Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 30, 1889, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY. BEE THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL, One of the Most Memorable Event in Military History. HARD LIFE IN THE TRENCHES. Mengre Clothing and Miserable Food =Invalids Refused Admittanch to the Howpital Becanse They Were Necded nt Their Posis. And Yet These Mon Wers Morry. T daily meet men now gray with years, many crippled or infirm from wounds or hardships, in whose sober gait it is diffealt to Fecognize the wild ensign or the reckless captain with whom 1 laughed time away thirty-three years ago in the Crimen, says General Wolseley in the Youth's Companion, They carry nothing that indicates to {muh of this generation how gallantly hey fenced with death in the days when one gallant soldier was to England worth scores of the vestry who nowadays call themselves statesmen. To them, individually, the remem- brance of the cruel sicge, of that first winter on those bleak, cold heights around Sebastopol, speaksof noble en- durance and daring deeds. Peering buck upon that vista of years, one secs the bright living faces of gallant com rades whom wo laid in shallow, rock raves there, and it deems but yester- ay that their joyous laughter rang loud as their strong, manly hands grasped ours as Wwe meét in these trencher Before the winter of 185 set in with 21l its rain, snow, piercingly cold winds and_unusual rigor, lifein the tronches, during the day, was hy no moeans anpleasant. To the young, earnest and eager soldier it was, of conrse, full of interest, although after the battle of Inkurman it was very e dent to those with any knowledge of war that a winter of trench-work was before us, Even those of us who wore well-read in the history of our siegos in Spain ‘under Wellington—and we had very few amongst us then who knew any- thing at all of military history—had little conception of what a sioge would be in such a climate and At such a dis- tance from home. The ordinary routine of daily duty was as follows: The companies detaled for the trenches from each battalion ““fell 1n” about 5 o'clock in the morn- ing and marched in_ the dark to the first parallel, where they were told off by the field officer on duty to their sev- eral positions in the miles of siege works we had constructed. If yoar post was in the batteries in rear, you had an easy vime of i You fired an occasional gun at some working party of the enemy, and you had a few mortar shells back in return. The large-sized Russian shell was bigger than otir thirteen-inch shell, then the largest in our army or navy. You watched what seemed its slow, solomn flight through the heavens. Owing to its wooden fuse itmade a noise which is best reproduced by the words “pitchuh-tewichtah, pitchah-tewich- atah-” These shells often buvst in the air, when their great splinters, each of many pounds’ weight, came teatring through the air with a rushing sound'of anger entirely unlike the seemingly digniiied procedure of the shell itseif before it burst. When these shells ‘did not burst be- fore they struck the ground, they fell with o heavy, booming thud that seemed to shake the neighboring carth, burying themselves some feet if they fell in our parapets, and when they burst, like a small mine, they drove cliy and stones about into showers of dust. . Happily, the pieces into which they burst were sutficiently large to be eas seen by the quick and experienced eye, and consequently to be dodged with tolerable certainty by an agile man. At first, all thought it necessarygto lie down until the shell bu 8y doing 80, one presented a far smaller mark, and when lying on the ground it is often easy to obtain cover for the head or body. The short period whon the fuse hissed and seemed to splutter between the shell striking the ground and its burst- ing was always one of suspense, when men held their breath if the shell was mear. With what a pleasant feeling of relief one rose unhurt after the explo- sion. What numerous instances of hair-breadth escapes could be related. This practice of lying down for a mortar shell had come down to us from the days of Wellington in Spain, and_possibly from those of Marlborough in Flanders, Sebastopol was an immense avsenal for both army and navy; its stores of guns, mortars and of ammunition were practically inexhaustible. ¥or every shell wo could bring from England and convey to our trenches, the Russians had fifty on the spot ready for use. Those whom duty took most frequently to the trenches were at last so accus- tomed to this shell firing, so expert 1 telling by the sound of the shell’s flight whereabouts it would fall, that after some time they became very indifferent to it. i The officer I relicved one evening bade me good-by ata mortar battery, where at the time a sort of duel was be- ing carried on with the Russians, whose ructice just then was bad, and thoir usos still worse. A'shell