Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1892, Page 12

MALTA' AND THE MALTESE Vhat Wakeman Loarned While Sailing from Palma to Valetta. (NTENSE NATIVE HATRED OF THE ENGLISH Tunisian Merchant Monrns the Downfall of Barbary—~Racial Affiuities of the Mal teso—Domostic Feliclty ona Hrig tine—View of Fair Valotta, [Copyrighted 1$02) Varerra, Maita, Fab, 9.—[Correspondenca of Tk Brr.|—Tho Latin races dwelling to tho north of the Mediterranean, and ail those of oriental extraction to the south and east, 100k upon the English occupation of the 1sland of Malta and the two contiguous lesser fslands of Comino and Gozo in much the same spirit as they regard the occupation of Gibraltar by the English—thatis, in an evil and vengeful spirit. Tbe fact could have no cloarer illustration than in tho seatimonts expressed by the captain of the coastor upon whioh | made my way from Majorca to Malta, and by the only olher passonger be- sides myself upon tho odd little brigantine upon which we sailed. My companion passenger came aboard av Tunis, whoro we touchod to land Majoroan wino, making up our part cargo of wine for Malta with Tunisiun hides and wheat in curious little brown sacks which wera tied in the middle and stowod away in the hold criss-cross, as you wouid lay dumb bells each upon the other. Our crew comprised six half naked and barefooted Maltese sailors with cotton jtrou sors, orimson scarfs certainly 30 feet long wound about their waists, ugly sheath knives in these, and no other clothing whatever save tiny tusseled caps restiug jauntily upon the crisp and curly hairof theirhard little heads, They were little, wiry feliows, the best sail- ors In the world, it is said, with snapping, beady eyes, sharp, short noses, thick lips, splendid teeth, and altogether as morry and sunny-natured a lot as you could find sailing upon any sea. On a Maltese Brigantine, The captain was of Spanish extraction and Maltese birth. He had been a fisherman of Valetta; had saved bis money; had got an eduoation at tho free I nglish schools of Malta; and from the vocation of port pilot had come to own the craft which he com- manded. In his little cabin were many good books, both 1n Spanish and Enclish, snd his surroundings in his tiny sea homo ware as pleasant, and certainly moro evident of education, retinement aud good taste than you will often flud in cabins of the most pre- tentious American sailing vessels. His wite, ‘teresa, and nino children, tho latter grading in size from an infant in arms 10 & lad of 11 as regularly as aset of ten pins, and nearly as naked, cooked for and waited upon us, lending a hand at light seamen’s duties whenever required with wonderful agility, adding to the picturesqueness of the every-day life of the tiny vessel, and provid- Ing those blessedest of all sounds at sea, the voice of woman aua the prattle of children. Not the least picturesque object on board our brigantino was our other passenger, who with the dried hides, which he resembled in visage, had been taken on at Tunis, He was & Tunisian merchanrt trading between Tunis and Malta, Weall treated him with much consideration because his tlowing robes and white burnoose, which took up o good deal of roow, gave this otherwise measly-looking man a most important appearance, and, un- consciously, I presumo, bocause he owned tne hides and wheat. Then, too, he wus very bland and agreeable, a peculiarity of all Moslems when they are found one mile away from home. Mobllity of the Moslem. You will notice this characteristic if you travel much about the Mediterranean. In their own homes, streets aud shops there aro no more imperiously grave, imperturbaole and sodden human than Turk, Arab aod Moor. But let them once turn their faces toward Christian ports and profit, and their manner and bearing at once chunge, They seem to have suddenly become ready-groased with graciousness for all trade and social exigencies. Their striking habilaments no longer rolnclurl with their reputed digoity of character. The bags on their beads aud their ample robes and sandals suggest the harle- quin. Neither Yankees nor Greeks are a match for them in the subtle shufllings and diplomacies of trade. In fact they are the “Oily Gammons" of the Mediterranean. Inthe long. languorous days and glowing evenings of our lazy sailing they wore both, the Maltese captain and the Tunisian mer- chant, more tome than weeks of desultory meetings of thelr kind in their own lands. They were both intelligent, companionable, and both spoke Enghsh fluently. Their true feelings and opinions came gradually and surely cut of tho confidential companionship sea voyuges universally impel. They repre- sented, in beredity, education and feeling, the implacable and endless religious and ruce war between the people of the Crescent and the Cross. The foretathers of each had doubtless bean slain defending the banners of one or the other. They typified Christian ;::lrow pitted agawnst Iofidel Africa and 8. Maltese Hute Their English Masters, But all race and religious hatred was blent 1u a common hatred of the English wasters of Malta. o reach the sentimental reason of this 1 coustantly espousod the English cause. To the Maltese captain I pointed out his own successful career, and reminded him dell- catoly that he would bave remained an igno- rant and impoverished fisherman but for this very English rule whici he rescnted. “i, i, setor,” e would sadly repiz; “but 1 would not have bad the devil of greea set to work in my heart. Iam now more hun- gry for o groatship than I was at first for a little folucca.” “‘But has not the condition of vour 150,000 fellow countrymen of the