Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 9, 1889, Page 2

THE OMAHA ‘' DATLY BEE NEBRASKANS, STAY AT HOME. How Our OW%n State Compares With Washington. IN RICHNESS AND FERTILITY. The New Northwestern Commons wealth is Far Surpassed By That In Which We Live -Not An Eldorado, A Visit to Washington. Sreartie, Wash,, Doc. [Special to Tne Bee.|-Sinco my last communication to Tir Bes | have received soveral letters from your numerous readers in referenco to the new state of Washington, which I will try to answer in this letter, Thé state is divided into two paris natur ally by the rauge of Cascado mountains which extend from south to north near its center, The differencoe in the seasons, tem perature, crops, ete., betweon cast and wost ‘Washington is as marked ns if thoy were thousands of miles avart. This accounts for some of the seeming discrepancies in nows- paper roports of the stato. For example in east Washington thero is not much rainfall, and crops are unrehable, much as in ldaho and Wyoming. 1In enst Washinaton also the winters are severe, with much snow and wind. [t is quite differont in west Washin ton. There is plenty of rainfall and in gou- eral, justead of one crop there are at least two during the year. The grasses do ox- ceodingly woll here, vielding immerscly the firat crop of the season, followed with a fair second crop. On the west of the Cascades is alsoa great fruit covntry, apples, pears, prunes and all kinds of smail berrics doing well, and all very juicy and finely flavored. As fur as winter is concernd in west Wash- ington thero appears to bo much more rain than in summer, und the uverage tempera- turo is alittie lower, with seldom a frost or a snow, and when it docs snow it very soon melts off and passes away. There is very seldom any wind and certainly no heavy storms. There is sometimes a gale for u few hours on the straits of Fuca. West Wash- ington, cowmmonly called the Puget sound country, is developing very fust. Villages wre springing up, towus and cities are being bui't like magic, ‘and real estato is increasing 1n value very fast in all west Washington, With all these oxcellent, features, notwith- tanding at this time of the year the grass is reen and outdoor flowers may be plucked in Decew ber, para- dise. Thero drawbacks which offset the features to somo extent. Ono correspondent desires to know wheuner it is as healthy a state braska. 1 have notthe experience. huving been here for four mouths, 10 enablo e to determine that point, but L am now of the opinion that it is ot as healthy here as in Nebraska. The climate is damp, and in cool woeather is quite disagreeable and people are DL W0 contract severe colds, sors throuts, in- fluenzu, malaria aud typhoid fever, Tho'lat- ter discase has prevailed in all'the lurger towns during the past scuson, One farmer desires to know about the ex- teut of farming out here. There is little ‘urlnm;: compared with the prairie states, or generally there is 50 much timber, from the largest tree to the smaliest shrub, grow- ing on the land _ here that it is° worth about 8100 per ucre, t0 clear it. Hence the newness of the country, together with this obstacle n the way, Wwould indicate that farming is not carried on to a great extent, it follows thereforo that those who have farms are reaping the benefit by wetting large prices for their products, aud cleared land is higher 1n price toduy perhaps than it will be in wenty vears hence, We nave two United States scnators, mas- Bive in both body and iuteliect, now at the pational cabital taking care of our diversificd interests, assisted by an old Hoosier friend € mine, Hon. John L. Wilson, in the house, f my predicuons fail not, he will be o second Colfax in that body, having, as I believe, many manly traits of that distinguished tatesman and orator. We, of course are ooking forwafd to the developments of our many resources, such as our extensive coal mines, our abundance of iron ore, our fino quaries of stone, mines of silver, lead and a::ld, mines of the best lime stono in the est, our vast forests of tho finest of fir, cedar and spruce trees, and tho cultivation of the soil. Speaking' of soil, howover, I Rhinic there is but little soil here which con. pares with that of eastern Nebraska 1o rich- ness and capacity to bring forth excellent orops, and he who does not want to speculate in real estate, and hus a good farny in Ne- braska, with good health for himselt and fawily, . will' do well to remain where. he 18, and spond his days 1o fighting railroad corporations, If the reader would visit Seattle expecting 10 80e 4 nice looking town now, he would bo woofuily disappointed. Tho fact is, build- ings are being erected on every hand—the ground is all torn up and, the streets filled With brick and mortar, lumber and other building material—while the city is being honeycombed with excavations for water Ppipes and sewers. A. B. BALL. BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW, The Delegates Listen to Words of Wisdom in Different Churches, At 8 a. m, yesterday the delegates in at- tendanco at the fourth annual convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew assembled in Drinity cathedral to listen to the addrass of Dean Gardner. The reverend gentleman ook for his text Luke 11:23, *“Blessed are they that bear the word of God.” “Tne holy bible,” said the speaker, *is a subject of pereunial intorest. Men never exhuust its treasures. Today, the second Sunday of Advent, we contemplate the bible as tho word of God—a voice from the infinite— veacning humanity how to live, how to suffer wnd how to die. The world would be unen- durable wero it not for the various words snd voices that come to us out of the great realm of finito existence, Wo listen spoll- bounda and gaze with rapture upon the utter- suoes of those who make no