Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1891, Page 5

e ———— . —————————————————————————————————————————— THE CONMERCIAL TRAVELER. Thrilling Experience of an Old Timer in New Mexico, THE SKELETONS UNDER THE BARN. They Explain Many Mysterious Dis- appearances—The Jeweler's Nar- row Escapo—Samples from the Grip Sacks-Omaha's Visitors, Campbell Hardy, n jeweler from Boston, is fn the city, and yesterday, when in his apurt- ments at the hotel, related some of the ex- periences hehad when in New Mexico ten years ago. Mr. Hardy made the money that gave him a start in life when a packman, He traveled through all the far western statos, Lut the most exciting time he had, he says, was in New Mexic “One day, whon much fatigued and hun- gry, 1stopped for dinner at what appeared to be a pioneer’s cabin,” he began. “The house was miles from any other habitation, Thad about $800 worth of stock and $1,200 1 money. When I entered the house I found the occupants to be a than of about sixty, his twenty-five-year-old son, and two women, The appearance of the old man caused me to mistrust him, and I hoartily wished [ had not visited the place two minutes after I entered it. Of course the men and women wanted to see what I had for sale, and the women purchased about £3 worth of goods. The old man, whose namo was Moody, was particular to ask me whom I had last seen, and to learn whother or not I had any frionds in the country. Afterward I found out he wished to find out if I wouid be missed if he mado away with me, *Just beiore T sat down to dinner I hap- pened to look out of the window and I saw the son go into the barn with ashotgun in his hand. His stealthy manner put me on my guard and I took good care tint my gun was within reaching distance. 1can not say I en- joyed the meal. I quickly swallowed a cup took a few mouthfuls of bread and slippod what T could into my pocket. Then Tprepared to leave, ***But you must see the blooded stock I have before you go, smid Moody. ‘Probably I can trade one of the animals for a silver watch,! “But I knew if T over went Into that barn T would never come out of it alive, so { made some woalk excuse and started down the road, keeping a sharp lookout from behind, The old man was much enraged at my not failing into tho trap, and just as I stepped out of view I saw him enter the barn. 1 determined to watch and went into a grove a littie farther down the road and I stood where I could see what was going on at the barn, I saw Moody and his son come out, each armed with a rifie, They walked 1nto the woods not far from where I was hid, evidently meaning to head me off farther down the road. I am certain thoy meant to lay in wnbush for me and shoot me down as I passed. But I made up my mind to fool them, and instead of goin, the way I intended weiit in the opposito di- rection, passing the. house in the woods so the women would not see me. I kept close 10 the road and when about holf a mile from Moody's 1 siw two trappers walking in my direction. They looked lke honest fellows and 1 confided my suspicions to them. The first comment one of tho men made wa: “I'always believed that old wretch was amur- derer.”” As I was not in seai® of adventuro 1 declined to return to Moody’s house and in the truppers’ presence demand an explana- tion, AliTasked was_their protection for ““a mile or two, For an old silver watch they consented to accompany me, and we started. I did mot suspect Moody or his son wero within a mile of me, but when I suddenly walked our from alittle clump of trees a bullet went whizing t mo and lodged in the trunk of a hickor. jumped back into a thicket of underbru: and was almost scared to death. I gob out my revolver, however, and prepared to de- fend myself. 1 lay there about five minutes, Suddenly there was another loud report not far from me. The shot was immediately fol- fowed by auother and then I heard one of the trappers, who had taken up positions near me s s00n us the first shot was fired, say: ‘1 think they are done for."! ““My trapper friends called me from my hiding place, and lying behind a fallen tree were the bodies of Moody and his son. The old man was shot through the temple when he was looking over the log for me, and the #on’s back was broken, he having started torun away after bis father'was killed. The bullett passed through his* stomache. Both men were dead when we reached them, We then returned to the house, but finding it empty, lookefl into the barn and there found the two women in & big cellar under the building, digging & grave—my grave, We found no loss than twenty skeletons in the pl That old wretch and his son had killed overy strangor who had visited that part of the country for years, There was no end of ox- citement when the news of the ghastly find in the den went abroad and before I left the country the two women wero strung up to a tree. Mood's remains and those of his son were also hung up as a warning, on a treo near the side of the road. The old pioncers in that part of the country can tell you a much more thrilling story about Moody's den than I have,” A High Five Party. One of the most enjoyable high five parties of the season was given by Mr. and Mrs. B, Edbolm at their residence, 203 Charles street, on last Saturday evening to thelr intimate friends. -The first prizo was won by M. W. W. Ford, and the booby prize foll to the lot of Mr. J. Do Bartele. After the conclusion of the game supper was served aud music and singing brought the cvening festivities toa close. The event proved ta be one of the most eujoyable of the season. Among those present wero: Mr. and Mrs, Grandin, Mr. and Mrs, W. W. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. B, West. erdahl, Mr. and Mrs. O. Westordahl, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey, Mr. and Mrs. Walther, the Misses Kate and Ella_Swith, Clara Edholm, uise Grandin, Dells Ford, and Otto k. cobson, Charles Kdbolm, J. Do Bartele md Cassie Westerdahl, Samples, E. H. Holly has quit the rood. but will remain in Omaha. Charley Hann is spending a vacation at Grand Island, George Mead loft for the Hills yosterday with a lie of the Koch-Kilpatrick dry goods company’s goods. George was married re- cently and malkes his home at Chadron, G. Marty, L. B, Farrell, D, 8. Leitz ana George Savage will take the fead today with spring goods for the Koch-Kilpatrick dry g00ds company. 8. F. Kohn starts Wednesday to look after the Kock-Kilpatrick dry goods company's trade n northwestern lowa and South Da. He got rich kota. “Slide” Kelloy, city man for the Kock-Kil patrick dry goods cowpany, is home from a Visit east. A. Munuheimer, who does the westorn ter- ritory for o New' York clothing house, was at the Paxton over Sunday. M. Michaclis, the scnior member of the clothing firm of Michuelis & Son of New York, tarried over Sunday st the Paxton. Mr. Michaclis is on the road half of the time, alternating trips with his son, Marie Roze, There is one gentloman in this clty, says the Chicago Post, who feels something more than ordinary interest in the domestic affairs ofthe famous prima douna, Marle Roze. This gentleman is Prof. H. S. Perkins, the ‘well known composer and temcher. His brother, Jule E. Perkins, the noted basso, . 