Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1886, Page 4

,THE DATLY BEE. OMATA OFFICENO. 014 AND GToFARNAM ST NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOM 05, TRIBUNE BUTLDING WasmNGTON OFFicR, No. 513 FounTeesTh ST. Publiehed every morning, excapt Sunday. The ghiy Monday morning pupor publishied i the . TERWE RY MATL: o Venr, £10.00 Three Monthe ix Month 5.000ne Month. ... Toe WeEkLY Bire, Published Every Wednesaay. TERMY, POSTPAID: One Yenr, with premium. . g’:“ Yenr. without premiim v x Months, without premiur il 6 Month, on trial 10 CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to_news and odi- torinl matters should be addressed to the Epr- TOR OF *nE: B BURINTES LRTTERS: All bu sfnees lotters and romittancos should be sadressed to Tik HEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA, Drafis, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made payuble to the ordor of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER. Eorron. ——— SENATOR MANDERSON has presented a woman's suffrage petition. Although he is not in favor of giving the ballotto ‘women, his gallantry permits him to pre- sont petitions to be consigned to the pigeon-hole. SENATOR LOC for open executiv paver men genc N's strongest argument sessions is that news- ally ascertain what is done in secret sessions, or make pretty correet guesse There is no use trying to keep secrets from them. Mr. Logan's head is very level on this subject. Tre Herald still continues to shout for organization in the democratic party in Nebraska, It is evidently trying to re- Dair the damage done by the great dis- organizer, Dr. Miller. It can consistent- 1y urge such a movement at this time, as Dr. Miller—if we h: not been misin- formed—is out of poli TuE mventor of scales, Thaddeus Fair- banks, died last week at his home i Ver- mont. With all his ingenuity, Mr, Fair- banks never succeeded 1n inventing an appliance which would hold the ‘s S of justice” even, where the interests of the people and of the corporations camo in conflict. Avr of its exchanges will note with con- gratulation that the bright and breezy Jittle paper, the Washington Critic, has passed the first anniversary of its exist: ence and enters upon its second year of prosperity under the most favorablo con- ditions. The editors of the Critic have shown that a newsy, well edited and spicy paper can be made a success at the na- tional capital. Tue boulevard question ought to be taken up at an early day by the city and county authorities and definitely decided upon. The plans prepared have met with general favor on the part of our citizens. If action is deferred, it will be found diflicult to secure the right of way which was so freely tendered last fall by property owners along the route sug- gested when the matter was under con- sidaratinn o ONE of the cheekiest things we have heard of latoly is the attempt of a Chicago commission firm—dealing in grain, stocks, ete.—to have the Omaha board of trade offer inducements to it to open a branch establishment, probably a bucket *Bhop, in this city. Other towns, the firm states, have offered tangible inducements and propared places of business for it. | The Omaha board of trade, however, is not lending any material assistance to es- tablishmonts of that character. ThEe fair Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, who distinguished herself in the woman'’s suf- frage campaign in Nebraska several years ago, is again in trouble, She has been lying about Mrs. Delia M. Parnell, who, she ayers, accused the Irish of treachery, called theland leaguers her en- @mies, and said that her dearest friends liad forsaken her in her trouble. Mrs. Parnell has found it necessary to come out in an interview, denouncing Mrs. Gougar as a brazen-faced falsifier, to use a mild expression, and to deny separately - and collectively the statements, which | the shricking sister of Indiana put in her mouth. PHILADELPAIA papers are noting with Anterest that work has been renewed on the new public building or city hall, ‘The structure is the most monumental | miece of municipal extravagance in the eountry, Between eleven and twelve . millions of dollare have been expended mpon it since the laying of the corner | stone in 1872, Itis the largest building, | finished or in course of completion, in ‘@ the United States, and 15 estimated to L ¥ ecover 2,800 more square feet than the 1 at Washington. The tower on morth side will be surmounted by a of Penn, and its extreme height completed will be 535 feet. It has reached a height of 270 feet. — question whether secret benevo- orders are exempt from taxation un- the