Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1892, Page 12

12 IN AN OLD CATHEDRAL TOWN Fights and Ffoenes in and Eurrounding Salishury in England, REARED ON A REMNANT OF ROMAN DAYS Where Allthe Folks of «Martin Chuzzlewit'” Lived and Were Lovable—The Market Place Seen T Tom Pinch's Sarsenvny, England, May 28.—[Corre- spondence of Tu Ber |—One cannot help really admiring Englishmen all the more be- causo they love their ‘“‘tight little isiana” with an arrant, defiant and uncompromisiog unreasonableness, "I'ne admiration is not for their often mul- 18h defense of somo features of Euglist gov- erdubi nos for all Boglish institutions, [t is because every square acre of England is so endearing in its age, association and beauty, and those who possess it wiil justly brook no behittlement of it all; any more than you would let some smart siranger come home and sneer at your swootest and most chor- ishea, if simple, belongings, without pitch- ing both him and his ai7s incontinently into the highway. 1t is such a beautiful country; such a well kept and delicious old garden; such smil- fng land in sunshine and snug and comfort- ablo one in storm; and withal gives to the stranger within it such a sense of constant interest, coupled with close human compan- jonship and sympathies; that cynic aud prig and incapable of interest in any land but his own though he be, he cannot now and then repress a kindling enthuslasm, be here and there pricked 1nto secret admiration, in this pluce and that find tender aud assoclative interest; and, however disloyal it may be to his detcrmined “Americamsm,” in spito of himselfl melt under its innumerable appeals to his' heart and intelloct, until its good aud sunpy face cozons his _rigidity into a bright, responsivo look, and unwittingly bis tongue pys tribute wit “Dear old nd! most venerable and mellow in all things, most cantanker- ous and obstinate in many, thy face has kin- ship and kingship in it, und thou art bright- est and loveliest of all strange lands 1" Seen from u Car Window, And never will this be truer than when, after a tidy breakfast at some quict olu city iun, you are whirled away from the grime and slime of London across the shires of Surrey aud Hunts, to ancient Saisbury town, In that less than two hours’ journoy, on an English day in May time, what .numerablo scenes of futerest, of tirring quality and of restfulness and repose flash upon you from your carriage window! Passing from ‘Waterloo station, or from any other railway station in the hcart of London, through tho lessening donsities of the wonderful city to the first reaches of grassy fields, is 1o itself a tremendous social object lesson and historic pacorama. But hero to the loftis gay old Epsom. Over yonder to tho right is brilliant Ascot, with ke vastand turreted home of Eugland’s queen, at Windsor, o leaden gray siihouotte piercing tho sky beyona. ‘Lo the south 3weeps. —the downs of Bansted, edged with woods, And tow'ry villas while at Woking a glimpse is caught of a great Enghish gipsy encampment. Whisking into Hants, or Hampshire, you ass Oainam, birthplace of the grammarian, William Lilly; and to the north lie Basing, site of one of ‘the lordlicst castles of carly Englund, and Slichester, to this day an cx- haustless wine of Roman remains, ~Within its walls the Usurper Constantine was in- vested with the purple, and legend has it that King Arthur here recoived his crown. Far- ther toward the sea, near Alesford, are the great Tichboruo estates; the sleopy ham- let of King Sambourn, where John of Gaunt had his oid-time’ palace; Daunebury nill, with its frowning head ana Itoman on- campment; and_beyond, the low, square tower of Winchester, bekind which'the pur- ple fringe of woods hints of New Fore depths, where the arrow from Tyrrel’s bow mierced the heart of rufiian Rufus, England’s second Norman Kixg, Fentures of 1ish Landscape. ‘These are a fow of the things one will know about from tho books. Still more gratefully feastful are tho things one.will s0e and feel, as innumerable hamlets, houses and halls are passed. Glorious old munor houses flash from parks and demesne forests, Thatched ~ roofs of village homes, yellow with lichan, are varied bere and there by red tiling, Avenues of ancient elms, beech and limes give tempting vistas above broad roads, tessclated with lights and shades, and as gray and smooth us some old cathedral floor. Cropved hedges with trim, tioy fielas give place here and there to aowns rolling away in biliowy hills of heather, spangled with the golden aspho- del, or wide meadows and tiny marshes where flames the yellow marigold, or where tho forget-me-nots ure so dense and blue that their surface seems like o breeze-rip- pled pool. Hawthorn lanes are white above and beneath as banks of ariven snow. Great musses of honeysuckle trail from copso and hedwo; aud iu around and above all this May-time uature