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For particulars address, Union Manufacturing (o, 1609 Howard St., Omaha. BOB INGERSOLL'S HOME: LIFE. Ella Wheeler Describes the Private Life of the Great Infidel. A HOME OF FILIAL AFFECTION. Ingersoll's Wife and Family—His Be- lief and Their Effects—The Good and Harm He has Done— Wealth of Language. Written for the Sunday Bee—Copyrighted. To understand the belief of Robert fngersoll, one needs to know his home life. The moment the door opens to admit you, the warm, affectional atmosphere of the home seems to envelop you. 1 believe every house is strongly im- pregnated with the mental and spiritual condition of its inmates, just asgarments reveal the shape and odor of their wearers. I once entered a house filled with rich hangings and elegant furniture. Al that money and good taste could do was done to render it & bower of beauty. But Ie folt as if chilled by a cold fog when I passed through its wide and splendid halls. There were discordant and inharmonious elements in that house. It was not a home, in the true sense of the word. Its members were divided among themsely and their unhappy feclings generated a current which affected eve ively organ- ized person who entered the door. Unfortunately, not every so-called christian household is a home. I knew a family who indulged in morning and evening prayer, and were strict in at- tendance at church. Yet the dangh quarrelled with each other, were im- pudent to their mother, and the father was ¢ antly finding fault with the most trivial household affairs. To such men certainly the beautiful home lifo of Robert Ingersoll isasevere rebulke, The first time T saw Mrs. Ingersoll, I said to a friend, she looks like a much- loved woman.” sople who receive a great deal of wmd good care usually show the mee of it, just a8 @ loveless, sed life reveals its starved and iful condition, no matter how it may seek to disguise the fact. Mrs. Ingersoll radiates happiness and content. She looks up into the beam- ing, jovial face of her husband with an oxpression which tells its own story—it is 0 full of happy gratitude and sweet affection. The two fair daughters are like rays of sunlight emanating from this union. One of the girls looks like a goddes and possesses an exquisite voice insong. I heard Amcrica’s greatest ballad- maker say recently that no world-fam- pus diva ever gave him the peculinr pleasure he found in listening to Miss ngersoll’s singing. “Not a highly cultivated or powerful voice,” he said, **but possessed of that subtle magnetism which sends the little thrills creeping up and down your spine.” . I never saw a sweeter houschold. T never saw so much affectionate rever- ence exhibited by wife and children toward any man. It seems a pity that this great orator, whose daily life at home aud among hu- ity is a religion in itself, should be quoted as their leader by brainless men who live only to make the world wicked Let me say right heve that I earnestl and confidently believe in future life, in the efficacy of prayer, and in some mode of |ll|!1i.fll|m-~|\‘t n the next existence for sinful souls w Yet I believe Robert Ingersoll has done the world a great deal of good by hurl- ing the thunderbolts of irony against the closed doors of narrow creeds. As that remarkable girl poet, Liz ‘Woodworth Reese, has said in her won- derful couplet, “Creeds grow so thick along the way. Their boughs hide God—I cannot pray.” r But Robert Ingersoll in his castic denunciations of worn-out theological dogmas, in his ridicule of the old-fash- joned hell of burning brimstone, and in his earnest plea to men to worship the “Divinity within themselves,” has only helped-to cut away the houghs which obstructed our view, and allowed us to see God more clearly in the world abouts| us, He has compelled the Christian churches to broaden their creeds, and to preach more love and less fear from the pulpit. The most prejudiced bigot dares not offer an intelligent cong tion to-day the theori which w served to us undiluted w reason teen years ago. 1 am convinced that_greater credit is due to Robert Ingersoll for this result than te all other causes. Yet, on the other hand, he has done a great deal of harm, There is, unfortunately, more ignor- ance than intelligence in the world, A great many coarse-grained and low-im- pulsed people, unable to grasp the idea of )l‘}ll‘:" morality which he teaches, merely seize at his *‘no hell” theories, chuclkle over his blows* at creeds, and quote him ag their teacher and guide, 1f rebuked for their vicious, immoral. and yngodly lives, they say they are followers of “Bob Ingersoll” and “don’t believe in no religion nohow*” All his illustrations of noble man- fif- th benevolence are lost on this brutal herd, who are only able to understand that he isa great man,and that he scoffs at creeds. Many young poets claim to study and follow the methods of Byron, of Brown- ing, of Swinburne. Byron indulged freely in tical license and lnul'.X rhymes. E‘fiwuiug is mystical an often labored. Swinburne given to overmuch alliteration and sensuousness. But the great thoughts and brilliant wit of Byron, the profundity and master workmanship of Browning,the splendor and gorgeousness of Swinburne’s style, all render these faults excusable. The young poet who has neither wit, depth,” nor originality copies the poetical license, the vuguencm or the sensuousness, and says he has but fol- lowed the masters. Just so, many young men believe they are followers of Robert Ingersoll. With no comprehension of the man's great brain, greater heart, and profound moral life, they ape his scepticism of creeds, his scorn of priestly rites and ceremonies, and in the midst of vicious- ness declare themselves *‘converts toIn- gersollism.” Ihold this indisputable factto be a great misfortune to the world. But that his earnest desire and aim is to better and broaden humanity I sincerely be- lieve. Colonel Ingersoll gives more of his splendid strength to tumbling_down er- ror than to building up pedestals for truth. if he would say more about his belief in the need of fine principles and less about the uselessness of piety; if he would give us two words for morality and one against hell fire, he would ac- complish more good in the world. A skillful physician knows that a dis- ensed system needs toning up after purging. Colonel Ingersoll gives us too much blue-mass, and not enough tonic. He cleanses us from error, but he does not give us much to brace up our shattered nerves. He sends up his magnificent conver- sational works, not caring where the sparks fall. His conversation is a noble poem. His speech is a string of glittering pearls. Language is his most ready and obedient servant. Words rush to obey his slightest command, and vie with each other torender him eloquent. Similes and comparisons, epigrams and metaphors worthy of Shakspeare, en- rich his common conversation. You hold your breath while listening, lest some wonderful conceit escape you. Yet in spite of this opulence of phra- seology and his supreme disbelief in the orthodox method of punishment, he has a remarkable fondness for the ad- jective “‘damn.” From the midst of his Superb utterances of fine thoughts this naughty word leaps fourth and sur- prisos you like a bulldog in a drawing- room. There are situations in life, I think, when the most devout christian and the most refined woman thinks damn! Very good men sometimes utter it on such occasions. But it should be reserved for times of great need. T wish Colonel Ingersoll would not vitiate its useful- such frequent utterances, Mr. Ingersoll has no methods of worlk, no clockwork system of rising or toil- ing. He never makes anything but notes hefore his great speeches, and ¢ or two preceding. His orations are never written out until the stenographer takes them down during their delivery, He is fond of all games, and is, so his wife tells me, an excellent cook. Dur- ing one of their summer outings he cooked all the breakfasts, and in several friends to partake of his de ious omelets and delicate *“fries.” Heisa great jester. Some of his jokes are too subtle for the ordinary mind. Knowing the proverbial propensity of the street beggar for using almsun- worthily, he solemnly cautioned one recently in this wise: *Now. don't go and waste this dime on bread; buy whis- ky with it, my good fellow.” The by stander who overheard him did not know it was a joke. 1 wn afraid the beggar did not. Colonel Ingersoll does not like the American custom of interviewing. He does not like the intrusion of the public through the newspapers intoa man’s private life. All those who have suffered from the misrepresentation and the misconstruc- tion of the press can understand how he ;nay have arrived at this state of feel- ng. More powerful than palpit or collego in forming public opinion and shaping destinies is the press. Yet while no man can occupy pulpit or collegiate chair without proper prarm'nliun and eredentials,any man with fingers where- with to clasp & peneil may enter the editorial and reportorial fleld. Personal dislike or ignoble revenge are permitted to distort the words and the actions of unoffending Ineficiency and inattention wait on genius and misrepresent its utterances. Homes are invaded and