Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 26, 1891, Page 9

bbbl dddda g il L’V"'l “““h Pa— THE GREAT MEXICAN UNCLE, How Pawnbroking is Oarried on fouth of the Rio Grande, MEXICO'S ¥ONLY AND BANKING METHODS | liar Business Features and an Overdone Cradit System—Amers icon Trade and How It Should be Worked. [Copyrfaht 1591 by Frank G. Carventer. | Mexico, July 16,—(Speet respondence of Tite Bre. |—Tha great an uncle is the most numerous of bis kind in the world Out of the 11,000,000 inhabitants of the coun try fully 10,000 000 patronize the pawnshops ana you can spout anythiug from a silk haod- ¢ Kerchiof to a $100,000 diamond. You find theso pawnshops in every villago and city and theve ave moro thau sixty hore at tho capital. The biggest of these is to a certain extent under the government. 1tis known ps tho Monte de Picdud, and it has been o ‘operation more than one huudved and fifey yoars, It was founded as o philanturopic institution by & Spanish count, who endowed it with a capital of 00,000, and this capital has since been doubled. It has millions of dollars’ worth of goods in its vaults, and a great wany of tho wealthicst families loan their jewels to it for safe-keeping. 1t has its fixed rules and ail depositors are treated alilke, The interests charged rango from 10 12 por cent per anuum aad it loans from &1 to 10,000 at a time on siugle articles Everytbing under tho sun is uccepted as sccuriy, and the appraisers estimato its worth and the pawnshop loans two-thirds of the vaiue they put upon it. All leaus must bo renewea within cight mouths and i they ave not the goods are put up for sale at th appraiser’s valuation, They are soid at nuc- tion for as mueh as they will bring above this und these aucticn sales aro held once a month, If the roods fail to sell thoy are murked down for tho next manth’s salo and this marking is continued until they find o purchaser. Lf the goods do not bring as much as theamount of ihe loan theappraisers mike up the deiiciency out of own pockets. This pawnshop ns 81,000,000 4 year, and ithas about 50,000 . 50 that the averazo loan is about §2 Tho loans average 300 @ day, sud about oue third of the articles loaned on are never r deemed. The Moute do Peidad has branch oftices in all the big cities of Mexico and tho chicf shop at the capital is just opposite the great cathedral and within o stone's throw of the national pulace. 1 have visited it a num ber of times during the past two weeks aud I ptiended onc of its auctions this fuorning. It looks moro liko a gr fuuk shop or wuction room than like big busking institution it s, niture of all kinds from pianos to cheap chiromos, bicycles and mirrors, saddles and harness, sbawls and clothing were mixed un in & boterogenous mass aud men and women were examining them ana lookiug at the tickets which contained the prices fixed by the appraisers attached to them. As ono found what he wanted ho would point it out to th oneers and they would put it up aud show it to the rest. 1f any higher bid Was gotten the auction went ou until it was sold, butas a rule it was knocked down to tho first applicant. In another part of the OO WEre groat Store cases containing hun- dreds of gald 3 5, thousands of dollars’ worth of diamonds and pearls and articles ot jewelry sot with precions stones of every Qescription, The avpraiser’s valuation was attached to each of these articles and they woro auctioned off to th highest bidders. I noted that the clevks of the establishment always told Whether the stones wero truo or fulse, The sales were foir and in most cuses the goods were very cheap, For n long time this pawn ghop gave all its profits to the church, Then for u timo they went to the govern and Low the institution is run Lo a cor \Dxluul by a private corporation Your Uncle's Enterest, Tn addition to the Moute de Piedad you find private pawn shops all over Mexico. At theso the loans are mueh more costly and 5 and 10 per cent o month is ot uncommon. Thoy take any kind of property as security are fn reality often fences or receiv- ers of stolen goods. In o country in tho world will you ind more petty thioving than in Mexico and these pawn shops are L the causo of it The Mexican peon is 1 <= fllv u sneak thief. Ho is not a robber while he would have no compunctions about stealing a towdl or o handgerchief or a suit of clothes hie would not touch a pickage of a thousand dollars if be saw it lying in you room ut the hotel. The penalties for steal- fue are exceediugly heavy in Mexico and th majority of thefts aro of things that would not pay whe expense of couviction. The Mex- feans are expert pickpockets and [ nave met half o dozen Americans who have lost their watches in Mexican crowds A favorite plnco for stealing is in_churches, and at one of the big feasts which occur so often in dif- parts of the country one needs to watch arcfully after his pocketbook and his atch. In sleepiug on the ground floor it is always necessary to guard the windows or you may find your bedelothine and your pan- Tnloons gono in the moruini. [n SLops at the stations for dinner the windows of the rail- roud cars aro always put down and the doors locked, and in earvying o swall valise it is best to keep it under your feet. A friend ot mine who has just loaned his rovolver for §12 at oneof tho pawn shops showed me bis tick ets this morning. For the use of tho money b puys 6 cents on the dollar for tho first wonth, 13 cents on the dollar for the second mouth, I8 per cont for tho third month, and after that 25 per cent a month. Of course he expects 1o redeem the gun before the end of the fiest month but he is a natural spend- thrift and it is easy to seo who will owa that revolver, Pawnshops as Banks, overtheless theso pawnshops form tho banking establishmonts of ‘the greate purt of Mexico. In the smallor towns thore are no banking institutions, whutever, and Mexico City With its 800,000 people, its im- mwense business and trade, and its numbers of wealthy peopie, has less than half a dozen legitiumte banking institutions. 