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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1897)
W''!B''Tn''TRBitTO wy iKtiJ yffiy'i "S5W s?j ft jn&ppim kv fata rwWWl P'MSMllBW'HW(i(a' ,1lfM "f.W)""U- l 'W--fCll""l'l 'C WtZCrt&.VtitrJ rmmff; .- SPSKT3 Vwi.-.rtV 'I - 7 "b... ".. .a THE RED CLOUD CHIEF, FRIDAY, MAY 14 1897. 8 1 - wiwMwttfTiwiwiimnii b j US IS SORRY FOR IT ALL. PEOEBE COUSINS SAYS WO MAN NEEDS NO "RIOHTS." Their I'lace Ii at Home "Suffer I.lttle Children to Come Unto Mo For of Such I tlio Kingdom .of llcacn" Dying nt St. Lout. (St. Louis Lcttctr.) PHOEBE COUSINS, Uio first woman I lawyer of America, the first woman to become a United States marshal, anil for many years known over the length and bredth of the country as an ardent, uncom pro raising public advocate of woman's rights, Is now seriously ill In this city. Disease has laid low tho wom an whose stalwart will carried her through n successful' career In tho face of opposition and obstacles of every sort. Few careers havo been more ro mantic. A beautiful girl, she was be sieged with admirers, and might have made many brilliant marriages. At one timo a vice president of the United States and two United States senators sought her hand. But she disdained all offers. She had her mission to fulfill, and Inexorably pursued It until .mis fortune and illnesB finally showed her the fallacy of her course. For Phoebo Cousins now believes that she has been mistaken all her life, and that the truo aim of womanhood Is not civil equality with man, but home and motherhood. Her parents were originally .from the East. Her father, who was among the most prominent Unionists of St. Louis, received tho appointment of chief of police and provost marshal of the city during the war. Her mother was tho head of tho St. Louis branch of the sanitary commission, and bad charge of the city hospitals. As a girl Phoebe Cousins was as brilliant as she was beautiful. She very early Bhowod her disinclination, or rather her contempt, for social life. For several years sho was the belle of St. Louis. But none of her admirers could mako headway with her. It was her favorite theme that women had a higher mission In life than marriage. When it was known that Phoebe Cousins had entered the law depart ment of tho Washington University there was no surprise. St. Louis had become fully acquainted with her bent. Her friends knew that her years of reigning bellehood had been from her point of view most unprofitable, and that from them she had derived but moderate pleasure. Her beauty had won many admirers and suitors .quite as many, but so plainly did sho show her preference for men of years and wisdom that one by ono they left her side. Miss Phoebe did not appear to even notice their desertion. She was in the zenith of her beauty then, tall, Blender, supple, with delicate patrician features, brilliant black eyes and raven hair. Her complexion wbb olive, with a rich shifting crimson In her cheeks. Then, as until extreme adversity over took her, she was noted for the taste ful elcganco of her dress. She lacked something of the softness of manner of most Southern women. More in evi dence was a certain Bclf-assertlvcncss, tempered by good breeding. She secured entrance into the law de partment with some difficulty, was graduated from It with honor, and then began the career which, so far as human insight goes, la nearly at an end. She made a few strong woman suffrage speeches one nt a Presbyte rian Sunday school convention In Jef ferson city, where sho startled her staid audience by asserting that "Paul's words to women amounted to nothing, for Paul was simply a crusty old bache lor, with no authority to lay commands upon womankind," and another at the banquet of tho Mercantile Library As sociation, where she was toasted ns "our own Phoebe Cousins." Then she spread her ambitious wings and flew away to Washington. Thero MISS PHOEBE COUSINS. she was entertained by prominent fam ilies snd lectured beforo various audi ences on tho cause she had espoused. She becamo a protege of Susan B. An thony, and the little circle of agitators hoped much from this promising addi tion to their number. Youug, hand some, talented, she would reach tho ears of many who cared not to listen to tho equally-earnest but less favored. Sho was as logical as any of them; sho wrote gracefully and forcibly, and If her manner on the platform was a rjlttle forced, that would