Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 5, 1890, Page 11

' ! .’ ! , 14 Ty "IV MY LADY'S (HAMBER.” The Gifl Who Prwsides There as Alo In Other Parts of the House, THE NUWBER OF SERVANT GIRLS IN ONAHA, e Work Expected of Them-The Houses Where They Are Em- ployed - The Wages They Receive. The servant girl question is a serious one, and one that is very dificultof solution, be cause the demand exceeds the supply and une doubtedly will forall time to come, Inevery town and city there is agreat nunberof girls employed inthe kitehen and thedinfig-rom and the laundry, but in s cily thesize of Omaha the number is so great that it representsan army of toilers. It is next to impossible toascertain the ex- actnumber of females who find employment asabove stated, but & creful estimate shows thit not less than 7,500 girls are now doing savicein the families of Omaha. In the families of the middle cliss one girl performs the duties of cook, laundry girl, and walting maid at a salaryof from §) to per week. In the houses of the rich, therels the cook, the sceond ook, the waitress, the chamber- maid and the mail, who receive wagesas fol Lows : Cook, $20 per month; second cook, $16 r month : waitwss, chambermaid and maid Tom .50 10 3,30 per week. The duties of these people are numerous, wud in the small famllies where but one girl fsemployed, she is expected to be up at 4 oclock on Monday moming, do the wishing, &et the breakfastand have it smoling hot and upon the by the time the members of the funly are sstir, This accomylished, whe dos the clamber work, washes the dishes, scrubs the floor, and prepares tho midday meal, after which, when over, sho has theaftemoonto herselfuntilthe prep: alion of the evening repast. Thisline of work continues day after day, the only variation, thit washday comes but once @y In most of theso places the girlis the ruler of the household, and if she be true and trusty, she is assured of & lifelong position it she desives it, fornot one woman in five hun- dred desivesto change girls after securing e who giv isfaction; though thero are sone ladies who want toSeea new face 0 the kitchen atleastonce a month, Tn the fanilies of the rich, where a number of servants ave employed, cich one nas her own work to perforn.’ The cook would never think of answering the door bell, for er domain is the kitchen, whero sho alone 1s responsible for the condition and _appear- ance of the food until it passes into thehands of the waitress who places it upon the table. Thesecond garl usnally busies herself in o variety of ways, as she may becalled upon to help the ook, clean the house, wait upon the table, or work in the chambers, The chambernaid is therulerof all por- tions of the house above the second foor, and the bright. polish taken on by the furniture, the neal appearance of the walls, and tho sty arrangements of the decorations are the result of her handiwork and inventive genius, Tho laundry girl finds the tubs and piles of shiteness of thearti ing apparel brought about by her manipulations. To acasuil observer it would seem that these girls would have many hours of leisure, but & a rule ther is enougn work wbout any large house to keep them cou- stantly employed. In addition to the regutar every day work, there s thesemiannual house cleaning which comesin the spring and fall. At these two seasons of the year, the entive force turns in and for afew days they are all busy. This completed, the work goes along in thieroutine 1e until the season again returns. But private residences are ot the ouly laces whero laboring girls find employment. n most of the smaller hotels, in the private boarding housesand the restaurantsa large part of theworkis done by female help. The wagesrange about the same, thoughin res- taurants an albwance of from$l o $1.75 per week is made for rom rent, @and, @as two girls usually occupy thesane room, the expenses are cor- respondingly reducedand the wuges increased Just that amount, ‘Thecustom prevails to give the girls an afternoon off once a week. No law has estab- lished this rule, nevertheless it prevails, ad pvery Thursday afterioon in private fami- lies the girls areoff duty and spend the time visiting their associates or doing shopping on their own account. Besides the aftemoon holiday the girls have their Sunday afternoons and evenings, when theyare allowel to go to church, or re- teive company, In the matter of re s soL apat for vation, the kitcl or dining room is given over to the girls, where callers, cither male or fenule, have rights that the head of the family generally respects, “o these girls save money! As a rule they do not, butof course thero are some ex- ceptins. In Omaha today, ther is a pumber of gicls who ' havo smg little bank accounts,whileothers have bought eity lots, paid for them and in afew instances havebuilthomes that ere bringing in a neat fncome. Other girls support their aged parents, or orphan brothers and sisters, though, generilly speaking, the princ purpose to which the money s applied is in clothing the girls who eam’it. Most of the girlshaveonc weakiess and that isto diss well, Lhey have an idea that the morrw can take cire of itself, Lfyou talk with these interesting individuals you will find that the reason they have nogréat desire to acquire property. Every girl, swoner or liter, ex- ctto marry, and by marrying, while thoy 0 ot expect toend their troubles, they ex- ctto fiud husbauds who can provide for hem, There are a good many cases in which the class of girls mentiomed In this article have married well, and are now established in comfortable homes in dif- ferent paits of the city. Iltmay seemstrange, but girls who suddenly grow rich by mar- riago are the most exacting housewives, and the girl seeking work will avod them if she can possibiy find employ ment elsew here. Where do the girls come fron i This question would be difficult to answer, butsomeof the best girs, come from the farus of Nebruska, lowa and adjoining states. The mwajrity of ' Omaba housewives will alwiys give preference toa girl from a farm. They clum that theso gils bave been brought up to work, have been taught it from their infancy,, aud, s