Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1887, Page 4

e e e THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF RUDSCRIPTION t Dafly (Moeniag Edition) including Sunday Bre, One Year . oo For 8 Months For Thron Monthe The Omaha ‘ nddress, One Year, " Q¥ATIA OPPICR, NO.G11 AN New York OrFiee, Roos 016 FARYAM STREPY ARUNE BCLDING. STREET CORRESPONDRNCE: AN communioutions relating to nows and e torial mattor should be widressed 10 the E TO1 OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERSY ATl business lotters and romittances should be addrossod to Tik ke PUBLISHING COMPANY. OMAWA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders %0 be mado payabls to the order of the compan THE BLE PUBLISKING COPRAY, PROPRIETORS. F. ROSEWATER, Eptrol — e ————— THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Btatement of Circulation, Statc of Nebraska, 1o o County of Donglas, &% Geo, 1. Tzechuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb. 25th; 1557, was as follows: Saturday, Feb, 10.... Bunday. Monda; Tuesday. Feb, . Weanesday, Iel - Thursday, Feh. 34, o Friaay, Feb. 25, v 14.90 11860 14,800 TN 14,000 14,425 14,1 L. 14200 Iz8CHUCK, vorn 1o be- A. D..1897, AVOrage. . ...coevvaeiiiinn oo tro. B Subseribed in my presence and fore me this26th day of N. P. FriL, ISEALI Notary Publie. Geo. B, Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and that ho s secretary of Tho Bee Publishing company, that the actual av. erage daily circulation of the Dailv Bec for the month of Fubruary, 1886, was 10,565 copie: for March, " 1886, TLOT coples; for April 1880, 12,191 copres: for for May, ' 1858, 12,430 3 for June, 1886, 12,208 contes: for July, 114 coples; for August, 1836, 12,404 for September, 188, 13,030 coptes: for 155, 12,089 copiess for November, M8 copies; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies for January, 1587, 16,206 copies, Gro. B. TZ8CHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this Sth day of February A. D, 1857, [SEAL.I N. P. Frir, Notary Public. Contents of the Sunday Bee. . Pagel. New York Herald Cablegrams— Specials to the Bre.—General Telegraphic Lincoln News.—Joe Howard’s —Advertisements, Page 6. Council Blutls News.—) —Advertisements, Page 7. Social K and local rket: Page v News.—Advertisements. Page ¥, Fashlon Fane Farewell, by Adam Badeau.—“Viva Verdi! Viva Verdi!” by Blanche TRoosevelt.—Sunday Nignts in Omaha.—Advertisements, Page 10. Woman’s Worldly Wealth—Se- lected Smile Starters—Husbands and Help meets—Ho Lassoed a Huge Lion—p: Barrels—Telezraph Operators’ Secrets—J vertisements. Page 11.—Brishin’s Boys in Blue—Sense- less Society Snobs, by Con.—Constitutional Contests, by Frederick Bajer—Honey For the Ladies—Singularities—Educational—Ad- vertisements, Page 12 Satin Stars and Stripes, bv Clnta Belle— Some Senatorial Stomachs, by Perry S, IHeath—Connubialitie i and Dramatic—Religious—Ad verf ellany. ents in Omaha. General ain golden mem- mories of Omaha. Eleven thousand dol- lars’ worth. own charter Omaha is only demanding home rule. Tue Hamilton county dado will chatter through another twenty ds will be pangs as well as pay in the e tended session. Now that it is apparent that no radical railrond bill can pass the senate, the hounse is rampant for stringent regula- tion. Of course AN address on “The Influence of the Bar" lies upon our table. It has no refer- ence to the bar of the Capital hotel at Lincoln and its mnfluence about midnight on the conduct of the railroad lobby. Tuar audacious little joker, Jay Gould, declared under oath that it was cheaper to buy n legislature than to elect one. Mr, Gould never knew what a cheap legislature was until he interested him- self in Nebraska politics. SLy Sam Randall, the cconomist, voted for the dependent pension bill, not on grounds of patriotism, but because it would make a hole in the troublesome surpius. As a clear-cut tanff reformer, Mr. Randall’s success lies in his power of pulling wool over the eyes of his honest democratic admirers, Curar and rapid transit is one of our greatest municipal needs, We want cable lines, and the more the better. There is no danger that the courts will prevent their construetion. Equity al- ways stands ready to correct the errors of the lawmakers where they conflict with ik is a day of reckoning in store for the men who have betrayed their con- stituents in the legislature, Thereis a day of settlement in store for every po- litical party which has prostituted the machinery of party to work out the un- holy ends of corporate monopoly. Voters are not cattle. They can be deceived for the time being, but they cannot be driven to the polls year after year to work their own disfranchisement.” Ne- braska republicans have proved their in- dependence of the corporate ringmas- ters heretofore. They will not be slow to repeat the experiment if it proves Decessary. —_— Tue increase of wealth in Omaha is fol- lowing closely the increase of the city. Here as elsewhere the tendencey 1s to con- ceutration. Men who ten years ago were in moderate - civcumstances now count their fortunes by the hundred thousunds. The rapid rise in realty and the large suws of money set free by foreign investment in our midst have raised scores of our citizens to affluence. Wealth is valuuble only for what at brings. It should be a weans, not an end. Omaha wen of wealth have a duty to perform to the community which has give n them their riches. Struggling Joeal enterprises should be assisted, new _sehemes for the advancement of the gen- eral welfare stimulated and capital set eoursing in chanuels for the employment of labor and the condensation of pro- Aucts. Confidence 1 Omaba's future should be felt most strongly of all by the men who have profited from the past and are profiting in the present. THE OMAHA DAILY BEERE Jonrnalistically Speaking. Continnal dropping