wear away in ' time. Men high in the councils of the nation were curious about tho brilliant young woman from St. Louis, and then became her slaves. During ono winter Vice President Wilson was u frequent caller. So also were a senator and con gressman. "Phoebe," her hostess often said, "do ' docldo which of these gentlemen you vprcfer, nnd let him have a hint of your Vri-feronce. am hi ." kuwo ib anx- V-Tous to do bagged." But Phoebe never decided. Instead she bored the mag- fMtee with long;, argumentative couver- R&jy WtfP i ITw LI 11 rij I 1 MM: satlons on "advancement" and tho "ele vation of humanity." Affection is a tender plant, and cannot withstand the frosts of Indifference. It wan but nat ural that this distinguished trio, sever ally and collectively, relinquished Its suit. Then came bluff, ruddy Senator Fair, with his millions and his quaint Idioms. He sauntered Into a meeting of women suffragists whllo tho young woman from Missouri was speaking. He noted her bright eyes and brilliant complex ion, her trim, slender figure and hand some gown, and before he retired that night wrote a check bearing her nana-. The next morning It was brought to her while sho was sipping her coffee. It was for C0. There was no word ot explanation. Sho enclosed It In n note, thanking him for his kindness, but caylng tlie did not think it proper to accept it. It came back by return post. "Don't bo foolish," he wrote. "Keep the money and get n now spring bonnet with It." Miss Cousins continued lecturing In bohalf of her sex, winning fame If nol dollnrs. When the receipts from hoi lectures were not equal to her needs, thero was always a reservo fund to draw upon nt the later family home, In Washington, and sho drew upon it without stint, for the luxurious taste developed by the circumstances of hei early life were never lost. When J. D. Cousins becamo United States marshal he appointed his daugh ter deputy. Sho returned to St. Loult and assumed her duties In her father'! office. Hers were chiefly clerical duties, but they enabled her to gain an in sight into the requirements of th .offi cial life of her chief, and when her father died she was appointed to All tho vacancy during the unexpired term. She did this satisfactorily, al though she limited her efforts to offlci supervision of tho labors of thedepu COUSINS. ties. When her term ended she made t vigorous attempt to secure reappoint ment, but fulled. One wintry morning during her brief stay in tho Mormon capital Miss Cousins told mo her story "I was engaged to Senator Fair," sh said, "and I loved him. Ho came tc me In Chicago and asked me to bo hit wife. Wo were to have been marrlet! there soon. He was summoned to Cal ifornia on business, and left promising 'to return for me soon. I never heard from him again, and here Ib the notice of his death." "U'b all a mistake," wrote Miss Cous ins, from California, to a St. Loult friend. "Don't, dear friend, try to re form the world. It doesn't want to tx reformed. Live quietly and happily 1c your home. It wns so decreed foi women. I believe they should oil b pensioned, and that bachelors should be taxed to provide their pension." "Do you remember where wo met Mis Phoebe?" asked one ot the visitor! to her bedside the other day. It wat the venerable Judge Seymour D Thompson, "No, Judge," said Miss CouBlns, ai she lifted hor hand above the coverlet "It was on a train en routo to Chi cago from St. Louis. You were talking of the mission of woman. I bad the temerity to say, 'The mission of woman is motherhood.' You disdained to reply except by a scornful flash ot your bright eyes, which awed and silenced me." "You were right, Judge," Bhe said. "The last time I listened to a Sunday school exercise I loarned that. The pupils were repeating tho golden text, 'Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such Is the kingdom of heaven.1 I knew then that this philosophy ol yours was right and that mino was wrong,, for I realized that no little chll-' dren could ever come unto me, and I am not ashamed to say that I wept a' the thought." Character from Hand Cluipi, Tho latest fad of fashionable people Is telling the character by clasped hands. A clasped hands character spe cialist says that this means ot reading character Is easier and moro correct than all other ways. "A woman," ho says, "who Is friv olous will clasp her hands together with tho first finger of the right hand between the thumb and first finger of tho left, but the first finger of the right hand lies between tho second and third on tho left when constancy pro vails. Thoso people who place two fingers ot one hand between the thumb and fingers of the other are deceitful, and not to bo trusted," It Is said that in a married couple the one who In clasping bands' and in terlacing fingers brings the right thumb nearest the body, with the right fingers correspondingly placed in rela tion to the left fingers, will bo the dominant member of that couple.