Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1890, Page 3

- THE CAPTAIN SAW SNAKES, | English Officer Enjoys Confinement a Young American Millionaire. With | KEARNEY STREET BOULEVARDIERS. They Are Driven m Their O1d Haunts by the ice - Explo Sail for Alaska — Fixing Our War Ships. 8ax Fraxcreco, April 15, cial to Tire Brr]—-A curious case of opal superstition came to light in the courts a few days Judgment for #5 entered in favor of L. Van Vieet, a je against Miss Leoni y. on account of 4 ring which she t, but didn’t like The jeweler said his patron wished bm to take the ring back because she thought it was hoodoo,” and that one of her fricnds had 1sed to accept it as & gift from her for the n. Hes of opal, surrounded the ng by 10 setting diamonds, and that for some cause Miss Stauley had formed a prejudice against it, believing that it had broaght her il luck Judge Rearden thonght the lady onght to stand by her bargain and decreed that she must keep the Jewel and pay the bill “Tust as I expected; another streak of bad Tuck: it's a perfeet hoodoo elear through, and no mistake,” said the despairing defendant when the result was ed The periodical clearance of the Kearny and ket street “statucs™ has begun. This of prey has become so numerous and so offensive by long continued immunity fr police interference that he has becomie pos tively obnoxious, especially to the wives and ghters of our citizens.” The y published time and again the pers huve remonstrances of decent women, who object to being in- «d, and urged that these gentry should be vemoved. The chief of police has ar at t conclusion also, and yest tailed officers to abate the nuisance. The two officers arrived a few with four of the loafers in tow. The ments were quite the thing and their was immacnlate, and were boc 1 as such T ey McCarthy. v of their usso ' ofl the strects a or a girl wight my or Market street ) noon without being ogled snd the cigar stand gods. The po A have pass st hours later linen but they were all vagrants v ve the and, in consequence, mor arrests if necessary. For years § st has been thé stamping gronnd of well dressed mashers and macque who attempted the role of boulevardie have been the terror of decent Sun ¥ women and the wonder of their sisters visiting the coast About two months ag there came t Francisco Inblish army oftice “Queen’s Own™ Aldershot. He was dé-dah masher™ in_gorgeous scarlet, of but soldiery build, with a martial « afigure and face that would have many charms for susceptible i of the aduiiration school when officers sight He wished himsclf known as Fe Arthur White out he ona spotted tail, o ' Anglaise But Captain Edw now at the Hotel Jewell in ments adjoining those of Millionaire C. Fair jr,, waiting for the s an to disappear from the city, (The Hote ol'is popularly known us the homa ¢ ates ) the Captain’s bosom frie sweltering in the vile and of the City Prison—waiting for someth bappen What that something is they cannot fe life of them ve ne of friends is Arthur other O. K. Matthew: who adorn the Baldy voyal art ox terrier with a in,both als on u hotel por 1 Arthur White, et fotid atmosy unnon,’t 0 S of the a “la slen 1 undoubtedly nisses are in 1 ill rd short is apart nes d rats ing to or the these the bloods Mar- ket street, merely for the benetit of benighted Iac W famili opposit They a d ws gruests at th ‘petty lurc their names to th coused of steuling from the € prison the tian. Both are duds who blessed Prc dence for being genuine ish dudes, but did ot for being denied a claim upou the rank of British aristoc The twuin had be ing the gallant cap- tian’s hospitali > time, dining and wining with and borrowing sundry small sums of from him. At last the captain’s patience gave out and he refised them further accommodations. Then it was that Levald's ire d he smote the cap tain grievous sore nted with his tray cling bag and_ toil tools, leaving him to fight the reptiles as best he might. The has shocked the sensibilities of local i Richard » capitalist, died on F'r ¥ last of seventy-three years m in Maine, he was one of ‘a company of I‘\\|l4!\l|f the who, iling vived in 1549 in time to become a history created by whse wonderful adventures rival today and threaten to blot out in the future the romantic story of an- cient lore, During the long period” of over four decades bis life has been associated with the growth and business of San ncisco The most luc brought with him was honesty uncongu by uny temptation, and industry which fliyzred 50 longe as need was to put his b the wheel of labor. rative capital which Mr. Bi never and to Close on to.a million of dollars will bespent at Mare island on the_completion of th itor Monadnock. When ¢ Monadnock will be a most for midable Shewill earry four ten-inch guns, firin weighing 500 pounds upiece. Her when she is ready for service, will not more than twenty foet out of water. > completed according to o » urbettes, inside révolve, will sink below the deck instead of bein tened to it, as was originally intended he Troquois, Thetis, Al underg K extensive r 1t is expected that th Shortly » Both of theso vessels will o considerable repairing. pleted of whic be' so constructed as to mon the scl. shots decks, show As she rected W the g fas- t and Ranger are airs at the Adams will a Marion is also on the wa navy nee e new method for determining the speed swly constructed cruisers on their of by United States er-in-Chief Melville, is said to have en indorsed by the bureau oficials of the Nuval departmient. 