Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 16, 1887, Page 7

COMBINATION ROBES 40 Robes, actual value $18.50, choice at this sale for $11.50. 22 Robes, actual value, and never shown for less than $30.00. Your chice on Monday at $13.50. 34 Paris unmade costume robes* Our own exclusive styles. Latest shades, at $18.50, 922.50, $27.50. They cannot be du- plicated. Y Tmported Soutache Braided Combina- tion Robes, only a few remain to select from Monday. " Price,$18.00. The nov- elty of the beason. Tricot Cloths—Our prices always the lowest. On Monday, Wool Tricot cloths at $18c per yard; all shades, including black. They will not last long at this Your remarkable price. 48 inch French Hubit Cloth in all the hew shades, $1.25, worth $1.75. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OOTOBER 1 1887.~TWELVE PAGES, KELLEY, STIGER & CO. DRESS FLANNELS Double width, all wool Dress Flannels, 35¢ per yard; plain and mixed colorings, sold elsewhere at 50c. 54 inch Tricot cloth, All Wool, on Monday, at 75¢, worth $1.25. All wool Cashmere Sergesand Diagonals —in all the new shades. For this sale we show them at 60c. They equal any- thing heretofore offered at 85c. 48-inch English checks—Stripes and Funé:y mixtures—on Monday &0c per yard. Remember this SPECIAL BARGAIN SALE. OUR PRICES ALWAYS THE LOW- EST. FURS. FURS. FURS. ‘We have just_opened our second de- livery of New Furs,and are now pre- pared to show a very extensive assort- ment, comprising Iur Sets, Muffs and Fur trimmings in all the most desirable and fashionable Furs. FURS AND MUFFS FUR SETS. IN Otter, Nutria, Black Bear, Skunk, Black Marten, Red Fox, L{nx Cat Back, Lynx Back, Yynx Beily, Black Lynx, Australian Opossum, etc., ete. MUFFS. MUFFS. MUFFS. Lynx Back, Lfinx Belly, Black Lynx, Beaver, Alaska Seal,” Black Martin, Monkey, Brown Coon, Natural Coon, Dyed Muskrat, Nutria, American and Australian O\xyssum, Sil Hare, Black Hare, Black Coney, Seal Plush, ete., ete. FUR TRIMMINGS. Lynx back, lynx billey,black lynx, silver fox, red fox, Chinchilla, black Marten, natural beaver, nutria, Aus- tralian and American oppossum, silver hare, blue coney, black coney. Inspec- tion and comparison will prove that our prices are the lowest. | BUTTONS-BRAIDS, BUTTONS, BUTTONS, BUTTONS, Our stock {n this department is com- plete, comprising all the latest novelties in cut steel, hand chased metal, pearl, ivory, jet, hand crochet, silk and mo- hair tailor buttons, ete., ete. NOVELTY TRIMMING BRAIDS. We are showing an endless variety in all the latest and most desirable novel- ties, in all shades, comprising novelty mohair and President braids, silk cord novelty trimmings and hrnhis, metalic novelty braid in steel, gold, etc., atlas and two toned mohair braids, novclti and President braid setts, novelty sil cord setts, ete., ete. BEADED ORNAMENTS BEADED SETTS AND BEADED ORNAMENTS. We are showing a beautiful assort- ment in this line. Black, steel, and iridecent beaded setts and pannels to match. Black, steel and iridecent beaded ornaments in various sizes, in all shades. Tnspection will prove that our prices cannot be approached. CLOAKS. CLOAKS, CLOAKS, CLOAKS. ‘We are showing an clegant lino of Misses Newmarkets in melton cloths, both plain and mixed goods with capes and hoods ranging in prices from 84.75 10 $20.00. Also a choice selection of all the latest cloths and styles in Misses cloaks with gretchen skirts, plush lined hoods, &. And to show the low prices which we are making on these goods we name a few. A line of brown melton cloths with collar and cape trimmed with Astractau to match in sizes from 410 12 years. Price $3.25. Rise 50cts. A line black and grey plaids, cape, collar and cuffs trimmed with black braid, belt and fancy buckle, sizes from 41010 years. Price $4.00. Rise 50cts. A line plaids brown and black, Nor- folk pattern Astrachan collar, cuffs and lfil";‘clt.lw 12 years. Price $5.00. Rise ts. CLOAKS. A line gray and white mixed meltog cloths, hood satin lined, groy Astrachaa collar, cuffs and belt, Gretchen akirty sizos from 2 to 12 years, Price ®4.76 Rise 50 cts. A line elegant brown _Astrach boucle cloths, red plush lined .h with belt kilted skirt, sizes from 4 to. years. Price 87.00. Rise 75 cts. Also styles and cloths too numerous to mention on which we are making dee cidedly low prices and feel these merit the attention of the closest by ers. Come and examine our cloak des partment. We are daily making addi« tions in the way of choice things in plush wraps, Newmarkets, Raglans, etay and our prices defy competition., S = Corner Dodge and Fifteenth streets. CLARA'S CAUSTIC CRAYON: Pkotches of Life's Sunshinc and Shadow in New York. A BRIEF HOUR IN FRENCHTOWN. Bogus Blooms and Balms for the Boils of Beauty—Timely Advice on the Subject, *How to Choose & Wife." NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—[SpecialLorres- pondence of the BEE.]