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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1889)
1C THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , JUNE 23 , 1889.-SIXTEEN PAGES. GOLD DOLLARS for FIFTY CENTS Would not be a better bargain than the tremendous low prices we are making to reduce our enormous stock of Furniture Carpets Stoves and Goods. mous , , Hipusefurnishing . Although our last week was a grand success , we wish to give you 22 Parlor Suits $25 , rediicclecl from $35 sold elsewhere at $45 53 Eed Lounges $9.25 , reduced , from $14 sold elsewhere at $13 12O Oak and Mahogany Chamber Suits $11.5O , reduced from $17. . .sold elsewhere at $22 71 Wardrobes ( assorted ) $12. SO , reduced from $13 sold elsewhere at $22.5Q 267 Extension Tables $3.75 , reduced from $6.50 sold elsewhere at $8 875 Wood Seat Chairs 33c , reduced from 50c sold elsewhere at 65c 86 Kitchen Cupboards $3.40 , reduced from $6 sold elsewhere at $7.5O 34 Cook Stoves $9.25 , reduced from $15 sold elsewhere $18 3,5OO yards Ingrain 29c , reduced from 50c sold elsewhere at 65c 75 pair Lace Curtains $1.25 , reduced from $2.5O : sold elsewhere at $3.SO 66 Baby Carriages $6.50 , reduced from $9 sold elsewhere at $11.SO 85 Ice Boxes $5 , reduced from $8 sold elsewhere at $1O 75 Gasoline Stoves $3.SO , reduced from $6 : . . sold elsewhere at $7.5O 45 Bureaus $7.5O , reduced from $1O . - . . , . sold elsewhere at $12.5O 165 Matteresses $1.9O , reduced from $3 . sold elsewhere at $4 323 Springs $1.5O , reduced from $3 sold elsewhere at $4 14 Folding Beds $25 , reduced from $4O sold elsewhere at $50 425 Pillows 38c , reduced from 75c sold elsewhere at $1 IT , \ $10 worth of goods $1 a week or $4 a month- $75 worth o ± goods $2.50 a week or $10 a month. $25 worth ot goods $1,50 a week or $6 a month. $100 worth , of goods , $3 a week or $12 a month. $50 worth of goods $2 a week or $8 a month. * $200 worth of goods , $5 a week or $20 a month THE GIANT TSME PAYMENT f HOUSE OF OMAHA , 4 613-615 North Sixteenth. Street , Between California and Webster. Opfen Evenings until 9 o'clock. Telephone 727. B. ROSENTHAL & Co. Goods sold in Counoil Bluffs , South. Omaha ) Fort Omaha and-Florence.1 PROPRIETORS. A DEFENSE OF THE SPINSTER Many Compensations In a Life of Blnglo Blessedness. HOWQUEEN VICTORIA PROPOSED. Bhc ivns Brlof to tlio Point and Albert Accepted Her Promptly Perfunc tory Hisses Mrs. Harrison's Housekeeping. The Ijlttlo Wife at Home. H'oman's Exchange , The dear httlofito at homo , John , With over so much to do , Stitches to sat , and babies to pot , And so many thoughts of you ; The beautiful household fairy. Filling your IIOUBO with litrht ; Whatever you meet to dny , John , Go cheerily homo to-night. For though you are worn and weary , You needn't bo cross or curt ; Tlioro uro words like- darts to contlo hearts , There are looks that wound ana hurt. Wlthlha Key in the latch at homo , John , Drop the trouble out of sight ; To the Httlo wlfo who Is waiting , Go cheerily homo to-night. Perfunctory Kisses. Henvon preserve mo , writes Master Geoffrey in the Boston Globe , from the perfunctory kiss of two women. There is something about a kiss of the kind that is as dismal as the desert of Sa il arrv. There is not oven QUO oasis in it to mark the dreary waste. It is worse than melody measured out with a yard stick , or poetry doled out by the quart. There is no inspiration about it ; none whatever , of any kina. What iv dull , sodden affair is the face of a pretty girl who is kissing the lips of another pretty glrll How the same pretty face be comes illuminated with the 11 ro of the soul when it is kissed by well perhaps this is getting to bo an over dolicuto matter , and bomothing ought to bo loft to the imagination of the reader. However - over , there is no rhapsody in the kiss exchanged by two girls , or two women. It ! H as uninviting as the fields in winter tlmo. How QIIOUII Victoria Proposed. "I wonder how many people know that Victoria the Good , as it has boon suggested the quuon of England shall ho called , when she foil in love had to do the proposing for horsolfV" said an Americanized Englishman the other morning , to a Philadelphia Press re porter. ' 'I was much interested In reading recently the account of her betrothal. It had always been expected that she nnd her cousin Albert