1t has also been ap- proved by the contractors building the new craiser. The proposed methods for & continuous run ot se and the basing of th of revolutions of the propeller found n 10 give one knot in smooth water. Charleston was required touattain, if p 2 speed upon the 7,000-horse-power ,or & run of four_ consecu tive hours. The San Francisco will be re. quired to show a speed of uineteen kuots for four consecutive hours. The United States coast and geodetie su vey steamer Patterson has sailed for Alaska with her regular complement of officers and draughtsmen th the vessel also depa comy churge of able ing ted 1 party rkell & Harrison ¥ und be through the Yukon and river section of _the territor bas with him B, J. Glave bas been in Africa with Stanle voted the best portion of his life n it out by the Frank Leslie publis and has to expl of e Itis in H Wells, who has had consider- e in Alaskan Explovation, hav- White He who f the tion; A. B. Schunz, the astronomer ¢ expedition; Frank Price of Oakland, who wiis with the Stoney expedition up the Koo- witk rive 1 thence across Alaska to the Arctic occun near Point Barrow, and John Dulton, who has seen over five years' service in Aluska Mr. Dulton some years ago ascended the crest line between Mounts Cook and Fai weather and reported a sea of ice to_ the- east of the ra o was with Schwatka in Bis attempt 1o uscend Mount St. Elias and has been associated with the codst suivey work there for some four or five years. Mr. Schanz was formerly one of Prof. Laugley's assistauts at the Allegh bsery atory 1L I8 ovident that this party is fully compe- tent to undertake the dificult journey con- templated. Many of them ar need Aluskun explorers und know p the conditions they will have to meet. It is tr eir purpose 1o thoroughly explore the Chillat THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUND d then to follow nwn the Yukon, or possibly as muy be found most ex will examine the region nd then try to make t Elias from the land side. ered by the party rthwest and southeast of 540 m 10 miles wide, It is an entircly 1 1and in all probability the resiilts head river to the the main di pper river, pedient. The rd Wrang Toant Bt waters expedition will be to further show the great resources of our northwestern territory and to uncover many geographical condit hitherto unknow s made a trip to Wi the expedition, and there cone with Prof. T. ¢!, Mendenhall, super tendent of the coast survey, Prof. Mende offered to loan the expadition all the nec- astronomical instruments and addi- equipment, on condition that the ve- f all their scientific work should go to the survey. This generous offer was accepted, 1 this is the reason Patterson has b detailed to take th hal 1 tion. Mr. Wells' party will not conflict with the other coast survey expedition ly it the field, consisting of Messrs. Mc 1z the north. Turner, who arc engaged in determ 1415t meridian, much further to th A curious imtident in the make-up of v has incidentally dout. Some jeutenant H. W. Seton-Karr made ition to the Chilcaht, professedly under the auspices of the Roy: graphical soc He did some little and con siderably more publishing, and declared that he had establ Mount St. Elias as in Brilish American terri- tory ross the At the cars ed the position of and not Jeutenant had some lively with Prof. who suceessfully combated the leutenant's clajms to the possession of St. Elias Lately several reports h reached this country that Licutenant Seton-Kar is fitting up an érormous exploving party for the these reports are corr 1 the fact that yesterday Seton-Kar phed to M permission to enter his party, which request Mr. Wells was eruel enough’ to re- ifully decline, The United® States e has been ext to Behr condense Licute Wells for. steamer Bear rhuuled for her trip » Arctic. Her engines, boilers huve been repaired and n heaters and steam pipes the vessel during her northern yput in. She will probably enue for warmin cruise have sail in about three weeks, after her crew and stores have been shipped. The assistant en- gincers to sail in the Bear ou this cruise haye and are now on Rocen, been appointed in the cast their way out here English Don e Amcerican girl wh is to marry un Englis! in this picture of domestic felicit itten by an Indian grandee entl Ptury from a sojourn in Englan He is much struck with stic Felicity. highest ambiti 1 may be intereste n the English home life, where “ail love and adore one another. The mother is a nice old lady and has cvery authority in the dome arrangements. The father and son 1o the city after br £O_awa) akfast and return night. is received in the home with great rejoicing: the old mother gets up and orders some tea, and the daughters sur round their tired who kisses ench. T i Thien all it around the domestic fire and tho tes his