TUB OMAHA DAILY HKti : FIJI DAY , JAtsUAUY 0 ,
GOOD THINGS IX FOOD PLANTS
Contributions of Other Laudato the Plant
Life of the United States ,
SYSTEMATIC WORK OF THE GOVERNMENTS
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WASHINGTON , Dec. 29. ( Correspondent
o The Hoc. ) Hardly a fortnight clapaed
after tbo beginning ot the settlement of
Jatncatown before efforts wire under way
to Introduce new plants , nnd tlio work has
been carried on so gradually that at the
present tltno few people renllze how many
of the good things In the line of frultn ,
vegetables and other food plants have been
Introduced from abroad , A bulletin juat
Issued from the Department of Agriculture ,
under the authorship of Mr. David 0. Fairchild -
child , reviews the work which has already
been donu In thla line and argues for a
more systematic plant Introduction. The at
tention of the people Is directed to the fact
that of all of the food plants now grown In
America only the pumpkin and a few grapes ,
plums and berries arc native to this country.
Even the Indian com , popularly nupposed
to bo Indigenous to the United States , Is , In
all probability , an Introduction from Mexico.
Mr. Falrchlld states that at the present
time a largo proportion of the best culti
vated fruits , vegetables and cereals grown
In the United States are of foreign origin.
It Ifi Interesting to note In thin bulletin
that according to the researches of F. Hock ,
a' German Investigator , cultivated oats , bar
ley and rye have originated from wild forms
growing along the Mediterranean ; ibt ,
varieties of wheat have developed from a
wild species In 1'erala ; buckwheat la un
doubtedly of Siberian or Manchurlan origin ;
the garden bean (1'hascolus ( vulgarls ) ( lour.
Ishcd In a wild state upon the slopes of
the Andes ; the percentage of our cultivated
cabbage , lettuce , spinach , asparagus , celery
nnd most root crops can be traced to the
Mediterranean ; the Orient has undoubtedly
furnished civilization with the onion , horse
radlnh , cucumber and melon ; Peru has given
It the Irish and sweet potatoes , egg plant
and tomato ; Central Asia , the rhubarb , whll
our apples , quinces , pears , currants , goose
berries and California grapes are of
Kuropean parentage , and our strawberries
have resulted from crossing the native with
a Chilian species.
The rapid growth of any new section of
our country Is due , not to the develop
ment of native species of plants or
fruits , but to Introduce species suitable to
the soil and climatic conditions. California ,
so widely famous for Its fruit , owes Its
wealth and development In this line to the
cultivation of the European grape nnd the
orange. Australia Is largely dependent upon
Us Holds of grain nnd lt growing fruit
trade. Its native food plants play no Im
portant part In Its development. The wealth
of Ceylon nnd Java Is reaped largely from
the cultivation of llvo or more exotic species ,
the Chinese and Assam teas , the Peruvian
cinchona and the Arabian and Llberlan
coffees. South African civilization , from an
agricultural standpoint , Is not casually con
nected with .the development of any natlvo
plant product.
Value or Votttl I'laiilx.
That the development of a country agri
culturally depends upon the Introduction of
new species of food plants has been
recognized by all colonizing nations Is at
tested by tha fact that they have established
botanic gardens In their new colonies , ono
Mi-i lmjTtirtant'fimction of whfch ts to sJcuro and
fr distribute exotic economic plants throughout
the colony. This character of work was begun -
gun In our own government by Hon. Henry '
I. , . Elsworth , when he was commissioner of
patents , so long ago as 1S37. When congress
established a Department of Agriculture In
1862 the work was enlarged nnd made more
prominent. Indeed , this character of work
was the sole argument of that time for the
creation of such a department. The records
of this department show many valuable In
troductions. The orange growers of Cali
fornia expressed their appreciation of the
efforts of this branch of the government
whim they said that the Introduction of the
Dahla , or Washington navel orange , had
been worth moro to the growers of Cali
fornia than the total coat ot maintaining
the Department of Agriculture slnco Its In
ception. It must not bo said , however , that
the development of native plants has not
boon successful , for the contrary Is true ; but
It ts a noteworthy fact that the old world
civilization has profltcd but little through
the discovery of now food plants In America.
