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WKEPIXC WATER.
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I'ACTOKYVILXJS.
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HATES CIIAR;C1 FOK
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J. W. Mak-hhai.i. P.M.
OFFICIAI. DIRECTORY.
CITY DIRECTORY.
GEORGE 8. SMITH, Mayor.
' WILLIAM II. CCSHING, Treasurer.
J. 1. SIMPSON, Ciiy Clerk.
WILLETT POTTENGKK. Police Judice.
K. 11. WINDHAM, City Attorney.
P. B. MUKPHY. Chief of Police.
P. McCANN, Overseer of Streets.
C. KOXHNKE, Chief of Fire Dept.
S. IL K1CUMOND, Ch'u Board 01 Health
- COUNCILMEJt.
1st Ward Wm . Ilerold. U. M. Bons.
2nd Ward J. M. Patterson. J. II. Fairfield.
3rd Ward M. B. Murihv, J. E. Morrison.
4th Ward P. D. Lehiiboa. P. McCullaii.
SCHOOL. BOARD.
JESSE B. STRODE. J. W. BARNES.
M.A. IIARTIGAN Wm. WINTEKSTEEN.
L, D. BENNETT, V. V. LEONARD.
fbffmtutrJ NO. W. MARSnAI.I.
COtXTY DIRECTORY.
W. IL NEWELL. County Treasurer.
J.W. JENNINGS, County Clerk.
J. W. 1OIINSON. County Judite.
IL W. I1ERS. SneiiC.
CYRUS ALTON', sup't of Pub. Instruction.
G. W. FAIRFIELD, County Surveyor.
P. P. GASS. Coroner.
COUXTY COMMISSIONERS.
JAMES CRAWFORD. South Bend Precinct.
BAM'L RICHARDSON. Mt. Pleasaut Precinct.
A. H. Tout, PiattsiaouUi
Parties having business with the County
Commissioners, will find them in session the
First Monday and Tuesday of each month,
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BOARD Or TRADE.
FRANK CARRUIH. President.
J. A CONNOR, HENRY BJCCK, Vice-Presidents.
WM. S, WISE. Seeietary.
FRED. GORDER. Treasurer.
Begolar meetings of the Board at the Court
House. t a e Lrst Tuesday eveuing of each month.
J. F. BAUHEISTER
Furnishes Fres. rare Milk
DELIVERED DA1ET.
Special calls attended to, and Fresh Milk
from same furnished when wanted. lv
LATTSUOUTH MIJ-LS
TTSMOCTH NEB.
C. U CIS EL,
Proprietor.
plowTt Corn 2Ceat tf? Feed
riattAiuoutli Telephone Excbane.
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Iti-nnett & Lewis, store.
M. H. Murphy & Co.,
Bonner Htabfcs.
County Clerk's office.
K. II. Lewis. rexld-iicf .
.1. V. Week liacli, store.
Western Union Tel-Kraph office.
1 . II. Wheeler, residfiicK.
1. .Cinibfll,
K. h. Wlndnam, "
J no. Wayinau, '
J. W. JflllllllKS,
W. H. Wine, olllcp.
Morrisspy firosM office.
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20 G. W. Fairfield. reldence.
21 M. B Murphy.
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D. II. Wheeler & Co . offirt-.
J. P. Taylor, residence.
First Natioual Bank.
P. E. Runner's office.
J, P. Young, store.
Perkins House.
K. W. livers, residence.
Journal office.
Fair field' ice office.
1Ikkai.ii Puis. Co office.
J. N. Wise, reMdence.
H. M. Chapman, "
W. I. Jones, "
A. N. Sulllvun, "
II. K. PulnuT.
W. II. Hchlldkneclit, nfflpi-.
Kullivaii ti Woon-y,
A. W. McLaughllu. residence.
A. Patterson, livery.
C. M. Ilolines, "
L. I. Bennett, residence.
Geo. S. Smltli. office.
1 A. Moore, lltir st.
.1 , W. Barnes, rc-iitleiice.
H. it. Llviiig-.toii, office.
J. V. Weckbiich, rc-xideiice.
fhnpliiiii Wright. "
W. II. Hchlldkiircht "
Geo. S. Smith,
It. R, Llviiightuu. '
C. C. Ballard,
The switch board connects I'lattsinouth with
Ashland, Arlington, lihtir, Counril ISlurTs, Fre
mont, Llncolu, Omaha F.lklioru Htation.
