Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1892, Page 12

12 NEBRASKA CITY FACTORIES Causes That Lead to a Rapid Growth in Population, THE CONSUMERS OF NEBRASKA GRAIN A Review of the Manufacturing Industries of Nehraska Great Inceense In Wenlth and Business Prosper. Ity —The Stock Yards, “To manufacturers looking for a location to start in business we hold out this induce- ment,” said a prominent citizen of Nebraska City. “Our city is located within easy reach of the vest western markets for manu- factured goods. It-has Omaha on the north, Lincoln on the west, and St. Joseph and Kunsas City to the south, and railroad con- nections and rates are such as to enavle the Nebraska City manufacturer to place his goods in thes markets with very little troubl e or expense.” How well this and other inducements have been received by manufacturers is shown by the number and extentof Nebraska City's manufacturing industries. Nebraska City claims to rank next to Omaba as o manufactueing point, and hey have figures to prove that they ure consum- ing from ton to twelve tons of steam coal por day more than any other city in Nebraska, oxeepting Omaha. The object of this wrticle, however, is not to draw comparisons between the differ ent cities of Nebraska, but rather to call the atiention of the peo- ple to tho different industries located within the state, and in this way ercourage the purchase of Nebraska woods in prefer- ence to others, At the same time it is essen- tial that the people should keep in mind the fact that the growth and prosperity of any city in Neoraska Is a direct benefit to every other city in the state and to the farming communities as well. for ressons that have already been pointed out at length in these columns The people of Omaha can learn a good lesson from Nebraska City in one par- ticular av least. Business at that point was dull, buildings were slow to rent, the popula- tion did not increase and tho town was far from prosperous until the people turned their attention to manufacturing. As the factories ncreased in number and size business im- proved and the city grew rapidly in both wealth and population. In 1880 Nebraska City’s population was 4,183, without any manufacturing industries 10 speak of. In 1500 the growth of the manu- facturing industries brought the population upto 11,404, ''he development of these 1n dustries have not only increased the popula- tion but have increased the value of real es. tate and have placed business of all kinds on a solid basis. The Cereal Mills, One of the industries which have contrib- uted much to the commercial importance of the city and of which the people are es clally proud is the Nebraska City Cereal Mills. It is a difficult matter to convey in words an accurate idea of the extent of this establishment, but a few figures as to the #1ze of the buildings may be of assistaaco. There is an elevator with a capacity of 125 000 bushels of grain; the will is 70x90 feet and the feed mill 40x40, both four stories in height ; warehouso 60x100 feet, two stories. All the buildings are of brick except the ele- vator, which is ironclad. Tha power 1s fur nished by three engines of 310 horse-power combined. The mill has a capacity for hana- ling 6,000 bushels of grain per day, including corn, barley and oats, and ranks with the three largest establishments of the kind in the United States. About seventy people are given employment on an average. The products of the mill are rolled grits, pearl meal, cream meal, hominy, pearl barley and oracked wheat, They are making a spe- cialty of what they denominate qualed rolled oats, which are put up by a special process and which, though only recently placed on the market, have already met with heavy salos, Omaba is alarge consumer ot tho products of this mill, especially of the rolled oats. The grain is transferred from the elevator to the mill by means of spouts and passing through the different courses of machiner: frcm floor wo floor, comes out a finished pri duct and is loaded into the cars or stored into the wurehouse awaiting shipment. Pneu- matic tubes collect the waste from all parts of the mill and convey it to the feed mill, whers it is worked up into feed. By such means labor is reduced to the minimum. Nebraska Distitlery Co. Another institution which has added ma- terially to Nebraska City’s wealth and pros- perity in the distillery. They ure consuming about 2,000 bushels of corn per day and have an output of 150 barrels of spirits and alco- hol. The government tax amounts to nearly 8,000 per day. The waste from the distillery feeds 1950 head of cattle which are kept in long sheds, the feed beiug run in trenches betore them. These cattlo are known on the market as still fed and always command a good price. The aistillery employs about 100 people and has a weekly pay roll of $780. 