Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1889, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1889~SIXTEEN PAGES. FIFTY PER CENT DISCOUNT SALE ON SUITS E. F. McCARTNEY, for the Elite Cloak and Suit Company. Our Great 50 Per Cent Reduction Sale for the past four days has been a perfect SUCCESS. We have kept our agreement to the letter, viz’ ; to sell at 50c less on the dollar than the regular mavket price. It costs us MONEY to do it, but it pleases our customers and advertises our business. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we will make an- £ other sale on Suits, Costumes, Teagowns, Wrappers, and Beaded Wraps. Il,the balance ot our immense stock of White Embroidered Suits at cuffs, $2.45. About half of these are extra sizes, viz: 42 and 44, bust Sg\fier cent off the regular marked prices. measure. All to be sold at the same price $2.45. we have of Challie Suits, at 50 per cent off regular marked price. . i \ H { i All we have of Sateen Suits at 50 per cent off regular marked price erfigfgi'ggfy%%si%sé&% ?c?re ?gvgo ‘gzlltcl;\.Ed %nandofmts}?g;lgl;'%f aY:J)I,af;l1g Still Greater Reduction in Beaded Wraps. sizes, 42 and 44, bust measure. All to be sold at the same price $5.50. Wraps that were $6 $i $13.50 $14 and $18 2r;7ecian Dresses made of fine lawn, lace and embroidery, to be sold at Are now 2 $4.75, $6,50, $7 and $9 $3.75 each. Wrappers and Gowns at $1.20, $1.45, $2.35, $2.45, $2.60, $2.90 Hubbard Gowns of fine lawn, tucked yoke, embroidered collars and $3.50, Etc., Etc., Etc. 15 E. F. McCARTNE DUR FRONTIER JOURNALISY. A Fow Reminiscences of North Nebraska Nowspapers. AMID INDIANS AND COWBOYS. Rounding Up the Editor's Truth- Telling— A Missionary's Worldly Mindedness— The First Black Hills Report. Struggles of the Country Press. NiosrArA, Neb., July 19.—[Special to Trel s frontier jour- nalism is almo: ssting. Personal expe may secm egotis- tical, but if possessed of a point are usually allowable, and the reader for- gives reasonable astuteness. In 1874 1 started the first paper in Knox county, a little four-column folio, of which T am still the owner. At that time the only papers in northern Nebraska, drawing a line from the Missouri river west from Tekamah, were the following: The Tekamah Burtonian, West Point Re- publican, Dakota City Mail, Ponca Journal, Oakdale Journal and Niobrara Pioneer. From the Missour1 river nlong the Platte there were papers in each county as then organized; but the vast country north was the home of the sand lizard, the antelope and the deer. It was very THIN PICKING FOR NEWSPAPERS in those days; and the Omaha dailie: were little better than the provincial dailies 8f vur state to-da The editor- ial and reportorial conscience, however, was always safe, for there was no oppo- sition editor to dispute your reportor| lie about a big crop, an Indian s heavy immigration, cr a scarcity grasshoppers. My position at this point was rather a peculiar one, from the fact that tho Niobrara route was a much-talked-of one for the Black Hills country. My first sensationalrovort was a fight, made by a band of Indians upon a party of eight white men who had gone up the Niobrara valley, BOUND FOR THE BLACK HILLS, They weut into camp where Paddock postofilee is now located, at the mouth of Eagle creek. At about 9 o’clock the Indians came down upon the party and a lively fight .~.mu-5,kining one and wounding three white men. The re- maining party picked up the dead and wounded, reaching here early in the morning. An indignation meeting was held by our citizcns, denouncing in strong terms THE TREACHERY OF TIIE INDIANS, and addressing in as vigorous language a long communication to Governor Gar- ber, praying for fire arms and powder. ‘While we received neither, the little paper had the.credit of the first report of the battlo, which went the rounds of the press. That me fall the Indi der at Ponca agency had been jailed at Yank- ton for solling liquor to the Indians. From what I could gather from men who had been on the inside, the agent was a silent partnerin the tradership. I denounced the agent in not very po- lite terms undor a faming ‘‘scare” head, reading HMODOC BITTERS ¥FOR LO!? and held that the agent should help serve out tho sentence. The ngent im- mediately wrote me a savage letter de- manding redress or he should begin a st for libel. Being young and after lory, I published his® letter, bidding fiim, YCome on, Macduft!” He «ll'ommh the subject, but the state and territorial