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Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-11
NaRro Cabins in Kentucky.

Looking out the doors and windows of the cabins, loungiHg in the doorways, leaning over the low frame fences, gath ering into quickly forming, quickly dis solving groups in the dusty streets, they swarm; they are here from milkwhite through all deepening shades to glossy blackness; octoroons, quadroons, mulat- toes, some with large, liquid, black eyes, refined features, delicate forms; working, gossiping, higgling over prices around a vegetable cart, discussing last nights church festival, today's funeral or next weeks railway excursion, sleeping, plan ning how to get work and how to escape 1t. From some unseen old figure in fam boy ant turban, bending over the washtub in the rear of cabin, comes a crooned song of indescribable pathos; behind a half closed front shutter, a Moorish hued amoroso in gay linen thrums his banjo in measure of ecstatic gayety, preluding the more passionate melodies of the coming night. Here fight; there the sound of the fiddle and the rhythmic batting of hands. Tatters and silks Haunt them- selves side by side. Dirt and cleanliness lie down together. Incidence goes hand in hand with thrift Superstition dogs the slow footsteps of reason. Passion and self control eye each other all day long across the narrow way. If there is any where resolute virtue, all round 1t is a weltered muck of low and sensual desire One sees all the surviving types of old negro life here crowded together with and contrasted with all the new phases Of "colored" life, sees the transitional stage of race, part of whom were born slaves and are now freemen, part of whom have been born freemen but remain so much like slaves.
 It cannot fail to happen as you walk along that you will come upon some cabin set back in small yard and half hidden, front and side, by an almost tropical jungle of vines and multiform foliage; patches of great sunfiOwers, never more leonine in tawny magnifcence and sun loving repose; festOons of white and purple morning glories over the windows and up to the low caves; around the porch and above the doorway trellis of gourd vines swinging their long necked, grotesque yellow fruit; about the entrance flaming hollyhocks and other brilliant bits of bloom, marigolds and petunias- evidences of the warm native taste that still distil. .yuishes the negro after some centuries of contact with the old, chast- ened ideals of the Anglo-Saxon.-James Lane Allen in The Century.
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-11
A Story with n Moral,

Near a railroad crossing where trains frequently waited for connection berries were very plentiful. Two women con- ceived the idea of making little money by selling fresh berries to the hot and dusty travellers. They forthwith put their idea into execution, and were soon passing through the waiting trains offer ing the fruit for sale. One invariably made ready sales, selling out before she had gone through @ train; the other al- ways had berries left unsold, and some times she failed to sell any. One made 6 handsome little ''pile" by the end of the season: the other questioned whether she had been paid for her time.
 The reason for the success of the one and the failure of the other was not hard to find. It all lay in the manner of ser- vice. One of these women was careless and untidy in her appearance: the other was scrupulously clean and neat; one measured her berries from her basket In a cup, filling it with her hands as she passed through the train; the other made up little paper holders lined with fresh green leaves, and these she filled with berries before the train arrived. No one wonders which would sell the best.
 Probably some baker or confectioner may suspect small sized moral lying around loose ereabouts.-American Gro cor
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-11
Ch.rle. sumuer,s Charming Letters.

Senator Sumner had happy way of writing to any one whose work pleased him as author, orator, painter, sculptor or musician. Many authors have been made happy by his expressions of appreciation. Longzellow, Whittier, Holmes, Low ell, Motley, Prescott, ct i'd genus omne, have been laid under contribution by the sena- tors biographer, and the letters Sumner wrote them while hot from their works will make very interesting reading. There are those across the water who can con- tribute to his biography charming letters of appreciation, and among them JCan Ingelow, who received several of great force. He had an especially warm side for young authors of merit, and many a one of them, now of established reputa- tiou, owes much to his discriminating praise, and his encouragement to press on, to elevate and purify their taste, and, above all, ito work, work work" To one he wrote: "Who shall say that the power to work is not itself genius9"
 It was his way to write to a speaker i'm mediately after he had heard or read his speech. Schuyler Colfax came to the front in speech on the Kansas question, which showed him to be a man of mark. Sumner on that same night wrote him 8 letter of thanks, couched in such terms that the young orator showed it to doubt ing friends as an evidence that at least one leading man did not deem him too rash. The letter found it's way into print, and soon it was regarded as happily voicing the views of the party, and Republicans generally indorsed Summers indorsement, and Colfax was made man.
 So thoroughly necessary was it deemed to have Summers stamp on a rising repu- tation that he was sometimes importuned to do for others what he had done for Col fax. "Let him." Sumner said to one suitor, ''make such a speech as Colfax made, and I will write him such letter as wrote Colfax. ."-Arnold Burges John- con in The Cosmopolitan.
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-11
Mineral Surveyor.

