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' 10 THE. OMAHA DAILY BEE : TUESDAY .OOTOBlDll 30 ; 1SS8.-SIXTEEN PAGES. REAL ESTATE iUU NS ! For Sale by ROOM 40 , OUOIcr ten-aero tract , near Holt I.lno II It. . Inwi'Ht Oiniilm , mil ) tvtenlvllvo minutes Tide by suburban tiulns from Webster Htrect ( U'pot ; mnniilllci'iit view , pleasant iiml henlthy locution , .lust tlin pinto for n nice homo nrlluu Trull and \fnel able nftrcleiw. Ilils property inn l > e platteil Into nfty cholru lots that will hull In- Hide of threoyi-nrs for four to tle hundred inch. Can oiler thu whole tract for u short tlmo at W,50U. TWO lotn , KlxlVi feet , corner Jackson anil Iown avenue , onn of thu Ilnuat residence altra In West Oiualui , f.,5W. | E LKGANI south front lot. fiflxTf. , on Harney , nenrUi th street , only r > , iiOJ. CIIOICT. rcslilcnco situ on " > ith nvenne. In Clark's addition. 'Ihlglot ls 4\U . perfect grade and nlcolv sltnntcd , between St. Mary's UMmue nud Harney btrcuts , Mi'iO. 0OHNr.ltfi'ixHO ' , on Howard nnd 28th streets , cast front nnd on grade , JOiV . TfHH 8AI.E An Interest In onn of the best 4 ? pieces of ln\estment property In Omaha ; can oiler this for J-'U.OOJ. I'lirth.-inprs c.m realize 140.000 out of this property \\llhlu thieojeuis ; Itw111 pay } on to InvustlKiito this. EABT front lot , HlxlBO. on 31st street , near I'opplctnn mcnue , Hansconi I'laco. Just the place for iv nlcu home. Can olTei fora few da ) H at } .tr , > co. DOUIH.i : corner , W\l&0 ) feet , on Wooluorth Avenue and IL'ml street , faring Hansconi Park ; perfect rade. .lust the place for an ele gant residence block. JT.MIO. Tj AbT front lot on LoweUMJUUC , In West I Omaha , tl.u - , NK of the nicest residence 1 Jts In Han com Place , on Poppleton nvonne.forsaleonvery ' . ' .ftmall caih payment , loni ; time. New cable line * : will make til * the finest residence property In * heclty. / 10HNEK,100xUflfoeton 31st and Poppleton \-/'ftvenue.pavedstreet , bewerage , water and : perfcet Krailo and 'magnificent view : one iofttie nnest residence eltes in the city. Call and K f get price. . , beautiful . outh front lots on Popplo- THltKK ton Bvenuu for sale for a few ilaj s nt a low flrruro. Only tiAO cash required : bnlaucucnii run 1,2 , 3 and 4 years. H' ion want to secure a nice home-in the nU est residence portion of the city , it will p y you to look this up. FEET on Harney near 11th Rtiect , sploddld wholesale point. A bargain If sold hoon. /"CHOICE business lot 11x132 feet on Tenth near V Homey. THACKAOr and woiehoii'-o property CC < 1 K , corner 12th nud Nicholas siau track In alley , There la M.lOJiuollt In thin lot for bomo ono , offer for a ahort tlmo at $ i.UU ) ) . jTtOIWEIt , UOxlPO , iPSHthan sov. > n blocks from { - , \J Court House , with three small cottages rent- n ' - i * * tot $73) per jear ; room lor tltrte more i yK3& groundalonoisotthllfty per cent moio tlmn 1 * - ' 'priceasked. H will pay jou to look this up Irlcel7nin. ( EM5GANT rrstdenco and grounds InllniiHcom plweft.un , furnnci ) . bath-room , cltv water * c. Can gl\o Immediate posesslon. Call un < price , 'BW 8 room houic. nil modem convenience" ) laAVestOiiiiilia ; a big bargain If taken TDAHOA1N Choice ten acre tract with com 'Jtl fort able house , Darn , nplendld shade trees , * e.cl ; < > 89 to city and Ilelt line railway , just tlu Xor line fruit : iml vegetable gardens. Can this a big bargain If taken nt once. Bt'UlNESH lot with now two story store build tofeonM. near tli St. South Omaha. Wil ( nt tot w olve per crnt on the Investment. Cat ftd Jt , prlco II.GWI. S of the llneHt lluslness Lots In South hn , for a few ilaya at M.OOO. OT * . block M. South Omaha00x150 feet near only $ | , suO Itf lotH near F and S3th Ktreet , Sout 4- Guinna ; the blggeat bargain in South Omaha J11HKER nice lots , one * corner , near Catholic JL Church on "Mi street , South Omuha , fn : VTtOR little cotta ( o and full lot COxlM ) in South 1 1 Omaha , near liHth and O stieots tor sale a' ' 4\Ai\ Acres choice land In Honard County \rt\J close to two railroads ; for fciUe at a bar IJJlcVRUATj Kood houses to rent. Can give 1m 9 mediate possession. bQfl fin/I / Worth of peed Omaha propertj mutl.UUv to tnido fortlrst-olass fntmUm < u tock lanch. Fwit on 16th stioet near 1 arna'n , for a few da ) sat figures U \ \ 111 pay you to \ \ O good clear farms for salt ) or excliang L for city propel ty. . 