Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1890, Page 3

T}TE*O_MM_@ BEE COUNCIL BLUFFS, OFFICE, NO, 12 PEARL, ST. Celivered by Carrier 1n any part of the City W W. TILTON, - - = MANAGER TELEVHONES! Pusiness Office, No, 4 Night MINOK MENTION. N.Y. P Co. Burhoru's for watches, Council Bluffs Lumber Co.. coal. The trial of jury cases in thesuperior court will begin today. Wan competent lady cashier tempor M, Bee ofice, Pearl st. The roof of the court house is undergoing Bome repairs nccessary o make it water proof, Pormit to wed was yesterday given Fritz Westerman of Mills county and 1sliza Gret- chien of this county, Nephi North was arrested yesterday on the complaint of his wife, who said he threatened to assassinate her, Justice Hendricks the e and dismissed him. The Merchants Retail Commercial agency holds its bi-monthly mecting this, Wednes day, evening, in the board of trade rooms Merriam block, The meeting will be ®alled promptly at 8:80, Postmaster Treynor announced yesterday that arrangements had been perfe exchange .of a mail pouch between Couneil Bluffs and A a via the Rock Island limited passenger, This train heretofore has never carried mail. The arrangements will afford much better facilities between the two points. The ypolice stationed on Cut-OfY island are obliged to pay motor car fare in bringing prisoners to the city jail, fare notonly for themselves but for the prisoners. There seems no fund from which to get these inci- dentals back, ana the officers do not feel dis- posed to pay them out of their meager earn- ings, The Biltgen case was called in the superior court yesterday morning. A host of wit- nesses hiad been summoncd by both sides and the defendunt's attorney anxious for an immediate 4 City Attorney Stewart, representing the _prosecution, howover, and the case was continued until next Saturday morning av § o'clock. Late Monday afternoon Mrs, Mary North applied to Justice Hendricks for protection, She stated her husband, Nephi North, had been drinking very hard of late, and recently had threatened her life on numerous occas- fons. Monday afternoon he arimed himself with a raizor and mode several attempts to reach her, but she managed to escape him. Constable Forman arrested North and landed hum in the county jail. The Holder girl, concerning whom there has been such a controversy, was night be- fore last secured in Omaha by her newly ap: ointed guardian, o man named Alexauder. Eliswes attending a dance, in company with some of her friends, and there was quite a scene when the officers, acting by orders of Alexander, compelled her to accompany her guardian to Council Bluffs, The girl is motherless, and has been living with an aunt here, but heruncle, on the other side of the house, objects on the ground that her aunt’s home is not the proper place for her. By the uncle’s request the court appointed Alex- auder, who is no relative, but who seems to take a lively interest in the controve Officer Béswick yesterday arrested a fel- low who gave the nameof J. J. Kinzie, and lodged him in the city jail without putting a charge ngaiust him. “The arrest was made upon information furnished the officers on Sunday night when an old German named Schmidt was drugged and robbed bv a stranger whom he met in a Lower Broadway saloon, The stranger claimed to be hunting for & room, and Schmidt, who rooms on Madi- son street, wvited him to go home with him and look at a vacant room in the same build- ing. The offer was accepted, and the stranger remained with him allnight. They had a little beer before retiring, and shortly after drinking it Schmidt fell asleepand knew nothing more until morning, He then real- that he had been drugged and robbed of @ gold watch and «hain, an_overcoat and sev- eral dollars in money. Schmidt gave a good description of the fellow, and Ofiicer Beswick succeeded in finding him yesterday. Detec tive Vaughan of Omaha saw hym in the city il during the afternoon, aud promptly Tecognized him as an all around crook, The officers are satisfied that he is a confidence man, implicated in many recent deals and robberies, and are working up & strong case against him, It was ascertained that he was lving on Tenth street with a woman he claimed was his wife, and yesterday o search ‘warrant was issued for the purposeof search- fiig the place for stolen goods. Nothing of importance was found, but Kinzie will be held to await further developments, which are supposed to be near at haud. Mrs. Clara Colby addressed an audience composed of about two hundred intelligent and attentive people who gathered at the First Baptist church last evening to hear her lecture on the ‘*Social Evolution of Women." The lady was pleasantly introduced by Mrs, Amelfa Bloomer, and was supported on the Yostrum by thé presence of