Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1888, Page 7

et e .- GOSSIP OF THE CREEN ROOM. Anecdotes of Plays, Authors, Sing- ers and Actors. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Oampanni's First Appearance One- third Larger~When There Were No Ballet Girls—Trouble With Tenors. panini'a First Appearanc Memoirs: One evening hallkeeper brought vas one from “Campini or such 1 Lim med v brightened said “Send the me mgerin h wecord ingly entered. He had a colored flan nel shirt on, no shirt collar, a beard of two_or three days’ growth andu litt] pot hat, He, in fact, looked rather a customer. [n rej About Y o'clock the me word that t om y tomy int on he informed me that Cam panini had areived and was in Ho b bt was Cannpn 1 fe through il r London, pon said that b if 1should go rstout Llughing and Onc-Third Larger Mapleson's Memoirs: It lated in one of the claus Patli's engagements that the her name should, in all printe; youncemants, be one-thivd larger Mie letters in any one nime during the progress of the Chicago fos- i i w Sig. Nicolini armed with what appeared to a theodolite, and accompanied by a gentleman who 1 fancy was a great geometrician, looking intently and with a se s air at some wall posters on which the letters composing the name of Mlle. da, At last, abandoning all idea of seientific measurement, he went up a ladder and estimated the length of the letters by a rule of thumb, wi Thh no hal e No Baller Th 1 when *Pomon the male among tl and their schools, plumpost of these Thero We wurday 1R girls in 1t was produced, and ad heen rec od mast of Paris The youngest and passed for shepherdesses, nymphs and goddessos, and all wore masks, It was not until ten years Iater that four real dunscuses, pupils ot Luli, appeared to enthusinstic audience in *lLe romphe d*Amour.” I'heir names have meritea record---Mlles. La Fon- taine, Roland, Lepeintre and Fernon. By 1715 the ballet had increased to a dozen dancc who received from 400 franes o 1,000 francs a month, and ten danseuses with 400 franes to 900 francs. The most brilliant, and not the least Tic ous, era of the bailet was during the regency, from 1715 onward, and the masks did not fall till much r, when it took all the pyramidal assueance of T Vestris to break throu the custom. [e it was who d: I'here re but three great men alive upon the face of the earth- yself, Voltaire and the king of Prussis The New upty-Slee pisode. York Times: aley Me- Konna, claiming that William Gillette appropriated one of the sccnes from McKenna's **rhe Soldier Wife,” to strengthen “Held by the Enemy has obtained anorder in supeme court chambers. — Mr. Gillette is to show ‘cause why he should not be restrained from producing his popular play. The armless-slecve scene in the tifth act the one in question. M MeKen claims that he can prove that he intro- duced that scene in his play in order to disarm o woman’s coyness and betray hor love for the man with the cmpty sleove. Mr. Gillette uses the same means 10 that purpose. Mr., N Bays that his play was read by Palmer, who thought of producing it the Union Square theater, Hlness wok Mr. McKenna away, however, before negotiations concluded, ana he produced his play in Denver ten yeurs ago and carrvied it throngh the west. 1t madew hit,he savs, the empty- sleeve scene being the strongest in - the play. Claiming @ theatrical vights and his pocket are injured by Mvr. Gillotte’s use of the scene, he wants an injunction and damages. Patti and Mapleson, Mapleson’s Memoirs: About thistime (1861) I chanced to hear of an extraor- dinary young vocalist who had been charming the Americaus, and., although bardly nineteen, to have ob- tained a firm hold upon the sympathy and admiration of theirpublic. T openca negotintions at once in order to secure her sevvices for the forthcoming season at Her Majesty's, and a contrie duly entered into on be Smith, whereby the little took to sing four nights on when, in case of success, she w asalury of £40 8 week. [ likewiso con- cluded an engagement with whose term had expired at Covent den, and with Mme. Grisi, while Costa undortook to join the following y the expiration of his existi with Mr. ( In fact, all looked promising for the year 18613 but as the time approached | found wore diticulty than ever in com- municating with Mr, Smith, who seemod to he out of the way. [ then ac- cidentally learned that, owing to the extrowe finanecinl dificulty i which he was placed through his numerous out- side speculations, he had been com- pelled to accept an offer from Mr. Gyo of £4,000 ou condition of his not open- ing. n accordance with this arrangement Her Majesty’s theater remained closed. Some time in the month of April the little lady from America arrived and sont up hor oned, bearing the name of Adolinn Patti. She was accompanied by Maurice Strakoseliy, her brother law. Thoey wished to know when M Smith's season was likely o begin, [ could give them no information heyond the current report which they hud al- rveady heurd themsclves. The little lady, who was thep seated on a sofa ut the Arundel hotel, at the bottom of Norfolk street, Strand, suggested that Tshould try the speculation myself, us she felt sure she would draw moncy. | thereupon asked hor to let me hear her, that [ might judge as to the quality of her voice, to ‘which sha responded by singing “Home, Sweet Home.” I saw that I had secured a dinmond of