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i - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY. JANUARY W. 1887.-SIXTEEN PAGES. ' We are Sti lave est Additions CSC 1 We are not selling any outside additions or starling any young towns or establishing any railroads , but come to the front with H We have no grudge against the people here and intend to give them value received for their money. There are additions laid out all around Tipton Place , and sold last summer for $5OO to $700 each. We don't wear plug hats and blow about the advice we have given ; our overcoats don't button high enough for that , There is a fine , elegant , new $5OOO school house-on the ground , three stores just across the street , about 40 houses already built , and 47 already contracted to be built by July 1st , and various other improvements , /rv / i IB I IH [ I 1-5 cash and 1-5 in six rronths , and the balance in I and 2 years at 8 per cenh The boom is with us , and you will double your money inside of three months , Free carriages to show the property. n i &rafjj8 \ - > w * i . PEN-PICTURE OF THE POPE , nt Count Vasali Describes tbo Head of the J Raman Oatholic Ohurcli , ; o SCHOLARLY , SINCERE , SAINTLY _ "Wisdom of JIlH Words I'oqacsHccl of a Urenl Allnd Jlin Au | > ourai ce Charity ami JJenure Income Alwuj'B Clerical. 5 1'Aius , Jan. 9. [ Correspondence of the KKKTho ] nimble pen of tbo mysterious ! diplomatist who has analy/.ed , in the Paris 5 Nouvelle Uovuo , the society of several | great Huropcan capitals , and who pro- 1 poses , bo love , to undertake the samu j task for New York and Washington , } ' sketches tlio pope in the course of his del - l ] pcrlption of Komo and thu Romans. I i select a few passages which will be ot " general interest : { "Photographic tradition lends to Leo " XIII. a Hardonlcal smile , and the irrever- 6 cnt have oven called it Voltairian. Tlio * priests who don't belong to Home speak B of him in the freedom ot their sermons as the Pope Voltaire. A French writer * J { consecrated Voltaire king. If it bo true 11 that Voltaire rather divided the honors ; of thu crown with Louis XV. or with \ Frederick tlio ( ! real , it cannot be said Bi that he has yet heuu elevated to the honor ° : . . of the tiara. The photographs are do- I cnptive. Leo XIII. is not in the leastliku * Vollalre , and his broad smile has nothing 31 hideous about it. It is , ontlio contrary , j ) very benevolent , unctuous , and royal. jj ] TUB UPS OK THE I'OI'E M distil the honey of academic eloquence .P ; Eoniewhat slowly , a little bounded , but , K always perfumed by the blossoms of r" 'Tiber's banks , and not the bile of For- | ' liny , the vinegar of refined'malice , the II bens mots that sound like cannon shots. M No oini quotes from Leo XIII. a singlu * J one of those lively , lilting , sprightly li phrases which bejeweled the conversa- ii lion ot Pius IX. In vain do wo seek in * J his public discourses , for an unexpected 5 antithesis , an ingenious play upon words , S a bright imago. All is measured , solemn , 9 oratorical. The political imitation which f ! according to the judgment of the con- Jj ; nalsseurs delract.s somewhat from the i superior quality of his Latin style , is g ! drawn from pure and tranquil clas- ji sical sources. Ho has sought after line M language , not for wit. The pope's pri- T , vato conversation resembles his speeches , j Thu same wisdom , the same cold unction , ] the same care-to ornament by-thu ip majusty of form the fcimpllcitv of the mat- j tor are observable , lint , behind this i seeming mediocrity , ( hero is a policy. II Far less spiritual than Voltaire. LeoXH'I. 1 - appears much stronger in politics and in , } many other things. I Tin ; roll's Ari'KAitANCi : { is not loss solemn than his speech. His jlorm , which is so spare that he uppqars | taller than lui really is , disappears on- ! tirt'ly beneath rich stuffs and in thu folds ij < of his heavy red mantle ; Ids long arms { tremulously raise those cumbrous Y [ dnipcncs , and , from a habit which has , ' during thu course of his already long ft liontificato , become second mituru , they } arc always half extended for tlio bestowal 1.1 of an ample benediction. It is pitiful to 1 &oo the poor bloodless hands Imprisoned 1 . in little white silk mittens which are too j small These are not fat ruplctu hands like those of prelates contented with t . their lot , as those of Sixtus V must have fq l > oen , nor