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THE AMERICAN. 7 A WORD ABOUT ECONOMY. Thrift May Its Vrmmw una The woman who Is not aMiful of tx peOM't in the hoiiM'liol.l ani a constant tntmj to waste la not wnminl? at all. But, nucrtht'lc.-s. eronumy. I.kp nuisi VirtUfS. needs a curb In: li-n it Is flJJfn aa a hobby. Tin- wnur one beard a society girl ttul.tim b ;i.-t( lily: "I never are pennies. 1 a'. ly tlr them away." )n la ml n-. :lowiiiR 'lth maimed 1 ):.ir :n. ii;i'f s-tarvf I newsboys this n-t-ins itu t-iSiH'. Vet It U true. Ilowt v) r. ti.e !; pui' peeeh h;is U-en rKail.-l in.-n ' as . companion to the ottur :i-w. A man of exact luisim-M- boardiiiK-houte p:rloif.il of t'i" free-ami -raxy -going Ann-n.-.u tolk that In footing up the cp. UM of Ins recent wed, ling journey there - cent expended for which he couul not account. A few days utter h' tried flecfully on entering the crowdi 1 Ing-roora: "I've found it!" ' I'ou ill What?" demanded an wfi r lorn.. "The cent!" wait the cr.te l. pty. l'i family composed of four tn. ioli- r and three servants a young woiu.tn aid, as if she were looking for com mendation, that t-he m.ui.tt'ed to r.'ve treatly in the wadiing of chtels by a method of her own; when froh on s were due, she merely tinned huoui those already In use. and "l.i'.ui over again" with them for a -eoiid week. In this way she declared tli.it half the ordinary amount of bed linen -.wishing might be spared, while her listeners were busy wondering if her ::.nl had no objections to lying where her firt had been. One of our best fr.ort -story writers once gave a few (lome-.ie hints In a household Journal which gr.1p.1lc ally illuHtrated what is here me.vit by the danger in unbridled economy. Her remarks happened to be upon the theme of using up remnants. She seriously advised the general housewife to do aa she did make periodical incurious upon the refrigerator, and, wnatever was found there, whether fish, fowl, or vegetable, to mix together in some commodious vessel, ami from this un appetizing compound to make "cro quettes," as if hash would not be too polite a name for such a mess. A little later on, the author mentions casually that her family are all dyspetic. The only wonder is that they are not corpses. In another household hn elderly lady, inured to small savings at first from some degree of necessity, and subsequently from habit, caecked her newly made daughter-in-law with a quick cry of distress from throwing a spent match Into the fire. "Stop! stop!" said she; "I always save burned matches for kindling." The mem side of frugality has been pointed out here alone as warning. There Is assuredly a safe, decent course that should run through every well-regulated home, but it must be, however, a middle pathway between throwing away pen nies and giving up whole, valuable bours to trackiug a stray one. HOW WOMANLIKE. They lilirnu Their friend. Hut Wouldn't By an I'nklnd Thine About Her. After they had kissed each other and each had disposed of a bonbon to show that they met on friendly terms the blonde said: "So Mamie la married?" "So I've heard," returned the bru nette. "Nice girl," ventured the blonde. "Oh, very," returned the brunette. "I wouldn't say a word against her for the world." "Neither would I. How do you sup pose she ever got him?" "I'm sure I don't know. Do you?" "No; I would give anything to know." "So would I. It certainly wasn't her beauty." "Oh, no." "Or her cleverness." "The idea Is absurd." "I can't understand It at all. They say he was married first by a Justice and afterward by a minister." "I shouldn't wonder. She naturally wanted to make awfully sure of him." "Of course. It's the only way she could keep him. But I am glad she has caught some one. Mamie is a dear girl and it would be cruel to say anything against her." "Indeed it would. I wouldn't do It for the world." "Neither would I." A New Mania. We have been quite oppressed by men who would cut off the floating tresses of young girls; we also have suffered from a maniac who could not resist squirting Ink on the gowns of the passing women, and last year a man with a sharp pair of scissors used to slash pieces out of anyone's coat or Bklrt that came within his radius. This last person was sent to a madhouse, whence he ought ought not have been released; but, being pronounced cured, he was launched upon an unsuspecting community again and profited by his liberty to use his scissors once more. He accosted a lad In a deserted street, asked him to write down an address, and profited by his occupation to neat ly slice off the lobes of both the poor boy's ears, and then ran away. This