Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1891, Page 10

10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1801—TWE OMAHA'S FEATHERED OPERA. Obat About the Birds that Will Make Lifo Brighter Very Soon. MEMBERS OF THE WOODLAND CHOIR. @hrush and Lark, Eloe Bird and Jay Bird, Robin and Brown Thrasher, Woodpecker and Humming Bird and Their Kind. “Tha first bird of spring “Attempted to sing, “But ere ho had sounded a note “He fell trom the llmb— dead bird was him; “The muslo had froze inhis throa In this laconic and ungrammatical manner did an irreverent writer once depict the fate of the songster ambitious to usher in the wpring season without first obtaining permis- sion from the weather clerk. 1f any such attempt has been made in Omaha during this year of grace, 1591, tho rash warbler has paid for his tomority with his life. Nature has thus far held out but slight inducements tothe dwellors in air to come forth from their cozy winter quarters and hunt out a summer abiding place and feeding ground. Yet there is a promise iu the swelling of the buds and the future is big with hope, Not far distant is the time when tho avenues and byways of this city will be avched with green, and every lawn of the city's many tand verdure crowned, an urgent invit- ation to the feathered virtuosi to hold forth daily in oratorio and concert. Thea will rising and going down of the sun be gr with glad bursts of symphonious sweetness; rless cantatas will make pleasant the rming hours, ushered in with musical fns, and the evening will close with ous vesper songs. Omaha's people will bless these little birds, whose voluntary ef- forts make so pleasant the‘opening and clos- fng of the day. Hopplog from twig to twig, fluttering from tree to tree, twittering and chattering, noisy with their nest building, busily discussing family plans and prospects, theso companions of the spring are welcome everywhera by everybody. Nebraska, unfortunately, does not offer extra inducements to tho' songsters of tho foathered tribes. And, by tho way, “feath- ered” is used advisedly, sinco it is by the feather alono that the bird is absolutely dis- tinguished. This has been the mark of the bird since tho earliest time, from the fossil archmwopteryx to the present; and nature has 1ot been able to improve upon this admirable combination of strength,durability and firm- ness since the Jurassic, In the ostrich the feather approaches the hair, and in the pen- fzuin it resembles the scale, but in each it is distinctly u feather. Thus to call the birds “feathered” is to mark them especially as birds. Lack of forest arca, which will breed fusects and worms, is in the main responsible for tho absence of @ great variety of singing birds from Nebraska, since tho insocts, worms, otc., form the chief food of the sweetest songsters, and it is_in the solitude and shado of the leafy glades that the winged maestro loves to pouf forth his melody. ‘The commoner migratory songbirds are well rep- resented here, One of the first looked for in the spring is thorobin, Ho is numerous, or ratber the mombers of the great ormthological division o which he belongs are numerous around Omaha. Robin Redbreast is met on every and whero the trees afford him shelter and vest. His simple, sweet song is poured forth without stint, and his general good conduct Tias rendered im a prime favorite. Not 80 his cousin, the blackbird, His cheery whistlo makes him many friends, but ho is Such an arrant knave in many respeots that he is not_so popular as_one could wish. Auother cousin of the robin in this section is the thrush. Occasionally his beautiful notes aro heard, thrilling the ear with a flood of in- imitable, ' indescribable melody, not infre- quently ‘answered from another pact of the wood by & mate or a friend. ‘Tho thrush is one of the swoetest voiced members of the woodland choir. During a rain its notes, low and sweet, are often heard coming from beneath the shelter of & crag or limb, A more familiar member of this family is the bright little blue bird, which, though not a brilliant vocalist, is still picasant to look upon. Eyorybody knows the whistle of the jay bird. A pugnacious, cruel bird he is, Omulyerous, he prefers eggs or the young of other birds, and is a confirmed, professional nest-robber. e is very familiar in habits, and loves the companionship of man, Oné lady tells of o jaybird which lived in a box- elder treo in her yard threo years, hiding under the eaves of the house during the vio- lent storms of winter. Every morning he would hop down to her window and whistle until ho was fed. Then he would shrilly chirp his thanks. During the summer he roved a vigilant guardian of the cherry trees, KWhilo he would gormandise bitaself ha would not allow another bird on the premises, This family is widely distributed. It has other ropreseutatives in America but none in Ne- braska. . No one on looking at the handsome, timid meadow lark, would suspect him of having “halaspidean’ tavsi, technically making bim scutelliplantur.” Such fs_tho caso, howey- or, and this vesy fact gives systomatists much troublo in assigning the lark to a niche in the ornithological temple. It doesn’t count against him in overy day life, however, and his snarp, clear whistlo is just as glad as though no one kuew._ anything about his tar- sus or his_ scutes. Just around Omaha the lark is indecd a rava avis,butout a littlo way, whero tiie meadows Lie, ono can hear him iq the morning. 