Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1894, Page 7

.- Lol 2 ¢ ] ) THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. DECEMBE LAt | YIIAQ ATTANO R 23, 1894, 'y LIKE OLDER MEN AND WOMEN| Children of the Kindergartens in Their Christmas Exeroises, LEARNING THE LESSONS OF THE FUTURE In the Varlous Schools of the City the Mappy Youngsters Delight Their FProud Parents, Recitiog the Lessons of the Duy. One of the most interesting features of the Christmas celebration s to be found In the | kindergartens of the public where hundreds of little tots have been taught more about that anniversary within the past | few weeks than some of their elders will ever know. With the older ones Christmas may be simply a day when business is laid aside and mirth prevalls. The reverently inclined bow their heads while the morning prayer rises Beavenward, and then they go home to feast and entertain. The less devout pass the hours in discussing innumerable bowls of Tom and Jerry, as though the anniversary of the Savior's birth was the natural occasion for bibulous enjoyment. With both the day Is but one of the many incidents that mark the time of year, and when they go back to business the next morning they almost forget that the day has come and gone. But with the child it is_the beginning and the ending of the year. The little one looks toward it through months of joyous anticipation, and its golden pleasures remain as happy recollec- tions long after the last echo of the rein- doer bells has died away. The child lives for Christmas all the year, while men and women forget Its lessons in an hour. The pprson who has failed to observe the influence of the holiday on childish hearts Is fgnorant of fits lofticst sentiment. In the kindergartens the children begin to learn of Christmas weeks before its arrival. Some of them would never know it otherwise. They come from homes where Santa Claus has never halted, and their only Christmas is that which comes to them within the school room doors. It is a new world to their childish minds, and they revel inits enjoy- ments with an abandonment which must be studied to be understood. Some of them never heard of Christ, or of Bethlehem. The words were never spokdn in their squalid homes. But every pure and lofty sentiment of the day has been inculcated through the methods of the kindergarten. The games they play and the songs they sing have all been Ingenuiously arranged so that each im- presses on their infantile Imaginations some measure of its meaning. They are taught unselfishness as they work day after day making pretty things to give to others, and they are made to feel and understand before they are taught to think. While the methods emiployed in the various kindergartens in the city are very similar, each teacher has a particular basis on which her work Is founded. It may be a story in which the children are led to follow the characters through their wanderings, or the seasons, or any other subject which is broad enough to afford a groundwork for the year's work. schools, At Commenlius. At the Commenius kindergarten the Christ- mas work is connected with Kate Douglas Wiggin's story of ‘““Timothy Quest,”” upon which the whole year's work Is founded. The legend of the Christ child and the Ger- man custom of celebrating Christmas is told in the name or Miss Alvilda Cummings, one of the characters of the book. The nature and language work is emphasized by the ob- servation of the different species of ever- green trees. The child:en are taught to dis- tinguish the peculiar features of the leaves, bark and nativity of each species, and this is mads the medium for the communication of many interesting facts in a guise to be readily grasped by the childish minds. ? The Christmas exercises at Commenius were glven on Thursday and Friday mornings in the presence of a considerable number of the parents and friends of the pupils. The exercises were simply a repetition of the songs and games that form a part of the everyday work of the kindergarten, except that those were selected that were especlally appropriate to the occasion. In the middle of the room a large Christmas treo was loaded with pretty bits of the handiwork of the children. These consisted of letter cases, card cases and a dozen other dainty fabrica- tions of tinted paper, and nothing could be more surprising than the artistic instinet which is shown in the work of these small children. The children: were very unselfish in their Christmas work, not thinking of themselves in making their gifts. However, they were not forgotten, as their hearts were gladdened by a box of magnific:nt Florida oranges, pre- sented by Miss Welty, which, with the candy and popcorn, make a beautiful interchange of happiness. The exercises opened with the children standing in a circle singing a lively Christ- mas carol, and then a number of pretty erclses were executed to a musical accom- paniment. The language work is illustrated in the game of “Newsboys." A number of little boys don their hats, and each carrying a package of newspapers under his arm, they take thelr stand in different parts of the room. The little newsboys distribute the papers to the children on the circle and re- ceive In return imaginary nickles, while all sing: #chool, there to again do service In the chil- dren’s cause. The Commenius kindergarten is In charge of Miss Juliette Pulver, and al- though it was at first one of the most un- promising flelds, under her skill and pains- taking care it has been made to rank among the best in the city At the Muson Kindergarten. The pleasant south room at the M | school kindergarten was the scene of unusual | festivity Friday afternoon. The little people wero all smart in their best frocks and knickerbockers, and as all the mammas were bidden, their