Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 12, 1895, Page 3

NEWS L N FROM_COUNCIL BLUFFS. Office, 12 Peart Street,— H. W. Tilton, Manager and Lessee, MINOR MENTION, i There will be a meeting of the clty council tomorrow evefi?lll, Grand hotel, Counell nished. Reopcued Oct. 1. Invitations have been lesued by Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Tibbitts for the celebration of | the twentieth anniversary of thelr marriage | for August 20. | Mrs. John P. Davie entertained a party of friends Saturday evening at her residence, | 119 South Eighth street, in honor of Miss Lou Neale of Chicago. The Woman's Missionary soclety of the Congregational church will meet at the home of Mra. D. W. Otis, 917 Second avenue, Tues- day, August 13, at 3 p. m. A full attendance 18 desired, l Tomorrow will be held a session of the district court, at which the case of Shaffer against the Lake Manawa Rallway company, in_whieh the appointment of a receiver is sked for, will be tried. The members of Mount church enjoyed a plenie at Fatrmount park yesterday. Preaching service was held at| 11 o'clock by Rev. A. A. Hampton of Omaha, | after which a basket dinner was served under the trees, | Poter C. Robinson dfed at 1:30 o'clock yes- | terday morning, at the age of 65 years, of apoplexy. He complained of feeling badly during Saturday evening and went to bed | early. His death was very sudden and en- | tirely unexpected. The funeral will take place at 3 o'clock this afterncon from the | residence, corner of Twenty-fourth street and Avenue I Blufts. Newly fur- E. F. Clark, prop. Zion Baptist | Clear vacant lots to trade for dwelling house and lot with small encumberance to be assumed by purchaser. Good farm loans | wanted. Money ready when papers are com- pleted and title approved. Lougee & Towle. Of course everybody kuows where the best “swimmin’ hole” Is, or they soon find out that Manhattan beach, Lake Manawa, is the | only natural sandy beach in the west. Its | management s without criticlsm, and its | popularity is increasing dally. PERSONAL PARAGRAPH Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bullard of Chicago are visiting their relatives here. Mrs, 8. Farnsworth is at Kirksville confined to her bed by rheumatism. Tom Metcalf and George Mayne leave this week for Nebraska, to put in a week camp- ing out. Miss Octavie Bilharz of Chicago is visiting her sister Mrs. John Uloran, 1026 Fifth avenue. Mrs. William Mo, Keeline and her daughter, Mrs. C. L. Felt, have returned from Hot Springs, 8. D, Miss Belle Anson of Cascade, Ia., has been in the city for several days, the guest of her uncle, Rev. J. Y. Altchison. Charles Claar of the police forc expects | to leave soon for a visit with his relatives at his old home in Jackson, O. Mrs. Lucas, who has been the guest her sister, Mrs. B. Terwilliger, le soon for her home in Minneapolis. Mrs. C. H. Pinney has returned months' outing at Spirit lake, by her two sons and her Lucille. Mrs W. 8. Cass, her mother, Mrs. R. R. Randall and Master Ellis Cass have returned from an extended visit to friends in Salt Lake and Denver. James Saguin left last evening for Rock Island, where he is engaged in putting up the new double track railway bridge for the Rock Island company. An appropriation of $480,000 has been made, and the bridge now in use Is to be replaced by a fine, new iron one. of ves from a accompanied daughter, Miss BURLINGTON ROUTE. Reduced Rate, Triennlal conclave Knights Templar, ton, Mass. Sale August 19 to 24. American Pharm.ceutical assoclation, ver, Colo. Sale August 11 and 12, National convention ¥eeley league, Har- risburg, Pa. Sale August 16 to 22. In addition I haye on sale Sumuner Tourlst tickets to various points in the United Stal and Canada. Call and get copy of map and illustrated write up of the great Yellowstone Nation: park. 0. M. BROWN. Ticket Agent. Sunday at Y. M. C. A. Yesterday was another big day at the Young Men's Christian association. In the morning at 10 o'clock a band of young men met at the parlors and spent fifteen minutes in an earnest prayer gervice. At 3:45 p. m the open air serivce was held in front of the rooms, Conrad Hooker giving the address. At 4 o'clock the thermometer stood up among the ninetles, yet the gymnisium room was filled with men. All the fans fn the build'ng were brought into use and a well filled tank of ice water made the heat bearable. Pre- ceding the address Ned Mitchell favored the audience with a touching solo, “A Pillow for the Wanderer." Rev. V. C. Rocho gave the address upon the subject “Now.” He showed how eagerly men grasped at opportunities that would ad- vance their material and soclal interests and how willing they were to listen to the devil's password, “Time enough yet,” and urged action along right lines at once. Mr. Coker ng a s0lo With a practical application to the address. A few moments were then spent in brief testimony, and the whole line of thought was given a clincher by the secre- tary. It Is a matter of much gratification to interested in the work to note the con- | stant increase of interest In all departments of the assoclation work, especlally that per- taining to the spiritual welfare. Gave the L len Ovation, Yesterday saw the largest crowd of the season at Manawa, with the possible exception of July 4. There were 800 carriages that passed through the gates, and a conservative estimate of the people in attendance places the number at between 6,000 and 7,000, The Ladies’ Military band played for the last time this summer at the lake, and was given an ovat'on at both the afternoon and evening performances. Every seleetion was heartily applauded, and it seemed as if the patrons of Colonel Reed's resort could not get enough. The Jennie Lind quartet will commence an engagement next Tuesday. This organization | 18 composed of ladies from Chicago, who are known widely for the'r beautiful singing. 