 ...............................50ld elsewhere at $12.50 165 Matteresses $1.90, reduced from $3 ................................80]1d elsewhere at $4 .......s0ld elsewhere at $4 .....s0ld elcewhere at $50 323 Springs $1.50, reduced from $3 ...... 14 Folding Beds $25, reduced from $40.. 425 Pillows 38c, reduced from 75¢ .... ; sold elsewhere t $1 "l Sver it @ A CHEERFUL HOME FOR AI.L OUR THEHRMS, $75 worth of goods $2.50 a week or $10 a month. $100 worth of goods, $3 a week or $12 g month. $200 worth of goods. $5 a week or $20 a, month P $10 worth of goods $1 a week or $4 a month. $25 worth ot goods $1.50 a week or $6 a month. $50 worth of goods $2 a week or $8 a month, Peopl es’ E 613-615 North Sixteenth Street, Between California and Webster. Telephone 727. Open Evenings until 9 o’clock. Goods sold in Council Bluffs, South Omaha, Fort Omaha and Florence. Mammoth Instalment. House - THE GIANT TIME PAYMENT HOUSE OF OMAHA, B. ROSENTHAL & Co. PROPRIETORS. A DEFRNSE OF THE SPINSTER Many Compensations In a Life of Bingle Blessedness. HOW QUEEN VICTORIA PROPOSED. Bhe was Brief to the Point and Albert Accepted Her Promptly—Perfunc- tory Kisses—Mrs. Harrlson's}y Housekeeping. The Little Wife at Home, Woman's Exchange, The dear Little wife at home, John, With ever so much to do, Btitches to set, and babies to pet, And 80 many thoughts of you; The beautiful houschold fairy, Filling your house with light; ‘Whatever you meet to«iuy, John, Go cheerily home to-night. For though you are worn and weary, You needn’t be cross or curt; There are words like darts to eentle hearts, There are looks that wound and hurt. ‘With the koy in the latch at home, John, Drop the trouble out of sight; To the little wife who is waiting, Go cheerily home to-night. Perfunctory Kisses. Heaven preserve me, writes Master Geoffrey in the Boston Globe, from the perfunctory kiss of two women., There is something about a kiss of the kind that is as dismal as the desert of Sa- hara, There is not even one oasisin it to mark the dreary waste. It is worse than melody measured out with a yard stick, or poetry doled out by the quart. There is no inspiration about it; none whatever, of any kind, What a dull, sodden affair is the face of a pretty girl who is kissing the lips of another pretty girll How the same pretty face be- comes illuminated with the fire of the soul when it is kissed by—well perhaps this is getting to be an over dehcute matter, and something ought to be left to the imagination of the reader. How- ever, there is no rhapsody in the kiss exchanged by two gh‘rs. or two women. It is as uninviting as the flelds in winter time. How Queen Victoria Proposed. 1 wonder how many people know that Victoria the Good, as it has been suggested the quoen of England shall be called, when she fell in love had to do the proposing for herself?” said an Americanized Englishman the other morning, to a Philadelphia Press re- porter. “I was much interested in reading recountly the account of her betrothal, It had always been expegted that she and ber cousin Albert would eventu- ally make a match of it. When they were both about el%hmen years old he visited Englund, but did not make much impression on the newly crowned queon, However, three years later he made up Lismind to a *‘now-or-never” gawme, and with his brother visited her at Windsor Castle. Like more bumble lovers, he was placed in a rather em- barrassing Frudicnmeul by the non-ar- rival of his luggage, and was thus pre- vented from dining with her majesty ou his fivst evening as her guest, For five days did Victoria study him, and then after first telling her adviser, Lord Mel- bourne, what she had decided to do,she sent for Albert, saying that sho desired 1o see him particularly. One account the affair, certainly valuable for its vity, reads as follows: ‘‘What the ueen told him was that she loved him ;ifll her whole heart, and that she de- 1o be his wife.” Bho was accepted :l’&dwt rulmion. a8 any good-locking sovereign of twenty might have hoped to have been, andaso they were married. Mrs. Harrison's Housekeeping. Here is what a lady, who is afrequent vigitor at the white house, and who ought to know, says about Mrs. Harri- son and the housekeeping: *‘Itis abso- lutely untrue that Mrs. Harrison goes around with the keys jingling at her belt and oversees the housekeeping. In the first place, she has not the time, and in the second place, the stoward at- tends to all such matters, as he has always done, Where things were un- satisfactory, as they were in a number of instances where servants had been retained so long that they thought they owned the place, she has suggested that they be remedied. I don’t see why, be- cause & man is- elected president, that even in the matter of domestic servants the whole nation must rise up en masse and dictate to him. Or why, even if his linen is not well washed, {fln