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* i rd - i E - OMAHA SuNDAY BEE TH YEAR THE PROPHET OF REALIS. | A Telightful Interview With M. Emile Zola, the French Novelist. | HIS OPINION OF ‘‘KREUTZER SONATA" ’ Harry Overton Putsa Quietus to Will- fom Reader at the Ormonde Club in One of the pst Cone tests on Record, (Copyrighted 1890 by James Gordon Rennett.] Paris, August 2 New York Herald Cable Special to Tue Bee.] - M. Emile Zola is spending the summer at Meudon, in the de partment of the Scine et Oise, where yes terday a Herald correspondent met him strid- ing at the rate of four miles an hour along rough path that follows the winding of the The prophet of realism in it was taking one of his long aftcrnoon marches, by which he counts upon keeping his irdu- pois down to the point to which o 3 soverely applyl ibed by D. Schweininger for Prince Bismarck. “Fair weather or foul said M. Zola, home after luncheon and tramp along as you saw me doing just now until nearly dinner time, I am immenscly benefited by it.,” And indeed the speaker looked the picture of robust health, and although the Paris register can show that M. Zola first saw the light in 1840, ni might be guessed at any- thing between thivty and forty, He is no longer the Zola that the -world knows by photographs now very much out of date, for the flesh of which he had once a superabund- ance, s nine photographs out of ten testify has vanished into thin air. As we walked along I told M. Zola the motive of my visit t Meudon was a desire to give to the world tirough the Herald the views he entertained upon the Kreutzer Sonata, and the theories regarding love and wedlock which Count Tolstol h pressed therein, “Indeed, ola tucked underneath Nis arm the grip he was careying to glecfully rub his hauds, while underneath the broad brim of his brown straw hat, his deep set twinkled with a m thought which found expression thus: “Now I wonder what M. de Vogue thinks of it! You know he in- vented Tolstoi, in so faras France is con- cerned, translated his works, wrote him up in the magmzines, proclaimed him the one genius of tho age, and— but of course you know all that. Then imagine if you can what unutterable things M. DeVogue must tell about the Kreutzer Sonata, 1 fancy he must ha rembled many a time before for his idol, and it would really be interesting -to know his opinion now; but I must begin from the beginning. “In the sixties a number of us—young men thenand our hope: »d the highest—used 10 go every Sunday evening to Flaubert's house, Alphonse Daudet and Tourguenieft were of us, and one day the latter brought us a copy of Tolstoi's Crime et Chati- ment, which had just been published in French, and told us he wanted us to read it, as he cousidered it one of the great works of the century. Indeed, poor Tour- guenieft believed Tolstol to be the greatest of Russian writers, himself not excepted. That was my first acquaintance with Tolstoi Then as now I thought him a writer of vast Pow ublime conceptions, striking origi- nality—in a word, n genius —but with thoso who wore trying to force Tolstoi and nothing but Tolstoi down the throats of the reading public of Frauce I had no sympathy. Tolstol was merely & card in their hands— a card to be played inst us—we were parialis who must be stamped out of literary existence at any cos The Marquis de Vogue thought that Tolstol was & Nasmyth hammer with which to crush us. Untaught by the experience which had be- fallen M. Scherer, M. de Brantiere and others, who had some years before tried the same tactics with George Eliot, neither the English nor the Russian novelists were fitted forthe role they were made to play. o, ature posed to the French character and ¥ tastes and Frens culty for understanding even than G iot. The protestantism with which her writings is imbued is utterly antagonistic to the mysticism of the Latin mind, and furthermore, George Eliot is ot oneof those geniuses who compel, Had the Temps et Revue des Deux Mondes started their campaign aguinst us with Thackeray or Dickens as their big gun, 1 could have un- derstood it -but George Eliot. Now they have taken your American, Marion Cray ford, in hand, and heaven only knows whom they will fall back upon next. “T'he Tolstoi campaign was the severest of all we have had to go through. The Marquis de Vogue and all the influence of the acad- the Revue des Deux Mondes and s piri! ualistio school were arrayed against us, I have 1o need to tell you how Tolstoi was boomed. M. de Vogue wrote about him in that charming stylo of his; reviows and newspa- pers like the Temps sang his praises and placed him aloft ona pinnaecle to which a writerof the French realistic school could not aspire. The Russian was a prophet of a new literary religion, a genius who had marked in his working the first impulses of a great intellectual movement, a towering mountain whose sublime heights had caught the first beams of the rising sun, which was alittle later to flood the universe with its splondor. Now the facts of the case were _Altogether different. Instead of being a " creative genius, Count Tolstoi was merely a receptive mind, which had been impressed by the truth—the realism if you like—of our writings. He had followed our lead: he is & Russian disciple of the French school, which saw the hight in the days of 1S48—then, you will remember, began the great movement of the Christian democracy, Our writers and our orators claimed Christ as their brother, described Him as the peototype of the Chrislian demo- crat, who was the equal of all men and less than none found in the gospel, the basis of the social structures for which the world had been sighing fo centuries, This Christian democras was 