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" 1 * j-t > THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SATURDAY MAY 11 , 1805. PIRATE TREASURE _ _ { Captain Edward England and the Treasures He Did Not Win , HOWARD PYUE. ' " ' " ( Copyrighted , 1S35. ) One of the most notable pirates of his Cay was Captain Edward Knglaml. Ho nour ished toward the close of the hey-day of piracy , that Is , some tlmo along In 1722 nr 1723. 1723.Hy this tlmo the West Indie ! had ceased to bo the great treasure house of the world. The power of Spain was wanlng and pass ing away. No longer did great treasure ships laden with gold and silver plate sail from the towns of Carthagena and Vera.Cruz and Panama , carrying their precious freightage - ago from the new world to the old. Spain became too poor and too weak to hold fast to the western world , which slipped little by llttlo from her grasp. The mine" of Peru and Colombia became abandoned , and the forest paths along which treasure-laden tnulo trains need to pass soon became over run with denno tropical growths. Hut as the West Indies became poorer nnd poorer , the East Indies became richer and richer. Now the stream of commerce passed ' from west to east and from east to west , around the Cape of Good Hope from Europe to the East Indies and from the East Indies to Europe. For centuries and centuries the far distant east India , Persia , China and all the nations of the far orient hod been nations within themselves. Whatever treasure had been brought Into them had been accumulated , until certain rajahs , princes and nobles , bankers - , ers and merchants In such cities as Calcutta and Bombay held sometimes Inestimable wealth , chiefly In Jewels and precious stones. As this east began to open to the west , as Europe began sending her merchandise her woolen and cotton goods and manu factured wares to that far away land , bring ing back those treasures which had there been accumulated , all the tide of commerce began to ebb away from the western world , flowing toward the far away East Indies. Every ono who went there grew enormously rich In a short lime , amassing In a few years huge fortunes which would have taken them generations to gather at home. Those for tunes they brought back to their native land to spend. Ships which went thither laden with bales of goods and chests of mer chandise , came back ladetf with other treas ures of silver and gold and Jewels ; nil this great stream of wealth coming and going , flowing from every point of the European world , condensing along the eastern coast ol Africa , passing up and down between Mada gascar and the mainland and between the Islands to the northeast Junana , Monllla , the Mauritius and others. So It was now th < Indian ocean nnd not the West Indies thai warmed with pirates , their ships numberec by hundreds and their men by thousands. These prairies found Just such shelter In thi Island of Madagascar , In the Mauritius , It Junana and Monllla , as they had ono tlmi found In the West Indies ; and In the om place as In the other cunning merchants Jews and evil men and women grew rlcl upon the bloody spoils of their wickedness. lint It Is a curious fact that those pirates though they preyed upon tno commerce o ( ho East Indies , still continued to fit out ! i the western world. The Island of Provldenc In the West IndleJ was especially a resor | or them. There they provisioned thel Ihlps , enlisted the crews , armed Ihemsplve with guns and cannons and sailed away t . Africa. ( f. ! > Captain Edward England win , In thu be ginning , an honest man , the master nf ( loop that , sailing out of Jamaica , was take by a pirate named Winter. It was only ofte this that ho really turned pirate perhaps h thought that an the law had not taken car of him It did not behoove him especially t take care of the Inw. . At any rate , utter the captnr ? of hh lit Us vesbcl. ho drifted to the Island of Provl dcnco ami thence , after a little while , taile In commend of a plrato sloop of his uw which went openly to cruise In 'ho Eae Indies. lie sailed directly for the coast c Africa , capturing between the \Vost Indie nnd t'ie It-Und of Madagascar 1:0 loss tua twelve prill- * ships , fiUllcys , brlgantlnci ecows nnd sloops. Some of tlirss pr'/.t ' were vnry rich , and England m'ut ' hcv gained a great booty even before he reache his destinat on. Ono of the largest and most powerful t these vessels which he captured a ship- he refitted Mid nrmed with canmn , callln It after Blackboard's famous pirate shli MAROONED. "Queen Annc-'s Tlevcnge. " In this vessc nnd with another ho cruised abvu the In dlan ocean for over six months , coaitln along the ihorcs of India , capiurlng peace tul merchantmen , burning and dcstroyln nnd cairylng devastation , everywherNoi nnd apsln lit returned to Madagascar to red his voitel and allow his men to upend thel money as the pirates always did , In wll debauchery. Then to sea he would go agalr nnd again the smoke from burning ship would rlsG to the sky. Captain England himself seemed alway to have looked forward to some tlmo end Ing his pirate life , "after he had earned hi fortune , " In comparative peace and qulctnet at home , lie never did earn It how h misted It shall bo told. Hut first It must be told about the famou fight between his two vessels and the Has India company's bhlp Cassandra , In the hat bor of Junana , In which after two or tbrc hours' battle Captain England captured th East Indlaman and her great and valuabl r-irgj. For aftnr