Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1889, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. WOMEN IN CONVENTION. Stirring Address by Mrs. Sewall—A Letter from Mrs. Gage. ‘When the report of the proceedings of the Morning session of the National women’s suf- convention closed in yesterday's Star Sewall was in the midst of an address ‘Bon “Women in the recent campaign.” She a vivid picture of the active part played | pdehem in the political meetings and demon- trations, and said that she had heard no public @riticism of women appearing in these political and she thought that it was significant, especially in view of the objections often heard against conferring the ballot on women that it would give them too great pub- licity, be a great strain on their physical health, and bring them in unpleasant contact with men. None of these unpleasant results of women’s prominence in public affairs was ob- served during the past campaign. She gave several amusing descriptions of THE PROMINENCE OF WOMEN IN THE CAMPAIGN, and contrasted it with the general idea enter- tained by men of the degrading influence upon women if they shouid go to the polls to vote. The difference between traveling a long dis- tance in a crowd and marching in torchlight ions anda quiet walk a short distance m home to the voting place was ly drawn, and the sarcasm was hugely enjoyed by the audience. She said that the national re- publican committee paid a woman the highest salary paid for campaign speeches with the ex- ception of the salary paid toone man. The prominence of WOMEN IN JOURNALISTIC WoRK ‘was also commented upon and she told of one woman in charge of the interests in India- napolis during the past campaign of one of the leading western papers that she worked steadily for seventeen hours on election day. That evening Mrs. Sewall observed that she did not seem tobe tired, and yet she asked what newspaper man could show a similiar record without the necessity of resorting to beer or tobacco to keep up. The political science clubs recently orgunized throughout the coun- try she believed were the campaign clubs under a new name, and that the interest of the women aroused during the campaign had been directed toward an investigation into their political condition. THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE. In speaking of the attitude of the members of the Indiana legislature on the suffrage ques- tion, she said that the members told her that they were in favor of giving the ballot to women, but they would not vote for any measure in this direction for the reason that one of the representative women in that state favored the third-party movement. This shows, commented the speaker, sarcastically, to what a plane of pure reason women must reach before they can hope to become THE POLITICAL PEERS OF MEN. The conclusion and the only conclusion to be based upon these facts is that it is folly to speak of women as being incapable of taking part in politics. They are now in politics, and what remains to be done is to give them the weapon which will make them feel responsi- ble toc the opinions which they hold. Men. in her opinion, now, to a large extent, sacrifice principle to expediency in politics. Women who have been less schooled in expediency must come in to preserve the political balance and to keep the government founded upon the cardinal principles of the fathers. She referred to the plank in the republican platform which asserts that every citizen, black or white, has the right to cast a full ballot and have it counted, and she expressed the hope that GEN, HARRISON WOULD GIVE THIS A JUST IN- TERPRETATION. He had.said nothing in his letter of accept- ance, but the ladies were in hopes that the looked-for interpretation would be in his in- augural. Incase Gen. Harrison, for whose high character and fairness they had the greatest t, might look at this matter through the of expediency and might miss the basic rinciple, Miss Anthony and herself had written | oe jetter setting forth what they deemed to be the proper interpretation of this plank. ‘MRS. GOUGAR AND THE THIRD PARTY. After Mrs. Sewall had concluded Mrs, Gougar spoke in regard to her connection with the adoption of the municipal Kansas bill, and said that this result was largely due to the third — Gen. Harrison, she said, had never done anything for moral reform in In- diana, and in his forthcoming inaugural she edicted that there would not be one word in rer of the cause of thewomen. She added that the third party was the only one that had dared to speak out for God and home and native land. She protested against any alle- iance to ty that could rely upon women’s Soto in bulk. After announcements by Miss Anthony the convention adjourned. LAST EVENING’S SESSION. The