Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 9, 1890, Page 14

14 g : THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: BE MARRIED HER BY PROXY. ‘Why Senor Ulpiano Obando Wanted to Bee His Wife. LIKE THE LORD OF BURLEIGH. How Earl Russell Won the Heart of “Baby" Scott — Infant Lovers Fight a Duel—Wedded by Telephone. Little Romances. Senor Ulpiano Obando was until re- cently consul of the United States of Columbia at San Francisco, says the New York Herald. The senor was mar- ried, and the picture of his wife was that of a charming sc.ora of the regu- lation type of beauty. Begota was the home of this loving pair, Mme. Obando being the niece of the president of the republic. One day the senor said to me in his broken Eng- lish: +I must go home to my wife. [ can no longer bear this separation. Besides my father has been married to her about long enough.” “What on earth do you mean?” I asked. **When were you married, nor?” “*About six months ago,” he replied. I knew he had been in San Francisco a year, 8o I said: Oh, I see; your wife did not like San Franelsco, 8o she returned home.” *‘She has never been here.” “And yet you say you were to her six months since?” “‘Certainly: I gave a power of attor- ney to my father, who married Inez in ead.” ow, see here, Obando,” I re- marked, “1 am afraid you're making fun of me. This idea of your wife being vour stepmother at the same time, aud your futher’s wife being his daughter- in-law—oh, no, it won't do.” The senor, however, was in earnest, and then I learned one of the peculiar custon s in vogue in the South Ameri- can republic. As a matter of policy or convenience it had been necessary that Senor Obando should marry his affi- anced, and therefore the necessary in- structions were wired to Panamd. con- veyed thence down the , Magdalena river 10 the Yurt, and by muleback to the capital. In the same manner the news of the ceremony was conveyed back to San Francisco, and Senor Obando was a duly married man. Such marriages are perfectly legal and are recognized by the church. Upon the return of the husband, though, he must bs married publicly. In case he dies before seeing his “proxy” wife then his ‘‘vicarious” widow inherits his property the same as if she married 1n the regular fashion, Senor Obando returned to Bogota, and the last time I heard from him he was occupying a high official position and living happily with his wife, to whom he had been “‘regularly” married. married The young Countess Russell has com- pletely recovered from her recent ill- ness. A few days before her marriage she had been suffering from bronchitis, and she became so ill during the cere- mony that she had to go straight to bed on returning from the church. Lord and Lady Kussell now expect to start on their honeymoon. There is a romantic story told in London that the young earl won and wooed his bride under the uis2 of a British workman, says a Lon- on cable to the New York World. Earl Russell is a partner in the elec- trical works at Teddington, near the houge in which Lady Scott hives, and is an enthusiastic and practical worker in the business, which he constantly supervises. Lady Scott, it seems, ordered some slectrical fittings at the works and Lord Russell took a gang of men over to the house and set to work, dressed in ordinary mechanic fashion, as foreman of the ganyg. Whether or not tne young lady knew the rank of the “foreman’” is notknown. “Baby Scott” noticed **his superior bearing and man- ners” and begged her mother to ask him to lunch with them instead of with the workmen. Baby Scott fell in love with the noble workman and clan- destine meetings and an engagement followed. Lady Scott was beside herself when she heard of this, and hurried off to the electrical works on vengeance bent,and inquired of the first man she met for the audacious young foreman who had attended. to the works at her house. “Foreman, mf' lady!” answered the workman, *‘Bless your ’art, that weren’t no bloomin’ foreman. That was Hearl Russell, my ladv, and a good one he is, too, and knows his trade as if he weren’t no lord at all, but a real Knight of Labor.” Lady Scott was thunderstruck. The next time Baby Scott met the earl she reproached him with his decoption and strategem. The earl excused himsell on tho old plea that he wanted to be loved for himself ‘alone, without the glamour of rank and riches. Lady Scott afterwards told the earl that she had ‘'seen his native worth and nobil- ity through the coarse disguise of a fustian jacket.” Then came the mar- ringe. 2 The guosts who gathered at the Pres- byterian church in Brocklaw, twenty miles north of this place last night to seo William Mason and Miss Delia Mclmiru made man ana wife were treated to asurprifle that has set the tongues of village gossips wagging in a most persistent manner. Mason’s best man was Bdwin Sedgwick, a well-to-do young farmer, and the maid of honor was Miss Mildred Turner, the prettiest girl in the county and a daughter of Samuel Turner, a rich stock raiser of Oraig. Sedgwick and Miss Turner had been keeping company for some time, but it was known that old man Turner had promised his daughterin marring e to a young lawyer of Oraig whose pros- pects for political preforment are said to be flattering, Miss Turner, it was also known, heoartily detested this young lawyer, but in compliance with her father’s wishes she had promised to become his bride. The