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PART II. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE.PAGES 9-16. SEVENTEENTH YEAE. OMAHA SUNDAY. MOENING , NOVEMBER (5 ( , 1887 SIXTEEN PAGES. NUMBER 141. PERKINS , GATCH & LAUMAN , Will Open the Finest China Store in the West , They have the Handsomest Rooms , in the Finest Building in Omaha , TH RNAM STREET You are Respectfully Invited to Call and Examine Our Large Lines of DINNER , TEA , BREAKFAST AND SUPPER SETS , Oyster , Fish , Game , Salad , Berry , Ice Cream , Oatmeal , Wine and Liquor Sets. KB EvzHSQx ! SFB THE ROYAL POTTERIES , Worcester , Dresden , Hungarian , Persian. Cashmere , Egyptian , Teplitz , Carlsbad , Crown Derby. Etc. BRASS , BRONZE AND COPPER FIGURES , Vases , Pitchers , Stands , Tables , Fire Sets , Lamps & ChandeliersBac- caret , and Bohemian Glassware , Etched & Plain , Crystal & Colored. AND A MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF Silverware from the iable Manufacturers , Carving Sets and r PERKINS , GATC 5 1514 Farnam Stree - SOME VARIETY CHESTNUTS , How the Good Old Rounder Finds Pleasure In the Vaudovillo. "HE SAME OLD SONGS AND GAGS' trim Sylpli , the Irish Comedian , tile I Negro and tin ) Itaiijoist all Carry \ UH Hack UKo the Olil SOUKS of Childhood. ' 't. Louis Globe Democrat : To the o"id "rounder , " the man tibout town , the variety show is nsource of never-failing ( delight , though ho knows when ho pays Pals money ut the box olllco just wluit ho is going to sco and hour. Ho known as well as ho knows he's alive jnst whut iho grand olio will consibt of , for he's eeon liundreds of them. It is not the least of his pleasure of the evening when ho picks up the play bill and rcc- oyni7.08.tho familiar luxuriance of the mljectivos sprinkled about the names of the performers In this amusement-mak ing aggregation which holds the boards. Ho takes his scat , and the whistles from the gallery gods are dear to his heart , for when ho was u lad ho sweated and whistled in the gallery , too , for the ap pearance of just such lights of the stage us ho has eomo to see to-night. Hal the Muno old fat man at the buss fiddle , tuid the Biuno distinguished-looking roar of the orchestra leader rosining his bow. Like the memory of an old Bong learned in childhood is that over ture , the chief feature of which is sure to bo the bird in the forest or the loeo- inotivo. The curtain goes up , and there before his eyes is the sumo old hconory which ho used to see In the old theatre to which ho went when a boy the gorgeous parlor in which the aggre gation comes out and presents its full force to the audience ho used to think it was biieh gorgeousness at this parlor that the story writers tried to tell in Arabian nights. After the grand en tree and and all that ho sees the scene shifted , and a sylph-like form trips out Into the wood , where the boughs of a majestic oak bond tholr majestic arches over a purl- ingstrcam which runs back , narrowing between highly improbable rocks and up the Bides of an indigo mountain. Cau ho believe his eyes ? Ho must. It is that same charming vocalist who in years gone by sung his youthful heart clear out of his burning bo om. Rut no that was twenty years ago , and it is no'v the idol of his youthful dreams , it is anothcraecording to the programme , but not at all ditTcront. She binilcs the tame biiilloand walks with Iho sumo ap parent propensity to genullect every time she takes a step. She lias the same pink slippers with tno tame high heels and the gorgeous stockings are tilled out to the biimu phenomenal aptitude. The dross has not grown longci in twenty years , nor has the wear niul tear abated one jot or tittle of its starchlncss or glitter. The bust Is as remarkable ns over , the paint on her cheeks as red , the ochre of her hair un tarnished the tout cnsemblo is the eamo. It is the change in things about a man that makes him feololdbut there is no change ; it's all just the same as it wuti iu the good days , and no wondei Uie old rounder tajiplauds. It's all the same only different , for he enjo.\s this now on a different basis than then. Ho beholds this witching sylph an unchanged ' changed typo of one of tho' joys of his earlier days. Ho settles back and waits for the subsidence of the applause , and her song. Ho notices now the i-nmo cute look ut the audience over that fan of red and green and ivory and gold the same ollico to the orchestra leader , ind btarts into interest at the Hi-si tenta tive , note of the song. Why , he remem bers it as well as lie does that supper years ago , with her prototype , who bpurned his heart and made him stand musing desperately ne.xt day beloro the great display of pistols in a pawnbroker's window. The very same old song. 'Tis S o'clock mid 1 inn licie , Down b.