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TUIOIIY
ODD FACTS ABOUT WATCHES.
The First "Timers" Ever Mate in
America ,
How Pocket Timepieces mo Made In
tlilfi Country nnd ] Europe Sonic
InlcrcsoltiR Scrapn from His
tory Tlio Klso or a Great
Industry.
In thcao days , when the majority of
the adult population carry watches , it is
clillicult to realize that half a century ago
wntchcs wcro n rarity in this country.
Fifty years ngp not inoro than ono man
in twenty carried n watch , nnd women
wcro seldom known to indulge in the
luxury of n pocket timepiece. In 1830
the few watches used in the United States
were imported from Europe. None wcro
of homo manufacture. A Geneva watch
was considered the no plus ultra of luxury
in our grandfathers' days , nnd the possessor
ser was regarded with n degree of respect
amountingalmost to veneration. Watches
fifty years ago were clumsy affairs. Their
shape was very much like that of n _ tur
nip.fTho ] canes were hoary and ungainly ,
and 'tho works were clumsy. It could not
bo expected that such watches would
kcop vary correct time ; but they were
doomed marvels of mechanism.
The first wntch over made in America
is the properly of Mr. E. Howard , of
William street , this city. It is about as
heavy as the English watches of fifty
years ago , although there is nothing
clumsy about it. Its weight and size are
duo to the fact that having boon made to
run eight days , it has two main springs.
The idea of the makers was that it would
bo a desirable novelty to hare n wotch
which would run a week , and which
would in this respect bo different from
watches of every other mako. It was
soon found , however , that the public did
not respond favorably to the eight day
idea. The -watches of this kind were
soon abandoned for those which huvo
but ono mainspring and barrel , and are
wound every day.
This "first watch" was made in 1850 ,
and has boon running over since. The
pinions and "loaves" of this watch are
highly polished , and the pinions are
round and hard nnd run perfectly true.
It has a ratchet tooth oscapo. Its jewels
are ruby , sapphire and chrysolite , nnd
are polished and chamfered , the holes
being opened from both aides. The center -
tor and barrels nro bushed with Gorman
silver. From its present condition there
scorns no reason why it should not bo
just as good a watch thirty yean hence as
now. It is n valued trophy of American
skill. Nobody could induce Mr. How
ard to part with this wntch , which is to
him priceless. This watch is regarded
with a great deal of curiosity by people
who are permitted to see it. Mr. How
ard keeps it in n fire and burglar proof
safe , and ho would not bo more careful of
it if it were a diamond.
"Thoro nro doubts as to who made the
first complete European wntch , " said Mr.
Howard ; "but there are none aa to where
belongs the honor of the ilrat watches
rondo m America. "
"Who made the first American watch ? "
the reporter asked.
"They were two men who lived in
Boston , " was the reply. "Ono o ( them
was n maker of clocks and the other was
a repairer of watches. Both were famil
iar with the machinery and tools needed
for watchmaking The first factory was
established at Boxbury , three miles from
the contra of Boston. "It was ostimntod
that the cnpital needed for the purpose
of launching the watch business and float
ing it until it should bocomon paying con
cern would bo about $20,000. It was
hoped that the drat watch movement
would bo completed in a few weeks after
the factory should bo opened for work ,
and it was thought that the making often
ton watches a day would bo a fair busi
ness. Instead of being ready for practi
cal business in n few weeks , it was 1857
before the watches were ready for market
inanyquartity. "
"Then there were many disappoint
ments and delays ? "
"I should say BO , Instead of establish
ing the business on n capital of 820,000 ,
about $250,000 was put in before any
practical result had boon accomplished.
The infant enterprise has its tips and
downs ; the making of the requisite tools
proved to bo as rent a business as the
making of watches. "
Mr. Howard furnished The Star repor
ter the following historical facts in re
gard to the origin of watched in Europe.
Ho said :
'After long experimenting and many
disappointments Peter Hole , an ingenious
mechanic of Nuromburg , produced in
1400 his first and famous "pockot clock. '
It was in oval shape , and hence gave rise
to the name of 'Nuromburg Egg , ' by
which watches were for some time called.
