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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1899)
THE OMAHA DALLY 11EE : PUT DAY , PEURUATIY 21 , 185)9 ) , SWELLDOM RAVES FOR TITLES New York's Aristocracy Sigh and Sob for an Atncriean Peerage REPUBLICAN SIMPLICITY A BARREN IDEAL ForrlRtiol.lllfj - i'n- , | , , . .inlIy Hnvh-.l ninl I'omlljCouncil ! i > - the Illuh I'niN ninl Kolhlr * < > r ttiu Smart Set. XE\V YORK , Feb. 20. ( Correspondence of The Ueo. ) How long will it be bcforo ii titled aristocracy llku - the peoraRo of Kng- land can bo established In the United Stfttos ? That Is a poafclhlllty candidly and hopefully discussed In New York society , where any Roman nearly \\lio has the cash and the opportunity will gladly lay down a hundred thousand or even more for the legal right to fasten a high-sounding handle to her name. Perhaps never bcforo In the history of this country hnvo the Kngllsh nobility been so passionately envied nnd so sedulously courted by our great moneyed aristocracy , which Is undoubtedly the most powerful la the world. There Is no eatlsfylug the ambi tion of a fashionably woman by telling her Bho belongs to the wealthiest social circle in civilization. Up In the ranks of what Ward McAllister used to define as the 400 a title Is now the passport to content , dis tinction and prestige , and .moot unfortu nately the leisure clnss of men are 'beginning to hunger after high-sounding prefixes da ardently as the women. Now New York society la pre-eminently 1 o g3 to LvV. . U present ! a , court , | n.arry a l.-lv , honour Impoverished and , lUcrly its vrartr tray bo. All that opens door to this exclusive New York cet , ' which , as one woman candidly confessed , If , bound to be llmltml and ilimcult of en trance to long as there arc no titles by which to ticket men and women and thus discriminate between the classes and I'n I r ( 'ilium ntiil the "Dnoilnilillon. " From among the Cuban refugees In New York City one , and a woman at that , has found her exile In the United States a bless ing unmixed. This pretty little woman lived In Havana and what she did not know about tobacco was hardly worth knowing , so when in New York her money gave out , and she went' humbly about seeking some remuner ative -occupation , her one accomplishment was a remarkable facility for preparing and rolling the mtMt delicious little cigarettes. She ruado a few as a thank-offering to n fashionable , tender-hearted young woman ) who had sent her very substantial aid. The j i young woman smoked them In the dainty j j secrecy of her own chamber , but so exquisite ( I not only was tiie flavor and the effect of the i wee tissue paper cylinders of tobacco that j she confided her delight and a few cigarettes to n few boeom friends. To make a long story short the little ' Cuban has more orders for cigarettes than she can till and the debutantes this winter. with their mothers and their maiden aunts , ' all smoke and carry not at all the sort of cigarette cases the average would-bo emanci pated woman affects. Their cases nro very small because the cigarettes are small , and the clgarcttre are also most ex pensive. They cost about 25 cents apleco and hold just enough tobacco to glvo the smoker four or six delicious puffs after a tncal. Only after it meal nro they smoked , for the reason that a fashionable physician 1 NEW YOUKERS REACHING FOR TITLES AND CORONETS. energetic and Ingenious where its desires and ambitions are concerned , and to wish for a thing Is synonymous with straining every nerve to procure it. It will probably Do Berne little time before congress takes upon Itself the organization of a nobility , nnd genuine nobility Is what these aspiring sculs want. They don't hanker In the least after the empty sort of titles worn in France. They want a close copy of the British insti tution , with pomp and powers attached , and without actually assuming any of the lordly cognomens they are preparing to do the next best thing. Not only are there more plans on foot than over for matrimonial alliances with uoblo Englishmen , but our smart soci ety itself is growing more and more ex clusive every year. If you will take pains to follow the wills ot such rich men who have died within the last two years or who are known to have mado''tholr wills you will be sure -to com ment on the fact that the bulk of the fortune - tune now goes to the eldest son along wltli