| NOT ON THE BILLS.
; , 80ME SCENES FROM THE PLAY
ERS’ LIFE.
BEAUTIFUL ESTELLE CLAYTON’S TALK
OF WOE.
Why She I.cft the Stage Forever at
Chicago—Professional Jealousy Know.
No Lair When It lias an Object In
View. "
It is a pretty difficult task for an
actress to succeed from comedy to le
gitimate roles. Beautiful Estelle Clay
ton is tlie latest person to find that out.
Miss Clayton did not happen to have
wealthy parents to pay her way in a
school for acting, so she began at the
bottom of the ladder, so to put it. She
advanced very rnpidly and soon made
ESTELLE CLAYTON..
an enviable reputation ns a comedienne
of the second magnitude. So slio was
invited to a higher sphere in her chosen
profession. When she was placed by
the side of Sadie Martinet in the play
called “Dr. Bill’’ there was a largo
sized grumble on the part of
the former. It spread rapidly
to the other members of the company
and Miss Clayton began to leol tho
keen edge of opposition to her prog
ress. The audiences received her
well, though. This only intensified
the feeling against her, which was so
openly manifested at Chicago thut she
left the oompany and returned to New
York.
Miss Clayton's part was that of the
young woman who had so much trouble
with the door key. A part formerly
impersonated by Martinot. In one of
the acts, she is supposed to fall to
the floor in a faint. Other members
of the oompany were then supposed to
> rush to her assistance, place her
upon a sofa, pat her hands and finally
revive her.
The extent to which professional jeal
ousy can go was demonstrated during
this scene in Chicago. It was the first
night and the theater was packed with
the wealth and fashion of the Western
metropolis. When she fell after the
usual manner she was jostled to the
lounge but the pats, caresses and sym
pathy were not forthcoming. Sho in
stantly discovered that a strong
draught was sweeping over her thin
silk stockings, that she must .be
making a liberal display of her feet,
and ankles—if, as she hoped, nothing
more. The audience noticed her un
fortunate predicament, but was more
sympathetic than her sister perform
ers. Indeed some suppressed 'groans
were manifested in the rows closest to
the stage.
That night Miss Clayton laid the
matter before the manager of the
company, and in addition told him of
how the other actors assisted Miss
Martinot under like circumstances.
The answer was to the effect that she
would have to look out for her own
comfort, that he could not be troubled
with Buch trival matters.
“Do I understand you to say that
such a scene is trival?" she asked
rather sharply.
. “Yes, and you are none too good
N.vanyway,” was the curt and insulting
" reply.
14 Miss. Clayton, very much astonished
at this reply to her grievance, next up
I • pealed to a lady member of tho com
pany, the soubbette, who was present
* in the scene with her and asked her if
f.. she would at least arrange her skirts
% at the next performance.
“Please understand, Miss Clayton,
* that I am not your servant, and if you
1 ,’4 want anything done with your clothes
V you will have to do it yourself or get
LEFT THE STAGE FOBEVEIi.
yomeone else,” was the soubrette’s con
solation.
The next performance was accom
y panted by the same exhibition of mean
ness, only in a more disastrous form.
In placing her upon the sofa, the soub
rette by a dexterous movement managed
to perform an ant that brought blushes
to the cheeks of the ladies in the or
chestra and per^uette. Miss Clayton
could not make herself heard and
whispered to the leading man to re
lieve her of her embarrassment.
"O d-n your feet; cover them
yourself,” was the sympathetic and
gentlemanly reply.
After such outrageous treatment as
this Miss Clayton was supposed to
spring up readily and act her part like
a light-hearted girl, and as if nothing
lmd happened. She did her part fairly
well,suppressing her tears as far us pos
sible, made bravo by the scowling faces
around her. That night she resigned
from the company and from the
theatrical profession forever. Manager
French, the owner of the company who
was in New York, learned of her with
drawal and at once perceived the
cause, lie wired her to remain and
that he would see her through all
right. She sent tho following reply:
“I have quit your company and tlie
profession for good.”
She was prevailed upon, however, to
act through tho Wednesday matinee
when the elitnax of her insults was
reached. It was her pluce in one part
to shake a key from the leading man's
coat. As a rule she carried this
key in her bosom so as to drop it at
the proper time when she waited to
pick it up and handing it to the leading
man say ‘‘Here’s your key, go to your
room.” In her confusion this day she
had forgotten it, a fact which she dis
covered just os the scene was due.
