Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 6, 1887, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BLE LECISTATIVE AL DESERTED | The Lawmakers Leave For Their Homes and Quietoess Reigns SBapreme, MORE NEW NOTARIES PUBLIC The Warden and the Governor's Pri- vate Sccretary File Their Official Bonds—The Week in Soole ety—Oapital News. LISCOLN BUREAT, | was deserted yesterday, following the departure of the law-minkers homeward, and the janitors were busy at work eleaning up the debris in the different rootns where legislators were wont to assem ble. Governor Thayer was outto Grand Island for the day, and tho long rush of visitors to the cxecutive office was broken off for the first time since the days of tue inanguration. In the othier departuents the officials were taking a breathing spell, in preparation for the lmpending rush of the coming week, THE OMATIA RUBBER COMPANY filed their articles of Incorporation with the secretary of statoyesterday with name as ahove and place of husiness Omaha, the busi ness of the corporation being the manufac- ture and sale of rubber goods and othier arti- cles of merchandise. The eamital stock of 1his company is $100,000 in shares of 100 each, the directors' having the power to double the capital stock. —The corporation commenced business on the %0 of kebruary, to continue 100 years, and the indebledness is limited to two-thirds the capital stock ot thew compan The meorporators ana di- rectors for tho coming year are Orville . urtis and J. Hurd Thompson. NOTAIES PUBLIC. The following notaries vublic were com- missioned by Governor ‘Thayer Friday: 0, W. Riee, Creighton; William Sloefer, West Point; Arthur Gidsen, Fremont: —Arthur Remington, Omaha: Samuel Maxwell, Bloom- W. A, MeAllister, Columbus; Henry r, Blue Hilly P, W. Brinkhanser, Oiuaha; Josoph A, Phillips, Grant, Keith county; Humry C. Ritehi Plattsmouthis Adam’ H. Schlasman, Purdum, Dlaine county: Adam Schifert, West Point; Michael J. Fitzgeral, Benjamin L, Purdy, Fairbury; W. 10, , Lincoln: John Lest, York; Emma E, McConkine, . M. Sheriilan, Grant, Kei unty Robinson, Stanton; E. O. Kertsinge i W. Rose, Om Tohn W Carrotl, Shelton ; . Wells, O Clicoe, Dodi 2 Mollle A in, Benk [FROM TIE YT The stats house county; Lueien Mears, Omahat Walter Chambe man; O, 11 Woodrafl, Strane; Peter T, Win- ert, Cairo; Hall county: Charles L. Brient, + Meneola, Holt county: M. Glenn, Lin: coin; 1dttie W. Hodies, Notth Platte: Will- inm i1 Hoover, Auburn: William E.Seymour, Nebrasica City} R. Dy Babeock, MeCook: W T Whitten, Falls City; U, “F. Merton, | Friend, Snline connty;” S, W. Chamber ll‘luluu.n Thayer county, 1t will be note: that the ladies are comine to the front as no- tarles public, the above List ineluding thveo, $located at Beatrico, Omahaand North Platte! “Plie elaim {hat the eity of Lincoln possesses the only lady notary in the state is no longer a tact, ABOUT THE CITY, Yesterday the sixteen-year-old Joseph Burns, the well man, was coursing His way through the streets when the horse e was riding stumbled and fell in such a way as to cateh the rider, breaking the boy’s Tog at the loft ankle. >, Needlian has been appoin nc tho city fail, vice Charlie Parson: putting in the' winter 1 Butferer at his home, “I'he next session of the Lancaster County | Teac association will b leld at the vil- | Iage of Emerald on Saturday next. pts at the West Li | yards yesterday were 850 head,an d th ency of the market was upward. ‘The top notch in prices yesterday were $5.05, the low- est prices raneing at $4.50, “I'he total transfer of real estate yesterday footed up 826,559, a light day’s work for the time of yeor, OFFICIAL TONDS, The ofticial bonds of two of the recent ap- pointees In the state were filed, those of Cap- tain J. K. Hill, of Beatrice, as privato secre- tary to ihe governor, and R. W, Hyers, of Tlattsmonth, as warden of the staie peniten- tiary. The 'bond of Captain Hill is in the &1in of $10,000 and the securities are Thomas Yule, 8. C. Smith and J. S, Grable. The bond' of Warden Hyers Is for the same amount, £10,000, and this " instrument is sizned ‘by M. Hyers, with William = H. Newell, C. 11, Parmele and Joseph A, Con- nor a8 sceurities, ho appointuient of Frank J. North, of Columbus, s stenographer for the fourth FJudietal district, has”also been ilod with the Bucretary of stat STATE HOVSE NOTES. | _Phe Standard Fire Insurance company, of New York, has complied with tne state lnws. Application has been made at the oftice of the commissioner ot lands and buildings for the appraisment of the school lands remain- ing unsold in Knox county. ommissioner Scott was in Kearney yes- terday in company with the house committes on wiys and means, visiting the state reform school, boy of T, P’. A. NEWS, The T, P. A. boys of Lincoln postare £oing to issue a paper setting forth the plans fand prospects of their organization, = and when their paper is issued it will be distri- uted over the state. I'ie provpects of the T. P, A. charity ball and banquet to be given ‘on’ the evening of the Lith are very flattering for an entire sue coss, as the committes Teport a very large Kale of tiekets already—more than enongh to warrant financial suceess at the present time, i rogiilar, somi-monthly weeting of the Lincoln Post I P A, was held last evening at tieir rooms and fportant business was betore the meeting, A number of guests woie in abtendance. “The committee on management of the ball, the floor committee and the reception eom* awittee will hold a business meeting at their rooms on business matters concerning