the first wator, and [ immediately set about en- deavoring to get Her Majosty’s theatre, But this was a hni» 088 busin Smith, who still held the lease, w where to be found, Troubles With Tenors. Mapleson’s Memoirs: On one ocon- slon the eccentric Ravelli was cast for the lover's part in “Il Rinnegato.” in the secoud act the tenor aund baritone fight a duel. In this there was no novelty. DBut in- stead of the tenor killing the baritone, the baritone puts the tenor to death, and this struck fiir. Ravelli as far too new, He appealed to operatic tradi- tlons and asked in an excited manner whether such & thing was heard of be- o Nol" he exclaimed, answering with vigor bis own question, aud he added that.although he was quite ready to take part iu the duel, he would do so on condi t not he onist, should be slain, Tt was uselc explain to him t in the story on which the opera was based the charac- ter represented hy the tenor perished, while the baritone lived on. This, he said. was just what he complained of. “Why," he indignantly demanded, “should the tenor's part in the opera be thus cut short¥" It wi yossible to get the infatu- ated man to hear reason on the subject. He ericd, screamed, uttered oaths, and at one time threatened to kill with his dagger not only his natural enemy the baritone, but every around him. “1 will kill them all,” he shrieked. After a time, by humoring him d agreeing with him that in a well-or- dered operatic duel the tenor ought, of course, to kill the baritone, 1 got him to listen to meg and at last 1 oc ved to make him understand that theve we: exceptions to all rule and that would he generous on his part to ov look the of indignity to whic was asked to submit, the affrc ed to him not having been inter h either by the lihrettist, orabove uninble composer. It was then, that Ravelli w to be d. But what, he wis, what was to be done with his body v de The proper thing would 'be, he suid, for six attendants to enter, raise the corpse, and carey it solemnly away 1o a place of repe nhsolute! that his species wished to know necessary to promise mortal remains should wed from the stage to some vesting place by six corpse- . the number on which he had heart, and he was honored, if 1 htly, with the foneral he ad stipulated fo the lust rehearsal. The Husband of Actresses. Minneapolis Tribunce: Nearly all the great actresses, though they appear on tho bills as *Mi o husbandswith them-—~hushands whose identity would »not for the fact that ttained fame, It is how these hushands nselves during the perform- which theiv better-halves take curious te deport tl ances in part. Gene Wetherill, who has the honor to be Emma Abbott's hushand, gener- ally stands in the lobby with his hands in his pockets, smiles on the people who come in and mentally confounds those who do not. He takes little or no intor- estin the opera, and n s point of not beeoming intimate with members of npiny. . Harriott, Clara Morry” husband, waits at the wings of the stage to re- ceive her when she faints, which fre- quently happens Clinton Edgerly, Rose use, tried to actand ma sn up hoth. Ceeil CL Rosin; aslim, d fied Englishman. He is mething of & deamatist, and has ar ranged some of the,picees she plays, A Pantomine Rehe 1" is one of them. He renerally occupies a box and ap- plauds vigorously the hits. If anything goes wrong he 1oses no time in - rushing to the stage to give his advice and sistance M rie Mitchell, whose hubby's name is Paddock, vot have him with her when she tr He prefers the eifote cast o Lot and 1 Coghlan’s re, but has Voles’ husband husband, but a brother with her and has no ther, who travel ave of he Pulferd is Annie Pixley's lord and master, Whenever they strike a town he inspects the scenery of the the- ater to learn if there is aset picce in inie to put her head through 11 there is not he counsels yeotting that town forever after. SMr.Jarbean’s” waschristened Jefer- son Be He fills his shirt front and asks no other dra- ¢ distinction. Fanny Davenport had a_husband, I IL. 1’vice, but she shipped him, and now only a1 man o look after, Hian Russel another who has ted from her good man. and sings Never Will Be Missed.” 1, the prima douna, ma mer. They travel in o pri- nd the doctor spends most of his time on that, except when they ave on their vaeation, They have a bab; YH Plays. rles we had one set suid Lawrence “In the good old t of scenery for all play Barrett the other duy tive of the wus o tent spective of id e wood was o wood, climate or person public went to the play to hear music_or enjoy the verse,and a grew declamatory. Since then w gone to the other extreme, and settings have been wondrously ated. 1 think people are now too cul- tured to permit excesses in this dir tion. But they have learned the diffor- between the furniture of the Louis und Louis XIV. periods just as have learned to distinguish be- .and a Lous XVIII, vectuess, and tho SLEC It XTI they do not suffe is, at all event view of the question. But the success which doubtless awaits the Fifth Ave- s will hardly settle the point. Meanwhile it is intéresting to hear from Mpr. Barrett that thing will boe new in the revivals of “Othello” and “The Mer it of Venice,” costumeos as well enery. The dressos, propertics and set scenes will do duty for both plays, by the bye. For cxam- ple, the senate chamber will figure in cach, fiest seen in daylight and next at night. *In ‘Othello,”" continued Mr. Bar- rett, talking of the play proper, “we have not strained to do atything novel, That were hardly possible, for the pro- ductionsat Booth's theater twenty years ago were as complete as exhaustivere- search could make them “There is one feature in the lastact, however, which may strike you as u new departure. Desdemona will be brought into grester prominence. In former presontations her bod was generally pluced in a davk recess, and after tho death scene the curtains were drawn to couceal the body. We shall have the bed brought almost to the foothghts, and the light will fall full en Desde- monn's fa Thus even dead, the woman will appeal for herself. Her apartment, too, will be distinctively a womun's NEW M Mr. Barrett's N, NEW MATERIALS “By the by," sasd Mr. Burrot, ““one fact scems to me to be overlooked in theatrical discussions—the fact that the influx of new material, new plays, hus gradually absorbed the strength of the professi In my young days wo were all well grounded in the old plays, and it wus o rare thing to see more than threo or four novelties in a season. I had a letter about all this not long ago from Mr. Browning, regretting he had not gone on with his aramatic work. He modestly remarks that, with time and oxperience, he might have learned to write plays pleasing to modern audiences, which hear as much with thoir oyes as with their cars. *The outlook for young actors of the new school is rather misty. The com- ing tragedian will suffer from want of oxperionce. Comedy holds the fiold, and comedy is Jaous-faced. There are fow companies in which an actor can ground himself in tragedy. Men work #t high pressure, and when they go to the play they want to laugh, for laugh- have here in m a safety valve. V tragedy enough in real America. Wao fly to the theater re- lief, amusement.” And what is more amusing than the foibles of our own ‘When Mr. Jefferson and Mrs. Drow and Mr. Gilbert vanish we shall have lost even the old comedies. *The old manne How familiar the * scems (o me, and what memories of Murdoch, Wheatleigh, Burton and Holland it calls back I do not yet how we sha the old comedies as literatur » does not ask for wit, It chooses triviality Wit demands thought and time to relish it. We can spare nei- ther Lessen the strain on people's minds and they wi rebel inst the rubbish they now tolerate. They will demand thing better. Yot there wil FAys be a *ld for the low and trivial, too, so 1 as the masses ro- main ignorant. ‘Do you know." added “I think the in 1! 10 he fc som Mr. Bar t public is more y than in ience does fashion- rdy the stimulus of and comedy woula hout the gallery tres lunguish, e WUSICAL AND DRAMATIO, Miss Emma Juch orn tour. M Palmer is in Miss Kate Castloton is playing “A Paper Doll' in the far west, Mr. Hoyt is writir be ontitled YA S Signor Campanini thi tune in Ialian opera Gounod and Saint-$ think of visiting An Mine. Fur concart has concluded her west veastie for Ling. 8 new play. It will at."’ ks of tempting for- fAin next season cns, the composers, 1t s announced. ch Mahdi, who will appear in 1d oratories this season, is on her om Euroy A now play which Tennyson las written Mary Anderson ison the subjoct of Robin an, It is doubtful how- ry will play it befors she returns to . Mrs. James Brown Potter has done much hetter this season in Chicago than on the oo casion of her last trip. At C other hand, the critics wou 10 do with b A month he; opens in Brooklyn, A gentleman has written Mr. Denman Thompson that knows personally of younis man who was inftuenced to stop drink g and become embor of a church b witnessing the ta u the wanderin, boy in “The Old Homestead. " Mrs. Burnett has the into the production of her “Little Lord Fountleroy.” IFor & week pust she has been working hurd at the rchearsals of work in New York. Miss Kathryne Kidder, of Evanston, will play the leading part in' the play. 1t is 100 ha Mrs. Potter 1 her whole sou a task for Miss Anderson to act the chara f Hermione and Perdita in “The Winter's Tale seven times in one week, 5o that Mr. Abbey has arranged to put upon the stag. Sulurday night during her engag Lross’ repertd ertion on her part. Messrs, Booth and Barrett have de send the scenery and proper f “The Merchan of Ven ar' complete, to »there to open the new California v They will make but one stop on the at Deuver—and from there tho three rying the material will go direct to neisco at a cost for transportation of Julius isco when Miss Davenport’s new death scene in “La Tosca” is described ns an important novelty. no louger jumps from the parapet of te into the Tiber and drowns unosten- out of sight of the audience, but is hot by a brutal soldier as she stands om the parapet_preparing to jum, clasps hor hands in agony above her heart, recls, falis, and rolls all the way to the middle of the stag The sad event i3 said to “‘cast a gloom’ over the spectators Mining Speculation. Springfield Republicat A Colorado mining expert of long ex f failures in mining veutur One great fault with the castern people who g0 into mining enterprises is that thoy abandon all reasonable busin 1utions, and cept mining deal together specu- lative transa 1 which chance and luck alone are expected to effect the desived result. It is the utter dis- regard of ordinary business princip: that involves most mining companios, and in the great majority of 50 through ignorance, the