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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1897)
EDITORIAL SHEET FHE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE ESTABLISHED JU E .19 , 1871. OMAHA , SUNDAY MOKNTNGJAKUAtlY 31 , 1807-SIXTEEN PAGES , SINGLE COLT JiTVE CENTS. ,25 WRAPPER $12,50 BLANKETS Each Yard nt 20o each wo will sell choice of 120 dozen Indies' flue Wrappers , Tour choice of any Blanket In our entire - 1,000 pnlrs ot nll-lilntlft of Nottingham EO nieces of all wool Casslmcrc , Clio- At 3.c. ! Bo nnd 7',4c ' yard wo will pell At 'lVfeC , fie and 7 fce ynrd wo will nbout 1,000 plain and fancy Corsets , In handsome nnd stylishly made up , ex- tire house , Including strictly nil wool Lace Curtains , In soft , lacy cltccta niul vlot , Tweed and Melton , suitable for about 10,000 yards of all kinds of fine about 5,000 yards of lacy , open- fancy stripes and floral designs , made California niankcts In white , scarlet and that Laces , Including Oriental , 1'olnt Metre heavy Cluny designs , arc worth xip ' ' woiked line Cambric Embroideries ; extra wide skirts nnd long sleeves , boys' pants and men's suits fine variety by the W. C. C. Corset Co. , extra long , nnont White . Ihcin ; and Linen Torchon ; these nro all now Bray , 12-4 size , and the to $3.00 a pair , wo place on ono 1m- and these handsome fitting , In all sizes , and well worth ? 1.GO tomorrow on bargain of tomorrow nt 23o y.nrd ' are very styles waist patterns , perfect Monday , , I > amb's Wool IJlankots , which nold hero monso bargain counter tomorrow at 39c , BO ; patterns , Imported for IS'JT , nnd nro Z9o sold each. up to 11,00 each , choice gain square at 7oc. as high ns $12.DO n pair , go nt $2.50. each. worth up to 11,25. worth In the regular way up to lOc yard. worth up to ! Wc yarn. There Never Before was a time we were in position to offer such bargains as tomorrow. Ready cash is what does it , High grade Fancy Taffeta Silk , In these , only In order to No profit on close out every yard ot $1.00 Silk before stripes , beautiful combinations of col- our new ones come In , your choice at Jrlngs , for waists nnd trimmings ; also Kvcrynynrd of all silk Satin Dttoh- 16th and Douglas , Woven Brocaded Slllts , browns and csse , Satin Uhndnmo , Colored ' .Moires , navys , on sale In Silk Department at Changeable Taffotnn , Striped and F cured - ured Taffetas , nil $1.00 values , In Silk OMAHA 25 cents. Department at 33c a yard. 60 sample plecei LADIES' and MEN'S Illack nnd white flno lloachcd and un bleached Henrietta DAMASK TABLE SHOES Sateen worth up to 7Cc yard Greater Dress Goods Clearances Never Were Than These. AND worth These Proof of the assertion Is not in the say so , but in the acquaintance. Undergarments Rfimncnso bargains In 50c Wool Dress Goods 15c Wo are exclusive agents for Texas Ca Lonsdale 3DRAPERY 100 pieces of fine wool Dress Goods , in two- ments tarrh and Asthma Remedy. Hundreds of FISH NET people Imvo been cured by It In the past toned checks and hair lined Cambric plaids , stripes , nro all made full iTlieso nro sample few months. It gives Instant relief In any pieces , no two alike , Boucle illuminated effects Scotch Suitings in size , very hand worth up to 81.25 , , , somely trimmed , case o Cough or Cold. Call or send for Ions mill remnants , iyard ; Immense va- very pretty colors , well worth 500 yard , Mon- and made of Now our long list of testimonials from Omaha Irloty of mashes at yard York Jlills mus people. 150 lin and will bo \\'o sell the only known guaranteed cure Worth 5Oc said at about 50o for I'llcs-tho Magnetic Pile Killer Sl.OO on the dollar. box for 7Jc. Thousands have been ctncd 6,000 YARDS Up-to Date DRESS GOODS end thousand are being cured by Its use. ' . Host grade of extra ! AV'o sell It and guarantee every box. Some are 73c French Boucle , -14 Inches wide ; some are GOc Silk heavy llarcalns In and Wool .lacquard Novelties ; some ara 69c all wool navy MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED. SDRAPERY blue Storm Serge , nnd so on through n long list ot Novelty At 12& wo will sell 500 At 250 a pair , Dress Goods , very fashionable , and every yard 'Monday on ' of ladies' line Muslin DENIMS bargain square at 23c yard pair will sell 500 pairs Milk Weed Soap ( three cakes In a box ) , lin with DRAWERS , Cc box. Bin nnd fancy a plain jj'olors , full JIG Inches 5,000 Yards High Class $1.00 Ladles' $1.00 Donsola and Vlcll band yoke ' and cluster of very neatly embroid Woodbury's Facial Soap , 13c cake. iwldc. go at , Kid Button shoes , In all thcj tuckb , ! sol'd all over at ered ' " Drawers Mine. Yale's Soap , per box , 60c , and with Fabrics at 45c Yard. latest toes , tomorrow at each box wo give you a Jar of Skin Feeder worth ALTOGETHER KX'TRAORDINARY There are 50-Inch Imported 1,000 pairs ladles' ? 