Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 18, 1891, Page 12

12 THE OMAHA DATLY BEE; SUNDAY, J S ORIES OF OUR STALESMEN The New Senators from Idahr and Their Rowantic Oareers, THEY FOUGHT INDIANS AND DROVE MULES. McConnell Mado Potato Deal—Gossip About Mis- souri’s Senators ~A Story About Turpie. a Fortune in a Wasnivaroy, ' Jan, 15— [Special Corre spondence of Tire Bee. |1 ealled last night on M. Alexander McConnel, the new senator from 1daho. e fsa stocky, broad-shoul dered, full-chested man of about forty-five He hashair and beard much like thoseof Garfleld, and there is alook about his fair fa ¢ that reminds mo of the martyred presi- d: He is blunt and western in his man nerand is apparently a good business man. Washington and his new position nave by no means ed him, and I judge that he has a suflicient amount of that aseurance and push which will make him a success hero be- fore the d@partments, His solf-reliance has been gained by @ life of hard knocks. He was born in Michigan and haa graduated at the academy there when he 1 to start west and seck his fortune ‘Lhis was in 1800, He left for Chicago with a goodly sum of money in his pocket, the total of his possessions. During the night he spent in Chicago, however, he was robbed He woke one morning to find his pocketbook missing and Just enough spare change to get him to Leavenworth, Kas.,, which then formed the sturting point for many of the igration trains going westward, He stepped off the boat at Leavenworth without a cent in his pocket and as he walked up the streot ho was accosted by a Jew elothier who caught hold of him and asked him to come in and buy asuitof clothes, “I don’t need any clothes,” replied McConnel, “and besides you don'tknow how to sell elothes anyhow. 1 can sell more goods ina day than you can In a week, and if you will give me a chance I will show you" This rough address cap- tured the Jew, who agood natured fol- low and he continued the talk with McCon- nelland finally, at the latter's proposition, offered him his board as long as he stayed in Leavenworth if he would sell for forhim. He madeup abed for him inthe back part of tho store and allowed him to sell s0mo things on his own account, 5o that with- In afew da MeConnel had earned sore money and felt ready to push on towards the west. In looking about for a chance to o he found aman who wanted a wagon tmin driven toSalt Lake City. McConnell told the man he was an accomplished muleg inver and though he had never held the reins be- hind a mule hogot the job. The train con- sisted of a big canvas covered wagon to which were hamessed six muies, McConnell drovo these all the way to Salt Lake City. It took fifty-two days to make the trip and he got$la day. This money made him feel quite rich and when he arrived at Salt Lake he was ready to push on to California and the gold flelds. He engaged in mining in California aud was doing very well when a washout and a flood swept away all his pros- pects, M'CCONNEL'S $22,000 POTATO CROP. In the mcentime he had noticed that eyery one who owned & farm or a garden in the vi- cinity of the California mnes made mouey out of it. It struck him that the same thing might be done In Idaho, and he puv what money helad saved into farming ymplements and seeds and started eastwurd to go fnto gardening, His articles had to be carried on @ pack train and be walked 450 miles andlo- cated his garden near Boise City. His garden prospered and he was som sclling caobages by the thousands at 45 cents & head, and his potato crop in ot year netted him $22,000, He kept up his gar- dening for three years, and made money at it rightalong. His profits enabled him to go into other businesscs, and he is now one of the well-to-do men of the west. He has been an influential man in Idaho for years, and like most of those western senators, he seems to think that the whole United States revolves aronnd his new state and that it will eventually bo the grentest place agricultur- ally and ()\herwhm in the union. Ho says it has the Dbiggest mine in the world, and he carries a lithograph of this mine about with himto prove to strangers that he is telling the truth, Itis called the De Lamar mine, and it produces $30,000 of gold andsilver & month, with a prospect of its increasing its yield vastly in the future, A SENATOR'S BIG WIEAT STORIES, Senator McConnel says the panhandle of Idako is the finest agricultural region in the United States, and he tells stories about its wheat productions which, if true, would almost enavle the owners of the land to get mortgagos at 6 per cent instead of tho rates of 10 and 12 which are said to hold good in Kansas. He says that there are hundreds of ncres of wheat in the panbandle which turn out forty bushels per acre right along, and he relates an incident which occurred in a sleep- ing car upon which he was traveling through Idaho this fall. Said he ‘‘There were two skeptical eastern men in the berth opposite me, and 1 overheard one talking to the other. They were discussing westorn men and wostern storics, and one of them said: ‘These westerners are the most accomplished liars of the world, They try to pretend that they bhave lands out here tnat will produce sixty bustels of wheat to the nere. Now E‘nulndl know that that can't be, and still they tell the story with as straight a face as though they weve reciting scripture or a sermon,’ Ilet the men goon for some time in this strain and heard them traduce our people as lins and gamblers and laugh more and more as they went along about the big wheat stories, Atlastl could stand it no longer and I broke into tho con- versation. ‘Gentlemen,’ said 1, ‘T am a west- erner and I suppose I am something of a. v and I do uot know but that I may be some- thing of a gambler. I know that I am liar enough to say that we have right here in this country which we are passing through, land which will not only produce sixty but 100 bushels of wheat to the acre.’ Hereat both of the easterns laughed incredulously, and I went on, ‘And what's more, zentlemen, I am gambler enough to bet any ‘amount on’ that statement from $1 to 820,000 und willstop ! a moment ‘at Missoula whes thero is a bank where we can get our che certified and deposit the bot until the matter can be verified.” This ratber took the wind out of the sails of my fellow travelers, They ‘wouldn’t believe me but tho; i to bet. My bluff, however, shut up the mouths and I'was not bothered about any further remarks as to western liars during the remainder of the day." A LOOK AT SENATOR SHOUP, Senator Shoup, the other semator from Idaho, is of about the same age of McConnel. He is a tall, straight, broad-stiouldered, blue- eved man 'with & big head slightly bald at the top. He has a fine face and he is ono of the good looking men on the republican side of the chamber. Heis a man with a history and he has been beiore the senate befors, About twenty-six years ago hewas inves ated as one of the ofticers atthe battlo of and creek where it was charged that the United States troops were not quite as gentlo to the Indians as they might have becn. I don’t know how the investigation turned out, but I think that Colonel Shoup came out of it with honor. Now a quarter of a century later, he comes back to Washington to bea seunator himself and il there areany investi- gullon‘ of the so-called massicres of the Sioux, ho w! robably have a hand iu them. He wis h o vernment scout during the 1ate civil war and commanded troops through- out different parts of the west, Ho started west when he was only sixteen years old with his father, who was a well-to-do Penusylva nian, and stopped first in Illinols where his father engaged in stock raising. He left here at the age of eighteen and crossed the plains in an emigrant train of canvas cov- over ered wagons, and engaged in mining some- | where near Pike's Peak. He kept a store at the same time and the store paid enough to keep the mines golng, He mined for some time ana trem moved northward and finally settled in Bduclii He has been enguged in minlog, stock g and mercautile busi- ness for years, and he is now sald to be one of the rich men of his state. He has had all the honors that the state and terratory could give him, and he was its first governor and left the executive chair to take his present placo in the senate. Ho has been a member of the national republican committes, and he says there is no doubt of his republicanism, notwithstanding his action on the silver bill & couple of weeks ago. TWO DETHOIT LAWYERS, The ups and downs of politics were well illustrated in a trial which took place before the supreme couct this week. A dapper lit- tle gentleman with luxuriant sidewhiskers the color of tanbark and with an air alto- gother like that of a la-dolah preacher, was | hartanguing the old men in wowns on the subject of a patent case, The preacher-like | lawyer made a good spoech and he was closely listened to by one of the justices at least. T'bis justice sat at the extreme end of the bench ncarest the clerk's office, and he frowned from time to time with all the im- portance of a new judge, He had a big head, # high broad forehead, and his severe eyes looked out frora under his heavy, bush, brows. His nose was a Roman one, and it was large and straight. His great mouth was tightly “closed In conscious dignity and he wrinkled his brow as he sat there and frowned and frowned and watched the dap- per little ger:tloman make his plea. Thedig- nified man was the new supreme court jus- tice, Judge Brown of Detroit, and the dapper little gentler with the tanbark whiskers was Don M. Dickenson, who was postmaster general in Cleyeland’s cabinet. A few year: ago both of these men were practicing before the Detroit bar and both had great offi- cial ambitions. Dickenson reached the top of the ladder of his desires first and he rather smiled at Brown as he sat in the great postofice department and looked out at him still trying s in Detrogt. He fell biok (o his old_ Jevel at Harrison's election and now it is Brown who is on top, and on top Lo stay. Cabinet ofticers rise and fall with presidential elections, but judges of the supreme court are elected for life, and rown has the assurance of dying full of onors. He is a fine looking judge and bo 100 s very much like Judge Brower, who sits n the otlier end of the beneh Heowes his appointment very much to his_friends for promptly pressing his claims, He has long ted 1o be a supreme justice, and when Stauley Matthows died his friends were here and they wero ready to push