characters attacked by jealous spite or thoughtless ignorance. Yet we have a right to know some- thing of the daily life of the men and women who set themselves before us as teachers or advisers, We have a right to look into the private life of the cler- gyman who tells us tHat he can save our souls from perdition, and if his practice is not harmonious with his preaching, r_*u have reason to doubt his protesta- ions ‘We have a right to look into the pri- hood, strict morality, and never-ceasing vate life of Colonel Ingersoll, who de- clares that the humanitarian is greater than the christian, It his conduct as husband, father, and citizen is open to criticism, we have the right to criticise and condemn him as an intellectual ad- viser. Fortunately for him and his cause, his private life is worthy of all praise and emulation. He has a nameless air of well-bred ennui, while listening to the talk of other people. Itisnotto be wondered at; our commonplace expressions must seem to this king of oratory like the music of the hand-organ to Beethoven. Colonel Ingersoll said to me the other evening. “Life is a railroad train on which every pussenger knows he must be killed. = Maybe to-day, maybe to-mor- row, but somewhere down the line he must meet his doom. Ah! I'have no use for a world with death in it,” and the jolly face grew sad, the clear, honest eyes shadowed with pain as he spoke. I wondered that this great man did not know that the folly and fallacy of his theories of future life were ex- ressed in the words he uttered. Iwon- der if he does not feel that the beautiful and holy love which unites his family is divine, and cannot end with this world. There is & pessimistic tone too much, he says of late. Is the great agnostic warrior laying down hisarms before the battle is over? ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. oeglan MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. St. Paul's now opera house is to cost $400,000. The Germans at Leipsic are enjoying a play cailed “General Boulanger.” Eloi Syloa, the new tenor of the National opera company, sailed from Antwerp this week. Miss Ella Russel1 will leave hortly for Moscow as prima donna of the Imperial opera there. Euwil Steger, a baritone from Berlin, has come to New York under contractof Gustave Amberg. Mary Anderson will return to America next year, and will open in New Yorlk, Octo- ber 1, 1888, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and_company sailed from Liverpool for New York City last Thursday. Several new compositions by Franz Schu- bert, hitherto unknown, have lately been brofight to light. Mme. Neyada-Palmer leaves on Wednes- day for Lisbon to sing at the Grand Opera there this winter. Mr. Boucicault has changed the name of his newest play, “Phryne,” to *The Romance of & Young Wife.” Mme. Teresa Carrena has arrived from South America, and is arranging s concert tour for the coming season. In Belgium, a three year old_year, Mdlle. Pain_ Pare, has played Mozart's concerto in G to the highest admiration of her audience. All the theaters in Massachusetts, outside of Boston, have been ordered by the police be provided with fire-proof curtains on the stage. i Sophic Traubmann,a pupii of Mme. Fursch- Madi, will alternate’ leading_soprano roles with Emma Juch in Locke's National opera company. A trotipe of artists have left Bremen for New York. Included in the troupe are Adolph Niemann, Lili Lehmann and Mari- anne Brandt. Colonel Mapleson's Ttalian Opera_company is touring Ircland with Minno Hauk, Mme. Trebelli und_ Mile. Sigrid Arnoldson, con- ducted by Arditi. Luigi Arditi, jr,, the son of the famous conductor, has just appearcd in Eur pianist. Mme, Arditi is an American, who has lived in London for many years. “Mlle. Van Zandt, who has been taking the waters of Wildbad. I8 now quite restored to health. She will sing at Nice and Monte Carlo during the approaching A noted Belginn pianist, new to this coun- try, Herr Guriclex, will b heard for the first time at the opening concert of the Symphony society, New York, carly next montl, P. T. Barnum has secured control of the Madison Square Garden, New York, until next May, when it will bo torn_down' to be replaced by a new and extensive amusement structure, Goldmark's “Merlin” will be given in Hungarian at Buda Pesth; only Mume. Lilli Lehman will sing her part in Italian, Ver- di's “Othello” and “Lakme,” by Delibes, will follow. Herr Bootel, the Gorman tenor, great in voice, but small in physique, and Herr Junk- ermann, the popular Berlin comedian, who are to appear at the Thalia theatre, New York, have arrived from Europe. Bandmaster C. A. Cappa, of