This watch was G inches wide and 9
inches long. There is no record of how
much it weighed. Jacob Xoch of Prague
made a famous wntch in 1525. It still
exists , the case being covered with a
wealth of curious emblonutical decora
tions and engraving. It is in a circular
case of gilt brass , 9J inches in diameter
and 5 inches high. In the days of Henry
VIII. of England , wntchcs of curious
construction were made foi monarohs and
for n few of tlio wealthy , out were too
costly to como into general use. In the
time of Queen Elizabeth many of the
people nbout her court were wntchos , not
ono in n dozen of which was able to keep
time correctly , Moat of these watchot
made up in external embellishment whal
they lacked in accuracy as timo-keopors. '
Switzerland became in time the centre
of the watchmaking industry. Out
Charles Cuain wont , in 1587 , from Aiitun
in Burgundy , to escape religious porsocu
tiou. lie established himself at Geneva ,
nnd is believed to have boon the firs !
Swiss watchmaker. His watches won
clumsy and heavy , but sold fer thoii
weight in gold , They had the cumbroiu
fusuo chain , and no two of them wouli
keep time together. The next step ii
watchmaking was the invention ot tin
coiled hair-spring for the balance-wheel
The honor of this invention is divjdec
between Huyghens , the great Dutcl
astronomer , and Dr. Hooko , who , nbou
1058 , presented to Charles II , of
land a watch containing this improve
inont. About this time Nicolas Faccu
of Geneva learned how to pierce rubiei
and other gems with minute holes , so ate
to use them for bearings. Before thi
time pivots had run in mold bearings
and suffered from the wear. The intro
duction of the jewels made the watch i
radical improvement on what it had boon
both in accuracy and durability.
F. C. Mason , of Cleveland , ( ) . , has ii
his possession a watch on whoso din
twenty-four hours aio marked , instead o
the usual twelve. And the Leader of tha
city gives the following interesting ac
count of its origin : "Mr. Mucon's uncle
Col. G , W , Mason , was in command pf
regiment of soldiers stationed at Harper'
Ferry 'n 18C4 , The commanding gererr
ordered him to tnovo at 4 o'clock n certain
day nnd attack the onotny. The order
oiniply said 4 o'clock , and Col. Mason ,
thinking it meant 4 o'clock in the afternoon -
noon , marched forward at that hour and
began killing off the rebels. The Union
soldiers , however , were defeated , and
the officer court-martial
commanding wan - *
cd for not ordering Mason and his men to
the front at an earlier hour. Mason said
the order read 4 o'clock and ho moved
accordingly. The commanding oflicor said
ho meant 4 a. in. , instead of p. in. , and ,
there being a clear misunderstanding , the
charge was withdrawn. Col , Mason
afterward sent to an eastern factory and
had made a twenty-four o'clock watch ,
which ho said would do away with all
mistakes , and which ho carried during
the remainder of the war. "
Next came the compensation balance ,
introduced somewhat over a century ago ,
Harrison and Borthoud both claiming
the honor of ita invention , lie circum
ference was in two sections , the unds of
which were fastened to a cross-bar of
stool. The outer rim was of brass and
the inner of steel. The contraction and
expansion of the two molnls compensated
exactly , and secured accuracy. Prior to
this time oven the best of watchoa had
boon very inaccurate things. Some of
them would vary aa much as half an hour
a day.
Between the Swiss and the English
the competition in watch-making has
boon lively. Systematic division of labor
and the very low price of living have
done much for the industry of watch
making in Switzerland. Yearn ago the
Swiss overran the English market with
their watches , which were light and far
less clumsy than the English , and quite
as accurate.
Of late years there has boon a largo do-
irmnd for a clock which would record the
going ; and comings of night watchmen in
factories , hotels and other Inrgo buildings.
A clock connected with stations by an
electric wire serves as the most potent
stimulus to the watchman to mnko him
go his rounds. It is so arranged as to
nerve for nmr desired number of stations ,
controlling from ono to ton watchmen if
necessary. At each station the watch
man inserts his key and gives oiio full
turn. This makes its unfailing record
on a blank which is locked inside the
clock in the office , and which is so
placed no watchman , however , ingenious
or sly , can tamper with it. The record ,
when taken out in the morning , shows
exactly what'stations the watchman vist-
itcd in the night and the time of his
visits.
"Arc there no other contrivances for
keeping an eye on the watchman ? '
"Yea ; for instance , there is a concern
which a watchman carries about him
which contains n paper dial on which is
to bo inado during the night by the use
of u key fastened at each station to bo
visited. By supplying himself \rith a
lot of faho station keys , the watchman
can punch all the holes ho pleases and
deliver the detector to the proper official
in the morning correctly marked. "
UESOUEI ) FKOJI DEATH.
