Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1890, Page 13

| 3 - - | | | ] e |4 ] '7..-..;- R . [OVELY WOMAY AND PROCRESS & Writr Discusses the Subject from a Prac- tical Standpoint, WILL THE MILLENNIUM COME' WHEN Quaint Observations of a Sage on the Joys of Matrimony—Bitliards for the Fair Sex—A Pretty Fad. The age that creates Wyomings and de- thrones Bismarcks may be sald to exhaust the resourees of surprise ; and yet who is w! enough to foroeast the result of its chan or e te with any precision what will cone next! writes J. W, Higginson in Har- 1r's Bazar, A few years ago there appeared #nuble paper in the Atlantic Monthly dis- missing the woman sufirage movement as womcthing not merely unreasonable but pow- erless; itmade absolutely no progress, and i 1o one took itseriously. Yet the au- thor of that paper voted in congress the other duy toextend suffrage to women, without re- 1, OVer a cornmonwealth twiee as la ingland or as the state of N wbout equal, that is, to tho two t ther, The new stat er than all the New ther, with New Jerse Delevure combined;it is as large s Virginia and North Carolina united; it is larger than all Ttaly, and three times as largs as Ireland. Over its craof nearly a hundred thousand pjuare miles women will henceforth vote, as tiey have already voted, on an equality with n; and in view of & xesultso tremendous, one el hardly wonder if those who have been agitating for this reform during forty years should be aisposed to shut up thelr telescopes, like Wellington at Waterloo, with the calm remavk: “The field s wi Let the whole line advance” after all, can any one calculate just whiat results are to follow when the whole line shall advance? A quarter of a century ugo it seemed as if the one source of evil to ‘removed from this country was human as if, that abolished, we should step und into such a carcer of prosperity | virtue as the world never saw. ty-five years huve passed, itis only the widdle-aged “negroes in the ' former slave stirtes who ean recall the actual experionee of working in the fields under a taskmaster; but the world and the flesh and their copcom- itants are still with us, and, if wo- may trust the newspapers, the millennium 18 not yet within easy reach. Nobody doubts that something s secured, but how much? A great deal has been gained, no doubt, by omen to read, in spiteof the warm- lvian and chal against that Jangerous exyperiment ; but, when we cousider ihat some of the most ‘unpleasant, not to say mmorat books recently published in America e been the work of wonen, it is evident world of womankind has not yet ily teansformed by the possession 2 alphitbet. And so the forces which de- ize our public life are not those of m :uline nature ouly, but of human nature; and we plainly shail not outwit those forces cly bV putting in Lucretia Borgia as :nief justice and Becky Sharp as wninister of dnance, Shacabac on Love and Marriage, That the greatest of sages did not escape the lot which seems to be peculiar to most philosoplhers,that of being unhappily wedded, is evident notonly from the cynical tone of many of his writings, but also’ from the di- cectevidenceof his contemporaries, writes aimasa B, Sewall in the Boston Globo. Ben Harund relites that when le oy one oc- casion, urged the philosopher to obey the pre- ceptof the koran, which pormits every true beliover to take as many as four wives, Shac- abac replied : I have one and find it enongh for this world. The balance I will take in bouris.” Theone wife of Shacabac wus a woman of singular vigor and intelligence. Shonever wearied of reminding her spouse that the prophet was always humble and in- dustrious, that he kindled ‘the fire, swept the floor milked the ewes, mended his raiment, and was, above altthings, totally abstemious. “That,’” the wise man would answer, “is where we differ, the prophet—may his name be blest!-and 1. oreover his wife was wdijah, the ever faithful, who believed in him whep all the world rejocted him.” Then he turned to his tables aud wrote: ‘There is one man who knoweth less than all others on earth, 1t is ho who is the hus- band of his wire. While Allah preserveth herhis halo shall never grow too small for bis heud, Noman knoweth what true happiness is nutil he getteth married. Then, as usual, the kmowledge cometh too late. Twiceblessed is he in whose tent dwell both his mother and his wife's mother; for even thoughhe gain not Paradise, yet shall hie fear not Gehenna. 1t is better to have loved and lost than aever to have loved atall. If thou wouldst be hnpp{m in love, study fiist the bappiness of thy beloved. 1 know “etyesurer way to attain this end than by coucentrating thine affections on thyself aloue. 1l thy wifo sue for a divorce, conciliato tiery for thou mayest be able to hang her upou hier weekly allowance, but an alimony order thon eanstnot hope to evade. Politeness between husband and wife costethnothing. If it did, it would be even scareer than it is now. A bird on toast is worth two on a bonnet. Be not too presumptuous. If thou deemest thyself unworthy to tie thy wife's shoes, let tier do it herself, it is told by a follower of the great Caliph Omar that in onc of the books of the Alexan- drian library he read tho story of a very wise man who, being in love, d\-( ided —burt, unhappily, at this point the caliph's order to bura all the booxs in the library was re- ceived, so that the worla has lost forever the rtury of theonly wise man who was ever in ove. Nature always supplics eompensation. Ho of the lean pursohath always a large