Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1887, Page 12

] A A VAR T S L T . 12 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1887 TR T3 A A T % TS ~TWELVE PAGES. | BUCHANAN'S - BAD * BREAKS. ! How the 01d President Attempted to Stop a Big Parade, SICKLES' STALWART SPEECH' Though a Democrat the New Yorker Stands by the Union—Adam Badeau’s Interesting Reminiscence, NEw York, March 18, 1887.—[Corre, spondence of the Bek.]—Daniel E. Bickles was a member of congress, and of the democratic party—young, but al- ready prominent, extremely intimate with President Buchanan, and holding socinl and political relations with his cabinet, and with most of the prominent southerners, men and women,who at that time controlled the politicsof the capital. He was at the coreof that brilhant, intriguing, and really aristocratic society which governed congress and had gov- erned the nation for at least a quarter of acentury. I wasin Washington a year or two before the war, and saw much of Sickles. 1 breakfasted and dined at his house, and was introduced by him to « many of the people of distinction of that day. [ well remember the intellectual conyersation at his table, the powertnl circle of statesmen and POLITICAL WOMEN among whom he lived. My own sympa- thies were entirely in accord with his, in favor of the south, and opposed to aboli- tion, and I can vouch for his influence with the represeutatives of slavery in the o1d ante-bellum days. He hud been a secretary of legation at London when Buchanan was minister there, and had preserved an intimacy of o peculiar character with his former ehief. The president stood godfather to Sickle's child.and Sickles went in and out of the executive mansion with a facil- ity and a freedom allowed to no other but an inmate. Cabinet ministers went to him to get favors from the head of the state, and the clever women of the south, who knew so well how to dispense their courtesics to the best advantage, were lavish of invitations and compliments to the favorite of the president. Yet against all these inducements and blandishments, Sickles was firm when the time cnme in the stand he took for the union. Neither the overshadowing authority of the execcutive, nor all t he wiles and charms of social and feminine olery could seduce him from his patri- otic integri He was willing to do slmost anything that the southerners asked within the union, but he alway: declared he would be their enemy if they left the union. As the crisis came nearer, and state after statc seceded after the election of Lincoln, he remained at his post and showed his colors. MR, BUCHANAN, . was less derelict to the country than has been supposed. Weak and vacillating doubtless, and with principles and senti- ments that led him to a course which did much to encourage the south and precip- itate war, he nevertheless did not intend wrong. He was not a traitor, though his acts hurried on treason, ‘I'he man who called Dix and Stanton and Holt into his cabinet after the trouble came can hardly have intended harm to the umon. Dur- ing the weeks immediately preceding the inauguration of Lincoln the president au- thorized the assembling of a large mili- tary force in and around Washington, so that he might hand over the government lo{nlly to his successor, and enable Lin- ~ coln to enter upon_his duties with secur- ity and dignity. The number of regular © troops collected 1n the vicinity of the ~eapital was greater than had in Washington since the war of 1813. This wasarranged, of course, with the counsel of the cabinet, and of Scott, then general-in-chief, and at the sugges- tion of Scott a parade was ordered for the 22nd of Kebruary, in celebration of Washington’s birthday. It was thought . that this display of force would have a neficial effect upon wavering minds who would see that the government was at least able to protect itself. When the announcement of the parade was made, people from Alexandria, Baltimore and en from Harrisburg and Philadelphia repared to witness it, and on the da; appointed the streets were crowded wit! _throngs, 20,000 or 80,0(@ at least in num- bers. ~ On the 22d Sickles was with Mrs. Stan- ton and other cabinet ladies on the steps " of the treasury building, waiting for the procession to appear, when Jno. C. Ken- nedy, superintendent of the census, ap- proached the party and announced that . THE PARADE HAD BEEN COUNTERMANDED. Bickles knew the effect that this would ive, not only on the expectant crowds the streets but on the country at large, - and he at once left the ladies to_inform . Stanton, the attorney general, of the i news, Stanton’s oftice was in. the L freasury building at that time, and he was soon to be found, He had heard R %ul the change in the arrange- ments, but agreed with Sickles that the - step was injudicious in the extreme. The b'l: went at first to confer with General s :‘D‘Ie secrltlatm;y of the %rnlnnury, who proved equally ignorant of the counter- mand, Hoth heand Stanton thought it ‘was the work of Jeremiah Black, the - eretary of state, whose symputhies with the south were known. The cabinet ' ministers agreed Lo go at once to the department and ascertain the facts, - and then proceed to the president to pro- I test against the change; but Sickles, as [ the intimate and eonfidential friend of | Buchanan, was desired to approach him ~ In advance, and prepare the way. - Sickles went immediately to the white , but the president was not there: ' He had gone to the office of Mr. Holt, mcremry of war. Holt wasfrom a 4 ler state, and was therefore suspected of a leaning to the friends of secession. 