Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 3, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY; APRIL 3, 1887 —TWELVE PAGES. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— e e, ~THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Diny (Morniag Edition) including Bunday ke, One Year L day addross, Une Year. ARA OPPICR, kW YORK OPFI A Bk, 914 AND 918 FARNAM STREET. CORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to news and edi. forial matter siiould be addressed o the Epi- FOR OF THE Bri. BUSIXESS LETTERS? All buriness lciters and romittances shouid bs @ddrossed to Tuk BEs PUbL G_COMPAXY, OMAIA. Drafts, chocks and postofice orders %0 be made payuble to tho order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAYY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eprro THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, State of Nebraska, }_. & County of Douglas, Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear Shat the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee tor the week ending April 1st, 1857, wus as follows: Baturday, Mar.20 Bunday, Mar, 2 Monday, Mar. 28, . ‘uesday, Mar, 20, ‘ednesday, N ;.llll’fll‘ll v, Mar. riday, April 1 Average..... GRo. B, i 7 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2d dsyof April A. D., 1887, N. P. FRIL ISEALI Notarv Publle. Geo. B. 'I'zschuck, being first duly sworn, leposes and says that he s secretary of The Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily circulation of the Dally Bee for themonth of March, 1886, 11,587 coples; for April, 165, 12,191 copres: for for May, 1886, 12,- 430 coples; for June, 1886, 12,208 cople: July, 188, 12,314 coples: for August, 1856, 18,464 copies; for September, 1830, 13,030 coples; for October, 1846, 12,080 November, 1 3,348 coples 1886, 18,287 copies; for January, 1887, 16,200 coples; for Fubruary, 1887, 14,198 copi Gro. B, TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A. D, 1887, (SEAL.| P. FE1r, Notarv Publie. Contents of the Sunday Bee. Pagel. New York Herald Cablegrams— Specials to the Bre.—General Telegraphic ews, Page 2. Telezraphic News.—City News.— Miscellany, Page 3.~ Special Advertisements, Page 4. Kditorials.—Political Points.— Bunday Gossip—-Literary Notes. Page 5 Lincoln News.—Miscellany—Ad- ‘vertisements, Tage 6, Coyncil Bluffs News.—Miscellany, —Advertisements, Page7. General Markets,—Miscellany. Page8, City Nows.— Advertisements. 'avo ¥, Omaha Society—Chain Gang Guard—Advertisements. Page 10, Smiles and Solemnity—Matri- monially Matched—Connubialities—Relig- fous—Advertisements, Page 11, Maidenly and Matronly—Honey For the Ladles—Educational—Musical and Dramatic — Singularities— Advertisements. _ Paze 12. Great Gas Generations, by Perry 8. Heath—Vocalistic Vanderb! by Clara Belle—Miscellany—Advertiséments. —— Tur word Niagara was derived from the Mohawk Indians. This in a measure accounts for the scalpers at the Falls, —— Tak fool-killer lost the opportunity ot s life-time, in not getting around be- fore the members of the Nobraska legis- Inture scattered. EEE— THAT staid and conservative old paper the Boston Advertiser wonders “‘why the police of Boston have not closed the gambling dens of the city.” It may be that the police have been boodled. E————— Norta Dakota people are clamoring to have their territory annexed to that part of . Washington territory lying in the angle of the Columbia and Snake rivers. By any name that country would be as desolate as ever. eE——— Iris said that three hundred tramps walked over the Lebanon Valley railroad between Reading, Pa., and Lebaunon, during the month of February. And all $his was before the inter-state commerce law went into effect. A GrAsGow merchant asked Queen Victoria to accepta jubilee gift of a cheese weighing five tons and made from the mlk of 8,500 Canadian cows. Thequeen gefused to nccept the present. Now had such an offer been made to a member of Ahe lately ended legislature, ha would ‘have accepted the gift and lobbyed an sppropriation through for a sufficient au:ntity of crackers to eat with it. rein is shown the difference between @eal greatness and inherited royalty. e ArTER all the cablegrams had pub- fishod regarding Mrs. James Brown Pot- Ser, the assurances of her manager and $he hopefulness of London theater-goers, $here was reason to believe that her suc- @ess was a foregone conclusion. But it ap- that her debut at the Haymarket ter, as Aunie Silvester, in Wilkie Collins’ “Man and Wife," for some rea- #on not yet entirely agreed upon, was a ~ dismal failure. Of the American lady one cold and cruel criticsaid: “She was prude, she was over-violent, she was ag- valingly tragic in scenes that re- qguired absolute quiet, but in her acting, pough and unpolished as it was, there " wras power; in her carnestness there was $he best of nature’s e London Z'imes 3 memouon.' 3 ed to be more charitable, said #8 only just to this lady to say that the ce was more responsible than her act- for the depression which settled upon $ho house long before the performance was over." CESS—p— ‘WuEN the survivors of the lass expedi- ‘$lon of Aretic explorers were rescued and Brouvght to their homes, and the reports of their suffering were made known, and facts of their horrible condition ascer- tained, every one was ready to say, that ends Arctio explorations. But there seoms to be a fascination about that un- known region which disregards the les- " sons of the past, and publio interest _ was again aroused about a year " $he anuouncement that W. H. "who was connected with Licutenant ' Bohwatka in the last exploration, would " gontinue his research, basing his claim " for successon additional knowledge aud oxperience. Greenland was to be base of operations. Mr. Gilder, it ~ will be remembered, returned to Winni- . peg a short time ago. Now comes the R that Alex McArthur, who