Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 7, 1886, Page 9

HORBIES OF GOTHAM GIRLS. | 8 it took shape. flected, twinkle before my eyes, and al- though the melancholly rain still bent upon the window panes, felt childishly Clara Belle's Review of the Freaks of the | gny. It v L I ]‘*"'E"K"W'l for the tirst ¢ . time 1n a strax and where spring was Ultra-Fashionable, just blooming. We looked at cloaks e gl urs, always the same from season to sea POWDER, PAINT AND PRIDE, | son, bonnets higher than those of last year, and caps mude of otter or astra chan singly, never utilized together, Some Awfully Nice Girls in Trousers— At last my man taking warning from Man Milliners of the Motropolis the wide and more wide opening of my o enraptured eyes, close e wardr =A Modern Tournament, and having escorted ms back, exclaimec gleefully Nrw York, Nov. 4.—(Correspondence | , % 'Mr‘n lnl uu'n’fl news the ‘m{r. ] “;.‘.Iyl this city have been mounted on hobby | Thope to make it disappear entirely.” horses all this week,for horse has indeed A MODERN TOURNAMENT. been their hobby. What with the old | In days of old, when knights were bold, ote. entlemen horseback, the fashion among on each other on et holes poked through themselves with ances, bang one another over the head with big iron clubs and earve ears, noses and arms off with swor They did all that for fun, or to settle theie ims to air ludies’ nands, They dressed in boiler- iron overcoats and tin trousers, and looked very picturesque. It is not on record that a job ever was put up at the combination of race horses and an after- noon ball at Jerome k on election day, the steeplechase horses at the hunt club meetings, the horse show at the Madison Square garden, and the usual amount of equestrianism in Central park we have had a great equine time alto- gether. Horseback exercise is ultra- fashionable this season, anyhow, and under the extra stimulus 1t has become a }I*I';:Il:n'lh",l‘):l\il;‘):- t';.‘.‘.'r',]: the L;]‘mli::c \.v\”: in. Tl inee 4 odre r tourncy, or § R “X'lf et ]"r';m,n Lancelot and Sir € had ever had park was a cnrious affair, and 1 eouldn’t | & BE0NC B0U T the- ring, or went in muke it scem to me that day- | cahoots on gate money. In tiwese points light festivity of that sort was | modern revivals of chivalry difer from amirablo. OF course, the gi thl'rlurl;‘_(m’n‘l nr(‘Ium:.m‘gvlr‘klmf.wlm:vul.gn ) o o ith | nre trying to get New York interested in dun't woar evening dress, With | o ogfeval wmusement of mounted bared necks and arms, and their att combats and one_exhibition of the kind wis such a8 they would have worn on an | has been given this weck. Socic afternoon round on calls; but in some gely represented in - Cosmopol respects they were non-plussed in mak- | rink, for 'lh,c beaux und belles o ing up their toile g U] s b i Sl AU el i gt L) they might themselves take part in the How? 1 will tell future. rned from ac ears. trick, 1 you. A new ses, i3 to tint TE GALLANT KNIGHTS the ears for evening oceasions. The fem- | were Xavier Orlowski, purporting to be inine mind has taken the notion that, so 5:::4-..‘1"}‘\'A II‘ ‘)"ll"lu;:mr; mi'«‘h‘i],-' 2‘_}\'“"_’ long as men speak admuringly of pink | it G CIG Gore s o corsclit ears, an auricular deep blush may s | yhatlooked pretty, and Orlowski encased well be put on to stay while desired, | lnmself in a vast pudded like a ball cateh- Therefore, when andorning themselves for | er's bib. They took long ‘m](-s with | at TBERE 1 s sreonal | Knobs on the ends, anc a z”‘]"l""‘ ‘". o8 Olh:'lt.l f.'"‘“_' Sl ‘f':": signal trotted their ' horses to the splay, they rouge their ears inside and | o0h 1o “of “the ring, where they out. As the adjacent portions of their | feebly looked at other. necks and heads are white, either natur- | Grant devoted himself to getting out of ally or from powdering, the contrasting | Orlowski’s way, the lant knight from Prussia j him gently in the back. Every prod was apoint. 'To vary the monotony, the referee oints to the champion of British chi hen he didn’t touch the Black Hussar. Then the spectators jeered. “The lance combat proving tamo, and nobody getting hurt, the knights dis- l‘lll'lll‘lfv“ll' poles for cavalry sabres, and the spectator began to cherish hopes of at least secing a finger chopped off. is rather startling. girls at Jerome park HAD PAINTED EARS on their frivolous heads. Leonard Jerome, a boss committeeman, gazed for A moment at onc of them, and then caught her in his arms held ner tight and kissed her. She was a distant relative, and. he a veteran, but she got angry the same, and asked him how he dured, Well, some of the n old custom of the husking be There was no chance of lopping an car 5 “'when you se or slitting a nose. be e the horsemen girl who shows it. wore masks that perfectly protected ding academies favored by Fifth | their heads. Grant'scharger had gotinto msels are clustered the to that plan, result was that Orlow- ski thumped the captain on the back with his trusty blade every time, and marred the glittering splendor of his tin cuirass with unsightly dents. In the fifth attack, after clashing the swords together habit of turning tail, and adhered avenue d. the soutl: itrances of C and three are right alongside corner groggery which John L. Sullivan runs. Atis considered perfectly proper for a belle to walk in her saddle costume to tho stable where her horse is kept, and the sight of a sh graceful creature | in the Style of stage fencers,Grant turned thus costumed jar in that neigh- | as usual and beht over his steed’s neck to borhood. Have you ever thought of the | avoid the customary whack, exposing succession of heroines whom Dion