Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1894, Page 11

» » ~ THE GLAMOUR OF THE STAGE Lillian Russell's Advice to Girls Aspiring to Serve Mistress Art, IT IS SO EASY NOT TO BE AN ACTRESS Genlus, Talent and Industry the Price of Buccess—You Will Find an Anchorite Hid- den ¥ hothe ndid Gayety of Every Artist, “pi Stage It Is 80 easy not to write a' five-act trag- ¢ edy, said M. Dumas. While he was in the mood for making eplgrams he might have added it is so easy not to be actress, The difficulties fn the way of a stage ca- recr are not so great as they were, I dare say, but there {s no easy method of becom- Ing n geeat artlst. It ds a hard and steep road At 18 q acting mistress, It does not er much what the medium fs—paint ing. sculpture, music, acting—every great achi' vement pays the price of patlent work and carnest study. ONh! 1 know the old legend that stage suc cess is lightly won, lightly worn and lightly lost. In a measure that s tru 1t is only true, however, when the success Is due to some flippant fdental circumstance, writes Lillian Russell in the Philadelphia Press, If it was due to art you may be very sure it was not lightly won child may be taught to act Just a be taught to paint. But all the instructions in the world will not m great artlst of a commonplace child. the first requisite for the art. You may call it genius or talent or what you will. It is the indispensable stuft out of which the artist is made. You can- not make a brocade gown out of linsey-wool- ey, And for success on the stage is this aptitud How to be a great artist? One certainly needs those two things They p the ma- terial out of which the broca gown Is made. [ do not suppose any of you has an ac- quaintance so small you do not know at least vne young girl who''wants to go on the siage She may be fnfluenced by any one of dozen reasons. If she is a girl of adventu ous spirit, tired of the caln, quict and very polite twilights of home life, she thinks go ing on the stage the easlest “way out.” This gort of a girl often becomes a good actress. The spirit of adventure often leads her to overcome all the obstacles to success. Dut great deal of the adventure, romance and vharm of the actress’ life vanishes when the Jights of the theater are turned out. The rest of her life is hard work. There Is ex- citement and pleasure in it, of course, as there fs in all artistic efforts, but it is not without a due measure of weariness and noxiety, Love of adventure is not much use here. The best thing one can have Is a be- lief in one's art and a love for it. It may be I have taken the young girl too soriously. She may “look” upon the stage merely as a desirable business. This it un- doubtedly s, The social conditions which have forced 5o many women to make their own way In the world have furnished the means. There Is a great deal of cant writ- n about the stage. It Is not a nursery for young moralities, 1t is not likely to supersede the pulpit as n “moral agent.” But it has undoubtedly advanced. 1t has become as honorable as any other of the artistic professions—music, painting or literature. The young girl, It #ho has strength to carry herself safely in any self-supporting walk of life, need never hesitate to take up the stage as a profession. Tho cant of stage perils Is every whit a foolish as the cant of the stage as a mor ngent, How shall we go about it? There is no literature of the art of acting. n There are biographies and autobiographies a by the score. They may throw a little 1ight on the secret of ‘the stage success, but 1t 18 a confused and unsatisfactory way of getting an education in the art of acting. After all one learns to act by acting. There have been two ways of preparing for the stage. One has but to begin. There was the early strength, the continuous lesson of daily work on the stage, to the passage from the chryotis of the chorus to the butterfiy fame of the prima donna. Then again, people have gone about it in just the opposite fashion. ~ All the prelim- inary work—the years of study and culture— las been done in private. The artist has made her first appearance at the top. I can’t see that much is to be said to the ad- vantage of elther method. Only this I be- lieve Is true: The practical school of the theater has produced the truly great artists. The opera singer has usually combined the two methods; she has gained her musical culture In the school and the stage makes her an actress, I do not think any one can give any valid advice to an aspirant for stage success. The way to succeed is to succeed, and no indi- vidual case can be sot up for a model. People of scrious Intellects, who always want to know why they are amused, are much glven to bemoaning the fact that beauty is such an important part of a suc- cossful_artist’s cquipment. But it s the artist herself who is the canvas on which she paints. Ono might as well quarrel with the painter for desiring the best materials, Some one says that beauty. is genfus—on the stage. There Is a half truth in the remar] At all events beauty is the most eflicient