AlLYJfERALD i t Ji ATTSMO 0 T FI . NEBRASKA, TTJURSDAY. JANUARY 24, lfi80. Mayor, Clwrk, Treasurer, Attorney. . hiigliiefr. ON WHO HAS -0U3 ARTISTS. ( Wm 31aaonn, Venu, Helen, Magd !! am Otlirr Celebrltle Many Wo "" ' HTtU Painted on Iler LoTel? Miiil.lrM-Amrlrain Are Swindled. A lion it ly visaed, well formed Italian ncm.ifi, :ilut ii.", years of age, occupies a :;i:t ,f riHuas mi J reeno street, and w' a living ly doing fancy needlework I tal.ii: I.Hl rs. Iler name Is Mar- !i:.i (sinijK-lli. Her husband, forni ; t ;if:i- sini r, Imt latterly an organ rii m :. -r, .lie. I two years ago, leaving; her l.i ; ii.iiiic just enough money to buy si LI ! Mil. Am for his burial, that -was j 1 ly tli.' ity. IJut Margharita was j: t l.l .- ;ist down. Kho had wen bet-1- r d.i;. s. SIkj would seo them again. i' Milt in that hho is now comfortably : it:t:'li .1, and i.s growing more prosperous v. i v y-;tr. -::is sk'o, Ix-foro time cross plowed 1. r I'.k witli wrinkles, Margharita was t!;- pi i.l ,f 1'aris, and earned a luxuri ous hv johitig as a model for ; 1 1 1 . ; jj-.i and painters. She was able t .i: ii .-mywIicTi! from 100 to COO francs :. .. . k Ik r shajo" alone, and on her n.rtri.1, ,1 .uI.Ilts and alxve her well i A Iiinis ivst the faces of some of :) ,i M-.-lirat(rd Itelles and heiresses, . ;..r Iiiat matter, queens and prin- of Kurojir. In hhort, her body tin; form in which tho celebrated i i artists l.r-atliel tho breath of 1:..' m: 1 Lenity, and having dono this, i!i y sin i:to;inted tho trunk with the i I t ! : : i- patrons, all of whom were .!;:: .-I t i.e associated with her Byni-n:i.'i-y, v. Iiicli none of them possessed, 'iio'.r.i: I()ZE. MADOXNAS. Y!i:-;i a reporter called Bhe was en : i i-! (Ii.f areallo occupation of v. .: l:i;i-; i iliaiu r dislies, but, although s:'.i:i 1 i:: :i simple "Mother Hubbard" !; !u: ' v. rappfr, tho "human form di- i:;;" v. Ii !io possessed was bo very :r; ; u. i i. t'i:.t it was nuito evident the . ; i.-1 s 1 1. 1. !e no mistake in their se- 1. -ii ' i .: :(. I '.!; much like a Madonna, i1 J. ' w. . hi r .smiling greeting as she m ii- !. i.-i :. wet. hand for the reporter to ; r:-i. "i tiiink 1 :uu muru nearly akin l' e;:;is l i.-in;4 lionithosea just now, :.;:! 1 li.-.vi' for both many a day." Which ti.iyoi; like the better, Venus or it'-.' MaiioiMiar" sisked the reorter. i!i, cm! ;, to bo sure, though Ma i" !!:.! n..Iir;s p:id me better; but. they v. . r- too sti:t'. 1 iloii't like standing all tii- ii r. ::.oti on a marble slab holdings .luiiii.i;. " baby to my breast. It makes i . . :n he. I was never luckv . i "i t. :i mother, and this fond ! i 'infants ;i:ies hard. Still, I did ; v'' 1- i have U en the model for ! . t!-.- d:eti Madonnas in my ' Si.; .;' !he::i are now in Home. :i i;. t .-. i iity s:iv still in Fiance, and ill- re I have j.oiio to England and A:.: . ri-a. 1.:: t year I saw myself in t;. iv- !l!;V;ei:t attitudes in as many ..I :Si-j-i s:i si Moan exmuit m new i ':. i was told the cost of those three w:..; (VjlU'-IK). I wish I had the i : . . ' iii I s'.ki i'ii artist. I am only a s. ! I. !-,:!!. 1 like to know that the ; e!i : :(. 1- e.'.lr ;re inc. even if they do in i I.siovv who 1 am." Now tell mo ulout tho Venus," said t'.i ' reporter. Mv! but that was gay. I liked to be Venus. 1 acted natural, you see. I just t.:.t down siud threw out my arms and i ,: '.v'.'i ivi'i!'iiito love. One artist paid Ty.) fra'i'-s for bix days' sitting for Venus. t;i:e hundred "dollars! Just tl.ir.k of ii ! It was tho easiest money I vi r as '.M i. Iut ho got 40,000 francs for lb- i. -so he need not complain." I lav- yoti lieen si model for anything but M:.-;. "usiasand Venuses?" was asked. V.T.IX I.OAUED SHOULDEUS. V. indeed. 1 t mo tell you. I v, -:;t to 1'a! is in and danced in a t!.-;:t;v. Daytimes I sat as a model for .ii I : I twenty artists, and had my tiger- . l:iU-.l in' sill kinds of postures and i;r. ! .-. I was Proserpine in two pict- ;:.. of Troy in live, CEnone in two. lie-ubt in three, Kachel in one. ?;inerv:i i.i four. Andromeda in one, anu s . .:i tin ouliIi sill the list of celebrated I.i.