soon as they becorno ac- customed to the ways of city life, they make the best help thal can be secured. Such girls can ulways oblain situations, and atgood yrage. A large number of the girls arn of Irish descent, but the Swedes outnumber then greitly, whilethe girls of German birth arein tho niinority "Iy those who have given this subject hut & passing thought, 1t is amvstery how girls who come tothe city as strangers find em- ployment. A great many of the girls cominghere have il fricuds who assist them in securing posi tions, but many go dixvetly to the employ- ment' offices, oftices always have ap- plications to fll, wnd, as soon asa girl arrives, ahostates the purpose of her visit and her ex- perience, Sheis given a note to some lady whois inneed of help. The ludy of the house and the applicant holda consultation upon thesubject of wages, the work and the privi- leges arediscussed and if everything is satis- factory (he bargain is made and the new girl duly installed. " Both parties then notify the employ ment ofice and the proprietor receives » feo OF 41 from each. € The scrvant girl is both good and bad, She may make lifohappy in mavy @ household, and may also test the patience of the sweet- estten Imu wife that everlived, because, after all, she is but human Many good things hiave been written of her,and it is ® favorabie index of the intelligence of the tiames that she is nolonger souniversally de- rided and slandered by the would-be humor- istsof the da employment over Local Orders, The members of the vlumbers’ union held ther amual election Thunday night, at which the following oficers wero chosen: Prosident, B. Kelloy; past presideat, 0. A. Hederson; vice-president, D. Wals conling secrlary, J. Morrisey; financial secretary, William Patlon ; treasurer, Clar Ao Clancy ; dmouder, J. Bowen, exanines, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE C. Githings ; inside sentry, 0. Morris; out- silo sentey, 'T. Stannon; judge, M. King judge advocste, T. Laroy; clerk, D, Mo Cailly. The financial affairs of the union ave in the best shipe aid @ {nereased membership s rt re Fl:m South Omaha printers to the number of thiry havo organized a local typograph- feal unvion and will apply for s charter to be- cone an ascenbly of the Knights of Labor. The officers are as follows: _President, C. C. Viughn; vice-president, E, G. Smith; re cording ‘and corresponding secretary, Alex- ander Schlegel nancial secretary and treasurer, I E. Hart; executive committee, Alexaniler Schlegel, C. C. Vaughn, B. D. Boach ; finance conmitice, C. C. Vaughn, B. D, Beach; sergeant-atarms, A. M. Scraggs. Trainmen's Convention forOmaha. Tomorrow, or the day following, J. P. Ryan will depart for Los Angeles, Cal, where he goes asa delegatoto the interna. tional convention of the Brotherhod of Rail- way Trainmen that convenes in the southern Cilifornia metropolis next Friday. Tn addi- tin todoing the regular work of a delegate, Mr. Rynn will vor to seeurethe lcation of the convention for Omaha for 1591. To alil him in this direction he has secured letters of invitation from the membersof the board of trade, the rol estate exchange and & number of prominent citizns, Phe order which M, Ryan represents had its birth at Oneonta, N. Y., seven years ago, where the passenger train_ brakemen met and organized the Brotherhood of Railway Brake- men. This organization continued umntil 1585, when the charter was amended so that in ad dition to brakemen, conductors and baggage- men were made eligible, At the same time the name was changed to the Brotherhood of Railw Trainmen, Since that date the order has met with great success umntil tered thrmghoit the United , Mexico and A there arve 460 lodees with a total membership of more than fifteen thousand. > Omalia Lodge, known as Success lodge, . 1%, was organied two years ago and arted with thirty members, which has now ine d to eighty-five. The following of- ficers preside at the present time: George Clougl, master J. Ryan, delegate and finan- cler; W. Goodrich, s, 1y Omaha Almost Selected. ¥y H. Palmer, J. " 3 Adler and J. Kane, who attended the national convention of switchmen of the United States, returned last Tuesday and thesame night were ten- dered a banquet at Nioth and Pacific streets, ab which music and speech-making con- tinued until after midnight The convention concluded a six- sion and wis & success in every particular, a5 111 delegates were present. ab the annual cloction of oficers, which took placeon the last day of the session Reports from the various districts showed that the membership ad increased from 4,000 391, covering 6 miles of railroad. The increase was reported from the ay Ses- tes. coming year the following officers lected : Grand masto “rank Sweenoy of Ch vice grandmaster, John Downe of Chicago; editor of the Journal, John A, Hall of PufFalo; grand organizer and instiructor, Miles Barrett of Kansas City. Philadelphia was selected as the pla holding the next convention, the vote being as follows : Philadelphia, 5%; Onaha, 5 Mr. Paimer_explains the vote by saying that the idea of entering Omaha was never talked of until the morning of theday on which the vote was taken. He is confident that if work hud been commenced even on e first day of the session, th> next conven- tion would have been held in this city, Thegentlemen_ from this city who were in attendance participated in a royal time. They were fe: sin Buf- falo“and before returning home were driven in_carriages to Niagara Falls, where they spenta whole day in sight-sceing. Dr. Birney cur h, Bee bldg. wile g Strange Sights Follow His Death, The ancient residence of Mr. Bryant, near the Two Sisters church, is the o of nightly ghostly displays, which have thrown the people there into con- stermation, A few weeks ago Mr. Bryant died. The week before, his daughter, who had been faithful and attentive to him in his last hours was presented with twvo new and pretty underskirts, says a Savannah, Ga., special to the Globe-Democrat. They were beautifully embroidered and to- gether their make-up wasunique and perfect. The day for buri was fixed and a large number of friends folloved the dead man's