Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1890, Page 5

THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER Items Particularly Interesting Re- goarding the Road. COMMUNICATION. A LIVELY Mysterious Disappearance of a Well Known Traveling Man—Suicide — Accident — Terse and Jesty—Personal, The Drammer and His Grip. Kavannah News, Though the rain and sleet are falling, And the ronds are “awful muddy,” Though all men “hard times' are bawling, Though a fellow’s pose gots ruddy, Though the rivers may be frozen, And the frost may bite and nip, They can never stop the advent Of the drummer and his grip. Though the trains may all be smashing, ‘Though the horses all go lame, The drummer, like the bedbug, Will gzet, there just the same. And when his time is over, Will come smiling from his trip, For he always mokes*‘connection,” Does the drummer with his grip. Ah, he teaches us a lesson, With tis cnergy and grit, Things that “paralyzc” most people Don't ustonish him a bit. And he's ever bright and cheerful And a smile is on his lip. He's a daisy from away back, Is the drummor with s grip. Give him a kind word always, He'll give you back the same: For the doings of some “*black sheep" Don't give the whole tribe blamo, For down, clear down to hades, Some so-called “‘good men" slip, While along the road o heaven Goos the drummer with his grip. S0 KFas 2. She has some lage about her thront, About her wrists some lace 1 see} Upon her pretty hat I noto A bit of lace—and now I see, For when she slightly lifts her skirt In crossing some too sloppy street, There 18 o flash, an instant’s flirt, Of lace thut's somowhere noar her feet. It somebow fits her. all this I; 1t's delicate and picturesqu It fits her softness and fer gra Here I sit mooning at my desk About her and the lace! FEgad! Somo other train of thought I'll try; Too real a dream of lace I've had, She's my wife - and lace comes high! Jon liUHll Al.n\l\. A Prominent Travoling Man Goes at Him in Great Shape. BrLACK HILLS, S. D., March 22.—To the Bditor of Tie B there any dangor of our being robbed by high- waymen on this road?” “No, sir; the whilom road agent and his various pals have gone into the hotel, livery, barber shop aud telephone business, and the roads ave quite safe.”” These remarks I overheard five or six years riding from *‘Scoop” to in one of old man Smith's hacks. The question was propound by a genuine specimen of the genus tenderfoot (the down east brand) evidently on his first trip to the hills, and the Pickwickian reply had como promptly from the lips of a grizzled, grufl Omaha grocery drummen hnvunr the unmistakable appearance of the old And of this short conversation L was nost vividly reminded while perusing the commercinl teavelers’ col- umns ol your last two Monday edition The communication of the furniture drummer und the reply thereto by Joe Bush of Buffalo Gap, anent the 50 cents charge for telephoning the enormous distance of an eative block, succeeded in jogging my recollection thereof. Now, Mr. Editor, both purties aro strangers to me and the furniture man, helonging to the drummer brigade, is per se expected to hold his own, while Joe Bush’s letter shows him to be fully able to take care of himself, But even the worm will turn when trodden on, and since I have myself time and again been mulcted 50 cents for o short_distance telephone message, the spirit moves me to do a little kicking about this and several other nuisunces and schemes of petty robbery practiced systematically on us poor drummers, I know only too well that my kicking will dono good what- soever for we are and always will be singled out as the legal, lawtul prey of the hotelmen, (lno'nlh.l R. B. and).G K., this is not meant for you) liver men and other benevolent " nstitutions too numerous to mention. But an in- dulgence once in a while in sound vigorous “‘beeling” does the heart good and relioves pentup nature. It seems Joe Bush goes rather too far in his ve- marks. Could he not have shown sufti- cient courtesy to a gentleman who had called upon” hum on business to have made the telophone communieation o matter of his own and save the 50 cents chargos? Most certainly the deummer’s firm would do so were Joe Bush to visit them. and so would any wholesale house in Omaha or eisewhere. But perhaps Joe Bush thinks with a great many mhnr; that it is the proper caper to twork asucker for all you can while you haye him.” Often and often hav. 1 heard this phrase, often and often its practical illustration been attempted uvon me. Tnose of our fraternity who uso the telephone line frequentiy no doubt deem it an outrage to pay H0cents for ench message, often sent only a dis- tance of three or four blocks, and in fact there are no tenable grounds on which the telephone company can base such an outrageous charge. Howeves this telephone company is not the onl institution keeping up totally unwar- ranted ante-bellum charges while prices of nearly all of life’s commodi- ties have falten to a normal and hard ti basis 1n the “*nills.” What justi- fication is there 1n charging %6 Tor a team and buggy to go a distance of thirteen wmiles rting after bre; and roturning betore whereby is o combi justified in uniformly demand besides feed and stabling for the team, for w« fifty mile trip, occupy two days, from three of us? experience last summer.) corn und