Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 17, 1894, Page 10

TRUMPET OF DAME CRUNDY Washington the Center of Attraction for Famous American Widows, MRS. GRANT AND NELLIE GRANT-SARTORIS the Marquis of os and Hor « for the Oulda’s Btrange Call on Balisbury —Her Eceentricit Destitute Condition—¥ Feminine ¥ar. The natlonal capital is a widows' home. Probably more relicts of famous men live here than aro to be found anywhere else in the United States. The singular feature of this s that in most cases Washington was not the home of these women before their widowhood; In some cases they had never lived here. Mrs. George W. Childs s plan- ning to come here to live, says the corre- spondent of the New York Press. She has even gelected a site for her fiture home— on Sixteenth street near the corner of K stroet—and s preparing to bulld. Mrs. Childs has never had a home here, and she has beautiful homes In and around Philadelphia, which must be hallowed to her by assocla- tions with her husband. Yet she chooses Washington as the home of her widowhood. Mrs. Grant, it is announced, accompanied by her daughter, Nellie Grant-Sartoris, 1s about to take up her abode here. During the term of - General Grant as president, of coursie, Mrs. Grant's home was in the white house. But before that time it was In the west, and after the expiration of his presi- dential _term, the general moved to New York. ,..Yet Mrs. Grant urns to Washing- ton again, and, it is said, she would have come“here years ago, but for the objections of Colonel Fred Grant. Mrs. Sartoris was unable to live In this country for many years bgcause the terms on which she re- celved an allowance from the Sartoris fam- ily compelled her to bring up her children in England. Now Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Sartoris are to be added to the society of the capital. . The ‘house of Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Sar- torls has not been selected. Mrs. Sartoris s now looking for a rather modest place to rent for a year. Eventually she will probably buy or bulld, but while she has @ modest little fortune which came to her . and to her children from the Sartoris fam- ily, she cannot afford a very expensive es- tablishment. Mrs. Childs, on the con- trary, can afford one of the handsomest dwellings In this city of beautiful homes and she has chosen a conspicuous and beau- tiful site for it. She will build on the lat . adjoining the dwelling of the widow of Senator Zach Chandler, more often spoken of as the “Hale mansion,” because Senator Halo and his wife live there with Mrs, Chandler, who is Mrs. Hale's mother. Mrs, Chandler s another of Washington's widows, . transplanted from Michigan. The Chandler house is on the northeast corner of K street and Sixteenth street. The latter is perhaps the most conspicuous street in Washington, extending as it does from Lafayette square, directly. opposite the executive mansion, * to the high hill at the district boundary on which stands the magnificent home of ex-Senator John B. Henderson of Missourl. It has often been proposed to change the name of Sixteenth street to Executive ave- nue. Mrs. Childs' home will be on Six- teenth street just above K street. It will cost $125,000. Mrs. Windom of Minnesota lived in Wash- ington during Mr. Windom's public service here. Her home is In Minnesota, but she has been in Washington most of the winter and she scems thoroughly attached to the * capltal. Undoubtedly this will be her home in_the future. So much of the life of Mr. Blaine was spent in Washington that It s not surpris- ing that his widow should feel perfectly at home here. Besides most of the property which Mr. Blaine left Is in Washington. Yet the real home of Mrs. Blaine s in Maine, where she will spend the coming sum- mer. In the house on Lafayette sqdaro, where the magnetic statesman dled, she has been working with Miss Dodge on the bio- graphy, which Is to be published before long and which is to be her monument to the memory of her husband. Many widows of army and navy officers live in Washington. Perhaps the most consplcuous of them is Mrs. Logan. She still occuples the frame house just beyond the boundary where General Logan died. Mrs. Logan devotes herself earnestly to liter- ary work, and she Is as energetic as ever in all that she undertakes. Instances could be multiplied almost with- out end. They increase every year. But they are quite numerous enough now to con- firm Washington's title to the name of the National Widows' Home. Coming up town the other day on the Sixth avenue “L" about the hour when the crowd was greatest, just before dinner, was a very nice looking young lady, says the New York Herald, 1 use the term “nice” advisedly, for it is the only way to define this kind of a girl. That Is to say, she was neither pretty nor plain. And she was particularly nice, o0, Her face wore a pleased, self-satisfied look—as if she had hit a bargain counter " somewhere. She stood swinging against the back_of one of the cross seats near where 1 was hanging to a strap.. Every now and then I noticed her glance down upon a young man who sat reading an evening paper at