Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 9, 1890, Page 11

e TWO GREAT ENCLISH NAMES fome Reminiscences of Thackeray and (Car= Iyle by Chaplain Milbarn, WITH HAD TROUBLE VANITY FAIR. Many Publishers Failed to Appre the ook Thackeray and His Daughters — How Carlyle Re- wrote the French Revolution, te [Coppight 16850 by Frank G. Carpenter.| Wasn N . 6.~ [Special to Bry One most remarkable eh: tors connected with congress is the Rev, D W. H. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the house, For more than forty years ol been almost totally blind and for a g - tion and more bie b been able to read a lme ina book or newspaper. Still during this time he has left his imprint upon the people of the United States, has been chup- lain of congre the g o limb which has Tie not time and again and now at of sixty-seven he is sound in bod, 10 possessed of & mental activity hardly its counterpart among pub- lic men. He is an able preacher and the most entertaining of our public lecturers Without eyesight he has traveled over the biggest part of the United States preaching and lecturing in its biggest cities, He has had the close jon with the gr men who malke up our political and lit history and has several times crossed the nd spent some time in the great capi irope. While in London Chaplain Milburn was intimately acquainted with Wil- liam Makepeace Thackeray and he had a closer association with Thomas Carlyle than any other American with the exception of merson. His reminiscences of these gr authors covering a period of six years which he spent in Burope are exceedingly interest- ing. Thad along talk with him last night. itting in an casy chair with a long mer- chaum pipe in his mouth he told story after story of UNWIITTEN LITERARY HISTORY langhing heartily at times and again growing pathetic as b t memory turned in the past from | e 8 tring his visit to United i Dr. Milburn, 1 preaching in King's Chapel, the old reyolu- tionary church of Boston, and Tick- nor and Thackeray came over to listen to the services with Jumes IMields. The congre: gation was quite a large one and after the nd 1 had gone into the ry room Mr. Ficlds came in and told me that there was a gentleman present who had expressed awish o be introduced to me Upon this he continued: “Mr. Thackera; ||n~ is Dr. \lHIvmn ¥ .t|u| with this began m Villiam Mukepeace 3 umml very kindly to the discourse which I had uttered and told me that the sermon had brought tears into his eves, He asked me to come and see him thould I e visit England and when 1 made my first trip abroud a few vears later he re- ceived me with the utmost cordiali have never known a more genial compy His sociability wes delightful. 1 hay most grateful” remembrance of his delicate attentions to me assisting me at table and elsewhere. 1 cannot imagine a more gentle, perfect courtesy-than_he manifested toward me. In this respect 1 think he was greatly misunderstood by the public. Indeed his usual bearing was such as to justify in o measure the generul belief that he was a mis- anthrope, a ey To those who were so fortunate as to reach his heart and his af- fections he was the farthest possible removed from such a person. In conversation his voice was as soft and KINDLY AND SYMPATHETIO as the voice of woman, In all my inter. course with him I never heard him utter barsh or bitter word. GAL that time Thackeray was perhaps {ifty and at the height of his fame and pros- perity. We exchauged visits and several times we met at dinners. He impressed me profoundly. No memories of wmy lifo are more delightful to me than those of my as- sociation with him. He often alluded with ident pleasure to his visits to our own antry and the péople whom he met. He seemed to have ® high appreciation of our national greatness, presentand future, “I remember that when I first met Thack- eray he was about to ‘run’ as we Americans say—‘stand’ they express itin England—as a candidate for member of parliament for Ox- ford. “Twould gladly give all I possess,” he said to me, ‘for the gift of off-hand speech,’ ***You umaze we," I answered, ‘I heard you in New York und I thought I would ex- change all I had in the world for your power of utterance.’ *+*Ah, my dear sir, I then, If I get upon my feet and try without manuscript T IMMEDIATELY BECOME AN IDIOT.” “Of course I laughed at this,but me that it was strictly true, e ent &s o liberal, but was de was only reading to tatk ssured bition and he Thack had alrendy made. bis. repute- tion in _literature. Most of his books had been written and were being read by millions on both continents. About this'time he be- came the editor of Cornhill and subsequently he wrote ‘Roundabout Papers' and some minor works. His early experience was that common to most authors, 1t was a long time before he succeeded in obtaining recognition. He told me he had a contract with the pub- lisher of IFraser's Magazine for ‘Vaunity Fair! It was to be ‘»rln\cd in parts but he was required to submit the manuscript of the entire work before its publication was begun, It was examined and declined. Tnackeray tried every reputable publisherin London with the same result—all declined it and some rudely. **‘Remember,’ he said to me, ‘T was an au- thor of some reputation. 1 had written sev- eral books and ghort stories which had been published and Il{![)l'fll‘\‘ll to be popular, but 1 could only get *Vanity Fair' before the pub- lie by making an arrangement with Brad- bury and Evans, the publishers of Punch, by which I was to assume HALF THE PECUNIARY LIABILITY of the venture. But really I was under many ohllmx(ium to er's for deciining it. I was to have received from that magazine £1 r page; as it resulted I have realized £1 a F‘IL for it." ““Thackeray’s domestic life was bappy in the companionship of his two charming daugh- ters, There had been a great deal of care and sorrow in his life. You know his wife became insane in early womanhood and died after beine for many years an inmate in an asylum. Thackeray died in 1563 between my first and second visits to Europe, literally woru out. ot we tell you one or two incidents that occurred when Thackerary was in Boston, While there he spent much of his time as a guostin the family of George Ticknor who was celebratedin literary circles, On New Year's eve ne and Ticknor sat smoking together in the library. The latter's wife was also pres- ent. Mr. Ticknor's two daughters had gone to a pa They sat talking till 11 o'clock when Thackeray arose and said he would go 10 his room. “*You are not going to retire yet! Inquired hh host. No,’ was the answer, ‘for I always at the birth of a new year drink to the health and )mppmk:: of my’ daughters, but I do uot wish to to Keep you up so late.” ' Pray stay with us and we will jom you 1n & health to your absent ones.’ “Thackeray replied: that he would be de- Jighted to do 80 if it would not trespass upon their hours of rest. He sat at the side of the great fireplace and looked two or three times at the clock upon the mantel, tonote the flight of the minutes. *** Do not trouble vourself ubout the time, said Mrs. Ticknor. ‘I wily let you know when it 1s 12 0'clock.! AU that moment the new year began, 'l'hlvkl-nu) took in his hand & glass of sherry, rose to hisfeet and said in tremulous tones, “God bless my motherless girls! God bless them all who'are good to them!' Drinking the wine he BADE IS HOST GOOD NIGHT and without another word retired from the room leaving me and Mrs, Ticknor in tears, *One more incident which occurred in the Tremont house, A stranger calied upon Mr. Thackeray at bis home there, Placing his baud upon his stomach and making & pro- found bow he said : *Havel the great honor to address that | this for me N | of an author, one of | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SUN NOVEMBER 9. ISDO—-SI TEL\T PA(I F& eated man, the Hon, William \l nkoe- Ty ! is Thackeray,’ was the guiet I, too, am an an publisher. stranger, thor, find no written much that ought to be " world. 1 have brought with me 0 of my manuscripts and [ will be under lasting obli gations if you will have the kinduess to r it and pass your opinion uponit. If y judgment fs Ta sle 1 can find a publ and my fortune is made. Will to the dear sir,’ sald Tha , ‘you are at deal of me, for you must timeis very imuch oceupied. 1 how it is possible for me to a g .,y carceo 1y sec solige you 00, Mr tunat fuse to I'hack v his inpo v visitor, * ute v ill not re DEFRIEND A POOK DEVIL A word of commendation from you wowld start him on the road to fame and teave it and I will look it I should not like it?’ 1 ask you to give your honest opinion and whatever it may be't will_be content. I have others besides this and perhap# you N cuse me; one 1s enough.’ ¢ sarapat the door and Mr. pleton was wnnounced, What, Appleton the publisher?” ex claimed the strange author, and seizing his hat he left without ceremony. Perhaps he s experience with Appleton in his quest for a publishe “Thackeray told me, that “the mann he ever saw. It w paper written in biue, Ap- ontinued Dr Pt was the pe | not a few of the Tt was without a spark of merit, soon after retu « to the owner. spent several hours iu its perusal gine that few men in his position nted to have even looked at esent at the time the man called and I im would hy it. I was p | and the fun of it was that the Appleton who came was not Appleton the publisher, but on, & noted man about town, who doing nothing as much amused replic 4 told m many humorons. experiences which he bad with American tourists, and I re ber one over which he laughed heartil subject was a bright young American girl of Roston, who came to him with a letter from Emer: She was only sixteen years old and she liad all of the gush of that age added to a natura ADMIRATION FOR LIONS. and he called “She was evidently a hero worshipper Carlyle w e of her heroes. and presented her lotter and nvited to dinner by Carlyle. When she came the noxt afternoon one of her first actions was to take a seat on t and ask Mr. Carlyle t 17 beside her. She then requested Mrs. Carlyle to takea_seat on the other side and clasping the hands of the two together on her lap she laid her own on top of them and then rasing her and looking at Mr. Carlyle she ecstatically exclaimed: “Now 1 am in adise, You can imagine how ridi- culous such an action must have been to two i ymmon_ sense people like ces from other 1 many people from tho United States upon Carlyle to urge him to adopt their peculiar ‘isms.’ Every crank who went to Europe who thought he had the literary bent called upon Ci Brouson Alcott, who calied with from Bmerson, tried to persuade Carl adopt and advocate vegetarianism, One of the most eurious _receptions of such v was that which Carlyle gave George lan, Gilillan was quite a_literar of o generation His books read, and his literary portraits we ly popular with the ties, aud 1 knew of many girls who slept with these volumes 1l Gilfillan was a lecturer or, He appreciated his pop and bad 8 very good opinion of George Gilfillan. He calied one day at Mr. Carlyle's and his knock was responded to by lo himself. As Carlvle opened the door and stood before him Gilfillan introduced himself with a grandiloquent, bow and said : L am George Gilfillan and you are Mr. Carlyle, I suppose. 1 have been lecturing abont you all over Englard.’ lyle looked at him a half moment and ing back his shuggy mane blurted “What the d—1 did you lecture about me for,’ and with that he SLAMMED THE DOOR IN HIS PAC “It must have been oneof his mos days and one can have little idea of the annoy- ances which he had to undergo. I remember the instance of one American who called upon him at 10 0’clock in the morning aund was told that Mr. ( » was busy and could not be sm*n He yelled out in so loud a tone that umlomum hear him up-stairs © my card to Mr, yle and tell him I've got to sce him, lm\\% leave for America at 4 o'clock this afternoon and I won't go with- out seeing Thomas Carlyle.” The result was that he did see him andas Mr. Car pressed it: * e stole from me ‘a whole day ch I shull never get back to all etey appreciated better than M. 1 time. His gospel was work ind nds upon him were so gr fight for his hours of litera king of Carlyle’s con continued Dr. Milburn, “‘though he could not dictate his private con- versation, could it have been taken down by a stenographer, would have been as valuable to posterity as his written works. His mind was_wondegfully clear, and with ‘those he loved he talked freely and fully, Many of his conversations with me are photographed, as it wi on my brain and [can repeat them word for word and alinost tone for tone as he IIHI‘IL‘l them, Perhaps the L’rc.