The first and most evident reason for
the Introduction of economic plants Into any
country , and that to which the ordinary
mind at once refers. In the building up
of new plant Industries. To the most casual
observer It must be apparent that the num
ber of useful plants , compared with those of
which men makes use , la very small. The
menu of an average American dinner In
cludes the product of scarcely a dozen plants
and yet the number which could be grown
for the table would reach Into the hundreds.
It IB ( stated that conservatism of taste among
our people limits the food plants to so
email a number. This conservatism Is Icsa
fixed upon us than upon European countries.
This la evidenced by our quick appreciation
of such now fruits as the pomelo , or grapa
fruit , which has become almoxt as common
with us as the orange , while In Sicily It has
been cultivated for centuries and Is not even
now appreciated as a table fruit. The
growing favor of the persimmon , the In
creasing consumption of the banana , the
established appreciation of the sweet potato ,
which Is still practically an unknown veg
etable In Coveut Garden , our fondness for
the peanut and popcorn , ns yet merely curi
osities In Germany , Indicate that such n
utatu of stagnation Is not yet reached as
that of pastern Europe , at least , where even
tomatoes are almost unknown and the sweet
potato Is ono of the rarest nnd most costly
of vegetables. On the other hand , the al
most complete absence from American tables
of the European artichoke ( Cynara
ecolymus ) , something entirely different from
the plant known by that name In America ,
which , when properly grown , Is ono of the
most delicious of vegetables , Indicates any
thing but a readluess to Increase the list
of available food plants.
< "iillvntliiK ii Mnrkft.
These being the facts , Mr. Falrchlld Is
Impelled to cay that , In order to build up anew
now plant Industry , It la not sulllclent to
establish the fact that a desirable species
can bo successfully cultivated , but It Is
equally necessary to bring the merits of the
now product to the attention of the public
for the purpose of cultivating a taste and
creating a market. When wo remember that
the potato , upon which millions now depend
for subsistence , was the discovery of an un
civilized race In the mountains of Chill ,
Peru or Argentina , that the development of
the American grape and plum are products
> f the discovery and Improvement of a
tlvtllrrd race when wo remember these and
llmllar examples , It can hardly bo doubted
that the modern methods of extensive plant
Heeding will open the door for a rapidly
increasing number of new food plants ,
Cork oaks were Introduced Into the United
States by the Department of Agriculture
In 1S58 , and , although their care was
neglected , results were milllclent to prove
that they will do well In our southern states
and California. In 1893 corks coit us $1. .
39S.02S. and of coure cost more now. That
the Industry of growing these o ks l re-
munerntlvo In attested by the fact that
.1,189,000 ncrcn nro planted along the
Mediterranean , Java now furnishes two-
thirds of the qulnlno of the world , owing
to governmental support In Introducing the
; ilant from Peru. The Indian government
us also successfully Introduced the cinchona
tree Into that country. Cape Colon'y Is
wonderfully Improving Us wine grapes by
Introducing and propagating American
phylloxera-resistant vine stocks.
The Hoyal West Indian commission , sent
out by the Urltlsh government In 1898 to In
vestigate the source of agricultural depres-
lon In the Urltlsh West Indies , recom
mended the expenditure of 17.000 , or moro
than fSl.OOO , annually for ten years , oaten-
slbly for the purpose of establishing new
plant Industries In the Islands. Theec grants
were made by the last Parliament , and the
nlno botanic stations on the various Istands ,
with a head ofllco In the Barbados for the
Investigation of tropical agriculture and the
Introduction ot economic plants , will soon
bo established. The 1x > tanlc stations estab
lished some years ago In several of the
Islands havu been the means ot adding to
the West Indian products ginger , nutmeg ,
cloves , black pepper , guinea grass , sago ,
bourbon cane , coffee , mango , logwood , cinna
mon , bamboo , camphor , orange , lemon , citron ,
yam , cacao and shaddock.
Mlvi-rMly of riniitn.
