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ONE ENTIRE FLCOR FOR STOVES, ple’s Largest Exclusive 613-615 N. 16th St., Bet. California and Webster. Goods Sold and Delivered Fras---Coungil THE HOME OF A TRAGIC KING. Salvini’'s Unostentatious Residence in the City of Florence. AS MODEST AS ITS MASTER. The Actor's Accomplished Children— How Italy Worships Gentus—The Brilliant. Triumphs of Rossi and Ristori. “Asa Salvini1” is all you have to say in any part of Florence, aud the cab- man will smile with pleasure and put you down at the great actor’s door, writes Olive Weston from Florence to the Chicago Inter-Ocean: When he walks the street with his princely tread one would think him a king, a beloved king passing through his subjects; they smile and bow and look upon him with 80 much respect and veneration ‘‘e nos- tro Salvim.” But Salvini says that no country renlly recognizes art in these days—not even Italy as much as is supposed. Himself, Rossi and Ristori are the only Italian actors who acquired fortunes, but these have been mostly gained in foreign tours. He has a splendid house in Florence and a villa on the hills, A glass door opens into a wide marble hall with some parlor at the end—the servant who received your card comes back, he opens the great glass door, and through vistu of rooms you see Salvini waiting for you in his study. The house is very plain, and the mas- ter has that simple dignity which makes his ereation on the stuge at once so nat- ural and so majestic. A great sim- plicity and modesty characterizes every room, a few photographs of uctresses hung about, but nowhere can be seen sny bust or likeness of Salvini, He is extremely averse to be taken, even in photography, and absolutely refuses to sit for any artist., The emperor of Austria has threatened to send u com- gnn of gens-d’armes to seize him and old him while his court painter trans- fers him to canvuss. Some years ago Salvini married an Englhh{wd_y and has o large family of of childven. His grief was great when sho died. All of his children are artistic in some way. IS DAUGHTER often acts in private, and has a delight- ful stylé, cspoc v, Alex- ander, of course, wn, here, and steadily advancing in reputation. Another son is making a great furore in Italy, playing his father’s roles, and declared by the Ttalians to be his worthy successor. His son Murio, a dark, handsome youth, is a sculptor of frum. promise; his work is of the ex- reme realistic school, but shovs a dramatic breaking through of tradition, and he has inherited from his father a leeliu;f for powerful expression in gest ure, His best work 1s called “The strike.” A laborer in bronze, clumsy and muscular, has torn up a paving stone and suspends it in the air before hurling it, His work has now the ex- agygeration of burning youth, but will tone down into something very strong and fine with greater experience. The Cu&a Salvini contains a very happy and united family, and Salvini governs 1t with great dignity. ‘here are few women in the world who would not like to nave a lover like Salvini—he is not like the ordinary actor. ali affected, sensational, and self. conscious in his strongest passion- Salvini has the grand digmty and power, the majestic, colossal, whirl- wind-like sweep of emotion, and yet such a grasp on himself, such control, that it makes him seem a man—a god— and one must simply full at his feet and say: ‘I am thine; do with me as thou wilt.” Istood in the wingsone night when he played the *‘Gladiator,” and it seemed to me as he passed me as if he carried with him a magnetism which must sweep all lesser objects to him. 1 felt as if THE BREATH OF FLAME were in my hair, as if I were being sucked into a whirlpool, and clung to the scene for support, when he stopped and spoke to me with a manner so0 sim- ple and a courtesy so profound thatI felt a queen. Who could withstand such heights and depths? i In Othello we find especially this union of passion and dignity—how it is revealed in his panther-like walk! In Hamlet how sweetly he plays the scholar, in spite of our feeling that his reserve power is too great for the role. In the **Gladiator” all that is grand in man as a human tortured animal is grandest in him, It is always a question how much an actor should think and how much feel; presence of mind is a great necessity on the stage. A greatscene is often ruined if,1n the height of passion, when an actor feels most he cannot think. One night while Salvini was playing the dagger scene in Macbeth, he felt his cloak slipping to the ground. If he had picked it up it would have broken into his acting in o commonplace manner: if ne had let it lie where it fell it would have attracted attention to itself asa bright sPuc on the stage. Without a moment’s hesitation he conceived a niece of action to cover the accident. 