her side. He was so absorbed in his paper, as men commonly are in a car when a woman Is standing directly in front of them, that he didn’t appear to notice this. He was rather a handsome young man, with a fine lip for a mustache that showed signs of coming to the front in due time, and an intellectual young man, as one might easily infer from the intensity of -his " gaze upon his paper. The nice girl coughed once—a slight, forced cough, t00, and appar- ently for the purpose of attracting his at- tention, At least several persons so be- Tleved, and frowned at the idea that such a nice girl should be so bold. But the young man read on as if he had struck an ad- vertisement In which a summer sult worth $40° was. marked down to $25. Her face ‘clouded gradually, and the consclousness that she had heen dotected by some of us in her vicinity caused her to blush furiously. That blush showed that she had been mis- Jjudged. When the traln reached Seventy- seconfl street she started’ for the door, but to my astonishment she first gave a viclous little stamp on the feet of the young man reading the newspaper. My astonishment was nothing to his. He winced with pain : and’looked up quickly with fight in his oye, but he turned pale and was visibly ag- ftated when he saw who did it. Then he suddenly bolted for the door, as If to over- fake her, but the gate just grazed her in- dignant skirt to shut in his face. When I . got off at Eighty-first street he was stand- ng on the frant platform with the cold 7 sweat coming out on bim, buried in deep “thought. It was a lover's tragedy without © words, Plain goods are less desirable than mix- tures for wear on the ocean, 1 am told, un- il the ‘material be serge, which Is a plendid standby and just as suitable for a voyage by sea as by land. The outfit of a girI "ot 17 who {8 to accompany her mother in June is extremely simple, says the Brooklyn Bagle. Her blue storm serge ls made with an Eton and skirt and red silk sbirt walst. In addition to the jacket she hasa three-quarter cape of dark frieze, dived with tartan plaid silk and & hood of same, which can be drawn up over the and head. For use at hotels she & light wool and one blue and white #lk. She carries only three changes of gnderclotbes, 'as her mother's experience sestifies that these can be readlly replenished For steamer wear she has an cap, which traveler's etiquette allows ber to wear at meals as well as on feck or in the cabln. A soft felt & tours she bas a shoulder sachel, a Beld glass and a pocket microscope. Ten miles from Kenova, W. Va, down the river, two miles back from the Otle, smong the hills on the edge of a small stream, there lives in a modest two-room log Bouse a woman hermit. When she cuue an whence, no one knows, but about the close 20 the war, and when this section was sparsely ‘settied, the cottage was found new and clean, and the woman in it One or two persons who cntered found the * glace charmingly furnished, & harp beiry one hat is | uently substituted for the sUff cap. For ' | THE OMAHA of the leading features, says a corrsapyndent [ of the Denver Times. The hermit at that timo was young and pretty, and everything about her indicated a refined life. Not much attention was given her, as (e nelghbors were few and far apart As the weeks wore on a dainty garden of flowers came Into existence, and overything about the log bin looked Lright. The woman, who came to be known “the strange woman,” was always che but never left her housa. In all “hase s she has never once been outside tie gate. She ralses her own vegetables and frait il me A negro woman, somewhat younger, and who came in at the san time o4 her mys- terious mistress, goes once a week to Vaice burg for groceries. There is alvays a seom ing abundance of money, but the servant re- tuses to taik. A story is afloat, and popra‘ly bell though its origin is unknown, to the efieot that the “strange woman,” in her yout ac- cidentally killed her lover. Full of remors she vowed to retire from life and become a hermit. The same legend says «ie i< a mein- ber of a wealthy southern family. ul ved, Speaking of boys and girls makes one think of the children. “Every dog has his day,” says the proverb, and children are cer- tainly having thelr day now. The revulsion from the old idea that they should be seen and not heard, which has given us the Heavenly Twins in literature and Fauntle- roy on the stage, has also fllled the concert halls with half-baked musical genfuses, and revealed to our alarmed eyes the awful pos- sibilities of Gladys and Cedric, who perform Mozart sonatas or recite “Curfow Must Not Ring Tonight,” for the supposed delectation of mamma’s friends in the drawing room. I believe there are people who prefer these callow efforts to those of mature genius, but they are surely possessed of morbid tastes, says a writer on the Philadelphia Times. For my part I never see an in- fant prodigy displaying an abnormal talant and usually also a pair of very long, thin legs before an admiring audience, that 1 do not wonder what fear- ful price the pitiful monstrosity will have to. pay In the future for his premature development. By the