Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 19, 1894, Page 11

TRUMPET OF DAME GRUNDY N te Revielon of Fasliion Deo:oes that Runs to Extremen, GOSSIP . FOR WOMANK ND FRESH #a ed Difference in Vernacular—Pretty Btory of & Baby's Influence—lieligo- land Gretna Green—A North Dakota Romance, it would have been con- sdered a most fll-omened proceeding for a guest to appear at a wedding attired in black, but now fashion has changed to such A extent that it fs not only perfectly cor- vect, says the New York Advertiser, but quite the fashion for them to do so. At wome of the stylish weddings in London that have taken place lately the bridesmaids have worn black hats with thelr white @resses. At one period the orthodox length for a honeymoon was, as the name Indicates, a month; but now it seldom lasts for more than & week, ten days or a fortnight, according to personal taste and feeling. For three months after the wedding bride s still entitled to claim that name, al- though it is no longer the fashion in gen- eral soclety to give her preceden as a bride, she merely takes that which is due to her rank. The old custom Is still kept up in some country places, and among those who cling to old fashions of giving the bride precedence of all other guests upon the oc- casion of a dinner party. The custom was cortainly both a graceful and courteous one, intended, as It was, not only to do honor to & bride, but to show a kindly welcome to a newecomer. Upon taking poss of a house there 18 always plenty for a bride to do, especially if the house s a newly furnished one, for most women like to have their home r- ranged according to their own tastes and fancy. The wedding presents, too, have to be arranged In their places about the house, for these are not shown to a bride's visitors en masse; that was all done upon the wed- ding day, and a sccond display would be in bad taste At one time the ssion The etiquette of visitors and visiting Is exactly the same for a bride as for any othor marrled lady. ~ Even If she has lived In the same part of the country, or in the same town before her marriage, she is now on coming back to it as a bride in the same position as a newcomer, and the resi- dents call ubon her first, and these visits should be returned as first ones, thafi is, within a week or ten days or a fortnight at the very latest. If her husband is unable to accompany her In paying these calls, she must leave two of his cards if the person called upon be either married or a widow With grown-up sons, or an unmarried lady 1iving with her brother, and this whether the erson called upon be at home or not at ome. If not at home two of the husband’s aro glven with the wife's card to the ser- vant. it at home two are left in the hall upon leaving at the conclusion of the visit. 1t, however, the person called upon be un- married or a widow ilving alone, then only one of the husband's cards is left, whether be at home or not. .h.i bride is very often shy and awkward at the thought of receiving her first vis- ftors, and recelving them, perhaps, alone, and fearful also of making mistakes. —This {8 very natural timidity, and will soon wear off It struggled against. Kindness, courtesy and a desire to be friendly will always win their way, for like begets like; and a hostess anxious to please her guests will be sure o succeed, To avold making mistakes, it 48 always best to arrange things beforehand. I know a mother who is going to ruin th of her baby in her excessive care o a:“clesn clothes. The poor little thing hever gets to creep over the floor after the ancing sunbeams or to kick Its dimpled ogs In {he air ip a vain endeavor to catch {ts ten pink tces. Not a bit of it, says a writer in the Washington Star. It is fed Wt a certain hour, which is all right, but terwhrds it is placed in its crib, where ts long Qressep, starched till they crack, Mro strajghtened out as smooth as pillow- lslipg, and therd it lies with its legs pinioned Mowh by heavy gkirts, its muscles growing abby from igaction apd its blood sluggish. t perohance it {s permitted to sit up, it is fed ipto a high chair and its long skirts r1 own 6n its ‘bnr ligtle toes till one 3la think they woljd sprout corns. ,""3“.'”’ thing to do With o Realthy baby 18 to ave it clegp twice a day—when it goes to od at night and when It drosses fresh middle . The hea S e A B e g for all day. Just as soon as the child gins to kick and wants to get at its feet t ought to be pyt in short clothes and put ’on the flgor to work out its own salvation. fits muscles weré given it to use and Its 'will put them to the test if you will give It ohance. The mother who thinks more Ipt her Daby's clothes than she does of its ‘fenlm 18 quite likely to have the clothes ljoft on her hands eternally clean, and it ‘erved her right, too. The vernacular of different localities in JAmerica is very marked, even among culti- jyated people, and miny who flatter them- eolves that their cosmopolitan culture has {quite effaced any peculiar intonation would Ibe