Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1888, Page 12

sure is removed. close pressed, wil' of much that the profess readiness strably better. The reformed egstyme has failed to make its way into popular favot; such costumes at any rate as_emanates from Lady Habberton @hd other inventors of 1t is impossible for the most ardent advocates of reform to dem- onstrate that beatt; tainly there is an indignant such condu¢t from the ran church, and an extendea observation seems to warrant the bolief that the conferenco soon to assemble will be a reform body, at least in that particular. No one anticij however, that there will be any lack of will- ing Barkis's, or that any who are invited to higher will astonish the country by !“m of a Mothodist bishop is a ver, The term is for life, the sa ry large, and the influence tremendous. The bishop makes the appointments, and it is moderato to say that each bishop in the M. E. church controls on the average a thousand achers and a8 many churches. st goneral conference three bishops have died. The matchless Simpson was the first o go, his demise occurring shortly after the ever memorable farewell address by which he brought the conference of 1884 to a close. A little later, Bishop Wiley died and was buried in China, the scene of his early mis- Still_later Bisho, preathed his last in New York. losses the Episcopal force of the church has to twelve men, and some of those aro not robust any longer. one and all, if t the disabilities call beautiful, and rranythlng demon- protest inst 'k and Al:gl.the M. E. CHURCH CONFERENCE. They Will Legislate For Nearly Two Millions of Adherents. THE BEST-DRESSED WOMAY, Helen Campbell on the American Woman and Dress. THE AMERICAN WOMAN LEADS. GENERAL MEETING NEXT WEEK. the same’order. desirable one. Her Skirts Yet Too Heavy and Her Waiste Too Smali—Commons Sense Gowns Gowns the Rage A Foreoast of the Questions to be Con- sidered —New BRBishop to be Elected—Other Important Church Notes. wells in aoy of une to meet at a scientific conventiom an IEnglish thusiast who worg the divided skirt. She was fresh and fair and big, with the deep chest voice of the healthy English woman and the calmést defiance of any beauty or proportion. dress was a gray poplin bag, separating e around the bottom, and a mere line of white appearing above the neck-band. been comfortable, but it was also hide- ous, and no woman with any real sense of what beauty means would have toler- ated it, even asa sick garment, the fashion precisely as it stands to-day any woman can plan for herself a cos- tume, easy, conifortablesand most cer- tainly graceful and becoming. short skirt clears the ground well, and is thus neither worn or soiled. NEW YOrK, April 26.---[Correspond- ‘Meothodist General Conference. New Yomk, April ence of the BEE-- woman of society demonsirates with fury that, as a rule, she has nothing to if, at the moment of speaking,a fow rags not quite unworthy of consideration may be found in her wardrobe, 1t 1s & mere accident, life as a whole resolving itself into a hand-to- hand conflict with dressmakers, who always provide the wrong thing. reformer, armed with her divided skirt And its accompanying necessities, waves them wildly in the face of society, affirming that till women have aceepted these garments as the only solution of the dress problem, the only road to the higher moralities, there can be no sal- Between these two extremes marches the great army of the middie class, an army made up of the ‘‘average woman,” whose title has synonym for the worst-abused class in The fashionable woman finds absolution because she has money and forms purt of the spectacular life daily more and more dear to the rich Ameri- dont veformer is forgiven mpetuosity, because it is at least amusing, and we must make the amusement as is left for a 98, —(Spocial to the Bre.]—The general conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal church, which meets quad- ronnially, will convene on the 1st of May for #ts twenty-fifth sossion, the place of meeting being New York city. n Philadelphia, and in 1830 Cincinnati was the favored place. The local arrangements are unusually elaborate. The Metropolitan opera house on Broadway will be the scene of the gathering, and the elegant hotels in “$hat solect neighborhood will shelter most of The cost of the building has oen provided for by the sale oi the eighty- four private boxes it contains, Bach of these ‘mocommodates from six to ten persons, and the price for each during the month the body ‘will be in session has ranged from$50 to $100. T'he conference proper will occupy the par- quet, and there will still remain about two thousand seats which will be open to the ‘public. This is admirable ception of those who t condems theatrical performances ought not 1o use an opera house for the transaction of its most important business, all will no doubt ‘e satisfied and hap) The conference hundred and fifty delegates. come from all parts of the country and some In the M. E. church there are annual conferences to the number Each of these will be represented in neral conference by from one to six ministers and by one or two individuals from the laity. The conference which sends two or more clergymen sends two laymen—never more than that number, while if only one but one layman can be sent. nisters the ratio of representa- tion is one delegate for every for bers of each annual conference, and one for every fraction of two-thirds that num- it was one for Jopyrighted.]