aid talent can have. These thoughts are desultory. Perhaps they illustrate the reason why there is no 1iberation of the actor's art, an art so illu- sive, so dependent on personality that it defies all technical definitions. “It doesn't seem to be an casy life,” the typleal young girl remarks rather gloomily. Tndeed it is not. But then it is a life full of color and the excitement which is Inevitablo from all ereative or intorpretativo art, “And the rewards, Miss Russell?" And when the young girl asks this ques- tlon, I think It all over—the hard work, the interest, the triumph, the seclusion, and I might almost say the exclusion of the artist's life, Yes, the rewards are great, but one pays a great price. The artist whose me- dium in_ her voice, her beauty, in a word herself, is.forced to lead a life of seclusion, She excludes the flippancies of society, the “Jolo de vivre,” everything which might tend to impair the charm of her art me- dium There are, no anchorites nowadays? My dear and typical young girl friend, you will find an anchorite hidden under the splendid stage gayety of every artist. She cannot afford to indulge In the dissipations of so- clety, She cannot afford to fritter away ._.her charm In littlo pleasures. In almost all cases her home life is that of a recluse, her life on the stage, a triumph it may b but an arduous triumph, And the renown? Yes, that is undoubtedly great. Put the reward is for the few, and the Lurd work and disappointments are for the many, Soclety, Which takes every opportunity offered for symbolism, from serving ices in miniature pumpkins on Thanksgiving day to eating them from lily cups at Easter dinne does not, of course, overlook its chance on February 14, and valentine teas, luncheons and parties are planned for that date. Hearts rule in decoration and emblems, vie- Ing with candied and floral cupids At one party prizes are to be shot for. A large heart-shaped frame is*covered with tissue paper, and In the center Is gummed & very small heart of a sharply contrasting color,” Every guest, and there s to be an ven number of belles and beaus, Is offered a chance with a beribboned and flower- wreathed bow and gay dart to strike the conter heart, Prizes are to be offered for the first and se best records, and con- solation prizes are promised to everybody. The fun and mystery of the affair are to be that every prize I8 a human one, a member of the opposite sex. The best shot among the young women draws the best shot among the ‘men, every participant finding a match for her and his record. The two are to be introduced, the game of hearts belng the one chosen. The supper will have a number of Ingenlous February 14 features For cotillions danced at any time during valentine week'the favors are of valentine design. The daintiest valentines are hand painted on bolting cloth or satin. One of the pret. tiest had a hollow square of water-color paper, scalloped along either edge, bordered With a narrow row of very fine cream lace. The center was filled in with a square bolting cloth, on which was exquisitely painted the figure of Cupid, armad with bow sud arrows, Sying through the clouds, on his ] the rim were t of ater-color 18 to dwell to earth. On paper surrounding it 1t's cold outside #o I've comi In the heart I love =0 well Lovely valentine sachets were of equares « atin, fringed out all aronnd, with squares of bolting cloth, seailoped and edyed with gold, laid over them. On tho boiting cloth were dalntily painted such exquisite ubjects as Avrora, in her airy drape cooling the wings of Love, “The Opcning Flower,” “Wooing,” “Little Thief,” and tie like, These designs are susceptible of home adaptation to one at all skillful w'th the brush Booklets are very popular and are shown at varieties, all being characterized by ey of coloring and the beauty of verses selected . And always a most acceptable valentine may go from the florist A well known stationer is authority for the statement that valentines such less than formerly, the tendency of Jate years being to select some little gift that will serve the nd be useful as 1. Accordingly have set their wits to work and evolved all sorts of odd, tty novelties to suit the occasion One of the most Ingenious is a calendar, heart-shaped, of fine, soft leather. In the | center {8 an oblong opening for a thermome- ter, and just above it a smaller one for the year 1804, On the left side, a heart-shaped ning discloses the day of the week, and the right, the name of the month. He- the thermometer is the space for the The calendar is partially supported brass arrow on either side, which runs irough the heart n the top. They are, of course, all set for February on 1o date 1, and the full significance of the design is, s the dealer explained, t thangh the heart of the purchaser Is ch as leather, cupid’s arrows have pierced it. A dainty trifie, suitable for cither sex,s a jowel bag or watch case of delicate pink satin. The shape is that of one Lecrt over- lapping gnother, and in front the outline of each s indicated by a border of daintily