Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 24, 1892, Page 13

] ] | > THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA ‘What Government and People Have Done to Alleviate tho Distress. MUNIFICENCE OF THE CZAR AND NOBILITY Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Given to foften the Suffering, HOPES ARE HAD FOR A HEAVY HARVEST Whon Garnered, the Backbono of the Hunger-Fiend will Bs Broken. ‘'CARP” DESCRIBES THE SITUATION Ho Pridses the Rassian People for Thelr Prin. Herotam In w Dire KExtremity oesses Nurse Disoase-Stricken Peas- Ants—The Slav and His Fature, Sr. Perensnuno, July 8.-~[Special corres- pondence of Tre Bre.|—The poasants have sown their crops and the prospect s that Russia will have a fine yield this year. The reports, which are received daily here from the famino distriots, are very encouraging, and though the famine 1s still raging the ‘backbone of the demon of Russian starvation will, it is believed, be broken by the 1st of Beptember, when the harvest will have boen gathered. Great wantand much suffering, however, must continue to exist for the next year or s01n many of the provinces, and & drouth this summer may preoipitatea second famine equally as terriblo as the prosent one. Notwithstanding ail that has been pub- Jisked concerning the famine, we in the Unitoa States have but litvle idea of its ter- rible oxtent ana of the wonderful manner in which the Russians have handled it. No country in the world, with porhaps the ex- oeption of the United States, could with- stand such astrain as Russia is now under- goingz, and there is no nation in the world, except perhaps one, that would rise to the emergency and do so much for the people as Russia is doing. The cdntributions Amer- fca has mado have bansn of great good, and thoy are most thankfully, and, I might also say, tearfully-recaived, but they are only a drop in the bucket to what Russia herself is doing. Our and other outside gifts amount, all told, to §750,000. The donations of the governmont and the people represent in the meignborhood of §350,000,000, and the czar himsell has given ubout $10,000,000 out of his rivate fund. The government loans to the famine villages amount to more than §100,000,- 000, and these loaus no one expects “that the peasunts will repay. It is a physical impos- sibluty for thoni to do 80, and, as one of tha chiof officials of the government said to me, the czar does not expect repayment. He mlways gives a present to the people apon cortain occusions, such as the corona- vion of ogrand duke, and at the next sucn ovent one of his prosents will robably bo the forgiving of this debt. This &w,mm,(ulu was given almost outright by the government, but in addition to it numerous pchemes have been favored and authorized by tho czar to got money for the sufferers, and the bulk of the gifts have come from the peJ- plo. One of theso schemes was by a lottery under the Treasury department, the prizes of wrhich were guaranteed by the Imperial Hank and the profits of which went to the ¥amine. Russia has no lotteries as the rule, wsnd such things are ordinarily against the law. This lottery brought in about $75,000,- 000 and all classes patronized it, many of the wealthy buying thousands of tickets, I %&now one man here who bought $10,000 worth of tickets, choosing scattering num- ®ers, and he did not get a single prize. He 'was twitted on his bad luck aud reptied: *'I lon't care. I have the satisfaction of know- ng that iny twenty thousand roubles have gone to help the fawine.” St Petersburg is ®aty of many rich people, and many of the mobles here teok from one to five thousand dollurs’ worth of these lottery tickets, but am great majority were sold to people of mall means, aud the puying of them was, 0 spoak, tbe fad. Private People Who Gave #175,000,000. Consul General Crawford estimates that fhe gilts of private citizens of Russia to this amine have not been less than 350,000,000 ubles or the enormous sum of $175,000,000. 'he gifts Almost surpass comorehension and, 11 told, notwithstanding the vast nopulation f Russia, they amount, including those of he goycrnment, to $3 for each man, woman and chiid in the whole Russian empire, or to 815 per family. When you remember that ©f the tweaty odd millions of familles that ako up the Russian people not more than ,000,000 has over had $15 rt one time in its osscssion you get some idea of the mighty train this has beeu on those who could give ®nd have given, The nobility have in all eases led the list, and hundreds of well edu- eated girls and women of the best familles of this and other Russian cities are now in the famine districts fighting the demons of star- vation, typhus fever and the small x in behalf of the peasants. A umber of these ladies have caught the dis- eases of tho peasants, and a Russian countess who went from St fetersburg was among those who took the smallpox, Almost all of the great landed proprictors in the famine districts are doing what they can to help thelr poople. 