heaven, thrushesand black- birds, high above the roariug of your train, flocd ‘all the morn with song. Almost onraptured one descends into the valleys of the downs of South Wiltshire. Heie, where the tiny Bourze, the southern Avon, the Nadder and the Wiloy songfully meet in & ricu and beautiful valley, are seen the gray masses of the old cathedral town, Remnni Days, O1d as it is it was originally built piece by pieco out of the Sarum, “'the dry place,” of the Komans. Old and 'New Sarum, the site of the old city und the new city itself are cailed. As you approach Salisbury down the winding course of tne Bourne, you will #e0 the old Roman station to your right, about two miles north of the city. 1t stands upon a chatky emineuce, the headland of a ridge of downs domiuating all the beaatiful vally velow. No one kuows how long befora its occupa- tion by the Romans it bhaa been a fortitied British camp. Six great roads, still tracea- ble, led up to it, and whon Rome conquered Britain, Vespusian’s lagions gave it stil more imposiug fortitications. A town was built about it. It in turn a bishopric of the Wost Saxons, & great Norman garrison, an English cathedral city from the time of King Alfred, and now, though for centuries in ruin, it is still to the avtiquary and archwologist one of the many warvels of Englund's early days, Serene and “reposeful is all the valley Jcene—tho gray old ciiy with it masses of 4tone, red roofs and splendid fohiage, with ‘ts marvelous ocathedral spire piercing a cloudless sky; the mossy bridges with purapet loitorers, the outiying farms and sleopy hamlols. and the silvery rivers threading thrpugh and odorous hedges aud, flowery {mea slaughter has reddencd —Rritons and Roma: ogdom, Britons Baxon conquersrs, Saxon: the murderous Danes, and tho flume aund sword and inconcelvable, butcheries and rapiue of Cromwaell, who respected neither 1ife nor shrine in the name of the Lord. Rich in Historio luterest. ‘Then what a little world of Intes and that of historic moment antiqu vel and literary charm are found immediately roundabout. The famous British King Aure- lius Ambrosius lies buried at Awmesbury, an bour's journey distunt, though closer to the heart is Amesbury bouse, often the residence of the poot Gay. lu the near little boroush of Wilton is the splendid seat of the earls of Pombroke. Nearer still is Bomerton, the old home of George Herbert, aud the fine wemorial church to him who was noble by bivth, gifts and nature, Over the southeast you will flnd one of the most imposing old castle ruins in Englavd, Wardour castle, near the modern soat of the Arundels, and memoratle for the herolo defonse mgainst the Parliamentary forces fo 1048, by Lady Blanche Arunael Just over the border of Wmf‘ in Dorset, Bhutisbury, where was buried Kiog Edward the Martyr. Three miles to she northwest s “Fliold of the Tournament," one of the five places appointed for luuru-ylnguby Richard I Aod but nine miles from is- bury, and seven vosth of Old Sarum, will be found Stoneh o, tho most remarkable mou- uaeut of sotiquity iu all the British Isles. Buily me that of all olse of Roma in mortal strife st their final turn, agaiost kindliest glamor and charm investing old Salisbury and neighborhood have been laid upon them by the gontle pen of Dickens, In my loiterings in lane and highway, by river- sideo and in field-paths, how those folk of “Martin Chuzziewit’’ treop back into their old accustomed places. In_this village or in that you place the Pecksnlff home. and are surethat from that dormer window the unc- tuous oid hypocrite’s “pupils” in architect. ure, in company with tender-hearted Tomn Pinch, traced the olevations of the far ca- thedral roof and spire. artin Chuzzlewit” Country. Thia littie wayside inn, with its snowy cur- tains and vine-massed sides, must be the veritable Blue Dragon presided over by buxom Mrs. Lupin, where old Martin Chuz- zlewitt came, cursed with gold and haunted by his vulture relatives, and where the dirty and jaunty Montague Tigg and his companion, the “strange instance of the little frailties that bescta mighty mind,” Chevy Slyme, 6sq., entered upon their mem- orable but bootiess negotiations for a loan from Mr. Pecksniff. ‘he little nlehouse across the way must also be the Halt Moon and Soven Stars, wheroall “the privato loag- ings in the place, amounting to full four beds and n sofa, rose cent_per ceut in the iar- ket,"’ as the vuiture relatives gathered. Here where the quiet country road, no more than & snowy hawthorn lane, stops short at the great highway, and of old the stages dashed onward to mighty London town, is certainly the very spot whera poor Tom Pinch, with a heavy heart, saw the stage, like some ‘‘great monster’ his friend, honest John Westiock, ultant and rampant than usual,”’ that dreary night of parting. "I'his bright highway athwart the ridge, bordered with chestnut, elm or beach, with nero