Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 19, 1889, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1880, THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. A Pointed Oommunication From a Niobrara Traveler. WHAT HE THINKS OF THE PARADE Walk of the Hotel Oorridors—A Drum- mer's Experience With the Sal- vation Army—Too Much for the Liveryman. Waking Up Mossbacks. Nionnana, Neb., August 7.—To the Fd- ftor of Tnx Bee: Traveling frequently through northeastorn Nebraska, I canmot help out noting what rich slice of trade the Omaha morchants are missing in not having amore frequent and direct communication with this “cream section” of Nebraska. ‘What communication Omaha has with this part of the stato 18 through little branch roads that run only one train a day, and which, consequently, makes it very unsatis- factory to the local merchant in his dealings with the metropolis. The result is they deal in Chicago. In fact, they feel somewhat slighted by Omahia because she hns not put forth more strenuous efforts towards bringing herseif into closer contact with them. To use a dif- ferent expression, the Omaha merchunts do not. “rustlo the trade’ enough in this section of the state, They don’t ‘punch’ the rail- roads enough, or rather they don't build enough railroads up here. Notwithstanding this, the merchants up here are friendly to Nebraska's hub, and ‘alking with a prominent Ponca j merchant, he said: “What we need isa main line, (or certainly a more frequent) con- nection with Omaha. We are anxious to have it, as it would be convenient and bene- ] ficial to us. Asitis now, we have botter | connection with Sjoux City, and Chicago via Sioux City, than we have with Omaha. If1t were not for that we would do all of our trading with your city, Why, if the Omaha eapitulists would build a road up through this country to Ponoa, and_on up into Da- kota, I would guarantee that with a slip of per and pencil I could gov every merchunt n this town in thirty minutes to sign a con- tract that they would deal exclusively i Omaha, all things being equal. This is just a samplo of what you would get up in this country. Now our little town ships about one hundred and fifty thousand cattle, and the same amount of hogs to market overy ear, She does about a half million dollar usiness yearly. That would help your little borough some, wouldn't ite” Niobrara, Hartington and other towus up here feel in the same way, and actin the same way, relative to Omaha. } Old *moss-backs,” stir up, and build that road up through here into Dakota that you were blowing about last year. Iam tired of having these merchants ask me when we are goiug to start our stage line up there. TRAVELER. e A New Hotel. Henrox, Neb,, Augnst 14.--To the Eaitor of Tuk Bee: Ifind in Hebron an item for the commercial column for next week. Itno . doubt will interest all those who nake Heb- ron and its neighboring towns. Those who have been in this territory for the last five or six years will remember the ola shell of & hotel called The Central which was very poor, indeed, and drove iots of trado away. Being one of the old-timers myself, who know how to appreciate a good hotel, I wish to inform the gang, through Tue Beg, that the old shell is no more. In its place stands one of the finest little hotels in the state. Mine Host J. W. Hughes has built the house just as he could afford it and has made it as it was built, one apartment at a time. He moved into the new office April 15, and the ‘work is as fine as Pullman car work. ~The trimmings are black and white, walnut and oak; tho floor, buff, chocolate and gray, the front, brick and cut stone, The oftice, with- out doubt, is one of the finest, for which Mr. Hughes descrves lots of credit. A Traveler's Note Book. By a Commerefal Traveler, Not long since I was spending the mght in » flourishing little city in northern lllinois. The salvation army had laid seige to tne town and had pronounced that so loug as Satan remained in their midst they never would lay down their arms—never! never! NEVER| Time hung heavily on my hands that even- ing, and thinking w while away the time, I dropped into the barracks where Hov g Harry and Hallelujah Hannah were conduet~ ing the most exciting kind of s salvation meeting. The hall was nearly filled and 1 100k @ seat well toward the front. Pres- ently 1 noticed among the non-uniformed soldiers no less a versonage than one of the gmrn at_tho hotel where I was stopping. @ seemoed to recognize we at the same moment, and mewg, said something in @ low tone to the leader of the band. Imme- diately the discourse seemed to drift toward me, The speaker wtimated, strongly, that there was one n their midst who, like Satan, was going up and down through the land seeking whom he might devour. He pieturod vividly the awful terrors of death on the rail and the sudden launching of an unprepared soul into eternity. He inter- spersed his remarks frequently with an urgent invitation to any poor sinner who might “feel the need of saving grace to come forward to the mercy seat.”” At last his remarks became so decidedly personal that I determined to withdraw. No sooner had I risen to my feet, intending to leave the room, than I was greeted with a deafening round of applause and u triumphant chorus of “hallelujahs” and “Proise the Lords.” The solarers flocked around me, grabbed me by the hands, arms, legs and skirts of my coat, all bent ugo urg- ing me forward. In vain strug- gled, threatened, implored. 1 mus ward. And above all this woice of Howling Hurry, shouting, in sten- torian tones, ‘‘Hallclujah, the Lord has * heard me," and Hallelujah Haunah's ril} refrain, *'Yes, praise the Lord, He has.” Suddenly it scemed to dawn upor some of the enthusiasts that I was not makitg the most Tapid progress, bodily nt least, toward the “mercy seat.” Attributing my hositangy, to put it mildly, to a realization of my own un- orthiness and thinking to encourage me, no loubt, they began to sing, as only the Salva- tion Army can sing: ‘While the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return, And still 1 was obdurate. *“The Lord will help him; Jet's ask Him " some one shouted. " Instantly tho entire band were on their knees, Like so many devout Moslems. 