1t seews to me that there is a big thing to be made out of banking in Mexico, and the wonder is that a zood Awerican bank as 1ot boen estab- lished horo. Savings bauks ought to pay in every city of this country, butso far I Lave heard of ouly one and thut at the littlo city of Julpn, which lies in the mountuins be- tween hero and Vera Cruz. Tho American population of the capital is almost lar enough to warrant a good American bank, and Now York is the monetary conter of Mexico today. Nine-tenths of all the ex changes go through New York and drafts on London are sent to New York for collection. The sume s largely true s to drafts on Paris and to a certain extent so of Spanish drafts through the steamship line which runs be taeen Spain and Mexico decreases the Span ish business. As far as I can learn the bunks of Moxico City are making a great deal of money. Tho Bauk of Mexico and London, so oue of its chiof directors tells me, wade twenty per cent last year and tho stock of this bank, which s t present constituted, was organized only a few vears ago, hus more than doubled in value, 1t does a busiuess of about eighteen million dollars a year on u capital of u million and a halt and it has o reserve fund. The president of this is & Scotchman who cawo to Mexico and who is now said to be worth a number of millions. His name i3 Dou Thomas Brauiff, and ho is president of the railroad that runs from Vera Cruz to the spital and is u large cotton factor and an ex- _#eusive real eatatd owner, After the National Patter Another of the big bauks of Mexico City is tho Bauco Nacwnal, or the National Bank of Mexico. This, like'the Bank of London and Mexico, has tho right to 1ssuo bank notes aud its notes are good everywhere when they THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. TWENTY-FIRST YEAR. issued In Mexico City and not by its | branches over the country. All notes of other banks are discounted when out of the territory where they are issued, aud the notes of the Bank of London and the Nation- al buni issued by a branch, at Chikuahua for instauce, are taken ata discount anywhece and 1 am told that the main banks here their own notes from their branch banks A discount. ‘This scems strange, but money is made on everything in Mexico aud es but a small ground for an extra The National bank is a government tion and at toe same time a privite It was orzanized during the adminis tration of President Gonzales, when there was considerablo corruption aud when any thing could bo bought of tho gove it The result is that Jank has & number of privileges not uccorded to other banks, It is suppesed to bel rgely to the Ttoths- chitlds, and ft1s operated by forcign interests The International Bunk of Mexico is run on the debenture principie. It issues loaus on mortgages and is o bank of deposit. Moexico's Credit System, to these banks there are several the biggest of which are thers aud Shiver & Co. Theso are makiog @ preat deal of money. 'They loan on woods in transit and do a il of mercantile business. The Beneckie Broth- ers, or ratier the Beucckie Brothors' sors, are an Austrian firm. ntal of £100,000, and the original Benc made a big fortune and went oack to Burope some years ago, leaving the business o their suceessors, who are said to be downg equally well. — Shirer & Co. are also doing a big business. and an American bank is shortly 1o bo ovened which promises to make itself one of the leading wonetary iusti tutions of the city. Thisbaik will do_busi ness on American priveiples. It will not have so much rod tapo as the other banks and it will not need an introduction from de- sitors and the assurance that the deposit 11 bo continued for a number of wonths, as the other bunks aro said to require, inorder that the privilege of leaving their moncy may be granted. [twill bea savings bank and will piy 5 per cent for time deposits. It will have the right of safety deposit and the ware- louse business and all of the priviteges grauted to other bauks save that of issuing notes, nd the government will not charge it stamp taxes for 1ts business between its branches, 1t will put up a big building and all of the materinls for this are to como in free of duty, and there is no doubt of its suc- cess. As tho only savings bank of any im- portance in the country and the only one in Mexico Uity, it-canaot fail to make big profits and it will o run snd patronized by men of largo means, One of the incorporators the fivm of Morris & Butte of Kansas Ci who have an immense packing house here in conucction with Mexican capital, and who 40,000 to §100,000 worth of Mexi- xehanes every weck. The profits ou ex- > are immense and the credit sys- ten ico ought to develop a great bank- ing business. Millions in Buried Treasure. Banking is m the fivst days of its infancy in Mexico. ‘The insecurity of the country in the days of the revolutions and until about twelve years ago was such that the people buried their moucy instead of depositing it, ud there are tolay millious upou millions of dollars in the hunds of 1he rich laciendados which are buried in the grouund or hidden away undor the wails of their nomes. These years been making money They dow't know what inter means, and they sell their crops and work their mimes year ofter year and pile away the surplus. It"1s the same with many of the poorcr clusses. Somo of these are richer thau they look and in_the