'tt ' III'NT Several nice houses la the bes residence portion of the city. TCANolfer for the next thirty day * . Flvo choice toii-acro tracts of land In West Omahn , close to the city and near roRiilnr stations , on licit Line Hull liiad , HUburlmn trains now luniilngatrord outrl , and easy transit by Htweuty.ll\o minutes rid between this piopeity nnd Webstei titroct 1011 take 1101 HK in buylnca nve or ten-ncro t tact of liiud , U well sltuutod. YnuouilK * on thu Irtiiil , have upleiisant andcoiufoitiblchome tive froiu tlty taxes , and get to and f rum your work in ton n quicker I linn to most pliu es lu our t-lty. where a nliwie lot xtouldco t as much us tlio tm acres 1 run offur you rjYon i-an r Ue enoush oil of llo or ton acres to ithi > nsupport tour family , iindlntHoor three jeais the rapid Riwuh ofnuruity will en- bblc > outn iilattnu land into chnlc lots that will sell for three and foiu llnicb \ \ hut ) on can buy the laud for to-day. l ) < m'tlet this chanru slip , but c.ill nnd see ulmt w have to otrer. l.emeinbur them aio only tlvo ten acre ttactn , : i ml I ' .sill sell iltlier Uv eor ten acres , as p.\rtles prttcr , U will pay ) ou to mil eiuly uml si euro a ll'yuu IIIIYO oocl propfi'ly to sell , vxcliango ( irront , call JUKI list il. il.Geo.N. Geo.N. Hicks , BOOM 4O , Barker Block , i. irnirfy t * m : TO lini.MUOl ) . Another Vcrnloti if tlio.VllcRril PrnutlB In our Public Iinprovoitii'iitH , OMAHA , Oct.J. r To tlio cilltorof the Br.hi Some boiiy has cou ( | > osi > d u letter "To tlio Public" nnd Louis Hrtmrod , Into member or thu board of public wqrks , has fathered it by .sI nliiK uiiil cnuslng II to bo published. Tlio rcnl author was , undoubtedly , n well known contractor , wfoo wns very much disgruntled , because he dlu not f.'ot tlio cedar block iavc- mcnt contract , .1. H. Smith & Co. , obtained last spring. This contractor seems to think that no other should bo allowed to como to this city to perform public contracts and that nil others who have been doing public con tract work for thin city , heretofore , should bo driven out , so that ho would bo loft nlono In his glory the only pet the klng-bce con tractor of this gieat nnd gipwing city. Ho hasu few noisy and nirgie slvo followers lu the city council. Poor llelmrod needed their support , In his attempt to hold n position in this board another tiirm in spite of the inay- oi' ' wishes. Under thcso embarrassing clrcuinstanoss , Hcimrod felt nn polled topursuun course , pleasing to this little band , frequently , In violation elation of his own good Impulses and batter judgment , as ho 1ms confessed to mo. Some body H.ild something ubout "undue Inllu- cnces" a little while ago. I think this was the most cruel case of it on record. Hut , finally , when It became evident that the nforesaiil little band in the council could not control n majority of that body and that Mr. Ileimrod must retire , ho was made to think that it would lessen his chagrin and salvo ever his disappointment to pose as n sensa tional cxposer of fraud and corruption on a post mortem basis nnd give mo a kick , by attempting to Icnvo the Impression upon the minds of his readers that 1 was consenting to a W > , < X/U i obbery. Now to further show the animus of this post mortem letter , joil attention Is called to the fact that there is not ono word in it about the work being done by Kcgan Bros. & Fox , under the satno specifications nnd cxc- eu led In the same manner , nor one word about the concrete base of the Harbor As- ptmlt company , which is bomg done , always has been done , under the satro specifications and in the same manner , in this and all other cities , as J. H. Smith & Co. , are doing it Not ono word Is f6und ubout a bundled of other contracts , performed or being per formed In this city , this season. His letter is entirely devoted to J , H. Smith & Co. , who happen to bo the recipients of the dis pleasure of another contractor and a non- icsident. The same day that Mr. Helm- ted declined to act on the estimates of J. H. Smith Vi Co. , amounting to nearly $7IKJ ( ) ( ) ho voted for the approval of estimates for Hegan Hros. Ai Pox amounting to over 10,000 , without a single objection or even a casual glnnco at the figures. "Oh , consist ency , what a jewel thou art I" For some leason , unknown to mo , but which seems to bo thoroughly undoi stood by otheis , ho paid his respects to .1. H. Smith & Co. only. Smith was a stranger to bo taken in. Smith & Co. , like all other contractors , tire not heio for their health. Like all other contractors , they are alwajs willing and anxious to save n dollar by using Indifferent material or doing indifferent work , instead of first-class material and woik , whenever the citj's icpresentatives