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The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06

urious forms Of any fine goods lined
with fur. This prices of these naturally
vary to the greatest extreme. A suit
made Of sheeting thickly padded with
cotton and tufted can be secured for 81,
while the silk coat lined with tiger cub
fur or other handsome skin will often
cost as high as $75. The more expen-
sive articles are worn by the wives of
the great officials, who are not per
cent of the entire population.
Next in the scale is silk apparel.
This is what maketh glad the Celestial
heart. The poorest boatwoman saves up
her money cent by cent until she has
accumulated the amount necessary TO
buy coveted silk robe. She will even
wear a silk coat with ragged cotton
trousers, but silk coat she must have
as an evidence of respectability. The
variety of silks. is something perfectly
wonderful. You can get pretty silk from
the province of Fukien in delicate col
ors, which makes exquisite underwear
as well as fetching summer dresses, for
IA cents per yard. From this the prices
range upward. For 90 and 80 cents you
can get handsome, finely finished silks
that will last five or six years. Then
there are bamboo silks from the north,
which are so called because each thread
is as strong, firm and durable as the
fibers of that wonderful wood. There
are Shanghai silks with grain similar
to our own grosgrain, but with a gloss
like the finest satin. There are bright
silks and dull silks, heavy and light,
smooth finished and rough finished and
in more colors than were ever dreamed
of in the looms of Lyons.
The moment You buy robe the fact
is noted, not alone in the salesbook,
but also in what might be called an or
der book, and the very next day dupli-
cate of your purchase is under way. 1t
is finished as rapidly as possible so that
| the assortment in the store may be kept
| up at its proper limit This is good
rule for the styles which sell rapidly.
AS to other styles, they remain upon
the shelves only heaven knows how
long. Such institutions as the bargain
counter and sales of shop worn and
| shelf worn goods are unknown in the
eccentric east. On the other hand, they
have custom unspeakably dear to the
| Mongolian mind. Toward the close of
the year nearly every tradesman wants
| large amount of ready cash. Some
times it is to pay off the debts of the
business and start the new year free and
| clear, sometimes it is for the charities
and festivals for which the land is ia
nous. They then mark down their older
goods a reasonable amount, and when
this does not bring in enough money
they keep it up the first two or three
weeks of the new year. In this way
there are bargains and, of course, bargain
hunters and bargain buyers.
| The business is almost entirely a cash
business. Credits are given, but so rare.
ly as to occasion remark. The dealer il
satisfied with small profit, and nei
ther tries to make II fortune in a single
year nor to pose as a philanthropist like
some of the goodly people of Philadel
| phia MARGHERITA ARLINA HAMM.
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06
Mamma's Apple Talk.

When / asked my three little folks
which fruit they would choose could
they have but one, Tommy shouted
"Orangesp' and Will and Dot both said
"Peaches!" Then they asked me.
said, "Oh, / will take the same as the
queen of England, if you please!'
Then Dot asked if / really and truly
knew what fruit the queen of England
liked best, and when said, "Yes, she
likes apples best" all three cried out
together: "Why, mammal Applesl"
Eyes" l said, she likes apples best. I"
''But, mammal Apples are so COM
mon.
Then / ''stood up" for the apple. l
praised it for being common, for being
so plentiful that every child could have
all the apples it wanted. And then
praised it for beauty. Oranges are al
ways yellow, but you can almost make
a rainbow with rows of apples-all the
shades of red, all the shades of yellow,
all the shades of greenland there are
blush apples and purplish apples and
brown ones, and so many sweet kinds
and so many sour kinds, sauce apples,
and pie apples, and dumpling apples,
and roasting apples, and apples for lit
tie pockets. Oh, how did praise apples !
Then praised the tree-the tree that
bears the beautiful rosy apple blossoms,
the birds tree. the robins tree-more
birds nests in the cozy apple tree than
in any other tree.
And / praised orchards more and
more-how everybody loved to walk in
them, and children loved to play in
them, and how painters loved to paint
pictures of them, and said it was from
our beautiful American orchards the
queens apples were taken. "And
where did we Americans first get ap-
ples?' Dot asked. Ibid the pilgrims
bring them over?'' "No," laughed,
"but the Puritans did. Little Folks.
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06
DESIGNER OF OUR FLAG.
Captain 5. q. Reid's Grave Said to Have
Been Definitely Located

