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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY; MAY 13. 1888—SIXTEEN PAGES. ~ar HOME Wrought Steel Range. Specially made to be the most perfect range of the present day. Cracking forever dc Refined wrought steel body and maleabie fron castings. w away with, A Wrought Iron Range, with cast iron cast- ings, is not much better than a cast iron range, and will cost you twice as muce. THE HOME COMFORT, has many new features notfound in other ran- ges that are of vast importance to a Range. ' COMFORT! Home Comfort Range. Is the first choice of the following prominent men who are now uging them in their homes: W. J. Broatch, Mayor; A.W, Yates, Banker;Fred Nye, Editor;C, F. Goodmau, Druggist; U. P. Official; J. N. Clayton, Cornice Maker; D. Fitzpatrick. tractors, and many others too numerous J. C. Orcutt, Capitalisgt; F. D. Brown, Wabagh Office; Christ Specht Plumber; Hamilton Bros., Con- to mention, Over one dozen are ordered to bs delivered soon. W. F. STOETZEL, 1621 Howard Street, [Seller of the world’s best gasoline stove, THE QUICK MEAL. NOT THE LORDS OF CREATION! But the Ladies and the Thoughts They Are Thinking. THE QUEENS AND THEIR KINGDOM An Enthusiastic Admirer of Ella Wheeler Wilcox is Far From Com- plimentary to the Male Sex— Other Items For the Ladies. To Ella Wheeler Wilcox. [Written for the Sunday Bee.) 1 have for a long time admired your poems and letter. I think you tell more truth than the gospel tells. |I will give you my views on that most interesting theme—man. You say man is more vain than woman, and more or less selfish in his friendship for the fairersex. I consider man a whole cargo of vanity and selfish- ness in whatever blass of life you place him. That is the reason he is a most in- teresting theme. You say a man commits a folly because it flatters .his vanity to be tempted, while he despises the temptress. His reason for that is he knows she had the power to make him commit a folly, and he not have the strength to resist her. Men know that women have more strength of character and mind than they have, but will not admit the truth. There is but one man that I know of in history who does admit it—Charles Follen Adams n his poem, “‘Der Oak und Der Vine,” as follows: 1 don't vos preaching woman's righdts, Or anyding like dot, ®Und I likes to see all beoples Shust gondented mit dheir lots; Budt I vants to gondradict dot shap Dot made dis lcedle shoke: “A voman vas der glinging vine, Und man der shturdy oak.” Berhaps somedimes dot may pe drue; But den dimes oudt of nine, I find me out dot man humsclf Vas peen der glinging vine; Und ven hees friends dhey all vas gone, Und he vas shust ‘‘tead proke,” Dots vhen der voman shteps righdt in, Und peen der shturdy oak. Shust go oup to der pase ball groundts Und see dhose ‘‘shturdy oaks’ All planted ruondt ubon der seats— - Shust hear dheir laughs and shokes; Dhen see dhose vomens at der tubs, Mit glothes oudt on der lines; Vich vas der shturdy oaks, mine friendts, Und vhich der glinging vinesi Ven sickness in_der household comes, Und veeks and vecks he shtays, ‘Who vas id fightdts him mitoudt rest, Dhose veary nighdts und days? Who beace und gomfort always prings, Und _cools dot fefered prow ! More like id vas der tender vine Dot oak he glings to, now. “Man vants budt leedle here pelow,” Der boet von time said; Dhere's leedle dot man he don'd vant T dink id means inshted; Und ven der years keep roolling on, Dhewr_cares und troubles pringing He vants to pe der shturdy ouk, Und also do der glinging. Mhy“ ven oaks dhey gling some more, nd don'd so shturdy peen, Der glinging vines dhey haf some shance To helb run life's mashcen. In helt und sickness, shoy und pain, In calm or shtormy veddher, M'vas beddher dot dhose oaks und vines Should alvays gling togeddber, A man will lie to protect another far sooner than a woman will. Lying is secondary to a man’s nawure. Man is born inconsistent in all things—in love affairs, his politics, religion and busi- ness aflairs, Women can’t lie success- fully, they can keep a secret when their own happiness is involved, but they can’t act and out live a lie. If they should succeed to live through a lie they are sure to confess 1t on their aeathbed. Did you ever hear of a man doing that? Truthfulness in womanlis the reason she is a desirable agent at the helm of business. She is to be trusted. She don't abscond at the first ogporh{ully that presents itself. With the gains of some hard-working man, that toiled perhaps a lifetime to start a business large enough to em- ploy a man, ormore, and give them ways and mean to earn their living honestly. Man is inconsistent somewhere in his life. Women love independence and they never abuse it. It is not an innate pobility that makes man love virtue in woman, but his over-educated selfish- ness. Who is to blame that our sons are full of vice and error? ‘Our mothers?”’