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Omaha daily bee., 1885-05-14

must understand, are cheap, easily con-
structed houses, of q primitive pattern
and usually called a ''clsim holder"
When q girl of this kind msrries she
generally considers herself as capable OF
managing her property as she was before
she married, and for this reason she does
not make 80 desirable q wife as n who
Is not quite 30 strong minded and does
not know a bad bargain from a good one.
II q girl who has a homestead marries
q man who has not, the law says she may
keep the land and perfect the title In
her own name. How much more indie
pendent a married woman Is when she
has some property, be It much or little.
She does not feel as though she was
working merely former board and clothes,
but as though she had a share In the firm,
and some rights equal with her husband.
In Nebraska 1t Is supposed that woman
has evoluted far enough out of the state
of imbecility to be allowed to vote on all
questions relating to the public schools,
providing she has taxable property or
children of q school age. She can also
BIO elected to any school office. Several
years ago l knew q young woman who,
when she married, had 800 acres of land
ald several head of cattle. She was only
a country school teacher, but what little
she earned abe used judiclously.
Not only young women avail them
selves of homestesds and timber claims,
widows and old maids have the same right,
Some real old ladies take claims, and
after many trials and hardships receive a
deed therefor.
Near one of our thriving little towns Is
a creamery conducted by a maiden lady,
She is half owner of the creamery, and,
In addition owns a homestead and
timber claim. Ga the homestead
she has a small store and postotiice.
In her absence this business is attended
to by a lady deputy. When she goss out
she drives a fine horse and carriage, car.
ries a gold watch, and is quite aris'
tocratic.
Any girl over 81 years of age, who has
a fair education and the ability to use it,
can get a home of her own, If she chooses,
In this state. There are disadvantages
to contend with here the same as else
where, but nothing is gained without
perseverance,. Many eastern girls came
west to get land, and succeeded, too.
JEREMY TRUE.
Clearwater, Neb., May 5.
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FEMALE HOMESTEADERS.
How tho Smart Girls of Nebraska
Help Themselves to Homes and
Farms.

Editor of the New York Sun-Sir: /
saw an article some time ago In the Sun
about a girl who had been bookkeeper
for some firm in Chicago, and saved her
wages until she had enough money to
come west and buy a sheep ranch In mon
tans.
This story reminded me of the enter
terprisn and good common sense of many
of the girls in Nebraska, where young
women, especially those who live in the
country, have few opportunities of earn
Ing earning large saleries, as this Chicago
girl had; nevertheless, they earn what
they can, and 1t Is surprising what some
will accomplish, even with small earnings.
The majority of farmers daughters
teach school at a salary of from $19 to
$50 per month, aud after deducting
enough for board and clothes, they save
money to pay their way at some good
school or college for a term or more, and
then teach again. Their fathers never
think 1t necessary to mortgage the farm
In order to send the girls to school, as
some fathers do for their sons.
These girls teach, not only as q means
of obtaining an education, but they have
homesteads and timber claims, and i'm
prove them as much as their scanty
wages will allow. / know two girls who
are In college. Both are teachers, and
both have homesteads. When In school
they work faithfully, for they know the
value OF time and money better than
those whose parents sent them to school.
Some girls learn all there La to be
learned at district schools, and then, in,
stead of going to college, they invest al
the money they can spare In COWS O.
calves, which they hire kept. This Is {
good Investment, as cattle can be sole
readily at almost any time.
Young women as we'll as young mel
see the Importance of obtaining land ant
making homes for themselves; therefor,
they take advantage of Uncle Sans gen.
erosity, and get as much land as the la,
will permit, which is 800 acres, a hcme
stead and timber claim, 160 acres 4
ZACH.
The average female homesteader
buslness-hk and not afraid to do an
work that falls to her lot. She can hel
NOW and stack hay, Is a good housskeeI
or, can milk COWS, and harness a team !
easily as her brothers, and l have know
q few girls who have built the shanties O
their homestesds. These shanties, 70
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Clearwater, Neb., May 8.
Another Georgia Wonder