—One of the news headings in o journal that lies beforo me says that William E. Brockway, the forger, has been released from a service ‘of th years and seven months in state prison. My firstsensation of shock is thut [ am that much older than I was vhen I first saw Broadway. He was no JAcquaintance of mine, I hasten to iwrite; and yet I was most politely I,Mu-owu against him in an assemblage of iweulth and fas It was at the acad- “emy of music on a grand opera night. v of us were in a box. Into the adjoining one came a tall, venerable Jooking man, wearing the conventional evening costume of a gentleman. The fact that he was all alone and remained po through more than half the performance served to fix my at- tention on him. Hed he been accompanied by a woman or two, he would huve pussed unnoticed for one of the many who bought boxes for the oc- casion. He listened intently to the anusic and keenly watched the actimg. At length a man whom I knew as Chief Detective Byrnes came along, stopped o talk a minute with the old man and Then I asked a companion who the solitary devotee of music was, nnd he'sought Byrnes to find out. He poon came back with the information that our next-box neighbor was Brock- way, the notorious forger, and that he r#us to be sentenced on the following Jrorning. He had pleaded guilty on one of a dozen indictments, and had Davgained with the government pros- ecutors to give up a lot of bogus plates, if they would let him off with a single sentence, This was his last day out on Dail. He was an ardent lover of opera, and he chose to spend his farewell even- i 1 its enjoyment. And hardly man in the audience looked more like a solid respectable citizen, TROUBLES OF THE RICH, If the truly good people of New York avere to shiver every time they touched clbows with the wicked in fashionable the town would be chock full of The bad ones are so audacious. some envious chap, with a rather artis- tic pencil, has for a week past annoyed the Astors and Vanderbilts by chalking efligies of the ladies of those families ou the door steps of their houses. The caricatures had every evidence of ex- treme haste, showing that the midni portraiture was by somebody who didn't desire to be caught at it. He used his crayon with skill enough to produce recognizable likenes however, and the poses were not pleasant, He nightly ghifted his spot, and so managed to elude the vigilance of the private watch- men who guard these houses of million- aireism. He seems to have known when top, too, for a arrangements had made to capture him he did not re- pppear. won. A FRENCH COLONY. Well, the could avoid much of their sicuovsness if they would soek quiet ) For instance, within half an hour’s ride of New York city is a colony that might well be called Lit- 1l nee, so thoroughly and distinetly s it ich in almost every respect the visitor might imagine himself in the suburbs of Paris. An st idler went out there las! n . The artist had been there before and Yie piloted the idler through the little villuge and along a crooked lane to a house that stood in the middle of a pretty garden. The Bronx flowed bybetween stone walls that had been built to prevent the banks from falling in and choking the gentle little river to death. At least, the artist who had been there and knew all about it, said it flowed, but a dead leaf on the surface remained in the same spot until the whole bottle of clavet was gone. Three ducks near the opposite side enjoyed themselves also. They tipped forwird and stood on their heads upon the bottom of the river, and waggled their tails absurdly in the air for a minute at a time. The idler would have wished he werea duck if the water had not been so muddy. The art- ist called attention to the picturesque bits of scenery, and said the whole thing was just likea section of France drapped down on the edge of New York city. The idler called attention to some boats and proposed a row down ‘the river. The artist who had been there be- fore and knew there was a current, said he didn’t want to row, but he would go along if the idler wanted some exercise 10 get up an appetite for the dinner that the innkeeper promised to have ready under the ér(‘es at noon. And so the idler achieved a feat that the admiral of the king’s navy couldn’t perform— he navigated the Bronx. When he got back he didn't blame the admiral, 1t was picturesque and beautiful be- tween the banks of the little river. The trees formed arches over -the