1e shivered as it fell to his feet as from the touch of an unseen presence; then glancing nervously around, crouching ower and lower, he suddenly in terror caught 1t up and, wrapping it around him, stood trembling while the house applauded and thought he was playing better than ever. Fechter had a wonderful power of making the most of an accident, He once acted in o play where the grand effect was a vessel sweeping across the stage in full sail with the hero standing in the prow, The sea in those days was an old blue amd green streaked canvas, with a lot of little boys bobbing up and down under it to make the waves. The canvas was very rotten, and as the ves- sel came in sight all of a sudden a little head BOBBED THROUGH A HOLE and was seen alone on the waste of waters, The scone would have been turned into the rankest comedy; but Fechter, with a cry, swod up and shrieked, *Man overboardl” TLeaning over the vessel’s side, he seized the boy, tore him through the canvas, and held him alofv in a tableau so splendid that the audience forgot the absurdity and the sceno was saved, Salvini’s most eriticised work in his death in **Otnello.” The last is very exciting, and sometimes actors forget their words when carried away by emo- tion. A provincial actor qnve way to such an extent that in the last speeches he could only command the sound and not the sense—a thing which often hap- vens to clever actors, when instead of stopping they fill in with a word of sim- ilar length and accent, but sometimes very amusing in the combination, He found himself unstrung, knowing that he did not recollect the words or the lines about “*shedding teavs as fast as the Arabian tree its medicinal gum,” and saved himself with “sheds tears as fast as the Venetian trees their Abys- sinian gums.” Salvini was a pupil of the great actor Gustave Modena, who also instructed Ristori and Rossi, but Salvini was the pride of his life. Salvini’s repertoire contains more than two hundred roles. In the same city and not far away lives Rossi—in his youth the favorite stuge lover of Ttaly—the greatest Romeo. He is also possessed of much wealth. His house is packed with trophies of his triumphs---crowns of gold, laurel wreaths, daggers, and jew- els, for his greatest tours have been in Russia and South America, where they love to throw gold at th favorites. He always replies when asked if he can speak English ‘““Ay, aivery iinch a keeng”---the only words he knows and with which he used to astonish his American audiences, suddenly bursting out with them 1n his Italian Lear, Ristori was the daughter of a stroll- ing player. When quite young a wealthy Italian noble, the Marguis del Gullo, fell in love with her, married her, and took her away from the stage. She had great beauty and wit, and such a voice! After a number of years she appeared with amateurs in a charity performande in Rome and ACTED S0 SUPERBLY that all the public clamored for her re- turn to the stage and even her noble relations withdrew their opposition in the face of such genius. Noactress has ever aroused the social furore which Ristori excited at that time. Noble! Beautiful! Talented! Of most unassail- able virtue! It is said that a young noble, dying of love for her, bribed her maid with an enormous sum to let him slin into her room just as she had left it that he might lie in the bed yet warm from her lovely form. Her chamber utensils were broken into bit§ when she left a hotel and mounted into scarf- pins—but I must stop here, for I cannot even hint to American ears to what lengths the passionate Itahian nature goes when aroused to enthusiasin by a new goddess. Now Ristori simply leads the life of a great society ludy—she has gervants in livery, carriages, and every luxury that appertains to her high posi- tion, - When Mary Audersons was in Rome Ristori was very kind to her— and frankly admired her as a sweet young girl. She never saw her playing, perhaps she divined she could not, for she is rather jealousof new rivals, even though she herself has retired from the stage. She detests Bernhardt. Some time ago while excavating the collar of one of her palaces, a fine col- lection of antique bronzes was discov- ered. Strangely enough, most of themn were of a dramatic subject. They are now in her art gallery. I heard a young American artist in Paris tell a very amusing story of Sal- vini, The young artist had lived in a New England boarding house where there was afat old Yankee widow who had never been to a theater in her life, was a deyout church woman, and disap- proved of *‘play actors.” She was most wvercliz moral, yet en- ioyed scandals, and delighted in read- ng aloua at the breakfast table the most ample newspaper ‘‘revelations,” aod especially reveled ina good di- vorce trial with “‘details”—at the same time disapproving of them with great severity, Yt was at the time of the do- mestic infelicity of Marie Prescott, Salvini’s leading lady, The old dame read aloud in full the trial, then turn- an suddenly to our artist friend asked: ‘Who is Marie Prescott?” %0, she supports Salvini,” he replied. “‘Supports Salvini! Why what do you mean? I thought he was very rich. Isu’t he that great Italian actor?” 