Bouei- cault has puton the stage n cquestrian dr He realizes how distinguishedly striking they are as dramatic figures, and so he repeats them in nearly all his omebody told me, last evening, satin a theater looking at the two whom he mtroduces in his current pieee, that he complaied at a rehearsal of the gait and mien of a certuin actress, I'his is a dress rehearsal,” he said, and yet you appear without ‘the trous- ers thitt, quite as much as the skirts, be- long to & niding habit.” The #ctress started nervously, and Jlooked down to that the hexyy cloth of her outer garment reached the floor. anew and more vulnerable part to the enemy. © But the chivalrous Hussar scorned to wound a gentleman in his seat of honor, and waited for im to turn and get one creditable sear onthe front of his armor. Then they changed horses, but that didn’t change the fortunes of the fight. The Hussar’s bay was disgusted with s new rider, and,after one eftectual charge to the center, he deliberately turned and marched out of the arena in’ spite of bit and spur. It required the efforts of two hostlers to induce the beast to involve himself again in the medivial tomfoolery. Oriowski’s made some more dents in the tin armor, and then the horse broke up “Oh, I know that the trousers are not | the whole'show by walking determinediy on you,” continned the ol actor; “if they | to his stall,with the champion of England were, you would have a certamn pride of carriage that you now lacl A WOMAN IN TROUSERS mvariably assumes cammanding atti tude that she cannot possibiy counterfeit in their absence.” on his back and absolutely refusing to lower his equine dignity by having any- thing more to do with such nonsense. An appeal was made to Horsetrainer Gleason to take the animal in hand, but he said he guessed that horse didn't need xm{ educating; it seemed to be a_very in- telligent and sensible animal > ref- s announced that, as Captain Grant’s horse was urmanageablé, the Captain sded the victory to Orlowski, where- sver a doubt.” he retorted. Mr. Boucicault,” ana_ she pursed up her mouth qu “have you ever seen Dr. y % ¥ n to But 1 beg write that the dainty octators hissed derisively. Then belles of the saddle had to pass under the | Orlowski, gallant reviver of chivalry and close gaze of the pugilists and loafers in | noble games of tourney,boldly challénged n - establishmel ts going to the equest and they do tell of AN AWFULLY NICE GIRL Who, after a ten-mile gallop, in that one-sided, lop-fouted position which the fair sex has to assume on hors was, any one of the hisse s forth and meet him on tue gory ficld and break a sword or lanee with him. The rennais- ance of medieval glory expired n one long derisive hiss and socicty will not take up the lance. Crara B 80 cramped and rudderless. she -— veered sideways grotesquely when she | A Nebraska Farmer in a Chicago walked off. She looked exactly as though Hotel. one foot was bound to step thirty inches Chieago Herald: The annunciator of a every time the other did twenty. The | Randolph street hotel jingled excitediy irre y of the gait was comi But | ahout 10 o'clock last Wedesday night. a slugger, sceing her from livan's | The alarm came from a room on the fifth doorway, construed her difliculty as | floor, which was oceupied by a Nobraska aleoholi sud, going quickly to her, he | farmer. When one of the sleepy bell *Brace up, Mixs - —- take a long | boys rapped at the door & few minu breath, pull yourself together, you'll | jater he foand the. rural guest crouching 1 right in a minut But in a | inone corner of the room with his eyes much shorter sp: f time she convinced | fixed on o blue bottle which was sus- him, by an angry exelumation and a pended from n nail near the front win- scornful d look, that his sympathy was | o misplaced. mme ‘nuther room,” yelled the A MALF DRESSMAKER granger when he beheld the Loy at the In the way of men displeasingly situ- | door. “What's the motter with the room ve r.mu" inquired the drowsy lad. iosh durn it! Do you fellers think I'm going ter sleep in a room with one of those dynermite bombshells in ity Where's the bomb?™* asked the boy, ng a step backward. See it hangin’ agin' the window over there,” cnattered the farmer, pointing to the green bottle, g \k’h that's a fire grenade,” chuckled the boy YA what?'' o out of the corner ated, | have to-day visited o male dress- make It was out of business hours,and I found that in unprofessional moments he was not a Miss Nanc; Let us call him Blane. He was in ugly carpet slip- pers, his har disordered, his face un- shaven, yawning, glum, sliding and slip pingslowly along in order not to the manuikins, those spynxes of fashion. “Good day; hope you're well; what 1 do for your" Winter approaches, and I come to leain what will be the new fashions.”’ Very well, [ am at your service, but d the granger, coming let e suish my pipe.” “Afire grenade,” repeated the boy. Aht my fine luly, could you butsee | “All yow've got to do is to throw it that tilthy burnt brown pipe that had | and lately been in the lips of Mr. Blanc, him Yes, and get blowed to kingdom whose exquisite taste you love so much, come," broke in the guest with a wild whose slender, pink fingers touch your | stare, *1 know wiat them durn things shoulders when he drapes them in"soft | are. Now, take it out of the room.” silks! Ah, my fine lady, what disen- Can't do that,” replied the boy; *it chantment! would be against the rules of the house.” “Well, then, gimme 'nuther room,” “Can’t do that either: the house full.” “Well I'll be durn with that thing hang you can tell the keep that [ sad s0.” The boy was here summoned to a room on the next floor, and when he