of their had just burst far up in the air, somewhere about its highest point of thght. Be- fore the mocking laughter it oceastoned had entirely ceased, a sergeant came running baek to report that my friend, ¥vho had only just relieved me, was killed, When In the act of lighting™his pipe, o lively splinter of the shell over whose uullmel‘y explosion we had been 80 merry, had killed them on the spot. The siege” of Sebastopol is without doubt in many ways the most remar able ono in history, minus the Homer tosing its oventful story. Its length alone would make it memorable, if no other circumstances combined to do so. Ob, how never-ending itscemed to us! Especially to the young and inex- perienced, it was s if we had become soldiers expressly to take our turn day alter d und night after night, in its ever-ending treuch duty. When in oamp, nt least during the summer, we ate, drank and were merry, and raced our ponies to our great satisfaction. Thank God! it is impossible w repress the llluhl:lmg spirits of fresh, spurkllmg, manly youth, The ‘maudlin, puling, poor-hearted oreature to be met with often in the gurb of & man, even in armies, soon iscovored he had no calling for e sol- dier’s life, He felt he had had enough of it aftor a woek or two on the ly ration of one or two hard navy bis- its, with a piece of very heavy, red junk” about as large as an old- fashioned watch, Pcmndldy 1 managed to obtain h food—1I say nothing of its qual- anks to wmy enterprising ser- Londoner, and so also iat butcher who was ped near us, The offal of all als killed is by custom the perguis- of the butcher, so a bargain was E Kk between the two cockneys, in Bocordance with the terms of which I Ppaid bim ndnim-n o weok, und he sup- u?nm"’"’ wnd servant with hearts g wasas iosuflicient as our food, and not suited to the rigoro climate of the Crimea. Tn the winter the cold wis oxtessive,and our trenches were often for days mere ditches of mud and water. All ranks suffered much, accordingly, from the want of long boots. In retarning to camp one afternoon, 1 overtook a meérchant seaman, who had come from Balaclava to have a glimpse of Sebastopol. He stopped to inquire the rond, when my eyes soon fastened on the good, waim pea-jacket and long boots he wore, 1 Telt they were just what I wanted for trench work. short bargain made them mine. We parted lhmvouch\{‘ contented, he with my sovereigns in his pocket to get back to his ship as best he conld, without the cont and boots which 1 carried off in triumph, 1 have always felt how much I owed my good health to this chance meeting, and ‘my servant's contract for offal, 1 confess that I never pitied or felt the least compnssion for wmysell or my brother officors; all my &ympathios were with the rank and filo who could not afford to buy boots or food. Day day 1 have seen the half-fed, poo private soldior struggle iwith limbs to the trenches, trying above all things for his own credit asa soldicry and for the credit of his regiment to keep out of hospiral, and, what he termea, nt his duty Many 1 have seen roturn from the trenches to lie down in their tents, and ther o from actual want of proper sustenance. Our doctors said that their most heart- rending duty then was, day by day, to refuse admittance to hospital to those whom they know to be se ill, and g0 reduced in strength by diarrhoen and dysentery as to be roally unfit for duty. They did so, because the necessi of our position required th oevery man capable of Our numbers weére so weakened through losses in action and the winter hardships, that companies often marched to the trenches consisting of not more than tem men ench. Indecd, with all the information supplied on these hends to the enemy by our oW newspapers, it was often a wounder to us at the fime that the Rus- sians did not muke more sortics. The march to the trenches was af- fected in the dark when lo, 80 that the arrivals of the reliefs shoald not attract the enemy’s attention. Dur- ing the winter our usual work was clearing the drains and the batteries of mud and water, filling sand-bags for the next night's work, rolaying gun plat- forms, and whatever could be done w#thout the enemy’s knowledge. We did not care to embark upon any work that would entail throwing earth over the parapet, for the moment we at- tempted to do so, shell after shell was poured upon us, to which, with our very limited supply of ammunition, we could not reply. We wero forced to husband all the ammunition we had for the much-talked-of and long-espected event, “‘the mext hombardment.” THe condition of things undoet which sieges should be, andgalmost ave, only undertaken, was entirely veversed. We were content not_on siege on without ha five of the place, but it was the attnck- ing and not the defending side whose sapply of shot and shell was limited, When posted in the advanced works an oceasional musketry ‘duel wasstarted with the Russian rifle-pits. 1 haye scen men. when