Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1889, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, I DECEMBER SIXTEEN KELLY, STIGER & CO. Goods Buitable for Gifta, Now Year's Furs, Embroidered Handkerchiefs, Fans, Draping Nets, Men's Silk Handkerchic Muffs and FURS, FURS. Our entire stock of furs regardless of cost. Boa and Muff Sets. Collarette and Muff Sets, Muffs, Muffs, Muffs, © 3 All recardless of cost. EMBROIDERED HANDKER CHI All greatly reduced. we are offering ut 100, 124c 5¢ and FINE See the goods 2ic, 50e, $1. IMPORTED FANS. Latest novelties in hand painted quisite designs) av $1, and up. DRAPING NETS. Our entire stock of lace draping nets, figured and striped gauze draping at duced prices. See what we oving at 85c, 98¢, $1.25, 81.75, 82 and upward, 2 Men’s heavy all silk mufilers in white, cream and colors at 95¢, worth $1.50. Men’s fine cashmere mufllers in light and dark colors at 60c, worth 75¢ and 81,00, Men’s large black silk hankkerchiefs, hemstitched, reduced to T7ie, worth Men’s fancy bordered linen handker- chiefs, hemstitched, reduced to 25c, worth 50c. Men’s large white Jap silk handker- hemstitched, reduced to 50c, MENS NECKWEAR. We show men’s fine all silk scarfs and four-in-hand ties at 25¢, worth 50c. Men’s elegant sitk searfs and four-in- hand ties ut 50c¢, well worth $1.00. MEN'S GLOVES. Men’s fine kid gloves, lined and fur trimmed, at $1.00, worth $1.50. Men’s fino dress kid gloves. pique stitched, in popular shades, reduced to $1.50, worth $2.00. Men’s fine beaver and seal skin gloves, lined, reduced to $3.50, worth $6.00. Our store wili be closed on New Year’s day. & CO., 1 and Dodge streets. KELLEY, STIGER Corner ST For Rent. The undersigned being the owner of the following vacant stores and dwell- fngs will rent the same at special low rates to secure desirable tenants for the wintel 2 new brick stores, 24th and Grace, each 20x60 with cellars, 8 new brick 7-room flats, 24th and Grace, with mantels, buth rooms and modern conveniences. 6 new brick 11-room houses, with every modern convenience, for rent at less than half rates; 20th and Bur- dette. 1 new brick 10-room house with every convenience; 26th and Marcy. 1 store building and large cellar, 16th and Wirt, with meat market tools and fixtures; very cheap. 8 small houses at 88.00 and $0.00 per month each. For particulars call at office, room 1, Barker block. C. T. TAYLOR. el Holiday Rates. Cheap rates for the holidays on the Chicago & Northwestern Ry. City of- fice, 1401 Farnam St. R. R. RircHIE, Gen’l Agt. e e £l New etchings received at Hospe’s. —— Can’t Bo Hont. Do not fail to look at Camp & Co.’s pianos, before purchasing, at J. S. Cameron’s, 118 N. 15th st. An k St. Louis Globe-Democrat: General Raum’s activity in promoting the ef- ficiency of the pension service isad- mirable; and his resolute control of his mouth makes millions glad. 1E SURPASSED On the Chicago & Northwestern Rail- way. On and after Sunday, November 17, the Chicago & Northwestern trains east bound will be scheduled ag follows: Northwestern No. 2 leaves Omaha, 9:15 a. m.; arrives Chicago, 6:50 a. m. Northwestern No. 6 leaves Omaha, 4:05 p. m.; arrives Chicago, 7:00 a. m. This is a solid vestibuled train, run- ning direct from the Union Pacific depot at Omaha, equipped with free chair cars, superb sleepers and “North- western’”’ dining cars. The fastest schedule ever made between the Mis- souri river and Chicago. Northwestern No. 4 leaves Omaha, 7:15 p.m.; arrives Chicago, 2:15 p.m. The latest train on any line out of Omaha. Arriving at Chicago in ample time for connection with the limited trains on all eastern lines, All patrons of the Chicugo & North western can have their baggage checked divect from their hctel or residence to any point east. R. R. RITCHIE, General Agent. City office. 1401 Farnam streot. . Ml ALL PREVIOUS T No Occasion for Haste, Pittsburg Digpatch: It is of course competent for the administration to recognize the Brazilinn ‘government as & government de facto. But it might _be embarrassing if, after we had for- mally endorsed it as arepublic,lt should turn out, to be a military dictatorship. sl “MOORE, THE DODGE STREET GROCER,” keeps the finest butter and the freshest eggs. s Do not fail to examine the celebrated Estey piano. Sold by J. S. Cameron, 118 North 15th st. e — e . A Happy New Year to All. ‘We still have in stock a few of the oelebrated Estey, Cnmfi & Co. and Bridgeport organs, which we propose to sell at prices that cannot be duplicated in the west, Will make terms to suit purchasers. Please examine these &oods before purchasing, at J. S. Cam- eron, 113 North 15th st. Chicago Tribune: Stage Manager (to new supe)—You ean take this part. All you have to do is to rush out on the stage at the proper time and say, *‘Heavens, is that you Micah?” New Supe (rushing out at proper moment, but suffering somewhat from stage fright)—Great Scott! 