adventures at the different he ateended and the annoyance he lata certain person’s obstinac the whole family enjoy the talk, and opinions are frecly oxpressed—of course in favor of the papa Charming picture, isn't jt? bow do you supposc the girl whose banner bears that very domestic, gentle and affectionate bird, the' North American spread eagle, would en joy that sort of thing seven nights in the kit asks the York Sun. The glo- viously independent product of this eman pated nation’s star spangled freedom, who ran to dictate so her mother before she cut v double teeth, and considers her pa a tive- old duffer, whose chief virtue is that he is to he 1 of a walking natio who ¢ on presentation and satis: fics drafts on sight ad libitum. What sort of even'ng would the one desceribe to the wocs to her club i ing. to her matince in the aften with luncheon in between, who never eats any more dinners at home than Mr. Depew, and the opera und 'a bull u single evening! the S no to whom two reception ave the mild diversio According to an English woman's id¢ American beauties have little to do_in parison with English wives. No children house to keep, no care of the hose if they do have them, and nothing in the world expected of them ouly to look pretty and oceasionally, ouly at rare intervals, be in when their hus- bands come home to dinne UBIALITIES. pes with a coachman some other man ved from getting a mighty poor wife. me, Ethel? said the youth. nily is all thaw® oue could wish for “Then why do you want me!" Miss Annic He Gould, a_graduate ¢ Wells college Cleveland, fell in love f Mrs. corge Y., him. e Harden of Pike cout 0 killed his bride pistol shot. e has mad W few months m that he shot at her three times * did not think he could hit her.” Jefferson Owens and John Kelly, two col ored men of Bust Liverpool, O.. fought thi 1 rounds for the hand and beurt of _dusky Mtss Watker: | Owoua’ won, Miss Walkep entered the ring and gave herself to him for life, A mother and danghter entered into wed lock standing at th ne altar, and to com- plete the thoroughly family natute of the af- fair, the grandmother of th Vounger woman acted as bridesmaid, says a Galena, 111, spe cial. H @ full-hlood Chic Miss Lynn, a_white ville, united in n Jatter city recently. The ) guished Indian, having served one terms us a_representative in the Chickusaw legislatur nd is said to be ri In Matabeleland, South 2 cows: this is by fiv the happy man. Th s with the rank of the dusky dumsel, sometimes as mueh as fifty cows belng demanded; but in ws are returned hen an ox is killed she is annointed sues, e that has oc- for years was such cases ‘part of the h the girl as dowry, ore the girl's “kraal, with the blood, and a dance The most remarkuble marr curred in West Virginia mnized last night at St. Mary's, suys a Parkersburg special. The groom was Sainuel Shinn, aged ninety-six, and the bride, *Mrs. June Patterson, aged fifty. The old ‘man after nearly century of single life concluded to enjoy matrimonial happiuess. In move- ment and speech he seemed no older than the bride and gives every indication of living uany years. Tywo or three wi ks ago @ marriage license was issued to Walter J. Wood and Miss Lucy Miller of Oconeo township,says a Sheibyvill special. A few days uwgothe county clerk ved the license on which was indorsed tely postponed.’” 1t is learned that in the lady being stalwart republican declined formerly a re- tion for s t his of- cause he « & nowiu ticket. He 0 marey her lo publican, had ucc Sessop on the farmers but lost his wife Nathan Goodwin, one of ent conductors on the Baltime i, wus to have been Miss Maggie Mo the most promin- + & Ohio rail- 1 vecently to nont county, Ohio odwin lives at Grafton, W. Va. By some misunderstanding the groom started for the bride's on the same day she sturted for his passed cach otlier on the road. When each reached the other's home and found the mistuke they ted back und passed each other again. They then telegraphed and arranged matters and were marei P f. Beston, a learned man who has been teaching the Chickusaw _Indians, visited friends in Rondo and met Miss Dora Ward, the nineteen-year-old daughter of u prosper- ous eitizen, It was a case of love at first sight and the pair weve married after a short acquaintance. A few days ago the happy couple started north on @ bridal to At Hope the professor took on-a load that would require @ freight train to carry. He spent all his mouey and Mr. Ward took his duug back hor Yesterday the bride received the following, says & Texarkana, Ars., dis- pateh: “My Deavest Ducky Darling: Please, where ure my clothest” She answered “Your clothes are where you left them, and 1 am where you foundme. You may succeed in securing your duds, but you can't get we any more. 1 aw golng to stay with dad bere- U ington while | an | | this season, A\',_.\l‘l{l L, 20, 1890.