Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 7, 1894, Page 19

“WYSTER Wo were dlning together—Brown, Stark- Wweather, the American, whose name | can- and myselt. Starkweather had Just returned from a trip to the Rocky moun- tains, and he had made the acquaintance of the Amerioan on boarfl the Atlantic steamer. Aceording to Starkweather the American was the very best of good company, and he had invited us to meet him, assuring us we should pass a most delighttul evening. told whether the Thumorist or a buffalo three classes, as I have beon given to under- stand, tho entire poplation of the American Is @ivided; and, as he during the whole of the dinner, .except ask for or to decline some article of food or drink, I did not find him a particularly en- tertaining person; but when we had arrived at cigars the American gave a sigh of re- Jef, tilted back his chair on and looked about him with a contented ex- pression, and a general air of having laid aside business and prepared himseM for We were not man was a millionaire, never spoke its rear legs, We were mpeaking of the mysterious dis- appearance of a man who, according to the newspapers, had left his house in Bloomsbury square a fortnight ago to post a letter, tell- ing his wife that he would return ad never since been is something in these disappear- ances that T canmot understand,” said Brown. “Rvery now and then some man, who has not the slightest reason for committing sui- oide or for running away, walks out of front door and disappears utterly and for- Say that of these men a certain per- centage does commit away, and that of the rest anotber percentage 18 knocked on the head and dropped into the =~ Thames, there will still remain a large num- ppearances to which we can attach Take this Bloomsbury man, 1 know a man who knew him intimately, and he tells me that a better man He had not an enemw in the world, and he was devotedly attached to his He had a comfortable in- or does run no explanation. for example. never lived. wite and_children, come and did not owe a penny. exceptionally hdrd-headed, clear-brained man, and the hypothesis that mad {s put'$p the question. that he Was mtrdered at 7 o'clock on a sum- mer evening between Bloomsbury square and the corner of Southampton row. 48 only one of half a dozen similar cases ‘that have come to my own knowledge.” “ Btarkweather and I agreed that the subject was a mysterious one, and that there must be some explanation of these disappearances which no one had yet thought of. then that the American suddenly lemce, and began a monologue which lasted for the rest of the evening. “‘Gentlemen, such disappearances in the states. when a cashier or a broker disappears we all know that his time for closing up business affairs and across the border into Canada has come; but good, quiet, honest people, just such men as your friend there has been describing, dis appear with they do with you he suddenly went 8o is the theory “we have just more often, 1 have lost two intimate friends in that way, and it naturally made me think a good deal about the thing. the way I came to find out the truth about it, though I have never yet told a living soul, knowing that there is nothing so credulous a8 a human being, and that if 1 told what I knew nine people out of ten I was:a lunatic or a liar. 41 Mind’ that people beleve twice as easy as Just think for a minute Englishmen believe there, T guess we don't want to However, I'm going to tell you what I know about mysterious dis- because 1 calculate feve it, and because I'm going to Paris tomorrow, and as I don't expect to come back to London again, it won't 80 much matter whether you believe it or not. He paused for a moment and drew three or four times at his cigar. hy all means to go on with his story, and as I was fecling a little drowsy, and the man’s “1 voice was soothing in its monotonous inflec- tlon, [ rather thought''that If his story did tiresome I could “ least a part of it. “I was living in Chicago, gentlemen,” sumed the American, “when the first cf my disappeared. would think But over this sidg (hey do with us how all your talk politics tonight. appearances be likely to bel ‘We begged him with nothing on the face of the carth (o worry him—having been divorced only that very year. spending the evening at my hou 10 c'clock he started for his lodgings, which were in the next street, not 100 yards away. He had a sore threat at the time, sald as he left me that he should siop in at the druggist’s on h's way same medictne. He had been He did 80, as | afterwards found out on ‘inquiring of the druggist, but from the moment that he left the druggist shop no man ever heard or saw him again, no man ever found the least trace of him of any sort, size or description. “That ' was, years later another friend married only 'x weeks and was the happi- man I ‘ever stricl wife wasn't feeling very well one Sunday ovenlng, and he insisted upon It Was about 8 o'clock in the even- and it was a bright, moonlight night. The doctor's office was in the same street ahout three blocks away, and the street was always full of people at that hour. from the timie my friend shut his front do-r he vanished never went to the doctor's office, so far as we could find-out, and’ the only trace of him that was ever found was the eyidence of a boy in a druggist's shop that was about half way botween my friend’s h-use and the doc- “The boy rather thought that a 'man answering to the description of the missing man had come Into the shop at § o'clock and bought an ounce of chloride of potash, but as he didn't know my friend he of course, be sure that From that day to this nothing ever heard of Julius Fickok, the nawe of my missing tate has been setiled by the His wifo has been ten years ago. who had been disappeared. going for the behind him tor's office. riend, and his es- married at least once “I got dmto & way of thinking over the Qisappearance of these two men and trying to Invent some theory that wauld sceount invented half