surprised it they knew how much their ‘garly assoclation affects both voice and ac- rgent, says a writer In the New York ‘Pribune. *“How curious it is,” remarked a New York woman the other day, “‘that Mr. R., who has lived more than half his life away from Philadelphia and has mingled with the best people at home and abroad for ears, should still retain in pristine purity js funpy little Philadelphia twang. — At ome 1 had always thought it rather a pity that he ‘hailed’ so unmistakaply from the Quaker City, but I simply loved the familiar nasal drawl when, in the Arablan desert wo exchanged greetings with a passing cara- van and I heard an exclamation from a helmeted gentleman on a camel—an exclama- tion in those Chestnut street accents of Mr. "At a luncheon a short time ago provin- clalism 1h America came under discussion, d while a Baltimorean, a Philadelphian and & Chicago woman, Who, With a few others, comprised the party, recognized the ronotinced difference in the accents of their Boston and New- York friends, they each falled to hear and would not acknowledge that thelr own speech was equally local. Every one has heard the old test sentence for a Philadelphian and a Bostonian, “I fed a bird sitting oh a curbstone with & spooh” the difference in the pronunciftion of the words bird, stone and spoon being unmistakable. ‘iyo Boston peaple carry your clear pro- nunciation rather far when you say chick- fien for chicken,” s3id a Philadelphia lady to @ descendant of the Pilgrims at a watering placo the other duy. It 18 bétter than swallowing half your words as you Philadelphians do,” retorted the other. “And it is a pity,” 'she added, fn an aside to a friend, “that they do n Ewallow the whole while they are about it. — A pretty story of a baby's Influence over mm‘.’ women in a Russian jall Is told by the Woman's Journal. The jaller was Colonel V., end he and his wife had just ar- rived to take chargé of a large prison in one of the central provinces. The colonel was a terrible disciplinarian, but a kind enough man in his way. His wife was a gentle enthuslast, who had made up her mind to reform all the women prisoners. This particular jail bad a very bad reputa- tion, and the women especially were often in_mutiny. Colonel V. got along famously with the men, but the women were too much for him, and he meditated fogging end all sorts of terrible measures. Once Mme. V. took a walk through the prison ard when the women were exercising. Be- ind her walked a nurse with her baby. The prisoners, as soon as they kot sight of the baby, flocked around, and Mme. V., at first fearing violence, was relieved to see that only bablolatry was the matter. First one then another of the women begged to hold the child for a moment; some liughed with joy, and many shed tears. Mme. V. had & happy thought, and she spoke it out, “The best conducted woman of you all at L ~pd ~¢ ‘he wagk wil be allowed to tend the baby for half an hour' Never was & change #0 Instantaneously wrought Tho women became amenable to every word of the wardens, and at the week's end it was with the utmost difficulty thst Mme. V. could decide, among so many well conducted prisoners, which had the best claim to the promised reward, The baby's visits were afterwards frequent, and the women’s wards were completely reformed The conviction that milk should be steril- ized, or Pasteurized, as is conceded to be the "better method, I8 forc:hg itself upon more and more mothers and housekeepers every day It s, however, one of those de. partures from conventional methods, says the New York Times, to which the great y must be educated little by little. women laughed the notion of boil- drinking water who now would not think of using any other so Most of theso were converted during the cholera scare. If now in like manner the laggards In the sterilizing movement could appreciate the dangers to be escaped by conversion to it another big forward in domestic sanitation would been gained Dr. Salmon, chief the bureau of animal Industry, gives a simple formula that any woman can follow Take a tin pail and have made false bottom perforated with holes and hay- ing legs half an inch high to allow circula- tion of the water, The bottle of milk to be treated Is set on this false bottom and the pail 1s filled with water until it reaches the level of the surface of the milk in the bot- tle. A hole may be punched in the cover of the bottle, in which a cork Is Inserted, and the thermometer is put through the cork £0 that the bulb dips into the milk, and the temperature can thus be watched without re- moving the cover. This water is then heated until the milk reaches a temperature of 155 Fahrenheit, when it is removed from heat and allowed to cool gradually. A temperature of 150 degrees maintain: for halt an hour Is sufficlent to destroy any germs likely to be present in the milk, and it is found in practice that raising the tem- perature to degrees and then allowing it to stand in the heated water until cool, insures the proper temperature for