William J. Conghlln , of SomorvUlo , Mass. ,
ys : In the fall of 1870 , I was taken with
nujBiMNi ! ov IUNOS followed by a severe cough.
I lost my appotlto anil ilosh. and was conlincd
to my bod. In 1877 I was admitted to the
Hospital , The tloctora nalil I had a liolo in
my lung as big an a half dollar1. At ono tlmo
a report wont around that I was dead. I
ptuo up hopo. but a friend told mo of DH.
WILLIAM HALL'S BALSAM FOll THE
LUNGS. I got a bottle , whan to my aur-
prlso. I commenced to feel better , and to-day
I fcol bettor than for three years past ,
Another Ilirsiclati's Testimony.
BOHTON , MASMr y 9 , 1881.
I know parties who have tried all kinds of
niodicInoH for Lung Diseases , who any that
Ili. ) WM. HAM.'H LALHASI VOKTIIKLVNCS , isn
COSUT.KTK HUCCKSS.
DR. CIIAS. II. WOOD.
UHIED TUEA8UHE.
A Largo Quautltyot Gold anil.lewcl-
ry Brought to Light in
Guoreta.
Atlanta ( Ga. ) Special.
Wilkes county , in this state , is iu great
excitement over the discovery of a largo
quantity of confederate treasure , , about
which so much has been said
and written. During a storm this
week n small oak tree was blown
down nine miles from Washing
ton. John Frank , while riding by , saw
something 8hiningandoxarainodtlio roots
of the treo. Ho found almost a pouk of
gold and a largo quantity of jewels and
precious stones. Among the latter were
diamonds , rubies , and pearls , and many
pieces of exquisite workmanship , the
value of which has been placed by several
connoisseurs at $20,000.
AN EXPLANATION , ,
The belief expressed by all ' who have
soon the treasure is that it is'part of that
lost by the confederate cabiiiot during
its flight through this section , The road
upon which the treasure was found
in the same upon which the
confederates retreated. It is supposed
that the person who secured
this part of the treasure , being unable to
carry it oil' in safety , hid it , and either
died a natural death or was killed soon
after , and consequently the treasure was
never unearthed. The great quantity of
jewels and precious stones suggests that
they must bo the contents ot the mys
terious jowolry-bov intrusted to Mrs.
Moss , and taken from hoc shortly after
ward by n stranger while , retreat
ing through the country. President
IJuvis and his cabinet , together with a
number of distinguished confederates ,
stopped at the residence of Mrs. Moss ,
an aged widow , where it is bolivod the
last council of the eonfadoraoy was hold.
When the mooting was about nvoi
General John 0. Broclsonridgo called
in Mrs. Moss , and , hauling her o box ol
quaint device , told , her it was of , great
value , an it contained rare jewelry which
had been pawned by ladies of the Con
federacy for the benutttof the causeand
desired her to secceto it until some one
with proper authority came to claim
it , \\hoii tlio party resumed its re
treat Mrs. Jloas examined the contents o !
tlio box , and was dazzled by the bril.
liancy which mot her gazo. 1 < to several
weeks eho kept her trust a profound secret
crot and guarded it from hundreds of met :
who were searching the country for ram.
nants of the lobbed treasure train. .
Ono night horseman rode up to hei
rcnidonco. Alighting , ho called Mrs ,
Moss aside und in whipporod worda tolc
her ho was the accredited agent of per
sons who had left the jewelry-box in hoi
possession , nnd ho had been instructor ]
to call for it , Completely doceivud bj
the man's anjurranco and appearance o :
honesty , she placed the box iu his handi
to BOO him disappear in the daik
nena , and to roalUo the next day that ahi
had boon cruelly imposed on , She diet
a month latur. The fact that the jewel
last found correspond so well with th
contents of the myaterious box lend
I color to th , o buppoaition that they are th
WESTERN NETVVH.
W10MIMI ,
Choyonue is talking of upending $ " ,000 or
0,000 in an artesian well ,
There nra now between MO and 300 saloons
a Wyoming , of which about two-thirds are
n Laramlo and Albany counties.
The tlgar's lair U tha most gorgeously fitted
proem in Cheyenne , while tlio entrancing
.rains of an orchestra invites young and old
i drop their roll.