this gume, jumy r bod to the $ ing to heing able to jump under cover when they saw the puff of smoke from the hostile loophole before the bullet conld ach them. To put vour cap on_the end of a ramrod, and show it over the parapet to attract the enemy’s fire, was a very ‘common pas- time. The men on the lookout told stories, taiked of home and their sweethearcts, read any available seraps of boo ne lept and piayed gam T was ca my breakfasy very carly one morning in u ritle-pit we had just taken from the enemy, and beecame ~in- terested in some men nemr me who were playing pitch and toss with half- amusing tooking yomng fellow of the party, with his halfpence poised on a piece of stick, was on the point of throwing them upin the air, when L heard that horrid “thud” [ knew so well, the sound made by a bullet as it strikes a man, and the player and his halfpence foll at my feet. He was stone (]L'X\‘L without a sigh, exelamation or movement of limbs or muscle. A chance bullet, in coming through a sand-bag loop-hole, had struck some stone that caused it to glance down- wards. I have always remempered the cir- cumstances, because it is v y bullet causes such actually instantane- ous death, But ver y were tho curious reumstances under which death and wounds presented th selves. I shall mention one remar instance. I was sitting some yards in the rear of our first pavallel, alongside. an officer who was giving me instructions for the coming night. Two sergeants stood to- gether facing us, listening to the o ders which I wrote in my pocket-book. Whilst so occupied, in what we con- ceived to be a very safo spot, down tum- bledeoth the sergeants in front of us, a shell rushed past so close that we felt its wind. Oune man’s head had disap- peared, and the other’s face was horri- bly mangled, his jawbone, aswe sup- posed it to be, obtruding from a ghustly wound, The next morning I inguired in camp how the man was, and iearned he had not been touched by the shell| but that his terrible wound ‘had been made by the jawbone of tho other sergeant, which was driven into his face. In- deed, a little reflection ought to have told us that no man could be seriously wounded in the head by the blow of a shell and still live, The duy duty, especially duving the winter, was generally light, but it was a cold, wet and dreary oceupation. We were relieved about sunset, when ~generally well sonked through—we marehed home to a very wet camp, all round which and in which the mud was ankle deep, No dry clothes, or warm fire, or hot meal awaited our return Almost every ofiicer had some sort of a raised bed, but the sergeants and pri- vates alike slept on the wet ground in their wet clothes, and with only a cou- ple of damp and very inferior blankets as bedding. The private’s supper was some biscuit and generally a “tot” of rum, with sometimes, if the camp was well man- aged, o tin of hot tea. A pot of jam or a box of surdines, with ration biscuit was the officer’s usual evening meal, but as our servants did not do trench duty, they were generally able to huve hot tea or some hot preserved soup veady for their master's roturn from the trenches. What did most to kill our men was want of fuel to cook with. Before any fire could be made, men had to march a mile or two to dig up the roots of the brushwood that bad stood on the hights at Inkerman. The brushwood had quickly disappeared, but their roots constituted our coal mine during our fiest winter. It was asad sight to see | the poor, wet and tired soldier on his mees, trying to kindle enough fire with these damp roots to boil his kettle, A QUAINT OLD MISSION TOWN, The Village of San Juan Caplstiang in Southern California. WHERE ANTIQUARIANS LINGER, Fhe Adobe Chapel and Its Intoresting Relics—Beantifal Scenery and Luscions Fraits of the Banta Anna Valiey, A Mémory of Other Days. T.os ANGELES, Cal., Juae 25.—[Special to THE Bre.]—In a sequestered vale leading from the rugged Santa Ana hills to the ocean, in the extreme south- east corner of Tos Angeles count, quaint old mission town ealled San Juan Capistinno, to distinguish it from San- Juan-by-the-Sea, a village a few miles distant, This ancient Mexican hamlet was the scene of some of Father Juni- pora Serra’s most successful labors. Tt was the second mission in sonthern Cal- ifornia founded by that indefatigable missionary padre. The adobe church was begun in 1 The carved and crumbling corridors of the old chapel are the dehight of antiquarians and these ancient walls have & place in the offorts of scores of amateur artists, not to speak of their value to the best of landscape drawings made by several talented knights and ladies of the paint brush. The tile roof, the mission pamels in the floor, the grass-grown court, the ancient bells, and the dis- tinctive Josuitical architecture are all noted with interest. The building was A HEROIC ACHT MENT for the mission fathers and their chris- tianized Tndian disciples. The art