T1II3 OMAHA DAILY 111313 : SATtTlUAT , JTX13 127 , 1800. 5
Blnokbnm Gives Kennedy a Tow Nnts to
Orack ,
SOME OPINIONS FORCIBLY EXPRESSED
Cltit - In TliniT n lloun unit n Wimlil-
llo CoiinrrB-imiiii IN liivltcil to
1'lrU It Up V l.lttlo
Ad * lee.
Mr. T. W. Blackburn has addressed to
ff , I. . . Kennedy the following open letter on
some Important point * in connection with
the history of local politics :
OMAHA , June 26 John L Kennedy , Ksq
Dear Sir : I am advised that jou Raw nt
to make a personal attack on me at the
( Seventh Ward Ilepubllcan club meeting
last night. In which you charged that l was
a representative of Hoscwater In the Ninth
Ward Mercer club and , In effect , stated that
I wns a tool of the editor of The Bee. had
no convictions of my own and had no other
ambition In life , except to advance the In
terests of that gentleman
Now , Mr Kenned ) , I was born In America
of abolitionist stock , and have been a re
publican voter since 1S7C , when my first vote
TVKS cast for Rutherford B. llajes. I have
voted thu republican ticket ever since. You
were born In Scotland and I am willing to
accord to jou every right of n native bom
American , but I wish jou to understand dis
tinctly that no man born on cither side of
the water can pretend to he a'better Ameri
can , n bettor republican or a more Independ
ent citizen than myself without protest on
jny part.
The Htory that I moved into the Ninth
ftard nt the suggestion and behest of Mr
Ttosowatcr la so absolute ! ) silly that 1 am
surprised jou would consider It worth re
peating , even in the campaign of Blander
Vl > lrh you have Inaugurated. If It Is worth
TflIle for jou to know It , 1 may say that 1
moved from the Fourth ward into the Ninth
to save rent and that I tut niy rent bill
exactly In two bj the removal
In the fall of 1812 , a few months prior to
my removal Into Iho Ninth -ward , I was n
delegate to the slate convention which sent
n delegation to Lincoln In the interests of
Governor Lorenzo Crounsu. Upon the
Fourth ward delegation vvero George W
Llnlnger , A C Troup , W F Bechel , W. J
Droatch , George A Bennett , Frank E Moores ,
mjsclf , and 1 have forgotten wno .vas the
eighth man. I sat alongside of Mr Llninger
In the convention and voted for W J
Broatth for governor This was the cam
paign immediately preceding ray removal
into the Ninth ward and would hardly afford
encouragement for Mr Roscvvater to make
U an object for me to change my place of
residence , especially li view of the fact that
when I lived In the Fourth ward , and so
desired , 1 could usuallj gtt a place on the
delegation to the county conventions
NOT ONE OP THE CRANKS.
The next fall , when the time came for
holding the primaries In the Ninth ward , I
jolmd , with a number of other good citi
zens in that ward , in a fight which resulted
In splitting the delegations to the state
and congressional conventions 1 was not
a cindldato for delegate to cither conven
tion , and. In fact , have not been a candi
date for delegate to any county convention
slnco the second nomination of George P
Bemls for major until the primaries the
latter part of May , this jear. when I was a
candidate for delegate to the county con-
venllon on the Droatch ticket in the Ninth
ward
I have no sympathy with this continual
nntl-llosewater howl. I believe that Mr
Koiewatur Is a citizen of whom Omaha
ought to bo proud , because of his public
spirit and his enterprise , whatever may be
thought of him as a politician I do not
alwajs agree wltb Mr. Ilosewalcr In poll-
tics , but when Mr. Rosewaler agrees with
mo I cannot change my views merely be
cause he and I are In accord. I know some
people wbo have a habit of going wrong
whenever Mr. Rosewatcr Is right In order
to be In opposition to that gentleman. I
do not belong to that class of cranks
I never control but ono vote at an elec
tion That vote has alwajs been my oun
and has been under my absolute control
tor twentj jears If I have pride In any
one particular thing , in connection with my
residence in Omaha , it is that I have al-
wajs had the courage to Bland up for my
own convictions and to defend them , re
gardless of the character or personnel of
the opposition , I have never sent cmlbsarlts
to Mr Roscwater to get him to accoid to
1110 the credit of making any fight In which
I have been engaged. Perhaps jou will
remember one occasion , when jou thought
jou were entitled to some credit and took
particular pains to bring that fact to the
attention of the despised editor of The Bee
You told mo , Mr Kennedj , at least a
half dozen times , that jou wanted Mr
Mercer's friends to distinctly understand
that jou were making no personal fight on
lilm. In one convention you assured mo
that If I heard anybody say that you had
gene Into any combination against Mercer
that I could pul it down as a ' bald-faced
Ho" You stated further that Mr Mt'rccr
had made a good record In congress , and
jou would not feel hurt if ho were re-
nomlnatcd and re-elected , and that you wore
In this fight solely for Mr Kennedj' , and
not to help on j body beat Dave Mercer. You
have repea idly stated to mo ( and I am
advised so Muted to otber friends of Morccr )
that jou wished Mr Mercer's friends to
undci stand at all times In this contest that
jou wore making a friendly fight and had
no disposition or purpose to resort to any
unfair or questionable means to advance
jour Interests In fact , jou said that jou
wished to conduct jour campaign so that
If Mr. Mercer's friends found it impossible
to elect him , they would not feel embit
tered against jou In any paitlcular.
