Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 26, 1888, Page 2

ONE OF CLOW'S “VICTORIES.” How He Won His Fight With Jim Fell at Denver. BAT MASTERSON WAS REFEREE And Awarded the Honors to His Friend On an Imaginary Foul —Pugilistio Ability of Joe Lannan, He Queered the Fight. 8r. Pavw, Minn., March 22.—[Correspond- ence of the Ber.]—The fight the past week betwoen Joo Lannan, of South Boston, and Jim Fell, the Michigander, brings to mind the story of the latter told by a gentleman who witnessed the ‘“‘scrap” between that fllustrious pug and John P. Clow few years ago. }ncludcd in the long list of names of pugilists who have met defeatatthe hands of Clow is that of Fell, and thereby hangs the tale, Clow numbers among his most in- timate “friends Mr. “Bat” Masterson, of ‘whose exploits in Kansas and Texas most everybody has heard, and it is said the latter gentleman was a great admirer of Clow's ability in the pugilistic line. When the match was made between Clow and Fell it was the opinion of those supposed to be posted on such matters that Clow would havo a regular pudding with the Michi- gan man, and big odds were offered on the former. Masterson was one of the heaviest dbackers of his friend, and when the day of the fight arvived Clow did a clever strokoe of *'business” by having him selected us referee. The fight occurred, 1 believ, at the Denver dflvlag mk.“ l‘nfitgherfi was l‘“ l;nmort:;n crowd prosent, in the hope of seeing the Colorado man knock out his adversary. But Fell disappointed them., He went at Clow in the first round in a manner to bring dismay to the hearts of those present who had placed their money against him, and after hammering Clow all over the ring, knocked him down witlf a vicious right- hander, Clow was game, however, and he came up for his “medicine” in the second .round in a manner that raised the hopes of is backers. But he was no mateh for the Michigan man, and the second round was a Tepetition of the first, excepting that Clow ‘was sent to his corner at the close in a de- cidedly groggy condition. Masterson had been a not uninterested ‘witness of the rough treatment of his friend, and he saw that something must be done at onoe, or else Clow would be defeated and his own money lost. He conceived a brilliant idea about this time, however, and when the men had retired to thoir corners, ho stepped 10 the ropes and announced that ho would be compelled to give the fight to Clow, as the latter had just claimed a foul, which he in Justice must allow, The crowd received the announcement with shouts of approval, as it was a well known fact that any one who questioned any of Masterson’s acts never survived a great length of time to talk about it, he being one of the surest shots in the ‘west, and not at all backward about_exhibit- glfl his skill. Of course Fell kicked a little, ut he recoived quiet “tip” of the kind of !eoplu he had to deal witu and took his ‘‘de- eat” with as good grace as possible, Joe Lannan isa former Winnipeger. He had quite a reputation in_the northwest pro- wvinces a8 a slugger, and John 8. Barnes, the manager of the St.’ Paul ball club, brought bim to St. Paul and matched him against Pat Killen. Killen won the fight, but it was one of the hardest he ever fought, and had it not. been for Tommy Chandler, who was behind Killen and had trained him for the battle, the result might have been different. Lannan made all kinds of charges against the men who were handling him, claiming that he had been drugged and that it was a +fixed thing for him to lose. These .stories, of course, have all _ been denied by Barnes and there is probably no truth in them further than that Lannan was poorly handled. Since that time, some three years ago, Lannan has met some good men, 8nd I think the pnly defeat he has suffered ‘was at the hands of Jake Kilrain, Lannan is an ideal “pug,” so far as looks are con- cerned, having a veritable bull-dog Ileu}lim; a fight with ¥Fell last Monday not been stopped by the authorities, he would un- doubtedly have won, as he had considerable the best of the two rounds fought. 5 OX-LOOKER. :ia shoulders and a short, thick neck. Base Ball. Des Moixes, Ia, March 25,—[Special to the Bee.]—Base ball is beginuning to rage again with all of last summer’s intensity. The city promises to be as big a crank on the subject of base ball as iv ever was. The new team is regarded as much superior to the old one, and the new. association is o much bet- ter than the old that fine games are expect- ed. The people of Des Moines feel very much pleased at the treatment they have re- ceived in the assignment of games. The schedule gives Des Moines games on Deco- ration day, Fourth of July aud the state fair week. 'The committee evidently remem- bered the splendid patronage which the city bestowed on the game last year, and pro- ed to keep up a good thing. The signing of “Orator Shafer” probably completes the list of the team for the present at least. Paddy Knocks out Mike. Dururn, Minn,, March 25.—[Special Tele- gram to theBee, ] —Paddy McDonald knocked Mike Carroll out in two rounds last night at “Fower. Carroll was insensible for ten minutes. Half in Omaha. Pat Killen is bound to come to the front, and has issued & challeuge, open to the world. He is anxious to meet John L. Sulli- an, Charlie Mitohell, Jake Kilrain, Jem .Smith, Jack Knifton, or any onc elsé that claims 1o be o heavy weight, for a £5,000 or £10,000 stake, and the money Is ready. About hal g & A CARGO OF NEGROES. + Fhey Are Being Shipped to Southern Qalifornia Plantations. Sr. Lous, March 25.—A throng of people congrogated in the vicirity of the Union depot yesterday morning to gaze upon three ar loads of negroes, two hundred in number, on their way to California. They came in over the Iron Mountain rond. All of them were from southern plantations, and are the most ignorant class of negroes, They were in charge of two white men and are being taken to California to work on large farms dn. the state, They have become imbued yith the beliof that they are being taken back into slavery, and on the way here half 8 dozen of them made their escape from the tram. Who men who bhav charge thew, fearing that — th . would lose the entire body, concluded to loci them in the cars and keep a close watch, At the depot none of tham were permitted to leave the cars, their meals being brought to them. They are dentracted for by Californi lanters, who pay their fare and furnish their good. and agreo (o pay the men §15 & mouth, the women $10, and o children Who can make half wages, on their arrival. The rnhnun want them because labor is scarce Southern California, and they are at the merey of the Chinese iaborers,” who charge exorbitant wages. Ouly wen ith familic are wanted, and if the experiment, which been tried before without cutire success, ould prove practicable, more uegroes will transported. - Counterfeiter Convicted, GraxD Rarips, Mich,, March 25 —Albert 8. Brandt, who was arrested in Fobruary, charged with making countépfeit silver dollars, was convicted in the Unftga States oourt to-day and will be sentenced Monday. 