1f | press notices count for anything they will | surely make a hit. | | a8 ever | use tr, got ¢ to House Canvass. | The second annual house to house canvass | of the lowa State Sunday School association | 1s to be commenced in this city October 9 and will last two days. Each county associa- | tion s to be responsible for the work in its | county, and the work is to be distributed | among different persons, who shall take the various townships, call on every family, and invite the members to come to some Sunday | school. On the evening before the canvass | begins prayer meetings will be held at some | private house in each district, as a prepara- tion for the work of the following two days. The results of the canvass made last year were sq beneficial that the repetition this year, on a larger scale, was determined upon. The Hardman is full and rich in tone. The Genuine Round Oak Furnace is the same success that the Genuine Round Oak heater is. Alr-tight, gas-tight, burns any kind of fuel and less of it than any other furnace made. Lowest prices. Cole & Cole, 41 Main St. Robbed n Clgar Maker. Burglars entered Kaiser's cigar factory, at 602 South Main street, between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Entrance was secured through a carpenter shop on the Pearl street side, and the door between the two estsblishments was kicked open. The entire stock on hand, amounting to 4,000 clgars, was stolen, the value being about $150. Red Cedar Fence Posts. Twelve car loads standard red cedar fence posts, 103c each, by the car load. v A. OVERTON Read Davis' ad. sells hammocks cheap. Davis MANAWA Oratal Authority Al ", nehing. For a few minutes yesterlay afternoon it looked very much as if there might be a Iynching at Lake Manawa, About as thor- oughly excited and exasperated a set of men administered summary Justice got after Marshal Bartlett, and cries cf “hang him, “pitch him In the lake' ‘get a rope” were shouted by hundreds of respect- able and able-bodied men. The occasion for the outbreak was the extraordinary manner and methods the marshal used in arresting a man engaged in selling toy rubber balloons in the Grand Plaza. He has been delighting the little people with his wares every after- noon and evening for several weeks, and has had Colonel Reed's permission to enter the grounds for that purpose. But it seems that one of the ordinances af the town of Manawa | The | provides a license for such privileges balloon vender relied upon Colonel Reel's promise of immunity and went ahead sell- ing without complying with the town author- ity's demands. Just at the time when the pavilion was packed the most densely and the ladies’ band was playing the marshal tackled the balloon man and dragged him out. The balloon ven- der made no resistance, but jerked his hand from the marshal's grasp to catch his bal- loons, that were starting heavenward. The marshal showed his authority, but completely lost his head in doing it. He assaulted his prigoner in the most viclous manner, strik- ing him repeatedly in the face. A ring on his finger or something held in his hand cut the man's face in a number of places, one gash severing a small artery above the nose. The blood spurted from the wound and dyed the dresses of some of the women, and thor- oughly frightened them. The marshal dragged his man out and took him to the Manawa Jjail. The blood was streaming from his face, and the crowd im- agined he was badly hurt, and by the time he reached the gate the crowd grew excited and made a bresk to rescue him. The mar- shal pulled his revolver and by threatening to his man outside. The officer re- turned to the grounds in a few moments. The crowd believed the man was in danger of bleeding to death, and when they were told that no phyeician had been called the indignation became great. An angry crowd quickly gathered around the officer and for a few moments it looked like serious trouble. The crowd, however, contented hissing its maledictions, and the officer got out of sight. Emmett Tinley was among those who witnessed the affair. He came up town on the first train and swore out a warrant for the officer’s arrest. The warrant was put in the hands of Chief Scanlan, and he tock Bartlett to the station. After the excitement died down the crowd that was so anxious to lynch the marshal digpersed, ‘and the most of the men went in bathing and cooled off. A doctor patched up | the balloon man’s face with surgeon's plaster and several stitches. denounced the outrage in the most vigorous terms. *The man has no authority really to make an arrest,” said he. “He never was elected to his office, but was appointed, and appointed for no other purpose than to annoy the patrons of the pleasure resort and make trouble. He is merely the henchman of a little gang. and does its bidding. 