Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 9, 1890, Page 23

L MCRNINGREMOVES THE MAS ‘When You Can See a Woman as Bhe Is. FAIR PLAYERS OF POKER Gambling Amonz Women Said to Be {on the Increase—Mrs. Clarkson's Boauty—Mra, Trocy's Unob- trusive Charity. As Morning Finds Them. ‘““Never sce a woman whom you ad mire in the morning,” says one who claims to understand the sex. But there is, in reality, no better time for a character synopsis of woman tban during the early hours of the day. Those who are dull, lifeless and4nert when deprived of artificial stimulus, lack mental as well as physical strength, . #ays a writer in Mrs. Jenness Miller’s Mugazine., Most women have sugges- tions of comeliness and attractiveness amid the deceptions of evening dress and in the seductions of softened light. Excitement lends lustre to the eye and animation to the figure, but if morning finds these same women languid in man- ner and indolent in action, dawdlers of time, they are deficient in those ele- ments which make woman more than a a fleeting **phantom of delight.” It is in the morning that the physical §s most truthful in expression, and that mental characteristics most strongly as- gert themselves, She who rises with a gigh finds fault with her breakfast, spends half the morning in idle perusal of the daily paper, comvlains of being chilly, hunts after Zola’s last novel, or consumes two hours in an indolent ef- fort to write a letter, need complete re- generation before she can mean much to herself or to the world. The women who are always busy, always full of projects for work of some form, are the happy and healthy ones. Idleness is the prolilic cause of wretchedness in every form. Mental activity and bodily energy are the sources of life’s truest pleasures. Mra. J. 8. Clarkson. Mrs. J. 8. Clarkson, wife of the first agsistant postmaster general,is regarded as one of the handsomest ladies of the administration. Sheis tall and very grnuolul. Her eyes are dark and her fown hair waves prettily over her intellectual forehead. She is quite a contrast to her fair- haired husband; writes a Washington correspondent of the New York Morn- ing Journal. He, however, isfine look- ing,and has the pleasant affable manner 80 usual with geatlemen of the editorial profession. At the last president’s reception a gentleman said to Mrs. Clarkson, who whs promenading in the east room on the arm of her husband: *‘Mrs, Clark- gon, I heard a compliment the other 2lay to your husband, but as it was from a gentleman, you will not be jealous. He suid he thought General Clarkson was the handsomest man in Washing- ton.” Mrs. Clarkson smiled, and looked as if she thought so too. The geuneral threw back his head and laughed heartily. Mrs. Clarkson is devoted to her hus- band and her two big boys. It 1s diffi- cult to realize that she is the mother of a grown-up son. He is in the postoffice depactment under his father. Murs. Clarkson is a very accomplished woman, a fine musician, a good amateur artist and speaks French fluently. When she converses in her pleasing, vivacious manner her intellectual face lights up beautifully, and one looks at her with admiration. She has a charming home which it is delightful to visit. Among her young guosts this winter were the daughters of General Alger of Michigan. Mra. Clarkson has & wonderful memory for faces and names. It is said that she re- _~members every one. kair Foker layers. Sermons -are preached, lectures are . delivered, and long diatribes are writ- ten on “‘Is Gambling on the Increase Among Women?” From personal ob- gervation I am strongly tempted to say it is, suys a New York letter to the Philadelphia Pross. Nothing would convince me that women ot any standing whatever are in the habit of going into gambling houses or that the “little game” takes place anywhere except in my lady’s morning room, where great, tall palm trees abound, where the bric-a-brac_is from India’s coral strand or Egypt's sandy waste, where the chairs are most luxur- ious and where the cloth is spread over a table that has enameled upon it nymphs copied from some painting from Boucher. You drop in after dinner and your hostess asks you, “Do you play ]mk 7 and you aré more than human f you say you don’t. Then the pretty chips ave brought out—usually they are decorated with a little horseshoe to *bring good luck—and madame’s golden bonbonnicre is the token by which a jack pot is known. An_enameled tray, over which some misguided but artistic Jupanese worked for many days and skilfully executed flowers taller than his houses, and storks with one leg de- flantly in the air, holds the kitty, or consolution prize, which has been the salvation of many fair gamblers. Occa- sionally the kntty is kept by the hostess for a special purpose—her fayorite char- ity—but oftener, so keen is the desire to win, it is offered as the hope of the losers. The