claim to inspira- tion—who simply work and speak with the use of natural gifts, ‘Uhe skilled orator lifts men to the topmost crest of the wave of hu- mun feoling, the sweet singer calls out the strong emotions of pussion orsympathy, the cubning artist peoples our world With imuges and ors of 1deal 1ifo and beauty. Hut how shall we estimate the coaracter of the word of God? Here we stand on the shores of time and bofore us is the great ooean of etornity. There is a 8 eral imoression or instinct of immortality. “This 18 all, until cut of the vast illimitable denths of space there comes the word of God and we are made to know the secrets of that far-off counury, This word of God spoken af by the prophets was explained by the com* ln&.of the word of God incarnate, 'wo thoughts follow as a reasou for the excellenco of God's word. First, its super- natural character. Second, its intriusic merit. We aftirm the bible 'is inspired be ‘cpuse it has & supernatural origin and 1t tells \Of supernatural events. T'he bivle asa whole b created by the power of God. It speaks with certainty because it is the ex- pression of perfect knowledge. 1t deals with Bpirit as well us with watter because God is W epirit and the hidden things of the world are revealed to him, « The dificuity with buman opinion regard- ing temporal affairs 18 that the basis of human t sod buman belief is ever shifting, It 18 ouly with the data of past experience be- Aare his eyes that tho keenest philosopnor or the wisost scientist can put forth u singla Ppropositien in the realm of science or philos- phy, aud lhgn these wen of learning usually their favorie theories overturned at tonce in theirife time. They canuot see the future, hence the idleness of mere human speculation. God gave the power of »Olfln from the standpoint of perfect kno ge to the various writers of the bible, they have wade no mistakes. _*“Ihen, agmn, the bible deals with super- {hatoral oveots und affairs. It is the ono source of kuw\n? umdl‘u”:’ the eternal rflormmrul uture. We are made to BOW that beyond the coufines of the preseat \existence there is » lana that is fairer than No kuwan being would ever have thought guk the ton comwaudments or the SOrmok on the mount. more people than *1'Te bible 1s read Sy Olber bool. Ay Lo eouls, tasn “ this countcy is not a aro pleasant hearts of nations. States have been founded on 1ts principles; kings rule by a compact based on It. There is no new religious idea given to the world bt that 1s merely the de- velopment of something given in tho bible, Its very traunsiation has settied the idioms of specch, “Beloved, 1ot us take up this vol ume with the idea that it is the voice of God pleading to be heard. Learn to look upon your bible a8 your most valued companion, It is a precious treasure, It is daily bread for the hungry soul. It is that one book in which wo find eternal lifo and the testi mony of Jesus Christ. Its surface treasures aro beyond compare, Itshidden treasures are glorious as the goms of rarest hue. Take the book into _your hands and read a fow verses every duy." AT ALL BAINTA, At 11 a. m. the delegates assembled at All Saints church, Twonty-sixth and Howard ‘cots, whero they listened to an address by Bishop Worthington. The bishop said tiie early Iife of Clrist as rovealed in the apocrypui showed that from childhood up to the age of thirty when the Messiah com- menced his ministry, was not ono of idle ness, but was one of activity ; he was always attonding to his duties whether ministering 1o othiers, working in the carpenter shop, or asking questions and teaching the loarned doctors in the temple. 3We should follow his exampie. Thero should be close con centration of effort, This is better than mdividual offort. We should not expect to be dragged on to hoaven by the ministration of one ordained of God. e should unite with him to save others. This is what the Brotherhood of St. Androw is doing. It should not be our sole object in life to build packing houses, to erect palatial resi- dences, to develop a greal business or ole- vate oursolves socially, but to do all in our power to elevate our fellow men, Doar brothiers and sisters, this is your work. Wo should share with the clergy and the brother- hood theit work. This obligation is not pe culfar. It rests upon all who are baptized to do the missionary work that the brotherhood 18 attempting 10 do, Thelute prime minister of Bugland, Mr. Gladstone, devoted the Sun- day following his election to his high oftice to worship. Secretary Wanamakor goes to Philadelphia regularly every Sabbath to at- tend to his religious work. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt attends church regularly every Sunday. He finds time to attend the sea- men's meetings and visit the hospitsl monthly, Allin the hospital he knows by nume. “How cheering it must be to the sufferers to have such a man as Cornelius Vanderbilt to address them by name? Who of you will pretend that he is more burdened with business cares than Cornolius .Vander- bilt] Who will compare themselves with Secretary Wanamaker or that grand man Gladstone! How iyour excuses fade away and leave you speechless! What we need is a baptism of the Holy Ghost that we may have more of the enthusiasm of youth. The work of the brotherhood begins at home by the fireside. Precept is far more tolling than example. -Your work is at the office, the bank, the counting roou, the shop or where- ever you are. After the singing and other exercises Mr. Cuy W. Hozg of Chicago was invited to say a fow words, Mr. Hogys said that some peo- nle imagined that to bo a missionary one must 0 to India or somo island with an un- pronouncable nume. ‘That they imagmed that the work of evangelizition belonged to the clergy, 7That is a great mistake. The herliood of St Andrew is to meet this vurpose. Its object