returne twenty minutes later, a horse snore from the darkened room in which the bomb I g, told him that the granger was oop. When the chambermaid entered the Nebraska man’s room late the next morn- ing she found the grenade resting on the corroded bottom of the piteher with about “*You know," said our friend, “nothing is finally decided at this time; we a groping about; the battle of Loilets is making ready, but the troops are not-yet i line. Our aristocrats have not yet r the eountry. This s th state of things to-day: We suggest ne forms; our customers drop in and exam- them and we make note of their com- ments. Then we present to the world those forms that make the greatest hit. It a thus that fashions ure decreed. Our toilets are elected by a unive suf- frage. Here, however, are the stutls that will he used. Aud Mr. Blape led me Jong hall cressed by is if il go to bed n' in the room, and v of this 'ere tavern i through & 1 immense counter; samiples, labeled and humbered were | nine inches of water looking down upon arranged thoroon in high i Little | it Attached to the haudle of the pitcher silk will be worn this winter. Fashion is card: is returning to blens, and woolens will predominate everywhere during the comingg seaso. Bline showed me cloth made from the wool of the llama, Pales tine druggot, thick packing cloth, Be galine woolehs, poplins, Pekins with and without stripes, and a stuft from the hair of the wild boar. The shades wlready chosen are plum, sea blue, garnet, tobacs co brown: and sapphire and cibbage BILAS GILFORD, OARDALE, i Let ber be, strenger, ehe's loaded. Nes, e — At the Dedication of the Statue. Chicsgo Rambler: “My %oudul-ss’ ce green will be all the rage what a crowd! Cau you President Under Bianc’s nimble fingers dress | Clevelundt” after dress sprung from its case and *‘I am trying to distinguish him.” folded tself abouta mannikin, and as it Y ay a8 well give it up He has ne into its proper place 1t seen been trying for some timg o distinguish little by litkle to become endued with life | himself without success.” The colors blended, re THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, [ GENERAL BADEAU'S LETTER, Scme Interc s Gossip Aboat Pr Players. FAMOUS JERSEY THE ey American Aristocrats 1 am | rees in my Own Country. a Prin OrYRIGHT, 183 ovember 4 —[Corresponcd 3]~ Who shall sny that ence of th world does not movet T publ wrested from royalty two of its great | est and latest favorites. Within the same | week 1 have scen Langtry and heard { Oudin 1n the American theater—the woman whom the prince of Wules de lighted to honor, and the gentleman whose songs only lust summer th | ntly anied in her | own drawing-room ny demo | nd o half, ¥ the delights of princes, and of princesses too, which are apt to be more inaccessible. The first time I saw Mrs, was on the arm of General Grant, Lord Houghton had given the general a din- ner, and afterward, according to English fashion, there was a reception, “'to meet the-expresident.” At least half of the important and fashionable people who call themscelves “‘the world” were pre ent. I remember the duke of Argyll, Lord Granville, Henry Reeve, the editor of the Edinburgh Review, Pierrepont the American minister, Thomas Hughes, the duke of Sutherland, and lesser “robility and gentry,” as the tradesmen say in their circul; without number. Lord Houghton wanted to pay General Grant y_honor, and there was no Lady prinecess ‘ales cons To-day erat who chooses, for a dollar m sha Langtry she Houghton, and Mrs, Langtry was then all the freshress of ke be y and her fashion, he asked the ex-president to take her to supper: and the two went in at the head of the compan, That was nine ars ago last June, and the “JE. SEY LILY, as she was ealled, had not been the rage very Jong. The daughter of & dean on the httle island in the ehannel, she had come up to town under rather peenliar auspices. She was ive of Lord Ranelage, who n warried, but had a whole be about in Langtry was introduced same time with some of these. to act as a chaperone to herile- te cousins, so that_her initi nardly in her favor. But this beauty wus not born to blush unscen, and as soon as she was discovered she took the town by storm. [t w: ) beeause the prince adm ame famouns. Leighton wanted to and duchesses petted her be- she was p court. But when once the royal seal was of coursceverything else followed. 1w told again and again that nothing like ner success had been known in London since the days of the Gunnings, those marvellous sisters, of whom one became countess of Coventry, and the other in succession duchess of Hamilton and duchess of Argyll, It is strange how t, even socinl history repeats itsclf. I re- member as a boy re: dm#’ Horace Wul- pole’s account of the English nobility mounting on ch: and tables to look at the Gunnings; and a hundred years after Walpole I saw them do the same thing to get a glimpse of Mrs. Langtry. She could oasily chess had she been unmar dy Dualey, her only rival in my time, wae the danghter of a Scotch baronet; Lady Dudley's sister was tie duchess of Athole, another was the un- happy Lady Mordaunt, and a fourth be- ne Lady Forbes, of Newe. They were all married for their beauty, but not one of the four was equal to Mrs. Langtry when her charms were in their carly per- fection. s THE MEN OF FASHION of the highest rank raved about her, and even in America her intimacies with roy- alty were known e exng- gerated into relations not creditable, but when a newsvaper said such things in England, Mr. Langtry prosecuted” the editor, who expiated his offense by eigh- teen months in jail. More harmless stories did not bring so condign a pumishment. It