a dozen theorie __but every one of them broke down absolutely certain that the men bad neither ran away Hor com ed suicide, for I knew enough about both 6f them to know that ‘simply fimpossible, the chances we®e ‘at least a millicn to one that they had not besn murdered. cun be killed early in the evening erowded street of wmmebody. would notice a thing like that. had not been enticed ‘into some dark alley anfl there anurdered, for they were not the Kind of men to havé that fame played cn You might just as well try to en- tice a cat to walk into the river. t0o, if they had been murdered what ha become of their bodies? gentiemen, 3 a mighty awkward thing to ously, as you must know the more 1 matter the more certain 1 ing men had not been run away of nor committed suicide, Then what had become of them and dozens of other men who had disappeared in Hlar circumstances ? Then, again, attracting the al dispose of eurrepti i you ever tricd it thought of (he that the mi made away with, their own mecord, There didn't seem to be any answer to this questicn, and that aggravated me. The thing beat me, and 1 hate ta be. beaten. reading in @ mewepaper of a new sort of gupiowder, and the whole thing wa 10 mo at once. That i to sey, 1 knew 1 nd when ¥ou have the clew o anything you can cemsider that you have %, that i, of course, unless you a detootive, went around to the university to a friend of mine Who was a professor of chem- “Brinckerholt, toll me i hait a clew, lstry, and 1 said oblorado of petash ds an explosive ahould s=mlilo'! wards to that efect. t's one of the most ‘ pewertul of exglosives, and when it is mixed | 10USLY DISAPPEARED. My W. L. Alden. ' . Copyright, 1804, by the Anlhflf-‘ with certain other Ingredients—some of which 1re as common a8 pork—it beats dynamite clean out of sight: Why, sir, I can make an explosive out of chiorate of notash that weuld blow the whole city of Chicago to Paradise, and you could carry enough to do the deed n your trousers pockst, ““Tell me one more thing' says L ‘Is there any explosive which will do a lot of work with a very lite nolse? “‘Now I see what you are driving at’ said Brinckerhoff. ‘You sare wanting to invent a noizeless powder and are thinking of chlorate of petash. It won't do, my friend. You can manags ehlorate of potash 8> as to give you a tremendous explosive force with next to no noise, but you can never harness it so as to use it in fircarms. Other men have tried it before you ever 1hought of it, but they have all failed Try something that is slower than chlorate of "potash if you want ta succe:d in_any- thing except blowing your own head off.” “T had learned all 1 wanted to learn of Brinckerhoff, and 1 knew now for certain that I was on the right track. I wondered that the fdea had mot come to me before. You Temember that the first of my friends who disappeared had besn fast seen at a druggist’s where he had gone to get some medicine for @ sore throat, and that there was some reason to suppose that the second man who disappeared had bought chlorate of potash at another druggist's. Looking at these facts in the lizh* of what Brineker- hoff had sald, I felt’ rensorably sure that in both cases chiorate of potash was at the bottom of the mysterious disappearance of my two friends, and I set to work to try to prove it. “I bought a couple of ounces of chlorate of potash, and that evening I gave a good big dose of the drug to my landlady’s cat, putting it in the center of a meat pill. The cat bolted it without the least suspicion, and 1 watched patiently to see if the beast would disappear. She did nothing of the kind, but after about half an hour she curled up on the floor and went into conyulsions; and, after freeing her mind as to the trick that she found I had played on her, she died without showing the slightest Inclination to explode. ~ However, that didn't shake my faith In the theory. Brinckerhoft had said that when chlorate of potash was combined with some other substance, the name of | which he would not give me, Its explosive powers were enormously increased. What was that other substance? It seemed to me that this question could not be a very diffi- cult one. The two men who had disappeared must have had this substance somewhere about them, and it must have come in actual contact with the drug. That thousands of people take chlorate of potash, or carry it in thelr pockets, and don't disappear, must mean that they don’t happen to have the other mysterious substance about them. It was then a substance which my two friends had with them, but which the average man does not have. It must have been carried Toosely in the pocket, or «else it could not have come in comtact with the chlorate of potash. What could this substance be? “Well, I worked over that prablem for weeks, and could not eomo to any conclusion. I mixed chlorate of potash with every sort of thimg that 1 could dmagine a sane man might possibly have in his coat pocket, but 1 could not produce the terrible explosive that Brinckerhoft had spcken of. It was not phosphorus, nor sulphur, or anything else that s used in making matches. It was not tobacco, nor sugar, nor coffee, nor tea, nor gum, nor flour, nor anything else that I could think of. [ was beginning to get a little Qisheartensd when one day [ had to go to a dentist to have a tooth filledi=and then 1 made my discovery. The dentistywas one of those men who think that theyscan dis- tract your attention from dental Operations by perpetually falking to you. The theory is that the suffering you undergo in your ecar makes you forget the suffering you undergo in your teeth. This particular dentist meandered along, teHing me all about the weather and the politics of America and Europe, and the progress of astromomlical discovery. .and thé last new novel that he read, and gradually he worked round to my two ‘friends who had disappeared, and ve- marked how singular ft was that they had both been under his hands within a week be- fore they disappeared. “This naturally interested me more than T cared to say, and I asked him what he had done for my friends. He said he had filled two teeth for one, and seven for the other. ‘Filled them with gold, I suppose,’ said I, though I dido’t suppose anything of the kind. ‘Not all of them,’' said the dentist. There were Several eavities that were too large for gold fillings, and in them I used a cement.” “What is your cement made of?’ I asked in a careless sort of why. “Well, that is a teade secret,’ he replied. To tell the truth, T dom't precisely know what all the ingredlents are myself. I'll show It to you.' So saying, he opened a drawer, and taking out what looked like a thick sheet of glue, he lald it on the table beside me. ‘That I8 it,' he said, ‘though of course it has to be softened before being used.’ “Just then the dentist excused himselt for a moment, and went into the other office to speak with a newly arrived patient, and I tmproved the opportunity by stealing a bit of the cement. You sce I did it in the cause of science, and everybody knows that a man has a rigit to do anything in the cause of science, from vivisecting a dog to writing books on political economy. “When 1 got home I made a powder of that cement, and I mixed a very little of it with a very little chlorate of potash. Then 1 looked around for something to try it ou. My landlady was out of cats just then and there was mo available dog to be had, How- ever, I thought 1 knew whers 1 could Lorrow a cat, so 1 took a small covered basket and a bit of dried herring and I went to a neighbor's, where T had seen half a dozen cats in the front yard, and I didn't have much trouble in st:aling one—in the interests of sclence, you understand, “1 took the cat to my room, and when she had agreed to overlook my conduct in putting her into a basket I gave it a meat pill, compounded of chlorate of potash and tha cement I had borrowed of the dentlist, She swallowed it and asked for more, but didn't get it. Then I hung a string from the eorner of the table and advised her to play with it, which she aeeordingly did, You know how excited a young cat will get over a string. Well, that cat got so excited after a litde while that she took to throwing herselt around on the floor and against the leg of the table in a mighty reckless way, considering she was making a delicats chemical experiment. Suddenly 1 heard a little faint pufl, as ‘you might say, for you could hardly call it a report, much iess an explosion, and, gentlemen, true 1 am sitting here, th-re wasn't so much as a hair of that cat to be seen.. And, what's more, nobody ever found the feast trace of that animal, not even so much as a particle of dust or soot. I meedn't say that the doors and windows of the room wers locked, and that mothing Is more certain than that tho cat wasn't in hiding under the furniture, No, sir; that cat had disappeared the same as my two friends had disappeared, and 1 had solyed the mystery of their disappearance, “Why haven't 1 published this discovery? Because it would do more harm than good. Brinckerhoft was right in trying to keep me in the dark as to the way of making such a tremendous and silent explosive. 1f I had published my fucts anybody eould have made that explosive, and by this time the an- archists would have blown nine people out of ten into the other world. T wouldn't tell what I know even now were it mot that the cement of which 1 speak has .gome out of use, and there probably isn't a dentist living who knows how It is made. All I know of tho matter is that if you have ever had a tooth filled with cement of any kind you had better keep clear of chlorate of potash, You m/ght make the combingtion by accident, Just as my fricnd did, ang then we should hear of ancther mystesious sisgppenrance, Very likely you don't witegethor believe what I've been telling you, but you can't deny that it does explain how puople mysteriously disappear and ghat there lsn't any other explanation that mests the case. That 1s sufiicient reason for believing the theory, as every selentiic man will tell you, If you diabelieve 4t you might just as well Qisbellevo the theory of graviation. You can't prove the existence of gravitation as a universal law, but you believe it because it explains all the facts, and it Is the only theory which does explain them," PRINCESS BORU. Once in a while the fishermen on the west coast of Ireland rub their eyes with amaze- ment when they look out first thing of a themsclves if it's really true they are awake, and well they So would any one who, coming out for a sup of the morning air whils breakfast was belng got, saw right before him in the sea an island that wasn't there the night And no common island either, mind covered with and rivers running down sides into the sea, and folks going to market and men plowing in the fields, all as natural as life, and fit to deceive priest or parson, though when you take a boat and row out to It the nearer you got the loss you see it, and when you are right on the plac: whero it stood you don't see it at all. vanishes clean the doings of Princess Peggy Boru, who was a chip of the old block and her father’s own child. It came about in this way: The king of the Island of Ballyloo want-d a wife, which was a want he was often want- tempered even for a troubles at home likely to settle by cutting off his wife's head, as the shortest way out of it. this saved words, but in the long run it took more time than argulng it straight out wonld have dome, because by the time the king had been a widower nime times the girls on the mainland and nothing would tempt them to go to be queen on the Island of Ballyloo—owing to un- healthiness, So when King Dennis had asked every likely lass on the coast and got a refusal he went inland and requested King Brian Boru to send him his daughter to bs queen of Ballyloo, for it was well known in all Ire- land that Princess Peggy was as fine a girl as you'd see in a month of Sundays, barring her red hair and a fow freckles, and had an arm