their balland banguet, The club ask that the la- dies of the committee on reception especially e mecting with their attendanee. The following were among the callers at e post headquarters during the past we J. It Dalby, Chicago: C. F. [larpham, Cin- rianati; Henry Bevin, Cineinnati; H. E, ackmin, St.” Louis; Geo. K. Stowell, Bloomington, I representing — Ottawa Btarch company: O, N. Crandall, Kansas City: Ben €. Krug, 8t. Louis: i J. Bryden, Owalia; J. 11, Beebe, San Franciseo; Bobt: Tanna, Cozad, Neb, Johnson, ' Grand Lsland: Chas, ', Bufeher, ). A, Soyder, Chi- cazo: I, 11, Rellogg, Toledo, 0., represent- ing the Gendron iron wheel. NOTES AND PERSONALS. The coming attraction the present week at the Funke opera house will be the appearance of the ever popular Maggie Mitehell on Wed- nesday and Thursaay evenings, “I'he ball of the Standard club given Thurs- day ening was a great success in every particular, and one of the most elaborate and fashionable events ever held in the city of Lincoln, ‘The Chautauquans held one of their always ¥\.- santand profitable sessions at their rooms ‘riday evening, with a large attendance and one of the mos tinteresting vrogrammes of the year. The club now numbers a member- shin of nearly one hundred. Hon, J. Stérling Merton, of Nebraska City, Wwas visiting friends and admirers in the cap: tal city several days tho past week, Miss Rachel Lursh, of Nebraska City, 18 in Lincoln for & few weeks visit in the capital eity, Alis, Hollady, of Seward, visited the past week in Lineoln, a guest of Mrs. Dr. Grime: Ars. H. D, Hathaway returned the first of the week from a visit at Nebraska City. James Irwin, of Tecumseh, with his family has woved to Lincoln, whicll ity will become their home, - - The Youngest Typesetter, Callicoon Echo: * As youthfula composi tor perhups as is on record may be found at times at work upon the Callicoon Echo, She is the editor’s daughter, and may be about seven, possibly eight years of age.” says a correspondentin the Han- cock Herald. ’ y Our little compositor is in her ninth year, and no doubt is the youngest known in the trade. She sets the type (the above paragraph was set by her); she ;\miiir- her own li but is not yet able to empty her “‘sticks.” Incred- ible as it may seem, the little typsetter often sets fiom one to four stickfuls from our manuscript, sometimes correcting a 8lip in our fiumun\r or lpullmfi. and is never as happy as when sitting at the case “helping pupa.” CHURCH NOTICES, To-day's Scevices at the Different Churches Thronghout the City, Fa the Swedish Evangeligal Lutheran church, corner of Cass and Nineteenth atreets, divine services and preaching by the pastor, E. A, Fogelstrom, at 10:30 a, m. and 7590 p. m. Sunday school at 5:30 v m. Tuesday evening, prayer meetng, and Thursday evening, preaching of the gospel. Seandmavians are invited to at tend all the meetings. AH Saints’ Church, Twenty-fifth st one block north of ‘St. Mary's aven the Rev. Lows Zahner, rector. Morning praverat 8 a, m. Scrmon and Holy Com munion at 11 a, m. Sunday School at 3 p m. Evensongat4 p.m. First German Freo Evangelical chureh, corrn T'weifth and Doreas strects. Ser vice at 10:30 a. m.and 780 p.m. Sabbath school at p..m. Preaching by the pator, Rey H. W. Broeehert.” All German friends and th n are cordially invited and welcome men ber the white church. Al will be pro. vided with hymn bos United Preshyterian church, Eighteenth atrcet. | E. B Graham, pastor. Public worship at 11 s 770 p.m. Sabbath school at 12 jectof morning sermon, Unity church, corner Sevent Casa streets, Services at 11 180 p.om, Sabbath school Rev. W. E. Copeland pastor. Subjoct of morning sermon, “The Co gation and the Chureh.” Subject of leeture to- morrow night, “An I ng with Dick- ens. Saints’ Chanel, Twenty-first and Clark streets. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday scliool at 12:30. Every- body welcome Calvary Baptist church, street. Rev, A, W, Clark, pa vices at 10:30 2. m. and 7:80 p.m school at 12 oclock, Regular meceting on Wednesday evening All ure cordially invited 1o the s of this chureh, Come to the Cynthia Chapel ill, Omaha, to-day, and hear t ing subjects’ discussed: Morning, “Vine and Branches;” night, *“The Wor! and Abused.” Rev. AL 1L Sawye h-Bden Baptist church. Seryi at Mary's Aven al church. Preaching by ivan, of Cheyenne, Wyo. Sunday school at'3p. m. Pra meet- ing ‘Chursday evening at 7:30. The La- dics’ Aid society will ocinble Tuesday evening, February 8, at M Fuiler's residence, 124 ith’ L'wenty- fourth street, All invited, erman chureh Twentieth stre 100, m. Su Trese, St. Bar s' church, Ni nth California streets. Plain ration Choral celebration at 11 2. m. at 4 o'clock. Sunday school at Seats free. John Williums, (12 North Saunders tor, - Sunday lay school 2 p. m. t. Philip's chape Nincteenth street, day school at 3:3) p First Baptist church, corner Fifteenth and Davenvort streets, Rev, Dr. Kenney will preach at 10:30 a. mand 7:30 p. . Sunday school at 12 noon. Prayer meet- ng Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. All are cor dially invited to these scrvices. Scats free. German M. I. church, corner Eleventh and Center streets, Preaching to-day at 10:30 . m. and 730 p.m. by the presiding elder, Rev. H, Bruns. Communion after morning service. Sunday sehool at 2:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Thursday eyening at 7:30. All Germans are invited, Rev IL. Kineger, pastor. First Christinn_chureh, Twentieth and Capitol avenue, Rev. Jos, H. Foy, L. L. D., pastor. Services to-day at 10230 . m, and 