Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1892, Page 8

————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— BEAUTY OF ITALIAY CITIES Mrs. General Orook's Views on Life in King Humbart's Realm. THE CURSE OF A LARGE STANDING ARMY s and Work the ter's Seen Through Women Hreak Sto Railronds—St. ¥ a Koyhole ¥ on ing for a ¥ Jonesce, March 0.—|Correspondence of Tne Brr.|—Before we left Rome, with her pillared colonades, magniticent temples, sumptuous shrines, shady groves and gorge- ous fountains, we took one more ride to the Arentine, the highest and most picturesque of all the ltoman hills, to tako a last view of the greatest of all her temples, St. Peter's, through a keyhole, The keyholo is in an im- mense onk door, studded with brass ana iron, which leads into the garden af tho priory of tho Malteso order. ‘I'ho great dome stood out clearly agninst tha horizon, making an ex- quisite picture. The carnival was almost spoiled by incessant rains, but we did have one great treat in scoing the Colisoum lit by electric and Bengal lights and hearing mandolin orchestra in the ruins or a mili- tary band on tho outside, What a contrast 1o the amusement formerly furnished there 10 tho old KRomans. As tho train rolled out from lRome, bearing us on our journey 1o Naples, wo pass the tombs of Via Appia, with the Aiton and Sabine mountains on one side, the voleano on the other, and as wo ride acros the Itomun Campagna (which, after all, is only like a Nebraska prairie) picturesque, cultivated slopes riso on eiter side, whilo tho moun- tains toweritg nbove have their tops still covered with snow. In the distance, percked in tho crags of the mountains, some- times on what seems almost inacc ble points, wo sco towns, villages, churches, fortresses and monasteries. Within a few miles of Naples, is the ancient Capua, where Haruibal took up his quarters after the sec- ond Punic war. Wo uve told of a_remakabls ruin hero that rivals the Coliscum, but wo must hasten to the city by the blue Vesuvian Spring is farther” advanced than at Rome. The “sweet, plad angels of the spring”’ covers the ‘wholo country. How beautiful it must be here when the vine- In every orchard, or s tho vines aro clinging to every yards aro in full fruit. wherever there aro tre stretched from tree to tre tree, shrub or stake. Naples, like every city 1 haveseen on the Mediterranean, rises like an asmphitheater, from the sen, tier upou tier, and one wonders how the topmost buildings can bo reached. But you do reach them at last, always over ho most beauti fully graded roaas,where you always fiud o panorama of unsurpassing Joveliness. The architectureof Naples is not very beautiful, there is too much mouotony. There are some broad streets and beautiful squares—palaces for the rich—whnere under- neath are the stables and dark, noisome cav- erns whero the poor hive,thei» only light com- ing from the dome. And tho smells! As Mark Twaip says, “'they area thousand years old.”’ After the churches 1u Romo all others pale. The only thing in Naples in the way of art is at the museum, which is one of tho tinest in the world, made up as it is from tho sculptures and frescoes found at Pompoii, Herculau, wnd gathered from cvory part of Ttuly and Greeeo. Nuples, with its charm- ing climbs, its bay, blue as sapphire, sur- rounded by its chula of wountaius, is v lovoly, but it is the environs that detain one und inake you wish to linger. Vesuyvius, FPompeii, Sorrento with its red rocks, Capri with its bluo_grotto and wonderful ruins of Tiberis, Paestum with its marvel- ous Doric temple. Tha view from the high rocks of Capri, where the temple of Jupeter once stood, gives you not only the littio island. but all the 1slands as far as tho hills of Calabria, Vesuvius sending forth volumes of smoke 10 the clouds, Naples, rising_tier upon tier, capped by tho boights of Poslippo and Cupo de Menti, The darive feom Naples to Pompeil takes you turough one continvous town—all with different names, but the same smells. Right unaer the shudow of Vesuvius thero has sprung up a town of eight or ten thousand inha'tants. 1 do not think I should like to bea denizen of it. It may meet the fate of other cities of this voleanic region. Powpeii 1s tho fivst city I have ever seen that is fin- 1shed. From the newest town on the western plains to the eldest here, they are *“ixing” the streets, As old as Rome is they are pulling down houses and widening streets. They Go not mn.ove houses as they do in Omaha, but pull them down, brick by brick aund it is herculean task for tho walls of the houses seems to have been built to sustain o siege! How hard the women, work! I have stones, carrying imme: their heads to £l a cut poor patnctic little burros, the silver haived oxen, with their polished black horns and great dreamy arc Jonded down. I havo seen one littls “pony bitched toa street cart, two stories high drawing twenty men.’ 1 asked a young advocate who traveled with us from Naples if he liked better to sce Idiers overrunuiog Italy, then the priests? Certainly,” he replied; ‘“ne preferred the soldiers to the priests, but supporting a largo