would eventu ally make iv match of it. When they \voro both about eighteen years old he visited England , but did not make much impression on the newly crowned queen. Ilowovor , throe years later ho made up his mind to a "now-or-novor" game , and with his brother visited her at Windsor Caatlo. Like more humble lovorr , ho mis placed in a rather em barrassing predicament by the non-ar rival of hit ) luggage , and was thus prevented - vented from dining with her majesty on liiH ( Irflt evening an her guost. For flvo days did Victoria study him , and then after Aral tolling her advisor , Loid Mel bourne , what eho had decided to do.sho Bout for Albert , saying that she desired to BOO him particularly. Ono account of the atTalr , certainly valuable for its brevity , reads as follows : "What the quoou told him was that she loved him with her whole heart , and that she do- lired to bo his wlfo. " She was accepted without hesitation , us any good-looking sovereign of twenty might have Tiopod to have been , unaso they wore married. Mrs. Harrison's Housokoepinc. Hero is what a lady , who is a frequent visitor at the white house , and who ought to know , Bars about Mrs. Harri son and the housekeeping : "It is abso lutely untrue that Mrs. Harrison goes around with the keys jingling at her holt and oversees the housekeeping. In the iirst place , she has not the time , and in the second place , the steward at tends to all such matters , as he has always done , Whore things wore un satisfactory , as they wore in a number of instances where servants had boon retained so long that they thought they owned the place , she has suggested that they bo remedied. I don't see' why , be cause a man is elected president , that even in the matter of domestic servants the whole nation must rise up on mnsso and dictate to him. Or why , oven if his linen is not well washed , his dinner not well cooked , nor his bed well made , ho must continue to employ the people who misdo those things merely because they are republicans , or democrats or mugwumps , or because they are blacker or white. A man's happiness depends to a great extant on the efficiency of his servants , and ho ought to have his own way about thorn. Arthur did it and ho was comfortable. The Spinster na She In. There are a few people who have not looked into the dictionary especially , who know how the term spinster origi nated. Wo often find it in Shaksporo and other of the classics , but it used to define the spinner. This is its specific moaning. Its general significance is wider. There was an old practice , in the years ago no , that a woman should never bo married until she had spun herself a sot of body , table and bed linen. It is not dllucult to see how easily the term became applicable to all unmarried women , and finally became a law term and llxod. It is not the fash ion among lawyers nowadays to suocify tno maiden by the terra spinster. Sin gle woman is the term employed in its pine ? , and perhaps with more satisfac tion , because there is something about the word spinster which is objection able. It is associated with acerbity , wrin kles , moroseness and general dis- agrooablonces. The term spinster is decidedly objectionable to nn unmar ried woman. It occupies a close posi tion to old maid , which is certainly nni always resented with acorn , and often times with indignation. Really , there its nothing reproachful in the term old maid , provided , of course , the lady is well on in years. To call any woman old when her face is not puckered up into a lot of wrinkles , when her eyes are bright , her figure erect and elastic , is an unpardonable sin. But the term fills the bill. Around the word maiden cluster most of the fancies and recollec tions of youth. To most people a maid is a dream of adolescence. Tonpply the term maid to an elderly spinster would bo a misapplication , because in the ab stract a maiden Is to the average mind a combination of beauty , bhthsomoness , buoyancy and youth. Hence , if the term maid is to bo used in connection with one well on in years , the adjectival qualitlcutor old must bo employed to note the distinction in ago. It lb unfortunate that there should bo so great a horror felt on the part of un married women toward this epithet old maid , says a writer in the Detroit Free Press. She has an