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OMAHA BALL * BEE : FRIDAY. JFEBIU dilc 17/ibb * . H. M. & M. P1AVY THE CLOTHIERS ! 1309 Farnham Street. J. A. WAKEFIELD , WHOLESALE AND KKTA1L DKALKU W Lath , Shingles , Pickets , SASH , DOORS , BLINDS , MOLDINGS , LIME , CEMEN1 . OE1TCI. iTSTATB AGENl FOR MILWAUKEE CEMENT COUPAN'TI Near Union Pacific Depot , OMAHA , -WHOLESALE- BOOK SELLER AND STATIONER AND DEALEU N Wall Paper and Window Shades. 1304 Farnham St. , Omaha Neb. nc4-me PILLSBURY'S BEST ! Buy the PATENT PROCESS MINNESOTA FLOUR always gives satisfaction , because it makes superior article of Bread , and is the Chear est Flour in the market. Every sack warranted to run alike or money refunded. < . M. YATES , Cash Grocer. GUILD & McINNIS GREAT STOCK TAKING SALE ! Everything In DRESS GOODS ! Notions , and FURNISHING GOODS , AT SWEEPING REDUCTIONS. It Will Pay You to Call an'd Compare Prices. S93 NORTH SIXTEENTH STREET. EDHOLM & E RIGKSO N Give the Bargains IN ALL KINDS OF JEWELRY WAT'OHESCLOCKS , SILVERWARESOLID AND PLATED WARE AND DIAMONDS. At Prices that Suit Any Customer Who Really Wishes .ft First Class Article. STAR TINTED SPECTACLES Are also Sold Exclusively by us , ALSO WESTERN AGENTS SMITH AMERICAN ORGAN CO.'S ORGANS. EDHOLM & ERICKSON , THE JEWELERS , Opposite the Post Office. SIPOIRL , . BOOT AND "SHOE MANUFACTURER , 309 South Tenth Street. / QUALITY AND PIT GUARANTEED. French Calf-Tongue Boots , Sewed , - - $9,00 French Calf Boots , Pegged , - - - . 6,00 American Calf Boots , 5,00 Pegged Alexis or Buckle Shoes , - - 3,50 MAKE ASPEOIALTZ OF BOOTS AND SHOES FOR FEET ODTfiOP 'SHAPE ' , , [ Orders Promptly Attended to and Filleo With Dispatch , A WILD HOUSE-RAGE. The Time When Ilocky Mountain Glilof liout tlio Famous Border Kutllivn. Dco\rr Xcws. The wildest liorsc-raco over known in this country took pluco on tlio Denver track ouSupt. 10 , 18GO. The horses wcro 13ordor Uulllim mill Ilocky Mountain Uliiufj the purse § 1)5,000 ) in gold. llulHim wits backed by Tom Hunt , his owner , ami .Jim Harrison , notorious gmnblors. Shortly before Hunt hud murdered n prominent Mor mon , and after ix brief trial ho was condemned to hang for Ins crimo. The acaflold was erected on the outskirts of Salt Lake , near the overland road , nml the murderer was to swing midst all the nomp of legal execution. In the uxoitomont attending the prepara tions on the morning of the expected hanging Harrison entered Hutllmi'a stable unobserved and spirited the racer nwny. Mounted on auotlier horse and loading llutlmn , Harrison rodn to the gallows unsuspected , slipped two six-shooters into Hunt1 * liands , and before the ollicinls or null- titudo had recovered from tlioir sur prise the outlaw H were charging doun the Webber canyon trail at n speed which detiled capture. One of u num ber of parting ritlo ohotu killed Harri son's horse , and it became necessary for llutlian to carry both men. The Mormons pursued the desperadoes night and day , but wcro powerless to overtake them , so wonderful was the speed and miduranco of the stolen bay. Not until 100 miles had been covered did men or beast oat or rest , and on the morning of the tenth day they ar rived at Denver , GOD miles from the Mormon capital. Those facts once circulated , Uuflian became the here of the hour. In the Donver.raco the Oroor boys , who owned Chief , backed him. Thousands of men Hocked to the track. There was long delay , but at last amid frenzied cheers the horses got a start , llultian forging ahead from the start , Chief Hew the track , wont over n stoop embankment , and before ho could recover - cover the first heat was practically decided in Iluflian's favor. A yell of disappointment wont up from the mul titude , and a rush was made to lynch the man who started Chief. Ho suc ceeded in escaping the mob unharmed however. More than $100,000 changed hands on the heat. An oven start was obtained in the second heat , the two horses passing into the quarter stretch neck and neck. At the half polo Ruffian , in response to hard whipping , slowly took the lead. All this time Chief had been given a frco * oin , but had been spared the lash. Charles Ham ilton , n desperado , who had all his earthly possessions staked on Chief , stood at the back-stretch polo as the horses approached , a navy revolver in either hand. "Lay the whip to that horao or I'll drop you from the sad dle , " ho shouted to Eugene Teats , Chief's rider , sighting both of his weapons. Teats know that Hamilton would keep his word unless the order was obbyod , and , although he was confident that Chief would win the second heat without urging , ho lost no time in applying the whip. Ho drew blood at every stroke , and Chief wont under the wire a winner of the heat by 100 foot in 1:42. Then commenced a riot and turmoil the like of which was never before or since witnessed on a race course. Men pulled their six-shooters and fired madly , indiscriminately , andgold-dust in the quarrel for stakes , was scat tered recklessly in the sand. Huffian was completely broken down after this heat , and the gamblers , appre ciating that they were beaten , became frantic with rage. Con Oram and Charles Switz , who afterwards became noted prize-fighters , stood at the door to the stand and hold the mob at bay until the judges had given their de cision. Chief was ordered on the track , and after making the half milo wire was declared winner of the race The judges had to bo escorted from the track to t < nvn by an armed escort composed of volunteers from tlio win fling side. Mounted on broncho ponies , with pistols and bowieknives drawn , the Greer brothers and a party of friends made their way to the § 95,000 nugget and cut it to the ground. It was load ed into a wagon and taken to town , a guard accompanying the precious freight. There was a largo number ol people stabbed and shot in the melee , but' ' fortunately none died of their wounds. That night Denver was one blazing revelry , one gorgeous ort'io. The immense nugget was cut into smaller and moro commercial com modities. Teats was presented with § 5,000 worth of these. The balance of the winnings were equally divided among the brothers , and in less than forty-five hours they had squandered all. Uneozing. "God bless you ! " is the common expression of Europeans when you sneeze in their presence ; sneezing having been considered in ancionl times the result of a demoniac posses sion , to avert the evil inlluuce they invoke a blessing. But the true phil osophy of a sneeze is sot forth in The Popular Science Monthly for April under the heading ' 'What is a cold ? " The whole of it is worth reading , but wo have only room to transcribe what relates to sneezing : "Sneezing in catarrh is a method nature adopts to stimulate the prostrate nervous centre , iind thus enable it to reassert its con trol over the blood supply to that purl ; indeed , it will bo found that the of. focts of being exposed to drafts of cold air arc often completely destroyed by a succession of sneezes. Of course nature docs not always immediately succeed in these efforts ; but , when she does not , ttho shock from which t the nervous center sutlers gradually passes away , and the blood vessels again como under the control of the little nerves which regulate their cali ber , and so the catarrh disappears in a few hours , or at most in a few days. It sometimes happens that the shock from the cold air acting upon the nervous center is of such severity that the consequent inflaminationiaintense enough to chock the secretion of mu cous altogether , and in consequence the mucous membrane is dry as well as inflamed , and the Buttering very much intensified. " 'Tho Commodore. " Joneiia li. 1'oote , the comuuxloro , Elgin. 111. , Bays TJIOMAH' KCI.EOTIIIO OIL cumi him of sciatica with one application , thor oughly amillotl. It aluo cured hint of a severe cold and cough , lie thinks It a vert valuable remedy , and will never be without it. H-lw ART STUDIOS. Interview with the Janitor of the N9W York Art LOCVRUP. Cotrc | omlciico of Washington Capltil Strolling down Fifth avenue the other day I slopped al the corner of Sixteenth street , romemboriiiR how iji : imos past I had spent many pleasant lours in the rooms of the Art League. It was a little late and the place empty , all save the janitor , whom I iad nodded to many a time in pais- ing. Together wo walked through the room tilled with easels , on n Inch rested half-finished sketches in char coal of the plaster casU scattered about. Then up stairs into the sketch class room ; but in the evening light it had a ghostly look , with rough out lines here and there on the walls of some nude studios , the skeleton and llayei ) figure side by side on the model's ' plattorm. The lost time I had boon there the room was full of busy human beings drawing , stopping now and then to critically sight the relative length of nose or limb of the unfortunate model. Tlio surroundings in effect were little changed. I might have loft but yes- toiday , only my guide had n streak or two more of gray in his hair , ami it w.is beginning to look suspiciously thin about the temple. Heis in n talkative mood , and glad to got hold of n listener. "Yes " and the old follow , yes , ro- ilectivoly stroked his chin ; "wo do have n lot of models , and no mistake. The queer part of it is there don't seem to bo any two nliko ; you see our artists are mostly young and like variety. Many ? I guess if I had a dollar for every ono I've scon pass through these doors my fortune would have have been made long ago , and no menu one , either. In our profes sion" here the old janitor straighten ed himself up , and , brushing his hand across his forehead , cazod at the ceil ing "wo take all kinds. Wo must , or the public would soon tire of our work and go elsewhere. That , you know , would never do ; the approval of that same public moans broad and butter. So , although now and then it goes against the grain to follow their taates in place of our own , yet wo must grin and boar it , and no ono is the wiser. "Some days it is only a little stroll ing violin player with his baby sister ; but I toll you these street children , young as they are , know a sight moro of wickedness and ways of the world