- below, with a ru wear, and that 1t met four years ago iber_ will be needed in the Kpiscopal board. i how many new bishops shall be elect think there ought to be a big batch of them, the cry of these being for more bishops and fewer presiding elders. the tite has come for a M. E. bishop to pre- side in Europe, with another in China and still anothor in India. Others think the dolegates. Such propositions as these were before the last conference, and it was the common remark that, but for the in- fluence of the bishops themselves, effectual- ized in the votes of the laity, they would have been adopted. A reasonabl place the number of new b than five, as more than that would involve a radical departure from all recent prece- low-heeled and_ broad, the stockings With half-fitting jacket or long cloak perfect ease and looseness are both possible. and sleeves may be ‘Womuan’s dress has never, in modern times, been more really what it should be in all its outward expres- sion and adaptation to modern needs. It remains to banish all bands and liga- tures, secure even layers for the whole body, abolish hideous steel bunches and support the dress so far as it needs sup- port by a flounced back to the under- skirt,and behold the modern woman emancipated, yet not a terror. This for street and ordinary house- dress, the quality of the material used g dependent on the purse of the For evening there is greater could be more graceful or more intrinsically beautiful of the costumes worn, whether by matron or maid. terial-is often of the simplest nun’s veil- ingor soft cashmere for the elder wear- ers, and muslins dotted or embroidered for the younger ones; produced by suitable combinations rediction would black or dark. 0ps at not more as one will. e, and with the ex- hink that a church | SR i 1o promoted to this digmty is one or the things no fellow can tell with ab- solute certainty, but he would be a poor ob- sorver of events who could not venture a few It is not improbable William Tay- lor, now missionary bishop to Africa, will be made a full-fledged Episcopate. he is this now, and 80 do some other people. but if he is he was certainly made so by acei- debt, for the last general conference never intended to make Iiim such a person. Another upon whom the lot is not likely to fall is Dr. Yl}l'.connm of about four of them from abroad. alittle over most of such weary generation. Tho average neither head. woman comes She s simply the em- bodiment of original sin, respousible di- rectly or indirectl church or state; pre: for, till if she followed one tof the precepts laid down for her guidance not one short life, nor ten, would suffice for the undertaking. even now she cannot be spared, and it is_in_the house of her own friend that the new blow in str and advocate average woman 0 this form that gave Bishop_Fowler such a long and close Dr. James M. King, of New York, is another probability, as is ‘also Dr. D. Goodsell, of the samo ci : of Drew seminary, is also supposed to be in the line of promotion. named a preference has been -expressed by some of the present bishops. Dr., Charles H. Payne, of Ohio Wesleyan university, looms up s a decided probability, being closed followed by E: the Cineinnati Book concern. land the tug of war minister goes, and nothin Among the m Dr. H. A. But ed at, and to and For the two In tho west conference too large, Many think it is still oo large, and the bishops, during this quad- rennium, have submitted to the annual con- ferences'a proposition to reduce i however, has met an emphatic negative, largely, no doubt, because 8o many aspire to be clected to that body. Norare the minis- ters to be blamed very much, for it is undeni- 1y a great honor to’ go to general confer- ence, not to speak of the advantage it i other dignities possible. from the careful manner in which they are selected, one expects to find the church's atest men in her general conference. But, ©of course, all the great men cannot go, be- cavse there are so many of them. Among the lay delegates are found govern- judges and others who are prominent in including even a few distinguished ke Mrs. Angie F. Newman, of Ne- Mary C. Nind, of Minnesota, and!FrancesG. Willard of the whole country, This, by the way, will be the first entry of the good sisters Wwithin the arena of the gen- eral conference, the male species having hitherto had their own sweet way there, none daring to make them afraid, This, too, in spite of the fact t oonstitute so large a majority of the church’s In this new departure some 80ee an act of tardy justice, and others are so enthusiastic that they think they see in 1t al- of the millenium. y Dr. Buckley, say theso Earl_Cranston, o f but the efiect