painted forget-me-nots. On cither side is a graceful spray of the same ul in the center the words, “The Suason's Greet- the attachod a shirred ings back ago and toid the following story, says the Kansas City Times You never heard of the time I married a couple before they knew it? Well, soon I was made a priest I was engaged to perform a rriage ceremony. It to be a swell wedding. I arrived at the house rather early, according to request, and was 1 laid aslde the bride's taken up stairs at once. There my hat and overcoat, and then mother knocked at the door and said her dafighter wished to see me. Of course, obeyed the summons, but was surprised to the couple wanted the marriage performed in an up-stairs room immediately. I thought it was very queer, but went through-the ceremony, and mar- ried them fast and sure right there. When the ceremony was over, the bride said: ‘Now, we will go down into the parlor and be married.” “‘But you are married already,’ I ex- claimed. I can’t go through the ceremony in.' - nd then I learned that all they wanted was ‘to practice’ the ceremony, s0 as to go through it properly when in the midst of their friends. But there was no help for it. Married they were, and I couldn’t repeat the ceremony, which with us is a sacra- ment.” learn that ceremony. the most important object upon earth for our consideration. His health, his nurture, his training, his de- velopment are far mora worthy of our re- Yet I am quite The child is gard than anything else. positive that all will agree with me that there is less known about the child and less attention given to his care than to any- thing else, writes Prof. Oscar Chrisman in the February Forum. In order to make it possible that the parent, the teacher, the physician, the minister, the merchant, may know how to treat the child it is necessary that the child be studied, analyzed—cata- logued, one might say. It seems to me that the best way to do this is to train young men and young women in our colleges and schools in the study of the child, and so send ont a number of people into the various walks of life who can get “Into” the life of the child. It this study is scientifically and properly carried on there is no doubt in my mind but that it will revolutionize all the present methods of approach to the child. I predict that some of my readers will live long enough to wonder how it was possible for colleges and universities to have existed %0 long, and to have differentiated so many departments of study and yet to have waited almost till the beginning of the twentleth century to create a department of study which is—shall I say—worth more than all the others put together? They will live to see the day when the science of the child will have taught the world more in fifty years about the child than the world learned during the preceding 5,000 years. A young woman, Miss Fay Fuller of Ta- coma, a daughter of an editor of that city, has recently accomplished the perilous feat of climbing Mount Tacoma, America’s most Qifficult peak. It is a grim old hill, tower- ing 14,444 heat high, with glaciers extending far up its base, It took four days to manage the first 7,000 feot of ascent over dangerous streams and through dense forests, althongh the party, consisting of three gentlemen and a guide, Desides Miss Fuller, was on horseback. After that they proceeded on foot, as the Way was too rongh and wild for horses. At 2,000 feet the wind blew a hurricane. Cre- vasses big enough to drop a house into were crossed. The summit, when recached, was found to be about two miles across. anding on the top, says the San Francisco Chronicle, ~ the — adventurous climbers could see below them two large craters, looking like immense bowls, with a central, common rim. The big crater was three-fourths of a mile across. Both were filled with snow and ice, with the rim around the bare rocks rising in places sixty feet. The steam kept the rocks bare. Com- Ing down from the summit, where they could hardly stand, because of the flerce wind, they took shelter in the crater and examined the 'steam ‘Jets. These looked like a row of boiling teakettles along the ridge. The party sat on the rocks and were soon damp with the moisture and parboiled by the heat, and it was obligatory, as ever, to move on again.” The party passed the night on the sum- mit before beginning the descent, which was more perilous than the upward elimb. Of this night spent in the shelter of the big crater Miss Fuller says: “Two blankets over us seemed little protection. Through the small opening in the cave we could watch the stars and meteors and hear the awful avalanches roaring down the moun- tain sides. I was the only one who could sleep. When we woke our shoes were frozen stiff and had to be thawed out in the steam. The blankets were fcy Miss Fuller is the first woman to attempt this feat, and few men have cared to risk it; of these few still fewer have accom- plished it. Fashion Notes. Crepes of every sort are promised a very The light and medium shades in bengaline Fayetta and French cashmere