onts still hauled three or four hundred miles by wagon, at enormous s, or do not the **hills” produce Vhat right and vesson is there in the burbers holding us up to the tune of o conts for a hair cur and cents for each shave in a country which sells beor for i cents a’glass? s the freight on the sonp used by them so enormously high that sich charges are warrante I know they will suy: ,.Everybody is charged these figures.” But to a gr.m extent this is not so, for the native gets a reduction i almost every case and can and does buy commutaiion tickets from the barbers at muchly veduced rates, Hesides, we drummers pay spot cash, no collectors are required to run afier us on the 1st of *h month, and that fact alone should procure us re- duced rates instoad of advanced rates, Far from getting any benelits for aying cash, we get 1t in the neck wherever there 18 half u chunce, Everybody seems to lay for us, to try for a whack at the dollars in our pockets. Let us enter a small country Sown, cavey out geips from aid. 1o the depot and be the only strangerina dining room full of farmers, stockmen and town folks, let the grub be no mat- ter how ordinary and scant of choice the drummer has to pay a half dollar invariably, while the old hayseed who sat in the very chair adjoining him and ate five timos the quantity consumed by tho drummer complacently hands & quarter to mine host and as often as not is treatod with a cigar by the landlord into the bargain, It1s less than a weelc ago that a traveling man under pre- cisely the above circumstances was compeiled to pay 50 cents for a so-called dinner, said dinner consisting of n quarter section of dried apple pie ac- companied h, a glass of water. Shades of S;I) lock,! ” How often have I paid 10 cents for a cigar and within five min- utes observed the genial landlord openly hand two out of the identical same hox to a *‘native” in return for a dime! Butacomparatively few years ago the peanuts on several” trains used to demand and obtain from us 10 cents for o dmly paper, until the newspapers put a stop Lo this species of robery. If today we attempt to buy any fruit or a book on a train, the original selling price has been seraped off the front page and the price raised to double the original figure, where as the ‘“peanut” will in _ most cases sell us his apoles and oranges, ete., by the quar- ter’s worth only. Let us step into a sa- loon to refresh’ the inver man in com- pany with a frisnd or two, and three chances out of five an uninvited stranger of the genus bum steps up to take a drink with the drummer. Tam not exaggerating, I have experienced all these things time and again. But enough of *he kicking for today, I will reserve the rest for some ot occasion, and indeed I have plenty “stuff” left. But I fear, Mr. Editor, this letter of mine has already out- grown the limit of space you have set apart for communications from the boys. 1If €0, you may publish my screed in quarter sectious or in any mauner you sce (it to. ‘With my best wishes to the fraternity of which I have the honor to be one of the oldest members, I remain, FrED L. PERKINSON. 1. Hume Butcher. No sadder message was ever tele- phoned from Fremont than the one re- ceived Tuesday morning by the Consol- idated Coffee company announcing the death of their salesman, Mr. R. Hume Butcher. Mr. Butcher arrived in I're- mont Saturday and stopped at the Now York hotel, complaining that he was not fecling well. When called upon Monday by some of the traveling men he complained of pain in the region of rt and by their advice sent for a v n, who said that he was suffer- ing from neuralgia of the heart, but did not think at first that he was in a dan- gevous condition. IEverything possible was done, but instead of ‘railying under treatment, as was expected, he grad- ually grew worse, becoming unconscious about midnight and remained so until 1:30 o’clock a. m., when he died. Mr. Butcher hud been in the employ of the Consolidated coffee company for a number of years, and was highly re- spected and regarded by them as not only a firstelass salesman, but having a higher quality, in that he was the soul of honor in all his dealings with his fellow men. No man ever had the entire confidence of his employers to any groater extent than Mv. Butcher, and none ever deserved mor ceipt of the message Mr. Gates urer of the Consolidated coffee company, telegraphed his friends and relatives and went immediately to Fremont and took charge of the remains, bringing them to Omaba. On the next day his brother arrived and the body, after having boen embalmed, was taken to Fort Royal, Va., for burial. There is a sad home in old Virgi over the loss of the most loyal son it has ever been the writer’s pleasure to know. The Elkhorn road has lost one of i pioneers and the traveling fra nity a ('Om panion who was brave as alion, ten- L ted as a child and one of the 5t works ol(.ud—-m honest man. 0 O The W. O. Patrick Fund. The following named traveling men have contributed, through W. L. East- man, to the support of the widow and two children of their late brother, W. C. Patrick, who died on January 10, 1800, from mountain fever, contracted on his December trip to the Bluck Hills, F. H, !!umelb, $2; M. Dec, $2; M. Harvey \ . B. I)mgu\.'n. 3 Culleu,# . L. Sholes, $1; low !