- Odds. A "bicycle wedding" was recently witnessed In London. The bridal cou ple rode on a tandem to the church, and they were followed by the guests, twenty-four of them on twelve tan deros, and sixteen on single bicycles. r COL. J. D. THEATRICAL TOPICS. SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THE PLAYERFOLK. (The Actor' Society of Atnrrlcn I He mining it Strong Pat-tor - IraIicIIo KreoKon nnit llir Popularity A Hhapo ljr Jltitloqnrr Hinge Whinner. HE Actors' Society ot America is less than 18 months old, yet It numbers 1,500 members. Not a man or woman can enter It who hns not had at least three years' expcrlcnco upon tho lcgltlmnlc stage, nor can n man or woman re main In It after proof of dishonesty or Immorality has been Irrefutably shown before a trial court of tho organization. Among tho chief objects nro protection ngalnst Irresponsible managers and un sanitary surroundings. If a manager deliberately defrauds an actor of mon eys due on contract, that fact, with tho circumstances, Is communicated to ev ery member for his or her protection. If complaint Is forwarded from any city or town In tho United StnteB that un sanitary conditions prevnll In any thea ter, tho attention of the local board of health is at once directed to tho mat ter, and an nbatcment of tho nuisance or danger has tluiB fur followed In every case. Home Atnimlng Incident. Awkward contretemps on tho stage aro moro amusing to the audience than to the actors. Some time since, when "As You Like It" was being performed, Rosalind had Just exclaimed, "Look, here comes a lover ot mine," when in waltzed a Tom cat attached to tho es tablishment. Thomas had to be bun dled out by Orlnndo. In nn English theater not long ago a fine dramatic effect was ruined by 7 3ks I Mm MISS FRANCES DRAKE. Miss Frances Drake, a pretty and at Keith's, In Boston, in her dainty and achieved considerable success with the inopportune appearance on the stage ot a hard-looking Irish woman, who calmly walked In from the wings and presented a bill tor washing to the leading lady. Joseph Jefferson tells how, on one oc casion during the last act of "Metarao ra," two "Indiana" who wore preparing a sacrlflcal pile nccldently set fire to n sponge saturated with spirits. "Put it out," bawled Forrest. The two Indians went down on their kncea and blew the fire, with .the result that they singed each other's hair and eyebrows at every puff. One Indian with great dignity bade them desist, and Jumped on tho flaming 'sponge. The result was that a fountain of burning alcohol spurted up his leather legs. He danced off the stago very unceremoniously, and the curtain was lowered. Fred Uryton'a Kiperlenee. Frederick Bryton tells of a curious experience on tho road while starring In "Forgiven." Ho was In a California town of perhaps 1,000 inhabitants. "It was prwt 8 o'clock," said ho, "and, although the members of the orchestra wero on hand, they mado no effort to strlko up. My manager fumed and swore, and, finally, not seeing the lead er In his place, sent for the violinist, who asked, with great unconcern, what tho troublo waa. "'Trouble!' said my manager, 'why don't you strlko up? Where's-our ov chostra leader?' "'He's gettln' shaved,' replied tho musician. " 'Well, why don't you play Just the same? It's nearly 8:30. Where's the local manager?' 