by which some of the building material was wrought and how it was cemented islost. Men send to Great Britain for Portland cement, in these days, but the monks who redesmed this land for christianity more than a century ago, managed to build with a skill which the generations of atmospheric disintegra- tion and long neglect have not been able to undo. Bat interesting as the old church and its surroundings arve from an historical point of view, and apart from its sacred sepulchres of faithful pries and earnest converts, and its hallowed shrines. Capistinuo contains nttrictions of more modern and worldly chara The home of the late Don Juan I stands at the crest of a declivity front- ing on the dreamiest, most idyllic of semi-tropical gavdens, with the mn:ost luscious of fruits upon evergreen s some tall and stately, spreading their low vit nearer the enrth, and bordering the banks of a lucid s‘ream, cou its s i The air is fragrant with sweet pe and bowers of flowers bid the visitor re- chiné in their midst to forget the world and live in an « EDEN OF UNFORBIDDEN FRUT] The ranch is seven miles by fourtcen, and contains 145,000 acres. It to be sold to an Fnglish company for an Iinglish colony, and the visitor wonders whether the romantic home of the old Spaniard will be as charming, as peace- ful and as hospitable when its new owners onter its lovely precincts, and burden its now serene beauty with the clamor of the strange voices of the Anglo om farm ng up its virgin soil and planting dwellings and orchards, where now the lonely shepard is the only human being that startles the wild animals and the only human voices are the soft calls to the grazing sheep. But coming back from the hills and sas, the canons and valleys of this utiful and fertile ranch to the gar den and the homo, there are cupids howers and lovers’ lanes, where the lux: nt foliage meets above a narrow foot puth, and the sweet song of the mocking bird can be heard night and among thé overhanging branches. jven in the languorous midday hour these retreats are cool. and are lighted only by glancing beams between the close touching leaves. Oranges, lem- ons, pomegrantes, nectarines, apricots, olives, bananas and other semi-tropical fruits, hang in clusters inviting and delicions, and far more toothsome it partaken of amidst their dreamy surroundings than when eaten in. the marts of trade or picked from the abundance of the market man, The interior of the low-porched and rambling adobe mansion, hidaen by vines, isnot less interesting than the spacious grounds, very nook and cov- ner being filled with GRAVE RELICS AND CURIOS, The walls of this old-fashioned Spanish dwelling are hung with paintings in oil and water colors—not cheap chromo- like daubs, but works of real art. The tables in the parlors are solid marble, imported and inlaid with Mexican onyx or more highly colored stone, in unique desi covered with globes, vases, card-ree s and other costly bri A vate chapel in the house—a eteristic of 1 of these ancient h homes—overlooks the grand old ruin atthe mission. It contains an elaborately earved erucifix and alabas- » statue of the Virgin, and beatific snints in purest Parisian marble, which are the adoration of all visiting Catho- o8, To the stranger the ranch extends a generous hospitality and Capistiano a hearty welcome. The natives em- ployed on the big ranch or dwelling in the shadow of the old mission are simple minded, contented and kind. Their sincere affection for the old church and its memories and their kind words for tho deceased lord of this realm are CHARMING IN THEIR SIMPLICITY and recall with keenest interest the stories of the days whon Americans and their money-geiting eagerness were not known, but when each community followed implicity the guidance of the faithful padre, There is much that the ng and sordid fortune- o yankee could learn of these showled, dusky native Cali- fornians. San Juan Capistrano 1s a favorite re- sort of artists. One scarcely ever visits the ancient mission village but he will find one or more enthusiasts with pen- oil sketehing one or other feature of the lovely and romantic, though lonely spot. Fifty or more are said to have congregated here atone time and every aspiring genuis among them carried away a sketch book filled with flicker- ing 1nspirations of grand results there- after to be accomplished. It is a health giving spot. The sea is a brief step distant and mountains are reached in a few minutes gallop or drive, along old and broken roadways, made by the In- dians before the Spanish settlers had come amongst them. It is & guiet, rostful sort of spot, without hotels, without town lot status, without real estate owners—in short it is about the only primitive Mexican settlement still undisturbed by the march of progress. It would be well to set aside the ground oceupied by the church and exprossly forbid the impiouws American from t ing or owning any part of it so that