'was Marie Roze's first husband, He was the Primo basso of tho Maploson Italian opera compauy when he married her in Paris in 1874. Jule Perkins, who had before hima brilliant carcer as an artist, died a yoar after his marringe in Mauchester, England, In the hope of getting some information from ~Prof. Perkins as to the marital difficulties of Roze and her husband, Heury Maple- #on, the saunterer sougnt, found and u.llmd with him on the subject, ““Mario Roze,” said Mr, Perkins, s one of the most amiable of women, refined, ex- tremely modest, wholly devoid of thatin- 4clicacy one 50 often notices In wemhbers of the aramatic profession, and a lady of the highest type in every particular. I know that my brother always declared that his wife was one of the most punctilious and refined women that he ever met. He and Marie Roze were the mosé devoted couple that one could find. She was very deeply attactied to him and he fairly worshipped his wite, I am quite sure that Marie Roze and Henry Mapleson wero married. 1 am sure Marie Roze would not do so foolish a thingas tolive with any man before the marriige ceremony had been performed, even under the name of wife, I was not a witness of any ceremony, nor have I any other proof of their marriage than the fact that Henry Mapleson introduced herto everyone as his wife and that sheintroduced Mapleson to me as her husband. There is hardly any room to doubt themarriage., And Mapleson's course seems to me to be a very brutal one. He do- serted his first wife and she secured a di- vorce from him on that ground and 13 now liv- ing in New York Tam very sorry, in- deed, to ze's troubles.” ‘She s the best things of LAaw: OPLE WAN A Conservative Independent View of the Agricultural Depression. Pronis, Neb, Jan, 12.—Fo the Editor of Tur B The present nutfonal dopression in agriculture is the result not aloue of ro- vorted shortness of crops, but of a wrong ad- justment of economio forces, for which the farmer is not responsible, aud which must be righted in part by legislatio Agriculture is, in the United States, the basiy of prosperity, Its prosperity is the prosperity of the land. Through the present distress all trades suffer, and well nigh the whole country. Legislation for the farmers is relief for the nation. Our legislators and congressmon have boen incapable of reme: or liave culpably neglected the farmers’ we fare, and are rightly being retirea to private life, The Nebraska farmers have been unjustly treated by the railroads, and our legisiature should lower rates to tho lowa figures, Thej should be strict mational oversight of rail- ronds and telegraphs in the interest of tho public, and if necessary government manage- ment or ownership, or both. The money lenders in th have been oppressive and extortionate. state rato of interest should be fixed by law at 6 per cent, and no more than 10 per cent allowed on contract, und violation ‘made to forfeit interest and principal. It should be in the power of no class of men to make the hard times which come fro contracting or expanding according to their selfish interest and will the money volume of ourland. Banks should not bo allowed to issue and to retive money; but_this should be the priviioge of the United States govern- ment alone. There should be an increase in the volume of currency by the coinage of remonitized si ver dollars and the issuing of silver catos secured by bullion in the treasury until thero is speedy gnd manifest relief. Farmers should have three years in which to redeem farms, or if possible three years of ‘igrace” befove fnnu:losln[z of mortgages. Each sellov of commercial paper should bo required to vouch for its genuineness with his signature and place of rosidence, and such guarantee should accompany each transfer. Every traveling agent should bear creden- tials “of identity, of office and of power, and e required to exhibit such upon request from an expected customor, There should beea reform in state and especially in legislative expenditures, The Australian ballot in improved form should be adopted by our legisluture, Constimers should be protected as’ woll as manufacturers, The public revenue should l;le raised on uxurios rather than on necessa- 0. United States senators should be chosen by popular vote. It having been repeatedly declared by our statesmen that the welfare of the nation ro- quires the tillers of the soil to own the land, and farms in our country having by thou: sand passed into the hands of landlords, and huadreds of thousands more being hopelessly mortgaged it should be the great concern of state and national governments to save our country from the threatening tenantism and landlordism which is the great curse of the old world, Great crisis justify extrems measure, Therefore the sub-treasury bill and the land curreucy bill are jusiifiable, if they arc néces- sary practicable. N. H. B., Secretary Alliance 1127, The Usury Questio Oscrors, Neb,, Jan. 9.—To the Editor of Tue Omans Bee: Allow a nineteen years' resident of Nebraska, whose farm is at the present time ground down in the mortgage mills of the law, to give his opinion in tho present agitation demanding usury laws. It has been my experience that a large ma- jority of farm mortgages have been given to get money at-low rates of intercst to pay oft local debts. Itis amusing how local money lenders can prove to their skiuned victims the profit of mortgaging their farms to non- resident mortgage companies at 7or 8 por cent nterest, to stop paying suoh extortion- ate interest as local moriey demands, ote. Oftentimes when my notes due local money lenders (on which I was paying from I8 to 40 per cent per annum interest) wero duo, and owing to short crops or low rices I could not meet them promptly, I Bave morigagea. tho homestand. to get out of the clutehes of local Shylocks; and though the mortgage on the farmis now bemg fore- closed by an Towa mortgage company, it is an 8 per cent mortgage and was given to satisfy local usury. It will be a dire calamity on our state i laws are passed which will~ deprive farmers of the privilege of getting mmoney at low rates of interest; such laws will benefit only local money lenders, whoare hiding their own avaricé by urging the abuse of loan com- panies who have by loaning money at lower rates of intorest helped thousands of farmers outof distress caused by rosident usuvers. If loan companies did not have bankers for agents they would not be made ‘‘cats-paws,” as they now are, to pander theiragents’ intor- ests, and farmers would soon realize who aro their best friends—those wheedled them out of their money by usury, or the loan compa- nies who relieved them of their embarass- ments at low rates of interest. An investigation of the abuses of our usury laws may be perverted by the enactment of laws wiich will distress thousands of our farmers and force the sale of their homes, which under shrinkage of values caused from a great number of forced sales will envich our local usurers, who will be ready to buy at low prices aud tr, then as uow, to hide the wrong they have done to others' by shouting “Wolf, wolf," at their cats-paws and vietims. If there were no borrowers there would bo no usury, and in proportion as the supply of monay is greater than the domand for 1t. fn. terest will by competitition to lend be le thereforo, whatever legislation will place th farmers in coudition that they will not be borrowers will be a remedy for distress caused by borrowing money. 