Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 21, 1892, Page 12

RUSSIAN VILLAGELIFE! Why the Poorest People of the World Should | Be the Richest. NATURE HAS BEEN LAVISH OF HER GIFTS Unlimited Resources and Abundant Labor Awaiting the Vivifyine Capital HOW A RUSSIAN PEASANT VILIAGE LOOKS Where the Bone and Sinew of the Slavonio Bace Are Gathered Together. DAILY LIFE AMONG THE RUSSIAN POOR They Are Not an Altogether Uncleanly Folk —The Russian Bath—What the Men and Wenr—An Avorage Kitchen Women ana What is Cooked There. Moscow, Aug. 1.—[Special Correspond- enco of Tik BEE.|—First the famine and now the chiolora have brought to the atten- tion of the world ono of the least known and at the samo time one of the strongost ele- monts of the Russian population. The Rus- sian peasants are Lypical of the one-seventh of the world which they own. Tho great Hussian empire is packed full of undeveiopea resources. The czar himself has no idea of the wealth of his country. Millions upon miltions of acres of it have never beon touched by the plow, and hundreds upon hundreds of thousunds of its square miles bave never boon prospocted. It has gold reions s rich as any in the world which hiave never been worked with modern mining machinery, and its vast mining and copper reglons produce tho finost motals of this kina known to man. Its oil regions have for nlong umo been compoting with those of the United States, and Russisn oil has largely driven us out of the markots of Asia. Ithas all sorts of precious stones, and as to its agricultural possibilitios these are far groater than -those of any ocountry in tho world. ‘Phore are millions of square miles of the bost of wheat land in Siberla and Asiatic Russia which have mnover been touched by tho plow, and of the vast grain regions of Kuropean Itussin only a smail part 18 under cultivation. Such lands as are cul- tivated aro farmod after the rudest method: und as ivis, in ordinary seasons, Russia is the greatost grain exportinz country of the world, surpassing even the United States in this rogard. ‘The bull of this great wealth of Russia is now lying dormant. Like the sleoping prin- cess in tho fairy talo, it only waits the kiss of capital and labor to bring it into life, and noonocau tell how soon thess giants of material progross will gird up their loins aud moisten their lLips to kiss the sloeping malden, Russia has in hor own territorios the labor necessary forthe work, and if this was used aright there would bo no land so rich upon tho face of the earth today. Admiral Porter once told mo that at & fair vsumat: every man and woman in a country was worth £300 as onoe of the clements of that country's wealth. At this rate the peas- antry of Russia are worth thirty billlons of dollurs to Kussin, ana wheu cnco waked up totheir possibilitios thoy will mako tho Rus- man ompire jump as though it had ou tho seven-lenguo boots of modern progeess. As Itis, however, the peasantry of Russin are moro asleep thin Russii's matcrial resources. I am impressed overy day moro and more as I go among them of “their wondorful work- ing powers and their dormant possibilities. They arc the wonder among the laborers of the world. Surrounded by tho wealth of Craosus, endowed with tho muscles of Her- cules, born with the germs of man’s best in- telligence, they live, labor and die without knowing theiz power or appreciating the fact that they might be botter and richer than they are. Simple and ignorant, theso one hundred millions ofetrong, able-bodied, well- developed people are inteliectunlly asleep. They are men with the minds of children, who under a different._system would quicily gevelop into as ictelligent workers and as food citizens as our best American View of a Russinn Village, Peasant Russia is by far tho most interest- fog feature of modern Kussia today. The pensants aro In fact the Kussia of today, and their 500,000 villages mnke up, as 1 have said before, this ereat Russian cmpire. Al of tbese villages are alike, and when you have visitod one Russiau village you have to a grent extent secn the whole iussian ewmpire. “I'ho Russian peasant never has o home out- #ide of a vilage. He is a social animal, and in the thousands of miles which I have trav- elea througn the differont. parts of ISuropoan Russia during the past few weeks I have not ecn & single house standing by itself in the tields. In looking over a Kussian landscape you see no fonces murking off tho farms as You do in America. There ave uo bank barns or stray haysiacks keening sentinel wateh, us it were, over the fields, and the lone farm: Vouso on the western prawies of America, soparated by miles from auy similar habita® tion, 18 abscat. You see no ono working nlono In the flelds without it bo here and thero a suophord or 4 short-skirted maiden watehing the cattle, Tao people work in gangs of fron batf a dozen to 100, and their lifo In their villages und in the fields is a so cinl one. The common intorest which thoy have in the lands bolonging to the villago ties them togcther in other ways and they nre moro closely associntod withi one another than any other people of the world, I have visited many of these villages within the past month, - Let mo tell you how they look, Itiding through the country on the railroad you seo seattered over tho iand- scapo what in the distance looks like two rows of low,0bloag buystuoks ruuning irregu- Jurly for a milo or 50 in_one divection, Each of theso collcotions of haystacks is a Russian village, and whon you got closer to it you seo thut what you supposed wore haystacks are thatchod huts, and that the lower parc of each stack 15 mado of logs, sun-dried brick or wattled twigs. You now note that the wide road along which these huts stand s full of half nuked tabies, squalling childron aud all the quecr characteristics of Russian peasant Jife, The ordinary village has but one rond- way, and this is nioro like & road eut through tho fiolas than an Ame street. 