Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 11, 1889, Page 11

TS 1S & HEAVENLY FAD, | How New York's Wealthy Women Slum For Oharity. THE VASSAR GIRLS AT PLAY, They Dance and Shont and Nanghty Songs They Sing—Gushing Maid- ens—Advice to Bride and Groom. A Fad Wnich Angela Bloss, Slumming is the most heavenly fad ever affected by a woman of fashion, says the New York World., And just now, when people of abundant means are leaving the city and the tenement poor are succumbing to the enfeebling boat of summer and the hardships re- sulting from a dearth of clean water and fresh air, the interest and encour- agement from the ladies who go through the slums are boautiful beyond expres- sion. A lady living in the shadow of the Park Avenue hotel, who will not permit her name to be used, has relig- iously performed the self-assigned task of helping ten poor families to help themselves every week since the 1st of May. She says: ““We are going to spend July and August at the seashore, and I wanted to earn the right to enjoy so much plensure. I haven’t a great deal of money to bestow, but every dayl am convinced that the helpless and hapless want something else besides money. They want work first of all, and then some special instruction (to be peda- Rgogic) as to the best investment of tha money and the most economical way of living. Daughter and I give Monday and Wednesday mornings to actual vis- iting in the tenement sections. “Generally we start out to find a famn- ily euggested by an aid society, and in the search almost countless cases of gickness and destitution, ail worthy of assistance, thrust themselves upon our .sympathy. We find them in rear buildings, on top floors, in straits of poverty that are touching beyond de- seription, In such extremes money must be advanced before any mission- ary work or ethical culture is possible. ‘We show oune housewife how to keep her kitchen and bed-room clean, an- other how to reduce her grocery and meat bills, and others, again, the way to patch old clothes and procure new ones. We personally appeal to eruelly negligent land agents for better sur- roundings; we provide tickets for the uge of machines in free institutes and factories,, and distribute cards bearing the name and address of intimate friends who promise to give the bearer aday’s worlk, some suitable clothing or a few dollars when the card is pre- sented. *We have shown fifteen women how to prepare inexpensive and wholesomo dishes, such as soup, cream tonsts, egg salad, fish ball and potato patties for breakfast and supper in order to dis- nse with meat, and a dozen at least 1 ave taken to marketand introduced to wholesale dealers who generously agreed to furnish everything at nctual cost and considerable for nothing. It’s a trifle, to be sure, to say we teach mothers how to care for their children, but it’s pitiful to see the success with which they are neglected. In one W!fik v:is cn}rrllod ‘about nlbuq with odds an s of shoes, properly fitting the llw\nggest and taking away in exchange the shorter shoes. At the same time we solved the problem of clean heads by shingling the matted tresses, puying euch child 25 cents who consented to be shorn by the clipping machine. A few families we assisted to procure oil stoves, and everywilbre we preached against the robbery of the pawnshop system. One friend offered to buy up $300 worth of .pawn tickets, and as his agent we redeomed 160 articles, show- ing the loans to average less than $2. There were shawls, tools, albums, wed- ding rings, beds, pillows, household furniture, flutirons, scissors, pieces of jewelery, watches, umbrellas, furs and Bhoes and clothing, wash boilers, tubs and wringers in ubundance. One little pair of shoes we redeemed belonged to & dead child, and with the 25 conts ad- vanced on them the poor mother had purchased white crape to tie round the bell- pull. 'We can’t do much, the need is so reat, but the little we try to accomp- ish makes an excuse for the summer outing we enjoy 8o much. *The other day T met Mrs. Hicks- Yord returning from a Friday slum- ming. She was coming from Essex stroet, and boarded a cross-town car to go to her home in Washington square. he was dressedin a black cotton suit. Lisle thread gloves covered her hands, and from the brim of abluck straw bonnet & heavy baize veil fell over her face. Itwas evident thatshe aid not wish to be recognizea, but the nickel with which she paid her fare was the last coin in her purse,and a black shop- ping bag that she carried was also empty. Ungallant Proverbs About Women. A contributor to the Freisinnige Zei- lunF has collected from all the foremost nations of the world a heap of *‘prov- erbs of men concerning women.” {t ap- pears from them that the