4t 1s expected that he will get ten years, as 18 his third offense. A complete counter- eiter's outfit and a lot of bogus dollars were in his house, and he Lad been ciroulat- coin since January. ——— Blew Up a Railway Oulvert. East Tawas, Mich., March 25.—E, Esmond, who is reported to have blown up a culvert ou theSuuth railroad, which crossed Es- aond’s land, was u;mlml h_\'ht‘ho s)'u‘nl! u{ Ogenaw county and taken there. Kswond s many -‘mneum« who think hi right, 2 fifiun‘d a6 crossed his land without pay- ' him, and refuses to do.so. i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MARCH 206, 1888, SNOW AND WIND. They Cause Another Blockade in the Northwest. 81, Pary, Minn,, Maroh 25.-<A severe snow and wind storm has raged.all to-day in north- rn Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota. The snow is very heavy and packing as it has fallen from a depth of from thrée to five inches, In St. Paul street car travel was abandoned and pedestrians experienced diffi- v in making their way about the streets. Trains onh inost of the roads centering here are from one to seven hours late, while traffic on the Hastings & Dakota and St. Paul & Kansas City has been wholly abandoned. The storm to have bean especially severe in southerh Minnesota. In places the railroad . tracks are covered from five to twelve feet and country roads are. well nigh impassable. Dulath Gots a Blizzard. Drorn, Minn,, March 24.—[Special Tele- gram t6 the Ben.] —A storm setin from the east abot 4 5°dlock this afternoon, which, at this hour, has devéloped into a_howling bliz- zard from the hortheast, with the wind blowing fifty miles an hour. Considerable snow is falling, Night trains will be badly delayed. — e Bad Washonts. Xaxsas Ciry, Mo., March 25.—The heavy rains which have fallen since Friday night have caused bad washouts on nearly all roads leading out of this city and trains aro de- layed. The Missouri Pacific has run no trains between here and Leavenworth sinco Saturday tight, but they expect to have the line clear by to-morrow noon. FRIGHTFUL FLOODS. A Number of Villages Inundated By the Elbe and Vistula. Berpiy, March 25.—The low lying districts along the banks of the rivers Elbe and Vis- tula are inundated. The village of Dor- nitz 15 isolated in the midst of a great lake. A number of soldiers from the nearest garrison after arduous efforts succeaded in reaching there with a Subply of food for the inhabivants, but fifteen of them were drowned in the attempt. Further attempts to relieve the numerous vllages in a similar position are being made. The floods, it is estimated, cover 200 square miles of territory and_alarming ramors of the extent of damiage done are oirculated. kol b} Proposed International Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 25.—[Special to the Ber,|—The presence of a number of the most distinguished authors in America in Wash- ington lately has given a decided impetus to the movement in faver of iternational copy- right. Senator Chase, of Rhode Island, who is the champion of the idea in the senate, has succeeded in securing a favorable report from the senate committoo on patents, and the subject of international copyright will come up for vigorous discussion in the senate very shortly. The authors, with other distin- guished men who were opposed to literary piracy have organized a covyright league, the object of which is to enlighten the people and the people's representatives n congress upon this matter. There is scarcely a writer of repute in America to-day who does not be- lieve that the brains of himself and his col- leagues on the other sido of the water, as well as on this side, should be protected by a copyright iaw. There have been many attempts to secure legislation having this end in view in the past, but these attempts have been desul- tory efforts,” without organization to back them, and a8 a result they have failed. The great trouble sgems to be that members of congress fear that their constituents may be deprived of cheap rending matter if pirac 10 be prohibited. - Similar arguments might have been adyanced against every reform of the century, and {here is really no reason why the man whose pen produced the thoughts of his brain should not be protected by law equally with the mechanic whose genius contrives an electric motor, a tele- phone or a sewing machine. Among the gentlemen who were here, and who took an activepart in the proceedings of the authors, was Krauk R. Stockton, whose unique tales haye been read ' al- most every household in the land. Mr. Stockton is the gentleman whose brain conceived that problem which still remains unsolved “Which came out first, the lady or the tiger?” r. Stocktow’s writing in the Century magazine, as well as in books published from time to time, has made him as well known as any writer before the public in America to- day. Your correspondent had a chat with him in his hotel before he left and asked hi if he found any difference between the treat- ment received by authors in this country and in Europe. Mr. Stockton replied ; ome of my books have ben published in England and Germany, and I had, in eral instances, better returns from the Ei lish and German publications than I b had from the American houses which ha produced my works.” “Do you thiuk, then, there is more honor among the publishers of Europe than among their fellows in Americal” “1t would seem so,” said Mr. Stockton, “‘as the publishers were not bound by any copy- right law, aud thelr payments to me were, therefore, insured solely through the honot of the house involved.'” Mr. Stockton went on to