Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1887, Page 9

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OPENING A “JOHN KETTLE.” Six Fair New York Girls Tndulge in an All- Night Game of Poker. LANGTRY'S HANDSOME TOILET. Mayor Hewitt's Crusade — Fditor Vana's Darky—A Prince Snubbed —Mrs. Astor's Pug—Clara Belle's Letter, [Correspondence ticular pug dog in garden show was an His name was Gufl' Astor, and he to Mrs, William Astor. His nose was pushed in so far that he got of the outer free airto breathe, and 1 was curled so tight that his hind cly touched the ground. There were other pugs around with him, and as ugly as he, but none were ke him, an independent eapitalist. Yes, Guil is the owner of $1,700, all won by him as prizes in dog shows, and his mistress has invested the money to his account, the yield of interest going to his support and adornment. Probably he is the only funded dog in the world, The dog show was an intej ionable event. It was a pity that the ex- kibitors couldn’t have been' ticketed for identification, like the exhibits, for_they were the social celebritics of New York and they wentaround quite unrecogni; by the mass of visitors. Of course they were known to those who keep posted as to the pretentious cliques, but it is a fact that the men and women of the Astors, Vanderbilts, Belmonts, and so on through the noted families, could walk the Bowery without fiuning a second glance, while even 1n Broadway, there would be no general recognition. And 80 it was that when the pretty wite of the junior August Belmont hugged and kissed her pet collie, in the midst of a ix‘\m of guzers, few knew who she was, or did Secretary of the Nuvy Whitney get any popular recognition when he put his trained Newfoundland through his accomplishments. New York is a tremendously big town. However, there were ladies who succe fully exhibited themselves and their dogs. These were actres: Helen Dauvray posed along with her setter, Lillian Rus- sell grouped herself with n French poodle, Rose Coghlan attitudinized in duo with a St Bernard, the latest Mrs. Boucicault led around an Irish setter and Annie Robe permitted herself to be dragged by a mastiff; but the winner of most attention was Mrs. Langtry, who showed herself along with Freddy Geb- hardt and a fox terrier—both on strings. The women_admire the Lang- try intensely, and so Isuppose a descrip- tion of her toilet 15 desirable. Asshe #tood near the orchestra platform, all eyes were turned upon her, but she ap- appeared to be utterly unconscious of anybody but her friends and the musici- ans. When they finished playing a par- ticular air that had been given at her re- quest, she not only smiled her thanks,but applauded as well as she could with her arms filled with a black- and-tan that had been pre- sented to her. Mrs. Langtry made a pic- turesque appearance in a costume of olive green and red. Over a red silk skirt, made full and tinished with points at the edge, there was a short, straight drapery of olive velvet, striped in red, and the costume was comfixlulcd by a jacket of velvet set off by frills of lace in ront. She wore a large hat of mouse color rolled up at one side, and adorned with green and red ostrich tips. On this occasion, Mrs. Langtry revealed herself as the possessor of the auburn locks arranged in a novel style. The hair crimped seemed to be loosely coniined low at the back with pins, suggestive of a cushion, and altogether had too artificial a look to be becoming. Mayor Hewitt's crasade against dirt is solidifying his influence with the women of New York, and if they had a political party of their own they would nominate lum perpetual president of the universe and parade him under the banner of the dust cloth and broom. Before he got the idea that & mayor’s business was looking after the pubic comfort and conveniences, rather that laying political subways to renomination, the dirt was the boss of New York. People put barrels of ashes on the curbstone, and men came along in the middle of the day with carts, lifted the barrels, = poured sx\rl of the contents into the carts, and istributed the rest in gritty showers over the people passing by. lu{inm generally went nhead of the carts and stirred up the contents of the barrels with their rag hooks. When the city laborers amused themselves by cleaning a street, railroad workmen followed them and spilled moresdirt on the pavement be- tween the tracks. Storekecpers ""‘",l“ all the refuse from their floors across the sidewalks, and never stopped a sweep- ing to let anybody pass. The wisk of broom would till the flounces