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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY. MAY 8 , 1887.-T WE LYE PAGES. 0 ifei tf \ We mention below a few of the everyday bargains to be found at our store , and cordially invite the public to an inspection of the same. Every article will be found just as represented both in quality and quantity : /iui KJVllj 1309 Farnam St. Mention below a few of the coeru- , day bargain * to be found at their ( store , and cordially invite the pub lic to an Inspection of the Same Koiit'ii article will hs fonnil Just as f rcpreicnted both in finality and * / / ' THOMPSON , BELDEN & CO. BATISTES. Handsome Patterns , Fast Colors. Yard wide 12Jc per yard. Crinkled Seersuckers , cream color , 10 yards for | 1. Fine colored striped Crinkled Seer sucker , 12 yards forfl. THOMPSON , BELDEN & CO. Send for samples. We prepay all postage and express charges on goods ordered by mail. SING A "JOHN KETTLE , " Six Fair New York Girls Inaulgo in an All- Night Game of Pokor. LANGTRY'S HANDSOME TOILET. Mayor Hewitt'n CriiKailo Kdltor Dunn's Dnrky A I'rlnoo Snitbliud Amor'n I'UK Clura Ilollo'M hotter. NKW Yoitic , May 0. [ Correspondence of the BKK.J This particular pug dog in the Madison Square garden show was an Astor. His name was Gun" Astor , and ho belonged to Mrs. William Aslor. His nose was pushed in so far that ho got little of the outer free air to breathe , and his tail was curled so light that his hind feet barely touched the ground. There were other pugs around with him , and as ugly as he , but none wcro like him , an independent capitalist. Yes , Gull is the owner of $1,700 , all won by him as pri/.cs in dog shows , and his mistress has invested the money to his account , thu jield of interest uoing to his support and adornment. Probably ho is the only funded dog in the world. The dog show was nu intensely fash ionable event. It was a pity that the ex hibitors couldn't have been ticketed for idcntilication , like the exhibits , for they were the social celebrities of Now York , and they wentaronnd quite unrecogni/ed by thn mass of visitors. Of course they were known to those who kcep _ posted as to the pretentious cliques , but it is a fact that the men and women of the Astor.s , Vanderbiits , Helmonts. and so on through the noted families , could walk the Bowery without getting a second glance , while even in Broadway , there would be no general recognition. And so it was that when the pretty wife of the junior August Belmont hugged and kissed her pet collie , in the midst of a jam of ga/.ors , few know ivho she was. Nor did Secretary of the Navy Whitney get any popular recognition when ho put his trained Newfoundland through his accomplishments. New York in a tremendously big town. However , there were ladies who success fully exhibited Uiemsolves and their dogs. These were actresses. Helen Dauvray posed along with her setter , Lillian Una- Bell grouped herself with u French poodle , Koso Coghlan attitndini/ed in duo with a St. Bernard , the latest Mrs. Boucicanlt led around an Irish setter and Annie Kobe permitted herself to bo dragged by a uiasUIF ; but the winner of most attention was Mrs. Langtry , who showed herself along witii Freddy lieb- liardt and a fox terrier both on strings. The women admire the Lang- try intensely , and BO I suppose a descrip tion of her toilet is desirable. As she ptood near the orchestra platform , all eyes were turned upon her. but she ap- nppcarcd to be utterly unconscious of anybody but her friends and the musici ans. When they tinishcd playing a par ticular air tint had been given at her re quest , she not only smiled her thanksbut applauded ns well as she could with her arms lilted with n black- ami-tan that had been pre- gunted to her. Mrs. Langtry made a pic turesque appearance in a costume of olive green and red. Over a red silk bkirt , made full and finished with points nt the edge , there was a short , straight drapery of olive velvet , striped in red , nnd the costume was completed by a jacket of velvet set oil" by frills of lace in front. She wore a largo hat of mouse color rolled up at one side , and adorned , with green and red ostrich tips. On this occasion , Mrs. Lmigtry revealed herself as the possessor of the auburn locks arranged in a novel stylo. The hair crimped seemed to be loose1 ? confined low at the back with pins , suggestive of a cushion , ami altogether had too artificial a look to bo becoming. Mayor Hewitt's crusade against dirt is solidifying his intluence with the women of Now York , and if they had a political iarty of their own they would nominate ' } lim 'perpetual president of the universe and parade him under the banner of the dust cloth and broom. Before ho got the idea that n mayor's ' business was looking nf lor the inibio comfort and conveniences , rather that laying political subways to renomlnation. the dirt was the boss of Now York. People put barrels of ashes on the curbstone , and men came along in the middle of the day with carts , lifted the barrels , poured