Papilllon, Springllcld, iiulovillo South Bend
and Waverly.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
smith & hi;eso..
ATTORNEYS AT UW. Will practiee In all
the Courts in the state. Office over Flint Na
tional B;iuk. 4vl
PLATT8MODTH - NKURASKA.
IU. A. HALIHBl'UI.
DBUTIST.
Office over Smith, Black ft Co's. Druix Store.
First class dentistry at reasonable prices, 23ly
JI. i:aui:, 31. ..
PHYSICIAN andSURfiEON. Office 1.11 Main
Street, between blxtli and Soveuth, south fide
uinco open ouy ami uignt
COUNTY l'HVSiriAV
Special attention given to diseases of women
anti cniKiren. 21 tf
M. O DONOHOE
ATTORNEY AT LAW ft NOTARY PUBLIC.
Fitzgerald's Block.
rUATTSMOUTir. - NEBRASKA
Agent for Steamship lines to and from Europe.
dl2w52ly
K. IC LIVISliMTOX. Si.
PnYSICIAN ft 8URUEOS.
OFFI E HOURS, from 10 a. m., to 2 p.
cAdiiuii u ourgeon mr v. a. reusiou.
IR. N. M1LLKR,
PHYSICIAN A NO SURGEON,
Can be found by calling at his office, corner 7lh
auu Aiain aircets, 111 J. it. waterman's House.
PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA.
J AH. M. MATHiZTVH
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office over Baker ft At wood ' store, outh sid
ot Main between 6th and Mil streets. 2ltf
mtkoim: a c.auk.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice In all
mcvinui.1 111 mc omie.
DMrict Altitrntj awl Xutant Public.
COZ.J.ECTJOJVS .-4 H2ECIH 1.21.
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Real Estate. Fire Iu-
uKuicciim voueciion Agency. Office Unioi
Jlock. Platlsmoulli Nebraska. 22ni3
l.II. WMEHLEIt A. CO.
LAW OFFICE, Real Folate. Fire and Life l-
suruuee AKenis, i iattsniouin, Nebraska. Col
lectors, tax -payers. Have a complete abutraci
vi uun. du) auu sen real estate, nemti.-t't
r.lm 'Jim
JAMES tL vtBKlsoX,
. Notary Public.
ATTORNEYAT LAW. Wl".l practice in Cas.
and adjoining Counties ; gives special atteutioi
to collections and abstracts of title. Office ii
HUgerald Block, Plattemouth, Nebraska.
17yl
J. C ATTf BERRY,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Has his office in the front part of his residence
on Chicago Avenue, where ne may be found in
roauiness to attend the duties of the of
nee. I7tf.
ROBERT B. WI.V1HIAK,
Notary Public
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office over CaiTuth's Jewelry Store.
Plattsmouth.
- Nebraska.
M. A. HARTICAfJ.
Xi A W Y E IS .
Fitzgerald's Block. Plattsmouth Neb
Prompt and careful attention to a ceneral
Law Practice. s
A. fi. SULLIVAN,
Attorney and ICounselor-at-Law.
0FFICE-In the ITnion BLvjk. front rooms
second story, souc 1. Prompt ittontion given t
all busirics . ruar-25
BOYL & LARSEN",
Contractors and Builders-
Will give estimates on all kinds of work. Any
orders left at the Lumber Yards or Post
Office will receive promnt attention
Heavy Truss Framing,
for barus aad large buildings a specialty.
For refeienca apply to J. P. Young. J. V. Wee
ji; 1 or 11. A. Water man & Son. d&w
i "'Ft-
7 p.
- EEST Ui THE MARKET.
Zr.ido OXLTof Vegetable Oil
and lure Ueef Tallow,
To Induce housekeepers to give this Soap
10 give mis soap
FREE
B trial. WITH EACH BAR
WE GIVE A FINE
TABLE NAPKIN
This offer in made for a short time only
and should be taken advantages of at ONCE.
We WABBANT this Soap to do more wash-
Ins with greater case than any soap In the
market. Ii has no EQUAL for use In hard
and cold water.
YOUR GROCER HAS IT.
a.A.Wrisley&Go.
of Standard laundr?
