THR OMAHA DAILY BUM SUNDAY. AUGUST 10. 1801 fl
TRUMPET OF DAM CRUNDY
J < &to Revision of Fashion Decrees tUat Runs
to Extroiro' ,
FRESH GOSSIP . FOR WOMAKKND
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(4 rlrd UIITrrcnco In Vernacular I'rctty
Btory of n llnlijr'n Influence Heligo
land Clretna ( Irccn A North
Ilnkota Itonmiicc.
At ono lima It would Imvo been con-
lldcred a most Ill-omened proceeding ( or a
Eucst to appear at a wedding attired In
Hack , but now fashion lias changed to such
an extent that It Is not only perfectly cor
rect , gaya the New York Advertiser , but
Quito the fashion for them to do so. At
eorno of the stylish weddings In London
that have taken place lately the bridesmaids
Imvo worn black hats with their white
dresses.
At ono period tlio orthodox length for n
honeymoon was , as the name Indicates , a
month ; but now It seldom lasts for inoro than
a week , ten days or a fortnight , according
to personal taste and feeling.
For three months after the wedding the
brUlo Is still entitled to claim that name , al-
thouch It Is no longer the fashion In gen
eral society to give her prcccdencj as a
bride , she merely takes that which Is dun
to her rank. Tlio 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
certainly both a graceful and courteous one ,
intended , as It was , not only to do honor tea
a bride , but to show a , kindly welcome to a
newcomer.
Upon taking possession of a house there
Is always plenty for a bride to do , especially
If the house Is a newly furnished one , for
most women like to have their homes ar
ranged according to their own tastes and
fancy. The wedding presents , too , have to
be arranged In their places about the house ,
for these ere not shown to a bride's visitors
on masse ; that was all done upon the wed
ding day , and a second display would be In
bad taste.
The etiquette of visitors and visiting Is
exactly the same for a bride as for any
otlior married 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 aa a. bride In the
eamo position as a newcomer , and the resi
dents call iflion her first , and these visits
should be returned as first ones , that ) 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 bo either married or a widow
Vrlth grown-up sons , or an unmarried lady
living with her brother , and this whether the
person called upon bo at homo or not at
homo. If not at home two of the husband's
are given with the wife's card to the ser
vant. If at home two are left In the hall
upon leaving at the conclusion of the visit.
the called upon be unmarried
If , however , person
married or a widow living alone , then only
one of the husband's cards Is left , whether
Bha bo at homo or not ,
A bride Is very often shy and awkward
at the thought of receiving her first vis
itors , and receiving them , " perhaps , alone ,
ftnd fearful also of making mistakes. This
Is very natural timidity , and will soon wear
Off If struggled against. Kindness , courtesy
find a dcslro to be friendly will always win
their way , for like begets like ; and a hostess
anxious to please her guests will bo sure
to succeed. To avoid making mistakes , It
Is always best to arrange things beforehand.
I know a mother who Is going to ruin
the health of her baby In her excessive care
tor lit clean clothes. The poor little thing
tiever gets to creep over the floor after the
Hanclng sunbeams or to kick Its dimpled
legs In the air In a vain endeavor to catch
Its ten pink tecs. Not a bit of it , says a
.writer In the Washington Star. It Is fed
tit a certain hour , which Is all right , but
fcfterwLrds it Is placed In Its crib , where
Its long dresses , starched till they crack ,
are straightened out a smooth as plllow-
vllps , ana there It lies with Us legs pinioned
Mown b # heavy skirts , Its muscles growing
Wabby from Inaction and 1 3 blood sluggish ,
if perchance It Is permitted to sit up , it Is
Illed Into a high ch.air and Us long skirts
tiraR down 6n Us p6ar little tees till one
Svould think they would sprout corns.
The thing to do With a healthy baby Is to
save It clean twice a day when It goes to
jed at nlEOt ana when It dresses fresh
Rbout the middle of tM > day. The healthiest
> ables In tn4 world feet dressed In the morn-
ng for all day. Just as soon as tlio child
i > eglns t6 kick and wants to get at Us feet
t ought to bo pit ) In short clothes and put
ron the floor to work out Us own salvation ,
fits muscles w'er6 given It to use , and Its
( will put them to the test If you will give It
% chance. Thb mother who thinks more
'of ' her baby's clothes than she does of Its
( health Is quite likely to have the clothes
'left ' on her hands eternally clean , and It
iorvea her right , too.
