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XKCOLLECTTONS OF MRS. "W. JC
' HINMAIf.
- ;3Hie following are a few facts
concerning' some o oWr "pioneer
wpwea that tsar eof Interest to.
the readers of thcjWoman's Edi-
The Tribuxi;:
fci Abeut iSfeTpbesides' the people
ja&mngsrough who stayed for
t a short tiwe. and a few others r
geatlemem with their
the!
ccmtirted-7BeaftTall
igtoa, Wymanr Asstin, Miller, ..Ml
i JKeith, Klein, iew Baker, Chas.
KcDwiald, Moran, B. I. Hinman
"Md W. M. Hinman. - -
There were also two youag-wo-mm,
Mormons, who married men
named Perrv and Iiandraber, arid"
wibqnently moved to Salt Lake
-Their marriage was the first to 00
Xorth. Platte, it being per-
by W. M. Hinman in June,
:in the old 17- P. hotel before
for skirmish. Often the -littteort
would be thrown intocoafsioLik
the night-time by -the baffle call,
arid then would follow the hastr
gatheriag together of troops, aa
themick sally ot apoa the dark
prairies. Worse still wl& be the
return from, the skirmish, the rank
thidhed, the soldiers
weak and. weary from the
march, awL-some . with the hostile'
Iadiaa arrows protruding from
their arsv. k
Xlfe at the ffarrisoa had!
brkt aS jWell as its.dafk side at
eWMrsyharf
of her lifethere.. At'oae turieithe
Cotoael hid jLarited a number of
his personal frieBds' from the east
and the oficers of the- fort tp:iinr
Mrs. Cddjr had exerted her-
Crdbelac; jpfak abpt Jtouse,
store: corraaadXiiarden. The
rardea was, a nice one, -thpagh, it
xiriit rakied am those -day's. The
lBdiaM. - woald
cose
tinrr nr-r
about the
darkenisg- rthe windows.
erenjprpng them p withttheir
One particularly sav-
M chW'cahK'aatf Mt himself
dowtt -M thetjjfdlaily re-
f sing;to slllihnlrandishiBg
his hatchet abotMrGMcDonaMV,
head to Irreatest cossternatiori.
She had heard ieard that an ln
au brave felt disgraced if attacked
hya,woniBJi with a piece of wood.
cut in
:.its , piippletion. .
- " One of our pioneer
-women, Mrs.
mother of Mrs. Svl Friend
Mrs. Jos. Fillion met with a
death. While riding 'with her
d alonsr the road behind a
l containing three or four
ptpVshe was a.ccideri.taHy shot in
"tfcefceeh ead "by orieroOhe-menwho
raised his sfun to shoot at -an
Another
tr of
-0.
sad incident was the
Miss Kate' Manning.
llnjrth, 1871, on her claim; now
Mr?tntthers' Point Her
Mannings was supposed to
hart done tne aeea, out t was
never proved against him. He had
jumped" her claim aad she had.
ifwia-down to hold it She was the
first woman buried inbur cemetery.
Our first -woman school teacher.
was Mrs. Gilman, thek .Mies
;HnhhnrnV
School was heW
iMf scjkxh novse now s'
lathe
32
5
a" "
,,"rom xbc corocr 01 vra:itcc ;uavx Kin
street. Here also. was. heM the
first Sdy-school, Mrs. Cogswell
i ,bewg annerintendent " On the fest
Sunday the only otnerspresent
Avere Lmcy Daugherty, now Mrs.
J. M. Ray, and Mollie Keith.
Thinking of this we can look on
. the Sunday-schools of to-day with
increased interest Mrs. Cogswell
was also the prime mover in the
building of the Unitarian hall and
she herself held services there for a
number of years.
Mrs. Chas. McDonald iscertainh
one of our pioneer women, she be
ing the first married woman this
side of Kearney. Her eldest son,
W. H. McDonald, was the first
white child born in the county, then
called Shorter county. "Vaughan
Hinman has the honor of being the
first child born in Korth Platte.
