Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 18, 1891, Page 9

e - THESTATESWAN know of his coming would be his step old creature gets around as spryly | soundivg upon the widdle of the stair- TO THE KANSAS |as o maid of sixteen, and 18 a ' ALLIANCE, deal more cheerful than most at Buffalo Sund1y News. that happy age In speaking she The moon 18 shining o the grange, pauses at intervals to set her lips tightly The winds are hushed, thie leaves are stitl, | together, as if adding weight to her | - The patient stars look softly down, assertions, and, once in a while, strikes | O'er town and field and Kansas hill; her hands together for the same evident Then ‘.»mm»,‘m_\- ]h(..- lh:\;u]l‘](”l\n\'l_-h reason, | And wander through the dell with me, “ e 10! 4o, widts &b a And gaze npon the Durham bull, ,h“'_\('i” & }h el l'1 “‘4”“_! bl ud.l | And listen to his pedigree. b b Benbd s il g A ¥ L1 in an awe-struck tone Doan’ tetch it, | 1 cannot leave you long to stay doan’ tech it! If de sperit am quiet, foh | I fain would linger where you stand; de sake of goodness doan’ rile it up, It | 1 am bad.cnough to be kep’ a guessen an’ | o guesss when de ghostis am ri 1t at We have been friends throughout the past, _\l:l nos 5 '1)\‘.‘\\:: ||-|mLy“in‘ in de face of We may be friends through futu cars, 4 R EO AR S WA - VTN | The fleeting hours flow, oh, so fast! providential l':‘ Ll dia ot s And pray excuso this flood of tears, you see a sperlt they Is only one way of takin'it. Yoh mus’ take et slap bang Once 1 was buoyant with success, with, ‘In the name of the Lord, whence Wayward, 100, as a petted ctild; cometh an’ goeth thou’, an’ then ef et I\llx-nw‘xm, that I ‘m\uvlu-nnrrw, A doun start an’ move—'" *erhaps unjust, and never mi 1 1 1, 1 know the folly and the pain; the ghost at Cockrell's: UL 1 think I'll join the farmers’ boom, him with the incantation when we brace And on its crest arise again, him. 3 “Yes? Well, there ain’t nothin’ about __Daisy Alliance, new milch cow! it. Et's jest there, an’ that's s Pl mix for vou a change of feed; been there right 'long, too, a switchi Some bonds and mortgages, and then H & th) d 3 ¢ Some things the free trado milkers need, | the Kivers offen the beds, a eneakin Besides, 1 have McKinley bran roun’ de corners, an’ a defyin’ of the War issues, taxes, schemes that pay; scriptures, Laws me, I ain’t ‘fraid of Tl conx you to the ballot box nothin’, for I ‘tends church, 1 do; but And fced you till election day! shu yoh alivean’ yoh's a foot "bove the While Peffer holds you by the horn: et SO LT ) ) L et And Simpson hold: you by the taily Cockerell's house no more, I slep: there TiilKarely ket Waowh Hetwost; once an’ burned a whole candie out And calmiy fill my milking pail! keepin® awak How bright the moon skines on the grange! “That was when ole Missus Cockrell Daisy Alliance, eat your fill! lived in the house, after her her pahtne The patient stars look softly down in life [a gentle smile of satisfaction O'er town and fleld and Kansas hill} this point] had done died. Missus Cock SRR ATRBRGR G N rell wasaway frum the house an’ I was BARNETT JOHNSON'S GHOST ookin® for the men. I laid myself el down, I did, an’ had no more’n gotten The little village of Manchester,which [ My eyes batted when squar through the has stood and staid exactly within the | 400r Walks aman. That door was shut J '® | and locked. Tramp, tramp, pound, self-same bounds for the ggst 100 yearsis | ;,ound, kerchung! his shoes went over present enjoying a boom the floor till he got to my bed. Then - But the boom is not in town lots, and | there kem a jerk an’ the sheet was ' the enterprising individual who is ereat- | a-flyin over to the corner of the room. ing all this stir and fover of excitement | A0d 1 looked up at—nothing. The man i boon dead for fitty. venrs. To shopt, | Hed done gone an’ the doo’ was plumb L . y years, short, | jooked. I stedded my shakin’, 1 did, an a ghost of the most able-bodied and lively | aid down agin. Tramp, tramp, plunk, type has made the village his headquar- ‘l‘.nn\\. them feet came comin’ again, an’ ters and is busily engaged frightening | I opened my eyes wide, The door didn’ timid people out of their wits, - Others, | gpen atall “hat man jes compinne . ; i dic screamed like a catamoun’, not so casily scared, ho has sot at work | o} wag the means of makin’ him de- digging for hidden treasuve in the door- | papt, [Aunt Patsey smiled again at her yard of the house he is haunting. polished vocabulary and received an en- Not satisfied with meroly making his | couraging nod.] : : =< cictims toil half the night through, he "'1“'1"l-_l‘“'\"tfit“f.l "l‘l- I .“";. the big bk itk candle an’ kept it lit all night. persists in tearing the bed clothes from | SRy A M FOPE 0 BCECEER. | Lt Pat- them when they do retire exhausted | gqy 2 b from handling the pick and shovel. “That was in the year that Grant was Inall probabllity the shape is that of ‘lected. 1 remémber the “lectioneer Barnett Johnson who lived in the old | yellin’ roun’ the lane, and I was that cabin long before the war of the rebel- | £lad that General Ulyssessus was given Alon. Compatent. witnosses swoar that | 1iS position at the head of the gov'ment np o1 o | that T guess I yelled, too. the apparition, in stature and visage, is | Then Aunt Patsey launched forth into an exaet counterpart of Johnson, and as | a description of the ghost that defies pen he is supposed 10 have buried a vast | and paperto reproduce. He was “‘tall amount of bullion and jewels and other | and dahk favored” and wore amazin’ treasure somewhere in that vicinity after | funny germents.” She was sure he was an expedition to the Indies, there can | the in’ liken of Bar scarcely be any doubt as to his identity. | Johnson.” Here Aunt Patsey eraph- The "house that is being visited by | ically described Valentine's ~ trouble Johnson’s spirit is_situated about a mile | with his wife's brothers at a corn hus to the northwest of Manchester proper, | ing. The boys did not like Valentine, and is known throughout. the county as | and during the husking persisted .in the old Cockrell phme. THere {8 noth- | throwing the stl'lp ped ears at his head ing peculiar about the cabin itself, save | instead of into the heaps. After endur- its great age. It was built in the earli- | ing this for some time Valentine stabbed est days of the