10 TTTE OTSrAJTA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , MAttOH 5 , 1899.
I
Special Notice. Special Monday ,
ot those $ l5$20nml $25 fine " SHOES
Suits for Men ,
now spring slyle , vici kid ,
with Bilk
uppers fancy
which wo fidvor-
iised for sale by actual personal experience and facts , that it pays them to buy anything on sale at "Boston Store" if they need it. illing ; tops , agatino oyo-
yesterday for They Know and we wish to distinctly impress upon the tew that don't know , that the constant practice of money li ts , strictly turn soles ,
There remain probably ] saving to others as carried out by us , has placed "Boston Store" at the head of the greatest and foremost mercantile jniaclo to retail for from § 4
two hundred institution of the west jto $5 a pair , go at
which will bo sold It's just this continual givi ng you more goods and better goods for your money than anyone else , that has
tomorrow price. at the same made our store what it is , and gained us the great trade we enjoy , as well as the approval of the common , hard , sound $2.50.
sense people of Omaha. Tomorrow we justily the confidence of our patrons , still more than ever.
' IMI- - * * -
i@fh and Douglas
SUITS SHOES
Omaha.
. ron THI :
for little fellows
'
LI'lTLK riJLI.OWS
Very pretty
S2.00 Vestoo Suits worth $1.50 and # 1.75 ,
on Bttlo tomorrow. sizes , 0 to Kid.
PROPRIETORS.
Grand. Special Ofieriiig iu Ladies' BOSTON STORE'S ' BIG
Dress Goods SILKS
Spring New Tailor Made Suits & Qress Skirts Muslin and Sheeting
Every inch of our counter or shelf room fairly groans under 100 pieces of New Silks at 29c yard ' SIB Ladies' ' Sale Extraordinary. Sale.
the weight of new arrivals in spring dress stuffs. Thousands A grand new lot of 22-luch and iM-lncI Ladies' Cheviot
Silks , In black Spot cash secures Immense riU'IT OF THE LOOM MUSLIN ,
of yards of new , clean , bright spring dress goods meet the eye on Japanese nnd all colors regular Suits , $8,50 $ New Suits , $12,50 , Irish Point nnd embroidered stock Nottingham runicd full pieces , no rcmnanla ,
yard
oil sides in our store. 5c ! ) quality go tomorrow These are elegant Swiss Curtains all on sale tomorrow all nt
Never has our effort hccii so great In securing the at , yard For tomorrow wee tailor made suite one prlco nnd nil a big bargain. Without Watnsutla Sheeting ,
reserve without regard to quality , value or every width up three
wants of our customers as the season of 1899. $1,25 Silks , 39c and 49o yard , o ff e r handsome , with box front jack kind without limit ns long ns they Inst. yards wide , every piece
I.'O plt'cps of bran new Silks on our ets and one piece branded Wamasuttn , go at 15c
NovoltlcB from the fur east , colors and blondltif * from nil quarters of the glebe cheviot tailor made , } .ird , worth SSc
and now boinp dioplnyod over our counters nt prices that will convince buyers silk bargain square tomorrow , Including skirts , full fl a , r e , Wo will sell over 1,000 pair flue Lace
that the Boston Store will miiko their dollar a wondorfiil purchasing power in the brocaded now tancy silk taffetas , gros grain , fancy silks striped , foulards and , tan or gray suits , made of all wool Curtains , worth from J3.BO to $3.00 all at no "A" icmiwnta OAMimiC , , full pieces ,
dress fjoods department Monday. with one piece skirts one uniform price 98 . , .