- IXTEEN PAGES IKKEERREY, STIGER & CO, Great SpémalSale of Men’s Flannel Shirts AND UNDERWEAR: ALTAN SILK. This beautiful fabric, so rich in de- sign and coloring, surpasses anything chown 1n the past. 24 inches wic We are displaying a ver e variety, only one of each styl quently no duplicates, $1.00. $1.00. WASH SURAH. WASH SURAH. con For outing or tennis purposes, noth- ing more suitable. The corrvect thing Monday’s price, $1.00. $1.00 BARGAINS. BARGAIN In Black Silks, Regular #1 Arm Regular $1 IFaille Francai Regular $1.25 ( Grain, 2. wide at $1.00, Regular #1.00 Gros Grain at T Royal at $1.15 at#1.15 inches ros FAILLE FRANCAISE. 25,000 yards, the lates ~h wdes in- cluded; former price, $1 $l.127, $l. 12 4. DRESS GOODS. DRESS GOODS. Lustres, Brilliantines and Mohai Black. colors and all the new shad 650c. 50c. . 50c. CHALLE, CHALLE. CHALLE. ual to the finest for style ana colorings. 20c. 20c. 20c. ‘We place on sale Monday some great bargains in Silks, Dress Goods and Wash Goods. Avail yourself of the greetest bargains of the sea- son. CHINA SILK. CHINA SILK. 1.000 yards of richly designed pure Silk at 49c. 49c. 49c. INDIA SILK. INDIA SILK. Your choice -of thirty seasonable shades in inches wide. $1.00. o ich imported goods vich, plain India Silk, 24 These are good valué at 65c. i On Monds 65c. 65c. SERGF 5 of fine Serge. all shades, worth 6 55c. 55c. BEIGE SUITINGS ne French Camelette | only a limited quantity el on Monday at ge, worth to clear; 45c. 45c. PLAIDS. PLAIDS. We huve added some novelties 1n this line av 45c. PLAIDS choice French 8¢, i and 95¢, $1 and $1.40. S VEILING, colors, 42 inches wide, 60c. ROB all In reduced from 7ic to black 60c. 60c. COMBINATION ge variety of the leading Al styles, Handsome Patterns " $4.50. $4.50. Worth neariy double. WASH GOODS. We have just added numerous new styles to our already large stock of :nch Ginghams., Bordered Dress FRENCH GINGHAMS, 1.000 yards of these they are 25¢ goods; on Monday, 18ci 18c 18Cc, FRENCH SATEEN. Three cases of these handsomely fig- ured Sateens, worth 8c; closing out at 227%c. 22%c. 22%c. FRENCH FLANNELS. We are showing additional novelties in this line. NDIA LINE Our 124c quality at 10c Our 17 Our 20¢ qu The quantity visiv us early. 44-INCH BLACK ALL SIL TOSCA™ FLOUNCINC The latest novelty, clegant designs, choice fabrics; of these is limited; “LA $1.40, 82,00, $2.25, #3.00, 33.75, &4.50, 185,00 aud $6.50 4&INCH BLACK ALL SILK LACE DRAPING At the following e HI,.\\ K ALL SILK CHANTILLY LACE EDGES AND HALF FLOUNCIY Particularly suitable for trimming Wraps., vatterns) 31, In Capes, at 20¢ a yard. CHoIC Van Dy o Millinery e he (Intest up to te., and 3 NOVELTIES Guipuire, De Point Gauge. Oriental, Chantilly .l latte nnes Laces at 10¢, and I yard. Va 20c, talian be, lenci e, 8o¢, o0¢ and Toca | I3 45-INCH SWISS SKIRTINGS. real hand-drawn Choice novelti wor hand reversing, Van In hand-drawn wor just opet ies in Dyke ed, 22,00 ING w hemstitched points, be il at 7 ) and block NCH SWISS reversing, Applicque, cet 10¢, H0¢, TH EMBROIDE n worl Guipuire, pluced on $1.00, FLOUN Gui ete thing fc D actual SHE puire, Van Dyke, choice novelties, the (hildxun' dresses, at , $1.00 up to $2.00 a yard. l \I)II " HAND INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS, all linen, at just one hall their value. 1je each, worth 30c. LADI IBROIDER LAWN HANDKER! 1atest novel lties, astonishing L har 15 DRE; crochet, *, 35¢ and H0c¢ e ND WRAP TRIMMIN atest nu\cllw= in silk lace, Nn.] Jnt als steel HIEFS, at values, h. and gold gimps in bands and Vandyke points. Immens e you. Novelties in fringes ple cape trimmings. BLACK SILK GIN STEEL. “FIGARO, JACKET IFRONTS. omething igns at ntirely variety at prices that will for wrap and {P AND CUT new, LADIES HOSIERY 50 dozen ladies 25¢, reduced fron 50 dozen of ladies’ black Hose for 2 UNDERWI LAT ES? “‘guaranteed :, worth i 'OR ZOUAVE handsome #5, ovelties in buckles and slides. R and GILLOVI HOSE. pin striped Hose, for * fast { 100 dozen of “Fast Bl Men's heavy balbriggan undershirta, Hose, Hermsdorf d fine guage, all sizes, reduced to S0¢,well worth H0c, pairs for l ! 2ot of 1adles’ “'Fust Biack® duil Men's fire merino and heavy balbrige lisle Hose, high spliced becl, for ¢ ganshirts and drawers at s0¢, worth . 6 puirs “f'\limm STk biate Hto, Men's light weight wool shirts and < an LADIES' UN drawers nd colors, for 95¢; regular pr DERWEAR. at 75e; worth 81, Two very special lots of men’s white unlaundr 1 shirts, made of good mus- Ludies’ plain_ bleached guaze lin and fike linen bosom, porfect fit and Ingh neck and long sleeves 3 | finish at 50 and 750, worth Toe and #1. | worth 35c. anig nial LTnes Ak mmoed oik | “TLadies'” French Balbriggan Vests, SRR L U | Ladies’ Swiss ribbed cotten Ves ks, for this sale 2¢, worth 4te. and no sleoves, white, ¢ Boys' fine cambric shirt waists in ink and blue, for light and 'k colors, ut 25¢, worth e, Two special lots of boys® fine perealo Ladies’ Swiss ribbed silk Vests, low [ and fancy flannel shirt waists, new | neck and no siecves, with ribbon in | stylesin light and dark colors, at de, i rd arm, in white and flesh, for | worth 75e 3 worth We offer the best quality *“‘mother's friend” shirt waists i vy choico LADIES GLOVE s tyles nt #1, wor Ladies silk taffota Gloves, in black : i only. for 25, worth $e. SHOE DEPARTMENT. dice’ puro silk Gloves, in black, for | po. o) yargnins in Oxtord tics nnd Jios' all eilk milancse Gloves, fn | fine shoes of all kinds wo are headquar- ks