left Win- ‘mipeg a month ago, in search of the same has returned, leaving the pole be- him. These individual explorations this in their favor, that they do not 1l for government help, and the coun- s pot borrified -at the sad story of and sufforing of & large party, Daylight Breaking on Omaha. The radroad problem which for raore than ten years has held the growth of Omahain check is at last approaching a favorable solution. For many years our citizens have vainly looked toward the relocation of the railroad transfer, and prayed for relief from the embargo which the Union Pacific bridge has laid upon commerce and industry, Two years ago, when the Burlington with a great flour- ish of trumpets brought in its passenger trains direct from Chicago, Omaha hailed the event as a deliverance, Butthe lone- some passenger train of the ‘‘old relia- ble' proved to be only a cheap bait for traflic. Then came the promise of a grand union depot, with all the trains of the eastern and southern roads crossing the new Union Pacific bridge into Omaha, ‘I'his also has proved a delusion and a snare. At last, however, daylight is breaking. Although naturally dawning in the east it will not cross the Missouri river over the Union Pacific bridge. A new struc- ture, adapted to the wants of a great city, will span that stream within the next two years, and over that bridge the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul com- pany will start the grand procession with its trains into Omaha. Full particulars of this important enterprise have already been published, with the conditions pre- cedent imposed by the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul managers. With the proper guarantees and safeguards this city and county will doubtless ratify the proposition at the polls. Right on the heels of this welcome news for Omaha comes the announcement that the Chicago & Northwestern is, so to speak, knocking at the outer gates for admission. That great trunk line has been quietly but energetically pushing 1ts line towards this city from the north- west, and hasacquired necessary grounds for its terminal facilities, shops, yards and depots in this city. With two such rival lines, represent- ing more than 12,000 miles of railway, competing for Omaha's trade and favor, the railroad problem is practically solved. Omaha's boom is now placed on a solid basis, and if her growth from now on only keeps pace with the rapid extension of the railway systems centering here it is destined to surprise even the most san- guine and enthusiastic among her citi- zens. Palm Sunday. This is Palm Sunday, It begins holy week. In America, s protestant country the festivities of Christmas outdo all other religious celebrations; but in Europe, where the vast majority of the 888,000,000 christians may be found, the week before Easter is by all odds the principal period in point of solemnity. : The full moon of next Friday sets the time for the Jewish Passover, and the Passover sets thetime for Easter. *“Pass- over"” did not mean to pass over the Red Sea, but that the angel of the Lord passed over the first-born .of Israel and smote only the KEgyptian children. Called suddenly out of bondage, the women were forced to carry their bread away without yeast—unleavened. But this trivial mishap worked their incon- ceivably-good fortune, and it was com- manded that they should eat unlcavened bread at that full moon forever. The Romans preserved a data for the birth of Christ. Therefore that feast is kept by the Roman tally. But the He- Lrew feast of unleavened bread indicated the date of the crucifixion, and the chris- tian church has accepted the Jewish notation for its Easter fasts and feasts. Enster and the other moy- able holidays which follow its coming are thus the only relics we have of the oldest calendar on earth. ‘The full moons were proclaimed by the high priests, but, owing to difficult commun- ications and erroneous reckonings, great doubt fell upon the exactitude of the later notation, 5o much so that it was considered proper to celebrate two days of all feasts, thus keeping the right one surely. This practice, we believe, is followed by con- servative Hobrews to this day. Baut the christians have also found their own difficulties in dealing with a lunar notation and a round earth. Itis fitting that the people of the world should all celebrate the feast on the same day. Therefore, an imaginary moon is used. Next Friday, for instance, at Omaha, the moon fulls a few minutes before 11 o'clock p, m. Let us suppose that, in- stead of Friday, April 8, it were Saturday, March 31. The council of Nice declared that the first Sunday after the full moon following the 21st of March should be Easter. Now, if at Omaha the moon full a few minutes after 11 o'clock p. m., of March 21, then March 22 would be Easter at Omaha, But, at Boston, the same night, the moon would full an hour and & half later, throwing Easter at Boston over till March 28, n week later, Thatis why an astro- nomical full moon would not answer. The beginning of the religious calen- dar month is fixed by a table originally made by the astronomer Clavius. Holy week in Europe, as it closes the penitential season, is full of extraordi- nary scones. The boulevards of Paris will throng with devotees. Kaiser Wil- helm will go devoutly to church two or three times and Bismarck will wear the insignia that the late Cardinal Jacobini gave him. The kaiser Franz Josef, em- peror of Austria-Hungary, will wash the feet of twelve old men next Friday; se will Alfonso, king of Spain, and Luis, king of Portugal. The pope will wash the feet of thirteen priests at Saint Poter's and wait on the supper-table in the Vati- can. At Moscow and throughout all Russia the week will be one of inexpressible solemaity. It may be imagined with what horror the people, !f they heard