settlement—no one | one of his tormentors. Aunt Patsey knows exactly what year—and the mere | Was very certain that Barnett Johnson enumeration of the births, marriages | fell into disfuvor in the community be- and_deaths that have occurred there | cause he liked other people’s horses too would fill a good size volume, Barnett [ well. Johnson and his brother Valentine oc- “dward Hoch, a well-known German cupied the cabin before the Cockrell | property holder of Manchester,was even family lived in it, but their residence | more worked up over the weivd visitant, within its walls was of such short dura- | and his account carries the more inter- tion that the country round did not get | est inasmuch as his experience and the into the habit of designating the place | experience of his entire family are of by the family name. After residing | very recent date. Hoch has but lately there some time, Valentine became in- | moved from the Cockrell farm and in ~ yolved in a cutting scrape, and Barnett | the eyes of his neighbors has been act- * 1ost favor in the oyes of the community, | ing very queerly. Beluted visitors to either by errors or shortcomings, and | this or that remote farm house of the left the country. township, when passing by the place, From time to time, however, rumors | have been greatly frightened over the floated back from the southern coast | actions of a solitary digger in the yard. that told of his doings. He had joined | By the bright moonlight, or uhder the -~ onnof the many buceancering expedi- | fitful glare of the storm-made light- tions, these stories said, that were fitted | nings, he has been seen at all hours of out to cruise against the wealth-laden | the night busily plying the shovel and vessels that plicd along the consts of the | pick, and upon the closer approach of Indian islands and Central America. | the spectators would. always disappear. For a time all hints of Barnett’s actions | At length this midnight workman was censed. The staid villagers of Manches- | discovered to be Mr. Hoch. — At first ter pursued their ordinary vocations | some belioved that he wanted to fright- and talked about ench other instead of | en the tenants of the cottage, and ’tis ‘ye bold buccaneer.” Then suddenly | true that this result was gained. The there appeared in the town a swarthy, | presence of a strange-looking excava- bearded personage, who walked with a | tion in the back yard' that grew deeper » swagger and:- swore oaths 1n astrange | and larger every day, without visible tongue. He bragged of “*Captain Bar,” | hands lifting the dirt, was calculated to and of a town sacked here and n ship | make the most stolid quake with fear. scuttled there in such an off hand way, | Mr. Hoch admitted yesterday that he that a secret meeting of the worthy cifi- [ was seeking for buricd treasure and as- zens took place and the resolve was | serts that he will surely find it if he made to urrest the braggart and clap | only lives long enough. bim in jail until eithcr his eriminal or | “'Of course, you'll be very careful in insane proclivities were looked into. what you suy about that place,” he When the sheviff, armed with his | said, nd not exaggerate the legal papers, pouderous in seals, mavks | story, for it would be likely” to decrease and rotund signatures, procceded to ar- [ the value of the propert For my rest the suspicious character he could | own part I feel very uncertain whether not be found. All trace of his where- | I had better talk or not. abouts was lost. In a week or so Barnett Yo muke o long story short.however, Johnson entered the village ns suddenly | there is something wrong about that as his follower had gone. He had a hugo | house, and I would not live in it again leather sack in his possession, and | for 8100 a month. If what 1 had secn though the inquisitive townsfoll’ used | had been only seen by myself alone, I wll their wiles of questioning and sur- | would not be 50 sure ubout the business. prise, they were unable to learn the con- | But my wife, sister-in-law and my little tents of the bag. It remained zealously | boys and giris have wll seen and heard rmmlml Ly its owner, until it was at | more than myself. We lived on the ength missing. And Barnett disap- | place ubout two years and a half, and I peared with it. am ready to swear that a week did not Johnson was never seen again, but the | go by without that fellow’s appearance. old “‘aunties” of the region often dis- [ Often we could not see him at all, and canted upon his carcor, and “knowed fo’ | just his tramp, tramp, tramp would tell shuah” that the satchel of treasure lay | us he wus near. Somctimes he would buried in some of the nooks or wooded | just walk about like that, und after a ravines of the old Cockrell place, to be | while would go away peaceably. But found somo day by *de right pusson at | oftener he would take Rald of the. bed de right time.” clothes and jork them clear off. More ‘Thus much for reminiscence, than once [ have attempted to hold on The narrative of the many appear- | to the quflts und sheets, but my strength ances and peculiar antics of Barnett's | was nothing compared with his. My ghost is best told by some of the eye- | finger nails would be almost torn from witnesses. A Globe-Democrat reporter, | their roots by the force of the tug, and bent on psychical research, was besioged | the coverlids would be lying at the end with even'alarger number than the fol- | of the room before you could spy ‘scatt.’ lowing of "ux‘n-rlmu-cs" from reliable Sometimes, looking out of the win- residents of Manchester and vicinity, | dow, we could see the fellow walking but space forbids their insertion. All | round und round the dooryard, were, however, fully as startling as the | the little ehips und stones of the path n‘:pcmlvd trio, and all related to the |.crunching under his feet exactly us they ghost at Cockrell’s farm would under mortal shoes. He dressed Aunt Patsoy Wells, called so because | differently at different times. For the of her vipe age (seventy-two) and splen- | most purt his clothes were of a queer aid memory, is the greut St. Louls | pattern, like you see in old plays or county authority upon subjects where | picture books of by-gone times,” He carly dates ure in question, She hasthe | had a very broad hat, and it was quite pedigrees of all the principal familios of | hard to ‘get & good look at his face the state at her fingors' ends, and can | Sometimes a sword dangled from his tell to u dot where every twig on theso | waist. At others he was dressed in fawily troes is. whether in Maine, Mex- | dark citizens’ clothes of no pronounced A /ico or Madrid, and whether living, | cut, and wore u smaller hat. «When his dying or dond, ' Before the war she was | fuce could be seen it looked troubled. the property of one of the branches of | At times he would shake himself ex-Governor Crittenden’s family, und | angrily, and then with-a determined cven yet Lolds the wemory of her old | look on his countenance, would begin master in dear regard. Soventy-two | his walk again. Aswstrange peculiarity of years of labor huve bent her body almost | his appearance was the fuct that he was double and changed her ikinky black | never seen or heard on the lower floor bair to a hue nearly ms white us snow. | of the house. The first that we would Despite ler infirmities, however, the ) %, bis declsion in a day ovso | way and his entrance into the west room of the upper floor, He always entered this room, and would come in whether the door was locked or not. “The west room was occupied by my little children as a sleeping apartment and they were very much bothered by the ghost. Just before we left the house my little daughter Josephine, was taken and thrown to the floor several times in one night. At fi she wanted to blame her sister Clementina for doing it, but Clementina was sound asleep. Then he picked up my little boy Willie out of bed and took him to the window, where he showed him a lot of gold ing out doors on the ground, Willie 1s twelve years old and qnite a brave little fellow.” Ho wanted to get the money right away, and the ghost told him to feteh a basket to carry the stuff in, ‘We havn't any good basket,” said Willie; wiil a stout box do?’ The fellow said that it would, and Willie started to get the box, when his mother stopped him and told him to go back to bed. He obeyed her, and moaning as though ho was hurt by something, the ghost tramped down stairs again. ] It appeared several times to my wife and begged her to go down into the yard and dig for the gold. She never did so, however, and ['m afraid that we of lost a g many chances gettin vich. My sister-in-law was pretty near scared out of her wits oy the ghost ap- pearing and ordering her to get up and dig for the money in the rarden. SIf I had only known as much*when I used to see it as 1 do pow, since 1 have moved from the house, I might have got rich. Perhaps again, however, I would have been killed by the ghost. I have heard of them over in the old country, coming to people’s houses and after get- ting them to dig for money hitting them on the hend and burying them in their self-dug graves, I suppose they do this when the wrong person tries to get the money. If T was the right person I might get it and I believe that L am. At any rate [ am going to dig some more in that yard. M. Schueler, who just moved to the place last Tuesday, said that I might come there and dig. [ am sure that there is enough money there for us all and if you would like you can come along.” Mr, Charles Schueler and family, who have occupied the old dwelling since Tuesday afternoon, have not as yet been troubled with Barnett’s ghost. The testimony of Willinm Thomas, who saw the apparition n few weeks ago, is even more startling than that of Aunt Patsy and Mr. Hoch. Mr. Thomas is a very respectable farmer living upon the outskirts of Manchester township. *I have heard folks talk of spooks and ghosts ever since I was knec \.igh,“ he said, “but didn’t take much stock in them. 1 reasoned that if I was square with the living the dead wouldn't trouble me, and I lived over forty years in that belief. A little while ago I went to do some work on the old Cockrell place and slept_there over night by my- self. I wouldn’t do that again, though, for a vight smart of money. I had not got to sicep when I heard a tramp, tramp, tramp of feet, and into the door walked a_big, dark-complexioned man, wearing funny-looking clothes. I could see him like I see you now, for the moon was full and shone into the room with a strong, yellow light. The man came straight to my bed and gave the clothes a yank that sent ’emsailing to the other vall. He did this to wake me up, [ guess, for as soon as [ began to stir he said, ‘Come with me, and dig, dig, dig!" [ began to holler then like anything, and he put his hand over my mouth. The hand didn’t feel at all cold, likea ghost’s fingers are supposed to be, and this sort of quieted me a bit. ‘Dig, dig, dig!” he said again, ‘Tt will make you grow rich—I swear it by my sword!’ and he half drew along blade from its sheath and showed me the handle of the weapon. It was a cross, but I thought that the devil often came around in this fashion, yretending to be so good, that I at once decided to refuse him, even if he threat- ened to stick the sword into me. ‘No, I won't do nothing of the kind!” I answer- ed. Atthis he gave my foot such a terrible jerk that it landed me on the floor. When I got up and looked around the man was gone, and just a sort of moaning sound came back from the direction of the stair 1 lmd awake all night after that, expecting the thing to come again, and I had my pistol ready for him if he did show up. But hedidn’t, and T guess I'm lucky as it is. Perhaps if T had shot at him he would have killed me some way or other, and I'm pretty well satisfied to live awhile longer.” Bob Thomas, the son of the last wit- ness, has seen the strange being pacing the yard of the Cockrell place, and tells as interesting a story s his father, Joe Massey, a near neighbor of the Thomas family, is also said to have seen and talked with it. Nearly every member of the Hoch family has had thrilling interviews with the appavition, and _ave all very sure that he does not belong to the living world. He has a peculiar way of going through a locked door or disappearing before one’s eyes that at once brands him as a specter. Manchester is all ngog with_excite- menrt over his doings, and each day adds an interesting fact or detail of his per- sonallity—or rather spirituality, Had Mr. Hoch remained in the dwelling the chances are that Barnett’s visits would have remained a gecret with the few. But upon