Tha reports that como in from all parts of
10 territory are unanimous in the assertion
hat the cattle are in first clans condition to
tart tha winter , como what may.
A hard of 130 head of cattle iu ( Iranito
lanyou , in which W. P. Drmsloy is Interested ,
IM suiterod terribly from ft worm disease.
nhirty out of the herd have died , The worm ,
elioved to have come from tha stomach ,
xlgcs in the throat , works in the windplpo
, nd the boast dies.
DAkOTA.
Tlio electric light shines for Dondwood.
Trankfort has ( iliippod 80.000 bushels of
liont this fall.
Farmers In Sanborn county plowed up to
10 17th of December.
The cost of Improiemonti ) in Salem , the
iMtyonr , totals 505,1)25. )
Tha Prou fifturoB up Sioux Falls' Improve-
lents for 1833 at 5020,330.
Splnk county's iMaoiwod valuation Is $2,011-
35. S pi nk stands fourth on the list in south-
Dakota.
The thermometer registered twenty-nix do-
ccs below zerontsunrieo In KeyHtonoDlckoy
iimty , the 20th.
IJrulo county produced an average of ton -
four bushels of wheat and fifty-live bushola
oats to the aero this year.
Tboro are about 800 miles of railroad in
.icration in northern Dakota , with good pros-
octs for the figures being doubled iu 1881 ,
There ore sixty-one saloons in Fargo , and
lie authorities line persons who frequent thorn
m Sunday , all tlio way from five to twenty
'ollara.
A mine of explosive dust has been discov-
ed in the Black Hills. It is called the 'Vun
owilcr mino" and the dust Is used for blast-
g purposes.
Oliver Dnlrymple , ono of the farm kings of
orthorn Dakota , threshed this year 150,000
ushols of wheat , and -lO.Ot 0 bushels of oats
' 1 from yDOO , acres of ground.
Wolsoy , at the junction of the Chicago , Mil-
aukeo k St. Paul railroad and Chicago &
orthwestern railroad in Hand county , is ono
: the most promising places in the territory ,
The "treasure coach" from Deadwood to
'iorro ' , inalcos two trips a mouth , carrying
300,000 each time at a cost of SHOO. The
.old is in lOO-pjuud bricks , locked in a strong
info.
info.Ono
Ono year npo there was but a solitary tepee
, t Toller's bay , on Do11 lake , where now Is
ho thriving town of Harbor , with hotels ,
usinoss houses and a thickly settled farming
inntry.
The Pierre Recorder claims that three miles
iuth of LeBoau are largo hill Apparently
.imposed of solid coal. When put Into n fire ,
, his coal burns tiplcndldly , leaving an ash al-
inont as whlto as snow.
Salem is 40 miles west of Sioux Falls , 38
, ilea east of Mitchell , 70 miles southeast of
Huron , and 80 miles north of Yankton. The
'own was platted in July , 1880 , and Its pros-
mt population is about 1,001) ) .
Adoadwood saloon keeper for Christmas
iroparod "with great forethought , " as a local
isper remarks , a tub full of cfrtr nogf ( , with
rhlcli ho prrooted Ills friend ; . The same au-
lority adds that "at times it was impossible
o reach the front. "
tOLOHADO.
The Denver Tribune lias another libel suit
n hand , in which $10,000 , is asked for.
A vein of graphite six feet in width , near
panish Peak , can bo traced on the surface
'or a distance of th'oo milos.
Cattle herds In the North park are being
oprodatod on by thieves , \\ho sell the dressed
eef to butchers of contiguous towns.
A man named Kudabniurh was instantly
lllod at Idaho Springs by the bursting of an
imcry stone. Ills head was cut in two ,
The snow is dcopor in Gunniaon just now
than it hax boon at any tlmo within two
oars. At Irwtn the enow is seven feet deep
m the streets.
Middle pork is to bo severely tested as a
wlutorrange for stock this winter. It is to ba
augmented by 1.000 head of cattle and 1,000
bead of sheep , driven in by Thomas Watson.
An old man , decrepit and bent with his
eight of years and grief , who had for some
time solicited alms at the corners of the more
crowded streets of Denver , dlod of starvation
the other day.
