Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1890, Page 12

AL IRPRESIDENT ExMiniter Palmer wd [is Poculiar Fit- ness for the Postion HIS MILLIONS AND HOW HE WADE THEM. | Something Abont His Great Fam and His Thery of Moncy=Making— “Plunger” Waton's Career— The Harrison Cottage. [Commigh, 159, by Frank G. Carpenter.} Wasisamy, July 9.—Spedal 0 Tne | B35, ] —Ex-Ministor Palmar's appointmentas | the heal of the worlds fulr isverypopilar | inWaslingtn. He was oneof the richest nembers ofthe “Millbnairs’ dibyand vas | piinted out as me of the “‘uedione wld- | bags™” whenhe fist came here. After a short tine, loweror, he stowed himsell to e a min of b ilture and @ thioker. He mide severil speeches which read like the old F lish cla and at t enl of the fist yoar W was kuown as the jollost and A short ex- 1o didnot nore brainist of the new senitors, him pricnce with showed that worship his mc and he put onno airs than the poorest me or w the senate doors, Herented the bi on Sceoit Circle which and kept opn huse, The Wughta lotandbuilt his mlace on MacPherson r an ete ficently, One of the doctrines yphy of life isthat a man should ivate his socal matur and friends. Palmer ¢ this, He w principle that L was just as casy to siy a pleasuwt thing asa mean one, nd his & bred lim friends as fist s thoughthey ha been so many Austraian rabbits. Beforo his term was over he had the friendship of all lis brothers, and hegot More Bills Throngh for his constituents than any manfrom the northwest, Palmer isa man of styng friendships and lie sticks tohis friends. He is alsoa min of few cnernies, and heonce told me that lifo was o short for revenge, andthathe could not affordto spend time thinking how ¥ g oven witha man whodid him an injury. These features of his character made him an excelent ninister 1o Spin, and they will malke himstrong asheadof the fair. Hois a diplomat without a diplonat’s hy pevisy, and he will make the fair fopalarin this country 4 the world ov o will travel over tho United & itsintenst, will knowall of mors befoe 130 id will have Y oncof these working for hinm to make ar it rumorel thathe will take a ran overto Ewope and lookup mutters there this year or next, aud the wquaintance hohas will do winders. Semator Paluer is in many respects like Chamncey Depw. He an make nealy os goodan aftor-dinner specch as Chauneey and ther is 1w man in public life who can equal himin siging Methodist hymns or Moody oy songs. Like MrDepw ho hasa temper assmooth a5 the Lako of Comoin its st mood. Nothing ever worries him. Hedoesn't frel, and heneverlose his head. If e is over amoyed hedoesu't show it, and he can do Anlmmense Amount of Work while prtending v donothing. He under- stands how tomake others york for him, and he arries on e of thebiggest bisineses of thecountry with no friction, Just low much Tom Pamer is worth I don't kuow. [ believe if any oneasked him hewoulltell him in g lazy, uwstentations way, without thitking, 1 know, however, thathe las his millions, and that hislumber mills, his pino forests, his great salt wells, andhis roal etatolf pit wider the hammer would bringin @ plle that would have bought outJobten times over,thatwould have mudo thoquem of Sheba bow down tohimas she didto Solomo, wmd wonld have rolecmsd Milas from the lust of morwe goll. His wife isalso worth several miltions, s the two cantrolone of the bigzestfortmes of the country, This fortune was made in lumbor, and Sentor Palmer married the daughter of hispariier. Win hebegmn life ho was for a time unsucessil, it after lis marriigo, inconuection with his father-indaw, he mide money landoverfist, ind ww oorything ho touchesturns to gold. Heonce told me that aman oughtto work harduntil his property boughthimin an incomoof $,000 s year, and atler thit hoought tletup md ke things sy, *“Everything comes tothe man who wiits,"saidhe, “andif you kep your eyes open, yor're sum to ke by and by, Idon't believe that s big forlune nukes i man any happier md altor ho gos to acertin pint he raches thoe limit of his 10 8L00 man mn Windon then owned ing he wn stone | with her for yearsand the s spendiig power. There Is m mm inthe world who can, for his pensonal gratification, we more than 4 per cont o a willion dolars, and as forme, Tean be satistiel with litio. Still Senator Palmer hasa mumber of Very Expensive Luxuries. His farm near Dotrolt is oe of them, but the inevesso n thovalwof the lnd has nade this pay for itself manytimes over. If he ould move this farn to the worlds