Mrs. McDonald first went to house
keeping in the house now owned
by Mrs. Matthews on Front street
Miller and Peniston had their
store and lived in the building now
occupied by McDonald's grocery
store, while Mrs. W. M. Hinman
first lived in the building now oc-
confectionerv
ner.
self-tp have a" ample a f east as-the
i limited resources 6fthe fort wcmld
allow, so "greats--"waY her dismay
when; Rafter" greeting1 her gnests.
slie entered 'the kitchen, and feund
a band o Sioux, eating tbeelabor
ate dinner with great, relish and
lackr of ceremony. The Colonel's
guests were forced to 'retreat tothe
fort for their dinner party that dayi
To compensate for the -hardships
of fort life at that time the: climate
iiTthe early seventies wa' snper.
The, winters were unusnally-mild
and pleasant and it was possible
to take long, exhilerating .canters
over the prairies :any day during
the entire .season Nevertheless
Mrs. Cody was not very sorry "when
the time came to leave the fort, at
the end of three veafs. and. she
to more civilized life
However, fate: did not
permit Jier to remain there long, for
in '79 she again followed her htas
band into the west, and for sixteen
.years she has made our ritv'hiir
hbme
seUeda conple of
cnnld retum
in mc ccisi.
mm.
Bogue's
selling out to
many otiier tmngs
esting
long in the town and have seen
growth through so many
cupied by
store, and later, on
Lew Baker, moved into the little
house now owned by Chas. Wood,
just east of the Second ward school
building. This house then stood
on the corner of Spruce and Sixth
streets.
A number of incidents could be
told ot how these, as well as others
ot our pioneer women lived, their
encounters with the Indians, and
other things doubly inter-
to us, who liave lived so
its
years.
MRS. CODY S PIONEER DA3TS.
a
Xo record of our pioneer women
would be complete without the
name of Mrs. W. F. Cody, whose
historv is so closelv connected with
ii - - -
the history of our city.
Mrs." Cody came to the west with
her hnsband and little daughter
from St Louis in November, 1S70,
and for three years lived at Fort
McPherson, experiencing all the
excitements and dangers of frontier
jrarrison life Her home was the
typical log cabin of the prairies,
builfonthe reservation, although
not within the fort inclosure, and
many were the hardships which
the young wife was destined to ex
perience The fort at that time had seen
theworst days of Indian warfare,
but even then the life there was not
wholly devoid of excitement There
were the scouts constantly coming
and going; unexpected visits from
dians prowlinjr about; so that the
re ef the garrison, troops eqnippedl usual" peecautions were doubled
MRS. CHAS- M'DOXALD'S RECOliBC
? u TIONS OT THE. EARLY DAYS.- . ;
injAngusi 1861, Mirs ItfcDiiald
joined her hustand nppa his cbmL
jtttree. Tears, oeit
McPherson. wajs- estahsh
land bourkt ot hia. x
or. stare
Gen. Hooker then running the
stage line. It was during the
"June rise" of the Platte thatns'r
sister and herself with their babies
attempted to ford the river and
were only saved from drowning by
the intervention of eight mounted
men acting as guides for the coach
across the river. It was customary
in those days to carry a skiff at
tached to the coach. The river was"
also crossed in places by means of
pontoon bridges. The buffaloes
were so thick oftentimes as to stop
the stage coach.
Cottonwood Springs then con
tained two houses stores owned
by Frenchmen who were 'traders,
both unmarried. Mrs. McDonald
was then said to be the best look
ing woman in the town, and was
called by the Indians Milla-huska
or white squaw.
Thifi was the period of the Pike's
Peak gold fever, and thousands of
teams passed every week of the
summer, from May to September,
hauling freight to Denver and other
points. Occasionally Mormon
trains would pass, distinguished
by the women hauling the goods in
hand carts, while the men leisurely
walked alongside.
