Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1893, Page 13

CHAT WITH A FAMOUS WOMAN Eutertaining Talk with Mrs. Kato Chase, Dauglhter of the Ohief Justice.- HER FATHER'S PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIO but Only to Administer it for the Good Of the People. Same Great Statess men She Knew, Viasn Oct. 12.—{Spe: Corrs spondence of Tie Bek.|--1 spent & morai this weck Mrs, Kato Chase nt Edge wood home vear Washington. 1t on ihe outskirts of the city o fgh Wb overlooking the basin in which \Washin is built, The estato now comprise md it dncludes the old b sion in which Salmon . Chase with n ety k man vad while the United States At Livo-story briok containin and covered by a ridge | the littie wivdows of tie {r heads and gaze at the mag nificent views about them. A wide hall runs through the center of the houss. Rare old furnt which Mrs, Europe fills many of the rooms, and the Morary,where the chief justice was wont, as his daughter tells me, to translate Latin poetry into English verse for amusement, is still intnet Kuto Chane in 1893, Driving up a winding road through great trees, which hid from me the October sun, | was mot st the front door of the house by Mrs. O Lorself, She was dressed in . with an old-fashioned broad brimmed ming well down over her eyes, and sho g gttention to her farming ything connected with turned it from a s« good farmor and tho same braiss which made her so powerful in the duys of 1800 come to her service now in making the ends meet off of this thirty-six acres of clay soll. As we walked up the sieps Mis Ci removed her hat and ! could sce that she still possesses some of the beauty whict s0 famous in the days gone by, Shois straight as an arrow. Her form: is rounded but not fat, Her face has but few wrinkles and her hair shows no signs of gray. As she talks he oy brighten and the magnetism for which she was 0 noted again connes to the surface She must bo now nearly 0. but she doss not look more thin 40, and in my conversation with her no word of complaining or fault finding dropped from ki > day upon which | culled way a pleasant oae and we chatted in the open n nded by of the fluest views in the United States, From the wide veranda on which we sat we could sco the golden dome of the new li bravy, view the muny columned capitol, with its flags flying over the houses of congress, and off 1u the aistance fill our eyes with th nse hat c Lad be Sho i the estat farm into a pa 56 muae Her lips, X one, anowy spire of the Washington monument, | whic away. down city pa pierced the blue sky about three miles We could see the Potomac, and look s it were upon the great red ok o with its wealth and misery, its vices and ita virtue, its shoddy and its shams. About our feot stretched acres of velvety lawn, on which Jersey cattle tied by long ropes to stakes here and there sleapily browsed, Above us the enormous brauches of natural oaks waved their many colored leaves i the autumn sun and all our su roundings were those of peace casting their shadow upon the great city of discord below ‘The fanous woman who sat beside wmo scomed also at peace. She has tasted to the full all of the pomps aud vanities of poiitical and social - 1o and she is now apparently happy here on the edge of it, though not in it. A gencration there was no woman in Washington more powerful, mor and more admired than Mrs, Kato Chase. She played the game of politics as no woman in our history has ever played it, and ner pawns were men. As I looked over the capi- t0l, where the senate was wrangling just as did when Salmon P. Chase sat thero 508, and where Chief Justice Fuller was presiding over the doings of the court as Chief Justice Chase did a littlo more than two decades ago, T eonid not help thinking of the wonderful history of the woman at my side. 1 pointed to the city and asked lier to give me her first memories of it A Girl's Recoll lons of Clay and Webster. Snid Mrs. Chase s sinco 1 to Washington. ~ [" waus u little u, and my father had been eloeted to senate. He brought me east with him and placed me in a ce school in New York. 1 spent wmost my time at school, but now and then | had a va- cation, in whic | over here to yisit fathe dat those times [ saw something of the great men of the day. Father ofven took mo on the floor and introduced me to his brother senators. [ rememberit well, 1 knew Clay, Webster and Cathoun, Henry Clay made’n strong impression upon me. My father was a tall man, but Clay was taller. Ile towered wbove me, but he was pleasant in his manners and fond of chil- dren. He made much of me and 1 liked him, 1 romember Daniol Webster, too. He seomcd to me at that time to bo my ideal of how a statesman ought to look. He was very sober and impressive in his manner, He seldom Iaughed,but he was very kind,and he used to send me his speeches. 