Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 21, 1892, Page 15

¥ 0y M THE OMAHA DAILY F WINCHESTER IN ENGLAND Where Monarchs First Were Crowned aud Merchants Earlicst Combined, MEVORIES THAT THRONG ITCHEN VALLEY Mere Gentlo Mused a Mortunry Royal Borou Wandarod, Allzed— ga—How the Looks Today, (Copirighted, 15921 Wixcnester, Eng., Aug. 8. ~[Special Corre- spondence of Tuk Bir|--Porhaps the best piace, for a time, 10 muse upon the an olent city of Winchester and its historie sur- founaings is the summit of St Giles bill, Which, within tho borough bounds, rises high 8bove the roofs of the city, almost within a Btone’s throw of the east window of its mighty cathedral, Cushioned in its voivety beds of scented clover, you feol tho geutld breezo coming poftly over the Hampshire downs. 1t sends & myriad wisp of feathery clouds across the blue vauit above. These Ker tho valley and city, foliage and roofs with changeful arabesques of sunshine aud shadow. In and out of these your fauncy plays hide ana soek with the anoals, legends and wraiths of Winchestor's long ago. Round about this lovely Hampshire valloy, thread:d by the gleaming Itchen, beloved haunt of Isank Walton, is a wondrous wealth of story and logend. Over to ths north is Blichester, an exhaustless mine of Koman romains, within whoso walls the Usurper Cogstuntine was invested with the putp and legend has 1t that King Artaur there re ceved his crown, Near it is Basing, sits of one of the lordliost castics of early Euglana. A littlo nearer Winchostor still is Olduam, birthplace of the famous oid grammarian, William Litly, Tothe northeast, at Aufover, Anlaf the Dane promised King Itbeired never to recommenco hostlities ug@mnst the Euglish. Just volow this s Danebury Hill witn its famovs Roman encampment. Just west of You is tho sicepy pamlet of King Sambourn where Johu of Gaunt bad his old-time palace. At the same distance to the east, near Airesford, aro the great Tichborno estates. And nearby Lo the Bouth is Romsey with 1ts quaintest old abvey church in England and the New Forest @cptns, where the arrow from Tyrrel's bow ierced the heart of rufian Rufus, England’s ecoud Norman king. St. G alr in tho Long Ago. If you wero stauding on this hull of St, Giles on an autumn morning the hum of the city below would recall a quaint old sceao of 400 or 500 years ago, for the spot was the 8ito of ove of the most wonderful fairs fo. all the world of that a tiquo time. It was famous St. Giles fair. The whole plateau of the bill was coyered by # secoud town, shut in by a high wooden palisade. By royal edict all trado was not ouly stopped in Winchester itself, but iu all other towns within a radius of seven loagues. I'vom St. Giles day, Seplember 1, Lo Sep- fomber 7, the vigil of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, all traders from the world 1ght come. After the latter dato a fine for arainess was imposed. Tte fair continued 1 this queer old town of queer old woodon booths until September 15, The bishop of Winchester bud his stall as woll as bis cus- tam: duties and other fines from other dealers. Several monusteries ucalt in wine aud spices. Ana tho foreigners from No mandy and the Low Countries. Poland, and such distant regions, and the vendors and buyers from across broad ISnglish counties, abodo zypsy 1on on tho hill top. What quaint folk, costumes, wares senes must have or this silent hilll Each str manner of wares or one natio spices, draperies, goldsmiths’ warcs, brass: Wworkers', potters’ and jurriers’ goods ana woupons were here, Normans, Poles, Duteh, Itulians, Spaniards, Aleerians, Cornishmen, then accounted west of Englund barbur mingled together in a common interest. Phen thore was the strango medley of buy- #rs, sightseers aud citizens, nobles and ladies in the rich costumes of the period: meu i tunic and maatle, longhoso und vointed shoes; women 1 straignt graceful gowns and wimples; artiticers, servants, ¥okels and monks. Royal Winchestor's Antiquity, At this quaint forerunner of international xliibivions there was a *Piepowder Court,” aving rule over the dusky shanks, peddlers ®nd wountebanks, the picds poudreux; and o this court of quick invitation and rapid disposul camo all fair foli delinguents, At the enda of tho long and dusty day tho marshal rode forth from the court pavilion and issucd proclamation that all business must cease and stalls bo clo S0 the €itizeus witharew, leaving tio palisaded nill town silent and’ lightless, save