The vernacular of different localities In
'America Is very marked , even among culti
vated people , and many who flatter tliem-
'eolves that their cosmopolitan culture has
jqulto effaced any peculiar Intonation would
I bo surprised If they knew how much their
'ctrly association affects both voice and ac-
'cent , eays a writer In the New York
'Tribune. "How curious 11 Is , " remarked aNew
Now York woman the other day , "that Mr.
II. , who has lived moro than halt his llfo
away from Philadelphia and has mingled
With the best pcoplo at homo and abroad for
years , should still retain In pristine purity
ills funny little Philadelphia twang. At
liomo t had always thought It rather a pity
that ho 'hailed * so unmistakably from the
Quaker City , but I simply loved the familiar
nasal drawl when , In the Arabian desert ,
we exchanged greetings with a passing cara
van and I heard an exclamation from a
lielmctcd gentleman on a camel an exclama
tion In those. Chestnut street accents of Mr.
It. "
At a luncheon a short time ago provin
cialism In America came under discussion ,
and While a Biltlmorcan , a Phlladolphlan
nnd a Chicago woman , who , wUlj a few
ethers , comprised the party , recognized the
pronounced difference In the accents of their
Hoston and New- York friends , they each
failed to hear and would not acknowledge
that their own speech was equally local.
Every one has heard tlie old test sentence for
a Philadelphia ! ! and a liostonlan , "I fed a
bird sitting oh a curbatonn with
a spoon" the difference In the
pronunciation of the words bird , stone
nd spoon being unmistakable ,
"You Boston people carry your clear pro
nunciation rather far when you say chlck-
tien for chicken , " said a Philadelphia lady tea
a descendant of the- Pilgrims at a watering
place the other day.
"It Is bettor than swallowing halt your
'
words as you Phlladelphlans do , " retorted'
the other. "And It Is a pity , " she added ,
In an aside to a friend , "that they do not
fewallow the whole while they are about It , "
A prottr story of a baby's Influence over
fallen women In a Russian Jail la told by
the Woman's Journal. The Jailer was
Colonel V. , and he and his wife had Just ar
rived to take chargeof a largo prison In
one of the central provinces. The colonel
was a tcrrlblo disciplinarian , but a * klnd
enough man In his way. Ills wife was a
guntle enthusiast , who hid made up her
mind to reform all the women prisoners.
This particular Jail had 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 htm , and he meditated Hogging
nd all borts of terrible measures. Once
Mmo. V , took a walk through the prison
yard when the women wcro exercising. Ho-
hind her walked a nurse with her baby
The prisoners , as soon as they got sight of
the baby , flocked around , and Mine , V
t 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 laughed
With Joy , and many shed tears. Mine. V.
had a happy thought , and he spoke It out.
The best conducted woman of .you all at
tJ > ? -B _ - ' > > # v" k wUl be allowed to
tend the b by for half an hour. ' Never
was a change to Instantaneously wrought
The women became amenable to every w rd
of the warden * , and at the week' * end It
WA with the utmost difficulty tint Mme. V.
could decide , among so many well conducted
prisoner * , 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 belter method , Is forc'hg Itself upon
more nnd more mothers and housekeeper *
every day. It Is , however , one of these de
partures from conventional methods , says
the New York Times , to which the great
majority must be educated little by little.
Many women laughed at the notion of bellIng -
Ing drinking water who now would
not think of using any other sort. Most of
these 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 step forward In domestic
sanitation would have been gained.
