Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1888, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY NOVEMBER 18 1888, -SIXTEE PAGES, New Millinery and Cloak Room, The elegant Millinery and Garments displayed, together with the moderate price they are sold for, has been a surprise to all. Our Miss Kall returned from the east with the latest novelties in Paris Hats, Bonnets and Trimmings for winter wear, to which we call fl'):‘l'ifll.fl“(!'llti(‘ll-[ She has aleo picked up many odd lots in Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Bonnets and Hats which we offer away below their original cost. IN OUR CLOAK AND SUIT DEPT. New novclties are daily arriving. Our eastern buyers are in the market every day to pick up special drives, thus a constant stream of new Cloaks and Suits at specially low prices are coming in. We pride onrselves on our advanced styles, perfect fit, fine workmanship and ths finish of onur garments, We are aware the market is flooded with cheaply made up stuff that will hardly hang together while in the store, much le s when worn, and usu- ally sold for more than our tailor made garments but you can tell them at a glance. Barr'’s Cloaks and Suits have been their best advertisers Superior goods, coupled with low prices, has made Barr's Cloaks and Millinery so popular and necessitated the taking in of the large adjoining store to devote entirely to these two departments. We are always on hand Monday to give the people MATCHLESS BARGAINS EVERY ARTICLE EXACTLY AS ADVERTISED. DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. We will place on sale Monday morn- ing one lot of finest imported French Dress ¥ double width. all wool. plain, checks and plaids, for 50c per yard. NOTION DEPARTMENT. Twenty gross French Horn Bone. 9, 10 inch, worth from 8¢ to 15¢ a doz Qur price 5¢ a dozen. HOSIERY. Ladies' Black Tngrain Cotton Hose, fleece lined, with white split soles, at 25¢ a v LACE DEPARTMENT. A full line of Lace Bed Sets in Not- tingham lace, §1.75, 92, $2.50, 82.75, 8, #4 and up, at Lace Dept. LINENS Monday wo offor a Red Damask at 25c. BLANKETS. 11-4 extra heayy, fine all-wool, bound in silk, white blankets, &. worth 88, DRESS TRIMMINGS DEPT. An elogant linc of Fancy Silk and Tiusel Braids, in all the most popdlar shades, 40¢ per yard, at Dress Trimming department. 54-ftich Turkey BARR'S POPULAR HANDKER- CHIEF DEPT. Just received, 25 doz. handsomne em- broidered Handkerchiefs in white and colored, which we close outat 25c, worth 40c to 50c. BARR'S GENTS’' FUBNISHING DE- PARTMENT Is now tully stocked with Gents’ Under- wear, Gents’ Socks, Gents’ Dress Shirts, Collars and Cuffs, Gents’ Gloves, Gents’ Suspenders, Gents’ Neckwear, Genis’ Jersey Jackets, ete. Just received, 50 doz. Gents' full regular Norfollk and Now Brunswick Merino Socks, which we offer at 25¢ a, pair. MOURNING DEPT. ' Only the best brands of black goods kept in this department, at the lowest possible prices. SILKS. A beautiful assortment of China de Requior Silks for gown fronts, all the | Iatest tints for combinations, 30 inches wide, $1.25 a yard, CORSETS. In this department will be found a ‘full line of Knit Goods of all kinds, Ladies’ and Chilaren’s Ski Hoods, ‘Toboggans, Leggins, Fascinators, | Sacques, Children’s Dresses, and in fact Our order department is one of the most complete bureaus in the west. Special attention is given to this department. charge for 48 miles from Omaha. Samiples sent on application. Send for catalogue. WM. BARR DRY GOODS COMPANY, 1St and Douglas streets, Ormalia. THE DOMINION OF ST. GEORCE Observations of an Omaha Minister in Old Bngland. i THE GREAT DOCKS AT LIVERPOOL., The Six Classes of English Society— Comforts of the Rich and Misery of the Poor — Causes of Poverty. Life in England. For The Bee. Landing in a foreign country for the first time is an interesting event in one’s life. Everything is new and strange, aud you look and listen until the eye is wearviod with seeing, and the ear burdeied with hearing. Coming to Liverpool in a ship, the first thing you will observe are the docks and landing stage. The docks ure gigantic stone walls built out in the river to the teep water line, and enclosing areas of deep water, where the ships lie to dis- charge their burdens, and to receive their cargoes. These docks are sup- plied with 1mmense gates, through which tho ships enter or depart at high water. On the inner and partition walls stand great wirehouses, which re- ceive the incoming and outgoing mer- vhandise of many lands. Liverpool and kts sister city, Birkennead, have about nine or ten miles of solid stone docks, The lunding stage is THE