Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 19, 1891, Page 6

“HELD BY THE ENEN BT PP MMANU At the first call to arms in the spring of *61 00 city in the union was more patriotic in in- tense lovo for the perpetuation of the union | and the gloryof our flag than the good old city of Newark, N. /. Among the earliest to organize a company | of volunteers was Captain John Leovard, a | wounded veteran of the Mexican war and a | most magnificent, brave and gallant soldier, | who eventually commanded his regiment as | Its colonel. His company, numvering about one hundred men, left Nowark in the begin- ning of May, 1861, to join Sickles' Excelsior brigade, then in process of organization in New York city at the old city assembly rooms on Broadway, THEY START FOR TIE TRONT, Among the first to volunteer in the com- pany were Francis ledmond and his com- rade from boyhood, Thomas Sexton. Young Redmond had barely reached his eighteenth year, while Sexton was just one year his senior. The former was a student in St Benedict's college on High street, Newark, while the latter was an appreatice at the car- penter trade, The ambition of young Red: mond was to become a member_of the legal fraternity, bul the firing on Fort Sumter stirred his patriotio blood, and he and his gallint through Newark to the trin for New York, many of them, alas! taking their last look at friends and home. Their stay in New York city was of short duration, as the brigade was moved to “Camp stt) on Staten Island, and soon thereafter Captain Leonard's company was attached o the Sev enty-second Now' York volunteers (the Third “regiment, Excelsior brigade,) As soon as the news of the dis- astrous battleof Bull Run reached Washing- ton the Excelsior brigade was promptly or- “dered to the capital, whore it went iuto reg- ular training to fit it for the dreadful duty it performed afterwards so heroically aud so w hio quict, gentlemanly bearing of yonng Redmond won for himthe respect of his comades s well s his captain, who, with the quick intuition of the gallant’soldier that be was, particularly remarked young Red: mond’s behavior, and prophesied that when the proper time arnved he would make his mark. TIE TRATNING FOR THR DEATI GRAPPLE. Allof the fall and winter of 1861 and 1862 the union nud confederate armies wero fac- ing cach other on both siles of the Potomac, driling aud preparing themselves for the terrible death crapple that_was sure to com- mence in the spring of 1852, The regiment to which young Redmond belonged, under Colonel Nelson Taylor, was engaged in arduons service on the lower Po- tomac allthe winter, and_in April General AcClellan made his_famous move to Yorktown aud began his “‘Peninsula’ cam- paign, “The siege of Yorktown followed, und ono mornir.g in theearly part of May the Army of the Potomac was electrified by the news that General Magruder, who commanded the enemy, had, like the Arabs, silently folded his tonits and stolen away from Yorktown in the direction of Williamstown. The divisions of Generals Hooker and Kearney of the Third corps, under command of Ueneral Helntzelman, were at once ordered In pursuit, and on the 5th of May, 186 Sxcolsior brigade received its first baptism in blood. A PLEDGE BEFORE TITE DATTLE. Bofore going into the battlo young S cailed his youthful comrade to one side, say fng: “Frink, no one but God knows whether we will come out of this alive. I had apecu- iar dream last night—don’t laugh, F'rank— utif anythiog happens to me don’t leave me, and if it 11 God's will_that 1 should bo killed and you survive, send this picture of mine to my dear mother in Academy street, Nowark, and bucy me with my dear mothor’s picture ‘on my breast, Tell her my last thoughts wereof her.” Frank promised faithfully and cheered his companion up, saying: “Don't worry, Tommy, my toy, ° Why, old Mugruder's men néver handied the bullet to hit either oneof us.' Ina few moments, as they advanced, tho ®ipip of the bullets from the conccalod enemy in the “slashing” began to tell with deadly effect in the ranks of tne Excelsiors, and almost before they knew it a deadly vol- ley was poured into their ranks. THE THIRD EXCELSIOR'S FEARFUL CITARGE. Fora moment the line staggered. Then the stentorian voice of Colonel Taylor; ““Attontion, Third Excelsior! Fix bayonets| Charge!" Aud with a fierce and loud hurrah the