those of a soldier like Julius II ; to they are lha nervous hands ot the writer Ja artist , thinker. They are nearly always 01 cold , colder than the great sapphire gar th uishcd with brilliants which they offer to Js the worshipper's kiss ; they never respond by friendly pressure to the respectful w touch of Ihu visitor. yt NONi : MOKE CHAH1TAUU ! . el "There haa been an effort to give , _ Leo XIII , H reputation for avarice This is a gratuitous calumny. Never lias a pope given nioro than LeoXlII. accord ing to his resources. Ho keeps nothing for himself , and his way of living is more like that of a country curate than a pre late. I.t is lucky that etiquette makes tlio pope invariably eat alone ; for his guests would have but meagre cheer. His gar ments cost him nothing ; nuns make his robes for him , and esteem it a special honor and privilege ; andtlie pious ladies of the whole world look to it that his wardrobe is never lucking in rich calotes of white silk , in velvet shoes worked with gold thread , anil in girdles embroidered with his arms. None of the money which conies into his hands is kept by him. The dowry which ho gave his favorite nephew , tlio handsome Catnille IVcci , scarcely amounted to ono hundred thousand francs. What grocer's son would bo satisfied with so little ? Hut Leo XIII. spends liberally for reestablishing lishing the prestige of his court , for the free schools of Koine , for the poor , and even for the Catholic press. The religious journals register day after day the liber ality of Ieo XIII. in cases of accidents , for churches , hospitals , etc. ; they remain silent only concerning the subsidies which ho never refuses to journals whose editors he likes , and who servo his policy with docility. ins i.vcojir : is NOT VEHV I.AHOK. Tlio funds huvo a triple origin. Pius IX. left in the pontitical treasury n cap ital which yields an annual income of about three millions of franes. This cap ital is placed in solid state bonds. It is purely for speculation that the holy father subscribes so largely to Italian loans. Ho resells the stocks as bust ho can , and puts the prolits into Kuglish consols. In tin average year St. Peter's pcnsc , although much run down , pro duces a sum nearly equal to tiio income from J'ius iX.'s capital. The six millions constitute the regular budget of tlio pontifical tifical state. The third source of revenue - nuo is used for the extraordinary budget. It comes from the prolits of the apostolio chancellery , and amounts to about two and one-half millions of francs annually , This is not too much for tlio spiritual head of two hundred million souls. "Loo XIII. wishes to leave behind the memory of a great pope. _ Ho wishes that this pontificate , entirely spent within the enclosure of a palace , this despoiled pontilicate , may survive in visible anil durable works'anil transmit the name of tlio pontilV TO Till' APMIllATIO.V Of VOSTHItlTV. The ceiling of the hall of the Candel abra recites in fresco tlio great events of the pontificate ; tlio apotheosis of Saint Thomas d'Acminas , over which Leo XI1J. presided philosophy , history , belles- lettres , poesy restored and regenerated by the great pope. An Austrian master , llcrr Seidl , has ueon appointed thus to glorify the sovereign pontill. Alas ! although Leo X. has a successor , Ha- phao.1 , and Michael Angela have none ! Leo XIII. intends to attach his iiamn to a vaster work than that , He is en larging and rebuilding the iriuuno of Saint John Laleran. No subject of conversation is nioro agreeable to him than ihu recital of the marvelous Work doiiii in this church , and if hn sees the end of the labor , a there is every reason to hope that ho will do , tlio day of tiiu inauguration will bring him ono of the chief joys of his roign. "Joachim Pecci hag belonged to the church from liK earliest years. Ho has never known the life of the world , as 1'ins IX. did before ho entered the holy orders Ho was born clerical , has lived and remained clerical , and will die popo. To his thinking , as for many Roman and other ecclesiastics , the order of this world is founded upon tlio predominance of u caste , that of the clergy ; this Is the governing class ; the other , the lay portion tion of the world , is the governed class ; .the ono commands and manipulates af fair * the Other obeys , " / A Sensible Woman Declares War Against the Evils of Pasliiou. "DURDENS UPON THEIK BACKS. ' Comfort ami Xcntnoss