1uis penorally about 100 or more feot wide, pua the bouses atand along it at ail angles and with no regularity or order. Thero uro no fardens in frout Of thom vor beniud them. "'noy buvo no tront yards fenced off from tho road and [ have not yet seen any sign of w sidowalk of any kind ii any village I bave visited. The streetis not pavea and only purt froo from grass in tho conter, whera the wagons have cut rutsinto the black soil. o remaiuder 1s & lawn of good solid turf, on which the cattlo graze, the dogs and the chilaren play ana upon which the people moot 1 tho evening to gossip and chat, Now and then you find ® tree 0r80 on one of thoso village streots, and under theso ou the ground thero may b n woman with hor bablos about_her and with tuer babies tied Lo tho branches of the trees u the oblong shallow boxes which consti lute the cradios of Russin, Other women may be silting about spinning or sowing, and on the steps of tho huts or in the door ways you will ¥ee oid men wnd shock-haired shildron, An Averag “Thore is little difference in the houses of & scussian village. They are all of one story aud the averago hut is not more than twenty feot squaro. 11s log walls aro about eight foet trom the grouud at the top where they meet the ridge roof of brown thatwh, ad thic thatch s of straw and 18 ofien eigbtoon iuches thick. Itis pat on 50 well that it will last for years, and the pust winter u great wany of the ses wero unroofed Lo Rive this straw Jnatob 1o the starviug cattle aud borses. 1 w in the famine districts muny buts which Interior, wore covered with bare poles, aud 1 which o peopis are aloltercd Loasy ouly by the | boara colling which runs across theso walls of logs forming the floor of the loft of the huts. Tio average lussian hut has one door and two little windows at the front, with somotimes a second window in the rear. The front door is muen like a rude stablo door, such as is sometimes knockea up by our farmors, and it leads notinto tho living room of the hut, but into a little store room or sort of vestibule which forms one end of tho cabin. This room 1s usually without any flooring but that of the ground. You may see the chickens or other animals belonging to the family in ii, and some of the farming tools of the cstablishment stand about its walls In | the conter of one sido of it is n door raached by one or two low steps and leading into the house proper and forming the entrance to tho room, that is in fact te ouly room in the cabin, and which may bo called” the Russian peasant’s home. In it the family slean, cook, eat ana live, and when it is remembered that fully half the year in Russia is mado up of the bitter winter, when the days are short and the nights long, it will be seen that the greater part of the peasant's existence 1s passed here. Lot me describe for you a living room of this kind which I visited in a village near Potroffskol in the midst of tho great black pluin of Russia, whore the land is us rich as the valley of the Nile and where the farmer should live as well as anywhere in the world, for ho is working on the world's richest lands. ‘This hut of which I speak is that of & well-to-do peasant. It is if anything botter than the average, Its living room was not more than ten by twelve feet in size,and one- fourth of this space was taken up by the great chimney, which formed the oven, tho cooking stove and the heating arrangement of the ut. This chimnoy was fully six feet wide and about eight feot long, aud its front, in which wero holes for fuel and an oven, roso froi the floor 1o tho ceiling. In the side facing the room, leaving about two feet for tho chimney, there was cut out under the ceiling a lodge about three foet high and of the depth of thostove. This was in fact the top of the stove, aud it formed, I was told, tne bed of the tamily in the winter time. ‘This family included sev- oral married sons und_daughters, and it had in madition to the old folks about twelve children and grandehildren. In some way or another they all packed themselves in on this loage at night, and thoy huddled together upon the log floor below 1n tho duy time. Tho whole space in the room was not much larger than tnat of a six-room house occupicd by an American day laborer, and its furniture consisted of four rude stoves, some benches which ran around the walls and arude table, on whicn the family ate their meals, Thore were no pictures on tho wall and no plaster or paper. In one corner hung & ruae pmntlng of the Virgin, with a little candlo_burning before it, and T noted that while I was present onc of tue girls looked at this and crossed herself. On one of the bencies lay o sheepskin coat, and I saw one garment hanging from the wull. If there wore any other clothes belonging to the fauwily they may have been storod in a box, whict I saw in tho room oatside, but they were not in sight. What Fhey Wear, The Russian poasant requires but a small wardrobe. He puts on onoe svit and wen t out, sticking to 1t night and day. Neither sox has any use for nightshires and all the family sleop in tho same clothes that th weur in the day time, ‘They know nothing of bed clothing or of tho luxury of cloan sheots and soft pillows and_they slecp more liko sheep than like wen. Young girls and young men, married and single, bubies and graudmothors, all crowd 1n together, and the animal neat of the whol 1ded to that of the stove must give them warmth. Their winter clothlng is made up largoly of sheep- skins, with tne wool turned wward, snd the people seem to stand the heat and cold equully well. ‘Their clothes cost tbem out little. The men wear calico pantaloons 1 tho summer and thoy have 1ed calico shirts, which they woar outside of their pantaloons, The latter are held up by a string around tho waist and often turned in at the legs Lolow tho knoe, being wrapped about with the rags which form the stockings of poasant Russia. T'iese rags aro wrapped about tho foet aud over the ankins and arouud the lower part of the calves. 