8o Sickles thought to himselt; ““It is Holt who has brought about the change.” He ked mw the exeuutive grounds to old w . building then occupied the war department. But the presi- it was closeted ‘with the secretary of * war: the doors’ were locked and orders 7 beon given that no ome whatever b d be ullslned. Sickles, however, . was young and enthusiastic, and knew " most certainly, on what groun he - stood with the rrenldanz. ¢ presumed ps, but it was ina good cause. ndes, the times were revolu- ary, and no one was sure it might oceur next. So he stalked and down in the ante chamber, and in & purposely loud tone: e must be some one here with au- ity to tell the president that I have ortant news, I must see him at o ill no one let me see the ‘presidenu is had the effect desired; the door opened and Mr, Buchanan himself od at the entrance, ‘“Sickles,” he 'what do yon want? Why do you make this noise? Come in and’ tell “me you have to say.” Sickles went in found no one with the president but seated in an arm chair, lookin, and sullen, his head bent, his hands jped the very incarnation of plots and on. It was plain who had occas- d the countermand. okl n at once, ranting in FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY STYLE, ming against the oounlarmlnd,lall- of the crowds of people in the streets, o shousands who had come in from the boring towns,the uproar that would be created; the tumult even, if it was an- nounced that United States troops were not periitted to parade in® the capital of the country, onthe anpiversary of Wash- ington’s birthday.. “Who can have ad- vised this craven course? " he exclaimed, Holt sat perfectly stiil, morose and black, and uttered not a word,but the president, with charactistic weakncss, was appar- ently convinced. He admitted that it would ary; I think you may rect General Scott to make the order of ocation.” Holt at once arose: *I will convey the order myself, Mr. Pres- ident,” he rv;)llwl. and left the room. When Buchanan was alone with his favorite, he turned to Sickles and said with quite a chuckle, “Well young man, rou suppose yon have been berating Mr. Tolt for his action, and vou pretended to whip him over my shoulders. But “EAM THE GUILTY ONE.” ‘I insisted on this order, and Mr. Holt was protesting against it when you eame in. He was quite as urgent as "you, and you have only seconded him, Ex-Pres- ldent Tyler, the president of the peaco cong d waited on me at the heud of a committee, to represent that the show of force would have a bad eflect upon the dehiberations of the members from the border states,and at his instance I had directed the countermand of the parade.” Sickles was abashed, for it would haye been presumption to address the president as he had done, unless with the pretense of declaiming against another; and he regretted his in- justice to Holt. But the president was amused at the situation and forgave his protege; just then Holt returned, and in the vrese of Sickles, Buehanan told the story, The young member of congress was more embarrassed than but Holt came up to him and ex- both hands: “Young man,” said he—they had never met before; “Young man, I thank you with all my heart. When you were “admitted 1t is true the president had determined on this coun- termand, and I had just informed him that if he persisted, my resignation was at his disposal The giving to the rampant young 2 the news that Stanton and Dix were behind him, affected the vacilating, but perhaps well-meaning president, and the parade went on. TILL MORE SIN e the influeuce of Sick: nan is worth reciti ved in Wastington in di days before his inauguration, he was taken to the capitol by Seward who it was known was to be his secretury of state. When the historic pair entered the hall of the house of representatives the re- publicen members of course went up and were presented to the president elect, who had b versonally known to very few of them. But no southerner or northern democrat approached them. Sickles waus a junior member and did not feel entitled to lead in any move- ment of this sort, but when he noticed that no more important person of his party stirred, he turned to 8. 8. Cox, who sat near him, “It is proper to y our re- s to the president elect,” he said; you go up with me? No one else on our side leads?’ Cox consented, and the two went forward and Seward pre- sented them to Lincoln. Then a num- ber of other democrats followed their ex- ample. The incident made Seward feel kindly toward Sickles, and he asked the mgm- ber from New York to call at his house; he had something to say to him. Tho same night Sickles paid the visit, and Seward then read him several passages from LINCOLN'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS, already prepared. The tone of that doc- ument was much more moderate than was expected, as those who knew those times will remember; 1t promised no in- terference with slavery it the southerne: remained in the union or returned to and was universally pronounced pacific atory and statesmanlike instead of wa like or exasperating. Sickles was struck with its character, and asked if he might inform the president of what he had learned. *I thought you would be up to something hke that,” said Seward, and ho did not prohibit the repetition, Of course, upon leaving the house, Sickles went direct to the president with his news. But Buchanan at first pooh- poohed him: ‘Do yvou believe that Lin coln will say anything like that? Seward has been making game of you.” But Sickles then told the president of the peculiar terms on which he stood with Seward. The New York senator was at that time virtually ostracised in democratic society which was the princi- pal society of Washington. No southern persons invited him to their homes and when some of his constituents had asked him for invitations to a ball at Mrs. Shdel’s or Mrs. Gwin's or at tne house of seme other important southerne Seward had told Sickles of his embar rassment. The democratic member was intimate at these very houses because ot his politics and his “place in the pr dent’s favor as well as his own graces, and ho instantly offered to procure the invitations. BSeward at first accepted the favors, but then declined them; for he said he could not obtain invitations for one and not for another; and he would be obliged to explain his disagreeable so- cial position. But Sickles offered in any case when he was sufliciently intimate to continue his applications; and Seward of course was especially obliged, Sickles told this to the president, who agreed with him that after sich relations it would be impossible for Seward to make a dupe of Sickles for any political pur- pose. “‘But,” asked Buchanan, *‘did he know that you would tell me*’ Then Sickles recounted the adroit reply of Se- ward to his own inquiry, and ]hu-huuan came to the conclusion that the message was in reality meant for himself, It was a contrivance to.let him know that the tone of Lincoln’s i -ui;urul was to be much more moderate than violent ti- sans on eith i et He said at onc L] whut I supposed. It is wise and patriotic; I will go to the inauguration which I had not intended to do.” He kept his word. There were rumors and threats and possi- bilities of DANGER TO LINCOLN and to any one who stood near him when he was inaugurated; but Buchanan accom- R_nmo\l himto the capital, and stood by is side while the inaugural speech was delivered; and when Lincoln repeated the passages that Sickles had disclosed, the retiring president looked around with his cross eye at his young friend und vressed his hand. **Thank Goa,” he said; at means peace,” ApAx Bapeav, — A Curious Lawsuit, _The famous Blue Grotto of Capri has given rise to one of the most curious law- fuits which have cver been heard of. Some years ago an American became possesser of that part of Capri under whieh the Blue Grotto is situated, and the owner asserts now that as the sur- face of the ground belongs to him, he is also the owner of everything befow it, which in thi: ase happons to be the grotto, which, however, at present is the Po: ion of the little town of Capri, the administration of which had not the slightest inclination of gi\'lng up what is its own to the Yunkee. The latter, on being informed of this, has begun a law- suit, the consequences of which, whether he wins or losses the case, may be very serious. In the former case he may per- manently injure the grotto by making a hole through its ceiling, by which the marvellous reflactions in the interior witl be lost forever. If he wins it, the chances are that he will close it to the public. e Miss Madeleine Lemanre is winning un- boumim!.rralu for her admirable paint- ing of still hfe. As a fruit and flower artist she is pronounced unriva.ed, FIXING 'FEMININE ~ FACES. Women Who Do Not Like Moustaches on Their own Lipa LILY LANGTRY'S LATEST LOYAL. Thespians in Lenten |Time—Cold Assuming Conchmen—Labor News- papers and Libraries — Fifth Avenue in Rain, New Yok, March 19.—[Correspond- ence of the Beg.]—Bishop Potter is one of the most dignified of Emiscopalians and is socially potent besides, for he was rector of GGrace church for fifteen years be- fore succeeding his uncle in the bishopric, but his self-poise must have been nearly destroyed for an instant by the cclesias- question suddenly put before him his week. “We have said one ot the lled to ask you, Bishop,' four fair daughters of wealth, “whether it is right for 1 woman with a suggestion of a moustache on her lip--such as dark brunettes are liable to —to have it removed."” Brother Potter gravely decided thut nature nught be thus thwarted, ana beauty intensified, but time cauitoned the enquirers against the sin of vanity. The maidens were serious enough about 1t, and why shoulin’t he, as he did, tgeat the subject in all sober- ness, The stories told of artificial improye- ment in faces are often lies, and of course no great amount of painting and powdering can be done decentively, but 1t 18 a positive fact that sci vlied itself to the removal of hair from feminine faces. No less an authority than Dr. Shrady, who was one of Grant's physicians, put me in the way of gratify- He said that, O yes, moustaches destroyed by electricity; that an illustration of the process was to be given within a few’ days before a class at the Women's col- lege and that, if I desired, I might for that oceasion become a student. I went. The class had in a small ampl- theatre BEFORE A SURGEON'S which resembled a barber's chair sug- gestively. The demonstrafor was an ex- Lm" in electricity. He first brought in a attery, attached to which were wires, one ending in a needle and the other in a handle. Then he introduced a girl, She was French and could not speak much “nglish. 