7530 p.m, In the eve . Foy will discuss ““The Ideal Wife. Congre 1'Tabernacle, First, Capi tol avenue ncar Eighteenth street. Ser vices at 10.8) and 7 Preaching morn- ing and evening by the vastor, Rev. A. F, Sherrill. Sabbath® school at noon. All are weleome, St. Mary's avenue Congregational church. St. Mary’s avenne 1 Twenty- sixth street. Rov. Willard Scott will preach both morning and evening at 10:30 and 7:30. In the morning there will b reception of members and the Lord’s Supper. In the evening a gospel service and sermon on ‘‘Abraham and Lot.” Sunday school at noon. All are welcome, North Preshyterian church, Saunders street. Rev. Wm. R. Henderson, pastor. Serviee at 10:30 a. m, and 7:30 p. m. Sun- day school at noon. Young people's meeting at 6:30 p. m. Communion and reception of members at morning service. A serviee under the conduct of the Y. M. C. A, will be held in the evening. Stran- gers made welcome at o1l the services., ‘Third Congregational church, corner of Nineteenth and Spruee streets. Roy. A. B.Penniman, tor. Services at 10; a. m, and 7:30 p, m. Sunday school at noon. Welcome. Saratoga Congrega tional chureh meets toga seliool house at $:45 p. m Sunday school at 2:45 p. m. You ar heartily invited to attend. Hillsic egational chureh, Omaha View. Rev. 3 Crane preaches at 11 a. m. on “Litile Christians versus Big Christians.” The Young People’s Mis sionary soclety gives a concert at 7:3 0p. m. o y cathedral, Eiyghteenth and Cap- itol avenue. Services at 8 and 10:30 a. m, and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school and bible classes at 12:15 p. m. Notice the change in the hour of the midday service 10.30 a. m. mstead of 11a, m. Sunday school at 12:15 p. m. instead of 3 p. m. In ad- dition to the choristers, the Mendelssolin quartette and a_chorus from the St. ' i will render the anthems 5 at the ts are free. church, corner colored, 813 West Vening at' 2:30. Sun- m. United Presbyterian Park avenue and Grant street. ing at 11 a, m. by Rev. J. W. 8. Sabbath school at § Come and bring the children, meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30, or Ilinois Society. Chicago Herald A new socinl fad among the good people of Tracy, Wash- ington Heights and Morgan Park, charm- ing suburbs out on_the Rock Island, is the donkey party. The giver of a don- key party provides the donkey by work- ingg one in worsted upon a white counter- pane or cover, or in any other manner that swits her ' fancy, But however she does it, she must not forget the tail. The tail, always an important member of the donkey, is of double importance in a douRey party, ‘The guests having assombled, and for a time indulged their cu ty us to what may be con- nind the curtain at ono side of the parlor, the mask is at length with drawn and his donkeyship displayed Then the fun begins, One after another of the merrymakers must subwit to being blindfolded, and then take in his hund the donkey's detachable tail—a good imi- tation made of cloth—and, “walking towards the worsted figure, aflix the tail with a little k provided for the pur- nose as near as possible to the place na ture provided for it. The contestants who place the tail nearest the proper place, draw prizes, winle those who hang it farthest thevefrom are presented by the master of ceremonies with elegant boobies. A New Divers| AR S T Including new editions, there were published in Great Britain last year 775 works of fiction and 618 relizious books, the novels exceeding in number the pub- lications in any other brauch of litera- bure. 3. Ouy The *FOU5 §e claim to have used nat- ural g&. ... the manufacture of terra cotts long, long ago. MATRON OF THE MOUNTAIN. Visit to Mrs. Jeannette M. Thurber in Her Kaaterskill Gottage. DRIVES, DINNERS AND DANCES al—Langhter At a Accoms Tears At a Fu “Frolic—Noteworthy plishmens—Distinguished Guests—Big Business, New Yonx, Feb {Correspondence of the Bee.]—It was in the summer of 1882 that I figst made the acquaintance of Mr Thurber. I was visiti some friends in the Catskills, at a cottag¥ built upon her husband’s property. A group of three rustic-looking strncturesis verched near the top of one of the moun- tains behind the Kaatoerskill,overlooking a vall )t unhike the Engadine, m situa tion—a valley thousands of feet above the sea. The Thurber mansion the Jargest ot the three, constructed of logs, but with a sing roof and dormer windows, and a wide veranda under the roof, giving it a httle of the appearance of a Swiss chalet. 1 was staying at one of the smaller cot tages with Mrs. T, M. Wheeler, one of the ssociated artists of New York, w efforts to provide delicate labor for odu eated women without means are so gen eraily appreciated. Mrs. Thurber mar- ried Mrs. Wh brother and the family are natural intimate. There were & good many htorary, artistic and fashionable peonle visiting Mrs. Wheeler during the summer, and all were enter- tained by Mrs. Thurber, who, having the larger house, was both able and willing to ofler a bountitul hospitality. 