'Hc'b doin' the snavlnV " MIm Isabella Kreon. A theatrical character whose expe rience both on and oft tho boards has been decidedly varied and picturesque is Isabelle Evesson. Sho waa once con sidered among tho most beautiful wom en In Stageland. She has appeared under the management of Mr. Froh man and Mr. Palmer In plays that have enjoyed more or less voguo; ber dra matic ability always being of second ary consideration In comparison to her personal charms. Sho hoa tasted of tho tragic In her teal llfo and enjoyed tho sweets that come to n professional boauty and u popular nctross. Miss Evesson has not been prominently bo fore tho theater going public tor som time pnbt. MnnMlcId on Muimllrlil. In an Interview with a writer for Leslie's Weekly, Hichnr'd Mansfield sayB about himself: "Autocrat? Yes; they call mo an nutocrat simply be cause I have enforced respect for my self. A theatrical star must bo as strict in enforcing discipline ns the colonel of a regiment. When I first entered the profession tho behavior of the stago hands and others behind the scones was dreadful. They used to tnlk loudly, nnd that always disturbs the actor. They used to expectorate nil over the stage, and tho women coming from tho dressing-rooms had to drag their gowns through oceans ot tilth. I protested energetically, with good re sults. Thero is now a marked change In every theater I visit. It has made me cordially detested, hut my actors and myself feel moro comfortahlo." Ti- of the Illrlerlllc." Mrs. Minnie Maddern Flsko has bcon watting for somo time for just the right piny In which to mnko her lcnppenr nnce before the Now York public. She has tried two or thrco that did tic seem to bo Just exactly what she want ed, but at lust sho seems to have found It In "Teas of tho D'Urbervlllcs." It Is sometimes Bald that the public does not want sad and solemn things nnd docs want to laugh at the theater, but now and then comes n serious play that strikes tho public with great force, Thero Is no doubt thnt "Toss" hns touched the popular tnBto and Mrs Flsko litis earned her success In 1L A Nhapely llurlmqaer. Nellie Elmer was born May 1G, 1SC9 She made her debut with Snckett'i Stock Co.. nt Omaha, Neb., In 1887. Sub pcqucntly she Joined Klralfy's spectae graceful comedienne, recently appeared French monologue, "Le Petit Abbe," It. ular productions, and In 1891 agalr Joined Sackett'B Stock Company, ul Denver, Col. In 1892 she Joined "Th Seven Daughters of Satan" spcctaclt and met Walter Terry, whose wife Bht becamo during the season. They have been members of "The Plunger"Co. nnd John Holladuy's Extravaganza Co., and as Terry and Elmer have also played vaudeville dates In the principal houses, appearing at Koster & Dial's. Tony Pas- NELLIE ELMER. tor'B and other New York theaters, Mis Elmer Is a finely formed woman and her dancing nnd fencing specialty Is done In conjunction with Mr. Terry's grotesque dancing. Stage Wlilipor. "Admiral Oulnca," u melodrama by Robert Louis StevenBon and William Ernest Henley, Ib to bo ono of the first plays produced in London next fall. Tho name of George Bernard Shaw'f now play, which at 6omo future period Is to follow "unuer tno Red Robe" at the London Haymarket theater, l called "You Never Can Toll." "At Plney Rldgo" Is still being pro duced before crowded houses at th American theater, and tho consensu of critical opinion points to the fact that it is one of the beet southern mel odramas ever seen In New York. A iMAN CAN ENDURE. LIVES WITHOUT MUCH DIFFI CULTY IN THE EXTREMES. One ItPMilt of Nniien' Kxpedltlon Tho ItcronU of Mrtrorolnglnil Olucrvn tlon Aro Very i.limlilo In Heventl Way. OT the least inter est lug of tho many results of NntiBcn's expedition nro tho records of meteoro logical observation!) thnt wero continued almost uninter ruptedly for tho better part of three years, nnd which throw distinct light upon tho climatic conditions of the far north. Theso show, nays tho Indian apolis nowB, what had already bcon suspected by scientists, thnt, bo fnr na a minimum tempemturo Is concerned, tho highest northern latitudes aro moro favorably situated than many re gions lying full fifteen or twenty de grees (approximately 1,000-1,400 miles) farther to tho south. Tho lowest rend ing of NnnBon's thermometer, regis tered on board tho Frnm, was G1.0 de grees Fahrenheit, or somo 12 to 1G de grceu higher Uinn tho minimum noted by tho British polar expedition of 187G C, nnd 8 degrees above tho minimum of Kane. Tho lowest winter tempcrn turo recorded by Mr. Peary wan D3 do grcea Fahrenheit. In strange contrast to this In ItBcIf sufficiently Bevcro tcm peraturo nro the rigors of certain less fnvored localities lying south. Thus, In tho Kant sea, which Mch between Nova Zembln nnd Siberia, nnd whoso center Is approximately crossed by tho sov-cnty-thlrd parallel of latltudo, a tem perature of CI degrees Is by no means uncommon, and Uio sen, partly from this cause and partly from the fact that it is largely choked with Ice, haB Justly received tho name of the "Ice