family. * There are two_ways of missing the joys of matrimony, Oue is by not getting married, the other by not being born, The prophet huth said there is a third,which is, by always overlooking the errors of thy partuer. - [ K0ow 1ot if this be true or not, but 1t recall: eth a parable. Therd were two brothers of Bassorah who Awelt under the same roof, both being mar- vied. They had the misfortune, about the sume time, to offond their wives most griev- ously. Amine, the wife of the clder, was so incensed that she never again spoke to her lord. Zobuide, the younger, not only forgaye her spouse, but made it uvoiul every day, in reminding him of his fault, to forgive him agin moslsnh"lml{ Yot waus the husband of Zobeide no bappier than that of Amine. n of Wyoming is Englind states Maryland and ut one’h nd exalt Billiards for Women There seems to be something fascinating to women in the delicacy of the game of billiards, the New York Morning Journal, The sharp click of the ivory balls exhilirates theiv intellect, and the bright colors of the table aid balls appeal to their sense of the actistic. “Mume. Patt,” said Slosson, the other day, “ha: often been quoted as playing an _excel- leut game of billiards, This is a mistake., I Visited nerat her castle in - Wales, and the Pupess said my object wus to teach the diva the game of " billiards, but it was a foolish story. I went solely’ in the cupacity ofa Klest, 1 played a fow times there,” he went on, “but Patti nover played billinrds herself, She does, lowever, play English pool ocea- sionally, and is as graceful and charming in this occtipation as in everything else she does, English pool difr from our game, you Xnow, considerably Mr, Slosson has taught several ladies to lay billiards, and in each cunhhgll‘xplla ave proved apt and quick to learn. ‘heir touch is more delicato than the nve'mm man's, but they secmn to lack the far-sightedness nec- essary to obtain and hold the balls in posi- lon. There is oue, the eldest daughter of a cer- tain banker vesiding on Madison avenue, to whom the billiardist devotes two hours a week, and of whom he has made an excellent player. The banker plays very well himself und itis the daughter's delight o give her father ton in fifty and beat him, Mus. George L. Atherton of Madison ave- nue sud Seventy-third street is another ac- complished player, who hus been a devotec of the game for some years. She ys the Freuch game eutively, and arun of twenty- \ve caroms is nothing extraordinary for her. l.ndltv-qhnn“lamm & woman ao- quire the correct position for making » stroke," sald Slosson, “They all want to lesn far over the table, almost lie down on it, in fact, instead of standing erectly, with the arm well back for the stroke,” Miss Gertrude Masson of 34 Waverdy place is another expert young woman with the cue, and ean discount her younger brotheg with case. Sheis now devoting her attention to cushion caroms and is becoming quite adept in that difficult game, There is another dainty, faig-haired givl, who lives in North Washington squa, and she can often be scen playing with her big collie dog on one of the benches of that lovely park. She is Miss Elolse Van Wister, I!)llld probably the cleverest ‘“billiardiste’’ in the city. She is only twenty-five years old, and scorns society in order t practice her favor- ite_amusemént, Miss Van Wister is an orphan, and her first act upon attaining for- tune and majority was to order a large billiard table of the most expensive pattern. She became inordinately fond of thegame and practiced constantly, until, at tho pres- cut time, she can roll up caroms or dificult masses in 4 manner that would make many a gilded youth blush with shame, ‘‘Billiards,” continned Slosson, “is a great game, especially for women. It develops the figure and lends additional grace toan al- ready graceful woman, = It tescnes clear- headedness and foresicht, too, and gives a certain amount of independence of action that no other sport can produce,’’ A Pretty An extremely pretty lant at the philliar in winter and i A summer concert. of any merit, has of late carried a fan that attracts a good deal of attention, says the Illustrated Amer- jean. 1t is ono of those Japanese affairs, with the papera rough greenish gray decorated in black characters, On each patiel the owner has transforred a cabinet-sized photograph of one of the g 18, First remov- ing the picture ard on wnich it was originally mounted, she v pasted it on the fan. Engravings have ser when photos were unobtainable, and, using both sides of the fau, she has found space for four- teen portraits, Some deft pen-and-ink work has answered to frame the heads, and below eachone is a bar of music from the author's greatest work, and exceuted with so muce finish that a genuine little treasure is the sult. Thesame young woman i3 almost as much of an enthusiast regarding painters, poets and actors as where the artof musi concerned. She tells of three other fans in her possession, treated in like manuer. One has photographs of Toinyson, Browning, Longfellw and Briant, with etchings of Byvon, Shakespeare, Herrick, eSir John Suckling, De Musset, Dante and_Swinburne-a thorough mix of nationalitics and generations. Below is the single couplet, for cach one, that she con- sidered, after much thought, to be the most perfect of their compositions, This eollection has been a source of interest to its own not.cost one cent’s outliy in money, but eral years of painstaking effort from t to time, that renders each fan of distinet value. Fad, Prety