say that the cheap trash has lately filled all’ the counters of the book stores and book stands to such a great extent as to work to the injury of almost every American author, bezause these cheap publications have diverted attention from the more meritorious works, and the fact of their low price has induced buyers to overlook the quality of the production. Mr. Stockton said that the objeet of the organ- zation which has just been formed here is to educate the peoplo up to the poiut of appre- ciating the rights of authors and off them just as much protection as is_aflorded by tho patent laws 10 inventors. The patent laws protect the inventions of the rman equally with the invel au, and thero is uo reason why the protection of the government should not bo extended cqually to the author. The agitation of this subjeot will certainly have beneficial effeot some day, although it is hardly to be hoped that it will result in the passage- of the copyright law which will afford protection to foreixn writers during the present congress, as the house calendars are already very crowded with business, and 1t will be exceedingly difioult to get any new meusure before the house for a vote. The Logan Eulogics in Demand. WasHINGTON, March 25.—[Special to the Bee.]—The eulogies delivered in congress some time ago on General Logan have just been published in a handsome volume, bound in black cloth, and embossed in silver letters. These culogies are now on the market, and the second-hand book dealers ave gathering them up as rapidly as possible, Democratic members of congress, especially those from the south, do not care much for works of this kind, unless they refer to the services of some distinguished democratic cougressman orsome of the local celebrity, 'The second- tand book dealers tell me that the demand for the Logan eulogies is greater than that for any other uiember of congress who has died in meny years, and has ouly been equaled by the demand for the memorial addresses of the late President Garfield ‘Phe volume of Hendricks had a large sale far a short time, but it is'now almost a drug on the market The fact, however, that the Logan volume made its appearance during a session of con. gross has given a fresh start to the sale of the Hendricks eulogies, and excl made almost every da quoted for these differe i hundred for Logan and for Hendricks, The works cost the government a great deal more than this, but public documents, no matter how valuable they may be, are always sold at wholesale for a great -deal less than they cost. Au iustance of this kind is shown in the domands for the volume known as_*Consul Reports on Cattle and Dairying Interest, which is one of the most valuable works for the agriculturist ever issued by congress. Sixty-five thousand dollars has been appre- priated to pay for the publication of 25,000 additional copies of the work. This would indicate that the cost to the government is a little oyer §2.50 a-yolume. Yet.I hear to-day . that soveral mewbers have sold erders for their quotas at the rate of $1 a voluwe, w be delivered when they shall be published from the government printing office. These sales are not always paid for in cash, but are set- tled by an.exchange of books, which may be of more value to tho member who caros to dtspose of anything, pertaining to agricul- ure. The agriculturé report, of which upwards of four hundred copies are allowed ‘mem- ber each year, has a marketable yalue of about 5 cents acopy a wholesale. . This would not pay for the cost of binding the books, even when they aro turned out 4 hundred thousand ata time. The only volumes that bring anything near their cost o the gov- ernment aro the reports of the ethnological bureau and the volumes of the medical and surgical history of the war. Theso have a commercial value of from $i fo 810 each. Some of the earlier numbers of the “Records of the Rebellion,” which are vecy scarce, bring as much as § apieco unbound. A CONVIOTS UONFESSION. To Secure Pardon He Wil Reveal the Secret of Stolen Bonds. Mansnrierp, Wis,, March 25.—Guicken- borger, who was in May, 1836, sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary for criminal assault, after strongly protesting. his inno- cence, is now endeavoring to secure a pardo. He has written a _letter offering, fn event of pardon, to name the man who' killed Banker eade at Waupaca in 1882 and robbed tho bank, tell where he is and show the spot where a large amount of the stolen bonds and unsigned bank notes are now concealed. Guickenberger writes that he did hot eommit the crime himself, but that his information came in the form of a confession from tho real murderer, who then §nvo him the sm{un securities to secrete. Guickenberger states that he hid_the bonds and money according to the murderer's request, He further states that Al%ert Vandercor, who formerly lived here, and who was arrested but never tried for the murder, was i no way implicated in the crime. g Marching Right Along. ATraxTic, Ta,, March 23.—|Correspondence of the Ben.]—Of all the prosperous cities, Atlantic now falls into line and is marching forward at the head of the procession. Itis the county seat of Cass county and has fully 5,000 population. We have the Holly system of waterworks, costing $75,000, a beautiful court house costing, all complete, fully $30,- 000, twelve churches, three fine brick school houses, five banks and banking houses, etc. Cass county has now & population of nearly twenty-five thousand and is rapidly increas- mg. The university of Atlantic is now nearly an assured fact. Ten thousand dollars and ten acres of beautiful land near the center of the residence portion of our city is already to any reliable organization that will contract to build and maintain such an institution on certain _ conditions, and correspond- ence relating thereto addressed - to the undersigned will receive prompt attention. £2,000, and ample grounds are also pledged to any reliablo firm who will contract to build here and maintain a paper mill of certain capacity. Wo have a lapge pork paoking house in successful operation. Since the 19th of October last they have slaughtered 3 ho'fu and will now run summer and winter. he Atlantic canning works, oue of the largest in the state, are spending a large amount of money to increase the eapacity of their works, the product of which