date for their wedding had been set and, in consider- ation of this fact, old man Turner yes- terday agreed to allow his daughter to play bridesmaid to Sedgwick’s grooms- man at the wedding of their mutual friends, William Mason and Miss Mcln- tyre. The Mason-Meclntyre coremony was pesformed by Rev.Alexander Campbell, and whi'e the guests were awaiting the. exit of the bridal party the surprise WaS S§prung upon l&mm. The \-l\-rgs‘- man had barely spoken the words which made Miss Delia McIntyre Mrs. Mason when Sedgwick and 88 Mil- dred advanced to the altar. The young man whispered a few words to the min- ister, at the sume time handing him a marriage license, There was a little stir up in front, but before any one re- alized what was going on and before the irate papa could fumrfora Edwin and Mildred were kneeling before the clergyman and receiving his blessing on their union, Then lgo wwo happy bridegrooms with their blushing brides left the church smiling at the cluver manner in which old Mr. Turner had been outwitted. It is stated by some of the witnesses of the double marriage that the young lawyer with political prospects wae present in the church, bnt that he was ‘80 dumbfounded by the brazenness of tho proceeding” that it never occurred to him to arise in his might and forbid the banns in true dramatic style until it was too late. Others say he did not arrive until the marriage ceremonies were over. Old Mr. Turner has declared that he will never recognize nisdaughteragain, but she says she feels sure he will for- give her in time. The young lawyer, whose name has been carefully Sup- pressed, will, it issaid, remove to some wild western town, taking his _political prospects with him. Mrs. Sedgwick snid tonight that she had never intend- ed to marry the lawyer and had only promised to do so in order to blind her fatner as to her real intentions. Sedg- wick had planned an elopement to Kansas, but after some consultation with Mason and Miss McIntyre the plan which they so successfuicy carried out was decided on instead. Cupid plays some curious pranks, but it remained for Boston to furnish the material with which tosmash all previ- ous records, says a Boston dispatch to the New York World. A duel between two chubby-faced,love-smitten toddlers, but the absence of years by no means detracted from the seriousness of the affair, Francis Cunningham is aged nine and James Dowd is two years his junior. They are cousins and live in the Roxbury district. Now Frankieand Jimmie loved a dainty little maiden about their own age. Sunday night found them escorfing the young lady home from church. It is said that Jimmie, tortured by suspense, forced matters by demanding that the young lady settle the affair by stat- ing, without equivocation, her choice of the two. Then a bitter quarrel en- sued. Words ran high and they de- cided to have a duel with clubs. Each got u heavy stick and began belaboring his enemy. The frightened maiden ran screaming away from the contest. Cunningham gota blowon the head which caused him such pain that in a burst of anger he drew a common pocket knife and then stabbed his cousin, The knife blade penetrated the little fellow’s back between the fifth and sixth ribs and entered the pleural cavity, but fortunately did nov strike the lung. When he saw his rival bleeding at his feet a great terror seized Francis Cunningham. Had he committed mur- der? With a_blanched face he darted away, pursued by the demons of con- science. Breathless, he reached a marsh and threw his bloody weapon into a pool of water. Dowd was carried to his home on Howard street in an ex- hausted condition, and afterwards he was removed to the city hospital. where the attending surgeon pro- nounced the wound dangerous and probably fatal. Francis Cunningham, crushed under the weight of his crime,now is tortured in solitude, locked in a room in his home, No. 680 Norfolk avenue. The high 'social standing of the innocent cause of the sad affair and the pain that publicity would inflict renders it a well-deserved chivalry to withhold her name. She is overcome with grief, and her nervous system has received such a shock that it will be some time before she fully is herself again. A Greek merchant of Alexandria, in Egypt, who made a great deal of money, unable to return personally to his coun- try, but intent upoa choosing a Grecian maiden for his wife, writes to his corre- spondent in Corinth, at the bottom of his usual business letter: ‘“‘Finally, I request you to remit me, by returning steamer, a young lady who might feel inclined to be my wife. She need not pe in possession of any money, with which I am sufficiently blessed; but a good reputatlon, of the age of twenty- four or twenty-five, a respectable fam- ily, zood looks, health and temper and midadle-sized figure. If the lady will bring mo the inclosed note with your kind_ acceptance, you may feel assured that I will honor the same and make the bearer my wife.” Although somewhatastonished at this singular order of his Alexandria corre- spondent, the merchant of Corinth, as a good business man, thought best to fill it like any other received from so reliable a customer, and to send the merchandise demanded at short notice. Having found a lady possessing the re- quired qualities and willing to trans- mit with the accepted check of her un~ known countryman her hand and heart, the Corinthian took her aboard the next steamer