him for the place. ~ After Brewer was appointed they re- | served their papers in hand for the death of | the next justice, and upon Juage Mitler’s de- cease they at_once filed their claims, Judge Brown is said to be a v fine lawye He made a fortune atthe luw and he is worth some where between 8500,000 and #1,000,000, He is tho richest justice of the supreme court since the days of Ch Justice Mauvshall, who died owning about a hundred thousand acres of land and stocks aud bouds galore, HOW THE MSSOURE SENATORS KEEP TIEIR SEATS, Oue of the brightest western congressmen is Representative Tarsency of Missouri, He is a brother of Tim Tar i the last house, and he isqu | quite as witty as his brother. [ asked himu: to tho standing of Senator Coclrell in Mis- souri and whej d his strength with the people. Said Mr, Ta i uator Cockrell is one of tho miost popu- lar men in his state, and he is a much better politician than ke is given credit for b There is hardly a granger in_the stateof Mis- souri who has not_one of Frauk Cockrell | ph letters framed to hang up in his g Cockrell attends to his correspon d- ence better than any public man I kuow. Ho answe ery letter the moment it is re- ceived, and if the writer wants anything at Washington his letter is replie’ to “with tie statement that the matter will be attended 10 atonce and a few days later he writes an- other letter telling tne man just how his case stands and sending him "what he wants. Senator Cockrell has the statesman's memory. If he me ou today he will know jour face fiftoen years from now, and if he ias met your wife he will be sure to ask what has become of Maria and how is baby John, who was with_you when-he last saw you. He mikesit s business toattend to 5 constituents, He is one of in public life, and he isn’t afraid to tackle John Sherman, George . Edmuuds, or any of the other big bugs on the other side of the chamber.” “*What kind of a man is Vest?" T *‘Senator Vest,” replied Mr. the direct opposite to Coc position through pun and o has no missing qualit He has had so much troubls of one kind or another that he has become to u certain extent misanthropic, and. he is not, us a rule, a good conversation- alist. He Is & manof great ability und we Missourians admire hin.” ENATOR TURPIE'S EDUCATION. The conversation here turned to literary senators, and Mr. Tarseney said that he he- lieved thav Mr., Turpie was the best posted and most bookish of any man at Washington. said he: “‘Seuator Turpie understands half a dozen different languages, speaks French, German and Italian and he quotes ikespeare, Homer and the bible in the same breath. He came out to Kansas City uot long ago and I wanted to show bim the town. 1 proposed a carriage, but he objected and said 1o didu't wantto ride around the strects and that he would rather walk and look at the store w dows, Aswe started out he asked me if we had any good bookstwres. I told him we had a few, and he asked to be shown the biggest one. We went to it and Turpie asked the clerk for fome outlandish old book that I had never seen or heard of. The cle: didu't know the book, und one after another, includ- ing the proprietor, was asked concerning it, but all professed ignorance. Atlast the lady bookkeeper was called up, and sh id she thought they had a copy of it She got it ed. avsency, is He holls his and gave it to Turpie. He grabbed at it like abungry dog ata bone and sat down right there and read away at it for an hour, while T watched him in wonder, wanting to show him the town and waitiig for him to finish his education.’ ENGLAND'S CHUEF JUSTICE OF AND THE KANSAN, Hon, Jerty Simpson, the sockles man, who has been elected by Kunsas to congress will beone of the characters of the vext house, He will by no means be the only man of his class in congress and the stories of the boorishness of congressmen promise tohe more numerous than ever he- fore, Simpson is by no means tho ooly illit- erate statesman in Kansas, and I heard last night the story of an_incldent which oc- curred when Lord Chief Justice Coleridgo of England was in thi Cole aperfect Chesterficld as regards manners, He was a man of great ability and wide learn- ing and he kuew tho clusiics as well as ho dia the Engiish. During his tour through the west he stopped at Topeka and was given a dipner at the expense of the state. The feast was an elegant one and all of the great men from miles cound were invited to It tohonor the Lord ief Justice. His honor had the governor on one side of him at the tabie and the lieutenant gov or of the state on the other side, As the party say down the menu cards had already been ‘laid beside their pl These cards wero very fine, They apiece and they boro at their h coat-of-arms of K upon which graved the motto, * ad astra per aspern.”’ As Chief Justic Caleridge sat down he took up this card and looking at the motto, said to the wan on his left, “Very good indced, and very appropriate,” the What's good?? governor. I refer to these words,” said Judge Cole- ridge as he pointed to the motto, **Yes,” replied the leutenant governor, with a knowing look as though he wero giving i[mpol'u'ml information, “them words is Latp." I have not heard the replyof the chief justice, but he must have thought a great deal. Fraxe G. CARPENTER, e THE STRANGERS, Harper 8 You g People, He entered; but the mask he wore Concealed his face from me. Still, somothing I had seen before He brought to memory. asked lieutenant Whoart thou! What thy rank, thy namel 1 questioned, with surprise, “Thyself,” the laughing answer came, s seen of other eyes." A G'ant Stag Shotin Ireland. The giant stag in Muckross forest, near Killarney, which had come to be regarded as what Carlyle would have | termed an ‘*‘uncanny and quasi-infernal | object,” and which has been the mark of many rifles, was shot recently by Lord Mayo, says London Truth. The creature had & magnificent head of fourtesn | ludnls. and its *‘clean” weight is said to haoe been nearly twenty-nine stone (406 pounds), in which case {t must be abeut | the heaviest stag that has ever been | killed either in Ireland or Scotland, 189L.-SIXTEEN PAGES. DR. J. RICHARDS Electro and Electro- Thermal Bath Insti FOR THE TREATMENT AND CURE OF Rheumatism, Nervous Diseases, Kidney, Blood and Lung Troubles. Rooms 316 to 320 Bee Building, Omaha. The only real Electric, Electro- eases which he treats, best remedial agencies know ELECTRIC BATHS. 18 the application of clectricity to (he body through water, steam 1 tric bath from the Stat or hot air, and fhe celet ved batteries and my and Instruu; s g1ven this great remody es never before att ving thelr exelusive therapeutics.” It Is nature's great remed andskillfully apply it is a goal well worth the effort of protession, We have everything n peutic . Eloctric Mac ments for trantin, i can be done with theso g ary his subj istaction, We shall first consider RITEUMATISM, mate thisdis o Is more prevalent than sub-ucu 1d ehronic forms. Tn a vt of the Lody. It hands, the arms, theshouldcrs, t but,not least, In the b ood, suteo by al every T 1 hope of ¥ hly medicines can do, There g the trathfulness of this, for patent medicines und 1 \opeof cure, and aresi slde in the 1t 18 the hundre ntly tricity and Electro Jorou | . Tn8ome cxses medieines Electrie trentment, but In uiost coses ¢ chronic conditions, where the nuse as the specialist themselves under my treatment, and I only ask those who are afflicted to try me and see it I do not verify all claims. Respecttully, THE MEMOIRS OF TALLEYRAND They Are Given to the Public Half a C.n- tury After His Death, REMARKABLE NOVEL BY AN ARMY OFF.CER He Discounts the Story of Rip Van Winkle--New Books by Rud- yara Kipling—Other Lit- erary Nous. The publication of the Talloyrand's memoirs, begun in the Jawuary number of “The Century, is & literary event. It s doubt- ful if anything else wiich will so> the light in the present year will surpass these papers in interestto the literary wan, the studentof history, or the cultivated readerof any de- scription, Talleyrand died Afty-two years ago. stipulated that his memows shoald not be published until he bad been dead thirty years, The present publication is preceded by @ brilliaut sketeh of the author from the pen of Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune and American min- ister to France Ho spouks of Tallyrand as “a man unpar leled in modern Europe for length and vari- oty of distinguished service. B with Louis XVL, from whom he received his first appointment, and from whom b went later with a letter to the kiu land, Talleyrand served in all e masters—besides u great number who were ab ono Lime or another of others d to have stly came pre: 16 constituout assembly which or- nized the French vevolution. ~He was sent to London on ascevet mission with i pass- He was minister of for- o tho diroctory, under the consulate, under the emoire, under Louis XVIIL, and under Louis Plillippe, In diplo- matic skilland success public opinion beld hum the first man of his period—that 1s to say, for half a v thafivst man of Europo. on affairs, it is doubtful if any ministe 2 can be said to have erted as much, with the exceptions ouly of Bismwarck and Cavour,” Mr. Reid epitow pen ploture A profligate priest, who owed his start in life to an ill-flavored joke about the immoral- ity of ris, made in the drawing room of Mme. du Barry, the kin favorite **A bishop who was forced into the public journals to explam that the money he had recently made in gambling was not made in gambling houses, but in clubs; and that it was not 0 wuci as reported—being ouly thirty thousand francs instead of six or seven hundred thousand. “'A confidential friend of Mirabeau, who was accused of poisoning him. A minister, and for years the intimate, of Napoleon, and yet accused of & plob to assus- sinate him. ©A great statesman whose enormous and continuous receipts of bribes from the begin- ning W thoend of his long career is unques- tioned. “‘A trusted minister of foreign affairs who whilein oftice under the directory, thwarted their measures and plotted for ' the coup d’etat of Nupoleon; who, while in office un- aer Napoleon, intrigued with the emperors of Russia and Austria to defeat his plans, and plotted for the reture of the bourbons; who while in ofice under Louis XV1II, plotted for his overthrow aud for the accession of Louis Phillippe. . *“The constituent assombly forbade his re- turn to France. Pitt expelled him from Eng- land. ‘Washington refused to receive L\imrn America, The pope excommunicated him. “‘And