islands been vastly improved " “My fellow countrymen grieve over tho passing away of the old things which they loved. " A little higher wall to one's patch of round, another room or two added o one's ome, alittle more finery i one's ears or on one's back, or a little more coin clinking be- tween the fingers, do not make peasant folks better or happer. They cannot become like thelr masters, ‘They learn only to envy them and to be ashamed of themselves and each other. I wouid give my brigantine and all but—but Teresa and the ninas (children),” the captain woild conclude with an inde- soribably pathotic and loving gesture of pro- tectivo fonduness, which included all the romping curiy-heads on shipvoard, “to live in @ hut by tho shoreand sce the red coats no more forever.” Opinions of » Mussnlmun Merchant, “The grief of my Tunisian fellow passenger was of & different sort, though it was none the less real and poignant; bat it was miti- gated also by the funatical belef thit some time the Mussulman faith and folk will pre- vall ana rule all lands. “Onristian pillage and despoliation,” he would feclingly say, “have been the real mo- tive of every s led holy crusade and ex- pedition against us whom you call infidels, but who alone worship the one true God. The tnglish have profited greatest by conquest under cover of pious preteuse. I called his attention to the fact that, wirh the exception of Euglaud's guasi-occupation of Egypt Lo secure payment for moneys ad- vanced by Koglish capitaliats in connection with the Suez canal schome, and the recent establisbment of a trading post at CapeJuby, 02 the west Morooco const, Great Britain did not clain to , or bold, @ foot of soil to which any ulman race had the slightest possible bereditary right. “'Ab, but Gibraltar!—-Malta!" This would be uttered in passionate ex- clamation and with his face as bateful s a fiend's. ‘“They were ouce ours, with An gave 0o empire of all Africs au acy upon the Mediterrevean.” “Surely, but only tkrough invasion aud butehery,” I replied, harrying bim a it tle. “Simply for pillage the Berber vader, Tarik, took Gibraltar and oyercan southern Spalu, 1o 711; with the same pur- pose your Beroer ancestors, in 798, took pos- ses3i0n of and bield the Balearic islands for 450 uz, and suprem- | THE OMAHA DAILY yoars, and about & thousand _yoars azo you seized and heid Maita until the Normans dis possessed you. Moslom rights were not de- prived by your expulsion from lands where you did not belong.’ Barbary No More, “But our imperial Barbary 1s cut into picces. \We are no mord o mighty people. Our temples and our treasures are gone!" ho passionately retortod S0 are your pirates and slaves,” 1 per. sistod unfeelingly. ‘‘Those are the sort of things civilization will never again tolerate. 1t will never disturb an carnest and zealous religion, but it will surely eventually extir pate any religion or race thau deprives the lowliest of its followers and peopie, men or women, of equal justice,” He would not dwell upon this implied con trast botween Christianity and Monamedan ism, but continually bewailed the English possession of Gibraltar and Malta s a men uce to all oriental supremacy, and the direct cause, ot permissiblo cause, of tho dismem vermont and appropriation of northern Africa by Spain, Italy and France, He ad- mitted that its development, especially in Tunis, Tripol and Algoria, had boon marvel- us within the last quarter of a coutury: that Chbraitar and Malta in the hunds of the Eng lish guarantood permanent and peacoful trado with all Mediterranean countries by tho floets of the whole world; and even con fossed that without this very Evoglish stra- teglo supromacy in tho Mediterranean his own safety with his hides and wheat, in transit from Tunis to any neighboring port, would be extremely problomatic if not alto gethor improbable, In such unusual converse with these strange folk tho voyage from Palma to Malta was passed. 1 was ofton able to lead the momentary topic from Moors to Maltese,ana thus secured much valuable information con- cerning tho real as well as the sentimental adition of the lattor. Love of Birth I N Two very interesting facts developed through the appurent extraordinary hatred of Bnglish rulars by the captain and Tunisian, and their seeming mutual affection for tho common peoplo of Malts, the folk who were its peasantry even before its duys of chivalry under the old knignts of Malta, whose deeds and fame were the most lumin- ous in all medieval history. The first was the passionate love all Mal teso have for their sterile, sun-baked,sirocco- swept little hump of rock to which they cling, und nurture so lovingly that it returns them, conditions being considered, the most bounteous and luxuriant rewards of any equal area on the face of the earth, “Flower of the earth’ they call the treeless spot. “My country adored” thoy ever name the cassel or vii- lage where they were born. And us ‘‘the purgatory” or penance spot they Know any othey land beneath the sun 1o which neces- sity hus led them, I have noticed this same almost patheti- cally desperate affection for one's birth spot to be true in other rugged and sterile abodes of men. Nothing, could induce the half- frozen people of Labrador to quit those rogions of silence and desolation. ‘The High- land crofter of Scotland is a spiritless, hourt- broken man when forced from his wild straths and glens. Who that has stepped foot on tho Arran islands, off Galway, over saw other such pictuves of top:less poveriy and suffering! Yet for generations their people nave clung to the rocks, like the dolo- vous puflins which vest in their sides wmid the Atlantic’s