provision of the state constitu- excwpting property used for beney- nt or charitable purposes, has been ed adversely in Indiana. Judge it in rendering the decision made the lowing points, which are of interest to braskans, as they cover a question n raised in this state. The state law, pting property from taxation be- @ of its use for charitable and benov- c8 purposes, must be strictly con- od. Where exemption from taxation granted for property used and set apart for charitable purposes (it covers such property as may be held or oo- ied for such purposes, and not the proverty leased for business purposes or § diverted to sceular use for galn. {The use, in order to come within ‘th terms of the exemption, ‘amust be divectly in aid of the charitable Spurpose. In considering in a general ¥ the subject of taxing such organiza- the opinion makes the following ints: 1. A corporation for business poscs, although such purposes way tly contemplate benevolent re. Its, is not a charitable institution within meaning of the law. 2. A beneficial whose benelits and benevolence is exclusively to its contributing bers, is not an association for char uses. 8. A charitable institution, ) be exempt from taxation, must be wely charitable. A good charitable use , not in the scnse that it must axecuted openly in publie, but in the of being so general and indefinite -objects as to be deemed of comwon 4 oy The New Land Distriots. Senator Van Wyck's bill ereating two additional land districts in Nebraska was takon up in the house yesterday, on motion of Congressmian Dorsey, and passed, The bill now goes to the presi- dent for his signatare, and will without question become a law within a few days. This news will be received with pleas- ure by the settlers of western and north wastern Nobraska, who will be chiefly affected. The new land offices will be located at Chadron, in Dawes county, and at Sidney, in Cheyenne county, each town being practically in the center of the district for which the local land offices will do ser- vice. The Chadron land district will take in all that section of the state com- prising what was formerly old Sioux county, and which is now divided into the counties of Sioux, Dawes and Sheridan Up to the present time all entries in that part of the state have been recorded at Valentine, and the necessily of making a journey, often amounting to 150 miles, as been a h burden upon scttlers. The new office at Chadron will open with literally “a land oflice business.”” The rush of settlement which a year ago peopled that section from the sand hills to the Wyoming line con- tinues unabated, and promises to double the population within the next six months, Th ion of the st which will be served by the Sidney land oflice will be taken out of the jurisdiction of that at North Platte. The new oflice will be as much of an accommodation to the people of western Nebraska as the Chadron office will be to the settlers in the northwestern part of the state. Set- tlement is pouring rapidly into that por- tion of the state and the land outside of the ralroad limits is being taken up wherever available. There will now be the usual scramble for the comfortable oflices of ister and receiver at Chad- ron and Sidney and the hungry demo- crats will lose no time in forwarding their applications and endorsements to an already distracted administration. The Assessment Humbug. Until we have a radical reform in our methods of assessments, the taxpayers of Omaha will continue to suffer from the unjust discriminations of the men who regulatethe basis of the tax 1 It is a notorious fact that during the past ten years the assessments in Douglas county have been a mero sham. Millions of property owned by wealtly citizens has gone scot free of tax, while the realty of the men of moderate means has been as- 8es: fully up to the himit. assert that Omaha’s t: real ostate is fully a hundred mil- lions while last year the returns of the assessor showed less than ten millions for all Douglas county. There is no reasonable excuse for such a condition of affuirs. The root of the trouble lies in the fact that the assessors and the heavy property owners have a common interest in concealing and 1n undervaluing property. At every elec- tion for nraninas aamases=s i ol S lonste! O QIE5CES0TS An bais Ty Uad great tax shirkers use their money and influence to secure men as asséssors who will “do the square thing'’ by their prop- interests, The assessor finds it to interest to favor all his constituents but he naturally grants more favors to to the wealthy and influential than he does to those whose influence is confined to the individual