the Seventh regirient, Las just received the Cross of the Chovaliet of Honor from the king of Italy for his “artistic musical merit.”” “This cross is only conferred upon artists of great d tinction, Mrs. Armstrong Gibbs, of Melbourne, Australia, who has made such a sensation as & prima douna at Brussels, sings under the stago name of Melva. She has a wonderful soprano voice, of great compass aud many critics say it is equal to Patti's, The new comic opera, “The Smith Fam- ily,” lately produced in Philadelphia, the fun is provoked by the mishaps and adventures of the Smiths at their family reunion, while the serious portion of the play is the search of the heroine for a lost father. The Grand Ulysseum, fllustrating the life of Gieneral Grant from the cradle to the grave by William Voegtling, has proved an enor- mous success at Chickering hall, New York, and these remarkably enjoyablo entertain: ments have netted $2,000 to enrich the relief fund for disabled soldiers aad " sailors of tho A firm of Belgian instrument makers have manufactured, to be used in a new piece at the London Alhambra, two long obsolete musical instruments called the lituus and buccina, formerly used in the bands of the Roman cavalry. - The instruments have been copied from originals unearthed at Pompeii and now deposited in the National museum at Naples, The Chicago city council pro) to pass an ordinance to prohibit the Petlo of theatrs tickets outside of the regular box offices, It provides that any person buying a ticket for ho purpose of selling it again at a higher rrll‘o r whoever shall sell a ticket outside he regular box office shall be fined not less than $20 nor more than §200, The citizens are urging the passage of this ordinance as a great public boon. Brussels ls to bave a theatre without foot- lights, in accordance with the plansof M. Boes, the designer of the new Flemish theater there. He belicves that the thick stratum of heated_air through which the voicesof the actors have to pass to reach the audienco ob- structs and deadens tho sound. For the footlights he has substituted triple range of guslights behind the orchestra. The new system was tested and pronounced a decided improvement on that now in use. Social circles in Washington are surprised at the announcement that Miss Ethel Sprague, the daughter of Miss Kate Chase Sprague, und the granddaughter of i late Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, is preparing for her debut on_the theatrical stage. Miss Sprague, it is said, possosses remarkable his- trionic talent, aud for some time past has been under the instruction of the eminent masters of the European and American stages. The death of the impressario, Maurice Stra- kosch, reminds all lovers of music of his emi- nent services in the excellent and _successfuy production of Italian operas of the highest rank. Hewas himself & pianist of great technical accuracy, and he married into a family of singers. ' His wife, Madame Patti- Strakosch, was & _brilliant,_contralto in the old Astor Place days, and Carlotto Patti was a distinguished soprano. But the pre-emi- nent member of the family was Adelina Patti, and in training her so carefully for the operatic stage he not only made fame and for- tune, but gave this generation its greatest singer of the [talian school. American women are very popular as linisis in Europe. Miss Nettie Carpenter is charming Londoners, and Lenkrah (Miss Harkness of Boston, ) is very popular in Ger- many" being ranked ‘with Tua_and Forulla. Miss Maud Powell is said to be very fine, first-class, in Faet. She will make an Ameri can concert tor this season. s probable, also, that a new comer in the same field will make her appoarance here this fall. This is Miss Bell Botsford, who played last Septem- ber in one of the concerts of the Warcester Musical Festival. Miss Botsford is a native of Connecticut, who entered the Paris con- servatory in 1881 at the agoe of twelve. et FASHIONS FOR (‘lllh‘l)llEN. Pretty shoulder capes of crocheted zephyr wool are worn by'school girls. The fashion of the short jacket and chim- ney-pot hat for boys in their teens is coming to us from England. Fora little girl ten or twelve skirt of red and blue striped woolen fabric, the stripes running across, and a full blouse- bodice of blue serge. This blouse opens in the upper part over a sort of plain chemisette of the striped material, and is finished with a deep sailor collar of the same material. Children still mostly wear the blouse dress, The bodice is & loose fit, and falls over the short skirt, which is_generally trimmed with tucks or flounces. Very pretty fre of woolen