coffes districts 1 hear of men aying who were supposed to have nothing and from 50,000 to 108,000 dol- lars discovered about their mud b T vepresented tho aceumulation of the secret of its oxistenee was comi from father to son. [ivery old Spuavish fam- has its strong box and Amcrican me its and drummers tell me that appear- s are very deceitful liere and that you can't tell how rich ono of these rough looking old faraiers is by his clothes. Hute to Pay Cush, As to credits all business in Mexico 1s done ime, and even whore the people huve h iying awny doing nothing they pre- fer to buy ou from $ix to niue months or a year's credit, In the wholesalo businesses of the country at least ono half of the sales ave made on time and one of the reasons t Awerican trade_is not more extensive her is that our merchants will not give the cre demanded, Tue merchants don't seem to ject to b s but they doobject to pay cash is sometinies asked even be- foro they see the goods, and their motto in busiaess is just the reverse of ours, We be- lievo in quick sales and small profits. The Mexican profers slow sules and big profits. Ho is content to wait and he gets his price, Mexican credit 15, 1 am told, very good, The people pay their debts aund busines failures are very few. This is soin both Mexico City and throughaut the country. Mexico never hes a great financial panic, and so far mo ity in the land has ever known it we call a” boom. The people do not culate though they are inveterate mblers. They live siniply and they are as Sharp business people along the lies that they huve been uaceustomed to us any people in the world. There ave no Jews i business in Mexico, nnathis is suid to be so because the Mexicans themselves ure sharper than the Jews in business. As far as [ can learn tho Mexican is honest in bis business methods. 1f he has u fixed coutract he will carry it out and if you do not attempt to tuko undie ad e 0f him he will treat you fuirly. [ eves that all business is dono withi the cyes open and expects to take such udvantage as the law allows bim, o Comn Al Agencies, 1 was surprised to find that Mexico has no such agency as Dun or istreets. Tho country has n numoer of big cities. Leon has 100,000, Guadalatara has 100,000 and San Louis otosi must tave 5,000 people. Allof theso towns and dozens of others are centors of trade. Still you can’t go into Mexico City, which is “the wholesale distributing yoint, and find the stauding of uny morchant in auy ono of them. Tho bauks have their own privato correspondents, bt the people at lar ve no means of obtaining such in formati Notiwithstanding this, the sy tem of credit giving is very general and both wholesale and retail dealers givo it A great muny goods are sold on lnstallmonts and a wroat deal of mouey is loaued on chuttel mortenges. As to mortgages on real estate, these are few, and according to the laws of tho couutry, hard to vealize upoa. The titlas 10 the property are often bad and the expense of drawing up the pupers with the heavy stamp duties is great. In thoe case of chatt mortgages the property usually €oes into the hands of tho ereditor intil the debt is paid, For this reason many of the old families huve a great dosl of wealth in thewr family jowels, These are easily concoaled in case of @ rovolution and they are always available for loans. At the time of Patu’s singing in Mexico quantitics of these jewels appeared that bad ot been soen for years, The young ladies of the swell familios then came out in all their glory, and many u diamond necklace wats taken from the vaults of the Monte de Pledad to gloriry its owner and the occasion Ihe mpor: frade, About one-hali of tne imports of M ) come trom the United States, but 83 por cen of these are bandled by foreigners and not by Americaus. The oulks of tho foreign im. porting is done by the French, the English und the Germans, and so far the Americans have not gotton’ 8 hold on the business of xico. The fact that the American-Mex- ican trade amounts to about 50,000,000 & year aud that only 5 per cent of this is handled by our citizens shows tnis conclu sively. Thore is o prejudico here against American goous aud the English avd Ger- man merchants foster this prejudico ana run down Amicrican goods whenever they can They are very jealons of us and they are banded together uguinst us. American mer- chunts should hundle their goods, as far as possible, through Americans and not through foreigners. They should send their own agents wherever possiblo to Mexico, and should study the murkets and tho people With the proper care in packing and 1L ing, thera is an immense tield here for almost every kind of product we make, but the trade will have to be pushed. Goods ‘should be ad vertised and prices lated on a credit basis and not on a cash basis. ‘Thie Mexicans will demand the credit &t any rate, and they will pay the prices. At preseut the chief and ouly things in which we have the lead are coal oll snd muchiuery, The Standard oil OMAHA. SUNDAY MORNING, 20, company, and the White and Singer sewing machines you find all over Mexico, will see Auitman & Taylor threshing ma- chines and Studebaker wagons everywhero coming in. [ met a Mr. Kose, who sented the Squier manyfacturing company of Buffalo, who told me ne had sold £30,000 worth of sugar mills and other m during the past year, and Seagur, Guernsey & Co. of the City of Mexico handil of American goods, and are, 8o they tell me, having a good trade in electric steam engines of various kinds, Hammond and Remington typewriters, plows American paper. This firm Is tho biggest American firm in Mexico. It has a house in New York and its partuers have studied the trade and are introducing all kinds of ican