Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 15, 1886, Page 12

S0RDID SAINTS AND SINNERS. A Larid Picture of Mormon Harems and & Picnic of Polyge. A SYMPHONY Ben Bodden Faces o O ene tow decms abo ing ing peo the into muality’s Blight V F O «-Bathing Scene Great Sale | pEN, Utah of the By seandal 15 the life from utter i ut the vice of large ¢ to the sordid nsuality of ple have little is nothing to div different Angust Here meann s channel IN SEERSUCKER. isible in 1and Yo the ng s in ake. 5. —[Corres 1€ in most minot woning that ve nsinidity. Talk ritic: =t is noth. ess and wallow all town where ire and where ert the thonghts on the | This | wh | the the | | strongest minds will lose by such contact | if o the ontimued for best intentioned be any length of time and misled. Surely there is nothing so derogatory to dignity and fem a v clusions a tion edg and mer manhood as thi ale reticence for th igar curiosity and vived ata su mong fellow seck Yot itis genc impudent youths whose by cus tom of invading ke of gratifying making the con biect for edifica after knowl- hoth with callow ns might be supw engaged in some mighticr conundrom. Gossip is the life of the community men wash it down with the ale yor and masticy ars as the ¢l in the aem lour of m it betwe Il after-dinner n the whiffs of e on the hotel sculine content- ment - chairs tip-tilted and feet ranged in a formic kind of immo sequences ble array on n To illustraie the in_this territory, it » 18 no onduc ar it might be expec Tevel with th s Taxity might aw agninst any ot, and the con e, No one can form an idea of the and of | it. inferio and then for sensuality religious sect. wealth, and suggests the id, iest and igno the amo the REAL NATURE OF M its enel rogr In no other lo sodden eluss of o no one can doubt, aft m, that Mormonism unlimited hicense an nder_preten part of the high gz the people true inwardn 'I’his s of t Ill||f, ss until brought in con ity 18 seel One of ti ORMONISM influence on all sorts t with such an nen and women, ter being among is a mere cover nd unrestrained se of a so-called rules of the to donate ¢ It 18 a su e the mem- elders amass a of ¢ is without doubt he case, but the law is now undertaking what should have been accomplished sentenced ever, surs convicted polygamist to ago. and has prison and forced the shining lights of th The Mormon churches all be: hives, and the great wal structure t chureh into undign cealment, Is bee At once cor ified Mght and r on their mbling ed Brigham Young's harem is surmounted with this MORMON COAT-OF ARMS. It would seem to denote mdustr, juaging from their gloomy lookin anc that neglected © chief i bodes be infe Day Saints consists in_roplenishing the earth, and in that requirement they a found i They injunction “w y are seldom follow out that ith a degree of cheerfulness and thoroughness us seldom edit participated in ey the being so bitte uniting even in a national demor There was a pr ) but ing femal the perforn ssult is a baby cry rming to a's ed spectator of A FOURTH OF JULY ran feud between the asto pre A procession 1 of misguided and e op th nger. of a dul is posi- Lwas the ELEBRATION, lusively by Mormons, aid the Gentiles it them from tration. not only of men, down-trouden Vi wnd conditions, though ble that the o prevailing con- y and shabbi roungest: and most enterpris were mounted on horscoack, clad in voluminous habits ot white bunt- mals, that is, mi anuated marching under a brellas (o & pandemonium of br struments, and reminding the spectutors of a pack ot dray horses. After having 1 lory and dust to the! ame nite d by red, ing of domestic an! rged and ed it in the anopy of cotton um- wraped i iminablo st d wives, fo COV! 1 mmed 1, s three godde white and blue stranght- super reu in- ntil thes ir enti they adjourned to the park. ing a dince made u fitting fin and while the women wore | specimens of Mormons, the male eleme day, to the 1l crude nt le wis augmented by the fastand fun-loving por entertainm zest and b asse tion of the G nt W emblics. mony or nd end most imposin ty that usually marks The belles were got up re ardless of has hem looked as if they haa by I from the odds One of th erized by the rural Most of fitted up of a junk shop, 1g costumes wa fitness. that of a complacent damse! . lavender s & conrse straw hat and no in_toilet, w pictus hits , and a 2 of the Mormon female in b v n B0 icit Gays boforo. masculine dons . nance, - cens e Bop| * of n dégencrated mtellect rende unlimited child sed concubinage hay ondition of serfdd histry of her religion powerless to combat, Close by was another symphony in countenanco, lous in its entirety, who apyp ared 10 b -be: and li- reduced her to 1 which custom, the and the apathy hor some on not indheated in her Hei dress, thou w8 infinitoly me ¢ pllllllllrblnlz than the conventional ev duy deco! tte ball d building period, and her corsuge clung 1o ite! : 4 1 § By der | sist | tali ent on calml b Ertnur playfully thrust his fingers. wine immoval ard for custol il hovered near seorched rally nothing to tl W she manags on with possible ben her witls ency, willing and mmgly between dinmo in ‘her sleevos, thr chewin while her € each sprouting undulation, 5o as to leave e imagination. 