the re- quired time, The Pasteur method s practically the sam: the temperature s raised to 160 de- grees, kept there about ten minutes, and the cooling process is as rapid as possible, rather than gradual. It is found that the latter method makes the milk more easy of diges- tion in the case of infants or delicate per- 80ns. Either process insures tha ridding of dangerous germs, and milk so prepared will keep usable thirty-six hours Since it has passed from the possession of land into Germany the island of Heligo- land has become converted into a sort of Teutonic Gretna Green. By the law of the island the publication of the banns, and many other formalities that are necessary preliminaries to wedlock on the mainland, are dispensed with; so that coupl, and be made one on the same day. During the first three months of this year no less than thirty-seven marriages of this kind were celebrated, many of the young peopls coming from remote parts of the German empire. No doubt in some of these cases the reasons that made Gretna Green desirable in the old days prompted the visit; in others the desire to be out of the ordinary was the motive. It is somewhat peculiar that in no single case did the newly-wedded remain on the island longer than was necessary; all left immediately after the ceremony was per- formed. for it a A paper published near Foreman, N. Di; brings out a romantic incident in connection with the nomination by the republican state convention of Miss Emma F. Bates of Valley City to be state superintendent of schools. Miss Bates had charge of her canvass for the nomination and found formidable opposi- tion in Hon. John Devine and Prof. J. E. Holland. She was able to sidetrack the latter by making herself solid with the Young Men’s Republican club, She then entered into negotiations with Mr. Devine, first demanding unconditional surrender, This he refused. After fur- ther negotiation it is said he agreed to pull off the track provided if she was elected state superintendent she would make him her deputy and marry him into the bargain. After some deliberation she agreed to do this, provided he would stump the state for her. As he is a powerful speaker, with a fund of wit and repartee, Miss Bates is conceded to have made the shrewdest politi- cal deal yet known. There are some girls who can go to a plc- nic, have lots of fun and make lots out of a very little, says the Astoria (Ore.) Budget. There's one visiting In this city now from Portland who attended a picnic and surprised her Astoria cousins by filling a ple .tin with water and with a clean table napkin washed her face. She then ptopped the tin, which was bright and shining, up aghinst a tree, found some flour in the lungh, and powdere her face. A fork prong served as a curlin fron, which sh® heated in a fire that had ben built for coffee, afid in a few minutes cime from behind the tree to welcome some youpg fellows who had *‘just dropped fn,” looking like a new girl. She had evidently been to picnics before, In the sultry August weather fruit water ices are more cooling thaj the richer creams. Suburban and country housekeepers, who do fot always find the {resh fruit obtainable at the proper moment, hy recall that a fruit Jam is productive of almost as good results. A raspberry ice, for Instance, is made by mixing four large tablespoontuls of raspberry jam with the juice of a lemon and a pipt of cold water. Strain through a fine sieve, frecze, and serve i glaffes. To convert this into a sorbet, freeze p mn{l} and add a wine glass of cordial or sherty and a table- spoonful of rum, and refréeze and serve. Banana sorbet is also a most palatable ice. Pecl and pound half a dozen ripe bananas and add a teacupful of loaf sugar, the juice of a lemon, and a pint of water. Half freeze and add a wine glass of any liquor before completing the process. It is never possible to freeze sorbets as firm as plain water ices. The spirits prevent complete congealing. Fashion Tips. Colored fancy handkerchiefs are more in vogue. Plain silk parasols are decorated with tri- angles of cream guipure lace, Black tulle over black satin is one of the favorite toilets of the moment. Belts of white doeskin are very much worn with the soft white wools S0 necessary at the seaside and mountains. White reefers of English serge are fastened with large pink pearl buttons and lined with rose-colored surah. The autumn bell skirt wider than the original like it in other respects. Lace yas been so prodigally lavished upon other fabrics that it is an agreeable varie to see it omitted on foulard dresses. Princesse Maud hats of fancy lace straw or plaited rushes are trimmed with ecru gulpure lace, magenta roses and jeweled pins. Dainty little brooches, stick pins, studs and sleeve links are made of the milky-green chrysaprase in fine gold filigree. Sheer handkerchiefs in delicate tints are shown to go with summer gowns. Some im- ported costumcs include the mouchoir to match the gown. Double capes with turn down velvet collars are the latest