Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1887, Page 11

X v A NOTHER-IN-LAW'S APPEAL. A Brilliant Wheeler Wilcox. MISS CLEVELAND AT Present Phases of the Woman Prob- lem—Dashing Girls in Style—Wo- man's Civility {to Woman— Woman Who Are Athlete Tho Mother-in-Law. Ella Wheeler Wilcor, in Brookiyn Magazine, She was my dream’s fulfilment and my joy, “Lils lovely woman whom you call your wife, You sported at your play, an idle boy, when I first felt th:a stirring of her fite Within my startled being. 1 was thrilled With such intensity of love, it filled ‘The very universa! But words are vain— Noman can comprehend that wiid sweet pain, HOME You smiled in childlood’s slumber while [ felt ‘L've agonies of labor; and the nights 1, i, o'er the little sufferer knelt, " You, wandering on through dreamiand’s fair delights, Flung out youe lengthening linbs and siept and grew, While L, awake, saved tnis dear wife for you. Blhie was mr heart's loved Idol, and my pride, 1 taught her all those graces which you praise. 1 dreamed of coming years, when at wy side She should lend lustre to my fading days, Should cling to me (as she to you clings now), 2 The young' fruit hanging to the withered bough, But lo! the blossom was so falr a slzht, You plucked it from me—tor your own de- light. ‘Well, you are worthy of her—oh, thank God— And yet I think you do not realize How burning were the sands o'er which I trod T'0 bear and rear this woman you so prize. 1t was no easy thing to see her go—- Even into the arms of one she worshipped so. Ilow strong, how vast, how awful seems the power Of this new love which fills a maiden’s heart, For one who never bore a single hou Of pain for her; whieh tears her lite apart «¥rom all its moorings, and controls her mo Than all the ties the years have hoeld befor Which crowns a stranger with a Kingly race— And give the one who bore her--sccond place, Sl loves me still! ana yet were Death to say, *Choose now between them ! you would be herchoice, God meant it to be so—itls His way— But ean you wonder, if while I rejoice Inlier couteit, this thousht hurts like a n “No longer necessary to her life?” My pleasure in her joy is bitter sweet, Your very goodness sometimes hurts my heart, Because for her life’s drama seems complete Without the mother’s oft-repeated part. Bo patient with me. She was mine so long Who now is yours, One must indeed be strong “T'o meet such loss without tl And 80 forgive me 1t my ey least recret, S AL Wet. Miss Oleveland at Home, Laura C. Holloway, in Brooklyn Muaga- zine: Within the past two years Miss Cleveland has increased her possessions in Holland Patent, and has m‘ilml many Smprovements to her home. Among the additions were a large library on the second floor and several y as and halls about the mansi 1 increasing its e: terior as weil as its interor appearance. It i the home of a literary woman, a person of real literary insincts, £ees books, magrazines, writing n 3 ries, and round tables forseribes, but no sign of sewing-basket, or cookery awanuals, or keys. However sharply the wisitor looks for these signs of feminin ity, she s them not, neither does she note nny preoccupation on the part of Miss Cle nd in household matters and yet she is the mistress of a beautiful ordered and exquisitely neat home Mai time is important there, where le come fron arts of the United S on all imaginable ses of people: ers tates subjects and from all The autograph: hunter inyadesits privacy, and_the newspaper Teporte 1 frequent visitor at the front dour. Beyond that portal, however, he docs not come, Miss Cleveland’s home is her castle, and its p is not in vaded by any one. Invited guests find 1t adelightful ‘pluce to visit, and the few intimate friends she has m Holland Pat- ent auve a welcome always. In the decorations with which she is surrounded, in that blending of the old and the new, we find all that indicates real home, Her fathe arm-chair und secretary are in her library; her mothor's ensy cha is m her room; the great ma hogany sidebourd is in the dining-room, and the piano und parlor furnishing once her mother's are now her’ “Miss Cleveland 1s now resuming her old habits in her old home and takmn, up her old books, and stud and ol Tife gencrally. She is vory regular in her habits. She breakfas into her library at 9, and nds the morning there. At 1 o'clock she dines, preferring while in her country home to have amid- day dinner. ‘The afternoon she spends in driving or walking, visiting with he friends and guests. She is utterly defiant of wind and weather, driving in ‘the rain rather than not at all, and her sol: v figure at all seasons mounting the hills, crossing the meadows, and disappearing oll'in the woods, has been long fannliar 10 tho lookers-out-of-windows along the villuge street or in the more seattered farm-houses. Her visits are mostly to those whom she can serve in some way, Her mother was very thoughtful tor the poor, and in this respect her daughter imitates her, Phases of the Woman Problc Fro Che Higher Education of Wo- mnn," by Mrs, E, Lynn Linton, 1n Popu- Iar Scienco Mouthly: Of lute years this question of woman’s work has passed anto nnother phase, und the crux now is, not so much how ean they be provided with work adequately remunerated, but how they can fit themselves for doing it without damage to their health and those interests of the race and society which are bound up with their well-being. This is the real difliculty, both of the higher education and of the general circum stunces surrounding the self-supnort of women, For the stramn is severe, and must be, if they are to successfully com- pete with men—undeniably the stronger, both in mind und body, in intellectual grasp and staying power, in the faculty of origination, the eapacity for sustained offort, and in patient perseverance under arduous and it may be distastefullabor. But the dream and the chief endeavor of women now 15 to do the same work as men alone have hitherto done—which W shall come into t competition with the stronger—the result being surely s foregone conclusio This is the natural consequence of the degradation by women themselves of their own more litting work; so that s female doctor, for the present. holls a higher social position than does the resi- Jeut governess, while a telegraph girl may be a lady, but a shop-girl can not. For well-pail intelleetual work a good education is naturally of the first neces- sity, and the base on'which all the rest is founded. W herefore, the higher educa tion has been organized more us 4 prae- tical cquipment than as an outeome of the purely intellectunl desire of women to learn where they have nothing to gain by it. For all this, many girls go to ( ton and Newnham who do not mean to practically profit by their education. wirls who want to] escape from the nar- row limits of the home, and who yoarn aftor the qua induk.