votes they cast in caucus or at the elec- tion polls. The election of assessors is the basis of improper assessments. The assessed have a direct pocuniary interest in escaping taxation as far as possible. The motive is strong in the case of every assessor to favor the assessed or in other words to undervalue property. No reform in the gross wrong of unequal assessmonts can be permanent until this motive is removed either by the appoint- mentof the assessors or the election of a chief of assessment who shall appoint his ward assessors and map out the work so that property of a like class is assessed cqually throughout the city. Will They Materialize? We will presently see how much the high-sounding promises of real estate dealers and large land owners are worth when put to the test in giving substantial aid to manufacturers. There are parties in this city now who desire to establish plow works and stove factories. They need, of course, large tracts of land where they can command shipping facil- ities. We are told that their efortsto get such sites on reasonable terms have so far been fruitless. The real estate dealers have an abundance of land to sell at top-notch prices, and the heavy property owners are not public-spirited cnough to donate real estate, evenif it does double or treble the value of the adjoining property. The new manutacturers’ trust company which is about to be incorporated will afford the proper means for testing the sincerity of land owners in their desire to build up manufacturing industries. 1f the promised liberal donations in land available for such purposes material .we shall bave no difliculty in increasing our manufacturing resources. If they fail, some of the land which is now being .held at fabulous prices will be a drug on the market in less than three years. The real estate boom will boom itself out by the time the heavy building is done un- less we provide steady employment for workingmen in factories and mills, Other Lands than Ours, The week in England has been notable for the continuance of the great debate adstone's home rule bill and t troduction and adoption by parliament of the budget for the coming fiscal year. The liboral dissent to home rule has been voiced by Hartington and Goschen, while the pyrotechuie Churchill has spoken for the cou: ives in opposition to the meusure. All these specches have only brought into public attention the fact that the enemies of home rule have abso- lutely no remedy to offer, but mere inert opposition to sny concession looking toward legislative independence for Ire- land. Ou the other side, the ministerial programme has been strengthened by another powerful speech by Mr. Glad- stone in auswer to the objections of the opposition, and by supporting speech by Attcrney Genersl Russell and Sir Willlam Vernon Harcourt. Both M. Gladstone aund Harcourt taunted the orators of the opposition with being unable to agree mwmong themselyes or oven to obtain the sgreement of any two | of them to & plan altcruative to thut for i which the miuistry is yesponsible. They ohallenged the enomies of home rule to produce a scheme of their own, or to maintain that the present relations of the two countries is tolerable or thet it can be mado tolerable by means of coorcion, and warned them that though the present bill may fail and the present government fall with its defeat, the Irish question will still confront par- liament as importunate and asinexorablo as ever, s Indieations are most unfavorable to the passage of tho measure. Amid all the daily papers of London not one supports the bill. The most influential ot the provineial organs are solidly opposed to its pass: The radical defection 1s less than was assumed would be the case when Chamberlain retired from the min- istry, but the break in the ranks of the whigs is wide and it is extremely doubt- ful whether the gap can be filled. With the present strength of the partios in parliament a defection of 70 votes will be suflicient to defeat the ministry counting the eighty-six national- ists as umted in support of Mr. Glad- stone’s measure. The final decision will be made on May 10, when the home rule bill will be moved to its second reading. ‘I'he yote on that motion will decide the fate of home rule for the present session of Mr. Gladstone's ministry, but it will not be decisive for any length of time. Whatever may be the vote of parliament to-day nothing is more apparent than that home rule for Ireland will come eventually, 1fit does not come under Gladstone it will comoe under some other premier who will take up the work where Gladstone leavesit. The sen- timent which will