reg- iment, with set teeth and on a ‘‘double- quick,” fairly leaped on top of the foe. No human beings could withstand their onset. Tho enemy scattered and fled, leaving their dead and wounded, and with' the ring- ing victorious union cheers sounding in their ears, The rain descended in torrents, whilo the heavy guns of Fort Magruder, near Will- famshurg, played havoe in the union ranks, The battle still raged flercely, the gallant Jersoy brigade doing nobly. Tho enemy, being reinforced, made a most allant chargo on the Excelsiors, who, now eing wearied and almost out of ammunition, began to fall back. "Mwas at this _time that young Redmond heard a smothered groan and a shrill ery of, O Frank, don't leave me.” Ho recornized his comrade's volce in the din and smoke, and, turniog quickly, was justin time to catch’ young Sexton in his arms, Tno blood was spouting in a torrent from his breast, DIED WITH TS PACE TO THE FOE, A fuint whisper: “Frapk—remember— mother. " A convulsive shudder, and, as the war of the elements mingled with the warfare of man, the soul of poor Tommy Sexton took its flight to the merciful God from whom 1t came. The army by this time had almost sur- rounded the youthful soldier, and, gently laying his dead comrade down, was in the act of picking up his rifle, when “'Surrender’ camo in his ears from a stalwart foe. With onesweepof the butt of his riflo he folied his foeman to the earth, and ere_ho could re- cover Frank covered him with his rifle, and thinking of his dead comrade, fairly hissed: 4t is you who must surrender. Goon ahead of me or your soul will follow that boy's.”” With & crestfallon look the confedorate turned and was fairly run intothe union lines, PRONOTED FOR NEROISM, Night at last put an end to tne battle of Willlamsburg, the enemy retreating it the night in the direction of Richmond. Frank was promoted seegeant for heroism on the fleld. He puried his poor comrade with his moth- er’s picture on his breast, attended to his re- quest to send his picture home, and resumed his duties with many a silent tear in memory of the loved and lost, Ouuy the Peninsula toward Richmond the Arny of the Potomac advanced and at Balti- more Cross Roads General Sickles rejoined the brigade and was heartily cheered by the boys who loved bim so well, and who now had carned the proud title of *Exoelsior” in glorious deeds as well as in name. WITH FIGHTING DAN. On Jue 1 the battlo of Fair Oaks was fought with a gallant churge of the Seventy- first New York Voluuteers, under the person- al conmand of General Sickles, 1t was here that an enthusiastic Irishman of Captain No- lan’s company of the Seventy-fivst, seeing the cool bravery of General Sickles, sang: *Och | bip, hurroo? shurehe's the man’; we'd charge through hell wid Fightin' Dan!" After the battle of Fair Oaks the dutles of Frank Redmond were principally on picket, which, us the opposing lines were in such closo proximity, were very dangerous, Bearcely a day without a severe skirmush. Occasionally he would make o visit to com- ey C, of the gallaut Second New _Jersey ‘olunteers, who like himself were Newark boys, organized by captain, afterwards Colo- nel James N. Duffy, one of New Jerse bravest and most gallant ofticers. At last the enemy advanced, and on June 25, bogan the famous Seven Day’s battlenear Richmond. _ Genewal McClellan retired to Harrison's Landing, on the James river say- ing the army by the “‘skin of its teeth." At length in August the evacuation of the Pen- insuly commenced aud the *“Excelsiors’ were transferred once more up the Potomae, arriv- {ng at Warrenton late in August. A TRUE SOLDIER A GENTLEMAN ALWAYS, As the regiment lay in bivouse Frank wandered through the pretty little town, and as howas about to retrice his steps to his command a piercing shrick and a for held came from & neat cottage directly be- side bim. To dash up the steps and iuto the house was but the work of a moment, and thero before him stood a big, six-foot sol- dier of a Vermont regiment with one of the most. beautiful girls the” young soldier had ever beheld kneeling at his feet in beseech- ing supplication, and immediately behind her lay the unconscious figure of a young confederate offfcer, YOh, have mercy on my poor brother," the young lady was saving, As tered the room the lady briefly told her story. How the brutal ~soldier, thinking she was alone, made degrading proposals (o her. and, being spurned, attempted to use force. Her brother, Licutenant Etheridge, of the Tenth Virginia, who was hid away in the house, and badly 'wounded in the shouls derand breast, camo to_her assistance, and in his weakened condition was brutally knocked down by the villainous Vermonter. ALITTLE ENCOUNTER NOT IN THE HISTOR Frank, trembling with indignation at the dastardly conduct of the ruffian, turned fiercely upon him and peremptorily ordered him o leave the house instantly. “Wall, I guess not, sergeant. Not fer you mnoheow. That rebill Is my prisoner anyheow, by gum!’ Haraly were the words spoken when Franlk, with a well directed blow, stretched him at full length on the floor. 'In falling his head struck an iron fender on tho hearth, and he lay as unconsclous as the confederate lieutenaut on the other side of the room. “Oh, sir! you have kitled him,” said the poor, frightened gir ‘I hope _not, though he deserved it,”” said Frank. ow look to your brother.’" The girl flew to her brother, whose wounds kad been reopened by the rough treatment monter and were bleeding pro- coll water applications the fair eirl, with Frank’s aid, soon stopped the flow of blood and brought him to conscious- ness again. When his sister told him of Frank's gallint defense of ber and him he blessed him and thasked him again and agiin. The lieutenant then said: “I suppose I am your prisoner, sergeant, but you have saved sister's honor, which is dearer to her and me than lifeitself, and I gracefully sub- mit.* Y01 good sir,” cried the poor girl, “don't take my poor brother. See, he will die if ho is taken away from those who love him and will care for him. O, sir, for God’s sake do us one more kindness, Do mot seud my brother to prison to die. ABITOF CHIVALRY. The chivalric spirit of Frank could not with- stand the appeals of the fair girl, And, being assured that she could hideher brother sa fely till the union troops left the neighborhood, Frank assisted the girl to follow out. that pro= gramme, first securely binding and gagging Vermonter, for fear he would return to ethe alarm, He guarded him till the fair girl was ready under cover of darkn lp her brother out of the house and to a pla In taking favewell sho asked and received his name, company and regimentand smd: “God forever bless you, sr. Redmond; tho heartfelt prayers of Laura KEtheridge ' will ever be offered up for your safety.’ Pressiug her hand to'his lips Frank bade her farewell, and, waiting until_he saw the Vermonter beginning to regain conscious- ness, hecut the cogds that bound him and left the house. AND 80 THE WAR WENT ON. That night Hooker’s division left Warren- ton, and on August 27 fought the battle of Bristow Station, and on the20th fought at the second disastrous battle of Bull Run. Then followed tne bloody battles of Antie- tam and South Mountain, in which, however, the regiment that Frank belonged to was spared from participating. After the union ctories at Antietam the army of the Po- tomac, then under command of General Burn- side, again advanced on Vireinia, and the ter- rible slaughter of Fredericksburg followed. 'he following spring, 1863, General Hooker commanded, and the bloody battle of Chan- cellorsville followed. OHECKING STONEWALL JACKSON, In this, as in all the-other engazements of the army, the “Excelsior” brigado tooka leading and glorious part, and on the never- to-be-forgotten Saturday afterncon, May.2, 1803, when the Eleventh corps was panic- stricken and routed by Stonewall Jackson, the “‘Excelsior” brigade was ordered up to chcfi'k the onwavd rushof the exultant Stone- wall. On that day Frank Redmond received his commission as Second Lieutenant in Com- any £ of tho gallant Seventy-second New ork volunteers. The brigade formed across the plank road and, when Jacksou found the old *“Excelsior’ in his front, he stopped_sud- denly and began to feel'his way. Night coming on put an end to the fichting that day, but Jackson, being determined to locate his foes, fell mortally wounded between the picket lines andugied a few days afterwar “Gallant fo#=Christian _Soldier,” writer says sincerely. “Requiescat in pace.”