of a lady's dress with the dust and cigar stumps trom a store. The mayor began order- ing garbage collectors to do their work at night. Then he told the police to prevent t Italinns from making a mess on the side- walks. Finally, he settled the ash barrel nuisance by 1ssuing orders that barrels should not be set upon the sidewalk at ail. ‘Thesweeping of dirt from buildings into the street was prohibited, the rail- road men were told to quit spreadin lowm and sand on the pavements, and New York wnd fail to recognize itself. In the cn. forcement of these orders, some Gueer things occurred. Charles A. Dann's ne- gio servant went out to sweep back into the gutter the dust that bad been blown NEw York, May 6 of the Bek. |-~This pa the Madison Squa Astor, ly fash- "John Kettle, { could be done, beea from the stree 1- ous policeman ordered him to take the dust up in a pan and earryit into the house, and arrested him for refusing to doit. A police justice fined the man $10, and Mr. Dana paid, So long as the excise laws were en- forced only against little gin mills and the dives, there was no clamorous outery against them, but the mayor has com- elled the police to be impartial, and all ew York is astounded. ‘The idea of a holiceman,invading Delmonico’s and the Jrunswick has shocked every gentleman drinker beyond the power of articulate speech. The eity is full of howling swells, T moring for o repeal of the odious w that says a muans mouth shall be like a hmekiln on Sun- day. The Germans are join- mg in the outery, beeause the law agai making a combine of music and r is being applied to singing societies as well as to concert hatls and dives. The Germans stand up v their inalienable right to drink beer ing between drinks. When the in- Is are not too frequent, the German sings well. He sings tolerably, even when the schooner has been filled and drained a it many times. He never si To tell a fellow-Ger- man citizen he shall not music when he f Jis an impertin- ence on the, t of law-makers, who know nothing of the mellowing influ- ences of beer. He resents it and joins the swells in their howl. ‘There is no theatre joke more univ sally appreciated by “audiences in this town than a smile drawn trom the game of poker. When a poker expression 18 used the men roar and the women gig- nd one would think that everybody d it. And as a matter of fact, it is etting more popular than ever, and the girls are trying it in earnest. One of them told me about an expression that shows how it is going. She was one of a party of six, all girls, that met at the house of the only one of their number married, Her husband n a business trip to the south, They began the night with a box at the theatre, and when the per- formance was over they had a lunch at a famous cafe, so that it was nearly 1 in the morming before they sat down to play. 'l‘lu-,f! were new to the game, I be- ieve, but their playing had been confined to the modest ante-midnight hours, and generally a five-cent limit, with gentle- men in. I wish I understood the game that | might make clear how it was that my friend came out of it earlier than she had expected to. She had won five of the first half dozen kettles, I think she said, and then began to hold such ecards that she lost all her pile in anteing the chippies. At last she had three kings, an ice and a five spot dealt to her the course of a large and she determined to plunge. Somehow she raised the ante, threw away her five spot and drew an- other ace. 'The hostess stood pat, as the saying is. My friend felt very sure of winning the kettle, and accordingly bor- rowed a lotot chips from her compan- 10ns. But before the betting was over she had to pledge her watch and ear- rings, and finally, getting -alarmed, she put her elegant new lgrmg wrap on the table and called. The hostess thereupon displayed four two spots. #aid she thought she didn't care to play any longer, but the others were inter- ested and continued the game. It was then six o'clock and the hostess lent the dear irl five dollars to pay for a cab to get home in. She was allowed to take with her as well, her collateral on the under- standing that she get an advance of pocket money as soon as possible and pay up. She says she will feel pinched fora month, but instead of vowing never to play the dreadful game, again, she is determined to get evenm, ‘and is anxously waiting the time when with debts paid and a pocket full of pin money she can buy chips once more. We have had a real prince among us, and have rather snubbed him Prince Esterhaz; women of fashion who patronize public charities by having