this one battle h { thowe That one "ge&iir ! of * mercy , Ufa ! ofi'a spar ! of generosity by which , ho missed that rea fortune which lib had always hoped to nl [ ' t un. " I . The commander ot the Cassandra was one Captain Mackra , who has preserved an ac count of this battle In a letter written t the linst India company In the year 1720. "Captain Mackra , " says ho , "had put Int tbo bay of Junana to refresh his men , find Ing In the harbor two other vc els , the fhl Greenwich , commanded by Captain Klrby- n vessel ot some COO or 700 tons burden , an well armed Ostender vessel , also largo an powerful. " "About 8 o'clock In the mojnlnc of th 17th of August Captain Mackra says that h discovered two chip * standing Into the ba ; of Junana , one , ho nays , ot thirty-four am tbo other of thirty gutu. They were th two plratu crafts under the command ol Cap tain Knislnnd , There was no wind In tin harbor nnd BO the pirates were able to xtani la through the pas e and to come up to thi VI battloe In all the chronicle * of pirate war a battle which the Cassandra had to fight alone. For the Greenwich and Ostender , finding that the aim of the pirates was to capture the richer Bait Indies , made haste to escape , running away like the cowards that they were and leaving the Cassandra to fight and to sutler alone. The battle between the two pirate vessels and the Cassandra lasted , with varying suc cess , until 4 o'clock In the afternoon , "when , " as Captain Mackra cays In his letter , "most of the officers and men posted on the quarter deck being killed and wounded , the largest ship making up to us with all diligence , beIng - Ing still within a cable's length of ti. , and often giving us a broadside. There being now no hopes of Captain Klrby coming to our assistance we ran the Cassandra ashore. Here , " says he , "wo had a more violent en gagement linn before. It lasted until 5 o'clock In the evening , by which time , many of the men being killed and wounded and no one hoping of escaping being all mur dered by enraged barbarous conquerors , I ordered all that cculd to get Into the long boat under cover of the smoke of our guns , so that what eome did with boats and others with swimming most of us were able to get ashore by 7 o'clock. " Such was the fierce and bloody battle In which the Cassandra was lost. And now comes Captain England's one gleam of gen erosity that cost him so dearly. The crow of the Cassandra had been unable - able to escape to the king's town , which lay Eome twenty-five miles away up the coast. Thence Captain Mackra wrote a letter to Captain England asking for a conference , and finally obtained from the pirate com mander a permit to como aboard his vessel and a promise that no harm should' ' be done to him. Takng his life Into his own hands Captain Mackra went boldly Into the nest of the pirates ? and by dint of persuasion or argument or threats he Induced Captain Eng land not only to make him a present of the plrato ship , that had been very much shat tered in the late engagement , and also to return to him 129 bales of the company's cloth , "though , " as Captain Mackra adds , "they would not give me a rag of my own clothes. " With the crippled vessel that England had given him Captain Mackra made the best of his way to Bombay with his crow , his wounded passengers and the goods that -England had returned to him. Uut behind him he left dissension and tur bulence among the pirates. Maybe they might have1 forgiven Captain England for sparing Captain Mackra's life but to return all those bales of goods that was paying too dearly for generosity ! Mutiny began to grow among them and at last some of the ringleaders suggested that the pirate -captain was currying favor with the East InJla company in the hopes of gain ing a pardon for himself. So the mutiny fermented and fermented , until finally It broke out' Into open violence and Captain England waa marooned with three others upon the island of Mauritius , "from which place , " pirate history tells us , "he and his companions , having made a little boat of old 1 staves and pieces of deal , left and went over to Madagascar , where they subsist at pres ent upon the charity of some of their breth ren who had made better provision for them selves than they had done. " So Captain Edward England , by being merciful and generous for Just once In his life , lost even the fortune which he had For even If he had been satisfied with whal ho had already earned he would probablj have been rich for a ship captain of thai day , for there Is a story about his crew after they had marooned him , that they , ai they were about to leave a friendly port where they were entertained , madi the governor thereof a present of some 601 or 700 , gave him three cheers , a salute o eleven guns each chip and threw ducatooni Into his boat by the handsful for the men t < scramble for. So that already the wealtl of this lot of pirates must have been vcr ; great. Dut this was not the fortune that Captali Eiward England missed ; It was a far greate sum than any he had had the luck to taki and which js yet to be told of. Wtthjn la month or two after they hat marooncU Captain England his late crew coming * Into' the harbor of the Island o Maccarlrte , found a Portuguese ehlp of sevent ; tons at anchor. They Immediately came ui to nnd attacked her In the open harbor , and after a little resistance , bombarded her , drlv Ing her crew down below , shooting , kllllni and murdering right and left. "And a glorious prize she