attempt to mine where there is no ore the mineral possesses 10 commereial value. - When such ervors are made noone but the victims are to blame, as honest and competent men can be en- gaged who will give a reli- ablo opinion of a4 mine; bur even then some chances must be taken. The success of western people in their min- ing investments is lavgoly due, says the expert, to the fact that they do not look upon the mine as a “flyer” or gamble, the 1ssue of which is doubtful as a bet ona horse race. With them it is purely a business proposition, and they aim to make a mining venture even more certain than an investment in a ranch or manufactuving enterprise. property is elose mined, the pos Dilities of a vein ally weighed and a thousand and one little features are considered. Then when the value of the ore has heen determined the cost of extracting and milling is de- ducted, an idea is obtained of the pos- siblo value of a property, ond if the price agreed upon 15 equal to the osti- mation of the vendor, a consummated. [f western capi who are practically on the g believe that so_ much personal knowl- edge and examination are necessary,the foolishness of castern peonle in putfing their money into venturesof which they have no knowledge, except from the al- luring prospectus, is apparent. The ex- pert puys his respects to prospectors and promoters by stating that few of them are practical miners, able to pass sound judgement upon the value of a mine or vein, Few good mining men make succossful mine promoters; they comprehend at once the value of a prop- erty, and knowing its true value cannot talk as enthusiasticully as the man ig- norant of the exact facts. This ignor- ance has cost the people of the east a good many hard-earned dollars, but costly experionce is compelling the ex- ercise of more care among the investors in mines, as it has in the conduct of the cattle venture = A Costly Load of Hay. N. Y. Sun: A. L. Platt, afarmer liv- ing near Waterbury, Conn., missed a load of hay from his barn a few weeks ago. His men traced the wisps to the barn of Maurice Moriarty, a well- known liquor dealer in this eity, Mr. Moriarty was arrested in spite of his indignant protests that he was worth 840,000, and that he bought all his hay, He was found guilty. He appealed the case, which came be- fore the superior court. Expert testi- mony was introduced by the state to show that the hay found ‘in the barn of tho accused was the same as that taken from Platt’s meadows. Connor, Mori- nrlé"s barkeoper, swore he had beon on a drunk that night, with Moriarty’s wagon, Fiuding himself near Plett's barn he took a wisp of bay too keep himself warm, The jury disagreed, whereupon the judge told “them such' o course was isgrace to all partis concerned. They then went out and found the accused u;lg It will cost Mr, Moriarty over 1,000, THE MARQSS® STARTS THEM | - Kilrain and Mitohell, Pugilists of ano."firo Judgos. ANOTABLE TURF CONGRESS HELD Eastern Racing Clubs Combine—They Will Not Recog- nize the Boakmakers' Alliance ~But Chjgago Hangs Back Western and A Conjunctic NEW Yorx, Nov. spondence of itk Bi he start in ou-please will be made next midnight, and the “hell and these na was the the go-us- Sunday precisely at two judges will be Charlie M Jake Kilvain, The two knights of the fistic happy thought of Referce K the start will be made by no son than the Marquis of Queonsh He is a very good fellow; though he is and the New Yorkers have ethin m him which n have never been 1 has been selection of a marquis learned other foreign noble wh them. N more common than complaints of the abruptness of titled people, but the m conlided to a [ porter that those who it insulted by it ought to have felt complimented since it was a recog- nition of equality. An English noble- man is courteous to hisinferiors heeause of their inferiority, but he is abrupt with his equals and expects them to be abrupt with him. Princes on the con- trary must be affable and courtcous with every one, because they arve sup- posed to have uo equals, and their posi- tion compels them to a show of bland- ness that is almost wanting in independ- ence. The marquis thinks very much of Jake Kilrain, but s that the Non- pareil is overrated, or he would have annihilated an old man like Mike Dono- van, who is on the shady side of fifty. The fame to the 1k this coniunction of stars has had such an effect that there have been one hundred entries, but only the best forty will be permitted to start. All the auspices are favorable for an abnormally grand contest, and it is hoped that Albert’s record will be broken. THE GREAT TURE CONGIRESS. Americn is going to be a racing country such as the world has never yet seen, But with the example of England before our eyes, we are not going to pemmd g it to be an engine of robbery it if there. The head and front of all thejdfenai s notoriously in the hookmaktrs' associations, and a turf congress has been held in New York to breg gu-m up. The confer- able to t ven ence met i o rooms of the Concy Island Jockey clfh on Broadway, within ablock of Madison squar we 1.-1.