wraps for driving and evening wear. They are slightly horsey looking. but smart and convenient. The style of now autumn dresses will lie in the bodice, as the narrow foot trimming will be the only attempt at decoration on the bell and gored skirts, Walsts with facket effects are shown with full vests of pleated spangled net. Some of these extend from the neck, while others are hung on a square yoke of lace, The newest fans are imitations of antiquoe ones. Some are of colored silk with colored pearl handles, with quaint medallions set in little frames of irldescent spangles. Hats of pecullar ugliness show the bow flattened and held down along the sides of the brim on its front, while at the back big bunches of fruft blossoms jut up deflantly. What is known as the early Victorian berthe is nothing more or less than two yards of lace forming a collar around the neck. This, of course, has a deep heading of the I They are worn by the lttld tots, and their older sisters also, Mary Louise is a new shade of blue, It is somewhat brighter than cadet blue. Pale yellow and also a green, which suggests the first tender leaves of lettuce, are to be the vogue. Tans and various shades of brown are holding their own bravely. A lady was recently seen cycling i Paris will be fuller and model, but exactly wearing the following attire: A skirt of purple velvet to the knee, with knickers to match; purple velvet bodice, with lilac sl frills; black stockings, high laced boots and an immense black hat and vell The Indleatfons are that bell and gored #kirts, with the medium length jackets, will continue In favor for w |Ik!v|€ shopping and traveling £6%hs for the aufymin, and that l'g‘m‘,{ s halr hop-sacking and Epglish {weeds will bé the favorite materlals for these. Black corded silk of soft finish and high lustre has been chosen by a niimber of ex- clusiva modistes in the making of costumes for the early fall. Skirts of the silk will be worn with a round waist of fancy taffeta or surah satin under an Eton jacket of black moire Soap was first used as a halr bleach and was sold for that purpose for a long time before its cleansing properties became known. This should be sufficlent argument against Its use as a frequent wash for the halr. An English advertisement which will make American advertisers smile reads: “Mrs, Somebody, court dressmaker, wishes to inti- mate to her patrons that she has transferred her business from South Molton street to Bond street.” There are reaching out mind. He show the feminine straws which days of the one. In Hallowell, Me., the free library statistics for last month show 1,141 books given out. Of these women took 407, girls 410, against 161 taken by men and 173 by bo; President Harper says that he entered upon his duties at Chicago university op- posed to co-education, having great misgiv- ings because of the pres:nce of the girls. He now declares that the young women's department of the university is the only one that never gave him any trouble. The rose window in the Tiffany chapel, exhibited at the World's fair, was designed and drawn by women, and women also se- lected the glass and cat it; only the leading and soldering were done by men. The mo- salc contains nearly 10,000 pleces of glass. And now there is talk of substituting girls for boys at the district telegraph offices, At the Chicago headquarters of one of those companies the matter is being seriously con- sidered, and the experiment will undoubtedly be made. If the change becomes permanent and general, the humorous writers whl have to sharpen their pencils for a new theme Mcrtarboard hats are showing as gear for ex-collegiate wear, Ay ty ked down Tremont street in Boston other day in a white duck suit with her blonde chevelure topped by a genuine mor- tarboard. Another was £oen in a street car; the girls know they are becoming and hate to confine their wear entirely to the seclusion which ccllege enforces. Mrs. Rider Haggard, though adverse to playing a prominent part in her husband's public life, has more than once interposed on behalf of his honor when he was himself unable, through absence, to reply to the attacks of those critics who accused him of literary plaglarism. ~ As is natural, though not always the case with married people, Mrs. Haggard is devoted to her husband’s books, and reads all his work in manu- script, in proof and finally in volume form. Willlam Morris, the poet, has made the interesting discovery that housekeeping is one of the most dificult and impertant branches of study. ‘“‘People lift their eye- brows,” he says, “‘over women mastering the higher mathematics; why it is infinitely more difficult to learn the details of good housekeeping. ~ Anybody can learn mathe- matics, but it takes a lot of skill to man- age a hcuse well.” This, Mr. \Morris thinks, is a reason why women should con- tinue to devote themselves to housckeeping. And yet men are called logical! A New York girl, Miss Lillie J. Martin, sailed on the Fuerst Bismarck last week to enter the University of