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"SAT ON HER NICKEIi." An Irishwoman Who Occupied a Seat in the Street (Jar Made i a Little Woifann Mad. ) 4 The car was pretty full that night. There was a washerwoman up m front carefully lookmg after a basket of clothes on the platform; two school ma'ams earnestly discussing the Del Sarte system of calisthenics; a drunk-! n man two boys with dinner pails; a little girl with owlish eyes, a while face, and a big book from the library;' a judge; two ''sas-iety'- ladies; a handsome drummer with an inevitable stove pipe ; a half-dozen nondescripts, and last, but not least, a big Irish conductor, new in the service, full of his position, who rushed back and forth, shook the stove, took up fares, shouted the streets, offered adyice to timid people about their routes, with a satisfaction which will only be equaled when Deacon Dinwiddie de livers his first letter from the litt'e pictare frame in Sedalid's postoffice And the wind blew outside, the sleet came down in a new direction every minute, the conductor worried the homospathic s'ove and pushed all sorts of ways seVinx at it and back again until one wou'd have thought he regarded us all a3 ege. and his chief object in life was to scramble us thoroughly, and cook us well after wards. The car slopped, and a shy little brown eyed woman came in cast a one-sided O don't get-up-Pd- just-as-soon-stand glance around. reached for a str p. and the two boys, tha drummer, and the judge roae ana said Seat, lady. " Whereupon the little woman looked up at the tall drummer, said " Thank you, " and sat down with a vague impression that he was hand- some, ana wondered in an indefinite kind of way if he were marr'ed, and if her hat was straight. Not that she had a sufficiently developed miud to think these things purposely. She was to quaint a little woman for that, and she nad something else to think about. It was Saturday night, dirk as anything, and she had a whole month s w.gf-s in her pocketook,-in view of which facts even the pictures que drummer invested himself in her imagination with all the terrors of the highwayman. Watching her o, portunity, she opened the purse stealthily, wtook out the " nickel " for the conduc or, laid it on the seat beside her, slipped the pocket-bonk into the bottom of tho pact oF the old fashioned, round-skirted, black dress, stood up to re-adjust the fold of the long "Newmarket, and had just re seated herself, when the car stopped again, the conductors voice came in over the heads of the passengers with a peremptory desire that we should ' move up front, 5' and another wo man, big and hravy, short of breath and 6elf-assartive, came in. A woman with one of those faces that used to be human, but from which Father Time seems to be obliterating ihe features as fast as he can, es if he were ashamed of the mistake made by Mother Nature in fashioning sucb folks, so that they gradually come to look like wooden faces, from which all the projecting points have been chip ped, and whose hollows are slowly illing with dast.-until there is just a .great tat sea of a face, with which a tight dress, a choked expression and r& labored breath are always associated. She made an impressive march up tha aisle, and stopped in front of the two tired boys with dinner pails with a stolid expectant look that lifted them bodily from their seats.-turaed herself round cumbrousiy, and complacently, and sat down. Sat down on all the -the ;place the boys had occupied, crowded the washerwoman on the one side .so that the latter worthy com menced ''sweljin.' visibly" under the infliction, and, on trie other hand, she tilted the shy little woman't hat over liereye, pmned one -arm to her5 side 0 that it went sound asleep and stayed there,and fastened her.securely t to her seat by -encamping on the SKirr, r Jtl - IV -Uj lJVacl-UUUftj iXLLKl 111 UK CI. Sbe was such a very shy little wo jnan that this was quite a tragedy to , lier;'andit was a long time before she had, the courage to thrust her head ibrward so as to see around the big woman's shoulder, look up in her free, and say, with' the most deprecating ';way in the world: " 1 ' ' 'I beg y'our pardon, ma'am, but you