cards? Well, it’s the smart thing 0 have cards with & monogram on the backs of the various clubs for which they are made, and one gay young woman boasts that her collection of cards represent every club in the United States, excepting, asshe fun- nily remarks, *‘the Brimstone and Treacle club,” which the wise ones know to be the name given to the Cal- umet. These cards are frequently got ), from the clubs themselves, as they be- come the perquisite of the servauts after they have been played with once, and tho attendants sell them for some- thing like 20 cents a pack. Much of- tener, however, they come straight from the manufacturer, aud nobody Kknows just how that is managed. Usu- ally only penny ante, with a 10-cent limit, is played, but one' can come out #7 or #10 ahead at this small game, and when women ure alone they play much higher. That delicious demon, Chance, has a wondrous attraction for anything fominine, and the fact that society does not frown on ‘‘the little game,” so called, tends to 1ncrease its popularity. Have Women Dererioratea? Have women actually deteriorated physically and unfitted themselves for maternal duties by the lives which they now lead? writes the Countess of Jorsoy io the Nineteenth Century, And it is quite just to assume that, as is very commonly taken for granted, when a woman attempts anything which is more ordinarily done by men she there- fore desires to emulate or rival man? Is it not conceivable that she may some- times like the work or sport for it sown THE sake, without any thought of competi- tion with the other sex? Imitation is doubtiess the sincerest form of flattery, but all women are not always thinkine of flattering men. Nor do men seem ever to have appreciated this special kind of adulation. Philander sang so long ago as 1502: “'Since to handle the reins, Hunt and shoot, you take pains, And act, my dear girl, 80 uncommon 1 can’t love you, I swear, For your words, look, and air, Make me think yousa man—not & woman.” Despite this threat, we find a curious instance of Amazonian behavior two years later. On August 25, 1804, at the York race ground, Mrs, Thornton, the wife of Colonel Thornton of Thorn- “ville Royal, rode a match of four miles against Mr. Flint for 500 guineas eack. It was estimated that 100,000 spectators were present wheu Colonel Thorn- ton led his wife's horse on to the ground about 4 o’clock 1n the afternoon. The lady took the lead in good style for about three miles, but her horse was seen to have much the shorter stride of the two, ana within a mile of home Mr. Flint pughed forward, went ahead, and won easily, The race wus won in 9:69. Mrs. Thronton showed herself a very woman after all, for instead of accept- ing her defeat she addressed an indig- nant letter to the New York Herald, complaining of the want of courtesy with which she was treated by her an- tagonist, and particularly that when her horse broke down Mr Ilint ‘‘dis- tanced her as much as he could.” In conclusion she challenges her opponent to repeat the match the following year. Until the present time (comments a writer in the Morning Chronicle) the fair sex have made but small efforts— except in the way of dress---to assume the tikeness of ours. The furthest they have yet gone is to beat the tambour in- stead of working on it, or at most to haloo and sweat after the hounds, or drive their beaux four-in-hand through the strects. Now, what is that to the labors of Newmarket? Mrs. Tracy's Charity. The sad death of Mrs. Secretary Tracy and the unselfishness of her last hour call to mind an incident which came to my knowledge two years ago through a woman whom she aided, says the New York Kpoch. Mrs. Tracy was known to be most concientiously chari- table, but few understand how thoroughly she concealed from her lefo hand that which her right hand did, and it pained her tohear some one com- menting on the lack of real charity dis- played by the rich—their deeds of charity costing them nothing, inasmuch as no personal sacrifice was involved. The words clung to Mrs. Tracy’s mind, and she decided that her nextact of charity would cost her some trouble. The woman to whom I have above referred was one of Mrs. Tracy’s humblest pen- sioners, and at this time she was greatly in need of careful nursing, for her dis- ense was cancer and of a most painful character. Day after day Mrs. Tracy went on foot to the poor creuture’s home, cared for her in every way, swept and cleaned her room, and saw that she was comfortable, returning to her home with some trifleing excuse to ac- count for her absence. Her protege would never have known the cause of so much unselfish kindess had sbe not one day remonstrated with her for what seemed needless waste of time and labor. To relieve her mind Mrs. Tracy told her that it was her only way of really paying her debt to God. Mrs. T last act of self-sacrificing kindness her husband, when in the