howlings and no power has been suflicient to tear them away from their starvation and wretcheduness. More Arab Than Spanish It was a curious thing, too, t learn from the Tunisian that the peasantry of Malta sre moreBerber and Arab than Greel, Italian or Spanish. By all aflinities, save the one of religion, he claimed them as breinren to & man. In their customs, superstitions and many of their homeside ways, us well as in nearly all methods, or rather wantof method, in agriculture they are, he claimed, precisely like the Berbertribe farmers in the valleys vehind Tuuis and Algiers. Buat wmore striking thau all else, in proof that the Multese were his kindred, vas bis claim which I have since found to be true, that while nearly all spoke a sort of Ingiish, Italian or Spanish patois. every one could at any moment cross into northern Africaand converse with tho natives in a measurably pure Arabic tongue. “We are at Malta, senor. Would you look upon sleepine Valetta frowm thesea in the early morning{" Such was Lue cheery call of our captain as wo approached the most famous islaud of the Mediterranean. When I reached the deck our craft lay a league distaut from port, ul- most imperceptibly moving towara the white island and whiter city over a rippieless sea, with sails scarcely filled by the faintest of breezes which merely whispered of the morn- ing; forthe sun seomed to Laug a tremeu- dous globe of crimson on the sea horizon, away over there betweea Greece and Crote, My eyas never before beheld so transcen- deut and rod:ant a scene. The whole bosom of the seu seemed enveloped in & downy man- tle of pearl, gold and crimson, waich, lying low upon the wator, showed countless changes of color, aud possessed the added marvelous effect of liftiug all discernible ob- Jects to an unwonted altitude. View of Valetta, Our brigantine, with other craft here and there about us, appeared to ride upon an opalescent, intangible yot palpable surface of softly flaming cloud. "Though Sicily lay sixty miles to the north, its shore- line, lifted vertically, and not in the mirage, showed strangely near, with the huze coud of AStna like a spear-head of silver above, But where are the words with wiich to paint for another’s secing the island and its ancient city of the Knights as they rose out of the puisiug, throbbing tints of that glor- ious morniug witchery! [f one could dream that the gods had transformed the sea i bed of cameo rose, and, through cy time, with their most cununing artiti wrought it into miracles of filagrne, and then-chiseled upon it a white reliet of the island's ares, wnose woudrous design had culminated 1o outlives aud detuil of massive grandeur and matchless simplicity where the city of fortresses and palwces stood, a vague hint of this morning scene could come with the dreaming and seeming. And on .nhis morning, as we slowly ghded into the eastern of the two poris, utter silence brooded over tha vast bleached battlements. Escarpments, terraces, bustions, euntablatures and huge flat roofs-were lifeless and still. The shippiag was flagless, appa- rontly crewless and still as though graven from onyx into the picture. Not an oar stirrea the mirroring harbor, Not a thiug having life stirred or was visible, save when ourcraft swung around and tugged at hor anchor, the rays of the sun, shooting over Vittoriosa’s _ramparts, str the golden spears upon St. Elmo's bastions. They rout- od & myriud of drowsy jackdaws, which rose in florks aud hoarsely soroamed. This was our only welcome to Malta and Impregnable Valetta, Enean L. WAKEMAN, ———— United Stutes Marine Band, The United States Marine baud of Wash. ington 18 about to cross the contineut to San Francisco, stopping at certain deziguuied cities, fill an engugement ay'Frisco, continue soutl to Los Aungeles, norih to Portlana and return by St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, Chicago o the natl mal capital—a feat nover bofore undertaken by any large organization, ‘The care in every detail of arran, hardly comprehended by the average r Tho hours possible to_every stopping place are accounted for to the second. To insure the exact fultilment of every minute's run ning time special coaches and many special tralus are required. Probably no special train ever sent out surpassed this train as it will be made up, conveying its distinguished Dassengers, SIXLy OF MOTe in number, Iu1s by the grace of President Harrison at the request of Secretary of the Navy Tracy, that the Marive baud is granted ‘the fur- lough that makes it possible for it W go ou such o journey. The baud is a government institutiou, permanently stationed at Wash- ington, and is especially devoted to the white house and the president’s reguirements. Tne present is the secoid tour ever perwitted by ihe president. It therefore partakoes some- what of a uational novelty, and must autract alwost nutional attention. Lovers of band music in Omaba will be granted an opportunity of hearing this great organization on the 20th of this mounth, mati- nee and evening, aud this they owe Lo the enterprise of the Apollo elub, which shall surely receive the full support it undoubt- edly deserves. — ——— Couxcit Buurrs, la, Aug. 8, '%.—Dr. J. B, Moore: I feel it is uot only a privilege, but a duty, to say a good word Tor your Catarrh Cure. After doctoring with several of the best specialists of the country without relief, I was advised to try your Catarrh Cure, aad am pleased to say ['am entiroly cured. Yours ¥, W. A. Stk ‘Lraveliog Agent Fairbanks Scaie Co. For sale by ail druggiste. f S RAMBLINGS AROUND ROME Qights and Sounds to bs Enjoyed Daring a Stay in the Etarnal Oity. AT ST, PETER'S ON PURIFICATION DAY Messaling Rovelod and Was Mur- A Circus In the Colls nrgh n—Quoen Ata's Drawing —Mrs. ral Crook's Tmpr Rowe, Feb, 15.