last fall was ninety carloads of canned corn. The Atlantic Starch company has also. be- gun active operations in transforming the “big Atlantic distillery’’ into an immense starch manufactory and will employ from seventy-five to eighty men-as soon as the worlks are ready to start up. They will also feed from 1,200 to 1,500 head of cattle, using for that purpose thé extensive stables belong- ing to the alcohol compan) " The passage of the inter-state commerce law infused new life into all our business men and gave o fresh impetus to- all our manufacturers. Great Inducements are offered to new industries and new enter- prises. Feeling that the acquisition of man- ufacturing enterprises is the greatest boom that can come to any city, our citizens ex- tend to them the most cordial inyitation. Grounds will be genflmuxlv donated, taxes will be remitted and a guarantee will be! made as to the cost of fuol and-every pos- sible facility extended to all worthy enter- l)}“isua that will now locate in our beautiful city, We have hore the finest agricultural. coun- try in the west. We are wholly exempt from the terrible blizzard that so often deals destruction and death to the pcople of Dakota and adjoining territorics. Now, in concluding this hasty lotter let me say to those seeking homes in the west, come to Atlantic. Come where a crop failure never occurs; come to our grand old county of Cass, where there is something substantiul and permanent upon which- you can safely build a home for yourself and those who come after you. Come where the soil is unsurpassetl for productiveness and the climate the healthiest in the world, is the truth, not fiction, and havin 0 this county my home for the past thirty-two years I ani responsible for what 1 write. F. H. Watsey, ——— Dubuque's Fasion Ticket, Dusuque, la., March 25,—At the fusion city convention, held yesterday by the repub- lican and democratic partics, the Hon. George B. Burch was nominated for m r by acclamation, Mr, Birch is a life-long re- publican and a man of great wealth, being president of the Second National bank, tho owner of large lumber interests in Wis- consin, apd connected with several of the largest and most successful business enterprises in the eity, With the ex- ception of auditor, all the other city ofiices went to democrats. Under the law just passed by the present legislature the mayor will have the veto power and the ap- pointment of all the policemen. This makes the ofiice more important than all the others combined. The convention was harmonious, with the exception of one incident, wheve & rival candidate for the mayoralty relieved himself of a bitter speech and flivted out of the convention as mad as 8 hornet. He was not missed. A few dissatisfied democrats have called a ‘*straight” conyentien for next Tuesday, and will attempt to secure a copli- tion with the Knights of Labor to defeat the fusion ticket. Two Miners Murdered, Buazis, Ind., March 25.—Coroner Stavens has not yet concluded his investigations of the murder of William Collingswood and John Mulholland, miners, who were found in w dying condition on the Beo line, six miles north of Brazil. The former survived. sev- eral hours after being found, but was uncon- scious. The latter is yet alive, but is likely t0 die. He thought when found he could identify one or more of his assailants, but it is feared his death will permit their' ¢ \ unless some other evidence is obtained. .o wmen had been driuking during the day, ‘and lato at night in & saloon in Porth, whose bad .whislky is supposed to have led to'the-wanton and unprov murder, Dollingswood was thirty years old‘ and left a-family in. Eng. land. ‘Every effort will be mado to ferrct out the murderers, e Clothes Burned From Her Body. JAcksoN, Mich, March 25.—Last evening Kate Walker, aged twenty, at her hoine on West avenue, fell asleep while sitting in 4 chair near the stove. She was alone in the house, and when awakened her dress was in & mass of flames, After an_unsuccessful at- tempt to put out the fire sle ran into the street where she attracted the attention of two men, who smothered the Hames with their overcoats. Her clothing was almost entirely burned from her body and her sides, hips, abdomen and hands weve burned in & frightful manner. 'To-night she is very low aud her recovery is LiOUEHY imposeible. e Ll A Sick Boodler. ~ CHyoAGO, March 25.—John Van Pelt, the convicted county ringster, upon whom the shadows of Joliet are about ready to fall, was taken very sick in the jail yesterday morning. He kept to the cot in his cell, and yesterday afternoon seemed so ill that County Physicians Meyers and Gray were called. They found nothing really alarming sbout his condition, and some light applications gave him some relief. His trouble 1s ane of the stomach and is ot serioys, except that Liis confinement in the jail has weakened his usually iron nerves, und he is liablo st any tuue to & general breakdown, ‘The rumor t::u Van was insane is entirely witkout foun- " a plaster cast of a fam, VERY HIGH TONED ORCHESTRA i ] Fifth Avenue B’pueu Play the Violin and Bef&t the Drum. THE LATEST‘.FA,D IN SOCIETY. e A Minister Pitches Into Fashionable Paople For Their Lewdness—Protty Girls Havh the Oall Over Horisly Onos, £ LA Tife in 'Gotham. New Yonk, March 24.—[Correspondenceof the Ber.]—One of the miost frequently used topics for discussion in Fifth avenue society is the organization known as the Ladies Amateur orchestra, to which belongs Mayor Hewitt's daughters and other distinetly swell Delles. Much speculation was rife as to tho ‘way the girls would handle their instruments for tho rehearsecls were strictly private, and it was only intimate friends who knew who the players were and what they played. Great curiosity was manifestod as to how a young lady would operate a slide trombone, or the bassoon, or worse yet, the F'rench horn, But, lackaday! when a public performance was given recently it appeared that none of these instruments was employed in the or- chestra. It s essentially o string band, but the parts ususlly written for the brass and ‘wood wind instruments are played upon an organ and o piano. Another season will doubtless sec the exile of these commonplace expedients and the substitution of oclarinets, horns, - ete, for several young ladies, enthusiastic under the influence of the musical fad have