joy was complete. Owing to the pains acd skill of Miss Smith and her assistants, the school room was extensively | corated, ‘estoons and chains of bright colored paper were suspended from the celling and the blackboards were tastefully ornamented with | drawings of holly and Christmas bells, with | merry little elves ringing them; but the | center of interest was, of course, the Christ- | s tree, which was hung from top to bot- | tem with the child own work-—braided mats, pretty calendars, blotters, boxes and bells, Bach gift was Intended for the mamma or papa of the maker, and the chil- dren's eyes sparkled in anticipation of the pleasure of bestowing thelr own work them- selves, All of the children were at first seated in four small cireles which afterward widened into a great circle, thus making a veritable “‘child garden,” while the portrait of Froebel looked down upon them from the wall, as though well pleased at the successful carry- Ing out of his great work. Songs, games and stories followed, great charm of the entertainment childrens' freedom from restraint and awk- wardness. Ore of the most interesting of the games was “Grandma’s Christmas Morn- ing.” A little girl lay in a bed of chairs sound asleep. Another, the mamma, sat rocking a cradle. Four others formed a wide fira place, such as they had in Grand- ma’s time, with their uplifted hands. Pre- sently Santa and his reindeer (two other children) came dashing in, and after filling the stockings, departed. The little girl awoke, found the stocking, and all the children cried “Merry Ohristmas.* The interest was at its height when the little ones proudly detached thelr gifts from the tree and bestowed them upon their par- ents, but the culmination of excitement was reached wh a total surprise in the person of Santa Claus himeelf appeared bowing and smiling from a large grate in the corner of the room. The afternoon was one which the folks will undoubtedly long remember. following is the program of the exe Song—Tips Tell a Welcome.. Recitation—Do You_ Know What N Tuesday Will B Song—Merry, Merry Christmas Heils Song—Once a Little Baby Cire Song—Children, Can You Trul Song—Oh, Clan, Clap the Hand: 5 Game—GFandma’s Christmas Morning.. Santa Cl. and Reindeer, Song—Jolly, Old St. Nichc I ro Santa Clau: Been Playing s and Mamma's the lying in little The ses: OWN.2veeie nta Claus! hristmas (The Night Happy Story ristmas) Dance 3 Song—Hark, the Bells! e Leavenworth Celebrates. A large number of the parents and friends of the children in attendance at the Leaven- worth school kinderganten gathered Friday afternoon to witness the closing exercises of the term. The little ones were ushered into a darkened school room, with candles blaz- ing everywhere, the walls festooned with holly and a tall Christmas tree in the center. In one corner stood the old-fashioned mantel over the fire place, and it was to this corner that the eyes of the children were constantly directed, for they all knew about Santa Claus and his favorite mode of entering a room from the housetop. Miss Minnie S. Jourdan, director of the Leavenworth kindergarten, had charge of the exercises and she was ably assisted by Edith Otis, her first assistant, Georgla Parks, Carrie Althaus, Maggie For- gan and Fannie Tibbetts. The exercises opened with a welcome song from the little ones. Then a little fellow recited “Into Santa Claus Town, Please Show Me the Way.” -The Ohristmas tree was the next attractionand foining hands the little ones danced around the tree in two circles, singing an appropriate song. After the ex- creises the children presented a Christmas play, and the way they enacted the scenes of Christmas eve and morning brought forth many approving smiles from the visitors. One little baby was sung to sleep’ by a little mother after the stockings had been hung by the fireplace. All the children. hung up in.aginary stcckings and werg hushed to sleep by song. One of the children per- sonated Santa Claus and another. a reindeer and both visited the fireplace around the circle to the tinkling music of silver sleigh bells, placing imaginary gifts in’ fmaginary stockings. Then the sleeping fots were awakened, there was a chorus’ of *Merry Christmas,” and then tte sing, “Softly Crezp- ing Comes the Sun.” The children skipped around the tree, sang songs, and finally, to the tune of “Merry Christmas Bells,” there was a commotion in the fireplace and Santa Claus made his appearance, greeted by the shouts and laughter of the little ones. The gifts were distributed to the parents, and then each child received a woolly lamb and a package of candy. The exercises were very entertalning, even to the oldest present, and the children showed much proficiency in training. ~ Miss Jourdan was warmly con- gratulated by many of her visitors, . Exercises at Ketlom, The Christmas exercises at the Kellom school kindergarten were concluded Friday afternoon in the presence of a large num- ber of interested spectators, many of whom were the parents of the pupils of the school. Come this way, dear laddie, ‘and we'll buy a Bee. We'll buy. The Bee, the World-Herald, we'll buy every one, We'll buy. Now you have your money, and we have the news, 8o please come again just as soon as you chocse, We'll buy. Then each child pretends to read from the paper some story relating to the thought being carried out In the work, and by these methods they are taught at once to express themselves and to cultivate a power of imag- ination that seems remarkable at their age. The newsboy game, however, has a higher object than to furnish amusement or cul- tivate a power of expression. It aims to bring the child into direct sympathy with all phases of human nature and to lead it to under- d that all labor is honorable and that all classes of labor may be