In teresting lunatic, whose name is Malre, will now go into permanent confine ment; but the youth's ears are per manently disfigured, to his great an guish of mind. More I.Ike It. Mr. Newrich And what do you say they called this affair? Mrs. Newrich Oh, you ignorant man! Will you never learn? This is what they call a pink tea. Mr. Newrich Well, from the size of some of the women I should call it a beef tea. Opportunity for Genius. Why does not the Ingenuity of the American dressmaker devise an inter changeable bloomer and dress-sleeve? There Is a striking similarity in the architecture of the two. COCOANUTS IN AMERICA. tow Thr Wr liitrodtMvl 4'ut of llorUI rv Ac Quite a numlwr of tropical frultt have recently Iwen Introduced into cul tivation In this country. Already on the east coast of Florida are growing Jjt,0ti roeoanut tree. C.oiHt bfir.g on one plantation. It is tn-liewj that the first trees of this kind In the state fl'toiited from nuts bronchi from tYn tral America and the West Indies by the gulf stream. At Key West and about some of the oM forta coioar.u'R were planted at an early day. as cer tain ancient trees now standing bear witness. In 1S77 a bark freighted wi;li 1 ocoanuta was caught in a stoi tn otf the toasl of Florida and beached near Lake Worth. Several thousand of the nut were saved and planted, the (satisfac tory growth of the seedlings giving an impetus to cultivation. The first Importation of cocoanuts of naiee.l varieties was made In lss;t, when the secretary of agriculture ob tained, through the state department, two shipments of selected nuts from t!V Philippines. These, with two oth er shipments. In 1S30 from the same island-!, comprehended fourteen 'varie ties. To get so many varieties was no easy task, inasmuch as not more than two or three kinds grow in any one district or Island of the archipelago, and they were collected by a skilled botanist, who made the tour for the purpose. The nuts thus received were forwarded to growers In Florida. Cer tain specimens from the Islands of Al bay and Mlsamis were of the smallest known variety, which yields little oil and is of Inferior llavoi. The shells are carved by the natives Into beauti ful drinking-cups. The meat of a vari ety called "tayomamis" la prepared as a delicious sweetmeat with yams nnd syrup. Anolher variety, on account of its extreme hardness. Is known as "ba han." which means millstone. The word cocoanut Is derived from the Portuguese "coco," meaning mon key, because the base resembles a monkey's face. The tree was known to the people of Ceylon as early as 1G0 n. C the milk being used by them for making cement. The cocoanut Is one of the most useful plants; root, trunk, leaf, sap nnd nut are made to yield tribute to man. The fiber of the husk furnishes excellent yarn, and is preferred to horsehair for RtufTing beds, cushions, chairs and saddles. It ia stronger and more elastic than hemp. The Polynesians twist small corda of this fiber, which serves In the construc tion of houses and canoes where Ku ropeans would employ nails. The green nuts are grated for medicinal use. Grated cocoanuts form an Ingredient of the East Indian condiment, curry. In the Madlive Islands labor is usually paid for In cocoanuts. HIS FUTURE OCCUPATION. One Had liny Thniichl He Would Drive a Cnach and i'reurh. Ex-Attorney General Miller was born and spent his early life in a small New York village. At the little school house where he first learned to read and play "hookey" there was a follow pupil who, although about the same age as Mr. Miller, was noted throughout the village for his pure cussedness. That boy, ac cording to Mr. Miller's statement, would sit up of a night to concoct some scheme to make the people of the town miserable. He would chase the cows, stone the dogs and pigs, put ropes across the path at night, set pins on the seats at church and scare the wits out of all the old maids for a mile around. Whenever any devilment was done it was laid at the door of this one boy, and usually correctly. At school he was a terror to all. Stubnorn and defiant, there was no restraining him, and the schoolmaster was in despair. One day he thought he would make a last ef fort to reform the boy by argument, and he called him up to the desk. "Now, Tom," he began, "you are a bright fellow, but you are spoiling your future. Just think what you can make of yourself if you only behave your self. Now, have you ever thought of what you will do when you grow up to be a man?" The boy looked at him for a moment, and then, picking up a straw from the floor, he picked his teeth for a moment, as though In deep thought. "Yes," he