‘; BL\ird 1 Martin, 813 D LN Milner & Marnell, White, George N. Hall, certs; W. A. Sherman, Branch, $1; Star Play Whiting, . Gould, #1; 1. D. Lord, Diamond, $2; E. Mclntire, Charles A. Coe, Harrison, § . Wertz, $13 H \\’. ll. Chapman, $1; F, A, Walter, #1: J. C. Kohl, Willinm Muri H. Hart, W. J. Dun- 3 Strater, $1; Kent Cunning- . Harpham, $1; James T. James Hamilton, $1; J. John Costello, ham, $ Thompson, $1; L. Houston, jr., 81; O. L. Livingston, $1; W. H. Brown, $1; W. L. Eastman, 32; making a total of $60.50. This amount Mr. stmun has forwarded 10 the treasurer of the N, M. A. to be added to that pre- coliected. The appeal sent out by the board of directors contains some terse and prac- tical words, in speaking of the de- ceased: “Big hearted, large souled, indus- trious; always going to save money noxt year; and to this kind of man ‘noxt year' never comes. He had a good in- come, and each year spent itall and some more, He was always ‘hard up.’ » is dead! He had good points; lot us romember them. He was a Kind hus- and an indulgent father. His 8 »in the grave with him. His low and his two little children sur- vive him, and nothing but our contri- s will keep them out of tne poor house. Notioe, Will the traveling man who wrote the first communication that appeared in Tie BEE vegarding Joe Bush’'s tele- phone churge of 50 cents please send his nume to this office again. It will ocea sion him no trouble whatever, und may result in good to him and many other traveling men. 4 Drummer and Lunatic, Mr. C. Evaus, a Des Moines travel- ing man, had an experien about ten days ago that he will long remember, and one whicn he does not care to re- peat. He was working towns on the north end of Rock Island, just south of Ruthveu. He boarded a train about § o'clock in the evening for Ruthven. He had just comfortably located him- in the cur when an insane man rushed in and made himself lord of all he sur- veyed, He was wild with rage. The conductor was not long in giving way and made his way to the head end and rode the rest of the distance to Ruthven on tho engine. The brakeman and other traveling man wmounted the cup- THE OMAHA oln seats lud considered thumwl ves well out of danger. Mr. Evans’ ride with his unwelcome companion was not all sunshine, but he states no conductor over appeared on the scene for railvoad fare, Sned His Firm. J. E. Atwood has brought an action against the fiem of John Anisfleld & Co., Topeka, Kan., for 81,600, Atwood declares that during the year 1859 he had a contract to travel for Anisfield & 0., in the states of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri: with aguaranteed salary of 21,000 he was to have a com- mission of 5 per cent on all sales over 220,000, but the firm paid him only the £1,000 and refused to pay him his ad- ditional commission which amounted to $400, and instead of leaving him tb work the territory alone according to contract thev put on another man for part of the time and refused to accept Atwood’s sales, keeping him idle; he says he is an experienced salesman and could have sold 850,000 worth of govds if the firm had kopt its conteact. He has also come into possession of the claim for $100 by E. P. Atwood, formerly salesman for Anisfield & Co. A Traveling Man's Suicide. John Pike, aged thirty-nine, a com- mercial traveier for Coffin & Co., har- nesges, Boston, committed suicide last week at Reading. The suicide was a very deliberate one. Mr. Piko left his home about 5:30 in the morning, taking with him a double-barrelled shotgun. He went to the orchard on the Putnam farm, some distance from his house, and removing one shoe and stocking, evi- dently placed the muzzle of the gun against his stomach and pulled the trig- gor with his toes. The deceased had suffered for two weeks past with la grippe, and it is supposed his mind be- came affected, He leaves a widow. Strange Disappearance. John M. Bulkley, a traveling man in the employ of N. C. Fairbanks of Chi- cago, on a visit in Minneapolis, is mis ing, and his family in Chicago and his friends fear that he has been foully dealt with, He was last seen at the company’s office in St. Paul Monday morning. He arrived in Minneapolis Monday night, intending to remain over visiting friends till the next night. Leaving his satchel in Minneapolis he went over to Paul the next morning, left his card at the company’s office and has not been seen since. Samples, W. B. Lanius, formerly of Paxton Gallagher, but now traveling for a Chi- e, was in Nebraska City y. Will is one of the most pop- men on the road, and his old riends will all be glad to see him back in Nebraska. J. R. Brinker, with Reid, Murdock & Iischer, Chicago, made his regular thirty day tvip through easter: Ne- braska last week. He says he is going to slaughter tho ducks on the Loup this week in company with a few Lincolnites. Franik \I‘\l't.iu, of C. Willman & Sous, St. Joseph, was in Nebraska City the first of last week. Frank is partial to school marms. L. P. Utterback, the Chicago dry goods min, spent a few days with his family at Nobraska City last week. 5. Willer, the popular young drug man from Omana, registered at the d Pacific, Nebraska City, Wednes- Clarence Eagle of the Consolidated Coffee company, went south on the Missouri Pacitic the iirst of the week. J. H. Mehl, who has been on the road for Klopn, Dreibus & Co. for the last ars, has accepted ion in the house and will no longer