1s that you, Isinglass? A young lady of Carlisle, Penn., has re- cewved a bill amounting to over $100 that tells & little nistory. The bill came from a jilted and in it she is charged with twenty- of dress gooas, two gold worth $40, one diumond ring, a hut ‘and several other items. The above named Articles were presents from him, ———— For prayer books, R. beads and scapu- lars go to Heafoy & Hoafey's, 218 S, 14th, e e as Pianos tuned at A, Hospa's. THE BOSTON STORE, Must Do Business — Prices Away Down For Monday. We Before Involcing We Will Sacrifice Even Staple Dry Goods to Save r Ourselves and Lonsdale muslin regular 8c quality. Heavy bleached sheeting de, worth e, 3o, All standard calicos Indigo blue prints 5e. Wide Goerman blue prints 9o, worth 150, Best apron check gingham Ge ya. Faney stripe ginghams de yd. ) urtain serim Se yd. v canton flannel 4e yd. Shaker flannels, very fine, 5e yd. California scarlet all wool flannel 17¢ yord, Fine white flannel 25¢, worth 40c. 35 GOODS. Enghsh henrietta, double fold, 10c yard. Double fold flannel 11¢ yd. Broadeloth 7¢ Brilliantine, latest shades, 240 yd. All the 65¢ henriett: , all colors. 89c—KID GI -39¢. All the kid gloves formerly sold at 50¢, 7Tle and 98¢ at 89¢, Moaday only. UNDERWEAR. Children’s white and scarlet under- ar, all sizes, 16c, worth up to 40 Ladies’ jersey knit underwes worth 750, Boys’ searlet underwoar, 10c. Ladies’ finest quality zephyr knit underwear, 75e. Our H0c corset at 19c. Our $1 corset at 3 HOSIERY. Ladics’ fine cashmere hose, 19¢, regu- lar 45c quality. nt’s alt wool hoss s’ cotton hose, 3 ses’ faney cashme ’s merino hose imported cashmere hose, 85¢, 39¢, hose, 19c. cos and embroideries, rmerly sold as high as 25c. Before invoicing we _offer these and other rave bargains. Visit us for par- ticulavs of this sale. THE BOSTON STORE, 114 S. 16th. RPN el Dr. Parsell, office R. 405 Paxton blk. oo e New music just received at Hospe’s ettt B i Excursion South Via the Wabash Line Now on sale round trip tickets to Jack- sonville, Fla., New Orleans, La., Gal- veston, Tex., the Hot Springsof Arkan- sas and all the winter resorts of the south, The Wabash is the quickest route to Indianapolis, Ciuncinnati and the southeast. Only 47 hours to New York with corresponding fast time to all points east. Blegant reclining chair and Pullman buffet sleepi cars on all trains, Passengers tic to and from all parts of Kurope via all lines at lowest rates. Baggage checked from hotels and private residences to destination. For tickeis and full in- formation in regard to time and routes east or south call on or write GEo. N. CLAYTON, 1502 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb. Hallett and Davis Pianos. We have in stock one of this make piano that we are anxious to dispose of by Jacuary 1 at- $150 on easy monthly paymentsat J. S. Cameron’s, 113 North 15th st. o Holiday Excursion Rates, Tickets will be sold at reduced rates to all points on the Burlington within a aistance of two hundred miles on Decem- ber 24, 25, 81, and January 1, good for return until Januvary 3, 1890. Ticket office, 1223 Farnam st. Depot, Mason and 10th sts. e Take the Chicngo, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rallway. Omaha and Chicago fast exprees for Chicago and all points east. Vestibuled sleepers leave the Union Pacific depot, Omaha, at 6 p. m daily, reacaing Chi- cago at 9:30 a. m. the following day, in ample time for all eastern connectioas. Supper and breakfast served in dining cars. Passengers for Freeport, Rock- ford, Elgin,and all points in Wisconsin, can by taking this train reach their destination twalve hours in advance of all other lines, Baggage checked through from your residence to destina- tion. For tickets and -further informa- tion apply to C. S. CARRIER, Tkt. Agt., J. E. PRESTON, Pass, Agt. F. A. NAsH, Gen. Agt., 1501 Farnam e For the finest teas and coffees go to HMOORES.” ————— NOT A NEW IDEA, The Phonograph Suggested in a Sev- enteenth Century Fable, The1dea of the magnetic telegraph 18 snid to bo certainly 300 years old, says the Now York Times. But the phono- graph was believed to be a compara~ tively new notion. Mary Somerville, indeed, predicted that before the end of the present century we should prob- ably possess a means of recording and reproducing speech; but the like con- ugpuun turns out to be far older than that. In the middle of the seventeenth cen~ tury M. de Bergerac, a well known French writer of his day,and a forerun- ner of Jules Verne, published a fabulous account of a visit to the moon, which containg an account of two mechanical books left in a city of the moon by & vis- itor from the sun, In opening one of these books the narrator states that he found “‘somwhat of metal almost like our clocks, full of I know not what little springs and impercepible eagines. 