is to win young men T'o show them that thero is some ter object in fife than that of morely working from day to day for their wagcs without any other thought. The work of the brotherhood is unversal and is not only an aid to tho rector and the church to which the young mon belong but a blessing to hu- manity. IN TUE AFTERNOON a conference of members of the brotherhood was held at 3 o'clock in Young Men's Chris- tian ociation hail, ut wi time reports W sived of thé condition and progress of the various chapters in the stute, At 4 o'clock the doors wero thrown open and the public admitied. The subject of the address was ‘‘The Young Maa and His Life,” Mr. John 1. Ken- nedy of Omaha speaking upon the topic, ‘“*His Private Life,”” and Mr. Guy W. Hogg of Chicago upon *‘His Business Life.” IN THE EVENING the brotherhood occupied seats in Trinity- cathedral. After the usual evening service Dean Gardner introduced Mr. A, P. Hoplans, the newly elected president of Trinity chap- ter ol the brotherhood. Mr. Hopkins gave a short sketch of the purposes of the organization and then intro- duced Rev. W. O, Pearson of St. John's church, this city, who addressed the congregation upon the suoject, “The Brotherhood—Its Necessity.” The speaker referred briefly to the necessity of the organization as an assistance to the clorgy in briuging an organized body against any ovil. He admonisiied sthe brotherhood against be- ing over confilent because of their rapid growth and advised them to be careful and conscientious n their cfforts, scoking strength in prayer and counseling with the clergy in all matters, Mr. Raymand Stryker of Lincoln was next introduced and spoke upon the subject of brotherhood. Briefly stated, the object 15 to “spread Christ's kingdom among young men,” or to retain sthe young men of tho church and prevent them from losing all in- terest in church work by giving them a par- ticular field in which to labor. Mr. Guy W. Hogg, the next speaker, ad- dressed the congregation upon * I'he neces- sary qualifications of a true brotherhood man.” The speaker said he realized the im- portance of being tho last speuker of & con- vention of this kind where *the members would separate for their homes in various parts of Lhe state and would be likely to re- member strongly the last remarks they heard. One of the qualifications necessary to a true brotherhood man is that he be a student of the bible. Another is that he should be a man of prayer. After these two things others will follow. Mr., Hogg took occasion to call the attention of the brotherbiood to the fact that there is something wrong in Nebraska, because the poor attendance at the meetings of the con- vention. Tt is claimed that there are 130 members in_Omaha alone, yet there were only thirty-five av the altar rail in the morn- ing to peay for the prosperity of the brother- hood. He thought it would be better not to have so many members, but have a few earnest workers, 1o conclusion the speaker said he would leave, as o last word, the remark of one of the clergy: *The clergy umeed you; the clergy bless youj tho clergy bless God for you "t . After the services were closed the mem- bers of the brotherhood adjourned to the lower room, where prayers were said for the future prosperity and guidance of the orga- nization, aud numerous remarks mudo by those preseut. I"arewells were said and the fourth annual convention of tue Brotherhood of St. Audrew, diocese of Nebraska, was at @n end. e LAID TO REST, Kuneral of the Late George Cramer Yesterday. ‘The remains of (George Cramer, the sales- man for G, H, Mack & Co., who died Friday, were tenderly laid away yesterday afternoon n Laurel Hill cemetery. Though without a relative nearer than tne fatherland—where his aged parents will receive with sadness the announcement of his death—the deceased was not wanung lu frienas. His interment was witnessed by more than a hundred of the leading Germaus of -the city, with all of whom he had been long ac- qquh:‘wd and by whom he was greatly ad- mired. The remains lay in state ina beautiful caskot in Drexel & Maul's when thoy were viowed for the last time by mournin friends, On the lid lay two beautful wreaths of flowers, oue the offering of Mr. and Mrs. G, H, Mack, and also a Liful floral 1yre which hud boen given by his asso- ciate workmen, in- Mr, M store: Messrs. 1. H, Bruesing, W. J. Trick, P, J. VunSlyck, A, McLeod, M. Saxe and Claus Goesch, Shortly before the casket was closed Mr. J. 8. Houck delivered a few impressive re- marks on the certainty of death and the emotions which that certainty aroused, The pall bearers were W. J. Frick. A, Mc- { o, b Buessiug, C. Mios, 5. Lamb and 1. Finley , The funecal was under the auspices of G. H. Mack and Mr. Wetter aud notblog was left undone as evidence of respect 0 the de ceased. Chris Lauritsen's Burial. Chris Lauritsen, who died in St. Joseph's hospiial Friday last, was buried yesterday in Forest Lawn cemetery, the funeral services boing held . Drexel & Maul's, Rev. K. C. Badholdt, pastor of the Danish sutheran church, officiated, The pall bear- rs were Loujs Casper, Louis Peterson, Gustave Hall, + H. Koehler and P. Hansen, - - Fort Omaha News The Fort Omaha Social club gave anothor | of their dances last week at the post hall Dancing and musio sorved to pass the de- lightful hours and a most enjoyable time was bad by all. Among those prosent were: Mrs, and Mrs. James 1. Williams, Mr. and Mrs, D. C. Ainsworth, Mr. and Mrs, J, Luchsinger, Mr. and 'Mrs, Fog, Mr. and Mrs. Hafe, Mr. and_Mes. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Méehan, Mr. and Mrs, Dunham, Mr. and Mrs. Richard- son, Mr. and Mrs, Ol Mr. and Mrs Wood, Mr. and “Mrs, Cook, Mr, and Mrs. * Hayes, and Mr. 