sontherre peo- ples, who count themselves the most chivalrous and gallant toward the ladies, are more coarse and insulting in their proverbs than the colder north- erners. Although the Germans, the Seandinavians and the English are not complimentary to the women in their roverbs, they are ‘‘rarely brutal.” The 'venchman says: ‘‘A man who has a wife has a plague;” ‘‘A man made of straw is worth double as much as a woman made of gold.” The Spaniard soys: “A woman's advice is never of lll{ use, but unless you follow it she will rail at you as a fool;” *‘Be on your guard against a bad woman, but do not ut your trust in a good woman;” “There is only one bad woman, but every husband bolivves he esses bher.” The Ttalians say: *If & man loses his wife and a farthing he has only lost a fartbing.” The chief failings of the sex, according to a whole host of English and German proverbs, are changeableness and talkativeness, the former of which is equally true of men, and the latter not disagrecable to men in the Latin nations. The charge that “Women’s minds and April winds often change,” and the statement that “‘A woman’s strength lies in her tongue,” appear to be accepted in various read- ings vhroughout Northern Europe. The specimen of a Yankee proverb is char- acteristi Women can keep a secret, but it takes a big crowd of them to do it.” The Chinese suy that *A woman’s tongue is her sword,” but ‘‘She never lets it grow rusty. Sweet Sophomores Have a Frolic. ‘When the Vassar freshman attains the dignity of a sophomore, just before the close of her college year she selects some desirable tree on” the campus at the one beueath which her college records shall be buried on class day two ears later, says the New York Sun. 'his tree is decorated with an appro- | priste wmblem like an iron dog collar or girdle, which is locked about the tree with a shield bearing the class motto and date, while sparkling college songs are sung and brave college cheers re- sound, This ceremony was marred this ear by a most inconsiderate shower. Pt the slender girl orator spake full bravely if rather damply from under an umbrella, which the president held over her head, and after the ceremony, the girls threw their umbrellas on the grass, all joined hands and danced about the trees singing the naughty lit- tle song: ‘Wo don't keep our lights up to study and cram, Vive 1o 0L In claes wo ma flunk, but we don't care a— it. Vive la'01. Let teachers and faculty scold as they will, We'll laugh and be merry from founders to Phill, We'll paint the town red and send home the bill Vive 1a 91, 0, our own college colors, the red and tho gray, Vive 1a '01. Are quite good enough for this class and day, Vive in ‘0L And '01 doesn’t care what thoy sny, 91’8 going to have its 0wn way. 01 sticks to the rose and the gray, Vive la 9l The rose and the gray are are Vussar college colors, and no class before has had sufficient temerity to appropriate them to itself. The song changed to: Come, classmates, fill your glasses up And take a brief vacation; Let no past flupk disturb your mind With undue perturoation, For to-night we'll merry be, Next week's examination. 'Tis well to study hard With frequent recreation, 8o fill your s with lemonade And drink it with elation. And then with a final “‘Rah, rah, rah, rah, '011” they come marching up the walk singing: He guve us lecture one And we thought it was great fun, So he kept n-talking ov. Then he gave us number two, And we felt so very blue, But he kept a-talking on. Then he gave us number three; We were tired as could be, B t he kept a-talking on. Then he gave us number four, And it got to be a bore, But he kept a-talking on. Then he came to twenty-five, Not a student did survive, Stilt he kept a-tulking on. On class day this emblem is buried with the class records beneath the tree. The members of all the classes join in the procession to the tree in their dainty gowns. Each class has its mar- shal in a trailing dress, and at the head march those who take part in the cere- monies, which are very impressive, and at the close of which the little coffin is buried and u stone set above it, and the president of the seniors hands down to the president of the juniors the spade with which Matthew Vassar broke the soil for Vassar college, and with it all the privileges and dignity of seniovs. The Girl Who Gushes. Fvery one knows or has seen the “‘gushing girl,” says the Toledo Blade. She is not a rare specimen and can be found most anywhere upon the face of the globe, and though she is generally anonentity in regard to brains and good common sense, she is still,to a cer- tain extent, able to do & good deal of harm to her more sensible sisters: As a general thing she is disliked by her own sex, who have