Mr. Hoch’s hunting for the treasure in the peculiar manner that he did after his removal the other witnesses found their tongues loosened, and the foregoing account is a portion of the result, — BACKED UP BY A SNAP SHOT, Mrs. Davis Presents a Photograph of J. Charles and the Unknow The divorce suit of Addie Cummings Davis against her hushand, J. Charles Davis, formerly of Locke & Davis, theat manugers of'New York ¢ came up before Judge Ingraham in special term of the supreme court, says lL-- Sun. Mrs, Davis asked for an abso- lute divorce upon the statutor The most important evidence of the clerk on the Grand in Chicago, showing that in August last Mr. Duvis was there four days with a womuan who he said was his wife,and who registered us such, Murs, is was at this time in Brooklyn. Later in the sum- mer Davis was at the hotel again with the same woman, whose name is not known, Another bit of testimony was a snap ty th grounds, wus that eifie hotel shot photograph taken by J. I, Emmett, jr., when hoand Duvis were off on a cruise in the yacht Zeno, This picture showed Davis and the unknown woman, who wus very pretty and wore eyeglasses, in a very domestic’ attitude. She was leaning agaist his shoulder and he was supporting her with his arm about her waist. The photograph accidentally fell into the hands of Mre, Davis. No testimony was offered for the de- fence. Judge Ingrahum will announce FASHIONS, FADS AND FANCIES. How the Fair Sex Will Bs Arrayed this Spring and Summer, INTERESTING ITEMS FOR THE LADIES. alking Sticks to Becoms Fashion- able for Mountain Climbers—Cy ling Growing in Fayor—tol- lecting “dourney! Spoons, a young woman's fancy not ouly turns to thoughts of love and Haster bounets, but drifts on to the coming summer days with their endless fads and fancies, and the woman who can see the beautiful tints and tones and artistie combinations dis- played n city shops, whose heart is not filled with the longing for possession, is not normal and should consult a doctor. Fasnion, like history repeats itself, and could Katherine de Mediei, of unholy mem- ory,look down or up rather,on this muoteenth century world, she would benold the self same fashions, moditied of course, that she introduced at the dissolute eourt of Hanry 11, worn by the maids and matrons of today, But because our fashions are imported from France is no reason why we should import French morals also. The Medici collar comes this season in all fancy metals, and the newest conceit is to have a jeweled collar and girdle. The high puffed siceve is still higher, though some- what longer, and so snug_about the haud as to require a couple of butions The Louis XIV jacket is to be seen witn the trivle skirts overlapping one another and often of different colors; for example, the middle skirtof plad coutrasting with the others. To be de rigueir, the dress skirt must be very close and plain over the hips, the foot trimming of the least artistic of all decorations—the gathered flounce —has re- ppeared after a long absence, which has not becu regretted. Then, too, the back breadth 1s made in such a manner us to delight the street cleaning department, April, with its varying moods and changes brings in her wake the early summer modes, and among the best changés is the entire ab: sence of the wash dress. No matter how pretty and fresh a lawn frock may be in one's own home, it is never so appropriate for use eclsewhere as the wool robe of very lightest weight, and these woolen fabrics come in all shados,ana as they are not warm are especially adapted for mid- summer wear. The newest shades are spom- padour blue, rush green and parma yiolet. One of thesé summer gowns is of ecreu chal- lie,on which are scattered the tiniest bunches of forgetmenots in_ their natural color, the gown being trimmed with narrow velvet rib- bon of the same shade as the flower, and the whole dainty effect crowned by a delicious bit of milliuery in ecru ana blue, A word on trimmings. Passementerie outrivals all others. First, we had the Jana Hading veil and now the Hading waist earni- ture in gilt, silver,steel and erochet, and even imitation jewels' are jvoven into the meshes of the nt, where they ghtter a swarm of fire flies taugled in a silver As these trimmings are put on the market at early strawberry prices they are in eager demand. With Bernhardt's impersonation of Sar- dou’s ““Cleopatra” comes uo end of fads. The latest and gost uniquo is the serpent girdle, modeled after the ono worn by the divine Sara. This is of braided gold or silver inter- woven with jewels and is wound thrice around tte body tll the glittering eyes are upliftea just beneath the bosom. With a Cleopatra gown this is simply perfect. ‘The newest fancy for teunis players is a leathern belt with a clasp of two tennis racquets crossed and two unis balls, No girl's mountam outfit is complete for the summer without a fvalking stick, to which, before the season is over, 15 tied a souvenir of each conquest. So this fad promises to distance all former throphies of the chase, The fad of collecting “journey’ spoons is as mucb in vogue as ever and now collectors have a new one, “the orauge spoon,’ to add to their harlequin set, yeling becomes more popular among ladies with esch season, and since Dame Fashion pronounced it “the thing,” every woman wants u “safety,” and wday there is hardly a city of any size but nas iis woman cyeling cluband club house. Washington, with its miles of asphalt pavement, 1sa veritable paradise tor cyclers, The newest creation 1n parasols is the deli- cato all over pattern in gold colored silk em- broidered on black crepe, finely shirred to the center, with a deep flounce scolloped and embroldered, the crepe showing a yellow lining of twilled silk, and the bamboo handle is finished with @ gold band and Dresden mount. 