suggest and if ne sary foree such a concession is abroad in England now, to exactly what extent no man can tell, but stronger beyond a doubt than manv believe. From the mo- ment which marked the abondment of dynamite and blndgeon as arguments for Ireland’s self-rule new life began to tlow in Ireland's yeins and nothing but the folly of Irishmen themselves ean prevent what the conditions of the times and jus- tice demand. ge. * % The tumult in eastern Europe has tem- poranly subsided, Greece having de- clared for peace on condition that Prince Alexander yields to the powers and Alexander yielding until a convenient opportunity for another rebellion is pre- sented. So, unless something unforeseen happens, which it has a trick of doing in eastern matters, there will be no war this spring; the ironclads of the pow- ers will go home and be refitted, the Greek reserves will be disbanded, very much to their satisfaction, it is suspected, and the wretched Turks who have been dragged from their homes to serve in the army will be allowed to re- turn justtoo late to put in a harvest. The pressure brought upon both Greece and Bulga ay aside their arms was tre- mendous because necessary to prevent a eral outbreak of war in the oast. readily foresaw that with Prince Alexander ruler for life over a united a and in alliance with Tur supported by England, all the ancient Russian schemes of conquest southward are blocked as they never have been blocked betore. For o long time the czar has been proparing forjthis struggle by Russianizing Servi as far as possible and Montenegro, and more recently by refusing to coerce Greece in her trouble with Turkey. Austria op- poses Russian influence in the western Balkan states. Priuce Alexander is the barrier in the east and a British fleet menaces any anti-Turkish movements by Greece or Russia in the mediterrancan. This is the way it looks to-day; but the first sounds of war might change all ap- pearances and show France and Prince Alexander both in league with Russia, leaving Turkey with England alone as a possible ally. e Good dip lomatic relations still exist be- tween Germany and France, the war be- tween them, however, being siill curried on with great fury by the newspapers. The papers of France have been com- pelled to bear the burden of blame for inciting animosity against the Germans, but, if the German press is not misrepre- sented, no small share of the responsi- bility may be placed at their door, since in their virulent hatred of the French they are not excelled by the French de- testation of everything German, e The recuperative power which France displayed after the Prassian war and the ease with which she satisfied the enormous indemnity demanded by her conquerors were a wonder to statists and political economists. But there is an element of coming weakness observable in her now which is occupying the atten- tion of thinking men, and that is the un- fayorable comparison between her and other nations in respect to the rate of augmentution of the population. In Germany the population annually grows at the rate of 10 per 1,000, in England the rate is 13 per 1,000, while in our country the increase has been tenfold since the beginning of the century. At the present time France constitutes the tenth part of the popu- lation of Europe, whilst two centur] ago it represented a third, If this numerical deterioration continues France will number at the beginning of the ne century only a fifteenth of the European population, and will fall into the position of the small states, and be no longer recognizable as one of the powers. The death rate in France is asserted to be even lower than the majority of Euro- pean countri consequently the eom- parative depopulation must be due to decrease in the number of births' In Frauce the number of infants in propor- tion to adults is less than in any other European nation excepting Ireland, *, e Tue fact that not much is said in the papers regarding the progress of the work of reducing Burmah to a tranquil English province should not lead to the mistake of believing that everything is quiet and peaceful in that country. So far the irregular swarfare mamtained by bands of robbers and desperadoes,and by bodies of genuine patriots has destroyed 600 houses in the very outskirts of Manda lay, the capital of the state, and it is evi dent that it will be a long and difficult task to make Burmah quiet. not to say contented, under British rule, e Tux Prussian landtag has passed Bis- mark’s bill taking away the land from the Poles of Posen, and having received this indorsemeat of his principles, the Prussian socialistic anarchist