Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1894, Page 17

PART 11, ESTABLISHED JUNE THE OMAHA SUNDAY B 19, 1871 OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 189 I—TWENTY PAGES. M I, THE GREATEST DRESS GOOD‘S AND SILK SALE KNOWN IN OMAHA FOR YEARS, BOUGHT FROM A HARD UP “_]OBBI:R" AND ON SALE TOMORROW AS A GLORIOUS BARGAIN BY COR. I5TH AND DODAE THE WONDER OF THE WORLD TOMORROW AT ALMOST TWENTY-FIVE CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. SILK and %o LANSBOWNE 0-nch Nove Lansdowne, and wool, 20 new including entirely .35 to colors, black, new, cost import. Silk-Mix GHEVIOTS 40-in all wool silk mixed cheviotsuit- ings, all new col- ent patterns, easily worth $1.10 g0 at YARD: 40-inch pur Silk and i PIN GHECKS 40-inch pure silk and wool pin checks with shaded ef fects, one of the newest materials and most service- able goods shown ; KU iteed toshed dust, Imported to sell au#1.00. ARGAINS Full Dress Pattern i5c. EACH PATTERN con- 5 tains 10 yards new Worth $1.00 TOWELS, ‘v|r|u|l' Lawns, worth Worth 15¢ each~5c from e to 10c a yard. Entive pattern of 10 Worth 150 yards goes for 15c. 1,000 . TURKISH Boston Store, Omaha Muminated Serges 160 pi quality ces finest English Henriottas, in 20 different color- ings, including black, all 40 inches wide, and made to sl at English Henrieitas, 1 German Broadcloth all \\um 98 neh German cloths, ly adapted apes and | ets, in blac tans, navy mm\m andyrile. rogi- Mon- to k- marked fd duy 8¢ yard, ENGLISH SERGES 1 case ! glish Serges, in spring colorings, new made to sell at tomorrow at guods, go 40-inch wide Tllu- minated Serges, ina big varioty of tintings, and 80 picces strictly all wool Storm Serges go on our front pargain squarcat - Entire Dress Pailsrn 39c, Bach pattern contains 10 yards of new spring Drzss Goods, worth up to e 2 10 different styles to choose from. Worth $1.50 4] ayard Cood All-Linen TOWELING, ery wide. Worth 10c & (2ic yd. Who'e Bress Pattern, 48¢, A whole dress of new figured Dim- ity, Seotch Lawns and Corded Lawn nene worth less than 1o yd; a whole dress pat- tern goes for 49 1,000 PAIRS LADIES’ .a CHILD’S Plain & Ribbed HOSE, Worth 10c, 12¢c & 15¢. BLACX GOODS, especial- 200 picces Black Goods in piain black and ficures—all new goods go tomorrow o lots at Full Bress Pattern, 98¢, A full dress pattern of 10 vds, double fold 98 UNDER- 3 zc VESTS. p twiil English Cash- Worth foc. signs, go at 98¢ for the whole (10) ten yards GHILD'S RIBBED Cor. 15th and Dodge. Boston Store, Omaha Cor. 15th and Dodge. gant new designs dark and light grounds that were in this pur- All the 40-iuch fine English Cashmeres in all colors, in this stock, that cost FRENGH CHALLIS All the French chase, worth H0¢, 9 g go at 2e. wholesale 23, go to- morrow in ti Engllsh Gashm res sale YARD N THE BAS CARPET 126 l"H"‘ ENTIRE LOT- 1,000 PIECES 1.500 pieces figured summer silk, in choico, small designs, over 60 colorings, e in America. 200 445 6% largest ~ & NEW SILKS The largest assortment of black and colored moires in Omaha, including mitkoite, mowe antique, moire frane caise, moire russe, moire fuccone and og cye designs A5e 3% 636 980 Wash Silks silks walsts 1 ¢ ef wash adupted — to and dresses, handsome assortment in stripes and ablo shades, <o 3% Ta,fi"etas. b8c Fine change: choicest quality glace le wieta, in imbinations, sustthe thing for waists and actually worth 93¢, g0 at dresses, Good quality BRUSSELS CARPET worth 55¢ yard, 29 29¢ All the best' grades of Brussels,’* Axmin- ster, Body Brussels, Yelvets, with borders to match go'in'2 lots, 55¢ and 75¢ a yard. Handsome line TAPESTRY BRUSSELS worth 69c a yard. 39 19 An immense lot of INGRAIN CARPETS go at 19¢,20¢,35¢. 49¢ Boston Store, Cor. 15th and Dodge UP THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA An Omaha Man Describes a Recent Trip of o Thousand Miles, THROUGH THE GREAT SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Southern Part of the State at Prosent Pass- iug Through a Serlous Drought and Grain Going to Waste—Frult Injured by Frost. L0OS ANGELES, Cal, April 7.—(Special Correspondence of The Bee).