U s Deputy Mineral Surveyor and City Engineer, surveys, maps and reports on mines speciality All work per, formed at reasonable prices. Land surveys and applications made promptly. Best of references given
 H. B. MANSON,
 Office 3I6 Fifth St.
 Tombstone, Ariz.
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-11

.s 1s, The EpITAPH IS turning out as superior a class of commercial job work, such as bill heads, letter heads, statements, etc., as can be procured any where. 1t is neatly put in pads. without extra charge. Call and see samples
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-11
Size of Molecules of Silver.

Applying certain measurements to scarcely visible film of silver, Herr Wie- ner arrives, at the conclusion that no less than 125, 900, 900 molecules of silver must he laid in line to measure an inch. ASSAnsav Traveller.
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-11
Governor's Proclamation
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, l ExEcITIvE DEPARTMENT, } OFFICE es THE GOVERNOR.
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, ! EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, } OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR.

OrrtNE UT thS oOtEkNOk. To all to whom these Presents may Come Gr~et- ing:
 WHEREAS, I am informed that Cyrus Crib ble, the SuI erintendent of the Vu ture mine, and his gua'dS Ioh" Johnson and Charles Doo- little, were brutally murdere.i by some unknown person or persons, about eighteen miles from Vulture. and near Nigger Wells. Maricopa county, Arizona, on the night of the roth inst. while en rout- to P.lenix.
 New, therefore, I, c. Meyer Zulick, Govern Of the Territory of Arizona, by virtue of the authority m me vested, do hereby offer and pro- claim reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons committing said murder.
 In witness thereof, 1 have hereunto set my
 hand and caused the Great Seal of
 the Territory to be hereto affixed (sEAL) Done at Prescott, the Capital, this
 Twenty. first day of March, A. D,
 1887. C. MEYER ZULICK. By the Governor:
 WM C. FOSTER,
 Acting Secretary of the Territory.
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-11

"ANTED.-FOR TOMBSTONE AND } w vicinity, young or middle aged lady. 10 canvass for holiday books; our books are the most salable in the market and the comms- sions we give are very liberal Experience in the business is not essential. as we give full in- structions. Address, PERRY PUB. Co,
 Denver, Cola
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-08-11
SICK HEADACHE.
$500 REXlR!

\ is offered by the mauufactur- ' CTS of pr. SagcsS Cotarrh I Ss.mS S6e.mSeaZ, fer 4 case of
 which thov Cann0t o,,yso
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10

hearing Mr.. jackson tell Indian "reminiscences
and has also heard them verified. Some of
them would do the famous General Crook
proud. Mr.. jackson has the reputation of
being the best salesman in the west selling
shoes. He is one of the most GENIAL of com
panions, always causing fun and mirth from
carly morning to early morning.
There were about eighteen commercial
men in the city this week at the Hotel
Murray representing hardware manufactur-
crs from all over the continent, among
whom the following We're the most prominent.
Their visit here at this time is to sell the
Omana Hardware company Orin G.. Wal
rath, the man who never missed
an order, representing the Car
riagc lrOn-Steel works of Pittsburg
William q. Miller, the smiling lock vendor
who never passes an order, representing i.
Il r. Corbiu, New Haven, Conn. William {.
Brown, the champion bird cage man from
Chicago; VIII G. Stevens, the iovial lone
fisherman of the Mississippi river, represent
ing Cutler, Woodrough & Co., Chicago the
sedatc Ben Kershaw, who never smiles, rep
rescnting N. & G. Taylor, Philadelphia, j.
W. Sanders, ,rcprensctng st. Louis Stamping
Co; John III. Hembaugh, the never say die
democrat from st. Louis; Dan W. Campbell,
the Jolly Scotch laddic, "a wee bed stiff,n
but still IN the ring, representing Roy 4 Co,
New York; Mr.. A. FCatherstone, proprietor
of the Central Carriage works, Chicago, was
in town last week placing his goods with the
trade; l.. l.. Price, of Odell, Ncb., is in the
city Oh business for few days Lest is u
rustler.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10