was said that the beauty became so spoiled as once to drop a picee of ice within the collar of the oyl cout, and i temporary coolness was L result. ISSIP inated princes ne quite torget the awful distance betw themselves and the beautiful, but com- mon clay they copdescend toadmire. At garden party the petted lily playfully said to her future sovercign, “How’s your wife*" and the heir to England’s throne put on all his_ thunderbol “Her royal highness, the princess of Wales, is well.” he haughtily replied; and for nearly a weck the world was wondering why he did not join the beaut in the row, or dance with her vy ball, But 1 inchoate majesty became ap- peased, and the lily lured”her prineely admirer to her side agai He was not so amiable as Ge .. who only laughed when Maria Gunning told his jesty she i seen every sight in Lon- don but a ¢ But, 1 repeat, it w. ren s not only roy that the Langtry charmed. Aga in, ns at Lord Houghton's, the of th fore duche; y dean was taken in b Even_the common peo. in the untry o ple caught the contagion. Luate London on it is high fashion to walk in the park on Sunday afternoon while the rabble stares; and many a time have I seen the erowds open to let her pass, and follow her with their eyes, gazing across the ring, as if she had been royal personage. Happy then the earl or duke, or somef fier potentate who was tted to walk on the opposite side from her husbund. F in was at this tinj ways her escort; he was always welcomed at Marlborough house with the wife to whom he owed his invitations. They kept only a quiet lit- tle house and an unpretenaing brougham, at the sight of which sean was silent: for their poverty was the best proof how cold or inaccessible the beauty had r mained. But at last they got into trouble. Their modest income could not hold out with the ducal ues and nee of lofty as 4 couple of thousand of the heirlooms of a yeur by the sid those who came in with the conquerer! ngtry was in distress. A friend who oW it went to him one day and offe him a thousand pounds if he would get the endorsement of THE PRINCE OF WALES to some business enterpri considerad, and s his needs wero great, consented to ask. He did not beat about the bush, nor wmake v 0 but went frankly to the heir avparent and said ‘Sir, [am offered o thousand pounds if 1get your signature to this paper.’ |m|.uwnu.-=- won the prince who merely sac “'Show it to me,”" and at onee put down his name. Languy got the money, but itdid not last him long. The uty must have more gowns, for beauty un- adorned is out of place in royal houses; and ally beauty wi on the stage, where now she wears finer clothes by far than in the duys when she went to court But she could have got the gowns had she been so minded, without going on the stage. Itis better ror you and me, democrats, that she chose the stage. 1 had not seen her since 1left England in 1880, till the Langtry . oA e “The Lady not all the ite delicac prinees, but quite i listors. 1 found wing, the same fe Wi ingn oy scen exeept in 3 the empir irhtene e outhines t | Uhe featurcs | ned by 1w | and ten vears will Ie « nate of s al’s | but there is now nof expression s once tho pette lacked. 1 ways thought | HER GLANDE WAS COOT | in other days, bitt the actress throws an or into’ the eyes that then gazed calmly on dukes and democrats, while | the mouth that smiled so lauguidly and frigidly now bestows blandishments on Clande and on tho andianee such as sov ereigns have waited for in vain | Evidently for others too the charm is | not yet faded. 1 have not seen | THE LILY OFF STAG | in America, but two days ago | w: | ing a house on ‘Lwenty-third street, | noticed a_ score or two of well-ire people on the y nent. It was at the entrance to a station of the ated rail- v, and the steps were linea with pa s, willing to lose a train, I ask the attraction, and was told they were waiting to sce Mrs. Langtry come ont to her earringe. As she passed they eraned their neck to got a glimpse, and I among them. Al L n-unl\r distin- that lithe flyure which Beau tmired: “nt Lheard the women ally exclaim: “That's her back. Isn't she lovely AMERICAN ARISTOCRATS, The Je Lily wno had royalty and aristocracy her feotis the best possi- ble proof that the avistocracy of nature eclipses that of birth and rank even i the most protentions and exclusi spheres. No duchess while 1 was in England cujoyed a trivmph to be com- pared with that of Mrs. Langtry, who may now beseen in hier glory, wowns and 1, without a presentation at court, And yet American wonmen, at least the fash- ble ones, are always hankering after aristoeratic ndvantages, i they only knew it, they surpass those whom. the envy. American women have a natural cha often an innate distinetion of manv has made them sought at every court in Europe. Not long ago I s talking with a countrywoman who v as much about forcign society as any other Awerican, or indecd Europeans of the most i and we amused ourselves by counting the mpatriots we had personally known who had become counte bassadresses, duche princess to say queens (for Klise Hensler sat very near” a throne); and there were a hun- dred and twenty-four. Some of those womaen had b in the war and y _department in Washington, and several were not at all of the socicty that calls itself “good,” no matter how bad its members may be. 1 remember how the Washington belles shuddered when a little Georgetown girl they did not visit boreofl’ a baron in tri- umph before thenzall$ But she demear herself as bravely as any of her ne ters, I ve been told,s-and has held her t;_\u\ at more tham, one European court. or en clerks THE] REAK, ARISTOCRACY, know nothing of the distinctions