begun the study of different wind instruments. The melodious kettle- drums and the inspiring cymbals are even now in the practical repertory of the club, and so far bave proved the main obstacles to a professional appearance. It was indeed interesting to see Miss Janin between pieces screw up the heads of her big drums, and rap them gently, and place her shell-like car against them to test the pitch, and then turn the screws a little lower and rap and listen again; and then turn the screws a notch higher and repeat the experiment; and finally turn her fair face with a discouraged expres- Sion towards Reinhard Schmelz, the con- ductor and teacher, who immediately ran to her aid, and by s few quick turns of the screws and hasty tests, brings the clumsy instrument to the desired pitch. In playing the drums the girl had a quite professional air, but she watched the con- ductor with unusual eagerness, and crouched over the drums as she pounded out the rat- tat-tat in a way that suggested nervous un- familiarity with the work. The desired musical effect, however, was brought every time. Tho big tmss drum is occasionally brought into play, and it is a sight worth seeing when a fair young lady, all dressed in white with a blue sash, the uniform of the organization, holds the clumsy, wadded stick poised in air preparatory to a rythmic thump against the much batteged sheepskin. And there is a unique piq&aueneu in the way Miss E. Johnstone“bangs the cymbals to- gether, There is esp: 1 skill even in the use of theSe an AI jnstruments. It is not onough to bring the surfaces flat together; they must glide acrods $ach other, and the painstaking way in ch the lady rubbed the discs together shewed not only careful instruction, but @ Pafhstaking desire to do exactly right. In all the oruhcutr% waevcr’ there was no real awkwardness @isblayed. It is recog- nized among mu: 0 that only a woman can hold a violin under” her chin with any semblance of graceyand while a man’s bow- ing is always suggestivg of a_lunatic's fit, a ‘woman’s is sinnous and” lovely, The players of the stringed instruments, therefore, pre- sent a very attrachivd spectacle as they stand before their G, for the amateur orchestra does not deign to use chairs except in the case of instrumfents liko the ‘‘cellos’ hat cannot be played. standing. But when comes toan intermission, when the inev- itable tuning operation is resumed, and the audience is distracted by the discordunt scraping of a score of empty fifths and ladies show their amateur accomplishments. Miss Sallie C. Hewitt and one or two others are fully competent to do their own tuning, but with. the major part of the players, the di- rector has to be depended upon to take the instrument in hand and correct the pitch of the strings. This is not at all dero- gatory to the abilities of the organization, for on the whole the critics say that the ladies play well, but it is & bit amusing to note their earnestness. As the ladies play their brows contract, their lips are pressed close together and their figures sway unconsciously in rhythm with their bowing, The young lady at the bass viol is perhaps the hardest worker in the orch Her right arm_saws back and forth with tremendous vigor. and her left hand goes chasing up and -down the neck of the big instrument as if clawing vainly for a Jersey skeoter. At the conelusion of each picce, whether in publie performance or re- hearsal, the ladies take their violins from their chins with a sigh, and look auxiously at their conducter to judge from his expression whether they have done well, The liveliest discussion en- sued after one of the reheal sals just preceeding the club’s first public performance. It was on a very ancient topic ~—what should they weart! All kinds of opin- ions were ventured, from recommendations that all appear in full ovening dress, to ordin- ary houso toilets. Expert musical judgment speedily dismissed the first, because although such u dress exposes more physique than any other, it after all coufines the wearer more forcibly; and one thing needed in vio- lin playing is freedom of action. The latter suggestion was dismissed as altogether too unconventional, and accordingly a very happy medium’ was found in the simple white dress and biue sash, which was event- ually adopted. Pretty Mrs. Orme Wilson, nce Astor, has done a dréadful thing, and-quite shamelessly, ght in Fifth avenue, too. In broad sun- ight, at a time when the great thoroughfare was thronged, she violated one of the most cherished laws of our best society, What did she do? She walked from Madison square to her home, @ distance of eleven blocks, carrying o bundle. A lady of the top crust, and an Astor at that, with a big bundle in her arms! Horror! The spectators were amazed, No such violation of the ‘“‘first family” usage had been seen within memory. A fashionable woman’s whim will sometimes lead her to do things which must surely at- tract the wondering attention of all ob- servers, howe and especially those of her own grade of so When a fancy is once strongly aroused all sorts of conventions are in danger of being rudely cast aside. In this instance tho outragepus, parcel was even wrapped in 8 nowspapeks A friend of the lady stopped her with sprossions of amaze- ment and curiosity, whereupon she of the newspaper bundlé helditup and said : “Phoy do make m-,r. perfoct somotimes, and I could not pass th lguu by.” Then she opened the dle and disclosed bust of a child, h she nad bought of an Italian on a street corner. Ho had ekposed his wares at the curb aud he had n?mm- wrapping paper than the stray bits of ‘newspapers that he picked up in the street? Bhe bust was bravely carrvied home in its UR{ASbionable wrapping and assigned to an honorad place in the lady’s boudoir against u backiréund of rich pl Real misdoings by 1adiés in high soc have just been denounced by the Re Morgan Dix, the 10} fashionable Trinity church, that the modi part of town is in & fuirabout it. mon on the evils of thé' caustic passage to exactly the ladies among whom ho associated personally. His princi- pal accusation, and he couchieds it in the strongest imaginable terms, was that the young daughters of wealth were trained in softness and luxury, with the one idea in view of making a figure in society and a brilliant marriage; of making the most of their physical advantages