Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1889, Page 13

FROM A SOCIAL STANDPOINT. A Southern Lady Discusses the Ostracism of Mr. Cable. MADE OUT OF DIFFERENT CLAY. Sho Thinks Providence Has Put an External Veto on the Ming: ling of the White and Black Race. Mr. Cable and the Negro. LiNcoLN, Neb., Dec. 27 Editor of THE I In the SUNDAY Bee I notice an editorial headed “Southern Prejudice,” in which the writer eritici the Atlanta Constitu- tion for predicting the social ostracism r. Unble on account of his intimate ion with the negro, and charac- terizes the people of the south, en masse, as “‘ignorant, narrow-minded, and intolerant.” Being a native, and until recently a resident of that be- nighted region, and having had, there- fore, better opportunities to gain a per- sonal, practical kunowledge of 1ts sys tems and intellectual status than one who has probably never lived in the south and has formed his opinions only from the hearsay evidence of those in- imical to its interests, I desire to present a few propositions and call his attention toa few of his inconsisten- cies. In the first place, the writer in THE BEE appears in the new role of lexico- grapher, and treats us to a refreshiog definition of the word “prejudice.” He says that “‘prejudice is an index of a narrow, uneducated mind, ineapable of looking ata question except from one standpoint, generally an intense sonal one,” while Mr. Webster as 04 us that prejudice is ‘‘an opinion or decision of mind formed without due examination} re- judgment, ete.” Krom which we see that the fact of a mind’s being pre- judiced is no evide of a lack of ability to judge correctly. The most learned and gifted are often the most intolerantly prejudiced, soTne B ion that a prejudiced mind is ily an ignorant one is a false ¥ 5. An argument based upon such un assumption is like attempting to prove that a stream is shallow because it flows in a narrow channel. That the people of the south are op- posed to the social equality of the whites and blacks and will never recog- nizo the claims of the latter to be ad- mitted to private circles on such foot- ing, no one will or wishes to deny. Op- position and_ prejudice, however, are two entirely different words, and it is possible to oppose & thing on reason- able grounds and general principles as | well as through sell-interest, narrow- mindedness and ignorance. It i3 notably the brightest mings of the south, those who have studied the ques- tion in all its aspects, who realize the true magnitude of the impending evii and are sounding the needed warning. It is presumable that those who have lived in the south and are thoroughly acquainted ywith the habits, tastes, disposition and capabilities of the race, are in better posi- tion to observe, investigate and arrive at a proper understanding of the subject, than the speculative theorist of the north, who has as little practical knowledge of the negro, as he really exists, as a child has of the hip- popotamus after looking at one through the cage bars of a traveling menagerie. If there is prejudice at all on either side, facts and reason would go to prove that it 1s on the side of the enlightencd north rather than of the ignorant south, Tne BEE says: “God made and can tolerate the colored race, but the edi- tors of the Constitution carnot tolerate & white person who takes dinner with anegro.” Yes, God made the negro and can tolerate him. He made the chimpanzee and_gorilla nlso, and can tolerate them. Not that I would insult our ebou brother b fensive. . tion. he made itag it is. scparate and dis- tinct and altogether ditferent from the white, just as he made one star to dif- {fer from another in glory, gems to dif- fer in luster, flowers, in beauty, animals in form and intelligence, and so on ad infinitum, ders and grades of creation, in every kingdom, family and, species; and in this instance, to guard against any possible mistake, in mixing the original clay, he took' the precau- “tion to give it a different hue so that there could be no ypossible danger of gotting the parcels mixed, THE Brg acts uponshe presumption that this pro- cess was accidental and is trying to cir- cumvent the designs of the Almifhty. The fact is, there is no question o eration in it. Everything is right and . proper in its piace, much a distinct branch of the human race, as much a part of the great whole . in the sum of created things, as the American, Avctic, Australian, Mon- * [;ounn or Caucasian. ink in the chain of tion; is happy, useful an bis particular sphere. But nature has * drawn o line of demarkation betwecn the African and Caucasion races, and acceptable 1n e socinl gulf that separates the two ean never be spanned until science provos, that, as a race, the former is in @very rvespect the equal of the latter. When the north demonstrates this fact | prosent time, the south will lay aside its ‘‘ignorance, narrow-mindedness and prejudice,” and fall a willing convert to the new faith, THE BEE refers 1o the Constitution’s criticism of Mr. Cable as “a tyrannous * social