Dr. Salmon , chief of the bureau of animal
Industry , given a simple formula that any
woman can follow :
Take a tin pall and have made for It a
false bottom perforated with holes and hav
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
pall Is filled with water until It reaches the
level of the surface of the milk In the bet
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
so 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
degrees Fahrenheit , when It Is removed from
the heat and allowed to cool Gradually. A
temperature of 150 degrees maintained for
half an hour Is sufllclent to destroy any
germs likely to be present In the milk , and
It Is found in practice that raising the tem
perature to 155 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 Is practically the
same the temperature Is 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
sons. Cither process Insures thti ridding
of dangerous germs , and milk so prepared
will keep usable thirty-six hours.
Since It has passed from the possession of
England Into Germany the Island of Heligo
land has become converted Into a sort , of
Teutonic Gretna Green. Uy the law of the
Island the publication of the banns , and
many other formalities that are necessary
preliminaries to wedlock on the mainland ,
arc dispensed with ; so that couples can arrive
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 people
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
thu 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.
A paper published near Foreman , N. D. ,
brings out a romantic Incident In connection
with the nomination by the republican state
convention of Miss Emma F. Dates of Valley
City to bo state superintendent of schools.
Miss Bates had charge of her canvass for
the nomination and found formidable opposi
tion In Hon. John Devlne 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. Devlne , 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
lo do this , provided he would stump the stale
for her. As he Is a powerful speaker , with
a fund of wit and repartee , Miss Dates Is
conceded to have made the shrewdest politi
cal deal yet known.
There are some girls who can go to a pic
nic , have lots of fun and make lots out of a
very little , says the Astoria ( Ore. ) Budget.
There's ono visiting In this city now from
Portland who altended a picnic and surprised
her Astoria cousins by filling a pie .tin wttf )
water and with a clean table napkin washed
her face. She then propped the tin , which
was bright and shining , up against a tre'e , ,
found some flour In the lun'cji , and powdered
her face. A fork prong served as a curling
Iron , which she heated In a lire that had bevbn
built for coffee , dfjd In a few minutes came
from behind the tree to welcome some yougg
fellows who had "Just dropped In , " looking
like a new girl. She had evidently been lo
picnics before.
In Ihe sullry August weather fruit water
Ices ar'e more cooling lhari Ihe richer creams.
Suburban and country housekeepers , who do
hot always find the fresh fruit obtainable at
tUo projer moment , may recall ( hat a fruit
Jam Is productive of almost a $ good results.
A raspberry Ice , for Instance , Is made by
mixing four large tablespobnfuls of raspberry
Jam wllh Iho juice of a lemon and a pint
of cold water. Strain through a fine sieve ,
freeze , and serve in glares , P convert
Into a sorbet , freeze parllally and add a
wine glass of cordial or sherry and a tablespoonful -
spoonful of rum , and refreqze and serve.
Banana sorbet Is also a most palatable Ice.
Pesl and pound half a dozen rlpo 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.
Fnfclilcm Tip * .
Colored fancy handkerchiefs ore moro In
vogue.
Plain silk parasols are decorated with tri
angles of cream guipure lace.
Dlack tulle over black satin Is one of the
favorite toilets of the moment.
Belts of whlto doeskin are very much worn
with the soft white wools so necessary at the
seaside and mountains.
White reefers of English serge are fastened
with largo pink pearl butlons and lined with
rose-icolorcd surah ,
The autumn bell skirt will be fuller and
wider than the original model , but exactly
like It In other respects. ,
Lace has been so prodigally lavished upon
other fabrics that It Is an agreeable variety
to see It omitted on foulard dresses.
Prlncesso Maud hats of fancy lace straw
or platted rushes are trimmed with ecru
guipure lace , magenta roses and jeweled pins.
Dainty llttlo brooches , stick pins , studs and
sleeve links are made of the milky-green
chrysopraso in fine gold filigree.
Sheer handkerchiefs In delicate tints are
shown to go with summer gowns. Some Im
ported costumes Include the moucliolr 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 Ho
In the bodice , as UIP narrow foot trimming
will be the only attempt at decoration on
the bell and gored skirts.
Waists with jacket effects are shown with
full vesta 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 anttquo
ones. Some are of colored silk with colored
pearl handles , with quaint medallions set In
little frames of Iridescent spangles.
Hats of peculiar ugliness show the bow
flattened and held down along the sides of
the brim on Us front , while at the back big
bunches of fruit blossoms jut up defiantly.