sits in the background waiting hik opportunity to take away the land from the landtag. There are “‘blood anfl iron™ politics of more kinds than one in Ge The Rev. N. Wardner, the President of the general conference of the Wesleyan Methodists, has sent a letter to Jay Gould in which he sa; ‘T feel constrained to write you my congrawlations for the stand you have taken against the would-be despotism of the secret banditti known as tho Knights of Labor. Unless the growing power of thesa secret combina- tions is in some way broken our country is ruined, and its business enterprises destroyed. What is needed are men of principle and of nerve to stand against this rising, secret, communistic power, which threatens the annihilation of the rights of property.” Rev. Wardner is evidently “playing” Gould for a contri- bution to his conforence. He has missed a proper estimate of his man. MAsSACHUSETTS has given the death dealing cigarette a black eye in the pas- sage of an act imposing a fine of £50 upon every person, not a parent or a guardian, who gives or sells tobaceo or snuff to persons under 16 years of age. One of the worst feature of the cigarette is its cheap- ness which places the use of tobacco within the reach of boys and young chil- dren, CABINET PUDDING. Postmaster General Vilas will deliver the Memorial day oration at the Academy ot Mu- New York, next month. Secretary Lamar's health causes great con- n to nis friends. He should take better care of his interior department. Secretary Manning has o dread of dying suddenly, and was in the habit of carrying abouthis clothes a supply of cure-alls Secretary Endicott is so fey in his manner that when a naval ofticer sees him approach- ing he immediately sends home for his polar suit, Seeretary Lamar hias not yet been able to geta private secretary to suit him. s son oceupies the position, but is unable to write shorthand. Secretary Manning may rocover, but it is a question whether he will ever again be equal to severe mental strain, e must be es- pecially careful to avoid excitement of any kind. Secretary Lamar wears bis hair long; not tor economy’s sake, but because he thinks it looks Tennysonian. Butit is a dangerous thing for a secretary to wear long hair, there are so many lady applicants for pos- itions. A dispateh from Macon, Ga., dated Apri 14, says: Apropos of the arrival in this city this morning of Secretary Lam: a little story has been put in circulation. Itis to the effect that the secretary. will'soon make a pre- possessing widow of this eity his wife. As the romance runs, the y were in carly life en- gaged to be married, but for some reason not stated their troth’ was never consum- mated at the altar. Each married; death has restored each to single Joneliness. Soon, the story goes, each will seek a truce at the altar. ! When Daniel Manning took possession of the oftice of secretary of thé trcasury many xpioied loarn- ing that it was the first office he had ever held. When the stateuient yas made that he had eccepted the dignity with reluctance and only after much persuasion, there was an ex- pression of incredulity. Both statements W rue. r. nning was one of those politicians who preferred to wield power from behind the scenes without troubling himselt with the cares of office e e Arbitration. New Orleans Picayune. One man wants whisky in a bar-room. An- other wants soda in a drug store, Then they arbitrate. They both take beer in a beer sa- loon, ———— The Worst of It. Washington Hatchet. “I dropped §48,000 at poker last night,” re- marked Hon. Tom Ochiltree the other day, ‘“and the worst of it was that $2 of the amount was in cash.” ————— Rather Ourious. New York Sun. One of the curiosities of polities: Joe Pulitzer’s check for $5,000 in the treasury of the republican national committee in 1584, Queer, wasn't Ask Steve Elkins, ———— Boyd Out of Politics, Lincaln. Journal, It has got around to these headquarters that James E. Boyd has also retired from politizs. The vote in the various cities and towns of Nebraska at the late elections would indicate that mostall the democrats had done the same thing. itk Jones' Campaign In Detroit. Chicago Tribune, By the way, whatis Jones doing—Jones of Florida and Detroit? Has he developed within the past two months any new plan in patient love's campaign? The correspond- euts are too matter-of-fact and materialistic, and we get no news from the land of love. S High License the Best. Auburn (Neb.) Champion, High license in Wisconsin seems to do more for the cause of temperance than pro- hibition in Iowa. Prohibitionists should look into this matter and let the would know the result. ‘That