army is ruining ltaly and taxing the peoplo bevond endurance.” T asked if it wore for fear of the encroach- meats of other foreign powers, the Italian government kept so largo a army. “An! No, Madame,” be said, “it.is to keep Italy a kingdom 1nstead of a republic, which 80 many people desive.” And ho explained that the church, which isstill a power in Italy, would quito as soon which a republic as a kingdow beeause their power ‘would not e curtailed and it might be aug- mented.” . He thought the threo greatost men who had ever lived were Washington, Lancotn und Garibaldi. Ho loved and re- spected King Humbert, but believed ho was e last king Italy would ever havo, As I afterwards discovered, my young friend had writton a work on socialism. I took his opintons with u grain of sllowance, Thero is a young generation springig upin ltaly who'love nat the church or the kingdom, and long 1o sco United Italy a united republie, and many a young heart is filled with tho ambition’ to"be tho fitst prosident of an Ttalian republ Wo left Naples with yegrot, though I had caught cold living in her marble palaces with slippery, cold mosaic floors. W had an enchunting view from our window, of the bay with her hundreds of white-winged boats, and of Vesuvius, whose smoke was rising all day, and at night mado the sky lurid with er fires, We arrived in Florence just in time to see the last of the carnival, and L am sorry wo wero not a littlo later, for anything more noisy night and day or more grotesque than the maskers I have never seen. 1 believe every boy over 3 years old kas a whistle, und every coachman has the loudest cracker on his whip be can find. Florence, callea so, because it was said to have been founded on afield of flowers, and indeed sho is worthy her name; the wholo city is filled with them. How beautiful the city,with its moss grown terraces, drooping cedars and sproad- ang pine. What grand and noblo palaces! ‘The Pitto, that even Taine, who could find horses and oxen seen women breaking 1se baskets of dirt on the railroad. The nothing in Italy so gooa' as in France, acknowledged to be ‘tho finest in the world! What acres of pictures, pictures Mo very finest in tho world, and worth a lifotimo’s study, In one small room in the Utizzi is collected the very bost of art in the world. The Medici, tho finest Venus, tho wastorpieces of Raphael, Correio, ‘Titians and Rubens. In Florenco Michacl Angelo dominates everything. In Rome we saw Lho monastery from which bis body was stolcn, 1o bo carried to bis native plage in Florence, and here ho reposes in Santa Croce where o desired to lle, so that “when the door opened ho could’ see Brunellcsehi's dome,” which sorved him as one of the models of his own dowme of St. Peters. Here, 100, in Santa Croce, which is' the Iautheon of Florence “Repose “Angelo's, Aliero's bones, and his, “Tho starry Galileo with his woos; Hiere Machiavelli's earth, veturued to where it rose.” And in this vast marble silence lie buried some of tho greatest men the world has ever known. If the Medici wero wicked, Florence owes thew & great deal. Sho owes to them and the Austrian dukes that followed thom Ler iucomparable gallerios and museums, The Medicl furnished the quoens to Fioreneo and “threo popes to tho cburch of Rome, do the rlun of Sauta Croce Is & colossul Lencircled tho valley, statue of Dante, srected 600 years after his death, From the Pitti palace we descended into the Bjotelo gardens of which we have read 80 much, and where Ferdinand 1. plauted and cultivated the first potatoes which came from America, It is beautifully laid out in tne Italian style, troes clipped and trimmed in fautastic shapes; ilox, avenuos, hedges of box and myrtie,mossy fountains,and statues. "I'o the houso of Michael Angelo wo wero shown the studies of the Sistine chapel, drawings of nis “Last Judgment” ana his model of tho cupola of St. Petor's. The cathedral which bas thesecond largest dome in tho world is a “‘poem and a prayer mone.” And ono can well appreciate the enthusiasm it has awakened in tho breasts of 30 many poets and painters, Ruskin says that “only in the campanile of (iiotto exists both beauty and power.” One stands on- tranced boforo that spiral shaft, and when the soft, silvery tones of the bells ring out on tho air, wo feel tho melody is more of neaven than of earth. he exterior of the ocathedral is covered with procious marbles and beautiful sculptures, but the interior, savo for its grandly trescood aome is disappointing. Opposite the cathe dral s the baptistry, with tho magaiticont domes of Ghiberty, which Michael Angelo said were “worthy to form the entrance into Paradise.” But they are so full of dust that itis hard to seo or study them. Tho baptis- try is built of vlack and white marbie that wis onco the temple of Mars, The church hns utilized so many of the ancient temples that the great ruing which muke Italy so at tractive arc fast becoming obsolete. Of tho bridges crossing the Arno tho Ponto a Santo Trinita 1s the most beautiful and graceful, with its four seasons, at the angles, poised gracefully it the air. Another bridje, that has been