it at all, would at such a season of pro- found religious meditation listen to the accounts of the attack on the life of the little father, the papa, the pope, the ezar of all the Russiaa, Many ancient cus- toms are preserved in the churches of London, Tho Baptist Univerasity. Some weeks ago the Baptists of Omaha made overtures for securing the location of auniversity in this city, which,while under the auspices of that denomination, should be unsectarian in the broadest sense of the term. The society of Omaha Bap- tist churches offere to donate $100,000 if the citizens of Omaha would raise $200,- 000 for the purpose of erecting a univer- sity building. - Of this sum $100,000 is to be devoted to the endowment of the col- lege, the remainder to be expended in building and maintaining » bandsome, commodious and permanent structure for the promotion of the higher educa- tion in Omaha. The Ber commented upon the proposition at the time and commended it to its readers. It takes occasion to do 80 again upon the organ- ization of the committee of citizens to solicit subscriptions for carrying out the object of adding another to the educas tional institutions of this community. A university founded on the basis pro- posed and starting out on its work free from financial embarrassments and fully equipped for its mission, would be an added attraction to this city whose value could scarcely be estimated in dol- lars and cents, It would draw patron- age from the entire Missouri valley, not only in the Baptist denomination, but from all others. 1t would afford our cit- izens a home college for the classical and scientitic education of their children, and by supplementing the high school course do away with the necessity for sending Omaha young men and women abroad for the completion of their edu- cation. Quite aside trom its social and educational influence 1t would increase of all property adjacent, and er or less degree, of all real es- tate in the city. The enterprising people of Omaha now owe it to themselves to put their shoul- ders at once to the wheel and forward the work to a completion. The commit- tee on subscriptions should find their lists filled in the first week. The loca- tion and building of the university, as soon as assured, will quadru- ple the amount of the subscription in the added value of Omaha real estate. It will be & perpetual advertisement of the city in which it stands, a source of pride to the community, and a fountain of edu- cational advantages to the people whose enterprise and push have secured itin their midst. ‘What the Schools Should Teach. In the April number of T%he Forum, Professor Thomas Davidson contributes a thoughtful and valuable paper to the discussion of the im- portant subject of manual training in public schools. Starting with the prop- osition that ‘‘as each age has its own 1n- stitutions and its own duties, so each age requires its own education, to tit for these dutles,” Professor Davidson proceeds to a logical demonstration of the necessity of manual training to meet the require- ments of the economic relations peculiar to the present age. Reduced to tho simplest formula, he insists that ara very large portion of our people must earn their livehhood by the work of their hands, it is necessary to include manual training in our system of education. Such training is at once an essential part of culture and an essential condition of true freedom. The man who cannot use his hands skillfully is cut off from one of the most fundamental conditions of in- dependence. Regarding the question, How shall this training be imparted? Professor Davidson does not find any insurmountable difficulties. It will involve a considerable]outlay of time and money, and call for a large number of teachers cavable of imparting manual instruction, but it does not follow that we shall have to add either to our school budget or to the number of our teachers. He would find the time by doing away with what is nonsensical and hurtful in our present list of studies, of which there is much less essential thav manual train- ing that might be advantageously dia- pensed with, while some of the work now required of pupils in the public schools he declares to be altogether useless, and worse. ‘Do away, for example,” says Professor Davidson, “with a great deal of the arithmetic, a great deal of the formal grammar, the whole of the elocu- tion and elocutionary reading that are now taught. Above all, do away with the whole wicked system of school exhi- bitions, which not only waste valuable time, but teach so many evil lessons of vanity, envy and selfishness, and whose cheap, vulgar applause so tends to unfit young people for the sober, unapplauded duties of real life. Do away, also, with the whole marking and ranking system, which goes so far to mis- place the motives for study, encoursges cramming and display, and occupies so much time. If these things and others of the same kind were removed, plenty of time would remain for manual training.” Regarding the plea that the public treas- ury cannot afford the means for addi- tional school accommodations and addi- tional teachers, Professor Davidson char- acterizes it as unmitigated nonsense. He believes the sums at present devoted to public education would, if judiciously applied, be amply suflicient to secure all the accommodation and all the teachers necessary for manual training, As to teachers, he urges that “‘there is no rea- son in the world why every teacher in the schools should not fit himself or herself to impart elementary manual training. Every normal school ought to have a de- partment of manual training, and every candidate for a position in the schools ought to pass a satisfactory examination in that branch.” While thus clearly and earnestly advo- cating manual training as an essential part of our educational sy:tems, urgently