Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1894, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1891--TWENTY _PAGES. MORSE Ladles’ hemstitched and embroidered hand- kerchiefs, rogular valus 100, UNDER COST AT 5c Ladies’ hemstitched, sealloped and embrol- dered bandkerchiefs, actual value 18c, UNDER COST AT 74~ fine Silk gowas in all the A lot of hand made delicate shades, beau- Torchon Insertings, titully trimmed in J MUCH BELOW COST point de Paris and Va- lenclennes, regular 5c $12.00 gowns, ®ern lace in Wil UNDER COST AT widths, actual (value AT $6.50 ; o Extra length chemise in fine lawn, elegantly trimmed, regular value $2.00, UNDER COST AT $1.23 Prima_ Donna im- ported fine satin cor- met, extra long, actual value $2.50, SALES PRICE, $1.95 American Lady in § and 6\ hook, regular quality, NDER COST AT 89c Men's seamless hose, color tan, actual value 20¢, UNDER COST AT 12%c Men's e shirts, made fancy neck, UNDER COST AT 19¢ Men's flowing end Four-in-Hand tles in the new silks, regular B0c quality, ACTUAL COST, 37%c Boys' extra pants, BPOT C(ASH PRICE, 37¥%c The Mother's Friend ‘waist, unlaundered ACTUAL COST 3il'c 100 ladi MORSE Novelty duchesse sat- ins, rotall price $1.00, UNDER COST AT 60c¢ Rlegant black crystal bengaline, actual value $1.265, UNDER CO8% AT 59¢ siiks, actual DER COST 26¢ Beatiful imitation cut glass pitcher, six tum- blers to mateh and one tray, real value $1.25, SPOT CASH PRICE, 79c¢c 6 cups and saucers, 6 plates, 6 sauco plates, in best Iron Stone China, SPOT CASH PRICE, Ladles' fino Wnder- skirts in fine eutines, alpaca and grass cloth, actual value $2.00, UNDER COST AT $1.00 150 ladies’ all wool Jackets, all colors, act- ual value $5.00, UNDER COST AT $1.98 95 very fine all wool Jackets, $10.00 gar- ments, UNDER_COST AT Bt Wash quality, T8e, best value DER COST AT 1 37ic China silks, printed and plain, goods worth up to 7se, CASH PRICE 29c¢ 20 per cent discount off Infants’ musitn and cambric wear. Best 150 ginghams UNDER COST AT 8c 40c Fronch satines UNDER COST AT 25¢ 20c ginghams at UNDER COST AT 10c 2Gc English sergeter, UNDRR COST AT 15¢ elegant made Ladies’ hem- stitched and embrol- dered scalloped edge Kerchlof, regular price 800, UNDER COST AT 13c Gents' hematitched handkerchief with col- ored borders, actual value 26¢, UNDER COST 9c No. 12, all silk moire ribbon, regular price 200, UNDER COST 9c No. 22, all silk ribbon, former 8be, UNDER COST I7c Nos. 16 and 22, and gros grain all ailk ribbon, UNDER COST AT 9¢c Nos. 7 and 9, satin all stlk gros grain rib- bon, UNDER COST AT 5c 70-inch damask, fern leaf pattern, SPOT CASH 97c 62-inch damask, clover leaf pattern, SPOT CASH 42c % napkins, UNDER COST AT 50c doz 11-4 bed spread, acte ual value $1.50, SPOT CASH AT 95c¢ 8-12 Turkey red table covers, actual value $3.00, SPOT CASH $2. P. D. Donita, our best corset, extra long, made of Italian cloth, regular $9.00 corset, SPOT CASH PRICE, $6.93 Sllk chemise and drawers, elegantly trimmed, actual value 31.00, UNDER COST AT $3.50 One lot bowls, srot boerry al value 3¢, CASH PRICE, 19 nickel AT Bost clocks, sSPoT alarm " oasH 79¢ HOSIERY AND UN- DERWEAR AT ACT- UAL COST OR UN- DER. PRICR, under- with AT Ladies' seamloss fast black hose, UNDER COST AT 9c Ladies' fine hose, fast black, heel and too, 75¢_quality, UNDER COST AT 47c Ladies' spun silk hose, actual value $1.00 UNDER COST AT 50c¢ Ladies' lisle thread vosts, ecru and white, regular 65c quality, SPOT CASH PRICE, 27c Ladies, spun vests, actual $1.00, UNDER COST AT 47c Ladies' Egyptian lislo union suits, $1.50 qual- ity UNDER COST AT 98¢ JACKETS, CAPE! WAISTS, MACKIN TOSHES, WRAPPE! SKIRTS, WAY 1 LOW ACTUAL COST. Only one garment to a customer. Ladies' and misses’ mackintoshes, with full military cape, actual value $3.00, UNDER COST AT $1.75 Ladles' pretty wrap- pers in pretty patterns, regular $1.25, for 58¢c MORSE | within thefr means. “If tho price is fixed low, that is our own affair,” said Miss E. J. Evans, the superintendent and matron. The prices are within the reach of any salaried ; . girl in Omaha. The terms vary from $3 to Work Now Being Done in Omaha by the | $1 per week. These are the terms fixed T Al upon by the Women's Christian association. h Such homes for girls are nothing new. One il