What Is known as the early Victorian
berthe Is nothing moro or less than two
yards of lace forming a collar around , the
neck. This , of course , has a deep heading
of the lace. They are worn by the llttlb
tots , and their older alsters also , '
Mary Louise Is a new shade of blue. It Is
somewhat brighter than cadet blue. Pale
yellow and alee a gram , which suggest * the
first tender leaves of lettuce , are to be the
vogue , Tans and various shades of brown
are holding their own bravely ,
A lady wu recently teen cycling la Paris
wearing the following attire A skirt of
purple velvet to the knee , -with knickers to
match , purple velvet bodice , with lilac sill ;
frills , black stockings , high lacsd boots and
an Immense black hat and Veil.
The Indications are that bell and gored
skirt * , with In ? medium length jackets , will
continue In favor for walking , shopping and
traveling g6Wi for' the nmfimn. And th.at
camel's hair hop-sacking and English tweeds.
will TjA the favorite materials fojr these.
Black corded silk of soft finish and high
lustre has been chosen by n number of ex-
cluslvo modistes In the making ot 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.
I'vmliilim Notes.
Soap was first used as a hair bleach and
was sold for that purpose for a long time
before Its cleansing properties became
known. This should be sufficient argument
against Ua use as a frequent wash for the
hair.
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An English advertisement which will make
American advertisers smllo reads : "Mrs.
Somebody , court dressmaker , wishes to Inti
mate to her patrons that she has transferred
her business from South Molten street to
Bond strset. "
There are many straws which show the
reaching out In these days of the feminine
mind. Here Is one. In Hnllowcll , Me. , the
free library statistics for last month show
1,141 books given out. Of these women took
407 , girls 410 , against 151 taken by men and
173 by boys.
President Harper says that he entered
upon his duties at Chicago university op
posed to co-education , having great misgiv
ings because ot the presence of the girls ,
lie now declares that the young women's
department of the university Is the only one
that never gave him any trouble.
Tha 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 cut It ; only the leading
and soldering were done by men. The mo
saic contains nearly 10,000 pieces of glass.
And now there Is talk ot substituting girls
for boys at the district telegraph offices.
At the Chicago headquarters of ono of those
companies the matter Is being seriously con-
sldered , and the experiment will undoubtedly
bo made. If the change becomes permanent
and general , the humorous writers wlil have
to sharpen their pencils for a now tlisnie.
Mortarboard hats are showing as head
gear for cx-colleglate wear. A pretty girl
walked down Tremont street In Boston the
other day In a whlto duck suit with her
blonde chevelure topped by a genuine mor
tarboard. Another was rnen fn a street i
car ; the girls know they are becoming and '
hate to confine their wear entirely to the
seclusion which ccllego enforces.
Mrs. Klder 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 ho was himself
unable , through absence , to reply to the
attacks of those critics who accused him of
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.
William Morris , the poet , has made the
Interesting discovery that housekeeping Is
ono of the most difficult and Important
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 house well. " This , Mr. iMorrls
thinks , ta a reason why women should con
tinue to devote themselves to housekeeping.
And yet men are called logical !
A New York girl , Miss Llllle J. Martin ,
sailed on the Fuerst Bismarck last week to
enter the University of Gottlngen as a stu
dent. She Is a Vassar graduate of the
class of 'SO , and has been a teacher , occu
pying responsible positions since she left col
lege. To go abroad and perfect herself In
higher branches of science , to which study
she Is specially devoted , she has just re
signed the vice prlnclpalshlp 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.
MOTHER ALWAYS ItlOIlT.
Eupene Field In Chicago Record.
Don't take on so , Hlrnm ,
But do what you're told to do ;
It's fair to suppose ; that your mother knows
A heap sight more than you.
I'll allow that sometimes her way x
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 ,
Saw her to slnclng' school ,
when she went down one Fpell to town ,
I cried like a. durned ol' fool ;
Got mnd at the boys for callln'
When I sparked her Sunday night ;
But she said she knew
A thing or two
An' I reckoned yer mother was right.