and alluring the other sex by acts best adapted for that purpose.” He went so far 8 10 fay that low gossip among these girly was enlivened by “‘broad specches and un- clean stories, by which they are prepared for the final surrender of the last ideas of pro- priety and of all faith in the horror and vir- Lw of, men.” He was just as hard as that, too, on married ladies, who he viting flirtation for themselves and “ouly glad to fiud themselyes still able to make sen- timental conquests.” Mis specifications as Lo coused of in- | improper dress at balls and the opera, and of wilful association with profligates, were as- toundingly bold, Had all this from & clergyman who drew flve or six hundred dollars a year from a poor congregation it would not have been so astonishing; but Dr. Dix i & contral “T«" in the very Innermost circles of ‘our best society”, and he has shocked all of us boyond description. Thoso who feel resentful are inclined to ascribe his aspersions to _an inborn coldness and asceticism. Dix remained a bachelor until he was fifty years old, and was at ono time an outapoken advocate for celibacy for clergymen. He instituted an order of ¥pis- copal nuns and planaed, although he did not organize, an order of bachelor ministers. But at length he sucenmbed to usage and in- clination and took to himself a wife from out of a rich and respected family. His severe feminine critics say, however, that he re- mains & bachelor in his instincts, that he has no appreciation of woman as a charming being and that he unjustly ascribes the girls' innocent endoavors toward witchery sinfulness that no really wide open could possibly discover. "At all events, walk by Dix d\rnufh Fifth avenuo yesterday afternoon was visibly followed by reproach- ful glafices from the belles and by audible re- marks of an uncomplimentary naturo. Atone of the principal type-writing schools in town -you often sce as many as eight or ten young womenon the benches in the outer office, waiting to see the proprietor of whom they want to get employment as “um‘ls or secretaries to business men. When 0 comés 1 you will always notice that ho socs them without regard to the order in Which they come, picking out ono here and one there, taking them into his office each by herself until only one or two remain on the seats. If you studied the subject day after day you would soon discover that the more propossessing a young woman is the less time she has to wait and that it is always the plain ones who are left to the last. Poverty, especially when it ontails the necessity for a young 5m to go out and earn her living is hard and bitter, and many a time and oft you will see that the homely girls, left sitting on those benches, have unfathomed the proprie- tor's sectet and are biting their lips and even suffering moisture to flood their eyes as the, note how certainly o beautiful face and stylis attire command attention, The other day I went to school and I wit- nessed the neglect of a plain girl who evi- dently found it difficult to conceal her morti- fication. I was in the room with the propri- etor when he asked her to come in, “I suppose there is no use my asking you, " ghe said, ‘*but since I have waited I will ay that Lam seeking occupation as a type- writer.” “Do you understand the business?” he asked. “T am said to be very rapid,” sho said; “I have been five years at the calling.” *‘Will you accept $15 a week to act as ston- ographer and type-writer to vice-president 80-and-80 of the — oil company " Her eyes changed color; they brightencd almost into flame. *‘Fifteen dollars " she said; ““I got $10, sir. and then only for a year before the firm 1 was with failed.” The arrangemement or bargain was quickly made. Beforo she left the girl asked: “Will you tell me why you saw me last, though I Was the first to come? “DI'd rather not,” said thejemployer, “Did all the others secure placesi” she asked. “‘No one but you was taken,” he said. She went away wondering. When she had gone the proprietor turned to_me and said: “That 1s both a sensitive and sensible girl. She thought she was left to the last because her face and dress are plain. She 18 right, This is the day of the homely girl. Tho beauty, the belle, the dressy girl, all are at a discount in this business, and we have re- solved never to employ another pretty girl if we can get a homely one.” “There’s no mystery about it,” he con- tinued, *“It's plain business. There are now six or seven thousand girls at work in men’s offices down town, and while their entree into commercial life is always spoken of as a feminine reyolution, the truth is that it has created a social stir' deeper than either one sex has felt. When girls were first use of on account of the quickness of their hands, the suitability of the work and the low price at which they could be got by reason of the large mumber seeking worlk, the craze was for pretty girls. Kvery man wanted a belle to sit at his desk and take down his letters and memoranda, It was natural. There were plenty of pretty girls, and who on earth does not prefer Dboauty =~ to plainuess. Men who are in my business naturally tried to get only pretty pupils and beauti- ful depths. We scanned the girl's dresses, judged thom by their stylishness and insisted on general attractiveness. If we ever took up & plain girl we were apt to be sorry fov it, for we had had hard work te plae her. Now, all that is changed. T can show you scores of letters In which business men ask me not to send a pretty girl. In fact the only offices where we can place a protty girl are very large ones where the employer’ chooses the girl and details her to go with others in the same department or to_ assist a male chiof clerk or private secrotary. Those and the oftices of the bachelors in~ ousiness are the m_x)ly places where we can get work for pretty girls, The reason isas plain as the nose on your face,” he continued, “The wives have inter- fered. Kvery married man is visited at his office by his wife more or less frequently. [f she finds him elbow to elbow or face to face with a pretty coguetto every time she comes, she is certain to make life more or Jess un- pleasant for him. Some women in such cascs ‘take it out’ at home, as the saying goes, but I have had men tell me that their wives were forever popping in on them gnd practically never missed a vith