several timus destroyed and rebuilt, has an interesting logend. On u May day celebration aninvitation was given to the citizens to witness a theatrieal colebration from tho bridges, thatwas to tuke place on & raft beneuth ; anyono present who desired to hear from haaes would have the opportunity. The bridge was crowded and in the midst of the demoniacal antics and grotesquo porformance, tho ridge gave gway and thousands were pre- cipitated ~in tho rushing waters, and some perbaps realized more vividly than they desired what his satanic realms were like. ‘I'he six stone bridges across the Arno are so picturesque and quaint that the two suspen- sion ones seem uterly 1ncongros This beautiful and fair city, in the rich vailoy of the Arno, has been the birthplace of many great men; and fills us with rocol- lections of the romances we have read, of the beauties of nature and art that have been immortalized by poets aud aruists. F i tho square, whero now is o magnificent fountain, Suvonarola’s soul weut up in fire. In San Marco, wo see the church and con- vent where what noble men, of noblo deeds, own Florence us their native place—Daute, Petrarch, Michael Avgelo, Leonardo da Vi Benevuto, Cellini, Andrea del Tarto, Galileo. In ono of the museums thero is a tribune dedicated to the memory ot Galileo, There is & fine marble statuec of him undev the ro- tunda, ana ono of his fingers encircled by a ring in o glass case pointing upwards, There uro three fino (rescoes representing his life. One at Pisa swinging a lamp, which origin- ated in his mind, the law of mechanics, reg ulating tho pendulum; the second, demou- strating beforo tho councilof ten at Venico tho truth of tho telescope; and the thivd, in which he is reprosented as being vlind, with one hand on a globe, and he is preaching, firing tno souls of his hearers with such high hopes of immortality beyond the grave that women brought their men their greatest works, even artists v picturos, and made an auto da fo on tho pot where ho and his two friends wero hatged and burned, only because he was the precarsor of tho reformation. Aud here San Marco, the great work of Donotelli, of which Michael Angelo is <o noble a ficure, could indeed write a gospel. To wmo the grandest statuo of them all is Michael An- gelo's David, which is even finer and more inspiring than bis Muses in Rome pointing heavenward. The habitants seem an honest, genial people. Thoy have the air of prosperity and good health, There are few beggars, and the storekeepers do mot try to draw. you in their shops end make you buy nolens-voleus. The Neapolitans are merry and lazy, who let the morrow take care of itself. Inthe morn- ing and evening, when they bring their goats 1o be milked in the frout of the house, they stretch themselves on the sunny side of tho housc—tho men, not the goats. T'he goats, dear little patient ereatures, whe, with true animal instinet, know to wich house they must go to be milked, stand huddied together untii their luzy owner has had his siesta, 1 do mnot "kuow a quainter sight than sceing the milking of tho goats, and sometimes a cow with her calf following, are backed up on the sidewalks, and the people pour out of thehouses with jugs, cups or mugs and see the wilk flow, fresh and foamy, into their vessels, Thereis no chauce for watering the mitk in Nuples. This ufternoon we drove to the convent of the Cortoso, situated at the top of a high hill commanding a matchless view of the valley of the Arno and tno Appennies. It was formerly the monastery of the Cor- tosian monks, founded by St Bruno. Once the beautiful cloisters wero fillea with the monks in their white garbs, but is uow al- most deserted. Since the suppression of the couvents only five or six are left to take care of the property, now owned by the govern- ment. Tho zood old padre, who showed us around, pointing out the boauty and wealth of his former beloved convent that had been his home for many years, was full of good will and bonhomie. “Yes," ho said, “we are allowed to take caro of our own property. At first nineteen of us were 1oft; now thera ars only six.” Tno church connected with this convent is rich in marble, pictures, exquisitely carved wooden altar witk precious stones and oneof Giotto’s marvelous Crucifixion. In the con- ter of o large cloister there is a draw well of rare beauty. ‘The noble tombof Bonofade, bishop of Cortona and superior of the convent, is the most effective eftigy I have over seen. He was the godfather of Catherine de Medius, Tno monlk told us that when Queen Victoria visited the convent, he showed ber around told her this bishop was the godfather ofave y bad queen. “Aud what did the queen of Eugland reply?” we asked. *On,” he said, o never suid anything but ‘Multo bella,’ from the time she entercd until she left,” He 100k us to o high point in the monastery 10 show us tho view of the mountains tha but the mist covercd the tups, aud Le sinilingly exclaimed in his sweet Italian: Quando inonte morcllo, S mettio il cappolio, 1t contadino va o prender L ombrelio Which means, wheo tho mists are on Mounte Morollo you must tuke un umbrella. We saw the room Pius VI occupied for nine months when a prisoner of the first Napole- on, “This,” suid our monk, showing the bed- room, “was the vatican of his holiness aud this,” showing bis sitting room, ‘‘was his quirinal,” The monastery has a charming, quiet re- treat, with delicious views from every point, and 8 mystic churin that mado us desire to linger 1 its quiet shade,underits picturesque cedars that reared their points heavenward. Just as we were saying good by to our good monk the bell of the church pealed along, mournful note, and the father, crossing him- self said, “'Ab, our brother has gone to rest.” Ho told us last week one brother over 80 years, had died, and every hour they were auticipating the death of the oue for whom the bell was tolling. 