part of the contents mto the carts , and distributed thu re.st in critty showers over the people passing by. Italians generally vrent ahead of the carts and stirred up the contents of the barrels with their rag hooks. When the city laborers amused themselves by cleaning a street , railroad workmen followed thum ami spilled moro-dirt on the pavement be tween the tracks. Storekeepers swept nil the refuse from their Doors across the sidewalks , and never stopped a sweepIng - Ing to let anybody pass. The wisk of a broom would till the llouncus of a lady's dross with the dust and cigar stumps Irom a store. The mayor began order ing garbage collectors to do their work at night. Then he told the police to prevent thu Italians from making a mess on the side walks. Finally , ho settled the ash barrel nuisance by issuing orders that barrels should not bo set upon the sidewalk at nil. The sweeping of dirt from buildings into the street was prohibited , the rail road men wore told to quit spreading liiiim and sand on the pavements , and ( New York began to put'on a clean fare nnd fall to rccogni/.e itself. In the on > forcemeut of these orders , some qiii'cr things occurred. Charles A. Dana's nt- pro servant went out to sweep back into uic gutter the dust that had been blowa from the street to the sidowalk. A zeal ous policeman ordered him to take the dust up in a pan and carry it into the house , and arrested him for 'refusing to do it. A police justice lined the man if 10 , and Mr. Dana paid , So long as the excise laws wore en forced only against little irin mills and the dives , there was no clamorous outcrv against them , but the mayor has com pelled the police to bo impartial , and all Now York is astounded. The idea of a policemaninvading Delmonico's and the Brunswick has shocked every gentleman drinker bevoud the power of articulate speech. The city is full of howlmir swells. They are clamorinir for a repeal of the odious law that says a man s month shall bo like a limekiln on Sun day. The Germans are join ing in the outcry , because the law against makinir a combine of music anil beer is being applied to singing societies as well as to concert halls and dives. The Germans stand up lor their inalienable right to drink beer anil sing between drinks. When the in tervals are not too frequent , the Gorman c'ti/.en ' sings well. Ho sings tolerably , even when the schooner has been filled and drained a great many times. Ho never sings badly. To tell a fellow-Ger man citi/.on that ho shall not make niiisio when he feels goodis an impertin ence on the part of law-makers , who know nothing of thu mellowing inllu- cncos of beer. Ho resents it and joins the swells in their howl. There is no theatre joke moro univer sally appreciated by audiences in this town than a smile drawn trom the game of poker. When a poker expression is used the men roar and the women gig gle and ono would think that everybody played it. And as a matter of fact , it is getting moro popular than ever , and the girls are trying it in earnest Ono of i them told mo about an expression that shows how it is going. She was ono of a party of six , all girls , that mot at the house of the only ono of their number who was married. Her husband had taken n business trip to the south. They began the night with a box at the theatre , and when the per formance was over they had a lunch at a famous cafe , so that it was nearly 1 in the morning before they sat down to play. They were now to the game , I bo- iieve , but their playing had been confined to the modest ante-midnight hours , nnd generally a live-cent limit , with gentle men in. I wish 1 understood the game that I might make clear how it was that my friend came out of it earlier than she had expected to. She had won five of the first half do/.en kettles , I think she said , and then began to hold such cards that she lost all her pile in anteing the hippies. At last she had three kings , an co nnd a live spot dealt to her n the course of a largo * ohn Kettle , nnd she determined to hinge. Somehow she raised the ante , lirow away'her live spot and drew anther - ) ther ace. The hostess stood pat , as the aying is. My friend felt very sure of vfnnlng the kettle , and accordingly bor- owed a lot ot chips from her compan- ons. But before the betting was over ho had to pledge her watch nnd ear- ings , and finally , getting -alarmed , she nit her elegant new spring wrap on the able and called. The hostess thereupon lisplayed four two spots. My friend aid she thought she didn't care to play any longer , but the others wore inter ested and continued the game , it was then six o'clock and the hostess lent the dear rirl live dollars to pay for a cab to get omo in. She was allowed to take with icr as well , her collateral on the under standing that she get an advance of locket money as soon as possible and > ay up. She says she will feel pinched 'or a mouth , but instead of vowing never to play the dreadful game again , she is determined to got oven , 'and is anxously waiting the time