tho.grout city or Newport bouse , and the fin est jewels , pictures , otc. , and the wife and the other children make no demur. If a son is lacking , then the oldest grandson comes in for the lion's share , nnd thus per v rS t fectly quietly a group of great families , such as the Vanderbllts , Asters. Sloans , Lorll- lards , Gevrys , Delmoiitd , Mills and Mar- qua'nds. are being built up as securely as the ducal houses In Great Britain. To draw the lines more sharply yet , It has 'been demonstrated tills winter that no man 'or woman can claim to have a place in New York society unless he or she has made nn appearance In eome ono of the six houses on upper Fifth aveoue the mis tresses of which are the acknowledged leaders. No matter who you are , If Mrs. William Sloan , Mrs. Ogden Mills or ono or two others have opened their door to you , rccognjtton of your place socially Is prompt and rather cordial ; without It , you are noth ing , though you may speak with the tongue of men nnd angels , are beautiful and wealthy and go everywhere else. Of course , thc-ru Is ono other chance' for' you , and thnt TUB FAIR CUBAN'S BLEND. has boldly announced the virtue of the > post prandial cigarette as a digestive. With the tobacco an aromatic herb Is mixed and it leaves the room where these charming smokers have been redolent of a most sweet and delicate perfume , while their lips are as fresh as roses after the harmless dissipation. Jf the cigarettes are adopted for health's sake , the cases that hold them are se lected for their richness and beauty. The } are small , usually of gold , and the exterior Is almost covered with what the smart glr calls her "doodaddles. " A doodaddlo Is a minute trinket , a miniature Jeweled souve nir ot some memorable occaslon.or locality or a memento of some one , and they are all offerings from the young woman's friends of loth sexes. A perfectly new English 3 penny piece , its pierced center filled with a small gem , a tiny gold go ) ball and such like trifles , fastened by a few STRAWBEHRIES A DOLLAR APIECE. flno gold links to any part of the cxterloi of the cose Is whore the fashionable young woman wear * her doadaddles instead ot oc a chain around her neck. To such a pitch has this passion for col lecting trinkets arisen In society that It some instances the really pretty cigarette case has become the foundation merely foi a .bunch of Jingling trifles , and at dinner parties tbo cigarette cases nro passed about the table , ostensibly that your friends mo > try your cigarettes , but In reality to afford an opportunity of displaying tbo numbci and great splendor ot your keepsakes , Millionairel''nriiuT . Every fad of the Immensely wealthy can not be condemned as an extravagance , but often gladly bailed as a means of circu lating hard cash and giving occupation tc many working folk. That is the way you should regard the almost absorbing pas sion the well-to-do Now Yorkers show for supplying themselves with unheard-of lux uries from their own country places. The luxuries , to specify , are chlcily flowers and fruits and vegetables out of season , While the January snows lay deep on the ground and turnips froze in their cellars , Mrs. Samuel Theme , Mrs. Goddard and scores of other women were serving straw berries as big as plover eggs for dessert and artichokes for salad , and they had not ransacked the city markets for these dain ties. The best food on the rich man's table now cornea from bis own farm and at a Lenten luncheon your conscience Is rather overwhelmed when you realize that ono course of fresh green peas or string beans has cost your haslets at the rate of U per ptia pod and about SO cent * per b an. However , farming U the fashion and every i cr.e who goes Into It Is cxr/c.tcJ to ctuily a specialty. Mrs , William Aster's sptualty Is the pink violet A marvelous flower ; the recent secret of Its production Is known only to the gardener on her Rhlncbeck place , and n very few of them at 10 cents apiece ever find their way into the market Mrs. Robert Mlllbank stands unrivaled with her peaches , that she offers for eating In Lent , and that nro produced under glass at the rate of one peach to a tree. Just as in Mrs. Constable's huge greenhouses only one rose Is ever asked of a bush. To display a flower or serve a dish at the IER GRANDMA WEARS HIS , BUT SHE WEARS HER OWN LIKENESS. able that your neighbors cannot rival and bat Is the product