\lefl NLers GhAG Gilfil- ter © widely irritable I was the burning in manuscript of this fi volume of the French revolution. I asked him one day to tell me the story of this los and he did so in his own characteristic I never think of it without a shiver, After many and many a month of weary te I had flmshed the first volume of “The French Revolution,’ u history, and at his earnest de- sire had lent it to John Stuart Mill, a friend who had helped me largely in the work and to whom I was beholden for not a little sym- pathy and encouragement in my task. After reading it himself he lent it to his friend, Mus. Taylor, without my knowledge aud she, as she afterwdrds declared, was beguiled by reading it far into the night and before she was aware the dawn was streaming in through the library windows, Laying the manuscript upon the library table she hied her to bed and in due time Betty, the house- maid, came into the library to make and light the fire and, looking around for some. thing suitable to her purpose she saw what seemed a loose heap of rubbish upon the table, gathered it up, gave it a twist, thrust itinto the grate, applied the lucifer ‘match, and up the chimb; WENT THE FRENCH REVOLUTION in flame and soot, like the thing of which it was the story. For days they kept the fact from me, but at last Mill, with a face as pale as stone, came and broke the tidings to us. It is a terrible thiug when, through long vears, by nignt and day, you have wrestled grimly with the spirits of "Evebus and, after patient, painstaking toil have made for your- self o way through the _trembling bog worse almost than Serbonian; a that bears tho pressure of Jour ovn foot and which you trust will be a highway for generations of men through the wide quaking morass; when Eros promises to come 1nstead of Erebus; as certainly as by tue blow of & Titen’s club yourself to be overthrown lying senseless in the bog, your hiehway engulfed and Tartarus come agai ia i experience which one may well oall & rible. I was as a man dazed; all thought, power even life itself gone from me. 1 sat ildered and for days and weeks there in my study iu the top of the house sought to begin the work again, filled page after page and then tore them up and cast them from me. At last one day sitting by the window in the frout I looked away and saw & man standing upon a scaffold, a man of my own father's craft, @ mason at his work building a house. With his trowel he laid the mortar, aud on it laid brick after brick striking each with bis trowel, as if giving it bis benedic- tion and farewell, and so was the pile raised under his hand. 'He was whistling as blithe and merry as a lark. The wind was fair and 1 cavght the sound and said: “Poor fool standiug there encompassed by the vile atmosphere of this dim planet, whistlin gaily as though there werd no sorrow and misery in the world.” ool rather thou,” I sald to myself, "nm.lm( hero whining and moping like & child whose house of cards has fallen in the dust, ‘T'ne man yonder is doing 1 have | you not do | « man's workes tn manly w whero man shall be wedded born and duty done wrought fato tho fabric of character does his work bravely and thou artsitting here helpless and moaning.' With the thought I took heart, arose and resolved once more to strive that my work should be done in & maniy fas holiday 1 h\xvmmgnhu ne and _children they call polite < of & man who was once British navy, about dogs off, an orname that had th carch of th throy erts chaft, I gained b down at my work willin this planet, the got done,’ Frask and grace and sat me id in time, as all things French revolution CARPENTER, At nose and throat, Dr. Birney, i il SINGULARITELS, A negro at Perry, Ga., is said to weigh 300 pounds, and to huve gained 100 pounds within A year, squash ut Colfax, N. M id night m i fuches around, and is still A woman at Hagarstown, Md., which eamo iuto her ight fect wing. has o goose possession when she years ugo. The fowl A. farmer in Van Buren, Pa apple orchards fitteen bushels. 10t more than A cucumber owns three a bushel. is_exhibited at Montgor Ala., which is 33 diches long, 121, in wide and weighs 609 pounds. The patch in which it grew is full of cucumbers weihing from one pound upward A Cobbyille, Ga., man tells of a pig which has been ad i by an old cat. She had four Kittens besides, and the old cat was as much attached to the pig as if it had been one of her kittens, To an elephunt the loss of his teeth is a far more serious matter than to a b eing. The poor clephant cannot ¢ his food nor digest it he loses condition and dies, As William Turner of Morgan county, Georgia, was driving the other day, light- ning struck the harness on his horse and running up the them and gave him a slight shock, which he did not get entirely over during the day ome amazingly biz pumpkin have been raised in M fall, and the coutest for nmlmum is now on. Mr. Guy Mullen of Nowport, is pretty well to the front in this, !l.l\nn.’ ised seven on one vine whose com- bined weight was 102 pounds. ke in the Moosejaw Can,, which was more than a mile in circumierence, disappeared