remains to their lust resting place. Thedaugh- ter saw fit to wearone of her new gar- ments, During the burial proceedings, while the daughter was bowed in sorrow and grief, the garment became detached and fell noiselessly to the ground, torn into fragments. ‘There is 10 cause us- signed for the strange occurrence. Onreaching home the daughter de- cided to investigate the condition of the skirt remaining inthe closet, and on ex- amination found that the remaining ar- ticle was in a similarcondition to the one above described. This again star- tled her. Some parts of it were perfectly sound, while other parts of it atthe slightest move or pinch would readily crumble to pieces. There are many other strange incidents which have hap- pened inand around this residence. A five scene occasionally occurs and il- luminates the entire surroundings. This sceno is of a fow minutes’ duration only. and springs up in small piles and van- eah i vapor. Onsomo nights, just about the time the inmates of the struct- ure began to anticipatean off night for the unseen mysteries, a volley of pistol shots would break the stillness of the night. A great mystery is the unlock- ingof the doors. This, as everything else, is unaccounted for, It is said that the doows can be securely fastened by locks at night, but on the following moring they are found to be unlocked and sometimes open. The most baffling incidentis that human voices of others than the occupants are sometimes heard in and around the dwelling, -~ Dr. Birney, nose and throat, Bee bldg. e Is the Girl Bewitched? The greatest excitement ever known is being created inthis(Weakley) county by the appewrance of a witch in the family of Frank Hays, living three miles southeast of this town in the Ninth dis- trict, Mr. Hays’ granddaughter, about fourteen year of uge, being the object upon which the wicked phantom has centered, says a Greenfield, Tenn., cor- vespondent of the Memphis Avalanche. The young lady is prostrated and hundreds are flocking there o see the emects of the attack, which, strange to say, no one can explain, She is perfoct- ly sane until she hears them coming, when she goes into violent spusms, and declares she can hear roivingas like distant thunder, and she can see animals making their way to her. Now comes the strangest part of the story, and anumber of the most reliable men in the county can vouch for this as a fuct, they being eye witnesses to the same. After each attack a small voll or bat of cotton is found clinging to the vie- tim's neck just above her breast, and the most incredible ones have held their hands very lightly against her neck and found, alter the spell isover, bencath their hands the mysterious cotton, ‘When the rumorfirst went out that this strange case was in the country the peo- pleall ridiculed such, but the excite. ment isnowat its height on account of all being at aloss to account for the whole affair, The family stated to your correspond. ent that they have been threatened by socalled witches in the past. Notwith- standing how purely absurd this may seem toany one who has not seen the en- tire affair, it iscertainly a mystery, to say the least, e Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg. ENGINES WON'T JUMP CHASMS A Knight of the Throttle Discussas the Re- cent Wabash Wreck. PHINEAS fOGGS IDEA A FICTION. Unfortunately, Howewer, Many Engineers Who Belleve in It - A Curious Superstition About Railroad Bridg There are Several rallroad engineers who had risited the Wabash wreck near Council Bluffs and examined the dismantied mogul were talking over the matter yesterday. Whenthe en- gine was turmed over the reverse lever was pointing ahead, contradicting the impression that the engincer had “tarown her over'” and tried to swp by ruming backward, The track, froma fow 1s boyond where the engineer could see the bridge after emerging from the cut, was covered with sana ad the ralls ground by the driver wheels in the man- ner that would occur when the wheels were revolving rapidly backwardand not slipping ahead while locked by the orake, “The old manreversed his engine” sald one of the engineers, “and he was working a pretty good head of steam to back her, but he evidently realized that hecould not stop be- fore he struck the burit end of the bridge, and Ielieving that there was a bare chance of jumping the chasm or going over the half- burnttimbers, he threw her k and pulled the throttle wile open, with all possible speed, Before ho gotinto |t he saw the span was down., and the last thing he did shutt off steam, reverse agin and appl driver bral The brakes were throttle closed and the reverse lever thrown alead, when the engine stopped with her drivers in the air. It was about the ouly thing he eould do, and showed that he was alert and <ol tothe last, “Would it have been possible to have gone the chasm if thespeed had been great ought Well, hardly, Tlhat isthe Phinees Fogg It worked all right for Phineas when Jules Verne was making him cirle the earth in_eghty days, but in common, every ailroading the precedent, that Foge's established could not be followel. The sped of the 4 have to be oy a litle less. than the velocity of @ cannon ball to carty it over o weakened bridge. 1do not belieyo that an_engine could jump a chasm ten feot wide if it was going 500 milesan hour. 1t would drop the instant itleft the ends of the broken rails and would strike, two or three feet below the track on the other side. A rifle ball, for instance, never flies an inch on & dead level, and if alittle piece of metal, weighing less than an ounce and tray. cling ith a velocity of a thousand miles an hour cannot_do it, certainly a_forty-five-ton locomotive going at less than fifty miles will not beableto accomplish Do you know that I believe that Jules Verae's impractical idea has caused a great many railroad ac dents that might possibly have been uverted if the engineers had never heard of the fiying gz enjoyed on the Union Pacific nine out of ten engineers what woull do in case of a contingency like the Wabash accident, and they will tell you_ that they would pull her wide “open and her fly for it. Theonly thing that “u is the