for tho twinkling here and there of wick in lamp or mortar, tho only fire allowablo within the precingts of the “mart from suudown to sun- rise. This most famous of England’s old- time fairs wus contitued until 4 quarter of u oentury ago, T'hon, as Dean Kitebin writes, “ay 1he city grow stronger nod tho fair weaker, it slid down St. Giles bill and en- tered the town where its noisy ghost still holds revel ouce a year." All this was vory long ago, but the wise old annalists count this autiguity as nothine, One can go with them, if not in ull faith stili With pleasant curiosity, a long way back ot this once famous Euglisn fair. Thoy will tell you that Winchostor is per- haps ‘the oldest ecity in Britain. They point to St Cathuvine’s Hill, over thero just at the southern edge of tho stll_plawly disclosing thoe fortitiea Vespasian, who conquered the from the Belgw, whence its Rowan name, Venta Belgarum. Far, far boyoud theso they have seen with clear historic eyes. Thoy will toll you in all seriousness that Winchester was founded 842 veurs before the Christian cra, That would be 11 years veforo the founding of Rome, or & matter of 2,754 years ugo! A king of ancient Britain, Sudor Rous Hudi- bras. is suid 10 huvo bewn the royal founder; snd it was s son, Bladud, wno bwlt and enricned with the indistinguishublo fires of Minerva the fino old Somersetshire city of Bath, ene and now Some things about royal Winchester's an- tiquity and bistory aro eusy enough to know with exactitude. Julins Cwsar visited the city 1. ¢. b4, aod the Kmperor Vespasiun o Tow yoars luter occupicd it und built walls, vestiges of which romain, For the next 500 years Winchestor was celebrated for its mag niticent embroideries for the imperial court, examples of which remai; Egbert, the first king of il Bngland, was orowned here, and established u sort of empice with sub-kings uuder bim, out of which came the English al and nobility systews of today. glish guild of merchunts was established hero in 850, The wise laws of Allfred were made the first groat sur- voy of tio kingdom was comploted hero, ana 1n'tho soriplorium of the very cathedral you will Low flua in Winchestor, in S e thut wonderful specimen of Winotiester llumination kuown as tho “Golden Book of dgur.” The first standart measures ever vossessod by Eugland were ordered ana made kero uidor odict of King Edgar, and ou will find these iduntical moeasures 1 the Vinchester Museum at the Guildnsll. Ovor thero {n that turroted structure which now frowns above the wostern guko of High stroet, or rather in the groat ball of its oldest portion, lived Willism the Coaqueror and all the Anzovin kings. Frow it Rufus set forth one August day in 1100 on that famous hunt- Ing Jx& dition to New Forest from which his body was brought back in Peasant Bur- kiss' cart to be buried within tho cathedral wheére itnow lies. The great Lower fell upon the spotin 1107, and thut was the judgment, 80 the times snid, for burying the royal ruf: flun within consecrated ground. wiies Y L 91 Svotlaid “and Matilda wero rried bore. Cawur de Liou was royally Fooeivad hore aiter ' iy sore capivity u;ury 111 wus born i the castie and all the Edwards beld court here. Henry V. roceiyed jue. EFronch awbassadors bere, | und In Winchester Henry VI planned Eton sollege after Wykebaw's school. which, stiil poe of the wost interestiog of Briush' col- eyes, stands here today just as it then stoad Against the northern edge of the velvoty oathedral close. Here Mary roceived Puilip sud thelr unfortunate nuplinls were ocun- idod; While the £Teat stri o.ure uow stand. g Lesido tho castlo and used as the royal Arracks was bullt by Charles (L, though honeverlived 1o see it cowpletod, us o sumptuous residence for himselt Nell Gwynne, And 0 on and on the grim old story runs But by and by the dark masses of verdure, the square Norman tower and the ridge of the mighty nave rising ubove the banks of leafy limes and the peniusuin formed by the vagrant Itchen covered with sward and flowers, tempts vou down by winding paths from St. Gilos hill, and you are soon stand- Ing boside the anclent city cross. It was built ov )0 years ago, in the reign of Henry VL, just bofore his murder by ( ter, and hns, bosides its fine old gro S0t {0 the upper niches, tha ca ures of William of Wykeham, the founaer of Winchester school, of de Lunn, Winchoster's first mayor, vears ago, the martyr St Lawre King Alfred the G As It is Seen T ¥ You are now in the conter of Winchester