yet he llv»d to be summoned back to France and apvointed minister of foreign af- fains for the revolutionary government; lived to return to England as ambassador from France, with the prestige of the most distin- guished living diplomatist, to meet with a re- ception which could scarcely have been more respectful if he had been s erowned head; lived to give notice to the American minis- ters plenipotentiary in Paris that they must buy peace or leave the country; lived to have his career In this vivid chines for generatin nts for upply vatuein ot our me to the ‘study and pracy in the form of es and Eleetrie Batteries. with instru- part of the bod, roi U a special study for years we know ¢ e mi, s in the legs. th ne s the buclc, the heart, This nprofessor s trying the v ineral springs resorts, hny and sadly spending th cmedy 1o hizhest medi, also our own ebservation from years of treutn 11 be used with n be dispensed wi and Thermal and Turkish Bathsin the city. he does not haveto depend entirely upon their the o Tihe wate } e ment of dis- Hyatll physicians are ot clectro- ndorstand w0 modieal 2 1t Lo ho tre: lest and to fully tro Thora- usu which enibles us to do edies. and huving made we can give sat- neck and the ankylosed, or stifened cured many cases i with the ol 15 becomie loculized, s the . and can tainty that has n thercfore, that Rhenmatism ¢ and are sustained in this by © i iy 1ulgia, the cer he Dorso Inte; sclutic neuralgia in the n to the profession. nd whero the muscular text our hands. of ir apeutic Bt cirlc curont dir. from th sted to the | wedy for allge upon as o ver attended uny oth i u be cured by th NEURALGIA. a ufMicts a great many people sribed is fur from satisfac ory. 'l lco brachial, situnted i the by n, I sis of the face, of the lower and upper ext Tn this chungeable ell- any other, especially the ority of peoplo we find duce s; puin I dise se has been Mat i-Modiea with the mee thor- : of ull that stify to ctors and ven up all days in suf- B cases'T use. he Baths, when i {0 sub- rity, 08 examin tin tl nefit alon Joints have become of hands, arms, fl inal Teritations, Nervous Prostration, ephrial nervous uptoms ot lieart, nervous h . Richa y o m'erosaop! wtion tells of 1 charactor disenses. above dise lessness, &e., we u a symptom of par : Gatalépsin, Hyktor Chronie Aleoholi frer off, tom, Disease nervous . such ns | adach 1pit nchoila, dyspep CONSUMPTION. ption from ot 2 extent and p 1d so differentiate betwe There can be Fever, Cough, clation, Decline and D ta, there is no Con: es us well as In Ane ress, the ath, yot | yption. 1 a, Asthn the the tre sued y and his tair, where the ¥ of our be:t writers on and the ro_are f. ot the ilop Nervous Hei 'ts of Sunstioke and Syphilis of the of the kidneys ofien ote, determines the disease by an examination of the rine with a miccoscope und cure the patients by treating the nation of the expectorated matter, we diseases of the lungs, microscope the 1 these (roublesome Ly pectoratio b no ment of the lelanchol i combined with Nitrogen monoside While Dr, Richards uses medicines for the dis- action for good results, but brings to bear all the is atoned, BEOAT thus earrylr only sensivl 1t 1s Which s (1 eam or BECAT remedios! ectricity. of respiratia BECAL reulation here Isno agent fn the materin medl ecof comforteven in the it mes tion o In theso pro- tho Enmit ¥ . Bowditeh, Telphin; Dr. Dr. Edward L Trudeau, Sar In cases of C with Fever, will be folloy 3 and of Night Sweats, Impro and assimilation nd Is tl Physleal - Tn Consumption t 1s inh: the most known to sclence, us Bacillicannot Iive in an JAUSE= Tt acts Immedintely, the fmproven: ent from thestart, puticnts like it and it on prominent hospitals and the me ok Leonard, Comin D West brook. Brookly lod directlvto theseatot out iple of direet medication tho pri powerful gorm destroy i atmosphe A gon: of Oxyt t, TAUSE—Ttls the only thing that will relleve Dyspnma, by 1t0id and obstructed alr cclls, thus lucreasing tho firea ~Ttoxidizes fmpure and venous blood, stimulating twmealately increasing the wppotity, o 1d produc- 1t belng appar- uspires them with hope, that can most advanced cases of on that it t eminent ne and 1 hias merit when the most ien in the profession anemin Hospital, Now Hospital, Boston} ulso L Keyes. N, Y.; Dr.'J. D, Y DrJ. W Dowling, N, AL W, Civtlin, Brook1yn nry O. Marey, Boston Dr, . B, Hooker, Hartfonls Dr. Henry or. Preston B, Scott, Louisville, Ky e Lake, N. Y. Boston; 1 with partial consolidationof the Lung cough th dministration of Ox nperature, subsid more perfoct di the Oxygen € icholia sitistuction iu th at Remedy. My many years’ experience with years of special practice in lung and nervous diseases and the many tesmonials and references I can give at my office, must be significant to those who have ® been suffering from any of the above diseases, who have tried the general practitioner, as well and have failed to be cured. the pope’s excommunication withdrawn, and died in the odor of sanctity, with his king at his bedside, and the blossinigs of the carainal of Pari When, after fif the grave, such a charac freedom ” vouchsafed to personal memows, the world is justified expecting a rave treat. The first install- m-nt sketehes his childhood and family, his euteance