no patience with her wild flights of fancy, while a man will listen and be half amused, but forming the while a wrong idea of the rest of womankind. School girls’ gush and ex- travagant expressions are excused be- cause there is hope that it will be out- grown, but wheve 1t is carried from the school room into womanhood there is no hope. A ‘‘gusber” can hardly be a good, true woman, for she lacks sincer- ity, going into ecstacies over trifles as quickly as she does over things of merit. The saying is that after a man has told a lie a number of times over it actually becomes truth to him, and perhaps it i the same in the cose of the ‘‘gusher.” She becomes so in the habit of raving over unything and everything that she actually believes all she says. Gush will be tolerated in a young woman. So long as she is fresh and pretty, with rosy cheeks and bright eyes, some one wili listen to her, buv let her beware when the roses fade and the crows’ feet creep in, for it is only the brilliant, the witty, or the wise to whom a hearing is then given. e MY FRIEND THE EDITOR. Sam Davis in San Francisco Examiner: The most extraordinary newspaper publication I have ever had any knowl- edge of was a paper published up in the Sierra range about fifteen yeurs ago called the Manganetus Index. The publication alluded to had mys- teriously fallen into my mail box in San Francisco for over a year, and it was al- ways & welcome arrival. It was neatly printed, carried several columns of live advertisements, and had a bright, bustling air about it that al- ways gave me a very favorable impres- sion of the little town of Manganetus,as well as of the man who edited the paper. He took a decided staud on all the current topics of the day, and on every- thing transpiring in the town where his paper was published he carried candor to the verge ot rashness. I never saw a paper edited with such absolute fearlessness, and I often won- dered why it was that the editor was not some time mobbed or murdered. At last my business took me in the vi- cinity of Manganetus, and [ decided to make the editor a call. It was fast coming on nightfall as I neared the spot where tho town was lo- cated, and I spurred my horse up the steep mountain, thinking of the warm bed and excellent supper I should soon be enjoying. My mind was full of the Slavin house, a hotel of very superior accommoda- tions, which advertised liberally in the Index, and whose royal provender and home comforts the lhttle paper was never weary of describing. “Only a mile more,” I said to myself, as I thumped my weary beast with a good sized stick, and after another mile I repeated my observation, and so the poer horse went or checking off miles and miles, while I kept trying to per- suade mysell that each mile was the last. Strange, I thought, that I could see no lights ahead, I strained my eyes for the welcome twinkle from cottage win- dows that in the durness tell the trav- eler of the town, but the night cropt on, u little faster perhaps than the horse, and still I alone. Preseotly I came to a lu[{ cabin and my heart rose as I saw the light gleam- ing through the chinks, Dismountin, I walked stiff and lame to the cabin an hammered on tho door. A little bent-up man, with a wrinkled leathery face, came to answer, and as he opened the door cautiously, I no- ticed that he had a cocked pistol in his hand. Seeing the pistol, I said to myself: “‘Here is civilization.” After the little man with the big pis- tol had surveyed my famished face and tired horse. he opened the door a little wider, and then swinging it back with a smile somewhat apologetic in 1ts char- acter, invited me in. “‘How far to Manganetus?” I asked. Heo looked at me in a rather queer way, and then bit his under lip, as if nipping a smile in the bud. ““Is it far from here? Can I reach it to-night?” “Hardly think you can make it to- night,” he replied with a tone that puz- zled me somewhat; ‘“‘can’t you stay all night?’ he added: ‘‘Better stay; you can’t Enmhly make Manganetus to- night.’ accepted the invitation with alacrity. My horse being provided for, I was soon absorbrng the heat of a cheery fire and listening to the conver- sation of my new acquaintance. He was a man of very fluent expression and possessed a wonderful fund of informa- tion on scores of topics not ordinarily discussed by men who occupied log cabins in the mountains. ‘While wondering who this old char- acter could be I heard a monotonous noise in the next room, and I certainly thought I heard the familiar gound of some one rapidly folding newspapers. My ear did not deceive me, for ina few moments a pleasant-faced little girl appeared and handed my companion a paper which he at once passed over to me. It wasdamp from the press, and