? At daylight next morning (Sunday) the enomy advanced in_three columns, and in a short while Colonel Stevens of the 'Seventy- second, was killed, and scores of other oficers and men placed hors du_combat, and among them, severely wounded in the side, was Lieutenant Redmond. The battie raged with great fury that and the mwxt day, and re- sulted in_the defeat and withdrawal of thearmy of the Petomac across the Rappa- hannock river, The youthful lieutenant was sent to the hospital, and his wound healing rapidly he made a short visit to the city of his birth, the dear old city of Newark, leaving there to re- join his regiment and stopping in Washing- n tolmagine his surprise and great pleasure in me:ting sweet Laura Etheridge face to face on Pennsylvania avenue. She scarcely recog- nized tho handsome young lieutenant as the sergeant who saved fer from worse than death. Greeting him warmly sho prevailed on him to go to heruncle's house, who was a thorough union man ana who had prevailed on her to live with himand leave the dangers of her Warrenton home. Lieutenant Redmond was warmly wel- comed by Mr. Daviels, the uncle, who had heard of his' novlo action in_defense of his nicce, The reader can easily guess the Fesult of this happy meeting. . Francs Red. moud had loved the beautiful Laura since he first had the happiness of beholding her, and with her lovely blushing face hiaden on his shoulder she confessed that her whole heart was his since that eventful night at Warrenton. Duty soon called Lieutenant Redmond away from his betrothed, and _soon_he was again with his_gallant comrades, Then fol- lowed the great baitle of Gettysburg, where, on the second day’s fight he was shot severely in the thigh and taken prisoner. As he lay in the temporary hospital Colonel Etheridge, who was a plain lisute ant when they met last, knowing the Ex sior brigade was in his front, scarched among the wounded to hearif his preserver —Sergeant Redmond—was still alive. and was grieved to ind him wounded so badly. On the retreat of Geaeral Lee's army from sburg, Colonel Etheridgd managed to have bim conveyed to a private house and left him there, so that ho would fall into_ the hands of his own troops, t hereby returning a kindly act and saving him, perhaps, from a horrible death in a southern p rison. The union troops followed eiose on the heels of the retreating cnemy, and soon Lieutenant Redmond was safely conveyed toa Was hing- ton hospital. Being o and having the constant visits und care from his betrothed, as_well as from her uncle, to solace him i1 his sufferings, he rapidly re- covered and soon rejoined b is regiment, where a captain’s commission awaited him. The following speing General Grant as- sumed command inperson and Captain Red- mond with his gallant regiment, participated inall the battles from the Wilderness, m L 1804, to Petersburg. When the regiment's term had expired, in July, 15H, he was sent home with _his com- mand and mustertdoutof service, He imumne- diately entered Columbia law collego and finished by graduating with honors and was admitted to the bar of the New York courts. In the month of May, INGS, with white- winged peace in our beloved reunited coun- try, andin tho beautiful _home of Colonel Eilieridge at Warrenton, Va,, gallant, brave Captain Francis Redmond was married to Laura Etherioge, the bride being given away by the gallant colonel, The happy brotier of the bride proudly grasped the hand of his former foeman, but now, as he laughingly said, his gallant “*yan- kee'! brother-in-law. Mr. Redmond is now-one of the most re- spected of the legal fraternity in Brooklyn, and with his darling wife and happy children lives at peace with all mankind, enjoying himselfss often as he ean with the Grand Army of the iepublic post to which he be- ongs. e A Precocious O aha T 3 A fourteen-year-old Bar nu\ boy rocently went with his father to' Pori- laud, Ore., and took his favorite beau- rank en- | robust constitution . snapper with him, On the way he made the aequaintance of a nineyear-old Omaha youth bound for the same place and traveling alone. The Bar Harbor boy, aceording to the Mount Desert Harald, tried to surprise the western youth by showing him the bean-snap- per. The Omaha infantlooked at it and returned it with the question : **Wouldn't you like to see what I have in my pocket?” he young native of Mount Desert said he ‘wouln, whereupon the western boy ealmly laid out a loaded six-shooter and a lot of ummunition belonging to it The Bar Harbor boy was surprised; also