prejudice,” and claims that every individual is entitled to his likes and dislikes and to exercise his own pleas- ure in the choice of his associates. This a comparison so of- I simply follow THE BEE’S ex- ample and go a long way foranillustra- God made tho colored race but He has made different or- tol= The African is as He is doubtless a progressive evolu- accoplable, his former friends who do not share his erratic predilections, and to whom such society would be neither profitable nor agreeable, naturally avoid his presence for fear of bheing drawn into uncongenial company. This is the right of every individual as well as of every community. “So we of the north.” continues our generous and self-constituted guardian, Sshould not blame the present genera: tion 50 much as we should help to en- lighten it.” This is cheerful. indeed. In the north the colored portion of the population is only a drop in the ocean as compared with the south. Inatown of 8,000 or 4,000 in habitants here there are rarely over fifty persons who have in their veins the taintof negro blood and the majority of these having moro | of the Caucasinn than the African, and ! having enjoyed superior advantages of | education and association with the whites, cannot be taken as a fair spec men of the negro proper, as he rovels today in his original stupid and un- cleanness, Inanysouthern hamletof the samo size they would constitute at least fifteen hundred or two thousand of the population. Yet THr Ber man would call upon the north, without even a pos- siblo acquaintance with the negro, to enlighten the south in regard to its treatment of & poople born and reared in its bosom and which constitutes more than half of its population. As well im- port o Hindoo to Amarica to interpret the Chrjstian religion. While the north may not be aware of it, it nevertheless remains a fact, that its zenlous championship of this mon- grel and much magnified rac not 80 much to an advanced civ and disinterested humanity, as to their erstwhile bondage, which has thrown around them the charm of romantic he- roism and placed them before the world in the light of martyrs. Supposing, for example, that a political war had [iftod from a condition of slavery and servi- tude the Chinese,” Hindoos or North Ame n Indians, all of whom are su- perior intellectually to the African. Would the fact of their having been once used and oppressed by a set of peo- ple with o longer any right or power over them be any reason why they should be raised to the plane of social equality with those who had been cast in a finer mould, with loftier sentiments and higher faculdies, and capable of fol- lowing broader paths? Of the negro as a slave I lcnow noth- ing, and being a child of the restored union rather than of the lost confeder- acy, am not prejudiced in favor of ante- bellum systems. On the contrary, [ think the principle of slavery was wrong and that the south is now suffer- ing from the consequences of her great and grievous error. I do kuow, how- ever. that the negro, until by amalga- mation the African blood in him be- comes entirely extinct, can never rise social level of the Caucasian. As ts in the south today, he is un- v, shiltless and improvident. Virtue is to him a myth and honor an unknown quaatity. His socinl standing is mensured alone by the cut and qual- v of his clothes, and no crime or dis- grace, however flagrant, lowers his standing with his dusky brethren, so long as the sounding eloquence of clothes attests his prospe and re- spectability. That the race is fast being merged into the white is a sad adm sion, yet true. Aund with such an evil threatening their gates the people of the south cannot afford to admit a wooden horse into their social Troy in the form of such a precedent us Mr. Cable wouid establish. Civily, the negro has been granted and enjoys unmolested all the rights of free born Awmerican citizens. He shares the undisputed liberty of the sleeping car and the passenger coach. He may attend the public theater and stop at public hotels. But it is noticeable that in solect circles,alike in the north, south, east and west, the Afrvican is rigorously excluded. Asa case in point, I see that a banquet was given last week in Chicago in honor of Mr. Rose- water, and that the occcasion was graced by the presence of no less a por- sonage than his friend Mme. Patti Nicolini. Among other conspicuous features of the entertainment was the absence of any colored guests among that distinguished company. Is this prejudice? No. An African is as much out of piacg in the select circles of the Caucasian asa jack-daw in aflock of peacocks. No one questions the right of the negro to mingle in society provided he is wanted there,but what a stir there would be in northern socinl circles were there issued a royal edict proclaiming that negroes shouid attend private gatherings and partici- pate in their pleasures. I picture abrilliantassemblage,where the beauty and wealth and talent of the city arve gathered for amusement and recreation. I see THE BEE man, who criticises