their names printed on the backs of admission tickets to en- tertainments gave »_walm around at a swell restanrant. The sffiur was adver- tised as o fete, and it was announced that Prince Ksterhazy's orches had been engaged to make the music. So- ciety would go to hear musicians belong- ing to a prince with a sneezy name. The pring musicians are regalarly cm- ployed as part of the show in u wax works museum, and the prince himself, had just arrived on a tour round the world. Everybody of social ac- count went to the fete. At onc end of the room was a little cony stuck on the wall close to the ceiling. ~ A tatl man My friend standing in it would bump nis h I: S against the plasier. The orchest perched away up in that little martin hox were expected to do thewr fiddling Somchow or other Prince erhaxy’s chief violimist got it into his head thu society want to hear hum aund his com rades play. Hecame down from his lofty pen and found one of the patronesses, who seemed to be running things, an suggested that it would be much bett to have the icians on the iloor, An interpreter stated the case, ‘The pat- roness put on her most gracious manuers, and swid she really didn't see how thut 15e ull the corners of coom were being used, e rstands or flirtation nooks swered that the middle of the toor would be better, "as 1L too hot, or oo col'l up in the baicony. No: not thinking of that; bhut the close to the eeiling and so hi crowd that the music e hieard began to put - on a clean fuce | any advantage. Ir tic” effects . would be g . patroness iooked relieved. Wi 1ly She would liko to make things ble to the musicians, but she did s how they could pisy on the tloor eli him," she said to the interpreter. that it would interfore with the Jauc il rui make [ I aisle ask her for | | waring tor a s ing. These girls would go wad f tuey | Adirondacks. couldn’t dance. He listened to the inter- preter, and watched the patroness, who was smiling the most effusive, mechani- cal, society smile. Then he shrugged his shoulders and went up into the ‘Tmh-nn‘y’ to fiddle. Probably he fiddled well, but nobody down stairs knew anything about it. Wax_fiddlers arded, “Prince Esterhazy’s band,”” would have answered the purpose just as well [n theaters for a few s wed with an Thi pasons past you erpowering odor i was a mystery until Lobserved that the fashionable Iady accompanied by o huge cut scent bottle had & good bitof private business with 1t ween acts. From her pocket she ex tracts a lump of sugar, and in the pri vacy of her programme caretully drops as much eau de cologne from her Hask as the sugar will hold, takes it up gingerly with her lace handkerchief and conveys it to her mouth. mild state of booze may be The escort who goes out to sec a man has not much ~ advantage over the cologne- eating woman. It . produces a sort of daze, very similar to the effeets of chloral, ‘T'he odor or to that of old rye, itisn’t wicked like cocktails, and it is quite the gentle thing., I'd like to know what my adventurous sex will try next. needles, anodyne, bromide and cologne! This world wiul failure to some people, so hard to stifle the real and i e the present, I took Maria to tinee, and the play was so dismal that, when a friend going up the f he could do anything for “Yes, just do as well by us as you will by yourself.” He did. On his return he Iaid a pretty bunch of flowers in my lap, and, when their extraordinary weight aroused my attention, behol cunningly fastened by a wire to the cen- ter was a half pint pumpkin- seed bottle. Through the cork into the heart of a calla lily went a straw., With what a wealth of admiration tor man’s mvention did we hold that fragrant bou- quet to our pleased faces. The bartender that has got up this novel way of intro- ducing a mild cocktail to a lady in an orchestra chair deserves to prosper, and no doubt he will. Whenever you see a lady in a theatre nhailing the fragrance of a huge bouquet, yon may rightly sus- peet she has got right with her,that'which you will have to go out for. a com- fort to know that men are inventing something to amuse us. The apothecary has hitherto been the man to lay himself out to catch us, but now the bar room falls into line, and we women ought to be thankful. A man on Broadway has gone to putting up little medicine_chests filled with numerous bottles. With this box you get a book. Wherever you read, “‘For general lassi- tude, indisposition to do anything and a desire for perfect repose, take No. 10 at 9 a.m., (ullu\v up with 19 and 46 between 2 p. m. and 6 p. m,, returning to No. 10 at bedtime.”” ‘‘For reluctance to