'and Mrs. Shaw, Misses How, Campbell, Korteman, Rasumussen, Bmma and Marg Deiper, Mary and Bertha Sullivan, Mary and Anme Fiynn,Cody, Elwood, Powers, Enger, . Kot illaLateh, Fox, Gould o John Cody, Pinvell, Carl Wil Parsons, ke, Young, ‘iubbard, Thompson, Bell, Payne, Fitzgerald, Casey, Boyle, Moran, Anderson, Lee, Seck, Quinn, Bro and Weeks. Licutenant Edwin V. Bookmiller, Second infantry, with Sergeant James Bunnan, compang T, Corporal John Collopy and Musician H.' 5. Anderson, company 13, Pri- vate Thomas N. Koyes, company F, and Julius C. Finger, company K, Second in- fantry, as guards, will procosd today to the Leavenworth military ‘prison with the fol- lowing military convicts to be confinod at that place: Frederick J. Kune, 1. Hawley, Otte Bulll, James H. Keartey, George W. Reed and Robort Wilson. Licutenant Jobn Kinzie, adjutant of the Second infantry, left Fort Omaha yesterday for Chiicazo 1o visit his family. During his absence Lieutenant John K. Waring, Second infantry, will et as ad The fawmily of Dr. Halliday has rejoined him at Fort Omaka. Dr. Bradley's family lias also joined him at the fort. Mrs. H. B, Sarson, wife of O, M. Sarson, Ruve a very pleasant social last weclk at Fort Omatia., The general court-martial, of which Major Butler is president, resumed its sittings on Thursday last, and tried two cases uf do- sertion from other postsand organizations, namely: Private Josoph Weiner, Battalion I, Fifth artillery, a deserter from Fort Ham- ilton, and Charles H. Caddy, Company D, Twenty-second infantry, u ‘desertor from Fort KKeogh, They both pleaded not guilty of descrtion, but guilty of absenco without leave, though one of them, Privato Caddy, had been abscnt nearly throe years, An Entertaining fraveler. John MeCarthy and his wife arrived in m aha Saturday evening, tired and worn out. They stovved here to rest up, having made a tour of Europo and other foreign soe- nons of the earth, They are at the Paxton, MeCarthy is a jovial man who can give i formation toa companion about the Sand slands, Samoa, Australia or any other n_country thut may come up in a con- fonal wuy. He was met by a roporter the Paxton last evening and a brie; conversation stated some very interesting experienc Tho gentleman and bis wife have just returne from Honolulu. ‘They will visit the princip places of intergst in O -day and start for their home in Syracuse, N. Y., to-night. Mr. McCarthy is a splendid entortainer and can talk the average man to a finish, Ho is an undertaker. At the time of the Jolns- town flood Mr. McCarthy was one of the flrst undertakers to shib in a car load of cofns for which he made no charges, George Bowface, Jr., leading man for Patt: Rosa, and Mr. McCarthy met for the first timo to-day since the separated in Honolulu weeks ugo. IS Ll TS A Wifo Boater. E. R. Briggs, who lives near the corner of Twenty-ninth and Leavenworth streets, was arrested last night for being drunk and dis- ardorly and boating his wife. He went homo in o festive mood and amused himsolf by slapping his better half and otherwise abus- ing ber until she was compelled to summon a policeman who gathered him in and sent him to the station. O AMUSEMENTS. Tho Grand opera house furnished another indisputable evidence of the popularity of Sunday amusements last night. The at- traction was the *Social Session.” [very seat 1n the house was occupied and poopie were even turned away. — BREVITIES, Tho tall, elderly lady who bought two ounces cream of tartar and two ounces sul- vhur mixed at the drug sturo on Sixteenth and Chicago streets about 5:30 p. m. Satur- day, tock the wrong package. Return same atonce, e Commemorative Exercises. WasniNeToy, Dee. 8.—Wednesday at the capitol will be devoted to programme exer- cises commemorative of the centennial cele- bration of the inaugvration of George Wash- ington. Thesenate and house will assemble together in the hall of the house, and there will be music, a prayer by the chaplain of the senate, an address by Chief Justice Fuller and the benediction by the chaplain of the house. Theso exercises are to be at- tended by the president and cabinet, the su- Frcmn court, the delegates to the Pan-Amer- can and international marivime conferences aud other officiuls. It is not expected that any business of | portance will be completed in the senate this week, Bills will be iutroduced and referred and some of the committees will begin- their regular work. Tomorrow the républican caucus comuiittee on committees will meet, and it expects to conclude the work of rear- rangement at that session so s to report to the caucus Tuesday. Action will probably be taken on the nominatious sent in by tho president last week. These number 183, all rocess appointments except that of Judge Brewer, —— The Fire Record. New York, Doc. 8.—The five-story build- ing at 8 East Fourteenth street, ocoupied by aealers in silverware, printers and sta. tionary, a chocolate manufacturer and an importer of French satin burned this morn- wg; loss §205,000, covered by insuranco. Two of the firemen wera overcome by the smoke, but were rescued and will recover, HuomsoLot, Kao., Dec, 8, ~The flour mills of Lindsey & Robson burned lasv night; loss $100,000. Lockrort, N. Y., Dec. 8.—The flouring mili of Saxton & Thompson burned toduy; 10ss $250,000; insarance $100,000. ——e Rain Storms in California, Sax Frascisco, Cal., Dec. 8.—One of the heaviest rain storms for years prevailed throughout California for the past two weeks and some damages resultad therefrom, especially in the lowlands of the Sacramento valley. In general the rain has been most welcome und a largly increased area of fall sown grain will result. legraphic ad- vices indicate that thousands of acres of oranges and fruit urees will be planted in northern and southern California and hun- dreds of new vineyards in the Fresno rasin aistrict. Reckiess With His Gan, Ixpiaxaroris, lud,, Dec. 8.