Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 23, 1890, Page 14

14 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH UNCLE JERRY AND HIS JOKES | Becretary Rusk the Best Story Teller in Washington. READY ON ALLOCCASIONS One on the Wool Tariff—A “Rassling Match With Garfisld—He Sat on the *Jim Dandy" Congressman, Our Uncle Jerry. [Copyright 183, by Frank G. Carpenter.] Wasiixaroy, March 20.—[Special to Tue Bee.|—A giant of sixty stood in the Ebbitt houso lobby last night. His big form tow: ered above those surrounding nim and a tall, rusty black silk hat made his six feot two wmeom still taller. From under his hat a heavy mane of silvery white came out, half covering the rosy ears, and fell behind on the collar of a big rough overcoat. Below the front of the hatshone out a pair of bright blue ®yes overrosy cheelks and under a broad well- shaped forehead. The lower part of the face was covered with a long full beard of frosted silver which feil dowa upon the broad, deep ches® of the giant and & thick mustache of fine silver wires half concealed a good:sized mouth, The giant's neck was framed in a stanaing collar. His great overcoat was un- buttoned av the front and his big hands thrust to their wrists into his capacious pan taloon pockets threw it back, displaying to the full his immense forin as he stood there ®s straight as a Lake Superior oak and chatted with a koot of Lilliputian congress men. “‘He weighs 249 pounds in his bare feet without a stitch of clothing on him,” one of his friends had said to me a moment before and as I looked at him I be- lieved it. I could see, too, thatthe flesh was healthy meat, and it corresponded with the statements that the giant never touched spirituous liquors and never soilel his silver mustache and beard with the fragrant nico- tine. 'I'his giant wa THE HON. JEREMIAI RUSK the secretary of the Department of Agricul- ture and the representative of all the farm- ers of the United States. Governor Rusk is today ono of the most conspicuous of the pubiic men at Washing- ton The agricultural community 18 now engrossing the attention of congross. Every oune is talking of western farm mortgages and the New [ngland senators are pushing o the front the abandoned farms of Ver- mont and New Hampshire. Senator Stan- ford is making the bankers lie awake at wight over his propesition for Uncle Sam to loan out the surplus to farmers at 1 per cent and Uncle Jerry Rusk has again jumped into national prominence. His frame is such that he is able to bear all the responsibilities thrust upon him. He has taken up the cause of the farmers and he proposes to add dignity to the department over which he pre- os. ‘I he agricultural department building is located in the fluest grounds in Washing ton. It hasacres of beauuful flower beds nnd Joe Canuon once standing at the win- dows in Goveruor Rusk’s office which look out upon these said to Uncle Jerry: “Well, Jerry, you have a mighty nice place here if you arc the tail of the cabinet.” Governor Rusk quickly replied: “Well, Cannon, T would like to know what a tail is for if it is not to look beautful and keep the flies ofr.” Within past fow months Governor Rusk has concluded to be coutent with being a tail no longer, or if he must be the tail, he has decided that he will do what he can to aid in wagging the administration dog. He served notice upon Funston, the head of the house committee on ugriculture, the other day that he did oot propose to have the appropriation for his depart- ment this vear made out on the old bureau of agriculture basis. He told him that con gress had given the farmers to understand that they iutended to do something for them when they raised the bureau toa department, and if they could not do so they bad better repeal the law and reduce it'to a bureau once more. He told Funston that he pro- posed to fight for the department of agri culture and that any congressman who op- posed it would oppose him, and that he in- tended to take off his coat and go into that congressman’s district and- stump it against his re-election during the next campaign. “I will show tho farmers,” said Governor Rusk, ‘who their triends , and I would like to have you understand that you can’t treat me as though I were a little whifting, pufting toy engine. 1 want you to know that I em a Great Mogul, with eight drivers, and if you fellows want to buck against me you can buck, and we'll see who holds the track.” Governor Rusk says that every power in KEurope gives more to 'n culture than we do- and that during 1556 France appropriated eight millions and Aus- tria four milbions for agriculture. It is his idea that the ageicultural department of the United States should be organized on a broader basis than that of Iuropean coun- tries and he is doing all he can to push it. Governor Rusk will fight for it too and his record shows that he is noc a blusterer, He was a brave officer during the war and one of the stock stories abouthim is the remarks of General Mower who received him: after hus division had been cut into pieces by the enoemy and he out of shot and shell, at Mow- er’'s command came to his headquarters, As Jolonel Rusk saluted the general, he said: Lhave sent for you because you are the only man in this' army or any other army that I ever saw who could