I courted her till I wuz nglng ,
And she was past her prime
I'd have died I guess , if she hadn't said yes
When I popper ! f'r the hundredth time.
She said she'd never have took me
If I hadn't stuck so tight ;
Opined that we
Could never ngree
And I reckon yer mother wuz rlghtl
INDUSTRIAL AOTES.
There Is a musical typewriter.
Germany has papier macho horse shoes.
Germany 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 IntroducIng - |
Ing the use of compressed gas as a motor
for driving street cars In England.
A money sieve has been Invented by a
Brooklyn deacon. It sorts the peimlss ,
nickels , dimes and quarters taken at the
church collections.
The experiment of using compressed air
for street car propulsion has been tried In
Massachusetts. The results were considered
satisfactory.
An Ingenious Plttsburger has devised a
clothes wringer which Is operated by elec
tricity. It works automatically , and when
the last piece Is squeezed out a boll rings
and the wash tub Is turned over and emp
tied.
tied.A
A French Inventor has got up a street car
or omnibus driven with gearing from a tread
mill attached to the rear of the vehicle
and supported on whesls. The horse , there
fore , rides whllo he works.
Japanese railroad men pronounce American
locomotives superior to English , French or
German i makes , and the principal roads will
usj 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 , i
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.
Ono of the most Interring 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 ot petroleum and treated with
a few drops of sulphuric acid of 1,035 spe
cific gravity and thoroughly shaken , the
ether solution of peanut oil becomes a mag
nificent wlno red color , whllo the other oils
remain either colorless or become slightly
brown.
The total production of pig Iron In the
United States In the first half of 1894 was
2,717,983 gross tons , against 2,661,684 tons In
the second half of 1893 , an Increase of 160-
399 tons. As compared with the first half of
1893 , however , the production In the first
half ot 1S94 shows a large decline , the total
for the first half of 1893 blng 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 0,279,667 gross tons. In
1892 the production waa 9,167,000 tons. Not
since the dull year , 1S85 , have we made aa
llttlo pig Iron in one year as In the last
twelva months.
In Franco the ballet girl begins her ca
reer usually at 7 years old. She Is then
paid at the rate of 40 cents for each ap
pearance In public , aa demoiselle de quad
rille , $20 to (40 per month ; as a coryphee ,
$50 to | 60 , and sujet , JCO to fliO. A
dancer of the first claes will got from $120 to
(300 a month , and , star from (5,000 to
(10,000 a year.
THE CONVICTS' ' DAY OF REST
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HJW Sunday is Sp/ftl1' ' . at tbo Nebraska
State PoUit ntiriry.
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BANQUETING UNDER , RIFLE BARRELS
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Wnrdcn llcrmer'i IJtUO. Cabinet nnil the
Story It Tell * of , Ct > vlnt Life Heir
Dnrltift Miller I'tniml IIli War
to Liberty.
Half a dozen 6parro\\n' were taking their
morning bath at the aquarium when the sun
came up and looked over Into the yard of
the * penitentiary , lost Sunday. The
aquarium Is a big circular basin set In the
center of a plat of velvety green grass , and
In It are a score or more gold and silver
fish and a few big , Ugly looking carp.
I Klslng from the center of the basin Is a llt
tlo fountain which sends the water spouting
up Into the air to a height of six or seven
feet. The water Is as clear and pure as
the nlr above It , and every dart 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 trees , but with heavy barred windows.
West of the hospital Is a series of flower
beds glowing with all the gorgeous color's
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 G to turn and
watch the flight of the sparrows with such
hungry 1 eyes , as they flit over the wall. But
there Is , and as the melancholy procession
with their closely cropped heads nnd shameful -
,
ful uniforms of broad black and gray strlpss
files out of the door with "locked step , " no
doubt many ot 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 stone
wall over which they never see there arc
wlmpllng In the sun , and myriads of birds
chirping In the rustling trees. But In the
windows of the low watch tower on each
corner of the quadrangle the muzzle of a
sentry's rifle 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 marches down to
the west end of the yard , each carrying n
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 cells
occupy the center of tho.room , and the tables '
are set on each sldct beuveen the cells and
the walls. An odd flooding banquet It Is ,
with the guests alj In , the same striped
suits , and all cropped and shaved. A dozen
waiters In slnillar uniforms attend to their
wants and the mea ) progresses In perfect
silence , for talking Is prohibited. Above the
end of each table on tljp east Is a grated
window , and peering , ( hrqugh It the face of
the omnipresent sen'try J Avlth his gleaming
rifle barrel commanding the entire length of
the table.