1 always dislike to disturb devotional exer- cises, but hore was an opportunity I could not resist. Tmade a break for the door— and liberty | go for- hubbub rose the . o His Own P'roperty. A short time ago » drummer from abroad called at a Bangor Livery stable and wanted & double teaw for a ton days' trip into the country, and the stabloman refused to let him one on the ground that he was a stranger. There was much discussion over the matter, and finally the drummer said : *‘What is your team worth " “Four hundrod uud fifty dollars.” was the reply. “1f { pay you that sum for it, will you buy 4t back again when I returni” said the cus- tomer, and, upon receiving an afirmative reply, he promptiy put up the cash, Ten days later he returned, and, driving into the stable, ho slighted and entered the office saying, **Well, hore ls your veam aud now I ‘want my moncy back.” The sum was passed to him aud he turned aud was leaving the El-cs when the livery- uan called out, * here, aren't you going 10 ettle for that team (" SFor what team " usked the drummer, in & surprised tone. *For the one you just brought back.” “Well, now,” drawled the drummer, *you aren't fool onough to think that I would py anybody for the use of my own property, are ouf" and he shook the dust of the place Lum his feet, s My, Charles Contident. ] J. H. Charles was doing & litile missionary work for the merchants’ week parade at the Paxton yestorday. ©I feel very sanguine of a fine turnout now. The first really effective action was taken at the meoting last night and the ball is fairly rolling. There are a large number of travelers who ara always circulating in this vicinity, and if the papers will just keep the matter before them & large number will float in on the morning of he parade. Last ymllv we had men in line from all over the union, you know, which prompts them to go in and swoll the number, cven though they may be in no way interested in the city. One good thing, we have ‘hustlers’ on the committee, ‘There is o sort of esprit de corps, and you may rost assured that the affair will not lack pushing. Of course it is little too late to expect any organized assistance from neighboring towns, but the boys all under- stand that they will be heartily welcomed and royally entertained, aud 1am confident that this year's turnout will discount that of last, * A rat'Cp aov. So much has been said, remarked & boot and shoe representative at the Millard yes- terday, about good-looking, good-natured and jovial travolers that I should like to ro- lato a story told at the expense of one of the craft, who doos not seem to be very much liked by his fellow *‘knights.” To say that he is unpopular would be doing him an injustice, but it is not on account of any spocially good qualities, for he is par- ticularly prominent as beiog the “meanest’’ man on the road. At T————, Neb, a little town west of DeWitt, a gentlemanly hotel man longs to see his dark brown, smiling *‘phiz” This mean fellow will throw his many grips all over tha hotel office, expoct to be waited on first, last und all the time, and thon when dinner is called will shyly walk up to the hovel proprictor and tell him that, on account of “ill health,” he must ‘“‘take a short walk’ before cating. He does not roturn until tiain time, and so gots along with the conveniences of a first- class hotel und meals at a lunoh countor. But. to_the point. The story I wished to relate took place, 8o 1 am told by responsible parties, west of Norfolk on the Elkhorn road. Our “friend” went into a saloon to get a drink, when sudaenly a lot of cowboys came rushing into the place, displaying firearms. They tad heard of *'der drumwer,” and were “put up to it to give him an old time west- ern seare. (luns were fired at random (all Dlank cartridges) and our “hero,” becoming frigntened, rushed into the back root of the Pl and hid benind boxes and barrels. twas & sight worth sceing, Iam told, to gaze on that graceful bundle of humanity as iy’ shook with fear. The bartender went back and told him 1 & pacifying way that he need have no fear, for the boys did not want to shoot him. The drummer felt a little more at ease,and the bartender continued: “No, they don't waut you. They want to shoot that raw- boned, round-shouldered runner that is blind in one eye and near-sighted in the other, who solls suspenders, from Milwaukee.” This fuirly stunned him, for the drummer de- scribed could be no other thun our “friend.” In his agony und fright he yelled: ““Mine gott, dots me, dots me! Hellup me, mine frient.” ‘The boys had gained their point and a good luugh was had, but the Milwaukee man never found out that it was a made up job and thinks that he saved his life by handing the bartender a bogus five dollar bill. T Sundayed in Omaha, The commercial men who enjoyed ease and rost at the Millard_yestorday were: H. M. Dickey, Chiengo: W. R. Holland, Denver; E. Ho'doway, St. Louis; D. W. Sieman, New York; Rey Dodson, St. Louis; J. S. Allison, St. Louis; R. W. Cushman, Boston; J. S. Frisby, New York; W. O. Everety, Milwau- kee: H. C. Picrson, Denver; E. C. Butler, Cincinnati; A. M. Jones, Milwaukee; F. R. Horton, New york; F. J. Cook, Detroit Levme, Chicago; H. J. Cassady, Chicago; G. R. Allen, Chicago, H. L. Lane, Chicago; E. H._McCauliff, Chicago: C. H. Eckfeldt, New York: S. A. Grobben, Milwaukee; Charles Plattenburg, Chieago; William Lau derbauch, New York: I. H. Lender, De- troit; A. R. Cabnor, Chicago; George W. Reynolds, New York; E C. Goodrich, Grand Rapids; Ben Hellman, Chicago; A. A. Bradow, New York; A. Rosenshine, Now York: C. L. Howell, St. Louis: R. T. Walbank, Chicago. The following genial Knights of the grin spent yesterday under the protecting wing of Ira Higby, at the Murray: From Chicago —D. C. Parmeter, Georgo £. Macy, J. W. Buchaman, J. E. Nelson, C. B. Lawnde Friensdorft, Al Kingsley, J. S. Natt M. G. Ruble. F. L. Gazzala, J. A. Peppard C.'T. A. McCormick, A. L. Gross, H. Loichhardt, J. M." Ledgerwood, ' R. I Harrig, - J. M. Grace, William Reed, S. J. Johnson, N. S. Jacobs, K. Richards, From