RIDE FUMTHER INTO HELL than [can and I want you to take a drink with me.” *1 thank you,” said Colonel Rusk, *bot I 't do that, as I never drink.” You don’t. WellI shouid hke to know how a mah can ride 8o far into hell without taking o drink, Do you eat (" “Certainly 1 do,” said Colonel Rusk, I have not had a bite since morning. two then ate together and their friendship continued until Mower's death, The story of how Rusk, as governor of ‘Wisconsin, quelled the mob in Milwaukee by ordering the troops *'to fire low and fire to kill, 18 well known,and as I looked athim in the Ebbitt house last night the incident of his wrestling match with James A. Garfield came to me and I resovled to settle the quos- tion, which I have never seen settled in the the cal newspapers, which of the two was the vie- tor. 1asked toe general and he told me that the match took place at Newark, O. e was then thirteen years old, and was & four-horse stage, whiie was " boy leadiog a mule on the ‘canal. “Rassling” (that s the way Governor Rusk pronounced it), said he, “‘was very common in those days, and it was the most natural thing (o the world for two young fellows iike myself and Garfield to try @ rassle. The result did not affect our friendship, und all of the boys tried their streogth in this way “But how did 1t turn out, governor™ said L. “Which whipped " ‘“hat Tdon't like to say,” renlied the sec rotary of agriculture, “and it is hardly a fuir question to ask." HOb, well," T replied, “Garfleld was a very strong man, general, and you need not be ashamed of having had an unsuccessful contest with a man of his calibre.” Well," continued tho general, laughing, and slightlv nettled at the thought that he might bo beaton in anything, 1 will say that I was never downed in a rassle until I was tweuty-two, and this happened whon I was thirteen. 1 wont say anything about this Gurfield rassle more than this—1 was & close friead of Guarfleid's from that ume to his death though 1 did wot neet him again until the opening of the war, When we were in con gress together bo used to call we stago driver and I generally replied that I was not ashamed of it, but I thanked the Lord that he had given me four horses to manage in- stead of condemning we tosteer an wsigaiti- cant bobtail mule.” Governor Rusis makes a very efficient sec retary of ugriculture. He gots down to the department about 9 o'clock evory morniug, dictates what shall bo done with his mail aud remaios there attending to business un- il 5 He posses good executive ability and has a wonderful memory. Asan instance of ing & senator submitted about ol manuscript cootaining & question which tho department could not thon answer. In the letter accompanying tho mauuscript the senator asked that tue 1860.-SIXTEEN 23, PAGES. paver returned to him when the department was through with them. A fow weeks ago the question was settiea and the answer to the senator was written and submitted to the secretary. As he looking over it he said: “This s all right but you have forgotten to say anything about returning the papers, He had dealt with thousands of questions in the meantime, and this request of the senator's had stuck fast in bis memory. Ho has the power of getting at the meat of a question in a moment. He can look tnrough o case and izs it up guickly, wnd ho is not afraid to say what he thinks. One of his prominent traits is that which Lincoln possessed to such a degree of having a story TO FIT RVERY OCCASION, and an anecdote for every illustration. Dur- ing the last few weeks there has been con siderable discussion between the wool grow- ers and the wool manufacturers, and S, F'. D. North, one of the chief manufacturers of the country, has been tryiog to lay down the law a8 to what the wool growera should have in the way of a tariff. Mr. North was talking with the secretary about this not iong ago and Governor Rusk said: ‘‘You make me think of the thres boys each of whom had a cent and who clubbed together and bought a cigar. There were two big boys and one little one. One of the big boys lit the cigar, took a couple of whiffs and then passed it to the other big boy who did like- wise and passed it back to the big boy No. One. ‘The little boy meanwhila looked on with longing eyes and as the cigar was gradually smokud down to halt of its length wondered whether ho was going to have a smoko at all. At last he mustered up cour- age and said: *Please, sirs, I would like to where I coma in said the biggest boy as he lustily puffed out volumes of smoke, “there are al- ways two_classes of smokere, those who smoke and those who spit, and you can do the spitting.” “You wool manufacturers are the big ' continued the secretary, ‘‘and you ontinualiy telling the growers that they o the spitting.” Another story describes an incident which took place in the agricultural department last week. A chief of oneof the divisions had gotten into trouble with a newspaper mun aud had been soundly rated by him in the papers. Governor Rusk had seen the statement and he called the man up and asked him whut he was zoing to do about it. The clerk replied that he didn’t know what to do and said to the governor: you take the matter up and settle “No, sir,” replied Uncle Jerry. a fool. Itis YOUR TAIL THAT IS UNDER THE and you've got. to do the squealing.” 