there might remain at lonst one examplgelen civilization now almost passed awdy, W. BLACKBURN, - General Jacqueminot. S. A. Wood fn New York Sun. ‘What conflicts you your blade 1n 1 know not if any' knows | But 1 know that theffheenliest maiden Bays yours he queenliest rose. And who would not envy, on seeing It blush from herMfom of snow, The oxquisite pleasure of being The red rose of Jacqueminot 1 Whenoe came the deep hue of your flower 1 Was it tioged by the blooa of the foo Who felt in droam-battles your power, O General Jacqueminot { What it yon have failed in man-slaying In histary’s pantheon to pose "Tis sweetor to Loar the world sa * You gave us a beautiful rose.”’ e MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO, Sara Bornhardt is thinking of playing in Zolw's “Tuerese Raquin.” Martucci is the hame of a new Italian com- poser, & trio by whom was lately brought out in London and was pronounced u remavkable work, The Bellini theater in Naples recently pro- duced an Ttalian version of Nicolai’s ““Merry of Winasor,” which met with great Lawrence Barrett. has sniled for Europe. He hoves to improve_the glandular affection from which he is suffering by the use of the waters at Crusnach, M. Viadimir de Pachmann, who has a rep- utation as a Chopin player, recently gave tWo piano recitals in London, at which the programme was mude up entirely of works by the Polish tone poet. Rose Coghlan denies the report that she hus seperuted from her husband. She states that she has a bad case of hay fever and is going to Ualifornia for relief. The Chiness lack appreciation of the stage. As soon as a Celestial entors upon the stage he is deprived of citizenship and his chilaren after him for four generations. *“Taunhuuser,” in_the Paris version, has been produced ‘at Karlsruhe, and is said to have reflected the highest crodit on Kapoll- meister Mottl, who directed the performance. The first performance of Richard Wagner's “Nibelungen Tetralogy” to be given in a for eign tongue will occur at Pesth in the fall, when the entire work will be sung in Hun' garian, A monument is shortly to be erected to Robert Schumann in Zwickan, his native city, for which 6,000 marks has been col- lected, and besides 3,000 marks voted by the town its Mr. David Laurie of Glasgow has refused §10,000 for the famons “Alard” Stradivarius but §12,500 has now been oftered on rican, and the mattor is under consideration. Lydia Thompson is a wonderful woman in her way. Noiw that she is talking abmat bid- ding fareivell to the stage, it is remembered that thirty-seven years have elapsed since she appeared upon it as a leading dancer. The former director of the Paris opera populaire, M. Garnier, ‘has applied to tho i3gyptian’ government for the privilege of giving four months of Irench grand and comic opera at Theater Kheaivial in Cairo, Among the plays which Mr. Henry Irving hoves to be able to_produce is one dealing witn the life of Qgeen Mary. One of the ¢huracters is that of a court jester, and it 18 probable that snould Mr, Irving present the play Mr. Marshatl P. Willder may appear in that part. W Verdi is said to bs iz work at present on an operg, “Romeo 4nf* Juiet,” for which Arrigo Bofto has written the fibrowo. ‘The role of Romeo it is Yeported, is destined for the buritone, Maurek-who created Iago on the occasion'of the inigial representation of “Othello.” It is stated that Verdi's “Otollo” will be produced next wiater at the Paris Grand opera, with Joan de Reszke as Otello and Madame Melba a€ Ddsdemona. | Theso are ists, and also Edouird Reszie, have just re- newed their contracts with MM. Ritt and Gailhard, Audran’s “Le Grand Mogul,” which, in its English adaptation, “The snalke Charmer,” first brought Miss’ Lillian Russcll forward iu_comic opera, has just succeeded “The dikado’ atthe Frewdrich Wilhelmstadtisches theater in_Beriin, where the latter had a carcer of 150 night Now that John Gilbert has left us, tho question arises whnat Mr, Jefferson will do? I vill be difficult, indeed, to tind a old comedy on level terms with Mrs, John Drew, aud himself. Death has robbed playgoers of a treat, eagerly ex- pected, but expected, unhapoily, in vain, The Carl Rosa “Grand Opera”” company is now resting, having concluded a prolonged and highly prosperous tour. It will start again early in August and produce m_course of the season Bizel's ‘‘Pearl Fishers,” Wal- lace’s ‘‘Lurline,”’ Macfarren’s “She Stoops to Conquer,” and Weber's “Der Freischutz," Thereis a_prospoct of a second visit to London of Herr Angelo Neumann aod his “Rings des Nibelungen' company. Taking into consderation thie greatly increased pop- ularity of Wagner's works since 1552, there 18 little doubt that, given a suitable theater, reasonable prices, and good performauce, the venture would prove a substautial suc- cess. “A Fest Spiel,” in fiye acts, by Otto Devrient, was performed in the large Con- cert bual in Frankfurt-on-Maine during the pust month. It