Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 9, 1890, Page 21

- e P— e ¢ = e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1840 ORATORS IN THE SENATE. Very Fow Really Bioquent Men in the Millionaires' Club. BHAVES TWICE AND BATHES, How Ingalls Enters the Senatorial Ring~Edmunds the Auntocrat— John Sherman's First Spocch— Evarts' Long Sentences, Where Money Talks. Copyright 189, by Frank G. Oarpenter. Wasninston, March 6.—|Special to Tum Bee.|—~Oratory is dying out in congress: You can count on your fingers the great speeches which have been dehivered in the senate this sassion and the Millionaires' club runs more to gossip and story than to states- manlike eloquence, There are.two men in the body who can make a good afterdinner #peech to every one who can acquit himself with honor upon the floor, and the Clays, Websters and Calhouns of the present are numbered. The fastest speakor in tha sen- ato is Beck, He wilts his short collar as he alks and he pours out the dictionary at the rate of 225 words per minute. He speaks without manuscript and thinks on his feet, It seems to rest him to talk sod that pig brown grizzly gray head of his is packed full of . fact and figure which he hurls at the opposite sides of the chamber in a sort of sledge-hammer way, General Joe Hawloy is a fast speaker. His voice 18 full and clear and he not infre- quently utters a sentence that sticks to the gray matter of your brain and 18 worth rep- iution. George of Mississippi is the slow- est speaker in the senate, His tongue goes by clockwork and no pendulum ever moved slower. He pays no attention to the graces of oratory and when he came to conzress he promised his constituents that he would not wear adress suit or ride in a carriage. ‘The same old snuff-colored clothes which fit as though they had been cut by one of the old mammies of his plantation inclose his fat frame when he addresses the senate that form his everyday costume, and he puts his whole force into his constitutional &riomenis which are weighty and strong. Senator Iugalls BHAVES HIS FACE TWICR before he comes to the scnate to make a groat speoch. He has his hair carefully combed, takes a ‘Lurkish bath and looks as he rises to speak as though he had popped out of a banabox. His Prince Albert coat is buttoned tight' around his interrogation point of a frame, bis red necktie Is of the froshest ond he has a half-inch of red silk handkerchief sticking outside of the left breast pockot of his coat, A par of gold spectacles attached to a long gold chuin are seated across his aristocratic nose, and these spectucles are made in a curious shape. Out of the lower halves of each giass a half moon has been cut and a different quality of glass inserted therein. The top of the glosses are for farsightedness and were cspecially made for Ingalls to gev & glance at the dem- ocrats and the galleries aad the nalf-moons are for nearsighteduess in order to enable him to read his manuscript notes. Ingalls has the reputation for being a good im- promptu speaker. Ideas drop from his tongue faster than the pearls and dismonds from the mouth of the good little girl in the fairy tale, and he has gotten the credit of being made up of pure and unadulterated brain. ‘This i8 in A measure true and in & measure not. He has a wonderful vitality of intel- lect and he is a wonderful saver of the in- tellectual pennies, Ha is in a constant state of preparation for speeches, and everything he reads. hears or thinks is laid away in one of the thousand pigeon-holes of that little head, at such an angie that it will slide out and down upon his tongue ut a second’s no- tice. He has a wonderful faculty of memory in that whenever he writes out a sen- tence or a fact the pen that priots * the words upon the paper makes an indelible 1mpression on his bram. He never forgets such sentonces and when he sees a good thing he puts it down. He is a nervous man upon the floor and ha worries considerably over his speeches. 1 am told that he did not sleep atull the night before his last great speech, and though be pretends o have the skin of ahog he is us tender as & two-year- old child. He is a man of wonderful ability and of the most high-strung and seusitive temperament, He is A YULL-BLOODED THOROUGHBRED whose heels ure ready to fly in tho faces of his brother senators at the slightest provo- cation and who is never so happy as when he is kicking his enemies. e has the great- est power of invective ever possessed by a Unitea States senator and his culture is so oxtonsive that he is able to say a cutting thing in a thousand differ- eut ways and to make each one more bitter than the last. He reminds me of John Randolph of Roanoke, and his head is shaped like that of the greut Virginian. He 18 much greater than Randolph, and back of his invective he is full of ideas which tend to the good of his party and his country, though his own spesches often act somewhat in the shape of a boomerang upon himself. The most deliberate speaker in the senate 18 Edmunds, He speaks without notes, never rovises his manuscript, and now and then is as bitter s Ingalls. With a face like a patriarch and o beard and buld head so saiutly that he is taken for the model of Father Jerome, he likes nothing better than a slight thrust at his brother senators, und he is one of the kickers of the senate. He is strong on constitutional points, and he bas an amendment to offer to everything under the sun. One of his brother senators the other day said he would bet a $100 that if the matter could be proven it would be found that when Edmunds as a baby on his mother's knee was FIKST TAUGHT THE LOED'S PRAYER be objected, jumped down and offered an amendment to -it. The trouble with Ed- munds’ inteilect is that it is too big for this world. He grasps mattera in detail rather than in whole, and