when with debts paid and a pocket full of pin money she can buy chips once moro. Wo have had a real prince among us , xnd have rather snubbed him. Ho was Prince Estorha/y , of Austria. The women of fashion who patroni/o public charities by having their names printed on the backs of admission tickets to en tertainments gave a walm around at a swell restaurant. The rilVair was adver tised us a fete , and it was announced that Prince Esterha/.y's orchestra had been engaged to make the music. So ciety would go to hear musicians belong ing to a prince with a snee/.y name. The prince's musicians are regularly em ployed as part of the show in it wax works museum , and the prince himself , had just arrived on a tour round thu world. Everybody of social ac count wont to the fete. At onu owl of thu room was a little balcony stuck on the wall close to the ceiling. A tall man standing in it would bump nis head against the plaster. The orchestra perched away up in that little martin nox were expected to do their fiddling Somehow or other Prince Estorha's chief violinist got it into his head that society want to dear him and his com rades play. Hucamo down from his lofiv pen nnd found ono of the patronesse * . who Deemed to bo running things , and suggested that it wpuld bo much butter to have the musicians on the llooi. An interpreter stated the ca c. The pat- rones.i put on her nioit gracious manners , and said she really didn't see how that could be done , because all the corners of the room were being used , either for ( lower stands nr Ilirtation nooks. Hi. answered that the middle of the Hour would be bolter. Was it too hot , or too cold up in thu balcony. No : In. was not thinking of that ; but tint ualcuny was so close to the roiling and so luirli alieni- the crowd that the miiiic could nut ln. > heard to any advantage. In ( act , thu inuit : ir- tKtlc effects would bo ntturly ruinni. I'hi ) patroness looked relieved. NV : s that nil ? She would like to make things agix'itahlu to the musicians , but -lie did not uo how they could play on the lloor' "Toll him , " she said to the intorprutcrl "that it would interfere with the. daiio lug. These uirla would go mud if thcj Parasols and Son Umbrellas , Si-lndi Silk Soriro Sun Pinbrullns $1 7 ! > Sl-lnvh hllkHfiiro Sim Pmluellas . . . U W " 1 Inch c-\tni line Silk Serge Sun I'm- biolliH S 00 Il-lnoli oxtru line SIlH SOI-RO Sun Um- brollns . 2 M A complete lliiii of nil the latest novelties In PARASOLS. Wo nro solo ngontd In this clly for Mohr's Celebrated Self-Opsning Umbrellas. The o Koocln nro n Kront mnclty and ctm lie opmu il nml ulosuJ c < n lly \ \ Ith ono liantl. Wo Klvonn unllmitutl KUiirnntoo ns to their durability. Ono number especially mlaptcd for school children. Do not fall tncxnmlno them before purchas ing elsewhere. THOMPSON , HELDEN & CO. couldn't dance. Ho listened to the inter preter , and watched the patroness , who was smiling the most effusive , mechani cal , society smile. Then ho shrugged his shoulders and went un into the balcony to liddlo. Probably ho liddled well , but nobody down stairs knew anything about it. Wax tiddlers placarded , "Prince Lstorha/y's band , " would have answered the purpose just as well. in theaters for a few seasons past you arc regaled with an overpowering odor of fresh cologne. This was a mystery until I observed that the fashionable lady accompanied by a Inure cut scent bottle had a good bit of private business with it between acts. From her pocket shu extracts - tracts a lump of sugar , and in the pri vacy of her programme carctullv drops as much can do cologne from her llask as the sugar will hold , takes it up gingerly with her lace hand kerchief and convoy's it to her mouth. In this way a mild state of boo/.o may bo acquired. The escort who goes out to sec a man has not much advantage over the cologne- eating woman. It. produces a sort of da/.e , very similar to the ollects of chloral. The odor is vastly superior to that of old rye , it isn't wicked like cocktails , and it is quite the gentle thing. I'd like to know what my adventurous sex will try next. Ilyponiermic needles , anodyne , chloral , bromide and colognol This world must be an awful failure to some people , that they try so hard to stillo the real and annihilate the present. I took Maria to a matinee , and the play was so dismal that , when a friend going up the aisle asked if ho could do anything for us , I said : "Yes , just do as well by us as you will by yourself. " Ho did. On his- return ho laid a pretty bunch of ( lowers in my lap , and , when their extraordinary weight aroused my attention , behold , cunningly fastened by a wire to the cen ter was a half pint pumpkinseed - seed bottle. Through tno cork into the heart of a calla lily went a straw. With what a wealth of admiration lor man's invention diil wo hold that fracrant bou quet to our pleased faces. The bartender that has got up this novel way of intro ducing a mild cocktail to a lady in au orchestra chair deserves to prosper , and no doubt ho will. Whenever yon see