1w of course, thrown much with her, and was struck at once with her ap pearance. She was a woman of not more than thivty-five, and hardly lookod he rs; branette in tone, with abun- danee of black hair, AND A PATR OF FLASIING BEACK EYES, in the mountains her trim figure was always clad in some tight-fitting stufl made with a jacket and waisteoat, the waisteoat lighter in colory with a coliar like a boy's, anda red or vellow neckerchief knotted. loosely™ to expose her throat, She rarely wore o hat,except when driving, and her hair was often a little dishevelled, fymng back from her tuce, withont bungs or braids or curls Up there she always made me think of a vivandiere—a woman, one would say, born for a coquette, vet I never sawa spark of eoquetry about her K She lived on the mountain live or six months of the year, with three charming children, the eldest not twelve years old, her husband away all the week, coming home from town only to spend Saturday and Sun Shie had 1 teady visitors; one an old French lady, nearly eighty years old, full of refinement, for whom she had done some great henelits, and whose gratitude in return, was profound; the other, Hunga 1oartist of the pizno, not then known to the musical public of America, but who has since ac- quired distinetion, This lady played for hours for Mrs. Tharber, and was as fond of her as even the old Freneh gentle- woman; indeed, there almost scemed a rivalry in_their devot These were the only visitors who remained at night, except when her husband brought up a clever man from town to stuy with him a day or two. MRS, THURBER gave a dinner to Mrs. Wheeler's izuests, and often spent & morning in the rhboring cottage; the rest of her time devoted to her reading nnd corres- pondence or to driving—she drove well 1l to superintending the development country place out of the wilds. In this last task she displayed consummate taste. The forest w cleared only enougzh to make room for the necessary grounds, The walks and trees were not o artiticiall codd; and only the wild flowers that grew on the mountains we: arouped zbout the door; while the house itself was furnished in complete congru- ‘he interior was half rough in ap- D earance with rustic stairways, the bal- usters of bireh with bark left on, high red brick chimneys buiit into the rooms; the loz walls sealed, and the pine doors painted with golden rod or asters, and quaint mottoes from Ameriean poots, thera were a few T and curtains, not too fine: everything comfortable but nothing out of kéeping with a mountain home; no in- trusive elogancies, nothing of the fash- ionabte yilla, Mrs, Thurber had a httle den of her own, with its cheerful fire place and writing desk and book-shelves and behind this she had built an exten- sion which held her grand piano, the only elavorate luxury m which she in- dulized; but this, she ‘could not deny her- seli. Over the entrance to the house— Hic terminus—was roughly painted, to weleome the tived traveler wno had climbed so_far. and there as he turned, the grand view met bis cyes, wide, noble, variced, unrolled, from 'the very poreh; woods and valleys and clouds, with here and there a farm house or perhaps cven a village nestling among the lls and trees. I found the conversation of this gemus loei silk ALWAY PECULIAR AND INTERFSTING she had traveled, and read, and cven studied. She was the dangiter of a Dan- ish father and an American mother, and one grandmother was French. — Her father, still living, is a virtuoso, a student of music, For yoars he belonged toa little club of amateur violinists, of which Richard Grant White and Joseph W. Drexel were also members: they meot weekly at each other’s houses to play the works of the greatest masters; and doubt- less from this father the daughter inher- ited her passion for musie. But the pas- sion is that of a scholar and connoisseur, not that of an artist. I never heard Mrs. Thurber perform, though she knows as much about usic eritically as any woman in America, . She speaks kronch if iything better 1y English, and German as well; Span ish and Italian also ar amiliar to her, She reads the profoundest works, a3 well as the best French ard Englsih lighter literature; Spencer and Comte and Rant; Sand, Balzae, Browning. She discusses them too, but without ‘a spurk of pedantry. For she 15 a woman of the world, practical to the ends of the fingers; not the least pretentious in art or anything else, though almost learned— this little, preity, vivacious woman of not more than thirty-fiv She s a wonderful manager. Her own household was well adinimistered, and see was always planning to do something for somcbody else; charitable to a fault, helping the poorand the strugeling; but sometimes her good feeling carried I 100 far, and unworthy objects, especially artists have played upon her woman'sin- stinets and drawn too heavily on ner hus. band’s well tilled purse, FOR HER HUSBAND ADORES HER and lets her do pretty mueh as she pleases. He is known to the ‘business community asone of the most successful of New York merchants: a grocer who manufac- tures his own wares, who has establish ments in - England and France and Switzerland and India to supply his stores; who before he was forty had ac- cumulated his millions gitimate trade; one who raises trade by his wide operations and grand designs, into the dignity that it attained in the days of the Venetian and Puteh mevehants, ‘who sat by the side of princes. This man has his owa political and . public spirited aims and yet sympathizes with the pro- jects of his cultivated and artistie, or rather msthetic wife—wsthetic, however, SUNDAY, FKBRUARY 6 without the slightest tonch of the fop- | peries of Usoar Wilde or of green gray gowns o€ dirty yellow freives. Thus Més. Thurkse planned hor moun- tain home and mouaged her moeuntain estate, and Mr. Thorber wpaid the bills nd enjoyed his Wife's enjoyment. She hired the masons and carpenters, she bargained with the farm people of the neighborhood: she cat paths through the trees, built additions 1o one houwee and removed another g Il at her own will and s Y r own taste and menty but