—they educate their sons that the only attainment they need aspire toisa grand conquest of some beautiful goddess filled with an innate nobility that will carry both through life. They educate their daughters from the cradle to the altar, that virtue and purity must be their chief end that they mu’ sought after by venerable men. hen the daughteérs begin to wane out of their teens, their father becomes alarmed if **Don Quixote” has not made is appearance; consequently they pick up the daughte and march for a sum- wer resort to make a display. On the same principle that a farmer will take his fat cattle to a fat cattle show, to see w% will gain the winning prize. hat is the result? the daughter becowes reat bunch of corruption led himsolf down with more Generally marred to a thas bas L vices than a millionaire could support, and her life is filled with woe and con- tention ever thereafter. She finds that her innate nobility won’t support both, and she becomcs filled with desporation and sinks to his e Don’t you often wonder that somany pure women are to be found, when you consider the prevalence of folly and vice among men? From the savage agesdown to the present,man has always made his choic of alifc companion. But enlighten- ment_should change this vice versa. Men have their choice of all vocations, butnow the ladies should be allowed to make their choice of a life companion. Then let them search fora companion as moral as themselves. Men would then strive to please, and not think so much that thoy are the only party to be pleased. Instead they would grow moral; they would then have that “heaven on th” that Dr. Allgiers talks about. Men searcely ever fmake a pretty marriage proposal. Man’s vain-filled soul would be a joy to see, when they would have to wait for the Goddess of Love to make her choice. But much of men’s morality rests on their mothers,since woman is the moral standard of society. Thou wilt listen to many voices, And, Oh! woe that this must be The voice of praise and the voice of love, And the voice of flattery. But lhsten to me, my little one, There's one thing thou shalt fea Let never a word to my love be said That your mother may not hear. No matter how true, my darling one, The words may scem to thee; They are not fit for my child to hear, 1f they cannot be told to me. And a record was made by his golden pen And this on his page he said: “The mother who counseled her child so well Need never to feel afraid.” 3 Miss CLARISSA MAnsm. Marnessed to Oxen. Washington Post: I can never forget the feeling of astonishment mingled with shame with which I first looked upon a woman harnessed side by side with an ox. It was on a lonely road in Switzerland, near the Italian frontier. Night had already setin, and the bon- fires lighted by woodmen on the steep mountain sides, hundreds of feet above my head, gave scarcely light enough to pick a way over the rocky road. I hur- ried on to reach the next village, and in my hurry almost ran into a huge mass of moving hay. A woman was pulling that hay, and an ox—not her husband— was helping her. On the same road I overtook a number of women wholooked like veritable walking Strapped on their backs like contrivances into which hay was stacked to a heightof five or six feet. The men, who kindly fill the funnels that their wives carry, fill the bay so high that the poor women fairly stagge under the load. For this severe labor the present women of Switzerland and Germany earn from thirty to thirty-five cents a day, They take their babies, their bread and their beer to the fields, wield the scythe all day long, then creep back to their hovels under their huge loads and ge to bed to get up at 4 next morning to go through another twelve or fourteen hours of similar drudgery. I have seen women in Bul- garia threshing grain with sticks—a very slow and laborious process, and none the more pleasant for the burning sun that beats down on that semi-tropi- cal country. While they were engaged in this work their brothers and hus- bands sat on the shady side of their thatched huts and dozed or minded the children as the humor struck them., Evidently, in the Bulgaria peasants’ opinion, “woman’s sphere is where the hardest work is to be done. In Heidelberg I made the acquaint- ance of an honest red cheeked woman who made her living selling milk. She had a small cart that held two six gallon cans. To this cart she hitched herself and a dog and made her rounds from house to house selling milk at 6 cents o uart. This queer team stopped before