on her like a blacksmith. King Brian was pleased enough, for he was a widower himself, and pretty widow whose farm lay just beyond the village that he'd have liked right well | to have brought up to the castle as queen and they ask for he-was short grow mortal there was a 4 good wife she made him. Never had there been such management in the castle since the king came to the throne; not a bit of waste anywhere, and all the rents paid up to the very day. But by reason of her temper being a little soured by her separation from Jim, Queen Pegiy was pretty short with the king and he began to think he'd rather have less good management and more humbleness in his wite, and cne day when she'd given him a good tongue-lashing he came up behind her with his sword drawn, meaning to cut oft her head and make him- sclf a widower for the tenth time. Queen Peggy, a9 it chanced, had a pan in her hand and lucky for her she kept all her tins like mirrors, 8o that sho saw what he would be at reflected In the tin, and turning quick, knoeked the sword out of his hand and boxed his ears with the pan until he bogged her pardon. Nevertheless, seeing what was on King Dennis' mind, Queen Peggy de- cided her health was in need of a change to the mainland Now at the bottom of the well in the court yard of the castle was fastencd the chain that held the island fast to the bed of the ocean, and one dark night Queen Peggy tied a rope round her waist, and with a hammer. and a chisel stuck in her belt let herself down to the bottom of the well and cut the chain. Then she came up and went quietly to bed. When King Dennis got up in the morning he sew that the island had changed its place. g “Bad luck to it.” ‘says he, “the chain is broke and °tis T must go down in the well and fix it,"”" but as chanes wouid have it, the bottom dropped clear oat of the well o that Kink Dennis went #izht through into the ocean and was drowned. Queen Peggy was leaning over the curb and saw it happen, but she sald nothing to anybody, only seeing she was a widow she'd no longer any eall to stay in Ballyloo and took @ boat and rowed to the mainland and went home, and all in good time, as it hap- pened, for Castle Boru was at sixes and sevens, and matters badly in need of atten- tion. The widow Clancy, who was to have been married that very morning to King Brian, had run oft In a jaunting car before daybreak with the king of Athenroy, who was a young fellow near her own age, and Queen Peggy had all she could do to quiet her father. By the time this was done and things put to rights she happened to s-e in the pantry the preparations for a grand supper that was to have been given to all the neighbors in honor of the new bride. “It's a pity,” says she, “that good food it he'd mot been afraid of the two women quarreling, for the widow had a will of her and Princess Peggy's bhair pink for no reason. So he thought this a good chance to get his daughter well quit of the place, and Ballyloo was too far for s Peggy had her eye set on Paddy Doolan's eldest boy, Jim, who would have a good bit of money some day, beside being the finest lad this sida of Done not to mention that she had kLer sus picions .of the widow, and her idca was she and Jim were to live at the ca when K'ng Brian grew too old to rule Jim was to save him the trouble of it So “thank you, kindly,” prime minister of Ballyloo, never be more Dennis, and I should recommend your as Clancy who | lives on the farm the other side of the vil- 1 i sure she'd jump at the chance, and the Doolans would be glad of an portunity to take up that farm.” Now, if Princess Peggy had left out the re- marks about would have been all right, and nothiug more would have happened but ‘when ‘King Brian heard' that, he made up his mind that the time had come when either he or Jim crown, and that the matter might as well Doolan was to says Princess Peggy. says Princess Peggy. says the king to the prime min- tster of Ballyloo, “we'll have no more words Take her to Ballyloo, and may a father's ble-sing go with her, make your master a good wife, I'm sure.” in the matter. take him at his word Princess Peggy ran locked herself and refused to come out. says King Brian, try to balk a woman of her will. wishes to stay In the tower, stay the chall until she makes up her mind to come out,” “SURE, IT'S STAR’ VING I AM." and he sent down to the village for his who surrounded no one pass in or out. Princess Peggy put her head through the window, and says she, “I want something the tower and let On the second day “Do you, indeed?” says King Brian, a good appetite i2 a fine thing, and they say that no finer potatoes and bLuttermilk are found in all Ireland than in Ballyloo," Ou the third day Princess Peggy calls down the window: IUs starving 1 “And that's a pity, too,” says King Brian, who was always & civil spoken man, there's slathers of good meat had in the Island of Ballyloo. On the fourth day thc princies came down and knocked at the doer of the tower, “Sister or wite?" the keyhole, “Wife," says Princess Poggy and came out and had a good King Dsuuia 45 qulet a2 you pleass a0d " uukos the World Ab taund, 1 nd drink to be ys King Rrian through meai and went should be wasted. “We'll have the wedding in spite of little Claney. Go down to th Doolan farm,” says she, “and tell old Paddy that he may go over to the Ciancy plac and take possession. And it Jim is at ‘home tell him to step upj to the castle a moment as I'm wishing Lo see him. 1t was a grand wpdding, and it’s not often that either Jim or King Brian ever gainsay Princess Pegs; As for the island of Ballywo, it drifts about as the wind takes’it, aud some think it's enchanted, but the people there ar fairly content, seeing ghat until King Dennis | comes back from the bottom of the well, | they've no rents to pay. E. B. W. VOUNGSTERS, PRATIL UL “That government i1s.best which governs least.” When little Jolinny read (his he said: “I'll have to show that to dad Tommy (studying™ his lesson)-1 say, pa, where does the Mereimae