Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 20, 1890, Page 3

TIIT OMAHA DAILY BEE, [ VANQUISHED WITH A SONC. ent that eligible men do like the villain in the play, and turn and flee, A BIT OF AMERICAN WISDOM. The greatest kindnes: t one can do for il other 4 n when one Is How the French Women Dress and Vvlut abroad isto try o S Ie o They Ars Like, | kind that thers s \dreds of lovely women on the other 1o do not haveto go out to seek hu stay at_home and re THING \]’m\i then umhv the dlan Curvelo, ns La Traviata Un Ve-dis goat opera, and achieved a_ thorugh success. Astrathamante in *Il Flate Magico,” Mar- uerite in “Favst and Juliet quickly fol- lowed and in all_she triunphel. Since then she has sung in ltaly, France, Spain, Mex- jeo, Belgium, Nocth and Sonth America and hos everwhere reaped 8 harvest of laurels. | Mume. Alhaisa isa very pretty woman with a though they may be. It it for them HAMLET NOT MAD BUT MELANCHOLY. | :‘:,',‘|‘_(‘:‘I‘““§"‘I‘i‘"“l‘;"‘ bing “:“r to jitdge all by the one type, and until you i I ft-n Kk g O canhot Imagine. how entiscly disgusting is |.f.~| 18ty «~n.|$:|‘ifi§li.- ot it i,’.}:‘-- e i anil: s (e “Flauto Magico,” Zerlinait “Don Giovanni man and a determination expressed in ber LR Ll e e A e r ot v et Tn SHIN B oNna ARGih ard and *Shenandoah —Bellew fn French. Signor do Vivo, ‘after 0 tont in the French mother is that her young daugh- - Si Jfter ter may | ke this, naturally she s on Staze Love Making. this country, intends to g to Australia and little of the other type. - New Zealand, and as he kiows what the peo- { THE DICESSMAKERS' SITOPS e like there, no doubt he will reap gold and e WILh U own Deopls—ths aurels for Mrme, Alhaisa, as he did with Ilma dressmaker, by the by, being used to desig- di Murska, nate a man, for he is the god of gowns, Itis said that the first lndies' tailor wis Supplis, who made the beantiful frocks worn by Mad- ame Pompadour, but he is known alwiys as a coutourier, now, fin_de siecle, the man tailor finds the feminine coutouriere more desirable ‘The coolness with which these gentlenen of the needle expross themselves us to your good and bad points is edifying, Provided, of course, the disagrecablo things are snid about some other woman and not about you Monsieur the most important doos not Hesi tate to object to your having a short sleeve, for he annov that your bones must be cove 3 h » tells you that Ame men are very careless or else thay mig their flgures forever, not hayir of English women to a ve norof the French woman to au full bust, He upbraids the entire verely for not remainng slender eternally, and you fecl as the special representative, the only thing for you to do w0 home and give a course of lectures on the beauty of slimness > He insists on putting a short tail to your frock, and when you say something about walking in it, he conelliates you by muvmur- ing, “Surely, madame never walks with such feel, and you away feeling that by giv- is said to be a | ingin to your nasty little vanity about the number of the shoes you wear, you have got a frock that will be of no eavthly useto you except when you go to ride in chaises, PRENCUIGNORANCE ABOUT AMERICA. h this is the end of the nineteenth Land traveling around the world i nent of M BRIGHT (OSSIP FROM PARIS How Jenny Lind Won the Friendshipof a Professional Rival, jut ands, but wh fuse to accept many who are offered, cligible THE LATEST IN GOWNS. N Jam s F Murdock's View of the Character -Bronson How- Chic ofa Bonnet —~American Husb HuntersandTheir Ways-Wihat Can Be Learned From Our Foreign Sisters nd I'rince! are overflo Somewhere in the forties Grisi and Jenny Lind were singing in different places in Lon- don. Those who went into ecstacies over Grisi's Norma were the next evening enrap- tured with Lind's “Casta Diva,” ‘cat was the rivalry between them, the success ho achieved by Monte Finally Queea Victorin deeming it a shame All the scenery, costumes and that such gifted women should be separatel | rties L i y belonged by & mean, unworthy jealousy, requested AL By e both to appear at a court concert. OF courso | i l-xu-wh‘xl‘ expectations and lias becn they both came. The queen warmly wel- | twicoextended, 1t has just closed to good comed them togother for the fivst time, She | business. The contradictory feature to be gave the signal for the neert to bogin, obseryed in the profession, Jist now, it may Jenny Lindwas the younger. and it was | be adied, is that while some ol its members arcanged that she should sing first. With are inclined to pooh-pooh work by old dramatists as rococo and without interest of perfect confidence in her powers she stepped | drawing strength, others with more sagacity forward to begin, Chancing to glance at Grisi she saw the southern woman's malig take it up and make fame and fortune by the her. The flerce look Tur Graxo Hoter, Paws, July 10,—[Spe- cialto Tue Bre.]—A Frenchwoman will suf- fer any torture if only she can be beautiful. A four-hours' scance at a Pavisian modiste, watching the draping of a bodice on o pretty woman, has proved how great is the French- woman's patience and her determination to have things just right. Her fancy at present 18 for the bodice without seams, excepting, of O'Neill's “Dead Hear generally concoded il's production the “TI'he promises to cqual, if not to sur. that Mr, him. course, those under the arms, and the mate rial hus to bealmost moulded to her, unless, indeed, she is statuesque in her outlines. And to gain a properly fitted this sort she will endure standing for hours ata time, and feel that she has ber reward when a man friend pronounces her app faut. TWO LEADERS OF If a French wom Duchess ' Uzes or Princess de S costumes like this, and that they stood with- outa complaint while they were pinned and basted, then she feels that she has made a These two women, more than any others in society, set the stamp on special fashions, and each is as eccentric ble, The Duchesse 4'Uszcs direet descendant of Louis XIV. and Madame de Montospan, and this y account for some of her eccentricities. She is devoted to hunting, and is said to possess the finest pack of stag hounds in France, while it is announced that she can drive a four-in- hand \\llll as much art as any man. Prin- cess de Sagan is a little different, being « ially & woman of the world aud, what is 1 @ most rming hostess. Her, cos- tumes are the delight of Paris, for when she is driving, the smallest shopkeeper, out for a bodice of wance comme il stomtoh, extremely Bution s large venture. Booth, Barrett, O'Neill, Fred Ward Marie