Now York—E. I, Goodwn, A. F. Cook, Ike Laubric, Charles' W. Gould, E. Hawkes, G. Berger, H. Missel, G, Shepherd, ¥. Heath, J. W. Palmer, . A, Gebhard, G. Tisen, W. P. Fogel, Max Moyer, George Cahn, M. Cartis, C. W.' Chapin, W. F. Pardee, J. Owens, B. C. Coben, L. Wilson, George Robinson, G. B. Meires. From St. Louis—Charles Wiogard, Sam Lustig, Phelir B, Lipman, C. H. Van Sittert, H. E. Hackman. G. H. Pope, Boston; Theo Salesman, Philadelphia;: F. T. Doan, William Thompson, . E. Storms, ton; D. M, Jenkins, Boston; W. H. Burns, Dotroit; 5. R. Graham, Joseph; H. C. Huwley, ' Milwaukeo; C. B. Butter- fleld, Denver; William H. Meyers, Phiia- delphin; W. €. Butcher, Cinciunatl; E. S. Ketchem, Marshalltown Saun J. 8. Cahill, of the Omaha trunk factory, left Wednesday on a seven weeks' trip through tho state. A modest female drummer, possessing ex- cellent business tact, recentiy induced a number of Hastings business men to buy large bills of goods. She was representing a fruit farm vt Sev The liver and kidneys must be kept in good condition. Hood’s Sarsapurilla is a great remedy for regulating these organs, R The Lovers' Quarrol. Munsey's Weekly. ‘The theater thut night we attended Sans chaperone, in a coupe. As Hetty was deeply offanded, We didu’t see much of the play, The trouble began in the carringe: She vowed she never would give way— That she never would dream of marriage With such a flance. Sho sald, when I pressed for the reason, "Twas @ Ikiss thAt she saw me bestow On my cousin—a bud of the season— Whom Betty, by chance, didn’t know. Tt did look rathier suspicions, At a ball—in & corner—lights low; SUll, at most, it was injudioious— Not criminal, no! She didn’t know all my relations. We've notbeen engaged quite & week— So the cause of her rocriminations @us a perfectly natural pique. Itried with & manner persuasive My absolute pardou to seek; But her answers, 1 found, were evasive— And so0 was her cheek, Then at last I assumed the offensive; Her trust, I proclaimed, was my right; 1 was wounded, my mauner was pensive, And I mourned for my life's early blight, S0 with sighs that my bosom was rending, Aud tears that obstructed her sight— Well, I'm not T)lnx to tell you the ending, But—1 kissed her good-night, — Have You Caterrh?—There 1is one remedy you can try without danger of hum- bug. Send w0 A. G. Coleman, chiemist, Kala- Mich., for trial package of his catarrh cure. ' His only mode of advertising is by giv- wYuuwu.vA 'ostage 2¢. Judge for your- eell, Mention this paper. e Uncle Sam Bosses Honolulu. Acocording to the Oakland Echo, one can scarcely be half an hour in Hono- lulu, keeping one’s eyes and ears toler- ably wide open, without arriving at full knowledge of the fact that filo Ha- wailan kingdom is commercially ana socially “*bossed” by the United States of America, and by the state of Califor- nis in particular. THE ASYLUM OF THE UNIVERSE, A Glimpse at Life in the Royal Honse« hold of Persia. Nasr-ed -Din is simply known as the “shah” in England, but at home, where he is appreciated, he has many more titlos, among the modest of which are “Asylum of the Universe,” and “King of Kings.” Of course those fall short of the ‘comprehensive magniloquence of John Brougham’s “Brother of the Sun, Cousin of the Moon and blood relation to all the rest of the Solar System,” but they will do for a plain, unassuming man_like the shah. The *‘Asylum of the Universe” doesnot scem to have aged, percoptibly, since his appearance in Parisa few years ago, except that tho look of suspicion and apprehension then visible in his countenance has deepened and made some lines that show rather rominently when his face is in sepose. t comes, doubtless, from his constant foar of assassination, a dread that is hardly less active in his mind than in that of the ezar of Russia, thorgh it would appear to Le far less justified by probabilities in the former than in the latter c: In the early part of his reign a real at- tempt was made by the Babees upon the life of the shuh,und he was dan- gerously wounded, a fact that he has never forgotten, and is always antici- pating a repitition of. What he pro- essed to regard as a second attempt was made very shortly before the occa- sion of his former visit to Europe. Through the corruption and raseality of the paymasters of his army, hi diers had been unpaid for a long time, and were in actunl distress for want of money. Learning that the **Asylum of the Universe” intended visiting the shrine of the Shah Abdul Azim in his carringe, a great number of the needy soldiers gathered on the way and sought, in conformity to oriental usage, to present a petition to him setting forth their grievances and praying re- lief. The rascally paymasters sought by force to prevent them doing so, and in the melee that occurred stones were thrown, a few of which struck the ve- hicle containing the “king of king To say that he was scared is putting the cuse mildly. He returned to the palace at once, and twelye-of the aggrioved soldiers, prosumably ring lenders, who had been seized and tightly bound, were dragged before him., He gave them no trial, allowed them no oppor- tunity to plead their innocence and to explain the real cause of the trouble, but ordered the dozen of them strangled, and their execution was performed at once while he stood looking on. The shah is a man of middle height, with very swarthy comolexion, heavily bearded and of good figure. He drese: in dark clothing, with a noticeable ab- sence of jewels and adornments, in quiot, goud tusto, and his manners, when abroad among Europeaus, are gentlemanly. One would be likely to get the impression from looking at him that he is & quiet aud mild-mannered person, and to think that the butchery of the dozen soldiers, and the cold- blooded assassination, by his orders, of his brother-in-law, the Prime Minister Mirza Taghy, in the early part of his veign, and various other like incidents that might be cited, were strange and inexplicable inadvertencies, toreign to his nature. But his loud, imperious speech and domineering air when ad- dressing his own people, demonstrate his vivid conception of supreme