Without Jnit- Kcr to Health Tlio Dis nsicil "Washington Iinily Harvard Annex For On Is. lios'rox. Jan. 20. [ Correspondence of the lUr. : . ] In these days of reform , women are urining ; themselves more and more into notice "as successful work- ers.and 1 am inclined to give them vastly more credit for their exertions in the re form of which J am about to write , than in a certain other line of what some of the dear women themselves would call reform , namely "Woman's SulVrago. " The question of woman's dress is an old one , but the results of labor in reforming it are anything but old. After much thorough investigation and many sonsi- uo ! and highly intelligent talks upon this subject , Mrs Annie Jennef-s Miller has met with considerable encouragement -and not a little success. It requires but little observation torevei'l tlio many evils entailed upon woman and her progeny by improper modes of dressing * It is an acknowledged fact that women-wear such burden * upon thuirbackasto bring untold disease into the system , and the only hope for their future ami that of their posterity is , to throw oil' thu thraldom of Hiihcalthlul and ungraceful dress , and adopt those methods which will nllow the perfect freedom of all parts of the body. Assuming that Tin : LIAI : > I ; < I& OK KASIMON" nro to bo blamed for many of the exist ing evils. Mrs. Miller has sought and obtained audience among this class. Her remedy is the total diaiisu of the aggre gation of long skirts so universally wor ; ) , with an almost endless complication of loops , pulls and unnecessary weights which the fashion of the day demands. As an example of what our women ought to bn , Mrs. .Miller points to the women of ancient ( ireeeo , whose exquisite beauty and grace have furnished models for a perfection of sculpture which is acknowl edged after twenty centuries to bo the truest of all art. I'hu road to health and beauty does not lie in the modem fash ion plate but in the ideal dress , which should follow the lines of the body and lit it as "Us natural structure demands. Such a ooslumo fulfils all the require ments of health and freedom ; it Is neither ugly nor monotonous but insusceptible to an endless variety of modilieations. It may bo trimmed and draped in a thous and way * , and It will bo beautiful , as long as the exquisite , continuity of its proper lines are preserve" ! ! . Artists could execute their costumes and make tliom much more beautiful than the dresses whichNOW NOW OIVE Ot'lt STYLISH WOMEN' an appearance which is neither human nor divine. Our fine modern fabrics could bo made into costumes to which , for simple beauty and true grace'tho fashionable dresses of to-day would bear no comparison. Airs. Miller is a gradu ate of the Monroe College of Oratory in this city. Her lecture in Wesleyan nail on "Tho Principle of Correct Dressing , " was received with much enthusiasm. She appeared in n ( tress made after her own ideas of correct dressing , and it wag both becoming and momanly. .It is the fash- innablo women who arc trying to stir up the mutter of dress reform , If the cus loin over gets through ( his stratum , it will not bu long in reaching the women who really need it those who work , ami bear the burden of life. An amusing slory is told of a Jady in \ \ ashinglon , who is well known in high society , both in this country and in Kurope , who vvas quite favorably im pressed with thu dresses , which are , as Mrs. Miller wears them , very artistic. The lady called upon Mrs. Miller one day , and after sitting awhile , she exclaimed : "Well. I am di ustud : " On Mrs. Miller asking the cau < c of her disgust , she answered : "Well , hero I am , sans bustle , sans cor sets , and in the most approved combina tion costume , divided skirts , priucesse dress and all , and the very high priestess of tilt ) dress reform doesn't notice me. " "Well , you see now , " said Mrs. Miller , laughing , "that you need have'no fear of being conspicuous , except that you were most arbitrarily dressed. J saw no visi ble change in you. You are as essentially a woman as over.1' TIIK HAIiVAltD ANNKX is an institution about which little is known , as compared with other female educational institutions of the country. Ono reason for this is thtit it. is young , this buing but its seventh year , and another reason is thai no publications have been made by itby which thogencral public could learn its plans and pur poses. The Harvard annex for girls , is an in stitution carried on under thu direction of thu society tor the collegiate instruction ot women. It is not what would bu called a fash ionable school , and young girls who take a college course to learn now to dress , and to become accustomed lo that sort of life which is generally led by a dashing young lady , choose Vassal" or Lasoll in preference to the'annex. The whole idea of the annex for "srirls" is looked upon as a standing joke by col legians of the other sex , who , are given some cause to think that tlio annex is a rende/vous for very mature literary maidens only. Itu this as it may , there lire very few drones at the annex. The school is entirely separate from Harvard college , although thu instruction in thu annex is gi von uy ( hit Harvard professors. It has a building of its own near the col leges wheru tlicru - rc recitation rooms and laboratories. During the past col- legato year , thirty-two schools and col leges have sent women to it , unking a total of seventy-two students this year against lifly-Jivo last year. Tlio demand throughout tlio country for teachers trained in'tho Harvard methods has greatly increased , and pre paratory and high schools Lire constantly applying for graduates from the annette to train candidates for its Classes and for thu Harvard examinations. ' Thugreatest ililllculty lies in findm ; : a sutliuient mini- bur lo taku thu positions offered ; still , many schools of high grade have been supplied with teuchers , from the annex during tlio year. KIIANZ Sicra. . A Very ( Jooil llMfjlmnil. Washington Critic : "John was a very good husband to me , " said the widow Brown , several years after she had laid the worthless , drunken fellow in the grave. "Why , " exclaimed her friend , "I thought ho didn't live with you during thu last ten years of his lifuV "That's why I say what I do , " sighed ( ho wulow , and went ou to praise the late lamented. W. S. Ligon died the oilier evening at Augusta ( in. A conculenco is noticed in this connection which will contjrin some people in their superstitious. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Doolittlo entertained a com pany of visiting friends from upper Carolina lina , nod it was observed at the tune that thirteen people were at the table. Mr. Ligon was the thirteenth to tit down.Ho WHS in line .spirits all the evening , and next woruiug was discovered dead in bud. THEATRES THAT ARE TOMBS , Decline of Dramatic Excellence iu French Authors and Actors. PLAYERS' PREJUDICE AND PRIDE. No More Trnitio flcrolsni IJOVG I3v- prcsHoil by Clook-Work Co- ( liielin. the Great French Stage Note * . pAiti , Jan. 14. [ Correspondence of the I5iu. : ] A careful merchant , at the end of each year , draws up an inventory , and the balance-sheet , shows the amount of business done by his house. It maybe bo well for us to audit in a like' manner the French drama for the year 1SSO , and ascertain what progress we have made , for in the drama more especially licV ; or perhaps did lie , the best literary qualities of our country. Hut why this postulate , "perhaps did Hoy" At the risk of being called a pessi mist , and uotwithstatidingall the interest Parisians take in their theaters , there is no denying the fad that the level of dra matic works now produced is becoming perceptibly lower. If ' Cliamillac" and a "Parisian" gave just cause for apprehen sion that way , Sardou's "Crocodile" at the Porlo-Saint-Murtin has put an end to all our hopes , and we now learn that a new play by Kmilo Augier , which was Booked forward to with confidence , has at the last moment been indefinitely postponed. The fact is that wo are seeking our way. Are wo likely to find itv Much depends on authors and the public ; on the latter perhaps nioro than on the former. It is evident that romanticism has fired and worn out public attention. Tin : CKI'.AT woiws OK nriio , and those of Ids imitators , by straining beyond measure the nerve of all play goers , have superinduced a terror of the sublime. Never before , perhaps , was jt clearly felt how nearly the sublime bord ers ou the grotesque , and the spectator no longer allows himsnlt to bo carried away by turgid sentiment couched in pompous language. Tlio reaction which has set in began with the operetta , and now finds its more suitable expression in the comic play. I do not say in comedy , for people at present care less for a study of manners than for a complicated plot wherein a set