LARGEST FLOATING BODY ever built by man. Itis a great plat- form nearly half a mile long, and from fifty to one hundred feot broad, resting upon large iron pontoons, and vonnccting with tho shore by mbout & dozen wagon-ways and covered foot-w. Upon the landing- stage nre a number of fram> buildings, tncluding a custom-house and railroad office. This marvelous construction is about one hundred feet irom the shore, m:tuhin? out into deep water, and all the mighty mass rises and falls with the tide-—-a distance of twenty-five feet, Tt is composed of many sections, and in rough weather its undulations are not unlike the movements of a mighty ser~ pent. 1 know of few things more in- teresting than the docks and landing- stage in Liverpool. You may well pause and observe them, for you will not see their Like again. The things that most {mpress a :thmugur upon landing in Englaud are U AGE OF THE COUNTRY and the permanency of all kinds of constructions. ‘The houses, fences and bridges are all built of brick, stone or fron, and with ordinary care will last for centuries, Asmen move but seldom ere, & Inun builds a house and estab- isnes a business not only for himse t for his descendants for generations; and often the same family, through its succeeding generntions, will live In the same house . and oon- duct the ssme business for centuries! This permancy of things has its advan- tages and disadvantages. Mone is meithor made nor lost so rapidly as it is ith us in Amervica. While progress in Eugland is slow, and in many respects the people are behind the times, this ruu' be praferablo to muvmflt a fevel sh™ and hoadlong pace. gland is a finished country in a material point of view, and the people who have ade- quate possessions there are happier than any people could be in the mad pursuit of wealth. It may be bettor to be slow in some respects than to repre- sentan unhealthy growth. The time will come in our own country when men will veturn from the far West to the Middle and Southern and even the Bastern States, and marvel at the rich and uncultivated country that they passed over in their rapid rush for the setting sun. Upon e hand there are monu- ments in England reminding us of the days that are gone. When I was at the Old Independence Hall in Phila- delphia and saw the room in which the immortal Declaration was signed, and looked upon the old bell that rang out the glad news of the birth of Liberty; and when [ was in Faneuil hall in Bos ton, and then crossed over to Charles- town and climbed to the top of Bunkerkill monument, I thought Iwasin an atmosphere of antiguity. Bl whon oo i mithvhas Eugland contains, these things are but the crea- tures of yesterdny. Recently Mr. Gladstone spoke of the parliament that was in power in 1776 asa_*late govern- ment.”. And such it really was. Think of the history of the world, and even that of England, and how young is our country. And if the child has ass such proporti ady, what will the full grown man be? I stood upon the old wall of Chester, that was begun by Julius Cwesar, prob- ably during th e-time of the Apostle Joh e are many old houses and castles and abbeys there that were built during the dark ages. Most of these castles and abboys ire in magnifi- cent ruins, but some of them are quite well preserved. They were built not only in the suporstitious days of old, but in the times when might made right; and the abbeys are monuments of the reign of priest-craft,and the cast- les are souvenirs of the days of blood in the good old times. Some one has said that Americans have no reverence because they have no ruins. Well, I am glad that we have 1o monumer of the superstition and barbarity indicated by many of the ruins of the old world; and "if we had such it would not be like us to rever- ence them, But I must tell about the people whom we find ineEngland, Of course there are many exceptions, but English- men thomselves will bear me out in say- ing that we do not generally meet the best.looling English people in America. Englishmen are such ardent lovers of their own country, and usunlly s0 over- estimate its relative advautages, that fow of them will ever leave it perma- nently unless foreed to do so by poverty or crime. Consequently the majority of ‘raw” Englishmen that we meet in America come from the very poor classes who have for centuriés been pinched with poverty and inured to drudgery and distress, They ave there- fore neither so refined nor handsome as the families that have never been in want, and who have no oceasion to seek for a livelihood abroad. In America the fenturos of the rich and poor are much alike, but it is notso in