Wrinwright, Louis James, Marie Prescott and others illustrate this remark. The old workis all right. What is wantedis the modern actor who can rise 10 the author's plane and interpret his ideas, By the way, Joseph W.Shanuon has been eugaged by Mr. O'Neill to manage “The Dead Heart” and play the pait of Le Grand. PAR n is SIAN PASITIONS informed that the 1an has had nant gaze fixed almost paralyzed hor. Hor courag her, trembled, everything grow black before her and she most fell. By the greatest exertion of her will, however, she manazed to finish her aria, A painful silence followed its conclusion—a ilenco that told hor of hor falluro, She caught a triumphant expression on Grisi's Despite her dazed condition she quickly re- alized that failuce meant lost glory, disap- pointed hope, the destruction of happiness, grief and mortification tamily and to her fi her friends. Suddenly a soft voice that scemed to come fr z ! m heaven whispered to not difficult, you will vet find people evenin | her: “Sing one of your old songs in your na- ris who think an rican is first cousin | tiyo anguag 1 Tndian; who beliove we nover et any Sho catght at the thought like an inspir- thing xeept me here, and | tion, The accompanist was striking his final | that welivein a e all the rest | chords, She stepped up to him, asked him of the year; who have an idea that when we | 46 rjse and took _the vacantseat. Soltly her want an_afternoon’s reereation we ride over | fingors wandered over the keys in aloving holiday, féals a personal pride in hier and her | toSalt Lake City and take tea with the Mor- | prdiude, then she sang. It was n little appearince that it isas odd as itis admic- | mons, and who think that it we are asde- | praver ihich she had loved as a child: it be- uble. cently mannered as we seem to be it s be- | Jonged to her mother's repertory. She hadn't L THOW FRENCH WOMEN DRESS, cause there were some E'vench men sent over [ suneit for years, As she sang she was no The Prench women, more than any o thers | here when the country wasin its carly vouth. | Jonger in the presence of royalty, but singing | in the world, know how to dress, to driv, Funny, isn'tite When you start out with | to Joving friends 1 her fatherland. wid to make themselves things of most ex: | not very much money in"your purse and you | ““No one present understood one word of the quisite beauty. The rage for heliotrope still [ are bring things bome to cverybody, don't be | «pmyer” Gradually the song died awa; continues, aud, conscquently, Madume, out | beeuiled into doing your shopping here. | and ended in a soft sob, for the purposc of sceing and’ being seen, is [ You can get the most fascinating of funs, the [ A rain thero was @ silence—the silenceof gowned in a velvet and wool combination of | duinticst of purses, but for most everything | aqufiring wonder, The audience sat spell- this exquisite shade, has silk stockings and | else you get better worth for your money in | hound. Jonnie Lind lifted at Lst her sweet low shoes to match, 'her gloves are of the | London. This is a spoon ful of experience of- | bluo eyes to look into the scornful face that same pale color, andon her head isa el fered to the general woman. had so disconcerted her at first. There was less bonnet foried of heliotrope and erepe, FOINTS FOR ANERICA 1o florce expression now: instead a teardrop and with ajet crescent standing above a kot | 1 wish the American women glistened on the long black lshe: of the crcpe just in front. Heryp put on her trocks like the Aftera moment, with the impulsiveness of formed of frills of heliotrope (0 ALLE VAL A8 ABBE S a ehild of the tropics, Grisi crossed to Jennio and _the fan i her lap is a sheer o an Lina’s side, placed her arm about her and ol HNdliotrope ganze with - sticls T'o have as zood an ide: Kissed her warmiy, utterly reardless of tho amber. Itis just such asymphony in financial condition as the French woman admiring audienc tume as is only seenin _Pavis, and only w 18 0001 Hog éss nb & Al patty as L»x:m-xlv by “a Fyench woman. Although | gy [nglish woman treds of eyes aro looking at her, she s | “po"tilic as well and yot ind absolutely unconscious, Her bow 1ch \omg to an acquaintunce just passing means the To have as avdent a resnect for the giving of usmile, which in it<clf is a perfect | 1o be ns docs the Boslish womin salutation, Do you suppose that madame has To be us devoted a mother as is the French vaid for that frock what an American woman | yonran would! Certainly not. And in geiting eve ATdivat sdjunct toit not only the color, but the eost | gummer with. any body—and tins been cavefully considered. ' The French | gummoring is a tost. of what thoy reall yman s the quéen of finunciers, and though x K ATETICAR Ton b oot 1! it Ishould say give me the American, for she shie may love dress, she does not commit the | gacrous whoro the Bngiish woma is stingy extravagunces which are ¢ dited "Those she leaves to the members of She is impulsive where the French woman 18 ; . the caleulating. Sheis independent wheve the the demi-mondo—those ludies of whose exis- £ e s tenceshe is always beantifully ignc English woman i3 servile, and she is consid- : £ it, X- | erate and affectionate without a thought of cept when she is discussing their gowns with | \(hat she will gain from it Bin, her wost intimate fricnd. ' T i THE CHIC OF A FREXCH BONNET, HEAVIEST OF THE YEAR, s sympathize with the woman shoes that she might buy a French bonnet, for if you have ever had an doubt on the subject before, you know now that milliners are born_and not made, and that they cun only come from this country of sunshine, An English or an American bon’ net is too often overtrimmed, and the French one seens to have been thought out for you, and you begin to wonder if the milliner "had some sort of outlook into the futurc, knew you were coming, and knew just what you would want. Delightful chapeaux of Soft crepe, degorated with flowers or fets or gold, are most in vogue; a typical one is of pale yellow crepe, without a~ crown, and just in front is u golden butterfly poised as if for flight, and having eves of tiny emeralds. 