Another phase of this -work le the dlscov-
PLAINTIVE PEAL OF BELLES1
Gotham's ' Blooming Buds Weep nud Refill
to Be Comforted i
FATHERS "TOO STINGY FOR ANYTHING"
Decline tit Throw Moni-y nt HIP lllril *
Sillil tn ! ! < Fur
MoriHvtrnvnKiint
Timn Still * .
The new year of 1S8D la ushered In with
tears from the Now York daughter. She
has been hauled before nn almost Implacable
Jury , In the form of paterfamilias , en
throned on a giant pile of bills , nnd she has
bocu condemned to six months , or In fact ,
an entire future , nt hard economy because
of her almost criminal extravagance.
Some tlmo ago we heard of the revolt of
the daughters ; It's the fathers who nro re
volting now and a girl who was coulldlng
details of the awfulness of her Interview
with her father tearfully confessed to the
straw that was too much for the patient
camel. Nothing but n motor phaeton. The
other girls groaned delicately In commlser-
ttATEHT
cry and Introduction.of uew varieties of the
plants already cultivated here. The success
or failure ot a whoreplant - may
depcrtd upon obtaining a variety
differing so slightly from others In cultiva
tion that tlie ordinary observer would fall
to detect n difference. The fact must not
bo lost sight of that to search out these
now varieties nnd secure them requires the
labor of trained explorers or specialists In
the particular branches of plant Industry.
The chances of profitable return within a
reasonable length of time arc not such as to
Induce seed firms to undertake the work
of exploration In the absence of laws pro.
tectlng the Importer of a new variety. If
the work of thla character were left to In
dividual enterprise only occasional expedi
tions could bo expected and no compre
hensive exploration of the cultivated terri
tory of the globe would bo undertaken.
The department now has three such ex
plorers , namely , Mr. Walter T. Swlnglo and
Mr. Mark A. Carleton In Europe , Prof. S. A.
Knapp In Japan nnd Mr. Falrchlld himself
In the eouthern part of South America.
These men are nil specialists and widely
known In the botanical world.
The work Is not all done when it Is do-
elded to do It. There are many ways of
collecting nnd transporting the plants to bo
considered nnd their Inspection and disin
fection must bo most carefully attended to ,
for there Is great danger of Introducing
noxious weeds and Insects , and finally their
distribution nfter arrival In this country
and establishment of such as prove bene
ficial.
All this requires the broadest scientific
knowledge of plants and of soil and cllmutlo
conditions. If ho IB n benefactor to mankind
who makes two blades of grass grow where
or.o grew before how much more of a bene
factor will ho bo who gives us twenty , fifty
or a hundred food plants where wo have
but ono nowl
OEORQE P. THOMPSON.
No "A" In it.
A man who .looked as If ho might bo a
capitalist from some small town stepped
Into ono of the Cleveland banks , relates the
Leader , and approached the cashier's window.
Ho called the cashier by name and began
to talk business at onceThe cashier
thought ho had seen the stranger some
where before. His face was rather familiar
and his conversation Indicated that he took
It for granted that ho was known.
So the bank olllclal assumed n friendly ulr ,
pretended that ho knew the other very well
nnd llattered himself upon his cleverness
until the negotiations had progressed to a
point where It became neceasary for the
cashier to write the stranger's name. After
hesitating for a moment the man who
handles other people's money turned nnd
adroitly oscil :
"By the way , do you spell your name with
an A or not ? "
A twlnklo appeared in the other's eyes
and ho replied :
"No. I don't use inn A. "
Then ho stopped and permitted the cashier
to turn red and shift his weight uneasily
from ono foot to the other , after which the
stranger said :
"My name Is Smith. "
The cashier then in ado an abject acknowl
edgement and lUhed a cigar box out of his
desk.
Stopped III * 1'iiptT.
"Once upon a time , " pays the Houtzdale
( I'enn. ) Journal , "a man got mad at the
editor nnd stopped the paper. In A few
weeks he sold his corn at1 cents less than
the market price. Then hl property was
sold for taxes because ho didn't read the
sheriff's sale. Ho paid $10 for a lot of
forged notes that had been advertised .two
weeks and the public warned against them.
Ho then rushed to the printing oinco and
paid several years' subscription In advance
and had the editor sign an agreement that
ho was to knock him down If he ordered his
paper to bo utopped again. "
( iriiorul Wllnoii Still lit Mm-oii.