Tnilsrt Soass
UTir Lsrgs GABDCT finDf
fWrlWii Cels'a Kttblt Ate)
I'KsOlsrsl rre to All. W.
r.d oa .to l""'w ol Yental
aod the rtCoiUctu ot Veretblc.
r !.iwr, ttrnM 01 JWsrjin. J'.VRryii.inuj, titrxl
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THE OTHER SIDE
To tho Story of the Immense ProfltJ
of Cattle-Halslnc-
nsKSsines vs. llerds---The Honboj'n
3Ionotonou I "re -Another I-nnd
Grnh- The rialn Truth.
Frank Yilkcson In New York Sun.
At present the excitement alxj'.iL cattle ap-
proaches In luteiuity a mining craze. The
writers for the pros and illiiKtratod maga-
ziu are, in a great measure, ref ponsible for
calling public attention to tho western plains
and the Kocky mountain valley as desirable
localities ftr cattle-breeding. The majority or
these writers know absolutely nothing about
the breeding and successful handling of cattle.
They could not distinguish a Uiu hatn steer
from a scalawag Texan, Their knowledge w
obtained from the fraudulently kept stock
books and lying statements mado by ranch
men, who are anxious to unload on English
and eastern investors. The impression con
veyed by these writers is that the western
plains and mountain valleys teem with herds
of cattle, fding on the nutritious grasses,
and that certain wealth awaits all men wno
will pay attention to their herds. Descrip
tions of life on the plains and in the mount
ains abound in these writings. The pictures
are attractive, but are they true?
A MONOTONOUS LIKE.
Cuttle raising in tho west is life on the
frontier. It is a life of ceaseless monotony.
There is but littlo dangsrof the Indians being
attracted away from government rations in
s-als. The extinction of the buffalo before
the rifles of the white robe- hunters has solved
tho Indian question. The ranges that these
animals used to migrate over to and fro are
now cattle ranges over which the stock grow
ers ride. There is nothing fascinating in the
life of a cowboy, or in that of an owner of a
small herd. It can bo summed up in a few
few weeks' hard riding in the spring, during
the branding roundup, and a few weeks more
during the beof roundup in the fall. The rest
of the year is spent in watching the horns of
cuttle grow, in counting the rings on the base
of those weapons of defence, and in
cooking and eating bacon and bread.
This attractive life is varied by men who
have families of sufficient means by living in
some little squalid frontier town. Life in
one of the-i towns is not attractive. The
meu lf. Time hangs heavily on the hands
of such men as cannot supply themselves
with intellectual amusement by Bitting on an
empty dry-goods box and pounding their
boot heels against the resounding sides, while
disfthig bucking ponies and cows whose
tails have been frozen off. The idle stock
growers are apparently wrapped up
in absorbing thought as to the east'
ern states, or as to whether Clark's
banana-tailed, one-horned cow, the one
with the diamond R brand on her
right side, and an uudercrop on her left ear,
is seven or eight years old. There is some
hunting done by theso men, but the greater
portion of them do not hunt They loaf, they
tleep,they lie on blankets, they eat poor food,
wrctchodly cooked. A bright, nervous, in
tellectual young man would abandon the
business, as it is generally conducted, in less
than a week. He would turn his horse s bead
toward the nearest railroad station, and get
ting on the first train, would abandon ranch,
cattle, horses and the log cabin standing on
the sirocco-swept plain, and hasten to his
father and confess that he had made a mis
take. He would frankly acknowledge that
he could not live without the society of his
fellows.
A "CATTLE COUNTRY."
The phrase "It is a cattle country" means
much more than eastern men suppose. To
western men, and by western I mean west of
the 100th meridian, it conveys the impression
of a country of extreme aridness, of rolling
plains furrowed at wide intervals by sluggish
streams of alkaline water. Across the plains
waves of heat roll in- the summer, causing
the air to tremble, and through which heated
medium all objects are distorted to the vision.
In the winter arctic storms sweep out of the
north- The snow flies horizontally through
the air. The furious wind drives it into the
ravines, there not being enough vegetation
on the levels to hold the snow particles. In
the cattle country there are no trees, no
good water, unless in mountain val
leys. The grass becomes brown and
dry in late June or early July. Every
drop of rain that falls after the grass
has died for want of water, injures
the feed by washing nutriment out of it.