makes an impres- sion on the stone. Fifteen years of strig- gle against the overwhelming odds of public indifference, corporation wealth and the abuse of a subsidized press has resulted in national recognition of anti- monopoly principles. Irresponsivle trif- ters who imagine that strained rhetoric and pot house slang can wipe away this fact or block further agitation of the people’s demands by this paper are respectfully invited to ponder over the political history of the last decade in these parts. They are asked to examine their own editorial pages in the light of their well thumbed ledgers and to measure the popular confidence they have attained in the cup of their newspaper receipts. High toned and theoretical jonrnalism is fashionable nowadays. It is mostin fashion in editorial rooms of readerless papers. Practical newspaper work takes its place in other offices. And wherever practical newspaper work is found the suceessful journal can be discovered close ut hand. There is one view of the situation which is commended to the vrayerful attention of ambitions and en- ous contemporaries. The only feasible method of making a snecessful journ is to make a good journal. I traction without cause, abuse of rivals because they are T vals, subordination of honest editorial opinion to the demands of the business office or the job room, have never yet suceeeded 1 building up an influential v in free and independent America. The leading journal must lead us well as follow. It must be at once the mirror and the mirrored. While reflecting the hest public sentiment on all questions of interest, political, social, economical, sometines even personal, it must have an carnestness of character and a sta- bility of reputation which stamp the seal of force upon its utterances and carries conviction to the wavering. Hon- esty of purpose, persistence in endeavor, fearlessness of action and intelligence in discussion are the four corner stones of policy upon which the editorial super structure of the successful journal must be built. Mere brilliancy of utterance will not suflice. The public demands a steady and reliable light, and not the spasmodic flashes of intermuttent clever- ness, Pacific Railroad Legisiation. The senate has passed, with ament- ments, the house resolution creating a commission of three to make a thorough investigation of the financial condition of the Pacific railroads and to report to congress. It is probable that this will be the ontcome of all the attempts at Pacitic railrond legislation which have been made at the present session, Mr. Hoar's funding bill and Van Wyck's branch [ine extension bill included. The public will not look with favor upon this latest move on the checkered board of railroud finesse and delay. For twenty years past congress has been deluged with reports of the condition of the Pacific roads besieged by the lobby and beset with the prayers of swindled investors. The facts of the construction and condition of the roads are well known. They were begot- ten in fraud, raised in iniquity and ar now bankrupt in treasury and reputa- tion. Contractors became millionairc through their building, reckless schemers heaped up miliions of ill-gotten wealth in their managemert and the government and the public have been mercilessly mulcted for a quarter of a century to main- tain the band of nighwaymen who di- verted the nation’s bounty and the hard earnings of the people mto their own private bank accounts, Secretary Manning's special report on the financial condition of the Pacific ronds was no revelation to the railrond lobby. It afforded pretended astonish- ment to some congressmen and senators, but it did not throw the average intelli- gent citizen into paroxysmsof amazement, Mr. Manning showed that the half-yearly payments proposed in the senate biil are not sufficicnt to pay the interest, to say nothing of the principal of the debt. On the 1st of October, 1886, the total aebt of the Pacific railroad companies to the government was $110,978,100, The half- yearly interest 3 pei cont. is $1,664,671, while the bill provides for the payment of $1, 048 every six months, According to See- retary Manning’s caleulation it would require, for the liquidation of this debt and the interest, half-yearly payments of $1, 3 for eighty years. This must have been painful surprise to Mr, Adams. 1t killed the eighty year exten- sion bill deader than a last year's mack- orel, Both the companies and congress have seen for years that the subsidized Pacific roads will not be able to pay their debts to the government when due in 1895and 1897, Even if the Senate bill should be passed there1s nothing in the history of these corporutions that affords any guaranty of compliance with its terms, From the time this debt was contracted, more than twenty years ago, they have made no effort to redeem their obligations to the people of the United States. On the contrary, they have employed every menns of evasion and r ance that legal ingenuity could suggest. In 1862 and 1864 the government loaned the Union Paciffe and Central Pacific re- spectively $27,000,000 and §25,00,000, besides bestowing upon them immense subsidies in land. They were required in return to pay into a sinking fund for redemption of this loan 5 per cent, of their net income and half of the amount due from the government for transporta- tion, When they made no. provision to comply with this law and the sinking fund remained empty, while debt and interest were - accumulating, the Thurman act was passed in 1878, Under the terms of this aet the two companies were required to pay respeetively $350,000 and §1,200,000 into the sinking fund, But they refused compliance with this act and brought Suits to resist the government’s retention of moneys due for carrying mails and troops. By a decision of the supreme court the government, and