the door of my lodgings, punctually every morning at 6 o'clock and while 1 chatied a moment with the German frau the dog would li¢ down in his har- ness to r The frau and her husband were trying to save enough to bring them to'America. The husband was a shoemaker, butsomehow never managed to save anything. There was not much profit in milk, still she would be very careful and hoped to have enough some day. Once in America she selt sure that her and Hans could get along. Itis doubtful whether the poor woman with all her economy and toil will ever reach her goal. Many months afterward when I was in Heidelberg she was there still, hitched with her dog in the car, selling milk for 6 cents a auart, A New Club for London Women, London Letter to the Philadelphia Telegraph: A now club for ladies was opened last Tuesday at No. xford street. It is not the first of its kind in London, for the Alexandria club, in Bond street, has been most successful, and has now been obliged o remove to larger quarters. Two or theee bed- rooms are at the disposal of country mewbers, while the reading-room, drawing-room and dining-roomare very much affected by its town supporter A book is always kept, in which mem- bers write their suggestions for im- provements to . the club, and among these are to be found mauy requests for a bilhard room, while net a few ladics clamor eagerly for a retreat wheee they can smoke mild cigavettes at their ease. One frequently sees sev- eral ca ers, like Peris at the gate of paradise. waiting at the doors of the club for some fair member, for no man is allowed to enter the ed precinets i their sweethearts and wives rejoice. At the opening of the Somer- ville club last Tuesday, the committee gave an afternoon ‘‘at home, ’ to which a few members of the sterne X came, out of curiosity to sce the rooms, and to sneer at the idea of women cinting any place to which they are not admittéd. Itis strange how completely dependent on the lords of creation are supposed to be, yet how NS B IROWRLLE thorough™ enjoy- s derive from tho society f their female friends, and how entirely they manage to dismiss the tyrant man from their thought Girls Training for a Walking Match, In this great city of dudes and bood- lers it is not the general fashion to get up at 6 o’clock in the morning and ro around in the parks. But the New York Telegram’s Ben Franklin re- porter was out with the lark this rar April morning. While dilating his nostrils with joy at the lovely scene of morning light warming up the rich brown of the trees, he unintentionally saw a flock of rkabl, armed with riding whip: ‘What the dickens they wanted of riding whips was something that remained to be found out. Was it for protection and style? Yes, it was. TSIU girls were well dressed, with rosy cheeks, spark- ling eyes and the glow of health blush- ing under their skin like the beauty of the morning. An astonishing thing about the girls was th ilence. Nota word did they utter, but oh, my, how they walked— walked as if they were training fora six-days’ go-us-you-please race. The wore stout walking shoes with thi soles. Their tailor-made dresses were not pulled back, but swung loosely and com- fortable as they strode by. Other groups of girls were seen. Some were oscorted by big dogs, who tugged at their chains, compelling their mis- tresses to keep up a lively gait. A jolly policeman who stood on the drive overlooking the lake touched his cap to the young ladies as they glided past. ! “You did not think New York gals got up so early, ch?” said the officer, with a merry chuckle. “Why, bless you, they’ve ‘got more sand in their heels than all the knock-kneed dudes on Fifth avenue.” “Who are they and why do they walk at a 2:40 pace so'carly in the morning?” “They're from young lady wallcin clubs,” said the officer, “that’s what they are, and if there was more on ‘em and less all night dancin’, there would not be so many vich undert Them gals come into the park every mornin’ in good weather. They're ladies every inch on 'em. They usially come in at the Fifty-ninth street entrance and make for the Mall. Then they go up the lake path and out by the boulevard entrances. There seems to be a rule among them not to do any tallan’ till the get through their constitutional, Kinder hard on the pretty dears,” chuckled the policeman, ‘‘but if they got to talkin’ they’d do no walkin’. There’s more o’ them this spring than ever before, and I must say they’s the healthiest gals I ever sece. They can walk, too; and don’t you forget it. Whether they like early mornin’ be- cause there’s so few people in the park, or it touches up their appetites for breakfust, I can’t say, but I do know they are the real ladies of the hull town.” Women