Denver claims to have put 82,300,000 into
juildings last year. Building permits were Is-
uod aa follows : Brick blocks , 12 ; brick
tores , 54 ; brick residences , 301 ; frame stores ,
' . ; frame residences , fi2. Miscellaneous build-
ng , brick , 170 ; frame , 22 ; total , 019.
CALUOIlNIi.
Stock Is dying of black log in Mono county.
A peach tree instill bloom is the attraction
\tSan Diego now.
Fifteen hundred dollars' worth of ostrich
.iluuius were plucked at the Anaheim farm ro-
: ontly.
Thousands of crows have Invaded the fields
around Sau Felipe , tilling the air with the
noise ol their cawing ,
A second track will forthwith bo laid from
I'ort Coatu to Oakland , which is required by
lie ouonuous traffic of the railroad.
Deposits of mica are found in nearly every
county in California , and in many of tha rain
ing districts , and at various other points on the
Pacific const.
The picking of tha orange crop In southern
California has juat commenced , a few curload
having already boon tihippod. Tbo price fo
oranges ranges from two to li\o dollars a box
'n orchards.
The Mohican , a third-rato steam sloop-of
war , was successfully Inunched , at Mure
Island navy yard , December 27. The Moliicau
* i OlOtou burthen and 1'JOO tons displacement
ongtti between perpendiculars , illG feet
breath , extreme , M feet ; depth of hold , 1
foot. She U ship rigged , uud her battery wil
be alght guns ono eight rltle , ono huudrei
and eighty pound pivot , one hundred am
eixty pound rlllo on the forecastle , and Hi
nlno inch vmootu bore Dahlgron guns , on th
broadsides Galling and boat guns. She Is
beautiful model. It in though eho will b
fust.
MONTANA.
tunnel Is nearly finlxhed. It It
expected train ! will run through it on thi
10th.
10th.Lewis
Lewis & Clnrko county liaa derived n revenue
nuo of about 85,000 from commercial trtuoH'rt
tMa year , la tha way ef licensed ,
There nro now o\er 35,000 head of cattle
frrazlmr within n radius of twenty miles ol
Maiden , which are \alued at o\or $1,000,000 , ,
Cnptuln Qulnn , the engineer in chargoof the
linirovoinents | on the Yellowstone rhor , r c-
oinmonds the nrproprtatlon of 9100,000 to con <
tlntio work on that stream.
J. W. Thari > , a sheep rancher of tlio uppoi
Tongue rhcr , hail uoventy-tho of Mullock
killed by n panther or a mountain llou recently -
ly , lieide about lifty wounded ,
Two llupllshmen fought a intzo fight lii
ispoula , lecoiitly. 'i'iio defeated uugUUt
looked u if he hud gone through u dynamite
explosion. Fitly-three rounds were fougUt & > i
.00 ,
The Marquis dc Mures la coin ; ? Into tlio cab-
bafro industry on u larKe Bcalu nt I.xttlo Ml *
souri. He dealjii9 ( to place f.0,000 of Umaa suc
culent vegetable producUou in tha market
about April 1st ,
IN fiEMLil ,
Mica of excellent quality has been dkcos oreil
on the rayctto rh er , wid in other localities
m Idaho ,
It U entlii ntod tint the output of bullion In
Utah this j oar \\ill exiood her last year'n
product by nt lout $4,000,000.
Ah OOB , u Chinese fnroman In sawmill al
Mamhueld , OIPROII , wa * eau ht In beltitiir n
few days ngo and whirled tu death.
MU * llallle Mcniletihall. while catherint
ChiUtraas .evereraoni In the foot-hills neai
Las V'ja , N , M. , found mvcwl uujgetaol
Kold , the lunjeat wtlghlnjr onu hiuulrod ant
fifteen pr lna. Aftcr rd lloat wan found aw
ho load discovered close by. It was staked
y the young Indy'n father. The find adds
ow impetus to the gold excitement In the
own.
Two dead whulesj-forty and sixty feet in
ongth rosiKJctloly - wcro cast ashore lasl
ook at the month of the Slnlslaw river , Ore-
on.
on.A
A boy at Kuroka , Nevada , drank three
Into of Chinese brandy. When uptlng coraoi
m sagebrush will blossom o\cr the spot
hero they buried htm ,
rnANOis TRAIN'S PAPIIU
-"Now ( 1J111 Tweed" ) ; 5 cents (3 ( to news-
) oyslj ) SI 0 months ! ( "ads" quarter n line ! ) ;
11 news stands ! Kemit care Ashland House !