of your country place is .ho keenest excitement in society during -cut. This Is what has inspired the cultiva tion of specialties and the hiring ot garden ers at fabulous prices. Mrs. Elliot Shepherd , at Scarborough , pays n salaries something near $25,000 a year to her head gardeners and laborers under them. In return they produce for her bigger gooseberries than you can flnd In English gardens and remarkable llttlo golden to matoes , absolute spheres In shape and that are served at her table as relishes with meat. Plerpont Morgan gladly pours out thousands a year at Highland Fulls , on the Hudson , In order to ralso more gigantic chrysanthemums than any professional or amateur gardener in the United States , while Mrs. Ernest Crosby cultivates with her own hands and an expert Frenchman's aid a green grape , the bunches of which must weigh twelve pounds each. The miniature painters have a rival in the oval portrait painted on glass. Alma Tadema demonstrated the beauty nnd effectiveness of the glass portrait by painting ono for the princess of Wales , another for the beautiful Lady Naylor Layland , and now all the rich American women who go to London pay Tadema $5,000 to catch their likenesses on polished crystal ovals. Lady Terence Blackwood - wood and Miss Emily Hoffman were the flrst of the New Yorkers to sit for glass portraits and to set the fashion on this side of the water of every woman's wearing her own picture. One of these novelty likenesses Is done on an oval of faultless crystal about a fourth of an inch thick , about four or flve Inches "long nnd three inches to three and a halt wide. The crystal Is slightly convex , and the painting is done on the concave side so artfully that the face looks at you through the flawless glass. The crystal has a back of gold and a framework of gold beads , pearls or bril liants. By a ring in the top of the picture an inch-wide ribbon or a beautiful chain Is run , and the work of art is allowed to hang free nearly to the knees , or can fit into t llttlo satin bag at the waist. However you elect towear one of these portraits , swing ing from ribbon or chain , or pinned as a pendant on the front of your gown , you al ways make a point of carrying none but your own likeness. EIGHTY YEAHS BEFORE JEN.VEIt. Inoculation Practiced Ileforc the Dln- covcry of Vitcclnntloii. In a note to the editor of the Conserva tive , Nebraska City , Dr. G-eorgo L. Miller ot Omaha says : Something llko eighty years 'before Jcnner discovered vaccination , -which prevents one modifies the virulence of smallpox , Lady Mary Wcrtley Montagu Introduced Inocula tion Into England. .In . a letter from Adrlan- oplc , dated April 1 , O. S. 1717 , she de- sribes the process of Ingrafting smallpox Into the health of the human system as practiced by a "set of old women" in thai country , who made it their special business to perform the operation "every autumn in the month of September , when the hea Is abated. " I quote from her letter as fol lows : "Apropos of distempers I am going to tell a thing that will make you wish your self here. The smallpox , so fatal amongs us ( in England ) , is entirely harmless by the Invention of ingrafting. " Lady Montagu goes on to tell how people "send to ono another to know if any of their famll ; have a mind to have the smallpox and a i what veins you wish to have opened. " The operation is to put "tbo bwt sort of small pox" Into several veins of the arm or leg not more than can "He on tbo point of a needle. " The children or young patient play together all the rest of the day am are in perfect health to the eighth. Then the fever begins to selzo them and the ; keep their beds two days , seldom three They very rarely have hut twenty or thirty spots in their faces , which never mark , am In eight days' time they are as well a before their illness. Every yea thousands undergo this operation and th French ambassador says pleasantly that the , take smallpox hero by 'way of diversion , a they take the waters In other countries There Is no example of any one who has died with it and you may 'believe ' I am wel satisfied of the safety of this experiment , since I Intend to try It on my dear little son. " This Ii the Inoculation of our time , I'reMPiiciif Mint ) , Detroit Journal : When the rich old Tlllaln in the tank play laid his gold at the foot ol the young girl , she wavered for a moment ; partly , of course , because