tempered with re- flnement. The embryo newsboy is taught to fiat respectfully as he offers his for sale, and to politely bow his nks to each customer. In this as in all the other gumes tho aim of the teacher is to inculcats principles of reflnement that will remain with the child throughout all his tuture life, This is but one of the hundreds of games that enliven the Kindergarten and make its work effective. The boys play blacksmith * and shoemaker, and the work is acted out, ; While incidentally the children are taught | everything about the material used, and in this manner they acquire a vast amount of ¢ useful information not found in text books. One of the prettiest games is called *'Set- ting the Table.” The school is provided with A tiny set of dishes, and the little girls set a table complete with every detail for an elaborat: dinner. They are taught just how everything should be arranged, and when it is done the Mttle boys are invited to foin them at the banquet. Of course the imagina- tion must be called into play in providing the menu, but all the little refinements that are connected with the dinner table are im pressed on their minds, and these little chil- dren have learned to deport themselves with & degree of polish that would be creditable in the most experienced diner out. At intervals a Virginia reel or foned quadrille is improvised, and lossons of grace and politeness are taught that will leave their impress when their school life has been left behind. No boy or girl is allowed to omit the slightest tribute that courtesy demands. A small urchin s lutes a tiny tot of & girl with the utmos grace, and she acknowledges his invitation 0 dance with all the demure dignity of a soclety quecn. And here is shown the woman in miniature as the small woman Invocently maneuvers (o secure as a partner just the little boy whom she likes best, and having Attained her object she carries him off with ® shy demureness that is highly amusing to the uninitiated observer. When the exercises were over and the bad been made supremely happy by Of frult and candy, the tree wa: over to the Bohemlan mission Sunday ) old fash- here again The exercises, owing to the large number enrolled in this department, there being 110 on the rolls, were necessarlly continued during two afternoons, an equal number participating in each afternoon's exercises. The schooiroom was very tastily decorated with the work of the little ones, and the Christmas tree, which was the center of attraction for them, was laden with one or more presents made by each of the pupils to be presented to their parents at the con- clusion of the exerciscs. The program rendered consisted in a re- view of the work taught in the schools, the sitging of songs and speaking and the re- markable discipline observed was but a slight suggestion of the untiring efforts of the teachers in accomplishing the work they have. The Kellom kindergarten is the home of tha Kkindergarten work in Omaha public schools, Miss Shields, who is now principle of the kindergartens in the city, was the first teacher, and she found it, for some time, to be almost impossible to interest the people in the undertaking. The growth has been quite rapid In the past two years and at the present time there are ten schools, with a membership of over 750, The one complaint being made by the prircipal is that parents persist in sending children who are too young, the required age being not under five years. With Littlo Ones © ¢ Lake, At the Lake kindergarten there are 120 children enrolled, and two sessions have to be held to accommodate them all. The young- est division of the puplls gave their Christ- mas entertainment on Thursday afternoon, and the advanced class the next morning. Both classes had a royal time and entertained their friends with merry games and songs appropriate to the occasion. The windows were darkened and the room was made bright with the soft light from shaded lamps, lan- terns and candles. While the children were singing a Christ- mas song they begun to hear the sleighbells of Santa Cluas in the distance. He had a great search for the kinderganten room, run- ning into Arst one and then another of the sixteen rooms of the building, to the great delight of the older children, before he found the little ones. When he reached the kinder- garten room the children had a merry time shaking hands with him, receiving gifts from the tree and presenting gifts of their own manufacture to thelr parents. They will al- ways retain pleasant memories of Santa Claus aud of the Christmas of 1894, On Friday afternoon the rooms of the smaller grades were joined together and had a very merry hour with songs and recitations. The puplls of the higher grades met In the large assembly room and enjoyed the readi of a number of Christmas selections. They were also treated (o & number of songs by Miss Myrtle Coon, who was a former pupil of the Lake school. Out st Castellar. The pupils of Miss Raymond and Btta Smith united with Miss Boutel kinder- garten tols lo an entertainment at the Cas | ments and music the hapy tellar school. An Interesting program was Earl Keutuer, Charlie Wuerth and Sarah Martin, a dialogue by Miss Raymond's puplls, a Christmas story by Miss Nellie Hyde, and songs by all of the children. Then came the presentation of bags of candy to every child and afterward the kindergarten Istants, Misses Hydes, Brereton, Taloe and Huston, distributed from the Christmas tree the gifts made by the children for their parents. A large number of parents and friends witnessed the interesting exercises, Other schools, novelties of Christmas week At One of the the children of the upper grades by Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus. The very popular host and hostess, charmingly arrayed in fur from