1 presume he had hired her for ‘the purpose, though she might weli desire to submit to the ordeal, tor on her upper lip w. decidedly unpretty growth of hair. was a neat, nice looking creatur olive skin and piquant feature: 0{)15!‘1\!0!’ placed the handle of chine 1 one of her hands grip it steadily, That was to keep up a current through her whenever he touched her with the needle. He tixed a magnify- ing glass in his ege, bent over her s sho lay back in the chair, stuck the needle along down the course of a single hair toits root. ‘“‘Ouch-h-h!’ exclaimed the girl. But she thouglu that she could stand it—that the hurt was not much; and so he went on gently stabbing th hairs, the electrieity each”time removing one of the hirsute offenses. Fifty were thus done away with. The man ex- plained that they could never grow again, but that the process mus f in order not to make tiny THE FAIR LiLY. The mention of beauty reminds one naturally of Mrs. Langtry, whose highest charm is her perfe n unblemished, and there is social news in her, to the ef- fect that she has chosen a man to marry —or has let onc choose her. Fred Geb- hard has been jilted, and Arthur Dasent is the new favorite. Heisa tall, dark, good-looking fellow, who came to town awhile ago from the south. He is some- thing of a literary character, i tended to o into journalism had been here only'a few days whe was knocked down and run over b, street ear, He was taken to St. hospital, where it very soon trar that he and Longtry were sw k She ordercd Howers sent to him every morning, and us soon as her theatrical engagement brought her near town she visited him assiduously: It seems that they had met” six months ago, become mutaally enamored, and just ready for betrothal when the accident, by evolving her sympathy, brought the courtship to a speedy climax. She owns considerable property in New York, and means to settle down” hel far as her stage employment will pe) b She 18 to become Mrs, Dasent soon, and her husband is going to take a place on the Star, Society is well known to keep its eyes closely on the beauties of the theatre, no matter how much the actresses may be under taboo. There are always several models of manner and style on the New York stage, who are astonishingly potent i intluencing the deportment of Fifth avenue's maidens, One of the foremost of these now is f Virginia Dreher, of Daly’s company. She has small talent, but is one of the loveliest of imaginable creatures in the demure, dainty, lady like line. Swelldom has been full” of stories of her romantic career; and now all of them are spoiled by the authoritative dis- closure that she is the staid widow of a Louisville German wusie teacher, and that the twelve-year-old girl seen with her is not her sister, but her daughter. CHEEKY COACI Of unadulterated 1mpudence and cold assumption the coachman of the m lioned upper thousands ir New Y provide the most nearly perfe to be found in the United St appear to think that common vehicles and people on foot have no rights i street. So they halloo at pedest: who are about to get in the way rattle across streets with indifferen to who or what may be on the crossing: The average democratic New Yorker does not mind being whistled at by car drivers and will make lively jumps over a crossing to get out of the way of a milk wagon or a coal cart; but when it comes to having a carringe drawn by prancing horses, with banged tails and silver mounted harness, bear down upon him with a “‘Halloo, there’ from a liveried driver, he feels more like cracking the horses’ noses with his stizk than clearing a pussage for them. He usually does nothing restric- tive, kowever, and Anna l)icfinson is therefore all the more a heroine. It was at Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue, in a recent rain storm. The avenue was crowded with ve- hicles, and crossing was difficult. Anna had dodged in and out successfuly, but she found when near the farther side- walk that she had to wait a few seconds for a wagon loaded with long pieces of lumber to pass. As she st there, a carringe containing the wife and daugh- ter of o ten-millionaire came dashing up, and some inarticulate whoops from the driver warned her to get out, But she didn’t. She stood as resolutely as if she had been on the lecture platform, and Jehu had to slacken the pace of s horses, though he let them walk up al- most against her, and it looked as if it was his intention to_run over her. But she shook an umbrella in the faces of the beasts two or three times, and apparentl, made them believe that she would stici the end of it into their eyes if her rlfll were imposod upon much garther, And HAIR mi- andd told her to they,looking very much disgusted,stopped short. Bug a look of triumph spread over Aunna’s features as she stepped upon the sidewalk. “BRAKES” IN THE BOXES, The most startling thing this week