was , " says th historian , "having the Coude de Erlcclra viceroy of Goa , and several others passenger ot note on board and a treasure that , In th single article of diamonds , was valued at be , twcen $3,000,000 end $4,000,000. " Ths was the fortune that Captain El-wan England'missed. . If ho had only not bee ; so merciful and generous ! "When the pirates , " says the historian "divided this treasure among themselves each of the common sailors had for his shar forty-two diamonds a man , or In less pro portion , according to the magnitude of th gems. jAn Ignorant or a merry fellow , " h adds , "who had only one diamond In hi dlvlslonr-thut a great big gem ot oxcesslv value-Mvbht and broke It In a mortar , swear Ing afterwards that ho had a better shar than nny 'of the others , for ho had beat II he said. Into , forty-lhree sparks. Having s made their fortune' , " the historian continue * "and , not choosing to run the hazard of thel necks , these men , each with forty-two dla mondii , beside other treasure In his posses slon , knocked off , some staying with thel old acquaintances In Madagascar , ( ho res sailing away to the West Indies , where al their priceless treasure which was EO hardl ; come by WHS quickly spent In a few month Of debauchery. " As for Captain England , he existed along 1 a state Of poverty , and finally , It Is sale died of yellow fever at New Orleans. I have often wondered If ho wished that h had not been so merciful to Captain Mackr and th'at he had not been so generous as t give him b.ick a part of his West India good that ho , had captured In the Cassandra , fo bccauso" of. 'that ono llttlo spark of mere ; and generosity In all of his wlckcJ lite h missed one ot the greatest prizes ever take : by any pirate. Didn't Mlnil the rim. "Tho coolest man I ever saw , " said a vet cran fireman to the New York Sun , "I me nt a fire In a dwelling house. We found hlr In nnipstalrs front room dressing to g out. The lire by this lime was b'illn' u ] through the house at a great rate. " 'Hello , there ! ' we hollered to him whei wo looked In at the door , 'the house 1 afire ! ' " 'Would It disturb you If I should remali while you are putting It out ? ' he said , llftlni the comb from his hair and looking arouni at us , Ho had on a low waistcoat , and hi dress cost lay across a chair. "Seeing us staring at him , he dropped hi comb Into his hair again and went on comb Ing. But as a matter ot fact , ho was abou ready. He put down the' comb , put on hi 3 coat and hat , and picked up his overcoat , I- " 'Now I'm ready , gentlemen , ' he said. Is "Wo started , but the stairway had no\ been closed up by fire. We turned to th windows. The boya had got a ladder up 01 the front ot the house. " 'Now , then,1 wo tald to him , when w came to the window. " 'After you , gentlemen , ' ho said , standlni back , and I'm darned It wo didn't have to g < dov.'n the ladder first and let htm come las ( , ' d Another Tutiiiiirfr luVitilift } . ft Chicago Tribune : "The growth of a fev t tiny rootleta , " observed the teacher of th ' botany clasi. "has been known to lift > heavy rock from Its place , and the root of i tree growing nut under a stone sidewalk wll somottmea push It up and break It. Othe cases of a like nature showing the stroni uplifting power of vegetable growth have oc curred , I doubt not , within your own ob serration. Is It tot so ? " "Ves'm , " said the boy with the fadei hair , "I've heard my paw eay his lai year's corn crop lifted a mortgage oft hi furra. " . Prlnea Hlsmarck recelvnl a large delega lion of teachers at Frledrelchsruh recently representing the higher Prussian schools. Ii hli speech he referred to the Influence o : women on the national development , anc called thin In ence an Important mark o progress. Fifty ycari ago , he tald , such In fiuinco was unknown. Now Germai I mothers to er the national feeling amqnf fit RE SlLrSll FALLACIES. II. This brings us to the question as to whether a government , by coining a metal , , can give Its value. Those believing In the free coinage ot silver cay bccauso silver was demonetized In 1873 that by reason ot that act silver began to go down. The most that can be said In answer to the question , first , Is a dental that the act of 1873 de monetized diver. To demonetize a metal Is to refuse by act ot law to stamp It and to make of It a cer- tan standard for the uses of trade. This was not done In 1873. By the act of that year any owner of sliver bullion could have the same coined Into trade dollars of 420 grains troy ( section 3520) ) . The coinage of the standard silver dollar of 412 grains troy was prohibited by this act ( section 3516) ) , and alt silver coins were a legal tondcr In any amount not exceed Ing $5 In any ono payment. Under the Bland-Allison act ot 1878 , passed over the president's veto , the government was authorized to purchase not less than (2,000- 000 nor moro than $4,000,000 of silver bullion per month at the market price and have the same coined Into dollars of 412 grains troy each and legal tender In any amount unless otherwise stipulated. The Sherman act of July 14 , 1890 , required the secretary of the treasury to purcha.se 4,000,000 ounces of silver bullion per month at the market price and pay therefor In treas ury notes , which were reJeemablo on de mand In coin , and reissued when redeemed , The holder of these notes would at once re deem them In gold , Inasmuch as the govern ment In the same act was pledged to main tain the parity of our dollars. Any one