in High streot. You suddenly recall the cu rious fact that in all but ome of these old athedral towns you bave found a High attered not whether it wero high High street it had been ever since ad been an Eoglish tongue, Kvery place of interest to bo seen is only a fow mo- meunts walks off or on this old familiar street, in ull other Kuglisn Cathedral towns as here, beneatt the city cross, how- ed its surronndings, 1s the ancient “mercate square” or marketplace, and Jngged, zigzag thoroughfares lead to the cross from outlyig picturesque spots and quar- ters, All about are half-timbered houses, pro- jectiug story over story into the market place; and you wonder how long before, from sheer age, they will tumble, red roofs ' first, over into the cloan, cool space velow. Quaint shops aro pinched in botween staid oid man- sions. Handboes of inus speck the eray facades with gilt and color, Worn steps, scrubbed mercilessly and washed with white, d into tiny vestibuies gay with gleaming ass knoc s and rare old colored glass Just there, to the right, is a wynd or close, grayer, more a medley of gabies, overbang. iug roofs acd protruding windows than the narrow strect where yvou are standing. You saunter nto its shadows, At its southern ond is an inviting vista of foliage and light, You wiil find more gray-heads here than in any other equal distance 1n England. Gray old men and gray old women silently sit musing over gray old waros in their gray old shops, It 1s all so startlingly suggestive of age and decay that you nasten on. Sudden- 1y one sido of the shadowy passageway stops short, aud thers before you 1s oneof the sweetost sights in Kogland, 1t is the great catbedral close, surrounded by ivyhung fourteenth century houses, 1ts area threaded and silvared by tho vag=ant Itchon stream, tnasses of hnes rising here and the Avove aud the cathedral of royal Winchester, show- ing in patches and bits, just binting of its graud proportions through the rifts of luxur- iant lime tree loaves. In the Cathedral Close, From where you stuna storing the scene in your memory in avenue of limes, revealing the famous walk in Trinity gardons, Cam- bridge, leads diagonally across the close to the cathadral’s entrance beneath its great west window. To the loft across the wide reach of sward aro a fow strageling graves T'o the right, fewer still rise W nite against tho green. Tho folingo of overhanging limes Is s0 dense that you cannot see the SKy. Awmong the leaves “at tnis time of the year is a wealth of sweet-smelling, vellow green flowers. 1t 15 wonderfuily sl here Now and again a withered blossom fluttering to tho stone walk, ora robin or blackbird Lopping soberly in'anu out amoug the olden raves almost atartles you, vou proceed down the flagged avenuo y breaks through the green, The UOrth transept is first partially unveiled. Then the wide, lower tower, the entire vast west front, the loug vange of pinnacted but trosses 10 the mnorth of the nave, and the rcofs of the bishop's palace and deanery to tho south, are gradually disclosed, and at tho right 15 a most ancient wall, penetrated by alow arcbed entranco which in former times gave subterrancan passage o the royal pulaco. Study it all so little or long us you may your whole beg 1s filled and thriiled by it3 majesty, bsauty and repose. Antiquity shrouds the bogiuning of Chrls- tanity at Wincnestor. Tho cathedral existed under Vortigera aud Uther Pondragon. In nearly overy particular us you will find it today this cathedral has stood since S, or rds of 1,000 years; while the earlier dral church on the 8its of the present ture was founded and endowed 1,333 yearsago. Winchester having been royal Wincticstor bundreds of years before London Wis more than o marshy fishing village, the colossal exterior and roval interior as well as tho vast number and_architectural splendor of 1ts royal and ecclesiastic sepulchers ana mouuments are at once accounted for, Within the Cathedral Walls, On_ entering this catnedral and taking a position under tho great west window you fiud the tremendous proportions of the gol- umns—they feot in diamoter, the distance bobw 1 being only about'two diameters of the columns—are so groat that the 15 not a break in their line on cither side, save midway long the south- ern tier whore stands Bishop Wykeham's noblo chantry and tomb, through the entire length of nave and choir, the groatest of any catbedral in England, Tae nave columns and vauit and the choir scom to focus