with double tipped fingers, for | ters. Ourstoek is enormous. Our as- regular §1 quality. sortment is complete, I Complete line of ladies’ black silk < TR A R 7 A rots a ludies’ dongola kid Oxford Mittsyfrom 2ciup to 81 kid lined, hand turned. g UMBRHELLASS Ladies’ fine russet Oxfork ties with We have an _immense assortment of | tips, hana turned, for $1; others get the celebrated Gloria Umbrellas in | $1.50. handles of natural, silver and gold | Seo our line of Indies’ fine patent kuobs and caps, for §1.85, 82 and $2.25. | Jeather and ooze calf oxford ties ut $2, Fine twilled silk Umbrellas, 26-inct, | hand-made, good value at 85, ng gold or silver handles, for xclusive hing styles, at our usual popula # wordh Ladie pers, har styles of Parasols and | \wo ha umbrellas. coaching eapes, jackets, peasant capes and silk . York and v prices. The very lutest New for $1 an *fine dongola kid ope slip- 1d turned, kid lined, for 7e. ve big bargains in ladies’ tine donge d Oxfordas, hande &3 and ). fine hand sewed O nd $1. Sume pric xford ties, or u nice GENT'S FURNISHINGS. russet tie. Men's chi silk tecks and four-in- Child’s fine hand turned Oxford ties haud ties, all new and handsome styles, | for 65e, Tac, Se and #1. at 25¢, worth e, Men's fine French calf hand sewed Men’s fine Nlannel shirts in light o shoes, all styles, %5: very low at § dark colors, all new and Bty Men's tine calf rus shoes at 1 at e and 7ie, worth The and $1. never <old less than 84 at shoe stores. Men’s silk striped ftauncl shirts.all | ~See our line of men's fine erodivan new and hundsome styles, at vorth | kangar i pat leather shoes, & hand-ade, in gre ioty of styles. Iihplu st quality sil \\ striped tlannel Boys’ button shoes for $1 $1.75. 42 Inrts, all choice LAt , worth | and 2 anted to do .50, good CORNER DODGE AND FIFTEENTH STREETS, OMAHA. PROHIBITION AGHASTLY FARCE | days thJ Wi Neither Individuals nor Nations Can Be , S Legzislated into Morality. WINE STRONGER THAN STATE-ORAFT. At that Wherever Kate Field Says tempted It Ha ization to crease of Vice, Kate 1) 1d's Washington, April 16: Every American sufficiently intelligent to kuow that the continuance of this republic depends upon the honesty and sobriety of its people, realizes the existence of much drunkenness, wh'ch is confined to no section, und the lition of which would be a national bles 1f passing laws made vi millennium would soon for bo- th very de- tin cent voter—and decency i not in the minovity would cast his ballot for 15 ever individual or scct or ated into morality? What is the history of prohibition? TLet us begin at the beginning, with the Garden of p. The fruit of one tree only was not to be caten, und wful penalty. [ once yielded to curiosity and induced her hus- lt ording to the niserable band to eat, with the prayer book, that we , all ¢ sin- ners, and there is no health in us.” Anall- wise creator must have known what would Le the outeome of the first shalt not, and alized that without temptation there could be no charac Tunoc not mean virtue, It is a negation sig Sve represents humanity. and children not to do a thin fying ignorance. Tell , women and even the st of them long to do it i that “stolen waters a ten in seeret is pleasant.” Thisis the r son why boys who u ither ail the fruit they wiint in paternal orchards steal forth at night to capture green apples and gripes in order to defy an ill-tempered farmer and run the risk of being eaten up by his equally fe- rocious dog. This is the reason why givls who are told not to bring pickles and’ other cdibles to school carefully stow them ay their desks and take surreptitious whenever the teacher's back is I am _ not without experience the futility of prohibitory Long, long ago, wine proved itself stronge than statecraft, The Roman empire once tried to kill viticulture in Gaul, and what was the re Tgnominious filure, Tu t rly days of Rome, when wine was searee men were forhidden to drink it; nee their near relations were in the habit suluting them on enteriug their houses in v to smell whether they had tasted Teme- tum (wine). Disoby gave their hus- bands the right to punish them. Ignatius Mecennius, who killed his wife with a cudgel for drinking wine out of a cask,was acquitted by Romulus of the m Pliny tells of & Koman judge who deprived u woman of her dowry because she had,without her husband’s knowledge, drunk more wine than was need ful for the preservation of her health. Did_prohibition do any in those and @ bitterly luter dayst Not one iota law. In laments the universal violation his g EXCOSSes, iat was ancient Rome, of pation women vied with men in their In modern Rome € Is no such law, and no soberer people than these wine-drinking men and women In his prize essay on temperance Dr. Lees states that in the second century Argadus, the administrator of the British realm, pulled down the houses of those who sold’ strong drink, banished the men und coufiscated their property. In the ninth century Constantine 11 decyeed death to all taverners w ho resisted the law. In the sixteenth century citizens brewed their own ale, aud, in th nce of tayerns, themselves entertained travellers, 1t was this sam: growers