in charge will allow to. Hut no other contractois with whom I have ever had any experience , have yielded a nero prompt and giaccful obedience to the 'cquiicments of the stipulations of their con- ract , whenever it was firmly required by .ho city's rcpiesentatlvcs in cliaiiro , than J. U. Smith & Co. Thcieforc , if they have used any poor ma- ci ial or have done any poor work , or used ess mateiial in the performance of their isotk than the specifications call for , it Is the 'aultottho citj's rcpicsentntivcs and not hcira. The Inspectors in charge so assent and confess , hence no lioncst reason could bo given for refusing them their pay for com pleted work , as certified to by the city engi neer. The time tn see ' .Uat good material is furnished and the work well done is during the progress of laying the pavements , dav by day , each and every day. After u district is completed it is impractical and unjust to go back and tear it up and relay it , or deprive the contractor of his pay. This wns Helm- rod's foolish attitude. Mr. Helmrod asserts that J. H. Smith & 3o. , nro being allowed to dofruud the tax payers of this city out of fOViCO , llld | gives his items as follows : Saving on shortage of tar . $18,000 Saving on shortage of tar . ! ! . " > ,000 Saving oh shoi logo of tar . 20,000 The first item of . IS.OJO , on shorta-jo of tar ho builds up on a report of Inspector Mich ael Donovan , as to the quantity of tar used on Twenty-second street paving district , nnd then highly commends Donovan. When Donovan wan inspector on another contrac tor's job previous to this , Mr. Hoimrod was persistent in demanding that ho be icmovcd , alleging that Donovan was an impracticable crank , etc. , that the contractor did not like him ; that ho was too particular and icquired a too rigid and technical compliance with the specifications , and hence a hindrance to the proper progress of the work. Hoimrod find ing that I was not disposed to remove Donovan van , or any other inspector , at thu Instiga tion of a contractor , finally became desperate nnd came to mo one day in front of the may or's oftlco , in the presence of the city engi neer , nnd begged mo most pitiously so re move him as a personal favor to Loui Helm- rod. I refused , and he left me In violent an ger. Shortly thereafter Donovan's service on the former job naturally terminated , and Hcimrod hastened to have him assigned to duty on Smith's ' work. From that time for ward ho has sung Donovan's praises. Every one can draw their own inferences from this particular incident. During Donovan's first ten days of incx- pci lonced service as inspector of tar , ho re ported the quantity poured on Thirty-second street paving dlstt lets , and it was found bv reference to the city engineers estimate of the number of yards of pavement laid in said district , that instead of the two gallons of tar per yard required , there had been only ubout nn avcrago of one and throe-quarters gallons poured on to a yard of pavement. When Mr. Donovan was confronted with this fact ho frankly said : "It was my fault. There wns plenty of tar there , nnd I was nt llboity to require the laborers to pour on just us much as I pleased. It is not the fault of the contractor. I thought 1 was getting two gallons per yard , but the result proves J was not. It win the result of my inexperience in this department , but , hero- nfter I will see that wo get the full amount required.1' Since which time Mr. Donovan's reports have shown that wo aio getting the required amount , sometimes a little tlo over and sometimes a little less. This is the only foundation In fact Mr. Helmrod pretends tends to base his mountain of $18,000 fram1 ( figuring nn average of ono gallon per vard. enl > , on Smith's contract at the oxhorbitant prlco of 10 cents per gallon ) The other $47r > iw finud , ho alleges , Is in the concrete base of Smith & Co. The method of figuring , b.