au- thority, suggest, so to speak, the e: treme altitudo of the perch on which he roosts. Of all his great court and retinue, it is said that he misses most, when 1n Europe, the red-coated execu- tioners and ‘‘farrashes™or bastinadoers, without whose useful and amusing com- pany he never stirs abroad when in his own country. It is but just to say that he has thefaet of many persons pouaded to jelly, by bastinado, where he finde fow who seem to afford reason- able excuse for strangling them, but incidents of both kinds occur with sufficient frequency to prevent life be- coming mouotonous with him when running Persia in his own sweet way. The executioners and ‘“‘farrashes” are not the only ones whose absence leaves a blank in his Kuropean existence. Were he to keep up his home custom of having a dozen or & score of running footmen—with silver staves of office, tall turreted hats mnd jingling orna- ments—jumping a'ong at his stirup when he goes out riding in London, he would promptly be regarded in the light ot a wandering circus by the pop- ulace, and his dignity might suffer. He may, however, find some compensation in the fact that he does wot require a huge body-guard of armed men to pro- tect him from assassination, the specter of his home life. But who cun tell how he pines for the erimson tail of his Per- sian hors Tho shah’s table habits are good and conseguently his health is at least fair, but he never trusts himself far away from his physician, Dr. Tholozan, a Frenchman, whose skill recovered him from the slight tonch of paralysis that he had a couple of years ago, and who enjoys his unbounded confidence. His diet is of plain “‘roast and hoiled,” ex- cluding rich entreos and highly sen- soned dishes altogether, and so far as is known he does not drink 1ntoxicants at all. _Confectioncary and - coffeo are his delights. His hour of rising, At this _ season, 18 never later than 5. m., but he makes up for it by a siesta in the afternoon, when, if he is at all weary from so much of the day as has passed, and yet cannot readily go to nceq, he has himsolf shampooed artistically, not his head alone, but his whole body and limbs, to the soft musie of the flute, or the sooth- ing cadences of Persian poetry read by one of his attendants whose sole duty that is. The shampooing is done by his chief barber, without whom he goes upon no journeys and whose offices are 80 highly appreciated that he is & man of rank, wealth and distinetion at home. The *'king of kings” eats alone, tak- ing but two substantial meale daily, one at noon, the other at 9 o’clock in the evening. The more exalted members of his retinue stand around in silence to see him feed. When he deigns to speak to one them the reply is made in & uni- formly low, humble tone, as if the speaker were so far crushed by the weight of honor conferred upon him by his royal master’s notice as o be hardly able to gasp out a reply. When his majesty has finished his simple meal his lords of high degree fall to upon the many toothsome dishes with which the table is laden, but which he has not even touched,. When they are satiated the understrappers get their work in on the leavings, so that there isu’t much waste. The shah washes down his food with buttermilk and iced sherbert. That is the way the royal meals go when taken at home. Abroad tge *‘Asylum of the Universe” conforms to the habits of polite society, and his knowledge of etiquette is evidently much enlarged from what it was when he first visited Europe. He no longer thinks of offering his half sheeved as- paragus butts to ladies, and other little things like that. e Advice to Mothers, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should always be used for children teething, It soothes the child, softens the gums. allays all pains, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for diar- rhosa, 25¢ & bottle. BEAUTIFYING THHE SAND DUNES — Difficulties Overconte in Bstablishing Parks in 8ah Francisco. e SHIFTING SAN@Q RECLAIMED. Golden Gate Park, and the Ohildren's Quarters—Cost of Improvements and Maintenance — Art's Home on Sutro Heights, s SAN FrRANCISCO, August 10.—[Special Correspondence of THe BrE.]—The park system of San Franeisco comprises 1,085 acres divided into three parks— Golden Gate, 1,040 acres; Buena Vista, thirty-iwo acres, and Mountain Lake, thirteen acres. There is also a blonk of ground on Kearney street, resembling Jefferson Square, devoted to park pur- poses. The parks are in charge of a board of three commissioners, and they employ @ secretary, superintendent, consulting engineer and an attorney, besides florists, laborers, ete. The energy and means of the board is devoted to the development of Golden Gate park. This vast tract was acquired in 1871 by the issuance of bonds to pay the purchuse price. 1t was originally a succession of sand dunes and hollows of shifting sands, with here and there small growths of serub onk, a few wil- lows and occasionully a patch of grass. The transiormation nas been wonderful, and demonstrates what persistent effort coupled with generous appropriations will do for & soction apparently impos- sible of reclamation. About one-half of the tract has been completely reclaimed by the free use of a sea grass (arundo arenaria) from Hol- land and the wild lupin. The grass controls the shifting sanas and prepares the way for the planting of the lupin and the pinus insignis and other hardy trees and shrubs. The eastern end of the park is now a bower of beauty. Flowers bloom in wild profusion along the roads, walks and bridie paths. Over half a mitlion es, plants, etc., hav been set out during the past year, and over two hundred thousand ave being propugated in the nursery. The im- provements thus far made approximate ten miles or sixty-one acres of drives, two and a quarter miles of bridle roads, eight and a half miles of walks, soven acres of concourses, seventeen and a half acres of lawns, and twenty-three and a third acres of flower beds and shrubs. Theve are grottos, waterfalls, lakes and secluded siestas, but no- where the sign, “Keep off the grass.” The commissioners find that the damage to the grass from walking on