‘udunce of college life--girls to whom the unknown s em- phatically the magniticent, and who de 8ire novelty before all things; with the Beantiful Poem by Ella | remnant of the purely studions—those who love learning for its own sake only, independent of gain, kudos, freedom, of novelt But these are the women who wounld have studied as ardently, and with less strain, in their own homes; who wounld have taken a longer time over | their edueation, and would not have hurt their health and drained their vital ener. wies by doing it in two or thr ars what should have taken five or six; who would have gathered with more delib; tion, not spurred by emulation nor driver by competition; and who, with energy superadded to their love of knowledge, would have made the Mrs. Somervilles or Caroline Herschels, the Miss Burneys or Harriet Martineaus, of history. But such women are not many; voluntary de- votion, irrespective ol self-interest, to art, literature, science, philosophy, being one of the rarest accidents in the history of women—as, indeed, must needs be if they are to fultill the natural functions of their SeX. Three Kinds of Girl, Tler eyes aro like the stars which shine on high, Her voiee Is like the evening zephyr's sizh, 1er |mmx<| are whitest marble tipped with pearl, Her feet—alas! She'sa Chicago girl. Her cl:m-kl are like the rase that blooms in June, Her l‘run are blue as skies at summer noon, Her chin—it sets one's senses in a whirl, Her mouth—alas! Sne's an Ohio girl, Her form is zeometrically correct, Her nose is beld with dignity erect, Her hair is short—I never cared for curl, Her speech—alus! She is a Boston girl, Dashing Girls In Style. New York Mail and Express proper thing in girls this ye: and straight and strong. o groots mankind with an impressive stare as she strides along the street with her chin in the air, her shoulders well back and her arms swinging to and fro. This season settled it. ~ The opera brought society back, and the proper girl canie romping home with flashing eyes and the ruddy ;gllow of perfect health showing through the nut-brown tan of the summer’s cam- paign. The clinging girl with tender s, the romantic girl with the yearning , the domestic girl with the” purring voice, the “‘brilliant” girl with the turgid French, the smuggling girl with her art- ful smirk, and the girl who clung to the skirts of mamma-—they are gon They went away in a flutter with timorous screams at the snort of the engine and the rush of the burly world, Now they come back, but they are not the same. nstend, there’s an army of lofty, gay, intrepid, meddlesome, dashing giris, who swagger abroad with 'delicious feminine audacity, and wno have brought the breeze of the mountain top, the salty vor of the ocean’s edge and the buc ant air of the Berkshire hillinto the very heart of dirty, dusty and stale New York. Of ull the types that the town has seen the girl of “to-day, with her ligh-bred look, her daring style and winsome as- sumption of manliness, 18 far and away the most fetehing thing that the world at large can show. ‘Woman’s Civility to Woman. Bufialo Courie “Move up forward, pl . and let these ladies on; there's plenty of room inside,” shouted the con- ductor of a street-car | evening that wd halted at Niagara square and was ready packed with women and little folks returning from an afternoon’s Christmas shovping. The we only three or four men on the seats at the for- ward end, and they continued to hold them down until their journey was ended “I'd like to know when one woman eyer mude room for another, to say nothing about wman,” growled one of them, evi- dentl] ') he fixed himself more firmly in his seat and scowled at his fellow-passengers. “if you don’t believe it," said he, observing that he had gained the attention of the Arounder, “just look at those two over there in the center.” Surely enough he had eause for his bitter- ne ‘be two women of whom he 1 spoken were content to avpear oblivious of the number of passengers hanging on to the st while they side s and gossiped, occupying four times as much room as they were entitled to. And the conductor continued to yell from the platform: “Move up forward in the car d make room for these ladies."” Unladylike Ladies, Newark Sunday Call: *I do think some women are perfect fiends.” This s not the utterance of a crusty old bachelor, but a young murried woman just returned from a holiday shopping tour, and her re mark was directed at her own sex. She smd: “No man would dare to treat fellow man as meanly as one woman wi treat another at every opportunity. Women expeet and exact conrtesy from men, and stigmatize an impolite ‘man as a brite, beast or hog, but these same wowen will behave ten times worse to their fellow women than any man would dare to treat unoth Look at the v women treat each other in the hors b X women will manage to loll i a car in such w manner as to keep one of their sex pinched up mto a quarter of y space on the extreme edge of the s and rot one of them would be ladylik: enough to_move uan inch to her more comfortable. I s: womun knock another woman's puckage froma counter in a Broad strect store y yand curl her lip as she glanced at the package and walked away. Would a man do that to another man? No, indeed. He would restore the package to its place and apoli ize for his' nwkwardness large woman will sweep little wom: away from in front of a counter w she wants to reach anything, and will you over hear the slightest word of apol- ogyt” “Do you mean to say that all women rude to cach other?” *No; but 1 think all women are natur- ally tempted to be inconsiderate to each other; but some strugele against their wenkness while others are too refined and gentle to give way to small meanness. To show how mean a woman can be I will tell you what 1 saw last wes A woman with a ehild and_innumerablo packages droppad the child’s white cloak, and be- fore ‘she could stoop to pick itup a woman wearing a §200 sealskin sacque deliberately went out of her way to leave the print of her muddy No. 7 rubber on the delicato fabrie of the cloak. 