way, why does the infant prodigy always have long, thin legs? Medical science has never answered that question, but it has proved that not one out of 10,000 of these remarka- ble children ever fulfills the promise of his yoush. in later life, while' perhaps a littla wise repression and a strict adherence to a healthful regimen might, after the lapse of a few years, have given us many great genluses now lost forever to the world. Mothers, don't try to force your children's talents into an unwholesome growth. Don't endeavor to prove to the world how much more gifted they are than those poor, dull Robinsons, or how superlor s their grace to that of those hobble-de-hoy Jones children. Just give them the best opportunities you can afford to cultivate such gifts as they are blessed with, then put them all to bed with the chickens In the good old-fashioned way, and some day people will discover their worth it they have any, for the world is a pretty knowing old world after all, and can generally be relied upon to recognize a genius when it sees one. Medical science has long sought for a sovereign remedy for that scourge of child- hood—diphtheria—yet the colored people of Louisiana and perhaps of other localities have for years known and used a cure which is remarkable for its simplicity, says tho Humanitarlan for June. It is nothing more nor less than the pure juice of the pine apple. “The remedy is not mine,” said a gentle- man when Interviewed, “it has been used by negroes in the swamps down south for years. One of my children was down with diph- therla and was in a critical condition. An old colored man who heard of the case asked it we had tried pine apple juice. We tried it and the child got well. I have known it tried in hundreds of cases. I have told my friends about it whenever I heard of a case, and never knew it to fail. You get a ripe pineapple, squeeze out the juice and let the patient swallow it. The juice is of so corrosive a nature that it will cut out diph- theritic mucous, and if you will take the fruit before It is ripe and give the juice to a person whose throat {s well it makes the mucous menfbrane, of his throat sore.’’ It is pretty well understood in- this coun- try that the people of England don't go in much for divorces and judicial separations between man and wife, but just how small the number of such suits is perhaps is not known here. The House of Commons has vecently had a report made, says the New York Sun, showing the doings of the Eng- lish divorce court and the number and character of the cases tried there. In six years 2,200 suits for divorce were tried in England.” About 1,300 of these suits were instituted by the husbands, and only about 900 by the wives. A wife has to prove cruelty as well as other offenses in order to get a divorce. The women were ahead in the number of suits instituted for judicial separation. They began in six years 181 such suits, while only forty-eight were begun by the men. In 121 cases collusion was suspected and the queen’s proctor intervened, and 118 of these cases were thrown out of court. Few of the other cases failed. Our own statistics regarding marriage and Qfvorce are just tabulated. With all the fa- cllities for getting rid of husband or wife in divorce-made-easy courts, there have been found in the whole country only one-fifth of 1 per cent of the persons who have been married who have also been divoreed. One person in 500 means one couple in 1,000 that get divorced. There are 71,895 divorced women in the United States. There are not so many di- vorced men by a great many, but, then, di- vorced men and widowers are very apt to marry and the figures prove that they prob- ably do, for there are not 0 many widowers in the country as widows. One, of the most industrious students at Radeliffe college is Miss Shids Morl, a Japan- eso girl, Her father is a wealthy banker of Yanagawa, Kiushi, Japan, and all the family are deyoted Christians. Miss Morl has come to this country to fit herself by study for missionary work in ber nauve country. Com- paring some Japanese institutions with ours she says: “I noticed first of all the. difference in for some things I like our national dress, and for others I prefer the American. You sce, wo never wear corsets, and 5o the upper part of our dress is much more com- fortable, but the Japanese skirt is so nar- row that I much prefer the American skirt to walk in. In our country today one fre- quently, sees women dressed with Japanese walst and skirts. ‘For a graceful, artistic teagown there is nothing prettier or more comfortable an American woman can wear than our cos- tume.. “There 1s one thing peeullar in our coun- try—every plece of cloth woven Is significant in coloring and design. People of different ages wear certain things. For instance, certaln patterns are suitable from the ge <of 5 to 10, from 10 to 15, from 15 to 20, and s on. There are certaln patterns for young ladies and for married ladies. S0 when you go to the storekeeper you tell him your age and he shows you the proper thing to wear. “As you walk down the strest you can tell everybody's age and station in life by the dress. Sometimes