a lady in a theatre inhailing the fragrance of a huge bouquet , you may rightly sus pect she has got light with hor.thatwhich you will have to go out for. it is a com fort to know that men are inventing something to amuse ns. The anothecary _ lias hitherto been the man to lay himself out to catch us , but now the bar room falls into line , and wo women ought to be thankful. A man on Broadway has gene _ to putting tip little medicine chests filled with numerous bottles. With this box yon get a book. W herovcr you read , "For general lassi tude , indisposition to do anything and a desire for perfect repose , take No. 10 at 9 a. m. , follow up with 19and 40 between 3 p. in. and 0 p. m. , returning to No. 10 at bedtime. " "For reluctance to rise , and tendency to lie dowi' ' during the dav , take 50 in moderation until exhausted , nnd continue with 80 and 80. Bottles can bo replenished at any ot our agencies. " This is a noble work of art , but it isn't as interesting as going to the drugstores. What fun it is to listen to people in apothecary thecary shops. I had occasion to have a prescription for a favorite dog put up the other day , and 1 sat and listened. A largo woman with an aggravating set of store teeth gnashed 'cm with confidence at the clerk , and said : "Doctor ( they address a ten-year-old boy in a drug shop as 'doctor , ' ) "can you recommend this tooth powder ? I imagine Peruvian bark is injuring my teeth. They fool sensitive to the touch. " "Bo caniful how you handle 'em when you take "cm out , " said a small voice in the rear of an almanac. Only that the directory was chained up , yon wouldn't know this. Thou in came a largo woman with a fierce look : "My husband ain't feeling well , doctor ; ho wants to got something to brace him up , so's ho can go to a tar get excursion to-morrow. " "Calysia bark and iron , " suggested the clerk. "Not much , " , was the reply , "give mo a bottle of citrate magnesia , one dozen compotind tincture rhubarb pills , three ounces senna and a dash of croton oil. Them fishing bairns and target excursions is a good ways off for some folks. " CLAIIA BELLE. Charles Doubter , os Duwson , Ga. , has n shepherd dog that drives his chickens up at night. About sundown the dog becins las rounds over the premises , and never stops until every fowl is driven up and is m the hen house. If a chicken shows a disposition not to retire to its roosting place the dog drives it in the hen house and .stands guard at the door until the chicken takes a perch on the roost. A New Jersey American , while traveling - ing in Canada recently , called on the American consul at Uuelnh , Ont. Inquir ing for the Hag of his country , which ho < ! \pi-ctid ; : to see proudly waving in the wind , hn found it was doing duty in a backroom as a window curtain. This is not so bad .is the case of an American COIIMI ! in San Domingo , who used his "proud emblem of freedom" as a towel. A wotnin of Spartansbnrg , S. C. while canning an armload of wood , was re cently attacked oy a rabid dog , but , Cropping a portion of her load , she 'itched mto thu dog and killed him with adub > A bint's nest found on a roof near thq United States mint in Washington was 1 beautifully lined with gold. The parent bird had carried oil' gold dust in Its feathers and shaken them out in iU tiny home. Mousignor CancI is again spoken of at [ Homo for a missionary bishopric. It la aaid that the oirutic prelate has become mi expert lisbcrinan. and that ho is preparing paring tor a season with the trout of the j Adirondack * . RUOHINGS AND Linen Collars. \Vo are showing a most complete line of the latest novelties in Knchings. Many very pretty stylus at . " > o per yard. Now Ribbon Huohlngs , all colors. New Lace Knchings. Tourist's Kuclnng at 85o a box. Lace and Linen Chemisettes at from 25o to $1.75 each. Ask to see them. French I'urculu Sots collar and culls- warranted fast colors , at 25e a set. Dorsoy Collars and Choniisottes. Ladies' Fancy Seta collars auit cuffs with ribbon trimmings , verv pretty. THOMPSON , BELDEN As CO. DINING HALL MENDICANCY , Steady Increase of the Abominable Habit of Tipping Menials. _ _ _ * A DEFAULTER'S BIG UIFTS. It'H HnKlisti , You Know Senator Tluirmnii'a Avcrnlon to UccKl"K Sorvniits llow to Homed ed y the Evil , The practice of tipping , or giving gratuities to hotel porters , restaurant and hotel waiters , and other servants , writes James Q. Howard , of the Forum for May , is of comparatively recent in troduction into the United States. Some eighteen or twenty years ago. when our foppish young men about town began to make trips abroad , it was observed , on thtir return home , that they had adopted foreign accentsinllections , affectations , and especially that they aped everything English. Tipping was nt that time , as now , an established custom m England , as well as throughout Eu rope and Asia , and acres of palms , itching fcr coin , wore outstretched by a mendicant host , ranging from the laccrt major-domos of gorgeous palaces and the liveried beadles in great