1 it, only herself can explain, but it suggests jon that the blase societ mode of sensa- y belle may pon- cfit, for the men b moth-like pe anxions to be Her plump trms glanced tan- ond-shaped open- rough which her She e hor gun with sentile tner continued his investigations, The nen showed the same beautiful disre- | :»IH sented himself up s & Mormon gala day. ‘.. SaLr LAKE, August 9. m whut is known as the Home D matic club, This organization has been nt and probabl ‘mons are found in or formality, One young after leading his lady to the beneh, ou her lup. Such The most intel- the only cultured Salt Lake, and A b existence for somo years, and its mem- ness, and have almost grown give a performance beyond amateur- that ould not be “disereditable to old pro- Their last productionwas i me\ll Banker's Daughter,” with Edith Eratitic; ol foa son in the title role. hrl'fht and gifted .l heir vices, and uence Lo a Props nl g!hn th:?' that use ault Lake is such a qui Watching people, it was & jon to hear that polygamy is not it seemed a log- er degree of en- should be inclined to their religion. et Sunday settle- t polygamy may possibly have tha Allv outcome —of **Variety is the | proplicts way ts phlegmatic ice of life," and bave scoidvered entile population, The | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: he necessary seasoning in this adjusts ment of their domestic SALT LAKE BATHERS. Nature has been most generous where man has passed by with indifference, and with its shady avenues, pebbly streams and sheltering mountains, Salt Lake seems one of the Oases of the earth, but of all its faciiities, the one most prized and revelled in is the famed lake whers the water 15 so dense that one might al most repeat the “walkicg on the waves"” withont any miraculous dispensation where Salt Lake disports itself, | the middle aged man feels braced with renewed youth and the conscious maiden does the mermaid act. Some of the ladies were indeed perfect poems in water, swimming with a grace and that 'the men conld not approach. Many of them wore no hats, and where bionde heads canght the gleams of gold from the sun the effect was very pretiy in the water. ‘The bathi suits are great revealers, They seem eruelly o to the | thin girl, but they are a bonanza to the ordinary looking girl with a plump tignre, who would otherwise escape admiration Frequently the nymphs who appeared most picturesque in the water were merely plump, commonplace females, who would never oceasion a secon glanee in their land apparcl, while the distingue spirituelle beauties who would draw like a magnet in a ball-room were ppalling caricatures in their elinging, \wdr-wut d garments, and in most cases were erushingly conseious of it. A thin woman should never bathe without cor sets, but the Salt Lakers are not posted as to TIHE NICETIES OF BATIHING SUITS, With corsets 1o provide her with an out- line, & modest rk suit with jacket shirred full to a yoke, and stockings in broad stripes, the slender woman will 1in leave her plump competitor in the sackground, Most women have tole bly resvectable ealves, but when the effeet is spoiled by an attenuated ankle ot undue length, bathing shoes should be worn_or sandals laced across the entire length of the ankl ! iling col ors at the Utah and blue. The and plentitully trimmed with white braid, nothing is so pretty. The woman who wants to ereate o sensation wears flannel suit, and when she gets r return to shore she looks more like Venus arising from the deep than a decent nine- teenth century female. As for the men, hideous in baggy, vne-picco garments, like a enild’s nightgown, and for the most part do not deserve mention in any paper but the Polic ette. A few exceptions were noticed who looked natty with jersey fitting shirts, drawers and stockin, on their athletic forms. We oceasionally hear of a man TRAY) and & most obtrusive inst: pound sylph with red ha ! rce, who had the appearance of on the water. He cvidently rev- in the attention le excited, and whenever he caught a female eye turned towurd him acontented smile spread over his meteorie visage, and he would flounder his entire bulk on the sur till the women v n oppo- site diree MisNie RATH. A Picture of Mormon Life, Utah Letter to New York Advertis The poverty of these farmers amid their 1t fields and ¢ seems in- 3 ble to one who is i nt of the animus ot the Mormon le: He does not see that heve in the little borough of Cooksvill heme of robbe nd oppression, of ignorance and vic bearing its legitimate froit. 1have won- dered why the people do not rebel and refuse to pay tithing, but when I ap- sroached cneman in the very prime of ife, who should have had the spirit of a young man, on_the subject, he suid: 1 don’t know. It is the way I have aly been taught, and it roes again is 2! Neither mind nor irit to think for themselves, poor v different was the answer I rece from a Mormon girl, whose fathe: well-to-do farmer in one of the most f ile and pr valle y. 1 wish the Mormon~ sympathizers, from the white house down, could haye heard the words and tone: “Yes, w young people in Utah haven't good schools, and it's the Mormons’ fault. The leaders don’t want us to learn for 1 we will get oureyes open, and then they would lose their tithing. I hate re- ligion. 