Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1893, Page 8

| 8 KELLEY, STIGER & (0 Extraordinary Indacements to Reduoe Stock ~Lower Prices Than Ever OFFERED FOR FIRST-CLASS MERCHANDISE Tremendons Cut Prices In Every Depart- ment—Our Great Sacrifice Sale of Muslin Underwenr Still Continues—Clen ance Bule of Summer Fabri GREAT REDUCTIONS IN SILKS. TO CLEAR THE LOT AT 7 We offer all our choice printed India and China silks—this includes Cheney brothers celebrated bandsome and re- liable India silks. Our $1.00 #1.15 and 81,25 qualities all at Without re- gerve all of this seasons elegant designs and colorings rega t iless of cost / WASH SILKS AT 59c. : Our superior grade of genuine Habutai wash silks on sale Monday AT 5 SUMMER SALE OF FABRICS, At e, % Kochelin Freres, best grade French gatteens. Al this season's pretty styles reduced from 35¢ and 40¢ to 25¢. * At 25c. French organdie mouselaine. A large varioty of all the newest designs und colors, reduced from 35¢ and 40¢ to 25e. At 25 French embroidered and figured mulls, All this season’s fashionuble, pretty figured and embroidered mulls reduced from 35¢ and 40c to 2e. At 39c. F.ench mulls. The latest summer dress fabric, dotted and figured mulls, the most desirable summer dress fabric, reduced from 50¢ and G0c to 39¢. WI MUSLIN. All our 36-inch Swiss figured muslin reduced from 20c to 124¢ a yard, and are all fast colors. CLEARANC PONGI All light ghades.in reduced to I5e, ‘printed pongee” STES, We have 75 pieces of batiste, pine- apple tissue and Freneh organdie that wore old at #0e, 33c and 40c, for Mon- day's sale at 18¢ a yard. MESTIC DEPARY nghams at half pr of fine dress ENT. ) nghams in rmerly o 10¢ and 12} OUTING FLANNEL. = Our fine 30-inch French stripe tennis flannel at 10¢ a yard, worth nd 20c. Best 30-inch flecced outing flannel at 124c. CHALLIL ‘Wo will close out the remaining 30 picces of our fine half wool challi (20¢ grade) at 124c a yard: 28-inch _half wool challi (30c and 3¢ grades) at 25 REMNANTS AT HALLE PRICE, You can pick up remnants of every deseription from off our counter at Mon- day's sale for half price. TOWELS. 200 dozen of fine fringed huck towels 23x43 for Monday's sale, 2dc cach or a dozen, formerly 30¢ each. CLEANING UP SALE OF LADIES HANDKERCHIEFS, Prices cut regardloss of cost, 100 dozen ladies’ handkerchiefs, con- gisting of 0dd ends of about twenty dif- ferent lots, in white, printea embroid- ered, scolloped and H. S, borders. Great variety of designs.” Handkerchiefs that have sold at 15¢, 20¢, and 30c each, all reduced to 10c each, Ladies' hand embroidered initial H. S. unlaundered handkerchiefs ONLY 5C EACH, worth 10c. Ladies' fine embroidered Swiss and [rish handkerchie designs, At 25 Redueed from 25¢ and 3ie. 52,50 folding Japanese funs (new styles lorings) that have been selling at e, 40c and 4he, REDUCED TO Jlaine 1 EACH. s at 50¢, 60c, H0e, Toe, cather traveling bags .00 and #8.00 cach. Ladies' purses portmomies card cases and combination pocketbooks (Tatest styles) from 2i¢ up to $5.50 cach. HOSIERY BARGAIN fty dozen ladies’ fast black cotton e quality for 2ic. Seventy-five dozen ladies' fine black and fancy striped cotton and lisle hose The qualities for 3ic, or 3 for 81,00, 50 dozen ladies’ fine lisle hose, fancy colored tops and black boots, value 60c, sale price 39¢, 25 dozen ladies' fine silk plaited hose, in solid colors and boot patterns, regular price, 95¢, sale price 50c. LADIES' UNDERWEAR. 100 dozen ladies’ fine gauze vests, low neck and sleeveless, low neck and ribbed arm, high neck and ribbed arm, regular e and Hle qualities, all at 19¢ each. Children’s white ribbed vests, low neck and sleeveless, sizes 18 to 20, at 10¢ 2 prices on parasols, carriage shades and umbrellas, with the finest as- sortment in the eity to choose from, 1Y, STIGER & CO. arnam and 15th streots. - At Courtland Beach this afternoon, balloon ascension und parachute jump. hL00 BUG DATAOL How's Thia? New train to Lincoln leaves Omaha daily at 9:10 4. m. from union depot via C. R, L & P, railway, arrives at Lincoln 10:40 & m. e —— Kestaurant Privilogos, -| only to meet with defeat, and now Sealed proposals will be received until July 10th, at 5 o'clock p. m., for the leasing of the restaurant privileges for a term of years of the Commereial elub of Omaha; said rooms for lease are lo- cated on the fifth floor of the Chamber of