Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1889, Page 16

929 i SUNDAY, DECEMBER THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: PAGES Stare Open Evenngs. | N. B. FALCONER| Store Open Evenings AGRAND A RRAY OF HOLIDAY BARGAINS, FOR MONDAY and - TUESDAY QNLY. : ‘ The Assortments are Comnolete and the Choicest Selections Gan Now Be Made SILK DEPARTMENT. BRASS AND WOOD TOP TABLES. 'Mys and Huhday Gflflds. R0t (1 1ok ShAce Ut Wo e ve this ShR oo BN RS T B W TABNS the TOllDWInG 10w, Brica o MORGRY. BNa . (\ REAT SLAUG HTER! carry them, we make the following low price for Monday aud We will place oh our counters 18 piec:s of the very finest Black Tuesday, Silk at about sixty-five cents on the doliar, simply because we are 300 Ash Bureaus. with Mirror, 974 inches high wide, now reduced to 21¢, overstocked and must sell them beiore we invoice. Every yard of . $4, $4.25. $5.50, $6.75, $7 and $7.50, 4'00 Extension Tables, with one removeable leaf, now reduced these silks are guaranteed to wear, Actually worth 25 per cent more, to ~1e, 100 Doll's High Chairs at 19¢, reduced from In this department we are offerin1 many useful and beautiful Children’s Desks, with blackboard, extra size, ¢ presents. Examine our elegant slcl).\ k at g4c. Fine Table Secarfs, Large Easel and Blackboard, stained maho Fine Table Covers, Fine Silk Tid inches, Monday at 98c. ine Silk Tidies, Fine Hemstitched Sheets, Fine California Blankets, Our 25¢ Building Blocks reduced to 19c. Fine Hemstitched Pillow'Cases. | Fine Eiderdown Quilts. Our soc Building Blocks reduced to 30c All at reduced prices. Our ¢1.25 Building Blocks reduced to 87c. Rocking Horses and Shoo 1 l) s at very low prices. On Monday and Tuesday in this department we will offer 100 airs very (incyChcnlllo curtains at $2.60, $10, $11, $18, and $17,50. hese prices are 25 per centbelow market valtue today. 80 three folc 0.k Screens at $4, 6, $8 and $9; elegant designs, very suitable for Xmas gifts. LADIES’ SILK HOSE. # 100 pairs ladies’ all pure silk hose in blacks and a large assort- ment of fancy patterns in all the latest shades. rery pair war- ranted to give perfect satisfation. Regular price §8.78, now reduced 10 §2.68. A and 7 inches FURS. FURS. FURS. Special Reduction for Two Days on all Fur Sets BLACK LYNX BELLY, SILVER FOX, BLACK MARTIN, ARCTIC FOX, BROWN BEAVER, NATURAL LYNX BELLY, GRAY FOX, NATURAL OPfiOSSUM, RACCOON, SILVER CONEY, WHITE ANGORA, BEAVER, THIBET, PERSIAN LAMB GLOVE DEPARTMENT. Beaver Top Kid Mitttens at $1, $1.28, $1.850, $1.75 to $3.285. Heavy Black Silk Mittens at $1.88, §2, $2.50 and $2.75. Fine Dinner seots, size 23x31% Fine Lunch Sets, Fine Towels, WE ARE SHOWING THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK THE CITY OF Handkerchief Cases, Glove Cases, Jewel Cases, Card Cases, CALENDARS, ) THERMOMETERS, ) 1 Manicure Sets, Toilet Sets, Shaving Sets, Dressing Cases, COLLAR AND CUFF BOXES, PORCELAIN PLACQUES, PIN CUSHIONS, HEAD RESTS, Gents’ Furnishing Dept. 200 dozen Gents’ All Linen Handkerchiefs, plain and fancy bor- ders, now reduced to 12§c. 8C0 dozen very fine All Linen Handkerchiefs, in plain white and fancy bordei s, value 87jc. now reduced to 25c. BOO Gents’ All Silk Brocaded Mulfflers, very large size and an elegant assortment ol patterus; will close out the lot at $1.00; form- erly sold at $1.50. 5 PHOTO HOLDERS, it SACHET BAGS' SMOKING JACKETS. | Our entire stock in three lots to-morrow, At $8.75, $10.00 and $13.50. | Readuced from $11 to $: SILK SUSPENDERS. Until Christmas Eve we will offer the balance of our Silk Sus- penders at the foliowing priees to close the lot: Bad $8. 78¢, %1, $1.75, $2.25 All Mail Orders will Receive Postage and Express Paid on | Prompt Attention. | ON THE GIBBET AND PRAIRIE. They Died and Ohristmas Winds Sang Their Requiem. TALES OF RAILROAD MAGNATES. How “Dutch"” Ohavley Swung in the Breczes at Carbon and Seven Men Formeda Pyramid of Death, Etc., Etc, Yarns of Train Men, T was nerve that saved us,” Thus ended the thrilling story of a sChristmas experi- ence told by an old railroader who com- menced his career Stwiting breaks,” but who is now away up in official circles. “I don’t know,” #aid the speaker, us he pulled his memory into action, ‘‘that this partizular day of the year has been more productive of incident than any other, still, hundreds