1t is a big scheme for robbing the l;mn Look at my father. He ought to rich man, but the chureh has ground him. as it has ground his wheat, and often he has been ealled upon to pay ; or $20 in tithing, -\lu' he has done it while his daughters were suffering for sho Look 1 and his starving tamily. H had about twenty bushels of wheatleftin March, and on 1t he and his family were to live until harvest. Along comes the bishop. ‘Good morning, brother; I nt #5 from you to pay Brother ——'s fine,’ and he takes ten bushels of the wheat at y cents a bushel; he goes back to his ng, overworked wife and ragged , and thinks that is respon- or their suffering. The remainde wheat goes to the Zion Co-ope ¢ Merc institution at fifty cents per bushel, and returned in flour to him at §5 per barrel. Look atthe bishop and the president’s houses. No matter in what settlement you are in you ean tell them at once—elegant on the outside, clegantly furnished, When the bishops are appointed they have still their usunl hod of making a living.. Thetithing y . olleet is to'be turned over to the higher authorities. In a year or two the bishop gives up work and builds himself a new housc. If he still turns ove enough to satisfy those above him he is retained; if not, another man is ap- pomnted, and he mukes it o point to get rich as fast as he can. So the money 1A | and otliers are on the eve of shutt passes through hand after hand, and no of us knows what ever becomes of it. es and can see, but I dare not I think.” That is a Mormon gitl's sermon on the financial side of Mormonism. what Just Like Ma If mothers conld always reali ideals they represent to their children, they would be greatly encouraged in their avduous duties. A lady niding upon u street car saw a little boy whom she ve a little sister, Willie,’ she , pleasantly, *Is she a pretty he looks just like mamma," was the smiling answer. “What do you eall her? asked the lady. “She’s named after mamma,’ answered ittle follow promptly. rybody was smiling, and to ady's embarrassment her fr] 1 the color of the baby's hair, 's t ime color as mamma's,” he responded timidly. A ‘ioullculxul who had been amused by the dinlogue asked the wee man if the new little sistor was a [;oml buby. “Yes, sir,” was the prompt reply. “*3he is just like mamma,” Gave Her Flower to God. Detroit Free Press: At a baby’s m Elmwood last week the family gath- ered about the little open grave, and each one dropped into 1t a sweet fragrant mqu blossom, the last souvenir of carthly love. All but one. When it came to the youngest, a little girl of a summers, to part with her precious flower, she held it tightly in her clasped hands, as it defying auy one to take it from her. “'Give it with the rest,” urged her Lllhur,, gently. “Mamma bad to give up ers." 0, but mamma gave her flower to ed the child instantly. estion that carried an infinite the hearts bowed down with peace in grief, FOOTLIGHTS GLIMMER FAINTLY and Musical Events in the World's Metropolis, Theatrical DREARY puLL, SEASON. A Swell Gathering at the First Per- formance of Tennyson's “Becket"—Other Plays and Players. The theatrical and it its dullest. losed g up In musical matters the stagnation is even more complete was the produetion LoxDoN, August 1 musical s on here is now Most of the leading play houses a I'he only recent novelty and first thre pers formances of Lord Tennyson’s dramatic poem of “Becket” by the aristocratic amateurs who play in the open air and call themselves pastoral players, The first performance took place on Tuesday afternoon under a broiling sun, and in the pesence of the Prince and Princess of Wa and quite a host of titled and fashionable people. Most of the swell Americans now honoring the British capital with their presence, were also on the green sward at Wimbledon, and the highly genteel and cultivated er evidently of opinion that the ment was very enjoy “Beeket is only sion of the familiar story of mond,”" and onee again it shows us a king’s wife giv- istress the choice of dager libald Campbell, a of the Duke dbless him), acted the part of Rosamond very prettily, she looked quite bewitching in a lovely costume of bluebell bine, sparingly, re- lieved with olive green gauze Genevieve Ward, who reapp an absence of se years, was a grand Queen Eleanor, By her finished and ar- tistic acting Miss Ward saved the play from dragging, and in one scene pre- vented an utter collapse. Miss Mand Millett was a lively and fous little waiting maid. She was asort of refined Audry, without the tter’s manners, The male parts were sustained by so- ciety amateurs, but the only one who made his mark was Mr.” Macklin, who was drageed in at the last moment to title role, It was a really fine imy) ion, and the actor was much app Son lent music was introduced and admirably executed. The scenes were au natural. and the dress nd other were costly and effective. **Bec repeated on Wednesda, and on each occasion before a numerous, nshionuble and weil-dressed audience. The laureate’s poem mak ¥y poor play, and I don’t think it would have the slightest chance of inaor theatre. he howey under the canopy of h wi effective, though the artists w called before the foliage which did for a curtain. The suceess of the “R Vaudeville matinee has induced Mr, Thomas Thorne to put tl old in the evening bill. The a strong onc including Thorne If s Silky, Charle Kate Ror! and Sophie Larkin as To the role of Dornton, James Ko dez (why is Jimmy v tluctuati well as moving time the advant; still greater expe Mhe 1 the nierit of additional pre) censemble. It is a highly eredit duction, but I » y t the to Ruin’’ will s an a run of or poison daughter-in-law of Argyll (( not duty 1 to Ruin” at a ¢ of his gre htsis still a mi ¥ um at the Adelphi, Last Thursday the popular d Dad its 200th representation, and again *‘house full” notice-boards had to be dis- ed in the Str: N wus such On Thur: the crowded “orated” everybody, and Miss llward and Mr. Terriss were cheered to the echo Charles Wyndham has taken the Prin- ter all, but only for a short winter He has commissioned Henry A, Jones, of “*Saints and write the open likely to be requir In