session last evening was opened with music from Prof. Bischoff and Mrs. True. There was a large attendance, and the addresses vei were spirited and well received. Lillie Deve- reux ie. of New York, spoke on political methods, Mrs. Sarah M. Perkins, of Ohio, on organization, and Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, of Oregon, on ballots and bullets. Miss An- thony closed the evening session with a short ‘MRS. GAGES LETTER. A letter has been received from Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage. It commences by assert- ing that the trust, the monopoly, most sub- versive of the rights of the people, is that of the ballot in the hands of manalone. “The money thief,” she says, ‘contents himself with taking that which is external to the person: the spiritual thief steals part of one’s very being; he prevents the full development of the intel- lect and the soul. When the ballot is denied to woman she is rendered incapable of fully be- coming herself. One of the principal methods of growth has been denied to her. She is not Permitted to give the world her own opinions, clothed with due authority, but has the ideas of others im d upon her in relation to all uestions, spiritual, intellectual, and material. jo tyranny eq this—no oppression so at—as that imposed in the name of liberty! he very first act of the Fifteenth Congress was the passage of a bill to ‘restore to citizen- ship’—that is, to make again a voter—a man who. by crime against the United States. had lost his right to the ballot. This endow ing in- dividual men with the ballot, by separate and specific acts of Congress, is thus legislatively carried out at the rate of about five hundred a year. * * * During the present session of Congress Mrs. Harriet H. Robinson, of Massachusetts, finds her polition most respectfully treated. Sena- tor Dawes, of Massachusetts, through whom it was presented, wrote Mrs. Robinson that “her —_— had made quite a stir, and no doubt committee would like to hear from her in regard to it.” So here is a great step in ad- vance. The Senate, to which such petitions have been presented since 1878, has at last roused to thought upon the subject. This body now asks reasons of a petetioner why her er should be granted. These petitions we been educational; they have roused thought. The ancients ‘called Jupiter “the cloud compeller.” Woman to this nation is thought-compeller. This has been the great work of the National Woman's Suffrage Asso- ciation in the past, to compel thought upon the just Principle of government. We cannot say that the thousands of individual petitions by women within the past eleven years for the removal of political disabilities have been ‘wasted munition. She closes by giving a form of petition and urging every woman, in her own name, to at once send a copy to the Representative from her congressional district or to one of the Sen- ators from her state. TO CONFER ON THE QUESTION OF UNION. The executive committee has appointed the following subcommittee to confer with a com- mittee from the American association relative to a union of the two societies: Miss Anthony, chai + Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker. Con- ; Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Indiana; Mrs. Virginia L. Minor, Missouri; Colby, District of Columbia; Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake, New York; Rev. Olympia Brown, Wis- ——___ Origin of the Word “Bummer.” ism. But, like many other Americaniams, it is simply a legitimate descendant of an old En- glish word, bummaree, which DR. McCOSH ON NOVELS. A Criticism on His Assertion that the Best are Written by Women. From the Boston Gazette. Dr. MeCosh does not intend to be very com- plimentary or gallant when he asserts that the best recent novels have been written by women. He does-not like novels, and this is his cynical way of robbing them of importance. We do not share the reverend gentleman's contempt for fiction; but it cannot reasonably be denied that the novel, as an art product, has reached avery low level. It has become democratic. To gain popularity it has cast aside form and proportion; it has lost the art of amusing and has grown dull that it may instruct. The ma- jority of the novelists of to-day lack ideas and imagination. They sermonize, deal out dry platitudes with equally dry placidity, always missing the region of true art. When they are not Zolas they are Howellses. It is the ex- treme of nastiness or the extreme of insipidity. The only real novelist of the present day is George Meredith, and he is not popular. One chapter of his consummate art is worth all the Robert Elsmeres and Quick and Deads ever written. This true artist will not stoop to humor popular vulgarity, and a quarter of a century's