of train and track men hardly ever have the pleasure, as most people do, of spending it at home. They ave generally far away attending to their duties and keeping the wheels of commerce moving. *The most exciting event I ever wit- nessed oceurred at Carbon, Wyo., in 1878, Iwas then connected with the Uunion Pacific » . For months provi ously to this particular occurence we hed been annoyed and harrassed by a band of outlaws, and doubtless you re- member having henrd of the fate thav befell Dutch Charly. “He wus a desperate churacter and the ringleader, One night in Novem- ber his gang made an attempt to ditch our everiand passenger train at the bridge, threo miles edst of Medicine Bow, but failed and had to Ny, *Matters were roaching such a vitch and the desperadoes were becoming so bold that something had to be done. “The company finally offered a largo ve- ward for the capture of the famous leader and his band, In the meantime, however, Tip Mercy, a noted deputy -sheriff, had organized a posse and started 10 pursuit of them, “The robbers had, it was ascertained, struck off north towards Elk mountain, Tip was joined shortly by Bob Welow- field, another fearless officer, who an- nounced his intention of never return- ing until he got the villains, So far as the returning purt of his declaration goes, poor Bob kept his word. The very next day he and every man with him was shot to death. They came upon the outlaws in a canon and were riddled with bullets, “The day before Christmas Dutch Charloy was taken prisoner at Green River. A party of us wentover there from Rawlins, got the fellow and started to Cheyenne with him, The minars at Carbon had heard we were coming, and repared to indulge ina little necktie ostival, *‘Before becoming deputy sheriff, Tip Mercey had been a miner, and was very wopular among the coal d‘neu at Cars bon, Ou learning now brutally he hud been murdered, while in the dischar of his duties, by Dutch Charley’s #u throat followers, the miners swore to be revenged, and this was their oppor- tunivy. *We had expected to pass through Carbon without stopping, but uvon our arvival there, we found the track blocked and an immense crowd of de- termined men at the depot. “As soon as the train stopped they surrounded it and demanded that Dutch Charley be turned over them. “We had him locked iu a car and did everything possible to prevent the mob getting ut him, but it was no use. They broke open the car doors, dragged him out and, in less than five minutes, had him s ging at the end of a rope from a telegraph pole. he weather was bitterly cold. After our prisoners had heen disppsed of so rudely, we concluded to stay and spend Chrisumas at the camp. Next morning everybody in Carbon went down and looked at the body swinging too and fro in the wind. It was frozen stiff, covered with sleet and presented a most horrible spectacle. Those min- ers, however, never u{mnt a happier Christmas, That night they cele- brated the revenge of Tip Mercy’s murder, with a lmlluml‘ynu can rest assured there were $dme lively scenes witnessed.” v “That is good racy stuff and will make interesting mattor for BEE read- ors,” observed another high-salaried employe of the same corporation, ‘‘but, when you hear what I have to velate, thera will not be solively an exvression in your comments. 1t is a sad and tearful story. “*One Christmas morning, fifteen or sixteen years ago, seven of our goys, enginecers, firemen and conductors, en- gaged o team at Laramie and started ovt to put in the day hunting rabbits, Not one of them came back alivel” **And how did it happen?” *They [roze to death!” “They must have been foolish to seel sport in such cold weather,”” “Well, you see, the morning was warm and bright. About 2 o’clock in the afternoon a terrific blizzard, ac- companied by heavy snow, swept across the mountains. KEvery western man knows how quick the temperature changes when a north winter wind blowing at the rate of eighty miles an hour, strikes it, Those seven men had gone so far from town that they could not get buck, und when night came one #ot lost. When we found them two or three days later, it was discovered that they bad turned the wagon box upon its sido soas to break the wind and lain down in a heap behind it, There they went to steep and lost their lives.” “That