in one far, bigh, tromulous filin of Light in the upper visible portion of the east window, above the marble altar screen. ‘The space is 50 Vast, Lhe proportions 30 porfect, the old Norman work so splen- did in its’ massive simplicity, oven wi modified by transition and’ early Krglish work, tho admission of light so equable that oven the dark cakon choir sereen sinks into placo and depth of color only inlower fitting shadow, even serving 1o strengthen the cffect of the marvelous nltar white bathed in the cast window’s mellowed rose. Clearly the distinguishing features of Winchestor cathedral are structural vast- ness, massivencss, simplicity and repose, Strongest marked'in features of detail aro tho overornameutation of the Lady chapel, particulurly ia the windows; thoe bold and aley fiying butteresses that strelch over tho side aisles, supporting the upper walls; the rich open’ battlement surmounting theso wails; the unusual chnmber or tribune erocte for miustrols in ancient times over the wost- ern extremily of the north uisle; the shorf ness, yvastness and sohdity of the great tower; and the location of the latter in mediately over the choir, instead - of oy the spuce approacking it, as i most other cathedrals, e cathodral is the rictest in ohantrios and chupels of auy I have ever seen. Thoir great oumber and” marvelous richuess of or- namontation are uccentuatod from the mas- siveness aud simplicity of their structural surroundings. Historically no sacred edifico 1 Englandcan boast such wealth of trens- ure, if 1t may bo so regarded, in the mortu- ary romaius of auclent kings and prelates, ‘The tomb of Willinm Rufus 18 in the center of tho choir. Upon tho Lap of the huge sanc- tuury screens are six mortuary chests, In ouo lie the boues of Kyuegils aid Adulphus, In unother rest Kings Exbert and Kenulph . A third holds tho bones of Rufus, Canuto, Queen Emma, who trod the nine heated plowshares unscathed, and of Bishops Wina aod Alwyn. A fourth 1s a “promiscuous’ collection of what was lefc of the remains of kings, princes and prelates after the sacrilog ous barbarism of the vear 1642 In a fifth reposos IKing Edmund and in tho sixth lies Eldred, “who admirably governed the coun- tey of tho Britons.”” Hosts more there aro of later greatness aud glory. Butamid all these splendid chautries,” cenotaphs ana tombs thero is just one spot in Winchester cathodral where I love to sit and muse and dreaw. That is in Prior Silkstedoe's chapel. “Thore Lko southorn sunlight, filtering through the tiny colored vanes of the aucient windows, seems to leavo o glow and blessing upon the slab thal covers the grave of geutle Isauk Walton DAK L. WAKEMAY, -~ Toreno, lows, April 6, 1801, Or. J. B, Moore, Doar Sir:' My wife has used about six bottles of your Tros of Life, and thinks that sbo nas raceived groater ben: ofit from it than any madicios sho has over taken, Yours traly, L. H. Burkix, Gen'l Azent and Troas. West Colloge. Sinco roceiving the above testimonial, 1 um iureceint of a lettor aud check from the iRev. L.H Bufkin of Toledo, lowa, April 25, to sond Rov, J. W. Kenworthy, Crastiine, Kao sas, six bottles of Moora's Tros of Lif. tlor sale by ull druggists, e Littie Bob has been wmissing the comforts of home, especially in the culinary depart- wont, while away from this city on au out. ing. ‘The otber evening, in the migst of praver, Bob said, with devout earnestaess: $Ob, Lord, | thank Thee that we have & good 00k at bome." e Cook’s Extra Dry Imperial, 1f you want a puro sparkliug wine with delicious boguet, 1wy s and pretty famous Floronce 08 and BEL: UNDAY, yAUGUST 21, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES, A WILD TUMULTUDUS TIME Dancing a Hornpipe to the Tune of Dyna- | mite BomUs, KISSING THE MUZZLE OF A SHOTGUN Mos- e Thrilu, sengor & Experic with Calitornia Train I §—One of the Kind Enough for a Expross Litetime, The life of express messongers on Caly oruia routes is far from being a summer pienie. It is a trimmings ot shotguns, dynamite and like hairtriggor pyrotechuics. Within the ont year five highway 1obberies have taken place within the borders of tho state. Stage- couchies and express cars have been operated upon successfully, and the amount of treas- | y ure captured by tho bandits is variously esti- | wated at from &2 Dispatcties gave buv moager dotais of | I the dynamiting of the oxpress cars of the Southern Pacilic _train a fow days o, Kxoross Mossenger George D. Roberts writes to the San Fran- co Iixaininer the following theilling ac- ount of dynamite batile and the robbery. Story, i “'wenty-one unnutes comprise only 1,260 | seconds.” It is not & very long period of time, but I recently had an experience that | i twenty-one miuutes, and it. seemea | 1 tomeus though I lived tweuty-ouo years during that briof space. 