1f tho Iussian 15 rich orough he pulls u pair of high boots over them, and into the tops of these ho stufts his pantaloons. 1f ho is poor, as is the caso with ninety-nine-hun- droaths of s kind, ho wears 1elt boots in tho winter and low Shppers in the sumumer, Those slippers are of woven grass or burk They are_made without teels and are woru by all. The poasant girls, 1 fact, wear the same kind of footgear as the boys, ana the belie of one of the Itissinn villages never knows tno delight of barber pole stockings and her garters do ot cost her a quarter in ulifetime. Neither sex wears any underclothiug, and a great step will have boen made when you can make these people beheve that such items us drawers and undershirts are among the absolute necessities of life. As it is, their needs aro so small that they have not tho mcentives to work 1o satisfy them that we have, aud a man’s whole summer outfit would n0t vost as much as an American farmer spends for & coat. Their headgear is as cheap as the rest of their clothes, and tho men ail wear caps—when they wear any- thing—and tho women tie up their heads in bright colored handkerchiels, fastening these by kuotting them under the cbio. No Rus- sian peasant girl ever dreams of buying or wearing corsets or stays and her entire ont- fitat this time of the year consists of this handkerchiof for ber head, a Mother Hub- bard gown of white cotton or red or biue onlico whicn reaches almost to hor ankles, aud uu apron which is gathered in ana cut low at the neck and whicn fulls to below her knees, sometimes being belted in ut the waist und somotimes left to full over her full bust without being o tied. In addition 10 these she bas rag stockings reaching to the tops of her calvos and a pair of bark shoes. In many cases she dispcuses with the belr, apron und the shoes, and as sho Lucks up ber dress rather high while at work you bave coustantly boforo you hero iu the fields the pictures of a comic variety show without the relief of tights or the bald-eaded vachelors under the footlights, Not wn Uneleanly Poople, & Tbis bubit of wearing the same day and night and tho lnck of underclothing would naturaily make you think thut the Lussians must be the dirtiest of races, 1 do not find thein so, and it seoms to mo that they bave been greatly slandered in regard to their uncleanline: How they keep themselvos so 1 oaunos see, but they are not half so dirty as the Chiuese, and thoy will rank fu cleanliness with tho other very poor peoplo of tho world. They do not wash us often as wo do, but when they do wash they make o busiuess of it, and clean tuemselves with the famous Russian bath. No man or man who doos nov take either a Turkish or Kussian bath now and then ever gots clean. The pores of one's body ure the sewers of the systew, and tho ordinary soap scrub. bing which most people cail wasbiug only touches tho mouths of theso and doos not reach tho interior of the million odd sewer pines of tho system at all. The only way to cloan these is by coplous perspiration con tnued for somo time, and this result is ob- tained by the Russian bath. Theso poopio boil thomselyes at least onco 8 week iu steam o bring about ihis result, and if they cannot got the steam they crawl into their ovens aud swoat it out. Nearly every villuge has u steam bathhouse, and the whole population turns out every Saturday and boforo vy holy communion, con fession fast day and for tho timo becomes bodily clean. I am told that i the villuges both sexes go into the bath at th amoe time and that the men und wowen,boys aud girls, all batne together, It i said thist no other person buta Russiun could stand tho experienco of oneof thase vapor buths such as are taken In the sume oven in which the family bukes its bread, and 1 am sure vo owher porson would care 0 utilize the bukeoven for tuis purpose. | hear that in the winter tho peasauts sometimes rush naked out from toe ot bath and roll in the suaw, aua this 1 can conceive to be pos- sible, for'in the country villuges of Jupan a s will como out naked from the bot bath into the colu winter air aud walk home with his ciothes uuder his urio, Of course villages of this nature bave no sanitury asraugeinents whatever. T'bereare 10 sireet lamps or water works aud the wo- men of the family draw the water from the well of tho town or carry it from tho nearest stoam, No Russian gl of such o poasant village over secs & wasibourd nor has duy ideus of washing machines or pawnt wringers. Sho doos not oven know what a washiub is and the clothos of the family are carried by bor to tho nearest swrosm aod standing in her bare logs in tho water she pounds the dirt out of them with a club The culivary arrangements are quite ds primitive and cooking has not the terror for the Kusslan woman that it has for the Amorican. Lo \ho irst placo there is little 10 cook and the methods of cooking rv very fow, There are practically no dishes to wash sud as to table linen and napkivs they aro unbeard of snd uokvown. 