4 | THE CENTLE SAGE OF CONCORD Bdward Waldo Emerson’s Memoir of His Father. A PHILOSOPHER'S DAILY LIFE, His Yankee Ways and Stern Now England Character— Keen Scnse of Humor snd His Boyish Pranks, Emerson in Concord The Chicago Tribune reviewing the memoir of Ralph Waldo Bmerson, just published by his son, Edward Waldo Imerson says: M urd Waldo Emerson prefaces this memoir of his father with two quotations, the one in vevse, the other prose. They are both from the pen of the Concord philosopher and poet and speak eloguently in themselves of the dual genius of our great Americun. The verse is written in Mr. Emerson’s highest, most ideal vein, and spealks of the transcendentulist, while the prac- ticul, prudent, plain prose, is charged with wholesome and level down euast phraseology and thought. It is the Massachusetts villager who writes: *'If God gave me my choice of the whole planet or my little farm, I should cer- tainly take my farm.” And it 18 this view of Mr. that is given us by his son. round to the back door aund lift the latch and eoter the home. In that home all is as it should be. No skele- tons in those closets, no sound harsher than the cheerful cricket’s echoes from that honored hearth, . Itis hard for the best of us to **live up to our teapots,” whether we view them from an esthetic, DuMaurier, standpoint or a purely useful one, but Seerates himself did not more truly andmably live up to his cup of poison hemloels than Emerson to the draughts oi healizg i poured on us. Not since the appearance of Thacker- uy’s Letters hasi the world of readers been given such & pleasure as in the publication of this all too brief volume. Mr. Edward Emerson has done his work well, and has ably complemented Mr. Cabot’s more formal public life of Emerson with the intimate view of his father. Dedicated as it is to th» *‘So- cial Cirele,” a modern round table of twenty-five goed and true Concord wise men, there is a natural inclina- tion, yielded to wisely, to speak to the neighbor, the friend, the citizen. Without any accentuation of the fact, these pages bring out Mr. Emerson’s Yankee ways and New England rock- bound basis of character, the stability of which could not be beaten down or destroyed. GLIMPSES OF EMERSON'S YOUTH, ‘We all knew that Raph Waldo Emer- son came of a race of preachers and teachers—was himself a preacher and teacher; we knew also that his father died in his youth—but it remained for the son to give us the glimpses of the young life; to paint the picture of Em- erson’s mother—so wise, so pious, so virtuous, so suggestive of the famous chapter of Proverbs; to give us the del- icate, shadowy sketch of the first wife of Emerson’s youth, of whom we are Emerson We go B N A BOB TINWARE, ETC. touchingly told: ‘“‘She used to come to one servico Sundays in a carriage be- cause of her delicate health, though in those days only t Parkmans came to churchin a carriag Mrs. Pratt de- seribed her as beautiful, and says that sho secmed to temind people of o flower.” It remained also for the son to introduce us to one of the most delight- ful women in New England history, Aunt Maj coud, pious, eccentric ceiting, in Aunt Mary Mood srson.” A most extraordinary per- this same stimulating aunt, for she not only a law to herself but to her neighbors as well. “Too concentrited o bitter cordial to be ever n long time at any one board- she went from relative to clative, and, as Emerson puts it, up a surprisingly good under: with the peop f this worl: ing her tra y of living.”” Thus she honor stranger’s —horse while was shopping. When he demurred she told him she was his own townsman, born within a mile of him, and finally when sht left him, in the g1g, he told her not to hurry.” * * “*Once she even impressed the horse of a man who came to call the physician at whose house she boarded, and rode sdewse on a man's saddle to the Mause, arrayed in her dimity shroud, which, tired of waiting for death, she used us a day-gown, and over it, on this occasion, threw a scarlet shawl which somebody had laid down in the entey.” We read Imerson’s feel- ing tribute to Aunt Mary’s helpfulness in his cducation almost téarfully, as we recall entric dame’s confession to her duiry: “My oddities were never designed. . . It is so universal with all classes to dislike me that I blame nobody.” of Emerson s early life are sugges of the rock-bound coast