rl, who is & faithful The Care of the Hands. there {s one thing that makes i from houscwork nore than the effect it has on the hands, especially in eold weather, Health, It isar al tosit planoand spread a stained, rongh hand on the ivory keys; or to pen in an unsightly Land to answe o3 or to pick up a bit of embroidery, if itis. ouly that on perforated hose, and use the needle when hing that touches the hauds _sti them because of their rouglness, Sou woolen orsilkis at such tines a severe pen- ance, Thero are methods of preseriing the hands ineasurbly against the destru eflect of dishwasling scrubbing and the like. Th should be kept as much outof the water possible, and should be Borax wateris good for was Coarsely ground oatmeal isa fai forsoapin washing toe hands, scented soaps are the scented soaps are wsually made of 1 fats, A solution of oxalic acid will remove fruit stains from the hands, but it must not touch the abraded surfi After w ing and daying the hands thoroughly, glycerine and spirits of camphor in egual parts mixed t her is good to rub over them. Cocosnut oilis a pleasant application. Wearing kid gloves two sizes too large is helpfulin pre- serving the hands, One should Lu\‘l' an old Fulr of gloves totake up ashes in, to sweep n and to wear inall dirty work that permits the wearing of gloves, If gloves are dipped in not very hot linseed oil they hecom proof, and may be worn while dishe A pair of ton flan mitteus is pleasant to wear when hanging out the clothes on @ cold moming, Frequent vigor- ourrubbingof the hands will promote civeu- lation and keep the skin in good condition. To take the best care of the mails, soak the ends of the fingers in hot water for some time, until the skin is softened, then dry, and with a pair of nail scissors thin off all the dead skin about the nailsund trim tne nails neatly. the b substitute White un- best, as the highly Women Poisoners. Modern historians distrustthe stories of the Roman poisoner Locusta, and of tne wo- men who in Italy sold aqua tofuna as thebest meaus of satisfying jealousy or hate or greed, but the Hungarian trivunals are trying o case ch malics all these legends possible, says the Spectator. No less than ten woruen in the town of Mitiovitzare charged with poi- soning their husbands with arsenic obtiined from fly papers, and theyare onlya section of the women originally arrested or suspect- ed. They wereall apparently taught by a single woman., Esther Sarac, i loeal witch or who deliberately ’ instructed one disciple and probably many more. The poi- i sixty in umber,was done with © ol more suspicion’ has been floating about dence against the women under to be overwhelming, und most of ther saved trouble by pléading guilty. They are all peasants and probably ofa low onler of intelligence; but the, revelations throw a o light on the trie value of much mod- e *progress.” In Hung Il events,it does net provent epide >, thou gh no doubt the improvement of chenical anal- ysis heips the authorities in detecting and punishing the guilty, is 1 h The Fair Bathers Maligned, A great deal of unmitigated nonsense s read and_written about the American wirl and the fashionablo bathing suit, says the New York Worll. During the last fort- night possibly & thousand bathers and bath- ing costumes have been seen along the Jo sey and Long Island peeches, and inno i stance has anything been found to justif the cuts and’ paragraphs with which tie eastern woman has been truduced. Sensi tions may be in preparation, butso farnone have developed, and with the exception of Coney island there is no_beach about New York where any display is madeof parsonal charms. Here the hoiden element cun always be found, but for the one girl in ashart-sleeved, 1ow cut bodice and knce- deep skirt, there are 500 women talsing thair ocean dipina big straw hat, maffied up to the chin in blue flannel, with a long, full skirt and black sandal shoes and stockings. Among the fashionables at Long Branch the reiguing beautics ave least in the surf, Thoy have seuse enough (o keep out of the ot sun. When they do bathe it is in the shade of the evening orin the cool of the moruing, and then less than filteen winutes is sSpent in the surf. For the most part these belles or heiresses wear black or navy blup flannel, made high neck, with a tur-ip col- lar that will reach to the cars if needed, and long sleeves with ouffs that pull down ovor half the bands in placeof bathing mitts. A big harvest hat of plaited straw, with cork- soled stockings, complete_ the aequatic outit, To bosure, there are rod silk stockings, but ma only sees themin print, and ws for the docolleite bodice or blouse, it is all a myth, Sad Time in a Woman's Life. There is a time in a womau's life when she Is tooold for the dance and frolic of the young and too young for the quiet corner of the oid, suys o writer in_Harper's Bazar. No class claims her. Ste feels often like an alien from the comamon wealth of wormanhood. In charitabie work aud in social life the in- visible line is passed. No one invites her now to preside at the fancy booth or hasten the sale of flowers with her.gracious smiles, Neither is she asked to give the dignity of her age and }l\aillnn as one of the patron- csses of the fair. She is lsughed ab if she dresses in the gay colors her soul loves, or ;-l'ulnll(od by her family for alwiys wearing ack, $5he has no part in the play, but is quiet, relegated to the position of stage setter an prompter, while younger and older wouwen pose and win applause. Her beauty is not at its