1 heav of men who have been feeding and caring for 5,000, 10,000 and in me cases even 20,000 and 25,000 peasants, wad Count Bobrinsky, who is at the bead of the irausportation of famine reliof, is, in connection with bis family, supporting nearly BO,000 people out of his own meaus, and at the sawo time aiding in the distribution of the foreign and government relief fund #mong tho people outside of his estates. ‘This relief work is not done spasmodically for without system. There 1s a thorough organization and as good brain you will find anywhere in the world are managing it. Tue peasants themselves are like children, and they requive the advice and the care of bildren, These peoplo of Kussia of the ighest olasses go and stay with them. They wisit them in their huts, take care of the slok—for there are bat fow doctors—and purse them, With them 1s the Russian Red Cross, which has raised about §35,000,000 for tho sufferers, and which works, as do all out- sida institutions, directly under the govern- ment. The government of Russia is planning L Works to prevent the recurrence of sucn a condition as now exists. A fund of 10,000,000 has been sot wside to build eieva- ors and places for the storage of grain in all of the various districts, and through our eonsul general, Dr. Jobn oi. Crawfora the Interior department has investigatea our system of crop reporis and has just now de- ded to adopt th vstom for Kussia, Sec- tary Rusk fof 2d full information and Eom now on tha same organized system that @ bave constructed will bo in force here, Nomething About the People. Heretofore Russia has had no agricuitural statistics and the peasants bave lived m band to mouth. They aro not econowmical or thrifty nor accumulative in our sense of the word and it requires a study of their char- sctor and their condition to understand the situation. Thirty years ago they were iu the gondition to a great extont of our slaves at the south and if today the negro and the planter had been Jeft to work out tueir alvation at the close of the war without be aid of the money and push of the north they would probably bo of somewhat the sawe churacter as these people are here today. This statement way, bowever, be misloading. The Lo races aro far different in charceter, and after wy journey through $he back distriots ana along rewions of the Volga 1 will give a Jotter aescribing the cur- fous featuros of thewr lifo and churacter, which are like those of no other people in the world, My idea is not Lo write so much of the Russian famine as of the Russian peo- plo, and the groat Slavio race is oune of the strangest aud most peculiar on Goa's gresn earth. They are the baby raco among the roat rices of tho world. They are not yet ut of thoir swaddlivg clothes and wto e the knee pants of the boyhood of civilization. ut for all that their limhs are muscular, eir foatures are stroue aud they bave the Inngs and staying power of the bull of Basnan. [ You see the evidences of the happy-go- lucky character of the people everywhere you go. Their condition has been such that they have never come to understand the value of money, and this has been the case with both rich and poor. The rich have been 80 rich that thev had all they could want. The poor have been so poor that thers was 10 chance for them to get more than enough for mere existence, and 80 with no ambition but for the day both classes have been rush- ing madly along until they are now &t the end, of their rope and a turn will have to come very soon. Said a Russian bureau officer to me this afternoon: ‘‘The trouble with us is we never think of the morrow, If wo have much today we spend it, and if we have little tomorrow we make the best of it. If- 1 should give my drosky ariver 100 roubles today it would all be gone tomorrow, and our people have not yet the least iden of accumulation and thrift. For this reascen many of the best business establishments of the country are managed by the Germans and the English, and most of the factories hore are owned by foroigners.” ““But how about the future!" I asked. “I think we are gradually learning.” was the reply. *‘This famine has taught us much, and thoro 1s & stoady though very slow movement toward tho botter business methods and better ideas of life, The Rus- sian pensnnt is, however, hard to change, and the greal trouble is that he seems 1o have an-entire lack of ambit'on. He is sat- isfled with his hut and his poverty. When you can got our people to want socks instoad of rags about their feet, and when they think they need drawers under their calico pants, you will have made tho first great stap toward the Russia of the fuiure. The spark of ambition once kindled I believe we have the foundation elements of one of the Rreatest peoples of the world."” Mow the Russlans Look. Noone who visits Russia can bo unim- pressed with the strongth of character seen in the faces of the peoplo. I first saw these Russian peasants at Jerusalom about four years ago. It was at Easter timo, and they had come vy the thousands on a pilgrimage to the holy sepulcher, and of the polyglot humanity which was gathered there from the four quarters of the world there weore none so strong in feature and 1n frame