into Parisiaun soelety and his i pressions of Lafayetto olution. Hespasks bricfly, too, of the origin French vevolution, in which he was a ous figure. The u closes with ption of his trip to Englind and his merica, where he was o and Philadelphi; He was a sine er of Flamilton, whom he thoucht “on a par with the most distin- guished statesmen of ISurope, withoud ox- copting Mr. Pitt and air. ' Fox.” The moirs will grow in interest ns they got per into the career of. the great man whose life they portray, but the first inssall- ment is very fasciaating. It is an wteresting fact that the calture which the army officer puts on in his severo course of study at West Poiat, frequently de- velops into a real literary treal under the in- fluenco of his ample icisure and solitary life in the sef Here is another novel by one of Unclo Sam’s soldiers—*A. D. 2,000, by Lieutenant Alvarado M. Fuller. Tn a fe lines of ~prefice the author say “Lest originality of title and theme bo denled. it is but justice to myself t) s that both were assumed in ovember, 1 i wtion is wise, for there haye been ze" novels of tnis sort, doserib- atural phenomena of human lifo, ily since Robert Lou vensou told ith the the writer of conspic guest at sell into Mr, Hyde igenious and eluborate scientific novel, with o strong flavor of _romance aboutit. Ttdescribes the schoms of an ari officer to conceal himself in the ped statue of liberty at S Feancisco for years, at thoend of which time he cam life. 'He hau sought ndvico from a chemist, duitted Lo the secret whose daughte 15 Cobb, the b dearly loved, When Cobb camo to life, accordance with his carefully nrranged plans, bo discovercd that tho old chem: ist had proserved s bride for Lim by the same method and had left the pair a vast fortune, won by successtul inventions, The strange pt yrked out with gr id detail, and the story told with good The description of the devel- accurred in the interval slecp 15 cutertaining, Chi- cugo has beeome the metropolis of the world, though New York's population _has growu to 4000000 People travel from i } San Francisco **via the Pnou- ral,” 1o less than a day. Thoy also navigate the bottom of the sea and the heavens. Laird & , Chicago, publish Lieutenant Fuller's remarkable uovel. Mr. Benjamin R. Tucker of Boston, pub- lishes the tirst English translation of Connt Tolstoi's latest work, “Tho Fruits of Cul- ture.” This book, like “The Kreutzer Sonata,” hias never been published in Russia, It is a twofold satirs on “culture” and spirit- ualism. The follies of tho se-called *‘cul- tured”’ classes aro “exhibited in a humorous picture of their fashidus, “fads,” and men- tal freaks, and tho story Binges upon the of- fect of modern spiviwalism on an aristo- cratic family in Russia. As asort of supplementary chapter to his “Looking Backward," Mr. Edward Bellamy has written an article for the February issue of the Ladies' Hottie Jouraal, under the titlo of “Women in the Year 2000, in which the famous nationalist’ will sketch woman, mar- riage, courtship, ete, as they will be re- garded in the year 2000, Arnoid Toynbeo is the author of *“The In- dustrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Cen- tury in England.” The point of view of the author of this important work is that of one who, while he admits the benefits conferred upon mankind by the old school of political economy—Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus and the rest—believes that their work is done, and that the world has got beyond thend, and stands in need of something moro. The Work is a history of “the_bitter arg ment between ecomomists and human be- ings,” to use the striking phrase of his chap- ter on “Ricardo and the Oid Political Eoon- omy.” When the economic relations of men are studied by an observer who, to abundant learning, adds the quality of human sympa- thy, the result 1s no “dismal science.” Be- sidés the treatise named above, the present work coutains three popular addresses on opme of Co! ! Democraey” and My effort has been and always will bz to regard the interests of those who blaced y g ; J. RICHARDS, M. D., 316 to 320 BERE BUILLDING, OMA HA “Wages and Natural Law,” “Industry and Ave Radicals Socialists ! ai also papers on “The Fducation of Co-oper- ation, and “T'he Ideal Relations of Church and State.” There is amemoir of th by B. ster of Baliiol college, ford, England, in which colloge Toynbee was alecturer on political cconomy. Published by the Humboldt company, 23 Lafayette Place, New Yor ther book ‘est to the At has perhaps an especial army is **Departmental Dit- Room Ballads and Other y Rudyard Kipling. 1t s a volume well worth buying and reading and is full of this famous young author's quaint phrases and ideas. 