Mrs. Bloomer, Mrs. Osborne and Mrs. McBride. Mus, Colby is a vivacious, energetic speaker, with @ stage manner that' compellsattention before aword is uttered. She began her specch on an apology, informing her audienco that she - had mislaid her lecture on the social evolution problem and would have to give in its stead @ straight, orthodox woman's suffrage discourse, which would be based upon the suggestive text, “The Disfranchisement of Women.”” What she chose toannounce as £n orthodox lecture did not prove to be of- fenstvely s0, but abounded in strong and brilliant pictures of theinfluence of women in the home and in all the walks of life, She based her assertions that tho influence of women would be beneficial in politics upon the proofs of her devotion to correct princi- ples in the home, She madoe a strong int when sbe recalled the fact that he peoplo of South Dakota had re- fused to grant_ political franchise to women, but were willing to give it to the In- dians und Inquired with a good deal of energy what her auditors imagined the people of Dakota thought of the situation now when half of the United States arny is engaged in subjecting the Indians, She paid her com- liments to Mr. Rosewater for his remarks to Rdn. Anthony on the occasion of her recent iecture in Omaha, and invo Mrs, Bloomer a high compliment upon her many graces of character and the fact that she is one of the first and truest advocates of the politicul reform desired. Tho audience was highly pleased with tho lecture and warmly up- plauded the lady when she concluded. o — A Wonderful ‘loy Department.’ That is what every man, woman and child says when they look through Eiseman's third floor, It feasts tie eyes of everybody, not only in the greatvariety of goodson exhibition, but when they learn the low prices, Ordinarily merchants who handle fancy goods ask big profits, but Eiseman’s are scllingtheirtoys so cheap that 81 goes further toward buying a supply than 2 elsewhere. The assortinent is 50 ummense that it would be impossible to enumerate them. It would take more than the entire columns of this paper to enumer- ate them. We have everything ornamental & useful for holiday presents, Come and see .hom. Price them and you will surely buy. HENRY EISEMAN & CO,, roadway and Pearl stredt, Council Bluffs, Ia. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. ‘W. W. Loomis has trip. C. 8. Clark, who for years was connected with the press of this city, and who for some time has been on the reportorial force of the Milwaukee Daily Journal, has been promoted 10 the city Bdlwrlhir of that paper. He is recognized as one of the ‘smoothest” on the lake shore, His many friends will rejoice to learn that he is winning success, ———— The musical lovlns plo of the city will have the pleasure of hearing the celebrated male quartette, the “T. K.," Thursday even- Luu at the Presbyterian church, Tho tickets ave heen placed at25 conts so that all ma, tend. Tickets for sale at the corner bool store, the Council Bluffs carpet company's and ot V., Badollet’s, C. A, Beebe & Co. are gong out of therst tail trade and will close out their fine lineo ladies' writing and ofice desks, book cases chiffoniers, parlor tables, parlor aud chamber suits, folding veds, plain and fancy rockers, cabinets, wmirrors, elc., ete. for less than cost. The Manbatian head e Manbatian sporting quarters, 418 Yroadway. ue easton & business THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1890 -~ TWELVE THE NEWS IN THE BLUFFS. J. 0. Terry, While 8howing a Patent Fire- Escape, Falls Fifty Feet, CUT AND BRUISED, BUT NOT KILLED. H. H. Hawley, a Burglar in the County Jail, Had a Scheme—Lwot- Leggers in Limbo-Lievee Talk ~Minor Mention. Yesterday afternoon about 8 o'clock the peoplo on the strects in the vicinity of No. engine house onthe corner of Main and Bry ant streets wore treated to a spectacle that caused cheeks to blanche and hearts to cease beating for an instant. From the top of the dizzy tower that over- looks the creek & man had suspended himself by asingle straud of cord that looked to be about the sizo of binding twine, His feet were resting on the window sill of one of the little windows fifty-two feet above the pave- ment, He stood for several moments wav- ing his bands and gesticulating. When the attention of everybody within sight had been attracted, the man stepped off from his frail perch and began to descend, paying out the cord from one hand while waving the other. He went down slowly for a distance of two feet and then the cord snapped. He turned half way over, as he flashed downward like a meteor and struck on his headand shoulders on a Iittle shed roof ut the foot of the towerand disappeared from sight, Instantly a great crowd collected. The door to the shed was locked by a