as these Slavs. Isee here every day walking the streots of St. Petersburg with bundles on their backs, driving cabs or droskies and working on tho streets, men whose nobility and strength of features would create re- mark in any American crowd, and at every corner you meet men whose faces are such that you would bo proud to acknowledee them if vou found them among your ancestral por- traits. Their forcheads are high ana broad, their eyes straight, honest and kindly. Their noses are large and clean-cut, and their cheek bones often rather prominent. Nearly all aro bourded and many are long-hared and part their bair in the midale. Their frames are as strong as their faces. They aro a big- boned, well-jointed"race, and they look as though they were made tostav. The women are of the same churacter as the men. They are not handsome nor pretty, but they look kind and motherly and what we would call fino looking. They lack taste in dress, have no ideas of the harmony of coiors, and wear —I mean the peasants—handkorchiefs of all the brightest colors of the rainbow upon their beads. Their dresses are of red. blue or other gay colors, and they are gathered in at the neck and waist, and fall to the feet 1n un- eraceful folds. They have no 1dea of corsets and many of them wear long aprons tied over the bust, gathered 1n at the waist and falling almost to the faet over their gowns. They are sturdy of frame and rather dull and quiet in manner. - Thoy do as much work as the men and the men. and women work in the fields side by side. The men of the lower classes, as I see them hers, are more picturesque in their dress than the women. Russia is the land of the cap, the long coat and top Doots, and the peasants wear coats of home- spun, with long frooks, and even such as dress 1n sheepskins, with the fur turned in, have their coats reaching below the knees. Here in St. Patersburg 1 seo few without overcoats,but farther seuth the peasant mau’s dress is of red calico, shirt and pantaloons, the shirt coming outside the pants and belted at the waist, and his feet aro covered with a sort bf coarsely-woven siraw shoe, and his ankles are swaddled in rags. The better class of puor peaple, or the ordinarily well- t0-do men here, wear long coats, with top boote, and the national cap 1s worn by nearly everyone, 'I'his is to a large extent the cos- tume of the rich, though the wealthy all over the civilized world aress much the same as we do, The difference here is largely in the quality of the goods worn, and St~ Peters- ourg may be said to be a city where the peo- ple wear ulsters, caps and high boots the year round, no matter whether it be as hot as iTophet or as cold as Alaska. The Apparel that Proclaims the Russ. ‘These Russian boots are worth They ure about tke only cheap thing in Itns sia, and you can get's puir made to order for #, The same leather and tho same work in the United States would cost you 825, and the flnish of the hest leather is as fine as that of a portfolio or pocketbook. These boots reach tothe knees and the best of them shine like patent leather. The panta- loons are always tucked inside of them and there is a fancy section about six inches wide above tbe ankle of every boot, in which tho leather lies in wrinkles with the regu- larity of & washboard. It takes at loast twice as much leather to make a pair of Rus- siau boots as it does an American pair, and the samo may be said of tho Russian ovor- cont, The drosky drivers wear mors cloth than any other cabmon the world over. It takes more of good cloth—for the hiuo zoods they wear seers Lo be of excelleat muterial —to make a drosky driver's coat than to make a lady’s trained ball dress, and this coat has to be padded and quilted. This coat has lonk skirts, and it is maae very large so that the cabby can stuff his body out, and especially his back, to give himself the ap- pearance of prosperous fatness. Nine-tenths of theso drivers are padded in this way, and no well-to-do man would own a lean coach- man. Lieutenant Allen, the military at- tache of our legation bere, told me yesterday that his coachman appeared to boof dime- museum fatuess when he engaged him and tbat he supoosed his great frame was that of nature, until one day he met him before he had put in b1s pads and he was us thin as a rail und looked 80 different that it was some time before he knew bim. Speaking of Russian caps, the officers whom you see here by the thousands all wear them, and the most of the soldiers have caps asapartof their uniform. Every servant or messonger wears i cap and the boys from the age of four wear loug-visored caps and little overcoats just like their fathers, Even the little girls wear caps, and the favorite head covering of the little maidens of from two 1o 8ix or seveu yenrs, whom L see run- ning about with their nurses in the parks, is n jockey cap of the orightest red, biue, yel- low or green silk. The colors of the caps of the men are usually dark, though thoy are trimmed with all shades of borders and bands, and each color denotes something. The policemen, as & rule, have red bands about their