fuir it wouldbe oie of the greatsighis of the oxpo- sition, Tt contains 637 acrs and it is 1ail ot lke o grat English padk. Themis o blg foreston it in yhichare shady gles and ro. mantic drives and when you may wander through all thomazes of Rosimond's hower amd lss yourself inthemd. Every oie of the wallcs hasits mmeand some of these nooks ave alledafter the sonator's friends. | rnmenber Mandersor avenue md Sherman’s bill, and [saw o gray squirel playing on Evarls luoll. Tho sentor has sixty fing Percheron horses, eich of which 15 worth at loast S1000. Ho brought somo of them over fom Frumce and he has one horse threoyears old which weighs 2,000 pounds, Ho his four mouthsold wlts which weigh as muchas the ovdinary horse, md he bas lis own theory of lorse brealing, Ho fell i love with the Percherol horse in mak. Ing astudy of Ross Bowheur's fimous pic- ture, “Tho Horse Fiir,” and he Wlieves it is the finest horse that walks. He daims tnat Itisacros bitwom the Arabim anl th Nornan, ind it was with this idem that ho senthis firm nanager Jerusalm t pick himout an Aribianstallon. The farn man uger found that very few of tho Arabun horsss were sound, and Palmer's pormit from the sultan to ke away & horse from his do- minon amounted to nothing. Outside of . Pexheron horses Senmtor Palmer wwns to Jersy ows, His bulter costs him $1 a pouud, it ho gets §2 worth of fun outof overy pound, and tho elghty cows which he koeps aroa papetial surceof anusenent o him, I wish locould give yous picturo of bis bar, The cow stablo is as WellLightedas aParlor, andthe floor back of where the animals stand is % clan that you culd drop a ambric handkerhiof on it and pick it up without scilng. Tho wodwork of this stable is polished yellow pine fiiishod faoil, ad itis as well fiulshed asthatof many cottages. Senator Pumeris carefulin his treatment of is cattle and norses, and e has rules postod up in tho stables for his men. A whip is never used on his horses andno loud ‘wonls cin b spoken © thecows, A regular rewrd is keptof the milic aeh suimul gives, and each cow has its namo and its page in theherd book, It take a steaw engie todo thowork of these cow stibles, Tho hay is raled to the seond story bystean. The bl and oo v gouad o mel o the amo way and the age it up by stean lieves in modem inventions, Ho blows out his stumps by dynimite in clearing up his Iandand he has & pnd in front of his log cabin home the water of which is kept frosh by the punping of asteam engine, This Log Cabin Palmer's 18, 1 judge, tifty feot He lives in it throughout the sum- tells me it is wayahead of a There is a wide hall mnning theo terand o one side of thisis an imme sitting room or parlor filled with antijue furnilure which Pamer got at the old Vernont. homestead and broightout to Detroit. On the other side of the hall isa dining mom which must be fully twenty feetsquare. This is also furnished in the styloof our forefithers and if you takea meil with thesenator you will find he has the most delicious hamin lis larderand that is spring chickens am tender. Heo has a good cook audit isa recommendation for the wen to know that he keeps his servants a long time, Some of Mrs, Palmer's girls have by or isas fulof their comforts asof his own. 1was e of theparty of Washington who visitel Cape May lust w stsof e While there hotel, which is pimpol and on | Sonator Palmor bo- of Senator squur merand he castle in cor- k Pennsylvania railvoad conpany ton stopped at the by W. is now ke iton, tho o hinsolf famons | by his horsers in 1 sono s ag. e loks Anyhingbuta Horseracer | hasgiven np betting and seitled down to kemping hotl on the same sale that he pliyed the book-makers. Pietum to yourself a well-flled out. man of meliuu height, with a b, mundhoadanda conpledon us fair as the gifls of oll Irdand. Lot him have eys w blie w tho skies of Groce wrath a pleasit smilo abut s well- stapedmouth and you have sone ide of the “Plunger.” Hois o gentleman from the goundup and hotells mothat no g over gotanygoodout of monoy male on horse rues. Ho doos notlike to talk ofhis own horse meingexperiences, and siys ho hasnot bet on a race sine 183 and thathe las coms Aown 0 legitirmate business. He s a man with ahisvory and I wor 1out of him some- thing of hisstory. He talks of tens of thou- sids in tho most nolest manner, ad inthe enterprises wher hels figured he las pliyed dollarsas ofhe sild he, 50,0000 y s an oil broker, atthe time of thooil excitenent, and [ a agent for Sam Pike when he bought all