the meantime W his prey the Cr Barrett o and, befor summer mpany have left town, ing for New York, they will keep seyeral long standing en: ragements in the provin Mr. Wilson ke v welcome wvoss the way.” Noxt to [rving he1s our best actor, und he is now in the very zenith of his fame. Irving and Barrett are to us what Booth and wrence Bar- y 10 the American stage, and in a ime this grand quartette of will be under the protection ly on the wind up? I'believe it is quite settled (and signed) M next y lieved that Mr donna, for the tr per night commene| arnest at the Garden, pleson, w cun only sleep when he 'is slecping, will pick up the vemnant of Lago’s disbanded company and take them' through provinees with a doz unslecpin in an hot only materials he requi culinary labor are pens, ink, paper and a cheqiie book. A wonderful man, that colone! Notwithstanding the this very broiling July, still a staying pow the Savoy. The piece is still drawing $1,000 houses, and after this week the money-making Sulli- van and Gi s and the Druury Lane frivol will be the only comic operas on the london stage. The “Mikudo” Anglo-American company abroad are also doing splendid business, and D'Oyly Carte is seriously thinking of taking the picce to Yokohuma and playing before the Mikado himself, If does so, 1 hope he will leave Sullivan with us, But he may take Gilbert—and keep him, We don’t want hi L tlyig trip to Paris last week. usual midsummer stagna- All the population ha pletely sbandoned ‘indoor amusen; und sweltering crowds line the boule- vards. There are a few s the opera. “Murtha” is being sung at the Chateau D’Ean, and it may be sai of the execation of Fiotwo's that it was quite would allow. Marguarite Mineur sang the music of Laay Henrietta very charm- ingly, and warmed the somewhat thin audience to something like enthusiasm. The rest of the cast was moderutely flood, but such mediocre performan are not calculated to draw Parisians side a theater in such weather as this. Besides “Lohengrin” and lkyre hear that *‘Don Giovanni’’ will be in in the operatic performances which M, Lamoroux is todirect at the transmogri fled Eden next spring. A very brilliant supporting company is already engaged, and the great name of M. Faure will probably appear on the list. Italian opera still finds a refuge at wicked Monte Carlo, and at that school for suicides preparations are being mado for a very bustling season. M. Moreau Samti is the new director, and he - gaged Madame Fides-Dovries for of ten performunces. She will sing iu six differcut operas, and she will receive ompanies at | VDAY AU( T 15, 1886.—~TWELVE PAGE £16,00 for her ten nights' work. Madame Sembrich is also engaged for Monte lo. KEYNOTE. - NOT A SUCEESS. The Sickest Bridal Affsir He Ever Saw, Arkansas Traveler son and his wife st tour Eckson d: “We want to people that all newly married dre 1ot silly,” “Yes, we do, Henry."! Now, when we get on the train, let us not pay any attentions to each other.” All right ‘We'll Tean apart from each othe actasif we had been married for won't we' “Yes. Oh, Itell you what would be the funniest ideain the world, Henry We'll take different seats and aftera while we'll get acquainted. Won't that be nicet” “First-class; splendid.” When they boarded the tram they took opposite seits. Henry took up a news- paper and Mollie looked at the wavi andsc After a while Henry looked up and saw the condue Molle Henry chucklea “Thinks she's in love with him, I reckon,” the bridegroom mused. “Believe 11l go for ward and e a smoke.” His cigar must have been very unsatisfretory, for he soon threw it aws | resumed his seat opposite his wife. The conductor was telling anamusing story and Mollie was laughing gleefully. She did noteven look «t her husband. “This is playing it a little too fine,’ Henry mused. I like to see good act- ing, but she acts a little too wel The train stopped at the station the conductor got up and went out, but returned immediately and again set down by Mollic. Just then n young woman came along and asked Henry if she could share his seat. He g sented, musing that he could play with his wife. A few moments Jater, while he was talking he saw with a sweetened thrill of revenge that his wife was looking at him. At the next station the woman got off the train and when the conductor went out Henry sat down by Mollic, I don't know w here for,? she snapp Yo get off the tra “What do you want to talk for, precion: “Precions nothing. want you here.” 1 suppose you mducto “Dd rather talk to anybody that will Wt me with respeet.’ dust before Eck- show people nd rs, and you want tosit “Why didn't that way Go on, Idon't would rather talk to th tr ing nothing. 1'm going to get oft the train and go home, that's what I'm ving to do.” “Mollie—" Mollie nothing, here,” Now aon’t be foolish. You know how you varried on with the conductor. Never saw him before, either." jef I haven't. He's my uncle. s going o introduce you to him, but 1 didn’t want him to_know that we were married until just before we got off the train.” Mollie!’, That!” “Won't you forgi T ought not to, “I was Goon, I don’t want 50 c me?" ou urese mean.” nd—" now you loved me cnough to be jealous.” But I do. Don't you leve me just a Inttl 0, you don’t, precious.” Yei, T do, darling.” U tiese people woro not looking I'd jou. Henry, after a-short silence, *Lt's none of their business.’ “Put your head on my There.” He put his arm around her, and, :u', hought that no one was looking, ¢ shoulder. “‘Do you love me?" she asked. “I adore you.” ke me awful unhappy.” “You will live with me won’t you?” X ways. We like the old fash- iom)wl brida! tour the best, don’t we?'” “And we don’t care how many people are looking, do we?'’ “And if they don't like it they can get off the train, ean’t they " “Yes, and ‘you will five with me. won't your” “I couldn’t live without you,” ““I couldn’t live without you, either.” suuse you love me, don’t ? wd because you love me, don't Just then a man got up, opened av: s took out u picce of cake and handed it to yours “L don’t want it. *But yon rned it.”” “1 won't have it.,” The man threw the cake on s he made k for the the seat, forward fur 1 ever aptain of a - " in the Wrong Place, pre: A funny little inei- urred at St. John's church, Medina, Inst Sund In the absence of the rector, Rev. Mr. Walsh, the superin- tendent of the Sunday school took charge of the te nceeptably. Itis customary when the bo oir has” retived from the chancel and entered the robing-room for it to sing the last stanza of th sional, atter which the rector chants a short choral benediction, the boys joining in the “Amen.” Unknown to the choir last Sund this was omitted, the superintendent ing advantage of the moment after the choir had retired to make an announce he had forgotten. The choir, warting behind the organ, could hear u voice indistinctly from the chuncel, and after the announ ment had been made that « church social would be held at the house of Mrs. So- and-So on Tucsday evening, the boys voices swelled forth in a grand and de. vout “‘A-men.” The cffect. can be im- agined, dent oc Detroit in Kan preach reetly n town 8 a somewhat cranky stre as holding forth. Hé was di in front of a daily newspaper and about twenty boys, from four to sixteen years old, were sitting on the curbstone waiting for the evening issue, Having such youthful audience the e A discourse for boys, of ollowing is an extract, ver- 0w, boys, you must always do night. Never do anything wrong. 1 you will always do right, you will grow' up into great men, and everybody will spect you. Why, boys, one of you may grow up to be president! (The boys Jooked amazed, and then pleased.) Or, better still, you might be & minister of the gospel, s I am.” ~ Thought He Had. Wall Street News: ‘“Let's see,” he mused. “You are in some bank down town, aren't you?" “*Yes, *‘And don’t all these robberies, embez zlements and shortages made the diree- tors a little n iWell, perhap “Any talk of giving the cashier a vaca- tion, 50 as to slyly examine his books?” “Not that I have heard of? hen you must have confidence in him?” “1—I think so. That is, I presume so. That is—1'm the cashier myseif.” ted on their bridal | e sitting with | THE REINELAND OF AMERICA, Along the Hudson, From Manhattan's Isle to Yonkers Village, MANSIONS oLo AND NEW, The Homes of the Knickerbockers—A Visit to Greystone and Its Som- bre Surroundings — A Charming Countr YONKERS, Y., respondence of the Bre] -1t Heinrich Hudson and his erew, who leisurely sailed conturics ago through the wooded heights which line this beautiful river, to retarn to lif nd survey the scene of their famous exploit, they would doubtless rab theireyes Rip Van Winkle like over the wondrous transformation which has taken place. At its mouth lies in bustling splendor the greatest city of the new world Its banks, formerly sloping in peaceful quict or crested with the rock-bound palisad nd frowning crows’ nests, now teem with the magnifi cont country seats of millionaires, whose tellated walls have aided in giving to 100 the name of the Rhineland of A us tloating ces glide over the placid waters: giant steamers move in impressive silence down the great waterway to the sea; pleasure yachts, the summer homes of kings of finance, spread their white sails along its course, while on its broad bosom, trom whaere the salt of the ocenn mingles with the elear water of the mountan streams, floats to clevator and warchouse the wealth of the west and the food products of the world August 19.—|Cor THE HUDSON ars the proud elaim ot bemg the most of American rivers, Others more Ly the width of the stream, lumie of the water and the length their course, but none possess picturesquencss, the variety of surround ings, the life and color. Great waters and weful vil giant mountains and t expanses of chffs, towns whose smoke and bustle bespeak of tade, and lovely gardens, whose luxurious clegince K o less elearly of wealthy retire- ment; the sky-line broken by charming stretches of upland m one place, in an: ther the horizon fading dimly yond long benehes of farm I Villas and picturesque little cottages here, old Duteh farm houses and long brick walls of busy facto there—evers where there riety, which telisof long scttlement, of communities the slow arowth of years, of nature adorned by art, and of art purchased as the result of amplo means, The casties of the Rhine give added charm to the lovely scenery. “The villas and country places of the Hudson form marked feature in its beauty. 