that Americans up amonyz themselves, A lady who had a havdep struggele than any other who can be nanied to win her pres- ent position, who abselutely had to fight her way into society, -went to Rome be- fore she had accomphshed her aim, and was received by the highest nobility. One day a princess, a Toxlonin or a Colonna, zave a ball, and camodo the American to know which of herdeountry people to invite, The Italigm ¥ the hames of the Van Rensselacrs and’8€huylers and Liv- gstous on her list. “Oh!" said the American, “1 don'tyisit any of those people;” which waswery true. And none of them were asked, About the same time an American of large fortune and ‘‘good’ position was in Rome and at a ball. A PRI S WAS ANNOU: and everybody was expected to rise; but this old Jady told me that she refused. I am a prineéss in my own country,” she id. This may have been carrying it too far, but it was better than the other ex treme of supposing that everybody who as atitle is L(:uur than any body who has not. When Burlingame was a minister abroad and the question of precedeuce came up, he told me that the ambassudors declared they represented the persons of sovereigns; “But I am one of the sover- cigns themselves,” replied Burlingame A very few yours ago an Enghshno nan of ‘no particalar distinction or for- tune at home paid a visit to this country, and brought letters to the Astors. He 1 no idea of the position of those whose company he sought, and went to ) acquaintance of mine to inquire. Who are these Astors?'’ he said: *“*Pe)- m fur, are And t Snglis ours. 4 Is it not time that we ourselves? hould set up for ADAM BApEAU, o — Legol Verbosity. New ¥ork Herald, The attack on legal verbosity made by Mr. David Dudiey Field in his BufTalo address on law and lawyers is as timely asitis forcible, He shows, for instance, that more than nine hundred words are used in a deed which ean be drawn less than two hundred. The words his keirs, utors and i are put in a contract which without them each party Y " the lawyer writes “*work, labor, would bind ‘wor D) He is not eontent with “moncy d,” itmust be “money paid, laid ot and expended.” “Money ha is not suflicient, it must be “money had and received.” 'he multiplication of words and repe- titions of phases so common in legal doe- uments are not only useless and” sense: less, but mischevious, as Mr. Fieid thus points out: “ They beget and eonrm our dreadful habits of verbosity; ghey. make they young lawyers think that these words and phases mean something, and ghus teach falseho they lead the m oidand young to ru in grooyes; th cumber, and because tie encumber, they hindeg. ohgeure and confuse; they make it necessary 0 write, read and record in the course of a year millions upon willions of useless wors, all which cost a ereat deal of time and's t deal of money, Bonds, for instance, wretgopied or described in mortgazes; the morlguses wust be roe- orded, and when a forcdlgsire takes place the contracts aie sct ferth, in the pleadings, All lead w fees, and ghe fees are burdens Taid upon the shoulders of the borrowers, ‘L'ne patience with whieh. he people pay for these things and are furthermore hindered by thew is phenomenal. ndless verbosity exists the forms of to-duy simply becase it exisi in those of the last contury. Itis abuse that has never been reformed It is high time to reform i —~ Only One Inducement. Wall Street Wews: One of Pinkerton's men, who _had followed o Chicugo de- faulter to Montreal, and was anxious to &et him to veturn to the states, hela out mauy promises iu vain, and finally said “I'not only think the case can be com- promnsed, bit you will be looked upon as an honest man.” UMy dear sir, I was figureing for twelve long vears to get hold of this boodle,” was the renly nd the only inducement you could hold out to me would be to promise to help me steal the portion 1 overlooked in my hurry bo get away.” NOVEMBER - T o tUnv & AR | )| o o nee in erder 1y SCANDINAVIAN POLITICS, | otitlon o e calapties thid | | wpon the nation. And along | — constitutional revision might A Norwegia aty on- the Situ in | came not anly the subpression of “Dirtark sl Toolasd overhus, but aiso the aholition of roya | nark and Teeland. and the fonndation of a Scandinavian re | w.l‘;;.- To-day this may seem a atopia & PR s ¢ | Bul history has often siown us tha® what THE PEASANTRY OF DENMARK. | 18 the daydream of one generation be - | comes thi diving reality of the nest. And Thetr Sosial [ now, a fow « words about 1 much Condition The Present Danish Oppressive Meas Constitution - Affairs in | 1colana. | Cuntsriasa, Oct 19.—[Corresdondence ¢’ the BEk. | ~While 1 was S5 cently on one of the steamers that ply between Norway and Denmark, 1 fell into conversation with a rich Danish real estate owner, who said to me: “Our con- servative party is superior to yours in Norway: it dovsn't eapitulate, but keeps rizht on its old conr Althongh 1 be: long to the hibe ¥, I may even say that Lam a radical ~and took an ac the constitutios n Norway nd - Sweden, which ended two years ago with the complete capitnlation of the reactionary munistry, and its replacement by a liberal govern- ment with Johan Sverdrup atits head, 1 could not help protesting against this opinion of our conservative pa o therefore replied to my Danish friend a follows: “I consider our Norwegian conservatives to be as far above your dhotind [A Norwegian mountain sonte 8,000 feet nigh.] is above your Him- melbjerg. [A Danish sand-hiil four or five hundved fect high.] Our NORWEGIAN CONSERVATIVES would never have followed their | to such lengrths as your Danish con tves have Bstrup: and it is eharacteristic ical prudence and patriotism