people try to deceive. Married women wear qulet, dull colors, as a rule. The end of the sleeve drapery in dress, Iining and jacket is a pocket. Thus the Japinese woman Is well supplied with that luxury. Nearly all our dresses, even the cotton ones, are itned with silk, About the time of the marriage of the dwarfs, the czar, in a fit of after-dinner Jollity, had conferred the title of count upon his former teacher, Besides, little Zotof received a salary of about $2,000, a consld- erable sum for those days, and be had taken possession with much ceremony of a fino house in the Tartar quarter of St. Petersburg. Now, it happened that Zotof, feeling him- self growing old, proposed one evening, when the czar was in an cspeclally good humor, to retire to & monastery, writes Mary Shears Roberts in Juns St. Nicholas. In- stead of agreelng, Peler, to the great as- tonishment of the old and infirm dwarf, | forbade his thinking of such a thing, and ordered him to marry again. Zotof was much put ont, but Peter's pas- slon for shows was not one whit less. He chose as wife for his favorite buffoon an old lady. a widow of & man named Stremonkof. Preparations were begun in the autumn of 1712, and in the fantastic procession of the Empress Catherine and the czar's daugbters Martha and Prascovia, even some of the ambassadors were obliged to take part. Four stammering old men gave out the in tions, infirm and tottering creaturcs were appofnted ts conduct the bride, and four the fattest men In Russia served as run- ners. The musiclans were seated in a car led by bears, and as these novel steeds were always being pricked by the points of the ateel lances, their low growlings served as fltting accompaniments to the weird airs that rose from the chariot. The service at the cathedral was performed by a very old priest, who was half blind and dea and who wore spectacles. The procession, the ceremony, the nuptial feast and the Jingling of the wedding bells were all of a » {n this strange diversion. tof's descendants were forbidden to bear title of count so strangely acquired until when a member of an fllustricus and princely family with which one of them had intermarried obtained permission from the Emperor Alexander I. to bear the title con- ferred upon the dwarf, his ancestor Lady Granville determined to conquer her aversion to dre:s and to dissipation, and so well did she succeed that she be. came the mest popular English ambassdress ever sent to Parls, says the New York Post. She writes It §s an odd_development of certain social sets in New York, says the Tribune, that words and expressions which, would never, under any circumstances, be heard, and cer- tainly would not be tolerated, In what fs ordinarily known as good society, are freely used by really nice women among their intimates with all the abandon of a small American public school boy. In fact, there is a great deal of the gamin, or rather gamine, in the frisky young matron of the day, who affects a certain fastness which is comlcally superficial, and who, figuratively speaking, dances safely over debatable ground “‘where angels fear to tread.” “I feel as it I were Rip Van Winkl remarked an old-fashioned fashionable man who had been ‘“out of it" for the last ten or fifteen years. “In my day women might be fast or prudish, or sensible or frivolous, but they never forgot that they were ladies in_their language or manners. Here are only a few of the modern expressions which to ‘my astonishment I hear used on every side by the daughters of my old friends— women who are well to the front at presant in all social functions. If a man loses Lis money they say, ‘So and So has gone smash.’ ‘It's a darned good thing,’ I actually heard issue from the lips of a pretty woman of our world; while ‘It will be bully fun,' ‘It's Just nasty dogged cussedness on your part,” and other elegant adfectives of the iike, T have heard used constantly. I must con- fess to being completely horrifiad and amazed. What are our women coming to, I should like to know? Is this to be tho standard for the coming generation of fash- ionable girls? Is it to bw considered gocd form to smoke and tipple and talk slang, and even swear—or at least to have suciety view such behavior with indulgence? Where is Mrs. Grundy, and what is she thinking of to give countenance to such proceedings?" The novelty in summer millinery is the use of tulle, white especially, hut eolored also, on round hats and capotes a'ike. Ro- settes of white tulle alternate vith others of violet tulle on chalky-white braid hats sur- rounding the crown. Tulle and birds are also associated, for somie unnown reason, on many hats, choux, bows and loops of white tulle supporting a bird on the crown, most often a snowy-white hird or e'se one as black as jet. Sometimes nnly the wings and tail feathers are nsed amid clonds of tulle, while perhaps the head and breast of the same poor bird poeps out {~.m simitar clouds on another hat. Dottad tulle is olso very effectively used, and is not quite so perishable as the plain. Parrots’ wi gs and tails are used by Paris nulliners on tulle hats that are gathered ¢n wiie as fine as a thread, and