demanded by the economic rela- tions of the age, Professor David- son advises that ‘‘we must be care- ful not to give too much importance to 1t, lest we end by provoking a reaction against it, when it shall prove not to ac- complish, by itself, all that is expected of it.” The friends of the rapidly advane- ing mnnovation will find strong indorse- ment and encouragement in the lucid and practical paper of Professor Davidson, . — Surprises in Art. The late A. T. Stewart lived in a white marble house on Fifth avenue, in New York City, opposite & row of tall boarding houses. His mansion mught haye been taken for a government building, it was so bare of all dec- oration or attempt to make the outside attractive. In this lonesome structure the widow mourned for the dead mer- chant, and finally died herself. Now the executors are trying to sell the statue: pictures and other personal proverty that rendered the house famous. The piece of sculpture called *The Greek Slave,” which made Powers' name a household word, has stood in the Stewart palace as the Venus de’ Medici has stood in the palace at Florence—a sort of shrine, to be worshiped only by those artistio pil- grims who might unite sublime devotion and liberal means. Mr. Stewart paid $15,000 for it. The world supposed it | was practically beyoad price. But, .last Thuradsy, the executurs started it at auction at $5,000, and were forced to carry it back to its store-room. Harriet Hos- mer's ‘‘Zenobia,'’ reprosenting the Queen of Palmyra In chains, was equally difficult to sell at afair figure. These re- sults are surprising. Men in Paris, who have painted some 'remarkable pictures, readily command immense sums fo anything they may turn out. The Greek Slave 18 generally considered to be one of thé finest femalo fig- ures in the whole world. The smght of this piece standing without a bidder at $5,000, ought to give rich people some- thing to think about. How much will Meissonier's $40,000 pictures fetch twenty years from now, after the rage shall have subsided ¢ Carter Harrison, Talking. Carter Harrison, of Chicago, occupies as mayor, a large room in the city hall, which is the west wing of the two-winged court house. Adjoining, is an equally large unte-room, with a rail running across in the center. Within the railing sit two private secretaries. A long table stands also within the railing. Usually, sometime after luncheon, Carter comes out, takes a chair, and the reporters sit in a row on the long table, swing their legs and listen dumbly to his tireless strenm of words. Takeit last week. Carter sat there and ‘‘told the boys all about it The reporters, generally strapping big fellows--for such men seem to gravitate toward political work—-pro- jected tobacco-juice toward various cus- pidors, and showed a marvelous precis- ion of wim. Hour after hour the mayor talked, and the reporters loaded up and went, one by one, each after his manner. The directing editor commanded the re- vorter to interview the mayor for a stick- ful, & half-column, or a half-page—-as it might be. The reporter measured off the required amount of Carter's harangue and started 1t thus: “The Gazelle re- porter was called into the mayor's office at a late hour last evening, when the fol- lowing important admissions were made, in answer to pressing inquiries,” ete. In a public park west of Chicago an artesian well runs bad-tasting water. To this fountain come the inhabitants, some with jugs and some with barrels. There is enough for all. Itis so with the cele- brated mayor of Chicago. He talks in many tongues, and denies no one who has ears to hear. Some of the papers print a jugful and some a barrel of it. No Royal Road. Women who have lived in comfortable circumstances and gained ficst class social standing must entertain mistaken impressions touchuig both the profits and the labors of a professional actress. Mrs. Langtry has won a gertain sort of success as an actress in an era when good artistes are surely fewer than they ever were be- fore. Butshe must noy be a tired wo- man, not greatly pleased with the fruits of conquest. She would have done better in the role of Mr. Langtry's wife, which we understand, she'once bore with honor. Now, Mrs. James Brownq Potter, a victim of elocution, bids fair togo over thesame road. The lyric and dramatic school of his royal highness:the Prince of Wales puts Mrs. Potter forth as its latest grad- uate. We wish her’sucdess. Butitis a sorry woman, with mueh hard work be- fore her. The world envies the great, but it does not care to deal with the toil and worry of it all. Itis hard, too, to say what makes an actor's victory, when Mrs, Langtry succeeds and Mrs, Potter bids fair to fail; when Anna Dickinson fails irretrievably and George Miln seems to have a fighting chance. e— Modjeska in Omaha. The Countess Bozenta, better known and famous as Modjeska, has once more merited applause and admiration from the citizens of Omaha. Modjeska is to-day the peer of any actress upon the American stage, and takes rank next to Sara Bernhardt among the world's great- est dramatic artistes. Omaha takes just pride 1n the fact that Madame Modjeska has exhibited a partiulity for this city, and selected it as her resting place dur- ing the interval in her season caused Ry her usual observance of holy week. ‘While the great artist always has found a warm welcome in Omaha, it is hoped that some day she will make it her per- manent home. —ee Mg. JAMES DAvis, proprietor of the Bat Journal, of London, who was cha:ged with publishing a false, malicious and defamatory libel concerning Mr. Robert Peck, a horse-trainer, aid who pleaded guilty to the charge and offered to apolo- gize to the plaintiff and to pay all costs, was sentenced to three months’ imprison- ment and to pay a fine of £500. When Mr. Snell, who introduced the idiotic libel law in