not the rail- road companies, was required to pay the G per cent interest on the Pacific railroad bonds. As the companics made no pro- vision for payment the debt and interest have assumed enormous proportions. Secretary Manning's report shows that by 1897—the meun term of payment—itie toral amount which the subsidized Pacitic railroad compunies will owe to the peo- ple of the United States will be over $157,000,000. "To meet this heavy obliga- tion the companies propose to equate the puyments of debt and interest and ex- tend them over s period of seventy years. But it is'seen that the sum fixed upon in this beautiful tinancial scheme does not begin to cover the debt due to the govern ment. And now another commission is pro- nosed to investigate matters and suggest a sclieme by which the debtor may be granted additional time to make up from exorbitant loyies on the producers of the west the millions stolen by the rognes and thieves who have disgraced the his- tory of its management. It is a needloas and extravagant expedient. The roads are a sucked orange. When a private corporation finds itself unable to pay its debts it goes into the hands of a receiver. Why not a raiiroad under the same cir- cumstances® When an honorable mer- chant sces inevitable bsa:rupte; i him n the face he hands his property over to his ereditors. Why not a wrecked corporation? laking Progross, That the cause of woman suffrage is making progress there can be no ques- tion. Its advance may not be as rapid as its more radical and impatient ad- vocates desire, and it1s nndoubtedly yet along way from the goal they would rench, but there is encouragement in its sten-by-step progress for those who can wait. Its latest victory is in Kunsas, whose legislature recently passed a bill which received the approvalof the gov- ernor, conferring limited municipal suflrage upon women. The total major- ity for the bill in the legislature was cighty, and it was in deference to this large majority that the governor, who has nlways been opposed to woman suf: frage, approved the measure. The law provides that in uny election hereafter held in any city of the first, second or third class tor the clection of city or school ofticers, or for the purpose of anthorizing the issuance of bonds for school purposes, the right of any citizen to vote shall not be dented or abridged on account of sex and women may vote at such elections the same as men under like restrictions and qualifications, and any woman possessing the qualifications of a voter under the act shall also be ehgible to any such city or school office. In signing the bill the governor ex- pressed an apprehension that the cffects promised by ats friends in the purification of the ballot box and the election of a better class of ofticers would not be realized, for the reason that the women best qualitied to vote intelhgently will not avail themselves of the privilege, cither from indifference, as in the ease of many of the better class of maie voters, or because they are opposed to woman suffragre. It rests with the women of Kansas to determine whether the experi- ment shall be a suceess or a falure, and thus whether womuan suffrage in that s shall be extended or halt perma- nently at the first step. The friends of the cause have gained a valuable point. It remains to be seen whether they can hold it. There is fair promise of wnother vie- tory for the eanse in New York. A bill has passed one branch of the legislature conferring sullrage on women at any and all elections of and for municipal oflie which is amore comprehensive measure than the Kansas law. The bill is strongly championed, Speaker Husted being mong its most zealous advoeates, and its passage 15 thought to be more than probabl It is wmorcover generally agreed that Governor Hill would sign it. With such encouraging facts before them there is no reason why Miss Anthony and her associates should lose heart or abate a jot of their faith in the final triumph of their labors. Victoria’s Morbid Sentimentalism. The jubilee to ¢ elebrate the fifty years' reign of Queen Victoria scems likely, cording to some London correspond- ents, to degenerate into a long-drawn ont Jjoke, if not an open scandal. There is id to be no spontancity about the cele- The people go about it as if it wero a merely pertunctory task. They re much disposed to ridicule it. At a time when they are called upon for the most lavish manifestation of loyalty and affection they show not simply a half- hearted interest, but on oceasions a posi- tive displeasure. A recent instance oe- curred at a London theater, where a ju- bilee ballet and other jubilee divertise- ments were presented, There was an exhtbition on the stage of portraits of the queen, the prince and princess of Wales, and Lord Beaconsfield. I'ne queen’s picture was hissed by nearly ev- erybody, while the others were received with rapturous applause. The mecident attested the unpopularity of the queen, at least with a certain element, who at the sume time gave eyidence of their loy- alty in honoring the portraits of the oth- ers, There are suflicient reasons why Vie- toria has not grown in the affection of the English peopl or held the @eneral and hearty esteem she once enjoyed. The chief of these 18 her morbid sentimentalism, which for years hus made her a recluse, keeping her aloof from the peovle, with whose in- terests and welfare she has seemed to 10 concern or sympathy. Her peo- ple and the world accorded a due appre- ciation to the tenderness and depth of her widowhood sorrow, even after it had been prolonged far beyond the period when there seemed any reason for it, and when later she mourned as one not to be comforted the death of her favorite but- ler, John Brown, there were many to find excuse for the undignified manifesta- tion of grief in what they believed to be the more than