TALKS RIGHT OUT IN SCHOOL
Finding that Mr. Mercer's strength was
growing verj rapidly and that the only
Tiliou for the opposition was a combination
of all the candidates agalnbt Mr Mercer ,
jou have debased joursclf to the common
level of the ward hustler and are now out
on th stump , piddling gossip and resorting
to slander and vilification to defeat a man
who is jour equal In point of manhood and
citizenship and jour superior in a great
mo ny other respects You are not satisfied
to peddle lies against jour principal oppo
nent , but are small and mean enough to
Insist that the friends of Mr. Mercer shall
also liu dragged Into this campaign of mud
tillnglng and bo abused because , forsooth ,
thej' have vcnturtd to express their pit'fer-
cnces for n man whose two terms In congress !
have manifested his especial fltiuss for the
position
There are some politicians In Omaha from
whom a man might expect just such
A NK\V MMJ AODKII
Our halo of pink and blue light weight
inuco cotton underwear nt 75c a wilt 1mb
been so sucee ful that wo'vo boon coin-
polled to mid our llnu of tan inacos In
order to keep the nbsoitment up to Kb
proper btandaul a whole biilt for Too.
Albert Calm ,
1322 Pariiani
. . . an has droipul from your lips In
the last two nr tlmo weeks I will confess
however tlmt 1 had not expected a man of
jour prctcnd d respectability to stoop to
the conduct wrhlch h marked jour cnnvass
erer since the exposition bill ws passed
and you saw that Mr Mercer wan to be
given credit for his services In connection
with that measure
Finally , Mr Kennedy permit me to say
tlmt the people of this community will not
exchange experience for mere assurance , nor
demonstrated ability for demonstrated In
capacity Neither will they retire from
their service a man wbo has accomplished
more for his district than any other joung
congressman in Washington In order that
the ambition of a Seventh ward politician
may be gratified The business men of this
city believe In Abraham Lincoln's princi
ple that it Is no tlmo to swap horses In the
middle of the stream They know that the
man who could overcome the obstacles
which confronted the exposition bill In the
last session of congress Is the right man
to continue nt the helm for the two jears
when further favors will be required from
that same congress At least a dyen of
jour friends have personally expressed tome
mo the wish that jou might have sense
enough to see the Inevitable and save your
credit and jour money bj removing from
the track You have no more chance of ob
taining the nomination for congress at this
tlmo than a half dozen gentlemen whose
names have not boon mentioned In con
nection with the office and jour method
of conducting jour campaign Is making
you neither friends nor votes
T W BLACKBURN.
1IOATO KMC\V ' 1OHNAUOUS.
Snnic Clmrncti'rUllc IVnliire * of
Tlirlr A | > | > 'i" " ' " ' ' - * '
Perhaps the most Important distinction to
emphasize. BBJS Harper's Wceklj , Is that
between the appearance of a thunder storm
and a tornado , since , if this can bo defined ,
much needless fear at the approach of black
but harmless thunder storms can be avoided.
When not combined with tornado manifesta
tions the thunder storm sends aloft a nar
row line of black clouds In advance , which
remains high In the air. At the right and
left ] the black clouds seem to reach the
earth , but this Is caused , not by a descent
to the earth , as In a tornado , but bj distant
edges of the high black clouds receding be
low the horizon line It Is one storm which
spreads to the left and right. There Is no
splitting up of clouds with the formation
of a different storm at another part of the
borbon.