as [ opened it I read the title. *“THE MANGANETUS INDEX.” “By industry we thrive,” Devoted to the material interests of Mangane- tus., Subscription 5 per annum, paya- ble in advance. My host smiled as he handed me the paper. “Then the town is here,” Isaid, ‘‘Let me go to the hotel. I do not desire to trcsw\su upon the hospitality of a stran- er. “You will remain here, sir.” he re- plied. “I blush to confess it, but this is the town of Manganetus, and the cabin you now occupy is the only habi- tation for twenty miles.” I stared at the man in astonishment. “You may well be puzzled,” he con- tinued. ‘‘ButI will explain, There is a group of mines near here which cer- tain capitalists of San Francisco are anxious to place upon the London mar- ket. They have hired me to advocate these mines, and it is part of my bar- gain to run my paper in such a way that the London readers will think that a large town is flourishing in the moun- tains. See?” 1 nodded vaguely and ho went on: **‘My imagination is not sluggish, and so I manufacture all I write, Tleaveno stone unturned to make the mythical city of Manganetus a live, bustling town. You will find in this issue a pub- lic meeting called to discuss the ques- tion of a new bridge across a stream that exists only in the columns of the Index. Here is the wife of a prominent mwining superintendent eloping with a member of the city council; here isa runaway team, knocking the smither- eens out of a cigar store. You will note the advertisement of the cigar store in another column. Here is the killing of ‘Texas Pete’ and the investigation of his death by a coroner’s jury. The cause of the shooting was a dispute relative to the ownership of a mining location of fabulous rich- ness. There is also in another portion of the paper, a legal summons advertised calling on a co-owner (one of the principals in the affray) to do his assessment work or lose his interest. All my work dovetails nicely in, has a plausible look and shows no flaw, yet it 18 all absolutely made from whole cloth.” **This is the most extraordinary thing I ever heard of.” *This country is full of extraordinary things,” he replied quietly. “Where does this edition go?”’ I asked. “Clara, bring me the mailing list,” he said to the child. Iglanced over the list,a saw that it embraced the leading banking houses of London and New York, as well as the centers of financeand mining. My own name was oddly enough on the list. About a hundred copies were mailed, and every one went where it would do the most good. I found that my friend edited the &mpcr and did the typesetting, and his daughtor was learning the typo- graphic art. *“I have no companions except my little daughter—and the town of Manganetus,” he added, with a smile. T passed & very comfortable night. The roar of the wind through the pines and the rocking of the cabin in the blast had a deliciously som.lxingil effect, and I layin the warm bed thinking and resting until almosv morning before Islept, My friend, ths editor, was very talk- ative at breakfast. He never alluded to his name, but he told me more of the puper and the enjoyment he had in building up a town in the clouds from a purely imaginative basis, *To-morrow,” said he, *“I start out on horseback to the nearest mail station, and leave my buudlo of papersin the hollow of a tree until the mail buck- board comes along to take them. “In a few wecks they are being read in London and New York, and the par- ties in each of these cities who are handling the sale of these mining pro- perties aro backed up handsomely by my editorial statements, Next day he set out with his bundle of papers tied behind him, He said it wus only ten miles and he would come back goon, and that he would leave me and the liftle girl to run the office. In about an hour the sky had a low- ering aspect and snow began to full, Tt came lightly and geutly at first and melted away as it touched the rocksand chaparral, but in a little while it began to stay where it fell, and the dull gray and brown of the landscape changed to a dead white. Alice, the little girl, who was sweep- ing out the office, ceased her work and a look of uneasiuess came over her face as she gazed out of the window. The snow thickened in the air and the specks of bluck, made by dead branches and rocks protruding through the white, weresoon obliterated, and as the day waned the eye fell on nothing but an expanse of white which was everywhere. We built a fire when the night fell and Alice cooked a supper which we ate in silence. I felt a strange sensation, being alone in the mountains with this child, and a snow storm hemming us in every hour. She said she had no idea of going to bed until her father returned,and so we sat by the fire until after midnight. Her face was pale and anxious—a weary, worn-out face it was—and then the tears came into her eyes—eyes that could hardly remain open from weari- ness. I could think of nothing to do, and my efforts to assure her that all was well were only met by a look sadder than the last, and so the hours dragged along until nearly 2, when she started up a8 her quick ear caught the mufiled fall of a horse’s footsteps in the snow as it stumbled on some firewood 1n front of the cabin, She bounded to the door with a glad look in her face, and flinging it open held the candle over her head, and giv- ing forth a little cry, reeled back, and then sinking to the floor, fainted. 