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DYE THE DYE.
Y friend, the
Old Man,who
cnrrles the
fame of the
CouniKii nnd
Lincoln Into
states far nnd
wide, linn just
ruturnoil
from Boston,
nnd of courte
In full of ex
periences. An
n delegate to
the nntionnl editorial convention ho enjoyed
the hospitality of the Hub, which Included
banquets, steamboat rides, etc. In conversa
tion with ii young Bostonlan, a picture of
whom is given herewith, tho latter talked
very earnestly of tho cordiality of western
hospitality. Ho went out to see Chicago,
nnd carried letters of Introduction with him.
"Thellrst ore I presented," he went on to
say, "was to n quiet-appearing young board
of trade man. 'How nre youf ho said shok
ing my hand with the warmth of an old
friend and asking mo In the name breath
what I'd liavo to drink. I didn't wont any
thing, but ho seemed from his manner so de
sirous of treating me that I took a couple of
fingers of red liquor and then sought tore
turn the compliment. Hut he looked hurt nt
thnt. 'You're my guest,' he said, 'nnd gueRts
never pay.' "Well, we took another drink
nnd then he went with me to the others to
whom I had letters. Each plueo we stopped
nt wo were compelled to drink Immediately
after the hand shake, so that by tho time I
had made tho round 1 wns feeling pretty
comfortable. Then n party of us had dinner.
I don't remember what wo had for dessert
nor what we did afterward. In fact, the
llrst clear recollection I had of anything was
six days later, when 1 nvvolco In my room.
On my bureau I found a number of theater
programs, several perfumed letters from
some (to me at present unknown) represen
tatives of tho softer sex, a lady's picture, one
of Kehoe's soda water checks, n photograph
of Dlxey with ills autograph on the back,
four Ivory furo chips nud seven champagne
corks. So I Imnglne time did not hang heavy
on my hands. When I go to Chicago again
I shall have disguised myself behind a beard
nnd left all letters of Introduction nt home.
Hospitality may be all right down east, but
nt Chicago's high altitude with its rnrifled at
mosphere it's dangerous."
V
Bitting out In front of the Capital hotel tho
other evening A. O. Wolfcnbarger, tho pro
hibition advocate, convened on tho all pre
vailing toplo in n temperate, sensible way.
He spoke In complimentary terms of tho noil
Ity and energy of Editor Rosownter of the
Omaha licet and exnressed tlm rmlnlnn Mint
that paper was being paid by tho liquor in
terest for its fight against prohibition. He
added with unmistakable sincerity that the
Bee was earning every dollar the liquor men
are likely to pay, that Mr. Hofewater Is
throwing an Influence and n power Into tho
campaign with results that the nntl-prohl-bltionists
could not secure In any other way
with an expenditure of a like sum of money.
There is nothing staitllng in these state
ments, but it is a lilt notlcenblo thnt such
testimony should huve come from such n
source.
Tho truth of the matter is that Mr. Hose
water is a much misunderstood man. By
thousands of people every utterance of the
I lee on state atfairs Is supposed to bo loaded
with mystic meaning. If n quarter of the
surmises were true they would keep Mr. Hose
wnter awake nights laylug plans to boost
this or that jwlitlcian Into oftlce. If a half
of thtse guesses were facts Mr. Koso water's
time would be engrossed with a thousand
schemrs of assorted sizes nnd colors. The
fear of small fry politicians conjure up
shadows that never hail nuy substance in Mr.
Ilosewnter's plans. Tho prejudice und the
Ignorance of narrow-minded peoplo attribute
mean actions and qualities that would be
come themselves but are foreign to him. I
do not menu to hold up tho Omaha editor as
u pnrngon, but I do believe ho In not n quarter
as bad as he is painted. He has stepped on
tho schemes and ambitious of a thousand
men, and they have turned on him with bitter
reviljug. Hence the prevailing opinion.