sense of Guty and res the lives ofthose who are behind 7 prevalent that the counted upon to go overthe gap but the cars in the rear will be wrecked. More than one brave engineer has stood at his postand applied all the means that modem invention has provided for stop- ping the train wd gone down to a terrible vhen he did so with the well defines iction thathe could save himselfand his engrine if he increased instead of diminished his speed, sacrificed bis life to save others, “Verne's railwading was just as impracti- cal as his aerial navigation when he made his trip to the moou with his friends on a gigan- tic projectile that he had fired toward it by a power that he accurmilated by some means ot made very clearto common or scentific minds, He bounds over all dificultics in the way in the same manner that he made his engineer jump his train across the high tres- tle on the Union Pacif but impractical and absurdly impossibleas it is there are thou- sauds of fools in the world who belicve it all, and thousands of engineers who think they could lessen the dinger from a weakened briage by increasingthe speed of their trains, The specd might be increased until the pro- jectile force would lighten the weight of the train, takeoff afew pounds from the total of thousands, but this would be more than counterbalancel by the increase of the blow the drivers strike the ril every time the crank passes the down center. This blow, as practical engincers know, amounts to thou- sands of pounds, Ifthe blow amounted to ten thousand pounds when the train run- ning twenty miles an hour it would hundred thousand if the speed was inc to sixty miles. Suchblows would make old Thor stand aghast, and would hammer down a weakened trestle whichmight stand a speed of ten or twenty miles 4+No, safe railroading demands the stopping of the train in suchan emergency. Besides the mpracticability of the idea, poor Martin l']skl'l(]l;:e mady a fatal miscolculation if he lied upon the momentumof _his machine to carry it across the chasm. The bridge itself wason @ sharp curve and when the engine left the ends of the broken rails 1t would not follow the curve through the air, but would keep straight ahead and strikke on one side of the opposite ends, whick it did. The curve bent to the left and the engine went to the right. Tam satisfied the spoed was greater than was reporied, for the cars were hurled against the side of the bank as if they had been fired from some Titian's cannon, “‘Thereare some things connected with the conduct of a bridge, and the locomotive when weare running ata high rateof speed thatI cannot understand. The engine seems to hestitate before itstrikes thebridge, just as a horse does before he springs across the ditch, and the bridge seems to shrink away from the expected blow., I know just how every bridge on my line wil act before I strike it,and there isn’tone that [have not somewhat invested with sentient qualities in spitoof myself. They all behave differently when I strike them and develop different characteristics, Some seem to bestubborn and hump up their backs, aud others are timid and shrnk away from their duty for the instant. The stubborn and the timid fellows never give me any uneasiness, but those fellows that lie there serene and smil- ing and never stiraway make me feel that under there indifference there is lurking a dark treachery, and my heart throbs aster when I approach them. The bridge that gets mad when 1 come at it and humps up its back and the other fellow that trembles and shrinks can always counted on. Thenthere are other bridges that seem to be very pughacious aud rise up to meet me. They are also safe and get back to their places before I hiv their heads, engine knows them as well as I do. lignhts in rollickingover the fellow that humps shoulders, because she knows it stiffens his back. The timid fellow she slides over easily and smoothly and tries her best not to hurt him, and shesprings onto the fellow that wauts to fight with a vigor that quickly tames him. But the indifferent, smiling fcf- low she hates and fears, She goes over him just like you would over the ice on a strange pond. You don't know how thick itis orhow deep the water is or how many air-holes there are. She knows his (reachery and she tries to protect herself against it Your engine learns to love and hate bridges justlike your horse does, ly more so, and how shedoes hate the ene and smiling kind and shudders when shocomes to them, As they lie in the moon- light their white timbersseemto take the form of ghostly arms. treacherously beckon- ingyou onw and leading you into the abyss they awe hiding. The cross-beams seem t drawn iuto lines that resemble a grin g death’s head, and above the rush and roar of the train youcan hearshrieks of laughter, like the mocking jeers of harpies and fiends. You seem to hear them scream- ingin your ears: ‘Wewilllet you goover safely this time but we will catch you some i How your engine snorts and trem- bles when she gets across, and how speed increases inspite of you and your throttle, when she feels the fira earth on the other side! Those kind of bridges always go down, and they uever get down except when the, have the means of nurruumrluu the wreck they make with the elements of horror that can Ppossibly invest ne itsclf can be safe all suich & calamity. Nothing in the shapo of & bridge that man own build will stand 1o such a place, and the only 1o prevent an accident is to B11 it up solid dirt and stones, Did you ever hear of an accident of this kind where, if the dngineer was mnot killed, that ke did net My, ‘I was always afraid of that bridge! If the engineer could only tell the railroad managers, and the man- agers would believe them, where all the dan- gerous bridges are located dad solid culverts would be put it, there would be but few such accidents in the world. * A'bridge is alway jealous of a culvert, and the fear of being transformed intoa culvert makes many a rotten and weak bridge strong and safe. But how 1 am talking! They will be accusing me of being superstitious if I don't quit. Yes, thero are some theacherous bridges on my run. They are made of the best steel, stone and timbers that the sun ever shone on, and solid enough to hold upa mountain, but they smile treacherously time I come to “them, and some time they will go down with me."