ress goye him and the little frontier ournal some free advertising, He vory 8oon after made his residence in Omaha and o few yenrs later came very nearly getting through a steal of over 830,000, claimed to boe money advanced to the Poncas, but the payment was stopped 1n the treasury dopartment. During this period a prominent mis- sionary among tho Indians, who had a most estimable wifs and a family of boys, GAINED A RAD REPU TION for familiarity with the dusky temales under his charge. His appetite for strong drink became scandulous. One day Dr. W. A, Burleigh, who was doing Dbig business in contracts and steamboat- ing from Yankton to upper river points stopped off at Niobrara foug enough to invite the boys into the X saloon.” As he poured out his “‘red " the doc tor said 1n his thundering tones so well Known by all who knew him, “*That high priest down hore says he drinks whil because the water’s bad; but by ——, I drink itbecause I hike it.” Soon after this the missionary in question visited Niobrara with other dignitaries of the Indian service and drank freely of fire-water. He held up his glass, a: Xun he waa [paying the customary compli- ents to free drinks, remarked, * lemen, I take this FOR SACRAMENTAL PURPOS! The little infantile puper strack a new gensation, until the bishop was forced to depose this missionary from his sacred ofico, It resulted in one of the great- est occlesiastical trinls ever held in the west, finally going into the courts. It was settled about & year since and a compromise made by which the bishon gave the missionary a ceruticate of charater. He is now peaceably atv work training the christian character of the ludian in another field, and has a o5l S i N b quarter-bred wife who is young pretuy. In the fall of 1874 GORDON'S BLACK HILLS PARTY, it will be remembered by old settlers, silently stole into the Black Hills to do ting and report what kind of a in store for the waiting thousands, In February,18 sordon and Witcher reached Niobrara just as my lit- tle “‘grasshopvered sheet” was getting ready for the press. Having reached Niobrara in the evening, they remained all night, and I had the satisfaction, if nothing more, of getting the first relin- ble news from the great gold fields, and it was not until two days after that the daily press knew of it. In those days such news was as good as finding Stan- ley, for the country west of us was unsettled and no com- munication whatever was possible until Niobrara or Fort Randail were reached, The following May I furnished a friend with a pony to make the hazardous trip to the Hills with TIE FIRST ADYV RERS, the result of whichis in the following telegram: FORT RANDALL, Dak., Ma 5 —Ed A. Fry, Niobrara, Neb. Place, your pony ‘Puss” und mysell are in the hands of the military, and have concluded to postpone our trip to the Black Hills. Will probably see you next week. D BUSIINELL, The old Texas cattle trail came to the Missouri river at this place. From 15,000 to 20,000 cattle g every summer for the military postsand Indian agencies above. An outfit stopped here soveral days and PROPOSED A BALL, and requested the customary report. The ‘*‘all-around” editor, reporter and devil slicked himself up and made s as agreeablo us possible. The sear of avomen in that early time killed false pride if there was fun in sight, and the ball came off according to arrangements. I gave the affair a good send-off, having borrowed an ancient fashion magazine and put the women 1 a_very fashionable light, I ume; while each sed in vario s shades of in style from a full dvess to a linen duster. On their return they met another out- fit, and the glowing ‘account of the ball induced them also to work up one. The women were MAD AT THE EDITOR for giving publicity to their names and refused to go. One of the cowboys, whose man-killing reputation was no- torious, found me at my desk as he en- tered the office, Are you the editor?”’ he asked. I good-naturedly replicd that I was, 15, 1¢ to which he saic ‘Say, young feller, those wimmin down ~yonder won’t go to our bull be- cause you put their names in yer paper.” s that so?” [ replied; “you wouldn’t mind if I put your nome'in the paper and dressoed you in broadeloth, would you?” 5 *Oh, no, by ——, that’s good; but I want you to apologize to them wimmin.” “Why, cortiinly, anything for accom- modation,” I replied, and i took hi; and we chatted pleasantly to the place appointed. Here three or four irato woman stood waiting for us. As we en- tercd the cowboy said: “NOW, YOUNG FELLER, APOLOGIZE!” 