st. Louis Republican.
Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist who
has begun to make a stir in the south, Is
q man who Is sure soon to attract the at
tention of the enlre country. In all his
ways of thought and expression, he Is in
tensely southern. He has the conserva-
tive ideas of religion which, however
much they have been weakened else
where, are sill strong In the south, and
he denounces whatever he considers sin,
with the force and fire of determination
1t met from the early methodist circuit
riders. In his language and the
construction Of his sentences, Mr..
Jones reflects his section, but In his
terse and epigrammatlc vigor he reflects
his own originality. He is essentially a
proverb maker. & never kill hogs till l
have got my water hot" he said not long
ago in Atlanta, having been called there
to begin a revival and disappointing all
the good Christians of Atlanta by pitch
ing into them instead of the sinners. So
when, firing of 1t, they asked why he
did not do what they brought him there
to do and ''awaken" the sinners, he de-
]ivered himself of the epigrammatic met
aphor-his best defence, conveying as
he did the idea of "hog killing" the Elm
ners the hogs, and the church the i'm
mense caldron, the boiling of which Is
tho signal for the killing to begin; con-
veying too the idea that when the kettle
did boil, he meant to scald the sinners,
as indeed he always does, being as they
say in Ge,rgia, an evangelist with the
bark on"
His INC are intensely original.
He condenBes a large train of thought
into a sentence as has scarcely been done
sincs the days of Sidney Smith. His
most solemn periods are witty because
they ara surprising. ~ never sa " a
man who did not believe In hell, who, If
there is one, is not making q bee line for
it," is a Georgia way of expressing a sar'
casm which would not discredis Dean
Swift. Then again: THE great trouble
with preachers in this good day is, that
they are 30 elegant they always refer to
hell as the burnt district. This sort OF
dignity Is the starch of a shroud." Back
of such sayings as that there is the in.
spiration of an intense original.
ity and faith equally in,
tense. Not highly educated and
far from refined, this Georgian has al
least enough of the martyr In him to
stand up for his creed against the world
and give and take according to p. r.
rules. He shows a ruthless disregard
for the sinners feelings, prejudiceu and
beliefs. There Is only one faith, and
that Is the ons he Is fighting for. ga
man never had a doubt" he says, (which,
If he pulled it up by the roots, failed to
have a seed at the bottom, and the name
of that need is sin. Your infidelity is as
deep as your and no deeper"
Georgia has recently created a sensa-
ton by leading "the magnetic wonder
to the north. In the Rev. Samuel
Jones, she has another instrument for
increasing her reputation for ~prodigies
and phenomena.
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1ikiphr Pexrt.v

81 was right peart til the rheumatic
sot In" said a suffering old man who
lived near the swamp. Fact is, wherever
you live you can't be "right peart" If you
are a victim of this troublesome disease.
Captain Q. w. Hotsenpiller, Springfield,
O., says, 1 found great relief from ia,
hammetory rheumatism by using Browns
Iron Bitters." Thousands Of other peo-
pie have found similar relief.
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Prosecute the Swindlers.

II wheu you call for Hon Bitters (see
green cluster OF Hops on the white label)
the druggist hands out any stuff called Q.
ID. Warmers German Hop Bltters or with
other Hop" name, refuse 1t and shun
that druggist ss you would a viper; and II
he has taken your money for the stuff,
indict him for the fraud, and sue him for
damages for the swiudle, and We will re-
ward yeu literally for the conviction,
Omaha daily bee., 1885-05-14
Prosecute the Syindlersl!!

If when you call for Hop Bltters (see green
cluster of Hops on the white lebeO tue drug
gist hands out any stuff called G. ID. Warmers
German Hop Bitters or with other Hop
name, refuse it and shun that druggist as you
woulda viper; and if he hastaken our money
for the stuff, indict HIM for the fraud and sue
him for damages for the sw1ndle. and We will
you literally for the conviction
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81 Have Suffered

With every disease imaginable for the
last three years. Our
Drugglst, T. j. Anderson, recommend
Ing
Hop Bitters" to me
l used two bottles.
Am entirely cured and heartily recon-
mend Hop Bltters to everyone.
j. ID. Walker, Buckner, Nc.
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An EIopement stopped.

CArrLETTsBURG, KY, May l3,-In Pike
county, this state, on Monday, while Mount
Clark was trying to elope with Miss Stratton
he encountered Frank Stratton, her brother
Stratton was stabbed aud Clark was shot
both fatally.
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Destruction OF a Brewery

CHICAGO, May 13.-The large brewery of
M. Brand L Co., on Elston avenue, caught
fire early this morning. Before the flames
were extinguished the building and stock
were damaged to the amount Of $3.50, 900, The
company carried no Insurance..
Omaha daily bee., 1885-05-14
The Mirror

is no fatterer. Would you
make it tell a sweeter tale2
Magnolia Balm is the charm
err that almost cheats the
iooking-glass.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-05-14

