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Mil. GILUQ'S American Exchange In
London IUIH gone up. The reason wns
that American tourists mistrusted a man
who could spoil his name backwards.
Mn. CijAHKHON assures the country
that ho is in dead earnest for Allison.
Ma. Clarkson was in dead earnest for
Omaha for the national convention and
ho dosortcd her after the first ballot.
IT is proper that Chnuncoy M. Dopcw
of Now York should have as his formid
able rival for the presidency Leland L.
Stanford of California. When million
aire meets millionaire then comes the
flow of gold.
THE lord high chancellor of England
gets $50,000 a year. The chief justice
the United States gets 810,000. But
although the English justice gets five
times as much salary as the chief jus
tice , the American doesn't grumble. lie
has only one-fifth of the former's Icis-
Use to spend the money. -
GENERAL. SHEKJIAN , in a recent address -
dross at the Ohio dinner , said that the
honors ho achieved compare very poorly
with the hopes and aspirations ho had
when only twenty years of ago. But
with his wildest anticipations of glory
it is safe to say the general uuvor
dreamt of the fame that would 0110 day
como to him as the hero of the march
to the sou.
TIIK San Francisco dailies print the
plea of the solicitor of the Central Pa
cific railroad before the special commit
tee of the United States semite on behalf -
half of the great monopoly. The speech
appears as a special dispatch from
Washington and fills thirteen columns
of solid fine typo. How much the C. P.
railroad pays for this exhibition of reck
less newspaper eiitorprisqjs not stated.
A STHONQ pressure is being made in
the senate in behalf of the bill for the
Issue of fractional silver certificates ,
which passed the house some time ago.
This comes from all sections of the
country and voices the want of that
largo class of people who remit small
Bums through the mailb , us well as
those who have business with this
class. The promise for the measure is
regarded as favorable.
IT is a question whether our govern
ment has boon humiliated by submit
ting the controversy with Morocco to ar
bitration. The truth is that wo could
flo nothing different , with any hope of
paining our point. Wo were humili
ated when wo mndo a protenbo of ro-
Bistanco by Bending to Tangiers a single
war vessel , incapable of accomplishing
anything if there had boon a demand
for it , and which simply mndo us ludi
crous in the eyes of the Moors and
their Spanish supporters. The proba
bility now is that the arbitration will
( o against us ,
TJIK Chicago ' /V/bioic / has republished
fi report of an old congressional investi
gation of the treasury department , from
which it appears that some of the clerks
had used government stationery in
booming John Shormun for the presi
dency. The Tribune makes Senator
Allison , of Iowa , responsible for the re
port as published. It is perfectly absurd
to charge Senator Sherman with this
potty larceny , or with any knowledge
of it prior to the investigation , and
Some motive must be sought for its re-
in the Tribune in the form
Eubllcatlon
i which it appears. What can the
motive boV Is it to try to kill off with
ono blow two prominent candidates ? It
looks as though this might bo ; that
Bhorman is to bo killed oil by reviving
the Bcandnl at this time , nnd that Sher
man's friends would got oven
by destroying Allison , -How all
this will help the 7'nbuitc's
favorite candidate is hard to see. So
far as Senator Shormun is concerned , it
is just to him to say that as goon us ho
lenrnod the facts ho paid into the tvcas
ury the kill cost of the stationery alleged -
logod to have boon used in his behalf ,
and was thereby acquitted of all respon
sibility , since no fault attached to him
for the misapplication by clerks of the
treasury department of the govern
ment's property. The attempt of the
2ViCmii to injure Mr. Sherman by drag
ging this matter to light and givingit
an exaggerated importance is not In
keeping with the high character-of
that paper for candor and fairness.
Centennial of the Constitution.
The details of the gen era ! programme
for the celebration nt the national capi
tal of the centennial of the constitution ,
which it is proposed to hold in the
spring of 1889 , aS far as they have been
outlined , indicate that the occasion will
bo only second in national interest to
that of the centennial of 187G. Fifteen
Central and South American republics
will bo guests of the United States nnd
in addition the empire of Brazil , Do
minion of Canada nnd San Domingo and
Haytl will also bo represented. The
countries named huvo a population of
over fifty millions of people , of which
Brazil has 13,000,000 , Mexico 10,000,000 ,
Canada 4,000,000 , the United Slates of
Colombia 8,500,000 , the Argentine Ko-
puplic iCOO,000 ! and Venezuela 2,000-
)00. Ench and nil of these owe
Lo a great extent their present liberal
Institutions to the influence nnd exam
ple of the United States , which moro
Lhan one hundred years ago founded the
first republic on American soil.
The occasion is to bo taken advantage
of to open now commercial relations with
these sister countries nnd to devise ways
and moans to extend the trade of the
United States with the other countries
on the two American continents. At
present by far the greater proportion of
the cxxn-t | nnd import trndo of South
nnd Central America is transacted by
English and Gorman merchants. Shut
out from South American exports by the
wall of a high tariff and prevented from
landing our own goods upon their shores
by the lack of suitable ship
ping facilities , it , has also in a great
degree been duo to the tariff impositions
Lhat the United States has year by year
been compelled to witness the best mar
kets of the globe passing into the hands
of her commercial rivals while her own
mills nnd factories have been producing
a surplus greater than is needed for
her own wants.