said, "I 'lowed I would drive a coach an' preach some." The I0(- lloliln lllmnclf. There is dog owner in Philadelphia who tells a story concerning his canine companion that tries the belief of hia friends, despite the fact that he vouch es for Its truth. The dog is an intelligent-looking animal, of the shepherd variety, and is frisky and full of fun. The particular trait of which its mas ter boasts is that when he wants the animal to stay in one place it is not necessary to tie him up. All that is nec essary is to fasten one end of a rope to a convenient post and give the other end to the dog to hold In its mouth. The patient animal will sit for hours in this way, and would no more run away than he would fly. Summer l-'lowrrs Htnnm In the Fall. Nature is cutting up queer antics in Richland, Mich., since the rains set in breaking the long drought. Wild flow ers that should have blossomed in May and June are now in full bloom, and apple and plum trees are bearing ripe fruit and blossoms on the same branch. Fields of beans that were planted late have the ripened pods, green beans and beans in blossom in the same hill. Gar den seeds which were planted last spring and did not sprout are growing now, and farmers are having their sec ond growth of early vegetables. No Limit Specified. Miss Youngby How hleh do th old-buckled hose-supporters come? Reginald Draper (the clerk) Ah, awe, fashion dictates no limit, you know. A BAND OF ROHU "H- Thjr taplnr I hrir tl.tl.n. ia otl Mmnttrr "When I a.t hi N Snake river, north !r.,s; i, near the th 1. r ut SanJ 111.1, In lvj;t." said a I . ..-..m ti'ucn, "we had four camp Mt'iitel alniul eighteen mile apart, ai d to from Thorne'n camp to la:i'ia;a ea up it was necessary to go tl:rei.:!i a lent piece of pine woods. For a i-umtuT of months every one l"i bad gone through the wo. ids alone in-cr came back. One day it was t - 1: y that I should go through, with a lot of money and no -.. 11, a:i 1 1 set out on a hoi-se that I got from a sMtde keeper near Thorne camp Win n 1 had nearly reached the woods the miles out my horse was taken 111 and foaming at the mouth and refused to o on Clearly to my medical eye it had be.-n poisoned slightly by some one. A man not so well up in medicine might not have known it. Soon what looked like a hunter came a'ong on a Iuum' and of fered to swap, taking mine hack to the stable If 1 would leave Irs 11 ar Pun ham camp with a tr.'pP"r- 1 otu'ht to have seen through this, but did not. I got on the powerful hor.-e of the stranger and started through the five miles of woods. Half way t .trough without apparent reason the burse broke Into a trot, a gallop and finally a run. and dashing off the trail through the woods picked his way through trees aa nicely as if he had gone the way a hundred times. Pull im 1 would at the bridle he paid no attention, but ran the faster. When , he had leaped a brook and landed on the sand beyond, the marks of footprints alarmed me and I slipped off at the risk of my life. He ran on up a ravine and I hid. fear ing that it was a trap, as it afterwards proved. In a little while three men armed with rifles came back on the trail, one riding the horse, now as calm as a lamb. I picked my way to the road and got to the camp. Two weeks later nineteen of us followed a man who hired a horse at the same p'ace I did. It was taken ill, and the same trapper came along on the same horse. When the horse dashed Into the woods as he had been trained to do. nineteen of us dashed after him, and finally ar rived at a mountain camp of the rob bers. We took every man seven of them, and, well! law waa not well supported out there then, and no court sat nearer than 200 miles. We didn't carry the rascals away from their own camp fire. The trained horse met the fate of Its owners." Ijewiston Jour nal. A nelertlve Story. An amusing anecdote of a lady and gentleman traveling together in a Pul man car runs as follows: They were strangers to each other. All at once the gentleman said: "Madam, may I ask you to look out of the window? I should like to make some change In my toilet." "Certainly, sir," she readily replied at the same time turning her back up on him. A few momenta afterward he said: "Now, madam, I have finished, and you can turn round again." When the lady looked around she saw her male rompanion transferred into an elegant lady, wearing a thick veil. "And now, sir or madam, whatever yon " said the lady, "I would also re mi to put your face out of the w nd I, too, wish to make some al i in my attire." rUlnly, madam," and the gent in lady's clothes turned the other way. "Now you can resume your seat." To