MACON , Go. . Jnu. G. General James H.
Wilson , who has been commanding the
1'lrst corps , and who was ordered to depart
jcstcrday for Cuba , Is btlll hero , having re
ceived an order countermanding his previous
Instructions. Nn orders have come In re
gard to the moving of the troops and the
mon nro beginning to thltik they will remain
) l ra all wlntur.
atlon and open contempt of the stern parent
and a half a dozen of them nt this confes
sional over the cups , who had had similar
experiences , voted that the American father
Is losing all his charm and value nnd Is
undoubtedly Imitating the cruel English
man , who limits his women folks' allow
ances nnd then wants to pry Into their pin-
money accounts.
"As a matter of fact , " said ono sensible
looking matron who had heard this talk ,
"tho New York girl Is the most extravagant ;
creature on earth , and at the gait she Is
going now she will bring the richest sort of
a parent to beggary. When I was a debu-
< ante In this very town a man was /able /
to keep a big family In the best possible
style on an Income of $25,0000 , put sons
through college , keep a. country place and
bring out the daughters In Irreproachable
fashion.
"The very best that the father of but
two smart daughters can do on now , even
If hla wife is genuinely economical , Is $30.-
000 , and the level for merely genteel ex
istence is fast rising to $73,000. It Is the
girls who are raising the standard of living , 1
am perry to say , nnd a banker confessed to
me only the other day that his one daugh
ter coat him moro money than his two sons ,
who went through Harvard lavishly and
sowed an abundance of wild oats before
they settled down.
"Do you know why ? liecausc- the girl
wants all the luxuries of a woman and
thow of a man , too. The high tariff has !
put the price of her frocks and bonnets
UD to a nerfactlv wild fltwe. The mllll- I
ncr ' nrn the lea t , though , among the New '
Year billy , H'ft the price of .a twenty-fool
knock-about , with n sailor's wngen , of
liorsrii and utablo tnonV hire , and new
Imps , and hills for expert golf lessons that
fill even ndoctlonato pnpns with illsmny ,
Have you any Idea wliat It costs to put up
such stables ns Mlsg Helen Ilcnedlct or Mrs ,
Hoffman own ? Well , comcthlng near ten
thousand a year. Hut having secured a
good stable , having set up a kennel of
costly < | ORS equal to Mrs. Hitchcock's and
trying her hand nt yachting , like Miss do |
Korcst Day or .Mrs. Thompson , the rest-
leiM Now York girl must have a motor car
riage from 1'arlH.
"You see them every diy In Central park
now , and the girls In special toc-toc browner
or automobile ml tailor suits , working the
levers with their own fair hands , while
pupa la < lo n town trying to dig out $1,800
to pay for the carriage , $60 for tuition In
using It before * ho could get a license to
run It , and a trilling $130 for the S'veet lit
tle Parisian uniform that Is Imported for
use with the motor phaeton. Ho may rage
as much as ho pleases , but the motor car
riage has come to stay , culelly because his
reckless , hard-hearted daughter has taken
a liking to It and Is going to make It a
feature at Newport , Lenox , In fact , the
country over , next spring. "
CO.MI'ltKSSUI ) .Mil l.OCOMOTIVH ,
Trial Knulne llullt for I'mla X MV
Vnrk City.
Compressed air Is soon to be added to the
motive powers of street railroad cars In New
York City. The adoption ot this new pro
pelling force Is to begin soon after the first
of the year on the Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth street lines , operated by the
Metropolitan Street Hallway company.
Twenty compressed nlr cars are now nearIng -
Ing completion for these lines and they will
bo similar to the big cars on the Madison
nnd Eighth avenue electric lines. The
1,000-horso power compressor which will
store the cars Is shortly to bo Installed In
tlio power house , near the Pennsylvania
railroad Twenty-third street ferry house.
The compressor stands sixty feet high nnd
will have power enough to propel fifty cars.
Hut this new force Is not to bo confined to
street cars , reports the New York Herald ,
for the New Ycrk Central road Is building
a power plant at High Urldge and a specially
constructed locomotive Is already awaiting
the power to run between Ono Hundred and
Kitty-fifth street and Yonkcra on the Put
nam branch.