Commerce building, northeast corner 16th and Farnam streets, Special inducements will be given to the right party. Inguive for further particulars gt secrotury’s office, Com- mercial elub, Chawber of Commerco building. e Froscoing and interior decorating de- signs and ostimates furnished. Henry Lehmann, 1508 Douglas street. e Chas. Shiverick & Co., furniture and carpets, 1206-1208 Douglas street. NOTE CHANGE OF TAME, © g9, Ruck Ix'aud & Pacifio Ratlway. Leave Omaha 4 p. m., arvive Chicago 8a. m., leave Omaha 5 p. m., avrive Chis cago b a. m. eturning, leave Chicago tH p. m. arriving in Omaha at 9 a. m, M Vestibule limited trains and Rock Island Qining cars, Passongers for the *‘fair” by taking this line can have baggage checked 1o Englewood and take electrie line to main entrance, ten minutes ride from Englewood depot, thus saving time and the annoyance of transfer through the city. For tune cards, rates, sleeping car reservations, eall on or addres Cuas, KENM G N.W. P, 1602 Farnam St. AT BOSTON STORE AGA Handreds of Immenee Bargains in Desirable Dry Goods on Sale Tomorrow, AT HALF THEIR FORMER SELLING PRICE Tomorrow's Second Day of the Great Half Price Sale—Every Article Advertised Positively sold at One Haif the Former Selling Price. 40-INCH ALL WOOL DRESS GOODS, 124C Oné hundred pieces all wool, 40-inch dress goods, worth H0¢ yd, like thos we sold on our famous bargain counte last week at 25¢, go tomorrow at 124c yd. 200 pieces of imported all wool, $1.00 dress goods, go at H0c a yd. SILKS AT HALF PRICE. 25¢ satin und surahs, b0¢ black surahs, 75e Black China §1.00 Printed China silk 50c. $1.25 Black and Colored silks 624c. Best Te dress style calico 3ic. Best 74c indigo blue calico 3tc. 250 grade, 2 yards wide shectiug 12ic. Best fic lining cambric 24c. 10¢ corded lawns 5c. 10¢ outing flannel, Se. 10c fine chambrays, be. 17¢ white goods, Sic. 20c table oil cloth, 10e. 25¢ all linen towels, 123c, 25¢ Turkish towels, 124c. 50c unbleached table damask, 25¢. 75¢ hammocks, 374c. 82.00 gloria silk umbrellas, $1.00. ! $3.00 silk sergo umbrellas, $1.50. 82.00 silk and satin parasols, $1.00. $3.00 silk parasol, $1.50. Continuing the greatest half price sale ever known. ON OUR SECOND FLOOR. Ladics' 50c percale waists, 25 Ladies' 7 Ladic Ladies’ wash sui Ladie's Eton suits, half pr Ladies’ wrappers, half price. - Ladies' muslin underwear, half price McCall's glove fitting patterns, regular marked price: all latest Paris, London and enna styles in MeCall's vatterns reccived da 11 the fine $1.25 table linen goes at ic o yvard. EXTRA SPECTAL—SHIRTS. 00 shirts for H0c. We hLave purchased from a great wholesale house their entire sample line of men's fine shirts, worth all the way from $15.00 to #30.00 a dozen. This lot contains about fifteen or sixteen hundred shirts, in all sizes, and comprising al- most every style of summer, outing and negligee shirts, Take your choice of the entire lot tomorrow at 50¢ each. BOSTON STORE, N. W. Cor. 16th and Douglas. S Bargains—O. K. uit for $20.00. .00 French challie suit for $17.50. .00 finest gingham suit for $9.00. £15.00 silk waist for 0. Shanghai Fine wash waist 90c and $] New Eton suits §10, $12, § ‘World's fair mackintoshes. $1.00 up. 0. K. SCOFIELD'S CLOAK STORE, Farnam St., Opp. N. Y. Life Bldg. e Old Friends Are Best. Buffalo Express: I've longed for you today. T've walked the streets and moaned in my anguish. T've thought of you as I saw you last, standing by my bedside meek and worn and dejected. Oh, the remorse that I have known! Little [ thought when I left you and went away merry and happy with my bright new untried friends, that I should be longing and praying for the time to come when T could return to you for the peace and comfort that I lost when I so henrtlessly cast you off. I've mingled with the gay and happy. I've been at the banquet and ball. 1've quafled the sparkling applanded sparkling wit. I've fought to kill the torturing pcl;.in m coming back to you, my faithful. Easy old shoe. New train to Lincoln leaves Omaha daily at 9:10 a. m. from union depot via C. R. I. & P. railway, arrives at Lincoln 10:40 a. m. Auction—Farnitare—Auction At Shiverick’s every day at 10 and 1:30 p.m. R. Wells, auctioneer. i el 4 M. O. Daxon, bicycles, 120° N. 15th streot, riding school in connection. ——————— SPECIAL EXCUKSION, Southern Texas and Return. July 15 the Texas Gulf