Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1893, Page 10

GOSSIP ABOUT | STATESMEN Btories of General Benjamin F. Butler and | Benator John E. Kenna. - DAN LAMONT AS A CABINET MINISTER ator Kenna's Hunting ler's Law Practice A Now Bomething About Se Adventures—iten B \ and His 890,000 Mortgage Story of the Spoons. Wasnixaros, D. C., Jan 20.—[Special cor- fespondence of Tur Bre.|—Senator Kenna's death has robbed the boys of the United States of one of the most inte ting books that has ever been planned for their amuse- ment. Senator Kenna was a great lover of children, nd he could hold the attention of boys for hours by telling them stories of his hunting adven- tures. He was a great hunter and he spent a large part of every summer camping out in the wilds of West Virginia. Many of his friends at Washington have r ed pres- ents of game from him, and he could shoot straighter and kill more deer than any other man in Washington. He was oneof the best amateur photographers in the United States and he left hundreds of snap shots which he had taken in the hunting scenes and the negatives representing these are carefully classified and stored away in his library. For many years he has been taking photographs and his pictures repre sent all sorts of hunting and fish- ing, and th are the finest col- Jection of the kind in the country During the past summer he planned a book for boys which was to consist of his storics of hunting and sporting and was to have been illustrated by these pictures, and it was to have been entitled “A Book for My Boys.” The region in which Senator Kenna Jived wans a picturesque one and he has scores of photographs of his children and also many of his brother senators Oneof the finest pictures that was ever taken of the late Senator Beck of Kentucky was made by Senator Kenna. It represents nator Beck sitting undes great oak tree with his dog beside him and the picture is most lifelike. [t is the best photograph that was ever taken of the great Kentuckian Tow Kenna The most of Senator Kenna's pictures are instantaneous ones, and 1t was long a hope of his that he would be able to photograph a deer on the fump. At one time he had mac all his arrangements for a photograph of this kind. There was a deer in the bushes and its only way out was through a narrow gorge where It would have to jump a stres Kenna had the boys go into the bushes start up the deer and he had his hand on the bulb ready to press it when the deer should appear. As he heard it crashing through brush, however, the spirit of the hunter de that of the photographer and he dropped the came; 1d picked up his gun, and as the deer sprang forth he killed it In speaking of this not long ago, he said he regretted very much that he had lost the picture, There is one story con i S tor Kenna which would not wppeared in this book had it been written. No one likes 10 publish o joke upon himself, and in this case the joke was decidedly on Keona. 1t oceurred at a deer hunt which a lot of hunters of his neighborhood got u * decided before they started into camp that the man who missed a deer at his first shot during the excursion should be fined by losing the tail of his shirt. Kenn already in the United States senat he was the guest of the occ ‘When the deer was roused the back- woodsman gave him position than any of the others o w aceful animal came within range of his rifle he thought he had him sure. But fate gainst him and he missed. The other party were in the rear. There w er of shots dnd as no one was near him he thought no- body saw him fire, When they returned to the camp he showed his re-loaded rifle and said nothing of his failure and was congratu- lating himself on his escape. As soon as the hunters were all in the cabin, however, one of the party testified to the bad shot and in less time than it takes to write it the sena- tor was down on the floor and every man in the party had a souvenir cut from the un- mentionable part of his unmentionable gar- ment. Senator Kenna took the joke well He was too much of a man to get angry at ure fun and he was considered one of the st fellows in the senate. He was one of the strongest thinkers and ablest speakers of the senate and he was packed full of com- mon sense. He died at the age of 44, but his life in experiences