padlock and one of the firemen had theonly key. It was hurtiedly procured and the door opened. Instead of fiading the man crushed beyond recognition, they foind him sitting up rub- bing his head and looking around in a dazed sort of manner, The unfortunate man was J. C. Terry of Tyndall, 8. D, Hois in the city for the pur- pose of exhubiting a patent fire escape, a sim- ple device known asthe Haight escape, in- vented by a South Dakota man. Mr. Terry has been engaged by Haight to go around the country and exhibit his escape. He arrived in the city Monday afternoon, and yesterday he exhibited his apparatus at the fire house: He concluded that the high tower of N 3 offeted as fine an opportunity could ~ be desired to exhibit the life-saving device, and at 8:15 he he attached the hook to the window sill of tie upver window, Theapparatus used was a little model intended toshow the principle aad was not designed for use, It consisted of a friction block avout two inches square, which is less than hulf the size of the article intended for actual use. Instead of arope such as commonly used, he had run a com- mon sash cord through the block and aesire: to show that even with that little aevice, small enough to be carried in a man’s pocket, he could safely make the descent, from a tall building. Wien he threw his weight upon the cord it gave way where it run across the sharp corner of the window sill and let him fall a distance of filty teot. The only thing that saved him from instant death was theshed roof, which was com- osed of i lumber grooved together, When he struck the spring of the lumber partially broke the forceof his fall, Nine of the boards six inches wide were broken to- getlier with the 2x4 scantling that supported them. Immediately beneath himin the tool shed was several large coils of wire that had been unbound, and thesehelped to break the fall by acting like a spring mattress, The mar was helped out and was able to walk into the engine house. Dr. Cleaver was_called by telephone and rendered him medical service. His face was badly cut and bruised and there was scarcely a~ point where the end of a finger could be placed that did . not show an abrasion of the skin. One fluger on the left hand was Dbroken, as was also one of the floating ribs. These, with the exception of a scalp wound an ingh long, were the extent of his injuries unless somo internal trouble de- ‘veloos that is not now apparent. Mr. Terry is apparently @ very in- telligent man of about thirty-five years of age, Ho explains that the ac- cilent was due to the deception practiced upon by a merchant in Neola, Ia., of whom he purchased the roll of sash cord. He is nearly blind and could not see that the cord was thin and not what he asked for. He says he has frequently made descents of 100 fect with a common sash cord. Terry was formerly a physician, but was compelled to abandon practice on account of as “failing eyesight. The only thing he seems to suffer from at the present time is the chagrin over the failure of hisfire escape to work properly. ‘To convincethe reporters that it was perfectly safe and reliable ho was very anxious to make another descent, crippled as ho was, asking only to be assured that he be given a piece of sash cord that was not rot- ten. He was dissuaded from making another attompt upon the pledgo of the reporters that hesbould be given a “square deal.” el ey The Greatest Offer of the 10th Century At the book department of fhe Boston store, Fotheringham, Whitelaw & Co., Couneil Bluffs, Ia. _ Some kind of a cyclopedia is recognized as* anecessity, and hitherto tho best has been most costly. Wenow offer you the heaped- up “knowledge of the centuries, the latest, greatest work 1n English literature, tho great Britannica, at the lowest price. We give not ouly reasons but reasounable reasons why this is so. The Henry G. 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Very respectfully, Forugrizanan, Wuireraw & Co., Boston Store, Council Bluffs, Ia, A Harness Thief Caught. Deputy Marshal Fowler had occasion to visit the establishment of Tom Deerweister on Broadway yesterday for the purpose of looking after some busine While there & young man came in carrying a set of heavy Work harness tied upin & guuny sack. The fellow wauted o the property, and after { exhibiting it to the proprictor offered to tako $ for the lot. ~ Fowler was con- vinced at once that it was stolen property and began to question the young man, Fe told a story about having just sold a team and wagon for 8275, but had reserved the harness, *Where did you sell the team ' inquired the officer. ““Out here on the street afow moments ago’ “Did the man wh bought the team take the wagon also! " “How didhe get the wagon awn: without the harness? The follow dropped his oyes and _appeared very much confused, and a moment. Tator when tho oficor accused him of haviug stolen tho harness no frankly admitted it. Ho was placed under arrest and taken to the central station, where he gave the name of F. Birmingham. He told contradictory stories about where he stole the harness, naming Omabaand South Omaha. A tele' phone message was sent to the Omaha offi- cers and during the afternoon Detective Vaughan came over. Tho theft of a sot of harnoss had been reported by a grader living near South Omaha, and when the detective questioned the boy'and described the locality where thotheft had been committed he cori- fessod and gavo the oM cer all the details, Fo expressed a willingness to aecompany the detective across the river and volunteered to assist in carrying the big load of leather, and they left the station bearing the burden be- tween them. Birmingham is evidently but half witted, and seemod to take great intorest in assisting Dotective Vaughan i gotting him across the river, Before purchasing holiday gifts attend Trinity fair in Musonie templo you will find something to please you there, ellibiciion The “T. K." Concert. Tho ““T. K. quartette will give a concert inthe Presbyterian church Thursday night for the benefit of the Young Men's Christian assoclation. The quartette 1s fully capable of furnisbiog a full and delightful evening's programme, and will be assisted by home talent also. Supper will be served each evening at Trinity holiday fair from 5:30t0 10 p. m. pribidAias; Dolls Given Away. With every misses' or child's cloak pur- chased at our store this week we will give a beautiful doll for a presont, besides saving you at, least 25 per cent on the cloale. Take advantage of this offer, and trade at Eise- man's. b oS R Buy your conl and wood of C. B. Fuel Co,, 539 Broadway. Telephone 135, A general invitation is extended to all the clerks in the city to patronize Trinity fair on Saturday for dinner—from 11:30 a. m. until 2 p.m. Eiseman’s store is the center of attraction at the present time. The real live Santa Claus will arrive at their store tomorrow Monday evening, and will make his head quarters at their store. Children who wish to write to him must bring or send their let- ters addressed to ‘“Santa Claus,” care of Eiseman’s store. LA Special Sale of Blankets and Com- forters. This week. Prices way down. They must go. We haye too many of them and must sell them. Call at Eiseman’s, The Scheming of a Burglar, A scheme to blow a safe at Holdrege, Neb. was discovered by the vigilance of SIITH O'Neill in watching the prisoners in the Council Bluffs jail. One of the prisoners, who gives his nawe as H. W. Hawley, has lately been trying to fend some letters out of the jail to some of his pals. These letters were seized, and_thoy contain somo intorest- ing reading. Hawley was arrested here a few months ago, whilo in the very act of burglarizing Badollet’s grocery store, on Broadway. Realizing the fact that the evidence aguinst him was such that he could not save bimseif, it tried in court, he began his ma- nipulations to escape 1usllu! in some other way. Inthe captured letters to his pal ho reveals his plans confidentially, He re- quested that his comrade procure for him two kinds of acid, which he said he needed to take the temper out of the steel bars. These bars he had examined evidently with the eye of an expert, and he expressed the opinion that they were not chilled. He was very particular about the kind of acids to be got for him and described them minutely, Healso wanted four saws, the description of ‘which he also gave in detail, and the make. He wanted them very fine toothed, as it was necessary to do the work quietly, In making the request of his friend to furnish him with these means of escape he said that he could not hope to get cleared in court, and that he was in a des- rate strait. He also outlined the manner n which the articles could be t to him, Toe saws were to be dlaced in a long plug of tobacco, in which a hole had been bored to recvive them. The acids were to oe packed ina bag of smokin% tobacco. He directed that the stamp over the mouth of the bag be steamed, so that it could be removed without, breaking, then when the bottles were packed inside tho stamp could be replaced, and thus no suspicion would arise, Hawley wroto many other interesting things, among which wcre his opinions of the Pottawattamie county jail, which he pronounced as anything but a delightful resort, under the present management, as it gave little opportunity for escape. He ojected strongly to the re- volving feature, ds it. revolved too often to permit him to work on the bars, except at night, and then it was difficult to do such work without the noise being heard. The most sensational revelation in the let- ters