it is so amall that they have wisely tabooed that painted chestnut. Just inside the muin entrunce is o mas- sive stone bridge over the walk The ceiling is an object of curiosity and in- terest. It resembled the roof of a cave, having stallactites of various iengths and shapes. odd chunks of cinder und similar material, cemented thereon. The path from the rectly to the arofi children’s quar- ters,” the most interesting feature of the park. These quarters are the most complete and extensive of the kind on the continent,and were constructed and completed last year, from a fund of $30,000, bequeathed by. the late Senator William Sharon. . There is a handsome two-story stone building situated on a slight elevation and'sheltered by trees. The lower story is used for a play-room, the second for & restaurant,where milk, bread and butter, coffee and other hight refreshments are served to chil- dren and their attendants at actual cost. On the southern and eastern sides of the building a wide balcony where from seventy- five to one hundred persons can sit and watch the children at play. The grounds cover several acros. Here is a merry-go-round with scores of horses loaded with little ones enjoying the sport. 1Itis operated by steam. Ad- joining is a small race track with don- loys making the round with precious toddlers on their backs. There are certs drawn by goats, bicycles and try- cyclos, humerous swings, and a base ball ground for bovs. No more de- lightful scene can be witnessed on a vleasant afternoon. Troops of little ones, romping, josllying, swinging and riding; some laughing, some cr{lng. mingling their merry voices with the loud yells of the boys in the hall fleld, presents an exhilerating picture of ung anda joyous life, The playground noole in design, grand in execution and is far more enduring than marble as a monument to the man who be- quenthed it to the childven of San I'rancisco. The trifling charge made for the use of the carts,donkeys, merr go-rounds, ete., makes the quarters self-sustaining. 1 had the pleasure of meeting the ]n esident of the park commission, Mr. . P. Hammond, Jr. Mr. Hammond is United States surveyor for this land district, is an enthusiastic democratand an entertaining and genial gen- tleman. He has made the planning and improvement of parks a life study, and visited all the great parks of the country and noted their principal feat- ures. Speaking of the proposed park system of Omaha he said: “The condi- tions are radically different here and in Omaha. Here the difficulty was not to secure the land but the soil. The soil we had to manufacture. In Omaha when you secure the land you secure the sofl, and all that is necessary is to design properly and assist nature in its work., The children’s guariers in the Golden Gate work was copied after a similar feature in Boston, where it rroved remarkably sygcessful in popu- arizing the parks, . Here it has been equaily succeasfpl. We catered to the children, made the park attractive for therh, and gradually brought the fathers and mothers. When you entertain find interest the childrén you seoure the ‘adults. I can not too strongly recommend the chil- dren’s quarters as a theans not only of popularizing a pavk, but as a means of innocent and wholesome enjoyment for young and old.” 1.t Another great feature of the park is the music grounds. it issurrounded by trees for shade, and has.a seating capi- city of 20,000. The mssic stand is ele- vated like a stage, and back of it is a huge semi-circular » sounding-board, which makes every nogg,distinct at_the farthest corner of the, grounds. Free concerts are given every Saturday and Sunday, and the attendance is enor- mous. A few feet east of the grounds stands the marble monument of Francis Scott Key,author of **The Star Spangled Banner,” a bequest of the philanthropic James Lick. The park extends to the ocean and touches the rocks of Sutro Heights and the Cliff House. In time a boulevard will surround the entire area, and give an ocean drive of over a mile. Through the center of the park a speed track is being built out of a private fund of $38,- 000 raised by the citizens, The deer park contains twenty head, The revenue for park purposes is ob- tained from taxes. Outside of construe- tion and improvements, the cost of maintaining the park, together with salaries, for 1888, was 835,200, No description'of the park system of this city would be complete without in- cluding the famous Butro Heights. Al- though private property, it is open at all times to visitors, and there is a well-founded belief vhat it will event- ually become the property of the city either b, purc;:m or bequest. It is owne by Adolph utro, the distinguished engineer who tun- neled the Sierra Nevadas and drew the internal fires and boiling waters from the mines of Virginia City, The look- out of the Heights is 150 feet above the ocean. The natural rock is patched here and there with masonry, the whole forming an impregnable front. This is ornamented by statuary setin niches, while the casemated summit is almost covered with groups and single pieces of statuary, from the home of art on the Mediterranean. There isa garden of several acres, covered with a profusion of flowers, plants, shrubs and trees, all arranged in beautiful designs, sur- rounded by innumerable walks and drives. Some idea of Mr, Sutro's great work may be had from the statement that two million trees, shrubs and plants were sot out last year. More than this there isa profusion of statu- ary art on the grounds, embracing every line of human_thought, from the medieaval to the modern, from the mag- nificent winged Apollo, which crowns the eminence to the stately Minerva, down to the nymphs and busts of distingnished men which meet and delight the eye at every turn of the paths, not to mention the count- loss groups of tiny grotesques which seem to gambol on the grass plats. It is impossible to give more than an out- line of the richness of the collection abounding on the Heights, Mr, Sutro’s home is lowing with rare art and bric-a-brac. With these and a collec- tion of valuable manuscripts and 110,000 volumes of rare scientific