ana there a sunny opening showing tho clustered thatches and roses of a farmhouse, undoubtedly was the very ono over whicn Pinch camé in_his hooded gig; where the redoubtable Mark Tapely first disclosea his contempt for those vocations mnot sad and harrying enough to render a Jjolly spirit’ creditable; where the faces of fair lassies bewmed upon Tom, and evon roguish fingers tossed him kisses, and over which ho at_last reached Salisbury ana its snug old tavern in which at “half past 6" ho 50 happily meets young Martin aud the event s celebrated in n glass of punch each as hot as it could bo made. What One Feels in Saliabury, Tuis dehightful associative nearness to those whom Dickens has created for your ceaseless friendship clings to you in the fine old city as well. If you are here of a market day, as this one is, and as it was on the occa- sion of Tom Pinch’s visit, the picture Dick- ens drew for Tom is the one you will find, You will see ‘‘the younz farmers and old farmers, with smock frocks, brown great- coats, drab greatcoats, red worsted comfort- ors, leather legaings, wonderful staped hats, hunting whips and rough stick,” just the same as ‘'om Pinch did. Somehow the quaint shops are seen through Lom's kindly eyes. Aud when you tire of all this and come to that sweet cathedral close, you love all the ancient aud sacred place better becauso Tom Pinch’s friend was once associate organist here, and let Tom help with the stops, and when the afternoon service was over left Pinch alone in tho organ loft. 1le he played and the tones resounded through tho cathedral ‘‘great thoughts and nopes came crowding on his mind,” which ‘'seemed to find an echo in the depth of overy ancient tomb, no less than 1n the deop mystery of his own heart.” And so it will be with you, for itis not so much that the spire of this cathedral is the tallest in all Engtand, that many of its tombs and monuments are the grandeést and most ancient, or that its close is incomparable 1n its loveliness, tranquility and beauty, so that all these charms of association stir vour mind and heart. Notso wonderful is what you will seeat Salisbury, though thatis wonderful indecd, as what you will feel, So much of this tender ‘enthusiasm pos- sesses you that you can never tell anothor criticaily about Salisbury cathedral. No need for that, But you see a glorious asbiration wrought out in stone. Whatever your relig- ion, you realize that sublimest human effort sustained by sublimest faith and zeal have fashioned from earthly elements something indescribably grand and beautiful, to stand as place for praver and type of endless up- reachings of human hearts to the mystery of the infiuite. Epaar L. WAKEMAN, [ —— A RAILROAD IN CANAAN. From Mount Carmel Around Mount Tabo to the Sea of Galilee. The infidel has at last succeeded. For many a year he has been trying to get permission to build railroads across Pal- estine. At last the sultan has affixed his signature to a decree giving to an English capitalist permission to build and operate a railroud from Acre to Damascus. The company is already formed and many of vhe contracts let, and work will bé begun at once. The route has been fully surveyed, snys the New York Tribune’s Constanti- nople correspondent. It has two ter- minals on the Mediterranean, at Acre and Haifa, the branches from the two uniting at the southeast of Mount Car- mel. That the road should start from Acre is a Dbit of poetic justice, for that town was the last strong- hold of the Christians in Pales- tine at the end of tho Crusades. From Mount Carmel the line runs ai- rectly down to Jezreel. following, one may readily imagine, the very track of Elijah the Tisnbite, who, after the famous Battle of the Gods on the moun- tain height, girded up his loins and ran before the chariot of King Ahab al! the way back to the capital of Samaria. Thus it passes to the south of Nazareth, and Nain, and Mount Taboor, to Beisan. At the latter place it turns to the north and runs up-the western bank of the Jordan. Before reaching the Sea of Galilee, however, it crosses the river and strikes off to the northeast to Ll Hamma, Khisfin and Nawa, and thence straight on to Damascus. The length of the line is 120 miles, all but ten or tyelve being on almost lovel plains. The cost is estimated at about 9,000,000, Mentul Wear and Tear, Atlanta Constitution: Colonel Yerger has u negro man named Sam employod about his place, and yesterday Sam wanted sowme clerical work done. He said: “Boss, I wants yer ter write me a let- ter ter my gal in Waco.” “*All right, Sam, I’ll do it.” ‘*Has yer got do paper and de ink and de pen, sah?"” Y es, Sum; goahead.” “Write Thompson street, New York.” “All right,” ot hit written?” “Certainly,” **What hus yer got written? Read hit ter me, boss.”” “Thompson street, New York,” **Dat’s right. Now write May de four- teent.” SAILL right.” f “Hus yer got hit down, boss, al- ready?” MNfag “Gway, boss. hit ter me.” “May 14th,” “Foah God, you has got hit down all right. Now, boss, read it all over from de berry beginnin’,” “Thompson street, New York, May 14th.” “Dat’s right. Whew! T say, boss Uso tired. My head You am jokin. Read lot’s res’ awhile. aches like hit was gwinter sphit, — e Conslstency, = €=a Pittsburg Bulleti Faithful servitor ithumly)— Pardon me, sir, but—ahem— huve served you for twenty-five years, and have nover asked for a vacation, I feel the need of two weeks’ rest, Can I— Employer— Impossible, Jacobs — No one to take your place—By the way, fill me out a check for 200, . 