the whisky in the conntry justbeforo the taxwas pit on. Atthistime I mide $130,00 a year and T got on I have mever eon anything but mikerand sinco Ihavebeenold enough towork I have made 1 asthe at least 325,000 over “Tell o someth L ex- perienes, said I “I was a Philidel andidate fo. “Thor dates-onaa man nas Harry Bing two other cand >d Leels, aul anthor m, mow the wenber of con- gress. Wall, Leeds was elocted, and tho lext year they nominated me for t of deats. [ went into tho thing systematic ally, organized six hundd election disticts, SpentEs0,00 and was elected. Shortly atter this Itook chage of the big holols at the Centennial ex position anl owned the Conti- tentiland the Glol. It was a hot sunmer and the pwple wouldn’t patwnize us and [ madenothing. I tried to get even with my lbssesat the hotel by buying Peinsylvania railrad stek imd 1 had at one time 34,000 shars. It went down and T lost §500,000 by it. 1 then bught the St.James hotel in New Yorkandmade it pay,got into touble about thepurchaseof itfromthe owners and in 1881 found myself Down with Nervous Prostratio ““Iconcluded to go t Kurope and I wis worth this time about §300,00. I went to Bohemiaand got cured and retumed to Lon- donon my way hone just aboat the time of tho derby, T wentout intending not to beta dollir, and made there what the world would calla forune, I fist put £100 on onoof my friond’s lorses at five to onoand mads £50), I put angther £100 on the horse of another triend atsix © oneandne won and this gave me (600 more. I now had £1,1000. I took £1,00 of it aud put iton Iriquois atsixto one and Irojuois brought me in 0,00, Shortly sfterthis [ put $10,0090n Poterat the Royal Hunt Cup against 5,00 and Petor won. At tho St. Loger Iput £4,00. on Iriguois nginst £0,000 and I wonagain. Aftr othor yinnigs [ baked Foxhall for tho Charowitz aud put up $40,000 ngaist $100,000 and Foxhall walked in. I then backed him to win the Cambrilgeshire for $35),000ana he stuck out his tongue and won it. It was so with other ventures,and my wiming alltold amomnted to$l,000,000, I had gono int betting #s an samusement and I was thundenstruck when 1 found upon my retrn to America that 1waslooked upon asahone racer and had hecome famous as ““The Plunger.” I don't like tho title northe reputation. Iama mun of 4 family and Iex- pect toearn my money from now on by the sweat of mybrow and brain. My advieo to young men md toold men whoare investing inracesis to Lot the Booknakers Go West and tillthe soil and tomake racing unprofita- blo by not patronizing it. “What doyou thinkof Cape May "I asked “T think its guing to be the greuest soa- sile resort alongthe Atlantic cost,” wasthe roply. “I made 820,00 off this hotel last year, md lam going tomake $40,000 this wr. 1 bought it for§90,00 when it waslos- ing money and when I put 0,00 on it in re- piirs they said 1was a fol. [ beliove that Cape May is goiug tobe the grat spring re- sort of the United States. Wehaveas warm weather hero in winter asat Fortrss Mon- 100 and thero is 1o rason why we should not have all the spring trave. 1 am going to build asun pator 40 fect long and I'll put £0,000 more into fitting this placcup as a spring watering plice. Tho Hyg- sis hotel at Kotress Monro makes $100,00 & year and there is no reasomn why a Cape May hotel should not doequally well.” While at Cape May T tooka ride uppast the prsident’s cottige. [t is located about tvo miles from the main city and it stands beakand bare on tho edgo of tho waves, It i3 by 1o means an expensive wttago aul at a glanco I shouldsay it could be reluplivated for $3000. There are mo fancy furbilows aboutit aud it is paiuted a light drab,is of two storis and has wide galleries rumning around it. Murs, Harrison, I understand, has been much worrled over the ariticlsms which have been mude s toher aceptanceof it, and Tunderstand that the prosident did not know that the cotlago was o be given until after the trawsfer had been mado and the deeds recorded, George Alfred Townsend tells me that his novelentitled “Alexander Hamilton and Mrs, Royuwolds' is solling well. Its fist edition of 2,000 has bewm sold and a sccond edition of 51,000 is now being issuod, The book as Mr. Towusend wroto it was originally one hun- dred pages longer than it is now and ho had to cutit downto suit the ideas of tho pub- lisher. The probability s that ho will make somomoney out of it. He made §600out of “Thoe Entiled Hat' aud he once told me that the same time Spent in Newspaper Writing thathe bad put upon this book would have netted tim over $10,000, Hemade $1,000 out of bis bok o Wushisgton which Lo pub- lisSed ten years ag, and he has boen making $3,00 & yoar and upwands on newspap respondence since the war. His newspaper | work now nets him about $13,000 4 y sar. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY. JULY 13, 1500- today s Fiank A. Burr, who is now on his way & London to write syndicate lettors, Burr paid Parson Nowman 500 to writo the death bed scenc of General Grant for his by ography of Grant and ho makes agreat deal ney in literaturo, 1 met Morgan R. Will, the proprietor of Norristown Herald, last woek, and was th surprisod o hear hin say that the Herald had 1ot a great natonal circulation. He tolls me that Witliims,the man who doos all the funny workon the Horald, and whose lotters are copied alloverthe country, writes twoand & half columns aday, and that ho is oneof tho finest goneral paragraphers in tho United States. He wiites o halfa column of funny matter every day, and his saliry is less then a hundred dollirs amonth, This is all the Herald can afford t payand Mr, Williams, although he has had many otlier good offers, prefors tostay where hocan mako a s without friction. sk (. C. The Belis, The editor of Sartain’s Mag speaking of Poe poem, “The I ly afterits fiest publication suid sho “*'The Bells,” by Mr. Poe, which we | publishol inour last number, has becn v extensively copied. There is a curlous pieo of literary history con- nected with this poem which we may us well give now asat any other gime.” It illustrates the gradual development of an ideain the mind of a man of origir genius. This poem came into our possession about a yonr ago. It then comsisted of cighteen lines. About six monthsafter this werecelved the poem enlur, ierednently toits present izo and form, and about three months ince the authorsentanother alteration and enlargenent, inwhich condition the boem wis Left atthetime of his death, Vi remark in pussing that thisis not My, Poe's Last poem, us some of the papers have assoted, We have on hand oncof his whiclis probably his last. It was receivel a short time before his de- comse. Wewillgiveit in the Junuary number,” The following is the poem of eighteen lines which Mv Sartain says the poct first sent him: T IELYA ar The merry woldir The How fairy-1 From the sil Of the bells, bells, b Of the bells The beils!—al the bells, The heayy iron be Heur the tolling of the bells, Hearthe knel swells cells 1 monody thore flots v throats— loop-toned throats, atthe notes Aaneholy the , bells! Fro How I X ats OfF the be S L A GYPSY ON DREAMS, Read This, Then Go Home Too Much Cheese. Aceording tothegypsy, todream that you hathein clear witeris a sign that you will enjoy good health; if muddy, the death of relatives or friends, Tosoe abath, anger; to tuke a warm bath de- notes happin fyou tako one either 100 hot or too cold, domestic troubles. Lf you undress without going into the water You muy expect trouble, butit will soon yi & sea bath isa sign of honor and Eat If any one dream that he or she is sscending to heaven oris already enjoy- ing its delights, itshows thit some joy- ful event is to huppon, such as the birth of an heir to childiess people, good for- tune to those who are poor, distinction to the wealthy and high honors to the umbitious. Iflovers have sucha dream it foretells an carly riage under the most auspicious eircumstances, and that their welding will be attended with troops of congratulating friends, who will shower presents upon them, On the other hand, to droam of secing hell de- notes that the dreamer’s health is a bad one,and is anintination to him of re- formation. Toseen cofin in your dreams signifies thatyou willsoon be mavried and own a house of your own. ‘This isa dream girls are ulways wishing for, says the gipsy book. Ifanyone should beso unfortunate as to dream that he or she wus present at a happy and jolly wedding it denotes that they will attenda funerl; it will not necessarily be at the burisl of either of the persons you dreamed you saw mar- ried, but you will undoubtedly be cailed to mourn some friend or relative, To go to weddings when one is wide awake is excoedingly plewsant, butwe should be eareful how we dream about them. To dream of being married yourself fore- tells your death. Tor a girl to dream of raking newly mown hiy isa sign she will be marrie before the hay is eaten. Young fellows who dream of raking hay with their sweetherts had better got