rise, and into what sea does it empty? Pas-1 don’t know, my son. Tommy—You dom't kiow, ei? And to- norrow the teacher will lick me on aceount of your ignorance. Tommy—Sey, Paw. Mr. Figg—Now, what is the matter? “When the Fourth of July falls on Sunday, does it fall hard enough to break the Sabbath?"' Dottie—Mamma, I guess my dolly’s mamma must have been a very unpious lady. Mamma —Why so, Dottie? Dottie—W ie's made her 80 her knees won't bend. I have to put her on her stummici to say her prayers, Tommy Wing's mamma is awful good and kind to him.” Mumma—What has she dane that s so thoughtful? ‘*‘Let him have measles just the very day school began.” A dignified little mamma, who sometimes indulges In acrobatic feats in the privacy of her bedroom for the entertainment of her G-year-old daughter, took the child to an amateur circus, where the society peaple were acting for the benefit of a fresh air fund. One of the performances consisted of a double romerset which elicited great applause, and when the applause had died away the volce of the child could be heard distinetly over half the tent: “Mamma, that man does that 'most as well as you do it TO AN “ADVANCED WOMAN." F. Mabelle Peatse in the Idler. Divinest Woman, shall 1 dare in humble rhyme to praise thee, Can’ words depict thy modern charm of manful coat and hat? Thy muscle and thy intellect! the ardors that upraise theel Thy newness day by day! thy mission! but I may peak of that. Reformer llon-hearted, With fashion hast thou parted. Thy unkempt locks Jie limply on thy clear and classic head; In hygienic clothing, A waist and heels deep-lodthing. Thy unstayed figure freely flounders, knick- erbockered, With journalistic intellect and mind inquir- ing, fearles Of man or devil, heav'n or Lell, or eveu Mrs. Grundy: To church thou dost but scldom go, ngr lov'st the Abbey peerless; Sovl-anchored at the Ethical I see theely oit n Sunday. r in occuit Deep in lor: “Phou followest the or u Stend; Intellectual gyrutions, Mazes of reincarnations Close ‘wreath their mystic spells aroung thy unbewildered head nation, stral track of a Bes, In fiction, though we ek the many a time we've found thee, With chapters of opifiions, but a saving lo! of dress. Thy heart is all platonic, though thy suit- ors flock around thee, And the grave amd made graver by ll'?' But—if man’_flods To wed an Aftor Yellow Or dream Superfludus AVoman is to wealth and title blind; w Should he [amcy n Marcella, With her views and lands at Mellor, I would trust he may be happy—1 would pray she may be kfind. not, full O woman of the period, thy accomplish ments are legion! To lecture or 1o wiipt-dance, to frivol or to fight, To ploneer, to edyfaté) to nurse the lep- Tous reglom, sse thy ' pastimes—but a graver, sweeter task is'thy Oclight 0 proclaim oto' man sulvation, Through Woman's meditation; To show Earth's highest progress through the Woman-soul 13 found; Man as intelfeet matcrial, Thou as spitft afl etheredl ‘tis Womun ~Wonian—\Voman—that 7, 1084, CAPTAIN JACK IN LUNNUN The Peet €oont Kindly Recoived by the British and Freroh Pross, HE RICTES SOME WILD WEST STORIES Audiences Charmed by His Vorses and fo- mantio Adventures—tiis Sermon “ly Yony Bl the Mountain Dowitzer of God,” Was a Stunner. 'Way back in the 70's the nai tain Jack Crawford became famos gold fever wa fiey. this state, whence stage.c enjoys a reputation that has spr throughout America. Captain Jack visited London and Paris re- cently, where he was accorded a hospitable ® R. over Jack's visit to London. Among other pleasant reception by the press. Mr. Geor Sime, the noted English author, devotes a column in the Referee to Captai thinge Mr. Sims says: There strode into my room, out of the , Captain Jack Crawford, the famous poet scout of America, the ideal fronticrsman, with long hair hang- ing over his shoulders, tall, lithe, and sun- burnt, with eagle eyes and shading brows; and he sat himself down in my study, and, mist and the rain of the p: shaking the rain fr claimed, “I like th “Like what?' I asked. “The weather his leonine locks long years in Mexico t rain, only the ete suushine, and how 76 per died, and the fish lay in the ( viver and fanned them. and tie snake kins blistered dream,” and wis r special summer weather back to Ne fexico with b Captain Jack © and 1 little poems in the American language. The captain's frontier reminisconces are \er and violence. Many of them are sweet and open . to the weary tofler in dreary cily pent a world of fresh romance. To tell them as the captain tells them would be impossibie in cold print. They want the not all of them of scenes of slan; pathetic, and “cow talk,” the vernacular of the pla with s odd tmagery and its quaint quaintest and wost original item in the cap. collection are the Cowboy sermon RErMONK are preacher, now the bishop of Who was ¥nown in the old da Mountain Howitzer of God,” and who 1 with the roughs and the gau chapel collections the plate was fre quently filled with calored tokens used at the gambling house 0 cer:th, and a white chip for 25 varson after his se gambling houses, cash the chips, and put th lolars to the credit of the chapel fund. ents, T Pony Bill's sermons are delightful, and must be intensely appreciated by cowhoy . 1 one of them on th Jack quoted exciusively begine taggors audianc ) Prodigal Son, Capta: for my edification. -Pony, when h o jerk his- jew on pious talk," the regulir pagsons who drop in to h bim, at first, but many of them have taken him by the hand and recognizad the he is deing. He reads the story of Prod.”