his great astonishment, trie gent in woman's garb.on sitting down again, saw his traveling companion trans formed into a man. He burst out laughing and said: "It appears that we are both trying to run away. What have you done? I have been robbing a bank." "And I," said the quondam lady, as he fitted the "darbies" round his fellow passenger's wrists, "am Detective J , from Pinkerton's force, In Chicago, and have been on your track for the last couple of days; and now" (present ing a revolver), "keep still." Sarcastic Itemlndcr. Philadelphia Call: The next dooi neighbors of an up-town couple heard an amusing controversy between the man and wife. It appears they were going away to the seashore for a short visit, and the husband was sarcastical ly reminding his wife that he would have a freight car placed on the siding in order that she could pack her big sleeved dresses therein and give him a chance to place at least a clean collar in the only trunk they possessed. The wife retorted by enumerating the fol lowing list of things that the husband had selected to take with him: One full dress suit, one sack suit, one cuta way suit, a white yachting suit, four pairs of shoes, a gunning outfit, six negligee shirts, a mackintosh, pair of rubber boots for fishing and gunning, a heavy supply of fishing tackle, four hats, a demijohn, a case of shotgun cartridges and the usual supply of col lars, neckties, etc. The sarcastic hus band subsided and made arrangements with a trunk man to send up another Xiiink. Onr Nary. As compared with the great naval powers of Europe our fleet of war ves sels is inferior numerically, while the enlisted force of the navy is hardly large enough to man the ships already in commission, or soon to be placed In active service; but the ships are un questionably equal, and In some cases superior, to any of their kind afloat, while officers and men are second to none in the world in intelligence, cour age and unselfish and patriotic devo tion to duty. The tm ericas Flat. When Frt t'tloiu frvm li"r mountain lie it'll Ftifurl.-J her etandaril U the air. She ttee tin- aiura role of nibl And x'l tin- atari (if glory then. She tningW with l' orgitou il )' Tb ml ky haUrick of th Uum, And elrl'l it. p aro cvlo.tiat white W'.th it'rrukiuj.'i of the iu.rninjf light; Then from hi mtn-ioii in the. tun . Sie cailitl In r ruiile bearcr down, And gave ii t I. It mighty baud The eym'Ml of lier etioi n land. Maj 'title, iiiiinarc i of th c tiuti, Vht roar Vlalotl i!y ie,'al f irm To hcur tbu ; nt trumping loud And we the llg titu'.iig-l.n.iet driven, Where atridf he warriu- of ILeitlorai, Aud rail ilit t'liiu lord rum of heaven! Child of the buu! to tbeo 'lis tflven To guurd the- banner of the free! To haver in the ui bur moke, To wird away tliu I utile stroke, And bid it oleudiii;; shine afar. Flag of the 1 1 ive! thy folJs shall lly, The H'gu of bopj and triumpti high; When t-peaks the trampcl'a oigntil lone, Aid the long lint cornea gleaming on, Kre, yet the, life-blood, warm and wet, Hiti diuitn'd the glistening bayonet. Kacli soldi -r'a eye shall brightly turn To where my sky bora glorita burn; And, as hit npriugy steps advance, Catch war uaid vengeance from the glance; And when tho cannon niouthing loud Heave in tho wild wreath the battle tdiroud, And g ry slnr rise and fall Like shots (lame on midnight's pall Then shall thy meteor glneo glow, And cowering foe hull sink beneath Kach gu'laut arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of Death! F.ag of the e is! on ocean's wave Thy stirs shall glitter o'er tho brave; When death, careering on tho galo, Sweep da k y round tho bullied sail, And frlg'ittjiiyd waves rush wildly back, liofore lb? 'iroadhido'a neling rack, Kach dying w.indoror of the tea S iall ln k at once t heaven and tin e Anil smilo to e thy sp'endors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye! Flug of the free heart's hope and IK '1 1 1 -' . Hy angel's hands t valor given, Thy stars have lit tho we kin dome And all toy hum went born in heaven! Forever Holt, that stitidird sh 't; VVt.ere I rcii'tice the fou but falls before, uJ, With Freedom's soil honeath our feet, Aud Freedom's banner streaming o'er us! Jo.t ih lloihnan hi'tke. liicorpiiriiliiin ! id ice. Notice is hereby given I hut. the under slvneil have iiieoiiiii.tted under tliu law of i lie Si ate of Nebraska, il secret, friitcrnul, bi'iieliclarr, benevolent society or hsnocIii thin. First. The niimo of this corporation shall be Sjireine KnreM, Woodmen t'irelt. second. Its principal pliice of triinNiietlmt business shall he in ibe city of Omaha. SLate of Nebraska. Third. The