Coast Land and Improvement company, 1324 Farnam street, office upstairs, will run a special excursion to southern Texas, For par- ticulars apply as above, Ames moved to 1617 Farnam, —_—— New and rare drugs. Sherman & Me- Connell, Dodge street, west of P, O, B PUT CHICAGO IN YOUR POCKET. You Can Do 8o by Purchasing a Copy of Moran’s Dictlonary of Chloago. This valuable book has received the endorsement of the World’s Columbian Exposition, It also contains a handsome map of Chicago und is the only re nized and stundard Guide to the World’s Fair City, For sale by George E. Moran, publisher, suite 213 Herald building, ’hicago, Ill., and by all prominent news dealers. Price, 50c per copy. Silk cloth bound copies in gilt, postage paid, $1.00 each, Every person contemplating a visit to Chicago during the World's falv_ should avail himself of this oppor- tunity to secure a cop; ow's This? New train to Lincoln leaves Omaha daily at 9:10 &, m. from union depot via C. R, L. & P. railway, arrives at Lincoln 0:40 8. m. e Ames moved to 1617 Farnam, b R Jowelry, Frenzer, opp. postofiice. i h World's fair souvenir coins of 1803 for sale at First National bank, ——— Modern Methods of car ventilation and car illumination are characteristic features of the Bur- lington route's tri-daily service between Omaha and Chicago. Each and every car—dining, sleep- ing, chair and smoking—which forms a part of the equipment of its 1145 a m 4:20 p. m. and 10 a. m. expresses is brilhantly ighted and splendidly ventilated. The Burlington is the great free- from-dust route to Chicago. Try it. One way rate, $0.25; round trip, $17.50. Baggage checked direct from resi- dence, b l City ticket office, 1324 Farnaw street. THE OMAUA DAILY BEE: MRS, Nig Dinconnt Sale for 10 TO 50 PER CENT EVERY Reduction on ARTICLE in the store. Our big cut in prices is selling a great many goods for us, but we have a big stock on hand. Will continue to sell every article in the store at a cut price through July. HOSIERY. Our stock of hosiery is very large and the best that is manufactured. We are selling ladiee’ tan hose for 22¢, 27¢ and 45¢, worth nearly double the price. An opera length black hose for 77c, worth $1.00. An opera length d-op stitch lisle for 90c, would bo cheap at $1.25, A spun silk hose for $1. worth $2.50. WAISTS AND DRESSES Children's d es for 2 and much below tegular | ¢ We have the largest and prottiest stock of white waists for ladies and chil- dren ever shown in Omaha. 3 years Children's Lord Fontleroy waists from &7c up. Ladies’ white and colored waists, com- mencing as low as for 60c quality. Pongee silk waists for $2.75 that we have been selling for 85.00; others for £0.50 that we have been selling for $8.50. See the new styles in tints and shapes in_ writing paper: 100 visiting cards, engraved with name, for $1.00, this week. Brown's triple extract perfume, 22¢ an ounce, this week. Remember, you cannot pay full price for anyting in the store. MRS. J. BENSON, Douglas, near 16th. Six Weeks Summeoer School Begins tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock at the Omaha Commercial college ov Boston store, Douglas an Sixteenth. is the time to begin. Children over s i Prof. J. W. Lamp- man, the finest penman in the eountry, has arrived and will begin work at once. e How's Thi New train to Lincoln daily at C.R.I & 10:40 a. m. leaves Omaha )a.m. from union dept via P. railway, arrives at Lincoln Auction—Furniture—Anction At Shiverick's every day at 10 and 1:30 p.om. R. Wells, anctionéer. — Ames moved to 1617 Farnam. —_———— Samuel Burn on hotel ware. only e, s is making special prices Side dishes and bakers N Masonic -Notice. Special meoting of Nebraska Lodge No.l at Masonic hall Sunday July 9 1p.m. to attend the funeral of late brother William P. Rouse. All mastor Masons invited. Master. Cool Is Hot Springs, S. [ Om; s best reached from a by the Burlington route. Through sleeper from Omaha to the eaves at 10:15 a. YRS Black Hill City ticket off m. daily. nam street. Discovered an fen Mine. #In the north side of Stone mountain, six miles from the mouth of Stony creck, in Scott county, Virginia, has been dis- covered a natural ice house on a grand scale. One of the oid settlers first dis covered it about 1830, but owing to the fact that the land on which 1t is situated could not be bought, he refused to tell its whereabouts, and would