Under ordinary clrcuinstunces such an
omission would amount to nothing. On
this occasion it was different. She
reached to tho stage and pretending to
pick something up repeated tho quo
tation supposing that the leading man
would “help her out.” ‘‘I don’t see
ary key,” he answered so that the
audience could hear him. “When you
give me a key I’ll go to my room.”
M ss Clayton’s embarrassment was
enjoyed by the company, while it
pained the audience. Thereupon 6he
left the stage broken hearted, disgusted
with the profession which she says she
will never re-enter. It is quite likely
that the matter will be taken up by
the Manager’s association and the
Elks. Most of the members of the “Dr.
Bill” company belong to the latter
order. Such occurrences do not rec
ommend players to the general pub
lic.
HIS SWEETHEART DIED.
And He Thought He Ilad Nothing
More to Live for.
"I have nothing more to live for.”
And Joseph McFarland* turned from
the death bed of tho girl he loved. She
had just passed away calling his-name
-t3»
DIED FOR I.OVK.
that she might make an ante-mortem
request, and lie arrived just as she
had breathed her last. Zella Smith
was the belle of Noble township near
St Mary’s, Ohio, the daughter of a
wealthy farmer of that name. The
latter had frowned upon her rela
tions with McFarland and said
that they could never marry. Then
Bhe grew ill and pined away, a
victim of her own love. As she grew
worse, she implored her father to send
for her lover. It was not until it was
apparent that she would not survive
that the stern parent consented to her
request, and then it was too late. Aftet
leaving the Smith ■ residence, McFar
land went to the house of a cousin
in St. Mary’s. He wrote a long
letter to Miss "Smith's father, and
after placing it in the post
office, purchased a 44-calibre pistol.
Returning to the house of his cousin
he retired to an upper room where he
placed the muzzle of the weapon to his
temple and fired. In an instant he was
in eternity.. He evidently believed
that he wonld meet Zella Smith in the
world beyond for his letter to her
father closed: ‘ I will meet Zella at
the judgement seat of heaven, where
the God that knew the purity of our
lovo will judge us accordingly.”
VOMITED A BIRD.
Peculiar Symptoms Attending the Ill
ness of a Child.
The medical profession of Fall River,
Mass., is mfieli interested in a strange
case, reported by Dr. Casgrain, one of
their number. It a ppears that Victoria
Berube, aged fl years, died recently
after remaining unconscious for sixty
four hours. She had been in delicate
health for two years. The day before
her death she went home from school
and shortly afterward was taken sick,
vomiting a black substance. Dr. Gas
grain was called and found the patient
insensible. - He was unable to resusci
tate her.
Two hours before her death she
vomited a dark reddish substance,’
which, on examination, was found to
contain a partially formed bird. The
doctor declines to advance any theory,
but will report the facts shortly to the
local medical society.
At the present day sacred pigs roam
inviolate about the Buddhist monas
teries of Canton and elsewhere in
Chips.
SONQ PROM "THE PRINCESS."
As thro’ the land at ovo wo went
'And pluck’d the ripen’d ears,
We fell out, my wlfo and I
Oh, wo fell out, 1 know not why,
And kissed attain with tears.
I’or when wo came where lies the child
\Vo lost in other years,
There above the little grave,
Oli. there above the little grave,
Wo kissed a pain with tears. *
—Alfred Tennyson
A BORDER WAR.
Western Kansas was the scone of
many battles between the Indians and
white men In the early days of its set
tlement. Xho worst of these and,
next to the Custer Massacre, the
bloodiest battle of the plains was
fought at Arickareo creek, a tributary
to the Republican river.
During the year 181J7 the Indians
wore very troublesome and early in
tho fall thoy appeared in the vicinity
or Sheridan, a railroad town near the
line of Colorado, and ran off a lot of
stock. A volunteer scouting party,
numbering about fifty men, was sent
out from Fort Hayes to pursue tho
Indians.
The party was made up of well
trained Indian fighters, noted scouts,
buflalo hunters, trappers and plains
men. Thoy were led by Col For
sythe, an ollleor of Gen. Shoridan’s
stuff, and Lieut. Beecher was chief of
scouts.