as Students. A young woman, now a student at Columbia college, writes to the current number of Woman concerning the trials of the girls whoare attempting to get u collegiate training in this city. She says: It is some four yearsand a half since women first invaded the sanctity of the oollege. The first to cross the threshold must have been very cour- ageous., 1 remember only two and a hulf years ago when I joined the small army of a baker's dozen, and whata brave defense was made againstus by the aborigines. * * * The invading army has triumphed. Thatis to say, women are now floating in and out of the buildings amidst the crowd of men who don’t relish their presence but can’t exuctly prevent it. The triumph afterall is a meagre one. Doesany one know I wonder, under what difficulties a woman is obliged to take her exami ations at Columbia? At the beginning of every term she is permitte to sec a professor who instructs her as to her course of study for the ensuing term. He tells her what he thinks will be the work of the boys: but many a time the boysaccomplish a little more, or take different work after all, and the poor woman comes 10 her exam- ination utterly unqropurud, President Barnard 'is considered the guardian angel of the women; to him they fly for protection, which they always find. But unfortunately the president’s “{ua" is not always ‘‘yea” to the professors. Even their examinations women have been obliged to take in & room where a class of boys were orally reciting, and they were obliged to fasten their tion n their own examinati blind man was being orally examined on the same subject in the same room not two yards away. It speaks well for the perseverance of the women that twenty-eight are at present going through this in the hope of some day obtuining more. At first the professors were too courteous to the helpless % pretty girls | women. They all expressed their deter- mination never to “‘interfere with the sweet will of a woman,” but since some wumen the professors and male students penerally huve awakened up to the fact that superficiality in the women stu- dents means imputation of the cholar- ship of Columbia, and now the pro- fessors are very severe on the women. There is on foot a movement to found an annex to the college where women can attend the lectures of professors and take a thorough collegiate cou At present there is no place in this ¢ where women n take a complete col legiate course. Girls Who Write, Miss Ethel Ingalls, the daughter of the president of the senate, has entered upon journalism as a profession, says the New York Tribune, and has for | some months been writing articles for the newspapers. See has recently had an article accepted by one of the New York monthli which will be hand- somely illustrated and published in the May numbe Miss Dawes, daughter | of the senator from Massachusetts, has long t magazines, and was once regularly tached to & newspaper at her home in Pittsfield. She has also published one or two books. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, daughter of Repre: Ezra B. Taylor, of Ohio, the successor of Garfield in the house, is also a writer of reputation, but most of the work of her pen has been in the line of juvenile literature. Miss Foote, the sister-in-law of Senator Hawley, is well known in literature and | is the regular correspondent of the In- dependent in Washington. Mrs. De Koven, the daughterof Senator Farwell { of Illinois, has literary ambition and considerable talent. She has contributed frequently to the columns of the Chi- cago papers and has won considerable local reputation as a writer. Miss Cut- cheon, the sister of the member from Michigan is an accomplished writer and is the regular correspondent of the wes- tern papers. Miss Edmunds,the daugh- ter of the senator from Vermont, is an accomplished artist, fand Miss Cannon, v 1- RlUno!sgdsa fine performer on the violin. A Graceful Tumble, 1t is becoming enough of a practice to warrant chronicling that the extreme belles of New York society, says the Sun, those who are never content unless they are doing something that is far in advance of the generality of rich young women, are now learning and practis- ing the art of posing at all times. A class in gymnastics has about twenty- five pupils, and the ostensible training received from their master is in the use of dumb bells and Indian clubs, but week he gives instructions to in _po He tells them that should acquire the knack of never g awkward positions, whethe alking, sitting or lying. He as them that if they iearn thoroughly how to do it they will eventually take grace- ful positions puts them through a great variety of postures. He shows them how to take once a them 54 