1t is an Inspiring sight to see this nently drossed, thoroughly' woil bohaved and dignified individual, the” meadow lark, draw himself up,as if conscious of his action, aud then almost without effort let sound his short, cloar, sweet _whistle, nearly a repro- duction of Bob White'scall, but m oro music- al. Then ke looks around’ timidly, gets the effoct of his effort and repeats it. His friends join him and a_wild but wholly narm onious fugue s the result. Karely, vot once in a while, the wonderful melody of the skylari is heard this far west. When this all bt peer- 1ess songster visits this rogion, or for that matter, Awmerica, it is only in the character of u tramp—a_straggler from the great col- uma moving from the Bermudas to Green- land. In Kurope he is common, and is then looked on us the barbinger of spring, His matutioal song has been described in times beyond number by poets. Saucy pertness personified on the little wrens Wwho wrangle and scold and storm about the crumbs from the kitchen, or the shreds from the dooryard. Thelr song is not much to speak of, bt their nawette is charming aug their many anties delightful. The wren 15 “an_amoosin’ little cuss,” indeed. Once i a houso a palr of trousers hung un- used near o window with a_broken pain, Through this window cumo Mr. and Mrs. Wren, In a pocket of the unusod trousers they established their household and reared thelr family, not only undisturbed, but ap- arently entertainod by the doings of the eathorless bipeds who otcupied space under the same roof. A cousin of the wren, o tame little rascal, is the brown thrasher, Hisnest is built on a'low bush, is well knowu to every schoolboy, and his single little song is quito sufficient apology for his modest demands upon socety. Humming birds are often seen but seldom heard in Omana. The reason is the species-- thore are 400 species contained in 120 genera found solely in the new world—peculiar to Nebrasku hias no song save a sbrill twit Sometimes the ruby throated humming bird from tho cast journeys westward to visit his relatives of the plains. On such occasions he pays for bis entertainment in sones as de- Liclous as his dress is gorgeous. But those that do uot sing delight the eve and dazo the mind with wonderful circles aud darts in_flight, feats no other bird ean accomplish. This mite of lifo has a power of oon\ro‘llug flight almost beyond expianation or comprehension. Ho belongs to the swift family. In another land—Borneo--the nests of his uncles, the swifts, ure torn from the darknoss of caverns and sold to Chinese to go into soup. In this countey the chimnoy- swift (often erroneously called swallows) is well known, He may be seen any evening in literal swarms, circling sbout the unused chimney in which he makes his bouse. ‘Au ancient but searcely honorablo member of the bird family well known iu these parts, is the woodpacker, he of the bright red head, black back and white breast. In the timbor soon his hard beak will bo busy rap- plog out his love song—his whirring, monot- onout drimming on the dry branch of a dead* trea boing his method of telling the world he's honing for a mate. His horn-tipped tonguo deals doath to many & hapiess bug aud worm. Oue thing is strongly in his favor. Ho shares the responsiblifties of hoto with his wife—whoso head is not red— and takes his turn at keeping the eggs warm and rustling bugs for the little pockers, His first cousiu the flicker,and his second cousin, the sap sucke | known. The latter is & ggra scamp, in whose favor nothing is known. In all 850 species of woodpecker are known, their wide distribu- tion proving their antiquity. Remarkable for its fish eating habits and fts solitude Is the _kinghsher, It loves a quiet, secluded haunt along a still brook, lake or pond or a sluggrish stream with high, precipitous bunks. He may be seon sometimes along the Ne- braska tributaries of the Missouri. He is a pretty bird to look at, but very shy, and an ill bird indeed, for' he fouls his nest and handsome eggs. ' Yct we hear of “halcyon days,” from the old superstition that used the kingfisher as a barometer and weather vane, a superstition now deader than the kingfisher before being put to that us About the only night bird who attempts music in Nebraska is the whippoorwill, and his wierdly plaintive, almost uncarthly, notes are not heard frequently enough to rendor them familiar, Where ho is known well he is fearcd as a bird of ill omen Nover a uogro would fire a gun noran Indian looso an arrow at o whippoorwill, He i & cousin of the much maligned goat-sucker, and like the latter is found among herds at night, whero he destroys myriads of insects that would torment the cattle he is accused of preyingupon. After him comes the owl, very well known 1 Nebraska, Of the cucoo the least said the better. The odium attached to his name is doserved. The most enthusiastic naturalist contents himself with merely dispelling the pure fiction that surrounds this member of tho tribe, and leaves him damned beneath a ponderous burden of actual sins of omission and com- mission, Bob White is well known, and 0 is the prairie chicken, the sage hen and the ruffed and pinnated grouse. Their chief use to man i3 to grace his table and tickle his palate, Robin, thrush, blue bird, brown thrasher, ay bird, black bird, woodpecker, each for 'the cherrics he steals in the destruction of swarms of insects and worms. Many a sermon has been preachod on this, yet there are people who erumblo about, the fruit and the grain the birds destroy. 