edged with a tiny ru tulle. A large rosette of white tulle side of a hat is a foundation from which to start sprays of flowers or stylish aigrettes. Small bonnets of tobacco-colored straw are trimmed around the crown with tulle choux of different colors—pink, black, green, white and blue. A black aigrette is in front, and drooping violets in the back. Fashion Tips, Brown picture hats are trimmed with green rose leaves and pink roses. A novelty in laces is the marguerite, the points of which are daisies, A large flaring- bow: of Venetfan lace is a fashionable garniture for dressy Leghorn hats. Thistles in black, white and natural mauve colors are used on summer hats and bonnets. Geraniums of velvet and in_their hatural colorings are effective upon black bonnets and hats. Pretty summer dresses are made of cream- tinted Indian muslins, embroidered in deli- cate colors. Green Is very prominent in millinery, but used more as an accessory than for a bat or bonnet entire. 2 Pink beiges, cornflower, blue and red, with a violet tinge ‘which softens its tone, are very fashionable colors. Gathered bodices are decidedly the fashion for the summer season for all thin textiles and also for light summer silks. Superb white watered silk, such as de- lighted the stately dames of olden times, is a favorite material for bridal dresses this season. Wrinkled .apron front overskirts, draped high on the sides, and extending into long sash ends are popularly worn with wash dresses, A charming bonnet for a young matron Is of golden yellow straw, with a diadem of bluets tied with grasses, and short green vel- vet strings. Long flowing wraps made of several straight lengths of silk accordion plaited and sewed onto a narrow frilled yoke are used for dust cloaks. Pretty § o'clock tea cloths are embroidered and trimmed with laces, ~To ma these are small doylies of the same pattern, also large cloths 20x50 inches and 20x72 Inches. Two flexible steels are sometimes put in the edge of dress skirts to give them the de- sired flarc and a plaited flounce of stiff mus- lin is added at the waist to throw the full- ness out. Coffee cups are usually of the low, English shape, or high and set upon a gllded base. Handsome ones are of pale blue or pink egg- shell ehina set In holders of filigreg silver or silver gilt. Tyrolese s the name of a hat with an in- dented crown which 1s to supersede the sallor. It is trimmed with a broad black ribbon band and a stift bow and two quills at one side. Stylish French headgear made of jetted tulle is trimmed with lace butterflies, jetted aigrettes, black roses powdered with jet and a touch of lime or willow green in foflage or ribbon rosettes. A novel way to freshen a white silk gown is to cover 4t with a tunic of colored trans- parent gauze. It can be made in one piece, finished around the neck with a full bertha and drawn in at the waist with a belt. Feminino Note Marks, aged almost 90 years, was baptised in the sea near Rockland, Me. The average welght of 2,000 men and women welghed at Boston was, men, 141% Mrs. { pounds; women, 124%. The princess of Wales has a unovel tea service. It consists of sixty pleces, and every plece has upon it a photograph taken by the princess in Scotland. Mrs. Rachel Cantor of the Korrest home, who is now visiting friends {n Boston, is said by the Boston Globe to be the oldest living actress. She s 84 years of age. Of a colony of thirty-#ix women who made the run in the Cherokee Strip when it was opened twenty-two have proved steadfast. They build their own houses and do all of thelr own farm work, Two Swedish ladies have recelved honora- ble mention at the Parls salon for sculpture. They are Carolina Bruse aud Agnes Kjell. The latter holds the scholarship of the Swed- ish academy. Londou's “new beauty," Lady Moyra Beau- clerk, 18 described as an exquisitely pretty blonde girl, with &n innocent —expression and beautiful eyes, who laughed openly at the pecullarly express admiration she elicited. Mumne. Marchesi, the vocal mugic In Paris, is German by birth. Marchesi Is her title rather than her name. She married the Marchese di Castrone, and is the mother of ten children. ~ She teaches from 9 in the morning until 7 in the even- In e mother of Bret Harte s sald to have v factory girl when her husband mar- ried her. She was as handsome as a doll, but without education. Her husbaud edu- cated her, and she bocame one of the most cultured and charming women in Detroit famous teacher of WHEN BRICHAM WS HERE Recolleotions 'of' the Historio Mormon Pil- griiage to Utah, FLORENCE WAS THE OUTFITTING STATION ow the ApostieDisported Himself at Win- tor Quarterh'Whny Many Followers Rebelled and Quit Him of the Reorganized Church, Growth Many years bave passed since the Mor mons first entered Nebraska. They pitched their tents upon the lowa side nearly opposite Omaha. Aside Traders' Point, some miles down the there were no signs of civilization. Brigham Young soon crossed the river and established winter quarters at Florence. It did not take the Mormons long to do a thing —they all worked in unison, and there were many good mechanics among them. . It is sald they could build a city