dinner not well cooked, nor his bed well made, he must continue to employ the people who misdo those things merely because they are republicans, or democrats or mugwumnps, or because they are black or white. A man’s happiness depends to a great extent on the efficiency of his servants, and he ought to have his own way about them. Arthur did it and he was comfortable. The Spinster as She Tu, There are a few people who have not looked into the dietionary especially, who know how the term spinster origi- nated. We often find it in Shakspere and other of the classics, but it used to define the spinner. This is its specific meaning. Its general significance is wider, There was an old practice, in the years agone, thata woman should never be married uutil she had spun herself a set of body, table and bed linen. It is not difficult to see how easily the term became applicable to all unmarried women, and finally became a law term and fixed, It is not the fash- iou among lawyers nowadays to specify tine maiden by the term spinster, Sin- gle woman is the term employed in its placs, and perhiaps with more satisfac- tion, because there is something about the word spinster which is objection- able. It is associated with acerbity, wrin- kles, moroseness and general dis- agreeableness. The term spinster 1s decidedly objectionable to an unmar- ried woman. It occupies & close posi- tion to old maid, which is certainly and always resented with scorn, and often- times with indignation. Really, there is nothing reproachful in the term old maid, provided, of course, the lady 18 well on in years, To call any woman old when her face is not puufiored up into alot of wrinkles, when her eyes are bright, her figure erect and elastic, 18 an unpardonable sin. But the term fills the bill. cluster most of the fancies and recollec- tions of youth. To most people a maid is a dream of adolescence, Toapply the term maid to an elderly spinster woull be a misapplication, because in the ab- stract a maiden is to the average mind a combination of beauty, blithsomeness, buoyancy and youth, Hence, if the term maid is to be used in connection with one well on in years, the adjectival qualideator old must be employed to note the distinction in age. It is unfortunate that there should be Around the word maiden 80 great a horror felt on the part of un- married women toward this epithet— old maid, says a writer in the Detroit Freo Press. She has an individuality of her own. She has a name which 18 vital, It is symmetricul. She does not hide her light under the bushel of mat- rimony. She is uot absorbed 1uto sn- other’s legal oxistence. Iu fact, she has just as much personality as any wmau, i Everything in this world is based upon the law of compeusation. And in this fact may be found the compensation for the unmarried woman. If she has prop- erty she can do with 1t as she pleases without consulting a man, who possibly may be stubborn, or selfich, or mean. It she has no property, but has to work for her living, she is not compelled to spend a portion of it on a husband who is too lazy to work; or if he isable and willing to work is not able to support two in reasonable comfort. These are compensations which are not without great value. In the mind of everyone that has ‘a kindly nature the unmarried woman of mature years is clothed in peculiarly bright attri- butes. True, there are some mature maidens whose minds are so contorted that to them the world is turned upside down and every man, woman and child is their particular enemy. But these are the exceptions, and it has often been said that the exceptions prove the rule. Not long agoa woman killed hevself be- cause; as she confessed in her ante-mor- tem letter, she had not the courage to be an old maid. This woman was one of the foolish virgins. “I'he old maid becomes 1n many cases a hallowed char- acter. Her pure and kindly face, un- marked by a single selfish impresssion is significant of the struggle that has been carried on within and the final triumph of spirit over matter. It takes o great deal of courage to stifle the as- pirations of womanhood, to banish the dreams of youth and settle down to the life of self-abnegation and sacrifice which maidenhood imposes. The maternal longing is strong in the breast of every woman, Nature has im- planted it there. She who is without it is not worthy the name of woman. And in extinguishing this longing there is o great burden of sacrifice. But this has its reward, too. There shines out of the eyes of nearly every unmarried woman who has reached the old maid eriod a light which speaks of gentleness and perfect serenity within, There are few old maids who, if they originally had lov- able characters, are not really beloved by a wide circle of friends, She is more than esteemed. She is loved bv every ono that knows her. And, better than that, every