1f tho birds should o on a strike for a season these grumblers would gladly call them back. Like the fly, the English sparrow has a placo in nature's cconomy, but it takes o deeply scientific mind to discover it. These quarrelsome, noisy, wholly disagrecable im- migrants could well bo spared. Their cease- less bickerings on crowded streets often b come almost unbearavlo, and their imperti- nent presence everywhere is offensive. In Omaha they serve no good purpose whatever, unless it bo to clear away the millions of bugs nightly destroyod by the clectric lights on the stroets, Any summer morning a fock of these rusty-coated scalawags may bo found underucath u street lamp gormandiz- ing and chattering, as much as to say it was but just the council should provide m for their casy sustenance. It takes much charity to tolerate the English sparrow. To the boys: When you climb a tree this summer and look into & “nest containing four biue eggs, black speckled, or five brown ones, orin factany sort of a nest, don't touch it You might dostroy a uscful member of next summor's bird choir. Digieaini THE BELL OF LANCASTER. Blanche Nevin in New York Independent, Fair are the fields of Lancaster, And rich in corn and e, Brightly the sun at Lan Shines over hill and plain; There 1 the spring the garden beds Witk yellow flowers bloom gay; Tho butterfiies and honey bees Surrovnd them all the day. Oh, bell—sad bell, Cease thy knell! And T would go to Lancaster, And I would huppy be! There aro kind hearts at Lancaster, And hands held out to me; And yoices that I know aud love Salute me as T pass; But voices I still better knew T hear no more —alas | Oh, bell—sad bell, Ceaso thy knell| On a hill-slope at Lancaster, With fair, out-lying view, Shadowed by flocey clouds ‘that pass, Above in ether blue; There—underneath the grassy sod, With dandelions bespread, Waiting the resurrection—lie The ashes of my dead, Oh, bell—sad bell, Cease thy knell! Oh, birds, sweet birds of Lancaster, Sing-out your loudest strain ! Try if you inay not drown the sound ‘Chat fills my heart with pain| For, evermore at Lancaster, Pulsating in the air, I hear tho tolling of ' bell That calleth tot to prayer. Oh, bell —sad bell, Cedse they knell! Oh, tolling bell of Lancaster, Whatever I may do— However strive to close my ears, You vibrate through and through. Whatever song I listen to Your cadence throbs apart; "Mid laugh and jest I feel your stroko Beat heavy on my heart, Oh, bell —sad bell, Ceaso the knell| On, cruel bell of Lancastor! Bronze hata not ruth of pain, Else surely thou wouldst pity take And cease thy minor strain. On, shining sun of Lancaster, For me you shine no more! Oh, singing birds of Lancaster, Ye canuot heal my sore! Oh, bell—cruel bell, Thou wilt never cease to knell ! The New Discovery. You have heard your friends and neighbors talking avout i on may yourself be one of the many who inow from parsonal experi- ence just how good a thing it is, If you have over tried i, you are one of its’ staunch friends, because the wonderful thing about it is, that' when once given a trial, Dr. King's New Discovery ever aftor holds a placo in the house. 1f° you have never used it and should be afificted with o cough, cold or any throat, lung or chest trouble, secure a bottle at once and give 1t a fair trial. [t is guaran- teod every time, or money refunded. bottle free. Goodman Drig Co. PEPPERMINT DROPS. Reputation is the mean of life; somo men have tolive up to it, others to live it down. “Hope springs ctornal in human broast,” but the waters before our thirst is quenched. Nearly every one rates himself at his truo valuation, but ho1s careful not to take the world into his confidence. 1f some mon had the nine lives of a cat they would waste them all in folly and then have nine deathbed repentances, It takes us years to learn what little we do know and twice s long to unlearn the great deal that we think wo know, but don't. While the girl of the period is shining in the parlor, her mother is shiniug in the kitchen An old bachelor makes the cynical remark that thero are the same lotters in *united” and “untied.” The transposition, however, is not always easy to mako. e e Y De Witt’s LittleEarly Risers: only pill to cure sick headacno and rerulete the bowels. i) Fiis dol: O1d Railroader's Close Call. William Gillett, a Union Pacific brakeman, had a narrow escape from death the other day. He belongr to a crew on tho coal run between Medicine Bow and Hauna, ~ Whilo switching at Hanna Gillett started to climb down the side ladder of one of the cars while they were being given a big start to send them up & heavy grade and wore running at tho rate of fifteen miles an nour, one of the handles of the ladder gave way, swung out with him and, as he says, kept. ou swinging as long as he know anything. He was thrown violently to the ground. Luckily he struck a muddy place and did not roll far. He struc on the left side of bis face, cutting and bruis- ing himself badly. His right armn was thrown out and one finger fell across the rail and was run over by the wheels aud crusbed, Gillott is 8fty-two years old and has boon rallroad- ing siuce He uover before received so much &s & serateh, WILL START A TRADE SCHOOL. Omaha Builders Take Steps Toward the Es- tablishment of a Now Institution, 0D EST BEGINNING OF A GREAT PLAN. Work in Sight for Local Artisans— Legistative Enactmerfts Favorable w Railway Employes—Local Labor Matters, People who are not on the inside have an idea that when the mombers of the Builders' aud traders' exchange meot in their elogant rooms in the Life building, their chief oocu- pation is to have a good time and discuss the prices at which material 1s sold in the market, This is the case to some extent, but the members have another object in view. It hus not yet been given to the public, but will be ere many days. Some months ago the members conceived the idea of a trades school, something like those that have boen in successful operation in Now York, Boston and other eastera cities, Last winter when the delogates attended the national convention of builders, th were specially instructed to investigate this subject and report, Dick Smith devoted much of his time to tho study of this matter and upon his return ox- plained the situation to the members of the Omaha exchange, That his report was satis- factory there is but little doubt, as since that date the trades school has been dis cussed at every meoting, until now it is a foregone