1 looked out and saw vhe horse stand = 1ng there riderless, and, what puzzled me considerably, another horse tied be- hind it, There was buta light fall of snow upen the saddle of the first horse, while on the otheftheve was much more, and this I t to mean that the rider had but rec y fallen, Tlifted the girl onto a bed, and, lighting a lan- torn, went out. <-brushed the snow off the saddle of the Jgading horse, and started, as I found “mrks of blood upon it. 80X I forlowed the tratl-back, and not two hundred yards tromy the house T stum- bled onto a mon in the snow. He groaned with pnin %8 I 1ifted him on my shoulder, but aftersheard pull I got him to the cabin, struggling most of the way in the darkness, for the lantern went out soon after [ staftdd. When I laid him down on the flbdr Alice came to herself again, and. we spread somo blankets and bear skips hefore the fire and stretched the 'wpunded man upon them. 4 He was soon able to speak, and said he had become benumbed with the cold and while in this condition had fallen off his horse upon a jagged rock, which had cAused Him sovere injuries. His daughter listened in silence to the 1, remembering the blood stains on the saddle, was silent also. His arm was terribly swollen, and when we cut away the bloody sleeve of his cont, there was discovered the track of a pistol ball. There was no mistak- ing it, and warming up under the influ- ence of meat and hot brandy, he made a cleaner breast of his adventure. He said that he had been belated by the storm, and few miles from his cabin a highwayman had stopped him in the road. After receiving the ball in his arm he had returned the fire and his man dropped dead in the snow, He took the horse and kept on his way home, when at last, faint from the loss of blood, he had fallen from his horse and remained in the snow until rescued. We managed to make him quite com- fortable, and the next morning he asked me to take the horses back of the cabin and feed them. Under his direc- tiong 1 went down a path about a hun- dred yards behind the house, making 1t only after considerable difficulty. for 1 had to clear away the snow, and there behind some great rocks was a good- sized parn, well filled with hay, and what struck me as stranger still, five very fine-looking horses in the stalls. A few yards from the door was a bub- bling spring. After feeding and watering the ani- mals, ] returned to the cabin and no- ticed that the barn was entirely hidden form sight. This circumstance and the presence of the fine horses in such a locality struck me as rather odd, but I did not give the subject much thought at the time. He invited me to spend a few weeks with him, and asked mc to edit his pa- per for him while his wound was heal- ing. I was unable to resist the fascina- tion of such a novelty, and under his direction I wrote enough for the next week’s issue. The copy accumulated on the hook, when it suddenly dawned upon me that there was no one setting it up, 50 it was that being &, printer myself, I fell heir to the typographical depatte ment also. Between editing tha paper and set- ting the type I had my hands full. We had a good stock of provisions, and although the snow.so deep thatwe could not get our papers to the mails, we went right ahead.with the edition of 100 each week, for the wounded pub- lisher said if they reached I.ondon by spring, all would he well. ““Give the mining -managers particu- lar fits about not:running the bullion product up to ‘its: full capacity,” were his directions one day/ - “Charge them with covering up bonanza; also speak of the charming weather and throw in‘a few quartz-mill- accidents, All these things help to paint the scene red. Have a four-in-hand run over a child, and print some obituary poetry and then pack them intothe Catholic church to suffocation at the funeral. Have the organist play one of Mozart's requiems ~—that lou‘(s civilized—and also give the report of a vestry meeting of St. Peter’s Episcopal church with the superintend- ent of a railroad company as the senior warden.” 