8. (hopefully)~To whom shall I make it payable? Ewployer—To the Soclety for the Pre- the l veution of Cruelty to Children. THE OMAHA DAILY THESALON ANDON THE BOIS Famons Paintings at the New Gal'ery and Living Pictures of Feminine Loveliness, MRS, CROOK ON PARISIAN TOILETTES Color Schemes In Summer Costumoes—Some Gowns for the Czarina—The Nude in Art Declining to Its Nadir— ¥rom the Clty on the Seine. Panis, May 23.—|Correspondence of Tre Bee. |—The new salon in the Champs de Mars, result of the Meissonier art revolt, is fairly contesting the honors of popularity with the salon this year. We were not fortunate enough to secure cards for the vernissage, but we have since done our best to improve our opportunities of looking on the work of the disciple of the ‘‘great little painter,” of Carolus Duran and Puvis de Charannes, At the top of the stairs of the new gallery, Just under the dome, the walls are adorned with magbificent tapestrics from the old iobelin looms. The room is decorated with palms and shrabs, with here and there beau- tiful examples of the ceramic art. The sculpture hall, like tho salon of the Elyses, is a veritable garden of shrubs, palms, flowers and fountains, The National Society of Fine Arts seems to have succeeded in veaching a big standard of excellency. I'ne pictures are certainly not inforior to these of the salon of the Champs Elysees. 1cannot aee that they are better, out [ am not a judge, tho critics say thoy are better. Oneof the most noteworthy pictures is Beraud’s “‘Descent from the Cross.’” The Christ, the ideal figure, is surrounded by figures clothed in the garbof the present time, just such looking people as_you would mneet any day walking around Paris. The virgin 1s painted as un old Krench woman with an ordinary cap. The other figures are clad in the blovse, gown or coat of the French peasant, The Saviour wrapped in a white sheet iy being lowered to the sarth by tender hands, Mary Magdaion is dressed like a French widow. and is wringing her hands and weeping, while u man dressed iike a French working man, supposed to bs Poter, is shaking his fist at the city, which has crucified s Lord, It is unight, and tho A;CL‘I\IO is supposed to be on a hill overlooking Paris, Noteworthy Pictures, There is & colossal canvas by Puvis de Chayannes, representing winter, which 18 to form ono of the decorative -panels of tho Hotel do Ville. Itis awonderful representa- tion of soft atmospheric effect, the scene being a forest covered with snow, with groups of husbandmen, perhaps, and’ wood- cutters, The harmony of the coloring is magical, Mr. Alexander Harrison exhibits two re- markably fine marine pictures. One piotures the waves rolling in to the shore after a gale. One, called “The Brothers,” a striking contzast to the otber, shows a smooth, quiet seu, on a warm summer’s day, with a group of 'pretty maldens frolicking fn the water which scarcely hides their knees, while on the shore sit two other girls laughing and enjoying the pranks of their companions, A horribly realistic picture is ‘*I'he Dream of Dante.” Itis from the easel of M. La Toude and represents the interior of the in- ferno, with figures gashed, bleeding and tortared. 'This has a companion picture in the other Salon that seems to attract at- tention. Some people like horrors, It is the picture of a dead treein the cleft of a mountain. An immenso cagle has carried to nis eyrie in this cleft a little burro, laid him across the tree and is devouring him. The little bit of coloring in tho picture is the blood dropping from the entrils of the un- fortunate beast. One of the favorably criticized pictures, and one that_attracts great attention, is by Mr. Marcus Simons, ontitled “My Kingdom 18 Not of This World.” A aying monargh, ciad in regal robes, surrounded by all the circumstunce and pomp of royalty, while near by lies the infant Jesus in a rude wicker cradle, watched over by shadow angels. Another large cauvas showing great har- mony of colorand wonderful detail is a scene in Paris of the Roman period. It represents what is now the “Isle of City,” with a heathen temple upon it, and the galleys of time unloading their merchandise on the banks of the Seine. Jottel, the talented Austrian artist, has a delicious canvas, “Coin de Jurdin, an