1 don't suppose he thought 1 would read them, but he wanted to compliment me and show thut he remen.- bered mo, and [ know that 1 folt very proud when [suw Daniel Webster's frank upon pieces of mail which came to me at the New York school. Anothergreat man who was my friend up to the time of his death was Charles Sumner. He was a noble man, warm, kind and great. 1 knew him when he was a buchelor, and 1 saw much of him after his marriage and the trouble which fol- lowed." “How did Sumuner happen to marey ™ [ asked, Charles Sumner's Unhuppy Marriage. SHo was not married until late in life," replied Mrs. Chase. o spent most of his existence in_bachelorhood, and hie was ried to his studics and his profession. He was o great tof Congre n Hooy of Mass and it was at Hoope house thut ho met the youug widow whom he married. Sho had wareied Hooper's s and hehad died. 1 used to seo M. Sumg nearly overy day at e Ho was father's friend and spc Vol his tin at our house. Father jokea him about his approaching m and in 4 jesting way cited the examples promin men who had married youn s Charles was happy. however, in th marriuge, und it wus not until his wedding day had for some time gone by that he g preciated the mistake ue had made, He found that instead of & helpmect and a com vanion he had married a butterfly, who caved more for the german aud f; cial festivities of the capital th husband and his studies. For a time he went with her to parties ind rec have sat besido hiw oo somo such ¢ X when I could seo that he was miser He had work to do and he felt that he should be atit and the result was the separation. He felt the blow terribly aud *it wus this, | be liove, that hastened his death,” “What kind of & man was Sumner, so- clally ? “He was charming, was full of asions, was the reply. “He anecdotes and was a brilliant talker, Ho was warm hearted and sensi- tive. He was a man of a wide range of thought and of u thorough appreciation of the good. the true and the beautiful,” Kate Chuso i 1860, to Mrs. Chase of her famous nd asked her if she bad u pie- elf which was taken at the time 1 here spo social reign ture of b of the war “You speak of my social reign" Mrs. Chuso replied. did not go futo soclety, I venture o say, a8 much as balf as many wowmen in Wushington today. I never carc for society wuch. My fricudships were courted | umner | | dinners,and with the associations o | head of it from that time u | graving. ! woma Chase picked up in | | and had this engraving made an yet | | | | | | return to W « \ THE atrong, and I knew all of the great wen of | my timo. My sociai 1ita was made up of | such ten eathier than the common round of receptions and calis. As to entertaining | was thrown | upon my own vces ata very early s Lwasonly 14 when 1 took charge of father's houseliold, and 1 continued at the hiis death. Mrs. Chiase the said she had no photogravh or dazuerrotype of that time. but that she could zive me a steal engraving which was said to e good likencss 8ho thereapun we ne house and re turned with tiis e raving and a photograph 1 1 speaking of 3 on the atage and her ahe had been able to earve out a for herself, she showed ine the en 1t was tho picture of a beautiful in the fuil aress of about i%0. 1t lies befors e as L write, The hoop skirt is ver . but the fowecut gown shows a beautiful neck and shoulders and the sym wetrical features are full of beauty, wuch of which still may be seen on the f. of Mrs. Clinse. ~ As she handed it out to mo she id t picture has a curious history It was niade when iy father was secrotary f the treasury sme of my friends | wanted Lo put my picture on one of the hank 3, and they took one of my photographs iout my knowledge and sént it to_the | rican Bank Note company of New York | As soonas | heard of it 1 positively forbade them using it in connection with ‘the bank notes. My fathel wis on the billsand ! did oot | vare to have mine there asweil. 