cathedrals , down to the beggars of India ind Egypt , and the lazzaroni of Naples. So universal was the custom that it went ar to justify the sarcasm of Senator Thurman , who , when asked if ho had net Prince Bismarck , replied ho was ox- remoly sorry ho had not , because ho did want to meet ono person in Europe who vas not waiting for him to hand over a hilling ! When tipping was first introduced at ) elmonico's , by some of the traveling ops , the astonished waiters did not know vlult to think of it. The moro manly ittendants wcro inclined to resent the seeming attempt to buy or bribe them , vhilo others wore disposed to pocket the gratuity , with the reflection that the donor must have a "little too much. " tut the men of fashion , who are usually ho men of fortune , soon made it known hat to tip was "good form , " The prac- ice rapidly spread from the fashionable restaurants and hotels to the second , bird , and fourth-rate places. While the abuse has not yet become so universal as hero m older ocuntrics , it is spreading apace. Guests arc not expected to pre sent gratuities only to waiters and cooks , o porters , chambermaids , bell-boys and jootblocks. to janitors.baggage-checkcrs , runk-haudlers at railway stations , and a : ow other non-enumerated classes. Bar- ) crs receive extras , varying from a dime o a dollar , from nebs and nabobs ; soon .hoy will bo demanding like treatment from all. Before inquiring where the evil will end , let us ascertain precisely what the evil is. The practice of exacting tips is mde- 'ensible ' from every point of view. The jill of faro at a restaurant sets forth a scale of prices for the articles of food or refreshment supplied , and , as a rule , : hose prices are high enough , heaven mows , and are steadily increased from year to year , in the face of the fact that provisions of all kinds have been Ucclin- ing for a long time. The profit on thirty ditl'orcnt articles of food , chiefly vegeta bles , served in a leading restaurant in New York , is found upon investigation to range from three hundred to nmo hun dred per cent. The patron consents to pay this profit on his lettuce , beans , or corn , and ho finds that he is also ex pected to pay twenty or twenty-five per cent moro to the servant who brings him the vegetables. If ono wore expected to pay extra only for extra civility or special intelligence , there might bo some excuse for the system. But this is not nil the ground on which the practice rests. You are expected to reward alike civility and incivity. to pay handsomely for both intelligence and stupidity , and to bo equally liberal to conrtsy and insolence. If your waiter brings yon tainted meat or stale veget ables , he looks for the same douceur as if ho had brought you palatable or whole some food. If tno tip is'notforthcoming , his insolence is shown as long as you re main , and if you return ho will either re fuse to wait on you , or serve yon worse than before. Between cooks and waiters there is always a perfect understanding as to the treatment that favored or ob noxious guests shall receive , for the rea son that the tips are 'divided between them. The spend thrift.however worth less , who wastes the ( most money on them , gets the best entertainment the place can ail'ord , whilu the provident patron , paying the same high rates , if not lavish with his money , must put up with the smallest and meanest portions that can bo served. Ono of the most distinguished members of the United States senate has frequently , it is said , been insulted aad reviled , be cause of his habitual refusal to submit to this iniquitous tax. At hotoln on the American plan , whore the charges are $4 or f.1 a day , or 50 per cent higher than when provisions wore 50 per cent dearer , the guest is expected to add a dollar or so a dav in the form of gratuities , to the exorbitant published rates. Now , the guests should either pay the servants all their wages.or pay none. Their employer , the landlord , ' should properly compensate all his employes for their services , or saddle their entire support upon his patrons. There is no logic and no sense in dividing their sup port between their employer and the per sons they serve. At some hotels porters got $29 a month from the proprietors , and about > M a1 day or $121 a month , from the quests. In. the cafu ai iiii'icaii ' and Arnold's ' Indigo Blue Prints tijc a yard Them : arc the brut aooils nf their ItlH'l in the market , and arc sold liii other dealer * as a driveat 7r. } Ho hare just received a cane of new p-tt- tcrns that arc i'crideal ruble , Here is a Bargain. Jtest Cochceo Lawns , worth lli\c \ llest 1'acljle Oruan-ltcs , worth IGc A ehntca line of putter us will tic pitt on mile Monduiniornlna at 83c per i/ard. Don't miss them , THOMPSON , BELDEN As CO. Dolmonico's the waiters receive a salary of $25 a month , and make as high as ! * ; > a day , or .f 150 a month , in tips. Why impose six-sevenths of the burden of the servant's conipons.ition upon the public , and not seven-sevenths ? The .step i , ot course , a short one to that Kuropoai system - tem under which the servants pay fixed annual premiums to nominal employes for eligible positions from which they can prey upon the public. From what wo have said it follows that obtaining money through an ostensibly yoluntary.but really compulsory , process is obtaining money under false pretenses ; it is a species of black-mail , where in--o- leiico and insult follow a refusal to "do- liver ; ' it is tolerated swindling , be cause it is taking your money with out rendering any equivalent ; and it is licensed robbery , less manly than the footpad's because yon are forced to pay a second time for what von have too ex orbitantly paid for already. For it must not bo forgotten that when you pay your leiritnnate restaurant or hotel bill yon pay for intelligent service and for proper civility and proper attention , no less than for your napkins , knives , and food. Those miscellaneous gratuities are not defensible on the score of charity , because - cause chief waiters or superintendents , with whom the subordinates divide their ill-gotten gains , arc frequently able to ride in their own carriages in Central park , and are in better financial condi tion than many of those from whom they receive gratuities. If it be said that these servants cannot live on sjtfo or $10 a mouth , hence are objects of charity , the answer is , that thousands of deserving men and women all around us arc re ceiving less. If thcic able bodied table servants cannot live on tticir legitimate pay , they should seek other employment and not be hourly asking alms. That the practice wo are considering is detrimental to the interests of employ ers is demonstrable , m fact , is conceded by managers of hotels and restaurants themselves. In collusion with cooks , waiters will often servo extra portions , or extra largo portions in expectation of .hereby establishing a claim on the lib erality of the guest. Thus they rob their employer by serving what is not paid for , n order to make profit for them selves. At hotels conducted on the American plan they increase enor mously the waste of food , by bringing rucsts more than they have ordered. Much good food is wasted at a large American hoteland this waste is doubled through the tipping swindle. Hut the > ropnctors of hotels say they are power- ess to get rid of the evil , when it was suggested to the manager of one of the irmciiml hotels of New York that it would' bo thousands of dollars in his pocket if ho should declare war uuon the growing abuses and put an end to the robbery of his patrons , ho replied : "It can't be done ; 1 should Jose two months' jusiness if 1 attempted it. " In cxplana tion he said that his help would all nu mediately leave him ; that ho could no Keep a boll-boy or chambermaid ; and tha t would take two months to get together servants that might stay upon being paid nighcr wages than other hotels wcro paying. Thus , then , this organi/ed evil lias introduced a reign of terror ; its sys- lomati/.od tyranny cannot bo resisted by ihose whoso interest it is to escape from its control. If this bo true , is it not high time that this plundering servants' boy cott should bo terminated ? But the weightiest objections to this system remain to be stated. The "tip- pees , " or persons receiving these un earned gratuities , are debased and de moralized by the irrational usage. The best way found , shine the world began , to get money , is to earn it. Hut if able- bouicd men can get a half-dollar by standing around opera houses , and opening the doors of gentlemen's carriages , they will not work a half-day for the same sum. A lackey will not toil an hour for a quarter of a dollar , if he can get as much by handing n fop a match or a tooth-pick. Hard work is precisely what the professional tip-hunters have an aversion to ; their re pugnance to labor increases with the in crease of their easily gotten gratuities. Nor will they strive to plcaso , if n tip must follow whether they please or not. By placing themselves in the attitude of mendicants they lese their self-respect. A distaste for all work which brings in gains slowly soon follows. The real working classes are , hence , constantly depleted and the class of light workers re-enforced by the indolent and thoughtless , who are de luded with visions of sudden riches and rapid gains. In the old world tno de moralisation of labor through this agency is universal. So wide spread lias the evil become that our accomplished consul-general at 1'rankfort , Hon. Alfred E. Leo , f9rwarded , in 1880 , an pllicial re port to his government upon this subject. The consul-general says : "In estimating the tales of waces , the prevailing vailing tut bit ot imvini , ' potty gratuities known as trlnkkreld , drink-money , should betaken taken Into account This vicious custom , which It In to be hoped may never take root in our country , bears the remarks of the old feudal system , \\hlch made the umnloyer a master ana the employed a serf , and is onu of the most demoralising