* il HONEY FOR THELADIES. The fashionable London woman now dyes her hair a mahogany color, The empress of Germany dresses with t plainness, and thus sets an_excellent ample to her husband, which is wholly lost. It is said that Princess Miud, the youngest daughter of Albert Edward, prince of Wales, is about to wed Ferdinand, one of the Roths- childs, The highshouldered dresses which are now the vogue were probably suggested by an in- stantaneous photograph of & Frenchman in the middle of a shrug. This promises to be a season of ostrich feathers. Gowns will be trimmed with bands of feathers, and boasand muffs of the plum- age of the bird “that knows it all'? will be very popular. A young Virginia girl, the beauty of the neighborhood, rode her "horse in through a store doorwuy at Lyncht he other after- noon, made her purchases, said goodvye and backed gracefully out. There are in the United States at least twenty-seven women each of whom owns in her own right not less thau £,000,600, includ- ing one who is credited with £40,000,000, and three who possess $20,000,000 It may interest th itical that the view tal 3 r in question is this Ldon't mind a thing like 81,311 formy daughter. My biiliards and cigars alone cost we more than half of that suw. A man whospent ten months Carolina, where divorces are made a re them with a murder as the rc hundred cases where husband ana wife have lived together for years without speaking. at divorce would have beeu a god case Mrs. Frunk Leslic is e iall lover of society and goos out & great deal, alw beautifully dressed, though she avoids colors, preferring black and white, Her diamonds are magnificent and on her breust glitters the star of brilliants which forms the decoration El Busto del Libertador, bestowed on her by the government of Venezucla. Miss Mattie Hester is the United St ates mail carrier over the route from Condar urens county, to Lothair, Montgom a (ista of forty miles, erion, which she three times She drives ner own mail, cart, carries arovolver, and is punctual 4s the sun at all seasons aud in all weather Eighty thousand pounds of human hair, valued at £319, uppear in the tr Janton, and it could be wished that it did not, for s the majority comes from the heads of beggars, crimivals, and dead persons, it isnot pleasant to thiuk of its beingz worn by the la- dies at home, even although it goes through long processes of purification befove itis made up into wigs, chigaons, waterfalls, et Miss Kate Field thinks that the Woman's Christian Temperance Union might well ex- pend some of its surplus energy in reforming the women of America who spend $62,000,000 s, most of which are made poisons. she asks, “can women vain enough it and dye their hair bring forth chil- dven stalwart enough to resist temptations thatlead to all manuer of vice, including drunkenness.” Autuwmn dr nan inclined to ‘1 by the bank in South ver grant tions, 1lt, and sev es come on with considerable rapidity. Striped wools are used in_two shades of brown or brown and cream. Some fabrics show tiny seroils or infinitesimal checks. Inch-wide box nlaits are again used to edge skirts, and the Stuart style of sleeves, with its double puffs and perpendicular band of material, is coming into favor. Shoulder capes of all sorts are still brought out, but these are regarded as distinctly less elegant than the cloth jacket, and this again has most chic when the cloth of which itis made ex- actly matches the costume, Steel trinkets are likely to be the winter. An artificer of steel jewel ned Le Long has made a hit with cornets, brooches, necklaces, and garlands of steel bands mixed with artificial pear] The false pearls are to the steel what cream is to ove drawn tea. soften it, and are not pre- tentious. Visitors to the Exhibition dustrial Art at the Palais de I'Industr see these elegant brooches in steel and sham at prices varying from 10 frances to s a gaviand of wild rose priced at 1,500 franc It is meant to be worn at a fancy ball by alady personating an Iron Queen. The queen of Roumania, who had been in London recently,is, at the age of forty stilla beautiful woman. She is tall, with an extremely good figure, and but for the sil- very lines which ha dimmed the bright- ness of her golden hair still retains most of the beauties of her youth. Her eyes are quite bewitching, being large and blue, with a delicious dreamy look; she has a really classical mouth, exquisitely white, regular teeth, a finely cut nose, and all well- shaped hands and feet. he is an indefatig- able worker and rises every morning before it isday. Sheis firm in her refusal to allow hermaid to attend her, but lights her own t1amp and sits down at ber own table to spend an hour or two overher MSS, Lol Mrs. Mercer, manicure, 404 Bee bldg. ——— IMPIETIES, next, 1t requires pious gall to play all day with the devil and at night ask God to save you. When the plate is pissed there are too many people thinking that salvation is free. He—1I wonder will Gabriel's trump be a bower oran ace. She—I fancy you will find it the deuc Lummix—Whereabouts in the bible is the text: “The fool and his money 'ave soon parted " Skimgullet—In Solomon’s proverbs, of course. Recording Augel—Thelatest reports from the earth say that one of the noblest of our prophets hus turned from the true faith and 15 now lost to us. Michael—Well, make a note of it in your “Prophet and'Loss’ ac- count. Now, madam,” said the bric-a-brac deal- er, “here is an elégant bronze vase in gennine repousse work. The nautical scene on this side represents ‘Jonah aud the whale.' '’ “Tonly see the whale: where is Jonah “You note that distension near the tail " Yes.” *Well, that's Jonah," The St. Paul Globo thinks that Moses was the 1deal platform writer, and cites the Commandments as' & speeimen of his work. If Moses were living in this day and were to present that platform o a political conven- tion the opposite party would meet and ¢ nounce it s “a platform dealing only in glit- tering