his mother, X How to Break Up a Severe Cold. From_the Virginia City, Mont, Madiso- nian: When we find a medicine we know to possess genuine merit, wo consider it a duty, and we take pleasure in telling the public what it is. Such a medicine we found Cham- berlain's Cougn Remedy. By the use of this syrup we have relieved, in a few hours, se- vere colds, and in the course of two or three days, entirely broken them up as hns several of our friends to whom we haye recommended it. It is all it 18 represented tobe by the manufacturers, 1f you have a coughand want to stop it, Chasmberlain's Cough Rem- edy will do the work. For salo by all drug- gists, st BLACK LLS T The Harney Peak’s General Manager Teclls a Reporter About It “*This talk about there not heing any tin in the Black Hills is untrue. We have the richest kind of tin rock that is found in the world, I make this state- ment advisedly. Thus spake Henry C. Wicker, general manager of the Harney Peak consoli- dated tin company (limited) of Hill City, S. D., when at the Wellington hotel to a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Wicker is on his way home from New York, where his company, he suys, recently made arrangements with one of the largest mill manufactories in the east for machinery that will be in opera- tion at the mines before next July, turn- ing out tia by tho hundreds of tons per ay. ¥ “The mineral in our mines,”continued Mr. Wicker, “is the black oxide of tin, and it will average 100 pounds to a ton. It isin true fissure veins, with slate walls, and when thus found the product is never known togive out. The farther down we get the better is theore, and the veins probably extend for miles irito the earth, The black oxide i the finest quality ever discovere it melts maile,' and can be used for plating. Nosuch tin was ever produced in the celebrated mines at Cornwall, England; so you see I do not exaggerate when I say that the tin of the South Dakota mines is the finest in the world, The fact is known in London and New York, where thor ave specimens, and specimens, too, can be seen by any one who doubts my state- ments in the offices of Clay & Forrest, in the Illinois National bank building, right herein Chicago. *The trouble with the Americans is they are too impatient. They think we can’go out to the hills, dig a hole in the ground and produce tin right avay. But it takes time to develope a mine, and that part now has been accomplished. Juet as soon as the frost is out of the ground the mill that we have gone to the expense of several hundred thousand dollars to have sent to Hill City will be put in operation, and 1 am as certain as lumli\'iug that hefore many months have passed we will be able to furnish the mill with 500 tons of ore to crush. Then the impatient American will know positively that the new tariff bill is not protecting an industry not yet born, It was born long agoand at present is a large sized adult, It takes time to develope a mine when it is to be run on an economical pian. There is $15,000,000 invested in this enterprise, and the men interested don't propose to spoil their prospects by being hasty. The know as well as I what the 900 claims we have can produce, as an as- sayer is working on the ore all the time making models, such as small anvils, paper weights, ete. Our workmen have gone down 300 feet in some of the shafts. “Yes, the quantity of tin in the Black Hills is unlimited. "Our mines are scat- tered around Hill City in horse-shoe shape for thirty miles. Wo have 1,800 men at work—twoin each of the clai- —and if I were not certain that the ore is all I claim it to be you can wager ail you bave that I wouldn't be spending so much money for labor, It is going to be one of the greatest industries in the world, and before June the people will thoroughly reclizoit.” Mr, Wi ntended to leave for Hill City last evening, but the alarming r ports from the Indian districts near his home caused him to change his plans, It looks as if the situation were grow- ing serious,” said the visitor, “and I want to know what I -may expect while on route through the Indian count I am afraid the savages might attack the train, If I couid reach Hill City in safety I would be all right, because the Indians never come back in the hills, There are no ranches there, and as cannot find any horses or cattle to steal they