\ which lie arrhes nt this con clusion IB so fallacious uiui ciicumlocutory thwt it would bo n waste of time nnd space to review it. It is sufficient to say that thn pav ing contractors are never called upon to fur nish n Portland cement concrete , for u base for heavy hub-marine masonry or foundations. df forts , harbors and sea walls , referred to in Hclimod'H pnsthun'ous ' letter , , but Mr , Hoimrod did not know this fact. The sped Ikations of the cities of America , w hci o conCrete - Crete bases are plucjd under pavements nro uniform in this respect and just like our own , which SII.VH that concrete base shall bo composed of ono measure of Ameri can cement , two measures of sand , mixed into a i.ioitnr and broken stone in surh quan * titles as will gle u surplu * of mortar when rammed. In this respect , our specifications are an exact cpp.of \Yashlngton , D. C. , specifications , whcio ncarlj all their pave- inonts are undoilaid ulth concietu baso. The Washington sptcitlcatlons weic formulated by the war dobartmentfor a base for us-pliall pavements , which would be absolutely worth less without un endui ing , firm and unyicld ing foundation. Gcneial K. A. tiilu.ore author of several standard works on pave ments llines , cements and coi.i-retc' , says that the proportion of broken stunu "should bo determined in accordance with the uilncl pie that the volume. of the ci-munting sub s Unco should always ba somovhut lu excess Of the volumn of voids in thu loarau material to bo united , " .Then on page : Ut of his work on cements and mortars , fie says that ono barrel of cement. three Inrrcls of sand and Jive bauds of brokrn stone , muke n concrete which pos sesses a crushing strength ot 130 pounds per Wiuure Inch , when two month * old , mid Is thu Htundui'd American cement concrete gen erally adflntfA upon government workb , . und that it possesses * suflioent strength in foun dations and thick walls for any position in which concrete is used. Under our Mpoclll- cations' contractor * arc re.qulrcd to follow General Glluiore' * formula , except that wo % do mt allow .tlio uie d tuv V.yo barrels ot sand Instead 6f three hence our concrete Is that much stronger. TThls toklhg onobancl of sand was a precautionary measure tcf In sure Us Against the liability of our cements being weakened too much through the rude manner bf mcasurcmpntf. of material on t Must touts , in doing \\orit hastily ; In other words' , so us to bo bu the safe side. It , was under the Olnaha specifica tions thnt Smith contrasted to work. If thq contractors nro made to fulfill the re quirements of our specifications , each nnd everyday ns the Work pi ogresses , otir con crete base will bo all right. In this matter , as well as obtaining the right quantity Of tar nnd nil other matters connected with public work , wo nro dependent Upon the business tact , fidelity and integrity of our Insiders who are in dally charge of the work. I find that the obtaining of persons for inspectors specters , iiosscssed of nil the qualifications nnd elements of character necessary to en able them to properly enforce a rigid compli ance , on the part of public contractors , with the specifications of their contracts , who are willing to servo seven or eight months of the year for only $100 per month , is the most difficult problem to solve , in connection with inv duties. Mr. Hcimrod says he found the concrete only live inches thick in "somo" places on Smith's work , and then llguies all .Sinitn has done or will do this season at' five inches In thickness , and makes nnother mountain shortage on concrete of * SJ 1,000. So have I found it thus occasionally on all contractors' worlc. This Is liable to bo the case some times , even though the inspector on the work Is Lommandcr ol the situation , nnd faithful contractors aio always exceedingly careful not to furnish more material than they nro obligated to. Hence they are liable to shade under in some places , unless watched very closely , but us a general rule there are six Inches of concrete under the pavement laid this year. Wo are pushing n largo amount of public work in u rushing and improvident manner , In many respects because the public demands It. Yet , notwithstanding to the central y what Mr. Hcimrod has been made to say , or what ho may hereafter saj , the public \\ork in this city , this season , has been done fairly well , and at fairly reasonable prices. Much better , In my judgment , than heretofore , and I doubt very much if any other city with no larger expeilenco in the management of city affairs than this has had , can boast of any better i esults. In conclusion , the unseemly attitude of this board , as formerly constituted , hus been n matter of much regret on my pni t , and the fact that I have boon forced to linposo this character of nn epistle upon a le.i'ling pub lic , or incur the liability of having my silence misconstrued , is still another source of re- giet. jar. A. D. HM.IOMUI : . Win. Black , Ablution , lown , was cured of cancer of the eye by Dr. .Tonos' Hcd Clover Tonic , which cures all blood disorders and diseases of the stomach , liver and kidneys. The best tonic aucl iippcti/.or known. 