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Klsewhero In thii Ihiig tlio CouitlKii ml llolieH a list of Lincoln inniplo wlionrii nMiy on numincr trlpo. Of courxo it i not in ti'iuled Hint tliu list it coiiiplclc, tiecmito no jR'rsoii can kc) truck of tliu inoveinontf mid whereabout of several hundreil mh)iU'. Tliis lint will undoubtedly In.' read with K'viit Interest. It ix deslrablu that It bo as full and ns correct a iiowiblv. Tlio friendK of the CouitiKH can help the CouiilKH and the pul llc by liunditiK in tho tminos and (stopping places of liiuc'olniUH leaving the city. It la cpiltu ns iiuiortnut, too, t tat tlio CouiilKH havo notice of the return of the wnudcrerti, that they may bu dropped from the list of al)enteea. Lincoln has a remarkable num ber of representative scattered all over the country. It soiikn well for the city that so many of her citizens havo the menus and the leisure for these xtiminer trlN. Oninlin and Lincoln ate about the only western cities satislled with the census re turns. Kansas City Is complaining of an Ins Anted count in Omaha, and Tocku is simi larly jealous of Lincoln. Jinny eopl have the impression that Kansas City Is larger than Omaha, wheieas tho census shows it to havo 2(KK) fewer people. A gentleman recent ly from the Missouri city tolls Byo tlu-ltye that n count of the vnrnut building in Knnsm City hnd been made and t'e tmmter pi oved to lie about 7(100. Tills may account for tho apparent Incorrectness of the count. In the case of Tojieka no such explanation Is neces fury, for she hnsu't been In the ince with Lincoln for suveral years past. Did you ever notice it, how becoming n straw hat is to the average young woman I Of course when a man speaks of a strrw hat ho doesn't mean one of those lluted, lop-sided, high-crested, convoluted nlTairs that aro commonly used by women. When a man talks about straw hats ho usually menus such head coverings ns men wear, so the strnw hat I had In mind in my opening remark was similar in shapo to those worn by men, but having a broad white bnnd. The next time you see a pretty girl (or one who Isn't pretty, for that matter) wearing one of those hats tnko a good look and observe how distinctly enhancing it Is to her appearance. The white baud sets on the complexion, there isn jnunti ness to the hat, and the whole effect Is quite charming to the masculine eye. Now, then, girls I Where is Kates Park, this now summer re soi t that has Just swallowed up a big slice of Lincoln's population ( It Is a valley in the heart of the Rockies. There is grand scenery, line fishing and attractive rides. During tho day the thermometer ranges from 05 to 7!, a comfortable, neighbor hoes I, and in the evens lug the visitors gather about big blazing grate fires. At least such Is the delicious picture that Mr. Carl Funke paints in a letter home. The Pnrk is 8000 feet nbove the sea in tli'i heart of the great mountain chain It is reached by a twenty-live mile stnge rl Jo from Lyons, which Is tho terminus of a branch of the II. & M., forty miles not th of Denver. It Is at the foot of Long's l'eak, H,'J71 feet high. The Park has good hotels, some of the grands est scenery and several streams tilled with mountain trout. From a personal letter from James K. Hey nard,the Lincoln singer now with the Audi ew s opera compuny, it would appear that that organization is having a remarkably success ful run. It Is playing a summer season of opera at Peoria. On the night of July 4 "Mikado" drew $-1000. The business Inst week averuged alwut $150(1 per night. "I don'tknow where all the people come from," Mr. Ileynard writes, "but one thing Is sure, they are there." He thinks Lincoln is twlco as good a town ns Peoria. The company has just got u new comic opera in play. It is Leeocq "Tho Pretty Persian, or the Hullnh's Ilrldo." Tho plot is bused on n peculiar Persian luw. According to that statute if a man divorces his wifo and subsequently tiecomes reconciled he cannot renmi ry her until she shall have been re married and