reminds me of a somewhat similar occurence,” said the first speaker. *I know a conductor, Miller was the name if I am not mistaken, who left Rawlins one Christmas morning to hunt antelope. A storm set in quite early but the conductor refused to turn back, and, as o consequence, perished, The brakeman, however, displayed better judgment in retracing his steps.” There ave several old-timers in Omaha who have gone through many exciting experiences ia their lives but they are too modest to tell of them, wenty-five or thirty years ago Harry Hall, city ticket ugent of the Burling- ton, was a conductor on the old Belle- fontaine road in Indiana and Ohio, when it meant business to be a railroader, But Harry was quite fortunate in his Christmas celebrations and never suffered anything morve iu- conyehient or disastrous ‘than to be “stuck” between stations in a snow blockade, Eogineers aud firemen frequently have & bard time, but brakewen are the . B. FALGONER | boys who brave danger and exposure. They could, if they would, unfold many tales of deeds of heroism, but, as one ef their number expressed it, “'life is too short -to waste one’s breath talking about such things.” “We bid our friends good-bye on Christmas morning just the same as on any other and go out on our runs, think- ing nothing at all about it. When for- tune so favors us that we are off duty that day, why, T guess we enjoy the oc- casion " the same as everybody else around us, and that is all there is to it. T have ‘been thinking lately that our Christmys nowadays is not what it used to be. Seldom are we exposed to 8o muny hardships and dangers,” S THEY HAVE NO CHRISTMAS, Where Common People BHave the Aavantage of Kings and Queens. There are few people who can enjoy only a small part, if any, of the happi- nees of the Christmas season. Such are kings and emperors, for example, who have all through the year in the great- est abundance, every pleasant thing that usually distinguishes Christmas from other days, writesJames Parton in the Youth’s Companion. For oue thing, they sit down toa Christmas dinner about three "hundred and sixty-five times a year. Madame Carette, who was second reader to the Empress BEugenie, has told the world lately that the court party at the Tuileries had green peas, strawberries and peaches for dinner nearly every day of the year, Not canned, as we have them, nor pre- served, but fresh from the greenhouses of Versailles, They had besides what she called “double courses,” and all served with such ease and rapidity that thoy dis- patched the entire ropast in three- quarters of an hour. Tt isobviously im possible that people who are fed in this way all the time can have any particu- lar pleasure in a Christmas dinner, Then us to presents. Who can give snch persons anything? They can show you pints of diamonds and ropes of pearls, The only thing they really waot is another province, which no one can give them except some other King or empevor, and he will not, but keeps atl the world in a suppressed broil by his own desirve for provinces. So these royal unfortunates can have no Christmas presents, or atany rate, none which give them any peculiar pleasure. You may reply that on Christmas duy kings and emperors exercise the royal privilege of giving, which is about the only thing they have that is worth coveting. But giving is a part of their trade. They are always doing it as a matter of course. They buy dia- mond suuff boxes by the dozen, gold watches by the gross, India shawls by the bale, lnce by the hundred pieces; likewise rings and brooches in great numbers. Now, really, people who have to give protty objects away in such numbers can enjoy but a trifling and languid pleasure in the act. These things are measureably true of many rich people, whose very gilts frequently cause morve pain than pleas- ure. Their nephows, nieces and cous- ins are disposed, in many instances, to magnify their own claims and their un- cle’s wealth: **Quly this hittle diamond! Ouly this trifling check, and Uncle John #o rich!” Not that such words are often spoken aloud, but the seutiment frequently embitters what might other- wise have been a weleome benefaction, It is poor people and poor nations, aund people in the ordinary walks of 1ife, that get the most enjovment from festive days. As they are oclosely