best. She has neither the fair ill‘l‘ll'-h face which is the cy of what w! uor the sweet old Wl is the history o ‘what It hasbeen, White hair does not crown her with glory, and she has lost the golden curls of her youth. The blosom has faded and the fruit does not yet compensate for its loss. Thetrials of the transition state envelop her inthehome, Sometimes she feels that ter husband is almost deserting her for the young daughter, who is the sccond edition of the girl he fell in love with years ago. Thesolving of the domestic problem has 1ot made such drafts upon his mental and physical resources 6s it has upon hors. Heis | 4 compartively young man, and no one dreams of askiug him to stepaside from any familiar path. Attimes she wonders {f she is not a chill- less woman, She was necessary to her littlo children, but her growing sons and daughters @0 not seen to need her; at lewst they do not. cling to her with the tender aresses of baby- | b Studies, teachers, classmates and em- | bryolove affairs flll their I 50 full that the mother almost feels crowded out. Servants in Sifakespeare’s Time. In the time of Shakespearedomestio service was in a state of transition; the old system the new one springing into life ay be allowed to judge from references seattered throughout the plays of the poct the new order does not ap- pear to have been ultogethersuccessfulsaysa writerin Chambers Journal, In “King Lear to take one example—Kent denounces Os- wald, the steward, as a “knave, a rascal, and cater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggirly, threc-suited, 100-pound, worsted-stocking ~ knave ! From Shaks- peare's plays it furtherappears tha antsof and that thoy ng and playe at families it was cus- 3 ants to takean oath of fidel- ity on'thir entrance into ofice Posthumus alludes tothe usage when he says of Imo- servants : nfs are nd honorable. servants at this period 1dit is clear that Xity, Onmne of euforeng obedicnce was by ~inpo. feits or fines, some of which are enunerat by Sir J, Harrington in his “Nugs Forbeing absent from pragors, e doov opy mods follower visitiy was in- flicted, whilein wuother setof rules it is pro- vided that £ any one this rule doth break. And cutmore hread than he can Shall tothe box « Tu case an offender “direct without i made atthe conclus Bach oo here sh And he ihat do! By himone ponn Mrs, Cleveland's Artand Thrift. Treasired in many & Washington parlor as a viluedk alkeof Mrs. Cleveland and hex gradous relm over the white bouse is a dainty egeshell clina cup and swcer, Many of these bor resembland though the w lined oneach cup tangle of fine pale-blue groundof the daiutiest imaginable was diffect writer in the Boston Jouwmal. The wondc fulpink color v the su inthemall, and in this was th f beanty of the wo in an art lines over the bick- tint of creamy pink in each one NERTY “Alany admirers of profiy thin asked Mis. Cleveland where the c of chi me from, and she aly ingly told them that they did_come from was a ding shopon I street, down in a b My, Cle d stunbled on by while shopping and went into out of curiosity. And thyse wonderful cups and saucers cost but 40 cents apiece. i beauties, and Mrs, Clev with them that she lought dozens to give to her friends, The shop where these ups were sold has | since been given up, Jeept it has gone aws the proluct of aney had not had time to l that could not pla pretentious shops nothing but genuix equally acknow an potiery that The Market £0 Manly Beauty, Ay Socral statisticians who are ke the fluctuations of affairsin s > ask ing why physi pluckand wit f: totell in fa who eiterthe matri monind ma 3 v do when possessed by muarringeable men, st writer inthe Jllus. trated Amey Ttis a fact o well kuown toba challenged thatevery season scores of weil-looking butimpecunisus men securo for- twes at the altaw, while in the twelve months' time wuot one singls poor gl will have captured & rich purti. All this sounds very crude in discus. sing so grave and sensitive a subject; but when personalities are ignored, the mitter becomes ofmoment and gencral erest, Let auy one begin aud recion up her experien oo the number of wealthy women who hav married fortuncless meén—yes, and gone s far as to endow their husbands with their roperty—and then put that list against the {ing Copbetuas who have given their names 0 boggar maids. To Suit the Room. “Now, T'll show you over the house,” said a friend to me the other 1*.'. She had moved into a South Side dence, whose alive to numerous hay windows gave one the im- pression of a room trne, Sie inter] when in fact writer in_the Clii- de many improve o see what a gool the reve cago New ments, and w housekeoper she ws. On the third disclosing an 1 A Thad anxious tnrew open a door, about the si bathroom in the , and in she d her truulks, ete, s, suid she, the' room occupicl by the former tenant’s maid-of-ullwork. “Was there a hole sawed in the partition through which to extad her feat? I in- quired, asthe story related by Frank Stc e met in better d of malsing the roown fit the girl, as Stoc selected to fit the room. merly resided here toll me that shehadu small mark on the parlor door, and in choos- ing her help, if the applicant came up to the mark, shegot the position, but if beyond it she had to g, wo er how superior her qualifications were. Probably during woi tisements help will clause as not app iuches in height.” i'he lady who fi s fair time advy onbain soe such if over ifeets 1y Night-Gowns on the Stree The term night-gowns is used i od documents, A, for instance, in 