The bill of fare on "Sunday " was hash ,
bread and coffee. Hasrt , bread and coffee on
an occasional morning w'duld be bearable to
most people , but these 'rtlbn cat hash , bread
and coffee 3C5 days of tlfe year for half the
years of a lifetime. Breakfast over , they re
tire , one by one. to their cells while the
waiters clear the tablea' and then they , too ,
enter their doors arid the guard with one
motion of his hand locks all of the three
hundred and odd doors' .
CHAPEL SERVICE.
Shortly bcifore 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 cMls
are opened and the line files silently Into the
chapel and Is seated. Even here they are
under the barrel ot the musket , for a line
of armed sentries occupies a row of raised
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
Elder 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 Chautnuqua
class , which Is held Immediately after the
service each Sunday. At 1:40 : o'clock the '
bolts are again slid back and the doors are
opened for dinner. Under thg muzzle ot
the rifle again they eat , In perfect silence ,
boiled beef , potatoes , green corn , bread and
coffee , but this was something extra. This
over ana 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 allowed
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 ot all and some
of them would not hesltato 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 office upstairs half a
dozen guards nra smoking and. gossiping
away the tedious day. There are two or
throe convicts In the regulation uniform
with them. They are long-time men with
goo3 records and are given some privileges.
Down In the repair shops are a few more ,
'jut 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 the
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 over present rifle barrel , the lock-step
and the stern discipline' ' look a little cruel
and unnecessary to Render hearted visitors ,
but Beemer'has'a cabinet
Warden which he
will show them which will lead them to
change their minds. ' It Is In the turnkey's
room , and an Inspection of It would almost
convince one ot the total depravity of the
average convict's heart ) The contents of
this cabinet represent the embodiment of the
thoughts of the long , Iqnely hours the con
vict has spent In hU cell.
First , there Is a curved piece of steel , as
beautifully polished.and flnUlied as the finest
workman In the country could do It. It Is a
"Jimmy" used by burglars for breaking
open windows. That was what "Roddy"
Wilson , who was lynched afterwards , was
thinking of. He spent his time when the
guard was not looking with a file and a
piece of steel he had picked up , Industrl-
ouily preparing for future depredations.
His career ot usefulness came to an un
timely end. Then there are a dozen or more
vicious looking knives with dgcs like razors
patiently filed out In the cell * and destined
for the heart of a guard when a favorable
opportunity for escape offered. Most Ingen
ious methods ot concealing these article *
have been 'adopted. In one case the convict
had hidden In a , picture frame ho had inado
to hold the picture of his mother a largo
bowle Unite and two smaller knlvus. Be
sides these there are all iort ot weapon *
and burglar tools which the manufacturer *
must have known were of no uie under the
mn uolcia thgy could b u td Ifi the pttaUnu-
tlary. nnd It moke * ones blood run cold to
think of the cool , calculating bloodthlratliuss
of the men who , In auch , a place , could
spend months preparing for a time to mur
der tome one who had never harmed him.
UQW 4\Hms
nut oven among Utoso wlio Are not steeped
In villainy It Is small wonder that , looking
forward to the dreary eventless years cjfij-
Ing , some of them make n break for liberty.
Darius Miller was the last ono who thought
ho could stand It no longer , and walked out
to Helen to the birds In their native haunts.
Darius was the mildest mannered man that
ever stole n horse , If he did steal It , and
that was the crime for which ho was sent
to the "pen. " He came up from Gage county ,
| I where he had been a school teacher , n populist
and n prohibitionist. Ho weighed about 100
pounds , and his bearing was the Incarnation
of meekness. One evening , whllo attending
to his duties as a school teacher , he bor
rowed or hired a horse to attend a party In
a neighboring town , putting up his horse In
a 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 tlmo whllo he was
at It , and started to drive off to another
town. Before ho got there the sheriff over
took him.