stream and -sometimes the ageurs had to push the dripping foliage out of their way. Just hefow the inn is a picnic ground about fifty yards in di- ameter, where the socialists sometimes go when they want to have A QUIET TIME WITH MUSIC AND BEER, They carry their own provender and spread their luncheon on tables under the trees. At the end of each table is a crotched arrangement for supporting a beer keg, and each family party has its own keg of beer on tap. Formerly the grounds were within the limits of New York city, and freedom of music and beer was somewhat restricted. But the proprietor was a man fertile in re- sources. He discovered that when the Bronx river was made the dividing line county, it was stipulated that all islands should be considered as wholly in Wes! chester. What was simpler than to to make an island of his little fifty-yard park? A ditch a few feet wide dug around the park, deep enough to let the waters of the Bronx through, removed the Sunday picnic from the jurisdiction of the puritans of New York, and the beer flows in the park as peacefully and freely as water in the Bronx. When the voyageurs returned up the river, they heard the Hermitage bell calling them to dinner. The landlord served a little French dinner on the table under a big tree. The artist and the idler followed the example of other diners in the garden and removed their vests and collars. They took as much time us they pleased for each course. Nobody seemed to be in a hurry, and even the waiters moved with a delibera- tion that was restful. The idler had i ered by rowing up siveam, and it erooked places, that there was a current in the Bronx, and he needed rest. While they were at dinner, they watched two young men and two young women playing some mild Frepch game. The artist said one of the young women was very graceful in her ‘movements, and he interrupted the progress of many a morsel towards the idler’smouth by enthusiastically cal- ling attention toa pose,which he said was unconscious, or exclaiming, ‘look at that action! Isn’t it characteristically French? You never see that charming freedom of action, that coquettish, un- studied grace in any but a French wo- man. I tell you this whole thing is just like a scene in France.” The idler subsequently discovered that the young woman was German. Professor Barron is a man who at- pted a practical joke on the girls of our best society.”” He has failed. He sent out circulars telling that at a place in Fifth avenue, he had opened an ws- thetic gymnasium, where the belles of the town might get excreise by means of a machine of his own invention. He adopted high flown methods of announ- cement, used several influential names, and at one time seemed likely to get many pupils. But a fatal mistake was his. When investigators called, they were shown an apparatus, with handles and weights so arranged that a girl could work up her muscles no doubt. “You w observe,” he would say, *‘that the exercise is precisely that of a woman at a washtub, and I assure you that half an hour a day at this delight- ful work will give you a health and bloom second to no washerwoman in the land.” Did that recommend it to modish favor? Not atall. It condemned it in- stant Fifth avenue's belles would prefer even the blush of rouge to that of simulating a washerwoman's labor. TITE CHEMISTRY OF COSMETIC Tgnorance of the chemistry of cos- metics sometimes leads to embarrass: ment. Some of the bogus blooms are made of materials that will change color under certain conditions. Belva Lo ood once the women’s candidate for president discovered this peculiar- ity in the compound which had been sent to her for trial. I have it from an e-witness that she was at Mount Clemens, Mich., on a lecture tour, and wis to appear in the evening before a critical audience. To save time, she made up her face, neck and arms in the afternoon, intending to wear a decol- lete rig on the platform. Then she strolled around the place, and visited the sulphur springs. It occurred to her that a sulphur bath would be refreshing, and she determined to sacrifice the make- up. She wentin and when she e out, she was colored a purplish bluck. wouldn’t come off, either. Liberal ap- plications of ammonia and vigorous scrubbing only reduced her neck from full-blooded congo to mulatto color. Powder lent a ghastly pallor to her wce, and a high neck dress with a rufled collar hid the rest. The lecture was delivered, but the new bloom didn’t get an endorsement. A similar ealam- ity befell the prettiest girl at White Sulphur Springs last season. She used m to give that marble white- enerully admired by partners tz. A'sulphur bath dyed her a royal purple,and