-;;.3‘&5 from Louisville, L ton, St. Louik, 'T.:\Luu nd St from the wes! I'he castern association sont deleg l&'i Feom the Concy Island Jockey elub, better known as Sheeps- head Bay, from Monmouth Park (Long Branch), frof: fthe American Jockoy ciub (Jerome Park). from the Brook association (PProgpect Park), and from the Saratoga Raming elub. It is under stood that” Balfimore and Washington are in allinnce swith Jerome Park, and will adopt whatever regulations have ' adopted by them. Therefore, the y great courses not revresented wore se in the south and Chicago. The absence of a delegate from Chicago ex- cited much commont, and 1t is supposod that the racing = association of that place ‘desires to act independently, and to show to the west that it considers itself a racin cen over which the L can exercise no control, It not thought that theve is any sympathy for the confod- erated bookmakers in the Lake City, but there is a determination to act in- dependently in 11 matte and 1o make s¢ ate arrangements. Upon the whole this ~ is a spirit to be commended, and nothing could be better for the true interests of racing than such independence. It is notorious that Mr. Clarke, of Loui ville, attempts to play the tyrant ov. all the racing clubs of his section. Als it is well known that four men control the movements of all the racing asso- ciations of the ex The Chicago club, therefore, will act in a salutary manner upon racing bodi generaily by this holding aloof. The result of the con- ference wus undoubtedly cut and dried before hund, and was given to the press in the following resolution: “Tthat the subscribing jockey clubs agree that no contracts for betting privileges bo made with any associa- of hookmakers or any members the of, 2 A WANT URGENTLY members of the Histor New York have subscribed for new quarters. is on Second avenue near St. Mark's h, and within a few blocks of esant square, and the red there for many not afew of the memb that part of the ci Many of the best families still remain in this once most ashionable quarter, and will not go awny. Busimess houses have crept into the avenue, and huve utterly changed it up to St. Marks church, but that has hitherto proved a barrier that has been an ultima thule. The trouble with the pr it building is that 1t was badly constructed at the out- set, the light the upper rooms being very m:sun:m. And now it i far 100 small fol the property of the whidh has received mar valuable bequests from time (o time. Its treasur of course, ave been stowed away, for there was no place where they could be exhibited, and [ aoubt very mu if Mr. Moore, the pop- ular sccretary, or Mr, Kelby, his pleas- ant and courtdos ussistant, could ‘with- out sifting their memories, tell half of the possessions. There is a very strong feeling in this city against the Metro- politan art museum, which is backed by the rich_men rather than by the best men of Ne I, whereas the con- true e historical society. groatly been desired by many haeologists who have been disgusted by the arrogance and the ignorance of the trustees ‘of 'the Metropolitan art museum, that _the Historical soci- ety should come out of its shell, and the present subscription is a sign that it is going to doso. The money has been obtained, and now the next thing is to choose a site, and it is whisparod that the most probable place will be on Fifth avenue opposite to the great flower bed that marks the en- trance to Central park, PRESIDENT DARNARD HAS RESIGNED, The aged and beloved head of Colum- bia college, President Barnard,recently handed in his resignation to the trus- tees, on account of his advanced years, with the suggestion that it was to take effect when his successor was appointad. Of courso, there is great talk in the city 4 10 the successor, and public opinion has centered upon two men, one of whom my opinion is the most unfit mun in the world, sociation, and the othe every point of view Seth Low, ex-mayor of Brooklyn.a poli- tician, a wire-worker, & mugwump and a merchant. He has never shown any fondness for literary attainments, nor been suspected, by his worst | of being capable to read tin without a dictionary at his elbow, or for the matter of that, with a diction- ary to help him. His speeches have been admiry ¢ the same quality which induced Carlyle to admire the of Oliver Cromwel Or no one An un- derstand them, and yet they have an air of liberality and patiiotic foeling not in the least warranted by subsequent nc- tion. Close asa *d brick, secretive an oyster, wily as & fox, unsympa- thetic a am, Seth Low would be an odious president, and would serve no purposo save to prove the influcnce of the mugw The other man is Theodore Dwight, the present president of Columbia Co Law chool, who is one of the three great constitutional lawyers in this country He raised his law school from ins i1 cance 1o a par with the great law school of Harvard, and his influcnce with young men 1 very great. He is still vigorous, though past middle ind his selection would be the signal for very great progress in the college. 