1 was told early this morning that he was going to create some kind of a disturbance during the day to annoy us. There is no ordinance of any kind under which the demand for license was made. It was just simply another of many similar attempts to get money." Will Continune During August. The past week’s clearing sale at the Bos- ton Store has been a phenomenal success, and the public has shown its appreciation by lib- eral patronage. The encouragement has been everything we could expect, and we can't show our thank- fulness in a more fitting manner than by quoting the old saying, “Can’t get too much of a good thing," and continue our August clearing sale during the entire month. As before, we guarantee exceptional values in the various lines of summer goods through- out our store, and advise an early visit to our establishment to get the lowest prices on August sale merchandise. We have always done the right thing by our patrons and mean to continue, so leave your money in town and trade at' the Boston Store during their August sale. FOWLER, DICK & WALKER, BOSTON STORE. BE PRACTICAL. Some litile talk has been occasioned by the scheme which T. J. Evans has recently sprung upon the public through some of the newspapers 1o get rid of the Indian creek nuisance by tunneling through the hill north of the city on the'Crescent City road and allowing the creek to empty itself into Big Lake. According to his figures, the work could be done for $30,000, and ‘he himself would be willing to give a bond for its com- pletion for the sum of $40,000. If his scheme should be practicable it is evident that the city council would be throwing away money with a lavish hand in enclosing Indian creek with brick and masonry when the creek might be done away with entirely and the space It now occupies be turned into town property. City Engineer Etnyre has made a study of the points involved in Mr. Evans' scheme and says: I don't belleve Mr. Evans believes what he says, and if he does believe it, it s because he has not made close investigation. Taere s a hill 7,000 feet long which would have to be tunneled through, the size of the excavation being six by eight feet. Where is the man who would do the work'at any price? He would have to go 3,500 feet into the earth without any protection from the caving in of the thousands of tons of dirt above him, and It would be a miracle if he escaped with his lite. Of course. if the tunuel were bricked up as fast as excavated, the danger would be largely obviated, but it would cost thousands of dollars to do that. Then, after the hole had been made through the bluff for a dis- | tance of a mile and a quarter, Mr. Evans' plan is to turn the creek into the hole and let the water wash out enough of the dirt to make the drain the size desired. I can't see what there would be to prevent the hole from immediately filling up again, so that to adopt the plan would keep the city busy digging tunnels,, “This matter was first suggested at the time the sewer system was first talked of, twelve or fifteen years ago. At that time it was referred to a committee from the city council to estimate the cost. A. C. Graham was a member of the committee. He say that in its report the committee said didn't know how much $1,000,000 was, but their estimate was that it would cost $1,000, 000. Later on an engineering expert was en- gaged to do some figuring, and he reported that the cost would be in the vicinity of $280,000," Best Hard Coal 86,75 Per To: Bradley always leads in low price coal $6.75 per ton for best screened hard coal The anly plan the Hardman. Blerwirth had a happy sur- prise last evening in the form of a musical treat. Prof. Dworak of Omaha and Mr. A. A. Covalt of the lowa State band furnished the music. Mrs. Covalt sang a few of the latest songs. She has a sweet, charming voice. Miss Hardell played a few selections. Mrs. Austerlitz and Miss Anita Bierwirth sang & duet. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Austerlitz, Mr. and Mrs. Swickard of Omaha, Mr. Wolf, and the Misses Hardell. Ice cream and cake were served. Mr, They All Want to Come, The following telegram has_been received here: LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 8, 1895.—To the Editor of The Bee: Is it really true that the Jennie Lind quartet is going to be at Grand Plaza this week? A party of us wish to come over. W. J. HARDING. Yes, the Eagle laundry is “that good laundry,” and is located at 724 Broadway. If in doubt about this try it and be convinced. Noue flner than the Hardman Baby Grand. | Dou't forget name and number. Tel 157, itself with | Colonel Reed was thoroughly indignant and | they | WANTED TO DIE IN JAIL. Selly Hough Concluded to Do hing Spectacular, bhut Falle Selly Hough believes that all the good ought | to dle young, and since he did not die young, he concluded to die as young as he could. | He went into Chris Hansen's saloon about midnight Saturday night, and finding an in- | offensive looking Swede of small ealiber sit- | ting there, hit him in the neck. He had | previously ‘been fired out of the Manhattan | saloon for creating a disturbance. A ring was sent in for the patrol wagon, and a little | while later Hough was taking a rest behind the bars of the city jail. | Jolin Sandel, the patrol driver, was passing | a sleepless night, and along in the early | hours of the morning he heard a tremendous nolse inside the jail. Hough had been put into the steel cage, because of his great anx- fety to clean out the other cells, and in the dfm light Sandel could see that something | unusual was golng on. Hough caught a glimpse of him, and cdlled out, “Good bye,” in a voice that was choking with emotion, Good byes were likewise distributed among the other prisoners, and then Hough swung himself off. He had taken his bed quilt and improvised a noose, tae upper end of which was fastened to one of