1 never knew butteriiies had eyes before, at least I didn't know just where they earried them, and even now I don't know “whether ¢ are proporiy placed. The ties are of 'k velvet, and the bonnet is worn very far ard, so that little of the bang shoy: TAHE PRENCI WOMAN 1N BUSINESS, The French woman is the power in_France fu tho business as 118 in the social world in the middle classes she really divcots the toney shull e Invested, ske looks afio lie in and outgoing of the francs, and she wlways deferentiully treated by afl the people in her husband’s employ, in th classes sho boars the seere or of the ministry, and she knows whose in flucnce is worth ~ gaining to assist her hus band in his schemes. She usuully what she wishes. In the literary world she is queen, and, differing in this from the i lish woman of the sume ty 10 s well dressed and prides herself on being a good hostess, FRENCH WIELDERS OF THE PEYN, Among this st is the writer known as Gyp,” really the Viscontess de Martel, a most charmig and brilliant woman, while Madame Edmond Adam is so well known oue can say nothing of her except that with the years she scems to have grown younger and more attractive, French women write about subjects seldou toudied by those of other nations; they give positive opinions about vital questions of (o duy, SrIgo, divorce, the education of children, the con- dition of the poor, and the rights of tie work- ing people, ull being discussed by them, and their opinions ex pressed in the boldest way. Anong them the young Dumas is special praised, und when one thinks of the plays he has written, those \\Illl o motive, that ave so little appreciated in - the United States, the reason for their adwiration is easily under- stood. oW on is to success, Not the Flirst Tifr. The present difference betwoe Suilivan is not the first, savs ' the production of *Thespis, Grown Older,” Mr. Gilbert wrote “Princess Toto" to music by the late Frederick Clay, Arthur composed _the muste of the to a libreto by B.C. Stephenson, 1is, however, did not it Sullivan and Gilbert from coming cain in the sume yenr with 3 r with “The Sorceren” inmugurating the series of comic operas which has delighted sucoess- ive audicnces during the past twelve year: W possi- 20 bert and raro, forafter or the Gods Musical and Dramatic, Cul Given s to manage Dan Sully next season. The woods will be full of Joan of Ares nextseason, Richard Golden (Jed Proutty) has returned from Europe. Thomas . Shea is the manager of McKco Ranlkin’s “Caunck” company. Robert Mantell has u new pl Haven, the author of *Josephine, oxt season Amy Lee will star in a play by . J. Schwartz called *The Clipper.” Lillian Wood has been engaged for Hoyts “Pin Soldier” company for next scason. John L. Sullivan, Duncan B, Harrison' star, is to receive 81,00 @ week for his s vices next season. . Russell's comedians are o produce their new farce comedy called y Street’ during their Californ tour. Stuart Robson his purchased a new com- edy by Archibuld Gordon called “A Natural, which he expeets to proluce next seaso Fuy Templeten is not near us was when he left French dinners are looks. S, Miller Kent s interested with MeKee Runkin in “Lhe Canuck,” which is to be producedin New York at the Bijou thealer July 25. Adelaide Moore sails from _Liverpool for | New York August 26, Miss Moore is doing a good business at the Globe theater in London. JosephJ. Loevy, for many years business ager for Liwrenco Barrétt, is spending ummer at Larchmont manor on Long and Sound. Klaw & Erlanger have arranged an o ing in New York at_Proetor's wenty-t street theater for James O'Neil Dead Heart.” Klaw & Erlanger aro arranging a route for W. W. Tillotson’s comedy in E'vanklin File's meldrana called +Overlook.” Anua Boyd will be the star. Gus Williams has finished his engagement with the Hermmmn Vaudeyille company, and is preparing for his starring tour with J. Kelly in“You and 1. Manager Edwin FL Price has engaged J. M. Colville, Eugene O. Jepson, Walter I John C. Elliott, Mittens Willétt and Gaylor, for the Clara Morris company. Wilton Lackaye his been engaged by T. Heury French to play the title part_in~Dr Bill wlhen it is_produced in tne new theatr attached to the Madison Square Garden. Gossip says that Miss Lilian Russell will be the prima donna of Mr. George Paget's nest one son at the London Avenue, and play tho title role in Sims & Jacobi’s “Queen of Spain.”? Arrangements are bemg made by which Veoletta, the Italian prima douna, will bo heard in aseries of concurts m New York f by A R WOMEY, uld learn to nch woman, grope Inglish W n- of her husband's Why Hamlet Was Not Mad, To make Hamlet mad would be to violate a dramatic law that Shakespoare himself cre- wers | ated and most carefully observes through all his plays, viz.: contrast in character, writes James . Murdock in the Foram. Poor Tom's deceit is the foil to Lear's maduness :so, con- to v v, Ophelia’s madness is the foil to Ham- let's folening, Ophelia is mad in fact, Ham- let but in craft: and to make the maduess of both a reality would be to duplicate types, a fault the genius of the great dramatist could not atllow him to commit. Melancholy indeed heis, but not mad, noris he thought so by any about him. He is on onc of the ap- proaches to the insane state, but_no farther on the way than is necessary togive cotor to nge when made, and not far enouch | king toconnect it with his fathe's death. What can be move conclusive evidence of sanity (though vexed by mental complexi tics and physical perturbation) than Hamlet words to Horatio to set_him right in the ey of the world--totell his story; how he was cujoined, by the dread visitation of his father's ghost, to avenge his murder; how he had put onthe antic dispesition to cover his real designs; how he had slain Polonius by | mistake and driven his daughter to frenzy and death ; the queen porsoned, Laertes dead, and his own death closing the eventful his- tory. as little as the -l pretty as she America. ISliborate not conducive to good afterall, if T had The Rain Storm that Visited Omaha Friday Night, The rain storm which visited Omaha Friday night was by far the heaviest of the y and signalservice reports show that the storm was general throughoat the state. The rain began falling soon after miduight and continued steadily until noon yesterday. The rainfall was quite heavy and flooded many of the low distvicts of the city, but no serious damage is veported. The total rain- fall, as shown by the siznal service gaute, was three inches, The storm was accom: | It isasserted that Mr. Brouson Howard has paniod by u southeast wind hiving.a velocity | roccived us high us 8,500 in onoweck on roy- of about seventeen miles per hour, altics from the two conpani A number of the newly graded stre andoah.” This statement i pecially where large fills had been made,were | How i waslied ont, aud the southern section of the | directinterest in the prope city, where the streets arve higher than the | percentage, So far the play has yiclded him abiifting property, was flooded us usual, nearly 0,000, Mr. Howard's awent he vicinity of T'wentieth and Clavk streets, | *Young dramatists want to ke p their ¢ where there are several low lots, was flooded | tiese fizures. ‘Chey brighten the v to the depth of several feet. Thie vicinity of | down which struggling authors are alwa Twonty-sixth avenue, southof Dodge, was | looking for the coming of fortune. It means flooded by the blocking up of the sewer. untold_ wealth for them, if they write the | The street vailway people repor little sht kind of a p! It must be another trouble on their lines, In several places mud | ‘Shenandosh.” They must take Bronsou | accumulated on the tracks, but was removed | Howard's musterpicce for their modeland | next fll. Several first class vocalista will in the day, try todo something just as good at least.’ | assist her. acks of the Fremont, Elichorn This, of course, comuents the Chicago Inter- | prank B. Blaivand wife (Edith Missouri Valley railway Ocealn, s sheer nonsense, ~ Mr. Howard, un- | have signed for next season with Locust street crossing w aoubtedly is a good model to follow, but bet- | o Tdcals.” Franl is toy mud to the depth of a foot, tor plays than “Shenandoal’” have ' falied ut= | comie parts, and Mrs ered and removed before terly to make fortune for theiv writers, and | pette purts. sulted, The same company many just as good have vielded but o modest | “EEPIE G water covering its tracks af Mills, near Cal- | incowme. The thing for the young dramatist e A T T houn, but no delay was caused. to lament is his inability to” get his play pro- AL ol e Yesterday morning, as oneof the delivery | duced on shuring terns by a shrewd and en- e vl Tt wagous of Carpenter & Goddard grocers doing | terprising manager, —Mr, Howard's o it AT ie owAR I Sacty ll foven business ut 518 South Sixteenth street, was | mustnot forget “Held by the Enemy, e iia 1a OWOS RRONEEY, 8L 010 being driven along Seventeenth strect be- | protype of “Shenandoah.” 1. 00U BEY) 3 “aust Up to Date” will next season be tween Jackson and - Leavenworth the pavin S b pliyed by an American company. . Z. suddenly gave way and the horse drawing : gl IR AR s Hi Bernbaum has secured the American rights, 8 and Edward Clayburgh will manage tha material up to his back. He was extricated d L atian h with difliculty, but uninjured, The washing company. Pretty Miss Fannio Kemble will probably play the part of Faust, outof an old' sewer was the cause of the . Cora Tanner roturns from Kurope August lent, Ther n estensive washout of the 1and will then begin rehearsals of Ler iew wooden paving on_Leavenworth street near pliy, “One Evvor,” in which she will open Twenty-fourth, The wooden paving blocks lln'n('xl season ;.lfl\! Fifth avenue theatre in that vicinity were found floating in a min- on August 25. Bdward 1. Kidder is the authior of the new play. fature lake yesterday morning. The motors W. J. Florence is # genuine Bohenian. were delayed for some time, Two cirenits of the fire alav began life as a prioter, and the burned out by li style of looking at the world still clings to yesterd him. He lives largely for toduy, is not a The water mains which supply the south- complainer and dots not ‘‘ery over spilt western part of the city burst Friday night milk" as long as there ismore cream in the market, about 10 0'clock, but have been vepaired. Pauline Hall’s preparations for her forth- et il Birney cures hay fever, coming stauring tour in comic opeva are get- ting into shape. Shois porsonally owganizing THE THEATERS, the company, and it 100ks as though it would he as complete in every particular as any that has gone en tour, Her season opens at the Walnut Street theater, Philadelphia, September 22, Mr. Lawrence Barrettis one of the rich American actors who hus_always earned a landsome income and saved most of it for many years. He is an enterprising manager and 15 as good a business man as he is an actor. As wauagzerof o New York theater be would iird in **The Dramatists and Their Reward. ty andis paid a | Muailla) “The Bo: y the leading Blair theleadiug soub- red with but it was discov- v damuge e reported high rich man. He lives Making Love on the Staze. Mr, Kytle Bellew, now with M. Potter in Australia, was recently asked by a Mc bourne newspaper i i i the way in which different Eaglish actresses made love before tho footlights, Kyrle adily responded: Wl , *Ellen vry comes at you a mixture of the antelope and the gou. She's soft, easy, velveteens | like and_catchy. Mrs. Bernard-Beere you lave to look afier. She comes rushing at'you like a panther, and if you don't look out you o head over tip, or when you recover there's your watch hanging out, and the people | laugh. _If youain’t themash, they're care \ less. Booth, as Othello, couldn’t at all grab Ellen T Ty as Desdemona. You must learn beforehand whether the actress is leonine, tigrine, leopardine or lynxic. Fast time, unprepared for, may capsize you over a set- tee, heels uppermost, and how do you look! On'the other hand, the slow-timers clutch like limpets, or octopi, and spoil your Dbiz They will catch your eye, and that means robbing_you of all its magnetism on the stalls. You want a good biceps, strong elbow, good piano-string finge 1f an actress grips you, you're lost. You're not even second fid- e "She's all the orchestra.” Te He stem were news paper htning. They were repaired FRENCIMEN REGARD WOMEN, he Frenchman is openly and honestly proud of “the othor woman Puglishman gloats over his horse Frenchman does over his chero amio, she should be the best dressed, thather equipage should attract the most attention as she drives around the luke, and that she should be known as under his protection is is delight. Oddly cnough, although she doesn’tsay so, his~ wife occasionally takes pride in° this. No wonder everything is quoted us “fin de siecle, A Lright man told me the other night, apropos of women all over the world, that if he wanted a companion_he should seek un American, if o wife un English woman, and if i mothier a French woman, Certainly they are good mothers, and the love existing be- tween mother and child is invariably strong, while the IFrench man's belief in the rights of 8 mother is shown in the way laws are [ramed With due regurd for parental opinion, AMERICANS IN PARIS, Americans? Y are hero. The ones secking social ition, others sec ing whom they y. It is not a par- ticularly exeditable state of affairs, but the American met everywhere is really in search of one of these two things, InLondon she is trying to buy her way with moncy. 