Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1890, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 30 IXTE luN PAGES - THOMPSON, BELDEN & COMPANY CORNER IBth and DOUGLAS STRKEKTS We have moved to the above named locatlon where we will open for business on Not with any grand display but with one of the best selected stocks tha; !Jm; LABLl LEDTREIR OWY BODIES These Soldiers Laughed in the Face SOME DOERS OF BRAVE DEEDS. How Captain Lynching Bee—It Rained Bullots ‘Where Grant Was—sherman Enforced Discipline. Heroism 18 o word to conjura and women have always had Ume to pause ana applaud deeds of daring. ginning of literature to the presont poets | gt RO (ORCS b early in Oce and novelists have sung of the brave deeds i of men and women. Thel apiring subject. Herewith 18 given a series ot stories from the lips of great gonerals who have fac death unflinchingly n the trenches, and from other porsons who have witne much valor in public life as any mon ever saw on the battletield. SHERMAN'S IDEA OF BRAVERY, When 1y the mood there is no more de- lightful stor eral William Tecumsch Shorman. Unfortunately, he is not often n the In fact, 1f we except occasions at some public dinners, when the mtentions | nrdgsion. o' often quoted about him soften, or other occasions when 5 ! some of his old cowrades are about him, he rarely in tie mood to do much mooa. is ver v talking. Uhere are few men in this country who have been so often 1n positions to sce courago trie Florida war days of the out the civil war, the general hid ~abundant ovportunities of secing men under fire and of noting how they act. sionally when he is in & good humor of these matters, Ho does not believe in the wad barum-scarum, Ay €2ro sort of courage. Oce he talks much devil action and cournge, #0 together. himscl campaig. Some more than ordinary hot wis golng on, and General Sherman and o o 0f his army an - exposed uvres of the enemy tells from the Confederate bat an to drop at this point, ward ma lates terie stand So they rotired. General Sherman tells a story of man ayed tho right sort of bravery, for rned by his sense of auty and of who disp it was g common sense, 1553, when General Sherman was journoy ing on the sidewheel steamer Hrother Jou- athan on his way to New York. Licutenant Haldwin of the United States navy was the captain, fornis, Goneral Shermag—he Was not ral then, of course hurricauo deck, when a commotion arose on the spar deck below, With & rope around his neck was shoved for- | U8 One of themen below shinned up the jackstalf at the bow where there was a | crossjuck, over which the end of the rope wasgpassed Livery ono would angivg bee, and he was a brave ntorfered inono of theso social 1ut Captain Baldwin never noesi He asked what the t 10 satlsfuction, ke in band, he JUNPED TO THE or Cali gen: ward duys meant & wan who evont tated. r [ ' be, 0 his own words, *'1 one of the other generals —remarked was 10 blace for & commanding oficer to H rocs Every One. It was during the famous Atlanta Monday Morning, March 81st \udl aswe e XPEC tto shm\' every ])U\Ill( 58 Ai 1y in ll"‘ year. WASH GOODS esat 10e, 1 , 15¢ and 25¢. American Sateens, a beautiful assortment of sty I and not face. Pompudours in bandsome patterns at 124¢, guaranteed to v French Sateens at 25¢ and 3se. Plain colors in I'rench Sateens at 30c, Melaneis, plain black, at 25¢ and 8sc, guaranteed fast colors, Melaneis, black and white, guaranteed to wash and not fad These goods are manufactured by the Gilbert Manufacturing Co. Outing Flannels at 10 ¢ 16e and 18¢; extra fine line of the 1 A complete line of Zephyr Ginghams, stripes and plaids tor Toil Du Nord, in all trenew designs, at 124c per yard. Drap de Venise, Saccorappa and Breaton Ginghams at 15e per vard, We have the largest and best assorted Wash Goods Stock thut we have ever shown in this city. Chambrays. in wash and not fade. 350 per yard. e quality, ch, at 25¢. gured, niced to CHALLIES. WHITE- GOODS. s from 5e to 50¢ per yard. striped and plains, at 15¢ per yard, guar A large assortment, ranging in pric Black and Colored Silk aille Silks,in all colors, at $1 and $1.25; extra value at the dollar quality. Haskell’s Black Silk, a written guarantee given with every puttern sold, at $1.25. 