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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1888)
12 , . : ! , . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , OCTOBER 7 , 188&-SIXTEEN PAGES. : . We have just been through the eastern markets and picked up many ODD LOTS , much below their value which we shall place SALE MONDAY. And keep on sale until closed out ; the early buyers of course getting the advan tage of choice. Importers and manufacturers at times need money to meet their indebtedness. At such times they usually come to us , knowing that we can handle any quantity of goods. SPOT CASH brings to us at all times such op portunities of buying good seasonable goods at less than cost. We have just made such purchases and propose to give the people of Omaha and vicinity the benefit. We buy none but the best of goods. You can therefore safely RELY UPON THE QUALITY AND STYLE , no matter HOW LOW the price may seem. We can only build up and increase our trade here by giving the people GOOD GOODS AT LOW PRICES , WHICH WE NEVER LOOSE SIGHT OF. Among the MANY DRIVES we offer this week , we can only mention a few : 10 pieces LADIES' CLOTH , in new shades , 54 inches 100 do/on Ladies' colored bordered , pure linen , hem wide , 65C a yard ; good value at 31.00. stitched HANDKERCHIEFS go for $1 a dozen ; cheap at 52. 7 pieces BICYCLE FLANNEL , 54 inches wide. 5Oc a 500 dozen 18 to 20 line Wlute Pearl" DRESS BUTTONS , yard ; worth $1.00. 2j C a dozen ; worth 5c. 20 pieces new style TINSEL DRESS TRIMMING , 50c 10 boxes 3-pound bars pure white CASTILE SOAP , 25c bar. a yard cheap at 85c. a ; dozen colored bordered DAMASK TOWELS , 25c 25 50 pairs 11-4 All Wool SCARLET BLANKETS , $3.15 each ; cheap at 4oc. a pair ; cheap at $5.00. In addition to the above we have also received a new line 10 pieces 32-inch heavy grey twilled DOMESTIC FLAN of Ladies' Cloaks , Tea Gowns , Children's Dresses and Ladies' NELS , 25C a yard ; good value at 4oc. Surah Silk Waists. 10 dozen large size real turkey red oil chintz ( twilled ) BED Our Millinery Department has also received many new COMFORTS , $1.5O each ; worth # 2.25. novelties. 50 pieces 4o-inch All Wool TRICOT CLOTH , at 45c a It will pay you to look through all our departments. THEY yard ; A BIG JOB. ALL HAVE SPECIAL DRIVES THIS WEEK. We wish to invite those at a distance to purchase through the mail as we have established a thorough order depart ment. Mr. Franklin who is in charge of that department , thoroughly understands the selection of goods , thus saving the expense of visiting the market. We deliver , tree of express charges , as far as 40 miles from Omaha. Samples sent on application. Wm. Barr Dry Goods > . , 16th & Douglas Sts WHY THEY RAISED. Detroit Free Press : Denier ( to clerk ) "I'm going to mark these boys' dia gonal suits $15 to-morrow. " Clerk "fifteen dollarsl Why , we'vo boon selling them for $10 all along. " Dealer "I know it , but I'm going to give away a. base ball bat with each one of them free of charge. " To Elevate the Stage. Uotton Courier. The maiden dolTs her sailor hat And puts it by with euro , And brings the "Towur ot Pisa" out Just tor theater wear. And when the season's lu full blast1 Tall huts become the rage ; Wo trust they will succeed who seek To elevate the stripe. HIS LAST MARRIAGE FEB. A LOVK STOIIY. George Alfred Townsend , in the Baltimore Homo Journal : Some years go , when marriage licenses had to bo paid for , the Marylandcrs and Virginians rode across the narrow frontier in the valley and were pnarrlod for nothing in Pennsylvania. Of course , tlioy gave something to the | > roachcr for his trouble. The conso- flcneo was that all the preachers on the Maryland side of the line became as lean as geese , and the preachers across iho line in Pennsylvania grew as fat as turkey gobblers. But there was on preacher near Wayncsboro' who did not grow fat. Garrick How ton , who did the largest business , becamu leaner and tenner the faster ho married people. Ho was too moan , the people said , to en joy lifo like a good Methodist itinerant Or a rubicund priest. No chicken coops vero agitated at his approach. No little pigs squealed and got under their anxious mammas when Garrick leaned pvor the sty and surveyed them. Nobody knew just what sect or church Garrick belonged to there where overy- Jxidy was his own theologian. Ho called his church The Zionskitos fend was the only one of it the bishop Indeed except his son , NYeasloy How- Ion , whom ho called "tho deacon. " The cnurch building