1 did so with the best grace I knew how, and after I had made my deep bow with: - “'Ladies, I apologize,” I turned to the fellow and asked, “‘How’s that¥” #By ——, that’s good,” and he jumped on” his horse, fired the contents of hL revolver into tho air and rode off. As “‘eivilization” increased I got my- self in hot water. Not being a Sullivan I was usually overpowered by my ad- versaries. 1t wus 1o uncommon thing for me to get pommelled for refusing to take ba my assertions or charges; and as for being hung or burned in efiigy, it soemed to be a pleasant pastime for vic- torious politician In 1870 Niobrara had grown suffi- ciently to think that TWO NEWSPAPEIS WERE NECESSARY, and two traveling “‘prints” put up a sign, and Hon, A. L. Towle, our last representative, bicked them, with Mr. Miner W. Bruce, Tur BEEeS Alaska correspondent, as editor. Everything wentalong apparently in good trim until fall, when polities vather divided opin- ions with \Lu company, and somebody got away with the newspaper heading, and the two printers stole the press and type and removed them to another building. Towle was watching the orinting outfit a block off during the [isue of replevin papers, but when the sheriff went for the material there was none to be found. One of the printors had remained in front of the oflice at- tracting Towle’s attention, while the other printer wasloading the outfit into a wagon from the back door. The ar- rangement had been well planned, and A boat wus in readiness at the river bank to take on the material. It was thouygnt by Bruee that they were going to sail down the river, and he hitehed a team intending to head them off at Yankton, but they only crossed into Daliota, where they planted the print- ing office beside some cord-wood and got out the current issue on time, REVOLVERS ¥OR CO#Y HOLDERS and a canvas sheeting for aroof. The printers who held down this institution are Tom Smith, of the Ainsworth Star, and Burley Hill. of the Chadron Demo- orat, At e cenetery moeting the secretary of the association presumed to address mo a3 & — — — -, when [ jumped for ascal lyabg on the table aud brought it down well-aimed, t0 his but luckily an avm came in botween the seal and the skull, I found 1t necesst aver carried. One day a accosted me.on the didg me to *‘take back 1 immediately something 1 had said. t and pointed drew forth my thirty itat him. “You think You've ADVANTAGE,” said, as ho grow livid he ad he v now to provide myself with a rovolver, l wintage, sir, by o large ma- ority, and I'm going to keep it,” I re plicd. The excitement subsided, and I sold the vevolver beet of its burden Nebraska’s frontier journalism is fast passing aw The froutier towns of ten or twenty years ago are now com- munities worthly of a higher name; yot as we pass into the more mportant channels of business, where |||w-\}|mls re brought down to a system and the opposing elements keop you busy, the curly struggles and inconveuniences of frontier life bring pleasant memories, when every man was your friend and cach shared the little he had. b AL FrY. — - olden Rod. Boston Traveller. “The way 18 long, the lost boy said; The stars were shining overhead; The silence of the deep black woods, ‘Pheir i and deathlike solitudes, And unseen dangers round bim lay, Great_shadows rose and barved the way. caid to pass, he paused and wept, Lay down upon the moss and slept. In dreams a mother suothed his foars; The night dews mingled with his tears, And like forgotten sunbeams there About_him strayed his golden bhair, A snake bencath his outstretched arm Slipped by, nor sought to_do him barm; At midnight, when the winas were wild, An angel came and found the child. The woods were blighted by the frost, Dead leaves above the dead were tossed; Came winter on a flying cloud, And clad him in a snowy shroud; And spring a maid from holy lauds, Put purplo violets in his hands; And summer scut her birds to sing Where bis still heart lay moldering. “'he sun, the snow, the wind, tho rain, Resolved lim back to dust dgaing il sutumn, in the wilderness, ®ound nothing but a sitken tress; She wound 1t on a slender rod, ‘And sev it in the withered sod, Andeso the lost boy’s golden locks Make giory on the lichened rocks. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Minnie Pdlmer gocs 1o Burope July Neil Burgess will probably mever act again, Rose Coghlan is spending hier vacation in Monterey, Cal. William H. Crane 18 passing the summer at Cohasset on Hoston Bay. Roland Reed is in the Katsklis, where he is hunting the festive trout. Laura Joyce Bell proposes to star next seuson iu & comedy now being written. Miss Georgie Dixon, one of the best old women in the profession, goes with Gillette’s “Legal Wresk” next scason. Burt s watching waves” at Nantucket. This cleve is not yet engaged for next season. sic Leslie is now practicing fencing, and tules much delight in her lessons, It is said shie is becommg quite an adept with the foil. It is reported that Berubardt failed to wake u great impression in “*As in a Look- luss” in London, except in the death | the ‘‘sad sea seubrette ohn A, Harrington has written & play for my IRussell eutitled “The Karl's Heir, 1 this youthful actor will star pext Scanlon closes his tour of Great Britain’ this week, and after visiting the Paris exposition will return to this country in time to begin his next starring tour, which opens témber 2 in Cleveland. Mr, Nat Roth puts upon the road carly next season an opera company which wiil produce “Ermnie” and “Nudjy" in the principal citics. Miss Helen Lamont will be the prima donua of the organization, Miss Beverly Sitgreaves, the handsome and clever young actress, who was formerly a mewber of the Ltosina Vokes company, has been cngaged by Kate Claxton to play the leading juyenile part in “Captaim Swift” next scason. Lawrence Barrett 18 in Germany. He writes to friends in New York that hie is cn- joying his visit, and will rcturn to this coun- try Septewber 1 to prepare for his costly production of William Young's new tragedy of “Ganelon.” The famous company of the Theater Fran- cais 18 fulling to pieces very rapidly. Cogue- Lin, Delaunay aud Maubant have retired al- ready, Thirron and I3arre are invalids, and M. Febyre will o next year, Of the lead- ers, MM. Worms and Mounet-Sully only will remain, Mr. Richard Mansfield bas engaged Mme, Ponisi to play the Duchess of York in his production of “Ricbard LL” at Palmer's theater, New York, and Atkins Lawrence to enuct Richmond. The latter is noi a very promising selection, Miss Alice Chapin, who loft these shores receutly to_wmake a professional deput in London as Virginia, i a play adapted from the French of M. Latour Saint-y-Bars, is with a pleasing proseuce, an agree- a clear elocutionary method and evident intelligence; but she does not seem, wccording to the newspaper reports, to be fitted at present for roles requiring the ex- bibition of strong feeling. M, Coquelin recited & new monologue en- titled “La Mouche,” st the actors' beu®y leut fund beneflt, urranged by Mr. Irving, in London. The smartly written little picco is descriptive of the pro 78 of a fly which interrupted a wedding by seutliug on the bridegroom's uose, and thereby cavned, firsy his vengeful indignation and then his grate- ful cor ‘fhe comedy of the man's to perfection, ng iarie Wainvright's version Twelfth Night, as arranged for her by Beu Teal, will be published within a wacks. The play wul have its first pro- duction in this v which is, purely Shakespearean, at during August HBesides the text tu buok will contain an luctioa to the play by George Edgar Montgomery — historical, descriptive and ad_an cpilogue 'in blank verse by the same Guthor to be speken by hhies Wain- wright, ROMANTIC AND OTHERWISE Matrimonial Matters of Great Inter- est on the Coast. MRS. CROCKER’S LAST VENTURE Wedded Because She Wanted to Be a Widow—Death Ends Divorce Proceedings—Burial of Millionaire Flood, Our San Francisco Letter. SAN FrANCISCO, July 18.—[Corre- spondence of Tue BEE.]—Interesting events in a matrimomal way have cre- ated considerable gossip in this city in the past few days. A wedding, which has attracted more attention than any other for many years, was that of Mrs. Amy Ashe Crocker and Harry Gillig, which occurred recently in New York. It furnished the theme of conversation among club men and in society, and much speculation has been indulged in. The event was not unexpected, but Gil- Iig’s friends believed he would never marry the woman, although he was known to be very ‘fond of her. Mrs. Crocker is the daughter of Judge E. B. Crocker, brother of the late Charles Crocker, of the Southern Pacific rail- rond. When the judge died he left several millions to ‘his wife and only daughter, Amy was always a wild, headstrong girl, and six years ago she paralyzed society at her home in Sac- ramento by eloping with a young law- yer named Peter Ashe, who was hand- some but poor. Her mother soon be- came reconciled and ‘gave the young couple a home on Van Ness avenue in this city, which cost $250,000. One of its features was a plunge bath room that was twenty feet long. 