carry a sam- ple case. He was very popular on the road and will be greatly at his old haunts, but John w s married abouy two lnunlhs ago and can’t stand it to go y from home. vrank B. Ridenour, who travels for endall, Jones & Co. of Omaha, just hed a very snceessful trip through western Missouri and southern lowa. ank has a great faculty of making friends and has a larger coterie of warm ones in his territory than almost any other man 1n the west. His face is al- ways wreathed with a broad smile when he comes in contact with an old cus- tome MecCracken, the popular shoe man who travels for W. V. Morse & Co. of Omaha, met with an accident at Te- cumseh last week. Some one mixed mucilage with his hair oil and *'his every hair stands ou endlike quills upon the fretiul porcupine.” J. C. Kahl makes _the tho Union Paciiic. He is selling goods i the territory formerly worked by Billy Eastman and he is getting the old. names on the list. John is a rustler. LEd Culver, E. H. Stapp, Arthur Shutz and Dan uller have formed a quartette and are now singing, “United We Stand, Divided We Fall.” Billy Stevens, the cracker man from Omahi, was at Corning. la., Inst week attending the merchants’ carnival. Barnett, the representrtive of Dar- row & Logan in Towa, is always at the front in taking orders in the wholesale hat and cap line. “Burt” Eastman, who travels for the Phelps, Dodge & Palnier company, Chi- cago,1s always at the ladies’ waiting rooms when **McGinty’s express comes in from Columbus. “Burt”1s a con- noiseur of womanly loveline: 0. J. Kenyon, the passionately hand- some wall paper wan, always parts his hair in the middle. He was in westeru Nebraska last weele, & A sad, sweet smile struts o'er Jack Garrett’s fuce when you' mention the name of Lincoln. Jack is a dandy and travels for an Omaha hat and cap Liouse. W. H. Hogan ec: »s the left hind foot of a *‘possumn in his back, left pocket. It is noedless to state that Hogan sells shoes. Sam Kohn travels for the Kilpatrick- Koch dry goods comy Omaha, He carries a Waterbury watch and when he is not showing samples he is invaria- bly winding the watch. Sam spent 1..ru two Sundays last year in Ware Lake, Ta John Hnl.\'. jr., of Kirkendall, Jones & Co. has sold foot gear for this well lknown house for a decade and has his headquarters at Ogden, Utah. He en- joysa very satisfactory trade which is constantly increasin g Frank Hunter, who travels for a anu clothing house from Cincinuati, is v lmpulm with his trade In Nebraskn and owa. Heis very fond of so frequently attends church societies and parties in the small country towns. 3. Clay sells hardware fora Chi- eago house aud now has headquarters at Red Oual, la. He also sells buggies and wagons, George Marty sold dry goods at 1mo- gene, In, lust Tuesday. He reported several scalps in the waampum belt, 3 Martin threw the augur into ral lown merchants last week in a ssful mann He sells bard- ware for Lee Clark, Andreson & Co. of Omaha, main line of At the Barker Thompson. Bos- ton; Robert A, Mar d, New York; C. DAILY BEE: Mullea, Yorhk; John W. Bishop, Red O Oak; 1. B. Brady Conner, Boone, selmo, Neb.; M. \nw \n lr RA W. Gavan, T\ew murr, Lincoln; J.1B. isher, Red \mv York; W. F. 4.5'D. Heffernan, An Dunlap, Chieago; George Sheppey, Chiicago; . C. Hal- linger, Fremont; ‘William R. Morse, Cincinnati; \\nllhun Hartington, Chi- eago; A. Hirsh, icago; L. H. Thomas, Portland: P, M. ( mpbell, MeCook; J. D. Draper, Marford: Harry Squires, Arkansas City: W. B Gaitside, Chicago; . J. Moorhead, l)unlun, In.; Charles Knapp, St. Louis; €, A, Wilson, Fre- mont; M. D. Melarland, Bellevue, Colo.; T. C. Marshall, Canton, O.: W. M. Gentry, Quinegs Rich, Lincoln; Ben Tuthill, New “urk.,lnhn A. Keheo, Platte Center; 1. Ray, Grand Island; R. F. Hill, New York; T. H. B Port Huron, Mich H. Roach, Paul, Mionn., J. T. Ackerman worth: M. Andorson, Hustings; Taylor, l\mmw Ci M. buque; € lnch.. Erie, Pa.; N. St. .lnwpl J. . Roper, l\mouport M. Mora. New \nrk.-‘ M. Woodruff, Den- ver: L. T. Brainard, Nebraska City: A. H. Secholm. Baltimore, Md.; J. Wat- son, Kansas CH, H. C. Goodmun, Louisville, Ky.; Thomas J. HluLkm' llalllnmrc. J. B. Pardee, Rochester, N. 3 W. . Pearce, 1’bulmlel|»||m. \\‘ll- Imml u]u]lmt neca Falls; H. Loder, Staten Island, i At the E\Iurrn) Moore, Jr. York; E. C, Carroy, Oswego, N A Chnst‘. Oswe Y.;5 0 Chicago; F Whitford, l rank Baldwin, New Yorl D. Bab- cock, New York, G. L. Vosbury, C hIL ago! St. Louis; R. Baker, St. ago; J. M, Lay- ton, Chi nmmr. Cnieago . F. Kuse, F. L. Adlu, W. A, {\'ulslul L. M. l!ush!ll‘ll G. H. Bixby, 5 V. \\’oua\vnrd R. G. Gerling, John onder, W. D. me, A, W. Pul- ll H. Kelsey, H. M. Reed, ). Ratt- ney, ago; P. R Blaksell, Buffalo, N. \ 3 WL ll Shuyurk, N. M. Drak M. \puu,cr A.Bavenck, Louisville,Ky.; C. R. Bacon, Grand Rapids, Mich; 04 R. Tassry, New York; L. R. n\'n!and R. W. Wonneld, M. Curtis, George M. Rouse, St. Louis; R. 0. Rullers, J. P. Nathan, C. G. Cunningham, H. H. Branch, P, R. Goodrich, New York H. Stapp, M. Sherman, Des Moines; T. M. Block, E. M. Connell, New York. At the Merchan onjamin How- ard, H. Link, Kansas C .. Ganun, Miles City, Mont., J. tichards, Bu- rhnuun. Mich.; C Heintz, Austin, meis; 0. Wil- 1 oane, A. M. Wheeler, Minneap- olis, Minn.; Martin Hensel, Richmond, ik H. Mockett, Lincoln: M. Cox, Dubuque; G. W. Quinn, St. Inulu, N. J. Biiss, Lake City, ke Mercer, Burlington: J. B. Crum, T)\m- sieth, N. D. M. Hammer, York, Pa.: J. A, Richardson, San Diego, Cali John J. Halligan, Ogallala; C. E. Chandier, Chicago; B. Denver; H. S. Kuhl 2 N. Hartshorn, Boulder, geae, Fostoria, O.; F'rank Crete; J. A. Eyler. Omaha; Ben Hay- den, Omaha; C. N. Brewster, Omahu; W. E. Da I'L. Calhoun: E. G. Thomas, Si vy D. H. Thomas, Lik City; Hmuwn and wife, mmn City; C. H. Tate, Cincinnati Shomaker, Kansas l'l_\ N. K. Van Husen, Sioux City; ( n. lrly. New York; William F. Pai HALA [I. Hess, Lanark, I11,; ll (' l\olf Den- AT \h-mnl _ Kearney: 3, G. C 18 Wi umlmn, S Louis; J. F. Peoria, I ac Jnhn N. ‘\l!