oy was opened in New York City over thirty- four years ago. No better recommendation AT satin price cotton linen actual A QUICK CASH RAISING SALE “we= g AT AGTUAL GOST OR UNDER trimmed with braid FOR GCASH ONLY: and lnwrl'un(. actual TH E MORSE DRY GOODS CO. value $7.50. SPOT CASH PRICI $3.75 All silk_wash waists, regular $5.00 goods, SPOT CASH PRICE, $2.87 DRESS GOODS AND SILKS AT ACTUAL COST OR UNDER. French challies, acte ual value 75¢ CASH PRICE, 45c¢ Al) wool serges and henricgtas, Wil icolors and black, actual value Goe, CASH PRICE, 42c A lot of fine printed cashmeres, actual value $1.00, UNDER COST PRICE, 1 58ic Novelty black dress goods, latest styles, actual value $1.25, UNDER COST AT 57c MORSE the clty was in this family. A long and celebrated murder case, known as the ‘Clel murder, costing the state immense amounts of money, s lo- cated here. Nearly every crime of any note belongs here. Between 1868 and 1888 not less than $5,000 has been pald for ‘pass- ing’ these people from place to place, each township officer trying to throw off responsi- bility. The records of the city hospital show AT % hand lac s, UNDER COST AT 5c Smyrna and Japan- eso rugs, regular $6.00 line of Torchon UNDER COST AT $1.98 All our $2.50 Wilton fine all COST AT PRICE, Isilk valuo mattings, UNDER COST AT I16¢c Chenille curtains, all colors, actual value $5.00. UNDER COST AT $1.68 pair Al curtaln Swiss, which sold up to 60c per yard, UNDER COST AT 25¢ 20¢ silkolines UNDER COST AT 10c Fine cassimere sults, SPOT CASH AT $1.98 The king (of shirt walsts, laundered, act- ual value $1.00, COST PRICE AT 75c¢ Black Bourden in- sertings, 1 to 2 {nches Wwide, actual value 200 to 50c, SPOT CASH AT 10 to 25¢ PRIC PRICE, Men's $1.50 Monareh, made of excollent per- cale, 2 collars and cuffs, UNDER COST AT 75¢c No. 16, ;black gros grain all silk ribbon, regular 22c, UNDER COST AT llc Gowns made of ex- | cellent muslin, trim- med with embroldery, regular_value $1.00, * UNDER COST AT 53c Drawers and _corset covers, trimmed with embroidery and hem- stitched, rogular value e, UNDER COST AT 47c his powers. He can give as much as he sees fit. As the office is a political one, about the time of nomination and election the amounts increase largely. The politizal bosses favor this and use it—now in the interests of the republican, now of the demo- cratic party. It thus becomes a corruption fund of the worst kind. What the town- ship trustee fails to do, private benevolence supplements. The so-called charitable peo- stitutions. The essential purpose of popular suffrage Is not to secure good government, but to produce an inferest in civil affairs that will sooner or later bring abont good government. This growth in civic knowladge is impossible without a foundation of intelli- gence, The choice of negro suffrage was the wisest choice among the many evils having their rise in negro slavery. It was the least Trinity Protestant Episcopal chy :5,;:00 to the Waterbury hospital " oston is mildly agitated over covery In that city of two pIcnlrun“:lnllu:‘;d to have been painted by St. Luke, whom iradition assumes to have been an artist The subjocts are respectively the Savior and His mother, and are exccuted iy resinous w roaino Aax plgment on a sort of mummy and {HELPING HAND T0 WOMEN AND -~ PLITICS HEREDITY A New Element Eutering Into Political Discussion, STUDY OF HUMAN PARASITES BRIEF of the Chronic with Sugges- Fractieal Ilustrations Pauper nn tions L for a Growlng Evil. (Copyrighted.) It s a known fact of biology that when- ever any series of organism are withdrawn from active life and the process of natural gelection no longer offers a premium for self-activity, degradation sets in. Organs are lost as their tunctions are abandoned. In this way the descent of the inert barnacle from the active crab-like forms is accounted for. In similar manner the degraded para- sitic Sacculina is shown to be of crustacean or crab-like origin. The young Sussullna and the young crab are essentially alike for a period after their birth. The crab con- tinues and developes an active life. The Saccullna thrusts its feelers into the body of the crab on which it Is to feed. Its organs of eating and swimming disappear. All structures connected with Independent