The tornado is easily distinguished from
this perfectly plain edge of black with Its
lighter rain mist extending to the earth
Whether the funnel is veiled by rain or not ,
It is ordinarily so black that as it approaches
it appears as a column of dense darkness ,
narrowest at the earth , with light breaking
through on either side of It The most marked
trnlt of all is that other clouds seem to be
approaching , others moving at right angles
and a distinct storm of light hue is coming
up from the southwest. This Is all caused bj
the tornado , ivhlch is drawing clouds and
air currents toward itself Trorn great dis
tances. As the tornado funnel comes nearer
with Its dark mass of rubbish reaching to
the earth , the roar is frightful giving the
observer fifteen or twent } minutes' warning
The southwest corner of the cellar , if the
tornado is approaching from the bouth or
west , Is the safest place of refuge. The tor
nado carries the wreckage to the north and
east , and If the funnel Is seen in the north
or east it need not be feartd , because it will
almost certainly move away Of 600 tor
nadoes specially classified , all but thirtj-
flve moved from southwest to northeast and
nearly all the thlrtj-flvc moved eastwardly
The funnels have a lotary motion from
right to left and this motion Is not due to
electrical action but to acceleration of con
flicting air currents Lieutenant rinlej
shows that the lightning supposed to be In
the funnel Is already in adjacent thunder
clouds The broken and withered buds ,
bruised by the action of the air , are evap
orated by the sun after the tornado , causing
the foliage to look seared , giving rise to the
error that the tornado manifests burning
electrical power It has been demonstrated
by studj' of wreckage that as the funnel I
loaves the earth and rises into the air its i
force slightly diminishes , and that this
bounding motion causes the funnel to f.pare
one building and demolish another The
funnel , with Its small end to the earth ,
spins like a top , moving along at an average
rate of about forty miles an hour , but the
velocity of the spin is Incalculable It Is
like the motion of air impelled by an ex
plosion.
Tornadoes generally occur betw jn 3 p
m and 5 p. m and not more than one in a
thousand takes place between 10 p in. and
noon of the following day I have heard of
only two instances in which the tomato oc
curred between midnight and morning one
at Hohokus , N. J , and another In southern
Michigan , which caused slight 'oss of life
Since these arc only two in about 2,000
cases , the danger from tornadoes dt night
is so small that it need not bo consldMed
sn.ic ritoMooi > i uir.
I'rciH'linian INC | \ T * a 1'roroHB 1o
Coi.ip < > t < > Mlth Industrious Worm.
English merchants are greatly excited bj
the recent introduction of a silk made from
wood pulp , sajs the New York World. The
article cannot be told from the genuine
worm spun except by an expert. It has a
peculiarly beautiful luster , exceeding In
that the product of the silkworm. It also
takes djes more readily than silk does and
when manufactured Into ribbons and novel
ties cannot be told from the genuine
The process Is the discovery of a French
man , Illlalre de Chardonnet , and a factor }
at Desacon , Trance , has been turning out
large quantities of the falulc In tensile
strength It Is not equal to silk , but In other
respects it Is tuperlor Large quantities
have been sold in London and Paris this
season and in many instances the merchants
did not know the material was not spun bj
the industrious worms.
It Is made from wood pulp , waste paper or
rags They are first macerated with a mix
ture of nitric and sulphuric acids , which are
afterward washed out , and n thick , gummj
mixture Is left. This Is forced under heavj
pressure through glass tubes having a
mlnuto opening at the end. These are
called "glass silk worms , " and as the mix
ture Is forced through them machinery winds
the filament on bobbins It Is then pressed
to give it the necessary luster and is after
ward spun and woven as ordinary silk
threads are.
A firm has been started In England and
a largo factory will bo built at once at
Manchester. Iho discovery has passed the
experimental stngo and It is expected to
work a vast change in the textile Industrj
I Cdlil shlplm-nlN ( l ) Kurofio.
NEW YORK , Juno 20 Heldelbach , Ickel-
holmer S. Co have engaged $200,000 In gold
at the Bubtreasury for shipment to Qermanj
tomorrow.
wimn TIIn
Iii the ( -iii pot and em tain business
the only house. In Oinnlia dealing ex
clusively l eaipets ami curtains pie-
vlous to Inventory we nro giving liberal
discounts on cveiythlug In the store to
clOMJ out odd lots.
Omaha Carpet Co. ,
1515 Dodge
IOWA | I PIONEERS' ' STRUGGLES
Settlers of Cherokee County Had Many Ad
vantages Over Others.
RAISED GOOD { CROPS FROM THE START
lion HIP KnMrrii 'oiiiiinn > 'x Aurn
Ilniirnr | | < l in l.ocutr tin * settle
ment Iti thr Pertllriill - >
of the IItllc "inn * .
