Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1888, Page 16

. In order to protect our canvassers from any suspicion of fraud, and to assure our customers that they ‘ are not being defrauded, we publish below the retail prices of the different styles of Awarded first premium and gold medal at World's Exposition, New Orleans, over all competitors. Does Embroidery of all kinds equal to hand work. Style No. 3 $55 These are our retail time prices, the only deviation being on very short time or for cash, in which case we give a discount accordingly, and customers can bu of our dealers or canvassers as they can directly from this office. \We are asked sometimes why we ask Jjust as cheap from an; Unio - Style No. 4 $60. n ) Sewing Machine. DO. QHIO, U.S. A, Style No. 6 $65. Awarded all first premiums at Omaha Exposition. Sews backwards as well as for- wards, making perfect stitch eithér Style No. 6 $75. Style No. 7 $75 . higer prices for the Union than other sewing machines can be bought for. The reason isthat itis worth more money, and that this 1s true we offer in evidence the wonderful popularity achieved by thé Union. In the face of the mostdetermined opnositionand at prices higher than is asked for other machines, the Union commands a readier sale than any of the old line sewing machines. The records of the freight offices will proye that more Union Sewing machines are shipped into Omaha than all other makes of machineg combined. There are many machines cheaper in price than the Union but do you want a cheap machine? Do you not want the best machine and is not the best, the cheapest, although it costs more money? Consider these points and try the Union. It is the best and on that account cheapest. Responsible dealers wanted in all unoccupied territory in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota 8 Colorado. UNION MANUFACTURING GO., For particulars address, 609 Howard St., Omaha, Neb IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD. The Progress of the Russo-Greek Church in America. CONVENT ABUSES IN PARIS A Heathen Institution Under a Chris- lian | Guise — !Boy-Cotting Re- ligious Butchers—An Under- Ground Chapel. A Peculiar Religious Boycott. Chicago Tribune: A very peculiar boycott has been inaugurated in Mil- waukee, Wis.. against four butchers. They are the orthodox butchers and meat sellers for two orthodax Jewish congregations. The members of each are very poor and were not able hereto- fore to enjoy the luxury of a rabbi, prayers av their serv ices being said by those who are able to do sa. Thena committee of both the Montefiore and the Anse Jacob congregations hit upon & novel plan to secure the money neces- sary to pay Mr. Kumaschersky, an orthodox rabbi at Chicago, who had been selected. Theydemanded that the four butchers were to pay 1 cent for every pound of meat which was sold at their shops. [n vain they protested that their profits did not allow of this novel tax, being just sufficient to main- tain their families. The committee urged ‘submission, but failed. They then declared the boycott by proclaim- ing that the meat sold at these shops were not clean, and not treated accord- ing to Jewish rite, and consequently unclean. They sent out postal cards to all orthodox Jews in the city, asking them not to patronize the rebellious meat venders. Two of the butchers have been compelled to close their shops, while the other twointend to call upon the courts to protect them, An Ancient Unde rground Chapel. Globe-Democrat: An interesting dis covery has been made in au old Spanish mine on the property of the Corralitos Cattle and Mining company,on the Casa Grande river, in northern” Chihuahua, an immense estate belonging to El Paso and New York partics, The mine is called the Sun Pedro, and there is on it an old incline going into the moun- tain at an angle of forty-five degrees, and evidently following the richest ore streak in a zigzag manner. At the end of this incline a subtervanean chamber was found, which had been fashioned evidently with great lubor and trouble into & regular Catholic chapel, The chamber is some thirty feet high, Seats have been cut from the solid rock run- ning all around the chapel, and so have beeu an altar and a pulpit. The whole was found neatly whitewashed, and pre- sents a peculiar and weird aspect. The ancient chapel could be used at a mo- ment’s notice as a place of worship. The whole country adjacent to the