midst of smoke and flames, attests the sincerity of those words. The Americin Woman. Bab: The American woman does lack the repose of her English sister, but in place of it she is rich in viriues unknown: to the British matron. She is generous and gonsiderate. She is not a bit afraid to say what she likes or what she dislikes. She knows, wherever she may be or in whatever position she may be placed, that at one word from her the Amer- ican man is by her side roady to pro- tect her. She believes this is the greatest coun- try in the world because its women are good-looking and the men adore them. She is not used to waiting on herself, for ever since she can remember some- thing that wore trousers attended to all her wants. She is quick to see and good at re- membering, and doesn’t disdain a bt of advice. ® In whatever strange land she has gone she has been a success, and today, if an American girl were asked to be czarina of Russia, she would not be a bit surprised and she would combine merey with justice in her rule. The Amsrican woman is the product of the finest plant known in the civil- ized world. She is the flower of inde- pendence, and no matter what flag may wave over her, no matter whevher the ekies are bluo or gray, she always has a smile for the happy, & cheery word for whoever may be in sorrow,and for your boy and mine we will take for a wife—the American girl. She Stares Him Out of It. Here is a shopping incident. ‘' What sort of a womun 18 she? Well, I'll tell vou. She1sthe kind of a woman that always gets a seat in aswreet car.” I heard a woman say thatin describing another, says a writer in the Chicago Tribune. When pressed foran answer she went on to say: “Why, don’t yon know that the woman who goes into a car, selects some man and coolly and de- literately stares at him for afew sec- onds, always gets a seat? You see her vietim can’t stand it. F he gets nervous and tries to look unconcerned and preoccupied. Then he fldgets and shuflles about, Finally he weakens and with a faint ‘Take my seat,madam,’ abdicates in her favor. [ would not do such a thing.” The Latest Petticoat. The latest petticoat is straight from Paris aud is untrimmed. It is simply a well-shaped skirt that looks as if it were made of leopard skin, but it is in reality a broeaded silk representing the skin of the wild beast. It is pleasantly warm to wear, and has a barbaric look de- lightful to the smart girl who likes to imagine that she can have a sweet- heart brave enough to go out and kill wild animals the skins of which she may use to keep her pretty self warm- Women today are just as fond of think. ing that men are brave and capable of manly sports as they used to be sure of it before the dude, the monocle and the absinthe cocktuil were in vogue, Sick. Father Damien’s example is begin- ning to bear fruit, says the Pall Mall Gazette, Elis successor is already busy among the Molokai lepers, and now, we are told, a heroie woman is going out. She is young, and she is the daughter of a Church of England clergyman who has gone over to the Church of Rome, and next Saturday she sails for the loveiy islands in the south- ern seas over the everlasting summer of which disease and death brood in their most repulsive form. The fact that a woman should volunteer to minister to the outcasts is but another example of that spirit of self-sacrifice which led a Florence Nightingale, a Sister Dora and a host of uameless ones to face grim death OMAHA DAILY BEE: UNDAY, among the wounded and those stricken with deadly disease. It is also the same spirit which led Joan of Are to victory and death, and which made the figure of one girl who drank a oup of hot human blood to save her father’s life stand gloriously out from the confused horrors of that St. Bartholomew's night. Mra, Uleveland's Beauty. Mrs. Cleveland combines an English size and perfection of development and condition with what we can really claim asa purely American delicacy, says a New York letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer. It 18 very curious how you never hear her spoken of as a big woman, She is. One of her personal friends said to me that it was because she had child-iike manners. Her head and face are small, which may be an- other reason, though it does not show in her pictures. I wish she'd give us some new pictures, I am sure she would take a much prettier one now than those rather raw, uninteresting ones she was so fond of sitting for when she was first married; but she seems to have taken out all her tendency in that way in that first burst. She is not one of the women, of whom we have so many, who spend a fourth of their time at the photographer’s. General Banks' Gifted Daughter. Maud Banks, the gifted daughter of General Banks, is a girl of most dis- tinguished and straking presence, says the Epoch. She is about twenty-six enrs of age, but looks younger. Hor hair and