10 SUCCEED COURTLANDT PALMER I'he Nineteenth Century club is about o elect n president in the place of Courtlandt Palmer, but no o cares very mucel about that institution. It is notoriously a farce played by men and women who to he about, and who thought they to notoriety by making | liberal opinions. The i Carnegio and the e president opened up the whole business and showed what humbugs the members were. They invited Grundling, a fluent German socialist, to come and ex- plain to them what socialisim was, but the was not one of them who when personally solicited ever did a goncrous action, or helped a fellow-being in time of trouble. Thoy were profuse of prom- ises which they neve comed, and the late president was a conspicuous ex- ample of this detestable meanness. When the Leader went down, and Sorgius Sorgewitz, the Russian nihilist, anarchist, socialist, or some- thing or other ending in ist, was deavoring to start it rin, t hangers-on of Courtland claimed far and wide that he was going to back the with $50,000. Through the process of interviewing Mr. Palme s compelled to disclaim the whole thing to a World reporter, and to say that he had only given a guarded promise that he would under certain impossible conditions he responsible for $5,000. fle received an immense amount of gratuitous ady tising, and he did not” lend a red cent to Sergewitz or anybody clse. And the whole memberhood of the club is like unto the late president. Porhaps the nineteenth o v is that way, in which case they have chosen a signiti- :ant nam VER FRESI AND IRREPY I am of opinion that the tariff move- meat inaugurated by Grover Cleveland has not been defeated in the cast by any means, and that the man W cted because he wis personally unpopular. e truckled continually to the south ana there was an improssion that the sort of free trade he desired was one that would bo particularly profitable to southern communities. The free traders wre by no means cust down, and in fact are in some quarters chanting a Te Deum over theie vietory. T should not in the least be surprised if in the next clection New York should go over whelmingly atic, and the free trade clubs are boasting that it will, Here is a specimen brick sent 1o the vening Pos o the lditor of the Eyening Post: Sir: We are well satistied with our work 1n th > battle for tariff reform, and our club here will not haul down its flag, but fight on until we guin the vie- tor which ~ must come sooner or later. If ail the clubs do as you uggest in your article after the clection of Tarrison had been conceded, the battle will be ours in 92, - sPresident Tariff Reform elub Brook- Iyn convention.” That rey ts the feeling of all of these associations, and they cked up by capitalists who know that noth- ing will so0 blind men to the real strug- gle between capital and labor as this Sham battle nominally in the interest of the consumer. The factis that it re quires more intellect thun the workin man possesses to comprehend that the are two problems to be solved to gain jusiice for the producer, and justice for the workingman. Capital fights one with the other, and laughs at both. S16MA THOR, The unfit man is now sions to between pro- - Women With Patents. Washington Star: The commissioner of patents, Mr. Benton J. Hall, has had prepaved a list of women invente or women to whom patents have been granted. This list been printed, and makes a_folio pamphlet of forty- four puges. 1t gives not only the names of the patentees, but also the title of the patent and date of issue. The first patent. issucd was to Mary Kres, May 6, for straw weaving' with silk or read. years later Mary Brush obtained nt for a corset, and then four years elapsed before another iny woman appearcd. This was Sophia Usher, whose patent was for carbonated lid eream tartar. Then again, in Julia Planton sccured a pateni for footstool. During the four following years n patent was i sued each year to a woman and from that time down to the pi it the number of women patentees gradu- ally increased. In re nine inventiveness has shown marked 5. IPor instance, from the Ist of S ary, 1888, to the 26th of June last. ixty-six patents were i sued to women, while during the 1887, 179 patents were so issued. his lattor is the largest ever issued. While the names of the articles patented show that they were generally in the line of fominine wearing apparel and housc- hold labor-saving devices, yet muny were of a character that shows the muf- tiplied in ts of women, As an in- stance, one woman patenteda submarin scope and lamp, Others wi nted as follows: Improvement in aping and mowing machinesi,mproved war vessel, furnace for smelting ores, apparatus for }mnt-hin(z corrugated met- als, method of construction for screw propellers, low-water indicators, mate- rial for packing journals and bearings, conveyors of smoke and cinders for locomotives, burglar alarms for win- dows, ete, - New lowa Postmasters. WasHiNGToN, Nov, 24.—|Special Telegram to Tuk Bee.)—lowa postmasters were ap- pointed as follows: Henjamin 5. Harrison, Lincoln, Grundy county, vice George Al berts, resigned; Harvey E. Simpkins, Le grand, Marshall county, vice W. F'. Flint, re- sigaed, and Martin Sager, Stanley, Bi county, vice Samuel C. Irvine, resign e Sailed For the Continent. New Yok, Nov. 24.—Lord Sackville West, late British minister at Washington, and his daughter and Mr. aud Mrs. Chamberlain, went on bourd the steamer Hourgogne lust night. The steamer sailed this morning for France, ENVELOPED An IN' DARKNESS. Old-Fashioned Impenetradle London Fog. HISTORIC GROUND IN LONDON. roln The O1d Garden of the oses—Ielics Past Gray and Tons Temple Chu Red and Wh of the A Ramble in London LONDON, Eng.,Nov. 18, —[Spec ik BEE. =1 am in from looking at London's sights, a genuine ondon f Ihe Iy morning nothing special, but about 10 o'clock it began to grow dark and 1 had to light the gas to write by, At about half past ten 1 started out 1o se as light at midday queer sight it The fog so envelopad the entire city, and was sodense that the streets were much darker than at midnight as the light failed to penetrate the fog except ina very dim way, Cab were moving out the their lamps lighted. Dwelling libravies and club houses are al asat night, but they had gloomy. wierd sort of look. 1 the streets moved more slowly, but it did not secem to be much lessened. 