Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 29, 1893, Page 11

ety B WAY DOWN A SILVER NINE Descending a Thonsand Peet Into tho Earth by Way of a Buoket. WHERE D'RKNESS AND SILENCE REIGN Ore Resembling Yellow Clay—Some Women Who Pos Nerve~A Lower Re- gion ihat s Too Wet for Fires Dexven, Colo.,, Oct. 24.—[Correspondence of Tue Ber. ]—Did you ever go duwn a silver mine?! While in Leadville theotherday I noticed soveral cars of what looked to my eyes liko yeliow clay, more yellow,true, than lay vhicl k is made, and on inquiry was told that it was silver ore from Carbonate hill, enroute to the Icouldn't help but contrast the in the ore from that obtained from thosilver mines in the Clear Creek district, which isof a dull, lead color and hard, but then[ was not ‘‘upin” ores, so that accounted for it. Leadville's glory as taking the foremost rank as the silver camp in thestate has somewhat declined. Only a few ryears ago Carbonate hill, the Jittle Pittsburg mine and Leadville itselfs were household words throughout the state, and in mining circles created the greasest excitement. Carbonate hill, lying to the east of the ci is completely honeycombed with thousands of shafts and the names of paying mines n past days would fill an ordinary city directo) Things have changed, however. There are mnot many paying ones now, the decline in silver making the working of mines of low grades ores impracticable. For several months, even the paying ones have been shutdown until some setilement as to the market and diffe ces in labor were adjusted. Some, however. have had to be operated to lim: ited extent to keep them from filling up. Expects to Strike 1t Rich. ‘While spending the evening at the house of a friend the conversation turned to mines and mining, and it was finally agreed that we should form a party and visit the mine of one of the gentlemen present, who expected to strike it rich almost atany time, and I might say that this is the “lhope on which many go broke,” though of course there are some who have struck it vich and struck it hurd, too. The following morning we drove over to Carbon Hill, a party of four, two Leadville ladies, the manager and myself, Arrivingat the shaft house the man- ager hunted up some old rubber clothes and gave them to us with the significant remark that we had better don them, @ we might find it a trifie wet down there. Let Dowa In a Bucket. 1 had pictured in my own mind stepping Into a cage similar to an elevator and ship- ping down an eloctric lighted hole in the ground. 1 was disappointed. Instead there were simvly a few boards thrown together to shelter the boislm? engine, a wire rope leading from it, entering a square hole, over which hung a bucket similar to a well dig- er's, only a trifle larger. “‘Are we expected o down in that?” I asked. *‘Why, ves,” roplied the manager. *How deep is it? T ap- prohensively asked. “Well, we are down past the ‘tenth level,’ a little over 1,000 feet.” I looked at the ladies, who had already donned their rubbers, to see what effect the conversation would have on them, for if I had seécn the least trace of timidity on their part 1 had made up my mind to back out. But there was none, and I wemblingly knew I was in for The manager stepped iuto the bucket. re- marking that he would descend first, have lights ready, and on signal 1 could descend with the ladies. ‘*‘Go ahead, Jim,” he re- marked to the engineer, who stepped to the engine, and the manager suddenly disap- peared from view. Femlnine Pluck. Shortly afterward the engine was reversed and the bucket came to the surface. 'The Iadies stepped in without any trepidation whatever and I sorrowfully followed. A bell rang and we suddenly dropped out of the light of the world. Thoughts of “A Journey to the Center of the Earth” entercd pur heads and we held to our breath and the bucket and in a most incredibly short space of time the bucket stopped, our friend stood at the opening of a tunnel with lighted can- dles and remarked: “Be rather careful in stepping out; you are now down 1,000 feet and there is water to the depth of 100 sfeet below you. An Awfal Silence. “This was not particularly reassuring and 1 ‘was heartily glad to see that the lights were 80 dim that the ladies could not se¢ my pale face. The manager led the way through the tunnel, und we observed that the earth re- sombled the yellow ore that I had noticed on the cars. No human pen can adequately de- scribe the fearful silens ut existed! Our watches ticking sounded as loud as a clock, and holding the breatn, one could hear the beart beat. “I should think such awful silence would be enough to send the miners crazy,” 1 remarked, “Oh, they get used to it, and never give it a thought,” was the reply. The Pay Streak, The manager took us to the end of the tunnel that exposed the ore vein, Holding the candle and breaking off a chunie he showed us a thin streak of silver thread sur- rounded with a bright yellow shining clay, This clay is what is called giant clay and surrounds the pay streak. “This