caps. Some of the private sol- diers wear caps of white, Others wear caps like Tum O'Shanters, and the cavalry have as many different kinds of beaderar as the infantry, Some officers bave green bands about their caps and others biue, and inshort there 1s every possible cap cowbination from tho shagey fur of the peasant from the wilds of north Russin to tho brimless Astrakhan, which, with its red silk crown vers the head of the cartridge-broasted Caucasian sol- dier. The overconts of the peoplo from the differant parts of the country are also differ- ent, and the officers wear coats of difforent colors aud of different grades of length, rang- e from the feet to the top of the boots in e size. All in all, the oress of the wen is the most picturesque one in Kuropa, and the erowds which throng the streets of St. Petersburg ara like those of no other capital of the worla, Tho men are naturally large and fine looking., These long ulsters make them look bigger, and the yeneral effect produced is that of & nation of piants, A Splendidly Extravagant Church, The church 1s perbaps tho richest of all Russian institutions, aud tue Lhousands upoa thousands of priests who are supported by the people are, as a class, the flnest looking wmen iu the world, Tobey never shave nor cut their hair and their locks aro as silky as those of a baby, and they stream dowu their backs, reaching often almost 1o the waist. Their faces are rosy and plump, and showiog out under the high black caps which the wear on the streots and over their long blacl gowus they look wonderfully handsome and uovle. During the services in the churches thoy take off their saps and their haiwr tlows back from their bigh foreheads, making you think of the patriarchs of old, and during many of the sorvices they appear in gowns of silver aud gold and woar grest tiara-like hats which sparkle with gold and lewels. The Russiab Greok churches far more gorgeous in’ tueir appointments than suy other, wa the world, and there s enough gold leat vlastored over | the churches of this country to pay | the Russian national dobt and to relieve | the starving people of the famine districts. From all parts of St. Petersburg vou see tho ereat domes of these Russian cathiedrals, and their gold-plated surfaces catch the rays of the sun and their golden s{x_lres pierce the sky everywhere you look. Their interiors aro gorgeous beyond the dreams of Monte Christo, in gold aud silver carvings and dec- orations, and the treasuries of the churches contain jewels and treasures equsl to those of the cave of Aladdin. Take the dome of St. Isanc's cathedral, It is of copper and 1t is nearly the size of the dome of the capitol at Wasiiington. It took 200 pounds of gold 1o plate it, and there 1s not a gold bracelet in Tiffany’s which is better rmad or polished than itis, The gold leat which is spread over the interior was hammered out of more than 100 pounds of gold. There are solid sil- ver fences about the altar of that cathedral, andthere are u hundred and more candel. bras in it as high as your head and made of wonderfully worked silver. About its holy of holies, into which women can never g0, are Corinthian pillars of malachite facings, worth $100,000, and each square inch of these pillars, which extend upward as high 8s the roof of vour house, is of fine enough stoue to make a brooch and to set in gold, There are two columns here inside the malachite ones of lapis tasuli, which are no bigger around than your sweetheart's waist, but which coat 815,000 aptece, and I might #ill this pago with descriptions of the wold bases of the massive granite columns, the golden clothes of the gorgeous ikons and of tho gilt aud glitter of this cathedral alone. 1t is wonderful in its sy mmetry and beauty and semitavage oriental splendor, but it has been softened by the hand of art till it ranks with St. Peter's at Romoe a3 one of the two finost ocathedrals of the world. Its cost all told has been nearly $20,000,000, and 1t took a sohid million to make it foundations Laid Up Treasures on Earth, Stiil it {s only one cathedral of @ number in St. Petersburg, and it s but a type of the gorgeous splendor and extravagance of a re- ligion which has porhaps a stronger hold upon its followors than any other religion 1n tha world. All its churches are filled with precious metals, and without oiug into a de- scription of those of St. Petersburg I will mention a few of their wonders which I saw in a half aay’s drive. In the Kazen cathedral, which cost 83,000,000 in 1811, I found a silver balustrade in front of the golden altar whica weighed half a ton and which was made of the Russian plate which Napoleon Bonaparte seized when he took Mos- cow, but which he haa to throw away on his famous retreat, The Cos- sncks gathered it up and gave it to the cathe- dral. On the door or screen of the altar of this church the name of the Almighty 18 en- graved in precious stones, and there is a gmnllng of the Virgin set with jewols worth 75,000. Tho cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, on the other side of the Neva, Las a Rreat soire plated with pure gold, and its in- terior s gorgeous in gold and silver. 