—I have just re- turned from a trip of 1,000 miles or more up the coast of California as far north as San Francisco and back by way of the great San Joaquin valley. From Los An- geles the route lay to the northwest, through Ventura, the famous bean growing county of California. Strange as it may seem, the bean grows to perfection in the valleys of this county, where the moisture 1s so great during certaln seasons that long streamers of gray moss hang from the branches of the live oak trees and the fences and roofs of houses arc covered with lichens of arious colors. Every year Omaha, although located in the cen- ter of the richest agricultural country in the world, is obliged to call upon Ventura county for one or more ca of beans to make up the deficlency. Nebraska farmers are not a success as bean growers, princi- pally because they will Insist upon growing @ large white bean for which there is little or no demand in the markets of the coun- try, instead of the small navy bean, which is recogn 1 in all parts of the east as the bean of commerce. Ventura county contains also the petro Joum district of California. 1 asked a resident of the county if petroleum was s plenty as they claimed, why It was that Tefined kero oll was so high in the state. His explanation was that they had been unable to refine the oll sufficiently to make it suitable for iluminating purposes, Dbut it made a splendid quality of ink and several other articles of commerce. I asked another gentleman the same question and he replied that they had extensive re- fincries in the county and were turning out [luminating ol In large quantities I give this as a fair sample of the dictory information that one frequently gets in California The rallroad ends at Santa Barbara, that mod old town where the past and pres- ’l‘l'l meet, The civilization of 100 years ago Is represented by the one-story adobe Mouses of strange and foreign aspect, and ol the best preserved in walls stand as solid as first comploted over 100 years ago. nerable s still in use and th an descendants of its kn altar to recelve the blessing seked brothers of Bt Franc the sume did thelr ans tors when California was stilla provinee Spain, Even the unboliey he e dimly lighted Thern Iy the sir tions and tras are (ho palntings that tore their journey ons them depleting the torture th er the delig f heaven Then there is tho interior garden, which has becn cntered by only two women, the late 1 when Tho v dlun builders built in s nd ther been old new land of holl must have to thi ontra- | | clearing the land is almost as great | atter 1 Mrs, Harrison and her royal highness, Princess Louise of Lorne, and said to be on of the few places in the United States where a man Is absolutely sure of having the last word. As one gazes upon the .massive walls and the Immense size of the build- ings he can not but wonder what strange influence the old fathers must have had over the Indians to compel them to undergo the vast amount of labor incidental to such structures. The United States govern- ment has expended millions of dollars in trying to transform the Indian into a worker, but without success. In strange contrast to these works of the past are the modern homes of American capitalists and men of lefsure, who have selected this spot for a winter residence. The hotels and boarding houses, like those in most other resorts in southern California, are crowded with tourists. In spite of ali that has been sald about the diverse pro- duets of California and the profits to be derived from tilling the soil, it is very evident that the tourist crop is the most profitable of gouthern California, or, in other words, the man who farms the tourist makes more money than he who farms the soil. DROUGHT IN, sonnrn\' CALIFORNIA. Just now’ the: np s of the southern part of the state are il ABything but a pleasunt frame of mind, as the land is suffering from a terrible drought that threatens to ruin the crops. 