half recline on a sofa, orlie flat on a couch:; and he even gives them instruc- tions how to save themselves from awk- wardness when they fall, “Itis not the bruise or sprain that hurts a woman when she sprawls in the street,” he said, *‘half so much as the hurt to her pride. If she knows that the witnesses of her misstep are struck by a picturesque succession of pretty J0ses as she drops from the perpendicu- ar to the horizontal, she can stand all the damage with equanimity.” Therefore oné of the exercises which he prescribes for his young ladies is to fall on mattresses in a row. They are made to drop forward, backward and sidewise, untiFthcy are able to go down in any direction in a sightly manner. Mrs. Cleveland's Ponies. The president has so far relented from his original determination as to buy for his wife a pretty phaeton, with a seat behind for the ‘groom, and a pair of small brown horses for her exclusive use, and thereby hangs a tale says the Washington correspondent of the Phila- delphia North American., A man in Richmond wrote a pathetic letter to the resident not long since, which by some inadvertence on the part of the wise “private secretary,” fell into his own bhands, In it the man wenton to say that he had married a young and beau- tiful girl three months before, and had bought for her, with many fond anticipations, a pair of horses, for which he had searched the south over, and she drove them for a few weeks, and then, on returning from a drive one afternoon, died sud- denly in his arms from heart disease. He could not bear to see these remind- ers of a happy past any more, and Mrs, Cleveland was the only woman into whose hands he was willing to have them fall. He concluded by saying that he was oo poor to give them to her, but he wanted her to have these treasures of his pretty dead wife. The president, without having seen the horses at all, telegraphed to have them sent on, and in a letter following inclosed a check for them, They came, saw and con- quered at once, 8s they are pretty, gentle little animals, and smiling peace reigns everywhere. Just Like Women, The peculiarity that so many women have o} hiding things is much more soneral than might be supposed, and wundreds of women keep it up all their lives. Th is a well-known woman | of fashion. in Philadelphia says the l'j‘imeu, with a house full of seryants, cen a frequent contributor to the | ntative ! ures | unconsciously, and_so he | the daughter of the representative from @ seat in o chair or rise from it; how ta ' who never lets one come in her bed- room except when she is there, and she q | does most of the dusting and *‘fixing” of couple of degrees have been given to that room herself.” ~The reason is that in the cornersof cabinets, inside vases, in this drawer and that, or ina wall pocket or some hanging ornament she has_distributed about every jewel and valuable trinket she owns. No one knows just_where each article is but herself and she thinks that their safety is accordingly assured. Stick- ing money under the covers of tables und even between mattresses is a com- mon trick among women, and the prac- tice of putting money in the stocking is not confined to market women and bal- let dancers. Perhaps ome-third of the women in Philadelphia when they do not wear them carry their diamond ear- rings around in their corsets. — HONEY FOR THE LADIES. Ay, laugh, if laugh you will, at my crude speech, But women sometimesdie of such a greed— Die for the small joys held beyond their reach, And the assurance they have all they need. Mme. Carnot is the best-dressed French woman in France. Mrs. Hamilton Douglas of Atlanta je the only woman lawyer in Georgia. Mrs. Mary F. Sprague Frazer is the only wom an lawyer in Cleveland, O. Mrs. Seely is eighty-seven years old and has just cast her first vote is Kansas. Miss Jennie Flood is in no hurry to divide her five millions with a male partuer. The mother of General Lew Wallace lec- tures on woman suffrage and temperance, Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will re- main in Washington until the end of June. The Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Buffalo, has over a thousand mem- bers. Mrs. Anastasie Parsells of Pamrapo, N. J. has celebrated Ler one hundred and second year, Mrs. Garrett Anderson, the leading woman physician of England, makes $50,000 a year, The widow of the late Justine David Davis has returned to her old home in North Carolina, A man never really appreciates the value of a wife uutil she has secured a divorce and alimony. A daughter of General Wade Hampton has pmcd the ranks of the professional nurses of ew Yorl. A council of United Frienas, composed en- tirely of ladies, has been orgunized at Vinal- haven, Me, A fashionable wardrobe is now incomplete unless it includes a jewelled fan to match every toilet. Young Jadies whose homes are on the bounding prairies should not feel offended if called “plain girls.