was the plan to break into a bank or loan office at Holdrege, Neb, He explained to his friend that he had intended to work this scheme hiwmself, so soon as he found a fellow 10 help him, but that whisky bad upset his Eluns. for while in Lincoin, planning on this foldrege trip, he got full, 'and was himself “touched, losing all his’ money. If it had not been for his being short he said he would not have thought of breaking into Badollet's, for there wasn’t enough in this job to pay for the msk. He didn't happen to come across anybody that he knew, and thus not - being able to get help 'he broke into this store, just to get astarter if he could. Situated as he now was, there was no immediate prospectof his being able to work the {?b at Holdrege, and so he turnca it over to friend, with such information as he had in the matter, and recommended that his friend work it. If he made a success and got the “stuff” he would expect to have apart of it, in return for the information thus given, If his friend could in this way raise him some money, before his time for trial came, he might be able to fix some of the witnesses and thus get off, 1 not, he would have to go across the state. He erclosed & rougaly drawn diagram, showiug thp location of several buildings and streets in Holdredge, accom- panied by a description of just where the uilding stood and the location of the safe, which were to be broken into. Thesafe was described with name of make, etc., and the assurance given that it would not take more than half an hour ‘to knock it off.” The building referred to was but oue block from the depot, and diagonally opposite the hotel, and it was indicated on the map by the word ‘“pox.” He advised his friend to “clear your hands of everything but the stuff itself,”” and warned him not to nltcm);t to carry any tools on himself. He further . informed” him that the man who owned the “box’ boight notes, cte., and that he kept from $1,500 to $2,000 in cash in the safe all the time. Hawley signed his name as ‘‘Red,” but gave strict instructions to his friend to write to him under the name of Hawley. He said that letters going out of the jail werc all ex- amined, so he had to sneak these out, but let- ters coming to the jail were not opened. In oue of these respects Hawley seems to have been a little mistaken,and the curresPondum‘e being officially captured, the ‘‘box’ at Hol- dredge was not worked, and the expected wealth did not come to his relief. Hawley's time for trial came yesterday, and newher acid, money or saws had arrived. There seemed ho way of escae, so he pleaded guilty, and threw himself on the ten- der mercies of the court. His sentence will tot be pronounced for a few days yet. e Neckwear, silk mufi@®s, plush caps, ete., for holiday presents. Ottenbeirer's, 414 Broadway. Attend oyster supperat Trinity fair Thurs- day night. . —e See the elegant Christmus cards, thousands to select from at Eisemau’s, Talks About the Levee. Considerable public interest is felt in the councilmanic discussion of the levee problem which has been indulned in some time. Only the western portion of the city is directly in- torested, as the property, which will be sub- *cct to taxation to pay lurl\‘lb improvement, s dofined as lying in sewer district No. 9, which comprises all of that lying west o Twelfth strect. It 18 estimated that the cost of widening and strengthenjgg the old levoe will be almost as great as that involved in the construction of the few, and when it is completed it wilt onlygbe in the nature of a tomY.-rm-{ improvement. T.J. Evans, J. W. Paul and others who own large tracts of land north of the among the promiuent pushersof the enter- prise, and if the new pankis built their property will bear a large o of the cost tcannot be taxed at all for the purpose of d fraying the costof widening the old ley becauso it will not be benefited by it The, claim that the tax realized from this property will about equal the increased cost of build- ingthe new levee, making the burden no heavier upon the general taxpayers, These are facts of which all~ the members of the council are conversant, and they will have a great deal of weight'in foreing the conclusion that it were better to abandon the old scheme ana apply the cost of it upon tne new enterprise. Gypsio caruival at Trivity fair Satirday ht. Fine Holiday Presents. person in- the city and surronnding invited to call’ and examine the fine live ot holiday goods at theold reliable business house of i. Hgrhorn, 17 Main street, Our Mottes. “flest Quality of Goods for the Least Money,” “Special Effort. Made to Pleaso Every One,” “No Trouble to Show Goods and Give ' Prices,” “Prices to Suit tho Times,” “Live and Let Live.,” Read and profit by buying your holiday goods at tho old establishied house of