The Indians Sioux, Ogalallas,"
Pnmiees and Brules were verv
numerous then. They could al
ways tell by the howling of the
wolves at night when the Indians
were coming. They came up often
by thehundreds,braves and squaws
to trade. In order to get their
trade rival store-keepers were
obliged to advertise their wares
then, as now, in the form of Tvhat
they called a "feast' It consisted
chiefly of ah-wha-a-pah and paw-shu-taw-sap-pah(bread
andcofiee),
followed, always, by a dance. Then
the men went into the store crowd
ing it sometimes fifty at a time
while the women sat without form
ing a circle. The trader was ex
pected to go but with a sack each
of flour, meal, etc, and give to each
squaw as many cupsf ull of the arti
cle as she chose to demand, (from
two to ten), which she then pro
ceeded to tie up in her dirty blank
et until each was hung round "with
funny little loppy bags- Of course
the trader who provided the best
feast got the. trade for that tiine
the men then smoking- the che-no-pah.
In '62 there came rumors of the
Indians being on the war-path,
which seemed reasonable on ac
count of the greater number of In-
pieces' tove-wod, shakisg tbenr
at- tkeIndiaa who incontinently
led- ' 'She was not bothered again,
tho' often: dressed sticks .with Tiats
and' coats to simulate men and
placed them at the windows. -At
another time of .trading, the
sqnaw s -,me themselves obj ection-
able by darkening the windows on
an ironing day, so much so that no
wprk;cottld:5 be done. Knowing
their horror of the effects of drink?
she asked her girl help to bring her
some tea, wnich she poured from a
.bottleand drank at intervals,-jlnu-tating
the. performances , off a
;drhken personlthe " while In the
shortest possible time-the premises
weredear'bf the women. -
When her eldest child was a babe
of six months or sp a brave back,
handsomely, mounted, rode up- .to
her door and demanded, quite civ
illy, her baby to trJce to camp three
miles away, In consternation, but
with great appearance of appreci-
ating "the honor eone her, she go t
ready the baby andhanded him
overi the Indian promising to return
him at sunset. She immediately
notified her. husband who sent one:
of hisC:cIerks fo look after cattle 1
abant -thc- .camp and incidentally
viiif itrdnring;" the afternoon. He
found the child asleep upon a new
'and;spftless r6be,as well caredfbr
as:if athome. Bwevert.4 Mrs. Mc
SonaM nddecUthis did not include
lthe keener of iis attire awrftbe
ttncJ.from Tm-fihor si-
" WaefteTrka
toW:;i894;foc
ot aciunate
nurin anest
Me to live
in than the former
for-thevphrt!ey
Ijpood-vre and
weitwardoTer 1
Ger&en. 1111T fmnmi '
or aotttnera
A ItbTMKVB W:
ven
bade
jrcianvesr
onr wit
b -the Central
?i -1 1,.""
.;Angeies.
the
rncincij
cJQe Mpnee- tne.scen-
am ant! always to be
nMcninr after
WN
err was ever
admired, The-fil
learinff bxjine-weJbnntf pnractres in
nia: We took brriMimrand asonr
tram stopped for thtee nonrs , we
gpt tpseepart ottity- It has
a populafionof abJgt00,- a fine
caoirai ouihube -- my wumu
beautiful streetsl," u Sacra
mento .is -where tlisf gold" in
California was jtomM$ " ,
After our stop; weVfcrted south
to Ixs Angeles, thrdnf h the Sacra
mento and San JosRfuin valleys.