CHEROKEE , la , Juno 2G ( Special )
The history of the early settlement of a
countj , state or cltj. Is unqtastlonablj of
more Interest to the reader , and especially
to the pioneer himself , than any other
part of the story. In It the pioneer sees
himself and friends as together they strug
gled hand In hand , fighting for their very
existence In a vast wilderness , against great
odds , seemingly against fate. Picture the
pioneer as he sits In his easy chair , paper
In hand , his feet reclining on a cushioned
stool , enjojlng all the comforts of n mod
ern city home Ho adjusts his glasses , for
his cjes have long since grown dim , and
scans each page qulcklj , his glance sud
denly becomes fixed and he draws the
paper closer that he may not miss a word ,
for he has come to t o headline " 1'lonecr
Dajs. " Settling back in his chair , a gknm
of pleasant surprise Hashing o'er his coun
tenance , the hero of earlj dajs critical ! )
devours evcrj' word , recalling Hie pictures
of a banished past as the name of an old
comrade is mentioned in connection wllh
some deed of daring , or smiling as recollec
tion recalls some pleasant scene or ludic
rous adventure The old associations , the
many trials and tribulations , the baltlcs
against cold and hunger , the narrow es
capes from bloodthlrstj savages and even
Indian massacres all reappear , and the
early batlles of life are refoughl , one by
one. In Ihc mind of the pioneer as he reads
Finishing he drops the paper carelesslj ,
and in mtmory hears the howl of the hungry
wolves as they prowl about his door , and
the moaning of the wild wlntrj winds as
they whistled around the humble cabin home
that first sheltered him and his lo\ed ones
from the winter's driving storms All thc e
phantoms of the past rl e up before him ,
and he retails the health and strength of his
young manhood with pride , at the same time
breathing n prajtr of thankfulness to the
Ruler of this gnat universe for His good
and gracious gifts
Notwllhslandlng the hardships and cares
that found their way into the homes of the
early homesetkers , the first settlers of
Cherokee county at times enjojed solid com-
forl. All were free and equal , and the ab
sence of wealth and restraining positions
were lo them a source of satlsfacllon am
pleasure The flow of brolherly love that
existed In the hearts of these early van
guards of civilization created a regard for
hurcnnltj' , and each felt an interest in the
other's welfare , a foiling that still exists
and Is practiced todaj' , more on accouul o
early assoclallons in dajs of peril lhan the
teachings of Chribtlan duty
SWEET ME.MORIES.
Dear wns the old log cnbin ,
Down lij the river hide ,
'Round II Hie chlldien lomped.
In It the bil > j Ol.d
The cnbin lies in ruins.
The ivy from thu roof hns fled ,
The mound. Is Its onlj- monument ,
All but sweet memories , ire dead
In a great many countries it Is a ban
mailer to establish Die facl as to who wa
the first actual settler ; It Is not so 1 :
Cherokee countj' . In the fall of 1835 , tvv.
doctors at Milford , Mass , by name , Dr
Dwlght Russell and Dr. Sloctim , organize
what was known as the Milford Emlgra
tlon companj. In the spring of 185C It wa
determined that two of the companj shoul
be sent out as advance agents to lotat
a suitable place In northwestern Iowa fo
the planting of a colonj of New England
ers , who sought to better thtlr woildl
surroundings by sctlling In Ihe far west
The gentlemen chosen for this hazardou
undertaking were Carllon Corbell ( al presen
a i osldtnt of Cherokee ) and L Parkhurs
who left Milford , Februarj 11 , 1S5C , comln
bj' rail lo Chicago , Ihen a verj' small cllj
From Chicago Ihe pair went to Ljons , la
and from there doun the river to Daven
port , where they struck the only rallroa
then built on Iowa soil , Ihe Chicago , Roc
Island & . Pacific , which extended as fa
west as Iowa Cltj' , Ihcn the capital o
Iowa. DCS Molnes was only known at tha
time as a trading post , being called For
DCS Molnes , because a garrison of Unite
Stales troops had been stalioned there u
to the spring of 1847 , when thej- wen
transferred to another post.
From Iowa City the two pioneers travele
by stace to Council Bluffs , a distance
250 miles. Having carefullj examined th
maps , the present slto of Stoux City wa
determined on as the most desirable point fo
the location of the new colonj' The bi
Sioux was supposed to be a navigable stream
the Missouri was known to be , and the June
tlon point of these two rivers , the colon
naturally reasoned , must some day be th
slto of a great cltj' . After a brief restln
spell the pair departed from Council DIuffi
and journejed up the river to the covctc
spot only to find that the location had been
appropriated the jcar before and at this
time was a prosperous settlement consistIng -
Ing of less than a dozen souls , a United
States land office , two hotels and one store
all built of logs.
WANTED PLENTY OP TIMBER.
The discovery was a sore disappointment
to the land explorers , but determined to find
a suitable location , thej proceeded up the
big Sioux for some distance , but the scarcity
of timber in that region caused them to re
trace their steps Returning to Sioux Cltj
they met with Robert Perry ( now deceased ) ,
who Informed them of the beauty and abun
dance of timber along the Lltlle Sioux In
Cherokee county. Parkhurst remained at
Sioux Cltj' . while Corbett and a ui. n by the
name of Marlaln set out across the prairies
to Correctlonvllle , In Woodbury county ,
thence up the Little Sioux to a large grove
situated In what la now Pilot township
Hero the party remained over night In the
grove , a portion of which now belongs to
the Perry estate. The following morning
they preceded to the present site of Old
Cherokee , which was plaited soon after the
arrival of the little Now England colony that
followed their advance agents , making their
way slowly across the boundless prairie with
ox teams On their way up they stopped to
view the big red rock , the largest in Iowa ,
now known as Pilot rock. This rock was
used In an early day as a landmark by the
Indians , for upon examination Indian relics
TAVT SHK HIS WAY
There are none so blind as thf > 'o 'who
vvlll not see tlio Hlnht Is often prnnu-
iiontly InjuitMl by u puisUtont lufusiil
to nttcMid to U In tinu > ! > y MiluntttliiK to
n floe ophtlialnioii'ople I'MuiiluiilIon by
our t'Mx'it optician you can e.ibilj U IH-
udy jour sight defects.