life become atr: finally nothing s left of the Sacculina except its sac-like body, ite feelers or roots which ramify through the blood vessels of the crab, and its repro- ductive organs by which the brood of para- sites s kept alive. When the habit of parasitism 1s once established the struggle for existence simply Intensifies It from generation to generation. The most offective Sacculina ds the most degenerate one. In like manner whenever & race or family of men has fallen away from self-helpfulness the forces of evolution intensify its parasitism. The successful pauper is the one who retains no capacity for anything else. The loss of all other possibilities Is the best preparation for the life of the sneak thief. HUMAN PARASITE ALWAYS WITH US. Recent studies, as those of Dr. Dugdale, Mr. McCulloch and others, have shown that parasitism is hereditary {n'the human species as in the Sacculina. McCulloch has selected the Sacculina for special illustration of the Itke results of like processes in the human “family. Like produces like in the world of life. Those qualities in the grandparent which made him an outcast from soclety or a burden upon it reappear In the father and again in the son. As In one case, 50 in the other they determine his relation to society. The pauper is the victim of heredity, but neither nature nor society recognizes that as an excuse for existence. The forces of na- ture take no account of motive and are no respectors of persons. Dugdale has shown that parasitism, pauperism, prostitution and crime reappear generation after generation in tho descendants of Margaret, the Mother of Criminals. Oscar C. McCulloch, speaking of the paupers of Indianapolis, uses the fol- lowing language: A STUDY IN PAUPERISM. “Wo start at some unknown date with thirty families. These came mostly from Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, Of the first generation—of sixty-two individ- uals—we know certainly of only three. In the second generation we have the history of elghty-four. In the third generation we have the history of 283. In the fourth gen- eration—1840-1880—we have the history of 644, In the fifth generation—1860-1880—we have the history of 679. In the sixth gen- eration—1880-1800—we have the history of ven. Here is a total of 1,750 indi- Before the fourth generation—from 1840 to 1860—we have but scant records. Our more complete data began with the fourth generation, and the following are val- uable. We know of 121 prostitutes. The erlminal record s very large—petty thieving, larcenies chiefly. There have been a number of murder. The first murder committed in that—taking out surgical cases, acute gen- eral diseases, and cases outside the city—75 per cent of the cases treated are from this class. The number of illegitimacles is very great. The Board of Health reports that the number of still-born children found in sinks, ete., would not be less than six per week, Deaths are frequent, and chiefly among children. The suffering of the chil- dren must be great. The people have no occupation. They gather swill or ashes; the women beg, and send the children around to beg: they make their eyes sore with vitriol. In my experience I have seen three genera- tions of beggars among them. I have not time here to go into detalls, some loath- some, all pitiable STRIKING ILLUSTRATIONS FROM REAL LIFE. cvening 1 was called to marry a couple. 1 found them In one small room, with two beds. In all eleven people lived in it. The bride was dressing, the groom wash- ing. Another member of the family filled a coal-oil lamp while burning. The groom offered to haul ashes for the fee. I made a present to the bride. Soon after I asked one of the family how they were getting on. ‘Oh, Elisha don’t live with her any more’ Why? ‘Her other husband came back, and she went to him. That made Elisha mad, and he left her.’ b “All these are grim facts; but they are facts and can be verified. More, they are but thirty families out of a possible 250. The individuals already traced are over 5,000, interwoven by descent and marriage. They underrun society like devil grass. Pick up one and the whole 5,000 will be drawn up. Over 7,000 pages of history are now on file in the Charity Organization society. “A few deductions