a2 exquisite this season. Armure eroquette is a novelty among new dress materials, this fabric showing a broken bedford cord of irregular pattern. It 1s quite surprising the hold sequins have taken on fashionable fancy as a trim- ming for elaborate evening gowns, Two-toned basket weaves of domestic manufacture will be used for inexpensive walking and traveling costumes for spring. The leading colors for spring capes for general wear are black, green, the darker browns and a rich, deep shade of blue. Orlental laces of very fine mesh and extra quality In white and butter shades will be in great use for trimming summer dresses, The ubiquitous silk waist is destined to renewed favor. The soft liberty silks are shown in beautiful shades f6r this purpose. Stylish bonnets have a broad, low velvet bow in the back. Russlan bonnets are in vlvet, beautifully embroidered in silver and gold, Modistes are making constant use of soft finished satins for dainty evening tollets, mado wholly of the satin or combined with ac dreadful tones linery In contrast to dowdy “French pink’ ters purple. Rbulnestone orpaments of every shape and ome appear in new mil- black. There Is a which is three-quar- THE OMAHA [ sizo are extensively used upon handsome hats, bonnets, toques and evening tollets | sent trom Paris. Hilk cravats tle in huge bows, without ends, are worn with taflor-made suits | Warm red, tawny yellow and brown arc | especially favored Taflor-made shirt-waists of pink linen embrofdered pique, and fancy cotton fabries l,.m- displayed among other premeature novel | ties of the spring season. Taflor gowns, skirts and coats are made with strapped seams, he only permissible trimming for these frocks is that furnished | by rows of machine stitching, The most popular revers, ollars and collarettes are cut in half-¢ les, neither having any fullness on the upper side, but flaring greatly at the outer edge Lenten gowns of soft friar's gray benga line, camel's hair, or sacking have skirts with plainly gored fronts and organ-pleated | back breadths that just escape the ground e The newest sleeves for evening are sald to haye “been copied from the oldest pic- tures,” though the “old masters,” could they behold them, would hardly recognize the modern versions, New silk and brocade capes are made in lar style fashionable in fur and variously trimmed with jet, gimp, metal galloons, velvet the full eirc cloth, and are passementerie, and bralding. eminine Notes, { Miss Frances Eilen Lord, professor of Latin and literature at Wellesley college, has been chosen temporary chairman of the board since the death of the president, Miss Shafer | Miss Frances Crosby, author of “Safe in J | the Arms of nd other widely-sung gospel hymns, is 61 years of age, and has been blind since she was six weeks old. In Holland a woman s a secondary con- sideration—and a poor consideration at that No Dutch gentleman when walking on the pavement will move out of his way for a | lady. “The latter turns out invariably, how- ever muddy or dangerous the street. Miss Alice Rothschild fs one of the most enthusiastic women horticulturists In the world, and her collection of roses alone s valued at $50,000. It is a remarkable fact, by the way, that every member of the Rothschild family dislikes scented flowers, with the exception of roses. A clever hostess at a recent dinner did away with the strolling about to hunt up name cards on reaching the dining room by providing cach man with a card, on which waa a little plan of the table and two crosses against the covers laid for him and the lady he took out. One of the pretty gowns worn by Miss Cavan in “The American Duchess” was a combination of pale blue and light trimmings of jet. It seemed a decided novelty, and now at a smart London wedding celebrated since the opening of the year the brides- maids were gowned on the same lines. The efforts of commonplace persons to “talk ghop”” with genius are often very ab- surd. “Prof. Tyndall,” suddenly said a society woman seated next to him at dinne “what {5 your theory of the universe 1y dear Madam,” he replied, “I have not even a theory of magnetism, much less of the universe.” 1t will not be long, in all probability, be- fore the American girl will go skilobning. This has a portentious sound, but merely refers to the winter sport of Scandinavia. 