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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1899)
1 10 The Conservative. I > KATII OF HIKS. GKO. L. Nolilo Woman Whoso 1,1 To Was 1'reclous to Many. Mrs. George L. Miller , wife of our eminent and well known citizen , Dr. George L. Miller , departed this life November 2d , 1899 , at 4:15 : a. in. Though the illness of Mrs. Miller was known , yet it wns expected by her friends that she would recover from her last illnoBS , and her demise comes as a shock to a largo number of close friends and the community generally , wherein she had resided for so many years. Harrietto Elizabeth Dickinson was the daughter of Piny Dickinson of New York and was born on September 20 , 1832 , in Syracuse. She was educated at Hoi yoke , Mass. , and on December 14 , 1853 , was married to Dr. George L. Miller. The young couple came to Nebraska and located at Omaha in November , 1854 , where they resided continuously until they removed to Dr. Miller's beautiful country home , well known to our citizens as Seymour park. When the unfortunate destruction by fire of the doctor's homo took place they moved back to the city of their earlier lives and have since resided hero. The death of Mrs. Miller comes to her intimate friends as a personal bereave ment , because of the lovely qualities of womanhood which she possessed and which irresistibly attracted those who wore fortunate enough to become close ly acquainted with her. Extremely kind , a heart overflowing with general goodness , her soft , sensitive nature found a responsive chord in the hearts of those who suffered in any way. Patient , of a beautiful disposition , which never was known to be ruffled by what ever might happen , one felt in her presence like the ship coming into a quiet harbor after a storm. No word , no gesture , not even the suspicion of a suggestion , ever came from her kindly Ohristian-like spirit to make one feel , while with her , that troubles in this life existed. So charitable was this good woman that she carried out the Biblical command of not allowing the left hand to know what the right hand did. Iii her presence one never knew what un- kinduess or severity or selfishness meant. She unconsciously , by her very nature , throw around her friends and visitors a soft glow of Christian humility which enlarged and made one feel better for being in her presence and enjoying her friendship. She was a woman in the broader and higher souse , for there was not in her character the slightest trait of the masculine. Coming to Nebraska in the early days , when fortitude was required of those who discovered ( wo may say ) and built up this state , she bore her share of the brunt of extending civilizing in fluences and culture with that patience and womanliness which are so rarely to be found. Mrs. Miller , in the early days of Omaha , saw its development , and together with her illustrious husband , nurtured it from its infancy. She gave to the early social life of this city its first touches of a cultured refining in fluence and her home for years past was a haven where the young who had immigrated to Nebraska found the dear est asylum , calling back to their memories their homes left behind to make a new one in the West. It is there the dearest recollections to those who experienced the hospitalities in Mrs. Miller's companionship and aid that her death falls as a personal bereave ment to thorn. In the later part of her life , having borne the burden of an invalid , she sel dom left her residence , but whenever any one entered its portals he was always met by that kindly , sympathetic eye and soft courtesy and benignant manner that always enraptured and captivated. The friends of Dr. Miller and many of those who are mere acquaintances , and those of the community who know of him as the founder of this great western empire , feel the deepest sympathy for him in his great sorrow. Ho can rest assured that the loss of his wife comes also sadly to them as removing from the community one of the noble women , who , by her love , her tender spirit and her many noble qualities , aided the man who built up the great state and the city of Omaha. CHAULES OGDEN. The Snn Frnu' _ . , , - . , Cal1 of Oc tober 80th , 1899 , contains the following : " Williams of the "Chaplain Fifty-first Iowa regiment delivered a very enter taining and instructive address at the First Presbyterian church last night. His subject was entitled 'Service at the Front , ' and consisted of a delineation of many interesting phases of the war and particularly of the people of the islands. He said in part : 'As to the people of the Philippine Islands , we found hu manity there just the same as it is hero. We found , as wo left the transport at the end of our voyage , the cousin of our neighbor here , the Chinaman. In the islands he is indispensable. Then there is the representative of the African race , the negritto , often the slaves of their low-land brethren. There are in all about sixteen tribes on the island of Luzon alone. These racial differences and tribal divisions will render a demo cratic form of government impossible. ' "The speaker related many anecdotes illustrative of the character and habits of the natives. " The loyalty of Chaplain Williams should be inquired into carefully , in spected , fumigated and purged of cop- porheadisin. Governor Roosevelt's Thanksgiving proclamation gives very much the im pression of firing a revolver in the mid dle of a prayer , or of making the re sponses with three cheers and a tiger. To stuff a stump speech , as Mr. Roosevelt velt has done , into a call to prayer and praise is in wretched taste , to say the least , and will jar upon the ears of the devout in a way that our slap-dash governor probably little suspects. A Thanksgiving proclamation is a quasi- religious document. Time-honored platitudes inevitably find their place in it , and can be pardoned ; but it is a shocking thing to draw one up in the spirit of Arizona Pete. If we arc to have Rough Riding in the churches , the plight of the piously inclined will be truly sad. And there is impudence approaching preaching the sublime in the governor's thinking it necessary to remind the people of this state that they are Ameri cans as well as Now Yorkers , and in his calm assumption that the nation now for the first time feels "the flush of its mighty manhood. " There is a flush which it might well experiouce on read ing the governor's silly proclamation , and that is the flush of shame than an American in high place should intrude his noisy hectoring upon assemblies met for divine worship. The lectures by Mrs. Longshore-Potts , M. D. , at the Overland theatre next week promise to be the intellectual feature tof the season. Her manager has shown us commendatory notices from the leading papers of the largest cities in this country and from London , etc. Her personal friends are among the notables of the world. When she was in Indianapolis , just before her departure for her last trip around the world , Mrs. Harrison , then the mistress of the White House , made a speech from a box at the theatre and com mended her work in the strongest lan guage. Mrs. Harrison also presented her with a testimonial embossed on parchment and signed by herself , hun dreds of other ladies and by members of the senate and house of representatives. We have seen the documents and it is a wonderful fact that every paper of prominence in the English language has endorsed her work. Mrs. Dr. Potts is unquestionably the leading physician among women. She has no "face wash" to advocate nor any universal cure-all. Her lectures are along scientific grounds and , if one can judge by universal praise , of unusual ability. The illustra tions are to bo of great beauty and inter est. They will include reproductions of the world's best scenery and works of art. There will also be presented many X-Ray views taken on the late battle fields. This is a novel feature never before presented. The first of four lectures to women will be delivered next Monday afternoon. Monday night she will address both sexes. Both of the introductory lectures will bo free.