the upper berths. He fastened the lower end around his neck, and then turned around three times, to be sure that the noose was well twisted. When his neck began to stretch, his arms and legs commenced to fly, and their striking against the fron walls of the cage made a great com- motion. Sandel and the jaller, Frank Peter- son, rushed in and unlocked the door, but for a time were afraid to try to cut fim down, for fear of their heade eoming Into contact with one of his No. 11 brogans. After watch- ing for a little while, Sandel managed to get the handeuffs on him, and then untwisted the noose, Hough dropped to the floor in a con- dition bordering upon sobriety, and burst into tears, Chief Scanlan and Officer Sandel had a con- ference during the afternoon, at the close of which the chief stated that he was thinking of laying Sandel off for ten days without pa but had not definitely decided whether would do 50 or not. he BENNISON BROS, Going Out of Busine We are positively going out of business in this ecity. Our entire Stock at net cost. erything is going with a rush. Monday will be another day long to be remembered. Don't forget every article in our store is marked in plam figures at net cost prices. Our time is short in this city. Don't delay. Buy your winter's supply. It will pay you. Our store not open until 9 o'clock Monday morning. BENNISON BROS., Council Bluffs. Missouri Byron Metcalf, an old soldier living at Marysville, Mo., spent last week in Nebraska attending an old soldiers' reunion, and Satur- day visited Omaha for the purpose of mak- ing some purchases before returning home. Among the purchases which he made for his wife and bables was a large jag. He crossed the river abouts 9 o'clock in the evening and left his grips in Metcalf Bros.' store. A little while later he could not remember where he had left them and asked Officer Slead to find them for him, which he did But by the time the grips were found Byron was lost. He fell into the soclety of Zep- hanfah Hughes, who, on learning that he had about $18 of his pension money left, cultivated his acquaintance. They spent most of the night together, drinking all kinds of liquor, and Zephaniah unanimously voted Byron a trump. Yestgrday morning Metcalf awoke to find himself lying on a parch on Upper Broadway, and supposes he must have roosted there all night after ‘Hughes left him. He does not remember anything about where he saw Hughes last, but he does know that the $18 has melted like dew before the summer sun. Last even- ing Zephaniah was arrested and the charge of highway robbery was placed against his name. Only $1 was found among his effects. The Hardman piano wears like iron. i bl VIRGINIA SNAKE STORY. Dieyelist's Ing an Told Verancious Native, ““Oh, yes, remarked a Washington bicy- clist, who is fond of making iong rides through the adjacent country, to a Star writer in response to an inquiry, “I have some very Interesting experiences and hear some very strange stories in the out-of-the-way places I sometimes get into, but about the most re- markable thing I have heard I heard last week up here in Loudon county, in the shad- ows of the Blue Ridge. As I was riding along a pleasant plece of mountain road, nicely shaded, T saw a black snake stretched across my track, and witaout giving him much time to think what was coming I dashed over him and disabled him. Then to put him out of his migery and Keep up my end of the scriptura injunction, I got off my wheel and went back to finish him. While I was at it a native came up with a basket of eggs on his arm and o dog at his hecle. “Well,” he sald in greeting, done for him. 5 o ! ‘Yes,' said I, ‘and he fsn't the first one.' Do you Ketch many nappin’?' Not often, but not many get away that*l do catch.’ . “‘Ain’t no danger to yer wheel runnin’ over ‘em, Is there?' ‘*‘Of course not.’ “ ‘Well,” he said apologetically, ‘I didn’t know. I seen a feller up here about two weeks ago that tried it and busted his tire clean open.* *‘He must have hit something else besides the snake.’ ** ‘P'rhaps he did. I seen a half of a hoss shoe with some nails in it layin’ by the side of the snake after he killed it." “The burst tire was of more Interest to me then than_the snake, and 1 went after thal “'Did he fix up his tire, I inquired. ot much, It was whacked right What did he do? HiY *“Well, he thought he would have to, and started, but he hadn't gone fifty feet, shovin' | the bieyele along like a wheel-barrer, ‘When an | 1dea struck him and he came back a runnin’ | to where he left the snake.It was a powerful | long one, like these mountain racers git to be, | and he held 1t up fer a minute measuring It | With his eye. Then he laid it down on the ground, cut a ring around its body as close up | to its ears as he could git and peeled that | snake's skin off like you'd peel off a stockin'. | T thought he was goin' to keep it for a for- glt-me-not, but that wasn't it. He blowed it up with a 'little pump he had with him, tied | the open end with some rubber he had, slap- | ped it around the wheel where the tire had been, and away he went. 1 got down to Round Hill In about two hours, and I found him settin’ ou the tavern porch lookin' as | tresh as if he'd been there for two weeks, and the snake-skin tire did'nt have a crack in it.' | What was the man's name?”’ I asked, | quite upset by this astonishing tale. ‘I never axed him, but he was some fel- |ler from Washington, and looked like he might 'a been a congressman er somethin.’ “I've been looking for that man,” conclu- ded the wheelman, “but T haven't found him vet, and sometimes I almost think that Vir- ginia chap was at least not following in the footsteps of that other Virginian whose rec- ord for veracity was unimpeachable.” S — Both Averse to Interference. At the corner of Fourth avenue and Smith- fleld street, says a Pittsburg exchange, a woman from Glenwood entered a crowded out- ing car. The conductor knew who she was and that she resided in Glenwood. He suspected that she had made a mistake and that she thought she was on a Second avenue car, 80 he crowded up the aisle and politely inquired: “Where are you going, lad: “That's my business,” she tartly replied. The conductor said nothing more, and the car sped along through the dark, crossing the Monongahela through the covered Tenth street bridge, and rapidly putting space be- tween It and Glenwood. When It entered the blg Knoxville incline elevator and stopped nobody said a word. After a min- ute's wait up it started, leaving the sparkling electric lights far below, “My gooduess!" screamed the by n “I see you in | Foot it down to Round Glenwood | her long, 1 | ana DANCING IN SPAIN. Startling Performanges of Amnteues g T ) A correspondent of the New York Evening Post, writing from Madrid, sketches the chief features of social edferfdinment In the Spanish capital. Of ddnciag and dances the writef says: ! The most striking figuiés and the most graceful dancers were'a lame girl from Gib- raltar, who wore a sedffet blouse and black skirt covered with black,lace, and a girl from Malaga dressed in pale blue. These two were pure Andalusians ., Nobody but an Andalusian could 8o gracefully and dexter- ously have.conquered an: irredeemable de- formity and have danced so charmingly ever: national dance of Spatu without the faintes evidence of her physical calamity. When she walked you perceived that she was terribly lame and that one hip protruded backward and marred an otherwize lovely fgure. When she danced she seemed whole and per- fect, and so ingenious and captivating were the movements of her body that you saw neither deformed hip nor limp. The senorita of Malaga was as delightful to look at, with uorous glances, her ivory skin pyramidal cone of blue-black hair inky shadows curling round neck and and her with , the Spanjards cannot dance a waltz and they only succesd with the quadrille when they have suppressed the steps and transformed each figure into a series of pretty salutations to suit the expressiveness of glance and winning smile. For they smile exquisitely, both sexes. But alas! They waltz execrably. Their waltzing Is a jump, a hop, a meaningless spin. They caper round the room in ugliest fashion the time of the music is that of the galop. Seated beside me was a curled and scented youth from Minorca. I commented on his morose aloofness from the waitze whereupon he said, With a contemptuous sigh, "I have learned to dance the waltz with English people at Mahon. 1 cannot dance it now with Spanfards. They don't knew what the waltz fs.” 1 assented fervently and asked why they preferred modern dances, for which they were not suited, to their own, for which they were seemingly born. But the youth had nothing but melancholy contempt for the national dances. ““We'were getting civilized and advancing like the rest of the world,” he protested, “‘until Alfonso XIIL came to th one and cast us back half a century. He revived enthusiasm for the toros and the bailes flamencos. He walked arm in arm with toreos abroad and iuvited them to break- fast and enjoyed eversthing that kept th country backward.” Here was a youth wh reflected and had ideas. But I do not give him for a normal youth of Madrid. These do not reflect and are of a surety not burdened with the ghost of an idea. A rigodon, a waltz, and a vulgar polka de- ched with brevity and fury, the lame girl was begged to exhibit the art of Anda- lusia. She yielded to our fervid supplications with a_ little deprecating smile and wonder- ful voluptuous lengthening of lid and eye. The half-veiled eloquence of glance and curved red lip confessed It Is wrong, It is bold and incorrect, but at heart I am armed to do you this pleasure.” Her lair was beautifuly” dressed, in thick polished rolls as smooth and gleaming as jet, with a wave so soft as to appear natural, undulating upward from the square forehead tinged with the slightest tint of gold through the change- less pallor of the skin. The bloom of the rose lay upon the heart of the cheeks, and the full lips were of a red deeper than the pomegrancte flower. Between halr, ey brows, lashes, lips, cheeks, scarlet blouse and black lace skirt, she-was a perfect study in red and black. 1 have not sesn on any Spanish stage dancing o finished and capti- vating as hers. Every movement and ges- ture was full of surprise and individual charm. She knelt on one knee and swayed her bust as if it Wefe independent of the trunk, sprang to her feet, continued the movement from the hjpe, and hurried from provocative languor into passionate deflance, terminating with a sudden emphatic gesture Impossible to desctibe. After a shower of applause, she and the Malaguena danced the national dance of Maliga, one of the most eloquent of measureg. Both wore shawls that half concealed their faces, and after a little mutuar teasing, supposed to represent o haughty fair eluding the impertinent scrutiny of a caballero, the joligk of the castanets is heard above the strange monotonous music and the couple by:one impulse drop their shawls and pantomime, afid