keep away. - Several years ago Chamberlain & Co. of Des Moines, Ia., commeuced the manu facture of a cough syrup, believing it to be the most prompt and reliable preparation yet produced for coughs, colds and croup: that the public appreciate true merit, and in time it was cer- tain to become popular. Their mostsanguine hopes bave been more than realized. Over three hundred thousand bottles of Chamber- lain’s Cough Rewedy are now sold eacn year, and it is recognized as ‘‘tho best made’ wherever known. It will curea severe cold in less time than any other treatment. For sale by all druggists, ¥ N Forgiv He was a bit of a boy not over eight years old, but he followed me up persist- entlyand kept up his cry of “Paper, sir!” 50 continueusly that I turned on him in o way that T afterwards regretted, says the Detroit Free P) He felt ‘hurt und insulted, and as_he disappeared in the darkness I heard him calling: “Never mind, old man! L'ilgrow up and give you the awfullest licking a man ever got!? ‘We hawve met almost daily for the past year, and on each occasion there has been no evidence of unbending, A dozes times,at least, I have heard him remark in an aside: “There goes the fellow Tam going to lick if it takes mefift ral”? The other P ceiven call from my young enemy. though e looked 1o older or stronger, I wondered if he had come to c out his awful threat, when he extended his little **paw’ und said: 3 **Say, let’s quit,” I'm agreed.” “1 said I'd lick you, and I meant it all along, but—but—" “What's happened to change mind?” **Mothe gasped, as to fight nobody nor nothin’, forgive me, I'll forgive you” And so we shook hands and made up, and I know we both feel better for it, -~ —buiiman palace ree reclining chair ago and intervening points via the great Rock Island route, Ticket office 1602, Sixteenth and Farnam. your s dead—died Monday,” he e sat down,and I don’t want It you'll Women in Pablic, Woman, says a weiter in Kate F Washington, is guilly of many awk- wardnesses in public, She causes de lu ysby her chronic inability to find her old’s dZey Get AND SO DOES dhere ¢Just the same, SANTA CLALS DOMS. MADE ONLY BY N.K.FAIRBANK&CO. Chicaco. i 0LFC DILLING 322 South fifteenth M, OMAHA, NEB. 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'H-A permanent cure JLTATION! 108, 1.0 6 p.m. Byenings, 7 to 8:30. positively and Such as 0ld sores, mallgnant , heart troubles, asthma, milk log, chronle constipa- Patients Trested By Correspondence. Medicine Sent Everywhere. 822 South Fifteenth St. GROUND FLOOE; Nf) STAIRS. Dr. Dillinzs prepares and dispenses his own medicines, which are largely selacted from nature's healing plants, barks, roots, mus,shrubs, ete, Nomineral drugs given i S ticket or her fare, but this is becauso she has but one chaotic pocket in which to keep all the things which men have a dozen places for. She will never be- lieve that information from a time table is 4s accurate as that furnished by a preoccupied official, but that is because she is used to assimulating such facts only after they have filtered through the masculine” intellect. ~She wearsa disagreeable and forbidding expression, but it is from motives of rigid pro- priety, not from bad temper. All these sins aro hers, but in the matter of delib- erate carelessness of the rightsof the unknown multitude about her, she is by no means the chief of sinners. e There s no aanger of a cold resulting in pneumonia when Chamberlain’s Cough Rem- edy is used as directed “for a severe cold.” Tt effectually counteracts and arrests any tendency of a cold to result in pneumonia, This fact was fully proven in thousands of cases during the cphumi.v, of influenza last winter. Forsale by all druggists. —~ PRIVATE ALLEN'S DUEL, The Joke of On> of the Principals Resulted in a Farce. stion withSenator-olect Irby's Congressman n of Mississiopi tells of an amusing affair of honor in which he acted as second. There was bad fecling between two lawyers in Mississippi,and it was decided that only blood could wipe out the enmity which existed. A challenge was sent and duly acknowledged. Tho hour was appointed and the two men met in a secluded spot. Oneof them was a great sufferer from St. Vitus® dance, and the other was cool and collected. As they faced each other the afilicted man began to tremble from head to foot, ‘while his pistol described an arc with