Gottingen as a stu- dent. She is a Vassar graduate of the class of '$0, and has been a teacher, occu- pying responsible positions since she left col- lege. To go abroad and perfect herself in higher branches of sclence, to which study she is specially devoted, she has just re- signed the vice principalship of the Girls High school at San Francisco, a_position she has filled for several years. She hopes to enter the department of experimental psychology. many in these ad- girl the —— MOTHER ALWAYS RIGHT. Eugene Field in Chicago Record Don't take on so, Hiram, But do what you're told to do; It's fair to suppose that your mother knows A heap sight more than you. T'il allow that sometimes her way Don't seem the wisest, quite; But the easiest way, When she's had her say, Is to reckon yer mother Is right. Courted her ten long winters, aw her to Einfilng' school, hen she went down one spell to town, I cried like a durned ol' fool; Got mad at the boys for callin’ When 1 sparked her Sunday night; But she said she knew A thing or two— An’ 1 reckoned yer mother was right. I courted her till I wuz aging, And she was past her prime— T'd have died I guess, if she hadn’t said yes When I popped f'r'the hundredth time. She said she'd neyer have took me If T hadn’t stuck so tight; Opined that we Could never agree— And I reckon yer mother wuz right! —_— INDUSTRIAL NOTES. There 15 a musical typewriter. gernmny has papler mache horse shoes. ermany has electrical weaving machines. In the days of Columbus only seven metals were known to exist. Now there are fifty- one. A syndicate has been formed for introduc- ing the use of compressed gas as & motor for driving street cars in England. A money sieve has been invented by Brooklyn deacon. It sorts the pennics, nickels, dimes and quarters taken at the church’ collections. The experiment of using compress:d air for street car propulsion has been tried in Massachusetts. The results were considered satisfactory. An ingenious Pittsburger has devised a clothes wringer which is operated by elec- tricity. It works automatically, and when the last piece is squeezed out a bell rings and the wash tub is turn:d over and emp- tied. A French Inventor has got up a street car or omnibus driven with gearing from a tread- mill attached fo the rear of the vehicle and supported on whe:ls. The horse, there- fore, rides while he works. Japanese railroad men pronounce American locomotives superior to English, French or German makes, and the principal roads will us: them entirely in the future, There are occasions when the perform- ance of duty rises to the dignity of heroism, and when it should be rewarded as such. A Maryland coal company has taken note of the fidelity of those of its employes who refused to leave their work during the long strike in that locality, and will give them nine months’ house rent free. One of the most interesting discoveries re- cently made is a characteristic test for pea- nut oil as distinguished from cotton and olive oils. When these oils are dissolved in equal volumes of petroleum and treated with a few drops of sulphuric acid of 1,635 spe- cific gravity and thoroughly shaken, the ether solution of peanut oll becomes a mag- nificent wine red color, while the other olls remain elther colorless or become slightly brown. The total production of plg iron in the United States in the first Lalf of 1894 was 2,717,983 gross tons, against 2,661,584 tons in {he second balf of 1893, an iricrease of 166, 99 tons. As compared with the first haif of 1893, however, the production in the first half of 1894 shows a large decline, the total for the first half of 1893 being 4,662,918 tons, or 1,844,935 tons more than the production in the ‘first half of 1894. The production of pig iron in twelve months, from July 1, 1893, to July 1, 1894, was 5,279,667 gross tons. In 1892 the production was 9,167,000 tons. Not since the dull year, 1885, have we made as little pig fron in one year as in the last twelve months, In France the ballet girl begins her ca- reer usually at 7 years old. She is then pald at the rate of 40 cents for each ap- pearance in public, as demoiselle de quad- rille, $20 to $40 per month; as a coryphee, $60 'to $60, and sujet, $60 to $120. - A dancer of the first class will get trom $120 to $300 a mouth, and & star from $6,000 to 10,000 & year, THE CONVICTS™ DAY OF REST How Sunday is Spoat. at the Nebraska Btate Pepitdntiary, BANQUETING UNDER . RIFLE BARRELS Warden Beemer's Little Cabinet and Story It Tells of Conviet Life darius Miller ¥ound His Way to Liberty. the How, Half a dozen sparrows were taking their morning bath at the aquarium whe came up and looked over into the yard of the penitentiary, last Sunday. The aquarium s a big circular basin set In the center of a plat of velvety green gr: in it are a score or more gold and fish and a few big, ugly looking carp. Rising from the center of the basin Is a lit- tle fountain which sends the water spouting up into the air to a height of feet. The water is as clear and pure as the air