individuality of her own , She has a name which is vital. It is symmetrical. She does not hide her light under the bushel of mat rimony. She is not absorbed into an other's legal existence. In fact , eho has just as much personality as any mau. Everything in'this world is based upon the law of compensation. And in this fact may bo found the compensation for the unmarried woman. If she has prop erty she can do with it ns she pleases without consulting u man , who possibly may bo stubborn , or selfish , or moan. If she has no property , but has to work for her living , she is not compelled to spend a portion of it on n hUsband who is too la/.y to work ; or if ho is able and willing to work is not able , to support two in reasonable comfort. These are compensations which are not witnout great value. In the mind of everyone that has < a kindly nature the unmarried woman of mature years is clothed in peculiarly bright attri butes. True , there are some mature maidens whoso minds are so contorted that to them the world is turned upside down and every man , woman and child is their particular enemy. But those are the exceptions , and it has often , been said that the exceptions prove the rule. Not long ago a woman killed herself be cause ; as she confessed in her anto-mor- tom letter , she had not the courage to be an old maid. This woman was ono of the foolish virgins. The old maid becomes in many cases a hallowed char- actor. Her pure and kindly face , un marked by a single solllsh iraprcsssion is significant of the struggle that has been carried on within and the final triumph of spirit over matter. It takes a great deal of courage to stifle the as pirations of womanhood , to banish the dreams of youth and settle down to the life of self-abnegation and sacrifice which maidenhood imposes. The maternal longing is strong in the breast of every woman. Nature has im planted it there , She who is without it is not worthy the name of woman. And in extinguishing this longing there is a great burden of sacrifice. But this has its reward , too. There shines out of tlio eyes of nearly every unmarried woman who has reached the old maid period n light which speaks of gentleness and perfect serenity within. There are few old maids who , if they originally had lov able characters , are not really beloved by iv wide circle of friends. She is more than esteemed. She is loved bv everyone ono that knows her. And , hotter than that , every ono is ready and willing to show her thoseHttlo courtesies and at tentions which are so prized by all womankind. There seems to bo n desire on the part of every thoughtful member of society to contribute as much as possible to the comfort and happiness of the old maid. There was a time when the woman who was forced to live a single life was looked upon with a sort of pity. But that time has passed away. Spinsterhood - hood is not now looked upon as discred itable. How can it bo , when there arose so many beautiful , charming and lov able women , not to say heiresses , Who are included in its ranks ? Some woman remain old maids from choice. Some are old maids be cause they are true to the idols of other days. Some because they are fearful of the quicksands of matrimony. Others hecnubo their ideal has not yet come to them. The reasons in each ono of the instances is not only creditable but honorable. Someone has eaid that every woman , whether she bo ugly or beautllul , de formed or symmetrical , has at seine time in her Ufa a ohahco to marry. So ciety should honor the beautiful and lovable woman , who , rather than throw herself away upon an unworthy object , BO respects herself and BOX that she prefers the single life. And what praise is enough for that woman's true heart whoso mo on her own motion is bereft of maternal joye and blessings bo- cause her affections are true to one that is no more ? In whatever light wo look at the old maid she appears to good advantage. Society honors its spinsters , provided they have the character to win esteem and confidence. The old maid is a distinct institution of society , and it is not so easy to imagine how society rould lill her place. Household Arts. To mend broken china use a cement made by stirring plaster of paris into the white of an egg. If , while house-cleaning , you drop soot on the carpet , cover it thickly with salt