In Now Eng- ll_be between Drs. J, Upham, cach of whom, in certain contingencies, would stand an excellent chance. ter will also makea strong pull in this sec- Many think Dr. A. Ohio, is_a possibility. be tho first one thought of if the lines were to be drawn tightly on the question of pro- ey, of Pa., will be strongly urged by his section, and Wil brij to the contest the prestige of great abiliti expenditure It has also been the costliest thing. demonstrated that a dress may be so constructed as to remain beautiful even when quite apart from any existing hion, and many women limited means but impossible to deny that the ns beyond redemption on thi sible as it is to affirm that He would certainly score; us impo: the energetic counted as one of the offende: thus once more the burden re shoulders well accustomed to such load, and it is the patient, long sufforing, most teachable, most enduring, average woman who must serve as illustration and afford such reply as can be drawn from the facts before one’s eyes. ‘What are the essentials of dress? The question began with time, yet the an- swer, from the old Greeks down, mains the same—beauty, comfort, suita- bility. No dress that fails to uni e three can be counted as fulfilling the mission of dress, and no woman who has not studied in minutest details each one, her mission as a woman, by divine right, and will lead, no mat- ter what batteries are brought against it; but one must first learn what consti- In these borderlands one restricted to reply in fixed lines cannot But when one seeks to under- stand what over-dressing may mean, a Ain necessity arises for palpable meausurements, and i when the three requisit are laid down. beauty is inher keen artistic sense are proving this, and appearing an son or more in what is called S y7in the same dress modelled after some favorite painter’s costume, and insuring always an instant tribute of candidates. of the Western, and Dr. Joyce are talked of, and each will have from the start consider. able strength. Besides these many other names occur, although too many to mention, among them'that of Dr. C. C. McCabe, the splendid missionary_secretary, whose irre- sistible enthusiasm has put $100,000 mto the miselonary treasury in the last four years, and who'is popularly supposed, good reason, to be worthy of anything in the If the conforence should ould send the on. The farmer’s wife or daughter, the busy woman everywhere, with whom there is little leisure and less oppor- tuning for planning on wearing beauti- ful costumes, can still take refuge in one phase of the beautifuly choosing color and material that will: unite becoming- ness and utility. *Doin, will escape the charge)of brought against us by hasty trav through the country,ifor the majori of sensible womeun—and their name is legion—live below rather than above their opportunities and, indeed, their duty in the matter. rather than much to learn before the laws of dress HELEN CAMPBELL, L g 14 The Workings of a Mind Reader. Some experiences in thus desoribed in the New ip I'eldman, late of Ru gave a number of interesting exhibi “hypnotism” mind reading at Von Taube’ ast Twenty-first street, 80 to speak. aaoyto speule | gify of the church, take a notion of that kind i chaplain into a bishop's chair with scarcely any opposition, and this contingency may Buckloy would be made a bishop wero it not for his superb adaption to editorial duties. Nearly all the general secretaries, the edi- tors, the boolk agents and other oficials are likely to be re-elceted. these should bo called to hi should wish to retire into will be no troutle in prevailing upon others to fill_their places other matters relating to this important con- feronce, we shall know more anon. 8’ dowinore 8 this, she, too overdressing, eonstituency. Many think Dr. Beauty leads most the dawnin, eooler heads, led They are under ‘body, and will not be allowed there. overdressed, ‘matter has alreadyexcited long and heated discussion in the Methodist press, and it will doubtless be a bone of contention withina few days in the conference itself. Donbt- less, too, this conference, like its immediate sked to license women vide for their ordination, & request to which the church has always so far responded in the negative. woman in the case” will be conspicuous early and often, aud the promise is that, as usual, she will make, things lively. Tha general conference is the only body in the Methodist church possessing the power o make or change any of its laws, and con- sidering the numerical strength church, this one fact ac both for the honor inher that body and for the widespread interest Late statistics place the whole number of traveling ministers at ‘over fourteen thousand, with nearly thirteen e total mombership ut little below two millions. It controls 23,000 or more Sunday schools, in which there are a grand aggregate of poople, young and old, amounting 102,160,244, Add to these dtems the additional facts that this church is raising annually for various purposes over $10,000,000; that its book concerns did a busi- mess last year amounting to two millions,and