InllwnciM which nlTccts ( iurman labor. The practice of mak- Ini ; Dart of the Inboiei's compuimtlnn a favor , to be conferred at discretion , reduces his Independence , degrades his manhood and converts honoiable toll Into a sort ot lic ensed begKnry. * * * When the work man hat earned Ids wages he Is entitled to receive their fall amount , Independently of tlio discretion of his employer , and without liability to that natuial contempt which is felt for a well-dressed or able-bodied mendi cant On the other hand , If ho receives waues which ho does not earn , his employer is Imposed upon , and the position of tha em ploye is thHt of a person supported In Idle ness or dependent upon charity. The elTer.t of the drink-money hvstem on the morals of labor may bo readily interred , for oven if the margin Itetwceo licensed mendicancy and dishonesty were wld" . the ono would bo a standing temptation to the other. " Mr. 1 'o'B report need not bo quoted further to prove thai the question of fur- Wo call the especial attention of ladles wishing something new and choice in Wash Dross Fabrics to our invoice , just received , of Fine Scotch Ginghams. Thny arc the latest importation , con sisting ot chenille stripes and tufts , with combinations to match. The efl'ects are very handsome , but must be seen to bo appicclatcd. Prices lOo and 6Uc per yard. Please call and see thi-m. THOMPSON , BELDEN As CO. vant-fecinir deserves serious and dig- tnlicd discussion , and that it rises to the height of an economic pioblem worthy of our thoughtful attention. Since the evil has not yet .spread far beyond the large cities and summer resorts , it may bo checked , if all who are opposed to the imposition on principle will firmly refuse to submit to it , and do what they can to create , or rather strengthen , pub lic sentiment against it. If not checked , whch it may be , wlioro will it endv It will come to this , lh.it street-ear oondiio- tors must bo tipped , else they will land you in the mud. or not land you at all ; . gatemon on the elevated roads must bo "remembered , " or they will shut u" ' [ ' the cars or lock you out ; every clerk in the stores , from whom yon buy a tin pan or a vard of iringham , must bi > "treated hamfsomely , " or you will liud yourself contemptuously snubbed ; anil , as in London , every policeman of whom you ask your way must ha\o a com pressed to Ins palm , else he will purposely lead you astray. Those and other classes of persons have as gooil a right to cspcct gratuities as have those wo now reward for less valuable services. Logically , there is no place to stop between paving twice for all Cer vices and paying twice for none. The lofty and truly grand .stylo ot feeing ser vants is that adopted by the Boston defaulter of the other day , who proudly handed $5 | to the waiter who brought him a spoonful of absinthe , or a tinger-bowl. Haviuir stolen half a million , there seemed to him no reason why ho should not bo liberal with other people's ' money , and squander it on harlots and menials. We commend the Boston stvlo to all spendthrifts , because it impresses waiters profoundly , and this seems to be tno chief object of the tip. The waiter's un qualified admiration cannot bo had on nnv lower terms , for all largesg dis pensers should know that a supercilious servant who has once received a live- dollar gratuity must consider dollar and mlf-dollar tips small nnd mean. He mist draw the line somewhere. But had lot practical Americans better draw the me on a business basis , and pay only or what thov got ? JAMKS Q. Ilow.vni ) . Oil HUGH NOTICES. To-ilny'a Services at the Different ClmrclicH Throughout the City. I'llESIIVTEIilAN. Southwest Presbyterian Church , corner > avenworth nnd Twentieth streets Kev. ) avld It. Kerr , pastor. Preaching and com- nunion service at 11 a. in. Evening sermon at 8 p. in. Sabbath school at 3 p. m. Younu > eoplu's association at 7:15 : p. m. Presbyterian Church Corner Dodso and Seventeenth streets. Services at 10:3Ua. : in. nnd 8 p. m. Pleaching by the pastor , Itov. \V. J. llarsha. Sundav school at noon. YOUIIK people's meeting at 7:15 : p. m. United Presbyterian , corner Park avenue nnd Grant street Pleaching in the mornlne at 11 and in the evening at 8. babbath school at 12. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8. You are welcome. The Presbyterians will worship In Trolel's tall , near the corner of Leavenworlh and Pail Sheridan streets at 10 :30 : n. in and at 8 i. m. .Sunday fachoo 1st noon. Services con- luctcd by the Itov. .lolin Gordon , pastor of ho t-nnu'rctrntlon. The green line cars pass the door. All are cordially Invited. IIAI'TIBT. Beth-Eden Ilnntlst Church Services at 1:15 : p. m. at St. Mary's avenue Congrega tional church. Preacbiuc by Itov. M. J. Sulli van. Sunday school at 3 p. m. Prayer moot- UK Thtusday evening at 7:30 : o'clock. All welcome. Calvaiv Baptist Church , Saundcrs street llov. A. W. Clark , pastor. Services at 10:30 : a. m. Preaching by the pastor nnd admlnls- .ration of the Loid s supper. Sunday school at 11:45. : Preaching at 7:45 : p. m. Praver neotlnir Wednesday evening at 7:45. : All are cordially Invited to the services. Flist Baptist Church-Strangei's Sabbath Home Corner fifteenth nnd Davenport streets. Itov. A. W. Lamar , pastor. 