1 believe the law has a constitutional right to say what rate of iuterest it shall beused as an agent to collect, and if debts are con- tracted at greater rates it shall not be used as an agont for their colicetion, For gold the venal legislator rants and jaws; For gold the hireling judge distorts tho laws; . Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth nor safoty buys; The dangers gather as the treasures rise. J. H. ANDERSON, “Shenandoah” in the South, The sentiment of tho south toward “Shenandoah” is thus expressed by the Sa- vaunah Times: ‘While the south is proud of the glorious and illustrious recora of her arms, she is naturally sensitive at the touching of her acred memories by alien hands, and shrinks when the curtain is drawn back for the mere purpose of revealing a puppet show of lhmf’l.‘-lflof self-denial and heroism. If by so0 doing those momories can be hollowed 8 good purpose s subserved, But can scenes from that great drama be re-enacted on the mimic stage today and the spectator not go back in mind and n{mpl’.hy t0 the moment and act a part himself! The trouble with Mr. Howard's play from a southern standpoint is that the spoechos, the sentiment, the uction, and the coloring, while dexterously manipulated, it is true, are inequably distributed. One set of tones has all the warmthi; the other is subdued. One side has the' glow and the other the shadow, ‘This is not 80 much in a positive way as nega- tively. 'T'he proponderence of glory and lus- ter and patriotsm and devotion is on the Northern side. Even the Southern girl's beart is divided between her country aud her lover, who is fighting it, and, por- hard times The THE DAILY BEE: MONDA JANUARY 12, 1801 haps, naturally, though not emplrically, the atriotism s not 80 Strong as the Aection or the tangible sweetheart. Here and there in the play are things which the southorner, though now as ardent a patriot as sop, To sonts. The author did not so intend ity o course. Indeed, it is to be prosumed that he would not have it 8o _for a moment if ho un- derstood. * * % Tho war drama can well bo laid away for a long time, and it is to bo hoped that “Shenandoah’ will net oncourage the production of other: Puet-dan An Acknowledgment. Owmama, Jan. 11.—To the Editor of Tne Bex: Will you please allow me to acknowl- edge through your columns tho receipt of the very generons donation of *‘Cash K'* for the benefitof the poor of the city! I shall use it to the best of my judgment an 1 ability in relieving the sufferings of such needy peo- ple as I may find. In the name of the deser ing poor of Omalia I thank *Cash K'* for his gift. W. J. Hansua. — Ar the Y. M. C. A, ‘Throe hundred and seventy-one young men were present at the meeting at Concert hall, Y. M. C. A. building, yestorday, 4p. m. Chess Birch, the musical evangelist, who is now assisting Rev. S, M. Ware, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, ina series of al meetings, had chargo of the service. It opened with @ song service under direction f Prof. Kratz and male chorus, Mr, If r, tho association cornotist, and M Birch, with iis gold cornet, assisted in swell- ing the volume of praise. Rev. Ware of- d @ brief, carnest priyer, and Mr. Birch sang @ solo i rich full voice. Tho mecting was then varied with tostimonies, exporicnces, namin, favorite hymns, ete. Toward the close Mr, Birch rendered’n beantiful cornet solo, which meited the hearts of his hearers, Ho spoke for a few minutes from the sixth chapter of Mark, about the man with tho withored hund who was healed by Christ, and pointed out to the audienco a number of sins - which were to thom withered hands, which could be hicated if strotched forth to_ Jesus, Twelve young men expressed a_desire o become Christians, and in an after meeting three three of them profession couversion. bl Mg Entircly Too Molest “The Collector, an eastern publication fn the interost of art, says: “The wanton mutila- tion of Bouguercaw’s charming allegory, ‘The Return of Spring,’ by a prurient, not to say obscene minded crank at Omaha, suggosts the existence of a novel peril for public exhi- hitions of works of art. Only imagine what hiavoo this putrid-souled lunatic mieht wreak fua certain gallery in New York just now, Nor need the violénces of such social Huns be restricted to_the nude art, which, in the case of the Omaha imbecile, ardused his filthy blood to the boiling pitch of ungovern- able fury, What is to prevent a rabid sectarian’ from destroying & picture which represents an adverse creed to that which he has chosen to adopt, a contirmed misogynist from butchering the pictures of all the pretty women hie encounters, and so on? Ttis all very well to punish such scoun- drels afterwards, but punishment does not mend the ruin they cause, In the Omaha case the crime was really ono of miserably-malicions raseality. The picturo is a work which could arouss offen- ideas only in a mind of tho basest lewd- s, Spring, typified by a mmden in her adolescence, pure as the baby cupids that hover about and welcome her, stands croct, shivering just a little in tho fresh zephyrs that linger in the track of winter. To find such a picture immodest is to invent the im- modesty for it. Painted for the Salon of 1856, it was brought to New York in 1887 by Boussod, Valadon & Co., and was for o long time one of the gems of their Fifth avenuo galleries. It fs an im- portant work, _thoroughly representa- tive of the artist and whica would doubtless have brought at auction_the price of $18,000 at which they valued it before tho necessity of repair impaired its market worth a g0od 50 per cent. Itisto bo hoped that Messrs. Boussod, Valadon & Co. will exaot from the Omahi exhibition authorities the extreme compensi- tion possiblo to be secured. They owe a rigid insistenco oy this act of justice, not only to themselves, but to the whole world of art. Meauwile, until the Omaha idea of modssty. becomes moro civilized, it will be just as well for owners of decollete’ pictures o give ts loan exhibitions a wide