going to the country of the Pharaohs. At the same time he notified his friend by telegraph of the precious shipment. As soon as the boat anchored in the harbor of Alexandria the matrimo- nious Gregk boarded it, to hear himself called by name and see a pretty young damsel stepping up to him, saying; *'I have a check signed by you and hope you will duly honor it.” “*Never yet a note of mine has gone to protest,” re- plied the blushing groom, *‘and I shalls| not permit this to happen to the one you hold. I shall be happy if in com- pensation you will honor me with your hand.” A fortnight later the note was re- deomed and the payep a happy hus- band. Miunie Worley is the pretty night operator at the South Bend Telephone exchange. She is twenty-two and was born and raised ,in the Wagon City. Frank Middloton oceupies a simlar position in Michigan City, says the La- porte, Ind., special to the Chicago Tribune. He. is twenty-five and good looking, To keep awake nights the two young people would keep up an acquaintance over the wire. Oue night last week Middleton in a spirit of fun proposed to Minnie that they get married by telephone. She consented, and he thereupon called in a Michigan City justice of the peace named Dib- ble, who, in order to carry out the proposed joke, placed himself in con- nection with the pair and jrepeated the legal ceremony. Nothing was thought of the affair for several days, but finully some one sug- gested thut they had better investigate und see if they were not married. Tho groom was likewise surprised, and at once hastened to South Bend to see his bride, whom he had never before met. The lawyers assert that although the couple took out no license they are nevertheless married and that the, jus- ticess criminally liable for performing the ceremony without securing the license. Both parties are from respectable families and the escapade has created a great social sensation in their respective cities, It has just leaked out that Mid- dleton was to have been married in two months to & young lady 1o Elkhart, Ind, Quite & romantic marriage occurred here today. H. R. U. Foster at 11 o'clock a. m. had just come out of his office and started to church, when a youns couple in a buggy motioned and called him to them, says a Hemando, Miss., special to the Memphis Ava- lanche, They bound him to secrecy, then told him that they bad run away in order to get married, as the young lady’s mother objected. Mr. Foster is always ready to assist any friend out of trouble, and was at once equul to the emergcnc{ 80 he invited the young beople to his house. They accepted the nvitation, and were met at the door by Mrs. Foster, who entertained them while Mr. Foster arranged for the mar- riage by procuring the license dnd the minister. Shortly aftér they had finished dinner the marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. J. W, Lee in his usual eloquent, graceful and im- pressive style, and witnessed by quite a nimber of friends. The contracting parties were Mr.J L. Brown, who is a thoroughgoing, en=- ergetic young business man and_ rail- road agent of the Tlinois Central rail- road at Horn Lake. Heis very popular and was quite a favorite with the young ladies. The young lady was the beau- tiful and charming Miss Addie Fennell, of Horn Lake, who isnoted for her ami- able and lovely disposition. After receiving congratulations of friends they returned to Horn Lake, their future home. News comes from Rio Grande de Soul of a romantic elopement, says the Home Journal. A couple, both children of well-to-do purents, became violently enamored of each other, but the course of love did not run smoothly, their re- spective fathers being at daggers drawn with each other. In vainl the seven- teen-year-old Estephania pleaded with her stern parents that she could love no other than Rodrigo. A strict watch was kept over her movements and. of course, she was not parmitted {o hold communication with her lover. But, thanks to the. service of an old maid, letters passed secretly between the young people. One morning at daybreak a heavily laden mule with a large panier at each side., passed through the town gate of Santa Rita driven by a young man. When the animal reached a church in vhe neigh- boring village it was brought to a halt by a driver, the paniers were opened, and from one stepped out Senorita Este- phania, shaking the straw from her bridal veil, while out of the other sprang Don Rodigro, who gravely pre- sented the bride with her fan and pro- ceeded, without loss of time, to lead her to the altar, whore the priest. was in+ readiness to celebrate the marriage of this enterprising couple. The cere- mony was witnessed by a crowd of open- mouthed villagers, who had quickly collected to see the result of this unus- ual load of merchandise. A strange recovery of a young woman after all hope had been avandoned is reported from Carondelet. She is Bes- sie Miller, and was down with' pnue- monia. She was delirious and would repeatedly ask for her lover, calling him by name, John, says a St. Louis dispatch to the Chicago Herald. Fear- ing that the girl’s sickness would ter- minate fatally, the mother telegraphed the father, who was at New Orleans, to come home immediately, as their daughter was dying. In the mean- time John, the girl’s lover, was sent for. When he arrived it seemed as though the young lady had instantly recoverea from her sickness. John’s