Ityl
S ! send cash estimate for "New
111 Tweed ; " first five thousand ( lzo typo ,
Mly KeiM ) complete ! also ouch live thona-
nd after ! GKO. FHANOIS TllAIN ,
Ashland House !
flio : FUANOliF TUAlN'3 PAPKU
knooks up" "Herald news stands ! " Com-
xckl Carroll Frauds ! Carlisle Free Trade
' { rates ! nmlKxposcs NowlJill Tweed ! ( Order
owsdoalors. ) "Ads" 35 cents line ! ( Two
ngoi already. ) Send business "nds" Ashland
[ ousel
The Iliftiiway to Mexico.
There is a country whoso isolation bo-
ind tlio barriers of nature has nearly left
. out ef the geographies. Its resources
ro unequaled , its wealth enormous ,
'ho very names of its federal states arc
nknown to the majority of Americans ,
nd its innummerablo cities are strange
) them by name , resources , or character ,
'ho ' Mexican war , the exploits of Gen.
anta Anna , Buena Vista , and the dim
memory of countless revolutions , are the
oatures that recur at the mention of
loxico. Men are the unconscious sub-
octs of preconceived ideas , with inumor-
blo prejudices , all of which are destined
o change.
Americans have seen Now Mexico ,
Inch has in the last decade become old ,
nd have regarded with curious and not
leased eyes the variety of Mexican
nown as the "greaser. They have
eon the villages which cluster along the
anka of the llio Grande , and have not
lought of them as a vast addition to
10 glory of America. Some have scon ,
the ancient times of twenty years ago ,
10 pioneers of international commerce
n the ox-trains that came to the banks
f the Missouri , bringing strange faces
nd an unknown tongue , from a land
hose utmost boundaries were as far
way as the coast of Africa. No ono
now , in these times no ono anticipated ,
nd the wisest and most far-sooing mom-
er of the commercial world would have
cgarded as a dream of the far future , any
chomo to bring this unknown empire to
ur doora.
Ten years easily count as a hundred of
lie olden timo. The magician was a
ailwpy and miracle the building of the
ttchison , Topcka & Santa Fo. It was ,
ko most great achievements , quietly ac-
omplishcd. Capital , which is universally
oputcd timid , combined itself fortui-
ously with brains that are generally
aold , and a few months ago the greatest
nd most momentous of all the tasks of
restprn enterprise was accomplished ,
loxico is commercially oura. What the
nills of the gods may grind politically
lone can knoyfr ; what ia accomplished
ommcrcially it is our task to tell.
Americans and noted wanderers. Half
ho revenues of Switzerland comes from
ho pockets of American travelers.
Svory interested continental knows them
s far as he can see them , and calculates
ccordingly. And yet an ocean inter-
ones. Days and nights of tempest and
aim lie between. Nothing is conducted
upon a system to which the traveler is
iccustomod , or which he can truly say he
ikei. Ho is fleeced at every turn , and ,
r he were not , is constantly following in
ho footsteps of thousands of others , and
locking his intelligence with facts and
) lacc9 whoso minutest particulars can be
ouiid in any magazine. After ho has
loglocted his own country , and , in many
aaoa , it will be news to him that he can
make the most interesting and useful
our of all without a steamer ticket , and
obtain three or four months of absolute
ownosi and strangeness in a voyage by
rail.
rail.Tho
The line f the Atchison , Top oka &
Santa Fe is steady in its course toward
.ho terra incognita of the southwest. Its
iranches and "feeders" are numerous
nd long , and it includes in its destiny
ho portsof the Pacific both in Mexico
and the United States. Yet its apparent
object in the beginning seems to have
) eon the opening of the gate of Old
Mexico.