The valleys arechand fertile, .and
are noted for theiy.gktaniount of
fruit growing" anddrjfvjdso for
their immense wheat" nelds. We
at Fresno
-where
so
took supper
many raisins are mae. ana; wnere
the thernwmeter staud from 110 to
120 degrees in the shTdefor weeks
during the summer-
We passed throngh. Teliachapai
pass during themgso" we missed
the fine scenery there that . we had
Indians were nevert 06 poor to have
a scent) This visit ever after in
sured freedom from molestation by
the Indians to Mr. W. H. McDon
ald, the infant aforesaid, and
wholly removed the mother's fear
that he might be stolen
Mrs. McDonald's memories of the
year '64, when the Indians were
really on the war path, included
the well-known dreadful massacre
of a. whole train of ten wagons or
more at Plum Creek. The only
survivors were a boy named Mar
ble and a lady whose name she had
forgotten. These were taken cap
tive and twenty-tour hours later
fell in with a band of Indians who
had as captives four women, sur
vivors of the wholesale massacre on
the Little Bine After a year of
wandering with the Indians, down
into Mexico and into the far west,
after frequent fruitless efforts at
escape, they were ransomed by the
government It was while on her
way home that the lady stopped at
the home of Mrs. McDonald, detailing-
her awful sufferings and
her wise determination to be
friendly with the Indians so as to
insure .good treatment. She de
scribed their method of having wo
men "run the gauntlet" by plac
ing them upon mules or ponies
never before ridden by a woman,
then trying to make the animals
tnrow them. This ordeal she had
undergone successfully four times.
It was the haSit of the Indians,
upon releasing prisoners to give
them slow poison to insure their
ultimate death; so. that the boy
died almost at once in Denver, the
lady livinsr a year or more after
reaching
Iowa.
her
home at Glenwood,
Fashions for Men.
Black' trousers will be worn shiny
this spring.
Overcoats are much worn, especi
ally afr the elbows.
Fringe is, frequently seen at the
bottdin of the trousers this season.
Sack jcoats will be worn much
longeriiecause the wearers are
shorter than usual.
Checks for business men are in
great demad, especially bank
checks.
To prevent trousers "bagging"
at the knees, wear them reversed
every other day.
The best-way to press your suit
is to get on your knees.
In calling, a gentleman leave one
of his own cards for each lady in
the family, one of his fathers and
grandfathers for each married lady,
one of his mothers and grandmoth
ers for each gentleman and if there
is a maiden aunt in the family a
card of his brother should be left.
Woman's Edition .Lincoln Call.
The nwrainlwsixih day
landed us n Eonmgeies the city
of our destinafidnTTer were- met
bp fnendf .wifewhont we -spent
Words
threepleasantjths.
wnifa&sonencr I
UitVC 111
MtknnKK tne
city in California-
paradise? with;- its"-!
palm trees, and.ei
r-
i t ik m vwnnnnnnM t :
7. M k
' ooriuiation or aoout
evergreensr
nbtttttaias;ca
tion. Sonthern Californians of long
adoption come to find if a twice told
tale; but to those, residing in other
portions of the United States the
topic is always-fresh and. interest
insr. me ixs Angeles orange is
-too sonr to suit the average person,
owing tathe coolness of the climate
You must go to 'Redlands-or River
side tofind such as yon have never
tasted before In a recent favorable
season the output has-araounted, to
pvr6,000 carloads or over 2,000,
000 , boxes. . with not less - than
$3,0Q0.000:on the trees.
XV e. now return home delighted
rWith the city and determined' to
take many moresKch rides.
h Woolen, clothing is worn by near
ly all the year around, and wraps
are.worn mornings and evenings at
all seasons. It-is not cold but it
feels cold. The variation in tem
perature between sunshine and
dark is startling for so mild a cli
mate. The only unpleasant feature
of the climate to us- was, the fog,
which so often persisted in coming
in in the evening and staying in
nntil ten and eleven o'clockthe next
day, for days at a ttme.. To one so
unacusLomed to moisture, it was
rather chilling on the affection for
California.
Living expenses are perhaps one
fourth' higher there than here.
Fresh vegetables and fruit can be
"had the year around. A little fire
is needed nearly every day during
winter months as that is the rainy
season.
A few minutes' ride will take you
to the grand old Pacific, where you
may take a ride on her waters if
you like, gather shells if there hasv
been a storm, go in bathing or sit
and listen to the ever splashing'
water against the rocks.