ready their necks for the matrimonial noose, ns they arepast praying for. If aman dreams heis confined ina prisonor juil itshows that he will have honors or dignities conferred upon him 15 such dreims go 4 ifhis arrest and imprison- ment worries him itonly shows that he will be the more delighted with his new dignities. Th an - excellent dream droam for politicians and oficoholders, asthe jail 1s what thoy would naturally dream of. For agirl to dream sleepy in church as to nod toward the minister, isa sign she will have a young sarson for her husband; if @ young man dreams this, he willbe apt tomake upto the minister’s daughter, provided his position warrauts_it, and if not, that he will mury o girl noted for her piety. Todremm of a widow signifies a reward, to drenm_you are a widow porteons death or disappointment, To drenm of a widower denoles strife and quarrels, A fox is u sign of thieves; to dream of fighting with them shows that you will hive t0 deal with some cunning enem to keep atame fox signifies that will love a lewd woman, or have a ?) sorvant who will rob you, foxes, false friends, your mouth is nlnlupml by o gag, it d notes that you will soon ~ thereafter be kissed by a pretty givl. Toa young girvl such adveun predicts thatshe will see some gentlermun who takes her fancy, and perhaps will fall inlove with him. If you dremm you are pleased with a pretty chambermaid, milkmaid, or any clean’or nice-looking young girl whos occupation carries with it the title of mnid, it isa good omen, for it predicts an excellent match and plentyof chil- dren. It also foretells, that the dreamer w For a married woman to dream thi sign she will have trouble with ser that she was so u nd A number of If you dresm that i Well Managed, Duting the financial yoar closing May 1the German government reccived an surplus of $8,000,000 from the Imperial postal and telographio department and of $350,000 from the imperial printing office, e e i— [ho farmer’ friend has for many years boon Dr. J, H. McLean’s Volanie Ofl Liniment, for horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. Iuhas proved its worth in thousands of cases. rielhoni oo Feminine Markmanship. Burlinglon Free Press;: Ho—Come, come, now ! You musn’t indulgo in fings, Sho—1'd like to know why | Ho—Becauso you couldn’t hit the side of 8 Que of the brigltest uowspaper Wiiors of L barn with o beal bug, LOCKSNITHS LAUGH AT LOVE The Romantid Btory of an Iumate of ths State Penitentiary, EIGHT DARK YEARS IN A BRIGHT LIFE. The Stranzé Story of & Youns Lover Who was' Thrown i Prison to Pretent a Runaway Marriage. Lirxcory, s [Spectal to T Br. ] o things aro sometimes done in the name of justico while o multitude of stranger things are oftener leftundone undor the same guis This fact was strongly im. pressed upon your correspondent while at stute por afow days sinee gathering ing conviets. The private 10 the warden was found to be a ro- bly bright man wnose ready momory aud unusual intelligon 01 invaluabl it t infors +h his m 1 elucation, late and univessity traine o1 a remirkable fund of statistics concor coived both a el ing, and ho po information on ali topics. He had t lod xtensively and had caltivated air of & uof leisuro and wenlth, aid yet he wore and wepulsive stripes of the convict ing could help wanting to whit iu the world could bring sucha man ch aplace, Respect for the man’s feelings s sufliciont to disarm curlosity, but ugh the aits known tothe interviewer, the story was drawn out without any quus: tions being directly asked to that cffect. Lator th cortoborated from 3 sources u horewith : “Tam engineer by profess t would not b my jr ts in lifo with any man living hid received every equipment for my ¢ work that money” and hard study woul nd during my collogiate nd uuive rewardod oromy efforts wer lay and mainly 1 decide ed u retrned to Ame imnuedis crything knew solittie of misfortunc of the romautic fecling young manexperiencos clung 1o me'w ning more ored, and it fi But ey i I met a swoetfaced ver knew what love 1 bofore realied the depth cofits pow 34 ucered g ment and aubition that sweet girl [ din her oyes 1 saw mirrored irl of t 10 make her wife and my cup of full to overflowing until that her parents were opposed ‘Coars, entreatios, argument Anothing., They laughed at the st of our love and frowningly forbade us to ever sce cach other wrain. ke thousands of young men wwho have preceded mo and lik housands who will live hereafter 1 to the maten, aviile atany hazard to