berth. s Cdnlan UNION VETERANS' UNION Permanent Organization of Colonel James W. Savage Command. A large number of old soldiers met at the office of Judge E. A. Shaw yesterday after- noon to perfect the orgarization of Colonel James W. Savage command; union veterans' union, The initial steps were taken a week ago, out officers were not elected until yesterday. The organization is officered like a regimental command and the officers elect areas follows J. A, Bartlett, colonel commanding; J. Miller, lieutenunt colonel; E. A. Shaw, major; L. B. Edmunds, adjutant; C. W. Alien, chaplain. This is the first command organized in the state, the order baving been organized less than two years a b All soldicrs who served six months in tho war of the rebellion are eligible to member- ship, making it more of a veteran soldiers or- ganizution than the Grand Army of tho Re- publ Colonel Savage command starts out with fifty charter members, about two-thirds of whom are Grand Army men, Attt ANNOUNCEMENTS, Henry Watterson, the brilliant orator of the Louisville Courier-Journal, after seolng Clara Morris in Sardow's new play, “Odotte, " romarked: “There is but ono American ac- tress, and her name is Clara Morris,” This evening Miss Morris appears at the Boyd after an absence of three yen restored in health and with u strong reportoive, Her novelty this season is anew play written by Saraou, entitled “Odette.” Miss Morris will vroduce “Odette” on this a.d Wednesday cvenings and “Camille” on Tuesday evening. Miss Geraldine McCann, the handsome and dashing Gabriel of Rico's’ “Evangeline,” is said to bo the brightest artist who has yot assumed that role, The comp v 13 Boyd's with a matinee Saturday, January 17, and closes there Sunday night, Solomon's Wisdom Needed. Detroit legal circles have been excited over the trial of a habeas corpus case for the possession of a fourteen-year-old girl called Annie Duggan. The child was in the possession of Mrs. John Mundary, who swore it was her daughte Mrs. Anna Moran, who also swore that she was the mother of the child, wanted possession, says a dispntch to the Phil- adelphia Pres: Kach side produced a cloud of wit- nesses, including nurses, who had been present at her birth, doctors who had attended a child like Annie in babyhood and photographers who brought nege- tives of the girl’s picture as a child, into court and identified the child by a mole on the forehead which was shown in both negatives. The evidence was the most conflicting on ull points, the defense pro- du;!ing as perfect a olaim as tho plain. tiff, Judge Hosmer, before whom the case was tried, was in a quandary and re- sorted to all kinds of schemes to help him, but none of them worked. In sum- ming up the case the judge said that he had never heard of a case since Solo- mon’s time where two women were so positive of being the mother of one child, He lacked the autocratic power of using the sword test, but should allow the child to stay with Mrs, Munda Mrs. Moran weakened her case by claiming the child as illegitimate, and the judge rather disliked to decide in her favor. The case will be taken to the supreme court, —_—— Just His style. Browning, King & C.: Customer—Hay You any soft young wen's hats | *Yes," was the roply, “plenty that will exaotly suit you." ——— Clipped from Canada Presbyterian, under signature of C. Blackett Robinson, proprietor —I was cured of oft recurring billicus head- aches by Burdock blood bitters. HOW ONE FEELS UNDER FIRE The Sensation Destib:d by a Man Who Has Begn Thero, EVEN THE BRAVEST GET NERVOUS. Graphic Account of a Thrilling Ride on a Rallroad Train Through a Burning Forest—Missouri Rebels Routed. As much has been said and written about how volunteer soldiers feel and act, when first under firo. T will give my own experi- ence. Some of the boys loaded and fired as fast as they eould, but wereso terribly ex- cited that they fired too much at random. Others wero less excited and fired more de- liberately. 1didn't firo at all until I saw some one to shoot at. Afterwards while in tho service, Twas afraid and terribly excited at the prospect of a battle, but when it actually commenced, after the first fire, I wis as cool as & cucumber, fired low, and tried to do the enemy as much damage as I could. There is nosuch a thing as insensi- bility to fear. Allsoldiers realize the danger to which thoy are exposed. But do they flinch? Not much. They expoct to conquer or die ia theservice of their country, and many times they expect to die. Poor George Felt, he was the first martyr tothe canse of his country from our regi- ment, the Sixteenth Illinois, and from our company. Ho had a presenti- ment that day, before we boarded tho train, that he was soon to die. Ho wrote a letter that day to his father tell- ing him that somehow he felt they wore never to meet again in this life, and bidding him farowell. That letter arrived with his dead body. Hewas the ouly son of a wealthy farmer noar Hamilton, Tl He was a young man of much promises with brilliant pros- pects. His body was sent home with an es- cort of his comrades, where he was buried with civil and militacy honors, Our regiment was again for & short time scattered by companies at different points on tho line. The rogiment at that time was 1,00 strong, ecach company having 100 fighting men in its rauks. A company or 100 men, with a hundred myuskets, was more than the average Mis- souri bushwhacker wished to tackle, unless they outnumbered us three, or four, to one. Firing on the trains, had botomo so frequent that now, no train attempted to ran for ¥ consideriblo distance, without some soldiers aboard t protect_it, and raturn the fire of skulking - bushwhackers. As a moans of protection for tho engineors and firemen the cabs of the engines were protected by plates of iron, except the front windows. Colonel Smith soon received information that the rebels were in force, some fiftecn miles south-of Mouroe station, and he ordered the different companies to concentrate at Monroe, whero we remained long enough for him to review = and inspect us, when haying received information of an outbreak at Palmyra, a place which was a regular hotbed of re- bellion, he detachedl: forty men out of each company, under command of a licutenant of each company, the whole commanded by Major Hays, to Palmyra,while he determined to march with the remainder, 600 men, upon the rebel camp which, according to the best informatfon ho could’ obtain, was located about twelve miles 4outh of Monroe station. 