sat down oh my nickel;" 'The bitf woman piid no attention, 1 only stored' straight in front of her, J mi, wnat wnn tne eerie sounu or ine thesleet, the stuffiness of the car, and ,ine fbar of the cable under her feet as " they went plun dug rito the myster , 4on darkness, tne little- woman began tc feel very, oueerly indee'd, much as ,if they were on an encha'nted journey, O Tl tVlO Kl nr-' TCrim'r m rwr o ''.tin and: the biff womaii were -a ma- llCJOUS fill lry, who, , for some misde- meaiiur. nuu ,ueen lurnea1 to "Stone. mtttfe'wfW of the rWW-S Vr-M hell roused her to the necesSUes of .11 p THE the case, and she came out of land, and said, a little louder: fairy- "I beg your pardon. Ma'am, but you sat down on my nickel," which very courtpous speech produced no more impression than did the first. " Curious and curiouser," said Al ice, and then, as the people swayed right and left at the conductor's ap proach, she laid her hand on the big tpnmaTi'c nrm T ."J lit. . i f.; kmi,.:' .i.- ' 4 "O, I beg your pardon, but toj sat down on my nickel," and then the big woman turned round, shook her head dbcouragtugly and said : " I guess you're mistaken," I never saw you before in my life," which s flustered the little woman that she dropped back iu her seat quire pale with the exigencies of the situation and the big drummer leaned away down, and asked her 4 Do you know where yu want to get off?' which made her angry and she sat up very straight and said she did, and just then he w.is swayed to one side like the leming tower of Pisa, and the conduc t's hand appeared with a "fare, please." The hand waited patiently for a minute, and then, not receiving the decired fare, the head and body an peired alter it. As soon as she c: uid tee his face, the little woman whis pered tw him that she 41 couldn't pay her fare just now, for this lady had sat down on her nickel." (She was afraid to mention the pocket-book with that drunken mau Al- X fl'1 Till 1 ou me oar. ) mis itttie speecn was delivered with many stammeriuers and much blushing, and the officious new conductor reached up, pulled the bell rope, stopped the car in the middle of the block, aud said, in the dead silence that reigns around a still car on a stormy night. "Sorry, Miss I but we can t let you ride for nothing. i ou oughtn t a took a car if you didu5i have any nickel," upon which every body turned ;o look at the little wo man, and the judge, the drummer, the two boys, the washerwoman aud one of the "sarsiety" ladies, with a patronizing air, aud a shrug at the sle-t outside, offered to pay her fare. Ail or wl.ioh angered the little vroman very much, and s ;e held her hed quite up, looked ihe c mductor full in the face, and snid in rather a high key, ,'I didn't say I couldn't pay my rare, 1 said this lady sat down on my nickle." As the contrast between the two forced itself upon the passengers, they all began to laugh, which made the little woman angrier than ever, and then they all stopped. Then the b:g conductor, who would readiiy have undertaken to adjust any that occured within the bounds of the car, reached over, seized the uncon scious cause of all this "untranqu lity" by the arm, and said, This lady says you sat down on her nickel." 1 he fat woman turned around, faced the angry li tie woman, bfcame conscious of our expectant faces, and slowly re settled herself with the remark 4 'I never saw her before in my life." Then the conductor grasped the truth She was deaf He raog the bell for the car to go on, leaned over and shouted in her ear, "You sat down on her nickel ! " Thia time she heard half the sen tence. She heard the word "nickel", turned and glared into the little woman's wrathful face, and burst into a torrent of words that could only come fr.rn an Irish woman with a grievance. She thought she was ac cused of stealing the nickle. She de tailed her personal bistoiy to them with all the impracticable evidence phe could command, explained the high esteem in which she was held in her neigborhood, appealed to them for corrobtirtion, which was heaped upon her lavishly by the drunken man who was a'-so' becoming excited. Sue wanted to be arrested and searched in the car : produced the contents of