1 traveled through hundreds of miles of country where the wheat and barley was only two or three inches high instead of six, as it shotld be at this time, and alrcady turning vellow from lack of moisture. This may sound strange of a country where frri- gation is supposed to be practiced to a great extent, but it must be remember that only a few valleys, which are given up largely to fruit growing, have been provided with irri- gating ditches. Even where the land Is under irrigation the condition of the tillers of the soll is by no means enviable. In Riverside, the great orange growing district they have had several severe frosts which have damaged large proportion of the crop, and you ride through the orchard you will sce thousands of bushels of oranges golng to waste on the ground. Orchard which in the palmy days gf orange cultu used to turn out a crop worth from $300 to §$1,000 per acre, are now barely paying ex penses. Orange growers appear to b2 liv- ing largely upon hope. This year they say that the frost has ruined them, and that last year the commission men robbed th #0 that many who shipped celved h80- lutely nothing for their consignments, while | the year by the frost took the crop. The fact is orange growing has been overdone and orange growers will have to be content In the future if able to net as much as east- ern growers of apples. ho country surrounding Santa Barbara is a large producer of pampas plumes. The profits arising from this crop a few years ago were simply enormous, the plumes sell- ing as high us 6 or 6 conts cach, The pros- pect was so tempting that hundreds of acres in the state were given up to thelr culture with the usual result—the business was over- done, and it I1s hard work now to sell the any price. Now the farmers are that they ever heard of such a AIpas grass the expense of as uj stumnps after cutting off a forest as thing as rooting the of treos ‘ L Calitorpd“agrigulpurist runs 1% than does the most devoted ety of Gothan. A certain erop wlil be ail the rage at one time and every farmer in th state will be trying it with the resu that it will be almost immediately ove and then the whole crowd rushes for some other thing Th orange planting fad the grape planting fal things of past, while Jwst uow lemons and oliv ali the rage. 'Thousands of acres of land, valued 4t $100 wnd upw per acre, are belng planted t¢ by people forgettul of the fact that In the Mediterrancan ies, | where olives have been grown for cen ! ouly the waste mountain lands ¥ for that purpose, and even then oliv u nsiderod . yery table ¢ \ M..m sovernwent the yearly olive crop of | belle lon e and are the olives | Spaln only averages about $2.50 per acre. In the last few years the discovery of cotton sced ofl as a substitute for olive oil threatens to greatly diminish the demand for the latter. The finest olive ranch in California is lo- cated a few miles from Santa Barbara, the property of Elwood Cooper, who, in the highly rhetorical language of the guide books, s styled “the Nestor of California ollve culture.” The manufacture of the oil is very simple and consists of grinding the fruit and pressing the ofl very much after the fashion of cider making in the apple: growing states. Although California produces perhaps the finest olive oil in the world, you will very rarely find any of it on the hotel tables or see it displayed in the store windows, the foreign oll being used in its place. I noticed In a store window in Los Angeles a large display of olive ofl soap with a card to the | effect that it had been imported at great ex- pense from the Isle of Zante in the Mediter- ravean sea. Home patronage Is evidently unknown in California and it s not surpris- Ing that this is the poorest place in America | for the laboring man and that so little prog- ress has been made in the development of its manufacturing interests. The crops are shipped great distances at enormous expense and manufactured products sh'pped back. WILL RAISE HOGS IN FUTURE. A young farmer, a native of Santa Barbara county, told me (hat the farmer: had tried most everything else and had come to the conclusion that there was more profit in hog raising than in anything else and that they were all going into it. He said that he paid $10,000 a few years ago for an unimproved farm of cighty acres and that, at the present valuation of land, it was worth double that amount. When asked how he expected with | such high priced land and high priced feed to grow hogs in competition with eastern states that have cheap land and cheap fred | he admitted that the prospect was-not very flattering, but that hogs brought a good price | and that they were going to try it 18 the secret of It; hogs brought a good price last scason and now farmers are | rushing Into hog growing, with the Inevita- ble result, that the product will soon exceed the local demand and that prices will be based on the eastern market, less