rise, and tendency to lie dowr during the day, take 50 in moderation until exhausted, and continue with 80 and 85, Bottles can be revlenished at any ot our agencies.” This is a noble work of art, but it isn't as interesting as going to the drug stores. What fun 1t 1s to listen to people in apo- thecary shops. I 'had occasion to have a prescription for a favorite dog put up the other day, and I sat and listened. A large woman with an aggravating set of store teeth gnashed 'em with confidence at the clerk, and said: ‘Doctor (they address a ten-year-old boy in a dru as ‘doctor,’) ‘‘can_you recomms tooth powder? I imagine Peruvian bark is injuring my teeth. They feel sensitive to the touch.” *‘Be careful how you handle 'em when you take 'em out,” said a smuil voice in the rear of an almanac. Only that the directory was chained up, you wouldn’t know this, Then in came a large woman with a fierce look: ‘‘My husband ain't feeling well, doctor; he wants to get something to brace him up, so's he can go to a tar- get excursion to-morrow.'’ “'Calysia bark and 1ron,” suggested the clerk. “Not much,'’ was the reply, “‘give me a bottle of citrate magnesia, one dozen compound tincture rhubarb pills, three ounces senna and a dash of croton oil. Them fishing banks and target excursions is a good ways off for some folks." CLARA BELLE, In this v acquired. us, I s " e Charles Deubler, os Dawson, Ga., has a shepherd dog that drives his chickens up at night. About sundown the do, | begins his rounds over the premises, an: never stops until every fowlis driven up and is in the hen house. If a chicken shows a disposition not to retire to its roosting pluce the dog drives it in the hen house and stands guard at the door until the chicken takes a perch on the 4 - —— A New Jersey American, while travel- i ing in Canada recently, called on the American consul at Guelph, Ont. Inquir- ng for the flag of his country, which he expected to see proudly waving in the wind, he found it was doing duty ina backroom as o window curtain, This is not so bad as the case of an American ousul in San Domingo, who used his roud emblem of freedom as a towel. o —— A woman of Spartansburg, S. C. while urying an arm lond of wood, was re- cently attacked oy a rabid dog, but, ropping a portion of her load, she )ml-llte‘\l 1010 the dog and killed him with club. A e —— A bira’s nest found on a roof near the United States mint in Washington was beautifully lined with gold. The parent bird had “carried off gold dust in its {l’:\lllur: and shaken them out in its tiny home. SELE Mousignor Capel is again spoken of at Rome for & nussionary bishoprie. It is suid that the erratic prelate fixu become un expert tishecian, und that he is pre- 1 with the trout - of the American and Avmold's Indigo Blue Prints 6}c a yard These are the best goods of their Kinl in the market, and are sold by other dealers as a drive at 7 ie. We have just recetved a ease of new pat- terns that arve very desivable, Here is a Bargain. Best Cocheco Lawns, worth 12¢ Best Pacific Ovganclies, worth 15¢ A choice line of patterns will be put on sale Monduy morning at 8 1-3c¢ per yard. Don’t miss them. THOMPSON, BELDEN & CO. A Decided Novelly We eall the espeeial attention of 1 wishing something new and choi Wash Dress Fabrics to our invoice, just received, of Fine Scotch Ginghams. They are the latest importation, con- sisting ot chenille stripes and tufts, with combinations to match, The effects are very handsome, but must be seen to be appreciated. Prices 40¢ and 50¢ per yard. Please eall and see them, THOMPSON, BELDEN & CO. We make special mentiin of ¢y ack of White Goods Some etegant fabrics in V. ctoria and Bishop Lawns, Plaid an Stripe Cambrie, Plain, Stripe an Plaid Nainsook, India Linens, Swis: Muslin, dot’ed figured and plaid, very nice selection for sunmmer dress: €8, A large line of embroideve robes in boves. THOMPSON, BELDEN & CO, large and complete charges on goods ordered by mail. DINING HALL MENDICANCY. Steady Increase of the Abominable Habit of Tipping Menials, A DEFAULTER'S GIFTS. BIG It's English, You Know--Senator Thurman’'s Aversion to Begging Servants--How to Rem- edy the Evil, The practice of tipping, or giving gratuities to hotel porters, restaurant and hotel waiters, and other servants, s James Q. Howard, of the Forum s of comparatively recent in- troduction into the United States. Some eighteen or twenty years ago. when our foppish young men about town began to mauke trips abwoad, it observed, on their return home, that they had adopted foreign accents,inflections, affectations, and especially that they aped