1 wan- dered 1nto a monastery vesterday. where the golden doors of the chapel were open and the black-gowned monks were at prayers, The wolden book of the reador was on a silver stand, and the wall or screen in front was one mass of gold and painting. At one side was a shrino of solid silver, which my guide told me contained more than 3,000 pounds of the pure metal, and in the treasury of the monastary there is a fortune of jowels, gold and gorgeous gowns, somo of which sparkle with diamonds. The vast amount of money, however, which Russia spends upon her re- ligion is on the thousands of littie chapels which you find in al'nost every block and in nearly overy house. The sacred golden ikon, or half picture half inage of some saint, the Savior or the Virgin, is found in nearly every room, and there is no store or business house which has not its gold shrine before which a light perpetually burns. Before these shrines thelr owners, customers and guests bow, cross themselves and utter prayers many times daily, and of all the im- Fral!inns I have received since entering lussia there are none so deepas those [ have felt in the churches and in watching the re- ligious evidences of the people. Their ro- ligion may not be the best one; its priests may be and probably areto a large extent iguorant, but the people believe what thoy orofess, and their creed is one of the strong- est forces of their civilization and wust have an effect on their future. FRraNK G. CARPENTER. e BurLiNGTON, 1a., April 4,1801, Dr. J. B. Moore—Dear Sir: Have been troubled with catarrh in my head and face for three years—at times was unuahle to hear had a constant ringing In_my ears and 1lor two years wes almost deaf, Have tried sev eral so-called remedies and been treated by regular physicians and noted specialists, but failed to get any relief. I tried one bottle of Moore's Tree of Life Catarrh Cure. It gave immediate relief and effectod & permanent cure. Iheartily recommend it to all suffer- ers of this disense and will cheerfully give any further information on bemng addressed at my home, No. 223 Sweoney ave., Burling- on, Ia. For sale by all druggists. Respeotfullly, R. L. Re. Kor sale by all druggists. IMPLIETLES. ““Thore was a time when I taught my children tho dootrine of hell,” said 8 mother to 8 writer in Kato Field’s Washington, ‘‘but Iwas led to doubt the wisdom of it. ' One day I founa my two sons, aged respectively 10and 12, in & flerce nand-to-hand combat. The younger, badly whipped and livid with rago, sbrieked: ‘Never mind, Tom! Il got even with you some day—see if I don'tl ‘Husb, hush? I cried, after administerinz a severo reproof to Tom. ‘Whatan expres- sion, Dick! Get even with Tom! I'm ashamed of you! Whon Dick's wrath had somewhat cooled L said to him: ‘Nevor let me pear you suy such a thing again. Is that showing Christ's spirit? Did be ever say to any one who had injured him: ‘Tll get even with you? ‘No!' said Dick humbly. A mo- ment later his faco lit up with a sudden gleam of thought as he added: ‘No, he never said ho would, but he's going wi' Tus aathor of Yorkshire Folk Talk tells an amusing story of an English bishop's strug- gles to master the Welsh toneue. Ho had been appointed to the Welsh seo of St, David, and. ou takin up his abode in Wales, engaged o nauvo Weish scholar to give him instruction in the language. The pronuncia- tion, and especially the 1, bothered the bishop, and the Welshman was almost at his wit's end to explain the lingual process by which the formidable sound was to be ut~ terod. ,At last oright thought struck him, and, bekng very obsequious in manner, he thus addressed tha bishop: “Your lordship must pleaso put your episcopal tongue to the roof of your npostolic mouth and then hiss like a goose.” o The pastor was ocaliing at the house of Brother Billings and_the small boy was en- tertaining him until tho parents came down, says the Detroit F'ree Press. 7 “Do you overgo fishin’i" inquired the youngster, who had inberited his father's Tondness for the sport. 1 am & fisher of men,” responded the good man. “Do you carry your bait in a jug, like pava does ! 'was the next question, and just at thut moment Brother Billings appeared with a seraphic smile of nnocence lighting up bis genlal countenance, oa Indianapolis Journal: *‘The largest coin I find in the collection basket this morning, suid Rev. Mr. Wilgus, ‘1s a 10-ceut pioce, 1f the members of this congregration are ex- pecting to pay their way into & better land onm the nstalitent plan it seems to me that thoy are calculating on a much longer mun- dane life than has been allotted to man since the days of Methuselah.” v Trath: Brigges—What has led to the ro- cont surprising iucrease in the membership of your church? Brooks—Our pastor is organizing com- mittees for the personal investigation of the city’s vice. “ P Jinks—What's the Teason your minister failed to answer his new calll Filkios—1 belleve it lacked the true metallic ring. Take Good Care of the Chlidr 1f you have children, you will be interested in tne