England. Cen- turies of luxury on the ono hand, and extreme want on the other, huve left their TRACES IN THE F PEOPLE. The better classes are generally yery bandsome, but the poor wre usu- ally found in the opposite ex- tremo, To voople who ocan care well for their bodies, the olimate is fuv- TURKS OF THE orable to the most beautiful complex- ion. But I will tell you how the peopis are arvanged us to classes; and this de- seription 15 not imaginery but real. The first class family, which consists of the queen and her deScendants, and those whom they marry who are of royal blood in other nations. To the royal family noone can ever belong oxcept by the accident of birth. The second class is composed of the nobility, such as dukes, earls, marquises, knights, ete. Most of these titles are hered ,and those who do attain to “them by great wealth or talents are not equal in social standing to those who in- herit them, but who may be lacking in many mental and moral qualities. It is marvelous how the people reverence these high dignitaries. lven Mr. Gladstone used language . like this: **As far as I am able to enter into the feelings of a duke,” ete. The third class consists of untitled statesmen, eminent physicians, lawyers, scholars, authors, clergymen of the es- tablished church, noted noncomformist preachers, and people who are rich enough to live without any kind of busi- ness. This third ¢ composes the gen- try. Noman below it is considered a gen- tlemanin England .Ifaman is compelled to follow a business, or to work with his hands or brains in order to maie money he is not a gentleman, but only a per- son, and the gentleman does not care to associate with him, and especially to cat with him. Between people who v and those who do not, theve is a greaf gulf fixed. Aslong as Mr. Gladstone fells trees simply for exercise or pleasure, the in- dustry of the *‘grand old man” is a sub- ject for general comment and admira- tion, and the chips from his axe adorn and dignify many an English parlor; but let the eloquent old statesman be compelled to chop down trees for a live- lihood and the glovy of his chips will depart, and they would not even bura better than the kiudling of the poor woodman whose knowledge extends lit- tle beyond the horizon that hides the great world from his vision. The fourth class is composed of ordi- nary professional men, prominent mer- chants, skilled workmen of the highest class, etc. This isa very usefel class, corresponding to the sime people in America, These men and women do not perform manual labor, but with their business and brains do the most important work of the country. Few of this class tould or would work with their hands, and caste. One of these men smoke his pipe on the street or in company, and think nothing about it, but to carry a market basket or a baby, he would con- sider next thing to disgraceful. The fifth class isenade up of all small store-keepers, ordinary workingmen, and farmers (i. e., farm L vborers). Muny of this cluss ave quite well educated, and many are very ignoran Education is not general among the poor as it is here. The sixth class ave very poor, muny of ghom are beggars. I can hardly give you an idea of these for we have nobody in this country like them., Here the very poor are often as olean and in- telligent as anybody: but in England, extreme poverty is' frequently another name fo orance, worthlessness and filth, Sid establishment of the Feudal svstem sthe peor are the born vassals of the rich, know of nothin better, expect to be nothing else, an seem quite satisfied if they can obtain coarse food, clothing, shelter and plenty to drink. Those who ave not employed a8 servuants pick up a precarious ‘‘liv- ing” by doing odd jobs, and by beg- ging. . But’ the better class of servants come from the fifth and not the sixth class. These last are gen- erally too low to obtain respectable em- ployment. It makes the whole hca sick 1o go into the slums of an F city and see the thousands of retain their se, the royal starved and nearly naked people swarm out of the narrow streets and back oourts on a fine day. Hers are multi- tudes of childven whose oyes first opened on these bare brick walls, dreary courts, dark alloys, and dirty streets. Here these poor creatures who wére intended to be in the image of God, are living in entire ignorance of wholesome food, warm clothing,sunny skies, kind words, and happy homes. What has reduced the people to this condition? or, What makes the slums of these cities? Even theiv condition of servitude would not reduce these pepole to such straits. There ave two principal causes. OVERCROWDING, There are too