For the first three days’ travel no
sign was found of the Indiana but on
tho fourth day they struck a large
trail.
Following this until dark without
seeing Indian* or any fresh traces of
them, the party prepared to encamp
for tho night in the little valley of
Arickaroo creek. Heavy guards were
posted and tho pack mules stationed
to graze near the mouth of a small
ravine.
The night passed without al#rm, but
just ns day was breaking a clatter of
hoofs and shouts from the guards
aroused tho men in time to see nearly
all the muloa going up tho valley on a
mad stampede.
Tho Indians had crept down the
ravine near the herd, then raised up
quickly, swinging their blankets and
shouting. Retreating rapidly beyond
ritle shot, they gathered the frightened
anima's into a bunch and disappeared
over the hills.
Orders were given to mount and pur
sue at once. Just as tho men swung
into their saddles wild shouts and a
heavy trampling wore hoard, and the
▼alley above them was alive with
mounted Indians coming down like a
cloudburst.
To advance was madness—to retreat
and oscape impossible. At this season
of the year tho Arickaruo creek was
dry. and the men fell back across its
bed to a high sandbar, an island in the
high wator season.
The Indians charged furiously, try
ing to ride down the little party, but
the scouts wore finely armed and held
them in check; Tho men dug little
rille-pits in the sand, scooping it out
with their hands. Rohind these frail
sholters thoy held back the savages
and tried to shield the wounded.
After several hours of terrible fight
ing the Indians withdrew to tho sur
rounding hills and kept up a soige un
til all the horses and mules were
killed. Thon a large, richly-dressed
Indian, evidently a high chief and
medicine man, rode out in advance of
several hundred warriors and. telling
them the white man’s bullets would
melt before they touched an Indian,
led them on a great charge. Believ
ing thomsolves safe from danger, they
charged up within pistol shot of the
sandbar and poured a murderous fire
on its brave defenders.
Nearly half the scouts were killed
or disabled and all seemed lost, when
sovoral of the best shots concentrated
thoir lire on the chief. He thought
the battle won and rode within a hun
dred feet of the sandbar, waving his
rifle and urging on his warriors. A
moment later he fell heavily to the
ground, and his men, unable to stand
tho stream of lead poured Into their
ranks, drow off in a sullen retreat, led
by tlio riderless pony of their chief.
The squaws on the hills met them
with wild wailings for the lost chief;
then all was hushed and quiet
N ow the scouts had time to help the
wounded and count the dead. The
sand of the little bar wafe red with
blood, and dead men and horses lay
about in confusion. The brave leader,
CoL Forsythe, was shot through both
legs and Lieut. Beecher was shot
through the small of the back.
One man was struck in the forehead
by an arrow. At the same moment a
rifle ball, passing his face horizont
ally. knockod out the arrow and
passed on into the body of a horse.
The wounded men were deprived of
the little aid that might have been
givon them, for the surgeon. Dr.
Moore, was shot through the head
and was entirely unconscious. The
scouts had scaroly time to count their
losses when the t(amp of a marching
army warned them that the battle was
not yet over.
So far tho Indians had fought on
horsoback. as Indians usually prefer
to do; but now thoy were coming to
regain the body of their chief. An
army of picked warriors was march
ing down the valley in a solid column
—all had darkenod their war paint
and none wore a thread of clothing.
They came on steadily, each brave
singing his death song and all unheed
ing the fire that mowed down their
ranks like grain. Again and again
their desperate charges were hurled
back by the scouts, until at last,
rushing over the bodies of their dead,
thoy reached the body ot their chief
and bore it away. Hardly half their
original number reached the hills, and
before the bar the bodies lay in piles
as if hurled there by some great ex
plosion.
The first day’s fight was ended by
the taking of the chiefs body. The
night fell, still and dark; and passed
without alarm. The dead were buried
In shallow graves dug in the sand,
and the wounded were made as com
fortable as possible. About midnight
two of the men crawled slowly away
from , the bar m&> the blackness be
yond. They were to try to get be
yond the Indian lines bofore day
break, hide themselves till dark again,
and then push on toward Fort Wal
lace. This was a desperate chance,
and their ubsence weakened the de
fending forces but the only hope was
to get aid from the post, one hundred
and thirty miles away.
Sopn after they left the camp Lieut.