everything English. pping’ was at that time, as now, an established eustom m England, aswell as throughout Europe and Asia, and acres of palms, itching for coin, were outstretched by a mendicant host, ranging from the lacert major-domos of gorgeous . palaces and the liveried beadles in great cathedrals, down to the beggars of India and Egypt, and the lazzaroni of Naples. So universal was the custom that it went far to justify the sarcasm of Senator Thurman, who, when asked 1if he had met Prince Bismarck, replied he was ex- tremely sorry he had not, because he did want to meet one person in Europe who not waiting for him to hand over a shilling! When tipping was first introduced at Delmonico's, by some of the traveling fops, the astonished waiters did not know what to think of it. The more manly attendants were inclined to resent the seeming attempt to buy or bribe them, while others were disposed to pocket the gratuity, with the flection that th donor must have a ‘little too much.” But the men of fashion, who are usually the men of fortune, soon made it known that to tip was “good form,” The prac- tice rapidly spread from the fashionable restaurants and hotels to the second, third, and fourth-rate places. While the abuse has not yet become so universal as here 1n older ocuntrics, it is spreading apace. Guests are not expeeted to pre- sent gratuities only to waiters and cooks, to porters, chambermaids, bell-boys and bootblocks, to jamtors,baggage-checkers, trunk-handlers at raillway stations, and a few other non-enumerated clusses. Bar- bers receive extras, varying from a dime to a dollar, from nobs and nabobs; soon they will be demanding like treatment from all. Before inquiring where the evil will end, let us ascertain precisely Delmonico’s the waiters receive a of $25 a month, and make as high ¢ aday, or #150'n month, in tips. Why impose six-sevenths of the burden of the servant's comopensation.upon the publie, and not seven-sevenths? The step is, of course, a short one to that tem under which the servants pay annual premiums to nominal emplo; for eligible positions from which they can prey upon the publie. m what we have said it follows that obtaining money through an ostensibly voluntary,but réally compulsory, process is obtaining money etenses; itisa species of black-mail, where inso- L i bw - refusal to “de ated swindling, cause it is taking your money v out rendering any licensed robbery, less manly than the you are foreed to pay u second time for what you hayve too ex- orbitantly paid for already. For it must not be forgotten that when yon pay your legitimate restaurant 6r hotel bill you pay for intelligent service and for “proper cwvility and proper attention, no less yur napkins, knives, and food, miscellancous atuities are not defensible on the score of chariy, be- cause chief waiters or superintendents, th whom the subordinates divide their ill-gotten gains, are frequently able to ride in their own earriages in Central park, and are in berter financial condi- tion than many of those from whom they receive gratuities. If it be said that these servants cannot live on month, hence are objects of charity, the answer is, that thousands of deserving men and women all around us are re- ceiving less, 1f these able bodied table servants cannot live on their legitimate pay, they should scek other employment and not be hourly asking alms. That the practice we are considering is detrimental to the interests of employ- what the evil is, The practice of exacting tips is inde- fensible from every point of view. I bill of fare at a restaurant sets forth a scale of prices for the articles of food or refreshment supplied, and, as a rule, these prices are high enough, heaven knows, and are steadily increased from year to year, in the face of the fact that provisions of all kinds have been declin- ng for a long time. The profit on thirty different articles of food, chiefly vegeta- bles, served in a leading restaurant in New York, is found upon vestigation to range from three hundred to nine hun- dred per cent. The vpatron consents to pay this profit on his lettuce, beans, or corn, and he finds that he is also ex- pected to pay twenty or twenty-five per cent more to the servant who brings him the vegetables. If one were expected to pay extra only for extra civility or special intelligence, there might be some excuse for the system. But this is not all the ground on which the practice rests, You are expected to reward alike civility and incivity. to pay handsomely for "both intelligence and stupidity, and to be miually liberal to courtsy and insolence. If