2.25 Dou- or Almond Blossom Cream. At 39c euoh will sell 19c ported Scotch Novelty Cloths , Illuminated Irish Frieze , At 2Dc wo will sell about wo for Mine. Checked N&velties ; nothing better worn this season ; on tale kid and button Shoos 1,000 ladies' about 300 pairs of ladius' extra Remember ' wa are headquarters In Dress Goods Department at 43c yard Ynlo's Goods , and offer the best prices , ' N1C11T ROBES , tra wide Now York Mills Ladies' Storm Rubbers. I9c nnd guarantee their freshne-ss. . . inadn 6f good cotton Hub- Muslin DUA\VEItS. Tlicso are 85c BLACK GOODS 39c , trimmed with a deep embroidery ( Oc Outing Full KZL | , fine qual- Men's bard slylo , handsomely Ilounco and a cluster of line lltii , roady-tnudo 4o-inch black , all wool Novelties , very Buckle Arctics 75c tucked and rufllo trimmed , lucks , and are worth up to Olio. Flannel SGINGIIAM handsome designs , Mohair Jacquards , 48 Men's " ? 2.f > 0 Calf Shoes At 4 o each This lot will AtOSowo will sell all the high APRONS Brilliantine "on sale tomorrow contain lad I OH' umbrella skirts class full pieces , inch French and Sicelian at Serge , \\lth twelve-Inch rutllc ; umbrella nt brelladraw.ers kwlth luce nmj UNDERWEAR ' , , Tea . Slflngs , per jinckago . - . . . lOc worth to 850 yard on sale in dress Inetudluip trio'finest < lnco and 750 , ciuIiiiJcry trlmmng | ; linnd- Gcod Gunpowder Tea JPo hoc worth Men's $3.50 Goodyear nomtfembroidered nlRht robes embroidery trimmed . nljjht robes , Choice JapanTea. . . > . 2. > c 25c goods department , 390 . welt aiirtcalfautl box wltlf-iiflrKO nro worth In Bailer the collars regular , way that skirts TjklrtH. , clioml.so.niic Tlicso goods ] umbrella wcro niado XJncoIofca''JapariCSc'grado-htt7.r..r.-r : ICc 3. Worlh 85c cnlC Shoes , with heavy- Jl.OO .crtch . , choice at to sell up to J2.GO each. Try our India , Ceylon and Oolongs , ft&TK : soles , In new coin the finest In-tho market COc toes , goat At and we will sell about Cambric Corset Broken Coffee 9c , 12' . c and lEc Strictly all wool At 3Jc Each At 5c Each Good heavy quality Very fine quality at 90 , 39c 49C 2,500 Good Rio lOe Shirting will sell 200 wo will soil 300 set Covers in and lace trimmed. These " Wo ' lar AVarth plain , embroidery . are Golden Rio "Uc Rug Fringe dozen ladles' dozen Gents' n Print Irish linen , wide pure size , linen finished OAHTON Plain mtido in the very latest styles , and of the finest quality of embroidery and cam- Mocha and Java "c An Immense lot of flno enamel JlOO different colors and narrow hemstitched onmhrlc Handkerchiefs brio. They are worth up to 81.00 each. Highest grade Java and Mocha COc Remnants amel end Lace leather chiefs worth 20o FUNNEL India Linens patent lit , ' OJic a yard , worth stitched Handkerchiefs Don't forget to try our IC-ounce can each. Shoes , In needle , coin and bull 1250 , chiefs that are Boston Baking Powder , strictly guaranteed. worth lOc cauh , 'dog toes , leather lined ; a No better Coffee cvor sold than our Breakfast worth worth regular $5.00 Shoe , for to 2Gc worth lOc 10c& morrow only fast Coffee , put up In pound packages , 17c. Equal to any 23c Coffee on the market. MAMMOTH. . NAVAL MAGAZINE Undo Sam's ' Powder Storehouse in the Hills of Now Jersey. HEEDS OF A MODERN WAR VESSEL lion * Hxiiloxlve IN Mnilc , HniulItMl , Stored Up niul Then Supplied to the Illw -IN of tliu r""t - InijT l' * ( > rro.s.si.'M. , If one follows the road that leads from the town of Dover , N. J. , up among the craggy and rock-soninod hills of Marsh county , he ID surprised on approaching what iccms to bo the summit of this desolate assemblage to 11 nd himself confronted by a heavy goto bearing the legend , "U. S. Naval Powder1 Magazine Xo Smoking. " From tlio top r. ( the hill floats the stars and ctrlpes , end below Its frowning crest rluotcrs