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HI i i I Saturday Morning Courier. I 1 VOLUME 8, NO. 35. UINGOLN, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1893. PRIGK FIVB GENTS '1 -I) i I'l lllinnillA ini l uoforothosca wiroalivowlth hundreds V HX fl ! Tfi Klnr price -"n prewmt for dlBii.mim." n If A T 1 VM III II Hill ' I Ml II V boats pushing out to Ui. Tho air was III III III II If II That almut tho way they make the re- If fl I fl I ' Xnlrrinil'f If IK I "v0 with "nK"' Bh(mtn lml murr in I II III IV I f ' mHrk' J hh unrortunatcly eaiiK)i In I kll M ) N II r I I llllll iun;iiuuuoui mm. imuu wiib iiuuu I II II 1110 act OI SlOllllllir a I) CtlirO or HOIII0 01 I II I I II Chkyknnk, Wyo., August 4, 1893. (Special Couhikk Correspondence. Tho most unlquo ontorprlBo in the development of tho northwest was tho shipment of a cargo of 300 Now England girls from Now York to the Pacific coast in 1865. Tho nchemo was originated and successfully accomplished by A. S. Mercer, who is now an editor and pro prietor of a newspaper in Choyenno. A young man of twonty-Blx at tho timo of this adventuro, ho now looks hack upon it as the noteworthy achievement of his life, and a few days ago ho gavo a do tailed account of it. "I overloaded my self with girls," said Mr. Mercor, "and broke my back financially, but from every other point of viow tho expedition was a success. Tho results woro notably good. Today many of those Now Eng land girls aro tho leaders of society in the Puget Sound country. They aro wives and mothers in many of the wealthiest and best families of Seattle, Olysapia, and other towns of tho state. So far as I can learn, all but ono of my cargo got married soon after reaching the coast. In Washington torritory thirty years ago, 'There's vm a lack of woman's nursing, Thero was a dearth of woman's toars.' "In fact tho women woro not there to nurse or cry. There woro few real homes because there were few women. The population wus largely madoupof lumbermen from Maino and tho provin ces, with an influx of men from the southern and middlo states. I was then president of tho Washington Territorial University, then just completed and with but few students. I went through the torritory 'visiting logging-camps and settlements, to awaken an interest in school matters. Seeing tho need of teachers, I arranged for bringing out thirty schoolma'ams from Massachusetts. The acquisition was hailed with delight. In the spring of 1905 I determined io atteptthevimporttton;iufwwnwi-niiir large scale. All theso experiments re sulted happily and, full of enthusiasm, I started for New York with tho great plan on my mind. I arrived there in April, 18G5. That night came tho fear ful news that shocked the whole civili zed world, tho assassination of Prcsidont Lincoln. Thin event changed my plans, and I went to Boston to lay tho schemo before John A. Andrew, tho great war governor. Ho then gavo mo a letter of introduction to tho Rev. Edward Everett Hale, asking him to interest himself in tho matter. Leaving lioston, I took a letter from Governor Andrew io President Johnson, spending many weeks in Washington for tho purpose of procuring government aid in transporta tion. I took Grant's order to tho quartermaster-general. Tho steamer Continen tal was selected, and a valuation of 8120, 000 placed upon her. This price wus considered u 'snap,' and many woro eager to mako tho purchase, among them Hen Holliday, who at that timo controlled tho steamship linos to tho Pacific coast. 'Let mo purchaso the steamer,' said Bon to me, 'and I will give your 500 women free passago to the cost.' This was finally agreed upon and the contract signed. Finally 300 of the girls woro gathered in Now York, ready to make tho trip. Tho Continen tal was coaled and manned and in wait ing, yet Holliday refused to take any party except at tho rato of 8100 each. This amount I guaranteed nnd paid. On the morning of January 4, I860, the girls embarked, and amid tho cheers of u large crowd assembled on tho wharf, the steamer started on its long Journoy. The voyage lasted nearly six months, and was marked by no misfortunes or exciting incidents. Except tho crew of thirty or forty, thero wero only two men passengers. Tho girls took to tho lifo agreeably as a vacation time, and occu pied the hours by sewing, writing, read ing, singing, etc. Wo had Sunday services, in which I read Beecher's sermons, and tho girls sang tho hymns. There was a good library on tho ship, which was in constant use. Dances were frequent, and various games served to