Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1893, Page 17

L SV, PART THREE. T 1871 PAGES [1-20. OMAHA SUNDAY BEE OMATA, , SEPTEMBER x‘:.,--l\\ ENTY PAGE TABLISHED JUN 19, SUNDAY MORNING 24 \(-II‘ COPY FIVE CENTS P® ANOTHER VERY FORTUNATE CASH PURCHASE OF LADIES’' CAPES, JACKETS AND CLOAKS TWENTY-SIX HUNDRED OF THE NEWEST AND LATEST STYLES AND HIGHEST GRADES. CAPES CLOAKS JACKE TS Gomprising all the Samples of A, Frigdiander & Go. »=riet! " Felsenthal Bros. & 00 ew o™ Broadway, N. Y. New York N. W, Corner Omaha, Neh, k City. and they sacrificed both their entire line of this season’s samples of Ladies’ Cloaks, Capes and Jackets There are no two alike. They are the highest grade of goods and all the very latest style. Altogether there These are two of the largest Cloak Houses in New Yo to “Boston3tore” at half the exact cost of manunfacture. are 2,600 garments and you take your choice at half nrice, wea® YoOu can secure any' of 500 Samples Ladie PLUSH SACQUES AT JUST Half Price. $10.50 Ladies’ 39.75 $12.50 $17.50 $22.50 These ave all the highest grado plush, finest quilted sotin linings, chimois skin pockets and scal ornaments. it wasn't for the way we them we could never sell” them prices we do. BOSTON STORE, Omaha PLUSH SACQU 60 Ladies’ PLUSH SACQUES, §35,00 Ladics’ PLUSH SACQUES, 815.00 Ludies’ PLUSH SACQUI bought at the AT HALY PRICE If you are not ready to pur- chase now you can make a small deposit and secure any of these garments you may wish N. W. Cor (6th and Douglas, OMAHA. Worth Ten Dollars. 320 SAMPLES LADIES' Cheviot Jackets With new lurge sleoves and fan back, worth fully ten dollars, go at $1.98 each. five 240 SAMPLES LADIES’ JACKETS INE ALL WOOL MATERIAL, LOOSE FIRONT. Just the thing lor ourly fall wear. ular value X, now Worlh BOSTON STfiRE-N V. [10 Twenty | R\.v- 1 new dingonal Worth Sixleen Dollars, 360 SAMPLES LADIES’ ALL WOOL KERSEY JACKETS With butterfly capes back, in navy, myrtle, worth sixte Dollars. 220 SAMPLES LADIES’ Imported Gapes and Jackets | In hopsackings. fancy cheviots, berlin twills, clay worsteds, chinchillus and s aotual value $30.00, now go : | tons, | in cloth andsilk plush, worth & Worlh Twenty 400 SAMPLES LADIES’ CAPES AND JACKETS inall wool cheviots, kerseys and mel- with large cape co W but- terfly eape, in umbrolla and fan backs, Jupicee, Worth Forty o [)0 ulfls sm Five dollars 460 SAMPLLS LADIES’ CAPES and JACKETS shown iuOmahn. Al exclusive styles. ‘The grandest line you an fmagine. Nouo worth less. than 00, Your choice now only OSTON STORE Nothing ever AMERICANS AND THE DRAMA Foundation of a Great School of Natioual Att is Already Laid. BAONION HOWAFD AND HIS WORKS Chat with a Clever Writer % nnd Those of O Concerning His r Mon Views of the Future—C pliments the West. unday night Bronson Howard sat in > and quietly smoked a cigar. Tneid ly he talked very entertaining concerning his profession, It is not generall known by tho people to whom the name of Eronson Howard is inseparably connected witn the recollection of some of the best American plays ever written that the owner thereof is a veteran journalist, and th twenty years ago the inside of a New York duily knew him nightly. This is a fact, though, and for this if for no other reason he found himself talking atease at midnght, the desk in- frout of him ved with the remuins of a partially finished lunch, while the telegraph instraments kept up a click ing that would have thoroughly discon certed a man unused to their peculiar music s said beforo he left that nofelt like the war who, ending s days a vordunt meadow, suddenly h the bugle sound. It was 80 redolent of old times that he seemed twenty years younger (and it mu thought from this that Mr. Howard is un old man, not by any mex Naturally, the talk stavted on “Avistocracy,” its presenti tion here incitng & quory rning the wuthor's own umpressions of the piece, Currios n s Aristocracy Y 1 a piece t poeals to the popu wils not written with thavidea. v was in tonded