1n millinery this is a season of flowers and metal. One bonnet has ah open crown of seed pearls and is finished 1n front with a high stiff knot of silver Vissue and violets: another of black gauze, the crown dotted closely with gilt beads and in front a half wreath of tiny yellow flowers, above which is poised an immense gold dragon fly whicth vibrates with every movementof the wearer; the whole being a dream of & bonnet—except the bill which is substantial, The latest wrinkle in table decorations is the center cloth and doylies donein *‘shadow work’’ on white silk mull, in leaves of some pretty graceful design, both center cloth and doylies to be laid over some delicate tint and edged with long colored silk tassels, The ef- fect is charming. Another scheme in em- broidery of center pieces is & mass of butter- cups thrown carelessly on white linen, the napkins being embroidered with only three or four flowers arranged gracefully in the corner. The Dresden is, as the name suggests, in imitation of the china of that name and con- sists of tiny sprays of pinks or some small flower scattered loosely over the center of the cloth and smaller and closer in the broad hem. Tothe thrifty housewife who saves her bits of colored silks this may prove a timely suggestion. Auther cloth in cut work design consists of a linen damask square with grape leaves ar ranged as a border and just’ touching each other. The edge of the leaf worked in white filo-floss in button-hole stitch, simply out- lines the stems and veins and fills each leaf with a different stitch i filoselle. Fox in- stance the corner leaf with the honeycomn pattern, the next with Queen Aune darning and a third with cross stitch ; when complete, cut away the cloth from the outer edge. Tuis pattern is beautiful in any color, but a little more exquisite in white ik 11 there is & nation on the globe who clings to old furniture and old clothes, because they are good and useful and does not scarch the earth over and even cansult the heavens for something new wherewith to deck them- selves, that race of people is yet to be aiscov- ered, § Within the last century France sought by force of steel to win ' a universal empire Failing in that, Parns with the more subtl weapons of taste and skilled modistes, has acquired the desired result. Now the tur- bau of the descendants of the prophet roll in the dust before the hat of the in fidel. Even the Chinese wall has been scaled and the South Sea islands invaded; all bow b:fore the mighty sutocrat—Paris fash- fons. In the early days of tulg century, after the decadence of the' towering head-dress, came the age of simplicity, 9'his was duo 'to the story of “Paul and Virginja,” in which St Pierre clothed his herging 'in simple white wuslin, straw hat and sandals. During the consulate David attempted to revivd the classical toga, but its sugcess was transitory, owing to the severity off the Parisian cii mate, which was not. favorabie to bure throats. I had almost Written bare backs and limbs, Talleyrand said of these dresses, if such they can be caligd, “that they began 100 late and ended oo early.” What with rheumatism and satire this classical ardor was soou extinguished, Qut while it lasted gave rise to many avsurdities. Josephine, afterwards empress, and Mme, Tullion wore 8 dress o la sauvage. The lavterarrayed her- | self in transparent costumes iu imitation of | the Olymplan goddesses, This, even fa the modern Gomorrah, was hardly “the thing.' Holy writ tegehés us that “'cleaniiness is next to godliness,” No girl's edueation 1s complete until she has learned to swim. He bathing dress is an elegant, though not quite as plentiful, as her ball costime. Thus the the syren of the ‘‘Natatorium." As'the Mohammedan turns to the east to pray so the eye of fashion's votaries looks with giddy delight toward Paris, the Mecca of the fashionable, where he may feel conf dent that all hopes for the future will be fully realized, May Dav. PR —— EROSCENIUM AND FOYER, Minna Gale will be one of the prominent stars next season, Miss Dis DeBar has quitted the “‘Out of Sight!’ compauy for parts unknown. Creston Clarke will not be a member o Julia Mariowe's company next seasor Florefice Ashbrooke,with ¥ rey & [Pay, has been enwaged for “The County Circus” next se0s0 OMrs, J. M. Chretien has_resizned dramatic eritic of the San Francisco Ex aminer. _ And now it is saia that Jerome K. Jerome is't his name at all, anl that it isJ. W. Avrowsmith, ta says that Mary Anderson has h pictures taken than any other actress ows of. “Lady Tom 1s the title of Maggie Miteh ell's new play, which will not be produced until next season. It _Is no cock-sure thing that Mary Ander. son Navarro will not be scen again on the boards next season. “The Tar and rtar,”” McCaull's new opera, which had its premiere at Chicago on Wednesday, is said to have been written in four weeks, John Ernest MeCann has sold his come “A Lesson in Acting,” to Rovert Mantell This is tho play which Lawrence Barrett read shortly before he died, Miss RRachel Booth has joined the Donnelly & Girard “Natural Gas'* company, which, by the way, has made more money this season than any since it was written, Miss Mario Wainwright has offer to take “Twelfth Night" but her coming production of sart” has compelled her to position, reccived an to Australia, Amy Rob- i the pro- JA song and violin recital was given at Central Music hall Chicago last evening, the 24th by Reichmann, the eminent baritone lately with the German oper York, and Ludwi company, New taram of Chicago. _‘“Ihou Shalt Not" was too immoral for the New York puplic, aud the Union Square theater, where the play was given,was closed last Friday evening, The munager says he is going to produce the play in Philudeiphia. _Emil Fischer, the basso from the Metropo- litan opera house, has been engaged as _pro- fessor of the opera class of the Nationul Conservatory of Music. Romualdo Sapio is also a recent addition to the faculty of the institution. It seems after ail that Sardou is not to be s0 foolish as to sue_the Comedie Francuise, which certainly could not be blamed because “Thermidor’” was interdicted. More than that, the play may be all the more profitable owing to the notorlety it has received. The will of Lawrence Patrick Barrett was filed 1 the Norfolk county, Mass., probute court, last Wednesday, Decoased bequeathes to his wife all his furniture, pictuves, clothes, plate, china, watches and jewelry, wines and household stoves, and all the rest of his property is left in trust to his three daughters. Saral Bernnardt in an interview says: “1 have seen an American actress for whom I predict the brightest future. 