divorced from her second hus band. This custom has given rim to the pro fessional husband, who is known as a "llul lah." Hu marries divorced women for a cash consideration and divorces them in twenty-four hours, thus enabling them to remarry then first husband. Have you over seen a dog climb a treef Probably not. Hut LincoJn has n dog tluit climbs a telegraph pole. Hu Is owned over at Bam Westerlleld's barber shop, and one of the amusement of the boys in the I) un block Is to watch him tun up the big tele graph polo on the cot tier Tho dog is one of the terrier tribe, with long white hair and bright eyes, anil there is a big barber whose talk he seems to thoroughly understand. The barber sticks an apple on the jsilo eight or nine feel from tho sidewalk. Then he stands oil' a row feet with the Intelligent canine be tween his feet. The dog sits on his haunches and looks up into Ills master's face, watching for instructions. Tlio man says "one, two go." The dog makes a spring for tho pole and scrambles up as far as ho can go, He generally succeeds in getting the apple, though It may require several ell'ot ts. When he comes down does he slide or fall all in a heap? Not much. Ho is very smart brute, is this terrier, Ho seems to have the faculty of measuring his climb to such a nic ety that he makes a spring away from the polo at just the instant his ascent stops, and he lands either on his fore feet or his four feet. Sometimes he geta lazy and it Is neces sary to stimulate his ambition or work on his pride. Then his conclier pretends to thr w tho nppledown tho street. Does he do like the average member of his tribe make a btenk down the street for fifteen or twenty feet, discover that he has been humbugged and come back with a sheepish look! Not much. This bright do' Is not found that easily. He keeps his eye on that apple, and he seems to know Instinctively whether the man has thrown It or only made a "blut"." FOR SUMMER SOJOURN. V x mm JMFRr Vnr innri n n mumvr If ' W Rln-i, hut theii 07 J Is one Hiat would seem to be specla II y adapted for Nebraska In all its details. It co m bl ties the attractions of land anil water. It Is very nccessililn and but a short journey distant. A through car to and from Omahii relieves the tourist of all care about connections at uiikuoKti junctions, A Hue hotel assuies the visitor of good accommodations. It is free from mosquito", gnats and other Insect pests, llreezy days and cool nights are always assured. These area few of the chief teiisons that commend Hplrlt Ijike, Iowa, to Ne braska people. Where Is ft f It is In the northwestern cor ner of Iowa on the Iturlliigtou, Cedar Haplds Si Northern railroad. Lying in the gteat prairicdlko diamonds in emeiald settings are alxnit twenty lakes, all within a radius of ten miles of the Hotel Orleans. HpiiitLnko is but one of these, but its iiaiuu has become Ideittillisl with the whole region Its shoie line is broken by modest indentations and arrogant caiies whose masslngs of shrubbery orglade-llko glimpses of diminishing jersec tlveltnd charming variety. This Is no In significant pond w hich presumptuous egotism has dfgnlllcd with the name of lake. It has a SPIRIT LAKIi- On i hi IIoii i. Vmianiia. have been exhausted by the milliner pilgrims long agodld not tint winter storms renewed tlio undluilnlshable store. The great army of those Argonauts who lollow the pennant of Pleasure nmy nsk no other attiactlou than those already described. Hill theie urn others who would ls oblivious to all the glories of sky and lako unless slg. nlllcant of iKissihle sMirt. It Is one thing to don your spike tall and level In au Iniiuacil late and exmulve breadth of shirt front at one of the great cotillions at the Orleans It Is quite another to put on a pair of top boot and tiiidgeover the Held with a gun on your shoulder, bagging grouse, or, e.xp"ctantly and delightedly hang over the edge of a boat and pull lu puissant picket el Pike, pickerel, uiiiHkallonge, bass (rock, silver and blnckl'itul perch (the