Experiments have been made for several
years with a now application of compressed
air , bringing results In practical fields , the
promoters contend , ns certain as electricity
and muili safer , more economical and moro
easily controlled than the mysterious lluld ,
steam or cable. These tests , they say , have
shown beyond the shadow of doubt that a lo-
comotlvo stored with the air can draw a
regulation train of cars from Jersey City to
Philadelphia at an even speed of seventy
miles nn hour without the recharging of the
air chambers.
Its advantages over ttio steam locomotive
are said to be economy , cleanliness , reten
tion of power and the even and regular man
ner In which this power Is freed. With the
same charge It is Just ns easy to run the
compressed air engine sixty miles an hour
as It Is to run It twenty miles for throa
hours and the tlmo In which the distance is
to be covered Is only limited by the charac
ter of the roadbed.
The two forces on ttie lines of the Metro
politan road are predicted to be In the near
future electricity and compressed air. As
the former has replaced and Is replacing the
cable , so Is the latter to replace the horse
on the remaining crosstown roads. The
Metropolitan company 'has been interested
In the now propelling force for the last two
years and its adoption on the Twenty-eighth
and Twenty-ninth street lines has only been
after tedious tests. Should tlie operation of
the new system shoftr the expected merits ,
nlr as a motive power may make Inroads In
the field of electricity.
Other fields the now force bids fair to en
ter nro these of the truck , omnibus and car
riage. A single charge of air will propel a
vehicle from fifteen to twenty-live miles. A
compressed air truck can be stored with suf
ficient power to run It until noon and with
another charge until evening , making forty
miles for the day , or about twice as much
distance as the ordinary horse truck can
THE CHECK SIGNER.
cover. The cost Is less than 1 cent a mile
for power to carry a weight of ten tons up
a 5 per cent grade.
The secret of being able to charge a loco
motive for a run of 100 miles is said to He
In the process of making the steel bottles
or air chambers. They ore of the hardeai
and finest steel known and capable of im-
prlsoulnt ? a power which would burst nn or
dinary steel case Into fragments.
A SI.UKI'I.KSS .MII.I.IO.VAIIli : .
Itiiulltiv Wlili'li PohlcTi-il tin.Malinl )
of liiNoiiiuln.
For fifteen years Edward Bain , the mll-
llonalro wagon manufacturer of Kenosha ,
WIs. , who died on Sunday nt I'nBadena , Cal. ,
no\er occupied a bed or wooed Bleep by
assuming a reclining position. Sitting bolt
upright In a high-backed chair or lying
back In a chair which tilted at a slight
angle he lot his head fall upon his breast
anil dozed awny for the few minutes of half
khimhitr which It seemed hla bodv was ciru-
enilly content with having
Sometimes ho did not sleep morr thnn
thirty mlnulcR In the course of n nlRhl , rr-
latest the Chicago Tribune , dividing this Into
snatches of Il\e , povcn or ten minutes and ,
rising In the frequent Intervals to take long
about KciHishn. There was , however ,
when ho secured nearly the average t
quota of sleep , possibly an hour nt a tiinr.
rising at the end of that time for relaxa
tion before returning to the laborious en
deavor to entice forgctfulness.
1'our times a millionaire , by the estimate
of his friends ) , he did not use his coffers to
help'him In the contest he waged against the
hourglass. Ho did not peek variety ; Instead (
ho assigned to every part of the day a par-
tlcular routine , n schedule which he never
broke. H was this peculiarity of method ,
the result of n merciless self-discipline , that
irought on In the first Instance , says nts
ihyslclan. Dr. 0. H. Itlpley. the malady
\hlch was destined to be his constant coin-
mnlon. lly method , also , he In nil proba-
y fostered the disease. Always a nerv
ous man. ho found nfter sixty years of h.xrd
abor that ho could not sleep. Previous to
.hat time ho had never tried to sleep.
Then suddenly ho found himself a man of
leisure. The llalu Wagon company became
in 1SS2 n corporation and ho Its president.
As Edward Bain , the proprietor , there had
5pcn never-ending employment for him ; as
Edward IJaln , president , he had nothing to
do but attend an occasional meeting of the
board of directors nnd draw his dividends.