presence was all the she needed. ‘When her father arrived and the queer case was explained he did not know what to do. John was detained at the house all day, and promised to return the next day. He kept his promise, and peculiar as it may appear, the young lady %)t upout of bed feeling quite well. Both John and the girl are scarcely twenty years of age, and since the story has leaked out it has created quite a stir. The result of this strange aflinity may be anticipated, Alfred Nagle, a young Austrian of Nanticoke, was in love with Clara New- berger. She did not reciprocate his af- fections. She loved John Swartz, says a Wilkesbarre, Pa., dispatch. Nagle was well-to-do. He tried every means to win the girl’s affections, but failed. Finally he gave Swartz $1,000 and the latter left town. One night in October last Nagle fell and broke his leg. He was laid up many months, One night he received a message that his sweet- heart was dead. He' could not leave the house, but his' only sister went. When the sister arrived at the New- berger home she found the girl lying apparently dead in_a coffin. That night, iv was supposed, Miss Newberger had been taken to another town for burial. Nobody knew differently until yesterday, when a Nanticoke man saw the Newberger woman and Schwarz in Philadelphia. They are married. Miss Newberger says she feigned death, fixed the coffin up herself, lay in it, and then sent for Nuagle’s sister. That night she left for Philadelpkia, where she joined Schwal The little crown prince of Germany seems to have inherited some of the qualities of his father, says the Reho- beth Sunday Herald. The prince was driving out with his governess. As usual, the Germans cheered the boy or lifted their hats to him as he passed, to which the young prince replied by rais- ing his bonnet. At last he got bored with having continually to acknowl- edge the salutes of the populace. Flinging himself back in the carriage. he said to his governes: 1 am tired now, and shall not lift my bonnet any more to them, no matter how much they: cheer.” **You are a naughty boy,” ri plied the governess, ‘‘and unless you acknowledge the salutes of the people I will not continue to drive with you.” The crown prince sat up immediately. “Coachman,” said he. The coachman looked around. ‘‘Stop the carriage, coachman,” continued the httle one, and, with alordly wave of the hand toward his governess, added, ‘‘this lady will get out.” Astory which is apropos of nothing is told at the expense of the wife of the president of a prominent western rail- road, says a Boston letter to the Chi- cago Tribune, Itisto the effect that when Charles Francis Adams was ap- pointed to the presidency of the Pacific road he chanced to call upon the lady in question, who was at the time in Boston. “I do not know just what I am to do, Mrs. P.,” he said, in reference to his new dignity. * “Sometimes it seoms to me that I am only a sort of figurehead— for ornament rather than use.” *Yes,” she assented, “that is exactly what my husband was saying yester- day.” And it was not until after M= Adams had gone that the lady reflected that it was just possible the guest haa not un- derstood that her husband’s remark had reference only to himself and not to Mr. Adams, Congressman Morse of Massachusetts is determined to be famous says a Wash wgton letter to the Indianapolis News. Wednesday morning he sent to each of the New England, newspaper corre- spondents a carefilly prepared type written copy of thespeech which he de- livered in the house in the afternoon. **Applause” and *laughter” followed a large number of paragraphs, and with the copy was a polite note asking the correspondent to print entire if possi- ble. Late in the afternoon, on reach- ing his office, each correspondent found the following telegram on his desk: UNITED STATES CAPITOL, Feb. 12, 4 . m.—Speech delivered. Add at end ‘Great applause on the republican side.” ELwag A, MORSE. SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1890.-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES MUSICAL, , GOSSIP. e ‘'L ses Albani is with the Patti troupe,” remarked an old naul{;pur man to & Bee reporter last Tuesdy.’' “This carries me back to busy scenes of 1867-8 when 1 knew her as Emma Lajeunesse, in Albany, N. Y. She is a Canadian by birth, her parents be- ing French, and early in her teens cgme to the capital of the Empire state, whero her remarkable voice soon " attracted attention, and she obtained a position in the choir of St. Joseph’s (Catholic) church, then in pastoral charge of Rev. Father Conway, afterwards bishop. It was in this way that the young girl now:wo famous throughout the civilized world supported her father and herself. The former tvas a musician, but h peculiar ‘Frovictiiness’ in aruistic matters and decided lack of method barred all avenues to even moderats monetary success, Tn fact the father and daughter were poor and it was only the wonderful pluck of the little girl that made the part of their life bearable. She was at all times the angelic attendant of her father's slightest desire und when her local fame as the ‘“niphtingal ol St. Joseph's” spread even beyona the voundaries of Albany, 8o that visitors to the city, men of high position in the state and nation, fre- quently, 1f they possibly could do 80, re- mained over Sunday to hear her sing. There never was the shightest change in her love for her parental idol. You remewmber that during 1867 and 1708 the coustitutional convention was in session in Albany. This called together as able a body of men as any deliberative assembly ever convened in the. United States save possibly a fow sessions of the Unitea States senate. William A. Wheeler, after- wards vice president under Hayes, was pres- ident of that convention, and he then held the gavel over a far more distinguished body than during his four yeurs' term in Wash- ington. It was customary to adjourn on Fridays to allow the members from different parts of the state to vigit thewr nomes for Sunday. Many and many a time this privi - lege was not taken advantage of to my cer- tain knowledge, for a desire to hear Emma Lajeunesse kept numerous grave and stoical statesmen in Albany on Sundays, when the mass and vespor hours would find them, saiuts and sinners, Catholics, Protestants and infidels, at St. Joseph's church—wor- shippers at the shrine of divine song, not divine service. I have seen at different times among the crowds at the church su; men as Horatio Seymour, Horace Greeley, James and Eras- tus Brooks, Peter Cagger, the leader of the Albany regime; Charles A, Dana, Martin Marble, then editor of the New York World; Sanford E. Church, afterwards chief justice of the court of apveals; Erastus Corning. the elder; ex-Senator Ira Harris, John G. Saxe, Reuben E. Teuton, then governor of the state; Judge Amusa J. Parker. the present senator from New. York, Hon. Frank Hiscock; Francis Kernan, Amasa J. Parker, Rutus W. Peckham,the great jurlu!' and a host of other notables of the “Empire’ state who visited 1ts capitol. Not to hear Emma Lajeunesse sing were one in Albany of a Sunday was a grave direliction in a social point of view,” I remember the first trial of General Cole, who shot the brother of United States Senator Hiscock, on2 of the causes celebres of the country. Among the distinguished attorneys engaged 1o the de- fense was the late James T. Brady. It was his last great case, being shortly afterwards summoned before the great judge of the court of eternity. The first Sunday that oceurred during the progress ot this case the distinguished advocate remained in Albany, aithough only a few milesof railroad ride separated bim from his Home in the metro- polis. He, like others, desired to hear the swoet singer of St. Joseph’s, and he did. Speaking of Miss Lajeunesse subsequently. Mr. Brady remarked to some friends: ‘I am satisfied I made a big earthly specula- tion in addition’ to the religious benefit by attendingz’ church twice today for 1f I am any prophet,’ lovers of grand vocal- ism will be paying mora dollars in a few years to near that girl .sing than I contrib- uted cents today. lfinv heara Jennie Lind, Catharine Hayes and all the great singers who have come to this country, but I tell you there isa great promise that your young Albanian will one’day rank with the best who ever thrilled af appreciative audience.” Thus the fame of Enima Lajeunesse in- creused. In courge’of time after repeated and urgentsohcitatibn she: went to Euvrope for a thorough mueical trai:ing. Really Rev. Father Conway ‘deservea the credit of giving the world the pleasure of hearing the wonderful voice of the \fbani. Her success on the operatic and concert staxes has won applause from every quarter of the globe for years and ber name stands among the truly great artistes of christendom. Beecher says that flowers are the only thiags which God forgot to give souls, and the lamented divine's utterance never had a truer exemplification taan Tuesday afternoon when the maguificent floral lyre was borne upon the stage and presented to Mume. Patti. The look of intense sucprise which illumi= nated ber face found a reficx in the faces of the audience. Standing upon » broad base it measured six feet, the star in tho center hav- ing a diameter of cighteen inches. It was composed of lilies of the valley, llies of the Nile and callus, carnations, Roman hyacin- thes, Duteh hyacinthes and elysium, with smilax to give it the evergreen appearance, while carelessly thrown across the base was a beautiful American beauty. The weight of the immense floral piece was close on to 200 pounds. It was 50 constructed that it will last nearly a fortnight and was sent with the diva to Louisville, where it will be exhibited, 10 doubt, as an example of what Omaha en- terprise can do. It was handled by four men and carried on the stage between the flies after Mme. Patti had sung ‘*1i Baccio,” which brought out Payne's soulful melody. The design was a testimouial from the great piano manufacturers of Chicago, William Kimball company, and was presénted through their state reprosentative, A. Hospe, Jr. At the diva’s request a Kimball piano was placed in her parlors at the Millard. This same piano had previously been presented to Gertrude Huspo, the little four-year old daughter of the local agent. During httle ertrude’s visitto Mme. Patti, she requested “‘Madame wont you please put your name on my piano!” and the answer “Cer- tainly, you sweet angel.” ‘The madame accordingly scratched on the center panel of the music desk **Adelina Patti Nicolina 18%0.” LITERARY GEORGE VANDERBILT He Loves Books but has a Terror of Designing Mammas. Every year that George W. Vander- ilt lives his fortune increases a million dollars. He is now worth over $26,000,000, which is invested in railroad stock and goverament