and it may be swept up without blackening the carpet. When the rubber rollers of a wringer become sticky , as they often do after wringing flannel , rub with kerosene and wipe dry , and they will bo nice and smooth. Cure should bo taken to remove the sprouts from the young bulbs which spring up at the base of callas. This is especially necessary , if your largo plant is about to bloom. Do not water plants too much ; they are much injured by having their roots water-soaked. Wait until the plants show the need of water before giving it. In cleaning oil-cloths use no soap or scrubbing-brush , but wash off the dirt with water and flannel. Then go over it with milk , and rub with a soft brush till diy and shining. Thick brown paper should bo laid un der carpets if the patent thing is not to bo had. It saves wear and prevents the inroads of moths , which , however , will seldom give trouble if tarred paper is placed beneath the ends. If n now broom be immersed in boil ing water until it is quite cold , then thoroughly dried in the air , it will bo far moro pleasant to use and will last much longer. Frequent moistening of the broom is conducive to its usefulness and also saves the carpet. A correspondent of the Scientific American gives this ns a "suro death to buffalo moths. " "Take strips of rod or blue flannel ( as these colors are particu larly attractive to them ) , dip in liquid arsenic , and lay around the edges of the carpets or wherever the posts are troublesome. They will soon oat a 'de sired amount and collapse to the entire satisfaction of the house , without the least injury to the carpets. " In common with many readers , Table Talk has boon annoyed with the nui sance of n greasy lamp a lamp through which the oil Booms to.oxudo. , Now the remedy for this is very simple. If per sons would bo careful when they blow their lights out to turn the wick law enough for the top of it " to bo below the edge of the burner"this annoyance would bo averted. They blow out the light , never thinking to turn down the wick , and , as the auction started by the flame continues for some time after the light is extinguished , the oil will spread over the surface of.tho lump. The Household is asked what is a cheap , effectual , and harm less cosmotlo for the face and hands. The question is easily answered. Wash tlio face and hands in very warm water , with plain , good soap , and with a haudful of line ground oat meal rubbed in with the suds. A pound of oatmeal will cost U cents , u calco of castile eoup 10 or 15 , and they will lust a long time. Such a cosmotlo is perfectly harmless and effectual. It cleanses and softens wonderfully and loaves a gentle luster that no other cosmotlo will give. _ Apollo Is said to bo the first gentleman Who over struck u lyro. If ho had only hit him a Httlo harder wo might not have BO many magnificent liars at the present time. HELENA'S ' PRETTY MILLINER , How Her Advent Cost Handsome Al Worrall His Life. BILL BURR'S COWARDLY THRUST A Terrible All Around Fight at the International Which Resulted In Several IjynchliiRS and a General Reformation. Both AVcro After Louise. "I saw the first hanging in Helena , Mont. , the stringing up of Big Jim Daily , the notorious desperado , by the Helena regulators as described in the Sun recently , " said u former Now Yorker , who was ono of the engineer corps that made the preliminary survey of the route for the Northern Pacific railway , to a reporter , for that paper , "and I saw the memorable deadly fracas that followed that execu tion , and which resulted in the sum mary cleaning out of the remnants of Jim Daly's gang , who had continued to haunt Helena , and wore showing a dis position to run things again with a high hand. That bloody affray was indi rectly caused by a woman , who subse quently became a social louder in He lena , and who probably is yet , if she is living. "For a while after Jim Daily was hanged there was a peaceful lull in the town , and it seemed an ominous calm to the citi/ons. Gradually the gambling hells , hurdy-gurdies' , and other lawless establishments became as free as over. Still there was no trouble , and the regu lators had come to the conclusion that things wore going on as well as might ho expected , when calamity was precipi tated by an unforsoon circumstance. The stage from Gallatin drew