Casa Grande and Santa Maria rivers is full of objects of interest to the archwol- ogist and naturalist. Prehistorie ruins . are found everywhere, many of them elearly traceable to the Aztecs, but oth- mev{dently ante-date any authentio records of history, A richer field of ex- oration and inyestigution cannot bo d anywhere in North America, A Bogus Converit. St. James Gazette: A sham. couvent bae just beew discovered in Paris. The case is attracting much attention. It abounds, a correspondent says, in scan- dalous revelations, and it is simply amazing that the police knew nothing about the place until quite lately. The ‘‘false convent” was opened about six years ago by two termagants, who orig- inally had been expelled from a relig- ious congregation of which they were members, The “mother superior” called herself “Sister St. Adalbert,” and her artful assistant was ‘‘Sister Therese.” They ‘sailed” under Fran- ciscan colors and wore the habit of that order. Little difficulty was experienced in providing funds for the bogus estab- lishment. “‘Sister St. Adalbert” in- veigled a wealthy old spinster, a Madamoiselle de St. Andre, to come and live in the convent. She did so, and, being half crazy, allowed the so-called “nuns” to do what they liked with her- self and her money. They shut her up in a_damp room in order to accelerate her death, and told her that if she dared to leaye 1t she would be ‘‘everlastingly damned.” Poor Mile. St. Andre took this extremely bad language for evangelical truth, and- lived on—half-starved, cold and com fortless—in her miserable room., She had a female friend, however, who came to visit her and saw through the frauds of the sham ‘‘sisters.” Nevertheless, this person fell a victim to the wiles of the female swindlers and was actually shut up herself with Mlle. St. Andre— 80, at least, it appears from the particu- lars furnished by the police; but the point is still involved in a little mystery. As to the ‘‘hoarders” and ‘‘novices’” of the establishment, they were girls from six to sixteen. Some of them paid for their support, while others were received gratuitously into the strange nunnery. All, however, had to work like slaves with the needle, the sham “sisters” having succeeded in obtaining orders from leading linen drapers in Paris and the |l)|'u\'inm-,s. “Sister St. Adalbert” had also a retreat for old men in her monastic inclosure, and had been very successful in obtaining funds for the institution. The police *have un- carthed the scandal owiug to the pro- testations of the parents of gome of the “hoarders,” who complained of the way in which their children had been treated by the pseudo nuns, Was I't a Spirir, Philadelphia Press: A few months ago young Barnes came to Chattanoogo from Georgin and formed o pavtnership with M. J. Nix to engage in the hoot and shoe trade, Aft u few weeks Barnes sold out to Le Owens, one of the wealthiest and best known men in Tennesse: 1t appears that Barnes and Owens quavrelled over the settlement, and, after being struck in the face, Barnes drew his revolver and shot Owens three times, the third shot being fatal, though not instantl The wounded man was carried to his house, where everything possible was done, but nothing could save him. How- ever, he fought desperately to beat back the vider of the pale horse, and so .gallantly did he struggle that he lived several days. Saturd Janvary 14, came and Barnes was forthe socond time taken before the magistrate, and after a stubhornly fought trial he was released on bail, the magistrate holding that, inasmuch as the victim of the shooting was still alive, murder was not committed. The next aay Owens grew worse, and toward evening sank intoa stupor. Those who had been watching by the bedside knew that the end wae not far off. Among those who remained through the night was ex-Mayor Sharp. A lit- tle after 4 o'clock Monday merning Mr, Sharp left the room, in which -the and a circumstance that soon occurred is the feature of the story. Mr. Sharp does not like to talk of the matter, but he consented to tell itto your corre- spondent, and his own words arve used. I was standing,” he said, ‘“‘with my elbow resting on the mantelpiece look- ing down into the fire. The coals were nearly consumed and the apparent ef- forts of the embers to burst again into flames reminded me of the heroic efforts of my friend to get o fresh and stronger hold upon the s vas § y though slowly