—(Correspondence of Tne Bre.|—Wo spont the first fow days of our stay in Rome driving around, so as to have an exterior view of the wondors we hoped to exploro later. Our ‘‘cocher,” who is won derfully fnstructod in tho history of modern Romo, took us overy day n new routs. He told us the names of 334 ohurches; showod us nnumerable monuments, fountains, palacos, ana would wave his hand, as we approached anything modern, and say, with a shrug and asneer, “No good: not antiqu Scoing how impossiblo it is to “do’ Rom> iu six weeks, wo huve dotermined to seo “Her groves, her temples, all things that in- spire Wouder, delight,” as far as we can, only attompting to see tho very best sculptures and paintings, We are familiar with the exterior of the Colisoum St. Peter's, tho Parthenon, the Forum, from the pictures wo have known from childhood, but no panting or photograph ever conv to the mind tho immensity of these ruius, or the grandeur of St. Peter’s, The degradation to which the colossal ruibs of the Coliseum huve beon subjected fills us with amazement. One pope tried to utiize it fora woolen manutactor! another attempted to convert the arcades’ tuto shops, and in the middie agos it was a fortress. For 200 years it sup- plicd the Homun princes with ‘material to build their vitis. Te Barborini and Farnese palaces wore mostly built from ivs ruins. We drovo to the Pincio, now a wodern park, where tho wealth and fashion of Rome and the stranyers within her gates do congre- gate to hear the military bands and se beautiful and gracious Queen Mai with ber gorgeous coachman in rod drive by, Lt is the samo old story from Sun Fraucisco to London, o drive around tuo park, listoning to music, but paying more at- tontion 1o tho toilets of the fair women, tho “rich fu chaises,” the poor looking on =ud en- joving them; the same old story of what Miss Thackeray caliod shionablo halo of sunset and pink parasol: And this is the Pincio, onco & deserted _waste, whero, 1 tho middlc ages tho ghost of Nero was belioved to wander, Where Lucullus Dined, In imperial times the Pinclo was the site of tho villa of Lucullus, Afterwards 1t be- longed to one of Claudius’ friends, Asiaticus, but, Messalina, the infumous wife of Claudius, had f; asutions made against Asiaticus and he was condemned to death. Afte death Messalina took possession of the vila and there beld high rovel with her numerous admirers and friends. as wanton as sh Clauawus returnea to Roms from the army having beard of her treason, determined puuish her and her paramours. Her lov were immediately put to death, and while bie was debating in his mind whother to punish or forgive, for with ail her wickedness her beauty and fascinations still neld sway over the not less wicked Claudius, an enemy of Messalina had given anorder to some centou- rion to slay her, by the emperor’s command, The mother of Messalina haa not desertud her 1n her trials, though when fortune smiled they had not been friends, and had striven to molko her daughter take her own life,1n those benighted dnays considered the most honorable way of exit from a disgracea life, Butshe lackea resolution and was finaily killed the centurion. This was the little story my friend told me us we drove around the Pincio, listening to the music of the band, watching the gay crowd of Rowans foreigners, soldiers, in~ carringes, afoot an on horseback. The most perfectly graded road, lined with statues, columus, bas- relievos, amid magnificent old trees, shrubs and Howers, leads to the top of this hill, ana from the terrace, 800 feet above the street, wo have ono of ths finest panoramas of Rome. Three-fourths of the city can be seen— palaces, caurches, towers, domes—from the Ghetto to the Trastevers, bayond the villa Doria Pamphili; to the left the Campagna, blue uud underlating as the ssa, the dome ol St. Poter’s, rising baif in the kv, half in tho city, Mour: w.th its white fortress and ghostl I vs. and over all the Saven Hills, the rosy light of the setting sun gilding dome and tower, with banks of fieec cumulus lying low and lazily on the bor and high, bigh up in the zenith the crescent moon, and one little star, scarcely visibio vet. BLE UNAYAY., MARCH 6, 892—SIXTEEN PAGES, in the chngeh so loug, fascinated by the ceremory for the rapose of the sonl of the gooa Pius’ the Ninth thal we wero chiiled to the marrow, so we wandered into the Campo Sano. which adjoins the church and monustery, - Thera wera few tombs of merit, and 1 stédfiod into the street, while the rost ot the party, went tothe Catacombs and cremators, nnd made the acquainiance of an Ttal family whe kept a little wayside inn The proprietr cheerful old body, offered me, with the true/politencss and hospitality of these simple-minded peoplo, & glass of wine, and when she saw 1 was anxious to see the interior of hor “‘casn, invited mo in and showod mo ber Jares and ponates with a great deal of pride, and when my friends re joned me sho AvAS equally sordial and gra clous to themyl for though she was only & peasant sho had the manners of a queen. Soclety™ In Rome, I shall weary you no longer with descrip. tions of churches and cemeteries, but turn to # thome less grave—the socloty of Rome. 1 had seon auglomaniacs, and francomaniacs; here we have Romomaniacs, and 1 must con fess T havo more sympathy With my country people who ure Roman‘mad. There is so much to plenso the oge and instruct the mind in Rome. Society is very gay hera this win ter and the Americans tako A very con apleuons