1n aadition to this there are niue government men drawing §5 per day each. The daily consumption of coal amounts 10 thirty-eight tons. The product of this aistillery 18 stupped to all parts of the country, both ‘east and west. The Starch Works, The Nebraska City Starch company is the latest institution to cluin the public atten- tion. They have only just completed their plant but expect 1o tirn out their first lot of starch about March 1. The building is one of the finest factory buildings in the state. It 18 of brick 60x194 feet, four stories, with an ell 30x50 feot, three stories. Connected with the factory is an elevator 30x30 feet ar- ranged for recelving the grain from farm wagons or from cars, The warehouse is not. et built but will be 20x120 feet, one story. he cattle sheds are close at hand in which there are aiready 450 head of cattle with coom for 500, The factory is said to have a capacity of 1,700 bushels of corn per aay. It 1s esti- mated that it canvou be operated with less than forty or fifty peonle to commence with which number will have to be increased as the business grows. The method of manufacturing starch hrlcfls’ told is as follows: The corn is first pli 1 huge tanks, holding 600 bushels each, and thoroughly wet with water. From Lhe tanks the corn is conveyed to the burrs, where it is ground, and being wet comes out in o pasty mass. In that form it is passed over the shakers, made of very fine silk cloth. The motion of the shakers and the spray of water playing on to it washes the starch particles out of the mass and carries them through the silk into the vats under- veath. After the starch has been washed out the residue is pressed to remove the starchy water remaining snd then goes back into large tanks, where it is mixed up for cattle feed, The water in the vats underneath the shakers which contains the stareh in solu- tion, is then allowed the flow slowly along zine lined trenches, which extend almost the whole length of the building. Durwg this preosss the starch settles to the bottom and tho water flows off at the lower end of the tronches, At this stage of manufacture the starch is about the consistency of mud, butit is hue- ried off to the drying rooms and as the wois- ture evaporates the starch crystalizes and breaks into the cullar forms familiar to every consuwer of the article. It 1s then ;aul:ly to ve boxed and placed upon the mar- o Flour M Paul Schminke opevates a flouring mill baving a capacity of 150,000 bashels of wheat per year bul whiob 1s being operated to only About one-half of its capacity. In connection with this mill Mr. Schminkie operates an el- ovator at Union and another Burr, Neb, The product of the mill is ship into Iowa As well as to Omaha and other Neoraska Ml‘lllll.ll, Fight men fiud employmenc in the o The Mattes Brewing Co. Employs ten men and consumes about 13,- 0 bushels of mait per year. They have a good piant of the kind and it is the only brew- #ry located between Omaba and Falls City. The product 1s sold vory targely at home and in the surrounding towus in the county. Af there is any farmer in the state who t\mlw- that the development of the manufac- turin, benefit o the Jught to count farmin, up the iuterests, he wumber of bushels of graia cossumed by the four | industries will not. be of any special | factories just mentioned and then think of the meny advantages of a home market for grain. Very littlo has been said to the Iarmers on the subject oi patronizing Ne- braska manufacturers, but at the same time it is plainly evident that the farmers, who raise much of tho raw material that is man- ufactared in the state, have as much or mors to gain from the development of these in dustries than any other class. The farmers are large consumers of many lines of goods that are made in the stato and by giving the preference to the Nebraska article they will be furthering their owa intorests. Cooperage Works. The Nebraska City Cooperage works, L. W. Quinn manager, employs from twenty- fivo to thirty men with a pay roll averaging right around 300 weekly. They do the cooperage work for the distillery and in the packing season turn out forty to fifty thous. and apple barrels, Novelty Manufacturers, The McElhiney Manufacturing company are turning out w line of speciaities which have mo: with very favorable reception from: consumers, and ihey are enlarging their plant. Their leading specialty is tho reservoir flower pot, made of tin with a perforated bottom which alows the water to ape into the reservoir. The pots are finished 1n & highly artistic manner with metaltic paint whichi is said to prevent rusting. These pots aro warranted good for five years. Among their specialties are giass casters for chairs or other furniture. They will com- mence tho manufacture of cob pipes In the spring. This company employs during the busy season twentv hands, a good many of them boys and girls, and distributes in wages about 120 a week. One Omaha house haudles their goods in lnrge amounts. The Butter-Makers. The Otoe Creamery company is a comparn- tively uew institution, having been in ex- istence only some eighteen months. Ihey have a good plant for its size and could take care of about 20,000 pounds of milk per day, The farmers, however, have not supplied anywhers near that amount. It was such hard work to educate the farmers into send- ing their milk to a_creamery that the cream- ory was forced to adopt the plan of sending out wagons to colloct the milk and bring it in, Whilo the farmer, as a rule, does Lot receive to exceed 15 cents per pound for but- ter made at home, it is claimad that by sell- ing his milk to the creamery he gets as high as 21 cents per pound. There are two other creameries in the county, which are located at Talmage and Syracuse. The Otoe Creamery company operates their plant on the separator system, which is saia to turn out u first class article. The milk, after being weighed is placed into a largo vat capable of holding 5000 pounds. From the vat it goes into the separators, which aro large round bowls aud which revolve at the rate of 8,500 revolutions per minute separating the cream from the milk by means of the centrifugal force. Tho cream woes into vats and after standing twenty-four hours is churned and worked into batter. Clgarmakers. The iist of cigar manufacturers includes J. H. Pippert, J. H. Petors, J. H. Pleifer, Lew Auderson and Richard Bone, who em- ploy about ten men on an average. 