1t is avery pretty book aud is published by John W. Lovell company. New York. b L, by Geoffrey Drage, hasreached its fifth edition. Itis a romantic novel of the old style and well worth reading. A Vi daiuty httle volume, both in matter and appearance, is “Under the Nursery Lamp,” a collection of sweet little bedtimo songs, Mothe: can use it to good advan- tage and anybody would 1iko to own it Pub- lished by Anson D. F. Randolph, New York. Julian Hawthorne, whose litevary produc- tiveness would appail his gifted father, issues w novel, line,” through John W. Loveil compan Rud Kipling sends out a volume of short stories, entitled “Under the Deodars.” Theso stories have the imnress of his st but it is to be doubted whether ho can afford to publish as much as he 13 now publishing in spite of the_keen appe- tite which the public shows for his work, SCEIVED, " a novel by W. E. Norris. John company, Now York: 50 conts, a movel, by Adeline Johu W, Lov- 50 cents, novel by George Lovell company, ylo, ell company “Lady ‘A Bitter Burthvight,” a novel by Dc Russell: John W. Lovell compiny, New Yo “Wages of Sin," a_novel by Lucas Malet; F. Lovell & Co., New York; ) conts, Muster,” by Lady Maude Rut- B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadel- sats. “Saneli's B Honry Greyi Philadelphia; xpiation,” a Russia story by ;I B.Poterson & Brothers, HONEY FOR THE LADIES, The rather ancient fashion of wearing a chain of gold dollurs at one's wrists is being revived. The old ladies may gramble, but at the age ixteen women's of ghts are 'way ahead of . those of manhood. “If you marry Arabella Hiflier youw'll load a dog’s life.” “Well, if it is as agreeible as the life of Arabella’s dog I shall be content.’ The Boston Travelor is authority for the statement that cigarette smoking has been alarmingly prevalent among the women of that city, par ularly those moving in fash- louable society, A very explicit Connecticut statute pro- vides that no man shall kiss o woman against hor will, and_behind it is a still move rigid old blue law that says & man shan't kiss his wife on the Sabbath. Street gloves can only be worn in a very w shades. Black suede by most is con- sidered “quite the proper thing,” but tan- colored ones are also greatly worn, varying from the light shude to one thatis quito dark. Editor Stead, of the Reylew of Roviews, recently requested Mme. Blavatsky to send him & picture of herself, In sending the photograph Mme. Blavatsky wi unde neath it: “H. P. Blavatsky, o all the naj ty of her wrinkles,” A new thing in evening boas is to have them made of real blossoms, The boa is eight feet, long and made by binding long-stommed roses, violets, or chrysanthemums together after'the fashion invented by cmidren in making daisy chains. Black gloves will vored ones worn One’s hands look so contihue to bo the fa. by our French sisters, much smaller i them and the arms 50 much whiter above them,’ that iu spite of all spasms to the contrary, they will be worn, Princess dresses are coming in fashion ain, A beautiful dress recontly finished in the universally popular gray aud yellow, was @ gray bengaline, bordered with straight Tows of gold braid, and having a bortha and full pufted sleeves of yollow cropon, The long point. has beon revived for bodices, its sharpuess being outlined with o narrow band of metal-woven galloon starting from the side seams, *“Valais vodices’ are slashed on the bust, revealing puffs of a contrasting color, and have their seams outlined with vertical lines of braid or fine cord running parallel with them, For a birthday gift make your bestboy a ntof a i-cent piece, But have the sil- ith idealize it before hana, so thatit is worth two or threo times Whon it has been coated with anice wasi of silver original half dollar, get place on the reverse ido whera you can fnsert a likeness of your- self, A titled bride has startod the new fashion of the marriaze ring being inlaid with blue enamel, and the tide has vurned from using the plain circlot to employing the style of ring each bride may happen to fancy and choose. ‘I'bis fad has ils advantagos and its disadvantages, for the wedding band can thus rarely be distiiguished from the ornaniental cirelet, Apinin form of a hollow heart, outlined bya rowof pearls or diamonds or any gem tho wearer may fancy, is a present fud, These quaintly shapad hearts are also shown in whitesilverand in chased goid. Thero are also close quatrofoil knots formed of lines of siamonds or pearls and_diamonds, sot in platinum so thut 1o sotting is visiblo and the ow seems tied of a ribbon of jowels. Everyoue knows that the littlo spoons used at afterioon teas and on simlar occasions with rigures at the toparo called “A postles' spoons.” but few peoplo ever examine the cunningly chased figures at the top or that the igures are anything but apostol design. On_ a set recéntly gi N ding present an observing person mizht have been shocked to trace out littlo facsimilics of Murtha and Margierite, Sicbel and Faust, and even the wicked Mephistophelos. Table slips are heayily embroidercd in washing cottons of coloring that combino with the rest of the decorations of the uble, and a very lovely spoimen is of white corled silkc, with orchids ombroidered in light tones. Bands of ribbon laid n a square on the table is a novel notion, for on this rib- bon (which is génerally moire) greenery and tlowers are Tnd. Croton leaves of curi shape ed flat_on the cloth b the sov i It1s a pr bracelot, is not orna- and gold is too cxpensive for tho ma- jonty of wearers- Where is the watch to bo put, then, in orderto gev at it casily ¢ The general make of dress bodices does not admit of a watch pocket being advantaseously pliced. In this dilomma some one has orig- inated the idea of putting the watch inside the high dress collar, and lewting