1543, Rich- ard Redman, of Englind, leaves 1 lis brother, “one night-zowne of Mockeado, one pair of howse of the same.” A curions fush- on of the public wearing of night gowns in England is recounted in Walke Memoirs (1661) of the Irisk SAmong fashions that the relgn of s wearing bed Queen Anne is that of the tadi gowas inthe streets about fort cannaille of Dablin 50 disgruntied with this fashion, or perhips being 50 projudichl to irade, that they tried every expedient to abolish They insulted inthe strects and public places those ladics who complied with t, aud ridiculed itin ballads, but the only ex- pedient that proved effectual was to prevail on i unfortunate for who had been eon- demned for & murder, t appear at the plce of execution in a bed-gown. The “Pannier’ Again. An attewpt isbeing made to revive the heavy drapery on the hips which wis once iand known as panniers saysthe Pall Mall Badget. Some women like the idea. because their waists don’t appear small enough with stightly ut gown. Enlargingthe hip brings out” the waist by convrast, with the effect that the latter looks smaller than 1t really is, But such things as panniers ago to be discouraced. They are an examplo of the styloof dress that would makes woman o clothes line—a thing merely to carry drapery. Clothes weffe made for women; notwomcn for clothes. Beides, the camryiug of so much unnecessary material on'the hips is very uunbealthy. B Announcemrnt, C. B. Moore & Co. have been appointed wholesale agents for the celebrated waters of Excelsior Sprinsgs, Missonri, L A Remarkable Artesian Well, A. Hunt sunk an artesian well 180 feet, twomiles from Sun Bernardino recently. The witer rises thirty inches above the top of the casing, and stones of eighteen pounds welghtare occasionally thrown out e L Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg, >us mixture of | e was | | a name for itself, | res in more | 1 | OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 1800-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE JEWELER, Frank Demhster Sherman in Harpers' Young Peoyle, Tho green lawn 18 the jewellers' shop; ‘There, after every rin e works, and mak | Into a gem agal The bellows at his forze T lear Whene'er the breezes blow That sweep the heavens blue and clear, And dry the world below, eachirembling drop Then through the window of the sky 1see his ruddy face; Anud on the grass his gold tongs lie In almost every place And when his shop isshutat night, The moon her lamp will bring And show me all bis jewels bright ' | Set in a sapphire ri There in his window gathered are His labors ot the day Each little rain drop s a star That sparkles far away ! A RENCENN [ M By Charles 11 CHAPTER 1, Inmany respacts he. wastho oddity of all the breezy throng of suosts found at o princi- pal hotel in Omaha the other evening, He must have besn about si i yors Cressey, {old. Howas of rather svire build, and his dress scomed to indigate that he was 0 charchman, the blick broseloth coa buttoning up to th | chinand hugging a it standing collar | which fastenced at the Tnew Wi a tintof the olive in his |-formed features, while, upon the a deli- catestain of subdued ¢ th evidently by hot sunsan occasional nips of | ravvold vintage. His small,plorcing blacicey had .in them theapp of kindliness ; trusty inste p that remi McGuffy's thivd | grant Iad from t The attention of mau had been more or in Frenen ceric nou-Ame and his very perend suming up and o what 1 discovered Oceasionally, whe coat to takeouta person near him mi ermblem—resombling set with _diimoud 1 o r s bosid wred to this stady s about the mly herotunda, usistel in d reading formicd b ‘d tostr Or mo 7lielda web of filuy leof an_old exivtir’ Inoné corner of this been noticed, w m- er " bla ke sillaft s handkorel uighthave wold thread, an *l etublem Wis “a charact ther was no mistaking, aud so Lstruckup aunequaintines with hin. a him a gentlenan of wide, varied wlished mentil attainzents, one who had lelsur A, and done much | traveling i u ¥ cuntry of the glibe. Iis “d: o1 canth™ liad { childhood ) ance, although public por: s over a mor rezular army, ch ng stead ance, the 1 the muii ladm Jruents, musingly o, fervor: ile de Lawel you hapy powerful republic outinent, without fe; ment, and, 50 tosay, witlout flect. Justly confideut in your incalculi Latent streugth, you must find it soro dificult to uni At the states of and ever on few provinecs ritories whieh are ed and brougnt under cultiva- siye population. At sueh i 2, yOu comot magine low truly terrible aud” tragic the actual situation of Euvope i ' in the pry whiere fs ble Europe are continy disputi the point of 1ot equival nturies, yone o that, at any moment, so praak out, that allother S, the secession in Ameri will he but child's play in comparison. adversaries which we forsee obliged to Russda and France on the one sid; Austria and Italyon the other, 000,000 of men ou the battlefield, ¥ erve of 10,000000. By mems of the rapid concentration’ now rendeved pos- sible by milways, we shal witness, ever during the first ays, two colli , 0UC iu the east, theother in’ the west, in which 3,000,000 of human beings will be seen strug- giing together: for both sides will endeavor o crush their enemy under the attick o innumerable masses, Nostrategist, not even Moltke himself, can foresee what sucha con- flict will be 1ike we can sayis tiat the mumber of killed and wounded will, in one day, surpass that of an entire warof former times, Human blood will never have soaked he earth i such stronms, and what is most ible, the