Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1890, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY = umber of members received since the organizution is 151; the present membership creass during the yoa: of church provert; provements auring St. John's A. M. E., ster streets. Membership, d Value of church pro- perty, #15,000. Cost of lmprovements during the year, §25,000. South'Tenth street M. Pierce. Memborship, 200. 1889, forty-three. OMARA'S RELICIOUS GROW TH GRADY'S LAST ER"EAT SPEECH His Eloquent BNt ‘at the Mer- ochants’ Banquet jn Boston. P A Sighteenth and Web- ! An Evening With Miss Hallowell. Mrs, Savago asked a fow friends on Sat- urday evening to meet Miss Hallowell with tea and any amount of interesting conversa- Bpiritual and Financial Condition of tho Omaha Cbhurches. Increass during Value of church property, $12,000. Cost of improvements, $62% First German M. E., Eleventh and Centre streots, Mombership, fifty. Vatue of church improvements Miss Hallowell is a connoisseur in all manner of art, but partioularly painting. She has traveled everywhere in Europe and as she is a woman of rare intelloctual attain- ment and exceptional descriptive powers it is but one remove from visiting the galleries to sce the pictures grow into being with her telling, She has music and drama at the onds of her fingers, where she can draw on them at need, and 1v was a real feast of rea- for the fortunate few to meet her. Among those present_were Mr. and Mrs. Reed, Mr. and Mrs. Kilpatrick, Mr, Davis, Mr, Weld of St. Louis, and Mr. Barke. e} THE PROGRESS OF A YEAR. A SOUTHERNER ON, THE SOUTH. M | [ How the Whitss Propose to Deal With the Race Probleni--They Love the Negro Bht He May ated to the Lord—In- crease in Church Membership-— Money Spent in Bulldiog and Improving Sanctuaries, Wealth Consec 0 Swedish M. E. nia. Memborship, eighty. the year, ten, Sighteenth near Califor- Tncreaso during Value of church property, $0,000. Cost of improvements, §2,000. Norwegian and E. Twenty-sixth streot. Increaso during the of church proporty, Grady on the Race Problem. Following is a digast of Henry W. Grady’s great speech before the Boston Merchauts’ nssociation‘on the oceasion of the big banquet at the Hotel Ven- dome, on December 12, posure during the trip which he made to make this address which caused his His topic was the colored prob- lem and his remarks were a natural sequence of his eloquent speech on the “New South” in New York city two It was this former speech which gave him his greatest fame, but his lust address was a fit companion to s in Heligion, The past year has been aprosperous ono 4with the churches of Omaha, progress has been commensurate with the strides made by the ear, twenty-five. Value First Presbyterion Membership, 630, ing year, sixty-six. Valueof church property, Jost of improvements during 13 Church Not Mark's Mission church, All are cordially Increase dur- t. Florence, at 7 :30 o'clock. It was the ex- Below is given the membership of a ma- {crity of the churches, the increuse in the same during tho past year, the value of the property owned by each church and the amount expended for improvements. . Hardioe of Florence, has been orof the Episcopal church of Park Avenue United Presbyterian, Park Jackson streets, membership, Increase during year, twents Value of church property, $16,000, nts during 1589, $400. Southwest Presbyterian, Memberstup, 125 ar, twouty-five. Rev, Willard Scott will preach in the St. Mary's Avenue Congregational church both morning aond evening, Evening lecture to young people on YA Weaver's Shuttle." At the Southwestern Lutboran church, Twenty-sixth street between Poppleton and ‘Woolworth avenues, Rev. Luther will preach at 11 a. m. on *‘Barzill; Year's Thought,” and at 7:30 p. m. on “An Excellent Desire.” At Cynthia Christian chureh, Walnut Hill, Rev. L. T. Van Cleave will have for his morning theme, ‘*True Religion.”” I arvelous Growth of Christian- Prayer meeting on Thursday evening All are welcome, Rev. Martin, the pastor, will preach at the First Christian church morning and evening. Morning Subject: *“I'he Perishable and the Tmperishable.” ‘What It Is and How to Attain It."” S. C. E. meeting at and stravgers made welcome. Ay Trinity Cathedral, Capitol avenue and Eighteenth streets, there will be boly com- second celebration and ser nday school, service, 3 45 . prayers and sermon, 0 p. will preach both morning ana At Soward Street Methodist 1) church at 10:30 a. m., the pastor, preach on ¢'The Swor Lord and of Gideon.” Twentieth and irst Baptist church, Fifteenth and has 410 members. ing the past vear there were 115 additions to Davenvort stre: Value of church Westiminstor Presbyterian, Beth Edon Baptist_church, Park avenue mear Leavenworth, has 120 members ing the year, thirty, is quoted at $20,000. Calvary Baptist church, Twenty-sixth gnd has 162 members, forly- soven having united during the past year. 