en- rély from some cause. A farmer purchased de bottom, and has this year raised a maguificent crop of wheat upon it. Near Red River vostoMice, county, Mich, spring s back from the quulity of petui: the water flow eautiful specimens of petrified moss, acorus, sticks, etc., can be picked up all about the vlace. A town in England, Skiddaw, Cumberland, stands unique as a township of one house and male adult inhabitant. T prived of his vote becausc of the ( lh.ll there are no overseers to make out list, and no chur build ing on which to publish one if made, ‘When some boys and a dog were chasing pet rabbit, at Rich Hill, Mo., it took shelter under a hen with a brood of ch The old hen nearly picked aud scratched the eyes outof the dog and kids, and from that day to this the heu and rabbit are |H~w|u able, The Bernard mill stopped for an hour or sothe other ¢ mach was all right, but a curious mud turtle had wandered up the feeding pipe of the cugine, causing u cessation of work. pauese papers record the capture of a_huge eagle in the Hitachi district not long since, A man was at the doorof his house with his child, eight months old, when an eagle pounced down and attempted to scize the babe, The father, however, drew the child into the house, and the eagle lost its prey. The servants of the houschold rushed at the bird, which fought furiously. but was finally Killed by a blow on the back of the head. The wings were found to measure nine feet from tip to tip,and the bird weighed about twenty-five pounds, Farmer Harwell Jeuks of Lime Rock, R. T., has & young colt that has developed a strong passion for going up ladde The colt, whenever he can do so, bre his halter and rushes pell mell up a ladder to the hay mow. The first time the colt did this Farmer Jenks, missing him from his stall, thought the colt had been stolen, Afte ouring the ne borhond he was surprised, upon retur home, to see the colt Ionl(ing at him from a second story window of the barn. times, when the colt had been lows the hay mow with great dificult broken away from his captors anc ately ascended to the upper story. - Dr. district, near Ottawi ashtenaw nmed i Birney eures catarrh, Bee bldg. PEPPERMINT DROPS, Castles in the air do not bring in any rent. “And do you really feel so vel bad, John+ nief” “Yes, ma, 1ain’t quite sick enough to need any medicine, but I'm a little too sick to #0 to school.” Before an audience can'see the point of an cddress the speaker must speak to the point The man who joins anassessment nsuranee company can take o melaneholy pleasure in |I|mkmgut the mauy who will mourn his death, Hnofltss (a young lawyer)—Well, 1'll be hanged. Old Practioner—I wouldn’t be sur- prised—that is, if you defend yourself. “Setting up the drinks” gencrally the drinke Sad to say, the Alaska scal is being swiftly exterminated. Itisa skiff game. The postoffice clerks have a right to loiter about the building, It's their stamping ground, Wagg—T should think you'd quit keeping chickens, They eat more than a horse. Jay —1 don't see heow, Wagg—Don't they tuke a peck atevery mouthful! “Do you enjoy sleep, Bridget?” “How can 17 The minit I lay down I'm aslape, an’ the minit I'm awake I have to getup. Where's the time for injoyin’ it?" “May I come in?" asked a congressman of his daughter, who had a young gentleman caller. “Oh, yes," she answered, ‘‘but we have a quorum wllllDIIt you."” *That was an artistic error of Shakespeare in having the ¢host of Humlet's fatherspeak English.” “Why!" *“He should have spok- en 4 dead language,” You would think thereis a premium offered for fools; titere are so many who lose no op- portunity for being foolish. Virginia grammarians selves to know which orrect—*He done didt,"” or **He done done it.” “If 1 have to speak toyou again I'll whip you' “Say, papa, what did you have a lit- tle boy for if you can't get along any better with hml than you do." “What a number of these Boston girls wear glasses; have you noticed!’ *Yes, very few Boston women thiuk it proper to look at anything with the naked eye, “It was & magnificent mine, but they ruined it.”’ “How!