1t was 8 book, indeed, but a strange and wonderful book, that hud neither leaves nor letters. In fine, it was a book made wholly for the ears and not the eyes, so that when anybody has a mind to read it he winds up that machine with a great many liutle springs; then he turns the hand to the chap- ter which be desires to hear, and straight as from the mouth of & man, or & musical in- strument, proceed all the distinct and differ- ent sounds which the lunar grandees make use of for expressing their thoughts instead of language. no longer wondered that the young men of that country were more knowing ot sixteen or eighteen years oid than the graybeards of our climate, for, koowing how to read as soon us speak, they are never without lectures,” A suggestion of the electric light is also contained in the same work, where one of the characters a\:(peuu with two bowis of fire ‘'so sparkling thav all wondered he burnt notflh fingers.” The philosopher of the fun who com- posed one of these speaking tubes is thus described; ‘“*He proves in it [the book) that all things are uuo' and shows the way of uniting physically the truths of every contradiction : as, for example,that white is black and black white; that one may be and may uot be at the l‘-:uuu 0 nn;v g all J:eu uhu:lu&l paradoxes without any us OF 80 s cal argument,” o P N. B. FALCONER. Oleaning Up for Stock Taking. Monday and Tuesday We Will Close Out All 0Odd Lots of Underwear, Dress Goods, ete., That We Don’t Wiah to children’s white nderwenr. Sizes , 26 and 28 5 Just half prices. 85 dozen men’s grey and white me- rino underwear, odd lots and sizes, at 624c, worth $1.2 25 dozon ladios grey and white 1 lots and sizes, GOODS DEP. 80 pieces of fine henri from 6 tq.8 yards. out before ARTMENT. s in lengths These must be closed evening. We will ces to close the lot. Don’t miss this chance to get a good dress cheap. Also a lot of other desirable goods in odd lengths that will bo offered cheap. Remuants of all dress goods at half- pr 8. LINEN DEPARTMENT. Tn this department wo have accumu- lated many remununts of damask and crashes. Also a great many odd towls during the holiday rnsh, They will be offered Monday at less than half price, All odd rs of blankets, comfor and remnants of lannels, sheeting, mus- lins, . must go. Attend this great closing out sale. Remember just two more days. BLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT. Four great bargains for Monday and Tuesday only. inch pure silk warp henrietta, sale , worth $1.00. h pure silk warp batiste cloth, epe cloth, sale price twills, hair India i worth e price e, All remnants of black goods will be offered for the mnext two days at just one half their value. N. B. FALCONER. e ARG S e New Year's Bargain. A solid walnut, 7% octave, full 3-string upright piano, hst price $800, sold at $350 on e puyments, at J. S, Cam- eron’s, 113 North 15th st. ettt “MOORE, THE CASH GROCER,” always carries the best canned goods and at the lowest price e A Behr. We are state agents for the celebrated Behr Bros. pianos. Please call and ex- amine the patent mufller on this piano before buying elsewhere. J. S. Cam- eron, 113 North 15th st. s e AT COST! No Humbug! I1 READ !! We are determined to reduce our large stock of seal caps, gloves, beaver goods and everything in the fur line at actual cost of manufacture until Janu- ary 1st, & Co., 12D S. 15th Street, South of Postoffice. —— A. 0. H. Band Masquerade, The A, O. H. band will. give their second annual-mask ball at’ Bxposition hall on New Yeur’s eve, December 81st. A good time is assured to all who at- tend. Masks and suits can be obtained in the hall, P Parnell Social Olab. The above club will give the fourth of a series of parties at Cunningham’s hall, Thirteenth and Jackson streets, Wednesday evening, January 1. Friends of the club who have not yet re- caived invitations should call on‘any of the members of the club and obtain the same, as this party will exceed all for- mer efforts. Stoves, We have a large stock of heating stoves which we will sell at any price as we are determined not to carry them over. Come and make us an offer. Omaha Auction & Storage Co., 1114 Douglas street. e ROLAND REED'S NOSE, It Was Artistic Reconstructed by a Phila a Surgeon. Roland Reed, the comedian, . had he lived in the days of the First Napoleon, would no doubt have had a warm ad- mirer in the little corporal, for it 18 of historicai record how much the latter respected the possessor of a large and Projecv.iug -nose, says the New York Times. Nuature must huve been in an ambitious mood when she turned her forces to the construction