old fushioned garden with sunflowers and all the old fashioned flowers scattored around in pioturesque confusion— a picture one would never tire of. Tending to the Nadir of the N ‘There are not so many canvasses and not 50 much of the nude in these four magnifi- cent galleri f che palois des Beaux Arts as in theother Salon. Holdini, whose por- traits are miracles, has two, one of a child dressed in a grayish white frock, long thin logs in black stockings stretched gracefully on a gray sofa, the little bit of color in this otherwise colorless picture being given by a dark red roso laying against the white dress. An admirable portrait of James Gordon Bennett is by M. Rundel. *‘Carmencita,” by Sargent, is the picture of 8 true Castilian beauty all in yellow and black laces. It is very like and very much admired. But enough of pictures. Lst me tell my fair friends something about the fashions. Hats are bigger than ever, some with very high crowns, almost in a peak, some with no crown at sll. The straw hats' and bonnots come.n all the delicate shades of pink, green and mouse, Then they are trimmed with black velvet, and flowers of a contrasting color. Flowers, flowers everywhere. Aun exquisite white chip hat has a high crown, broad brim, with white and purple lilacs, with their groen leaves piled on top and coy- ered with a dainty lace, Lilacs ure the fa- vorite flowers this season. Another dainty hat is mado entirely of delicate pini flowers and white lace butterflies, with pink velvetstrings. A black open‘work straw, trimmed with heavy gros grain yellow rib- bon, with ornaments of gold and Rbinestones, is very rechorche, Oue of tho prettiest and daintiest of gowns is & peari-colored cashmere, very fine in tex- ture, mado in princesse stylo. Around the slart is doubdle pleating “of silk, the samo snade as the cashmere. The waist is em- broidered in the shape of & deep yoke, with silver and shades of groy silk, the top of the sleeves very bouffant, and from the olbow embrolderies to mateh tho waist, Some Lovely Gow, One of the loveliest gowns I have seen was 8 very light hellotrope, embroidered in sil- ver and black arouna the skirt, twelve inches in depth, A jabot of lace one-fourth yard in Avidth gracefully draped on the skirt from left side to meet the embroidery at the foot of the skirt. The bodice was embroidered to mateh the skirt and the same kind of lace most artistically draped over it. Another gown made for & New York lady of world- wide reputation was of tan colored cloth, A double rucbing of black lace around the skirt, above the ruching embroideries of gold and jet. The bodice was 80 covered with the embroidery and lace thal very little of the cloth was visiblo. "Lace on cloth is very muck *'en vogue” and does not look as in- congruous as one might fmagine, A well known firm 1 Paris has made some wonderfully handsome toilettes for the empross of Russia. One eown is of shot moire, blue and pink, £0 beautifully shot that looking at the dress one way It looked pinic and the other way blue. There are rich panels of point de Venise over blue satip on each side of the skirt. The decollete bodice is drapod with blue crepe. Bows of blue lined with pink are around the skirt. A poluted scarf of blue satin is lined with pinic, aud has a diamond buckle in front. Another gown is an extremely handsome yellow brocade aud velvet. It is made with 8 long train and slightly low bodice. ‘The velvet is covered with seal gold lace, the lace outlined by an embroidery of real soed poarls. A very beautiful gown suitable for a blonde is of heliotrope and pale gray. Around the skirt runs a roso quilting of three incnes wide of satin ribboo, hellotrope and pale gray. The bodice is V-shaped vack and frout and filled in with purple crope dotted vor stars. The sicoves ave short, f the crepe. There is a heliotrope sash, very pointed in front, carried to the buck and bung in Watteau J“‘"' ARY D. Croox. ——— Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap for ohil dren teothing produces oaturi uiet sl 20 ceats @ bottle. ek g FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1892-TWELV HE MORSE DRY GOODS CO, Mind to These Prices. Hasten to Ge nicken Your We do more and better in Toilet Bargains Then Ever, i Triple extract Violet and Rose’ 15¢ oz Lubin's extracts, all odors, 43¢ oz Lundborg’s extracts, 32c oz Lady Grey's extract, 25¢ oz 4711 cologne, long or short bottles, 43¢ bottle. Marie Farina cologne, 57c bot- tle. M. bottle. Pears’ bottle. Household amonia, 8c bottle. Viola cream, 30c. Espey's cream, 20c. Arnicated vaseline, 8c. SUALS, For Little Enough. & L. Florida water, 57c Lavender water, 67c Cocoa 0il, Sc cake. Dusky Diamond Tar, Sc. Kirk's Royal Honey, Glycerine or Windsor, 8c cake. Cuticura, 13c cake. Eastman's Aloha, 8ic cake. Oakley’s Sweet Violet, 12¢ Shandon Bells, 17c cake. FACEPOWDERS v Tappan’s Swans Down, oc. Pozzoni's Dove, 17c. Pozzoni’s Medicated, 35c. La Duchesse, with cut glass puff box, 17¢. Lubin’s Nursery, rtoc. Roger & Gillett's rice flour, Chordin's rice flour, soc. Toilet Paper, medicated, rolls for 25c. six Sponges. sc up. Tooth Brushes, 1oc up. Combs, 15¢ up. Brushes, 25¢ up. Stand Glasses, 25¢ up. You cannot bewiser than to supply all your needs for toilet accessories for the summer now SILK MITTS. We Sell for 25¢. The best, the longest, the most lustrous, the strongest and the shapliest mitt in the west. Evening mitts, elbow and shoulder lengths, new and proper shades, $1.25and $1.50. Mail orders “pour in, and every one appreciates the promptness and fairness with which we treat orders. JEONT. 