1 'reach ing at 10 : : > 0 a. in. and 8 p. m. Morning lliemo , "Clnlst Koveallnn Himself to the Disciples. " livening theme , "The Child Spirit and Its Uehitlon to Ktcrnal Lite. " Sabbath school at 1'J in. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8. Altaic couliallv Invited , boats tree. oTUKit riiuiiciir.s. German Lutheran Church 1003 S. Twen tieth street. Services every Sunday at 10 a. m. bunday school at 2 p.m. K.j. Irese , pastor. Saint Barnabas Church Nineteenth and California streets. Sunday services at 11 a. m. , with celebiatlon. Kxensong nt 7:30. : SundayschoolatUa.nl. Huv. Robert lor- herty , S. T. 1) . , oniciatliiK. ( icrinau Kvniigollcal sin vice Sunday after noon nt ! i o'clock , llov. Dr. Fr. Win. - mann , Kmanuel church , corner ot Cass nnd Nineteenth stieet. Subject , St John , chap ter 10 , verses 5-15. Unity Church Corner of Seventeenth and Cass streets. Services at 11 a. m. Sunday school nt 12:15. : Uov. W. K. Copeland , pas tor. Subject of seimon thlsmornln ) ; , "A Love Koawt. " No evening service. Como to the Cynthia chanel. Walnut Hill , Omaha , next Lout's day. May 8 , nnd hear the tollowlm ; subjects < nccussed : Mornlnc , "The Christian Church. . " Kvonlnir , "Tho Church In tha Present Crisis. " The mornIng - Ing discourse \\ill bn an argument for the position of the Christian church , concerning establishment. Will bu glad to see you. Huv , A. II. Sawyer , pastor. Saints' Cbai-el Twenty-llrst nnd ClarK streets. Preaching at 11 a. m. nnd 7 : p. m. Sunday school ut I'JiTO. Everybody wel come. _ Thrco car loads of bananas were re ceived at Dayton , Ohio , In all stages of growth , and in one bunch u young taran tula was discovered , benunied with cold , Placed in a warm glass in the htm the vunomus Imeni soon became lively and ready to stinijhatovcr might come in its way. Mrs , KHynbcth Jlillard , of Iowa ; Mrs. Margaret Arnold , of Ohio , and Mrs. Su san Bailey , of D.iKota , are sisters. The hi'dt is DUD hundred and twelve years old , tin ) sri-nnd line hundred and nine and the , third iiiiu-tv-sis. making a total of three hundicd si'veiitecn ycars'for these three rcuiiukablo NOIUCU , . . . We make .ipreial tncntlin o.f fO $ la me and complete iiocAof White Goods Some etrfiant fubrlen In r etorlat and Jtlfhop l.ttinn , I'lald ant Stripe Cambric , I'luln. stripe am J'luidJt'alnnook , India LiinnnSwivf Muslin , dottcil/if/tired and plaid , 4 very n lee srlcclion for su m m t-r dresHjf rs. A lurue. llitc of cmbroldcrct robes in bo.ves. THOMPSON , HELDEN iCO. . Some time ago a valuable canary oi Ithaca , N. Y. , lost its voice , and when taken to a local bird dealer seemed to bq choking to death. The dealer found tha $ thorn was a tumor as largo as a pea growing at the root of the bird's tongno , and , putting the little fellow under thq influence of chloform , ho cut it away. 'Hie bird soon recovered , and now singa as Well MS ever , ' Mrs. George Hearst , wife of the : senator from California.gavo a icccption ; , at Washington last week which was , it is. , said , a model of what a reception ought I ' to bo , given by people of unlimited : means. It alkmled a marked contrast to the vulgar display of other rich people in Washington , in that good taste anil nod mere money was the general cllect of it. Several years ago a few deer were lot loose on the mountains cast of lit1 nning- ton , and since that an effort has been made to enforc the law forbidding any ono to kill deer in Vermont. The result is that already hero and there through out the state deer are sconand as the la\y\ \ has Ihrro years yet to run it is quite likol the ( Jreen mountains mayin timebe well stocKcd. ' Inventor Edison is described in ft Florida paper as a smooth-faced man , apparently forty years of age , with a , slightly sunburnt lace , and wearing darfc clothes , white Manuel shirt and a jaunty tie. It is proposed to add a skatinc rink tq the English college for the blind , MUCO skating iurnishiis one ot the bes * . exer cises for the blind. THE RAILWArriME TABLES , OMAHA. DUMMY TIIA1NS. Ilunninp between Council BlntTs and South Omaha , in addition to the stations men tioned , trains stop at Twentieth nd Twenty fourth streets , and nt Summit , In Omaha. Womwnrcl. Kaatwartt. COUNCIL DliUFFB. CONNECTING LINESAanfifcr ; Vrmsfo' I depot I depot cTiT. I. * P. : 7:15 : a m :15 : a m All Trains urn Dally. 0:15 : a in SflSpm 0:40 : pin 7:00 : pin iT"s.\v \ ; ! i I Aiurnins inn iiiiiv . . . . J fll5 ! ro 9l'i : m AlUraliisuiinlalIi..J 010pln ; 7oopm : C. 1 ! . A Q. ' i All tnlusnm dally. . . . j gjg ? j" InUm/dW. / . . 6 ° . : 21 7 ° ! w S S K. C. St. .1. , t U.'lT. i I Kvoi't ' Situnl.iy. I000a ; m tfina : m IK.NCcpt .Mi win ) . * 6Wpm : 5:30 : p t , . W" .St."l7S"lT T I j All tr.iintiiii , daily . . ) 250 ; pra VJ:1' : pm I | 7:05a : ra 9 : m