pince in all -entertainments at tho quirinal, "Tn spite of our littio difference with Italy the king, quoen and court as we as the people seem fo like Americans, Why should thoy not! They gather in many of our dollars, . At the drawing room of the queen a few nights since there were sixtoen Atwerican lndies presented. Ono of the young ladies present gave mo description of the presen- tation. Tho gucen wore n magnificent whito satin, train_ four long, trimmed with poarls and lined with eherry velvet,the front rely of pearl passemontoric, with knots of scarlot veivet on the shoulders. She wore hor pearls, those marvelous pearis which consist of strand after strand, reaching to ner waist and fastoned behnd 'with a_clasp a fluger-lougth long of an amethyst sur- rounded by dismonds, The one hundred la- dies who were to be prosented were av- ranged around the room, and the queen, with her lady-in-waiting walkea around, and as tho lady-in-waiting road the aames the queen addressed each one . theirown language, making some ploasant roma 0 cach. Sho did not shako hands, but bowed gracefully to ocach. The ordeal was hers and not that of the per- son prescnted, as it is at the court of St. Jumes. OF tne sixteen American ladies pro- sented, six, I am happy to say, were westorn ers, Miss' Bryan, tho interestiug and tal- eoted daughter of the vice president of the World’s fair, was_one, und Mrs. Sandersou aud her daughiter from Milwaukee, who have while in Romo an apartment in tho Borghese palace, were also amoug the number. Last night the queen bad a ball to which allforeigners who had been presentod wero invited. Saturday night thero was a charity ball, of which the queen and the court dames wero the patronesses. The ball camo near being o liaseo on account of there being 8, to which the king went, and did not reach the ballroom until after midnight. [Fires are so rare hero ((he day we arrivod in Romo thero was one, tho first for twenty years) that the propleand the firomen too ecome deworalized. so the king always goes, and his proseace ang coolness give con- fidetice, and his orders are implicitly obayed. Tmagine one of our high and mighty mayors 1o say 110thing of our goveruors, gOing to di- rect our firemon! - Humoerto i3 a wood man. Ho eavo about ‘3,000 to the to: tnat was destroyed by theilate earthquuke, and ho is a poor man (many. of our merchant vrinces lave larzer incoiids than ho), if he does give a strand of ‘poarls every yoar to his beautiful Mazzherita, whom the neople love for her beaut her graciousness and her charity. e Yet there are still Romau families here who closed their windows when the hated Victor Immanuel gook possession of the city, and still keep thez ciosed. They are bitter cnenies to the savior of Italy, and. staunch aduerents of tho,papal authorities. Prepaving for Carnival, There ate grandoreparations going on for tho carnival. The government as well us the eople arn makivg strong efforis to have it a grand suce Alveady the aity is putting on a gaia apearance, thoush 1ho carnival only commences on the 20th, lasting until Shrove Tuosday, the Ist of March. Woate yory much struck by the Italian ivay of celeb¥ating d fasta. On Sunday tho stores aro all open, tha streeis are full of buyers and sellers, and it scems 10 bo the day for auctions and lottories. On the only feast day wo have scon here—Candlomas day —all the shops were closed, tho streots and piazzas seemed deserted, and until we drove out in the neizhborhood of the Uoliseum, we did not know what had become of tho fakirs, flower mon (for the men sell flowers here. and we have no longer the picturesque, ro- mantic flower girl) and beggars. Wo found the crowd might upder the shadow of tho grang, colossal rwns that make the ©t of overy human thrill as they remember the glories as wel as tho shame of its past. There, where many a Gaul was “butchered to make a Rouan holiday,” has pitched a citcus tent, Such s pieture ono o3 in his momory forever, though words arc weak to aescribe. As tho Ave Mark socnds wo drive to tho church of the ‘Lrinitadel Monti to hear the nuns chant_thaveapers. ‘Lbis church, built by Charles VIIL of France, was plundered the timo of the_rovolution, but was re- stored by Louis XV1IL Therd is the Descont from tho Cross, hy Daniele de Volterra, which some very good autborities rink as the third picturd in the world. The picturs wits vory much defaced when the Franch at- tempted to removeit. Itisa grand picture and appeals to the heart—the swooning mother of our Lord, tke disciple whom Ho lovea so well standing with outstretched arms contomplating with agony his Lord and master, the nuwber of strong men, cach face soeming @ portrait, showing more strength than harmony. The painting and coloring of tho exposed body seem liko nature iwself. As we came from the _church tho last rays of red aud gold had vanished from tho sky, the moon was swiling_high, bathing domes and towers in its silver radiance. As wo descended tho nobla fiight of steps to tho piuzza e Spagna, tho steps whero in former days used to congregate the models, we have the Fontane di Barberin, now surmounted by men un¢ boys selling flowors, the beautiful Roman_hyacinths, flour-de-lys and violets, @ buuch for 5 sous, that would cost one of the dollars of our daddies in New York. Blessing the Candles at St. Peter's. Yesterday we were at St. Peter's to see the coremony of biessing the candics. It wus Puritication day here, at home and with Protestauts, Groundhog dav. [ am sure bo saw his shadow scveral times here; I hopo he did not wi b you, You do not want six weeks more of winter, Afwr the candles whict had been blessed by s