she had to invent it manner of ingenious fibs for a week to account for her close confinement to her room. In her frantic attempts to re- move the stain, she wore off patches of skin anc Lured much tortur /W TO CHOOSE A WIFE, Some old doctor of divinity wrote a book entitled “How to Choose a Wife,” The rules that the dear old man laid 1 ing a Christmas st knew little of the intriencies of fomule character, or he would have realized how easy it was to simulate the attributes . which he considered necessary for a perfect wife., Tenderness is one ‘of the virtues that rearted - coquette can affect. ancient - divine had evidently tod for u lady- to dress, for he meu- between New York and Westchester | tioned the desirability of expedition in the matters of tha toilet. Ionce knew a girl who would go to her room at 2 o'clock and make every preparation for elegant strect attire—all but putting on her hat. That was because at 5 she was going to drive with an ancient adorer whom she wanted tocatch. Over all her paraphernalia she put a touch- ing loose wrapper. William Henry would arrive, “Ohl my goodness,” would ery the de- ceitful fair one, “‘I didn’t dream it was so late, but I'll be ready in one minute.” Then, to the surprise and delight of the gentleman, she would return in no time, putting on_her gloves, and he would subsequently tell his friends that no girl who ever lived could dress as quickly as his Mary Ann. He married her, and during the honeymoon he dis- covered the fraud. The mere crimping of the expeditious dresser’s hair was the business of an hour. “Beware of the girl who speaks dis- respectfully to her mother, or harshly to her little brother,” says Pa Ponta- cost. Mr. Beau must board in the fam- ily to get at the true inwardness of Maria’s temper. “Mother dear, wont. you step here a minute, please?” siitgs out the gentle daughter, and when the weary old lady shuts the door on the admiring swain, who sucks his cane on the parlor he does not hear the sweet girl sa; “‘Now, if you haven’t ironed me a col- lar, you just run down stairs as quick as you know how. The iden of my having to wait, when you knew he was coming. You're enough to provoke a saint.” Then the gentle says to Tommy before compa “‘Here, you blessed baby, come with sisy to get some cook- ies,” and she finishes the sentence in the pantry. ‘‘Now, choke yourself, little beast. If you dare come into the parlor again this evening, I'll take your cars off the minute Mr. Pratt goes away,” and Tommy steals around and begs Mr. Pratt neverto leave the prem- ises, as his life depends on his staying. IF I WERE A YOUNG MAN seeking a life partner,I would intro- the girl of my heart toa score of I would give her flirtatious proclivities a wide opening. It is an awful thing for a man to marry and learn that his pretty little wife will sit beside him and flirt with Tom, Dick and Harry, as I see them in theaters, and cars, concerts and congregations. Itisa good plan to examine Maria's mother protty closcly in many ways be- fore committal. The condition of the old lady will let you into the treatment she has reccived, and if you want to know how your Dulcina will pan out in ten or twenty years from date, inspect the interior of Mrs. Del Tobosa. ‘*Beauty is but skin deep,” but alas, mankind is more given to top dressing than to the solid treasures beneath the surface, and the pretty, frivolous girl’s chances are ten to oné against that ex- cellent woman who has cross eyes. A friend of mine was engaged to a fine looking girl whose peculiar formation of face was condoned by the freshness of youth and the glow of health. The lady’s mother was in the country. one day she got home and J lifted up his voice in lamentation. The projecting chin of his lady love, with the bewitching dimple, was a horrible f'uw m«-ontemphm- on the mother-in- aw. The aquiline and delicate nose of the fair girl was a smeller formidable to anticipate as poked into his domestic arrangements. “She’s a terror,” said he to me. ‘“she looks 1 a nut cracker, think of that nose and chin on the next pillow for the best of my life is enough to make me swear I'll never go to bed.” Tam fully preparved for a breach of promise suit against Jeremiah, but if the old lady testifies in person, any twelve men will bring in Jeremiali jus- tifiable A fractious, nervous temperament is denoted by a lanky, lean person. The wsthetic lnss who can wear umbrella cases ford apt to be sour and 3 lder, a able, jolly embonpoint is eon- ductive to good looks. There is an al- gebraic beauty about B. An- thony, but whoever a woman’s parliamentary convention, with a vari- able cut off and full head of steam, w see how plump