1 wrote up these items as the editor lay there nursing his wound and mak- ing suggestions, and so the winter was soon whiled away. The spring came in February, and by that time he was up and downg his own typesetting. “We must write up a big Washing- ton’s birthday celebration, with civic parade, grand ball, and all that, and I guess I'd put you down as delivering the oration.” We worked on the arti- cle until eyening, filling up the line of march and exercises with all the promi- nent people in Calfornia and Nevada that we could think of. Each night before Alice went to bed she knelt down at a chair, with herface to the fire, and said her prayers. She had just knelt and bowed her head when the door opened and two men came in silently, and in an instant they had my editorial friend covered with two si1x-shoote: s. They made no sound, and the child, unconscious of what had happened, still remained on her knees, her head bowed n prayer. 5 “Gentlemen,” said the editor ina whisper, *T am your prisoner, but don’t take me until after she goes to bed.” He advanced to the two men and looked into their pistol barrcls without a tremor. Pitching his voice still lower, he continued. “Don’t let her witness this scene. Put up your weapons until she leaves the room. The two men, lowering their re- volvers, put them out of sight sheep- ishly, and then the editor motioned to them to take off their hats. Both did 80, and there was nothing heard for a fow moments but the child’s whisper- ings to heaven. ‘When she rose she turned and started with surprise as she faced the two men, who were stillstanding with half bowed, uncovered heads, - “Good night, my lehild.” said the editor, as he leaded over so that her arms wight clasp 'hismeck as he kissed her. At this one of the men, the older of the two, stepped fofward and asked the privilege of & kiss. The father led the ehild forward and the man kissed its forehead very ten- derly, while the other stood there mo- tionless. The father led the!¢hild to the door of its room, kissed it again, and closed the door softly. Then, like a fldshy he bounded into the center of the room, and had both the visitors covered with a six-shooter. ‘We all stood transfixed at his appear- ance. o There was a look of fire and determi- nation in his face that made his captors of afew moments ago shrink bacl, but the one nearest the door iudden;y ufirnng through it, and then my friend, the editor, knew that the fight had opened. **Drop your gun quick,” he said tothe remaining man, “Throw it to this man. But hold on; let him take it from your pocket.” The man’s hand that had moved toward his weapon fell away. X “Hurry up,’” he said to me impa- tiently. “We've no time to lose.” I stepped over to the man and took his weapon from his pocket, and I had hardly done so when the window of the cabin was broken in and the man out- side sent in one hurriedly aimed shot. My friend the editor opened a lively fire and I covered the strange man in the eabin, but did not shoot. In fact T was puzzled in teying to figure out just whaut to do, as these men seemed officers of the law. After firing three shots through the window uselessly he sprang through the back door and beckoned me to follow. I did so mechanically, in response to his impatient gesture, and he said hur- redly: ‘‘Keep these Lounds off me a fow mo- ments till can mount a horse, and you be with Alice at the ——— hotel in Sacramento in one week from to-day. He deshed down the trail to the barn and for n moment T hoard the clatter of hoofs as his horse started, and that was the last T ever saw of him. I stood for a few moments where he left me, with the weapon still in my hand, and then went back to the cabin. Alice stood in her mightclothes by the fire, shivering and frightened, and the smoke of the pistol shotsstill rose lazily among the rafters, The man who had fired the shots through the window came in, and, covering me, asked me to throw up my hands. I cast the” weapon I held on the floor and invited him to sit down. He declined to talk until he had in- duced Alice to retire again, and after she had done so. we dould near her sob- | bing in her room. The twomen and myself sat by the fire and talked mat- ters over. They said that my friend, the editor, was n_noted desperndo and horsethief, and that he was publishing a paper in the mountains to cover up his real business. They also had learned that there was some sort of a mining syndicate in San Francisco backing the man, but they were satis- fied that the San Francisco people knew nothing of his real charactor. He had been a_newspaper wr under many alinses. Early in the winter he had shot the sheriff of Alpine countyjon the highway, when resisting arrest and taken his horse. I of course remembered