tbo stage direc tions told her to waver , and partly , too , be cause she was more or less anxious to marry well. well.But But even in that supreme moment , her rare presence of mind did not desert her. "Whero did you get It ? " she asked , with a mocking laugh , recalling that salaries had not been paid in six weeks. "Curse youl" said the hoary-beaded mis creant , staggering. Sbo thought , now , of Gondalfo ; brave , strong Gondalfo ; who , when she was ship wrecked , bad lashed her to a spar and held an umbrella over her to keep her silk eklrt from spotting ! She would glvo Gondalfo her baud , and ho would lead her to the footlights and they would sing nn Jrish ballad together ! Dr. Bull'o cousU e > ruii i u pd depended on to cure promptly the severest affections ot the throat r lanes. It never ; fails. NEW WOMAN IN THE WEST' ' Success Achieved in Nearly Every Com mercial and Industrial Field. ONE OF THEM BUILDING A RAILROAD Another AVInn n I'orttino rt Tlulclior nnil Siirculntor HoltiKu tif i\ Snnmill fJIrl nnil n Mlii- The western new women have entered ' nearly every commercial and industrial ] field. Indeed , one who has investigated the | subject recently says that the only pursuits ] for livelihood In the west remaining to man's sole occupancy are etcambontlnK , run ning railroad thalns nnd street cars and the military and naval services. Every month there comes news from same locality In the southwest territories and In California that ( a now woman has broken down the burrlers o some avenue of endeavor where none of her sisters haa heretofore gone In search f glory and wealth. How rapidly they are , omlng to the front Is set out by a Call- [ ornla correspondent of the New.York Suu n the stories following : The way that Mrs. Julia M. Camp became butcher In Prcscott , Ariz. , Illustrates the plril which possesses eome of the nmbl- , loue now women In the west nnd her ex- I j icrlenccs have been somewhat similar to hose of a large number ot her sex in the sparsely settled territories. Among the im migrants to Arizona at about 1S93 wcro a young couple and their three baby children. They came from Akron , O. The husband and father was Gcorgo D. Camp. Ho had been a butcher In Ohio for ten years and md moved to Prcscott when his physicians lad told him that the only chance of llfo or him was by living in a dry , clear cli mate. Possessed of several thousand dol- ars , a sturdy heart and a cheerful wife , he allowed the physicians' advice , but not until his consumption had progressed into ho second stage. Mrs. Camp was a Jolly , pretty German woman , not yet 24 , nnd the way she took hold to help her sick hus- ) and won her golden opinions among the residents of the little city among the moun- alna of northern Arizona. The Camps opened a meat market and a slaughter house n Prescott. Over half their capital was In vested In the new business. Trade was good or a few weeks and the business propceition seemed a good one. But It was the year of tha bank failures and the period of the cattle Industry's greatest distress. When summer came and all the ranchmen in Ari zona had cattle to glvo away the Camp meat jualness flattened out suddenly. During this business depression Mr. Camp dropped dead ivith hemorrhage. Many women similarly situated would have drawn the few hundred dollars re maining in the bank , gathered together the babies and the household effects and started back at once to the old Ohio home to rela tives and friends. But the young widow was of different mettle. She had known all about her husband's investments and plans and she had faith that she could carry the business to success. Moreover , the bcspurrcit and bucksklnned ranchmen from the ranges showed a deslro to help the plucky little woman and the creditors ot her husband came forward to agreed to glvo the widow ample time to pay them back. That was the beginning of the business career of ono o the most successful and ceaselessly In dustrious women in business In the south west. She did not run a butcher shop and slaughter house from a pedestal or with kid gloves on her hands. She went to work to master the business. She hired a nurse girl for her children and for three years she gave sixteen and eighteen hours out of almost every day to h'er meat Industries. Her bay horse and her black sulky were familiar dally objects on the roads about Prescott and among the ranches. She mas tered a full knowledge