Beecher died. For hours ho hod
begged the men to shoot him and end
his suffering. He was a nephew of
the late Ilenry Ward Beecher, and
was a bravo man and a good officer.
The Indians had posted their forces
so as to loavo the road down the river
open, hoping that the scouts would
try to escape by that way. Burdened
with their wounded and without
horses, they would have fallen an
easy prey to the well-mounted sav
ages. .
No fires were lit on the sand bar,
and the darkness and silence complete
ly deceived the Indians.
With the first gray light of day the
scouts saw a largo band of mounted
Indians coming down to take up the
trail of tho supposed fugitives. Every
man laid low in his little rifle pit, and
when the savages rode within a hun
dred feet of the bar each man picked
out his brave and fired. Many In
dians fell, and a band of ponies, soem
ingly riderless, scurried back to the
hills. After this the Indians grew'
more cautious and kept up a siege at
long range.
No men were killed aftor the first
day. but the wounded suffered much
for food and care. One man dug a
shallow well in the sand and got
plenty of water, warm and full of al
kali, but a blessing for all that.
They cut off the hind quarters of
the horses and boiled some of the
flesh in a small jar. The animals had
laid for two days just as when killed
and the meat was horribly tainted.
Only by sprinkling it with plenty of
gunpowder could it be used at. all.
When night came again two men
tried to get through the Indian
lines, but were driven back. On the
third day a steady siege was kept upt
j with only occasional hard fighting.
That night two men succeeded in get
ing away.
On the fourth day Mr. Moore died.
He had received a heavy rifle ball in
the head and had lain unconscious
since the first day.
After the fifth day no Indians were
seen, but the scouts could not venture
to move, for over half their number
were disabled. All were suffering
from lack of food and prickly pears
were gathered to help out the horse
meat The pears were so full of tiny
needles that they only added to the
sufferings of the starving men.
For four days more they waited,
watching the hills for Indians and
fighting starvation and death inside
the camp.
On the morning of the ninth day
the guard raised the cry of ••Indians!”
The men wure worn and weary with
watching and fasting, the ammunition
was almost gone and all felt that the
end had come.
Over the hills the dark line of the
enemy was coming on like a storm
cloud. Each man grasped bis rifle
tighter and braced himself to meet
the last charge.
The rising sun threw its glow across
the valley, and a wild cheer arose
from the little sandbar as its light fell,
not on Indian warpaint and spear, but
on the rifles of soldiers. Throats full
of duBt gunpowder and prickly pear
needles were forgotten. How they
cheered those blue coats! Even the
wounded raised themselves to look at
the line that meant life and home. It
was the relief from Fort Wallace. The
brave fellows who had crawled away
from the sandbar in the darkness had
reached the post and hurried back
with aid for their comrades.
Tho Indians were gone, siege and
battle were over, litters were made,
and with every care for the weak and
wounded tho return to Fort Wallace
was begun.
Everywhere were met traces ef the
battle. The Indians had suffered
great losses as was shown by the re
mains on the field, though the major
ity of the dead were carried away.
Many bodies resting on scaffolds were
found along the line of the Indians’
retreat Wet blood on some of these
showed that the warrior was yet liv
ing when placed there. The scouts
had lost their chief and many moret
while their colonel and half the sur
vivors were wounded. They reached
Fort Wallace in safety, and the In
dians did not soon forget the lesson of
the Arickaree fight where fifty white
men held back ten timos their num
ber of savages —San Francisco Chron
icle.
On Modern Physics.
An extraordinary archaeological
find is reported from Helsingfors, in
Finland. It consists of a huge chest
with complicated fastenings of iron,
which, together with the other de
tails of its structure, point to a date
early in the middle ages. On being
opened, it was found to contain a
quantity of ancient ironwork and a
large roll of parchments. The man
uscripts begin with the following
words: “Suger presh. abb. S. Dion
dixit * * *' ’ Then comes a com
plete and detailed treatise in Latin on
steam considered as a force and on its
applications—In short, a very accurate
discourse on modern physics.
The Value of Pearls.
Nothing varies so much in value as
pearla With them fashion affects the
market constantly. Sometimes white
ones are sought while other tints at
intervals are in demand. For some
years past black pearls have been the
rage. A fine specimen, worth $600,
will fetch $1,000 perhaps if another
can be got to match it perfectly.
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