A drummer has this to say of the state Of
affairs in the country:
The fine weather this winter has put a
damper on nearly all classes of business.
While it has been greatly favorable to tn,
farmer in getting his corn in the crib and TO
market, the merchant has suffered for the
want of trade and travelling men generally
are complaining. Especially is this the case
with woolen goods and clothing, oots and
shoes. The weather has been so Warfn and
pleasant that there has as yet b en- no de-
mand for these lines, and merchants that
bought early, in many instance. find their
winter stocks still unbroken. Bills are ma
turing aud many good mert hant will be
compelled to ask for an eXten' ion of time,
while some will have to succu nb to the in
evitabe, and close up Collections in the
rural districts are good, the farmer realizing
a fair price for wheat, corn and other pro
ducts, and is marketing CROUCH to pay his
past due notes ana accounts. The oyster and
fish business, which in the aggregate is inn
mense, is also much effected, the warm
weather not being conducive to this kind Of
business.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10

at issue for all time, and the litigation and
difficulty that has been entaied during the
past twenty years upon the section OF Iowa
in which these lands are located have not
been confined to the lands in dispute, but
has affected as well the value of the land
upon the even sections adjoining, and has
proved a veritablo cloud upon the progress
and prosperity of the Des Moines valley, one
of the richest and most productive in the
United States.
"The fact that the company have no title to
the land and have not complied with the re-
qurements necessary TO make it their own,
is shown in the fact that they have never re-
ceived any patents for it under when title to
the lands should be evidences from the be-
ginning of the grant Their contracts made
with the settlers have been most unconscion-
able and inequitabie; the settlers being gen
orally poor and without means. Speaking
of one OF these contracts in case at bar,
Judge Love, in the United States district
court for the southern district of Iowa, said,
substantially, that q man who would sign
such contract was fool, and a man who
asked him TO sign il twas a ltnave, which made
very terse and proper summing up OF the
contracts this company have been compelling
settlers to accept, because as a matter
of fact, most of them have been compelled to
accept 1t under duress or lose all they had.
To use the language of one OF the late
political parties IN its platform, This ques-
tion will never be settled until it is settled
right There is such a feeling Of outrage at
the injustice OF allowing the Des Momes
Navigation and Railroad company to seize
these lands without any consideration, either
expressed or implied, and cast out all those
settlers on the cold charities of the world,
that public sentiment will not stand the out
rage IL is urged that some of these settlers
have no equity or rights upon the lands.
Whatever the fact may be regarding that
claim, certain it is that the act sought to be
passed into law, and which passed the
house Thursday only, provides for those set
tiers who have mertorious claims to such
lands that the act seeks to benefit
PERRY S. HEATH.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10
A Six Days Chase.

The great six days race, horses against
bicycles, begins at the Colosseum this after
noon at 2;30 o'clock, Marve Beardsley, the
champion long distance rider of the world to
do the equestriarHing, and Tom Eek and
Jack Prince to stride the wheels. Beardsley
will use fifteen horses, all thorough bred
racers, changing at the end of every mile
while Eek ana Prince will alternate each
hour. The stakes are $500 side, and G5 and
80 per cent of the gate money, and eight
hours each day and evening will be utilized
in the race. Great interest is being taken in
this novel struggle.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10

Boston Transcripts; Professor Wise
IS | was saying, Mrs. Richly. there is IA
sad falling OF in the literary taste of
the people nowadays. Few persons care
to read the early dramatists and poets,
the essayists and historians; even the
bible, which was once the book of books
finds few readers. The good old litera-
turc Of the pa5t is almost entirely neg
lected.
Mrs. Richly-It is very true what you
say, professor; but then our weekly
paper furnishes some very fine detective
stories: so things are not quite so bad as
they might be.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10
A Crop Talk.