and pleasing Mrs. Eliz beth Cady Stanton is, and vealize how she came to be a Mrs., and why Susan will be a Miss to the end of the chupter, CLARA BELLE. — Strakosch. Maurice Strakosch, the famous im- pressario, is dead in Paris. He brought out Adelina Patti and her sister Cars lotta. When they were very youny he heard Adelina sing, and frox; that mo- ment she becamo the jrotege of Mr. Strakosch. _She woa educated at hisex- pense, and it was regarded by him as one of the triumphs of his life that he discovered and gave to the world this aueen of song. He was a tall, white- haired, fine-looking old gentleman, and must have been nearly seventy years of age. The last trip he made through this country was about three years ago, with the Clara Louise Kellogg concert company. — A Battle-Scarred Charger. Chicago News: N.B. Morton, of Rog- ers,Ark.,an old confederate soldier,owns an old brown horsc that was ridden out into the war hy Hugh Bartlett, of Cooper county. During the war Bart- lett sold him to Stephen Allison, who rode him durinithe vest of the service, and returned him to Cooper county, where Morton bought him. The horse was wounded in the battle of Newtonia, Mo., but is in goed shape yet and daing rood service, He is suyls ed to be not sy Whan thivty years o &m . A VIEW OF SUNNY ITALY, A_ Prosperous Country and a Proud | People. FROM MILAN TO NAPLES. The Army of the Country—The Laws of the Land—Claims of German Suljects. VENICE, Oct. 8.—[Correspondence of the Bre.]—Italy is quite as full of sol- diers to-day, and they are as active, as her fleas, and this issaying a good deal, for there is no place in the world that can produce a8 many fleas ns can Italy in the summer. The soldiers are seen in promiscuous places, and great num- bers, from the moment the visitor en- ters Milan till he leaves Naples. The whole Mediterranean and Adriatic coasts are being patroled by soldier: On every precipice, jotting rock ov looking the sea, at every road crossing, in the fields, about the farm-houses, sol- diers are seens. They flash into view at every turn of the railroad, wherever one looks. Like mushrooms, they spring up from the carth in the morning and like figures against the sky, they can be seen by moonlight. Every railroad station from Milan to Naples is adepot for soldic Straw is upon the flooraof the buildings or tents are on the outside. Stacks of arms can be seen and scores of warriors sva lounging, while otherskeep up a steady pace as sentinels. Their sword bayo- nets and needle rifles glisten in the sunlight, and the men eye passengers closely at every incoming train, Of a trainmaster I inquired what all the sol- diers were doing along the Medi- terranean coast, and, after shrugging his shoulders a moment, he told the ia- terpreter: “They are doing nothing. Have been here many days. We arve tired of them. They want to fight, but have no one to shoot at.” Another Italian made this explana- tion: “Ttaly is trying to fortify herself and make A BETTER ARMY, and her troops have been very active, moving about for some month The authorities always explain the presence of troops in any locality when the new: papers mention it saying ‘the troops are exercising.” No one outside the coun- sels of the king knows what it means; but Ttalians generally believe a wa imminent between France and Ger- many, and that when it begins Italy will be drawn into it. Italy snatched her freedom from France when she had her war with Prussia, in 1870, The termination was as unsatisfactory to Italians as the surrender of the French at Paris _ to Germany was to Frenchmen. The Louvre and other places of art ut Paris and elsewhere in France, contain many Italian treasures, trophies showing that Napoleon conquered and held us as his Subjects. and if we ever geta chance they will be recovered. can not see how a war could long prevail between France and Germany under the existing feeling in Italy, without our being drawn into it. Themoment the French attempt to cross our boundary or occu- py nentral waters she will find Italy on top of her. And when Italy fights IPrance it will be for something more than the immediate cause of war,” In Rome I found work of improve- ment progressing on her thirty-seven forts, and work going ahead on new . Fifteen thousand sol- ioned in that city reely 1\ Washington. the capital of States, W has usually s or five companies of soldiers. Italy has 300,000 active (regular) sol- T8 », and 3,000,000 men into the field. Her navy is proportionately large. Al good fighters, They bes superstitions notion to-d Italian soldier did duy Christ—that their one and should be fought for to the death. They think it i3 divine to die