is, as its name chows, a play of a religious tendency, portraying several events in the life of Luther, and was first produced on the stage in Jena ' in 1383 on the anniversary of the great reformer's 400th Dbirthday. News of Mary Anderson does not quite dispel the fears entertained by many of ner friends as to the state of her health, It wus cabled frem London recently that she ‘“is radually recovering her nervous poise.” et it is also deciared that time booked for her at certain American theaters next sea- son is not likely to bo filled, and that other stars have been offered the dates. The announcement 18 made by Director Stanton that the Munich tenor, Herr Vogl, has been engaged to sing at the Metropolitun opera house next season. Hemrich Vogl was born in 1845 near Munich. In early lite he was a school teacher in u village in the Bavarian Alps, In 1805 s voice having at- tractod a great deal of attention he went to Munich, where he passed an_examination in singing 80 successtully that he was immedi- I;Afiv enguged for tue iRoyal opera of that oity. e - CONNUBIALITIES, g Macon, Gia., boasts of four elopements one day several v/eeks ago, The marriage of three sisters to three brothers is reported by Centerville, O. An oid fellow sixty-nine years of age led a blushing_bride 0f sixteen to the altar re- cently at Yerk Center| N, Y. The news comes from Tahiti that Mr. Doty, the American consul ‘there, has led *the beautiful Princess Polona’ to the altar, The first license fqr the marriage of a white colored wojnay In Pittsburg was is- itly, though not a few liconses for the marriage of white women (o colored men have been issued. Lieutenant Joseph Loisinger, brother-in- law of Prince Alexander of Battenburg, it is iven out, is about to wurry Louise Kopek, aughter of the head gamelkeeperof thé Dag- naiska forest in Hungiry. John Williams,a bachelor in Augusta, Me., was told that a certain widow had set her cap for hiw, and Johy was 8o afraid that he imight be roped into marriage that he went to the barn and hanged himself. Nugloy—You wanted to got married bad onough, Lord kunows, when I took you. You'd ‘a married a fool. Mrs. Nagley (meekly)—Well, don’t tyvit me with what 1 have done. We all make mistakes. Tn1 only way to solve the proble Marriage a Failuret” 'y ininds us of the story anent the toadstool and the mushroom. ~ How can you tella toadstool from a mushroom! By eating it. 1f it is @ toadstool you dle; if it is & mush- room you dou’t. Says an old woman i Barry's “When a Man's Siogle:” 1 mind when Jeames Gowrle speired (courted) me. ‘Ye wud vather hae Davit Curly, 1 ken,’ he says. ‘I dinna deny’t,’ I says, for the thing was well ken't, ‘but ye'll do vara well, Jeawes,' says 1, snd marry bim 1 aid" SPEOCIAL SUIT SALE. This Means Business. A look in our Fifteenth Street window will convince you that we have made A DEEP CUT IN PRIGES. Our Goods are all NEW, FRESH and RELIABLE, and marked in plain figures, We do not mark our goods up first and then give a discount, but we do give you the benefit of a Genuine Reduction in Prices $20 Men's and Youths' Sus, now $12 and $15 $15 and $18 Men's and Youths' Suits, now $8, $10 and $12 Same cut prices in our Children’s Department. Fifteenth Street Windows. Don’t forget our BROWNING, KING & €0, The Leaders of Popular Prices. Mail orders will receive prompt attention. 5. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts, Omaha. ONE SCHOOL'S CREAT WORK. Those Who Oall the Council Bluffs School Alma Mater. RESULTS OF THE LABOR OF YEARS Some Are Married and Some Are Dead, Some at Home and Some Abroad, But All Are. Recommended. Parochlal Schools in the Bluffs. During the past week the commencement exordlses of the two parochial schools of the city, St. Peter’s and Bt. Francis', have taken place, and were both events of sufficient im- portance to deserve more than passing no- tice. The former is & new educationdl insti- tution, having been opened less than a year ago;, suill, it has an attendance quite remark- able for the time since 1t was started. It is the parochial school of the German Catholic parish, and is in charge of Rev. Herman Mengwasser. The school was built immediately after the splendid new church of this congregation was completed, the people being satisfied that a ouilding for the purpose could be erected. The ladies of the church were largely instrumental in raising the money necessary for its ercction. It bids fair to soon do & very important part in the educa- tion of the rising German generation of the city, Its frst commencement exercises were held Tuesday evening, and the excellent manner in which the pro- gramme was rendered reflected ~the highest credit on pupils and teachers. A part of the programme was in German, 5o that not only the Americans, but the dis- tinct Germans_in the audience were highly entertained. The smaller pupils played guite B part in the exercises, showing careful training for the parts assigned