The constitutional centennial , to
which Central nnd South America have
been invited as special guests , will , it is
boped , huvo a far-reaching influence ,
not only in showing to our people what
they have lost and arc losing by narrow
commercial policy , but in stimulating a
reform in the laws by which our manu
facturers and merchants can place their
goods where they will secure a ready
market and exchange commodities to
mutual advantage , unhampered by unwise -
wise and suicidal commercial restric
tions.
An Rnilislimnn on America.
The individual who cannot bo told of
his defects and shortcomings without
getting angry Is not likely to improve
as ho grows older. The same is true of
a body of individuals which wo call a
nation. Ono cannot be expected to feel
entirely pleased with havingono's traits
and habits criticised and hold up before
the world as objectionable , oven when
ono knows that the critic is honest ,
means well , and at heart is not un
friendly ; but the man who really desires
to improve , and who sympathizes with
the aspiration of the poet that "the gods
the gift would gio us , to see oursols as
ithcrs see us , " will accept such criti
cism in what kindly way ho can , inves
tigate its merit , and give it such atten
tion as the character of its author and
the spirit of its bestowal shall warrant.
Critics are not Very congenial or lovable
people , asarulobutitwill not bo denied
that they have their u&cs. At all
events they abound , they will hive :
their say , and wo must tolerate nnd
listen to them whether wo will or no.
Most well-informed Americans know
of Matthew Arnold as occupying a fore
most rank among the literary men of
England of the present day. Ho is a
scholarof most extensive acquirements ,
a poet of high rank , a brilliant essay
ist , and n critio of men and of society.
Ho has recorded his opinions of his own
countrymen , nnd they wore not alto
gether Ilattoring , lie visited the
United States , and ho has now given in
the pages of an English magazine his
impressions of Americans and their
civilization. That , also , is not alto
gether Ilattoring. On the contrary
much of it is decidedly the reverse , and
Mr. Arnold has been sharply rebuked
for what Booms to those who have road
his paper to bo not only in n largo
msasuro unwarranted and unjust , but
worse than this , ungrateful ; for ho
was the recipient hero of
much bocinl consideration and
his visit was very prod table
in a financial way. These facts , it
might havu been supposed , wquld have
inclined him entirely in our favor. Wo
are disposed to think it is bettor they
did not , if any benefit is to bo derived
from candid criticism.
No Intelligent American will pretend
that his country , in its bocial character
and its civilization , is all that it should
bo or that ho would have it bo. The
most serious fault of Mr. Arnold is in
implying that all intelligent Americans
do this. It is obviously absurd to sup-
po.so that a country whoso bottled form
of government is but little moro than a
hundred years old , peopled by the rep
resentatives of all nations , and during
most of these years really experiment
ing with their political system , could
attain to the highest civilization nnd
social condition. The people of the
United States have been creating u na
tion , through much foreign strife and
domestic contention , nnd they have only
within less than n generation reached
the position when they could with
out interruption give thought nnd time
to social advancement and to the attain
ment of higher accomplishments of civ
ilization. The wonder is that to much
has been achieved in thcbo directions ,
and that with the vast material devel
opment , unparalleled in the history of
any other nation for an equal period ,
there has gone on so great a growth of
nil civilizing agencies and of all the in
strumentalities of social elevation. Mr.
Arnold does not fail to give us credit
for this. lie admits thnt our institu
tions work well and happily ; thntjis to
the social problem we are n singularly
homogeneous pooplp , free from the dis
tinction of classes ; that wo are living
prosperously in a natural modern con
dition , teeing clearly nnd thinking
straight. Ho found that in these ro-
spocU wo enjoyed an advantage of the
people of England. Mr. Arnold also
found that for the great bulk of the
community the conditions in Amer
ica are more favorable . than IB
the did world. The humblest
kind of work is bettor paid
hero , and all conveniences for the great
majority nro more abundant here.
Luxuries cost more than abroad , "but a
workingnmn's clothing is nearly as
cheap as in England , nnd plain food is
on the whole cheaper. " Still Mr.
Arnold is not prepared to concede that
these conditions , giving the greatest
good to the greatest number , nro neces
sarily evidence of a higher civilization.
The great dlfllculty with American
civilization , in the view of our English
critic , ss that it is not interesting , and
ho explains the great sources of the In
teresting to bo " distinction and beauty ;
that which is elevated and that which
is beautiful. " Mr. Arnold found very
little hero to gratify hissonsa of beauty.
Our architecture is nearly all common
place , there is nothing comparable with
the rural homes of England , and in o
general way we have developed very
little of the true art-taste. Even in
the naming of our towns wo exhibit a
want of the son HO of beauty and
fitness. "As to distinction and the in
terest which human nlituro seeks from-
enjoying the effect made upon it by
what is elevated , the case is much the
same , There is very llttlo to create
such an effect , very much to thwart it. '
Criticism of this sort is of very llttlo
value , because it is suggestive of being
far-fetched in order to furnish a means
of fault-finding. Tho-benuty and dis
tinction which Mr. Arnold found want
ing in America are a growth. Wo need
not despair of having them when the
time comes for their development ,
toward which progress is steadily
making. Muck moro to the purpose for
our present benefit are his frank strict
ures on our bolf-sulllcioncy and the nil-
pervading spirit of extravagant boast-
fulncbs. Unquestionably Americans
have a very great deal to bo proud of ,
but it is a fault with thorn that they gen
erally carry bolf-glorification to an ab
surd extreme , with the effect not only of
offending intelligent foreigners , which
may not bo of great consequence , but
of encouraging the belief among them
selves , which is unfortunate , that
they have attained about everything
that is dct.irablc.