a group of long , low , yellow brick buildings , within \vhoo walls Is concentrated a force mighty enough to shake even these "eternal bills" to their' foundations. For miles on cither side , taking In thn double line of lofty hills , and , the valley that llea between , btretchcs the government preserve , -without a sign of life to disturb the ( solemn ftrundoui of the BolItuJc. u.avoliuro the hrlght-hued tanner lloats above the llttla group of build ings In the heart of the wilderness. At first thought there U something al most ludicrously Incongruous In the 1dm of connecting this Impregnable and almost Inncccpslblo fastness with the navy. Hut whtm one looks through the yellow brick buildings on the hillside Mi > attention Is attracted to an Interesting ; ami little-known part In the scheme of national defense that of preparing and Morlng thn force w'llcli makes our great floating fortresses effective. Though much has been written nbout the navy and naval e-ervlco of the United States within the past few montlm , the manner In 'Which the new navy la Mipplled with powder Becma to hava escaped attention , H13QUIHKMHNTS OF MODKUN GUNS. It la an Important subject , too , as a brief calculation \vlll enable the reader to deter- mlno to hla own satiL'factlon. ' The battle- ihips Indiana and Oregon , the moat power ful In the navy , carry four thlrtccn-lnch , eight eight-Inch and four clx-luch guns. To flro a single charge from ono of the thtr- tecn-lnch guns requires 550 pounds of pow der , not counting that contained lit the thell Itaelt to explode It. Accordingly , every time the four chief guns In the Indhtn'a urmament speak together more than a tnu t ! powder la turned Into nothlngnito. In actual fighting these guuu could bo flrsd perhaps ten tlmrs an hour. The eight- inch guns require a charco ot 111 voundH .nJ fifty pounda arc ncded to spued the elx-lnch the'.la. nut altliough tliosu smaller guns require much tmallor cliarccis than thtlr more rohuet fellows , this dlffercnru 4s wore than made up by the greater rapidity with which they may bo opcralcJ. In fomo oiperlmtHiU conducted nt Indian Head latt euinnu-r U was found ttut a four-Inch Rim could fltc olovcn shots lu Eovvntoen second * , thus conuumtag a quarter of a ton of pow der uhlle the second hand ol your watch makes a zlnglo circuit. It Is not likely that In any naval engagement that may taku place the opposing duets 'will pour broadaldo after broAdsldo Into each other all day long In ( ho good old-faulilonet ! way. Modern wcr- U too terrible lu Hi deiUuctlveut'ts to permit that. But If ono first-class fighting vessel can use from fifty to seventy-five tons of powder an hour It doesn't require any mathematical genius to arrive at the conclusion that a single naval engagement under modern conditions would require more powder than was needed to conduct a war at the beginning of tlio century. Another Dimple computation based on the fact that the powder cost the government about 27 cents per pound will prove that \var Is cot only fearfully destructive , but fearfully ex pensive sport as well. .THE QUBAT POWDER MONOPOLY. The powder Industry of this country , so far as supplying the government Is con cerned , Is practically all In the hands of ono concern , the DuPonts. Their principal es tablishment Is In Wilmington , Del. , and they have half a dozen branches In other parts of the country. Their dominance , however , conies as much from the control of secret processes , which have been han'Jed down as heirlooms for tliroo generations , as It docs on the extent of their business. They control the manufacture of brown prismatic powder In this country , and are beginning to malco the smokeless. These two kinds are the only ones used In guns of the most recent rnnho. Probably not ono man In a hundred , on being shown the powder regularly used In thn largest guns would know what to call It. Rven an old gunner , who had served , let us say , In the civil war , would bo surprised at the appearance of the modern powder , for It Is a fact not generally known that the. pow der used for the guns of the now navy Is essentially different from that of the old monitor and smooth-boro daya , Up-to-dato powder ta chiefly of two kinds , the mnokelesa and the brown prismatic , though the black Is still uecd for