Captain :. q. Reids Grave Said to Have
Been Definitely Located,
The location of the grave of Samuel
Chester Reid, who designed the present
United States flag, has been definitely
determined by Joseph NJ E. Burnett of
the Samuel Chester Reid Monument as.
sociation. Captain Reid died in the Ma
val hospital in Brooklyn in 1861 and
was buried in Cypress Hills cemetery
in lot that had been purchased by his
two brothers. A man named Marchant,
who has been employed at the cemetery
for AZ years, now certifies that he sold
the lot at Cypress avenue and Zephyr
path to the Reid brothers, and that by
his advice they buried Captain Reid in
the middle one of the five graves in the
rear of the lot The grave is without
any mark, but the association is going
50 erect fitting monument over it,
Captain Reid was born i'll 1888.
When there was dispute as to the
form of the United States flag in 1918,
Captain Reid suggested that star be
added in the field of the flag for each
state admitted to the Union, and that
the number of stripes be not increased
Rankin post, G.. A. R., has for years
placed flowers on grave at some dis
tance from that of Captain Reid in the
belief that it was honoring Captain
Reid's grave New York Sun.
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06

"As was once riding TO mill with
my father" said Captain John Lamar,
81 saw, as we drove along, a boy sitting
on the topmost rail of an old fashioned
stake and rider worm fence, reading SO
intently that he did not notice our ap-
proach. My father turned to me and
said: John, look at that boy yonder,
and, mark my words, he will make a
smart man out of himself. Imay not see
1t, but you'll see if my words don't
come true. That boy was Abraham Lin
coin. -
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06

without his reckoning and not know
which direction to take There would
be no stars to point out his track, no
icebergs, perhaps, to tell whence he had
come, and he might be left upon a
trackless waste without chart or com.
pass-a hopeless fate for the sailor.
But that such scheme is practicable is
apparent to every old whaler. Men
whose observations have been at all ex.
tended in the northern ocean will not
much doubt the possibility of doing
what have described You see, the con.
aitions wonld be entirely changed were
the cruiser Detroit. for instance, sent
into the arctic circle in place of the old
whaleboats which have gone there hith
erto. "-Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06
Saved Her Purse by Throwing 1t Away

Miss Sadie Hanley of Chicago threw
away her purse few evenings ago
while highwayman was clutching her
throat and later in the night returned
TO the scene of the attempted robbery
and recovered her money. Miss Hanley
was returning to her home after making
some purchases when she was confront.
ed by a tall, slim young man, who
seized her by the throat and told her he
would kill her if she screamed. The
plucky young woman disregarded his
command and screamed as loud as his
tight hold would permit. The highway
man continued his struggle, and Miss
Hanley threw her purse into the grass
on front lawn. BY this time residents
were attracted by the sounds of the
scuffle, and the footpad released his hold
on the young woman and ran away.
Later the young woman was able to
search for her purse with the result
that it was found. - Chicago Inter
Ocean
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06

MEXICAN BOY OF WELL TO DO PARENTS.
about their brown feet. But whether
the spiritual or the physical father Of
the household starts the morning hymn
all the household catch it up, and the
wife, the grown children, the half
grown children, the toddling babies,
and last but not even in Mexico least
the servants catch the sweetly worded
but simply melodied song, and out be-
yond the cabina, the adobe hut or the
richly carved palace the hewers of Mex
lean wood, the drawers of Mexican wa
ter, the tenders of Mexican grains and
of Mexican flowers, join in the morning
chorus. But sweetest of all those sweet
Mexican notes ring the treble notes of
the baby Mexican voice.
The children of Mexico are born, live
and develop under grave disadvantages,
but nature, even in Mexico, is the just
est of stepmothers, and nature compen-
safes the children of Mexico for some at
least of the disadvantages with which
she scourges them. do not know how
child can better start the big mornings
of his little life than by singing with
his father, his mother and all the other
people of his homestead a song of sim
pie welcome to that morning. And this
is what the Mexican babies often sing
when the Mexican sunshine first riddles
the Mexican window panes-an awk-
ward English translation of the first
line of one of the first songs that a Mex
ican baby learns:
Singers at dawn
From the heavens above
People all regions.
Gladly we, too, sing. -
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06
No Legacy to Cigarette friends.