generalities.’” “Why, Mr. Fitzperey, where did you get that ring?” asked a Pittsburg girl. *Bought it, What do you think of it!" “It's pretty. What kind of a stonc is it? “Sap- phire. “Indeed! Docsn’t wearing it recall to your mind two Biblical characters "' “Not atall. Does it toyou " *Yes.” “What ure they " “Aunanias and sdpphire, A little boy was sayiug his pra mother's knce, His little brother and pulled_his hair.) Stopping in his prayer the dear little cherub_said: “Now. God, please excuse me for a minute while I punish my dear little brother for_pulling my hair.” Nothing but his mother's interferonce saved the brother from being pounded to a jelly. Sunday school superiutendent—The lesson, children, inculcates the daty of revevencing the aged. Do you remember what once hap- pened to'a lot of bad boys who reviled an aed prophet! Small boy (on front seat They was ett up by bears. *Right may tell me, also, Tommy, what th had said to him." 11 most forget,’ alittle. Didu't they say something about his head, or the way his lead was protected ¢ (Enthusiastically) “Yes'r. ‘They said, “Where did you get that hat! " —— Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg very ers at his assed by THE END OF THE BALL SEASON, Omaha's Fair Start and Poor Finish in the Pennant Chase. INDEFINITE PLANS FOR NEXT SEASON, Close of the Gun Club's Scason—What the Fans Say—Wheel Club Notes — Miscellaneous Sporting News. The base ball season did not end in a blaze of glory so far as Omaia was concerned. The team was not in it escent for a brief period early in the season, the patrons of the sport apparently lost fnterest and for the last half of the season itwas simply a case of holding on until the season closed and an efforton the part of the management to get out with as little financial loss as possible. It is too late now to attempt to attribute causes for Omaha's poor finish, The reasons were numerous, The management put in o team early in_ the sewson that was lame in the pitche box and every effort to remedy the defect only brought mew disasters. The management sigued toomany Martins and_ Somers and Sowders and like cheap exploded phenoms in- s ving liberally foroneor two first class twirlers, The team was reasonably strong in other respects, but under the pres. ent riles of the game ability in the box isa prime essential for a winning team. Omaba 11 patrons will liberally snpport a winning m, but they can be readily excused for their'refusal to encourage the~ farcical exhi bitions in which the home took part so frequently during the past seasof Nothing definite has been decided upon for the next season, and in the present unsettled condition of affuirs in the larger leagues there is no telling what turn events may take, Omaha is protty sure, however, to have a team in the leagiie next year, probu ably under the presont management. But there will b new material in it. Cleveland, Hanrahan, Moran and Fagin will be released and new men sceured to fill their pl Dad Clarke may and may not remain with the Omahas, the prospects being that two itchers will be secured to help Fiteljorg aud 11is do the rotating. The present grounds another season at least The Close of the Season, The Omaha gun club held their final shoot of theseason yesterday afternoon on Dun- mire's er. The last will be retained grounds across the ri race was fifty birds cach, eighteen yards rise, five unknown traps. The weather was fine and the scores excellent, as the following will attes Chrysler.... ......11011 11111 10101 11111 11 T1011 11110 01T1Y 1110 11 BT IR IR AL dn ALHE 11001 10111 01110 LLLE TTLLL 0L 1011T L 01110 11110 10100 11111 1LIOL ITET TLLEL 10 AILIOL LT 001 10T TLLLL LU TLLE 1T 11 1 Parmelee . Brewer ..., Townsend Clarke... 210000 00100 11111 11010 OLLLOTLLL 10T L 1oL o JTLOLILTRL O1ILL 1111 10111 11101 01101 10011 11143 Frank Parmelee made the best average during the season in class A, with 83.8; Billy Townsend in_class B, with S5.1: W.'H. 8, Hugles second, with 0.7, and Billy Brewer thivd, with 381, John Field was first in class C, with 665, The prizes were dismond medals, one for each clas: & The club will choose sides on Saturday nextand shoot for & grand bauquet, to be liquidated for by the losers, Where They Will Wi The Omaha team have spective ways for the winter, Mana; Leonard to Lynn, Mass. : Cleveland to Pitts- burg, Pa.; Willis to Boston, Aass.; Stenzel to Ciacinmati, 0.; Eiteljorg to Greencastle, Ind.; Works to Mt. Vernon, Ind.; O'Conn to Guelph, Ont.; Newman to Indianapolis; Canavan to New Bedford; Moran to Joliett, 111.; Clarke to Oswego, N. Y. ; Fagin to T'roy N. Y. and Hanrahan to Lansingburg, N. Hughes nter. ne their re- What the Fans are Saying. The Omahas were all paid off and banded Tuesday last. Five hundred tin horns were distributed by aking bee fan at one of the Kansas City- Miuneapolis games. Lutenburg of the Quiney team has been signed to play first base for Minneapolis. This would indicate that Ryn is to go. Eimer Smith was presented witha deed for the state of Missouri, just before the close of the last Kansas City-Milwaukee game. Every one of the Chicago colts has signed league - contracts for '9l, includes oney, upon whom other eyes were fixed Manager Cushman thiuks he has quite a find in his new pitcher, Renwich, whom he fished out of the Northern Michigan league, Captain Jimmy Mauning has been in Kan- sas City three vears, but he hammered his first ball over the left field feuce a few days ago. Milwaukee is in the Mulligatawny good and deep. Dlltell you what you might do Quin before it is too late, join the brotherhood and take Dave Rowe with you, Manager Watkins thinks that a new W ern association may take in Kansas O Omaha, Minneapolis and St. Paul in the west, and Columbus, Detroit and Indian- apolis or Grand Rapids in the cast, but Man- ager Watkins has no right to think, Danny Stearns, old Hick Carpenter, little Nicol and Jimmy Manning have all been granted a new lease on lifeby being members of the victorious Cowboys th they had landed in the fourth or it seomed probable for a while, this quartette would have had to walk the plank, dead sure. What is famei Once upon a time Patsy Boliver