vary tho monotony of those long days upon the ocean. No sickness occurred except sea-sickness. At last tho supreme moment arrived when wo wero to reach San Francisco. On tho U3d of May, 1800, we steamed through the Golden Gate. Our arrival had !een expected for several days. Excitement was at fever-heat. It was ono of those times when San Francisco gets a move on her pelf. As wo sailed up along the wharves a black, surging mass crowded every avenue of approach for three or four miles. Even at a distance wo could hear the mighty cheers that swept across the water. We came to anchorage, but the anchor had not touched the bottom before tho sea wan alivo with hundreds of boats pushing out to us. Tho air was lively with songs, shouts, and merry In terchange of talk. There vh quite u rivalry among tho boatB to got alongsido for a glimpse of my precious cargo. None, however, wero allowed to get aboard. Ono man attempted to make it by climbing up tho ship's sldo on 'a rope, but I stood by tho railing and knocked him off into tho water. This action, noted by thousands of spectators, was greeted with cheers. After a brief strugglo tho fellow was rescued, but.tho incident was made tho subject of a sketch by Jump, a well-known artist of that day. Tho scene, as depicted by his pencil, was displayed at tho Lick house tho noxt day, attracting immense crowds. I wont ahead overland to Seattle to mako ready for their accommodation when they should arrive. At Olympla I caught tho first boat coming up with my passengers. I took this boat and wont on with them, against tho udvico of somo of my old friends, who said tho Ieoplo of Scattlo had been prejudiced against mo and my cargo by evil reports, They predicted not only trouble, but Iiersonal violence As wo noarcd Seattle an old minister advised mo to hido on tho boat instead of going ashore. I told him that I would tako my chances. Tho sturdy pioneers assembled that evening looked upon them with uncon cealed admiration and perfect rcsticct. In addressing tho audience I said: '-My contract has been fulltllcd. I hnvo bankrupted myself, but I have brought you virtuous, rofined nnd practical young women. They will gladden your lives, mako beautiful homes, and assist in tho development of this great north west coast. They aro ready and willing to tako any honorable employment as teachers, housekeepers, seamstresses, cooks, clerks. Meanwhile arrangements must bo mado for them. What will you do?" An old preacher started in by saying ho would tako six. Others fol lowed with offers which resulted in tho cargo being divided up in squads .and located in different quarters of the town. Soon thoy were all provided with or inanent places and good fortune smiled ujnjir mum. xu1 R try "WWBTTJIipiUB arrows began to mako havoc in their ranks. Men found out that it was not good for thorn to bo alone. Many of tho girls would como and ask mo about certain persons who had begun to show them attentions. In six months nearly all had got married and wero happily settled in life." WHAT A MAN 8AYS. Mhm'iiIIiix IlontV Dfiniinilliiif Feminine Attention. Don't hate other women bo. Think of tho way you look at ono another on tho street. Don't keep all your polite ncss for us. Don't keep smoothing tho wrinkles out of your waist. A few wrinklcB will keep you from looking hideously smooth, like a fashion plate. Don't havo your skirt badly fastened at tho back so that your underskirt bo comes visible. You can't sco this, and no woman seems to tell you. Don't got oil tho car with your back to tho horses. Men got a great deal of fun out of your persistency in doing this. But you aro not bound to amuse them. Don't stand at the door of a street car and worry somo men near at hand into giving you n seat when thero aro empty scats at the head of tho car. You all do this. Don't leave your handkerchief and lockct book in your lap when you are riding in a street car. Somo man will pick them up for you as you aro passing out, but they will get muddy. Don't try to havo a long waist. For 3,000 yearB the artists tho professors and conservators of beauty huvo been saying that tho short wlilsl is tho waist beautiful. At least please take tho hint. Don't wait until you get in front of a ticket ofllco window before taking out your pocketbook. Tho wIvcb of tho eight men who aro patiently waiting the opportunity to buy tickets are wonder ing why they are so late home. Canon City coal at tho Whitebreasf Coal and Lime Co. Misses BoggB & CatTyn, dressmaking t-arlois F.no stamping, 1311 M street telephone 510. Visit tho Now Students' gallery and bo convinced that tho work is first-class. 