etamine in colored. stripes running across are made thus. In some models tho blouse-bodice opeus in frontover a chemisette of red or buff surah, For about the same age frocks of fancy woolen material are made with a short plaited skirt and a long-waisted plaited bodice, fastened at_the side under & plain band of faille o 11 Sash fo match, tied at the back, turned-up collar and wristhands of the si The sloeves are rather full and gathered on to the wristband. The sailor costume is worn by girls and boys. Besides tho sailor blouse there is the jacket of the same style. It is made of Chinese flannel, navy bluc, double bredsted, and fastened with a_double row of gilt but~ tons. The turned-down collar is trimmed with anchors embroidered in_gold, and there s at the back a tiny hood, lined with plain or checked silk. Frocks for children, from two to four years old, are made with a diminutive skirt, y in full hollow plaite, and a very long: opening with revers' over te or plastron. hmere, serze for frocks of are_prettily braided or embroidered, as well as_the band simulating a sash, which is put on asa_head- ing to the ehort skirt. New models for children’s costumes still show a preference for the loose blouse style of bodice. For a littlo girl from ses years old, & plaited skirt and_Figaro of plain ' beige material, trimmed with a fancy woolen fabric of the same color, spotted with brown. This fabric fi border round the edize of the jacke bow of two loops and two_li all tnrned This tron of plaited plain band ut the top, in euch side, which aro of the wd a pancl on spotted fabric. A Pittsburg clergyman has preached a ser- mon to barbers r once they were in a po- sition where they could not talk back Mrs. Goodman (to guest)—You don't mind the short prayer offered by Mr. Goodman at the table! (uest—Oh, no, certainly not. ‘When I saw those oysters 1 felt a little nerv- ous myself., ] At Lexingtdn, Ga., in his_opening pra; at a colored; school exhibition a darke; preacher expressed the hope that all ‘“de small boys will grow up to be useful and ed- ucated men, like Rebecca and Elizabeth in de bible.” “Young man,” said the minister, impres- sively, “I can sce you as you sat at the gam- ing table last night with a deep red flus n your face.”” “Excuseme, but you are wron about that dl‘(‘x red flush. Bill Jenkins ha it in his hand. House owner—How many children have you, madami Houso hunter—Five, Housc owner " That alters the case. I can't let you have tLe honse. House hunter—You are more particuldt wdd exclusive, sir, than the kingdom of heave. House owner—Possibly, madary, possibly, ‘This house fronts on Prai- rie ayenue, Husband—What, Marla, back from church alreadyl Wife—Yes! H.—Why,the service cannot be over so earlyl W'—Nol I was in- dlfmmt and only remained a short time. H. —\What was the matteri W.—The ushers are positlvely discourteous, for they con- ducted me to the very last seat, near the door of the church, H.—Welli W.—Do you suppose 1 waa going to have my new bonnet slighted like that. A good Baptist deacon residing in a certaln town in the old B State has the misfortune to be exceedingly nervous and exciteable, On one occasion, it being the Sabbath evening prayer meeting, he startled the congregation y saying: “Not one tit or jottle of his word shall fail,” when noticing a surprised titter among the audience and conscious of & blun- der, attempted tg mend the matter by saying, N wean not one tottle or tit” r PRINCE OF WALES AT HOME. In His Rurul Residence as an Eng- lish Country Gentleman. HIS NEIGHBORS AND SERVANTS. Dancing With the Farmers' Wives and His Chambermaid—An Ameri- can Bowling Alley—His Gar- den and Grounds. LoONDON, Oct. 10.—[Correspondence of the BEE—Copyrighted.]—Of the prince as prince, de facto king of English so- ciety, possibly king of England, when next June shall witness a queenly abdi- cation on the completion of a half cen- tury’s successful reign, sufficient has been written of late. More congenial to the student of character beneath the veneer of royalty will be a glimpse of H. R. H., the prince, duke of Saxony, duke of Cornwall, duke of Rothesay, earl of Dublin, ete,, ete., in his homely capacity as an English country gentle- man, “all of the modern time.” Much ashe enjoys the artificial life of the court and the London season,the prince is never so thoroughly his true, jovial self as when he flings off the tall hat and formal tailorings of Cockneydom, and dons the country rig for a good time in his country home. Sandringham was well chosen for the future king of England. It is the typi- cal country house in the typical English county. Norfolk is a