'he church property is valued at $10,000. he improvements during the year cost two. Value of church improvements The church property Mr. President, bidden by your invita- tion to a discussion of the race problem, forbidden by the oceasion to make a T appreciate, in try- ing ta reconcile orders with propri- ety, the perplexity of the little maid, who, bidden to learn to swim was yet adjured, *Now, my darling, hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don’t go near the water.” The stoutest apostlé of the church, they say. is the missionary, and the missionary wherever he unfurls s flag will never find himself in deeper need of unction and tonight to plant the standard .of southern democrat in Boston’s banquet hall; and to discuss the problems of the races in the homes of Phillips ana of president, if a pur- ect frankness and understanding of the vast interests involved; if crating sense of what disaster may foi- low misunderstanding and estrange- ment; if these may be counted to stendy undisciplined speech and to strengthen an untried arm—theén, sir, I shall find the couiage to proceed. your brothers in the south—brothers in blood, ir destiny, in all that is best in our past and future—are so beset with problem that their very existence de- pends on its right solution. they wholly to blame for its presence. The slaveships of the republic sailed from your ports; the slaves-worked in our You will not defend the traffic, But I do here de- 1,500, Costellar' Strect Presbyterian, Sixteenth and Castellar stroets. Increase during year, church proverty, ments during the year, $1,600. First United Presbylerian church, Figh- teenth’ ana_Califoraia. Increase during 1589, twenty-nine. chureh property, §15,000. Walnut Hill Broabyterian, and Nicholas, creaso duking year, forty, 0. Membershij Beward streets, lembership, Cost of improve- political speech, Membership, 110, on Baptist church, 2215 Grant street, has ninety-scven members; seventy-seven of these have joined during the past year. The valuo of the church property is £5.600. The lmprovemouts made di Lowe avenue Mombership, sixty-five. Value of church Cost of improvements dur- . “Conversion; uring 1889 cost o Aliseats treo Jmmanuel Baptist church, North Twenty- fourth and Binney streets, members; thirty-six united during the past s valued at ing the year, § Grace Presbyterian, Fifth and Williams, 1 three months ago with fifteen Vatue of church property, $700. Ambler Place Prosbyterian, Ballou avenuo and Miranda streots. Membership,eighteen, Value of church 0, improvements during the year, First German Presbyterian, Eighteenth street, crense during the year, -eighteen. church property, $10,000. ANTLPOLY GAMIST, Latter Day Soints, ‘Tweaty-first between Clark and Grace, ' Mombership. crease during property, $4,500, The church property $6,000. The improvements inade during the year cost $5,600. wunion 8 a. m.; address than Baptist churcn, Twentys gixth and Seward streets, has seventy me.- bers, the increase since being tairty-five, quoted as worth church property is Membersnip, sixty. AUT:30 p. m. the | Poso to speak in per Pitchers and These serviees inaugurate o series of special meetings to continue every evening next week. most cordially. Immanuel Baptist church—North Twenty fourth and Binney streets. The morning_ service will close with tho Lord's supper and reception of vening the pastor ‘Tender Hearts." First church, Twentieth and Capitol ave- ue, hus 200 members, fifty of these having nited during the year 1880, Pproperty is valued at $30,000, ments hade during 1830 cost $400. The improve- 10. Value of church St. Peters, Twenty-eighth and ' Leaven- Congregation of Israel, cast of Twenty-fourth. Membership, 107, Increase during 1580, church propert; ments during 1 Harney street, orth streets, has 1,050 members; 340 addi- 1008 to the church roll wero madeduring the The value of the property is 100,000. The improvements made during 3889 cost £5,000. St. John’s Gollegiate church, Twenty-fifth na California streots, - 90,000. During the year past improvements 000, My people, new members. will have for his theme: The week of prayer will be observed by the Monday_ovening - with The public cordially wel- Cost of improve- & church, beginning Unity church, Seventesnth and Cass. | church’ roll cail. i Increase during 1859, Membership, Value of church property, ) Trinity M. E. Church, corner Twenty-first , Eighteenth and Izard i W. K. Beans, pastor. mombersuip of 2,875 church property is worth §25,000. ' improvements, $5,000. ‘Lhe total number of churches enumerated above is fifty-seven, only a little more than half the number of churches in the city. The amount of money expended on them, with otner features is as follows: Valuo of churches..... New churches and improvel Increase in membership, streets, has @ nor T the institution clare that in its wise and humane ad- in lifting the slave to heightsof which he had not dreamed in his savage home,and giving him a hap- piness he has not yet found in freedom, our fathers left their sons a saving and excellent heritage. war this institution was lost. God as heartily as you'do that human slavery has gone forovér from Ameri- But the freedman remains. ‘With him a problem without precedent Note its appailing condi- tions. Two utterly dissimilar races on the same soil—with equal civil and olitical rights—almost equal in num - rs, but terribly unequal in intelli- gence and responsibility—each pledged against fusion—one for a century in servitude tothe other,and freed at last by a desolating war—the experi- ment sought by neither,but approached by both with doubt—these are the con- adverse at every peint, we are réquired to carry these two races in peace and honor to Revival services will “Worth of the Soul.” bogin on Sunday night and continue through Sunday school at 2:80 p. m,, M. urteenth and ministration during the year being 120, The church prov- M. Hamlin superintendent. The_cost of improve- meeting at 6:40. Seats free. wmade welcome. M. E. church, Rev.J. E. En- sign, pastor, St. Mary's avenue and Twenty- Evening subjecl is Migh, But Beer is Cheap.” Sunday school at 12 m,, L. O. Jones superintendent. form tomperance meeting at 8 o'clock p. m. ; speakers, Major