eyes are beautiful. The for- wer a soft dark brown, the oyes a liquid hazel with the full brow which denotes an artistic temperament. Her smile is charming and the expression of hor face is in harmony with her verfectly moaulated voice. If Miss Banks re- turns to the stage she will unquestion- ably score a triumph. During her residence abroad she studied various languages and at one time in Paris was the only lady at an embassy reception who could speak modern Greek with some diplomats present. A Belle ot the Four Hundred. I saw one of the famous beauties the other day, Miss Sallie Hargous, says a New York letter to the Chicago Herald. She isoneof the bellesof the Four Hundred. No ball or assembly is com- plete without her. She has an income of $12,000, is accomplished and charm- ing. She isof the Spanish type, with 1ustrous eyes and marvellous coloring. She lives with a married sister, and her brother Robert is devoted to her. The ball which he gave on her coming out is yet talked of. On the street she dresses plainly, as all the swell New York girls do. She wore a brown cloth gown and sable cape and carried a muff to match. Her evening gowns are always tasteful and fresh, and her com- plexion is so faultless that she can wear almost any color. / SR SARAH BERNHARDT. Three lllustrations of That Noted Artist in n Picturesque FPose. The photographic interview is a wel- come innovation in modern society, but that it will become popular must largely depend upon the personal attractions— or good nature—of the subject inter- viewed, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press. A series of photographic interyiews with General Boulanger have been pub- lisned in Figaro. Our friend applied the same process to Sarah Bernhardt, with remarkable results. ‘‘Madame,” said he to the eminent tragodienne. “‘permit me first to assure you of my profound admiration and thea to ask if it be true that you are soon to play “The Joan of Avc’of M. Barber?” +T will,” she replied. It seems the author has added some lines, hitherto unpublished, expressly for you.” “You have been correctly informed.” “Will you be so kind as to repeal them?” Sarah Bernhardt then stood erect (quick camera, pianissimo): Then in her silverv voice she recited the stanzas which, I believe, will make a decided hit. “I have still something to ask you,” he said, “'the names of the actors who are going to perform with you?” “Can you keep a secret?” she replied. “Like the grave.” Then bending toward me and lower- ing her voice, she said (slow camera, staccato, vox humana stop): “We do not know yet.” “Can I publish this?” “Certainly.” 1 found that I had pot been mistaken. I took my hat, but before leaving thought it proper to add: *Believe me, madame, that I shall carry away en ineffaceable remem- brance of this visit.” She bowed politely (lively camera, full tremolo, dulcimer effects): R A Forgotten Heroine, Only a fow years ugo the country rang with the pruise of Miss Kate Shelly, of Monigona, Ia., who crossed a swollen stream 1n the dark, at great risk to hersclf and in the midst of a howling storm, to save a passenger train, for a bridge had been swept away by a torrent, says the Brooklyn Standard Union. Poems were written on the episode, pictures appeared in the illustrated papers, and innumerable paragraphs - were written about the beroine. It issaid vhat she suved the railroad company $50,000 or more in property, to say nothing about what they might have been“called upon to pay for lives lost and passongers in- jured. Today Miss Shelloy is the sole supnort of a widowed wmother and three small childeen, and they are living in a heavily mortguged house, which is their only property. Three years ago she risked ner life for others, and her reward is chielly the consciousness of a brave and successful deed. The rail- road company gave her a small reward, less than the value of one of the cars which she save,and the passengers, whose lives were preserved by her act, have entirely forgotten her, GREAT AMERICAY BAYREUTH | Wagner's Grand Obperas at the Metropolitan Odera House. — FIRST NIGHT OF THE WALKUERE, The Last of Dr. ln-(tl:uld Damrosch— What Hon. Roscos Conkling Said About the Groat Ger- man Siffkers. Those Who Sang There. NEW YORK, March. 6.--[Special to THE Beg.]—Can therestill be theshadow of & doubt that the work of Wagner has at lagt conquered the new world as it has the old? Let him who entertains such a doubt become a habitue of the New York Met- ropolitan opera for two weeks only, and he will turn away, if not a hetter man concerning his own musical taste, at least a wiser one with regard to his judgment of that of the others. When ufter Abbey’s peerless wreck of the first Metropolitan ‘opera geason in Italian, Dr. Leopold Damrosoh, as wor- thy a man as he was a ster- ling musician, brought over in the fall of 1884, the first German opera company, he did it most decidedly and self-consciously by that sign of Richard Wagner’s, which for the last quarter of a century, everywhere in the musical world has been the synonym of “In hoo signo vinces?’ He opened the mnew season with a very fine Tannhwmuser night, to be fol- lowed soon by a nearly perfect per- formance of *‘Lohengrin,” especially remarkable by reason of Anton Schott’s “Lohengrin’ and Marianne Brandt’s unsurpassable ‘‘Ortrud.” And after this initiatory Wagner success neither the doctor’s ambition nor his effort could be disappointed. It's very first metropolitan battle of three months was crowned with a sig- nal victory,—although paid for too dearly, if we consider, as we must do, that he himself wuas the price, doomed to die three months later, after his first never to be forgotten represen- tation of the Walkuere, like the spar- tan fighter, who was carried home dead, but upon the shield! Yes, a theatrical performance and an art event at once, never to be forgotten by anyone, who helped to crowd the big house that night of February, 1885, was this first night of Wagner’s Walk- uere in America under the leadership of Dr. Leopold Damrgsch and with Ma- terna in the cast. Mdterna, the great original *“Bruenhilde¥ of Bayreuth! That night it hapfened that behind the scene a friend of Br. Damrosch ac- costed him, who, exhdnsted by having conducted the first mct of that divine “‘music-drama’ and tRen being called six times before the chrtain, justleaned against one of the witjgs to gasp a little for breuth and rest. *I congratulate yo friend to the somewlat broken-down- looking man. *“That ¥as grand. There it is now before you-tthe right way to an American Bayreuth!” The words sufficed fo make the doc- His begutiful doctor,” said the tor bound. magnetic eyes flashed, and waving his long gray mane. he grasped the speaker by both shoulders with the viggr ofayouth and exclaimed: **Who laid that word on your 11&;9? It just lingered on mine—only I did not dare to pronounce it! Yes, yes— you shall have your Bayreuth here— right here—in this house, . on this stage, and, do not torget it, with this hand as_that of the conductor!” And then Le rushed back to the or- chestra,which,a minute later,hurled the tremendous rythms of the ‘*Walkuere Leitmotiv,” opening the second act, like sounding flashes in the spell-bound audience. Since then New York has obtained what Dr. Damrosch promised that mght—obtained in this very house, on that very stage, But alas, the leader’s band which held the baton that same (Walkuere) night! held it only to drop it forever after the last act,in the midst of 1 complete uproar of applause and enthusiasm. The congratulating friend did not see the doctor for a week later. when under the lugubriousstrains of Wagner’s funeral march from the goetterdaem- merung they carried him in his cofiin upon the stage of the Metropolitan opera house to perform the sad obse- quies, during which all of those pres- ent wopt as if it were for “Siegfried” himself slain insiduously by grim “Hagen.” Puneumonia, the outcome of a cold, first contracted and then neglected during the overtaxing rehersals of the ‘Walkuere, had made short work with dear, noble Dr. Damrosch. But the foundation of his American Bayreuth was laid even then too deeply and strongly to be again endangered. The season alrendy drawing to 1ts end was finished under the leadershiw of young Walter Damrosch, the worthy son of so excellent a father, in a man- ner deserving and winning universal praise. And when immediately afterwards the stockholders had to de- cide whether they wanted the return of Italian opera, with its ‘‘Aminas” and *‘Lucias,” to their beautiful house or preferred to keep up German opera, with its “Lohengrins” and ‘‘Bruen- hildes,” they did not hesitate a moment to declare themselves most emphaticall for Wagner's demigods and heros, wit a proportionate -sprinkling of the beautiful human figures of Beethoven, Mozart, Weber and Méyerbeer. —hat More than that! The Wagner work in the Metropolitan opera house was put on a still broaderand surer basis by the appointment of Anton Seidl, one of the most_proficiont dellowers and im- mediate Bayreuth nssistants of the dead meister, as Dr. Damrosch’s successor, with young Walter as.second conduc- tor. Since then every new season has been marked by the produgtion of one or more of the great creations of Wagner till today all of them, with the excep tion of “Parsifal” only, form the mos valuable and reliabie,portion of the whole Metropolitan rppertoire, like thatof the great Genman opera houses of Vienna, Berlin,;; Dresden and Munich, “Tannhxuser,” ‘“‘Lohengrin” and the **Walkuere” of the first season were followed in those of 1885 to 1886 by the **Meistersinger; these in he following Tristan” and “‘Rienzi.” In Siegfried” wus added; then, a 3 ago, with “Rheingold” and “Goetterdiemerung,” the whole **Ni- belungen Ring” took possession of our American Dayreuth, as it had done with the German Bay- reuth twelve years ago; and after adding last fall still the somewhat for- gotten “Fliegende Hollaender,” or *Phe Fiying Dutchman,” as it will sound more fawilisr to the American eur, the Metropolitan management is enabled to close this season with the announcement of & grand gala series of all of Wagner’s operas in the historical MARMH 9, 1890.~TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. succestion of their origin, be hlnlu% with the quite non-Wagnerian “%hnzl and ending the last night of the season with that grandest of all sung tragedies, the “Gatterdmmmerung.” This is the Wagner work in the Mot- rnrohtnn opera house. This is the re- sult of a musical education begun in the concert room by Theodore Thomas and Dr. Leopold Damrosch, and then trans- planted by the latter one and contin- ued by his son and by Anton Seidl on the Metropolitan stage during the last six wintors, To be sure this marvellous success has not been sttained without hard strife, and not against manifold opposition. There were always and are still the “Italianissmi” among the goas of the boxes, who are ready to prefer any moment a singing and jingling Ital- ian “Twilight of the Gods” to all the sounding grandeur of the German ‘“‘Goetterdaemmerung,” and who being aware that a return to the real Italian opera has become an im- possibility, even for their stockholder purse, asked at Jeast as much of it as could be furnished them by German singers. As this, with such artists as Liehmann, Schraeder Haufstwngel, the great baritone, Reichmann, and the genuine Italian tenor Perotti, was quite a good deal, they got Italian opera, especially Verdi, i a truly splendid style, but only with that half popular success, which competled the manage- ment to fall back on Wagner againand the paying houses they were sure to drawn with his operas. And money tells with the millionaire stockholders of the Metropolitian opera house, not that they expect to make much money even with Wagner, but they can at least rely on losing with him the least of it. But then, what a superb array of artists are there now enrolled in the gervice of the great Meister of Bayreuth, under the management of Edmunpd C. Stanton, who became after Dr. Damrosch’sdeath the practical man- ager of the Metropolitan opera house, and under the musical leadership of Anton Seidl and Walter Damrosch! Not only had Materna been heard here in the greatest of her Bayreuth creations, but Marianne Brandt, the prototypical Ortrud and one of the original Kundries in the first series of the performances of ‘‘Parsifal” has adorned during three years their in- comparable ensemble of German sing- ers. Then there is, greatest of them all, Litti Lehmann, who rose from the position of one of the finest representa- tives of Italian belcanto and bravoura singing on the opera stage of the fatherland to that exalted place she holds now as & dramatic prima donna, a singing tragedienne of a power not witnessed anywhere since the demise of Tietjens. Of the men who have given on that same stage life, blood and sound to the heroes of the Meister it is enough to mention the names of Anton Schott, Albert Niemann, and in_this season Heinrich Vogel from Munich—the three tenors—acknowledged in Ger- many as the standard bearers of Wag- nerian art and the personal followership of their dead Meister. ‘With them shouider to shoulder stood and stand such other singers as Fischer from Dresdon, the ideal “Hans Sachs” and, but lately arvived, but not apt to be too late, Reichmann, the Viennabari- tone. equally admired as the possessor of one of the grandest voices in exis- ence as an actor of surpassing power. How they sing? Well come and hear them! He, who has never heard a Wagner- 1an opera executed by singers of such physical power and mental earnestness throwing themselves entirely into and sacrificing themselves for their work in every note, stride and gesture, may be sure that here is not only a perfect sur- prise but also a perfect revelation in store for him. It was in one of the glorious per- formances of Rienzi, in the win- ter of 1887 that ex-Senator Roscoe Conkling, who had then commenced to be a patron of Ger- man opera, met one of his German ac- quaintances in the lobby. The curtain had just fallen on that tremendous ter- zetta sung by Lehmann, Brandt and Schott, . which accompanied by all the brass of young Wagner’s still quite grand orchestra, never failed 10 make the house rise to a perfectly wild exhibition of exulting applause, as it did the ex-senator. Still deafened and quite bpewiidered, Mr. Conkling who seemed himself to have fallen from scylla to charybdis, exclaimed: HNow [ understand how you Germans took France in 1870! 