(lfloll(lorl Co H. Keidecker. Covington, Kirhy and wife, Omaha; H Thomas [. N Bartu, Chicago: Hiawatha, | Henry Hilde! Thi- \'nrlh 1’hm H H. L. '\IL- Louis: ton, Ky.; Ky.: G. O, Al Lee, Kingman,K 1'uum'i\ Blufr: C. Higgins, Baker, Kearneg: I. eago; David Pauterson, D. Thomp! ins. Omuha: Williams, Oy ng- IA()\U\. J. \\m(m St. Joseph: J. Alfred Clifford, S. Ltuu » Colorado Springs; N. W. Lovitt, Kan- sas City; Georgo ‘\shwtll, New York: W. J. Mayer, € Im-xwo S. Huffmal St. Louis; S. Dreyfu New York; John R. Wilson. Dulll\mud N. C. Chap wan, Minneapolis; A. ]xmlun Chicago; Charles Stein, Chicago; Eas Washington, D. l_ Imhu'l B. Benh Washington, D. C.; H., H. Ruhmwll. Kimball; T.. D. Russ Chicago; V. C. Chase, (hiu:\;:o. L. Olds, Ru William B. Ta Carnei, Elmira; k Johnson, Chi cago; I, Craft, Cincinnati; H, Brady, Chicago; W. J. Hencock, Gerversville; M. D. Hathuway, Chicago; C. A, Dodge, Salt Lake City: D. W. Redfield, Chicago: D. - B. ‘Mcllwaine, New Yor! Wells Gorhn, Chicago; George A. Dascomb, Atchison; W. D. ) 3 houp, Robiuson, * Louis- Ciucinnatiz Ale: e Rose, Denve ). M. Woods, Chicago; G. H. s, Hai 4 . L. Wi uud« Fort Dodg Asey, A. Moore, Auburn; O. Underwood, St. . Lounis; I, H. s S. H. Chase, \Alt John Engle, ( ‘hicago: M. Allanbough, Salt Lake Cit; '\I Ihulu- bin. Lexington, New York: J Soden, Chicago; Burlington C. dorf, Omaha: O. H. 'lullms. rice; W. H. Putelle, Minneapolis; John Mullowney, Hlnuh: +A. H. Hampt, N. Y.: J. Junill, Boston: J. l!olrml B. P. Moriun, Henry De Lamater, H. R, Toft, Gloversyille, alton, Juckson, Mich.; I, Das Moines; L. D. Robbins, Charles W, McKean, St. Joe Frank Hall, Chicago; W. W. Nichols t. Louis; T. B. Hutchinson, Chicago; Thomas Porter, Detroit; K. W, dorf, St. Louis; J. H. kinson, N. Y Dunkirk, Jackson, Deblen- Chambers, Hat- Oeange Jull, Orangoe- 0 Krabenhoft ven- Pittsburg; J. J. Chicago; H. W. McCanyhey, Joe; G. W sk, Pittsburg; Chicago; L. W, Charles Gilmo Roberts, Chi- un Miper, Look, Milwaul R Chicago; J. H. Jones, Chicage : Thomas £ zen, tobbins, Jersey City; Missouri Valley; M. engo; W. F. Hammond, Chieago L. Streod, WoodhallTlL; A. M. Walkiuns, Miln: Samuel W. Fdmunds, Washing- ton, D, C.; G, W. Lovelady, Detroit; A. H. Seebohm, San Francisco, s e Don't Go Off Befyre You ure Ready, Particuiarly on a long journey. o fully prepared. You cannot be, permit us to s upless you are accompanied with the trav ers and tourists vade mecum, Hostetter's omach Bitters, most genial of appetizer: acclimatizers and promoters of digestion. Agalnst sea sickness, malaria, eramps and colics begotten of badly cooked or unwhole some food and brackish wator, nervousness, increased by travel, chronic billiousness and constipation, the Iditters is a sovereign pre- ventive. It'imparts a relish to food not alto- Rether to your teste, and prevents it from disagreeing with yon. Never was thero such a capital thing for the vnfortunate dyspeotic who stands in dread of the best cooked maal. Stomachie trouble caused by ill propared viauds aboard ship, on steam boats, and rations hastily bolted at railway restaurants, is soon remedied by the Bitters, which gives a quietus, also to rheumatlsw, kiduey lmublul and insomaia. ek i Dr.Biroey,| prnu.u,u nmn.ul to catarrh- al disoases of nose nud throat. Beo bldg. White, Indian-’ MARCH 24, 1890. AUNT ANN Eva Best, in Detroit Free Press: A low, leaden cloud hangs over Crowden lodge. Up from the valley, where the areek lies rigid in its pall, a little gust has come, bringing alveady afew sharp, stinging, icy noedles, and many soft, slowly-falling flakes of snow, Night closes in. The 6 o’clock bells ring out a glad releaso to the toilers in the big foundry oa the westery suburb of this city, and lights are at last shining through many a window pane, sending golden shafts across the fast-whitening pavements, now filled with bustling home-goers. When Kerry Owen Ilings open the gate and advances toward the kitchen door of his own domicile ho feels the nearness of some unusual happening. Somebody is in that kitchen besides Jo, and he knowsit, His quick inluitions are not at fault, for he soon heard voices as well as the melodious clatter of dishes; hears what sounds oddly to his unaccustomed ears—a peal of laughter, bona fide. and, well, yes, a bit boister- ous; for Josephine Owen 1s astrong, healthy, hearty woman, and her laugh- ter is worth the hearing, when at rare intervals it can be provoked into some such manifestation of hilarity as the present outburst. **Oh, Aunt Ann, you are too ridicu- lous!” comes through the key-hole along with a tin am of light; and then Kerry kno Anunt Ann—how well he remembers her; the sweet-faced woman who used to hold his boyish heart captive by her wanifold charms—the