1u Purls slie is trying to buy influcnce with money. This is a distinction with a difference. She feols that in London ske can offer her dollars in the crudest way, stating what she wishes and how wuch sho'wilt give for it Here more care must be taken, and to get the influ- ence of a lady from Faubourg St. Gernaine shio must bo upproached most delicately and the question of money glossed over until it scems of the slightest moment, THE AMERICAN HUSBAND HUNTER 15 the laughing stock of the fashionable set wherever she may be. Oue of the most con- spicuous has almost un international reputa- t)m as & beauty, and it did seem at fivst as it her hard work was to be crowned with suc- coss, but ulas! the years have goue on, and slie Seems no nearer ihe goal than she was in | Sylvanus Gordon und William Gordon, the lu‘gluuhlt:x With time there has come a —— certalu hardivess, aud her object s so appar- l Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg. Dr. Beo bldg. The Grand opera house offers to amuse- ment seckers on next Sunday evenings and at a Saturday matinee a first class attraction at midsummer popular prices. The play will be William A. Brady's “After Dark,’ one of the few ste: money makers of last season, and which should not be confounded with “Kecp It Dark” and other plays of similar name, but of greatly in- ferior merit. The company is returning east from the Pacific coast, where it has been playin business. It goes direct from here to the Grand opera house, ago, where a three weeks' en be' played. During the Chica engagement the Inter-Ocean it: “The production was replete wi the features that have of lato contributed to the great success of numerous spectacular and sensational plays. In this old play is found the germs of a dozen of the later-ds dramas of the ‘Lights o London, ‘Dark Secret' and ‘Under the Gaslight' stamp.” Tho salo of reserved scats will open next Thursday mormig. Uncertainty Ah Differing reports come to hand concerning the Jersey Lily. One that her London s son has been u most disastrous failuve, thut herold friends have forsaken her and that | heaith has completely broken down. Anothor that her disease is pleurisy and an operatio: will have to be performed. A third, that she has d nded her company, and the London papers think it very doubtfulif she is ever able to again appear on the stage. She is ili, friendless, but fortunately not in want. - Ou this peculiar showing, a Chicago | “Although Mrs. Langtry’s illuess is dm sply regretted the drama will lose nothing by her retirement. It is a pity that she ever at- tempted to act.” A very trite remark, but it came oo late, It ought'to have been made by the press and reiterated when the people of the Uuited States tad thrown themselves at her substantial English feet. As a pendant to the above report, comes later the following commonplace and businesslike statement: SAccording to her pre un programme Mrs, Langtry will leave the St. James theater at Christmas and begin n. r ‘nnj\-\ ted tour through South ;\Im'l The Jersey wo man is broken down —a Lulun' sick, penni- less, and at the same time prepering for a professioual tour to South America. “ ho She Is. Mme. Aline Alhaisa, the new prima donna of French und Italian_opera, whose profes- sional fortunes Signor Don Diego de Vivo has undertaken to coutrol, is a \‘upll of the Brus- sels conservatory, of which her father, M. A meeting will be held at Germania hal Gabrielle Lambele, was professor, ' She | tomorrow cning to organize a brauch of the made her debut.at. the Theater Lyrique, ll'unouu\ Riglts league, t Lan:tr; her lease of the Princess' theater to Mr Harriet Gooch will on the termination of the the run on ‘“Theopora’ in London take her company_on tour in the English provinces, after which she will play a brief starring en- gagement in America anl Australia, return- ing to London in October of next year to take possession of her new theater which is being erected for her on an eligible site not far re- moved from Piccadilly cireus, ceceitil ol s L Drink Excelsior Springs Missouri eeog! waters A Cavern Lined With Crystal, Mr, Max J. Bachr of this city is exhibiting anumberof fine crystal specimens to his friends, Theyurefrom a cave located in Meade county, South Dakota, which ke has recently takenup a8 @ mineral claim, The mouth of the cavern is uot far from Tilford, on the Burlington road, and the recess has already been explored for a distance of 2,00 feet. A fine stream of clear water is et ubout 500 feet from the entrance. The insido walls are covered entively by stalacite form- tion, which, when polisted, gives a crystal almost as clear as the purest quartz ~The specimens vary in size, among them being masses a foot in dismeter, NEAL'S IDENTITY, A Carthage Man Denies That the Mur- derer is € harles Gordon, Cantnae, IlL., July 19,1 fitor of Tur: The statements in Tre Bes in regard to Charles Gordon, alias Ed Noal, who is sentenced to be hanged at Omaha for the munder of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Jones, are all false and untrue from the fact that the late Dr. Johu 8. Gordon of Burnside, 1L, never had ason aamed Charles, 'l‘ln-m are ouly three sous in this family, and no daightors. Thosons are Dr. A. B, Gordon, SUND AY ULY 20, lSDO—T\VELVE I’AGER PREPARING FOR THE BATIL Donglas Ocunty's Republican Plan a Line of Action, Delegates SOUD FOR MERCER FOR GOVERNOR. Procecdings of Yesterday's Cancusat the Millird-Hechel and Estel Electea il Vacancies. to The Douglas county delegation publican convention to be next Wednesday, held o Millard hotel yesterday afternoon. The clans began gathering as carly as 1:30 o'clock, and in every corner of the hotel ro- tunda knots of gates bent their heads close together and discussed ways and means pturing the convention for thelr cundi- tothe re- held at Lincoln cacus at the Mercor ar ‘ly and was in con- tinuous consultation with party leaders up to the time the caucus was ealled to order. The meeting was called toarrvange a detinite line of action at the convention, In the pre- liminary discussion the greatest harnony prevailed and the delogates appeared to be cutively united and sunguine of success. Jack McColl s said tobe i thecivy, but he did uot appearat the Millard during the caucus, Ex-Governor Butler eame in during the morning, buthe, oo, was 4 minus quan tity, There were nooutsidersaround atall, “It would be_useless for them to come,” said George O'Brien, “‘Hands off,” is the motto painted onour flag. They were all republicans, publican oneof