1t was.the same irresistible self-forgetting storming on, with which your singers have just made this house tremble.” The great senator, never again to be a pfitron of the German opera, was right. Lfb is well worth while to goto the Metropolitan opera to hear not only how German singers sing Wagner and take American audiences by storm, but also to get an adequate idea of how the German soldiers took France in 1870. BABIES USED FOR BAIT. How English Hunters Capture Croco- diles in Ceylon, If mothers in general showed the nerve exhibited by mothers in Ceylon, trouble would be spared in many a household. ‘*‘Bubies wanted for croco- dile bait. 'Will be returned alive,” says the New Zealand Tablet. If news- papers abounded in Ceylon as much as crocodiles do, says the Ceylon Catholic Messenger, advertisements worded like the foregoing would be common in their want columns. As it is, the English crocodile-hunter has to secure has baby by personal solic- itation. He is often successful, for Cey- lon parents, as a rule, have unbounded cnni‘ldence in the hunters and will rent their babies out to be used as crocodile bait for a small considerasion, Ceylon crocodile suffer greatly from ennuij they prefer to lie quite still, soothed by the sun’s glittering rays, and while away their lazy lives in meditation. But when a dark-brown infant, with curling toes, sits on a bank and blinks at them, they throw off their cloak of laziness ard make their preparations for a delicate morsel of Ceylonese humanity. ‘When the crocodile gets about half- way up the bank, the hunter, concealed behind some reeds, opens fire, und the hungry crocodile has his appetite and life taken away at the same time, the baby being breught home safely to its loving mamma. The sportsman secures the skin and head of the crocodile and the rest of the carcass vhe natives make use of, Chattle Mortgags on a Boy. Among the transfers filed in the rec- ord oftice yesterday wus one of Agnes Hoitz transferring to George Wagner all her interest in her son Paul during his minority for a nominal considera- tion, the party of the second part agree- ing to feed and olothe and give the boy a good common school education, suys the Washington Star. There was some discussion as to the question under what head the paper should be filed, some claiming that it was a lease, but it was finally concluded that as the boy was movable property the chattel mort- gage head was the proper one. - Dr.Birney,practice limited to catarrb- al diseases of nose and throat, Bee bldg. LEATHER I 8o RuBALR N\ The ONLY Lawn or Garden Hose MADE which will stand 400 POUNDS PRESSURE. BUY the BEST, It wil LAST the LONGEST A hose which will do good work in most cities, Will not glve satistaction in Omaha, on account of the extreme high pressure. While dealers complain of other hose being returned In large quantities hecause It is not strong enough to stand the pressure, HBRAND" {s guuranteed to stand the highest pressure, Yor Sale 1y all doilers, or OMAHA RUBBER CO., 1008 Farnam-st., Omaha, Neb. Wholesale or Retail. IMMENSE SALES 0f Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Solid Silver and Quadruple Plated Ware. Jewelry, Optical Goods, Cutlery, Umbrelias, Etc, Are being made by us, while most dealers compliain that their “trade 1s dull.” The public appreciate GENUINE BARGAINS, as evidenced by the iiberal patronage we are receiving. BUT WHY not? We save you From 25 to 50 per cent, cven on the mo taple goods, and A DOLLAR SAVED IS TWO DOLLARS MADE. We must got out of the Retall Jewelry Bu s8, a8 our Large and Increasing Wholcsale Trade demands it. Notice our § large show windows from day to day, and sec what we a1e oifering. SPECIAL ATTENTION iscalled to the following: 100 Fine Steel Cnrving Seots of 3 pieces, only $2; worth Sets of 6 Picks and Crack, in cnse, only $1 e¢ach worth 83. gant Piano Lamps, $12.50, worth $25. GREAT REDUCTION IN PIANOS AND ORGANS FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS., Open Saturday Even ng until 9 o’'clock. MAX MEYER & BRO., (or. Sixtesnth and Farnam Sts. N. B. STORE FOR RENT; FIXTURES FOR SALE. $5 SET OF TEETH ON RUBBER For Five Dollars. DR.R. W.BAILEY, Dentist, Paxton Block, 16th and Farnam Streets. : We A.re Here to Stay and having within the past two months largely increased our office room, are now hketter prepared to turn outthe bestclass of work, and much more rapidly than heretofore. We make a full set ofteeth on rubber for FIVE DOLLARS, guaranteed to be as wel made as plates sent out of any dental office in this country. Do not let othclatr:s influence you not to come, but make us a call and see for ourself. Y Teoth extracted WITHOUT PAIN, and without using chloroform gas, ether or electricity. Filling atlowest rates. Remember the lo- cation. DR. BAILEY, Dentist, Paxton Block. Open evenings until 8 o'clock _Te.s.6 elevator on 16th street. 16th and Farnam. Cut this out. Mention this paper BUILDERS' FINE BRONZE GOODS Of Every Design and Finish. 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