John N. Corey, Mrs. Wood- ward and Mrs, league prayer meeting at 6:30 p. m. of Prayer” will be observed, commencing Monday evening. Everybody invited. Church of the Good Shepherd, Nineteenth and Lake streets—Rev. J. P. D, Lloyd, rec- Holy communion every Sabbath at 8 a. m., and first Savbath of each month at 1la. m. Services and sermon every Sabbath at1la m. and 7:30 p. m., and on Friday Sabbath school al which parents in the vicinity are earnesily requested to send their children. ladies’ and young men’s bible classes during All persons are cordially Young people’s orty is worth $15,000. ents during the year 1580 amounted to 0. t. Wenceslau's church, 1434 South Four- teentn street, has a membership of 600; the fncrease during the year being 120. | ohurch property is worth $15,000. “ws Philomena's cathedral has 1,500 members. church property is worth about $120,000. CONOREGATIONAL. The Park Place Congregational church, $029 California streot. has sixty-seyen mem- bers; the increase during 1839 was twenty- The church property is Thirtieth and amily church has the greatest number of members, 3,875. t. Patrick’s Roman Catholic church had the greatest number of additions, 340. The First M. E. church expended the most for improvements, $85,000. The property of St. Philomena’s cathedral 18 the most valuable. Children of Mary. The desire of many prominent Catholic ladies in the city to unite in good works, in laboriag for poor.shurches, and especially in assisting needy families, found not only an ecno, but a realization at the convent of the Sacred Heart, South Twenty-seventh street, at the close of a retreat given by Rev. Father Foley in December, 1885, the sodality of the Children of Mary was es- tablished, with the approbation of Bishop 0O'Connor, who encouraged the work by his practical instructions and counsels. Thnis association, conforming to the stat- utes of the same congregation at Rome, en- joys all the privileges and granted by the church to that body. only are those who have been pupils of the Sacred Heart admitted to membership, but also other pious ladies who, desirous of their own perfection, and zealous for the increase of piety and charity among their friends, express a wish to be numbered among the members of this association. The rules of the society are especially drawn to facilitate the ends pr glory of God, the honor of the Virgin, the spiritual welfare of the members of the as- sociation, the reliefof the poor and the as- sistance of poor churches, ing many difiicultics, recelved a new impulse throngh the nomina- tion of Rev. Dr. Callaghan' as spiri director, On the first Tuesday of éach month mass is said at 8:30 in the church chapel, followed by an instruction frown ‘the doctor. On the second and fonrth Fridays of the month, the ladies meet at the convent of the Sacred Heart, from 210 5 p. m., for sewing for necessitous churches and for the poor. A great deal of good work has alrcady re- sulted from these efforts, and at Christmas many poor children were made happy by seventh street. the storm of one 'members. Avorth $10,000. Hillside Congregational, Ohlo streets, hus 133 members, the increasa during 1880 being forty-two. The church proverty is worth $11,000. The cost of im- grlno(v,emanu during the year amounted to St. Mary’s avenue Congregational, Twen- ty-soventh and St. Mary's avenue, has 310 mombers. Thirty-eight additions were made The church property is $50,000, Duriug the year mprove- ,600 were made. the school lour. bors. invited to these services. during the year. RELIGIOUS, The religious revival among the students at Yale is steadily increasing. It is saia Plymouth church, New York, has lost 800 members since Mr. Beecher's ments amounting to The value of Bethlehem chapel, of the sbove church, is $1,000. Plymouth churcb, Twentieth and Spencer, has eighty-five member, twenty new mem- ‘bers having joined during the year. ohurch property 18 vaiued at $26,500. The cost of improvements amounted to $3,500. When will the black cast afree ballot? When ignorance anywhere is not domi- mated by the will of the intelligent. When the laborer anywhere casts a vote unhindered by his boss. When the vote of the poor anywhere is not in- fluenced by the power of the rich. ‘When the strong and the steadfast do not everywhere control the suffrage of the weak and shiftless—then and not till then will the ballots of the negro be There are three Protestant churches in Lisbon, Portugal and the pustors of all three were formerly Roman Catholic priests, Methodist institutions haVe received since last February a half million of dollars in do- nation, through the efforts of Bishop War- 'S Trinity cathedral, avenue, has 600 members. erty is valued at $110,000. All Saints’ cnurch, Twenty-sixth and How- ard strects, has 350 member: ing year, fifty. ighteenth and The church prop- increase dur- Vaiue of church property, $35,000; 'expended for religious purposes, 0,087, The Roman Catholic cathedral, at Pigs- has been presented, Carnegie, with a superior 'copy 1n oil of Raphael's Sistine Madonna. The Protestant Episcopal diocese of Mon- tana has & communicant list of 1,249; col firmed, 118; value of church property, $108, 906.55; total offerings, $27,560.03. Rev. T. P. Sanford, o full-blooded negro, who was born & slave in Virginis, has recent- nstor of & Baptist The negro vote can never control in the south, and it would be well if parti- sans at the north would understand this. 1 have seen the white people of a state set about by black hosts until their fate But, sir, some brave man, banding them together