rage neglect has not changed his art prineip le. He has not put money in his pyrse, but posterity will re- spect his name when the countiess literary midgets infesting gutter pools and milliners’ parlors are forgotten, We have reached the curious stage of progress when popularity is no longer a sign of merit. ‘Time was when an cn- viable popularity meant vitality and _immor- tality; it now means a full purse and speedy decay. W ‘thin half a generation hosts of liter- ary mushrooms have sprung up, flourished for a day and then vanished. The author of “Called Back” has disappeared; Rider Haggard has reached the condition of the sere and yellow leaf; Amelie Rives has ceased to be a startling novelty to become a wearisome cora.nonplace; even Mrs. Ward has said her one strong word and is fading into insignificance. Novels at- tract now only when they surprise. They may be idiotic, but they are sure of popularity if they serve out spice instead of ideas: astonish us by their indecencies, their heresies or their affectation of nursery simplicity. In art, sadly enough, we have reached the era of bald tru- ism; adding new ornaments to old littlenesses; saying infinite nothings in a voice of frenzie prophecy and withan earnestness that makes silence itself a symptom of genius, Dr. McCosh 1s angry with “Robert Elsmere,” unaccountably angry, for he is a man of sense and should know that taste is a changing quality, and that what is the spoon to-day may be the fork to-morrow. Mrs. Ward was for- tunate in putting into words what many people were thinking silently. Hers is not the in- iration of genius, but the soul-wearying clatter of machine literature that turns out so many pages of patented fiction with more or less skill. Whatever credit may be given Mrs. Ward, she is not an artist, and she is successful in argument only because she manipulates both the attack and the defense. Under these | conditions anything may be proved, even that Fielding was without genius and that Zola is an inspired prophet. Fortunately old-fash- ioned admirers of real art can refuse to sym- pathize with the goose-hissing of the new dis- msation. Their tastes may be wretchedly ad, but with Shakespeare, Fielding, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray and a few other cherished vuigarians, they can manage to enjoy them- selves, leaving the Sahara of modern litera- ture to the ambitious cultivators who plant nothing and yet prosper on their imaginary crops. From a Birmingham (41a) Special. A ghost is causing an exodus of negroes from Lawrence county. Last July Calvin Mooday, a drunken, worthless negro, murdered his wife. The woman was in a delicate condi- tion at the time, and the crime was a most brutal one. Three nights after the murder Mooday was taken from the county jail at Moulton and lynched by colored men. The colored men of the county boasted that no white man had anything to do with the hang- ing of Mooday. Most of the, lynching party were known, but no effort was ever made to prosecute them for it. Recently the colored people living in and around Moulton have been | seeing ghosts at the house where the Mooday | family formerly lived. The ghost visited the scene every night, and soon the negroes be- came much alarmed. Those who had taken part in the lynching were the first to leave the country, and others are following as rapidly as ossible. A correspondent writing from Moulton says: “If the present exodus continues Lawrence county will soon be without a col- ored citizen, They firmly believe the ghost of | Calvin Mooday is lurking about the old cabin | and will bring a fearful curse on all colored ‘ople who were in any way connected with The lynching. The lynching of Mooday was Ala- the first and only time in the ets fe A y colore bama where a criminal was lynched men.” ee Grant and the Ferry-Boat Captain. From the Detroit Journal. “You remember old Capt. Chilvers,” began Capt. Joe Nicholson. “He ran the first steam ferry on the Detroit. When Grant was a | tenant stationed at Detroit, Capt. Tom knew him and when Grant got to be President Capt. | Tom called on him at the White House. The | attendant toe ty him in the ante-room and asked him for his card. “**C-e-c-card,’ stuttered the captain, ‘I ain't got no card.” “Then stopping to think; he pulled out a little blue ferry ticket. “That's m-miy e-c-card; y-you t-t-take it to him. the card went in and the captain followed it. Grant came forward, shook the old man warmly by the hand and said: “I'm pretty busy now. but [ve time to talk to y Vhere are you staying?’ -n-national,” stammered the surprised visitor. ‘All right.’ said Grant quietly. ‘I'll send down for your things and this will be your hotel while you stay in Washington.’ “Oh, no; you d-d-don’t mean it!” Tom. “*Yes, I do.’ was the steady reply, and so it was. For ten weeks Capt. Tom Chilvers was a guest at the White House, and for a month after he got back to Detroit he held a levee on the docks every day to teil the crowds about | his trip to Washington. soe gasped old Artemus Ward’s Foresight. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. ‘There is an unlimited amount of humor on tap in the average newspaper office, and the other day some historian unearthed an anec- dote of Artemus Ward's first experience as a reporter on a Cleveland newspaper. That was | before he became known as a humorist. and he | was pressed into the harness as the Jenkins of the establishment. One evening he was sent out to write up a “swell” entertainment to be given by the leading club of the city. On his way to the hall Ward met a friend. “Which way, Charles?” “Going to write up a sort of fly shindig.” “Let's go in and take a bowl. I'm going down that way pretty soon.” They went into a beer hall, said Ward, after he had spent the place. “I must go,” half an hour in 1» sit down. Let's have another bowl. Say, you can write up that affair just as well from the program as you can by seeing the performance, Got a program, haven't ‘ell, write it'up and let's make a little round.” Ward surrendered. He wrote up the per- formance, took the article to the office, and, after having recived the praise of the city ed- | itor for the gracefulness of his work. went out with his friend. The next morning he read his ‘report’ and was much pleased with his own ingenuity, but his complacency was of short life, for, taking up another h following announcement: PPC? he read the “The performance of the A—— club, in con- sequence of the sudden illness of a ‘J feature,’ did not take place last night.” Ward had not the courage to go to the office, but boarded the first outgoin Three months later he revernedl to Cleseiand and was walking along a street when he met the managing editor of the eee paper for which he ‘aes hello, Browne !” the editor exclaimed. “Where have you been? “ ‘Wh; ‘haut 5 back “Why 't you come ter making your bad break’ ” “Oonselanes stric! r to the office af- | happy, and will live. A HAUNTED APARTMENT. Strange Proceedings inthe Room Where Preller was Murdered. ‘St. Louis Special to the New York Sun. The terrible tragedy enacted on April 5, 1885, in room 144 of the Southern hotel, is again re- vived by the strange experiences of the guests who have recently oceupied the apartment. It was in room 144 that Maxwell chioroformed Preller to death and then packed the body in atrunk. The room was not oc:upied for many months, and the hotel people found it neces- sary to change the number to 133, The exper- ience of a guest on last Friday night was told to-day. The gentleman is a prominent busi- ness man of well balanced mind. “I knew nothing at all about the room when I took it,” hesaid. ‘In fact the Maxwell-Preller tragedy had wholly escaped me. I went to bed at my usual hour, and was a ened with a start by hearing a strange tapping against the head of the bed. There was one tap and then two others in quick succession. I was aroused in an instant, but heard nothii more. The same tapping occurred several other times dur- ing the night, but I thought little of it. The next evening I noticed that the drawers of the bureau would always open, however, after I closed them. I pushed them in whenever I passed near the bureau, but they would in- variably open again, as though forced out b: some unseen agency. Still I was not alarme: The most startling occurrence, and that which decided me to quit the room, eame on the third night. Lordered the fire discontinued, because it was warm enough without one, and retired for the night. I had noticed that the chambermaid had entirely cleared the hearth of debris, and not so much as a scrap of paper was left in it. About 1 o’clock I was awakened by an explosion on the hearth that sounded like a big firecracker. I was seared, you can bet. Asecond explosion a little louder fol- lowed, and then came a third, which capped the climax. It was terribly violent, and the detonation was fearful. I arose, a ited the gas, dressed and looked at the hearth. It was completely filled with a slaty substance that looked like ore of some kind, and one of the large cubes that made up the hearth was torn from the brick work or tiling. Pieces of slate were thrown across the room. “I went down stairs and told the night clerk to come right to the room and see what had happened. He refused with a sickly smile, I returned to the room, passed a sleepless night, and changed my room next day. I na learned from a friend the history of the room.and then one or two things which had hitherto been in- explicable to me became now painfully clear. I had noti the