25C :cHAlLbREVN:s Nainsook Hats Embroidered, shirred, embroi- dered rim, French nainsook ties, our prics has baen $1.80, now ONLY $1.00. For 19 Cents Ladies’ scalloped edge, hem- stitched handkerchiels, embroid- ered initials; none of these have sold for less than 23c¢ and most of them at 83c. Oonly 19c, CHIFFON HANDKERCHIEFS. 3 for $1.00 filk embroidered, scalloped edges, assorted colors,heliotrope, pink and ’Cl'Q[\n‘l. 3 for $1.00 drab, slate, black, Ladies’ Sun Umbrellas, 26-inch, guarantead Milan Sitk Serge, fast eolor, Paragon frame, ivory trimmed polished Acacia sticks, in neat crooks, knobs and new twists; the same that other people ask $3 for. Our price 35c French figured Sateens, short lengths, many are ample dress patterns, 1OC Yard. Second Floor. {he Bargains. FOR MEN WHO wiil visid our store Saturday and Satur- day night, HOSE. 35 dozen fancy striped balbriggan o hall hosa, the price wo have always cold them for i pair, ' Saturday and.Night, 15c pair. NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, (Exclusive hot wenther Special price for Saturday and Night, $1.00. These shirts are worth $1.50 everys where. garments) Madras Cloth Over Shirts, Silk striped, splendid for wear, good for hot weather, our price till Saturday, §2.00, Saturday and Night, $1.00. MEN’'S FINE Plaited Dress Shirts, Such as ‘*Monarch Brand,” lar price $1.50, Saturday and Night, $1.00. our regu= MEN’S FANCY AND Light Colored Silk Ties llegant for summer wear, 250 kinds, regular Saturday and Night, 156 Zor25e = THE MORSE DRY GOODS CO. SERGEANT LOMAX. Incidents of a Fight with Indians Who Tricd to Escape from Cro. New York Sun: There were two passes by which the indians might leave the valley when Crook rode in on the east side to attack. They were ra- vines not over a quarter of a mile apart, and there were many signs to prove that the redskins made daily use of them. A licutenant and twenty men were dropped out of the columu here to hold these passes in case the hostiles got the alarm and sought to leave the valley without a fight, 1f they did not try to escane, then we were to advance up the trails as soon as we heard firing, and this would take the warriors inthe rear. The lieutenant and nine men to one pass—Sergeant Lomax and nine men to the other. 1n twenty minutes we had a breastwork of logs and rocks and brush across the mouth of our pass, and were down behind it and waiting when the lioutenant’s orderly rode up and said: “Licutenant Blank ordors you to re- port as offen as possible in case of at- tack.” ‘Orders received and understood and will be promptly - obeyed!” replied the sorgeant stifily. Dear old Sergeant Lomax! Wounded at Cold Harbor, again at Fredericks- burg, once more in the Wilderness. Ho led uson at Kernstown. when captain and lieutenants were wounded or pris- He was rallying us at Cold Har- struck down. He was fight- our rogimental flag when a hit bhim at Gettysburg. He had been hit twice by In- dian arrows, and single - handed and alone he had ‘‘stood off” half a dozen hostiles until assistance came, A stern-faced man, whose only religion was army regulations—who seemed to have no world beyond the camp. A martinet in his way, but always just. If he ex- acted obedience, he also rendered it. Private soldiers cannot erect monuments over their dead comrades. It must sul- fice that their memory is revered and defended, We had been ting half an hour when the Indians appeared. Their lookouts had sighted Crook moving around the spur of the mountain, and they were making a break to leave the the valley. When they found the passes oceupied they became desperate. Firing began ut once in both passes. 