V
Tak the recent debate at the Beatrice
Chautauqua assembly letweeu Bam Hniall
and Prof. Dickie for prohibition and Mr.
Rosewater and John L. Webster against it.
The Her employed three stenographers to
make verbatim reorts, and it published
loth sides without abridgement and without
nny nttempt to color the affair. It is not
likely the liquor interest would pay to lmvti
prohibition speeches reKrted nnd.publlnhV,
nnd If the men in the business areleally put
ting up to the Ilee thoy would undoubtedly
have given n good round sum to prevent
these prohibition speeches having the benefit
of tho Jlte't great circulation. The only
legitimate conclusion is that Mr. Rosewater
published this debate on his own motion and
at his own expense. And if you will look
back over his record you will llnd that that
sort of thing has not been uncommon with
the llee. Such cases make mo feel prouder
of Journalism and of the men in it. Tho
spirit of fnlr play mnultestcd by the Ilee is n
:iewacr virtue beyond the comprehension
of the averagu man, and Mr. Rosewater is
even more of uii enigma to tho bigotry and
stupidity of the common hord.
A). Fnlrlircither, who has Ikimi writing up
state politics for the Omaha Wmld-lleriild,
has transferred hi allegiance to the lire.
His place Is naturally with the latter The
U'orlil-llerahi Is a Democratic paKr In all
but name, which undoubtedly hampered
Kairbrother in his writings. Hye-the-llye
prcdlctedthathewould ben valuable man for
the Worhl-lleuiUI, and that has proved true
It Is doubtful if there is another newspaper
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mini In tho state who knows more of tho poli
ticians nud their ambitions and has ii readier'
grasp on his information. Falrbrother's
political gossip in the S'orh-Umh ha un
doubtedly compelled hundreds of polltictuu
to read that paper in order to keep up with
the procession. In the llee Kairbrother con
write as a Republican among Republicans
and for Republicans, and he probably will do
even better than heretofore.
In speaking of the time made by George
Francis Traino in his trip around the world
the Couhiek predicted that the circuit would
be made In sixty days or less within a few
years. It now seems likely that the time
will be so greatly reduced that the achieve
ments of Jules Verne, Nelly Illy, Elizabeth
Disland und George Francis Traino will be
merely antiquated historical facts. A rail
road is now lielng constructed thnt will Im
mensely quicken the time from Japan to
England. Instead of the slow sea voyage
through southern sens the future globe trot
ter anxious to break a record will lly across
the northern hemisphere on wheels. A rail
road is now being built through Sibcriu that
will connect St, Petersburg with Wladlvostok,
which Is situated In the north of Corea on a
bay In the sen of .Tnpnn mimed ufter Peter
the Great. The distance is 4,UK) miles, and
this will be the longest line of railroad in the
world. At present It tones from seventy
five to eighty days to send a letter from St.
Petersburg to Wladlvostok during the lot
tlmo of the year. In winter It requires sev
eral months. When this line is completed
the journey may be accomplished in twelve
days. The trip around the world will then
1k made in forty to forty-five days.
Messed be the memory of the man who In
vented the thermometer. He has added
fifty per cent, to the satisfaction of living in
this sort of weather. The amount of comfort
to lie derived from watching the mercury
dancing up among the IHJ's is a bit of human
nature not eiiNily explained, and the Joy of
seeing the silver thread climb upon KM) and
fall over the other side is too rure not to lie
valued. When n man Is lielng misted there
Is an iullnlte satisfaction In knowing the de
gree of doue-uess in tho operation. The vic
tim is justillcd in being proud of being
roasted two or thiee degrees more than the
tieople of n neighboring community It's
iihmit the only satisfaction ho gets nut of the
performance. And what a boon tho ther
mometer U to the fellow who never has mi
original Men, and who wouldn't know how to
let go of it if he had one. The amount of
conversation he can uvoive from the simple
record of tho thermometer nud u comparison
with former years Is one of the marvels of
human stupidity
V
III the numo of a community anxious to get
such satisfaction ns the weather will penult I
A RBDFIJRN
protest ngaiust thw thermometer over at
Hurley's di ug store. It very rure'.y gets up
to KXI, nud it Just robs us of about half the
satisfaction tlnre Is in this thing. Borne peo
ple may think It lazy because It doesn't hump
Its bock and climb up out of the M), but I
nm inclined to think It is a matter of disisisl
tlon nnd condition. Those big thermometers
lllled with ulcohol are generally conservative,
you know, and then it hangs In the shade all
day and near a soda fountain lllled with ice.