was longer than that of most old men, He matured ear] He was a private in the confederate army at 15 member of congress at 80 and at he was the youngest man in the United States sen- ate. He scemed to have a strong constitu- tion and his death was a surprise to every- one. mountains of )5t n Deer. Storles of lutler. It is queer how death treats public men, On the sawe night that Senator Kenna died on Capitol hill in Washington anotherstatos- man passed away. “His deathbed was lo- cated not a stone’s throw from that of the young senator and . like Kenna he had kept his lifework going on until the last. He was, however, thirty years older than Sens Kenna and he was a figure in th almost before Senator Kenna rofer to General Benjamin F. Butler, who also began life young, but who for nearly half a century was a national charac Had Kenna lived thirty years longor much more might he have accomplished. He was only 8 years old when John Sherman eame to con, and he was stilla boy when Blaine was in his pri He was only 12 years old when Ben Butler jumped into national prominence at the Charleston convention, and when he started into the confederate army asa private Butler had goue through his career at New Or and had become a major general 3 of Butler's life for moro t was packed full of activity, Hi ‘0 on the keybe g ched the wires of th things of owr nation and he oy every yoar more than many public’ msa. A close friend of his who w associated with him for years in busine told me the other ni i mado than $50,000 annually at his law pract that his income from his work often r the bundreds of thousands o year 9 gubernatorial cam 8 cost him £100,000 apiece and when he ran for president as the eandidate of the labor party he had to mortgage the big gray stone house which he afterwards sold to the government to got the roady money he necded. 1 know a man who held a mortgage of §90,000 on this property for some years and [ am told that Butler spent overy cent of it and more in his com- Ppaign, more Bon Butler's Law Practice, Speaking of Ben Butler's law practice he had many big cases before the supreme court which notted him fortunes, yet 1 happen to know that he did a large amount of *‘thank ml" business. His heart was as big as h ly, and while he charged millional tens of thousands for his work the poor got 1t for nothing. I remewber an instance hore at Washington which happened only par or 80 ago. A soldier's widow who occupies 8 very responsible position in one of the de- partments had a boy seriously injured in railroad accident. She was too poor to em- {slnylbix lawyer and the railroad corpora- fon laughed at her demands for damages She went with her story to General Butler. He receivod her in his office on Capitol hill, unted as she told her story, but when she finished it he said he would undertaks | her caso for her and would not churge h cent. As 80on as the railroad company he: that Butler was her counsel they came to terms and were glad to comprounse at a g00d round figure. This partner of Ben Butler tells me there 'was no harder worker in public life than he. Said he: ‘““Ben Butler once told me that he would rather try cases of common drunkenness at #10 & suit than remain idle. He was the per- sonification of intellectual activity and the matter of his brain wus a great electric mamo which was never idie. He was tematio in his work and ho kept his apers #ud lotters carefully arvanged and filed away e greal amount of unwritten history in his correspondence and t bo surprised to find that he has left npublished manuscript. He wis w i 4go, on & lecture on Judas Tse nd his {dea was to prove that Judas was the purest and noblest of the twelve ay s, He claimod this last on the round that s alone appre the greatne Chris nnd him prive m o chance 12 that he woul or his enemies and make himself Ben Butler's Queer Dress. General Bu courted notoriety more than any other man of his_greatness on the stage of statesmanship, Ho dil this not only by his actions, but in _his dress and he seemed to have as many di costun s an g Atone time he wred her in an rcoatof beaver fur with n hat of the same material, making himself Jook for all the world like & great animal. His coat wais big enough for a good-si cnt and his hat was pulled down over his cars so