31.35, $1.50 und $1.75. Haskell’s Alma Royal Black Siik at $1.50 and $1.65. kell’s O1d Turk clc, at $1.05. wvalue and o very luvge assortment of colored, striped, plaids and bro- toned eficcts, at 1, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2, $2.75, 83 and Black Brocade Silks at 81, $1.25, 1.50, $1.75, $2 up to $6. Colored Silk Velvets at 80c, $1 and £1.50: extra value at 80c and $1 qualities, COLORED DRESS GOODS. Brocaded Mohairs, 1n all colors, at N Plain Mo M-inch, all new sh , dle. Plain Mol inch, all new shades, t0c Plain Mol 40-inch, all new shades, at 7 Ail Wool Henriettas, 46 inches wide, in all the new shades, at 7ic and $1. All Wool Se , 88 inches wide and an elegant line of colors, at G6oc. All Wool Henriettas, in all colors, at 50c. 75¢ and $1. Half Wool Henriettas, in all shades, at 25¢,371¢ and 5be. An elegant line of Graciense Suiting, in all new sh plains to mateh, 58 inches wide and very handsome, at Sse per y length desired. All Wool Genoa Plaids, embr full Plaids, at 80c¢ per yard, 38 inches wide. All Wool Figured Henriettas, 58 i ful patterns, at $1.25 per yavd. Lyons All Wool Plaid and Striped Suiting, haudsome, at #1. An elogant assortment of Steiped Sui per yard. All the new shades in extra quality of Plaid Dress Goods, 36 inches wide, G0c: 87 inches wide, 70c. Granite | s, i wide, at 70c. A beautiful line of stripes ax ,in All Wool Dress Goods, at Goe. nd 7he. les, with stripes and ard; sold in any rtment of Shepherd and Broken ches wide, all the new shades and beunuti- 11 inches wide, very fine and gs, 36 mches wide, extra value at 50c inches, seasonable dry goods, \\ ¢ will continue to sell goods at one prxu‘ and for cash as “which we will offer Monday and lhmuwh the season, spring wraj The public DRESS GOODS, A large 'uwnm.-m of Novelty Suits at §12.50, 815, 818,75, Lakeside Striped Suitings, very handsome and cheap, 52-inch, at $1. Black and White Dress Goods, a large assortment at each price, at 50¢c, B¢, Tie, H0c, $1. Shepherds’ Pl inen Black and White Mohairs, in plaids and stripes, 36 inches BLACK GOODS. The largest stock in the eity and the prices the lowe Black Mohairs, extra value at each price o, 50c, 63e, The, 00c, 81, $1 $1.40, 8150, Brocaded Black Mohairs store, at $1 per yard. Black Wool Broeades, at 75c, 81 and $1.25, Ixtra value in Black Armure Dress Goods at 50¢ and 65c. Black Henriettas, half wool, at 25¢ and 87}c. Black Henvriettas, all wool, 50¢, 65¢, 7ic, 85¢, 81, $1.25, We claim our Henriettus are all bargain: Black Silk Warp Henriettas at 81, $1.25, $1.35, $1.50, $1.75 and $2. All Wool Striped Black Goods at I and 81. -LINEN DEPARTMENT, Wo cannot quote prices in this stock, but we have the goods at tho right prices. - SPRING AND SUMMER WRAPS. department. 20 and $25. e, 400, ds, in black and white, half wool, 88-inch, 50¢; all wool 88- wide, an extra inches wide, one of the best bargainsin the We have a complete line in this Ladies’ Juckots, Blouses, Jerseys, and Peasant Cloaks. LADIES’ WASH DRESSES. less than they Capes, In Ginghams and Sateens at prices mu san be made for here. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. Plain and Colored Trimmed Night Shirts, all sizes, at 50c each. White Urlaundried Shirts. re-inforced front and back, linen bosom, 50¢ each, Good Laundried Shirt at 7c. Latest patterns in Outing [Flannel ¢ Regular Made Half tose, at 15 Lisle Finish Balbriggan Hose at 25¢ The celebrated Shawknit Sock, in brown mixed and sheep's gray effect, at .rn‘ll air. atest style Teck Searfs at 25¢, 85¢ and 50c. our-in-Hand Ties at 25¢ und 35c. ) ine All Linen Collars at 15¢, or 2 for 25c¢, Good Linen Cufls at 25¢ paiv. Balbrigean Underwear at 25¢, 85¢, aud 50¢ each. IFine Merino Underwear at 50c¢ eachs Gents' Walking Glove $1 puir. [ Gents' Dogskin Driving Glove at $1.50 pair. Gents’ fine Buck kin Giove :ll 31 pairy Boys' Per shirt Waist 5e and Hc. Colored Satecen Windsor Jn-w at 10e, o 3 for 2. THOMPSONBELDEN & CO., Cor. 16th suits, corsets, hosiery, gloves, underwear, laces, embroideric heretofore, which method seems to be appreciated, cordially invited to call and inspect our store and stock. linens, ete., ever shown i trada , notions, furnishing gooc judging from our rapidly increasing S~ SR g AR RN e | EMBROID ERIE D 20 and 45-inch Swiss Embroideries for ladies’ and children’s diesses, hem- stitch, revere, block and diagonal effects, with narrow widths to corvespond. lounces and Allovers, Swiss ainscok and Cambric, Van Dyke and Lace effects; also Van Dyke Point Bdgings. Some special good things in 45 and 50-inch Black Spanish, Chantilly and Escurial Flouncings at §1.125, $1.50, 32, §2.560, $4, $L.50, #5.50 and #6 