1t is es- timated that there are enough cigars smoked in Nebratxa City to keep fifty men employed but tho great majority of smokers consamo the product of eastern factories. Other Industries, The Nebraska City Canning company has a capacity of about 20,000 cans per day ana employs forty to fifty people during the busy season. They pay out in the course of the season $1,500 to $2,000 for lubor and consume the product of between 200 and 300 acres of land. They put up corn and tomatoes, their specialty being the Otoe Chief solid packed tomato, The Nebraska City foundry, Wale & Ec- closton, proprietors, is doing a good business in the south Platte conntry. ''hey are turn- ing out architectural iron work ana machine work. They employ from eight to ten men. Tne Nebraska City planing mill, J, F. Welsh proprietor, employs five men and as the name would indicate does a general mill business including the manufacture of sash, doors, blinds, ote. C. H. Kressen manufactures what are known as bauner plows, harrows, etc., which have quite a sale in Nebraska. During the busy season he employs olght to fificen men and expects to increase the number to £ftean or twenty men the coming svason. J. G. Kees 1 manufacturing s very com plete line of traveling bugs and satcheis, ranging from the cheapest oil cloth up to the finest leather covered bags. M. Seltzer employs two to three wen in his bottling works. George F. Kregel manufactures wind wills, water tanks, etc. He has been turning out an iron mill but expects to change over to a steel mill this soring. Duriug the busy season he gives employment to five or six men. The Nebraska City Vitrified Paving Brick company has & plant costing $40,000 and expects Lo employ a large force of men the coming season. They have tho latest improved machinery and have succeeded in wurning out first class paving brick. At the Stock Yards, The live stock interests of Nebraska City have contributed in no small degree to the prosperity of the city. The stock vards ars, for their size, as weli built and as complete as any in the country and are kept up in good shape. Care was taken iu building the vards (o provide for good arainage, and the result is that the company 1s able to keep the yaras in & wuch cleaner and better condition than somo larger yards. As to sizo they have a capacity of about-4,000 hogs per day. From November 1 to February 3 there were received av the yards 88,450 hogs. There are two packing houses at the vard’, the Nebraska City Packing company and the Chieago Packing and Provision compauy. The former is shut down for the prosent and 1s used ouly for storage purposes, but the Iatter is running at full capacity. Thoy have recently built on extensive additions to the house and are now putting in a second ice machine and also a plant for making ice to be used in the refrigerator cars. The plant occupies about five acres, with ample track facilities. About 250 men are steadily em- ploved by the Chicago Packiug ana Provision company. They are buyiug and packing all the hogs received at the yards. It is a grow- ing business aud promisés much for Nebras- ka City. It is expected to have the other house running before long. Buy Nebraska Goods. Omaha is already a large consumer of goods made in Nebraska City, but she mignt buy more if tho people will insist on being sup- plied with Nebraska goods. Omaba money sent to Neoraska City will find its way back in exchange for Omaba goods much soouer than money that is sent & thousand miles east. The same thing is true on the otber side. Nevraska City, by purchasing goods in Omaha which sho does not make at home, will ba contributing Just so much to the prosperity of Omaha and will be placing this city in a posi- tion to consume stili more of her goods. Omabn manufactures soap, boilers, boxes and packing cases, colored labels for fanoy packages, and many other liues of goods not made iu Nebruska City. Neoraska City makes oatmeal, starch and other lines of mer- chandise. An exchange of these goods will benefit both cities. e WE LOVED HER S0. Written for the Sunday Bee. In vears gone by we loved ber so, Ere age had dimmed ber sight, When her face was fair with 1o trace of care, And ber smile had a sunny light; When her bair was brown, ana her gentle voice In eadence soft and low. Spoke words of wisdom and eoun ‘We loved, ob, we loved her so. We loved ber so! Wiien the winter's fros t Had silvered the tresses brown, When we saw old age creep on apace, Lako a mantle o’er her thrown. Bul the suuny