and the winter snowsof his childhood home. Poverty almost grinding was a lu'umi- nent factor in the problem of living, and we feel o throb of patriotic pride as we read how it was accepted, lived down, and conquored. They were a raco of strong men, these grandfathers of ours—strong indeed, but sometimes se- vere, as witness Kmerson’s father when he thought Ralph dull because a few weeks before his third birthday he could not read very well! But, if he was backward in reading, his mind and heart were alveady at work. His friend- ships began cven at that tender nge. In writing to his friend, the Rev, Will- wm Furniss of Philadelphia, he says: *My wife reads you and venerates you; then I brag thatI nt.Lo school with him to Miss Nancy Dickinson and spelt out *The House That Jack Built’ on his red handkerchief.” HIS GREAT LOVE OF NATURE. Emerson’s love of nuture shows the thoroughness of his own nature, Brought face to face with flowers, and birds, ahd hills, and streams, he at once realized now little he had accurately learned of Ner from his masters, the poets, and how little they themselves k(m:w in detail and truthfully of the sights and sounds they so extolled, He arraigns these poets and says of them with fine sative: ‘I discernthat . . . not these chauting poets themselves know anything sincere of those hand- gome natures they so commended.” And this arraignment is significant as ihe earliest protest on the partof a poet against luck of scientific knowledge. Emerson was too truly a child of his century not to beimbued with the re- spect for sccurate knowledge, which is one of the greatest virtues of this scien- tific century with its belief in facts, All that he says of nature is germane to his character and is dull,,gmul reading. As long as he contented himsel! with com- wuning with ber he was successful, but $30 Plush Rockers reduced to ...... $15 Plush Easy Chairs reduced to ........... $8.50 $20 Plush Bed Lounges reduced to . $12.50 $15 $25 Plush Bed Lounges reducedto .............$16 $50 | $7.50 Plush Parlor Chairs reduced to. . .$3.90 iz $20 Plush Covered Chairs reduced to..$12.50 One Entire Floor For Parlor Furniture, lise, iifis, Fort Omalia, Sauth Omaha and Florence, his futile efforts to_till the soil, to con- quer the h, and aid her in bringing forth fru their season are amusing in the extreme, and are at once viewed from the humorous standpoint by Emerson himself, He tells with cles of the commit- tee of the Massachusetts Horticult- ural society coming to visit his orchard after one of the annual ‘‘cattle show” exhibitions. He had sent specimens of his fruit with great pleasure to the exhibition, and smiled with modest pride with having his orchard thus honored, but the Hon. S: D—, the chairman, said: Mr. BEmerson, the committee have called to see the soil which produces such poor specimens of such fine varieties.” After reading this one is not surprised to hear of his five-year-old son’s ejaculation who fol- lowed his father to the garden and watched him wield a spude: **Papa, I am afraid you will dig your leg.” Mr. Emerson’s allusions to his father’s etirement from the pulpit are soul-stir- ng, and prove once more the absolute trnthfulness of his moral nature. One does not observe any inheritance from Adam or Eve in this truthful, staunch character, His interest in the town meeting was one of the large interests of his daily life. He always went to them, said’ little, learned much, and from what he learned he wrote. The activity of his zeal for learning from and about his fellow men is shown in what he writes of some unknown, but presumably disagreeable acquaintance, an acquaintance to whom Le was by nature an enemy, yet whose virtues he was glad, in hislarge-beartedness,to dis- cover, *‘The most hard-fisted, di ably restless, thought-paralyzing punion sometimes turns out in the town meeting to be a fluent, various, and ef- fective orator. Now [ find what all that excess of power which chafed ana fret- ted me 80 much in- was for.” WHAT 1E THOUGHY OF SLAVERY. What Mr. Ilimerson thought of the war we know, but no word he ever wrote of sla by goes to the heart with quite the same simple diract s his advice to his children when tk told him they were to write compositions at school on the subject, **T'he Building of a House.” One can feel the light in his eyes, for 1t flushed from the warm fire in his heart, when he said to then S Van st ha siva 10 sav that na b is perfect without having a fugitive slave can be safely hidden away.” Under his large interests for the state—for the town— lay that keen personal interest we do not readily eredit the prophet or phi- losopher with. He whospeuks for ruces and for centuries seems of necessity re- moved from individual sympathiest But Mr. Bmarson is a refutation of tha theory. Not alone