Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1890, Page 14

BUSINESS SUCCESS OF WOME The Commercial Value of Shop Girls Ham- pered by Uonventionalities, WHAT COLOR SHOULD BE WORN? “A Beauty Crank on the Subject Cha Gives Some Advice How Fashions nge in Names--Women as Bill Collectors, Women are not so phenomenally success- fulin business as male and female suffragists would havethe public believe, They are economical to their employers, & compliment to patrons, and, from a decorative stand point, a necessity, They have a brica-br in the appointments of a great shop, and that 18 aboutall, says the New York World. of them oceupy placesof responsibility forthe reason that they are not equal to men, As a class they are more trustworthy than men, better able to resist temptration and generally more faithful, but they are neither prog sive nor ambitious, and their judgment is not reliable, he position of woman in the dry goods business,” said u manager in a large Sixth avenuc house, *is a peculiar one, She is nice to haveabout. Her influenc She gives the department an air of grace and re- finement that is wanting without her, and it she is pretty she attracts custom. Sne is a feast to tived senses, She makes me forget my cares for the time and, no matter if her stock is only barsof castile soap and packages of fly-paper, I find mysclf irresistibly at- tracted. And so does the customer who buys the fly-paper, not because he needs it, but that he may have the legitimate privilege of gazing ut her. Women are just as suscepti- §1% to this chrm of beauty as men. “A woman works for the day— for the re- ceipt of her salary. She is conservative to the point of stupidity, Her indifference is rov She husno _finesse, knows noth- ng of trade tactics and makes no effort to advance the intercsts of the concern, A man, on the contrary, who is ambitious for promotion works for' the future. He is di plomatic and very eareful not to make e mics s if he cannot_sell an article ho is cave ful to conceal his displeasure. Leta woman pretend to o a purchase d he will haul down his whole stock to get what she thinks #he wants, If she offers an expression of ap- he will answer: “That's what is 'k may not utter a syllable of complaint, but the scorn she can express by a curl of her lip, o toss of her head or a sign of weariness will do the work, “Women have no heart in their work They never kuow the first thing about the woods the » handling, and they don't care to learn “Mills, warp, woof, grain, finish and dye are so many enigmas to them, and although they weir cotton, woolen and linen 15,silks, Sha you cannot find ina_hundred who are able to judge and fow of them can be try to measure off and cut n ow, fsn't this a little strang sidering the doll clothes, baby clothes mable dresses they mnake all their lives ¢ \en why do you employ the B > “they ropr labor, e almost impossible to make any y. Feo male helpis supcrabundant and we are able to get intelligent women at onr own figuves, A girl will come in and ask for wor Ay we have no vacaney she will offer to give her services for £ or & n week. No contract is made, and if she enters the store she | 5 it when she is able to better her condition Talk about the way men cnt cach other's throats! Why, it cannot be compared to the ravages wrouzlit by women. They have no principle. If they want a place they make any sacrifice to get it, 1 feel sorey for them. time of it and seem powerless to help n b Virtually they stand between two fires—capital on one side of the counter and custom on_ the other. The unkindest cuts come from their own sex. You can’t make a clevk understand that sheis a servant and not a business lad In her own words, she ‘won't be bossed by a customer.” This stand- ing on ceremony and clamoring to be treated wellis the curse of woman's business suc- cess. A man will swallow his pride and keep his temper. Let a customer forget her parlor mauners in trading with a clerk of her own sex and there will be trouble, © thought a big stride was made when the numeral system was adopted. The girls objectod vi 1y, but had no time for the ‘Miss [ " and ‘Miss Mamie' nonsense, and those who objected to *No. 30" or “142' had the alternative of withdr «. We don't want to employ ‘ladies.” They areof novalue tous. We want girls to run checks, use typewriters and post cireulars, and we want women to learn tosell goods, to keep their temper, to m friends for the house and build up trac ‘What Color to Wear. 1think it is a shame, shame, shame, gl‘vll) girls, ugl ¢ls, thin ig eivls, short girls, rosy yirls, pale girls, rich end poor girls, do not know what colors 0 Wi with pu They have a hard that pery ‘or load themselves down with je now, don’t yout Simplicity in givlhood, and “dignity and good taste in womanhood, is a_good rule to follow, writesa “A Beauty Crank in the Boston Globe, Now, take a fresh young beauty teacher can she have befter than native, ture is my teacher and will always be so. Look at thesunsets some evening and choose & color from that, All the pale girls with brown i oyes say: “Ah, what shall I w pale!” g Take a beautiful pink roseand have a d made up of all the tints that are in that rose, and instead of looking pale you will lovk like a ‘-inl( rose yourself. designed two dresses the other day. One was fora blonde. The dress was of soft India silk, just the color of her hair, and, sho was tall and slght, there was mostly drapery to the dress. Shoes, fau, gloves, handkerchief and parasol were all of the same colo; The only jewelry were those tiny Roman gold-headcd pins, and when the sunlight fell on her she looked like a mass of gold Now, perhaps you are anxious to know what the other dress was, It was black Jace net, with black velvet ribbous, tor @ big brunette. The ribbons wero drawn down long and also the drapery, 80 a8 to give hera slender look, Artificial pnrph were