But we can afford to cheerfully for
give Mr. Arnold for all ho says unfavor
able to our civilization , our social life ,
our newspapers , and our sense of self-
importance , in view of the distinguished
compliment ho pays American women.
In our women he found a charm which
ho declares to bo u real note of civiliza
tion , to bo reckoned to the credit of
American life and its equality. "It is
the charm , " writes Mr. Arnold , "of a
natural manner , a manner not solf-con-
bctous , artificial and constrained. It
may not bo a beautiful manner al
ways , but it is almost always a natural
manner , a free and happy manner ; and
this gives pleasure. " It is impossible
to feel harshly toward a foreign critio
who speaks thus of American women in
the presence of those of his own coun
try , or to doubt that his criticism is
after all that of a frank friend and sincere -
core well-wisher. '
Manual Training in tlio Schools.
The Industrial Educational associa
tion of Now York city has been making
inquiries into the methods of manual
training as conducted in the public
schools of various cities. A committee
of exports was appointed to examine
into and report the bebt system for the
progress and extension of the work.
The report of the committee has been
made public , and is valuable for its
common-sense suggestions.
The committee echoes the prevailing
sentiment , that our public schools have
too much to do with words and the
memorizing of symbols , and too little to
do with things ; that the education of
our youth should include a training to express -
press thought by the labor of the hand
as well as to express it by language.
Manual training to bo of practical benefit
should bo brought into the primary de
partments , where the child should bo
trained to observe and to express his
ideas in clay and with pencil as well as
abstractly in language.
The next stop in the child's education
is to drill him less in the technicalities
of grammar , geography and the puz
zling problems of arithmetic ; and to
bring him moro in contact with ma
terial things and forces which will still
further give him the ability of express
ing his thoughts by handiwork.
Then would follow the manual train
ing school which would admit pupils at
nn ago when they could profitably take
up the use of wood and inuohino tools.
Iloro would ho the opportunity for the
pupil to advance in the use of edge
tools rather than to enter a high school.
And the course of training at this stage
combined with the study of English ,
higher mathematics and kindred sub
jects should ho made equivalent to a
three or four years' course in the high
school. A graduate of such a training
bchool would then bo fully equipped to
engage in trades requiring a trained
hand.
But how is manual training con
ducted at present ?
In almost every city the department
is attached to the high school. But the
high school pupil has too many studies
on hand already to give manual train
ing its proper attention. So that while
ho may take ono or two lessons a weolc
in the workshop , his untrained hand
and his slow progress is more apt to dis
courage than to oncouruge his efforts.
Ami as now in operation the manual
experiment has little opportunity for
future development or increased use
fulness.
TllK Philadelphia Press has just won a
libel suit of nearly five years' duration
in which an Important principle was in
volved. A man by the name of Stewart
opened in Philadelphia what professed
to bo a school for the instruction of
clerks , talesmen nnd reporters , claiming
to bo n toaoliaifcof short-hand and typo
writing. The city editor of the 1'nss
detailed n reporter to visit the school
and ascertain its character. The next
day an interview with Stewart was pub
lished , and on this ho brought suit ,
claiming it was libel bocaubo it exposed -
posed him to ridicule and was calcu
lated to injure him in his business as
toucher , The defense was that the pub-
liihed matter was a just and true ao-
countofthe Interview The case fln-
ally reached the flWpjH1 no court of the
state , whore judgment was rendered for
the defendant. TftoU' urthold that as
the plaintiff had Mold limsolf out to the
world as n teacher and guide of youth
and was seeking td'attract them to his
place , this action gfitvohim n quasi
public character , and it was in the strict
line of the duty of the Press to seek the
information it obtained and give it to
the public. If tlintfinformalion tended
to show that the plaint'iff ' was a charla
tan nnd his system an imposture , the
moro need that thojpubllc , nnd especi
ally parents nndguardians , should bo
informed of it. It wns virtually declared
by this decision that it is the right of a
newspaper in Pennsylvania to expose
any ono who , assuming1 a quasi public
character , it believes to bo intending to
deceive nnd impose UK | > II the public , the
motive of such exposure being wholly
to protect the public. There can bo no
question as to the soundness of this po
sition , nnd if generally accepted would
bo beneficial in enlarging the scope of
newspaper investigation.
Tim nine-day dead-lock which the
house has just experienced calls to
mind the lillibustoring scones which
have taken place in congress. Mr.