of the slaughter house. While she never actually took u hand In the slaughtering operations , she learned to know what was necessary In a careful and economical management of such an institution. She soon got to Judge beeves , sheep and swine for slaughtering purposes as well as any man in the locality and she found that her success lay in skilful buying for her market. A dozen good stories are current In Yavapal county of the Ingenious bargains the little widow effected among notoriously close-fisted ranchmen for flue beeves. Taken n Tnrii nt Wool. In two years Mrs. Camp had not only paid off all debts that she Inherited at her hus band's death , but bad doubled the capacity of the market and slaughter house. Besides , she had several thousand dollars put away aa worklnc capital. The sense of incon gruity at a feminine butcher had worn away among the Preseott people and her business had become an Institution in the city. She established other markets in the little min ing towns of that region and got her young men brothers and cousins out from Ohio to manage them under her supervision. The cattle industry Improved in 1SSG anil that made her even more prosperous. Find ing her greatest profit was In buying cattle , she accepted an offer for her markets , but reserved the right to sell the markctmen their stocks. When the DIngley tariff bill was proposed she saw the possibilities of money making in buying wool. Many a sagacious and rich ranchman In the terri tories eome bankers , even did not see the future for wool under the new tariff law. Wool had gone down to 3 and 4 cents a pound under the Wilson tariff law. Sirs. Cump mortgaged and sold every bit of her property to raUe money. She went to Los Angeles and got money on her meat con tracts. Her jwn beautiful homo was mort gaged. With cash in band she set out three months before the Dlnt'ley tariff bill was passed to buy wool. She went from Ash Fork to Gallup , N. M. , and ehe bought for . spot cash , on time , and part cash or part time , in any way to get wool at the lowest figures. She knew , too , what wool she was ! buying. No one could palm an inferior quality on her. Several business men , knowing Mrs. Camp's sagacity nnd eucccss , went into wool buying and storing when 1 they saw her tactics. Wool went up every day during the summer of 18S7. In Sep tember it doubled In value and In October it touched 14 cents a pound. Mrs. Camp sold then , and when it Is reckoned that she put some $21,000 in wool In prices vary ing from 3 to C cents a pound and sold at 11 cents , one may better understand what a good investment she had made. She and I her children went on a long visit to Ohio last year and this season they are all In Japan , enjoying a well earned outing. The case of Mrs. Annie Kline Illkert of Tuolumno county , Cal. ( the scene of great mining camps in 1S49 days and of Bret Harte's storks ) , shows how energetically woman has Invaded tha domain of railroad construction. Mrs. Rlkert lawell known in every part of California. She Is the widow of Captain James nikert , who served with conspicuous bravery In a Newport , H. I. , regiment in the civil war. She came to California with her husband twenty-eight years ago and shared the life of a miner nnd prospector among the Sierras with her husband ( or a dozen years. After her hus band's death MM. nikert continued the de velopment or two of the best mining proper ties the Pine Blanco and the Ore Madrc. In her work as a mining operator she bad occasion to visit mines in Arizona and old Mexico. She made a good deal of money in silver mining alongside ot the late ei- i G.error II. \\a'.crr..in of California In t'.o Calio group cf mints tt San Bcr- narlmo county. IlullilliiK n llnllrnnil. j For twenty years Mr * . lUkcrt has boon traveling back and forth over the rough mountainous rosd from Stockton to her ralnm at Sutnmersvllle , Tuolumno county. Like thousands of men who have been over , the rude road time and npnln , she saw that n rallroitd up there would bo a good com- rnorslal Investment and -would do much to ward developing mines in Tuolumno county. Dut , unlike the men , she set about schemes to ibulld the railroad. At an expense of several thousand dollars from her own pocket she had the preliminary survey made. She -said the other day : "I knew Tuo- lunine county must have n railroad and that the road , If built , -would pay. I took n compass and six-shooter