many people in many of these old couutries, especially in the cities; the supply of workkmen is double the demand, wagos are very low, and in this state of things the survival of the fittest becomes the rule. The more com- petent and industrious find employment, and the ineompetent and indolent go down, and with them many worthy peo- who have become the victims of unltor- tunate circumstine Drinl. This is the 1aost copious feeder of the slums. Thousands of who could live above want upon ages are impoverished by drink. And what is worse than all, the women are, in many cases, even harder drink- ers than the men. Little children are sent out upon the cold streets, often in rain and snow, to sell kindling wood or to beg, and are frequently beaten by their drunken and brutal parents if they do not return with a given sum of money. 1 have seen children from five to ten years old on the streets late at night, barefooted even in winter, and crying for money that they might re- turn to some supremely miserable place that they call *‘home.” ¢ day men, women and children go “singing” through the streets for bread and money; and in some parts of the city you will walk few paces or turn few cor- uers without confronting some of these poor mendicants, Many of them are in the greatest uced, and many more are simply trying to obtain the weans to buy drink. What is being done to remedy this unhappy state of things? There are mauy agencies at work; I can not men- tion them ally but a few will indicate to vou that England 'is trying to carve for her poor: 1. The city geyernments do all in their power, first, by furnishing work in making roads, clenning streots, etc., for all who are wiliing to do such work. This extra work eomes very heavy upon the taxpayers, but they discharge these obligations without mueh complaint. If some of our Amevican people who grum- ble at high taxes could but live awhile in the old world; they would return to their homes pooret, but wiser and bets ter contented. Secondly, bY providing for as many as possiblé in the alms- houses. Thase dpe filled mostly by peo- ple unable to work, 2. The churches do much for the re- lief of the poor, and in this the Estab- lished church excels all others; and what wonder? for she has plenvy of money to spend in that way, And this very thing gives her a strong hold upon the poor, us well as to retin her power and influence upon the rich, But all the churches do well in this dirvection, and only the last judgment will reveal the sorvows soothied and the sufferings assuaged by religious’ people in Eng- land, 8. The various benevolent ties are doing Mmuch to gate the sufferings of the por, “'Strangers’ Rests,” “Sheltering icmes,” etc., &re numerous, and are dolng » grand work for the need 3 i are places wh are taken and fed and glothed aund trained in .good bo havior aud in books for a few months, and then taken away to Canada, where homes are found for them in respect- able families. Hundreds are taken out there every year, and their change from the most " abject want and keenest suffering to the fair fields and happy homes of the new world is literally sal- vation to the lost. 4. Many rich men are doing much for the poor in an individual capacity. Rich men in England are often princely givors, Lam acquanted with a meni- er of parliament who gives 30,000 meals to the poor every year. I yisited alarge hall in Liverpool where this gentleman gives a tea and some money once every week to about three hun- dred aged widows. I never saw so many widows together before, and could but reflect upon the sorrow that was represented in the past and present lives of these 300 women! A commend- able thing this in a member of parlia- ment to devote so liberal a share of his means in brightening the lives of the worthy poor! But the people needing help wereaso rather than decrease in numbers, for several reasons: 1. There arc more of them than can be helped short of a general division of pronerty, which, of course, will never ™ 3 %, No people increnso so rapidly as the very poor in England. Children come in troops. and are twned out to augment the social difficuliies of the countr; 8. Many of these people a lent and shiftless LI\;[L their continually returning. 