boliess wero preseuted, fivst to Lhe cardinals, great big ones eat biz candles, 1 mean—then the arch- ishops, bishops, priests and choir bovs,and the candles beeame quite small by the time they reach the choristers, they all marcned avound | tho vast church, down one side, up tho oth civales lighted sud chanting 'some doleful | tune, with u strain of deiicious melody | through it, It was a veautiful sight 1o see these dignitaries of the ehurch in their gold ana scarlet, purple aaa fine linen—some of them Inoked erand and noble, but some very | of the “eurth, earthy,” as if the delicious golaen and red wines of Italy might not cou amiss W them, Then we heard | mass by . thé pope’s choir aud I | felt a3 1f 1 had neyer hoard | music before. There is a tenor voice, tho wonder of the world, that as it soars and | swells_carries you on angels' wings, away from the world of trials and struegles to realms buyond uud leaves your soul in oliss, for awhite at least. We' heard ihe samo voic+ again today at St. Loreazo, where the #ood Pio Nono is buried in the plain tomb | that be witied should only cost®. But tho united Catholic world bus orected ovor this bumble little marble, & handsowmer tomb than any tentate, ancient or moderan bhad. St. Lorenzo, you know, was broiled on | a gridiron. They show you'the warble, one | of tho relics of the church, ou which the saint was grilied. This church was one of | tne Basihicas, built over the Catacomus by Coustautine, irom the ruins of a Greck tew- ple. The columus are beautiful beyoud any thiog I have ever seen, pare Corinihian, im- mense in_height and of one single piece of marble. Hero rest the boues of the firat martyr, St. Stephen, and it was toduy we heard the mass for tho repose of his soul by @ cardioal, lunumerablo priests and monks and the papal choir. An immense catafalguo stood 10 the center of the churoh, draped in black velvet and coid, with bundrads of pan- ales io the handsomest, adesi sud ot unique candlesticks I have ever seen, and around this the procession of priests and monks walked aud chaoted and swung the censers, until the grand old cburen was filled ' with melody of sweet sounds wnd scents. We haa remained just such a tent'as we sce in every town and vililage at bome, with all tho same side shows, not even the pink lemonade was lack- inz, Truly, the modern Romuns enjoy a different kind of show from those fur- nisted them 1n the time of the Cwsars. And they aid so seem to enjoy this, for they had gathered from all purts of the city, the infant in arms to the decrepit. old man and woman, But 1t did seem incongruous—a white circus tent with & man and woman walking a tight rope, in tho shadow of the greatest ruins in the world, almost in hearing of the Forum and the palace of tho Cisars, And wo sat in our 1age enjoying the crowd, the merry, laughing Roman crowd, and I believe we enjoyed the tizht rope performance, too —s0 truo is 1t that “a touch of naturo makes the whole world kin.” And it was a re- minder of our far-off home, something famitiar and dear, because it brought to our minds recollectious of the happy p M. D. Crook. —_— Al ‘The national suprame court decides that the alien labor law does not apply to clergy- meu., Thero aro thirty colored men in the priest- bood of the Protestant Episcoval ehurch of America. Spurgeon didn’t like being called *‘rever- end,” *Revercnd is as roverend does,’” was his idea, Colonel Ingersoll has sued the Rev. A. C, Dixon of Brooklyn for libel, 1aving his dam- ages at $5,000. itov. Dixon charged the ag- nostic with’ being a promoter of impure lit- crature. Rev. Talmage’'s Brooklyn cost 400,00, is likely to be sold under the hammer. A judgment for 53,000, to satisfy A wmecbanics’ lien, has veen placed iu the Brooklyn sheriff ’s hands, Reyv. Dv, Moatzomery Schuyler, dean of Christ chureh cathedral in St Louls, cele- brated last week the fftioth anniversary of bisordination. Hu spent thirty-eiglt of the fifty years as rectordf Christ church, and he has been dean for four years, 1f tho roport that! Archbishop I[reland of BSt. Paul is to «b8' mado cardinal-prefect proves Lrue, the fitiire residence of the arch- bishop will be in'®btme, The position would make him manszetr of the affairs of the American Catholié4hureh 10 Rome, When Geaeral ‘Booth of the Salvation army was in Caleutta, o building large anough for bis purposes coild pe found, and he, there. fore, accepted thy Joffer made bv a circ manager of a tent’in which to hold services, The army's singipgand “volloy firlng' agl tated the caged lions, however, to such an extent that thesegpimals began to coar just neral lhmlh ecan his address. But 0 soou stiedfed, *in response to the oxorciso of faith *fHo War Cry says. tomple, which At the fareweROUinner given to Bishop | Horstmann in Piadelphia after bis conse- eration 1ast weelk, -9 was presonted with a handsome testimonial in embossed silver. Itwas in the form of a large seroll, sur- rounded by erossed croziers and a mitre, On the scroll, in Latin, is & testimonial in prec ious metal sotting forth tho lovo and esteem of the Catholic clergy i Philadelphia for their friend and associate, Thoe whole is 1u- closed 11 a handsome frame, He proceeds to Cleveland in o few davs, The sales and profits of the Methodist book concerns, east and west, for the past year were very large. A dividend of $f25,000 has boen declared for the support of superannu ated ministors and of the widows and chil- dren of dead ministers. During the your 1891 the New York conceru sold §1,061,076.33 worth of hooks and periodicals with of $i43 41263 The Cincinuati bre poried sales of $1.141,035.02 and protits of $171,074.13. The