Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 24, 1894, Page 12

THEY BEGAN AT THE BOTTON Pamons Rich Men Who Did Not Inheri Their Wealth, FROM CFFICE BOYS TO M LLIONAIRES Ineldents In the Early Struggles of Wana- maker, Bonner, Carnegie and aj Meginnings of Other Great Forta “Boy! Whefe*¥ that boy?" This is an exclamation that is heard a thousand times a day in the great office build- Ings where the big financlal operations of the world are conducted, and in the marts of trade and manufacture. And the little mes- senger thus summoned by call or bell ap- rs at the office door, either willingly or reluctantly, and recelves the order, for the execution of which he is pald anywhere from nothing at all to—great riches—$# a week But if these small men of trust could know a little of the historics of others of their Kind who, like them, nave been office boys, aud have risen into mulionairedom, they would, perhaps, step livelier at the familiar eall of “Boy!" and would try harder to make themselves both liked and prized in order that they, too, might stand a chance of worldly djstinction and be able to look upon their youthful-Mayery and poverty as things #o different from their mature condition as to be mere ¥iglgh, John Wanamaker began as an office boy, but the recollection is too vivid with him now ever to’ become vague. He worked too hardg endured too much privation in order t e money, and went without too many hours of sleep, ever to be able to for- get his.early experience. Whed he was only 14 years old he went to work ‘for Hays & Zell, an old Philadel- phia p “pouse, and his weekly pay was $1.50.%/00¢ of this fum he bought his lunches @nd’Saved money, until about the beginning' of the war, when, having had small_advances, he went intc business for himself, choosing his present line of for- tune making. Before the period of being office boy, Mr. Wanamaker, then called “Little Johnnie,” had an_occupation. He ‘“squatted” in the sand and turned bricks in the sun. His pay here was 2 cents per day, and his first week's earnings came to 7 cents, s there was oo much competition in the business of turning bricks to give him the monopoly. And this money, saved, was the nucleus of the big Wanamaker fortune. But it was when on $1.60 a week that he really coined money nd saved most of the $2,000 that afterward Jaunched the dry goods house on the sea of trade. Robert Bonner was an office boy, and of the type often held up to scorn. He was a printer's devil, off somewhere in New Eng- land. Young Robert got a very small sum, and he soon saw that he must learn more it he would earn more. One day one of printers, who was, as Mr. Bonner says ‘a dandy,” asked the boy Bonner to ‘“‘wash the roller,” a process familiar to every printer of the old days. WHERE BONNER GOT HIS START. Young Robert said that he would wash the toller if the printer would show him how to “Jock the press,” which was agreed upon as @ bargain. After that Robert, knowing more, became more the errand boy, and earned a little in advance of his clothes. When he came to New York, after the war, he had 362, which he deposited in a savings bank. Currency then was uncertain, and one of the dollars was not worth 100 cents in the eyes of the teller. “That was the bitterest day of my' life when that“dollar was thrown back tagne,’ says Mr..Bonner, remember ing ev’fi%.l‘me pang of ™his first “shortage,” althoygh bow he regards $40,000 a small sum to payifor a trotter. Addison Cammack, now one of the great- m on Wall street, remembers when an errand boy. It was a long time as 16, and the city of his was New Orleans. Young ck's father had a tobacco plantation, boy was ambitious to see the world wn money and property of his own. S0 he ‘ran away to the city. He went into & shipping house, ran errands, did little jobs and came out 'way ahead somehow. Andrew Carnegle has had a very strange career, upon a small begiuning and fn a slow business. He was office boy for the Atlantic & Ohio Telegraph company In Pilfsburg. Between the times when he was minning out with me:sages he listened to the ‘“click” of the Instruments, and planned how he would learn telegraphy. After a time he was put in as a substitute , and one day there came an offer eneral manager of the Pitisburg office of thi¥ Pennsylvania railroad. How he got into igreat financial operations is another story.s But, remember that back of all the later {#uccesstul operations was the deter- mination which made the little errand boy remolve to advauce a little as soon as he could, Janffis G. Fair, the California millionaire and ex-United States senator from Nevada, Bad a.very hard time getting out of the er- vand Boy rut. It was pretty hard work to ¥ise," he is reported to have told an inter- viewer, in a minute of capfidence. At i6—the age when so many millionaires awere till adrift and looking for their first penny=young Falr went to Chicago, and for a lu@warked at anything that