from these data are offered for your consideration. First, is study Into sccial degeneration or degrada- tlon, which is similar to thad sketched by Dr. Lankaster. As in the lower orders, so in soclety we have parasitism, or social deg- radation. There is no reason to belleve that some of this comes from the old convict stock which England threw into this country in the seventeenth century. We find the wandering tendency so marked in the case of the ‘Cracker’ and the ‘Pike’ here. ‘Movin' on,’ There is scarcely a day that the wagons are not to be seen on our streets; cur dogs; tow-headed children. They camp outside the city and then beg. Two families as 1 write have come by, moving from north to south, and from east to west. ‘Hunting work;' and yet we can glve work to 1,000 men on our gas trenches, UNCHASTITY PREVAL! PERS, “Next, note the general unchastity that characterizes this class. The prostitution and illegitimacy are large, the tendency shows itself in incests, and relations lower than the animals go. This Is due to the depravation of nature, to crowded condi- tions, to absence of decencies and tleanli- ness. It is an animal reversion, which can be paralleled in lower animals. The physical depravity is followed by physical weakness. Out of this comes the frequent deaths, the still-born children and the general incapacity to endure hard work or bad climate. They cannot work hard and break down early, They then appear in the county asylum, the city hospital and the township trustee's ofice. “Third, note the force of heredity. Each child tends to the same life, reverts when taken out. THE FACTOR OF PUBLIC RELIEF. And lastly, note the Influence of the great factor, public relief. Since 1840 relief has been given to them. At that tima we find that ‘old B. Huggins' applied to have his wife Barthenia sent to the poor house. A pre- mium was then paid for idleness and wan- dering. The amouht then pald by the towq- ship for public rellef varies, rising as.hig as $90,000 in 1876, sinking in 1878 to $7,000, and ranging with the different trustegs from $7.000 0322,000 per year. Of this amoubt fully threo-fourths has gone to this clasd. Pyblic rellef, then, {8 chargehbje in a large defree with the perpetuatign of this stock. The township trustee s practically unlimited in “One T AMONG PAU- ple who glve to begging cbildren and women with baskets have a vast sin to answer for. It {s from them that this pauper element gets its consent to exist THE PROBLEM OF THE UNEMPLOYED. In every American city, as in Indianapolis, there exists a large number of people who, in the ordinary course of life, can never be made good citizens, Our free institutions do not make them free; our schools do not train them; our churches do not contain the means of their salvation. It is well to face the fact that the existence of the great body of paupers and criminals is possible cnly by feeding them in one way or another cn the life-blood of the community. It is the pres- ence of this class that adds terror to poverty. It is they who make hard the lot of the worthy poor. The problem of poverty and misfortune is a difficult one at best. It is rendered many times more difficult by the presence among the poor of those whom no condition could bring to the level of self- helpful and self-respecting humanity. The difficult problem of the uncmployed becomes far more diflicult when associated with the hopeless problem of the unemployable. It is not important to our present dis- cussion to consider how these conditions arose. It may be an imperfection of human society that the law of matural selection has not had its perfect work. The destruction of the unfit has not kept pace with their power of production. We may blame the kind influence of the help of our neighbors. The indiscriminate char- ity of the middle ages is responsible for much of the misery of ours. It i3 only in very modern times that charity has had any relations with justice. It Is only lately that science has shown that charity is to be Judged not by its motives but by Its resul ““Charity, falsely so-called,” says McCulloch, “‘covers a multitude of sins, and sends tho pauper out with the benediction, ‘be fruit- ful and multiply.’ Such charity’ has made this element, has brought children to birth and insured them a life of misery, cold, hunger, \sickness. So-called charity joins public relief in producing still-born children, raising prostitutes and educating criminals. HEREDITARY INEFFICIENCY A FACTOR OF CIVILIZATION. Whatever the cause of the existence of hereditary inefficiency, it exists in our civili- zation. It 1s one of the factors in our soclal fabric. It is an element not less difficult than the race problem itself. The race problem is indeed a phase of it, for when a race can take care of itself, it ceases to have a_problens Hereditary inefficiency Is therefore a fac- tor in society. It must be a factor in clvil affairs. In what way does it affect the problem of government? In municipal gov- ernment its evil effects are at once appar- ent. A single group of related familles, all helpless and hopeless by heredity, forms in the clean and healthy city of Indianapolis some 4 per cent of the population, 5,000 in perhaps 125,000. In other Amerlean cities, notably San Francisco, with its mild climate and proverblal hospitality, the percentage is greater. In no city is it absent. Self-goy- ornment by such people i a farce. No community was ever bullt up by thieves and {mbeciles. The vote of the dependent classes Is always purchasable. The co-ordi- nation and sale of this vote and of the allied criminal vote is the work of the most dangerous of the dirty brood of politi- cal bosses. It is stock in trade of every king of the slums. This vote can be bought with the money of candidates. It can be bought with the spoils of office. It can be bought with public funds set aside for pur- poses called charitable. The varlous forms of outdoor reliet con- stitute, as McCulloch has shown, “‘a cor- ruption fund of the worst kind."' America has virtually failed in the management of her cities. This fallure is most complete “uIj4 puy sJadRwd JO JorEINdjuN OU) ddoym -JON '0APOOJS 180UI PUW 189ploq 81 W{wu) over, the efuvium of municipal corruption flows out and polsons politics of the state and the nation. MENACE OF THE VENAL VOTERS. Every venal, cowardly or Ignorapt voter is & menace to the safety of republican in- of the evils, no doubt, but an evil never- theless. Every evil is likely sooner or later to become a suppurating sore in the body politic. The dangers of foreign immigration lie in the overflow to our shores of hereditary unfitness. Tho causes that lead to degrada- tion have long been at work among the poor of Europe. The slums of every city in the old world are full of the results. Apparently few cases of hereditary Inefficiency exist in America that could not be traced back through similar lineage to the dependent classes {n the old world. It takes many generations to found a pauper stock. Mis- fortune, sickness, intemperance, the weak- ness of old age often lead to poverty and per- sonal misery. But personal causes do not lead to hereditary pauperism. The essential danger of unrestricted fmmigration is not in bringing in an alien population, strange to our language and our customs. Language and customs count for little if the blood is good. The childreh learn our language even to the forgetting of their own. Love of country is just as genulne in Norwegian or German dlalects as it is in English or Irish. There is little danger either in the violent opinions of iconaclastic theories. The red flag of anarchy will not wave where real oppression does not exist. GERMS OF PAUPERISM AND CRIME. °© But the immigration of poverty, degra- dation and disease make government by the people more and more difficult. BEvery family of Jukes or Ishmaels that enters Castle Garden carries with it the germs of pauperism and crime. They bear the lep- rosy and crime of the old world to taint the fields of the new. The “assisted immi- gration” at Jamestown years ago has left its trail of pauperism and crime from Vir- ginla across Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Missourl, evan to California. Wherever ita blight has gone there are the same inefi- cient men, sickly women, frouzy children, starved horses, barking cur dogs, careless. ness, vindictiveness and neglect of decency. The withdrawal from the competition of lite, withdrawal from self-helpful activity, aided