We made a short visit to,Pasa-
dena, a suburb of Los Angeles. It
and has
75,000.-
Should you take a carriage and
tell your-driver you want to seethe
city, he will take you down Broad
way and Spring streets, show you
the fine business blocks a 200,000
city hall, the city library and the
chamber of commerce with its end
less display of fruit He will next
point out to you a; $500,000 court
house on Temple Ave., the State
Normal school building, the public
school buildings and the Casa de
Rosas or Frobel Institute at the
corner of Adams and Hoover Sts.
You will now go to the old Span
ish portion of the city, and see the
adobe buildings over 100 years old
and still inhabited by Spaniards.
The adobe was not an institution
of Spain. That the Don learned
in America. The word adobe itself
(although its etymology has never
been proven) has suspicious ear
marks of being an aboriginal Amer
ican word.
You are next taken to China town,
providing yu wish to go. We pre
ferred viewing it from afar as we
had visited a similar place in San
Francisco nine years before.
West Lake park is next visited
and we see there the banana plant
with its huge bunches of bananas
on. If you will look.closely perhaps
you will find, a tarantula hidden
among the fruitv as there are plenty
of them in California.
The papyrus plant, or Egyptian
reed from which pajer was manu
factured up to the Twelfth century
will be seen on the borders of the
lake. The stem or stalk from ten
to fifteen teet highis crowned with
a tuft of long wiry grass that falls
gracefully around it To-day it is
only known as a -beautiful decora
tive plant
We are now driven along some of
the broad avenues and streets,
among them Figureoa, Adams and
Twenth-seventh. These are lined
with the palm, the pepper tree with
its graceful boughs and bright ber
ries, the tall eucalyptus tree that
sheds its bark yearly instead of its
leaves, the acacia, camphor, agave
and the handsomest tree of all the
magnolia. The residences are sur
rounded by flowers. The ever
blooming rose creeping to the roofs,
the fushia. doing likewise, and
geraniums grows to small trees
San Pedro street leads us out to
large orange lemon, olive and
almond groves. Orange Is king
and to those brought up in the east
orange growing" has a deep facina-
is situated in th San Gabriel val
ley, at the foot of the mountains, and
the home of-many wealthy peo-
t,jwbo have their places, of busi-
elsewhercA It.i the home -of
Pref. Lowe, the fwrader of Mt
T "
Lowe Railway on Mt Wilson. At
the summit of the reat cable in-
commercial - V , .
zona, irr New Mexico and in south
ern Colorado, but we nexer saw it
Still onr trip was not without in
terest- Near Flagstaff, Arizona,
theyrndely ran our train off the
track at 6:30 in the morning, badly
wrecking three sleepers. Many of
the passengers were thrown
through windows, cutting them
badly and bruising them up in gen
eral. The writer escaped with only
one slight bruise and a goodly
amount of astonishment at being
treated so. Medical aid soon ar
rived' and .all were made as comfort-
able as circumstances wonld allow.
After a delay, of nine hoars we were
taken to Albuquerque, Jew Mexi
co, and there taken' on another
train.
Shortly after crossing the Colo
rado line our train was. help-up by
a number of men (we only saw-
three) with their faces covered
They kept us perhaps ten minutes,
:n let us go. Aside from a good
fright we were none the worse for
our stop, as they did not offer to
molest the passengers. Our next
trip to California will not be over
the Santa Fe.
The 15th of March found us home
safe with friends. We want to
visit California again, but make
Nebraska our home.
Mrs Alma E. Ewing,
Wood River, Neb.
UTAH LETTER.
..-t-Tiir. ; -
Lewis Swift Mrs. Thompson, a
daughter of John Brown of Civil
'war fame, has her home here.
. The last two months of our stay
in California was in Redlands, sixty
miles from -Los Angeles, in San
Bernardino valley, almost surround
ed by mountains and has a delight
ful winter climate.