\ the sluulj dell , To hear him whisper in my ear Those words I'll never lull. Oh 1 ho'll bo always ti no to wo And I'll bo true to him. Hit coming Jills my hc.u t with joy , My own , my darling .Inn. The boys who worelout with him the night ho first heard about ' ' .lim" are all gone now. Some are dead and ome are in jail , perhaps , and some so rich that they have discarded long ago the va riety bhow and go in their own carriages to the opera at 5 per .scat. But the grandest flights of the queens of song bring nothing like the recollections of old times which this s-nnir does to the old rounder. Ho applauds until his hands are sore , and she comes out again and bhrieks out the strains of ' 'White "Wings , " that never glow wearyand are carr.v ing her cheerily ov < r the con , but Old Kounder is being carried back into the olden time , and is aroused from hi * rovcry by the silence which indicates the lapse before the next "tiuii" on the programme. Can Old Time Imvo turned hack in his flight and made him a youth again , just for this night ? It would seem so , for there are the two Irishmen he KIW on the btago the first time ho pla\ed hookey , to take in the matinee on money obtained from his mother under the false pretense that ho had to buy copybooks. There are the same plug huts , brushed the wrong way. surmount ing the same terrier "mugs' ' framed in the scrubby brick-duat whiskers , the same Irish dialect that was never spoken in any part of Ireland or any place on earth except on the variety stage ; the identical high-water pants , the identi cal shillalahs. After they have black guarded each other and beaten each other , and raised Cain , ho waits for corroboration - roboration of his eyesight by his hear ing. Hero it is : ' Pat , phut's good for rats1 " 1'lmtb good for ruts'1 ; Mike , pit-oil's good for rats. " "Yor aliyer , it's not good for 'em ; it'll kill 'em. " "Boom , boom , boom gees the big base drum and the llddlcs screech in agony at the joke this old , hoary , paleozoic , joke. Then these "retlned Irish come dians'1 to quote the play bills quarrel , and they spit In each othor't faces and do other refined humerous things which amuse the audience , and then they sing ono of the songs of their own composi tion , it runs thusly : Wo cauio not IOIIK npo , As oiio and all must know , From that dear old little- isle across the say ; The Kind you know it well , Old Ireland ivo must tell ; \Vo slag and dancts both every niplit and day. Each succeeding vorao is of ft higher order of poetic genius , until the culmi nation is reached in the last by the most remarkable rhymes the language can bo contorted Into. These comedians nro always in their song going right back to Ireland after th j nave accomplished the purpose of their long \oynife over the "sa.\ " namely , to siny and dance for the populace. The * ! were going back j cars ayo. hut they haven't gone. Like more celebrated , but certainly not more pretentious members of tin1 pro fession , they never make their farewell appearance. They have three songs and live jokes to uorlt oil cycry night. and the * * , work Ilium oil. When the * , disiobo they } to out to the nuaiesl beer saloon in the neighborhood and tell how they gave I'M liarrigan all his. best gays and "most o" do bi/.ni'ss , " tall ; of Barrett as Larry and of the Amlei'-on as Mary , and of Mc'uUniiulh or I'a. inond as jioor John1 and iniirc-'s ] themselves upon some poor dude , who pa.\s for Ihcir beer , just as the old rounder did for them under the same circumstances , when \\as.\oungnnd giddy. AVhon thtliao disappeared from the stage , anil the dust they have raised has settled , their places are taken by another familiar lignro , n gentleman in fulldiess with a \erv\ dirty shirt and a copious How of poll.vs\llnl > h s. from the pouring out of which it is gathered that he is a imi-U'iim , and he has aiUertised for a competent assistant for a public * performance. There is a ring at the bell , and then the ? doorof the loom opens and in walks a very dilapidated negro. He hangs his hat on tlio wall wheio there isn't n nail , so it drops on the floor , and ho t.lill has a little toy hat over his c . \e , which hat is attached to hi.s head by a rubber band , MI that ho ean pull it oil and let it lly bade. He has a pair of pantaloons reaching up to his chin. His coat is ripped up the back. Ho has a valinj which is empty , and a stullced bulldog and an umbrella. Kverybody * ' Knows what's going to happen. Tbi's caller is to bo \ eifunny. . lie is to spit in the other fellow'shat , fall _ over chairs , strike at his cloy with his umbrella so that the cloth may lly out in the audience , persist in unty ing the gentleman's ncctio , mid 1)0 as uprcmroiisly funny as ho can be in the tame lines as Il.Olii. ) or1,000 others just like him , have been every night for years , mid will bo every night for cen turies , apparently. Finally , ho is to de velop the most phenomenal musical tal ent , playing on all the musical instru