in the world of intense fashion was the ap- pearance of Mrs. Westinghouse on Bein- hardt’s opening might. Mrs. Westing- house is connected by marriage with the Westinghouse brake and you can under- stand how rich that can make her. She lives in Pittsburg and isa social power and pride there, but is not familiar in New York —or was not before this oceas- ion. It is unfashionable here for ladies to sit in evening toilets in the boxes ut theatres. That 18 confined to opera. Modest ones do not even ke off their bonnets at a dramatic perfo « ud the few who uncover their hair—in defer- ence to the request of man- h are us cranks, notoriety s or foreigners. Well, the audi- ence at Bernhardts reappearance was tremendonsly sty but the clothes were dark and quiet—until into a lower prosceninm box eame a stately lady in white satin and lace. It was an elab- » ball toilet, immensely pufled over shoulders and upper arms, and odd as it was sumptuous in d v The eurtain v p when s tered, and Bernhardt was in the agonies of Fedora; but ey eye turnedin as- tonishinent to the handsome occupant of the box, and hundreds of glasses were focused in amazed inspection. ‘T'wo women that eve: fuinted in the heat crowded I, but none of these actions turned so much attention from the stage as did Mrs.Westing: y singular was her g her debut, " ACTORS. an this seasor costume and so dar “ASHE There has b raption in swell society of who recite in the Lenten ¢ and sometimes dire \ great ir glish actors inments perform- r ances. Whatev nd how succeed, th ike in one thir They are determined to impress upon nmeet a sense of their [ nce m Eogland, They have usmally been in the Bri i O, the friendships, the intim: which they can talk in the most off' h matter-of-fact ima | fair sample is a low comc ubout with superior ai ponderous wittic'sm, and is sugge of a grave comedystage. In soul above the perpetrates a vast yard than the e life he hasa ne step, and deep and un arning for people to underst: v o favor he has bestowed upon this beast- ly country y coming, over herein any r. A dia- mond adorns his shirt front. He never misses a chance of deftly turning the conversation in the direction of jewels, and then remarking: **Now this dinmonc of mine isn't a very valuable stone in itself, though it does pretty well as dia- monds go; but it is priceless to me on ac- count® of 1ts associations. (Impressive pause.) It was a present from the p of Wales.,” ~He has numberless tricks by which he induces pe tice a cane which b next thing always *‘You like it I think myself it is rather neat. I w t Iborough house one day, and while talking with Wales I unconsciously took u{)lhiw ane. He said, *So you like it, arry? ‘Lake it right along with you.' Just ‘like_the prince, you know-—so gen- erous with his friends.”” A WOMAN DESTROYER. Anna Jackson is & woman who has set out to destroy i and capitalists She has long been n woman's rights s, Now she has opened a school of . Itis an institution that I have seen mentioned in print, Indeed, is not its name; and few New York- ers know anything about the place, ‘un- less they happen to have some acquain- tauce withthe people who call themselves the socinl labor party.! The working- man’s library is poor, modest and dimu- nitive, but it is a unique place ana a sort of center for workingmen: whose m have been set in motion / by new ides some kind. A “walkalld” of whata disintereste observer instinct- ively ealled it, for its most striking fea- ture is a long table littered with li()lll‘l 1s bent on reforming the world, Ther hardly a dozen reform or labor papers published that .are not to be tound there. Frequentees have be- fore them the greatest imaginable variety of theories for making a-paradise out of this world, ‘They have only to r and take their cl “Labor Advocates’ from Maine lie side by side with “*Labor Sentinels” from : Tennesee, *‘Le Cri du Peuple” comes all the wa Paris to full into the arms of some Ger- man socialist paper. There two or three from Puris and a half do: in the German language. There are **Laborers” and “Labor N s and ‘‘Labor Advo- eates” and “Labor Agitators G: labor papers the north, east, south, west from BIG CITIES AND 1 E TOWNS, “One advocating w another con- demns, one calling loudly that this i way out and another declaring isn't, but all united that there must be & radical change. As for the prints that aim to upheave the world, tk number and insistence are enough to bewilder. Here is *“The Wedge,” and there ‘“The Million,” here *The Commonweal*’ and there way from Ore- gon. World’s Advanced Thought” which talks much about psychology uand philosophy and the ll' rher sensibilitics and is determined to pull all the rest of the world up to its own plane immediately. Numerous copies of the “Credit Foncierof Sinaloa™ glow and glitter, in English not of the the best, even the wonderful prosperity and happiness to be found in A. K. Owens' colony at Topolobampo, where paradise is to be united to earth by allow- ing no man to sell or to buy of his neigh- bor, but compelling him to carry on all i alings through the company, It nly will be the disc of the mid- dle men, whatever it is for others. There are papers to reform the wo. d religiously, some by letting everybody think just as he likes, and others by making him think