as one seuator descries it he looks at the heavens thrcugh a goos: quill and_never sees moro than that which comes within his range. ~ What he does ses ho sees wonderfully well and the old story of the senator who sald Edmunds could see @ blue bottle fly on & barn door four miles away without seeing either the door or tl barn, struck the Vermont statesinan to a Edmunds speaks well on stimulants, A little rare old ~ bourbon makes his tongue wore regular and his cloar blue eye more oold and cruel. He bas a good voice and his range of knowledge 18 wonderful. He is of all senators the nearest approximation to pure intellect and his expericnce added to his brains have made him the autocrat of the senato, Both the republicans and the democrats are afraid of bim and he knows it and likes it. . Another intelleciual giant who is not bere this session is Joo Brown of Georgla. 2rown looks like a country parson who has been retired after long seryice in the church and has turnad book agent. patriarchal beard, a yellowish buld hea frow the sides of which long iron gray cur) full down and wrap thomselves around his ears. His black broadeloth clothes made of double thickness for warmth, hau on his big thin angular frame a®though th camo from a second-handgclothier and b red uude: t forms a bracelet around h thin wrist as he solemuly gestures in straight up-and-down lines. His forebead is high aod full. His big sunken eyes are hidden by gold spectacles and the upper lip above his Iurge mouth is closely shaven, As he speaks the long beard on his chin wmoves up and down like that of a billy-goat when he is chewing his cud, and you think of u patent straw-cutter with a heavy il of hair fastened to the lower end. ‘The words come out by wuchinery and thoy are carved iuto vocal blocks with the slowoess and the articulation of a fuueral orstion or a judge’s sentence, ‘There are ideas benind the words however, and Brown is one of the gre: speakers of cong ess. Ho is the richest man in the south, and, starting with & capi- tal of A BULL AND A BELL, he bas wade himself a millionaire and a statesman, George Vest is a groat speaker, Ho is a fleuter from the word g0 and he haunches bis shoulders and pokes out his head as he walks uround the chamber ready 10 enguge Ho nas a long | ad in discussion with anyone who knocks the chip off his shoulders, He makes nne think of the bad man of Bitter Creck, and he is a bad man to tackie. Hoe is an eloquent talker and his florce mustache of sandy white fairly quivers with emotion when he raises his shoulders and shakes his pudgy livtlo forefincer at his antagonist. He has a shrill voice and he talks fluently. He is a woll-rend man and in the running fire of de- bate he is the Ingalls of the democratic side of the chamber, I think he is the best speaker among the democrats, and ho is by ali odds the best speaker from the south, Senator Morgan is fully as learned but he is terribly prosy, and the galleries are usually cloas when be takes the floor, Morgan is 8 tall, red-faced man with a silvery mus- tache. He writes out his speeches and the manuscript which makes one of them will weigh as much bible, He does not Rosture much as he talks and he n: its down under less than four columns. The rapublican who comes nearest him is Blair of New Hampshire, who 18 crying out that the newspapers won't print what he utters. Senator Blair 18 a character. He is a sandy-haired grandmother of a man with an eye as blue s the skies wliich float over the Bay of Naplos and with hair which was once that bright red which Titian loved to e has turned his locks to a dirty He tears the air as he talks s hard enough to make himself a great reputa He is conneoted with all the cranks and isms of the time and there is no moral scheme so wild that he is nota part of it. 1E EATS, SLEEPS AND DRINKS his educational bill and he talks it upon every possible occasion. He has a wondarful persoverance and you might as well try to chop down a tree with an uxe handle as to change him, Joe Biackburn is a great speaker. Beal tiful flowers aprout spontaocously from the end of his tongue, aud he 1s one of the most popular men with the galleriers. He is one of the readiest men in the senate, and though his specches aro sometimes light, he 1s al- ways listenad 10, One of his strongest points is the stato of Kentucky, which, he says, has the prettiest girls, tho bravest men, the best whisky and the fastest horses under heaven, and about which he can reel off poetic effusions of soulful eloquence by the Jard. kburn can make & speech with as ittle preparation, perhaps, as any other man in the scnate, and there are a number of sen- ators who have the reputation of making great impromptu speeches who never rise to their feet without days of preparation. One of these enator Hoar of Massachusetts. To see his child-like, biand, blue eyes shin- iug out through a pair of gold spectacles, while with one hand in his paataloons pocket and a bunch of keys in the other, he eusily talks out his ideas 1o ' the best. of Anglo-Saxon, you would suppose that speeches flowed from hit with the greatest of ease and that the wise words he utters were the sparks struck by the occasion from the Now Eogland flint rock of his brain. You would not suppose he had set pn these ideas for weeks and had one by oune hatched them into words, You would not imagine that he haa trained the chickens of his intellect 1nto perfect shape by continuous rehearsing and the brushing of the feathers this way and that, nor would you imagine that a man of his years would rise before day to go over his orations to the senate. Not iong azo Mr. Hoar delivered a great speech which was reported as a won- derful extemporaneous effort. He.was liv- ing at the time in rooms on Now York ave- nue and Mrs. Hoar had I think gone home to Massachusetts. A