of persons justly surprised to meet oacfi other are brought together , liku so many puppets in a show , and jerked amj jostled in company. A perplexing Imbroglio and the mo-it improbable in cidents provoke laughter , and people ask for something to laugh at. Has life , then , grown to bo so dismal in its sober reality that theatrical phantoms muit needs bo called in to supply that fund of gaiety which our mattcr-of fact existence so urgently needs ? AS nut TiiAuir iuitosM : | , the public will have none of it , and Mmo. Simonno ArnaudVFils do J.ihel" proved a failure on that account. In vain has thU estimable lady indited pugo after page of verso which outrivals Corneille in ole- cnnco and Racine in its declamatory lloridnoss , in vain would she gladly eaten our our in favor of tlio .Maccabees ; the public is justly of opinion that the Mao- cabees have long ago gone to tliuir hon ored graves , und that their adventures , however tragical they may have been , possess , after all , but a modicum of retrospective respective interest for us moderns. The play was brought out at the Odcon , where the public is more outspoken than at the C'omedie-Kraneaise. Prejudice reigys .supremo at Moliero's house in the Hue Uiehelicu. Its patrons arc what in the seventeenth century were called "honest folk , " and what wo now style "society.1' The same phalanx goes in a body to the Institute , and religiously listens to the academical discourses of M. ltous.su and M. Leon Say. Taste with it consists iu seeking none but average impressions. Everyone has the right to .say of everything that is wearisome : "How beautiful ! ' ' provided Hi ; STIl'Li : A QL'IKT YAAV'N' . Author , artistes and public are all hand- in-glove in this mutual understanding. To such as seek art in its living and soul- stirring manifestations , tlio Comodie- Francaiso if wo may risk so profane an expression is a mere necropolis. I know full well that it is customary to speak of its company of actors as tlio first in the world. Tin's may bo true , ami I am will ing to admit the fact , lint I should pre fer , like so many more who dare to say the truth , a company of second rank if it would only hot ray a llltlu more of that fiiria franccso s-o Jong the glory of our theater. The artists of the Comcdiu-Francutao are ; perfect , pluperfect. They are something more than actors ; they are functionaries of the dramatic art. There are chiefs among them , ant hero are head- clerks mid supernumeraries. The whole machine works militarily , something after the fashion of the great Frederick's grenadiers , or in the manner ot those Italian ballets wherein love is expressed by clock-work gestures : ONE , TWO THIIKK i-r.ovi-voi' : ' ! To mount n play at the Theatre-I'rancals is like regulating a machine , the internal wheels and springs of which are of the most delicate description ; to work prop erly , the whole must lit nicely and run along without jerk or friction. Tlio "semainior , " or person who has to fix the day's performance , takes a key from a drawer , slips it into a lock , twistit to right and left , and in the evening wo see the artists go through the same gestures at the same moment as on the day before yesterday , smile at the same identical passage and walk up and down the stage without swerving an inch from the beaten path. I shall certainly astonish a great many persons when 1 nay tl-at the Comcdio- Fraucaiso has contributed perhaps more than any ot the secondary theaters to wards tlio declinepf thednima in Franco. Tlie love of ( .In : artiiicial , the all'cctcd and tlio precious , which preeminently distin guishes that house , stamps out all spirit and deadens all greatness. Who , ainoii the young writer * of our day , would think of otferiiig for production at the Thcalre-Francai.s a play rich in the pas sionate ontbnraU of modern life ami thought ? Is It not , above all , necessary that M. Worms should appear before thu footlights IN TIII ; rxtjnsiTK ( 'ovrt'MK of a fashionable gentlemanV Is it pos sible fur M. Lebargv who apes Dduumiy --to sis-itimo thu gestures ol a living maij , or for the angelio Heicheuiberg to speak like the proiiy girl you met just now. and whoso ga/.o entranced you1 ? No , indeed. Sueh a troupe is in duty bound lo cling to that decorum so dear lo Louis XIV. , whom thu subscribers to seals ou Tut-s- days now replace. Let us have dutinc tion and nothing else , whatever bululu ! M. Coipielin himself thu gruat