us & losson to bo digested by think ing men aud women. It embodies a cou coption of a typical American contrasted with a typical Buropean, intending to thus tllustrate the national ideas of woman snd her station, with a further anl ble illustration of the estimate j marriage relation on diffe Auantic, and some of the from international marri w the characters so cle wouid be no diffculty in the a; plication of the lesson ntended to be iy culcated by the play. Its success has shown that my intentions have not been altogethe: misconstrued After u few general rem of the modern Amer ma Mr. Howard aid in his opinion there would be such gnition of the writers of this country 1 the early future as to enurely alluy any ap prehensions that might now be held by possin people 10 the effect thut American dramatists would never succeed in producing work that would hive, In foiug overa listof plays that have mads or " thewselyes & pame o - America “Alabama’ was mentioned Compl A charming Sxquisitely concéived and brought oul. There is nowhe beautiful bit of word coloring shard act—- the sceue at Mr. Thomas bas ce; ful work in that’ horse, in s quictly 10t be , “isnot v notion, It ather forei aced on e s of tho s that resuit s, 1 tried to vly that there alysis and i s ey ks on the tof eut tor & play, ntempor: said My ¥ Howard delicately 4 more thau in the the rutued gateway ainly giveu us a wonder oue 80 young as 80 gravefully ex- l the pressed the emotions he plays upon in this plece? was remaried by oue of the party “Itis rarely the case that o young man may “take up the harp of hife and smite on all its cords with might;’ how r ol ating or noble his sentiments and_impressions, he scldom gives them such vivid and at’ the same time so delicate expression as is found tis true,” said Mr. Howard, “and tet me say that you have not heard the from Mv. Thomas yet. That young man capable of strong worl, and ho will yet gi to the world plays that will bear the - press of a master mind. He is o mechan a working man, and he will wive us some- thing in that line that will be different from iy thing we haye ever had, and will pres 0 of the American workin, le in the light they have n 1. There 1s much'of bright | "Thomas.” “shenandonh’ in the South, 1z to his own w *Shenandoah’ and » south. He told of how wrans of the lost cause had given the sbel yell us the ting files of Sheridan's emy ‘came fulling sullenly back past the Uinghim homestead, and of the sent up when the gallant Phil dash wy Juck,” rallied the broken f turn rout iuto victor 1t was the iu. nate chivalry of those men that chee their naturil recoguition of courage au their intimate knowledge of h, lution it takes to rally a boc uf men o it has onco been stampede e only nmm\hm I have to doah,’ " said a southerner, ily ' natural that a man should resent o 50 ut ly despicable, however necessury he 1s to tho action of the play 7’ Mr. Howard smiled, *You make the mis take that hundreds of others huve made, he suid. “That character drawn with the view that neither seetion should feel resentment at bemg credited with tie He is & northern 1 sives with the s uis personal v ter Shenan is thospy. 1t is the furtheranc If you remembi there is 4 line in th that explains this, At the ball, when the news comes that Sumter has been fired upon, Colonel Bllinghau says to (the spy afterward) : ‘We of the south will tight this out ourselves. We waut no assistance from men of your stripe. To most pl S 1ark is lost in the press of incidents which crowd so thickly wround the cnd of the tirst act, an in the intercst engendered by the remaind of the piece the incident 15 completely swal i Fature Mine for Dewm stlsta is a difloulty ¢ mounted us might the strife between the north arrangement of it, w in this, however. The writer wust have his hero on one side and his heroine on the other. With this condition be cannot do much injustico toone or the other without an dnjustice to the chavacter. This enables Lim to