1he dining table is casily set for dinger. The waln dish clothes or THE OMAHA DAILY this is furnished i1n A wooden bowl as big around nsa washbasm and and about the leugth of a finger in denth r'ne family sit around on benches and chairs ench with u big woode hold twice as much a8 spoons, in his hands and with out the soup from the common carries it to his mouth. What They Eat. “There are no knives and forks to be seen on 10 tablo and plates nud cups and saucers are missiny. | went with the Countess Tol stor through onoof her villages on the Tolsiol estate at Yasuia Polyana, and in one of the bouses which we visited we found the family at dinner. - Tho countess tola mo that this was one of the richost families of peasants sho had on her estate, and what do you think was their menut It was cabbage soup and bread. The family wero sitting around the table and there were about ten of them in all. Each had one of these wooden spoons and they were scooping out tho soup at a great rate. Tnoy had no but- ter and no meat, and the_Russian peasants see but little of ‘either. ~They arc hapoy if they get a bit of meat once a week, and their chief diet 1s cabbage soup and rve bread, with & sort of a buckwbeat muash asa change. They have milk from thoir cows und oggs from their hens, and their favorito drink is a sort of beor which they make from black broad calied kvas, They aro verv rigid os to fast days and they eat now and then a bit of dry fish, which is cheap in Russia. They are fond of sour cabbage and cucumbers and they eat their cucumbers raw with the skins But they have no idea of what we would call garden stuff, and in the famine parts of Russia, whero the people are still being lareely sup- ported by charity, there are vast quantitios of greens going to waste which would bo used wreedily w any other part of Eurove or in the United States, In the black plain which I have describea as the garden of Russis, and ns the most fortilo part of Kuarope, I vis- ited a village whore I found the bakeoven of a largo landed proprietor golng vight and day baking Awerican cornmeal and flour into bread for tho people. T'here were hun- areds of loaves of this black bread in the ovens, and the villagers came every day to ot food. Still, in driving over the flelds to this place [saw great quantities of weeds which wo uso for our tables in tho shapo of salads and vegotables going to wasie, and such thingsas green peas and the hundreds of other vevetables which we raise, theso peasants don’t eat. Their ouly vezetablo out- side of cabbages and cucumbers scems to bo votatoes, and, as to farming, they raiso the same crops from the same sced vear after yoar. FRANK G CARPENTER. Saggls e, "HEATERS, is soup and one of our table- theso ho dips aish and THE “The Ensign” will bo tho attraction at Bovd's New theater for threo nights com- moncing Sunday, August2l. It comes to this city with a very stroug endorsement. It is a nautical play with a plot that hinges Gipon the Mason and Slidell affair of 1561 and around which is woven a love story with somo vigorous dashes of patriotism, a little villainy and a good deal of healthful senti- went ana pathos. Oxo of the main features of the production is the scenery, said to be unvsually fine. There aro five scenes, two of which 1llustrato life ou board a man-ot- war and aro said to bo as true a representa. tion as itis possible to obtain upon the stage. One st shows the interior of & war vessel with the gun and main decks just us they aro on a real man-of-war. The time of the action is coincident with that episode of tho rebellion kuown as the Trent affair and the plot grows out of the attempt of a renegado Americon serving as a licutonant in the British navy to prevent tho arrest of Messrs. Masou and Slidell, the confederato comumissioners. The first act oc- curs In Havana, and Blythe, the renogado, who bas beon instructed by his superiors to dutain the Sun Jacinto in port long enough 10 allow the Trent to get away with the com- missioners, insults an American officer, hop- ing thus to involve him and his crew in an wnfraction of the Cuban laws, thus causing their arrest aad the consequent delay of tho United States frigate. The American ofti- cor has been forewarned, howover, and for his country’s sake submits to the aspersion of bis sweetheart's character, although with difliculty suporessing his indignation. Ho keeps hisindignation until the renegade turns suddenly nad tears down and tramples upon the American flag, uttering as ho does so a curse upon the “d—d rag,” as he calls it. The swords of the Lwo men are out in- stantly, an_old coxswain bounds in and, ro- alizing tie naturo of the quarrel and the danger his officer 1s in, cuts down tho chan- delior with ono slash of his cutlass. There is & combat, and as the ligts are turnsd on the jusulter of the flagis seen falling over tho balcony rail. Tonight the Farnam Street will inaugurato its comedy season with the dialect novelty, +Olo Oleson.” tho comedy uttraction that has created such o sepsation taroughout the country for tho past few seasons. Although this is 1ts third vizit tothis city, it goos with- out saying that it will meot With the same bearty appreciation as on former visits. The company has been somewhat strengthened und now includes some of tho best comedy talent possessed in any comedy organization. jen Hendricks, lust” season’s Ole, has been retainod, as also Miss St. George Hussey and tho Sweaish Lady quartet. Preity littio Lotue Williams, who ~ last season starred in the comedy drama, “New York Dav by Day,” has given up busiess for nerself to lookafter the rolo of Gonie, Ole's sweet- beart. Tho balance of the company is made up of such clover talont ns Frank 13, Balor, Belle Francis, C. I, Torraine, Rovert Magea and othors. All i all, Ole's visit will be hatled with delight by his old-time adwmirers, The reign of farce comedy in this countr is & source of much discission among the thoughttul workers aud writers of the dramatic field. Itappears just now to be tho most popular as well us’ the most profit- ablo form of entertainment. Coviain it is, however much the dramatic writers may d; plore the present coudition of the Americau stugo, the great muss of thoater-goers appenr t0 bo very much in favor of the performance that 35 light, plotless, oright, full of music, sougs, dances, absurd comody aud pretiy garls protuly dressed. Indeed, one or two of the farce comedies arc really worthy to live, Irank Daniels’ “Little Puck,” which comes 1o Boyd's the latter bull of this week, for istance, 18 & cloverly constructed skit, IPounded on Austoy’s story, “*Vice Versa," it tells a fantastic talo in the most straight- forward and ludicrous manner. Unlike most of the provalent farces, “Little Puck’ has a very good plot indeed’ and its success is not to be wourered at. Gossip of the Stage, The Swedish lady quartet with “Ole Olson" spent ho summer vacation in Burope, Siv Edwin Arnold has joined the company of poets awmbitious for fame as dramutisis and has written a play. Patti’s contract with Marcus Mayer is for forty concerts in the Unmited States and Cau- uda, for which she is to receive §200,000. Joseph Artbur, tho author of ‘“Blue Jeans,” has_writton @ new play entitied ““I'ue Corneraciker,” which will bo produed oS Seaso 5ol Smith Russell’s pluns for the two-year tour whici begun at Denver last week call for six months in Chicao next summer aud tuon six months in Now York. Ewma Juch, tived of operatio oxperience in America, will shortly sail for Europo, to remain Lree years. She bhas made engage- ments in Lotdon for coucert, oratorio und overa. Miss Georgia Cayvan, who has just re turned with two fowalo companions from a trip through Japan, declares that with hit- tlo maid and & guide book they got ou splen- didly upd did uot need the assistauce or oscort of a man. Natban Franko is now the musical director of “kgypt Through Centuries,” the specta clo which has Lad such a run at Eldorado on tho Hudson. He is arranging Lo give a series of Sunday night concerts during tho winter, He Las beon winuiog goldon opinious this summer. “Tuo personuel of the Bostonians compauy will romain about Lhe saiLe next season save that Caroiine Humilton withdraws to head the Wraveling “Lobin Hooa" company which goes 04l under the auspicos of the proprio- tors of the Hostoniuns, T'he old company will play o now opera, ' Kuickerbooker." Thero was & throe-minute wait during tho performance of “The Biue Bird” at the Gobeliu's thoater in Paris a few nights ago, aud the audicuce uoliced that the leaaiug woman wis stariug lutently wto the prowpi: er's box, tho hood 1 front 0f tho stago that is still erected in some of tho Purls theaters, They did uot know that duriug those toree winutes the unbappy prompler bad falle goad at bis desk. The wanager explaived BEL: spoon, which will | INDAY, mattors to the pwbke that took it as a matter of course, and ufter a now prompter had | taken his siatioktub play went on like the play of human 11ea] Sarasate, the ¥ldfinist, has been given tho red ribbon of thy' Tegion of Hopor. Bt while this happéfistn Paris, in Frankfort a greater violinist, \foseph Joachim, has veen queerly snubbed!' [lo gavo a concert in tha vity, wherefore fifs Son, a licutonant in an 1 antry regiment stationed there, was removed from the roil of oficbrs at the request of his colonel. A sciontific exchango says: “Spiders are wonderfully foyd of the music made by striuged {nstrumonys. 1t is not because they enjoy melody, byt simply for the reason that 0o 50u'1d 10 Lhein ears resembles the buzzing of captive flies, By gently touchie the strings of a guitar ope can often cause spi- ders to come dowh the walis or from the ceilivgs. They will even walk over the strings, and while doing so they appear to be oagerly soarchiog for somethiug, moviug about excitedly and looking fierce and hun- ey, Lillian Russell said to a New York re- porter on her veturn from Kurope: “And as to English women, they can’t hold a candle to American women, All over Kurope our wormen take the palm. 1 have beon so many weoks living 10 fogs and a teruporature so low that L was nover a day without a fire in my room thut I am giad to get back to a iana of blessed sunlight ana heat and to & land of flowers and good vegetables.” She bad no stage costumes made either in London or l’.lr}s, as she could get them almost as cheap in New York ana mude much better, That eminent tragedian, Robert Downing, will begin a threo nights and Wednesday matines engagement at the Boyd, commenc- g Monday oveniug, Septemver b, Mr. Downiug's supporting’ company the present SCASON 1S & Very strong one, comprising such well known players as iugenio Blair, 1ored- erick Mosoley, Mark Price, D, C. Bangs and orge Macomber. During the short en- gagement here M. Downing will be seen in “Virginius,” “Julus Cwosar,” “Ingomar’! and “The ' Gladiator.” Eachl play will be given with every attention to dotall, and With superb scenic invosture, Mme. Patti gave a grand charity concort at Noath a town of Walos noar Swansea ro- contly. Notonly did the diva appear at tho entertainmont herself and chorm tho audi euce by the rondition of a number of her favorite sougs, but she went further to aid 1he worthy object for which the concort was given and personally secured the services of othor ominent soloists. The mayor of thy town and the wuuicipal council escorted the singer through tho town. Tio affair was a pronounced success both financially ana ar- tistically and Mme. Patti was quite clatod at the outéome of her undertaking, Tho pro- ceeds of the concert amounted to £300, Giliette has written another play entitied “Ninety Days from Date.” It is a spoctacu- lar play, and Mr. Gilletto has pledged him- 83l to spend £50,000 in mounting it. He hus ombodied many of his old conceits and whimsical fancies in the burlesque, which is very smartly writton throughout. Gillotte is investing his own money in the venture, He s a rich man through the royalties re- coiyed from his various plays and adapta- tions. His tiother is tho only member of the family living, and ho hus made amplo provi- sion for her, %0 that his venture will not be a serious one, evon if he loses. He continues to resido 10 tho south of Krance, and will leave the entire production of his ‘spectaclo in Churles Fronman's hands. Gus