1f one could have a phonouraph worked by perpetual motion in the office of Secretary Rusk how many good stories he migut have. E congressman who comes in carries away one or more and not a few are happy or miserable by their application. One tried to chaff the governor last week and he atood up before him and said : ‘‘See here, (overnor Rusk, you don't know me. 1 want you to understand that I come from the west, and I'm a regular Jim Dandy of a feller.” “Yes, [ suppose you are,” said Uncle Jerry as he arose to his feet in order to teil his story better. *‘You make me think of the sermon of the minister who was dis- coursing on the wonders of the Lord's cre- ation and said that be made the largeas well as the small things of the universe. Saia the preacher: **When God made the mighty ocean, He mads a little rivalet. When he mude the snow-capped mountain He made a hillock. When he made that king of beasts, the elephant, He made a flea—und when He made me,” here Governor Rusk drew him- self up o his full height and stretched out his arms, “Ho mado a d nd I suppose you think you are the daisy. When Governor Rusk came back from his western trip last fali hg called upon Presi- dent Harrison at tue white house and the president asked him the results of his west- I am not T ern trip. He described the agricultural out- look, bu id ngthing about politics. This was at the time that Postmaster Goneral “larkson was cutting off official heads at ate of about twenty-five per minute mmissioner Tanner was shoveling out pensions by the bushel. When the pres- ident asked Governor Rusk as to what he had heard as to the administration in the west, he replied: “Mr. President, I shall have to tell you the truth, I didn’t hear & single_opinion expressed about you or the administration, but those fellows out thero say that Clarkson and Tanner are regular jim dandies.” Now and then the congressmen got rather impatient about the non-appomntment of their upplicants for ofiice and one came to the agricultural departweat a few days ago as mad as a hornet. Said ho: I have had this woman's application before you for six weeks and I think it ought to be good enough to give the grl a place. I have put my name on it and that cught to get her in if nothing else.” “Well,"said General Rusk,as he looked the angry man in tho eye, “I will take care of that young lady’s influence. 1 nm going to fix that application like the old lady fixed the accounts of her husband. They kepta coun- try grocery and the old man chalked up his bills in charcoal on the white wall over the mantel-piece. One day the old lady gota claan- ing fit and she whitowashed tho grocery,put- ting extra brushes over the black marks above the mantel. When her husband came nome he was horrified and said : “Why, Mary, you have wiped out all my accounts, but Uil fix them,” said he. *T'll fix them,” and with that he went out and jotted down' a number of names on tho back cellur door, **Now, Mary,” said he, “T've put my accounts on the cellar door, and I don't want ‘em chauged.” The old woman went out and looked, then hurried back and said: “Why, George, I know thatthe names you have down thero are not the same that you had over the mantel.” *“That makes no difference,” said Geo b & know them names are a blanked signt better pay than the ones which you whitewasliod out,” and concluded Secrétary Rusk, “it is s0 with your application. I'll whitowash your papers, and will scoto it myself that the lady gets a placo.” Of course she got it. Secretary Rusk lLives very nicely at Wash ington. His home is in a comfortable brick near Thomas cirelo, and it is the house in which ex Secretary ' Lincoln lived when he was at the head of the war department. His family consists of a wife and daughter and of a bright boy of fifteen named Blaine Rusk, alter the secretary of sfate. The sec- retary is very fond of riding. He sits a horse as though he were a partof it and owns one of the best riding horses in town. In Wisconsin he lives on a farm near Vi- roqua. He has a lot of fine stock and prides himself on his shorthorns. He is a banker as well as a farmer, and though not rich in the sense of tho word today, is well to do. He is a man of moro than ordinary ability, and ne has a national reputation &s a wood fellow. Senator Wilbur Fiske Sanders has just taien his seat as one of the United States senators from Montana. He had a seat in the same body just twenty-nine years ago this month and ‘he told the other.night the story of how he got it. It was on March 3, 18 Young Wilbur Sanaers and YONG CHARLIE MANDERSON, now Senator Mandersou, were both Ohio boys justout of tneir toens und they had come on hero to attend President Lincoln's inauguration. During their wanderings about Washington they came to the capitol and took a seat together in the senato gal- lery. Washington was filled with strangors and the galleries were packed with 1lliuois men who hud come on to celebrate the ooca. sion. Andrew Johinson was on the tioor and John C. Breckenridge was in the ohair, Johnson was makiog tis famous union speech and he was constantly interrupted by boisterous applause from the gallery. Hreck- enridge requested the gallerio to be quiet but before the noise gol at its Leight he left the chair and Senator Polk of Missour: took his place. Polk did not like Johuson's speech and he liked the cries of the gallery gods still less. Ho finally ordered tho galleries to be cleared, whereupon Stephen A. Douglas, Who was expected to make the next spoech and who did not to talk without listenors ob- jected. Churlos Sumner though the speech was in favor of the union, supported the or- der for clearing the galleries and Manderson and Sanders watched and tromblod. AL last Andiow Johnson said that he knew that his friends in the galleries would ba more quiet, that he would engage that there should be 1o further outburst and ho asked as a per- sonal fayor of the senate that the people be allowed to remain. He then went on and finished his speech. As he closed it there was great appluuse and one lllinols man lled out “Threo cheers for Johnson.' hese were given with & will aud the man thea yolled, “Three cheers for Abe Lin: coln.” These made the roof of the senate riug and then came three cheers for the union and & tiger, while the senators sat vowerless and could do nothing. As soon as the cheers were over the ealleries were cleared and Manderson and Sanders were ousted. They hung around the doors for a few mo- ments and at last Sanders said: ““Well Man- derson, I'm going in on that floor and sit down with the senutors." ‘But you can't get in,” said Manderson, “They won't lat you,' “Yes they will,"’ 806, With that he tried one door and was pushed violently back. He then went around to the ladies reception room and started to go in. The guard pulled him back and he said: ‘1 would like t know if a senator of a confederate state cavnot enter this chamber when he has business ! ‘The guard did not know what to muke of it. The government was unsettled and he did not know but what Sanders might be o peace commissioner, and he let him go in. Sanders entered and took his first seat in the senat Presently Ben Wade saw him and sipped around and asked: “Sanders, my boy, how did you get in here!" O, I got in, aid Sanders and Senator Wade sand: “Well, koep quiet and no one will notice you.” He theu sat there throughout the evening. Tn the meantime the galleries had been re- opened and Manderson worked into thern, He had been tramping around in the wet and his stockings were saturated. His boots were tight and his feet felt very sore and as the night session wore on he took them off and sat in his stocking feet. The air of the scnate was very warm and the tight boots shrunk, At the adjournment he found to his horror that he could not get his boots on and he had to walk down to his Lotel on Pennsylvania avenue in his stock- ing feet carrying his Loots. He thanked fortune, doubt™ not, that the accident hav- pened at night, and as 1 look at his immacu late costume in the senate today I wonder it 1t would not hurt his self-respect to be caught 10 asimilar fix, Senator Teller told me lust night HOW HE LOST §900,( The story made my eyes bulge out, but the senator related it in the same cool, metailic tones in which he talks about the weather. Said he: *It was some years ago in Lead- ville that 1 met one day upon the street a friend of mine who asked me to go in with bim and his partner and bffy tho Robert R. Lee mine. The mine had bean in the courts, but the question of its title had been settled and & was ouly necessary to have $10,000 to pay off its indebtedness. 1 asked how much it would take for me to come in, He rephed that it would take $45,000 and this would give me a one-third interest. ‘But,’ said I, raising my hands in holy horror, ‘I haven't l)mlllhn money and would hate to risk it if I had.” *+0," said he, ‘you run no risk. We have ninety days in which to pay this $00,000 and we will work it out of the mine in that time. You necd not put up a cent and we will pay your §45,000 out of the mine, and in case the mine doesn’t pan out at once, Ben, my part- ner, and I will put up the money for you.’ I said I would consider the matter but I did not think I wanted it. For the next two days that man hung around me and bezged me to take a third interest in the mine. He told me he could sell it for $45,000 cash to another man but he would rather take me in for nothing. I held out and at the end of two days he sold the interest to the other party. Shortly after this I heard that the mine was paying and avout two years later 1 met Ben, my friend’s partner, in the Wind- sor hotel at Donver and we got to talking about mining property. *You made a gro said he, “in not going with us.” “Yes, I know it,” said [, *“and I wonder just how much of a mistake I did make? Sup- pose you tell me.” ““Well, said he, again, *We got your 843 000 out of the mine in less thza threo montbs and you would not have had to pay a cent on it. ‘Uhe man who took your place stuck to us and he cleared within two years just $400,000. I must have looked a little surprised, for the man said: *‘Well, olr. Teller, you wish you had gone in.” “Idon’t know,” replied I, “Providenco runs these things his own way. I have two boys and they had better make their own way through the world thun be pampered with the inheritance of a millionaire. Perhaps on the whole it 18 as well as it is.” FRANK G. CARF! said® Sanders, “Now nistake, Mr, Teller,” into the Robert B. Lee NTER, THE BEET bb(.