1 mean Miss Julia Marlowe, ~She_ is a maryelous and in- teresting artist, refined, suotle, sympathetic and expressive, In five years she ouzht to be one of the few really grand dramatic artists on the stage.” ‘The first performance of Massenet's new opera, “Le Mage,” led to two interesting in- cidents. The composer got into an alterca- tion with Lasalle, the bass, and the latter challenged him, and Marion Crawford lodged some sort of a prohibition against the per- formance, claiming that the work was based on his novel, “Zoroaster.” One of the most interesting events of the present dramatic_season in London has be the revival of “Charles L' at the Lyceum theater. Neither the lapse of twenty yi nor the repeated blasts of criticism to which it has been exposed have availed to detact one whit from the fascinations of Wills' beuu- tafully written though historically inaccurate ht American plays have been produced in New Yorik this scason and all of them worth serious consideration have been suc- cessful except Belusco's **Ugly Duckling.” Ten English and French dramas have been tried in the same time ana all have proven failures. Abbey has secured oneof these disasters even with Bernhardt in the chief role, *Cleopatra.” “Alabama’ 1s sustaining the promise of its great career at the Madison Square theater. The southern cortingent, visiting and resi- dent in New York, hiis given the play its warmest acclaim as truly representing south- ern life. Manager Palier has provided Mr. Thomas’ drama with a cast that briugs out in every shading all its sentiment and humor and passages of intense action. The Harvard boys gave an amateur theat- rical performance the other night, ane the giddy New Yorkers who raved over the ex- quisite skirt-dancing were horrified after- ward to learn that the pretty dancers in the cast were only hovrid boy If the anti-tights legislative o “ome 100 nu- 1nerous the country must look to Harvard to save the comic opera from oblivion, Next season will probably be the last of the professional partuership of Joseph Seffer. son and W. J. Florence. Mr. Jefferson has no liking for long seasons and has detern to take the rest to which his years of toil entitle him. In 1502-93 he will play for a few weeks only and in none but the larger cities, returaing to_his favorite impersona tion of *Rip Van Winkle.” Mr. Florence will again take the road as u star on his own aceount Richard Mansfield's stoek company for his next season, which begins at the Garden the New York, in_May, will be a strong one. He nas engaged W. H. Fergueson, Daniel Harkins, W. H. Ctampton, Vincent ternroyd. Alf. Fisher, W. G. Audrews, Marsh, Miss Beatrice Cameron, Miss Miss Minnie Dupree, Miss Vir- ginia Buchannan, Miss Maggic Halloway ana Miss Maud Monroe, 2 “Mrs, Macaroni,” the new farce which Manager E. B. Ludlow stars Mr, George I Marion, who, by the way, is also its autnor s finished and ready for the copy- ist. “Mrs. Mucaroni” is of a much highe class than most of the farce-comedies now vefore the public, and with a_comedian like Mr. Marion at its head, who is acknowledged 10 be without & peer, tEere can be little doubt of the artistic and financial success of both Manager Ludlow and his stars Macaroni and Marion. Minua Gale, late leading lady of the Booth- Burrett compaay, will star next season. Miss Gale 1s @ very handsome woman, aud is said to be one of the best educated women on t stage. Her long connection with Barrett has somewhat hardened her in mannerisms which were nover accepted in him, so her career omedy in will be watched with sume interest to ascer- tain _how much talent Miss Gale may have and how much of her success was due to that careful coaching which Mr. Barrett was so fond of bestowing on all who were connected with him, Rudolph Aronson of the Casino theater ro cently said to & New York reporter: *Th people of the United States are becoming more classical and musically inclined every year, and the day is not far distant when we Shall see not only American gia 3 but American comic operas, flrmly estab lished on a paying basis. Itis wy intention 10 organize a thorough school of training for good Awerican voices, and before another five years have rolled by to have u larger theater than the Casiuo, where performances of both grand und comic operas by American composers will be giveu at alternate pe- riods,” New York Tribune: Mr. Haruum's snergy was exbaustless and his pluck indomitable. He lost several fortunes, but he was never withiu balling distance of ruln or despair, squalling infaut in the “tub” has grown into | ! His faith in bimself was profound, and hi detight in bhis own achievements was so in genious as to be perpetually refreshing and delightful. He was genial, tender-hearted, | 9240, NUMBER SATURDAY'S SPORTING SALAD, public spirited, benevolenty: s good man wid 4 pood citizen, ' He diffused an incaleulable f " silin of ploasiire, and iu 8o doiu g be made uo- | Quips and Quibbs from Al Over vody happier than himself, He will be sin- the World, cerely mourned and missed, The storm scene in Fanny Davenport's production of “Cleopatra’ is” said to be tho | " | most effective piece of realism ever scen on | TICKLING THE FANCY IN THE RIBS. | the modern stage, Tho effect of swaying and toppling .».-(l\“ seen by vivid flashes of light- T ning, is suid to bo produced oy means of a g hugo moving panorama, whilo' showers of | The Turf and Stable—The Pugs and pevbles drop from the flies aud givethe | the Wrestlers — Wheeling Notes | tho Whlo ac Fins. ths " WOLFD.'strain o 1he Ll el L yotians' voices as they call upon Tiphon, Miscellancous Gossip. | the god of storms, to overwhelm the pursuing host which threatens Cleopatra The breaking up of Lawrcnce Barrett's company has emphasized a fact which many | who have watctied us career have before this noted—the inefMetency of his company, That company, idle now, is finding the greatest possible difficulty in'getting engagements, In spite of the fact that for the past year most | of them hiave been supporting the greatest of | American actors, and have had the adyants which all actors crave, of an extended annual hearing 1 New York--the actor's Mecca oue seems to want them, This searcely sur prises those who have watehed the company and know Mr. Barrett's method, but it is sad all the same, 1t is pleasant to record the growing popu larity of American plays by American play wrights, Of the recent productions in New York city the great hits have been made by American plays. Among these may b2 mei tioned *“The Henrictta,” *“Alabama,’ St andoah,” *The Senator,” “Men