your waiter brings you tainted meat or stale veget- ables, he looks for the same douceur as if he had brought you palatable or whole- some food. If the tip.is notforthcoming, his insolence is shown a8 long as_you re- main, and if you return he will either re- fuse to wait on you, orserve yon worse than before. Between cooks and waiters there is always a perfeet understanding as to the treatment that favored or ob- noxious guests shall receive, for the rea- son that the tips ape divided betwee them, The spenathrift, however worth- less, who wastes the imost money on them, gets the best entertanment the place ean atford, while the provident patron, paying the same high rates, if not lavish with his money, must put up with the smallest and meanest portions that can be served. Onc of the most distinguished members of the United States scnate has frequently, it is said, been insulted amd reviled, be cause of his habitual refusal to submit to this imiquitous tax. At hotels on the American plan, where the charges are 4 or §5a day, or 50 per cent higher than when provisions were 50 per cent dearer, the guest is expected to add a dollar or so a day 1n the form of gratuities, to the exorbitant published rates. Now, the guests should either pay the servants all their wages.or pay none. Their employer, the landlord, should ')roporly compensate all his employes lor their services, or saddle their entire support upon his patrons. There is no logic and no sense in dividing their sup- port between their employer and the ver- sons they serve. At some hotels porters get #20 a month from the proprietors, and about $4 a day or $120 a month, from the guests, In the cafu at ers is demonstrable, 1n fact, is conceded by managers of hotels and restaurants themselves. In collusion with cooks, waiters will often serve extra portions, or extra large portions in expectation of i thereby establishing a claim on the lib- erality of the guest, Thus they rob their employer by serving what is not puid for, in order to e prolit for them- selves. At hote onducted on the American plan they increase enor- mously the waste of food, by bringing uests more than they have ordered. fuch good food is wasted ata large American hotel,and this waste 1s doubled through the tipping swindle, But the l)ropnc!ors of hotels say they are power- ess to get rid of the evil. When it was suggested to the manager of one of the princinal hotels of New York that it would be thousands of dollars in his vocket if he should declare war upon the growing abuses and put an end to the robbery of his patrons, he replicd: ‘It can’t be done; I'should lose two months’ business if 1 attempted it.” In expl tion he said that his help would all 1m mediately leave him; that he could no keep a bell-boy or chambermaid; and tha it would take two months to get together servants that might stay upon being paid higher wages than other hotels were rnyillm ‘Thus, then, this organized evil has introduced a reign of terror; its sys- tematized tyranny cannot be resisted by those whose interest it is to escape from its control. 1t this be true, is it not high time that this plundering scrvants’ boy- cott should be terminated? But the weightiest objections to this system remain to be stated, The ‘‘tip- pees,” or persons receiving these un- earned gratuities, are debased and de- moralized by the ircational usage. ‘The best way found, since the world began, to get money, 18 to earn it. But bodied men can get a half-dol standing around opera house ovening the doors of gentlemen’s carriages. they will not work a half-day for the same sum., A lackey will not toil an hour for a quarter of a dollar, if he can get as much by handing a fop a match or a tooth-pick. Hard work 18 precisely what the professional tip-hunters have an aversion to; their re- pugnance to labur increases with the in- crease of their easily gotton gratuities. Nor will they strive to please, if a tip must follow whether they please or not. By placing themselves in the attitude ot mendicants they lose their self-respect. A distaste for all work which brings in gains slowly soon follows. I'he real working classes are, hence copstantly depleted and the class of light workers re-enforced by the indolent and thoughtless, who are de- luded with visions of sudden riches and rapid gains. In the old world the de- moralization of labor through this agency i3 universal. So wide spread nhas the evil become that our accomplished consul-general at Frankfort, Hon. Alfred E. Lee, forwarded, in 1880, an ofticial re- )l)orl to his government upon this sub, "he consul-general says: n