them. The evening’s entertainment was a pleasaut sur- prise, even to those who thought they were well acquainted with the progress the school ‘was making, and will result very benefioially to the institution in the future. St. Francis’ academy is a much older in- stitution, and needs no introduction to tho people of Iows, Nebraska, Kansas, Missourt and Mionesota, all of which states have sent scores of pupils, in_years gone by, to receive the advantages offered by its score of able instructors. The academy is in charge of the Sisters of Charity, and the superior ad- vantages always offered by the sisters’ schools are here found in their nearest ap- proach to perfoction. it is one of tho vldest educational institutions in this part of the country, having been es.' tablished here nearly twenty years ago. During the past year there were enrolled at the academy fifty-eieht boarders and 175 day scholars. A class of four young ladies was graduated. The exercises occupied two evenings, Wednesday evening was devoted to the smaller pupils, who participated in a very pleasing programme, and the com- mencement exercises proper were held Thursday evening, A fine art exhibition, the work of the pupils of tho school, was dis- played in the studio and parlors of the insti- tution. Many of the pupils ure among the leaders in Council Bluffs soclety circles and have availed themselves of the thorough teaching to be secured here. Some of the finest artists inthe city are graduates of the academy. Aside from the many landscape painting in oil and crayon, was & large collection of ar- tistically executed articles in fancy embroid- ery and fine needle work. To give & com- plete lst of the many exhibitors and their work would be impossible, but among those deserving especial meuntion are Misses Mag- gie Gibbons of Orleans, Neb.,Davis of Knox- ville, Pussee Keating, Gertie Pusey, Hlanche Arkwright and Sophia Gerner of this city. Their work is not only creditable to them as artiste of ability, but to the paiustaking at- tention aud walchfulness of their teachers. The academy was crowded on each even- g, and many, unablo to find scats in the crowded ball, passed the tlme pleasantly in the art rooms above. The school is one In whioch not ouly the Irish population, but the eutire city as well, takes great interest, and 18 its gratifying successes of each year all must feel arecasonabls amount of honest pride. ©. B. H. 8. Alnmnl. The eighteenth anniversary reunion and banquet of the Alumni association of the Council Bluffs high school held last Tuesday evening i the auditormm of the Bloomer school building. The weather was very stormy, and the attendance was much smaller on that account than wouid other- wise havo been the case. The recention committee consisted of Mrs. B. Risser, Miss Vernie Reynolds, Miss Kate Blaxsim. The auditorium was very tastefully de- corated with appropriate mottoes and flow- ers. Down tho center of the room were ar- ranged rows of tables, around which the company gathered to take part in the exer- cises and dis the choice viands. Tho Stryk-én-Btuas-Lust club played several selections from ‘*‘Olivette,” after which the oration was delivéred by Finley Burke Bsq. E. M. Thornton followed with a vocal solo, entitled *‘Anchored.” After the reception of the class of 1589, rofrosh- ments were served. A number of toasts were happily responded to by many of the older graduates who are now among the most prosperous and respected residents of the chy. Several fi instrumental and vocal numbers were interspersed throujh the programme with pleasing effect. The fol- Jowing 1s a complete list of the graduates of the school 1n the pa o Baird, M Stone Meigs, 0, Mrs. Kaf ille DeKay. Warren Dailey, ay, Mrs, Lizzie olds, Mrs. Inglesta Hattie leason, Miss Vernic Ida Kivkpatrick Shepard, Smith Ware Class of 1873—Mr. Finley A. Burke, Mrs. Clara Newton Bope, Miss SfellaGrayes, Mrs. Maggie Ficld Glover, *Mrs. Eva Bur roughs Huigh, Mr. Herman Purtsch, Mrs. Ella Humphrey Stinson. Class of Mrs, Burke, *Mrs, Lizzie Cassady Burke, Mr. Charles M, Harle, Mr. Henloy Loe, Mrs. Frankic Itico Otls, Dr. Frank W. %ortor- field, Mr. Georgo Forrest Smith, Mrs. Jennic Patton Weidensall. Class of 1875—Mrs. Coral Pleming Ask- with, *Mrs. Liszio IKnabe Barstow, Mr. Hordce Evans, Mr. Eugene A, Houghton, Mr. Eroest E. Hart, Mrs, Lottie Oblinger Harle, Miss Lillie Millard, Mr. Arthur L. Munger, Miss Bolle Merwin, Miss Mary Michaclson, *Mr. Martin Ieynolds. Mr. George D,' Rice, Miss Gortio Sharp, Mrs. Emma Blyter Stewart. Class of 1876—Mr. Charles J, Buker, Mrs. Eva Hewitt Beach, Mrs, Lillie Keller Brown, Mr. Alyin J. Caugher, Mrs. Ella Howitt Cowles, Mrs. Lizio Crocker, Mrs. Aunio Blancbard Entrigin, Mrs, Nellie Graves Eels, Mrs. Rachaol Fishor Harmon, Mrs. Carrie Rice Jackson, *Mrs. Ada Crock well Koith, Mrs, Isabolla Fairman Paulson, Miss Hattie 1Ross, Mrs. Nellie Elanchard Swan, Miss Lizzie ¢ art, Mrs. Eva DeKay Stuart, Dr. Herbert