1 saw the cruel smule on her face as she passed me and I know that she intentionally rained the ehild’s garment. I should not nave blumed the other women if she had :’u n the scalskin from the tiend’s shoul- ers,” Can a Woman be a Senator? Washington Post: ‘Llicre is no express constitutional prohimtion of such ap elec- tion and such service; nothing but tradi tion, precedence and inference could be quoted against it. If the legislature of 1llinois should elect Mrs. Logan to the senate, that body would probably, indeed undoubtedly, admit her as a member. Bug; notwithstunding Mrs, Logan’s un- questionable tact, ability and long expe ienee, the legislature will probably not follow the on of our corréspon- pondent suceivable that she ight deeline the ofiice even if it were proffered Ler. The presence of a woman In the s periment. ate would bean_interesting ex- Mrs, Logan possesses so wido a knowledge of public ' affairs, such an extensive acquaintancefwith publie men, such readiness and foree of expr such posit shrewdne: onee a po: voness of pUrpPoOse that she would assume at n entitled to hgh respect. Women Who are Athletes, Many people have long been at a loss to know where the lady athletes learn the art by which they earn a livelihood snd by whon they are taught, A New York profescor has a private gymnasiom in an up-town street at which many of the queens of the al instructed in the art of hanging by their tocs and going through various other acts well known to the frequenters of the circus and_the variety theater. A repor for the Mml and Expross hiad o Jong taik with this rofessor, and was told how tl ath- ctes are taught. When the reporter en- tered the studio he found the professor istructing two young women in_trapeze manenyre: le visitor was invited into a private room, as it is against the rules for any one to be present while pupils are taking lessons, 'The rooms were ¢ orated with photographs of the shining lights of the profession whom the trofes. sot had fitted for the business, After the lesson was over the professor took the ibe through the diffcrent apartients, “Iam the only man in this city,” said the athlete, “who instructs ladies in the art of performing on the tre e, and 1 have just completed & book in which Lex- plain all the tricks and the way in which they are acquir “I supvose a person must be Y young and_supple at the start to make anything like a ' good acrobat?” ““That’s where yon are entirely wrong, sir. Any woman can hecome a good per- former after a proper course of training, if she be but healthy and not too stout It is all mechanical and can be acquired only by constant practice. I have ladies come to me who are anything but grace- ful, and by following my advice and sug- gestions closely they have become first class performors and are now earning good salaries. Many fail because they can't stand the hardship inseparablo from the first few days’' practice. After the initial lesson they invariably decline to take the rest of the conrse, Nine persc out of every ten give it up after the fi lesson. If ‘they would only keep on the pain would gradually disappearand they woulld be allright and nover bo similarly troubled again.” “What is the first lesson you gives" *The first lesson 1 give is to get my money-—my retainer, as it were. That is also the first lesson they give me, Then 4hey are ready for the first lesson, which consists of hanging by the hands and swinging to and fro across the room, wh I have them do in order to satisfy m of their strength. They generally across twice and fall upon a featl The next flgure is to hang by the hands from the bar. After they have gone so far they take hold of the ropes and slide up mto a sitting position. After a few moments’ rest [ make them get down by reversing the motion. *“When 1 have progressed thus far I teach them to hang by by their kne This is not quite so diflieult as the pre vious After they have gone through this motion se times they feel like going home. When a womau has gone as far as this without complain- ing mucl it is pretty safe to say she will suceeed in the profession she has chosen. Most of them think every muscle in the body has been severed. 1 have had pu- pils come to me after an absence of a week and tell me they felt the bars across their backs.” “How long does it require a woman to become proficient?” “That depends entirely upon the pupil, but I generally tell what the pupil will amount to a verformer after 1 have given her two lessons.” Do you ever have any nccident?” “Very seldom; I alway look out for them. "Slim women generally muke the most scientific performers,”” - — AL AND DRAMATIC, The “Mikado” continues to draw great au- dienees Berlin, idward Harrigan’s new play will be ealled “MeRooney’s Visit.” 