that you enly saw his great round face with its Cock looking out _of one side of it. At another time I remember he trotted around i 1t white som nd he never appeared on t of an evening save in a dress su ttonhole. Mauy peoy ith his 1 for his for it i said that she s such a ‘lower in his buttonhole home for his day's work Since he left cony spent a large part of every year at th capitol. The doorkeepers Jnew him wel and they were prepared for his queer freak in th of dress. He the right of s 10 both house and senate und h went in_without trouble. At the one session, howover, he appeared in whito sombrero, his patent her pumps and his dandified s He to one of the rear doors of the senate and started to go in The ssenger was a new one. He thoug he was running the capitol and he put his arm across the door and told encral Butler to stand_back, *You can't 0 in there,” said he. *“This door is only for senators when the senate is in_ se ) General Butler looked at him and out: “Iam Butler and I have a right to go in.” “Oh no, m masher!” replied the doork nk at_a bystander. to play me for a_sucker! You think I don't know Senator Butler? He comes from South C: nd he just went in through this door. an't getin. Go up and mash ‘em the gallery, my dandy General Butler was yzed for an in- it and then wheeling upon the astonished doorkeeper he fairly yelled “Butler of South Carolina bé blanked! T am Butler of Massachusctts! Governor But- ler, you impudent fool!” And amidst the the profuse apologies of the doorkeeper he went into the senate. He had, of cou right to do so by virtue of his being congressman as woll as governor. Many stories are told herc of Ben Butler's wit. Iis br as as quick as a flash and he had one of the mos that ever cut a soul or heard a story last night of his remari close of a congressional speech of J Binghaw's. Butler did not like Bingham but the speech was an able one close the house was wrapped in silence and you could have heard a pin drop any place in the chamber. The congressmen were ready to b nto applause when Butler, cocking his queer eye, said in a stage whisper “Talways did like that speech,” This meant, of course, that Bingham had but oue specch and that he spoken it many times before. It effectually settled the applause. A New Story of tne 1 heard a new spoon story concerning But- ler last night. His enemies never tired of twitting hi he infamous slander which was _chy nst him in_New Orleans, and during his campaigns in Massachusetts there were always allusions to ‘“‘spoons.’” One night he was speaking in a_little town on Cape Cod. The meeting was held in the town hall, a rickety old building with a wooden ceiling. Butler was the only of the oecasion and it was supposed that ho owned the town. Ho was standing on the platform denouncing the stealings of the op- i candidatos when a large. tablespoon hed to a thread so'fine that it could not be scen slowly descended through a crack in the ceiling until it stopped and quivered in almost touching the fuzzon Butler bald crown. The audience roared with laughter. Butler looked up and saw the spoon and the joke was such a good one that he laughed himself, He tried to speak and finally got the ear of tife house, “I ‘see there is some opposition here. But if it is congealed—if it stands alone like that spoon —it will not trouble me much. The crowd roared and Butler carried the town by a large major “This spoon tall, however, went on for somo time, until Butler finally got tired of it. One night while he was addressi big manu- facturing town in Massach s someone in the audi; howled out “spoons.” Butler stopped asked the speaker to come forth, He waited a moment and no one rose. He then said T would like to see any respectable citizen father such a charge ugainst me. I have wrd this matter jested about and hav seen it printed in the public press, but her tofore I have considered it beneath my dignity to notice it, I am getting tived of it now and I would like to end it by makin somo man pay me.heavy damages for libel This settled it. Butler's ‘h was ro- ported and he heard nothing more from spoons during that campaign. Ben Butler's N was never any doubt about Ben Butler's nerve. Many instances of his bravery have been told and he has never been accused of cowardice, He showed his 