slipping away from him. And I was running over in my mind the 5 of life; how fleet of foot ms- e; how sorrow comes across ath at the meridian hour of the brightest day, leaving a shadow by us. “The lines of Horace came tome— ‘Pale death of equal tread knocks atthe cottage of the poor and the palace of the rich.” The thought was still lingering in my mind when I was aroused by a tap.on my shoulder. Supposing some one had entered while I was absorbed in thought, I turned to answer, butno one was there and the door was still closed, * T was startled, and immediately turned to the wounded man’s side, where I found the watchers as pale as the watched, and trembling like aspen leaves. They asked me if I had been making any noise, and on assuring them to the con- trary they looked at each other in amazement. They said that just before I entered the room a sound as of the moaning of the wind seemed to per- vade the room, and ruuulinrly appalling sounds—not loud, but omihous—were distinctly heard, and that for anin- stant the lamp, which had been turned low, almost went out, and the little light left seemed to shine as though through a fog. “What it was I know not, but it couldn’t have been fancy on the part of us all, There were two other watchers besides myself, Besides I we ) A sep- arate room, with the door closed, and 1 had said nothing to them of the tap- ping on my shoulder. If I were a spir- itualist I would believe that the soul of Lewis Owens, just starting on .its jour- ney home, stopped to say good by to me, for when we went to look at our cha he was still in death.” Mpr, Sharp is one of the best-known citizens of Chattanooga, a member of the bar, ex-mayor of the city, intelli- gent and fearless. He is so well known and his word so trustworthy that those who have heard the story cannot but ve that something supcrnatural ded the flight of Lewis Owens’ spirit from its prison home of clay. A Word in Defer »f Inspiration. LAMONT, Ia., April 24,—To the Edi- tor of the BE In the BEE of April 18 I find an article under the caption of “Self Constituted Diety,” over the sig nature of **Minnie Rath Winn,” in which, among other things, the doc- trine of inspiration isseverely eriteised. The shot, s0 to speak, is fired at Utah Mormonism in particular, and all other Mormonisms, including the original, in general, in which the author brands all alike with a want of fidelity to the gov- erunment, and as the scum and slum of society. Perhaps the lady is not aware of the existence of the re-organized church, (so-called), and its very em- phatic declaration of principles in gard to the government. to the cranks, false Christs, and deadbeats generglly, she tells us about, and the enormities of Utah blas- Hnum&cs we will not take issue, for we cplore their existence as much as she does, but as to the geueral scope of sound or original principles we take issue, tg-wit: Faith, répentance, bap- tism for the remmission of sin, laying wounded wan was lying, for & momeut, ‘ on of hands for confirmation and gift of the Holy Ghost, and for the ordination of the ministery, and for the healing of the sick, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment: also, the doc- trine of inspiration, we do take issue. d church is under the leadership of Joseph Smith, son of the murdered Joseph Smith, with head- quarters at Lamoni, Decatur county, Iowa, and this church now numbers some fifty or sixty thousand members, mostly all of whose feelings would be wrought up a little were the lady to say in their hearing that they are among the slums of society. The main thing objected to in the ar- ticlo referred to, seems to be th trine of in: tion. If it be a f: inspiration is a delusion, then the whole religioue fab founded on the Bible 1s a mere machine by which, as she says, *‘the leaders” in religious movements go into to gull the people in order to make a living without earning it. And if inspiration from God ever existed there is no reason why it cannot exist now. Itseems to me that a government would be rather a tame one whose offices were all assumed, and whose head existed in such a way as never to be seen or heard from by any one of its subjects or citizens. No one can doubt there being great differences of opinion regarding points of doctrine in the Bible. How are we to arrive at the truth in regard to these points without the advantage of inspiration from God? The simple fact is we cannot, and that is the reason that religion is so diversified at this age of the world. And there i another thing which is a_simple fac take away inspiration,and then the doc- trines of deism, infidelity, paganism, ry other ism is just as true as or Godism,and the whole profession, including pagan worship, is but an artifice to delude the people into .