cellar" of Eurasia. At Yakutsk, In Siberia, a well-known governmental post, lying considerably southward or outside of tho arctic cir cle, a temperature of from 70 to 80 degrees below Is reported almost an nually; and nt Verkhojansk, which Is situated almost within tho samo broad region, but somewhat on tho polar Bide ot tho circle, there Ib a registry of 02 dcgrecB for tho month of January, 1894. Prof. Mohn, tho distinguished Norwe gian scientist, asserts, moreover, that at tho Russian station nt tho mouth of the Lena river, Siberia, the extraor dinary low tomporature of 94 degrees Fahrenheit has been recorded. That man Bhould be able to endure, one might say almost with Impunity, such excessive severity of cllmato Is not a llttlo remarkable, and It Is more surprising when It Is considered in con nection with his endurance of the op posite extreme, that Is, tho highest summer temperature. We havo as yet, perhaps, no absolutely reliable data for tho highest sun temperature on the earth's surface, but it may safely bo as sumed to bo in tho neighborhood ot or even beyond 1C0 degrees. It is claimed by Alexander Von Humboldt that Rit chie observed near Mourzouk, In north ern Africa, a temperature (In a meas ure reflected from the desort sands) of 135 degrees In the shado, whtoh Is prob ably tho highest that cornea author itatively irom the records of travelers. If this Is true, then thero can be llttlo doubt that tho sun temperature was fully IB degrees higher. With tho two extremes beforo us, then, we have for tho human subject a climatic resistance of at least 244 degrees, or 32 degrees more than is found in the range be tween zero and the boiling point of water. How much more than this man could endure It Is difficult to say, but doubtless many degrees could yet be added to elthor side of tho thermomo trlc scale without materially or neces sarily affecting his system. His re sistance to the temperature of furnace rooms, as is evidenced In tho work of stokers on board the transatlantic lin ers, is an indication of this. And yet moro the remarkable experiments re cently conductod by the eminent phy sicist Raoul Pictet upon his own per son, when by artificial processes he Subjected his body to a temperature of 165 degrees. Wu It liar Night OfTT A Manchester correspondent tells me of ono of tho latest developments of the servants' craze for imitating their mistresses, which occurred recently. "It was," sho nays, "tho 'night out' of tho cook of a friend of mine. Tho front doorbell rang, and, hearing the house maid having n somewhat angry collo quy at tho door, tho lady went herself to see what It was about. Sho met the maid with a cnlllng card In her hands, and on asking who had been at the door tho girl replied: 'Only visi tors for Miss ,' naming the cook, who carried tho' card to tho kitchen. Out of curiosity the lady went later on into tho kitchen and found tho card (a bona-fido printed visiting one), and on it Inscribed as follows: 'Miss E W , first and third Tuesdays.' The mystery remains as yet unrevealed whether these dates represent 'nights out or 'dnys at home.' "Gentlewom an. Training for "New Joumall.m." The meanest girl has been discov ered. Sho lives in Somnrvllle, and ono evening last week she Invited throe youug men to eomo and hldo bohlnd tho portiors nnd hear another young man proposo to her. Somerville Jour nal. Numerous experiments to determlno tho best fire-resisting materials for the construction of doors, have proved tha. wood covered with tin resists fire bet-, ter tkan an Iron door. SCHEMED TO QET WIVES. How Knrly Hot tier In Oregon Inrtncetf Women to (In to Tlirlr Hint. "Them aro plonty of women in Ore gon now," observed a prominent Ore gon polltlrlnn, who Is In Washington to see thnt tho ntiu is not forgotten In the matter of pntionngo, "but It Is within tho memory of ninny of us when wom en wero ficnico there. Wo gnvo It out that wo wanted tliPin for school tench era and the like, and encouraged them to eomo out thero, but tho truth wn tho men wnnted them for wives. I re member onco wo sent a young innn to MnssnehUBctts, where he wns well no qunlntcd, with orders to collect one hundred young women nnd escort them bnck to Oregon. Wo guaranteed every ono of them ono yenr's employment. Tho nrtlvo man In tho mattor was n lino looking young man, who after wards served two terms In congress from our state. Ho spent two month In selecting the, party and stnrtcd