when struggling for ihe supremacy of a nutional prfin igious 3 3 imposipg in appearance. The otficers, heweyver, are a fine-looking body of men, Tall, usually young,bright- eyed and handsome, with good disei- pline, a high sense of duty, makes them the best of figters. Asa body the Ital- un soldieys gppear better than the French, They ave well uniformed, splendidly “arined and magnificently drilled. They. are healthy and have no desire for anything but an enemy and an order to move. Like many and many other European countrics, no male who' i able to serve is exempt from a term of military service in Italy. The nobility may hirve substitutes for the en- forced regular service, but they must serve in case of war. Every man who expects Italian protection must fight for Italy, be he at home or abroad, when The term of service when na- become citlzens gives such a thorough course of training that it may be said that the three million now sub- ject to call are trained soldiers, Italians are proud of the financial and commercial conditions of their country, their governmentand their people. They point with the greatest pride to the military and ¢ king, the late Victor Hananuel, and swear by the patriotizm of their late greatleader, Garibaldi, who was what General Grant was to America, in battle. The strength of their army and navy to-day is a_proud matter to every citizen of Italy. France conquered the country by unequal num- bers, and when Ttaly finally wrested herself from the republic she Was vastly inferior in the matter of numerical numbers. There are yet no great ci ters of population in Italy only two citics as large as the capital of the United States. But the country is densely populated now, is out of war debt, has a real ruler, a big fighting force, and it has been almost as many years since a war here as Ame As Ttal a fighting nation, s complicated constwise and internal as well nternational commerce, and has a hatred for France, as well as a de- sire to mix into the affairs of other snarling nations, it would scem a pretty difficult thing for her to do, even though she tried, to keep out of trouble in the event of war between any of the quar- reling countries, Under THE LAWS OF ITALY, the army or any part of it may be, and is now, used for the cust | other government or municipal sc Most of the cities have a special reve nue tax, and the soldiers as well as the gendurmerie are employed in this vice. Atevery entrance to the city are soldiers ~and police, and they stop c"fl‘f vehicle, train or street car and look through the baggage for dutiuble goods. Usually they only have respect to wines, liquors and N y every commune (coun- ty) is trying to build up a wine indue- try, and” besides the government tax there is cipal tax on goods from Other commun At Milan, Pisa, Genoa, Rome, Florence, ete., I was Hlo]l]])!,‘d every time I rode outkide the city limits and a search was made of the vehicles to see if I had wines, liquors or tobacco, incoming. These exhibitions of uniforms, together with those one sces in the country, along roadways, rivers and the coast, not to speak of the villag when on the rail- ways, make one believe Italy is very much exercised about)something or everything at this time. . At Naples, which is the center of an immense wine-producing district, and where the waters of the Mediterranean and Adriatic comp for commerce,the scene is even more, if possible, soldier- like than further north, If this rivalry between Naples, Rome, Milan, Genoa, Florence, ete., over the wine and olive ries continues it will lead to a warlike condition of affairs. Already there is nothing of reciprocity or ni- tional pride. FlorentinesandNeapolitans, ,denounce, one the wine the and put up severe restric-, the sale of one’s products in the other’s corporation. The same state of feeling exists throughout the country. The priuci]lml cities of Italy, d, other mak: tions agains it will be remembered, were at war for centuries till the whole country wascon- quered by France, and some of that feel- ing which was smouldered by a foreign ower exists to-day. Each municipality has a blood, a society, a settlement of its own, and each is distinct from the other. A Roman is no more like a Pisan or a Genoan than an American is like a Nova Seotian, and the lingo very fre- quently materially differs and varies by localities. It is world-widely known that the Romansare superior toall other Italians. They arelarge,fine of figure— with the original Roman noses, 3, mouths and foreheads—and are “un doubtedly superior intellectually; yet a Florentine would notsocially commingle with a Roman. Thercfore only a na- tional issue and war with a