Randall made his reputation at the beginning -
ginning of his career in filllbustoring
against the "Force bill , " which was a
measure proposed to place troops at the
polls in the south. A most memorable
dead-lock took place after the Hnyes-
Tilden election , when the democrats
made every effort to defeat the counting
in of President Hayes. This dead-lock
lasted many days and was broken at1
o'clock on the morning of Friday ,
March 2 , 1877 , forty-eight hours before
the time to inaugurate President
Grant's successor. It was a crisis
in the history of the United States ,
and the dead-lock was broken
only by the extraordinary tactics of Mr.
Randall. That gentleman was in the
chair , and when a llllibustering motion
wns about to bo made ho refused abso
lutely to recognize , the member for that
purpose. The member appealed from
the decision of the chair. But Mr.
Randall ruled the appeal out of order ,
and forthwith instructed the clerk to in
form the soiiato that the house was
ready to proceed with the count. The
backbone of the dead-look was broken ,
and within a few hours Mr. Hayes re
ceived the information that he had re
ceived n majority of the electoral vote
cast. The Forty-sixth congress died in
dead-lock. The flvo oil six final days of
the session wore consumed in lillibustor
ing , and the hour of lUon , the last day
was reached while the clerk was calling
the roll. Throe weeks of the first ses
sion of the Forty-seYontn congress wore
consumed in fillibusteringonnturiflbill.
Mr. Warren Kcifqv was speaker of the
house at this session , uud the beginning
of the general dislike to him is dated
from that time. !
Punish the llribern.
Jfiiiic ( < ijil ( Tribune.
For unscrupulous * boldness the case of
vote buying reported from Providence
almost compares withthe performances
of the Ohio democracy. The Rhode
Island republicans and democrats ap
pear to have been equally guilty of fraud ,
while the latter gained nothing by their
sins. If there bo a creature more contemptible -
tomptiblo than the vote buyer it is ho
who runs short of money in attempting
to do this kind of business. The demo
crats of Providence started out with the
best of intentions , but they were unable ,
it is said , to compote in the vote market
and so "got left. "
Thib flagrant case of election fraud is
the more disgusting because it took
place in ono of the oldest , best educated
and presumably most easily governed
states a state that has thrown special
bafcguurds around the high privilege of
American citizenship. What can bo
expected in the communities of the
south and far west when such practices
can bo carried on in the capital city of
Rhode Island 'i There should bo no
leniency shown in the prosecution of
the vote buyers and the bought. The
ballot box is the people's only remedy
for public and national evils. If that is
corrupted if voting is made a lucrative
busincbi instead of the exorcise of a
right and a duty , then our fate is bealcd.
The United States is strong onougli to
defy any power in the world ; but its
strength will boon be gone if it sutt'ors
corruption of the ballot to prevail. The
Roman empire once ruled the world ,
but it wont down before corruption.
Rubaiu would bo the ruling power of
Europe if the administration of her
government were not permeated with
corruption. The French army and navy
would to-day have been the strongest
in Europe if the administration of the
third republic had been blrictly honest' .
It cannot bo said , perhaps , that any
system of government is good _ , provided
it is administered with patriotism and
scrupulous honesty. But it may safely
he assorted that not even the most per
fect system of government can either
maintain itself or bocuro happiness to
the people if it permits corruption to
creep into its administration.
fJeorjio FrnnclH Train on Omaha.
OMAHA , April 13. To the Editor of the
HE i' : The public-spirited citizens of Oruulm
whobo past otl'orts have met with such
murlccd success in milking ( mown tothu cust
om public the suporiorudv'uutuk'fs of Omalia
119 u point for Investment unil business loca
tion , will bo grixtlllod to learn tlmt their exer
tions during the coming gcuson will bo ubly
buppleincntcd by that , olq-timo friend anil
foster father , George ITrunois Train. During
the years slneo Mr. Train's sagacity ami
foresight pointed out the future groutncss
of the Outo City , the 'NobruMca metropolis
1ms , under his fostering cfaro nnd unfailing
devotion to its iiiturcsU. advanced from ob
scurity and itisignlflcando to u poaition in the
iirst rank union ) ? the youiift municipal giants
whoso prcbunt prosperity und greatness nro
the proudeat monuments of western enter
prise and onerpy. Oinuha has now attained
such a sturdy growth us to bo no longer de
pendent upon outside u'iJ ; nevertheless ,
the renewed efToits of ono who has
ever been the steadfast friend and promoter
of oher welfare , will rccolvo a ; juat recog
nition from her progressive citizens , who ap
preciate fully the effect of such effective ad
vertising as Mr Train will give her.
From a prominent business man , lately re
turned from the cunt , it is lournod that Mr.
Train has entered into a contract to deliver
during the coming summer , fall and winter ,
100 lectures on various topics throughout thu
country. Twenty minutes of the time of each
lecture will bo dovotoU to an exposition of the ,
advantages which Omaha presents to eastern
investors. The fact tlmt Mr. Train has not
for some years appeared UJKIU the lecture
platform before the general public will cause
his reappearance to bo greeted with curiosity
and interest oven greater than has attended
his efforts in the past. These lutcrcstod fn
the rapid advancement of the city will
readily comprehend the advantage of second
ing Mr , Tram's work by every ulcans In their
jH > wor. X. X
A. QUAINT Oti1 > CITY.
Tlie Beauties nnd 1'rospoctfl of n Dull
Town.