light of love was there, Aud ber heart was true, we kuow; Tho' 1]:1:.rhwld the check aud silvered T, Yet still we loved Ler so. We loved ber so! wheu we stooa beside ‘The still form cold iv death, For the busy hauds were quiet now, With the pulseless heart bonealh | We dropped a toar ou the marole brow, On the bair like drifted snow, Aud looked our last, as the sad Lears feel, . too, the And wurmured, wo loved her so, ~Auie HURD KICHARDS. THE_OMAHA _DAILY THEWICKED LURED T0 DEATH Perilons Hunt of the Rogne Elephant in India. A TREACHEROUS FOE TRAPPED Thrilling Pleture of the Chase and the Am- A Night of Pey Amid War's Desolution in the Shenandoah Val- Quad's Stori hush LCopyrighted, 1692, by €. B. Lewis.) I had read and hoard a great deal of the famous “rogue” elephaat of the district of Mysore, province of Madras, before I over ®ot within 200 miles of his stamping ground. He made his first appearsnce iu 1868, and for vears was a veritable terror to an area of country fifty miles long by thirty broad. A ‘‘rogue’ elephant, as has often beon ex- plamned, is a male who has either voluntarily left the hord because of defeat or has been driven into exiie by his companions for rea- sons not known to man. He no sooner takes up his solitary life than he becomes vindic- tive and reckless, and it goes without dis- pute that one of these “‘rogues’ especially if past the age of 50, Is moro dangerous than a herd of a dozen ordinary elephants. This fellow was called *The Wicked” by all the natives 1n that territory, and some of the stories told of his doings were really wonderful, as well as strictly true. His ter- ritory was along the Suddar valloy. On the eastern edge of this valley, which is from one to five miles wide, is a dense jungle fifty wiles long, and this place was his retreat. He was probably hunted after more than any otner “rogue” ever heard of in India, After a year or two the government offered u re- ward of £100 for his death, and before he was finally disposed of this roward had been increased to £300. He was hunted on sev- eral occasions by bauds numbering 400 men, and at least fifty different white hunters journeyed 1nto the district and had a try at him, It was wonderful how “The Wicked” managed to escape aeath so long, but it used to be asserted that he was an elephant only in form. The natives fully believed that he was the evil one in disguise, and more than 1,000 people moved out of that productive valley on his account. The official records of his doings would make a big book. He began killing assoon as he appeared. Oue night about midnight he entered a native village tontaining about seventy huts, peuotrated to the center and killed tive people sleeping in ahut. Even the dogs knew nothing of his presence until he zot to work. He put his tusks under the foundation poles of the hut and tipped the ihole thing over, and then he trampled on the family sleepingin the middle of the mud floor, Only three or four peopl~ caught sight of him as he moved away. A grand hunt was organized, but_he was not even discovered. 1t was hoped that he had veen frightened out of the district, but two or three d later, as a native was arwving a bullock cart ulong a road at the edge of tho forest, the elephant, who was in hiding behind a clump of bushes, picked the man off with his trunk and flung bim twenty feet into theair. In the same minute he drove his tusks through the bul- lock and then disappeared. The native was $0 baaly hurt that he died three days later. This was on a Thursday, abgut 11 o’clock in the morning. At 3 o’clockin the afternoon the elephant appeared at a point up the val- ley, exactly thirty-two miles away, and killed a ryot, or native farmer, who was at, work in a field. 1u three years, according to official returns made, *“The Wicked” kiiled upwards of 100 people, destroyed thousands of doilars’ worth of crops and causea tho death of hundreds of domestic anmals. His n was to kill and destroy, and he went about his work in such a queer and mysterious manner As to keep all the necople afraid of him. Wild elepbants never leave cover during daylight. ‘This fellow stalked abroad by day as well as by night. He moved s silently and swiltly as a tiger. On oue ion five uatives who had been stacking some grain sat down to eat their luncheon. It was high noon, and they were half a il from the edge of the junvle. The eluphant cure upon them over hard and stony ground, whero the footstep of a man would certainly nave been beard, and the first kuown of his nresence was when he struck two of the five down. The others escaped him by leaping into a ravine. When 1 reached the valley it was talf de- populated, and all those remaining were in a state of continual terror. Not a duy passed that the elephant did not kill or attempt to kill some one. As one of the precautions against bis visits after dark the villages had been surrourded by walls of dry brush. Tue iaes was that in breaking a way through or over, the animal would make noise enough to betray his presence. On two occasions he had removed enough brush to make an opening, and done it so carefully that people sleoping ten fect away bad heard no noise. When discovered and shouted at “The Wickoa” always made off for the jungle without attempting further