couple of Washington clerks in changing their residence came to the house at which the senator was rooming. "They told the lady that they wanted a quiet place and asked her whether she had any objectionable or noisy boarders. She re- plied that she had not, and that she would eive them a nice back room on the second floor adjoining that of one of the most sohiolarly, pious and prim of the United States senators. One of the clerks was nct very well and he was making the change 1n order that he might rest better than at his last boarding place. Tley liked the outlook, took tbe room and moved in their belong- wgs. The next day just as the sun had begun to paint the bronze cheeks of the God- dess of Liberty on the dome of the capitol they heard & stamping and roaring in the next room. The half-sick clerk turned over and asked *‘What is it1” His companion woke up aud said it sounded like a cross be~ tween sawing wood and stump-apeaking, and the two luy and Listened. At the end of an hour they got desperate, for the hubbub still went on, and then the haif-sick clerk crawled from his bed, goton a chair aud looked over the transom, There before a long pier glass, in the light attire of SPECTACLES, NIGHTGOWN AND SLIPPERS, the ercat Massachusetts senator pranced up and down and pounded the air as he valked of the beauties of education. His nightio flapped about his fat, round calves as he thundered out “Mr. President!” aund his blue eyes oeamed magnanimously into his own as he looked into the glass and stretched out his hund, saying, “*My colleagues will agree,” etc., ete. It was senator Hoar in the throes of his Ercnz impromptu speech. Such preparation, however, is not uncom-— mon among our statesmen and Ben: Perley Poore once told me that when Martin Van Buren's effects wera sold at auction the car- pet in front of the glass in his bed-room was found worn threadbare by his walking up and down in front of the mirror in rehears- g bis spoeches. Senator Sherman prepares his speeches b; reading well up on the subject beforehand, gotting his notes 1n shape,and then dictating them to his stenographer. He has good sorap-books, and the volumes of scraps in his library cover more than a generation of public ifo. His first speech in congress was delivered more than thirty-five yoars ago, and ho told me once thut he was frightened when he arose to make it. He was in the lower house, and there was an old fellow sitting beside him writing during the ses- sion at which he spoke. There were a num- ber of new congressmen who made their first speeches on this dey. This old member was & kind of misanthrope, and as every new member ended his speech he would mutter out loud enough for Sherman to hear, “Anotner dead cock in the pit. G—d d—m him.” “Atlast,” said Sherman, ‘it came my turn and I spoke, As I sat down I said to the old member, “Well, sir, here is an- other dead cock in the pit.” “Ob,” said he kindly, 1 hope that it won’t be so bad as that with you.”” It was not_bad, for Sher- mwan’s spoech made a hit and he 8000 got & pluce upon the floor. He has spoken prob- ably a thousand times since then and he can make o speech impromptu, He is careful, however, in revising his manuscript for the press and ho takes considerable pride iu his public speeches. Sherman ' is a fine looking man upon the floor. He gestures in pump- bandle motions and nas a strong cuough voice to reach every part of the gallery. Senator Voorhees writes out most of his important apeeches. Ho uses large sheets of printing paper all of the swme size and neatly cut, and be jots down his thoughts with u pencil. Senator Call ulso uses print- ing paper, and be writos out the specches ho mu kes when ho is ot angry. Call's baud is a terrible scrawl, and the goveroment prints ers tell me they are wearing their eyes out on his ben tracks. He is rather a violent talker, and his face grows red und his blue oyes flash when he imugines himself or his @ to be assaulted, He is directly the op- dier, who is his bete nowr in Chandler is slender, narrow and nervous. His tight little <o that of a professor, and his gray eyes look out of gold glasses. He has long white hands, wears a Prince Albert coat, and is a fairly good talker though not an eloquent one. ‘I ho long sentences of Seaator Evarts are noted, and it is remarkable that the galleries will sit for hours und practice the intellect- ual feat of KEEPING TBACK OF THEM, I talkea with Senator Evarts once about this matter and he referred me to the Greek and Latin classics for the sentences of the great orators of the past and told me that Cicero usod long senteuces. 1 shull not forget one rowark that he made, He referred to his long public career and said he thought that tne man who could remain be- fore the people for ore than & goueration an have nothing more charged agai him than that he put an extra word or two into h ntences need not lie uwake troubling himself about such criticisms. Evarts mighe be called an intel- lectual speaker. He does not saw the air nor tear his hair, and he rolls out 400 without @ period with as much though he was a boy on the street singing “Down Went MoGinty,” the biggest head in the senate. It will, | think, measure & foot from forehead to crown, wad his homely, kindly old face is wrinkled and sowrred with the thoughts of seveuly odd years. He kuows as much as a0y man ia the senate aud his heart is, I am shoulder | form ia told, as big as his head. Ho has a good noso for specs and his features all told resemble those o* the eagle. Ho is taller than you wou think, but his frame spare and 16 would not weigh more than 120 pour ds, He dresses in plain black, wears an old-fashioned limp collar and when herises to apsak you are improssad with his He & wonderful strength of ain and he is one of the strong statesmen well as one of the strongest