of Mr. Reed’s nose, for if there ever was a hole deeper thau its shadow, this member stood in that relation to the atmosphere with which it was surrounded. The comedian is said to take more or less pride in his facial dowry, and to have declared his purpose to kill the first player he met who carried a larger nose. Aside from the value which his- torical celebrities have put upon it as an index of character, worth, and men- tal sharpness, it ‘‘came in” with im- mense success in interpreting the hu- morous type the comedian affected. It wus a trying affair, however, in the wintry changes of the euastern climate, through which it showed all the weak- resses of the common breed and gave a nasal twang and snufling refrain to much of his dialogue that kept getting more and more grating upon the proud and happy spirits of the jolly trouba~- dour, At last a Philadelphia doctor was called upon to examine the offend- ing organ, and he discovered that the economics of nature were I;nintully hampered and upset y & bony growth which made it neces- sary to breathe entirely through one nostril and give the nose that left-sided bent which spoiled an otherwise shapely structure., He advised Mr. Reed to have the obstacle removed, and for that purpose the comedian laid his company off last week and went to Philadelphia 10 have the operation l;arturmed. In a letter to a New York friend Mr, Keed says: “I have been under the surgeon’s hands twice since cumlnfi here. The operations were painful an: three small pieces of bone have been removed, giving me, for the first time in many years, an unobstructed breath through both nostrils, I have to under- g£o one more cutting, and then the doc- tor says I will breathe as freely as a rize athlete and have the ‘straightest egitimate nose in the business,” Drop in to see me at Brooklyn next week and iugq;a for yourself of the nicety of the job. ——— Kimball Or 2 We have a Kimball organ used but 90 days, five octaves, eleven stops; we will sell for 835 on easy month {‘psy- ments at J.' 8 Cawmeron’s, 113 North 16th st HAYPEN BROS, Special Cut Petecs on Lindies' and Gents' Fawal:hing Goo.ts. Underwenr to b closed out at once regardless of cost, Prices cutdeep on all kinds of hosiery. Wo will put on sale Monday one case of Indies’ all-wobl vests and pants in natural gray at 5 each, reduced from $1.25. All our children’s wool under- wear at groatly veduced prices. Gents’ heavy winter underwear 25u, 89¢, 50¢, $1.00 up to $8.00 each. One lot of gents’ fancy suspenders worth 60c re- duced ¢ nts' fine camels hair one-hall hose oaly 25¢, worth 400, One case of ladies’ shmere hose only 150, worth 25¢, Children’s Kronch and derby ribbed hose in wool only 250, worth 502, Boys’ heavy yarn mitts only 10c per pair. All our furs just one-half: price to close. K Axony yarns only 9c per skein, Wo shall put on sale Monday 100 dozens ladies’ corsets, never sold in this city for less t 7a0, our price only Special prices on ladies’ muslin underwear on Monday. HAYDEN BROS., Dry Goods, 16th st. For the best bu , sweet and sour pickles, apple butter and mince meat as well as the finest bloater mack- evel and pigs’ feet, always go to “MOORES.” —— Half ¥ Permits, Clergymen d ng half fare permits for the year 1800 on the Chicago & Northwestern Ry. can obtain the same at the oflice of the general ugent, 1401 Farnam St. R. R. Rirenig, Gen'l Agt. A Poodle Shot with a Buckst of Water Feels no worse than the man who has smoked a poor cigar. Buy your fine cigars of W. E. Hamilton,Barker block. Exclusive tobacco. RS The Great Rock island Route. In changing time on Sunday, Nov. 17, the Chicago, Rock Island & P Ry. have considered every point of in- terest to the Omaha traveling public, 1f you are gotug to Des Moives, Chicazo wny voint east, our solid vestibule Jimited train is ju you want, Leave O vo in Des Moines ro 8:30 a. m., dining car for supper leaving Couneil Bluffs and for breakfast before reaching Chicago. This train is 50 equipped with the finest sleepers and chair cars made by tue Puilman Co., which leave from the U. P. depot, Omuha,every day p. m., making close connections ago with all trains for enstern points. In addition to this magnificent train we have two other daily trains to’ 0, leaving Omaha at 9:15 a. m, p. m. For information as to ates, time, etc., call at ticket 5 Farnam street; telephone S. S. STEVENS, General Western Agent. routes, office, 782, A New Y Gt A solid walnut, five octave organ, price $150, used 90 days, for $55 payments, at J. S.Cameron’s, 113 North 15th st. gl gy kv Before Buying A piano examine the new scale Kim ball piano. A. Hospe, 1513 Douglas. S New photograph frames at Hospo's S Holitay iiates. ‘Cheap ‘rates for - tho holidays on the Chicago & Northwestern Ry, City of- fice, 1401 Farnam