Heegn of “Yon Yonson” famo, has written a number of successtul plays, and an wmbitious friend, who waats to emulato Charley Hoyt, regently asked him for advico on farce comedy writing. **You don’t wunt to write a farce comedy,” said Heege to his friend. ~**What you want to do is to com- pound ono—that's the proper expression. Go and got five or six old votumes of Puck and Judge, buy up all the vociforous clothes worn by Curtis in “Sam’l of Posen,’ steal a few broakneck falls. from John Gilroy and Harry Watson, engage Annio Lewis, Georgo Marion und a dozen 2ood looking Casino ‘un- derstudies ; mix these ingredients with a half- dozon slaps, sticks and several dlects, boi. judiciously, and thon go and tell Cnarley Hoyt you want to buy his leaso of the Madi- sou Square.” In the trst-cla a correspondern theaters of London, Whites ths price of boxes rauge from $.25 to $21. A seat In tho parquet is worth §2.6214, and a seat-in tho first balcony costs $L7. Full dress in do mgueur in boxes, parquet and first baleony; uressing rooms ave provided for both meu and women, and bonuots in the places above montionod are not allowed to be worn, The dressiug room attendunts with whom you leave your wraps expect a fee (which varys from 4 conts up 0 25 cents), and you pay about six conts for your program. Women in gowas of black and “white aprons and caps conduct You Lo your seat, whils between the acts ices aud coftee ave served, 25 ceuts beiug tho price for these delicacios. A smoking room and bar are attached to the theater, the bar being prasided over by the traditional pretty barmaid. Marshall Wilder bas somo amusing ance- dotes of his recent experiences in London, Some friends of his living in Kensington bought a theater ticket for their greon ser- vant girl who had been to the play. Her mistress, surprised to know that tho young woman bad come back so early, callod her into the parlor and said: *“Why, Bridget, what brought you back so soon? Didn't you g0 10 the tneater?” ‘“Troth, I did that, mam," replied the girl, “an’ it was moighty foiue intirely.” *But why did you not wait to s8¢0 the pluy out{” asked the lady, wonder- ngly. “lndade, au’ I dia_that saine, mum,” said Brideet, calmly. “‘There wore gran' Iadies in the boxes au’ illigant gintlemen foreninst me, an’ I uad a lovely sato un’ en joyed mesilf looking at the splendid picture as much as anybody. But after awhile they took the picturo up an’ I found mesilf lookin’ into a giutlemai’s house an’ then some ladies come 1 an’ bezan discussiu’ family matters, Thin L come away. Sure it wasi't for the loikes o' mo to be sittin’ listenin’ to family sacretsat all, at all. 1 hopes I knows me place better'n that, mum Mr. Itussell of Wernor's Voice Magazine, makes the following statemeut concerning tho advisability of American girls going abroad to study: “Aside from the question of teachel ris student life is somewhat ardous for American girls, No American never having been in 1’aris can_ fully under- stand the seutiment ol u I'renchman toward women. Iis said openly in Paris that no position of any value held by women through favor of men is guined at 4 less cost than personal honor. Favors in the musical pro- fession are at the same cost, and scaudal is attached toall the names known in the opere, except, perhaps, o few of great abil- ity, whose voices aud artistic powers put them out of the reach of schemors. No woman of comely appearance is free from open insult in the sireets, for the men of tno city considor it a legitimate pastime to ruin women. This peculiar condition of ethics makes Paris a place of abodo full of superfi- ofal delights, which are at once attractive to the American youth: but the American girl alone in Paris, who fndulges in a bit of inno- cont flirtation with a nupdsome, black-eyea Frenchwan, finds that a flirtation in Parls with o Frenchman fs s matter quito diffor- ent from what her Innocent American heart imagined.” The New York Bun takes some of the glamor from the stago by a severo urticle of which the following 1s an extract: *‘Phero is not & girl at work iu_a factory nor a girl behind the counter who is not assured iu her position of more resvectful troatment from her empioyer or_represeatative than the girl on the stage. This is nol & question of morals, but manueps, I'hat there aro theater and stage managers, and dramatic agents to whoso manners this. slatomeat is pot per- tinent scarcely affagts tne case. The per- sonal indignitics to which women on the stage are subjected.in its daily routine would nol be tolerated by women in auy other busi- noss or profession, A woman, it seems, makes sufticient copeessions when she con- sents to be sworn ‘st in goncral terms, To bo singled out by 'opprobrious names, to be bustled, to be rudelv laid hacds on, to be propolied angrily by shoulder aud arm, 1s de- wandiog too miuch of self-respoot. ‘Pnis is tho sort of treatment that women au the stago are liablo to, and so great is its compe. ition that they patisnily endure it. * = # Of minor manuors thero re nouo, aecoraing to tho standard of the world outside. Stago etiguette is a law untoitself. Thore areo many women who, If they could bave realized the personal indiguites thev would be subject to on tho stage, would never have set foou there, f'rom the danger to her morals on tho stage a women can prolect herself. She has no defense agalnst its manners « * * Ifthe stones of Broadway, frow Tweuty- third streot to Thirty-third street, could cry out these hot summer dsys and tell theiy story of false hopes, of wental atguish, of physical sufferiog, of temptation snd do- spair that proceed directly out of the busi uess relations of actors and mauagers, there would be no tale more piteous in a season of | beart-wringiog tales,” AUGUST 21, .1 IXTEEN PAGES. The American Phitadel phin Eighty-fecond Annual Statement showing the