1 happened to be among the 400 sent to Pal- myra, where our presence had @ quieting effect on the rebel ‘dlement, who suddenly became the staunchest union men immagina- ble. Asto the doings of the other 600 I will have to depend on_the, information_received from them when wo reinforced and rescued them three days aftevwards under the most exciting circumstaucos. The same day that the 400 arrived at Palmyra Colonel Smith left Monroe with 600 men, and one picce of artillery, a nine pounder, to find the Tebel camp. Martin Green, s democratio congrossman from that congressional district of Missouri, had been appointed a brigadier general by Jeff Davis, and had been organizing and drilling ' brigade of between threo and four thousand men at the camp referred to, Of course Colonel Smith was ignorant of the number of the enemy ho had started out to disperse, and it so happened that General Green had started at the same time with all s force to gobble upthe Sixteenth, not doubting for a moment Lis ability to dos As the_two hostilo columns approached each other General Green gotnoticeof the aavance of our men and arranged an ambuscade in a ravine through which ran astream called Haine's branch, on the line of route. But the men he had posted in the brush on both sides of the road through tho ravine could not be rostrained from firing as soon as the head of our column entered the ravine, thus preventing the suceess of their plan, for the rear of ourcolumu immediately formed in two'lines and chargea bayoaets on the flank and rear of the concealed foe, compelling them to break cover and fly, thus giving our boys a chance to punish them well in return. At the first firc several of the boys wers wounded and Captain MoAllistor of company C received seven wounds in different places, but when the rebels were compelled to break cover they suffered severely from our fire in flank and rear, The ravine was sbon cleared, but Colonel Smith, suspecting the rebels were in force in_the timber on the right and rear, decided to fall back to tho open prairie. Arrived there hosaw a large force of mounte robels galloping toward Monroestation, whic was in plain sight, although five milos aw Colonel Smith, surmising theirerrand,or his men to march briskly in that dive But soon the whole country was alive with mounted rebels who swarimned from the tim- ber on cach side of the prairie. They were s00n in front, on both flanks and rear. Their wcthod of atfack was to charge in column but when they came within several hundred yards they would wheel and deliver their fire, then ride back and reload. Our boys soon_became familiar with their plan of action. The formed a hoilow square aud kept ou their march to the station,which was now in flames, and the field piece was trained on the charging colunmns, and when they wheeled to fire our muskets belched forth at them, dealing them immensely more damage than they did us with their shotguns and sporting rifles. Thoy soon became timid and wore in- clined to avoid a closer acquaintance with our boys, and during the remainder of the march to the station they kept modestly out of range of our muskets, The station was reached before sundown, but every building fn_the little hamlet had by the 'tYebels except a iarge ck seminary, of which Colonel Swmith took possession, and the boys threw up an earth- work ten' rods square around it, while the rebels formed a corddff around them at a safe distance. Several times during the night they advanced, but the light from the smoul- dering ruins betrayed them and brought them a shower of bullets til they rotired beyond range. The next day thelr tftiibers had increased but they kept well outof rauge and settled down t0 a regalar seige. Thoy now displayed two fleld pieces, with ywhich they cannonaded the semiuary all that duy and succeeded in hitting the “building ‘twice. They supposed they had the SixteentW at their mercy and proposed to starve thofts out and thus compel them to surrender. e situation was indeed eritical, for on the proyious duy we bud taken only two days' ration¥ With us and only fifty rounds of cartridges apiece, and now there was only an average of ten rounds per soldier left. Relief from the rail- road was out of the question for the rebels had destroyed the track on both sides of the station. They might march to Palmyra by fighting their way through, if they had plenty of ammunition, but with their present scant supply, it would be madness to make the uttempt.” There was ouly » ohauce that Major Hays at Pulmyra would got news of the situation and come to their reiief with his men, and a supply of provisions and am- munition, and Colonel Smith wisely resolved tostand his ground and take the chance. The next day the cardon of robels remained atasafo distance, but our field-piece by a lucky shot dismounted one of their guus, and they removed the other 50 far back that it could do no damage. There was only two rounds loft for our fisld-piece. 1arly {n he afternoon, deuse volumes of smoke was seen far down the railroad track. Mesnwhile Major Hays, with the 400, was lylug quietly at Palmyra, ignoraut of the ovehts in progress at Monroo, until the morn- ing of the third day. How Major Hays ob- tained news of the situation we privates never knew, but we did know that there was no telegraphio communication in those days. He must have received the news some timo during the previous evening, for before sun- rise that moruing we were aroused by the rovelllo wid ordered to AtHKG tents and 1oad our bagguge on cars th standing on the track. This ordor was executod with alacrity. We founda train of freight and flat cars with an engine in front and another coupled on behind, It carried workmen, tools and materlal, coremissary stores and ammunition, and,’ In short, was perfectly M‘ulppl‘ll for the work we had in hand Directly in front of the front engine was flat car, on which was mounted an prece, and soveral of our men who h as artillorymen during the Mexican war wero detailed to man the gun, Although we privates were still fn ignor- ance, somehow we all felt that this meant business, Our officers soon informed us of the situation of affairs at Monroo, and we all vowed to effect a junction with Colonel Smith or perish in the attempt. The distancoe was something less than twenty miles, but ver was railroading done under greater dificulties, for it took from 6 o'clock in the morning until 6 in the evening to make the trip. ~ We could huve marched the distance in less timo, but the supplios were moro cssential to the garrison ut Monroe thin our prosence, and in order to got the supplies there we lind to _accompany the train that rried them. ‘We had not, at this time, been furnished with government wagons, nor with the famous government mule, and it im- possible toimpress teams and wagons, for they wero run off out of our reach. We had proceeded buta fow miles until our train wiss stopped by a burning bridgo. The fire was soon extinguished, but some of tho timbers wore so weakeuod by the_ fire that that they had to bo taken out and ro- placed. Lieutenant Hatch of company I, who had formerly beea a railvoad_bridge builder, superintended the work. It took soveral hours, But after it was repaired we made quick time for about threo miles, when the tramn again stopped. The