that it touches the masses of the people to an extent to which, perhaps,uo other Protestant church does, and one sces at once, not only tho greatness of the church itself importance, also, of the body whic sole right to legislate for it. Usually, though, motwithstanding the great power inhering in it, the gencral conference is e deliberate and very slow to make change looks sometimes, just before the bod wvenes, as though it might so transfo) organism of the church as to re izable by even its oldest fri 5. coming conference would certainly do this if it adopted all the suggestions volunteered by correspondents in the church press, and it would not fall very far short of doing it .should it act favorably upon the propositions that wi]l be made in due time by its own It is safe to predict, however, that this gathering will be servative, if any, than its pre ‘been and that the old ship will emerge from tests lying before her,not at with very little alteration If, however, any of her positions, or vate lifo, therc tutes beauty. are made plain. though of this, decessors, will be preach and to pro; © Cupid in the Kitchen. York Her- A stout and good- natured-looking woman of middle age, en Markey by name, was for many years head cook in the family of the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.” She knew how to make up little dishes to tempt delicate appetites, and the Plymouth hecause the love of tin all humanity that instant protest is made when angl offered us in place of flowing lines and grace of drapery de- The fashion-plates may seem to hold denial of this statement, but the fashion-plates are happil of growth in this knowlédge of benuty. We are learning it in spite of fushion N. Y. Journal: hypnotic subjects, he took William Routz, alias “Thompson, Harry Seymour. Both are young men rounts abundantly g in an election to account of her gastronomi Tyerybody about the house called her Ellen, and she was absolute when below Several times she had been the recipient of matrimonial offers, which were declined with thanks. all of her admirers that so long as Mr. Beecher lived and maintained a home she would remain his cook in single- and very sis- A. Hammond viously placed them under the Telt in its results. modifications, Dr. Feldman first looked Routz in the eye and then put him asleep by waving the subject’s forehead. mour in the and unchanging form, buta combina- tion best adapted to the wearer’s se of what is most fitting. Women have their own figures and their own coloring; to settle definitely on what harmoni sizes both; and thus it has come to pass that, the American high authority may be trusted, the by dressed woman in the world. He may still be too heavy, her waist too small, her sleeves too tight, but this is shion from which she i 25 hersell as 1 come when 1ght the laws of his hands ov The doetor then placed & same condition by a sim A state of rigidit, as ‘‘tetatnus,” was then produced in learned to stud Landy made the acquaint- ance of Ellen ahout a ) nearly fifty years of age and had been a widower smce August, 1884, 3 times a week mansion to d delicacies wh and best empha- Feldman then informed them that was snowing, and turned up their coatcollars and began to the imagined snowflakes from immediately e visited the Be r choice fish or other h had been ordered from s place in Fulton Market. 1ng these visits he had opportuni- s of conversing with Ellen. He told her all about himself and the descriptions of the happy home and the tyranny of a fi more and more er time goes on. every child will be form and color in their application to dress, and any violation be held as an iety, to be instantly When that day come: the threc cssentials we have specific wiil enter into every dress. Itiseq certain that for many that day is Common sens operator made them imagine 'y were rowing in \ft had capiesed. The sub- jects went through all the commund- ments and struggled for loss of his wife. desolution in forlorn condition motherless little children pathetic and Ellen wa expressing her symp One day he pluck: 4 nt w ask the cook to give up her t that of mother tothe She did not accept, but that she woul preference if circumstances should permit her to marry. learned where he lived and occasionally went to his home to see his six mother- less children. Mr. Beecher died, and the old home- stead was broken up. a new home, and was considering where it should bo when Landy came 1o the front again and renewed his offer of i accepted, The vedding occurred on the evening of life in the sup- Finally one clutched the by the hair and gaspea exhausted on the carpet. At this point an excited German gen- tleman broke through the crowd of spectators, and, flourishing his cane, itedly shouted cnough, that young nan (point- ing to Routz) is my son. The doctor immediately re- stored the young man sciousness, and his father ca off, saying at the time: Routz, he is my son, and I would rather prison than at this offense against so frowned down. not backward in ready here. tion of the average Ame It may be s riously over- laid with prejudices, it may be