common intensity of her majesty’s aflfection. But the prince con- sort has been dead a quarter of a century and the butler a third of that time, and the queen’s subjects not unjustly think that the interests of the living might now very properly receive a larger share of her attention and concern. What they were once willing to regard as the sacred expression of a sense of irreparable be- reavement and a sacritice to imperisha- ble love, they are now disposed to think of as a wholly morbid sentiment, utterly selfish in its pature, and neither com- mendable nor desirable in the sovereign of a great mnation. They cannot justify her coutinued seclusion, her apparent indifference to the wants and welfare of her people, her personal penuriousness, and ber disposition to make every public oceasion contribute something to immortalize the memory of ber dead consort—a by no means extra- ordinary person, though an amiable and well-meaning gentloman whose life was entirely respectable. A single recent example will 1llustrate the morbid and selftsh sentimentalism of Victoria, and in part explain and justify SUNDAY the feeling of disploasurc toward her of aconsiderabie part of the English peopla A woman's jubilde Yand was started, which it was hoped would be raised to two or three hundred; thousand dollars, the intention being to‘use it in strengti:- eming or endowing ‘some hospital or other charitable mstitation for the good of the common pegple. The matter com ing to the knowledge of the queen, had conveyed to the promoters of the and her desire that af least a part of the sum collected shall be devoted to crect ing another equestrian statue of the prince consort. When itis known that perhaps hali a hundred costly memorials to Albert are sceattered throughout Great Britain, representing an expendi ture of millions of dollars obtained from the people, it is not surprising that this last suggzestion of her majesty should have abont cxhausted the patienee of the people and induced them to lose regard for an event which under favorable con- ditions should and would command their most loyal intercst and enthusiasm. ey Why Not Grand Opera? The mammoth nudience of Thursday evening evidenced that Omaha 18 ready to pay well for amusnments of the first class, 1t w 1 enconraging revelation Pretentions musical enterprises in the past have frequently failed. The reason isnow apparent. The fault lay in the character of the entertainment pro- vided, notin alnck of public apprecia- tion tor what is excellent. That Patti drew in Omaha the largest aundience of her present tour i America speaks vol- umes for the willingness of our oitizens to anpreciate and to patronize the higher order of music. Now that this fact is clear we should have no difiiculty in se- curing grand opera, Some time ago the Bre called the at- tention of its readers to the possibility of a season of grand opera from the Ameri- can cpera company, of which Mrs, Jeanette ‘Thurber is the patron. Mrs. Thurber is anxious to place Omaha on her list of leading ecities where an annual season of opera will be given. New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Milwaukee and St. Louis Lave already been determined on. Most of these cities have been vis- ited duoving the present winter and will be on next season’s ronte. Shali Omaba be included? The Bee puts this question in full confidenee thatif the matter is properly presented to our peo- ple there can be but one answer. The American Opera company for two past has been the leading organiz its nature i Ameriea. Neitier woney have been spared by its founder in establishing it'upon the busis of the highest artistic merity, Every detail of organization has been glaborated without regard w expense. The artists are the best procurable, the chorus the largest and most thoroughly drilled, the orches- tra under the baton of Theodore Thomas unapproachable 1 excellence and the scenery, costumes and stage settings the most magnificent ever shown in the nistory of opera in the United States. The same company, the same chorus, and.the same scenery 1 ented to the citizens of New York will be given to the people of Omzha in ease this city beeomes one of the ponts to reeerve an annual visit from the American Opera company. Patti inger asked a guarantee of ,000 for one concert and was refused, The receipts approximated $11,000. Mrs. Thurber's organization can be secured tor three nights of grand opera for a nightly guarantee of ¥3,300. A hundred citizens subseribing $100 apieec to the guarantee fund would ensure to Omaha What would be in many respects the most remarkable musical treat we have ever had presented for our appreciation. It at were empty none of the guarantors could lose more than the guarantee. Under the most unfavorable circumstances they could searcely be §20 out of pocket, while every chance would be in favor of receipts greatly in excess of expenses. sl she A woday will be hanged i New York to-morrow. The efforts to save from capi punishment Mrs. Roxalana Druse, the Herkimer county murderess, were unavailing, and she must pay the penalty of he se. It was one of un- usu With deliberation, in the presence of her children, she murdered her husband, and tien with the assistance of her nephew cut up the body, burning 4 portion of it and feeding other parts to the hogs. Throughout the whole tragic and brutal business the woman exhibited a most fiendish nature, snd the story of the tragedy shows her to be devoid of every womanly instinet. Nevertheless o great deal of sympuathy was aroused in her behalf, largely among nfluentinl womer, and after her cenviction and sentence, on a second trial, a great pres- gure was brought to bear upon the goy- ernor for a commutation of the sentenc to life imprisonment, This was not suc cessful, but o resvite of sixty duys was granted to enable the legislature to