would rise, as Elisha rose in beleaguered Samaria, and, touching their eyes with faith, bid them look abroad to see the very air **filled with the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof.” by Andrew p After surmount- Good Snepherd church, Nineteenth and little branch Lake, was foundea less than a year ago and The value of church has forty members. Jost of improvements in roperty is $2,100, , 81,900 St. Martin’s, Thirty-third and R streets, church wus founded ess than a year 2go and has forty members, Value of church property, $5.5 rovements during 1589, 83 Th seemed sealed. BSouth Omaha. *This The Vatican is reported in receipt of an extremely handsome windfall in the shape of a legacy of $3.400,000 left to the pope by Baron Lilienthal, an excentric banker of Jewish origin. ‘There are over 800 ordained ministers in Madagascar, aud nearly 4,400 native preach- 61,723 church members, 280,418 adher~ d 1,043 schools with ‘The local contributions amount to $3,000, or nearly $15,000, One hunared and nine thousand. orphans ‘have been supported and educated at M orphanage at Bristol, e houses, capable of af- 050 orphans have been built, und sixty-six schools are now main- If there is any that can b ith- streets, is s new society numbering twenty v not be w! members. Value of church proper Cost of improvements during 158t St. Augustine's church, Francis stroe ‘weeks since intelligence bility of a free community. it numbers and corruption cannot pre- Tt cannot be forbidden in the law, 1t is the inalien- Besides these regular assemblies thero are from time to time other general meetings o render an account of the good accomplished by the ussociation, its plous undertakings and other important duties connected with founded only a few ith fifteen members. church property 1s valued at $750. St. Andrew's Walnuy Hu plas and Institute streeets, few mentbs ago and has thirty members. ¢ Value of church property, #,000. Expended ~=== & fur building during year, $3,501 St. John's church, Twenty-si 1in streets, ninot. ‘church property. almosv 100.000 | op divorced in for able right of every free community—the just and righteous safeguard against an ignorant or corrupt suffrage, this, sir, that we rely in the south. the cowardly menace of the mask or shot- gun, but the peaceful majesty of intelli- gence and responsibility, massed and | unified for the protection of its homes and the preservation of its liberty. That, sir, is our reliance and our hope, and against it all the powers of earth It was just as certain that Virginia would come back to the unchallenged coutrol of her white race ~—that before the moral and power of her people once more unified, opposition would crumble until its last desperate leader was left alona vainly striving to rally his disordered hosts— as that night should fage in the kind- lingglory of the sun, force bills, but they wi may surrender your,oin liberties to federal election law, y. fear of a necessity t that the very form of may be changed, interference witl meeting that, the guarantee, ment in America—th holds in its charter a free and independé ~—it may deliver its_glgetion machinery into the hands of s helped to create—b) a single state of south, be delivere of an ignorant and Il church, Niob- Lo e | A fes of 60 cants is char e monthly to as- 818t inpurchasing material for_clothing the poor, linen for altars, and for other chari- table purposes. ‘This little explanation, it is thought, will alse prejadices and annoy- ances which the society has undergone, and willencoursge many ladies to join an asso- ciation which is destined to promote their own good and to benefic thoir neighbor. ‘Any lady desirous of further explanation can address the convent of the Sacred Heart, South Twenty seventh street, or to Mrs, Gilmore, the president, residence, 2418 Capitol averue, or Mrs, Dr. Coffman, vice president, residence, South Twenty-seventh xth and Frank- five members. Vaiue of fording homes for 15,000, destroy many T. DeWitt Talmage 18 rich, more than any other lecturer and lectures He 18 up for the highest bidder, and inexperienced managers of lyceums take reat risks on him, but the doctor has au in- beforo the lecture Southwestern Lutheran, Twenty: tween Povpleton and Woolworth avenues, ‘was organized Apru 7, 1859, and b wlue of church property, $1L000. Cost of improvements, §1 St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran, Twenty- L1 variable rule: and avoid misunderstanding.” ‘The Presbyterian church in Jowa has ad such a prosperous. year as increase of numbers, Three thousand fifty persons were received by confession, and the net increase was In 1883 the net increase was thirteen only; and the increase of the five years, 1870 1o 1883, was not hal{ the increase of the & Madras that the natives Are starving to death rather thun eat with others of another caste, and that they flee to the hills from the food brought by 'the Euglish for fear of being forced to eat in the resence of people not of their own walk of life, is the most striking instance furnished of a people yielding their lives rathor than give up the faith that is in hith and Parker streets, has a membership 185, Additions during 1889, twenty-five. ¥y fl'fl?