1031 O street. "Tho Best" Laundry, 'J208 O street, telephone 570, H. Townsend & Co., pro prietors, Lincoln, Neb. Thero may be some nicer and cooler places to onjoy a plate of delicious ice creams than Chas. June's pavillion, but they aro not to bo found in this neigh borhood, Something good, "White Loaf Flour" 11.40 per sack. Miller A Gilford. CiiiiMtio, Aug. 3.- Special CouittK.it Correspondence.) Maybe It won't do-to tako for granted that every one knows exactly what the Midway Plalsanco Is, so I may be pardoned for stating right here that it is it street ulmut a mile long leading from Cottago Grove avenue to the Exposition grounds, and throughout its entire length It, is crowded with as much qualutncHB as it is KBsilo to get In such a compass. Starting in with tho real, genuine Bedouins and winding up with tho Irish villagers and tho authentic Blarney stone, where else under heaven can you find such a collection of ethno logical curiosities outside cf the seduc tive and elaborate circus Kstcr? How else under tho blue canopy Is it possible for a man to take tho trip to Dahomey, across tho great plains, send an hour or two in a real German beer garden and drink the brew of Father land, or widk through a street in Cairo, whero one can hob nob with camel drivers and donkey boys and bo mobbed by beggars for baksheesh on the Egyptian plan, or saunter through a Moorish or Turkish bazar and ail of theso tours aro personally conducted and as extended as tho visitor may deslro to mako them. Why, tho Nellie Bly circumnavigation act is not in it in point of expedition. And Nellie Bly couldn't jK)ssibly have jumped on tho one hand from the second story of a Chinese theatre over a high fence into an enclosure whero a scalp danco of un questionable resemblance to tho genuine article, with real red men direct from the plains as actors, was in progress, nor on the other into the basket of a captive French balloon, which was ready and willing to tako passengers 1,000 feet skyward for the modest sum of til per head. That's ono of tho possibilities on tho Plaisance, however, or was before the balloon was struck by a cyclone, and Irani nlar, if you.plMunv.that thts Arabs, Aborigines, Bedouins, Brazilians and so on down the list, alphabetically arranged, aro not Chicago foreigners, but they bear tho stamp of a strange nativity more conspicuously than so many of tho Yankee trinkets they sell. What a paradise for tho kodaker is this "round tho world in eighty minutes!" Of course tho little formality of paying '-' to one of the exposition's creatures for tho privilege of u day's photography has been gono through with and the man and Ills box turned loose at the Cottago Grove end. I havo always had a leaning toward Celestial material, and it might naturally bo expected that almost the first picture would be some thing saffron. In front of the Wah Meo exposition building -which contains, by tho way, tho exhibits of Chinese-American merchants and not of tho Chinese government, as one of our prominent railroad guides states was one of the children of tho son of heaven in goigeous apparel. The burden of his song was a plea for American quarters from visitors to his company's show. And lie sang it well, for tho hourly repetitions of a thor oughbred Chineso theatrical perform unco werewell attended (although poorly appreciated) and the skill of Quong Toung, juggler, warmly applauded. If Mr. Kellar wants to score a big success he should reproduce that heathen's trick with an empty tiu cracker box. Standing in front of a little square table on which tho box was resting,our friend Ah Sin produced from the cavernous depths of the tin a hatful of silk hand kerchiefs, two four-inch iron balls, cov ered with paper and tied together With a long rope; six paper boxes of about two pounds capacity each, four lighted lanterns of calmed glass, and a wicker cage with a live bird in it. Altogether tho stufr made about a wheel-harrow load, and I would havo thought that Confucian was great people if ho had only put it all back in tho box again. There's no uso trying to see things systematically in the Plaisance, because the "wheels don't go round" at tho most convenient time. It takes several trips up and down that mile of anthro Illogical aggregation for one to "catch on;" every time something new crops up, but every time tho Turks who run that lino of Sedan chairs aro there. If ou don't want to tako a drive in one of their tandem teams ou don't havo to, although