per yard Ladies’ Iino Je Ribbed Vests at 10¢, 15¢, {0¢ and H0e enchy ith long sleeves at 40c, 50c and 60¢ each; French Balbriggan Vests, vath long poves, nlso pants, at Hc each; Ladies’ Jorsey Ribbed Brown Lisle Union Suits .75 per suity Ladies’ Fine Silk Vests, black and colors, at $1 and $1.50 each; Sille Vests with long slecves at $2 and $2.50 eacb. Ladies’ Fancy Lisle, Silk Plated o Sill in a great vaviety of new and desirablo patterns, at sle, 76 and #5 por paie, & o KID CGLOVES. We are sole agents in Omaha for this celebrated line of Gloves, which are too well and favorably known to require any comment on our part. Complete linos of sizes constantly on hand. Prices, $1, $1.25, $1.50, $1.70 and $2 por pair. Gloves perfectly fitted and satisfuction guaranteed. CORSET DEPARTMENT. We carry complete lines of all the leading makes, such as Thomson’s Glove Fitting, at 7oc, $1 and $1.50; Dr. Warner’s, at $1, $1.25 and 81.50; R. & G., oxtra long waist, $1; L. C., French sewed, at $1.75, #2.50 and $2.75; Loomer’s Cutaway Hipand Tailor-made, at 75c and $1: Ball's Health Preserving at $1, and Ladies’, Misses’ ana Children’s Waists at $1.25, 7o¢ and H0c each vespectivoly: Yatist, (i $1.25: Mme. Foy’s, at 81.25; Duplex, $1; 600 Bone, French Woven, § Yum Yum, 50¢, and numerous other styles which space will not low us to mention. Smith & Angell's Fast Black Hosiery, ity for this very popular line of losicry It is the most perfect dye in the world, will not fade, crock or stain the feet, and under no circumstances will they turn green: the color cannot be removed by acids, and 1s justas glossy and black after repented washings as whon nows in fact, washing improves the color. Prices of ladies’, 10e, 4. e, Goe, e and 75¢ per pair, both light and heavy weights. Gents’, 2sc, 40¢ and H0¢ per pair. Children’s in completo assortment. While we have not added any new lines to our business, wo have largely in- creased the ones we have al enrried, making all together one of the most complete stocks in this section. We coutinue to give special attention to mail orders, which are fast becom- ing an important feature in our business. Postage or oxpress ave always pro- paid. Our lHlustrated Spring Catalogue for 1590 will be issued in a short time. Sent free upon application. and Douglas Streets We have the exclusive sale in this asked the rest to desist. They refu gers objected and said “Captain, this man is a gambler, a rascal, a thicf duly convicted and we mean to hang him.”! oc But Captain Bal¢ “Ihisis a United States ship,” he said. “1am captain and you are passensers, ‘That flag which is at the peak is sacred. No vio- lence shall be done to one of my passengers without my conseat, ‘Take off that rope and leave me to b tue judee. “The men reiterated their inteution to hang the prisouer, but Captain Balawin beld tho mob ofi uatil his crew came to help him and rescued the man, He had been guilty of the trick of raflling oft a large picce of lead coated with gold_ by electricity, and by sell ing a large nuwmber of chances had cleared quite a sum. The winner and chief victim — was a young boy, who had put up the money he wus taking home to his mother, i tho hope of gaining the big nugget. Captain Baldwio had the man fairly tried. Tho result was that he was seutenced o give up tho moncy _and to be whipped when the boat reac! General Sherman loves to tell the old One of the passen- tual servi ary of of Death. that they the urmy. Baldwin Prevented a matters i anyhow. him promptly (Copyright.) with, Men From the be- tober, 1804, General C of tho union forces at that place, and was | the pres known too very hard pressed. General | The yous Sherman was coming to his relief, but as he } | continted to hear nothing from General Corse he naturally became anxious, [fforts were made to communicate to him, but with no success, uud the worst was feared. It was known that General Corse had mado a wallant fight, but whother he had or had not suceumbed (o the forces against him were the aisputed questions. bra Then came the sigual, the mention of which to this day still_brings a smilo to | The modern Sherman’s geim faco. It came at an oppors tune m nt, and contained the famous ex~ “I am short a but'am ablo to wh ip is no more in- befor sed as chance, for teller o the world than Gen cheek tone aud an car, It was sowewhat profane this, but as it is snid to huvo suggested the hymn, “Hold the Fort,” the pious huve less reason to