room just as quickly as they could, not even waiting for the occasional tip which I held out to them, nor could I get an answer when I rang the bell after 10 o'clock at night. I then found out that at that hour the lights in the hall were turned out, and that the bell- boys would not go through the corridor after that time at any price. ann not a ppicitaalisn I was absolutely sober, too, as I seldom take a drink.” The manager of the hotel, Mr. Lewis, had nothing to say when the story was told to him, nor could he suggest any explanation. zi oe. sa A Wonderfal Invalid. BEDRIDDEN MISS FANCHER BECOMES VICE-PRESI- DENT IN A MANUFACTURING COMPANY. From the New York Sun, Nearly a year ago Miss Mollie Fancher, the famous invalid of Brooklyn, became the vice- president of the Sargent manufacturing com- pany, a concern of this city that makes and deals in goods designed for the comfort of sick people. Ever since that time all the meetings of the company have been held in the lady's darkened chamber, from which she has not stirred for twenty-three years. The fact that she thus became connected with a manufac- turing enterprise was kept from the public out of respect to her sensitiveness, Of course it came out after a time, and it reveals more than ever the remarkable genius of the invalid. Said Mr. George F. Sargent, the president of the company, yesterday: ‘*Miss Fancher is no figurehead in this con- | cern, but one of the most active and valuable members. I became acquainted with her two or three years ago, when I called on her in the hope that I might find that some of my devices would be of use to her. Of course I found that she was past relief, but the acuteness with which she grasped my ideas and suggested manifest improvements was startling. I soon found that she hada marvelous gift for me- chanics, and I saw that it could be of invalua- ble use in the business, She knows all about the sufferings of invalids, and just hew to re- lieve them. We had and have no desire to make any capital out of the use of Miss Fanch- er's name; she is exceedingly sensitive about parading her sufferings.” “Is there any change in her malady?” “Nothing noticeable. Her life, however, is in her work. As long as she can work she is She takes the most un- seliish interest in helping others, and believing that her inventions are useful to invalids, she exercises her wonderful brain to the utmost to perfect them.” scoliosis Put Him in a Hole. A DISPUTE BETWEEN TWO FARMERS LEADS TO ONE BURYING THE OTHER UP IN A PIT. Acorrespondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch writing from Canonsburg, Pa., says: For a long time a bitter controversy has existed be- tween John Shearn and William Lightholder, of this place, over the right of the former to use a road through the premises of the latter. The road was the only thoroughfare for Shearn to the Canonsburg coal bank. A few days ago Shearn was driving over the road, when he came to a deep hole in front of Lightholder’s house. Lightholder and his #on stood at one side of the pitas Shearn drove up. Knowing that the pit had been dug by the Lightholders on purpose to prevent him getting to the coal banks Shearn toid them that unless they filled it up he would fill it himself. Lightholder re- fused to fill it, and Shearn got out of his wagon and began to shovel the dirt back into the hole. Lightholder attacked him with a pick. Astruggle ensued and Shearn got the pick in his possession and young Lightholder re- treated to the house. Shearn then proceeded with the work of fill- ing in the hole. Lightholder jumped into the pit and lay down supposing that Shearn would | not dare fill the dirt in on him. but Shearn worked right on, Then Lightholder struggled to his feet and defied Shearn to fill the hole. Shearn paid no attention, but filled in the dirt on all sides of the stubborn pit digger until nothing but his head was above ground. Shearn then offered to dig Lightholder out if the latter would fill the pit afterward, but Lightholder refused toagree and Shearn drove on his way, Old man Lightholder was exhumed by his son, and Thursday had Shearn arrested, charged with assault and battery. The case was tried and Shearn was discharged, with all the costs on Lightholder. see A London Fog. From the Pall Mall Gazette. Yesterday's fog was simply horrible in patches, At Queen’s road, Bayswater, at 6:30 I had to hire a boy with a lantern to find me a hansom which was buried in a fog in the middle of a roadway, My cabby had to walk, leading his horses with his lamp in his hand, close to the curbstone almost as far as the Marble arch. Even then he often got on the pavement. The sound of the voices of those lost inthe fog, the ghostly glare of the hansom lamps. whic seemed strangely far apart, and the far