foreign power would bring Ttaly fighting to- . Were the issue such as to give room for division, there would be d visions, and there would be empires vithin a kingdom. There may be rival cities in the United States—as, for in- stance, Chicago and St. Louis, Indian- apolis and Louisville—but there no deep-seated fecl In_Italy it is cor ivalry in business and politics is inherent. But with the exception of France, theys is no country in the unive 0 anxious to fight some- body, some thing, as Italy. Here much is heard about the CLAIMS OF GERMAN SUBJECTS in France that insults are daily being visited upon_them. Italians are, of course, prejudiced against France, just like the latter is prejudiced ugu?nst Germany, but they have a faculty of distinguishing between meat and a hand-sa They believe German sub- ject are treated indignantly in France. While I was in Paris a few days ago,in anumber of instances Isaw and heard evidences of French hatred for Ge in the very face of German subjects. saw a party of Frenchmen drink to the strength of the republic and the hope that she would revenge herself upon Germany, within the hearing, if not the view, of German gentlemen at a cafe, and many instances more flagrant— where Frenchmen attempted to preci- pitate a rqw with Germuns—were re- ported to me. As a country, Italy is quite prosperous now. The taxes have been lightened, indebtedness liguidated, and o large number of industries are springing up. Tt is true, the flail instead of the thresher {s used for tak- ing the wheat and oats from the straw, and the plow of the fourteenth century is yet employed; but the hills are ¢ el with olive trees and cattle, the valleys with grain, vegetation, vine- yards, and lemon and other fruit trees; the wine of Italy is as good as that of France, and the government and. the church are separate institutions, Even ifthe very sand and sun do produce rmany fleas which attempt to destroy an Amer- ican’s comfort, and reach a high degreo of success; even if the face of things do look warlike, art is advancing, thousands of magnificent buildings a: being constructed, and anew era for Italy is being entered upon. 2. S. HEATIL SRS Tty CHURCH NOTICES. ‘Westminster Presbyterian Church, Troicll's Hall, TLeavenworth street, near Twen seventh. Pres ng at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 P. m. Sunday school at 12 m. Third Congregational church, corner o Nineteenth and Spruce streets—A. B. Penni: man, pastor. Services at 10:30 a. m Sunday school at noon. G ng First Methodist Episcopal church, on Davenport between Seventeenth and Eigh- teenth—T. M. House, pastor. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning topic by rqeuest: “Faith Cure.” Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. Young people’s meeting at 6:30 p.m. Scats free; all welcome, v morning,Rev. Cha d street M. church, will preach upon “Repentance,” In the evening his subject will be “*Christian Manliness.” South West Presbyterian church, corner Leavenworth and Twentieth strects—David R. Kerr, pastor. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sabbath school at 12:15m. Young peoples’ meeting at 6:45 p. Teachers meeting Wednesday, 8:30 p. General prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m. Hanscom Park M. E. chureh—Preaching every Sabbath, 10:30 a. m and 7:30 p. m. Sun- day school 12 m. Class_meeting 6:45 p. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. You are cordiaily invited to attend the above services if not a member of any other congregation. Kountze Memorial Evangelical Lutheran, s W. Savidge, corner of Bixteenth and Harney streets— Rev. J. 8. Detweiler, pastor. Church se vicer and preaching by the pastor at 10:30 & m and 7:30 p. m. Hillside Congregational church, Omaha View—Rev, H. C. Crane, pastor. = Sunday | school changed to 11:45 8. m. _ Preaching at 10:30, appropriate to “Day of Prayer for Sun- day schools.” ‘Rev. E. N. Dyer, of Sand- wich, T1L., will have part in the scrvice. | Presbyterian church, corner Dodge and Soventeenth streets—Rev. W. J. Harsha | pastor. Services 10:30 a. m, and 7:30 p. m.; - preaching by the pastor. Sunday school at close of morning worship. Young peoples’ meeting Monday evening at 7:80. German Lutheran_church, 1005 South Twenticth strect—E. J. Frese, pastor. Ser- vice every Sunday at 10 a.m. Sunday school * at 2 p. m. f Unity _church, Seventeenth and Cass streets—Rev. W. E. Copeland pastor. Ser- vices at 11 . m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school | at 12:15, Subject of evening conversation, | “Theosophy and Occultism.” Both-Eden Baptist church—Rev. H. L. House, pastor. Preaching by the pastor at 4:15p. m. at St. Mary's Avenue Congrega- tional church. Sabbath school at 8 p. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7:30, Strangers cordially welcome. The Central United Presbyterian church— Rev. John Williamson, pastor. Seventeenth street between Dodge and Capitol avenue, Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sub- ject in the morning: “The Pastor's Inquiry ;" in the evening ‘“I'he Believer's Security.” Sabbath school at 12m. All are invited. Park Avenue United;Presbyterian church— Rev. J. A. Henderson, pastor. Corner Park avenue and Grant street. Preaching in the ‘morning at 10:30 and evening at 7: 30, by the | pastor. _ Sabbath school at noon. ' Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30. You are invited. g First United Presbyterian church. Rev. E. B. Graham, pastor. 612 North Eighteenth street. Publi¢ worship at 10:30 &, m. and 7:30p. m._Sabbath school at noon, Calvary Baptist church on Saunders, near Cuming.” Preaching by the pustor, W. Clark, at 10 ! Morning 'subject: ! i lieve!” " Evening subject: ‘“The Divinity of Christ.” "~ Sunday school at 11:43 &, m. Rev. W. J. Harsha will preach Sabbath evening in the Dodge sticct church on “Ab- | staining from All Appearanc of Evil.” | North Omaha Baptist Mission, meeting at Cane's new store building on Twenty-fourth street, north of Lake in Kountze Plyce— Rev. F. W. Foster, pastor of missions. Itey ular Sunday services at 11 . m. and 7:50 sts Be- | be | thought it was all right. Sunday school at 12, . m. The public siullylnvllc‘l. ¥ b St. Mark's TLutheran—Corner north Twenty-first and Burdett strects, Rev, George H. Schriner, pastor. Morning service, 10:30; “The Holy Communion. Evening sere vice, 7:30, subjoct: “Tho Early Christian Church.” Sunday school 2:30 p. . Strange ers welcome, St. John's church—Corner Franklin and Twenty-s free—Sunday school 9:45a. m.: Litany, sermon and boly communion, 112" m. _Evening—Prayer and sermon . Rector W preach at both scr William Osgood Pearson, St. Mary’s Avenue Congregational—Rev. Il preach both morning and ) and 7:30 o'clock. In the ing the young p s choir will assist hoir, singing gospel hymns. Topic of evening sermon: “The Gate Cities.” Sunday school at noon; chapel schools at3 o'clock. All welcome. Fisst Baptist church: Strangers’ Sabbath home. ~Corner Fifteenth and Dayenport streets. Rev. A. W. Lamar, pastor. Preache ing at 10:30 a. m. and . m. Young peo- ple's prayer moeting 0:45 p. m, Morning “Christ_in the Storm.’ FEvening ho Conversion of & Runaway Slave.” This is the first of a serios of Sun- day evening sermons on bible conversions, Sabbath school at 123 m. Prayor meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30, All are cordially invited. Seats free. Tabernacle First Congregational church, 1710 Capitol avenue: Services at 10:30 and 7:30, led, and preaching, by the pustos A ¥. Sherrill, Ever Chinese on_the Pacific ¢ Progress, Social and M bath school at noon. First Christian st—Their al Future. All are welcome. church, Twenticth and Capitol avenue: Joseph H. Foy, LL. D. pastor. Services to-day at 10:45. ~ Subject of sermon: *“The Parable of the Two Debtors.” In the evening there will be a Sunday school concert and no sermon. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evening. Welsh Presbyterian: Services held at the residence of Mr. J. Grifith, 1712 Dod, street. _Sunday school at 2:30 'p. m., preach- ingat 7:20 p. m. by the pastor, Rev. W, Roland Williams. Presbyterian church, No. 1010 Lake street: Sabbath school at 2:30 and preaching service at 4 o'clock p. m. to-day. Sermon by Rev. William R. Henderson, of the Saunders Street church. Strangers especially welcomed 10 all services, e Smuggling Chinese From America. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The en= gineer and_firemen were in cahoots in bringing Chinamen acgoss. Some of the other officers stood in, but we kept it dark from old Captain Tom, or he would have spoiled the whole thing. ‘We had an agent uptown who woufil arrange for the Chinamen to come, and would collect $25 each from them. We could handle eight very comfortably, and as a Chinamen will gladly suffer the torments of the damned in order to get to America, we had no trouble in stor- ing them away. They would come aboard in the night, and put down in the cabin, or some other convenient place, whero they could rest comfortably until we landed at Port Townsend, where the customs officers searched the ship. Just before reaching Townsend, the chief engineer would have the fires in the furnace banked, and put the Chinamen into the ashpan, where they would re- main until the inspector went ashore. 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