lawyers of the United States. A number of the senators NEVER MAKE SPEECHES Senator Payne, though he is able lawyer, has not made an oratorical effort since he came into the chamber. Don Cameron never speaks, and he confines his remarks to the cloak rooms, putting his work in upon the committees. George Hearat has made no speeches, and we have yet to hear argthing eloquent from Matt Raasom, though he hus been long in the senate. Reagan used to speak a great deal in the house. He talks but Mittle in the senate. a very good volitician from (34 and his orations pleas constitu- ents, Wolcott 18 said to be an orator, but he is too young in the senate 10 venture a great effort. The same is true with all the new senators, When Turpie of Indiana was elected it was said that he would set the Potomacon fire. He has been in the senate for several years and the waters remain un- ignited. We expected the same from Daniel of Virginia, but he servod his term in the house and came to the senate and the coun- try still waits. Daniel is a pleasant taiker but not a great orator. His words are flow- ery but his ideas are few, Cushman K, Davis makes erience of a life at the bar to the senate. awes of Massacausctts tears the air as he talks and Plumb of Kansas needs about ten square feet of space to talk in. Butler of South Carolina stands as erect and as grace- ful on bis one human leg as other men do upon two and he uses good language. Wude Hampton talks little, Frank Hiscock weighs a ton when he takes the floor and you would think hs owned his party and the president. Jones of Nevada, goes wild upon silver, and Stewart follows suit. Standford reads his speecnes with his hundred-million- dollar-tongue, and Manderson now and then rises 1nto eloquence. Kugene Hale George Gray aro both good speakers, Frye is a good all-round talker, and Randall Lee Gibson can make as fine a classical effort as any man in the senate. FRrANE G. CARPENTER. L SALT LAKE CITY NOTES. A Regular Million Dollar Weekly Ag- grogate in Real Estate. Savr Lake Crry, March 6.—[Special to Tae Bee.]—Tne cold and snow do not seem to interfere with the activity of the rea estate market. The recorded sales on Sat- uday, March 1, amounted to $203,561. Tt is safo to say that a million dollars per weel is now our regular figure, and as values are rising the amounts may incredse, Our daily papers strongly appeal to brick- makers and contractors to be on hand with material and buildings on time. As it is, bricklayers and stonemasons will be out of employment for some weoks owing to the lack of material. Great interest is felt in the fate of the proposed government building for which congress is expected to appropriate at least $400,000. The matter is being attended to by a committee under the leadership of the governor of the territory. Hope in the near future of the much talkea-of and much needed union passenger station or grand central depot is revived in wne couference to be held between Geoeral Manager D. C. Douge of the Rio Grande Western, and Vice-President Holcombe of the Union Pacifie. If the city council will grant certain privileges as to rights ot entrance, the scheme is to secure the ten- acre square northwest of the corner of Third South and Third West streets, upon which to erect a great union depot with a view to complete accommodutions for many years to come. The Tribune claims the authentic news that an agent of the famous Loadon syndi- cate has been here negotiating for the pur- chase of our three breweries. Had the brewers named a figure a little below $1,000,000 the transfer would doubtless have been effected. Instead of that they named a fancy price and would not consider any other offer, This the agent declined and left in disgust. Among the many, new structures already building or under contract to be bullt, or for which plans are being drafred, we note the following: ‘I'ne Brooks Arcade, corner Third South and State streets, North U, East Side hotol, State streets, northeast corner.. . Onbtario hotel, West T Pierport streets . Chamber of Commerce. 3 Ward 14 school,Second West street, near Second South........... Hooper block, east of Deseret tional bank'....... 500,000 850,000 550,000 70,000 80,000 40,000 200,000 50,000 New Windsor_hotel, £il street, near West ‘I'vmpie........ Denver Syndicate block on Com- mercial street, DRETRLEE S ee Taylor Terrace, Wes: Tompio, near Fifth Sontn. 65,000 building, West street..... . J.J. Daly's residonce....... s The Dooley building, West Socond south, near West Temple........ Tribune building on West Temple, near Second South. . o Commercial National bank, corae Commercial street and 'Second South .. Crane building, Muin streot McKimmin's stable, Third Sout) near Ciift. houso. New Auerbach street, eight stories. Zion’s Bunk_building, and East Brigham streats New daundry building, Sixth’ east, between Iourth and Fifth streets teens e . New Summer hotél, near Thir- teenth East and Fourth South... But this list is far from being complete, as it searcely mentions any of the many now residences which will be built as 80on as the material can be procured. Judging from the numerous excursion par- ties passing through Salt Lake City, one wight infer that the tourist season had al ready set in, 'I'he New England grocers’ as- sociation, sixty-six strong, among them nine- teen ludies, spout a few days here, and some of the party invested freely in real estato. C. A. EaGERT, roer Main - Charge tor Hauling Greain Now, S. D,, March 9.