away shimmer of the gas rer made the frosty fog of last night a thing to of, not to tel Aad Pesaran ae A Workingman’s View of Newspapers. From the Albany Journal. A workingman in this city who was com- plaining of hard times recently was asked how he could afford to take a daily newspaper. “Well,” said he, “Ihope I shall never be too poor to take a paper. I thought I was too poor for ten years after I was married. My wife suggested that I take a paper regularly, and I did so, and it was the most economical stroke of my life. It kept me home evenings, afforded me pleasure instruction and was a comfort to the whole family. I had to stop the use of tobacco for a whole year once in order to for. the | bebo tire result was that I Hed not cared for tobacco since, and in one i i g Ht fF ; are very d that the bell-boys would get out of | A SERIOUS MISTAKE. How Near a Wealthy Banker Came to Being Stuffed with Straw. From the Paris Figaro. A rich foreigner, named Sutherland, natural- zed in Russia, was banker to the court and in high favor with the empress, He was roused one morning by the information that his house was surrounded by guards, and that Reliew, the minister of police, desired to speak with him. This personage, entering without further cere- mony, at once announced his errand. “Mr. Sutherland,” said he, “Iam charged by my gracious sovereign with the execution of a sentence, the severity of which both as- tonishes and grieves me, and I am ignorant as to how you can so far have excited the resent- ment of her majesty.” “Tam as much in the dark as yourself,” re- plied the banker, “but what are your orders?” “T have not the courage to tell you.” “Have I lost the confidence of the empress?” “If that were all, you would not sce me troubled. Confidence may return—position may be restored.” “Am I to be sent back to my own country? or, great heaven!” cried the banker, trembling, | “does the empress think of banishing me io Siberia?” “Alas! you might some day return.” “Am I to be knouted?” : Acs punishment is fearful, but it does not “Is my life then in peril? I cannot believe that the empress, usuaily so mild, so gentle— who spoke to me so kindly but two days since— *tis impossible! For heaven’ssake, let me know the worst. Anything is better than this intol- erable suspense.” “Well, then,” said Reliew in a melancholy | tone, “my gracious mistress has ordered ifte to have you stuffed,” “Stuffed!” cried the poor banker, horrified. “Yes, stuffed with straw.” Sutherland looked fixediy at the minister of police an instant, and exclaimed: “Sire, either you have lost .your reason or the empress is not in her right’ senses; surely, you did not receive such @ command without endeavoring, at least, t6 point out its unreason- ableness, its barbarity,” “Alas! my unfortunate friend, I did that which, under ordinary circumstances, I should not have dared to attempt; 1 manifested my priet. my consternation; I even hazarded a umble remonstrance; but her imperial maj- esty, im an irritated tone, bade me leave her presence and see her commands obeyed at once, ding these words, which still ring in my ears ‘Go, and forget not that it is your duty to ac- it yourself without a murmur of any com- ion with which I may deign to trust you.” It would be impossible to describe the hor- ror, the despair of the unhappy banker. After waiting until the first burst of grief was over, Reliew informed him that he would allow him a quarter of an hour to settle his worldiy affairs. Sutherland went and prayed, and en- treated the minister to take a = ion from him to the empress, Overcome by his suppli- cations, the magistrate consented to be his messenger, and took charge of the missive; but, afraid to return to the palace. he hastily resented himself at the residence of the English ambassador and explained the affair to him. ‘The ambassador very naturally supposed the minister had become insane, but, Tdding him follow, he hurried to the palace. Intro- duced into the imperial presence, he told his story with as little delay as possible. On hear- ing this strange recital, the empress exclaime “Merciful heaven! what a dreadful mistake! Reliew must have lost his wits. Run quickly, my lord, I beg, and desire that madam to re- lieve my poor banker of his groundless fears, and to set him at liberty immediately.” The English ambassador left the room to do as her ma jesty required, and on his return empress laughing immoderately, w.” said she, ‘the cause of this incon- ceivably absurd blunder. I had, for some years, a little dog, to which I was much at- tached; I called him Sutherland, because that was the name of the English gentleman who presented him to me. This dog has just died, and I gave Rehew orders to have him stuffed. As he hesitated, I became angry, supposing