conclusion that Such a school will be established and in operation this summer. A brief description of the workings of the school and the plan upon which it will be op- 1 cannot fail o interest all of those who counceted with the trades, is to turn out competent and ex- pert workmen, and to accomplish this, a lot will be rented i some central portion of the This will be enclosed and covered with f and every trada will be ropr ., thore will be a carpen- shop where, under competent instructors, wiil be taught the uso of tools, after si they will be given instructions in the ‘'hey will be taught todo framing and make “such caleulations as must come in tho practical experience of men working in this line, In another part of the building there will bo the plumbing department, where boys will be taught the rudiments of the trade under the instructions of skilled workmen. Other departments will be set aside for stone dre , masons, plasterers, architects and all of those who dosire to becomo build- ers in any sense of the term. This school will not in any way interfere with apprentices. Instead, it will have a tendency to help them. The object is ot to turn out from this school any full-fledged mechanics, but merely to fit them for their apprenticeship. To the casual observer it may seem as though it would be a difficult matter W sup- port such an institution, but this has all been overcome. The enterprising lumbe men of the exchange bave agreo to furnish the lumber for the building, while plumbers and representatives of the various trades have come to the front and will furnish such tools and material as may be needed in carr ing on the work. Undoubtedly at the next meeting of the exchange the various committees will be ap- pointed and within a short timo the pupils will be receiving their instructions, Require Automatic Conplins. The railroad employes of this stato are happy in knowing that house roll 6, intro- duced by Mr. Gardner of this county, has be- come a law and has been signed by Govornor Boyd. The bill provides that it shall be unlawful for any corporation, company or person oper- ating any line of railroad in’ this state; any car manufacturer or trausportation company using or leasing cars to put 1n use in this state; any new cars or any cars that have been seut into the shop or shops for general repairs, or whose draft rigging has to be re- patred With a new draw-bar or bars, that ave not equipped with safety or automatic couplers or draw-bars such as shall not neces- sitate the going between the ends of the cars to couple or uncouple them. After January 1, 1805, it is made unlawful for any corpora- tlon, "company or persons oporating railtoad or any transportation com- pany using or leasing cars of any description and used in the commerce of the county: or in the construction of rail- roads to have upon any railroad in Nebraska for use in transportation of freight or passen- gers auy car that is not equipped with such safety automatic coupler as provided for in section 1 of this act. It is also made unlawful for any corpora- tion, compauy, or person operating any line of railroad in this state to use any locomotive © upon any railrond or in any railroad yard in this state after the first duy of Janu- ary, 1802, that is not equipoed with a proper and'efiiclent power brake, commonly called a “drive brake.” Thoe bill further provides that it shall be unlawful for any corporation, company or person operating n lino of rail* road in this state to run any train of cars after the first day of January, 153, that shall not have in that train a_sufficient number of cars with some kind of efficient automatic ower brakes so that the engineer upon the ocomotive car can_control tho train without requiring brakemen to go botwoen the end or ou tho tops of the cars to use, as now, the common hand braks Spring Work. The laboring men of Omaha are feeling somewhat elated over the manner in which work is opening up with the beginning of theseason. They predict a busy season in all kinds of trade with plenty of work for those who are fortunate enough to have learned trades. Already most of the brick and stone masons heve found employment at union scale wages. The season for laying stone and brick has hardly set in, butin a fow days all of these mon will have eucugh ~ to do. With the carpenters, work s light at present, as y o limited number of dwellings and busi- s houses are in course of construction, but as the seuson advances und contracts are let those who are in a position to know, claim that there will not be an idle man in the city. Plumbers, piusterers and other labovors are pleasod with the outlook, as they 3\:1 ove that labor will be in greater demand than any year since 1852, th the toilers who earn their do!lars ox- exercising their muscle there will be work for all and at fair wages. 'Ihe grading of a_large number of streets will furnish employment to an army of men, while the paving of streets, the extending of sewers and _building of new street car lines will furnish steady employmeut to from 500 t0 1,000 laborers. The East Omaha land company is planning work for many laborers, This consists in rading nearly ten miles of streots, besides putting in twenty miles of pavement. A Frieod of Plugs, Oxana, Neb., April 11.