E. Burhorn, 17 Main strect. ——— J.C. Bixby, steam heating, sanitary en- gineer, 043 Lifo buildng, Omaha; 203 Mor riam bloclk, Council Blufts, Elegant Handkerchiefs. From lc apiece up to §50.00 and thousands to select from at Eiseman . Elegnnt Fans. The finest assortmentto select from at Eise- man’s, 0 e * The only first-class fresh candy mnade for the holiday trade, at A.C. Dempsoy's, 105 Muin street, Special Sale of Furs During this week at Eiscman’s, The ladies of Trinity M. E. church holiday fair December 18, 19 and %0, in storeroom under Masonic temple. No Humbug. Our special saleof watches and diamonds isnow the. great attraction. he best goods furnished at the lowest prie ‘We make it a point not to be undersold, C. B.JAcqueany & Co., South Main street. —— Fur Muffs Given Away. . With every cloak bought at Eiseman's this week you will receive an elegant muffa for present. Wanted—Boys at Ameri egraph office, an District Tel- e Remember Fairies eutertanment at Trin- ity fair Friday night. — . Holiday Gifts. Seo those beautiful silk umbrellas at Eise- man’s. Just the thing for a holiday gift from alady to a gentleman, or vice versa. e Buy your holiday gifts at Trinity fair, Rk e Hotel For Kent, Ogden honse, Council Blufts, atlow rental, Inquire at hotel. il b WENT UP IN SMOKE. A $6,000 Stock of Wall Paper and Paints Destroyed. Fire broke out last night about 9:80 o'clock in the wall Ifimr and paint store owned b, Joseph 8. C“ stensen at 616 North Sixteent| street and almost totally destroyed his stock, valued at about $6,000. The fire originated in the basement amoug the oils, but. the cause of the blaze could not be ascertained. The loss is fully covered by insurance, The grocery stock in the udjnlnlnq owned by A, L. Root, was considerably aged by smoke. For a few moments after the fire was dis- covered there came very near beinga panic among the guestsof the Hotel Ksmond, whien occupies the north end and the entire upper part of the same block in which the fire originated.” The prompt arrival of the fire department and the assurance of the fire- men soon quieted the frantic people in the sleeping apartments encouraging them to go back to their couches, ——— AT THE PIT'S MOUTH. Mon say it was a stolen tide— The Lord that sent it He knows all, But in mine ear will aye abide The message that, the bells let fall, And awesome bells they were to me, That in tho dark rang, “Enderby.” —Jean Ingetow, Rudyard Kipling in the Chicago Tribune: Once upon a time there was a Man and his Wife and a Tertium Quid. All three were unwise, but the Wife was the unwisest. The Man should have looked after his Wife, who should have avoided the Tertium Quid, who, again, should have married a wife of his own, after clean and open flirtations, to which nobody can possibly object, round Jakko or Observatory Hill. When you see a young man with his pony in a white lavher, and his hat on the back of his head flying down hill at fifteen miles an hour to meet a girl who will be properly surprised to meet him, you naturally ap- prove of that young man, and wish him taff appvintmonts, and take an interest in his welfare, andus the proper time comes, give them sugar-tongs or side- saddles according to your means and generosity, The Tertium Quid flew down hill on harseback, but it was to meet the Man’s Wife; and when he flew uphill it was for the same end. The Man was in the plains, earning money for his Wife to spend on dresses and four-hundred-rupee bracelets, and inexpensive luxuries of that kind, He worked very hard, and sent her a letter or:a postcard daily. She also wrote to him daily, and said that she was longing. for him to come up to Simla. The Teritum Quid used to lean over her shouldgr and laugh as she wrote the notes. Then the two would ride to the postoffice tugether. Now Simla is a strange ‘»\u,ce, and its customs are pecular; nor is any man who has not spent at least ten seasons there qualified toi-pass judgment on circumstantial evidence. which 1s the most untrustworthy in the courts. For these reasons, and for others which need not appear, I decling, to state positively whether there was anything irrctrieva- bly wrong in the relations between the Man's wife and the Tertium Quid. If there was, and hereon you wmust form your own opinion, it was the Man’s wife’s fault, She was kittenish in her manners, wearing generally an air of softand flufly innocence. But she was deadily learned and evil-instructed: and, now and again, when the mask dropped, men saw this, shuddered and—almost drew back. Men are occasionally par- ticular, and the least particular men are always the most exacting. Simla is eccentric in its fashion of treating friendships, Certain attach- ments which have set and erystallized through half a dozen seasons acquire almost the sanctity of