that from a foolish excess of pri » thought this commission beneath his dignity That is the solution of this ridiculous enigma,” eke, Buffalo Bill as a Swell. HIS FIRST EXPERIENCE IN A CLAW-HAMMER WAS WORSE THAN FIGHTING INDIANS. From the Omaha Herald. I met Buffalo Bill last night at the corner. He was entertaining a crowd of jolly fellows by relating his experiences in the wild cast, It was not exactly the east, either, but it was east tohim. He told of being with Sheridan during the war. On his return he was invited to visit the general at Chicago. He was in the Garden city two or three days as the general's gucst and was asked to attend a society ball became whispered around that General Sheri dan and his scout were to be present, and soci- ety was delighted with the idea of meeting the terror of the west. On the afternoon preced- ing the society event Mike Sheridan asked Buffalo Bill if he had brought his full dress suit with him. This staggered the man of the plains, and e said he guessed he couldn't attend the ball. The general's brother rented an evening suit from a furnishing house, and Buffalo Bill got into it and started for the ball. “I was never in such asweat in my life.” said William. “I would rather have plunged into forty Indian battles than to have entered that ball-room. I felt un- comfortable, but I went in with the general’s | brother, I was introduced to about one hun- dred ladies and the same number of tlemen, y pants-—or rather the pants which Mike Sheridan had rented for me—were terribly tight, as were also my gloves, which came throngh the same channel. I did not know which garment would break first, but fortu- nately neither did. 1 had one dance, and this was at the solicitation of a lady who was desir- ous of dancing with acowboy. I got on the floor with her, and the music started. I was waiting for some one to call off, but there was uo call, as I had been accustomed to. I never hadsuchadreadfultime. After I got through with the dance I started for the door, and put in the rest of the night at the nearcst saloon. where I had a racket with the settler. I had ged my clothes, you know, and had ted to change the contents of my pockets, I hadn't a cent, and the barkeeper or, as I called him then, the settler, saw me there in full dress and asked me what I would have. I told him whisky, and then he kicked because I did not offer to pay him for it. Mike came in shortly afterward and fixed it with the barman, Betore this I was on my good behavior, as the general had told me that he wanted to show people that his scout wasa gentleman. That was all 1 wanted with full dress evening bails, and I was mysel ain when I disrobed of those rented clothe: see Hard Times for Male Beauties. From the New York Sun, “It is a curious thing about the male profes- sional beauties,” said a prominent theatrical manager recently, ‘that the least thing is likely to prick the bubble of their popularity. Bel- lew's days as a masher are pretty well num- bered. Personally I like him. He is by no means the affected poser that he looks; but, speaking in a strictiy business sense, he has jecreased in value by the cowardice he has shown in kis recent experience here. George Rignold was quite as much worshipped until the fact that he had a wife in England became known, and Charles Coghlan’s former sway as amale beauty ceased with the same sudden- ness that it began on the circulation of one or two stories about him. The instances are num- berless, Most of the actors who make mash- ing the great part of their business have man- aged to live longer in the popularity of woman- kind than Bellew, because they have not shown the white feather. An actor practically lia- ble to this sortof revulsion of sentiment. Men of Bellew's stamp and standing in the profes- sion aro always playi ing courage an 5 in od pect at Wallack’s and the youn: ived in him the in romantic ideal. 2 on top of nce of Miss } oe D.C... WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23. 1889, EDUCATIONAL. T= FREDERICK FEMALE SEMINARY WILL Pa Lommence ite next seasion F, LI8S89 For B.Prederick, Sea “arene WML bw PIANO LESSONS — MISS CLARA HARRISON, of Win. Mason, N. 5 oO Sra Sab 1234 13th st. now. RAWING PAINTING—INSTRUCTION IN every branch and for all ages, private BoTHE, NATIONAL NCADEMY students. eer se saviaae T?,.7H PARIS EXPOSITION—A_ SPECIAL course of practical conversstions in French; clases from 4 fo Mpm, Prof, und Mine. DES GAR: ENNES, 1203 11th st. i.w. jalv-iw* USS ERNA y. RODENST ANE ing returned ‘from New SOPRANO, HAV- can be enguzed for pupils concerts, &c. A limited number of will also be Teceived. Address 1329 Walluc Pince, jal ®-Iin* SHORTHAND IN six SIMPLE LESSONS SS Ciasses daily. y. 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