sprinkled over it. Sverything that went with the dress was black and red; even the black gloves were stitched were red. Don't lead yourself withdewelry. Le that for those who want something to brighten themselves up, Flowers match your rich, young beauty best. You spend hours over both your toflet and gmnasium, and it is u good thing; but why lon’t some of you spend more time thinking what colors to” wear! what Na- v and blue ar! Tam so Fashions in Women's Namos. Fashions in mer what, but not as Transeript, John, William_rvign i But the fashion in Charles, George and 1800 us they did in 1790, women's names changes every ten or fifteen years, 1t is possiblo that the sociological New Zealander will find that the feminme key names of this century, so to speak, are about as many decades, Just what was the favorite woman’ name at the opening of the century is hard to guess off-hand, but the Listener will venture to say that the Nancy epoch was about the first worthy of record in the cen- tury. . A’:nong the octogenerian ladies of the Listencr's acquaintance the name of Nancy seems to have a_very prominent place, Fur- ther on down the century came the fashion of double names—possibly an old fashion re- vived-and we flud Martha Anns, Mary Janes and Ann Elizas in nearly family. Per- haps this epoch would be best described as the Mary June epoch of our feminine nomen- clature, It was a little hard to locate theso things in ears, but the Listener would say, at a guess hat the Lucy opoch began about the year 1835, and was closely followed by the Helen epoch, which Jeft the name of the beautiful daughter of Leda scattered broadcast over e country, Somewhat after the reign of lelen cume the most singular, unaccountable epoch of all, the Ella epoch. The use of the Iln goes bac er ean locate it, to about the year 1850, though there may have been earlier examples. Where the name “Ella" came from is a mystery. The authorities put it down us a corrupti of the name Eleanor, which in its turn was corrupted from Helen It appears to have no recognize eitherin history or fiction, though ev m a fourth-r: rato, ations In the y other reason for existence xeep it pleased many peoplo wit no doubt has a recognized ex since beantiful and good women have borne it, and like all other names that woman ever it is sar.ctitied with that other name of mother. The real Ella cpoch did not set in s early as 1550; probably it was at its height out the year 1560, People thought it so But it is sadly out of fashion now Thero was an Ida epoch that ¢ in son where along there, proba Ella epoch, though the two names ran pretty closely together, The name of fda is o good and ancient one, though most of the people who took it up doubtless thought they had hit upon something quite new, Idas of the time about 1560 were named for chavacter in & popilar story or for one other, But followi Sila and Ida riod there ¢ noth vl name which at- tained a most extraordinary rage; the Edith epoch, indeed, survives almost to the prosent 1865 4 75 about half of the Edith, and the now, as o matter of ol. hout « ne chiriste fast wore « gh school qies and see how they bristle with L ancient, Suxon name, and a_ disused for cenfuries and revived “all ahappy revival, if it has not been oy Then camo the Maud and Mabel epoch; these names have to be hyphenated, because neitly ever scemed able to stand’ up without other ey were a great n their turn, The main crop of Mauds hardly mature before a five yoar though the earlier sowings are ripe alrcad Since then we have had the Marjorie revival an exceedingly pretty name that, and - be terand move English” than either Mand or Mabel —and_now we threatened with @ Gladys epoch, A Fan with Modern fmprov s A very odd thing in fans was brought from London last week a sent.This fan is 7 aftair of guu tehod on a black ame, and it s the most simple and inno- cent-looking of the fan fes when it is folded up and lies demarely in aludy's lap gr reposes peacefally upon e dressing-table But let a pretty woman unfurl and hotd it by fore her face, and the moss incorrizibl a-hater will become dimly awar o is :d by the weapon In the middle of the black tiny velvet half masque, thron of merry, tawny-h ecution, The thin upon which it is placed is distr ming to the fair und delicate tints of haie wnd face, and the long, slender ebouy sticks, decorated with bow and streamers of sable velvet, are in strong and pleasing coutrast to whiteslender fingors, This is what g fan—called < bey are 1 fine cv- s set thich a pa can do awful e; an will see in the Ken: wse Mes, Kendal invented and patented it—hut look you now what fol- lows and you shall learn what a woman finds in the dainty toy when she investigates its true inwardness. On one side of the outer stick is a small oval mirror set above a velvet bow, in the loops of which dangles a little black satin bag as round and only a trifie lavger than a French frane, It canta morsel of a powder puff. In an unsuspected erevice behind the mirror are three haiv-pins. On the opposite side of the fan awclasp holds in pl pencil, glove- buttou nd folding scissors, and in a grov are stuck half a dozen pins,while a miniature grette is stowed away at the conjunction ks, streamers soft fingers, In this connection urs an incident which took place last, winter, and serves as an illu tration of the frugal-mindedness which rather a marked characteristic of the British inventor of this fan was the 'ty woman at_an _entertuin- ven in her honor, Mrs. KKendal ¢ of these fans, which she display 0 her hostess, and on its being admired ex- claimed “I should like to present von with one, but Treally can't ||flln'&|‘ to. They cost £4 you know ‘The lady to whom this remark was made nover repeated it, but a ‘‘dickeybird’? overhcard it and so it camo into circulation, Women Bill Collectors, Bill collecting is a new job for the women of this