only take ice from it in case of sickness. "He died without revealing the secret to even his own family, and but for a party of “seng” diggers ontering the region it mignt have remained a secrot for generations, as it is sitnated in an unfrequented part of the mountain. The ice was only protected from the rays of the sun by ‘a thick growth of moss resembling “that scon danglinge from the oaks of Louisiana and Toxas. Its formation was after the fashion of a vein, being a few inches thick i some places, while several feetin others. The formation indicates that it had been spraad over the surfac iqui and then congealed. it free By ss 8 or was frozen of conjecture at this stage of the investi- gation. Some think that it was formed in the winter, and had been protected since by a dense growth of moss which covers it, while the more plausible theory is that bencath the bed is sit- uated a great natural laboratory whose function is a formation of either, and the process of freezing goes steadily on through the heat as well as the c¢oid. The bed covers one acre. Auction-Furniture—Auction At Shiverick’s every day at 10 and 1:30 p.m. R. Wells, auétioncer, gt i b The lady aeronaut will make a balloon ascension ‘and parachute jump thisaflter- noon at Courtland beach. —_——— Ames moved to 1617 Farnam. ——— Mustaches Among V A learned German sclentist makes the astonishing announcement that among women mustaches are commoner in the present day than they used to be in‘the past. In Cunstantinople one out ten women have unmistakable s of down on their upper lips. A similar proportion of mustached women is to be noticed among ladies in Madrid. And in Philadelphia a ph cian in cold blood has observed that fully 3 per cent of the women are mustached. What do these facts indi- cate? A certain Mr, Mott thinks they indicate the improvement of the human race, for, according to his theory, the race is destined eventually to be com- pletely covered with hair, en. Auction—Furniiure—Auotion At Shiverick's every day at 10 and 1:30 p.m. R. Wells, audtionéer, LY DIED, Notices of five lines or less under this head, Afty centa; each additional Une ten cents, )N—Auron, ugo 21 years, 7 months, 2 s; son of Mr.'and Mrs: C. Elilson. July uueral from family residence, 8310 (4l forn vet, Sunday, July 0, dt 2 o'clock. Iuterment, Forest Latwn. Frionds invited. | was SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. “DILE 0N THE BACOY, BOVS!" A Bit of Wild Bife on the Missouri in Barly Days. A RACE THAT /WAS A RACE INDEED Tt Was In the Duys When Dusiness Was Flush and Steambonting tune—Cargoes of Butter and Bacon Used for Fuel, to For- As the railroads of the contest for supremacy in speed and good service, so did the steamboats of twenty and forty vears ago struggle for position in the public eye. All that money could purchase and the hand of artist and artisan devise and construct to further the comfort and pleasure of the passengers was to be found on the packets of the *western rivers. The high class boats stood on an equal foot- ing in this particular. The point in contest was always that of speed. Many were the races of those early days. The long train of black smoke, the measured but labored exhaust of the steam pipes, the excitement of the passengers, the orders of the hatless and coatless o tain, here, there and everywhere in search of ideas that might give his vessel the advantage: half way down the main deck the begrimed stockers, stuffing the roaring furnaces with coal, wood, oils, bacon and even butter, that the flames might be longer and hotter, to reach through the boiler flues and out into the black night through the stacks—in this you have the story of the steamboat race in part, but in part only. Years ago the trade on the Missouri prosperous. At least 100 boats ascended the stream overy season before many of them going as far as Benton in Montana. A boat that made this trip and returned to . Louis in two months without a proft of $75,000, did a poor business. 