sportsman’s para- dise, and its shores are lapped by the waves of the breezy North Sea. Sand- ringham lies out of the main railroad highways; so that it has fair pri 5 yet it is easily reached from the norih and_south. The mansion lies a few yards from the pretty road,and you pass through a splendid set of wrought- iron gates, the gift of the neighboring old mt{ of Norwich, the county town of Norfolk, The site is elevated, but the house lies low, or rather flat, on tho rich, velvety greensward that is kept as smooth and bright as anew billiard table. It is not all striking in appear- ance, but hasa_good old English style in its chaste simplicity. A new wing has recently been added; it might be mistaken for one of the chapels which some of the older mansions have at- tached to them, but thisis somewhat otherwise, being the gorgeous ball room, . built according to the prince's own taste. The tone of thisnoblo hall is exceedingly rich, and yet, for a wonder, cheerful, a5 much so by dayas by night. There were great doings when™ it was opened, and many u brilliant spectaclo has it presented. The prince is the most hospitable country squire conceiv- able, and were it possible he would have ball every night for everybody. There re three grand formalities in each séason—the county ball, the farmers’ ball, and the gervants’ ball. The former is the grandest and most exclusive affair in English country life; only “county eople” are invited, and’ great are the heartburnings that follow the perusal of lists accepted or rejected. At Sandring- ham House this function is observed with strict etiquette, and yet the poor- est country parson and most impecunious of the now sorely impov- erished gentry ave not only invited, but ve o specially cordial welcome, he farmers’ ball'explains itself, and many a happy farmer’s wife regalés her town friends with recollections of her first dance with the prince as partner. Che servants’ ball is neither less bril- liant nor less hearty than the others. Sometim the staff at Marlborough Thouse go'down toSandringham in a body, the French, Danish and German dam- sels from London vieing with the old- fashioned matrons and country lasses of Sandringhamin theartsand graces, The P nee always leads off with the house- keeper or upper chambermaid, and the princess perhaps with the butler ov cook, and once the ponderous but “awfully jolly” Duchess of Teck fol- lowed suit with the wee mite of a coach- man who drives the princess’ chaise. There is no stuck-upishness about these entertainments; the host and hostess are host and hostess in the grand old Eng- lish way all the time, and make every one feel quite at home. But let any one presume by one hair’s breadth upon propriety, or forget his manners, the prince finds a prompt but graceful way of leaving a lasting mark on the unlucky boor.” I may as well mention here the suppers given to the laborers on_the estate on the prince’s birthday and at Christmas. These are rousing affairs—plenty of roast beef, plum pudding and ale; and though many of the men, a8 extreme radicals, are politically opposed to royalty, they know no stint in their enthusiastic cheers for their landlord employer, as you would find could g'ou hear them roaring the chorus, ‘“‘For he’s a jolly good fellow.” Tue various rooms of Sandringham house are elegantly and lightly deco- rated for the most part in creamy white and gold, These rooms run along the main sido of the house, facing the gar- den, The famou rtrait of Landseer, h{ himself, and a dozen other pictures, of world-wide populurlt¥ through their en, rnvinfs give youthefeeling of being welcomed by old friends, 'he more sombre dining-room is in brown and gold; its gnarled and carved old oaken ilasters and the richly floriated ceil- ng aro well set off by the gorgeous Turkey c We step out of this inta the billiard-room, dark and solid, and from it into the American bowling- alley, with its long inclined planes and grooves, and cushioned {wws high over all for the ladies. On the wall opposite to tho windows is a panoramic painting of the scenes in the bringing home to Sandringham of a Buddha from India, a gift to the prince. And there, in the garden, right facing the window, sits tho groat, squat, brazen Buddha, the jolliest god ever adored by Bacchanals or Brahmins. He beams with contagi- ous smiles a8 ho sits thore in such sub- lime content in his huge pagoda, fair, fat and forty tons at least. The bowling saloon leads into a large and well-stocked gun-room, which ends that wing of the house. The bed-rooms are furnished in red, bluo, white, Jap- anese and other styles. The garden is charmingly laid