fan people in g orwegian conservatives in par- the latter, after the supreme f, in 1881, pronounced agunst of the ticn court h the policy of their ministi at lust that it was their du the government to the liber; tion of the Nor n people would for an instant submit you ao, to the spee- ial measure coneerning the finances, the press, and the earrymg of tirearins, which violate the fundaniental law of the land, but which the king and his ministry have foreed you to aceept POLITICAL| Norway and Denmark difter very widely, aithough hoth peoples are of kindred origin, speak almost the same language, and had s, the same King. W this important pohties, and are astonished that a system of government is continued, year after year, in Denmark, that we Norwegians would not suf sta single day. ac- customed as we are to a striet obsc ot constitutiol ights and totl i and dutics of eivil liberty. Many of us Norwegians share the following opinion, expressed by one of your advanced poli- ticians: *“The Danes haye had an oppor- tunity to make a revolution: they would have been justitied in doing so0,11 w even their duty to do so.” He laid stress on the word duty. Why is Dunes do not revolt? Why 1s it that they do not seize one of the numerous ocea- sions given them to put an end to their present intolerable position? The reason is that the Danish peopie are not yet ripe for the evolution they ought to perform. THE PEASANTIY OF DENMARK have not always been free, like the peas- antry of Norway. 1tis ldss than a cen- tury since Kolbjornsen, a Norwe- gian by descent, succeeded in putting an end to serfdom in Denm; The Engliah y that it takes three generations to ke a gentleman. "It requires as long a time to convert a slave into a free man. ‘Trials like those the Danish ™ peasants are now undergoing, are necessary to make men of them and nerve tnem fo the poiut of withstanding the tyranny of the royal power and its abettors. Nor is THE SOCIAL CONDITION of the Danish peasant the same as that of s Norwegian brother. ‘The farmers of Norway tind no class ahove then In my country there is no titled nobility and no powerful body of landlords. In no other part of Europe 1s there so great so- ciul and economic equalityas in Norway. And what a source of strength this is, and how it elevates the character of a people. In Denmark, on the contrary, there exists a numercus elass of opulent noble proy holders, bound to- gether by tradition, wealth, titles and social customs, and looking o the ro court a8 the center of public life. W the simple Danish peasant compares him self with these princely personages, he is struck by the inferiority of his position. This is particularly true of the rer who has been sent up to the ri ament, by universul lost there. Then s nd to render the subservient than the Norweg ‘I'ne former lives on a comy; low-land, and leads an e existence, whilst the lattc to sea and mountain, carly learns to be active, intrepid and ' persevering, And the Danish soil—tospeak figuratively this time—has shown itself peculiarl v fitted for the nourishment of socialistic id ile in Norw on the other hand alism ha ade little or no pro- inish mors n peasan wively rich humdrum ,accustomed gre wer eit But if a nation is ¢ver to be edueated into freedom it must be that the Danish peovie will obtain this blessing through the OPPRESSIVE MEASURES that are now weighing upon them, We i wity were astonished to sec the submit so humbly when recently by his own authority decreed in'laws concerning taxation thereby taking out of the hands of the people’s representatitives the tax-leving power; and again when the judges of the su’ L-»numurt who are appointed by the king, condemned the highly respécted and beloved president of the folkething, or lower house, Mr. Berg, to six months’ imprisonment for doing what he had a perfect right to do-opposing an impu- dent attempt on the part of u royal pol officer to prevent a meeting of liberal electo And muny of the friends of Denmark in Nor ran to | art as they saw that public opinion d unmoved when the royal police invaded the very folkething during a sittiy in order to arrest the president. But we have learned not to expect Danish to act a8 we should under similur eireum- stances. Rome was nog built in_a There are m and woitten too, in 1) mark in whom we put great trust and we feel sure that a better day will dawn on their country. The Danes made A GKEAT MISTAKE when they formed their present constitu- tion in 1819, in not betg ntluenced by our Norwegian form of government, which bad then been on tr years, and which was based there was best in the constitution United 8 of on what of the ites and the French constitution 1. The overhus, or upper ehamber, whieh legislatuve feature is quite un- known in Norway, has proved fatal to Danish liberties. Composed almost ex clusively of members appointed by the king, of powerful landholders and high state otlicials, the over us has been the of the legislative deadlock, and of folkething losing its authority in finaneinl measures. Lut how abolish or modify this branch of the legislature? Few Danes have got as far us this, They content sthemselyes with the hope of being able to set agong ugain the old faslioned wachinery of st:ite under a und better ministry. - But there 1s no doubt in my wind that” & rvevision of the Al strugglo | meral, and | « 1836-TWELVE PAGES. 