up in front of the International hotel ono af ternoon , and from it alighted a dainty , genteelly dressed young woman. She was clad in black , and an unmis takable air of mystery surrounded her. She entered the hotel , ana noth ing was seen or heard of her by the outside - side world for a day or BO , when a modest sign was hung out opposite the side door of the hotel stating that 'Madame Louiso' was prepared to do millinery work for the female portion of Helena. Madame Louise was the handsome and mysterious arrival by the Gallatin coach. That was all she saw fit to make known of her personality or antecedents , and that was all that the public over know of her history. But the men all fell in love with her , toughs and all. The leadership in toughdom , after the hanging of Jim Dally , Boomed to have fallen , by natural selection , to the pare of Bill Burr , ono of Dusly's chief aids. Bill got a fair load of Helena tanglefoot on board ono dny , not long after the pretty milliner had settled in Helena , and in the course of hlu remarks ho referred in very warm and confident terms to the possibilities in the direc tion of Mme , Louise. Ho was promptly Informed that ho was wldo of the mark in his calculations , as it had become an open secret at the hotel that the milli ner was already in love with Al Wor rall. This throw Bill in a terrible rage. Ho swore that the statement was a lie , and made a big wager that he would corno out ahead In the favor of the young woman , 'I'll got all hunk with the milliner , ' / " * > * * tat he exclaimed , 'or I'll ' make Al Worrall crawl I' "Al Worrll was a handsome young Philadelphia ! ! , and is remembered yet as ono of the best amateur athletes that had over settled in the west. Bill Burr's bravado and boasting remarks soon reached the cars of both Mrne. Louise and Worrall. Thoyamuscd the lady , but made Al mad. Hothrcatonod , in the event of hearing any further re marks of that kind from Bill Burr or any of his friends , that ho would.stand them on their heads. "Tho next "day was a lively one in Helena , for it was Saturday , and minors had come in from all sides to make a dny of it. Our engineer corps was at the International , and Saturday after noon Al Worrall came into the bar room to see some of the party with whom ho was acquainted. Al was a strict teetotaler. While ho was there Bill Burr walked in with half a dozen of his toughs , and , striding to the bar , called all hands to stop up and drink. A number of citizens , knowing of the presence of Worrall in the saloon , nat urally supposed there would bo a fuss , and came in to watch the result. Wor rall refused to drink , because of his temperance habits. Bill worked him self into an ugly fit. " 'Any ono that won't drink with mo , ' ho shouted , with an oath , 'will weigh moro than ho does now when I get througq with him ! ' "Al , seeing that the remark was di rected for him , turned slowly around , and placing a hand on each hip , said calmly and coolly : " 'I have hoard enough from you , Billl If you raise anv moro fuss in this room I'll break your head ! " "Bill stooped down , and placing both hands out before him in a pleading sort of way , said : " 'Don't shoot ! don't shoot ! ' "All the while ho kept coming closer to Al , as if ho was afraid of him , stoopIng - Ing low with all the appearance of fear. Worrall stood still , quietly watching the ruffian. ITo nor no ono else was prepared for Bill's ' next act. When ho got within reaching distance of Wor rall , quick as a Hash ho whipped a long murderous knife out of his boot log , and plunged it into Worrall'a abdomen , giving it a vicious turn and twist as it dashed into his victim's vitals. Worrall dropped to tlio floor. Bill started to go out. His friends crowded around him , and for a terrible moment nobody spoke a word. Then a young minor who had boon quietly sitting by ono of the windowb , coolly rose up , and level ing a revolver sent a bullet crashing tin ough Bill Burr's brain. The cow ardly desperado fell dead in his trucks. Instantly Bill's companions opened n fire upon nil who were loft in the room. The fire was returned , and the fusillade was fast and furious. Two of Bill's ' gang dropped to the floor before they could roach the door , riddled with balls from outside and In , A third ono in hurrying to escape , stumbled