-toi i-;:!. l iblieal and mythologic char ;.etns. 1 worked as a model Mid got ;-l pav until 11, when I wis mar-ri-.l. s::d my husband objected to my -v ti tii i a living that way." What was your husband's occu pation'"'' JI- was si musician." How ao did he die?" I: i ye::r. He heard there was a big: fit 1.1 in :ll!.uialls in America, and came o.-i !. 'i ir:; to make a fortune. His 1" ;i!i;i-broke his heart. Since his death 1 lnve 1 1 i . 1 t pet work as a model here, but M.ur artists do not seem to care for n;e. 1 am sifraid I am getting old and t.n.lor:piiir.t." II.. --.v i!'::i;y faces are now on your f.n"ti!.!-iv. do you suppose?" was asked. )-. , r :'!'..'. It is somewhere near 400, iT I ivi;.c!!:lvr rightly. There are three of llu- l:ithchild women, Mrs. Mackay, s.il the ex-Empress Victoria of (i.m.r.iiv among them. Bernhardt v.;.;i!-! ir.o to act as a model for her pio-tm-. but the artist convinced her that sii was too skinny. Sarah Bernhardt is :i beautii'-.il woman for all that, and just as li-'Tal as sunlight." lii.l you ever act as a model for an A:::e;ksln woman?" Yes, live or six in all. Mr. Bennett broivhi a w oman to Talero's 6tudio while I was a model. I think her name was Bell, and bhe was a sister or relative of "Mr. Bennett. I also sat as a model for a nLitiveof Minister Bancroft when be was in Germany." Anvbody else?" I remember a few more, but the nanifs are gone. The Americans who p,o to Paris to get their portraits made do riot patronize the best artists as a rule, t hough thev pay big prices. It is shame' fisl how you 'people are deceived by cheap artists. They have plenty of laciiev, and should get the best. The fact is, thev are imposed upon by cheap v.-ork." She chatted pleasantly about French art for a few minutes longer and then resumed her household duties. lWon Cor. Globe-Democrat. The Supreme Court Blbltf, The supreme court Bible is a small, black, velvet covered octave. It has been u?ed in the administration of every oath since 10S. Every chief iustioeand evrrv associate justice of the United States has held this little sacred tome in taking oath of office. Many thousands of Liwyera have held it, and to write the names of the men who have touched its covers would be to name the men who have made the bench and bar of the United States illustrious. It was printed in Lomlon in 1799, and is today but little the worse i or wear,-. Pittsburg piipatclu DvbSvidi VTk Om Into Society and Are - MmU HUrnUi Tfcereb. The subject of going Into society to gether is one of endless discussion be tween men and their wives; these favor ing, pressing, insisting on it; thoso op posing, ridiculing, protesting against it. Women often carry their point by de claring that if their husbands will not go out they will not, either. A just or gen erous man is averse to keeping his wife at home simply because he considers social entertainments of any and every kind stupid and disagreeable. He knows that she deliglits in them, and that for her to relinquish them is a positive sac rifice. There is no moro reason why she bhould stay away than why ho should go; anH, therefore, he goes, but goes reluc tantly, w ith ill will, and, as It were, by compulsion. It may 6eem singular that she should permit him to, knowing as she does how hateful the thing is. It seems downright selfish in her and women are rarely, selfish but she believes that she cannot afford to release him; that her frequent ing society without him is the beginning of their separation, of their leading dis tinct lives, of their steady divergence. Her belief may not be correct, but it is sincere. Hence is she not warranted in maintaining her josition to the last? At any rate, she maintains it, though not without great cost, greater often than she realizes. Her husband resents more and more his dragooning into society. I lo never puts on his dress suit, or orders tho carriage for that purpose, without a feeling of inward bitterness of his wife's exactingness, of his submission to a wrong; and the feeling finally ' produces liabitual dissatisfaction and cynicism. His wife Lj unconsciously bringing about what she is trying to avoid settled dis content with her and the conjugal con dition. It