Probably it is doing its liest, nnd jierhaps it
utror.ls sntiifrfclion l0 n 'uw leople who
haven't ambition enough even to wish to see
a thermometer do its level best. Now over
nt Stetson's drug stoie they hnve a little ther
mometer that wakes up to its business early
in the morning and hustles all day. It catches
old Sol's first rays, and has the benefit of his
company most of the morning The iron (tost
against which it hongs gets snnethlug less
than red-hot and lavishes its warm ahVctloiis
on the mercury until lute ot night. It is a
pretty cool day when it doesn't get beyond
thelMTs, and Its average foi the last two weeks
has lieen about 100. Now there Is genuine
satisfaction in consulting such an instrument
as that. You get the worth of your money,
and the assurance that you have lots of
weather about your ierson is the chief com
pensation of the season
Haven't you noticed, by the way, that the
thermometers of the government signal serv
ice never register as high as the instruments
owned by Individuals! The otllcer ot the
Omaha station once explained it to llye-the-liye
in this way: it Is desirable, for the sake
of comparisons nnd computations, to huve
oil government instruments muke their rec
ords under similar conditions. All of them
ore exposed on the top of high buildings.
They get the benefit of winds, which may
send the alcohol down a half degree, never
more than that. The private thermometer is
generally hung near the ground and often
against iron or brick. It gets the lienetlt of
the reflected rays of heat und often of the
colorlc stored in the iron or brick. The sig
nal service otllcer thought u good pi f vote
thermometer u fairer Index than n govern
ment instrument of the conditions under
which humanity swelters and lives.
We are all proud of Lincoln her lieauty,
growth, enterprise and all that sort of thing
but there huyo been three things for which
we hove hod to opologUu. her hotels, theater
and street railways, To moke on iis)logy Is
to humiliate one's pride, and most of us lime
had to do It until it has Iwhvoiiiu u weariness
of mind undhcuit. It is a comfort to feel
tkot tho end of it is within view A credit
able hotel is u fact almost realized, work bos
begun onii new theater, und idw we have i
asMiiauccof on electric street railway fioni'
O stteet to the new Eplscoptlluu college on
the noi 111 How near heaven the City lleau
tlful will tie when the other street car lines
RIDING 1IAU1T.
relegate their niul to the antiquity they
nre ualctllnled to iidoru and substitute ehs?
trlclty. Thoo mules patient, loug-vjitferiiu
brumes though thoy lie ore to bo admiicd
mostas reminiscence. Sied the day when
all the Lincoln street car companies go Into
the business of making reminUccnces.
The CouilIEU has received, with the com
pliments of Henry K. Dlxey, n souvenir "In
commemoration of the three hundredth per
formance of Messrs. Gill & Dlxey's '"Ages'
uudilts eight weeks run in Chicago." It Is a
handsome folder containing hailstone Illus
trations of Dlxey in each of his numerous
make-iiis in the play, the whole enclosed in n
heavy cover and tied with a ribbon.
IN AMUSEMENT LINES.
