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UTOI YHf A-P6PalliR mPEfVoFMPPLWi -TIMES M Vot, 7 No. 37 Lincoln, Nkbhaska, Satuhoay, August ao, ISDli. Prioic Fivic Oonti Town mm It may sometimes occur under tins de crees of an Inscrutable providence tlmt death Is a welcome visitor, but whoil the grim reaper enters the household nnd strikes down the fairest llnwer of n happy family nil feel that there Is n great deal that wo cannot un derstand In the wnys of providence. Could wo regulate tho visit of tho death angle they would come soonest to tho aged who are pro pared to tllo nnd schooled by retlectlou niton tho points of time to meet tho end without heart-burnings, disappointments or regret. They would come to thosnirerer from disease and palu, or want and poverty in short, to those to whom life Is least enjoyable. The death of Miss Carrie C. Reed, the Moved sis ter of Mr. John Heed of the firm of Holm & Heed, which occurred last Sunday, only two days prior to her twenty fourth birthday an niversary, can but renew regrets that death Is partial to youth and happiness. A lovnblo young woman, tho light of n contented and happy family, tho idol of an aged mother and her brothers and sisters, her death is de plored In hundreds of Lincoln homes, and especially In Y. I'. 8. C. K. circles, where she was a patient, humblo and earnest worker. Her funeral on Tuesday was an attestation of the enviable ositlon she had won among her co workers. The ceremony was most impressive, the floral offerings unusually rich and abundant and the attendance large. Tho remains wore conveyed to the old homo In Illinois,, where the stricken mother will henceforth remain near tho grave of the do parted loved one. Mr. John Heed accom panied his mothor and the preciour. casket to Illinois. The management of Lincoln park decided to cancel all negotiations for thu production of Pain's great historical spectacle, "The Last Days of Pompeii," In this city during the fair, but Mr. P. W. Little, president and manager of tbe Lincoln street railway, and Superintendent Uphain of the same line took up tho scheme with commendable public spirit, with the result that all had hoped to see accomplished. "The Last Days of Pom peii" will be produced in the evening of each day of the ttate fair In tbe M street ball park with over 200 well trained peoplo in the cast, an abundance of elaborate scenery, rich and appropriate costumes and a display of fire works never excelled anywhere. Tbe seat ing capacity of tb9 park Is being enlarged, an artificial lake Is being made and thousands of visitors from all neighboring points will 1)0 added to tbe annual statu fair crowd. Meantime the street railway people h ive as sumed a great risk, but with anything like favorable weather they will not be allowed to suffer serious loss. The sensational trial of Chancellor Crelgh ton of the Wesleyon University upon tho charges filed against him as an elder in thu Methodist church by Hev. George A. Smith and Hov. Hiram Hurch, will occur in this city on the 30th lust. Both sides will be rep resented by gentlemen learned In ecclesias tical law and a bitter fight may bo antic! puted. Matters have progressed too fur to permit of a compromise. Owing to the im pression that prevailed among the chancel lor's f dentin that Rev. Asa Bleeth, tho pre siding elder of this district, was In sympathy with tho prosocutlou, an appeal was inido to Bishop Warren to designate some unpreju diced elder to preside at tho trial. The bishop thereupon appointed Hev. L. F. Britt of Nebraska City for that duty. The friends of the contending factions of methodlsm In University Place are rallying with enthusi asm. It will be a calamity If this ugly dis turbance among the brethren is not dlstosed of before tho time for the opening of the next term of tho university. A spasm of aesthetlcism has attacked some portions of the city that ought to become epi demic before state fair time. People along tome of tho streets in residence portions have garnered their crop of sun-flowers. Those portions have renewed citified liablliments, and visitors thereto arc not oppressed by an air of damp solitude or impressed by fears of ambush, as are visitors to tuo sun-flower dis tricts. There should bo no sunflower fields along the public thoroughfares witbln at least three miles of tho business center, but they can be found with annoying easo with in a few blocks of the postbtllce. V It is a little remarkablo tliut a proposition to bond tho city to tbe additional extent of over $200,000 submitted during the past few days should have drawn out but a paltry vote of but thirteen or fourteen hundred, but such was the case, and to the small vote was due the fact that while almost everyone met upon the streets favored the bonds, they passed by no unanimous vote, having but about ISO majority. All will rejoice, how ever, that the work of uiviug tho streets can go merrily .on henceforth, and that the period of stagnation In that line during the present administration has almost expired. The question propounds itself, why do men talk politics with each other on the streets f Did anyone ever bear of a man's having being converted to any doctrine or from it by street corner altercation? It Is wife to say that no one ever has. Then why continue the disturbing nnd ofttlmes disgusting ha rangues? There Is absolutely no excuse for It except that this is a free country In which men yearn to talk and can find some one with whom to talk. Thu