swooth over many things that would otherwise be the means of king the whole fabrie. ileld By ti ny' is very good example of what nious writer can do in hang d by incidents of strong things in that is especially good 8 different vhuse is o wonderful tor the that the de tru the’ same ay now deal with the Crom for instanc will plays founded on the iuci dents of the rebellion. This time is ot remote us Cromwell's days; it coming faster than we realize, you is . great wuy of. Still, people, north aud south, ure cou ing to 100k ou the war aud and more philosophicall one of the great incidet @ greas nation, the buildis [ 4 national character. 1t had to be; it was u terrible conflict, bat it has been productive of lastiag good, und the good Lus just begun 1sily sur a piay on ud south, I in itself, aids appedr 1o mak n L au i the W ng the lat field conflict Wi time come with the fuc ther o is 1o flow from it this much more cl an we do.” ol nt deeadence of the | “far Howard spoke more | hopefully th young actor, now cn- tering on the enjoyment of the fruits of art, It was in Omaha some months ago. he was o ‘American )mmh wanta play that will make them think said tho young artist in his bi “Ihey think to much of business, at the play house which 1 for the time and le remembered and ponde; This sentiment ith. “People do no longe rd takes iss to think and will must have sometn to them their condition, will always be t ouzh people, but a writer need not put tho srial in his pl will be elad to get it if it teac thit can be applied in every day life.” The success which has attendéd the young who sosnearly despaived of making o in his chosén line has provably led L moro op tic way of thinking of thin how © in the West, ht Mr. Howar apliment o the several eities veach may well feel proud ing from one who has no especial curry. In iooking at some of the buildings aloug Farn the soft lizht of the half full moon shinng almost dur down he said: *The thing that has cc most ibly in my first visit to the tis the great tiste shown by the archi- 5 of tho cities -Kansas City, Deuver, St Louis, Omaha—a matter of which the peo ple should feel proud. 1t is evident that the owners have beiter judgment or are not so biased us in the cast. ‘There it isonly too o the case that the man who has the sh to erect a fine building also has notion s ownas to what 1ts exterior form d be. He insists on the architect em- bodying in his plans what is geuer & whim or ion than an ide sult far from >, Here the architect his artistic is nerally in a beautiful design, 1t has gi he west a wealth ol archite tural beauty thatin time to cowe the citi zens of ber thriving centers will appreciute wose than they do now paid the con or to is given worked ¢ BARRY G008 ANO s PETS, ot S Peculiar of an Actor L Meangerie, of the Aristocracy eat admiver of animals. He 1 his extensive travels by cetion of pets which constitute a s An iuventoey of the actor's toys discloses five dogs, twenty-th birds and two bet skunks of excetlent dep Mr. Barrywore was bewg pulled the stago by two Esquimau d Boyd's theater when 5 y orter. He had these odd pets hitehe )y i oa el 1 DArncss, 1 watched their wtios with evident pont oy favorites,” said Mr I got them in 5 AbouL They thorougnoved | dogs. Tam v fond and have seyeral onis & Chinese dog Come in and see t A visit 1o the ressing r the members of Mr, Ba family.” A bird cage w different of fe Ching. One of the s berry” bird, which chang: waner similar to that characteristic of a second Ch nese birds, iu the sawe others, was & pronounced exclusiveusss—a wi us n Mauric npany aceompaniea Arrymore isa g all wenagerie nd at “ Barr our limau ugh Another generation will sce | | exceedingly | Ic refused to oceupy e ith the rest of the collection. They 'w wanish, and always huddled themselves. They scemed 1o they were members of the ther Lize 10y by thiit “Chow” dog out the room specimen re mmiature plan. Epicurenn Luxu STt may sound strange, cue, thitt these dogs n Chi a dish fiv for an evicure,” explained Barrymore. “In Hong Koy raised and prepared for market are in this country. The Chiness will not eat any other kind of ¢ their name—Chow. from Hong This odd Sing o bear on round with a The: me extent. 