the Nebraska senate, reads this he will actually be astonished at his moder-- ation. —_— TENNYSO! jubilee ode is the subject of general ridicule in London, according to all accounts yet arrived. In his time Tennyson wrote beautifully. But like a few other bores in this and other coun- tries he has become & reminiscence of departed genius. POLITIC POINTS. Ex-Governor Routt of Colorado has an eye on a seat in tho senate. e Is rich enough Republican leaders:in [Rhode Island are trying to recover frem the panic in their ranks caused by the defection of the Prov- idence Journal. An iron molder is the labor candidate for mayor in Chicago, and a bricklayer in St Louls. Martin Irons i a candidate In the Iatter place for the coupeil, Casslus M. Clay withdrew from his can- wvass for the republican gubernatorial nomin- ation In Kentucky because not a single county convention instructed its delegates for him., The Loulsville Commercial's canvass of Kentucky on the senatorship brought out re- sponses from forty-seven countles, eighteen of which were reported ta favor Beck, thir- teen Standiford and ten Carlisle. Democratic ex-Congressman Adams, of New York, thinks the republican presiden- tial nomination lies between Blaine and Sherman, and either, he believes, would be dangerous to the democrats in New York. Smith M. Weed, who recently announced that he positively knew Mr. Cleveland would not be a candidate for re-election now savs: “I thought :I knew all about it a short time a0, but now [ must contess that my mind is in aoubt on the subject. Senator Stewart of Nevada, does not think Sherman could carry the F'acific coast states. Ho says: ‘*James G. Blaine is more popular than ever on the Pacific coast and the next delegation from these states in the next na- tional republican conventivn wili be for him.” 2 Wi | Among the eol ored men of heains in Wash- Ington are ex-Senator Bruce, ex-Minister to Hayt! Langston, Richard Greener, the clever colored lawyer; Cardozo of South Carolina, and a number of well educated, bright young men, employed as clerks in the executive de- partments, Mrs. 1da C. Martin, wife of the governor of Kansas, has never been an advocate of fe- male suffrage, but she lately told Mrs. Gou- gar that but for her appeal to her husband he would have vetoed the measure, Mrs. Martin now announces that she has regis- terad and will vote from a sense of duty. Senator Voorhees recently asked Mr.Cleve- Iand’s pastor, the Rev. Dr. Sunderland, if he ever prayed for the president. Dr. Sunder- land said he prayed for the presidentand others in authority, to which the senator re- marked: “Well, 1 wish you would pray for the president to be more mercitul to the democrats.” There will not be a single Robinson .in ti.» Fittieth congress. One member is White, another Brown, while still another Is Gray. The greatest varlety of temper and disposi- tion is represented. One man is Gay, another Bland, anotlier Crisp, another Wise. !One is Long and one is Hale, There should be no danger of the Fiftleth congress starving, for there is to be found in it Oates, and Rice and Bacon; not to fmention a big Cobb In the house, a well-developed Berry in the senate, and one Hogg, Two Kinds of Reading. Burlington He ve. It is all very well to talk about mind-read- ing, but the thing that should be encouraged 1s newspaper reading. —_——— The British Lion in Hiding. Chicag) Times. Senator Frye is in London, and the British lion 1s tryiug to shelter himself in the farthest corner of his lair until the danger Is over. ——~ Two Pleas in the Jones Case. San Franciseo Alta. Senator Jones, of Florida, i3 a candidate for re-clection on the plea that he was men- tally irresponsible. If re-elected his state will have to make the same plea. grobithrets lvamidlati The Condition of Two Booms, New York Graphic., Mr. Blaine’s boom is in prime conditfon and his friends will keep it so; whereas Mr, Sherman has his boom still to create, and it will require a mighty sight of nursing ana watching after it is completed. - Alluroments of a Second Ter Cineinnati Enquirer, Those persons who expect to find Cleve- land declining the presidental office do not know the power of a salary of $50,000 a year to a man who once took the office of sheriff and saved all fees, including the hangman’s. ——— Mrs. Wilcox and the Bustle. Chicago Tribune. Ella Wheeler Wilcox declarcs she likes the bustle in a large city. She is to some extent justified. In a large city the bustle I8 not bad, but In the country it is a nuisance. No one can climb a brush fence with it with any degree of ease and grace. fi Earnings of Two Gr New York Sun, ‘The news that Mme. Patti is to receive from Mr. Abbey one thousand pounds sterling—practically £5,000—for each ana every performance of, Italian opera in which she is to take part, suzzests a compar- ison between the prima donna’s early com- pensation and her latter-day honorarium. ‘When Mme. Patti made her debut at Covent Garden, some twenty-two years ago, the agreement made with Mr. Frederick Gye (now dead) was that she should sing thrice without recelving anything for her services, and, if successful, bind herself for five suc- cessive London season, for which she was to be paid at the rate of $750 a month for the first, 1,000 for the second. $1,200 for the third, 81,400 for the fourth, and 2,000 for the fifth. This contract was carried out, and in all the years Mme. Patti sang under Mr. Gye's management, up to the period of her marriage with the Marquis de Caux, she never recelved more than $000 a perform- ance. t Singers, *a Christine Nilsson began her artistic career under the auspices of Eugenio Merelli, who had her under engagement for a period of five years at a salary of 1,000 francs a month. For some reason or other he lost faith in the young prima donna, and was greatly relieved when, by common consent. the contract -was cancelled. Ata later period of the artist’s career Signor Merelli. then manager of the Imperial opera house in St. Petersburg, was only too happy to engagehisex-pensionnaire, ‘This time, however, she cost him a trifle more: per honorarium was 7,000 francs a night, - In the Spring. Cornhill Magazine. Have all the songs been said?? Are all the sinzers dead? 1s all the musie flea?