This early death of the grass is explained to
strangers in an airy manner. A'he cattle
breeder indicates an extensive scope of arid
country with outstretched, sweeping arm,
and says: "No need for mowing machines
here. Nature makes the hay. No heavy
work for men in providing feed for the cattle
during the winter. The grass cures where it
grew. The cattle help themselves." The
truth is that on the plains enough grass could
not be cut on a hundred acres to feed a cow
through the winter. In the vallej-s grass can
be grown if the land is irregated, and bet
ter hay that is, more nutritious hay
made than in any of the eastern States.
But where cattle are held in herds of ten,
fifteen, or twenty thousand, it is not possible
to procure hay for tbem.
BEEF VS. PORE.
At the present prices much money can be
made in raising cattle. But will the price of
beef rule as high in the near future as it does
now? The high price of beef is easily ex
plained by the fact that there have been
three successive short corn crops. How does
the corn crop affect the price of beef? As
corn is fed to hogs in the western states, a
bushel makes ten pounds of pork. In the corn
country the price of hogs is generally regu
lated by the price of corn. When corn is
worth So cents per bushel, hogs bring about 3
cents per pound. When corn is worth 75
cents per bushel, hogs are worth about Scents
per pound. When a full crop of corn is made,
after a succession of poor crops has sent hogs
skyward, the farmers see that they had better
feed their corn to cattle and hogs. They save
the cost of hauling to the market towns.
There is an over-supply of the grain, and the
price is low.
The fate of the corn crop is known in early
August. If a general rain falls soon after
the grain has set on the cob, the corn crop is
made. "When this happens, the hog breeders
instantly increase their breeding stock (I have
doubled my stock of breeding swine after a
rain), and in sixteen weeks the farms are
overrun with young pigs. In twenty weeks
more there is another crop of pigs. In less
than a year from the date on which the farm
ers were satisfied that the corn crop would
prove to bo a fair one, the new crop of hogs
are butchered in Chicago and Kansas City.
The stock of hogs can in a year be increased
from scarcity to over-supply. Just as soon
as this occurs, down goes the price of pork
until it is cheaper than beef, and the mill
ions of people who depend on their daily
labor for their food, buy the cheap
er meat. Beef is neglected. To sell it the
price has to be reduced. It falls in price until
it is comparatively as cheap as pork. This
has been the history of all high prices of beef.
A f nil corn crop reduces the price of meats.
The bottom will fall out of the present ex
citement about cattle raising promptly after
the husking of the first full crop of corn. An
other factor that will aid in reducing the
price of beef is the fict that no calves are
killed in the corn country. In many of the
towns lying along th railroad in Kansas,
Kebrnslr, Iowa and Missouri it is impossible
to buy veal. The butchers say that they
cannot purchase calves from the farmers.
CATTLE MORTALITY.
The mortality among cattle is very large
on all the ranges of high altitude. This i.
necessarily bo under the present system of
management. Two-year-old heifers drop
calves in the early spring. An animal 2
years old has not reached maturity. They
shed their teeth at that ago. The young
creatures are called upon to feed strong calvesJ
rtymio; at thtlr sides, to", nourish others, and
to complete tneir growxn. me young ani
mals apiwrently thrive until late in the ua
'rt.n thm oiira am stranir and demand
more milk than thoir dams can supply when
. - a f ... a 1 1 a
fed on dry grass that has Lad a poruoii ui 1
trength washed out by rains. The heifers
could be saved if their owners would wean
the calves and allow them to rocruit uiort
the icy blasts of winter sift through them; but
th is is hel lorn done. The cal ves stick to tla-i 1
dams until the enfeebled systems of he
cows can no longer supply milk. By this ;
time the animals are mere bones encased in a ,
murrTi lif.1 Tlirv ra admost reaIy to lie 1
flnwn find i; Thiv have lost all ambition.
all desire to live. In the case of a mature
cow the results are much tho same. These
animals are never in good condition, unless
the grass bos been of unusual goodness and
the winter exceedingly mild. Thousaiula of
cows die every w inter because their owners
neglected to wean their calves. On the plains,
the breeding stock of a herd rapidly disap
pears; but they do not disappear from the
herd books.
It must not be believed that all the land
represented in bright colors on tho maps of
the land grant railroads are grazing lands.