MOHILK , Ala. , April 8. [ Correspondence -
once of the 13m : . ] 1 write you
from the old quaint city of Mobile : A
city of narrow streets , ( I don't mean to
say there are no wldo ono ) relicts of old
Spanish and French settlers , by whom
the town wns laid out , of fine old null-
helium , roomy , galleried historical resi
dences , whoso glory has departed with
their old time owners while they re
main , an ever attractive curiosity to
strangers from the north. It has been
called a "sloopy city" and oven now
when itis pulling itself together , slink
ing oil its lethargy nnd waking up to
the fact that the world moves , that wild
"booms" uro in the air clrcloing around
and liable to drop on them with a crash
without warning , at any moment , no
ono seems to bo in a hurry. In the dry
goods stores the clerks wait upon ono
with a slow , easy , motion , moving
softly , gently , from ono department to
another as if the day contained thirty-
six hours , and you had the whole
thirty-six in which to make the
purchase of a piece of ribbon ,
and 1 find it impossible to buy a stamp
at the postoflleo after 4 in the after
noon. The chief wonder to mo is how
they get anything done , but after all it
is a charm to get out of the push and
worry to which I have always been ac
customed and among people who con
sider life worth living for the sake of
itbclf and who placidly live it out to its
full measure baring hot blood and ac
cident.
But Mobile is destined , Boouer per
haps , than her people expect to feel
the working of that indescribable force
that is making up the "Now South. "
Northern men , northern energy and
northern capital are gathering hero ,
the gathering is slo\vt \ it is true , but it
will bo sure. There is everything to
attract it. The climate is perfect in
winter , and tempered by the salt breeze
from the gulf , ib delightful in the hilly
suburbs , in summer , tln t will attract
the people. Hundreds of thousands
of acres of land in easy reach of the city
by rivers and crocks , covered by prime
val forests of long-leafed pine , where
"Tho woodman's ringing strokes
Never slashed the tender boll. "
whore countless millions of feet of the
very best yellow pine lumber is waiting
to be called to all parts of the world
lands that can be bought from $1.00 to
$1.00 per aero , is ono of the many
tilings that will bring the energy and
capital.
It is u charming pluco to mo. Driven
from home by the bitter words that were
not tempered to this shorn lamb , I
came hero followed by snow and ice
two hundred miles from the Ohio
river's mouth. I entered my berth in
the palace car at night and in an invo
cation for a blessing on "tho man who
invented sleep , " including the man who
invented sleeping cars , wont to sleep in
March and worko up in Juno
and Mobile. "The llowers that bloom
in the spring" were all in bloom in
the open air. The woods wore covered
and the air laden with the fragrance
of the yellow jasmine , the ground
dotted with the clear familiar "Johnnie-
Jump-ups" or wild violets , pretty "blue
eyes , " and "duck bills , " and the trees ,
the live oak , pine and cedar , have shed
their heavy green of winter and taken
on their pale green summer robes.
I have spout most of my time at
Spring Hill , a suburbof the city reached
.bystreet cars , six miles from the post-
oiliee. It was , before the war , the sum
mer homes of wealthy Mobile people.
The homes are btill here , but the wealth
has gone glimmering and the few old
families that remain are living on in
comes counted by hundreds that were
once reckoned in thousands. Ono mid
dle-aged man I sue daily driving by in a
shabby one-wonted bugiry with a shaggy
pony , who in his young days drove his
thousand-dollar horses with equipages
.to match , and the "country is full of
'om , " rninod by the war. The village
is laid olT with broad streets and ave
nues : each lot is a block nnd each block
contains live acres ; think of it ; imag
ine the beauty of such spacious grounds
whore the trees and grabs are green und
the flowers bloom in the open air all the
year round. Bishop Winner , of the
Episcopal diocese of Alabama , has his
handsome residt'iu-e and grounds ad
joining the hotel property. General
Brngg's old homo is towards Mobile , a
stately mansion , and the general is
buried , in Magnolia cemetery , six miles
away. Near the Bragg homestead in a
magnificent grove of pine and live oak ,
lives and writes , Augustus Evans Wil
son , authoress of Boulah , St. Klmo and
other popular books. She is a charm
ing woman socially and very domestic.
She disclaimed to mo all rights to the
title ( if I may use the word in this con
nection ) of havinor "tho largest collec
tion of geraniums in this country and
the world" as newspapers are giving
her credit , but If ono judtros by an in
spection of her green house she must
have at Icabt next totho'lnrgcst. Many
of thobo geraniums are exclusively hers
us she originated thorn.
The "Spring Hill" possesses the
charm to mo of being more of liome than
hotel. The grounds comprise- seventeen
acres of live oak grove and pine woods
and the house stands in the center of
it. The odorous long leafed pines como
up to the house an the south which
stands liOl ) feet above the bay , and Mo
bile , which of course you know stands
on a Hat that roaches miles awny with
out hill or hollow , from the gulf. From
my window I can look out ton miles
away on the bay and watch the ships mid
schooners nail fazilv along , apparently
on a low strata of .silver clouds , and ex
pect them to fade away like a mocking
mirage but they don't. It is real
ships and real water. The birds have
posscbsion of the trees and hold high
carnival ; one , a veteran mocking bird ,
a jH'lma dona before whose music all
others shrink and shrivel , wakes mo up
every morning. She is a wise bird , and
has hoard the adage , "Tho early bird
catches the worm. " She will never
mibs u worm. She is the earliest bird I
have ever hud any experience with.