all in harmony with her husband, who approved (not only 1 advanes) what aid Ono day the eonchman suddenly died up there on the mountain side. [t was in the middle of the week. Mr. Thurber Wwad away; no one knew the man's frionds nor where they to be found, but Mrs. Thurber telegraphed hither and thither, she sent Cattskill, twenty miles away, f [ and o a neigli boring village for & yriest, for the coach man was o Catholic; she contrived a quiet, simple funeral; the two sisters of the dead man arrived in time, and wore Loused and eared for; she directad how the body should be laid in the mipron: hes and all with consideration and duiicacy for the memory of her dead sor vant and the feelings of his friends On another ocension SHE HAD A HOUSE WARMING, Tt was when the three houses were com ploted and the meehanics were discharged; and she invited every man who nhad worked on the houses, ov armer for mifes around, r families, as well 1S OV tin the neighbor- g hotels, or in the more pretentious villas, of which, however, there are fow in that viemity., ‘The guests were all re ved by herselt and her hushand at their own house, and then invited to dance in one ofthe smaller ong which bad not thon been occupied; there was one groat room on the gronnd foor decorated with antumn loaves and ever ns; the village 1 furnished the muosie, and Mres, Thir: ber opened the ball with the master mason. The orchestra consisted of five men whosaton & table composed of planks Inid over barrels; they were in their shirt steeves, and played strains that must have harrowed the ears of the \eriean opera her part. The ht,” and ala * and angh mang beat time v the fi the ( niamiiiar (o the Hos made her stop and try them over g ce when she wanted a reoel valtz, he jumped down from his table and ervied out: 3 like to know vho's ranning this ere ball, 1s it you or mey™ She then meekly aequicsced, with more submissivencss, I suspoct, than she w displays 1 herdealing with musi s better known to fame There were tireworks and bonfires ont of doors, which coulil be seen for miles across the forest and the valley, and sup- per was served in Mrs, Wheeler's cottag one floor of which was converted into the . The country people had ht their children, even the babies, and il wentin tosupper, which consisted of the me deliencies Mrs. ‘Thurber would have furnished to ajparty of friends at howe. She inquired in advance of her contidential adviser, the muster mason, what vinnds her guests would probably P nd was told they would be pleased to be entertained in Mrs, Thurber’s usaal styles SO SIE SENT TO TOWN FOR OVSTERS and 1ce eream: and Imust say, some of the company did ample justice to her hos- pitality But all this while, planning, bmlding, burying, entertaining, Mrs. Tharber nad @ volumunious correspondence, and evi- dently one great aim to whicn everything in her life was subservient he wanted 1o elevate or widen the Ameriean taste music; she wanted to build up a gr. conseryatory or sehool for music on this continent. For this she was correspond- ing with tie most eminent artists and com- posersat home and abroad: dispensing money, and spending time and labor and thought. Shetalked of her scheme when- ever any one would hsten, and with an carnestness that enchained attention, clearness that cluerdated the idea, an eloquence that convinced, & persisteney that would not be denied. ' For the three summers Tsaw her in the same way wlmost intimately; and long before her enterprise was known to the world 1 had heard all about it from her own lips. In town I have scen bat little of her, for there her time was absorbed in her great work. She is not appurenily a woman who cares for fashionable soci- ety; shie never goes to balls, and hardly ever dines out oF pays ceremonions ealls; though with he Ith and cultivation, her own attractiveness and her husband s erowing influence, I suppose ske might command a position that many women would envy. But she gives up all this to originate ind develop The great scheme of i national school of music in Ameriea. Last winter sie inangurated the Amer ican opera, to show that Ameriea can produce good voices and to teach that if Americans are ecapable of performing oo music they can in_time make good music of their own. Her labors, I am told, have been prodigions. She has vis- ited personally many of the most import- ant capitalists in atl the lurger cities of the union to enlist their sympathy procure their subscriptions. She cor sponds with men of letters and art, men of business, salesmen, women of fashion, artists, composers, managers, director She was years in placing her’ enterprise on a footing at all; meeting many nL\I-l— rebufls, disappointmints, much in- difference, ne ineredulit NOT A LITTLE RIVALRY, But she has orzanized a corporation, she has obtained capital, she has herself contributed more than gencrously; she bLas awakened individual ind pubiic in- terest. She trayels from city to eity with her company, supervising its perform- aneces and its business; she is present at renearsals; she suggests changes in per- formances; she sottles disputes among artists; she purchases the scores of new oper he listens to the trials of untried chorus singe She persuades editors; she obtains the offer of the opera house 3 ts & false note in a per- nce; she procures a legislature to incorporate her scheme. The idea has scized upon the publc mind, the workers will meet with new difticulties, the plan will encounte ther obstacles; but in the end it will un- doubtedly succoed; and when success is achieved, the country