5o tonight there are ouly four white robed guardians to keep guard over the property of tho state. As wo drove from the convent door tho mist rolled from Monte Morello and the sun went down in u golden radiauce, the moon— ouly o crescont of silvery lignt—arose, and thesceno of enchauting loveliness gave a promise of & beautiful tomorrow. Many D, Crook. e Not So Bad After AllL E. V. Wood of McKee's Rocks, Allegheny county, Pa., in speaking to a traveling man of Chamberlain’s mediciues said: *I recom- mend them above all others, 1 have used them myself and koow them to be reliable. lalways guarantee them to iy customers and bave nover had a bottle returned.” Mr, Wood bad hardly flnished spoaking, when a litte girl came in the storo with in empty bottle, It was labeled, “Chamberlain’s Pain Baln' The traveler was interested, as there was certainly s bottle coming back, but waited to hear what the hittle girl said. It was as follows: *“Mamma wants another bottle of that medicine; she says it is the best medicioe for rheumatism sheeve r used.’ 50-ceat bottles for sale by druggists. C. D, Woodworth Z Co., successors to Welty & Guy, 1816 Farnam street, man- ufacturers uud dealers in burness, sad- dles, ele THE OMAHA MANNERS OF THE MALTESE How the 8ea-Oiroled Rock Has Become the "Flower of the World."” DESPISED NOT THE LITTLE THINGS Land rr Reclalmed with Plekaxes—Dearest of the Maltese to Add to the Ar ble Aren—Ind Igable Irrigation — Marrlage Manners, [Copyrighted 1592.) Citoaana, Ttaly, Feb, 20.—[Special to Tie Bre.) —Looking back from within the envir- onment of the tishor folk of the Adriatic, and even with all the fair domes and minarets of Venice in view across tho opaline waters of the tlashing lagoons, the poasantry of are, to my cyes, set in o fair and sunny per- spective. They aro thrifty and virtuous, loyal and loving, kindly und pious, pationt and good. Therois not a land undor tho sun whore uatural conditions have been so bravely over- come, and whore original storility has been so transformed into permanent fruitfulness and luxurianco, Noarly the entiro faco of Malta was originally a barren desert rock. And jot tolay there 1s much aptitude in tho boast of the Malteso that thoir island of stone 15 the Fiore del Mondo, or “Flower of tho World:” for it actually supports, from tho products of the soll it nossesses, a greater population in proportion to its insignificant area than can elsewhere be found outside Cina and Japan, Despise Not the Littlo Things. Tho incorrect statement has been made that Malta's entire soil has been brougnt in shiploads from Sicily., Some of it has been, butit has been chiefly brought from all quarters of tho globe, = There is no such thing as waste in Malta, The shell of an egg, the chaff packings of morchandise, the en- trails of Hish, the sweepings of ships’ decks and debris from their holds, even the exuvie of birds, aro all troasured, and theso in other lands infi- nitely littlo and despised things, with the curious method of year by year creating, lit- erally croating vod by rod, w tiny additional patch of cultivable land, out of tho very rock of the 1sland's faco, has at last given Malta its splendid luxuriance. Singularly, too, it is practically all hidden from sight.” ' You can find it but” you cannot sco it in the general view. Thero aro fow points in the entiro island where from tho highways your eyes can rest upon anything but rock. Thero are places in Cornwall where for 1,000 years tho earth has becn dis- emboweled for tin, and every prospect is upon ridges of stone,blanched mino refuse and upturned rock. 1 often ttought of this as 1 tramped along tho Maltese highways. £very- where ono 1ooks it is as though a surging sea had suddenly been transformed by a miracio of petrifaction into ridges and dikes of pale saffrony stone, Reclatming Land with a Pickaxe, ‘This has all come about in tho terracing and diking of the uneven surface of tho island, through the infinite patience ana Iabor 'of the Maltese peasantry sinco the Knights with the mouks of their time taught them how “oil might be made to ftow from rocks and honey sucked from the very stone,” as I have hea them tell in their almost plaintive Arab chants, which they aro al- \vays balf crooning and half singing when engaged in any manuer of lubor. Nine-tentbs of all he cultivated lands in Malta have been made by actually breaking up with pickaxes the surfuce of the rock to the depth of nearly two fect, leveling it and viling upon this mass the samo stone reduced fo powder, as it is_very soft ana easily pul- verized, mixed with layers of pumice una everything in the nature of soil which has for a long timo been scraped together and treasured against this most important of all times with the peasant tenant. To thus re- claim and make available anotber haif, or fourth, or tenth of an acre, is the proudest act of the Malteso peasant’s life. He has less pride in his wife, his children or his animals, His Dearest Epitaph, They havo a wise and serious way of bless- ing the dead along these patriotic lines. 