marry the gi manag to communicate other despite parental vinlance and ut a clundestine meeting deternined to elope to Missouri where the luws were easy con ing marriages, and we could securc a license without trouble. “1 can remember still the thrill that quick- ened my blood asiwe planned our elopeuient. We lefithe town together that night and boarded thoe cars for Missouri. No feeling of guilt ever crossed my mind as I was soon to be wedded 10 the gir) that I idolized. Those moments were the ones of the supremest hap- piness of my lifo and little did I dream that they were to be followed with yoars of an- guish. ” “The paronts of the girl did not learn of our elopement until the following day. They immediately telographed in all divections «nd discovered “our wherenbouts in Missouri. They then cunningly wired the authoritics of that place to arrest ine op the charge of kid- nappung the git. We were ut the court Thouso together upplying for a liconse when the warrant was ved onme. T atfirst laughed at them aud told them W wait @ few minutes until the county judge could proneunce # marriage ceremony, but the officers were deeply in earnest andelapping a pair of hand- cufls on my wrists ordered me to follow them tothejail. This was the first time in my life* that I was ever under arrvest and the feeling was a very peculiar one. Something scemed t 0 be clutching wy heart and throt- tling me and 1 could scarcely breathe. *"I'he noble little woman w ho was s0 near to the point of being made my wife, on her knees and with tearsin Lor beautiful eyes, besought the oficers to release me, assuring them that she came with me volunturily and was willing to bocome my wife, But her entreaties, that would hare” melted a heart of stone, fellon deaf ears and I was locked up with a foul-mouthed and foul-visaged lot of feilows who had & great many romarks 1o make about the “dude beiug run in," as they termed it, I have nev known freedom since, I was brought back 1o Nebraska and whgn arraigned for trial the ridiculous charge of "Ridnapping was dismissed against me, But, mstead, the father of tho girl filed an information " aguinst me charging me with rape! My God! just think of it! Charged with violating the girl] loved to madness, The trial was the most damuable farce ever kuown. Iwas the person outrage 1L was found guilty and sentenced to eight i i I had been liberal yers i i they had gotten all my mon refused to carry the case to the Supreme ‘1 was brought here to this living de where a man loses bis identity, his 11borty oV hiug. 1 have suffered all mann indignities and learned that I was not half as good as the dog that roawms tho streets. 1 havé slept for” eight yeurs in ‘the narrow elikke cetls, with murderers, burglars and cutthroats for companions, and I have seen theso same companions knocked down and afterwards die from injuries received. Of course death from natural causes was always reported and some learned Latin or Grevk term_applied to his alleged ailment. You would not believe half that I could you about prison life, The man that goes to a 'n‘mwnum'y suffers all the Lell that s pos ble. Just look at the pale fuces of those poor fellows pounding away at thel dut that must bedonedaily! And yet some people v this is & great sanitarium, nce Mr. Hopkins became warden things have chunged somewhat, and the abuses once practiced are forbidden. But if he is absent from the builling we all kuow it. Mr, Hop- kins became personally interested in me on of ‘some puintings and pen work oxceuted by me for him and pl me in‘ his oficc her, He entrusted to me his corres pondence and otlior clerical work, - Inthree days, the time of my sentence willbe ended and T will step forth a free man, but withthe odium of having the words “penitentiary bird’ always attached to mv na; “Do you think I am sorry the causes that brought me here! No s ! opportunity to life m; would have donw jost as 1 did, ouly I would have been a little quicker in having said the words that would'have made us one. The day of the relesse of this interesting man, your coresjdndent met him by any ment utthe Capitdl hotel. He had thrown aside the garb ofthe convict, and was dressed as 4 mun und a cltiz The_transformation wiought was remarkble, He was his old happy, courteous self g He had been of - tod & responsible position with one of the leading raflroads in the country, and commenced life sgain where he left off elght years ago. AR A Church on Wheels. An cight-wheeled railroad church has