Connu- lin. as must are wont to call him binco tin-death of Napoleon L has found thu muuns of remaining triumphantly dis tingue even in thu most balloon of his tniskmod eccentricities. His merry quips and jokes go Well with thu open waist coat and opera hat. But you would bo astonished to seu how readily ho sot- nsidu this affected distinction in his liolis day trips , when acting in the provinces. His talent at once attains u more ample scope ; he throws aside the stiff collar of routine , and lol overv part he enacts n brim full ot squibs , Hashes and sky- rockets. Any other housn except ( lui Theater-Francais , whore the spectators say " 11IIAVA" IN > n ; < U > OK "IIKAVO ! " would find such acting delightful ; but the froquentcrs of that rare old mummifiud sanctuary would stigmatise it , as vulgar. Compare- Sarah lienilmrdt as she ap peared in "L'Ktraugcru" and MUCH then in Theodora , and you will at once under stand the difference between conventional and real acting. Now , without wishing to deny thu merits of my own country , I think I may assert that the majority of those who constitute the'French nation do not eomu into the world with a dross coat ou their backs , a still' collar and a pair of pointed shoes. Nor shall 1 be considered over bold in assorting that this majority , which wor/.s hard , struggles for its e\Ts- tunce , suffer. ? , laughs , weeps and ( . 'ies ' , is composed of men like you and mo , having human fcelmg.s. and who are beings of llcsli and blood and not woodcu puppets. But the Theater-Francais evict * that a work shall adapt itself to a con ventionality ot universal distinction. Uo > people ever scream , rave , kill or agonist ) iu so refine a midst ? That is all well and good among thu lower classes The re pertory of tlio Thoator-Francais is in tended to sweeten tears , " softiin wrath , and dulcify despair , lleiico a literaturn wholly fatso , in which alone a few old. hands still exhibit a certain u.xpurtiiuss , but one ( hat , happily , is a dead letter for thu rising generation. See what bueouu s even of Itiuhupin , WHO OUT-HUtOPS HKIIOI ) IN Afl\TIV , whnn he sinks to a subject liku thai of "Monsieur Hcapin" for his play : ho apes and copies , and is ( odious. 'J : ike an other example. M. ( iondiiiut is certainly a man of talent. His twenty or nioro plays at the Palais Uo.yal and elsewhere show a close insight into character and considerable oljMirvation. He took into his head to write a piece called "Tho Parisian. " Now , thu Parisian is a queer tvpe , of a peculiarly dibtinctivo class. The Paribian betrays a strange mixture of picratu ot potash and soft sawder in IIIH composition ; ho is as much of a gamin as a hero in everyday lifo. The Parisian squanders three times more vitality th'iii the average man does , both phy-ically and infelli'c'ually ' ; he is a chatter box , anil withal discreet ; an enthusiast winl , > n scuptiu ; a being madu up of contradic lions , and deserving a placu set apart lui him in THi : .SOCIAL I'UK.VOME.VA OP THE WOULD , tils merriment in as exclusively his own as Ins angry mood IN different when com pared with all like manifestations in th. > rest of mankind ; Ids wit , his special f.u-- ulty of retort , is oltentimes brutal , l.i.t always lo the point ; lie is devoted to y > < i ono day and sullish the no\t ; at iiu , > s generous anil as often cruel ; in slmrt , a compound of good and evil In a frail I nervous body. Hail ( iondiuet portray 1 a Parisian for the Ujmmisoorthu V u.l. villo thi'itors , we should have had -i " plu of the gcnuinu article , but In li.i'l ' i < i tin his work for theThuatro-1'ram , IM ! thu result is a Parisian so nicrlv t * ' down that the pursonagu might HM'I ' equal propriety hail from Toulon"r Lillo , inT'landiTs. All the angli l > i > bci-n smoothed , all ( no charm I.M ; -i i traits KofdMiod ; f.o that Coqiielm di ' - n urcd in his part fully twenty dul-Tuul types , all excellent in their way , but tlio ono and 011)3 ) * ' 3'Po wu hail been led to o\ jioet ; just as the mlnn.blo Helchcmlji-r , in .spituof everything , romaineti udur.iiiiu throughout , and , m tact , utterly \\xa.j- sonic from sheer aitorablunutrh. And thus it is that thu Tlien'.ro-Frulicais being thu object of so nuicji pruisu and adulation , is in reality fast killing ihu drama in France. Howuvcr deeply to bo regretted thu fact may bo , it ia welt to call attention to it , in the hope that ihu thing may not go ou forever. J11.1.3