The heirs of the late George G. Sea.
ton of Rockford. Ills, must not become
cigarette smokers IL they wish to re-
ceive their legacies under his will.
To four nieces and six nephews ne
bequeathed sums ranging from 800 to
&2O0 each. with the following proviso;
"It is hereby to be expressly understood
that if any of the legatees above named
shall use TO excess either cigarettes or
alcoholic liquors that portion which
was to 60 to them shall 60 to some char
table institution that my executors
ehall determine. "-Philadelphia Press.
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06
HIS MOTHERS RING.
Sent to MIR. Roessle by a Thief Who Kept
1t Thirty Years.

I. e. Roessle, proprietor of the Ar
lington hotel. in Washington, received
from Paris the other day a package ad.
dressed in hand which he could not
identify.
Opening the package, he found val
liable diamond ring in curious old
fashioned setting. There was no letter
nothing to indicate the name of the
sender.
At first Mr.. Roessle fancied that the
ring was gift from friend, but it had
strangely familiar appearance, and
finally he remembered it and the cir.
cumstances attending its loss. 1t is the
engagement ring given by his father to
his mother and was stolen from her 30
years ago.
There has never been trace of the
thief, and none of the family had ever
seen the ring from the time it was stolen
until it came so mysteriously to Mr.
Roessle from Paris New York World
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06

The countess ancestors were the Counts
de Spangen, and her grandfather was a
general in the Austrian army. Her
mother was a beautiful Spanish lady Of
noble lineage. Her husband has filed
many important diplomatic positions,
has represented his king at the Swedish,
Italian and other courts, and every
where the countess pleasing personal
ity has won for her many friends She
is slight and graceful, of medium height
and has bright, sparkling face. Her
dark. curly hair is sprinkled with
white, and her gray eyes dance with
merriment when she is amused. She
talks entertainingly in several Ian
guages, speaking English quite fiuently,
is fond of outdoor life and greatly en-
joys wheeling about the broad smooth
streets of Washington. Not long before
leaving home she took mp photography
and is already quite an expert. She
goes out nearly every day with her cam
era and has fine collection Of views.
JUILErTE M. BABBrTT.
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06
COUNTESS LiCHTERVElOE.
Pleasing Personality of the New Belgian
Minister'S Wife.

Minister'S Wife.
Count &. de Lichtervelde, the new
minister from Belgium, is one of the
tallest and finest looking men in the
diplomatic corps at Washington. When
he was presented to President Cleveland
for the first tine last February, he
pleasantly referred to his stay i'll this
country some 20 years ago in the begin
ming of his diplomatic career. He did
not bring his family with him last
year. When he came back in Novem-
Der, he was accompanied by his wife
and the youngest of their five sons, a
handsome boy of 2 years, who is at
school in Washington. The other boys
are pursuing their studies at home, the
eldest, about 21, intending to follow in
his fathers footsteps.
Count and Countess de Lichtervelde
are members of two of the oldest and
most distinguished families in Belgium.
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06

and D." reports When checking out a
car of freight one day, Mr.. Willitts
found the burro lying in dark corner,
and as he couldn't discover any men,
ton of him in the freight bill he made
an 49,, o. and D." report ON his find.
The burro had evidently wandered ON
to the freight platform at some other
station and into the car when no one
was looking. He didn't know how or
probably didn't care 70 protest when
the car was closed, and 30 he took q
free ride to Burroughs Pass
To diverge, they tell . story Of .
check clerk out in Colorado which in
oludes an experience like that Of Soda
A young man fresh from an eastern col
ls9e had been made check clerk in the
freight office at . busy station on .
mountain road. One day be was check
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06

Miss Jane AGdams of the Hull House
settlement in Chicago has been appoint
ed postmaster Of substation No. 10 in
that city; salary, 81, 400. Now Miss
Addams will be able to make practical
application Of still more Of her philan-
thropic plans.
The copper country evening news., 1898-01-06
CHILDREN OF MEXICO.