1fy considers *“I'l s best inventi ‘The Kiralfy Bros., it is smd, have an amusement enterprise on hand for next sum- mer in whieh 1,000 people will appear. Miss Sarah Jewett has joined Mi Kate Claxton’s *“Two Orphians” company, where she will remain for the balauce of the sea- MUS operetta Bal- he late: asate at an ¢ tour. Max Brueh's dramatic oratorio of “Achil- leus™ had its tirst performance in this c ry :?l the recent Leiderkranz concert in New orlk It is said that Miss Van Zandt is much better, and has started for Cannes, where she will remain during the greater part of the winter, Miss Daisy Siddons, of Washington, who has been engaged by Lawrence rett for ssip concerning the violinist, edits him with the contemplation iy day of an extended Ameriean next season’s” Booth company, is a great- grand-daughter of the histori arah Sid- dons. ‘The Franco-American azency announces by circular letter that M. Doyle is not the righttul owner of *“I'he Martyr,” M., Paler ving secure D’ Ennery last summe 1d Witbon, authors of “*Nordeck,” completed a dramatization of Alex- as' romance, “The Three Guard: men uzotiations are pending for its earl enrly production in New York. M 0 18 now filling & two weeks' engaiement in Brooklyn. Mr. Steele Mackay has finished his play, “Anareny,” w hits been read to a nwmber of wanagers, all of whom have prononneed it the strongest and most interesting work ot Soveral have offered to produce it, Mackaye prefers to let Lester Walt e itfor his theatrs e Chouans™ brought Mr, Just $1,000 for its adaptation. 250 was paid when he de seript to Mume, Modjeska; an equal amount on the first night of the perforin: and the other $500 will be paid when the play’ hasrun a month, iillette has no doubt that “Ileld by tho Enemy™ will net him $100,000, 1t is probable that he will not act azain after this season. Gillette’s tivst ambition was in the direction of tragedy, and his best work nnder Barnev Macauley, at the Lonisville theatre, was in serious ¢ He was anxious at that timo to play Dion Boueicault, who is now in Boston.has canceled all the dates made for him by Mur- Mayer and Chatles Frohman. e has itten this to some 0f the company who are in New Yok city. Mr. Boucieaulf intends ce his new play in the last week in n Boston with a company of his tion. ‘This 18 a hard winter for figurante the first time in many years there is not a acle at any of the New York theatres. adozen of them have found any nt within the last six months, and re hundreds of women in the metropo- lis who have no other means of earning their bread. Eliza Weathersby, one of the shaneliest ig- ures that ever trod the burlesque stage, and for long the life of “Evangeline.” is steadily failing, and it is feaved that she will not out- last the winter. Her husband, Mr. Nat (. Goodwin, isat her bedside when his duties ermit. 'They occupy a flat in the Rutland. Two of her sisters, of the Bijou compaiy, are with them. William A, Mestayer's new play will satirize the tobogganing craze, In- one scene a slide starts from the left of the stage turning in the center, going oft at the rizht wing, There is no doubl of Mastaver's eapacity (o produce original effects, ‘The *“Pullman Paluce Car” jumible of laughable nonsense was a very daring piece of work, and it was a long time before Mestayer could get any one to listen to bis statement of the possibilities in it, Both Henry Abbey and staver Amberg want the New York academy of music, Man- cer Awberg wants a three years lease, and ¢es L0 pay $50,000 & year rental, Messi Abbey and Schoeffel want five years control, and pronose to pay $40,000 & year the first two r-nm, $45,000 the next two, and 250,000 the ifth year, The academy directors will not meet to act on the offers until a majority ot the stockholders shall have had thelr sav fn writing about it nager Awmberg’s pro- jectis to make the academy an n\yrwun German theater for cowedy, tragedy and light operas, T'wo hundied and fitty of the best seats are to be sold nightly to subserib- ers of the German [leater society, which guarantees an annual subscription of $50,000, Messrs, Abbey and Schoeffel want to change the academy fo a_theater run on the same plan as the New York grand opera house, at vopular prices, and that A. 1" the right ‘to Paul Potter OF that =um vered the wmanu- own sele For BEE: SUNDAY JANUAR [GEN. SHERMAY 0N LOGAY, "01d Tecumseh” Once Mose Talks About the Dead Boldier-Senator. | | | | Some Points About Dlair, Terry, MeClernand, Others — Interesting Chat and Gossip, Logan, and “Gath™ in Cincinnati Enquirer: In my conversation with General Snerman, a few days ago, 1 asked “How do you compare the men you have spoken of, say Terry, Logan and Blair?" “I should think, from general under standing, that Terry was the most dis- creet of thosc three men; that if you sent him away out of your sight n long di tanee to do anything he would probably keep in mind his orders, without any de flection. Logan, I think, was somewhat better as a corps commander than Blai He wae not so finely made up as Blair not so much of a worldly nature and phi losopher, but he had a dogged persever- ance and ambition which not only length- ened out and enlarged his military life but it kept him from indulgences which overcame other men,” “Logar was a prond man, wasn't het'" *Logan’s pride was a valuable part of his He never let himself down in his own respect nor in that of his equals and of the soldiers. Frank Biaiv | more humor and poetry about him th Logan. He had thinking facultios which he exercised more often than Logan. 1 now speak of the time of war. Blair would take a practical joke if it turnced roughly against_himself; ho wonld langh with the rest. You hardly ever could get Logan to laugh at joke, the point of which was turned upon himself. He had not much humor and was a_littio grim He was in the most s eable state of mind when h 1 fighting to do." . POLITICTANS IN WAR, . “General, you speak of Logan return- ing to muake Specelics in the north.” “Well, Bl did the same thing. That was one thing we old army officers did not like.