_flw cost of ‘Value of church improvements during the t. Mark's Evangelical Luther: Twenty-first and Burdette streets. Mem- Ly inorease during the year, eight. Value of church property, 5,500 cost of improvements during the past year, Aunual Messing af Pizmouth Churoh, |/ mares ioasared by The aunual meeting of the Plymouth Con- greeational church, Kountze place, was held At 6:30 supper was served in the church parlors, after which the mem- bers repalred to the audience room above, To the surprise of Mr, Thain, the pastor, the meeting was opened - with the auction of beautifully printed copies of & Christmas em written by him years ago. ad been prepared in this souvenir form by the members of the church wiihout Mr, Thain’s knowleage, and the first intimation he had of it was when it wi night. The entire edition wat time and a bandsome sum realized. ‘The report of the committees showed that the church debt, though large, was being rapidly reducea. [he following ofMicel Frriday evening, You may puss not avait, You year just closed, may submit, in does not exist, is government, may invite federal he New England been for 100 local govern- 1d swte which rsy German mission, S and Twenty- ninth streets, South Omaha, i 00, Value of church proverty, 2,500, Danish Luther ‘worth snd Mason stregts. Value of church cost of improvements dur- by modewn tim oid in a short The organization in esxistence for the Protetants called ne . he King,” has been imjtated by the'organization among vhe Homanists of 'Daughters of the Queen,” 5| uis December 6, 1859, elp the ignorant and: desti- thering them rol‘g%y. $10,000; ommonweaith' orwegian and Dapish Lutheran, 1014 ‘North T'wenty-sixth. - Membershi five. Value of church proporty, of improvements durin Swedish Lutheran and Cass. Membersh! @, government it never, sir, wiil Nis finion, north or 10 the control ere elected for the Charles Sawson, clerk; E. V., Lowls, truste: Mvs. Gue, deaconess. Hillside Church Officers. The aunual meeting of the Hillside Congre- gational church was held Thursday night, The following officers were elected: Trus tees, F. M. Hamling, M. H. Comstock and B, L Leggett; clerk, T. C. Wallace, ir.; treas- 1 deacous, awling and P, G. Mead; periutendent, M. H. G first assistant superintendent, T, Jr.; music committee, Mrs, J. C. M. Evans and W. W. Le committee, J. W. tute children of the city, into Saturday them habits of personal deportment, cleanli- 'he girls who are taught sewing clothing they make as. re- 425; increase dur- church property, tof improvements during 1880, Swedish Evangelioal Mission Twenty-third and Davenpart streets. Dbership, ; inerease during Value of church pi jmprovements during 1! X METHODIST BPISCOPAL. n:"xul M. E. cnurch, Joyernments from negro supremacy W drum-beat rolled closer to the ballot. box and federal bayonets hedged it deeper about than will ever again be rmitted in this free government. sir, though the cannon of this re- ic thundered in ever, | trict of the south, we still should find in the mercy of God the means and the courage to preveat its re-establishment. Meantime we treat the negro fairly, measuring to him justice in the fulness the strong should give to the weak and leading him in the steadlast ways of citizepship, that he may no longer be of the unscrupulous and the htiess. We open to t in which he can prosper, and seek to broaden his train- We seek to hold his will be given the wards of merit. ——— The Tenement and the Dug-Out. leasures of the country, like the Seventeenth and streots, Membership 360. Value Expended on the in course of erection rth Twentieth and nd wretched cities by persons rich in faith but desti- tutg of knowledge. nge would be ney Welch in the January They do not know that life in a tenement house, lucated on an alley, is, after all, preferable to existence 1n a dug-out which is seldom passed by man. The frequent cry of distress in cities grates harshly oo the ear, but it is like music when compared with the roar of the deadly cyclone. think that . Moore, George G. wood aud M. T. Heuth; committes ou benev- olent contributions, Q. C. Wallace, jr., Miss M. Evaos aud H, P, Bush, ‘I'he choir remains the of the organization of 1 exception, Mrs. R, L. ceeded by Miss Dora V. ‘The church has received tions to its membership during the past year. D, ity Twenty-first and Bioney. neresse over eigh! Value of church property, $24,000. man M. E. church, as athe time -soventh street. M b he cburch with one &umy beiug suc- 1by, him every purs forty-thires addi- ‘Wooiworth avenue. Mnmb«r-nip.‘o wr.n. ng and capacity. 5. 1800.-SIXTEEN PAGES. confidence and friendship and to pin him to the soil with ownership, that he may catoh in the fire of hislown hearth - stone that seneo of responsibility the shiftless can mever know. And we gather him into that alliance of intelli- gence and responsibility that, though it now runs close to racial lines, wel- comes the responsible and intelligent of any race. By this course, confirmed inour judgment and justified in the progress already made, we hope to pro- gress slowly but surely to the end. The love we feel for that race you can- not measure nor comprehend. As I at- test it here the spirit of an old black mammy, from her home up there, looks down to bless, and through the tumult of this night steals the sweet music of her croonings as thirly years ago she held me in her black arms and led me smiling into sleep. This scene van- ishes as I speak, and I catch a vision of an old southern home, with its lofty pil- lars and its white pigeons fluttering down through the golden air. 1 sce women with strained and anxious taces, and children alert yet helpless. 