can see what a snap the silver bullion owner had under the declining prices of silver under tnls act. A limit was only placcJ on the quantity \vhlch should be bought by the government , and , as Is well known , until the repeal of the Sherman act large quanti ties of silver had to purchased by the government every month , The "government , for the purpose of protecting Itself In not coining a metal which was on the down grade , and In order to save Itself from loss by reason of Its yearly depreciation , found Itself compelled , unless It desired to assume a large deficit , to stop the purchasing of such a metal for the rtason that after It had once placed Its stamp upon the same It pledged Its cr dlt to the ultimate redemption of the dollar at a full 100 'cfcnts value. So that the mlno owner'obtaljiq'd from the gov ernment $1,000,000 In * colhbiotcs ) for $1,000- 000 In silver ( less the cost Of coining the same ) , and after the government stampeJ It a dollar each found Itself compelled , by reason of Its promise or stamp , to make that dollar good , when , In fact , It was depreciat ing every year. But the free coinage ad vocates say that the limitation Imposed upon the free coinage of silver caused the price of the same to depreciate , and In thus saying they assume and have charged It repeatedly that the government , by coining a commodity , can make value. Therein lies the whole fallacy. A government can no more create value than an Individual or a combination of Individuals If the commodity has not In trinsic value. Value Is created by a com bination of three things. First , the cost ot producing the thing ; secondly , Us relative scarcity , and third , the human family wanting the thing. Nc government has ever coined platinum , yet , for a great number of years , platinum has been more valuable1 than gold. No gov ernment ever coined diamonds. What would a person rather have , a cube filled with diamonds mends or a cube filled with gold ? The facl that governments coined gold has naver madi Itmere valuable than diamonds or platinum for the reason that diamonds and platlnun are minerals that are of such relative scare Ity and the cost of getting the same Is sue1 ! ani the human family wanting these mineral ! that these three Ingredients have lmbue < them with whatever value they possess. Ii discussing what the value of an article li many make the mistake to ascribe It enl ] to the cost of labor. That Is only one of thi o Ingredients. All three must comb'ne ' to glvi It a present market value. This Is well Illus trated by certain articles which are ver ; scarce , and It may be the cost produclni them Is great , yet It has little value becansi the human family does not demand or wan the article or thing. We have , also , article where the cost of labor , If figured up , wouli be very great , yet , If the article Is not scare and If there Is no demand for the same , 1 will bring very little value. We may Illus trate this proposition In different ways. Fo Instance , thereIs no doubt that Edison , tin great Inventor , has In his laboratory certali chemicals or certain bits of machinery which to him , are of extraordinary value , yet , ther being no demand for the same , peopl ? gener ally would not give a dollar for It. There ar articles carved out of pieces of wood by la ° borers In various parts of the world whlc ] " have taken as high as twenty years work t prrfect , yet such articles may be of no valu If the human family don't want them. So 1 will be seen that It Is untrue for persons t say that the value of a thing Is the cost o producing It or that the value of a , thing 1 caused by Its scarcity. There are man ; things that may bo very scarce , as object of mere curiosity , yet , If the people do no care for them , they can have no value. A de mand for a thing and the need of a thing ar moro likely to create a greater proportion o Its value than the cost of labor or the rela tlve scarcity of the thing. Generally speak Ing , however , the three constituents whlc ! have been named above , to-wlt , the cost , rela tlve scarcity and demand for the thing , g to making value. We uow come to th question as to what caused silver to deprecl ate and to fluctuate as It has so often don ; It has not gone down simply because of an [ , one cause. It has gone down because , flrsl " It was being produced ata greater role tha gold ; secondly , because .It.was being found 1 greater and easier quantities than gold ; thlrc the cost of producing ltjvas less than gold When these facts occurred 'silver became uti able to maintain an arbitrary ratio made b law. The greater law of supply and deman became operative the world over , and th human family began not wanting silver as money as much as gold , because It fluctuate BO greatly and was going down grade EO fas that the last person or government caugh with the metal would have to bear the loss. The author of Coin's Financial School , b : a table which he says Is correct , and whlc ] ought to be accepted as authority by th free fillverltes , shows that silver was goln | down every year up to 1873 , and It Is no true that It began going down slowly sine the alleged demonetization act of that yeai It Is only true that It went down , maybe more after the act of 1873 than it did prlo to the passage ot that act , but nevertheles its tendency prior to that time was down ward , according to the tables cited by Coin By Coin's tables It began going down fron the year I860. In that year It was wort ! 