out a call their 5 business men, nearly all men ~ pick up a boguet or box of ‘candy or some little knick-knack now and then to gladden the life of the girl at their elbow. Imagine the state of the wife who finds_that the fowers she sees on her husband’s desk were put there by him when he has told her ten thou- sand times that he has hated flowers from infancy! Ob, no; there is no show for the pretty girl in business m New York to.day. Thoce who got places long ago are being crowded out and 1o new ones are now tuken on.” © Crasa BeLir, at Mrs. Meckie Rawson's Characte CiticAGo, March 25,—Mrs, Meckie L. Raw- son's side of her divorce case against Banker Rawson was strengthencd yesterday by sov- eral depositions taken in Washington by per- sons well aequainted with her during her residence there from 1877 to 1858, when sho was employed in the patent ofiice, They are allto the effect that her conduet wis ex- emplary aud_that they had never heard any reproach cast against her character. Sho had kept early hours and appeared devoted to hor children. R Killed For His Fidelity, Pestir, March 25.—Deputy Abrany was mortally wounded in a duel to-day by Herr Pulszky. The trouble was occasioned by the rofusal of Abrany to separate from his wife and marry Madam Pulszky, who was for- merly o leading Hungarian actress. Tho lady threw herself into the Danube, but was rescued. She afterward tools poison. R Esmonde, M, P,, and Sutton. Tex., March 25.—8Sir Thomas Gratton Esmonde, member of parlisment and the Hon, J. P. Sutton, sccretary of the Ameriean Land League, arvived here yester- day and were tendered a reception by ‘promi- nent citizens, The two gentlemen addressed alarge audience, their specchos being do voted to matters relating to the struggle for home rule for Ireland. e Personal Paragraphs. R. E. Pate, of Sibux City, is at the Wind- o Bubbitt, of Cheyenne, is at the Mil- J. @, Fisher, of Hastings, Neb., Is at the Millard. J. M. Churisty, of Des Moiues, In., is gt the Paxion. A. J. Kenny, of Red Cloud, Neb., is at the Paxton. ¥. L. Sommer, of St, Joseph, Mo., if at the Paxton. N M. C. Bryan, of tMason City, 15 at the Windsor. . E. Budlong, of Campbell, Neb., is at the Windsor. A.13. Wanell, of Bradshaw, Neb,, is at the Windsor. Taylor Hall, of Nebraska City, Neb., Is at the Paxton. R. K. Borcher and wife, of Onawa, Ia., are ot the Millurd. George N, Foresman, of Lincola, Neb, is at tke Millard. Fred §. Tekell, of Courtland, Neb., is at the Windsor. % General James §. Brisbin, commandunt at [nney, Wyo., Miss Blanch Brisbin G A Morbof aro At the Paxton, O. T. Taylor has teturned home from a trip to Florida. 3 J. H. D, James, of Nebraska City, Neb., is at the Paxton, Miss M. ¥. Hudson, of Riverside, Cal,, is at the Windsor. C. F. Whoeler and wife, of Minncapolis, are at the Paxton s MONTE CARLO And How to Make Money There. Sheffield Telegraph: What have the trains to do with the gaming-house kgeper, you will say? The answer is, “Fverything.” The railway company rocelves an enormous sum annually from the proprietor of the tables not to run trains from Monte Carlo. And more than this, Money is spent like water, to encourage the visitors to stay. In the grounds thore is a big hotel, where at 6:30 there isa table d’hote. The charge is five franes, and - for this sum you get the finest dinner it is poss- ible to sit down to, and wine included! —not a vin ordinaire, but superior Medoce, and not one bottle, but as many bottlesas you like; and the best cham- pagne is sold at five franks a bottle. Of course thero 1s a loss on the dinner. This is paid by the proprietor of the lzmnly]lng establishment. He pays the hotel keeper a subsidy of £4,000 for the season, in order to make the table d’ hote tho finest in the country. All this is done with one object—to encourage people to come to Monto Carlo and stay there ‘‘because it is chcn{)." and the flower grounds are laid out like fairyland to make ‘x-ople come “‘because it is so beautiful.” Human nature is relied upon to recoup the pro- prietor for his outlay. Nearly all those who come because it is 0 cheap, or because it is so lovely, or because it is so healthy, or because it is so gay, find themselves somchow or other at the tables, and then they leave 80 much mono{ that the proprietor finds himself left, after his enormous annual outlay, with a profit so huge that the figures fairly take one’s breath away. Heo has only spread his sprats around wherewith to catch his mackerel. The English contingent at Monte Carlo is a very large one, and potalways a very select one. I was ratherstartled in the Arab quarter of Algiers to hear some one behind me remark that it was “bloomin’ ’ot;” but my surprise was greater when at Monte Catlo, smoking my cigar under the shade of a beautiful palm tree, I heard a female voice, concealed frem view by the folinga, exclaim, “Well, you didn't ort to ‘ave done it. I told yer as there was a regler run on red,” and a male voice replied, “Well, 1 don’t care, I'll 'ave another go thishevenin’,if Iloose every blessed mag wo've brought with us.” And in the cvenln‘z the language of some of the London ladies who play is startling in the extreme. I cayne away from Monte Carlo at 7:47, carefully concealing the fact I still had asmall sum to the good about me. I was afraid to whisper it to my compan- ion, lest the authorities should hear of it, and send a message to the railway company to make the 7.47 “facultatif” also. But when we were safely in tho train and it had started, I im}mrtcd to him the news that I was still 26 francs to the good. Then, his big baby face beaming all over with smiles, he im- parted tome the fact that he also had won £30. 