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton is seventy-two years old, but she is as much interested in this world as ever. ¥ Women are naturally truthful, especially when they ave talking ‘about another woman that they don’t like. hita, Kan., baker sell “eight loves And all the Wichita girls are sav- ing up their pennies, London has eight homes for poor working girls, at which breakfast, dinner and tea costs only §1 a we The queen of Corea is attended by an American lady physician who receives a sal- ary of §15,000 a year. Vanderbilt once paid Miss May Tillinghast $30,000 for inventing a new kind of tapestry hanging for his house. Alberto—Do you love me, darlingi Clari- bel—Have I not had all the chairs taken from the room except this{ Amelia Rives is bewilderingly handsome, smokes cigarettes, indulges in long walks and is an expert equestrienne, Mrs. Hancock, widow of the distinguished general, has received several valuable gifts of bric-a-brac toward the furnishing of her new house. Among the very latest fashionable skirt finishes is a very ‘wide hem, turned up on the outside with gold or silver or colored braid. A few Bhiladelphia women of fashion have ordered directoire coats, which will be the great moveltics of the coming season, Amelia Rivers has never been known to koep an engagement at the hour named, but is nevertheless a great favorite awong her friends. Mrs, Judge Woodward of Kentucky, bas a half pint of diamonds set in ear-rings, finger rings, bracelets, brooches and ornaments for the hair, Miss Clara Foltz, lawyer, editor and lec- turer, has been voted §10,000 by the common council of San Diego, Cal, to come east and boom that city. "Twas ever thus: Adam (just after getting acquainted with Eve—"Will you go with me to-night to see the animals{” " Eve—"1 have nothing to wear.” Girls used to be so timid that they would screech at the sound of a pistol shot, but nowadays when they go buggy-riding they usually go armed. The secretary of the Kansas Historical so- clety has received returns from the munici- pal elections which indicate that about 20,000 women have voted, A pretty lace—cotton but costly—has been brought out for the adornment of gingham and cambric gowns, and is known to the trade as ‘‘white chantilly.” Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Glaistone will cele- brate their golden wedding Juli‘ 25. She was twenty-six and “the grand old man’ twen- y-eight when they were married. Miss Agnata Frances Ramsay, the young English lady who took the foremost rank in the classical tripos at Cambridee last year, is preparing a new translation of “Herodo tus.” Mrs. P. L. Collins, who is employed at the dead letter office at Washington at a large salary to decipher *blind” hundwriting, can read every known language except Russian and Chinése. A woman’s invention js a baby wagon for the house, thoroughly padded, in which the baby cannot be burt, even if it tipsover. The wagon can be turned into a cradlc and made into a swing. A Swocking, now so mucki the rage, gets its name from the smock of heavy white or blue linen worn by Euglish butchers, and means that the matérial s - first very.caactly. gsth ered in several rows and the gatlers after AW for §1.” .at Valdosta, Ga ward caught in honeycomb or diamond pat- tern with strong silk, usually of a contrast ing color. Miss Virginia M. Hollyday of Carroll, Md., has been granted a patent for a bonnet holder. Considering the size of the contem- porary bonnet, the holder is doubtless some- what like a coal derrick. An Illinois woman attempted suicide be- cause her husband sold a calf for $2 less than what she thought the animal was worth, She was probably depending on that £2 for her Sunday bonnet. A rumor from Paris is to the effect that ladies’ hats are to be higher than ever be- fore. In view of this prediction, we know of N0 better way to save money this year than by staying away from theaters, Miss Linda Gilbert has devoted fifteen years and most of her fortune to prison re- form. She has established twenty-two libra- ries in the prisons of diffcrent states and found employment for 6,000 ex-convicts. Miss IPrances Wil.ard advises all girls who “fecl a call,” as she onee did, to the ministry 10 enter a theological seminary and prepare for the work, uudisturbed by the alleged irreconcilability of the vocations of minister and mother. She—“Do_you_love me, darling?” He— “What in blazes do you want to interrupt me for when L am_just. adding up a column of figurest Of course