them. The el s was called to m but it was thirty minutes ater that the delegation was cal Tom Swobe, It was amusing, inthe confah that pr the caueus, to see Frank Ra Buker, members of the last Otoe county, ta part w a Douglis county caneus. When Ransom came in Dick Bevlin was perehied ona radiator talking to a coterie of d utes. “Hello. govermor,’ was the greeting of Ransom as he shook hands with the Douglas county commissioner. CHow are you, lieutenant governor torted Berlin, This was & reminiscence boom, The entire delegation leing prosent, Thomis Swobe was clected permanent ch man and M, L. Roeder was made permanent seeretary. Robert Dunecan of the Fourth ward ten- [l |'1-d his resignution as a member of thedele. gation, and Mr. William ¥, Beehel was therenpon elected in his Joseph Kent of the irs) v 50 re signed, and in bis plice #ir. Lee 0 was clected as u regular delegite 1 the state con- vention. It was announced that a car would served forthe delegation at the O maha depot Wednesday morning, and that it would be attached to thes:15 train fHr Lincoln, Dy Mercer announced that quarter: delegution had been engaged at the € hotel, Lincolr Tho doctor requested that he mitted to select five members ion to act 1n the capic u nmittee at Lincoln, quest anted. His soloction will be announeed the arrival of the delegation at Lincoln, ich timethe meeting yesterday after noon was wdjourned, Svery member of the delegation present pledged himself tostand asa u for D, Mercer asa candidate for governor, fivst, last and all the time, and all decared’ that they Liad 1o second choice. i s catarrh, Bee bldg. COUNTY COM Jllh’q‘lON . Mereer re- t at? o'dock ian that hour d Lo order by ceded nd Ben $3. re- of the Ransom bo ro for the Capital be per- of the Dr. Birney y cu RS, Yesterday's Business Mostly of a Rou- tine Character. There was a meeting of the county board yesterday afternoon which Commissioners Berlin and Corrigan failed toattend. John Thomas appeared and asked that he be released from the bond of Constable Far- quhar, giving as his reasons that he was of the opinion that the constableintended to migrate. Thematter was referred to County Attorney Mahoney. The grading contract of Knight Broders, whoare to putsome of the county roads ina more passuble coudition, was presented and upprn\‘ul. Lawyers Will Gurleyand Lee Estelle pre sented a bill of $300 for* legal services i de- fending Neal, and it was referred to the con- mittee on finances. With thebill Judge Clarkson senta note that it was 0. I, Upon the recommendation of the committee on charity Frank Stepnak will b nt to Yankton, S. D, and Fiunk Cook to Kansas City. Both men are hopelessly insane, Dr. Peabody's bill of ¥45 for ing & microscopic examination of the blood stains found upon Neul's clothing was presented and allowed, Along petition was presented, asking that thestrect and alley intersections on Thirticth stroet, north from Ames avenue to the city limits, bepaved with stone, Following tho reading of this came a resolution, which was adopted. The document was as_follows: Rosolved recommiend the be granted, ot and inte vions bepa v iding stone 1s used and the cast | 2 It other material thi proportionally less, Wealsoreconmond thit thecounty pay notto excecd $16,500 for pay- inz the Interscetions onSouth Trenty-fourth strect, from Ato N strets i South Omali, providing the sall intersecilons are With stone. A large numberof small bilis aere read and und uspension of the rules allowed, The old road fund appropriation si which has been in the county clerk's nee last October, was taken” from the i 1l passed. The amount of the same is $10,2005.50, The bond of O. Whitney in thesumof £00 was presented and approved. Whitney is the grading contractor who will attempt to remove 11,000 cubie yards of earth from one of the county roads at12 cents per cubie yard. Work will begin as soon as his contract is approved by the county attorney, The stone pile question was ¢ brought up sud a communication was filed by Van Court. & L.emist, in which they stated they would handle the prisoners, furnish fly cubie yards of stone per day in the yards at Tzard “street, between Fifteenth and Six- teenth, The wholo mattet was turned ove to the county attorney, who will_investigate the question, and if Lo thinks itadvisable to eport. favorable the city and short term county conviets will bosetto work pounding mak- That we nd Uhat tho s A pre is to be e more —— Con" Man in the Toils, Revenge issweet, according to rather in definite authority, and August Olsen is con- siderably ticklel over a little prospective pleasure in this direction, Olsen is an industrious but unsophisti- cated farmer of Waslington eounty, and he visited this ity on thel5thof last mouth. His trip was full of interest and experience. As a whole, he would have been highly pleased with it had not an enterprising *‘on’? nan worked him for 8 atthe Webster street depoton the time-honorel express racket. He gave the police a description of the man, and Detective Ellls ran across the fel low and three pals as they we fing to fleeco another unsuspecting traveler The ‘con” mau was arrsted but the others escaped. The prisoner gave the name of R. H, Johnson, and pleaded guilly toa chargo of vagrancy, evidently hoping theriy to es cape prosecution on the more serios charge of swildling. “Judge Heliley sent him over the hill for thirty days, and his time wis up yesterday. Instead of vegaining his liberty i was agaln taken into court and confronted with his Washington county victim and a charge of forgery. The check that heg Olsen was intfoduced in evidenco. 