varying up and down strokes. His op- ponent stood firm asa rock waiting for the signal to fire, Beforoe it came, how- ever, in laid his pistol on the ground, walked into the woods and cut a limb off a tree with a fork in the end of it. This he brought back and stuck it in the ground 1n front of his antagonist. Then, turning to the second, he said: *‘Imust request you to ask your principal to rest his pistol in that fork.” “What for?” asked his opponent’s sec- ond. ““Well,” replied the other, “T have no objections to running the risk of one shot, but I certainly do decline having one bullet makea honeycomb of me. 1t that man was to shoot while his hand is shaking the way it is now, he would fill me full of holesat his first shot.” This was too much for the seconds,and by mutual agreemgnt a truce was patch- ed up, and no shots were exchanged. f——— “Love thy neighbior as thyself,” and when you see one with a_bad cough advise him to buy a bottle of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup. Price %5cents, There is nothing ju the world which will give prompter relief to all suffering from neuralgia than Salyation Oil. Price only 25 cents a bottle, P T In the Capitol Lobby. New York Hergld: Stranger—Whols that fine looking gentloman? Washingtonian—That? That’s Grim- shaw, the noted ¢éiner, who was acquit- ted in the United States courtlast woek, Stranger—Who, s that man near him who looks like & counterfeiter—his part] ner? Washingtonion—That? Why, that’s Congressman Henshaw, the author of the free coinage bill! - Henry Schoenhals, foreman fenry Krug Packing Co, St. Joseph, Mo, uses Dr, Thomas' Electnie Oil wita his men for sprhins, cuts, bruises, chapped hands, ete. 1t 1s tae best. Why Athlotes Withdraw. Nearly all amateur athletes draw out of competition before their records, in ln'nnurli:m to the number of years they wve competed, can be used satisfactor- ilyin determining whethe= or not they are failing or gaining in_bodily vigor] writes Malcolm W, Ford in the New York Hoerald, Very few athletes retire from competition J they can still win; but the fact of one not being able to come up to the form which he had shown sev- eral years previouslyshould not be taken as a cohelusive sign that his former ex- ertions were toomuch for his present and future ones. In such cases the truth is that they have not the same physical vigor that they once had; butit is generally be- cause their increasing daily dutics leave 10 energy to bo used in physleal recrea- tion. Their muscular system then be- gins to fail, and although they are in ficst rate health, still they are not so strong and active as they once were, If these same men were suddenly relieved of their daily responsibilities and began again to lead a thoroughly healthful, ne- tive, out-door life they probably would accumulate enough physical energy to make them justas good and perhaps better athletes than they might have been five, ten or fifteen years before, provided that they had not passed the age when oneis supposed to begin to stand still. Referring to what is the probable av- erage number of years in which athletes can compete successfully, it may be said that the large proportion do not remain in active competition over four or five years, fornew and better men are con- tinually facing them. 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Lithographing, = Printing and Blank Books 11th and Howard 8ts. LIQUORS. 5 William Darat, Wines, Liquors and Cl- gurs, 1813 Farnam St, Omaha Frank Dallone & Co.,, Liquors and Genaine No- vadn Clgars. Prico lists on applieation [ 105 Douglas Stroot "L Kirscht& Gos A. Friok & Oo,, Wholesale LiquorDealers Wholesale LiquorDealers 04 - K09 8. 10th St. R. R. Grotte, ttor and Jobbar of oth 407 and 400 8. 10th St ~ LUMBER. @ W. Douglass& Oo. | John A, Wakefield, Imported, American, Pord Hardwood Lumber, Jand Cement , M1lwauk Hydraullo Coment & Quiney White Lim fiiatz - Bullard Lum- ber Qo, 20th and Izard Streots, Touis Bradford, 1810 North! 6th Stroot. Oharles R, Loe, a lnmber, wood flooring. 9th and Douglas. Tred W, Gray, Lime, Cemont, Kte., Bto. Cor. 9th and Douglas e ] MILLINERY AND NOTIONS. 0. A. Stonehill, L. Oberfolder & o, Millinery, Notlons Importers and Jobbers in Cloaks, Bto Millinery 208,210an0 212 Sonth 11th 116-118 8. 16th St., Omaba sireet. 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