the marriage bond and are revered as such. Again, cer- tain attachments, equally old, and, to ail store, dam- old' embankment aro | appearance, equally venerable, never seem to winany recognized oMeinl status; while a chance-sprung acquaintance, not two months old, steps into the place which by right belongs to the senior. There is no law reducible to print which regulates these affairs, Some people have n gift which secures them ldfinite toleration, and others have not, If she looked over the garden wall, for instanco, women taxed her with stealing thelr husbands, She com- lained pathetieally that she was not al- owed to chooso her own friends. When she put up her big white muff to her lips and gazed over it and under her eyobrows at you as sho said this thing, you felt that sho had been infamously misjudged, and that all the other wamen’s instinets were all wrong; which was absurd. She was not allowed to own the Tertium Quid in peace; and wus 80 strangly constructed that she would not have enjoyed peace had she been so permitted. ~ She preferred some semblance of intrigue to cloak even her most commonplace actions, After two months of riding, first round Jukko,then Elysium,then Summer Hill, then Observatory hill,then under Jutogh and lastly up aud down the Cart rond as for as the Tara Devi gap in the dusk,she said to the Tertium Quid: “*Frank, peo- ple say we are too much together, and peoplé are so horrid.” The Tertium Quid pulled his mustacho and replied that horrid people were un- \\'lm'lh)' of the consideration of nice peo- ple. **But they have done more than talk — they hav itten to my hubby —I'm sur " said the M and she pulled a letter from her hus- band out of her saddle-pocket and gave it to the Terifum Quid. 1t was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in _the Plains one 200 rupees o month (for he allowed his wife 850), and _in a silk banian and cotton trousers, It said, that perhaps, she had not thought of the unwisdom of allowing her name tobe sogenerally coupled with the Tertium Quid’s; that sho was too much of a child to under- stand the dungors of that sort of thing; that he, her husband, was the last man in the world to interfere jealously with her little amusements and interests, but that it would be better were sho to drop the Tertium Quid quietly and for her husband’s sake. ’l‘hull-,-tmr was sweet- ened with many little pet names, and it amused the Tertium Quid considerably, He and she laughed over it, so that you, fifty yards away, could seo their shoul: ders shaking while theirhorsesslouched along side by side. Their conservation was not worth re- porting. The upshot of it was that, next day, no one saw the Man’s Wifeand Tertium Quid together. They had both gonie down to the cemetery, which, as a rule, is only visited officially by the in- habitants of Simla. A Simla funeral with the clergyman riding, the mourners riding, and the cottin creaking as it swings between the bearers, is one of the most depressing things on earth, particularly when the procession passos under the wet, dank dip beneath the Rockeliffe hotel, whore the sun is shut out, and all the hill streams are wailing' and weeping to- gether as they go down the ualleys. Occasionally folk tend the graves, but we in India shift and are transferred so often that at the end of the second year the dead have no friends—only acquaint- ances who are far too busy amusing themselves up the hill to attend to old partners. The idea of using a cemetery a8 a rendezvous is distinctly a feminine one. A man would have said simply, “Let_people talk. We'll go down the Mall.” A woman is made differently, especially if sho be such a woman as the Man’s wife. She and the Tertium Quid enjoyed each other’s society among the graves of men and women that they had known and danced with aforetime, & They used to take a big horse-blanket and sit on the grass a little to the left of the lower end, where there is a dip in the ground, and where the occupied graves die out and the ready-made ones are not ready. Any self-respecting In- dian cemetery keeps half a dozen graves permanently open for contingencies and incidental wear and tear. In the hills these are more usually baby’s size be- cause children who come up weakened and sick from the Plains often succumb to the effects of the rains in the hills, or get pneumonia from their ayahs taking them through damp pinewoods after the sun has set. In Cantonments, of course, the man’s size is more in request; these arrangements varying with the climate and population, i One day when the Man’s wife and the tium Quid had just arrived in the cemetery they saw some coolies breaking ground. They had marked out a full- sized grave, and the Tertium Quid asked them whether any sahib was sick. They said that they did not know; but