1t seemed o me very bold that they took the picture and had the eugraving made without my knowledge, " Sho Taiks of Her Fa “Your father's face was printed on the #1 bills, was it not? “Yes, they wanted him te the 81,000 bonds, but he said he preferred dollar notes, and said_that it was his mbition to'pive the United States such that the dollar of the laboring man and the dollar of tie capitalist would be an honest dollar from Maine to Georgia, He succeeded in doing this and his success s secretary of th ury will be one of the wonders of history. When he had_bor- rowed his first £0.000.000 of the New York banks tha London Times said he would not fare 80 well across the water. Neverthele e raised millions in London, and he w bound that there should ho money enough te carry on the war. Ho succeeded in getting itin all sorts of ways. At one time when | the New York bankers refused to give him money on_his own terms he threatened to wshington and issue notes. He sudd 4t this time that the war must o on until the rebellion was put down 1f we had 10 put out paper to such an extent that it would take $1,000 to buy a breukfast." er. allow it to go on Snlmon P, Chase's Diary sud Papers. I asked Mrs. Chuso as to her fath piography which she was wiiling. Sho re pli I can'y tell how soon it will ba done nor in just what way it will bo published. My father left a muss of valuable material. He wis one of the most methodical men | haye own and he kept overything. His fullof unwritten history aud they thana gencration of important amous men. H of everything counected Lis work and ho unaerstood how to m secretaries keep things for him night just before he nt to bed he jotted down the occurrences of the day and he thus kept a record of the 1mportant conferences that he had while inpublic life, All the cabinet meetings that he a 1 while he WAL 5 corded, and his aiaf nutshell the history of his time. Tt will have to be edited carefully, as will indeed all of the papers. 1 had a call not long ago from an old friend of my father's who lives in Olio and he told me that he had a manuscript autobiography which my father had given him in trust after his death. This ho said send to me. [ don't know just Ishould think it might be of cove ovent great value,” “In what condition Chiof Justico Chase *They are carefully stored away,” Mrs. Chase. “The most important of them I keep 1w a fireproof vault, and a large amount of them have been sent 1o Boston. “There is a man connected with Hurvard college, u Prof. Hart, who is_ writing eraphy of my father for the sta s This will necessarily be short, it cannot go into detail like the work that | have in view." are these papers of replicd Chief Justice Chase in History, “What do you think of your father's place in history? Does the worid of today know him as he was?" It does not,” replied Vo the time will come when his work will appreciated, He was one of the noblest and greatest of men, and _he sacrificed him- f to large extent to his country. He ha 1 callod selfish and has been aceused of g o the presidency as a matter of onal ambition and self aggrandizement » Was never a preater mistuke. The desire he had to be president lay in the thought that he could his country best in that pl He had a policy and ideas of | his own as to the adunistration of affairs, | and had he been nominated he would have boen elected. He was, a5 you know. a dem- ocrat, bubhe was a umion man, and his policy would have healed the troubles b tween the north and soutl. He would have escaped the troubles of reconstruction and the kuklux would have never been known Tam safe in saying e would have been g He stood country, a match vice, -His Mrs. Chase. "1 be- and nis re for General finuncial theor He was strong in oeratic party and well d the co even one."" rhe nvention of 1868, “You were in New York at the tin convention nominated Horatis Seymos “Yes, 1 went there and stopped friends next the Man an club, which was A great democratic headquarters i thy days. 1 knew that the men who w i 'S interests were n ord in this respect w ant’s military s had been