town, says the New York Press. One of them came in to see a Broadway business man last Friday, and telling about it he said : “T had heard that there were a few female collectors in New York, but I had never met with one. 1t isa good idea, it seems to me, If a man had presented that bill T would have delayed paying for a few days until I had made my own collections. But she come at me in such & quiet, business-like way that I had nothing to si and went right up to the desk and drew a check for the amount.” One of these collectors, an attractive young woman, talked frecly of her occupation, *‘I enjoy collecting bills very much,” she said, ve plenty of outdoor exer and the experience of meeting new people every day is pleasing.’” o you confined exclusively to business : T goto the residence parts of the city. There T havealittle amusement, which Iquietly enjoy. The servants meet me at, the door with silver car ivers and ask for rd to take up to the lady of the house, at first, somewhat embarrassing, ted to business rds, but that plan did ot work well. Word would na ally be sent down to call again, I to drop that prozramme, you sce. Now, when the servant asks my name T say no matter o something of the kind, and Tusually get to see the person T want to find. Often the lndy of the house thinks an old friend has called and has asurprise in_store for her. She rushe room where T await her com- i with a face beaming with expectant d Her disappointment when T make oy business and present my bill is Sometimes the lady, supposing that T am king a call, sends word that she will be down presently, and then sets about making claborate preparations for her guest. 1 have twenty minutes or more in this way. ou successful among business m “‘Business men nearly always pay w promptness. Oceasionally 1 meet @ crank, but the downright kickers are hard to find." O The fair collector said that she had been accustomed to bookkeeping. On throwing up a situation she looked around for something else, The opportunity to collect. bills happen- ing to presont itself, she took it as an experi- ment, thinking that something better would follow, but she was delighted with her new business and did not mean to leave it. ;‘Ih you collect old accounts!” she was as| Yes. I h collected bills that have been running for a long timo, rly always I am pleasantly and cordially re- sived, even in these cases. Seldom do 1 go than twice to colicct a bill, The firm that eraploys me says it is like doing u cash business.” The Latest in Chuperone pature of London socie! D pensations that ce ‘emate nembers will aceept for gi services to *'chaporone,” eigners into fashionable London This s the ug their s they call it, for- circles, savs a ion has lately lady, who is by marrisge a British poeress. But whether in that case the statement is true or false, it is not the province of the writer of the present article to inquire, Only, under any circumstances, the instance was by no means an isolated one, An aged Amer- ican lady told that once, in her own draw- ingroom, an glishwoman of recognized social standing announced publiely, and without concealment or reservation, that she would undertake to introduce any foreign lady who was ambitious of an entry into London society iuto the charned and coveted circle for a fee of #2500, On_ {nat occasion the offer found *‘no takers.” Yet this indivi- dual is a well recognized member of London's best society, entertains its leading person- ages, and her parties and her dinners figure largely in the columns of the Moruing Post. I coula ve her name at full length, but that I refrain from doing, Ouly [ wish to point out the fact that such transactions are Y 1O MeANS uncommon. As 1o the accusa- tion brought against our young and titled countrywoman, 1do not believe a word of it. Phil Sheridan's Widow., Mrs. Sheridan has almost utter) drawn from the world, writes a correspond- eut of the I’hlluddphl‘u Times, Within the walls of Ler really beautiful home on Rhode Lslandavenue shelives i quiet, unostentatious with- Most of the | i for her 'oved husoand, and in beautiful motherly devotion to her four children About the e it apartments, on the walls, in the niches, vwhere, are reminders of amented soldier o whom her life wis so glven, Portraits, busts, souve- nirs of the gallant Phil, his equipments and velies of the war, are here in profusion, and the youthful-looking mother, surrounde childven whose tender nter upon her, complet doy h tof thec 1 is ab of four iise and Ire daughlers, ‘are dainty wites of ty Phil isa delicate-looking lad of nine is thronghout the housenold a delight ful a of graceful retinement, one of the results « diligent care on the partof this exemplar mother, aht, protiy the win, elve, and A Mongolinn Bride. A writerin the North China Flor scribes the dress wom by a Chinese her wedding, of which he was n wit follows: “At length we were admitted {0 spect the bride, whose four hours® toilet just completed, and a marvelous specta truly was the figure seated motionless in the center of the room. Gorgeously claborate was her avray fron head to foot, ‘the , former crowned with a helmet-like evection of a n terial resembling turquois enamel, wrought into the finest f work, from which pro. joc ficial beetles and butter and other quaint vich ~or whole surmounted by three 1 of crimson silk, artnged tia the brim of this headgear fell all of pearl and ruby beads, about halfa vard iu lengeth, Just v through theso " at the back were broud loops of jet black hair, stiff und solid a8 polishad cbiny ind decarated with artificial pink roses. Her principal vest- ment was a long tunic, whose foundation of fabric of erimson satin was_scarcely discerni- ble amid its embroidery of gold: a corner turned back lined with emorald satin vealed an underskirt paneled in brilliant red and blue silk, this also profusely trimmed with gold embroidery. A belt of searlet satin, studded with tablots “of white cornelian, crossed the waist behind. From the front of her headdress a red silk veil fell al- mostto the ground, adding muct to her pre- terhuman aspect.’