8 term which lasted but. for o day in France, but which Tolstoi continued in Russin. His ideas were those of the ora- tors of tho Puris clubs of 1848, his' theorles Thiers' and his deductions likewise, with only this difference that they were transmog- rified by their transplantation to a foreign soil. They entered Tolstoi's mind as French ideas in French dress and were turned out by him in Slavonic garb. 1 do ot deny that in & sense Tolstoi made them his own, for I am perfectly willing to acknowledge his grea powere, but originally the ideas atwibuted to | him were French, Here is an illustration of what I mean—we have here a vin du pay we send sowe of that wine to another coul try, where some subtle essence isintroduced | intoit and it comes back to us with a new flavor—another wine, vin falsifie, but you cannot deny the fact that the wine was | originally ours, | between the ald. | ¥ bus "Tolstol bas only the werit of | ‘which the sun, then setting, poured variously ideas ristics of his individuality. He belongs rather th the nineteenth compound of & monl of the modern Slav, with the myst the of logical deduction doctrines is that be lived back soven o “Thero i other fact which I cannot understand M ame to be ignore n he un. dertook tomake Russian writers popular in | France Latin and gven to | foundry and his | to the twellth tury. Hels a ddle ages and a ism of the the fm world st ne | other. | his uld e e how | av This is the gulf which sepurates th from the Slav, scarcely one charicteristic in The Latin art his for delicacy in each part and for of tue whole. The Slav,on the other i and b lmost pell mell, cs auds provided the stracture Hewce Stavonic litere the [ mple of rough i ut structure, of sopa- | stone has been examined in | Al s we 1 the velation 1t will have to | the whole” From Count Tolstol's writings | in general, M. Zola turned to the particular work regardiug which.I had usked his opinion. Kreutzer So said, “'born of n diseased imagination. veading it I have not the slightest doubt that its author is cracked Qu'il une e tite feluro dans sa teto theory developed In this book an- natural. Lamour, Qu'est ce que que cat Here is o man, iere is @ womm, It is nature's ordinance that they should seck oneanother, and you can more hope to | leep them apart by the and philoso- phizing than you can hope to keep the wind from blowing, or tho tide from i or the trees from budding in the time, and | what is the use of theerizing or philosophiz ingon an act which admits of neiter and which por to as you to sty of ‘a locomotive by yourselfm its path. Tolstoi the locomotive and he lies engine dashes along and will con along to the end of time, T have that Tolstoi had the char medieval monk and he ha ero, shut himself up in a clois when he gazes upon what the outside world is doing with loathing. But there is nothing rep sive in any one act of niture more than an- other. ‘It isanimal,’ the world cries, but we are animals and why not acknowledge it? Why seek to diive ourselves? Why make a ridiculous pretension to be higher and better and more spiritual than we are? Why setup an image which we would fain call an ideal man, but which we know in heart is no man atall! We why should we stultify ours tends “As They bave | oks | ymmetry | hanid, > on is oye takes his mater top of the other how each bloc in buildi plani Latin a great an cl aps them o S8 he nas bears to as iite has to | ture same relation hewn ¢ which every @ par " The is cest you as vloss th stop rush throw tried to stop rod and the fnue to dush 1id before ies of are ves by pre- o worship a sham! for Tolstoi's ideas upon marriage, they are equally antinatural with his theories upon love. Wedlock is a contr I do not intend to discuss it excopt so far as it relates to our subject. Tolstol hastaken a particular case and from it argued to the general. His husband and wife have no ideas, no sympa- thies, no tastes m common—the one has no eav for music, the other adores music—and it isnot in the least surprising that she should fall in love with a tenor. A simlar thing, I have no doudt, happens every day* But Tolstol argues thut it happens alwi Theve his logic and observation are both at fault. Given a male, somnd in body and mind, and o female, likewise somd in body and mind, and their uuion will be happy. But given a bodily mental defect m either, their life together will ot be happy. The man seeks the woman. If she be not what we may assume he had the right to expoet he will brood over his de- ception—perchance not willin but the workings of his mind will continue until one day itlies open before him, and then comes his instinet to kill. So itis with the woman who goes to the man aud finds him unsound. To find a man of vast intelligence, broad conceptions and sublime ger like Tolstol seeking to _ introduce @ dissonant chord into the harmony of nature, leaves me with but one judgment topass upon his Kreutzer Sonata—that the book is a workof an fmagination which has become diseased. In many respects, however, it is a sign of the times, a sympton of sickness. This sickness Is & con- tinual craving and undefined longing, a fecling that something is wanting to our re. pletion, but what that something is not even those who are the most conscious of the void can determine, The promise held forth by the beginning of the century has been be- lied. I donotsay this in respect to sclence, for science has achieved great and glorious things, but even to the great the stuges of its onward march ave insuficient to content us, “Humanity wants that which science can not give. It cries in anguish for something human, something which appeals to its human instinets, itsloves and fears, its joys