1t is more than a hundred and fitty y ince the quiet of the banks of the river, and the first country seats began to rise en the beneh which overlooks the banks of the stream from Forty-second street to its junetion with the Harlem, a hundred eity blocks above, Ilere the Swuyy s, Roosevelts, the Remsens, the Van Pelts, score of others of | the Van Dusers, and the old Duteh blood, had their summer | homes—all long since departed to m: way for rows of brick and mortar now occupied by marts of trade. Of these the old Stri mansion alone re- ite walls, half hidden in | to the river at the foot of Fifty-sccond street, is the sole survivin, Iandmark of the davs when fashion made | its seat in summer in what was then the peaceful country, but which is now filled with the roar of city hife. TR SR MANSIC s formerl, pitality. Alexanc quent visitor at its hoard, and Bu political opponent, and Edward L ston clinked glasses after table. The old house is now held in it present form as a matter of sentiment b the descenaants of old Peter Striker, and | its antique poreh and white walls must so0n give way to warchouses and stor But the villas of the Hudson may be s to begin at Washington Heights, which crown the ridge above Fort Washington between One Hundred and I and One Hundred and Biglity-f streets, From this point north to I town the | ion of homes, with ample grounds, arks and handsome buildings. residence of the elder James Gordon Bennett, with its gilded dome, is & prom- inent landmark at Fort Lee. Here' lived yeors the founder of the New d in a style which was the The land Bennett for utiful y of his fellow-cilitors which was purchased by $10,000 1s now easily worth a quarter of a million. During the greater part of the year the house is unoceupied by its owner, | Above the trees and adjoining the Bennott property can be secn Stewart Castle, a | ge stone structure, the property of | Mrs. A. I Stewart, and the beautiful Chittenden place with its lofty tower. Across Spuytea Devil ercek, the nort bound: of Manhattan Island, chester county begins, and the countr. seats increase in number. Sevente miles from New York the spires Yonkers, the pretty connty seat of West- che: come in Sight. k from the beautiful river and’ cresting the six ter- s of vely wn which ri om th wive ands the imposing pile of HGREYSTONE,"! was carried & week ago to place. Greystono will forever remain a histo) spot from the associations which will cluster around the favorite home of Samuel J. Tilaen, for nearly eight years the dead am lived”in quiet comfort apart from tne noise of the gr city, muin- ining o country seat which in many of its sties was surpassed by none on The amp! o hd beautified by a corps of garden- thirty in numper. Tho broud lawns lie envy of vis wded by heavy aks, tapering firs, tow aples and gothic The with a 2 of glass than any private Siudson, while stables ana lodges were buillt and maintained as only and a generous art would admit of doing. Moored on ver opposite lies the steam yac Viking, whose luxurious fittings ar only surpassed by the yessels of Messrs Gould, Astor and Webb, eystone is a massive and picturesque villa, The sky- line is broken by « large central tower, flanked by two' smaller ones on either side. Generous porches tace the and a broad stairway connects the with the ample hall, From th doorway the visitor obtains ONE OF THE LOVELIEST VIEWS of Hudson river scenery. ‘The palisades, with their precipitous sides, throw de:n dows on the river opposite. North- ward gleams and glistens the Tappan Zve like a'great inland lake seen through a vista of waving foliage. The mountains, at whose base Peckskill nes, flunk the view on the northwest, while far to the north, shutting out the winding river, i the mist-crowned summits of the whoso master his last resting lurge grecnhou Catskills and the sheer bulwarks of the lli(gl nds. areystone cost the owner | A ve the | ! roofed to mu?nluin. Fifty men were on its p rolls. 'l house servants were steadily engaged; coachmen, gardeners, farmers, stablemen, each hai their appropriate quarters on the grounds. A stroll amid the grounds of Greystone is like a jaunt through a besutiful park They comprise sixty acres in the home lat, with an additional ninety across he road, This latter portion is nsed as a farm. Undulating stretches of sward are broken by generoiis clumps of rare forost trees, Broad gravelled walks wind in even course around the various stables, employes' houses and homes, Sleek (*vur eyed Jersey cows can be seen throngh the trees, grazing on the lawns tked in the rear of the stables, while of Guernseys are pasturing dozen rodsaway. It is a home fit for a prince, What its fate is to be is not yet determined. Mr. Tilden's trustces have that in their own hands. But whether devoted to public purposes or sold at private sale, Greystone is not likely soon again to have a master whose carc and taste will impress themselves so strongly on its picturcsque beauty those of its late owner, Mr. Tilden MoxEToN THE BOOM AT CALLAWAY. v CALLAWAY gust 13, -[Corr For a town that Collaway the ever saw County, Neb. spondence of the Bre|-— only five wecks old “boomingest” place I either completed, or rapidly approaching completion, a good hotel 36372 feet, two stories high; an opera house 48360 feet, two stories high; two hardware stores, two drug stores, four or five general s two black smith shops. two restanrants,one butcher shop, and over forty houses, During the last four weeks over 100,000 foct of lum ber have been shipped in here and all sold lelore it got heve I'e Union Pacitic location has strack its location stake in the town, Callowny will be the terminus for some time of the Callaway branch, The r of way tnd depot grounds have | deeded to the railroad company B.