com- men’s | plain of it than they otherwise would have . With his_experience in the | had. again in California m tho | Argonauts, and finally, through | Alatoona to have been a_gallant action, and although General Corse did not really lose a chicek bono aud an ear—u shot having passed | some of the close to his face, stunning him for the time being—he was publicly complimented in Gieneral Shorman’s general orders. As the general was never given to paying compli= meuts this means a good de ON THE MARCH TO THD SEA. For real downright bravery General Sher- very little eral Sherman considers the defence of | eral Porter lines, it of lus own. Reckloss metimes costly, and prudence in the general’s opwion, may He gives an instance of this stauces wore pointed than are w be found in the records of the rch to the sea, particus larly that displayed in the strugele for the railroad i 8. ln this stru lcers and mon died in performing decds of braver General Sherman cites a special caso which oceurred in the early part of 1505 General Sherman and his generals were in coustant consultations gnd wore continuull planning to capture all the roads in the bunds of the enemy. One of the perals was on | was of ¢ lis way from oue of these cousultations when he met a singlo horscman who bo- | P longed to the Seventecenth corps, but who ap peared to be n strag; T, The general mavded to know what the mau was doing | ba away from his corps to raily th ‘Foraging varty, sir: captured tho North | things iooked Caronni railroad, siv."” MMANDER'S FIRST DUTY. skirmishing ymmanders pushed fc point o watch the A short time sonal bra SAVING 50! *1 rememnn noticed this, and thereupon, to or it may havo been hat 1t sraburg. I'ho figh The_incident occurred in above his he trumpet Boys. and the soldier was o faithful as well as 4 welcome messougar. **While we generals were doliboratiug,” General Sherman says. “'this little foraging party captured u ond | that was of vital importance to the vnemy,” It 15 needless to say theso men were coms | it plimented. herman complimented | men ratlied them then, and does the same still, never saw moro dash and bravery among wen,”’ says General Sherwman, “‘than was ehown when we left Atlauta, after our | sergeants accupation of the city. The men were ready | o for anyth In fact, I wasa little afraid of thoir reciless spirit. The privato soldio I have would cail out as 1went by, ‘Well\Uncle Off the const of Low- was standing on Presently a stout man who lived in California in those kuow what t weant. It mond IL was an army of brave oo, that, Geveral Sterman cites another case of a as brave as any one, but who | time whe iutoa position where his cour- | place, but the wight be called into question. It was just atter the first battie of Bull Run, aud IAtior was au Tuen ho actod. Hand LOWER DECK, & balf hour, tue rlugleadors aud | sowe ot th od to accept the theory that their ninety days commenc d claimed that their term be- | “It was jzan with tho date of their cnhstment. The decided against them. win stood firm. Many wanted to g0 home becauso they saw that there was serious work abead. had thought a wac of a few \weeks was all ad engaged for, and toid the truth when they said that they to noglect business and serve a long term in One of the discontented mado a personal appeal to General Sherinan, and intimared that if 1t was uot considered ho would take | they his owu hauds and go howme, “Lsaw,” said General Sherman, “‘that it was necessary to vettle this matter at once before there was more trouble. ‘[f you leave your regiment and are captured I WILL HAVE YOU SIOT The young man was hor- rified and wuch hurt by this threat, and he appealed to Lincoln.” ed Nicaragua. The old general still smiles when he re- calls the manner in which President Lincoln answered the appeal. 0 he threatened to shoot you, did he?” ent gravely asked. without mercy.’ threat had really been made. ve “Well, 1f o threatened to do it, ued the president, e I would en more gravely than not, 1f I were you, trust to think from his looks that he | men sewing. would do it.” ‘Phat settled the matter. sneral Sherman holds that there wero as wien to be found among the privates in be found in the world, stylo of warfare, however, 18 personal the late war as can such that their sorbed in the action of the wholo. Auny one who may happen to see Genera Horace Porter at some groat dinner, bom- all hell yer."” barding a delightful witticiams, stories and bits of pathos, might perhaps think that this man, so full of good vature and of genuine cloguence, had seen of real life. In that ono woula | all, sir.’ wake a mistake, for whilo tho life of Gen- as not always been so. war of the reb like most other veterans he at times | brave deeds that other He is not given to talking tell of some of men performed. wed b at his cigar as ho the other night of some of the deeds of dar- ing that be nad seen 1an says that modern war supplies no in= | *In great battles such as most of those in our war were, cult to distinguist They were constambly oceurring, of course, but were lost sight of in the general action And vet we hav ary of The general 1o pulled weditativ suid the ncts of £ ono case in particular man saved the day in i »not a great pitched battle, sideraole importance, This was | the time. tho dash of asin fight which, w at the battle of Weldon Railroad, ing had been of the hottest kind and in tho end our me The ofticers were trying desperate YGeneral with little success, anid black n but Suddenly a big 1t did not seem possible, but it was true, | gresn the situation. to sing, “Hally 1t was an inspiration ately one man an frain until nea The whol anothicr caught up the re y all the men were situation was chunged, 1'he ud fought with desperation,and i the end overpowed the enemy. happy inspiration of the big color sergeant | str that matter the color important men in those that did it all. were Yne of the most conspicuous acts of bra¥- | point ke had to travel at ieast 400 yards un seen was t | der a deadly fire from tt srsburg on July Billy, zuess Grant is waitiug for us in Rick neral Grant stiug with plosion of the mine, the explosion was to have taken il re wus 1o explosion, Wo waited ton, cousiderable aoxioty the ex- | but fifteen, twenLy vely, “how but there was niuety-day wen were grumbling. | **Ihree<quarters of an hour, an Lour waited, and still como. the explosion did not l)llA { Lat the timo of ne ! ISSE ianifest that something was ‘I'nere was only one thing to do. ‘ono must go into’ that mine. and seo vis the matter, ““I'nis may seem to some a task fraught with no particular da but this is a mis taken idea. ‘The man or men who m t 2o into that mine did 80 not knowing wh er the fuse was out or whethier it was burned AN to within an inch of the powder. | Thoy did not know whether they would come out alive or whether the mine would exvlode before got tairly into it. In short none but a brave man would go 1. However, Lieuten- ant Doughty and Sers t Rees of one of Actross Others could not afford g0 into the mine, and did so. ‘Ihey found the fuse defective, repieced 1t and got out in safety before the mine ecxploded. This sounds siwple enough, but to my mind it was one of the most conspicuously courage- ous acts that I saw performed during the 1 said to “Methinks the much.’” WING NAMES FOR TIE DEATH ROLL. “Jt was in the same campaign that I had k another example of the cool, deliberate | fess my first impu irage with which our men wero wont to fuce death. I never saw a botter instance, i faet, 1t was on tho -evening before tight which we knew was coinz 1o be a_des- te one, and which proved to bo just as tiercoas we had expected it would bo. I | tan,” was gomng through the camp, the night be- | man's Christian fore the battle, and I noticed ' nearly all the Ordinariy [ would Ve thought little of seeme a groun of soldiers patching up thew army clothes. In this case, how pretty. much every one was | her fanatical solf. sewing, same tusk of sOwing 80me sort of A pioce in- 10 th breasts of their coats. avery “My curiosity wus aroused, and [ hravery was 80- | o'0f vy mon Whas it was all ubout. row adont that * *Nothin’ mueh, sir,} said the shocked. saluting, ‘only tha boys ‘allow that w ' to get it hot tomorrow, an’ they are sewing their names into their couts a zood many of us wm, That's is u metaphor. assured him that the coutin- audicnce with jokes, its freedom from. hey go under, as sir, someone can tell who we are. profession that, “nat was all! Tt may not seem mueh, | Jittle ated. but [ shall pever forget those brave lads,who | of ghtenment laughing, singing and joking, were sewing i In mto their coats their names, so that theic dead bodies might be recognized wuen tho fo cannot enter. lilled and wounded were gathered up ““Iiere was not & man among them who did not know that he was face to face with | them ba: deatn, but as [ watched them there in the | \way % i his chuir and | &ray of the ovening not ono of them seome ' talked cast in very pleasant During the General Porter saw kind of fighting ana, s to ading tive tusk on which they were engaged. It be idle to say thoso were not brace | as well ns the money artists of all kinds BRAVERY beg: nd more il biy your pi to hear you sin performoed, general, Vit 18 difl- INSTANCE OF GRANT' crsonal daring “That necessity which compols a com- | W manding oficer to refrain from exposing | pay himself uunccessarily prevents such un >xamplos of tie per- | ofticer from giving many exhibitions of per “men. soual daring, irant COLOR RGEANT perform c of the bravest de I ean when | remember to have oceurred within my ex ed.” The perience. ‘This happened shur been to malke was the only officer with Gener: iarly generous in Phero wus couside uge comes o'er south of | sion. The fighting was ficrce and fast. The cricans ure mo abatio had ot been cicaned and the mine | the ways of Iuropos was an hour late in exploding. ‘Ihere was | ciety wuch confusion amused. It is rant went to the front of our | and acto line and [ uccompanied him. Finally we dis- ( terprisiog Mrs. L wounted, and leavidg: our horses behind, | end of their teth walked to the trenchkes where we watched the progress of tho fight. Our men wero odin a voice like a | badly exposed to the fire of the encmy and | popular men whose ‘round the Flag, | were gettinz mercilessly ‘cut up, her entertainments. © “This_won't do, Geueral Girant re- | do with men, anywa marked. *I'ne men are being simply slaugh- | pends upon wealtn or tered. ‘They must fall back rich they *However, there was no way of giving the | ing they are good for order from whera we were, Besides the duy was fearfully hot, and General Grant wore a short army blouse with no shoulde s or unything to designate his rar actress Suddenly ‘General Grant jumped on the earthworks and wade fora_point where wo | wl could sen some of nis staff To reach this | we'll let necounts, uctors n were being driven deed for us sergoant seemed to Wuving the colors Almost immedi slging It wus the enemy that was | of a calcium light ), 1864, I was with | simply mowing our men down and we were. both | ever got there sately is more than I can tell, he did, and immediately gave orders for | grea our men to fall back. A more daring or per- | that its imita us act | bave never scen his fast and “But, ah me ed the neral, effect tu roes of our var | lows us ever ailad to sury aud how few ft now." no pends upon focus, a liar than We waited uuil the > explosion 1o be diviaiug 5 OF THE STAGE Divide Themsslves Into Rings of Graded Morality. IMMACULATE SISTERHOOD | revel fqur blackballs are soiled doves, Kate Field Considers the Society an Gutrage on Public Decency, w the Pennsylvania regimoents volunteered to and Mourns ks Existence. “Pure” Character on the Stage. lady doth c 1t is good to be good, but when men | Fise abovo their and women call themsclves *'good,” 1 con- spoons, says Kate Field in Washington, This “Lama Christian,” the sclf-righteous man in one breath, and chieats his rival i the next. proudly asserts a member of the Wo- | own 'sex that it abides within. Many a Temperance union, and | woman at whom straightway proceeds to vilify everybody who disagrees with her, even destroying the pronerty of others if it bo objectionablo to Where does tho chris- all scenied 1o be performing the | tianity of Christ come in? g about *“The Societ Pure Character on the Stage,” rarely have I been so The greatest virtue of the stage neretofore, in unprejudiced oyes, has been Pharisaism. The stings and arrows of society and outrageous for- tune have banded together members of a | solve until comes England, welcome guests in grend houses wher Great Britain, owing I1t8 supremacy to commerce, snubs the au- thors of its cmpire unless wealth has ma s and lords. been fostered under monarchios, and ors and actresses ure familiar fig to think of it despite tho grim and sugges- | ures i distinguished In this republic, trade holis the whip handle bags, “You or and act, but you can’t he mvited to ‘our din sionally, if you have dress conts and ban you com tions, but your women folks are not inelud L of this sort of treate and uchresses pecul word and deed W and more putting on secondiy, because Fo- 18 stupid as arule and needs to be the thing" and when a thing is the thin, n o Hunters pu No hostess asks about the