The New Jersey conference of the Metho-
dat Episcopal church reports, for the past
year q gain among it's churches OF l,O;O pro-
bAti0ners and go members,
Omaha daily bee., 1885-05-14
Or. HAIRS
asst MIA CURE

This invaluRble spec 40 rfadlly and permanently
cures oil kinds OF asthma. The most obstinate and
long standing oases ield promptly to It's wonderful
curing properties. 1t is keown throughout tn world
for its unrivaled efficacy.
]. l.. CALDWELL. city lincoln, Neb writes, Jan
10. 1854 Since using DIR. Hairs Asthms cure, for
more than one year, my wife has been entirely we'll
and not even o symptom OF the diseased has appeared.
WILLIAM BENNETT, Richland, Iowa, writesNov
Sd, 1883. Ihave been afflicted with Hay Fever and
Asthma since 1859. followed your directions and
am happy TO say that l never slept better in my life
am glad that | am among the many who can speal
so fsVorably of your remedies.
A valuable Ga page treatise containing similar proc
from every State in the U. s Canada AID Grea'
Britain; will be mailed upon application.
Any druggist not having 1t in stock will procured.
to order. Ask for DR.. Hair 8 Asthma Cure.
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In order to enrich

In order to enrich
the blood, and thus
impart fresh vigor
an eufeehIed system
stimulate tagging
digestion with the
national %iuyigorant,
Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, which, by
infusiog energy into
the operationsoi the
stomach, promotes
ray, iusures thor
ough dige stion and
assimilation, and
consequent nutri-
tim. A gain to p
petite, vigor and
flesh, is Invariably
found to follow q
cours ofthis d oeorv-
edlv, popular tonic
which IL, moreover,
al fever. For sale
,nerally.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-05-14

80 ,,
This cut represents Inc
Langtry, the most Popunt
combination OF Bustle ahI
Hoop shirt ever made; AlanS
VINO mas worn one Will never
wsar any other style. Eaeh
s,sirt ia stamped upon the
hand, Patented June ~, issi'
No Iig.lII. TAny one sell
Inc same style OF skirt not 70
stsmped, Will be dealt WITH
according 70 law. ooin ~ o.
isadingrstal dYgoods house,
Omaha daily bee., 1885-05-14
H.W.WETHERELL

lb5 and loT Whbhsh ANtHut,
MANUFACTURER on
Hair Cloth and Wire
Busties, Hoop Skirts.
Hair Cloth Skirts,I
AND FULL LINE OH
COLOREO
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danger of poking some ones eyes out
with his brass ferrule. Twice poor Mr..
| Thompson was forgotten in dry-goods
store, once he was taken at the door by
an Objectionable little boy, and pushed
into rack with leather strap and
brass check around his neck, alongside
of umbrellas of high and low degree,
squeezed between natty dude, silk
covered, with silver head, and faded
plebeian green gingham.
At last he was taken home, but in
stead of being taken upstairs to his
room, he was carelessly left in the
clearinghouse hat-stand, while the
umbrella went into the parlor; present
ly he was taken upstairs and stool in
the corner to drip. He felt the water
slowly settling around his ankles, and
he knew that it was rotting the silk.
lie was fast becoming desperate, when
the door opened and in walked the
young man whose remark had been tho
cause of all the trouble
"Hello. Thompson" he said; -
hope you don't bear any malice about
what l said. know Pm"
''Oh. don't mention it." said tho
umbrella. which was sitting IN MIR.
ThompsOn's favorite chair, reading his
best editions of Woods Natural His
tory don't mention it. To show
you that don't mind it, l will mako
you present of tho umbrella; and it
glanced maliciously at Mr.. Thompson,
who was standing in the corner.
This was too much. To be given to
ones worst enemy by ones own UNI
brella was more than Mr.. Thompson
could stand. He made one mighty eff
fort and sprang for the wretched thing.
He grasped it round the ivory neck,
and extending it toward the young man
he almost shrieked: Here, take it; T
never want to see it again"
With his spring the relative positions
seemed changed. He suddenly found
himself standing midway between the
chair and the corner, with the curiously-
carved umbrella in his clutch. The
young man was near him, murmuring
a profusion of thanks.
'sThat's all right" said Mr. Thomp-
son, hurriedly-"only take the thing
away;" and as the young man left the
room he muttered:
Il hope he will change into an UNI
80" "nu o."y d. lnen ne tnOuynL
what delight it would be to borrow and
lose him.
Now Mr.. Thompson carries an UNI
brella with plain wooden handle, and
preserves mysterious silence in regard
to why he gave away his ivory-headed
He, however. told the story,
under pledge of secrecy. to Miss Ange-
lima, who impaired it in strictest conf
1ence to five of the lady boarders, who
Ill told me, after had promised faith
July never to breathe it to living soul.
20 you must never tell anybody told
Tou or you will get me into trouble with
ny old friend Thompson. who is still
'ather sensitive about the fact that he
ooks like his umbrella Forn,an,
70 Harper's Young People.
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SHE TOOK THE HINT.