in a day, and tho figure Is not extravagant. On both sides of the river were busy people, and at win- ter quarters was a large town. Along the bluffs, on the castern side, were hundreds of small log houses. and Mormonism for a while rested on the Nebraska and Iowa bor- ders. “Father” Young was sure to have the best that was going, and his house at Winter Quarters was the largest. Like the rest, it was made of logs. The main building was a story and a half, and the men who saw now say its dimensions were about 40x3 feet. In this dwelling Young had his office, and the great dining room was there. The office was not a sumptuous ono—the interior walls were of uncovered logs, and the furni- ture consisted of the prophet's desk. and chair. . There may have been a chest and a few cases. When ‘sealing’’. was done the sacred rites were performed in this office. “Sealing" was not done very openly in Ne- braska, for Young feared to establish it in the faith, There were many of his people whom he did not dare let know his pre- tended views upon’ marriage. But it cannot be denfed that the prophet had already sev- eral wives of his bosom. “Close to the main bufld'ng were about six small houses arranged in a semi-circle The servants and superflious wives dwelt there. Some say the wives had separate ostablishments, and did their own individual cooking and housework, and that Mary Angel, the first wife, had the large house to herself. Others tell different stories. They say the wives all ate together in the great dining room with Brigham, the children and the rest of the household, including the men who worked upon the farm, and that Mary Angel shared her home as well as her hus- band. ~ The Mesdames Young “took turns about” at the work of the house and the cooking and waiting - upon _table. The prophet’s table was a great affair, and was loaded with food, for the people all say “‘old Brigham was g ,.good liver.” Later on he put a large tract of land under cultivation and many men, were then employed. All these ate at Youpgs house. BRIGHAM LIKED HIS WINE. “Prophet_thougl he was, Brigham liked his wine, and his ol neighbors say it was very good wine. Littlo'Jesse Fay, his eldest child by Mary Angel,was a general favorite with the boys of his father's people. “I've often played at old Brigham's place with Jesse Fay,” sald an old man at Council Bluffs. “Many and many a time I've gone to winter quarters and ate in Brigham's dining room. No,.you must remember thc time it was—there could be no such things in those days as fine furniture or dishes, We could have but common dishes, and the furni- ture was made for the time being by our- selves. Sometimigs| Brigham'’s table had a pread; but mostly; as F remember, it was covered by a'whits figured oil oloth. No, I can’t sy ‘as theftumber of iwives atruck ime as Strange Or Wrong: You see, 4. Was young and’ did not.think of ‘things ilike that. I Kknew some of the woftien around there were wives of Brigham's, I had heard it said they were, but’children then were not like chil- dren’ now—we didn’t think or talk of such things. But, I tell you, little Jesse Fay was a clever fellow—he'd waft for his chance until none were looking and then steal his father's wine aud give us a treat, but I believe he always gave him- selt the biggest ' treat. We have drank until our heads felt funny. It was good wine, too, made from the wild grapes, and not a bit of adulteration in it. Brigham was sure to have the best that was golng, but it was some time before comforts could come to us, The first half year we had very little fresh meat and no vegetables. Many lived on parched corn, and I can tell you there are hundreds of people lying up there in the Florence graveyard who died of want of the right food to eat. Some lived in dugouts, and as many as 300 died one winter, Now, you ask for tod many dates. I am an old man, and can’t get at those things as I once could. Why, I can't say pepole now would think Brigham dressed his wives very well. But they were dressed as good as go- ing—in calico, like the rest.”” WHERE THE HIRED GIRL FIGURED. “Few people remain in this locality who lived here in those days. One old man and his wife can be quoted: “Yos, we both came here in 1846, but we weré not married then, We were children and came with our par: ents. My father was a New Yorker and be: came a Mormon along in the '30's. He lived at Nauvoo, and started west with Brigham Young. I was about, 12 years old ‘then. I can well remember the country as it looked, and It looked mighty unlike it looks now. We did not go to winter quarters, we built our eabin on this side. Of course, these houses were no great affairs—generally one room about 12x14, There were many good mechanics, and we had what furniture we needed. We had no stoves and used fire- places. Youw'd laugh to see the beds we had, They had but one post. We always took the corner of a room aud bored holes in the logs and put the side pleces in them, so you see we could do with one post. We lived here for four years, then we went to Utah. _That wasewhen the change came. Brigham Young had fooled us, and we were mighty sorry for going there, Yes, I believe Brigham Young was a bad mau. 1 believe he was a crimi- nal. He didn’t commit. murder himself, but he got others to do it, and that amounts to the same thing. THEY QUIT HIM COLD, “My father saw fow things were, and was gotting rebellious, but my mother didn't care to start out from the rest. But the change did come, and we (1 Utah before we were there two yearsiiIt came about mostly in this way: Weo hddsa servant in the family for vears. We took her with us from Ili- nois. Well, when #e got to Utah, she took it into her head'that she had to be my father's orher wile, dnd once she pressed the thing a little too'" far, and father and mother sald it wa® ot the religlon of God that made people. 