'T’he Ashes used to give bathing rties, with guests in striking costumes, and with unlimited champagne on the sideboard. Porter loved horses and fast women, and h shared his taste for the former, while she had a pretty fancy for some rapid men about town. The result was constant quarrels and final separation about three years ago. Porter devoted himself to gathering a racing stud, while his wife went to live with her mother in Los Angeles. There she became infatuated with Harry Gil- lig, a very handsome young fellow, who was a prominent real estato broker in the big land boom. He is a son of John Gillig. of Nevada, and no relation to the Gilligs of the Americ change in London. He her constant attendant, and when she got her divorce from he last winter he accompanied her to New York and became her companion to fashionable - watering places. Mrs. Crocker is a very pretty blonde, dresses exquisitely and’ always arouses great attention here by her Worth costumes WEDDED 80 SHE COULD WEAR CRE Another matrimonial event booked for the near future is given unusual in- terest by the bride’s former marriage, which created a sensation at the tim The lady’s name is Frankie Brown-Mc- Kee, the daughter of the late Hiram Brown, who was a wealthy resident of Onkland. Upon the death of her father Miss Frankie fell heir to $50,000, and she immediately started in to enjoy life at o 1ather rapid rate, Among her throng of acquaintances was & dashing widow, who became the bosom friend of the young heivess. Irankie admired tho ways and manners of her friend, and thought that if she could only be- come a widow herself she would posse: all the attractions which she so greatly envied. She _sought the ad- vice of her frend, Caplain Rich- ard Apgar, who has since died. He told her fo marry some man who was dying and offered to secure such a bridegroom. Krank Brown assented. Captain Ap; friend, Dr. Anson A. Du Puy, was treating for consumption a young' printer named Frank McKee. The young man was informed of the young lady’s desire, and also of her offer to pay his expenses until he died and to provide for nis funeral. The printer was dazzled by the glittering offers and lost no timeiin consenting to the marriag Miss Brown called upon McKee, was satisfied with the deathly pallor of his cheeks and married him. Then she hied her to & dressmaker’s.| and ordered an elaborate funeral trous- seau, The printer lingeved along; too long his bride thought, - From time to time wora was brought to her from the sick- bed. The reports which told her that her husband was fast nearing his end were encouraging, and they were usually accompanied with little bills for attendance upon him which she prompt- ly paid. Finally she decided to satisfy herself by ocular demonstration that McKee was not gong to vepudiate his contract by living She was proceeding down Droadwa, Oulkland one day with the intention of visiting her husband in this city, but as she was about to ‘board a train a hand was laid upoa” her arm. Tarning her head, her eyes rested upon a well-built, broad-shouldered young man, with th glow of health in his cheeks and a well- rounded stomach that betrayed great intinacy with the good things of life. It was her husband. She nearly fainted, but recovered quickly and upbraiged McKee for not dving on. sched- became ule time. She emphatically announced that she would not live him, whereupon he demanded a c sottlement. Frankie honored hi; mands and they were renewed. strain was too much for her purse and she fled to Burope to escape her hus- band’s importunities, When he saw that he had iost her, MeKee took to drink, and 1 about months died in a blissful state of intoxication. Then his widow quit hobnobbing with foreign potentates and rf‘mruvh home, taking up Ler abode in San Francisco. It was not long before Arthur Newton, better known as Arthur Buscombe, an actor, dawned up- on her sion. He was fair to look upon, an Englishman, thir years of age, tall and well builf, his blond curly locks making a nice contrast with the widow-bride’s auburn ringlets. Newton belongs to a good family, and since Frankie Brown-Me- Kee has consented to become his bride, he has abandoned the stage and now vepresents an_eastern manufacturing house. The lady will soon fly towards the rising