latter seldom used owing to tho abundance of the moie deslrnble variety) re ward the devotee of the rod, and It I no un usual thing to see "strings" of eighty or ninety pounds caught lietwccti "daylight and sunup." .Still llshlug mid trolling are prac ticed, and game Is too plenty to demand a gieat expenditure of patience, If tho atmos pheric conditions are favoinble. Ducks, geese, snipe, wood-cock and pialrio chicken aio the gamo birds of the region which seem not only to live but to Moorish In spite of tho hunter, nud an ample 'bag' is sure to reward the spo'tsiuaii. The Iowa l'lfh Commission has au extensive plant here with hatching house and all the modern appliances for sci entific pisciculture mlllloiisof trout, salmon, carp and other food llsh have been planted in these waters. The II., C. It. .t N management, with huge rtlnlom, haspiovided foru wider circle of wants than those of the cauiHr, so on tliu approach to the narrow Uthinus between Hast OkoboJIand Hplrlt Lake, "nud facing tho hitter, Into whoso waters one call thrown Hbble from the broad verandas, 1t has built u inngiilllceiit hotel called the Orleans. It Is surrounded by broad verandas which sweep clear about It and affords the most dellghtf Uj H -rflX I i IWWlMa MJf 111, I I I I lll'IMri'?M 1 S -Tr7i rto ii?"fc-LJ- iM-flt 'l "Allj jT---r? n ii i i i i ii in i 1 1 i iii i i til iKMf'dil 'Wr W "' I 1Bi''iii ' ' ii' 1 1 i i yr '' "- . T1rte V S&SttiiTrsw. " CTtfcey'' SPIRIT LAKE Hotm Ori.ia.ns i rom tiik Doi h IIKDKKKN OUTING (.'OWNS. Hpeelal CotllllHlt Correspondence.) NK-.V YoiiK, July !!l, MHI.-What Is llils pretty young girl doing here, do you ink I Oh, she's one of the novelty seekers, don't you know, who taking after the KuglUlt, votes tenuis slow and passe, and goes lu for other amusements, which If not absolutely now, are at leant so old as to seem now to this generation of young people lladmlulon, or, as It Used to Imi called, battledore mid shuttle cock, Is one of the revivals now In favor among the holiday makers, and of course llcdfcrn has piovMcd some chut iitlug cos tumes for It. The one Illustrated nbove, is of pale blue Kreiich Manuel, with the skirt laid purfacu areu of almost nine utiles and a shore lino of fourteen miles. North of it still is Little Spirit Lake, while on the south is East Okobojl rweeplug on In symmetrical semicir cle for six miles to join West Okoliojl, which continues the "line of beauty" until it ap proaches within three miles of the west shore of the first named liody of water. West Okoliojl has a surface area of six and a quar ter miles and its irregular shore lino meas ures eighteen miles One of the most widely known wonders of the 'region is the "Sunken Lake," a body, of water whose pellucid depths are the secure testing place of a forest of great trees dead monarchs whoso sub merged trunks look ghastly lu the still, uu f i etted deeps . Hut half tho beauty of the hikes belongs to laud. If the Giver of Hood filled these deep depressions (In some places, by the way, the water Is two hundred and lltty feet deep) with clear cold water that spatkles in thesuu with jeweled bl iglituess, ho gave them a set ting worthy ot the gem. The pictuicsquo shores aio a succession of surprises each new vantago point reveals unlooked-for iKiautles. Here tho luxuriant woodland presses down to tho water's edge in riotous iissei tlou of supremacy, or arrogantly crow ns some pieclpitous headland with u plumage of bewildeting beauty Again, the receding batiks drift inqierceptihly into the flowery mead beyond, and the waving grass and nod ding blossoms are only a spangled band that keew the blue horizon anil the turqliois water apart. Cape and promontory and bay, nariow shute or hidden lagoon, still dells given over to the birds, or knolls swept by shrubbery, nil are nccessot ies lu thopictuio whoso completion would bo mailed hy the omission of a single detail. The beach whoso moist surface glistens temptingly is but a half-ieoognied factot of your enjoyment At Spirit Itko this lieach