I love you! Confound it alll now U've got to add that whole column up over again.”” Lexington, Miss., has three feminine resi- dents who play an important part in keeping the town in communication with the rest of the world. One of the ladies aforesaid is postmistress, another express agent and the third has charge of the telegraph oftice. Kate Field_evidently does not take much stock in the Southern California boom. ~She writes that “lunatics are an intensely inter- esting study to me, and 30,000 of them at large, going about 4s though endowed with reason, ,so_irresistibly attracted me that I sailed for Los Angelés.” Mrs. Langtry has again rented_the cottage which she occupied at Long Branch lust summer. She will go there immediately after her summer’s tour is ended. She co templates giving a week of midsummer the; tricals along the shore, beginning at Long Branch and ending at Atlantic City. A young man went to call on a young lady soveral nights ago. She called his attention to the fact that he was late, remarking that she was in the “‘arms of Morpheus” when he came. The young man added to the embarrassment of the situation Dby innocently remarking that he thought he heard that fellow go out when he came in. Mme. Esther Frame, a_quakeress who has been conducting revival services in Nush- ville, is described_as an_evangehist of great ability and a speaker of more thun ordinary interest. She is a small woman, of midale age, with a pleasing face. Crowds have heard her preach, and those who went to hear her out of curiosity returned with rev- erence. Rev. Antoinctte Brown Blackwell was the first woman in this country to prepare for and regularly enter the ministry. Sheresides at Elizabeth, N. J., and_her age is not gener- ally known, thouyh she doubtless looks much younger than she is, She graduated at Oberlin college, and was the object of much curiosity and opposition when she first began her carcer. Mrs, Octave Pavy, formerly of St. Louis and widow of Dr. Pavy, who perished in_the Greely Arctic expedition, has just returned 10 Cleveland, O., from Europe, where she spent a year for the good of her health, She is engaged in_important literary work. In June; she will return to Europe, and after Visiting all the principal_citics on’ business, will settle in London at the head of aliterary wnd journalistic offic e e e CONSPIRING BY CABLE. Luckless Jean Dumay Fleeced of His Fortune By Distant Sharpers. Luckless Jean Dumay, white-haired and bent, formerly a well-to-do manu- tacturer living at No. 13 Boulevard Gambetta, Nimes, France, came all the way to this country last week to punish conspirators who have wrung from him his tittle fortune and left his family im- poverisncd, says the New York Herald: Seldom has a more dramatic story been told in_ brief cables than that which induced the old man to part with his money. It was for the honor of his boy, and it was given willingly, even to the last cent. Now he has got the alleged conspira- tors to whom it was sent. A French chef, Gustave Beraud, who was employed by Mr. W. W. Astor, is under arrest charged with being the principal in the nefarious scheme that ruined Dumay, and his accomplice, be- lieved to have been the supple tool, is alleged to be Jean Gouat. Beraud has a young and fascinating wife. She figues in the Was she in the conspiracy The lawyers hint so, but no charge has been made against her. Jean Gouat was brough up in the town of Nimes, with Henri, son of Jean Dumay. Both are young men, the former twenty-two years of age,t years older than his companion. Gr duated from school, the young fcllows determined to seek their fortunes in America, and they came over together in October last., They secured board with Beraud and his wife, whose home was then at No. 164 East Thirty-eighth st Sus- ceptible young Ieni, it is said, became smitten with the voluptuous charmns of his landlord’s pretty wife, and on De- cember 19 both disappeared from the city peir intimacy had long been no- ticeable, and the infatuation of the youth led him a few days prior to de- clare hislove. The couple were afte beard Philadelphia. most re- between imes and Beraud and from | Duma; Gouat in this eity. is a cablogram that start tleman and broke the hearts of s loving mother and sis “NEW YoRrk, Dec. 20.