sun, where the nuptials will be celebrated, after which she and Ar- thur will visit the Oriental countries of the far West. THE DIVORCE e is something pathetic mantic in the circumstances that at- tended a funeral in Oakland Sunday. A. . BEvans, a wealthy Oakland merchant, died last week. Some time previous to his demise he had nstituted divorce proceedings against his wife, who has been residing in Honolulu, and made some very ous charges against her. aturday the lady, with her daughter, arrived by the steamer Umatilla from Honolulu, and Sunday, instead of defending her char- acter in a divorce court, she stood by the grave of the man who assailed it. The father of her children lies cold in death, while the grim spectre of divorce and misery fades from the woman’s sight, and harsh thoughts and sense of insult gave place to tears. MILLIONAIRE FLOOD'S Millionaire Flood laid away in this city ceremonies which usually attend an interment. The body was brought from Paris, where Flood died, accompanied by the widow and davghter of the mil- liona. Upon the arrival of the car the remains were taken 1in charge by Nathaniel Grey, the undertaker, and placed in a vault in Cavalry cemetery only the members of the family und a fow intimate friends being presont. It was expected that services would be held, but the family explain that the funeral services were held in Paris, and that the body was brought back here to its final resting place pur- suunt to @ request of deceased. It will lie in #he vault only tem- porarily, as amausoleum will be built on the Flood lot in Calvary, in which the body will be entombed. I LTH OF THE CITY, The June report of the board of health shows a total number of 398 deaths, against 479 for the correspond- ing month of 1858, Upon a population basis of 830,000 this gives a mortality rate of 14.47 per 1,000 a very healthy showing for a ¢ity of this s No con- tagious di s were reported for the mouth, and the list of causes of death are given under the following heads: Zymotic diseases, 34; constitutional dis- cases, 10 il diseases, 180: develop- mental d , 613 violent deaths, 25, The daily mean temperature for the month was 58.12, The highest re- corded was 74.6= on the 80th, and the lowest 52,22 on June 2 COUNTING MILLIONS OF MONEY, At the United States branch mint in this city the work of counting is pro- gressing rapidly. The coin contained in large sacks holding $1,000 of the precious metal is loaded upon trucks that hold #25,000. The coin is then hauled to the scales and the sacks weighed separately, while a force of clerks keeps tally There are now stored in the mint $6,000.000 in gold and $25,000,000 in silver, The count is progressing at the rate of $2,000,000 per day. REMAINS, remains have beon , but without the THE DEADLY SCALE BUG, State Entomologist Motheral has been engaged during the past few days in an investigation of the scale bug in the vicinity of Menlo park. Itis reported by him that the work of the scale in that vicinity has been most damaging. The only successful remedy so far koown for the pest is the Australian beetle, which is now being imported from the colonies in large numbers. Mr. Motheral says hé intends soon to secure a competent and trustworthy man to send to Australia for a fres! supply of the beetle. Nearly all the fruit now sold in the ma t is affected by the scale bug. SMILED WHEN 70 DIE. Anotner Chinaman has been sen- tenced to death by Judge Murphy Wong Ah Hing is the victim’s name, and he is the murderer of Wong Bing See. The judge r the unusually atrocious circumstances of the crime, dwelling upon the fact that the de- ceased was the vncle of his murderer, often ded the latter, and 5 d in the back by him just after having given him a dinner. ““Have you anything to say why sén- tence of death should not be proncunced against you?" asied the judge. Nothing much,” replicd th oner, laconically; “‘nothing at all. Judge Murphy then sentenced the immovable Mongolian to be hanged September 6, which being translated to Wong Ah Hing, the latter nodded pleasantly, and sat down with a smile. NTENCED pris- SUMMER QUIPS, Chicago Mail, Life As It Ought to Be. envy the succulent frosh-cut ment Laid out in the big ico-box; cuvy the butter its cool rotreat, Aud tho radish und celery stalks— In fact, 1 can conjure up nothing so sweet As to have a snug place in a big ice-box. Death's Advantage. Who can declaro that to be drownod Is not a pleasant thing! Who kuows_but what, onco undor ground, The soul