1t1s not a pleasuut thing to bo imprisoned in an expross car at which a_robber is hurl- ing dyuamito bombs, kuowing thav if you should perchauce show your face there is a | t most prowising prospect for vou to have a bullet deposited in your body in & most un- | t desiravle Location, v all had oxper twesn sidorato Mexican bandils, by tearing up sev- eral rails, threw my var iuto a diteh. Knew ®ot nothing for their pains, except their skius wild, tumultaous life, with | messenger in connection with an oxpr robbery are cuough for me. 000 to 60,000, most ingonious wa alf drownea child. and the small culprit gurgle thought to be unusaally _gifted in this line, but never in my life d@¥®l noar such a flow of curses and blasphemp s fell from the lins of those men. oth Every osher word was a vile I'bey wore certanly graduates, After it was all_over_[ took my run into Fresno. Whon we raaphod there 1 really felt worse than L dio“atany time during the fuss at Collis. I commenced feel decioedly , weak then und to take it @& little quiet for a They say that spma people bagin to that their nervougspstom is a littlo out to whila, feel of order after they have passed through hair- breadth oscapes, J basigve that this is true, ome years ago, dowi iu Mexico, I bad an e with expros® poubers, 1t was be- Chihuahua and:¥4catecas, The con- Thoy but the car Tho robbors retaining experiencos as o ss car uothing of dvnamite, aught fire and was burned up. entire. Two —_—— THE IRREPRESSIBLE SMALL BOY, New York Wo d; It s impossible to pro- dict anything detiuite concerning the smail oy, and it is therefore aificult to caution il against all risks. Perhaps one of the yet devised of gotting nto trouble was described the other day by a younzster who lives in Harlem, He went into the bathroom, elimbed into tho tub, put his mouth to the cola water fau- cet and turned on tho water. with a rush be tried to As it camo retreat, but found it aipossibie, Fortunatoly a servant passod the door at bt instant, ‘and making a dash for the fau- et turned off the water and rescued the A3 sho sat him, gasp- ng, chokiug and dripping, on the floor, sho nquird stornly **What possessed you to do such a thing#" , teartnlly; lwas fiesty 1 Youth's Companton: Little Peto never in- onds to misstate things: but his very fig- urative imugigation sometunes gets tha bet- or of his fucts, Ho starts out to tell some- bing which is periectly true, but vefore he ‘Lhis kind of an expericnce is the one that I | is through he has drifted off into some pie- went tnrough a few minutes before midnighu | t on Wednesday lust. 1 do not care to have 1t | ropoated. Ono turn of this kind is about all that I care for. t The sensation that passes over you as tho dyuamite bombs ure exploding about you, knocking uhings hither and thither and ore- ating o general disturbance, is not one of peaceful sausfaction. You wish that you were clsewhero and your mind is occupied in contriving schemes and estimating the possi bilities of getting clsewhere and av the same time maintaia a voling residence on oarth, The strain on His Syste, I have rouaof people whose hair was turned gray in the course of one night from various causes, but I have never believed that such & human existed, 1 believe now that such has ocen the case. Of course, my | « hair is uot gray and it will not be for many years vet, but if the strain of my stem had been as great for six hours as it as during the twenty-one minutes that tho Collis express robbers were throwing their dynamite tokens at my car the other night my hair would be liable to turn to most of tie colors of the rainbow—white or any Known tint You se, At the timo that all the explosions | f were going on, and while tho robbers wero helping themselves to the contents of my cor, I scarcely Knew what was in progress and did not know what to expect next. But, now thac I look back uvon it ail and gazo, as | it wero, upon the wonderful and_ dizzy winrl | | of ovents that happened during those twenty ouo minutes, I feel as though I was cor- tainly born under a lucky st Just how I escaped from being sent upwards in_discon- nected chunks while the dynamite haa full