There are extensive tracts of land in the west
that are remote from water. These ore
grassy deserts. There is a limit to the dis
tance that horned stock can travel to and
from a range for water. The daily dri ve of a
herd of Texas cattler and they are by far the
best travelers of all cattle, is limited to fif
teen miles. Tho animals will about hold
their flesh when traveling that distance per
day. If pushed to twenty miles they rap
idly lose flesh. This being so, it is plain that
native cattle, that are notoriously ioor
travelers, cannot walk more than fifteen
miles per day and keep in good condition.
If the feeding grounds are more than eight
miles from water, tho cattle will not grow
fat. If they are ten miles from water the
animals will lose flesh. The limited capacity
of stock to travel liars them out 0 entensive
ranges.
A COMINO GRAB.
There is an act of congress, called thv
sert laud act, under the provisions of whlcfc
1,000 acres of land can be secured. The sf t
tler has to irrigate the tract, fence it, and at
the end of three years pay $1.25 per acre for
it. It was supposed by the members of con
gress from eastern states that desert land
would be reclaimed under this act. The
trouble Is that desert land is not taken, and
the originators of the bill did not intend that
lands actually desert should be taken. The
plan is to claim tho oasis of the plains, the
natural meadows, to fence and irrigate them,
and thus get possession of the hay land,
which will in the future control the graz
ing land. The lands located under this
act always skirt the rivers, and so
control the water, and through
the water the hay lands and all the adjoining
range. This process of absorbing the range
can best be seen in the valley of the Arkan
sas river. There the river is fenced for miles,
and the process is complete. It can be seen
in various stages of advancement in any of
the western territories; in soma but just com
menced ; in others almost finished. This law
was devised by the cattle men for the pur
pose of defrauding tho government out of
the public grazing lands. Cunningly do
vised, it answers perfectly. The hay lands
of the plains and the mountain valleys, will
soon be in the possession of men owning
large herds.
CATTLE KINGS.
Certain men, who have been successful in
cattle raising, are siezed by the coat collar
and dangled before the eyes of the eastern
public as remarkable examples of what in
dustry and paying close attention to horned
stock will accomplish for any young man
who has the pluck to go west and work faith
fully. If the stories are to be believed, these
successful men always come west penniless.
They arrive at certain towns astride of a
spavined, ringboned horse. This worthless
animal they traded for a spotted heifer. This
heifer is represented as the foundation of the
herd. They worked and every cent they
earned they put into female cattle. Gradu
ally they became rich. That is the regula
tion tale. The truth is that thev invested con
siderable money in cattle. They branded
all the calves they could catch. When
their herd was filled with steers fit for the
butcher, they opened a butcher shop in the
nearest town and drove the other butchers,
who did not own herds of cattle to despair by
the low prices of the beef they sold, and
finally drove them out of the business. This
accomplished, they promptly increased the
price of beef until there was 500 per centum
profit in it. They kept the price up until tho
other shops resumed business. Then down
went the price of beef, until the other butch
ers could not afford to dull their knives and
saws in cutting roasts and steaks. Again
they shut up their shops. The very instant
the black leg and kindred diseases broke out
in the eastern states, and skyward went the
price of beef. For fourteen years I have seen
this game played in the west.
Another exceedingly profitable branch of
the cattle business was, and is, the supplying
of Indians with beef. An Indian beef con
tract is a prize ; it is a fortune for any western
cattle breeder. . A thin, scalawag Texan
steer, that has been reduced by hard driving
and alkaline water until it is doubtful if he
will tip the scales at 600 pounds, staggers off
of the platform under the weight of 1,300
pounds of beef. It is astonishing how heavy
a steer is when an employe of the department
of the interior weighs bun.
Another branch of the business is the fat
tening of cattle on hay. Again three-year-old
steers are selected. They are driven into
a corral, and there get all the hay they can
eat. The mountain hay is so nutritious that
the steers become as fat as corn-fed animals
in the Eastern States. It has been the cus
tom for several years to ship beef during the
winter, when cattle are thin on the range
from Kansas City to Denver. The beef so
sbiDoed is of a good quality. This spring I
saw better beef that is, fatter beef hanging
in a butcher shop in iaramie city, wy., than
I saw in Denver. This choice beef was fat
tened on hay cut on the Little Laramie river.