profits have been made 09 w1oial net capital of $3,150,950 09, of which . estod i the Now York branch and 1, 180, in the Cincinnati coucern. Come in o our spocimens. This is our 4th year in Omaha—plenty long enough ~to demonstrate that we do as we advertise and we refer to THE BBz, by permission. Hundreds of peo- ple todny are wearing our teeth and they’re our 85 teoth too. Not one per- son has ever come ba dissatistied with a $5 full set. ’ SETH WITHOUT PLATES AND REMOVABLE BRIDGE WORK. This is one of the greatest inventions in dentistry With these teeth there is nothing in the roof of the mouth to ob- structthe voice; they never drop down; A FULL SET OF TEETH FOR firm, enabling you to bite any. ou wish; strong ne natural teeth- speakers, singers, etc., should havo these teeth, Price regulated by number of testh necessary: cost only a Publie in the reach of all. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, We have the best local anwsthetic for of teeth, that has od; once tried you As harmless ns water Nitros Oxide or laughing gus, also vi- talized air, kopt constantly on hand and administered to all who desire it. Per- fectly safe, vainless extraction ever been di will be convince | | l little more than rubber plute and with- | FATFOLKS REDUCED DR. SNYDER, The Successful Obesity Specialist. Mrs. LM . Campbell, Argyle, Wik, before and after trastment by Dr. Snyder. Jan. 13, 1802.—Dr. Snyder, Dear have ju t month's treat- My health Is 04 nearly perfect now ax I conld wish, | used to suffer ftense y with sick head - ache In 1ts worst form. also with kidney trouble u rheumntixm. My genoral health {s so much | Is almost impossible for me to realize nge an Ing thnt has befalles following wil y wolght and measurements Welght £55 Bust. .. 4616 Wal inches. inches o rocelved t to any 1feel vory geatoful for the benefit ! ha and ean heartily recommoend your treati suffering from that most discouraging of dis- os—Obesity. While nearly all other diseses gain sympathy. that of Obesity calls forth nothing but ridienle on its unfortunate vietim. Al inquirles with stamp incios:d will be most ¢ wered. . PATIENTS TREATED BY MAIL, No starving, Do inconvenience, harmless and no be effects. Strictly confidentinl. * ¥or circulars and tes. timonials uddross with 6c. in stamps, DR. O. W. F. SNYDER, MoVicker's Thejtre Bldg., Chicago, ik INTEREST PAID ONDEPOSITS »7 OMAHALOANKTRUSTCO SAVINGS ~ BANK SELOR. 16" &N0UGLASST S, CAPITAL:% 100.000.00 DIRECTORS TAUWYMAN -EW.NASH. JHKILLARD:GUY-CBARTON- G.B, L AKE. J.J.BROWN - THOS L. KIMBALL. PYOURSELF! Ask your Druggist for & bottle of Big &. The only ‘non-poisonous remedy for all he unnatural discharges and rivate discescs of men and the Bebilitating weakness peculiar 10 women. It cures in a fow Qays without the aid or publicity of a doctor. "The_I'niversal American Cure. Manufactured by The Evacs Chemical Co, CINCINNATI, O. EDUCA Brooklyn is arvanging to invest 00,000 ia a free publio library. The Chicago university has alrcady an en- dowment of £4,000,000. Rey. Dr. Purvos of Pittsburg has accepted a professorship in Princeton. ‘I'he enrollment 1 the public schools of Mjnneapolis foots up 21,900, Bowdoin coliege gratefully accepts the Garcelon bequost of §400,000, Johns Hopkins university has just cele- brated 1ts fifteenth aoniversary. 1t is said thero are 20,000 children in Chi- cago without facilities for education, Berlin has 191 common sonools, with 3,223 classes and 2,860 class rooms. The attend- anco on last January was 56,300 boys and 85,878 girls. “The Umversity of Pennsylvania starts the new your by tho establisiment of a depart- ment of hygieno, on the theory that an ounce of prevenuye action s worth a pound of physic ufter sickness beg The will of the lute Thomas Sterry Hunt bequeaths forty shures of stock of a Montreul bauk to eavh of three institutions, the Que. bec seminury, MeGill college and the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technolozy. The money is to be used for the establishment of schol- arships in ohemistry. Bach institution is is0 10 receive 8 cash bequest of $2,000. Boston's Mechane Art High school, vlans for whiok have been accepted, will be a mag- nifcent building. It will ve three stories above # bigh basement, with a frontage of 220 foet on Belvidere stroot and uninety feet ou Dalton strect, It will be ready for oceu- pancy uext year, The course of instruction will embrace all branches of theoretical and praotival mechanic art, —~— Commissioners at KEuropean exposition awarded premiums to Coox's Extra Dry Im- perial chumpagne for its delicious boquet and purity. —_— JAY AND IS $10,000. Minneapolis Tribune: Jay Gould is not dangerously ill. To be sure he is & nervous man snd the shock of giving §10,000 10 & church extension committes must have been a severe one, but his physician says ne will speedily recover. (lobe-Domocrat: Jay Gould has given $10,000 to the Presbyterians for church ex | tension purposes, and now everybody will | wonder how he expects Lo realize upon the | investment. | nauglity worle, | | “So shines u good deed in & Chicago Uribune: Dr. John Hall said at the ministerial meeting in Jay Gould's house that in twanty-five yeirs be bed never been | obliged to go L0 a brison to look for oue of | his parishioners. But then fow pastors are | blessed with such substantial flocks as Dr. Gold Crowns anl Fixed Gold Bridge Work. The latest and most approved appli- aoces for making gold crowns and gold bridges. This work warranted for years, Prices lowest in the west, FILLINGS Gold and all kinds of fillings at the most reasonable prices. ALL KINDS DENTAL WOKK. Wao executo neatly.and