‘z\l; CITY. Grand Island’s Many Advantagaes Stated in Succinct Form, GraND IsLaxp, Nebh., March 20.—To the Editor of Tnr Bee: Grand Island is lo- cated in the center of the best agricultural section of the state, 154 miles west of Omaha, on alevel, well drained plateau, 1,878 feet above sea level, and forty above the Platte, river, which 1s four miles distant, There is no location moro conducive to health, there being no malaria and no prevalent diseases, Sunshine 18 the rule; cloudy disagreeable weather the exception. The winters here are usually short, a comparatively mild, while the summers are rarely too warm to be thoroughly enjoyable. Platted in 1867, the population was 5,045 in 1835, and 18 now variously estimated at from 12,000 to 15,000, While Grand Island has never been in the least *,boomed” und advertised very little her growth has been remurkably steady and large, and she has never suffered from overgrowth or years of deprossion. Grand Island’ has the largest and best machine shops on the line of the Union Pa- cific railway, the best and most numeronsl. attended schools in the state excepting Omaha and Lincols, the largest and most successful canning factory west of tho Mis- souri river—its product reaching into the millions of cans, the finest churches of any interior city, many of them being new and built of stone or brick, a first-class system of water works owned by the city and fur- nishing in all parts of the town clear soft water which has been dronounced chemical ly pure. It also has flourishing loages of all secret orders and a well estab. lished Young Men's Christian association tho main line of the Union Puacific railwa; with machine shops, railmill, division st tions, ete.: the termiuus of the Lincoln branch of the B, & M. railwa It the initial point of the Grand Island & Wyom- ing Central railway, the initial point of the Owmaha & Republican Valley railway, the terminus of the Grand Island & St. Joseph railway, the location and business to bring otuer roads which are already surveyed. 1t has a low rate of taxation and few outstand- ing bonds, a belt line now being constructed which will connect all roads and furnisk un- usual facilities to factories, etc., a streat railway system second only to Omaha, and connecting all points in the city, a first class sewerage system just comploted at a cost of £30,000, electric lights and two extensive gas plants, six well established newspapers, several artificial lakes which furnish ice and fish for a large area of country, a fine new city hall costing 52,000 and otber public buildings, five substantial banks, all pros perous and solid, the state soldiers' and sail- ors’ home, with 1ts flue and exten sive buildings, the location of th union of the G. A. R. for a period of five years, tho handsome buildings of the Baptist state unis versity, now being erected, three hundrea live, progreasive firms, ropresenting all lines of business. It has a ralroad business ag. grogating more than 15,000 carloads received and shipped, per annum, a free delivery mail service, and all other necessities and luxu- rios of a first ciass cit, The latest and most important acquisition 15 & mammoth beet sugar factory and refin- ery, now being erected, which will cost vyer $500,000; give ewployment directly and indi- rectly, to 5,000 hands: manufacture 275 bar- s of reflued sugar per day. ‘Lhis industry is attracting the attention of the whole coun- try. Grand 1sland is the best wholesale and distributing poibt 1 the state, aud wants more wholesalo houses, factories and capital. - - When you buy & fancy handled umbrella, the first thing to do is to aispense with the little ornamental silic tassel that gives the article a cortain finish while the selection was boing made. A more pestiferous and tomper-ruffiog little jigger was never con- ceived by mortal man. When you go to wrap the umbrella about the stick it is sure to get iu the folds at the wrong place, and every time you attemptto open your paras chute the ‘infernal tassel is sure Lo catch in the wire framework. R New Coates House, Kan. City. Absolutely fire proof. Finest and largest hotel in Kansus City, Unex- celled in its appointments, [STORIES 0 RAILROADERS R. A. Branch's, Experience With the Subterranean Voice. EOME AMUSING INCIDENTS, An Engineer Who Could Spelt Calf— How Billy Pattison Ran an Engine and Got Solid— Other Incidents. A Subterranean Voice, A very good story is told on R. A. Branch, western passenger agent of the Chicago & Atlantic rond. His presence in Omaha, to- gether with an incident in which he figured as one of the chief actors, suggested it. “‘In asmall 1llinos town the joke was played, and this is how it came about,” said the re- lotor. ‘A sewer running atrigkt aogles and two blocks long had been damaged near one end. The boys soon discovered a hole in it 1nto which they could talk, and thus be nheard plainly at the other end. Once when Branch was at the town he celebrated some trivial event by going about with three or four jovial friends during the day, haviog much sport and attracting cor.