— ;l;ne aum 'mdtllm ?f ll‘f'e ne dreary struggle, rife With grecd and sordid strife? Man but a dull machine, Living a vast routine Of narrow purpose mean? Oh! while one leaf swings high Against an azore sky In spring-time’s ecstasy, ‘There breathes {et the sublime, ‘Fhere beats yet living rhyme, T still the young world’s prime. ‘Nature has high commands, Bears gifts with lavish hands To him who understands! e SUNDAY GOSSIP. “ALLa fellow will have to do now,” re- marked a wag yesterday, *‘when he wants to send mail matter away istosay ‘Lotter zo Gal- Ilagher’ and that will settle it. 1t I8 thought that all good democrats will receive the frank- ing privilege. No stamps required exceft at election times.” JouN G. SAXE, the poet,is dead. The famous “poem’ on Omaha has always been attributed to the pen of Saxe, and as no one else has ever clalmed the authorshipit is very likely that the witty Saxe wrote it. By special request, as they say on the minstrel pro- grammes, we herewith reproduce it as a re- minder of the early days, although it has been published before in these columns: Hast ever been to O maha, Where rolls the dark Missouri down, And four strong horses scarce can draw An empty wugon through the town? Where sand Is blown from every mound, ‘To fill your eyesjand ears and throat; Where ali the steaiers are aground And all the shanties are aflos Where whisky shops the livelong night Are vending out their polson-juice; ‘Where men are often very tight, And women deemed a trifla loose? ‘Where taverns have an anxious guest For every corner, shelf or crack; With half the people going west, And all the others going back? Where theatres are all the run And bloody scalpers come to trade; Where everything Is overdone Aud everybody underpaid? 1f not. take heed to what 1 say; You'll tind it just as I have found it; And if it lies upon your way, For God's sake, reader, go around it! “I sAw a notice of John Howson, the well- known operatic singer the other day, which was-not correct.” sald a gentleman yester- day. “Hls father, or stepfather did not die I the old country, but right bere in Omabs at the Metropolitan hotel. When John, his brother and sisters, including the well-knov Emma, came to Ameri»a it was via Australia and San Francisco. In this city the elder Howson was taken ill and died, The Masonic fraternity buried him In Prospect Hill cem- etery. The Howsons then went east and reached a prominent position on the Ameri- can stage,” a*x “Dy the way, the Metropolitan hotel was at one time the largest an® most popular in Omaha,” continued the gentleman. “All the leading theatrical people used to stop there, When Edwin Adams played his famous week’s engagement at the ‘Academy’ the Metropolitan was his home and there he recelved his military friends, with whom he was a special favorite. Many a time I saw General Auger and Adams enjoying themselves at billiards in the basement of the hotel, then conducted as a billiard room by George Hughes. Isaw a well known officer, Jack Morrow and Henry Stanley,the explorer, forming a party of four with Tom Thumb in a game there once. Tom always used the cue om s line with his shoulder, and he was a good shot, too. On the occasion | refer to he was pretty well ‘under the weather,’ and beeame angry about something that occurred during the game. At any rate he wanted to fight Jack Mor- row. After a considerable war of words Jack picked Tom up and placing him on the counter sald to Hughes, ‘George, 13 this good for four drinks?’ There may have been more angry men in the world at that time but 1 hardly think that so much anger was con- tained in such a diminutive body-space. This was the tirst and only time Tom Toumb was pawned for bibulous purposes. »*a “Helen Western and ner “sister Lueille stayed at the Metropolitan the last time they were in Omaha, In fact the first named played her last engagement here, It will be remembered that she left Omaha for Wash- ington where she died. Ier engagement here was not a success and the boys had to consult together to see that the baggage was put in transit.” “YES, Omaha wa3s once the capital city of Nebraska remarked an old settler yesterday. *“I'he capitol was a little brick building on Ninth street just east of the BeE ofico, be- tween Farnam and Douglas streets, This building was afterwards used as the Union Paciiic headquarters when Webster Snyder was superintendent. It was a small concern but as the late General larney re- marked to me once, ‘It promised big.’ He gave a rather sulphurie accentuation to ithis remark but any one who knew the general would expect this, Afterwards a new eapi- tol was crected on the hill where the high school now stands and there was held the session in which by one vote the seat of stata government was changed to Lincoln, J. E. Kelley, then of Grand Island. was the mem- ber who cast sthe deciding vote, They say that he afterwards owned some lots in Lin- coln, Atany rate he came to Omahaand was elected justice of the peaceand he was certainly a character. That little @4 brick building on Ninth street was the scene of the memorable Bellevue, Florencaand Omaha contest when James Megeath, Doctor Mlller A.J. Poppleton, A. J. tianscom and a host of other old-tumers fought it out in a rather lively style.” THE killing of the quack, Randall, at Hast- Ings, Neb., recalls to mind a tragedy growing out of a somewhat similar inhuman outrage that occurred 1n Rochester, N. Y., from which four innocent