the cost of transportation from California to castern points for consumption, which will leave the prodveers little or nothing. In the east a farmer produces vegetables and meat enough for his famlily, but not so In this country. The California farmer runs to specialties. In the wheat sections only wlieat s grown, in the fruit sections ever: thing is given up to fruit, and so on. The farmer not only has to buy his groceries and wearing apparel, but, in most cases, his vege- tables, meats and even his horse feed. 1 in- quired the reason for this of a farmer who said ho was born in Massachusetts almost within the shadow of Williams college, an1 whose conversation plainly indicated that b had imbibed no small amount of th catur of that famous institution of learning. He invited me into his garden. On every sid there was evicence of a liberal use of t and rake, but such results! The rabb'ts hai eaten up one kind of vegetable, the quirrels anotlier and the drought was killing the bal- | ance. “Unless you have several acres of | vegotables, or enough to feed all the four- footed pests in the neighborhool, you might as well give up,” sald the farmer. n po nting to his land on the side of the moun tain, =0 steep that a Nebraska farmer would despair of ever being able to plow re marked: “This land cost $50 per acre, but unless it rains within a few days the whol crop wil not pay for the Lorse fecd.” When asked what he expaetel to live on until an other crop coull be grown, he repl'ed, w th twinke in his eye, “Cilmate, of cours:,” MOUNTAIN STAGE RIDE nta Barbara the route Loy ov tains forty-five miles by stage read Of stug: travel in the talns, how the driver cracks his w haw the horses gallop madaly alc f canons 1,000 feet decp, while L s - n fright ! v o mountain travel sounds well and never falls to Lold the audience captivated. th me r one | B moun- iy, and g the verge the tourist's | | by The reality, however, 1s very different g0ing up the mountains the grade was steep that six good horses could hardly pull the load at a snail pace and it was necessary to change horses scveral times. The view of the surrounding country from an elevat'on of 2,500 feet can be better imagined than de- seribed, and the tourists soon exhausted the whole vocabulary of such words as “grand, sublime, beautiful,” etc. At midday we lunch on top of the mountain and then commence the downward trip. Still the dash and ex- citement of mountain travel, as described in the books, Is wanting. ‘The driver has no more desire of being crushed to fragments at the bottom of a canon than have the tourists and the horses barely move where the road is narrow or dangerous. Gradually the landscape changes and we are trotting leisurely through a natural park of live ok trees, the whole country being given up to cattle grazing. Again there is a change and we are in the grain fields, miles and miles of grain, but very rarely a sign of a human habitation. These are the large ranches of California, thousands of in a single holding. Every little while we pass men on foot, with blankets strapped to their backs, trudg: ing wearily over the mountains. Some are tramps and some are laboring men in search of work, but the novice can hardly distin- guish between them. ANl carry blankets and all look tired, dusty and unkempt, California may be the paradise of the tramp, but it certainly does not stand in that relation to the laboring man. This state has always been advertised as a poor place for a man without money. I have in my possession now a pamphlet, issued a large land syndicate, in which ocecurs the following: “We would not advise any man of small means to come to California with the idea of bettering his condition California wants men with money, and there is no provisien for the poor man. The laboring men whom we met tramping over the mountains were the common farm hands of California. In the winter time you will find them in the southern part of the state caring for the ofange and lemon crop, at wheat harvest you will see them In the rain growing sections, in the raisin season Fresno, and thus, year in and year out, they go up and down the state, gradually losing their ambition, and sinking down to the level of the common tramp. No farmer ever thinks of giving this tramp laborer a bed in his house, but allows him