—To the Edi- Since the aricle from South Dakota's high oficers were circulated stat- ing that only two counties were in need the Chicago & Northwestern railroad bas stopped hauling goods free as before, and now charge half raf This 18 very hard on the settlers. For instance, a carload of corn arrived at this station a fow days ago from some point in Nebraska. ‘The freight was 8130. The committee appealed to the rallroad company, who reduced it to $30. The corn was then unloaded and enough sold at 25 cents a bushel to pay the freight. The balance only was kept for the poor. Such a case, of course, takes a great part of the help from where It was intended 10 go. I have made no inquiries as 80 how wmuch of the stato is effected by the draught, but I know Spiok, Faulls, Edmonds and Brown counties are. Brown county. I understand, is able financially to take care of er poor. An unlimited number of farm ers in this vicinity is without food for their grain, or mooey to buy eithier, and crops can’t go in 0o that basis. I guess there is no danger of anyone starvin or freezing through 1 expect lnes grain will be sent in. T settlers can only et it by payiog a big price for it and wort- gaging the crop, but the horses can't work without grain. A great deal of timely sid has been sent in. A SUBSCRIBER, Mamma (to Tommy)—1 am sorry you and yoor sister quarrelled ouer that orange, and that James had to interfere. Whone part did he take! Tommy—Whose parti He took the whole orange. REVIVED UNDER THE KNiFE Wierd Romance in the Life of a Physioian, A HANGMAN'S BUNGLING WORK It SBaved the Life of an Innocent Man and Gave Dr. Peoery a Friend When Kriends Wers Needed:: Most, — Met 1n a Dissecting Room. That “‘truth is stranger than fiction” was never more clearly illustrated than in the life of George Williams, who died in Aspinwall precinct, Nemaha county, Neb.,a few years ago. Williams and Dr. Peery, who also sleeps in a churchyard in Lafayette pre- cinct of the same county, were thrown together under peculiar as well as start- ling circumstonces. On a cold December night way back in the sixties, Dr. Peery sat alone in his office on one of the princival streets of Chicago. He had just graduated from an eastern medical school and hung out his shingle. He was then young, not more than four-and-twenty years of age, with a pleasant, good-looking face, and as yet unmarried, Although apparently reading a work on materia medica, which he held in his hand, its contents did not enchain his attention, for every moment or two he would raise his eyes and glance né¥- vously at a low-ticking clock sitting on a mantel. Fioally the gong sounded twelve. “Midnight,” he exclaimed, jumpin up. “The men are fully an hovr behin time. Wkat can detain them?” The words had hardiy passed his lips when a low rap was heard at the door. Dr. Peery arose, laid down his book, olf"ed the door and admitted two men who carried between them something long and heavy,which was concealed in a canvas bag. The men followed the doctor into his private room, who pulled aside a cur- tain disclosing 2 long, narrow table, upon which they immediately placed their burden. Without uttering a word the men immediately drew off the can- vas an, and a human form, rigid and half naked, lay upon the table. “‘The fellow suid to the last that he was_innocent,” exclaimed one. ‘‘In- deed, he took the most sacred of oaths that he was innocent, and died like a man.” A moment later the two body bearers bade the young medico good night and went outv into the culd. Peery, having locked and bolted the door after them, returned to the room, pulled the curtains back to the walls and stood looking &t -the form before him with folded arms. The body before him was that of a man probably thirty years of age, well formed and_with a ' fine-featured face that even death coila not rob of its manly beauty; but adull blue eircle stained the skin of his neck where the noose of the hangman had pressed and tightened; and yet the eyes, closed and unswollen, gave to_the face of the ap- parent dead the appearance of calm re- pose. Some eight months before a dark murder had been committed 1n the great city on the lakes. For this crime aman met a murderers fate and now lay upon Dr. Peeny's table. Poor and friendless he entered upon his trial for life and as in all such cases in cities his body in death found its way to the dis- secting room. The doctor stood silently looking at the corpse a few moments, then turned upon his heel, went to his ‘‘chest” and drew forth his instruments. Securing alight he set it upon the table, and after making othar necessary arrange- ments opened his scalpel. With the first gentle touch of the knife upon the cold body the physician started back. Grent beadsof perspiration started feom his brow and face. But he did not lose his self-possession. He gazed at the body earnestly. A shiver seemingly passed through the body upon the table and the eyelids trembled as though they would open. Peery comprehended the truth. His "stiff”’ was not dead. He immediately set to work to revive the man whom the world believed had died upon the scaffold that morning. His efforts were soon rewarded; for within twenty minutes a living, breath- ing human being sat upright upon that long table eagerly sipping the brandy that Peery held to his lips. *‘A live man,” said he in a husky voice, as he gazed about him. “Thank God. I was not buried aliye.” Peery shuddered! ““You will not give me up to the cruel law again? You will not have me taken back to prison. My God! Will you not be mereiful?” **You were found guilty of murder 1n the first degree. You were brought to the scaffold today and by a most clumsy mistake cut down before life had left ilour body. In giving you up to justice rom which you have escaped for the time I but perform an imperative duty.” “‘As I ama living man, as there is a heaven above, I am an innocent mun. I never committed the deed of which 1 am accused—never, never! I was tried and convicted upon circumstantial evi- dence and murder does not rest upon my soul. O, you will not give mé up,” glu.ded Williams. “Don’t let them ill me in earnest. Give me my freedom. Allow me