drinking is an evil all will admit, but how to control it is a question for philanthropists. s Everyday Work, The Critic, eat deeds are trumveted, loud bells are rung, And me turn round to sce The high peaks echo to the paans sung O'er some gre vietory. And yet great deeds ure fow: won ) Find oportunities but now apd then, ‘T'he mightiest Shall one sit idle througlj thé long days of peace, Walting for walls to seale? Or lie in port until some Golden Floeco Lures him to face the gale? There's work enougli, why delay? ' His work counts most who labors every day, idly, then, A torrent swoops down the mountaia’s row With foam and flash and rohr. Anon its strength is spont, where is it now? Its one short day is 0'eny But the clear stream’ that through meadow flows All the lot:g summer on its mission goes. the Better the steady flow; the torrent’s dash Soon leaves its rent track dry. ‘The light we love is not the lightning flash Frou out a midulght sky, 4 But the sweet sunshine, whose unfailing Frumdu.» calm throne of biue lights every ay. ‘The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small, Are closeknit strands of an ubbroken thread Where love ennobles all. The world may sound 1o trumpets, ring no ells; The Book of Life the shining record tells, New York Journali St. Paud Pioneer Pr ‘There has been much said about “wild western journalism,” “western journalistie slangwhaugery,” ete., by eastern new papers; but the New York Mail and Exvress, an-avowed organ .of culture and literature, uot “infreguently makes sueh cultured re- marks as thi “When the whole truth is known, even the monkey editor of the de- caying and putrescent Times will know enough to shut up his barbaric yawp,” There is New York Journalism for you! bt AR Stop the Strike, Phitadelphia Records It s a very dangerous power the Knights of Labor are thrusting in the hands of Jay Gould, that of prolonging or putting an end to busin agnation in three or four pro- ductive states. That great speculator finds as much profit in the miseries of his fellow- men a8 in their prosperity. While his rail- ronds. are idle 15 Dralns are as busy a8 ever in_controlling to his own uses the ups and downs of the stock market., gt kol Labor Saving Machinery. Philadelphta Recond. Many workingmen belioy troduction of labor saving machinery is prejudicial to their interests, A genera- tion or so ago this opinion was universal among the laboring classes, but exne- rience has proved it to be untounded. The condition of wage workers has greagly improved with the past twenty or thirty yea and this improvement has kept pace with the increasing use of la- bor saying appliances, It is true that when in any particular shop, or even in any particular branch of business, ma- chines are introduced which enables one man—or a boy perhaps—to do the work of half a dozen men, the resuit must be smaller demand for that class of wol men. But new avenues of labor are opened up, u stimulus is given to indus- trial pursuits generally, and in the new activity even the displiced artisan will find his condition improved. This i what has happer liis is what - pening . If the labor saving machinery of the world were to be en- tirely destroyed and its principle for- gotten, civilization would receive a_blow that would be aralyzing; the lot of the workingman would at once be piti- ble, and a new Dark Age would be upon that the in- ome Stoneham, (Mass.) tanners lately refused to work until a new labor machine had been removed. This was a very fool decision, The use of the machine might have made the work of a fow tanners unnceessary, but by chean ening the cost of leathe] would have encouraged a greater output as well as a greater consumption of that product, and 50 have advanced the general good much more than it prejudiced individuals Many y ago some workman in a saw factory in Sheflield, England, objected to use of labor-saving appliances on the me grounds that were advanced by the oncham tanners. They would not work 1 innovating ~ machinery was v The result was that the was driven from Sheflield and great Disston saw works became a Philadelphia mstitution. In this e the new machine was a life as well as labor saver, but it was put under the ban of the workingmen Prayers for the House, Chicago News. The blind chaplain of the house of rep- resentatives has achieved more notoriety by reason of two pr he oflered up before that body than for the grace and ability with which he for many years adorned the lecture platform in this country. His famous lecture, “What a Blind Man Saw in kurope,’’ did not star- tle his hearers half so much as did the prayers he made in the house