danced a charming step of the lightest A most joyous move- ments, curving away and towards each other, alternating between flame and ice in expres- sion, and, like all Spanish dances, ending with an abrupt and impassioned attitude like an_unfinished phrase. Afterwards the lame girl gave further proof of an artistic temperament. She sang, in ¢ delicious, indescribable way, several short songs of the people. These songs are a monotonous drone of triolets, dropping from shrill upper notes to the softest throat gur- gle, and ending, like the dances, after a velvet sigh and caress, like a phrase abruptly concluded with a ob or a laugh. For tht most part the words and sentiment were incredibly crude. The wit was to find, but the verse was sung as only an artist could sing it. This music of the people, chanted to the hoarse sob of the guitar, has a plain- tive charm that defies analysis. It is primi- tive, sensual, and ineradicably perverse, Reason forian Increns Several years ago when W. F. White, the present well known passenger traffic mana- ger of the Santa Fe, was general passenger agent of the same road, with headquarters at Topeka, Kan., he had in his employ an office boy by the,name of W. J. Young, re- lates the Chicago Post. He was an orphan lad about 14 years old and, with an older brother, kept house in a little room on the outskirts of the town. He was very industrious, and often, when his work reguired him to stay after the other clerks had gone home at night, he would sleep om a desk in the office and would be found busily at work by the first clerk who arrived in the morning. One day Mr. White found a carefully writ- ten and ‘sealed letter on his desk marked “pargonal.” Opening it he read the follow- ing_brief communication: Mr. White—At present my salary is only $10 per month, and I can only eat two meals a day. You know that is not enough for a growing boy. I would like to have my pay raised to $15 a month so I can eat three meals a day. If you cannot give me $15 a month, I will work for $10 a month. W. J. YOUNG. “Well, T guess the boy will have to have three meals a day,” laughingly exclaimed Mr. White. Young remained in the service of the com- pany for many years, being promoted from time to time until he occupied the position of city passenger agent of the road at St. Joseph, Mo. GIANTS OF — - —— HEIR KIND. The largest mammoth tusk yet discovered was sixtcen feet in length. The largest cut stone in the world is in the Temple of the Sun at Baaibez, The highest waterfall in the world, so far as known, is the Ribbon fall of the Yosemite, which has a sheer descent of 3,300 feet. The largest theater in the warld is the Parls opera house. ' It covers over three acres of ground and cost 100,000,000 francs. The largest “nugget” of pure copper was taken from the Quincy mine, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in 1883, Weight, 18,000 pounds The largest dianfoni; the “Braganza,” is of about the size of a, godse egg. It weighs ex- actly 113 ounces and is valued at $25,000,000. The highest point crossed by a United States railroad is_at Marshall pass on the Denver & Rio Grande:-10.866 feet above sea level. The largest farmy insthe United States east of the Mississippi is ' that belonging to the Becker brothers df Jefferson county, West Virginia—2.400 acres. The largest mass of pure rock salt in the world lies under the province of Gal'cia, Hun- gary. It is known: o be 600 miles long, twenty miles broad and 250 feet in thickness. The largest and longest timber slide in the world {8 at Alprach, Switzerland. It is eight miles long and composed of over 50,000 hewed trees. Logs placed in it make the slide from Mount Pilatus to Lake Lucerne in from four to six minutes. The largest specimen of the domesticated canine ever known was Plinlimmon, an En- glish mastiff, which was exhibited at the great bench show of 1888. Plinlimmon lacked less than an Inch of being three feet high at the shoulder and welghed exactly 214% pounds. ~ Scon after the close of the dog show Plinlimmon was £01d 1o & rich voung woman to the conductor, “where is this car my business,” dryly replied the conductor, American for several thousand dollars. It is believed that the dog is still alive and in this country, but exact laformation to that effect is lacking. | Sehools at Ku-Cheng Had Been Closed | v VICTINS OF SUPERSTITION | COhinese Believe All Sorts of Stories Told of the Missionaries, TROUBLE WAS BREWING FOR SOME TIME Previous Allay to the the Fore the Massacre to to BOSTON, Aug. 11.—The Standard will to- morrow print an exhaustive interview with Miss Clara M. Cushman of Deadham, cerning the missionary eftuation in China. | Mise Cushman was for many years a mis. sionary In Peking, having been sent by the same society as that under whose auspices Miss Hartford has been working at Ku- Cheng. In this interview, Miss Cushman as- serts a belief that these latest massacres are one of the resul of the recent war between China and Japan. Ku-Cheng Is many hundreds off miles from the central government at Peking and it is probable that the people had only rumors of the trouble and o0 got all sorts of stories, may have started the trouble ‘The uniformed Chinese,” Miss Cushman continued, “belleve that the foreign mission arfes cut out the eyes and hearts of the natives to use for medicine. They are quick to accept any story that they hear, so that con- some of which TYPICAL NEW YORK COLONY. | Charneteristion of the Musso-! ction of Gotham | Within that section of New York City which