to leave the place a free. man and the mercy you show an upfortunate and in- nocent man, this night, shall ever re- main as sacred o sécret with me as it may with you. You may live to bless the hour that you opened your heart in mercy to me; for if the old saying, ‘murder will out,” was ever a prophetic one it will prove to be so in my case. I say again, I am an 'innocent ‘man, and the day will surely ‘come that will es- tablish my innocence beyond any ques- tion of a doubt.” Something in the look and tone of the unfortunate man convinced Peery that, after all, he might be a victim of cir- cumstantial cvidence, and he replipd: *I will be merciful. I'do not know why 1t 18 but somehow I aln forced to believe the declaration thdt' you are an inno- cent man, I have aw old suit of clothes here; arise and dress yourself and lot daylight hour find you “as far from here 8s possible. And remember faithfully the belief I have in you,and never abuse the mercy I have Telt impelled to show to you,” As the clock struck the hourof 2, Williams, whom the doctor had provid- ed with a small sum of money and wrapped up almost to the eyes, passed out [rom warmth and shelter into the coldness of the silent street. Thus Peery and Williams parted. * b S R A Y Twelve yonrs passed awa the meantime Peer pered. Lovely children were born to him. His practice had been lucrative, and he had gathered together a com- fortable property. In an idle moment, however, like thousands of others, he rapidly. In married and pros- was seizod with the mania to speculate and lost hie all, ickness and death invaded his home, and in a short time he was almost re- duced 1o want. But, with recruited health, he gath- ered together afew dollars, and sought a home in what was then called the great west. He located at Peru, where he again commenced the practice of his profession, and aided by a helpmate in evecy senseof the word,again started upon the prosperous road. Two or tnree months after locating his new home Peery was called to Brownville to see a patient. Imagine his surprise when on entering the sick room he came face to face with Will- iams, the man who lay on his dissecting table in the city of Chicago,and thought to be dead, twelve long years before. Recognitions were mutual. The cir- cumstances under which they separated would not let Fathor Time efface a sin- gle feature from the memory of either, The two men talked over the !mst. and each again went his way. But they met frequently daring the after years and becamo bosom friends. Williams had prospered greatly and he proved of Frem assistance to Peery 1n building a uorative practice in his western home. He was a ‘“‘pioneer,” well known and loved by all who knew him. His recom- mendation was parchment for Dr. Peery all over Nemaha county in those days. Now comes another singular chapter in the history of the lives of those two men. Something over a year after Peery located at Peru, Williams en- tered his house suddenly anda calmly handed hima copy of the Nebraska City News, and pointed to the following par- agraph under the caption of A Dying Man’s Confession:” *‘Hiram Powers, a man from forty-five to fifty years of age, gnsscd awny last evening at the Farmer’s ouse, and shortly before his demise made a startling confession. In this confession he declared himself a mur- derer; said that he alone was the man who committed the dark deed some twelve years ago in the city of Chicago, for which a young man by the name of George Williams suffered death upon the scaffold, sent there by what then seemed to be the strongest kind of cir- cumstantial evidence.” Thus the principal of a terrible trag- edy.into which two innocentand honest men were drawn, cast his lot within “a stone’s throw” of the man whom he had wilfully consigned to a felon’s tomb. But his confession lifted every doubt that may have lingered in Peery's mind. As stated, Powers died in the old Farmers’ house, a hostelry then kept by a man by the name of La Boo and sub- sequently by Thomas Wymond, two men well known throughout Otoe county, and especially the latter, AR T X THE TRAGEDY OF A HISS. John C. Freund in the American Musician: I was just about to leave my office on Fourteenth street, one bitter cold winter’s night, some seven years ago, and had buttoned my overcoat tight up to my chin. As Istepped into the street, a dirty, ragged, peculiar-looking little girl with large, black eyes, came up to me and | said: ‘Do you know whera Mister Kruin is?” “I think I am the person you want,” said I. With this ¢he put a dirty, crumpled note into my hand. I opened it. The writer begs Mr. Friend, {f he has any charity for those in the profession, who are in sore distress, to accompan y the child who brings this note. That was all. No name; no address. Ilooked down at the child; re-read the note. “Do you know anything about this,” said I, as she stood shivering. “I think it’s about father, sir,” and then she caught hold of the skirt of my coat and looked up at me with her big eyes. “I think he’s dyin’, sir. Oh! UL’sieur, venez donc!”” The big eyes filled with tears. 