would pay a nickel He fwas errand boy for almost every kind of a fiduse, and served every kind of a busi- ness, go far as doing its chores was con- cornef But oh, how hard and slow it was. At lefgth, with the “old forty-niners,” young Fair $houldered his bundle and started for the Californi Here he struck gold after many'seasons of 11l luck, and here he made his ggpat fortune, always being, like his name,“fair” to those employed with him and usder him. Russpll Sage! Can you look at the gray- man now and’ picture him as the ‘ifor a grocery establishment? Yet was. It might have been back in hen Russell was a boy of about 14, The gfocery belonged to his brother, and the boy was of great value, because he could be IlpenMfl carry the baskets safely and K for the next commission. That was.in the city of Troy, and there are people in that town now who can remember the tull, lanky boy as he then looked. SAGW'S STRONG CHARACTERISTICS, reat, lndustry, strict honesty, a saving propensity and, a wife of the right sort were the things . that made ,*is what his friends, say. Mis, Sage was a graduate of the arlstocratic Emma Willard seminary, and there is no doubt that there were those to dismally, when she linke tunes .with those -of the ex-grocer, Whateyer may be the eriticisms upon Rus- sell 51‘ there must always be the admis- slon that he ts democratic, and never for- gets how hard he bad to work as a bo His family was of the best old New York stock, which may in part account for his remarkablo career. . W, Bonyngd, another alre, was a workiog boy. Aud in those day he did not dream of coast prosperity nor of stretehes of land veaching across San Fran- Mr. Bonynge was not, strictly speal ing, an errand boy. His first appearance in public: was - as: a deammer boy In the Cri- mean war. After he weat to California he worked as a_gardener's boy, and was em- ployed by W. H. Bovee, a very rich real es- tate owier, to take care of his plants and skoot gophers and noxi things, Here “BIN” a§ he was called by his family, saved his mondy. His pay was $40 a m Soon ho had $1,300. This Mr. Bovee In for the boy, and it Was invested so well when young Bonynge left the work of garden- iog he had $70,000 10’ stocks and money. I'm ‘afraid I shall have to leave you to look after my stocks ‘and Interests,” he said to his employer. In these days sucli a very sudden fortune would be hard to get. Miss' Virginia - Bony recently became the Viscountess Deephurst, making one of the most brilllant foreign matches ever o w‘ for ams American girl. And at U Ink It wili"bs recalled that the bride wore & rea ?ge vell, presented to hor by Princess Cligiétian, with whom she Is a t ite. I the wrea 1 ‘While it eannol rp‘mud that A. H. Hum mel ia ohie of the'gredt nilillonaires of Amer- foa; there 1s no doubt thiat his fortune s not . far from the mark of millionalvedum. There Mo many “paper’ udMionalres whose fortunes - geat; Leeause tifey cause rumors Lo be alifornia million- A FALCONER. WE OPEN UP OUR TOY for all of you. Mink Boa for $3.00. one lot tomarrow $6.00 and $7.00. .. up-to-date goods. the space for a new department, much less than half price. prices; but come tomorrow, We consider this the greatest value we have ever offered in strictly THE OMAINA DAILY SATURDAY, URDAY - DEPARTMENT A BLANKETBARGAIN We have'gone through our surplus stock of blankets, we have the most of; altogether we have 100 pairs. $5.00 blankets, $6.00 blankets, $7.00 blankets, We put them all in Saturday Night’s price, $3.50 nér pattern. N. B. FALCONER. ON THIRD: FLOOR,. We have decided to go out of the toy business entirely, as we want We must close out our entire stock]| before Christmas, and in order to do so we have gone through the stock and have marked everything at half price, and many articles There never was an opportunity like this to buy Christmas toys at such prices. We argtoo busy today to quote You will find the best assortment ever shown by any house in the country, This sale will be for cash only. Come yourself and bring the children with you. It will be a rare treat REMNAMTS---An immense sale of wool Dress Goods Remnants, 10¢ yd Hundreds of short lengths, 1% to 8 yards, Plain and fancy dress goods will be closed out tomorrow at 10c yard. Not a single remnant will be found in the house by tomorrow night. Ladies desiring the choicest selection must come early. CLOAK DEPARTMENT. Another great day of bargains in this department. Golf Plush Capes| hat we have been selling at $20,00 to $25.00 will be closed out at $15.00 each. We will offer tomorrow all our $5.00 Mink Boa for $2,50; $6.00 WHITE BLANKKETS, GRAY BLANNKETS, RED BLANKRTG This is those Among them are At $;§:99 a pair---See Them in Our Show Window. Saturday Evening, After 7.30 P.py. | 500 patterns all wool and silk and wool Imported Novelties. Styles and qualities equal to that we havye been selling at $5.00, circulated regarding them. . But it is. doubt- ful if many New