the night in question, but I had been so well housed by the queer character dur- ing the winter that I kept my own counsel. The sheriff and deputy were at first disposed to hold me as accessory but after I had told my story and estab- lished my identity by letters, etc., they dropped the matter. Next day we all started for the near- est town, twenty miles away, with the horses and Alice, leaving the news- paper office and cloud-reared town of Manganetus. On the day specified by my friend the editor when he left me so huvriedly I was at the hotel in Sacra- mento. When I registered my name the clerk handed me a letter. It read as follows: My Dear Sir: Leave !Alice in charge of the clerk. Her room bas been waiting for her several days. Do not stop here at all and never expect to see me again, although ILlong toses you. As you read thisIam in San Francisco. . Accept_ my thanks for all you have done for me. I know that you are too much of a gentleman to throw a straw in the way of my liberty. Alice_does not know of my past, and I hope you will forget what has happened. I had a passion for horses which I could not overcome, and it came near ruining me. But I am done with horses and newspapers forever. Your fuiend, Tre EDITOR. I folded the letter, bade Alice good- by, and the clerk led her away. A few days afterwards in San Fran- cisco I met a man who wanted to sell me a promising mine. ITe showed me a map of it, and then taking u newspaper clipping from his pocket, asked me to read it, as it was a good description of the property. .It was from the Index. I recognized the type at once. As for the article, I had written it myself. plestieasin At An Absolute Cure. ‘The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT is only put up in large two-ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old_sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands, and all skin erup. tions, Will positively cure all kinds of piles- Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT- MENT. Sold by Goodman Drug cempany at 25 conts per box—by mail 30 cents. Queen Victoria’s dislike of Gladstone isat last explained. A recent writer says that when the Grund Old Man used to visit the regal old lady he was wont to talk to her ‘‘about the polity of the Hittities or the relations between the Athanasian creed and Homer.” The queen, perplexed and uncomforta~ ble, would seek to make a digression, and would address a remark to a daugh- ter or offer a buscuit to o begging ter- rier. Mr. Gladstone would restrain himself with an effort, wait until the princess had answered or the dog had sat down, and then would promptly re- sume—-'As I was saying—" Meun- while the flood had gathered force by delay, and when it burst forth again it carried all before it. Victoria used to complain that on those occasions it was Gladstone that was rude. She was probably in the same predicament that biddy Moriarity was when O’Connell called her a parallelogram. ——————— At her last regniar_appearance at Kroll's, in Berlin, on July 10, Etelka Gerster sang Margarethe in “‘Faust,” in German, The critics refer favorably to the performance, " CALIFORNIA THE 1 AND OF DISCOVERIES! Pt s Couchs, (B wRes Asr . ~=Propchitis Tgsh y ‘“DOSEASESwTHi}OAT o _/ L, UNG S =S en Gutil S end for circulan$] perbttle3 pro & L 0.0ROVILLE, (AL, SANTA ; ABIE{AND URE For sale b y Goodman CrugCo Kmliysna all urinary troubles mw 2"“' Iy and sately cured by DOCTURA Ca '“hl.ja Buvagll cu:l-lnétllrdilu IIVCI‘; “m’;l ‘% ruggists, or w x‘:‘wm.'i"rg Eoliiz Wil s &, V. Bl direcr s er and traveler | DRS. BETTS & BRITS | FARNAM STRERT, OMATA, N N bvosite Pavon Homdy =™ Offico hours, 0 8. m, to 8 p. m. Sundays, 10 a. m.to1p. m. 8 in Chronie, Nervous Skin and ¥ Consultation at office or by mail free. Medicines sent Ly mail or express, securely wacked, fres from observation. Guarantees to cure guickly, safely and urmlnemlx‘. RERVODS DERILLTY Shmtscton, st nal Losses,Night Emis sions. Physical Decay. arising from Indiscre e Excess or Ind“lqfllre. producing Sleepless nees, Despondency, Pimples on the face, aver- sion to soclety, easlly aiscouraged, Jack of confi dence, dull, unfit for study or business, and finds life a burden. Fll'l'l!. permanently and i)rb yately cured. Consult Drs. Detts & Betts, 1408 Farnam 8 maha, Neb, Syphilis, & disease Blond . Skin Dieaes 2ot s comp] elali' eradicated without the ald of Mercury. “Scrofula, Erysipelas, Fever Sores, Blotches, Ulcers, Pains in the Head and Hone: Byphilitic Bore Throat, Mouth and Tongue, Ca- tarrh, etc.. permanently cured where others have failed. 