and sorrows, its hopes and its despair, its im s and its passions. The clubs of 1548 were one outcome of this universal longing for an indefinite blessing, socialism is another and yet another of a totally different character is literature, the decadencism and parnassianism of today. I could multiply examples, but none could be more stringent than the Kreutzer Sonata. That book Is the cry of the nation, of the heart of the nation against the head, whose cold reasonings e not i sympathy with its human instincts and impulses. He whose bur- deu is heavy calls for it to be lightened, he who is in sorrow craves for sympatly, ho whose horizon is bounded by the anuihilation of the tomb strains his eyes to look beyond the political and social reorganization do- manded by the men of 1545, and their succes sors would not supply the remedy for th world’s ailment; nor do I think that tho decadents and Parassians have discovered it in the sonorous roll of sentences which mean nothing. No, itseemsas if the world had lived too long andwill be forced to retrograde to the middle ages with their mysticism which was religion and their Catholicism which was more than a veligion, beiug part and parcel of their existence.” Long before M, Zola had arvived at this stage of our conversution we had reached the omate village where he Meudon, and passed into the drawing room through a large open window, out of which the traveled over an extensive garden, well kept and bright with flowers, down to where the sheen of the Seine could be seen at futervals s fringing its banks. No | fower than three men wero at work in th garden, a fact which, combined with the ob- servation of quite an army of serva my entrance, of & couch house and stables to the rear, of the appearance of the house gen- erally und of the room in which we wereseated particularly, would have made a comparison n this Meudon villa and the proverbial et in Grub street very invidious. The | w a worl of description. High up in the west wall farthiost from the Scine | was a large window of stained glass, through or sides 1ts on | | | | | | of country life stood | all | tent to stand OMAHA, SUNDAY tinted beams on the mosaic marble floor and the suits of quaint armor and trophies of curlous weapons gathered from the four quarters of the glove; and equally repre- sentative of all climes and all walls, might There Romeo might have of talking noun: mom» and Aamask ks castanets 1 mandolins, flut and every sort of instrument from ch sound can be extracted, down to cottage piano standing by a window, On several tables and hinets we bLrac, not of the kind one often sc ing rooms and by the but article. ing also room, the lute with serenaded Juliet insteaa about the ‘' blush on he re were Spanisu 150 the ol e bric s in draw thousands draw billia made the genuine room s for one o of those inder the winc T asked M. Zolaif, 1 donie, Haboy and Meilhac, he was of a cueist. *“*Anything but that,” got the billiard table for my friends t play myself. for some r stiould do to hit something now and again so as to relieve the monotony of In MM. L anything [am too nervous ason I am an able shot, 1 exe missing,” repl 10 ¢ and In utinue the “Rougow Macquar s which to portray financial life, accordance with his custom he got lis material ready and classified, and his plot planned out even to minute de: tails before writing out a single line of cop; Despite this his work is giving him a great deal of trouble, and although one-thirl & finished he does not expeet to complete it be- fore the end of the year. “Afte conticued, “T have only two books to to complete my Rougow series. Then I can consider my wor 1d T shall be con- or fall by itin the judgment of me after me. No, I havenota d preference for any one of my works, although gencrally speaking I might say Iset the highest value on ‘L’ Assommoir’ and ‘L'Ocuvre) My next book after ‘L' Argent’ will bea kind of extension of ‘L'Ocuvre! and after that 1 shall writea volume, vesuming, as it were, the whole of the series, and perhaps giving in it the ideas I'have just expressed to you. Ihad thought of publishing an article of the kind or one of the re decide upon ke my series,” is s done those who ¢ really dec AN THE THIRT. TH RGUND. Harry Overton Vangquishes William Reader at the Ormonde Club. [Copyrlgiit. 1550 by James Gonlon Bonnetl.) LoxDoy, Cablo—Special to like a genuine glove fight at London followers of the fistic art are s just now, and those who witnessed the battle between William Reader of and Havry Overton of Birmingham at the Ormonde club last mzht for §100 a side have cerfainly good grounds for saying that a more genuine or determined settlement has seldem beenseen, The result has taken the Buglish sporting world entirely by surprise. Harry Overton of Birmingham g twenty-one yearsof ageand stands fivefeet five inches in height; it. was while engaged at the royal small arms factory at Enficld Lock that he first came into some prominence as a boxer of the second class, and it is doubtful whether his admirers in those days ever expected to see him figure later on in the very foremost rank. He weighs like his opponent, William Reader of Fulliam, as nearly as possible twelve stone, thelatter, however, being about four years older than Overton, fwo inches shorter and possessed of greater muscular development 1t was about 10:35 p. m. when the men en- tered the ring, at which time there was not a vacant seat. Reader was a very warm favorite, indeed, as he has been the acknowledged nine stone champion for the past two and con- querer amongst others of the renowned Sam Blakelock. In a more quict way, however, Overton's supporters felt equally certain of success and