They Start the Big Mornings of the Little
Lives by Singing Songs Of Praise.
Mexican babies learn to tell their
beads long before they know the names
Of the many brilliant flowers that tangle
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-11
TRANSPORTS REACH SANTIAGO
Six Ships Bring ReinfOrcements and
Large Quantity OF Supplies for
Genera Shaftcr.

Copyright, 1898, by Associated Press)
+ JURAGUA, July 9.-(By Associated
Press Dispatch Boat Wanda, via Kingston,
Jamaica, July 10.)-SiX troop ships, carrying
$500 men, two batteries Of artillery and a
large quantity of ammunition and supplies,
arrived here at 1880 this morning. The
transports took the troops and equipments
aboard at Tampa and were Joined by their
convoy at Key West. They sailed last Tues
day morning.
The feet consists of the City of Macon
and the Gate City, carrying the First I'LL
nois infantry, / $50 men; the Hudson, with
$50 recruits for the regiments of regulars
in the field, and the Comanche and Spe-
cialist, carrying horses. ammunition, stores
and batteries c and 4 of the Third artillery,
b and F of the Fourth artillery and d and
+ of the Fifth artillery, under command of
Brigadier General Randolph. The convoy
was made up of the gunboats Machias and
Wilmington and the tug Leyden.
The men are in excellent spirits and
their voyage was a pleasant one except
for one rough night. On the afternoon of
July 6 the transports passed a British
cruiser, supposed TO be the Talbot. They
reached Cape Maysi in the morning of
July s. None of the Cuban lighthouses
were lighted and the transports and their
conveying vessils sailed without lights
and with orders to keep fifteen miles off
the Cuban coast.
At 2 o'clock on the afternoon of July s.,
the headlands of Guantanamo bay were
sighted and the Machias entered the harbor
with mail for Commander McCalla's fleet
and the marines. The transports moved
slowly to the westward during the night
and arrived of Juragua early in the morn
ing. AS the men on the Gate City were
trying TO make out the lines of the build
ings ashore four dead bodies drifted past
the ship. They were evidently the victims
of Cervera's ships. The sight created much
excitement. The Newark was the first to
greet the arrival of the recruits. The
landing of the men and stores was deferred
until Sunday morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-11

the work OF securing a denomination early,
sending his private secretary home several
months in advance to look after his fences.
After the survey had been made Mr.. Greene
rushed home himself. arriving several weeks
ago. In the council held II was deemed best
best 10 call an early convention to head of
other congressional booms that were begin
ming to show themselves. BY some manipu-
lation the machinery was set in motion and
the convention to nominate the populist
nominee for congress was called 10 meet
in Broken Bow on July IA The hopes Of
other candidates went glimmering. Judge
Westover, the more promising opponent Of
Mr.. Greene, was then head over heels in
court terms and had enough work scheduled
ahead to carry him up to convention time.
The result was that his friends gave up
the work. The result will probably be a
poorly attended convention at Broken Bow,
with little or no opposition to Mr.. Greene.
The early convention also works to the adj
vantage of the state house machine. in that
1t does not give Judge Neville time to work
the county conventions for delegations.
Delegates for the state and congressional
conventions are being selected by the same
county conventions.
The democrats in the Sixth district are
by no means friendly to Mr.. Greene and the
possibility OF a democratic candidate is now
cutting quite a figure in political calcula-
tfons. The middle of the-road populists
have little more love for Mr.. Greene than
candidate would not surprise a great many
old time politicians. 1t is admitted that
should the democrats put up n congressional
ticket that Hon. w. d. Oldham Of Kearney,
will have the nomination for the asking.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-11
Buffalo Comfy Po~puIists.