track had been torn up for somedistance by the removal of both rails and ties. These wero found hid {n tho tull grass of a neighboring meadow and wero quickly carried back and replaced by the men, and on we went again. Not aliving soul had thus far been secn ulong the line, in field or at farm hov: We were in stopped by another break in the road, which was soon repaired, and we steamed’ ahead, Weo now w smoke ascending from some point up the road, but a bend or curve ahead provented us from seeing what was on fire, ‘\‘\'L\ soon rounded the curve and found the re, The Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad, like all lroads running through o country were timber was abundant, used wood a3 fuel for its engines, and hereat this point was a cut extending for some distanco. Immense quantities of cor od as here rvicked up on both sides of the track on the banks made by the cut, and extending for nearly a mile. This wood had been fired on both sides, and when we arrived at the place the fire was just gett under headway. Major Hays, thinking t perhaps the track was torn up in the cut, stopped the train. John Vance, Tke Hill and 1f volunteered to run the' gauntlet be- n the fires to see if the track ahead was all right. This we did, amid smolo and flame, or rather between the flumes, which fre- quently overlapped over our heads. Tho heat and smoko word at timés unbear able, and were it not. for the fact that there were intervals where the wood had not yet caught fire. we could not have gone through, We found the track all righte except in_one place, whero the spikes were withdrawn from one rail aud the rail slightly misplaced. Had the train been thrown here nothing could have saved it from destruction, When we got through, we sawa party of men standing on the track several hundred yards ahead, and we promptly fired at them, When they tool to thoir heels, Luckily wo found a sledge, a few spikes, and a part of a broken crowbar, lying along. side the track. We took them aud went bitek, replacod the rail and spiked it down, Then finding a break in the line of cordwood we got outside and hastened back to tho train, reported to the major and urged a speedy passage of the train, as the firo was gainiug headway, and overy moments delay increased the dajzer of the passage, And right here, I wish to record the fact that I never thiuk of this ovoasion without a feeling of pride at the service rendered by us on this occasion, Major Hays, when he saw our scorched clothing, singed hair and blistered faces. patted uson the back and called us “bully boys.”” He also said, that with a single regiment of such men he would not be af 1 the rebels in North Missouri, if they would give hima chance. He had hesitated in attempting to make the passage, but while we were gone he had the traiu backed off nearly half a mile to where a small stream crossed the track, and ordered the boys to soak their blankets in water and fasten them to the sides of the cars. He now ordered 10) men to march around the fire on oaeside and an equal humber on the other side, and ordered the rest of usaboard the cars, - But now a new hitch arose. The engineer of the front engine demurred against making the passage, saying the chances were too great. Hehad a family, ete. But instantly several men in the ranks who had previously been engineers offered to take his place. Then he got ashamed, and satd if onoe of them would get into the cab with nim ne would take tho train through h—1if necessary. The train started. The engineer threw tho throttle wide open and wa gained headway rapidly, Scon we plunged in between the two lines of fire, which was increasing in fury with every moment. The flames shot high above us, hissing, crackliug and roaring, now and then overlapping the train, first from one side, then from the other, The heat was stifling. On went the train_botween the two raging line of fire, Tt might have been two minutes, it could scarcely have been more, from the time we entered this tunnel of fire until wo omerged at the othar end, but it seemed much longer.. Had we not noticed and fixed the tampered rail, the train would most certainly have been thgown from the track at that place and burned. with perhaps all on board, But as it was the train kept the track and we wed safely, though nearly suffocated, at the other end, und when at a safe distance from the fire, the train stopped to allow the men who had gone acound to rejoin us, we got off and examined tho cars.” We found those cars, which had not been protected by wet blankets, blistered, suurl'lll'g and smok- ing, and-the wet blankets were now dry angd singed. Had we bueen fifteen minutes later the train could not have made the paseage, for the heat afterwards became so great that the rails twisted. ol e L olioradl SHALL WE DI London Society Disturbed by the Question of Ohangin ¢ Eating Hours, The fashionable dining hour is justly exciting attention,says a London fashion authority, Nowadays we give so much thought to tho healthy, wealthy and wise question that it is almost strange some stand has not hitherto been taken against the absurdly late hour at which we dine. Even now it is not on the ground of health that the appeal is made against 9 o’clock as the fashionable din- ner time, but by reason of its inconven- ience, The example is, of course, sqt us in high places, and it is from the prince of Wales that the reform is antlcipated. There are rumors that he would not be averse to fixing the hour at 8, as he, be- ing a great play-goer, finds it inconven- ient to get to the theater under existing arrangements, The reprehensible fash- ion of postponing the dinner hour till the evening is half over, is undoubtedly one which theatrical folk condemn, and which is obviously unfair to the general play-going public who take their princi- pal meal earlier in the day, since to suit the conveniences of the stallites their evening’s entertainment is not only cut dowm but commences at at hour when they not unaaturally expect their amuse- ments to be actually en train, Another result ol’y o'clock dining is that the meal is rapidly rushed through in order that it 1aay not be protracted quite into the night. It stands to reason that even the regulation courses cannot be eaten under an hour, and when one considers the number of dishes to be con- sumed, the details of service and the nocnulurfi pauses, it is not 8o much to be wondered at that the fashionable folk . come late to the theater, but that they reach thoro at all, In order to bring dinners begun so late within reasonable limits of time, rapid onting and service have boon resorted to, and it is against the fashionable haste of dining that the most sorious plaint is made. Even young people complain that they cannot bolt their food at the pace required, while their elders and those who sot & value upon good dishes bitter- Iylament their ability either to digest