81 have Travelled for ten years through all
parts of the country, but never in my life be-
fore have seen the amount of corn that have
seen in the state of Nebraska on this trip"
remarked travelling man to passenger on
the Overland hyer' a few days ago. Whole
villages of bins and cribs filed to the full ex-
tent of their capacity. Elevators running
over solid train after train loaded for mar
ket piled up on the ground in ricks and
stacks, the sight of which would make an
cas- tern farmer stare 10 utter astonishment
while through the coputry along the line of
the railroads nothing but corn, corn, corn.
Why, if the people of0NebraslSa had some
thing reasonable in freight rate, and did
not have 10 sell one 'Dushel in order TO get
another 10 market, this country would have
more money than lt1would know what to
do with, / saw in az little town down the
road short distancog twenty loaded teams at
one elevator awaiting their turns to get
weighed. Although It is very quiet now,
business is bound to be good here in the near
future, and you bet III check my samples for
this country carly in the spring, and II don't
have good trade I'll be very much disap-
pointed.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10
The Death Roll.

The death of Mr.. Robert w. Dyball on the
4th inst, leaves another blank in the ranks of
the veteran travellers of Omaha. For the
past couple of years he has been manager Of
Peycke Bros. candy department, Previous
to that time he was on the road for j. C.
Numes e. Co, Of Chicago, aud in that capac-
ity made the acquaintanceship and friendship
of many of the boys. In private life few men
have record Of which they have greater
reason to be proud. He was born in Phila-
delphia, and aJ the age of fourteen enlisted
IN the navy, serving through the war under
Admiral Farragut and receiving an honora-
bic discharge at its close The scars he re-
ceved in the service of his country he bore
to his Craze. He leaves family of six chill
dren, three OF the boys Deing connected with
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10

Some Of the greatest men that ever
lived were of small statue and insight
iicant appearance. The reader will
readily recall many instances. Very
small is DIR. Picrce's Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets but they are far more
effective than the huge. old-fashioned
pills which are so difficult to swallow
and so harsh in their action. The pei
lets" are gentle and never cause con-
stipation. For liver, stomach, and
bowel arrangements they haveno equal.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10
Garrett's Physician Wants His Paw.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 9-rhe young physician
DR.. Nathan r. GOrter, who accompanied
Robert Garrett on the trip he made around
the world before his mental troubles as-
sumcd so serious form, has entered suit for
s30,D00 for professional services rendered.
The bill for THAI amount was presented to
William t'riclt, who refused to pay it, and
DR.. Gorter ut once put the matter in the
hands of II lawyer for settlement It is as
serted that the amount is not oXorbitant, in
asmuch as DR.. GOrter's labors were most
arduous, and because he gave up growing
aud lucrative practice i'll order to accompany
Garrett
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10
HUsBANDs AND WIVES.
The Disconrsc OF Rev. Lamar at the
First Baptist Church.


The First Baptist church was crowded To
ovcriiowing last night by most apprcciat,vo
audience to hear the Rev. DR.. Lamar's ser.
mon, Husbands and Wivosn
The first thing married persons should do
was to bear and forboar Without forboar-
ance life to married couples would at least
he rksome. Time would he wasted and the
interests of families, both morally and phys.
ically, destroyed. Husbands should bear
with their wives; bear with them in their
trials, domestic, moral and physical for
woman is the weaker vessel Wives should
forbcar with thcir husbands. The lattcr's
trials are not all domestic, and when he
comes home tired and perhaps disappointed
at some event which may have possibly oc-
Cured in the day, then wOman's iorbearancc
should assert itself.
The speaker then urged the establishment
or genuine CO-purtnCrshiD between huS-
band and wife There should exist m every
household an entire freedom from suspicion
between both parties. Neither should give
the other the slightest occasion or chance for
the most triting suspicion. Husbands on
their return homo in the evening
from their days toll, should listen
with guarded tenderness to the
trials, difficulties and troubles of his
wife's days experience and he on his part,
should also make her his confident Many a
man has been saved from absolute ruin, and
in many cases from disgrace, by coniding in
his Wife. She should always be taken into
consideration when matters of great
business Importance rack the brain
The advice of wife is always good and
never more so than in business consulta-
ton. The husband has no right to jeopardign
the interests of their property by withhold
ing any thing pertaining to business matters
from his wife. There should be n mutual
consideration,
The reverend gentleman next spoke of tho
paticce that should be shown by both hus-
band and wife in religious matters He
also spoke of the great troubles that arIse by
Protestants marrying Catholics. This was
particularly the case when either party held
strong religious convictions. Nothing good
could come of marriages of this kind aud tho
children seeing what ;yraugles the parents
had over religious matters often drifted
away from religion altogether.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10
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Beat the Combination.