53 e ——— A £ 1 v — S ———— ————_n S regretted brothe \ stran’s | too, the rev 1o | has on like undle of theor ble for real gove wish for a our Norwe, !t mark may tind th than a mere moditication of its cons olf the Ds msti i o tion. These | mans by race | Butit is not | | Copentia stu ane \ ning ques tion, ELAND, ovil fr e e 1 The Yaan 1872 nish_ const ies that are rument. Ti ution in con e In th at leeland of s ov dy i 1 will able t government \ n paet foreed has tution, 1o be fpra o leclanders formity with nd, Den wants more tn are Nor main so the Estrups of ‘0 will pursie such a suieidal | poliey as to drive Teeland to _choose be tween the | Denmark and the makes her one wi paper tie that bond of k th Norway binds her to kinshin that A MEMBER oF THE STORTHING, True At Ticon And of this eity, made beautiful lan toast, he Soldic * ) B We stand to liberty. across the only Cinadas of the the ke Iy res history sturdy Brittons and the murderous sav- ages of the forest contended for the mas terys and in later public, battled stronghold. And brance of those w war e o me suy were acty their gr. of power or of cor ained thom in Thoy fought th of the k of the them we sure the mos tained, shadow of a poct’ ing to the science. But of all the I tained their to their descend not one rc away in after yo many bl to obtain. still -~ live their achi he upon ex are their fitt the uni to p it inviol an equal debt of all soldiers, and stripest hung 1i old flag, But they are nol eye 1 look beyor forms and see faces of m who, alus! hay But living are hero here would g as the or surrounded by t tending a laural sides should “To the heroes accord 1l honor to their j ted by the purest motives 1n battle for freedom. soldiers - oquence, 1> nse of Ticon o b aind the British pathway north provinees of tha south, and he to its frowning portals could ef- t the advanee of all whose e he desired to oppose. in the early days ot colon- mvalrons rs the so itis chiefl 1o here imy revolution of 1 with rtfelt t he ac quest e migl s dream. 1o uphold the standard of Christ, establish 1 government people mi zhit follow His teaching: dictates of thei hosts who the to t . for those who have n te through ali the dangers to which it has been since exposed, we owe gratitude. ver the land t all hel W the cir the well end they e goddiss T8y el - Ghastly Exper A ghastly pantomim wind Po. of & mumm, the Practi where the bodies already stated, w posal of the surg, A number of ive of the 15 enacted on Monds hool of Surgc of ¥ ere ons to ex) experiments among them the following: lish the cireulation in the se the tuated or st rible the eternal principle humanity and justi nd that human liberty nught be something more than the nnsubstantial under 's in homes of peac surrounded by loving kindred and_ the sssings their valor had aid of this gloi a banquet given July 4 at Fort eroga, N. Y., by the old soldiers, ew Beving, the well-known lawyer of the guage in response followi 1o the feroga." y amid the seenes which witnessed the birth throes of Amer F'wo centuries « ot Ticonderoga lay like the fortress e lion between the who held And soit Freneh, the oldiers of the revolution, ehildren of the enmbryo re- gainst the lnreling Hes- ns for the possession of this important y 1n remem- periled their lives during the trying scencs of the that we ronderoga. t unstinted and ise, No hope confliet, of it be main- fought andto which all ord- con- r o here main- aered rights and bequeathed ants a legacy of treedom, d amid the ave up their ome passed But the memory of their heroie deeds and ments grows brighter and brighier with ench reeurring time, and future genorations will gath h anniversar; ous day and do honor to the memory of the noble dead, and these old ruins,which it monument, will then, as now, do silent homag heroes whose memory 1s forever insc upon the hearts of the American veople But itis notthey alone who establi glory of cycle of dopar shod are Andl during he hours of darkness and danger, during all the times when our flag was menaced, no truer patriots, no br: allied beneath the st 1 the sonsof “Old Ti, Isee before me many a bronzed and bearded face that I remember to hav gone by, when, the shadows of disunion r 8 seen m days 1, lighted by the fires of patriotism and love of country its owner marched forth to do, and to die if need be, for the honor of the dear With fancy’s le of hving remembered who in the heyd: manhood, went forth, braye comr. those who are with us here to-day, but never returned of th i les of ch and ail id had 1 a sealptor's gift 1 r o granite shaft o eternal hills. 1 ever- t shonld be of love, ex- b, and upon it be inscribed these words of Ticonderoga who fought on land and sea to prese union, this monument 1s ¢ ef ul countrymen.” v the ted by their nents. recalling palvaniz at the ms- eriment on were made, To e-estab- 1 heads, eins were injeeted with blood taken from a living animal. 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H Meblean's ) purify the applications Voleanie Oil Y ASTONISHING - THE INDIANS, Disastrous Encounter of Five Indiane With a Cirons Giact, PETE NIXON ON HIS MUSCLE. { A Thrilling ¢ ot Froatier Life in Minaesota in 1862 The ane non 3ali Ma n as H Succosstully Home, 1 have bofor an old circus bill ot which my uncle, Peter Nixon, is vepres sentec ‘Signor ( t" and pictured s tossing canaon balls in the sirasa boy uld fling up apples, The bill says of I “We will pay a reward of $1,000 to anvone who can match him in feats of strength,” For five or six years he trav- clled with one show and another as “The Or nal Canon Ball Man™ and itisa solomm fact that he performed everything put down for him on the bills, He was a veritable Goliah in strongth, fairly skilled in boxing and wrestling, and many a local celebrity who took hold of Uncle Poter to lay him in the dust went away fder and wiser. In 1860 he became disgustod with travel, married a widow in St. Paul, and, after the honevmocn, the pair settled down