mischief, but ho generally managed to kitl some one before an alarm was raised. At tne timo I reached his stampiog ground there wero two British army ofticers hunting him ut the other end of the junglo, but no one had seen the elephunt for about a week. He hadn't left the district, however, and neither bad ne been killed, HE TOSSED IT SKY HIGH, 1 took possession of an abandoned village at the lower end of the valley. Here the ele- phant had first uppeared, and here he had killea over o dozen people. The villacers had at length become so terror stricken that they bad abandoned the fertile spot and moved tnirty miles away. There were about forty huts still staudiog, but instead of oceu- pying any ono of them, 1 took up my position for the night in & ravine at the northern edge of the town. | had two native hunters with me, and to lead the elephant to believe that the villagers had returned, we tied five or six Gogs to as many doorposts. It was looked upon as doubtful if **I'he Wickod" would show up, and after watching until midnight, I wurned in for a pap, leaving ! both natives on guard. It appeared that they dozed off after an hour or so. but an hour ve- fore daylight one of them awoke and founa the eleubant standing on the bank and look- ing down upou us. “Phis bank was twelve feet high and very steep. The man plucked at my sleeve, but the instant I moved the elephant vanished. I would not believe that he had been there, but daylight proved to the coutrary. It was 80t grouud, sud the prints of his feet were 80 deep that botbh uatives declared he hud stood in oue spot for many minutes-—perbips hal” an hour. - Weo further found that “The Wicked” had traversed a good part of tho village, and that so quietly that nota dog had given the alarm. The natives of this valley had long be- fore resoricd to pitfall traps and other prac- tices in vogue, but all o no purpese. The white bunters bad. set spring guus and even poisoued some uf Lhe pools where he was supposed to drink, but “The Wicked" bad outwitted every move. [ dotermined to take up his track vod follow it wutil he was found, Oue of the nutives refused o enter BEE UNDAY, FEBRUARY the junglgfdr any price T could pay, but the other had more piuck and agreed 1o stay with me. Wegfound the elephant had = gono straight ,inte the jungle from the ravine, amdy ns the soil was moist from A recent wtgrm the tracker had no dif- culty in foll him for about five miles, win Then all n\;i“e os of the trail wero lost on | rocky ground. A wild eleph. moving through a junela genorally leaves a piain patn by braaking and teampling. If in re- treat 1 loaky, as 1 atroop of cavalry had forced its Witg along. This fellow had moved as cautiously’ s a deer, and no white man could hava Yollowed him half a mile. At the spob where the trail was lost there was an immense outerop of rock, and after looking arannd for three hours without find- ing trace of feotprints, 1 became heated and exhausted, apd sat down fora pull at the water bottle and a bite to eat. The tracker also refrerhed himself, and then, while T had a smoke, ho started off to search auew on his own account. He had not boen out of sight, more than five minutes when I heard him shriek. After running a distance of 400 feet, 1 came to a small dell or giade in the jungle. About tho center of this lay the dead body of my tracker. It oould hard- ly " be called a body it was tather a mass of pulp. There was no living rhing in sight, but there were footprints to prove thut the elephant had been there. *‘T'he Wicked" had been in ambush behind a largomass of rock. He had only fifteen feet 10 0 to seize the unfortunate tracker, and he had made short work of himn by trampling on him. [ ran through the forest in several directions, perfectly reckless of the probabil- ity that the elophant was in ambush again, but I got no track or trace of him. He had vanished as silently and swiftly as a startied wolf. I returned to my quarters fairly beaten and to learn, two days later. thatthe elephant had killed one of the British officers the day after killing my trackor. He had ambushed him in the same fashion and torn him limb from limb. It had now become ut- terly impossible to lire native assist- ance, At loast no one would consent to beat up the jungle with me and I saw that I must depend eutirely upon my own re- sources or leave the field. In this emergency 1 determined to meet ‘‘The Wicked” with bis own weapon—trickery, For soveral nights he had not molested any of the vil- lages, but during each day he had eommitted some depredations. His last victim was a woman and she was killed within two miles of where I was stopping. She was workiog in a field with a heavy fringe of bushes along the north side. The elephant rushed out of cover and killed ber with a blow of his trunk and was gone before the husband, who was working 200 feet away, got tne alarm. Tnat nignt was dark and rainy and I hired snme of Lhe natives to go with me and pro- pare the plot. We dressed up a lay figure to represent a ryot’s wife in the act of reaping grain. We placea this about forty feet from the bushes. Then at the edge of the bushes ana thirty feet away from a straight live to the “dummy’ we dug a rifle pit deep enough 1o hide me.. Kvery caro was taken