Dr. Ulplcy asserts that Insomnia was not
ho result of any discernible physical 111.
The mechanism of the man's brain apears
simply to have undergone a mibtlo change
hat made It an example of continuous mo
tion.
tion.Mr.
Mr. Hnln constituted himself his own dor-
or , nnd seems to have reasoned that sys-
em might again restore him to a normal
slate. Ho Old not care to return to work ,
but ho set about elaborating a dally time
card. Kor six months of the year , the pe
riod he ppent at Kenosha , there was no shlft-
ng of the program for any cause whatever.
Awaking from his nap with the appear
ance of the first light In the east , he was
hurried by his attendant to a bath , then
rubbed vigorously and dressed In frenh gar
ments. In matters of nttlro IIP was scrupu-
oiia to the last detail. After a light break-
'ast ho walked from the house a short dis
tance to a horse iblock , where his buggy
awaited him.
On the outskirts of Kenosha Mr. Bain
owned largo tracts of land , fenced Into
farma , and for the most part cultivated. The
: otes opening from ono field to another wore
of the sort a man In a carriage or wagon
con open without alighting. For nearly
four hours Mr. Haiti drove from farm to
farm , looking at every object , but never
speaking to his tenants.
At 10 o'clock every morning he wns set
down on the platform at the Chicago &
S'orthwestern depot. An empfoyo took the
rig homo and Mr. Daln and the attendant
came Into Chicago. From 11:30 : o'clock , the
tlmo of the train's arrival at the Wells
street station , until 3 o'clock In the after
noon , ho was on board a street car. Ho
rode for one hour nnd forty-flvc minutes in
ono direction , timing himself , and then re
turning by the same route to the depot to
step upon the train which bore him back to
Kenoslin.
During his street car rides .Mr. IJaln sat
always on the right side of the car. At
the half-way point ho secured his lunch , a
glass of some mild 'beverage and a sand
wich. When ho reached Kenosha at about
4:30 : o'clock In the afternoon the buggy wns
awaiting him at the platform. Ho cfinibed
Into It and made the same round of the
farms ho had made In the morning. Ho took
dinner with his family In the evening and
after the meal came down town , going either
to the Grant house or to ono of the saloons.
Ho did aot drink , but took a seat and talked
with Ills friends and neighbors.
A IIOMAXCB OK THE AVAIL
It AVn Only HIP Sr | uel Hint Spoiled
n , Vretty Slory.
" ' of war romances
"I don't want any moro your
mances In mine , with the hero and the
pretty girl and all that port of rot , " said a
fine looking young lieutenant ot volunteers
to a Washington Star man.
Asked to explain , ho did so , ns follows :
"I was ono of those lucky fellows down
at Camp Thomas who drew a prize In n. box
of good things sent to us from a town In
Ohio about 300 miles from my homo und on
the way to It. My prlzo package consisted
of a very nicely worded note to the effect
that the writer was 20 years old and wanted
a soldier beau , and that the recipient of the
pic which carried the note pinned on top of
It , the whole thing tied up In many wrap
pers , would please think of the maker and
sender as he ate It. and answer tier little
missive If ho didn't have a wife or sweet
heart nt home. It was such a pleasant , In
nocent kind of a verdant maiden note that I
answered It , seeing that I hadn't any wife
and was having a scrap with my best girl ,
which made mo all the readier to seek
solace elsewhere. Well , wo got out of
Thomas and down to Tampa and I got over
to Cuba on a special call and all the time
I kept up a kind of a hop-etep-aud-Jump
correspondence with my prlzo package.
"After the battle , mother , I came back ,
nnd , after batting around awhile In and out
of the hospital , I got a chance to go homo
and on the way I concluded to stop and see
the unknown. She hadn't told me much
about her family , but said she was living
at a betel In the town , which I found on
arrival at the place was the best there. I
didn't know anybody and I didn't know the
girl , and I had sense enough to go a little
slow , but when I reached the hotel nnd
asked the clerk If Miss lived there , nnd
ho said she did , I thought I wasn't alto
gether fooled , anyhow. Ho looked at me
In a queer kind of fashion and nald that
Miss lived with Mrs. Blank , who occu
pied the third floor suite , and she could tell
mo about her. I supposed she was a nleco
of the woman or something llko that and
as soon as I had slicked up a bit I cent up
my card. Mrs. Blank came down 'to ' the
parlor to see me. When she did ECO me
she looked at me funnier than tbo clerk did.