? 1d de- dy From nd strin =g HONEY FOR THE L for summer A couple of drops of camphor on the tooth wsh will give the mouth a clean, sweet tast Belgium's queen is a groat whip, She ean manage the most unraly horses and dr've six- in-hand ps the bes” equeg At and country and scrve te that is, by pouving ves @ moment befc i ar rock candy Milk can be had on the summer cottages houses many hostesses br in the Japaness fashion iter over the | pssed. In pla used to sweeten it. quest is - d somewhat romantic little nine, who has the appearance of twenty-three and the friskiness of a spring kitten, w @ bracelet made of the si 1 vercoins that closed the sightless eyes of three husbands. The monograms embrace the initials of the late New York gentleman, There is nothing however, certainly nothing more gruesome, than bonbons packed ina miniaty of the Bastile, Nevertheless i a reality, chainbolt, turret and all don in met cloth. The girl who survives the horrors of sweets from such a grotesque box uses it for hairpins and toilet itcms. Now, there is a bruette! Ithough word sinieks of something very has absolutely nothing to do with om Itis a4xd slip of silk filled Isior and tackel inthe shivtbeltof flat- backed women who have their dresses made by French modistes, The bruette is nothing buta common little bustle en masque, One of the wierdest fads among fashiona- ble women is to have one or two Japancse serpents, which are an exact representation of the genuine rattlesnake, and havea won- derful 1 ke motion, hese are coiled up in one corner of asofa, or around the leg of a chair or table. In one of the cotty Tuxedo a fushionable belle found one of these rpents climbing, usshe imagined #ap the side of her chair, and the scene which fol- Towed canibetter be imagined than described. Mme, Helene Modjeska never allows her temperto get the beiter of her. *1cannot Afford o get angry,” shesays, **A woman atany time of 1ifo ' must cconomize her emo- tions and her nerves if she wants to hold the remnants of her youth and beauty” Any one can impose on the gentle woman, Laun- dresses forget to bring back her lingerie and lace-edged haundkerchiefs, light-fingered chambermaids steai her shell hairpins, bell boys impose on her and modistes chargo her for enough to costumea giantess, CONNUBIALITIES. the elicious it astrono- with ex- It isa wise man who can remember ten days after a great deed was done that it was his wife, and not himself, who did it. A health journal says in going upstairs the month should be ki ‘wives understand this, It is not until after they have got their husbands upstuivs that they begin to open their mouths, George Wells 4 country lad of twenty-two cloped with Jessie Arnoid, a pretty girl stu- dent of seventee Vi R. 1., and the young couple w in spite of the objections of obdurate patents. s no happiness,” sail he enthusi- “like the happines: manied Their life 11 suns PLSLEAN D IN replied the p oung widow, *your wrong ther d ma 1 happin myself, you know, and I tell you it's all moon- shine,” During their marded life of tw Thomas Butler of Taylorville, o failed to kiss his_w before going to i in the morning., ¢ he would not kiss her yesterday morning Mrs, Butler com- witted suicide taking paris green. She i hildren, Aunnie Reary, aged thirteen, Martinez aged fifteen, were married recently in New Orleans, They were really boy and girl, looking so young for their ages th judge who performed the cevemon at first to unite them. But as 1the, marriage certificate with them, and mothers were presentand gave the sent to the marr Pa., anl Frank had a their r full con- e, no valid objection could be raised, and the cercmony was performed. 5. Guy Hartts and Miss Susie Walker of Spartensburg, 8. C., were married aguinst the wishes of the girl's darents. Her futher surreptitiously carried her to a convent and kept hier theré two years, She finally made her escapeand becuuse her father claimed the wedding was not legal because both were under ageat the time of the first wedding they had the ceremony performed again the other day, 1t isu't often a man is compelled to elope with his own wife. Nincteen years ago a Lowis county, New York favmer forbade a daughter to attend a candy pull. She went, and he never set eyes upon her or heard from her again until recently she drove to his farm house with eleven “children and informed him that she od repentant and willing to live The astounded parent did not Kill the fatted calf in vejoicings over the re- turnof the prodigal, because there was fiot enough calves on the' farm to go around, Major Williftn Jordan of Lawrenceburg, Ind., and Miss Maria Kepner of Cineinnati, were married recently, the result of a be: trothal entered into thivty years ago. When the war broke out Jordan” enlisted and was frightfully wounded. His dependent mother looked to him for support and the marringe was postponed until her death. However, she is still alive, Twelve months ago Jordan was stricken with paralysis, and theroupon Miss Kepner went to lis bedside and re- mained his constant nurs Realizing that he was o dying man, Jordan insisted that their marriage be no_longer delayed and the wedding followed. Will Sara Come Over? Itscems that there 15 some doubt about Sara Bernhardt coming to this country ut all uext season, The doubt Is involved in the possibility of putting her into the Broadway theater. ~ Mr. Abbey is exceedingly anx that she should have the Lond: there, This time originally belonged to him, and he isof the opinion that it should bo turned over to him, This he will probably ac- complish himself, though at present he has no direct connection with the Gaiety, that company having been secured by Al Hay- man, Ifhe isnot able to fix Bernhardt for the date mentioned, which is November 24, that actress will not' come to this country at all, It is presumed that there is somethingin the Ahm?