a great success 1l branches of the dem- mong the republicans as st would have beea an antage of any situation that might | como up. At first there seemed to b little doubt but that father would be nominated. “The night* before the convention General Van Buren, Governor Seymour's sccretary, came in and told me that Mr. Seymour would not be a candidate, and that he would only accept o complimentary vote, and would then withdeaw in favor of Salmon P, Coaso. He | told me that Governor Sey mour would come in shortly himself and toll me that he tended to do this, but he never came. not think he would at the time, as 1 feq he woula not have the courage to carey out | his resoluticn. Ho had prowised to do some thing of the kind when he van for governor, but when the time came he proved 100 we to carty out his promise. It was the same | in this convention. He was, you know, the presiaing officer. When his ame was pro- posed he'suid nothing, and he remuined in the vice uutil he secured the nomination. Nominatlon for Ror Father. *Waus your futher near being nominated " I asked. “Yes: at noon that day the situation was such that he would have been nominated had the convention not adjourned. A Cali fornia delegate nad aunounced his yote for Chase. I'his was unexpected and it creatod a sensation. The convention was i an up roar and a stampede to my father's support | was imminent. His eneniies prevented this by moving recess {or ainner and during thiis re abination was made that nominated Seymour. The chief reason that my tather was uot nominated was the douht as to whether he would accept the platform. Tam sure he would not have done so. delegation came to me while the convention was sitting and told me that if I would authg them assure theconvention that father would a ptthe platform they would announce this and it would surely secure the Lomination. | refused to do this. 1 told | them that 1 knew the platform was not in accordance with his views and that I did not think be would consent to carcy ont its policy. *Ho will do.’ said I ‘what heunder- stands to be his duty to his country and his party, but I do not think his ideas of the vighiare embodied in that platform. You can telograph him concorning it. As for me Lcanuot vouch for it.’ Father afterwards told me that he could not have accepted the platform. He had written s letier stating his views before the couvention was held A his position on all questions wus well known. " She Did Not Care for the W House, “‘How about yourself, Mus. Clase! L4 is said | of ! He | te 1 it to him whilo he was still | him at Columbus, that wis fathor most house?™ “i do not think t Chase. “If you w! 860 how unf. vour ambition that made your desire to enter the white At is 80, replisd Mrs i reason a little vou will W it §s. 1 was anxio my father n it be president in or he might ca out his ideas, As to social nbition 1 had been in society all of my life. I was forced into it very young. At the age 14 1 was the social head of my fathor's establishment at Columbus, where he w. the governor of tno state, and I had at th time three children that [ had to care for When [ came to Washington my father was socretary of the treasury, aud as the wife of Gpvernor Sprague my social duties were eanally great. Fhe mere name of being mis- tress of the white house had never been a great attraction to me, and my father's health was such that I aid not want to seo him become president and undergo all of the worries and cares which s ociated with the chief execntive of the arly broke himself down while ho was tary of the treasury and he had just begun to recover. From his earliest youth the supreme hench had been the goal of his ambition, and 6 felt, as | did, that to be chief justice of the supreme court was honor fully equal to that of the presidenc and tion.’ Why Mrs. Lincoln “How about the tre e was especially fitted for the posi ted Kate Chase. vour father as secretary of ury’ You speak of the wear and r of the oftic It was ible; he did not want the posi tion and it was against his inclination that he accevted 1t President Lincoln offered at Columbus Ho sent for father to o Springfield. i think. Tdo not remem her he went or not, but Lincoln afterward camo to visit 1t was just at the time of the celebration of the anniversary of the Perry victor t Cleyveland and I had gone to Cleveland to be present at this. It was At this time that | met Governor rague for the first time, my fate. Mrs, Lincoln came ith the presideat to Columbus and they were entertained by Governor Denison Mrs. Lincoln piqued that 1 did not | main at Columbus to see her, and [ have al- ways felt that this was the chief reason | why she did not like me at Washington, How Chuse Refosed the Treasury. Lincoln offered father the treasury, but my ident ip of father refused it to the United States senate and he feit that he could do more thero than in the treasury. He felt the same when he came down to Washington and sworn in as United ales senator, Pressure, however, from parts of the country and among his cuds at Washington him to finally resolve to take the place. He realized the enormity of the undertaking when he a the portfolio. o raising of 'y on the war was as great an s the raising and equipment of v the field. We had no foreign credit all d men | and the making of greenbacks without inter- tender when the countr, never been on anything but a goid basis was as great as the surrender of the four rs later. The world will ne now the strain that the secretary of the treasury had to undergo at that time. My er lived at the depart- it and he slept with his ear at the tele- ph. Au order would e that millions must be had at once, and it was bis business to raise the money. How he did it. how he organized the national bauking system, how he' placed hundreds of millions abroad, these are matters of history.” FRANK (i, CARPENTE R, —_— WHOM THE GODS LOVE. Edgar Pawcett in Lippineott's sity that being so old f m to dic? mment cold Wh rs be shed Whon death lays young lives low, Spared yoars of sorrow and frot, Spared age's overthrow? . Whe Rings not your ¢ And e Should te young wo a d away, 1slay, Not merely ourselves, but yot Brand with iuthentic sign His despotismis elsewhere Drape wisps of silvering hair With sover: Pity the old who dle; “Ine young behind them leave Such Dounteous griof whereby Uate bids they should not grieve. it racked with many a sigh, Wounded with many i scar. Pity tho old who dic The youn happler - INDUSTRIAL AWAK ! wa, 10 Susquehanna Rolling mill of Colum- bin, Pa., resumed work last week ufter a page of some weeks. “The railroad shovs of the Re: and the Lehigh Vailoy road h on full time with full fore After an idleness of three months the She- nango Valley Steel mill of New Castle, Pa,, has resumed operations on double turn, with full foree of men “T'he furnaces in the Republican Tron Works at Rankin, Pa., wore fired up last week and things preparad for starting up in all depart- ments today. About 400 men will be given work All the collieries of the P aing Coal and Iron comy Pa., have resumed oper ders to work six days each months, Si business at ding system > becn put adelphia and ations under or- week for two point to a 1 in the jewelry Attloboro, Mass. 1. H. Curtls ¢ on ten-hour time, and expeet to keep it up ustil Christmas Other shops o siug the number of hands and hours of work The United States Stamped Envelope works i Hartford, Conn., which have been running seven hours a two months, has r scheduie, and will he) averaging b product of day “T'hic Nutional Fibre Board company, having lurge works at various pl throughout New England, with headquarters in Boston, has secured possession of the teather board manufactory ut Morrisville, Vt. [t is moy- ing machinery and outfiv from Lynu and Salem, and is o increaso the works for its own products, > nail fact the ten-hour fier run on full time, 1,000,000 enveiopes cy of the Maloning Valley ) Iron company. which has beon shut down for several months, resumed onerations last week. After being idie all sumumor toe Oxford Iron and Nail com ny at Belyi- dere, has rosumed operations in its nanl Oxford, und I8 preparing to start up the rolling mil “he Merchants' Woolen mill at East Dad- Mass., which has been idle for the lust wonths, will run three days a week, ginning October. 