securities, and which net him a small fraction over 4 per cent on the entire sum, says a writer in the New York Morning Journal. This means an annual income of at least $1,040,000, and as he spends less than $25,000 a year on himself, his fortune in a few years will double itself. Unlike his three etder brothers, Cor- nelius, William K aud Frederick W. George 7anderbilt is totally bereft of that business-delving characteristic which has shown itself so prominently in the last thrée generations of the Vanderbilts, George, the youngest son of the late William H., is now' twenty-eight years old and is the only ynimarried child of the great financier. ' Although reports are constantly springing up to the con- trary, there is litthg or no prospect of his making some girk mistress of his many millions, as he has never been known to entertaili ‘the slightest feel- ings of a matrimonjal character to any of the thousands of young women who have been literatly” hurled at him by aspiring mammas, While he does not promise to bring much fame to the family through fol- lowing the paths so successfully trodden by his forefathers and brothers, he is regarded with much favor by his brothers and sisters as being the only literary and scholarly inclined member of the family. When a young boy his taste for books showed itself so strongly that his father engaged a couple of tutors expressly to instruct him, and at the age of sixteen he entered Columbia college, where he took the oclassical course, graduating with high honors. . Since then he has almost entirely de- -Willie K. voted himself to the study of classical l literature, and now he has the reputa- | tion among his few intimate friends of being one of the most extensively read men in the country. Although in fairly good health his studious habits of many years duration have had their effect. and, althoigh not absolutély necessary) his physicians advise him to spend the winter ‘months in the south, In appearance he is slightly above the middle ho|tht. with a slender but active frame, He has a high white forehead, which plainly in- dicates the student, blue-gray eyes and a brown mustache. In dress he is directly the reverse of ostentatious aad wears little or no jew- elry at all. He would never attract at- tention ina crowd and has carefully contracted a habit of making himself as inconspicuous as possible. Unhke the other members of the family who have mixed steadily in the whirl of New York society since Mrs, Vanderbilt’s great fancy dress ball of 1883, he carefully shuns all tormal social gatherings, preferring the quiot of his studio in the great house in Fifth avenue. He has a terror of mammas with marringeable daughters and this weakness is one of the private jokes in the Vaaderbilt household. On the death of his father he fell heir to a fortune of $20,000,000. His grandfather, old Commodore Vander- bilt, left him a fortune of 1,000,000, and as a gift on his twenty-first birthday, William H. presented him with a mil- lion. On the death of his mother all the latter’s possessions, including the pala- tial residence on Fifth avenue, with its millions of art treasures in paintings, statuary, tapestrios and furniture, will revert to him. The residence alone cost $2,000,000, and its contents are worth as much more. George Vanderbilt is not only a book lover, but he is a constant worshipper atthe shrino of fine arts. He knows the history of every picture in the fam- ous gallery which his father collected, and when in the city during the opera season is a constant attendant at the Metropolitan opera house. It was at his suggestion that many of the pic- tures in the great gallery were pur- chased by his father, and he was also instrumental in having Cleopatra’s Needle landed in Central Park. For the past thrae years he has spent his summers at Bar Harbor with his mother, and the winters at Asheville, N. C., where he intends building a magnificent. home, the like of which has not been seen in the south since the war, The only outdoor sport he cares for is canoeing. He has an ordinary cedar canoe, in which he sails about the Maine waters with no companion but a book. TIn the winter months he is given to writing essays on various subjects, none of which, however, has ever been printed under his own name. That his love for literature isnota selfish one is demonstrated 1n a gift made to the public some time ago of a free library located at No. 251 West Thirteenth street. He founded and en- dowed the institution with $40,000, and since its original formation has pre- sented it frequently with gifts of books. He took unusual interest in this place and made all the purchases of the fur- nishings himself. Attached to the li- brary are four bedrooms for the librari- ans, which are tastefully fitted up with dainty pictures and bits of bric-a-brac, brass bedsteads and odd fashioned bu- reaus personally purchased by the young millionaire. E It is believed by his friends that Mr. Vanderbilt is now at work upon a his- torical work, which, when completed and published, will bring him more ;;‘Aimc than his $26,000,000 have brought m. it A CIRCUS EXPERIENCE. How the Giant and Fire King Worked a Florida Raiiroad for Board. James Gilbert, who stands just scven feet six inches high in his stocking feet, and who was in the ' professional giant business for years.swooped down on this city “yesterday from Scranton, Penn., snys the New York