satin rtuchcsse and an dopant line of Arcnetian cloth i n of $1 pair. vard
brocades , chccku and plaids , go tomor and latest style gray , bine and tan , jacket Good quality BLEACHED
row at silk llnnil , would bo a bar- MUSLIN , 3(1 ( Inches wide , full
Colored Dress Goods
Black Dress Goods jackets , at § 8.50. Cain at 818 , tomorrow at pieces , yard
The merit ot the colobratcd "GOLD Fashionable New Spring and $12.50. IMPORTED MUSLIN , very flno
MEDAL , " dress goods is too well known Dross Goods just from and heavy , 5c jard ,
to go Into detail. the Customs House. worth 8V40
MULL AND LONG CLOTH ,
150 pieces famous 100 pieces oholco New Taffeta Silk , 69c yard , 30 Inches wide , 6',4c yard ,
" 5 pieces best quality heavy worth 20c
Gold Medal French and German Qlnco Kuntle Taffeta CO A PAIR '
Black Dress Goods Silk Mixtures and Novelties different tlons Including styles and nil the combl- lat Berkley's Cambric ,
'J'hn "world's standard of black dress a-ood est spi Int ; shad s- nov r be- There arc hundreds of different frtjles alt worth lOc , at
merits " In all the latest weaves and effects f jro sold ut less thin fl.OO now , this Benson's Importation. Hundreds of
Including armures , mntelasso , silk aii'l nnd
mohair jacquarrtJ , llzrards , satin berbers , guaranteed not to craek Ready-mado Pillow
-
, , , and hen- wool broches , steam finished cheviots like onllnarj taffeta on patterns that have never been seen before
chovlots bourottes coverts - We
BOWS . . . are aJeo offering a sample line of class
, high
sale tomorrow at jArd very Slips each
rlottu The greatest values ovsr offered and bi'iinllnes ; In all the newest tints hundreds of patterns that you have novcr ,
on * ale In Mack goods department and colorings retailed rogulaily at Indies' tailor made suits and separate skirts , in the latest
very Largo sl/e , nil linen hemstitched
dreamed could be sold nt such a prlco nil
§ 1.00 and ? 1.25 go on sale Monday in $2,50 Grenadines 98c est and materials ,
and two lots at 25 piemen high grade black styles , colors , at just half the regular price. at $1.98 pair. stitched each PILLOW SLIPS
nnd colored Ornnadlne and
and for French entire Jlouss dress lln s and do L > on , Hundreds of the new , 'one $7,50 Black Dress Skirts , $4,98 JReady-made Sheets
waists all
A beautiful line wool elegant figures and patterns Tlioy aatln are bais In stripes new , piece dress Blurts in stylish Elegant black skirts in the 35c , 39c , 49c and 59c each
black Novelties , worth 52.CO yard , yo at , yard English plaids and all the now flare shape , in cheviot ,
in figures and shot $1,00 Silk and Wool Goods 29o , New French Foulards , 98c yard , new shades at § 4.98 , $5.98 serge and basket cloth , buttoned
effects 60c values 200 pieces and 66-50.
, , EO pieces now French toned back , would be
at , yard Silk and Wool Foulards , the latest nprlng A at .
go a bargain $7.50
silk dress fabric , In th new N 40-inch Lawns Sic Yard.
.
dots and sreomotrlcal effects. D tomorrow at $4.98.
Black Silk Crepons Novelties In blues. Browne , hullotropea
and black 27 lnclie wide-
, . . . . Checked , striped and Immense bargain for
nil silk at yard.
pure jjo
anaoxtre.no . S7.5O CREPON SKIRTS $4.98-Thes are elegant all
India
In fancy tweeds , two' toned bayaderes. wool orepon skirts , new flare shape , finely tailored , olopraiit now plaid nainsook and tomorrow.
From famous foielgn weavers the choicest Scotch mixtmes , handsome designs nnd New Fancy Taffeta ; 98o and $1,18 yd patterns , " go ut$4.98. India linen , corded dlralUes , linen , worth 25c yard , full
collection ever displayed on our counters- beautiful Illuminated elects. The usual 35 pieces elegant fancy corded taffeta dotted mulls , etc. , all go at , pieces , no remnants , at ,
exclusive effects nothing to compare with selling price of those goods Is as high as for waists they are the newest thing ' ' yard yard
them elsewhere In the new raised blHter $12,50 $ Ladies' Ladies'Silk Skirts $12,50
. . , ,
effects and as special for Monday they go $1.00 yard. AVe place the entire line oil this season In corals , turquoise , cream ,
on sale nt our front bargain square at black , and white and bhick , at Mohair Grepon Skirfs $8,50 $ An elegant assortment of those beau Best grade French New line fancy
Wo are also offering elegant Mohair , tiful silk Matelnsdo crepon skirts in Hare and German Organ Corded Dimities , all
and Blister crepon skii-tn , sold J or bell shape , button or (3l ( S < ? ft E5 ( fl dies , worth 35c yard , new styles , lOc yard ,
everywhere for 812,60 dart buck , the newest ijSy xgltf&9
tomorrow at 88 50. thing , go at { 512.50. go at , yard worth 25c
IN THE WILDS OF PARAGUAY
Queer Aspects of Nature and Man in a
Primitive Country.