1ge & number of times before the war began and 1 have heard a story how he saved a crowd at Lowell one ht from a pan when Rufus Ch speaking. Butler was then ol ¥ old. I during the Buc wpaign and Choate was ad- dressing a crowded house in the biggest hall of the city. There was great enthusiasm and when the sta z was the loudest a sh was heard and the cry went forth: The floor is sinking Every one turned pale and the audience rose for a stampede when young Ben Butler came to the front of the platform and called the audience to halt He said there was no danger and that the architect of the building was. present and that they would go together and ex- amine the building. Choate then we on with his speech A moment later Butler reappeared and smi told the audience that there was no present danger, but as the hall was overcrowded the had ebette quietly adjourn to the public square where Mr. Choate would finish his sp. h. The crowd went quietly out and the eatastrophe was averted. As Butler stepped onto the platform he had deceived them by his smil- ing fac nd with a half laugh which came from his lips he whispered to Mr. Choate before he sy @ to them. These were the words he whispered “Mr. Choate, I must clear this house or we shall all be in hell in five minutes.” wo wonderful things about Ben Butler were his memory and his power for sleep. A Washington correspondent told me the other day how he called upon him one day for an neral Butler had been work- for eighteen hours and ho at work when the »spondent heard his request and then he platform associ wife's memory Ben Butler has You from erve. Ther was still enterod. Ho said 1 would 1 is full of this ¢ first. If you will will give you an interview All right,” said the cor Butler went into the next room. At the end of twenty miuutes he came out as fresh as o daisy oand his mind was as clear as 4 bell, He has slept just twenty minutes and [ am told that he coy sleep at any time and in any place slept in his chair in his oftice and neither wind nor his memory ever him. He was noted for friends and when he was overnor ho rounded by oficeseekers. One of these, nomed Smith, came up to him and eneral Butler, 1 have done ave you elected and I want to talk to you, but my mind and T will’ have to sleep wait twenty minutes [ pondent, and ness to his said General Butler, “what is your namo? “Smith,” was the reply for you for years. Ah, Smith. It see you. You pla “I have worked s to me that I remem- ed me false at a conven- tion'just fifteon years ago. You promised to vote for nd you voted for my opponent No, Mr. Smith, I don't think I shall need you. Good day.” Secretary Daniel Lamont. There seems to be nodoubt that Dan ) with a stick in his | ith a red | hinet of Pro probabil is to bo one of t nd tho Clevel and there is no ma Presilent in him United States who has more common | Briof Desoriptions of~Bome of the Notable sense and is possessed of so much ability in this way as L He has o wonderful knowledge of human nature. He can read o man at ind his face is such that YOu ean n thing about the mind wehind it wtized the work of the white house during the last Cleveland ad- ministration, and he attended to everything, from the laying of the president’s dinners to giv uggostions ments. His honesty wns never questione and his fidelity to his chief was porfect. He could dispose of b apidly. He is broad enough aud biz en 1o consider tho wh and with all his_notoriety he never the tafly which is so ¢ given all men of prominence #ay Washington to distu n or affect his manners. His it ad_did not swell under the adulation g 1 blonde h heated air was a8 simple, p honest at tho el )f his term as at inninz. He is 4 good man s will make a cabinet fo is o hand elf noted and sociable qualit type of the sensible American girl, is well cducated and has more than ordinary musi- cal taste. ~ During the lnst administrati i for her home than | in and the be- His > made common she cared me but she had man, f s u cabinet ministe | popular hostess. it MISSIONARY HYMN. London Truth, Onward Chr On o heat Prayer | T Rifles m’\ ur ! ke the linppy tii Wherd trade tan be i Spread t ful wos ithat Tell the w Sinful o Turn their are pagans r sunk, m good Clhrlst Tell them the, wh, ur duty ke and skhoot them down! When the Ten Commandments