were better she should let him obey his propensity than thwart it thus; lor alienation would be slower with free dom than with fetters. What a deal of mischief is society, fri volous, hollow, insignificant society, cap able of doing! Tho dragooned husband feels that he is a social impostor; that he abuses hospitality by partaking of it in perverse spirit. He is in no mood to en tertain or be entertained. He is bored to death, and his countenance shows it. He yawns behind hand or handkerchief, and for the moment fairly despises his wife, noticing across the room her animated manner and obvious gratification. His look and air and gait are funereal. -If lie were burving a friend ho would, he fancies, feel more -cheerful. Stealing Into a corner, ever and anon, to glance furtively at his watch, he thinks that it must have stopped. Has there ever be fore been so long an evening? His wife indicates that she is about to leave; but he knows what that means, and resigns himself to another leaden-footed hour. Everything must have an end; finally ho departs, anil his face for the mo ment is flushed with pleasure, imme diately dispelled by the remembrance that there are to bo five evenings more of similar boredom within the coming week- He dreams of wliat ho has under gone and must undergo in the torture chambers of society; his sleep is broken and feverish; ho rises in tho morning despondent and irritable. His wife may dimly suspect the cause; but 6he lacks tho "intel licence, ierhaps the magna nimity, to relieve him of his onerous obli gation, la tho end he will lx very likely to throw it off, and it will be accom panied by r.o little of liis old affection and sympathy. The women are few who would make good their declaration of - surrender ing society if their husbands should flatly refuse to escort them. They think they would, and for a while they might abstain; but the enticement is too great to be long resisted. First, hey will go out alone occasionally; then frequently; at last regularly. Women who have dragooned their lieges for several seasons, and then acquitted them, may run the risk of losing the early place occupied in their hearts (is not such loss mutual and unavoidable, with most couples, in any circumstances?); but they get on far more comfortably. Men love freedom above everthing; and when thej have it they are more amiable and patient than when it is in any way curtailed. " Husbands who have been exceedingly disagreeable at home, so long as they have felt constrained to discharge social duties in their own per sons, have behaved quite decently after turning over those duties entirely to their partners. The average woman gets rid of her romance and sentiment by five or six years of connubial experience (the first year will answer for the average man), and prefers domestic peace and toleration to the cherishment of the lof tiest ideals. Junius Henri Browne in Chicago America. - A Small EeeMBlit A little boy whose parents were al ways discussing ways and means in his presence was constantly reminded of the expense of everything until the early lessons of domestic econ omy were sunk deep In his souh" ! When he was 3 years old some friends 'visited the family, having with them a rear old baby. This was such a - fund- of delight that the small boy's parents re marked that they should like such a baby in their own household, &nd they looked at him to see how be would take the suggestion. What was their- sur prise when he answered gravely : "You know you couldn't afford .it!" Detroit Free Press. Endurance of tbe Apache. A white man tires, after .covering a march of twenty miles on a dead level Erairie. An Apache would make at least fty miles in the same time pyer rough, rocky mountain piles, and pot fee) half so much fatigue as the soldier would in making his score of miles. Cavalry can? not work in such a country, and white men cannot compete wMfii witives ljj their own stronghold. -Philadelphia Record. ' T1 Quail a Prophet. The quail has the gift of prophecy. In some parts of Tyrol the. number, of his calls is believed to denote the price of corn, each call signifying a gulden., n other parts, if