did not exist , though branches of The Zionskite body wrcro said to bo "furdor west' by both the bishop and the deacon. Inquisitive people hinted that there fievor would have been us many as two J&ionskitos except for the fat marriage fees which wore * to be had along Mason nhd Uixou's line ; and that Bishop Gar rick Howton only ordained his son Voasloy into the priesthood reluctantly that ho might occasionally take some recreation liimself and not miss any runaway couples which should arrive totweon midnight and morning. All people far or near understood that the Howtons would marry anybody , the flellvory of the certificate being conditional * tional on the payment ot th'o ice ; and pains were taken to impress strangers [ hat in The Zionskitcs dUcipline the certificate was a part of the ceremony itself. A etory was started and grow that old flowton married children for the sakn Of his fees. " " This story came up from sorrowing ftnd and broken-hearted parents in Virginia and from the rich manors and tamlotsol Frederick in Maryland. The Pennsylvanians never verified these re ports because it was none of their busi- (1039. (1039.That was the golden ago. when the people of ovcry state did to the people ( every other state just what they pleased , and the boundary line made VUtrage justice or simplicity criminal. Nobody crossed the line tocall Dishop Howton to account. All liconbcd cler gymen could marry ; the bishop had a license signed by the deacon , his son , and the son had a license signed by the bishop of "ThoZionbkite Purified Order , Garrick Howton , First Tomplcfungus , " If any preaoher of a largo church dared to inquire into the subject ho was told that there had been a , "laying on of hands , " and this sent him to the right-about , to be followed by the cruel insinuation that his solo motive in ques tioning "liberty of conscience" had been envy and covotoubness of Bishop Howton's marriage fees. Still that idea of marrying children to designing men had a bad sound. It gave a suportitious name to Bishop Howton's "parsonage. " The runaway slaves from the old slave states knew and avoided that house , for they remem bered how little Mis * This or That hud been spirited away by a reckless cousin or 'a designing overseer and made a wife in her early teens by "dat bad ole Bishop Ilowton. " "If wo could only get at him ! " was muttered by many a proud , awed , humiliated homestead along the Shenandoah - nandoah or the Monocacy. But they could not got at him for the sumo reason that ho could not got at them nor interfere with their privil eges and abuses. Wo had no common country ; wo were inviolable states secure in our own venerable violations. As time advanced Bishop Howton be came a widower , and his mind was seton on marrying again. It may have been the example of mar rying children under age , torn from their parents by their own disobedient impulses or the powerful sinister inllu- oncoofmanor it may have been the childi&h beauty of Eunice Ilowton , his distant relative , which doomed her to become the bishop's wife when she should bo old enough to receive his orders and not bring the laws of Penn sylvania down upon his head. The bibhop bided his time. Kunico was hardly fifteen , a Blonder , groy-oycd blonde , whose foot , touch the ground as they would , turned into lines of grace , and music boomed to bo play ing as s-ho walked or moved , to such harmonies did she bend ; while in the action of her head upon her delicate neck nnil even in the motion of her lips there appeared to bo violin music whibtled by her spirit as the upland zephyrs played upon it and her heart dcnircd to dancu. The country people said that this was because her mother had boon uu actress and a dancer. Somewhere back in the undibcorned past and vagueness of a larger world it was said that Bishop Howton had been a show manager and that his orphan cousin had married a French dancer who was in his strolling company. Tliib cousin had boon loft to Garrick , who had kept him down and nearly starved him , repressing his spirits by an nvarico und superstition which lay across each other , and finally retired Garriok from the show but , ! ness a com plete failure , while his ward , set free by matrimony , made a nice little for tune keeping a dancing academy with hi ? wlfo. When the parents died , something of the husband's inherited tenets caused him to repent , though ho had never done anything bad , und in the weak ness of dying no gave his child to his relative to bo her trustee and the trustee of a