head to feet, entertained the merry company in a manner well calculated to sustain their reputation for hospitality After refresh- guests departed regretting that the hour should have been so short, lasting only from 3:30 to 4:30 p. m. The “Good Will to Man™ spirit was amply demonstrated by the ten splendid Christmas dinners sent out by the ten schools, and the twelve well filled baskets that were sent to the city mission, The oratorica! contest of the Omaha train- ing school occurred Friday afternoon at the High school. The contestants had been chosen by the members of the class and from this number were selected three to appear on the commencement program. The honors were awarded to Miss Poppy Hostetter, Miss Elizabeth Will and Miss Leona Burns, - i Oregon Kidney Tea cures all kidney trou. bles. Trial size, 25 cents. All druggists, CANADL BANKING, OMAHA, Dec. 21.—To the Editor of The Bee: Your editorial in this morning's Bee under the caption, “Canadian Banking,” Is good and opportune, Sentiment based on prejudice against banking | institutions is easlly aroused and is sometimes very un- reasonable. It now looks as if this short- sighted policy is golng to develop sufficient influence to prevent any legislation on the currency. question. This may not only tend to defer the restoration of confldente’ and business prosperity, but the agitation will probably arouse additional distrust and con- tinue this fever of unrest indefinitely. Con- gress can do much toward restoring confi- dence and reviving business by waiving party politics and_giving prompt consideration to some considerative plan to provide for a safe and elastic currency. This should not be made a party question, for the whole country is interested, for the present depres- slon I not confined to any particular locality. The question of supply and demand regulates the rates in money matters the same as prices are regulated on' commodities. An unequal distribution of a limited supply of anything has a tendency to maintain a higher price. In an article in the Forum discussing the benefits and advantages of the Canadian system over ours as to interest rates. uud elasticity we find the followlng: “The wholesale merchants of Winnipeg are paying no higher interest charges than the merchant princes of Montreal. The Northwest settler can borrow upon the se- curity of his grain in store upon as favorable terms as the Ontario arimer. Compare the hardships endured by the Dakota settler, if he has the misfortune to require a temporary loan—the 1, 2, if not the 8 per cent per month, that he is compelled to pay as inter- est if mnot discount—with the comfort en- Joyed by his brother in Manitoba, who can, Warchouse receipt in hand, approach the banker with satisfaction, knowing that the needful money may be obtained at a moder- at rate of interest. “During the movirg of crops in the autumn of 1891, ‘with cal's from all parts of the Dominion for money and more money, the Canadian banks were not only able to supply all legitimate demands without advancing the rate of interest a fraction of 1 per cent, but were able to increase the net balances to their credit in Great Britain, and the United States 20 per cent, and, in addition, to lend very large amounts to the grain deal- ers of Chicago,, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Du- luth and other western grain centers,” REPUBLICAN: e CHANGE IN TIME. Northwestern Road Brings Its Fast Mall In at an Farller Hour, One of the most important changes in the running time of trains reaching Omaha from the east recorded for some months was an- nounced yesterday by the Elkhorn. Commencing with next Sunday, December the Northwestern's eastern express, which now arrives here at 5:30 in the afternoon, will arrive daily at 2:45 in the afternoon. This train will bring the earliest mail into Omaha from Chicago, and wiil enable busi- ness men to open their eastern mail and if necessary in urgent cases to get their re- plies on an eastbound train at 5:45 the same afternoon. Heretofore the North- western's fast train has reached Missouri Valley at 1:45 and made close connections with the Black Hills trains on the Elkhorn, crossing the river at Blair and going wesf on the northern line. The business mnen of Omaha have been urging the Northwestorn and Ekhorn people to bring tha fast mail to this city, and General Passenger Agent Buchanan yesterday announced the change, e RAILROAD FREIGHT RAT, Towa Raliroad Commissioners Give Notlco of a Hearlng Thursday, DES MOINES, Dec. 22.—The Board of Railroad Commissioners has fixed upon Thursday, December 27, 10 a. m., at its office. in this city, for further hearing in the mat- ter of the application for an fincrease in freight rates within the state of Towa. —_— Sherman Avenue Paving. At a special meeting of the city council yesterday afternoon the final ordinance pro- viding for the paving of Sherman avenue from the alley north of Nicholas street to Locust streel was passed. There were eleven members present, who voted unani- mously in favor cf the ordinance. This, to- gether with the previous action of ' the council and the recent decision of the dis- triet court will probably induce the Board of Public Works to sign the contract with Hugh Murphy at §2.07 per yard, and, unless further complications follow, the pavement will be laid as early as possible next sea- son, The ordinance which was passed yester day did not designate Trinidad asphaltum, as ‘selected by the property owners, and the recent declsion of the court Is cited to in- dicate that it is not necessary for the council to designate any particuiar kind of asphaltum. The ordinance simply says that sheet asphaltum shall be used, but 1t does not determire whether Bermida, Califor- nia, Trinidad or some of the other asphalts shall be