- contract that makes New York obliga- tory for the opening, and the Broadway is the only house at that time that might still be cousidased iu the warkot, with him, THE OWLS RAY THE PLACE, A (ollection of Goodd ftories About Men and Other Animals, HUNG TIGHT TO THE HE HORNS. How a Mountain 1 falo Jack-The Balls Hard at It wh Turtle Inter| n Rescn 4 Buft Were the red, Aplague of owls has for twoweeks dis- turbed the peace of John Mayer's home, in theoutskirts of Plainfeld, saysa Plinfield (N.J.) dispatch to the “The first appearance of the owls was noticed by oncof Mr. Mayer's sns, who in romping about the barn discove a nest of the young birds, There were no larger owls in sight, aud the hoy made ono of the owlots captive and cartied it to the house, His mother compelled him to restore it to its nest. He had no sooner placed it with the others than one of ths birds appeare and atticked him furiously, beating him in the faco with its wings and scratching him with its claws, and bill at his eyes. Shicld- ing himself with his arms, the lad van aw The owl left him atthe baen door. That afternoon one of the young ladies of the fam- ily had ocewsion to visit the earriage houss, wgrreat owl flew down and alighted on k. She shoolk it off with difficalty,and inthe stragele had her garments tom. Sinee then owls have taken complete sossion of the ontbuildings and their voundings. Scores of the bivds, which the day-owl spe have followed the comers and have made their nestsin i 1 have been killed, but to make the others mor 1 the men dare not venture near plices withoat nasks or ol nse of umt wi oS sur- of frst the this the mnest s Land now when any ot fanily visits the owls a. Al- Tins been at last adopte member of the N custle he holds weady three umbr the “bivds dashinz avors to re whute over his he have been mined by ust them in vain en- faces of the carriers. The Mayer family are jna state of mind. They don’t waut to moveout, but they eannot dispossess their unweleome’ and belligerent tenauts, Buffalo Jack, a woll kuown hunter in and about Sheridan, Wyo, vecently told an inter esting story of a desperate fight heonce had for his life. He isamine forstories of the chaseand this one was preserved by a corve- spondent of the St Louis Globe-Democrat. His storyis toid inhis own frontier didlect that smacks of the rifle and bowie kiifc 1 wuz up'mong them air mountains yander one duy atakio' a look 'roand fer to porvide some meat fer my cabin, It wuza racl on licky day fe stin’, an’ I s'posel must kic 'bout th il onto @ hall foreno didn't sec nothin® v tin' powde an® ez I wuz powerfy od a-trampin ‘eluded I'd vest aspelt, an’ sol setd the pint of a rock like an win takin tions, thickin' I see sumthin awhile, sot fer an‘ouror u il T got pretty tole *1l rested, waitin®, an’ hed iz upun’ was on the piit of startin' fer my cabin in dissippintment, w 1sced the forin of a imal not ve far off an’ fernence w passalof bushes, an’ w movin' from me. 30 1 ist slipt up like, s range of the beast, an’ hed to crawl on my haa’s an’ feet a considerable distance tomale a ciruit. Soaw's I got up cluss 'nuf ez | tho't Torter, Tpeep't out from behin’ a sto e, an’ thar [seedone o' the biggest bucks 1t in_ front o' me that I everseed afor in all iy life, skurcely W three rods off, an’ with his head down an® cati He didu't know [ wuz tha not, but I wuz afeered ddiskiver whar I wuz_and run off, so [ wid iy wepin to my shoulder quick ez 1 cudan’ fired. ““The buck drop't, ez I intended, an’ 1tho't 1 hed him dead to rights sure. 0 1 Jist Laid down mygunand' palld out my huntin' ‘nifean’ rush't up to cut_his juguler an’ let him bleed. Well, jist ez1 hed gotto him an’ wuzready to slice fer his juguler he giy' one awful jump tohis feet, an’ ez hedid I seed tharwuzn't much chance to git in my work in the carvin’ business, so I ketcht him by l"llt‘ borns with both han's, an' let my 'nife drop. "}n a minit more me an’ that air buck war havin® apowerful wrastlin® time, an® we both of us kkick't an' skirmish't an’ waltzed over 'bout all the rocks in that part of the diggin’s, an’ we kept goin’ down the hill fer most an hour, until the first I know'd that air buck hed got me rite on the edze of u_tur'ble preci- pice, an’ [ cudn’t throw him down nor git him back no way Icud fix it. “*He wuz sotarnation stout,too, that. Teudn'y git away from him nuther, an’ 1 ‘cluded my only salvation wuzin bangin’ on an’ freez to the critter. An' thar [ hung to that deer’s horns rite over that precipice, a stickin® on like grim death, an’ a sayin’ allthe pra’rs ] ever know'd. Ferthatair buck’s eyes look't mity wicked, like he thought he'd got the dead wood onme fer sart'in, *H hake his head, ter try an’ throw me over, an' I didn’t care to donothin’ but hang onan’ take my chances, ez jostthon he seem'd to have the drop onme, But I didn’tsqueal normake no noise tho', but kept up a heap o' thinkin', “Finaily Twaz plaguey ni' felt ¢ T must droy tried climbin' over onto the dee “twouldn't work at all, an' thar he'd stand braced an’ cudn’tbe moved. Directly, while 1 wuz still ahangin® thar by them thar ayi- anal's horns [ heerd a loud growl, an' in a minit wore Iseeda mountain lion a- both an' gettin ready to jump, H the minit thet thar deer heerl fion's growls he jumpt back ez zif he'd been sho an’ throw'd me heat over s anong the stone: hove him, an' quick @ took to his heels an' broke roun’ 0” the hills an’ disapp ared. m first. eyed me asecond, an’ must luded that I wozn't worth a-botherin with, fer heshied aroun’ me in a ¢ > like an' thelast I seed uv him he woaz e-makin some powerfal jumps arter thit buck, an' I s'pos ot him, for I never seed nuthin m ther uv themn, Butatyween