to roll up in his blanket on the ground, with only the eky for a covering. At nightfall we resch the end stage ride, but are called out . morning for a trip of sixty-five mile the narrow gauge to San Luis Obispo. The good old bishop would hardly be proud of the town bearing his name were he to visit there at the present time The Southern Pacific Railroad cgnmpany * 1s extending its line southward to this point, Ing tunneled the mountains to the north at sat expense, andfthe qulet old town is with railroadgrs. Balobns and gamb- ling houses are doing @ rushing business, in strange contrast ta the merchandise stores, which are already gsomplaining of dull busi- ness as the result of the drought In this out of the way place among the mountains 1 am pleasantly surprised to me a former resident of Omaha, Clarence Brown, who had fust ¥un down from Franelsco, | who, as traveling passenger agent for the Union'Paelle, has made a most excellent reputation on the coast Again we take to the stage for a ride’ of twelve miles to Santa Margarita where we strike the Betthern Pacifi and before night enter (he Santa Clara valley and stop at San Jose. This city is a great resort for tourists, belgg the most con- venient point from, whigh to reach Mount Hamilton, Leland Stanfbrd university and other points of interest, The majority of these tourists, havingiread of the terrors of mountain_travel- by stage, run down train from San Prancised, thus missing the interesting part of the trip, SUMMER RESORT LITERATURE p J has a very wod tourist | located in the midst of a well shaded There are some quite large Lrces and the of our tel 1y the next | hav- i short | ! grass 1¢ well kept, looking for all the world like a little corner of Hanscom park. Ther was nothing unusual or wonderful about it and the most that an observer could be expected to say, iIf he commented on it at Lal, would be:' “This is pleasant.”” But Californfa is full of gushers, who never allow an opportunity to pass for indulging in high sounding rhetoric. The hotel in question presents its guests with a sixty- page pamphlet, meatly and expenslvely printed, from which I select the following, descriptive of the shade about the hotel, as a fair sample of the literature served up o travelers three times a day: “The grounds immediately surrounding the buildings con- sist of an exquisite labyrinth of shrub and foliage and green lawns, and bewildering vistas of beauty, which is the highest art of the landscape gardener to accomplish. Nature and art are so cunningly blended that the beholder is sometimes puzzled distinguish them. Here a glant live-oak, that, more than 100 years ago, bowed its patriarch head In response to the tones of the first mass that was celebrated by the Franciscan missionaries in our valley, now clasps hands with parvenu peppers and figs and poplars above tennis courts and croquet grounds, us though it had survived the cen- turies for this sole purpose. Rustic seats invite to rest, while shaded avenues entice one to ramblé; and everywhere is that air of dolce far niente so restful to weary brain | and body. Beyond this Grove of Daphne lies in the city of San Jose,” etc. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Leland Stanford question a great university Is without institution of learning for one only three years old, but only a com- mencement has been made toward carrying out the plans of its founder. In appearance the maln_ bullding Is very unimposing, con- sisting of a one-story bullding surrounding the four sides of a squa but this is only tho Interior quadrangle, while the plans call for a second quadrangle two stories in | helght, which will add greatly to the appear- ance of the structure. The dormitories, mu- seum, etc., are located in buildings detached | from the quadrangle. The natural tendency | of the Californian, noted above, manifests it- self in rather an’ amusing way In the visi- ster at the museum. This book is I a good deal like a hote with the addition of space for re Eastern visitors seldom avail themselves of the privilege of recording their impressions, but the Californian evidently goes on the theory that self pralse is the best kind, as they can have as much of it as they desire. I noticed where one party of four Cali- fornlans registered, and under the head of remarks, the