of Wurtemberg” inveighed the invasion of beer, and, to please the of the soil, brewerics we ed against e lords por much good wus accomplished by this flug act of injustice! Prohibition is no n It is an old fallacy in new and fantast g the seventcenth century S infested with hordes ot J'3 who bed poor people lviug ¢ places, and, meeting in the moun- sted and rioted for days. On holi- etehed men and women were ally drank.” Spencer, m his “Study of “Not to dwell upon the rigor- ous measures taken in Seotland in 1617 *for the restraint of the vile and detestable vice of drunkenness, daily increasing,” but which in solita tains, fe Says licens: ting the evidently did not produce th lm}ml for effe the 1 will limit myself to th ing act (9 Gi I 8 sale of spi Yiquor in—by pro- hibitory licenses. Within a few months afte sod, Tindal tells us, the comm nsible nnss of sioner of the imy carrying it ri Smollett, who h the state of thing put down, ha cise themselves e ibility or unady ly into ex 2 s drawn so durk @ pi of the act was designed to nted in colors equall h it has produce writes, ‘soon_brc Though no license paid, the liquor I corners of the imidated by th strong the mischiefs wh ‘The populace, he bl restraint duty ople, and the justic m indolence or cor the law in execution, In faet, in ne it appeared,’ he adds, ‘that the tion of gin and mside yearsinee those hea When, in 1743, this act was repealed, it was shown during the debates that “the quantity of gin_ distilled in England, which in 168}, when the business was introduced into this country, had been 0 gallons, had risen 10 43,000 in 1604, to 1,375,000 in 1704, to 3,000, 000 in 1714, to 3,520,000 in 1524, to 4,847,000 in 1854, and to not less than 7,160,000 in 1 ' 5% Retal red from vending spirituous liquors| by the utmost en iat could be “given to inform- prospect of raising mone their [unlicensed reta | d many to turn information and the facility with which the ) be proved encouraged some t their malice by perjury, and others them couragement ers. by detecting tices i their avar so that the multitude of iu- formations became a puslic grievance, and nmagistrates themselves complained that luw was not to be exccuted, The per- juries of informers were now so flagrant and Common that the people thought all informa- tions malicious; or, at least, thinking them- selves oppressed by the law, they looked upon every man that promoted’ its “exceution as their cuemy; and, therefore, now began to declare war against_informers, many of whom_they treated with great cruelty, and some they murdered in the streets, abscenc of the un- went_production of t in amount ' R YR e ) e cruelty, murder, contempt of law and ther conspicuous crookedness named, multitudinous minor twists of sentiment and thought were caused or augmented. An n wys added to a direet aimed at. Igwa—human nature, England, Maine you see, repeats itself, An E wt of 1038 prohibited the tailing in bottled. “We read in Por- ter's ~Progress of the Nation,” that in 1838 spivits were sold at overy tenth house in ( and that the. whisky drunk there ably thrice as mugh us lur population on the globe. In 1838 began Father Mathew's temperance 1y simi- svement, he being and Irishmun and @ man Catholic priest of the city of Cork., A aze took hold of impressible Uelts, and in that L1 of them signed the pl years later there were 5,000,000 total ° abstainers registered in Ireland, and tha: excise revenue was reduced one-half. Then came the ustial relupse cousequent Upon. unuatural repres sion, and, not long after; as much liquor as ever was drunk in the land of Evin. Father Mathew, with the best intentions, killed the hospitality of the side-board, and ‘made wiy for the saloon. Before his’ advent delivium tremens was infrequent awong hbis conntry Now it is hiis ) an impetus tus turn to pmmon, The to poisonous adul Sweden, The y toxicant there is aleohol, pure and simp) the past, w 101, notwithstandivg the laws against intoxication, rigorously enforved, 1 those forbidding the gift or the sale of tous liquors to workmen, seryants, sol century wherein the wine- | How | | people commanded to abstain fr { this s, minors, ete., the distillation by the peo in theiv own hou rriod up the pro duction of spirits to an aunual average of ten gallons for each inhabitant What do we see in the orient! ns of holic Mi m drinking and from gambling, Wh impelled the so-called prophet tc dict! The fact that leading m ¥ very nearly overthrew his plans b taking themselves 1o play and drink w wero guilty of excess, the t motive this 1 in his be Be many were 1o have no more cakes and ale. of libel Chy ling Chri stians, probibitio st by alling sts should enroll them- themselves selves under the banner of Muhomet. * Thot pung about by th lim their Tu fa ugh total u Like mast ns indulge The s their lips. gencr: understand no pleasu ineng r, lik ot 1y re er '3 that 1y man, y in intemperate, is supposed to_ be miti the fact that only wine the In order to is a dogina Tohammedan religion, does it prevailt n kings have hee Today made, by of the Per- ddicted to many forbidd infidels iner the ncy strength of wine and bring speedy intoxication—the end desired