Yorkges who began as office boys can show greater lixury of living, more philanthropy and generosity and a bigger bank account than hg’ 7 His collection of jewelry, seldom or never worn; his library, his pictures and bric-a-brac and his souvenirs and mementoes of famous persons are worth a fortune. At the age of 12, about thirty years ago, “Able” Hummel went to work as errand boy for Willlam H. Howe. And that he seized every avenue to advance is apparent to all who know the history of the courts of the clty for the last two decades. Probably Mr. Hummel cén be reckéned among the million- aires, ; George M. Pullman ‘Wi a carpenter's boy. His father was a carpenter, and little George worked for him and: the other neighboring carpenters. At his lefsuré he learned cabinet making. At this he worked and saved money. He got his start at the time Chicago was “raised.” It will be remembered that the Windy City was in the mud ohce. The water con- tinually flooded it, and the land could never become very valuable. Young Pullman, who lived in Chautauqua ‘county, heard from a lady visiting the place, that Chicago was to be “lifted,” and his ambition was fired. The elder Puliman had patented a plan for lift- ing buildings without stopping traffic in the streets or makiug a litter or injuring the butlal and his son had the idea per- fectly. PULLMAN'S FIRST BIG CONTRACT. Young Pullman went to Chicago, got the contract for raising a whole block of build- ings, including a hotel, awd he set to work, He Qid it successfully. and: cleared $20,000, with some of which he settled up his father’s bankrupt business. Afterward he fancied the sleeping car business, and actually, in 1861, got possession of the whole concern, patents and all, for $5,000. So much for the enterprise of a man whose early education consisted in watching the saw and plane, and mayhap, handing tools to workmen. C. P. Huutington worked as “boy” at dif- ferent things, but the thifg of ‘which he is proudest is that he saved $84 the first year of his errand-runuing; and that he put the money at interest. ‘It isn't what a man earns. it is what he saves,” he has sald many, many times. James R. Keene came very near being an office boy. Perhaps he really was one. He was born in England, and came to this country and went to California when a lad. Ho wanted to read law, and to do this he “clerked” in a law office, no doubt acting as errand lad mapy @& time. After graduating he wrote newspaper articles to support himself, finding that profession very kind to him. He made frieuds, and soon got @ case or two at law of his own. His after history and his great wheat' dea's with the Goulds, his wonderful turf intreests, and his delightful personality, with the soclal position of his family, all combine to make him as great a man as ever rose above of- ficcboydom. George W. Childs was an office boy In Raltimore, and when he at'length got con- trol of the newspaper where he made his fortune he had worked at almost every branch of every trade where a boy could be useful. He, too, saved his .money. It was only in later days, when-he. became very rich. that be ellowed himselt the luxury of giving. 5 GEX One of Mr. the pre: EROUS MR. OHILDS. Childs' prettipst customs was ation to each lady whe called upon him of a beautiful tea cup and saucer of costliest make. This little “custom, it is said, oceurred to Mr. Chllds ene day in tell- ing kome stories of his early struggles. “That dear lady gave me & cup of coffee out of her best cup,” he said in' winding up the story. And then, as the thought océurred to him, ho added, “Aud I declare that from this time forward I shall give a mice cup and saucer to every woman whe steps into my Everard, now many times a mil- ., had a pitiful struggle. At the age of 8, with money sorely needed at home, he went to work for a stereotyper ner of Nassau and Fulton sireet a long time the child ean epgan sisted with *“e hot caldrons, doiog all that his tiny streagth would t. . Did he save bis money? No. He hafdly had the oppor- tunity to save. But he worked hard, learned much and watched his chance for something better, His business now employs many a small boy, but surely none eam rise higher 1 in thz branch of business thum Lis this en- terprising man, who began in th€ very hum- blest way—at 8. John D. Rockefeller and his brother Will- fam had early struggles. When John, now the wealthler of the two, married, he was only a book-keeper, having risen to that de- gree by long, hard work. And S. V. White, while never an office boy, was a farmer's boy, running errands and “doing chores” until he was a man, But the list might be greatly lengthened. | These are but representatives. All aro now living except George W. Childs, but if one were to go back to the departed milllonaires— those who left fortunes behind for their sons and daughters—one might tell over again the story of the office boy Who persevered, saved money and became