unhesitatingly—indeed, somewhat cagerly—snapped up all money they could get at the reigning odds, which was only a shade short of two to one at the start and had been very much increased long before the finish. If Overton's friends seized every opportunity, they must have amassed a pretty pile. Round after round was gamely fought, and for cight of the fourteen all the fighting was in the Fulbam lad's favor, Overton time and again looking as though his quietus must quickly follow. In the ninth round, however, a change came over the scene; the Birmingham boy faitly staggered Reader witha blow under the jaw, and al- though Overton was at the time none too strong himself, he found suficient powers of resource with which to concentrate all his force into a similar terrific onslaught on the same spot in each of the succeeding rounds, uatil in the thirteenth the climax came—then it was that Reader received the one blo | from which there was no immediate recovery —he had measured his length on the floor, ‘There was a buzz of surprised ement, followed by breathless and almost pamful silence, as tho fatal scconds flew by andstill no signs of ani mation came from prostrate Reader; at lengzth the necessary ten seconds had elapsed, whilst the fallen competitor still lay low. The official announeement was duly made, the silence to a ringing shout and amidsta scene of wild excitement Harry Overton was hailed winuner of of the gamest contests ever seen, - A SPENDTHRIFI'S W ame one KDROBE, Disposing of a r's Belonzings Jnder the Hammer. [Copyright 18 by James on Bennett,\ Loxbox, Atgust 23, —[Spocial New York Hevald Cable -Special to Tue Bge.|—The nearly new wardeobe of a gentleman, accord- ing to catalogue, was sold a few days since a Bond street dealer, The outfit wus once the property of Ernst Benson, the jubilee plunger. This young man, who wasted a greater part of 000 in & couple of years, had an extensive wa be, He a de- plorable weakness for white waistcoats and possessed thirty-six of t He ran larg and crimson hunting coats, co and fancy check waisteoats and clve suits of the same kind of rid ing . All his pillow cases were frilled and he could have worn a different coat each day of the month had he cared to do so, He had a sword or cutlass for every day in the week. Some of the things brought extraor- dinary prices; second hand shirts with a third hand look about them sold for§i6 a dozen. The bave thought of being compelled had | to wear one made the atwospheve feel most opprossive, e Killed and Ate the Baby, BUokiNomay, Que., Au Mrs, Cote went away ber her child in charge of two boys, deaf mute of unsound mind, On returning they had killed the baby and partially eaten its body. times | were the musical instruments arranged on the | were pipes on which Pacr onets, | the a- a | necessaries ained glass | as his ana little shooting if I could manage | to further inquiries M. Zols told me that he worked every morning ona volume which is " he write she found | MORNI G, AUGUST 24, 1800-SIXTEEN PAGES. ?S;\TISL\CTORY__TO WILLIAN, Germany's Emperor Pleased With the Result of the Imperial Meetings, ANOTHER EURO PEAN CONGRESS DESIRED. Certain Overtures Tending in Fhat | Divection Favorably Received by the Czar—Austrian Oficial Circles Distrustful, | teopyright 1590 by the New Fork BERLIY, August 1530 elated Press, onight's news from the imperial meetings held have 1a highly satisfactory result to Emporor William, ficials of the foreign cMice b maintain ab- solute reticence regarding the nature of the Gerr \peror's proposals, but it that there was immense political significance in the interview, Advices from various rellable sources all confirm the announcemeltt that Emperor William desires another European congress to be held, with o preliminary cessation of further armaments. Whatever the nature of the inducements offered the czar, it is cer- tain that he has met the emperor's overtures favorabl, Siuce De Giers’ first conference with = Chancellor von Caprini communications been pas- sing between the authorities hey and at Vienna with o view of exy ng the meeting between Emperors William and Francis Joseph. Austrian oficial circles rogard the impena- ing change in position with i heuce the semi-oficial press of Vienna throw doubt on the probability of holding ther European congress and profess ineredulity as to the Emperor's presence at Peterhof causing a great political transition, At the same time word Vienna that Emperor Willlam has asked the emperor of Austria for a confercnce within a fortnight preparatory to the projected recop: tion of the czar in Berlin iu Ocjober The Munich Neuste Nachri that the czar and Empe William and Francis Joseph will meet Austrian soil before definitely agreeing to the holding of a congrress, After the comrt banquet tonight the em- peror will start for Kronstadt on board the imperial yacht Holenzollern, His majesty proceeds to Loetzen, where he will witness an attack upon the fortifications theve, He will arrive at Potsdam F'riday. His new de- parture as regards his foreign policy, though only oly lenown, has aroused the ire of the old Bismarkian pr The Cologne Gazette assails Chancellor von Caprivi for assisting the lkaiser in emn- king upon an enterprise that will disturb lliance formed by Bismarck. The Munich Allegemein Zeitung declaves that forelgn affairs ure taking a gravely i quieting turn, and expresses regi warck no longer conducts imperia , The Post, ina semi-ofileial article, replies that Germany can exist ‘without Bismarck and that the governments policy has proved dignified and in everg vy ecalenlated to promote a permanent pencs, The meeting of socialists at Dresden which was called to consider low to oppose t threatened