—that is cowboy for Sen—first from bible and then he t lates it. He describes the good time the Prod. had at firet, and then hie career down 1o the time when he came to be “herding hogs on a Jonah ranch and afoot » sizing up the lay the time when, penniless and hungry and_sittin’ on a fe ‘d be glad to sit down and work th husks with the hegs if he'd been bu out the Prod.'s thoughts when he mak. up his mind “to give the | cowboy vernacular he describes the mectin, of father and son, and the killing of t fatted calf, and he gives a glowing de repentant “Prod.,” and tells how ‘‘such night was put in as a man of th the gentle, homely, you will understand how the “Cowhoy e mons but thousands of cultured Am £ moral of the sermon is excellent. sliders are urged to trail.” Captain Crawford, who is staying at the ¢, is only in London for a few days this time, but next year, If he makes a stay among us, T am sure that he will meet with @ hearty welcome. 1 have known him for arming verse, and across the broad Atlantic we have a time exchanged fraternal greetings. all the origiuality and quaintness of ¢ best American story-tellers, and he takes ear which i8 a tonic to the jaded rinkle wrote of im in the New York World: “The world longs for a fresh individuality and fresh, strong this wded house and listened to the celebrated Captain k Crawford while he held his audience spelibound for two hours by the simple o hield the afternoon when he came into my study just to bring me a message from my friend Metro) a good many years as a writer of wan He English listener into a hright, atmosphe uerves. characler. I never was so struck by as when T sat the other night in a c Ji narrative of b me spellbound life." And he must ha for it was b o'clock Robert P. Porter, of census fame, and shouidn’t like to fell you what timé it was when I let him out of my front door into the night, with his lorg hair waving in the breeze, and then went up to bed reviling the fate which had made me a melanc} the wild west The Westminster News, London, devotes address at St. John's Mission ball, Horseterry road, over a column to Captain Jack' to a large audience, whic repeated . it is said, ga quotes a verse from ‘‘Sunshine, 1 never likes to see a man a-rus dumps ‘Cause In the game of life he docsn't always catelr the trumps But 1 can ab cuss As takes his dome and' thanks the Lord it It any w ANt 1o i Tuek, Yor ean’t correct the trouble more'n you csn drown m du Rem forn’ head i bowed, That God "Ml sprinkle sunshine in the trail of ey cloud. When Captain Jaok reached London Mr. Jumes Gordon Bennelt sent a repr tive of the Pariz edition of the New 1lerald to luterview him. The c introduced to the Herald's Parls thus Y A tall, strongly built, good looking man, whose fair mustache and imperial, as well #s the fair hair, were slightly streaked with gray, slood on the steps of the Hotel Metro- | pole looking out at the gloomy, misty | weather with a smile that seemed fo bring | a glimpse of sunshine inte his immediat ne ghborhood. His sharp peering eyes set m networks of minute wrinkles could only belong to a sailor or a plainsman, and when, as he lifted up his broad brimmed sombrero to acknowledes as iutreduction. the dong. ‘ber reasoning. gray-streaked halr which had been twisted fell over his shoulders, to definitely place him not difficult latter category. As a matter of faoct, it was Captain * one of a few long-haired gentry from the plains who do not give the effote dweller is the absolute honesty s:08e of rofilnement, he somewhat dispose one in despite the un- sarily affects, that It is"at least cortaln that since Colonel Cody into English favor no one has created slon in eo short a time among ths English people he has met visit Omaha during the ¢ of Cap- coming wint s through- out the west. In those days the Black Hills at its height. Thousands of gold seekers were pouring into the hills Ahe nearest railroad point then was at Sid- ches and Supply (rains took the long, wearisome trail to the hills. Captain Jack was eogaged by The Bee as a special correspondent, and his letters telling of the new Bidorado were copled far and wide. It was his first news paper work. Then it was learned that he possessed some literary talent, which in succeeding years he cuitivated, until now he ad his fame RELIGIOUS, annual ‘conference of Catholic Philadelphia present week, beginning Wednesday of New York, home for worl aptist ministers at West Parms, N. Y. | e Protestant Bpiscopal Society of R has been started in avowed purpose and Connecticut has just bee Catholic diocese of as a clerk in a gro appointed bishop of tho Reman J., began lite well known of Boston, has left the ministry and removed where he will devote himself He announc d a sequel 1o “Looking Backward.” church has co k from Burope with the the so-called liberal theology is on the wane, the tide of edu India has now seventy-two Christian Bn- deavor sacicties; Japan, fifty-nine China. twenty-three, and Madagascar In missionary lands there are in all 2,740 Among other “‘Maxims for Pro ex- s—it does me good. you are done, ste he replied. And then he fold me low for five not a_drop of ial, “scorching, blinding t of the cattle bed of the ives with their tails crawled about with their i cracking: and he called s downpour of Thurkdey ‘‘Just a he could take a siock of many a germon in the bud a scheme for the rebuilding of the B and $100, on could be easily obtained. During the sessions of the Rock River con- in the Methodist church of Galena, il General Grant awford was for many years the chief of scouts of the American army, has written some of the daintiest Bishop Vincent, who was then pas presided over the The Board of Home Missions of the Presby- n church reports receipts from rresponding period ain is divided * committee, $: In the chure heen a loss of $1 gain of $82,15 nd stavtling turns of thought. Perhaps the of three, Bishop Potter. tributed to Pony Bill, a the Community cowhoy who was converied by a Methodist ew Mexica, s as “the ixed blers, and took them their own way, with the resalt that at will be called e of their own making. lately a student Geoneral Theological seminary. Work among Brothers of gely among the chil ren in the Sunday supplimented chips.” These chips are | Systematic attempt to elevate the ch the voung men in the district of reading rooms, A blue chip is given for $1 a red chip for entertainments ton would walk to the | the Church will be