respectable little fortune. The poor dancing tiachor thought the word ' bishop" covered a regenerate heart. The bishop was merely a capitalist in marriage feus. Tills Is considered reasonable humil ity. ity.Somo of the schoolboys called him Old Yoke-li-noki , becnused ho jokcd ; so many couples. What education ho had picked up avarice and illiterate associations had chased out of his Head ; like an old country Dutchman , ho could spell joiats for his barn Joyce und talk about the broec'hman on his horse when he meant breeching. As time advanced Garrick grow deep ly in love with Eunice , and forgot to give spiritual restraint to his son. "At seventeen sharp , " old Garrick Ilowton often repeated to himself , look ing at Eunice with threefold passions of love avarice and superstition. Often when an old man falls in love it seems to him like holiness , when it is only foolishness. In that way Garrick threw himself back into his natural state before ho became an rvnricloua scoundiel , or a self-frightened hypocrite. He got to believing in the religion he practiced upon. Ho feared night solltudo and ghosts. Ho believed that his monstrous passion was a sacrifice on his part for the sake of securing Eunice's soul. "I should bo the devil's prize without her , " mused Garrick Ilowton. "Tho children I have tied in wedlocks1 of despair , the unformed souls I have ir-anacl'd to selfish liends , the head strong schoolgirls I have made the losral slaves of hideous skinflints , and who have in a few months awakened to everlasting repentance and horror , would troop into my lovely home amongst these mountains and drive mo crazy with their curses. I should go mad' ! Hut Eunice , Eunice , who will guard my door and warm my heart and bring other angels like her from heaven to my relief and comfort. " It was plain that the hypocritical old bishop was becoming slightly hysteri cal. \Voasloy Ilowton had been notified by his father that ho must go went and establish his own congregation of the peculiar Xlonskites. He was sent to the garret to study discipline and thoroughly contemplate the Scriptures. Ono day Eunice stole up into the gar ret , while the bishop was marrying a one-eyed man of sixty to a mountain maid of eighteen , and she met a differ ent scene there from the penance and prayer she had expected. Weaslcy was rigged out in a suit of theatrical clothes taken from Eunice's parents' trunks , and was executing a wild and fantastic jig. Tltu bishop had told Kunico that in the said trunks was the devil's ward robe. The young people locked the door and examined thu wardrobe thor oughly. What places are garrets for rain and love ! How it drops upon the roof ! How It goes pit-a-put in the hearty How the Heart is raining suddenly through the eves anu the roof is beating with the palpitations of the wind ! Old men seldom go to garrets. Bad old men like Garrick Howton never do. Next week Woasley Howton was to start for Indiana , and bo an apostle on the Wnbash. His trunk was packed and his ticket for thottago was to bo paid for over the ( Treat national road from Hagcrstown to the far west. "Filty dollars fare ! " exclaimed the bishop , as ho walked his upper porch ; "what a sum of money ! But the next week it shall be maile. up out of Eunice's fortune , which will then bo mine , with her fadeless beauty , till death do us part. The raseall" As ho looked there came a cloud of dust up the Leltersburg rood from the south , where somebody was driving hard somebody in a desperate hurry. "It looks Ilka a runaway couple , " ex claimed Garrick Ilowton , reaching for his eyeglasses. But the shade of the North mountains , whore this sun was go ing down , put a bolt of blackness uptm the landscape , like the -moon's total eclipse. When the sound of the wheeK came to the door Garriek heard a knock ho descended and found a strange man in the parlor , which had no lights. "Sure. " the stranger said , "I have 70 honair to say /at I am in love. But /.o lady is too leetle ; she has not 7.0 grand age. It will bo all /e same ; because she loves mo and her fathair liavo so much shame ho never will say nothing. I give you fifty dollairo to make mo her husband at once , saro ! " "Fifty dollars1 ! the bishop's avari cious heart responded. "It is Weas- ley's whole faro. The good demon must have sent this man here. " Then the business piety returningthc bishop spoke aloud and most uuctous- ly : "What are the names of the parties ? Marriage , my brother , the Apostle snys , is honorablo'in all Hebrews xiii. 4. I see not