A Washerwoman Who Acted PROMPTLY
Upon Rather Misty Suggestion.
At home stations the private soldiers
washing is usually done by the married
soldiers wives who are expected to sew on
missing buttons and do repairs for which a
small sum is deducted from the priyate's
pay.
Pat McGinnis had good deal of trouble
with his laundress. Sunday after Sunday
had his shirt come back with the neck buf-
ton off or else hanging by thread. He had
spoken to her on the subject, and she had
promised to see to it but still the button
was not on properly.
He got out of patience one Sunday when
the missing button had made him late for
parade and exclaimed:
Bother the woman. I'll see IL I can't
give her hint this time anyhow."
He then took the lid of tin backing box
about three inches in diameter, drilled two
holes in it with fork and sewed it on the
neck of the shirt that was next to be washed.
When his washing came back he found sha
had taken the hint. She had made a button
hole to tit it-N. Y. Herald.
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HE WOULD GRAB THEM,

Youth Who Defies His Teachers Most
Patient Exertions.
Teacher Tin mental arithmetc)-If there
were three peaches on the table, Johnny,
and your little sister should eat one of them.
how many would be left?
Johnny-How many little sisters would
be left?
Teacher-Now listen, Johnny. If there
were three peaches on the table, and your
little sister should eat one, how many would
be left?
Johnny--We amt had a peach in the
house this year, let alone three.
Teacher-We are only surprising the
peaches to be on the table, Johnny.
Johnny-Then they wouldn't be real
peaches!
Geacher-No.
Johnny-Would they be preserved
peaches?
Teacher-Certainly not
Johnny-Pickled peaches?
Teacher-No, no. There wouldn't be
any peaches at all, as l told you, Johnny:
we only suppose the three peaches to be
there
Johnny-Then there wouldn't be any
peaches of course.
Ieacher--Now, Johnny, put that knife in
your pocket or l will take it away, and pay
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FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
LOCKED IN THE CLOSET.


III ten you what it's anything but nice.
Locked in this dark old closet all alone
oear! what a noise they make, those horrid
And that loose shutter. with its creaking
That queer thing just across-of course 1
know
It's just n coat my papa used to wear;
And yet it seems to grin and waggle so,
can't help wishing that it wasn't there.
I've stamped and kicked and hammered on
I'm hoarse;
I've thumped the wall and ratified at the door.
Incy must have heard; but no one came of
course.
"until could be good" so mamma said.
II m! can hear them PLAYING in the hall
Bobby and Gus and Kate and little Ted.
wonder If they found their mean old ball?
stuffed it down the water-pipe, because
They said twas Bobby's turn to bat. Oh.
WELL
Ican't exactly say but what it ,cas.
, wonder If IT hurt him when he fell?
didn I mean to push so hard. Dear me!
now Ied d'd whimper when 1 stopped his
Why did DO it, anyhow Let's see.
don't believe he'd done single thing,
What happened nexts Oh, yes; think twas
Ipinched, or Bob, or Kate. Could it have
All three of them? And then that awful fuss.
And mamma coming out to take me in
With such troubled look upon her face
Oh, dear! the things they're playing down
below,
And me shut up here in this dreadful place
And-well, wish hadn't acted so!
Yes, ,ods naughty. Ugh! that horrid rat!
Or was it some one coming up the stairs?
What fun they're having Mercy! what was
that?
Il hope there isn't such thing as bears
About closet. How they all laughed then!
1 wonder what's the fun? Who's at the
door? ~
Oh, mamma! I'm your own good boy again;
LII ferer be SO naughty any more.
-Emmd n. Oppcr, IN Golden Dd,B
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