At the penitentiary he was a most ex
emplary prisoner and the warden picked him
out as Just the man for "chambermaid" of
the guards' room. The guards' room Is over
the warden's office and the duties of the
chambermaid are to make the beds and keep
the room clean. Darius worked away making
beds , sweeping and dusting for some months
and when he was not otherwise employed
ho was reading the llttlo bible which he
carried In his pocket or singing a hymn , of
which he appeared to have an Inexhaustible
store. Ho became a 'trusty" at once and at
odd times was employed outside the building
sprinkling the grass or raking the lawn and
had 1I 1 a dozen opportunities to makci his escape
1S If I ho felt so Inclined , but Darius was con
scientious and would not abuse anybody's
confidence. But one day about three weeks
ago whllo ho was sitting reading his bible
his 1 thoughts' ' wandered away to the school
and the girl he had played "postoffico" with
| on that fatal night and a disgust for his
striped suit and the endless round of bed-
making came over him. Ho know that ho
would bo alone In the room for some hours
and there was a chimney through which he
could reach the roof It ho could only get off
the roof unobserved. Searching about he
found a piece of cord which had been used
on a corn planter which he thought would
bear his weight. Then ho 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 ho found In
the room was a fairly good tit and ho was
ready for his Journey Into the wide , wide
world.
Before starting ho wrote a letter to the
warden which he pinned to the quilt of one
ot 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 was going away. He
climbed up the chimney , made fast his rope
and slid down the front ot 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 started
In pursuit. Ho could see the corn shaking
where the fugitive was making his way
through : the fieids and had no doubt that he
could capture him In a few minutes , especially
as ho 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 ot trees and brushwood , where he
disappeared 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 feels 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 ' "tornel thing rolled to. "
JUVSIVAI ; AXI1 DKAHATIV.
Boston will have fifteen theaters next sea
son.
son."Aladdin , Jr. , " has passed Its eightieth
performance In Chicago.
Padcrewskl 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.
Marie 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 Brecklnrldge 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. , ono 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 Erie 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 , "Tho Temptation cf
Money , " ono of the scenic effects 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 tugboat
twenty-fivo 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 H. Mayer , will not present
"Tho Transgressor , " Plnero'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 fall , reviving "The Old
Homstead , " with many new features. His
daughter , Annie , will play Rickety Ann ,
but his son , Frank , will leave the stage to
become business manager of the company.
Walter Gale will return to the organization
to play his orlg.nal part cf Happy Jack , the
tramp. _ _ _ _ _
The actor Couldcck Is a disappointment
to persons who see him on the street after
witnessing his Impersonation of an old man
on the stage Thu ageJ actor IB 79 , and his
trembling gait and venerable aspect on the
boards seem too real to bo simulated. But
on the street at a distance of twenty paces
he could easily bo mistaken for a man of
40. Mr. Couldock looks back over a hls-
trlonlo 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 Italian
dramatists to treat. Calvl was the first
to begin the series with his "Mary of Mag-
dala , " a beautiful play , which oven the
Vatican allowed. Then followed Dovlo's
"Christ at the Purlin Festival , " which was
written before Calvl's "Mary of Magdala , "
but appeared twelve years later. Now
comes Goveau's "Christ , " written thirty
years ago , and which might never have seen
the footlights but for the success of Bovlo's
piece. In Bovlo'a play , however , Christ
doe * not appear on the stage. Only his volca
Is heard , and In Calvl'a "Mary ot Magdala , "
Christ Is neither seen nor head. In Go-
voau's play , which ha * * o recently appeared
In Turin , Christ Is both seen and heard.
He fill * the stage from beginning to end ,
perform * miracle * and discusses religious
subjects with tbo high priests. Mary of
Magdala and Pilate' * wife join the people
In their ardent love tor Jenus. The Apostle *
have minor part * . All the character * are
well treated , but the language I * monotonous
onous Nevertheless , the play I * a uc-
ccsg.
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