to leave nothing by which® the elephant’s suspicions might be avoused, and us soon as the natives retired [ went to Sleep. [ neither hoped nor looked for *“The Wicked” to appear during the night. If ho did then I should miss hav- ing a shot, and he wight even find me as I slept and pull me oat of the hole. The night passed witbout an alarm, and 1 was awake when daylight came. I had an English elephant gun carrying & two ounca expiosive ball, and I knew that elephant was my meat if he appeared. [ was well covered in with bushes.and branches, but had peep- holes through; which I could ' clearly survey the field, Ivowps 9 o'clock in the morning before anytbjug moved, and had I not been watching “I'he Wicked” woula bave pluyed me a sharp traok, He came out of the edge of the jungle just where I had hoped he would, but so;quictly that but for seeing him I could not havescredited his presence. He covered the groynd between the jungle and the lay dgure ata swift pace, and 1t was not uutil he seized the dummy that he suspected anything. He tessed it sky high and wheeled 10 go back, and.l stooa up and gave nim a ball behind the shoulder. As he received it he wheeled and started across the grain field, but I rolied him over before he had gone ton yards, | "The tricky old beast was aead at last, und he had boen duged to destruction by one of the simplest plots. ever put in practice agaiost him.; Lo had to walk around him three or four times before I could realize that tie hau actually, been downed. Judeed, until the natives began to gather and rejoice over his acath I was afrajd that I had missed the “rogue” apnd trapped some beast from a near-by berd. He was soon fully identified, bowever, as he carried several marks by which he was well known. For instance, he had a decp scar across his forehead where a bullet had furrowed the hide; there was another on tho'trunk, where u native nad once slashed him with a bie knife; he had a peculiar spot on his side, and, in brief, there was no possibility of mistake. Ths govern- mont_paid the reward without hesitation, and it no sooner became Known thal the dreaded scourge of the valley had mot his fato than the people bogan o return to their homes, and the anniversury of the event has for years been celebrated in the district as u holiday. The Night of Peace. It was a bright moonlight night in Octo- ber, 'The persimmon trees along the rosdsido were heavy with fruit, just beiug touched by the first frosts, and now and then we caught the pattering footsteps of coon or 'possum on tho dry leaves under the forest trees. There was wat in 1be beautiful Senandoah valley—Dbitter war, with rough riders scout- ing the country to burn aud pillage and add still further Durdens to the old men and the women left at home, We knew this, and yet as we rode softly along tho bhizhw, growing up to grass, and heard the son the crickets and the cries of the whippoor- will, there was uo bitterness in any man’s heart. [t wasn migit so calm and gentle that one forgot his enemies and remembered only his friends. There was only @ corporal’s guard of us— anescort for the mail rider. As we came to the east and west road una balted » moment 10 listen to the barking of a watch dog afar off, there sudaenly came to our ears the clat- of a horse's feot coming west at a gallop. We drow back 1nto the shadow, dressod our line and every man anslung his carbine, “kire at his horse if e refuses to halt,” whispered the corporal, and the next mnute tio had cried *“Halt!"” to the stranger. The unknown pulled up so suddenly that his horse reared, wheelsd about and fell down, Three of us were off our horses in a trice. and while two advauced upon the stranger the Lhird caught his steed as 1t struggled up. *1Us & woman !’ exclaimed one of the men, who bad placed his hand upon her shoulder before he detected ber sex. So it was. She moved outof the shadow cast by the branches of a roadside tree and stood Tuil in tbe moonlight, We drew nearer oud looked upon her with wonder and ad- miration, Sbe was not & woman, but a girl of 20, bandsome of face and trim of figura, aud she looked from man to man and uttered | never a word. She had been withiu our lines; she was riding tolyara those of Fitzhugn | Lee. A courier un¥how—a spy, almost with- out doubt. 2 And for what ssémed fiva long minutes no ono spoke, The soft, white mooulight seamea to compel silencd; “the sougs of tho crickets | were songs of pedes: in the thickots the whip. poowill swelled Herbreastand lovingly called ber mate. At lelgth the corporal slowly swung himself ouwbt his saddle. Ho was o bronzed faced oldighter of many battles, flo motioned o ithe man bolding Lor horso and the animal was led nearer. Then he knelt and_ held outihis big, sunburned hand for her daluty f06tb Sho placed it there and vaulted to ber selt—we drew back and un covered our headé, and with @ nod of her head sha was off.i@ltue west—to find & clear road Lo tho encmy’s lines. “What made yewdo it, corporal?” I whis- pered, as we rode ou in silen “"T\was the wili 0t heaven " he repliod, as bo uncovered hishead. “Today we had war; tonight God sends s peace!” M. Quan. e Spoopendyke’s Trouble Have I goua cought Do you think I'm an omnitus aud cun't cough?! ~Well. of all the dodgasted women [ ever saw-—-hore I've coughed for seveaty days aud you want to know if 1've got & coush. Now Mrs. Spoop- eudyke, I want that boitle of Haller's Sure Cure Cough Medicins—you hear! - Florida and Southeast, Dixie Flyer Sleepers—Nashville 1> Jacksonville, Fla., without change, over Nushville, Chattunooga & St vailway, vin Chuttanooga, Macon. St. route. Apply to or uddress J. H. 