1 am told thut Londoners are sc ustoned to this sort of thing that they do not mind it much, but the inconvenicnce o sioned must be very considerable. The ras companies make no objection. The fog is now lifting ty and from ¢ ngh window the pale red tinge in mosphere s at o dis- in the night, indicates the loca- ntly Tighted. d of London fogs, but had lit- ption of what they really 3 v 1 took a stroll through 3 which leads through the part of the ¥ occupicd mostly by isters and solicitors. (The English ister does not correspond to our law- would be included in it.) 1 fully understood the mean- uns of courts,” as used by the English books, and was intevested in looking the matter up. It scoms the the four gr “inns of court,” the ner and middle temple standing n the river south of Fleet str “Lin- coln’s inn™ on Chancer; and “Gray's inn.” A little to the south of Tlolborn ave the colleges for the study of lnw, and belong to the barristersy The members have the privilege of calling to the bar, and the older mem- bers are known as “benchers. I want to say just heve that T am fully aware that many of your 5 und stand_all thesé matters even better than I, but I am not writing for them but for those like myself who have not had opportunity of knowing about some things that have interested us. The “Temple”™, formerly a lodge of Knight Templar,” a religious and mili- tary society formed usalem in the twelfth century W ol to the students of common law in 1346, and from that time the building or group of buildings has continued to be a school of law. It belongs to two separate cor- porations, known us the Junior and Middle Temple, names occasioned by the relative location of the buildings. They now have together — a revenue of about $200,000. The old Temple church, including the Round chureh, built in the twelfth cen- tury, belongs to the two colleges in common. It contains nine monuments of templars of the twelfth and th teenth centuries, consisting of recum- bent figures in dark marble in full armor. There is vet connected with the Temple, though much contracted by ad- ditions to the buildings, the gard where, aceording to Shakespeare, v plucked the red aud white roses, which were woven as badges of the two houses in the “Wars of the Roses. Within the Temple hall we we The garden here is more conv al Cor- just respondence of 11:50 m one o indieated London by was gas and cavringes streets with . shops® lighted e on somoewl as over f I had v tlo ¢ y. 14 too0 loud; nient, —[Suffollk. If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, I°rom off this brier pluck a white rose’ with me. |Plaw’t, Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with' me. -|Somerset, Standing on such ground I was much more interested by the associations that reached well back into history, than, in the brilliant show of chrysanthemuins the gardeners held there a few da ago. Oliver Goldsmith lived and died in a room in the Muddle temple, and Black - stone lived in the rooms justbelow him. Dr. Johnson occupicd appurtments in the Inner temple. There have been some fine buildings erected in connec- tion with the wLincolns Inn in recent It has one of the ablest libra- London, founded in 1497, und muny valuable manuscripts some rare hooks that have been s cured at great cost. Shuftsbury, Crom- well, William Pitt, Erskine and Lord Broughan were onee members of [ coln’s Inn. Gray's Inn is also an old law school, reaching *k to 1571, Lord Bacon was one of its members, 1 started down Chancery Lane with the design to give you "a description of the new royal courts of justico, where the Pariell commission is now setting, but got switched off with their old law schools, the account of which may pos bly interest some of your readers, Will give an account of a'visit 1o the Queen's courts in my next. The Sackville matter has subsided, naturally since fulter information has been received, but the Londou papers said some very severe and some foolish things the morning after the news of Secretary Buyard’s L - closing Lovd Suckville's passport. The Standard, Lord Sailsbury’s organ, went the farthest. It recommended to Lord Salisbury 1o vetaliiate by handing our minister his papers to le Iiven the second mornin loader it tried to show the propriety of such a step, hut w; of Sena- tor John She crhaps be pleased to know that the Mansfield statesman hus recently put some addi tional insurance on his life, and that in the event of his demise the insuranc companies will stand to lose #350,000, Large as this amount of insurance for a single individual the insurance carried by Congressman W. L. Scott upon his life exceeds it, the member from Eri holding policies aggregating un oven half miltion dollars. An enterprising agent undertook to get President Cleveland, early in his administration, to take out a $50,000 policy, thinking it would be a good ad- vortisement for his compa Ho did not succeed, but wrote to the home office that he had made the effort, He received 1n reply a notice not to press the matter further, as presidents wore regarded as extea hazardous