en- gaged, day by day, in doing their part of the world’s mighty task, & feast is n rarity,and the whole year often passes unbroken by a single évent of a festive nature An American wraveler in Ireland, Spain, Poland, Italy, is pleased to see the universal happiness which the ap- proach of Christman diffuses. Merely having n chicken for dinner gives 1o a poor family in the south of Rurope a novel and thrilling delight. Two or three Christmases ago Dr. Henry M. Field of New York was in Spain, He found the cheap cars on all the railroads filled with sons and daughters traveling to spend Christimas with the old folks at nome, and all the stations crowded wlth their relations coming to greet and escort them. There was the same universal Kissing and embracing that we observe in New England the day before Shanksgiving, Dr. Field himself remarks: *It was all so like our American Thanksgiving that 1t gave me a pang to think that I was not going home,”” Some of the newsboys in our country towns have a joyful Christmas. Ob- sorvers are awaro that a change has come over the newsboys of late years They are no longer, as a class, the dis- orderly ragamuffins they used tobe be- fore the day of the Newsboys' lodging house and the Children’s Aid society. There is getting to be less. and less room in the world for the careless and unprincipled. The proprietorsof news- apers discovered a good while agothat oys who are careless as to their other duties are the last to be trusted with the responsible task of delivering morn- ing papers. For various reasons the boys who are now carrying newspapers in the United States are among the best boys we have. Maany of them are earning their chance 10 go through the high school by delivering papers, and sometimes the whole family join in the work,even to the little sister, who runs across a square with o L or trots up a long ath and thrusts the moruing sheet into the box provided for it. Such newsbeys have an interesting time on Christmas morning when they g0 their rounds: True, there is Old Growler, who soelds if his paper does not arrive by half-past six, but never remembers ou Christmas morning the fuithful boy who brings it to him. There is also the happy famuy hilarious over thewr presentsgwho send out 10 cents *fo get rid of Him”—him, who got up at 4 and worked till 7 813 times to bring them their paper. On the other hand, there 1s the benavolont old gentleman who always has-a brilliant silver dollar for his newsboyyand comesto the door himself to give 1t o him) with a Merry Christmas, 8o we see that Christmas follows the general rule; whatevor pleusant days and exceptionally nice things come along, plthough the rich and powerful may have their share of them, it is the man who is doiug the ordinary work of the world, and who shares only its common emoluments and rewards, who derives from them the greatest amount of pleasure and benefit, Those who have a Christmas every day have no Christmas at all, A BB LT Washington Gladden, D,D,, of Columbus, 0.3 . W. Montgomery of Miuueapo- Burnham, DD Sprineicid, D.D, Lowurl. Mass., . 0. I Preaby of Washington, D. pointed by the National Council of Congregationalists at its late meeting to con- sider the question of cousclidating in oue Eub‘.lclllan the several periodieals published y the missionary socicties engagod in thée home work, +| are ANGELS SANG NOT FOR THEM. Mortals to Whom Christmas Brings But Grief aud Pain, A CHRIST IN THE CRIB. Salling the Salted Seas and a Con- 1 Invalid in Omaha — De- serted by His Ungrateful Prozeny— Etc., Ete. Among the Suff ring. HILE there are ma- =_ Ny in comfortable 2 circumstances, and =others dependent #9-~ upon small incomes, i who, alike, antici- pate a joyful anni- versary of the birth of the Savior, there -unfortunates who- have no joy- ful reunion to which to look for- ward, no kind friends or relatives to send them loving tokens of remem- brance. To these, there is no pleasant anticipation of a day differing, in any material feature, from the weary suc- cession of days in the dull, uneventful life which they are compelled to lead, Among these unfortunates ave the i mates of the various charitable institu~ tions 1m the city. They are, indeed, worthy objects of remembrance on the part of those who have a realizing sense of dutyv to mankind. At the Clarkson