gouds. Fioask G. CARPENTER - THETOUCHOF A VANISHED HAND Marg®et J. Preston in Harper's I O, why should the world seem strang With its beauty around me stillt And why should the slope of my swarded | puth Scem suddenly ali uphill? I hud gone, with a buoyant st 0 cheerily on my way g How could [ believe so caim a light Could turn to so chill a gray ! And wherefore! Because the hand That held in its clasp my own Whose touch was a benedretion such As only the blest have known— Was caught by the viewless hand Of an angel and upward drawn. What hope, what comfort, what guidance now, Since the stay of my life is gouel “But a stronger is left to thee," Some comforting whisper saith— “I'he arm that shall carry thee safe to him When thou crossest the tides of death.” If Christ in His mortal hour fHad need of the chosen three, o watch with Him througn the awful throes Of His dread Gethsemaue, O, surely His human heart Will pity and understand That speectless yearning,too deep for words, 1or the *“touch of the vinished baud — - CONANE s ALTLTES, Sitting on the sandy shore, Where the wavelets beat, Wilh a lovely summer yirl Piuk avd white and sweet. Isn't it galorious? Don't you wish that you Had a bitg of mouey, aud Nothing else to do, Too many silly young couples drivo 1nto matrimony with a blind bridal Philadelptia is not s0 slow after all, 16-year-old boy was vecently married to a woman aged twenty-five years. In India a coolie ties a string around his at toe when h3 gets married. country a man can remember the fact with- out auy urtifieinl aid. It is very uneallant of the Chicago Herald todeclare” that Ninu Van Zandt is Ma ving married the Italian nalist’” who worked in a grocery store. old s is that of Miss Gwendolyn Davison, daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. Chatles [ and Mr. Richard Frothingham of Bo: gagement_of interest to She—It is better to have loved than never to have loved atall, It mukes it better for the florists, jewelors, and - sometimes oven lawye The wedding of Miss Ethel Forbes-Leith and Captain Burn was an event of intercst to the resident American colony in Loudon, took place last Tuesday in Holy Trinity church, Sloane street, The New York girl who lost her engago- ment ring i a wash basin only (o find it two years later in tho gutter, where it had been wasned from an_open sewer, had meantime been married and widowed, ‘I'he people of Twilight, Washington connty, Pa., are excreisod over the elopement and marriaze of Sumuel I'rve, aged cighty, Mrs. Belle Ward, a widow con I'rve lost s’ first and Mrs. Ward has be longer. “The official report of the issue of marriaes in France shows that 2,600,000 wedlocks were childless: 2,500,000 had but one child cach; 2,300,000 had two children cachi; 1,500,000 had thirce children cachiy 1,000,000 four ehildren 530,000 each fives 500,000 each six, and 200,000 each seven or move children, A young Salem (Ore.) blacksmith Passmore,aged twenty-two, was married Pri- day to Miss Mary Helgessed,aged about forty, who came out from lowa for the purpose; the two,through the recommendation of a mutual friend, having been in correspondence for some time, They had never seen ench other until a few days before their marriagoe An engagement which was formally an- nounced at Beverley Farms, Mass,, is that of Miss Lella Bustis, a dauchter of M tine Eustis, of Washington, and neice of ex- Senator Eustis, to Thomas ' Hitehcocl ow York city. Miss Bustis is one’ of tho finest horsewomen in this countr; is said to be possessed of great wen Iiteheock, je., is woll known in pollte soclety, is master of the Meadow Brook huut, one o the best-known cross-country riders in United States, and and anaccomplished polo player. A contract marviaze took place at Fresno, Cal., the other day, the brido being under and unable to obtain the consent of her pur ents 1o the maten, The contracting were John Hoffman, aged twenty-four and Florence May Rice, aged fificen and ono: half years, They ngree to take each other as husband and wife, aud to immediately, pub- licly and mutually assume each towards otber ult ma ichts, duties and obliga- tions. Lf she so desives,the woman's contr. may be voided when shouttains her majori Fluribus Unum. He slushed into a saloon o avenue, says the Detroit Free Pross, and coming to a dress parade with his front resting on the counter, he suid man behind the white aproa: “Got any of the elixer of 1ifo?" “Yop,” tesponded the barkeoper, “Fountain of youth?” slden glory of joy " p “Nectar of the gods?” “Yep,? “Distilled delights” “Liquid tenderness?” luid extract of perfoct happiness?? “Yap,” “Angrols’ foo “*Essence of the tas “Yep,” “Oil of gladness?’ “Yep, “Hopo of my soul?” *Waell, gimme em all,” he ing down 4 quarter, and the barkeeper, without asingle question, reached under the counter aud handed him out a bottle of genuine old bourbon and he eugorly Growth of the Metropolis. The assessment of property poses of taxation in the eity of York for the current year, says the Epoch, amounts to $1,785,857,858, an creuse of 385,878,048 over that of 1800, he aggregate increase for three years amounts to more $242,000,000. This affords some indic tion of the rapidity with which the me tropolis continues to grow. Ther big ward, covering the whole upper end of Manhattan Island wn o to fifth street, in which the incre the valuation of real estate alone in the 1 last year amounts to over 819,000,000, SIXTEEN PAGES, ENGLAND'S HOUSE OF LORDS. Bishops in Their Flowing Robes of Black and White, PCLITENESS THE UNIVERSAL RULE, Contrasts Hetween the House of Peers and the Senat of the States—In Ability Near.y on a Par, Loxnox,July 10.—[Special Correspondence of itk Ber.