1 was aiming for my third shot when the ser- geant touched my arm and suid: **Tell Lieutenant Blank that I have been at- tacked. Also, that Private James White has been killed,” I oarried the order to the other pass and veturned, While I was absent the Indians withdrew from a council, The+ result wus u determination to break out by the way of the passes, aud when the firing recommenced it was hot and heavy. Ihad fired three or four times, when the sergeant signaled me and said: “Toll Lioutenant Blank that 1 am fighting at leass 100 wurriors. Also, that Private Jones hus been killed and Corporal Taylor severely wounded.” I carried theorder as bofore, find i the ofticer hotly, engaged and having two men woundeéd. Ll returned, saluted, aud took my: place, and for the noxt seven or eightaninutos the firing showed no evidence of slacking down. The bot- tom of tho paswowas thick with boulders, and the Indiams used them us shel- ters. Their plan seemod to be to creep a8 neur u# possible and thon make o dash for the bmeastwork. We had the Spencer sevenmshot carbines, and we poured in a firg which made them believe we numberedum, whole compauy, Wo were holding thiesn beuwifully when the sergennt movediover 1o me und shouted in my ear: “Tell Lieutenant Blank that wo are bolding the Indiuns in check, Also that J ing to sa bullet, Private Johnson hus been killed and Private Adams mortally wounded.” This time I found that the licutenant had had one man killed and two others wounded, and that the fire along his front was hotter than before, I shouted the report in his ear, whilo he was using one of the carbines dropped ny a wounded man. He nodded to show that he under- stood and I hastened back. As I reached the line the fire of the Indians began to slacken. I noticed that ours did too and I looked down the line to sco the cuuses 1 could see only two others with carbines in their hands, while the sergeant was half lying down and facing me. He beckoned to me with a band on which I plainly saw blood and as I crawled over to him I suw that he was wounded in the side. I kneeled to examine the wound, but he waved me back and said: “Tell Lieutenant Blank that the In- dians are about to charge over us. Also, thut I have only thrce men left. Also, that T am mortally wounded!” I hesitated to obey. He lifted his hand, tried to speak, and then fell back with the blood gushing out of his mouth, and was dead in ten seconds. I had not yet reached the other pass when the In- dians charged with a yell, broke over the brenstwork and those who still lived were wiped out in a flash. Hours later, when we recovered the ground, there were nine mutilated and disfig- ured bodies asking for burial, When Crook saw them and heard the story, tears came to his eyes. That was his tribute, and it was a_grander one in the eyes of the living thun a mooument of bronze. Died in the line of dul?'l Buried no one can remember where! R T CHICAGO AND THE WORLD'S FAIR, World's Fale Souvenir, illustrated, being o complete und conclse bistory of the pri pul world's fal s from the Crystal Pa London, 1851, to «ho World's Columbian position In Chlcugo, 1901 With explanator tables and mups. Published by The An- aboguo Publishing company, Chicago, bound neatly in cloth. It savely fulls to the lot of the reviewer to notico so exhaustive a work as the “World’s Fair Souvenir,” which has been compiled with so much care by o former. resident of Omaha, John D. Jones. For purposes of referenco, o comparison and for general information the work is a magnificent reflex of the push and energy of a city that is the won- der of the world, Inits compilation expense has not been thought of, and the richness of its illugtrations of the World's fair build- ings, cuts of the men and women who are di ing to a successtul issue what bids fair to be the greatest exposition of an- cient or modern times, pictures of tho colossal business blocks stand as monuments to the entery heiv owners and builders, is typical of the “Chicago gait,” as the rush and bustle of tho great city by the inland sea has been described. Thoe book has been arranged upon a most comprehiensive plan, the object of the publisher being to give a complex resume of what may be seen in Chicago in 1803, and ut the same time give the nformation ina compact form, so that the work may be a yuluable adjunct to he library and veading room. 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It not only gives full page art type illustrations and descriptions of the principal buildings of previous world’s fairs and all the buildings of the present World’s Colum bian Exposition, together with portraits and biograph skoetchos of its officers und chicfs of departments but it tells “How to Reach the Fair,® gives descriptions of Chica- go’s parks and boulevards, its places of amusement, the wholesale and jobbing intevests, its railroad facilities, and in general is the most complete guide book to the city that stands at the edgo of Luke Michigan. Do you want one of these books? A few minutes’ work will secure one for you. Send to T )MAHA BEE one sub- scriber to I'Hr WEEKLY BLe at $1.25 and one will be sent to you by mail. The book gells for 1,00, but T I has se- cured a large number of copies, enabling the publishers to make this liberal offer It is the best thing in this line ever of- fored and you aro eurc to be vleased. You can lave tne paper and book sent to your address or thebook aljone andthe paper to some othor