moral charactor of than she asks avout the prasence will enliven What have morals to ADACILY to amuse, If are good for sons-in-luw Jestors., fools; foois nowadays keep kings. are uot called upon to revise their morals when beckoned toward society, provided she wear not a title, or be a foreigner about whom nobody ch caso 1t makes n if sho leads eclat to th that may or may not | 158 How he | not bring out her real th © sull r tells no more truth, line 18 producing i with “‘An Arrant Kuave! than he and Crane uctors, should want to flock mfi,ncr is natural, Chat women of the same profession should form a club for better acquamiance is com- dable; but that these w mit the decenc; aew play will bo made known New Haven. Sol Smith I mado a hit in San Fran- vemen should | cigeo in “*A Poor Relation.” iie also pro- wdonablo offonce aganst | quced in that city *“Bewitched,” anotier of lavolling themselves | Ligward I, Kidaer's comedies, but written N 'm: Jnek 1!:li1;iln'>l‘l‘:\l; ssimb: | in a wuch broader vem of humor. maculate sisterhood are impure; that those ‘,I::‘:'fff:"x'_:""“"'\’:“J.“‘I'_“:;‘m‘r",_'l’_’l""“'.‘j:_:_“:”"‘","‘: whoare proposed for membership and who | 4t ST BERCESOR FEEELC B HECEUAM, Jones,” in which she sang 80 successfully at the Prince of Wales theator in Loudon. Detroit will hold its second annual tloral and musical charty fostival, boginning at noon, Tuesduy, April 22, and closing at 11 p. m., Friday, April 2. Tho arrangements aro very eiaborate and the effect will bo excep- ionally beautiful. It 18 rumored that Pearl Eytinge and Mol- hie Iuiler have made application for admis. sion into the newly organized association of trial that teacher was acquitted. At what a | uctresses so modestly named The Society of cost! Women in socicty ure not oxpected to | Young Girls of 1Pure Character on the sourea—conventionality; | Stuge. Mra. Kendal's influence is spreadin but what shall be swd of actrosses, who, | Ruswolis compony for 4Tho Gity Dirc: having suffered so much and 50 unfairly, Put | tory ' next sonson nolude May Irwin is to look out for | on tnn garments of the righteous! How ,‘K. e o s P May lewlg dare any wowman call herself “pure?’ How | prass, RRoss I'rance, Cnarles Reed, Willi does sho know what she'd be under terrivle | Collior, Tynacio Martinetti, Wilham 1% temptation! If she be what the world ealls | Mack, Charlos V. Seaman, William S, Mul- “virtuous,” let her wear that erown mod- | jaly and D, Foster Farrar, estly, and'show by her charity toward her | Ay Lawrence Barrett has writton to hia agent in Now York city from the South of IPranco to the effact that ho is in excetlent healtt and spirits and will roturn to thiy country in May. Next season’s tour of Messra, Booth aud Barrett will begin i Oce April 8, 1n albeit those four biackballs may moan per- spual spite or dislike. hat im- mortal scandals have beon born of meaner parentage than four blackballs? redress for such injustice?! Only re- cently, in New York, a female teacher was pubiicly accused of immorality by female commissioners. Her occupation and reputa- tion would have been gone for life had not the president of the board of education -a man—fought fer both. Aftor a four months’ protest too exclauns “Iam u Chris- stones aro huried pos- sesses far nobler characteristics than the snperior beings who doubt her fitness for their own questionable company. “AILtho world's a stage.)” Al the stago | i) R ina world, “holding tho mirror up to na- | 10USF aud last for thirty wooks, : I have been road. | turey good and badg. It s no botter and no | - Melbourne McDowell, Fanny Davenport's of Young Girls of | Worse than the rest of humanity. To think | husband, s tho John L. of tho theatrical otherwiso is to know uothing of men und | brofession. —He is a man of wonderful wowen before or behind tho footlights, | Btronkth and agile as a cat. Were tie 8o in- When the. women of New. York. society | chned he could go into training and make a divido thomselves into ‘rings of graded | BooU showing awainst auy of tho alleged morality, it will be timo to writo a play ox- | Chitiupions, but 5 taste (oes not drift i posing them to public scorn. Alas, that | that dircction, aotresses wlio would ba omployed to'inter ‘Tho costumes, the sconerv and all the de- pret the dramats personi should thems | tails of preparation for the advent of tho furnish the plot for such a drama! Do Wolf Hopper opera company ot tho recontly, has been | I