risks, and the advertisement wasu't worth taking the chances, VACGINATING - CHILDREN. —— A Prominent Physician Talks About Vaccination, Tho Oporation being performod on School Children Vory fixton- sively—~The Small Pox Scare, AT you vaceinatin NOW ™ axked our writ 4 day or two ngo do much family pra DUt T lind two it al day ol on satisfaction, ny Then the ¢ childron Iy sician 1 do not ofapr o ot very many, to my offic vantod h (1o his entir 1eft the oftice med, w o arently for he peration i< not attended with much jueried the writ s not paintul, a 1t scratehing an then Rpply the Views wid it is all ovar. | hyes vaccnated a croat many porsons, hore it where, nnd have vaccinated thom at all agos, £rom ono year and upwards. Only o tew iy agzo | vaccinat tle bihy kil not: more tian a your old, and while she cricd some, 1t (1 not hut her't badly frightenad, It You would liko 1t 1ok call on Mrs, I, Stapenhorat South 1ith stroet, if was her e jrirl that Tspeak of and_she Wil tell you all about it. 1 vaccinated her 1itia boy o0 and have treatod her son William, and sho WHI he pleasod to tell you all ahou it lod on Mrs. Stapenhorst at 838 and found a vory pleasant lady, who gave him tho ldrer coinato Freddy and the : compared to whint o Willle, not u ¢ tu Willfo way wning for a long would have horrible dull patns over the eyes with a coutin. ual headachie, had - bid taste i his mouth, b N0se was always stopped up, sometimes omo side then the other and ho was hawking and spitting all the tine. But added to all this was M worse, he was gradually growing dia i scarcely hoar ordinary conversa. ton W unless e spoke vory Tond to i ho could not understand: he had'w steady running from hoth cars, and 1 was vory for fear o would lo hie had Tl and motherly followin SV, haby, ut that is n i 1 mnch alarmod s hearing entively, that Twas sure for T, myselt hid liad that dread ‘trouble and had een treated Yory succossfully for it by Dr. C, M. Jordan, at 30 Ramice Block, — After consuiting with iy husbhand, 1took Willie to seo Dr. Jordan ani placed him unde ment and the result I thut e is entively cured of his catareh and ho 1l as youor Tean, Horohio aad You cnu talk to nini yourself WILLIE STAPENHORST. The next momint the write conversation with a very hright Tooking and very m Deing questionel was engagoed in nd intelligent ung man who, on h ¥ hoar- derfully, o ranything n Ican | ol 1conld and it makos me fecl 80 much better and more am Ditious. My ears both discharged continnously Ho first stopped the discharge and then fittod an artificinl ear drum of his own contriv- ance, in my ears, and ow 1 can hoar the slight. est whisper. My friends among the boys are very much surprised at tne change fu_my hoar- ing. The doctor ns cured mo entirely of niy cafarth, and T have nono of the distressink svmptoms any more, ind 1 can't tell you how thauktul T am'to himi for it,” SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING. A Few Symptoms of Disease That May Prove Serious to You. Do you have frequent fits of mental depros. 10N Do you exy in yoiir ear o vou as thongh you must suffocate Iying down? s you troubled with a hacking cough and 1 debilit our eyes cenerally weak and watery and atly ftlnmed? s your volce huve a husk, thic anasal sort of twang? 15 yon breath froquently offensive from some unaccountable cause Have you a dull, oppressive 1 ally located ovor the eyes? 1o you have to huwk and congh frequently {n the eilort to clear your throat? Areyou losing your senso of smell and s your sense of taste becoming dulled? D 1 el stopped up, foro. Urough your mouthy y feel dizzy, particnlarly when tooping to pick anyhing off the toor? Does overy little draft of wir w y wlight chinge of temy Vi Are you annoyed by wconstant e SpI ot an endless quantity of phlegm ! Do (rom Ded s {{ved and weak as you wer wan rience ringing or buzziug nolses sound and ache, gonor- ing you to Do you ng 1o lio 11 i 15 your throat f th phlogm in the morn- Ing, which can only be discharged after violout cotfehing wid hnwking and spittin Do you ocoasionally wake from a troublod Ale feel s if yon had just eacuped & horrivle death by choking? KEADEIR: above are some of the many symptonis of catarrh and tho bugtnning of hung troubles. " Not one case in w hundred will have allof them, bt every one affected will have & fow or many of then.” The groster or more s ious your symptonms, the more dangerous your condition. ” 1€you hive some or all of theui, J. CRESAP McCoY, (Late of Belloyus Hosnital,New Vork,) Succeodod by DOCTONR Charles M. Jordan w York Oty and (Late of the University of hiugton, 0, ¢ Howard University, Wi HAB OFFICES No. 310 and 311 Ramge Building nec Kifteenth and Haruoy sts , Omata, Nels, whore ali curable cases wrd treated With success. Note -Dr. Charles M, Jordan hns boen tesi- dont physician for Dr. M i Onisha, for the pusi year and i the physician wha has mide the t have been published s treated skillfully, Consump: tion, Bright's d Dyspensia, (et natism and ull NERVOUS DINEASES, Al dissades po. culinr (o' the sexes u specielty, CATARLRH CURED CONSULTATION at office or by mail, 81, Ofce hours-9to 114, m., 2to4 Tto#p, w, iy oftice honrs from 9 a. 1 1p.m Correspondence recelyes prompt attontion. Muuy diseases ure treated successtully by Dr. Jordon Lhrougn the mist 15,04 1L 18 b3 poAmLIG for ihose unable to make a 4 oblain BUCCESBIUL HOSIITAL ENTAT THELL TTOMEE, e RS, e