used. - Omaha Guards Christmas Party. The Omaha Guards have completed all their arrangements for their Christmas eve party at the Madison, the entertainment being in charge of Lieutenant Wilson, Ser- geant Coan and Privates Brownlee and Wood, while Lieutenant Broatch will pre- side over the destinies of the punch bowl. The indoor rifle practice is showing up some phenomenal marksmen, Private Mc. Kell lately making a score of 92 out of a possible 100, the competition being for the Raymond silver cup. The guards are or- anizing a rifle team and are going to chal enge some of the crack rifle teams of the east. Lieutenant Broatch was at the are mory last Wednesday evening during the ritle practice for the first time since his election and was given a hearty reception, The amicable competition for the deputy lNbrarianship which h#s been on for some time and In which Corporals Kennedy and Arter and Private McKell were candidates was decided last week in favor of Private Benewa, whu proved the “dark horse." —_— hristmas for the Open Door. The house commimttee of the Open Door issues the following appeal: At this “merrie” Christmas time, while we gather about the home hearth in happy whispering * groups, when even the air seems filled with mysiery, nothing earthly seems s0 precious as the family tie, and more precious It becomes as we plan for the individual happiness of each dear one. In our hearts' content, oh, let us not forge others less favored than we. We recall the sud tear-stuined faces of the young girls at the Open Door, who through life must bear a double burden, no less hard to bear because the result of sin. May we nof cause them to know that for His sake and in His name the followers of Jesus count i & joy to minister to such as they. All who would deem it a privilege to help toward @ Christmas dinner for the inmates of this institution, seventeen i number, may wend thelr contributions to Mr. Willlam Fleming, Fourteenth and Douglas streets, on Decem. ber 24, between 10 and { o'clock. AT SR carried out, imcluding recitations by Carrie | | Taylar, at Lothrop school was a reception given to ‘| kindled the interest to, s | CHRISTM AS IN THE WAR TINE —lsa ® i The Oold anl @loomy Dags of the Winter | of 1861683, - EXPCLRIENCE IN CAMP, AND HOSPITAL —_ Timo and Monoy for the: Soldis Homs Gifes—Theiling Recolleotions ot the Perilons l'Jirm.’i of Intor- necine Stgife. The winter of the year 1861 dark and gloomy, and the hearts of the people of the north were sorely burdened with the sorrows of the war, writes Mary A. Livermore in the Golden Rule, The cheerful prediction of Secretary Seward, when the south flung down the gago of battle at the bombardment of Fort Sumter, that there was to be “only a sixty days' flurry,” had not been realized The north had accepted the chalienge, more than half believing the optimistic prophe and, confident in its strength and resourc talked of “‘the suppression of the rebellion as if it were a holiday affair. The utter de- feat and complete rout of the union forces at the battle of Bull Run, which wrung a wall of anguish from the north, had taught a needed lesson. Its dream of Invincibility was over. Lifting itself out of Its first depression, it resolutely set itself to learn the business of war, of which it was fgnorant, and to stim- ulate and aid the government in mighty preparations for it. There should be no with- Iblding of treasure or blood needed to main- tain the cause of human freedom. All the energles of the people were now turned in one “direction; all business was subordinated to that of war. Three hundred thousand men were put in the field in the carly autumn, a large part of whom were only partially equipped for the exigencies of their future carcer, and many of whom had not had one hour of drill. As they marched away to the front they were solemnly prom- ised that the families they left behind should become the care of the community in which they dwelt. We began to feel the sweep und shock of armies marching to battle, and the continent trembled under the tramp of armed men. The sound of martial music listening air and the sbrill call of the and drum mingled with that of the had set in thrilled the fite Sab- Not for | bath bell and the organ that led the songs of the worshipping churchgoers. We were becoming familiarized with the wail of the dirge and the sob of the muflled drum that preceded fhel flag-en- shrouded form of some hero, borne home from the battlefield for burial among his Kindred. We were haggard with sorrow and anxiety and beligved that happiness and we had parted cowpany forever. As Christmas dreyw, - near, with bitter weather, we were inpg,mood for festivity. We forbore to make -gits to one another, for the sanitary commi%dion called for un- ceasing contributions. ‘of;: money and sup- plies for the sick and swounded men, suffer- ing and dying that we/might live. And we were penuripns with ourselves and one another thai we might add to its treasury. There was.one thing we could do; we could ministey, to those whose lot was harder than our.gwn, and a tide of tender feeling set in, toward the families of the soldiers. The,women of the ecity took the malter, in, haid in Chicago, then my home. : They districted apd_'tdnvassed the city, not only in quest of wghdiers’ families, but of supplies and money, for _their relief. An unexpected amount jof | suffering . was' re- vealed, which . spurred, on . the work and hite heat. The departure of the men “to the front had taken from many families all means of sup- por:. Nor had they received the promised re- mittances from soldier =ons and husbands, for the government was slow and irregular in paying troops. A great furor of benevo- lence was aroused, and we forgot the pain tugging at our hearts in our efforts to re- lieve others. One