have been associatod with the stago | Broadway theater on May b are now well With the dawn | morcor less all my life. My ancestor, Na~ | under way. —[ivirything will be new, and social ree- | thaniel Field, Shukspore’s friend, was one, | “Castles in the Air” 13 ewpected to be ono lrtists and actors | of tho earliest English dramatists, The | of tho most claborate and oxpensive cor best and most unseltish woman I ever knew, | operas evor produced in New York City. whoso example is my precious heritage, | Mr. Georgo Edwardes has concluded ta whose memory I hold sacred, was an | allow the Gaity company to prolong its stuy do | nctress—my mother. ‘he rich’ respected | in the country for three months., ‘The regis her; the poor loved her. She would no | lar scason of the company will cnd in May, moro have belonged to a club ot women | when, under the dircetion of Mr. Al tfuy+ calling themselves “pure’ than she would | man, it will go to Denvor, Salt Lake il have cast a stono at Mary Magaalen. In | San Frauciseo, From tho latter city th the name of my honored dead, I mourn the | ninety peovle comprising the organization nd has said to | rise of the stage Pharis will jump direct to Liverpool. ro more o less - Mr. James 3. Mackic has engaged Miss lows disreputable, MUSICAL AND DIRAMAT Louise Sanford, now playing with Old Jed and_ statues, we'll Prouty company, for next soason in his 1 play “Grimes' Cellar Door,” also Mr.Charl s Burke, Val Drescher, Albect D, Hobmnan, W. appelle, Marie, Zahnlata of the “Brass Monlkoy” 'feompany, Beatrice Hauil ton, now with the Bluebeard company and a first cluss company of fino siugors, The will play only at first class thoat s et Havekhill, Mass., September 6th. neod with Al Mr. James V. Cooke, business manager of Pacific coast | 1hoa, 18 one of tho halt dozen hright [ndians apolis youug men who have achieved succoss in the theatrical business. W. O, Whecler, who managed Dan Sully so brilliantly, and who will shortly put a company of his own on the road, is an Indisnopolitan, originally a awyer, Fraok Percy We play wright ' manuger, now conducting ¢ Day- enport's tour, %0 hails from the Hoosior apital, a8 docs George W. June (“Summer ason'') who is known to the profesaiont o country over. Colonel Fibert M. Dasher, Dioal hintahe n oo S o | ono of HoyVs rustlers, now piloting the (April 22) of the Detroit Kloral and M 0.'s brother,) who 18 at the bead of w good cal onarity festival, combination ulso claim Indisuapolis viis ¢ John W, Norton hg and with sor- But arts have al- London assemblies, Jonnie Yeamans 18 in England. She ex pects to return in August John T, Sullivan hus been re-enegaged for Rose Coghlun’s support next season. Fanny Davenport's tour for the season of 180192 is now being booked by Klaw and n ger, Klaw and Erlanger have Hayman for a fiftecn weeks' tour of Clara Morris. Louise Balfe has been engaged by Kugeno Pomplins to play the leading part in *Hu mun Nature next season Mr. Frederick Broughton's new four act comedy, “A Peer of tho Realm,” will be produced in this city in the early fall. It is said that when the Madison Square company goos upou the road it will o o farce entitied “'A Pair of Specta- 8. Perhaps, occa- 10 OUr recop it has oty: first, because to know artists it to the an actor any more character of oth ‘Their elizibility de If amus Kings kept S0 actors Not 80 thy assumed full control : - - of the Grand opora house iu St. Louis. Noxt | can 4 ; ‘ « . the L of Disc en. krows, in | summer tho theatre will undergo wauy alter- : Mo, the Land. of Disoay: ries difference what sho | ations and joibroyamante. Wha will you lay awako all uisht, covgih occasion. Tho A o - ing, when thit most effective and were ab o jsion. o | Miss Minnio K. Gale, of tho Booth-Mod- | (afiformin remedy, Sant Abie, will g1+ Yo jeska company, loft for I2uropo yesterday ou | jiiicdinte rele! SANTA AL o Chaep Miss Galo witends 0 ro- | only guaranteed cure for . co i there oan b mein akrapd [0 slx monthe, st aud all bronehial complyint It is safo to assume | A Philadelphin paper statos that Stuart i largo bottlos, at §1 o Robsan has wade moro money this season | The Goodman Drug Co. w b ns directed. CALIFORNIA CA'T hever fails to rolicve catarch or ¢ head, Six months treutment §1 o | 8110 character, All de. YA TR ever made togethor in the sume tine, sses, who seom There 18 W Jus Interest in the t, | coming production of “The Editor” by Aldrich wad & st supporting cast.