lead is getting better all the time,” he romarked, “but we are trespussing on an- other man's property and had to regretfully quit. However, we are on snother lead in another part of the mine d expect to strike it any time.” 4 Back to Dayilght. After supplying ourselves with samples we were hoisted to the surface. The shaft was dripping with water from between the heavy timbers that it was walled up with, and we appreciated our rubber garments. It was a genuine sigh of relief that escaped us (av which the others laughed), as we stepped from the bucket wev and covered with clay. Still it 'was an experience that was novel and highly appreciated, There are many mines, of course, that are deeper and 1n every way better equipped, going down which must be a positive Pleasurc comvared to this one, JWe left convinced that the miners, with their risk and labor, certainly deserved svery cent they earned. F. W. P. ELECTRL NOTES, The increase in the use of the current for light and power in Germany is very great. In the past year the number of incandescent (amps hasincreased from 87,703 to 105,004 and the total output of current has grown from 45,960,000 s pere hours 10 53,000,000, Tho electric light, gas and telephone com- ] panies of Toronto have this year, for the tirst time, been assessed on their mains, les and wires, In the caso of the Toronto Eie('l.riu Light company this will mean an increase of taxation from 1,200 to about §7,000 per year. The test roc y made on the Beauharnais canal of ng of lock gates by electric motors was so successful that it has been de- cided Lo adopt electric power for the lock gates of the nearly completed Soulanges supal, on the St. Lawrence river, Wherever electricity hus been used for this purpose it is found that the operation which formerly took four men four winutes to accomplish can be comploted with tho greatest ease by the motors in about one minute, Street car companies have for some time been weighing tho question of making easy distinotions between trolley curs of one ttern and painting, but in operation on ifferent bran ‘The problem appears to huve been satisfactorily solved by a device which hus been mtroduced on a’ Canadian street car line. Above the head of the metorman & disk is hung containing a white elrcle, a red triangle, u green square, or other distinctive emblem, according to the lity for which tne car is bound. These signs are large enough to be seen ata long distance and are to be ‘illuminated, 8o as to ‘be as distinct at night as by day, which hus heretofore been the main trouble! The rewmarkable electrical experiment pecently madein Berld in which a by of iron was apparently melted by wserting it cold water have naturally stimulated © OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1893-TWENTY PAGES. apparatus used is a vessel of glass or porce- lain, provid with a sheot lead electrode connected with the positive pole of a con- tinuous current generator. The vessel con- tains sulphuric acid and water. A flexible cable from the ne,n“vc pole is connected to & strong pair of pliers with insulated handles, Taking in the pliers a piece of metal of ln{ kind —iron, for instance —and immersing it in the acldulated water the liquid is seen immediately in ebullition near the iron rod or plate, which latter is rapidly heated and brought to a dazzling white in a few seconds, and_soon begins to melt in sparkiike drops, The heating is producad 80 quickly locally that neither the water nor the body of the metal rod has time to become hot. So rapid an evolution of heat tremendously high temperature. -y short time as high as7,00> E\ has been developed. Some of the London clectrical supply firms are taking vory sensible and practical steps to enable the public to readily enjoy the ad- vantages of electrical heating. They are not only lending out el s cooking stoves to customers, but are prepared to supply a separite meter and charee half raves for cooking, which they can afford to do, much as the consumption takes place during the day, when the dynamos mustgenerate electricity and when there is little demand for lighting purposes. Besides these ovens there are breakfast cookers, in which eggs and bacon may table; electric being ordered for London be kept in the dining room without any of- fensive smell; electric. foot warmers, hot plates, stewpans, kettles, flavirons, orna- mental screens which act as radiators of heat and warm a room, electric curling-iron heaters for ladies and electric shaving pots for gentlemen. ket cnsiin THE tHEATE (S, “The Masked Ball,” which comes to the Boyd on tomorrow evening, and continuing the two following evenings, with matinee Wednesday, had its first production in New York Cityon October # of last year. It vroved before the curtain went down that night thay Manager Charles Frohman had the luck of getting a play which was better than**Wilkinson's Widows,” by the same au- thors,and unlike most of the modern comedy farces, ‘‘The Masked Ball” is really posi- tively, genuinely funny. It isa