Some of the miracles accomplished as
matters entirely secondary to the great
objects are eminently worthy of atten
tion. The traveler passes through scones
and changes that appear all the nioro ro-
makablo if ho happens to have knowi
them as they wore. Tlio ridiculous
"Great American Desert , " noted upon
the maps of the elders of a quarter of a
century ago by ominous black dots dpiiot
ing sand , contains nearly half a millioi
of contented and prosperous farmers , an <
blooms as the rose. The picturesque
valleys of New Mexico are awake witl
the hum.o machinery and dotted wit ]
the debris of the mines. Hills of granite
have boon dehodund tunneled , andiwih
gorges have been spanned with iron
trusses. The characteristic American
school-liouso and the comely andinow
Protestant church stand sorenn nmon
brown adobe houses. Brick blocks am
stately residences are the aristocrats o
narrow streets , and the mill and the fac
tory. have act their wheels amid the rua !
of snow-born torrents. The old Te\
Moxie is gone , and the nnw has como
Thopo-iaa strange incongruity. The fast
est life in the world runs aide by aid
with , what was the slowest. Yet all tha
is stcauge , all that the traveler cares to
BOO , remains us over. Mountain , plain
gorge , and canyon are forever there , bo
iioatU a sky the bluest and fairest of the
world.
Autl nothing can bo more surprising
than the visits of daily trains to the vil
luges of the Pueblos nothing , unless i
bo tha train that carries thu'tuurhts to
Pompeii. The Indians do not neem to bo
much aflocted. Nothing less , indeed
than the crack of doom sould cause a
Puoble to look up from his patient toil
So it is that this giuantio line takei
tlio traveler through all the climates ant
almost all the zoiu's. First , the ftuitfu
Holds of eastern Kansas ; then for 40 (
miles up the valley of the Arkansas , tin
grazing region which furnishes tens o
thousands of animais to. eastern markets
then the mountains , green , or brown , o :
white , according to altitude , but blue aw
hazy all ; then through Mexican towns
and Pueblo villageg , and down the _ val
ley of the Bio Grande another 400 miles
then across Jornada del Muorto , the an
cient "Journey of Death ; " and then
Mexico , coril , sagebrush , cactus , ine/
quit , farms , plains , mountains , mines
grain , cattle , coyotes , and prairie dogs
farmer , cowboy , frontiersman , Mexican
and Pueblo ; from vast fields of ice and a
white world of winter toitio and orangt
and etenyxl summer ; thus the story a
the \oyage runa.
Do not iHjdcrmtxl ; ask lor and UU nil ) II I
Dou Uu anil S ink1 Uajwlcuui Coiuli Utopt ( ur Cou/h
ColJn.nul tvnoThiX'iti , U. B. and Trada lUrk uu
em >
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JtSJ-JL'Oi ,
Eave just received a large quantity of
new
AND AM OFFERING
THEM AT VERY LOW PRICES
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' &
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Sole Agent for Omaha and the West.
Cor. 9th Street and Capitol Avenuef
"BURLINGTON ROUTE" !
( Chicago , Burllnetort & Quincy Railroad. ) 1 ' /
GOING EAST AND WEST. GOING NORTH ACID SOUTH.
Elegant Dft7 Coaches , Parlor Cars , with Rocltn Solid Trains of Elegant Day Coaches and Pall- ]
Ing Chairs ( beaM free ) , Smoklnc Cars , with Re man Palace Sleeping Cars are run ( tallto and.
volving Chalrs.IliUman Palace Sleeping Cars and from St. Louis , via Hannibal , Quincy , Keokulc
the famous C. u. & Q. Dining Cars run dally to nnd Rurlingtonj Cedar Rapids and Albert Lea to St
from Chicago & Kansas City , Chicaijo < Council Paul and Minneapolis. Parlor Cars vrith Uecllnlr'
Bluffs , Chicago & Des Moines. Chicago , St. Jo Chairs to and froraSc Louis and PeorlaandV
seph , Atchkon & Topeka. Only through line be and from St Louis anil Ottumtra. Only on'
tween Chicago , Lincoln & Denver Through cars change of cars between St. Louis and C ; . ,
between Indianapolis & Council Bluffs via Pcorta Moines. Iowa , Lincoln , Nebraska , ondDenvCl.
AJI connections made in Union Depots. It Is Colorado.
known as the great THROUGH CAR LINE. It is uuiTereally admitted to bathe
Finest Equipped Railroad In the World for all' ' Clrisses of Travel. , *
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jee of feeing tke Finest and
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318-320 S. 13th St. , near
Manufactured by the Michigan SiovoOo. , Detroit and Chlcacp
DEALER IN
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LIME , CEMEN'l , flAIfi , ETC.
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I My nepo ' .toi ) U ooniuiitly niled lth ' cl tl to3Vt-Blt Woikm a Uj > f l it * ' ,
Office and Factory S , W , Ccrner J8tt > and Capitol Avenue ,