memorial hospital on Dodge street, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth, was found among other little ones a child whose story would ex- cite pity in a heart of stone, Helen Johnson 18 six years of age and has been an inmate of the hospital for the pust eighteen months. She is bright and beautiful, with laxen hair and blue eyes, She is remarkablyin- telligent, with conversational powers unusually developed, But a marked tinge of sadness pervades her speech and is a constant reminder to the list~ ener that she, alas, is not like other children. She suffers from a disease of the hip which makes it ampossible for her to use her lower limbs, As a con- sequence, she is compelled to remain in bed oron an invalid chair continually, She can never hope to enjoy life as other people do. No child- ish joys ave bers. Alone and smong strangers, she must bear the afiliction, watching other children as they pass to and fro, past the window and he: ~i|ui their joyous ecries, which awale, alas! no responsive echoes in her breast. Little Helen’s mother lives in Hol- dregs, but is bed-ridden and not able even Lo visit her little daughter. To be sure, tne litlle patient receives the best of attention from the attend- ants of the institution, but nothing can assunge the grief of herchildish heart. Another of the little patients is Cas- par Clark, who has been at the hospital nearly two years, lle also is a sufferor from hip trouble. His age is the same as little Helen’s, and the same air of age and sadness domioates his voice and leaves its imprint upon his pallid features. . Down in the southern part of town, across the railway tracks and perched upon @ high bank,is an old frame build- ing overlooking the eity. A large cross stands boldly out against the sky and All Mail Order Packages. | speaks louder than words the fact that the structure is dedicated to holy pur- poses. It is St. Joseph's hospital, con- ducted by the Sisters of St. Franc Its inmates, in the general wards, are mainly of the noorer classes—those w ho for the most part have no relatives or {riends. They are taken in and cared for by the self-sacrificing Sieters. No pleasant anticipations of Christmas joys are likely to be roalized by them. Among these inmates is Franz Fleischer, a man about fifty years of age, who has been at the hospital for soven years, During his early life ho was a sailor, and in- his vravels he has visited the principal seaports of the world, He wandered inland from New York after one of his voy- ages and reached Omaha sick and destitute. He was taken to the hospital for treatment and has been there ever since, His health is com- plotely shattered. He. is a physical wreck. When able he ‘does odd jobs about the hospital and thus endeavors to vary the monotony of his existence. He is entirely alone in the world. When asked how he expected to pass Christ- mas he replied dejectedly that he did not expect to vary the usual order of things. There wasno expectation of even the smallest remembrance from friends. If anything, the day would be more gloomy™ and distressing than ordinary. He knew of no one who would be likely to remember him by a small token and seemed greatly depressed nt the utter desolation of the prospect. A depression enhanced doubtless by recol- lections of days gone by when he had been the gayest of the gay and had en- Joyed his Christmas in" the good old *I'aderiand,” Out at the county poor house there are a great many inmates who have his- tories replete with pathetic incidents, Old Daniel Murphy, whose flowing locks have been frosted by the snows of seventy winters, has been an inmate of the hospital for six years. The best years of his life were spent in bringing up and educating a large family, of whom seven are still alive and scattered over the country. The partner of his joys and sorrows passed away years ago, and all the children deserted the old man, leaving him alone and crippled, and dependent upon charity for his daily bread. ‘Wnen asked how he hoped to pass Christmas, and whether he expected anything in the shupe of aremem- brance, the old man’s eyes were dimmed with tears as he rephed: *‘Suve, sir, there’s no one as cares for me now, The childer ure far awsy and nota thought bave they for the old man. No, no, it will be asorry Christmas for me.” The