Igniting. It has two advantages over the old fashioned kind , Ono l.i In Its Ingredients ; the other In Its form. The goal which the maker sets always be fore him In preparing powder for any gun U to obtain tbo maximum ot piopulslvo power without tuch explosive force OR " _ to wreck the gun Itself. The action of"'tho powder now used In all the larger Runs of the navy shows the nicety with which mod ern Invention has f olveil this problem. The second Important Improvement In mod- era powder Is l < i Its form. Many persons have the Idea that all powder Is In tuo form of smalt grains , while some others , whoso memory reaches back to the civil war , recall the "cannon" powder of that day , which was ' In the form of nmall cubes , much llko'lo- zcugcs. zcugcs.QUEUn QUEUn KINDS AND SHAPES. To either of these classes the powder of present day use Is most surprising In ap pearance. Its regular shape la that of a hexagon , with a. small hole running through the center. The slzo varies , of course , with the bore of the gun for which U U Intended , but for the largest calibers the hoxngons arc an Inch high and n trifle over an Inch In diameter. The little hole In the center Is Important , for It causes the block to burn moro evenly and with greater effect , since the ( Ire can work from both the Intel lor and exterior surface. The smokelesa powder comes In tbo form of Hat strips , lIKe pieces of tape , or In llttlo cylinders , that look for all the world like macaroni. In ono respect alone U the black powder superior ta blown , In the greater eano with which It Is ( gulled. On this account , In muklng up tbe Heavy charges , a tier of black hexagons Is placed first , for the percussion cap to act upon , anil to make certain the discharge by Igniting the other , The essential Ingredlonts In the nuking of gunpowder of course remain the sime now bb formerly , the dltlorenco being lounj In the chemical treatment ot It duiliig the "mixing" processes , which are. ot course , carried on according to carefully guarded formulas. In the mill the earlier course of the paw * dor dv tlucd fur Uncle Sam'u big guua Is much the same as that of the better known kinds , the chief difference being , as noted , Its treatment under the chemist's hands. It Is rolled In the same way , but In the press room Its treatment Is changed and It Is shaped Into the hexagonal blocks before de scribed Instead of minute grains. After the grazing and shaping process Is over the powder Is taken away to the jiacklng room and hero the really Interesting part In the career ot the government powder begins. The six-sided blocks are packed Into flat wooden cases , lined with tin. Where the sides fit on a small , slightly raised band of rubber runs about the edge of the case , making It practically air and water tight when It Is closed. These cases arc shipped off to ono of the powder stations , say the ono among the Dover mountains. Where It Is possible to do so the powder Is usually shipped by boat , but to reach the Dover magazine requires part of the journey to bo made by rail. The line that carries the powder up among the hills Is u curious llttlo railroad , which has grades as steep almost as those ot a country highway , which carries llttlo except government freight and der stations oneat PorUmoiltfi , N. II. , ono at Chelsea , Mass. , a temporary ono at Fort Wadsworth , N. Y. , one at FortIullen on the Chesapftike , ono at the Norfolk navy' yard , one ( practically' abandoned now ) at Fensa- cola , Fla. , andoig at Mare island , Cal. It Is doubtful , however , If all the others together contain as much-powder as the ) Dover maga zine , where" 11000,000 pounds are regularly stored , and whore , In time , much more will bo kept. The staff that guards the great store Is a vpfy small one. It consists of Gunner Cornelius Duggan and half n dozen msn. Their little houses are very comforta ble , but for all that life Is mighty dreary In this winter weather among the lonely hills. Powder Is shlppsd from the Dover .station to Norfolk and to California , but ttio next stage In the career of the hexagonal blocks Is likely to bo Fort Wadsworth , In Now York harbor , where most of the ammunition for the present needs of the naval strvlco Is prepared. PHEPAHING THE CHAIIGE. Don't Imagine that It la on easy matter to