|—Though to procure admission to a sitting of the peers is a task even more difficult than obtaining an entrance to the housc of comimons, 1 was enabled through tho aid of an ordorissued by courtesy of Barl Cadogan to witness a session of tho house of lords last Thursday eveniog. At lcast four sets of constable-doorkeepers demand, each in bis turn, that the order be submitted for cureful inspection until finally a messengor in evening dress conducts the visitor into the hall itself. Whilo in the same room and on the samo floor as the noble peers, the specta- tor is novertheless cousidercd to be outsido the bar of tho house. The lords and carls may retain their hats upon their heads if they desire, but woe tothe man in the audience who attompts to imitato their example. A silk hat, inadvertontly placed on the railing running along the side of the room, neurly resulted in tho expulsion of one of my fellov: spectators. Strange to say, the lords are not as strict us the commons in regard to the ad- mission of ladies during the session. Instead of being shut up behind an iron grating which entirely destroys the enchanting effect of handsome cos tumes tho ladies are vrovided with avate compartments on the fioor of the peers’ hall and are also permitted to show themselves to good advantage in the ully ies at cach side. Including standiug room 1s accommodation for no morve than fifty spectators outside of tho gallery. A Lace Sessic The lords usually meot shortiy after four o'clocis and rematn in session only an hour or 0. Extraordinary bus may some- times induce them to put in a Jictle more tinic at work and on this particular Thursday the discussion of the Trish land-purchaso bill succeaded in keeping tho noble peers until nearly midnight. Thero was an unusually large attendanco, provably two hundved and fifty, and the benches on both sides of the house were well filled. The mombers were for the most part plainly drossed, a fow al- most slovenly. Though the great majority wore silk hats, I noticed several who did not fecl out of place in colored shirts. Tho gen- eral rotund figures gave the impression of goed living while the limping gait of various members implied the prevalence of gout. One portly gentleman who managed to do a great acal of talking during the evening, w from this or sowe othor cause completely pinned down to his chair and was compolled to spealk in a sitting posture. tn Robes of Black and White. The bishops holding seats were not atl pres- ent, but three or four of them could be noticed as they moved from place to place distin- guished by their robes of blackand whuite. Of theothers ouly the presiding oficer aud clerks ave attired in black gowns and they complete the costume by the use of white wigs. To an American, the absence of pages is a striking feature, but tere really seoms to be no need of them. No papers are distributed during session, except porhaps a fow copies of tho vending bill and this work is quickly and quietly performed by uuiformed messongers. The session is more orderly than that in eithier houso of congress. How They Do Business. . The peers are called to order by the lord chancellor taking his seat upon the woolsack. The presiding officer is then placed on the lowest part of the floor near the center of the room just in front of the royal throne. The members of the ministry and representatives of the government sit immediately on the right. ‘The opposition disposes itself simil- wrly to its arrangement in the commons. The vote on the various pronositions is commonly viva voco, but the terms “content” und *not coutent’” arc employed to indicate who are in favorof or agaiust the motion before the house. Although the chalrman puts the ques- tion slowly enough to eclicit a respouse, the veers seem to pay no attention to it at all and give no audible sounds of cither approval or disapproval. It makes noessential differenco however; for the contents or the not contents seem to have 1t according as the opivion of the ministry is known to incliue, and the strenggth of the opposition vote can only be ascertained by domanding a division, A rumbling, grunting ejaculation, “‘Heur! Hear!” frequently interrupts tho speakers and is an undeniable ovidence ot the constant and respectful attention paid by all present to whoover has the floor. The impolite read- ing, wreiting and conversation of the senate is entirely wanting. ‘I'he greatest defereuco is shown towards *her majesty’s govern- ment” to whom amendments are “suggested d whose consent is usually secured before any importaut motion is made, If the dis- pleasure of the ministry is evident, amend- ments offered are often withdrawn, The ex- trome politeness is also cavried to inaividual members who are continually referred to as ““the novle earl,” “the roblo lovd.” A Bill Under Discussion The [rish land purchaso bill calied forth a quite auimated and general discussion in the committee of the whole. The aged Duke of Argylo began the debate with an earnest ploa for absolute free trads in land; govera- wental interferonce hindered this and so he opposed too much meddling and muddling. ‘The peers, especially the Irish lords, aro ex tensive land owners and many are interestod upon the sido of the landlord. It was the bold plea of Barl Cowper for the large land owner as aguiust the peasant proprietors that oceasioned the first emphatic retort of the British promier. Tho Marquis of Salisbury roso deliborately. He is a tall, heavily built man with a large framo. A long beard and shuggy bair of iron gray form a heavy fringe cling about the dark eyes, the high foro- head and the shining tald spot which secms to bo rapidly encroachiog upon the remumin- der of a once hoavy bead of haiv. His deliy ery is firm and