" 'I beg your pardon , ' she said , awk
wardly ; 'did you want to see Kitty ? '
" 'Yes , ' I told her. 'Isn't she- here ? '
" 'No ; she left yesterday. '
" 'Indeed ? ' eald I , nnd hesitated , for Miss
had not told mo anything about going
away and should have known I was com
ing , for I had written that I would be
there.
" 'Ves , you see , ' she went on , rather
hurriedly , nnd as If I might think she In
tended to reflect upon the young woman In
some way , 'Kitty was a very nlco girl and
the children were very fond of her , but
somehow I never could get along with
colored help and Kitty was so bright and
smart and was BO fond of hooka that she was
a llttlo neglectful , I am afraid , and I hod to
let her go. I shall bo very glad to recom
mend her If you want to know anything
about her character. '
"I didn't need to ask any moro questions
after that and I didn't. Hut to let myself
down gracefully I took a 'letter of recom
mend' from the woman nnd then took the
next train out of town. It was not going I
my way , but I took It Just the name and (
doubled back. That was my llttlo war ro
mance , and now when I read stories and
hear tales about heroes and lovely damsels
and those 1 think about I'rlzs Package Kitty
and never say a word. "
< irlp nplilfiiilc lii St. l.oulH.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. C. I'hvslclans In St.
Louis ngrco that the K-'lp Is epidemic In
this city and tl'ut In the form In which tlio
dlscuso prevails hero It Is Infectious , but
not contagious , A large proportion of street
railway employes are or have suffered with
It rccmtlv. The discafo Is In a mild form
and yields rradlv to treatment , but Is Inter
fering with the car tervlco. if the ratio of
rll vlrtllna ! , r.r vallc In Dm Sovontll
I'olii-o district h cMicrnl. OMP sixth of the HI
Louis ilDiMrtmem is nillictcd with the
nuhulv. { Other lines of ( U-llvltx are fTcctisl
by ' tbo nbsenco of workers who are suf
fering | with HIP grip.
Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup Is ple.itvuil < i > take.
Children never object hi It. This medicine
positively mires cough nnd cold.
UlKIInu MH.V I'rolll liy ! ' . iM-rlciicc ,
NUW YORK. Jan. C. Concerning the
bursting ! of tlio big S-lnrli ( Intllug gun at
the Si/.iJy Hook proving grounds , which WAS
built nt the Otis Ptnl works. In this city ,
Manager llartols of the l.ittrr coiiipfmy said
today ; "The gun was milt iiccordln < te
Bperincatlons und Instructions furnlshi-d by
' Dr. Datllng , mid was , of course , nn experi
j1 ment. The fact that the cwi exploJc.l a"cr
It had been llreU a number of times wl'h 150
' I'Giinds of powder ami 300 pounds nf pro-
It ctlles does not necessarily mean th.it Dr.
theory Is nt fault The Inventor
linn tut doubt profited In oM'rnriuo ' with the
flrt t built mm , and If unoiher Is mnde , which
will urolmbly bo HIP case , HIP 0 > fee ! will
proliably be overcome. "
Whrn you nsk for n Do Wltt'n Wltch-llntfl
P.UVO don't nccrpt a counterfeit rr Imitation ,
There are more CAKOH of piles being cure1 J by
this ttan : nil other * combined.
I'ollcr .MnUr nil AniiinliiH MI tnK < > ,
CINCINNATI. Jan. 6. An iiinnMitK blun
der wn made bv the police late last nlxbt
In the arrest of I'nllnl States Dlitrlct At
torney William E. Bumly. The mistake wns
not ( Uncovered until the police nrrUril with
their victim at the station , when the Joke
was turned embarrassliiRly on the nric tlnn
( itllcpr. The cltv l : s been Itifestnl wltt
crooks , the police urn doubly diligent , and
Colonel Ilundv wns pointed out to the ofll-
cor as n bad man.