ham- by fear of Mrs. Grundy, yet every community hasto-day its representative women, leading more and more in their train, and calml conventional, not overdressed, whatever glory of color or richness nter in into the com- told the wido I waunt this the forensic tem all damaged, an an her rigging. It is inevitable, though, that some changes 'L “I am_Josoph clamor for tho relaxing P will pe made. Muny of the rule in regard to the popula ments. The strong point with these is that Methodist practice along this line is not in armony with its precepts, and that to re- tawn a disciplinary rule which 15 8o often dis- policy, especially since, while it remains, it places Methodism at a “disadvantage with other denominations. ests for changes in the Itinerant system of © church are very numerous, among thoso which are not unlikely to prevail being the demand for the extension of the pastoral limit, eitbher uniformly special cases and a provision by which 1dors, instoad of being appointed as the bishops shall be elected by their Possibly too. in tho same connec- lon something may be done by way of con- more power upon the bishop's cabi- met, of which the presiding elders form the This with a view to re- ducing the power of the bishop in the sta- of ministers. Another matter to be #ousidered and which will probably be de cided in the affirmative, is that of extending the power of the laity by giving thewr repro- sentatives in the annual conforences. An- uostion will be that of union with thodist churches. definite proposition for such unlon, but the matter will come up in some form, and a rowth of sentiment will be indi- he conference will also complete arrangements for a gathering in this country in 1591 of representatives of all the Methodist churches in the world, a similar body to the famous Ecumenical conference which met in Ellen had to seck mained, and he ate_quinine for candy, sniffed hartshorn for cologne, became 'y George and Dr. McGlynn alter- nately, robbed an imaginary bank, crew like a cock, became a grovelling dog, and finatly’ himself again. experimented with a magnet and certain chemical produced different position of the! ihem it is no ques be worn twice or th over to the dealer in second-hand gar- It is only for evening festivity or gay lunch or afternoon tea that any deviation from an almost fixed uniform is allowed, and here the voIns pronounced overdr the same costume, with slightest vai tions, two, three—nay,even half adozen .wegarded, is bad on of somothing to ice and then turned The couple went to live at No. 36 Charles street, and soon d they were ill-mated. On Christmas Day ed up his household effe and taking his six children with him, moved to No, 86 New Chambers street, or soas to mect preparvations, and sed may have wi Aftor the seance witn Seymour the subject was asked if he remembered anything that had ogcurred. lied that he did not, CONKLING AND THE REPORTERS, An action fora limited divorce has now been brought b, domands alimony. cruel treatment, have brought about the revolution sighed for many years ago by sensible women, and it is here and there that one sces silks velvets on the street, their appear- ance there indicating that the wearer there is either underbrod and ignorant, or is wearing out her old dresses vpre- paratory to coming into her real king- om and tasting the delights of a sim- well-made suit. ~gomponent parts. andy is accusd of Niueteen days after the wedding, she says, he charged her with having another husband living, and with trying to peison him, and threatened to huy a pistol and shoot her, and not ouly did he beat her hiu self, but he encouraged daughter to do so. All this 1s denied by Landy. he did not want to marry Ellen, but that she absolutely coaxed him into She knew that he was poor, © was s0 anxious to have h husband that she bought him his ding garments and her own wedding She also paid a month’s rent for the rooms in which they went to live, One reason why he did not: wish to marry Ellen, Landy says, was becau lie had so many children, but she tested and said she loved children and would be n_mother to them. marriage she did not kee She illtreated the children, and finally compelled the second eldest to leave the He says he was willing to bave ker accompany him to New York when he moved, but she would not ghe could not ride on top of with the driver, Justice Osborne listened to the ar ment yesterday on th and reserved his docision, A Courteous Intercowrse With News- Which Never paper Men w New York Sul Roseoe Conkling had an exceedingly genial way in dealing with reporters who were known to him, He was always happy and pleasant in his manners, frankly: told them what they wanted to know, butinvariably wound up the interview by resting his white hand on the Thero may be no ses now a suit of cheap mater- se nothing but cheapness is , but modeled on the se- in the dvess of eporter’s shoulder You will please to remem- possible for b implicity she see » best custoiners. mway have led us astray at times, but we owe to them certain emancipations that rdly have come But the greatest interest will