60 cents , Goodman Drug company. A Donblo-Ileailcil Now York Journal : A queer looking machine dancing around among the switches and bide tracks astonished the railroad men at the union station in St. Louis a few da.\8 ago. It looked about as much like a loco motive as a two-headed girl does like a St. Louis belle , jctit moved back and forth at lively speed. Backward as eas ily as forward , if , in fact , either way was cither backward or forward , nnd stopped and started as easily as any en gine that ever entered the sitchyard. \ . It looked like two locomotives bereft of their tondoib and joined cab to cab , only there was but ono smokestack , and that rose from the center of the ma chine , nnd the coal * bunkers rested astride ot the boilers like old-fashionqd saddlebags. The machine is really n double-headed locomotive , built on u new principle , mid it will pull r. troiii of cnra iv milo a minute all day long. It is tlio invention of Dr. Christian llnub , of Now York , im engineer who got the best part of his scion ti lie training in Germany , and ivho has boon Htudjing railroad prob- ems , and especially tlio science of lo comotive building , for nearly a quarter of a conturv. The inventor terms the now machine a central-power locomotive. The cab is in the center and a boiler runs from it to cnoh end of the machine. The cyl inders are abreast of the cab , on either side , and are placed vertically , so that the pistons have a perpendicular stroke 'nstead of horizontal , as in the ordinary ocomotivo. Below eacli cylinder is n disk , which ' is connected to' the piston rod with n crank lover , und by means of which the reciprocating motion of the piston is turnol into rotnry motion. Connecting rods run from the disk each way thnt IB , what would bo forward nnd backward in an ordinary locomotive to two sots of driving wheels , unu thus the machine is driven. There are no independent trucks , Bitch ( IB support the forward end of an or dinary locomotive. The whole machine rests upon four pairs of driving wheels , and consequently there is no dead weight. Kvcry part of the machine , and the supply of con1 ns well , adds to its drawing power. Besides , the ma chine is perfectly balanced. That is to say , there is an equal amount of mate rial on either side of the central point in the cab , and there will bo no pound ing of tracks. The new locomotive weighs fifty-11 vo tons , or liyo tons less than the heaviest locomotive hereto fore built , but it has n greater drawing power. The boilers receive heat from two fire chambers , which may bo connected or disconnected , as suits the occasion. The inventor claims that the fuel is completely consumed ; so thoroughly , in fact , that there are no sparks. Econ omy of fuel is ono of tlio advantages claimed for the now machine. It is said that it has drawn a train on twenty pounds of coal per mile at the same speed for which an ordinary locomotive would require iCfT pounds , The now locomotive was built at the Grant locomotive works at Pnterson , N. J , , and the experimental trips were made on Now Jersey railroads tracks. Dr. Uaub's engineer made ten miles with it in five minutes ono day on n wager. If his engine proves to bo suc cessful in actual work it is intended to build others and equip a line from Now York to St. Louis with them , It is intended , furtlier , to rcduco the running time between tlio two oil ies to twenty-four hours. A single locomotive , will make the full trip , but the engi neers' will bo changed three times. The postal authorities nt Wnshingion have already signified their readiness to transfer mail contracts to trains drawn by such locomotives as soon as speed shall be demonstrated in actual worlc. Dr. Itaub , the inventor , resided in St. Louis for ninny years , and during the war ho superintended the construction of iron clads at Curondelot. The main features of his now locomotive wore patented seven years ago , and over since then ho has been engaged in perfecting nnd simplifying the details and in promoting meting greater economy in operation. FRESH TESTIMONIALS. SOMInntoi. tmifUi. IU . M r 11,1111. AUal HIM Ttttl . U < i ZiUjl Tntltk u Ut.n with Mnrtlflt la lu J 4 f c. bM n2 rt4 thni d ji. ib trtid tt J eoU Oil. WM rilUT 4 U 10 nlu U J i t 0 dn r , Dn > f ( lit. Prompt. MlombU. Ohio. M > 7 il , till. HIT * nMutt wllk WMfilcU ( or BUT jrttn ; I u * It. JtMM Oil. It flTii r.im ui trlTM W T til Mlo. I ! ! IM u lk r B < 4. icta * . . tr * _ lot * . Tovut * . Ill . Jui I , till. . Tk wife tt IIXOH T. AHDUIOR til ptlu . la Uu k 4 tma eUldho.4. wklek rttM la IL JmUOU. Q W. MOWD IO , fr At BtVMlin A 0 DIAUM. - . . HUM * Hi- V ' V \ * | VI H CD A WORD rf- rD TO THE WISE CD &B , i-- J ISO IS SUFFICIENT ! CD a-rt > P CO c * rop/cs. Amcrlchn ndinlrcrs of Lord Tennyson arc apt to feel inoro pleasure In reading the ) "Idylls of the King" than any1 other of his IciiRthy poems. It will-bo a shock to those to learn th.it ho Is not to bo In any sense con sidered as the author , anil that his blank verso is simply a rhythmic paraphrase of the prose of Sir Thomas Malory , a Welsh monk of the fifteenth century. In the rcnjn of Ed ward tno Fourth there was a literary renais sance of a strong character , duo to the intro duction Into England of the art of printing by Caxton. Malory took as the basis of his story u number of talcs by French trouvours about Arthurnnd _ his court. It has always been supposed that these had their origin in Brittany , but it has been found impossible to trace them further than the twelfth century when they appeared in the French lunguneo 33 Saii by different writers. Geoffrey of Monmouth during % the 'same century used them as authentic history to the great dis may of all scholars who have studied his his tory of British kings. In whatever way they reached the French trouvears it is certain that these poets gave to them the local color ing of the twelfth century and of the French manners of that time. Malory followed in the same bad course to give them the local oloring of England , and of the fifteenth cen tury. Malory's English is strong and racy , his imagination was weird and powerful and ho was a fervid Christian , all of which com bined to make his "Morto d'Arthur" very pleasing reading. Ho did not possess the gift of construction ; consequently his story is really a string of episodes. Hut ho is en titled to credit for everything which the reader has found pleasing in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King. " it # Statements have often been made that the seeds of grain and thobulbsof flowers , which have been found in tumulus tombs , and in the sarcophagi of pyramids , and in the mas- tabas of cemeteries , around the ancient Memphis , had been planted , and had sprouted , and haU come to maturity. The flowers were always prodigious specimens of the beautiful , nnd the grain was full eared and like yet un- llko our own. Whoever follows up ono of these stories and gets to the foundation head invariably finds it untrue. It is not known ttiat grain was over found in the wrappings of a mummy , and if it were by some accident among those nutronized c reinentn its vital * ity would quickly disappear , nnd it would bo reduced to carbon dust , A Cincinnati paper is reviving the old yarn , and states , circumstantially , that David aOrew received last year some wheat secil found within the linen folds of a mummy taken from a tomb near Memphis , and planted it. It grow rapidly , and at the tiino at cutting measure from six to seven feet. ICha leaves woi o not different from ordinary wheat , but instead of an car there is a heavy cluster of small twigs , and each twig is thickly studded with kernels , each of which is ju a separate husk. Mr. Drew has boon made the .victim of a bad Joke , for this is the description of modern jowarrl also called bajri , which is not wheat at all , but a member of the greit family of haligoraceo3 or buckwheat. Experiments wore tried with the cen'\ls. found in the Jars of the lacustrine dwelling * , but nothing fame of it. They were apparently perfect , and as they Wore surrounded by masses of car bonized seed , the hope was entertained that those in tho. center might possibly retain the germs of life. This hope proved delusive. * The Mr. Glllam , tt caricaturist of Judge , who cut his throat in a frenzy , superinduced by congestive chills and by an overdose nf nulniue , was not the artist Whoso signature is so well known In connection with brilliant campaign pictures , but his brother , whoso signature was Victor1. All doctor rdiominond Jnrvis' Brandy. An Illinois woman who ditnl recently took to'hov bed nine yenrS n'po,1 declaring . ing that Hlio would never leave it till bho died. bccuuBo her * > on .m'arricd a girl Bho tlid not like , and she kept her ' ' ' ' Word. . . . THE STOHY OP "SKEBRY fcUOY. " A True and Characteristic Incident of I. the Terrible War. Snrgo in the Atlanta Constitution : "Skcory Lucy ? " "That's what they called her , " said Plunkott , us ho chunked the lire tind seated hinibolf in the corner. "As a little girl at school , the teach ers culled her 'Timid Lucy , ' but all the scholars knowcd her as 'Slccory