above it, and ev art and flirt of the fish can be distinctly seen. Just back of the aquarium is the hospital, a little, two-story, stone building covered with creeping vines and shaded by a circle of trecs, but with heavy barred windows. West of the hospital is a serles of flower beds glowing with all the gorgeous colors of midsummer flowers, the fragrance of which penetrates even into the locked cells In the cell room, where 300 convicts are waiting for the call for breakfast. Nothing very repulsive about this one would think; nothing which should induce so many heads in the long line which issues from the cell room doors at the stroke of 6 to turn and watch the flight of the sparrows with such hungry eyes, as they flit over the wall. But there Is, and as the melancholy procession with their closely cropped heads and shame- ful uniforms of broad black and gray strip:s files out of the door with ““locked step, doubt many of them long for the wings of the sparrows. The tinkling music of a little fountain, the flirt of a bird’s wing and the scent of a few flowers do not make a summer, and they know that beyond the frowning, gray ston wall over which they never see there are flelds of waving corn, broad, green meadows wimpling in the sun, and myriads of birds chirping in the rustiing trees. But in the windows of the low watch tower on each corner of the quadrangle the muzzle of a sentry’s rifie admonishes them that the corn- fields, meadows and green trees are not for those who walk all the days of all the years with the “lock step.’” This Sunday morning, as every morning in the year, the long line marchés down to the west end of the yard, each carrying a bucket which he washes at a hydrant and hangs on a hook, of which there is one for each man. Then the line locks step again and is marched back to the cell room where the table is set for breakfast. The calls occupy the center of the room, and the tables are set on each sidg between the cells and the walls. An odd looking banquet it is, with the guests all in, the same striped suits, and all cropped and shaved. A dozen waiters in similar upiforms attend to their wants and the meal progresses in perfect silence, for talking is prohibited. Above the end of each table on the east is a grated window, and peering through it the face of the omnipresent sentry with his gleaming rifle barrel commanding he entire length of the table. 3 The bill of fare ‘on ‘Sunday was hash, bread and coffee. Hash, bread and coffee on an occasional morning Would be bearable to most people, but these men eat hash, bread and coffee 365 days of tlie year for half the years of a lifetime. Bremkfast over, they re- tire, one by one, to their cells while the waiters clear the tables ‘and then they, too, enter their doors and the guard with one motion of his hand locks all of the three hundred and odd doors. CHAPEL SERVICE. Shortly before 10 o'clock half a dozen of them are released. They compose the choir and a remarkably good choir it Is, too. With the inevitable lock step these go into the chapel and arrange the chairs for the morning service. At 10 o'clock all the c:lls are opened and the line files silently into the chapel and is seated. Even here they are under the barrel of the musket, for a line of armed sentries occuples a row of ralsed seats in the rear. The governor's private secretary, Prof. Andrews, delivered the sermon last Sunday and spoke as kindly as a kind-hearted man would under such circumstances. Miss Myrtle Coon of Omaha sang a solo and Eider Howe prayed, and then with locked step they marched back to their cells. As the line passed the warden about fifty of them held up their hands to signify their de- sire to wait for the bible and Chautauqua class, which is held immediately after the service each Sunday. At 1:40 o'clock the bolts are again slid back and the doors arc opened for dinmer. Under the muzzle of the rifle again they eat, in perfect silence, boiled beef, potatges, green corn, bread and coffee, byt this Was ‘something extra. This over—and they drag it out as long as pos- sible—and the bolts shoot back on them again not to open until Monday morning, for there is no supper on Sunday. The day has its recompenses, however. First the prison librarian with a cart load of books moves along from door to door making the weekly change of books, and then another guard distributes paper and pencils, for this is letter writing day, and every prisoner in good standing is aliowed to write one letter. Most of them jump eagerly at the privilege and a pathetic bundle it is the warden has to go through in the evening—from wayward sons to their mothers, from brother to sister, from husband to wife and children. The most crime-hardened wretches of all—and some of them would not hesitate at any deed of violence for a dollar—seem to have some one that clings to them and sympathizes with their misfortunes. In the warden's dozen guards ars away the tedious day. There are two or thrée convicts In the regulation uniform with them. They are