100.5 , In 1867 It was 99.7 , and from 186S t 1S70 It was 99.6 , In 1871 It was 99.7 , In 187 : It had dropped to S9.2 , and In 1873 to 97.4 It did not take a very wlie man to see tha the government , at this rate of decrease , wa losing money ; on every $1,000,000 It lost $20 , 000. It had stamped the silver dollar will Its national emblem ot credit , and had pro claimed to the world that the silver della was worth ono dollar , and by reason ot tha act the good faith , honor and Integrity o the government must stand by the sllve dollar , even If the difference ot loss had ti be made up by taxing the people for It. Thi government , did what any Individual woulc have done having In his possession a meta the value of which was depreciating ever : year It unloqd ij 03 Uje market tjje de predating JU ° .fc. 1 ! a. nai\ Were to pur cnaEO SiCck of a railroad , paying $100 foi each share , and thereafter ascertained tha the stock was going down and would llkel ; keep going down , It would be an absurc financial proposition for him not to sell tin same. Whatever caused fllver to go dowi Is Immaterial. It could not be retained b : the government without ultimately the gov ernment making up the deficit. Those whi believe In free silver say that the mor < silver Is co'ntd the greater will be the ben ? " fit to the public generally. IIav < they ever explained to the thought fill laborer how lie was going to ge any of this silver without giving his laboi In return for It ? Have they ever explalnet to the laborer why he should be paid In i coin which Is ot a depreciated charade ; when he has done a full day's work ? I would seem Just and reasonable that thi laborer who baa done $1.50 worth of worl would want to be paid In a metal whlcl wculd represent each and every cent maklnj Up the $1.60 and which $1.50 would be ai good In all the markets ot the world as I la In the United States. It can well ba under stood why the mine owners would wan silver bought from them by the govarnmen they could unload on the government this depredated metal , getting 100 cents on the dollar for the same at Its m&rket value , when they sold to the government and relieve themselves from all chances of a decline In the market value of the metal In future years. By such an operation the government Is caught and the mlno owner escapes all chances. When we say that the mine owner , under a free coinage act , rclls to the gov ernment we mean , that what Is done Is tantamount to a. sale. , H Is true that under the guise of having his metal coined the mine owner avails himself of a coinage act and has his metal coined by the government , but as a matter of fact this Is not true. He is virtually paid by the ROV- rnment for : -hls silver , by the Issuance to ilin of treasnrji notes , which notes can bo cdecmcd In fcnjfl , r.nd gold being the only ictal which , by reason of the demand ot the 11 in a n family , IB always worth 100 cents on he dollar , thel holder of the note always omamls of the government that metal In layment for 'hlisilver. . The government , as as already be < ! n said , having stamped the leces of silver with the dollar mark , has , by hat act , pledged. Its faith that that silver ollar shall aivfnya be worth 100 cents. But ftcr that dollar has depreciated to CO or 50 ente on thctidollar somebody must bear the oss. The inlna 'owner Is out of the wet nnd ares very llttld nbout the government's loss , iut when the IMS has to bo made up some- ody In the Ination must be taxed to make p the deficit. 'Hence It Is that the laborer , mechanic , mrrchant nnd In fact all those Ivlng within itlie country must bear the iroportlon ofi the loss , for , after all , a gov- rnment Is Nothing more nor lees than the people concentrated. This loss Is not apparent low because the deficit has not become ufilclently large for the government to call upon the people to make up the same , but It such a system Is kept up It does not require much wlsdnm to see how the matter will end and who , ultimately , must bear the loss , The ivlthdrawal of coinage of silver will , neces- lar'ly , cause a contraction , but such a con- ractlon Is based moro closely to the value if the commodity than It was formerly. And hough a sudden contraction should be avoided , nevertheless it will place values upon a more stable foundation than they ave heretofore existed In this country , The laboring man and citizens generally are In no position to complain because If the pur chasing power of n dollar Is moro today than "t formerly was they can obtain more with : helr dollar than they formerly could. What difference does It make to you or me If with $5 today you can purchase as much as you could with $25 several years ago. You are obtaining five times as much , and though you may complain at the Inception thnt when you were paid only $5 In former times you could have obtained $25 for the same work , you must bear In mind that the $5 accom plishes as much today as $25 did formerly. The prices of commodities adapt themselves to the law of supply and demand , and so It s with the dollar. O. C. POKER IN ALASKA. An Kxperlcnco tliat Makes n Notv Yorker AVttnt co Return to Juuoait. "A select little poker party was on In Juneau the night before I left , " said a man who has just returned from Alaska , to a Sun man , "and the game sweetened up In good shape In a few rounds. Poker Is the same In Alaska as It Is In New York or Florida , only perhaps It's oftener. In the course of thoigame a Jackpot assumed ample proportions , and a noted local player opened It with a bang. Ono after another laid down and only one man stayed In to fight It out , He drew ono card to fill a straight flush while the opener stood pat. The openei pushed out a llttlo stack of chips after the draw. His opponent threw down a bobtal ! flush exclaiming : " 'If I had caught my man I would have seen you and raised you clear to the cell- Ing. ' " 'Well , here's your man , said the openei handing him the desired ace ot spades , 'and now go ahead with your bluffing. ' "The other player looked at the opener Ir amazement. The straight flush man , for thai was hts hand , bet a stack of reds. Thi opener saw him and raised at the same tlmi remarking : " 'Take back , your chips , old man. I don'l want to robyou. . ' i ' iRob me ! WelUiI guefss , not. . You can'l do It without ta.