persons lost their lives. At the samo time it showed whero the supreme court of the Empire state was guilty of a most cowardly act, where a popu- lar regiment of militia lost caste and favor forever, when, for days, a large city was, in “time of peace.” really in a state of m tial law. It was in 1872 A well known col- ored gambler named Howard was conspicu- ous in the city named more on account of his flashy dress than his success at “‘tin horn” play. One day the nine-year old daughter of a worthy German was found, In a lonely place near a river thatran through the city, having been brutally assaultea. Evidence was soon “pro- duced showing that Howard was the author of the ecrime. He was ar- rested, brought face to face with his vietim, and identified at once. The excitement in the city ran high,and it was only by the bra- very of the officers that he was placed safely in jail. The excitement increased wonder- fully, so much so that the Fifty-fourth regi- ment of state militia had to be calléd out. For two days and nights this state of affairs continued, Thousands congregated in the vieinity, growing in numbersas the hours in- creased. A German company wason guard, and being pressed closely by thecrowd the captain ordered his men to fire. They obeyed the command, and the result was that four spectators standing oyer a block away were killed. One of these was a man named John Elter, one of the most prominent Ger- mans in the city, The result can be 1m agined. The city was wila. At least 60,000 people were on the streets, and it seemed that the jail would be razed at any mo ment. This was a historical old structure, which had been called the “Blue Eagle” by Dan R'ce, the circus man, who was once imprisoned therein for debt. Meantime one of the ‘most cow- ardly acts ever committed by judicial au- thority was In progress—something unpar- alleled in the history of cour The negro Howard was painted white, taken out by a back way, over river and feeder dams, through a lumber yard, and brought to the court house at midnight. There sat the late Juage E. Darwin Smith, of the New York state supreme court, and in the room were only a few bailiffs, ‘The white-painted negro was allowed to plead guilty, and he was given the extent of the law—twenty years in Auburn. ‘Then In a hack’ accompanied by a strong guard he was taken many miles south- ward away from the usual routeof travel, and via the Canandaigua ‘“peanut” line conveyed to Auburn. Judge Smith, although one of the best legal minds in the state and one who for years had enjoyed the highest respect of all classes, never recovered from this action--allowing the laws to be putat defiance in such a way, letting a mob hold sway and boing a party to painting a black man white, when the power of the law could have been properly enforced. * e Howard met with a just punishment soon afterwards in Auburn prison, He was bramned with an iron bar in the hands of a fellow convict, and his lifeless remains were thrown over the inside prison balcony to the pavement below, s ‘The fact that he had eluded the wrath of the mob soon became known, and the excitement, 80 tar as assembled crowds was concerned, soon subsided, but the teeling in the community never did. The popularity of the Fifty-fourth regi- ment fled forever—it was soon a nonentity— it is now hardly remembered with kindness. John Elter had the largest funeral ever given any one in the city of his residence—so too bad the three other victims. One of the officers who arrested Howard remarked, * How much better it would bhave been had the father of that little girt shot the scoun- drel when he had an opportunity to do so. Four preclous lives would have been saved, the state would have no large bill to pay for troops, the judiclary would have mno slur upon it and a city in a cwilized country would nothave been disgraced. The law was violated anyway,and it would have been hetter if 1t hud been summarily vromptly.” Should Retire. Chicago Times. Mr. Tennyson’s latest poem 1s an addi- Slonsl proof that he should forthwith retire frem tho poetry business, IVis once tuneful Iyre now twangs as discordantly as & strect *“'dago’s harp. e should hang It on & wil- low tree, or his “Talking Oak,” or some other out-of-the-way place, where {§ will Le heard no more. PR The Hero of the Richmohd. The hero of the Buffalo fire was Henty B. Rumsey, of Omaha, who sacriticed his lifo to save a little girl from the deveuring flames,—OMANA SUNDAY Brx, March 7. Wave on wavo the crackling flames Rolled high above the doomed hotel, Filling the night with their Jurid gleam, While all below was a seothing hell. Mad By pitiless whip of the northern blast, The hungry, furious fire swept on: No mercy for age, or sex, or caste. On through passage and hall and court, The wild, red torrent kept its way. Nothing too good for its fiery wrath, Nothing too pure for its ruthless prey, Oh, fateful night of terror and death, Of hopeless prayers and vleading tegrs} Of eries unheard, and the mute sppeals Of souls that died in speechless foars. Who marvels that craven hearts were there? ture's most strong {n such an hour, he rush of waters lashed He's more than man who at peril's call, Still wanting life, deties death’s power. More than the soldier who dauntiess stands W here the murderous storms ot battle ride, 13 hie who calmly surrenders life Unbidden by houor, or gain or prldl.. Above the roar ot that blazing sea, Above wild erles of pain and fear, A'childish voies plerced heaven's domo, And thrilled upon the hero’s ear. No time for thought of kin or self, No time to count the awful cost, While still the tiery flood swept on A lifo was saved—a life was lost. Write high and bold on honor’s page, Where all may read, brave Rumsey’s name. Humble and plain shall the legend be, Yet 'twill not be least on the roll of fame. e -———— LITERARY