o faithful —Jews and Armenians add hemp and other ingredients to pleasc Toham! n to Turkey. who wis a in his penaltics us to cause be poured down the throats of tr Second, edan patrons. Sultan Sc ibitionist, even went His son, Soliman the mest unkard— e while negle ““Let others put their trost in 1 son of the prohibitionist. “I m wan the Fi nelted le prayers. an,” said the hrow myself into the arms of the Almighty, and résign myself to his i le I think only of the p’whu s of today, and have no care for futu Madden, an carly writer of this ->n'n|\ declares thut the sultan daily v his upothecary Rhcnish label physic. Mecca, in 1838, there were tvo shops inwhich intoxicating _publicaly sold during the ating lquors, according t dat the very gates of t mosqu wicts which has given rise to the Turki ying * that “‘the 5 for- bidden to infidels abound with hnm(\l‘ n seragli labels words of life” during the Ramu pork and drink v surdit With is Turl Bucon | baths eve 'y no fa . in his “Tr wKing @ pri . he observed, it bearing Turkish i Rosolio, v of consic prohibiti key today onoil he bloc i in succession intieritance of a people that affection, and, as gardeth not the di out piety or nation without m N other learned Samuel More ting ils, dates its other ¢ concon mang shows to what subte when injudiciously forbidden 1o e: gratifi the mor Y wher fatd U sally adinlu crod at th Sanctuary p 1 1l This precise relation of 1ts which, by our prohibitor ubians, drunkards. ascetic castern sects often drink to ex- ton of ment of the Christ thoug ver general u xhilars mitant e and cation a llguid il on thi 1y ins Just oily Wis pr At th forbade f the Mirs Hebrey and A it o of the a h 1o gen land, the ¢ towar rality, L Mol 1 Bud of « sulb phot, v Liis! Ve laugh of tle n is WOl 1 f o stirp of ancic with ture saith, their vithout L medans, . B prum,” while sen s d that th able brrl rouna Al rel this ver nd s with all origin i th fuges men h m of op states that ate visit to the sultan’s 0 secret iseriptions, with the wolden water g He adds that the dery an, would, when alone, chambers, ang the at ingz such things forbidden part of its religion w The same as when Lo 1 tyranny, rOrs upon vassals and no fr ut natur that r 35 and with childr 1 great ahmins and declares the the use of their the ie restrictinn Ve Pecourse cise their in either the ssious, the protection of s or the freed iion, Philosophy of His. @ expr s would ne ¥ 0 of Iven the ) mueh int considered w m and the ( int of the 115 use by th eviticus, x., prohibitl ided 1o founder; wnd thus ven his crecd p religion of Christ.” s motlye Mohummed 1 the lute Governor Jok A. A wchusetts i bis plew | wgalnst prohibitory Luws, “recelves corrobors tion from the fact of his desire o prosclyte from among the Jews, and from the cons tion which, however 1 doe t 2 prohibi likely h the relig- eeisely 1 the ofering of 1 hristiin ament (. ., the At 1S use Wis expressly or atthew, xxvi., 27; Mark, s most renarkablo thit while only to priests, and then ty enjolns the use of ent which Is u ho altar 4 Christian feel the sule of wine for 4o only kind v Instead | tographic and th b covered by on views, 10w in the possession of Mr. whether in veligion, polities or philosophy.” | after goods that he a ‘“variety hall” and What of China? 1ts governient prohibits | dealt in fancy goods and toys at “1etail. In the importation of opium, thereby losing a | the the west Charles Bein- revenue of at least £,000,000 yearly, as this | dorff ¢ prictor of the Champion srohibition exists merely on” paper. Opium | bukery. The postofice was the busy plice, s smuggled into smpire. and its useis as t that time, was in the building now common as tc sewhere, oceupied by Albert Kuahn. In front of tho Tmperfect as is this resume of prohibitc building, during the fime the negative was laws ubroad, it tells its own story, and nec tuk allisfield & Co., were con- no one to point a moral. Dost_thou like the | ductin ), ut which they were picturct Kare Fieeo, | selling a lead | hay, an emi- LSS rant’s outfit und ile pony STORES OF OTHER DAYS, "he building occupied by the Model cigar s store was under the control of John Mcce Some of the Predecessors of Our Pres- | fuick who wholes: oceries, while in the ent Mercantile Palaces. next, roout W LAEENOIEMIIS o ton Tootle of the firm dealt in The remembrances of pioncer d ry Eoods BUvHole always cause settler to turn aside from | At Fourtsenth and Farnam, on the site oo- | his toils and unt the incidents when the | cupied by sho st there land was a howling wilderness. Not o | was a on w building g which i el e o | iquor was sold’at retail. - West of Siis thero this true in other lands, but it is also true in | wope geveral smull buildings, but history fuils Omaha, and is most forcibly illustrated when | {5 State for what purposes they we i s witnesses the interest with which the | The corner on which thé Duxton hotel pioncers of the city gaze upou a series of pho- | stands was occupied by a blacksmith shop, lance of the was Lewis 8. Reed, showing Omaha buildings | (¥ 5 SR O the Ban and street scenes of 1867 Commeree now stands, Joseph Burker proudly In those days, as arn was