Aloe & Penfold Co.
.Sign of ItlgUon
1408 Farnam
Trout of wore
nnrt painted IdcrcgljphltR wc-ro fuund all
about thp t la >
After having gatlsfjml thcm ehc that this
was the btst and fnien country they had
ct Been , after rambling hither and thither
or two dajs they Ml , put for Correction-
llle. there meeting , ft .party of the colony
nder the leadership 6flr Hwlght Hussell
'his wai in the mon ol May 1SGG A few
a.vs later the entire itxilonj , consisting of
, bout twenty souls .were all together and
ho start for the prbiriiSbd land was made ,
orbetl guiding the-llt4io band Hut three
t that little party of home eekers who ,
n that bright May 'morning ' , journejed up
ho little Sioux and loirtted on the present
ilte of Cherokee Btljl rosldo here , namely ,
Carllon Corbett , O W Hannlstcr and Al-
jert Plpps The othe'rs ' have all crossed
ho river of tlmo bift ono , a Mr Urovvn. be-
Ides the three mentioned above , who resides
n Tennessee.
'
A CITY.
A log house was built near the site of
) avls' grlt mill , which was long known
is the Cherokee house , and for some time
A as occupied by the entire colony The
: wo teams belonging to the company were
mmedlatilj put to work , and 150 acres
if land were broken up for a crop of which
bout thlrtj acres were planted to corn
'he corn wai caught by a frost In the fall
ind greatlj damaged , jet a fair crop was
liarvestcd The same piece of ground that
yielded to the pioneers their first crop
nearly fifty jears ago , last fall turned out
sixty bushels of corn to the acre They
also raised 200 bushels of excellent pota
toes and various other vegetables Other
necessities of life had to bo brought from
Council UlnffB. a dhtanco of 130 miles
About this time congress granted large
tracts of land across the state to aid In
building four different railroads from the
Mississippi to the Missouri river The land
) Ilice at Sioux City wa ordered closed until
he railroad companies could select their
ands , after -which It would open again
o settlers The time ordered by law gave
he Milford colony Just twenty dajs In
nhlch to select its lands and pre-empt
Xo time was lost In securing snrvejors to
sslst in this work , and the land selected
gave each member about 100 acrea.
During the summer n village was laid
out and 320 acres platted off In town
lots and all the land adjoining the village
i\as made Into twcntj-acre lots , though a
tew contained as many as sixty acres A
) lat of this village oan jet be seen at the
recorder's odlce One feature that is worthy
of note In this connection is that , though
these "pilgrim fathers" of our countrj
were over 100 miles from a town , whollj
unacquainted with the surroundings and
having such an Immense countrj' to select
from , should have just hit upon the lo
cality destined to bo one of the finest and
most prosperous cities in Iowa.
iiiyrmoMC SOAT.
TrlliiilntloiiN iif a Mlllloniilri' llncUer
of Woiilil-llc ArJrri" .
Not slnco Mr Pickwick fell a victim to
the wiles of the landlady In Boswcll street
the relict of that officer of her majcstj
who had gone to the peace and quiet that
a custom house could not grant , has anj-
body been so beset , environed , bedeviled
duped and done for , has an j body been so
outrageously victimized , as our excellent ,
Innocent and aged fellow- citizen , N. K ,
Tairbank. Time was , sajs the Chicago
Chronicle , when N. K was the Adonis o
Chicago. On the Board of Trade where
wits were sharpened his was among the
keenest. But , gentlemen of the Jury , he 1
now , in the language of his eloquent attor
ney In New- York defending him against a
plaj-actor man , 67 , Sixty-seven , gentlemen
and duped , but not prte for. No , gentle
men , not done for jvvhlla twelve honest. In
telllgent gentlemen arp In the jury bo\
who know something of the weakness 01
humanity and would protect a fellow man
as they would have themselves protecte
from the wiles and machinations of an
ambitious actor-woman Behind Belasco
who wants ? C3,000 from our townsman
stands , if we may bellevo the eloquent coun
sel of Mr. Fairbank , the alluring but un
scrupulous Mrs Carter "It is the olc1
storj , " sajs the counsel sadlj : "tho eli
confidence game Some of us can be foold
all the time , anyone * of us some of th
time. "
Now , Talrbank could not be fooled al
the time , becaube be had been on the Bean
of Trade , but like the rest of tl'o humai
fnrnllj , he can be fooled some of the time
and ho was fooled when the Cartel , jearn
ing to be an actress , plajcd upon the be
nevolence of our trim and ancient an
tidy old Adonis What prompted that her
of a hundred corners , the pork packer o
Porkopolls , that uncqualed combination o
Chesterfield and Turvej-drop , to go Int
his pocket in support o [ the stage-strut !
woman ? Just what Is not disclosed , bu
wo lia\o the assurance of counsel tha
"There is nothing wo fear , nothing we ,
to hide It is true that we are ashamed
ashamed that we had anjthing to do wit !