9. The Columnbian Manu facturing company’s mills at Greenville, N, I1., which have been shut down since Jul began operations last week, to run three daysa week until further notice The New York World publishes a list of 00 industrial establishnonts which work in Septemuer, after weeks or uths of idleness. The New England muls make un encouraging showing, and the great u industries of Pennsylvania huve lik wise made u similarly energetic effort to ry sume operations iu the face of the aopress- iug monetary conditions which nave en- vironed them. “I'here 15 a pronounced brightening of the wndusirial situation at Seranton, Pa. There were two resumptions on Monday—at the north mill of the Lackawaana Lren aud Steel company, employing 500 hands, aud at the Scranton luce curtain factory, giving work 10 400 more. ‘1he announcement is made t the Soutn Side wills, all of which huve idle for several montns, will resume operations on November 1, employing over 1,000 bands of both sexes Several Pittsburg mills that wers idle all summer started up last week. The plant of H. Lloyd's Sons company resumed in full with the exception of the sheet mill. The puddiers and guide mill are on dguble and the barmillon siagle turn. After several months on half-time the Penusylvania com- pany's Allegheny shops resumed in full. Tne shops are crowded with orders for repair work. The sheds are full of freight cars and eugiues crowd the machine shop DR s s DeWitt's L ttle E Swmall pills safe pill, best pill. A Methodist Dishop out weat who uses & chapel car sveaks of it as the “Holy Roamiun’' church.” OMAHA DAILY BEE ked liis life and work as chief justice, | He had just heen elected | DAY{AOCTORER ‘(;(H‘I) MINING, TN COLORADO | How the Precious Metal is Extracted from the Earth, ki THE GOLD RUN “'SUCKER'S" WARNING NOTE Vivla Portrayal of vhe Excitements nnd Dangers Incident to the Search After theWellow King ot Me DESVER, Oct. 6.—[Correspondence of Tite Beg. | —In the latter part of the 50's gold was first discovered in Clear crock canon T'here was intense excitement caused by the wolden evidence of the vast wealth hid in the bed of the croek and its jutting bars from Golden City, ¢ westward, that time hnndreds and fhousands of men using sluice box and pan. This canon has possessed . particular atteaction for the castern tourist, who looks with ¢ pectant eve for some evidences of the stories told of sudden riches. tourist opening and in_dife miners ek was has been disappointe: ment of the sitver my, of the stuto engros especially after Cle pr 1y we I'ho depre 1 in Colorado this year and the slump in sitver that shut down its mines, throwing thousands of miners out of em ployment, turned their attention once more to_the croek, and at the present time Clear creek possess: A most animated o pearance. The tourist who looks on the towerimg crags, under which the Colorado Central railroad winds its way to the famous loop, can grati Rundreds of men and “pan’ seeking o is a novel scene, daevelop ent parts attention, declared are using color. ™ done that is * days, especially from a car window. most of these men expeet to make s only, though occasionally a “pocket” is found that will yield several dollars, Mothod of er The general plan adopted men to form a partnership. dollars apiece Lo rig up a “sluice box.” bu ana after tind suitable piace ced to work and divide the There ave many, however, who use a gold pan, not having suffeient money to outht themselves with a sluico box This sluice box is generally from twenty to 100 feet loug, and is a square trough of vough light boards through which a ¢ wnt stream of watoris made to run, Near the lower end of the box, is the “riffies," little cleats nailed across the bottom of the trough t h the gola as it washes through. The objective point in digging is bedrock, where most of the gold is supposed to be. The sluice box arranged, the water turned in, the expectant min stations himsclf at the head of the box nd slovels in sand, gravel, dirt and boulders, which the rapidly tlowing stream rolls and washes, A *cleanup is gouerally made once a week, and the result practically demonstrates in gold the judgment of the miner or the extent of his uck couple of schip in” a few simply Making a 1 Beforo making a location a are washed out and if the £00d, up goes the sluice box. Iuformatio regarding the suc of these miners is hard to obtain. For'if luck attends them it 15 kept to themselves, ind if at the end of a week’s hard labor, standing in water all day, lifting