prepare the charge for a big gun op- that the % A .STRIP oF,5McmeLE.ss POWDER , NEW POWDER , ACTUAL SIZE : . nhcro Micro Is no danger of collisions for the road boasts only ono engine and vnry few cam. cam.THIS QHEAT STOREHOUSE. The Dover magazine has been In existence for six or seven years. Its present location was selected partly because the government already owned the land and could not put It to any other profitable use , but chiefly be cause of Its Isolation. Nothing Is moro dctrl. mental to tl.e successful operation ot a pow- de- depot than too many neighbors , and U Is practically certain that this region will never be built up. At the magazine , which , by the way , Is made up of a number of ( small magazines scattered along the hillside a little distance apait , the powder Is unloaded and the caaea carefully overhauled and Inspected to eec that their contents nave escaped Injury. Then they are stored away again In the numbered cases , COO pounds In a caso. In time the gov ernment will have a great plant for mountIng - Ing ammunition In connection with this ela tion , but at present tbo powder Is simply stored hero and rcehlped to various points as It Is needed. There are several other government pow- powder Is poured ta haphazard as you used i to do when you went squirrel .hunting with your father's old tnuskel On the contrary , ' the loading of the charge U a taek requlr-1 Ing the greatest nicety and care. For the smaller cambers a wooden frame containing a number of upright wires on which the powder Is strung < are used ; for the larger guns a form is provided to hold It. The powder la then put In by dropping the hexagon gen over the wires , or toying th&in carefully In the form ; first a tier of the black powder and then many more of the brown. When the column has been built up to the proper height , which for the largo guns require some COO of the largest hexagons shown In the illustration , a cloth bag , of exact width to fit , Is drawn over tbe top. Then the column lo turned upside down , tbe wires are drawn out or tbo form removed and tbo top of tbo stout bag Is tied up. Next- U Is taken to where the cartridge shells are standing , tbo bag la dropped In and a small piece of wadding placed on top of it. The bag of powder In Ita metal case travels next to the place where the loaJ-d shell , the actual death-dealing por'Ion ' o ! the charge , awaits It. The cace ot tbe shell Is made largo enough to Just lap over the powder case and Is forced down on the latter by means of a screw EX > tightly that nothing but the power that lies behind 4t can drive It off. Then the mounted shell Is slipped Into a form of the exact slzo of the gun for which it Is intended , to make sure that It Is a per fect fit and will not stick at the1 critical mo ment. ment.When When the charge Is fused and ready for the gun It Is placed In a rectangular wooden box of the exact slzo to fit It and Is ready for shipment. The old ammunition cases were square wooden boxes , but they werp not waterproof and have been superseded by the rectangular boxen and cylindrical steel cases , into which 'It Is Impossible for air or water to penetrate. Another advsntago of this new form for storage Is that the pow der , being protected from moisture , will keep for any length of time , For the small bore , rapid-fire guns smoke less powder Is used almost wholly at pres ent , and It comes lu strips or tubes as shown In the accompanying' cut , nnd these are tied together Into a bundle In preparing the charge , much as ono would tlo a bundle of kindling wood. From the supply depot the ammunition , packed away In the cases , is sent to the ves sels , on order of the Navy department , as it happens to bo needed. In time of peace the t'hlps ' of our navy ape required to carry 100 rounds for each gun. That means for a cruiser of the Indiana's class something over 300,000 pounds of powder and a total am munition load of eomo SCO tons In all. SAFE FHOM FIRE AND WATER. This Is etowcdaway In the magazines built below deckfl In the ship and IB so care fully protected tlmt oven If flro were to start among the powder caseo tbero would bo no serious danger to the vessel. It Is impossi ble for the flro to get at the powder and the magazine can bo automatically flooded until every spark Is quenched. Then