experience of Mr. John Cook of Pilot, Vermillion Co., Ill. He says: “Two years lfu two of wy femily, & young man and @& girl, had very severe and dangerous aitacks of bloody flux, The doctor here was uuablo, after a weok's time, to check or relieve either case. I threw the doctor overboard and be- gan using Chambverlain’s Colie, Cholera and Diarrhoza Romedy. lmprovement was seen vory soon, sud my children arose In a fow days from what L foared would be their death- bed. It is @ graud, good medicine,” THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ULY 24, 1892 REV. C.H, GARDNER'S LETTER From His Lodge on th&Fringe of a Wisoon- sin Wilderness, WITH "'BOUNDLESS CO| llGUITV OF SHADE" Beautles of Bayfield ol j Its Advantages for an Oating—Old-Time 7 heater of Re- liglous and Commerclal Entorprise— Where Trout anfffeer Abound. Barriero, Wis, Jaly 2. —[Correspondence of Tnr Bee.|—At no place in this country can ono find a combi.ation so unigue as here, in this great resting place on the south- ern shore of the great fnland sea. Back of the town, for a hundred miles and more, is the unbroken pineforest of north Wisconsin, with thousands of acres nover yet trodden by the foot of any white man. In front of us, aocross the bay, about four miles distant, is Madeline island, extending twelve miles along the shore, which was settled mora than 25) years ago. 1n 1642, Jesuit mission- aries, followed closely by fur traders, came to the mainland near the present sito of Bay- fleid, attracted by the fact that several tribes of Indians came to this spot to catch and dry their fish, The Jesuits built a bark ohapel and the traders established a tempo- rary post at which thoy received furs und disponsed various wares in paymont. Within asnhort time after this sotlloment a war broke out between the Indians and white people looking for refuge soon discovered the strategic value of a point of land on Mad- eline island, After u short conference they decidea on “La Pointe, La Pomte!” the present name of the postoftice ana a scatter- ing village of halforeeds. La Pointe and its neighborhood have since that time boen almost continuously the seat of religious and commercial enterprise. Two or three loman Catholic churches have been built there; a part of the present building is sald to be 100 years old.- A flourishing Pres- byterian mission was started at La Pointe filty years ngo and the ruins of an old church still remain, The work of these Protestant missionaries has been long abandoned. ‘Where at one time thiere wus a population of 400 or 500 there are now only a fow scatiered fdamilies. But *“'the city of the dead" is pop- ulous. Hundreds of resting places are marked by quaint oldfasnio.ed tombstones making the place of great interest to the an- tiquary and seeker after what isodd and pio- turesque. Several Indian chiofs who Lad embracad the religion of Christ sleep there under the shadow of the Christian ensign. At different times during the past two cen- turies the great fnnrudmg companies have had establishments at La Pointe with all the accompaniments of warehouses and fortifica- tions, But these marks of civilization are almost obliterated, Tho paths once trodden by meditative monk and halfconverted cbil- dren of the forest, tho strects once busy with the coming and going of the traders and their patrons are_now _overgrown and well- nigh desorted. Fruit trees and flowering bushes have relapsed into nauve wildness, This island, extending for twelve miles along the shore, now serves another ana not loss important purpose. In the enormous in- crease of lake commerce of recent yoars its sheltering arm forms a harbor where the shipping of the world could find refuge from the outside storms A logend still troasurod among the neigh- boring tribes of Lndians tells of several great naval batties fought in Chequamegon bay by the ancient rivals for supremacy. As I sit writing this letter and look out over the rippling water, enlivened by many white- winged vessels 'of peace, profit and pleasure, or furrowed by the great steamers speeding between Duluth and the Atlantio coast, the contrast overwhelms me. The lake commerce is now enormous and no one can estimate how greatly 1t will beincreased wheo, in th e near future, the new canal at Sault Ste. Mario shall give passage®for ships drawing twenty feet of water, carrying grain direct to all European ports. * & Bayfield was so mamed by Hon. H. M. Rice, after Admiral Baytield of the British navy, who was sent oat by his government in 1524 to make a survey of the great lakes, In 1854 Mr. Rico, who bad served many times in congress as senator from Minnesota, was Indian commissioner unaer the United States government. It has been no small part of the pleasure of an outing here to meet Mr. Rice and listen to bis accounts of adventure ana exploration in the northwest, and of intercourse with Indian tribes. Mr. Rice sent to Eneland for the Baytield charts, and finding them so wonderfully correct ho was inspired to call this village which he founded after the British officer. Baytield enjoys pecullar advantages of ulimate, * aod