the Constitution, entering at ‘a late hour bearing on his arm the voluptuous weight of a dusky maiden, ‘'some of whose ancestors were born in Africa.” No one would question his right to choose his own companion, but I venture to believe that the rest of the company would question the propriety of inviting him into that circle again. Mgs. AL FAIRBROTHER. RELIGIOUS, A coungress of Christiaus will be held in Roston, December 21 and 22, 1o consider the relation of the secret lodge system to civil liberty and tho Christian religion, Tha Rev. Charles E. Stowe, son of Har- riet Beecher Stowe, has resigned his posi- tion a8 pastor of Windso: avenue Congrega- tional church, Hartford, Conn,, on account of ill heaith, A mission school is to be established by v. B, W. Kelly, of Mandalay, Burma, on tho very spot where- Dr. Adoniram Judson, the first missionary from Amerios, suffered the cruel imprisonment, at Oungpenla. Baptist progress In Sweden is one of the remarkable religious movements of tho Rovivals are coustant. In twenty years the number of church members has advanced from 7,000 to 82,808, The bap- tiams in 1888 were 2,300, A Hindoo gentleman has called a congress of Brahman priests and learned men for the purpose of incorporating the bible among the sacred books of-Indis} and officially recogniz- ing Christ as the last and spiritual creator, or incarnation of Brahm, the supreme deity, ‘The smallest and daintiast prayer book in is oxuetly what the people of the south | world is the ‘‘Finger Prayer Book,” which think, but Tue Bre is evidentl wllliu( t since it would compel them to o) their soctal fabric, Mr, Cable, & sonal nature, clude & man tom and practice of all civilized from time immemorial. And i madness, there is method in it, business world we see meet the world in our social intercourse we wan congeniality, intimacy and friendship. hile the man who leaves a beaten path of recognized respectability for the highways and byways of doubtful asso- ciations, may be in himself every way not to allow them this privilege, n their doors to an _alien race, with whom they [ gnenp, have nothing in common,and which threatens the very foundation swones of has just been issued by the Oxford Universi- ty Press. It is printed in diamoud and bril. liant type on the famous India paper, Itcon- tains sixty-seven puges, measuros three and alf by one inches, and weighs only three- quarters of an ounce. There are ten goutile churches in Salt I fail to see how it | Lake of the leading denominations. Tha is any more tyrannous for the Consti- tution to dictate the social relations of ublic man and a repre- sentative southerner, than for the peo- lo of the north to dictate to the south n matters of a similar private and per- If it is madness to ex- because he mingles in | various mission schools seem to be other circles than those befitting his birth and station, then the entire world | Cambridge, M in all lands and at all times, has been and is still in the straight jacket of so- eial lunaoy, since it has been the cus- ple N 5 ‘: hl; Baotist wiuisters, $10,000; Massachutts Bap- a the world, and | White charity, $5,000; Brown university, ona warldly footing; but | $10,000: Vassar college, §10,000. Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Baptists and the Congregationalists—through the Ni West Educational association—all e mission schools, the Methodist being a boarding school. Hammoad hall, the gft of Charles G. Hammond of Chicago, is the oldest achool of the New Wost, which has besides it two or three ward schools. These By the will of the late J, Warren Miller of ass., the American Baptist missionary union gets 850,000; the American Baptist home mission society gets$2,500; the American Bl{ltllt publication society, §$10,- 000; Cotby university, $10,000; Newton theo- logical 1nstitution, $20,000; conference of tist convention, §5,000; trustees of the Daniel —— Three men and one surveyor laid out the largest part of Manhattan Island in L, Cozzens hotel, $1.50 and $2.00 per day, HISSTORIES WERE CHESTNUTS A Western Girl's Funny Bxperience With Chauncey Depow. THE LIMP MAN IN THE CORNER. He Was Handy With His Knifo and Henry Clay Admired Hi Snubbed the Magnatos—Br ing and Victoria. ddison n- Current Aneccdotes. Chauncey Depew tells so many good stories on other people that there is general rejoicing when some one man- ages to have the laugh on him, and the clubmen are telling each other with much unction the following little tale, says tha Brooklyn Eagle: It is not per- haps a soeret that our Chauncey is, like Mrs. Gilpin, of a frugal mind, and is thrifty with his stories and jokes. Af the press has once gotten hold of hi good things he nover uses them ngain at least in that alar community: but no man can have a whole set of brand-new brilliants every day of his life, and a little discretion and a good memory will make one’s store go a long way without being guilty of repetitions to the same audience. But the discre- tion of even Chauncey is at fault av times, and the other night he suffered because of it. The