1with a pro ches to the intelligence dogs prance sort of Mikada quickst the puj the first year the, fuse growth of ground. They possess gr winteh dogs. ted Clydesdale, wreely four inches in pleted the canine o breathing His cyes wi > thiough bewhiskered antenanco, a whose leng bl of canine it dog er; d the actol as you bastow most allection on o craatures. 1 regard a best f d. Orcourse I enjoy ¥ to some extent and like elub life sl at, but Lam alwags happy with my It costs me a 0ot sum to keep the but where 1 go th il go, s lon as | n the stage of 1ife. The vnly adverse criti cism | can make on Nebrasia 1s the mis taken judicial idea thav exisis in this st on doj I understand that your courls herc rule thata dog is not property, but that a dog collar is. Thiat is ratner absurd. Why would it not apply to horses that did not wear horse collars ! Burrymore s a o Burrymore s athlete, Iu 1572 he won cup~the emblem of the amatéur Loxing ampionship of Engiand. His correct nawme is Blythe. He has had anumber of exciting instances in his dramatic career, in which his pugilistic abilitybag been fully tested He knocked u man through a street car window in St. Louis several years ueo for insulting a lady member of thic troupe with which hie was at thut time associated. Ho also whipped & hackdrlver in Chicago in 1885 and successfully vouted two footpads in Louisyille in 184 On sions he nas resented of his dogs, and i very clever man ‘with his here is one jucideng in carcer that always cauges a cl to fiit across his bt 18 4 vefer to the associate actor, Tex., 1 1830 Po Cutimings of the *Diplomacy ™ ¢ seated in a vailway dining rc of lunch, ure, oue night Jim Curry, o Texas desperado took offense at §o fed acei A quarrel @ auring which started 10 adunist d thrashing o the Texan, but the latter pulied out two re- voivers and shot Bareymore und Porter. The Latter ws kille Birrymore subsequontly recover Curry w tand his rathe it a fortune to suve his son's neck. In he was s standing the that the actors of the o y raised o fund to prose Curry 800, er, mewhat of an Queensbury Mr. th ill re Bireymore's oud of regret some features. That wyrder of his former n Rorter, at Ma er, Barryn ny Mirs| W depart nj) m at preparatory 48 entered and i ot Porter Burry mo v T for the inection with th with Wednesday rlorimance. Mustcal aad Dramatie Van Zandy, who has been liviog quictly at her howe' in London during the to ar, has been eng ume pri ason at the Opera Con is the first L opera corgine von e soprano house in Vienna. Lithan Russell will receive $70: this scason at the New York Casinc tion to half the profits of the entery ay Templeton has returned to and will head her own comp evival of *Madame Payart. It 1s said that Christine Nilsson's dining room is papered with hotel bills collected durmg her variou: Miss I"unny Davenpo invented a ne game of pool which is played at her summer residence. Sue has had the portraits of vl ading stars of Kuvope and Lon the balls and cach s s e or she is pocketed arteau, who has now been cighty-five concerts instead of planned, will make his in nce in Cincinnati November the Orpheus ciub. . G, Pratt has accepted the torof the Iuterpe soc City, which was formerly Bristo nschowsky t the Imp a week n addi- ise. comic ny in gl much appoint of N Lhe under fek Paulding stars Septen ing in Mrs, e begin the ber 15, in Albany, ) Gieneral Landers play, *A Duel of Hearts,” The Bayreath fes perfo 1864 will take place from July 19 1o August 19, and embrace thirty reproscntations, in cluding ~Parsital,” “Lohenzrin,” and “Tann hauser A Sun Fra ) paper siy compiny nas 1risco wiio ¢ " with half the of Miss Terry The obby of Mr. v Lhe mees in 3 0f the In been seen in bick of a sof wd reckless