~ Perhaps we did not understand the political necessities which ran parallel with the military campaign; but I thought when o maun eame mto the military s viee, that he should give s full and on dovotion to it. Those mon, wheneve ¢ was nothing to do-~they were both ve and wanted to be present when there was fighting—would be away off in our rear, in Missourt or 1llinof or some- where, making political spec “General, how do Blair going into th and Logan, though he nt for wtie line: democrat, oo, going right over to the repubhieans: “Weil, " said Gen, Sherman, “if 1 haa t of the war which of those men would become a republican and which a democrat, I would said that Irank Bluir would be the radi and Logan be the reactionary. Yet the the opposite courses Iay it nat haye been t the influence of his own state “Yes, there may have been something in that, but 1 suppose, from what [ X since scen, that their covrses were natural enowgh. Blair had been brought up in a slave state and was indillerent to what beeame of the negro. Logan had been brought up i a free state, and he had not the interest in the ex-slave holders that Blair had, who lived amon; them, k Logan iti nature and Blair a some and worldly one. When Logan got mad he each felt staid mad. Douglas, his gv pior m politics, came to him and “These men have thrown ofl' all reserve and principle and arve going to destroy their country, and yon must staund by your country.” When Douglas 1 that to Loganit was enough. But over M Blair there w. s probably no such mount influence. Blair had statesman to himself in Missouri. war advanced, Lozan, who temperament with his sword, lieve that the whole sonth wiis PART OF A BLACK CONSPIRACY to destroy the American name and na- tion. Itmade him madder and madder When Douglas said, and Lincoln said the same.” ‘There are no longer any volitical lines except those who ure for their gov- ernment or inst it,’ that settled Logan. He went for the government." “Gen. Sherman, did you know Stephen A. Douglas personally? “Inever did. Nor didT know any- thing to speak of about Logan until I saw him somewhere about Lort Henry in 1862, If he had been much of a politician L did not know it or notice it. He was u fresh quantity to me. Blur, of cour I knew more about, as I had lived in St. Louis. “How came Howard to giveup the command of the army to Logen again in par been As the gave his ot to be- 't sent for How ton and o) i edmen’s burean to take of the great number of blacks who had fol- lowed the ar nd tor whom some- thing had to be done.” “Did Logan you know of rot ty to the negrocs s lemocrat?” ink not. ‘There Lozan’s politieal nee und acumen helped him ont, s0 determined to whip the south would make use of blacks or he. that whites,” : *Did he hike Mr, Lincoln, as far as you know?" “Yes; he had the greatest admni for him, Toward the close of his i often talked of Lincoln ation he with veneration. Logan_never neeused Lineoln of dis. couraging his armies and generalsin order that he might bave achance to emancipate the slaves. 1 have been reading General MeUlellan's book, anu that is the main point he insists upon— that Lincoln’s administration did not want him to succeed m restoring the union lest slavery be prsevered, 1 have read it all,"" said Sherman, “‘and I cannot agree with McClellan. I think that at any time during 1862 Mr. Lincoln would have ACCEPTED SLAVERY AGAIN if he could get the union back, He prob- ably would“have made some such ar. rangement about it as the government made concerning the slave trade in the constitution, when they tixed a year be- yond which it should not go on. I mean the African slave trude, As 1862 advanced toward the autumn, Mr. Lineoln saw that he would haye to cut off the head of to get the union back. I don't he had any mtention to prolong the war. Yet that it was a long war was perhaps all the better in the sequel, for we did get vid ‘of slavery absolutely. Logan had no grudges or theories of that kind to deter him from taking his place in the republican party at the close of the His chief grievance w. have been talking about—t he had dune bis duty, met with no backset, made no mistake, and yet the regular army men L\‘}Ii him out of commund of the army of the Tennessee.” “When did he show a better spirit toward you. SAfter 1 army and beeame the general of the went to live at V., shington city. I then desired, in times of peace, to make all the soldiers feel good natured. George Corkhill gave a dinner to me one night at Chamberlain’s, in ashington, and Logan arose after the dinner ‘and paid me a warm, earnest compliment, From that time forward there was nothing left to explain, He and I became very intimate, The last time I saw him was in the very next room to where we now sit. I had a'novel about the John Brown raid and the assassina- tion of Mr. Lincoln, which had been sent "0, 1887 ~TWEI to me, and Logan ecame through the | Possivi ‘B next door, having taken the room nest to me, and told me I showed him thoro was a s this boc imilar boo He pub- lished by his pnblisher, and he asked mo if I woul covy- [ LUhe burden of an lon, and' that con At wa [} He ornm, mics “Geno Grand Yos, eral com ful orgar the skeleton of the army, and the patriotic towns, 1t lence, | man pre hav the n them cont characte rized harm such an or SIDING thought tn n helped to organi; d res t w d eruel most of the | ict were OVER THE Pt s Logan's fech hands al, what do Army of the in the Logan, 1 think, « mander of it. 1 rization. Apart ail ais spirit in sefal ¢ often go 1o som ants himself fe the fitness of things was violated by secing the eabin yon ad it if he would send me a something like a novel the hook was to show how had_been the civil war, t at the conelusion of it, or soon after that rsons who made HLIC DESTY to tho 1Es close., t and of publie gov ene think of t Republic which " was the i think it i rom preserving fore our states and tance to benevo- town and a ity. 1 only to inquire who are membors hore of d Army, when one or two of ne forward and tell me the exact of that man; whether ke de- s something,or whether he was a dis vagrant and impostor. 