the water can bo drawn off , leaving the ammunition uninjured , Some people not acquainted with modern cannon powder have had narrow escapes on account of their Ignorance , Ono case ot this kind Is related by Gunner Suloy , who has charge of the work at Fort Wadsworth. A resident of the town came to him one day and said ; "Ono of your men who , has been boarding with mo nklpped out thn oilier day without paying hi a bill. If he'd loft anything bo- html worth taking I'd have hold on to it , but be didn't. About the only things In his room wcro some unfinished wagon nuts and sorao etrlps of yellow wood. I'd have thrown the pesky things into th stove If I'd thought they'd burn , but as it was I dumped them out of the window. "You want to thank jour stars , " replied tbo cunner , "that you didn't try to finish these nuts or throw them In the stove. Aa It is , you bad better go back now and bury them in the deepest hole you can dig before you are blown so far that you can't cet back In this life. " Then he gave the man an object lesson In high explosives , which made that In dividual's hair stand on end as be thought ot the risk be had run. When one looks about the great maga zines and reflects that each ono of the larg est projectiles contains powder enough to hurl a COO-pound projectile a dozen miles , be is apt to wonder what would be the result U some untoward accident were to set off the whole lot at once , As a matter of fact , however , the danger of the place being swallowed up by an earthquake Is about as great , on the theory of probabili ties. The men who work In It unite In saying that nothing Is safer or healthier to handle than powder It only all sparks of Ire are kept away from It. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SERVICE. There are two Impending changes which are likely to have an Important bearing on the work of supplying powder for the navy. Ono of these Is the Increase In the use of tmokelcss powder. Heretofore this has been largely In the experimental stage , and has not been used for guns of greater than n six-Inch bore. It has all been manufactured by tbo gov ernment. too , at the naval station near Narragansett. Now the tiuponts and other private manufacturers arc beginning to make the smokeless powder , and Its use will shortly bo extended to the larger guns. The second Important change that Is ex pected to take place before long Is the es tablishment of a great floating magazine somewhere in New York harbor. For this purpose It Is probable that ono of the old wooden vessels will bo remodeled and used , supplanting the present mounting station at Fort Wadsworth , which Is occupying army property and Is cramped for room , and tbo new schema has other advantages besides that of enlarged quarters. One of these will be the possibility of comparative Isolation In the center ot a business district , and close to a naval station. The other will bo the great case of loading the ammunition on the vessels. The wheels of the government departments move with proverbial slowness , but it Is announced on reliable authority that this plan Is now under consideration , and will probably be put Into effect within the next few months. It Is Interesting to discover among the stocks of powder of modern date and shape some small black cubes and squares. This is the powder of the civil war , now obsolete , but a supply of It Is still kept on hand In view oP the possibility that If pushed to an extremity the government might wish to rehabilitate some of the old monitors and In that case would need a stock of the old- fashioned powder. "All things are possi ble , " saya the old piovcib , " and the wise man keepa In view oil posblbllltlcs , " so the wisdom of thla course can scarcely bo Im peached. A Sunday school superintendent at the close of an addroea on the creation , which he was sure ho had kept within the com prehension of the least Intelligent of the scholars , and smilingly invited questions. A tiny boy , with a white , eager face and large brow at once held up his hand. "Please sir , why was Adam never a baby ? " The superintendent coughed In home doubt as to what answer to give , but a llttlo girl of 9 , the eldest of several brothers and sisters , came promptly to his aid. "PJeaeo , sir , " she eald , smartly , "there was nobody