lles nearest the hay, says a writer in | Harper's Weekly, several foreign colonfes have been deposited by the flood of immigra- tion which has been pouring for so years through the Narrows. The Russo-Polish Jews have formed a col- ony which fills several streets on the lower Bast side of the city, and here the pure type of the Hebrew swarms, to the exclusion of al- | most every other race. They come from Rus- | sia, Austria, Poland and Roumanla, and in al most every Instance landed here without means, and were taken care of by their rich brethren, who provided them with shelter, | food and clothing through the officers of the United Hebrew charities, until they were in | a position to help themselves, New York has between 200,000 and 250,000 of these peo- ple, and the majority of that number inhabit the one section of the city Thelr language s the Judaeo-German, and it | 1s made up of words of the German langnage | of the middle ages, and a coplous admixture of Hebrew, as well as of words from other languages of nations the Jews live with. The freedom of the press in America has encour- | aged the publication of more newspapers and | journals In the Judaeo-German language | than are published in any other countries; and a remarkable fact is here to be notad— that whereas many of the Jews living in Rus | sfa make no effort to learn to speak the Rus- slan language, the novel seuse of fresdom in America stimulates the latent ambition for progression, and they promptly try to be- | come Americans in language and in all things { which will tend to their advancement, many even changing thelr names, 0 that all bar- | riers to thelr success may be removed. There | are hundreds of teachers In the colony who find_employment giving private lessons in English . olinh many | the foreigners there can never tell when a mob will come upon them." Miss Cushman thus describes Ku-Cheng: “Ku-Cheng Is quite a distance from Foo- Chow up the Min river. It is walled city of about 220,000 inhabitants and has the reputation of belng a very neat and clean city. Long-BIng is still further inland. Miss Hartford has an assistant, Miss Wilma ‘i, Rouse of Minnesota, who was probably not in the massacre as her name was not men- tioned. ~The missionary scciety of th Methodist Episcopal church has two other missionaries at Ku-Cheng, Rev. M. C. Wil- cox, presiding elder of Ku-Cheng district, and Dr. J. J. Gregory, in charge of Wiley hospital. The only building owned by the Methodists in a chapel, valued at $2,600, in which the average attendance of Sunday worship last year was 250. The home: schools and hospitals are in hired hous which fact saved the bulldings and in. mates from the fate of the English mission- aries and their buildings. PREPARING TO RETURN HOME, Miss Cushman, being in a position speak of Miss Hartford, who so narrowly escaped death at the hands of the vegetarians through personal acquaintance, s of her: “‘Miss Hartford was sent to Ku-Cheng in 1888 by the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church. She was at that time a very popular teacher in the public schools of Dover, N. H. She had no father, mother brother or sister living, but is entirely devoted to her 'work. Although the five vear term for which she went has expired she has steadily refused to accept the vacation, with the privilege of visiting America, saying she preferred to stay in China with the work and finally die there. But because of {ll health and need of rest the had almost made up her mind 1o take the needed vacation when the trouble came on. Mrs. Alderman of Hyde Park, the corresponding secretary of the New England branch of the soclety, has written to her advising her to take this opportunity while the country is settling down again, to come to America. Miss Hartford is in charge of the Ku-Cheng and Long-Bing districts of the Foo-Chow Woman's conference. Her re- port to the last anflual conference showed in the Ku-Cheng district one boarding school with an enrollment of forty-four; fourteen day schools, with an enrollment of 200; one bible training school with an enrollment ot twenty." Mrs. Althea M. Todd of this city is now under appointment to join Miss Hartford at Ku-Cheng, and was expected to leave in about a month, 'That the trouble has been long brewing seems proven by part of a letter recelved by Mrs, Alderman from Miss Hertford. It is dated: Foo-Chow, May 2, and says: “I was obliged to close the women's and girls' schools April 9 on ac- count of fears of local insurrections. The English mission closed their schools two weeks earlier, but I had hoped matters might clear up and 'so held on. At last I found I could not stand out any longer. Every one thought the schools ought to be closed, so ylelded. Then I was sick, so when Dr. Gregory urged me to come to Foo-Chow and have a rest I came.' Miss Cushman thinks the criticisms made of United States Minister Denby are unjust, as, during her residence in Peking, h2 had been very careful to protect the mission- aries’ rights, was cn friendly terms wi h them and they estcemed him very highly. -— Old Words and Meanings, Fairy was once a beautiful woman. Villa formerly meant a farm and house. Girl formerly signified any young person of either sex Duke once meant i from the Latin, Hag once meant any old person, whether male or female. Gallon was originally a pitcher or jar, no matter of what size. Jade originally signified any rude person, without regard to sex. Craven was at first a man who had craved or_begged his life of an enemy. Polite at