daughter of a cor- tain famous American who has hitherto made his home in the west hasbeen visting in New York and wasone of the guests at a dinner of very distinguished men and women last week. She is a woman accustomed to the intellectual best of the men who go in to dinner with her, and on this occasion she re- garded with some surprise the efforts of the man who had taken her in to dinner to amuse her. He looked like a person of ability, but she gradually gained the impression that he was laboring under the delusion she was a wild we ner who wa y years behind the times and had not heard any modern jests. ‘Whe n this idea became firmly rooted in her mind she was at no further pains to conceal her indifference to his efforts, and at last in dispair her dinner com- panion remarked: **Miss —, wo dou’t seem to get on. What is the matter? I wish vou would tell me frankly.” *‘T will,” she said, laughing a little, ©T am cross hecause you have been telling me Chauncey Depew’s old stories all the evening. I don’t know him myself, but I’ve heard all his stories over and over again, and I don’t think I can stand them' again.” Her companion paused u moment, then shook all over _with amusement delight, and said: ‘Miss —, your frankoess is simply enchanting, and 'Ll i my turn. I thought you very young girl, and from so far away in the west that you were not likely to have heard theso stories, so I was using old stock on you, but I seo my error, and now I will tell you some stories of Chauncey Depew’s that I am sure you've not heard.” From that moment the western girl declares that sueh a stream of brillinnt talk, anec- dote and witticism poured forth that she never noticed what she was eating and was desperately grieved when the hostess gave the signai to rise and she was separated from her clever com- panion. Going home in a cab she sai d to her father: ‘‘Do you know the name of the man who took me in to dinrver? I didn’t catch it, but I found hwmn per- fectly charming.” ‘**My dear girl” suid her father, “you don’t deserve your privileges.’ Of course you found him charming. That was Chauncey De- pew!” There was a dreadful silence from the young woman all the way home after that, but she told the whole story next morning at the breakfast table with much shamefacedness, and her family founad it too good to keep. A correspondent who recently visite d Jeff Davis at his home at Beauvoir re- lates this: **Over on a table was a short, dusty sword that had been recently sent from Mexico, and attached to it was a card which said that the weapon had been found on the spot where Lieutenant Davis made his famous charge at the battle of Buena Vista and turned the tide of victory in favor of the Ameri- cans. *I touched the rusty old sword, and almost unconsciously Mr, Davis drifted into talking of the heroes of the Mexi- can war, of Bowie, and Houston, and Crockett, **‘Henry Clay once told me,’ said Mr. Davis with a smile, ‘of his first meeting with Bowie. [t wasin the early days, and ‘Clay was traveling in a stage cbach where the only other passengérs were a pretty girl, a big, rough looking coun- tryman and a limp little figure in a great coat. With the consciousness of his own great physique Clay sa1d he was congratulating himself on not be- ing the limp little figure bundled up in the corner, when he became conscious that the pretty girl was beg- ging the rough counteyman not to smoke as it made her ill. The fellow replied with a savage oath that he had vaid his fare and would smoke when he — pleased. Mr. Clay said he was just trying to screw his courage up to the point of remonstrating with the country giant when the limp little figure un- doubled itself like magic and with a quick movement reached down its col- lar, brought up a knife that in the ex- citement of the moment looked s yard long and with another cat-like move- ment seized the fellow by the throat. *Throw that pipe out of the window or I'll—!"” A comprehensive sweep of the muvrderous-looking blade finished the sentence and sent the pipe shattering on the ground, In another minute the knife had again disappeared down the capacious collar and the linp figure had resumed its former vertebra:less condi- tion; ‘‘but the rest of the journey,” said Mr. Clay, **I spent in wishing” I was none other than that Bowie with his famous knife,” “If I can free this case from techni- calities and get itproperly swung to the jury, Ul win it,”” Abraham Lincoln used to say, when confident of the justice of the cause he represented. ' He was weak in defending a wrong case, for he was mentally and morally too honest to explain away the bad points of a cause by ingenious sophistry. Instead of attempting to bolster up such a cause, he abandoned it. Once he abandoned a case in open court, being convinced that it was unjust. A less fastidious lawyer took Mr. Lincoln’s place, and won the case, Mr. Herndon, in his *‘Life of Lin- coln,” tells a story which exhibits his ability in getting 8 case he believed in “*properly swung to the ur{' » A Relnd()n agent named Wright se- curad