NOTES, Little books with big promises are the order of the day. Anything costing twenty- five cents or halfa doliar, and assuming to convey “all the knowledge that man wants' on any subject or set of subjects, is bought with avidity. To satisfy the demand In part, we find before us three new volumes printed II» ‘Lc & Shepard, of No. 10, Milk street, oston., The first {s “The Natlon_in a Nutshell,” price 50 cents, by (teorge Makepeace Tow.e, the author of many valuable works for stu- dentsand _general readers. This natlon is, however, too big to i‘m! in a nutshell, The second is a volume of not over 10,000 words by Thomas Wentworth lli:‘lnlnll called “Hints on Writing and Speech Mak- ing,” the larger portion of which appeased in the Atlantic Monthly twenty yearsago, The “Letter to a Young Contributor” has lately gone the rounds of the newspaper press, and is a good piece of writing. 1t is worth saving. The third volume s a classlc. Itis & ne edition of Archbishop Whitley’s “English Syneavms Discriminated.” In America th verb “'to discriminate” is not used that way —intransitively. We would tind it hard tosay that we discriminated John Smith and John Jones, to the adyantage of the latter. man, be he scholar or student, can many books of this kind, 'The very change of gesture 8 ?ood for the mind, even though the same kind of food be cropj 0 get one thoroughly useful book out of threeis not a bad resuit, after all. *“The Veteran and His Pipa” {s & war rem- iniscence {:ul published by “Bedford, Clarke & Co., of Chicago and New York, is full of lively Interest. Detective circles have furnished the groundwork of some of the most thrilling ro- mances, especi in the haunds = of French writers. he Detective's Eve” by Fortune _du . Boisgobey, pubiished ty Rand, McNally & Co., of Chicago, Is a notice: ably zood book of this class. “How He Lost Her,” a tale of Pennsyl- vania mountain neighborhood, by Jonathan Barrett, C. E., published by C. W. Dilling« hs,m. tgl’ New York, is an exceedingly read: able story. When a gond story Is now told of Neptune's domain it is certain to be Inlerastln‘ The “*Cruise of the ‘Black Prince’, Privateer, by Commander V. Lovett Cammieron, pube lished h% Belford, Clarke & Co., Is a neal book of 315 pages, containing a romance of the sea that is full of interest. “Boscobel,” by E.Mermereau Newtonis a timel, lo story of a wintar in Florida, Ellbll.vhed by G. W. Dillingham of New Yorl ‘The Globe Library serles by Rand, McNally & Co., of Chicago, is increasing In popularity each slxccendlnr week. ‘‘The Steel Neeck- lace” and ““Ceclle's Fortune,” both by For- tune du Boisgoby, are romances of intricate plots, abounding in thrilling situations, de- plcted with a powerful pen, “The Darling of an Empire,” by F. E. G., published by G. W. Dillingham, of New York, is one of the best French novels lately WNIM by his house, the successor of G, . Carleton & Co. BOOKS RECEIVED, “Young People’s History of Ireland,” by Georze Makepeace Towle, author of “Young Feople's History ot Enilnnd,” 12mo, cloth, iliust, , 31 Lee & Shepard, Boston. “Moral Philosophy, 8 Beries of Lectures,” 339 pages, by Professor Andrew P. Peabody, oHE vard university, cloth. Lee & Shep- by ard, Boston, “Foes of Her Household,” s movel, Amanda M. Douglas, author of *'Floyd Gran- don’s Honor,” “In Trust,” *The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe,” etc. 12mo. cloth, $1.%, Lee & Shepard, Boston. “The Monarch of Dreams,” a sketch, bbi Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Cloth, cents, Lee and Shepard, publishers, Boston, B Young Artists. OmanA, March 81.—To the Editor of the BEg: [ hope you will give the follow- ing opinions about young would-be ure tists space in your paper. I read a good deal in the BEg of the progress these girl artists, as 1 call them, are making. Now Lam a better painter than I am a writer, and know a good painting when Iaeeit. I venture to say that all these so-called paintings are not worth a snap of you finger. Notone of the girls ecan paint a picture unless someone stands over all the time with a club gvin; directions. If they would study a little more and do less talking ana more think- ing, better results could be expected, A picture is not valuable only because it is panted by hand—there must be soul in it. They talk about their forests, glens, brooks, mountain sides, sun-sets, morn- ing dawns and all that, but what is the result! What would you say to me il called at your office and ofered & collec- tion of their pictures for sale at the prices at which they mark them and put them up in the windows for salet Some of these instructors in painting are making idiots out of our best girls. I wish you would tell them all to study a little more and say less about it. I have been paint- ing for fifteen years and have some idea ot what good painting is. CriTic & PAINTER, —————— The Baptist University, Some time ago the Baptist church soci- ety of this city offered to donate $100,000 if the citizens of Omaha would raise $200,000 for the purpose of erecting & university building to cost $200,000. The balance, $100,000, was to be an endow- ment fund. A committee was appointed to submit the matter to the citizens of Omaha and to raise the moncy, select s sito and to see that the building was con- structed according to the offer made. The committce cousists ot Frank Col- petzer, R. C. Patterson, - E. A. Benson, Chinton Powell and C. E. Mayne. A meoting was held and these gentlemen will at once to raise the money required. The l[zmul. benetit of such & building located here is apparentat once, and Omaha's best citizens know the fact. The committee named is com of notive, anur.':un and responsible men and they mtend to see that tho well - knowu enterprise of this city is tested. i first _locomoi! or the m’l;htllluhdfln bridge o m:’kmnlh street yesterday. 1ds ‘