a millionaire. The secret of their great success lies in this or that, according to the judgment of the narrator. But all agree that two things must be present for permanent success— honesty and frugality. After that comes op- portunity, personal favor—and luck! st gl A. E. Kilpatrick of Fillmore, Cal., had the’ misfortune to have his leg caught between a cart and a stone and badly bruised. Ordi- narily he would have been laid up for two or three weeks, but says: “After using one bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm I began to feel better, and in three days was entirely well. The paculiar soothing qualities which Chamberlain's Pain Balm possesses I have never noticed in any other liniment. I take pleasure in recommending it."” This lini- ment is also of great value for rheumatism and lame back. —_— AN UNFORTUNATE COIN. History of the Souvenir Half Dollar. The order of Secretary Carlisle to use the Columblan souvenir silver coins as cash is the closing chapter in the history of an un- successful venture, says the Washington Star. In spite of the efforts of the promoters of the exposition to sell these half dollars at double their face, value, with the general co- operation of the banks, the newspapers and a number of leading stores in Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and elsewhere, about 8,600,000 remain unsold and in the hands of the treasury authorities. At first the Chicago people pleaded with Secretary Carlisle to hold the coins till they could raise a fund to redeem them at their double price, in the hope of saving the value of those already sold, which would. be bound o decline as soon as the remaining coins were thrown into the ordinary channels of trade. This was done, but the attempt fruitless, and a few days ago the projectors of the scheme notified the secretary that they could not do anything, and that they would not ask him any longer to carry the load of unavailable silyer. Mr. Carlisle shrewdly decided to do some: thing which would make the coins pay for a part of the trouble and delay they. had caused. So he ordered them paid out at par, but in exchange for gold coin. This would have the effect, he believed, of stimu- lating & few enterprising retail shopkeepers t2 buy up the lot and advertise that they would use them in making change for their customers. The treasury would by this means add a little gold to its balance, while at the same time the coins would probably be held as souvenirs by the cus- tomers attracted by the advertisements, and thus would be prevented from passing into Eereral circulation The collapse of the souvenir coin fad re- calls the fact that a syndicate was formed during the summer of 1893 for the taking and disposing of 100,000 of the half dollars, Some large jewelry houses were interested in the enterprise, which might have grown to larger proportions if any encouragement had been received It seems that a leading American jeweler, while on a journey abroad, saw some of the British souvenir coins struck iu hohor of Queen Victoria's jubilee beautifully dec- orated with enamel and mounted as watch charms, brooches, ete. He took a number of Columbian halt dollars to London with him last year and had them freated in the same way One dcvice was to cover all the body of the obverse of the coin with translucent enamel, leaving the head of Columbus and the inscription uncovered. In another (he reverse side was treated, the caravel being colored on the field agaiust which it wy projected. No two designs were alike, The Sorrowful the coins were eageriy.snapped up at $5, $8 and even $10 apiece by-curiosity seekers. But no sooner was the formal proposition made to take the 100,000 coins out of the custody of the treasury for the purpose men- tioned than the secret service people pounced upon the interested parties and wakned them that every:coin thus treated arill exposed for sale would be seized. o law against the. mutilation of coins appeared to stand in the way; but the argu- ment of Chief Drummond, as well as it could be understood, was that some evil minded person might scrape off the enamel from the decorated coins and pass them upon unsuspecting poor persons, who would then find themselves with a coln in their possession bearing on its face the value of 60 cents, but on account of Its mutilation com- manding in the market only its bullion value, which, with silver at its present des preciation, would be omly 25 cents. The op- position of Chief Drummond, supported by Secretary Carlisle, broke up the plan. ———— Cook’s Extra Dry Champagne is the wine for Americans. Its purity and boquet com- mends it to them. Lo STUBBORN MAN. George Vanderbiit's Revenge Upon an Ob- stinate Farmer. Even a millionaire has his trials. George Vanderbilt, who has been paying out $11,000 a month down at Biltmore, N. C., where his magnificent house is going up, awoke one morning to find himself in very much the same position as