out. Every here and there you get peeps into Edens of flow= ersand bowers, and now a limitless view across the miles of pines and bracken to the griassy sea a few miles ahead. The garden and grounds would need a col- umn to barely name its charms. Every- where are signs of new ideas, traces di- verted, openings made in woody knolls, new drives cut through the vast bracked tracts; so that as you drive about the park you have a constant succession of surprise views. By and by you come all unexpectedly through trim Dutch and Italian garden beds into the wilderness, a lovely nook, bounded by trees that look thick _as & forest —a spot wherein Nature appears to be head gardener, assisted, no doubt, by well concealed art. The refreshing irregularity of the view here, the ab- sence of scissorsand milliner’s primness, the luxuriant don’t-carishness of tho happy-go-lucky shrubs and trees and bosses of gorse delight the soul with the true grace of freedom denied to the cut- and-dried garden plots. And to com- plete the illusion, there roam the elks, and the newly arrived reindeer, brows- ing placidly near the (artifi rock- bound river-lake, as wild in its mimic acts as if it had popped down out of a tropical sky. Away in the distance are the thousand red and fallow deer, and from the tops of these high trees come the screechesof Lord Beaconfield’s peacocks, that once paraded the terraces of Hughenden. We pass the tennis court, the same as that in which the Charles’s played the game in St. James’s ark two hundred years ago. A little way off in a cosey iiook is the Bachelors’ cottage, in whose doyen the single guests of Sandringham house sleep the sleep of the just, just when and how they choose. ° A good kitchen suggests that creature comforts are not impossible of procurement even at unholy hours, if need be. You soon lose your way in the tangled maz, in- vented in distant ages to assist true lovers in learning the art of lingrring. Here are the palatial stables whore seventy aristocratic horses enjoy exist- ence when the !mnilfv ave at home. The farm is adjoining, where we cannot now linger, ur way lies far across the stretch of woodland, where the ruddy sand of the new broad drive strikes a harmonious contrast with the dainty green shoots of the larches and firs, and the frowsy brown of the rabbit- haunted heath. Now we reach the dainty Swiss chalet, perched just over a lovely valley, where the princess gives her picnics 'and cosey afternoon toa after the drive, and from ‘'whose glass- walled tower a mighty telescope sweeps from the ever-changing lmld.\mlpu scene to the shimmering sea. There is no space left to tell of the homely waysof the lord and lady of this noble estate; of how she is a famous crony of the poor old pensioner women who live in the pretty “cottages that dot the park, and how he is the life and soul of the place and the people. Greater than their titular rank is the good name they have won and retain of being model neighbors, who live a homely life in that charming English home. GODFREY QUARLES. —— PEPPERMINT DROPS. Probably, of all sensational developments, boils are the worst. “This is a burning shame,” said the man who was smoking a bad cigar, It is about time for the car stove to go again. It should be fired at once. The only good thing that the daily news- paper-artist can draw is his salary. The first frost is twice blessed. Tt brings down the chestuut and the mosquito. Some men would think they were cheated if they had the mumps lighter than their neighbor. A man was arraigned on Saturday for rob- bing a hackman, He must be a criminal of extraordinary ability, Most of the people who are willing to tell how to to become rich are finally buried at the expense of the county. If money talks, what a noisy convention the bankers’ must be. Imagine four billion dollars in animated conversation. A certain uptown hotel clerk never attends a funeral because his habitual smile is so fixed that he couldn’t look sorry if he tried. The poet who sang “I Owe No Man a Dol* lar” uuwnulnus)yraiv.l high tribute to the business sagacity of the community in which he lives. Passenger (on Texas railroad)—Are we likely to reach Waco on time, conductorf Conductor—Depends on the train robbers. Tickets, please, An instantancous photograph of a dude's smile is on exhibition in Chicago. 