4. The already overcrowded popula- tion is becoming more densely populated all the time, and as the populution in- creases the condition of the poor grows worse. Some relief is _gained by emi- gration, but few of these people can move without assistance, and they are the very people whom a new country does not need, 5. Above all, the curse of strong drink is the great cause of the people’s poverty. Men and women pour into the saloons and drink until the last penny is gone. Under all these circumstances, provision for the poor in Kngland is 4 question most difficult of solution. A, MARTIN. LADIES. s0 indo- ants are — - HONEY l"()‘lt TH Butterfles of zold filigree are popular orna- ments for the hair, Bracelets i various designs of braided sil- ver are in high favor, Stylish umbrellas are made of petrified wood. Long shaggy furs are fashionable trun- mings for winter cloaks. :8, both gathered aud pointed, are on stylish costumes, The redingote and draped polonaise are about equally fashionable. Fashionable costumes of cloth are severe in outline and entirely without ornauenta ton, Two materials appear in many of the short coats and other fancy wraps, and in niost of the long mantles, Among the natty fashions for stylish young Wowen are charming house-dresses of Indis cashmore or yarious hundsome art shades. burg, Ore., is a “Ladies’ Hammer which makes a point of keop- ing dowu the nails iu the wooden sidewalks. are made in opoa oh arrabesque devices 1aid over foundations of white or deep orunge Yelyet It is now possible to be the possnssor of an entive fur costwino including bonu cloak, jacket, vest, skirt, gloves and riding shoes. One of the more fashionable garaitures for millinery this soason is jot lace. It ia made of very line-cut beads strung on wive, aud 1s very ologaut in effct, Large plaids are made up hias of the goods, with handles the best assortment in this line to be found in the city PRINT DEPARTMENT. Something special in Unbleached Canton Flanuels all waek. FLANNEL DEPARTMENT. Flanuol Skirt Patterns in 50 difforant atyles, from 81 up. HOUSE FURNISHING DEPT. Forty opal sets, 4 pieces each, 60c a set. GLOVE DEPARTMENT. Call and axamine our line of Silk and Wool Mittens. The best assortment in Omaha. Goods delivered free of the skirts boing but_slightly draped, The bodice is made of plain material of the color most prominent in the plaid. Women ticket agents are to be_employed on the Staten Island rapid transit_ra 3 Line. They are cheaper than men. employes have been discharged. Brown fur of all sorts is in high favor, but for the use upon cloth wraps of bluc, or red, or green, or yellow-brown, black is most often chosen, and is much botter style. Velvet yokes and heavy deep cloth pleats are ncted on winter long cioaks, and the bod- ices of new tailor gowns, notwithstanding the fact thatthey are made of wool, are very much trimmed on the frouts. Braiding grows more and more the rage for jackets, mantles and gowns, all of which should be accompanied by u braided bonnet of their own stuff, if you would rcach the very tiptop of good style. Here is a new field open for the industry of woman. A Miss Wheelock, in Minneupo- lis, malses a goock living by teaching whist, and a Mrs. Thomas, at’ Camos, Idaho terri- tory, is a practical shoemaker. &Of Amelia cloth, the new-nam which it 1s fondly hoped will dist time-won Henrletta, it is confic as- sorted that it will fold and drape to equal the older stuff, and cannot be persuaded to grow glossy no matter how long it is worn. At last, fashion ordains a gown the pockot whe f does not require an expert of the se- cret service for its discovery, but opens smil ing to the free air of heaven and the hand of its owner just s they did in the days whoen drapery wuas unknown. Fans of flowered our o ribbon woven in out over very sl v sticks are the e things to' carry with the evening d la Josephine —the which, by the wuy, should be of some thin stuff, gauze, muslin, net or cambric, 1f the wearer would be strictly and rigidly correct in costume. T, of elogant outside wraps dis played this season is marvellous, for no two moiels seem alike, and tho cxhibit appears to be an endless one. In previous seasons la mode decreed a certain fixed length and style for outside garments. Now every style secms L obtuin, from the natty hunting jacket and short seal coat, to the long, sump. tuous K'rench garment of heavy brocade aud Lyons velvet, fur-banded and fur-lined, with countless dressy visites, military coats, new- markets, driving jackets, and peplum capes and pelerines as a happy mediuw, - CONNUBIAIL 1ES, 1t is said that less than a year is the aver age professional life of a good-looking school teacher in Merced county, Cal cld, Kan, married man w tlor to a youny girl to a local paper, in which it was printed verbatii, Lady Herbert is now on her way to this country to attend the wedding of her son, the Hon. Michael Herbert, who is to marry Miss Belle Wilsou. This {s the first time, it is said, that the mother of an English bride as crossed