woman of wealth, Mrs. Mansell Tal- cott, now deceased, gave to every member of a soldier's tamily a good pair of boots or shoes as a Christmas gift, and a turkey to every houschold. Another generous woman gave woolen stockings to all whom Mrs. Talcott had given boots or shoes. A barrel of flour was pur- chased for eachi soldier’s household, a month's rent paid in advance, and fuel was given in the same way. As personal house-to-house visitation re- vealed the needs and destitution, winter clothing, tea, sugar and delicacies were be- stowed, work was supplied to those who asked it, and medical attendance, medicines and sick diet furnished where they were needed. The generosity of the hour invaded the homes of the poor, irrespective of their con- nection with the army, and the gloom of the city was lighted with the Christ-like spirit that had taken possession of it. Qut of this Christmas observance there grew a most beneficent arrangement, which lasted through the war. Mr. McVicker, the proprictor of the only theater then in Chi- cago, put at the service of the ladies, for a sewing room, a large, unoccupied hall in the second story of the theater builditg. It was fitted up with cutting tables, sew- ing machines and whatever else was nec- cssary, and here the hospital clothing of the sanitary commission was cut and prepared for manufacture by members of soldiers’ families, for which they were paid good wages. The various churches of the city divided the care and responsibility of the room among them. Monday was ‘‘Presbyterian day," when a detall of women from that church took pos- sesslon of the room and cut, basted and gav out the work, Tuesday was “Methodist day, Wednesday was “Baptist day,” Thursday ““Unitarfan and Universalist day,” and so on. Sometimes after a great battle, when the accumulated stores of clothing held in re- serve by the government and the sanitary commission were utterly Insufficient for the appalling need, work fo this sewing room was continued night and day, with thirty or forty sewing machines in operation, fresh relays of workers coming hour by hour to re- lieve those who could be spared from their regular dutles no longer, until the need was supplied. The sewing room became an employment bureau, all Kinds of woman's help being fur- nished to those who sought it. It became a reliet bureau, and wemen and children thronged thither with gheir grievances and woes, which were redresged or mitigated, as the case might be. It becamo also an instruction buraau, where we taught women to'sew by hand and ma- chine, to make buttonholes, to write letters to fathers and husbhnds, sous and sweet- hearts in the army, anil’to do many other things of which they were Ignorant. A steady tide of helpfulaess and beneficence flowed from that sewipg. zoom until the close u‘[ the war happily ‘entled itts inistra- tions, ] The Christmas of 1862 found me at Mem- phis, Teno, Much badsibeen accomplished during the year, although there was un- coucealed anxlety ~pervading the country The great battles of ‘Amtfetam, Fort Donel- son and Shiloh had been’fought; the Mi issippi river, closed to navigation and com- merce by the south, had been opened by the union forces to Vicksburg, and President Lin- coln had issued his proclamation of emanci- pation, which was to free the 3,000,000 slaves of the south on the 1st of January, 1863, Memphis was one vast hospital. Betwéen ten and twelve thousand sick and wounded men were being cared for in the city; all large, unoccupled buildings were utilized as hospi tals, and the immortal Mother Bickerdyke was in charge of the Gayso hospital, where were 1,400 wounded ‘m The “‘contraband” camps about Memphis were full to overflowing with cplored people Who had left the workshops and piantations to be as near as possible to “Massa Linkum's army” when the hour of emancipation ar- rived Full army rations were served them, or they would have starved. “‘We ain't gwine ter hab no Chris'mas dis yere time," they said; “but we specs we will arter we'se free. Cold, ragged, bungry, homeless, forforn, with @ desolate future staring them in the | fortable, face, they were unspeakably happy, and Kept their quarters ringing with their songs. Oh! we'll hoe no mo' de cotton, ‘or we're Massa Linkum's now, We will * riber Jordan, For w Linkum's how, Oh! ye , 1e's be gwine, | For w Miissa Linkum's now. Jesus gibs de marchin’ orders, For we' Massa Linkum's now 8wing down low, Oh, golden char'ot, For we're Massa Linkum's now Let us to de o8 o' glory, For we're Ma Linkum's now; | and so on and on and on, as long as the im- provisator could reel off lines for his recita t when the whole company would come in mightily on the chorus. 1 w over to the camp on Christmas morning, and found that nearly 3,000 had congregated for a day of_jubllation. The wind brought to my ears, in fitful gusts, the nofse of their tempestuous praise meeting, while I was nearly a mile distant {and when fn their midst 1 was deafened They clapped their hands as they sung and swayed to the music like young forest trees to the wind. They leaped high in their ec stasy, spun round like teetotums, and shook hands with one another till they must have become lame with (he exer Very different were the scenes enacted in the hospitals of the city. In all of them women were occupled as matrons and nurses, who, with womanly ingenuity, strove to maka y different from its dreary predeces- ke y dint of much persuasion they arranged three or four quartets, selected from the wives of noncommissioned officers, the quar- termaster's department and the sanitary commission, who sung Christmas carols in the wards, For woeks they had culled from the boxes of reading matfer, sent with the sanitary supplies from the north, pictorial papers, magazines and books, which they