that it may not bo honorable in theo. " "Xo names are on certificates we have filled. Xe fee I pay you is extraordi naire , monsieur. For 7.0 fifty dollairo wo make two demands : Au premiere , 7.at you marry 7.0 bride veiled ! Au second end , /at you sign two certificates for us , to protect 7.0 lady and moi memo. " "The ago of the bridoV asked Gar rick Howton. "What mattair zat ? You have made 7.0 wife at fourteen , many a time. My bride is sixteensaire. Come , /o money ! Here is 7.0 money. " Ho felt the bankbill in his hand and it dried up his compunctions of heart : ho felt a quill put in his lingers and the stranger , with something like a fusee , made a flume that contained brimstone and seemed yellow and nlue. "Eternally bo mine , as xis pnpior you sign , " the strange man exclaimed "I mean 7.0 lady child , 7.0 lady , parblou. " The voice had a deep sepulchral tone in it , and by the foreboding flame. Gur- riolc saw a person whoso forehead was all in patches , with French mustaches under his no-o and blackened eyebrows drawn nearly through the temples to the edge of a colorless , inky wig. "You must give mo some name , " spoke the bishop , ns ho signed , "al though I cannot read by such a light. " "I am zo Marquis BoUsuulb. " "Bring in the lady ! " Low laughter scorned to he circling around the apartment as _ the uniting words were said by tile bishop's falter ing and frightened tpngue. Loud laughter bvoko from the car riage windows as the scoundrel drove away. < "Hero , Woasloy , Eunice ! Lights ! Lights ! " exclaimed ! old Garriek Ilow ton. "I have got my" last marriage foe. " ; No voice replied ; the'clark mountains through the windqws. showed bridal wreaths of.tars upon their forbidding brows , tike the awful presence of the marquis who hud but now departed with childhood's purity } nHhis false black eyes and wig. The bishop took the fire and lighted a candle. Ho saw a paper lying upon the flook with his signature to it. He read with horror that ho acknowledged the sale of his fcoul to Bool7.ebub for a thousand years. "Ha ! I'm ! " ho cried , "Satan has dropped the contract ho entrapped mete to sign. To the fire to the lire with it ! " A voice seemed to sound from the garret on the wailing of the wind. "You signed to such certificates. You have married Eunice to thu devil. " "Father , " cried Wenaloy Ilowton next morning , "Eunice la not to be found. Will you forgive her if she has tarried if she baa married me ? " Bishop How ton'Uy on the floor-dead. RAILROAD CONQUESTS. New Tillies That Penetrate Stranse Commercial Advertiser : In the latest published number of the monthly con sular reports that issued for .Tune of this your several referonc'cs are made to railroad extension in the remoter re gions of the world , from which we can see that the iron-shod missionary of civ- ili/.ation is energetically at work. Con sul JeweU at Sivas. Turkey , sends to the department a translation of the regula tions governing the first section of a proposed trunk line between Con.stnnti- noplo and Angora , a distance of 801) ) miles , through the heart of Asia Minor. In addition to this line , which will have an important office in "opening up" the Ottoman territory work is now advanc ing on the road from Joppa to Jerusa lem , an undertaking which must give a great impetus to travel in the holy land , as the difficulties and inconveni ences of the pilgrimage from the coast to the city of David have long boon a serious obstacle in the eyes of most tour ists. ists.Another Another strange land , though one not very distant from the beaten track , will soon bo rendered easier of study by means of railroad facilities. This i- > the island of Corsica. In the north Russia is steadily push ing her military and political railroad system. On the 27th of May , according to a dispatch from Minister Lothrop , "the Trans-Caspian railway was opened at Sumarcand with great ceremony. This , writes Mr. Lothrop , was "an event of no common importance to Rus sia , and oven to the world. " The road is 1,830 versta in length ( about ! HN ) miles ) and is primarily a mil itary road. It has boon built and is controlled and operated by the ministry of war. At present it is little more than a skeleton road. It is deficient in sta tions and rolling stock. But the great fact is accomplished. It opens the door into the great field of central Asia. All things requisite to its efficiency will in time bo added to It. Though a mili tary road , its political , economical and commercial uses and results will not be