CITIES OF PIRAPO AND VILLA RICA
Only Ilnllrniiil nuil II *
IIonn-H of tinPeo
ple , nicti I'lixturen mill Thou-
mi 11 tin of Ant IIlllu.
( Copyright , 1639 , by Frnnlc O. Carpenter. )
rillAPO , Paraguay , Jan. 0 , 1899. ( Special
Correspondence of The Beo. ) Have you ever
heard of Plrnpo ? It Is at the tall end of
< ho railroad nt this tall end of creation. It
Is In the very heart of South Paraguay ,
nbout seventy , miles north of the Upper
Parana river and ICC miles u\ny from the
town of Asuncion. Vast pastures surround
It , for It Is right out on the prairie , and
Kreat droves of cnttlo Rather about the bta-
tlon and graro In the town. The place 1ms
nil told not more than fifty Inhabitants. It
has a half dozen low huts , made of woven
polcH chinked In with mud and roofed with
Kray thatch. The railroad depot Is about
fifteen feet square and the only hotel Is
made out of mud and poles and roofed with
corrugated Iron.
In thin hotel I have stopped over night ,
sleeping In a room with four other travelers ,
tint , thank fortune , having a bed to my-
Bclf. And such a bed ! Itwas of the kind
most common In Painguay. It was a can
vas cot upon stretchers , -with a pigmy pil
low BO small that I feared It might not Into
jny oar and BO hard that It almost bored n
Jiolo In my head. ( My room mates wore a
German cattle buyer , u Paraguayan gaucho
nnd Mr. William Harrison , the resident
npent of one of our life Insurance com
panies. The German coughed all night , the
I'araguaj an snored llko n fog horn and Hnr-
slsou at Intervals rlcaird his throat nnd
denounced the others for keeping him
uwako. It wan I ml nil a restless night.
And Mill Itwas n good hotel for Para
guay. The meals \\oro cooked hy a young
Italian , who looked'llko a butcher and who
inudo mo think of a slaughter house. lie
trotted about In his bare feet and waited
on the table with his sleeves rolled up to
bis elbows. Our dinner consisted of a
good vegetable soup , follow oil hy puchero or
boiled beef , stowed chicken nnd rlco , a kid
ney saute nnd peanut candy for dessert.
Wino was furnished free with the dinner.
"Wo had fresh bread , but no buttor. The
dishes wore 'brought on In courses and wo
had both a tablecloth nnd napkins. Our
breakfast v.as merely "black " coffee nnd dry
bread , to vvhlch I added n coupla of oranges ,
A Country Store In I'ar.iKii" ) ' .
Our Italian landlord was also a store
keeper. Every Httlo hotel away from the
cities has a store In It , and this store will
Hive some idea of how things are sold in
the backwoods of South America , Tbo store
room was perhaps twenty , feet square. It
was nailed wltb shelves , filled -with the
goods most in demand among Paraguayans.
There vsere cottona from England. These
form the staple clothes of the country. The
men often wear white pants and ( shirts , the
women wear white muslin skirts and shawls ,
and ( ho Paraguayans are , in fact , a nation
In white. One section of this store was
devoted to groceries , nnd In It were shelves
of sardine boxes , mimed uieatn and bottles
containing mustard , bitters and liquors. On
the Jloor In one corner stood two barrels ,
-ulth dripping spigots , showing that they
\\crn constantly flowing. One was filled with
n cheap Italian wine , which eells for about
13 cents of our money a bottle , and the other
contained onna ( cnn > a ) , the native brandy ,
which Is made of sugar , and which will kill
at forty roils. This brandy costs about 13
cents a quart , nnd It Is so powerful that a
tumblerful will Int-xlcnte an American t.per.
A man can , In fact , get a cheaper drunk In
Paraguay than In any other place in the
world , for with n dlmo ho cnn get enough
liquor to put several pegs In his cofun.
The store also sold all kinds of eatables ,
surli as sugar , rlco and btend. Very little
baking is done by the people , nnd the hotel
'bakes ' for the whole community about It.
The store also had a stock of hats , shoes
and mnbiollas. It had a little kerosene from
the United States , and a pair of scales which
were made by a famous llrm of Vermont
These last were the only American things I
could see anywhere American scales , coal
oil and cocktails seem to bo of universal
consumption. I did not ask the hotel keeper
for a cocktail , but I doubt not he could ha\o
made one If ordered.
Uoforo leaving I photographed the land
lord , his family and the rest of the town ut
one corner of the hotel. Mine host brought
out his Paraguayan wlfo and all his little
Paraguayan babies and posed them for me ,
whllu I picsscd the button.
An Oild Itnllrnnu.
Paraguay has only one railroad , and it Is
the only one of Its kind in the world. It
was built by an Kngllsh syndicate with a
big subsidy fiom the government , and It Is
run by the English today. The cars go at
such a violent speed that n hungry dog tied
to the rear of the train might keep up and
niHstleato the a\lo grease on the engine with
out trouble. It stops long nt the stations ,
and joti have as much time ns you want for
your meals , the train being only ready to
start Avhcn the last of the passengers is
through drinking his coffee. I undeistand
that the road has Just now gone under new
management , and It may bo improved by the
time this letter is published. The rolling
stock Is In a bad way , the most of it having
evidently been mode during the last genera
tion ,
Th prices of the tickets were very low
and differed according ns to whether they
wore llrst , second or third class. The first-
class cars ore much llko ours in that there
is an aisle running through the center with
seat * on each side. The seats are cush
ioned with wicker and are not uncomforta
ble. The second-class cars
are about the
same , but those of tbo third class have
windows like n street car , \Mth two other
benches running buck to back through the
center of the car.
The third-class cars
wore filled with
women and men , the most of whom were
smoking nnd chew Ing. There were more
w-oiren than men and more smokers among
them. Some of the girls were very pretty
but almost all , from those of 20 lo little tots
of 0 , had big cigars In their mouths.
At every elation I saw -women smoking
cigars nnd "Women cigar peddlers came to
the car windows nnd offered mo bunches ot
cigars at the rate of 1 cent apiece. I
noticed that most of the girls had fairly
good teeth , aud I could have fallen In love
with their creamy faces , dark lustrous
eyes nnd soft , black hair , had It not been
for the tobacco they mere so disgustingly
using. I spent some time among the third-
class passengers , now nnd then going
through the cars to look at the girls. I
did not find this always an easy task , for
the eeats wore so close and the knees of
the women on the opposite seats almost
touched , and I had to go very carefully
to avoid stepping on their bare toes. Many
of them aided me by drawing in their
"Trllbjs , " smiling at my care as 1 < wcnt by.
Women
At most of the stations the coming of
the train 'wna the great event ot the day
Half the town would rush to the depot as
the whistle blew , nnd a crowd of women
peddlers were to be seen Equalling on the
platform. Some had bushels of oranges
before them. Others sold vegetables and
others meat. Think of selling raw meat
at n railroad station ! Neatly every depot
on this road has Its butcher womcu , who
elt ou the stones with great baskets ot raw
beef about them and peddle chunks out to
the passengers. All of these butcher vomcn
had cigars In their mouths , and they smoked
as they chatled ivlth one another between
sales. Other women were selling laces
and others had babv clothes. I saw one
or two shoo peddlers , and some wore sell
ing cakes , eatables and sheets.
Ten Uriiiiurco for u Cent.
Ths oranges iwero delicious. There are
none better to bo found anywhere than In
Paraguay nnd none elsewhere BO cheap.
I have bought a do en oranges every day
slnco I came Into Paraguay , and Is Is sur
prising how imany one can eat. The poorer
people live on them during the season , and |
it Is not uncommon for a man to cat twen- j
ty-fho in a day. You can got them almost
for the asking. I have had ten for a cent.
At one of the stations , Santa Clara , I offered I
a medlo , worth throe-quarters of an Amerl- j
can cent , to an orange girl , saying In my
gibberish Spanish : i
"Quantos oranges per un medlo , senor- !
ita' " ]
"Ocho , " ( eight ) replied the damfel , as she
gripped her cigar between her l\ory teeth '
and held out both hands full of oranges.
They iwero ns ilne as any raised on the
Indian river. They were fresh from the
tieen , and hod I been able to go to the
orchards I might have probably had them
for the picking. Hero orange trees are sel
dom cultivated , .but . they produce fruit of
such mvcotness and color that you might
think the sap was mixed with sugar and
gold. ,
The skins of the oranges are lull of oil.
They have eo much that if you squeeze
ornugo peel bubbles of oil will stand out
upon it , nnd if jou touch -match to them
those bubbles will go oft In a flash as though (
they were ponder , il should think that fac
tories for making marmnlado nnd other
things from oranges might bo established ,
hero at a proflt.
iliicrr TliIiiRH In
I am surprised at the beauties of interior
Paraguay , The country Is rolling , and there
is something now to foe seen at almost every
turn of the car wheel , There are orange
trees in the thickets nnd nearly every vil
lage ot thatched huts has orange trees about
it. There are palm trees on the plains.
They grow in groves or in clumps rather
than in forests. Some varieties are loaded
with nuts , great bunches of little balls , no
larger around than a walnut , but of the
same shape as the largo cocoanuts sold In
our markets. These little cocoanuts are
very valuable , and the raising of them Is
one of the most profitable of the smaller
Industries of Paraguay. They are ground
up and used for making soap ,
Largo parts of Paraguay are natural pas
tures , with hero and there clumps of woods
or forests scattered through them. It * ls
only the hills that are covered with trees.
The most of the other lands have a rich
growth of grass. Nearly all of the land
along the railroad is taken up. It Is held In
large tracts , many of the farms being fenced
with barbed wire. It is queer to notice the
different kinds of pasture. Some are cov
ered with grass , "which is coarse , gray and
dead , nnd right next to thc e jou will ride
through meadows as green as Kansas in
Juno , The green fields are whore the land
has been burned over to improve the pas
ture. As soon ns the dead grass Is burned
elf the green sprouts come up. This burnIng -
Ing Is done by many farmers once every
year. I have found the grass better us I
have come to tha south. About Plrapo there
Is grabs as high ae your waUt , and the calllo
are standing in it up to their bellies ,
The cnttlo nro of a mongrel breed. They
are much Ilka the long-horned stock which
wo bad in Texas a xeneratlon ngo , and
which , until within a few years , was com
mon in the Argentine. Now the Argentines
have very fine stock , and this will event
ually too the case among the Paragua > ans.
The inott of the stock here feed out in the
open without visible care. I have seen no
herding , although on some ot the faima I
have watched the cowboys rounding up the
cnttlo and branding them. The cattle are
thrown to the ground and tbo brands put ou
with rodhot Irons. Upon rising they nro
wild and revengeful , and frequently attack
the cowboys at suoh times if they can catch
them on foot.
Ten * of Thonannil * of Ant Hllln.
One of the queerest things to mo In this
country is the nnt. It is the only thing
that turns Paraguay upside down. It Is the
only busy thing in the country , and you see
evidences of Its work everywhere. There
are fields here covered with thousands of nnt
hills. Some hills are as big as a haycock
and a yard in diameter. Others arc not as
largo as a sugar loaf. They are red or
/brown / , according to tbo soil of which they
are made. These hills spot this landscape nfl
the 'burial mounds do that ot China. They
are found In the cultivated lands and in
the pasture fields , where you see long-horned
cattle eating the grass among them. Some
times Ihcy are only a few feet apart and
sometimes fifteen and twenty and more.
Each of these hills is an ant village. It la
an ant catacomb populated by thousands of
ants. There are as many ant works below
the surface as above It'and when a field Is
to be cultivated the first work is to get rid
of the ants. The only way to do this Is to
dig out the ant hills and burn them. Then
only can the fleld bo plowed. These ants
'burrow ' into the houses. They make their
way up through the brick floors and build
sand hills there so that a woman may go
to 'bed ' with a house as clean as a Dutch
kitchen nnd awake the next morning to find
her floors covered with great cones of sand
inwhich are thousands of ants.
The average country house , however , has
no floors except the earth. Nine-tenth of
the houses you see outside the city are huts
of poles , which are woven together and tied
with withes or strings. They hava roofs
of thatch , which extend out nt ons side or
end , forming an open shed or room. Often
the shed is larger than the closed part , for
the latter is little more than the sleeping
place for the family. Many such bouses
have orange trees nbout them and palm
trees waving over them. As you pass them
you see that some have red Trails nnd some
walls of brown or white. At first you think
the red ones are painted , but aoon see that
the soil with which they are chinked Is
rod. This is the color of the best land of
Paraguay. The contrast of this rich red
and the soft velvet gray of the thatch is
harmonious , and the houses are exceedingly
picturesque. They are much like the coun
try houses of Japan In this respect.
The larger farm houses sometimes have
two rooms with a thatched roof connect
ing them and an open space in the center.
Such a one is tbnt on the big farm of Dr.
Charles Chase , a Boston man , who keeps
a drug store in the town of Villa Rica as
a means of making money , and follows
photography as au amusement.
I.lt'u In the liitorlor.
The Paraguayans nro very hospitable.
You can call at any but in the country and
you v.111 be made perfectly nt home You
may see a lot of naked babies and some
naked children who are considerably older
than babies , for In the back districts boys
and girls up to Ihe age of 14 ofien go naked.
If you can speak the Guarani language
the Indian tongue which Is In common use
among the lower clabtes you will find the
people quite Intelligent , though exceedingly
Glmplo and Ignorant of jour world. You
w 111 bo given a cigar 1o smoke and will be
asked to take part in the puchero or boiled
beef and vegetables whloh constitute the
UHual meal. Your food will be cooked out
of doors and the women may pound the
corn < o powder in a wooden mortar before
they coolc It for jou. When you first enter
'tiro ' but you vtlll probably bo offered a glass
of brandy called can ft. Hvery one drinks
aijd every village lias its brandy distillery.
Indeed , 'it ' is estimated that every man ,
woman aud child in Paraguay could drink
two gallons of can a a year and not exhaust
the supply.
In t\ visit of this kind you TV 111 learn that
the people are contented with their lot.
Most of the men are philosophers , who re
gard foreigners as fools because they wear
their lives out working for money.
I found eome Americans In Villa Rica and
my stay was made pleasant by them In this
out-of-the-way part of the world. One was
our vlco consul , Mr. Wdlllam Harrison , and
another Dr. Charles Chase , the druggist. A
third American Is Captain Hunter Davidson ,
an unreconstructed southerner , who left
the United States at the close of the civil
var and finally got to. Paraguay. All these
men are well-to-do and much respected , Mr.
Harrison and Dr. Chase having married
Paraguayans.
Villa Rica is the biggest town In Para
guay outsldo of Asuncion. It has moro va
cant lots tlian buildings , but Its better
classes live in largo one-story brick build
ings , roofed < wilh red tiles , which form very
comfortable homes. Ono of the most in
teresting sights is the market , where there
are hundreds of sheeted women buying and
selling. There are hundreds of others going
to and fro with burdens upon their heads ,
not a few of whom are water carriers , bring
ing in water from the spilngs back of the
town. Ttio vessels used are of all sorts ,
from gvwds to Standard Oil cams.
FRANK G. CARPCNTBIt.
OUT OH1 THIS OUUI.\\HV.
Parisians cat 100,000 pounds of snails dally.
The Philippines can supply the world with
cocoanuts.
Fuel is not needed nt Puerto Rlco except
for culinary purposes.
A single oyster In season produces about
1,000,000 joung.
Ice thirty-eight inches thick was harvested
from Lalto 'VVlnnebago in Wisconsin this
winter.
There are more Irish flags with the gold
harp on the green background made In the
United States than In any other country.
Scented tea Is very largely drunk In
China. This Is roada by mixing orange
blossoms with the tea nnd lolling It remain
tightly shut up for twenty-four hours.
Hcrr Haby , barber to the emperor of Ger-
mauj % is Buld to be adding rapidly to his al
ready considerable fortune by dressing
moustaches of his patrons In the slylo fol
lowed by Iho knlsor , nnd by selling the
pieparatlons which ho uses for the purpose
and which are manufactured by him.
Governor Roosevelt says that while police
commissioner In Now York ho rend one ex
amination paper in whloh a candidate for
admission to the force , answering a question
which required the naming of the New Eng
land states , wrote for those states , "Rng-
lund , Ireland , Scotland , Whales nnd Cork. "
John Chandler , who lives in Allen county ,
Kentucky , Is the father of twenty-nine chil
dren , tvventj'-ono of whom are living nnd
have families averaging five each. Mr.
Chandler nlbo has Ihlrly-flve great-grand
children , being thus direct ancestor of 1C2
persons. Ho is 75 years old , a clnso student
of current affairs , an expert illlo shot and a
democrat of fifty j ears' Uundlng. His vvlfp ,
three years his senior , Is , like her husband ,
halo and hearty.
Poslmasler Tuttle of Carthage , Mo. , has
Just received from the federal government
a draft for $8.20 In payment of a debt that
has been running since tbo civil var , but of
which Tuttle knew nothing. It appears that
in settling with Captain Tuttle for his serv
ices ns a soldier one day's pay was over
looked and also an allowance for clothing.
It took Uncle Sum thirty-four years to dis
cover the error.
Judge BImeon E , Baldwin of the state supreme
premo court of errors of Connecticut , in the
course of n recent address advocated a re
turn to the HBO of the whip and lash as a
punishment for minor crimes. .He bald that
In our onward march In civilization and the
subdivision of thought and activities Into
etlences men hava refined the science of
penology too greatly , and In retaining only
hanging and Imprisonment as puuluhmenta
for crime have caused the deterrent effect of
punishment to lose much fore * .
MAM7 TRYING TO BUY HOMES
Present Condition of Eeal Estate Market
Highly Satisfactory.
MANY PROPERTIES CHANGING HANDS
nff MOII Eniif i'iiillSeem to He
Aiixtoua to Secure Iltlle Home *
They Ulny Truly Cull
Tliolr Own.
Twenty real estate men congregated at
a meeting at the Commercial club the other
day and someone called attention to the fact
that there Is a decided boom In bales of
properties of moderate values. This led tea
a general discussion , In the course ot which
the question was asked how many of thoi > u
present had sold n piece of property that
day. Ten of the twenty men piesent an
swered it in the nlllrmatlvo and several
olhcrs declared that they had deals on hand
they expected to close before night.
This is found to bo a satisfactory Indica
tion of the general feeling among real
estalo men nt the present time. Almoat
without exception the dealers who have been
In busIncEs in Omaha during Iho last ten
years declare that the situation Is moro
satisfaclory than it 1ms been at any pre
vious time within that period. While big
deals of the bert that attract general at
tention are not numerous , there Is a quiet
nnd steadily growing trade In the smaller
properties that Is reaching greater proportions
tions than most people realize.
"The demand for homes is moro marked
in Omaha today than it has been for ten
years , " said one of the best Informed deal
ers. "I do not believe the general public
has the slightest idea of the number of
pieces of property that are being acquired
for this purpose. The demand comes from
our own people and It Is growing every day.
This Is the most encouraging feature of the
situation. Jt indicates conclusively that wo
are acquiring the quality that is most es
sential to the success of n city. Our own
people have become convinced that Omaha
M nil right They want to have homes of
their o n and thus give proof of their In-
tenllon to stay with us. Many of them mo
people who Imvo como to the city during the
last jear. The fact that they are now pro
viding themselves with homes of their own
Is a most conclusive Indication that they
have acquired an abiding confidence In the
future of Omaha "
MCIIIIM Muni , for Olilllllll.
"This means a good deal. " continued the
dealer , "when wo stop to think how many
men wo have who are likely to become af
fected by this tendency. There are 7,100
emplojos In the South Omaha packing
houses , Including the barrel faclory. Com
paratively few of them now own their own
homes. Hut the movement In thU dlrccllon
is unmistakable and there is every reason
to believe that it will bo come even more
Ptnpluul/ed. Hundreds of men who have
preferred to rent during the last few jean ;
are now inquiring for lots of moderate \nluu
suitable for Iho erection of small housei.
Olhcrs propose to build more pretentious
dvtclllngb , nnd from my own experience nnd
what I have gathered In conversation with
oihor dealers , I am convinced there will bo
more houses built In Omaha this season
than there has been In the last llvo years
combined. A large number of houses also
that have heretofore been rented nro being
sold to people who propose to occupy them
themselves. "
II Is said the demand for this sort ot
properly Is not confined lo any particular lo-
callllcs. The demand Is for houues and there
Is no disposition lo discriminate. The only
ef.8cr.tlal la that tbcy Miall be ioculed within
easy distance of motor transportation , and
suburban property nnd that vvhlch is located
nearer the city are equally acceptable.
At the same time the call for houzcs to
rent is equally brisk. There are a few empty
houses of the sort that rent for from $25
to $50 a month , but it Is almost Impossible
at this tlmo to secure a cottage or small
residence at moro moderate rentals. Sub-
uibnn renls nro generally higher , but even
then a desirable house Is no sooner vacant
than tl.o agent is besieged by a dozen ap
plicants. Desirable cottages are almost out
ot the market. They cannot bo had. Hun
dreds of people who wanted to move this
spring have been compelled to give It up
because they could not find places that sat
isfied them.
Thcso nro the conditions of the present
real estate mnrkclt as they nro viewed by
nearly all the leading deilers. The result
is that there has been no time In years when
Iho dealers vvcio BO hopeful as at present.
They say that the tendencies liero referred
to are 100 per tent , better than any sensa
tional boom. They represent permanent
conditions and reflect a spirit that is bound
to make 'things move.
TIIJ : oi.n-TMinus.
Amos Donsall , who wns a member of Dr.
Kane's expedition which In 1853 went In
search of Sir John Finnklln in the Arcllo
regions , Is now n business man In Phlladel-
Dr. Samufl Smiles , the nulhor of Iho pop
ular book , "Self-Help , " Is in a very feeble
condition. Ho is now nearly 80 years ot
age , and has burn for so mo llmu fulling In
licnlth. Ho rarely receives any one except
his most Intimate friends and relatives , ami
IB , to use Ills own words , "preparing for tin
grbat and Inevitable change. "
Anthony 0. Burpee , aged 81 , was for sixty-
five years n member of Iho llapllst choir nl
Now London , N II. , beginning when ho wni
] , " > years old His father and gramlfathei
sang In the xamo choir , and ut the picncnt
tlmo three of his nlcccH mo singing there ,
The Durpeo family bus contributed to tin
haimony of the church named for over
century ,
phla and Is still halo and hearty.
Joshua Heed of Ilurllngton , Vt. , will be ! ) l
years old April i nnd has lived In the itatnf
hoiiEo for sixty-five yeais. The place wai
built over 200 years ago nnd was in olden
times n garrison against Imllaiu. In tin
walls are holes , long since coxcrnd will :
boards , through which settlers used to flu
nt rcdsklnned marauders.
Lydla Thompson , remembered by oldei
lhcalur-ioors ; its Iho head of n famoun Imp
lesqilo company , IK about to bo tendered i
benefit In London , the olijict being to rellov <
her florn pressing financial dlfllcultles Un
til recently she had been playing old woman'i
parts , but was compelled to retire on uo
count of falling health. Her 11 rat appear-
nnco In this country v\ns with "tho HrltUI
blondes" In 1SCS , when she made nn lmprra <
slon vvhlch to some extent remains 11 ntafit
dard even unto this day.
DANBEROUSJIETHODS
BMPI.OVKI ) IN T1IH THHTJin.NT OD
K AS Alt OATA1IIUI.
Vi : u Snfr , Hi-liable Medicine ,
Tow people realize , In treating themselves
of Catarrh with the douche , snuffs , elc. , the
dangerous mc-lhoJs Ihry employ. Catarrh ,
cannot bo cured by such treatment and U
more times made worse In point of the fact
that the lotion or wash docs not touch tbo
uftected parts and aclua ly destroyed the ad
jacent healthy tissues To reach Catarrh an
internal remedy should be uned , acting upou
the mucous membranes through the svetem. :
Tliero is no remedy which acu so promptly
ttnd gives such immediate relict its Gains'
Catarrh Tablets. Tbcy are taken Internally
and euro because they act directly upon tha
mucous membranes and nurfaci-s through the
system. At druggists or by mall , fJOc , full
sited box. Our IHtlu book on Catarrh
mailed free. Address C. D. Gauss , Uw-
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