4 Dladd o i i i and adder Complain Kidigy, UTINAy it Sttt Voo e quent Burniug or'Bloody Urine, Urine high col- ored or with milky smqunt on standing, Weak Gonorrhara, Gleet, Stitls, ote,, ptly and Bafely Cured,’ Charges Reasona: Guaranteed por- STRICTURE! tuic, v moval complete, without cutting, caustic or dillation. Cures’ effected at home by patient without A moments pain or Annoyance. To Yomg Men and Middle-Aged Men A SURE CORE vice awrul effects’ of early : Vice. which brings organtc Woukness, deatrovmng both mind and Body, with allits dreaded lle, permanently cured, 1 Adross those who have impaired N themselves by improper indul- ences and solitary habits, which ruin both Go«({ unfitting them ror business, study or marriage. MARRIED MEN, OF those entering on that hap lite. awaro of physical debllicy, quickly sa 4 OUR SUCCESS. 1s based upon faets, First—Practical Expe rience. Becond—Every case is ospoclally studied- thus starting aright.” Third—Medicines are pre, pired inour labatory exactly to suit each case, hus affecting cures without injury Send 6 cents postage for celebrated works on Chronic, Nervous and Delicate Diseases. Thousands cured. (8~ A friendly letter or call may save you future suffering and shame, and add golden years to' lite, . (" No-letters au- swered unlesa accompanied by 4 cents in stampa. Address or call on - DRSS, BETTS & BETTS, 1408 Faroam Street. Omaha. Neb. ESTABLISHED 1868. NOSAWIS T ¥ | Side Spring Attachment; no Horse Motion. MANUFACTURER. First Class Carriages on hand also built to order. Repairs Promptly Executed. 1409-1411 Dodge St., Omaha, Neh. IECLA Baro Curesl} Ghlcages Chronic, Nervous and Private Discases. 25~ NERVOUS DEBILITY, Lost Manh ailing Memory, Exhausting’ Di reibl ams, Head and Back Ache and fects 10 early decuy and perhaps Consumption ov t«, treated scientifically by new me with a ing success. WHILIS ind all bad Blood and Skin Dise rmanently, cured IDNEYand URINARY complaints, Qleet, ndh\le:‘-ul. The Regular ofl-bmllllfl“ PAYSICIAN AND SURGEON Js stitl Treating with the Greatest & Gonorrhoea, Stricture, Varicoe of the Genito-Urinary Of injury to Stomach, Kidneys &9~ No experfment portant. ose_Comtemplati celebrated guide cents ). Con y letter or call may save future suffers b hame, and add golden years to life, &a~Book . 's (Secret) Brrors,’ so cents (stamps). Medicing writings sent everywhere, secure from exposurey lours, 810 8. Sundays 9 to 12, Address F. D. CLARKE, M. D. 186 80, Olark 8te OHIOAQD. T Dr. J. E. McGREW ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESEFUL ¥~ SPECIALISTS & In the Treatment of All Chronie, Nervous and Private Diseases. Spermutorrhoea, Impotency and Loss o Manho absolutoly cured. ' A curo guarantoed in wll fOrms o Drivate’ Discnsar, ‘Biricturos, Gloot, ete, ChiATe Throat, Lung Discases, | Leiicorrhden, quickly and peomahiontiy eur BiGod and Bkin Disoases Gleot nen's waiting Tonms separate Sehd for books, The Secrot and te Diseases of Man,; nlxo Woman and Her Dij e each (stamps). Treatment by cOrreApon send stamp for reply. Officc—16th and Douglas Sts., Omaha, LOTS IN THE BEST TGWN CREREL SE ARG IN SOUTH DAKOTA AT BOTTOM PRICES, A Sure Investment. For !lnv!. Prices and_ Information, call on or address C. B. SIMMONS, Land Commissions C.& N, W. Fitth A've,, Chicago, ] n Novo ovey av ¥, HISCOX, WG Ivoniway, Cor.14thNow ¥url QdLLor WRITE for ILLUST 1 BOOK of FNOOFS, FREE. NO A DR. R. ' W. BAILEY, DENTIST. The original purchaser in Omaha of the formula for Dr. Stinaus' Loca Angesthetic for the PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH. The ONLY METHOD whereby teeth are extracted without pain or danger, and without nsing chloroform, gas, ether or electricity. The patient remains perfectly conscious of all that trans- spires, but feels no sensation of pain. No soreness of the gums after extracting, as is the case with so meny so-called anicsthetics, Many who have been suffering from badly decaycd and broken teeth and roots, have visited Dr Bailey and had them removed painlessty. After having used this anwsthetic for two months for ueariy cvery tooth extracted in this office, the FIRST PERSON 18 tobe found that is not entively satisfled with its merits, Somo dentists may try to prejudice you against visiting us: do notallow them to do s0. Make us a call whether you desire dental work or not: we ure always pleasod to seo any or All who mey choose to come, Bpecial attention Do oi'"wsu TEETH THAT CAN BE SAV. {ven 10 MILLING tecth, thereby preserv g their usofulncss many years. TEETH WITHOUT PLATES, Bridgo Work, Gold and Porcelain faced Orowns, GOLD, ALUMINUM, SILVER, CONTINUOUS GUM and RUB/ BER PLATES at lowest rates. A Full Set of Teeth on Rubber for $5.00. DO NOT FORGET THE LOCATION, DR. BAILEY, DENTIST. Paxton Block, 16th and Farnam Streets. (Entrance on 16th Street.) Cut this out, mentioning this paper. 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