inconsiderable. It brings Russia nearer to its coveted cotton fields , from which so much is hoped. It has already set in ai'tive motion measures for the restoration of the old magnificent sys tem ot irrigation , which has fallen into dilapidation and disease. It must not bo supposed that the Trans-Caspian railway is likely to rest at Samarcand. Beyond lie Tiisehkent , Forghans and Somirolch , which the Ruisian journals describe as the richest provinces in cen tral Asia , abounding in water , inviting colonization and culture. As these lie in the direct path of the interest and the ambition of Russia the early exten sion of the railway may be confidently anticipated. At the same time the project of the construction of the great continental railway across Siberia to the Pacific is agitated with increased intent. It is said that explorations of the line will bo begun this year. It seems hardly prob able that the available resources of the empire will permit the rapid prosecu tion of this gigantic undertaking , but it is a work which is necessary to the security and welfare of the Pacific pos sessions ot Russia. Its construction , therefore , is only a question of time. On the Pacific coasts of Asia railroad enterprise is showing remarkable ao- tlvity. Japan Is taking the lead among her neighbors in this , as in all ' 'modern improvements , " but even phlegmatic China is showing a new desire for rail road innovations , and the indolent and uncommercial Spaniards in the Philip pine Islands are also bestirring thom- solrea in the matter. Of thu situation in Japan Consul Birch , of Nagasaki , writes that a proposed line across the Kiusiu , the southernmost of the four principal islands of the empire , has met with unexpected popular favor , ami will soon bo constructed. Its course lies through the Satsuma country , and that it meets with favor there indicates the disappearance of that hostility to foreign nations which has marked pub- feeling in this portion of the empire , lie. The new road is to bo 270 miles in length , and is expected to cost about $10,000,001) ) . When completed it will bo an important adjunct to the system that is [ rapidly covering the main is land. The China Railroad company , accord ing to Minister Donby , hail in May completed much of its line from the Hai-Ping mines to the Poiho river and Tien-Tain , and it was thought that by July or August the work would bo fin ished. In that case a railroad of con siderable length and value is in active operation in I'liina , whore the intro duction of railroads has boon so stub bornly fought , and we may look to sec , now that the ground bus boon broken , other roads soon in course of construc tion. The system projected for the Plnllipino Kles , Consul Webb reports from Manilla , is on a small scale , but may load to more important projects. We have only space to mention the more Important railroad enterprises of tropical America lately put in working order , the Guatemala Central , which Consul General Ilosmer reports has be come , after much serious tribulation , the greatest commercial interest in Central America , lie writes. The Guatemala Central railroad runs from the port of San Jose on the Pa cific coast , latitude 115 dog. 55 min. 19 sec. north , longitude 0 ! ) dog. 40 min. 76 sec. west , in a general north by east direction to the capital city of Guate mala. The length of the main line is 71.fi miles. The road is thoroughly built and equipped , well ballasted with gravel and broken rock , and runs as smoothly us the best of our own railroads or those of any other country in the world. The scenery along the line is grand and picturesque ; enpecially on the ascend ing grade between Eocuintla and this city ( Guatemala ) the varied views which comprehend the perfection of landscape scenery meet the eye in a succession of iiannramio changes that are indescriba bly delightful. The towering volcanoes of Aqua and Fuego loom forth , their clear-cut outlines piercing the cloud less sky , witli an undulating wave of foot-hills rolling up to their base , while at one point on the road the train skirts Luke Amatitlan , some five miles in length and about two in width , from whoso surface here and there hot springs are continually bubbling and breathing forth steam , a reminder that it is the howl of an old volcanic crater with hidden fires now slumbering be neath its placid bosom. Thus we may see from this hurried survey that the Iron horsi is spurred around by his indefatigable driver through jungles and over mountains