Mrs Carter and Belasco We truste
them , wo believed In them , and they dupe
us We are not afraid of them , nor do w
want an j thing hidden. "
The words are the words of the counsel
but the sentiment is the sentiment of th
lion-hearted Board of Trader. Tha
venture blamls him In now some { 51,000
not counting the costs of the present trla
nor the possibilities of a jury finding
But when Fairbank originally contem
plated his benevolence he set n limit t
his expenditure , tow It , $10000
In his sketch of the stout gentlema
Washington Irving told of free-livers on
small scale , who arc prodigal within thi
compass of a guinea Prudent Talrban
might be prodigal , but no guinea was th
measure of his patronage of strugglln
pcnlus. Ho who so often confronted an
confounded the wheat pit , the oat corner ,
he who was alternately a bull or a bea
us suited his gigantic operations , meltei
instantly at the soft appeals of Mrs Carter
She came to Chicago , she saw Mr. Talrbank
and , hajing she heard ho was willing to pu
$10,000 into the venture , she asked , "Wh
not give mo the $10,000 and I can get along
And Palrbank , so his weeping counsel , mor
e'oqucnt even than a Belasco , sadly admitted
was fool enough to do It. That wag a fre
gift. The other $51,000 was advanced as
loan , and It was gone , as risk said , whcr
the woodbine twlneth up the spout
If out of the abundance of Ills unhapp
experience the elder Welier constant !
warned his hopeful son against vvldders
why was there no good angel near th
genial Talrbank to tell him that wldderi
were not a circumstance when dlvorcei
women aspiring to the stage were in tb
balance'
Poor old Talrbank , erstwhile the Chltagi
Adonis , has had his whistle and has paii
for It But the special pity of the case a
disclosed by the situation In the Nuw Yor
court Is that he will never know when th
account will bo closed
VOI TIIS1 OM'OHDS $1.OO _
All the faUes 11 to 2 In genuine
blii calf that i\c'ie TJOCJI helling for § 1.50
will be on Mile Satuulay at $1 00 a pair
that'h thi1 | iiIco aKo of thu $ > 1 75 MIDCH
for boys , that \\o place on bale every
Satuidaj the blffjjest buna lido bai-
Kuln In the titoic ,
Drexel Shoe Co.
ftr.t0 .0Mu".r 1419 Farnam
0. K. SHIELD'S ' SftLE.
IS CUT THIN
On Everything in Our Store a Few Days Only ,
For Cash.
ceo
Every Suit every Cape every Skirt every Silk
Waist every Mackintosh and every article in our
store will get its share of the cut in price.
We Have Too Many Goods
And want to turn them into cash quickly , In order
to give us time to mark clown prices our store will be
closed for two hours but
Doors Will be Open at 10 O'clock
This Saturday Morning.
, ClOAKSSOIIS.FyRS. kClOAKSSOIIS.FORS.
Cor , 16th and i-arnam Sts , , Sor. IGtfi and harnam Sts , ,
. . .
i'AXrON 11I.OCIC. 11 LOCK.
UTIinil I.i\MS TH VN OLHSs.
The tory government of the United King
dom has encountered great opposition In
its efforts to pass its education bill , and
has been compelled notw tthslanding Its
majority of 150 to defer furlhcr consid
eration of the bill. This is not exactly a
disaster , but It in a serious misfortune for
the dominant partj' . The educallon bill Is
Its principal measure , and to have been
baffled bj the obstructive tactics of the
minority will detract from the prestige of
the Salisbury government. Religious ani
mosity is excited , for the reason that one
of the purposes of the bill lb to assist the
private and church schools which give 10-
llgious Instruction bj a grant of 4 shillings
per pupil from the imperial trcasurj' , while
the public schools are supported from the
"rates , " or local taxes. The dissenters ob
ject to the grant us tending to enable the
church schools to withstand the competition
of the public schools The education bill
is , ho ever _ deferred , not defeated It Is
necessary to make certain appropriations
Just now which cannot wait.Vhcn Par
liament has more leisure It will take the
education bill up again The bother about
it is the Immense number of amendments
offered bj friends and foes Its Bticngth
is indicated lij the fact that the principle
irvolved has been approved by a majority
of over 250 , the Irish members favoring it.