'l were the days when freight was fre No competing vessel cut the rates. boats ran independently, and when one captain fixed the tariif there was no sther boat 1o be found that would offer cheaper transportation. Horses, chat- tels and food had to go to the west. The Missouri viver boats were the means of getting them there. It must have been early in the fifties that a wonderful steamboat race took place on the Missouri, writes Homer Bassfopd in the Detroiv Free Press. The high water of 1844 b ht mar hoats from the south, their owners gaining anim ion that the Missouri breame a veritable inland sea every spring. In 1844 chutes were abandoned and boats ran over farm and garden, through towns and across wooded patches, re- wardl of channel or landmark. It was this condi for ten y afterward crowded the river with strange boats. I in the spring of one year the Henry K. John- stone and the Martha Aull came from southern waters to try their fortunes in the muddy stream of the Dakotas. Both reached St. Louis at the same time, At the busy levee of the growing metropo- lis each vessel took on freight for the northwest. Owing to the large number of v. ut that spring, cargoes were in demand, but despite the brisk rivalry, rates were maintained in accordance with the ethies of early steamboaiing. It happened that the two boats dropped away from the wharf about the same time. The Aull, Henry Sorgen- prosent “day The son, master, was probably haif an hour | ahead of the Johnstone, Bristow, ter. It was late in the afternoon. boat was loaded with merchandise and both cabins were filled, most of the passengers having been men who woro headed for the boundless west in scarch of fortune. There were, however, women on both boats. The Aull steamed away briskly and by midnight had turned from the” broad Mississippi into the dark, turbulent waters of the “Big Muddy.” It was only a few mo- ments later that the Johnstone | mas- Bach into her wake. “When daylight broke the boats were in sight of ecach othe both steaming away steadily, with no appuvent cffort to show high speed. It appeared, however, that the Johnstone was the faster boat. By noon the ves- within hailing tance of cach other The passengers of cach vessel sat on deck and watched the other boat push- ing throngh the water but afew rods away. The crews, too, eyed the boats from their respective forceastles, com- menting on the rival steamer. It was this talk from the idlc on the main decks that set passengers to thinking that something should be uone to en- liven the day. A young fellow on the Aull called to a passenger on the John- stone: “Tell your captain that we can leave him so far behind before sunset that he can’t see our smoke.” This taunt was at once conveyed to Bristow, who appeaved at the rail and shouted a response. “*And you can tell your man,” said he, “that he can burn every side of bacon in his hold and not get a bend between di ne,8 Then Captain Sorgenson came to tho front fora word. “The Aull did not come into these waters to race any,” said he, “*but if you want to sce what sort of & boat shé is—why, T guess we'll have to accommodate you, A shout went up from the Aull’s pas- gers, drowning the reply that Cap- n Bristow made. As he concluded, however, he waved his hand to the mate below, who sang: out: *‘Aye, aye, sir,” with the air of an old salt, and ran back toward the boilers. In three minutes the luzy smoke that camo trom the Aull’s stacks had changed to a rushing volume of conl black, streaming a quartor of a mile astern; seemingly dipping into the dark brown water of the river. Five minutes from the closing of the little specch making the Aull’s engines began t0 move more rapidly. Then the blunt nose of the ve crawled through the water faster and faster, until the wheel- house of the boatrwas abreast the jack- staff on the Johnstone. A passenger on the Aull shouted: “Better poke your fires up, or they'll go plumb out.” Bristow was not at the rail to respond, He was in the cabin in consultation with a number of the passongors. “Well, what do you say, men?” he was asking. +Do it!” shouted a stout youth of 2. DRPRICE'S Baking all Powder The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder,—No Amumionia; No Alum, Used in Millions of Homes-—40 Years the Standard. | _— “Would you let that stumpy to St Joe? “It's a matter of business,” said the captain, “If she gets there first, my assengera will not have the pick of odgings and outfits,” ““That's the thing, young man. “I reckon you're right,” said another of the party. Then another agreed until finally the captain was satisfic that his most prominent passengers fa- vored a test of speed. “All right,” said he: ‘“‘wo'll find out who's got the best bottom on