distinguished by habit, the prevailing color of which Is brown, nsisting of a long cossack, with €ross on the breast, and bound at the waist The postulant takes the black girdle, dowment and will live on gifts of 1he chag of handwriting in the Chicago public schools Prodigal and interesting innovation scloiar, who is now 80 years of age, has In | his posseasion a note writt censuring him a collega library contir 15,000 bound vol- dly, as many for chewin' that Kind o' truck;” and he figures rears $4,000, in the library over g ranch the hake and let out for tue home corral” [ was thrown i the other day. tion of the grey-headed father's grief cver the country never saw afore.” Without the accent and pathetic passages, this looks in print like a vulgarisation of the great bibie story; but hear it with the real western accent and the quaint loeution, and ne seventy-uin life of the city. © most distinguished electrici rvice in the tricity, which has been in the count have gripped not only the cowboys, an of ‘the faculty, among the members of tart for the hems ranch at once, and never look back on the | win cure him, and whether the disense or rning, that is the Univ ntinue the practice of geting th has engaged Gill tackle Yale for the season Is about $1,000. Amberst college, for wany years been an enthusiastic s of eclipses and of the sun's corona during the eclipse, is perfecting plans for his expedition eclipse will occur ebout 3 p. m., August 9, continulng two minutes and conneetion with the eclipse, and for the cxpedition is forthcoming he construction the observation A codicil to the wiil of the late Prof. apparatus for fessor of chemistry at Harvard colleg off from the college a Teversionary interest or's estate, valued at one hall of which, and pos have gone to the university Tund, esting significance In the cadicll lies in the Qotober 30, 1893—for it was bmmedi- ately after the di times and the necessity (: bly more, would London scribbler instead of a poct wcout, with a vanch in New Mexico and a glorious record of gallant deeds on the frontier of a economy, of Dr. Huntington, Prof. ‘Cooke’s nephe laboratory and Dr, Huntington was treated by Prof. Cooke as a son, and it s said that the action of the university was a severs blow to the expressions of high appreciation. The Westminster Budget gave the captain a full page interview, with an excellent half- tone porteait. In conclusion the reporter a poem of which the poet scout is especially proud: W with the ble Medielno, is no medicine 5o every home and so admirably adapted to the s cotlon 10 & free und casy week passs but some wmember of the family has ne r headache & touch of rheumatism The severe A toothache + o kickin' and swearin' at 5 of a burn or scald I less time than when medicine has to muy be promptly treated before inflammation insures a cur: otherwise required receive immediate treatment befor become swollen Pain Balm is kept at hand, ay be cured before it becomes serion back relieved and sever able time saved or a pain in the side or chest red witheut payin; a G0-cent bottle at on For sale by drugg r. when beneath the lond your suf- ~third of the tine Cuts and bruis-s should an only Lie done when ptain was A sore throat readers a dogtor's bill, you will never Signorina Teresina Labrioia, tha degree of Gcetor of laws, She Is dclieate, almost fragile, In ap- arance, but has made onderful powers of obsarvation sud the logic is only 18 years oted for her CONSTANT CRY FOR REF( Has Becn Feurd Evor finoo the American Bo;ublio Was Founded. IT IS BY N) MEANS AN EVIL OMEN Ex-Senutor Henry L. Dawoes Soos In it & Commendablo Strite for (mprovame that Augurs Weli for the American People. (Copyrighted) . The cry for government reform fs hoand evirywhere in the land and has been #o beard from the beginning of the governments The constitution under which we live was adopted ouly on condition that it should be reformed. And we have beon at work ever simee in the endeavor to make over: not only our organic law, but all government instl tions which have sprung up under it. [t 48 not enough that there is an entire ehange of administration radical in character eveny four years. Nor does it suffice that every year, or at most ouce in every two years, the legislaturcs of forty-four states spend thres or four months in undoing what thelr pr.des cessors have done, and in amending old laws or making new on This restless and ine cessant ery for change {8 by no means ooms fined to administrative detail under an estube lished system, but includes earncst effort st organic reformation. An outside listener would some to the eone clusion that nearly everything was golng wrong with us and that a g-neral upturning and reorgaization was imminent and im dispensable. Not the least noticeable dm these movements is the singwlar fact that these forces are .often working in opposite directions, even whon made up of the same inlividuals, in that way attempting to walk in opposite dircctions at the same time Thus the nccessity of clothing one man alone, with all executive power znd ad- ministrative responsibility, is advocated by the same people who, at tho same time, urge the adoption of a referendum that will throw responsibility for logislation off the shoulders of legislators, where it now rosts, and put it upon tho multitudinous voler, (o be scattered and lost altogether. The same reformers, who are insisting en seven rs' presidential tenure, and ins cligibility to re-election, in order to shield that cficer from any time-serving bias of vopular influenc —these reformers are in the same breath demanding the cleetion of United States senators directly, by the peopls, im order that they, whils i ofce, may be in clos r toueh with the popular owill of eash: | hour as it passes. ¥o. towo, political senti- ment Is divided betsveen & Atte tenure for officials, based upon merit adone; and that to be determined by a tribunal.outside th official responsible for the serviee,on :the one hand and a partisan tenure on