- siderable attention. Towards midnight the party with whom he trained felt quite merry and ready for any scheme calculatedto in creass its enjoyment. ‘“‘Some one of the local companions hap- pened to think ot the sewes trick, whispered it to the others, ana started off.” “Where are you woing now, Charley?” inquired Branch, . S where do you suppose.” A awhile.” “Oh, yes, but I must. I've had enough of this and propose to quit you. cold.' Realizing that nis argument had no weight Branch bade the friend good night, snid something about his not being a thorough. bred, sang the razzle-dazzle song and ordered another small bottle As soon a3 Charley had disappeared the other fellows invited their unsusvecting victim to take a waik with them around the vlock. Being in the right mood to accent uny suggestions, Branch readily assented and the party started out. In tho meantime Charley hal captured a smart boy, put him onto the joke and awaited developments, When the party, chatting and laughing as it moved along, reached a point opposite the manhole in the sewer, a voice suddenly criea Help! hel, “What's th: asked Branch, surprised. 0, nothing,” said one of the gang; *‘coms on-—-you must have them again.” Just then another cry of “Help!” floatod through the ground and Branch began to get excited. He ran to the manhole of the sewur, fell on his knees in the mud, and shouted : **What's the matter?" “Help! I'm in the sewer and can't stand it much longer.” That settled it. Branch was wild. He wanted his companions to help him get the sufferer out, but they laughed and refused to do any thing. Then Branch got mad and tore down a fence, He went to a house near by, woko up its oceupants, borrowed a lamp, and when last seen was hunting through the yard for a shovel, Spel it Caff, When a railroad train runs iato stock acd injures it, the engineer must make a report, giving a minute discription of the animals killed, tho svecies, sex, age and probable value, which he mist send to the division superintendent. Naturally, 1n these descrip- | tions, some Very funny expressions are fre- quenily met with, The other day General Mansger Dickinson of the Union Pacific re- cewved a voluminous document from an engi- neer ou the Colorado diision, i which he | toldthe story of how his old’ machine had gone snorting through a large herd of cattle. But the report was wrong and was sent back for_correction. Only onc animal it seen.s, and that o calf, had been killed, The engineer described the victim as a £ When the document returned to him accompanied by arequest to carreot it, he was somewhat puzzied. After studying the report a long time, Mr. Enginer finally ob served to his companion. “Well, by thunder 1 don’t sce anything wrong with 1t except the way calf is spelled.” Ho tlien added another *f,” remailed the report to headquarters and it went through, Went it Blind, “Durmg the Burlington strike, two years ago,” smd Billy Pattison, *'I distinguished myself by running an engine one day suc~ cessfully and demonstrating that & man of ordinary ictelligence can do almost any- thing he undertakes,” “*And howdid you do 1t?” inquired Tom Horn, *‘It must have been an uncommonly lucky accideni.” “Not at all. I was the chief clerk in the company’s Councit Bluffs cfiice. T had never | were accepted. It was do or die, and rather than die 1 proposed to accept the other alternative. S “The yardmaster put me on an_engine at Council Blufts and I ran her through to Creston in good sha But I can assure you that it was a risky and dangerous un- dertaking. We never stopped for crossings, switches or anything else. I bad no knowl- edee of rules, regulations or sienals, and looked out for nothing bat the main track ahead of me, **Although I am no longer connected with the rond my name occupies . place on its preferred list, and there is nothing the head officials would ot do for me.” Mr. Pattison is now an attorney and lives | coat, i EDUCATIONAL, Sweden has two universities, 173 profes- sors and 1,010 students. Portugal has one university, forty profes- #ors and 1,300 students. Holland has four universities, eighty pro- fessors and 1,600 students. A permanen t scholarship of $1,000 is being raised wholly among the colored people of Alabama for the Tuskegee Normal and In- dustrial institute (Ala.), of which Booker T\ Washington 1s principal. A good proportion has already been paid in cash, Miss Susannah Warfleld, a wealthy un married woman, who died a few days ago at her home, “Groveland,” Carroll county,Md,. has left all her property to found an Episco- pal college which 18 to be named after her. The endowment amounts to about $100,000. In the medical department twenty-foud graduates received their diplomas; at the recent graauation exercises of the state uni- versity of lowa; in_the homeopathic depart- ment ten: and in the dental department forty-three. The total number of gruduates of l;o university in all deparuments is now 8,052, The newest work undertaken by Chautau- qua university is along the line of university extension lectures, 8o popular n Eugiand. The courses consiat of twelve weekly lecturs each occupying about an hour. For about three-quarters of an hour, preceding or fol- lowing each lecture, a cless is held for those students who wish to study the subject more thoroughly. A committee in behalf of the Young Men's Curistian association of the Towa state uni- versity appeared before the board and re quested a site on the campus for their new building, for which very nearly the full amount of §25,000 has been raised. This