three-act vlay of a very gay, lively, gallic yet not im- proper sort,” and the pace which is set at a very rapid rate from the outset is capitally well maintained and is managed with a steady crescendo effect tll the close of the piece. A dry skeleton of the plot gives no notion of the fun of ““The Masked Ball.” Tt is said tobe full of invention, has more shapes inits action than a protius, more colors than a chameleon and more changes than an April day. The farcial touch is what it should be; it exaggerates the truth of life, does not contradict it, and so amuses without being silly. Kven ' the details of stage business and costume are used with such_inventive ingenuity as todelight the artistic sense, and it would be hard for a season theater goer to believe that a lady’s masked ball costume, and a gentleman's carnival pasteboard nose could successfully do the duty of perfect disguises with an effect both of the probable and the comical, yeuall this is done in “The Masked Ball.” The fun is light, wholesome and decently relating to life and nature. “The Girl I Left Behind Me" is a distinct- ively American drama in both its conception and treatment. The Indian question is its theme, a distinctively native one, and the authors have undertaken to solve the diffi- cult problem of creating a frontier dram; without its vsual accompaniment of sensa tionalism. The scene is at a military g: rison in the Blackfoot country, Montanu, and the drawing room element thus becomes strongly and uaturally in evidence. The story deals with the love affair of the daugh- ter o the general in command of the garri- scn, The hero and the villain are lieuten- ants, and both are in love with her, ‘I'he bravery of the one and the cowardice of the other ffizure prominently in the story, which moves along simultaneously with an upris- ing of the Indians, the besiezing of the post, to the helpless power of the inmates and the final rescue. General Kennion, commanding the department, has a daughter, Kate, who is betrothed to Lieutenant Parlor. Previ- ously she has had a Jittle love affair with another young licutenant of the same troop, Edgar Hawkesworth, and on the eve of her marriage she discovers that her heart is still true to her old love. Still she resolves to carry out her coutract, and the closing incident of this act is tho gathering of the whole troop to wish her hap- piness in her marriage. The second act opens in tiie post barrack-room during & ball, There are reports of an Indian uprising, and the two young lieutenants have been sent on a scouting expedition. This act ends with a thrilling climax, The third act is an Ameri- can “Relief of Lucknow.” The post, few in numbers, is surrounded by bloodthirsty sav- ages. At last resistance becomes hopeless, and at her own request the general is about to kill nis own daughter to save her from falling into the hands of the savages, when in the distance she hears the bugles'of the gallant Twelfth coming to the relief. The relief is successful, and the garrison is The fourth act is devoted to ghtening out the love affair of a young surgeon and a native maiden of the north- west, and also the attachment of Lieuten- ant Hawkesworth's er, Lacy, for Private Jones. Retribution alights upon the villain's Justice is satisfied, peace restored, i 1 Left Behind Me" retu to her true love. This production will be presented at Boyd's new theater nexv Thursday, Friday ?nd Saturday evenings, andSaturdav mai- nee. Today Mr. and Mrs, Oliver Byron and their company will close their present en- gagement at Boyd’s theater by givi two performances of the play, Plunger,” The nviece is named Plunger” because the hero is always plung- ing after something. At first it is fora widow, and then he is found plunging for robbers. In the second act a man is thrown from the {ifth floor of a house. The third act discloses a villa upon the picturesque Hudson river, showing a view of the historic Garfield hut, and theact ends with a comic surprise. An elevated railroad station fur- mshes the scenery for the fourth act, with an luminated view of the New York post- office and the oftices of a number of well known metropolitan newspapers. This is said to be one of the most realistic City of New York scenery that has ever been placed on the stage, and includes a rain and thunder storm with torrents of real water. Itis made especially interesting and exciting by Lhe rescue of a woman from being run over by a railroad train, The fifth and last act brings the piece to a pleasing termination, and the plunger is made happy by the con* fession of a murderer and che gaining of a bride. Atthe evening performauce there will be 550 seats at b0 cents each, “The Stowaway,” which opens this after- noon at the Fifteenth Street theuter for a ( glits engagement, is one of the most L melodramas over given in this It has remained secure in popular esteem for hall & dozen years, and still shows no signs of waning pobularity, Its s8 may be attributed solely to its un- questionable merit and the