tuke action in the matter. A bill wasintro- duced for the abolition of capital punish- ment in the case of women convieted of murder, but it failed, and Mrs. Druse will go to the gallows. It has been tnirty years since a womau was hanged in New York, und but for the peculiarly astro- cious character of Mrs, Druse's crime she would doubtless have escaped the death penalty. i — Eviry monopolist manufacturer is in favor of spending the surplus by liberal appropriations, Lhey are in favor of continuing over-taxation by making ex- cessive taxation necessary. ln their eyes tarifll reform is saéondary to a pub- lie extravagance which will make any re- duction of the tarifl impossible. POLITICAL POINTS, Senator Malione and Riddlcherzer never visit the democratie side OF the senate chamn- ver. Y. T. Barnum as the prohibition candidate for president would be the greatest show on earth, But Phinneas says be is willing, Governor Iusk, of Wiscousin, ha ) nominated for the presidency by various newspapers 1o the northwest, H. W. Longfellow was a dafeated candi- date for alderman at the late eleetion in Phil- adelphia. **Lafe is but an empty dreawm” to bim now. Thomas A, Armstrong, editor of the Pitts- burg Labor ‘Tribune,is quite generally spoken of as the presidential candidate of the labor party of 155, Lucy Stone aunounces that & woman will be president of the United Statesin the year2,000, but she doesu’t mention nesself as & caudidate. Mr. Jordau saysthat he expects to relin- FEBRUARY quish the office of United States treasuret the 5th of March unless the president desires him to vacate sooner. The New Y ork senate has passed a bill al lowing wonien to vote at municipal election but the house is said to be unfavorably di posed towards the measure, Conzressman J. Thomas Spriges is quoted as saying that before July 1 President Cleve- land will leave a letter in the hands of the national demoeratic committes declining to be a candidate for re-election. Wihen Congressman Allen of Mississinpi had finished h1s witty speech on the consular and diplomatie appropriation bill he con- ulsed the liouse by eayir Mr. Speaker, I wish to announce that 1 shall retire to the cloal room to receive the congratulations of my fellow members.” Presidential combinations for 1838 spoken of in hotel lobbies and on the street aro “Blaine and Foraker.” “ILill and Holman,” “Cleveland and Voorhees,” “Sherman and Hiscoek,” “Hawley and Harrison," “Carlisle and Hewitt,” “Blaine and Carr,” “Carlisle and Waller,” and many others of a less per- tinent and less permanent character. Cost as Much as a Legislature, Chicago Tribun, Robert Bonner has been offercd £100.000 for Maud 8. Here's a mare whom it costs as wuch to buy as it does to buy a legislature. Great Jobbing Center. Milwaukee Journal. The wheat trade may go to Duluth, the pork business to Omaha and Kansas City, but so long as Chicago continues to be head- quarters for the Cook county commissioners she will remain the great jobbing center of the west, - n Than Good, ibition has a very lame suceess where it has been tried, and in the opinion of a large majority of the best people of the United States, morallv and intetlectually, it is hopelessly impracticable as a solution for the evils in question. 1t is even doubted whether the law where it exists has not been produetive of more harm than goods KnigW o' Labor Hears Pattl. Written for the Sunday Ber by Lu B. Cake, Well. I'sat an’ listen'd to her, With n r AN’ my ey Like the t stait, AW iy sou sin’, thrillin’y As my spirit soared away, A’ the coldest feelings fillin® An’ a-chillin’ of the elay. ie of my boyhood, the brooks an’ birds an’ bees, With the breath of sprine an® flowers, An’ the vlossoms on the trees, D an’ lambs a-blatin’, An’ the lowin® eattle come, All a-mingiin’ with the voiecs Of the far off, dear ole howme, An’ it sweeter got, an’ tender, An’ I seemed a ehild 10 grow, With my mother’s arms around me, An’ lier voice a-singin’ low An’ the years of toil an’ temptin Threw no shadder on my bliss, As 1laid in drowsy dreaniland, Anmy mother’s lovin® Kiss. Then the music swelled all m An’ Iseemed to walk again, With the one to me the faires Down the thornhedged, coun An’ our voiees sottly minglin’, In a seeret that we told, Ay, the seeret wand'rin’ with us, From the medder lands of gold. Oh! them tones was caught from heaven, 1 some dream the singer dreamed, When her voice was taught the musle Of the harps that play, “*Redeemed.” An’ they linger in my mem’ry, Weavin' sifll a tranein’ spell, Ap’ a-illin’ me with feeling “Chat my heart can never tell, e, They Say if Our Beloved Dead— Troy Times, ‘They say if our beloved dead Siiould seek the old famillar place, Some siranger would be there instead, And they would find no weleome face. I eannot tell how it might be In other homes—but this | know: Coutd my lost darling come {0 me, That siie would never tind it so. Ofttimes the flowers have come and gone, Otttimes the winter winds lave blown, “The while her peaceful rest went on, And I have learnea to live alone, < Have slowly learned from day to day In all 1t tasks to bear my part; But whether grave, or whethe 1 lude her memory in my h Fond, falthful love has blest my way, And friends zre round me, true and tried ‘hey have their place—but hers to-day 1s ewpty as the day she died. How would I spring with bated breath, And joy foo deep for word or sign To takeniy darling home from death, And once again to call her mine, I dare not dream—the blissful dream It fills my heart with wild unrest; Where yonder cold white marbles gleam She still must slumber—God knows best. But this I know, that those who say Our best beloved would tind 1o place, Haye never hungered every day— a ars—for one sweet DAY GOSSIP, Hugh Coyle, the advance agent of Haver- ly's minstrels, is a very much traveled man, He has been all over this country