or appreciate the food which fashion thus compels them to consume at lightning pace. —— ——— INDIAN AND COMET, The Former Accounts of the Lntter to His Entire Satisfaction, During tho your the last comot was streaming in tho sky [ was camping ono night in & cannon near the foot of Cook’s peake, N. M. Inthe party was an old and—for an Indian—a fairly intelligent Ute named Sam. Sam had been at- tached to some cavalry troop at Fort Cummings as a scout, says the Kansas City Star, but his day of loaving the sor- vice being reachod, he attached himself to me—for a consideration. Pointing to the comet I'asked Sam what he could say in its defense from the standing of a Ute. m was, unlike most Indians, a good single-handed talker, and could speak English very well. He was ambi- tious to parfect himself in the language and readily seized on every chance for a “talk.” Indeed, I discovered him on two occasions all alone and talking vig- orously at a mark like a savage Demos- thenes sans the pel “Tell about that?” sald Sam, pointing toward the comet. “Sam do it heap hasy, you bet. Thoson is the man and be have moon for squaw. The stavs- eig sturs and little stars—all are their children. The sun don't like ‘em and chases 'om. If he catch one he eats it. This makes the stars heap *fraid, and when the sun has his sleep over and comes out the stars run andhide, When the sun comos stars go; croep into holes and hide. But the moon is good. She loves hor children, the stars, and when the sun slecps she comes out in the sky and the stars are glad, and they come out of the places they hido in and forget to bo 'fraid and play. But when the sun wakes again they run, Ho is al- ways after them and he catches them sometimes. T'his one,” continued Sam, again pointing at the comet, ‘‘the sun cateh one time. He got away though, but the sun bit him and hurt him. That’s why he bleed so. Now ho’s heop seared, and 50 he keops his faco always toward the place where the sun is sloep- ing.” . Some Peculiarities of the Dialect Used in New England. The New England dialect is still kinky with a misuse of vowels and a ro- dundancy of negatives, says the Detroit Free Press, but these peculiarities are not blemishes; on the conuvrary, they add picturesqueness to the language, “Yos I bo” doos not mean ignorance, but a local habit, “I don't s'pose” is common to Maine and Vermont and is used to preface a question When speaking of a man been unfortunate ‘ivn business, our down- eust friends say: **Ho has failed up.” Of aman who is stingy they remark that he is “a littlo near,” or ‘‘very pear.” ¢ Some of the phrases are full of mean- ing, s when they speak of one carrying a great load, **ho lugged it in,” which means more than fetched, as it gives a good idea of an outlay of strength. In some localities instead of saying *‘he has rented a house,” it is “‘he” has got his rent,” or *“‘I’ve beor over and scen his rent,” idioms as simple to them as they are obscure to the visitor, A word in common u: mong the old- fashioned people st s the unaccus- comed enr us very peculisr. When a man’s coat doesn't fit him they i) fays badly.” Looked up the “word is by no means a vagabond, but ore of respec- table antecedents, and found in every modern dictiona It is a good old En- glish word, meaning to fit. A man who has o **hoss” to sell does not tell the buyor that he isin good condition. He says in the vernacular: **You kin trot that hoss thirty miles and back and youwon't find any outs in him.” All these little peculiarities of speech *obtain,” as the dialecticians would say among educated people. The laborers have a lunguage of their own, of whom a chronicler reports this amusing speech: “1 don’t s'pose thero ain’t nobody seon nothin’ of no old felt hat nowhere?” This exhaustive use of the negative is duplicnter in tho same locality as the prucoding question in this way: “Tdon’t s'pose you don’t know of no- body that don’t want to hire nobody to dew nothin’?" Thero is such picturesqqeness in this poverty of language that we feel sure it would lose a real value in a contest with lexicons and grammars and sink to the dead level of the commonplace. And it fits the condition of a free-born citizen looking for honest employment. It is indeed seldom that the trusted vowel or local phrase, isa lingual de- formity. It is more often the tradition of a family handed down from father to son as hereditary as the eyes and hair, —— August Belmont's Superstitions. The late August Belmont once told the writer, on the Monmouth race track that his horses would not win be- cause a flock of blackbirds had crossed his path that morning, says a contribu- tor to the New York Sun. “Isaw the blackbirds in the field,” he related, *and suid to myself, ‘If they fly across I shall lose.” So I walked my team caro- fully—carefully. But no! Just as I came opposite, the birds tlew in front of me, wheeled about and crossod me again- 1 shall not go to tho statles, I sont for my trainer to tell him it is of no use to try to win today.” At another time he was in radiant spirits because a little bird had flown into his bath room and allowed itself to be fed- “I shall have good luck!” he exclaimed. *“Wait and you will see.” That day ho won three principal rac Indeed a curious phase of his supstitions was that they generally turned out to be correct. Wilien he felt that he was going to lose hedid lose; when he imagined that he would win he did win, This may be explaioed by coincidence or by the fact that his trainers and jockeys were shrewd enough to humor his" whims, knowing that he would rather justify his superstitions than capture & race. But, whatever the exylnnuuon. the fact that such a man should be subject to such caprices is wonderful. — Bleotrioity in Surgery. At the recent medical congress in Ber- lin the discussions on_electrical subjects were productive of intense interest. Electricity is being used in surgery to an extent little dreamed of outside'the E:olusnlon. and many tributes to the neficonco of its agency wore given. A statement was made by one of the speakers, Dr, Lassar, to the effect that l\hr. Edison intended, through his med- ical adviser, to communicate a novelty inthe shape of an application of eloc- tricity for the removal of stone. Consid- ering the intenso pain which usually companies operations for this disease, such a discovery is practical philan- thropy of the utmost value, who has 5 I I e o U OUT AMONG THE MORMONS. The Natumlisation of Alien Saints to Be Decided This Woek, SOME VERY REMARKABLE ASSERTIONS, Omaha People Who Are Making Thely Mark at Salt Lake City—A Year of Wonderful Progress., Sawr Lake, Utan, Jan. 10.