conversational, accompanied by but few gesturcs. He expresses an em phatic astonishment that anyone in parlia ment should advocato turuing small pro prictors iuto large progriotors, but admitted that 1n his opinion, too, free trade in general was the ouly sound economic doctrine, Earl Cadogan, a smouth faced man with jut bluck hair. nad charge of the bill for the mistry, and to all appearances disposed of tne amendments brought by various mem bers exactly as be desired. Al the speeches were by no means compliment- ary to the Irish and one lord remarked sarcastically that the Irish teuant was a very good fellow as loug as he was uot asked to pay his rent The elocution of the lords compares well with that of the United States seaate, Itis | free from ranting and spread-cagleism and ! itself to a ronsonable piteh of the deafening the auditor, Dundroary oticenblo In & three years old. voico and avoids other hand, drawl is rathgr rare Those who are aware that their brilliancy is not overpowering refrain {rom taking active part in the debate: only tho most eapable speak ward into the leading re Mr Stophen O'Meara, th Kathleen O'Meara, tho sevoral novel ndidato and cultivates | SOLDIERS WO SPEND TIMZ IN STUDY. republican ¢ s push themsely 6,000 neres, Justice Fualler down on his native heath in Maine, rman is thoe only States senator who wnlin's term iu 1 Captain Shaw 1 of tho lords and that > difticult, inasmuch as they are of altogether different types house of peers could easily bo transformed The Gothie decorations and | stained windows give 1t a sombre tone. ventilated; To compare the b ¥ i resigned tho posi into a church fror thirty years' service Gilbert signaliz The death of ous fact that whou | name of the secoud of sessions, but a dusky fon is secur wais vice president the cor of tho government was bodily included in that of the first, thus: Abra-Ham-L u few flickering ornumentation For acoustics and service the senate seems to have the advantago over that of the peers; in abliity the two bodios stand nearly on n par, aud individual ctator’s preferonce. VicTor ROSEWATER. S cligttenlol HONCY FOR iHE LADIES, o1l of Carrollton, was the rich rica when the nat tution was siu 1t's plain ho didn’t want the earth, didn't stop him inclination must de cido the sy 1ping to tako the b Henry Harrison, the Trish member liament, who delegates, is tho mildost Ho has mado hosts of friends 5 suavity, his intelligenc: Tho white stocking is really worn ATOBIHABY: d s modesty The white blazer now somest Irishman who bas the ain a decade, One of the richest men Governor Ami i business suit of auiet coloving farm upon which fought, and far forgets to be striped or edged with Massachusotts, inconspicuous frocks, but they chioose the cold, white of thin silks and crepes. Old carpets may be made wnto rugs by un- ravelling them and w frames, which come for this purpose or knit- the first buttlo of Bull Kun was owned it at the but s moth in her bed by a shell from a federal x-Senator Mahone w ¥ O WO A0 W avellinizs on Washington Pansma straw bat down in frout, white s and a vlack broadeloth tho outing Whito bodicos, as_odd as they aro absurd, vests composed of of a silver dollar and made of row, white ribbon, countless roset flanuel trous. His shirt was big black cigar stuck out of L id as picturesque us c hem and a white shirt, with overjucket of white haviug rev of turquoise blue. Black chiffon frills are worn Bluck chiffon bretolles, edg 0, are worn with gowns of white or blue or pink or gray. cuch gowus imported fro: for yachting and seaside rosorts ave i lighte usually chosen a turquoisa bl s and’ culls Gladstone is comparatively a poor man and v work he doe azines and poriodicals is not the vesult of any established fame as a He takes o very matter-of-fact view ions, reckouin wool fubrics > o writes he receives 31,000, el G Plower of Now great rate, with yellow verbenas and. for fublo decoration und yellow daisics and yellow primroses. York, who is spoken of as t of thé IZmpire state, is a sturdily of middle height, with a round face tramed i luces, and Ivish fifty-three and 15 worth 81 crochet bunds, pinces John Dillon s tix tively uscd to trim every sort of sum pechaps, those which e nan in Trish poli b true that he is to we oW, excoping, York city, tho nate from th What do you su would do if a engagement ving or her life, be littio diffe, she'd never get another. who is summer 0 of Robert will give him ar fldence of bis counteymien. Ex-Secretary Boutwell and wifo celebr the fiftieth aoi July 8 at Gro pose Aunty Quato to demand Aditional claim on tho c their wedd; A lndy of this cit lewoods village, othier day, and in the course of a_little talk, sked bim why all HAUYONhe performuce and delicite tha the keys of the pi pianst i the serman col- fow yours in ned, in surprise, 'V were born,' The vich dep Cleapatra colors will bo In marked fuvor next season, the tawny golden browns, russots, the ehandon or copper dyes, and the daklia and other flower, fruit ad also the superb airk vely 2ds and yellows of the nasturtium, A blue flanuel dress for boating, a scarlet pe de chinc for afternoon wear, a whito o for the promenado, a black lice net § ing wud 0acor two i chams for morning use make u very factory outtit for a w ‘Thére is probadly to country equally zifted with the lego professor whe, after only dent’s cabit Puul B. Du Chaillu, the traveler. is visiting Mr. Melvillo Puillips, near Philadelphia, and is finishing his new boc Colonot Edgar Danicl Boone, of the ereat tamer connectad with Ho is a slender man of fifty, with fiuxen ha and a waxed musts It_has long been a custom of tho Bayard family to bury with the pluckied from the old ¢ The vine was orizinally planted wreat-grandmother. 