was Ahab of old, when he set his heart on his neighbor's vineyard. George Vanderbilt had set his heart on his nefghbor's six acres of land. They were not fruitful and particularly fair, but they lay between ground that he had already pur- chased, and these six acres he determined to add to his large property. But, you know the old adage, ““Man proposes,” elc., and George Vanderbilt felt the truth of it to his sorrow. The worthy owner of the six acres was ap- proached. It was poor land, yielding little or nothing, which he could mot have sold for 350 under ordinary circumstances. But when George Vanderbilt desired it, its value imme- diately rose. Ten thousand doliars was the odest sum which was put upon it. Mr. Vanderbilt said he would pay $6,000—a pretty penny for that land; but the owner refused. He was then offered $7,000, but this was also spurned. - The next offer was still more munificent. The owner possessed a team of oxen with which he worked his farm, and Vanderbilt now raised his offer to $7,500, and, as an ad- ditional {nducement, offered to employ the man and his team for $3 a day until his house should have been completed, and after that, to buy the team for $300. He also agreed to glve regular employment to the man’s daughter. But, no; it was all in vain. Ten thousand dollars or nothing. This obstinacy aroused the just ire of the millionaire, and he pro- dseded to execute swift and righteous venge- ance upon the obdurate farmer. A wall seventy feet high is now building about the six acres. When completed, it will be painted black, 80 as to be as unobtrusive as possible. Mr. Vanderbilt will also proceed to draw the water of a well which supplies the farm, so that the six acres will be practically worth- less. Now the man is offering to s at any of the prices named, or less, but Vanderbilt declares that he would not take it for §100. padbnad oSl i Last August while working in the harvest feld 1 became overheated, was suddenly at- tagked with cramps and was nearly dead. Mr. Cummings, the druggist, gave me a dose of Chamberlain’s Cole} Cholera and Diar- rhoea Remedy which completely relleved me. i now keep o bottle of the ren .dy handy. Ay M. Bunnell, Centerville, Wash, s v ik Archueologheal Ground. At Athens the Greele:government has re- cently declared the whole region lying be- tween the Theseion amd the monument of Lys'crates archaeologheal ground, thereby coiipelling the proprisorst to sell at pricesy 10 h'rllurl by & comnission of- #WOrn experts. 169 believed that the Amarican and German wdliools and the Archacological soclety of Athens can easily raise’ the funds needed to NOVEMBER 24, 1894. I%r busines S 1ré¢asons tomorrow...... FEEL OF THEM, LOOK AT THEM IN THE WANDOW. We offer our entife stock of $15—$18 and some $20 Suits and Overcoats for $ Your choice of all the single and double breasted kersey Over- coats—silk and Farmers’ satin lined worth up to $20, go at $5 Your choice of any of the Cassi- mere or Cheviot suits in four pat- terns, single or double breasted, worth all the way from $15 to $20 OrEgR 0052 i s s i it o successors to Columbia - Clothing Co., i3th and Farnam'Streets, Omaha. department, Turkish colors new things. yards or more, the rows of marble chairs, each with its inscription, which ran com- pletely around the stadium, were found in their proper places. It will be the first Greek stadlum yet known in its original state. e g Oregon Kidney Tea cures all kidney ‘rus | bles. Trial size, 25 cents. All druggists. | A MARKED DIFFERENCE. Crossing the Plains in the 'Fifties and the 'Nineties. | A day or two since a family of immigrants | from routhern Kansas who had traveled all the way across Oregon in their own wagon and were five months on the way camped at Judge Seneca Smith's farm, a few miles east | of this city, says the Portland Oregonian. | So seldom do immigrants “cross the plains” with teams nowadays that Mr. Smith in- quired how they had come to make the trip. | "The immigrant said there were many more | families on the way, strung along, whom he | hdd passed. He had become weary of the ups and downs of life in Kunsas, and had | started to make a home on Lewis river, | where he had some friends, He was a wman | of some means, and bad a wife and several | half grown children. When he concluded to envigrate, he had nine horses, one of them a | ‘mare for which he had paid §500. He could not‘sell them for anything, o concluded to arive to Oregon, save railroad fare, and have his horses after he got here. He bought a earriage and a cart for his family, and, load- fng his outfit in a farm wagon, hitched up bis horses and struck out. The man's account of the trip shows (hat, | while crossing the plains now {s much the ame as in the days of of '49 and thereabcuts, | in cther respects it is a very different affair. For Instance, instead of finding | El!nly of grass for his stock and game for | | js family, he found no game and had to b) d