1 told her to lead the way. She took my hand with all the confi- dence of a child. We trod along together. On the street I met some friends. They looked at the child, then at me and laughed. © We walked on till we reached Av- enue A, We entered a dirty alley-way; passed through a dark entrance and up two flights of rickety stairs. The child kicked the door twice, A voice within said ‘‘en rez!” I opened the door; entered. The air was thick and oppressive with the fumes of same herbs that were cook- ing on the top of a little stove, Presently, by the light of a dingy kevosene lamp, I made out a flashily- dressed young woman with a dissi- pated face, asleep on a chair, near the stove. In one corner a barrel organ. In another corner a bed—aingy. On the bed, a form. The child went up to the bed,touched the figure and said: *'V’la le M’sieur, mon pere.” The figure moved. “Mariel” *Ou1, mon perel” *Stir ze five!” The noise she made startled the sleeping woman, who jumped up with: “Why, dear me! I've been dream- ing! KExcuse me, sir, but you are Mr. Friend?” “T am,”said I. *Well, sir, I live in this house—room below, sir; sent that message to you, sir, beciuse couldn’t think of anybody, else, sir. My sister,she’s in the chorus up at the Casino, sir; takes your paper, sir, Guess the old man there is in a pretty bud way, sir. Heard him say as how he wanted to see somebody who could talk French—understand him sir, Kuew he’d bin in the show business.and 80 sent for you, sir. Hope no offense, sir; and now, if you please, you'll ex- cuse me, sir,” And with that she ran out, 1 turned to the bed. The figure had raised itself on both hands and was staring at me, The eyes seemed starting out of the head. Shaggy eyebrows! Mulm[‘nmlhud hair! The man looked sixty and not yet thirty-five. . He was evidently dying. **Venez monsieur! Come here, save!” 1 approached. He clutched my arm and turned me 8o that the hight fell upon my face. He seemed as if searching my inmost soul. As he pulled me into the broken chair by his side he gasped: “I ’ave but a short time to live—grace a Dieu!” **Let me run for a doctor!” 1 rose to go. “Nou! non! non!—I may die while you are gone; zen no one would know what to do wiz zat leetle one; believe me, sare. I know ze best. I ask zat girl, who you see; she's 've bin ver’ good to me, sare—zat Nellie, I ask her et sowe one,” The effort seemed to ex grizzled mous- aust him, and he lay silent for some moments. Then he begant “I know not who you are, sar oes zo aying, Monsieur, who a do zis for heem?” “‘Ere are some paper!” He took some papers and a package from under his piliow. . “Zey will prove all T say! Zere is ze address in Paris where you shall send ze child when you ’ave sell what I ’ave! Marie?” [ looked round. The child was asleep on the floor—worn out. “Pauvre petitel Poor leetle one— she eea better so! “‘Monsieur, approchez vous—come nearer; I am ver’ weak—listen. *‘Vonce I vas grand artist. Ze worid ’ave hear of my name. I vas honor, [ vas rich. I 'ave a wife, young, beauti- ful as an angel. Ah, Marie! Marie— ma femme! **Wae were ver' happy, save. ‘‘Zen zat leotle one come. “My wife ’ad many admirer, but I always betief she ees true. *'One day, oh, Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu— I can no more. One day. Monsier, I come 'ome—she is gone, GONE! “'I search partout—everywhere. “‘I cannot find her; I get crazee! *Zon I hear zat she is gone—gono wiz my brother! **Maledicion! Monsieur—wiz my own brother. “I follow zem for two year. “*At last I find zem both. “Ven I soo zo ohild—my leotle one. She cry ‘papa,” and throw her arms around my neck. “I take her quick, an’ fly far, far, away. **My heart is break—I can sing no more. “Iinfinl I come to zis country wiz my leetle Marie. *I lose my money; I get ver’ poor. “A fren’ who 'ave know me in Paris germe an engagement t0 sing in ze opera ‘ere. ‘‘Vell, I sing under a false name. My voice, ruin by ze grief, ze misere I 'ave suffer, crack, and some one begin to 'iss —zen some more, an’ I am ‘iss off ze stage! 1, who ’ave been great artist! “*Sacre nom de Dieu! zey 'iss me off 20 stagel—zey ’iss me off ze stage! ““I lose my engagement. “Ze manuger say he ver sorry—he cannot help eet! ‘I get sick! I sell everyzing. “I buy zat organ. I go in ze street at night, sing. Some zey laugh at me, an’ some who hear my crack’ voice, ze tear come in ze eye. i play much ‘Le Par- late d’amor, because my Marie sho like zat.” He fell back on the bed. Suddenly he rose and clutched my hand. “Swear to me zat you send my lettle one to France, to zat address, herin? “Charles, mon frere who rob me of my Marie, Charles!” Here he rose right up in the bed and uttered a most frightful curse. I tried to soothe him as best [ could. Gradually he got calmer. He seemed undergoing a fearful 1n ternal struggle. Peresently his face changed. A beautiful expression of peace came over it. I sat silent for a long time. From the street came the noise of children playing. Far off I could hear the strains of a barrel organ. Presently he opened his eyes. I bent over him. “You ’ave bin ver’ good to come, sare—vou know what? You—vou shall write to Charles, to Charles, mon frere, who rob me of her! You shall write to Marie—my Marie! an’ tell zem—you hear me, you? Tell zem zat—zat Pierre forgive zem—forg—" As the old man’s effects scarcely real- ized $10, I raised a little subscriotion tobury him, and send the child to the given address in Paris. Here are some of the itemsof that subscription that I still remember: McK.—Newspaper reporter,who wrote something about the story. The good fellow is no more. He was known to many as McKeever of the Telegram. Jim— Bartender at the corner. A new frock for the little girl and #1. Nellie—The young woman who had sent for me, $4. Proceeds,as I found out afterward. of her only decent dress. P. B.—“Paddy” Brennan.a police- man. Proceeds of a 10 cent collection at the station house and elsewhere, hut it you to . 