ap- plication was granted by the board and steps will be taken to begin the erection of the building as eariy as possible in the spring. The resignation of Dr, Albert Reynolds of Clinton as lecturer on insanity in the medi cal department has been received and acs ceptod at the state university of lowa and Dr. G. P. Hill, superintendent of the insane asylum at Independence, was elected to fill the vacancy. Newverry of Cedar Rapids was urer on otology and ophthalmology in the homeopatic medical de- partment, Mr. Simon Yande's additional eift of £50,000 to Wabash college makes the aggre- gate amount of his gifts to that institution £100,000. Excepting the DePauw bequest to the uniuersity of that name, this is the larg- est gift for educational purposes made by any citizen of Indiona. It shows the state is progressing on that line as on others, and its generous proportions will place Mr, Yaude's name high up ia the list of Indiana's public benefactoys. ‘The trustees of the New York college for the trainiug of teachers have established twelve free scholarships in the high school department of the model school attached to suid college, for the benefit of graduates of the public grammar schools of the city of New York. Threo scholarships are to be awarded each year upou the results of a competive examinstion to be held in the month of June, and each scholarship is vald, unless forfeited for cause, for the full high school cour: A man of jmoderate meanswho wasa great admirer of the late President Patton, and wishes to help perpetuate his services in Howard university where he speut twelve vears as presiding officer, has pledged the first $100 toward the endowment of a Patton memorial professorship for the theological department. Forty thousand dollars will endow the professorship, Subscriptions may be sent to President Rankin, Wasbhington, D. C., or to Dr. M. E. Strieby, 55 Reade street, New York. B e NOTES ON ME DRESS. Overgaiters are now quoted under the head of men’s fusnishings. Men’s Clothier and Furnishor: appear from the greater number scarfings being sold that the publi ing cducating in this respect. The neckwear styles in made up goods show tho effects of this tendeucy of the poblic, for they are of greater proportion than heretofore in close imitation of the tie- uble scarf when knotted. One of tho cleverest devices in this fiold is the deceiving reproduction of the white lawn catch-and-buckle dress bows, 1n forms thav aro_irregularly made, and look for all the world us though the wearer had tied the bow. The negligee young man by means of mod- eration and subterfuge in makeup and in ma- teril, is making desperate efforts to work the outing duds into town the coming season. He will succeed to u_greater extent than heretofore, from the fact that during the past season he has grown accustomed to himself, and this season the wore radical and objectionable features of ultra adorn- ment will be absent. still, the outing young man is more apt to continue as a regular annual incident if ho confines his perigrinations in costume to those localitics 1n which the word outing in 4 suburban cnse will bear application, Those, however, who will be found flugrantly addicted to the negligee racket town, will also be recognized as shining lights of the cmbroidered vest, collar and shirt coterie. The latest thing_in the shirt line that is Dbew pushed is the open front that has an It would elf tied s becom- been on an engine, and knew nothing about | opening all the way down the front like a it. However, they were offering $100 a_dayv Tt is made to fit in to the figure as the for men, and T proffered my services, They |‘coat is shaped, und the usual and really superfluous fullness of muslin is thus avoided. It does seem unenterprising that in this last decade of the ninetecnth _century we have not got peyond the barbarism of pulling one’s shirt over one head. It s decidedly more desirable and agree- ablo to dress one’s hair bofore putting on one’s shirt, and yet the candle-suufinz pro- cess of the present over-head system is cer- tain to dissolve the most carefully partea and arranged coiffure. On the grcund of fit, expedition and cwili ation, the coat shirt should bo welcomed, Fvery actor in the land who is o ‘“viled’ shirt actor, snould as o matter of necessity and of time saving in the quick changes to bo made give the coat shirt his hearty sanc- n IKansas City. ] ETCHINGS, ENGRAVINGS, S ARTIST SUPPLIES 58 MOULDINGS, - FRAMES, ] 1513 Douglas Street, BUILDERS' FINE BRONZE GOODS Of Every Design and Finish. HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR tion as filling a long folt want. 3 EMERSON, EFHALLET & DAVIS $FKIMBALL, & PIANOS & OI'GANS WFSHEET MUSIC. Omaha, Nebraska 1405 Dougias St. DR, GENTS * £ No. 4 - A O wiTH SPINAL APPLIANCE Dr, OWEN'S Eleotro- lnxlhaen{] andall oth- hallengethe World are The Suspensory for weaknet appliand ever m of & bel RS> Front Vi 10 Galvanic cells With 100 degrecs of strength, except ou b, hie & Positive and Negative current, of streni degroe ke Owon Hall s not & Chaiss, Wire or Tested by any one before it 15 applied Lo the body, cuperior to all others now offered for sale. responsible partios on thirty days' trial, and ourfroeillusirated Book ~of £34DAKES W) withous the aid of a physician