Luoy , ' for she went by that name among' all the settlement folks , and her own daddy and mammy said the name suited her character. * ? - ' "When she growod up and got mar ried she was just the sivmo , and when John , her old man , would ho ulittlo la to in getting homo at night hp'cl iir.u her fh'Jt up tight in the house , with the doors all locked and every table and old bench and chairs piled again thorn , and when John would knock at the door and toll her who it was , ho'd have to Htand and wait till she moved thcso things away before ho could open the door , and then Ho'd scold her for being such a dunce , hut she'd just laugh and say : ' You knowod I was 'skeery' 'foro you married mo. " "Tho name of 'Skeory Lucy' clung to her for a long time , nnd I guess she de served it , for she'd squeal at a li/ard or frog and take a fit , almost , if she seed a snake , hut when old Sherman catno down hero she done what most any man would or bin orfraid to do , and they quit calling her 'Skeory Lucy' after that , and that's what I want to tell you orhout. " "Sho was loft with four little child ren to Bculllo for when John wont off to Virginia , and it was mighty hard get ting along at best , but as the armies got nearer and nearer things got scarcer and bcarcor and Lucy got scarier than over. The big guns could bo heard for a long time boforp wo seed the Yan- keys , and Lucy just looked like she couldn't Htand it , and the folks in the hottloment said she'd die borne day just from fright and anxiety. " 15ut everybody had to gcufllo , and ono morning Lucy waked up with not a crust of broad in the house , and the children \\oroswingingonto her dress and apron and crying for something to eat , and tlioro was no other way but for her to start out and get a little meal for 'oni. Slio shut thi ) children up in the house and put out across the field to the mill , and they , poor little things , had boon taught by their maininy to ho afraid , and there sat , nil in n huddle , as scared aa raubitts at everything that cracked or made a fuss , and whispered to each qther. * * * * * * * "Sherman's army was on the move , making for the railroad they'd got down the night before and Lucy didn't know it. "Ilardco's army was moving to moo' the Yankoys and to keep them from gett ting to the railroad , and Lucy dldn- know nothing orhout that. i "Slio had ju t gone to the mill and stopped upon the platform , when down through the woods came Haidco'u line of battle at a double-quick , and before she hftd time to tliink they wore past , th rowed out bkirmishors , and wore im peding every minute to meet the Yankees. "Sherman's line was coining toward Ilnrdeo , and it was only a question of a few minutes till the light would . "Lucy thought of her little children shut up in the house and knowod how hcared they'd bo when they heard so many men marching. She didn't know \ot that it was a light. 'Sho sUrted in a run toward her house , Intending to got there before Hardco's troops did. But Old Sherman was coming to meet them , and it would only ho a minute tlU 4h.ore would bo warm times between Lucy and her house. . * . . . "Tho skirmishers bc an to pop their guns up niid dowa tho. Hue , ana i * H come a battery dashing through a road in the woods , and unlimbcred in a twinkling and lot in , and then the light had started. "Lucy's house was between the two lines. She seed a shall hit the chimney and bcattor the bricks and rocks. She thought of her four children that wore huddled up nnd couldn't got out and she didn't stop. "Tho balls wore flying thick from ono line of battle to the otherbut she dashed through Hardee's line and wont up through the cotton patch the same as a deer. The soldiers screamed , 'Como back ; lay down ! you'll bo killed , ' and sicli like , but through it nil she went and dashed orpin the door nnd fell in ermoug her little children. "Just then a bomb struck ono cprnnr of the house and scattered splinters everywhere. The children were cling ing to her and screaming at the top of their voices. Another shell hit the house and toro away ono gnblo end nnd the minno balls were pattering the same as hail. She grabbed the smallest child up on her loft arm and made the rest jinc hands and then took hold of the end child's hand and out they dashed into the open Hold between the two armies. "Tho Yankoy line was the first to sco them us they went stumbling , falling , and rolling over the cotton rows , and they veiled like madmen : " 'A truce , a truce , a truce ! ' "Then Hardeo's men seed what was the matter and they waved their