Tebeau was casually referred to as a member of the family to which George be- longed. Now the Boston Globe commences an item so: “A brother of Patsy Tebeau, familiarly known as ‘White Wings’ “Patsy’’ has seemingly passed bis brother on the ladder of fame! Billy Hoover of the Kansas Citys, says thathe made his debut as a professional layer with the famous Shady Philadelphia. Each of the shade tree to stand under, and none of them would go out of the shade to stop a ball Games sometimes lasted a couple of 5:.; ,and home ruus were numerous, Milwaukee's seventoen e ies over the Omaha club is indeed a remark- able record. After the brewers won the seventeenth game on the Omaba grounds peo- ple applauded them all the way to their oy says Mulford, but somebody’s been foolin’ him. ~We heard no applause out here, and there was only a crowd of about twenty at the game. A President Speas has given orders to have the big pennant pole put in position, and on Monday the pennant will be unfurled to the breeze. The peunant will be 1un up just be- tore the game, and it is the intention to have some of the more noted fans pull the rope. It will be a proud da for Kansas City and the Blues when this piece of bunting foats on the breeze,—[Kansas City Journal, Danny Stearns, by long odds the best first baseman in the Westera association, can cer- tainly set up a good claim to veing i mascot He has never played in alosing team in the Western association and bas helped to win pennants. In 158 he was with the cham- plon Topekus; in 1557 he played with the es Moines team, which carried off the Wes- tern association pennantand this year with the Blues. “Reddy” Hanrahan came within an ace of the black list during the Omaha's last trip to Minneapolis. He threatened to assault Man- ager Leonard for not seeing that his last §0 fine was remitted, Leonarda invited him to proceed with his pugilistic intentions, but he thought better of it and drew away. Omaha has had quite a sufficiency of ball players of the Hanrahan stripe. dis- Omaha Wh The Omaha wheel club rides today All eyclers who tour through the country must see the need of better roads. Perrigo’s safety got b and they are both wi g crutehes now nerson and Siefkin were busy la day winuing glovy aud safery races at Platts mouth, The regular mouthly business meeting of the Omaba wheel club w be beld next 10 Be, e m into trouble again Tuesday evening. is expected. Morris is still nursing his wounds (his arm and his feelings) received in that memorable road race on September 10, Now that the cool evenings are coming on tho boys congregate atthe club house in larger numbers, and induige in quiet games, ursday evening bring their sisters anc their friends’ sisters and make ladies night the most enjoyable of the week. Chairman Potter of tho road improvement committee of the L. A. W., has begun a good work that all whe n must appreciate, and should assist in every possible way. By sending illustrations of ‘bad roads from exper- ience or observation all can be of assistance in influencing legislators to adopt a system fornational highway improvement. Our racing men who trained long and dili- gently for the tournament ave now ing the natural reaction that alwi when excitement s over, the victors content torest on the laurels wiready won, and the less fortunate majority returning to the bet- t of wheeling alth and ple while the sage nods noisely and says * you 80" Badollet of Council Blufts sure, told DAY, A Cowboy Lassoes a Locomotive is Surprised, The cowboy has bucked against many things and not many times has he had to own up whipped, ‘but one instance in which he lost has happened near here, says a Vinti, I T., special to the St. Louis Republie. Last week two of the genus cowboy went to Chetopn, Kan., and for several days kept full of bug: juice. Starting home the two, whose names e Skinner and Marks, le near the L& T, track for a distance. Near wket, I T., they deseried atrain and, anxiousto learn the time of day, led to the driver of the iron horse to stop and tell them. The engineer was too busy at the time to complv with their request and passed on without re- sponse, ‘This nettled the rushers of the plains and the time of day they deter- mined to have. One of them spurred on his bronco and neared the engine, which s not moving particularly rapidly. Aswift throw of ‘the lar and the smoke-sta encireled s not entirely expected. 'd on, the saddle-girths remained firm and the horse performed more feats than a circus acrobat. The cowboy stayed with his horse, too, for one foot caught in the stirrup and he grabbed his animal’s tail to save his life. His friend, taking in the situation, roped the horse of the would_be train stoppor. With the combined pulling of the two animals the lariat about the smoke stack broke and the wild race which had been going on ended. On arriving here the boys attempted to geta warrant for the arrest of the engineer, but as no one was hurt the commissioner only advised them to get a stouter rope next time, and His Dead Friend Appeared. Recently Edwin Russel, a prominent real estate broker of San Francisco, who was at one time president of the British bank at Port and whose father is master of Birmingham Hall, England died of apoplexy, Three hou ghost appeared before Ha leader of St. Luke's ¢hoi Russel was o member, says o dispatch to the St. Louis Republic. ~ The case is of unusual interest beeause of the promi- nence of the people, all of whom are ptics and never took any stock in ism. Reeves is a son of Sims Re s, the famous English tenor, who was the greatest of his time and who conducted the music at President thur’s funeral, It was while he was a ranging music for Sunday’s service that the apparition appeared, Rex velates his experience in the following words: I went into my room the lounge, Then, by an impulse I can- not account for, I walked tothe door, At the head of the stairway there was not much light, but it was not so dim but that I could see at once what appeared to be the firure of Russell, 1t was s0_real, so life-like that at once stepped forward and stretched out my hand and was about to speak some wo of welcome, The figure