first one, with the whole Eng: lish language at his disposal, inseribed “mag nificent” opposite his mame. The second wrote “grand.” The third had to content himself with the expressive, though some what commonplace “beautiful,” while the fourth, evidently in despair at the paucity of the English language as regards high-sound- ing ad Nad no alternative but *very fine A day at the big tree grove, and another day consumed in climbing Mt. Hamilton and viewing the wonderful instruments that have done 0 much to develop the science of as- tronomy, and we are in San Francisco at the Midwinter falr, | 'or a state enterprise the Midwinter fair is most creditable, but it naturally appears somewhat insignificant to those who saw the World's fair. The attendance has been very light, and some of the concessionaires have been forced to close up for lack of patronage, while all the rest claim to be losing money Unfortunately there Is a good deal of fr tion between the management and the citi- 18 as to the disposition of fund and, os & result, the falr s suffering from lack of united support 1 recognized seve the Midway Pla slonaires of the old acquaintances of nce among the Midwinter fair, am the head of the Esquimaux family. The old Esquimaux, when asked how he liked Cali plicd, in fairly g h, that | e liked the climate better than that of Chi cago, but that he thought Labrador had a better climate tuan either. I advised the old ng them man to be careful how he promulgated such doctrine, if he cared for his popularity in California, but this was too much for his knowlege of English, and he only muttered: “It gets warm sometimes in Labrador. THE RABBIT PEST. The trip back to Los Angeles was not with- out pleasant incidents, but later in the season the great San Joaquin valley becomes a veri- table furnace. The heat is so stifling that every kind of animal life Is compelled to seek what little shade there is to be found and travelers aflirm that they have secn even the little shade afforded by the tele- graph poles appropriated by squirrels, too weak to hide at the approach of the train. Here it is that they have great rabbit drives, in which thousands of rabbits arc rounded up, driven into a pen and finally dispatched with clubs. A gentleman who had taken part in one of these drives said that when the rabbits found themselves inclosed on every side they appeared to realized their situation and that their cries were pitiful, Looking out from the car windows we could see rabbits in pairs and groups scudding away in every direction and in such numbers as to be a serious menace to the crops. Fresno is perhaps one of the most im- portant points in the valley As beng the cen- ter of the raisin industry. At one time Cali- fornia built great hopes upon the growing of raisin grapes, but the industry is now suffering severcly from overproduction or lack of consumption. The manager of a large ranch explained that they had cars of raising In several of the large eastern cities for which there was absolutely no sale what- ever at anything like remunerative prices, “Here as fine raisins as can be produced in the world,” and he brought out a sample as proof, “but all I am offered for them is 2% cents free on board t'n'-«“ The raisin growers, like the orange owers, are living on the hope that when (hu business depres- ston from which the country is now suffering i past prices will improve. Soon after leaving Fresno darkness set and dayilght found ug back at Los Angel A. C. DAVENPORT, A NOCTURNE. Written for The Tiee. The moonlight faills uren thy hair, And turns its gold 10 motten xlven; 1t shines across thy melting eyes And vets their déwy orox a-muver, We hear the music from T anees vet are lgh'ly tripping, While fast ih v3 20 full f joy Poward 1 n e swiltty slipping, Az mo; We've left the ernsh and zlaring ligh's, The hot perfume of withered tlowers, And sought v cool soeidod spot Amidst the warlin's oooubt sowers T sit beside thes, jot Thy heart is in I hush the Lest thou s ing. far away nother's keeping; words of love 1 feel houldst know my inward weep- The music sounds a gobbing waltz An echo of my heart's sad s I gaze within thine cves once or I must leave thee on the ow; mor morrc Thou'lt ¢ thou lovest bes hopeless rover; the dance i3 done, and all is wed the While I become a The music’s