be calls six times, (he year will be a bad one; if eight times, it -will be tolerably' prosperous; ' but should he call ten times or" beyond - that "nuinber, everything will flourish. Audubpfc Mag azine. ' r- Skepttcal, hmt Curli Husband I had my fortune told,.tO& "Wife You don't believe in that sort of thing, do you? H. No. ' W. Nor I. It U'all foolishness, the worst of foolishness, H So I think. W. (after a baiue) What did sb tell you, John? Boston Courier. EXECtfTIVC WORK. Dow It I Divided Into Department to the United States. The great moss of work imposed upon tho executive power of tho gov ernmentembracing so many distinct subjects and requiring so many thou sands of agents to perform must be arranged and treated in an orderly and systematic manner. To expect the president to give it his close personal attention and directly superintend the doings of each agent would bo absurd. The magnitude and diversity of the work demand its separation into parts, and the general supervision or manage ment of each part must bo intrusted to a separate officer. On this business basis and in accord ance with tho design of tho constitu tion congress "has divided the work among seven executive departments, each in charge of a general oliicer, or head of department, known respect ively as the secretary of state, tho sec retary of tho treasury, the secretary of war, the attorney general, the post master general, tho secretary of the navy and tho secretary of tho interior; and the work of each department is still further subdivided and distributed among bureaus and divisions and minor oflices, in charge of lesser heads or chiefs, designated as commissioners, superintendents, directors and by vari ous other general or special titles. An executive department, then, properly means one oi the grand divisions of government work boldly marked out or suggested by the express provisions of the constitution. These grand divisions readily ar range themselves. The sovereign re lations of the republic with foreign powers, and its official intercourse with the governments of the states at homo may be regarded as one distinct grand division; accordingly we have the department of state. Tho coinage, currency, revenue and general fiscal alr'airs suggest another great branch of work ; hence we have the department of the treasury. Tho mention of armies suggests work that in time of trouble is likely to tax the energy of a separate division; thus we very ap propriately havo a department of war. The prosecution of offenses against the United States, and other judicial matters wherein the interests of the republic are concerned constitute a general division, represented by the department of justice. Tho postal service, as one of the most intricate and important branches of government work, certainly forms another grand division ; therefore we havo the post ollice department Maritime protec tion, like tho military or land defense, forms a separate division; and thus we havo the department of the navy. The various matters of domestic con cern not covered in these other de partments but contemplated by the constitution, such as tho census, public lands, patents and odds and ends, may bo conveniently grouped into another general division; and thus we have the very miscellaneous, yet not mis named, department of the interior. To some of these executive depart ments are intrusted matters which, on their face at. least, do not strictly be long to the- grand division to which they havo been assigned by law. For instance, the weather bureau is a bu reau of the war department; the work being intimately connected with the peaceful interests of agriculture and commerce, it is very generally de manded that it should be taken from military control and placed elsewhere. St. Nicholas. Railroad Vandalism. I. read with some amusement re cently a letter in The Pall Mall Gazette, headed "What We May Ex pect," which took for its text a para graph which announced that a rail way is to be run through the pass of Glencoe. The writer of the letter sar castically declared that "Melrose abbey, having being roofed over witl slates and rendered somewhat