1 put on o forbidding aspect.at once, and sternly rebuked him., ‘‘You had no right to gamble,” said I. “You can- not afford it. You have a wife and family at home in Londo: I wouldn’t have taken you to Monte Carlo if I had imagined you would so far forget your- “But T didn’t gamble,” he replied. “I give you my -word of honor that I didn’t.” “Then how have you won £30?” He looked cautiously around him,and then whispered in myear, *‘I madathe money by attempting to commit suicide in the grounds. Hal Ha! It was not for nothing that I brought that revolver with us!” The wicked, deceitful, artful fellowl What do you think he had done? T am ashamed of him. T told him that it was most dishonorable, and he promised never to do such a thing again. While I was wildly flinging my five- franc picces on red and black, passe and mangue, on the numbers en plein, trans- versale, a cheval, and carrve, with an oc- casional plunge on zero, he had put on a melancholy and dejected look, and wandered away to a A part of the grounds. As he passed out of the doors he drew cautiously from his pocket the revolver, the wonderful weapon that won’t go off. Te looked at it for a mo- ment, and, as soon as he w one of the officials had observed him, he replaced it in his pocket and made slowly for a sequestered spot. He heard footsteps behind him; he knew that he was being followed. Pres- ently he drew the fatal weapon out, ana exclaiming in French, “T am ruined; here let me oxpiate my fault,” he placed the revolver in his mouth and was about to pull the trigger whon two officials rushed forward and dashed the deadly weapon from his grasp, An explanation hegan LJ shout out his lost his all—all the money he brought with him to Monte Carlo. had not the meaus of veturning to 18 land, and please would they allow him to die 1 peace? The officials begged him not to shout ——they prayed of him to bo calm, . Mat- ters might be arranged. Would mo siour be good enough to actompany them to the office of the administra- tion? He had had He demanded, woes. He suicide, and much injury to the estabe lishment. - The papers made capital out of it, and cried out for the supprossion of the tables. How much had monsier lost? ‘‘All he had brought with him.” - How -much wos that? ‘‘He couldn't say, but all ho had; and he had not the means to pay his hotel bill and fiet back to England. The administration put on its consid- ering cap, and then made a proposition. If monsicur had the means to pay his hotel bill and return to Ennlnnl'. would he abandone the ideaof suicide? “Why, certainly.” And then, after a little more consideration, he found himself in possession of £30, and the administra~ tion was left congratulating itself on having avoided ‘“‘another scandal at Monte Carlo. My companion protested to me that his statement was pe true so far as it concerned having ‘lost all he brought with him, for he had only five francs in his pocket, and he had 1oat tb. I shan’t advise him to keop the £30, be- cause I don't think it is quite honestly come by. Ishell make him prosent it to a London charity on his return to town. The Monte Carlo people will do any- thing to avoid a scandal, but as a rule they are moro stringent than they were in this instance. The revolver in his mouth was considered by them sufticient After a show of resistance the would- be suicide yielded, and, accompanied by and’ the ofticials, he rc- od to the office. th_ the utmost polite- It was absurd for monsieur to commit suicide, 1t was not nice cou- duct. Such things did no good to the evidence of his bonafide loss. They didn’t know what a lump of artfulness they were dealing with. As a rule, this is the process. have lost all your money and you are in bonafide distress. You go to the administration and ask for a little assistance to get home. You aroe asked at what table you played. The head croupier of that table is sent for. He recogn you as a player, and probably remembers you, whether you played heavily or not. Your story be- ing confirmed you say to what station you wish to proceed. A sum sufficient for pour fare and your needs on tho {ouruoy is then handed to you, and you have to sign an I O U for the amount. S0 long as you don’t return to Monte Carlo you hear no more of the matter, but if you get back there again you must repay your I O U before you are allowed to re-enter the gambling saloons, All the people on the estab- lishment are trained to remember faces, and it is very rarely that they make a mistake. You - —— MOTHER GOOSE. Who Was the Originator of the Stories ? Charles Perrault, ex-secretary of fine arts and public buildings to the great Colbert, at the age of fifty began to col- leet—parhaps amplify and embellish and commit to paver for the amusement of his son—traditions and stories which mothers and nurses amused their chil- dren, These manuscript stories were ciroulated in Paris to a great extent; but there is some doubt as to whether they would ever have been published. says All the Year Round, had not Mlle. Lheritier de Villaudon, encouraged by Perrault’s success in manuscript, pub« lished in 1696 a book of stories of far in- ferior merit. “Mother Goose’s Tales; or, Storfes of Past Ages, with Morals,” was published the year after; and, although stated to be by P. Darmancourt, the son of Charles Ferrault, all Paris knew that the real author of the eight fairy tales s no other than Charles Perrault, the author of works on fine arts and history, and the originator of that fierce contro- versy which raged on the publication of the “Paralleles des Ancigns et des Modernes,” which lasted so long, and brought out the argumentative powers of such men as Raciue, Boileru, and. Lafontaine. The truth was that Perrault, at the age of sixty-eight, was ashamed to pub- lish in his own name so frivolous a work, The dull, long novels, the serious moral books—which, strange as it may seem, were regarded as fashionable toward the close of the reign of Louis XIV—were soon superseded by fairy tales, and many were the imitators of Perrault—such us Countess A’Aulnoy, Mme. Muos and Mlle* de la Force—but whenever Charles Perrault’s name is remembered it will not be for his “History of the [lustrious Men of France,” or for the work done at Colbert’s secretary, but as the collector and writer of those old fairy tal ‘the best of the sort that haue b i to the wo —simple, written s and familiar style, and having the appeavance of implicit sliof on the part of the relator,” says Planche, which are known as “The ’ s of Mother Goose.” he book is a favorite one with col- ors, und when found it is generally y finely bound, and comes from a us library, Some years ago at the tin sale in Paris, the finest known copy, bound in light blue moroceo by Trautz, brought £40; at the present time double that price would not be thought too dear for such a treasure. 1t was dedicated to Mlle, Elizabeth Char- lotte d’Orleans, sister of Phillipe, duke ofChartres and Orleans, who had not quite attained the age of twenty. 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