condition of the compuny January I, 1502 ASSETS. Real estate. .. y11s on first mortzages Ground rents, weil securcd United States loans Raliroad bonds and loans Call and time lons .. Interest and ronts due and ac Eremiums in course of collection Cash fn banks and office of coni- pany i Total as 0 140 13 433 4 0 1] [ St 08,024 06 421 ots Jan, 1, 1802 LE3008540 LIABILITLES Losses {n process of adjustment. in- oluding wll unpald losses Reinsurdnce fand, torm i R O permanent Commissions unpaid . Cash capital......... Surplus 108, 2,621 50,000 00 BNt £1.093,54) 53 of Nebroska Accounts ~Lin- United States of America, St Oftice of Auditor of Public coln, | 1, 1802 1t 18 horeby certified that the Ameriean Fire Insurance Company of Piilndelphia, in the state of Pennsyivaula, has filed at this office the appointment of Murphy & Lovett us their lawful agent at Omahu, ‘in the county of Dougins, in the state of Nebrask Now thercfore. the above naned agent 1y her nthorl 1o tran: t the business of fnsurance s acent of S1d company In this state until the slst aay of January, A D 1803 unless sooner rovoked, sul hawever to all the restrictions aud linitations of the law. I further certify. that said con complied with uil the requirenonts regnlating such fosurance companies fu this stute In testim f [ have horeunto set niy hind and the seal of tho auditor of publio accounts the day and your fics ten T 1. BEN (8rAL| Auditor of Pabiie Accounts. North British and 3 Tns. Edinburgh, Usited States Branch Statement T8t 130 CASILARSETS, States government otier securitios Tunuary Unitod nnd vauo, g g Cush with bankers and in office Promiums in course of collection.. Interest due and accruea Other admitted assets bonds LIABLITIE Resorvo for unearned premiu Keserve for unpald lossos Othior lunilitics Tt i 80207 03 Net surplus ... 5 o 0. Total Inco Statos in 1991, Total exponditires United Stutes in- 1801 in United Income over expenditures. 007 01 United States of America, Stato of Nebruskn— Oftice of Auditor of Public Accounts—Lin- coln. Fab, 1, 18 1t is heroby & Mercantile Tnsu and Edinburzh, in ed that the North British ico Company of London Great Britain, has filed at vhis office the appointuient of Murphy & Lov- et as their lawful ngent at Omahi, in the county of Douglas, in the state of Nebraska, Now therofors, the above named azent fs hereby wuthorized to transaot tho business of insurance ws agent of said company In this state until the 1St day of Junuary. A. D, 1803 aniess sooner rovoked, subjeot, however, to all the restrictions and (initutions of the liw 1 further certify, that said company has complied with all the requiroments of the luw ulating such Insurance companies in this state. In testimony whereof 1 have hercunto sot my hand and the seal of the auditor of public accounts the aay and year first above writ- ten, T . BENTON, [skAL) Auditor of Publiy Accounts. 1. A. Babeock, Doputy. $25,000 in August 29, 30, 3I nu lnsurance Company. Ingorporated 1810; Chartor Petpotual Losses Pald in 73 Yours, $68,116,000. January 1, ¥ Oash capital 3 Roserve, ro-insaranco (ilre Reserve, re-insurance [inland] Reserve, unpard losses (fire] Reserve, unpald losses [inla Other cialms Not surplus 000,000 55005 34,240 UL ] 0003 2010 wdl Total assets veee 0,630,180 AS FOLLOWS Cash in bank s Cnsh in hands of agents Ronl estate o Louns on bond and mortgage Loans on colintorals Stocks and bonds Accured interest 730,471 § Hi6:011 275,000 42,000 tal nssots 8 United States of Amerien, Offce of Auditor of Public coln, Feb, 1, 1802 Tt 1<’ hereby cortified that the Btna Insur: ance Company of Hartford, in the state of Connecticat. has filed at this offive cho up- polntmentof Murphy & Lovett s their law Wi agents at Omha, in the county of Doug- 1as, in the stato of Nebr. 8 a. Now therefore, th med azeats are heroby authorized act the business of fnsurance us neonts of said company in this state until tho d1st day of January, A.D. 1805 uniess soonor revoked. suvjoct however, to all the restrictions and Hmitations of the law 1 furthor certify that said compuny has omplied with all the requiremonts of the law 0 gulating such insurance companies In this ato. testimony whoreot T havo hereunto set my ud wnd the seal of the wuditor of pubiio ints the day and year first above writ- H. BENTON, Auditor of Public Avconts. AL Babeook, Deputy. Accounts—-Lin- XhibIt of thi Compuny, auary I, 1802 Cash o und cash itoms. Cash In hands s of tr Rents und ¢ Real extaty Loans on bond Hon ¥ Loans on col Bunk stock, vaiun Bank stoek hand, in 531,08 24030 of “agents and nsmission ruod interest peu i borad g and mortgnge, first teral security Harttord, markot . A 2 00 ww York, market 00 $ik, 170 ket value Montreal, tock, Boston, i A Albany and narket viue ond stoks e ity anil radlrond bonds 0 il Total assets e G 84 LIARILITIES, Chpltat stock, tuily paid.... Reserve for re-insur: 0. . uiae . Reserve for all unscttied cinims. Not surplis Surplus to potiey-hoiders INCOME AND EXD Total cash tcome Totul oxpenditures § Exos e over expenditures netuding dividends SR 00 2 Bl o s 00 I 7 82 7l 1l I Gr It inereise Markot viiue of stock.......... [ Losses paid since organization . £19,000.000 00 tod Stitos of America, State of Nubraski lee of Auditor of Publ.e Accounts—Lin- L, Fob, L. 1802 wby certifiod that the Harttord Fire Tnsurance Company of Hartford, in the stato of Connectient, has fiied at this office the ap polntment of Murphy & Lovett as their law- nts at Oniahia, in the county of bouglis stito of N above named avents are 1260 Lo transict th insurince as agents of said compuny in this stito untl the st day of | A D, 1 unless sooncr revoked, sub, the restrictions and i ns of thy i w 1 further cortify, that satd compiuny has complied with all the requiron the aw regulating such insurance companios in this state, In testimony whereof T hiave have hereunto DOUGLAS