ments in the other fellow's stock , and finally extracting music from the chairs , the table and his stullcd dog. The old play-goer has seen him a thousand limes , and ho knows every move and every tune ho pla > s by heart. Ho knows it's all a chestnut , and has been for a long , long time ; but there ho is , back in his eliair , roaring with laugh ter ; just as hearty ab that of the gallery who are only looking on it for the twen tieth time. The girl who bing.s while she dances with a bkipping-ropo dates away back from the Hood. There are pictures of her in the pyramids. She simpers and blooms perennial , and she sings most dolefully bomo uuintolligiblo words about a bench where the honeysuckle grows. She generally winds up with an exciting ropo-sklpping exhibition , the objects of which is to tire out the tiddlers and excite the sympathy of the audience , whore there are whispers that she's liable to dlo of heart disease. Just about the time they all expect her to topple over dead , n martyr to duty , bho comes to n stop as fresh ns a daisy , and retires with her rope over her shoulder amid thunders of np- plauso , in response to which she appears again and blngs , ' "When the Robins Nest Again. " After her comes the roller-skating act , with , its ridiculous bcglunlug in a rem-eseuU- tion of a poor sKater on ice , and a Mid den dexclopmnnt of the skater into an expert. This is the most wearisome of all the antiquated things on the variety slant ! . Xe\'t conies' tlio infantile mus ical prodigy. Kovoi Mas a variety show completes without olio of those , and never was anything more e.xerui'iating put upon the stage. The children cannot sing , and their solo chance of making ; . hit rests , in almost every in stance , on the.ii'ulgarity in speech or action. This prodigy business on the yarii ty stage is one of its most disgust ing feature's. The prestidigitator usually appeals next , with a full line of tricks that have been exposed for years and jeiu's , but ho generally makes an in teresting slum , and if ho don't ho winds up his part with a pie-biting match be tween the two boys from tlio audience who ate called up to sco that everything is done without the aide of machinery. The song-and-danco 111111 is an old in stitution , and is ever new. Ho stepsout with bin face ( -el in lines of desperate determination , and stands still and straight while the orchestra tunes up for him. Then he sings and such sing . Ming-ancl-cfiiiicu for ing. Kvcry - - man fifty years has sung the same tune , and the variation in words of their songs has never license ) great as to entirely remove the suspicion of pla giarism. The song is always about a "lovely girl , " who in "tho only I loved " "s charming one ever , ( > ing , young and fair , " which in the nature of this kind ofer.se , must have an immediate and direct relation to "her wealth of golden hair.1 After meeting "in the bright moonshine , " she is nski d "will you be inineV" and they're noing to bo married right away , lie. dances , .lust why it is , no ono know * , but as'oiig-and-dancoman proper must wear a melancholy expression , hold his hands down at his : side as if ho was a corpse dressed up in tights and tinsel , and glare at the audience with that "far-away look" of which the novelists prate. He goes through his part like n wooden man , and once oil the Btago turns up in front of the theater like a clothing btore dummy , in the loudest cheeked suit the broad land can furnish. The banjoibt IH another of the old-time features. Ho is in burnt cork , mid appears on the Mage dragging his chair behind him with ono hand , while ho holds his ban jo with the other. He sits down on his choir and exposes a great big shoo to the audience , and then ho strums his ban jo incidental to tolling what wonderful thlugBhappened to him when ho was "comin5 in down do street. " Ho rattles thorn off as a parrot would Shakespeare. Ho runs one story into another as though ho had just HO much to bay , and wanted to get through It. When ho has rattled it oil' , ho plays on tlio banjo , and bingH a topical bong about the prize ring , ] > olitic.s , anything and everything , just bo there's a line hero and there tuch us "I can't tell you why it is. " The two negroes who rush in dressed in white clothes put on rear end foremost - most , and fall around all over the stage and club each other with bluffed clubs , never fail to catch on , though their act is as old as the pretence of negro bubi- ness on the btago. They liavo Bongs , too , all uliko. They have just como up from "do old plantation , " and they're not going to stay long , for they have to got right back to "dear old massa" and do "fiols o' yellow corn , " and watermel ons and magnolias , and hoe cake , and all that , but they will btay just a little while to sing and dunce. They mayper- haps , sing an alleged religious bong , but if they do it's buro