youan' m thar mountain lon cudn’t o cum along in a better time to do me a rite down clean favor, an’' I'll be hanged if Pl ever forgit it eithe I've never had the heart inme to kill one 0* them aiv 1ious since that time, an' I s wsel never will,” At Stony Ford, on the famons stock farm of Charles Bachman, two Holstein bulls w pasturing in different fields, oneon one sid of the Walkill river and oneon the oth sid There had been a bitter feud between the two blooded unimals for a long time, and a fow days ago one of the bulls took a posi- tion ou the river bank in his pasturc and. he! lowed o challenge to his enomy, the othe bull. This was quickly answered by the Holstein, and he lost uo time in getting to th bank on his side of the Walkill, sa shen, N, Y., correspondent of York Sun, The two bulls stood in that way bellowing, and mattering, and pawing dict for a long time, cach wi g himself into a deeper rage, until at last one bull ¢ tain himself no longe >d iver and swam tow ival's domuin. lhe rival did ot wait for him to gt th but jumped into the river and swam to meet, him. The two ugly animuls. temjers uncooled by their bath, midstream and aitemnpled o have the ma there, The luck of footing and the strength of the current provented either bull fro making any telling assault, but each tried his best todo battle, While the bulls were buttin in futi in the stream, the jumped into the river first sudd: tremendous bellow, aud, turni hick for his pasture, bellow the way and shaking uis head He reached the shore, drew out, and scrambled up th Thén the cause of his sudden panic and retreat became apparent. A lirge snapping turtle for which the Walkil is not- ed, had been attracted to the spot. where the bulls were fightin 0 the water, and the tail of this bull presenting an appearance 1o 1ts liking, the turtle had closed its Jaws on it well towand the buttend. This at- tack in the rear was moro than the bull had calculated on, and he pulled for home. Wh he got out of the water he kept rizht on, to ing about the feld and making such o rampus as that farm had never known be Theother bull, when its foe retreated so noisily and suddenly, seemed seized with & pRuic, 100, und swam back w0 Lis pasture as e, s0's to git ani'er back, but in d bellowing 1ethat had n! g anoit, pulled lustily all violently himsclf binl tter out right | gave a | powerful | imbed the bank he gazed back at the strange dreus his rival was having, and uttered not & sound After tearing about the lot twoor thice tines the bull the turtle had caught succeeded in shaking the snapperloose, 1t was picked up and subsoquc sent to u restanrant keope in New York eity. * The bull that the turtle didn't cateh has goie to the bank and re. newed his challonge every day since the tur tle broke up_ the fight, bit his ri attention o it. He evidently fe tion of hiis fiest oxperience, Farmer [saac N, B quetanna county, foind o his collar e ton (Pa.) cor Sun arge hen ing in April, saysa Seran- soudent of ih w Yor It had entered through a namow wine n tho back s £ the house, and it was perched on an apple rack when Farmer Bald- win first saw it Inone of its talons the bird W holdiug & large rat with afiem grip, The rat was squalling havd, andjthe hawk hal its neckeurved and wus eyeing the straging crealire with evident “satisfiction, Protty soon the mt stopped squalling, and the haw i then gaansped itwith theother claw andtore | the rat intwo parts It thenmadea break- fastof the rat,and when it had finished My Baldwin walked towardit. The lawk flew overto apotato bin andalighted on th. o of it butit didn't atterupt tosail aut of the window, and Mre. Baldwin, imaginingthat the bird would justas soon stay there as not, closed the window up tight. Rats were thick in theecl weeks the hawk slighterod rate, ¥ day Mv. Buldwin pil of fresh waterin the ar for the k drink, and the bird thrived and appo: be citively contented, Mr. Baldwin's folles and the ne quently t down collar to see the hawks cat idaftor a while itgot so used to sceing them the that it didn’t scemn to mind them atall, After the hawk had been there the 0 the rals beame scarce. aldwin sot a wire trap in lis wht an old scttler, It vicius old rat, and it bit the wirs of the trapand squeiled hard to getout. M. Bald- wincardied the trap into the cellar, intend. i te the rat and let the hawk go weelks Then Mr, srinary and was @ big and a or on the apple rack, appren Heheld the tiap up toward therat squealed with terrorat sight of the hawk, and the hawk walked rigit up and was ready forbusiness. Going tos coier of the celluy fifteen feet from the hawk, Mr, Ballwin 1 the trp toa level with his shaulder ot dy to il the lid With its neck stretehed” out at full lagth, t hawk witched every movenent of ling rat from its peveh, It was L [! aninstint’s o Mr, Baldwin quickly opened the i madea jump for freedom and the darted atit like a flash and caught it be it touched the floon Tor a motent. the vat squealed louder than eve d tried o bito the hawk, but the bird handled it as though it was aplaything, flying up to its perch ve- fore therat was dead. Severl more rats were caught in the barn and lot lose i the o way, and not omeo didthe hawkfail to grab one beforeit had reached the cellar bottom. Aftera the fun got to bestale and a féw day: Mr, Baldwin killed the hawk wath chloroforn and is havilg a Seranton taxidermist stif its skin, hlt asleep, theé hungery bivd, “ud in tk hour “Speking of s Who Wi wast the Sonthern hote Glibe at, thit n blood fre think of it now without shiye nnah, Ga, and John Sulliy owdof Jovial fellows in th attings as they drank, and sulde 1exclaimed: *Satter, for God's suko, boys: the snke'sout! 1 had ‘em, buthe didi’t., A ne a4 gentleman >tunda of on ring. Iwas in THE 1AMB ESCAPED DUTY | | How the Famous Hungarim Count Zicky Won a Bet, FOR EVERY EMMETT'S NAME CLAM, The Dudles mediags Take at