will know that for this success it is indebted to the inde- fatigavle energy, the forethought, the re- source the courage, the wit and will com- bined, of Jeannette M. Thurber. One trait of this fady 1 haye left for the last: the modesty with which she has at tributed to others who have adopted her plans or seconded her views, or lahored under her inspiration that eredit which she herself might have claimed. But she seems to desire only the success of her enterprise, not the glory of ac complishing it. Sne shrinks back from praise or comment, only the artists can be applauded and the conservatory Immdm] I hardly know if with this pecu- liarity she will pardon my picture of her life and labors and personality. But one who does 0 much for the public is of interest to the publie. Princesses abroad are no longer private ladies and do not complain of the prominence which their station confers; and benefactors, even of the gentler sex, must submit sometimes to the grateful gaze of those they benefit. Even this price Mrs. Thurber, perhaps, will consent to pay in so good a cause. Avay Babeau, fur- ———— The most powerful telescopes now in use magnify 2,000 times. As the moon is 240,000 mules from the earth, itis thus | of the pra cn]lg brought to within 120 miles, at which distance the snowy peaks of sev. g&ul lunar mountains are distinetly vis- ible, 1887 A LETTER FROM JOE HOWARD New York Eoeeutrics Who Wers Parsons of Rare Mentality. WIDE <« HORIZONED HUMANITY, orge, the Count Joannos—John the Almoat Forgotten Criminal Lawyer—Horace Grees ley's Affectation in Dress, Graham, NEW You 5.=[Corresponde . ]—In d hat Mrs. K moas is sane and competent to mans her own affairs, the Washington jury sp- proached a bae of common sense, which judges and juries, whether in court houses or newspaper ottices, or 1n what is termed sowmety, do not often reach dealing with the eccentricities of the fellow men and women. 1t odd actions, veenliar goings-on and strange belavior are to be taken 48 procfs of an ali-around insanity, how many of us can escape judgments Without considering Queen Victoria's pet insanity, the necessity of parading everlastingly her grief for the thof the Prince Consortwhose lite was not made particularly happy and agree: ble by her, without recalling the eccen- tricities of Beaconstield, or tesque conduct of Napoleon the Third, or haul g before the public ey in the whim- ities of Paine, the or the ex tremities to which Dr. Mary Walker is witling to go, it would an ensy task to photograph the ) awvior of seores of well-known mien and women, who, 1f judzed vs Mrs. Em mons was nearly judged prior to the final decision, would be considered insane and unlit for the interchange of the ens tomary courtesies 1 ordinary soecial routine. It is & somewhat interesting feature in these eceentries that they are almost n variably persons of rare mentality and of wide-horizoned humanitarianism, A COUNT OF SOME ACCOUNT. The name of George, the Count Joannes, a few years ago was as well Kknown in this country as that of the vres ident. In his Iast days, he was a butt for the jibes and jokes and rudencss of men who had not a_tithe of his knowledge, but who kept in better check, under bet: ter contrel, the powers they did possess, he count was universally considered acrank, His fancy for the stage was thought ev- idence of his part insanity. His fond ness for litiration induced many to think him hare-brained, yet in tis day he haa been an actor of éxtraordinary merit, a scholar of tnusnal attainments, a_gentle- wan along the line of accomplishments, whose cqual we rarely meet. 1t was the fashion to induce the Count to play Ham- let, King Lear, Othello, and to atfend his every entrance with eat ealls and songs, and when he strode across the stage to mark time for him, vight, lott, vight, loft, right, left, and his performances were scenes of absolute confusion and good natured jollfication, such as we never witnessed on any other oceasion. Yet [ distinetly reeall his interpretation of King Richard as one of the fin intel- leettial tre renjoyed. s read- ing was perfeet, locution admirabl his beaving that which, according to text and understanding, aptly portrayed the yrant, whose momentary repre- tive he was. Lawyers tell me that his familiarity with corfes and procedure was marvellous, SIMPLY A “LITTLE OFE." Was he a success? In no sense, If he was so fine an actor, he have honest opportunity Beeause he was odd. Boeeanse he we aerank, Because for years the reputa- tion of an unbalanced mind had 1 his shapely he: If he was so well in- formed a lawyer why did he not have gained eases, and earn o livelihood? Be- cause in appearance he was queer, o wore a long curly black wig. He died his mustache an’ imperial black., Ie wore afaded smt of clothes, and from his neck depended the insignix of the Legion of Honor. I have i my serapbook sev- I urticles of Shakesperean research »m his pen, which are imstructive to the st degree, and entertaining as his writ- ing always was, ere, then, was @ ms gifted beyond the ordinary mortal in mind and” body. He was a handsome fellow, an expert fisherman, s bulls-eye man, a sportsman in all that that implies, with external graces that har- monized with the kindiiess of his heart. A man of fine edueation, scholarly tastes and refined instinets, andyet he lived the life of an oddity, and died the death of a begear, Why? Was he era Was he incompetent to manage his own af- fairs? Was he ilish? No, he was sim- ply a “little of.” He was cecentric, his s were not like onr ways QUEER JOHN