to bo as vilely .rendered ua it is huro to bo ancient. They "guy" each other in the most vul gar negro dialect , and then all of a sud den they speak in moderately good Knglish'and not seldom they branch oil in German and Irish dialect. What there is funny in it , all but its supreme badness , no ono can tell when the mat ter is discussed outside , but in 9\\o \ \ theater it seems to bts all right.and very enjoyable , if n man has that number eif ' beer's aboard which makes him feel friendly with the world. Last but not least of these chestnuts may bo mentioned that of the negro strolling in a park and meeting a fair white maiden unexpectedly. They have never met before , yet she receives him with the most lavish domostrations of pleasure. Ho talks to her and they fall in lo\o right there , whereupon ho anachronistically - achronistically requests that she wing that old song they used to sing , "When they wore little bbys and girls" together , before cruel fate had sundered thorn. And they sing about happiness in the past and in the future , and dance elf together , kissing their hands to the au dienco. The afterpiece wind ? up the show , but no lover of the variety stage stays for that , because it merely serves to bring out all those who have appeared during the evening , and there is an un written law of the stage , that an after piece shall bo as excruciatingly bad as it is possible to make it. Year after year the things herein de scribed hold the boards. Ago may wither and custom stale all thingc else , but the chestnut of the variety stage threatens to hold on forever. Married hi n Itai-licr Simp. The harbor shop of George Fit/borgcr was the scene of a marriage ceremony about r-i o'clock yesterday afternoonsays the Baltimore Sun. A man entered , and calling Mr. Fit/.berger aside , asked if ho would allow a couple to bo married in his place. The request was readily granted , and the stranger wont out and returned with a young woman and a man who was to perform the ceremony. Mr. Louis Lehman , of Lehman & Hoi- man , was being shaved when the trio enteredand Mr. Fit/.borger got through with him as soon as possible. Messrs. Fit'/.borger , Lehmanand George Hoson- inck were pressed in us witnesses , and the ceremony was rushed through. The groom puckered up his lips to kiss tlio bride , but she throw up ono of her arms and said : "Oh , no ! Not now ! " They then wont out , iho bride whispering as she passed Mr. Fit/.borgor to keep the matter secret. None of the parties wore known , but the names of the couple were given as John J. Coclmin and Ida Shaw. The minister was not recognized nor his name learned by the gentlemen assisting to tlo the knot. It was learned that the couple had pre viously asked at a store on Bank street , near Ann fatreot , to bo allowed the use of an apartment to perform the cere mony in , but were refused and ordered out. Ho Married a Hijuaw. An Ashland , \Vis. , correspondent writes : Louis Hichtor , son of a St. 1'nul minister and until recently telegraph operator In Cnicago , wont to the Odan- nah Indian reservation six weeks ago as an operator at the Lake Shore sta tion. About the. tame time Marie Goury , a young squaw , returned from the Mil waukee Industrial school and the two quickly fell in love with each other. The result was a wedding , which hns caused a great commotion nmong the Indians , who have made it to unpleas ant for Hichtor that ho hna been obliged to resign his position and leave the reservation ! THE OMAHA SMELTING WORKS The Largest Establishment of the Kind in America. OVER FIVE HUNDRED EMPLOYES. How nil lOslaldisliiuent AVlilcli Itegan oil a Small Scale IN Now Doing a Iliihinc-SK of $1 r , ( ) OOOUO. From a manufacturing point of view Omaha possesses many featuresof inter est , and one of the most important of those is to be found at the smelting and refining works situated between Doug las street and Capitol avonuo. Hero the small establishment originally started by Messrs. A. L. King , G. H. Downs , C. \V. Mead and General W.V. . Lowe in 1809 , has gradually advanced with the city until at Iho present time the works have far outstripped in growth and magnitude all other establishments of the kind in America and in conjunction with the Grant Smelting works of Den ver , ( which are owned by the Omaha firmtho ) company can lay claim to the proprietorship of the largest smelting establishment in the world. Whilst the Denver establishment , how ever , is confined to smelting operations only , the Omaha shops both emolt and rollno. The largo quantities of ore which daily find their way into this city for treatment are principally brought from Montana. Idaho , Colorado , Utah , Dakota and Arizona. Base bullion is also shipped to the works on a largo scale from the different smelting works throughout the country , for the purpose of rollnomont. About 40 per cent of this latter substance comes