begins to ‘singt At least this argument is sound, It ends thus blistering. on, Not The heat may squeleh the merc Iu may tho banker rich annoy; It may knock out John Sullivan, But not tho riotous small boy! ant: man, With the Mercury at 90, A languor lassitudinous, Begotten of the heat, Make rhyming platitudinous And epigram effete. Work grows, forsooth, depress One greets o whiff of air Most gladly, as a blessing brig Lo breathe becomes a care. quite; What is 3ho Explanation? Did you really overtram, Jake' Kilrain? Could you mot_stand the strain, Jake Kilrain? Were you fouled or mistroated! Did you got overheated? Or--please_make 1t plain, Jake Kilrain, RMINT DROPS. The man who says that ice-watoris n jurious has been warned to leave town. The lawn-mower 18 a good deal liko the keeper of a bucket shop—it shaves the groen. Dr. Brown-Sequatd’s new elixir of lifo is o from dogs. Probmbly some infusion of PEPP] ‘This is the turning period in the life of the farmer's boy if there is & grindstone on the place, If grass, when it is cured, becomes ha what do grass widows, whon they are cu become, h Lord Tennysou is writing a §1,000 poem for an’ English - ma, thus ' beating his famous charge b, “Chats Apout Cucumbers” is the name of seasonablo volume which (should prove ex- cellent summer reading. The husbands of society leaders have one merit which their wives cannot claim—they try to conceal thoir busts. The long talked of railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem is soon to be constructed. Jay Gould hasn’t taken any stock in it as yet. Six men w Indiana have been arrested for going fishing with aynamite cartridges. True fishermen should draw the line at shiot: guns, We have it on the word of Mr. Muldoon that “ring fighting 1s too brutal)’ It is singular that Mr. Muldoon didn’t thinic of this before. The men who were “mentioned for refero at the prize fight are now prouder than p cocks, and every one of them calls himself a major at least, ‘Thare is something nice about balance of trade. For instance, o farmer comes to the city loaded with hay and returns home loaded with rye. It is gratifying to be assured that the Earl of Fife, wiois soongto wed the English i wost examplary man. Life, it out o i 100t and neck race to borrow o clas- n o § sumwmer suit of ate s to which ing the next six sical clothes and a coll will shriuk the most d months, We wish some one would figure out how often the same crop can be destroyed in one year and yet bea pretty good crop at the ond. Wheat secms 10 havo us many lives us u cat, and as for peaches | A man who kicked in a hand organ got two years in the penitentiary for his offense, If this tariff is to be regularly enforced it would be cheaper for a suffering and infuriated listener to ksick the organist., ritime is putting trousers on the young women of Hayti, placing muskets in” their hands and sending them to the front, 1t did not take hun long to decido the question, *What shall we do with our girls?” chencle called on the presi- AS the president’s silary is only §50,000 a year, and as a novice at the iraguo is likcely to'bou'wildly on o small pair, e result of that visit will be awaited with upprehension, The Summe New York Mail and Erpress, And sho warries, Three years more All those charms of youth are o'el Gone for e'er. Now those winsome, witching oyes Do not flash like summer skics, No; thoy stare. Now she wears no saucy hat, And her feet don't pit-u-sat As she walks, cotost music no more slips From what once were maddening lips As sho talis, Now the gaiters trim aud neat Do not fascinate the street As of yore. But they calmly, slowly pas And they tramplo down the g “B B4 Dimples don't piay hide and seek In ber rather chubby cheek. Girls, look out! Now she hates Lo £0 up stalrs, For she's_gelting, unawares Perhaps, stout, —— Ananias Woodrufl, the Confessor, Chicago News. olden times when men told tales As wild as those our Woodruff coius, The wrath of heaven descended swift, And lo, they packed off to—Des Moines. Stand witness Jewish Auanias, In But now heaven leaves them to the fate Of crucifixion in tue papers, As witness Woodruft, 'wid liars great Heside whose bald mendacious capers The Jewish Lar's lio was pious. 16 Douglas Street THE BICGEST MAN IN FRANCE, Unquestionably He is Our Own and Only Buffalo Bill. HOW ROYALTY GETS THE RAZOO, While the Wild West's Warriors Arve Whooving, Are Paw and Dukes a Drug on the Market. hocs Colonel Cody Trinmphs. PARis, July 4.