1 sce no ganization ean do.” “Was Logan anything of a topograph- ical student in the war, examining his mapst” until the last three or hard student thi He felt career, he must inform himself. of the down. No, not a bit of that. before, Lo contact with. 1 Saw every! He was 1 Iatter part of nr ye! ul 1 belie us which by that, wi thing he was in not he has been o ve that was one roke his b th hs enlarged By the time he died he was a much broader, bet- ter man than woen we tirst knew him."” Nt th ther o] saw it was only mea He wasdisposed to ment tow his stead General under tl y superi ENERAL M'OL it Kind cClernand, wh n commander ve man, b Vi toexp ntto iere from posed i the west, in v_objective, the McClernand 18 ho present administration haps one of the Mormon commissione: lous disposition. as Pos JENAND, of & man was o was Log ut of n suspi- e w when we csburg. Grant redition until he protect his flank onsider it n move stead of toward east. [ think an office-holder ) Who published that letter of Grant saying that Logan had the presidential bee? “Did at come out of the army archives, too Noi | griess Washburne must have let it out, d ant thinks so. And [ don’t think it should have been pub lished.” CWhat animus? 1 don verse h was hard was n ha of influence o I officer, R Sher could have be 't bit, which he s { swearing rd swearer, and ed Gen. Sherman if Logan ' give Ilinois an ren Washburn id Logan's only per- terward subdued, John A, Rawlins had a good deal While & good wling was a ficree, rough ad or iment high up in priority than Grant if he might not have been the gener piuns an envelope Said 1 you think of Logan's book St s Grant of I thought not, as so n i presciences were required to nd close it out d > the rebeliion : “General very in the war. The ny kinds of do He worked hard to establish his decided views of the ovigin of L deal of rese Do ye WS SUPHOsed vublishe drew the fire of othe: of the w. make s l. Ber conciu 1 shall of it uny the reh.’ ou thlnk you did point of view to pu ivs so early ¥ n't make as much 1w Ay hook, Itr until it nilar books. ore Grant on that n nd by the way." T ecan Ld ¢ book rebellion, uld, but I wetors on hied he second - showed w well in a finan- blish your own money as it am glad 1 led oft and I sides ne the fashion to on't regret it at une to tho bout right. ised edition athe was, EDUCATIONAL ‘L'he colleges of this country contain 18,000 female st The first Siver been ope; n unive ned at Tom 15ity has recently ‘The gymwmnasinm at Bowdoin college, cost- ing §' 0, is completed. In 1880 the eensus showed that 154,575 of from 710 teaciiers: were wonen. Harvard le; Price Green- leaf, of Boston, is 1ikely to amount to $600,- 000, Ripon of the Knowles' which ha: The aver of St. I ceive ceive ado colle, igan The pre sity at ' terned i oot semli aKo prin cester it European and Javanese | GO0, 600 in toward a permanent endowninent { Colorado Bprings, faculty at Oberlin ineludes forty-seven the Duteh is Miss M. L. Ciaming college is hapny endow 1 just been pai 1is 15 On Of the L1016 t than S400 per yes or George N, Ma Colorado with Over one-hul Ohio, 633, There York e sixt ols for this purpo al portions of the empire. In Wellington, South Afric e, and called Hugue- founded thirteen ter Mt Holyol DIry, Was Retorn d the school has ry of the in the completion ment of 20,000, din, schiool teachers Iy twenty-six re- cacliers, 1,000 re- rden has secnred in a fow weeks tor Color- If of the students are 104 from [11- righty, and fromn ident of the wovernment univer- io speaks earnestly stter education of women, in regard to and advises a school yeurs The of W ned cliure ) pupils. ned men ure at work endeavoring to represent the 5,000 ch; letters of Latin dictionary has been finished books in Princip: vorsit arrangem ferring a tha granting By ti widow of Mass, coll bridge, # ol lishmen wonien, There tional ¥ public selicols. Irawing ples of but their ot commerce. sential to write, W married, A et 10 evel half warr every t mi mouy of ing willow are prescril sters of tho Japane of Edinbu In Prussi in 1578 the the Roman alph avanese-English Willlam 1 al Sir has onts have been o special sehoolmasi of the same, rance ¢ throngh 4 fixed will the Iate 5001 the Ame 1 niissions, 85,000 and a fund for the est { 4 home in Cambridge for age H, 000, u_ growing sen i favor of Not only and ures and oming an indisy In faet, It is @ know bow - - CONNUBIALL Kennie, of s 300 young an an elaims ther four and a balt marriages, iage that wecount: ie, The half m able. wiss law compels every newly-married couple to plant trees shortly after marriage. The | the Caroline A, aleb Wood and founde o1 the Wood Memorial ehureh in € Welle: perspective be practical application to seiei anics. to draw as to re; y Women wiho ars lie s 10 $500,000 0r more each, and all ure un nguagh by the bet. " A dapanese and other will follow. Muir, of the uni- annotunced that completed for con- ter's diploma, and gulations have been adopted for the average salary of a . In B ying from £ 10 £45 for a an, and from £2510 £36 to bridge, ley college gets $50,000; Bates 35,0003 Avon ’lac c¢ howe, at Cam- an board of tor- itiment in eduea- art instruetion in shonld the princi- ught, Industri; pensable faetor etling to be Franelse divoree It is the s for the divoree arried are wholly ¢ is one the cer pine and weep- I, but the birch Is allowed as belug prospeetively useful. In Soclety—Daught Blank proposed to e last night.” “Mothe fas he any money, daughter?” Dau “Only 81,5004 year, mamma.” Mother: daughter, handlebim care “Mamma, M ty till spriu PAGES. 11 = Fou ean pick up something . better during the winter.” The death of General Lo:an is said to liaye ‘T'rue; true; but fhen, on the mbe that y all potvandrists are women. 