long-time men with %001 records and are given some privileges. Down in the repair shops are a few more, Vut the majority of them doze away the time in their narrow cells. So goes a Sunday at the penitentiary—a day of rest, but a very dreary one. All tho Sundays of all_the years are just the same and some of them are there for twenty years. It would take a great many tinkling fountains, bubbling aquariums and chirping sparrows to make this bearable for most people, but then most people are not criminals. ALWAYS PLANNING ESCAPE. The ever present rifie barrel, the lock-step and the stern discipling look a little cruel and unnecessary to femder hearted visitors, but Warden Beemer ‘has a cabinet which he will show them which will lead them to change thelr minds. ' It 1s In the turnkey's room, and an Inspection of It would aimost convinc: one of the total depravity of the average convict's heart, The contents of this cabinet represent the embodiment of the thoughts of the long, lonely hours the con- vict has spent in his cell. First, there is a curved plece of steel, as beautifully polished and finished as the finest workman in the counfry could do it. It Is a “Jimmy" used by burglars for breaking open windows. That was what “Reddy’ Wilson, who was lynched afterwards, was thinking of. He spent his time when the guard was not looking with a file and a plece of steel he had picked up, industri- ously preparing for future depredations. His career of usefulness came to an un- timely end. Then there are a dozen or more vicious looking knives with edges like razors patiently filed out in the cells and destined for the heart of a guard when a favorable opportunity for escape offered. Most ingen- lous methods of concealing these articles have been hdopted. In one case the convict had hidden in a ploture frhme ke had made to hold the picture of his mother a large bowle knife and two smaller kpives. Be- sides these there are all sorts of weapons end burglar tools which the manufucturers must have known were of no use under the | oue unless thoy could be used Lo the peniten- the sun s, and silver ix or seven half a iping office upstairs smoking and g tiary, and it makes ones blood run cold to think of the cool, caleulating bloodthirstiness of the men who, In such a place, could spend months preparing for a time to mur der some one who had never harmed him. HOW DARIUS BSCYPED, But even among fhose who dre fiot steeped In villainy it is &mall wonder that, looking forward to the dreaty eventless years clfy Ing, some of them make a break for liberty Darfus Miller was the last one who thought he could stand it no longer, and walked out to_listen to the birds in their native haunts Darius was the mildest mannered man that ever stole a horse, If he did steal It, and that was the crime for whic he was sent to the “pen.” He came up from Gage county, where he had been a school teacher, a_populist and a prohibitionist. He weighed about 100 pounds, and bis bearing was the inca of meekness. One evening, while at to his duties as a school teacher, he bor. rowed or hired a horse to attend a party in neighboring town, putting up his horse In livery stable. When the party was over the stable was locked and he could not get his horse until too late for his school, so he decided to have a good time while he was at it, and started to drive off to another town. Before he got there the sheriff over- took him At the penitentiary he emplary prisoner and the warden picked him out as just the man for “chambermaid” of the guards' room o guards' room is over the warden's office and the duties of the chambermald are to make the beds and keep the room clean. Darjus worked away making b sweeping and dusting for some months and when he was not otherwise employed he was reading the little bible which he carried in his pocket or singmg a hymn, of which he appeared to have an inexhaustible store. He became a ‘trusty’ at once and at odd times was employed outside the building sprinkling the grass or raking the lawn and had a dozen opportunities to make his escape if he felt so inclined, but Darius was con scientious and would not abuse anybody's confidence. But one day about three weeks ago while he was sitting reading his bible his thoughts wandered away to the school and the girl he had played “‘postoffice” with on that fatal night and a disgust for his striped suit and the endless round of bed- making came over him. He knew that he would be alone in the room for some hours and there was a chimney through which he could r the roof if he could only get off the roof unobserved. Searching about he found a plece of cord which had been used on a corn planter which he thought would bear his weight. Then he took off his striped clothes and probably kicked them to the other side of the room with something which sounded as much like an imprecation as any- thing a mild-mannered school teacher ever utters. A guard’s suit which he found in the room was a fairly good fit and he w ready for his journey into the wide, wide