swing the cor surpasses wmy understana- ing. ~ Everything about me was remembered by the oxplosive—to the right of me, to the left of e, in front of mo and behind me— but by a dispensation of Providenco 1 was overlooked, at ieast to the extent of per- mitting me to retain my body in its natural aud compact form. For the special con- sideration manifested toword we I foel most gratelul, Prepared for Game, Aftor the Coilis robbers had blown both the doors of my car open 1 lay back in the ! find a g car for ubout two minutes, waiting for one of them to show his faco or any portion of his anatomy at the door. I had made up my mind to empty a lowd of buckshot carcass the very second ho did. L had amplo facilities at hand to do the work. A cut-off shotgun of the company’s was in my nands. Al that T had to do was to pull the t It was losded with a cartridge which coutained twenty-five buck- shot and an extraordinarily heavy charge of powder. Whon, tinally, a_rovber did come to the door of the car he had in front of him the firoman, whom he used to cover his own form. ¥or mo to have fired ut the robber would huve been to kill the fireman; in fact, 1 would have killed them both. Tho buck- shot would bave gone right through the two mou. I did not know what was coming next. For two minutes no dynamite had been ex- ploded in the car, but there was still a prom- ising outlook for me 10 close a busy career in a short time and 1n an unexpected mauner. ‘Thut fireman will nevor kuow what a close | ¢ cail be tad, Icould not make up my mind to fire ana take the chances of killng im, cowe what might to mo. But I had not long to refloct. A few seconds after the robber appeared at the door with the poor fireman for a breastwork. He threw in anothor dy- uawite bomb for luck. That oxplosion blew | | the holo in tho car and camo near blowing | | mo through the aperture. 1lnd Kobbers fn B When the train first stopped I had an idea that 1t was the work of rovbers, Usually, 1 am asiecp whilo the train is passing from | | Meudota to Co:lis, but it nappened that on Wednesday I bad at unusually large amount | | of sLuff to work up, aad it kept we up. | some way had uo desire o sloep. The conseq was that as 5001 s the train stopped I had rob- s Mind, bers in my mind and turned tho lights down. | railway are located 1 Omaha. Uhen the train sturted up again and 1 sup- posod that ihe brakeman had merely been pucting some tramps off. ? You nave noides what a weight was lifted off my mind when that train started 1o move, Butin 4 fow moments the eugineer slowed up agai, azd finaily stoppad. A few moments after that the explosion of dynamite under my car kuocked the tramp theory entir out of my mind. Theu was when 1 com- menced 1o igure on what was to be uone to save my lifo and protect my trust. I sincerely betieve that if the car had not taken five 1 could bave protected the treasure I from the robbers. But as soon as I saw that it was on fire 1 made up my wind toat fur- ther resictance was 1npossivle, 1 crawled to the door, aud, putting my hauds out, indi- cated that I gave in. Butiv seoms that the ! robbers had not fully agreed upon the point us to whether I was to be killed or not, 1 i besrd one of them say :- “Kill the — — - — " “ and finelly, when they got hold of me, they | P wore still discussing the matter 1n that Kina of language. It made we very uneasy, Whon I was commanded to open the safe one of them said to me: “'Open up or we will kill you.” As 1 did not have the key I could not do so, anu 50 mformed them, i I They're going to chloroform them.” do they doit!” asked Billy, puta sponge in front of the pig's nose and he goos right to sleep, and when he comes to hiwself he says: And by and by he says: body bas sawed my log oft!' aud then he ffuds that he's all cut up?’ showing the teavher some apples vought. nervous | contly his feelings, but schools, employ dreu of s bined capital of £3,535.000. enea | products amounted to 33,000,000, fers amounted to $15 000, while the asses bused on a one-tenth valuation, Omaha has twenty banks, of which nine arc uational, cight” saviogs and three are £264,558, men't to forty. works systems in tho waria way, maioly eleotrio. 