and literary works he proposes to endow a free library, art gallery and museum which he intends to establish on the Heights and which will mako it of inestimable value to the student, the artist and the sightseer. T. J. FrrzMoneis. DON'T MISS THE OPPORYTUNITY To Visit Ogden Salt Lake City, Utah, or Hailey, 1daho, A grand excursion to the above named points will leave August 20th, via the Union Pacifie, “The Overland Route,” and for this occasion the exceedingly low rate of $30 tv Ogden and Salt Lake City and roturn, o Hailey, Idaho, and return >n maude from Mis- sour: river terminals. This excursion affords our p: magnificent opportunity to visit Gar- field Beach on Great Salt Lake, the finost bathing resort in the world, and also visit Hailey Hot Springs, famous for their medicinal properties. good thirty days. For further particulars address - E. L. LoMAX, G. P. A., Omaha, Neb. i SPANISH WOMEN OF THE PAST. How the Ladies Drossed and Kept House. The Spanish woman of the eighteenth century forms a marked contrast to her French sister at the dawn of the revolu- tion, says the Fortnightly Review. ‘Whereas, the French woman of the past century is perhaps the most witty,skep- tical and free of those who have a vlace in history, the Spaniard is the most “*devote,”’ docile and ignorant—notice that 1 have said “devote,”” not pious, for piety, in my opinion, existed in a better and more solid form among the famous women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, chief among whome shines the great Queen Isabel, the Cath- olic. Av the time of the renais- sance Spanish women whose learn- ing equaled their piety, far from contenting themselves with no educa- tion, or with only a superficial one,held professorships of rhectoric and Latin, like Isabel Galindo, or widened the do- main of philosophic speculation, like Oliva Sabuco. In the eighteenth cen- tury theso traditions were so utterly lost that it was considered aangerous to teach girls the alphabet on the ground that if they were able to read and write they might eorrespond with theirsweet- hearts. I have heard it told of a great-grand - mother of mine, of noble family (gran- dees in fact), that she was obliged to learn to write alone, copying the let- ters from a printed book, with a pointed stick for a pen and mulberry juice for ink. A salutary ignorance, absolute submission to paternal and conjugal au- thority, religious practices and self- effacement formed the regime under which the Spanish women of the last century lived. Theseo abuses were lasfied by the satiric scourge of our famous Moratin. in *“El is de las Ninas,” “El viejoy la Nina” and “*La Mojigata.” The result of the teaching of these comedies amounts to a complete transformation of the fomale character. The Spanish womuan of the time anterior to the Cortes of Cadiz has become the classic type, as cl the “*garbonzo” and the “boler woman of this pure and simple national type never went out except 10 mass,and that ver) ly, for as the proverb has it, “Good women don’t walk.” Her dress consisted of the tight petti: coat of fine cloth or serge, white ker- chief fastened with a gold pin and vel- vet bodice and lace mantilla. Heronly luxury when dressed in her best (forshe never walked) was the opeuwork silk stocking and satin slipper. She employed her time in manual labor, ironing, knitting, embroider- ing on a frame, or making pre- serves or sweetmeats, Patchwork was fashionable in spite of its danger to the eyes. ' As lately as my girlhood my mother used to show me, as & work de- serving of admiration, cushions worked by my great-grandmother in patch- work 8o fine that the work almost formed a new textare. Even if she knew how to read this woman was ac- quainted with no other book than the brevity, the Christian Year and the catechism, which she used to teach her children by force of blows—for to chas- tise children was at that time a kind of rite, which it would have been incor- rect to tail, for the proverb says: “Qui diligit filium assiduat illiflagello,” She led the prayer of the rosa rounded by her servants and family; at night she gave her blessing to her sons, who kissed her hand, even though alrendy wore beards and were married; she consulted with some friar or other on the affairs of her household and had home-made remedies for all known infirmities. So thorough-going a female figure was bound to disappear at the advent of society as at present constituted, Swift's Specific is not one of the old potash, sarsaparilla, or mercury mixturves, It con- tains no potash or mercury, or any poisonous substance. It relioves the system by foreing the impurities out through the pores of the skin, and buflds up the patient from the first —————— The Sparrow Whipped the 'Gator, An alligator and an English sparrow engaged in a battle near Darien, Ga., the other day, The ’gator provoked the fight by snapping at the bird, which in turn flew furiously at its ugly antagonist, aiming with precision at tho saurian’s eyes. The ’‘gator finally gxnve up the contest and took to the river. e The most Wj‘“lfll’ liniment is the old reliable, Dr. J. H. McLean’s Volcanic Oil Liviwent. THE VEIL HID THE BLUSHES Some Ourious Information About Life's Most Interesting Event. POPULAR MRS, CHAMBERLAIN. The American Girl's Social Success Was Instantaneous — Excessive Modesty — Emmons Blaine's Beautifal Flance. Ourlosities of Marriago. The early marriage ceremony among the Anglo-Saxons consisted merely of hand-fastening, or taking each other by the hand and pledging each other 1ove and affection in the presence oj friends and relatives, Kissing the bride marriage coremonial ended, though not mow prescribed by the rubric of the western churches, form- erly was an imperative nct on the part of the bridegroom. An old adage thus proper day for wedloe Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday for the best day of all; Thursday tor crosses, I'riday for losses, Sat- urday no luek at all, The custom of putting the veil upon the maid before the betrothal wasdone to conceal her blushes at the first touch of the man’s hand and at the closing kiss. Russians have a story of a widow