oxcellent mannsr in which it has always been played and mounted, It belongs tothe good old melo- dramatic school, and its stiring scenes and thrilling situations, all of whi up to Ating climaxes by the skil'ful hand of u practiced playwrignt, never fail to evoke the wildest applause. The reappearance of Lhat quaint comoaran, Willie Collier, und nis excellent compauy, is one of the events of the season in the line of farcical entertainments, “Hoss and Hoss" is still the vehicle in which this company ap- pears, and its undiminished fun, ludicrous situations and vpumerous specialties will elp to increuse its never fuiling popularity. (Le date for their appearance here is next Thursday, November 2, for turee nights at the Fifteenth Street theator. “Hoss and Hoss"” bas been entirely rewritten, rear- ranged, reconstructed up o date, and, like wine, improves with age. This will be the fourth season of unprecedented success of young Collier and his play, and 1t is a source of gratification to see 80 young & comedian so near the top of the ladder, for it is not five years since he wasa call boy in Daly's tneater, New York, and it has been by the use of legitimate methods entively that he bas worked his way to the froot. The com- pany this season is stronger than ever. Among the wowen are Louise Allen Collier, Helena Collier, Helen Relwer, Madge Yorke, Mae Daveuport sud several other well known actresses. in % further investigation ou the same line, 'nul Sherman Wade plays the part of Lawyer Charlie Hoss, taken by Mark Sullivan last season ; £dd Readway takes Arthur Molten's place as Birdie Hoss, the judge's son. Tho remainder of the cast is unchanged and in- cludes James B. Gentry Hank Thanks, the sheriff; J. R, Murchie, David Andrada, Thomas D. Daly, M. L Hedkert, Albert Fos: or. The music has been arranged by, and is now under the direction of, Bmil O. Wolff. Musionl and Dramatio. Sir Arthur Sullivan has, it is said, received £50,000 as his share of the profits in “The Lost Chord.” McKee Rankin has left the Drow company and has organized & company for the Aleazar theater in San Francisco. 1t is stated that the roceipts for the first week of the Irving engagement at the Columbia exceeded $35,000. Mme, Lillian Nordica was the star of the recent Worcester, Mass., music festival, and won a veritable ovation at every appear- ance Walter Damrosch has Burope and commenced_rohe symphony orchestra in Now cs sny that sixty-four theatrical in the United States wont into last week and the end is not roturned from als wigh his During the year 1803 over 6,000 pieces of music will be published in France. In 1802 9,703 pieces were published in Germany and 3 in France, Richara Mapsfield has a new play en- . “Napoleon Bonaparte,” which he in- tends to produce after he does ““The Mer- chant o1 Venice.” Mme. Lillian Nordica has been engaged by the Oratoria society to sing in the ‘*Mes- siah,” to be given at Music hall, New York, on December 20 and 80. Lillian lod from New York for k The object of her visit to Cuba is to get _ten little nativo boys to play in “Princess Nicotine.” Bandmaster Sousa was presented with a gold medal a weelk ago at his concert at the St. Louis exposition. Ex-Governor Stanard made the presentation speech. Charles H. Hoyt is hard at work licking +*A Milk White FPlag" into shape. This will be a farce comedy pure and simple, and will be produced in Boston in Decembe: Alexander Salvini and Paul Kester are at work ona new play entitled “Zamar, the Vagabond King,” the scenes of which are laid in Spain during the time of Phulip IL The finishing vouches are being applied to B, F\ Keith's magnificent new theater in Bos- ton, This house will have more seating ca- 1‘1flcl|,_) than any other theator edifice in Bos- on, Miss Carlotta Dosvignes, contralto, who for the iast three years has taken part in musical festivals n Great Britain and France, has arrived in New York under en- gagement to sing in ovatorio and concerts during the season. Glen MacDonough, author of the text of “The Algerian,” 18 only 23 years old and passed five vears as a reporter on the New York World before he succeeded in writing two or three successtul plays and raising his ncome to about $8,000 & year, Mme. Minnie Hauk, after visiting the ex- position, will fulfill engagements in the west and i California_and return to Europe by way of Japan. Mme. Hauk, who has been study Japanese industriotsly, is said already to be able to converse in that lan- guage. Henry Marteau, the French violinist, has gone 10 Vienna to study the mew Scotch suite by Max Bruch with the compo: Marteau will concertize in Frankfort, M ence, Cologne, Berlin and Leipsig before sa ing for America in November. ‘There is now singing in_Berlin, under the stage name of Princess Pocahoutas, a half- breed Indian girl, whose voice is said to have been discovered some years ago in San Francisco by the late Karl Formes. She has a high soprano pronounced of worth By the Berlin critics. Adelina Patti will sing the role of Mar- guerita in Gounod's “Faust,” at her reap- pearance at Music Hall, New York, Novem- ber 9. The rest of the cast will embrace Mme. Fabbri as Siebel, Mr, Durward Lely as Faust, Sig. Novara as Mephistopheles and Miss Louise Engel as Maria, James O'Neill is accredited with a great success in the character of Richelien, which Lo essayed at Worcester, Mass.. & woek ago Friday night. “Richelien” will hereafter havea permanent place in Mr. O'Neill's repertory. x Mr. Marcus R. Mayer announces that Mme. Pattiwill leave London for Liverpoot October 287 and will take passage on the Lu- cania, arriving in New York on the follow- ing Friday or Saturday. Her first appear- ance will be at Carnegie Music hall, Thurs- day, November 9, when will be presented a miscellaneous program and the third act of “Faust,” On concluding their engagement in Chi- cago the Coquelin-Hading company will go divect to Sun Francisco. After vlaying in that city these French artists will go to New Orleans without stop. They will after- ward play i Washington, Philadelphia, Montreal and Boston, and in January they will begin a nine wecks’ engaugement at Ab- bey’s theater in New York, The lightning during the storm scene in icago Opera house is 1 ticularly well imitated and the apparatus for producing it is absolutely unique, It con- sists of one old file, o ld piece of brass roa and one de: rt circuit. Roal lightning is the result, and the effect is ex- cellent, far surpassing the artificial flash of the magnesium light formerly used to obtain this result. Mme. Modjeska's tour begins at Buffalo October 16. Her repertory will include **Macbeth,” *The Merc! t of Venice,” “Mary Stuart,” “As You Like It” and *“Much Ado About Nothing.” In addition, she will i have wan adaptation of Heinrich Suderman’s strong drama,‘‘Heimath,” which will be rechristened **Magda.” Mme. Mod- eska has purchased the sole right to the English version of the play. Joseph Jefferson, who is now in excellent health and strength, began his tour October 23at the Walnut Street theater n Phila- delphia, appearing in a special and elaborate production of “Rip Van Winkle.” Tho great comedian has the assistauce of & com- petent company, including George F, Nash, Edwin Varrey, Joseph Warren, H. Odlin, Christopher Kylay, Walter Howara, Annie Mack-Berlein, Blanche Bender, Minnie Par- ker, Baby Parker, little Nanon Fowler and Mrs, Cameron. The theaters in Boston have found it nec- essary to ndopt measures to curtail the cost of “window advertising”; that is, to cut down the numbor of passes issued to the oc- cupants of shops 1 which lithographs and other announcements of performances are exhibited. The wonder is that intelligent managers waste any money or nasses upon such comparztively uscless advertising. ‘The people who aitend theaters are the readers of daily papers. Mme. Christine Nilsson, now known as the countess of Miranda, lives for the greater part of the year in a fine house—almost a palace—ut Madrid. In its internal decora- tion she has displayed a certain amount of occentricity, for her bedroom is papered with sheets of music from the scores of the v. ous operas that she hus interpreted, while the walis of the dining room ang covered with a collection of hotel bills, the result of the singer's many professional tra both hemispheres [ ] ! Most persons seeing Colonel Kilgore's nawe in eold type will imagine that they know how to pronounce it, says a Wash- ington correspondent. The correct way isn't as easy as 1t looks. That “bawn and raised southerner,” Senator George of Mississippi, went over tothe house end of the capitol the other day. At the entrance he encountered one of the smart young doorkeepers detailed by Tammany to come down from New Yor! to help run congress, “Boy,” said Senator George, ‘you go on the floah and tell Kun'i Keel-goh to come to the doh.” The Tammany man looked at the sen- ator a little curiously, as if he half sus pected something in the way of a guy. Then he went in withouta word. 1In'a few minutes he came out, and, address- ing the senator, he said infpressively: FKun'l Koel-goh can't come to the doh, because he's gone to the stoh and won't be back till foh,” Then ne looked hard at Senator George. The senator returned the stare, turned and went back to the senate, NASTER SPIRIT OF THE UNION The Many-Sided Gentris Who Guided the Na- tion Throngh Rebgflion's Storm. TN, REMINISCENCES OF ' PRESIDENT LINCOLN Senator Palmer's Recollections of the Mar. tyred Chief Execative, Tllastrating His Marvelons Gradp df the Popualar Will-fnstructivh Anoedotes. e—tith There are few mensin public life so rich in interesting réminiccences as Sen- ator John M. Palmét of Illinois. And when one glances over the drama of his long life and notes the variovs parts he has played it is not surprising that his | experiences are 50 varied, No single ration has confined his powers, says a writer in the Chicago Post. In farming, the law, the battlefield and polities he has been a conspicuous man. Suecoss in any one of these would bo considered achievement enough