stru, ered by all 4s ble. Ab, young man, thank God that A a have no Alsace-Lor- stion, to deal with, for y 1l Europe with the to designate the genius of on I would say pstem, au e the part of & wan fign of these Uul strong, « is e support of the f sistem which pi ramental pol- froe 2 theological and liberty and uure- 5 [ its investigitions have accomplish than has been done since Cadmus first brought the alphabet to Gre and the world has made gventer practical vancement in valuibie learnng sinco free- schools have been established in Germany, America, England, snd other protestant coun- than in all beyond.” Into the delivery of sueh striking comment » alien student of this country's conditior ew a fervor that caused me o wonde g 3 strainect fr th th whether iu his viens did notrun the blood of >t had much tos regarding a visit wl he made to Athens, he Grecks themselves” upon their country s 4 nation re-bom, aud upon Athens us @ city, rising Phenix-like to @ brighter and better Gxistence fiom the dusty Lafay I of excoeding futerst ch, a few months before, said he *“look ashes of tho past. il they wy for the Athes of lodiy T place of theaters md good hotels. It is a city of newspapers, fine schools ad museams. I has good sociely and its people ure as bright and well-posted as those of most cities of Europz. 1 ry is, all told, ounl, ¥ s largeas ¥ half the si f your siate of N they number only about two million | Each one of the "nale sex among the millions thinks himsell a statesman, and as 5001 as he is able to_ speals he be, < politics ; and there is no political the worll perhaps, exept your Washingt in which polities is mere talked than Athens, “The modern Athenian does notlike manal labor and the result isthat mostof the Greok citizens of Athens are in mereantilo or pro- fessional busine I found that there was little of what you would consider square dealing among the merchauts, They tiy in every wiy togetthe advantage of those who deal with them, Youcan ride on the Athe- niwn tramway for and 5 cent fares over the same ground which Alcibisdes dashed in his seven-horse chariots, sud the steam whistles of the locomotives which draw trains along therailioads to the Pireus aund Corinth re- verberate against the time-colored marbie pillars of the Parthenon, which, standing on the mighty Acropolis, 5till loks over the cityas in “the days when Pericles had his golden rule 2,500 years ugo, Modern A thens has beon built within fifty yeaw. From the Acropolis you can see ihe plains of Murathon, on which the great battle Was fought — where the Greeks, under Miltisles, defeated the Per- siags, and awayto the west ure the blue waters of the bay of Salamis, where Xerxes, the Persian king, walched the destruction of his thousand war-vessels by the Greclan flects. “At the side of the Acropolisis a rocky hill 3 FRA-HOR EVERYONE —~=SEENS T0 BE—— CATCHING ON 12 AMERICANIZED | BRITANNICA REVISED 3| AND lt AMENDED e . N e~ 3 I DBELFORD CLARKE @ I ot high, on whica St Demosthenes ed. about one hundred 7 1 4 [ classic, The hi ully blie asthey were The poppy flowers, 2t as blood-red as at amoung them and The dark hemlockon the whea it fumnisted the Socrates, and from csfor the new public murbleus jure gs that worked out andof which citeles chipped his famous statues. But, e cnough, Mdecd, the Athens of today isa city of thenineteenth ceatury.” al times while m wits siving 1 waord-pictur of capital, I > again there was a sc for tm in his subjeect that was the resultof smetie stronger than that produeed simply by the observations of u puwsing tourist appiec ation of which so scholarly a ma as he might be cu‘uble. Thewfore, I resived to lax my chance acquaintaiceship with him to the utmost Lin- it if need be, before we sepanted, in order to secure, perhaps—well, aromance, I say ro- mance' Tor that was more in line with my lopes, forl recailed that he had omitted say- jag o word sbout the female portion of Avhew's populace. 'This mizht not have soerned atall singular to me butfor the fact that on @ previous occasion my Frenchman had entered into a very enthusiastic disquisi- on the charms of American ladies, and gome into the central finre in > when Liced philsophy. Nils is @s ereen 6 killed interesting ac- e the this Gire- and the i paty of ¢ ,0 magnificent Juno- likke creature, with dark brown cyes, glossy rand queenly tred, wd who had “r one g their ompanion as I had than 1o one hemeets daily houhe has knowi 2sa near W hether the reason be that talse s Laney toyou while tr O, wiil, I don A to unroll the veling life to w chance t introdueel mys at_hom . and T . ¥ lanid or sea, thinks, g without one i o and of ever > are spon in ten thot meeting not theman to -ring | one with whom him in contact, the thrilling it romance, for such it w all, ke 'told me from . the diamond and riipp, sun- sludow uernories are it was thestory of whit he had described as_ the bit of tragedy which had helped to keep him away fromhis Havre lhome on the banks of theEnglish chaunel. Tue hour had grc office was almost_de sionite._{s ss for hi n very late; thebig . ” He hud a pas- pipeand perique, a 14 gool cigir, we litup, set- tied er into the plushes md eom- menced amore confidential exchnge of per- sonal experimees than e hin a hig pitited little romance whichcostme 1 hours of rest during my univenity , and the venture acted like a charm for s 1zme the seeret of his passionate in- terest intheold Athenian city the rea- sonwhyhe had so studimsly neglected all mention of Athenia's I-taned women, ever, T [To e continued (n The Tie net Sundaw) g Roderick MeDonald, who i risof a settlement at Molus River, wis absent from home o ng left hs wifeand sis- s the sole defenders of his household, a Vanecboro (Me,) dispateh 10th v York Herald, Just at” dusk the two wonen, who were busy about their household duties, were suddenly attucted by a bellowing among the cattle in the barnyard. Without the slightest heitation the women amod thomselves with the only weapons on hand —un ax and a pitchfork—und sallid forth, v a few steps had been traversel before rmous black bear, that stood v iiting them. At either side v an 0x, which had fallen under his while the restof the cttle were huddled chsely inone orner of the vard bellowing piteously in ther fright. Mrs. McDonald, excited at the sicht of the @ead animals,rushed at the bear with @ pitch- fork, thrusting it deep into hisneck, A of mingled rage and pain followed sna with asweep of his pawhe strack the weapon from her hands. The other woman struck at the bear with the ax, disabling one of the for wird legs. MNrs. McDoald ran for her pitehforc, weovered it, sd the two pluclsy women then went for bruin haumer and tongs. Mrs. McDonald wounded him with tho pitchfork infrout while ber compnion did deadly execution with the ux. The lhattle was short and sharp, and the bear was deal ina fow moments. He was very large and oll, The women had their clothes badly torn, but _beyond a few scritches and the fright suffered 10 10jury. B e Dr. Birney cures eatarrh, Beo blig. in one ofthe few nights ter of him! heavy biows, ENCYCLOREDIA TO THE MERITS O T'HE OMAHA DAILY BE ——AND—= | ENCYCL BRITANNIGA | | | AMERIGANIZED | OPEDIA | By the way, ordersare being taken for this great work. This IZncyclopaedia camot be purchased except in connection i with THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. Ten large volumes, nearly 7,000 pages, over 8,500,000 words.. Our Proposition: ’ THE OMAHA DAILY BE offers a year's subscription of the paper, deliveredat your address, and a complete set of the Americanized Encyclopadia Britannica for §2.50 a month. The first five volumes delive ance payableat therate of g 8 of $30.00 is paid, the other five four months. All our present subscribers above proposition. Call at our special office on payment of $2.50; the bal- soa monthuntil the full amount volumes to be delivered within arc entitled to participate in the wvhere the work can be seen, or drop us a postal card and a representative will call, DIVISE TEAUNG DRLUSION. Tas Sick Retarn Home to Find Themsalves 8till Suffering withDisase. DOWIE'S PATIENTS NOT ALL CURED. Many Witnesses Who Testified to the Miraculous Iesalts of the Alleged Healer's Boasted Work Fe- gret Theiv Rashness. The Rev. J. A. Dowie, the Australian faith curist and divine healer, haspassed o tow- ard the cast upon his missionof “divine’ imposture. His advance is being herailed with loud blasts of trumpets while the mir- dous powers wielded are being exten- Iy adyertised in the eastern pres. The New York Sun has devotedoverhalf a col- umnto aletter from its comrespndent from this place, which details the history of the “divine healing association” and mentions individually anumver of putients who cliim to have been cured throigh the agency of Mr. Dowie. People testifiel to the cure of almost e disease towhich flosh is heir, separately or combinedat one and the sime timein the same person. (ases were men- tioned whers desfness aud Qlindness wone said to heen cured, goitres moved ad genewl disabilities dowe away with, But inrecomnting the socalled cures, the instmces in which the diviie haler failel to healyereomitted. Now that Rev. Dowie has departed, those whohave been duped by him are not back warl in teliing the facs. Anong the many cases that have come 1o light, the following areinteresting inshowing that faith does not lastlong where ph L piin continues : One 1oy bost subjeets, was a servant girl, who works atNo. 103 North teenth street. She wis suffering from n vousness and neuralgia of the stomuach. Th pariies for whomshe was working wished to male a lest cas encouriged ber and gratedeve %o nccessry, o ef- fecta cire unde treitmet. = She was told by bim that words without faith did notamount 1o anything, and after an avowal of the nost perfot faith o her part, even o pouring her valuable medidnesintothe diteh, Daovie, unabished and with st composure begn the touching, tender coremony of “lay. ing on of hands” seasoned with pryer. The girl really bdieved hersel! heded. Yet thoold pain was still there, although Dowie ssured her that it was all right siice Jesus dnot want to remove the pain at onee; that re- showas healed and that she must. say 50 1 nerself and tell all ler friends he same, otherwise she might lavea reapse, So the poor girl kept up her wission of deception, Bul her paine were still guawing ot bor as belore. Shobegn grow worse, but the sicker she became, the lbuder she insistol that she was healed, Poturd amost be youd endurince, she once mo; 10 the healer for miore fuith, He triad per- suide ner tosign the usual written testinon. hatsho was lealed. But the girl v od tosigm her iamennti shecould do so con- sciontinsly, She coutinued to grow under his treatiment and at last, in ute gust, tuned to her former medical advis Mes. Prat, living at Twentyninth and Tndiann avenue,a good old coufiding ludy suf Tering frowm pal sdthe heal hoestly app! er’s sale. Snewas deluded into sigiing o testimonial thatshe was healod and testitiol inpublic thit she wus aguin well. Neyerthe less she still sufler