just us does the itor. Others think the centre of trouble lhes in the laws some would abolish trouble by abolishing law and some would suppress trouble by piling more law on it. LIBRARY SHELVES, But the long table piled with news. papers is not the only ipterest the room contuins. There are well filled book- shelves, mostly the gift of the Manhattan Liberal club, which donation was the erm from which the litrary sprang. On the shelves are _many books in the Rus- siun language, for among the frequenters of the library are a number of that na- tionality. There is a (cumv]uh‘ set of the works of the ch Proudhon, the founder of anarchy, which is said to be the only full esllection of his works out- side of private‘libraries in this country. Volumes of fiction are more numerous though there are a few, but writings upon science and social questions and u'(au recognized authorities, form the bulk. A pianois in one corner:on the walls are engravings of Lineoln, Wendell Phillips and Henry Gcon‘e, and some laring chromos, apparently the gifts of friemlu of the institution more enthusi- astic than critical. Musical entertain- ments, to which a small admittance fee is charged, are given in these rooms every Sunday evening for the support of the library. 9 Unique'as the place in atself is, the types of men who frequent it are even more interesting. The German-Ameri- can face s by fnr the most numerous. Women seldom go there. The men ather for a part of the noon hour when fle are on a strike; in the evenings and o1 Syndays; and every minute that they ) THOMASON & GOOS’ ADDITION Lies just south of Hanscom Park,only 2 miles from the court house, on high and sightly ground. 176 beautiful residence lots. 27 LOTS SOL.D, 27 Events are shafii‘ng that will make these lots an investment of SURE PROF 800 to $1,000 will Buy Lots Now, but one Year from Today-You will Pay $1,800 $2,000 and $2,500 for Them Ten months_ago we told you there was big money in SOUTH OMAHA gropertv. You were skeptical and waited, and what did you miss? Some people say, ‘"Oh!its all luck. this making money.” Luck to the dogs. Its fioresight, Judgment and Sand. These are the elements that go to make up the sum of prosperity. Take a square look at the case of Thomason & Goos’ addition, who own the 600 acres adjoining it on the south. A RICH AND POWERFUL SYNDICATE ‘Who, without an: years for ONE enou, further_effort, could peddle it out in the next two ILLION DOLLARS. Do you suf&)ose they are Idiots h todo this?, No! They will either bu ild or subscribe to A CABLE LINE and realize three millions from it. TAKHK X TUMBLEK?Y to yourselves, do a little investigating and figurin and you will see that there are the ‘‘Greatest Bargains on Earth, in Iots in'this “Key tu Omaha and South Omaha,. Remember, that this is no washings of the Missouri River, nor farm lands diverted from their natural uses, years too soon, but choice suburban residence property, situated on the everlastin to one soli are here they are usually absorbed in a book ot a paper. Here is a man, his hair standing out straight all over his head, with the face of a scholar and the eyes of an enthusiast. He is pouring overa vol- ume of Spencer. 1f you enter mto con- versation with that discouraged looking chap, who is vulling over th , apers, you will find that he had a long search for work, doesn’t know what he is to do, and is almost hopeless here. Butasa general thing the men look like laborers ho are getting on fal well and who evolutionaryideas in their heads. CLARA BELLE. . & MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. George C. Dobson played the b:\nln lately in Portland, Me., to an audience of 2,000, “Excuse me, I'll Tell You No More,” is the title of Kate' Castleton’s most successful song id that Lawrence Barret’s eldest un- arried daughter is to become the wife of win Booth. ewton Gotthold is to pose asa star next season and the question is, will he ‘“get hold’ of publie favor. Mrs. Ammie Ltitise Schiller, mother of the well-kngwn pianist, Mue. Madeline Schiller, died 1 New York March 8 of pneumonia, The Breslau Orchestra udct{ hose first conductor was Dr._Leopold Damrosch, has d its twenty-fifth anniver- Marie Decca, of Washington, has been singing {n London before the duke of Cam- bridge and other persons of distinction with Williami: Davidze. who has been on the stage Lifty-one years and is seventy-live years old, will'bave a benetit from his friends at an early date; Tracy Pitus, a well known theatrical man- ager, died a few un{x ago at Slerra Madre- ville;Cal. He was formerly the husband of Alice Oates. James W. Fushm', the deceased ex-presi- dent of the Broadway (New York) surfa railroad, was the treasurer of Sand & Na- than’s eireus up to 1870, “Jim the Penman’ is in the fifth month of its eareer at the Madison Square theatre, New York, and it shows no signs of losing its liold upon the publie fav les Mitehell, the pu hter of Mr. Moore London minstrels. is married to Moore & Bur- will be given during the six wee stay r. Harrigan's company on the Paclie me of the salaries in the American ora company are said to beas followe: ‘L heodore ‘Tliomas, $1,000 per week ; Manager . Whitney, 600 week, ,000 per month, utry has arranged to open her sea- 337-8 at the Fifth Avenue theatre in New York, where she will play