his friendships, strong aud ubidiug, but his vital inter- est in the people about him is an ex- ample of this. He writes o simply in his journal, but with keen sympithy for ‘this homely pointed remark or that nut of philosophy scracked by the shrewd countryman. Wit invariably attracted him; he made a note of it; repeated it; enjoyed it. Wit at his own expense had only an ndded piquancy. He was overcome with laughter at the burlesgue of his Brahma, bdginning: Sf the gray tom cat thinks Le sings,’ and he delighted to hear that his audi- ence in Boston at his lectures was called “‘the effete of Boston,” and he particularly enjoyed—one fecls sure— the fravkness of a Concord neighbor whotold kim that there were only three persons, so far as he knew, “whose opinions are obnoxious to the members of our community. ‘I'hey are: Theo- dore Parker, Wendell Phillips, and-— if I may be candid—yourself, si But this temptation to quote must be TERHY: $75 Worth of Goods; $2.50 per week or $10 a month, $100 Werth of Goods; $3 por week or $12 a month, $200 Worth of Goods; $5 per week or $20 a month, resisted, for it is a most quotable book. Almost every word in iv is like the nec~ essary strokes of the artist’s brush in a portrait, an aid to the successful pore trayal of our great man—great not only because of what he wrote, and of what he saia, but of what he left unwritten and unspoken as well. In reading of those long, arduous years of lecturin trips, when the discomforts of trave must have been often almost unbears able, we find no record of any complaing or statement of discomfort. A MENTAL PORTRAIT OF HIS CHARACs TER. The porsonal portrait of his fathor is complemented by a mental portrait of his character. Again he 1s, as he wos physically, above uis fellows, so simple, 80 brave, so- intellectual, so true—that § we feel as_if this record of his life might well be bound with the next edition of Plutarch’s Lives—for in that noblest summary of courageous and ex- alted men there is no hero more worthy | of remembrance and emulation than the hero of our own country and our own day. Perhaps Aunt Mary’s reply to the friend who remarked on the dee votion of the Emerson children to their 4 books, is the best brief summing up Puzniblo of this rare and gentle nature. ‘Sir,” said Aunt Mary, ‘“‘they were born to be educated.”” Ralph Waldo Emerson belonged to that noblest royal family on this earth—the elect tribe of souls who love knowledge and are born tobe educated. One regrets that in the catholicity of his taste for learning he did noc insist upon cultivating a taste for Hawthorne, 1f he were o un= fortunate as to be born without it. But Hawthorne made him see ghosts, one suspects, and the apostle of hope cared only for men and women—ull alive and all cheerfel, e EDUCATIONAL, Miss Georgia Rattan is the suggestiva name of a young Oregon school teacher, The University of Pennsylvania received an unconditional gift of 50,000 by the will of the late 1. V. Williamson. 1t was recommended by the Harvard board of overseers that their quinquennia catal- logue be printed in Enghsh. A young woman, named Guiseppina Cur- win, has been made professor of pathology at the University of Bologna, A volume containing the poems published iii ine Yale papuis during recent years has just been published by Poud, Yale, 80, under the title of ** Yale Lyrics.” . Mrs, Smith, who teaches laundry work at Forsytne college, KEogland, also writes novels, contributes-original recipes to Truth, and is her own dressmilker, The department of biology in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania is hereafter to be a sep- arate scnool, with & four years' insteud of & two years' course. Its graduates will receive an appropriute degree. 'he young tariff reformers of Harvard college have organized the ‘‘Harvard free- wool club” with fifty members, Tne new club will hold monthly meetings and expects to invite Congressmen Carlisle, Breckine ridge, Mills und others to address it. - Mr. W. T. Carleton will open his se: the Broad street theatre, Philadelphi: tember 23. Mr, Carleton was under contract 0 open the season of the Fifth avenue theas wre, in New York, in August, but he felt compelled to cancel the contract on gccount of his health, The cancellation was amicably brought about and Mabager Towpking arranged with Mr. J. C, Duff's opera com- pany to fiil Mr, Carleton's time, On advice of his physiciav Mr. Carleton will rest all summer. The m_ein difference between the bathing gowns of this and those of last season is in the cut of tne waist, many of the new gowns bemng cut with several seams 80 as to fit the form quite closely. Then, again, more trims ming s used then formerly, many of the suits being profusely braiged with very fine oraid vut on in scroll or other fancy palteriy i 1