if you get the least bit friendly or eommunlcutive and happen to bo standing near tho nxn door of tho out fit, the chances are that thoy will hustle you In and collect a bill before you got out. Those ducks have a habit which seems too well settled to attribute to any of Chicago's convincing- and that is of asking everyone who sample their private curs for something out the regular price -"a present for rils-n-nmn." That alwut tho way they make tho re mark, I was unfortunately caught In the act of stealing n picture of some of them, and In about two seconds thero was a blockade on tho Plaisance. Tho leader of tho band, a strapping big Armenian, Topoils by name, was satisfied eventually, and from him somo Hints on the domestic lifo of the gentlemen around me wero gained. He had three wives himself, but that was nothing; there was Hassam Maron who had six; and Hassam, a villainous looking fellow was Introduced; I thought ho could keep 'em for all I cared; any gltl who was foolish enough to fall In love with a man like that did not deserve thu esteem and admiration of a good-looking young American, nor anybody else. J ThoJady friends of the Turks who are on th ground there are not by any mcnnpreiiossesHing, If they aro typos of what Oriental romancers call hourls, then tho oetB had better investigate tho merits of hundreds of every-day beauties ami sing a few songs about them. Hourl stock, if those faded, washed-out ladles who play tho drum and tambourine in front of somo of those Plaisance estab lishments are exponents, will then be away Mown. If you want to boo the beauties of thu World's Columbian ex position, tho Javanese yillago Is tho place to take in. Diminutive editions of Vcbub in bronze abound thero, nurso little brown lumps of Java babies, wear gaudy! jewelry, do fancy work, and in various ways act liko tho native Ameri can article. But in tho mutter of dress Uiey arc peculiar. Tho two who hup panedto cross tho path of this particular cairieiyi were bothered apparently with upi.no garments apiece a sKlmpy sort irt and just enough of a waist to lao rather than conceal tho out- a shapely brown bust beneath. ent backward about showing ikies, as hosiery seems to bo an n quantity among them, and in fauces shoes or straw sandals Unimportant adjunct to their One of y r way for medicine or to catch the rain from an impending storm in tho Ger man village beer garden next door, for she carried a little tin bucket in a style that suggested u well known American custom, which she surely couldn't havo learned already. Of tho three days I spent at tho fair, a day and a half went to tho Plaisance, a day in tho art gallery and a half day was distributed among tho buildings and ground and the night Illuminations. Tho effect of nearly 80,000 electric lights and the wondrous play of color in the two fountains, one on each sldo of tho Triumph of theKepubllc,is tostrengthen tho impression that Chicago has not only sacked tho world for what was curious and beautiful, but had gotten a cinch on a bit of Paradise. Indeed, to my mind there could bo nothing more entrancing on tho face of tho earth than tho combination of splendors shown in that famous oblong. Fairyland is simply out of consideration, because ono just reads about fairyland, and here, right before one's eyes, is a real, tangible glory that can be best prepared for by a course of leading that will embrace a descrip tion of tho New Jerusalem. Gaily decorated gondolas filled with shivers float around the lagoon, and from away at the far end faintly comes the harmony of somo great composition then one looks for golden harps in tho hands of those white-clad figures down there along tho peristyle, but tho illusion was broken by an obtrusive discussion between a party of women and a Col umbian guard. The women were kick ing because they hadn't good seats to see the Illumination and that reminded mo of a private grudge against the allair; it couldn't well bo protographed. Tills picture businets with some folks is a sort of ruling passion, and it need not Ik wondered at that some of those en thusiastic aiuateurs'will kick, later on, I ecause they left their cameras, like all their earthly possessions, behind them. T. T. Fruited ice cream soda water made from the natuial fruit, at Rector's Phar macy. W. A. Collin .V Co., grocers, 113 South Eleventh street. Mountain Rose Pine Apple is better i and cheaper than any other in the mar ket. Miller & Gilford. Fine new line of business suitings from W to 840 in Scotch and homespuns, Jeckell Bros., 110 