and Women and *Reilly and the 4007 Gillette's adapt tion of foreign plays has been found a most | successful enterprise, Al the Comforts of Home" and “Mr. Wilkinson's Widows" are amoue the descrvedly populur and profitable productions, This gratifying fact is bound to have its effect upon amusement caterers, and we may look for a lively demaud next season for American plays by American playwrights, The rise of Henry C.” De Mille has been ow- iug in some measure, to the fact that he has found materials for good plays right bhere in this country. As he said recently in a public speech, 1t i3 nob necessavy for the American drawatist to go buck to ~ Aucient Greece for wodels and idcals. He can find them und ull tne material necessary In this country. “The amount of nerve displayed by some newspaper men when they are sent to inter view women of the stage {s bevond compre hension,” New Yor suid the leading lady of one of the st k companies the other after- noon to a Telegram man, “If an evasive re ply is intentionally given to an impertinent quiestion so as to avoid incurring displeasure they seem to take it as an avowal of truth and press tke subject to unendurable limits. Irecall a recent question when a young re porter called at my house osteusibly to ask me about the illuess of & member of our company. Almost before he hud got fairly seated in the reception room he began to ask the most shocking questions. Fiually e told we that he was gathering the material for a special article on the various appliances used by actresses for supporting théir hosiery,aud supplemented this by asking me if 1 wore my warters above or below my kuees. 1 rathe surprised him by asking if he would dare make a siwilar fuquiry of Mrs. Vanderbilt or Mrs. Astor, and when he admit such a thing would be a little incons endeavored to impress upon his mind the fact that all women of the stage are not skirt daucers or figurantes, and that actresses are entitled to as gentleman as women." much consideration from a any of our leading society SOME FAIRBROTHER THINKS. He Intimates, That-a Rolling Stonc iatiers No Moss. Denmay, N. C., April 15.—To the Editor of 1 B 1saw the other day in Tue B an article, or rather a few paragraphs, per- haps twenty, under the head of “Oid Omaha Scribes,” and after reading what the cold types had said 1 thought awhile to myself. Most all, and I think all of these scribblers, sowe renowned and some famous, at one time or another, held a place cn Tue Brk, Mr. Feil used to get the yellow cavelope veady for us on Saturday; we used to write our little write, imagine that we were doing great things, and blow our salary in and it was forgotten, We used to be there on wet days and on fair days; some of us did one one thing and some of us another, Onee T remember that I left Tue Bex and moukeyed in Europe, I left it several times, and even after I had gone it always appeared regularly, and it was always brighter thau it had been before. And I think, as 1 write here in my southern owe, that those few para- grapbs which Tk Bee publisbed furnish an excellent theme for young men to think about. Doubtless others felt as { felt—like all men feel who play a_distinctive part on a great newspaper, that without thew there would be no issue. But the same Rosewater, the same individuality always impelled Tue Br; Mr, Hosewater was tbere -fnd—nuo matter about his birelings, Tur Ber today is betrer than Tur: Ber o iy other time, and it grows better “and stronger with the years. But that one cen- tral fact—the fact that the nomadic creatures crept their little' paths; wrote, scowled, growled and finally went again, made no difference, and I sec now that it will make no difference, Colonel Itosewater is in the sad- dle, and the unhapy employe who feels that his services are rated s indispensable simply a misguided fod But this article I write, possibly for publi- cation, was to point a moral, und the moral is this: Why will young men prauce around and attempt their little clog dances on the surface of all the earth AlL those fellows, for the most part bright, bave gone from Owmaba; some are south, come are north, some are west and some are east—and what are they doing¢ Nothiug more perhaps than they did in Omaba—cach one grinding and grinding hard for his weekly stipend—each one wish- ing, as in truth they always wished, that things w different, And as to Tue Beet Why, it goes along, tooy it is stronger i cireulation and influence than it ever before has been, and new men, many of them, leay ing some other paper bave coine to help make the paper. Somehow 1 feel that in this matter, if all could sec that while there is much for all to do, no wan is of any vast im portance; that men die, and that wen leave, aud that still tho wheels turn on, I would write something which might do scwe young | men good Omaha, 1 remeinber, was once & very young | and a very small town, The old polificians | who erst'and erewhile paddled their httlo and light canoes have gone down the stregm of time-other men Lave taken their places, and so other men will run the world, Tako mstance tho fact that old Daye Butler,once tho governor and oice one of the men of Nebraska, has for ten yea | watking in bis shroud, and that'a n Burrows has tried to fcec such things as th reflective mind, the corpse t, even, would ason 1o ponder But to take it still on, Lorenzo Crounse has just be Mr. Foster, whom | knew well in.Onio, au_honoravle job, and be will accept. Well, I say again, that you cav- | not tell. Supposo thav Crouuse had left the statc when the collect s oftice why, cause 10 i one day, kuew b o moresforever. But didn't He remained at Fort Callioun, and just the other day, a little bird woin bis | l 150 if the young men wol | would shun the alluring temptation | of the bigger sulary that is held Just over youdor; if they would own 1 go av it; knucklo and W d; remain on the puper wher au able editor gives them room, the day ! would ce y cowe, aud it would cone | some time, whon reward would o for all of them. A H Uuderstand that I am writing no rogrets, for 1 came here ns a sacred duty, ani my fricnds will be plewsed to know that 1 am dolug well. of fact that 1 But I do write just as a mat cr a matter of fun, aid then boyo e that | have thoughba grand woral in or AL Fagsrovies, 0o matter whethier 1 bave wdo it 1 uot, Charley Marvin