600 then aud oparates 273 pay ooll is £40,000, i uresque exnggeration, laimed to a compauion : The other day he ex- Just thiuk, Billy | Outin Cnicago they aren’t going to bo cruel o the pigs any more when they kil them. “How “Why, they just ‘Why, my ham's gone! 3o0dness ! Some- Detroit Free Press:” The schoolboy was e had “*Tnem ain’t no good,” ho said, throwing out a couple, “Graclous me, Tred,” sho “whoso grammar do vou' use?” “Johinvio Wilkinsis,” he answered inno- “mine’s all tored up.” exclatmed, Mamma—V-hat in the world are you two rreling about? ittle Diok—Nothing, Nothing, en " “Yos'm. 'Dot lett her box of candy here, an’ when she came back ' thers was nothing n it.” Freddie had fatlen "down and burt him- elf. He was trying manfully to suppress his uncie, who happened What's the matter? Cry- am’t cryiog. 1 guess 0 be near, suid: g’ “N-—-no; I maybo my oyes are perspiving.’ B Visiting Friena—Why is it, Johnnie, that you think Dr. Butler isa’t a good doctor? Johnny-—'Cause he never finished our baby —he didn’t put a hair on.its nead. ™ P 4} 2 i Tommy—Can we pldy, at keeping a store in_hero, mamma} Mamma (who has a headache)—Certainly j bUL YOU MUSE bo-very quiet. Tommy—Well, we'll, pretend we don’t ad- vertise. o Rev, Dr. Primrose—How is it your father always comas home from fishing on & #'riday? Little Johnme —'Cause he's then sure to od assortment of fish in the market. S S The ““No. 9 Wheeler & Wilson is the oaly iuto his | lock-stitch machino made that will maintain an oven and perfect stitch atdifferent speeds, Sold by Geo. Laucaster & Co., 514 S, 16th st s FAOTS ABOUT OMAHA, Omaba has five public parks, Omeaha bas sixty-five miles of paved streets, Omaha has ninety-two miles of sewers. There aro sixty public schools, employing 208 tenchers, There are twenty-two chu ng 152 toache The school census shows over 30,956 chil- chool age, Omaha is a citvof churches, having 115 housos of raligious worslip, “T'here aro sixty-five hotols, There are thirtoen trunk lines of railway, covering 35,233 miles of road oporated from ODmaha. One bundred aud thirty passenger traiusarrive daily, Omaha has the largsst smelter 1n the world. Omaba has the largest linseed oil works in the United States. Omaba is tho third largest packing contor n the world. Last year the stock recelpts were: Cattle, 2,033,793; hogs, 7,100,503; sheep, 733,5 Omaba "has tho largest distillery 1n the world and throe of the largest breweries in the United States. Omahu has the largest white lead works 0 the world, Aside from the packing housos Omaha has 60 manufacturiog enterprises with a com- Last year their ‘I'he principal shops of the Union Pacific They cover fifty acres of ground and represent an out- ay of 2,5 00,000. They furnish employment 01,200 skilled meohanics and 200 duy labor- ors, During the year 1891 tho real estate traus- 0,53 Tne actual real ostito valuation is $250,000, nent for taxation 1s tate banks. During 1801 the clearings were $221,128,- The postofties receipts for the year were “This aspartment gave omploy- ix clorks and sixty-six car- s, Omaha has one of the most complete water Tho plant cost 7,000,000 ana has 170 miles of mains. The umping capacity 1s 55,000,000 gallons daily “There are ninety-five miles of stroot raj ‘Pho systom employs 27 Tuhe monthly pulation in 188) Then the | bovalution in 15, gun was placed to my head, and I was told | popus pulation in 18%) fon in 1885, thatif I uid not open up the box atonce | | Population in 189). would be hustled into oternity Was goue, but they lot wo live. were quile ressonaulo, The Unkin st Cut of AlL But tho unkindest taing of all was when tha robbers politely requested me to assist them in getting the coin off at asafe distance from tho traiu, after they had secured it. I was feolug very bad about then. 1 felt as tiough I had lost something—just what I did not know. I had been very numerousiy shaken up, aud wus siightly distigured, | o though stiil in the ring, o When 1 aid as commanded, picked upa | ® sack of coin and started foll down, tapping e in uo gentle gun, he bade me move on, I thought I o this they w wanuer with bis Although feeling decidedly groggy. | again rose and stepped | souihawss Lacue! forward. Again 1fell. Thon the same rob- ber put the barrcl of his pistol into my mouth, und usiug some very bud languuge, bade we arise aud “got u wmove on me." 1 did so with ali possible celerity. 1 believe that I nuto that 10au with about as intense u hatred as it is possible for muy one to hate auother. 1 hope that all of the robbers will bo captured, but more particularly do | want that map captured that put the gun In my fmouth. When I felt the barrel touching my | & lis I want 1o say I folt nervous. 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