and Eu- rope, and incidently has taken in Caba, He is a shrewd observer, and an entertaining talker, tle is full of reminiscences, through all of which there runs a charming vein of humor. Mr. Coyle, who was formerly & Dow: paper man, is a zentleman well worth listen- ing to. “Some years ago 1 went over to Ha- vana,” said Mr. Coyle, “with the commission to investigate the feasibility of establishing a tri-weekly steamship mail route between New York and the South American repub- lies, via Havana. The scheme was to secure a subsidy of $10,000,000 for this purpose to be paid in annual installments of $1,000,000. The commission was made up of ox-Viee-I’resi- dent Hannibal Hawlin, Postiaster General Key, Senator Kirkwood, the commitiee on postofiices and postroads, and about fifty newspaper men, revrescuting the leading newspapers of the country, These men re- ceived $10a day and expenses. We went over in a government vessel. Havana was then a eity of 250,000 people, We were received by the governor- general In the presence of 25,000 troops. Hamlin, who has the reputation of having worn a swallow-tail eoat for thirty years, found the weather 30 warm—it being 100 in the shade in the month of April—that he bought & linen duster for twenty-five cents and a ten-centstraw hat, and in that unaiy nifticd costunie hie appeared at the reception, Kirkwood did not present a mueh more at tractive appearance, being dressed In a very slouchy and siovenly mauner. MeNab, of the Chicago Tribune, eabled a full account of the reeeption to his yaper, and gave Humlin and Kirkwood a lively scoring for their utter distegard of deceney in dress requirements on such an occasion, At a reception given us beer was the only lliquor offered—we ex- pected champagne, The fact was, however, that the Cubans thought they were giving us the most desirable drink, as the beer was im- ported from Milwaukee, and owipg to the tariff was worth a dollar a bottie, while Eu ropean champagnes and other wines were much cheaper than Awmerican beer. ‘The hotel at which we stayed was the Pasaya, & magnilicent eight-story struc- ture, It had four elevators, and four oftices. * 1 believe it is the finest hotel in the world, not even excepting the Palace in San Francisco. Havana at night is the most briltiantly illwminated city in the world. ‘The parks are always fuil of pleasure seekers at night, listewing to the bands of mausic. There were only two newspapers in Havana when ~TWELVE PAGES i was there, and one reporter served both papers. 1o prepared hiscopy for each, and then submitted it to the press censor. ‘The newspaners wero equipped with American cylinder presses, “Wien 1 was ahead of Sullivan during his first western trip 1 had a great many funny exporiences,” said Mr, Coyle. “Uvon leav- ing Tombstone for Deming I took a letter from Mr. Connor, the coroner, to the marshal of Deming, who had the reputation of being a killer, He had killed twenty-fivo men. Upon arriving at Deming 1 walked into a saloon and called for a cocktail, and asked of the bartender if he knew where | could find the marshal. “There he stands, replied he, pointing toa man in the crowd, Walking up to him I presented him with my letter. He read it and said, ‘Well, there’ nothing too good for you n Dewing. That lotter from wmy fifend Connor lesit’ 1 then invited the crowd up to drink, and waen Loffered to pay the bill, the marshal wouldn't let me, but naid it himself. Mean- time the bartender had exchanged the tirst cocktail for a second one. He had done this as soon as he saw that I and the marshal were friendly. 1lis first cocktail was - tended to lay me out flat. The night that Sullivan wanted in Deming was taken by some other attraction, but the marshal not only made the proprietor of the hall cancel the date but compelled him to reduce his rent from $10 to 15, The marshal then took 500 tickets and sold every one of them for me. When the performance came off he volun tarily ncted as doorkeeper and would not permit a deadhead to enter the hall. T ‘was probably the fivst time that the deadhead was ever entirely excluded fromashow. 1 wanted to let the newspaper men in fr but the marshal was running the whole busi- ness and 4ie madg them all pa **a “I had rather an amusing experience at Bradford, Pennsylvania, about three years aro,” continued Mr. Coyle. T %ot off the train at mianight and saw that the town was brilliantly illuminated in every quarter, “I'his is an all-night wide-open town,” said 1, “and Tam going to take itin.’ Going to the hotel I registered, and at once started out without asking any questions. Seeing a clething store just opposite all lighted up and several persons inside, as I supposed, 1 went over to see what was the matter. You ean imagine my surprise when I discovered that the persons were a lot of elothing dum- mies. The store was locked. L then found out that the town was hghted by natural gas, which was not turned off at night. [ didn't 2o any further, but returned to the hotel, and related my experience to the clerk. “I'hat’s nothing,” said he, ‘you are not the only person that has been fooled that way. Strangers come in here every night, just as you did, and after registering, do the rush act. In five minutes they return looking just as sheepish as you did’ e minstrel music of Haverly’s troupe struek a few cords in my memory—writes an old Omaha newspaper man for the BEr's Sunday Gossip—and it seems as it a little “picking” on the old of days gone by, as far as cor cerned, might be a prozramme of pk some. The old time negro minstrel is ¥ receding from the glare and glitter of the warish lights; his plgmy presence as far as “people” and “posters” are concerned would be out of place amid the mastodons of to-day : but to him belongs the eredit of creating the only American opera of recoznition and giving Pony Moore nstandard place