* * *
That Russia Is and has for jears past
been leading up to great forward move
ments in the direction of territorial ag-
grandbcment is something moie than a
mere assumption ; it Is indeed in the na
ture of a moral certalntj * . If , therefore ,
wo are not to look for this forward move
ment In the near east , it Is to the far east
that we must turn our ejes Recent"events
in Persia , events scarcely les > s recent In
China , the presence of Li Hung Chang as
a peculiarly honored guist In Moscow , all
affordjiafp indication of the trend of events.
It is in the China seas and on Chinese
territory that England and Russia are to
meet If to ircct with hostile Intent within
our own generation they are. So surely
has England made up her mind that Africa
from north to south and from east to west
is liex heritage , so surely has Russia de
termined that to her belongs the control
of the Asiatic continent. That her terri
torial expansion within certain limits will
be must , Indeed , be allowed by England
is true , but It is also true that in the
opinion of those here best qualified to
judge , ono single step of hers bejond those
limits will be forcibly resented by the em
pire of which India forms an integral part.
The position of the old dowager empress
of China was against reforms. She be
longed to the oil } Manchuilan dynasty that
Is as conservative and bigoted as the Eu
ropean monarchs of the last century. Her
death will give LI a new field and enable
him to enlarge the scope of his reforms
Though LI Is not a Manchu ho Is by far
the ablest man in China , and his abilities
are recognized the world over. The only
drawback is his advanced age , which will
probably deter him from earning out per
sonally his new ideas If they are adopted
When defeat began to rain on the Chinese
during the late war LI was robbed of his
honors and an attempt made to load on
him the responsibilities for the nation's
failures ; but it soon became apparent that
the fault lay with the sjatcm and not
with the man , and LI is nou endeavoring
to put the nation where her wealth , popu
lation and Intellectual force entitle her to
bo found It is a Herculean labor , bui it
can be accomplished. If China can In the
next thirty years accomplish one-tenth what
Japan has In the last thirty , II will bo n
great step In the right direction. The
steps must be laken forward Russia Is
at the back door and on the roof of China
and Is sending a railroad through her tvr-
rltorj. This marks the beginning o a new
era.
* * *
A now rallwaj- , some 650 miles long , from
Mombasa , on the beacoast , to Uganda , Is
about to be placed under construction by
the British government. It will cost , it is
now estimated , about $15,000,000 , being a
narrow gauge road designed to reduce the !
cost of tiansportatlon nctvvcen Uganda and
the coast. At piesent the trip takes six
months , and freight , being carried chiefly
on the heads of porters , costs high per
ton The route lies through the Masai
couutrj' and is on Ibis account not without
considerable danger. The present cost of
tiansportatlon Is so high as to forbid com
merce with the milllo" " of people In the
Biillsh territories of jgancla and Unjoro ,
who are fairly advanced in civilization and
will afford a market for a laige volume
of goods. The chief need for a railroad
Just now is , however , mllllarj and political
The Congo State and France are both at
tempting to advance into the British
"bphere" In the Upper Nile v.illej' and a
railroad will enable the British to antici
pate them Some months ago expeditions
under British officers went over from
Uganda into Ungoro and cleared out Kaba-
rega , who has been hostile to the British
Several jcars ago British ofiicers descended
the Nile from Uganda to w Ithln a short
distance of the derv ish outposts It is not
unlikely that British posts have been es
tablished by this time on the river to fore
stall the Belgians and Prench As a means
of reaching Uganda and occupjing the Up
per Nile ettectlvclj' , the Mombasa and
Uganda railroad will bo extremely conven
ient Its commercial utility will , however ,
be considerable , and It Is expected that
after eight or ten jears the traffic ( receipts
will meet the fixed charges.
* *
So far as Italy Itself Is concerned , the pope
has never done a more diplomatic or popu
lar act than to intercede with the Negus ,
Mcnclek of Abyssinia , for the liberation of
the unfoitunate Italians now In the prisons
of his dark-skinned majesty. The step is
praised by all Italy. Marquis Rudlnl , in
ansv.cr to an Interpellation in Parliament ,
declared that , in his opinion , his holiness ,
In using his Influence for his fellow country
men , had acted In obedience to his deep
Christian and human feeling , and his love
for the great Italian fatheiland The gov
ernment , he added , as a matter of course ,
was exceedingly grateful to the occupant of
the throne of St Peter This reply of the
premier has met the approval of the voters
of Italy. Nothing has been done Mncc the
entrance of the Italian troops Into the
Eternal City that is likely to pave the way
to a reconciliation between the Vatican and
the Quirlnal as this gcneious offer of the
pope , whatever may have been the polity
which dictated It.