The noted Jesuit college for boys is
located on Spring hill. It is a very
largo brick building of some four or Jive
stories ; and is surrounded by woods of
pine and oak , Separata from the main
edifice , but connected with it by a
bridge , is the largo chapel building.
The school grounds are handsomely
laid oil , surrounded by broad hedges of
the beautiful yupon evergreen , fantasti
cally trimmed and covered with the
white blossoms and trailing vines of
chorokco robes. Boys are at school
hero not only from the states but from
Cuba , Franco and South America. The
fathers have a summer place down on
the coabt whore thosu of the boys who
cannot go homo are taken to bpond
their vacation.
I have sometimes heard that the
"enervating olloota of the southern
climate" spoken of. What do you think
of a girl who came hero for her health
three weeks ago wultnnif miles and
miles in ono day ? I did it yesterday.
The captain and I ( ho was u captain
twenty-five years ago ) wishing tp sue
the beauty of the famous old Shell road
left Spring Aill at 10 a. m. and only
stopped when wo struck an oyster
schooner in Mobile river six and a half
miles from our' starting point. The
bonulioa of the road paid us for our
walk through the long avenues of pines
and live oaks , The road is practically
deserted. The wind , sighed through
the trees and I sighed for some ono or
something to pick mo up and carry me.
Sighed and said nothing , but "two
do/.on on the half shell1 when wo
reached the oyster boat. Wo In the
north thliiK wo oat oysters , but wo
don't. Wogotlho fish , but the flavor ,
the real genuine oyster llavor , is gen < \
I took advantage of my visit to the
wharf to learn something nboul ships.
Through giving rein to my natural curi
osity , I learned that a vessel with two
masts is a schoonor.ono with three masts
with cross trees or yard arms on two of
them is n bark , ono full rigged , with
three masts and yards on all of them is
a shipnnd an oyster boat may bo known
by its single mast and awful smell.
Mobile is rejoicing over a prospective
now railroad and an appropriation for
the improvement of her harbor. The
former may or mav not be for her good.
Her Inat railroad , that from Nashville
to Now Orleans was a dnmngo to her ,
but the harbor improvement must bo
beneficial and will in a measure return
to her the prestige and business pros
perity she once enjoyed.M.MMK
M.MMK Rtvnus.
THE ETIQUETTE" THE CIGAR.
The Cuban Manner of Giving ami
TnkliiK a Ijlglir.
In the Cuban islands there arc special
and strict forms of etiquette relative to
tjiis universal practice of smoking.
Should a gentleman stop another on the
street to ask a light ho would construe
a refusal to oblige him into a direct
and intentional insult. But having
once held between his lingers the partly
consumed cigar of whoso flro lie lias
been borrowing , the owner thereof
would bo as deeply hurt nnd offended
wore ho to otter to return it. No , ho
must , instead , open his cigar case and
prolTcr a fresh weed la return for the
lire.
lire.To
To connoisseurs in cigars the reason
for tlris not is obvious. A cigar which
has neon buised against another in the
act of lighting it loses a considerable
portion of the delicacy of its llavor , and
should that one ilgninst which it is thus
rubbed bo of an inferior llavor and
aroma , these qualities in ilsely are , to a
delicate taste , completely destroyed.
It must bo rather irritating under these
latter circumstances to have to lose an
exquisite "weed" for the sake of a
strange ctlvuet which commands the
acceptation of a cigar of much inferior
llavor and value. However , a breach
of this point is never made , and a well-
bred Cuban would die sooner than show
any irritation.
In most European countries , with the
exception , perhaps , of cigarette smok
ing Spain , the street ctiquct of smoking
is much less severe. The majority of
smokers in England , for instance , carry
matches in their pockets , and should a
passing smoker with unlit pipe or cigar
rcqtist n light , it is a match that is
handed to him. Small boys throng the
streets of all big English towns selling
boxes containing 250 wax vesta matches
for U ccntb ; there is consequently little
excuse for a smoker to bo without a
light. The rainy and windy condition
of the climate is caquully well provided
against for binokers by "fusees , " "vos-
uviuns " and "fiamers" which
, tire vari
eties of matches having largo heads
composed of gunpowder paste , which
remain ignited until consumed in uny
kind of weather.
Hears Killed by the Cold.
Ranchman J. C. Schilos will probably
never forget an experience ho had at
his ranch near Piedra Parudu during
the cold spoil in January , says a correspondent
pendent of the Denver News. Mr.
fcSuhilca only wont in lust summer , and
has a comfortable little house under the
shelter of the foothills. The weather
preceding the cold spell in January , ho
says , had boon beautiful , and he was
out on the range every daj' . On Janu
ary 1't it began togot coldand the ther
mometer dropped from 4(1 ( degrees above
zero to 15 degrees below. On the fol
lowing day it wont down with lightning
rapidity , and his spirit thermometer
showed ! J8 degrees below at nightfall.
Each day for a week was colder , and the
lowest point attained by the mercury
was , if his thermometer is accurate , 58
degrees , whiiih was noted in the after
noon of January 17.