KEARNEY, Neb., July 10.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-Th Buffalo county populist con-
vention for the selection of delegates to the
state and congressional conventions was
held in the court house Saturday. 1t was a
cut and dried Greene convention and the
attendance was slim and enthusiasm feeble.
Resolutions reafirming previous platforms,
opposing the gold standard, the bond sys-
tenn and asking for fusion to down the
money power; asking for IN anti-pass law;
favoring vigorous prosecution of the war;
endorsing the present state administra-
tion, Senator Allen and Congressman
Greene; pledging to Greene undivided sup
port and endorsing the populist county off,
GERS administration were passed. The fol-
lowing delegations were chosen to the state
convention:
T. j. Quail, Joseph Clayton, G. N. Smith,
]. G. Dengler, j. w. Tyler, J. b. McGinty.
E.. Wyman, w. H.. Carson, Sam Watson,
John Peters, R. H. Clifford. James Wallace,
b. +. Tussing, B.. c. Mcneil. f. v. ForreIl,
II. G. Reiter, S. Bears. Eli Campbell, w.
o. Weaver, d. r. Mathiesen, Peter o'Brien.
II. +. Carson and w. T. Hand.
Congressional convention: l.. N. Kramer,
w. o. Pickett, It. H.. Bond. r. w. Hogg, ].
w. TYLER, William Stark, e. Wyman, II. ].
Dunkin, J. b. McGintey, II. Robinson, l.
r. Hughes, Otto Barth, T. A. Wright,
Joseph Friend, John Hemming, Charles
Wallace, J. j. Vest, Eli Campbell, George
Conroy, Roy Rhone, ], M. Easterllng.
George Roos, Henry Weller, Rob C. Smith,
W. Wyland.
The Buffalo county central committee also
met this afternoon and decided to hold the
county convention in Kearney on August
6. Delegates to the state and congress
sional conventions will be selected at that
convention.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-11
GENERAL OTIS is DETAINED
Ills Prospective MoVcmcnts Depend
Upon DcN ciopmcnts In the Ha-
vniinn Policy.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 1O.-Until the
Honolulu policy Is finally settled General
Otis can make no Roadway. either In this
matter or in regard to getting off the trans
ports Peru and City OF Puebla. The troops
announced to go to Manila in these steamers
are six troops Of the Fourth cavalry, two
batteries of the Sixth artillery. five com
panies Of the Fourteenth infantry. sixty
men OF the Third artillery and some re
crutts for the hospital corps, signal corps
and Eighteenth infantry.
1t was intended that the Peru and the
city OF fuebla should sail on Monday after
noon, hut 1t will probably be later i'm the
week before they depart. Major General
Otis has stated that the first New York vol
untccrs, to arrive here on Tuesday. will
proll iy proceed to Honolulu for permanent
stat oa there, and that 1t is possible that
the Eighth California regiment win also
be located on the Hawaiian islands. II was
originally intended TO send 1t to Cuna. The
Seventh California has received the last nj
Manila with The fifth expedition. Tho
Seventh California has received the last Of
its equipments and ia ready for orders to
depart at any time.
Lieutenant Colonel T.. C.. Little of the
Twentieth Kansas has been i'll for ABOUT
two weeks and the probability is that he
will be retired for disability. He is a prom
inent lawyer of Abilene, Kan, ana was
United States consul general in Egypt under
the administrator of President Harrison.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-11
ttuIeJ IA, . Train.

FALLS CITY, Neb.. July 1O.-(special.)-
Two men were run over and instantly killed
by Missouri Pacific trains last week.
The strange part of it is the tramp killed
Saturday night was in almost the same
spot where J. S. Newcomer met his death
on the Fourth of July in the same manner.
The engineer said he distinguished the form
Of a man sitting on the edge Of the track,
and seeing that he did not move as the train
approached, sounded the whistle and shout
ed to him, but 1t did not stir him. The en-,
CINE struck about the shoulder, break
ing his neck. The train was running slowly
at the time. The man was picked up and
brought back to the depot, where his person
was thoroughly searched, but not a single
thing was found by which to learn his name
or anything about him.