20. Tommy—The Italian fruitman at the corner of the avenue,a bag of apples and nuts. i Mrs. —. A fashionable society lady, generally regarded as haughty, proud and cold’: 1 told her the story. She gave me 350, and made me promise on my honor that I would never mention her name. e PEPPERMINT DROPS, When a runaway wmatch has lost 1ts brim- stone it Will not go. Sword swallowers ought to try saws awhile. They would be more toothsome. Those fellows who dote on their girls some- times find matrimony a powerful antido! During the present high water bayou o ters appear to be keeping closely in their little beds. A man usually has a case of “big head” after a hilarious night, but he does not feel very proua of it. The widow who woars the longest mourn- ing veil is generally the one who cuts across lots to fiad another husband. Some people ure never so happy us when they are making other people feel bad. Such veopls are generally happy, oo, A soft auswer turnoth away wrath, and it is a soft tan, sir, by the school ma'am that turneth away the wrath of the igated pupil. There are different ways of observing Lent. One family jo town observes it by puliing the curtain down before they cut for deal. A South Carolina colored man preaches in nis sleep. The general rule,it will be remem- bered, among the clergy is to preach in other folks’ sleep. Woman is proverbially ourious, but the girl who gets a love letter with one of the uew stamps on the envelope never stops to look at the stamp. Miserly says if the telegraph companics charge their wires as they do their custom ers he doesn’t wonder that it gives a man a shock to touch one. He—Has you father ever said ranything-to indicate how ho likes met! She—He has, And I think that he prefers you roasted, judging from bis conversation. Mrs. Marietta Bones isun ardent pronibi- tionist. That is to suy, she believes in pro hibitiog the “ardeat.’” ' Or, in other words, she 1s a dry Bonus—politically spenking. An oxchange say: ‘*I'rue happiness con- sists in pursuing something, not o catching it The small boy endorses tals scntiment —at least he doeen’t approve of catching it, Near-Sighted Old Goontleman—Can you tell me what that inscription 18 on that board over thero! Iesident—Sure, Oi'm in the same boat, sor! "Twas mighty little school- in’ Oi had when Ol was a bya meself, Stranger—['ine monument you've got there, sir. Citizen—Yes; that's in_memory of my pet game-cock. Strangor—Who's the Little stone for! Citizen—I ain'v dead suve, but I believe one of my wives occupies that locality, Bummer—Couldn't yer gimme the price of adrink, boss! DPm chilled through.” Par- rott (stiffly) —No; uot one cent of my mondy goes for liquor! Bummer—Crod, eh! Lel's go together then to de saloon where yer have such a puil as that, SAN ANTONI0, Tex, March 8.—[Special to T Bex. |—From San Antooio to Lanedo, Tex., on the Rio Grande 154 miles by the In- teroational & Great Northern railroad, the country is malaly level and gently undulat- The soil is mostly & reddish loam, fri abie and targely covered with mesquite and chapparal and in the river bottoms a big growth of cactus, The mesquito 18 val L for fuel and fencing, oa the uplands 1t 18 bushy like & peach orchard and in the low- lands makos & tree from one to two foet in diametor, It ia oxocellent for tios, pavements and fenoce stookades, as it will outlast even rod cedar and is very solid and resem« bles mahogany in color. ‘'When the top rood 18 cut nnder ground it does not sprout again. 1t costs from §2 to 85 per acre to grub mes- quite out. Chapparal is more difficult to handie, a8 it sprouts again, Peach and pear treos are In bloom, Corn is planted and gardens made and in some early vogetables are visible. The main crop is ootton which, on the fertile soils, ylelds one-half bale per acre, and with thorou, work, more. Last year was very favorable in Texas and the recont sonking rains give good promise for 1800, [ took a three daye’ horseback ride in F'rio and Atascosa coums ties, fifty miles southwest of San Antonio, The country 18 mostly occupiod by cattles men. In twenty miles castof Peanall the county seat of F'rio county. On tho wesd boraer of Atascosa county I found quite & number of settiemonts on the Lagonior and the Pedillo creeks. 1 measurod a new shood on a grape vine already eighteen inches long. Mesquite treos were in leaf and farmers hard at work on corn and cotton flelds. Land unimproved ranges from §2 to 8 por acre. 1f people from the north come it would be well to do 80 in_companies so as to buy out'm cattle ranch of from 8,000 to 10,000 acres and divido it. Very fine white and yellow brick aro mado at from 85 to § per thousand, The cattlemen, it would seem, will huve to give place to farmers in this rogion. Corn i3 50 conts a bushel and potatoes 2 to 3 conts a pound. An Absol re. The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMEN P only put up in larae two-ounee tin boxes, and is ab absoluto cure for all sores, burns, wounds, chappod hands and all skin erup- tions. Wil positively cure all kinds of piies. Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT- MENT. Sold by Goodman Drug company at 25 oents per box—by mail 30 cents. phoisiss ovimesibets Whisky Brings a Horse to Life. A horse drawing some sort of a vehls cle fell in front of the Old Colony raile road station on Kneeland street, last evening, and appeared to be dead, says the Boston Post. An officer went after assistance to haul the carcass away. Be- fore he returned some one suggested giving tho animal a drink of whisky to see whether it would revive him. The suggestion was adopted, and about a quart of whisky was poured down the horse's throat. Ina few minutes he gos up apparently as well as ever. We wish to say TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS, that we are mak- king exteunslve repairs and changes in our store, giving ourselves more room,which our increasing business demands. The work is being push- ed as fast as possible, and in a fow days we will be able to open and display our spring goods, which are constantly arriving, but which the dirt and dust of repairing compells us to keep under cover. BEST IN THE WORLD., BEST IN THE WORLD Guaranteed to Use Loss Fuel Than Any Uther. EXAMINE THEM. WM. LYLE DICKEY & CO., Tel 627, 1403 Dougias Sriat, O m aba. : AI.I.AI LINE BI}E%HSTEAMERS' Passage to and troM Groat Britain and an parts of Europe. 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