1t consists in scudding over the snow and ice after being shod with the skee, a long wooden snowshoe. Austrian ladies of fashion are devoted to the new sport, and it will get to New York sooner or later. Very few persons know; says the Jewish Progress, that after the death of Senator Stanford the university passed through a crisis in which the brilliant courage and wonderful paticnce of Mrs. Stanford stood out with tenfold strength. One day, when the story of that crisis shall be written down, Mrs. Stanford will be adjudged to be one of the great women of our century. It is related of Miss Trella Foltz-Toland, an actress in San Francisco, that she pe sistently unchecks horses that she finds standing with their heads strained back, ac- cording to the present ungraceful and inde- fensible custom. She says she did this for over 100 horses in Kansas City and Denver, and received a letter of thanks from the president of the Kansas City Humane society. Lady Charlotte Schreiber of England owns a most unique and valuable collection of playing cards. It Is asserted that many thousands of pounds are represented in her colleetion, including, as it does, cards de- signed and hand colored by great artists, each of which is a masterpiece. Besides these Lady Schreiber owns many cards that have been the property of great personages have figured or which tragedies. in card-playing Yabsley—You say you wouldn't marry any but a womanly woman, but what is your idea of a womanly woman? Mudge—-One who would think I was the smartest man on earth. A lady asked an astronomer if the moon was inhabited.” “Madam,” he replied, I know of one moon in which there is always a man and a woman.” “Which is that?" “The honeymoon.” Charles A. Dorr, only son of Toledo's first mdyor, and a prominent business man, last week began divorce proceedings for the third time in the short space of three ycars against the same woman. “That Lord Bronson who married Jenny Simpson was an awful boor. He was married actually in a business suit.” W why not? The wedding was a pure matt of business 8o far as he was concerned.” “She says she won't marry a man who is not in a big paying business.” “Well, it is all right to have a worthy ambition, but she should remember that it is not every girl that can marry a champion pugilist or the receiver of a railroad.” The Lancaster family of Belfast, Me., have been unusually blessed In their marital experience. Frank M. Lancaster and his wife celebrated recently the fiftieth an- niversary of their wedding, and Mr. Lan- caster 15 the fifth member of his family to celebrate his golden wedding. His sister and three brothers have previously enjoyed that experience. The engagement of Miss Anna Gould to Mr. William M. Harriman, which is fnelly admitted by Mr. George Gould 1o he an es- tablished fact, loses none of its interest by reason of the previous report that the young lady had engaged Lerself to Harry Woc ruff, the “boy ingenue” of Charlas Froh- man’s theatrical company. Mr. Charles H. Hoyt, the author of * Milk-White Flag,” and numerous other comedies, will marry Miss Caroline Miskell, known to stage people as one of the mos beautiful women in the profession, early in March, ‘Their courtship was full of romance, was it not?" “Very. Neither one of them told the other the truth.’ “Glorious! old fellow. So her father said yes when you asked him?" “Yes." *How did you put the question?” “Asked him if he had any objection to me. He—I wish I could read your thoughts. She do 1; but, goodness knows, I've tried to help you all I could! Mrs. Eugene Nye of Buffalo, N. Y. Is just 20 years old and very pretty. Previous to her marriage two years ago Mrs. Nye was u Miss Moore. Her father is a wealthy resi- dent of Oakfleld. While Miss Moore was engaged to a bueiness man of that city she met Nye, who s a drummer, and fell in love with him An elopement was suggested and carried out. Moore disowned the girl but when a few months later Nye deserted her and she was taken sick he relented and took her back to his home. A divorce fo lowed and she promised to forget the drummer. She kept her promise for six months, but when she met Nye the old flame was rekindled and she remarried him They lived together a few months and then separated for good. Nye, it 1s said, botherad her and was warned to leave her alone. He followed her and last week, while sho was walking with a gentleman, Nye appeared and punched her escort in the nose hard enough to make it bleed. Mrs. Nye went before Judge King and had her husband arrested. She said she did not want him sent to prison, but would be satisfied If the Judge would give him a lecture and get him to promise to leave her alone in the future Nye promised and was lectured. Then the left court together, buried the hatchet and agreed to disagree no more. - We could not improve the quality it we paid double the price. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is the best salve that experience Lmu produce, or that money can buy, DAILY PEE TOUGH AND 'I"IiND&il;! MISSIVES i Such as Will Break the:Monotony of Mid- winter Life, RECOLLECTIONS OF ST. VALENTINE'S DAY A Castom Outgrown 1ts' Usbfulnoss, Though Still of Interest to the Young A Few Remarkd for the Ocension, The appearance of an infinite variety of valentines in a few show minder that St Valentine's has not entirely passed |intd oblivion. The day from time immemorial occurs day. It will doubtless be observed to a limited extent by young and old—by the former for custom’s sake and by the latter on account of the mem it revive windows s a re- observed on Wednes- St. Valéntine's day Is an ancient festival which has almost entirely passed out of observance. Mission, a learned traveler of the early part of the last century, gives probably a correct account of the principal ceremonial