on a piece of wild land a fow miles from New Ulm. As Peter had been unable to save any money on the road he figured that he conla not do worso ns @ ploneer. He was, miore- oyer, rather taken with the iden of pio- neei life and when he found himself bur- ivd in the woods, four or five miles from the nearest settler 1 deprivea of every- thing i the way of luxury, he was not a it disc DETERMINED TO STICK, When the Indian troubles of 1862 first nto crop up Uncle Peter and s wife were urged to seek the proteetion of some fort or scttlement. By this time he had aclearing of twenty acres or more around his house, had plunted corn and potatoes and was the owner of a yoke of oxen, a cow and several head of young stock. To leave his farm would be to leave everything to goto ruin, and he de- termined to stick. When this decision was made known to his wife she declared that she would also remain, although he was anxious to her seek vrotection in the near settlement. Unele Poter had had time to learn something of In- dian eharacter, there being searcely a day but that he encountered xome of them, and while w called him “brother” and expr 2 greatest admiration for him, he felt that his sealp would be no or th 1y othe 'S in ense the redskins went on the warpath. His de- cision to remuin had no sooner been taken than he fend his own, gle door to his ¢ different points began. preparations to de- He strengthened the sin- bin, made loop-holes at nd built heavy shutters for the windows. The next move was to make the roof five-proof. By filling the ] n the binders, which ran with the roof, with earth, he accomplished the objeot very ) sought for, WAITING FOR ATTACK. hin stood on a knoli about two- a feet from the ereek, Peter had ouly one barrel which he could till with water. The log barn stood about twe- hundred and fifty feet from the house, and that structure, of course, he had no idea of defending. 1f attacked by Indinns - they would probably shoot the stock and set fire to the barn at once. His prepara- tions for a siege had not gone unnoticed by the Indians, who called at the cibin a usual and who scemed t have anything but murder in their hearts. They nsked why he was going to all that trouble, and he answered that some bad white men had sworn to have his life, and he wanted to be ready for them. It 1s doubt- The e hundre ful whether the redskins believed hig story, while on the other hana he dropped no hint that he anticipated any trouble. When the ious tribes w 1 ready the war opened and they turned them- selves loose to kill and scalp. For three days not an _Indian_ appeared at Uncle Peter’s cabin, nor did he see oncin the ncighborhood. This he took asa hint that their plans were about ripe and ho kept his weather eye ope On the after- noon of the before the war-whoop sounded he decided to turn all the stoe loose to run th ts, and it may said here he after- recov oxen and As the sun went down he the door, put the shatters up ta the windows and turned his faithful dog outdoors thut he might give the alarm in ns case the Ind ume under the vover of darkness to set fire to the barn, The arms in the house consisted of a rifle, & double-barrelled shotgun and a revolver, Mrs. Nixon had practised shooting-with & revolver, and though not a good murks- man, she had considerabie skill, Tle night passed without the slightest alarm and the morning brought sueh a beauti ful day and EVERYTHING SEEMED SO PEACEFUL that between 9 and 10 o'clock Uncle Peter determined to venture ont. . One of the ealves had returned to the barn and when he left the eabin it was for the pur- pose of driving it off again. The calf moved around the corner ot the barn ag Nixon approached, and just as he wis turning the corner after it five Indians n war-pant appeared beforo him, Encl of his arms was seized by a warrior, and as he stood the 0 dazed and dumfounded for & moment to speak ¢ , the 1 r of the Indians chiickled Bis satisfaction and said iood. Little Crow want you, Come long.” His words seemed Peter from s trance With a yell which could have been heard above any war-whoop iie flung the two warriors 1o right and left and scized the leader. In a jifty he had shaken him loose from his weapons and slimmed nim agamst the barn with awfal foree. It was a little surprise party for the Indians, you see, and before they could rally'the signor doubled one up with a kick in_the stom- shed another’s fiace with o blow of his fist, and after swinging the leader in the air and hurling him to the ground, the cannon-ball man made @ run for the eabin and reached it without being fired at, After the uprising had been subdoed and peace restored, he was told tant the lian to capture him alive for torture. n his tussle with them he broke one In? diun's urm and severcly bruised two others to arouse Uncle A PLUCKY Col'L When Unele Peter dushed mto the cabin he made his wife wequuinted with the situation in w word, and they picked ins and went to the loop holes the enemy. The Indians re- tired and did not appear ain until night had fully settled down,” Then ten or twelve of them, who carried the trunk of a small tree for a buttering ram, boldly apironch the door. nele Peter and his wif: onened The reports of the firc-arms were followed by sereams and yells and groans, and log was aropped and the redsking tlew 10 cover. Oue or two evawled away on hands and knees, proving that they were wounded, while one lay stretehed in death After a sleepless night Unele Peter and his wife were gladdened to tind that the redskins had disappeared; and without delay they joined the forces of Colonel Nivley, and my unele W oreceipl in full for all the rodskin liau by kil ing thyce more