estimating the rates of wages, the pre vailing habit of pay vetty gratuities known as trinkgeld, dri money, should be taken into account. This vicious custom, which it is to be hoped may never take root in our country, bears the remarks of the old feudal system, which made the employer a master ana the employed a serf, and one of the most_demoralizing inilucnces which affects German labor. he practis K- ing part of the laborer's compensation a favor, to be confer at discretion, reduces his independence, degrades his manhood and converts hororable toil into a sort of lie- beggary, * * * When the work- m: as earned his wages he is entitled to receive their full amount, independently of the discretion of his employer, and without liability to that natural contempt which is felt for a well-dressed or able-bodied me cant. On the other hand, if he recer wages which he does not earn, his employer is Lmposed upon, and the position of the em- ploye is that of a person supported in idle- ness or dependent upon charity, The effect of the drink-money svstem on the morals of labor may be readily inferred, for even if the marzin between Jicensed mendicancy and dishonesty were wide, the one would be & standing femptation to the other.” Mr. Lee's report need not be quoted further to prove that the question of sor- equivalent; and it is | 25 or §10 a | vant-fecing deserves serious nified discussion. and that it v height of an economic problem worthy of our thoughtful attention. ~ Since the evil has not yet spread far bey large cities and summer resorts, it 1) be checked, 1f all who are opposed to the imposition on principle will firmly refuse to submit to it, 1d do what they can to create, or rather strengthen, pub- lic sentiment against it. If not cheeked, when it may be, whare will it end? It will come to this, that street-car condue- tors must be tipped, else they will land you in the mud, or not land “you s atemen on the elevated roads must be “remembered,” or they will shut you in the cars or lock you ol clerk in the stores, from whom tin pan or a vard of gingham, must be “treated handsomely,” or you will find yourself contemptuously snubbed; and, | as in London, every policeman of whom you fsk your way must ¢ 2 com pressed to his palm, else he will purposely lead you astray. These and other elass of persons ood a right to expeet gratuitics those we now reward for less valuab) services. Logically, there is no plac to stop between paying twice for all ser- | vices and paying twice for none. The | Jofty and truly grand style of feeing ser- | vants is that adopied by the Boston defaulter of the = other day, who proudly handed %3 to the waiter who brought him aspoonful of absinthe, or a ftinger-bowl. Having stolen half million, there seemed to | him no reason why he should not be | liberal with other people’s money, and squander it on harlots and meni | We commend the Boston spendthrifts, beeause it i profoun: and this seems to be the chief objeet of the tip. The waiter’s un- lified admiration cannot be had on lower terms, for all large: ers should know that a sunc ant who has once received dollar gratuity must consider dollar and half-doliar tips small and mean, He must draw the line somewhere. But had not practical Americans better draw the e on a business basis, and pay only or what they get? James Q, HowAgb. e CHURCH NOTICES. and dig- s to the to_all '8 waiters | Southwest Presbyterian Church, corner Leavenworth and Twentieth streets—Kev. David R. Kerr, pastor. Preaching and com- munion service at 11 a. m. ning sermon at¥p.m. Sabbath school at 3 p. m. Young neople’s association at Presbyterian_Churel r Dodge and Seventeenth streets, ervices at 10:30 a. m, and ¥p. m. Preaching by the pastor, Rev. W. J. Harsha. Sunday school at noon. Young people’s meeting at 7:15 p. m. United Presbyterian, corner Park avenue and Grant street—Preaching in the morning at 11 and in the evening at 8. Sabbath school at 12. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at8. Youare welcome. ‘The Presbyterians will worship in Trolel’s hall, near the corner of Leavenworth and Pail Sheridan streets at 10:30 a. m and at 8 Services con- pastor of The qroenlllle cars pass All are cordially invited, BAP Beth-Eden Baptist Church—Services at 4:15p. m. at St. Mary’s avenue Congrega- tional church. Preaching by Rev, M. J. Sulli- van. Sunday school at 3 p. Prayer meet- ing Thursday evening at o'clock, All welcome, Calvary Baptist Church, Saunders street— tev. A. W. Clark, pastor. Services at 10:30 a m. Proaching by the pastor andadminis- tration of the Lord's supper. Sunday school at 11:45, Preaching at 7:45 m. Prayer mecting Wednesday evening at 7:45, All are cordially invited to the services, First Baptist Church—Stranger’s Sabbath Home—Corner Kifteenth and Davenport ev. A. W. Lamar, pastor. Preach- ) Morning theme, hrist Revealing Himself to the Disciples.” Evening theme, “The Child Spirit and Its Relation to Eternal Life.” Sabbath school at 12 m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at8. All are cordially invited. Seats free, OTHER CIURCHES. German Lutheran Church—1005 8, Twen- tieth street. Services every Sunday at 10 a. m. Sunday school at 2 p.m. k.J. krese, pastor. Saint Barnabas Church—Nineteenth and California streets. Sunday services at 11 a. m., with eelebration, Eyvensong at 30. Sunday school at 9 a, . Rev. Robert Dor- herty, 8. T.D., ofticiating. German Evangelical service Sunday after- noon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Fr. Wm. Dahl- mann, Emanuel chureh, corner ot Cass and Nineteenth street. Subject, St. John, chap- ter 10, verses 51! Unity Church--Corner of Seventeenth and Cass streets. Services at 11 a. m. Sunday school at 12:15. Rev. W. E. Copeland, pas- tor. Subject of sermon thismorning, “A Love Feast.” No evening service, Come to the C. I, Walnut Hili, Omaha, next I Ma 5, and hear following the door, I'he morn- ing discourse will b argument for the position of the ehristian chureli, coneerning e lishment. Will be glad to see you. Rev. A. H. Sawyer, pastor. nts' Chapel—Twenty-tirst and Clark streets. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p, m. | Sunday school at 12:30. Everybody wel come, Bl Three car loads of bananas were re: ceived at Dayton, Onio, in all stages of growth, and in one buneh a young taran- tula was discovered, benumed with cold, Placed inw warm glass in the sun the venomus inseet soon beeame lively and | ready to sting w er might come in Its way. Mrs. Elizabeth Hillard, of Towa; Mrs. t Arnold, of Ohio, and Mrs, Su of Dakota, are sisters, The hundred and twelve years old, the seeond one hundred and nine and the third ninetvesis, making a total of three | hundied seyent, yeurs for these three remarkable women, | slightly sunburnt 1a Some time ago a valuable canary of Ithaca, N. Y., lost its voice, ind when | taken to adocal bird dealer seemed to bg | ehoking to death. ‘The dealer found thay was o tumor as large as a pea ing at the root of the bird's tongue, and, putting the little fellow under the influence of chloform, he cut it awny. ‘I'he bird soon recovered, and now singg as well as ever, AT Mrs, George Hen wife of the new senator from California,gave a reception at Washington last week whieh was, it ig said, a model of what a reception ough to be, given by peovle of unlimite means, It aftorded a marked contrast ta the vulgar display of other rich peo; ple i, Washington, in that good taste :uul not mere money was the general eftect of it, posiirn labenih Several years ago a fe loose on the mountains east of Bennings ton, and since that an effort has been made to enfore the law forbidding un@ h. deer were le§ one to kill deer in Vermont. The resu! dy here and there through deer are seen,and as the lnw [ years yet to run it is quite likel, the Green mountains may,in time,be wel stocked. Inventor Edison is des Florida paper us a smooth apparently forty y ribed a aced man, of age, with a and wearing dar in clothes, white flannel e L ot 1t is proposed to add a_skating rink tq the Enghsh college for the blind, since skating furnishes one of the best exers ises for the blind. THE RALLWAY TINE TABLES, A, Arrive | Leave Omaha | Omaha UNION PAGIFIC, =Y Depot 10th and Pierce 'sts, Pacific Kxpress Denver Expre *L,0cal Expre *Except Sunday, B. & M. R. R. R Depot 10th and Pacitic sts. Mailand Express 5 Night Express. am ) pmn 1 am 11:00 am| 5:05 pm CB.&Q R R Depot 10th and Pacltic sts, Mail And EXPress. ... ..... Chicago Express K. C.St. J. & C. B, Depot 10th and Pacilic s Mail... Expross, C. St. P. M. & O. Depot15th and Webster st. Sioux City Express. ... Bancroft Express. Blalr Passenger. *Excent Sunda; MISSOURIL PACIFIC. Depot 15th and Webstel Day Exgm\» A Night Expra Lincoln Exp! DUMMY TRAINS, Running between Council Bluffsand South Omal n addition to the stations men= tioned, trains stop at Twentieth and Twentye fourth streets, and at Summit, in Omaha. ' estward, | Omaha, Sheel'ys| Broad- way. 6:27 Eastwara, Iys Z8 wcosec-ESSexzas ESSracasne~E-Sexan CONNECTING LINES & P.: C. R L Allrains fun Dadly, e NW. Alltraius run « B Q Al traiys run daily.... M & ST Alltrains tuy TR G5t %G FExeept Sa tExcept Alend WSt & s v daly 5 C. & | Alltraing run daily. ..