Pittsburg Leader; well Pm glad there
was one man in Pittsburg who was smart
enough to get ahead Of Captain Wishart and
his law and order spies last week" re-
marked prominent tobacconst to the writer
last night. When asked whom aud to what he
referred, the gentleman continued: zone
week ago tonight drummer for Il Balt-
more Md, leaf tobacco house came TO Pitts
burg and secured rooms at the Seventh ave
nue. hotel. He was a great smoker, but
being not very well posted on the workings
of the L. &C O. IN this city, did not lay in his
supply of cigars for Sunday. On Sunday
morning, just after breakfasting, the drum
mer came down to the hotel cigar store TO
purchase some Henry Clays, but, alas the
store was closed. He was not surprised at
this, but started out to hunt up another
cigar store. | suppose it is needless for me
to say he searched the City in vain for half
an hour, at the expiration of which time
he returned to his hOstelry disgusted and
mystlfed. He could not understand why all
the stores in PiJtSOurg were closed. He laid
in complaint against 'mine host who in
formed him that the day was the Sabbath.
So know what day it is replied the
drummer, "Dut what in the - are the
cigar stores closed for!n "Remember' sIid
the hotel keeper, that Pittsburg has a Cap
tain Wishart and law and order society"
In the space of an hour or mure the drum
mer was made to understand why all tobac-
COnists were apparently sleeping and he re-
tired to his room in a state of extreme Indig-
nation. In short time thereafter he reap
peared in the drawing room smoking an elG-
giant cigar. In his pocket he had dozen or
more of the same brand, which he generously
distributed among the guests. He being an
experienced cgarmaker, had taken a num-
ber of his samples of leaf tobacco and trans
formed them into fine cigars.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-10
Samples.

e. M. Dlmon, representative of the Gid
don barb wire in this state has been sue
ceeded by A. w. Wellman, formerly in the
hardware business at Bradshaw Neb.
NJ d. Chiffon famIiiurly known as "Littlc
Dick,r who has been convalescing at tn"
Arcade for the past two weeks is again able
to be out on his territory looking after the
interests OF ID. ;. Morgan, reaper and mower
company,of Brockport, N. Y.
Z, A. Burke, formerly representative of
the Star Wagon company, and latterly with
the j. II. Mailer Co, of ST. Paul. will start
for his old home in Ypsilanti, Mich, this
week, where he will spend months vaca-
ton. No better Judge of vehicle nor Il
more expert salesman ever carried cata-
logue in tho west than Mr.. Burke, and his
many friends wish him all the pleasure pos
sible in his holiday vacation.
For several years the Beck & Corbett
Iron company of st, Louis, has been repre-
sented by j. l.. Green, who is one of the
most successful in his line. Seyonteen years
ago Mr.. Green was compOsltOr ON The
BEE, when the publication was in its infancy'
when, as he expresses IL, 1T cost dollar TO
cross the river on rickety ferryboat." HIS
home is in Quincy, H.. and he knew young
King there when he was known under the
nom de plume of Legrade. Mr.. Green says
thoy associated in good society at the time
and no one suspected that they were any
thing but man and wife.
w. A. Jackson, representing Doggett, Bas
sett & Hills company, Chicago was in the
city yesterday, visiting friends. Mr. Jack
son is on his way to Montana aud the west,
where he enjoys the distinction OF being the
pioneer shoe salesman. Mr. jackson tray
eled through Idaho and Montana years ago
long before the Utah S Northern and the
Oregon Short Line railways were built and
at that time staging was in its palmy days
and the festive highway robber and indians
entertained the travellers as they lourncyed
pleasantly through the country But untor-
tunately for biily jackson, the stages were
30 crowded in the early days that they could
not accommodate his heavy baggage, and he,
ia company with some one OF the boys, would
buy team aud spring wagon and make the
trip alone. The writer has often enjoyed