general anti-strike union of em- ployers has rejected a proposal to replace the local assocations with a universal working- men's association, controlled by a centralized execative, The same question will come up in the socialist congress The group of Berlin soc 3 Bruno Wille has engendered the opposition chief representatives of parliamentary E m, Herr Von Grillenberger, speak- ing at Nuremburg, referred to the Wille as soclutionas secking popularity through the calumniating of men of proven worth. He said that no divergence existed among genuine socialist leaders, The infa- mous reports aiming at the disruption of the party emanated from & group in Berlin, where among three sodialists one could be counted as an agent provocateur. Herr Grillenberger’s language plainly sug- gested that if Herr Wille were not a spy his action tended to assist the govern- ment to weaken the party. Dr, Peters, who is staying at Nuremburg, has reccived from Councillor Kayser the following telegram “In the name of the colonial department I greet you after vou first rest on the soil ©f your fatherland with the wish that your extensive experience be of advantage togthe entire German interests in East Africa,”” The authorities of Berlin wall re ¢ Dr. Peters on Monday next. Horr Simpson. president of the supreme court ut Leipsic, is about to retire, He is eighty years of age. illiam has invited unt Von Moltke to witness the Schleswig manceuvr S DID HE SWIM THE CHANNEL? nse distrust, comes from en states th Considerable Doubt as to the Ge uineness of the Achievement. [Copyright 189 by James Gordam Bennett.) Loxpoy, August 2 New York Herald Cable-Special to Tir Beel—Next to the Asiatic cholera theme, which is exciting the most interest in the London press, is Dal- ton and his supposed swim across the chan- nel. Some persons take it as personal in- sult if any doubt 1s cast upon the genuine- ness of the American’s achievement, while others side with the writde of the sceptical letter in the Times, which ] cabled, declaring Daltonto be a monumental fraud. Anxious toclear himselt of suspicion, the swimmer has had the following statements by himself and companions sworn 1o before a Folkstone of the peace that: [ swam the whole from Boulogno breakwater to Hythe onmy back. With refevenee to the letter in the Timgs, I solemnly deélare that it is a false statement, and s it is 1to in- jure my reputation and do_me grievous dam- age, 1 1l take means t0 proceed against those who are responsible for the slander, Davis Divroy.” I nad charge of the dingy, which I did not have to wuse until | four or five hours after Dalton jumpel from the Ocean King. I did i not leave the dingy uatil we reached Folkstone, I will swear that Dalton received no assiste ance trom either my boat or the Ocean King. Hexky E, Bray, Similar aMdavits have been made by Boat- men Dunn and Young. he man who made notes of the trip tells how the two latter were on the Ocean King and frequently aba con- | siderable distance from the swimmer, Bran's | evids 2 is practically all there s to go on und a good part of the public is not cevtain whether that evidence is suficient to estab- lish authentically so surprising a feat as swimming sixty miles in an open sea in less than twenty-four Bours, - s Heavy Failure. KxoxviuLe, Tenn., August 23.—Repre- sentative Jones, & prominent builder und railroad contractor, assigned today. Liabili- ties, $100,000; ussets, $30,000, ealeul A Contract Peterhof conveys the distinet impression that | 'Y M. DEPE He Touches Lightly on the New York Central Strike, (Copyright 1890 by Jam=s Gordon Bennett.] Pas, August 23 ~[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tug Bee.]—At 8 o'clock this evening & railway omnibus of the roomest kind, loaded inside and out, drew up at Hotel D'Albe. It contained Chauncey M Depew and his impedimenta, To & corre spondent who was admitted after Depew dined, our Chauncey, spre g0 copy of the Paris Horald out upon a table before him, “We have got toread the Herald for the ofthe world, We just returned from burg, stopping on the way at_Cologne, and [ don’t know that there 1s any difference Colog 3 Central Afvics, so far of the world is concernod. Ifitwere not for the Herald in Paris and Toudon, an American in Europe would be the most hopelessly stranded man in the universe Stanl through the virgin forest for four months and then geiting his news from tho chief of the pigmies, would not bea circumstance to it.” “And the New York Contral strike, Mr. Dopew!” ‘Notifications T have recelved from the office are tothe effect that the situation is not sufficiently sevious to demand my per: sonal attention and that under no circum. nces am I to break my vacation, Had [ anticipated the rupture I would not have taken my vacation, but now that it has oc- | curred durimg my absence T will not return onaccount of it, I have kuown my associ ates in management so long [ have absolute confidence in their discretion, wisdom and justice “With respect to your having been asked by the mon to mediate, Mr. Depew “I Lave recelved no message of any kind All the information I have vd fre Ame a has come from the Central offic When the strike broke out 1 was wshing through Tyrol, traveling by night and sight-seeing by day. quite surpassing the astonishing movements | of Mr. Phineas Fogg, who did all the picture galleries of Europe by devoting twenty min utes to each.’ Having thus quitted the trackon which | had tried to keep him by many questions, Mr. Depew glided on smoothly as follows: “This last expedition of mine was for health and veligion. I got health at Tyrol and at Ham- burg, and spiritual inspiration of a more in vigorating sort at Oberammergan, No pagan or atheist or matter of fact person should go there, but no man or we of whatever creed, who as o child at hisg@her mother's knee bas wept over the stotg of Christ's passion, can be otherwise than both _ profoundly impressed and re ceive’ mew light on the divinity of humanity to which we owe our present civilization in this world of salvation or the next. 1 haye seen all the great actors Wl countries during the last twenty-five years,and cach of them has moments in which the personality of the actor subovdi- nates the character and temporarily spoils the play, but in the presentation of the seriptuval characters at Oberammergau this fault never occurred. Christ, Judas and Pilato have no equals, and have had none If tho passion play were represented ot _the London Lyceum or at any great New York theater, it would be sacriligious beyond toleration, but in that se- cluded Bavarian village the vast audience is transported to the beginning of the Christian era and swayed by the same emotions asif they had been witnesses of the infinite love, frightful sacrifice, resurrection and transfig- uration which constitute the pain, hope and glory of Christian faith. Indeed I have mever ben so much impressed in my life. . After Oberam- mergau, by traveling by on odd trains by day, living as General Pope once said, “in the saddle,”” I saw the tomb of Juli Verona, looked at the balcony in the house of Capulet and from its height judged that Romeo must have been a gymmast who would have taken all the honors of a modern collegiate course; ailed through the grand canal of Wenice and listened to a serenade; waved a pathetic f well to the dark-eyed maids who leaned over the balconies; did Milan in three hours with- out breakfast; solved the mysterics of St. Gothard tunnel from & railway standpoint of experience, and landed at Hamburg after ten days of and night traveling as fresh as the conventional daisy, and s ready to absorb all the entertainments which had been prepared at Hemburg, “I had the pleasure of lunching and dining with the Prince of Wales and rediscovering his partiality for America, admiring his wonderful tact and astuteness, forces which g0 to govern the history of varioas countrie and secing how strong a support he s to royalty and its perpetuity in the British empive, There is no shade of opinion of Great Britain which is not welcome to his table and which does not enjoy and appre- ciate being his guest. Certainly no stranger contrast could be presented than that be- tween the most brilliant lawyer of the Eng- lish bar and the ablest Irish home ruler, Sir Charles Russell, and the most ag- grressive,courageons and irritating orangeman Colonel Sande One of the happiest veminiscences of my present trip will be that of having met three members of my own profession—so eminent and yet of so d and acquirements 3ir Charles Russell and George The vest place on earth the world's panorama, the old world, and study | influences which govern as néw! cutting s son. erse influenc Bowen, as Justice Dr, to seo political and soc it, is Holbourg. Mr. Depew in September. ils for home by the Teutonic o ASIATIC CHOLERA BUGAROO, Newspapers Attempt to Create ment Over the Matter, [ Copyright 189 by James Gordon. Bennett,) Loxnoy, August 23.—|New York Herald Cuble-Special to Tue Bee)—Certain ex- citable evening papers are making desperat attempts to stir up excitement in London on the subject of Asiatic cholers, their evident motive being to boom their eirculation during the dull season reral of these sensational | organs published o statement tonight that a second victim of the terrible ' at the Popular hos| was stated to be a White, who bad nursel the cholera vietim, Robert Ticgh, whom I wired fully two days ago. ing this startling statement tened to the hospital curate information. Dr. Corner, the houso surgeon, who reccived e, spoke as follows: It is truc that we have a bad case of cholera here, and what is more, one waich terminated fatally, but 1 would not take the responsibility of pronouncing it | of the Asiatic variety, uor was tne victim xcites disease had tal, This certain Ellen first Asiatic concerning On read 1 at once for mor patient hus ac little girl only five years old, mitted 3 few hours later. who. was wl- morning carty, and died a She was in a state of com- plete collapse when received and was al beyond hope The st that she had con- | wacted the discase from Sailor Tiegh is ut- | torly false, wnd, in wy opinion, she did uot night and catehing one of our nurses, s has been reported, buta | ¥ - - ¥ dieof Asi holera, but = | choleratic haa, And how is the man Tiegh doing ! I think he is now in a faic way to 3 such excellent sanitary measures peen taken that [ doubt very much his ing communicated Asiatic cholera to any in London ; still, it 18 too soon to speak | | tively on that point, as the period of incuba tion has hardly yet passed.” + One good result of the cholera s¢ be to cause Bngland's sanitary open their eyes to many existing conditions which could not but favor the spread of pes- tilenco ially, ordinar lish [ 5 re may wthorities to Thie Globe tonight, speaking editor: sys pride themsclves with good reason on being the inhabitants of a cityf which for its size has no sanitar: condition equal in the world.” That Is vue, and tho British metropolis has shown o far lower death rate than any other cap ital in Christendom. Still theve s abundant evidence o prove that some dis- tricts are swept and garnished for the tion of king who can_ pass thr any overcrowded locality without becomin unpleasantly aware that he is smong highly unsanitary surroundings, and if he enters the houses he will soon learn through his or of sightand smell that