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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'
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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.