1 seo night come down with its dangers and its apprehensions, and in a big, homely room I feel on my tired head the touch ofloving hands—now worn and wrinkled, but faiver to me yet thau the hands of mortal woman, and stronger yet to lead me than the hands of mortal man— as they lay a mother’s blessings there, while at hor knees—the truest altar 1 yet have found—I thank God thatshe s safe in her sanctuary, because her slaves, sentinel in the silent cabin, or guard at her chamber door, puts a black man’s loyalty between her and dange I catch another vision, The crisis of battle—a soldier struck, staggering, fallen. Isee a slave, scuffiing through the smoke, winding his black arms about the fallen form, recklessof the hurtling death—bending his trusty face to catch ths words that tremble on the stricken lips, o wrestling meantime th the ngony that he would lay down his life in his master’s stead. I see him by the weary bedside, mmistering with = uncomplaining ;patience, pri ing with all his humble heart that = God will lift his mas- ter up, until death comes in mercy and in honor to still the soldier's agony and seal the soldier’s life. I see him by the open grave, mute, uncovered, suf- fering for the death of him who in life fought against his freedom. I see him, when the mound is heaped and the great drama of his life is closed, turn awny and with downcast eyes and un- certain step start out into new and strange fields, faltering, struggling, but moving on, nntil his shambling figure is lost in the light of this better and higher day. -And from the grave comes a voice, saying: “Follow .him! Put your arms about him in s nced even s ho put his about me. Be his friend as he was mine,” Andout into this new world—strange’ to me as to him, daz- zling, bewildering both—I follow! And may God forget my people—when they forget these! Whatever the future may hold for them—whether they plod along in the servitude from which they have never been lifted since the Cyrenian was laid hold upon by the Roman soldiers, and made to bear the crossof the fainting Christ—whether they find homes again in Africa,and thus hasten the prophecy of tho psalmist, who said: +‘And sud- denly Kthiopia shall hold out her hands unto God”—whether forever dislocated and separate, they remain a weak peo- ple, beset by the stronger, and exist, ns the Turk, who lives in the jealosy rather than in the conséience of Europe—or whether in this miraculous republic they break through thecaste of twenty centuries, and belying universal history,reach the full stature of citizenship, and in peace maintain it—we shall give them utter- most justice and abiding friendship. Aund whatever we do, into whatever seeming estrangement we may be driven, nothing shall disturb the love we bear this republic or mitigate our consecration in its service. Mr. Grady closed with a magnificent peroration rivaling his great discourse on the “Puritan and the Cavalier.” iaaeom s P Babyland. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Have you heard of the Valley of Babyland, The realm where the dear little darlings stay, Till the Kind storks go, as all men know, And oh, so tenderly bring them away! The paths are winaing und past all finding By all suve the storks, who understand The gates and the highways and the intri- cate by-ways 2 That lead to Babyland. Ali over the valley of Babyland Sweet flowers bloom in the Soft green moss, And under the ferns fair, and under the plunts there ’ Lie little hoads like spools of floss. With a soothing number of river of slumber Flows o'er a bedway of silver sand, And angels are keeping watch o'er the sleep- Babies of Babyland. The path to the Vulley of Babyland Only the kingly, kind storks know; It they fly over mountains or wade through fountains, No man sees them come or go. Hut an angel maybe, who guards some baby, Or n fairy, perhaps, with her magic wand,. Brings them straightway to the wonderful Bateway That leads to Babyland. And there, in the Valloy of Babyland, Under the mosses and leaves and ferns, Like an unfledged starling they find the darling For whom the heart of & mother yearn: And they lift m lightly and ‘snug b tghtly In feathers soft as a lady's hand, And- off with a rockaway step they walk away Out of Babyland. As they go from the Valley of Babyland Forth into the world of the great unrest, Sdmotimes weeping e walkes from slesping Before he reaches the mother's breast. Ab, how sho blesses him, how him, Bonniest bird in the bright home band That o'er land and water the kind stork brought her From far-off Babyland. —— *To Make Children Lovely. There is just one way and that is to surround them by day and night with an atmosphere of love says the Woman’s News. Restraint and reproof may be mingled with the love, but love must be w constant element. *I found my little girl was growing uoamiable and plain,” suid a mother to us the other day, “‘and reflecting onitsadly, [ could ouly accuse myself of the cause thercof. So changed my management and improved my opportunity to praise and encourage her, to assure her of my unbounded aflection for her, and my earnest desire that she should grow up to lovely and harmonious womanhood. As a rose opens to sunshine, so the child heart opened in the warmth of the vonstant affection and caresses showered ufion her; her peevishugss passed away, her face grew beautiful, and now one look from me brings her to my side obedient tomy will and happiest when she'1s nearest me.” e The Selfish Passenger. New York Weekly: Conductor (crowded car)—Plenty o' room inside, Passenger (one of forty hangwng to straps)—Plenty of room, eh? here i it? Conductor (wratnfully)—Alongside of you, you seltish hunk o' humunity Want ter keep that serap all ter yer solf, don’t yer? 0 cares City, the Manitoba is about reachin thers from the north by moans A PALACE FOR THEIR DEAD. The Magnificent Mausoloum Now Being Built By the Floods. ported to contemplate an extonsion of its Nobraska line to that nlace to meet the Manitoba, and President Cable is rtod as saying that the Rock Island ill build to Siovx City to meet the ex- tension of the Central Pacitic, which is to be finished before the end 90, These are extromely important mov ments and indicate that radical changes in the transportation of transcoutinental very seriously affect not only the rail- ways centering at Chicago but several of the important localities in vhe west and northwest. The local Union Pacific officials believe these stutements to be quite correct. HUNTINGTON AND THE CHINESE. Collis Still Showing His Affection for the Celestial Brother—Hope the Bank Burglar—Ths Southern Pacific’s Plans. The Klood Mausoleum. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2, Tine BEE.]—A contract has been signed for the construction mausoleum in Laurel Hill cemetery for the IMloods, and work upon it will com- mence in a fow days and be prosccuted force of men fora thet it will be The mausoleum is to be finer than the beautiful ong lately comploted by James G. Fair and equal to that of the Crocker family. It will cost atleast It will be modeled Jay Gould mausoleum, but in beauty of it is stated, even surpass Its form is to be that of the poripte~ ral Tonic temple, and it will be con- structed entirely of California material and almost entirely of granite. only other material used will possibly be a little marble along the macgins for the receptacles for the dead. will be dispensed with if possible, and artistically worked granite substituted. The great tomb will be about thirty- two feet long and twenty feet wide, and height of twenty fe: There will be twenty-eight colums,e a perfect polished piece without joint and unmarred in any way. ill be 10 feet 8 inches in height with angle or volute caps on all sides. When completed the mausoleum will in the interior have the effect ofa great its granite sides,and even the floor, which will be of granite, wiil be as smooth as glass. interior will be of paneled and curiously carved granite. mausolenn, structed, will have receptacles for six persons, or for as many as constitute the Flood family. HUNTINGTON magnificont L Bl Toxas Siftings: the gold is coined, howove Now Orleans Picayun look on u door mat for **Welconie," his namo If a visitor must Rochestor Post Express: La Grippe ought year, when it is hoped to be popular in secret society l0dges 1f oy New Orloans Picayuno with tho progress of time, Every year brings some new wrinkle, Atchison Globo New 1deas come How we admire a man who hiappens to catoh us when we ure aoing a good doed on the sly structure will Boston Transeript: Eulogios pronounced in celobration of the virtues of the depurted may be characterized as foam on the funeral They toll me, doctor, that your consumptive patient thought a wroat deal of you—that he was grateful tothe last." “Yes ho declined with thanks," Boston Transcript: It is a little rough on They get the weakest minded, most ignorant men possible for the jury, and then speak of Lrying the ajury of his pee Jewelers' Weekly: oty blank, blank biauk i oor unfortunate by will reach to o 3 u row about it a h of promise case, “Ladies' back, . Now this 18 not an ex- island bill of faro, us might be supposed, but merely a lino from a in Jennoss-Milier'n You make as mu been a §10,000 br Terre Haute without bones, §1. cerpy from a canai advertisement New York Sun: McFingle that of the Balumoro man who stole tho money of the firm who employed bhin_and skipped with & woman," Stranga cpss McFangle—*Very i Such_things are hap- The dome in its | pening every day dear fellow, the woman was his wife!"' ‘forro Huute Expros “Learn his real let hum learn yor Mrs.May Trounte— cter, my dear. Don’t put on your best airs aud graces when ne is around, but simply be your own natural self.” Miss That's very protty us w theory, but i you had followed that plan, you would be an old maid today. Lawronce American: “What re you going to give for u Christmas present!" SI think I shall give him o o inwp for the parlor, athome—"0, I am going to such a pretty Smyrna rug the sitting room fire place ND THE CHINESE. Collis P. Huntington is still writing letters for the purpose of showing how ecteems the Mrs. Stayathome— your husband Mrs. Kawler— much more Chinese than he does Americans. would be perfectly willing, apparently, to see every American workingman driven to the 'poorhouse rather than offend the ruling powers of the Chinese must have some an ax to grind, for he certainly lived long enough in California to know the Chinese ns they are. and to appreciate ilit, as residents of this rvond organ at Sucra- mento assorts that he is always frank, even to bluntness, but it is the ussumed fraukness of Tartuffe, which is the per- fection of hypoeris: HOPE, THE BANK BURGLAR. James Hope, the bank burglar, is on his way to this city via Panama, having chosen that route to avoid arrest in any of the states on the way, knowing that he is wanted to serve out an unexpired term of imprisonment in the Delaware penitentiary and also on other charges. On arriving here the safo cracker will find that negotiations for the surrender of the bonds and securities stolen by him and his gang from the Manhattan savings bauk of New York in 1878 have been resumed, after have been abruptly broken off years ago. securities have all been canceled and reissued, thove is still a bare chance wve my husband put in front of How Tory Aristocra, The conception of