oelmonico's — A Mis- souri lnwyer's Conscience HCCWas Een Butler Of on Two The famous Hungarim, Count Zichy lived ona princely income in Viema, was, in his younger days, well known all over Eu forthe bets he m the Boston Horald when there wa hewy dity imposed on every head of entering the Austrian apitil he made a bt that he would arey a lnb, dute freo, throuh the gates of Vie and tat the gatckeeper, who acts as inperial oftieer, al Justing and weeiving the duty, would be glid tolet him puss, Next moruing the count, disguised in the clothes of a buteler, his butcherknifoin bis hand, his shitt skeves rolled up, and carry inga havy sack on his shonl mude bis wiy to one of the fashimable gutes of Vienna, But the watciful oftic el s00N es pled him, “W hat have youin that sack, fllow!" “A do L YA dogz Dog yoursolf ! [ know fillows like you somotimos dogs in sacks through' the gates and romutton in town. Down with , who orally won, s, Down with that on suck “Butit’s nothing buta cog, and a bad dog, too, Iwill— U mind what you will. sack 1+ Mhe oficerpulled the sack from the sup- 1 buteha's shoulder, cut the stvinge, out jumped one of the big 1 . The dog rushed against the fuith ful povern mout servant, landed him sev- enl steps away in the gutter, aud then loft for parts unknown. After him went the young butcher, shaking his bigknife befor tho of the frighitendd oficer wd ox clain Down with 1lscttle youafterl cateh that dog the face of the befory the raised Would Aboit two hours aftoryyiid butcher agin papeared window of the gite_ofice ‘I have just caughit that dog again you like €6 lools at him? i Get oty you and your infer- And with a ¢rash the window 1t downand the smiling butcher entered Vienna, Butino dog wis that time inthe sicle, but the fattest lamb that could be found in the suburbs of the capital, nnet was at one of the fifty little tables in the wfe of the Dimonico establishment, and le wis covivilly full 3, SUYS 0 rspondent of the A mornkey dude had sat i nd had sail to Josoph K, ¥ dowr the i e suve to m chicken, and be tion my nume. e later awther dude ¥ f at the nest table on the mett and bad given his o words: “Briug te some 0y nine. Th . seated rside of rin these wast cams and mention iteration of th name,” struck the phrase, “mentionmy humorous anpreciation out near the swanps, the eity, hied caught feet i gth, in a upand Nt itto theeity, Sullivan bouzht it us acuriosity and putit inacagein tie son, and the reptile had got out of lis cage and was ¢ lingon the Hoor. It woudn®t do tolet the ature get out for it was aterror, ys werein a quandary to koo how tocatel it. Presently [ o rattler, fully five 1had boxed it sawone little black-haired fel- low—Tufterward learned that his name was Jack Abraws—start for the suake with one foot stuck way out in front of him, hopping along on theother. When he got within five X feet of the creature the snake coiled lgave his waming rattle-andlet me uthatif ever you hear arattler sing you'will never forgét the sound. Abrams paid no attention to the warning, hut kept on hopping coser and closer, and presently the snake struck hém on the leg, sixinches above the shoe top. 1drew my revolver and wanted to shool the replile, lut every oie shouted, ‘Don't? and 1wt the pistol up. and the snake had it. Hetriedto footon its head andit stmck him half s at least; but Abrams w wlly and succeeded in m snake’s head to ajelly. Idas! whisky bottle to Il him full, but he laaghed and so did the crowd. When they got through Abrams pointed down to leg that had been stung 50 often and said: ‘Iv's ovke.” It was, and the drinks were on me, Media has been treated to anovi tainment inthe wurt house for and it has attracted large audiern Antrim Worrillow was driving along a.publicroad in Lower Chicester some time igo and cane upont hsceie that is sddom wituessedou side of Spain and her old colonies. It was a hull fight, si ctis, Pa, dispatel to the Pailadelphia With lockel’ homs and foarning mouths, two gentleman cow were engaged in a duclin the kings high- way, to thedelectation of a bevy of femiue Jerseys whowere enjoying the sport in a. fild near by His hovse, fearing bulls, as all his kind do, slid sidewvise to the farthest a-lmissasle plics and endeavored to pass by, rezardloss of con- sequences and of the restrin® of the master. AlL would have been well but for asobitr, ce that sent iis branches hangings th road, and it was the that torethe p off of the Deurborn, broke the traces and shot Mr Worrillow out into the road. He wus picked up insensible, and_suffered forweeks before blo to et aboit a, Mr. Worrillow t siit aginst the road superviso 1 s for negligence in pernit- tings tho i to leobstructed by the tree, aud Judgze Claylon has wrstled with this for two full days, “uncertain whether the bline rested on the bulls, the wrad, the tree, orth lorse, butwith inelination toward the bulls. Worrillow produced many witnesse the fucts, and Dr. Stellwagen of Philadel 15 tothe cause of his buldness, for his hai had all fallen ont. The doctor called his dis- illopecia arcata, which hetold the court ant baldness in pateles, caused by the shock, The defense hnd also anarrayof witnesses, and among these Dr. D. Lannoy of Chester, who differed with Stellwagen, us_doctors in- rvigbly do. He said Mr. Worrillow's dis- se was not as stated on the other side, s he thought, but it was parasiticaland could be | theshock have nothingto do with it he judee hardly knew what to do, and ally did he know nothing atall about med- | leal matter s he was bronght upon a farm he did know all about bulls and there we many of these in hischarge. He told thejur they were twelve seisible men and could set- tle the question by the facts, although the were somow hat mixed. Ifthe bills sma the wagon and the 2did ot touch it, then the bulls wor arly linble; but is'the tree was the sole use of the accident and the bulls did not 1 agaiust it, then the tree stould baro the me; but if'the bulls scared the horseinto trée and all together contributed to the general wreek, it was for the jury to divide | the conspirators and lay the dimages accord i ingly, As thebulls had o money md could | not be assessed, the tice should only be | charged with its Share, wd this would fill on | thosupervisor Lo py, therefore noexcess! amount should be awarded. The jury retired for a half hour and gave Mr. Worillow & entr- ral days, | tr Kate Kate Fie dranatisty pours, No poar in New ¥ copls from Mr, ‘Beutty's Finish,’ 10 on M, Fiteh, ting of Mr. Fiteh, the new | : eIt never rabs bt it s ‘Beau B than Rosin iteh s comedietts entitled d Felix Morrls orders u comedietta fouded on an incident in_the life of Froderiek Lemaitre. 