centre in the It is not quite true, as some have said, that the conforences will have in its gift a sufticiout number of oftices to allow of one or wore baing conferred upon each of the but it is true, that, if service committees be counted, it will 1y enough toallow of such distribu- t is also true, and some think very unfortunately so, that the delegates are, as a genoral thing, quite anxious to see them- provided for. anything for publication,” 2 R, inany other | hamper him in his legal casos. confidence was always respected, since he established himself in New York he was frequently called out of bed long after midnight "in response to iven at that houg he was genial, witty and obliging, as far as A short time ago a re- porter told him that he would like above all things to print some of his confiden- tial chats he had had with him. rvoporter dilated on the avidity with which uewspaper readers woul The senator only smildd “Wait till after m adopted many of them, but fashionable women, soine of whom are not sensible, have been brought to low, heels, and thick boots, and and simply dressed hair “s0 English, you know.” Simplicity is the last possession earn- Only the highest order own it, for imitation is now own- ership, and for many who have adopted a gimple fashion because it is English inward seceptance of simplicity, and there will be in.medinte reversion W od tendencies if the pres- + my friend; wait till T am dead, her promise. a reporter’s call. he could be. Dbrought against former confevences which, ‘were they true, would entitle those bodies to rank in such matters with an ordinary ward JAut it is certain that even the devil black as be is sometimes paiuted, and it probable that the same is urue of ose ministers who are accu: w2232 1o the arte of Lhe po! ed by humaaity. there is no real such matter, allmony guestion To the People ho Have Children! Children’s Clothing is a Matter of Considerable importance. S.L. ANDREWS & CO, Realizing this fact have made great preparations to dress the children of Omaha, and have devoted a prominent Fnrt of our storeroom to making a par- or separate from the rest of the store, that ladies coming to select for the lit- tle fellows a suit, can do so and not be molested in the usual way when a clothing store is filled with gentlemen doing their tmdln;.z‘. To mothers who want something cheap for the boys to play in, it will be pleasing to learn that S. L. Andrews & Co have Plnccd an the children’s perlor a line of children’s suits as follows: A neat little blue sailor suit for 89¢, worth $2. Another blue pleated suit with belt of same matorial, for $1.60, worth $3. A nice little brown stripe suit of Sawyer Cassimere, $3.50, worth 26, A pretty little soft grey suit of Saw- yer Cassimere for $8.50, worth $6, A nice brown mixed grey suit of Saw- yer Cassimere for $3.50, worth 86, These are specialties and are sold at these prices to furnish the little ones in new suits for the play ground, at the smallest possible expense to their par- brown stripe cassimeore to make a con- trast, making them decidedly handsome and attractive. rean velvet and corduro; nest ever produceds men who wear short pants we have 80 styles of all the late cassimeres, in plain nids, blue and in faot domestic fabries in use S. L, Andrews & Co; Being conversant with all the tasty styles, have placed in stock several styles of the three piece short pants suits for boys from 10 to 15 years of age. Of short pants we have a full line in price from 500 to 83, ildren’s wool, French Penang and Percale Shirt Waists, wo dare say we have in tho greatest variety. fvery lady in search of something for her children, should by all means in< vestigate the stock of suits are the ‘or the little neat mixtures, 11 the forei, Besides these great bargains we have R all the leading styles of children’s Kilt suits in pretty soft groy and brown mix- tures; blue plaid Kilt suits, drab plaid Kilt suits, brown plaid Kilt suits, and in fact all the desirable novelties of plaid Kilt suits manufactured by the Scotch firm of Malcomson & Co, of New York, who produce more natty styles of Scotch plaids than any other house in the world We must not, however, lose sight of our Jersoy suits and our blue yacht cloth suits, in sailor style, trimmed with satin and gold cord which makes thom ex- Also our blue yacht tremely protty. cloth suits with sailor collarsof drab and S. L. ANDREKEW Ss20C0., And have a seat in our Children’s parlor, Cor, 15th & Douglas-st., For- merly the N. B, Falconer Corner. Mail orders from any part of tha northwest will be filled on approval, and if not satisfactory returned at our expense. THE SNIPE AND WOODCOCK. An Epiourean Contrast Between the Two Birds. A DAYS SHOOT AT STILLWATER. Where and When to Hunt the Gamy Jack—A Dissertation on Shooting and Eating Them —Local Sports Find Pleasure in the Marshes The English snipe, Gallinago Wilsonii, or “‘the jacks,” as they are more commonly and familiarly called, in my esteem are the choic- est game birds in the whole known world, not even excepting that morceau of the cpi- cure, the woodcock. I think