the ocean to witness the iage of 4 son, In some parts of K the bride crowned with & myrtle wreath, which is transferred to hand when she is blindfolded and the bridesmaids Ja about her while she seeks 1o place the wreath on one of their heads. Tue one 8o crowned, as the supersti tion goes, will herself be a bride the follow. ing yeur, A Rapid City (Dak.) citizen had rather a lively time getting d. Ho bad the con sout of the bride’s \ts, but & big brother interfered and a fist fight occurred. The groom came out victorious, though with a broken | The wedding then took place und the party started home, On the way the wagon was overturned and the right arn of the bride was broken Rev. William Busse, of St Lutheran church of Now York city, chied o few Sunduys ago his frst seemon his return from Lur ie loft three months ago, intending to return in August, but was detained by the fact that while in Hildesheim, near Hanover,he met the Ba ess Agnos Non Horlessem, second daughter of the chief caunseilor of justice of Hilde sheim, aad 4 first eousin of Count Rudolph is Luke's G has just sclf and a mother for his four motherlcss ehildren, Mrs. Blanche Seaman Brown, a concert and opera singer, and Charles S 'Sprs Ohio, son of Jong W, Sprague, of the Fifteenth Ohio district, wera ar church iu the chapel at d, suburb of Plainficld, N. J., not. Mrs. Brown was an amateur apher, and thought a pictuce of tho group, taken just after the 'mony, would be Somethiug nice. So she placed a photographer in the rear of tho chapel, and gavo him his instructions. The photographer wus on deck—awfully so. The clergyman had raised his hands for tho bene- diction, saying “Aud whom God hath joined 'togeth—"" when the photographer fired his bomb. Fizz! Fuff! and a light- ning’s itash followed the ignition of & mag- nesium cartridge, while the whole distin- guished group becamo imprinted on the in stantaucous plate of the artist. kyerybody was puralyzed. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, “Lord Chumley” will now travel through- out the country. #t is rumored that t v company has dishanded in A Mume. Helene Has! r has ni sucec at the Teatro Costauzi, in Rome, in Gluek’s *Orpheus,”’ Rossini’s “Stabat Mater! under the auspices of the ( bur, Mass,, December 12 Mile. Nitrka, who has been enjoyiug oper atic success in portions of Burope, is a Mury: land young lady, Miss Nicholson Mr. F. S. Mordaunt has been e iss Fannic Ay Vashington Life. the opera by Mas ) sings the chief p not hailed with prae in - the cities wherd it has been heard Mme. Sofia Sealehi is singing in Londor, She leaves shortly for Ru v to sing ut the lmpoerial Oy the winter season. Mume. Fursch erwin opera will bo given A. R, at Fiteh- in 8 W the Mctropolitan Opera house, Senor Sarasate, the great violin o, small, handsome and genial. He will ¢ and tell storics by the hour on auy topic copt himself. Ho speaks many Linzunge Puris is_oxcit - the aunous that Patti is to 3 role of Juliette at the production of Gounod's new work in the Gounod imselt will conduct ) 8 hat ex- Bronson Howard will call his new ‘Shenaudonin,” It will be produced at museum Novembor 19, Miss 1 creating the leading female rols, Llingham, ly in August Mr. Crane will open his first. scason as lone star undor the msnage Joseph Brooks in an elaborato roduction of Shukespoarc w foury IV, Mr. Cranc appearing as Fals staff Mr. Edwin 130oth and Mr. Lawrence Bar- rett, says the New York Times, will hay the hssistance of the pupils of the Madison square theatre “department of imstruction’ in their production of “Othello” and “Tha Merchant of Venico at the Fifth Avenus theatrc Steele Mackaye and Bronson Howard, two amol he foremost of American dramatists, will furnish plays for season. Mr. Kobson will coutrol of *I'he Henriett. has writton for the cop comedy-drama. I'ma di Murska, the famous soprano, was rece ro) od shattered in mind and hy ing in destitute circumstances in a scantily furnishod room 1 Wushington square, New York. It1s now deciared that she is rosid ing quictly and comfortably on Staten sI Land, and will 500n give a sories of concerts Miss Blancho Davonvert, a sister of ¥ Davenport, is @ singor who gave much | 150 of succoss Lill h denly affected some years ago. climate of Italy hus restored hor most completely, and she is to sing in Paris this and possibly n A scas ian a romautic Von Heanigsen, an intimate friend of Bis marcie, Their tequaintance resultod in their MmAvriige, and, in the course of kis sermon, Me. Busse roforred i feelug Wrms to his good fortune in finding a companion for him - Add 20 drops of Angosty lass of impu you drink. stured by Dr.