vigor Keith's new half million ter in Bostou 15 # oot wide © s deep and it opaus into a big foye X003 feet. The main audicorium will hol 3,000 people, Stuart Robson's production of a “Comedy of Errors" in Brooklyn lust Monday w the most importunt this comeeiun hiis ever undertaken, The scenery, costunics, armor and oth accessorios wer @ revelation Munager Huyden says the cost of the revival wais nearly 30,000 Mr, Barnabee has accepted Mrs. Bartiett Davis' terms for the will rejoin the Bostonians this re s Lo bo the best alto in English op turned to the comp: nbers are all bacl, Camille d’Ar 1 Boston as Pring Jessic concede Il also Ny the disaf with the ex who is quite Kam he p he ord all e to h latter pary of this proseription amateur sopranos of th and “Sweet Violets' brand Albani has iter how inging 4 n explaining serves her v tou Lsho ins it a I'he mmeuded Marguerite W Henry leving Fral last week joss house whon actor how Celestial garded by their visited Chinatown The chiof pr asked by the professionals county o8, that San 03t of English wwe re answered offeolor all that there is 1 st isco is i irrent Persons taleat and sction, led in ition v from ils whose cause of wusic 1l with rl ni v lubors will ad Vi S99, 1 thoir native laud.! | | | ‘r i werew these at half price, sure no one else and be in town will have one like it. ¥ By paying a small deposit vou can se- cure any of lln-« wrments. BOSTON S?ORE Omaha, MURDERED AT HIS PRAYERS Weird Legend of an Old Farm House Near South Omaha. MYSTERY OF A RECLUSE WITH A ROSARY Nceno of the Crime b ap Kep: Assassinution unted for Yenrs by uction of the It Causod Consld- erable Talk The Story. There is a weird story connected with an old farm houso that formerly stood about a mile below the city lmits of South Omaha, in Sarpy county. This antique building wa torn down a'out u year The ground was plowed up and now forms a part of a cornficld nd of the place, as told by people who have lived near ther for o good many is full of interest When Omaha was lacent couniry w y-hai part of the country ana buily ty wais a very refined looking man i appearance of being well eidu uo friends among the s where he eame from, nor built the place with his own great pi and neat Over exterior of the building he put on tin plates and the house at the *“old tin house. ruth small and one roomn and noue of the peopl invited into the intevior of the dweiling Around the house the owner planted some cotLon od trees and made a garden and al wiays b A great many flowers that seemed his only companions. Of course the seitlors evinced much euriosity concerning the old nan and many conjectires were made, but no one ever found out anything def tity. After ho had beeo th A rumor got abrond that he amount of money the housc and sortof a hernit, the ten dencies of a miscr. Kitled on Mig B on after this it ace began 10 1o by # num a smauil village and th sparsely sc mg o thi Ho i had the He made lers und never said was. He inds and took : it comfortable house e who ho s to mal known ) It wa contained but we r in with od K s noticed that ne 1, and after g of times and se uo 5 0f 1ifo, one of the ing 1isitive s went to the 1o sce if the old man wis sil He opened the door and looked in and a sight met his goze that abin vercami him. 1n the dun ligat of the the body of the old 1 ving before a sor of & rude altar, wit wound in his h The ' candles Altar bud long sinee goueout and the fowers ved and dry, All the ornaments were scattered about us though sowe had hurriedly led througi them. On stooping over the man the settler found clasped tightly in his eugid hands, a rosary with which e had evidently been saying hen his life suddenly e creching ussussin had the appear rvansicked, 50 torn fi or had but w ogm. il on thi his en 4 by The Lous been thoroughily bourds had b 1s and the number of place ever got anythic him for his da tardl deea w never ascertained. The counlry was new and the murderer made his ape and wus never