had stored for Christmas prosents. They had solicited from thelr friends at home boxes of stamped envelopes, each enclosing a blank sheet of paper; and these were always ac- ceptable glfts to our “‘boys in blue,” for the unlon army was the most prolific letter writ- ing army this world has ever seen. In the Memphis depository of tary commission two or three hoxes of “comfort bags® were unearthed, made by the women of the aid societics, and the men cager for these. bag ~ con- tained a large le, coa black and white thread, rolls of tape, a tailor’s side thimble, black and white buttons, a pair of blunt ' pointed scissors, several postage stamps and—a “chunk of toba i We swallowed our prejudic last because the poor fellows pitifully and they were very poor they cafled *luxuries Several other de- v were added to the stock, and every man in the hospitals had a Christmas gift, With brief speeches from all kinds of orators picked up in all kinds of quarters, all of whom were instructed to be very brief and very chesrful, with the distribution of the simple Christmas presents and the singing of carols in the wards, that Christ- mas w red letter day in the hospitals long remembered by the men. I was writing in the office of the sanitary fon in~ Chicago the day before in 1864 when an errand boy en- tered from the Massasoit house, a cheap lotel opposite the Michigan Central rail- d station. A sick soldier, on furlough, ing to make his way home to Wisconsin, d stopped at the hotel the night before was without money or transportation paper and unable to go on further from feebleness, and the proprietor begged that the com- mission would send some one to attend to him. No one was present whom and so I went myself. I found the man greatly reduced in flesh and exceedingly weak. He was 5o attenuated that he looked as it he might be 60, while he was only 23, After eighteen months fmprisonment in the confederate military prison at Ander- sonville, Tenn., he had escaped while 12,000 of our brave fellows were starved and driven into idiocy, lunecy and death. Desperate with ‘long confinement, hunger, bad usage and homesickness he had con: led himself in a huge wagonload of gar- bage that was to be dumped outside, at a distance from the camp. Before it was taken outside the prison gate an_officer thrust his bayonet through and - through the noisome heap, and yet it did not reach the concealed prisoner. He appealed to the negroes who had the dumping in charge, when they discovered him, and begged them to help him In his struggle for liberty. They dared not and could not, Fut left him fo himseli. He knew of a black man's cabin some two or three miles distant, and when darkness favored him hastened thither as fast as his feebleness permitted, and threw himself on the black man's protection. The poor fel- low hesitated. He had harbored runaways before, and had been suspected, and his cabin searched; and he answered cautiously: *Dar's no place roun’ hyah whar you can be done hid. Youah'd better be gwine a heap sight fur- der on afo’ you stop, for it's powerful onsafe roun’ hyah.” My ole woman, she'll gib you some ashcake she's done baked, an’ den youah'd better be gwine, for you'll be sartin cotched if you stop hyah. O—o, Chloe! O—o, Chlo—e, whar's you done gone? Doan’ you hear me holler? " Look a-heah!" And he walked away, leaving them to- gether. The woman asked no questions, but her unbidden guest told his story. He begged her to hide him until the excitement of his escape from the prison was over, and he wept as he spoke of his mother at the north, and of his young wife and two little chil® dren, ote of whom he had never seen, Her eyes brimmed with motherly pity as she looked at the ragged, flithy, emancipated ghost of a man that stood before her. “Can you walk a good piece?” she in- quired, at the same moment beckoning him to foliow her to the woods. Here she hid him in a hollow tree, promising to return to him with food as soon ax she could prepare it. For seven weeks she concealed him, now in one place and then in another, till at last all scarch for him was abandoned, and he began to think of venturing northward, The innutritious food that she gave him— the best she had—not only falled to strengthen him, but added to his physical disorders, and his benefactress proposed to accompany him. So they started, By slow stages, and under direction of the colored people at whose cabins they stopped for refreshment, they made their way to an encampment of unfon soldiers, who were guarding a raliroad, And when they drew so near that the gleam of the camp fires rejoiced their vision she bade him goodby and return:d to her cabin “The face of that black woman was as beautiful to me as the face of my mother," sald the grateful man, as he told me the story. “Oh! she was my savior; I can never repay her; I will never forget Ler, That night we started for his home in Wisconsin; and In the morning, when we left the sleeping car, had a six miles’ wagon ride to take, and then the journey ended. I will not describe his ‘meeting with his family on that Christmas morning, Unspeakable joy was mingled with extreme auxiety, For now that he had attained the goal of his deslres he sunk and seemed at death's door. Careful nursing and medical skill at last brought him up into comparative health, just as the surrender of General Lee at Appo- mattox terminated the war and emptled the rebel prisons, As Soon as it was safe our young friend ventured southward again in search of his benefactr He failed to find her. Pyen | ler cabin was gone. He would have brought her home with him, as his wife desired, if she would have returned, and together they would liave made her life happy and com- the sani- this it =0 in what s against cray I could send, “I shall yet find her,” s his