by the voluntary assistance from others —these factors have rhade tho tribe of Ish- mael. These conditions bring about the same results in all aggs and among all races Zamong the lower animals as well as among men. The same effedts of similar causes are seen In the decline of the royalty and nobility of Burope, as well as the degrada- tlon of European cretins and thie There is no development without activity, and no race s so perfect that judiclous weeding out could not improve it. if What can be done to remedy this source of evils? To know the evil is to go half way towards its cure. Penal reform, charities reform, civil service réform, the prohibition of pauper immigration,| education In social sclence—all theze lagk in the direction of cure. In knowledge lfes the surest remedy for most social and political evils. Let us see our enemy face/to face and we can strike him. What mpge can be done is the work of students of goclal science to deter- mine. One thing Is certaln, in the words of Dr. Amos G. Wardbr, that the “function of charity Is to restore to usefulness those who are temporarily unfit and to allow those unfit from heredity to become extinct with as little pain as possible.” Sooner or later the last duty will bo not less im- portant than the first. Good blood as well as free schools and free environment is es- sentlal to the making of a nation DAVID STARR JORDAN. A Mother's Sacrifice. “George, dear, 1d the loving wite, “I do not see how our little one can go any longer without a new pair of pantaloons, The only ones he has have been patched until he can wear them no longer." Wiht a déep slgh her husband lald down his paper. “I don't know what I can do, Madeline,” he sald, “I can't afford to buy him new ones just at present.” ‘“Then, My ‘darling,” replied his better half, with a despairing gobture, “‘the worst has come. I shall have to have my bic; trousers made over for him. DEPOT SERVICE WILL BEGIN TOMORROW A Benevolent and Rescue Organization Ex- isting in Many Large Citles—Details of Its Ministrations—Who Are Received aud How They Are Cared Kor. About one month ago, under the auspices of the Woman's Christian assoclation, the Travelers' Aid located in Omaha, and opened quarters on Douglas between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. Until that time there was no night lodging for desti- tute women in Omaha but the city jall. The chief object of the Travelers' Aid is to pro- cure and give lodging to destitute women and children. No one is turned away, but those Who can are to pay the prices re- quired. These are very little. Lodging Is 15 cents per night, or 75 cents per week. Meals are 10 cents. Everything Is clean and orderly, and there is nothing objectionable about the institution. The matron, Mrs. M. P. Sulliyan, says the home has not been without less than four since it opened, Had it been better known doubtless the number would have been greater. The place can accommodate twenty persons. Tomorrow the Travelers' its representatives to meet the incoming trains. This is one of its works. It wili be something new in Omaha, but in most of the ecastern cities the Travelers' Aid is represented at the depots. In many places they have established quarters, and make a specialty of looking for women and chil- dren who stand In need of their aid. In St. Louis alone, In the past year, nearly 500 girls have been helped, and some saved by the ropresentatives of the Aid. The repre- sentative of the Aid wears a badge brought diagonally across the breast. It is white, and bears the words, “Women's Christian Assoclation—Travelers’ Aid.” The uniform is usually gray. The good work that can be done by such an Institution Is readily seen. Women and children come in at all hours, often without money, and no idea of a city. Some lose thelr ‘money or addresses, and they know not what course to take. Not a few girls have been rescued from the grasp of procurers. This is made a special object with the Tray- elers’ ald and all girls under suspicious guld- an are examined. Some have b saved when they told the representative the ad- dress to which they were going. Other girls are kept at the shelter until work s found for them. The only ones refused admittance Ald will send are those under