HELPS
WHERE
OTHERS fAIL ; liquid food imaginable for Convalescents.
Easily assimilated even by the weak
est stomachs and lending a strength
to the system not obtainable by.
any other Tonic.
/ \ Non-intoxicant. T ALL DRUGGISTS
VAL.BLATZ BREWING Co ,
MILWAUKEE , U.S.A.-
For Sale by Foley Broi. , Wholesale Dialers.
1412 Doughs Street , Onuha , Neb. Tel. 1081
JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS
OF OMAHA.
BOILER AND SHEET IRON WORKS
hrake , Wilson
u & Williams
SiircciMorn AVllmiii .t DrnUo.
Manufacturers boilers , smoku stacks nnd
fircechliiKS , pressure , rendering , sheep dip ,
lard and ' .rater tanks , boiler titbcM ron-
ttnntly on naml , prrotid Imn'l ' boilers
bouclit nnd sold. Special nnd prompt to
repairs In city or country. 19th nnd Pierce.
BOOTS-SHOES-RUBBERS ,
n meriean tiand
* V Sewed Shoe Go
, * / ' / > j | Jobbers of Foot Wear
WSSinilN AOENTKrOIl
The Joseph Bauig-nn Rubber Oo.
r II. Sprague & Co. ,
Rubbers and Mackintoshes *
for. iir < cum t Kill-mini Stn. , Oniiilin.
P.P. Kirkendall & Bo
Boots , Shoes and Rubbers
BaUiroomi UM-1104-HM Htrntj Strati.
CARRIAGES.
Estab
lished.
1858.
Sidu bprioR Utactaent No Horse Motion.
Get a Simpson Huggy with tie Atkinson
Spring best and easiest rider In the world.
l Uoditc Strc t.
CHICORY
he American
T
Chicory Go.
Growers nnd mnnufacturer * of nl ! torn * of
Chicory OmaIia-I'"remont-O'N II.
DRUGS.
Ichardson Drug Co.
902-906 Jackson St.
O. RICHARDSON , PretL jS4
P. WELLER , V. Pr t. "
E. BruceJS Co.
Druggists and Stationers ,
Die" Specialties
Clear * Wines und Brandlea ,
O rtKH 10 h and Ilarnty fttrwt *
DRY GOODS.
E , Smith & Go.
( porters anil Job tor * !
Dry Goods , Furnishing Goods
AND NOTIONS ,
CREAMERY SUPPLIES
The Sharpies Company
Creamery Machinery
And Supplies.
Roller * , Engines , Kapu Cookers , Wood Pub
Icy ? , Shafting , llclttng , Butter Pack-
uses of all ktna * .
M7-909 Jones St. -
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES.
U/estern Electrical
vv Company
/Metrical Supplies.
Electric Wiring Dolls and ( .Jus Lighting
( I. W. JOHNSTON , ilgr. 1510 Howard Hi.
John T. Burke ,
ELECTRIC LIGHT
and PO WER PLANTS
121 South 15th St.
HARDWARE.
[ \nited States
w Supply Co. . .
f/oS ffto Harnev St.
Steam Pumpa , Engines and Boiler ! ) , Plp %
Wind Mills , Steam and Plumbing
Material , Beltlne. KOJ , Etc.
rane-Churchill Co.
10H.1016 DonaUs Street.
Manufacturers and Jobbers of Btttm. an aw
Water Supplies of All Kinds.
Lee-Clark Andreesen
Hardware Co
Wholesale Hardware.
Blcjclei and bportlni Goods. U19-3.V38 HM
nay ttr * t.
HARNESS-SADDLERY.
J HHaney&Co.
W JU'fr *
HARNKSS , HADDLKS AND COLL A HI
Jobbtr * of Leather , Saddlery Jtartltearf , JEI *
We solicit your order * . 1315 Howard 8t
*
If you want
what you want
nnd want other
people to know
what you want
try a Ueo
want ad.
A ten word want ad In
the Omaha Dally HPQ
morning anil evunlnga will
"test you only 43 ccnu.
rnrnam and Seventeenth.