-'gun. I've got a royal flusr and nothing ) beats that but a six-shooter. ' "The openeri looked dazed , and then throwIng - Ing down an ace full on kings he said : " 'Dashyty-blank-blank. Of course yet have. I'm the oyster and I've been openec In shape. ' "My frlendi Mr. Goodplayer had to se 'era up fontho rest of the evening. Wasn' that a soft target ? I'm going back to Juneai some time. " * V1 Story ot Ilnnica Greolcy. Washington Post : "While I have thi floor , " said/ Amos Cummlngs , "I might ai well tell al story about Horace Greeley. worked with Greeley for years. He alwayi called mo 'Ala ; ' never could remembei 'Amos. ' One day I went out to see Greelej at Chappaqua ; about the newspaper business The old gentleman saw me coming as h stood looking out the window and openei the door hlmeelf. " 'Come In here , Asa , ' ho said , In his high mealy tones , as he led me Into a fashion o parlor. "I followed him. . Into the room , and as : was only going to remain a moment , laid mj hat , gloves and cane on a center table. Gree ley and I had Just Immersed ourselves In i talk when Mrs. Qreeley swept Into the room Now Mrs. G. was what one might call i spirited woman. The moment she enterec the door her eyes fell Indignantly on m ; trousseau as I'd piled It up hat , gloves am stick on the tablo. Without a word , am before I could speak to her , she swooped 01 the outfit like a fishhawk , and the next mo ment threw them out of the window. "Then she left the room without pausing for speech , as one who had taught somebod ; that the hall was the place for hats am canes nnd similar bric-a-brac. I was Incllnei to get a trifle hot ; a man naturally mlgh who sees his hat pounced upon and cast Int the shrubbery. But before I could get up o say a word Greeley stretched out his ham In a deprecatory way and cheered me will the remark : " 'Never mind , Asa ; she thought they wer mine. ' "Afterward , however , " concluded Cum mlngs , "when I recall what Greeley's ha used to look like I had my doubts. " WHR n furo Cure. Women are Intolerant of their own weak ness , however trifling or grave. Men levi women for the very faults and foibles of thi sex. The other evening an Immense crowi got Jammed In a theater lobby and semi women grow hysterical. "Oh , I shall faint ! " exclaimed a stou blonde , looking plteously at her escort. Men on all sides glanced at her sympathet Ically , and those nearest made a frantic effor to glvo the stout blonde more room. He escort looked down Into her face tenderly. "I am going to faint ! " she cr'ed ' , and sin got ready to fall gracefully Into his armc. "Well , faint ! " shouted a robust lady a her elbow. "For heaven's sake , faint and b < done with It , for the rest of us wai.t to gei out ! " Some people glanced at her Indignantly and others tittered ; but the stout blundi who was about to faint braced up suddcnl ] and concluded she wouldn't. No sniff o : salts could have < ] gne the business quicker 01 more satisfactorily , - Offered by ( he Chicago , Milwaukee & St Paul railway , the short line to Chicago. / clean train , made up and started from Omaha Baggage checked from residence to destina tion. Elegant' train lervlce and courteous employes. Entire train lighted by electrlcltj and heated by steam , with electric light Ir every berth. Finest dining car service It the west , vlth meals served "a la carte. ' The Flyer leaves at 6 p. m. dally from Untot Depot. City Ticket Office , 150J Farnam street. C S. Carrier , city ticket agent. TiiA rinanulul llelnttr. Cleveland IFUIn Dealer : Mr. Goldbug M ) dear sir , you .have made a frightful mistake In my financial communication , Managing Editor ( bluntly ) What ? Mr. Goldbus I started out by saying m ) highest ambition was to be a "thinker" Ir financial mattar Managing Editor Well ? Mr. Goldbug * Your compoillcr left the "h" out of "thlnkir ! " Managing Editor W ll ? Mr , OoWbug What cm I do to correct It1 PICTURESQUE AS A MEMORY An Interesting Phase of Western Lifo that is No More. THE REAL COWBOY AND HIS IMITATOR C'lmrnctcrUttci of the Vnnlitioit Klnga ot Trulln niul Itouml-Uim Contrnftlctl wllh Their Successor * Chungcs Wrought by btcum and Iron , There Is llttlo In the life of the cowboy of today to recall the heyday of his predeces sors. He Is a reminiscence , a melancholy reminder of what was. He Is a rello of former greatness who plods wearily over the diminished prairie , awaiting the sum mons of early doom. Comparatively brief was the career of the picturesque cowboy of bygone days. Twenty years spans his existence as a fac tor In western development. Ho sprang Into ' 'ting with the freedom and abandon ot his surroundings , played his role with charac teristic dash and recklessness and