for the widow of a revolutionary soldier a peasion of $400, of which sum he retained one-half us his fee. The nsioner, a crippied old woman, hob- led into Lincoln’s ofice and told her story, It stirred Lincoln up; he brought and | suit against the & of the trial he said; “I am going to,skin Wright and got that money back,”’ He did so. The old woman told her story to the jury - Lincoln, in his plea, drew a picture of the hardships of Val- loy Forge, descriBing the soldiers s creeping barefooted over the ice and marking their tracks by thoir bleeding feot. Then he contrasted the hardships of the soldiers, endured for their coun- try, with the hardened action of the agent in fleccing the old woman of one- half of her pension. He was merciléss; the members of the jury were in' tears, and the agent writhed in his seat under the castign- tion of Lincoln’s denunciation. The jury returned a verdict in her favor for the full amount, and Lincoln made no charge for his services. His notes for the unigue: “No vices fit, aad on the day argument wero contract—No professional - Unrensonable charge — Mone, ed by Def't not given by PI'IT Rovolutionary War—Describe Valley Forge privations—Ice—Soldiers’ bleed- ing foot—PL'iT’s husband—Soldier leay- ing for army—skin Def't—Cloge.” sor- “Boys, be wise, here comes a fooll” exclaimed a gredt Theologian, coasing to amuse himself by jumping over chairs and tables, as he saw a solemn, pedantic friend approaching. *You don’t know the luxury of. playing the fool,” said Lord Chauncellor Eldon, as he danced in his own drawing room to a tune of his own singing. **You ate a father, Signor Ambassador, and so we will finish our ride.” said Henry IV. of nish minister dis- on a stick with his son. Dugaid Stewart, the philosopher, was once found by a friend, trying to bal- a peacock’s feather on his nose, ompetitor 1n the contest of sk was Patrick I'raser Tytler, the histo- 1sed to amuse himself by harnessing his servants with cords, and driving them up and down stairs, and through the rooms of the deanery. Faraday played marbles and ball with little boys, and took part in charades, playing once the “‘learned pig. William Pitt delighted to romp with children. He was once playing with nicce and nepnews, who were trying to blacken his face with a burnt cork. A servant announced that two members of the cabinet desived tosce him on business. *‘Let them wait in the other room,” said Pitt, catching up a cushion and belaboring the girl and boys. They got him down and were actually daub- ing his face, when he said, *‘Stop. this will do. I could beat you all, but we must not keep thesc grandees waiting longer.” A'basin of water and a towel were brought in and the great prime minis— ter washed his facd, hid the basin and then received the two lords. Dr. Battie, an eminent London phy- sician, used to amiuse himself by gazing at the Punch and' Judy show. He was such a successful mimic of ‘“‘Punch” that he once save@ . patient’s life by imitating that charvacter. The patient was suffering from a swelling in the throat, and the doctor, turning his wig, dppeared at the bed- side with the face and voice of “Punch.” The sick man laughed so heartily that the swelling broke and a complete cure followed. Man is the only animal who ¢an laugh; he, there- fore, relishes a little nousense. James Etter, an old soldier, who for over twenty years has been one of the day watchmen in’ the Winder building, which is occupied by the bureau of the econd auditor of the treasury, relates with pride an interesting e xperience he had in 1863, snys u Washington letter to the Pittsburg Dispateh. As he was alone in the building one sultry July Sunday morning a tall, clerical-looking man entered from Scventeenth street and politely asked him whether Sur- geon Barnes was in his office. He re- plied that Barnes had not been there since the preceding aay. The stranger thanked him and retired, but returned half an hour later with the same in- quiry. Again receiving reply in the neganve, he said: "I am Mr. Lincoln, the president. You will allow me to take your place as watchman, while you go to Surgeon Barnes’ house and tell him I want to see him. Letme have your badge, and I will sit right herein your chair and carefully attend to your” duties till you come back.” The veteran, in relating the story, says that for a moment he was speech- less from astonishment, but quickly recovering himself, he pinned his badge on the coat of the president of the United States and hurried off after Dr. Barnes, whom he brought back with him. *“Well,” said the president, us he returned the badge to its rightful possessor. *'L have proven true to my trust as your substitute and nothing has gone wrong while you were nway.” The old watchman feels proud to think he is the oniy policeman who was ever relieved by the president. Surgeon Burnes lived on Lafayette square. and it took Etter half an hour to go there and back; so for that space of time Abraham Lincoln acted as a watchman at the treasury department, At Orange you can hear numberless stories