general nature of Its buslneHS shall he to cimibinv Hcccptahlc while per sons lift ween the lines of Hi and "i2 years Into a scrr!, fraternal. I euetlelary, benevolent society. To establish Mihiiruinatc bodies to be known as (Jioves. To create a fund from which shall be paid at the cetth tif a mea lier, to the deslnateO benetlemry the pro ceeds of one assessment upon its surviving members, lull not exceeding fiMi, and for a moiiiniient at tlie crave of deec ised remain 1 1 1 1; n 1 1 1 1 to cost (Inn, and to atli.rd reiief to It. members In sickness or disability. Fourth. Helng a frmernitl and benevolent eouety without, piolit, lo lis Itu'orpnratorH except compensation for Hetual services ren clereil. II will have no capital stock, and its expenses and be.nellt shall be paid from dueH and assessments levied s ofl-en us tice esvary upon lis members and tiroves. Iiu members are not I hi le for its corporate lie Hs. Fifth. The lime of con meneetiiFnt. of tills corporation sh tll be ihc "Uu dav of Septe u ber. IMi'i. and shall continue "iU years with p-wer tj re neorporate. Sixth. The highest, amount of Indebted ness or liability to which this corporation Is at, any time t j subject, itself at any one lime outsiue of death benefits shall lie &ntm. Seventh. lis atfalrs shall tie managed by an Kxfcullve Council or Hoard of Directors of not lcs than c in lit mem he's, who shall he Its ele'Ti Ive olbeers known as Supreme tiunr dlan. Supreme A dvlsvr, Supreme Clerk. Su preme Hanker, Supreme Physician and three Supren e Managers Its tirst elective olllccr, to serve until tho first men tug of Its Supreme Forest shall be Mury ,1 lluse. S,jpre e (iuardlan: Emma M. Mam-beater, Supreme Adviser; Kuby II. Root. Siiprou e Clerk: Chas. C. Farmer. Su preme Hanker; W. O. Kodpcrs, Suprei.,e Phy sician; Ueo. V. Thompson, lieorge. S. Cottand G. A. Welse. Supreme .Managers. Eighth. The first n eeMng of its Supreme Forest shall be held at, Saint bculs. Slate of Missouri, on the second Tuesday of Maren, 1MU7, and fchall be held tiieniilally thereafter at fiueti time and place as shall be otignated at llio last, preceding session. Its hxecu tive Council shall hold regular annual meet ings on the third Wednesday of January, ex cept in the year In which its Supreme Forest convenes. Wit ness our hands and corporate seal of the Supreme Forest, Woodmen Clrc.la. at Omaha. State of Nebraska, this 5th day of September IsM. MaiivJ IIcsk. KUBV II. liooT, Supreme (iuardlan. Supreme Clerk. ll-s-4 Special Master Commissioner's Sale. I'nder and by vlrt ue of an order of sale on decreeof foreclosure of mortgage Issued out of the district court for Douglas county, Nebriw ka, nnd to me directed, i will on the 'Mth day of November. A. D. ls!i', at I o'clock p. m. of said day, at the north front door of t lie county court house. In the city of Omaha. Douglas county, Nebraska, sell at public a ue I Ion to the lug best, bidder for ea.h, the property described In said order of sale as follows, to wit: Lot. eight, 00 In Cain Place, an addition to the city of Omaha, Douglas county. Nebraska; also a tract de scribed as follows: Commencing at the north east corner of said lot eight OS), running thence north thirty-three ( ib feel; thence west forty and one half 4u') fe t: thence south thirty-three (.'th feet to the northwest, corner of said lot eight (hi; thence east forty and one-naif (4il'i feet to the place of be ginning, in said city of Omaha; said lot eight isi to be separately appraised and separately sold. Said property to be sold to satisfy out, of the proceeds of the sale of all of the above described property. Helen M. Ide, plaintiff, the sum of twenty-one hundred, eightv-two dollars (fi.lfC'.nji. with Interest on two thou sand dollars $U.(X).U thereof at seven (7 per cent per annum and on one hundred eighty iwo dollars (1x2.01)1 thereof at ten (l(i per cent per annum, all from September 17. lx:4. To satisfy out of the proceeds of the sale of lot eight (si, after satisfying plaintltT'sclaim. Oeorge A. Davis, defendant, the sum of twenty-four hundred twenty dollars ifcU:S1.0Oi with interest thereon at 7 per cent per an num from September 17, IshS, together with costa of suit and accruing costa according to a judgment rendered by the district court of said Douglas county, September term, A. D. lxm. In a certain action ihen and there pend ing wherein Helen M. Ide waa plaintiff and Sarah J. Cain et al. were defendant. Omaha, Neb., October 35, lswa. ISAAO N. WATSON. Special Master Commissioner. Benjamin F. Thomas, attorney. Ide vs. Cain. 10-2i-5 Doc. 44; No. 1. 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