caps and jumped up and down nnd yelled : " 'A truce , a truce , a truce ! ' "In less time than it takes to tell you the firing ceobcd and a hundred men from Ilnrdco's line rushed for the children nnd Lucy and the first one to them grabbed 'em in their arms and were back over the hill in a minute and the light wont on. * * * * * "She's never been called 'Slicery Lucy' from that day to this , and old Sherman said the next day that ho would orlost the battle rather than to have killed BO bravo a woman , but there are others who nay that any mother would ordono the same thing. " D < Mivcr'n Firm Girl n il > y. Miss Harvo , who returned to thibcity the other day , after many years' ab sence , was once the ow ner of a good big part of what is now the most valuable property in the city , s.iys the Denver News. It was given her by the citi/cn * of Donvei as a testimonial for being the first girl b.iby" born here , and she might at this time be drawing a big in come from it had her father considered it of sufficient value to keep up 1m tax payments. As it was , he lot it go. and now , instead of being the huir < " " > of mil lions , "our Hint girl baby" nightly singu for a living at a variety theater on llol- ladav street. When Libh Harvey mailo the btart- ling announcement ono day in February - ruary , IfaOO , that ho had si bouncing girl baby in his little lialf-framo , lialf-iMii- vnscabinupnutliuliill.it was a u'lvat day for Demur. A meeting w.ifc hold immediately , and it wt > s roholveu and carried unanimously that the bubo was an honor to Auraria , as Denver was then called , and that a rommittoo bo appointed to welcome thu little stranger and present it with a Mihstantiul to.sli- nioninl of thi > citi/una' regard. Thcso resolutions ere hpruud upon upon the records of thu < 'ity , r.nd half ti do/.on of thu leading dti..ons hnppcd up lo Lish Hiirvoy'ri cabin ! ind performed - formed tlioir dutiorf to the Inliir. J5 > j- yond a ( ow baby clothes and itn ot > rnV.oiml dainty wlih-h brought a vorv high , tnfllT prloo them was JiUlo tf | comiuitt''fjf roiflcl r.ilso to present tnho \ , little ou ! , and njtor thcao had bcoi. pro- nontou and u speech or two made , dur ing which- the 'l-abv slept ; the com- .mittuo. decided. th-.t : the HtUi lady cp'jld hare all the land in sight not already staked oiL llsrvcy vrslkcil to bi ! front door , and with his fingers indicated whftf land lie thought would euit his oil' spring. It is recorded that ho after ward olTchud to dibposo of the whole oj it for two barrels of Hour , when worth $100 a barrel , and a mule that Jim Baker - kor owned , valued at $250. His olTor was not accepted. The hind ho claims is to-day worth probably $ ,000,000. Land was the cheapest thing in the country then. Nobody owned what ho claimed and nobody wanted it. Only a week before a citiVou had offered the present site of the Gorman National hank , now worth $2.)0,000 , for a sack of flour , and didn't cot the Hour , either. In duo time the land bc'ccted by Llsh was deeded to the baby , and she owned it until the unpleasant officials began " to lovey taxes. "When the first ubiqui tous tax collector , who in those days carried two guns and a piece of chalk , came around , Lish indignantly refused to pay up , and invited the tax collector to take the land. The latter had no use for it , and ( or three or four years it was held in abeyance. Then tha town began to grow , and the value of J/ / the town with it. Finally a real speculator later came along gathered to himself the baby's share. It has had thousands of owners binco then. , nnd millions ot dollars have changed hands over it. a He Was No Ktnc of BcrvU. Tribune -'Absalom " & Chicago : , Bn\ \ Mrs. Rambo resolutely , "I can Hot stand this much longer. If you don't turn over a new leaf I shall leave you ! " "Nanshy , " exclaimed Mr. Kamhol with tearful sympathy , " ' ( you do X sh'll not snlioil your hnppinoah by 'plvin' for d'vorsh. I may not be besht liushb'n'in th'worl' , but I'm no ( hie ) little shquirt of a European king , Nan-- ( hie ) Nanbhyl" DYSPEPSIA , SICK HEADACHE , Xot only relieved like by most medicines , but rnruil permanently with Ilalin'B GoldenDyspep * tin Cure , i'rlco SOt , a box. All druggists , JT IVCI.I. , PAY YOU To exumtn ; out- present stook nl1 MlfiNS' ' UNDER- WEAK , oompi'Min' ? "all * grades at J'uir pricoi. Standard - } ard ootU aul yuporior ! ulilioa in tlu ! well known ) fl.tho Knlroyl , Vienna , Nntnrnl Wool 1 ( thty ar * w eak.itillcaU looktaf a wlthwormn. Ilabc'i ChocolaU Worm u rnr uiTtn'TM ' , f rtaat , AH '