from the Denver branch of the firm. An idea of the magnitude of the company's operations may bo gathered from the fact that they em ploy over 600 men and have already iW,000,000 invested in the ontorpribe. The annual business done by the cor poration , too , is in the like proportion. During the last year upwards of * 15,0 < K- ) , 000 has been "turned over. " Progress is the motto of the linn , and it Is wor thy of note that the work done for each year since the works wore established shows an enormous ndvanco from that of the year preceding. Tlio company receives on an average 200 carloads of ore per month , and over " 00 cars arrive monthly laden with huso bullion con signed to thorn. When the ore or bullion arrives at the works the iirst thing done is to make an assay from which the company is en abled to measure the amount of lead , silver , gold , antimony , or other metals they will severally yield per ton , and so accurate has this process become that by treatment of a comparatively small portion tion the furnaces will disclose , almost tea a dqllar , the not value of a largo ship ment. Cabh is then paid according to the prices for the time being ruling in Now York. The ore is now trcatcil on the larger Ecalo. As in the assay this is effected through the medium of re- vorbatory furnaces so constructed that by means of a dome , or low arched roof , the flame , In passing through the lire j chamber is reflected or reverberated rf ij the ore. Whilst undergoing this fieri | ,1 ordeal the metals are separated and tni attendant at the furnace secures UICMS in the form of huso bullion or unronne * metal. Lead , silver , gold and antimon 15 are thus extracted from the same onv 11 The bullion is then moulded Into bric-ki which are in duo course sent to the re- finery. Here they are again placed in rovorlmtory furnaces and all existing dross and foreign substances are ex tracted until nothing remains but tha pure metal. This also is moulded into bricks. The gold brick made by the company weighs UoO ounces and is worth $ . " 5,000. Silver is turned out in 1,000 ounce bricks which are worth about $1.000 each. This process of reducing ore is , of necessity , of the most technical nnture , and a thorough knowledge of metallurgy and chemistry is necessary for u proper appreciation of its intricacies. To enter into an elaborate dissertation on the inner workings of the process , how-over , would bo outside the scope of this article. _ The greater portion of the gold and silver is forwarded to the United States mintsat New Orleans and Philadelphia , where it is purchased by the govern ment. The refined silver Polls at prices ranging from 1)1 ) cents to $1.15 per ounce , whilst gold brings the uniform price of $110.07 per ounco. For Iho half year ending .Tulyl ot the mcHonl year , the works have turned out4r.S.V.iG4 ounces of silver and 40,010 ounces of gold , whilst they have placed the enormous amount of 118,511,000 pounds of lead on the market during the same period. For the last named metal the ruling price is about 4J cents per pound. The company is also extensively engaged in the manufacture of bluestone - stone , of which they turn out sixty barrels - | rols per day. This substance is prinoi- ' pally employed in the working of elec tric batteries. The works cover a largo area of ground and comprise a series of solidly constructed brick buildings in which the seething flames of upwnidsof one hun dred furnaces are constantly at work , j The present olllcers of the company are : Guy C. Barton , president ; G. B. Grant , vice president ; E. W. Nash , treasurer and secretary ; and Edward i Eddy , general manager. Charles Hal- I bach is the superintendent of the works. j This gentleman has a Infgo experience i ; pf the several processes employed in smelting. W. T. Page , too , is an ex perienced man , and ably superintends the furnaces. The refining department , with the exception of silver refilling , is under the supervision of Herman Garlock. S. A. Barrow is the chemist in charge of the labaratory and super intends the assaying. Fred Shaefer iu superintendent over the silver rellnlnjf and bluestone manufacturing. The foundry and construction dopuriinent is ably managed by L. G. I ley brock. Kteh- ard Itominglon is the "boas" in charge of the yard. All the above named gon- llemon go to make up a force , that for sound , practical knowledge in their several departments , is second to nonu in any smelting establishment iu America. Beaten CorboUnow living in Topokn , Can. , who killed WilkosBoothJms been committed to the state asylum. Last winter , it will bo remembered , ho sum marily adjourned the Kansas house of representatives with a shotgun. "i A now collofro COUI-HO In "Bclcntltlo tcmpor- iK-o" 1ms boon added to the curriculum of Ilui Grant Memorial university at Athens , 'IVnn It is the Ih-btof the Kind in uuy c lr Icglut6 Institution ,