1t closely resombles 8 ripo tomato which has been stepped on by a spotted cow. Friend—Stammer, 0ld boy, I hear you have purchased a parrot, Stammer—Ye-ye-yeth, and it ith gw-gw-gweat 1-f fun, you know. I'm t-t- teaching it t-to t-t-t-talk. “What to you,” she asked, in dreamy ac- cents, “'is the most beautiful thing abaut the sunseti” He thought for some time and thea replied, “it reminds me of supper." “‘Never contract & friendship with a man ‘who is not better than yourself,” says one of those gratis advice fellows. That's all very well, as far as you are concerned, but how about the other fellow. The most useful piece of furniture about & newspaper office is unquestionably the waste- basket. A good waste-basket, properly used, may do a great deal toward ]n\lrinu the repue tation of some ambitious contributors, The man who bought a box of prime cigars last evening, on being asked what i was that he had so nicely wrapped in the package under his arm, naively replied that it was a bundlo of tickets to a course of lec- tures by his wife. A Texas lawyer does an immense business according to his business card in a I paper. The card reads: “I attend to all busi- ness in the state and federal courts.” This must make it difficult for the other lawyers to_gain a livelihood. Delinquent Subscriber (to country editor) —Good morning, Mr. Shears, 1 want to pay you— Editor—Ah, thanks. James, mug out a bill for Mr. S—. Delinquent Sul scriber—To pay you a compliment on your last weck's issue, It was an admirable number. e o SING RITIES. Mr. Luther F. Brooks of Boston, found a petrified fish 8,000 foet above the sea. A cucumber four feet long, coiled like & serpent, was among the vegetable curiositios at a recent county fair. An odd pair of twins was born at the Sum- mit county (u.{ infirmary, one of the babies being black and the other white, A mammoth fig-tree near Chico,Cal.,is eight and one-half feet in circumference four foet from the ground. It hus four great branches, each of which is over four fectgin circumfer- ence. The wife of Ernest Bohn, a fisherman of East Dubuque, 111, has given birth to a fo- male child, full grown and perfectly devel- oped in every sense, except, that there are no eyes or any place for any. Louis Bayden, a blind man who died at ‘Worcester, had his scnse of touch 8o de- veloped that he could tell the denomination of a bank note by feeling it, and in weeding a large garden he could ulways distinguish & voung vegetable plant from & weed. At Monticello, N. Y., o fow days ago, @ contest between a black snake five feet long and a water moceasin eighteen inches long ‘was witnessed by several people. The moe- casin had the battle all its own way. It coiled itself so tightly around the neck of its opponent that ridges half an inch deep were were imbedded in the flesh. Theblack snake ‘was choaked to death. Of a strange freak of nature the Steuben Republican says that “Henry Zimmerman, of Scott township, has a freak of nature in the form of a pig with only two jegs, both in front. Strange to say it runs about with perfect ease, with its body clear from the round. There is not a sign of a hip or a leg ohind, The pig is four weeks old, and is a8 fat and healthy as any in the litter.” A Geneseo cat was put in & grain_bay and carried seven miles beyond Green river.north of town, and emptied into the road in front of a farm house. She was mmwamwy set upon by a ferocious dog. The cat ran mnicau‘y up a tree and out upon a limb so far that It broke, and she fell intoa well thirty feet deep. Much subdued in spirit, she reap- peared on the road in & few minutes, just in time to be run over by a wagon, after which she was again spied by the dog. Unwilling to pin her faith in the trees again she struck a bee-line for town, and was at home licking herself on the front porch when her owner returned. Aletter written from Lathrop, Clinton county, Mo., to a gentieman in St. Joseph tells of o frightful monstr born near thht place. The ¢ related in the letter, are as four months ago Mrs, Settl Andrew Scttles,a far Was in the garden at work w boy about fourteen years of ag were noticed fighting, and Mrs: manded her son to kill them, which the_boy did, mashing their heads with a hoe, Mrs. Settles watched the fight and the killing of , and ono woek ago Both of them havg 0 -cumstances, 83 ollows: About she gave birth to twins. flattened heads like o snake, and had to b separated on account of their hostility to each other, The family had intended to keep the matter from the newspapers, and nothing has been said of it up to this time. —_—— Neglected coughs are tho beginning of consumption, be prudent and cure your vnu-,:{n with Dr. H. McLean’s Tar Wine Lung Balm. 25 conts a bottle, —_—— Wrestling With Anglo-Saxon, Recent arrival from la belle France, enthusiastically wrestling with the mysteries of the Anglo-Saxon: *I lofe ze dog. Ilofe ze horse. 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