the short chain and pendant hang as loose oraauents, near, over orinstead of a brooch. Medicated gloves are worn by some atuight to whiten the hands, Besides being an ex- pensive luxury to indulge in they eventuatly harm the skcin on the hands. They mako tho flesh so tendler that the slightost exposure to the cold will make the hands lools rough and ved, When once worn they arsofton clung to for the obvious reason that when left off for a night or two the hands hecome *a sight.” Tho use of cold cream ana discarded white gloves is the safest protective for the hanas, espec vhen followed in the morning by the alt -rful br Sloaves arestill set high on thesnoulder, though without exaggeration. Two distinet styles provail—one cut wideat the topand fitting closely about the elbow and forearm theothera divided sleeve of equal width to the clbow, where itis gathered into a gaunt- let. All' long sleoves, whether tight or pufted, trimmed or plain, transpar opaque, come wel over tho wrist. P nes ara wearing long slooves with 1ot bodices, and the elbow slceve is quite & fea- ture of the present style of full dress, A novel trimming 1s a gold floral applique with a tiny white ostrich tip woricod into the torn at intervals. Another beautiful inmang is composed of gold cord embroid- ery and moonstones, Tho most salient items in trimmings now are the jewols introduced, tho most_fashionable of all being opals, & name applied to any milky white stone which is corded or mottled with color, The renais- sance style predominates in these trimmings, which aro most effective in design when tho jewecls appear to be forming the flowers to | sparse grass-like patterns, INPIETIES, “"Why did the sexton leave! “Hegot full ono day and ofcinted ata funeral with a red necktie on, and veept ata church wedding in the afternoon with a band on his hat that flapped in the wind.’” Exhorter—Y v friend, @ man with n of mustard seed can blos- som into a Christian. Scoffer—1I should think he'd be more like tosproutinto a froe lunch sand wich, unday School Teacher—When the wha'e allowed Jonab, what made him come upl Small Boy (after'long silence) —The MekKine ey bill, Miss Palisade-—We rather expected you ut the church trimming, Mr. Cleverton. Cleverton—On, I'm ot much of a hand at flirting, . Deacon Batty—Don’t be afraid of persecu- tion, young man. Many of the carly Chri tian' martyrs were broko in on the whicol, Daggett (speaking from experience)—Serve ’em right, deacon; serve ‘em right. They had no business gambling. ‘W hat has become of that brillinn® young Mothodist preacher I heard last year 2" “Oh, some Wall strcet men got hold of him and built hina big church on condition he d turn Baptist,” “Ah! 1 seo; watered His stock.” u always practice what you preachi’ asked the deacon of a long winded ministe “I do, my brother,” said the long winded minister, solemnly, "“Well," said the tired deacon, witha sigh, “I don't wonder then that you don't seem to get time to make any pastoral calls,” Wife—Did you malke n minute of the pas tor's sermon this morning ¢ Husband —Y of them to make & “Deceitfuliess, deah bredd sius mos' frequently mev wif In dis yar world, an’ besides iv's de dest to deteo forde simple reason dat abad trade dollar makes more racket dan a good $100 bili will wen it's drapped into do collection box. Satan—Really, now, I object to this good resolution pavement. Con tractor—Whit's the matter with it} Satan—Why, it melts too casily. If you don't pay your debis you had better not talk too much in class meeting Job had ascoro of wratcied pains O'er which to wail and moan, Buthe was spirad the woos of him Who rents a tolephono, Farmer Poastrow—What you doin’ in tho , Jerry? All you wrote was that your ywation was a sinnyoure, erry—So 'Uis. I'm’a sergeant in the Sal- vation army. The mau Who prays out in church soloud that L an be heard across the street gener- ally holds his communications with the devil in’'a low whisper which caunot be heard beyond the limits of his own hypocritical briin. Watts—What church does Podberry be- long tot Potts—He s a Soventh Diy Methodist—— Watts—Seventh Day Methodist! Potts-Yes, Thorest of the week he's a business man, The most bumble man in the world knows of suggestions be would like to offer the Lord. “If any debt ought to be mid," savs Chiet Justice Bleckloy of Georgia, **tls one con. tracted for the health of souls,” and he the s & Baplist churen In that state sol to pay the back salary of the preacher, v muarking in passiog thiat simplo and exact ju ice im this relation is “the hog and hominy, bacon aud beans of morality, public and private, “Doan let onvy git posses hoarts, deah breddorn; wearin' a stovepi hat an’ a ¢ an' ya foel de green-eyod monste aroan’ yer heart-strings, jes de man may be shiverin” wif de cold under his stylish outside on account ob de absenc) ob an undershirt.” Wife-Did you g0 to prayer mooting last night? Husband—Yes, Wife—How did you come ou't Pastor—My little girl do you bolong to tho “ninety and nne iwe Lamb~No; [ think our number is 399, s, am one oh ob your ya seo A man At last the Union Paclic bana, an indes poudent organization, has applied for admis sion and beon received iwito the Musical Mutual Protective union. This adds size teon musiciuns to the nssoclation.