a seven wecks engagement, beginning October 1. ‘This sets at rest the story of her remarriage and retirement from the stage this fall, It is explained that Dion Boucicault's daughjer, Patrice, was not hissed in Boston because she was disliked, but because the audience wanted Adah Richmond to come out and sing some more comic songs before Miss Boucicault began her reading. Boston Times: An item ot interest (?) is going the rounds that Zelie de Lussab is to receive a $100 basket of tlowers every even- ing from the manazer of the “ldeals.” What rot. Whoever first penned that item must have thought the public a parcel of d. f's, “Monte Cristo” viel 5 They belong to his particular version of the drawma, which is the “Fechter version, and no infringement on the patent will be per- mitted. Mr. Amberg, manager of the Thalla, New York, intends to erect a theater at no distant day, the mmm{z eapacity of which will be 2,000.. ‘There will be thirty boxes and all the stage improvements. ‘The theatre will devoted to both operatic and drawatic per- formances, Owen Fawcett, the comedian, comes of a theatrical family. e is seventh and his daughter eighth’in adirect lineage of play- ers. No. 1, John Faweett, was in David Gar- rick’s company; No. 2 was the original Dr. Ollapod, and No. came to America and acted at the Johu Street theatre. 1t i3 said that when the handsomest man in San, Fn"ilmt‘lh“nll :{ua Ilnllll:l‘some h:rl- tone, Sig. Migrila, of the Patti comban. S, e was 80 disgusted with fato that i did Dot combine beauty with voice in him, Hills, midway between two cities, mighty metropolis. hat are tast closing in M. A.UPTON & CO. Pharcmacy Building, South Omaha and 1509 Farnam, Telephone '73 that he considered himself henceforth a non- entity and committed suicide. Madame Modjeska is delicate physieall and the fatigue of a new production exhaus lier, but no one about tho theater knows an i feelings until the crisis s past. ot afford to waste her strength in neryousness. She is a quick study, and is always “dead letter perfeet” early in the course of rehearsals. Wm. Terriss, the London actor, who made such a hit in this country with Henry Irving lives in a nice rural homie at Isedford Park, one of the suburbs of London. His wife is a woman of taste and refinement. and his little daughter, Ellaline, plays the banjo and dances a hornpipe with rare ability. Mr. Terris:’ real nume is Wm. Lewin. Concerning the suit of an actress for $10,000 damages for accident a_desperate property man who works night and day for a museuri combination and who sleeps in depots to save enough to pay for his bed, says he'd fall off & house and take the chances for that much money. He says there is even a nleasure in imazining that he could be damaged to that zenerous extent, There s but one thing an actor dread: than the “first night” It isthe ‘‘sec " Then is the time if ever when thi W scenery sticks, when every one makes the stage wait, and lines are con- spicuous by their absence. ‘The strain of the first night” is relaxed; habit has not bred familiarity, and disaster is the consequence, But there are no eritics on haud then. A king ot Spain, fancymg that he had a taste for music, liked to take part in Baccher- int’s quartetts, but he never could succeed in keeping time.” One day, when he was three or four bars behindhand, the other per- formers took frizht at the confusion caused by the royal bow, and were about to walt for hi “Fiddle away,” cried the enthusiastic monareh, “I shall very soon get up to you.” 01d stagers suffer the most in the prospect of a new ‘)erforumnce. strange as it may ap- In.u Quite recently a very good and exper- lenced leading man gave 1p an engagement bacause he got into a fright when called upon to play for the first time the Chevalier in the “Two Orphans.” I need not have sald that he was ax{rerlelmud. No novice would evar do any thinz of that sort. *“I'hem as knows nothing fears nothing.” Howard Paul, the ex-actor and singer, hus been compelled to shell out 8500 for stating that George Dolby was brought to this country by Charles Dickens to eat and drink for him af public banquets and save wear and tear on hi digestive organs, Mr. Dolby, who pockets the $500, denies that he w gaged by Dickens as & deputy feeder or as o reser and says that Mr, Paul made the narrative out of his own head. ‘This is the way the conteniplated debut as astar of Mrs, James Brown Potter strikes the average chorus girl, as reported by the New York Herald: “Oh, she makes me tired, 1t's 50 kind of her not to give the prineess of Wales a cold cut, now that she's going on the stage, tra-la. I should think she would shake the princess. Will she wear ti hts? That's the only way to bogin a professional career, Ithink she would make a hit in them.” Mr. Wallack is quoted as saying not see plays nowadays that equal those even twenty-five years back, = Take Tom Taylor’s “‘Plot and Passion.” Reade and Taylor's “Mask and Faces,” *'Still Waters Run Deep,” **Payableon Demand,” and so on, and where can you find plays' to-day so interestiag, so tersely written, so well con- stru {? ~ They were not thought great wol in_ their day, but compared to modern plays they were as wine to water, W. E. Sheridan, the tragedian, is now in Dr, Tarrant’s asylum at Darlington, says a late number of the Sydney (Aus.) Morning Herald. During the American civil war. the paragraph states, he was severely wounded in the right arm, and for the last twenty-two years he has suffered mu During the past month the pain has increased, and it was decided that the arm should be operated on. 