hushed, Good night, u sigh, The moonlight fulls upon thy halr And turns its gold to molten silver; It shines on thee, but,ah! on me The shadows fall, to rest forever W, Ree - AL CONNUBIALITIES. Junroy She~There's a You don't | on my fing Marrlage ringing that? n_my Slie-=No; I remarked the yrofe a rite practiced By the ancler bachelorhood,” intérrupted a Is a wrong practised by the Ge Kinut, a church county, Indiana, has just & ho knows what i 1 ligion, He has just ma His mother-in-law belug 1, the mikado 9450 068 Cortosfor 198 1,000 paivs fine laco curtains, including Irish points, Brus effects in very fine Nottingham laces, worth up to $4.50 a pair, go at $1.98. Boston Store, Omala Japan has called in 422 doctors for her tment. Mike is evidently determined to a dead sure thing of the old lady this Frederick C. Selons, world-famous hunter—he killed ninety-four head, including twenty-four elephants in South Africa within £ix months In 1874—las at last been bagged himself. His marriage took place in Glou- cester, Eng., on Wednesday. Mary Ann McDoolin, aged 102 years, was divorced from William McDoolin at Tacoma. last week. She claims that McDoolin de- serted her, and she has secured the divorce to protect her heirs, to whom she will be- queath her share of the Puyallup Indian reservation, “My husband fs so unsympathetic,” walled the young wife. *“He does not understand me at all” “You arc lucky,” said the ex= perienced matron, who had buried no less than three husbands. “That's half the charm in a wife—her husband’'s inability to imagine what she is going to do next."” The engagement is announced of George Crocker, youngest son of the late Charles Crocker, one of the four men who bulilt the Central and Southern Pacific road, to Mrs. Rutherford, widow of the late Alexander H. Rutherford, who was at one time the most successtul mining expert on the Pacifio coast, The marriage of Lorin A. Thurston, Hawalian minister to Washington, to Hattie E. Potter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A, Potter of St. Joseph, Mich., took place at the bride’s home at noon on the Oth, Rev. H. W. Davis, pastor of the Congregational chureh, offictating. The wedding was ins formal. Callel when as a You say this photograph was taken you were a young man? 1 nev should have suspected it. It looks ltke the pleture of a big, good-natured boy. Was the artist making you laugh about some= thing? Mr. Kajones—No. That was my natural expre: It was how I looked be< fore taking Mrs. Kajones. Although the habit of crying has mostly gone the way of toned practices, some occaslonal adds a picturesque touch to many of the prevailing nuptials. Strange to say, those who usually do the crying are ladies seldom related to the bride and often beyond the marriageable age. One cannot help wonde ing occasionally it the tears shed on such occasions are not more for the might have been than for the i There was & queer turn to a wedding cere= mony at Engiish, Ind., In which Absalom Thayer and Miss Estelle Flagler were pri cipa The minister had reached that peint when he turned to the hride-elect and sald, interrogatively ou take this man as your lawtul hush te. #he answered, ‘‘No, sir, 1 not ou are the first who has asked my opinion on the matter. Mr. Thayer has been cour my mother for more than W year. 1 thought It was herseif he wanted, but it appears he only wanted her consent to marry me, and she concluded to compel me to wed him."” The minl then sl “Phis ends It. 1 have no power to bind any one aguinst or her will The crowl broke up, ing for the spirited girl. The parties to the contract Hunkarians, who usually settle such ma far their children without consulting the children - - How Ol Are Horseshioe carliost boot it weddings the old-fash- blubbering i iy ster his of horsexhoe was a Harger of the rinary schoo's war ks, The for loather University of Pennsyly But this boot wae horses. The ordi Arablan Dr. 8. J i1 Vet only worn by wary loress of the and other natives were though methods of hardening the aslonally The earlics metal 18 found In & book by Emperor died 911 A, D., but horsesh u found In tombs that date ba \ century. The earliest orlental fc was ly, fasit not by nails, leiver ide of the bian f ) today shoe 1 and the Europcan Jurious. henvy Gire Romar unshod hoof wer ritten record of gard