1 leard it at Dingli, where, after mass, tha persants were borating the memory of omean and miserly fellow but recently deceased. They said very uzpleasant things about him, until ono who had not _previously spoken set the current the other way in a perfect torrent of praise by the single remark: *But Luegi gave Malta unother tumolo [about one-third of an acre) of land ! No_peasant farmer owns his own land, A nobility grew up under the regimo of the Knights which exist to this day., 1 thonght that of the Balearic islands insignifi- cant to the degrec of travesty but the nobility of Malta are still less in numbers and importance. ‘They aro styled marquises, counts and barons. There aro perhavs & score of them all told; and I know of a cer- tain Baltimorean who controls twice as many acres of 1and in the Highlands of Scotlund for a *'shooting” a3 they collectively possess. About one half of the 100,000 acrés of cuiti- vable lar 1s ownel by these noblemen. The remainder is very equally divided be- tween the church and the British crown, Notdings, Leases and Rentals, Holdings are nearly all under short, gen- erally eight-year, leases; but there are a number of ninoty and 100-years leases, giv- ing u virtual ownershin. ~ These Maltese farms ave very small. A few comprise as many as five salmas, or about twonty-one acres, The most nre from one to throo salw And T know of many with no more than three mondclli or loss than an eighth of ega acre of land in each. The rentals for these, with all repairs and improvements at the costof the peasant tenant, range from £5 10 §20 per acre, 11 the peasant’s holding is little, his home and belongings are indeed snug and pic- turesque. There is not a squald, poorly built rustic's abode upon the 1:lana. ' If it bo scarcely larger than s seatry box, tho walls will be of stono, which is s0 soft ho can chop itout of the lodges with an ax, after which it hardens by exposure, I have seen somo roofs of solid rock in thick flat slabs, but most are p\mllm'ml with pozzalana, aud all are hugo and fiat, @ Ihese structures aré usually very low, oc- casionally two stories, but oftener ono, 'aud always after tho Mcorish stylo extending four, or ut lenst three, sides around the open court, This is {nvariable, however diminu- tive may be the home. I have often seen them ~ so small that mombers of the same family could almost jon hands ncross the open court, but the court was there, with tho open sky and its healthful vertical light with the sunshine and the birds; and, better than all, that sense of snugness 'and nearness between every mimber of such a houschold und every other, Waste of Water. As everytuing else yields to the exigen- oles cf terracing the liitle patches of hillsido artificial soil, one will find "these sunny aad lightsome abodes in all manner of odd situations, kvery Xlet'c of made grouna is diked and walled so as to prevent a Mwashout' and also to protect from the southern sirocco of summer and the bitter greale of winter, and the little farms will somotimes be found for a dis- tance of a few miles rising in what appears tove & series of cyclopean ragged stone steps, without a house bewg visible, or so buiit into the dike-like-walls that their flat roofs blend into the general perspective of furrowy rock, ‘Ibhough such extraordivary pains and la- vor are experienced o protect the land against the ravages of the occasional winter Malta DAILY ‘BEE: MONDAY downpours of aealn, equal care and provision aire required taproserve tho water, o prec fous 1n the long and burning summer months, Every steading 4 provided with immense tanks or cisteraacut in the solia rock. Tiny $Drings arv fregmont, and not a drop from theso is allowexito go to wasts, \Whero the spring hanpens to be locatad conveniently, little stone troushs are laid so as to irrigate, at pleasure, every square foot of coil, and every particle 0 the overflow is conducted by other tiny teaughs to the cisterns. Spouts 16ad from the dike walls and tho flat roofs, and from every other possible projection or lovel, until theweatira island 1s a network of rude appliancesior complete irrigation, ThreeOrops Often Ruise But the rosults are wonderful. Two and often three crops are raised cvery vear, and from May until Octobor, when tho utilized surfuce of the island 15 a8 White as a baker's oven and quivering with heat, within these pleasant homes and these walled fields, whero the outward aspect