A P Dunlop sends word from New York
that there was nothing new in Gotham the
aters last week nud nothing promised for this
week, He odds;
III the times we refer to som times as "the
golden," the week lief on the 4th was usually
a brisk one, now it is dead, anil everyone
who has saved money bus left tow u for o few
days' quiet In the country, nt least, until the
glorious fourth has whlzyed by, and the met
ropolitoil (mil In has exhausted the festive
fire cracker. The shady sdi of dear old
liruadwuyls still not crowded, but abund
antly adorned with those human blossoms
we all love so well to see on the stage
Walking is Inexpensive, even on the dear old
street, and there are no ties there to count,
excepting those we broke last season when
they lft us, to return, of course. The shop
keejKirs do not count on lurge jiotrouiige fiom
them, nud they are not disappointed, hut in
some way they all live. Engagements may
not be plenty, but the hopeless poverty of
older duys seems to have tuuscd away, mid
jests ntstiiit it vre as ill timed nnd as foolish as
those ftliout the iniMcunioslty of editors. We
do not starve, now-a-duys. They can't kill
us, und they can't shut us up. und as long ns
we may walk around und earn the occasional
dollar, why need we compl.ilnf There Is al
ways llroadwuy to wnlk on,
One of the sights of New York is Ritz
mannV, on llroudwny Rltzuiiiuii, who looks
u cross between u foreign nobleman and a
well-paid U'lior, keeps the finest theatrical
photogruph collection in town There is ul-'
ways a gaping, Intel estcd crowd in front of I
his window giuing at tho player's pictures.
It 1 a vailed collection you see t'u'ie.
Queens jostle soubretU's, ingenues associate
with first old ladles, eiuotlouals dhport them ,
selves by child prodigies Mrs. Kendal is ;
next to Dorothv Dean, whom she would not
receive lu real life. Pauline Hall smiles ot
Isabella IVquhordt, whom she hates. Jocund
Nellie Mcllenry wiub!eon the same line
with sprightly Minnie Palmer Marie Ilur
roughs, May Ilrookyn, Marie Wninw right
Grace Filklns, IsubelleC'oc, .Minute Seligmou
m e in line as beautiful women. Carrie
Tiitelu and Olllo Arehmere "hustla" to the
front. Delia Fox, Ellle Shannon, Rosabel
Morrison smile pleasantly at you. Bernhardt
ii'id Mother, interpreters of Joan of Arc, are
lu demand. Women as n rule buy actors'
hotos, Ritzmonn tells me, and women buy
men.
Frank Ijimler is like Kyrle Bellew lu one
or two resjiects. He ran a wny from home
when he was sixteen, as Kyrle Bellew did,
and like him he went to Australia and work
ed lu the mines. lender has the lithe, ele
gant und aristocratic build of Bellew. But
he has no et rabbit and no jiet monkey. len
der opjieals to the fairer sex and wins them.
The mash notes left for him at the stoge door
often uumlier half o dozen n night, and they
generally come ft out local society belles
Uiuder (Hirers from llfllew in the way he
signs his letter nud his photos, Bellew aN
ways signs "Yours, while Kyrle Bellow."
The cheerful Louderatllxes his signature with
"laughingly Yours."
The sale of liquors on the Casino roof gnr
den wns recently stopH-d, nud on the sumo
day Pauline Hall ottered to give the Casino
stockholders u dividend of four percent , and
my all interest except the floating debt, for a
ten yeer lease of the building. As the stock
holders hnve ns yet not received n single hmi
uy on their Investment, the Aronsous will
probably huve u good deal of trouble in re
tabling their grip on the Moorish building
Kay Temple ton, who will apjiear In n new
burlesque nt the Fourteenth Street Theater,
August 1Mb, arrived from Paris last Wednes
day. Mr Howell Osborn did not accompany
her.