who was so inconsolable for the loss of her husband that she took another to keep her from fretting herself to death. In Roman marringe the bride was purchased by the bridegroom’s pay- ment of three pieces of copper money 10 her parents, Amoung the Jews the rule was fora maiden to marry on _the fourth and a widow on the fifth day of the week— not earli In Jewish marriages the woman is set on the right, but throughout Christ- endom her piace in the coremony is on the left. Under the Roman Empire was simply a civil coutrac read of men ‘‘putting wives. A man got married because he bought a piece of silk cheap at a sale and wanted a wife to give it to. Giving a ring is supposed to indicate the eternity of the union, seeing that a cirele is endle There is astory of a man who got married because he inherited a four- post bedstead. The joining of right hands in ancient times had the solemnity and validity of an oath. the moment the s down the marriage hence we away” their Some Royal Beds. Clarence house, the residence of the duchess of Edinburg, is one of the most comfortable houses in London, says Modern Society, and is famous for its good beds. for the only daughter of Alexander II. of Russia, is like many Muscovite ladies, very particular about her beds, and will tolerate in her house none but the very best. Eveu when a mere child, and long before her mar- ringe, she was 8o particular about this very important item in domestic com- fort, that to insure the sheets being tightly stretched over vhe mattress she used to have them sewed down, for even the slightest crease or wrinkle would entirely spoil the repose of this spoilt imperial child for the night. Her royal highness used to be greatly chaffed about this weakness by mem- Dbors of our royal family when first she came to this country, but the queen, who is also very particular about her beds, stuck up for her,and although now the sheets are no longer sewed down to the mattress theyare composed of the most exquisitely fine len that can be procured, and stretched like a tight rope over the most perfect mat- tresses that can be procured in Paris, in which capital the making of mattresses has been bronght up to the level of a fine art. A curious and amusing chapter might indeed be written about the beds of illustrious personages. The ex-Em- press Kugene 18 quite as particular about her beds as the duchess of Edin- burg or our gracious sovereign, and quite agrees with the3first named lady as to the fineness of the linen and the tightness of the drawing of the shcets, but her imperial majesty has an odd fancy to have her bed so low as to give a visitor to the imperial bedchamber the impression that the widow of Ciosar is almost sleeping on the floor. It is indeed hardly elevated more than a foot from the floor, as all who have isited in§the old dajs the private apartments at St. Cloud, Compiegne and the Tuileries will remember. The Plain Princess of Wales. The Princess Louise is the plainest of the three daughters of the Prince of Wales, and that is saying a good deal; also, if one can judge of her material qualities by he expression, she is a ro- markably stupid voung lady, says a London letter to the St. Louis Post- Dispateh. She is dull and heavy look- ing, with loose, thick lips, and usually goes about with her mouth open in a vacant sort of way. I saw her lately at the Grand opera in Paris with her two sisters and her mother. All four ladies wore dressed in white, the three girls in simple but tasteful toilet of white surah and the Priucess of Walesin white satin trimmed 1 lave and positively the charming mother looked scarcely older than her daughters, and infinitely prettier. The Princess Maud, the r)unzen of the three girls, has a right, animated countenance, and is much more attractive than hor sisters. She is the favorite sister of her younger brother, Prince George, whom she much resembies in character and dispo- sition, She is a spirited girl, with a will of her own, and when the time comes for bestowing her hand in mar- riage she will have something to say, undoubtedly, concerning ber choice of a bridegroom, In the days before the princesses had been introduced 1nto so- ciety she was the only one of the three who used to fight vigorously, though vainly, against the peculiarly hideous garmoents, the cotton gowns and bear- skin capes and such like elegancies, which the Princess of Wales used to inflict upon her daughters. The second daughter, the Princess Victoria, is plain and stupid-looking, like her elder sister, Emmons Blaine's Fiance, Anita McCormick is one of the pret- tiest girls in Chicago society, says the Chicago Times. Of medium height for a womun, slender and delicatel fair, she combines the transparent deli- cacy of skin and color peculiar to a blonde with the dark hair and olive tints of & decided brunette. Handsome and accomplished, Miss MeCormick is also o great heiress, since sho is one of the three chilaren of the late Cyrus H. MoCormick, whose estate at the time of his death, nearly tive yeurs ago, was estimated roundly at a valuation of $10,000,000. This great estate hus not yet been divided, since, by the conditions of the testator’s will, a period of five yeurs was to expire be- fore the executors, Mrs, Cyrus H. Mc- Cormick and C. H. MeCormick, jr. should distribute or adjust it. It is un derstood, however, that a friendly suit will be instituted in the probate court for the purpose of adjusting this great property, and when this is ddne M Anita McCormick ean, with propriety. bo considered the heiross to at loast 2,000,000 Emmons Blaine, who is a lawyer and a permanent rosident of the Union club, is, as every one knows, the second son of the secretary of state. He is gonerally regarded among those who know him as a plensant sort of a fellow, tolerably good looking and with a tals ent for his profession—that of the law— and with a valuable gift of application to work, He is now in the Inw dopart- ment of the Northwestern railway, and those who know his work say he’is quite likely to become a very successful practitionee in that .most remunerative branch of the profession, corporation