—This evening John Arnold shot and fatally wounded his wife Carrie, seriously wounded Jobun Poe, wnd then turned the revolver on himself and fired. The wound inflicted, however, was only slight. The shooting was caused by the announcement of his wife that she was ®owng to leave hum and apply for a divorce. e A Bad Oatch, Kaxsas Ciry, Mo., Dec. 8.—Aungust Jacoby discovered a burglar in his house last night and attempted to capture him, The burglar shot Jacoby fatally and escaped. B To Hear Partl. Cuicago, Dec. 8.—Vice President Morton and wife arrived in the city today to attena the opening of the suditorium. B e —— To Doctor the Czar. BesLix, Dee, 8. —Prof. Leyden bastily left Berllu today for St. Petersburg, haviog been summoned Lo attend the czar, ACOMEDIAN'S PASSION FORGRAY Roland Reed's Hoasons for the Faith Within Him, Roland Reed’s fondnees for frequently beei, a subject, says York World, for joking remark hisfacquaintancés, That thero might be a studied megning in the predomin- ance of gray in the actor's costume never suggested {fselt until the other night. J “There goes Recd and his ugly gray coat,” was the idle remark that inspired the-thought. The actor, when ques- tioned on the subjoct, remarked: ‘s, you are right. I do affect gray as a color for cause. It has a deopor significance to we than to most people. am o thoroughly under its influence t I would not think of undertaking ing important unless arcayed in its sober tint I have been thus at- in the most important events in My debut as u child actor was in a gray dress. When I struck out for myself into strict comedy, it was the mature tone of most of my clothes. This feeling is as strong tods me as it us in the early days of my professional nggle. 1 would no more think of ng anew charactor unless gray was to be a pronounced color in my stage wardrobe than many good people would llnnlk of beginning a journey on ‘viday. “Tt is all well enough for you to laugh at the idea, but there are a great many things we accopt within our minds and hearts as a basis of right and conduct that look bad in & mathematical glare, just the same. 1 like gray-headed characters in my plays. My best friends are, and have always been, those wear- ing 1ts glorious crown of dignity and ¥ T discharged two leading ladies from ‘The Woman Hater’ becausa they refused to wear gray, on the ground that it was unbecoming to their peculiar type of beauty, v father and grand- father had the same wenkness, if you choose to call it such, so, I suppose, I'in- herited the prejudice. They, possibly, had it instilled into them by the Quuker atmosphere in which they lived.” e Duig e S SHE BOUGHT HIM SHOES, gray_has hé New among And Did the Little Boy Buy Stock- ing.? Well Hardly. Busy Fourtecnth street was the scene yesterday afternoon of a pretty bit of unostentatious charity and warm-heart- edygss that made its lucky witnesses feel'as if the world was not such a sel- fish old planet after all, says the New York Times. As might be expected on a school holiday at this season the south side of the street held hundreds of youngsters intent on getting a good vicw of the wonderful sightsin the show windows and the majority of them were by no meuns the woll-dressed and tenderly cared-for children, who conld safely hope for a share of the displayed tre Christmas time. On the con- more than hall of the little folks from the poarer quarters of the town. Few of thefn were so warmly dressod that the damp,chill atmosphera was robbed of its nower to make their teeth chatter and to hunch their little shoulders up, and, fuany of them looked as if their ordin was anything but putritious sullicient, Bt they fought as cagerly for good positions be- fore the show windowsand criticised the wonderful toys fe interestedly as if they knew thut they had omly tochose and what they wished for ‘would be their’s, One group of excjted youngsters con- tained alitile chap not more than seven s old, who wore i coat several sizes o large for lum, wrapped tightly across-his breast. and tho smallest pair of tattered b hes that boy ever put on. His thin little legs were destitute of shoes or stockings and blue with the cold, but he scurried along in a pair of old rubbers at the heels of his compan- ions as merrily as if he were rigged out in & Lord Fauntleroy costume, He was just saying to the boy nearest him, *“Hey, Bill, look at dat big tagger in de winder,” when a very pretty girl, handsomely ' dressed, came swinging along and caught sight of him. Her blue eyes filled in an instant and, without stopping in her wallk, she seized the little chap by the shoulder and turned him around into Sixth-avenue so quickly that his head must have swam. Sho took him into a shoe store there, bought him aXturdy pair of shoes, gave him a twenty-five cent piece with fn in- junction to buy therewith a pair of stockings, and was on her way to Four- teenth street again before one could sing the ballad of the little green peach. The youngster did not thank her. He probably was so surprised that h]u never thought of a little thing like that. Did the little boy buy stockings? ‘Well, hardly. When he got out in the street he simply said, “Come on fellers; peanuts,” and they went. el Shaving the Beard. The earliest reference to shaving is found in.Genesis xii., 14, where we read that Joseph, on being summoned before the king, shayved himself. There are several directions as to shaving in Le- s, and the practice is alluded to in many other parts of the holy scriptures. gypt is the only country mentioned in the bible where shaving was made a practice. Tnnll other countries such an act would have been debasing in the xtreme. Herodotus mentions that the Egyptians allowed the beard to grow when in mourning. So particular were they as to shaving at all other times that to neglect it was to set one’s self upasa target for reproach and ridicule. When the Iigyption artists intended to convey the idea of & mean, low, slov- enly fellow ,they always represented him in full beard. Unlike the Romans of a later age, the Egyptians did not confine the shay- ing privilege to free citizens, but obliged their slaveb'to shuve both beard and head. L The priests were:about the only class of citizens who habitually shaved the head except the slaves. About lvnrce hundred yvears before Christ it became the custom of the Ro- mans to shave regularly., According to Pliny. Scipio Afrighnus was the first Roman to shavs daily. In France the shaving custom was brought about by Lows XI1I, com! to the throne young and beardless. 