promptly e very of dental work. DR. BAILEY is a graduate of the University of Michigan. Graduated in the spring of ‘84, having had throe years experionce before that date, wo thor oughly understands what heis talking abou All work Guaranteed. {Examination of Tecth, FREE. Gut This Out as a Guide to Our Offics DR. R. W, BAILEY, DENTIST, Offices 3rd Floor of Paxton Block, Telephone 085, 16th and Farnam Sts. ANNUAL STATEMENT. EQUITABLE Life Assurance Society HENRY B. HYDE JAMES W. ALEXANDER.. .President. Vice-Prosident. FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31st, 1891, ASS Bonds and Mortgages Real Estate, including the Equitable under foreclosure of mortgages ... United States Stocks, State Stocks, City ments. . Loans secured by Bonds and Real Bstate outside the State of New under foreclosure. ... Cash in Bank and in transit (sinc Interest and Rents due and accrued, Defc Securitios . Total Assets, Dec mber 31, 1801.... Wo hereby cortify that after a persor counts described 1n the foregoin rect as stated. THoMAS D. JORDAN, Comptroll ETS. 826,350,321 ¢ feieenaen 18,976,621 ¢ Stocks, an .. 59,702,665 27 .00). 00 York, including purchases . 32 52 5,628,085 03 srred Premiums and othee . .....8186,108,618.38 pal examination of the securities and a atement, we find the same to be true and col er. Francis W. JACKSON, Auditor. LIABILITIES. TOTAL LIABILITIES, including the v Policies (4 per cent Standurd) and u ward the establishment of a 34 1,500,000 Total Undivided Surplus ..... ‘We certify to the correctness of the plus, ve on all existing Special Reserve (to- per cent valuation of eeerereseiieenssees..$109,905,637.82 $26,202,980.56 above calculation of the reserve and sur- I'rom this surplus the usual dividends will be made. GEO, W. PHILLIPS, J. G. VAN CISE, Actuaries. Premiums Interest, Rents, etc DISBURS Claims by D dowments ........... Total Paid Policy-Ho'ders. .. .. Commission, Advertising, Postage, and General Ixpenses, State, County and Ci New Assurance written in 1891. Total Outstanding Assurance .. The Fiscal Committee of the Board ol counts and Assets of the Society for the fully report that they have personally property belouging to the sty, inel g the Annual Statement ol the Sc prepared, and they hereby certify that th hibit of the condition of the Society, and the books of the Sociery, with which the L. BoupiNor (oL i, YOUNG, GEO, W, CARLETON, WarL B, K ath and Matured Endowments Dividends, Surrender Values; Aunnuities, examined and res, and Ledge - Balances; that they have y, and the ac H. S. TERBELL, INCOME. 5 5 33,126,349 50 5,928,504 20 39,0 6 48.85 EMENTS. s $9,848,716 84 unted Ln- : nd ‘disc St 4,951,979 54 814,800,696 37 3 4,397,821 Ki 8,768,506 03 iixehango. ... ty . oA 322.907.08‘%. .$233,118,331.00 .804,894,557.00 f Directors, appointed to examine the Ac- year ending December 31, 1801, resp counted eve evide uding Bonds, Stocks, Real Estate Morte personally investigated and audited ounts from which tho same was he said Annual Statement is a correct ex- in every respect is in accordance with same has been preparoed. | Sheclal Committes of the Bonrd of (“Directors, appointed Lo exawm no § tho wogoints und ussels wt (he DALL, ©close of the year 1501, NCH OFFICE: OMAHA BRA Rooms 206-208 Bee Building. H, D. NEELY, WM. HIS DrDOWNS 1816 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. in nervc The eminent speclali a8 dipiom n It registered graduato (n mudoing catarrh, spermntorrhoen, orrhoei, Klpet, varicocole, olc. Vislt me niny bo trontod at surely packed, no marks 1o lndi e roo. " Correspondonce strletly pr undays 10 6 w. 10 13 w. Seud stwip 10r repiy. ironic, pri 4o Hall's, Millionaires dou’t go Lo prison, as a rule, even if they are uot church members, St. Paul Pioneer-Press: Some of the re- ligious people of New York ure asking bow Jay Gould earned the #0,000 he has donated to oid Presbyterian church work. Tiis may be an important subject with denominutions which do not benefit by the gift, but the all- absorbing question with the vulgar wob is the disposition tho recipients will make of 1t Philadelptia Press: What the church needs today—and the world as much as tho eburch—is not the rejection of this man's mouey and the condemnation of that man's millions, but a recognition of the fact that the system by which and through which Goulds prospér aud grow eroat is wroug, and that no nation can long prosper which cherishes it, —_——— CUAL FACTS. Caonda produces about 5,000,000 tons o I coal snuually, usarly two-thirds of the tote ¥ ate. Book (Mynieries of Life) seat froe. Manager, NRY BROWN, OCashier. ate, blood, and urinary diseases. A rozular aud - In ALl trenting with tho groatost success L losses, lmpatency, syphilis. stricture, o - vl power, Parties unublo cnts sent b7 mail or expross se: y view proferred. Consul Omoce hours product velag shipoed from mines in Nova Scotia, Work 1 progressing well on the now elo- vator and coal dock at Gladstone, Mich. Hot Springs, 8. D., will soon be supplied with coal from the mines in that vicinity. Work at the Rockdale (Texas) coul mines is active and the output is sbout twenty tons 8 day. The estimated coal area of Belgium 1s 500 square miles and that of Frauce 1,200 square miles. A syndicate is about to acquirs (e New- castle, N. 5. W, coal fields. 'I'he capital in this syndicate is £2,450,000, b AN -~ The New York omigrant inspectors 1e-\ turued 124 contraot laborers, destined for Pennxylvania mines last weel ‘The output of British coal for 1857 was 162,000,000 tons ; for 1855 it was 160,000,000 1850 it was 176,000,000, and for 1590 it 3 @ ched 151,000,000 tons, au incremse an four A ars of 19,000,000 wons.