is so hard and forbidding, thero are ondiess wimplings of water and marvelous upleapings of vegetables, fruit and grain, All these Maitese farm homes are match lossly clean, and aro given unusual freshness by tho canstant application by tho house- wives of a preparation of the pumico stone, of a pale ecru color, of tho consistency of whitewash, to the stone floors, walls and ceilings. The granary, pens for uaimals and Lousing for towls are all a part of the ubode, usuaily, at convenicnce, fn the first story, the family sleeping in the apartments above, Many of tho walls leading from tho rear of the house aro covered with mosses and vines. Often tho old Moorish nora or water-wheel stands silently or creaks dis- mally near the abode, ~ Horo and there near tho home wiil be fouud theancient traadmill of the Biblo times on which all the wheat and barley of the island is trod out by oxon or cows. Agalnst tha walls will hang tremen- dous gourds, quaint old farming implements, or hugo seives with rawhide instead of wiro screons, as all the grain is_removed from tho chaff in this primitive way. Furniture of Stone, Owing to tho scarcity of wood upon the 1sland hardly a wooden implement or articio of furuiture can vo seen. Settles ot stone aro common. In many farm homes I found stono slabs utilized as tablos, and in others the sume set securely into the walls of rooms for bunks or bods, Window-panes are few, as light Is had from the sky tirough the open courts, and the tiny and infrequent windows a foot square ave all-sufticicot. Pethaps the most_curious objects to bo found in these Malteso peasant homes is their stoves. 'They requiro no artificial heat, and all thoir cooking—which s restricted 1o bread made of wheat and _barley meal some- thing of the consistency of a Scotch “‘ban- nock,” fish whieh is plentiful and cheap, and certain vegetable stews 1n which are stirred scunt shreds of cured fish or scanter bits of bacon for seasoning—is done upon a portavie stone stove shaped like a jar, and resembling 1neverything but color a tinner's ordinary band iurnace in which his soldering irons are heated. Most of tnese are of home construction, cut out of auy handy block of stone, with rude handles carved néar the top; but some are of delft ware aad move capacious and shapely. They can be curried about and tho bousewife can mind her cookine, if sbhe likes, while at any drudgery of the house or fields. Character of the Maltese, The home and neighborhood life of these folk is not as colorful as that of the Italian and Spanish pensautry, They are docile, calm, contented, ambitious only to thrive, and with a burning desire amounting often 1o o passion to be better tenants than their predecessors. They ris: and go to bed with the sun. 1f belated at night no friendly eve- ning candle light will guide the wanderer to a fiveside. "The music of the guitar and mandelin alone would disclose the presence of this half Arab home. Foralittle ime after the night has fallen and the stars shine out the busband- man may sit and croon his weird strange chants, The wife sits by him with folded hands and closed eyes, occasionaily ventur- ing a minor note, The lads and the lassies thrum the stringed instruments, Eut they arc only those there who beloug in that one home. ‘Lnere is no rustic courtship in Malta save of the_sheepeyes sort. aloug the Sabbath and Saints days’ lanes as thoy all repair together for mass at tho casals or vil- lages. Then the womon wear the fal- detta or bluck cloaklike scarf. The hero itary custom is to cover the faco with thi: But tbey do not until after they are wed and aro mothers, which is often at 13 aud 14 years of age. Mauners Concerning Marrlage. There ore no curious conditions here pre- ceding warriage cxcept that the lover must be able to rent u bit of ground and purchase a donkey and two goats or sheep, as the milic of the islaud is furnished by th3 latter agi- mals; and be most solemuly pledze that he will nover deprive his betrothed the lifo rightof altendance at the festivals of St Poter-Paul’s, John and St Gre which aro_respectively o at Vecchia, Valetta and C itun. And this is not much to ask by a preity woman who never wears shoes, is never from home on any other oceasion, who hoids her pictur- esque household bravely together, and who, before she is 40 year: often a grandmother, will bear her husband ali tho way from o dozen 10 Lwo score happy, hope- ful progeny. One feature of Maltezo rustic life is their Arab chants, These have been handed down from the Berber and Moorish invaders of many centuries ago, und like the Gypsy la guage ure preserved vocaliy. But countless chants ave improvisea, and tho hesitant and then outbursting character of these adds im- pressively to their weird effect. Men, women and children chant under all circumstances and conditions, I have heurd it to that ex- tent from surrounding workers in fields in- visiblo by their huge walls from the high- way, that it scomed as thovgh some migity organ wero touched by hauds so masterful that o splendid symphony came from innum- erable minor discordant chords. Evcan L. Wake; Baptist Grove, Ia