the | hoasted of being the propr Valley business strect of the city, but iustead of the @ two-story building which was known costly structures of the present time wooden { of the best h ost rows, with now 4 two-story | old court house, sheliff s rest- constituted the | Labitation { dence were at Sixteenth and Farnan, whe business man. ¢ the Paxton block now stands. The court In looking at the pictures closely one fiuds | Louse was a two-story affaiv and was torn at the south-cast co f Twelith and | down to make room for the building now oc- nam strects the tw buil cupying the sit now occupied by According to the photomraph, this is the n by Will R. Kin, last building on Parnam street, I st o was cominitted that ot pub others which was th ond ey execution in the [ bejug s, and even they were few and history of the city. W.D. Higgins scattoring N book-Keep < cmploy, sentral portion of the city, the Baker o 3 osi d by the Omaha National the night of November oceupied by the Methodist murdered, the store robbed and th chu Lomon, who receutly ! fire, The evider inted to Baker's died, labo) 1vation of 1 « | He was avrested, tried and convieted of my Thie corner of Fifteenthand D der in the fi . il sentenced to BOW OCC the Hill bu hanged, the court fixing the dute Febry Kleffner & Mark 14, 1868 The authoritics not wanti visions, while 1" them! wero dwol mitke a public spectacle of the affu hot nd small shops 1t into the country as far as Twenty-f e postoffice corner was oceupied by Char- \-'1“Illu"mll.\.{:n:r Bt .n‘ ley Lord's livery stable and the si { the VS erected aker wis conve } ton block was held b e vill )lucke county jail to this spot, the vetern firemen pp hiooliavas el briaailiago ek doing special police duty, Afte arrival, In 1808 tho Morrison hotel, now tho Plante in the presence of several huudred spectators, | eps, was built, and for years, under the mans the trap was sprung by Deputy Sherift of Josiah Morrison, was the hotel of Aaron E. Hocl ) From Twelfth street east, to the rviver, the ot view, taken in 156 of unusual picture shows a row of low frame buildings, , a8 it represents the' city in holiday occupied as shops, dwellings and stables A st Al S But the outlines ‘ure indistinct and no ic tion that it was on the Joth day of May, 1869, cun be g d of the street, with the ex- he streets s lined with people, with the exception that what is now the Union Pacific | police and fi nrtment ih lne, wending headquarters was then u hotel, a stately | thieir way to Capitol hill, where i gran celes struc 1 us the Herndon house. bration is to tuke place, t cnt being the Be 1 ith aud - Fourteenth bletion of the Union Pacific railroad streets, on uth side, stood the same The meeting was presided over by Gove block that now occupics the site, In 188 it | enor Spunders und_speechics were mude by + finest building in the state, and, ac i e e e 4 to a photograph, M. Hellman then, TR as now, occupied the corner und dealt in hade of tho old clo while a sign tells you that in the cupitol building, which was erected 00 the ‘west and on the se i floor, H100, 4 torn down. Mrs. Exaur was @ inattress maker, Kurtz, | when the state was admitted to the union Mohr & Davis held forth in the room now | und the capital removed to Lincoln in 1867 occupied by the Chi Rock Island & Pit- flod i & cifie railroad officers, and here they handled 4 clothing and miners’ goods. In the next Defense of tl vpewriter Gir © was the Central Natioual, which that ladie acrally employed as > row th me of the Central block, | stenographers and typewriter operators the I'he windows of the bank tell you that gold 2 4 by dus is bought and sold, Moving west, in columns of newspapers are burdened with » next store room, wh s Robinson & Gap. | Coarse attempts at numor, in hich the pretty now scll clothing, Ketchum & Burns | amanuensis and her alleged flirtat with alt in crockery and chinaw nd in the | the business man are the inspinns theme, rooms where William Darst whol wines | savs tho Wostern Plowma R and liguors, Stephens & Wilcox then sold ');_”‘ Wostern | “‘:. i, Der) i liesq Indian goods, furs and robes and their sign | 19K, on DL OF SN JNBnALY, AER. sy they wero wholesalers of dry goods as | barmless and do not descrve the diguity of a well. The store now occupied by 8. P, | remonstran but, wevertheless, wo Morse & Co. was then under the control | enter our Protest agwinst uny attempt of Jumes K. Ish, who, as a d e ) 08" \mnroves gist, kept pure wines and liquors | " ) A v medicinal purp only, The corner | Mo Ty, oocupation oo b the sume tenant as it had twent g, nop, 10 Wie it whe two years ago. Milton Rogers then occupied | hus the encriy, phick and determination to the place wnd udvertised itas the Excelsior | {Lalliy her ‘“‘"‘,"",V'IE’“ AAIDIng dad ekl . | and blig withering, blosting shame be iohissing to the norih slda of sha stivet the | niy'uartion wh 1d plice the lightest straw ner of Thivteenth and Furnam. The Fhere aiw enough e however, where the Merchant's 08508 ugh ubov ank now stands, was cccupied by a naking innoce en the subject 000 by miking th wre in incldents Yy product of an impure imaginas o shafts of rid nould be i ouph