1 obtained to o abroad with the remains of Count Lewenhaupt. , “Iyar the descendant explover, is o Foropaugh's sh and inexpeusive ek or fortn v dead sprigs of ivy gown of pale blue organdic is urch in Wilming onally at the neck and also at tho waist on to u ticht-fitting lining. The slecves puffed from the fined with nary abot of white taco littlo costume. s and puffs are no longer 1 the dis. taneco, but ave actually present A spray has viack velvet ues this simple Schliemann was in Athens a few days ngc P Potcrsbur, froin Paris that a very fine hair steel in-Kostromenos, run i the edge of the bell kirt undér its foot eives also 1,000,000 francs skirt is so much gov fulluess rounda th the second wife, it leaves littlo or no making the motion of walking or dancin, dosirably and ung Under the skillful ma liner and dressmaier th to emulate that She 1s more attractive ny past scasol \in valuabte art Schliemann his second wefully upparent. . woment of the mil- - two chilaren marriago also iuher mansoleum brook and go on q being buiit at tiemann family is ly when she | in the beautiful ¢ SEMMLK BLOSSOMS, cnnis Match. veiling pompadoured with buds, or ccra and > muslin,as show with parti-colored ribbons. gulation bathing gov is often seen at fashionuble unpretending eclipsed by the glaring d and clown striped pink organ in the second The ivies of affeet 'y youug und o 05 Lhe thie In nets to catch Love-Cupid’s durt. d shoots voth right and left imes too low, and then too hig feel bereft, way with heaviug sigh But cre it leaves Lo The net a w And leaves a wound he cann So untrue hearts should neves would not receive ose smart will never leave, A Vtureal B:n York Weekly : that handsome stranger ss0s in red, ccompanied fr , where there is a maid in uttendanco, generally trans wito a walkine portiere, or less “oriental’ 1n cloak, which R el S forms the weay PGB ek curtain, wore or imed durt will catch, air of shoes fndia-rubber soles u traveler who has been “‘roughing it" on a captain, the mate all envied me mine, sud each and all, inves- A'netaf they and the sators clared that they yage, for I could p my equilibrium the slippery deck when the others could | gy the next table? cotton gowns, with embroidery at the hem, u most summer-like He don't kr ro among the fresh g waiter an’ gettin’ somethin' to eat.” ses ars made with white lace trimmings ¢ gingham is in tabs about the white chiffon ‘The Reason piped with white, Your lotters do not vestis worn with »she wrote reproachfuily to her young hat with stiff white wings. man, wnd the youug man toilots which l fashionable “That's stranpe; satisfactory to the ¢ nosEloss oty they used to bo perfectly summer rosorts are delicious expon indefinito taste aressmalcer. and ingenuity is & qualnt and simplicity, coupled with fine artistic grace, > fresh toilets of muslin, sills, and all the 1 of fashion are look- Liturgical 1t t A summer cies is in u disgr Sworld witho hav) amendod noticeable i the girls, inste prety girls in the wor ng their very best in their jaunty waists and Waist-coats, their airy gowns, and the addi- tional accessories of laco thas, Picture hats,and gay ribbon ga cupes, fichus, bo "The longest hair in the world 1 10 belong to u young woman in ( 1t trails on_tho ground over four foet, aud is of o beautiful red Tt is said that one year ago, when Hannibal Hamlin and General She reunion of the Army of the Potomac, b Conundru How many girls there are who look pretty begin to talk attended the not attend any more of these reunions. Aun equestrian statue A frog in a s like a child when Lear Baltimore cries molested in rmove i auy | McClellan Ruth Mayhew, who joined tho Army of the Potomac at the b in 1861, and was with it through all its exp A FEW OLL CODGE pany G, Ninety-ninth Illinois nfuntr svernment, was killed at Vicksburg on | dicd in Chicago | ing s peusion in this same Kan rated bis elghity iversary of hi 1,000 back pension almost as pow 2 ' Windthorst forty-three years in parlis uentar Elizabeth Fauch mewmber of the Forty was forced to yield confederates Vex., in 1562 cived word from a southerner that of the sword would romarkablo Fraucisco last week was one of wounded se: time of his doath was suffering from a very bad guashot wound iu the leg, oneof the Civie Guards Leopold I t Belgluw sixty years ago. The dead sol- ‘xkskn;|444441 1 Pages9to 16. | » L""'l“““‘ = NUMBER & ot o s s AN ARWY FFICER'S LEISURE of | Splendid Obances it Affrds for Riding tho lata of Pleasant and Profitable Hobbies, Colonel Stanton's Splendid Library the Treasurers it Contieins=-esult of Years' of Study and Travel, Nearly all army oficors in times of peaco, some leisure houts which may bu do- voted, wioero they are so inclined, witn greas advantuge to literary, selentiile or artistic ro- nd intel tual culture I'hiere are comparatively fow military men, however, who are fnelined to th voment of their re hours [ this wmanner. Thoy gonorally Al pleasures for which the so much distinguished. But are some who take to hte crature and art and soon bocome distinguished for their ability to entortain i 4 very intellectual and superior manner, Some ind b fancy and talont for art somo for poctic and histovie studios and others for scientific and goueral litcrary nt- tainments Oue of tho most genial and at the same time thoroughly informed army ofiicers in the department of the Platte at prosent is Col. Thaddeus 1L Stanton, paymaster of tho department. Col. Stanton: lus seen the wititer as well as the summer sido of army life. Ho has beea through the fire and smoko and bived of battie und throueh the rain und mud und - hungry fatiguo of the dreary mareh. ~ Ho las sat at many o fraternal banquet where the choicost