(" 'he poor idiots took all the gold out of it. “What is BWCCS »ter than to have a friend you can trust!” *To have a friend that will yon,” was the quick reply. ss (to new servant)-We breakfast generally about 8 o'clock, mum, if I ain't down to it, don’t wait.’, He-— What makes the dining room so cold, dear? She—1 think, love, it must be the frieze on the wall. Though there are cycles of Time, it is reasonable to assert the old gentlewman never rode them. “It fills the bill,” vemarked the bantam pullet, when she picked up @ large and juicy grasshopper, Will —Hello, what's the matter! Bill tl_ nld “Take anything for it1” Y upsets puzzling them- have “Well, Got , ad- l)nl\ou have some money left you!” in- quired ‘Mr. Brown. *Yes,” replied his neighbor, *but it left me long ago.” The man with the toothache looks larger to himself than ail the rest of the world com- bined. If time is money, it would seem at first sight that the loafer ought to be the richest of men; but, after all, he hasn't any more than anybody else, —~— Dr. Birney, nose mul |lnnu( Bee bldg When Blondes Go Out of Fashion. 1t was in America, now we come to think of it, that the blonde first began to disappear, | $he | brunette will even be per, Bee bldg | reins to his hands. benumbed | was teo umiversal to last, f W SuCURs, says th inzel The art wusdmperfect. T @ ldon lo-ks took ® green’ hu, a d nature arself on the hairdre sor, Ac 16 t the fashion and the footiights wer Kin L All the stage boedhifes and the electric light told dia impartiality of sunshi The dyers seomed 10 I last fow ye creased servative that we cling York they re Indeed, 810 looked Lovely ) tales, The ¢ was niore teyin 1g is t0 be done + a little mahog itle light brown, So fashionable is who are naturaliy itted towear their hair as natare suppiied it. Thevery actresses are yielding to the inevitable, Sirah Bern hardt bas had interviews with her dyer, and ning Cleopatra will have locks of Ten years ago she would have swarthy queen with the goiden el d now comes up the and fash. s, T any, a little Venetian ved, a 1i and a prevalenco of black black to become thut girls us relation betwi The young ¥ grow hair fo cupation, ¢ at an end me from an unex peted continent Last woek goods invoiced to the port of Marscilles were several bales of Chinese hair, o bl ). Birney eures eatarrh - I commere 1s of Thuringi the London market, Their oc- least,_that occupation, Their rals co Bo TIONAL. t Beloit bldg. EDUC pund has been broken new chapel building. There is an aid society in Vassar that supports and maintains three s in the coilege, The Chautauqua civcles this winter will give much heed to good Engiish in spoken and written discourse. Lo Ao o § s Just g \ll"lnl'luln«n'urlh for the ollege rous me 1 £10,000 to found an o in that city, percent of Vassar girls v. This seems to show that they the other honorary college Prof. Edward B. Clapp of Tllinois college has been chosen assistant professor of Giry He wus valedictoriu o the Yale nnunm.m literary and scientifie civele conventions have been held reeentty in To- ronto, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Pittsburg and other citi Senator Ci furnishing the e Divinity hall of Springfield, O. The Michigan state board of health has ordered the exclusion from all public schools, colleges and other institutions of learning of all persons suffering from consumption Northwes university, the Methodist institation at has property to the net amount 350,000, hundred students were cnrolled the past year, Phe northern oratorical leagn recently formed, comprises Ob the Northwestern, W isconsin ligran universities. It is expe 3, Bric 300 toward tly completed Pamma Witteuburg university, which was Appleton, W ipient of a4 va Fifs in> the shape of Poravién antiguities. This rure collect ity by Hon. John Hicks, The school music of Harvard theological opened vl couragingly, T applicants~ fo students for the regular cou neludes two ladi The Tuskegee normal institute, Tuskeg ¢hich lias been from the first ofii le, has entered in its bistory 425 students present, nting thirteen states, and _double this number would be entif there was room. A friend in New York has just given §2,000 toward the endow- ment fund. The ofticial inspectors sof the school of mines at Madrid huvedecived to appoint a professor to instruct pupils in vhe apphcation of electricity to mining and metallurgy. The ntment has not teen filled, for tho sim- son that there is nobody in Spain who suficient knowledge to voll of new eof the semi- ple re 15 supposed to have undertake the post. Mr. A. G. Sivaslien, teacher of mathemat- ics and Fuglish in Anatolia college, Tur’ pursuing special mathematici Carleton college, having a two y of absence for that purpose: his | meanwhile supplied by Mr. H, K