the influence of liquor. The home closes at 10 o and the Inmates are required to be orderly and ladylike in their manners. Upon application to the mat- ron they are permitted to use the laundry. The sick are cared for, but cases are not taken for treatment, There has been a call for such an institu- tion in Omaha, and some of its citizens have been liberal with it. Many donations have been made, but the cause stands much in need of more, especlally bedding and single bedsteads. The promoters hope some one will donate a cooking stove or range. At present they are without one. They are always ready to accept any donatlons which the public are pleased to mak The institution on Burt street Is better known In Omaha. This Old Ladies' home has at present eleven inmates. But three pay anything. What is pald amounts to very little, 32 and $3 per week. Three of tho old women are perfectly helpless, and one has not been able to leave her bed in two years. The matron, Miss Anna Wil- liamson, has the care of all the Inmates Aside from one servant, there Is no one to assist her, These institutions must not be con foundgd with the "Young Women's home,” 118 North Elghteenth street. This I & boarding house, with all the advantages of a home for self-supporting young women It Ia not charitablo—its aim s to give re spectable young women a home at & price can be given a girl in the older cities than to say she boards at the Young Women's Chris- tian home. Those In charge are carcful ro- garding the character of the appli- cants, and the deportment of the inmates must be within the bonds of pro- priety. No boarding school rules are en- forced—the regulations are those of any g00d and moderately indulgent mother. The young women have a well furnished parior at their disposal, and some of the first ladies in Omaha are visitors there. Young men are not barred, and the doors are not closed until 10:30. Upon special occasions they have been open later. The girls have a plano, and all the amusement of polite society is encouraged. Dancing and card parties are favorites. When any of the girls wish they are permitted to glve a party or reception. This was done several times last winter. Weddings have taken place from the home. The ceremony each time took place in the parlor, and the wedding breakfast was served in the dining room. Presence at religious exercises is not en- forced and no interference with faith is permitted. The sick are not sent to the hospital and are given the best of care. At present the home holds twenty-one girls, and arently they could not be better satisfied. Their rooms are clean and nicely furnished. Those who wish separate rooms are provided with them. No girl is expected to assist with the housework. e RELIGIOUS. of Boston, who Rev. Dr. C. A. Bartol last week, 1is celebrated his S1st birthday in excellent health, The International Missionary union will hold Its eleventh annual meeting at Clifton Springs, N. Y., June 13-20. Fourteen Mormon missionaries from Utah left San Francisco on the 3d inst. for Honolulu and the South Seas. It turns out that Bishop Tuttle (Kpisco- pal) has not joined the Salvation army. The report arose from the fact that he sent the organization $5 for its rescue work. Mr. Thomas Spurgeon Is now settled In the Metropolitan Tabernacle as permanent successor to his father. He has been well received, and the great bullding continues to be well filled with, perhaps, the largest congregation in London, The Dlocesan Bpiscopal Massachusetts that met last wee to relleve the labors of Bishop by adopting the system of.archd that has worked so0 well in the of New York. Rev. Charles Alan Smythies, bishop of Zanzibar, whose death is announced from London, was a graduate from Trinity col- lege, Cambridge, in 1867. He was appointed missionary bishop of Africa In 1883, and to his late position last year. Mrs. Van Cott, the well known Mothodist revivalist, has been conducting her twelfth vevival at Oshkosh, Wis. As a result of her work, there Is a strong congregation, largely made up of converts made by this remarkable preacher, and a $530,000 church bullding has just been dedicated. Mrs, Van Cott's home Is at Catskill, N. Y. The most absorbing questions connected with the approaching