and started over what I thought would be the best route to travel. I'rom Summersvllle I went al most duo west nnd eventually made a pre liminary survey all the .way to Stockton In as nearly a straight line aa the rough- news of the country would permit. The track will be about sixty miles long. I began to project thla railroad ten years ago and for n long time 1 was alone In my contention as to the scheme's practicability. Of course I am pleased to see the scheme going ahcatl so rapidly , but It is what 1 have fully expected from the day the Idea first entered my mind. " Last summer the work of constructing the San Jonquln and Tuolumnc railroad began under the management of Annlo Kllno Hlkort , president. The railroad company was Incorporated last March. Handsome offices wcro opened at the corner of Market and Montgomery streets In San Francisco and there President Ulkert and her corps of englneors , contractors , directors and clerks have been doing business that would stagger on old-tlmo business man. Tens of thousands ot dollars have been spent in the railroad up to date. Be fore Mrs. lUkcrt raado her preliminary sur vey no ouo believed that a track could b < j laid from Stockton to CopporopolM through the heavy forests and over exceedingly hilly ground. A bridge 300 feet long had to be built acrofs the Stanislaus river 100 fejt above the water. This was 'but ono of n series of obstacles that defied the pioneer railroad woman of the country. She began to got the lay of the land by driving forth in a buggy from Summersvlllo toward her intended goal. She traversed nearly the entire route by means of this unhandy vchlclo nnd forsook it only to mount the horeo nnd proceed .with . it alone Into the forests where the buggy could not go. Associated with her In the enterprise arc women of corresponding vigor and intelli gence. -\Vorkn n Smvmtll. A woman not yet 30 years old operates a sawmill In the Horn county mountains. She isMiss Marie Alters , horn in Utlca , N. Y. , and a resident of California less than sis years. Her only brother , Edward , came out here a dozen years ago from Utlca nnd put all bis own and part of his sister's money in a lumber and shingle mill and nvcct pine lands of the upper Sierras o-f Kern county. The young man made a specialty of timber fee orange and lemon boxes and for shingles. With' the rapid growth of the orange Industry young Aikcrs' 'business grow. He was crushed by the fall ing of a tree one day in the autumn of 1S92 and his spine was so injured that he was paralyzed. In ten days his sister from the old liomo In Utlca was at his bedside. For two years he lived. He had contracts on hand for the material for thousands of dollars' -worth cf fruit 'boxes and the sister undertook to see that the business -went on Just the same. A dozen times every day she iwould go out abDut the saiwmlils on tours of Inspection and , returning , report to the afflicted toother what she had seen and heard. She came to "have " a good Idea of the details of the Industry. She did the correspondence for the mills and super vised the shipments. It all demanded good executive ability , for there -was over $35,000 invested In the plant and timber areas ; the pay roll ran up to $150 a week and there was a multitude of details in the expense for the horses , fodder , boarding the loggers , teamsters and sawmill men , etc. There were questions to be solved each hour concerning the felling of plno trees , the hauling of the lumber down the moun tainside , the repairing of steam engines and machinery , the breaking down of wagons , accident to employes and horses and h great catalogue of other things that con stantly occur in a camp of lumbermen in the mountains. Occasionally there were sullen workmen to to mollified and rows that threatened to disrupt the working force at the mills had to be paclOed. Miss Marie Akers ably attended to all these for her dying brother. Slnco Edward Akers died his sister has had an uncle come from New York state to bo in the camp with her and to attend to the bookkkeoplng and correspondence of the business. She found the industry so profita ble that ehe determined to keep It up , as her dead brother had mapped out. The usincas is now larger than ever. The mills have been enlarged twice la the last twenty months. Miss Akers recently made a busi ness tour among the companies and ex changes that handle the bulk of the oranges and lemons