defective drainage, unemptied dust bins, untrapped closets and other abominations contribute to poison the air, Nor Is London alone in having need to her house in order before the arrival of dread eastern pestilence. There other great Mnglish cities which still more cccasion to be up and doing; wealthy Manchester of the foremost sinners against the anita- tion. Ofticial reports prove that ar tres in Cottonopolis which reflect disgrace on the authorities. The present lealth officor of that city afims that the heavy death rate in certain notorious distric s solely due to the y condition under which the fnhabita wry on their struggle for existence. The air is poisoned, the soil is impreguated with germs of d nouses are filth sodden lapidateg, and while entilation is en o a set the | are have is one wdly discase, and scandalously di terribly overcrowded A Distingnished Astronomer Corrects A Popular Mistake, L[Copyright 18% by James Gonlon Bennett.) Panis, August 25.—(New York Herald Cable —Special to Tie Bek.]The European tion published this morning the following letter from a distinguished astronomer to the editor of the Herald: “Most of the daily papers have made & mistake in thinking and stating that the late devastating storm at Dreux wasa eyclone. It is nov so; it was not acyclone but an energotic storm of a most formidable nature. It broke simultancously at Dreux and Alsace in July and at Madrid Thenature of this disastrous outbreak of | clements made a violent eraption or dis- s of abmospheric electricity, a result of vory irregular and troubled through~ which we have just passed, and which has formed ono of the most oxtraordinary summers of this century, so grout have been our contrasts of temperaturo and contractions of moisture. - On the night of the storm, from 0 till midnight, myself and three other observers were witnesses from this observatory, from a distance, of this fearful terrific electric phenomena, 1t was a series of electric flashes having the aspect and glare of a conflagration, the light being abrightred. This sinister looking burning color raised itselt fiitaen degrees above the hovizon in the west and was traversed by in- cessant lightning flashes; nevertheless not a sound was hoard and weasked ourselves what was happening. There was not a breath of wind whero we were. Not two seconds pissed without those lightning flashes papers assert, thata pienomena of this kind has never oc- curred before in Normandy. ‘Chere again they are in error completely, In this same month of August, 1845, aphenomena almost similarin every respect occurred, leaving just as terri- blesouvenirs, at Marscilles, at Malaunet and Claires. The electricity played so strong a part that the insurunce companies refused At fist to pay damages, say- ing that it was & thundevbolt. It was not a cyclone, because a eyclone is a arometeric depression over a vast era often much as 50 lclometres in diameter. There | were no such barometerical depressious in | this instance, it was an eruption of theat- mosphere, saturated with electricity, CAMILLE FLANMASCION, Observatoire, August 23, 1800, LEP SINGP, season T PRINCE VICTOR DHU He Unburdens Himself to a London Reporter. | Copuright 18% by James Gordon Bennett.) Pamis, August 23.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tur Ber,)— His highness is i1l and has been peremptorily forbidden by doctors to receive visitors,” was the reply sent down by Prince Vietor Dhulep Singp to a Herald reporter who called at the hotel D'Albe to talk with Dhulep Singp Maharajah of Lapore on his pardon by Queen Victoria, and some kindly physician had apparently warned Prince V against the danger of receving journalists, for it was ouly after much parleying that I galned aceess to his room. *I thought you wanted to interview my father, don't you kuow,” said Prince Victor, “and he's ill and has 1 forbidden to talk much, He 800 you, you know. We hoped to be able to move him on Tuesday. We shall cross to Folkestone and stay right there, and Claridges will most probably find us in London. Iean't tell you anything more; Idon't know anything more; I don't know anything about family affairs: T am an Eng- lishman and don’t want to have anything to do with Indian affai but if you'll go to General Tevis he will tell you everything you want to know; he's conducted all father's business; if you tell him I sent you he'll tell you all be can about the documents, you know,” concluded this godson of her majesty. General Tevis however, the which® even able to dam, the from an entirely reliable that Dhulep Singp wrote let- ter to Queen Victoria expr contrition for his past conduct and praying for pardon; that her majesty’s pardon avvived just one week later, and that there has so far been no mention by either the queen or prince of the restitution of the maharajah's peusion - ThelWeather For Omaha and Vicinity lowed by fair; warmer., ¥ Nebraska—Fair in western, local showers in e u portions; variable winds; cooler in western, warmer in eastorn portion For lowa—Local showers ; slightly warmer; | utherly winds, For South Dakot | tionary temperature, e tion; cooler; wes acious also refused to tatk, s of information i not’ learnod anthority As, are sour an Indian month werally fair; sta pt in central winds, - )t at the British, Portu uese Sh | 1ast night Care Towy, es have | been received et that the | Portuguese have repeatedly fired upon the British expedition while it"was proveeding | | sloug tho British side of the Zuwmbesi river. | — g NUMBER (7. AN ATROCIOUS CHILD )ll'Rl)ER Two Abandoned Wrotohes Oharged With Brutality Almost Inconceivables NARROWYY ESCAPE LYNCHINGs THEY | Another Interesting Programme Cave ried Ont at the Blue Grass Palnco —A New Censas to bo at Port Dodgo, aken Drs Moixes, Ta,, August 23.