her own pocket-book, and accounted for the various nickels therein: wanted toarr-stthe little wimn and .con due or : was going to sue the roa for defamation ol character; wanted, the names of the passengers for witnesses: bused them all for laughing at her (for the little woman was in. the - cur rent now and laughing as bard as anyone,) and hen she came to: her street, she fairly backed the speechless and astounded conductor down the a;sle, on the platform, off the steps, and into the mud, and we left her standing in the mud in the sleet and darkness in a very agony of unex pended vituperation; Then: the condnctbr picked up the nickel, (the little woman-wouidn't have touched ifeupoh any terms :) the purple slowly died out of the! J Udge's coun tenance .as. he resumed his1 paper, the little woman (drunken, man and all :) produced that pocketb6ok SDread the bills out, carefullv, re folded thni and nut them back, with rather a defiant little air upon her. , -And it happened that the drummer a. A L, nri oC;, th ;i ' I ;i..i k- t u.j uti' r something about rging the 'same i way, and it was pretty dark," and the SEDAIJA WEEKLY BAZOO, OCTOBER 14, 1890. next minuie I saw them under ihe lamp-post, her face upturned to his, the damp little curls cinging all over the brown head, her cheeks quite rosy with the Jate excitement, and I think she was saying (you. know I'm some ting of a mind reader) "Oh, if you J please: I am a little frightened, and I i mere is sucu a dark alleyway to pass going, ," Then the darkness swal lowed them up. I saw, her the other day. She was sitting at one of the big windows of a wholesa e . dry goods house (one of those nouses that always remind one ot tne buirs that you see in the drop of water with a micro.-oope where you can see the hpart and the lungs, right torougn tne skid, because the win dows are so big, an' she looked out at me with her puzzled little eye for a minute and tnen tossed up a nickel where I could see it. and was hard at work again. She's a good little woman, God help her: BEST TABLE SUPPLIES. Sedalias Markets the Finest in the Land Yesterday's Prices. 1 here are no finer markets in the west than those in this citv. The dis plays ot garden truck at Ramsey's and other Ohio street grocery houses are truly surprisiug. Ihe tRnder let tuce, large, suiid meat radshcs and young onions remind one of spring. and sme oy side with them are tne p.oducts which come from garden and field only in the fall. The following are me retail prices on tne market yesterday: California quiucss were selling from 50 to 75 "a dozen. They are very large aud juicy. Irish potatoes are still higher than the sweet ones. They are telling from S1.20 to $1.35 a bushel and the sweet one at 85 cents to 1 Crambeiries as fine as in mid win ter sell from 12 to 15 cents a quart They make delicious tarts, pies and sauce for oysters. .Lettuce, home grown, ranges from 3 to 5 cents a head. It is very nice and fresh. Little white "spring" onions are again to be had as fre3h as in May, aud at the same price, 3 bunches for a nickel. Fine radishes two bunches for 5 cents. Eggs sti'l keep their hea ls above rock bottom. They have been 17 cents for some time and dealers pre- Egg plants cost 30 cents each ; nne oys er plants sell for $1 per dozen bunches. Peaches are about gone. Califor nia 40 cents per dozen. The delicately flavored Spanish onion retails at 3 pounds ior 25 cents. 12i cents wilt buy a dozen of green peppers If you coutemplate making cold pickel you must have pepper3. Carrots 25 cents per peck. Best creamery butter is 25 cents a pound ; best country grade 20 cents. Cheaper stocks down to a dime. Good eating apples are scarce and sell for 20 and 25 cents a peck. Cook iug apples from 15 to 20 cents per peck. Oysters are much larger and better flavored than for the pat two year3. The prices at Fultun Market are as follows : New York count, 60 cents per quart can j Selects, 50 and Stan dard 35 cents ; in bulk, 60 cents per quart. Turnips are 10 cents per peck. Concord grapes 50 to 55 cents per basket of-ten pounds. Florida sweet oraeges 40 cents per dozen. Lemons, choice, 40 cent3 per dozen. Bananas are 20 cent3 per dozen. Cnlifornia pears 30 cents per