Mr. Scliiles for four days did not leave
the houso. On the opening of the third
cold day he noticed that bear and dear ,
which had been unusually plentiful
during the winter , begun to como down
to low ground , and on the morning of
the fourth day he opened his door"to
got some wood , but was brought up at
close range oyu low growl. Upon look
ing up ho buw four bears within twenty
feet of his cabin. They wore great , big
fellows , and Mr. Schileu made up hit )
mind to have gne. He got his rillq ,
but the bears seemed to divine his mo
tive and got out of rniigo. The Intense
cold prevented him from following , and
after laying in enough wood to last two
or three days , and filling bin water bar
rel ho wonl buck into the houho and remained
,
mained there until the cold weather
hud passed.
During the day the bears returned
nnd door and two antelope , the first ho
had scon in a year , moved down In to the
miniature- valley in which bin bhnok
htund.s. That night the weather was w >
cold that Mr. Schilcs WUH afraid to goto
sloop , and kept a roaring flro in the
htovo all night. The night was made
hideous , ho mya. by the coyotes and
boars. The animal pressed cloio ngaliiht
the house , and he could hear thorn fightIng -
Ing for plarofi. particularly near thu two
windows , from which the light ema
nated. Once or twice ono of the ani
mals , probably u boar , would dnnli
against the house as if to bnmk it in ,
and the deer wore hoard uttering
plaintive cries during Iho night. At ! !
o'clock Mr. Seliilcs drew his spirit thor-
moraotor in from the roof by way
of the chimney hole and found
the thermometer still at , r 8 degrees
below , the same that it had boon twelve
hours before. Ho thinks it was a great
deal colder , and that the chemicals had
been fro/on. The night was a terribly
long ono , and at 8 o'clock in the morn
ing , when Mr. Suhilofl awoke from a
short nap , thn animals had moved away
and the weather mod orated considera
bly , the mercury allowing only IK points
below zero.
On opening the door of his house ,
which no did cautiously ho saw two
bourb , a dour , and a coyote lying on the
ground. The door and coyote had boon
killed during the night but the two
boars had no marks and had evidently
frozen to death , as their bodies wore
rigid.
A Correction.
DBS MOIKKS , la. , April 13. To the Editor
oftholJEK : Inyourissun of April 9 you
state that Phil Klumb was found in a ( lying
condition In his room at the Ouult house ,
through excessive drink. This is a mistake.
The unfortunate man is Charles Gutbrio ,
employed as traveling salesman by mo.
I'JIII. ICLUUD ,
The gifted New York Prcss'.has turned Its
powerful attention to the composition of
tariff ballads , in which ' -pig Jron" is made to
rhyrao with "Mount Xion" and "lamb's
wool" with "U d fool. " When a Pegasus
that has been used in Iowa oats and Hur-
liugtou baled hay gets down cast ho mokes
more of a sensation than a troo.p of Arabian
barbs lot loosc'ia the Roman Corey ,
CUHUKNTToriCS.
While the piutom of our churches ura
U | > on the subject of public morals , let tliora
pray for moro light to bo provided for tha
high school grounds these pleasant evenings.
While the city council has voted to put four
men at work on Hanscom park for the season ,
It hns wholly Ignored Jefferson square. As n
city park , there Is no rcaion why thU partic
ular spot of green In the center of the city
should Iw neglected. The city spent n small
sum of money a few years ngo in sodding ,
planting trees and orcctlng-n music stand on
the square. But iiullfforcnro on the part of
the council has allowed these Im
provements to fall into decay. The
people in and about Sixteenth street
want that breathing spot , where they
they can escape from the ilustmul hcnt of the
approaching warm weather. If the council
would purchase n few settees ami employ a
man or two to tnko care of the grounds , Jefferson -
ferson sqtmro would bo of some value to tha
people of the city.
"A great dcnl hns bccnsnld during the piist
week about roeklcsa oar drivers nnd nboll h-
Ing bob-tall cars , " said a leading merchant
last night , "but people never blame careless
parent * in allowing their children to run
wild on the streets whcro they are con.
stuntly exposed to being crippled and crushed
U ) death by runaway teams. The car driver
has enough sins to answer for , to bo sure ,
but ho isn't to blauio for every accident that
happens. If ho und six pairs of oycs Instead
of two ho would still run Into uhlluron who
persist in crossing thotnicUs right in front of
his horses or hnng onto the car platform and
Jump off and on , in spite of till bis vigilance.
As to bob-tail cars , they are used everywhere
from Now York and Brooklyn toSt. . Louts ,
and Chicago wherever thotranic will not , Jus.
tlfytho employment of conductors or the
running of heavy cars. Mind , I don't mean
to apologize for the street car company where
they can afford to provide better service , but
boys will bo boys , you know , ami children
must bo watched closely , else wo inicht have
to chop down all our trees , do away with
roofs and chimneys on our houses and Mil up
the wlls and els terns , and wall in all [ loiids
and streams. "
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A traveling man who has been many years
on the road , runs into Omnha regularly every
Saturday evening "to Stiindny. " He has
seen a great deal of the world , and Is pretty
well informed upon the moral ethics of the
day. Last evening ho had happened to
Bianco over the church notices in the HKK ,
and observed that most of the pastors of the
city Intend this morning to innko n concerted
movement upon the Sunday b.iso b.ill gnmo.