They quite understand, You'thelr ehict must hocus, And annex their And if they, misguided, Call you to aceount, Read them—in their Iinguage— “The Sernion on the Mount. It, splte all your teaching, Trouble still they give; I, spite rum and Some of them stil hen, with parpose moral, pread false tal 1bhout Instizate a quarrel, And let them fight it out! EDUCATIONAL, uft's college is to have three | in the college of letters and th vinity school, The projected dental school of Hary lege will require 000, Tt will wdations for 150 students of. William G. Sumn f political econom; after a wda kb rk y and do college has been ¢ Foster Tucker of Boston. A bustof Hannibal Hamlin has been placed in the Iib at Colby. Mr. Hamlin was an interested friend of the uaiversity during his ife. Huntington of the Central Pacific 1 has given $100.000 to maintain a ling room in the Westchester, N. Y., science of Beloit col- 1&8ge was de ted on the 13th. The build- ing is the result of a donation of $125,000 by Dr. Daniel K. Pearsonsof Chicago. The cloctive courses for the second somes- cing prepared. Hereafter fifteen hours 4 week will be requivid of the sophomores, instead of fourteen as formerly. Prof. Henry C. Adams of the University of Michigan, one of the earliest Johns Hop graduates, hus begun a course of twenty | tures on political economy at the latter in- stitution, The library of Syracuse wuniversity re- ceived an addition of 3.000 books during the year, making the total number of volu 45,000. The valuation of the univer: property is estimated at §1,700,000, There is a row in Parsons college at Fair- fleld, In., between the professors and the students. The former propose to don long black gowns and mortar-board hats, and the students object to anglo-maniac innovations. Some one has computed that *the college éndowments of Massachusetts foot up to 3 he buildings and grounds are ¥ vhile the scientitic appa tus of all the higher institutions is worth $1,020,000. J. Furber, Jr., Ph. D, son of the 20 capitalist, has been appointed lec- on the history of economic theory at the Northwestern university, and will begin i next week. He graduated from v, receiving his degree from institution. Brown university catalogue gives the fc lowing figures: The faculty and allied offic- crs number 62, There are 540 students, dis- buted as follows: Graduates, 83; seniors, Juniors; 85; sophomores, 88; freshmen, select ¢ women's college, The library is reported to contain 80,000 bound voluin X unbound There i in San ble peoy dowed rolls last trained in ‘thi > permanently 5,000 children were on the , and over 14,000 have been cen years. The schools not supported by individiials or associations d upon voluntary contributions, which m all parts of the world, recent address President Eliot of rd dwelt on_the idea that the unno- influences in the education of th do muoh to mould” characte he said,” bits of poetry in my arned in infancy which have stood by me in keeping me true tomy ideas of duty and life. Rather than lose th would have missed all the sermons I e heard. The Hopkins mansion on Nob Hill, San Francisco, has been_ transfes a university regents in trust for an art school and gallery of paintings. Edward F. Searles, who mages the gift, also guarantees £,000 for five years toward the expenses of the school. 1f suficient interest be shown by others he has promised to increase this gift The Hopkins castle, as it 1s cal one of the most_conspicuous_buildings in this e and it can be easily altered 0 suits its n use Each of the seventy-nine bishops of the Roman Catholic church will send answers to the pope to fourteen propositions sent to them by Mgr. Satolli. Nine of these proposi- tions have already been made public, And the other five, which had been withheld, are as follows: 'All care must be taken to erec Catholic schools, to enlarge and those already established, and to make them equal to the public schools in every When there are no Catholic schools, or those in oxistence are uot equal to public schools children may attend the latter, th ng left to the judgment and couscien: linaries. No one shall be allowe teach in a | school without previous examination as to fituess. Normal schools to be established where they neces Every is forbidden, either by exclude from the sa unworthy