is about thiity feet wide and has the appear ance of a well kept artificial gravel walk. Among its pebbles ait, beautiful gemdlku bits of spar and chalcedony which would SCLNl AT SPIRIT LAKE. promenades. The muln building is three bundled anil (Kty-two feet long, with au ad dition projecting from the center to the rail road, giving It the shape of an inverted letter T. In this projection Is situated the great dining loom, whoso p'eusanter social pur IMise Is in its use as a ball room. Flights of broad stalls lead to the upper Ixdcouy, and on up to tho nine towers which surmount tho roof, and which is Itself adapted to prune undo purposes. The hotel accoininislatw about tints, hundred guests, and it has all the modern luxuries and coincidence of the U'st summer hotels Kery room is soar ranged that one door ojK'iis usn the outside veranda and another Ukiu au inside con Idor, The road has Ix-cti fortunate In its lessew, The jireseut landlord is Home. L Inland, one of the celebrated hotel family of that name, ami he sustains the family reputation handsomely An orchestia from St. I.ouls phi) s during tho dinner hour, and furnishes Hue music for the semi weekly ball in the dining room The rates are reasonable, Mug but f ;i Hii diem for transients, or for two jstoiis occupying a room 'M per week, for two occupying a room for two weeks or more, ?!(.' per week The hotel and the ample grounds about it me provided with the usual coiu-omltants of siiuiuier resorts You can find a ball patk, bllllanl loom, bowling alleys, tennis courts or any of the other Innocent amusements your taste may suggest It scents wholly uuius.es.sary to siieuk of the ample facilities (or enjoying the untival-1 ed baiting llesidts. the steamers and yachts, there are sinilll Units to hire galoie " I With such "ater and sin Ii a lieach, Itathing Is u in linedlvertlseineiit Amnio luith houses are in abundance The condil Ions which make the (Mistime safe ami attiactlve are all prm ent. The shelving lieach shqies lu gentle In cline out into the tiiiuspaieiit depths. There is no such thing as "deep holes" or abrupt shelves that lure the unwaij bather to his death. Nor is there that other stealthy en enty tho "under tow." In box plaits nllioiiinl, anil springing apart enough to show au Insertion of white wash Ilk between each plait The waist Is of the wash silk, opening lu surplice folds over u smooth fitting vest of the blue, and the full slis'Ves have blue ciiITh. A folded Ml of silk with large silver buckle, conceals the junction of skirt and waist In this archery costume, also designed by Hedferu, the plaited under ettlcoat Is of scarlet and white strlnsl wuihsllk, while the shirt, waist and skirt are of white serge. U)it the sides nud front of tlioupis-r, which iscut out iuilccp ziguig siliits, Is a braided band, done lu seal let and silver, and the licit and quiver chains are of slher The shirt has collar and culTs of tho strlssl silk, tslged with braided baud, narrower than that upon the sklit Hie rt) uiu i t c tiMpie is of wliite serge, with llunnel plaits lu fiont, and ii small scarlet tip fasteiitd by silver in row It may lx added that archer) admits of no end of graceful attitudes, nud shows toads vantage a pretty hand and wrist, and then it l so conducive to a quiet bit of tllriiitlon, when the would Isi archer il'vsii't quite know how to hold her bow, and therefoie nhAs ad vice of a beau of another soi t Ijist June, aftei the great Hood, I revclvisl a bottle of Chaiulierlaiu's colic, cholera nud diarthoea tcntcdy from my pastor, at a time when I was very much tun down with diar thoea. and had tried two doctors without finding any rlltr This leinedy teiluNed ine at once, and cured me entirely in a short time I got several Isittles and gave It around among my acquaintances who were ntlllctcd in the saute way. I think I gave it to a dozen jioople, and it relleuvl and euted, so far as I know, in all cases. It N the liest medicine for the disease I liawievcr known. Mrs. P. L. Ilenrle, Johnstown, Pa.