west with them. On tho trip out ho courted ono of tho school teachers on his own hook, nnd actually got her consent to a marrlngo on tho nrrlval of the trnln nt Portland. The boyn howled consid erably about it, claiming thnt ho had treated them unfnlrly In having first choke, but there wns n lot of fine, mar riageable material loft. Somo of these women are today tho leading ladles of tho society of tho state. Moro than three-fourths of tho hundred wero mar ried Inside ot three years, nnd many In lesB thnn one year. A few of the lot, however, nro teaching school hero to day, not that they did not hnvo nny of fers, but because they would not accept nny of tho fellows who offered them selves. Now thnt Senator Mitchell has about given up his contest to return ns senntor, ho will likely be succeeded by a gentleman who married ono of the pnrty of school teachers to which I re fer. Ho will bring his wife hero with him, and your Washington folks run sco for themselves the kind of Indict! wo hnd out there for achool tenchora. They can't be BUrpnssod.ovcn It equaled anywhere. I may bo an interested person, though, for It hnppens thnt my wife was ono of the pnrty," DON'T DO IT. Avoid Dlicutilng Irritating Nutijcrta at the Dinner Tahle. Why Is It that In most households the dinner tnblo become n dumping ground for tho wholcsnlo plaints ot IU members? Probably because this Is the only meat ot tho day when tho entire family meet together, and each one feels it a duty to air a few personal grievances in order to seek consolation from tho others, snys the Boston Herald. Out of deference to digestion, if for no other reason, dinner table conver sation should ho ot the spiciest, but this fact Ib lost sight ot In tho general desire of everybody, from papa down to the youngsters, to serve up only thoso topics which have marred rather than made tho day's happiness. Hard ly hns tho man ot the houso finished hlB carving duties beforo ho falls Into an animated financial discussion with his wife. Household expenses are re hashed, bills grumbled over, and the cost ot living recalculated with tedious regularity. Mother in her turn eager ly pours into any listening ear her do mestic woes. Tho day's errors bolow stairs are minutely recorded. Sho sighs over Bridget's butter waste, declarer that tho butcher's Indifference to her order is becoming Intolerable, and so on. Then tho small boy (poor llttlo tar get for family flaw-picking) comes In for his Bhare of criticism. Ills fatlurvs at school are relentlessly raked up and all sorts of punishments threatened un less there is speedy reform. If there are guests present this talk of tho In ner circle Is, for courtesy's Bake, given a less personal flavor, but only then. "Good cheer nnd plenty of It" is not tho motto of the average family din ner. Obliging. Tourist (In North Walee) Wasn't there a steep hill here once? Native There was, but the bicyclists object ed to It and the rural council had It removed. Tit Bits, FOREIGN NOTES. The Vatican contains 208 staircases and 1,100 different rooms. The notes of the bank ot England cost exactly ono halfpenny each. Amsterdam had 1,475 fires last year, at which nlno persons lost their lives. Tho army expenses per head ot the population is $4.7C in France nnd 3.C0 In Oormnny. Berlin now has electric street can with storago batteries that need to be charged but onco a day. The number of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland in 189G was 241,912, of whom 36,000 went to South Africa, In Zululand, when tho moon Is at the full, objects aro as distinctly vlslblo at as great a dlstanco as seven miles. By starlight ono can see to read print with case. Spain has more sunshine than any other country In Europe. The yearly average In Spain Is 3,000 hours; that of Italy, 2,300; Germany, 1,700; England, 1,400. Thero are about 2,000 persons In France Who are set down as anarch ists, and are under tho constant watch ot the police of the various Europoan countries. , There aro in France 2,100 women authors and JournulUts, and about 700 women artists. The provinces con tribute most ot tho writers about two. thirds whllo Paris Is represented In tho samo proportion among tho nrtls3. A Kansas woman, who travoled to St Louis to marry a man who adver tised for a wife, has brought suK against Mm became he backed out when he Baw her. ' i! f . i . ..) : ;. i ' rtA 1 Is AI :,y r,"i m A I m "" m m i. i.W " m w ( afr. J T.tfl ii