COUNTY FAIR THE MURPHY & LOVETT INSURANGE AGENCY The Oldest Fire Agency in Nebraska, 220 S. 13th §t.,, Cmaha. The Leading American and Foreign Companies Represented. sot my hand and the seal of the nuditor of PUbITE accounts the duy and year first above Written 11 BENTON Auditor of Public Accounts, Au) 1L AL Buoeock, Dopty. I Semi-Annual Satement St Paul Fire N Tusurance Company. Tuly 1st, 180 bital Reserve for e Reserve for all Not surplus ov £500,000 00 rnod premiim KIS.620 6 s Habilities 94,500 00 v all Hability 02,106 84 Total cash assets 4 53 Unitod Statos of Americen, Stat of Nobraska— Office of Auditor of Public Aceounts—Lin- gotn, Fob 1, 1k t 8 herohy St Paul I & M. Tasurance Company of St. Panl, in the state of Minuesota, has filed at this ofiice the wp- yojutment of Murphy & Lovett as thele luw ul ngonts at Omuhia, In 1o county of Donglus in tho state of N Now thorefore, th hereby authorl business of Insurance us agonts of safd company in this stuto until the 318t day of Junnary. A. D, (8 unloss sooner revokod, subjoct, hawever, toall the restrictions and Hinitations of the (aw. ertify that sald company has pliod with all the requirements of the Inw Inting such Insurance companios in tis state. In testimony wheroot 1 have herounto sot my hand and the seal of the wuditor ol publio accounts the duy and yoar st above writ- T BENTON, o Public Accounts, 2.1 od agents nre Aualtor Assurance England. Comp AsfBtL e v Liabilitios .00 3 g BUTBIUEG v s i i United States of Ameriow, State of N Oftico of Auditor of Publis Ac coln, July L, IS0 1t i horoby' cortified that the At ance Compiny of London, in kng filed at this ofliee tho appointnent of My & Lovett, as tholr law il agents at Oma tha county uf Douglus. braska Now therofore. the above namod » hereby wuthorizod t transact the husiness of Insurance as wzents of sald company i this state until the distday of January A. D, 1801 s kol subjoct howe restrictions and Hinitations of the i w I furtiior cortifv that sala company has compited with ail the roquirements of tho liw regulating such insurance comvanies 1Ay stute. In testimony whoreof Thave herounto set my hand and the seal of the auditor of public accounts the day and year first ahove writ ton T I BENTON [s¥ar] Auditor of Publio Accounts. UC AL Babeack, Deputy 787,074 hraskn— its—Lin- Assur hitw rphy in in the stato of Ne- nts arg Statoment itlo Fire Company of Germany, Gross nssets, Home Oflice UNITED STATES BRANCIL Tnsurance L$1,403,034 00 Assots 5 Surplus as 10 poicy hold Thcome . B Amount at risk URE United Statesof America, Stite of Office of Auditor of Iublic A colu, March 3ist, 1802 1t 38 heroby cordified that tho Fire Insurancs Company of 1 many, has filod st this oflies the appointoent of Murphy & Lovett as thoie Lawfui azonts at Omalia, fir 1o county, of Douglas, in tho stute of Nebrask ow therefo y authori 2341, 33T L OSTURT 00 R35,041,459 00 obraska— Junts—Lin- % 0 00 I Pransatiant o nburs, in Ger- the above named ngents arg v to transact the husiness of company I Uhis Junuiry. A D, 1503 unloss 1 revoked, subjoct howovor, (o ali the restrictions and Hiitations of the liw 1 further certify that said company hus complied with «ll the requirements of the Liw rouluting such Insurance compunies in this Stato. In testimony whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the auditor of publio accounts the day and yenr first ubove writ- ton. I 1. BENTON, (8EAL] Auditor of Public Accounts, H. A, Babeoek, Deputy. here s state Premiums. and Sept, | and 2 Will be the best fair ever held by the Douglas County Agricultural Society. with the fairthe OMAHA In connection RACES Will be held Aug. 30-31 and Sept. 1-2 $6,400 in Speed Purses. For Premium List write to JOHN BAUMER, Sec'y 1314 FFarnam Street, Omaha, Booth Privileges for sale by RICHARD ENGELMAN, 15th and Howard Sts., Omaha $1,000 IN SPECIAL PREMIUMS BY OMAHA MERCHANTS, DrDOWNS 1818 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. eminent speclnlist in neryous, ehronic, rod gradunto in medcin, ns diplomas nd BpOrmAtorrhoca, (08T mANLOO orrhoeh, glest, varicocele,clc. visit mo may cata ury used. New 180 home by orrespondénce. curely packed, no marks o lndl tonts or gender. freo.’ Correspondence strictly private. Bundays 10 a. .40 13 m. Send stump LoF repiz. ABSOLUTELY F.F.JAQUES & CO. KANSAS CITY,MO. - PERCENT 15 ¥riduy un Unlucky Disy? Washinglon Post, “Who shall say tnat Friday 18 8o unlucky day! It was on Friday that Columbus set sail from Palos, Friday he first saw the now world, Friday bo reached Palos ou his re turn, the 400th nniversary of Lhe discovery falls'on Friday, and oo 1'riday this country was christened after Americus Vespueius, the Florentine discoyerer.”—Omaba Brr. 1t was ou F'riday that congross passed the bill providing for the World's Columbian ex- nibition; the bill was signed by the presi- aent on Friday; on F'riduy cougress do- rivite, Fif L jominal Wusknuss. Hook (ysterias of Life) sent 0ZS. PURE - JUSTTRY IT. .£. CogJ6™ & BOugLAS (o - S J y (//—';_:’ Zoam, < INTEREST = ol PAID ON 42 R ee TOR DEPGSITS E zwrfuf 4966.060.86° 1004, skin and unnary disenses. ing willi tha i puilis. st Lroi Pirti Medic Ono personal Intorview prefers Omoy Bours Ve, m. 109 p. w BAKING PIWES o ;A/V%Qi BANK AU WYMAN, EWNASH GB.LAKE THMILUARD THO3 L KimBALL termined in favor of Chicago as the placo for holding the said exhibition; on Friday the committee agreed to roport the 5,000,000 loan bill to the house; on Kriday the loau was lucorporated in the the sundry civil bill on Friday the *Durborow bill" was intro- duced, amendod 50 as to moke a pift of § 000 Lo the exbibition lostead of a loan of 0,000; ou Friday the gift il passed both bousos, and was signed by the prosi dent on riday. Next! a0} Diseaso never successfuily attacks tho sy em with pure blood. 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