The-scenery is grand beyond dis
cription. The mountains are cov
ered with snow the greater part of
the year, while the flowers bloom,
the trees yield their fruit and all
nature is gay in the valley.
Mt. San Jacintor standing alone
to the southeast of Redlands ever
reminds us of Helen Hunt Jackson
of Ramona and her love her joys
and her sorrows. Across the San
Jacinto river we see the Indian vil
lage Saboba, where for a little time
this devoted pair, Ra mona and her
Indian husband Alessandro, dwelt
peacefully though not securely.
Two hundred Indians live here in
adobe huts surrounded by hedges
of prickly pear
From good authority we learned
that three of" the characters in that
book of H. H. J. still live Ramona
in Mexico, the Indian woman at
Saboba. who befriended the child
wife and mother, and the man who,
for gain, killed Alessandro.
Redlands was so called from the
color of its soil.
Pomona, Ontario, San Gabriel,
Colton, San Bernardino, Riverside
and Highlands were only viewed
from a car window, so we will not
tell you any thing about them, and
I am sure you are pleased as my
letter is getting lengthy.
After trying California climate
five, months we decided that Ne
braska climate, with all of its im
perfections, suited us better to live
in; so we bade our relatives and
friends bcod-bye with many regrets
atleaving them and turned our faces
homeward.
We chose the Santa Fe route
home for the reason that we had
never before taken that line and
thought it would be preferable in
early spring, owing to the deep
snows in 'the mountains farther
north. A few hours' ride took us
away from the flowers and fruit,
through Cajon pass and over the
mountains into the Majare dessert.
Here the cactus, sage and grease
wood grow; and the tree-like yucca
palm, bristling with daggers on
every limb,
We read our guide-book telling
us of the beautiful scenery all along
the line and we, looked for it in Ari-
. 1
ity in every department of woik,
tells the story of Salt Lake City
schools.
The people are a large hearted,
progressive class. The Mormons
are strangely like other people in
every way. 1 have visited homes of
culture and refinement in which may
be seen all the appointments of
wealth rare collections of books,
pictures and curiosities. ,They are
frank and kind in their reception
of strangers, and lovely and- genial
when yon become a friend. -The
children the writer cinnot get.
very-faraway from the cnildren any
where are just the same here as
elsewhere. Just as dear, good arid
beautiful; and just as bright There
are more in a family here, so they
sharpen their wits by contact.
There is much sunshine and many
flowers here, too, so that they seem
r
to stow like
them, "L tali's best
are often called, and
The fame of the City of the Saints
is universal. This prominence is
Jargely due to the peculiar religious
views hej'dby its founders. Salt
Lake Cttyi. situated eighteen miles
from the lake was founded by the
Mormons after their exodus from
Nauvoo, HI. Brigham Young with
150 men arrived in the valley July
24, 1847. The church arrived in in
stallments, and has continued to
come from all parts ot the earth
ever since.
Its situation, half-way between
Omaha and. the -Pacific coast and
on the great continental railwaty
linesr an altitude of 4,200 feet its
encircling mountain range, rick in
untold mineral wealth, an inexhans-
and a climate above reproacn, airT-rii:-
unite to make a pleasant thriving
city, and to insure one unmistably
great in the future. The present
population is 65,000. and with clim
ate, situation, resources and people
of the best no city in the United
States has a brighter outlook.
The question of finance is one in
which Zion feels a keen and intelli
gent interest. The silver subject
so affects the entire West, that
what is true of one point is true of
the section. Since the demonetiza
tion of silver business in all lines
has fallen off from forty to sixty per
cent. The old question of state's
rights seems to have made a general
sweep, and crept even into the
minds of those in the g. o. p.
That the general government has
a right to stultify the growth, and
to kill or make dormant the indus
tries of a great section- by cutting
off the source of its greatest wealth
is unquestionable; but, quoting the
forceful rather than elegant lan
jruajreot a Nebraska man, whether
because one has the chance he can
crop tney
truly so.