'he Anglo-Saxons wore their beas ntill at the con- quest they were confpelled to follow the example of the Norfians, who shaved, From the time of Eward III. to that of Charles I., beard® were universally worn. Iu the time of Charles II. mus- tache and whiskers only were worn, and soon after the reign ‘of that mon- arch the shaving practice became gen- eral, e Answered Correctly, Detroit I'ree Press: A teacher in one of the public schools of Detroit was giv- ing a lesson on patriotism. The chil- dren seemed to know very little about Washington except the hatchet story and that he was a great and good man which they had read in the secon reader, At last the teacher sald: **You stay home from school on Wash- ington’s birthday, but you never do so on my birthday. Why not#" And with surprising emphasis came the answer: 'Cause he never told a lie.” — Beechaw's Pills act like magie on & weak stomach, YSIONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1880 OPENED HIS ENGLISH EYES. A British Touris: Tells What Hoe Saw in Amerioa. IS OUR ARISTOCRACY VULGAR? This Man Thinks There is an Offens- ive Air of Money-Secking About It —Thoe Self- Satisfled Foth mite. As a Britlsh Cousin Saw Us, I passed for an oducated man in Europe, but when I landed in New York 1 found myself shamefully one of the most remarkuble countries on tho fuce of the earth. I prided my- self on being a man of the world—I was at home in Rome, Paris, Constanti- nople, as well as in London. I spoke all modern languages; and had been ac- customed to the most fashionable so- ciety of Europe. I was growing blaso the shallow gayety of Paris palled upon me. I was tired of tho art and antiqui- ties of Rome—I had exhausted Constan- tinople and the Orient, aud, to escape ennui, I determined to puck up wy traps and pay a visit to our American cousins, 1 not so hopelessly ignorant of Amevica as the Italian countess, who, when contemplating a visit to the United S asked an American friond whether it was not dangerous to venture outside of New York on account of the Indians. But, I am gnorant, of bound to confess that my knowl- edge of Amorican geography was Vi limited. 1 thought, if I ever thought about the matter at all, that New York was the capitol of the United States, Of Savannah, Atlanta, Balti- more, Lynchburg and othertowns, more or less important, I had not so much as even heard their names, New York a city of strange and startling contrasts, says a writer in the NoNamo Magazine. In ono section, s which, in magnificence nvenionces of life, surpass cos of Buropean kings; in the Xt street, perhaps, vou flod a populace composed of the refuse of the world, forming a seething mass of vice and villainy. This hideous contrast of gigantic wealth and abject poverty must bo extremely dishartoning to the humanitaran, and absolutely dis- ring to the philanthrophist, but, ns T did not visit America on missionury work, Lwill not uncover this cess-pool of New York iife, To say that New York is a big town is the truth, but, it is mnot the whole truth. W is a wonder, a mar- vel, a but it is mnot a represen American eity, for it has more Irish than Dublin, more Ge than Bremen, more Jows than wlem. Its fovorish activity, the rush of its people, the roar of its streets, its st flying through the air its busy dock warming with hu- man life, all go to make the most ex- traordinary city on the face of the earth, During the weelks that Tstayed in New York, I was a close student of its men, women, manners ana morals, was & novel and iuteresting experience for me, and I enjoyed it. I did not visit America to wake money, as most for- eigners do. I am a man of independent means, with literary and artistic tastes, to whom humanity 1s a favorite study, and money of no use except as a means of gratifying my personal tastes. Tho wealth of the Astors would be of no,use to me; in fact I would not be troubled with the caro and anxiety of possessing it. Having these ideas about money, it is quite natural thut the money atmosphere of New York stifled me, as 1t mustall true lov- ersof sweetness and light. It is not only “down town,” in Wall street and its vicinity that this dense and vulgar atmosphere prevails. It oppresses, likewise, in the luxurious drawing rooms of Fifth avenue; it drives the visitor from the crowded hotel parlors to the privacy of one'’s own apartments, It offends you on Broadway, it assails the splendid drives of Central it meets you face toface in the mable clubs; it is here, there ana everywhere, The benutiful girl whose lovely imanners enchant you, is also tainted with this vulgarvizing love of money. The man of wealth marries a girl who has *‘great expectations,” and thus has grown up a sort of mor aris- tocracy, whose only claim to distinetion is the possession of money and who use their money only in self-gratification. The wealthy class of New York is only a little less dangerous and a little less offensive than the pauper and vicious class. Rome fell, not from poverty, but from too much wealth. New Yorkers sneer glishmen, as ‘“insular,” ‘“‘preju- diced,” ete. But, if there is a more insular, more prejudiced, more self-satisfied bewng on this earth than yonr genuine