this part of the river, and 1t won't take us long, ow beat us observed the stout aptain Bristow went below. His pas- gathered at the rail and watched Aull as she steamed evenly and rapidly ahead. The cook houseof the sedy boat, well astern, was now oppo- site the Johnstone's jack staff, and each second put the prows of the two vessels further apart, it was a good piece of river in which the hoats were running. The bends were few and not severe; the water was deep and straight in the channel. The Aull's passengers crowded ie hurricane deck and stood far ), shouting taunts at the sleepy looking Johnstone. That was the state of affairs. Then the Johnstone's pilot pressed his foot on the whistle valve. A great white cloud of steam enveloped the top of the pilot house and then a shrill whistle sounded, the first of a chime. The others broke in with it ten seconds later, until all of the bunch of whistles on the Johnstone's pilot house were shouting musical defi- ance to thesAull. Music, indeed, came from the throats of those steamboat whistles. Whether from near ov far, the whistles' chime always seemed to tell of calm, clear evenings, moonlit waters, soft music, the singing of plan- tation melody and the whisper of love. With the Johnstone's whistle there camo a stronger throb of the boat's heavy engines. With each vibration the hearis of passengers and crow beat faster. There was a_hurrying of feot— a silence of voic The race was on. Throughout the afternoon both bouts fairly flew along. It was plain to be seen that the Aull was working all of the steam that her boilers raise. She had bone in her 50 sharply did her nose cut the wat, A great line of yellow foam stretehed away from The Johnstono tas fiercely, cither <ide of her prow. was cutting the water alr but her hull was shaped di that of her rival, and for that reas effective work was not o apparent. Tho Aull maintained the slight lead that she | had gained at the outset, but Captain | Bristow did not appear alarmed over it. He coolly ordered his men and had the fuel sorted s0 as to have the best ma- terial ready foran emergeney. Through the narrow chute by ( 1 Island, around Bonhommie, by Cottleville with- out stopping, and through Ward's Hol- low the boats raced, sometimes being forced almost to thie grazing point by the narrowness of the channel. Twilight found but littie change in the relative positiong of the boats. If there was any differcnee the Aull had ained a few feet. The river was badly divided below s a mensure of safety the ssencd the speed of their boats until the dangerous point was passed. When it was deemed advisablo to again push forward the night was well on. The moon was full, giving the pilots a_splendid opportunity for good work. Its yellow radiance made a river of gold of the turbid torrent. No one slept until midnight, when a few of the passengers slipped off to take a nap. On the Aull there was among the lady passcngers® Miss Letitia Bernard, a handsome young woman from St. Louis. She announced that she would remain awake until the Aull won the race or had hopelessly lost. Half a dozen men gallantly agreed to sit it out with her and togother the party roamed the moonlit decks or visited the engine room and firemen's quarters to en- courage the grimy workers to harder endeavor, » 34T will give you 8100 to win the race!” Miss Bernard said to the engineer. ‘*And the same to she cried, dressing the sooty: H“We'll try, ma'am, for money in those days wasas glittering as it is today. The morning found the Aull 100 yi ahead of the Johnstone. “‘We're beat, cap,” said a rough trader, addressing Bristow, No, we're not,” returned the captain. “I'm running this end of the race, and depend on me to run it right.” All day the boats sped along, and each hour the Aull gained a trifle. Another evening found the sky again clear—a rfect night for racing on the river. ot a breath of a rred. The still- ness was only broken by the regular deep-toned throb of the engines, as the boats eut through the water. Washing- ton, Portland, Jefferson City—the little state capital high on the bluffs—all had been passed in the afternoon with a whistle that brought the inhabitants out to see the speeding hoats, Soon after passing | Bristow called the pas: “What 1 want ds orson Captain ‘ngors on deck. to say, friends,” ho Dogan, “is thiss We'll bo in good water before very long—a narrow river with o | deep channel and a rock bottom. It's the best water in the river. Now, we can beat that boat ahead of us oasy enough with one thing. It will take some grease. 