boulders, shoveling sand and gravel, tho cleanup 'shows only a dollar or two, there certainly 'is uothing to be hilarious about, or even mention, in fact tive cents in ' gold per pan is considered excellent pay dirt, and’ one can readily seo that with such dirt aud u well rigged siuic box a weekly cleapup would yield quit handsome returns. These places are tew and far bot ¥cen and's tveek's toil more often ends in bitter disappomtment, and the dis- gusted miner leaves for some other locality, his place being filled by others who, per chance, cdrry o *4ubbit’s foot” or “lucky stone’ which inspires them: for a time with hope and contidence. “The work possesses & fascination that is simply irresistiblo and the mere exhibition of a few gramns of gold with the statement that this is the result of ono pan of dirt from such and such a bar produces a tion and a rush to the locality in question The Gold Bun ke. Quite a gold excitement was started last month i the neighborhood of the head- waters of the Grand river in Middle Park, sixty wiles from the railrond. A great ruy 100k place and for a time the intercst taken in “Gold Run” was iutense. 1t proved to be a fuke, however, On a piece of cardboard, serawled in pen- cil and tacked on the side of an abandoned log nouse on the stage road, was the fotlowing, which may at least have eascd the mind of a disgusted prospector: ation. fow panft indications Heres wot Gold 'y fine! fishing No zold, bud roads and v." CAnd it your d-- big fool 1ot to hulivve it, go see for yourself. Yours truly Sene A Sveker. Some have invested quite heavily in placer mining in Clear Creek, and b, pent thou- sands ot dollars sinking shafts to bed rock and tuunelling wider the creek, whose ers ure utilized to run the wheel whi ngs the sand and gravel to the surfs and also bump the water out of the shaft Danger in Min ‘These mines are extremely daugerous to work in, on account of the hbility of *cave- ins,” and many u man has had his life crushed out by the boulders crushing the timbers that ‘support shaft and tunnel. Cloudbursts in the mountains are the g cnemy of the guleh miner and ofte of water will come rushing down the canon with resistiess force, carrying away bridges, aqueducts and thousands “of feet of sluico boxes, many of which contain the gold, repre- senting several days of toil. While the general output of gold uhe present summer 18 10t been lurge it hus been the means of furnishing employment to_many who might othorwise have been forced to accopt charity. FoW A A A Favored Mun, Detroit Tribune. Thieves broke in and stole his best suit of clothes and his gold watch. “1am fortunate above other men,” he murmured, A cyelone blew his house away. Still he smiled complacently. A strect car ran over him and he had to have a doctor every day forsix wecks, “I have no kick gowing,"he persisted, sweetly, He was nominated Tor congress on the populist ticket when he was away from home, “1am lucky," of all.” A fow people undgrstood him. They were present when, years be ho had found an ofster in Soup ser at u church social. They knew why he never complained. e An Expensivé Acquaintance. Kate Field's Waskington: There is a certain young swoll in Washington society who wishes; he had not made such ‘public display of pride in his father's military position, since he, in common with the rest of the gay world, now knows that the officer’s name ranked more prominently in the card rooms of the various posts where he had been stationed than it ever has done on the Army Register. It happened in this i ‘he young man, being in espe boasttul mood, turned to & young foreigner in the company of a gilded youth, saying: **You should know my father.” 