& M \lso surveyed its northw ern branch into Callaway, and a Chic & Rock Island surveying corps is ning u line to this point,” and will re here in a few weeks, The mdications are lHaway will b a lively railroad center within a short time, he First National bank Bow has estabhished a bank here. are good openings heve for any kind of business. There are over 200 people in ay now, and there will be 500 18 We are to have anewspaper in a few days, to be ealled “The Callaway ndurd,” with C. Sher- wood as editor. J. Woods Smith, who wias mainly instrumental in securing the ess and material, says that the paper will be ushes into the world with a Jnll set of red hair and a double row of teeth. I understand that we are also to other paper beside the Standarc y day I'lie peopl cleanliness is next to - goiliness, days ago a stranger appeared here wanted work. It was covered that loaded with body i took him down to the river and stripping him they made him take a bath. They burned his clothes, presented him with an entive new outfit, and found him a steady job of work. 1t wont do for anybody to ‘come here with vermin, We are put to great inconvenience at present by the long distance to Broken Bow, the county seat. Itis distant from here twenty-six miles. It takes us two days to go there to get deeds recorded, and our” expenses are fully Custer county is altozether too is_foriy-cight miles wide miles long. It ought to be divivided into four connties, and probably will be. The election on this question will take place in November next. 1f the question cirried i aflirmative, ( vay will be the principal town in the county to be formed out of the southwest quarter of Custer county. is is It ros, ot Broken There A few nd di d a very lively ay & Co.'s livery I inclosed. L'l Cpartly sided and ful ismantled, twisted and (ker & Yates' building, ocen below and lodg: blown from its t one end and four Palmer’s restanrant, a_one_story building, was warped con’ siderably. = Mallard’s. restaurant was moved ten feet and u lady injured by b ing thrown ac the room. " Two blauck- saith shops were moved from their foundations, and Owens’ drug badly wrecked. Outbuilding dowh before the gale. Rain rents, storm. It wre baru, which w two story hotc warpe pied as a g ing room above foundation two 1 feet on the other. - HOW THEY DINE IN BERLIN. Certain National Dishes and Soups— Beer Used in Cooking- Napking of Tissue Paper. The Berhmers are not a dinner-giving povle at pre-ent It was dillerent twenty years ». when the Berlin haute finune:” distingu's el itself by giving luxurious banquets. Even the woll in troduced stranger, on arriving at Berlin, now has to depnd for his experience of the native cuisine on the restaurants and hotels. He will find at the Iatter not un frequently a company of men who in th nrge cities ot would dine their ¢lubs, On«nt ring a Berhn resta ut 2 o'clock th | you will find yo irself in company with or officers, and nd privy councillors, with s 3 ieutenants, who show their good™ breeding by placing them selves in front of the looking-gla s and combmg their hair before taking their seats, At the Ku:s rhof each nation dine according to its particu cooks ot the |vri||('liy:\l Europc tries being engaged on the s esiablishm althiough all its ments are excellent, is not very patronized, probubly because its turifl is 100 high for Berlin, I hotel bles d’hote of this city mainly differ from those of the familiar Gerdian watering places in the company bem 2 less co-mo- politan . At the quictsr ones considerable wbility prevails, helped, no doubt, by old custom of the landlord taking the d ot the table and dinir guests. The Berliner lov.s Which he has a lurg ) the most favored “supy o grics 1n milch” (milk soup with semo fins, Mionilon mit ei” (beef ten with oges floating on_ top of it), “supps von rindfieisch mit gebuckenem mark’’ (b tea with balls of mavrow, eggs and bread crumbs) T'here ave a number of German national cs, the merits of which cannot be 082 with stufling of pounded runes and apples mixed with s, cgizs, and various ard dish at most restau- rants of the ¢ You ecan also hi purtridgo cooked and wrapped up in v caves, with rashers of bacon, and fowls cooked in jelly. Roast partridges with sauerkraut is good wvariation of the French perdrix aux choux. Rehbraten (venison) with ereum sauce is not to be despised, ~and__smoked pommeranian goose breasts, Westphalia hams, Bruns- Wick sausages, and sundry other German house dishies, many of which are also exported, have gained a world-wide re- The of the ( o appe: several departme of soup is common enough, and 0 18 becr sauce, especially th carps and cels, for which the best of “weis-bier'’is used. Beef stewed in beer and flavored with spices is a favorite dish. Among kalteschalen (cold drinks) teschale” holds the flrst place, ¢y known vegetable, when cooked is eaten d as asalad. besides ¢ is herring salad with the fish shopped fine, mixed with potatoes, on- jons, apples and pepper, and moistened with oil, vinegar and cr well dressed Tudies, supef even high oflicials nt spies, is a stan: Lively Pive Weeks Nebraska | * | though corps | THE POWDER RIVER COUNTRY | General Brisbin Continues His Desoription of New Lands, ABOUT WHICH HE ISWELL POSTED The Beautifui Valleys and Grand Scenery of Pleturesque Wyoms ing---Forest, Lakes and Rivers, , Neb, August 19.e of the Bek.]