other inmates have been at tho | institution for some time, some of them fora number of years and nearly all of them have histories replete with pa- thetic incidents, The majority have spent the greater portion of their lives in providing for others uutil they have become superannuated and erippled and unable to care for themselves and have then been compelled to asi for charity at the hands of strangers, They are in the charge of Superintendent Mahouey, to whom all their peculiari- ties and deprivations are known and who intends, in so far s in him lies, to make the coming festivities of the o TR e the most spiritless of his charge. ITu these homes of the bedridden, the pauper and the superannuated, there are several hundred to which refercnce may not be made in these columns, Of these, the gay world thinks not while it dines at the family board or in the gilded saloons of the public hostelry. But what gladness wuulx not a gift of some kind, some delicacy, bring to their sorrowing and aged hearts, It is their i | i misfortune now, I but who may t ‘whom their plac § will be fil -~ HINTS TO SMOKERS. Advice and Suggestions to Lovors of the Frageant Wead. | About tobacco—u word from Vienna, An alleged case of death from tobnceo - . i poison acting on the othe diseased heart of an inveterate smoker, hns of late greatly interested the medical prae fession of tnat city. At i conference om the subject Dr. Favarger has given the following advice to smokers: Never smoke when the stomach is empty. Do not hold the pipe or continuously in the mouth when smoking, but withs draw it for breathing space between the whiffs. Never smoko a foul pipe or cigar-holder, and smoke strong and weak cigars alteroately, There is no better antidote to nicotine, says Pavare ger, than tannic acid, which is an im= portant ingredient of red wine as well as of tea and coffee. Therefore, says he, let the smoker who would hate the least harm done him by nicotine, d o when he is smokiong, red wine, coflee ox tea. A French physician has heen givin some counsel to smoicers, He has foun that the disense most frequently ine duced by smoking is fatty degencration of the beart, but he is a smoker hims self and doos not advise his paticnts to forsweur long habit. That, he thinks, would cause their last state to be worse than their first, Instead of doing this, he lays downa code of rules for the guidance of smolkers, to which, it is to be feared, they will not pay ‘us much attention as they might. Never smoke fasting, says the doctor, It has hitherto been supposed thag smoking 18 an excellent antidote to hunger, and muny a traveller hus cers tunly found it to be so. A pipe, & tightening of the belt and a nip of brandy 18 Mr. Archibald Forbes’ recipe for staying a craving stomach. Do not keep a cigar too long in the mouth, and do not habitually smoke strong Parta- gas, are excellent counsels, which a great number of people already follow for a variety of reasons, The doctor’s final advice is that cigarholders should be frequently cleanod, — Al The oldest specimens of combs pres served in the British muscum belon g to the period of the second Egyptian dynnsty; they are mado of wood, with coarse teeth rathor wide apart; whore there is only a singlo row there is @ rough attempt to carve the back into & semblance of a sacred animal, such ag the cow of the goddess of beauty, 'Th of ono speels men, in bone, six-pronged and rudely cut at the edges, suguests that it wae worn as an ornament for the huir, From that time to the middle ages there 15 no evidence to show that decorative combg The Greeks were spes fustidious in the arrangement of huir, and the Spartans, whose general habiws were more severe, were no whit behind them in the ecare lave ished upon it, calling it, very shrewdly, the cheapest of ornaments, and before proceeding to battle the combing and dressing of their locks partook of all the solemnity of a religious rite. He= fore the battle of Thermopylw Leons idus and his followers were discovered by the Porsian spy in the performance of this act. That it was in some wa assoclated with worship of the s 8 among the Itomans also is evidenced by the presence of combs in the cista, op cylindrical vase with a covered lid, which contained the articles used du I ing the rites of Cores and Bacchus, . } \ \l