has tho m;nest water fn the world. Living hero those who are prone to acquire hay fever have absolute immunity from that distress- ing malady. The air, filtering through the aromatic pines and other evergreens, it charged with restfulness and health. The shores of the lake aro for the most part rocky and abrupt, and no malaria finds a lorking place in this region. Oue of the largest sta- tions of the Booth Packing company is lo- oated here, and several wons of white fish aud lake trout are shipped daily from here to points in the northwest. A larfe saw mill owned by Captain R. D. Pike and running day and night employs a large force of men. A very excellent hotel offers superior accom- modations for visitors, In the immediate vicinity of Bayfield are numerous brown stono quarries. At one of these, owned ana overatea by Mr. Prentice, a monolith several feet largor than the Cleopatra Neeale, 1s be- ing quarried for exhibition at the World's fair, Places of interost within easy reach from Bayfield are Duluth, Isle Royale, points on the north shore of the lake, Ashlana with 1ts enormous output of iron, and the Calumet and Hecla copper mines, the largest in the world. For the pleasure-seeker and tourist tbe Apostle islands—so calied by the early missionasies because they thoughbt them to be twelvein number—twenty-two beautiful emerald gems clustered within a space twen- ty by fivo miles, furnish a smling ground of unsurpasscd beauty. Near by, among the forest-covered hills that skirt the lake, are streams that furnish the skiilful aogler with abundance of spackled trout, while numerous bays yield lake trout to those who prefer troliing. A few days ago while fishing in a neigh- boring stream one of our party saw two full- grown deer quietly feeding a few rods dis- tant in a small clearing, and only the fact of having no gun prevented the disgrace of his missing both. A few rods further upstream the sumo fisherman, in elimbing down a steep embankment, put bis hand on = fawn which he might bave caught if he (the fisherman) had not been pearly scared todeath, So you sce we are very near to the heart of nature. And what can be battor than this for tired bumanity? If others’ sighs for a lodge in some vast wilderness could meet with such a'gracious apd satis- factory answer as mine'bave found here in Bayfiold, then more outings would yield what all'outings ought Lo give—recuperation, rocraation and renowed ambition for the sterner duties of life. C. H. G. ————— *“Lato to bea ana_eariy o rise will shorten the road to your home'in tho skies, But early to bed ‘and “Littlo ‘Early Riser.” the pllll that mikoes life longer and bettera nd wiser. 1 A s'OAim'uF SCHOOL FOR Youne Ladies and Childeen Conducted by the Sfsters of Mercy. O'CONNOR, GREELY CO., NEB, This Boarding School 1s slituated a short dis- tance from Greely Center, & flourlshing town on the B, & M, rufi road. The Convent Is on a delightful site ong the O'Connor hills. The usuil English branches: musie, voesl wnd In- st ontil; unda special course of literature ven. Terms In advance, $150 & yoar (10 months), washivg Included. The sehool will open the first of Beptember: For turther particulars addross th and Oustellar St OMAHA, NEB. Year —_ P UPPER ALTON, ILL. A thorough school, Prepares for College or Business. With t‘)mlkluffil Louis. Address WAV AN INSTITUTE WESTERN MIITARY AGDENY. JUST THIS W Next Saturday Night at 10 O’clock The Hellman Administrator's Sale Closes. No matter how many goods are left it closes sure, as the good will, lease, fixtures and whatever is left of the stock is then transferred to the August 1st, with a brand new line of every kind of CLOTHING For Men and In the meantime---this week only,---the same outrageously low prices will prevail will be sure to find you want and prices will in- 3 duce you to buy. _ DATRONIZE Boys. You something Hellman’s Administrator’s Closing Corner 18th and Farnam Streets. HOME Salle By Purchasing Goods Made at the Following Nebraska Factories. If you cannot find what you want, communicate with the mannfacturers as to what dealers handle their goods. BASKETS AWNINGS. Od AHA BASKET FACTORY, Ghomatty 8000 por_ dny o OMAHA TENT AN AWNING CoO. Flage, hammocks, oiland rubberclothing. send for Ing boxes to_ordor Catalogue. 1113 Farnam | Office 801 Cap. Av. Tel.1T. —_— DYE WORKS. OMAHA STEAM Dy WORKS, ! Cleaning and dyelng of every deseription. 1521 Howard Street. ——————————————— BREWERS. FRED KRUG BREW-| OMAHA BREWING NG Co. ASSOCIATION. Our bottled cabinet boer | Guarantesd to equal nut- delivered to any part| side brands. ~ Vienna of theoity. Export bottled besr, 1007 Juckson Strest. delivored to famtiles. —_— EOXES. OMAHA Box FAc- TORY. and dovetatled Ca ty 5,000 day. East Omahia Tol. 418, P.O. box 855, — Natled boxos. BOILERS. CARRIAGES, & DRAKE. Tubular flues, ofl and ) Roepairing on short no- teo. Carrlago 18011503 C s, painting. Tol. 1651 SMOKE BLUE SEAL CIGAR. Special brands made to Nebraska do Manufacture. ordor. I Factory 240 Patrick Ave Store 820 North 1ith, Jacob Juskalok. FLOUR. R S. F. GILMAN. OMAHAMILLINGCO 1018-16-17 N. 16th. Oftico and mill, MATTRESSES. THE OMANA MAT- TRESS CO. Mnttrosses. foather pil- lown aud comfortors. To trade only. 1112-14-16 Harnoy St RUBBER GOODS. SADDLERY. Manrks Bros’ OMAHA RUBBERCO SADDLERY CO. p 1 4 job- C. K. Black, Managor. | 1313 North toth Steoot. | My A0, V%% | gyock_anaaton ana tight rubber “Fish Brand” harness aspoclalty. 