for any ordinar mortal. But Palmer has achieved su cess in ail. He has one of the prettiest and richest farms in Illinois. He has won distinction at the bar and on the bench. . It has been Mr. Palmer’s privilege to Know many great men very intimately. Of them Abraham Lincoln was the greatest, and there is none who does him higher honor than the distinguished Illinois senator. While telling of old times in Washington, recently, Palmer mentioned Lincoln. ~This prompted a question to which the senator replied I saying that he knew the famous emanci- pator as far back as 1830, And the two were a great deal together in one way and another during the remainder of Lincoln's life. The senator did not in those early days see any of the signs of future greatness which others profess to have foreseen. “I regarded Lincoln as a good la®er and a fair sort of speaker,” the senator said, taking off his gold-rimmed spec- tacles and laying them on a half- finished specch he was prepaving. ‘‘None of us thought much about Lim one way or another, save as we did of one another. He was always good com- pany, and though a great many stories have been attributed to him he never heard of, much less told, he was an in- veterate story teller. He did not secem to tell stories so much for the stori themselves as for purposes of illustra- tion and application. I could relate many which have been told and pub- lished until everybody knows them— stories I heard him tell myself. But his aim, his purpose in story-telling, I can show you by one story—I think it was about the first I heard him tell. A lot of us were standing together one day listening to ex-Judge Krum of St. Louts roasting a judge who had decided a case against him. Krum criticised the gistrate sharply and wound up by de- g that he would take the case to the supreme court and have the judges of that high tribunal $how this magis- trate what law 'wasand take some of the conceit out of him at the same time. . Moved Him to Speak. “ “That,’ said Lincoln, who was one of the group, ‘that reminds me of a man who had a dream., He dreamed that if he would go and dig in a certain place and not say a word he would discover some precious treasure. And he dreamed that he went and dug, and that while he was digging o greéat many things oc- curred calculated to make him speak, but he didn't open his mouth. Battles between soldiers werg fought, andy too, botween ships. Buf he kept on digging and said nothing. Pretty soon a mighty giant came up to the pit and then passed on, taking enormous strides and moving with great rapidity. But the man kept on digging and said nothing. Aiter a while a little bit of a maneame prancing up. He stopped at the pit and, seeing the digger, said: * ‘Seen a big man pass heve?’ “The digger spoke not and the little fellow satd: ‘Can’t you answer a civil question?’ “Still the man spoke not, whereupon the little fellow said: 410N, well, I will catch him.’ ©And off hé ran, but though his legs moved rapidly theirshortness prevented his covering much ground, which struck the digger 5o forcibly he forgot himself, and in a tone of disgust and contempt, ejacnlated: ‘The hell you will!’ “The crowd caught the application in an instant,” the senator continued, “‘and all but Krum roared.” “Did Lincoln cut much of a figure in congress?” Lincoln as & Campalgner. “No. He did his duty in a satisfactory manner enough, but he didn’t set any grass afire. That was in the 40s during the Mexican war. He only served one term. In 1856 he was a candidate for the senate and he asked me to support him. Itold him I would like to do so, but that as I had had a row with some of my party because of my espousal of the anti-Nebraska bill, it was necessary that [ should be more democratic than ever. Lincoln saw my position and, though he felt hurt at my refusal and was a little angry, perhaps, he came around all right, I nominated Trum- bull, and on the first ballot Lincoln got, I think, 49 votes, Shields 47 and Trum- bull 5, After a while Lincoln saw that he could not get us five and he went among his own men and ordered them to voto for Trumbull, and Trumbull was elected. That night Lincoln came to our room, and because of the way he as- sisted us we promised to stand by him in the next fight, two years later, against Douglas, That was & memorable cams paign, and we canvassed the state to- It was then that Iincoln made atest speech of his life, beginning United we stand, diyided we falll Lincoln was a great campaigner. He was very tall—six feet two inches. His speeches were full of stories and he kept the audience with him. But Douglas beat us. 1 g ““When the nfttional campaign began the following year we went in to nomi- nate Lincoln, - Just before the conven- tion I remember the'father of the Horn- blower who is to ucceed Justice Blatch- ford on the supremy bench came to me to get me to consent, to putting Lincoln on the second place on the ticket. David Davis was present-and when I refused {:‘»int blank both Hornblower and Davis erated me. Hornblower