than you or I. They look innocent enough , with their big black eyes star ing at you ; but just try to send thorn off with n quarter , and you will find quick enough they know the value of their time , and will not leave until they got it. ' 'It is a sight sometimes to see them posing quietly to a room full of ladies and gentlemen. Oh yes , so long as they are inside they behave quietly enough , but once let them got out and they fight like young tigers. Order them oil' , and they turn on you with such a tide of Billingsgate as shocks oven my old cars. That is saying a great deal , for 1 have come across some hard characters. Then again thorq is a funny side. Ono day the class in portrait painting wanted an old wo man's face. I concluded my Irish washerwoman might as well have the job."Yes "Yes , indeed ; she came quick enough a dollar an hour wai not to bo earned every day in the wook. Well , the poor old thing thought it quite fine at first to be paid simply for sitting in a comfortable chair and having her 'picture took by all them people in dirty aprons. ' In a little while the novelty wore off , and she orew ; restless , beginning to turn about , looking at the pictures and half- finished sketches on the wall. When they told her she must keep quiet or there would bo no money , it didn't seem quite so much fun. Then she became drowsy and nodded , so it was impossible for the artists to go on with their work. "Rouse her ? I should think they did , but it was no use ; until finally ono of them had to stand by poking her up every time she showed signs of sleeping , she growling tlio while about their being so hard on a pour woman , aggrovating her in that way , when it was hard enough being stared at and not allowed to wink in return. Finally they were through with her for time day , and she loft , saying to me as she passed out it was the hard est day's work she had over had , and avowing never to stop foot in again whore all them queer artist folk wore. "Did she keep her promise ? BlesE your heart , no ; she was there throe times that same wook. The monoj kept up her spirits , "Wo have , as I said , every kind here , from children all the way up tc old men and women. And rougli ones most of the mon are , but thoj know enough to keep pretty straight while they are noting as models. A laugh or a look on their part would pretty soon bo punished by ono of the centlomen ; and they do not try It , either , for Homo of the artists arc rather too muscular lor one to pick n fight with. Sometimes when the gen tlemen have a sweetheart you will set their face over and over airain in theii drawings. Now , there's ' Walter Shir- law ; you remember two years or sc ago his illustrations for the story ol 'lloxy1 that came out in Scribnor' His face for lloxy was taken from real life , a Miss Mansfield , to whom ho wat engaged , The same face you will sec in every ono of his pictures ; it jusl seems to come out the moment hie pencil touches the paper. Ho used tc come to all the league receptions with the pretty little soul hanging on hit arm , and it would warm your hoarl to BOO the way ho looked down at her. Where is she now ? Oh , the romance has had its proper ending. She hue boon his wife now for a year ? "Wo are progressing , but the schools abroad are still ahead of us in many things. "Dear , dear ; racy stories do some times como from across the water" and hero my friend smiled as at some pleasant recollection. "Ono I can vouch for is told by a member oi this League who was there at the time. It was lit ono of those largo conservato ries in Paris , and the class in nude studios had waited long past the usual hour , still no model appeared , till finally the professor , growing impa tient , wont into the dressing-room to inquire into the delay. Still they waited , and neither professor nor model put in an appearance , Juat us they were giving up in despair the pair entered , The model , cool and collected , walked to the stand and as sumed her pose , but it urns tome mo ments before the old fellow uonid got over his oinbnrrniMnont luillloioutly to direct his pupils. It afterward leaked out that the unlucky cause ol delay WIM owing to a pot of green paint which the model , in sitting down to take elf her shoos and stockini'n , h.ul inadvertently knocked over. And oven with the professor's help it took some little time to got her looking ihip-shnpo again. " Hero the old fcl- o\v broke into a series of chuckles ; .hen wiping his eyes , wont on : ' A. ridiculous thing happened over liero at Cooper Union not long ago. You know old Peter Cooper is norri- ied at the very idea of the human 'orm divine being copied in its 1111- Irapod simplicity. Ono of the teach- > rs told a poor girl from the neigh- jorhood she was to come on a certain lay and pose for the young rtamscl adios. At the appointed time the , 'ounn damsel came , but being over ling of relieving herself of cloak and liat , the teacher went out to remon strate for the loss of time , and was not with confused blushes by the guileless young creature , who ox- ) laincd : 'I am most ready now ; just ivait until I tnko