north Thirteenth street, near Lansing theatre, L. S. Glllick, Fashionable Tailor. j Latest noelties in gentlemens' spring , goods. Gillick still caters to the wish of the public. Call on him and be suited. ' 101U O stuet, loom 10. of ask emiirsM lines if Theyinr their i unknfw most Mm are en t potkft Medkcrchlof wardrobe. ,U.?.irhovJicJ sikuikiuk, was ufiMrentlf either on Ire V1IIII 1 1 A wwA This is tho time of year when peoplo deliberately forsake comfortable homes and go camping out, so that they can enjoy nnti1ro,und bacon, and canned corned beef, and tho companionship of Niiakes, and flies, and mosquitoes, and be generally uncomfortable for the sake of "a change," They .usually get a change, but some, times it isn't tho kind of a change thoy want. "I went to tho mountains and camped out under a canvas tent and tho starry canopy of heavon because I wanted to onjoy tho pure mountain air and drink in tho fragrance of pluo and balsam; because I wanted to bo Invigor ated and strengthened by tho toulu of the ozone to be found in the forest and in tho great hills, whore nature basks in all her glory, and whero tho footprints and other things of men aro not disturb ing factors," remarked a Lincoln young lady the other day, "but I didn't get what I expected. Instead of the odor of the pine and tho puro air of thu mountains I got tho smell of Espoy's fragrant cream, and witch-hazel, and cocoa butter, and pennyroyal, and ottar of roses and a dozen other fearful con coctions that peoplo tako with them when they go awuy from homo. "These things not only choked up all tho chinks in the tent, but they seemed to havo permeated tho atmosphere for miles around, urn! when I got my lungs ready to inhale a good big doso of mountain ozone the chances woro nine to one that I struck a strata of odor from a bottlo of pennyroyal or a cloud of smell from tho witch-hazel cantoon I saw nature through a glass darkly, and imbibed fresh air clouded with drug store reminiscences." And speaking of canned corned beef, is mere any tklng, mere ubiquitous or in lUtlssHi tawiiWi; -f (U'mh, you may, to the frozen regions of tho north or the blazing jungles of tho torrid zone, to tho furthermost nnlnt t r zone, to tho furthermost point east or west, away from the haunts of men and far from tho maddlm, ,.rn,,1. vn nt far from the tunddinir crowd, vou cannot escape tho tiu can. It is ulways in your path. Penetrate mountain fastnesses, climb craggy heights, pull yourself up wild canons, go where you uro suro tho foot of man never trod before, and at your feet you will find an empty tin can, tho erstwhile receptacle of somo of Mr. Armour's preparations, or somobody or other's brand of condensed milk. Turn into tho forest and seek the wildest spot in its dim recesses, and when you pauBo in boiuo jiootic llight to catch your breath, your boot will catch a lithograph covered cyclinder of tin that was onco a can of corn. Thero is no place on this earth that tho tin can has not been. When tho predestined discoverer of tho north iolo finally reaches that cold and clammy piece of perpendicularity it will bo strange indeed if he does not llnd it capjwd with un empty sardine can or a can, of some kind. Tho tin can is a long way ahead of tho man who paints signs on rocks. It goes where the sign painter and other angels fear to tread. It is said that misery Is every where; but tho tiu can is lodged In many places whero misery hasn't even a calling acquaintance. But, seriously, camping out is great fun. It is more fun than shoveling coal or carrying brick or any pastime like that. The man who can't see any fun In sleeping on the ground among thu rocks and thu ants, or in making a water carrying machine of himself, or in work ing from early dawn to dowey eve, and later, to attain that great desideratum, a good time, or in cxsing his face and hands to the sun until his own mother has to havo a diagram to distinguish him from a (Milled lobster, or in any of the many camp recreations, has no idea of what fun is, and he doesn't deserve to be enlightened, Peoplo who camp out, and fish and hunt, alwujB observe one thing- that some how or other it is invariably the biggest fish that slips off tho hook just as on are alxjut to laud him, or that the game ou bring into camp is always much smaller than that which you went after and nearly caught. This is a phenomenon that has never been satisfactorily explained. And when you slip on the rocks it is ulways tho largest llsh that slide off tho string, and when ou tell the story in camp, the others alwas