of the day. “On the eve of St Valentine's he says, “the young folks in England and Scotland, by a very ancient custom, celebrate a litte festival. An equal number of maids and bachclors get to- gether; each write their true or some feigned name upon billets, which they roll up and draw way of lots, the maids taking the men's billets and the men the maids’, so that cach of the young men lights upon a girl that he calls his valentine, and each of the girls upon a young man, whom she calls hers. By this means each has two valentines, but the man sticks faster to the valentine that has fallen to him, than to the valentine to whom he has fallen. rtune having thus divided the company Into so many couples, the valentines give balls and tre. mistresses, wear their billet upon the hossoms or sleeve sport often ends in love,” Velentine's day is little observed in land and Scotland now, and most entirely to the humble class, which consists in ‘sending a Jocular anonymous letter, on the first page of which s seen some ridiculous, colored caricature of the male or female figure, with a few burlesque vert below. Sometimes a pair are pre- sented as standing before Hymen's altar, while Cupid flutters above the hearts trans- fixed with darts decorate the corners. Another way in which the day is observed over there is in sending cheap prints or valendines through the mail, as is done in this coun- try by certain portions of the communi But a commendable practice exists in America, which obtains very widely, and the young lady who is the peculiar favorite of voung men will rise on the morning of St. Valentine’s day and await the coming of the postman with as much interest as a child does Christmas morning. When she hears his welcome ring at the door her heart will Lieat faster as she hastens herself to open it. She knows she has been remembered and is and this little Eng- is confined al- only anxious to have the kindly reminders in her possession. Then she will speak lovingly of the “boys after she has opened the boxes or parcels that contain delicious roses, beautiful, sweet smelling flowers, or cards that are inimitable specimens of ' the artist’s workmanship. ' She will ghow them to her friends in her own ecstatic manner, and, perhaps, she will whisper the names of the “‘dear boys” who hive not forgotten her on so important a day. But St. Valentine's day is not always one of unmixed pleasure {o those who receive reminders of it. It is the'day when the wag and the joker delight to exemplify them- selves. The old maid is thefr peculiar quarry, and, to use thefr own phraseology, they “lay for her” on £t. Valentine's day. They send her a cheap print of a female, somewhat advanced in years, with long curls, a scrawny, cantankerous looking face, a red nose, large feet and slatternly attire. And at the bottom appears a verse or two of sarcastic doggerel, setting forth her “‘charms” to the taste of the person who sends it. Or, perhaps, he has been jilted, and, feeling sore over it, the only way le can’ think of to soothe his injured pride is to send a valentine, which is supposed to apply to one of her fickle mind, Or he has a grudgo against one of his own sex, and, like Tam O'Shanter’s wife, he “‘nurses his wrath to keep it warm,” until squared— s0, at least, the injured person thinks. Others send the same class of prints to friends and acquaintances, simply for the amusement they get out of it, but many regard the day as one on which to pay oft their grudges. It Is a little rasping to your conceit to have a valentine sent you of a rejected loyer on his knees, Jlooking like a calf. All the more rasping because you have just begun to feel what a fool you must have looked, and you are sure no one but Miss R. could have sent it, so you will forget to look at her next time you meect her. But you shouldn’t be too hasty; first take notice of how that little red-headed brother of hers looks at you on the 15th, and if you are a mind reader you may change your opinion as to who sent the valentine. You are prob- ably not the only one he has remembered, Don't imagine that he has forgotten to send lis sister a picture of an old maid, his aunt a representation of a scold with a long red tongue, or his father a specimen of a man who beals his wif What fun it used to be to receive the dainty bits of decorated paper, with the silly verses, the picture of two impossible little Dickié birds kissing each other, and the mysterious initials in the corner. Of course, we could never imagine who sent it, but usually had a beaming smile for Jack Brown when he put in a bashful appearance at recess, looking as it he had commlitted a crime. Perhaps we went so far as to offer him & bite of our apple, which had been going the rounds of the spelling class. For those initials did look suspiciously like *J. B." scrawled in Jack’s own inimitable style with a slate pencil dipped in blacking. After he grew up, his execrable writing showed so plainly he was destined for something great, that it secured him the position of judge. After the sheriff turned a few murderers loose that he intended should be hung, and hung two innocent men, and the lawycrs read lis decisions to suit themselves, he not being able to prove by his writing that they didn’t read right, he learned to send a type- written copy with everything he wrote, e ARE THE BONDS L. OMAHA, Feb. 7.