declaration, “but It will be when ihe great Judge wel: comes His beloved to the bliss of heaven, Because when he was an hungered and sick and In prison, she ministered to Him in the person of myself, the least of God's childzen.” Who will question his fond belief? il DN Boyd and the Fostofce. Numerous friends of Governor Boyd, both in Omaha and throughout the state, influ- | ential men in both parties, have for the | last two weeks been ping the wires hot with messages urging the president and postmaster general to appoint the governor postmaster at Omaha. And now that con- BT has adjourned without - tion in the ¢, others of his friends wilt demand the governor's preferment before Congross reas. sembles after the Christmas vacation e Are Studylng “Humnle Friday evening the Shakespeare section of the, Unity club began the study of “Ham- et As two evenings are given to the consids eration of the play, Misa McEHush. whe directs the work of this department, said her talk would be preluninary, leavidg the | Thin Women Ma; become Plump and Beautiful Emaciated Men [lothers Puny use of an approved remedy. overcome. The preparation one of the most potent germ plies the oxygen necessary for on the market. To all who suffer from shattered and hopes blighted. TRADE able to the weak as the strong stomach. | Can become Strong and Handsome Worn=0Out Receive New Vitality, Vim and Vigor Children Grow Sturdy, Robust and Healthy BY THE USE OF M AR K A Scientifc Preparation of 0ZONIZED COD LIVER-OIL, with GUAIACOL, THE KIND PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE FOR Coughs, Colds, Consumption AND ITS ALLIED COMPLAINTS Scrofula, Anwmia, General Debility and all Wasting Diseases ] But few in this life escape disease ; but many might have their ailments cured or their troubles lessened by the timely The value of Cod Liver Oil in alt diseases of the throat, chest and lungs, and where great emaciation has taken place, has been known for years and is beyond question. objection to its use has been its disagreeable taste and smell and nauseating effects. In Ozomulsion th ¢lhe great difficulty has been casy to take, and as accept- It contains Guaiacol, destroyers known to medicine. It is charged with Ozone which revivifies the blood and sup- the proper digestion of the oil These reasons make it the best preparation of Cod Liver Oil any form of LI:Ing; Trouble, Scrofula, General Debility, or any Wasting Disease, to weak, worn-out mothers, delicate children, over-worked men, old people, persons recovering from fevers, to the weak, ex-* hausted and scrawny of all ages, sexes and conditions, this scientific preparation comes as the restorer of constitutions It can be taken in the full faith that it will accomplish all that is claimed for it. I TUIIIT & COo., 15th and Douglas St3:, OMAHA. year. their own ground from The planting 27th, D. H, ST Manager of Agencies, e a talk on the hi and dramatic ac and reviewed the various lifferent critics as to the sources, tion of the p opinjons cof the sinity of Hamlet eneral discussion of these in which Miss Grant, , Mr. Stebbing and oth coting of the topies fol Mann, Mr, 8 100k part department The snowfall her ring the last five days measures ninety six_inches, and traflic on the Oregon diyi- sion of the Southern Pacific railroad s com pletely blocked he heayy fall of snow s causing great | damage. The big Methodist church build ing collapsed under the weight of snow ves terday morning, and since then Bowler's | livery stable, the Siskiyou Lumber and Mercantile company's slaughter house, the Mount Bhasta - Mabufacturing company's | warchouse and the Ploneer box factory | have fallen in. Numerous smaller buili- | ings have collapsed. Bncw shovelers are commanding $1.50 an hour T i | Trouble Was in Mis Pocket. | M. Marshall, who hails from Irvington | and appears 1o be aflicted with “fits,” went to Bt. Joseph hospital to be attended yesters duy afternoon. When he was requested by ane of the sisters to hand over his money main part of the tragedy for the second e e Yy | ver on’ her 10 be held at the hospital until he recov- IN OREGON A muscular man who is willing to take five or ten acres of the soil and put his labor into it can earn more than five hundred dollars a I am now making up a small party of such to go there early next month under contract to work at clearing land at $1.80 per day every day they can spare from the cultivation of now till next harvest, $880 to $800 is all the capital required. season opens usually in February. Call at Room 101, Bee Building, Omaha, Wednesday and Thursday, for early gardens Dec. 28th and EREARNS, STEARNS FRUIT LAND CO. ered, he came 1o t s conelusion was trying to rob him nd pul The patrol was call wis taken to the station, where te of whisky was fourd o thoukht to “he suffering more effects of this than from fit. - — ONE MORE It Mips Now on the Misidng List at sun Franciseo. FRANCISCO, De schooner Mary and Ida, sixtec from Shoal, a water people were Inclined came into port overdue sailing that she a revol- 1 and he A pint bot- him. He i from the 1CHES PORT. Only Six » he little days out bay, and which many to give up as lost, this evening. The lst of vessels 18 now reduced to and the owners are now feellng easier o thelr fate, Through the local egl- ctor of custums the secretary of the sury today ordered the revenue cutter Grant, ‘now al Port Townsend, (o proceed to e at once and search for'the missing coal steamers, Montserrat and Keweenuw. The cutter is ‘ordered Lo remain at sea for two weeks and search from British Colum- bl to 8an Francisco. The steamer Clty of Pucbla came into port today f north. She saw no signs of the missing collers. Off Point Arcan she spoke to tha steamer Mackioaw. The Mackinaw had slghted nothicg, though she had kept § sharp lookout, BIX