GRATIAM, For many years the leader of the crim- inal bar in'this city was John Graham, I saw himn y ay, now a very old man, Once he was the fashion.” No great marder case could be tried without John Grabam. r when the infamies of Tweed, Sweeney and company we before the pirblie, Graham was chosen as the man among all the leaders of the har as chief He defended Mace- Farlan assin of Albert D, Rich- ardson—and by the way MaclFarlan floated to the surface of the gutter a few ys since, and wis sent to a refuge, as utterly used up and played ot and unable to do anything for himself—and the list of noted men he formerly defonded would fill columns of your paper. Little by little he gained the reputation of being aucer, He nlways wore, and wears, 1 huge By ronic collar turned far over his coat, ¢ posing a vast neck surface. His maner is forceful, almost bru t times, and his temper just this side of ungovernable He, it was, in the court of general ses sions,when the ease of MacFarlan before Recorder Hacketr, who, after a few words with the acting distriet attor ney, subscquently Judge Noah Davis of thé supreme court, seized a huge volunie of the code and threatened to brain his antagonist then and the No one ever heard of ( um in soci life. one ever encountered him in public assembly, or found him in scenes of gaiety. Rumors flitted here and there as to the way he spent his hours of leisure, and gradually, as age crept o him, and he was seen very rarely in the courts, and less frequently‘on the street, it was said, he is *'a little off.” LOST TO THE PUBLIC EYE That he is an oddity one glance will suflice to show. That he is peculiar and strange and has his own fancies of dress, of bearing, of speech, ail who know him will readily admit. T saw him on Sixth avenue walking almost with a totter, his derby hat pulled down over his eyes, his loug yellow wig floating on his shoulders, his huge white collar turned over us of old, and I watehed him as I walked near him, block after block, and, to my amaze ment, that ligure once as familiar to the average promenader on Broandway as th pire of Grace churchitself, was absolutely unrecognized by a solitary individual 1n the course of a half hour's walk. So far as the general public is con cerned, John Graham is blotted from ex stence. Not that he why didn't s not one of the brightest men in his profession; not that he is not kind-hearted, as open-handed & man as ever, but because of long continuity in eceonrieity of dress, of speech, of general bearing toward his fellows, he' can show himself to be odd, & little off, the general track. Yet who would consider him insane * Who would say that this man who has every law technicality at bis Gnger's end, =1WEKLVE PAGES GRAND MARDI GRAS, Washington’s Birthda Eebhruaxry 224, at EXPOMTION BUILDING, Under the auspices of the OMAHA TURN VEREIN, rand Allegorical Tableaux GRAND PROCESSION! Tiepresentatives of all nations of the eavth will participate in this grand els, W 1. Loiwis Heimyod's Geallevy, v ilets can be bought at 13t and Jackson sts, Geo, Pavisian, 322 8. 10th st 1500 and Howard sts, near Coominy. Julinus Meye . o Festaer I, w. Stoerker, 17 11tk and Faraam, 1ith and Farnam, St Mary's dve, e e e e e e e e e e e ) who knows more in a minute than scorea of the ultra-fashionable Jawyers could Tearn in years, is unable to attend to his afliirs or those of his clients, if he were to have any? 'The weak spot, it seems to me, in men and women who are odd and eccentric in costume and behavior, is not 50 much t they are odd a8 that they ave intentionaily odd. T think 1t was Dborn in him to be peeuliar and it was an open seerel that he had suffered some nge bereavement of an aflection nature into whose mysteries the public, enrious though they might be, were not permitted to enter.” But Graham, born in New York of a well known New York family, woil edueated, surrounded from his boyhood with all that under ordinary ciremmstances would make one earefui deliberately costumed himself in this queor and indefensible manner, and ¢ in my judgment is the weak point i his nature. ALL FOR AFFECTATION. Who ean forget Horace Greeley's afl tations of eccentricity? He was no manner of means the fool heussumed to be. That he was mmbitious, anxious for punlic favor and fond ot money, open to adulation and flattery, who that knew s hife would presume to deny? How then can his affectations of dress, for they were affectations, be a counted for, save on the theory of an un- aced mind? Did it scem reasonable that a man_ after years of metropolitsn life, at the head of a great, and at the time the gre , journal in America, sociating with the first men of his time, ified with all broad movements in tlow men, could, less by accident, make a guy ‘of hin morning, noon and night, unless he did it with intent? I recall four illustrations of intentional aflectation on the partof Horaee Greel The first was in Sacrarento, Cal. A farge audience had assembled to hear him speak. and he was detained on the road. On arrival he was driven to the St. George hotel and_hurried to a room that he nmght partake of some re ment and dress before hus Jectur impaticnee of the audience was assunged by the announcement that Mr. Grecley was adjusting his totlet, and makin himself comfortable after a long and tedious stage ride. He reached the hall at 9 o'clock. Was he d How? Precisely as when Lo left the stage L e had not washed his face nor an't changed a single article of attive from coat to shirt, from coll 1o boots. Absolutely covered with dust, with eravat awry, with_collar