person. Address Tue B 26 PUBLIsHING Co., Omaha, Neb. e THE TELEPHONE MONOPOLY. A Large Fleld the Pre t Company Cannot Control, Notwithstanding the fact that all that is absolutely essential to telephony, viz: the transmission of audible speech by means of undulatory currents of elec- tricity, will be free to the world in less than a time, the position of the Bell company, from a business stand- point, will continue almost impregnable, suys Ilectricity, Muny of the fontures that have contributed o largely to the 1l success of the telephone covered by patents which company now controls, Among most important of these ave those covering the use of variable contucts in trunsmitting instruments, but it is notat all improbable that a better and more rational wethod of con verting sound waves into electrical un- dulations may yetbe discovered. An- other element of strength possessed by the existing monopoly is the fact that it already hus the business. A telephone, like an advertisement, is of value only in proportion to the number of people it reaches, and a competitor in the field will have the difliculty to coutend with, that it will be almost impossible to get his first subscribers, however low he may place his igureg, and without these 10 ot least us great a number as thoso of the existing company, there ean practi- cully be no competition at all, Successful compotition with the Bell company, therefore, postulates an inex- hnunubfu supply of funds, paticnce, energy and business tact, and the ins vention of many altogether new dovices, at least equally efficient us those already possessed by the existing company. London is now on the eve of trying the experiment, nnd we may learn much of value from her experience in the under- taking. The new company which has been organized to compete with the monopoly, which in this case is the British government, has ful ealized the necessity of a list of subscribers ag a founaation to build on, of giving bet~ terservice and of rendering this at a lower taviff. To accomplish this they promise that the first 5,000 subscribers ill be taken on at $63 vear, and that no charge whatever will be made until 3,000 ir struments are actually connecte through their exchange. After the first 5,000 subsc: sequent custome per annum, instead of $100 .48 at prese ent, and improved service will be ren- dered by the use of complete metallio circuits, instead of grounded circuits as now used by the government. The oute come of the undertaking, we think, is exceedingly problematical, but it can- not fail to be instructive, whatever the result may be. But there is a large field for the teles phone that the Bell company cannot control. We r to private lines and other domestic applications of the tele phone. This branch of the busine B e yet been much do- veloped—in fuet, has been prac= tically strangled by the tariffs charged heretofore. A thousand and one uses to which the telephone could be put are suggested every day, but into which it does not find its wuy for reasong entirely foreign to the “question of adaptability. The phonograph has proved a failure from a business poind of view, chiclly, we think, because of the short-sighted policy which has pres vented its sulo outright. believa that were it put on the mark its use would become atonce general. Wo believe, also, that A\l company would find it to their advantage, financially, to sell their latest improved telephones and trange mitters for domestic and other similar purposes, 1f the Bell compamy does not do this after the expiration of 1ts funda~ mental patents somebody else will, and will doubtless receive a suitable reward, e ToLEno, lows, April 6, 1501, Dr. J. B. Moore, Doar Sir:' My wife has used aboubsix bottles of vour Troe of Life, and thinks that sho uas rocelyed greater ben. efit from it than any mediciné §ke has ev taken. Yours traly, L. H. Burk Gen'l Agont and Treas. West Collogo. Since recelving the above testimonial, 1 a inreceipt of a letter and check from the itev. 1.H Bufkin of Toledo, lown, April send Rey. J. W. Kenworthy, Crostliuo, sas, s1x bottles of Moore's T'roe of Lifo: +lor sulo by ull druggist An Opal Wi n. The most famous opal of history wae that which was worn ina ring by No- nius, the Roman senator, in the days of the triumvirate, Insize it was scarcoly lurger than the average hazlenut,yot its beauty wus such as to rendor 1t the mars vel of itg times, The *money changers™ and poldsmiths av 1ome set its valup aown ut $1,000,000. Mare Antony mad overtures for its purchase, intending, ii\\ is believed, to present it to Cleopatra, Upon the death of Nouius history loses all trace of it, there being no record oL . its transter from him to uny member Of his family. 4 { —rey J “Lato tobed and early o nse will shortem the road to your home iu the skies.” But curly 1o bed aud w “Little Early Riser,” the m:l hat wekes ife longer aad betler aud wiser.