1o *Beatty's E nayoung girl comes to New York to finishing touches on her educatios Miss Vokes will give aburlesqueof the I sarto erae, sing @ negro melody and dance o breakdowa. Will Beatty's education be com plete withouta bavjo? Last comes the news | that Me, Fiteh has abo loted. a four fact socicty drama for Mr. t Muntell !A Mo lera Man' s 4 menborof a New York lun, maci»= asscicty girl wio cires only or liis mnoy, and ucts the pirt of @ geule- maun from begluuing tend the conedim. Thivt was his fist kiowlog of thenewest kink of about-town nonsense, whichis toassume that uotonly the Dolmons ieo waiters know your name,bat thatth mention of it to thecook in the kitchen quitesufieient to proluces vimd particular- Iy well doue, and perhaps donein a mamer foeulie o “the - taste of tho | iudividial Whether the waiter ever actully deliy the name along with the order is a question wiich I have not investigited, but probibl e de Heis a discreet sdivitor, howe: s gravity is proofl asainst this tost ames an airof being mightily in 80 wis ISmmett, and with the'del smimicry of the two dudes’ drawl he said to his wititer in a voice loud enough 10 be heard througnont the big upartment; “You muy bring me twelve c half shell, and mention dlam” ms on the uy nune for every ‘When the house entertaining mediate ilobe-Democrat. doesu't, wit for the floor the gralleries to empty, Asthe alls upon the end of the day's Session he arises, pecls off his coat, lights a cizar, down to his desk and writes letters itors in the gall look down with mnazment and merriment, bt they donot disturb the general. The wonderful shirt collarseems larger than ever when the coat is off and when the general bends foryard overlis writing the rim of the collar lioms up until it hidles all but the bald place on th crown and & fringe of oristling hair, An ir ont page, in the page uniforn of knee , came trotting down theaisle or Ited behind that expanse of shirtcol- isfingers on theshiny surface a red and de- hedidu't re Is General Spi a1t o have ap) devored the rash youth, bt ceiveso much us a reproof from the general, Refoences to the huge shirt colar neve provoke the pride of Tamnany, “A good story istold of the' tender con- 5 of ono of Missouri’s carly lawyers and judges,” said an attorney ton Kunsas City Times reprter, “and onewhich did not 2 fter his death. Judge B, vicein his dayin cotral Mis! he w a model of prop and, inde would oirse to many makesh the 5 evalde compr I untruth, Int fuse, you sary to makean afldayiv on appeal should you wish o take your suitfrom the finding of a trial court his afdavit must be wicise and must state that the ap. peal is not taken for the pu pose vexation or y, but because you feel agerieved | cntof the court. If your conscicice is elastic there isno trouble it maling such an afmidivit, but to Judge B. it wasa dificult matler and he evaded it by substituting the word ‘but’ for ‘or,” and ys stated his ac tion was not made ‘for on but delay, T'his was not (i | until after his sour, sl THE LEONARD DRY AR (LEANABLE REFRIGERATOR Best in ‘1\llul‘~ lul‘\\‘ « the World, it thetr Refilge ritore S the LEONARD (LN AL 0 NOT.They en ot isc e min y ures which “constitite fis eyen = Ansist, “upon having o - LEONARD ANATIL ou Wil make o mistuke it y any other kind. BES WA RE OF IMITATIONS. 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Tt was like this: Ho wassitting nest 0 me at o gane hore last whon O'lirien stopped i red- Botliner which ought, to have been good for two citing thaat [ wasso near the Aoctor, 1 said; ‘B3y Jove that was & d--—d clever 'play I and the dictor, win is a great admirerof 0'Brim’s, repli Lase bull park, Broollyn, and ated ned it gaie andof the peopic ho After hehad exhausted subject of ot long since aclergyman of my ance, who practices wiat hepr Hill, was called toattend a fineral in a Long 1slind town, says Brooklyn Life, Notheing atliome whn the mess culled he did not have opportunity % inquire concerning the dece and,” bysorne means orother, got the idea what it wis the man's wife that hal died. When e addressed the mourners hospoke very teclingly to the aflicted hy baid and syinpathized doeply with himin the los of his wife, ’ noticed several tim 1iscoure that the auditnee seemid @ litthe ineasy, and howas st horrified oneo to think it he s » of them trying hard to repressa suile, When the casiet was opened and permission given to view the remains, the preacher stepped forward and—ib wasan old gentleman, and, ho soon lewrned, the father ofthe young manwho came torhim to at- tend the funeral, while the healhy looking wife byhis side had been listningto her own funeral sermon s o0n the - = Merchants’ hotel Omana. $2 1083 por duy. Nat.Browu,propr,Lra 2 Ligby,mgr, Side spring # Theoldest anl Iargest carvinge fuciny nOmaha for fiie work, using the edle brated spring washer axle. Drafts and estimates furnished. Fine repairing @ speciallye 1400 and 1411 Dodge St., Omiha. e CHIZHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS. ALD CAOSS DIAMOND BRAN DOUGLAS--STREET. 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