—[Spectal Teles gram to Tue Bee]—A bratal and blood curdling murder was perpetrated in n dirty, dilapidated hovel situated fa an alley at 213 East Court avenue near the hour of widuight The victin was o pretty little baby about threo months old, the i1l o child of Bob Penestone, alias Bob Smith, and & woman who gives lier name s Mrs, Rose. inhuman parents who Id. They were arrested ted i th entored uted by the oficers wio this morning. @ As house they were filthy, neglected, mise furnishe tilled " with foul aiv and nau bad liquor und tobacco smoke, woman were stretehed at full length acr the dirty floc oxicated ar on the floor, was their innocent victim, fechiy struggling in the las es of death. Its mutilated face was bloody and torn, o ghastly cut being visible ' on its left cheek, while on its forehead was biue, bruised spot, where it had been struck, A young lad told how he had scen the drunken fathee pick the baby up by its foet, whirl around in tho air several times, and strike its e on the floor, of the boy's stor upon th At had gathered was st that the fiend inearaate would undonvtedly 0 strang up to the nearest lap posty but for the protection of the police. mado they confi Lbly the a room rous fumes of The man and have be Missouri Valley Notes, Missounrt Varey, Tu, August23,—[Speis to e Bee]—The republican county cons vention has been called for Soptember 10, Although there ave a considerable number of aspirants for each ofice, the indications are that the convention will be a quiet one. The ladies of the Eastern Stav of this city have completed arrangements for a grand picnie at Noble's lake next Thursday The M. P.sof this and adjoining states will hold their annual meeting “here August borate arrangements have been made the accommodation of visitors, Colonel Dailey and Judge Aylesworth of Council Bluffs are on_the programie for addresses, besides several local spoakers, A lurge ate tendance is anticipatec wer last nicht a splendid thing for o i and potat At the Blue Gr Curstoy, Ta, August [ vum to Tie Bree. j—Excursion trains from vke and Adams counties filled the city I visitors ngain today. Tomorrowimorning the big o on from the Corn Palace city will arrive and remaln until Monday. They are reported as having the most finely decorated train which will visit the Blue Grass city during the xposition. Sunday’s servieo at tho palace will be conducted by Rev. A, N. Hiteheock, & noted divine of Chicago. The features of today’s exposition was a special vuce botween sonio of the finest hor:es in the big western civeuit, Thalbe being « prime favorite, Summa Thalberg, b. g, C. Bates, Decorah, fa.l Wallace, g chig xton, Jr., Conxixg, Ia, August 3pe e.]—At the republican county convention held here today seven delegates were selected to go to Chariton who are op- posed to the nomination of James P, Ilick for congress. His friends introduced a rosolu- tion to instruct the del for him, bat It d by at Ieast a three-fourths majovity, Wants Another Col Fort Donae, Tn., August 23.—[Special sgram to Tik Bee,]—The ety council at the request of the Business Men's association has ordered a census recount at the pense, and the new consus will bo taken in connection with the school census next weel, The figures of the ofticial count fall below the estimated population of the city by about one thousand and the citizens refuse to accept the result as authenti — —-— BURNED TO A CRISP, A Six-Year-Old Stanley rl Mects a Shocking Death, Keansey, Neb., August 23.—[Special Telo- gram to i Ben]-—-A six-year-oid girl of Frank Petit, living near Stanley, was hor ribly burned last night and she died this morning. She and an elder sister were lights ing wisps of hay in tho absence of their par- when her dress caught on fire, The sned ehild ran ont, the flames consums lothing and burning her flesh to a crisp. Will Marrey ovisviLLE, Ky., v, who is the shot Annie the - Man Who Shot Her, August 23, Me- curator of a local cemes taken, the girl whom he s He was ens ing to Jilt him, McCrary a short ded her young hen gaged to hier, but she was tr The shooting was quite tr called on the girl, interview, i which for keeping company man, shot her through shot himself twic Her death seem table and McCrary was placed under After ling 1g near death ten Staken rallied and is now well. McCrary wis taken to Miss Staken's bed- i s married, Miss Staken with MeCrary after he y proud of the posse sion of such o violent love as his, and the marriage took place at her request. The marriage will prevent her testifying against McCrary. sic. after upbra another i 1 in Eusr days Mi and, he with the head ed shot he gram to Tik Br. | perior The democr ¢ extensive preparations for the entert it of the delogates to the democratic congressional convention, which mects in this city next Tuesday. They have engaged the opera house and employed the Webber cornet band to supply the music for the oceasfon, They exnect a large delegation of the unterrified and propose making the convention their first gun in_their eampaign fu the valley. They expect James E, Boyd, their candidate for governor, and other dise tinguished democratic statesmen from Omaha and elsewhere to be present and ade dress them, S Steamship Arvivals, At New York—The Labourgono, Havro; the Umbria, from London, At Bremerhaven—The Fulds, from New York; the Lizard passed La Champagne, from New York for Havro At Queenstown—The British Princess, -~ The Vote on the Tarifr Bill, W ASIINGTON, August 28, —Senator Gorman, ic caucus, says no chairman of the dem ag ment has been reached vespecting the date when the vote shull Le taken on the tarift bill, from | B e