first meant polished and was applied to any smooth, shining surface. The word “idea” formerly meant a com- pleted performance, whether mental or physi- cal. to not a any leader. The word —_— Doing Its Regular Work. Chicago Tribune: “A doctor is a blamed nuisance, but a man has to have one occa- sionally, T suppose,” grumbled Mr. Psulker. “It's my liver that's out of order, isn't it, doctor?"” - *‘No, sir," promptly replied the physician. our liver is in perfect condition, runs full time, and never takes a holiday. ' It is the only part of you that Isn't out of order. It isn’t your liver that needs doctoring. It's the rest of you, sir. You secrete more bile than you can consume. That's all that alls you. Good day, sir.” The sweat shops, those modern slave pens. furnish employment to the majority of the people, although peddling and eclgarmaking are also favorite occupations. The house | gencrally consists of two or three rooms; for these they pay $7 a mcnth; but with all the struggling they generally manage to main- tain a small bank account During the summer the streets as much as possible, { their close and crowded quarters | the hot weather the va of street life is perfectly bewildering—amid a confusion of push carts filled with all manner of mer- chandise, swarms of children surrounding the ice cream venders, the babel of strange tongues, a confusion of “ancient and fishlike smells,” squalling bubies, bawling hucksters gossiping mothers, and trange business signs in Hebrew characters; venerable Shylocks with long beards, and greasy curls, or peahs, straggling down In front of their ears, worn in acccrdance with the law which says “Yo shall not cut round the corners of your heads,” their strong features overcast by tho timid and servile air which marks the long. suffering, ever-persecuted race, who now seem almost happy, even fn these surround- ings. Tlttte boys with pennies exchanging their wealth for small daubs of fice cream on squares of brown paper, which they linger over in long-drawn licks of epicuresn joy. 0ld married women who cover tusir own hair, o the remnants of it, with coarse brown wigs, not always straight and tidy. Highly colored drinks are dispensed in liberal quan- tities for a cent a glass through a hole in the bottom of a long-stemmed bottle, which then reposes peacefully in the pail of liquid refreshment, filling itself up for the next lucky man, while the proprietor of this sim- ple labor-saving device loafs and invites his | customer. Small congregations gather for religious services on the Sabbath in rooms over stores or at the back of saloons. In the several more pretentious synagogues, however, the services are very interesting. The men oc- cupy the main floor, wearing their hats, and all the married men and some of the con- | firmed boys also wearing the tallith, or | shaw], with which the more devout envelop | the face and head at times. The women oc- | cupy the gallery, where they are screened from the gaze of the men. There is an air of freedom about the services, the men com- ing and going, changing their seats or mov- ing about during the chant. One sociable in- dividuai passes his highly perfumed snuff box about among his neighbors, while an- other rises and crosses the aisle to ask for a pinch while it Is golng around. The one redeeming feature of tenement life is the companionghip which comes from close contact with sympathetic and congenial spirits, and this fellowship is so strong that it rises above many of the disadvantages and miserles of the crowded life. Among the Jews there are many social and religious gatherings and feasts to | brighten their lives. Their popular public bards, called “badchon,” enliven their wedding and other festivities with verses composed | extemporaneously. He rises, for instance, to | Eive a toast to Mr. Berenstine, as follow; Ladies are not satisfied unless they some candy, And gentlemen are not right drink some brandy. Let us, therefore, drink right here, of the brandy strong and fine, And let ‘us give a ringing cheer for Mr Berenstine. S e BIG JOBS IN PROSPE people live on the escaping from and during have until they New York Enterprises Many Millions. The estimate which Chief Engineer Fteley of the aqueduct makes of the new storage reservoir contract is $5,882,690, says the New York Sun. The work has been let out under contract to John B. McDonald for $5,473,060, which is considerably less than the estimate, | but the opinion is very generally entertained | that with the extras necessary to be paid and not included in the contract the new work will cost not less than $6,000,000. In his estimate of public expenditures for which the City of New York Is to issue bonds here- after, Mayor Strong on April 2 put at $5,000,- 000 the prospective expense of the Jerome Park reservoir, estimating the land at $3,- 000,000 and the work of construction at $2. 000,000. Though likely to be one of the most expen- sive of the public works in which the City of New York has engaged it will by no means |overtop some previous enterprises. The | | Brooklyn bridge has cost for construction purposes and for land needed for approaches |$17,000,000. The new parks in the annexed | districts cost $6,500,000. The Cornell dam, a part of the city’s aqueduct system, is to cost $3,600,000, which, with the Jerome Park res- ervoir added, will bring the total cost of the new Croton aqueduct up to $35,000,000, In striking contrast with these expenditure Involving “Aye! 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