Sun. Mr. Gilbert is now employed as‘a special officer in Frothingham’s Arcade building in Scranton. He has had to eject but one or two men in the two months he has been there. When Mr. Gilbert was with Barnum’s *‘Greatest Show on BEarth” the bills announced that he was eight feet high. He cannot explain how this trifling error of half a foot was made, but is certain that he has not shrunk since then. Mr. Gilbert has had some curious. experiences. Here is bue of them: *I thought I would go into the show business for myself in 1884,” said the giant, “so I bought a tent 40 by 50 feet and got a company together. I had a fire-king and a fat woman and a snake- charmer and several other tulented persons, twelve inall. I was advised to go gouth, and I did so. We Plnyed to poor business, and down in Florida we got stranded. Isold the tent, and we walked from town to town at night, playing in the daytime. We ate oranges from the trees as we went along. Some nights we could only find sour ones. 1 grew tired of this, and one day I said to Charley Fox, the fire king: “*This thing’s gone far enouch. ‘We'll bave to work a scheme to get ouf of the country.’” Charley agreed to help me. -We had tosend on our baggage by rail while we walked. Every day I would puy the charges and get it out for our show, and then recheck it at night for the next town. The day after the fire king and I had agreed t0 work the railvoad we found all the baggage on the platform of a little country sta- tion at the town we wera to show in. Nobody was looking, and I told the five king to take his little box from the bag- gage and go into the wouds and smash it.. He did so. Then [ hunted up the station agent and asked him for the bag- gage. +Of course there was one piece short. I told him that it contained all our wardrobe, and that we couldn’vgive our show without it. Well, sir, he got hold of the superintendent of that railroad and they telegraphed back to every sta- tion, and ahead, too, but th couldn’t hear anything of the missing trunk. The wires all over Florida were hum- ming about that trunk, and I kept storming all the time. There wasn't 25 cents in our whole com-~ pany, but I threatened to spend 1,000 suing the railroad for my loss of property. Mr. O, W. Bromwell, the superintendent, was mighty clever about1t. He gave me a pass over the road and $5 to pay my expe und I went back to all the stationslooking for the trunk. I came back and we all put up at the best hotel at the railroad’s ex- pense. We stayed at the hotel for three weeks while the railroad people were looking for the trunk, and we got solazy and fat that we couldn’t have walkeéd to the next town if our lives had depended on it. “One day [ was sitting in the superin- tendent’s office complaining about the loss of the trunk, when he turned to me and said: ‘Charley Fox, your fire king, has gone to New York., He turned state’s evidence this morning and told me all about smashing Lis box, and I've given him a pass to the north in re- turn.’ Of course I said that Charley was lying, but the superintendent wouldn’t awallow my story. Then 1]scconds later held his wallet up ta asked him fora pass for myself to New | sight, He began 1o apoligize andstam« York, and he was =o overcome with my | mer, but she checked him with: nerve that he gave me one to Charles- Young man, you orter be more keer« ton, 8. C., and he complimented me on | ful, you might of necused me of stealin’ the way I had boarded my company for | that money and it would have been a three woeks at the railroad’s expense. | nice think for my church forks to hear I went to Charleston, joined a travelin of, wouldn’t it? When the news got medicine company there, and worked | home to my old man he'd have been my way with them to the city. That is | so kerflustrated that he’d have forgot- the last experience I ever had as | ten to feed the shoats or milk the cows, manager.” and there’s no knowing how'd ho have R " got along locking up the house and MAKING A SCRAP-BOOK, going to bed.” “Oh, I shouldn’t have accused you ma'am,” protested the man. “Wall, I'm glad on it, and being ae this excitoment has come up about pickpockets, 1 guess DIll see if my money and ticket 1s safe.” And she reached down, slipped off a calfskin shoe from her right foot. and peered into it with the remark: “There’s the ticket and there's the dollar bill, and I ha been robbed. Jist try it young man. Beats coat-tails and all other pockets all holler. Got to stand on your head to get it, and overy time you sot your foot down you know it’s thar. I've carried 818 all over New York that way, and got out alive and safe.” How to Prepare 1t and What to Pat in lt—Indexing. Now, as to making a scrap-book I profer the agricultural ceports, as the books are nicely bound, and each page holds just two columns of ordinary newspaper print, entirely covering the printed “reports,” and leaving a white margin on both sides of the puper, says a writer in the Cleveland Leader. When the printed page is not en- tirely covered it is often puzzling to have a column of halves of words of a dairy or farm report running into your other reading matter every line or so. A half-inch of margin should be left at the top and bottom of each page, for by much turning of leaves the edges become frayed, and can be trimmed off without interfering with the vrint. First of all, cut out every other leaf i i Lustrous mohairs aro inoxpensive and