the latter, so far as its incomparable edible qualities arc concerned, is in a measure, a delusion and a myth, and that it is given such universal pre- ference simply on account of the endorse- ment of alleged gastronomes and the extreme rarity of the bird. Not one cook in a thou- sand knows anything about serving wood- cock, and the bird is apt to come upon the table in as unpalatable a shape as it is possi- ble to imagine for anything so delicate and delicious. However, it makes no_difference how superbly the woodcock may be served, he is not to be compared with the jack snipe. Can a dainter, more tempting or irrestible dish be conjured up than these tender, juic; little habitants of marsh and meadow afford, especially at this season of the year? Take a baker’s dozen, have them neatly dressed, split open on the back, and with a lump of spring butter, and rplenty of pepper and salt for each bird, lay them in a dripping pan about two-thirds full of water, then place them in the hot oven, and while in process of baking, repeatedly baste, and when they are thoroughly done through, and nice and brown, PJl venture to say yon will find them the most lucious dish you ever sat down to. This is o capital snipe country, there being some good shooting within three miles of the city’s center. One of the best grounds I know of in this vicinity, however, is at Weedy lake, a few miles ‘south of Council Blu It is a long stretch of low-lying, bogey meadow and woodland, and will afford better shooting than any of the famous grounds along the Illnois or Kankakee. The soil is of the richest, brackest loam, corru- gated and broken with tufted niggerheads ana trickling rills, with either brackish pools or reaches of dead buffalo grass. lying be- tween, and making the finest feeding grounds hungry galiinago over struck. The tender green of the dundelion and splatterdock are now just pecping forth, while hore and there are clumps of swamp willow, maple, lilipu- tian cane, pucker brush, sere flags and wav- ing reeds which make it a great rendezvous for song birds of all kinds as well as for frogs, turtles and garter snakes, The jacks arrive here in their greatest flight during the first warm and genial days of April. However, they haye been known 10 put in an appeapance In_open winters as carly as the 1st of March, but in small num- bers, and restless in their deportment and lying to neither dog nor man. The shooting is now at its height, and one of the warm, balmy days of last week Johnny Hardin and | went down to Stillwater and didsome very creditable work, too, fora starter, without the services of a retriever. Notwithstanding this statement I do not deem a dog of much advaotage, save for recover- ing dead birds, for a dead snipe—and all old gunuers will bear me out—is about as hard a thing to find as the proverbial needle in a haystack. Without a dog much care must be exercised'in marking them down, and they should be gathered at tl liest possible moment, the homogeneousness of a well- ordered snipe grounds is a wonder and a per- plexity always. 1t was a lovely afternoon, the cne in ques- tion, and our hearts swelled with the an- ticipated _sport as we set in at the southern boundaries of the marsh, and started in among the tussocks toward the grove at its northern extremity, forcing our way through the tangle of ambitious sprouts, herbs and vlants, ferns and mosses, over blackened logs, through thickets of yellow tendrilled willows, red-dyed maple ‘sprigs aud creeping vines. The landscape, 100, was full of life and exhilaration. A wandering broeze swayed the naked reeds; the robin sang his blithesome roundelay from the topmost twigof yon tall cottonwood; the blackbird chirped petulantly from this copso und that; a couple of Jays scolded us from a near clump of maples; the crow cawed in the distant grove, the hawk win- nowed his sable shape far above and the garter snake, with provident speed, made his way into the ‘crypts of dead flags from under our rubber boots—the whole scene bewil- dering the eye and vivifying the fancy. We did not know whether the jacks had avrived here, or not, only felt sure that they liad from the generally fayorable metcor- ological condition existing—the gentle rains of the few days previous, the frost-freed ground, the starting grasses, the warm, mellow sunshine and soft, south bre Nobody knows when the snipe come. Nobody ever saw him come, or leave either. for that matter. They arc as mysterious and silent in their arrival and departure as dis- embodied spirits. They undoubtedly migrato by night,riding in on the first warm wave from the south after the earliest spring rains have accomplished their mission with the frost in the earth. You may visit the snipe grounds to-day and beat them up and down and across and back again until your legs wear out, and never ‘jump & single jack or hear a single “skeap,’ the inevitable plaint of a startied snipe. But to-morrow you may go again an find the meadow full of them, If the temperature is not just-right they will ~be discovered only in isolathd bunchesof four or five. They arc uneasy in