1 do know startling veply: to know him. poker.” hedeclared, “in spite d your father was the cost me just 81,500 Ho taught me to play S America is fast forglug ahead in every thing. Cook's Extra Dry Imperlal Cham pagne is excelled by no forelgn article, 15, 1893~ were | an | o U ————— TWENTY PAGES, THE MORSE DRY GOODS (0. | . THIS WEEK---All the Week, GRAND SPECIAL SALE Or BLANKETS & UNDERWEAR We hold our great underwear e of ladies' and children's goods this week. ‘The prices at | which we will sell gools at this Ladies' nonshrinking woo- en Union Suits, in natural gray, good value at 83, for this sale sale will pe out of the ordinary $ —for these reasons: 2‘()0' Our buyer, who recently re- | — - urned from eastern markets Ladies’ extra fine black and Ound many manufacturers with [ jersey ribbed vest and pants, laroe quantities of rejected | S anteed fast black, worth arg k e 1 ] i yoods on their hands, cancelled | $175: ers of timid buyers, who had At $1 85 Blankets! | Listen to our little stox‘y!l We are overstocked in blank- ets, We bought largely. The | continued warm weather for | the past 6 weeks was not con- ducive to Blanket selling. Cold weather is here, and for this week we propose to take ad- vant; of it to cut down our stock. We have put the K our BLANKET stock. Come and see for yourself. Every blanket in our stock is price clipped for this week. Everybody knows what we mean when we say this. Get your blankets now and SAVE money. ought ecarly, but who became darmed over the business out-§ — : 3 ) ook, Ladies fine jersey ribbed The manufactirers had to sell. | Plack wool Union Suits, guar- We came along and snapped up | Anteed fast black, !arge quantities of underwear at At $8 OO ully For Children and Misscs— Importer's sample line of Eng- lish merino shirts and drawers worth as high as $1.25, At 28c. Come early for these; they will go with a rush, ife into PER CENT NOTE SOME of the BARGAINS LOT 1. 5 cases of 10-4 Gray Blan- kets, 55¢, reduced from 8sc. See them in window. LOT 2. : 10-4 grey and white, 4 pound, 98¢, reduced from 81.25. See them in window. LOT 3. 10-4 brown blankets, $1.15, reduced from g1, 50, See them in window. LOT 4. 10-4 tan blankets, $1.39, reduced from $1.75. See them in window. LOTS5. 11-4 white 5-pound gray ar white, $1.49, reduced frou! $2.00. See them in window. LOT 6. : 11-4 extra heavy white, $1.85, reduced from g2.50 Sce them in window. LOT 7. 10-4 scarlet wool, $2,00, reduced from §2.75. See them | in window, LOT 8. 10-4 white, $2.25, reduced from $2.75. See them in window. LOT 9. 11-4 all wool 5-pound $3, reduced from $4. See them, in window. LOT 0. : 11-4 white, extra - size, $3.50, reduced from $4. 50, See them in window. LOT 12. ; 2o 50 pairs of fine California blankets, 11-4, 85, reduced from 86.50, See them 1n window. LOT 13. 12-4 extra fine fleece wool Califorma blankets, $6.50, reduced from $8,50, See them in window, LOT 4. All of our 12-4 best blankets, marked gro, g11, $12; all go at one price, choice of them for $8.50. l.ook around on blankets. If you can beat our | prices we shall not complain | —but | | OURS WILL GO WITH A RUSH | AT ABOVE PRICES. under cost of production, We offer these goods for sale at cor- | responding reductions, and are in a position to undersell any- | body. Come and see our under- {wear stock, the largest anl best (in the city. Everything is in stock complete. Children’s nonshrinking na- tural wool Union Suits that aro worth §1.50 At $1.00. Our Great Leader.§ ...~ Children's ¢ eavy cot- k\ ton stockings with double knee, | bird of paradise, which issupposed tg heel and toe, live upon the dew which rests in the cuy At 28c,. | 8379 A good, heavy stocking for children, fast black, recular ate eater is Scnator man_who insists upon promp| made, 18c. avs aeuisth Children’s woolen school stoc double knee, heel regular value 3sc, heavy ing with and toe, extra Blankets reduced to The bargain of the s, Don’t miss it. Ladies' heavy cotton hose, double heel and toe, At 19c. Note the Specials FOR THIS WEEK. Ladies oxtra heavy ru vests nnd sell for e, ik natursl gray and made to Ladies’ heavy woolen hose, ribbed top,double heel and toe, 28c¢, Ladies’ ingrain hose, white foot, fast black, 8 for $1.00. Ladies’ shmere hose, double sole, high spliced heel and toe, plain and ribbed, At 80c¢, Ladies' siik fir garment, camel’s | od vests ir and white merino \d pants, extes ood At 49c Ludles' fleeco lined jersey ribbed vests wnd punts, silk finlsiod, : At 50c¢ Ladios' non-shrinking matural gray white wool, regulur made, At 75¢ Ladles' jorsey ribbed woolen non-shrink- ing vests und pants, tinlshed with kn- giish be.t, goud Yalue at 3.5 For 90c We sell hosiery and under- wear lower than any house in town. Reliable goods only, Buy your hosiery and under- wear at this sale, You will save money, It Pays to trade with THE MORSE DRY GOODS CO 16th and Farnam.