—To Jean Dumay, I3 Boule , Gambeita, Nimces, France: IHenri a thief. Most [ i follow. despicable. Arrested. Send by tele- graph 6,000f. Your honor will be saved. Beraud will stopprosceution, Iam sure. Will fix the matter, I am sure. Twelve hours delay from the police. Letters *QOUAT.? This followed the same day: ‘Do not be'frigthened. Send telegram addressed ‘Grandfather.” Henri at Pittsburg. Letters follow. HBERAUD.” The distraction of the Dumay family at the receipt of these surprising dis- patches may be surmised—it could hardly be described. But the father replied in despair as follows: “Impossible to send 6,000f, at present. Soon as possible.” No. 4 gave an added pang to the young man's parents. It arvived atonce. It was: “Beraud hands me telegram. Tmposs sible toarrange matter. Do the possibla and impossible to telegraph money. Too much time lost already, I fear. Sorry for you. “GouAT.”? That stirred the sorrowing old man to action.and he made strenuous endeavors to a ge for the sale of his worldly ions, with the result that his s was closed out at a complete sacrifice, and _he telegraphed an order for 6,000f. ($1,148.32) to_Beraud, leaving imself penniless and his little family nt. BBnton the next day his hear was somewhat gladdened by the cheer= ing news from Beraud:— SCalm yourself. The prosecutions are ended. If I can bring your son back, T advance money for his return to France. If he is made a soldier here ha will end badly. He does not want to work. I am ruined by him. Letters follow. BerAup.” Had the conspirators been satisfied to cease operations at this point all might have been well for them, and the crime not discovered. Beraud seems to have got his hand in at sending iengthy cablegrams, and this one reached Nimes two days after on December 24 “Lawyer sends formal withdrawal. Money received. My life is ruined, for yoer son to abduct wife of his beneface for, me. Obliged to sell everything. Crazy with grief. Money received does not, pay half for us. I lorgot momen- tarily to say T will make your unfortun= ate son take first steamer. Hope he will have remorse some day. “BERAUD.” On the day that Beraud sent his tele- gram of the 22d there reached New York an appenl that must have touched the heart of a less remorseless scamp. It read: “We send at once sum demanded. We supplicate and pray the person in- terested to have pity on a family in de- somir. Henri’s sister begs it on her knees. HHONORINE DUMAY.” Beraud’s final telegram awoke suspi= cions in the mind of Dumay. “Here was this man,” he said, yester- day, “posing as my dear son’s benefat- tor, as trying to save him from tho threatened prosecutions of some one un- known. Suddenly he drags in himself as the injured one. ‘For your son to abduct wife of his benefactor, me, he says, and ‘Money received does net pay half for us.’ ‘What does it all mean?’ I asked myself.” Dumay laid the matter before the nu= thorities of his native place, who ad- vised him to communicate with the French consul at New York. Before he got an answer to his letter word was re- ceived from Henri. The young man made no mention of trouble, and thisstill urther increased his father’s belief that he had been imposed upon. Then came a response from the French con- sulate telling Dumay to come to this city. He arrived here last week prac- tically without means. At the office of the French consul the old man was di- rected to the law firm of Stahlneckar & Coudert and the French government is now assisting in the prosecution of Be- raud and Gouat. On the day after the 6,000f. were sent to Beraud the chef’s young wife re- turned from Philadeiphia and was joy- fully received into the arms of her hus- band and amicable relations have since existed between them. They removed to No. 112 East Thirty-second street. These facts and o good many others that have not been made public were learned by the diligent lawyers in the case and it was also ascertained that young Gouat was engaged as a fresco ainter for a man named Hegeman of lamaroneck. Lawyer Stahinecker and Court Officer Harrick, of the Tombs squad, drove out there Wednesday night, having with them Dumay pere. Gouat was met on the way home from work and promptly arrested. When he saw the father of his former school fellow and voyager he turned pale with evident fear and broke down. He accused Bernud of having planned the scheme and said the latter had got the money. Beraud was arrested at his home ye! terday morning just as he was pre paring to start for Mr. Astor’s to get up an appetizing bill of fave for the morns 1 g 17" he asked, 06,0001, am I arreste conspiracy in getting from Jean Dumay.” “Gouat got the mone) replied, shrugging his g0 with you. | am innocent In the Tombs police court both men were charged with conspi T} " the prisoner houlders, *I plead not guilty and waived examinus tion, Justice Patterson held them in bail of #2500 each for trial at general ses- sions, Later in the day Mrs. Beraud called on her husband in the Tombs aud ens gaged a lawyer to defend him. The old man Dumay is sceking work as & wachinist to enable him to pay his expenses,

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