of Edison, says the Electric Age, Everybody likes him, One man, who had been for years in his employ as an experimentalist, told of a visit thata number of capitalists—including Jay Gould, Sidyey Dillon, Sam Sloan and Cyrus Field—paid to Edison at his lab- ratory one day, to inspect the workings of some induction experiment in devis- ing the schemp for telegraphing to moving trains, Edison came out of his work room, where he was busy, and shook hands with Field. At that in- stant something popped into his hepd apropos of the experiment he was at work on. He neyer tiemjto escape him'! Without a word of excuse “the four mag- nates he turaed ofiBis heel and hurried into his den again, They waited and waited and by and by, tired out with delay, wended their way down staivs, Shortly afterward Edison came out and asked: “*Where digd, those paupers go?" *Down stuirs,”i [ “Did thoy walkV “Yes i 'hat's right, “F don’t want’em w0 wear the oil off my elevator.” Then he stood around for ap chour and swapped stories with the men in the shop. He is the greatest mantliving for stories and it is a traditiotf@mong his employes that they can tell him the same story every day for a week and he'll never tire of it, nor in facy show any sign of baving heard it before. Ex-Judge Noah Davis was always noted, while he was on the beumch, for his pertinent questions to witnesses, says the Detroit News. One day a suit was tried before him in which a steam- ip company was required Lo show cause why it should pot pay the dam- ages to certain goods which had been destroyed by the incontinent actions of truck horses, frightened, as it was claimed, by the horrible and unearthly whistle of the steamship which was about to depart from the pier. One of the wituesses was Michael Sweeney, au Irishman, who was present at the time of the accident. Stephen F. Nash, the counsel for the gives an idea | Gou,» | Continucd his pray Em-um. asked Mr. Sweeney if hi orses were frightened by the whistle of the boat. “They were not, sor,” he said “But what kind'of an ear have your horses, Mr. Sweeny?" said Mr. Nash. “They have good ears, sor,” he an- swored. “Did you hear the whistle yourself?” 1 did, sor.” “But,” said Judge Davis, turning to { the innocent looking [rishman, “‘what | kind of a cart or truck was it that you drove, Mike?"” *‘A hand cart, sor.” “*Ah,” said the judge, turning anolo~ gotically to the discomposed Mv. Nash, *‘we have asked one question too many,"” To interrupt Horace Greeley when ho was in the throes of bringing forth an editoritl—an editorial which has never been equalled in the journatism of America—an editorial which wasa slo- gan for his party, a thunderbolt for his foes—was a da which no friend, no enemy, none but a fool, dared to en- counter, said Chauncey Depew in a re- cent speech before the Boston Press club. I was once in his editorial sance tum when the fool was there. To re- lieve your apprehensions, I was not the fool. He was one of those itinerant and persistent gentiemen with seription book, He kept presenting it while old Horace was writing—as mostof you remember, with his pen away up tohischin, like this [illustrating], and Horace had @ habit, when anyone would interfere of kicking, and so he, kicked at the subscription fiend. Finally, when he saw he could not get rid of the in- truder by this means, he stopped 1n the middle of a sentence, turned round. and suid, raspingly, in that shrill voice of his: “What do you want? and swte it in words.” “Well,” said the subscription fiend, “I wanta subseription, Mr. Greeley, to prevent thousands of my fellow hu~ man beings from going to hell,” Said Mr. Greeley: *I won’t give you a d—d cent- There don’t half enough go there now.” State it quick the fowest possible Speaking of the late Martin F. Tup- per a London journalist sa; “When 1t was my good fortune to become ac- quainted with Mr. Tupper I fournd him the most cordial friend. The storm of contemptuous criticism which about that time hailed down upon his works never disturbed his eauanimity or ruflled his temper; in looks he was a ruddy-faced, white-beardea, handsome, man, hearty, courteous and enthusias- t! a proof of his good temper I v here repeatan anecdote which I ve published elsewhere. It is to the effect that when I visited Mr. Tupper ny he showed me an immense in which were pasted all the us, favorable and unfavqrable, of his works and all the parodies of his poems. Among the latter I saw with horror some which I kad written, and with more horror & marginal note 1in Mr. Tupper’s handwriting: “I under- stand these to be by Edmund Yates; they are very smart. Mr. Browning used often to speak to friends of the only occasion on which he ever spoke to the queen. Some years ago the late dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley invited him, among others, to tea at the Deanery to meet the queen, and a small select party were present, Carlyle being oue. The company, as was befitting in the presence of their sovereign, were re- spectfully silent, ouly joining in the conversation when