cider cellar, the great barn at Millmore, the buckeyes, the paw-paw bushes, the persimmon tree down by “‘the run!” And when the door swings back be- neath his hand and he carries a protty well tiped out, homely-clad form iuto the warmth and light and cheery bustle of the little kitchen, he sees Aunt Ann. A great lump rises in his throat and the light from the lamp on the co: looking ved tablecloth multiplies i strangely in his tear filled-eyes; and in another second Aunt Ann has clasped him in her gentle embrace and has given him a kiss of greeting. “Why, Kerry, lad, I'd never have known you—what a great handsomo fellow you've grown. for a certainty! Your eves are are still as big as saucers and your crop of curls keeps coming on beautifully: but bless me! if there isn't picion of white about your temples. How old are you now, my boy?' Only foriv. Aunt Ann; only forty fall, and it has been—'" *“Just twenty-five years since you tried toride the um—um colt we decided to christen “Jordan,’ becauso, you suid, “Jordan was a hard road to travel!’ How they laugh together at the amusing recollections! How he ques- tions his dear relative about the thou- sand and one things beloved in his boy- hood, and how completely Jo scems dropped out from their sympathetic, cheery chattering. She hears Aunt Ann tell Kitty about selling the Rich- land county farm and directly a frown chases Jo's smile away. It's a littlo frown—a very little scowl—but it seems to have come to stay. Not oxactly ugly tempercd—no, Jo is not that yet; but she has grown to take life so seriously and talk so little. As a girl she was sympathetic and responsive to a degree; seventeen years of married —after the placing of three precious little forms out of ht—she, the wife of the *“foundry boss,” Ke: \'U\v..n has come to count her shut in life a simple round of thankless duties, with what- soover of sweetness and lightnes: once promised long since dend. has, in all these prosey, homely grown silent and unvesponsive and what one might be excused for calling self- ishly sorrowful; and tender-he Kerry, respecting her sorrow, has al- lowed the gloom to settle about his home, until under the dark shadow of unconscious oppression, life has grown into a monotenous nectral-hued length of days ut the foundry, and evonings —wher e caalalharor it question she would be a relieved woman; that he goes each night to some roprehensible headquarter where theve are cards and dice aud something to drink, she never for a moment doubts. Aunt Aun is the cheeriest of old lndies alive. Her memory is reliable enough to fetch back even the wrath of Blue John, the Cochin China rooster that Kerry was so fond of because of hls “gameunessi” the ghost of Mooly, bovine, that, in very opposition to her name, possessed the longest and most terrible horns on record. Now he re els aguin in the thought of the leaf shadowed spring house, the corn crib, the smoke house roof and the martin boxes above it. While the cold, soft iffices fall without the pinkest of apple blossoms drift in roscate showers ju within the radius of memory’s quickest hedge; and ho only leaps the stream of consciousness at the sound of Jo's curt te muffins! ¢ meltingly good?’ es—of course. Aunt Aun, do you recoliect the frog pond?” “Yeos, I remiember. Butaren’t shese chops done to an exquisite turn, Ker butcher i Ghonat 0 yes, our has good meat always. And thau—-: **And-this milk toast—isn’t it " “Aunt Ann, Kerry is no epicure. The key note of Joe’s voice is discord- ant. “He eats what I set befove him and that’s all. I really think that he doesn’t know half an hour after what I've given him. I'm glad you like my cooking Aunt Aun; [ have had nothing else to do but perfect myself in thav art ever since-—sine 7 but poor Jo dis- appeared within the pantr “Thinking of the children, Aunt Aun. Herlife is dreary enough these days,” i (] noedn’t be; it has been seven years since little Jim died. 15 shie had nothing to feed upon in all this time but these sad memories, Kerry? “Don’t know, I'm sure, Aunt Ann. “Have you ever up?” tried to cheer her “You! Not the baker, did you think persous she seems to vouvself.” “Aunt Ann, you speak in riddles,” A prize given for the best solution says this old ldd, as Jo reappear fetching, as a v evident **ma! lieve” reason for her recent disappe ance a dish of golden honey 1n 1ts comb. “Kerry, Jo, do you remember that bright winter wedding day of yours— when the farm was dressed in white and every herb and twig had donned diamonds for your bridal? Only a week until its sevénteenth anniversary—in what reckless dissipation common to such a day shall we indulge*” asks the elderly guest, bending the dainty lay- ender satin rosette of her cap full upon her” host and hostess in turn, “To think how old and big the children bless me!” For Jo has again hurriedly taken refuge within her sanctuary, the pantry. **You cannot mention the word *child- ren,' Aunt Aun—Jo can never stand it butcher ror the they are all the see daily except *Why#" SWhy “Becuuse Because—bocause="" she hus grown so terribly solfish fu her sorrow-~that's the blunt and homely truth. Tt would do her good to talk of them—Kerry, do you over keep any holidays here—bjrthdays or Christnins or—anything?" “What! and I? 1 not, indeed!" ‘Humph! Going? Well, I not to worry Jo any more. Kerry, I'll hold your overcont.” The outer garment is donned, and in a moment more the door shuts Kerry out linln the white night, ol should think ‘Il provise Heve, . Aunt Ann." v has gone away. " That’s nothing new. Ho never stays at home with me in the evenings any more.”’ *Jo, ho gon ‘Goodness knows!” “Well, I'm glad badness doesn’t! Look how the snow has pilad itself upin the window ledges; how cold it must he gotting! Seoms to mo I'd vather sit by fire in the sitting room There is no fire ir Aunt Ann. Korl the kitchen as T do. coal.” hat ves conl'—well, does. But I'd gladly put a coal against & glass of strong Does Korry drink, Jo?"” I suppose so—I don’t know, never did before little—Jim —-- “No,” catching at Jo as she rn:«] 08 past her towards the protecting dark- ness of the pantr; you shan’t be such a weak woman us that any longer! Why, child, you can’t mean that 3 d it too hard to say, “Thy will be done, after all these years? “Oh, Aunt Ann, sobs poor Jo, I believe could—if only—Kerry— would be--the man—he once—was!”’ “The ‘man’—the lover, you mean!'- mighty drily this. I could stand it,” wi on Jo, me- chanicaliy, beginning her task of put- ting away the little printed toacups, ut he goes off the minute ho has swallowed his supper—heaven kuows where “*And the better if heaven does know where.” “And I am left alone with---with--- my---my memories! “‘Strange he should care to leave you » mused the little old lady aloud. supper done to_a turn; a handson wife---you are handsome, Jo: a cosy lit- tle nook by lhu hn,.vht grate fire in the sitting-room---" “T ‘said that [ never used the front room. Aunt Ann. It is tho parlor, you know; I have no rveal sitting room—"" 0, yes, to be sure—I forgot. you're leeping it clean, dark and for whose funeral, Jo—yours or K o Wt do you mean? Where has the sitting voom, n sit out here in One fire saves yos. T supposo it bushel of drink. e So ‘Aunt Ann! “That’s exactly who I am. my dear: and if you don’t both live to bless *Aunt Ann’ forafew years before either of those funerals tukes place, why, there’s no power in the spirit of love that actu- ates mo! We'll have a wedding anni- versary this ril we never had one before! What if our bodies do grow oid ana wrinkled—our hearts aro young and our real solves, the rejoicing’ souls of us, are basking, even now, in the sun- shino of perpetusl youth, We shall have a bride’s cake and a gruum'x cake; and I, myself, shall make angel food that I 'promise will melt in your mouth!” *Aunt Ann!” >resent at roll-calll But this indig- nation meeting is too ove-sided. Hang up your dish pan, Jo, and come and sit beside me. When Kerry was a lad I used to tell him stovies by the hour; and now U'm going to tell his wife one; will you listen ?” $ ly, Aunt Ann. nce upon a time there was a happy family who lived ina bustling, thriving little manufacturing town in the very heart .of America. The father and mother were strong, healthy peoble; but their « v watched-over chil- dren grew to strangely delicate. Once when the parents were in an agony of dispair over the frail tenure their little ones held upon life, there me a knock at the door, and a man, se and benevolent entered the house. He tried to speak to them of the beau ful works of lhh: and its laws; but He spole in an ummntelligible language which sounded like a m'n(mml.lon in their ears. At last, aispairing to make himself understood, He offered to take all the hittle ones to His own home, where, under the golden sunshine and beside the still waters, they should never again know suffering. sickness or sorrow. He promiscd to lavish the great love of his wealth upon them; and after awhile to come Himself and show the father and mother the way to their precious little ones. ‘And then, \nmwing best, He, with- out more ado, took the children with Him and went away, Th father was grieved, but he comforted himself that he should sce his dear ones again.and a thought of the beauti- ful country to which they had journey- ed, of their freedom from sickness and sorrow, lessened the grief of parting. But the mother moaned and wept and would not be comforted. Her maternai heart kept the loneline: qucrmu-:l,— she could not joy in faucy at the thought of her children’s bliss, at their freedom from pain, at their beautiful home in the Summer Land; but ever about was wrapped the somber shadow of her griet, until the house was a house of perpetual mourning, and all who came therein shuddered at the gloom. Jo, did you ever think just what it is to be the mother of Llu.-» angels?” **Oh, Aunt Ann!” *“Present, as before. And can’t jou see that the glad nu-uung is not so u-r\ far off, after all? pared to the life this span of little nothing! And the that dear Kerry of yours shut out into the lesser gloom of the cold night becauwse of the greater gloom and seclfish coldness within doors!