8o {t is 4s b postponed the marriage of his son, John A, | 88 (s long, & Logan, jr, with Edith, davchter of €. H, All throngh life Andrews, of Youngstown, O., one of the You'll find this rule, wealthiest men 1n the state. But as this Worman's a kicker, | event was not to occur till spring, the delay Ro'samn van hardly be very long. Tobozgan suits are the order of the dag, — ‘They are oxceedingl, suited to every style beanty, Little ¢ esque costumes - - HONEY FOR THE LADIES, naises trimmed with fur are coming in vatied in color, and aMe of womanly and man ren wear these piets : for their morning airing & when the snow is on the ground and “‘-’l 3 nipning and eager, One notiged on_ ¥ fashionable young woman | wylinue, worn by n lovely ¢hiid of 1ive y 58y beavoer, with golden locks, was white, striped wil ening mantles are appropriately trimmed The littlo fellow 2 sky blue. seomed nm-n: with feather bands, scious ot cold, and his costume was most 3 coming, A - 'he attempt to revive the old-time boa is nly partially successt » Sealskin is never uscd for trimm for whole garments and bonnet Children’s coats and frocks aro as often ¢ With tull gathered as pleated skirts, ll‘lulh and velvet, with dots of contrasting color, are mueh used for millinery purposes. Open embroldery is used by some dress- makers on wool frocks thatare trivamed with bands of fur The newest fur collars are in the square allor shape, with strings 1o tic or clasps to festen them in front, Pale blue and rose pink eashmere, trimmed With moss wreon plush, make protty party frocks for young girls, Silver threaded crepe worn over sutin and combined with vlush. tor the bod ice, Is the favorite ball gown of the season, I'here are as many wavs of using fur asn dress accessory for warmth or ornament s there arc dificrent kinds of furs, Lhe wearing of wool materials on all oeca- sions by children has greatly diminished the use of silken stuils for their best frocks ut ne OUS. - [here are only twelve missionaries labors § ing among §,000,000 of Siamese, The additions to the Christian ehurches of Japan are about five hundred per month, About three hundred pol vgamists _are under indictment and awaiting trial in Utal | and Idaho. © Fiji has in its population 102,000 adherents of Methodism, 10,000 of Romanism, and not one of heatlien s, Four hundred converted Jews are clergys men in the Church of England, three of whom have risen to the rank of bishop. The number of candidates for the ministey of the Episcopal churel in the Unitod States is 544-—a smaller number than at any time sinee 1508, There is a town in Massachusetts—Elme wood—of 600 inhabitants with only one min= ister and one chureh, and so it has been for thirty years. In the northwest provinces of Indla, ! Glossy beaver - voung | eluding Oudi, there are 44,000,000 Hindoos Iadics with dross by eunt | and Mohamniedans crowded into an arsa ot as with tailor-made suits in the morning, 100,108 squara miles. Large plaids in vanishing effects of blue The Jews of Pittsburge are considering the religions services on mvention will be held in & delinito action, Several women of the imperial palace at kin have become intorested in the Now Testament, and meetines for gospel teaching are held within the palace walls, The hired vew has bocome a thing of the st to the churches of Cambridge, Mas neluding Christ's church, St John's, S James' St. Peter’s and St. Philip’s The English Baptist Mission at Cameroons, having come under the authority of the German government, has been purchased by the Basle Missionary society for $10,000, A brass tablet to the |\|l}|l|||l?‘ of the late n question of holding Sundays, and a few weeks to tal and brown are combined with golden . brown }.I!n*h toryoung girls’ and little ehildren’s I'he poctess who can make “roast beef" rhyme with vegetabl is the Kind of a hoctoss the: world is- waiting to crown as Quie A Dbolero hat of dark blue astrakhan Is trimmed with a cluster of loops of faille rib- bon of the same tint, among which are two yellow wings., irdles of jot, rub cashmere beads,’ cort ming of the gowns, are worn with tea gowns and reception toilets, In England glace kid gloves are supersed- . veart, erystal and pondine to’ the trim- 3 Brosic Arthur 15 to be placed th St i ing those of neau du Suede for tull dress, 1t | Hesldont Artiue 16 to be placed fn St dolin's 18 pasn amnounced that whito kid gloves are | oW picod thero by hiin o8 & 1omOFN to his wite The ancient chureh of St. Bartholomew, West Smithiield, in whiel Hogarth was bape tized, and of which Milton was'a parishoner, has just been reopened after extonsive strues tural repairs, Within the last three months there have sailed from the United States for foreign mission tields ninty-nine men and womon— some for Africa, some for India, some for China and Japan, some_ for Sian, ete fty years the Fiji Islanders werea o of fierce cannibals, Now there isnot one of them who i3 a professing pagan. It is stated that our of a native population of about 112,000 nearly 100,000 aro members of the christian chureh. ‘Tho New York Methoist Urote: ference reports indebtedness of &8 ehurch property, valned at §156,820; the Pittsburgh_conférence reports its Indebteds 51,054, 01 a total valuation of land conference has an in- 25 on property valued at Bold color combinations, such as sky and mauve, scarlet and pal © made 10 Hing toilets, The Russian ba nearly straight, and only slightly eurled under at the ends, Is the arrangenient of the front hair ot little people and young girls, Some bonnets have the trimming so high and with so pronounced outlines that the, resemble the helmels worn by the Hessians who surrendered at Yorktown. Some youne ladies in a western town have oruanized a “hugging club.”” No honorary membership for us. - We want to be an active wember of that club, or nothing. (At Paterson a woman swallowed her artifi- cial teeth, last week; but her mouth s said 0 beso big that she could swallow her own head ' the paint on - ker face wouldn't gag rer. ‘Tailors are making costumes exceedingly iain. Vests of velvet, cloth or plush, or plastrons braided in military stvle, are the embeliishments vermitted in the severe style at present in vogue, “Doa you kno Smythe plays pol it is her orite game,'” wealtn of bustle, I should say une was backgammon,” “Mr. Lighthead, bine blue, heliotrope fraternize in late S5, The south African slon among the Basutos, west of Natal, is the lurgest undor the care of this society, 1t has sixteen sta- tions and twenty-three Freneh missionaries, with forty-four out stations.manted by 142 nas tive iclpers. The most remarkable event of the year in that region is the entive abandons ment by the Basuto clilefs and people of all use of strong drink. therwaite, well, indeed Judging from her favorite her treats you bette me 1 " she, oy ? A e s Sccond Adventists claim an actual “Why do you think o2 “Well, 1 heard-, ehnzeh menbership in Awerica of 21667 in Ber tell wa sho wave you lots of tafly, but she | foreign felds, 1,01 o total tof ol TN Stanvil n increase of cibership over sts of fur are novel adjunet to walking | Jst year. Of e ackets., “Thoy fit smoothly and couvey no § 10 1088 than LLIL G iy Tdon of clumalness, as ot Bo agined. | Spreading theiv doctrines, eiilier as w Short sealskin - manties with sleoves | bible workers, colportenrs, canva have vests or fur. Asteakhan ;i) 18} | iomoANIBEIonUIg Season as a trimming for sealskin. PG TGS s are still worn, but they have = any, resemblance to those formerly | A Brooklyn mian has written g book ens et o h'!