St. R. R. RrrcHig, Gen’l Agt. A PERSIAN PRISON. Around Each Felon's Neck an lron Chain Is Fastened, A mud wall about twelve lest high surrounded an enclosure of a quarter of an acre. On one side was an arched entrance, guarded by massive wooden gates covered with sheet iron. Over the gateway were two rooms, the abode of the jailer and his family, which were reached by a rude flight of steps. Squasting at the gate was a guard of three soldiers, needy-iooking fellows in tattered uniformsof gray. Three muskets, with rusty bayonets attached, were leaned against the wall close be- hind them. o J - 1,4 e N We descended the stairs and entered the gate. The jailer and the guards who accompanied us carried in their hands iron maces with spiked heads. These weapons were intended to warn the prisoners against attempting any violence. Seated beneath the farther wall was a row of about forty miserable- looking wretches, with but a fow tatter- ed rags to cover their nakedness. Around each man’s neck was an_iron ring of rude workmansghip., Heavy iron chains, passed from collar to collar, bound each prisoner to his neighbo In another place were several poor wretches lying on their backs with their feet thrust through holes in a log of wood. I[Teavy iron fetters p ssed around euch ankle and held theafeet secure. The jailer explained that the men with the iron collars about their necks were the ones who had committed small offences, petuy thieves, debtors and others who were in for short periods of time, writes Thomas Stevens in the Youth’s Companion. Those with their feet in the rude stocks were criminals of more importance, murderers, high- way robbers, old offenders and jail- breakers. On either side of the gate was a long, low room, built against the wall, also of mud, and without windows or, ventila~ tion, save two or three small, round holes in the side, These were places of confinement for the prisoners at night and in rainy weathor, but there was neither bed norfurniture, In one of thesedens wore seated three prisoners with thuge blocks of wood chained to theinfeet. ‘L'he jailer ex- piained that they were refractory new arrivals who were being brought to terms, —— The Kimball, I have in stock ' a 7% octave Kimball piano, one of the best made, used but a short time, at 3185 on easy monthly pay~ ments, 118 Noreth 15th st, 2l LS New styles moulding at Hospe’s, Dr. R, H. Darrow has removed his office to Rooms B'and 9, Arlington bl'k, Dodge st; tel. offiee, 1494, res, 555, B e President Harrison Uses the '‘Bradbury” piano. Do not fail to see it before purchasing, Sold . ¥ J. 8, Cameron, 113 North 15th st. v —_—————— See Decker Bros.’ pianos at J, 8, Cameron’s, e “Did you know thatants would make lemonade?” asked a bridge street gro- cer the other day, says the Tampa, Fla., Tribune, “'They will, for I nave seen them do it. The other day I left a slice of lemon on the counter, and there happened 1o be some sugar not far off, and directly I noticed the ants the sugar to the lemon juice. I thought it was rather queer, as well as cute, and to test the matter have tried it several times by putting a piece of lemon on the counter and placing some sugar near by, and the ants never fail to carry the sugar to the lemon. What do you think ol that now? It is an absolute fact, A TRAGEDY OF THE PRAIRIE, When the Winters Were of the Good Oid Style. JOURNEY OF THE STORM KING. A Thrilling Tate of Adverture and Death on the Towa Prairics in the Country's Early Day. A Winter'a Tale, The Nortliwostesn limited, that mag- nicent palace on wheels that flies over the 500 miles of prairie and woodland betweei Council Bluffs and Chicago in fifteen hours, skimming the earth at the rate of forty miles an hour, was touching the track so lightly as it flew over the line between Dunlap and Car- roll a few evening since that its roar came as o soft cadence, as pleasant as the patter of rain upon the shingles in a summor night’s shower. Engineer Phil Pickering was watch- ing tho piloting lances of light that flashed from the big reflector, telling him where he was by revealing the white painted crossing fences and a burning hole in the night for the pas- snge of the train, No signal block for “orders” could escaps the keen oyes of Phil, und if such an impossible thing could oceur, everybody knew that Con- ductor Paine had the remainder of the crew so woll drilled that it would be de- tected before the train could pass its length beyond a siding. Consequently all felt as safe as if they were in their own drawing rooms, and were equally comfortable. Conversation could be as easily carried on as if all motion had been arrested. When the train slowed up at Denison one of the occupunts of the chair car consulted the tiume table and carefully adjusted his watch to the