40 such things, and we came back to Owuncil Blufts. We became members of the Reprganized church In 1856, and, it you ever want to join, my wite and 1 and the rest of s will give you all the help we can. It & the true. church, and there is no polygnmy about it. “They tell different stories—some left Brig- ham Young atier: settling in the Missouri valléy, others followed him into Utah, but left when the prophet’s yices and tyranny became too glarivg And oppressive, 1 joined the Mpsmons lu Evgland,” said an elderly woman. “I was walking down the street and Iwstopped to hear some preaching—that night I saw the true faith. I came to Council Blufts when Brigham Young did, butlrefused to follow him Into Utah, for I saw Young was leading the peo- ple into errors und was very displeasing to God. Many of the women refused to go to Utah when they heard of polygamy and that made maoy Bstay. Sometimes the hysbands stayed with the wives, but others left them and went to Utah and got others, I think all this very displeasing to God.” Another cld woman says everybody knew Brigham had several wives at winter quarters, and she says ahe opee said to the prophet, “‘Father Young, you'll die an old Solomon. ‘Although they workeéd hard the Mormor were a pleasure loving people. Dancing was their favorjte amusement. Old Brig- him was @ great dancer himsclf. True, he was not cof slght nor gracaful build, and his neck looked very short and his face became very red In the may turns, but from river, no woman refused him for a partner. On the contrary, an offer from him was a great honor. The famous Elder Orison Hyd was even fonder of dancing than the prophet and “he became very red-faced when on the ficor, and could not come up to Brigham in his ‘movements.” There was a_dancing master too, old Hiram Gates. The ehll- dren were sent to him for instruction In the art, and the parents paid on an aver- age $2 a year. THE “JACK MORMONS." The Gentlles soon saw that the Mormons were not all alike, and one who did not be- lieve in Father Brigham's ways was callod a Jack Mormon.” The “Jack Mormons" refused to leave this part of the country, and every mow and then some would re turn from Utah and join their ranks. But the work of Brigham was not frustrated, and Florence still continued to be the great starting place. Provisions were ralsed in abundance, and the church's goods were stored there, There are many contrary storles regarding the cause of the Mormons leaving Florer The best authorized one says the Indians complained of their trespassing upon their ground, and the militia_were sent out to sea that they vacated. The Florence Land company gave the Mormons a tract of land, including the bend above the present sfte of the water works, Hore was erected a_great warehouse, where goods and pro- visions were stored. When Young and the majority of his people left Florence a groat change came. The house of Young and those of his people were burned by the In- dians, and when the white people settled there later on there were few left of the great numbers who had preceded them. There were many wells and cellars and haif burned logs THE PILGRIMAG Bvery year, uatll tho Union Pacific came through, Florence was a busy place. The pilgrims began to arrive in May. They came up the river in great boat loads, and some- times as mzny as 1,700 camped on the hills above the town. Those who could rented houses, for Fiorence bad many a_house with no one to live in it, The leaders of the church returned from Utah, and saw to the equipment of the people. Ox teams for the carrying of the goods were kept going back and forth. The people turned all thelr 80ods over to the church authorities for keeping with the understanding that nine- tenths would be returned to them upon their arrival in Utah. The church kept a tenth part of all things, according to the law of the old testament. The people found, as a general thing, that the church kept ten- tenthis, according to thelr laws and interests. This was the cause of many returning to the Missouri valley. As a general thing, it took each company six weeks to prepare for thelr Journey. The better classes were sent first. The poorer classes were called the ‘‘church people,” and they were always sent last Hand-cart companies are well remembered by the old settiers. *As fine looking people as I ever set eyes on I saw going up that hill with their carts strapped to their backs,” said an old lady of Florence. “They sét