addressed. The queen began to talk to Carlyle and ex- pressed her opinions on some matter upon which they differed, and he, as usual, contradicted her and silenced her. Asthe queen left the room she stopped fat the doov -to speak to M Browning and say good-bye, remarkin, “What an extrwordinary man Mr, Car- lyle is. Does he always talk like that? I never met him before.” Mr. Brown- ing was only able to assure her that it was his invariable custom. When the bishop of Edin burgh was in this country he visited Bishop Wilil- iams, of Connecticut, at Middleton, says the Yonkers Statesman. Habited in the English Episcopul costume of knee- broasches and black silk stockings, he alighted from a train, and was at once accosted by Bishop Williams, although the two men had never met each other before. “Tell me,” asked Bishop Williams, after the first greetings, ‘*how did you know me?” *Ah, by vour face,” replied his lord- ship of Edinburgh, *[ have one of your photographs, you know, But tell me in return how you knew me?”’ “Oh, by vour legs,” replied Dr, Will- iams, glancing with an amused smile at the well-turned calves of his guest. 2o T A B IMPLEES, The doxology 15 all well enough 1n its way, but for Xwmas day the proper pwan is the sockdology. *‘Alone with God and her) lead pencil” 18 the one opportunity a woman has to sharpen it without being told she don’t know how and never will, The signal officer of the infernal regions makes very little chango in his predictions® His bulletins invariably read, *‘Warmer to- morrow.” How are.you succeeding, Mr. Hornblower* in your work in the west? Kev. Mr, Horn- blower—Magnificently. There's a great awakening at the close of every sermon. Friend—Are you happy! Spirit (through medium)—Perfectly, Friend—What - has pleased you most since you lett ust Spirit— ‘The epitaph on iy tombstone. It both amazes and delights me, Sam Johnsing—Did you heah de parson say dat whosoeber had stole his puwpkins would go ter de bad place! Jim Webster— Heah! heah! ain’u L glad [ didn't steal nuf- fin but cabbages. 1t was Elder Buzzell, says an exchange, who called on a worthy deacon to open a ‘meeting with prayer, and was surprised when the good man began his petition with: **0, thou great, insignifizant God.” *Om- nipotent, brbther; you mean omdipotent whispered the horrified pastor, “*Huh "’ ejuculated the surprised supplicant, “What's that you say!” The preacher re- peated the correction, whereupon the deacon 0 o great length, and concluded as follows: *Finally, Lord bless our eddicated parson. Stuff him with relig- ion as well as words, break him of the habit of fault-findin’, if possible, and at the 'ley- enth nour gather him with the saints in the kingdom." At a recent Sunday school service the clergyman was illustrating the necessity of Christsan profession in order properly to enjoy the blessings of providence in this world, and to make it apparent to the youth- ful mind he said: “For instauce, I want to wtroduce water into my house. The pipes and every convenience are in good order, but I get no water. Can any of you tell me why 1do not get any water!” He expected the children to see that it was because he' haa not made a connection with the main in the street. The !w{l looked yerplexed. They could not see why the water should re- fuse o run in his premises after such fault- less plumbing, a0 no one teil mee what I have neglected!’ reiterated the good man looking over the flock of wondering faces bowed down by the weight of the problem. ‘I kuow,' squaked a lttle fivo-yoar-old, “You don't pay up.’ S The wife of Couut Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, is, ke the wives of many literary men, the busiest member of the family tira, She has sole charge of the sale and distribu- tion of her husband's book: s uensis, revisor and translat Hesides, she superintends the bringing up and education of thewr thirleen children, and looks atter all domostic affairs. It 1s as much as the count can do to make the shoes for the thirteen youngsters aud entertain bis callers from Aumerica. Wedical and Surgical Institute, N. W. Cor. 13th and Dodge Sts., Omaha, Neh, THE LARCEST MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE WEST FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALL Chronic and Surgical Diseases and Diseases of the Eye and Ear. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO DEFORMITIES OF THE URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS, PRIVATE DISEASES, DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, LUNG AND THROAT DISEASES, SURGICAL OPERATIONS, EPILEPSY OR FITS, PILES, CANCERS, TUMORS, Eic. J. W. McMENAMY, M. D., President, And Consulting Physician and Surgeon. Organized with @ foll staf of Skilled Physicians, Surgeons and Trained Nurses, This establishment is a permanent medieal institution, conducted by lhm'nughly educated gllymcmns and surgeons of acknowledged skill and experience. Lo Institute buidings, situated on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Dodge streets, is composed of two large three-story brick buidings of over ninety rooms, containing onr Medical, Surgical and Consultation Rooms, Drug Store, Laboratory, Offices, Mnnn_futmy of Surgical Appliances and braces, and the Boarding Depart- ment for Patients, in charge of n[mh'nb persons, constituting the largest and the most thoroughly equipped Med and Surgi lJustulvlishmcnfhx the West, one of the three largest in the United States, and second to mnone. ‘We have superior advantages and facilities for treating di es, performing. surgical operations, boarding and nursing patients, which, combined with our acknowledged ability, experience, responsibility and reputation, should make the Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute the first choice. You can come direct to the Institute, day or night, as we have hotel accommo- dations as good and as cheap as any in the city. ‘We make this explanation for the bensfit of persons who may feel inclined to go further east for med or surgical treatment and _do not appreciate the t that Omaha possesses the largest and most complete Medical and Surgical Instis tute west of New York, with a capital of over 8100,000. DISEASES OF WOMENé DISEASES 3 DEFORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. AI;PLIAN(TES FOR DEFORMI- TIES AND TRUSSES. Best Fncl_liupfi, Apparatus and Remedies for Successful Treatment ot every form of Discase requiring MEDICAL or SURGLCAL TREATMENT. cially successful. Our claims of superiority ov. T n the fact that this is the only medical establishment man- ufucumnfi surgical braces and appliances for each individual case. We have three skilled instrument makers in our employ, with improved machinery, and have all the latest inventions, as well as our own patents and improvements, the result of twenty years’ experience, HLECOTRICAL TREATMENT. The treatment of diseases by electricity has undergone great changes within tho pest few years, and electricity isnow acknowludged by all schools of medicine asthe great remedy in all chronic, special and nerve diseases, for nervous debility, par- alysis, rheumatism, diseases of women, etc,, and in many eye and ear diseases ib is the most valuable of all remedies. In order to obtain its full virtues, itis nhmlutelg necessary to have the proper opparatus. We have lately purchased three of the largest and most complete hatteries manufactured, so constructed as to give the most gentle as well as the wnost powerful current. Persons treated at this Institute by electricity recognize st once the difference between our expensive and complete electrical apparatus und the common, cheap batteries, in use by many physicians. Over 8,000 doll ‘nvested in electrical apparatus. T o e i i PRIVATE, SPECIAL, NERVOUS AND BLOOD DISEASES. We claim to be the only reliable, responsible establishment in the west making a specialty of this class of diseases. Dr. McMenamy was one of the first thoronghe ly educx\ted(}illymcmns to make a special study of this class of diseases, and his methods and inventions have been adopted by specialists in Europe and America, He is the inventor of the Clamp Compress Suspensory, acknowle ged the best in use. All others are copied after his invention. By means of a simple operation, painless and safe, recently brought into use, we cure many cases that have been wn up as incurable by medical treatment. (Read our book to men, sent free to any. ress.) . DISEASES OF EIX Xl AND XAIR. ‘We have had wonderful success in this department in the {1 t year, and have made many improvemeuts {n our facili- ies for treatment, operations, artificial eyes, etc, CASES TREATED BY LETTER. ‘We have greatly improved our facilities and methods of treating cases by correspoudence, and are having better success in this depart. ment than ever before, ‘We are fully up to the times in all the latest inventions in medical and su: cal oPerauonu, appliances and instruments. Our institution is open for investiga- tion to any persons, patients or physicians, We invite all to correspond with or zllflllz c\u b«;fora takiins{ tlrlclmlm:nt lalmw:tl;:max Imllevlilg le; a visit or consultation onvined any intelligent person that it is to their adval - selves under our care. g » I Sim;e this ml:;frlimncnlflr:l r;rpeared. :Immy boasting pretenders and frauds have come and gone and many more will come and go, remembere 1 i t iy mlf'mu;y.%. nw_/ 90, bered only by their unfortunate “Wwise man investigates first and decides A fool decides élm. then fi.-un‘gnu«," ienaris, The Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute is indorsed by the people and the press, More capital invested, inore silled physicians employed, more modern appliances, instrus ments and apparatus in use, more cases treated and gured, more successful operations performed, than in all other medical establishnients inthe West combined., 144 PAGE BOOK (Illustrated) SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS (ssaLs0), CONTENTS: rt First-Ilistory, Success and Advan 8 of Omah: JFart Rrvatad 1 istory; Suocsss and Advania g Bomach. 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