parents who choose to send their children to the public schools e e—— The “No. 9" Wheeler & Wilson is the only lock-stitch machine made that will maintain an even and perfoct stitch at different speeds, Sold by Geo. W. Lancaster & Co., 514 S. 16th street. come f — Dr. Kohn (or Cohen), the poor canon, son of Israelite pcasants, who was recently raised to the richest archbishopric in Europe, that of Olmutz, went to meet his father and mother at the railroad station, where he kissed their hands in lowly humility and affection, and has installed them in his episcopal palac D For taat “out ¢' sorts feeling” Take Bromo-Seluser, 10c a bottle. y is that | hibition of Washington | rof men and | fair | to the ground have ac- improve | THE F;\Slllfla; FOR JANUARY Gownsfofj;the Season, e— AN UGLY GIRL - A PRETTY HAT A — The Skating Frock and New Clothes on the Stage — A Gr of Gowns at a Morn R W Yorg, Jan. 20.—Co Tue Bee: Do you know a woman in furs when you sco hor? 1 mot one at an ex- this morning and she was reall, more of a cu than any of the cu She had light, fuzzy hair poking out from under a big sealskin poke bonnet and she had a brown cloth tailor dress that was not in any way unusual. But she had al collar that came away down insloping points upon shoulders and reached to the mid dle of her back behind his ¢ ar seemed to be made enti: v of it had long squa aspondence of 1880 rnered ends that reached smebody behind me said those ends were “stole-shaped,” and prob ably they were, but I'm not well up on stoles All that I can swear to is that the effect of two huge balloons of sleeves swelling out from under the pointed cape, or rather up from their points of origin, in the most muft ever carried, was wicrdly The muff was soft, shapeless and “squashy.” When you seo a s t like that it gives you something to think abeut; you don't waste | your morning. What I think is, how woe- fully abused that unhappy word, ‘“pictur- esque,” is these days. ButTwent to an 1880 dance the other night; that is, to a fancy ball where every- body was supposed to wear the Simon Pur. “granuy” outfit, instead of its modified and “‘Worthified" 1803 version. It was fun, be- cause the invited guests were not afraid to They made them- and flounces with a and astounding, y nodded their shrugged their sloping shoulders and pi etted on their pointed slippers till “we wall flowers looked and looked again and smiled half sarcastically. It's a very easy thing after all to slip backward. Where's the sense of talking of a woman, even if she be a Kansas woman, for the United States sen ate, when the frocks of two gen fit s if they had never been laid aside? The fadvanced” woman hasn’t journeyed so very g carues, with all her talk of her What did they wear? Well, here's a pic- ture: Py THEATER AND “ONCERT TOILETS, 1 saw a number of frocks at a morning con- terday that were better worth de- scription. A voung southern gifl was the prettiest creature in sight, with her costume of pink velvet lending an extra blush to her warm brunette skin, A little white lace bib, just now one of fashion’s pet notions, was let into the front of her waist and edged about with black astrakhan. She wore a black velvet hat with heavy plumes, Miss Pauline Whitney ‘was one of my neighbors, eating bon bons conteniedly out of the same box with another tall, slim girl not pretty. A society reporter, who opportunity to know, was telling me yesterday that in her opinion the ) a single girl who is pretty i Four Hundred. However, Miss Whitne well gowned. She wore a heliotrope cioth bodice with very ful es and with a wide sh of heliotrope velvet, tied behind, Her id little capote was of shaded violets, blending together insensibly. Her companion was in a_dark green ben- galine frock, each seam of the skirt being outlined with a narrow bead galon, The front of the bodice was quite full and was partly hidden under a jacket, whose velvet ground was sewn over thickly with almost infinitesimal green beads. ‘Within eyeshot were hats at. You couldn't sce beyond them. Pokes and coalscuttles obscured the view and plumes stood up so straight it didn’t matter a bit that only capotes were under them. An artist’s wife, who is famous for her toilets, wore a big violet velvet hat with two zreat velvet wings in front and between