\’\’:: 4:“‘1;'[:;12:““"'&\_!Ilj' fitled “A Fortizht in Heaven.” If he is like the majority of hie mana ven, even fora fortnight, One lady meets anotiier, who has just lost Brooklyn men, he will 1) with whalebones like a dress bodice be in big luek it es 10 sneak into Many ot thea are claborately trimmed, It A short mantle ot golden brown plush s trimmed with rich gold and Dbronze her fath promenad ifth avenue, w10 front the trimmine, wl dressed in colors, W You are not n in square ends, i8 hnished with a | yiony ing “For so t arelative?” corresponding fringe, as are also the sides, A Imnl;-x of sable completes this recherche gar- ment, “Your tather a di " SCertninlys he lived in C| t relative A ft woman entered a crowded strect car, | o nC0US dencon: our people desire ok and, selzing a strap, stood on _wentlanan’y | CNPOE sermons, and s My dent :. S, As s00n as he could extricato himsell | )Pl nSiC™) nover: have notes in- my o urose and offerad hor his seat, - You are | piokiibodk 1o e, you shais not objech ta very Kind, ‘sin” sho said, ““Nov at ail, | harkutbook to use, you shoul am, 2 + S ] m self-defen: Sealskin jackets are made to fit the figure perfectly. v are double breasted and have hizh military collars, One recently noted had tortoise ‘shell buttons. The seal- skin hat, to be worn_with it, was trimmed with bows of brown ribbon hétd in position by u fortoise shell ornament corresponding o the jucket. 3 “Thegreat trouble with you, John, is,"said alady o her husband, who' was suffering from the effects of the nizht before, you s 0ot kindness, ivs e snld, atarorey , Pto see fiow, my lite s coming on.” “Bad “1 just dropped in tered the broker's of tle speeulation in oil wa news,” was the cf T A)ly. “But the Lord W ke care of the widows and the father- los: >erhaps he mighit in wheat, ma‘am, but oil has dropped from 50 to 62, and you must put up more margin or be closed ot A Glasgow draper, who was narrating hig experience during his fivst yisit to kngland, sald he stepped into an Episcopal ehureh in the middle of the scrvice, just to what -t they did. “L hadna been ‘well seated,” ho not say *No.” Learn to say *No,” John, and “ tsay | Learn to s 3 3 snil, “when the minister, awa at the ither YOuil 1 have fower heudaches, © Can you lot | and eried out: Lord, proserve us all 1 and ) wu\.] l“l ttle [m!nm)v this morning? then a’ the folk abont me eried: ‘Lord pre- Aoy hltlnlu"y::l » With apparent ease. serve us all! ‘Preserve ns!' says 1, ‘Did ye /! itt] A never see a man frae Glesea afore The other day Key. E.C. Johnson, rector of the Episcopal ehuieh of Bristol, Conn, tried to walk on a slippery sidewnalk and narrowly missed falling, ntle of black plush has long fronts with three flat plaits. The back a5 round basques, lined with blue fox, over i fall two plaits, Rich passeme uents form the cotlar and two points front, at the side of the plaits, and also o | feen on hie fe ailiond voint in the contre of” tho'back, “The Visits | nivy "oy tomarked, o o oul ma came slecves are also lined with the bive fo tur. "nother drink will just *bout fetch you.” M, Country bride (in restaurant): *“You do | Johuson straightened up and inguired, with the orderin’ Johni anything that'll suit | ke dignity: = “What's — that, * sir®” you Il suit me.” Groow” (studying the bill Nother drink’ll "bout teteh you,” replied of farey: “Well, how’ll roast turkey, raw | the sympathizing railroad man, — And he oysters, corn beef and cabbaze, ice eréwm an’ | walked off, leaving the astonished clergyman mince pio suit you? Country bride: “Iust | staring atter him, te, Johng only have 'eir bring the wince - pis hot.” Absent-Mi As he was pawing the air to deancss. Champoirean was dininz with a few | Boston Record, A 1 isn't to blame :n:olmlphl\’\'lwn .‘luw-n was ]l]nu(':lI‘ on the | if he is young, And “that reminds me," able all s guests ed in complimentimg ' at the ar 5 i, on the exeellence. of bis winer A anronos, tiak the Artliia aavEthay hff' ver,” erled Mine, C,: intent on maintaining [ Ohase, the artist, whose ex ion iml o 1o tamily ion for blundering, g | a0 impression here, was betrothed in his you k have by no means given | early yonth, Heis very absent-minded you the bost we have?” now, egregiously 8o, tho he is far Indies ow York and looked at his new pi they were gone he said to a brother artist who was in the room: ‘I seems to me Lhave seen one of those s somowhere before, the smull oo, her pretty.” “W hy, don't you remember?” returned his friend,” that's the girl yon wus en- d to before you went to Holland,” Shoes for dancing are ent low and are_or- namented with the smallest bows, The, should be of the same color as tho costume, Embroiderc { shoes are not “good form.” r ceremonial oceasions in the day time and informal evening parties shoes with high fronts fastened with metal buttons or elsn tied are worn, ‘I'he calor of the leather must be in keeping with the color of the cos- tume, n Engligh femule writer has made the tling discovery that bigamists are nearly from oid. One duy two or threoe visited his studio in MARROFF Maikes and Sells These Goods. L5 | 4 . " . Millard Hotel Block, Omaha. CIROCEIRIES 16 pounds Granulated Sugoy. . seans 24 Bars White Russian Soap 20 pounds Crackers, soda or oyster. 12 pounds New Valencia Raisens ... ... - THE NEW CASHL GROC WARREN F. BROW - Mary’'s dvenue, 19th strcet, Ouadea, Nelw DO~ 7AT L ............. $1.00 E. Coruer