—[Spoecial to T Bre, | ~The next session of the suprome court of Utah will conveno on Tuesday noxt and at that ime a_vory important quostion will be decided. The matter of naturalizing alien Mormons will bo disposed of. When the president of the chureh issuod his proo- lamation abolishing polygamy, which was subsoquently endorsed by the gonoral con- fevence, Chief Justico Zano made a decision to the offect that in the futuro ho would not refuso to admit Mormons to citizenship on nccount of their religion; that he believed that the mani ued in eood faith and that polygamy was now a thing of the past. He doclared that ho was of the opinfon that the ukaso wus final and that as hitherto thy sole on for denying Mormons tho right to become citizens was on that account, he would in future not con- sider thefr membership in the church a bar, Justice Anderson of tho secoud district, howover, holds otherwise. In a recent de- cision he asserted that a man could not be o good Mormon and o good, citizen at the samo time. Polyeamy ho held to bo a socondary econsideration, The teachings of tho cl are in- con- flict with the present system of government, I'he Mormon believes that the priesthood is supprossed, In obedionce to the teachings of the church he will dofy the law. Hence he cannot be a good eitizen, i rted in his posi- ¥ ibers of the bar, s very anxions to huve the question do- cided, At present he denies all these appli- cants, while Judge Zane admits thom, who will come out best romains to be seen, Rev, Joseph Cook of Boston in_this city obtained just information “on the Mormon tion to enablo him to go tern home and make an ass of himself. In erios of interviews hohas ropresented polygamy as being just as bad heto now as it was fu the days of Brigham Young, As a matter of fact the evil does exist, by any way as Joseph puts it show the total number of the past yea nuraver several wero le walked upd to the captain’s offico aud took their medicine like little men, Some of them got the usual six months and somo of them received more. twelve aro awaiting trial now. They will bo tried at the next term of court. ‘T'here 18 a story going the rounds of the eastern press that for pure and simplo pre- varication takes the cake. It is entitiod: “Will the Mormons Fight?’ The man who wrote it never saw a Mormon in his lifo and probably bases his taleon some old history of Utah and Nauvoo printed in 1843, Asido from their religious practices the Mormons are not such a bad peopo after all, Tho younger generation are as intelligont as any class of xu-.Tlo in the world, True, the ramp- ant ones, like Charles W. Penrose and George Q. Cannon, who aro perpet- ually talking about the “Nations bowing down" to the new kingdom of God on earth, are very firm in thoir belief, or apparently s0. But the younger generation aro fast learning the ways of the world and it will not be but a very short time before they will be quitting the'old crowd entirely. = AS to fight- ing, thut is the last thing thoy would think of 'doing. Tho feelng that is being en- gendered is ono of fraternity rather than tho contrary. Gentile girls are marrying Mor- mons and Mormons are marryiug gentiles,” Party lines ure drawn yet and doubtless will be for some time, but, tho day is not far dis- tant when oven thoy will be forgotten. ‘The appronching marriage of 1d J. Smith, formerly of Omaha, is one of the principal topics in society here just now. His bride is the charming daughter of one of the oldest families of the city, that of W. P. Rowe, ono of the heavy stockiolders in_Ziow's co-oper- ative mercantile institution. The future Mrs, Smith is a beautiful young woman., Mr. Swmith was formerly connected with tho stationary departmentof the Omahu Republi- can, . P. Rounds, formerly of Omaha, is going to locate in St Lake, havi hused o balf interest in the T Wendall Benson of Omaha, who has the contract for erecting the hotel Knuts ford, ex- pects to have the building completed by May 1. The structure is a handsome one and wiil cost, when complete, over $600,000, It is ono of the imposing buildings of the town, Tne retivement of General Manager Ros- seguio of the mountain division of the Uuion i 10 great concern here, as his successor is a well known Salt Lake man who has been identified with the town for & great many years. Mr. Rosseguie says ho will remain in the city for some time and rest up. After that he will look for something to do in the line of railroad work. ‘The review of the builing operations of tho year just closed has been published, It shows o total of over 5,000,000 invested, ‘This is a very gratifying result and the real ostafe men are jubilant. They will have the result published in pamphlet” form and dis- tributed all over the east. Work on the proposed line from Salt Lake City to Deep Creek. Nev., will be begun shortly and pushed to a rapid complotion, ‘The line is 154 wiles in length and penetrates one of the richest minmg regions in tho world, French capital is building the road. 1t is expected that about threo or four months time will be required to complete the road. - American Ships. 2 ‘Wo agree with our contemporary, the Tribune, that the ships to be provided for our growing commercial marine within the next few years must be built in American shipyards. Our new cruis ers give evidence that American ship- builders are abie to rival, if not tosur- pass, the best of Buropeun builders, says the New York Sun. Tm?- ought to bo the forerunners of a squadron of Amer- n merchant vessels, built in Amorican yards and foundries, built of American steel and iron, built by the industry of America’s workmen, built for theser- vice of American commerce, built to bo launched from American wharves and to sail under the American flag, Our new navy shows what ean be done here in constructing warlike cruisers, and the shipbuilaers of New York and other maritime ports will yet show what they can do in creating a new commer- clal marine, ‘rom fifty to *a hundred thousand workmeu ought to find steady and re- munerative employment in the shipyards and the ship iron works of the United States, whilo enough ques- back to his ctions during . Of this ding _Mormons who Each -Seaflson Has its own pecullar malady ; but with the blood maintalned in a state of uniform vigor and purity, by the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. the system readily adapts itself to changod conditions, Composed of the best alteratives aud tonies, and being highly concentrated, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the most effective sod .economical of all biood medicines. “For some years, at the return of spring, 1 had serious trouble with my kidneys, I was unable to sleep nights, and suffered greatly with pains iu the small of my baek, 1 was also afflicted with headache, loss of appetite, and Indigestion. These symptoms were much worse Last spring, especlally the trouble with my back. A friend persuaded me o use Ayers Sarsaparille. I began taking it, and my troubles all disappeared.” —Mis. Genevra Belauger, 24 Bridge st. Springheld, Mass, Ayer's Sarsaparilla DR.J, 0. AYER & 00, Lowell, Mass. Bold by Drugglets. 81, 81z $5 Worth goa lmu: