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Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
IT WAS ONLY THE PIANO.
How a Locomotive Engineer De-
scribes a New Orleans concert.

How a Locomotive Engineer De-
scribes a New Orleans concert.
From the St. Louis Post. Dispatch.
II was loaing around the streets
last night" said Jim Nelson, one of
the oldest locomotive engineers run
ming into New Orleans, "and as I had
nothing to do / dropped into a con.
cert and heard a slick looking French
man play on a plano In a way that
made me feel all over In spots. As
soon az he sat down on the stool 1
knew by the way he handled himself
that he understood the machine he
was running. He tapped the Keys
away up n end, just as If they were
gauges and he wanted to zee II he had
water enough. Tnen he looked pp,
II he wanted to know how much steam
he was carrying, and the next moment
he pulled open the throttle and sailed
out on the main line as If he was half
an hour late.
You could hear her thunder over
culverts and bridges, and getting fas-
ter and faster, until the fellow rocked
about In bis seat like q cradle. Some.
how I thought It was old '36' pulling q
passenger train, and getting out of the
way of special The fellow worked
the keys on the middle division like
lightning, and then he few along the
north end of the line until the drivers
went around like q buzz.saw, and ]
got excited. About the time 1 was
fixing to tell him to stop her off .
little, he kicked the hampers under
the machine wide open, pulled the
throttle away back In the tender, and,
Jerusalem, jumpersl how he did run.
I couldn't stand 1t any longer, and
yelled to him that she was pounding
on the left side, and If he wasn't care.
full he'd drop his ash.pan.
"But he didn't hear. No one heard
me. Everything was flying and whiz.
zlng. Telegraph poles on the side of
the track looked like a row of corn.
stalks, the trees appeared to be a mud
bank, and all the time the exhaust of
the old machine sounded like the hum
of q humble bee. I tried to yell out,
but my tongue wouldn't move. He
went around curves like a bullet, slip.
ed an eccentric, blew out his soft plug
and went down grades fifty feet to the
mile, and not a oonfounded brake
set. She went by the meeting point
a mile and a half a minute, and call.
Ing for more steam. l knew the game
was up"
"Sure enough, dead ahead of us
was the headlight of the special. In
q daze I heard the crash as they struck
and l saw cars shivered into atoms,
people mashed and maugled and bleed
Ing, and gasping for water. 1 heard
another crash as the French professor
struck the deep keys away down on
the lower end of the southern division
and then l came to my senses. There
he was at o dead stand. still, with the
door of the fre.bo of the machine
open, wipiag the Precipitation off his
fare and bowling at the people before
him. If I live to be a thousand years
old, I'll never forget the ride that
Frenchman gave me on o piano"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05

these metals and gives them great ten
sile powers. Chrome steel has been
freely used in the construction of the
Brooklyn bridge. The manager II the
Brooklyn Steel Works says that
chrome steel Ia worth 3 cents a pound
more than any other steel. He says
that 1t must come into general use.
The trouble with manufacturers In the
future will be to find II In deposits
large enough to fill the demand, as II
Is a very scarce mineral. Within
three years he thinks that the demand
will be greater than the supply. A
company has been formed in this city
to utilize the deposits on Mr.. Cal
houn's estate.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
How the Darkeys Worked.

After the war, when the number of
servants at Oakenwold was divided by
four or five, two negro girls, Is or 20.
went to the nearest village to ''to hire
out" The lady to whom they applied
could hardly tell the story without
laughing: I asked If they could.cook.
Nom, we ain't never been cook
none: Phil allus cook" "Can you
WASN'T" "No'm, we amt been wash
none, neither: Aunt Sally she wash. "
"Can you clean house, then2" "No'm
least we amt never been clean none"
"And So" said Mrs. N ash, "I went
through the whole list Of qualifications
receiving always the same negative an,
swer." "Well, what In heavens name
have you been accustomed to do" !
said at last. Lucinda's dusky face
frightened, "Suky, here, she hunt
for masters specs, and l keep flies off
ole miss!"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
A Bar er's Bonanza.

Kansas City Times.
An illustration of how easily for.
tunes are sometimes made inthe west,
occurred at the Union depot yester-
day evening just as the Santa Fe train
pulled In. A colored man Jumped off
the platform of the smoker, and Sher.
If John o. Hope, who CHANGED to be
standing near by, recognized him as
Jim Ferguson, an old-fsshioned dsr.
key on the Missouri Pacific narrow
gauge.
"Hello, Jiml" cried the sheriff,
who had thought Ferguson dead, not
having seen him for several years.
"How dye, Mars joint How do
you come on2' replied the colored
man.
"Where have you been, Jlm7'
"Out'n New Mexico"
"What doing?'
"Speculatin' In mines and runnin' q
barber shop"
"Making any money!"
This was the question that the
proud descendant Ut Ham wac walt.
lag for.
Little bit" said he, pulling out q
handful of 500 gold pieces and exhib-
iting them with evident se~lf-satisfac-
tion. At the same time Ferguson
went down into one of his inside Goa
pockets and brought out q well filled
book. He opened 1t and displayed
drafts ON New York amounting to
$1,000. "I'se done pretty we'll out
there, Mars john" said Ferguson,
breaking out into a big laugh, "and
Use gwine down to independence to
see the folks. Then I'll 90 back to
New Mexico to see bout my prop.
erty."
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
A Wild Woman.


Charlotte Journal.
Some months ago, in one OF the
swamps between the mountains of
Western North Carolina, great excite.
ment was caused by the discovery OF a
woman Q sometimes clothed In skins
roughly fastened together with withes
of live oak. All attempts to catch her
were futile, as she was very feet of
foot and escaped into the swamp.
After she had been pursued for a
month she suddenly disappeared and
1t was supposed she had been drowned
In one of the stagnant pools of the
swamp. On Tuesday last, while some
farmers we're hunting In the swamps.
near here, one Of their number who
strayed away from his companions,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
Tho Doctors Endorsement.

DIR. w. d. Wright, Cincinnati, o,
sends the subjoined professional endor-e-
ment: II have prescribed DIR. VIM.
HALLS BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS
in q great number tf cases and always
with success. Oae Gaze In particular was
given up by several physicians who had
been called in for consultation with my.
self. The patient had all the symptoms
of confirmed consumption-cold night
sweats, hectic fever, harassing cough, etc.
He commenced Immediately to get better
and was soon restored to his usual health.
/ also found DIR. WIN. HALLS BAL.
SAIL FOR THE LUNGS the most valu-
able expectorant for breaking up distress.
ing coughs and colds that l haye ever
used" 31.dweod1w
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
WASHINGTON, d. O., |
May Is, 1880. (

GENTLEMEN-Hsving been q suffer-
or for a long time from nervous pros.
tration and general debility, / was
advised to try Hop Bitters, I have
taken n bottle, and l have been
rapidly getting better over since, and
/ think 1t the best medicine 1 ever
used. l am now gaining strength and
appetite, which was all gone, and I
was in despair until I tried your Bit
tiers. l am now well, able to go about
and do my W work. Before taking
1t, l was completely FRUSTRATED
MRS. MARY STUART,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
Studying the Timetable .

FROM the brooklyn Eagle.
my dear, said Mr.. Spoopendyke,
running his thumb down the list Of
towns on the timetable and plarinQ
helplessly at the columns Of figures,
''my dear, the man must have given
me the wrong business. We can
never get anywhere with this"
Lets see, murmured Mrs. Spoop.
endyke, laying her hand on his arm
and drawing the timetable toward her.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
Harsford's Acid Phosphate

lie a preparation of the phosphates of
lime, msgnesia, potash aud iron Ia
such form as to be readily assimilated
by the system. Descriptive phamplet
sent free. Rumford Chemical Works,
Providence, r. /,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
18th 81 ougIas St.
HOUSES AND LOTS.

No. l8-Full OF aud new house, l3frooms, two
below and one upstairs. Eight foot ceiling below
and seven above. Brick foundation, cellar, etc.
A bargain, s600.
No. 18-Large two story house, 10 rooms, two
large cellars, good well and %cistern, barn, etc, on
Webster and 22d street, $4,000.
No. 17-Lot 50xiS5 feet, new house OF two
rooms brick foundation 100 barrel cistern ON
Hamilton street near Poor ClareConventS G.
No. aud lot on 18th near Ola h st.
house 8 rooms etc. $1,000.
No. OF 3 rooms ull 10 on Pierce 81.
near 18th S15O0
No. p New houseof Z 70 corner lot,
half mile west Of Turntable treet cars ON
Sau ders st. $1,000.
No. blouse of eight Darn etc. lot
60xl6b feet s25OO.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
Did She Dial

"No; she fingered and suffered
along, pining away all the time for
years, the doctors doing her no good;
and at last was cured by this Hop Bit.
ters the papers say 80 much about.
Indeed! indeed! how thankful we
should be for that medicine"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05

Mr.. F. w, Fisk, money clerk otthe
American Express Office, Kansas City,
Mo-, states that he has been using St.
Jacobs OH for a long time for sprains,
bruises, etc, and has always found
relief.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
Decline OF Man.

Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, I'm.
potence, Sexual Debility, cured by
wells Health Remover" 81,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-16
A Chinaman's Moral Ledger

3he idea of posting ones good and
bad deeds in ledger. so as to be able
to strike balance now and again with
a view to determining ones chances in
she next world, is one that would be
hardly likely to occur to any one but a
Chinese. In the last number of the
Chinese Recorder. Mr.. Scarborough. the
author of the interesting work on
Chinese Proverbs gives Us IN ex-
tract from the running account kept
with the gods by one Li-Chun Tsung,
which we may safely say is unique in
the annals of bookkeeping On the
debit side we find the entries: stFor be-
ing at variance with my brothers
through listening to my wife's talk.
1000: for undutiful treatment OF my
wife's parents, loo; for smoking opium
ten times, To-" The numbers indicate,
of course, so many black marks Per
contra, we find on the credit side OF the
account: :. For burying poor friend at
my expense, 1000; for carefully nursing
my SEX mother, so; for making my
vie join ne IN meritorious works,
Io1-" We in Europe win be of opinion
that If nursing his own mother is only
worth thirty good marks. losing hin
temrer with his mother in-saw is de-
c.dedlv dear ct hundred bad ones
81 Jflaes' GGselfe-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-16
EDUCATIONAL Department.
Conducted by J. II. Terry, Principal of Mineral
Point Public Shoots.
Use of {" Looks Beautiful. ;

1t is sometimes interesting to
note the difference between VULGAR
bad grammar and GENTEEL bad
grammar, or, more properly, between
non-painstakiEg and pains-taking
bad grammar The former uses, for
example, adjectives instead of ad-
verbs; the latter uses adverbs instead
of adjectives. The former says, This
bonnet is trimmed SHOCKING; the
latter says, This bonnet looks SHOCK
INGLY.' In the first sentence the
epithet qualities the verb is TRIMMED,
and therefore should have its advirb-
ial form-sHoCKINGLY;in the second
sentence the epeithet qualities the APP
PEARANCE-a noun-of the bonnets
and consequently should have its ad-
lectival form-sHocKING. The second
sentence means to say, This bonnet
presents a shocking appearance
The bonnet certainly dose not really
look; it is LOOKED at, and to the
LOCKER its appearance is SHOCKING.
SO we say, in like manner, of per-
son, that he or she looks SWEET, or
CHARMING, or BEAUTIFUL, or HAND
SOME, or HoRRID, or GRACEFUL, or
TIM1D, and so on, always using an
adjective. Miss Coghlan, as Lady
Teazle, looked cHARM1NGLYl The
grammar of the New York Herald
would not have been any more in
correct if it had said that Miss Cogh-
Ian looked GLADLx, or SADLY, or
MADLY, or DELIGHTEDLY, or PLEAS
EDLY. A person may look SICK or
sICKLY, but in both cases the quail
flying word is an adjective. The verbs
to SMELL, to FEEL, to SOUND, and to
APPEAR are also found in sentences
in which the qualifying word must
be an adjective and not an adverb.
We say, for example, The rose
smells SWEET The butter smells
GOOD, or BAD, or FRESH L feel GLAD,
or SAD, or BAD, or DEsPoNDENT, or
ANNOYED, or NERVOUS This CON
struction sounds HARSH; How
DELIGHTFUL, the country appears!
On the other hand to LOOK, to FEEL,
to SMELL, to SOUND and to APPEAR
are found in sentences where the
qualifying word must be all adverb;
thus, He feels his loss KEENLY' :;
The king looked GRAc1oUsLY on
her.; [ smell it FAMILY. We
might also say, He feels SAD lad
jectivep because he feels his loss
KEENLY' (adverb); He appears
WELL (adverb). The expression,
SHE SEEMED. CoNFUsEDLY, or TIM
IDLY is not a whit more incorrect
than SHE LOOKED BEAUTIFULLY, or
CHARMINGLY.' "-rhe Verhalist by
Alfred Ayers.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-16
D0DGEVILLE DOINGS.
BY ELISHA MORCOM.

The trains have been making bet
ter time this week.
The side walks are drying up
nicely.
Mr.. Parsons will lecture here on
April sixth if nothing prevents.
The Lecture association cleared
about S21,00 on their first entertain
ment.
The meetings at the P NJ church
last Sunday night.
Hon. Owen King, returned from
the lumber region last week, where
he has been making purchases for
his summer trade.
Quite a number of our friends are
making preparations for the west
where they intend making their
future home.
This fine weather has brought the
robin and the blue bird. Spring has
surely come, or the birds are mis-
taken.
Our Post Office has new general
delivery arranged upon the vowel
system.
Our smokers say that J. A. Hahn
makes first class cigars.
The NJ. E. Sabbath school will
hold their annual anniversary on
Easter Sunday.
The Germans of this place are
about to paper their church in a
neat and becoming style.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-16
HIGHLAND HAPPENINGS.


Hon. r. Kennedy left for Madison
Tuesday morning.
The Dakota fever has struck this
place. George Ainsley, Willie Aims
ley, Joseph Stephens and John
Davis started for the above place
last Monday. We wish them success.
Vented Peckons' house took fire
last Saturday, but by timely aid the
fire was extinguished without doing
much damage.
Louis BAIL will leave here tais
week for Peoria, ILL.,, for few weeks
visit.
Lewis Bros. have received large
lot of new -four which has been pro-
nounced excellent. Only $500 per
hundred.
Miss Lizzie Carey entertained a
large number of young people last
Monday evening in honor of her
fourteenth birthday. 1t was a very
pleasant affair and all were well
pleased. Those who were present
wish her birthday would come every
week.
Wesley La Motto, the youngest OF
Mr.. E. La Notes children, fell off
chair and broke her arm last week.
She is at the present time dong
nicely.
Our treasurer, Jacob Fecht, re-
turned his books last Tuesday.
Mumps are "all the rage" in our
village. They are confined mostly
to children.
1t is reported that Mr.. Chas. Har-
vey will commence to buy dry-bone
and blackjack this week. We hope
the report is true.
The Highland band boys will give
grand ball on Easter Monday, the
proceeds to be used towards pur-
chasing band uniforms. All are cor
daily invited to attend.
The storm that was predicted 10
strike Us between the 9th and 18th,
failed to make its appearance. Mr..
Virgins had better see if he can find
another just as big.
Josie George, son of James George
is reported as lying very sick with
lung fever.
Mr.. John Lynch, east of this vii
lage, IS very low, with but little
hopes of recovery, as he is well adj
vanced in years.
Chas. Neidemeyer has moved into
John Muldoon's house, near the
school building.
Stephen Kladeskey viii move with
his family to Dakota this spring.
Nick Styles is repairing the house
and fences on the Martin farm, the
one he purchased a few weeks ago.
He will remove his family thither
in the spring
Leonard Klist has rented the Jno.
Delan farm, six miles northeast OF
this place, and Is moving on it this
week.
Patrick Manning left here for Min
nesota last Monday to work In the
pineries.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-16

rights, and duties. Children and
young persons are naturally selfish,
absorbed in the eager pursuit, from
moment to moment. of what seems
to them good at the instant, without
thought of their relations to others.
This supreme selEshness the eulti-
walton of the historical sense tends
to moderate and subdue.
Finally, the conscientious teacher
ought to use every endeavor to i'm
plant in the minds of his pupils a
nice sense of honor. This senti-
ment, which makes part of every
fine or noble character, is at bottom
just sence of what is right. true,
and generous; but as applied to ones
own conscious, it is nearly equiv
alent to selfrespect. Attributed in
times past only to the privilege
few, it must become the possession of
the many. if free institutions are
to prove durable. That increase
attention to the cultivation of this
sentiment Is needed in schools of
all grades may be inferred from the
deplorable state of the student opin-
ion in colleges concerning such dis
honorable practices as presenting
false excuses, singing deceitful state
ments in order to secure trivial or
substantial advantages in violation
Of rules, answering falsly at roll
call, and cheating at examinations.
Young men who are guilty of these
practices in the colleges of the
Northern States, do not, in general,
loose caste with their fellows there
by; and yet college students are the
selected products of American
schools. 1t is said-and it is to
be hoped truly said-that in South
Elm colleges wholesomer condition
of public opinion prevails. The
means of cultivating this sence of
honor are chiefly these: In the
first place the conscientious teacher
ought invariably to make profound
distinction between dishonorable
offences and those violations of
necessary rules which may be in
admissible, indeed, but are inherent
ly vicious. 1t confounds all moral
distinctions in the minds of his pu-
pills if a teacher rebuke and punish
lack of application, pranks, or noise
in the same manner as lying and
cheating. Secondly, the teacher
should invariably express the utter
most reprobation of dishonorable
conduct, Thirdly, he should hold
up for the admiration of his pupils
the wards and action of men and
women who have conspicuously ex-
emplifed the meaning and worth of
honor
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-16
A Comedy Of ! rrOrs.

A ludicrous incident recently took
place in Liverpool. There are two
brothers who parted many years ago
when boys, one of them going to Amer
lea to seek his fortune and the other
remaining in Liverpool to make it.
They have both been em.nently success
full in this respect. and not long ago the
brother in America determined to visit
the brother in England. The time of
the visit was settled by correspondence.
and the American set sail. The English
man is notorious wag, and arranged
that an acquaintance should meet the
American as his brother and conduct
him to the hotel. The American who
was also a great wag. on the trip de-
cided to play exactly the same joke on
his brother, asking an acquaintance
whom he had met on the ship to per-
senate him for a few hours. The ac
quaintance entered into the spirit of
the joke, and when the vessel arrived
at Liverpool was found by the person
ator of the English brother and driven
10 the hotel. The real American broth
er followed more leisurely, chuckling
over his joke. In the meanwhile the
English brother had also gone to the
hotel, bursting with merriment over his
Joke. 1t happened that the two real
brothers met in the lobby of the hotel,
and, though they had been parted so
many years. they knew each other. At
first, with blank amazement, they
greeted each other; and then, as they
explained their mutual jokes, laughed
long and heartily. But the climax was
vet to be reached. An explanation in
regard to the gentlemen who had per-
sonated them, and who were now, as
they imagined, playing a huge JOKE on
each other. showed that they also were
brothers who had been separated from
boyhood, but who did not know each
other when they met The first pair of
brothers hurried up TO their parlor, and
after the situation had been explained
all around, the comedy of errors was
pleasantly ended by al old-fashioned
English dinner. Truth.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-16

up without any hot-bed system.
Conceding that they once needed as
sistance, / would like to know how
old the infant" is, and when he
will be likely to arrive at the years
of discretion?
More than seventy years ago, un-
der the administration of Mr.. JET
ferson, Jenck Coke, of Philadelphia,
a gentleman of high character, an
ardent advocate of manufactures
and whose able pen for a quarter
of century had been employed
in their advocacy, reported that cot
ton manufactures were thoroughly
established in Rhode Island, Con-
nscticut and Massachusetts. Also
that they comprised all manner OF
productions, almost everything, USE
| full or ornamental, in the working
of wool, wood, iron, glass, hemp,
fax, leather, and a long list OF
other articles were being manufac-
tured and all well established as
early as 1910, and many before that
date. He estimates the manufac-
lures Of the three articles of wool,
flax and cotton alone at 10000
600; computes iron at s14,0OO,0O0;
leather at S18,000,000; wood at S.
100000; cables and garbage at S4,-
10000. Wool, he says, was in the
most rapid state of improvement
next after cotton. In that year
OSLO the manufactures in the
states now most clamorous for pro-
lection were estimated by Mr.. Coke
as follows: In Massachusetts,, s21,-
$4,000; New Hampshire, $780,
600; Vermont, S5,500,000; Rhode
Island at 100000, mentioning
that the cotton manufacture in
Rhode Island was then increasing at
the rate of 335 per cent; Connecticut,
$7,750,O00, and states that there
were constant additions to the num-
Der of manufactures in Connecticut
and is the capital employed in them
New York at S25,O0O,00O, with the
belief that it should be S33,000,0OO;
New jersey, 100000; Maryland,
$11 100000; Pennsylvania eclipsed
all, -s44,000,0OO was his estimate of
the manufactures of that state, of
which 100000 were in the city
and county Of Philadelphia. His
whole estimate for 1910 is nearly
$200,000,OO0.