Gothamite (I believe that is the right word), I should not care to meet him. He may travel all over the world; he may live in the eastand in the west, but he still maintaing that New York beats all creation, He shows his appreciation of his fuvorite city by keeping away from it as much as possi- hle. He spends the summer at Ne port, the winter in Florida, the spring in Washington, and two months of au- tumn in New York. In fact, New York is not a desirable place tolivein, There is less home-life in it than any city I have ever seen, always excepting Paris. New York is a city of strangers, of travelers, of peopla who live in hotels and boarding-houses, of men without homcs and of women who do not want them. All Americans and many for- eigners go to New York suoner or later, Those who stay do so for the same reason that certain persons stay in a place which is never men- tioned and seldom thought of in polite society, because they cannot get awav, While England honors her poet laureate of four score, and (iladstone keeps the leadership of a great political party at nearly the same age, America worships youth and strength. The set- ting sun has no attraction for the young ginnt of the west. Few old men are seen in Wall street, There are pienty of men there with bald heads and gray hair, but they are bald from work, not from time; they are gray from worry, not from years. Jay Gould, the Meph istopheles’ of the street,is a broken- down old man at the age of fifty-three; Vanderbiltdied u physical wreck before he had reached what the French call “the youth of old age.” The business men of New York live fast and die fast, Literary men fly from New York more willingly” than t fled from Sodom. The commercial atmosphere of the place has the fatal effect upon the in- tellectual, as the dendliy night shade has upon the animal, life, They have. it is true, a small resort of little men, which they call the ‘‘Authors’ Club,”’Isuppose because there is scarcely a handful "of authors among its mem- bers, who are chiefly journalists, dramatists and newspaper hangers-on. Edmund €. Stedwan, the so-called banker-poet, who is nothlnf of a banker and very little of & poet, is compelled at Lin~ tolive in Now York ten months in year; the same may be said of poo Stoddard, whose greatest distinction that Poo ‘once threatened to k out of his office. Upon this hovor Stod dard has made something like $1,000 ¢ describing the affar, over and ove again, for various magazines and nows papers. This is what [ have beon told but the Americans nre very poking fun at “ignorant fore ners,’ and this may be one of their hkes fact of being th Poe has given him a_cortain distin tion. Had Poc actunlly kicked Stod dard the latter would have been mad immortal thanks for his mod sion. The lifo of a Wall street m not all couleur de rose; anpy rich, brillinnt, important really he is often & mere drudge whose life’s blood supplies the mo oxtr ation on this oc gnate i vagant wifa to shine in splendor, to adorn a dashing wife and fashionable daughters, while ho grubs in his office from morning to unight. away’s husband 1 sample of many a rich New Yorke Mrs, Dushawn most fashionable magnificently, dri and gives siperb partic one coaseless whirl of plensuro. mornings are spent in ‘‘shopping. visiting, gossiping, attending milline ‘‘recoptions,” etc. Mrs. Dashawa husband isa Wall street banker, at his off he works I lies. ard until 5 in the eve worn out with He roturns homo day ’s toil, and i He is fond of music_and she sings very well, but the iden of a lady of fushion playivg or singing for the amusement of her hushand simply absurd. over liis cash book all day, and it would such a relief if Mrs, Dashaway would read him the evening paper; but the hint of such a thing would aston- her immensely. Mr. Dashaway after his day’s worlk, necds repofe and 3 Le should be allo¥ed to onjoy his igar in peace. But no. Mrs. Dasha- way is fond of society and the opera so lie must encase his tired body in an un- comfortable suit of clothes, and escort her to tho opera, where he has the pleasure of secing some fas'iionable king love to his wife under his very nose, or ho then goes with her to some party or other, where he will ave to wait, hatt dead with sleep, until in the worning, while Mrs, Dashaw. is leading the German with the last I'rench count, At the clube, in up-town,eve society, down town, vwhere, 1 had heard of the old Knickerbocker families, of their re- serve, their high pretensions, their long ~ descent. I was told that they looked down upon the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and other = social leaders of the present day as rich par- venues. So, I thought T would investi- gate the Knickerbocker claim to blue blood. I found that some of the ances- tors of these haughty aristocrats couid not write theiv names. but were obliged to make their mark when they trans- ferred land or house Others were en- gaged in occupations, which, although eminently useful, are not regarded as aristocratic. andfather drove a ves a four-in-hand. andfather made sold snufl; another >y all made money and their descendants are people of fashion, live in Fifth avenue palaces and look down with aristocratic contempt upon the honest men who are trying to make a living by the same means that their ancestors made forfunes. They talk of coats-of-arms, though their grandfath- ers once had not coats w their backs, They talk of their family crests, not knowing that a crest isa device com- memorative of some incident in the history of the family that bears it. The family crests of the aristocratic families of Europe originated in the glorious deeds of their found- ers—some gallant feat of arms; some heroic action; some personal prowess; a lady rescued, a castle saved, a battle won. If the deeds of their ancestors were commemorated upon