—~To the Editor of The Bee: By request of friends, as also for my- self, T wish to ask for, space In your valu- able journal for a few humble words on tho proposed Issue of bonds by Secretary Car- ligle 0 r some years noW the times and con- ditions have been presgiug for a new birth of interest-hearing government bonds to supplement the present threatening scarcity, and diminishing basig‘ for the notes of our national banks; also to'replenish the safety funds of our trust companies and savings banks, and In some part as an outlet for stagnating capital—ustry—which the busi- ness industries, under’ existing monetary manipulations, no lénger promises, there being nothing sure except death and saxcs, the basis of these bonds. As usual fn such events, though certain, heretofore it has not been possible to give the precise date of the birth. Several pi mature alarms and preparations have been made, However, as it was an event that bad to be, all interested parties were prop- GAL? erly notificd. Doctors, midwives and nurses were warned, and other preliminaries ar- ranged. Doctor “Charlie” Foster was sometime ago sent on a visit to notify the prospective grand parents in Burope and perhaps get some Instructions from Grand mother Old Lady of Threadneedle street However this may be, on his return we have been told he had plates prepared und en. graved, and even printed blanks for the prospective bonds. So that everything was veady on his retirement for the new demo. cratic doctors and nurses elected to take his place. Both parents, republicans and demo- crats, have taken great Interest in the mat- ter. It has remained, however, for the new democratic doctor, John Griffith Carlisle, to announce the final and certaln date for the UNDAY., FEBRUARY 11, 18M birth, February 1 from’ $50,000,000 up the amc as may nt, any sum be required for any and all purposes, may be $200,000,000 Republican Dr. John Sherman says there | no_limit s Shylock says: Fifty million dollars and up for ton vears and the people of the United States bound. Well, the people of the United States “are good” security But, sec now, Jack Falstaf Carlisle and Jack Falstaft Sherman et al, “how a plain tale of the law shall put thee down' in your pretended right to lssue these bonds and further rob this people Hero is the law The act to provide for the ption of specle payments, ap- proved January 14, 1875 ction 1. Provides for the purchase of bullion and coinage of subsidiary silver to redeen and replace the then outstanding fractional currency, fn amount, at that time, between $40,000,000 and $47,000,000. ce. 2, Removes the then existing o or seigniorage of one-fifth of 1 per cer coining gold, making it free. Sec. 3. Removes all of the previous limit on the aggregate amount of national bank notes and limits and reduces the United States legal tender notes (greenbacks) to 300,000,000, It provides that o may be increased, $0 per in_greenbacks shall be celed” by the secretary of th no more than $£300,000,000 of &: remain o at once. bank notes cent of the amount mod and can- treasury until 1d notes shall anding, this operation to begin The estimated aggregate amount of these notes then outstanding was $38: 000,000. But ‘“on and after January 1, 1879, the secretary of the treasu 1 re- deem, In coin, the United States legal tender notes then outstanding on their pro- sentation for redemption at the ce of the assistant treasurer of the United States in the city of New Y not less than $50. Observo in the tho order is to the second it is on ter January 1, 187 rk, in sums of first portion of this law ‘redeem and - cancel,” in ¥ to “redecm’ on and af That by the term ‘“re deem” as here used was not meant to “can- cel” and_destroy, is shown by the fact that during the panic of 1873, when a similar pro- vision of law as in the first ingtance existed, 26,000,000 of this legal tender greenback then in the treasury was paid out by the or- der of the cretary to the national banks to save the banks and to sty the panie. Otherwise this act of the sec- retary was a violation of the law Again, the resumption act says: “And to enable the sceretary of the treasury to prepare and provide for the redemptions in this act authorized or required, he iy authorized to use any surplug revenue, from time to time in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to issue, sell and dispose of, at not less than par in coin, either of the descriptions of bonds of the United States deseri| ed in the act of congress ap- proved, July 14, 1870, cntitled, ‘AnAct to Authorize the Refunding of the National Debt,'with like qualities, privileges and ex- emptions, to the extent necessary to cari this act into full effect, and to use the pro cecds thereof for the purpose aforesald.’” Then follows