He said : "It has always been a perplexing
question to mo , why the ministers seek out
the Sunday bnso ball players upon whom to
in nko an attack , year after your , when right
under their noses the moro offensive breeders
of viuu nnd crime nro running rampant.
I do not mean to bo understood as saying that
ono infraction of the mor.il oodo Ju3tlll0 < ) an
other , but why are the lessor offenses against
the peace of the Sabbath so violently op
posed while the greater ones are wholly lost
sight of. Is ib bocnuso ball playing is an
amusement for patrons of tlio game , who gofer
for an hour's enjoyment , denied them during
the busy week-days , while the beer-garden
and dance-hnll conduct a business for profit }
Is it because the patrons of the game are
reputable , self-respecting parsons , often
found in church , while , the depravity of th o
devotees of the danco-lmll Is beyond
reclamation , in the eyes of the world.
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"Thoro are many persons in this city , " said
a city ofllcial yesterday , "who think that
there has been little diminution In gambling
since the unti gambling law went into effect.
They have an idea that ninny games are run
ning on the quiet in out-of-tho-way places ,
where the men who permit themselves to bo
thuzlud by the game are quietly defying tbo
law. I huvo made it a business to look into
this matter of Into , and find thu condition of
affairs to bo much better than is generally
supposed. Ueforc the law went into oftoct
there were e'ight faro banks running In full
blast , nnd in my Judgment ns many as 125U
persons visited the two leading houses every
night , nnd probably n greater number upon
Saturday nights , which wore always the
best. I have seen more than that
number of people in Kennedy & Uibbins'
place , nnd nt Morrison & White's place ,
upon many occasions in the past. It Is fair
to say that nt that tbno over 1,000 people vis
ited the gambling houses every night.
Of course It Is questionable whether
all of them gambled or not , but most of them
did , nnd the greater number of thorn were
mechanics nnd laborers , who received their
money Saturdays. Most of the professional
gamblers huvo loft the city , some going to
Council Hluffs , Minneapolis nnd St. Paul ,
mid some have scattered all over the country.
A few who own property here have re
mained , and nro engaged in other pursuits at
the present time. There is , us a matter of
course , and always will bo , some gambling
done among certain circles of business men ,
nit this is confined principally to the private
club rooms , There is absolutely no faro
jcingplaycdlnOiimtiantthistimi and the law
may bo said to have worked a material benefit
to the city. Tlio crime and wietchediiess
which is thereby obviated. Is a source of
gratification to thu people. "
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'I ' nm nn admirer of Shakespearean
drama , " wild ono of our worldly men , ' 'but I
must say that Hootli nnd Uurrutt nro lament-
ibly dullclunt in what is my ideal ofhomu
of the characters they huvo personated in
Omaha. The truth is , tbuy uro both aging
very rapidly. Uooth , particularly , Is breaking
down. lie still makes u poet-loss Uichelieu ,
jtscnuso It tukes mi old man to play the part
well , but in Hainlut , which is his
masterpiece , ho Is no longer capable of
disguising his crow-feet and mnlcos
i sorry appearance as Ophelia's
over , liurrclt made n very fair Impression
as Mucduff. His voice is btill renonnnt , but
unfortinfntuly ho was never cut out for n
stalwart Scottish chieftain , and at best could
not batlsfy the idual of the llorco sword com-
Lint nt the close of the play. As Muoboth ,
Uooth foil way below the average of trage
dian stars. Diminutive and incapable of
loldlng himself soldior-liko and erect , ho
also disappoints the critical spectator by his
failing volwj. ' 'Tho greatest Macbeth that I
iiavo over soon , " romarkud our critin , "wa
James Murdock , who played the part In St.
Louis thirty years ago to eleutrllled audi
ences , " Koitunutoly for Hooth ami liurrott ,
they had In Miss ( Jortrudo ICollogg u very
[ lowcrful personation of Lady Macbeth.
Miss Kellogg gives promlso of great
histrionic success in that dlfticultrolo. With
a prepossessing stage presence , a line voice ,
nnd nn enunciation thut leaves nothing to ba
desired , she Is from the moment of her op-
| ) car.mco thoroughly acceptable to
tlio audience , while her In
telligent Interpretation of the text as
the play proceeds , nnd her ready adaptation
in attitudes und inflexions , to the sudden
climaxes which Macbcth'H vacillation pre
cipitates , evince her power us a tragedienne
Among the women now uiwntho lingo , there
are few who should assume the robes and
crown of the ambitious und unscrupulous
Lady Maboth. . Miss Kellogg , pi'iliaps moro
justly than ntiy other , may look up to the
laurel wreath which Charlotte Cushuun
once wore , with the reasonable liopc thut it
may yet bo heps. AH a young girl ho ouoj
played be-foro the American queen of
tragedy , whoso commendation has been
pcriietual Inspiration. Ming ICellocrgra
also a pupil of Forrtbt. and had hn lived Bha
would Uncucalluuably | have taken rank long
before thU among the itar < i < > f the diuwm.