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SHIVERICK‘ & CO., Furniture, Carpats OMAHA UPHOLST ER | ING CO, and/ Mt of uphiolutorod ar- ! ‘ niture. | i | TRON OMAHA SAFE AND WM. PFEIFFER, Z'f'r fine carringes and Buggles. Care in palnting, | trimming and repatring. 25 Loavenworth, W. R/DRUM- MOND & CO, | Carriage buildars. Hose and patrol wagons s specialty. 18th opp. Court House. THE OSTERHOUDT, pring Wagon Mfg. Co,, Incorporated. Repatring on short no- teo. Carriago painting, 1180 Cass. COFK ro, COPPER. HONACK & KAESSNER CONSOLID ATED COFFeE CO., Importers and Jobbors, 1414 Harnoy. Copper work of all kinds. 8048, 10th. CONFEC! IRON WORKS, Safes vaults, Jnil work, | ron shuttors and fire os Fall stock. Nobby and | etaple shapes. capes. @, Androc 209 N. 16th, | it Gnd Gk —— " KINDLING. | "OMAHA KINDUING | FACTORY. Kindling and sawdust del. at rensonable prioos. East Omaha. Tel. 41 _—_— “MATT. . | MINCIE MEAT. THE OMAHA G. B HURST. MATTRESS CO. Manutacturer of Hurst's Mattrosses, fenther pil- condensed and __soft Homo Made Minco lows and ' comforters. "o trade onl Awo Home 1502-4-6 Nicholas. 120 8. 16th ~ OVERALLS J PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS, OMAHA PRINTINGCO | POKROK ZAPADJ esmors to Omal Nt Co. Colore PRINTING C) 281 3TC labels n spocialty. Ban supplies, = blanks, eto 10th na' Dougins | s REED JOB PRINTING €O, Beo Bullding | PLATING, 1T WESTERN _ PLATING WORKS. & brass, ohanda: and desiighors. T, tablewaro, oto, Block. piated. 1114 Dodge St —_— RUBBERGOODS| SADDLERY OMAHA RUBBER CO,, | MARKS BROS, M'f'g and Johoor sof all SADDLERY CO, Kinds of rubber “Fish ! L Stock smddles and 1ight Brand” goods. BArnaes & peciaity. 52 Farnnm St 140 Tarney STEINHAUS ENGRAV- ING CO,, |, ongravors, artists 034 Pax IS B¢ it SASH, DOORS, BLIN DS BALL BROS, A ROSENBERY, .| Mouldings. stale rally balustors, 0, Tolop 1 Marcy CO. Offico and Bank work a| peciaity. 201 North 0th SYRUP. | IRUNKS. FARRELL & CO, | i C. H. FORBY, Jelltes, Proserves. Mince | Manufacturors of Ment and Applo But- [ Tranks, Samplo Carsy ter, Syrups, Molnsses. | Traveling Bags, oto 8.8t 1403 Douglay ————————— SHIRTS AND UNDERWLAR, OMAHA SHIRT FAC-| R TORY. | NEBRASKA SHIRT CJ Establishod, 1576 1314 Farnam. | A SO 207 8. 11th. Tel. P. J. QUEALEY PAGE SOAP CO., SOAP CO., Mfg. Unlon Soap. 115 Hickory Mfg. Celobratod and tolleat soaps. inundry Omnha WHI AD. CARTER WHITE LEAD CO, Corrodera and nders, Strictly pure white lead Enst Omnhia. WM. GRANT & SONS Candy Kitchen, orders prompt & tiled. 8. Matl BIALITIES. _Girls need all their charms to mako mar- riage a success and should preserve them. The wedding of Miss Catherwood of San Francisco and Ernest C. Montague of New York, Fabruary 4, was the fashionable social event of the Golden Gate. After they are married a man’s idea of comfort secms to be the privilege of sitting around in his shirt sleeves, and a woman's is going without her corset. voewriters’ stub finger” is the latest ailn t on the market, and the prottier the girl who is the victim of 1t the greater prob- avility that an engagement ring will be the only cure. Cora—\Vhat! you going to marry Frod Hipple! Madge—Yes. Cora—Why,not long ou said you would vot marry tim if he tho last man in the world. Madge— Well, 'v kept my word. He isu't. Five applications for licenses by Chinamen who waut to marry white women were made 1o county clerks in California since January I. Nono of the licenses wora granted, but two couples were married hy contract. James Johnson, colored, who, it is said, is 107 yoars old, and his wife, Mrs. Sarah John- son, only nine years younger than her hus- band, celebrated” the seventy-tfifth annmiver- sary of their wedding day in Richmound, Va., | February 1. Miss Jean sIngelow says she does not ap- prove of the women’s rights theory und adds : “*We cannot have rights and privileges, and T prefer privileges,” This 1s a very modest and frank conclusion, and if married lad could only be persuaded toeudorse it it would rub a great many thorns from the rose of matrimony. No marriage contracted between an Ameri- can girland a foreigner, says the Chicago Nows, is likely to be happier than a murriage with one of Her countrymen would be, 1In | st cases such ‘‘international marriages’ less success- ful than would be relations she might form with O Goldbags—So you want to marry mv daughtor! Dedbroke—That's what 1 said. Old Goldbags—Well, of ail the impudence! Sho is rich, and you are poor; sheis young aud handsome, and you are neither, ~ Dod~ | broko—1 admit that in monev and age and | Jooks she has the ndvantago of me; but just think what her people are! ‘The engagoment, is announced of Count von Sterstortt and Miss May IKnowlton, the pretty Brookiyn girl who won so much sugcess. at Newport last summer, 1t is saia thut tho young couple have been engagod for a yoar past. The engagement 15 also anuounced of Dr. Thomas L. Kaue, a