of southern California , and she surprised many a business man of long ex perience by her familiarity with her indus try and her knowledge of general business methods. Last fall MVss Akers bought UO- COO more of pine lands In the mountains. SlIL'fl-MN 111 MIZX'H. The field of gold mining has been deeply invaded by women. The old-timers in the territories must admit that one or two young women who have been bought up in min ing camps and who have had practical les sons in pospcctlng and knowing pay ore when they see It have been eminently suc cessful in this pursuit , which was formerly occupied by men exclusively. Miss Nellie Cushman is possibly the most famous woman gold miner in Arizona. . Ex-Senator Whltsoa of Tucson said of her recently : "Miss Cush man is as accurate an expert In gold ant silver mining as wo have In the territory today. Just now she is exporting a group of mlnca at Congress for a company of St LouU people , who have apparently put more confidence In the young woman's skill am honesty than they have put in the several men experts they have employed. Miss Cushman Is a wonderfully plucky girl. It | is about nine years now since she first came I to Tucson. She was from Dodge City , Kan. , and could not have been more than 17 years | old. She got to examining the ore as It came out of the Tucson mines , and was teen as good a Judgu of Its value as her brother JVm , who was foreman and miner alogist In one of them. The boys In the Tombstone locality pretty soon began bet ting on her Judgment , and found that ehe was a wonderfully good guesser and hit It close about every time. Her fame spread , and miners , who , as you know , are always superstitious , got an Idea that to have her around and get her good opinion BO me way brought luck. She knew where to dig for ore , too , and some of the ore In the Con tention was found by following her advice in running a drift. "Over in Graham county she made a Ul' ono day on copper , and when Ehe went to Tombstone afterward she passed her Judg ment on some mines there. Bill Wiggins eold the Excelsior and Grand View mines on her advice , and the only dividend they ever yielded was the } 15,000 be got from them. Other mines wcro bought after she had ex amined and reported favorably en them. They are good paying properties now. "In Tombstone , . nisbee , Tucson and other camps Miss Cushman has conducted general i stores and big lodging houses for the mln- ! era. She was also In business at Castle Dome. She is as adventurous in pushing for- I ward to a new region as any miner. No , sooner dots she boar cf a new camp than she i starts for it. She * has had so much expert- ( v..o that she a ruost knvanably tarns It t- > gui 1 n uun git ug town lot * , rlfic-cr M n nnd lode ilaiius for a 'Xt to i.o'Miifi Kid un loading it great profit. At first ( tie did not get out of the camps w n enough. Consequently quently she has been many times rich and poor. She has indomitable pluck , though , and if she coos broke in OHO ptace she soon makes A turn nnd gt > tn up again. U Is phe nomenal how nonchalantly the lakes A re- veTae. Shr < Is Just as level-headed , serroo and self-contained as if nhe had made a for tune. It makes no difference so far as ap pearances go. "MlMi CusuLnwn 1s a rather till , dark- eyed girl. She U somehat angular In ap pearance and has brown hair. Going out atncns ; the mines or climbing the hills for outcropplngs she wears heavy shoos mid 9trc iB bloomers , usually covered with a cloak. She Is A rapid walker and a quick talker. Sbo reads a great dwil. She wns the first woman In the camp of Harqua Haln , where there were over 1,500 men and no other woman. " A Ploiicrr WoiiinuVtinliT. . Mrs. Vndlns Klusr. wife of Captain Jamt A. King of Uio whaling vessel Spree , which aalls out ot San Francisco to the Alaskan and Uehrlng seas every spring , returning In November or December , bclle\e8 that she Is the plontor femlnlno whaler. She says that In n yeor or two more she will try n whal ing expedition on her own hook , and she has a list of name-9 of reliable whalers who will ship with a captain In skirts for a. season. Mrs. King was born In Connecticut nnd came to California with her parents. In 1SS6 ttio married James King , who was the mate on an Arctic whaler. Mrs. King got him the captaincy of the Spree , and for eight seasons she and her two children have accompanied Captain King In his voyages metis the