presentable--, with a new coat of stucco, has recently been converted into a young men's reading room and mechanics' institute. The abbey is lighted by an installation of six Swan and Edison burners, so that there is no longer any necessity to visit it by the pale moon light" Still further, the writer an nounced that "Burns' cottage had been mlled down to make room for a beer louse to be erected on the site." The old proverb says that many a true word is spoken in jest, and I am sorry to see in the Scotch papers a paragraph referrincr to Burns' cottage at A vt which goes far to confirm t-no Pro verb: The whole of the contents of the house ' and of "Ailoway's aultl haunted kirk" are advertised" for sale at-an upset jprice of 1.200; so lhat in the event of none of toe innumerable admirers of the poet coming to the rescue, the various relics accumulated at Ayr will be scattered. The trencher from which he ate his kail, the chair in which he sat, the bowl from which he "supped' his parritch," the table at which he wrote all are to be sold. We cold Southrons are sometimes ac cused of want of enthusiasm and jioetio appreciation; but, on the Tftole, I venture to think we should pot per mit such a holocaust, as this in the case of relics of our leading poets, simply and solely because their . exi tion did not pay expenses. 1 suppose in these harq times U is ps well to, be canny and careful ; hut surely there are plenty of Scotchmen who arc both, and yet might be able to spai-o or sub scribe a few hundred pounds to pre serve the relics of a poet whom most Scotchmen regard with a feeling akin to adoration, in the town whevp ho, was born. I should! riot be surprised, if the upshot should' be that the Liurns souvenirs will go to the'VJnited States where-the people, tq q rhe?i justice! are very far fronq mean when "(hey wish, tq purchase anything that inter ests them. Kathleen in Luod cury. - er There are about six thousand differ ent descriptions of postage stamps in existence. . The museum of the jicrlin post ofllce alone contains between four und five thousand specimens, of which, half are from Europe, and the re mainder divided between Asj Africa, America and Australia. . SpoelMOM ootoh B Dr. Scott, of Greenock, used to tell of a sailor who camo to be married, but when asked if he would take tho woman to be his wife, looked blank and said: "I would like to know first what you are going to say to she." At another time, when the jroman was asked if she would obey, but did not answer, tho man also a sailor ex claimed, "Leave that to me, sir." In those days people that felt sleepy during the sermon used, as now in Germany, to shake off drowsiness by standing up; but poor human nature made this at times an occasion of dis play. At Old Monkland a man who hau on a rather gaudy vest stood up more than once, and threw back his coat apparently to let his vest be seen Mr. Bower, the minister, at length said: "Noo. John, ye had better sit doou. We have a seen your braw waistcoat" It was to Mr. Bower that the grave diL'ircr onco said: Iradosvery dull the noo. I haen a buried a icevin' cratur for three weeks." The pconlo seem to have had a dis like to sermons beinjr read. They used to say: "lloo can we mind the minister's sermon if he canna mind it himselY' What are we to think of the lady who sent to her minister, Mr. Risk, of Dalserf, a polite message that "ho should clean his teeth," and received tho answer that "she should scrape her tongue?" When his people sent a deputation requesting him to tell them more in his sermons about rciiouiioiui' their own righteousness, he tartly replied: "It is the first time I heard that you had any righteousness to renounce." Mr. Tnom, of Govan, maintained a great warfare against the Glasgow magistrates, une day, wmie ne was standing with the provost in tho street, a ragged urchin came up begging, and was sternly driven away by the provost, who had himself risen from nothing. Mr. Thom interposed, and said: "Iley, laddie, there's a penny for you. Ye'll maybe provost of Glas gow yourself yet" One of the magistrates saw him one day riding a good horse, and said: "You're better than your