—Our last camp was on Night river, or Sand creek, | Wyoming. Four miles from Sand creek | is Shell creck, a little mountain streant only a few miles long. The rond windd | near the mountains and we approach Big | Piney and Lake de Smet. Shell creek, n beautiful little stream, has | hardly any timber along its banks, and 1t is difficult to £nd fucl even for camping. | "The valley, however, is fine and over two | miles wide, having splendid grass. | Along the creck bottoms are an abun- | dance of plums and wild grapes, In or days Shell creek was a hay re erve for Fort Phil Kearney, and is his | torical an conmection with that post. Here the Indians used to hang about, cumping and waiting for stray parties from the fort. Lake de Smet is quite d a portion of it has been seen & the day from the hills near Shell Four Nionrar [Correspondenc LAKE DE SMET is a shallow sheet of water about a mile | long and threequarters of a mile wide. 15 surrounded by high hills on all | side 1l the lake seems to have no sur- face outlet, thowgh there is probavly an underground channel leading to the By Piney. There is a rarrow valley or gule extending from the lake to the Pinoy, hut itis dry, except in very wet season 'lfi‘n viters of the lake are alkaline, and re white deposits of around its edge: alkali. In the distance the lake looks as alled in with in white stone, and hag ry beautiful appearance. The waters are elear, the hills very green, und the snowy border of thy ¢ forms a scene fit for the pencil of a painter. But it is all show, for the brackish water is unfit for cither muan or veast to drink. Thd shallowness of the lake is ma Mr. Belden waded in over before it took him over the found it full of small fish, black turtles and repulsive reptiles of the dog fami ‘Thero twore iy sinnll shiell tish, but & very small and wnfit tor food. Lizzards mud fish, leeches and bottle worm, abound. Tlns lake, which is more famou than it deserves called aftor the ol Catholic priest, le Smet, whd spent nearly hi imong the In- dians, doi | Three i landmark known INDIAN It was here during the occupation of the Powder river country for three the Indians kept theiv pickets st i day and night, watehing the movements of ‘the trams and soldiers about old Phil Kearney. Inac t i y on the of “July, 1868, an old chict snid: “There has not been a day from the time you first eanme into the country up to the present moment that we have not looked down into this fort. Not an animal or man has come and gone but what we have scen them, — Even now we are being watehed, though we not the cnemy.” This was strictly trae, and shows with what wonderful vigilance and ene the Indian is endowed, Riding back to Shell ereek—for we can- not approach Kearney well from Picket hill—we take a good wagon road over the hills to Old Kearney. The road winds about a good deal among the hills, and then aftcr two miles traveling we come to RED BLUF These are a serics of right of the road and nes The Piney here is heavily timbered and has a dense undergrowth, We are now entering a grand country full of magnifi- cont secnery. We wind along the foot- hills, wile above us rise immense pine- covered mountains with snow eapped s, which glisten like silver in tho ing sun. At the base of a big moun- ain the pine forests hide the icy waters of the Big Piney and its little tributaries, and brown be grizzly bear, elk, deer and blnck bear were formerly foand he in grreat numbers. The mountn grouse bufit her nest and reared her young in these forests; the beaver and the ofter built dams in the streams, and the moun- tain wolves were so numecrous that they their food even at noond forests there so dense that it is perpetual night in theiv midst, and not v of the hottest suneyer reaches red hills to the v the Big Piney. arther on is Little Piney. No heay - grrows on this stream, but the < undergrowth, which furnishes shelter for deer, elk and grous: Near the Piey and about two miles distant is the famous OLD FORT PHIL KEARNE abandoned in 1863, It is now in ruing and its buildings and stockade have tum- bled down. As we approach the fort we see another Picket hill, on which in early days a small force of soldiers was kept to ch the Indinns, They signalled the id all approaching wigon trains arties if there was danger. The bout six hundred feet high and o the scene of a memorable en- ¢, which 1 shall relate in my next JAMAR S, BRrispin. y is fort and hill is was on counte letter. The Boom Coming. Ameriean Grocer, ny signs that consump- aight up with produ we are now on the cve of another veriod of good times. Railvoad puilding has begun to inerease again; onr steel rail mills o demands for rails, and ning to be placed in manufacturing and business ing, a8 is shown by the improyed demand for money from all sections of the coun- try, which has drawn down the surplug of the New York banks over the T sorve from sixty millions last year to eight millions this year; stocks of manu- fuotured goods are gencrally smull, and prices so low that any change must be for an advance; maun, items in the grocery line firs and tending upward, so it looks asf we not only were likely to weo n good steady trivde, but f another “hoom’ wus eomin Tudeed, thisis ine oyitable every few years, for the ground swell of increasing * population is sure to eatel up with over production, ‘T'ho Railroad Gazette of August 6 shows thut since the censns of 1880 our popu a in has incrcased 9,800,00, or nearly w per cent, and that on July 1 it amounted to 59,061,000, With the “emigration for the next four years no lavger than last year, and the sume rate of natural increase in our population, it would bring it up to 66300,000 m 1860, or about six millions in ton years. With such i tr mendous inby of population u busi- ness boom every few years is certain, - If your kidneys ar fecland look wretched, ¢ cheerful society, and_meluncholy on the j oceasions. Dr. J. H. Mc Lln und Kidney Balm will right again. inactive, you will en in the most Phe New York wrl, when she 08 1 attitudinizes with half her sligitiy pereon out of water, looking for afl werld like a merry mermaid.