—To the Editor of Tue Bre: 1 see by last Suxnay’s Bee that “An Old Steamboat Engineer” has given his opinion of our city ordinance in regard to using safety plugs. Now, I wish to say that old hayseed bias forgotten that this is an age of progression; that because he has done foolish things there is no reason why others should do likewise. Now, as to the safety plugs, they can do no harm, but they cau do much good by keeping careless firemen on the lookout so that if they should fuse they would kuow that something was wrong and be on the lookout to remedy it. And is there any reason why Omaha should not try them other than because the govern- ment-failed! T think not, because there may be success in it yet,and if thers is and Omaha mechanics win, it will be & credit to them; besides, it Lelps' to pay the expenses of the inspector’s office by compelling steam- users to pay for the plugs and thus save the taxpayers from supporting the office, by mak- ing those who use boilers pay the expense; and as the forco will have to be increased in the near future it will need to be increased in fncome. The best way to do it 1s to make those who use steam. pay for the lugs, for it should not be presumed that a v of business men like our councilmen would pass such an ordinance if it was not & Rood one. As towoMd hayseed running five miles without any water in sight, it shows the plug was not all right, or else they cou'd not see whether it fased or not; but it is evi- dent 1t dono no Rrl by being thoro. Now as to the boiler l"l’?cwr's office being a po- litical junk shop, ‘1 will say If “Steam Thresher” had to ywork half as hard as our boiler inspector has he would think his lot a hard one. Ho says our boilor inspector and board of engineers aro a rocky lay out. They may 1ot .be up ta'the standard in old hay- seed's estimation, bat they are a sover, indus- trious lot of men, i if some one has fashed an Omaha licenso in his face, how does he know but that some Omaha engineer has sold his license to some one because he was going away, 8o that the mhn that had it was not the man 1t was given to for there are lots of engine that will db that very thing. Now I would say in conelusion that T will dofy “Steam Threaher” or any other man to show any good reason why safety plugs should not be put in, Friexp or Pruas, Labor Notes. The Delaware and Hudson canal com- vany’s collieries at Plymouth, Pa., have sus- pended work. The strike at Beatty's glass works at Tiffin, O., was settled on Saturday, the mon wia: ning the contest, Boston contractors have granted the re- quest of the pavers that nine bours shall con- stitute a day’s work. The striliing plaining mill_employes in Tu- dianapolis have decided to_start & co-oper: tive mill with £100,000 capital. The statement is attributed to Mr. Glad stono that che organization of labor during the last few years has saved England from revolution. The tabor unions of Australia have col- lected over 5,000 to erect an eight-hour mon- ument, the design of which represents the march'of intelligence and lubo During the last sixtcen years the number of children employed in the factories of the small graud duchy of Baden, Germany, has wcreased from §,515 to 13,120, The trouble between the engineers and ofticials of the Marietta & North Georg railroud has boen settled and the engincers will return to worlk terms are not made public. The wages of the employes of the Reading iron company at Reading, Pa., were reduced from i to 5 per cent on April 1, owing to the dullness of trade. Tho puddlers were re- duced 2 cents per ton, A dispateh from Louisville, Ky., says that the two thousand coal miners employed in the Laurol-J e to strike May 'hoy nsk pa) 1 before it is seroened, ight hours por day. iron moulders at the Pacific mills in San Francisco are on a strike. The Union Iron Works will bo affected, as it has relied on the Pacific wills for stecl castings for the war vesscls in course of construction. The labor ovganizations of San Francisco are considering 1 plan to form a free employ- ment burean for all unemployed, and an equitable produce and labor exchange for the co-operative estaplishments, under the auspices of the trades and labor council - The promptness and rertainty of its cures have made Chamberlain's congh famous, Lt is intended especially for coughs, colds, eroup and whooping cough, and is tho most'effectual remedy known for these dis- cases. 50 cont bottlcs for sale by druggists. rolling THE RED-HAIRED RANCHMAN, Denver Sun, 1 had a scrap the other night, While everythfiige was still} 1'd just dropped in at Murpny's An' was watching Bunco Bill, Who sat, bedecked tvith diamonds, Behind a paiuted sereen, Where scores of sharks aud suckers Were gumbling o the green. Butico Bill had dealt the cards Aud stood the, box on edwe; 1 sorter switched my holaings As if I'd like to_hedge. I don’t know much Ibout buckin’ banlk, In fact 1 often yearn For definiter knowledge "Bout the callin’ of the turn, A red-haired raneh alliance man Put twenty thetray He said be wan't guite positive, But *lowed twol1 como that way, The eagle ain't more'n closed his wings And settled on the cavd, "Til one *the buncoss swiped it. I'said to him: **Zi, para, O“That wan't no sleeper, pardon me, But you'd best drop that chip.” *‘Look here, you rhymin’ cuss,’ says he, . _.“You bettér keep your lip.” Well, one word brought another on, Aud Bill got purty fly; 1 took the freckled mark one side 'N I said to him says I— “You wan't sent hero to buck this bani, You come here to make laws, And curb the big monopolies And win the world's applause,” The red man coughed—got redder still, And ripped and cuss and swory And said ’f T didn’t hush he'd spiil My claret on the floor. Woll, purty soon then I got gay And told him he was lame Up in his old two-dollar hat; “Then he climbed on my frame, O sufferin’ Cyrus, how e fit, And how I tried to fight; 1 can’t walk, nor staud, uor sit; I nearly lost my sight. I can’t hear like I used to bear, But one thing I've learned sure; Where the disease 1s desporate The same must be the cure. I can’t say that I hate that man, Yet I wish him no harm; But rather 'n foel his grip agam D'd walk clean 'round nis farm, ————— The “Arg naut-" of '49, The wildest excitement and activity immediately ailed throughout the United Stafes.and every city and villago throbbed with a foverish