Of one little boy now in school a
friend tells, that havinjr said his
prayers and been safely tucked in
bed his mother left him alone. Soon
a strange sound brought her on tip
toe to the door, through whichfshe
could see by the bedside a white
robed, kneeling figure- "Ting-a-
ling, ting-a-ling." "Why, Johnnie,
what are you doing?" "Mamma, I
forgotto pray for Tom Caper who
had his leg cut off by a car to-day.
I thought the Lord might be off lis
tening to some other little boy so I
was just ringing- him up." There
are many little boys and girl-in
North Platte by. -wbbhi the writer
would enjoy being "Rung up."
MELL FORSYTHEi
Salt Lake. April 28. '95". : v
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4 "mWnW"!"
A Word from Mrs. Goudy.
jive that as a rood reason formak
ing an unmitigated ass of himself
might be doubtful, the conduct of
the general government and some
people one may meet even in Ne
braska to the contrary, notwith
standing. Without exception all parties are
in favor of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at a ratio of six
teen to one. The people of Utah
deem Jeff Davis an ignoramus, a
villian and a traitor; but many add,
compared with Cleveland, he was a
scholar, a gentleman, and a patriot
Politics here is in an extremely cha
otic state. Until two years ago the
parties were known as the people's
and the liberals, which meant Mor
mons and non-Mormons. Now the
national parties, at least nominally,
exist both great parties lying
awake nights planning overtures to
the church by which to secure its
vote The democrats succeeded two
years ago. The republicans, with
Frank Cannon at their head, suc
ceeded this. If consistency is still
a jewel it is one with a setting in
many places.
For five years the schools here
have been the best having tor city su
perintendent a manof broad culture
and refined mind, a man who can
and does fill a large place; who
leaves nothing undone to bring the
schools up tojthe highest standard
in the United States. A corps of
more than 250 able teachers,, with
special supervisors of superior abil-
PeruEk., April 30, 1895.
My DxAJt Miss Peckham :
Ever since leaving
you at North Plattfe I have tried to
get a halrhonr even for alittle ar
ticle for J the Woman's Edition of
theNorthPlntte paper.
Yott"know from my personal ex
planation' of the failure to receive
your letter promptiramLfaipw per-
sonalirf of " .-mf -
1- fc -7
Please convey to the ladies my
earnest appreciation of their re-
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membrance of me and the assurance
that I truly feel that there are no
people in the state for whom I
would rather do some service than
for these North Platte friends.
The people among whom I did my
first away from home" work and who
have at all times since had my
most grateful love and appreciation
for all their kindnesses and help
fulness during my stay among
them. That they should have re
membered me through all these
years since, with all their varied
and separate interests, is to me a
source of joy and help more than
can be told to sustain a faith in
people and in the belief of true hu
man friendship which rise above
purely personal interests.
There are many reasons why
North Platte and its old-time
friends have a place- in my heart
which no other place or people can
ever have.
The places which have been made
and the work done by many whom
I knew there as children and
whose very position in the school
rooms I so distinctly remember, is
certainly a source of pride to the
people and to any who may have
been connected with their lives.
Please convey to the manage
ment my heartiest greeting of good
will and for full success in this ef
fort with regrets at not being able
to add some little mite of help to
an enterprise with which I consider
it an honor to have my name con
nected. Yours truly,
Alice E. D. Goudy.
Folly as it Flies.
"This man." remarked the asy
lum attendant 4is the most com
plicated case in the institution. He
started with a mild attack of the
Napoleon revival, struck the Trilby
craze at its inception, and this soon
developed into a mania for dupli
cate whist Now the poor fellow
imagines he can see some lucidity
in the ideas of of those publishers
who turn their papers over to
female editors. The experts pro
nounce his case incurable." Wash
ington Post
This is a good an investment as
you can make, madam." said the
enthusiastic bicycle agent. "Not
only does it cost "nothing feed, but
if you ever become famous yon can
make back all you paid by writing
up your experiences in learning to
ride." Indianapolis Journal.
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