one is ready and willing to show her those little courtesies and at- tentions which are so prized by all womankind, There seems to be a desire on the part of every thoughtful member of society to contribute as much as possible to the comfort and happiness of the old maid. There was a time when the woman who was farced to live a single life was looked upon with a sort of pity, But that time has passed away. Spinster- hood is not now looked upon as discred- itable. How can it be, when there are 80 many beautiful, charming and lov- able women, not to say heiresses, who are included in its ranks? Some woman remain old maids from choice. Some are old maids be- cause they are true to the idols of other days, Some because they are fearful of the quicksands of matrimony., Others because their ideal has not yet come to them. The reasons in each one of the instances is not only creditable but honorable, Someone has said that every woman, whether she be ugly or beautiful, de- formed or symmetrical, has at some time in her life a chance to marry, So- ciety should honor the beautiful and lovabie woman, who, rather than throw herself away upon an unworthy object, 80 respeots herself and sex that she rrelsm the single life. And what praise 8 enough for that woman's true heart whose life on her own motion is bereft of materual joys and blessings be- cause her affections are true to one that is no more? In whatever light we look at the old maid she appears to good advantage. Society honors its spinsters, provided they have the character to win esteem and confidence. The old maid is a distinct institution of society, and it is not so easy to imagine how society could fill her place. Household Arts. To mend broken china use a cement made by stirring plaster of paris into the white of an egg. If, while house-cleaning, you drop 800t on the carpet, cover it thickly with salt and it may be swept up without blackening the carpet. ‘When the rubberrollers of a wringer become sticky, as they often do after wringing flannel, rub with kerosene and wipe dry, und they will be nice and smooth, Care should be taken to remove the sprouts from the young bulbs which spring up at the base of callas, This is especially necessary 1f your large plant is about to bloom. Do not water plants too much; they are much injured by having their roots water-soaked, Wait until the plants show the need of water before giving it. In cleaning oil-cloths use no soap or serubbing-brush, but wash off the dirt with water and flannel. Then go over 1t with milk, and rub with a soft brush till dry and shining. Thick brown paper should be laid un- der carpets if the patent thing is not to be had. It saves wear and prevents the inroads of moths, which, however, will seldom give trouble if tarred puper is placed beneath the ends. If a new broom be immersed in boil- ing water until it is quite cold, then thoroughly dried in the air, it will be far more pleasant to use and will lasy much longer. Frequent moistening of the broom is conducive to its usefulness and also saves the carpet. A correspondent of the Scientific American gives this as a ‘‘sure death to buffalo moths.” *Take strips of red or blue flannel (as these colors are particu- larly attractive to them), dip in liquid arsenic, and lay around the edges of the carpets or wherever the pests are troublesome. They will soon eata de- sired amount and collapse to the entire satisfaction of the house, without the least injury to the carpets.” In common with many readers, Table Talk has been annoyed with the nui- sance of a greasy lamp—a lamp through which the oil seems to exude, Now the remedy for this is very simple. If per- sons would be careful when they blow their lights out to turn the wick low enough for the top of it to be below the edge of the burner this annoyance would be averted. They blow out the light, never thinking to turn down the wick, and, as the suction started by the flame continues for some time after the light is extinguished, the oil will spread over the surface of.the lamp. The Household is asked what is a cheap, effectual, and harm- less cosmetic for the face and hands, The question 1is easily answered, Wash the face and hands in very warm water, with plain, good soap, and with a haudful of fine ground oat- meal rubbed in with the suds. A pound of oatmeai will cost 6 cents, a cake of castile soap 10 or 15, and they will last a long time. Such a cosmetic is perfectly harmless and effectual, It cleanses and softens wonderfully and leaves a gentle luster that no other cosmetie will give, e Apollo is said to be the first gentleman who ever struck a lyre. If he had only hit him & little harder we might not bhave 80 many wagnificent liars at the present HELENA'S PRETTY MILLINER. How Her Advent Cost Handsome Al Worrall His Life. BILL BURR'S COWARDLY THRUST A Terrible All Around Fight at the