* *
When the recent agreement between Eng
land and China was reached , some of the
English newspapers belittled the report that
it would certainly Injure English Interests
In a material way. Thtlr views on the sub
ject have undergone some change slnco
thtn , however , and with good reason , too
Trance stands with Russia and China as she
stands with her in Europe , and between the
two , England Is getting only a fractional
part of the franchibcs , contracts , etc , whlth
she formerly received LI Hung Chang's
visit to cDrlln on Saturday bodes evil for
English Intentions In China , for as muth as
Germany hates France , she Is mill one
of England's mosl nggrossivo commercial
ilvals It stems more than probable that
the complications of trade , rather than
those of politics properly so called , will ydt
furnish the trisls of the next European
war.
COST OK v ( ( > v TI < .
liiKCalculiitor \Vp < 'i ( l ' ivlth
tilt' St. l.oiilM ( in t li * rln .
Some surprising calculations have been
made as to the cost of the big convention
hold In St. Louis Ono hundred and fifty
thousand dollars will be stood by the Citi
zens' league. The cost of the hall alone was
$75 000. Other bills are the expenses of the
bergcant-at-arms of the convention , various
printing accounts , cleaning the hall each
night , its lighting , fees for police and fire
piottction , big postage bills and a thousand
other things
The expenses of the Bcrgoant-at-arms will
be large He has been in St Louis some
time and has hid busj daj- and night an
army of tjpe rlteis , who occupy an entlro
suite of rooms at n hotel. But the money
expended by the Citizens' league Is a mere
bagatelle to what was spent by the delegates
and visitors
There were over 1 000 delegates and alter
nates who , with their followers and friends ,
will make a total of some 2000 directly In
terested. With the reporters messengers ,
etc , the entire number wa = at least 3,000.
Now , if each of these men bpent $100 In ad
dition to his railroad tnn > , the total of
monej set In circulation In St Louis by the
visitors amounted to ? 300,000 Add to tills
the expenses of the telegraph company and
big press associations and a round sum of
$500,000 would be the rtsult
Tills Is n large sum , but It Is not the
limit Besides the 3,000 men there were
75,000 visitors , who spent $250,000 for rail-
load fare , and how much more thoj spent
after they reached their destination de
pended on their Individual pocketbooks.
Three dollars a day was a small amount for
each to put up , and something over $ J,000-
000 is the result of adding this to the previ
ous sum Then there is the cost of brass
bauds , of sending the news to the papers ,
the cost of thousands of private telegrams
and innumerable other things , which brings
the total up to $1,000,000 This $4,000,000
would build four batllesblps
If the $1,000000 were to be paid out In
dollar bills and the bills made into n tar-
pet , the carpet would bo 1,000 feet long ,
650 feet wide and ( over fifteen acres , and the
capitol at Washington , if bet down In tbo
middle of It would appear as a toy house
In the center of a big rug Kour million
dollars In gold piled In a pjramld four feet
at the bane would bo five feet high In sil
ver dollars , with a bai > o ten feet square , the
pjramld would ho fifteen feet high
The cigars smoked by the 75,000 who went
to Ft Louis , allowing five cigars a day
apltto , would bo 1 875.000 , and would make
a pllo of 37,500 boxes of fifty each and this
pllo would be two and a half miles high.
Co u r I .SIIJN tin * lliiiiilHn > < 7ixul.
CLEVELAND , Juno 20 AVoul was ro-
cehed by the city officials today that the
supreme court of the state has affirmed the
validity of the contemplated bond issues for
public Improvements amounting to J7.000-
000 or $3.000,000 , authorized by special atta
of the last legislature The question wan
on the constitutionally of the spetlul acts ,
and had the detlslon been against the tity
It would have invalldattd m.iny inlllloiiH of
dollars worth of bonds The decision In
favor of the city affects also a largo num
ber of acts passed in the Interests of other
cities and counties In the stato.
I
PEXN PICTURES PLEASANTLY POINTRDLxY PAR.AQRAPHELD I
WKIHIIVG I'tiirins .sri'i'i.un _
In fact all large gntheiliiRs will flnd
us ever icadj to liunihh Ice cieain
lunches and cakes on shoitcst notice
wo aio MHO to meet join highest ex
pectations at a cost vcij U'ty inodciatu
put an Ice cieuin loll in your pocket.
Balduif , Caterer ,
1520 Farnam.
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IWSRS rums TOMOIUIOW
I'very lady pntion of our soda foun
tain receives a beautiful La Tiancu io > > c
tomouow 'Tio/en rohfnlu" Is the nevv-
e.st and most popular cliink and we aio
the only people going to the expense of
making It beats Ice cieain soda.
Kuhn's Drug Store ,
Douglas
\ i _
y piano tlmt v as In the Hinoko-
wiock will be closed out by to-
moijuw nlKlit M'llliiK ? < ! 00 KliuballH
Kianlcli & . Hnrh'H anil Mullet & D.ivlhcs
for § 'i7'"i looKs IIKe n Jol c but It's a
fact-all now and easy tunned ,
A. Hospe. Jr.
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