scemed to have a roll of musicin one hand and the other was over its , but it was Russell’s image, T am quite sure. As 1 advanced to the head of the stairway the figure seemed to turn as if about to de- scend and faded into air. I remember trying to speak toit, but my tongue clung to the reof of my mouth. Then I fell against the wall and gasped out ‘O, my God!” My sister and niece with her foll My ni id: Jncle Har the went on to explain what it was, but was 50 scared I could hardly speak. My niece said: *Don’t you know Russell i dead? Well, that flabbergastered me It only made matters worse and I nearly fainted.”” o8 d lay down on Good Advice. It was Cowper who said, “To be| well dressed, well bred and well | equipped, is ticket good enough to | pass us readi through every door.” The first of the above qual- | ifications can be obtained by pur-| chasing from us one of our Fine Cheviot Suits which are equal in style, finish and material to the best aporoved cus- | tom work. | A RELIC OF MORMON DAYS, History of a Queer Old Building Neat Nebraska Oity, A RESTING PLACE FOR THE FAITHFUL. 1t was Erected in Honor of Joe Smith During the First Emigration from Nauvoo-1s It Haunted? nraska Crry, Nob, Oct. 4.—[Special to Tue Bee|—Near thoold towuof Factorys ville some cight miles northwest of Nevrasks City,and between that place aud the Mise souri river, thero stands anold and massive building of stone, square and plain in archis tecture: itssurroundings vough and bare and altogether uninviung, The bullding itself has the appearance of an old fort or prison, andyet to some it might look likean old place of worship or deserted temple, and again it looks not unlike a large sepulchre or tomb. This latter impression, however, may be forced upon the observer by a recolléction of the wienl stories told in connection with the house, and its cold and damp appearance and dismal surronudings In 15475, when the Mormons were driven out of Nauvoo by the angry mohs, their tem- ple burned and their prophct slain and they took up their wearisome march seross the plains and desert to found a new vty and build & now temple in the far west, with the hope that isolation would proteet them from further molestation the Mormon emigrants on their way ¢ the Missouri river from Towa into N at the point above referred to. We about Qlisconraged, they. piused on thy No- braska bauks to rest and revive their droope ing spirits After a few days of rest during which time they suffered” much from cold and ex- posure, resulting in the deaths of @ number of women and children, it was decided to erect a temple in honor of Joseph Smith upon the spot, a house of for other emis grants who might 1 vay on their march to the proposed new Mormon eity in Utab. The entire company labored upon s stone quarry for @ number of days until enough matrial bad been secured for the temple, and then the work was left in the hands 0f several mechanics and a number of loborers, while the_remainder continued on the journey along the trail westward, The work on the structure progressed slowly, and it was ouly after the suows of winter' came, and_the workmen had often been relioved and reinforced by new emi- grants that the temple was completed and served asa place of worship and refuge for the Mormon faithful during the succeedinj years of overland travelers. Tt was also used as afort for their defense against several In- diun attacks. It also became the tomb of many. Among a train of emigrants that crossed theriver in 1843 werean old German couple, new the faith. They seemed to be friendle homel he march across the ¢ rold and exposure of winter was too much for the ol i already worn out with age, and wi half-completed ter hed the old man had crossed the other river miso, and his remains were lid to rest on the shores of the Missouri. The death of her husbaud shook the faithof the woman and she would not continue her journey westward, but insisted on remaiming at the and by her husband's grave until she getan opportunity to veturn to the east remained for several weeks with the works men at the temple, and during the day made almost hourly trips from the house on the blufls to the grave at the viver and back again. Her wearied step and the heavy tap of her walking stick upon the strong path were heard from morning till nignt. One morning after the temple was about com- pleted the old German woman was found din her cot. Her body was buried at the fikmen on the bullding had strange s during the remainder of thoir stay there, according to tho stories handed down from that time. The spirit of the old German woman was not at rest, and nightly the tap, tap, of her cane upon the path was heard léadig from the river to tho house on the bluffs. Tap, tap, tap up to the door, and without opening it on through the large Jom and over the carthen Hoor back to the place where the old cot had stood, Every hour during the entive night the samo ghostly taps were heard, al from the dircction of the graves &t the river tothe cot in the temple. These sounds are declared to have 1| nightly the emigrants landed mauy months diercafter, and the its became irregular,and finally only ag long intervals, After the cessation of Mormon emigration the temple was deserted and was left to the habitation of rats and_ghosts, but when braska began to be settled, the old housy used as @ home by an old pic wh a believe been ther sledp v disturbed one night by the appro one, coming up the path from the tap, tap. up to the door; tap, tap, tap— through locks and bars and’ on' through the uilding and then all was quiet, The inte s between the ghostly visits became longer and although numerous residents of th temple are said to heard them, ye has been @ number of years since thelast vis was made by the spiritof the old German woman, It had been claimed that du the old couple had been poss: sum of money, and that b her death the woman buried it somewhere about the old Mormontemple, but it is not known that anye one ever had enough coufidence in the story to mukoea scarch for the hidden wealth, and i it was buried it is likely to remain buried. 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