over an old minor , who had remained sitting tlltou back in his chair against the wall during the entire affray. The fleeing desperado made good his escape from the room , and lumping on his horse , started ut full run down the street. The old minor rose from his chair like a shot. lie reached behind the door , and pulling out an old army rlllo , levelled it at the flying mombnr of the gang , and fired. The desperado was forty rods away. With the orack of the old minor's rifle ho throw his hands in the air , tumbled headlong from hla horse and never moved again , The mountaineer had sent his bullet plumb between the wretch's shoulders. In less than three minutes from the time Bill Burr i&aued his invitation to the crowd to drink with him , ho and three of his fling , were done for , and two of the best citizens of Helena lay dead on the floor. Other citizens word badly wounded. An inquest was holdj the deliberations of which occupied just five minutes. The verdict wag such that next morning several moro ol Bill Burr's friends were hanging bytho , nock from trees at different points sur rounding Helena , none moro than ainilo away. To the back of each ono wag pinned , in largo hundwritting , plain enough for the blindest man to see , this warning from the regulators : TO Ait FKIISXUS OP DIM. BUIIli's : OIT. "Tho warning was hooded , and that was the last of Jim Daily's notorious gang , and the last of the rule of the desperado in Helena. The leader ot the regulators who accomplished the work was the same well-known judga , from the cast who had conducted the hanging of Daily. The mysterious milliner made a great show of mourn ing for poor Al 'W'orrall for a time , and then sot Helena in commotion by mar rying the regulator judge. That put her at the top notch of society in the town , and no ono over bothered himself thereafter about who she was and whore she came from , and nobody over know.1' ' The Shower. James WMtcomb Jllleu. The landscape , like the awed face of n child , Grew curiously blurred a hush ot death Foil on the fields , and in the darkened wild The zephyr hold its breath No wavering glamor-work of light and stiada Dappled the shivering surface of thi broolc The frightened ripples In their amhuacado Of willows thrilled and shook , The sullen day grow datkor , and anon Dim flashes ot pent anger lit the shy With rumbling wheels of wrath came rolt inc on The storm's artillery. The cloud ahovo put on its blackout frown And then , as with n vengeful cry of pain. The lightning snatched it ripped and Hung it down fn raveled shreds of rain- While I , transfigured by-some wodrous art. IJowocl with the thirsty lllllcs of the sod-j My empty soul brimmed over , and my heart Drenched with the loved of Goal SINGULARITIES. A calf with thrco horns is a recent curiosi ty nt Lenox , Iowa. From * Hucksport ( Mo. ) It Is reported that a cat is sitting ou a nest of eggs which a boa had deserted , Lou Allen Sprint , a Daltlmoro child ot thrco and ono-half years , la iifislst.iie at chuich entertainments and astonishing pee * ! > ) o by her proficiency on the piano. The natural gas question must bo getting serious in Indiana If n farmer cannot go out on his porcli and light his plpo without , ot- > ting all out of doors and the water well on fire , as occurred nuur Nnbicsvlllo u dny or , two ago. ATnouso attracted no Httlo attention In the window of n Dunbury , Conn , , merchant. The Httlo follow ran about among the goods , and climbed up to the top of the largo show-win- * dow and curtains , caching files , flo has made tlio window hin nbodo for aovcral weeks , and keeps the fllos away lu the moat approved manner , A Newfoundland dog In California , which lost its master , was found no loss thai tbrco different times tr.vlng to dig open his grave , After the last visit , according to the Hnn Fraucisto Uullctlu , the body , for some rea son or other , was dUlntorrca and the dog , upon snlfting the coflln. took to thb wocils and thereafter refused all food , Twin girls , weighing together only flvo pounds , eleven ounces , were born In Now Vnrlc n few days ago. The smaller oao weighed two pounds , eight ounces. The ut- tandlng physician , in his report to the l < u * reau of Vital Statistics , sala that "tho ba bies v/ero healthy , potseiicd of good lung * und pleasant lu sppearuuco. "