1t w for #H0 tional bank of this city, Brisco & Co., in fuvor of one J It was a fi . of course, and Jolnson was accused both of forglug it and of uttering the forged instrumfut. His denial of any com plicity in the matter wis not attendéd with ood s s hewas held to_the district court in the sum of $,000. He could not raise that wnount aud wis remanded, THE SLOCUMD AW Tho Slowing is asynopsisof the Nebrasks bl licewse, local option law Section | provides that the county bord of enchcounty may grint lcenss for the sl of malt, spirituous and vinous lquors,if deemed | expad ient upon the application by petition of thirty of the resilent free hc rs of the towr, if the county is under township organi ration. ‘The county boanl shall not have an thority to issue ny license for thesale of liquors inany city or incorporated village, or within two miles of the same Sction? provides forthe filingof the ap- plicationand for gublication of the applics tion for at teast two weks beforw the grant- ing of the lic Sectiond provides for the hewingof the ecaseif aremonstrnce is fled agwunst the granting of a licenso to the applicant Further sections provide for_ the appealing of the rmonstrance t the district court; the formof the li se § the giving of a&5,00 bonl by the sucwssful applicant for the li cense Sections 8 0 and 10 make itan offense, punishable by a fine of 25, for wy leensed liquor dealer to sl intoxicating lquor to minors of Indians, Soetion 11 provides that any person selling hquor withoutn licenso shall' bo tined not less than 8100 nor more than &0 for cach offeise ; and section 12 provides for the trial of such offenders, Section 13 makes it an offmse, punist by afineof 00 and & forfituivof lic forany licensed liquor veuder o sell adul tevited liquor, Section 14 makes it an oftnse punishalle by atine of £00 foray persm tosellor glveaway any liguor on Sinday, oron the day of any general or special elecion, Sections 15to 28 inclnsive, defi bility of saloonkeepers for dimages sustained by auyoie in consequence of the tradic ad provide the steps necssary to colleet such claims Section 24 relates to the fsuance gisls' permits, The Tocal option feature of the law s con- taiied in section %), thesaliont part of which reud he cor porate authoritios of all citi villiges shall have power tolicense, rgulite and prolibitthe slling or giving ' avay of ny intoxicating, malt, spivitious and vinous quors, within the limits ofsueh city or vil- lage, This section alsofixes the anount of the license fee, which shallnot bo less than ) in villiges and cities having less than 10,00 ighabitants nor less than ) in ciies laving a population of than 10,000, Sectims % and 27 relte to reisters and ponltios for vi rules governing the same. 28 makes drmnlkenness an offense ine of ind costs or im- cding thivty days Section 20 provides that the dows md windows of saloons shall b keept free from sereens or blinds, PERSONAL PARAG R Ablo the lin of drug '8 and 1,00 mor the Arugy ation of punishab! priconment not exc Lrus. R. J. Rhodes of Boston isat the Paxton J. W.Shaw of 8t. Louis is at the Murs, P, C. Haywardof St L at the Mil- land. G. W. Stancliffof Grand Island is at the Idwards of Aubum is a guest at the H. Thompson of Topeka Murray. R. T, Kcote of W Millavi, J. C.Foxof Washington, D.C ton guest. 1. V. Wallice is infrom Greina the Casc Prank the Casey. M. M. C Merchants, Chavles 1, Golfre Merchants, W. I Miller of Bx M W. II. Cistle of Chicago the Millard, A. M. Willing of Leigh is this morning, J. Watson Riley of Albion was atthe Pax- ton last night. 5. G. Smith at the Paxton. D. 8. Aller and J. G. at the Murray. P. W. Olmsted of Norfolk is stopping at the Merchant B. P. Griffith of Milwaukee Millad last night. . McDermottof Kansas City was at the Murray last night. Fred ivans, i, of Sioux City was a Pax- ton guest last night. W. I, S.Neighe of West Point is city, at th rd. R. W. Johuson and W. R. coln are atthe Millard. W. Schacfer of Musca stopping at the Murry. Miss Stella Wilcox of Cleveland, 0. iting Mrs. Frauk Rogers. . B. Huckman of St. Louisin inthe city, registered at the Murray . B. Ridenour and B, S. cinnati areat the Merchants. M. R. Buraham, I\ Hurris and George J. Foster of Chicago ate at tue Paxton, State Treasurer Hill was up from Lincoln yesterday and clledupon T B, Georgze W, Cole and Charles A, Coo left Priday evening for Boston on a business trip, C. Stanton [ekes of the government land office at Sidiey isthe gaestof Dr. Birnoy. Q. Markwoodand Frank Michall ave down from Antelope and are stopping at the Casey. s 0 guest atthe »st Point isa guest atthe ., 15 a Pax- andis at Boyd of Ainsworth is registeved at sie of Ch atthe o Is inthe y of Premont is atthe lyuis in the city, at is registerel at at the Casey of Buloit, Wis, is registered Hall of Chicago are was at the in the Phelan of Lin: atine, Tn., is is vis McCoy of Cin BREVITIES, Tyo thousand, seven hundrd t 1501d for tho palicemen’s pienie. Tho druggists aro iling their statements of all liquors sold during the yewr, as requirel by Luw. The ots have Fast Omaha land company has con- menced work witha big force grading the streets onits propeorty Pho funeral of 1.V, Charles will b held from his lute residence, #1:2 Marey street, at 2 0’ doelk this afteroon. Julige Shields yesterday issueda marriage licensc to James H. Artherton and Annio I*reeman, both of Soith Omaha. The Turners’ picnic at West Pointtod A spectal train - laves the Wobster str depot at $o'clock sharp this morning. A recoption will be tendered on Tuesdiy evening at the Secnd P an chure, corner of Saunders and Nicl the new pastor, Rev. 85, M. Ware, e Heisley has assignel the Lacy Kin y case for aliearing on Augustl. fendant is acased of i acolored man any rights at the Casino garden and kicking himout of the place The Metropo itan ice company went out of business yesterday by merging itself into the Ouha ice .” fThe eapitil stk of thencw coneern i w0, divided into sixty shares of $1,00 each. Herman Rembold filod a bill of sale in the county clerk's ofice yesterday afternoon, showingthat he bas sold to Phil Trattuer his stock of cigrars and tobieco, The con- sideration named was §1,574.70. Henry Shelley, alad of tender yers, was armsted yesterday for stealing asdekof corn from the Unin clovator company. 1t is al- eged that theculprit s in the habit of st ng cornand selling it to certain expressin Cornmanc Clarksom of the b | Grind Armyof “the Iepublic, las isuedun | | | ord ning the Burlington' as the official route tothe encampient at Hoston. The other roads are accordinglyon the war pith. There was but one petition filed couty court yesterday, una that wasin a t where the Omahaslateand roofing com- iy secks to recover 315 from Ryan & | los pital coutractors, for materiul club against The Commer join in n protest has been asked to anew bill of lading which the milroal companies are n.u'uu.i The proposed bill relieves the railroad com- | panies of much of the liability now imposed | upon them for danago to goods in their cre. | The Michigan State Pressasso is making a tour of thewestwillread Onaha | Tuesday, August12, ariving inthe moming aud leaving in the evening. The presi and secretary of the ward of trade will ke | steps to provide suitible entertainment for the visitors, ation, which 55 Men's Asssociition \ The regular moeting of the Omaha local branch of the Nebrasks Stite Busiess | Mea's assodation will be leld Monday “night [ The Busi | comple | eround forthe | ran | Po | In Natioual hall [ W Voautos il wito 1 | W GShriver and wife inthe | at the Commerial directors company*s moms in the United States bank building at 8 o'dock, 1t is urgent that alimenborsof (he associa: tion attend, thero nis been no meeting since the cnvention in Miy and considerble busk ness has accumulat kv N SOUTH OMA N The Stock Yards Grading. s & Stephenson, tract for grading the hill the Exclange, have dghty menat vork five graders, thirty ¢ 108 wen o grading gang,” The contrack requires the entive anount of grading o b odby the middieof Octo NEWVS, Wil who havo tho com north and wost of seventy toams ' the wheeler gan v, fiity wigon Union Bohemian Dance. belng able to gt @ suitable plenty ain plenie to be held by Court Prokop Velky 200; Str of Lib erty lodgy, N 08 P Olivo Branch, No. 8, 0. ¢, D, and the Bolemion Turners, s union ball will bo held i National hall, Twenty-fouvthand L st Sunday evening, August 24, The - committee o ar wonts consfts of Messs, Caspor lak, Fred Deus Frink Pakes, Tho coittes will m “k tod ay Not A Pavtn s Ty scores of friends and Mr.and Mes. I, B. Hamnond caried outa wellplanied surprise Pridiy moon. Mg, Hammond is about to wmovo to Grand Rap ids, Mich, and fri fine dinner and unannouneed and unex pected gattered b he pleasant homs of Mr. and Mres. Haie mond, West Albvight. After duinga pho togrpher tooka pltiuroof the party. Mr. and Mres, Hammonl go with the best wishos of nuny fricnds. neighbors of nds propared Notes About the Cry, Eugeno Dougherty of Salt Lake City s arrived in thoeity and will leate heroand go intobusiness, The gun club will hold its rogular shoot at 0 o'dockethis morning at the Third ward nge. . D, J. C. Whinnory of Salom, 0, ightorn, Miss Abbie Whin 3 yisiting hisson, Dr., with s vof Philadel- Wihinnery Frank Coekroll las roturned from Ch William HL Myes nl brile have from Columuus , O John Conway’and William rived from Chicago, Willian~ Connolly, Edvard P. Conell hew during the cago today During the stom staiek Thoms 0, arrived Pit have a fathor of . who s sunmer, will Councilmin boen visiting oturn o Chi- Prictay night lchtning Dawsoi's house, 1 the Fourth wanl, doinge little damage. A telerraph pile near W0 wis tor pices and the wans burned o e Sobotker bill elub will the Waost Lawns this afternon at 3 Fif- teaith and Vinton strots. At the Domorst silver melal contest Phursday night at Albright Miss Caviie Bole den wor the prizo, Hillsdale, [ phy o'click at . T. Van Ak Mich. “Charls Singer las been_appointed depity chief by High Clief Ranger Iu, bus gone o Editor A. Rozellof the Buslo, wias theguost of A, FL Millor Patrick Reardon has be elal policoman, i Kiin will build enfrenth stivet Mes. W Coin, appointed spx meeat Seve il Missouri aveine, R Dulley s i1l The MY sclool with 1,467 Tast yoar., Hollis 12, Hoglehas sold lot. 10, toGieonge W. Murrow, C pupils, co wed blcle 135, isideration &1,000. Questions and Answers. Ouamy, Neb., July 19.—To the Editorof M Bre: Canoawifo parted froom (and not living with) hew husband by mutual consent, thougrhinot by diorceor written ngreement, attach any money depsited in o bauk, under certiticte o atherwise loaned out, or any otlier property bulonging to her hushind { B M 1f shois seeking a division of the pupery, the the answer is no. If under any other clim, the question must be wore definite to'receive a definite answer, EwmEnsox, Noo, July 15,~Tothe Elitor of the Bre—Is it trie that a receiving post- masterhas no option but. to collect all dies ss0f mail matteras marked due by ne ofice, though claarlyan error orovercharge? If not, how can or wherecan Iget oficial evidence to convines a post= misterwho penists in the affivmative of above question ¢ A READER. Answer—On all first class mail matter one fu postage (2¢) takes it to its destination, wherethe delivering postmaster collects the Lilance due. On all other clisses of mail the postageis required to be fully prepaid and the forwarding postmasteris required to proverly weighand cassify it andthe doliv- erng postmaster is required to detect any eror that may be made by the forwarding mstmisterby reweighing and rechassifying when necessary, When btters or packiges are forwarded from original destination l.o anew destinatio the forvarding postmiste will note the amount due thereon (if un\'l. making a bill on the delivering postmuster for the amount, which the delivering post. master will colleet and remit to forwarding postster, Answer To the elitor of Tiw Brr: Plase givo the numes of parties who buy moxigagees and notes in Tie SUNDAY B en, M. Answer-Anybauk in Omaha, national or state, buys notes by real estato s, and theveave dozens of deales on seci| Wa Jox. A Wilkerof Missourd mee Cox of th at theresidenceof the bride’s paments last night, Re Luther M. Kuins oMcunting, The newly welded couple left, for an ex- tended tour of the cast, and will return to Missouri Valley about Soptembver 1, Mu C. Miss Flo Valley and ty were noar Tnfunt son of Mr \ssman, GLISSMANN . C. nd E 12:30 p.m Funeral Sunlay, July 2, at 2 p, 1 theirresidonce (farm) and Mrs, July 19, af n, from TH REALTY ARKET. - NSTRUMENTS during yostorda T W Kinke ik 8, Wir G K Linwrene: 1oL, Cunning wil Ro birt brook 1ot h, placed on record nd wifs sor i to G I Paul, lot Jod A Mt n's add, 1o 0 OBt L and West 5 fu k St Omadin.w d H_DEFrost and wifeto A O Fros 1ot0, Pantsen's adid, g ed L 10 Larson and wife to My 1012, LIk 17, Park Forest, w i O Jose ph G, feet ot 27, bik Ll Nfeil “Flanscn, ir,lot S ande & Reserve, w erine oman to publie, ded P Frocman’ssub of [ i il 0 Lo (el ralit Foneior, w d Lais Rasiusy ¥ b 1ot | A bomatksek to Mttt e 410t @, bk, Orchird Il g o W G Shriver and wite to A nnn Johnsor, 1ot 4. blk 8, Sheiver Place, w d o O Bloom, rPlace w d renl estite nnd trast compan y to lesheer, 19, blk 4, Suunders bHaug h's udd to Wi ut Ml w ¢ w real estite nd (rusteompiny (o )vi 15 blk B, Swunlers 1 toWul it Hilw ¢ I SCarbon and hushand to O H and K G Wilon, pu ot 13, K< ensinge on, Wi G E Barker and wifo A JVan Karan, Tot 1, Uk 11 Orelard HiTL wd I I VanCloser ta 8§ MeéGavio 1ot 20, Rees Place, wi G W Daoane and wife tos 10 fe ot 20, Rees Piace, wd, South Omaha land company Kern, lots 0 wid 10, DIk Oumalin, wil South O Wonderly s tho )36 wnil 10t Loty andd 3 bk, Shily A ¥l 50 1t L MeGavie, w Lail lot 5 compiny o T 15, South Oumiaaha, Omahi Tand honey, lotd, bi Sauth Dmaha land con Wierlek, lot 10, blk i, wd ith Omadin land coupany to A G B, lot 4, blke BI, Bouth Omahis, w d.. .. 1 PNy e O sl any 1o Au Sou th Omalis, 3 010 Twenty-three transfen. .. ...4. 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