amid royal amusement caterersin London and rendering Jack Haverly’s famous trip to Al- Diow’s shore of recorded prominence in Eng- lish stage attractions. By ringing up the curtain on the old burnt cork artists, | do not mean to rock the eradle of Jim Crow Rice or even to tune Dan Emmet’s youthful fiddle before his vocal and instrumental effusions were soli fified in word and note by “Way Down South in Dixie”—oh no—those were memorial chiestnuts for onr fathers to erack and really were contained in “burs” that ante- dated the best days of mstrelsy. They were betore the times when the Christys, the Camphells, Bryants, Buckley’s Serenaders, Mat Peel, Kelley & Leon, Morris Bro: Pell & Trowbridge, Duprez & Green, Backus, Birch, Doniker & Bernard, Hi Rumsey, Cal Wazner's Originals, Sam Sharplay, Carn- eross & Dixey, and several other well known companies that are now on the 0. P. side of my memory, were in the high day of public favor. **x ‘The “Irishman’s Shanty” was a song that used to capture the gamins before the warand none of Ned Harrigan’s “squatter songs" ot to-day could aspire to the same front seat of popuiarity. It was made famous by Mat Peel, a versatile performer who made the song which afterward made him. The sentiment was not elevated, it is true, but it raised Mav to th ry top rung of fame; its register did not require a Patti to do its notes justice, but then itrecorded Mat as the favorite of his day. Noshop window needed to have been turned into a pictorial page to draw a erowd when lie was coming—simply “Mat Peel and ‘Fhe Irishman’s Shanty,” even in small type, would corral the quarters and ensure a repi- tition of cal!s and reealls and o roaring gal- fery broadside of yells that really would only be judicious in the neighborhiood of a deaf and dumb asylum. Poor Mat, Iremember the la an overcrowded house: “There’s o pig in the sty And a cow n the stable, They feed them on seraps “Phiat fall from the tablo, ete. (Now, boys, one for the pig.””) e It was in Buffalo, N. Y. The next night the company was to appear in Rochester, ‘I'he engagement was lilled, but Mat Peel, who gave the troupe name, fame and favor, was absent. He had been taken suddenly ill and his wirth-making companions lad to keep their word with the publie without him, At his earnest request Mrs, Peel eaine down with the minstrels and through her the an- nouncement was made that there would be no “Irishman’s Shanty” voeally erected on the Rochester stage that night. At once there was a constunptive enthusiasm appar- cnt among the large audience assembled, which even the rising of the eurtain on the sewl-eireular first part could not check, The overture and opening chorus were well ren- dered; the tenor sang sweetly; the interlocu- tor's and end men’s legislative repartees were fresh; the “Hen Convention' was twittered in Tambo's best styla—in fact everything was done with apparent extra effort to divert thought from the “vacant chair;” but there was coldness on the stage and in the auditorium. Then there came a longer intermission than usual just where the pro- granines printed in advance noted Mat Peel’s appearance. Strange to say there wis stampingg of fsot or “eat-calls’ in the gal no clapping of bands in the lower portion of the house: none of that old stand- ard expression - of anxiety for the favorite performance. There seemed to be a death- silence everywhere that no power could break. Appropriate, aye most appropriate it was, for just were uncertain time had placed the act of the merry son of Momus, an ¢ t time he told flia great streneth. fiike that of Charloy Backus, lnd In _his enormons. “made-up mouth.” His Chinese fiddle with one string was his annex fo minstrel fame just a8 the fmitation of great nctors was Backus’ second part in the programme of popularity, Wiy he could get that mouth fixed up to 1ook like oar Cut-Off lake, and if he were around now and should close it after a grand guffal, (o1 to one there would be a lot ot people from Counell Bluits attempting to put up shantics on his ehin and under his nose, elafmmg that | the “meander’” lines had changed, and that vroperty in Buckley bad reverted 0 its creator and could be empted by squatter right. R. Bishop Lo longed to the famous Buckley Serenaders of Boston. With hin were his wife, Juliy Gould and his brotiers, George Swayne and Fred. ‘The lady always apveared in the after-pieces, which were burlesque operas, and she was the first and only woman ever performing with a legitimate minstrel troue in my recollection. The Buckleys have the eredit of boing the first minstrels to add rog- ular burlesque in black to their programe, They did it ina_good style, too, Miss Gould being an exceedingly fine soprano, and, in faet, this operatic business was mado tho leading and distinguishing attraction of tho Buckleys—a kind of Boston bean, as it were, that other troupes could not bake in artisti style. Yes,their “Lucia! do Lam’ her More, and other pieces with masked names wera immense, G, Swayne Buckley oceupled tho bone end opvosite Bishop's tambo, and they made the first part very lively. e also did a fine bone solo, and was a rival of Dave Reed among the very first song and dance men of the genteel order on the stage. **Sally Cowe Up” was the magic name under which this song and dance business first becamo popular. If I mistake not, Dave Reed first b ht it out with Morris Brothers, Pell and Trowbridge, although he was afterward, prominent with the Bryants in New York. Anyway Swayne Buckloy followed very closely atterwards, and aithough his style and steps were different, he divided the honors with Dave. Fred Buckley was the solo vio linist of the party, Heappeared every evening on the programme, doing fine exeeution, being the best violinist who ever played black as a soloist on the minstrel staze. His imitations were Immense nd started the