nephew of Elisha Kent Kane, the arctic explorer, aud Miss Virginio Wright of Lake City, Mich,; also of ! Edward M. Townsend, jr., brother of Mrs, Aunzuste Montant, and Miss Alice Greenough of New York City, and of T. W. Piersall jr., and Miss E. D. Robwson, both of New York, Miss Mattie, daughter of Senator Mitchell of Oregon, was married fu Paris last Thurs- day to Duko dv Ia Rochefoucauld. The bridal dress was of ivory satin, perfectly plain, edged with orange blossoms around the hot tom of the skirt. The corsage was made of | narrow pleats with an empiro sasi of white orauge blossoms; tho sleeves close fitting to | the elbows. The neck was covered with old point d’Alencon lace, which is an heirloom in the La Rochefoucauld family, and which fell over the- corsage to the waist. A long ! faille veil coverod the entire aress, being fastened at the top of the head by a Heury | 1V. coronet of orange blossoms. The wed- | ding preseuts included a fine sable fur from Baron Hirsch, an ivory card case from Miss | McLane, a gold-haadled parasol marked with ducal coronet and *Mattie’ from Count Sala, o lace fan from Admiral Groer, u large silvor-mounted toilet mirror with the Lu Rochofoucauld arms from the countess de Kohan, and a lover's koot in dismonds with a spray of dinmonds for the hair from tho countess de la Rochefcucauld, sister-in-law of theduke, L5irca ASUME NOTED WOMEN, Ahaut 20,000 women in Gireat Britain and frelana earn their living as hospital nurses. Max O'itell's wife is an English woman and was & very proity speciman of the Doy- enshire dumpiing. Mrs, Potter Palmer is considercd by many of her admirors Lo be the bandsomest woman in the United States. Aunie Besant devotes her spare time to colleiing prcels of warm elothing for the working women's clubs, pe-waiter girls are complaining that the tant hammeriog of the keys gives them Let them taper off from the con stub fingers. occupution, sir. Morell Mackenzie's daughter, Ethel Mackeuzie McKenna, has made an iuterest- ing uame for hersell in newspaper work us @ writer of co respoudence {rom Londo. | Fiorence Nighlingale, the venerable hero ine of the Crunean war, is so exbausted by @ uttack of Lhe grippe that her conditiou is | husband. Shi | ing illustration of the patriotic motto, *f | Pluribus Unum ! Suppositories, Ointm, KATZ-NEVINS CO. 12034 Douglas reported as extremely critic 1. Sheis about 72 years old. There is a girl in Buffalo with a mania for kilung cats, who has slaughtored as many as 200 felines in three days. At least so the Buffalo papers say,but it sounds like a clever device for atiracting settlers to the town. Buffaio 1s blessed with a “lady under- taker,” who takes charge of every detail of a funeral, embalming the bodv, drapmg the funeral apartments, furnishing the shroud and casket, chuirs ana carclages, arranging the flowd ad purchasing the mourning outfit for the entire family. The ladies’ annex of the Los Angeles cham- ber of commerce has apphed for 40,000 squaro feet of out, door space at the Chicago fair and proposes to erect thereon an adove building. The New York Society of Decorative Arts has also made application for spaco foran ex- hibit of embroideries in the women’s depart- ment. Mojeska is one of the most scholarly women of thestage. Besides being a tireloss student of Shakespeare, she is'a coustant | reader of his great contemvoraries, and sho has made aud Il making a largo collec- tien of Elizabothau works. Besides all this she speaks half a dozen languages, including some of tne dificult tongues of Kastern Europe. Mrs. U. S. Grant, Mrs. Jefferson Davi Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Deming, Mrs, Iaton, dward Raby, Mrs. Margaret Bottome, A. Roman Salus, Mrs. Jeremiah S. and Mrs, John H. K are the first ten vico presideuts elected by the United States Daughters of 1812, Each lady has ac- cepted in a patriotic letter, Last May a Philadelphia woman was so badly burned that the process of skin-graft- ing became necessary. Since then her phy- sicians have successfully grafted 1,000 pieces of skin on her, takon from other patients in the hosnital, ono of the physicians and her s now dischurged cured, a i » Mrs. Lew Wallace savs that Ilorence Nightingale was a slender woman of graceful | figure and great dignity of manuer. Ste ex- hibited vemarkable fortitudo at all times, and especially when preseny at surgical opera- tions. Once when the agonies of a patient in the hands of the surgeons put to flight bis attendants Miss htingale turned ana re- buked them, saying: *(Come back! on you as Christians! Shame on you us woumen ! i . IKute Fiold's Wushi o Woman Ohristian ‘Temperance” union are making elalms of lar-e gains ali through New York state.” “How so?" “The say that nono of tho sheriffs nave touched a *drop’ siuce the electrocution law went Into general effect A new and Compl tmoent, counisting of In Capsules, also in Hox and Pills; o Positive Cure for kxtarnal, Internal Blind or Bleeding Itening, Chronic, Recent of Hereditary Pilos. This Komedy hus never beon known to fall. $1 per box. i for §i: sont by wall Why suffor from & writ ten” gunrantee s 1 with§ hoxes, to refund the mone: tamp for froo Swmple, Gunranton | uhn & Co., Drugglats. 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