~upym-n|w an_ avaricious priest- hood in laziness and extravagance. You knock the props from under inspira- tion, and you knock them from under the whole religiousstructure which has the Bible for its foundation. NATIHAN LINDSEY. Religious Aspect of Special Creation, Popular Science Mouthly: Nothing has brought out the difliculty of the “special ereation” theory more strongly than the modern sci=nce of comparative embryology. It has added enormously to our knowledge of the existence of (apart from its suggested explanation of) rudimentary organs, and rudi- mentary ovgans have always been a difliculty in the way of the “gpecial creation” hypothesis. Take the cuse of the whale. As Prof, Flower pointed out at the Reading ehurch con- press, it pos: s in the embryo state a comple t of teeth, together with rudimentary hind-legs, furnished with bones, joints, and muscles, of which there is no trace externally. Both teeth and legs disapps before birth, On the theory that the whale isa descendant of a land animal, which used both legs and teeth, they are intelligible as sur- vivals in a creature to which they are apparently useless. But that 1 should have ated these stru anew heing, which had no organie re- lation with other created forms of life, ns almost inconceivab) We can neither believe that they we created *for mere sport or variety,” onr that they are **Divine mockeriés,” nor as an ingenious but anthropomorpic writer in the Spectator suggested, that God economically kept. to the old plan, though 1ts details had ceased to have either appropriateness or use. The diffi- culties are even stronger in the case of man and the now well-known facts of his embryonic life. How is it possible, in the face of these, o maintain tha woe have in man a creation independent of the rest of God’s creative work? Of course, if the theory of ‘“‘special crea- rin the bible or in christian antiquity, we might bravely try and do battle for it. But it came to us some two centuries ago from the side of science with the imprimatur of a pur- itan poet. And, though scientific men are now glad to palm off upon theolog- ians their own mistakes, religion is not bound to wear, still less to be proud of, the cast-off clothes of physicial science. RELIGIOUS. One thousand sinners have lately been couverted at a Methodist revival in New York. The paschal candle in St. Patrick’s cathe- dral, New York, is ten feet, six inches high, weighs seventy pounds, and cost $250, Rev. Wallace Nutting, who has not yet completed his studics at Union college, and who at one time met the expenses of his edu- cation by working as a waiter, has received a call from a Congregational church in New- ark, N. J., at a salary of $2,000 a year. A'man in Charlottetown, Prince Edward’s island, disinherited all his relations and left $40,000 to Bishop McEntire for the erection of a new cathedral for that city. The bishop refused the gift and declined to take the whole or any part of the unnatural bequest. A pure blooded Aztec is among the party of Mexican pilgrims now journeying toward Rome. The most valuable single present to be given by the pilgrims to Pope Leo is a massive cross of solid gold studded with precious stones, it1s nine inches in length, and is said to be worth upward of $50,000, The boay of a Hebrew stock broker was cremated at Woking, which is & mortuary uburb of London, last weck, being the first anstance of a Jewish cremation in England. A delegate from a synagogue was present, and Rubbi Marks will conduct services oye the incinerated remains to-morrow, which will establish the precedent of a Hebr sanction of cremation, which has hitherto been withheld, It has been decided to make Christ church, St. Louis, of which Rev. Dr. Montgomer, Schuyler has for so long been rector, the ca- thedral church of the diocese, under the name of Christ Church cathedral, An un- known friend, through the bishop,has offered towards an endowrment §25,000 for the cathe- caal and § yestry of Christ chur raise $12,500 in order to make the amount up to $50,000, The ves- try at once agreed 4o this, and the first