the Primrosc league was u veritable stroke of genius, writes slectioneers. sociation consists of ' the former playing a subordinate part to the latter. In most every town or district through- out the kingdom there isa “*habitu- tion,” as it is called, of the league, and its headquarters ave in London, “grand council” consists of duchesses, countesses and such season they give receptions to which their undesir: During the provincial habitation areinvited, These ruling councilors are more or less great locality. and each invites the ladies in their own one on her raturn leaguers of her Thus each me: herself recogn wber of the league finds d by some one whi she regards as her social superior. The shopkeeper’s wife is brought into social contact with the wife of the owner of a villa, the wife of the owner of a with the squire’s wife. the squire’s wife with the wifg of the local mugnates, und the wife of the local magnate with the of fashion in Londo to cupture electors, the Although these persons and a means of defrauding them. negotiations for the return of the® bonds commenced are invited; and the dames, like the apostles of old, go into the high- ways and the by womeu to their feasts. tainments, refre at far below their real of the aristocra He was told that $100,000 would be given by the bank people for the return of the At first ho steadfastly refused to entertain any proposition of the kind, ying that 1t was merely a trap to get him into further trouble. proposed ‘that if would be brought to beur to secure a pardon for his son, John Hopo, who was then and is now serving a sentence in a New York prison, and to secure himself and son from any further trouble with the authoriiies on old scores, he would agrege to hand over the papers, reason or another, however, the plan was not accepted, and Hope again grew overtures of the bank ple and would not treat with them. Now. however, unother effort. is about to be made, and this time it may Democratic politicians are supposed te be interested the attempted restoration plunder, and it is said that they to profit exceedingly by the transac- At these cnter- shments are provided cost, the youths .y sing comic songs, and the daughters dance and play on the 7 Self-respecting rica may wonder at the effect of all : to understand it they Eugland suft- long to have realized grained snobbery of so many men aud English women, this tomfooler — Bov Burdette's When I think of- the towel, the old- fashioned towel, that used to haug u by the printing house door, I thin these days of shoddy can hammer out iron to wear asit wore. The wamp who abused it, tho devil who used it, the 2omp who got it whken these two were gone, the make-up und foreman, the rubbed some grim off while they put a and undev, twas blacker than thunder,'twas harder than poverty, rougher than sin; from the roller suspended, it never was bended, and it flapped on the wall like a bawner It grew thicker and rougher and harder-and tougher, and duily put on a more 1nkier hue, until one windy morning, without any warning, it fell to the foorand was broken in two. susnicious of the that nobody fn FIRST PACIFIC WARDOG. For the firet time in history the stars and stripes fluttey from the mast of a United States modere man-of-war, and rigged on the Pacific coast, Charleston has gone into commission, thus taking her place on the roster as one of Uncle Sam’s wardogs. lieved that the Charleston will soon be ordered to the Chinese station, and will become the flagship of the squadron heap on, «In, INSURANCE. Time Trie and Firo Tosted Januar PHE INSUURANCE COMPANY Hartford - - Conn. Financial $t-temen’, DEATH OF F. Fathet Bouchard rounded by several of his sorrowing brothers of the Society of Jesus, the riest expired in his room at St. By his death the TER BOUCHARD, Ignatius college, Catholic church loses one of ils representatives in the United States, the famous society of which he was o member one of its most learned und respected members, and the Cath- olic laity of the city a elergyman whom they loved and venerated. thirty years he was known as an able uent missionary of the Cutholic v the states and territories of the west, and the announcement of his death will bring sorrow to thousunds who had listened to his earnest words in the cuuse of the Redeemer, A LAND MARK GON The old St. Ignatius church has gone up in smoke, and all that now rewmains of the well known land mark ave its fire burned walls and afew charred rafters, which mark where once rose its cross decorated roof. used as a storehouse and auction room by A. N. Levy & Co.aud others, and where once stood the altar second hand goods were piled muny feet high. SOUTHERN PACIFIC EXTENSION. The Southern Pagific has lon templated an extension to the Missouri riyer in order to open independent con- néction with the east, and vhe lige from Ogden to Sioux City is considerably shortep than any other;.and at the lat- ter point it will soon have full as mavy d important connections as the Union Pacific new has at Omaha, ral and Chicago & North- western systems ave already at Sioux T1st Smi-Avnual Cash Capital . Outstanding L Reinsurance Reserve . Net Surplus.......... As compared with last yoa Iucreaso in & 1sets Increase in net surplu; Westen and Soulhern Dep't 5. W. Cor. Race and George Sts. CINCINNATI, O. - Genoral Ag't. st Gen'l Ag't. RESIDENT AGENTS. OMAHA, NEBKASKA. . HOWELL, 217 South 14th Sweet. N DALE, R. 612, N, Y. Life Bla'g.: COUNCIL BLUFFS, [OWA. ODELL BROS, & CO., 103 Pearl Street. 180 Main Streete The church was L M. MAGILL, THOS. F. SPEAR, N. 8. COOPER,