The business of winter feeding steers on the
plains promises to increase rapidly in the near
future, it is a penocwy otn uusiness, ana
very profitable. As it increases, so will the
value of the hay lands obtained under the
Desert Land act.
Slore Terse.
New York Tribune.
Oscar Wilde calls the American girl "an
oasis of unreasonableness in a desert of com
mon sense." The American girl is more terse
in her characterizations. She calls Mr. Wild
a donkey.
THE "MAT T WOMAN.
Mrs. Langtry as an Example The
Woman Who Is Mistress of the Sit
uation. Nym Crinkle in N. Y. World.
I saw Mrs. Langtry for about 10 minute
once when she was not on the stage.
I made up my mind then that she would b
a successful woman almost anywhere in a
world made up in largo part of men and
masculine persons.
There were present several of these latter
creatures, and tuey basked and gamboled in
her sunshine with a hew sense of their smart
ness and their strength.
She never contradicted them. She never
questioned their statements. Every one of
them felt in less than five minutes that she
confided in him specially; that there was a
secret bond of sympathy; that she had seized
his better nature; that for once In his life he
bad met a woman who understood him.
If there is anything in this world that the
masculine person yearns for, it is in this
schedule.
When she was asked to express an opinion
on some trivial matter I don't remember
whether it was Fanny Davenport's acting or
the weather at Long Branch aha looked
timidly round with her clear gray eyes upon
each of the masculine persons, and said:
"llayir
Here we bad the Ivy and the oak 1 educed
to practice.
Every man in that group grew on inch or
two .in stature aad in eirth .without Wno in
ft. A new marnammiry strmrt in nun ram
ho cried, "Certainly I certainly I"
He felt that be would overlook all hor weak
nesses, all her immaturity of opinion, all her
want of knowledge, as became a man. A sort
of eloquent gray appeal went out from her
eyes continually. It waa like the bead on our
youthful dreams when women were all con
fiding angels and wanted strong, manly na
tures) to tell them what was the matter w ith
them and what they ought to do and say.
I have met that "May 1" woman a good
many times since, and she always walked
over the stoniest places of life with sylph-like
comfort, for all the masculine persons put
their necks down for her to step upon.
She is tho superb phantom of the social cir
cle, the mistress of the mob, the empress of
the masculine persons everywhere, and no
where is she such a mistress of the situation
as in the theatre.
And into this troubled arona the "May If
woman comes like a sweet breath of ether,
and all is quiet.
She disarms temptation by an angelic sub
servience. She defeats opposition, for there is never
anything to oppose.
She is a continual and an invisible carets.
But it is like the carets of the pickpocket it
coaxes not only your pardon but your purse.
My observations of masculine persons leach
me to believe that they go about seeking
whom they may devour from a very early
period in their masculinity and when they
meet a palpitating Charlotto Itusse of this
kind they encounter a new order of softness
that disarms them. They have to eat it with
a spoon.
Your ordinary masculine persou dowmt
wont to be conjured. Ho wants to bo cajoled.
And in eery set of pretty women who
tyrannize with their black eyes and coerce
with thoir saucy conduct there is one gray
eyed "May I" creature who quietly locks up
all the mon's hearts; and then, in her own
sweet and docile way, tortures and pawns
and burns them afterwards, without bo much
as a protesting squeak.
I should like to get Dr. Mary "Walker to go
and give Mrs. Langtry some lessons in
woman's mission. I should like to see the
operation. I fancy that most excellent
female doctrinaire would ruffle her feathers
and raise her bristles and her whalebone and
carry her umbrella like a lance. And she
would tell Mrs. Langtry that it was neoos
sary to have an aggressive individuality, a
strong, defiant will and a determined purpose
in order to succeed ; that life is a battle and
art a scrimmage and death a challenge.
Then the Lily would look down and sigh
and think of her bank account and her next
season, and acknowledge that it was all too
true, and Dr. Walker would go away con
vinced, and Mrs. Langtry would put on a
new robe and take a ride.
Effeminate Xoneutity.
Louisville Courier-sJournal.
"I think, myself, that the race has about
gone to seed," said one young lady as she
flirted out the back of her overdress and be
gan revolving in front of the mirror. "For
my part, I wish we could go back to tho days
of romance and chivalry. Men had some
style about thom then. Just imagine a mod
ern dude in the role of Lochinvar or Sir
Brian de Bois Gilbert 1"
"Or a Richard Coeur de Lion in coi"sets and
a bustle," asked the other.