—[Special to Tire —Tlere at the foot of Colonne Vendome is located for the next month your Ne- braska correspondent. Two weeks from the day we left the metropolis of our state and the American west we were here, well settled 1n the finest city of the world. Our trip was one of the quickost. Still we had our eyes and eaws wido open all the time. Leaving New York on the Eutrurin of the Cunard line on the aftercoon of June 22, in seven d we were in Laverpool, The voyage was raugh the first two days. On the fourth we saw_icebergs for some three or four hours far to the northwest of us. We kept far south of the usual course to steer clear of them, Our trip will long he remembered by the 640 passengers and the outside world on account of the great gambling on board; and the one day and night trial by jury that it foreed our passen- gers to have. Gambling was active for the first three days by professionals. The large smoking saloon of the steamer was filled to its utmost by active participants in all lines of gam- mg. Two professionals were at mond cut dinmond” when on the thir day the Spanish duke (dude is far more appropriate), lost his wad, by an Beyptian-Itahian. He refused to pay the whole wager. falling short $75. He was forced to give an 1. O. U. for the amount and complained. A judge was selected, jury regularly empan- neled, attorneys selected, shorthand reporter sccured, and the trial opened in regular order under the direction of the comir i » of the ship. lively and exciting in ot blood was shown on ud was shown in evi- and the w e allowed to keep his winnings. Before the trial began each party was required to putup 2llow gold” to the full amount of the stakes so the trial would bhe no farce. rs, among whom we had W national officials and church dig nitaries, got up a strong protest to gam- bling on board, and addressed it to the Cunard company. We hope it will work its desired end. We also had a ¢ 3 passenger, who was on the hunt for Dr. vonin’s murderer. He was placed in ons by the captain twice, and finally reached merry England in the cruel shackels We were present at Woestminster abbey on tho arrival of the shah of 1 Met him and witn royal re ception by old Eng all, nations mikes the big turnout an greatest display to royal potent: whose favor it desires to secur 1,000,000 people witnessed the prince of Wales and the shah steam up the Thames and land at Westminster., The river was lined on either side for miles, All house tops, monuments, towns and church tops and openings were crowded with enger faces. ['rom London to Paris via Dover and Calais, the trip is only nine hours, The trip through gland will supply ma- erial for a letter hereafter, T is finished isiand of the globe. With this quick flight we are landed into a foreign nation, where cverything is strangely different, and thoe English language and money are Many of the eabmen and public g can speak our langunge, but will not, as their pretended i gnorance adds many sous to their daily i Wo soon found plensant quarters, and then for our mail and friends. Of course a Nebraska man could not forget Luropes present great attraction—*'Buffalo Bili.” We took a cab for Buffulo Bill, and we #oon landed at his exteusive grounds just outside the city walls, We found flim hard at work in the arvena, leading in e , his fine collection of Indinns and cowboys, all mounted on the finest American cow horses, in their full and native costumes, The sight was more than thrilling, with his large Amer ican band dropping in as interludes our national airs, My, Cody is to-day the greatest per- sonage on this continent. He is more sought after, gets move invitations to great receptions and public gatheriugs, und the people of this country will go farther and do more to s and speuk with him than with any other individ- ual in this land. Dukes, duchesses, counts and count- ess08, pr s and princesses pay royal prices for boxes for weeks and mouths at a streteh at his show, Mr. Cody justly merits all this attention and re ognition. Hoe hus a great show, and is giving this people, in 1 life, a per- fect representatfon of the pioneer life of Americ . H No {1 that” of An Abso The ORIGINAL ABLETLY & OINTHMRNT is oply put up in large two-ounce tia bexes, and i3 an absolute cure for old gores, b wouads, chapped haads, and all skin esup. tions, Will positively cure all kinds of v Asi for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE O i’ Sold by Goodman Drug cempany at nis per box by mail 40 coata