it was an order that they should dig a sahib's rave, “*Work away,” said the Tertium Quid, ‘“and let’s see how it’s done,” The coolies worked away, and the um Quid dor Mun's Wife and the Tent watched and talked for a couple of hours while the grave was being deepened. || Then a coolie taking the earth in bas- kets as it was thrown up, jumped over the grave, “That’s queer,” said the Quid, “Where's my ulster?” ‘What'’s queer?” said the Man’s Wife, “I have got a chill down my back— just as if a goose had walked “over my grave.” “Why do you look at the horvor then?” said the Man’s Weife. “Let us » Tertium The Tertium Quid stood at the head of the geave and stared without answering for a space. Then he said, dropping a pebble down; “Itisn —and cold; hor- ribly cold. I don't think I shall come to the cemetery any more, I don’t think grave digging is cheerful,” The two talked and agreed that the cemetery was depressing. They also ar- rangedsfor a ride next day from’ the cem- etery through the Mashobra tunnel up to Fagoo and back, because all the world was going to a garden party at Vic gal Lodge, and all the people of Masho- bra would go, too, Comingup the Cemetery road the Ter- tium Quid’s horse tried to bolt up-hill, being tired with standing so long, and managed to strain a back-sinew. “Ishall have to take the mare tomor- row,” said the Tertium Quid, “and she will stand nothing heavier than a snaf- fle,” They made their arrangements to meet in the Cemetery, after allowing all the Mashobra people time to pass to Simla. That night it rained heavily, and when Tertium Quid came to the trysting-place he saw that the new grave had a foot of water in it, the ground being a tough and sour clay, *Jovel 'I'KM, looks beastly,” said the Tertium Quid, *Fancy buin[?' boarded up and dropped into that well,” 'hey then started off to Fagoo,the mare playing with the snafile and picking her way as though she were shod with satin, and the sun shining divinely, The rond below Mashobra to Fagoo is officially styled the Himalayan-Thibet road; but in spite of its name itis not much more than six feet wide in most Enllwu , and the drop into the valley below may be anything between 1,000 and 2,000 feet, “Now we are going to Thibet,”” said the Man’s Wifo merrily, us the horses drew near to Fagoo. She wus riding on the eliff-side, “Into Thibet,” said the Tertium Quid, “ever 80 far from people who sy horrid things and hubbies who write stupid PAGES WP Baats, Shoes ——AND— WINTER FOOT W EAR. At pricesthat will sur- pr you. 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Corner Main and Broadway, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, Dealers fn forelgn and domestio exchangs Collection made nd interest paid on time deposits. OFFICE, o letters, With you--to the end of the world!”” A coolie carrying a log of wood came round a corner and the mare went wide to avoid him-~fore feet in and haunches out, as a sensible mare should go. **To the world’s end,” said the Man’s Wife, and looked unspeakable things over her near shoulder at the Tertium Quid. He was smiling, but while she looked the smile froze stiff as it wereon his face and changed to a nervous grin—--the sortof grin men wear when they are not quite easy in their saddles, The mare seemed to be sinking by the stern, and her nostrils cracked while she tried to realize what was happening, The rainof the previous night had rotted the drop-side of the Himalayan-Thibet road and it was giving way under her, **What are you doing?” said the Man’s Wife, The Tertium Quid gave no an- swer, He grinned nervously and set his spurs into the mare, who rapped with her fore feet on the road, and the struggle began., The Man’s Wife sereamed, *O Frank, get off |7 But the Tertinum Quid to the saddle—his face blue and white— and he looked into the Man’s Wifu's eyes, Then the Man’s Wife clutched at the mave's head and caught her by the nose instead of by the bridle. The brute threw ap her head and went down with a seream, the Tertium Quid upon her, and the nervous grin still set in his face. The Man’s Wife heard the tinkle- tinkle oflittle stones aund loose earth falling of the roadway and thesliding rour of the man and horse going down. Then was quiet and she called on to leave his mare and walk up. But Frank did not answer, He was underneath the mare, 900 feet below, spoiling a pateh of Indian corn. g As the revelers came back from Viseregal Lodge in the mists of the even, ing they meta temporarily insane woman on u temporavily insane horse, swinging round the corners with her eyes and mouth open and her head like the head of a Medusa. She was stopped by a man at the risk of his life and taken from the saddle a limp heap and put on the bank to explain herself. 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