B. Moore, D wifebas beeu afilicted for several vears with a compl on of kidne; i troubles, Your *“I'ree of Life” has been of great bene- fit to her. Sne joins me in thanks to you aud expresses the wish thatothers suffering from elief. Yours, \ church, For AN, Pastor church, Pleasant ar Sir: My Rev. J. W. Carl sato by all'dru AALY FARE E 10N ot Springs of Avkansas Via the Wabash Railroad, On April 7and 8 the Wabash will sell round trip tickets at above rate, good returning until May 10, April 12 the government will commence sale at auc- tion of town tets from the reservation. Only 87 hoursfrom Omaha to the springs via the Wabash. or tickets, sleeping car accommaodations and a map showing location of the property to bo sold, with cription of the springs, call at Wa- bash oflice, 1802 I"arnam street, or write . N. Ciayton, N. W. I Agl., Omaha eb, To the 1 The piaying of Kdouard Remenyi, tho dis- unguisbed violinist, who will appear at tho Boyd tucater next Wednesday evening, has the peculiar charm of satisfying the critical as well us the popular taste. When he plays ho closes his eyos liko some sphinx and smiles in his walking sleep as 1 in pleasant dreawns when arousing some sweet cadence or mighty chopd or makiug the music hum like the droueof in sona drowsy after uoon, He hus his old tricks in veins not set down in the score, but they are always so daiutily and harwoniously embodied in the fabric of his melody weaving that they are not only forgiven but relished. In his ap DRPRICES g Baking — Powder: Uszd fu Millions of Homes—40 Years the Staudard, APRIL 4, 1892 ronching concert.he will be assisted by rs. Alice Bates, soprano: Miss Edith Mc egor, contralto; Mr, W. H. tencr, and Miss Fauny Berry, arvists in their several lines. Fossenden, nist, all Mr. J. P. Blaize, an oxtensive roal estate dealer in this city, narrowly escaped ono of tho severest attacks of pncumonia whilo in the northern part of the state during tho ro cent blizzard, Mr. Binize had occasion to arive sevoral miles during the storm and was 0 thoroughly chilled that ho was unable to get warm, and inside of an hour after his re- turn ho was threatened with a severe caso of pneumonia, or long fever. Mr. Blaizo sent 10 the nearest arug store and got a bottle of Chamborlain’s Cough Romedy, of which he bad often teard, and took a number of large doses. Ho says tho effect was wonderful and that in a short timo ho was oroathing quito casily. He kept on taking the medicino and the next day was ablo to como to Des Moinos. Mr. Biaizo regards his cure as sim- ply wonderful, and says he will never travel again without a_bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. o (Des Moiues, lowa) Saturday Reviow. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by druggists ———— Drunkenness, A disease, trented as such and perma- nently eured.. No publicity, No infirm- ary. Home treatment. Harmless and effcctunl, Refer by permission to Bur- lington Hawkeye. Send 2¢ stamp for Jumphlet. “Shokoquon Chemical: Co., 3urlington, Ta. — THE UNJUST STEWARD. Third Business § Brief of the sermon by Toster of Immanucl Baptist church on Sun- day morning, April 3. Luke xvi, 10, “Ile that Is taithtul h is least, IS faithful also in wmuol and o that is unjust in the least, is unjust alsoin much,”| In this parablo wo are brougkt faco to faco with n aishonest manager of large wealth, and wo are shown how completely ho was capable of degradiug himself, und robbing his principal, by seciog him connive for add- ing to bis guilt, and planning for nis own further welfare at tho expense of another man’s goods. In the annual report and review of busi- noss and trade at the close of 1801, we wera shown that there had been an alarming in- crease in defalcations and embezzlement over the year before, the increase being some- thing tike 12 per cent, This simply indicates the low ebb that bhas been reached in public immorality aloug this particular. All trusted men are by no means thievos. This parable points out the fact that 2,000 years ago there were to be found men the counterpart of the worst and shrewdest of tne dishoneat men of our own da; Weo take no comfort 1 this fact for ourselves, but it is a refutation of those pessimists who think they oo evergthing going to the dows in this, which they aro pleased to call the worst age tho world bas ever seen. The temntation and the opportunity to do evil will always be present to him wWho is not strong enough to resist. Strength to resist great temptations comes by resisting the smaller. Ho that can be and is faithful in the hittle, 1n the least, will be strong in charucter to overcome the greatest tempta- tions that may beset him. The causes which lead to the misappro- priation of funds are the same now us they have ever becn, Discontent is the soil in which pride und luxury grow to the development of the de- faulter and embezzier. Some society may wink at the dishonesty of the man who has lined his pociots with £100,000 of stolen money, but in the divine court of equity ho will take his place among the common thieves of the highway. Groat dificulty been oxperienced in giving an interpretation of this parablo which is true and comiplete. Without con- fusing our minds by magnifying difficultios, or discussing ous guesses, let us see the two points wh vist makes: cn [§ st, the active preparation of this man, made for his future temporal wellbeing, is commended. His carefuluess was worthy a nobler end than temporal welfare, obtained by dishonest effort. 