may be recommended to buyers who desire sor- vice and durability well as economy in & spring dress. Fabrics of this sort shod the of your intended scrapbook and save | dust, cling to the fieure gracefuily and are as them to do the pasting upon, as they | light as cotton weight. OPERA are convenient to mensure your lengths | e—— of “scraps” as you paste. Trim all THIS SUNDAY NIGHT iuixll‘;:v;l-i even and paste ‘‘true to the Also Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings, Matinee Wednesdy. Ordinary flour paste, cold, and as thin as mucilage, quickly and evenly Engagement of the Emotional Actress applied, is the best. If put on properly, Helen Blythe the paper you are pasting will not even be wet through, and will dry in fifteen Supported by an unusuaily fine company including Mr.J, F. Brian minutesafter it is in your book. A strip of soft cloth wound around a shory presenting the superb domestic DRAMA stick forms your brush, and a soft, 2 “Mother’s Love” clean cloth to lightly rub over the sur- “A Grand Piay Grandy Acted.” face of the strips of newspaper, are all Secure seats immediately and the materials needed. Clippings are taken from the week’s avoid the inevitable rush at the door. Regular Prices. papers, put smoothly into a box and the work is done on rainy days or at times when one teels like ‘‘doing nothing.” ‘When the book is filled—and little odds and ends of items should always be used to fill up short spaces at the ends of column which will occasionally occur —then comes the index, and in that one point is the utility of your work man- ifest. The blank pages at the begin- ning and end of the **‘Report” are just what is nceded. Number your pages carefully and write your index of the articles in alphabetical order. Lastly the outside lettering and plain black cover can be beautified av your own artistic will, and you have a book which maney cannot replace and is a veritable mine of liter- eary treasures, ——————— BETTER THAN POCKETS. An Old Lady W Know Where to Carry Her Money. It was in the Pennsylyania depot at Jersey City, says the New York Sun A man who had been half asleep on one of the benches for some time suddenly roused up, carried his nand to the breast-pocket of his coat, and then called out: “I have been robbed! picked my pocket!” “Have much money?’ asked an old lady who sat near him. “Over $40.” “Sakes alivel but what a loss! you had it when you left home?” “Of course I am!” “Didn’t leave it under your pillar or change your coat?” “Nol? NEW GRAND waus: IMPORTANT ANNOUNEMENT Monday Evening, March 17th. FAREWELL GRAND CONCERY, SARASATE-D’ALBERT, The Greatest Living Musicians; Pablo De Sarasate, V.olin, Eugen D'Aibert, Plano, —ASSISTEE BY— Mme. Brrthe Marx, Pians, Under the direction of Henry E. Abley and Mau PASSACAGLIA, O minor . ... ‘Arranged by Eugen DAl Herr Eugen 0'Alb v RONDEAU BRILLIANT. ... 13 minor, op. 70, for piato and v Mme. Berthe Mu1 Sa Some one has Sure “I noticed vou feeling around your coat tails before you went to sleep. Bet- ter look back there vefore you give it up.” He carried his hand back and ten —_— e SONATE, on, Allegro’ Ma MARCH (Saturday Matinee.) The Leading Comedy Organization Traveling Arihur Relian's Gompany In Augustin Daly's Latest Comedy Success Surprises of Divorce, THURSDAY, ik Herr r- CONCERTO FOR VIO ... Mendelssohn Allegro ~Andunte—~Finale, Allsgro Maito, Senor Pablo deSarasnte ) & Rhapsodie, op. 7, No. b Humoreske, op, 6, No. ¢ Soireo de Vienne, No. 0 A'X11 Rhapsodie Herr Kugene 1) 1 a Nocturne (Chopin { b Habauera ... Sencr Pablo de Sarasate. Prices 50c, 81, $1.50 and_ 82, Sale of scats be gins Thursday morning, March 1ith, STEINWAY PIANO USED. B h}’nl vie szt v. Liszt SOLOS, Alberr. BSOLOS Sarasate —OR— The Lottery of Love. From D 1y's 1h ‘ater New York Oity. Regular Prices, Seats go on sale Wednesday, EDEN MUSEE WILL LAWLER, Manager. — CORNER ELEVENTH AND FARNAM STREETS, OMAHA. WEEK OF MONDAY, MARCH 10th, 1890, Greaer than Bishop 1S Andrew J. SEYMOUR The Human Thought Magnet. The Wonder of the World. The Mind Reader, Invites criticism, challenges skeptics, defies the detection of anything that tends towara deception or fraud, tells your age, your name, occupation, number of watch: combination of any safe, number of the house in which you live, or name of the street, number of banknotes, checks, ete., ete., will locate any mark or scar upon your person,any ache or pain; can tell whether a person arrested for theft is guilty or innocent. If guilty through an excited condition of the mind, n locate the stolen goods; relates the theories of Psychology, Spivitualism, Psychie Force, Christian Scienc Mesmerism, Involuntary Actlon of the Muscles, Mind Over Matter, Mind Cure, Faith Cure, Dreains, etc, Monday morning at 10 o’clock, Mr, Sevmour. gives THE GREAT RIDING TEST, ull are invited to be present iu front of the Eden Musce promptly to sube ject Mr. Seymour to this great test. age Performances by Two Great Companies. Four-Excelsior Quartette, Sweet Singing Southerners, * Frank and Mamie Shepard, Refined Specialties, St. Vreain Children, Midget Artists. Hall & Ritchie, Brealk ack Absurdities. Harry Bartlett and Gracie May. Lavender and Come and see the latest additions to our Menage with Novelties. Ladies, don’t forget Friday, March 14th, SOUVENIR, compliments of the management. A Dollar Performance for a Dime Admission Thompson. ie. ‘Tne Big Cago filled Come and get A HANDSOME »