'This has been done, and thé many friends_of Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan (Miss Louise Davenport), will be pleased to hear that the ver tragedian passed the ordeal in safety and that he is now recovering. ‘The man who swindled the Mexieans in the matter of the Pattitickets arrived in New York at about the same time as Mr, Abbey, a3 if he defied any prosecution that that gentleman could bring, The name of the ticket swindler s now known to be Brouton, and had to spend sowme £6,000 on Mexican officials to get out of Mexico, A portion of his money went into the pockets of some one very closely allied to the president of tie Mexican republic, and the rest of it into the maws of the various people who, knowing the swindler,allowed him to pass the frontier of the United States. 1t aprears that lirou- ton originally got $u5,000 by his swindle. He expended §0,000 to square the Mexicans 0 that he left last week for with $20,000 clear, 1t is related that when Richard Mansfield’s mother, Mmne Rudersdorff, previous to her departure for America, well audience by the crown prine many, her highness sent for the r dren, and soon Mme. Rudersdorff "and the little'ones were engazed in a thoroughly good romp on the tloor. Suddenly the door opened and the crown prince appeared. Eti- quette at the German court is very strict, but it was impossible for Mme. Rudersdorff to riseand do the proper thing unless she dropped the imperial children, ~ Her a dilemma, “Your imperial highness,” said she, "1 shall either Lave to drop court eti- quette or drop the children.” The prince laughed heartily. “Drop court etiguette, by all means,” he réphied. Edwin Booth no longer undergoes the strain of playing absolutely new parts, but the first night's reappearance in any part he has not played in some tine makes him excessively nervous. He smokes innumerable § cizars, utterly disregarding the lezend alw to be seen about a stagze, “no smoking allowed,” and when on the boards is mora than likely to become very much mixed in his lines or even to forget them altgether. He is, however, cool in such crises, and walks to the wings for an interview with' the prompter with a step as tirm and a meln as noble as {f his errand were a less humiiiating one. D A Hindoo Holiday. Delhi correspondence Bultimore Sun: From here we drove to a point than a mile outside of the walls of the eity to visit a large Hindoo fair, a gathering for a retigious purpose, but one which al- ways results in a merrymaking. Thou- sands of the natives were there dressed in their best and all seemed to be enjoying themsel It was a crush, but, no ni ter where we went, native policemen walked in front of us, aring a path for our passage. The native policeman is the most numerous person in India. Dressed in & new blue uniform and car- rying the regulation club, one is always in sight, and the natives ob m im- plicitly. Bands were pl f; on tom- toms, flutes, violins, eto. dren were having a jolly time in a rough me round; e body was talki; chants were selling 1 8 small images of their many gods, and the devout among them were going to and from =2 small Hindoo tem- ple. Here our gunide was at home and wanted us to go in. But a place was crowded, “and as the priest wanted us to take off our shoes (made from the skin of the “holy cow”),we con- cluded to wait for a better opportuni On our way back there was much ex ment around geve fancifully deco bhzlias—small native two-wheeled carts drawn by trotting bullocks, and called “jingling johnnies” by foreigners—caused by the presence of several Nautch danc- ing girls, who were to perform later. They were so wonderfully gotten up tha¢ 1 must attempt a description of their ut- tire. A short skirt of scarlet and gold over a pair of loose gilded and embroid- ered red silk trous plaited close fn and around the ankle tight fitting em- broidered red silk body from the neck to {uslb low the breasts, with all bare below it to to the waist; an embroidered shawl of variegated hues, spangled all over, caught up over the back of the head and draped loosely and gracefully about the body. Add to this a gold orna- ment stuck through one side of the nose, jeweled earrings, numerous gold and sil- ver bells. You can imagine the cffect produced by several of these girls while going through the love of cobra dance, el Lond The “Life of the flesh is the blood thereof,’” pure blood meuns healthy fune- tional activity, and this bears with it the tainty of quick restoration fro i ne dent. Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier gives pure rich blood, and vitalizes and strengthens the whole body, ——— A hen im Denver, has Jaid & “spiritual egg.” It Is smaller and lighter than an ordinary one, and stands on its little end, but will not lie or stand in any other po- sition, If stood on the luaxa end it will quickiy turn to the other, and if pushed down on its side it will jump upagain, It does not appear to have any unusual weight in the sialler end to account for 1Ls strange actions,