vanished Into history as a unique and unequalled phase of plains life. Memories of that life are awakened by n dainty brochure published by the Cudnhy company , which too briefly sketches the vanished heroes of the ranch and trail , "From the Uanch to the Table" Is the title and from Its dainty cover In blue and gold to the concluding chapter It Is chockful of meaty facts , attractive Illustrations and charming sketches. Its production was no small task , calling for the highest grade of the "art preservative , " and was turned out from the press of the Burkley brothers of Omaha after competition with Now York houses. The pages are adorned with drawings of familiar scenes the range camp , the schack , the roundup , the bucking broncho and the cutting out process. The brochure traces the development of the cattle Industry In the west , the hardships nnd privations endured , the fortunes realized , and the gradual , Irreslstlbo movement of eastern packers to the. source of supply. "Tho great cattle barons own ranches as large as a New England state ; thousands of smaller ranchers have occupied the fertile valleys and 'parks' of the mountains , and the live stock Interests of Colorado , Wy oming , .Montana and Now Mexico are of .greatervalue than their mining wealth , pro- .dljjjoiis . as the latter Is. Perhaps 200 miles of wire fence mark the limits within which thousands of cattle bearing ono owner's brand may freely roam. Fences and cattle alike have enemies , from which the range- rider must protect them by constant watch fulness. The enclosure of great tracts of land Is bitterly opposed by all but the great cattle owners , and a wire fence Is apt to suffer from the exasperation of a defiant plainsman , who must ride forty miles around It or else cut It. Ho usually cuts It ; and as every man In the cattle country Is prepared to defend his actions with his over- ready revolver , the controversies between fence-cutters and range-riders are frequently exciting. "A more serious and more dangerous duty of the range-rider Is guarding the herds against 'rustlers' or cattle thieves. An annoyance to the owners of large herds , and a constant menace to small ranchers , these desperadoes frequently cause losses to the former and complete ruin to the latter , with occasional murder nnd general terrorism as an accompaniment. Rulllans and despera does drawn from the worst elements ol frontier life , reckless of danger , mocking at laws , they hesitate at no crime , and love the excitement of violence. Occasionally they gather In gangs in some part of the cattle country where Inhabitants are so few and so widely separated as to bo helpless against the ready Winchesters of a dozen despera does. Their progress resembles a Highland raid , and they sweep before them every 'bunch' of cattle not safely corralled anil guarded by a rifle barrel. Many a rancher has seen his whole wealth of forty or fifty steers 'rustled' before his eyes by men who claimed them as stolen from some distant ranch ; his rlflo has cracked to defend his property ; deadly shots have replied and the robbers passing on , have left behind them a dead man with his face to the sky nnd a bullet In his heart. In his encounters with 'rustlers' the range-rider frequently risks his life , and ho risks It bravely and readily , for the wild Justice of the plains does not wait on the slow and uncertain processes ol the law , but punishes the evil-doers on sight. " The roundup now , as In former times , Is the great event In the life of the cowboy. It means days and weeks In the saddle , a clash of excitement and ever present possi bilities of danger. If a thunder storm comes up there Is trouble ahead. A stampede Is certain should the storm come at night. Then must the cowboy follow the frightened herd. If ho knows the country thoroughly he Is reasonably safe. Otherwise , he Is In danger of death with every plunge of the broncho. These night stampedes are dreaded most of all , because the darkness Is made more Im penetrable by fitful lightning flashes. The rider tightens his hold and trusts his horse. Up nnd down hill , over rocks , prairie dog holes nnd cooleys. Thus for hours the run Is kept up unless the storm nbates quickly , or the animals are turned and run In a cir cle. cle.A A genuine winter blizzard was much dreaded In former times because of the re moteness of habitations. Now that danger Is modified with regard to human life , but the loss of stock Is considerable , notwithstanding the precautions taken. As a. picturesque phase of western life , the real cowboy has passed away. It Is twelve years since the last great drive of cattle from Texas to Nebraska. Steam and Iron have revolutionized the business , banished the cat- tie trail and Its attendant hardship ; , ant 'transformed Into peaceful plodding villages tlie old shipping towns where the cowboys exchanged lead for whisky and ran the gov ernment while the Jag held out. Stnge Tno Small to He Elevutecl. Chicago Herald : "Ther staygo Is too small for mo act , " said the lady with the blondlned curls to the inan with a black mustache , as they rode homo on the grip of a North Clark street car after the perfor mance. "I told ther manager so ternlght when he kicked. I says , says I , 'The stayge Is too small , an' I can't do me steps without a-bumpln' agin ther scenery. That's the way with them museum stayges dey don'i glvo a serlo comic no chance at all. An one week's all you're good for In 'em. I toll Mamie she'd be a frost If she stayed another week. 