for his horses all the way, the| plains” being now comparatively a settled LcouBlry. As far as wear and tear o Wagons ¥ Duy“it. The latter sockety, in its excavations um, which and mnimals goes, the trip was all that could apparently imtact. On sinking| bis cart and carriage, and came through (be | their owner with attention, | ¥ RUGS, Just at this season we offer many attr actions in our Rug Orchard & Wilhelm Carpet Co. Wilton Rugs, in shades to match the new car- these will please you. FUR RUGS; never so mdny, never so popular, skins, with and without heads, | Sheepskin Carriage Mats, all colors. Moquette Rugs, Japanese Rugs and Art Squares in all the 1414-16-18 Douglas St. cayusos hitched to his farm w and body bound up with withes his $500 mare was stolen, and had sucenmbed to afkali water gs. He now says that jt w been cheap: by railroad 14 have 1 at he did not care. and had a cost of about $200. They, had agon, and ould How trenches across the area to a depth of five | Barlow Gate with a pair of eastern Oregon the wheels of which were braced with oak grubs He & the others ' - oth ha t his horses and con ved at his ination in three days from the time he | ever, the country, it last safely reached the promised rom the Kansag man's account there are several score familles, following on his trail It is a comfort to know no trouble in finding: bread for t hem, that there will be and bacon, too, should any of them:chance to ar- rive hungry, as was often the case in days gone by. flechs o tetly NICKS IN THE BOOT HEELS. How Pullman Car formation I Travel, ors: tors Pass Alung fn- “Pullman car porters form one great secret degree on separate systems,” Welch, a traveling man, to the Washington Sian. sal a id | society, whose ritusl differs oniy in a slight Philip writer “You know the pro- for onal tramp leaves hieroglyphic informa- or those of Lhekr guild who c them on fences and. gate roads they travel, each other about . the . traveling much the same way. ome publi after posts along the Puollman porters instruct c In The means taken by the porters are slmple but unerring. The they 1g is on favorite place in which ciphers so full of mean of iravelers' boot heels. put thelr inside Bvery patron of a Pullman must, of eourse, place his footgear for a time at' the merey of the pe it guch a traveler be- wis and will exa find a mick tere and whi rter, and 1 his generation ine the heels of his shoes, he another h, If Lie can secure @ translation of them, there, will tell kim what the porter thinks of hiu A nick in one part of the heel will mean that their wearer ié @ generous, open-hearted wan, and the porter who gets a pair of leels at Bpidauros, has browghtito light the stad- Lhave been anticipated. He lost all his horses, [ marked in such 4 way will fairly overwhelm A nick il pets or in the Turkish effects, are desirable for hard wear, SCOTCH RUGS, in soft Oriental effects, are now made in small sizes as well as for carpets; If you are fond of old Animal Smyrna Rugs, Orchard & Wilhelm Carpet Co. Complete Drapery Dzpt. 2nd Floor, another place will denote a crabbed, close and bad tempered owner, and future porters | who get gaiters bearing that information | will steer clear of the wearer. A" ‘spotter* one of the individuals who are employed by the Pullman company as spies on the eon- | ductors and porters—s known by a certain {nick in the heel, and you can bet the em- s mind thelr p's and q's when such a is found in the porter's aggregation of and shoe The American raflway | porter 15 a pretty cute individual, I tell yoi, and when you see one of them' particularly attentive fo one passenger you ‘can make a bet that his heels bear the proper cabalistic marks.” Oregon Kidney Tea cures nervons beade aches. Trial size, 25 cents. All druggists. The Hottest Spot. A comparison of the maximum tempera- ture in the different parts of the world shows | that the Great Desert of Afriea.ls by.far the hottest. This vast plain, which extends 2,000 miles from east to wost and 1,000 from north to south, has a_ temperature of 150 des grees Fahrenheit in the hottest days of subi- mer. It would be impossible for any. otie but the acclimatized Moors, Berbers, and Arabs, to live, even for a day, Ih the heart of the rainless Sahara. In spite of the fact that the days are extremely hot, {he nights are nearly always uncomfortably’ eeld,. and the travelers are obliged ta, burden then clves with blankets in order. 1o, endurs t change. —— 1t ls Sometimes So. Washington Star: “I 'spase’ yer husband {11 have moro time ter tend ter the farm now,” sald the neighbor * ‘Who had fust dropped In. “That's one consdlation, evem it he is defeated.” “No,” replicd the candidate’s wite. “I thort that way at fust. But Hiram says thet explainin’ how he bappened tér git licked ‘Il take a heap more Of i Uine tham the duties of the office wouid." ! —— Oregou Kidney Tea cures il kidney. drugglst trote. g bles. Triv slze, 25 cents,