1t is estimated that sixty-eiph,
churches in Paris possess works of arr
valued at $1,6l5,710.
1t was customary in England to an
plaud the preachers in the pulpit two
hundred years ago.
The Baptists in Louisville, Kv..
have undertaken to raise 500, 900 for
church extension in that city.
The Sunday School Times prints a
letter advocating the formation of an
American Church Library Association.
for the improvement of church and
Sunday-school libraries.
In the Colorado Methodist Confer
ence the ministers voted to do no work
or travelling on the Sabbath that is not
strictly necessary; to take no Sunday
papers. and to request the members of
the Conference to give no items of
news to such papers.
"A gospel boat was recently launched
at Portland, Ore. 1t was named the
Kotsie, and will be taken to Alaska and
used for missionary purposes among the
Indians by the Presbyterian Missionary
Society. 1t is neat little craft and is
well adapted to the purposes for which
it is intended. San Francisco Cbron
tcLe.
That layman can do effective
Christian work en- the frontier is shown
by the record of a Congregational dea-
con in Wisconsin, who. in the last
thirty years, has fathered the building
OF six meeting houses and organized
several churches. He has home mis-
sionary commission, and has covered
territory uncared for by Protestant min
listers. -COngregGtiondlist.
The colored people have three well
organized colleges in Atlanta and are
building a fourth. One thousand
young negroes attended the three COL
leges during the last term. Besides
there were 1900 negro children in the
public schools of the city. Ahigh stand
ard OF scholarship has been established
at the colleges, says the Atlanta Consti-
futon, and the average proficiency OF
the students is fine.
1.-THE gold and scarlet of the sun"
is rvalled in the cupolas of st. Peters
Cathedral. just finished at Moscow.
There are five of the cupolas, and no |
less than 900 pounds of gold were used |
in OVERLAPPING them. The doors of the |
temple cost $4,000, and upon the |
marble floors were expended 81, 500, 900. |
Ten thousand worshipers can be CON-
Portable. if their souls let them, within
this S12,5OO,000 temple.
From compilation of statistics Jus,
made, the rapid development of popu-
ar education during the fourteen years
lS70-S4 may be compared. In England
and Wales the number of schools in
'pected in 1870 was 1921; in 1884, 49,
SIS. Accommodation was provided in
$40 for 1.S7S,5S4 scholars, figures
which in 1884 had risen to 1926, 1888.
n 1870 the average attendance at day
md night schools was, 1925, 764, while
1874 showed an average of 3,273,124.
n 1884 the number of schools in Scot
and was 3.131, with 5S7,94 names on
he rolls, the average attendance being
4S, pan Y Post.
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CULTIVATED MANNERS.
A Mothers Exhortation on the Value q
Tact and Unobtrusiveness.

| A Mothers Exhortation on the Value of
| Tact and Unobtrusiveness.
would wish to see you and all Young
people cultivate tact; study how to
speak and act so as to touch gently all
with whom you are associated. Behind
the best tact lies the wish to be kind
and to make people comfortable and
happy, to avoid wounding and irritat-,
ing, and SO it is true that the basis of
true tact is, after all, the moral senti-
ment
The young person who would cult
vate tact in speech and manners will
carefully guard against obtrusiyeness.
This is defect in the manners of SO
many people, both young and old, and
includes such multitude of things.
that it is worth while to particularize a
little upon it Quietness, repose, order.
are distinguishing marks of cultivated
social life everywhere, and to people
who are habituated to these conditions
OF life it is painful to have incongruous
or inappropriate acts or sounds thrust
upon their attention. Here is a gen.
realization that explains the reason
why many things harmless in them
seyes are unpleasant to, and offend the
taste OF, cultivated people, No really
cultivated young girl will, for instance.
open and play upon piano in hotel
parlor at inappropriate times, or when
1t is occupied by strangers. She will
never perform in public any of the du-
ties OF the toilet, such as cleaning her
nails or using tooth-pick. She will
rot eat peanuts or fruit in the cars or
in public places. She will not descant
upon bodily ailments in the drawing
room or at the table. She will not rush
noisily up and down stairs or through
the house clashing doors and startling
every one with unpleasant noises.
Such things really intlict pain upon
sensitive people; they offend, because
they obtrude, and all similar actions
and obtrusivenesses are to be carefully
avoided by every one who desires to
acquire true and genuine culture of
action. speech and manners 1t is yerv
worth your while to think earnestly and
often upon these things; to learn to un-
ierstand why SO many thoughtlcss
actions on the part of young people are
Jet down to general lack Of cultiva-
ion--Helen E. Starrett, in CHICAGO In
eri0r.