okt Talolt olf in ol tion of chaplain in that body must be a trying one, and if he has the earnestness to point out any bit of rascality, any great sin, or any erying iniquity for which he may desire the mercy or forgiveness of God he is quite likely to tread on the corns of half of the emmbers of the house and give the rest a shudder that they have escaped by so small a margin. If there be anything that will make a hypoerite wince it is to have an earnest man begin to pray for him and enumerate the particular sins that make his aproper case for divine clemency. So when blind Mr. Milburn asked that evil men be re- strained from gambling in stocks, grain, and food, he hit more men than he could had he been argus-eyed and armed with ling-gun, The bones rattled in the chamber, but the sightless suppliant departed unconscious of the commotion he had raised. There is only one way of nvohling rogurrengg of ‘this troublo among ¢dh. science-stricken congressmen, and_that 15 to have & committee draft a series of vrayers for the use of the house. The prayers would, of course, be models of brevity, but that would not make them unweicome for those who esteem it a deprivation to be long restrained from the patronage of the counter where “‘cold tea’’ 15 retailed at fifteen cents a cup or two for a quarter. ——— MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mr. Lawrence Barrett is acting in Texas, smond Tearle will star here next senson Man to Man.” For her three recent concerts in Paris Patti received 45,000 francs. Miss Bessie Sanson, soubrette, recently sailed for Liverpool. W. J. Florence has bought a new comedy called “A Bit of Scandal.” Sara Bernhardt’s farewell in London will be in “Fedora” on the 24th inst. Fred Vokes will probably return to Amer- ica next season with Rosini Vokes Marie Roze has made a succe sonating the queen in Marchetti in English. ‘The Kiralfys propose to produce “The Black Crook™’in London during the impend- ing summer, Judic proposes to follow Aimee's example and star in broken English comedy paits LeXE 3eas0l. Rhea will stop on June 20 and at once sail irope. - Next season may be her last in countr oves, the English tenor, continues t ‘louses, notwithstanding he is over 70 years old. Miss Bertha Ricei has made a hit as Mari tani in Dellinger’s *Don Ciesar” at MeCaull’s Opera house, in Philudelphia. Miozl, a popular singer in Vienna cafes ants, receives for every night’s perform- ance 500 florins—a little over $200. Marie Engel, a pupil of Mme. Murio-Celli, hias been starred in San Franeisco by Colonel Mapleson as the latest prima donna. Mr, Charles Barron will, it is said, perma- nently retire from the Boston Museln coin- pany at the end of the present s0n, Yvans and Hoey, who have been winning colden opinions and golden rewards on the Fiacific coast, Wili g0 o a tour of Australia after this sedson, Jefferys Lewis will try a version of Dau- det’s repulsi apho.” “Bertha Welby will recoive *Winter's Tale,” and Lillian 8pencer will have a play by Cazaurau, “Hamlet” has been performed 1In London a houseful of deat mutes, pantomime and conventional signs by hands and iingers being tue medinms employed. M. Hill has seeured thie entire Japanese illage, which is now at Horticwtural Hall, in New York city, and will exhibit it at his Columbia Theatre, Chicago, throughout the summer, In the performance of “Othello” at the demy of Music, April 20, in which Salvini ‘will be the Moor and Bootl his ancient, Mrs. D. P. Bowers will be Emilia and Miss Marle Wainwright Desdemona. ax Strakosch has caprured Christine Nilsson for a tour of America, to begin next October. The contract was signed last wee “The tour, Mme. Nilsson solewly aflirus, be her farewell one, without fall Mr. Lawrence Barr act tragedy called “Harold, the Last of the Saxons,” Adapted from the German of von Wildenbruch by Mr. Jolin P, Jackson, the translator of Wagner's libretios. Countess Agatha Dornfield is to bagin a thirty-1wo weeks' four of this sountry ol Septimber 6 in “She Stoops to Conguer,” t has accepted @ five: | “An Unequal Match,” “As Yon Like It" “Evadne” and “Romeo and Juliet.” ‘The sale of seats for Modjeska's engage- ment at the Chicago opera house, indicates the short season of eight {«l{nrmnn(‘fls will, it point of financial resnlts, be among the largest the famous Polish actress has ever played to in Chicago, Mr. W. M. H.