1f 1 can buy a fow ‘sides’ cat from the cargo we can go A St Louis trader was on hand with several hundred “sides.” He stopped forward in an instant. “You shall have ! ‘em, cap,” he said, “and for nothin'." Lt wasa vight jolly cheer that went up. Bristow hardly oowed his thanks, o hur- riedly did he’ gov away from the cabin and go below, 'n the boys loose, Jim," he yellod to the enginecr, and before his ‘words had died away across the water the choicest of inflammable materials was being rammed into the yawning fur- nacés. The hand on the steam gaugo crawled up slowly, and as it advanced the engincer opened the valves wider, The increased speed was noted at once. So close together did the throbs of the engine eome that they appeared like a steady vibration. In twenty minutes the Aull was so close that her o outline was clearly sible in the by liant moonlight, Her captain saw that the Johnstone was gaining vapidly, and the volume of sparks that poured from S naroll of inky smoko told renson moant to keep ahead if the expenditure of fuel would do it. The Johnstone gained stoadily. Tn two hours the ats were abreast, ten wds ape ho Swedish captain of the Aull could be heard shouting his ' orders to the men. He was everywhore. One moment he would be telling the engineer what to do, the n would find him directing the placing of fuel, at another he would have his hand on the wheel in the pilot house in an en- deavor to make a short cat in the river. The lights from the furnaces of both boats gleamed on the surface of the | water, rivaling the moon's brilliant rays. The passengers on each of the boats could hear the others, as th talked excitedly of the race, The n of the boats were exactly together as | thoy entered tho long and beautiful | streteh of river just bolow Tocheport. On the right, o rocky wall, covered with elinging ivy, roso to a height of 100 feet. Over it the full moon beamed, but the shadow of the great bluff ex- | tendetl across to the other side of the | stream. Into this narrow, deep, black | ver the boats plunged like things of life. The Johnstone had a little ad- vantage, and not a side of meat had been used. ¥ “Pile on the bacon, boy Bristow shouted, and with a yell the groase was hurried into the furnaces. The Aull’s captain felt that he was beaten. He had used the best of his fuel carly in the race., “Pile her on, he “Keep he shouted B stow. Inch by inch the Johnstone moved ahead. “There’s butter on board!™ eried Miss Bernard. “Burn it and Ull pay. The , Aull must wi » butter in cakos and baskets was smeared over sticks of wood and fed to the greedy flames in the boat's furnaces. Her engines responded, too, for the slight guin that the Johnstone had ac- complished was soon overcome and the Aull passed the other boat. Bristow | fore the *of course | appavent. shouted orders and the measured ‘‘choo, choo” of the exhaust pipes beoamd hoarser than ever. It was nock and neck. Then the Johnstone began to gnin_ again. Thore was & bend ahead, where the bluff broke for & fow foet, only to rise higher than ever a dozen yards beyond. For this bond the boats worked. The thing was to reach it first. Bristow with his own hands piled the meat into the furnaces until the Johnstono again passed the Aull. [t was something akin 10 a curso that Sorgenson uttered when ho found the last of hischoice fuel spent. On, on sped the Johnstone. It was ten yards ahead aund gaining! More food > for the flames! Twonty yards and at the « bond first! A mighty shout went up from the Johnstone's decks when the boat rounded so that tho Aull could not be seon. It was soon visible again, how« over, but the Johnstone was gaining each minute on tho time. In half an hour it was fifty yards ahead. In an- othor hour it had rounded another bend and the raco was won. It had a start that the Aull could not overcome. Just after midnight the lamps at Rocheport landing were sighted. The passengers wore still on deck, talking of the race. A pall of black smoke hung half a mile back from the Johnstone's stacks, and only by bending the ear could one cateh the faint, measured thrum, thrum, thrum of the Aull's en- gines, far back on the moonlit river, il duue ANECDOTES OF FARRAGUT. The HMartford a M 1 Ship to Him—His Victory at Mobile, Ex-Governor Rice of Massachusetts, in his oration at the unveiling of the Farra- gut monument in the Marine park at South Boston on Wednesday, related the following: “During the progress of the rebellion vast changes and improvements were made in the eonstruction and equipment of naval vessels, including monitors, ironclads, etc., yot, in a conversation with the admiral after the war was over, T asked him what kind of a war ship he would build after all his experier He waited for o moment and then sald: ‘She would be very like the Hartford, sir.’ “The Hartford, you will remember, was his old flag ship, in which he had suffered his greatest perils and won his most conspicuous viotorios. “In the samo conversation I asked him: “What did you expect when you entered Mobile | He instantly re- plied: ‘To take tl HYes, said common observe . place, of eourse chances, if not even, would seem to have heen ngainst you. The confederates strong a naval force as you had, and an oqual varioty of vessols; besidos, they had planted the bay with torpedoos and had two co-operating forts, and the or- dinary estimate has been that one gun in position on land is . equal to four of like caliber afloat, and you yourself have given to Admiral Buchanan credit for high naval skill and ability—there- doos not seem to be Do you mean,' I continued, ‘that you had aclearly defined plan, the working out of whicli would give you victory?’ “Ho waited a moment before replying, and then said: “Well, T never go into a tle without a well scttled plan, and [ m nevor so wedded to my pian: that T cannot abandon it at any moment when I find the circumstances different from what T anticipated This, [ think, was very character- istic of him, and I have been told by naval men that this was probably the grand secret of his success in Mobile had about as is opponent, Admiral Buchanan, was not wanting in bravory and was well vorsed in naval tactic ife had proba. Dbly anticipated Farragut’s planup to the time of the sinking of the Tecumseh, but when Farragut abandoned his plan he threw his opponent into confusion, and, Dy ‘dealing with the circumstances as he found them,’ snatched vietory from impending defeat before the ustonished eyes of both friends and foes.” Furniture—Auction At Shiverick’s every at 10 and 1:30 p. m. R, Wells, auetioneer. —— Balloon ascension and parachute jump this afternoon at Courtland 13 N LADIES, This sale includes all our beautiful tan colored shoes and low cutoxford ties. 6. W, COOK & SON | Twenty Per Cent Discount OF All Our Shoes, REGULAR JULY OLFARING SALE Greatest Shoe Sale Ever Held In Omahn Because You Can iuy the Shoes You Want und Save the Discount, We will now offer our entire stock of shoes at a general cut in prico of 20 per cent off from our reglur marked selling price, which is in plain figures, Wo do this to reduce stock. July is here and we find_our stock is 100 lirge and wo are bound to reduco it at one: our immeuse Remember, we always do as wo adver- tige, and you cun now come to our store and seiect any shoe you want and our sulesman will give you 20 per cent dis- count without your usking for it. Como to see us and he convinced. Tell your friends and neighbors, Remember you will not be asked to buy any old truck, for we have none, but you may make your selections from the largest and finedt stock of shoes in the city. LADIES. This will give you Our #.00 fine kid shoe at $4.00, Our 4,00 fine kid shoe at $3,20, Our 83,50 shoe at $2.80., Our #3.00 shoe at $2.40, Our 82.00 shoe at $1.60, Our $1.00 fine kid Oxford Tie ut § 00 fine kid Oxtord Tie at 0 fine kid Oxford Tic at .00 Oxford Tie at $1,20, Our §1,00 Oxford e at Suc, GENTLEMEN. We will sell you J. 8. Turnci’s fine patent leather #5.00 shoes at #6.4°, Our #7.00 ehoes at #3.60, Our #6,00 shoes at #4.80, Our 5,00 shoes at #4.00, Our $4.00 shoes ut $3.20. Our #3.00 shoes st $2,40, We promise to make this the greatest shoe gale ever held in Omaha, because you cau buy just the ghoe you wunt and §ave 20 por cent in buying them of us. ‘Phis sale must be for cash, No goods will be sold ut this great discount sale end charged on our books. G, W.COOK & SON, Cook's 014 Reliable Shos Stove. 208 and 205 S, 16th St,, Karbach Block, This is the time to buy tan: shoes, and low cut shoes. e