dozen, California Tokay grapes 15 cents per pound. Mixed nuts 20 j?er pound. Koman cheese, best imported, 30 cents per pound. Cabbage sells from 5 to 15 cents per head. Boasting ears from 10 to 12 cents per dozen. Tomatoes for catsup 55 to 65 cents per bushel table use 25 cents per peck. Spinnach 15 cents per gallon. Paraley and 6oup bunches 5 cents each. Lima beans 25 to 20 cents per hulled quart and 25 cents' per gallon in the pJd. j Fish remain the same in prices. Quail retail at 12k cents" each. Squirrel 4 sell at 10 cents each', and 'rabbits at same figure. Large spring ccicken3, 20 els each. Prairie chickens 40 cents each. For Ovefc Fifty 'Years 'SlES. VinsloSv's Soo-rrciNGr .Sxrup has tbeerru&ed lor beeri' used for children teething. - It soothes .1. ' 1S.MJ -X. J 17 . the -inild, softens ihe puma, Biiavb pains. l-u,,?",u" wni,am. is the best rented v Twnty-five cents a'bottle.' Sojd by all druggists throughout tjie world. M-ljr, - v T - J KENNEDY'S SPEECH. Thousands of Copies to be Sent to Ohio for Campaign Use. Washington, D. C, October 11. "Expunged" is the leading heading of a documeut that is being rattled off by th thousands in a downtown print ing office. The heading in question is in larjie blacK poster type and is fol lowed by this legend in smaller type : Speeches of Hon. Robert P. Ken nedy of Ohio in the house of repre sentatives Wednesday, September 3, 1890. Wednesday, September 24, 1890. 'Truth . ra hed to earth will ri?e agaia. The eternal years of God ,are hers." The document ia question is the speech of the Ohio member in which he so bitterly attacked Senator Quay, and which ha3 caused such a ripple in the republican party, and Represen tative Kennedy's friends are deter mined that, although it was expunged from the records of the hou3e, it shall not be repressed. Hence thousands of copies are being printed in a private office and a force of women are preparing the document for shipment to Ohio, where it will be thoroughly dis tributed. It is proposed to place a copy in the hands of every voer in Kennedys district. It was taken ver batim from the Congressional Record of the dates following those on whih the speeches were made. The docu ment is prefaced by quotations from James G. Blaine, John Sherman and President Harrison. The spicy por tious are illuminated by a liberal dis- plav of small capital headings. The pamphlet is set in small type and is sixieen page3 in size. HAVANA CIGARS A LUXURY SLSddle Classes Will Have to be Content With a Poor Home Product. Havana, October 10. La Trade publishes the report of the cigar man ufacturers union ot this city to the Spanish Chamber of Commerce on the effect of the McKinley tariff bill. The United States, it says, consumes halt of the product of the island, and this importation will be stopped un less a commercial treat-' is entered ai revenue, etc., 1,000 Havana cigars could not be sold for less than from $134 to $138, which means 15 cents r each cigar at retail. Although the United States is a very rich country, it is next to an impossibility for the middle classes of people, who constitute the heavv consumers, to be able to smoke a Havana cigar." With regard to the tax on wrappers, it says : "They imposed a duty of So per pound on the wrappers, and they eroneously go to work and say that if in the bale which contains eighty carots one single leaf is found which could be used as a wrapper the whole bale would have to pay the $2 per each pound This is monstrous, because it is very seldom that a bale of fillers ia found, in which you could not find some leaves which could be used for wrappers. The American custom house will find some wrappers in each and every one of the fillers, and consequently they will impose a duty of $200 on a bale which should pay but $35 duty." MISSOURI NOTES. J. H. Jameson, who was one ot Quantrell's men, died at the Nevada asylum for the insane the other day. The census of Missouri will show that 3,000 lucatic3 are confinei in the public aud private asylums of the state. St. Louis was incorporated De cember 9, 1822. William Carr Lane was the first mayor. The population of the city then was 4,800. A German shoemaker at Marshal says he has not swallowed a