their habits and will flush away out of guashot, the first “akcur" often being the alarum for every jack in the field to rise. Under such conditions they up like a brown and white streak; iheir notes aro sharp, disgusted and spiteful, and off they 80, :fymg ow at first, but gradually ascend- ing until they are but a mosquito against the background sky. Here 1 have known them to fly for-hours in the most irregular percgri- nations, making great curviforms in their aerial diversions-—-now shooting off out of the range of vision, but unexpectedly making thoir appearance again and immodiately overhead, as if dropped from the uywr spaces, 50 erratic and bewildering are their movements, At irregular iutervals during this flight that distinet, but far-sounding guttural whir, that quavering, tremulous, woird hoo-000000 breaks upon the ear, an which gruseme sound ls zisde by the bird beating its sides .with inconceivable rapidity with its wings during his curvetings in the There is no telling what a snipe may do, as Billy Brewer aptly remarked, his shapely Jittle head is full of eccentric notions, and he may drop down twithin a few feet'of you, tilting dudishly backin the reeds with the noisclessness of a his reticulated antics in the air until he be- comes the veriest speck in space and then At other times you find them lazy and siuggish, and lying like lead, in fact almost compelling you to kick them their wallows in the warm mud. is the case when the weather is sultry and spring-feverish,developing th ! after o gradual moderation of weeks, during which process the strug, drizzling rains together have extra frost from the ground and rendered boring good for the birds the moment they scttle upon their slender legs. although they make frequent halts for rest, from the south has wearie them and they set to work most vo; upon their arrival gormandizing themsclves on the larvae and angle-worms A lence and indifference that never fails to re- sult in the Jack’s woe and the hunter’s profit. 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Tickets for sale at Gotham Cigar Store, 218 S. 18th St., and Auer- bach & Co., 218 S. 13th St. nto an indo- Such a day as this was the one of which I For the distanco of several hundred yards we tramped through the choicest kind of the medley of sweet vernal sounds and sent the blood bounding with renewed accelera- tion_through our veins. > cluding that the jacks had not yet come in, and had shouldered my piece, when, with startling suddenness, from out the spongy, vegetable debris at my very feet, one of the little tanny beauties, sounding his warning note, darted like a streak, his graceful shape glancing white and russett, first this way and then that, in_the bright sunlight, in his frantio effort, 'to leave the advancing behe- moth safe behind. c quickly unto him despite his _quick convolu- tious, and at the crack of my gun he dove headlong into the mud. The loud report breaking inso harshly upon the delightful melody of wind and bird, and_frog, started up more, in_front, on both sides, hind us, none more than twenty steps away. flurry Ilost m d I was about con- But it was no go. t least a dozen and even be- head, and w sccond barrel, 1 with his usual slall, knocked down a bird with each of b Vell, the sport lasted for hours, and by the sun was slanting over the rim of vest, we were the next e had made a splendid kil and dragging our ponderous feet from out the boggy field, we started for home, lied just as the tender tints in the April sky were trembling away into the softgruy of the decpen to fagged, but v pY G. V. GRISWOLD, B Didn't Speak For Three Years. an aged but ssed man, wanted a divorce ns’ court to-day. he was married to Mary Davison twenty years ago, but omitted any reference to that space of their married life between IRISH TWEEDS > latter par June, 1884,” 4 4 . smhll ‘.{h-(.hi)u)\;li%‘x:‘ J;“:ltyf)’“:n",\"l(\‘v;irl. :\1|||l Got One Button Too Many or Too Few, I started on a tour east. We remained in New ,and on July 11 sailed away and my wife returned 10 Chicago. I was absent from three to four montl and when I returncd I went tou T was going to Detormined always to) koep our assortme to the standurd of fo ion, we have u fre three-button well-known and | s approved Irish| d at my features, and without a word of greeting turncd and went into a room by herself. S After that it was a case of mute-like nce between us. y the same roof, but occupied separate recognized me words 1 ignors ) ) years wo lived in the same house and spoke not a word to Then, in March last I went and found that she had left, and when she went all the fur- niture in the house, exi chamber, went with her.”” ST cannot give a decrec in the casc “Phe hushand has made me af the door, 1ts and in light and| success in these favorive apartments each other. Th home one evening ept that in my » said the court. 1 no effort to reconci out apparently knowing why she had farther apart without damming the iled upon the court to give him a chanc son is quite well-do-do. Dime Eden Musee [UBMIO) [udy ‘fepung $u i n Commencing Sunday, April 29th. ¢ 6