encore excitement cvery time. The Buckleys were favor- ites everywhere, ‘They are all dead now but the tears of sorrow over those great mirth- malkers will, [ fear, never equal one-mil- lionth part of the tears of laughter their choice comedy cansed to flow. The gay is a near relative of the grave, the smile obtains few divorces from the shroud, **e The Bryants were among tho greatest burnt cork artists of their aay and in permancnt ity in New York city had no sur- Originally there were four brothers but one passed away without any promi nence and but little place in minstrelsy Jerry, Neil and Dan, however, were tho great t-io that ruled supreme in days gone by. Their names were synonomous with everything leading in minstrelsy, and al- though the troup only made an oceasional provineial tour in summer their revutation was a “dramatic” standard, Jerry and Dan were the comedians and occupied the, nds,” and n my humble opin- ion JSerr Bryant never had an equal in refined negro minstrelsy—cer- tainly not in his day and very likely never since. Ite wasagem in every way. Dan was at the top of the profession also, and & wreat “Irish song artist.” 1lis “Tim Finne- ke” was to (iotham what the Mar- rance. It will be remem- nd the brea roupo Dan appeared in Irish comedv, traveling as a “white star” and mak- ing his first appearance at Wallack’s, New York. Netl was more of a musician than the others, and was a greataccordeon player. Iis execution on that instrument was his part of the programme. lle gave very little attention to show business, but was enthusi- astic in billiard circies. Neil Bryant during his day was the champlon amateur billiard player of the world, He never en- tered the professional arena, even though he had wany a friendly bout with the veteran, Michael Phelan, Dudley Kavanaugh, Gold- waithe, Louis Fox, John Deery, Sereiter, tho two Dions, Joe ané Cyrille; Foley and many other professional cucists—includ- ine Maurice Daily, who at that time was a marker in Kavanaugh's room on Broadway, next to Grace church. Lshall never forget a little fncident that happened at Bryant's one night. You ses they moved i good New York socicty, and the brothers and their wives were no ‘‘come-all-yes” Dby any means, Wealthy men were only too glad to be their companlons, and actors,who perhaps did not regard minstrel business as high sock and buskin work were proud of Dan, Jerry or Neil Bryant's acquaintance, ‘The incident [ refer to is this. Dan Bryant want over to England toattend the Heenan-Sayers’ fight in 18, He did not earo to have it known very generally, especially among the circle in which the *“folks” moved. When he re- turned Dan ot a grand reception. 1t was hi first absence since famo became his, and New York’s best people were proud to give hin a rousing weleoms. Dan had an inkling of what his re- appearance would bring about,so he prepared aneat speech, The Bryant's hall on Broad- way never had such a nightas that on which Dan appeared after his Kuropean trip. It was an ovation, and ten halls of the samne size would not furnish ample room for those who wanted to do the New York boy honor, As soon as the “boys” came out and the wooden chairs were about to be oceupied the *'sea of upturned faces” be- came tumuliuous—wave after wave of applause succeeded, and the ocean of New York’s enthusiasm was never o stormy before. No craft of silence could hold its own before that whirlwind of excitement. When Dan got a chance he arose to make his little reply-talk, ‘Thanks of course sugar--coated the first lines, but when he came to mention pre- bered that ing up of the trical messenger bad brought the news that certain eternity had clained Mat Peel for its own. ‘Lhe minstrel was dead ! 1t Is needless 1o no further pertormance ¢ mine strels under Mis. Ma o and man- agement continued 1oty lor & time but s00n, very soon faded from public notice and though perbaps some of ils . mewbers are living to-day, they are really as dead to pub- lie fame as s he who so suddenly passed from life within the yery chorus of his meiry burlesque ditty, 1. Bishop Buckley wiis another old-timer. “When I went to Europe for the benelit of my health"-“there came an earthquake, Jerry jumped up on the other end of the semi-cirelo and ended the paragraph by say- ing—*Y the next prize fight they have over in England, I'm going for the benefit of my beath 'his settled it. Dan’s prepared remarks were dispelied from mind forever— his social castle was razed—the idea of Keeping the real objeet of his trip to Eng tand from the “circle's” knowledge became a boomerang—he had to flop down on his chair like awet rag, Talk of a roar and rattle broadside of applause. ‘There never was and never will be a similar scene in the same sized space in this country. 1 must end this tirade, on mayhap Unappreciative, ears now, but soon again 1 will follow up this winstrel train of thought A pauAGRAPH is floating through the press to the effect that Lillie Stuck, the four- wen-year-old daughter of the Pennsylvanis state librarian, composed the words and music of a “Sluniber Song:” that her musie teacher advised her to allow him to rearrange and pablish it, as he said it was so intricate, so delicate, and so difficult of rendition that ordinary singers could not do justice to it; that she deciared she would not have the score ehanged, saying she had made it unusaally diffieult for & special purpose; that she then sent it to Adelina 'atti, signing an assumied name; and that a fow days ago she heard from Mme. Vatti’s private secrotary that the diva was singlug the “Sluumer Song” in coucerts {n the west. Mme. Patti was asked about the *‘Slumber Soug” while she was in Omaba last week, and sho said she had never heard of Lillie Stuck or her song, and that sho was not singing Slumber Song” of any king. This stater et spoils a very prelty fairy tale