dirty and rumpled, with shirt front diss pzed, with unpolished boots he sham- bied info the hall, and up the long aish until standing on the platiorm, dirty, ill- Kempt, unattractiv aced the audi onee, mainly of New England men and women, each arrayed in accordance with decoram, What was this? eeentrieity, oddness not only, but an tation of the extremity of each, GREELEY'S “IIGH-TONED' PANTS, On another occasion in Paris, he, 18 a delegate from the United States to the great exposition, was notificd to meet his Teilow-delegates in & specified saloon. Mr. ireeley and Erastus Brooks, another del- egate, arrived in advance of the others, Mr. Brooks, who was the very personili ation of neatness and teimn noticed that Mr. siey’s trousers were hitched up over the leg of his boot, and at_some nersonal m convemence having ealled h attention to it, kneeled and adjusted the garment. on, in the eption Yoom, where the delogates from all coun- tries had met for a formal presentation imagine tho disgust and nnnoyance of Mr. Brooks when he saw that Mr. Gree- ley had re-disarranged his trousers, so that the bottoms of them still rested upon the legs of his boots, What was that? Years after that I had oceasion to eall on Mr. G ey in his home relative to matters in Washington, He was il and in bed. The bedstead was placed across the corner of the room. In the center was 1 revolying nook-case, against which rested a long mirror. Arlieles of cloth- ing were strewn ubout the iloor and in- tensest confusion dominated the place. M, Greeley was not seriously ill, but by the advice of s physician kept his bed several days. So far as confusion, mal- arrangement and upsidedownativeness were concerned that bedroow capped the climax Was that intentional ? ‘I'he statue of Benjamin Franlin was set up some time after then in Printing House square, immediately in tront of the Tribune building, A committec of ar rangements provided places on the pro gramme for Professor Morse, Mr, Gree ley and others, W were all to meet in the Tribune editorial rooms and goin procession to the statue. L was a_mem- orable oceasion, and every man paid such respect to the proprieties as could be in ticated by demeanor and costume. Mr. Greeley walked down the stars arm i arm with Professor Morse, with the col- lar of his overcoat turned inwards, his necktic awr, 1 sed? and one leg of his trousers hitehed up on top of bis boot. PROMINENCE BREEDS ECCENTRICITY Was that intentional or acciden Horace Greeley was a man packed with atfectations. | always believed his eccen- tricities to be assumed because they were such pulpable contradictions of all that he saw about him, of all he learned from his unususl attrition with men of the world, He was proud of the oddity ne presented. 1t gratitied him to be pointed out g5 peeuliar, as distinet in his person- ality from his fellows. An evidence of wenkness you think? Why eertwaly an évidence of weakuess in one of the great- est, one of the grandest men known to American history. o would have been brave man who dared pronounce Horace Gree ne by reason of these peculiar developments, and yet it is diflicult to oncile his unquestioned ability, his world-wide oxpericnce, his rare power of thought, his competency in - argument, with these potty developments of vanity and of self-satisfaction. When you come to thiak of it yon will find cvidence of cecentricity in nearty all the men and women of prominence you ever heard of. Lake Mrs. Stowe, Mis Harriet cecher, Miss Susan B, Anthouny, Mrs. ady Stanton, Dr. Mary Walker, Miss Anna Dickenson, Charlotte Cushman, Patti and scores of less conspicuous peo- ple in publie and private nfe, and find confirmation of my assertion.” What, for instance, was ever written along the line of imagination more odd or quecr or pe- culiar than the life of Mathilda Heron? Clara Morris’s existence is honeycombed with unique developments, which wouldn’t be tolerated for an instant were it not tor her tremendous genius, her im- mense personality. 1 don't for the life of me sce how Prof. Emmons, who must be a man of intelligence and edueation, coula have expected to prove his wife msane _and incapable of managing her own afiairs, by a_simple reheay of extraordinary conduet on her purt. She had simply to present he self to a jury to convince them that queer nd cceentric as she was, she was a oman of unusual mental calibre, and so ar as the IXmmons houschold was con- ned, the gray mare was much the bot- ter horse. And asit was with her, so it is in nincty-nine owt of every hundred eases of insanity, and I doubt me ver much if tl any equity in control- ing the personal libirty of” any man or woman on account of éxtravagant demon- stration of eceentricity, unless it can be shown that they ure dangerous to the community or siticidally inclined. 1tis & mad world, my masters. Howann, A Man who Has to be Patient, Pittsburgh Dispateh: For nine years John MeCracken has occupied a bed at the city poor farm. For the past threo X he has been enurcely helpless. joint, exeepting about the jaw, has a3’ stone, perfeetly immovablo. ase is one of the most peculiar ever orded 1n this portion of the country. A dozen years ago John MeCracken wasa well “known and popular young man hving in Lawrencevilie. One night when be was out with a party of friends he was exposed to the rain and cold for several hours, His constitution was sup- posed Lo be sufliciently strong 10 with- stand almost anything, but that mght of in and eold proved an overdose even for him. 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