the other, to be d termined by tests set up from time to time by those whom the people place in power. Some of us are for and soms. against government by commission, im rogation of the authority of a single cxecus tive; some likewise condemn, while others commend, legislation by committees instead of by t The whole boly of the lgislatune. e are these who would put the liberty bate in the keeping of one mun; others would lodge it in the custoly of a committe and others still would put it in ne man's keeping and under no limitation, Hardly two of us agree upon the terms upen which the tive franchise shall bo rxep- ed by those who, in thecry, I've vnd r laws NOT AN EVIL OMEN. This widespread propagandism of new id as of government and apparnt dissatisfaction with existing conditions, funiamental as well as admninistrative, is 'by no means an ewil omen. Any foreigiiér inferring from this universal debate among us over queations touching the charact.r of our institutions that there is any radical defect in the prin- ciples upon which they rest, would fail al- together to understand the character of oue pco;le or the true inwardncss of this constant disagreement over the merils of our go¥aime went, The Amerlcan people have a ganius for government making, and this 1 yer weass ing challenge of the op rations they have put over themselves Is evidence that the geiius which constructed it without model. ane fn deflance of all governmental dogma ti.n tolerated among men is still quick-and alial, with vigor unimpaired, and with vison breadened and clarified by a hundred ye: s of constant search for defects and strife {ar improv: ments, These struggles to achieve government.d raform should be encouraged, not stified, anfl this not because this or 1hat scheme of pes form meets our appraval, and notwithstands ing the erds sought thraugh many of them may in our gpin‘on be unwi.e and anischiev- ous. They are to be encouraged, becanse they keep alive and stimulate an interest fn governmental affairs essential to' ' vitalilg, There canrot be indifference where there s dissatisfact nd stagnation is fatal to life. Thre can be no mprovement so long as, thers content, and th n be no di.covery ex= ceot by an open, scarching eye. This umis versal outery for uviversal reform is theres fore evidence of universal interest.in the afs fairs of a povernment in which all are dn theory, as they should be in fact, respome sble, and it is a most healthy and essentil condition cf the pubic mind. Let, therefone, tho ch for defects go on, and lot evény one be put up o try his hand at reconstruge tion or amendment of the system of govarns ment under which we live, If he prove 1o bu crazy or a crank he can do me harm upe less we try 1o step on him, the sure.t way to sacure Tor bim a following. If he bosa mere doctrinaire practical application alome the cure will hurt more is oftsn'a problem af o little dificulty. Dectrinaires are gencrally hariiless, even when (he cnre of practical application Is im= pessible, aud perbaps less so there ‘than im any other ease, becauso there are Instanoss where absurdity neutralizes dangerous gasas, It is ovly where the dividing line betieen absurdity and practicabllity is shadowy or uncertain that any dificulty in treatment can arise. e iz hardly ever so absurd er transcendental an expounder whose lessan does not yield at least a kernel worth exame ining. 1t you cannot follow him all the way you will, ‘by listening, eee all the clearer how far he is a safe guide, and will the) be the better able to hold to the safe p of practicability with a steady step, The importer of reforms in governmont s the most unsafe of all tho many types ofsltis race of mcn, and his treatment presemts moro difliculties than that of any other. e comes to you in 0 many attractive colows. and with cuch specicus arguments drawn s long a distance from (heir home that yem cannot tr their origin or inquire Into thele characte They are, therefore, to be taken at the'r valuation abroad like other {mporks. Besides, the Imporier of political prineiples aud machinery rescrbles .n other respects besides vuluation the imperter of “goods, wares and merchandise.” ALl sorts of men are engaged in busincss—the nihilist, the an= archist, the socallst and the agratian, well as the earnest and honest student wf clvici—and the goods of these men bear ne . They are like ready-mads clothing-— admitted free of duty because they have been already worn, and for that reason it is in= sisted “that they shall be put on gnd wors Just az they are, whether they fit us or bet. They were excellent and close-fitting where they were found, and adapted to the climate of the country and the Labits of the people who had warn them, and the same fitnoss in claimed for them here regardless of differs onces of yeople, of thelr civilization and of those institutions of governinent which are their legitimate outgrowth. It is these differcnces which constitute the chief obstacle in the way of the introdnetion into our system of the many new and stants Ing innovations brought here from abrosdl by scrious and earnest students of the nature eof governments, and which have in recemt ears occupied k0 much of public attention. ome of them are alrcady on trial, somo are still delayed by public hesitancy, and othems are waiting impatiently for their turn. ‘The British civil service_system and the Auss tralian Lallot have allsudy cffected o landing, and are undergeing adaptation to our sysiom. Tho Norweglan diquor faw, the Torrens law of conveyance (imported frém a British prows ince), the Swiss referendom, the English { method of making cabinet cflicers legislaons, and other like propositions of forelgn ol are finding abic advucules wnong us. progress of furclgn governments ulong thele own Unes seews Juet at this time to i tho attention of 1ho stndent of eiview more than thst of aur government along lines of its own development of in the provewent of its own methods of edminis tion HENRY L. DAWES Butsficld, Muss,