them a tuft of violets. There were more vwlets upon the crown and yet others standing up in an igretie behind. A bounet that pretty. if for no other reason be se it was small, was of white cloth dotted with gold and trimmed quaimt- ily with white n roset nd sable tails: odd bit of headgear was robe with a white bodice you had to look vet sable trimmed. A Christmas bride wore a black velvet hat trimmed with mistletoe. pretty combination of blue and brown aved in a brown felt hat with small *the brim and turquoise WINTER (MILLINERY, At the winter's reception the one thing you will notice most framinent is that velvet | is worn whenever thp faintest suspicion of | an excuse for putting ih ¢ | imagined. ¥ can_be found or iresses of velvet are the hobby of girls in their teens and of matrons in their sixties. At thg annual Sorosis at Sherry’s the other evening black velyet and purple velvet and green volvet and crimson velvet and shot velvets of all shades and combinations of shades walked about and hobnobbed with one another. They had voluminous sleaves, one and all of them, and the more stately had deep berthas of old luee that were magnificent until they hecame monotonous. Some women wore uo ornaments with these robes, others added jewels or plum The finest I noticod costumed was a young married woman, who, like son f her 4 and sex, has written & mediocre book or two, Her gown was an opal-tinted velvet, white for the most part, but dimpling into a flame-shot pink at every reasonable oppor- tunity. A white velvet was worthy of comment also. A line of pearls ran up cach seam fi the hem to bosom, where the long strin were gathered in a kuot and fell again in tire v fur | ablo tails and in front | tions ugo | cption of | rope gird| 0 satin with lace frills. Some pretty skating dresses brought out by the cold weathor. season’s debutantes—a young southern girl, curfously—was on the ice at Central park a fow days ago in o short black serge skirt with a trim black velvet toque that_finished | her off most piquantly. She looked Dresden shepherdess on skates—very pretty, but all your time was taken up with hoping she wouldn't tumble, she was so certain break if she got a lon any kind. le girl wore dark blue cloth with mink bands about the skirt and a blue velvet Russian blouse bodice fastened with big dull gold buttons. Her skating cap was black cloth with a black plume fastened with gold ark green skirt flashed hore and the rts of fanciful evolutions. You could Ip following its progress because a shaggy blouse was worn above it whose ¢ stood out brilliant and strong. Aible muff and wore a velyet toquoe with dark green plumes. You don't see so much good skating as you might look for, and yet you wouldn't loo, perhaps, if you remembered how mild our winters have been for quite a good many years, The old skaters havo stopped skating nud the new ones gt little enough practice 1 conscience. ‘Theater gowns are ahout the most inter esting we sec now. A soft mouso-gray cloth wasone of the best on the stage at Daly's the other evening. The sleeve f white cloth cmbroidered with silver, and the neck and hem of the princess robe were embroid | ered with Astrakhan | In the box at my right was a pale girl in green and white gown. The frock white I believe, with misty green draperies. Th reen and the white were both of light, soft texture, and blended and melted in other until the effect was wraithlike. The hat was a little more substantial, uld have felt as if [ had sat three sU's company, or so 1 b A Louis XVI. flowered silk more substantial. 1t has rose-co sleoves and a bertha of old I this world, worldly A freck of scarlet cloth was certain to be looked at. That is what makes scarlet fashionable, T suppose. Its skirt was made more brilliant yet with gold embroidery and its bodice had a gold embroidered belt aud a black pelerine. Have you notice this month's flowers, ificial, are all frosted? Tt ball gowns are looped ' with r arlands that are powdered as if they had bloomed out of doors and had been handled by Jack Frost, who yet hadn't hurt them. Violots s are treated after the brilliant enough, it Mus, Cleveland wore powdered a musicale the other day—frosted geraniums on a frock of dark green with crimson ribbon, trimmings. LEN OsnoRN Unlike the Dutch Process Alkalies —or— Other Chemicals are used in the Preparation of W. BAKER & €0.'S reakfastCoco which is absolutely pure and soluble, ‘The full sleeves wore of have beon One of the red velvet | Ithasmorethan three times I the strength of Cocoa mixed J with Starch, Arrowroot or 2 Sugar, and is far more cco- nomical, costing less than one cent a cup, It is delicious, nourishing, and EASILY DIGESTED, Sold by Grocers everywhere. W. 