nimed sum, §25,000, is now in the bishop's hands, invested in bonds. C PPascal Porter, the “'boy preacher,” who has been accompanying ey, Sam Jones in his pilgrimago through Kentucky, is de- scribed as “'a handsome cleven-year'old lad, Dressed in Knickerbockers ~and plaited blouse, a jaunty little hat and high button shoes, he makes no more impression upon the casual observer than any ordinary well- dressed boy offeleven, but a close scrutiny will show the observer that there is some- thing unusual about the lad, The impres. sion is made when one looks at his large, brown eyes, that have in them an_expression beyond boyhood—a thoughtful light that in- dicates developed intellect, His manuer, also, while eminently boylike, is so full of nervous force as to at opce impress a close obseryer.” -~ In Church, Yankee Blade, I feel a solemn sanctity Sweet rest of soul is s My heart abides ia pious peac My bonnet sets divinc! irace, hike a river, fills my soul, In chasted joy 1 sit; 1 feel religion’s deepest power; My sacque’s a splendid fit, A holy fervor penetrates My soul’s remotest nooks. An carnest, chastened, fervia joy— How neat that ribbon looks ! ‘The good man tells of Christian pea The organ’s anthem swells I bathe in streams of pure delight, My dress cost more than Nell's. O holy rest! O Sabbath cal! O chastened peace serene! 1 1cel thy deep abiding spell How dowdy is Miss Green | 1 {eel a pure religious glow, O rapture undefined | 1 know my bonnet looks as nice Fo those who sit behind, The Country Editor's Wife. Montreal Gazette. You have heard of the country editor’s lifo, With its cares and worry and doubt, Of the shabby genteel of his scedy clothes, Of his diamond pin and his calm repose, His happiness, money and gout. But say, have you heard of the editor’s wife? Of that silent co-partner, who, With a blending of scntiment, beauty and skill, With temperate knowledge, with tact and will, The whole of his labor can do? It is she who embroiders the garments worn By the editor’s hard old chair, Now dressed with cushions soft and neat, And trimmed up with tidies and ribbons sweet, ‘Which once was so poor and so bare, If the editor’'s sick, or away, or behind, In need of more hands or more haste, She directs his wrappers so they can bé read And writes his leaders right out of her hea And willingly makes his paste. She reads the magazines, papers and books, As the cradle she softly rocks; While the editor sits in his casy chair, With his fingers thrust in his tangled hair, She quietly mends his socks, Then she reads the ads. with the editor, Just to find what each has paid. “But the column ad. of the jeweler there,” S0 e says, “and the Larncss and hutan hair, Must be'taken out in trade!” She wears the corsets he got for ads., And rattles his sewing machine: She uses the butter and eggs and things The country subscribers so faithfully brings, With a cheerfulness seldom seen. But her life so full of merry delight Has one dark cloud, alas! Though she shares liis ticket to circus and play, "To lecturcs and negro minstrels gay, She can't use bis railroafl pass ! When time hangs heavy on his hands, She beguiles the hours away With joke and laughter, music and song, And pleasant talk, and thus ripples along The whole of edch leisure day. Oh! who would exchange this sweet content, This simple and trusting life, For that of a queen of royal birth1 the happicst woman on all this carth Is the country editor's wife! IMPIETIES, A young lady in Pittsburg is boing tried by hurch on the charge of stealing a towel ;ro's hoping she will bo nicely white: washed -as defendants in ehurch trials usu- ; for a grand jubilee, If the people ts of Kansas hear a strange e night they will know what it . In the Peeshawur cemetery in India is the following amusing cpitaph: “Sacred to the , missionary, aged —, whidar, ‘Well' done thow good snd faithful servant.’” New York gossips say that some of New York’s fushionable men mauage to pay_their club fees by judicious renting of the family church pews during the periodie yearly flit tings of the family firom one fashionable re sort to anothi A minister overtook a Quaker lady and po liteiy assisted her in opening a gate. As she was & comparative stranger in town, he said : “You don’t know, perhaps, that I am Mr. Haven't you heard me preach? 