just been finished at Tiflis, in the D tory of the Transeausian railway com- pabiy, for use along the line, It is sur- mounted by & cross ut one end, and at the other there is a handsome belfry with threo bells. Besides the church sroper, it has apartments for the priest. L can comfortably seat seventy persons. The altar is made of carved oak, and all the church furniture was wade in St. Potersburg, Oneofth How THE BEE is Enabled to Offer the Americanized En- cyclopaedia Britannica with a Year's Subscription WHAT STEAM, I MACHINERY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED. e World's Wonders /4 for Thirty Dollars, ILECTRICITY AND LABOR SAVING S AN ENCYCLOPEDIOC DIALOGUR, QUESTIONS. What is this new ech of THE CMAHA Why that is about eight cents a day, Well, that may be so. is this Ame Enoyelopcedia you pro- o offer, anyhow? I nevor heard of it Now ifit was the original I nica th ou my sub safellow emves andh= wants sixty doll whit youask ror TH your Encyclopedia Tut ses here. What That's exactly what he said, the very words. He said, 90, that it wisaccepted as the standard wors of reference by all 1 glish-speaking scholars, andin evory English and Amoric.un library. Why, no. and T don’t helieve it'sso either, General Grant was as well known in Engs land as ke was ‘n this country. Hold on, hold on! Just tell me me in one word ifit says anything about anybody. 8o, Wall, I certainly don't wwant ax enoy= clopeedia that will not tell ms anything abyut the great men of the world uatil after ihey aredead, Why, it's just exactly whils they are slive that 1 wantto knowabout them most. But see Lere. What you sy doesn’thold togath r. Why i5n't thore any toing faid about General Grant. He was dead long before the list edition of theen- cyclopwdia Brittannica was published, Guess you've trav-lled off therecord justa title bit, my friend. Why of courss he did, He said it was only published last year. Dearme, whata world this 15, to be sure. Andisthersanything else the matter with the book? Why, of courseIdo (Whata question. Why, Ibeingan Ameri- can, Iwant the most detailed information aboutmatters of American interest,of course. AT am ever likely to want toknow about an Englishtown or county is its location, populition, manufacturesor other products and a fow generalitics of that kind. I 59, Tsee. Wenoed an American zed edi —and, by jininy! That's the very thingyou are advertising, Am Iright? Isse, I seo. Why, it's a perfectly splendid idea; 'The only wonder is that nobody thiought of it before. And I suppose there biography of General G zant in your edition? Any other improvement? This is getting nteresting, Upon my word, I'm glad I told that can- vasser tocall again, If I hadn't metyoul should have been finely stuck. Oh, by the way, how large a work is this of yours? And only $2.50 a month for that and THE OMAHA BEE tco, Thirty dollars for both of them. ['ll havea set for certain There's only just one thing I wou'd like. Why, you see, T hate to wait ayear to et the books comp'ete, Can't I pay for them a little sconer and get them quicker in that | way? That gsttlesit. Here'smy first installment. I'ma subscriber 0 THE OMAHA BEX from this moment. Ishallnot fatl 10 do 50, and I guess | know atleasta dozen who will bo only too glad to get such a chanceas you are offieting. Butl won't detain youany longer. Good day. SN ANSWERS. Itisa very simply matter, THEOMAHA DAILY BEE has ar | ranged with the publishers of the Americanized Encyclopsedia Brit- annica totake the who'e edition of that work for this section off_, i theirhands, thus s 2curing a remarkably low price as well as singu- ;larly easy terms. THE OMAHA BEE proposes to give the whole | advantage of thetransaction to its subscribers, and is therefore offer- | ing todeliver THE OMAHA BEE daily atany residence in the city | for aan entire year, and to give the subscriber a set of the American - ! ized Encyclopeedia Britannicabesides, all for the small sum of Thirty ( Dcllars, payable in monthly instaliments of $2.50 a month, . Jus so. But you in these days of steam and electricity, and \Ving machinery, a great deal can be done for eight cents a pecially when twenty or thirty thousand people club their money and each puts his eig ht cents into a common stock. lakol day, e ( 1 ( ( You ean be thankful that you didn’t aceept his offer, If youw'd donesoandseen the Americanized edition aflerward you would 4 havefeltlike kicking yourself, 1 suppose your canvassing friend told you tnat the