impulse to rush to the diggings, says the Cen- tury, The difliculty and expense of renching this L incognita restrained thousands from the attempt,so that only those who possessed natural courage or adventurous proclivities, or whose local attachments were weak, actually made the great plunge into the unknown ex- perience which awaited the gold hunt- ers of 49, The world has never witnessed so motly and promiscuous a throng in pur- suit of a common object as sprung into life simultancous in the winter of 1848 49 and turned their course towards the gold fields of California. Men of all ages, ymen, - professors, doetc lawyers, farm tradors. mechanics, laborers of every degree, adventurcrs, thieves, gamblers und murders, jostled one another in the struggle to gain uc- cess to some of the avenues which were supposed o lead to the desived goul. The **Argonauts” had several routes among which to seleet. By those from the New Englandand the Middle-States the Cape Horn route; was generally - pre- ferred; those from the southern states chose the Isthmusiof Panama or ragua or Moxico; while the havdy pio- neers of the west.stho had become accus- tomed to prairie teuvel, started in th covered wagons, and following buffalo trails, broke the paths which in a fow months were plainly outlined by the bleaching bones of their boasts and the; mounds of dead companions who had, suceumnbed to the hardships of the: desert. Many who could not leave their homes sought to invest their capital in tho seductive venture, and a cooperative plan was generally adopted in the New England States by which the services of working members were offset by a fixed amouat of money contributed by others, Hun- dreds of companies were organized on this plan, each of them with a physician, and in many instances with a chaplain also, SEEK Joy e — 'HILE YOU MAY, Boston Herald, I seek life's pleasure while T may, And trouble do not borrow ; I have my fun and laugh today — My tears I'll shed tomorrow; Yet when another sun is up, And s0mo one speaks of sorrow, Still say, "Il drink from pleasure’s cup, Aud shicd my tears Lomorrow.” WITH IMPOSING CEREMONIES. Rt. Rov. Richard Soannell Will Bo Installed a8 Bishop 0'Connor's Suocessor. THE PROGRAMME FOR THE SERVICES, Remarkable Growth of the Catholic Church in Omaha—News of Interest for Pastors and Their People. Rt. Rev. Richard Seannell will be installod as bishop of Omaha today at 10:30 in St. Philomena cathedral, corner Ninth and How- ard. This event will establish another mile- stone along the line of progross of the Catho- lic church in Omaha. It will be interesting at this point to take a glance backward through thirty-five vears and note some of the surprising changes that have taken place and the wonderful strides that have been mado by that church sinco the first mass was celobrated in a small building on}Eighth stroet, The progress aud growth of this great ro- lizions denonination in Omaha has been in- timately connected with the development of the city in secular and commercial lines, As the city has oxpanded the church has vlanted new houses of “worship, and keeping pace with over changing circumstances and With the ever widening resourcos of the city, has taken advantage of every opportunity 1o establish a school, a conventor a hospital As a convineing proof of the perseveriug eneryy that has boen expended in thes tions “one need only to point to the handsome Catholie churches about the city to tho Sacred Heart, convent, to Creighton college and to St. Joseph's hospital. And theso are but a few of the leading institutions established and maintained by the Catholic church in Omaha, T'hie first minister of the gospel who held church in .Omaha was the Rev. C a Metlodist, and ho herd the first s asmall log house near the foot of Dodgo strect, on August 13, 1554 The following summer Father Emmonds visited Omaha and held the tirst mass in the representatives’ hall of the capitol building. In 1556 the first Catholic erected on Kighth between Howard. =~ Mass was cc time in the residence of Acting-Governor Cuming, at the corner of Seventeenth and Dodge streets while the new church was veing built. The church was dedicated in the fall of 1856 by Father Scanlon of & Joseph and was “called St. Philomena's church. Services were somewhat irregular, however, for a time, as there was no regu pricst for the pavish until the fall of 1 whon Rev. Father Cannon of the Benedictint order arrived with letters from ather Au- gustine, sup rior ot tho order, authorizing him to take charge of the church. He was installed as the first pastor of the parish — and led the flock success- fully for two years, when ho \ias succoeded by Rov. Wiliam' Kelly in Between thoe years 155 was presided over by Fathers Lawrenco, Me uhon, Hoyes, Curtis, Daxacher, ( baum and Egan'in the otder named In 1867 the preseut St. Philomenay dral wus built on Ninth ~ stroot, and church was given over to ey for a school building., Since that date the growth of the Catholic church bus been vigorous and constant, The most re ora of prosperity. however, was during tho administration of the lpte Bishop —"O'Counor, from 1836 until 1890, Bishop O'Connor possescd remarkable ability us ‘a financier aud as an inspiver of at effort upon the part of both the clergy and the parishoners. Ho was greatly beloved by the people of his church and very highly estecmed by all who knew of excellent worth as a Christian gentleman and devout scholar. church was Harney and brated for a and 1867 the churen cathe- the old the Sisters of Mer- Frem Homo for Boys. About two months ago there was some effort made in Omaha to organize an ussocia- tion for the purpose of looking after homeless and Incorrigible boys. George Hoagland, the ‘mewsboy's friend,” as he is called throughout the country, was bere and there was