drop of water for over eighteen years. He even prefers to wash with beer. Eichmond has the largest onroll raeut of school children, according to population, of any town in North vest Missouri outside of St. Joseph. A St. Joseph preacher has been roasting Lily Clay's show in the pa pers. It is supposed that the usher wouldn't give him a front seat. Governor Francis entertainment of Senator Vest iu Jefferson City will be taken generally in the slate as a declaration that he wants Coekrell's seat. Ihe Fourteenth Annual State convention of ;the Young Men's Christian associations of iIis5onrit will convene afc Gallatin, October 2? to 26. ffhe oijening address wid be de livered by iev. d P. Masden, D..D., .pastor Union M. E. church, jSt. LouisJ t f, . ' , ; , ADMINISTBATORS Sale of the entire herds of Short Horn, An gus, and Galloway Cattle ; Also the Standard orea . I rotting and Denmark Sadd e Horse- property ot the late Major William Gentry. SALE NEAR SEDALIAJVIO., OCTOBER 2 9 and 30,1890 THE undersigned administrators of the estate of the late Major Wil liam Gentry, by order of the court, will sell the entire stock of thor oughbred and high grade cattle, of the following breeds : SHORT HORN, ANGUS, AND GALLOWAY- Also all the standard bred Trotting and Denmark Saddle Hor ses, and all the work stock, conaiuing of about twenty-ttye fine work mules and thirty head of yearling mules. STHIRTY HEAD JACKS AND JENNETS, By far tbe best herd in the west, headed by the celebrated imported jack, Maxmlliun. The entire flock of breeding sheep, consisting of about 1,000 head Merino, Southdowna and Cotswolds. Several hundred head of young cattle heifers, bnlls and steers of the breeds first mentioned. All farm machinery, consisting of reapers, mowers, plows, cultiva tors, hay rakes, hay derricks, wagons, buggies, harness, etc. Kales to take place as follows : Wednesday, October 29, 1890 -At the home farm of th deceased, three milts northwest or.Stidalii. Mo. Thursday, October 30, 1890-At Locus: Grove Farm, eight miles northwest of Sedalia. . The sale will be continued from day to day at Locust Grove Farm until all sold, as the sale is imperative and without reserve. This will be the largest sale ever made in Missouri. All sums of $o0 or under, cash in hand ; a credit of six months without interwt' on all sums over $50. Purchasers will be required to make bankable piper. All parties from a distance coming to 8edalia, caa secure transportation to the sal by applying to the livery stable of Gentry & Offield, Fourth street, betwen Oiagt and Kentucky streets, Sedalia. Parties desiring information regarding the stock or salt, will address JOHN JR. GESTBY, Locust Grove Farm, Hughesville, Mo. Administrators of lO-ld&wtf THE CIRCUIT CO URL Yesterday's Proceedings Interes tingThe Docket Keset by Jndge Field. From Sunday Daily. The proceedings in the circuit court yes terday wound up the week's business. Quite a large number of cases were disposed of and the docket was reset bv Judsre Field. Elizabeth Hubbard vs Philip Shaffer ; appeal ; plaintiff files motion for new ap peal bond. J Clopton, administrator vs J W Truxel Music company ; note ; motion to make petition more definite and certain, argued and taken under advisement. John P Poe vs Gerd Erunkhorst ; ap peal ; dismissed by plaintiff at his costs. Emerson, Hughes & Co, vs Jno Mont gomery, jr, garnishment ; motion sustained and garnishee allowed $10,00. Citv of Lamonte vs Mrs P A Taylor ; appeal ; motion to dismiss overruled and leave granted plaintiff to file amended statement forty-five days after term. In the matter of the assignment of A Van Valkenburg, John E Wright, as signee ; attorney fee of $15.00 allowed C E Yeater. In the matter of the assignment of Adolph Ehrgott, K N Morrow, assignee ; assignee ordered to compromise debts. Western Home Insurance company vs Jule Busch ; attachment ; defendant has leave to file answer by October 20tb. Kingsland & Douglas manufactuing company vs David Blocher ; note ; plain tiff files replr. A J Hall "vs Charles H Watson et al ; ejectment ; defendant files answer. J West Coodwin vs W Sharp ; note ; judgment for plaiatiff for $11543 at 10 per cent interest. J D Levy & Co V3 John