"A bustle!" ejaculated her companion, in a
tone of grieved surprise.
"Yes, a bustle. I am told it has even come
to that."
"Well, but I don't see I don't understand
I can't imagine where they would put it,"
she went on desperately.
"Oh, it isn't like tho others; it is made of
hair cloth and steel ribs, and it is put in be
tween the lining and the outside of coat tails
to make them set smooth and give them the
proper spring. Seems to mo it is time for
women to take out patents on the few de
vices they have left."
"Do you know I heard the other day that
some of them are having their faces enam
eled, and using cosmetics like a woman?"
"I knew they were doing that in larger
places, but I didn't know they had begun it
here. Sallie has just come back from
New York, you know, and sho eays they
have places where they go regularly to liave
their complexions attended to ; some of them
have a pink tint put on, but most of them
prefer a clear brown, which is very becom
ing and not so effeminate."
These were painful revelations, and they
roused some disquieting questions as to
whether the vaunted progress of the race
was not, after all, a progress of the direction
of nothing; and whether the romantic age
for which these young women sighed were
not preferable with all its bombastic follies,
to the languid and effeminate nonentity of
this?
Slisplacetl Affection.
"A very wealthy and beautiful young lady
fell in love with a young man," said a lady,
"who passed her window every morning. Ho
had beautiful, big, sad, black eyes , and fair
hair brushed back from a noble brow, and
under his arm he always carried a brown
book. She used to sit by the window every
morning and wait for his coming, and pres
ently he began to notice her, and one day he
brought a bunch of violets and placed them
on the sill of the broad barred window, and
then she was sure he was a poet, and every
morning he did the same thing until she fair
ly grew to worship him. But one day near
the end of the month he came and rang the
front door bell and presented a bill of $10.50
'for violets delivered at the house every morn
ing,' and then the love-sick maiden discovered
he was a grocery clerk ana tne brown book
was his luncheon box."
A Distinction.
Detroit Free Press.
A Buffalo paper speaks of "a man o f mod
erate means, and gentlemen of wealth."
Money affects even some editors in tiiat way,
What lie Represented.
Drake's Travelers' Magazine.
A number of jolly railroad gentlemen hav
ing finished some business they had on hand,
met in a saloon to put tho teal on the con
tracts. Their zeal in th- Interest of the bar
keeper attracted the attention of a tramp,
who promptly joined tho party in their liba
tions.
"Now drink with the B. &0." shouted
one gentleman, and the glasses were drained,
the tramp getting his work in a little ahead.
"Let's have one with the C. B. & Q.l
yelled another gentleman, and the tramp had
wished that road success, and was dry again
before the rest of the party had commenced.
"And one for the C, C, C. & I.!" roared
another. "Here, what road do you repre
sent f" he demanded, as the tramp went for a
boot-leg of beer.
"Gentlemen," stammered the tramp, find
ing all eyes bent upon him. "Gentlemen, I
represent every dog-goned plank road in the
country. Have some free lunch with mef"
And that tramp was very drunk when they
cot through with him.
Leprosy Among the Caucasians.
Inter Ocean.
It is asserted by a San Francisco paper that
leprosy is becoming more and more frequent
among the Caucasians of the Pacific coast. It
used to be held that leprosy was not con
tagious, and that it rarely, if ever, affected
white people, but the California experience
has been painfully to the contrary. Just
now the case of Erick Erickson, a Swedish
sailor, is attracting attention. He is lying at
the pest-house, step by step approaching a
horrible, loathsome death. He came from
Merced. A year ago he noticed a peculiar
swelling on the hands. This symptom was
followed by the appearance of large red
blotches and pustules on his arms and legs.
They resembled the signs of the tertiary of a
venerial disease, and Erickson was at first
treated for that disorder. Bnt the remedies
were unavailing. Finally the telltale yellow
hue came over his skin. The man now pre
sents a dreadful sight, his flesh rotting away
by inches, with scarcely a sound spot on his
entire body. It seems advisable to tho au
thorities of coast towo3 to declare quarantine
against the Hawaiian Islands, which are In
fected with leprosy. The cholera, would cer
tainly be more wulcome than this awful
plague,
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