minuto and second that the official document suid the limited was due at the station. Then he walked out in the vestibule and looked over the crowd through the plate-glass doors. He saw a familiar face.and a moment later was strug- gling with the brass rod combination that fastens the door. An attentive brakemun opened it for him and he rushed out on the platform, and grasp- ing the shoulders of a grizzled, sturdy- looking farmer, whirled him around to the light with such energy that the centrifugal force almost threw from him the big carpet sack he held in his band. “Isn’t this John—John—deucea if I can think of the other name, but I’ll never forget tho fuce of the man who saved my life it wasa whole century ago.” Well, it was John, and he came aboard with his big, old-fashioned car- pet sack, aud announced the fact, in a Zood, hearty manner, that ho going 1o spend the holidays with relatives in Illinois. His friend removed a lot of luggage and fixed him comfortably in a reclining chair by the window, as the train glided out with an insensi- ble motion. For a while neither spoke, but gazed earnestly into each other’s countenance. It was so evidently the first meeting of these men for years and the last meeting was so plainly counected with un event fraught with danger to one or hoth that the passon- gers were put on the qui vive at once for the thrilling story. Memory was busy with the past of both men, that was certain also, but the bronzed, woather-beaten old farmer disappointed all with the commonplace remark: ‘‘Been plowing ail day. Just finished 160 acres of fall brakin’ since we got our corn out; all done in December and Noyember, and [ reckon Icould keep on through January if I wanted to. What || ave they whistling for?” he inauired, as the whistle blew a long sharp blast. “For 1 station.” “Why, Vail is several miles from Denison, where I just got on. Whew! but we're flyin’, ain't we? Timesis changin’. Ikin hardly keep up with them. Here we've come in less than ten minutes a distance that used to take us along time to make. I kin come pretiy near knowin’ how they can get up these fine fast trains, but I don’t see how they kin git sich a hold on Old Winter, soas to break his back and keep him completely out of this whole country. But leckchrisity is a great thing, and I know that’s what theyv used to do it with, We don’t have no sich winters as we used to have. That was a pretty cold snap when I found you on the prairer out here well nigh gone. It was '03, wasn't it? New Year's day. It was cold. I know I cutdown through five feet four inches of solid ice in the old beaver dam in the creek trying to find a little water. We had to melt ice and snow for all the water we used for our stock and cookin’ all that winter. There wan’t no railroads and wires strung on poles then, and no thermomoters and it could get just as cold as it pleased, When you left my dugout goin’ east that mornin’ I felt a little skeery for you, but I thought them big mules would' take you across to the settlement, but when you left I kept watchin’ you, When you got over the bottom and got on the highland an’ [saw the mules go out of the break and plunge into the deep snow I knowed it was all up for you unless I could git you back, Its funny, but when critters realize they are freezing to death they will break for the deepest snow and bury themselves if they kin. They give up an’ nothing can make them move another inch. They know they're going to die and it seems to be a sort of an instinct to bury themselves in the snow. Perhaps it's to keep the wolves away until they are sure dead, I was dressed in double sheep skins and Wis- consin packs on my feet, but [ never come uearer freezing to deuth than when T weat out to bring you in. You didn’t know anything when I found you, The mules had broken through the crust and were half buried in the snow, I tied you up in a buffalo robe and dragged you the clean two miles and a half over the frozen snow dowg that hill, T guess the thumping it gave you was what kept you alive. Perhaps if you had taken my advice and hadn’t gone: on that morning we might have saved some of the others who froze to :Iluulh within sight of the house that ay. We could see the little black speck on the hilltop that the mules made stickin’ in the snow. Alongabout noon we suw another black speck appear at the same spot. We could tell it was an ox team, a black and a red ox. They seemed to see the smoke of our place and were struggling on, and I piled on a lot more green wood to make more smoko so the driver could see it, too, and encourage him tocome on. Butwe could see that when them oxen got up to where the mules was stickin’ ia the snow they saw them and fiave up at ouce and broke out into the snow on the other side, I was too