world. Before starting he wrote a letter to the warden which he pinned to the quilt of one of the beds, in which he stated that he owed some money to parties on the outside and he thought that they needed the results of his labor more than the state of Nebraska, and for this reason he w; going awa He climbed up the chimney, made fast his rope and slid down the front of the building, where he was out of sight of the sentries on the tower. An employe who was at work in front of the building saw him as he reached the ground and gave the alarm. The warden with only his slippers on his feet startcd in pursuit. He could see thé corn shaking where the fugitive was making his way through the fields and had no doubt that he could capture him in a few minutes, especially as he was followed by three or four of the guards, some of them on horseback. Up through the corn ran Darius, across the road, through another cornfield, over a hill, down a valley and then doubling on his tracks into a thicket of trees and brushwood, where he Qisappeared and has not since been heard of. The alarm was given at the penitentiary, all the convicts sent to their cells and every available man started in the chase, but all in vain. Darius had vanished, had gone to listen to the gurgling of the brooks and the singing of the birds, and to earn money to pay that debt. The warden does not want him very badly, but he fecls like the Yankee who dropped a penny in the streets of New York and collected a crowd that blocked the streets while looking for it: He did not care so much for the penny, but he wanted to see where the ““tarnel thing rolled to.”” — MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. was a most ox- Boston will have fiftcen theaters next sea- son. “Aladdin, Jr.” has passed performance in Chicago. Paderewski will open his next American tour in New York on December 27 with his “Polish Fantasy.” Thomas W. Keene will return from Eu- rope on the 27th inst., and will open his next season September 10, Marle Tempest will not return to this country this fall. She has signed a three years' contract with George Edward of the London Gaiety theater to play under his management. The New York World announces that Madeline Pollard of Breckinridge fame has signed a contract to star under the manage- ment of Nelson Roberts. She will prob- ably make her first appearance in Chicago in an emotional play. Quaint old Charleston, S. C., one of the most picturesque of American cities, af- fords the scene for one of the acts of ““Down in Dixie” The scenery used in this act, like that used in the rest of the play, Is being painted from photographs. A new patriotic melodrama entitled “Ship o' State,” founded on Perry's naval battle in Lake Erfe in 1812 and introduc- ing a scene of the engagement with ‘‘real” ships representing both squadrons, will have its first production at the Schiller theater, Chicago, September 30. Scenic artists are now at work on the scenery and properties. In the new play, “The Temptation cf Money,” one of the scenic offects consists of a drawbridge that occupies the entire stage. During the second act, upon this bridge, runs an electric car carrying passen- gers. The drawbridge opens and a tughoat twenty-five feet long, with steam effects, whistle, etc., tows a full three-masted schooner across the stage. Miss Olga Nethersole, the young English emotional actress who will come to this country in the autumn under the manage- ment of Marcus R. Msyer, will not present ““The Transgresso Pinero's drama, which was her great London success —She will appear in a repertoire of plays, including Romeo and Juliet.” Denman Thompson is passing the sum- mer on his farm at Swanzey, N. H., sur- rounded by his children and grandchildren, Mr. Thompson will play a long engagement in New York next fali, reviving “The Old Homstead,” with many new features. His daughter, Annie, will play Rickety Ann, but his on, Frank, will leave the stage to become business manager of the company. Walter Gale will return to the organization to play his orig.nal part cf Happy Jack, the tramp, The actor Couldcck s a disappolntment to persons who see him on the street after witnessing his impersonation of an 0ld man on the stage Tha aged actor is 79, and his trembling gait and venerable aspect on the boards seem too real to be simulated. But on the street at a distance of twenty paces he could easily be mistaken for a man of 40. Mr. Couldock looks back over a his- trionlc career of fifty-five years. At 24 ho was a member of a British company playing Shakespearian dramas. A correspondent of the Dramatic Mirror, writing from Home, says: Christ is be- coming quite a common subject fcr Ttalian dramatists to treat. Calvi was the first to begin the series with his “Mary of Mag- dala,” a beautiful play, which even the Vatican allowed. Then' followed Bovio's Christ at the Purim Festival,” which was written before Calvl'’s “Mary of Magdala,” but appeared twelve years later. 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