107 FORNITURE. | ICE. goods. 152 Farnam St. | Harney street. CoAs. SHIVERICK | SOUTH OMAHA ICE BASE/DODR) LANDA] Co. ROSENBERY H. F. CADY LuM BER CO. Oftice, 1091 Farnam St. "Telephone 75, IRON WORKS. PAXTON & VIER- |INDUSTRIAL IRON LING IRON WOR WORKS. Wronght and cast iron | Mfg. and rop: ing: all ‘bullding,work, ongines, |~ kinds machiney, 714 8. brass work, ete 14th St. Tel. 19, OMAHA SAFE AND IRON WORKS. Bafes, voults, jall work fron shuttors and firo oncapes Andreon, 14th and kson. OVERALLS. PRINTERS. S rins Clo | REED JOB PRINT Karz-NEVINS Co. NG Co., 202-4 Douglas Street. Beo Bullding. Office and bank work s wveclalty. 201 N.Uth st. —_———— 7 BOAP. PAGE SoAp Co. Manufacturers of Unlon FARRELL & Co, olltos, Prosorves, Minos onp. 115 Hickory stroot. STOVE REPAIRS. TRUNKS. .Kfim.mrn«:m:-_m.ul.lm H. H. MARIOFF. on | hand, Gosol ; o i d M'f's trunks, travellng stores - onelred, bigs and sample cases. Mo khes, 678, 13 1514 Douglan St. P e e R, WHITE LEAD, CArTER WHITIS Leab Co. Corroders and_Grindors Strictly pure white load Knst Omahs. o SAANESE PILLE CURE Anew and Complote Treatment, conslsting of t in Capsules, aleo in Box ure for Katérnal, Internal Horodl- y has own to ontby mall. Why suffer from [ 0 o writan guarantes it positively glven with 6 boxes or refund the monoy | not cured Sond stamp for free Samplo. Gusratite ssued by Kuhn & Co., Drugglsts, Sole Agents, coras tthand Douglas streets, Omahi, Nob. D B, E.C. WEST'S NERVE AND BRAINTREAT MENT, a specitic for Hyatorla. Dizziness, ¥its, Nou ralgla, Headachs, Nervous Prostraton 'causod by alconol or wbacco, Wakefulness, Montal Dobros- slon, Softness of tho Brajn, causing nsanity, misery, decay, death, Promature Uld Age, Barronods, Lo of rhoa an i 3303, Hpar- ~exortlon 0f ths braln A month's trastmoent rantes six boxes Lo oura will sond written Wo g r i boxos, with §) 0 refund if not cured. Guara 55, by mall Each order 10 uaran eodore, K. corner ith and Farnam s Healthful QOut Doors if men and women of all ages knew how easy it is to bicycle—how safe— healthful — joyful — economical — all the world would cycle—As cycling leads exercises of all out-doors, 8o the Columbia leads the cycles of the world— Book about Columblas free at Col- umbla agencies, or sent for twWo Lwo- cont sf ps—Pope Mtg. Co., 221 Col- umbus Ave., Boston. AR Galueston, Texas, THE SEA PORT OF THE SOUTH! For Sale or Lease at Bargain and on Easy Terms. A good chance especially for parties in del- fento health desiring a Change to a congenial and salubrious climute, mild in winter and cool In summer, owing Lo the refreshing sea Lreezes of the gulf, A Corn Mill Plant, built by the T. J. Noyle M''z. Co., cupacity 200 barrels per day, with elevator railroad switches. wareliouses, stoam power and ground, situated in_olose proximity to the channel, ewinently fitted for the export, as el us home tade, with amplo s for en- ®IDR the 51ume of adding ont milling, The renson for disposing of this property is our desire to pay undivided attention to dur flour will businiss, und the expors of flour and grain from this poit. Wo Invite corresnondence and will be much pleased to furnish ull Information In our possession regarding corn milling, our pors, climate, ete, Toxas Star Flour Mills, ESTABLISHED 1858, Largost tmanufactory west of the Missls- slopl river. Repairing neatly exocuted. A.J.SIMPSON 1400 and 1411 Douglas St, Glve me o trail. k6K GRADE CARRIAGES, DR.J. E. McGREW 2 THE SPECIALIST. s unsurpussod in the troatmentot all formy o PRIVANE DISEASES, wnd all djoor st and dobilities of youth an manhood. i7 yours oxporienco. His resources nnd facilitfs ir praoticully unlimited. The Dootor Is roco mended by and_ondorsed in the strongest terms by poople for falr trant- niont und honest profossic The most powerful remedies known to nodern selonce for the succosstul treutment Of the following disonses: GONORRHO EA—Lmmedinto rellof. A oom. are without the i0ss of uu LOUF's ting rom businoss, T-Ono of the wost completo an suo. atments for gloot and all aunoy.ig dischurses you know Drofes: slon. ‘The rosuits y BTRICTURE— known romody for the treutinent of atrictiro, without pain, out- ng. or dilutinz, A mostromurkable remedy. BYBEILIE N (raatmont far this torriols biood disbase bas ovor boon more suscosstul, nor hud stronger endorse: of mudern sclence th ourable and every tra removed from tho bloo . MANHOOD, LOST ats, In the light disease s posivively of the polsou entirely wbition, norvou news, tinidity, despo and all weaknos and disordors’ of youth of manhovd. Kelle obtalued nt once. BKIN DISEASES, and all diseases of the stomach, blood, liver, kidnoys und bisdder are treated su ccessfully with the groatos known remedios for tho disoass rite for clroulars wud auestionlist, froa. 1dth and Karnam ots, Vimaie Nod