badly froze to go out again, besides you and the rest of us might freeze if I went out. We brought you around with a great dval of difficulty. Then the fover s9¢ in and you didu't PAGES. know anything for ten days. watched the two specks in the the hilltop all that afternoon, but they never moved, and wo knowed it was all over. It didn’t git no warmer for ten days, but on the ‘leventh of January I weut out to the specks on the hill.” In the sled behind the oxen was my brother, his wife and two childron an’ & neigh- bor man. Thoy was comin® to my house for a fow days”visit. All my cattlo had froze to death,and I had to take a hand- sled and haul them in ono at a time, I buried them in the snow by the side ot the house where I could keep the wolves aws We didn’t have the {unnml until ‘long in Avril after you oft, ‘We didn’t see a living person until the last of Fabruary. N v all of the stook in the settlement had porished, and when it got so we could walk the ten or fifteen miles between our places, and compared notes, we found thirty- five families had to mourn for their dead. Allof them were buried in the snow near the houses until spring. 1 tell you that was a cold winter, and as hardy and used to hardships us they were there were hundreds of poople perished with the cold in wostern Towa blooded people would freeze to death around their hard coal stoves.’ Sl el COURT DAY IN FiJl, Some of tho Costumes Worn Truly Startling. The gala dresses are not a little start- ling. Here is a aignified old gentleman arrayed 10 a second hand tanie of a ma- rine, in much the same plight as to buttons as its owner as to teoth; near him standsa fine young village police- man, whose official gravity is not en- nced by the swallow-tailed coat of a nigger minstrol; while the background is taken up by a'bevy of village maidens clad in gorgeous velvet pinafores, who are giggling after the mannor of their while sistors until they are fixed by the stern eys of tho chiaf police- man, which turns their expression into one of that preternatural so- lemnity they woar in church. Tho court house. a native building carpeted with mats, is now packed with natives, sitting cress-legged, only a small place being reserved in front of the table for the accused and witnessos, says a writor in the Cocnhill Magu The magis- trate takes his seat, and his seribe, sitting on the floor at his side, prepares his writing materials to record the sen- tences. The dignity with which the old gentleman adjusts his shirt collar and clears his throat is a little mar when he produces from bosom what should have n paie of pince-nez, seeing that it was secured by a string round his neck, but 18 in faeta jow’s-harp. With the soft notes of this instrument the man of law is wont to beguile the tedium of a dull case. But, although the spectacle of Lord Coleridgo gravely performing on the jew’s-harp in court would at loast excite surprise in Eng- land, it provokes no smilo here. The first case is called on. Reiterated calls for Samuela and Timothe produc: two meek- faced youths of eighteen and nincteen, who, sitting- tailor-fashion before the table, aro charged with fowl stealing. They plead *‘not guilty,” and the owner of the fowls being sworn deposes that, having been awakened at night by the voice of a favorite hen in angry remon- strance, he ran out of his house, and after a hot chase captured the accuscd red-handed in twp senses, for they were plucking his hen while still "al Quite unmoved by this tragic tale, Vatu- reba seems to listen only to the melan- choiy notes of his jew’s-harp; but the witness is a chief and a man of influence withal, and a period of awed silence follows his accusation, broken by a sub- dued twanging from the bench. * But Vatureba’s eyes ave bright and piere- ing, and they have been fixed for some minutes on the wretched prisoners. He has not yetopened his lips during the case, and as the jew’s-harp is not capa- ble of much expression, it is with somo interest that we await the sentenc Suddenly the music ceases, the instru- ment is withdrawn from the mouth, the oracle is about to speak. Alas! he ut- ters but two words, **Vula tolu,” (three months) and there peals out o malig- nantly triumphant strain from the jew's- hurp.” But the prosecator starts up with a protest. One of the accused is his nephew, he explains, and he only wished o light sentence to be imposed. Threo months for one fowl is so severe; besides, if he has three months he must go to the ceuntral jail and not work out his sentence in his own district. Again are his been thero is silonce, and the jow's-harp ha changoed from triumph into thoughtfu melancholy. At length it is withdrawn and the oracle speaks again: "Hog* tolu,'’ (three da, oL —— THE AUTHOR OF M'GINTY, Joe Flynn Says He