ordination of Miss Rachael Frank, a young Californian woman, as a Hebrew rabbl, concern what she is to be called and what robe she will wear ofi clally, As she Is the first womn rabbi, there are no precedents by which to settle these matters. Charles M. Foulke of Washington intends presenting to the Episcopal cathedral, which is to be bullt In that city, twelve tapestries illustrating the life of Jesus. They are of the fifteenth century and were secured by Mr. Foulke a few years ago from a Roman palace, where they had hung ever since they were made. Among the public bequests by the will of Charles Scott of Washington, D. C., are $10,000 to the American Building fund of the Protestant Eplscopal church of New York; $5,000 to the Sc. John's Protestant Eplscopal church of Waterbury; $5,000 to convention of declded Lawrence aconries diocese Rev. Sam Bettis, Sums up the result at Bay City, Mich.: varsions, 1,256 old $802 was ralsed fo cowboy evangelist, th 8 of his recent revival “I had over 3,000 con- topers signed the pledge, T expenses, $500 cloar Sam, and 6,000 people were fed free munl:?"‘. Ho is satisfied. The I s i ocal clergymen o Bay City donouncod hia sensational- meth: Abd-ur-Rahman, the Emi b Bmir of Afghanis rl-(n:r::nlzna;‘nexthrolmely valuable copy.of the q e holy city of Isnan-R Porsia, according to forelgn papers. gt g In a casket of gold and silver, whoso oary: bick, AT, M to" bo of great” bewuty. Tho 5 5 valued at $125,000 placed | vi iate over placed in the mosque with appropriats oere: A man named Winks rece the bishop of Manchester, B cepting a princely Income whj, pti o better men” were ‘starving, Tho bisgor oal Just made the following answer to hie: foou taunt me with the amount of my income. 'Perhaps it ‘may astonish you &y be made acquainted with the followiny factes [ live as plainly as any working man, and T,believe that I work hardor and more houpy IIflll nine out of ten working men, and yet I,2m compelled, by the expensos’ oldont 0 my office, to spond £1,000 a year more than “my officlal - income," e e Jedge Waxem's roverbs. Detroit Free Press: What a politishan ain't tellin wood make a statesman squirm, There's too much legislatin for pollitioks and not enuft fer biznss, Coxey s only a sprout, but tho wi 3 weed iz growin, and the rest of us hadn't bettor be sottin on the fense thinkin it ain't, Bf we want to purpetuate the republick, we hav got to do sumthin eise but hollag for the Forth uy July and the Amerlkin eagel, The peeple is purty much like powder; °y nead to expload ls fer sumboddy to ntly denounced ngland, for ac- all th tech em off. The biggest dern fool in t - Kel foeld kin ind sum follerers, " 0'° POt Annarky iz the wust tirant.uy em all. The demand fer ofis holders nevver ex- sosda tho supply. he closer you git to mo esmo A T most statesmen, the What we want In polliticks is more Star Spangled Banner and less $3. ——— Stroet Cars and Whenever there is a fire on or near Broad- way, says the New York Sun, the Houston stréet power house of the cable road s noti- fied, and the red wagon goos clattering up 1o the scene of trouble aking much 50 as a water tower. The men on the red agon usually find a cable blockade when they arrive, because the firemen have had to lay their hose across the sireet. That is why the red wagon came. The men take out tall iron stanchions from the wagon and set them up on each sido of the car tracks. They stand In the shape of an inverted V, with a pulley at the apex. Ropes are passed around the heavy hose, and these aro then lifted by means of the pulley high encugh above the tracks to allow the cable cars to pass along underneath, Firos, i The Dog’s Nume, Senator McLaurin was trying a case be- fore the circuit court In Rankin county, Mississippl, just before his election to the ate, about a month ago. There was a o ‘and a dog involved “What s the dog good for, uncle Mr. McLaurin. “Will he catch coons?"* “Never hearn ‘er his catchin' nuthin," replied the darkey. “Ain't no ‘count at a He Jos lays aroun' de house, he does, an' ocats an' sleeps. Aln't wuf shucks. Dat's what makes us call 'lm what we do." “What do you call him?" “Lawyer." ' asked The Bostonlans are sald to have playe to an average of $10,000 per week during the Boston season,