™ » ® * The week before the anni passes quickly and almost happily. Besides the neat little stitches she puts lovingly and helpfully into a pros- pective wedding present that.Jo is man- ufacturving under the rose for K Aunt Ann inserts in the poor rt wedgos of wisdom she od during her life-long experien driving them home with the mallet of truth, until Jo's heart expands and ex- pands under the great and persistant ssure, und, lo! it is at last opened wide to receive Aunt Ann's comforting lessons, and she comes to comprehend into what a state of error she has rsary Kerry Owen, uow superintendent of the Mammoth boiler foundry over near Crowden Ledge, turning to leave the snug little oflice to make his way home at midnight, finds his exit barred. A tall, well-built young gentleman, of se- rious countenaice, stands squarely in his path. **Oh, no, Owen; not so fast, old fel- low! Do you happen to recollet that this is the eve of the anniversary of your wedding day—needn’t look” so aston- ished that [ chance to know all about it! And you needn’t think to get off in that styl which 1 Korry, young usually get looking an in- man's quizzical t's a style in off, sir,” laughs auiry into the couritonance. ’s a style well enough adapted to day use; but, as I said before, to- ow is your wedding anniversury, God bless you, Kerry Oweu—I[ eve mor: and must ~hu\\ [tho gratitude of my hoart in some way ! “Nay, My, Geoffrey— “Your negations will not stand before iy positivouflirmations, 1%; sake of all you have done forn young fooi upon whose shoulders too much vosponsibility was thrown at first--n responsibility that would have crushed him had younot puteour strong wise shoulder to the wheel—I give this with more love than the wi will dit George Guoffrey with possessing. It is héavy, I know, Owen; but my sleigh s at the door 1 lot your wifo have the fiest peep, man; do, 1 besooch you Jo and Aunt Ann heard the chiming of softly-moving bells, heard the sud- den cessutson, heard the gate oven, and in a twinkling Aunt Aun has tlung wide the parlor door. The Jamp light makes a gloaming, golden patch ou s the sno along this pathway, with a “*Good night sent backward, hearty comes “Hello—up yot?' “That we are--come in!" laughs Aunt Aun, umused at his astonishment. b t! ro in the parlor ! Auns did you No, Jo made s and it's nover m;: out again this winter. *And there’s o warmth in her heart, Kerry, that's never going out . Just look at the dear girl, He does look at her as he sots the big flat box at her feet, marveling gre: |ll\ within himself at the rosy Hush upon her handsome fuce, “Our ‘wedding present’ Mr. Geoffrey, Jo; and how v the exact date of it puzzles me, begins Kerry. It needn’t, cally. “ile asked me when it was tho day Jo and I visited the foundry and [ told o= from young he came to "says Aunt Ann laconi- . nn? T never told you, Jo, because at first [ dared not, and afterward you, I thought, would have taken uno interest in the affair, that when young Geoffrey came into posses- sion he found that fearful frauds had been going on —that his lamentod unclo had been robbed right and left; more than all, that the whole business rested on avotten foundation, needing only touch of mismanagement to send it rumbling to the ground. [n his despair he appealed to me, and together in se- eret wo began to insert strong and solid financial props under the whole ton- heavy structure. It has been a delicato wearing tusk, for appearances of as- sured success had to be kept up, with the demon of failure ever threntoning our carefully built plans. But we con- quered, and by the Ist of March all will be real that for so long a time has been but seeming. No one has known of the awful strain put upon young Geoffrey but husband, Jo, and here is his appreciation of my offorts. What can it bo?” “Let it be the last thing, Kerry want our turn first,” and as the midnight bell proclaims the birth of another day—a day she shall never forget. And with their solemn clan- gor the morning stars scem to sing again, i walic the earth ! Peace! Peaco Kerry Owen wonderingly watches Jo as she looks out into the wnite darkness of tho stre sees her turn her rapt face towards him and— “How delicious the fireside is,” he says, breaking with these words the si- lenco that has suddenly erept between. “Why, Jol” SIt's vour wedding present, Aunt Ann and I made it, and nothing like 1t in all the town, on, Kerry, d Is it the *Kerry " or the splen- did lounging coat thut most |~mn|~ms~x the hay e ) ger rough workaday feminine hands; fo g of the v Kerry. thera’s Tev it d from hH ¢ two pairs of the soft satin lin- rment touching his wrists and throat like dainty caresses, and looks speechlessly down upon Jo smiling, boautiful Jo, who stands draw- ing the silken cor ds of that marvelous coat together with the most breathless of all sweet sighs of content. Then a cap, wagnificently tasseled and as softly lined as the coat itsell, is pressed upon his head: he is turned about face and thrust unresisti y back into an unexpeeted world of yielding plush-covered cushions. And now the kneeling Jois at his feet and in a twinkling the clumsy, snow- clogged shoes are made to give place to an ideal pair of Heece-lined foou gear; und Jo, catehing sight of the astonisned faco above her own, sees in it onco again the lineaments of her lover, and with a ery of love and longing her ship of happiness suils into port. Aunt Aun seeks Jo's sanctuary, tho pantry, and for a blessed while takes up the hahit Jo hos discarded, but tho teurs are tears of tender joy and flow tong. Emerging at length, Aunt Ann makes much fuss over the turning about of Geoffrey’s package: and seeing Jo safe harbored in her husband’s arms, falls to removing the cover herself. At last, One glimps Jo Kerry ave before ¢ more than pictures p aro—the baby, Avchie and little Jim! 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