A. Woodbury, Mrs. Mamie Rue Wright, Class of 1887—Mrs. Constance Williams Beunson, Mr. Krank H. Ivaus, Mrs. Lizzio Randall Odell, Miss Kutio Payne, Mrs. Lucy Willisms Seaith, Mrs, Kate Hootén Sprague, Miss Laura Scoit, Mrs. Josie Kuabe Tate, Mrs. Susie Baldwin Walker. Class of 1878 ~Mrs. Carrie Thickstun al linger, Mrs, Efie Patton Bowman, Miss Kato laxsim, Mrs. Ida Hurris Beno, Mrs. Al ice Mottaz Cooper, Mrs, Idn Noack Frazi er, Miss Bettie Graves, Mrs, Mary Keeso McMillan, Mrs, Laura Casey McBride, Mrs. May Ba- ker Iostarick, Mr. Walter' I Smith, Mr. Edgar A. Scott, Mr. Waltor stovin, Muss Della Thrall. Class of 1579—Mrs, Jennie Millard Ashton, Dr. Fred W, Houghton, Mrs. Jennie Heebe Houghton, Miss Anna Oberholtzer. Cluss of 1850—Mr. Galen Allison, Miss Bar bara Anderson, Mr. Wiiliat Baird, Miss Hen- rietta Donahey, Mrs. Etta Durfes, Mrs. Ida Cook Hail, Mr. Dell G. Morgan, Mr. George Wittun, Mrs. Mary Marsbail Wells. Class of 1881~-Mrs. Currie Shepard ars- tow, Mrs. Leua Wilson Collistor, Mrs. Olive Woodbury Greenlee, Miss Kato Gerner, Mrs. Carrie Duncan Hauna, Miss Lu Millrad, Mr. J. R. Tate, Miss Kute Treynor. Cluss of '1382—Miss Nelile Clarendon, Miss Nollie Rain Hagg, Mrs, Tillie Autenreith Montgomery, Miss ifle Moon, Mrs. Vinnie Rosa Osborne, Romie Lyou Rissor, Miss Nollie Sackott, Mrs. Mollie Meatiey it Murs. Parthenia Jefferis Shattuck, Mrs Mary Motaz Tucker and Mrs, Lena Petarson Woods., lags of 1833 Mi Allie A. 13; Tuey Blan, 3urnctt, Miss M Mis3 il ace Swearingen, Dr, Miss Inez Young and rie Zurmuchlen, of 1584 Miss Jennie Baldwin, Miss nes Blancoard, Mrs. Janette Gerner ize, Miss Anna Meyes, Miss. Clara Meycrs, Miss Ituth Phillips, Mr. W. H. Plumer, Miss May Sims, Miss Mary Sivan- son, Miss Phabe Shontz, Class of 1885--Miss Ada Bolin, Miss Anna Bowman, Miss Miss Mary A. Dawmon, Mrs, Javis, Miss Robertn Hattenhauer, Mr. Lemuel Knotts, Miss Maud Oliver, Miss Murgaret Shontz, Miss Helen Spooner, Mr. John Sylvester, Miss Tda Wallace, Miss Licia Young, *Miss Amanda Zumueh (on. Class of 1856 —Mrs. Mary Josselyn Allen, Miss Mary Davenport, Miss Julin Judson, Mr, George Mayne, Miss Elsio Pusy, Miss Stella Sutton, Mr. Emmor Tintoy. ' Class of 1887—Miss Ada Amswunh‘si'u Myra Brigis, Miss Josie Clausen, Miss Dora Grass, Miss Nannie Hardin, Miss Iva Hat- tenhaner, Miss Mary Munson, Miss Lottie Pile, Miss Clara~ Southwell, Mr, Emil Schurz, Miss Mary Tinloy, Miss May Kils more. Class of 1858—Miss Margaret Britton, Miss Lena Clausen, Miss Carrie Clifford, Miss Fdith Fletcher, Mr, Charles Huntington, Miss Jennie Howe, Miss Gr V. Heffley, . Edwin Mitcheil, Miss. Mary McMillan, 3. Oliver, Mr. Paul Tulleys, Miss Lenn M. Class of 1850 a oster, Mrs, Lona_Van Mr. Fredericlk Grass, Miss Carric Henn, Miss n - Hart, ' Miss Hulda Luchow, Miss Jennie Aile, Miss Nellis Par- sons Miss_Juha Walker, Mr. Ernest Wood- A 0 Witter, *Deceased, The event was one which will long be re membered by all who attended. s EDUCATIONA L, Mary Fisher, n colored gicl is valedicto rian of the Atelson class of the Atchison high school. Miria Mitchell, for many years professor of astsonomy ut Vassar colloge, is reported be lylng near the point of death st Lynn, Mass, Her ailment is genoral debility, due 1o old age. Rev. David Swing, of Ghicago, the Pre byterian “heret s been elected & trus 60 of Northwestern university, but in the face of vigorous opposition from the country members of the hoard, Dr. Pepper, vost of the university of Pennsylvania, greatly wants to reésign his post, but the trustees will not hear of it. He ets £5,000 & yoar salary and gives the colloge flu,mm a year from his uwn pocket, The *‘two hundred and fiftieth anniversar; of the establisament of tho first publig chool in the United States, sustained by & tax on the people,” wus held ay Moet= ing House Hill, Dorchiester, Mussachusetts, on Saturday. #rance has more than half the population of the United Htates, but spends loss thuf one-fourth for public education. Iut this noney goes further and accomylishes mor than for the sume Amount in the Unite Stat in the matter of clucating the ey® und taste and muscles for pravtical purpososy France outstrips us, Prof. . B. Androws,of Cornell univeraity was elected president of Brown by the ungai= imous vote of the corporation. Prof. Ane drews is of the class of 1370, Brown, and has Leena professor of history and ' politicad economy here scveral yoaws, Ho was pros fessor ab Cornell of sociology aid politiced economy. Colgate university 1s to bo the new nal of Madison university at Hamilon, N. Y, Origloally named after the great federalist ident, {t now adopts tho name of twe actors, Samuel and James 1. Colgate, ew York, the sonp manufacturors, whe erccted the Colgate academy building at the okt f $60,000. What are you old Presbyterians kicks ing about—you old possum-eared hounds? If a man was to come to m, town and talk about my church like have yours, I would either cowhide him ! or build a new church,