(nh\n announces that Tom Keene will posifively resume his profossion- al engazements next season. The actor is gradually recovering his speech, which it wi at first thought he had lost forever. and there is now 1o doubt that he will be fully restored by summer time. . e 1s Alway New Haven New \ene’er you see a heavy gloom O'erspread the merehant's face, And deep, dark silence of the tomb Reign all about his place, You'll ever find in such a case That he is far from wise, And has no chance to win the race; He does not advertis RELIGIOUS, ‘The bible i@ to be printed in shorthand and illustrated. _One bible house, which has been estab- lished since 1714, has distributed no fewer than 6,350,000 bibles. The_church congress will meet in Cleve- land May 25, and be presided over by Gov, ker, who is a Methodist, bt wack C ord, the poet, scout, and Clist, i< on his way west, e has been 1z in Brooklyn for some wee A hundred years ago there was not more than 30,000 Christians in the pagan countries, v the number is elose on 2,000,000, stors of the Boston churelies are leading amoyement for instrueting the youth of *“th Hub” for protecting insect destroying bi Rey. Dr. Newman has been sent to the Met- ropolitan ehureh, Washington, D. C., where he was during Giant’s first term. It was a long and a hard tight, 1t is expected that about 250 delezates, in- cluding bishops and the general officers, will be in attendance at the Methodist general hweets in Richwond, Va., the Same. The ofticial year book of the Chureh of England shows that during the last twenty- five yer churel has raised and spent for religious and_educational purposes the sum of $407,800,185, The order of Jesults which has been In ex- years, has supplied the world nts, 1,600 martyrs, 13 popes, 60 s, 4,000 archbishops and bishops, and at pre 300 missionaries. Last vear 8t. Mary’s Catholic church at Walthain, Mass,, was entered and_chalices and othier valuables worth about $300 were stolen. One night recently the stolen arti- cles were returnied, being left in the place from which they wé o, Elder . W. Eyans, of the Mount Lebanon Shaker community, says that the lands of i 50 extensive that they wnot be properly eultivated, and e advises selling of some of the farms. At Birmingham (the English one) the school board has decided that to teach chil- dren hynis is to teach them religion, and has ordercd that hereafter no hymns shall bo taught in the schools under its supervision, except “God Save the Queen The Salvation army lias reason to bo en- ed at its success at Kalamazoo. SIxty- ciehtsinners have professed to b rted sinee it sounded ifs first war-cry and all but three are keeping the faith, © enlisted as earnest and \ orian_theological seminary at Chicago has closed its twenty-sixth year, and will hereafter be known as the MeCormick Presbyterian theological seminary—in honor of the man who gencrously mvl\ru])ri(xlml 80 much of his reapings for’ the benetit of the institution, and whose estate promises still further gitts of it. e TUe e The Truth About It. M. P. Handy in April Century. sang the poet, “budding spring.” " the bonehs were bare 1ol Ghé gheti Ting, everywhere, W For ice la; “gTadl, spring, with breezes s The'spring returned his hail There came a shower of snow and sleet Upon & wintry gale. ft and sweet.” “Sing, merry birds m bush and tree.” He read the almanacs The birds were wiscr far than he, And did not hurry back. “Spring, gentle”—here he ceased to sing, Let the sad truth be told ;. The while he sang of balmy spring, He caught an awful cold. - EDUCATIONAL. Costly living is given as_the cause of the loss of studenfs at Yale college. Rev. James M. Taylor, of Providence, R, L, has been unanimously elected president of Vassar. ‘I'wo American professors are said to have uuj'aued for the proposed university in . Japan. The ¥nsflnrll\lselts legislature is asked to pass a bill makingthe teaching of humanity compulsory in thé public sehools, Hereafter examinations admission to Harvard college will be held in Paris for the benefit of those who are studying in Europe. ‘The millionaire Rockafellers, of the Stand- ard Oil company, have subseribed $60,000 to build a Baptist Theological seminary at Louis- ville. £ A movement is on foot in Germany to im- prove the present systemn of legal eddcation, and is to adopt oné similar to that in vogue in Gr Britain, In the United States every 200th man takes Lnglana every 5 id in Germany every ates s the only cow- in the world which spends more upon ucation than upon war or preparation for war, Out of 7,000 persons examined by the civil service commission during the past year, of whom about two-thirds were successful in standing the test of capacity required, eighty- six per cent were educated in the common schools; the other fourteen per t had the advantage of either complete or partial col- lege training. 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