out rather gaily and sang until we could hear them no more, their voices dying away in the distance. They sent out two large hand-cart com- panies that year. One went out early and arrived safely in Salt Lake before the cold weather came. The last sent were a very poor class and did not start until late in August. Poor things, they were lost in the mountains. Most of them were Scotch and were built from the ground up. It seemed to us the day we watched them go that something eveil was in store for them. We all felt it, but they started out as joy- ously as ever people did. Of course, thero were ox teams for the carrying of goods and provisions, and the aged and sick did not have to walk. When che companies set out the people from all the country used to come to watch them off, and it was a great sight. ~ We always looked to the com- ing of the Mormons in the spring and summer as the beginning of business, and that had much to do with the building up of this country in early days.” THE REORGANIZED CHURCH. The “Jack Mormons™ are still extant and are good people. They settled, too, along the Platte and Loup Fork, and carried the tide of emigration Into the heart of the state. The oldest settlers in many localities of Nebraska are the Mormons who deserted Brigham Young. They are still Mormons and call themselves ‘‘Latter Day Saints.” They have an organized church of their own. Tn many of the towns of Nebraska, Iowa and the adjoining states the church has many members. They feel keenly the disfavor with which many look upon their faith, and are anxious for any investigation to be made into their doctrines. One and all they hate Brigham Young's memory and feel he is the cause of leading many away from the true faith, For Joseph Smith they have the greatest veneration and love. They call him a prophet and seer. Thelr church they claim is not the reformed one, it is the restored one. They reorganized in 1854, and took the name of “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.” In their articles of faith some professions are worthy of notice, “We belleve that men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam’s trans- gression. “ * ¢ & the dead in Christ will riso first. il the rest of the dval wiil ot live again until the 1,000 years are expired. ®" * '+ all men shall be judged, re: warded or punished according to the degree of good or evil they have dene. “We believe that in the bible Is contained the word of God as far as it Is translated correctly. We beligve that the canon of the seripture is not full, but God, by his spirit, shall continue to reveal his word to man until the end of time. “We believe that the doctrine of plurality and a community of wives are heresies and opposed to the law of God. “We believe that man should worship God in spirit and in truth and that such worship does not require a violation of the constitutional law of the land. This chureh has about 200 members in the city of Omaha. It is much stronger in Councll Bluffs. The chapel Is situated in Glen avenue and has a_weekly attendance of about 300 people. The chapel of the Omaha branch is at 1418 North Twenty-first street. It {5 very small_and has not a large attendance. Rev. G. M. L. Whit- man s the minister. In Pottawattamie and Harrison counties, Towa, the number of Latter Day Saints is very large, and they report additions through conversions. Har- rison county fis said to have 2,000 mem- bers. * The united church reports & gain of 2,000 for the past year. Mr. Willlams, the minister at Council Bluffs, is a bright and energetlo Young man, and 1s very anx- ious to bring his religion into the notice of the people. He feels that he can meet any divine of the other sects and face them in argument. . - Ll HOME-MADE HEROES, An Incident Illusteating the Fibre of Kearney's Coming Man, You often find heroes when you are not looking for one, and they are not all confined to the adult population. The Kearncy Hub has a story with two heroes in It, one a boy and the other a man. One afternoin recently Artbur Hicks, aged about 9, and Rolla Cash, two years older, were playing in the vicinity of the power house. The Hicks boy was sitting on the wooden chute which carries the water from the waste welr, but no water was going over at the time. Loflhg his balance or slipping in some manner he rolled into the deep pool at the foot, in which the water is very deep. The Cash boy, see- ing the dangar his companion was in, in- stantly jumped into the water to rescue him, notwithstanding he had his clothing on and could mot swim. Both boys were now in the pool, and both would undoubtedly have drowned had it not been for assistance. A young man named Wells saw the occur- rence, and without stoppiog to consider his own danger jumped from the embankment forty feet above and rescued both boys. It was a brave act. And It was a brave act of the Cash boy In attempting to save the lite of his playmate when he would also have iost his own but for the timely assistance of a third party. The heroes are not all found in books. o A Man with a Double Heart, When the Mercer County (N. J.) 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