E Wri?ht, as -signee of A B Van Valkenberg ; appeal from assignee ; motion to dismiss over ruled. John J Ward vs Thomas E Gregory et al ; injunction ; motion to compel plain tiff to elect overruled. Nancy J Bangh, et al vs W C Overstreet et al ; equity motion for costs sustained, and plaintiffs have till October 28th to file bond. Continental Insurance company V3 Min nie E Bouldin, et al ; equity ; interlocu tory judgement by default. State ex rel McGinley vs Joseph G White et al ; taxes ; motion for leave sustained and defendant Joseph G White files sepa rate answer. Same vs Edward Hurley et al; taxes; defendant Edward Hurley files separate answer. Same vs Margaret Campbell ; taxes : mo tion for leave sustained and answer filed. Same vs Samuel B Cohen ; taxes : same entry. ' Same vs Elizabeth C Haulenbeck; taxes, same entry. Kaoie vs E. P. Crume et al ; taxes ; same entry. . bame vs K, J. bhy et al : taxes: same j entry. Ordered that the docket be re-set as fol lows 1 , TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14. . , 2227 Jacobs Bros., vs Missouri Pacific . railway cpmpany garnishee of A - ,Cosgrove. J 22S7 J -T f Montgomery vs Western Unidn Telegraph company J 2 Charles Masoagill vs H W Wjood. 2293 Louise Bellen vs Mis30uri Pacific t rvdiway company. , , "WiEDNESD AT, OCTOBER 1q. ' y 2329-Moe A-Isaacs & Oo 'vs v Yf' Ml JN0. E. GENTRY, J. 0. THOMPSCLY, the estate of Win. Gentry, deceased. King, garnishee of S Cohen. 2330 -Mey berg Hat Co vs W P King msnee ot o Uofaen. 23538 B Cohen vs W P King Jr . 2460-'William W Sawford vs Missouri P' c.fic Railway company. 2351 Assignment of S Cohen W P Kin Jr" assignee. 2352 Assignment of H V Leist W P Kin Jr assignee. 2406 Keid Murdock & Co vs L M Town ley et al. 2408 Anthony Seeberger et al vs LM iownsiey et at. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16. 2436 Edward P Barrett vs Richard Harris 2444 Citizens National Bank vs Milton Durrill et al. 2455-Elizabeth Hubbard vs Philip Shaft et al. r 2458 Assignment of W J Long W P Kin Jr assignee. 2344 Millie Shaffer vs Receivers Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway co. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17. 2480 James H By ler vs R C Snecd nishee of Curran et al. 2497 John R Clopton administrator ra X W Truxel Music company. 2508 J E Burres3 vs A Y Gilmore. 2517 Assignment of A W Leake J R Clop ton assignee. 2530 George F Longan vs WU Telegripk company. 2531 - Ellis R Smith va WU Telegraph co And it is further ordered that the first cae on the docket for Monday, October 20, 1890. shall be the case of Sallie M Will vs K c cable Ry Co and that the docket m let for the week commencing Monday, October 13, 1890, shall be the docket for the week commencing Monday, October 20, 1890. Ordered that court adjourn till Mo a day morning at ten o'clock. Dr.BulPsCoughSynipcvwzk uxlS - REPORT Of the Condition of the Se4ali 2fr tioaal fianK, at Sedalia, in the Stat- of Missouri, at the Close of Business Oct. 2, 18Q0. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts... $ 36,173 79 Overdrafts secured and unsecured 10 30 U. S. Bonds to secure circulation 25,000 0 Due from approved reserve agenta 13.7&8 3- Due from state banks and bankers 2 892 2$- BankiDg hou-e furniture and fixtures.... 177 50 Current expenses and taxea paid.. 1,477 Premiums on U. S, bonds 781 25 Checks and other cash items 51100 Bills of other banks . 5,000 00 Frau'l paper currency, ni.keis and ceuts 5 Of Specie- 1,421 40 Legal tender notes 15,789 08- ' Total J. .......3103,017 30- LIABIUXLE"?. f Capital stock paid in 70,QS6 0- U 'divided proiits J........ .. tl3 82 j" Individual deposits subject to check 32,547 4S- f j Total t .'......SiOOlT SO STATE OF MISSOURI, )' . ' t CO CUT Y 0FPETTXS. j"83 I,' F. W, Snultz,"cashier of the above named. bauk,do solemnly swear that the above statement i true to the best of my knowledge and belief. . ' . S F, W SHULTZ. Cashier. .Subscribed, add s,worn to before me this 11th daj, l of October..l8DO, t ti u,, u y w AiiJi, notary public ) I I. w, MKUCHKiE. VDirectors .JNO.MCSINLEY, Y fc 1 ,1. ' f- ' X A'ftrt TolqatfinSedaliawdo AwWiMyW- Central, lorm .frma. Vqry bweat rates. E. BoTJsx.ilQ'OhoQ ii if ii - i: I 1 .1