to the uttermost corners of the globe. And wherever he goes barbarism sinks crushed beneath its heels. Walt Whitman' * Hospital Kxporloncr. . Walt Whitman contributes to the Oc tober Century some verbatim extracts from letters homo during the war from which wo quote as follows : "After first Fredericksburg I foil discouraged my self , and doubled whether our rulers could carry on the war. But that has passed away. Tfto war must bo carried on. I would willingly go in the ranks myself if I thought it would profit more than as at present , and I don't know sometimes but I shall , as it is. Then there is certainly a strange , deepfervid feeling formed or aroused in the land , hard to describe or name ; it U not a majority feeling , but it will make itself felt. M. , you don't know whnta nature fellow gets , not only after be ing a soldier a while , but after living in the sights and influences of the camps , the wounded , etc , a nature he never experienced deforo. The stars and stripes , the tunu of "Yankee Doodle"and similurthlng * produce such an impression on a follow as never before. I have seen thorn bring tears on some men's ehooks , and others turn pale with emotion. I have a little flag ( it belonged to ono of our cavalry regiments ) , presented to mo by one of the wounded ; it was taken by the socesh in a fight and rescued by our men in a bloody skirmish following. It cost three men's lives to get buck that four-by-three Hug to tear it from the breast of a dead rebel for the name ol getting their little 'rag' back again. The man that secured it was very badly wounded , and they let him keep it. I was with him a good deal ; he wanted to give mo some keepsake , he said lie didn't expect to live so ho gave mo that flag. The best of it all is , dear M. , there isn't u regiment , cavalry or in fantry , that wouldn't do the like , on the like occasion. " Newman's old church on Madison avenue. New York , is being ra/cd to the ground. The Younjf Men's Chri stian association hold property valued at $7UOO,000au increase of $1,000,000 in a year. The receipts of the American board tlm past year reached ii7'i,57J.it ' ! , a largo in- cruaso over the previous year. Bishop Foster of the Mathotll st church was tno orifjlnal boy preacher. Ho was con verted at six and licensed to preach at four teen. teen.Thoro There are eight mission ships now cruising In the North Sea , eucli u combination of church , chapel , temperance hull and dis- neusury. Tuere are 4,001 Congregational churches In the United States , 24(1 ( having been orniil/cd last year. Hunovolimt contributions for the same period reached ? 'JOy.1,4s. ' > I and homo ex penses amounted to $ o,07SJ30. Father Kalaslnslci , the Polish priest who involved his church in Detroit in such serious troubles , has finally boon deposed from the church in Dakota , to which he went from Dotrolt. At the meeting of the Ohio M. E. confcr- pnco in Columbus , two Jewisti rabbin. Dr. Jcssolson , of Columbus , nnd Dr. Wcchlcr , of Mississippi , were present , and Introduced to the conference. It is said that this is ono of the llrst , if not the tlrst , ease of the kind on record. This advoi tlscment recently appenred in an , , Ithaca , N. Y. , paper : "Ham Hull ana Hap- 1 * tlsm. A tramo of ball will bo played at I C'nyuga lake park next Saturday afternoon 1 between the Y. M. C. A. nine ot Ithaca and I Myndorso academy nine of Seneca Falls. At , the conclusion of the Kamc will occur the / baptlmng in the lake of converts of the i colored camp meeting- " ' The Hov. Charles Howard Malcom D. D. , , corresponding secretary of the Ainuricuii Church Building Fund Commission , a so ciety of the Protestant Kplsoopal church. i with its headquarters in New York , has . ' Just received the sum of $7,000 from Willard li , . Winner , of Kansas City , completing the sum of 150,000 given l.y Mr. Winner to the commission for tlm creation of a special fund tp ' e known as theHishop Kob rtsonMomor- Jacob Bloom and Elmlra Blank were mar ried in Cincinnati thirty years BRO. Ho was a Hebrew ; she was n Christian. Since that Umi ° i. , * ? ? 11Ioom "as often expressed to Hubbl Vvlso her dcairo to embracu the He brew religion , but the rubui , who has a positive horror of proselyting , put her oftV advimng her to ewe the nmttor further thought. Six years ago her husband died , ana after that he was morn dutennlncd ynan ever to bccomo a Jewess In religion , but It wa not until a- few week * QKO that tha rabbi yioldeit to her wUbos and received & into tha family of Israel.