'Tney'ro ontcr yer , ' I says to Mamie 'an' they'll give yer the ha-ha nex' week. ' I'm glad It's Saturday and me last night done. What's ther use of tryln" on a stayge no blgger'n this car ? Art ain't In It , Is what I says ; an' nox' season I'm goln' out wld Jim. He's goln' ter boss a comp'ny hlsself , he Is. " Ail Unfortunate I'raacnt. New York World ; ' 'No , I never see any thing of him now , " sighed the girl In blue , stirring her chocolate mournfully. "He hasn'l been to see mo since Christmas , and I don't understand It , for I sent him a lovely pres ent. " "What was It ? " asked the girl In gray. "I'll tell you all about It , " said the first girl , with the air of one eager to Impart con fidents. "You know he writes poetry ; he sends the girls he know ? sonnets and things. Veil , f wanted io give him something liter ary , you know , as a sort of tribute to his talent. Out I didn't want to eend him a volume of poetry. It would have seemed to suggest a comparison , you know. I thought a long time and finally sent him " "What ? " demanded the girl In green , as her friend hesitated , "A rhyming dictionary ! Now can you see why ho hasn't called ? What are you laughIng - Ing about ? " TO YOUFJGe e Offer n Remedy Whlchlnsurcs Safety - ty to LI foot Mother and Child. DOBS CONFINEMENT OF ITS PAIN , HORROR AND RIOK. "My wife used only two bottlea. She was easily and quickly relieved ; Is now doing splendidly. J. S. MOIITON , Harlow , N. 0. Bent by ezpreii ot mall , on receipt of price. HI.00 | > cr'buttle. Botfc "TO MOTUK1U1'1 mailed free , BUAimKLD BEODLATOU CO. ATLANTA. QA. fMORSE II MORSE Jf laSeoOD36IBPJ l TCOODSe A week of Triumph The wort ! success Is mild the word crowds Is tame with which to describe this week's record of n Week of Bargains We're ttrowliiK folwer every tiny every department lllllnn up but nil be- iiitf saerllicod for the sake of making a. inline for ourselves. If you're wise if you're of a money saving turn you'll take home some of those bargain lots. First of all Line of ladles' underwear nnd hosiery , probably the largest and certainly the best purchase ever made. These sam ples were shown n few weeks ago In New York had never been on the road and sold ( o us at n discount of about BO per cent. Among them are the bi > st and llnest goods made in Europe. We don't hesitate to predict that Satur day's sale of this underwear and hosiery will be the greatest ever conducted In this" western world. Ladles' Jersey Vests , Indies' Illcljelleu ribbed Jersey vest , goods that sell 5c for 15c , our price 5c Bnlbrlmran Underwear. Ladles' Hue French bal- brlggnn underwear , slimmer weight , sold from $1.00 to $150 , In ono lot tomorrow , your choice , 60c Lisle Thread Tights. ' Ladles' lisle thread tights , Jl.GO goods for OOc Children's Pantalettes. An odd lot of children's pnntclettes , worth from 25o to 35c , choice 15c Bnlbrlggatt Drapers. Ladles' line French balbrlg- Kiin drawers , $1.25 goods , 75c Sleeveless Vests. Ladles' hlgli neck , sleeve less vest , EOc quality for 25c .ft Ladies' Underwear. Ladles' line Illchellou ribbed low neck , crochet neck nml sleeve , with fancy taped front , regular 25c goods for 12c Ladies' Striped Vests- Ladles' fancy colored lllch- clleu striped vest , low neck , sleeveless , these are 33c 20o Koods , you , have them for 20c V Shnped Vests. A line of ladles' vests , In cluding low , square neck , nnd V shaped both back nnd front , silk finished neck , COo goods for half price 25c Ladles' Black Hose. Ladles' absolutely fnat black hose , the kind that Omahnn's pay 20c for , go tomorrow at 7' , c Children's Hose. Children's Hermsdorff dye hos > e , fine ribbed , spliced t heels nnd toes , double knees , worth nil of 25c , to morrow , lie Misses' Tati Hose. i r Misses' tan hose In every shade , regular 25c quality , t for 15o , Ladles' Lisle Hose. Ladles' lisle hose in fancy colors , nearly all of them 60c stockings , nt 15c , Ladies' Black Hose. Ladles' extra fine quality fast black hose , worth 35o a pair ; we sell tomorrow two pairs for 35o Ladies' Russet Hose. All the lute things In fast russet shades of hosiery , worth 35c , ( jo ut 25c Cloak and Suit Dept- \Vo have bargains that cannot bo du plicated iinywhoro. Are You Interested ? $3.45 Silk Waists niailo of either Kai-Kai or TalTetta Silk , 12 colors to cheese from , latest style , larpo alcoves , tulltcd bolt and collar , ropular vnluo $3.50 ; for Saturday wo offer thodtQ 4.K choice of these waists for. IpO Special barga'ns in Duck Suits and Lawn Wrappers at 98c and $1.68. LllieilS Special Sale We make this special for tomorrow to convince the people thnt ours Is the stock thnt will reveni to you the most for your money nnd the best Tomorrow we cut the price of our 63-Inch heavy bleached damask table linen , sold all over the 50c United States at Gifoa , A 53-Inch extra heavy cream damask , regular , COequality 35c GO-lnch cream damask , 55c worth "Co for. . . 61-Inch satin finish bleached 70c damask , $1,00 goods for Napkins at We , COc , $1.00. Towels at greatly reduced prices. Larice damask and huclc 2oc towel for. Hemstitched huclc towels. . .2 IO1 * 25C Extra nine Turkish towel , worth 25c for Pure linen toweling , worth Be for Good crash for , . , . , 3C Kid Gloves 6-hook glace , tans , browns Klove and blacks , a regular $1.25 69c .adlos . I * silk gloves In blacks and all colon ) , that you 25c often , pay COa for , . , , AH our ladles' SSc and COo silk mitts In black en to 25c morrow ut , Ladles' 7-hook tan , brown always