insisted that we should have sorhe known and tried man like Seward to head the ticket. But 1 ‘allowed’ that Lincoln was quali- filed. Hornblowey went away much dis- runtled, and when he left I turned on Davis and berated:'him for the tongue- lashing he had given me. Went Home aud Told Mary, ‘I don't believe that Lincoln expected to be nominated,” *'I remember,” Mrs. Palmer observed, “I remember the day he was nominated. I saw him in the afternoon walking along the street in Springfield leading Tad with oue hand and carrying the market basket on his other arm. On the night of the ‘election I remember his standing under the gas jets reading the telegrams as they came in telling how the election had gone. Mrs. Lin- ooln was 80 excited sie had gone home. ' “You see,” the scnator put in, “‘we knew that Breckinridge would get the south and that Lincoln had Illinoi If Lincoln got New York we were su of his election.” ‘“When the telegram came announcing that New York had gone for Lincoln,” Mr Palmer continued, ‘“Mr. Lincoln read it very calmly and remarke ‘Well, I must go home and tell Mary And he did.” you think, senator, that Lincoln believed before his inauguration that there would be a big war?" was asked. ‘‘Yes. [wasthen a member of the peace conference. It met in February and continued into March. 1 told Lin- coln that the conference would come to naught and asked him what he wanted me to do. He told me to make big promises. ' ‘But, samd 1, ‘they regard me as your spokesman,and they will take what I say as coming from you * s all right,' Lincoln replied. re is going to be a long war. and what we now want is time. Promise them anything.’ “1 did'so," the senator promised things [ never could have sup- ported: but [ knew they would accept nothing. 1 remembor that Chase and others favored holding a convention which might divide the union peace- fully. I was then a great admirer of Chase. But when he suggested a con- vention I sprang to my feet and de- nounced the suggest®n. He looked round at me as if in oof. “Imean it," 1 cried. “‘The day is past when conventions can make or un- make nations, This union shail not be divided and if necessary the northwest with sword in hand will defend it” Palmer nt Scone River. “Didyou see Lincoln during the war “Yes. I saw him once in 1863, It was just after the battle of Stone River, where I commanded a division. That was a hot fignt. There were times dur- ing it when bullets whizzed by thick as rain. T don't know that I feared being struck, for I knew that if the bullet to kill me hadn't been molded I was in no danger. The rebels were good fighters and I admired the way they fought. 1 remomber once seeing a body of rebel cavalry come sweeping across the plain toward us. The sight was inspiring and I took off my hat and called out to my men: ‘There they come, boys. They are Americans and our countrymen. But it's our duty to fight them, and now give 'em h—1" Strange,” said the sena- tor, musingly, ‘‘strange how mex will swear in battle. Why, I've seen reachers in the thick of a fight cheer- ing on their men with the hottest kind of swearing I ever heard. “After the fight Yates, who was gov- ernor of Illinois, wrote me to come home. He wanted to raise troops for duty at home, for defense against the copper- heads, and he desired me to see Lincoln and get permission from him. [ went to Washington, saw Lincoln, talked the matter over with him and he favored it. But he told me to see Stanton. Stanton listened to me. 180 Yates wants to raise six regi- ments,’ he said. ‘Of course, general, you will command them?' “‘Not for anything in the world,’I replied. ‘I have a good command now at Stone River. I think a great deal of it. Besides, I don’t want to command troops right at my home.’ ““That shows the —- foolishness of the whole business,’ said Stanton. ‘If any danger athome you would g to take the command. Your not being willing shows you don't be- lieve that there is any danger. If I gave permission to raise those troops there would be bloodshed in Illinois in no time. I won't give permission.’ “I told Lincoln what Stanton said. He' saw he was right and Yates’ request was not granted.” Stantoa’s Independence, “Are the stories of Stanton’s repudia- tion of Lincoln’s orders true?” “In part. Stanton, of course, was not disrespectful to Lincoln, and he would obey every formal order that Lincoln gave. But Lineoln's giving his consent, as in my visit, counted nothing with Stanton.. Why, if Stanton had obeyed all such consents or done as Lincoln told him in such fashion he could not have remained secretary of war. Lincoln had too soft a heart. He wouldn't have permitted any court martial sentences to be carried out. It gotso at last that congress had to pass a law taking such things out of his hunds.” “When did you see Lincoln again?” “Not till 1865. Oglesby wanted me to gee him about an apportionment which showed that Iilinois had supplied about 18,000 more men than her share. I tried by every sort of explanation to prove to the provost marshal in Washington that we had supplied too many. I lost my temper and told him I didn’t believe he would acknowledge himself convinced evenif I succeeded in convincing him. He then acknowledged that he knew all the time that I was right, but that he had merely carried ont Lincoln’s orders. I told him he should have treated me differently; that his action had caused me to lose my tem&ler and my good opin- ion of him. Well, I saw Lincoln, He told me that what 1 claimed was true, ““ ‘But,’ he said, ‘you can’tdoanything aboutit. I took that many more sol- diers from Illinois because I could get soldiers from thereeasier than from any oth:r state.’ had resigned my command to carry out the mission, and when I saw my mission was hopeless I asked the presi- dent to give me a command. He said he guessed he would send me to take charge of things in Kentucky. T told him [ didn’t want thai unless I could have full sway. ' ‘Well," he said, ‘you go down there, keep your temper and I will lot you do as you please.’ The Retort Courtsous. “T asked him if he had any friends there I could use, and he told me to come and see him the next morning, 1 sat in the ante-room a long vime, while Buckingham of Connecticut walked in and out of Lineolu's room several times, At last Buckingham left and I went in, I found Lincoln with a towel round his neck, getting ready to shave, 4t'Got to get shaved some time, Palmer,’ he said, ‘I couldn't shave while Buckingham was here; but you are home folks, and it doesn't maiter with home folks.’ “We chatted till the burber reached his mouth, when he couldn't talk with- out running the risk of getting cut. There was a pause. Duringiv [ thought of the great war that was going on and of the man near me conducting i, #iMp, Lincoln,’ I said, *if I had known there was going to be s0 great a rebel- lion I should never have thought of going to a one-horse town for a one- horse lawyer for president.’ “Lincoln stretched forth his arms, pushed the barber aside and abruptly wheeled round to me. I thought he was angry because of what I had suid. But he rephed: ! ‘Nor I either. It's lucky for this country no man was chosen who had a great policy and would havg stuck 1o it, If such & man had been chosen this re- bellion would never have reached a successiul conclusion. 1 have had no great policy, but I have tried to do my duty every day, hoping that the morrow would find that T had done right.’ **And that,” said the senator, “was the last time I saw Lincoln alive.” The Kmaucipation Froclsmation, *‘One of the instances of his lack of any great pollcy outlined, save to pui went on, ‘1 e — AMUSEMENTS —Se A BOYD'S i ‘ THEATRE. = THE SEASON’S DRAMATIC EVENT. ~—===-~THE CREATEST OF ALL AMERICAN DRAMAS Thursday, Nov. 2 ‘8 Nights and Saturday Matinees i, H"J@,W” The airl T left bahind ma THE GIRL 1 LEKT BEHIND ME, (5TH STREEET THEATRE. BETTER THAN BEFORE. THE BIG SC NI1O PRODUCTION THE STOWAWAY See the Famous $10,000 Yact S:ene, also ths Two N>tad Burglars 7 SPIKE HENNESY AND KIp McCOoY BLOW OPEN A REAL SAFE. TODAY. TONICHT. THIS __(SI.II!DIIQ UBTOFEH 29 Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Byron ~—In the Bright Comedy-Drama- 15thSTREET THEATER| ¥ 8:a% Thursday, Friday, Satarday, Nov. 2, 8, 4 The Quaint Comedian WILLIE COLLIER INE HOSS ~ AND ~ HOSS A Howling Hilarious Hit, 4The Plungery Afatinee This Afternoon at 2:30, Prices 26¢ and b0c. Evening Porformance at 8:00, Prices 25¢, 50¢, 75¢ and $1. down the rebellion, was his August to promise to issue the proclamation of emancipation, He was asked to do so by the convention of governors or preachers, I forget which. But in September he announced that he would issue it, and he did so the follow- ing January.” *Did you correspond with him during the war?” YA little, Two letters T remember. One was a request for permission to raise ten regiments in northern Missouri, I could have done it. But he refused, and the rebels raised them. The other let- ter I wrote while the French were in Mexico. I applied for permission to en- ist 40,000 negroes. I proposed to take them into Mexico, colonize them, and then enroll them into the Mexican army and drive out the French. Lincoln re- plied that he appreciated the idea, but that he did not believe force would be necessary to induce the French to leave. 1t is strange,” the senator added, ‘it is strange how the course of our lives is cnanged by little things. No one knows what would have happened had I gone to Mexico. Perhaps,” he laughed, *‘per- haps I might have become great. I have been on the verge of greatness for sev- refusal in What is your estimate of Lincoln?" think hé was marvelously self-con- tained—was master of himself. With- out that quality no one can become great. He had a wondevful faculty of reading people and knowing what the country wanted, and he had as kind a heart as ever beat in the breast of man.” i Worth the Price, Hotel Guest (at the World's What's this item It A, mean on my The Club: Fair) bill? 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