Master, Mr. Thom, for ho rode on an ass." Mr. Thom retorted: "We would bo will ing enough to rido on asses, too. but they're not to be got nowadays. They've made them all magistrates." -Scottish World. A High Rata of Interest. A novel system of money lending is being practiced in many large down town business houses, and, though done on "mutual benefit" plan, the interest levied would put the ordinary pawnbroker to the blush. The em ployes of a large establishment, em ploying perhaps twenty-five or fifty clerks, form a "mutual benefit asso ciation." For two months each employe pays to the treasurer 1 cent a day, and this forms the lending fund on which the whole system is founded. In the larger houses, where the salaries are paid monthly, the clerks often find themselves in the middle of the month without the necessary funds to carry them through. Then they borrow from the treasurer, say $5, and until the loan is paid they are expected to hand to the treasurer 1 cent for every dollar borrowed, and at the same time to give to the treasurer an order on the casnier for tho amount of money they havo borrowed. The clerk who borrows the money does not, of course, feel the payment of the small amount of interest which is collected daily, and even when he returns the loan at the end of the month he does not realize that he has paid interest at the rate of S65 per cent Of course each month the arrount of money in tho hands of the treasurer increases until, &t the end of the year, he has much more than enough to cover the demands of the clerLs for loans, Then ho sets aside a certain amount as a fund, and the balance he divides into equal parts, to be paid to the clerks lis dividends. This is done once a your. Tho result is obvious. The cL-rk who is saving and apportions his salary to his necessities has no need of becoming a borrower; that is, in the year he only pays to the association nis dues, amounting to $3.63, or 1 cent a day, and yet he draws as a dividend his share of the exorbitant interest that his impecunious fellow e-lerks havo paid monthly. pw York Her ald II ow Gladntone Reads, Mr. Gladstone usually has thrrp booL-s in reading at the same time, and changes fro; l ono to the other wnen h;3 mind 1 ins reached tho limit of ab sorption. This ii a necessary correct- lva to the teudency to think only of ae thing nt ouo time, which some times in politics leads him to neglect that all round survey of the, situation which is indispensable b a prime min ister. During the beginning pf h-? Irish question in JPgQ Lo vva so, ab sorbed in Urn fluxion of tho coercion of Tmiey that io could hardly be in duced tq spare a thought for Ireland; now it is just as difficult tq get him to thinfc of any poUtteal question but that Ho complains fcornetiffie3 that his riemory is no longer quito so good as it us tQ be, but, although that may be true, it is still twice so good as any body elso's, r Mr. Gladstone has an extraordinary faculty of cot only re membering those things h.o p.ughl to remember, but f?J fMi-ulng thosa thing? H Is seless lorliim loi remcm. berl'- His' mind thus' unencupbpc4 with "any unnecessary top' lia.mper and he' can, aays, &q tQ SJfe, &y want3 no dOuU u -. memory was ? J,"" ' - with him, but it has . largely developed by the con stant habit of taking pains. When he reads a book he does so pencil in hand, marking off on the margin those pass ages which he wishes to remember, 2uerying those about which he is iu oubt, aud putting a cross opposite those which ne disputes. At the end of tho volume he constructs a kind of index of his own, which enables him to refer to those things he wishes to remember in the book. Th& Writer. H lord to The motto, "What in Home without a Mother," exists in many happy homes in this city, hut the t lhct of what is home without tho Local Newspaper is sadly realized in many of these "happy homes" in Platt6mouth. THE HETftAlL Is steadily finding iU way into these homes, and it always comes to stay. It makes the family circle more cheerful and keeps its readers "up to the timeo" in all matters of importance at home and abroad. 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