to nuss htm ! " A certain youthful curate was taken to task by the new archblebop of Canter bury for reading tbe lesnons of the service In an inaudible tone. Whereupon the young man replied : "I am surprised that you should find fault with my reading , as a friend of mine In the congregation told mo that I was beautifully hcaid. " "Did Hbe ? " snapped the bishop , and the fair young curate collapsed. His lordship had once been a young cler gyman himself and knew a thing or two about the Parson Itlchey of Owcnsboro , Ky , , Is very popular as a matrimonial mechanic , and Is frequently called on for his services. Ono day a pretty hard-favored fellow came to him on a mission of this kind , and when ho had told Ills business asked what tbe fee would bo. "I do not make any regular charge , " said the parson , "Pay me what ever you like , " "No , I want you to say , " "Oh well " said the eald bis customer. , , pareon , pleasantly , "Just pay ma accordlnj ; to tbo kind of girl you're setting. " The fellow leered toward the parson , and , with an odlouu cxprfs&inn upon his runnleinncr. cold In a confidential tone ; "Well , I'll tell you , Mr. Rlchoy. she ain't much. " Parson Rlchpy did not earn any fee In that case , for he refused to tie a bclplces woman la ( * scoundrel like that. PASSING OF Till : WIM1 AVEST. New Yoilt Tiuth. No more the wild lire fiercely leaps Across the trackless plains. The Ea.stern Pie Holt wider creeps And holds ItH Hodden gains. Through wlldfl , where once In salted mlnei Delved tundnrfoct elate. The hobo waits by two-track lines To catch the easthound freight. The unshod mustang , lithe and tliln , That bore the suvng'o chief. Is corralled , slaughtoicd , put In tin And sold no canned corn beef. Now In the haiintH of buffalo The traction oiiRlno raves ; All kinds of garden H.ISH they grow Above old Injun uravcs. The horse thief of another day , Who , unhung , piled his trade , Now swipes , nnd scorches swift away , The bikes of highest grade. Thc ( rough saloons , where not to drink Invoked the bullet's whizz , Are mnrblcd diug stores where the wink Precedes the uodi : fizz. No moro the "prairie schooners" drift Across the nlkiill. For now Iho horseles-i carriage uwlft Goes , whltihlng , swishing by. No old tar bucket nt Its iitcrh , Or ynllcr dorg In seen. ' Instead , n motor's cogwheels turn , Mid smells of gasoline. i Ah , brave , wild west , that wo In youth To romnnco nurd to link , Alas , 'tis truth , you're now , In sooth , Completely on tlio dink ! ' CO\MllAIlTJiS ! : , A man named Dollar was married to a Miss Nichol out In Oklahoma the other day. Governor Lcedy of Kansas has Just turned Ioo3o a penitentiary convict who has cloven wives. Serves the fellow light. A citizen of Harlem , N. Y , , has secured a verdict of $50,000 against another citizen ot Harlem for alienating hlj wife's affec tions. Speaking of the Texan who has sixteen tin. divorced wlvca , a contemporary asks : "What shall bo done with this fellow ? " Why not condemn him lo live with the lot ? A romantic Now Jersey muldcn was caught In the act of eloping and wan punlstnvl by her mother with an old fashioned upauklng. It was entirely fitting that thU maternal 'nay , nay , " was admlnlstcrc-d at a town called 'Paulino. Art International marriage is announced ta take plaro at Nashville , Tenn. , whora lion. Archibald Majorlbanks , brother of Lady Aberdeen , will 1 > o married lo Miss Ilrowu , granddaughter of the late- Governor Nell 8. nrown , minister to Kucsla under President IJuchanan , J. E. Conlilln of drove , N. Y. , was married at I.aporto , Ind. , on the21th to Mrs. Sarah It. Dennett ot lieatrlce. Mich. Conklin It 88 years of ago , while his wife Is SO. Tba marriage of the couple furnished an Interest ing sequel to early love end marriage. Mrs. Uennett was Conklln'y flist wife , tbelr marriage having taken place -when they were aged 22 and 20 years rcepectlvely. After liv ing together for two years they were di vorced and both were married again , Conk- lln's first wife's husband and Conklln'u second end wife each passed auay , The aged widower ewer and widow learned of each other's whereabouts by chance , correspondence re-- suited and C'onklln came from New York ta claim the Lrldo of hlu firm marriage for hit thlid .ufe. afier a Ui e of blxty-four year *