Encyclopsedia Britannica was simply the most complete work of its kind ever published. L { So itis; he was rightenough so far, | and cost more than a million dollars to get it up. But there are Spots on the sun, you know, and there are detects even in the Encyclopee- dia Britannica. Did he mention to you that you mig ht iook for Ulysses S. Grant in it and notfinda word about him? It's a monumental work ( Of course he was; or pretty nearly so. But the Encyclopeedia Britannica doesn’t mention him for all that. And it doesn’t say a word about Sherman either, nor about Sheridan, nor Hancock, nor Blaine, nor Cleveland, nor Harrison, nor Harriet Beecher Stowe, N norJulia Ward Howe, nor Elizabeth Stewart Phelps, nor Charles™ { Stewart Parnell, nor Bis marck, norJeff Davis, nor—— Oh, yes, indeed. It containssome of the most magnificent biog- raphies that ever were written. Macaulay’s life of Dr, Johnson for example. But, yousee, what they called ‘“the plan ofthe work’ ex - [cluded all mention of livingsharacters, They wanted to see how a man would turn out first before they made room for his life in their vesolum. Hal Hal Hal Excuse me,but 1 can’t help laughing. I suppose your canvasser told you his encyclopaedia was a brand new boolk, just issued, eh? Only puklished by HIS publishers he meant. But if he had spoken thetruth about the matter he would have told you that the 1 first volume of the latest edition of tne Encyclopsedia Britannica was™ |1ssued fifteen years ago, and the greater part was compiled at that daate. So you see theydidn’t get General Grant in it after all, 0 e e e That depends on the kind of book you want. question or two. Let me ask you You live herein the United States, don't you? & ( Yes, Ithought so. Now tell me, about which do you want the most detailed information, an American city or an English town? An American state or an English county? The battle of Gettyshurg orthe kattle of Waterloo? [ Just so. But, you ses, the Encyclopeedia Britannica wasn't compiled for the use of men like you. It was put together to be used by Englishmen in England, And, you see, they want the exact op- 1 posite of what you do, and the Encyclopsedia Britannica, very propi {erly, gives it to them, 1tfills pages with the account of some insig- nificant English borough or county that you may never want to know anything about whatever, and gives hall a dozen lines to | some state or city here that you want the fullest particulars of, but labout which an Englishman cares just nothing at all, ( Right as a trivet, whatever that may be; I never saw one that L i kKnow of. But you’re just exactly right,all the same. It’sthe AMER- ICANIZED Encyclopzedia Britanniea that we propose to put in every home in the West, The long-winded articles on petty British Jsubjects have been cut down to the same length that would have [ { been given them had they been French or German subjects, and the articles on matters of American interest have been all rewritten and treated just as exhaustively as they would have been in the original wvork had they been specially interesting to Englishmen, ( Well, rather. One of the hast and most complete ever written, And there are three thousand new biographies besides, 1n fact, the \V work contains the life of every distinguished man or woman, Amer- | ican or foreign, now hiving, or who has died since the Encyciopadia | Britannica was compiled. [ Oh, yes, a few.JjThe entire work has been revised down to THE™ ] present year for one thing. Then an entirely new set of maps has i been added, including a separate map for each state in the union. { There are a great rmany very excellent illustrations, too, zed volumes, excellently bound, About 7,000 pages altogether, or 14,000 wide colums, equal to about 110 ordinary 12- | mo. books. 3 And that is? Ha! Ha! Hal Itseemsasthough we were ready for you at [every turn. Why, of course, you can get them sooner, And you needn’t pay any quicker on that account, either. My dear sir, you J ean get the books at once, or practically so. By paying a first install- ment of$2.80 the first B volumes will be delivered to you then anc there. Theremaining five volumes are being got to press as rapidly possible, and we guarantee to put them in your hands within l four months atthe very latest, ( i Softly, softly. We must do things in order, you know, Give ma your address and I'll see thata rapresentative of the paper calls on you before the day is over. 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