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Douglas $ OMAHA. B, The Mercer. Omaha’s New2st Hotel COR. 12TH ANO HOWARD 373, 40 Rooms at §2,50 por day. £0 iooms at .00 per day. 2 Reoms with Bath at $1.0) per day. 0 Rooms with Bath at 83,5 to $4.5 por day. OPBNED AUGUST 1sh onghout. C. S. ERB. Prop. | | | W, T. Wood & Co.'a | PLOWS, MARKERS, TONGS, RUN IRON Jas. Morton &Son Co. 1511 Dodge Street. like a | awh | was, al | quite of | t and experl- | lustrated new book of 120 pages, full of valu- | This last week we have been selling a whole lot of suits at $8.75, and that they are bar- gains is evinced by the fact that we sold We have picked out a whole iot more and |~ —— so many of them. placed them in the same lot. Those we our 3 them left. Those our regular $15 suits, made of ot and cassimere, in sacks $8.75 had on 10.50 suits, and there are a few of 3 were we now putin are and chev- cut cutaways. The colors are varied and stylish. We have all sizes will certainly appreciate these when you see them, for no one can duplicate them. NaturalUnderwear We have received two cases of these goods bought for early delivery,but were not received by us until this week. They were to be sold at $1.25 2 garment, but rather than have them left on our hands would rather they were on the public’s body; therefore, have put them down to the actual cost price. 75 cents. See them in the window. Columbia Llothing Company, 18th and Farnam Streets. FOR FAT FOLKS Dr. Edison’s FAMOUS PILLSAND- BANDS and OBESITY FRUIT SALT roduce your weight without dleting; cures the causes of obesity, such as dyspepsia, rheumit'sm, nervous ness, catarrh, kidney trouble:; keeps you healtay, and beautiflos ths com- CHICAGO BOARD 0F THADE, In write you to say I havo lost 13 makinz 43 pounds 10t in 10 woeks by using 4 Lottles of Dr. Edison’s Obesity Pilis und weurinz his Obesity Band. o Very truly yours, CnAuLis H. Kixa. Prot. HAL ge University, wr tes to the Chie d. Sept. 15, 18 Cory should ay_some attention to reducinz their weicht When o man Is troubled with rheumatism, dyspepsia, kidney tronbie or nervousness the' reducing of welelit fs slower, until v ills h cured tho disoaso th nills soften and be I am atlibor my alvi Bind an in 6 weeks. rucessfuck nof fho f; wse I poin o nn Fdls i!s and lost ndor 1 Obosity pounds Band measuro 0 10 86 inche each additional inch, Pills $1.50 a bottle, or th $4.00, cnough for one t ent. Obesity I'ruit Salt $1.00 per bottle, You can buy. the Pills, Sangs and Salt direct from our stores, or by mail or ex o bottle Dr. Edison’s Electric Bel ! and Finger Rings are sold at our Send for our 1 Blectrie Belt Clr. lar, sealod. dlectric Belts 31.00 and up, Insoles 50 cents per pair. For sale by Uruggists. Wholesnle druggists of who earry our goonds in stoek: Charles N. ttenton & Co., MeKesson & Robbins, W. H. Schieflelin & Co. And other leading houses. LORING & CO,, Proprietors and Gen'l Agonts, ! 42 F Wost 22nd St, Now York City. | 10 F Hamilton Placo, Boston, Muss. Yoric City | 8t Chieago, Lil. | 34 P East Washington St., Chicgo Il Cut this out and keep it, and send for our full (eight column) article on Obesit WANTRD. A Spacial Agent in Omaha We desire to ongazo a spuclal Joowl represon- tutlve to handio our £0odsin Omahu, and to any ludy or gentleman with ability wo can of- for n picwant. permanent nnd profitable bu iness. Wo will run w10 inch adve, i this pa- per freo of charge to the agent and insort their nuime and acdress at the bottom. Wil also furnish all the printed matter o 1 free of charge. For particulars address, giv- ingexperien , W Loring & Co., 115 5tate V[UE CROWN OF BEAUTY. A PERFECT bust. Ludlea’ Cocoro, will positively lncrenses the sizo of your tireo to five Inchos or money refunde. alod particulnra tamo. Corrospondence sacredly confidentini, Coeoro Barar. 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