laugh. Strange conciden ces. Cumpers have also observed a pecu liarity about tents. There is u certain diuw ing quality in a tent thut alwaj asserts itself, If It rains all tho wator in tho Immediate vicinity seems de termined to llnd shelter under I ho tnnt. and if thero aro files In tho neighbor hood, they all insist on occupying tho tent with you. liko tho entile and chickens In tho Irishman's cottage. But It Is run to go out and mlnglo with tho idiosyncrasies of camp life, and tho man who sticks to his couch at homo and his threo regular meals dally, when ho might bo communing with nature and living on irlc and beans and canned peaches and, sich and ad miring the heavens and tho everlasting hills with his shoes full of damp feet, is lacking in a proper appreciation of tho things which go to mako up a good time. A MUSICAL BEDSTEAD. ItMliclit ll ullnml TlilnirNoiiinlliiirs Hut Nut Alwii), You know, A unique bedstead has boon con Btruoted by a Bombay man who ovi deutly had music In his soul. At its corners aro four full-sized gaudily dronsod Grecian damsels, thoso at tho head holding banjos, while thoso on tho right and left foot hold fans. Bonoath the cot is a musical Ixix, which extends thu whole length of tho cot, and is capa ble of playing twelvo different charming airs. Tho music begins tho momont the least presauro is brought to Iwar from tho top, which is created by ono sleeping or sitting, and ceases tho momont tho Individual rises. While the music Is in progress tho lady banjoists at tho hoad manipulate the strings with their fingers ard move their heads, while tho two Grecian damsels at tho bottom fan the sleeper to sloop. There Is a button at tho foot of tho cot which, aftor a little pressure, brings alwut a cessation of the music, if such be tho desire of tho occu pant. WITH I AUTHORS . In the Atlantia Manthlu for Aunui f&&m&&&&8ilh E nJ"1 ' " ,Dton "" Winter Before ho War-a paper gir- portant paper on "Washington the 7tZ"1ZZZ ,7?! i .u of I'V.V"0 foel,n at that timo' who ing his impressions of tho excited state rebellion was alwut to burst into fiamo. Charles Egbert Craddock's vividly told Btory, "His Vanished Star,"iscontlnuod, and thero is a clover short story by Ellen Olnoy Kirk, entitled "A Strategic Movement." Mrs. Alice Morso Earle. whoso pictures of tiro revolutionary lifn aro always entertaining reading, has u paper called "A Boston School Girl in 1771," which will reward attention; and tho Rev. George E. Ellis, president of tho Massachusetts Historical society, has an able paper on "Jonathan Belcher, a Royal Governor of MasachuBetts,"' Mrs. Olive Thorno Miller has a bird paper entitled "Little Boy Blue," and Edith M. Thomas sketches a quaint character in hor story of "Tho Ogro of Alowifo Cove." A second paisjr in tho Corresondenco of Petrarch, and an in teresting account of tho first principal of Newnham college the grout English institution for the collegiate training of women with other papers, some re views, and tho usual quota of good jwetry, complete one of thuso well com ttosed numbers which aro increasing tho Iiopulurity of this sterling magazine. Maupassant, says tho French writer's eulogist, "kept uloot from leternry coteries, and only wrote because ho had to mako money, and not in tho least for glory." Yet, says this same distin guished author und friend, ho wbb very sincerely devoted to his art. In fifteen years he produced twenty volumes, and it was perhaps as well that he did not have tho oportunity to double this number, as he undoubtedly would havo done had he retained his mind and life. "I have sometimes an anxious and melancholy feeling," said tho speaker, "In presence of tho bulky production of our period. An accumulation of many volumes is very heuvy luggage for glory, and man's memory cares not to burden itself with such u weight." Ciniiiiiriiceiiirnt ut WrMt-ru NwrimiL, The commencement exercises at the Western Normal college will occur next week, commencing tomorrow, Sunday, with a baccalaureate sermon by Rv. I. C. Moulton, of Red Oak, la. Tho graduation exercises of the jk'H urt, drawing, and normal commencement clsscs will bo held Monday evening; normal class, Tuesday eveuim.': mda. gogic and kindergardeu clasm-s, Wed ucbday evening; scientific classes, Thurst day evening; classic class, Friday uvon ing. Degrees will bo conferred Friduy evening at which timo thu annual alumni banquet will be given. New ImiKirted Swiss Cheese. Miller b & Gifford.groceis, opposite Burr block. V iH,u tt,.'-, ,mm, jiflfci. , .wtfAv'w JftifcL r i-i-ik-'u ft-jah- '