icebergs , hundreds of miles north f the Yukon , river. Every ono in Pomona valley knows the tock ranch of Miss Elizabeth Eccles. For en years Uie has managed with remarkable uccces the largest stock ranch In this re gion and the Hcclcs cows nnd bulls hnvo md medals and prize ribbons at several cat- le shows and county fairs. Mies Ecclcs amo from Bethlehem , Pa. , to southern Cal- fornla In 1SSS for the benefit of her health. " 10 was once a student at Cornell university. She was ordered by her physician ti > live out of doors as much as possible In the lope of recovery from a lung trouble. She vent nnd lived upon a ranch and In that vay she became interested In the cattle about her. A year later , when she had re covered her health and inherited a com- ortablo fortune , she turned to fancy-bred attlo as an investment for her money. She started in a small way and has pushed the luslncse on to success. Every day she may to seen at her foothill r.ir. h n .ar (3.en- dura , In the nurvht.ii \ t f 1' : . , . i . . .uy. She rises nt 4 In the * . u i.ii c 'tni : i. ' a I winter , and Is ceasclrwly iiH : > U < > nl w.'h her herds In some capacity. She knows the pedigree of nil the b * known brwds of cattle and she can talk about cattle * ! > , ks by the hour. At the big state fair In 8a. ra- mento in 1SSB Mi s Ucrles wan the m < ist prominent person. Thousands of pwiplo l..iJ heard of the younc woman stock breeder and herder and wished to R-ee her. Miss Allco Weslovcr , who Is young nnd pretty , drives a four-horsp ntngo fifty miU-s thrice n week In San Diego county. Her father , M. N. Westover. has the contract for three stage mall route.1) In San Dugo county and Miss Allco h helping her pnr- ont.t by driving the mail nnd ] < nscnger stage from Hnmona to Mrea Grande. The route twists through as dwolato n mountain volcanic rcstlon as man ever looked upon The average man would hesitate a long time before undertaking to drlvo n team of trained horses along that narrow moun tainous rend , when the swerving of the vo- hide n foot might throw the driver , wagon and horses on Jagged rocVs sixty nnd sev enty-five feet below. But Allco Westover drlvta n double team nlul a heavy CYncord coach over the routo. She always baa n Winchester rifle on the seat with her nnd a big pistol within band's roach. She has never been held up by road agents yet , but n small army ot stngo drivers in California have been. Miss Wostovcr says she hns no fear that any ono will ever molest her , even If the malls are robbed. Ottinvu'n Mnjnr ( orucroil. Mayor Payment of Ottawa , Canada , ll wrestling with a conundrum which conicj to him from the far west. Yesterday ho received the following letter from a daugh ter of the Hcv. G. L. Fish of Big Springs , Nob. It docs not need any comment : "Mayor Payment : Will you plc.iso ex plain to mo the Inclosed clipping from Lin coln Evening Nc s of January 3 , 1S03. and pardon feminine curiosity : " 'OTTAWA , Jan. 3. Alderman Thomna Payment was elected mayor of Ottawa by 7,000 majority. Payment Is the sou of a French blacksmith and is the seventh sou for seven generations. ' "Docs it mean that you arc the seventh sin of the seventh son tor seven gent-ra tions , or does It mean that you are the seventh son of one among seven sons ot each foregoing generation for seven gen erations preceding your generation ? " Trlnl of Mr . ( inirt ; * ' . CANTON , O. , Fob. 23. No Jury will bo required to pass on the technical points , raised In the prosecution of Mrs. George. j Her attorneys say the trial will probably | commence within thirty days. Don't use an imitation especially imitations of Pearl- inc. Many are dangerous. And dangerous washing powders can never be cheap no matter how little you pay for them. Peddlers and untrustworthy grocers will tell you the stuff they offer is " Pearl- ine " "same " "as " "made , as , good as , in the same factory , " etc. It's false. , Pearline is the standard washing compound ; never peddled ; gives no prizes ; simply stands on itsrmerits as the best , safest , and most economical. 575 JOBBERS AND MANUFAOT1 OK OMAHA. BOILER AND SHEET IRON WORKS DRY GOODS. Wilson i & Williams ! SuccFHuorn on Jt Drake. Manufacturers boilers , smoke stacks anil treechlngs , pressure , rendering , sheep dip , lard and vater tanks , bollfr tubes con- ctantly on hand , second hand boilers bought and sold. 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