a graduat 3 Mr. Wingate's sup port has | umed by the ¢ ton students and teachers. The Chautauqua @ American fopics osp summer. The plan: tures on A an llhh the educational institutio i tidal development of the United States: popular stereopticon lectures on American scenery, and the great cities of the republic nose and throat, 13ee bldg. - One sunny day when the w ing a doughty captuin marched with his grim soldiers. As he tr out of the little Indiana town of Switch he waved his hand and kissed his finger tips at @ pretty maiden who shook her golden curls at him from her father’s window. And he pressed a v that had one of those golden curls twined in it to his heart, and felt of the girl he left behind him. pretty muiden craned her graceful neck. She ran down to the road and through the dust the troopers’ he tramping made., She watched her lover until nis broad strar led in the maze of blue, with bayonets flashing over it. Then she threw another kiss, and while her blue eyes swam with tears, she ran i doors to mourn her absent lover. never saw each other again, For a long time letters came to her—those old “army letters,” in envelopes that had grmnm ml;:h’n sprawling over them, with *“union forever,” printed on them. They were sweet epistles, but after a while they stopped. As the years went on Jennie James married another sol- dier, C. H. Hestin, and Captain James H. Miller, who tramped down the dusty road years before, disappeared, He her first at a Fourth of July celebration, and could not resist her the temptati to pull he golden curls, He met her and fell in love. Then he went away to war., The other na squalid flat at 68 Desplaines s, Jénnie Rowland sat with ng at her skivts, says the ( lmugn Horald, The girl whose curls Captain Jimmie pulled 5o many years ago was still a soldier’s wife. Her pres- ent husband is George' Rowland, who is detailed at the United States recruiting station at the cortier of Madison and Jefferson streets, From Soldier Hestin she had been divorced. For the first time in a score of years Jennie James- Rowland had heard [rom her first love. He had died and left $63,000 to her. But Mrs. Rowland said, with ;,'lndnl- shin- ing through her tumful eyes: “Itis all 00 (,(ro(l to be b will . make dr. Birney, The They D , Birnev tarrh, Bee bldg. ol To Be Taken in Moderation. * A writer in Harper's Bazar, speaking of literary clubs for women, says: ‘‘Some women have taken up the literary club idea with almost too much vehemence. One brilliant woman is & member of at least ten such organizations, while one or two, or at , ought to be all that any nn-- pt to keep up with; but, taken properly, the woman's literary mm can be made the source of incalculable’good, It must develop a class of thinking women, whose effect upon society, especially upon the rising generation, must be greatand en- nobling.” e Dr. Birney, nose and throat, Bee bldg - The length of the _tele .(mpn line between Buenos Ayres and Monte 186 miles, and it is designed to carry ically driven letter boxes, which may be dispatched _every two hours. Tho two wires, cross the La Plata estuary ata point where it is nineteen | miles wide, et Dr, Birney, nose and throat, Bee bldg a used to | will be | among tho | titles to | Over four | n s presénted to the unic | United | upon_the most | ‘avle- | COJIENG IOLIDAY GOODS AT ax Mever & Bro.Co's (ESTABLISHED 18686.) sreat Jewelry Palace, Neb. Sixteenth and Farnam 511‘(*0(\,0111.1]1;", ant of | large HOLIDAY TRADE, we have putin a Tremendous Stock, (ten times the largest in Omaha), of Diamonds, W atches, Fine Jewelry, Clocks, Bronzes, Bric-a-Brac, Sterling Silver | and Fine Silver Plated Ware, Silver Lamps, Fine Silk Umbrellas, in fact the CAREI/Eof everything inour line, to which we invite the attention of adiscriminating public. We shall place all jof these goods on sale During November Anticipating a very 2 43 i ) '. A) nectal Low Prices SHREWD BUYERS know the advantage gained by selections, while stocks are complete, to say rush in December. If you are undecided as to WHAT TO BUY will try to help you determine. if you are not making Early nothing of avoiding the come in and we | Goods Laid Aside :Ll\«’\'il)fl You can have the ready to pay for them or take them What More Can You Ask? MAX MEYER & BRO. CO., Sixteenth and Farnam Streets. N. B. Great Bargains in Pianos, Organs and all kinds Musical Mer= | chandise. 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