Wrote the Song in Thirty Minutes, The man who evolved from his teome ing brain the ballad which narrates the tumbloes taken by Dan MeGinty is probe ably at the present moment the most talked about of the winor poots of America, “Down Went McGinty ™’ hag arrived at the dignity of being called “the” gag of the day. So whon the re= portor of the Rochester (N, Y.) Demoe crat and Chronicle was v mod tha Joo Flynn, the undoubted author of the most popular song of the season, wag singing it daily and nightly at a local theatre, down went the writer to the bottom of the hall that connects the upper tier of dressing roomsat the opors house and found himself i presence of tho origin was engaged in extric from his grease paint, to donuing *‘his best suit of clothe Mr. Flynu is a good-looking, blacks haired and_ black-oyed young fellow, who takes the suceess of his music in the most philosophic and modest mans ner. Of the origin of the famous song he said: “If you ever heard the story of tho Irishman who was succossfully carried in a hod to the top of a seven= story building by a friend as the result of a’bet that the feat could not bo suce cessfully accomplished, and who ro= ked on paying over the moncy, ‘Well, Pat, yo've won fairly; but when yer foot slipped at the sixth story, be jul)urs,lhml hopes!” you know *what suggested the first verse of the song. If you ever heard the air of the old song about the old man who had a wooden jegz, and who ‘had no tobacey in his old tobaccy box,’ you can guess where the suggestion for the tune came from. I wrote the song some fim@ last April, and didn’t think very much of iv, while my partner, Mr, i thought nothing of it at all, it on for dence the first timo at the Provis opera house. That important event took place on the evening of May 6 last. The song caught on at once, and wo, and, us furas [ can sco, every other song-and-dance mun, have beon singing it ever sin L suppose it toole me about half an hour to write the son after 1 had got the chorus in my head.” In Different Branches of the Service. The Rev. 8. S. Burleson, D. D., the well-known Episcopalian clorgyman_ of Waukesha county, though rather **high” in his churchism, is not above joking about his relation to other de-~ nominations, says the Milwaukee Wis- consin, A number of years ago the doctor visi Waco, Tex., where a cousin of h also & Rev. Burleson, D, D., is at the head of a Baptist university. The morning aftor he reached Wuco his cousin took him down to the university to attend the morning exer in thie assembly= voom. The Baptist president appar- ontly felt the need of an explanation to the students as to his inviting a clergyman who buttoned voth his waistcoat and collar bshind and said: “I'm going to ask my cousin, the Rev. Dr. Burleson of Wisconsin, to speak a few words to you. He and I are not of the same denomination, but we are both working in the snne cause; both are _ officers in the great army of the Lord.” When the Wisconsin Burleson arose he turned a reproachful look upon his cousin. and, in a voice seemingiy touched with emos tion, he said: "I am surprised and pained, my dear cousin, that you should make such a claim hero in the presence of your students. Itistrue that 1 am tighting in the army of the Lord: buf you—you, my dear fellow—are but an officer in the navy.” It took both the Baptist presiaent and his students a fow moments to see through the joke, but when they did the assembly room rang with laughter and applause. P — Mortgagee's Sale of Fine Furniture, The auction sale of H. M. Manning= ton’s {formerly Howe & Kerr) stock of furniture is ruuning afternoon and evening, and the goods are going very low. Kverything must be sold by Tuesday, as the store is rented to other parties and must be vacated. Don’t miss this favorable opportunity. i GEO. WILSON, Mortgageo’s Ag’'ts HENRY CREIGIITON, Auctioneer. e Farmer’s Home hotel, Webster st.,bes tween 15th and 16th. Boarding from $4 to 85 per week., Everything nice. We are working without much pay now. What if we don’t make 50 cents a pair, nor $2 a suit or overcoat; yoiwe are ordering freely, and talking as generously of Nicoll’s novel prices for making to mrasure—suits and over= coats $20 and $25—Trousers $5 and up, A big business like ours don’t let prices stand in the way—a loss to-day is gain to-mor= rowv— Winter goods must be sewed for your backs in season, The thousands of remnants—just enough for pants—coat and vest or suit must go «t1-2 price, You see the wisdom? We deal in big quan- tities—remmnants, however choice, must skids adle, You take the hint—and the way will be clear for our bolts upon holts of spring woolens, NICOLL the TAILOR, Small storekeepers may buy remnants and winter woolens of us by the yard, 1409 DOUGLAS STREET, dan Wo tied * 3 it