aw. Mra. Chamberlain's Popularity. Certainly Mrs, Joseph Chambemain is the most popular woman the United States has yet sent to England; and this fact is anothor foather for Massa- chusetts’s cup, suys o London letter to the Boston Gazette, Charming as Lady Randolph Churchill is, and attractive as is Lady Mandeville, neither of these ladies made such an instantancous suc- cess as Mrs. Chamberlain, Evory- one with whom she has boen brought in ct, from her mujosty, the queen, vn, has been made captive by the Puritan bride. Her mannors aré per- fect, and her bearing is like that of a duchess. Mrs. Chamberlain is proud and happy in her success, and even the fact that the bride has to chaperone, the Misses Chamverlain, the elder of whom is the senior of her mother-in- law, has not brought a cloud into the 8| she dresses in perfect tasto. so that even hor rivals can find no fault with her. The duchess of Marlborough, owing to the unpopularity of her hus- band, has not had really a fair chance, although she could not hope, at the best, to vie with Mrs. Chamberlain, In spite of reports to the comtrary, the American duchess is said, by her inti- mate friends, to be exceedingly havpy. She has a g 10, 0 proud position, and has been received by those who no longer care to know her husband, The duke himself is an interesting. onter= taining and even brilliant man, and their home life is a happy one. One of Dakota’s Plucky Daughters. M Lizzie Duflicld, who has spent the past six years in South Dakota, ar- rived in the city to-day en route to her former home in Bloomfield, says a Des Moines (Ia.) special. Miss Duffield was among the first young ladies to brave the hardships of claim life and take up land in Dakota, and she is now the for- tunate owner of 820 acres of excelient farm land. half of which is a short dis- tunce from Harold, Hyde county. The other quarter section is near the thriv- ing town of Aulkton, and ail of which wiil certainly be valuable property in time. All the adventures of life far out upon the prairie, with the nearest neighbor a mile and a half distant, the perils in storm and flood and the danger of living alone for weeks at a time, have been undergone. She was one of those brave and resolute Dakota school teach- ers who, witha few pupils under her care, encountered the awful storm of January, 1888. During the long night which followed the dreadful blizzard, with scant fuel; she kept herself and the children from freezing only by the utmost exertion until all were rescued from their fearful situation at 5 o’clock vhe next morning. A Pampered Seaside Dog. One of the most amusing sights on the porch of a prominent hotel is to see an ultra fashionable woman with her pet dog, and the manner in which she dresses it up and fondles it. Madame’s dog constitutes her only escort, except a mnid, whose principal” duties seem to be to keep a vigilunt eyeon the animal. The dog is an intensely ugly specimen, and its general appearince is made still homelier by the ridiculous manner in which its mistress persits in having it rated, says a Cape May letter to the adelphiu Press. Whenever madame appears with a light, flufly wrap, with dress to match, her canine companion is partially enveloped in a cover of similar material. 1f madame should don a darker hued garment the dog is like- wise arrayed. Each change made by madame in the course of a day is fol- lowed by similar changes in the ani- mal’s raiment. The little beast is never ermitted toroam at large, being either in its mistress’ arms or in charge of its attendant. Madame and her pet are the star boarders at the hotel. fhe Richest Woman in the World. The richest woman in Americaisa resident of South America. She is not only the richest woman in the Ameri- cas, but she is the richest woman in the world, She has one of the largest for- tuies held by either sex. Thé woman is Donna Isadora Consino of Chili. There is not a woman in North America who has money in her own name tocom- pare with the Donna Isador: She is worth at the least calculation $200,000,- Of United States ladies Hotty n is worth $35,000,000, Elizabeth ett $20,000,000, Mrs. Mark Hopkins $35,000,000, Mrs. John Jacob Astor §9,- 000,000, and Mrs. W.E. Dodge $5,000,000. An Industrious lowa Girl. Miss Jennie Slack,aged sixteen years, residing in the blue grass region of Iowa, near Villisca, has this season planted and cultivated thirty-five acres of corn besides milking six cows night and morning, and helping in other work about the farm and houschold, says the Chieago later-Ocean. The corn is in splendid condition for a big crop, and the young lady who raised it is suld to be fine looking, intelligent and none the worse for the hard work she has done for her invalid father, who was wnable to pay & hired hand or do it himself. Sueh™ girls make good helpmeets for worthy and industrious young men. A Plucky Ohio Woman. One of the most enterprising business men of Carmel, O., is a woman, Miss Aunie Lancey, of thau town, having leused a mill property there, is dong o big business, operating the same amy and night, says the Indianapolis Jour- nal, She employes fourteen men, and can make every one of them hustle, 100. During the day she runs a rotary on long lumber, and “nt night hor gang stand by the shingle and lath machiunes, e e Seocond-Cinss Tickets Via the Northern Pacific R. R., allow the holders the privilege of Elt))l[)illF over at Spokane hns, Wash., and all points west of there. The Northern Pacific is the only line traversing Washington Territory from cast Lo wost and north to south. IRates from Omaha and Council Bluffs to all points on the North Pacific const are us low via the Northern Pacific as any other line, A Monster Horse. A horse ovor nineteen hands high and weighing 2,800 pounds was ship from Myerstown, Pa.,to Boston recently. The purchaser will put the animul on exhibition, Voot Blacksnakes. Two ten-foot blacksnakes were killed at Sawmill Run, Ligonier township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylyania, receutly, by Candas Mershon and George Zeltner, e Platts Chloriaes ,ihe best Disinfecian for household uses. Odorless, prompt, chean. Ten