products of the culinury act came forth 1o Chuliengo the appetite, and be has also caten his cation of hurdiack and coffos with his companions-fn-arms by tho old rail fonco at the side of tho road Colonel Stanton entered the army when auitea young man and went to the defense of the tiuion fis captain of u company of lowa fufantry. After the war was over ho ro- mained in”the service and tas filed many respousible positions sinee. He bas natur: ally a very neute aporeciation of auything exceptionully wood i literature or urt, and o his encodraged this by colleeting a splendid private library, with which ho is thoroughily fuilinr. veral years azo Colonel Stanton and his famly made an extensive tour through Bu- rope nd the colonel seized upon the opportu- nity to euvieh his library. AU bis homo on PParic avenue e b one o the most intorest- fug collecetions of vooks, phoio -raphs and cu- rios 1o bo seon in Omaha. His books number about threo thousand volumes. His collection of large photographs of superd finish,runs up into the hundreds, ‘They are tr ken from the wsternicees of painting, seulpturo and archis tecture found in the great galleries and ot the principal citios of ISurope. Tho grand palaces, majestic wmples, eueha 1ting parks, beautifal vales and gorgeons moun- tain v S OV which the tourist is wout to grow eloguent, may all be seen in miniaturo, true to natire, in Colonel Stanton's library. The thusiastic and en Laint manner that Colonel Stanton has of tuk fne ono upon uwn fmaginary jour: thro 1 tiie great citios and. placcs of in- terest by tho wssistance of this splendid col- setion of fine, large photogravhs, is traly do- lightful. Colonel Stanton has always boen interssted logy, cthuology and scieutifio His it ins the ver s in these particular lines and is also i works of poetry, listory and poot do you most admire?” the writer asked Coionel Stanton as ho ran his and over the rows of handsomely-bound vol- umes in the “poets’ corner.” “Lot me show you,” said_the colonel, tak- ing down a smail volume, “Horeis tho finest thig I have ever found in pootry. Let mo give a fow sam- plos of it And th plonel broceedod to read (or quote vather, for he seemed to havo almost the entire volume com- mitted to memory) numerous extracts from Rubuiyavs *Omar Khayyam.” STat s to me,” said” Colonel Stanton, re- turning the book to its place on tho shelf, “the most interesting little volume of poctry that 1 have in my livrary, It is a gen from seinning to end.” Colonel Stanton is espocially fond of poetry 1 is aconstant student of Shakespears, vou and Longfeliow. In his collection of ptographs those which represent the great picces dono by Murillo, Raphacl and Cor- sio scem Lo e his decided favorites. 1u the line of curious and rare books this cresting library is not found wanting. t Colotiel Stanton is a practical my overy sense of the word, acd his Jibrary hag been selected with a view to tual utility, It s o living, workiug library with jus enough of tho antique and ornamental to cive it a pleasing variety and to accentunto the coutrast botween the dead past and the iving presout. S B TEST TiAIYGS 05 EAR Emmet €. Dowd in taudies' Home Journal, What aro the sweetost things of cartht— Lips that can praise a vival's worth; A fragrant rose thut hides no thorn | Riches of sold untouched by scorn, A nappy little child asleep s that ean smile though they may weepj A brothers cheer; a futhe The minstrelsy of summer days, A heart where never anger burns @ A gift that looks for no returns; Wron's overthrow: pain's swilt releaso; Davk footsteps guidid into ponco, The light of love in lover's eyes; Age thit is young us well as wise; An h liand that neads no ward; L right in true accord. spe-bud waxing into joy; A bappiness withont alloy} A mothor's kiss; a vaby's mirth Phese are the sweetest things of earth, EDUCATION i “What course did you take in collogei 0, the iar three-mile courso,” A radical reduction of teachers' salarios s proposed in San Prancisco, to prevent a de- ficit iu the school funa Tho Newton (Mass,) industrial training school building will cost §150,000. Tue foLudations are now being laid and a portion of it will be ready for occupuney next winter, 1n the three Connceticut collogos —Yale, trinity and Wesleyan —attendance at morns {ng prayers 15 made obligatory upon the students, but at a considevably later hour LNk Was 11 VORUG & Kenoration igo, Mrs. Leland Stanford’s trust aced, giving £100,000 to endow tive kindergartons'in Sun Fear ciseo, has Just beon filed. As thoe incor will be b per cont, each school will kot £1,000 nyear. Taeso schools are said to have uls réudy had ao appreciablo offect in veduving tho number of “hoodlums” who infest the streets of San Fraucisco, and in bettering the condition of the tenomont houss districts, Miss Trene Coit, who recently passed Yale's compuratively difficult and very strict en trance examination, is not the first girl in the history of theold’ college who underwont that trying ovdeal. In 1753 Lucinda Foot, en only twelve years old, was examined by Prosident Stiles and found to ve so pro ficient, especially 1 Latin and Greek, that be gave ber a cortificato stating that sho was qualif vexcept for sex,” Lo bocomo a member of the freshnan cluss. A schiool cert for a dead man Is the curiou t fight that Dr, Scarles of O is waging nzainst the state rogents. s son attended at Oshkosh in 1557, bug to attain tho required ies, Prosident Albeo re- him ' certificate. Hy an wrooment it is claimed that Presis \Ibco wis to permit youug Soarlos to ted with his class, provided he studios. The certificate was ted, aud the young man 1" His fathér contends 1 by disappeintment. mory of s son, DF, g ever siuce W oDlAlR