Jennie Winston, the only actress who con
give the correct swagger and dash to male I
parts, has lieen engaged by Margaret Mather j
Hho Is to play roles usually given to leading
men '
AT T1IK I'AIIK. '
I
Manager Andms is untiring in his eifoits,
to moke Cushman Pork un attractive retsirt i
for the people of the City Beautiful Not
content with letting the public hoe the bene
fit of ii pretty stream nud shady groves, he
Is constantly providing entertainments to odd
to the visitor's enjoyment And then he has
prevailed on the II ti M to run trains to anil
from the grove nt frequent Intervals to ae
cominodate everyliody For tomorrow he
has secured illlams Brothers and lliiblmrd, .
the celebrated trio, whoso singing is said to '
hnve made thousands of votes in the prohl- i
bitiou campaign lu South Dakota. There'
will lie no Hteaklng. either for or against
prohibition, but plenty of tine music that oil
con enjoy Mr Audi us has gone to Crete to
KTilie, if possible, Miss Parks, the noted cor
net it, or other desirable 01 lists The time
oftiaius inn) be found lu on advertisement
elsewhere The Mendelssohn quartet,
union,; the finest of Denvei's mi. gets, will he
lu Lincoln lu two or three weeks and are
bcoked for Ciihmiiu Park
(JO WNS FOR A IMtlNCKSS.
IHpeeliil Correspondence nrthnCntMtiKii. )
Nkw YniiK, July 7, 1WH). As this Is tho
semem when yachting gowns urn nu linportsi
nut part of the fashionable wiirdrohe, I give'
m n Mist sketch one of RolfemV litest Ideas
in this line n costume which Is now being
made nt his Ioudou establishment for the
l'rinccss liene of I'lusxla. Her hutbnnd,
l'rlnco Henry, Is a brother of thn Herman
KuiHror, nnd Is in command of the most
powerful man-o'-wnr now nlloat In the (lcr
mnii navy. It was n pretty bit of sentiment
which led him to christen It "The Irene," lif
ter his wife, nnd I suppose It Is by wny of
showing her appreciation of the compliment
that she sometimes nccompnulcs him on it
cruise. She wosnlsMird the vessil the lost
time It was anchored oir Cowes roods (Isle of
Wight), renly lor the tiuval manoeuvre which
tlm (loriimu KmMror came ovV to Inspect.
Her new yachting gown, picturtd oUive, is
a blue Isle of Wight seige, with four rows of
oxydlzed silver braid set struight around the
skirt. The shirt bodice Is of w hite silk trim
incd In yoke fashion, ns well as iqion collars
mid (MilTa. with more rows of the braid: und
It Is bound ut the waist by u wide pointed
girdle of the blue, which Is slashed and laced
with sllvercords over thuhlHiind in front.
The regulation naval cup Is worn with tills
suit.
AMHIIKU INlYlfc DOWN
for her is of cadet-blue limallne, with front
of white cloth upon which is a laige and
elaborate design braided in blue and steel.
The same design is repetiUd in part upon the
rMllided fronts of the bodice which s)om,
away into large coat tabs In the bock and are
cd,ed with tiny stoel met buttons. The
plain vest and clow coat sleeves are of the
white cloth, and there is moie braiding on
collar and culTs, and on odd turtctcd cap on
the shoulders. The hat has loops of the blue
grey libbouand umariiN)ut aigrette in white
while the velvet facing on the biiin shows
some steel galloon where it turns up ut the
right side.
The new lUslfern riding habit is made
of waterproof, fancy diagonal clotli, suitable
for summer wear The liodlee is cut in quite
a novel fashion, with a waistcoat of very
horsey-looking check kerse) cloth, in bright
colors The Is slice can either button across
this lu the center or remain iqieu all the
w ay dow u, nt the vv Isli of the w carer.
The skirt Ills to a nicety, being cut on u
patent safety principle In such u manner that
it will neither ' lig" nor "rock up" and con
be made to wear on any modern saddle,
thus combining with elegance the greatest
comfort und security to the weuior. Till
skirt is also as ginceful and comfortable for
walking ns riding, being arranged to fatten
up veiy Ingeniously on one side.
The bi'ee.hes or trousers arc made of silk
Jersey or material to match the habit.
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