or the use of not waste your money on belts patented ye Gpinion, aud 1 o be. 15 not adapted to their Max Meyer & Bro., Sts. Corner 16th and F Continuation of our Great Closing Out Sale dreds are g made happy on account of the Wo derful Bargnins we are offering on Everything. ALL DIAMONDS RETAILED AT IMPORTER'S PRICES. WATCHES—Ladies’ or Gent ed, solid gold, stem winde wards, Ladies' fine soll Watches, full jeweled movements, ANl other watches in pro| JEW ELRY—Chains,Lockets, 1t ngs and all other jewelry at ab HALF former prices, Clocks are going fast at our MARKKD DOWN FIGURES-S0 CLOCKS go r 805, &c—~dozens of styles to selecr from. Lamps ever shown in Omaha 85 u Heantiful beyond description is our aple-piated waro, It must be seen to novel nnd original designs; Epergnos, Water Sets, Tea Se Salad and Nut Bowls, Bake Dis Soup Tur: Biscuit Jars, Cake Baskets, Butter Dishos, Plokle Stands, Individual Castors, Napkin 8tc., besiias & immense line ofsmall warss, in ariist all of which are beingsold at about 50 CENES ON TH (FOPEN SATURDAY EVENING UNTIL 9. STORE FOR RENT ANp FIXTURES FOR SA N. B, -Great Reduction in #rices of Pinnos and Orgnn rna nest assortment See the be appreciated. "FISH BRAND" HOSE] The ONLY Lawn or Garden Hose MADE which will stand 400 POUNDS PRESSURE. BUY the BEST, It wil LAST the LONGEST A hose which wiil do good work in most cities, Wil not give satisfaction in (Omaha, on uccountof the extreme liigh pressure. While dealers complain of other liose being returned in lare guantities because it 18 not strong enough 1o stand the prossire BRAND" is guaranteed to stand the highest pressire, For Sale 1y i OMAHA RUBBER CoO., 1008 Farnam-st., Omaha, Neb. Wholesale or Retail $5 | L SET OF TEETH ON RUBBER For Five Dollars. £ DR.R. W.BAILEY, Dentist, Paxton Block, 16th and Farnam Streets. and having within the past two We Are Here to Stay [ionis iigely increnced our office room, are now Letter prepared to turn oufthe best class of work, and much more rapidly than heretofore. We make a full set, of teeth on rubber for FIVE DOLLARS, guaranteed to be as wel made as plates sent out of any dental office in this country. Do not let others influence you not to come, but make us a cail and see for yourself. Teeth extracted WITHOUT PAIN, and without using chloroform gas, ether or electricity. Filling at lowest rates. Remember the lo= cation. DR. BAILEY, Dentist, Paxton Block. Open evenings until 8 o'clock Take elevator on 16th street, 16th and Farnam, Cut this out, Mention thisvap lers, ¢ B AND CON HCAGO OFFICE TRICAL REPR Brush Electric Company. Est) s and plans furnishied. Correspondence solicited, 892-838 N, Y. Life Building, - - =~ =- = DEWEY & STONE, Furniture Company the Omaha, ] useful and ornamental in A magnificent display of everything easonable prices. furniture maker’'s art at WEN'S BILECTRIC BEL.T 7. Fatentecdd MAugust 16, f ralyais a2 L Piles, Hoart 35 Kidney di andcanbemado ~ Buspeasory. ces tho Eleetrieity can bo carried to &ny p N In applying Eleciricity to the Hody, This £ igho will ind the Owen o bo. g s onr .;“”‘ il "o:‘l"rgm"m"j“ueo n Eleotrip Trues an o reversed. id, oy READTMGTE TN UN et T O ro m bix to tep hours day or night oltaie Belt, u" a Pad, of a nd is wors onl: To show the Jintire Canfi if it does not edicine. Eond for & pair of 8 0g0, to produce & beit 4 vull'r' or strong Lo suit any mrlnnl; ‘this cannot be dono with any other belt, of men s connected directly 1o the {of tho Body. 1 llu.mnle RBelt and Suspenso L5~ ery of anorvous character i—Rho pinal Diseases, St. Vitus' | { Dlsenses, Lumbago. Geeral and Sy Diseases, Nervousness, Tremblin \\ cansed from Indis \\ tion, l-‘umllul'umr ints. in fact all norvous diseuses pertaining to Male or Femal LW L ectro-Gal fonce we bave n our El rave to be'or do what wo Represent, you can returnlitous, | Eocisns S en by aphysiclan of over 40 years experience, which will é sent you “ealed cuvelope, Toc, ? Dr. Owents Electrio {asoles, Price #1.00, which will cur ‘We havo private consultation rooms for ladies a3 well as gents, and ‘Caso they will be 80 sdvised. Open atall times, Consultation at ol tmproved July .80. IPBO. o SPIRAL APPLIAHEE ATTACHED. ‘Cure the follow- mallsm of any Dance, Brig Nervous Debility, Wasting_of the Personal will it ac etlon 1n Youtior Married ife, Nervous Prostration, t will compare with it, The current ig underthocontrol of tha attery, Lho disks are 8o adjusted that by means of our ialy (o )I}gu-, ¢ aud t.w;utr»ll fprovement tromnal) ohsre 11 s a Therery ielt contaiiog Back Viow, tterics u':ul 1t”we'lhl Galvanic Cells, with 4¢) n . r?l?l‘ll‘lynl‘g’h'hl Vhon » Battery. The Eleetric current can bo Tla belt yoi will buy o other, aw'it 1 gt aad ealy worn and e, wo will send our Bull Power No, 4 I blete to yaiclans endorso the Owen Relt as the best, Send " > {ving instructions how to treatyourself with iy ou of Gout, Chilblains Lrum]HAIh‘VEI'l'( IJ'I s, or Cold n;l 1 1) who ¢all or write us can rest assured that they will receive an honess L o farimation how 0 0btALR trial belt s66ZA~puge Book t differs from all others. elt, which Contains Tiwo Lia ininy App) After exa loctro-Galvanic Lelt an r by mail tro. P LECTRIC BELT & APPLIANCE (0., 306 North Broadway; 8t. Louis, Mo, i She ownNEand 826 Broadway, Northeast corner’of 12th, New York City.