their crests, what would some of New York’s proudest nd most aristocratic families proclaim to the world ? A cabbage head would announce that a New York family of the hignest social position owed its po- sition to successful market-gardening. Think of the erandmother of one of one of the Knickerbockers selling car- rots and cubbage in the old Bowery market! To many a cold winter and summer heat aid she expose her ven- ble head that her family might be h, respectable and aristocratic. But these things have been long forgotten, and, by the aid of a courtly and.woll: paid herald, the family has been able to trace its descent from some old burg- omaster who never existed. An ingen- ious conca painter has designed n orest for the family carriage which would astonish the herald-king-at-arms, but it gains the admiring glances of the ignorant multitude, and that 1s all suflicient for its self-satisfied owner. So much for New York aristocracy | On to Chicago. IxpiANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 8.—President Harrison spent Sunday very quietiy at the residence of s son-in-law, Mr. McKee, at- tending church morning and evening, To- night the party boarded their privatecar and at midnight the train pulled out for Chicago. St Smoking, Burre, Mont., Dec. 8,—Smoke arnse from the shaft of the Anaconda mine toduy show- ing that the fire is not yev out aud the shaft was closed up again. e Vesuvius Active. Rowe, Dec. 8,—Earthquake shocks were felt today in the central portion of Ttaly, Mount Vesuyius is in a stale of erupsion, The world owes Poo many y for an He is the worm that mokes fine dresses Mrs. Dash- vis one of New York's Sho drossgs su stylish burouche life 18 Tler He s t10 every morning, where ing. his it not natural that he uld expect his wite to amuse him? is He has been pouring a T him fond of But the fact remains that Stoddard was kicked into notice, or rather the mere tened with a kick by outwardly he i Absolutely Pure, 0 | This powder nover varies, A 1 M pustty, strength and wholesomene o economis cal thun the ordinary kinds, 1nd oannot te sold in competition with the muititade, of low test short welght alum orphosphatapowders. Sold o | ouly in cank. ROVAL BAKING PowbEi (0., 103 y | WallSt, N. ¥ . CURIOSITIES OF PLAGIARISM, The Habit of Laving Claim to Other People's Literary Work The seiting up of a claim authorship of “Little Lord Fauntle- roy” by a lady whoso literary work has never uttracted public attention to her- self, must, snys the New York World, awalken interest in the phenomenon of a malady not yot y the doc- tors, but familiar to all editors, critics, and publishers., The disease is akin to the opum habit in its persistency.in the ense with which it is ncquired.’in the obstinaey with which it resists treatmoent, and in its effects upon the moval churacter of its vietims, The symptom of the ailment vlo disposition to claim o have w other people’s literary It has never been definite inod whether the disease is infoctious or not, but there is o strony suggestion that itis 5o in the fact that the most robust moral health scems to afford no secure immunity from its attacks. Let us considor n fow typieal case The late Dr, Holland was the instigator of the ‘“Saxe Holm” stories, 7They were written by a person or persons perfectly well known to him. He was consulted from time 1o time concerning them: he received them in manuscript, suggested oceasional changes, many ‘of which were made, and, as the eaitor of the m ino in which thoy were pub- lished, he drew checks in_puyment for them. He confidently believed, there- for that he knew wbo wrote the stories as certainly as he knew who wrote his own poems. And yet there were three entirely reputal ¢ persons, ail ounted truthful, each of whom solemnly assured Dr. Holland that ho or she, in fact, wroto the stories, euch hav- ing a different taie to tell of the way in which the manuseript wus stolen. William Cullen Bryant once told the present writer that & person who was not born until years after the first pub- lication of “Thanatopsis,” vehemently claimed the authorship of that poem and went away indignant when Mr. Bryant declined to surrender his own prétensions in that particular. ' The number of persons who wrote “Beautiful Saow” was estimated by the late Richard Grant White at twenty four and_everybody romembers how many different persous produced “All Quiet Along the Potomac” and *‘Rock Me to Sleep.” The curiosities of plagiarism are end- less and sometimes very startling coin- cidences ariso in conuection with them. The present writer, then editing a weekly periodical many years ugo, had offered to him an article which ho had himself written and publishing anony- mously in a daily newspaper Lwo years earlier. The article was written for a temporary use, and there wus nothing in it to cause any roader to remember it aftér the immediate occasion had passed away. If the plagiarist had offered his literary swag to any other editor his theft would not have been suspected. His ill luck led him to sub- mit his manuscript to the only person in the country who could have known its origin and reul authorship. A rural clergyman in New York had the courage mpon one oceasion to offer a literal tr: ript of Dickens’ “*Christ- mas Carol” toa New York editor for salo, and when the editor objoctod that the work was already widely known as Dickens’, the clergyman solemnly protested that he could not imagine how the author of *‘Pickwick’ could have got at his manuscript,which had been locked up for years, Didn't Cire For Germa A friend who has just returned from Paris tells me an amusing and charac- teristic anecdote says a writer in the Critie. Duving the recent exposition there was a little railroad, five miles in length, running around the grounds. 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