considerable interest manifested by sey- eral prominent church workers and people of philanthropic tendencies. But liko many initial efforts of tho kind, there remains but Little trace of the'work that was then set on foot, and the homeless and incorrigible boys of Omaha and vicinity are, to a very large extent, skirmishing for themselves in the old-fashioned way, or the association is doing 1ts work in u remarkably quiet manner for nothing has been heard of the matter siuce, Mr. Hoagland spoko frequently while here about the practicability of having a farm home for this class of boys aud veferred to the success of the Burnham home in Now York and the Boys' home near Chicago. Of the Burnhawm farm the Springfield Union, in closing an extended notice, ““The institution is well worthy of help and donations would be thankfuily acknowledged, The first church of this city has recently sent a boy there, the son of one of its widowed anembers, 'The experiment of saving boys at this institution is s0 new that definite’ and positive rosults cannot be cited, but educa- tors are watcbing the success of' the institu- tion with more than ordinary interest, and thus far the indications are that the experi- ment will result in entire success and prove of great importance and value," The Conference Guarantee Fun( Through the persistent and determined of- forts of a few energetic citizens of Omaha the next quadrenniel conference of the Moth- odist Fipiscopal church Las been secured. After Bishop Newman and the conference committee had done their part and the condi- tions upon which the conference would be h 1d in Omaba had been fully set forth the dificult work of furnishing a bond for §25,000 signed by responsible citizens had to be per- formed This work fell upon a committee of seven, and_ notwithstanding the fact that several members of the committeo have been out of the city, others have been ill and others 100 busy With private matters to give any timo to the work of soliciting, the bond ha been furnished and Bishop Newman has informed the conference committee of bishons that the conditions have been satisfactorily complied with and the $25,000 will be forth- coming, if needed, Itis but just to say that the gentlemen who have done u large share of the work necessary in securing siguatures to this bond were: ISrastus A. Benson, W. K. Kurtz, I C. Grable, E. Rosewater, Clark Woodman, J. O. Phillippiana T. C. Brainard. Several others assisted to some extent Following are the numes of the gentlemen who signed the guarantee bond and made it possible for Omaha to get the great gather- ingio May of 150 Erastus A. Benson, Francis C, Grable, W, IK. Kurtz, N. D. Allen, John L. McCagus, 1. Rosewater, er, Lews S. Roed, A. tector, . I&. C. Patterson, Wellor, Charles . P Tukey, John Rush, Norman A, 'Kubn, G. M Hiteheock . Phillippi, Nols Burt, G, W, Holdrege, H. F. Cady, Dan Farrell, Georgo P. Bemis, R. C. Cushing, Thomas Swot Frank Colpoetzer, G Selby, Arthur Potter, W, 5. Mayne, of Council Bluffs; C. E. Squives, J. N. Fuller & Co., B. Silloway, Henry Bolln, W. H. Russell, Adam Sunyder, James Casey, F. C. 'Johnson, John M Thurston, ~ F. C. Clanden- ning, A. T. Austin, Georgo N. Hicks, George H. Hoagland, 'W. V. ‘Morse, J. W. . Kendall, . 8. Clarkson, Crary & Crury, Muir & Gaylord, 8. P. Morse, A. Hodgett, Krnest Riall, I A. Eastman, Thomas C. Brainard, John W. Paul, M. O. Maul, W, G. Shriver, D). J. O'Donahue, J. H. MeConneil and C. . Croighton, Canvassing for a Bishop. A remarkablo featuro of the discussion In regard to the next Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts is the way in which the daily papers of Boston are taking a hand in it. The Advertiser, for instauce, has made a canvas of every Episcopal parish in the state, giving as far as possible the prof- erences of tho delogates from cach parish, It claims that the results are very encourag- ing to the friends of Phillips Brooks. Among other clergvmen who are mentioned s pos- sible candidates aro Rev. Drs. | knock Lindsav of | Boston, Chambre of Lowell, Edward Abbott of Cambridge, Leiehton Parks of Hoston, W. R. Huntington and J. W, Brown of Now York, and Bishop Talbot of Wyoming. The diocesan convention which is 16 cloct & bishop will meet in Boston on April 29, Sunday School Work From March 1, 1800, to March 1, 1801, the American Sunday School Union establishea 050 new Sunday schools in the northwestera district, into which wero gathered at the bo- ginning 2,750 tenchers and 20,707 scholars, It also visited and afded other schools, in cases whero there were 14,020 teachors and 185,58 scholars, held 7,622 maotings made 245 visits to fumilies, distributed to the de titute 5,532 bibles and tostdments, and put in circulation. in these communitios £,070 worth of religious roading. Already 2,082 conver- sions have been reported from this worlk, and 85 churehes havo developed from it. American Preacher Honored, Rov. Dr. A. H. Bradford of the Congrega- tional church, Moutiair, N, J., has been in vitod by Principal Fairbairn, of Manstield Colloge, Oxford University, Englund, to preach the sermon on Commencement Sun- day. It will bo tho closing sermon in the non-conformist course of the University. Tho invitation is without procedent, and has never before boon extended to ' American clorgyman. Of oourse American Episco- palians have preachod in Oxford, and pos- sibly in the University church,’ and Kev. Charles R, Palmer, D.D,, of Bridgport, Conn,, as the delegate at the openiug of Mansfield College, was invited to preach on that occasion, but no other American has be. foro had the particular honor that is now conferred on Dr. Bradford, Church Notes. Rev, W. J. Harsha has been in phia the past week. Rov. John Power of Blair has organlzed o gational church at Fort Callioun William Scott attended a n g of the Crete