sfrom her old alinent. Mrs, Johuson, au cderly lady, wishing h er address with-held, appliet to Dowle tobe ro- lieved of blindness. The latter, parrot like, recited his littlo prayer and the ith self: complace assured the lady thatshewas cared, Yet sho was justas blind as everand is 1o this day. She expresses herself s foeling hunitiated I albwing hoselfto be imposed upon in this mamer aud wishes her identity Jeept from the public, Another lady ng iu the northem vart of the city, and pmominent fo tho Daptist clurch, was imposed upon by Dowlo, in wiy that excites it ho wis suffering from ailments peeullar >x, and afler nvealing her troubles and reciving his treatment, she found ber condition unin- proved. ‘Then sheo grew depondent on - countof the confidence which she had plac in him, For some days ter friend; feared he reason might be scriowly affeeted. Shois 10w somewhat improved, butnotyet atindy out of danger, while her friends cndeavorto observe the utmost secrecy iu the matier, Mr, Thompsou, residing in Central park, a wember of the Congregutional clurcy, is - 7es how badly he was sled by Dowie in the nane of religion. He as troibled with a targe tumor on his neht cheemd was ld by the healer t believe taal it could by renovel though fith, Hauds veve aid on itmd payer iadlged in, but the tumor wiusel to disappear, Dowio told Thompsin tlat that side of his face wis weis and that lp st - bone i pray hard and Iug. Thonpsn did so and re- tumed to Dowio for anather seance. This time ho was assired by Dowie that all was rigit, that the tunor vould disippear shortly and thit ho wis healed ing s, Thompion signed theusual testimonial, but, ala, thetumor rmains just the samo, Mr. L I3 R—, clerk utthe Union Puwiflo healquirte, who was a ember of Doie's heding elass, has resimed theuse of medis cine preserivid by his physician, Mr. ft—— also indilges in theuse of spuotades s of yore, A porninent Biptist minister has resuned thewearingof spetades. discarded for some during Dowie’s prsence, The samo geitlemin_excused hinsell fron atending i meoting of 4committer of hisdenomination, hell at Liicoly, stating that hecould not attnd o account of “swckicss in s family. " This sune clergyman hid the secrels. of divine lealing _transuittal to him, but it ap. ears that, it willnot work in hs own family, Te was also clected vice prosident of Dowie’s “spelling cliss™ in this cily, Thesearo but & fow of the views which can be obtaiied behind vho scencs. While in the so-aulled *testimony meeting'” al sevmod 1ovo and harnony, miny of the wilnesies to ' cures roturied homcnug_v to_find ‘their re neved goodhealth o doceptive delusion, 1t istruethata loml siciety has ben formed branchof the Nitioial Divine Healing tion which proposes 1 continue the wurk of curing by faith. other person who real u Dr. Birney curescatarrh, Beo bldg. sty The Anthors of ¥arce-Comedy. omedy are instylo jus now. Pavc-comedy has the call, aud the legitinate is a bick number case, says Dun tan's Stagee News. [t's wonderful how livtl isgenerally kuown of tle pesondlity of the mst popular farce couedies, loyt, who nide famnoand fortune inthis lineg author of Bunch of Keys” **A Tin Soldier)? A Xas Steer,” is thin, wiry and nervous in appeannce. He begn life by being anews- piper man, speaks with a downcast nasal twang and is under thirty, Tin Murphy initaws his voice wd s walk (0 perfecion, Boston is the ovigin al lbome of Hoy, although ° he his a magificalt home at Clarlston, New Humpshire — Gratin Donudly hails fron Philadelphia. His “Nutural Gas’ bis on- joyed much popularity. His “Pair of Jacks" is doing well, Domelly is mediunsized, hindsomeand muscular, Hois inthe early thirtios, and 1ike Hoyt, Potter, McNally, sl I is by triining o’ nowspper man, ' Poi- ter, athorof “City Dirctory” wnd_ “Hay Streel” was the editor of Town Topics wit Alfred Trumble fora tino, wrotea for Modjeska, and strick off copy for the greit westorn blankel sheets. He' is portly, with clean shaven, priostly face, anda nyster- 3, suave air, Kenna's Elir Eilga who wrote is thin red-hended, J. MeNally, autlor of “A § ight Tip,"is the dramalic editorof the Boston Herald, able, active wd alert. He hus written agooddealof theatrical mattor, bit ally proud of bis latest. MeNally is tin stture, but has a_good head on shouldors, Tow. Rosin, who his ed “Fho Hustler” is the dramatie ist of & big piuk sporting paper in ork, He is shorl, thivksel and satur- nine spedks three linguages, undhas writien anovel. However fareecomedy writers may lifferin other respes, their lines aro almost always soruthlessly it bystag minager t they seldom reogiize their own produo™ son fist vights, i e Dr. Birneycures catarth, Bee lldg, — - A Lady Dentise, A New York dutist employs a lady as- sistant ata salaryof $0 a week and a com- misslon for every custower, who s from houso to house wud cleans tecth. She is young aud pretty, attractively dressed, ind while self assortive, she isalady inall that the name implies. Shoehas taken a course of medieal istry, and knows ciough abut the wvork AP & merve, soothe hacho, put a tmporary filling ina cavity julring immediate attention, ronove @ I's woth and insert welges to 1o 1the ¢ tnolurs, and jucisors that need straight- In & hand satdel she carries mates| rial for that purpose, besilos a supply of| {drugs, pumaco stole aud the like for ¢lewnse) ingthe teeth, Ordinurily she charges ity cents to put aset of toth in order, but the suths of @ small fazaily anlooked inte for @ couple of dollurs. 4 vioknw Drink ExcdsiorSprings Missouri wati '@l