is boasting of bis 1801 string. Colonel Clerk tins been serfously i1l of 1a grippe ut Loudsville, Tennessee “hookies" are unitg to fight the new pool room law. There are 336 “eligibles” in the nine stakes of the Kentucky association The Memphis Jockey club will give a rac- ing watinee next Saturday C. W, Williams, Axtell's owne ally ill at Independence, Ia Flyaway won the great Portland stakes at the Leicoster spring meeting The Chicago Jockey club's new race course on the West Side 1s under way Jockey Carr had bis land broken at Glou- coster by the recent fall of Gilt Juck MeAuliffe, now a pool-room keeper, has been remanded to Brooklyn's grand jury. La Polka, a famous old brood mare, sired s critic- by Lexington, has just died at Eimondorf Stud Nunthorpe won the city and suburban haudicap at Epsom. There were fifteen starters I2d Corrigan’s stable, which has been win- teringat Bascombe course, uear Mobile, is now at Memphis. Ragimunde won the great Metropolitan stake at_Epson. That colt is owned by the duke of Beaufort Mulatto, the is one of the animals at Dubt that easterners talk about The New Orieans spriug meeting has closed and there will_be no more rucing in the Cre- seent eity until next winter. Pookmaker, Roy and Fitzgerald are to trot asw ke maich, £00 a corner, at Gute tenburi next Monday morniu, Ironmy, the well-known English stallion, died at London yesterday. He was retived to the stud in 1583 after a brilhuut career on the turt The famous broodmare, Beautiful Bells, 4, dropped a bay colt by Electionoer re- cently at the favm of Senator Stanford, Palo Alto, Cal. Silverado is now a promising candidate for the Memphis Derby. He covered the distance in practice in 1:35'5, beativg Roseland’s time by 41, second Phil Dwyer has buckled on his armor and will fight the pool-room kcepers. He de- clares that he will allow nonformation wired to thew from any of his tracks. The Charter Oak driving park at Hartford has renewed the §10,000 guaranteed stake for :10 trotters and the insurance stake for 2:19 cors. Entriesgwill close May 11, The Guttenburg wjnuers wert: Experi- ence (3 to 1), Prince Edward (9 to 1), Ben- jamin (7 to 5), Prince Howard (4 to 2), Rush light (7 to 2) and Blackthorn (4 to 1). Kitty Chieatham is to be retired this spriog. The daughter of Blazes and Kate Fisher has not. broken down, but she is described as being very ‘‘dickey” in her forelegs. Endurer was the first horse Jockey Hamil- ton rode after s honeymoon. He landed the animal an eusy winuer and his bride joined heartily in the ovation he received. Clear-the-Way, the celebrated Irish racor has acrived vt New York. He won the Irish grand national race in 1888, beating Maroon, . k. Morgan of Westbury, L. 1., has pul chased the fumous animal. he Michigan Breeding ana Trotting asso- ciation has appointed delceates to attend the national meeting at Cuicago, April 22, A resolution was passed recommending the purchsse of the Wallace register for §100,000, That the influence of the owuers of the Guttenburg track, which euables them to openly violate the law, is very powerful 18 be- voud question, and officers of other tracks in ihe State of New Jersey are wondering how it all comes about.—New York Sun. Willium Donobue is rated as the wealthiest jockey in Amcrica. He bas virtually retired, and although he donned the colors ‘on forty- two occusions last season, be did ot win's e, Donohue has been riding since_back fu the sixtics and lives in style in New York, Another jockey has mounted the horse be hind the White Rider. Patrick McGrath, the cclebrated flat aud steeple-chase jockey, who rode many fast flat ana steeple-chase horse luding Post Guard, Disturbauce, and tife celebrated Sam - Harper, died at the New Yoak hospital this week of la grippe. The Coney Island jockey club has issued a circular anuouncing that the value of the realization to be run on June 1 next will be 50. The race will be the greatest three- yeur-old cvent of the year, aud among the Colts eligible to start will be Potomac, Strath. meath, Bolero, Monterey, Masher, Surplus and other ¢ A meeting of sevents-five. horse breeders was held at Louisville, Ky., yesterday, look- ing to the organization of @ saddle horse as- soviation, corresponding to the trotting horse association. roposed to keep o register and huve a standard as_with trotting horses. The association is to have §0,00¢ capital, Other meetings will follow. Thomas Regan, the former superintendent of “Lucky” Baldwin's stable, who disap- pears s0 wysteriously last December, was committed for trial without bail yesterday for the lavceny of two valuable Horses be- louging to Mr. Baldwin. — When Regan dis- appeared he had upward of §,000 iu his pos- ig brown sir 1 by Aberdeen, s stock farm \ps I session., It was rumored that he had met with foul play, which remor was denied at a later date by o gentleman who recognized biw in Philadelylia, Somo time after his Qisappearance it became knowu that provious to his departure he had sold for#l, 700 two of Mr racers. The horses were Costa Kica Jjero. Mr. Baldwin in- structed his attorneys in New York to pros- ceute a search for Regan, He wus appre- hended recently by Sheriff Waltovs of Mon- tezuma, Ga, Revin offered no objection to ning to New York, He reached the cit u charge of the Georgla sheriff, Baldwin has determined to mike an ex- of this man, To this end he has in- M ampl structed his attorneys to assist the cistrict the atto power, to fullest exteut in thelir Flaghes trom the Dinmond, Big Bill Brown is seriously ill. Con Dailey’s throwing is great. Mayer's bride is just sweet sixteen, This ought to be Jerry Denny's year. Dave Foutz's finger ¥ all right this year, 1s hua bad weather for practice .ny is showing up excellently in prac- e e Lynch ! will umpive the first New York anders is not & lazy man, only always “tl l Hornung played in Buffalo as far back i Denny was the last of the Giants to :i;l‘” ing Las regained good coutrol of e ball Columbus papers are abusing Reilly like & plekpocket Columbus Lias two loft-handers lo Madden and Kuell listler made the Now Yorks, Uie P’Lillies bave a kood man in Thoraton, apparcntly first home run for the Visuer and Dunlap will captain the Washington tewr Corcoran seems 1o suit the Philladelphians, Hu is 0 good player, 1 Tl phin papers are kicking on the cut appointing eitbor Wood or Lags