Chautauqua board last Monday at irote, Rov. J. J. Parker of Norfolk was in Omabia Ho will leavo soon for to spend the summer, The Omaha presbytery will nd Prosbyterian chiureh, ot, on Tuesday, April 21 5. M. Ware of the Second Presbyte rian church received twenty-seven members av the morning servico last Snnday morning. The Congregational church av Crote has been making remarkablo progress of late Last Sunday fifty-seven members were re- ceived. Dean Garduor is expected home next, Fri day, and will be_accompanied by Mrs, Gard- nerand the children, who have been in Can- da for soveral months, Miss Georgia P, Boulter, the talentod so prano of tho St. Mary’s Avenue Congrega. gational church choir, will wed Mr. L. 1. Sunderland of this city next Wednesd o prosbytery of the United Presbyterian church will meot Tues April 14, 1’ark Avenue church, The Sabbath school held at tho same ple and Tuesday forenoon. The Woman's Missionary socioty of Omaha presbytery will meet on Aprit 14 and at2 p.m., in the Park Avenue Presbytc ian chu “There will be delegates present from t'remont, North Bend and other sur- rounding towns, The trustees of Doane college at Crote have decided to appoint an advisory board of ladies to assist in conducting the ~affairs of the young ladies' boarding hall at the college The following ladies have been appomted Mrs. Buckingham, Mr "The trustoes of the church have decided to ter of current expensos and they are con- templating the discharge of the choir. The music for that chureti Las been costing £300 per annum, Bishop Newman le last Thursday for New York whero he will moeet the comimit- tee of bishops who have the quadrennial con- ferenco in hand. Bishop Newman left Omaha fecling very well pleased with the splendid wovk done by the citizens' commit- tee in securing the gnarantee fund for the cntertainment of the conference. The bishop is astaunch friend of Owmaha and it made him feel good when ho had the positive a: surance that tho next great gathering of his church had been secured for this city. The bishop will be away about oue month’ It is two months yet until “Children’s day,” but the Sunday schools and churches of Omaha ure already beginning to prepare for that delightful occasion when tho blos soms of innocent childhood, surrounded by the fragrant products of the flower garden and bangueted by the music of merry birds, take undisputen possession_of the houses of worship, makiog every heart feel young again, - Next to Christmas time the celebra- tion of “Children’s duy" in the evangelical churches has become the wost delightful for the children of all the year. The breakfast given by the ladies of tho . Mary's Avenuc Congregational church lust, Friday beginning at noon proved to be one of the most complete successes ever unde taken by tho ladies of that church. The ar- rangements appeared to have boen very cary fuily ana perfectly made. Each table was 1 in charee of two ladics and they were tirely responsible for the manuer of sot- ting, for the tableware supplied and the ico of the zuests seated for breakfast, Thero appeared o be & delightful spirit of rivalry as to which taole should make the most handsome appearance, and when break- fast was announced the dinin room was remarkably attractive, Elegant silverware and handsome cut glass adorned the tables and the delicious repast that was served might with perfoet propriety haye been cailed a banquet. There were 117 ladies seated at the breakfast and thirty-flve ladies served happy company. After breakfast the ladies enjoyed a sociable of several hours which was made all the more cnjoyable by ashort programme of music and calisthenic exercises by the Misses Allen and Ketcham, — Don’t Go Over the Fall There was a man walking up and down Prospect park, at Niagara Falls, with his hands behind his back and h head down, and an old farmer from near yracuse wasn’t to be blamed so much for imagining that suicide wns contem- plated, says the New York Sun. He had no doubt read of other men who had acted just that before leaping into the terrible currentabove the falls, He waited a reasonable time for the per formance to come off and, as there ap- peared to be o hiteh somewhere, he ap- pronched the stranger and said: “Steanger, I don’t want to meddle with your bizness; I never do with an body s, but if—if—7 “Woll,” sharply asked tho other, “T've only got about forty minutes afore I take the train, T you've fully made up your mind to do it ‘and nothing on carth will prevent—, “Aro you addvessing me, siv? manded the stranger “Yer, of comse; else around, is th “And what do you want?” “Why, if you are going over the falls any tims today [ wanted to sugga that you—" “Going over the falis! What do you mean?” “Why, if you are going over any timo today, go now, so I can see it and tell the folkks all about it. Don't want to hurry you, you know, but if a man wants to go, and_will go, and praying won't suve him, he might as well go ono timo as another.” *You infernal old milkweed ! but I'll the top of your head off if you don’t clear out!” shouted the man us he made as if to pull off his coat. *Gosh-atl-fishhooks! but don't flave up that way!” gasped the farmer as he re- treated. “What's huppened to make you mad? I hain’t said nor dun nothing as I knows on,” “*Go—clear out—skip!? *Hold on—I'll go—don’t foller mo up! Lands alive! but he come within an aco o' hoppin’ right onto me! Got reg'lar mad in a minit, and that without the least bit o' cause! Woosh! Clus call fur me, tho' I'd a fit the hardest I could. Suicide and be hanged to him—I'm going hum!” Philade meet at the on Saunders on Monday ¢ st Congregational onomize 1 the mat- de- there has nobody Astu el The man who goes 10 see the Lilliputians CONSULT 322 SOUTH 15TH ST 2 STI ST OMAHA, NEB. 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