e heard of. ‘e body of the old man was buried in the little yard with a crucifix wd a i Cross was placed over place of his buria and the oceurrence would ) it but for a strange g that hap peued soon afterward. One rainy night oue | 0f tue men who lived below the pluce quite & l ince of havin, of the m the sides of th been torn ther the m wis i n his breast Thic ' distance got ns f; Sa,mples CHILD S MISSES’ CLOAK [All the Children’s and Misses’ | C s in this purchase go at EXACTLY HalfPrice Szt (100K 81,99 XS.OU (100 $2.50 0 83,50 A0 Cloks $5.00 it (100158625 “hildren’s and Misses’ Children’s and Misses’ Children’s and Misses’ €hildren’s 1240 anlun Store, Omaha 18 this house when the ne 50 heavy that he had to scek He went into the house and fixed hl'nm'l as comfortably as h uld with what he could find in the way of blankets, Then be laid down to sleep util morning, Ghost He was night by a s and looking almost to de seemed to bo on the altar v old mun d to ope Picturo of a Crime the middle of the noise and on sitting up him he was frightened th by what he saw, Tt m d ted by some candle 1 thy 1 for was knoclin > door {some one came in stealth- hind the old man_ the 1t aim a blow with a vietim fell backwards with- he stranger then searched for something, and gathered serap of paper he could find and puy in his pocket and after standing over the old n 1 lgoking fiercely at him, es- arliess.” The settler, trem- y limp, got up and loft the place ne could. . He told the story s laughed at by many. who snid that am, but ne stuck to the TUMors got out ahoat the hey had heard queer that they had seen ex-oceupant walking Unight wringing his hands ¥ of 1 place began ted and weeds wrew in profusion The only people who ever » tramps, who did not d of the hau houso, he building has been torn down, ly thing left to mark the spot are n the tall, old cottonwood trees, planted so A20 by iic sterious old man, who was murdercd in the old tin house, - ShEhts 10 tho Southwest up the Rio Grande valley said a tourist just returnod Mexico, to the New York Sun, ‘some of the scenes that I saw med to be rather of Syrin than ot a western tervitory of the United States, The little patclies of wheat and barley about th Indian and Mexican villages had been reaped, and the natives wore threshing grain by the primitive meuns used in seviptural times. In the open fields wus the threshing floor of clay, veled and beaten hard, Upon this the in in the straw was stacked, and und the edge of the heap sheep or ats were driven in a eirele at top weed. As they van the grain continually worked down from the center under their feet, which quickly threshed it from the straw. The hurrying animals, the dark-skinned, picturesquely elad Mexicans and Indians, shouting, gesti- culating and cracking whips to urge them on; the brown, bure-armed “women winnowing grain by tossing it bigh in blankets, made pleture full orf color and motion. In its setting of arid land- scape, bounded by distant monntains, with a foreground” diversificd by a few flat-roofed mud houses, standing amid tiny vineyards, cornficlds and orchards, and a few towering cottonwoods marke ing the ¢ of the Rio Grande, the spectacle med an_antique passage from the Orient. ily shostly vy iron, ntruder o T'h Some noises, and oth tho ghost of thy about the place as if i an ag to bo negle in the yard visited the pia know the | The fow Stean S Traveli last month, from w w York the statement the manager of T'he Herald is responsinle for that Augustin Daly will be new uplown thealer that i to be built in New York at a total cost of 1,000,000, and that wiil be the most expen- sive theater in America. The prices of tickets will be very high, and the house will cater only to the rich. ‘I'he foremost artiste of the world will eugaged to make ap- wrances to relieve the stock compauy ally. There will be a club fu con- nection with the theater, the rooms entered from the foyer, wembership in which will by limited to the 400,