International Which Resulted in Several Lynchingsand a General Reformation. Both Wers After Louise. “I saw the first hanging in Helena, Mont., the stringing up of Big Jim Daily, the notorious desperado, by the Helena regulators as described in the Sun recently,” said a former New Yorker, who was one of the engineer corps that made the preliminary survey of the route for the Northern Pacific railway, to a reporter _for that paper, *and I saw the memorable deadly fracas that followed that execu- tion, and which resulted in the sum- mary cleaning out of the remnants of Jim Daly’s gang, who had continued to haunt Helena, and were showing a dis- position to run things again witha high hand. That bloody affray was indi- rectly caused by a woman, who subse- quently became a social leader in He- lena, and who probably is yet, if she is living. . “For a while after Jim Daily was banged there was a peaceful lull in the town, and it seemed an ominous calm to the citizens, Gradually the gambling hells, hurdy-gurdies, and other lawless establishments became as frec as ever. Stall there was no trouble, and the regu- lators had come to the conclusion that things were going on as well as might be expected, when calamity was precipi- tated by an unforseen circumstance, The stage from Gailatin drew up in front of the International hotel one af- ternoon, and from it alighted a dainty, genteelly dressed young woman. She was clad in black, and an unmis- takable air of mystery surrounded her. She entered the hotel, anda noth- ing was seen or heard of her by the out- side world for a day or so, when a modest sign was hung out opposite the side door of the hotel stating that ‘Madame Louise’ was prepared to do millinery work for the female portion of Helena. Madame ILouise was the handsome and mysterious arrvival by the Gallatin coach. That was all she saw fit to make knowr of her personality or antecedents, and that was all that the public ever knew of her history. But the men all fell in love with her, toughs and all, The leadership in toughdom, after the hanging of Jim Daily, seemed to have fallen, by natural selection, to the paro of Bill Burr, one of Dasly’s chief aids, Bill got a fair load of Helena tanglefoot on board one day, not long after the pretty milliner had settled 1n Helena, and in the course of his remarks he referred in very warm and confident terms to the possibilities 1n the direc- tion of Mme. Loulse. He was promptl informed that he was wide of the mar! in his calculations, as it had become an open secret at the hotel that the milli- ner wazulreudy in love with Al Wor- rall, This threw Bill 1n & terrible rage. He swore that the statement was a lie and made a big wager that he woul come out ahead in the favor of the young woman, 44011 got all hunk with the milliner, he exclaimed, ‘or I’ll make Al Worrall crawl I’ *‘Al Worrll was a handsome young Philadelphian, and is remembered yet as one of the best amateur athletes that had ever settled in the west. Bill Burr’s bravado and boasting remarks soon reached the ears of both Mme. Louise and Worrall. Theyamused the lady, but made Al mad. Hothreatened, in the event of hearing any further re- marks of that kind from Bill Burr or any of his friends, that he would stand them on their heads. “The next day was alively one in Heleng, for it was Saturday, and miners had come in from all sides to make a day of it. Our engineer corps was at the International, and Saturday after- noon Al Worrall came into the bar- room to see some of the party with whom he was ncquainted. Al was a strict teetotaler. While he was there Bill Burr walked in with half a dozen of his toughs, and, striding to the bar, called all hands to step up and drink. A number of citizens, knowing of the presence of Worrall in the saloon, nat- urally supposed there would be & fuss, and came in to watch the result. Wor- rall refused to drink, because of his temperance habits, Bill worked him- self into an ugly fit. ‘*‘Any one that won’t drink with me,’ he shouted, with an oath, ‘will weigh more than he does now when Iget througy with him!’ ‘*Al, seeing that the remark was di- rected for him, turned slowly around, and placing a hand on each hip, said calmly and coolly: ‘*T have heard enough from you, Billl If you raise any more fuss in this room I'll'break your head!” *Bill stooped down, and placing both hands out before him 1n a pleading sort of way, suid: “*“Don’t shoot! don’t shoot!’ “All the while he kept coming closer to Al, as if he was afraid of him, stoop- ing low with all the appearance of fear. Worrall stood still, quietly watching the ruffian. ¢ nor no one else was prepared for Bill’s next act. When he got within ching distance of Wor- rall, quick as a flash he whipped a long murderous knife out of his boot ley, and plunged it into Worrall’s abdomen, giving it a vicious turn and twist as it dashed into his victim’s vitals, Worrall dropped to the floor. Bill started to go out. His frieuds crowded around him, and for a terrible moment nobody spoke a word, Then a young miner who had been quietly sitting by one of the windows, coolly rose up, and level- ing a revolver sent a bullet crashing through Bill Burr’s brain, The cow- ardly desperado fell doad in his trucks, Instantly Bill’s companions opened a fire upon all who were left in the room. The fire was returned, and the fusillade was fast and furious. Two of Bill’s gang dropped to the floor before they could reach the door, riddled with balls from outside and in, A third one in hurrying to escape, stumbled over an old miner, who Fu] remained siniu[{ tiltea back in his chair against the wal during the.entive affray. The flecing desperado made good his escape [rom the room,and jumping on his horse, started at Iul[’ run down the streot. The old miner rose from his chair like ashot. He reached behind the door, and pulling out an old army rifle, levelled it at the flying member of the gang, and fired. 'The desperado was forty rods away. With the erack of the old miner’s rifle he threw his hands in the air, tumbled headlong from his horse and never moved again, The mountaineer had sent his bullet lumb between the wretch’s shoulders. n less than three miautes from the time Bill Burr issued his invitation to the crowd to drink with him, he and three of his gung, were done for, and two of the best citizens of Helena lay dead on the floor. Other citizens wery badly wounded. An inquest was hel the deliberavions of which occupied just five minutes. The verdict wag such that next morning several more of Bill Burr’s friends were hanging by the nock from trees at different points sur- rounding Helena, none more than amila away. To the back of each one wag pinned, in large handwritting, plain enough for the blindest man to sce, this warning from the regulator TO ALL FRIENDS OF BILL BURR'S: GIT. nd that was the last of Jim Daily’s notorious gang, and the last of the rule of tha desperado in Helena. The leader of the regulators who accomplished the work was the same well-known judga from the cast who had conducted the hanging of Daily. The mysterioud milliner made a_great show of mourn« ing for poor Al Worrall for a time, and then set Helena in commotion by mar« rying the regulator judge. That pu her at the top notch of society in the town, and no one ever bothered himself theveafter about who she wasand where she came from, and nobody ever knew.” fo s ho Shower, James Whitcomb Riley, The landscape, like the awed face of a child, Grew curiously blurred—a hush of death Fell on the fields, and in the darkened wild The zephyr held its breatn No wavering glamor-work of light and shade Dappled tho shivering surface of the brook— The frightened ripples in their ambuscade Of willows thrilled and shook. Tho sullen day grew darker, and anon Dim flashes of pent anger 1t the sky— With rumbling wheels of wrath came rolb ing on The storm’s artillery, “The cloud above put on 1ts blackest frown-= And then, us with a vengeful cry of pain Phe lightning snatehed it—ripped and flung it down In raveled shreds of raln— While I, transfigured by some wodrous art, Bowed with the thirsty lillies of the sod: My empty soul brimmed over, and my hearf Drenched with the loved of God ! R SINGULARITIES, A calf with threo borns is a recent curiosh ty at Lenox, Jowa, From Bucksport (Me.) it is reported thas & cat is sitting on a nest of oggs which a hen had deserted. Lou Allen Sprint, a Baltimore child of three and one-half ycars, is nssisting 8y church entertainments and aswnishing peow ple by her proficiency on the piano. The natural gas question must be getting serious in Indlana if a farmer cannot go out on his porch and light his r!po without sot- i 11 out of doors and tho water well on as occurred neur Nobiesville u day ox two ago. A mouse attracted no little attention in the window of a Daubury, Conn,, merchant. Tha little fellow ran about among the goods, and ctimbed up to the top of the large show-win- dow and curtains, catehing #ln:n. He bas made the window his abode for several weeks, and keeps the flics away in the most approved manner, A Newfoundland dog in California, which lost its master, was found no less than threo different times trying to dig open bis grave, After the last visit, according to the San Fraucisco Bulletiu, the body, gzr BOME rea- son or other, was disinterred and the dog, upon snifting the cofMn, took to the *wocds and thereafter refused all food, Twin giris, weighing together only five pounds, eleven ouuces, were born in New ork a few days ago. The smaller one weighed two pounds, eight ounces. T'he at- tonding physician, in his report to the Bu- reau of Vital Statistics, said that ‘‘the ba- bies were healthy, possessed of good lunge and plessant ln appearanve,’