this oir proceeding : o divest herself of her sole remaining ; armont. It took some little while to explain the situation and make the { irl understand that ( hero were models and models. "I've soon some of our swellcst- Booking young fellows start out in search of a now subject for the sketch ilass , and como back triumphantly ending a miserable , lilthy old rag picker , with his great long iron hook joking around in the corners of the millings and stairs as ho came up. I < oop a pretty sharp lookout on all such when they pass out , or those iimble fingers would bo put to other uses than poking after nigs. Occa sionally things have boon stolen , but not Tory often ; there are too many of us about. "Thoro is ono model who is n , favor- to hero a pretty little slim thing ibout 12 years old. You sop , she has aeon a long time in the business , and .3 deft and quick in her ways. The jeauty of these young models is you : an change thorn around , altering ihoir pose often as you like , which is more than you can with some of the professionals got so sometimes when they are with any of our. big artists that they think they can dictate terms to them. Especially if n picture for which they have been sitting os a queen or some great danio becomes popular , they will say , when asked to pose as a peasant or servant girl , that it will bo impossible ; their manners ire too lady-liko or their hands and foot would betray them. They are vain creatures , and do not scruple to say that without their aid success could not have boon attained. But these artists are generally an easy going sot , and indulge thorn in their little vanities , content if by so doing they are kept in good humor. 'Thoro is a story that comes to us from the other side , of a jolly young peasant girl who had run away from homo in Brittany and came up to Paris to do whatever fell in her way. It fell in her way to sit as a model for a celebrated painter , and during her sittings she would amuse herself sing ing all the quaint old songs of her country-folk , occasionally varying this by picking up a chair by its back with her teeth and carrying it about the room. She was too great a beauty to remain in quietness , and finally a rich Italian count married and carried tier off. Not long after she returned , at the request of her husband , and sat as a countess for her portrait in the same room whoio formerly she had danced and sung as a model. " Household Words .Tnmes I'enrBim , 28 Sixth street , Buffnlo , Bays : "I have used your Spring BloHstnn for myself and family , and think It , Inval uable as n household remedy , for regula ting the biiwela , liver and ftldiioyH. I Khali never bo without it. " 1'rico f)0 cents , trial bottls 10 cents. 11-lw UNDER THE SUNFLOWER. What Boston Followers of Wilde Call anesthetic Costume Party. Huston Tout. An ( esthetic costume party was giv en at Parker Fraternity Hall on Fri day evening and proved a grand suc cess. The reception cominiteomon were decorated with badges of blue and gold , while the floor managers were radiant in gold and scarlet. Most of the guests were in costumes suited to the utterly utter occasion , and the sunilowor reigned supreme , casting its golden radiance over the modest lity , which appeared in its own quito fashion. Among the stunning costumes wore the twenty rapturous maidens arrayed in draperies of dainty colorings , which caught the light most charmingly in the classic folds that were allowed to fall gracefully from the shoulders ; the sunflower was their bad o of honor and tower of strength , while folly in all her prettiness busk ed beneath the shade of tusthocio sun flowers. Gypsies were hill of be witching grace , while Pomona scatter ed her fruits with lavish hand , crown ing all with lilies. Night was glorious with the added splendor of the sun flower , and the picturesque group of Swiss peasants were also lusthetically crowned. Sir Walter llalolgh , with Romeo , wandered about caressing beautiful f.iirics , and Gorman students were numerous with colored gowns and squaro-top hats. Oxford was re presented by black-robed students , who were square hats also , Esthetic shams were scattered about the hall , serving an admirable background to the gay moving figures who hud re sponded so fully to tlio requests ol the invitations. No 7 in the pupils' repertoire was a Gorman with bon bon scarf , puss in the corner and chal lenge figures. The party was delight ful and thoroughly enjoyable , and will probably bo repeated by re quest , A Cross Baby. Nothing is so conducive to a man's remaining a bachelor as stopping foi one night at the house of a married friend and being kept awake for five or six hours by thu crying of a cross baby. All cross and crying babies need only Hop Bitters to make them well nnd smilim , ' . Young man , re member this. Traveler. fobM-w2t John G. Jacobs , ( Poimetly of dUh&Jtoottt , ) UNDERTAKER Deere & Comp'y. MANUFACTURERS OF PLOWS , MOLINE , ILL , Wholesale Dealers in AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS , Council Bluffs , Iowa. tftiine Wagoii Oo. 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