the usual repealing clause. he refunding act of July 14, 1870, referred to, and which the bonds authorized by the resumption act were to be like, authorizes the refunding of all the then outstanding bonds and other interest bearing obligations of the government, and to issue instead, bonds expressly payable in coin of the then standard weight and fineness, as follow Two hundred million 5 per cent ten-year bonds; $300,000,000 415 per cent fifteen-vear bonds, and $£1,000,000,000 4 per cent thirty- honds. It als But nothing in s act or any other law now in force shall be construed to anthorize any increase what- ever of the bonded debt of the United States." ) The act to forbid the further retirement of United States legal tender notes (green Dbacks) approved May 81, 1878, commonly knownas the “Fort bill,” reads as follows: ““ThatArom and after the |passage of this act it shall not be lawful for the secretary of the treasury, or other officer under him, to can- cel or retire any more of the United States legal tender notes (greenbacks), and when any of said notes may be redeemed or be received into the treasury under any law, from any source whatever, and shall belong to the United States, they shall not bo re- tired, canceled or destroyed, but they shall be issued and paid out again, and kept in circulation, provided that nothing herein shall prohibit the canceilation or destruction of mutilated notes and the issuance of other notes of like denomination in their stead, as now provided by law. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby re- pealed. Approved May 31, 1878.” At the date of this act there was a little 346,000,000 of these legal tender green- vet outstanding. The resumption act as cut short in its intended destruction of these notes $46,000,000. Where now in these laws, and they are all there are on the subject, is a word that can be tortured into an authority to sell bonds in any amount for the purpose of a current fund or to supplement a deficient revenue? Where Is there one word of authority or call for the maintenance of a permanent and full $100,000,000 gold ‘‘redemption’ fund? Or of any other sum? It is all a fic- tion. Could language be more emphatic than that of the “Fort bill'” in repudiating the resumption act and prohibiting any further “redeeming or retiring” of the legal-tender notes—in making these greenbacks perpetual money of the United Stafes? The law says: “When any of these notes may be redecomed”’ they shall not be canceled or retired, but they shall be reissued and paid out again and kept in cireulation.” What then becomes of, or is meant by, re- deeming this legal tender perpetual money and the purpose of this full $100,000,000 goll reserve at an expense of millions of interest on bonds? It s for the sole purpose of maintaining, as it has for the past fifteen years, the biggest bamboozle aud humbug of the ages—the fiction and destructive force of “converting'’ one money or currency into another on demand by force of law. Will not every common citizen examine this “redeeming,’“converting ness for a moment? It is not so compli- cated. Examine o who profits by it and who does not. For what purpose does any citizen of the United States, working- man or business man, want or have to “‘con- vert” one money of the United States into another, so long as both or all are equally a legal tender and receivable by the govern- ment for cverything? By what means can any person be forced to pay a premium for one money over another, 5o long as these conditions exist? There is none. So long as the money authority is equal in either sil- ver, gold or paper money, there can be no possible choice or difference of value in them as money, except that paper is lighter and more convenient to handle, gold nest. stop and " busi- Since citizens of the United States, cxcept money shavers, have no need to have their money ‘“redeemed” or “converted” one into another, for hose benefit is this $£100,000,000 gold edemption” fund maintained in New York, which Secretary Carlisle pretends to have authority of law to sell interest bearing bonds to replenish? It is for the benefit of foreigners solely—importers, free traders, in- vestors, holders of United States securities, ete., who want to quit and go home, as il were, 1 say, go with them and their system, and good riddance. This aught to be the and good riddance. This ought to be the citizen. What clse is this $100,000,000 gold reserve than a government-maintained free regervoir for such as these to draw from? What pro- tection 18 our tariff, let it be ever so high, when such as these, excluding traders, draw on us now for over $300,000,000 yearly, or else set off the amount against our trade pro- ducts, Just as they could for $400,000,000 more, and will as soon as (he United Stat ceases o0 be the best place to mvest in. Do the people realize what this sort of com- pounding and drainage of thelr money means ? The question s whi enough to get togethe fully yours, n will wo have wit and stop 1. 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