1 have hewd you try,” was the quick re- joinder, Cne hundred years ago thetown of Wilton, N. H., passed the following vote: *“That thé town provide one barrel West India rum, five barrels New England rum, one_barrel good r, balf @ box gooa lemons, two loaves of loaf sugar for raising and framing said meeting house.” Minister (to sick official)—You are aware, dear brother, that you are about to diet K Oficial—Yes; I am aware of it. Ministel And do you feel that you can go with resig- nation? * Sick Ofticial—Yes; but I'm agoing without resignation. We die, you know, but We never resign, Pompous old teachier (to class in sacred history) —-What weapon 'did Samson use to kill the Phillistines. No one remembers. P O. T\ (who belioves in - suggesting. auswers, touching his chin)—What is this? Bright boy (who takes the hint and remembers it alj now)—The jawbone of an ass, sir. George Cull, of Dallasburg, Ky., when boy of only seven years, memorized and re peated 1,300 verses of the Bible. His memd ory was 0 strong that after hegring a set mon preached he could repeat it verbai Yet, for all that, he did not turn out wel for he was sent to stealing. “‘Ma," said Bobby, on his way home from church, ‘““was old Mr. Bentley blown up b, dynamite?” “Certamnly not, Bobby; didn’ you hear the minister say that his last hours on earth wero peacefuli”. “Yes, ma; but the minister said that he was gathered to hid fathers, and I didn’t know but what he was blown Up by something. A small boy is rath slow in committin prayers to memory, and require a good dei of prompting. 'The other night he began hig regular prayer in his regular way. “Now—F lay—me,"—and there he stuck fast, “Down,” said his mother, prompting. Whereupon Johnuy set off again with great alacrity and fluency—"‘Down came a biacks bird and nipped off her nose.’” “John, dear,” called out the wife from the head of the stairway, *‘do you know it's lon past midnight?! Must you " work so hard on your next Sunday sermon as early in the week as this?” “Coming in & moment, m; dear. Don’t bother me,” replied the reveren spouse from his study. “Let me see—where was I1 If a hen and a half lay an cgg and g nalf—blister the puzzling thing, anyhow "’ ———— jail later in life for borsd Vanderbilt's Lackey. Young William K. Vanderbilt has two lackeys of pronounced type. He and his wife have only been back fron their yachting tour around the worl for a week or two, and therefore their mansion at Fifty-second strect and Fifth avenue is gazed at with interest. The long-locked doors and the close-cur- taned windows are reopened, and there is a stir of life about the place. The Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum is dis rectly across the way, and from the upper windows of this charity institus tion the ambitious youngsters may gaze rightinto the abode of enormous wealth, Several hot wfter they have quit their own beds they are every morning treated to a portion of the lazier rising of Willie Vanderbilt, That is to say ho completes his toilet at a glass hetween two front windows and in full view of those orphans who have the oppor to look. He is attended to by a v an English product—who from morning until night wears a swallow-tail conty black trouser white vest and an air of solemn melancholy, He pulls his owner’s boots off and on, fixes his neckties, folds his coat and vest up deferentially for him to put them on and is most obsequious in all these services, Then there is an older and fatter fellow, who wears an English livery, including a velvet cont, knee-breeches and some frills of linen and wmanner, is a sort of majors domo and tremendously consequential, I'he master of the ho bears himself casily under all this weight of attends ance, He acts as though he had been used to it all his life, and really shows no perturbation in the presence of his splendent menials, As for the orphan boys who watch this sort of thing they > to indulge their ambitions in I vigited the institution, and in making a round of the urchins L asked one whether he would like to grow up and be a man like that, (F I pointed across the street to Van bilt and the liveried flunkey, wh both in sight at a window.) mean the man in uniform, don't 1 the boy*responded. Evidently he didn't kuow Vanderbilt as u millionaire by sight and saw nothing in him to envy; but the servant was gorgeous and ong could see glory in him, Mrs. Paul Wierdenbecher, of Milwaukee, has @ threé y2ar only baby that weighs only Its urms are so tiny that tbQ g ring will caslly pass oves. them up to the shoulder, 4