1In this earestness, how- ever, he docs put to_shame those of us who are ko slothful and inactive in attenaing to the greater matters of our cternal and spirit- ual well being. Ho may dizentangle a bad maw’s energy from his ambition; and con- templating them apart, may praise the one, and condemn the other. Exactly so, our Lord sces in the shrqwdness of man, an ex- umple in foresight and prudenco worthy of emalation, If one does not hold the gold of this worid in honest trust, bow can it be expected that he will do better, orbo more trustworthy in respect to the higher trusts and interosts Vo man cun cheat his eveditors, dofraud his principal, rob a bank, oppress women and children, and have the true riches of the kingdom of God. 1T men will be so zealous and earncst and provident 1 the things of this li temporal matters, bow much more zealous wo have oceasion’ to bo in the business of God and heaven. Brethrea, be faithful in that which is least; in_business itegrity, let us boan examplo to_ others: and then let us bo faith- ful also in those greater matters pertai to the kingdom of Christ, —_— One Minute, One minute time oft:n makasy a great dif ference—a ono minute remady for broachitis choking up of the throat, lungs, ete., fo ourso is & blossing. Cubob Cough’ Curd is such a romody, For sale by all druggists. Cubeb Cough Cure—Oneminute. [4 Dr. The remains of the late Dr. Henry Rau bave been laid to rest in Pleasant Hill cemetery, I'hefuneral, which was attended by many of the friends of the deceased, was held from the family residence, 2003 Harney street, yesterday morning. Short services wero held at tho house, after which tho casket, which was almost neath the flowers, tokens of remem- nveyed to the hearse by the th, H. Holler, I. Over- felder, 8. an, 1 Garrett ana . I, Myers, aud the soicmn march to tho ceme ¢ bogan. AU the gravo services were con ed by the mem of Union IPacifio lodge No. 17, Ancient Order United Work- men, of which lodge the deceased was an honored and respected member ———— “Late to bed and carly to rise will shorten pallbeare the road to your homo in the skies.”” But carly to bed and ittlo Karly Riser,” the pill that makes hife longer ang better and wiser. ey Omaha compressed yeaststrictly pure 2ps YR D Cullimore, oculist. Beo building — - Jonathan in town—"Pay telephone sta- tions. Giosht if t plogued sight ruth that thing than cuss at the oxen,’ ey puy good wages, I'd o tand an’ holler hello to DEATHS, 5 of fve lines or il ‘cach ddditional Ui s wndepthis hedd, i) Len eonts, ind Mrs, month ) finily resi- Iuterment at DWYER—Georze son of Mr. dolin Dwyer, figed ' yéars Funeral Monduy wtiip. m. { dence, 2002 Hamliton stréet. cpulchre. WOODBURY'S FACIAL SOAY plexio, s Rodioss 0f N 0, 6c., romoved. Consulial JOHN H. WOODEURY, Dermatological Inslitute, 125 West 420d Ntreet, New York City, JOSEPH GILLOTT'S STEEL PENS. BOLD MEDAL, PARIS EXPOSITION, 1889, THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS. want U Frequeti, IDEA IN ADVERTISING. Address suddenly, without notice, ntly As you pass our store any day this week lyou’ll see dozens of men in front of the east Douglas street window looking intently throwgh theaw oo . | glass, lLike ev,/ erybody else élllt your curiosity will be aroused up and take a you can’t help < . through the \8/76(‘1(1/, glass, you'll see nm‘flycd some- meesseeny' thing like forty or fl!Py very handsome business suits, each mfe bearing a card similar to one of the four which appear down the center of this ad. Step inside and you'll step peek yourself— it. On looking $7.25 the store and S you’'ll see “} crowds of men \SHZZ ) around the front tables on | the left, @On these tables $7.5’U | you’ll see as soon asyou can work your way . through the “ . SPCCI(I[_ crowd, great piles of the ume suits you saw in the windows. You'll see dark suits and light suits—youw’ll see cheviots and homespuns —you’ll see cassimeres and silk mixtures— you’llseeplaids g~ . | and checks —=~ yoursll gee Sult stripes — you’ll see plenty of those hand - $8.25 some pin head mevchant tail- effects that the : . ors show so many of this SPEClal. season. Yoully see suits worth smmamey tWelve doliars —thirteen dollars—fourteen dollars—you’'ll see men who can afford to wear fifty dollars suits and men who can’t afford to buy five dollar ones, buying T |TRewWasphiiar valhs suits from these éZ{[t les,—FOR—this $8.50 is the week of our annual sale Special. of spring suits, and we are of- | R | | | | | fering the handsomest line of suits we | have ever offer- ed at special sale, at seven twenty-five--seven fifty --eight twenty-five and eight fifty; suits that are actually being sold around us for from tweive to fourteen dollars. 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