truth is that men never talk to convince or to bo convinced, They seem to talk most generally in order to prove their rapectiitlvu argumentative powers, and from the tenor of the prevailing foi ins of dlbcussiou it appears that they deem themselves most successful when they make their iintagoniktH mud. The truth is, further, that thu press is about the only medium through which force can be given to argu ment, although the stump and the public platform are not entirely without their Influ ence, 'ihlscountiy is too free. Men should not be permitted to stand in groups nnd clusters on thu most prominent thorough fores and abuse each other like pirates In thu hoatof their iolitlcnl passions. They ought to be compelled to hire n hall, wherein each could have n show according to his worth, "Not In n hundred yearn," while probably not tho latest, is by far tho most popular slang expression of tho day. It means plain "no," and is used to Indicate tho negativo generally. Upon some young men and women it has taken hold with thu tenacity of n case of smallpox, and is shunned by others with utKMit thu samu degree of cam as would tlmt loathsome epidemic be shunned. Ono youn g man seldom makes any other reply. It is ro tated of him that when, as he was passing along a quiet street tho otnerdiy, n parrot hotitod nt him "Polly wuuts n cracker.'1 1 u simply replied absent-mindedly as ho passed on, "not In a hundred years." It used to lie "never" and "hardly over," but they had I their day. The next popular song will just as likely as not be on "not in a hundred years." . Speaking in reference to thu coal combine in the east Col. Calhoun delivers tho follow ng words of wisdom in his last Issue of t hu Lincoln weekly Herald: "Hani coal will bu about $11 per ton In Lincoln this winter. It it man were caught stealing an amount of coat priced at (1.00 he would bo sent to jail. But men lire today stealing (1.50 from every consumer to whom they sell a ton of co ai and nothing is done with them, lbo man who takes the coal may ueed it to warm his house and cook his food. Tho man who raises thu ptice per ton does it that he may buy another yacht, or build a special car, or hnvo a grand debauch in Europe, or secu re a nuw and beautiful concubine whoso tastes run to diamonds, or erect a country scat. But it makes no difference. The (1.50 fel low is a base thief. The (1,500,000 fellow is all right and the law and the government and society all uphold him. Is It any won der that there are anarchists? Is It surpris ing that men's hearts grow hot and fierce when they see and feel this monstrous injus tice? Sober, thoughtful men wonder when and how It will all end, and the brain grows weary with the problem." There Is a serious ns well as a ludicrous phase to thu escape of the two smallpox pa tients from their improvised pest house on Salt creek bottoms Tuesday night. They were county jail prisoners, and it had been claimed that they had produced a semblance of smallpox by rubbing crotou oil upon their bodies, hoping that they might be removed to a place from which they could escae. Although several reputable physicians ex amined the men and declared their ailment to be genuine sninllxx, tho croton-oil antl smal)iox theorydiad u host of converts from the start, and they were reinforced by tho escape of the invalids, but in spite of that fact no largo posse of pursuers could be mus tered by tho sheriff when ho wanted to go after the fugitives. It was an easy matter to lightly express doubts of thu verdict of tbe physicians, but it would have taken a mighty big reward to get one of the doubt ing Thomases to lay a hand upon the conva lescent 'had they been found. Meantime there is grave danger threatened a com munity in which tho fugitives may find a harbor. Tbe street railway people are awake to the demands likely to he mod's upon them by the coming fair week nnd are stringing new tracks that nil! citable them to convey 110,000 Itoople per day to and from thu fairgrounds. Now if Mr. Finny, proprietor of the old Bush line, would lay tin to or four blocks of truck to tap thu fair grounds, thu additional facili ties, together with the railroad trains, would remove a great annoyance to state fair vis itors of' lucent years. Connection with the fulr grounds would certainly alford the Liu coin City electric a prolituhle source of reve nue, something it bus never yet enjoyed. The powers of absorption oses!,od by the people's Independent party has been muni tested in u manner that no longer permits of skepticism. It has absorbed Col. Bob Mo- Reynolds. Unit orrntiu gentleman arrived in Lincoln I uesday night from his bOO-acru I ranch near Guthrie, Oklutioum, mid will eu Joy thecoiufoits of his Lincoln homo for some mouths, leaving Frank tiiiudy to regu lute thu w oi kings of the farm during his ub- neiioo. Bob has started a metropolis on hi domain, which ho has named Calhoun III honor of thu editor of thu Lincoln Ihmld, It has a postofllca and Col. Handy manipu late thu mails. Bob has Joined tho farmers' alliance, and Is tho candidate of Uie people's party for Justlcu of tho peace, and his un varyingly oaceful aspect mid demoauor will certainly Insure his election, Whllo tho as sertion was generally viewed ni a Just at tho time, it is a fact no longer questioned that when Bob left Lincoln ho went to Mexico with the Intention of joining thu Garza revo lution, which came to nil ignominious termi nation beforo Bob's potctitlnl sword could ho lifted In Its behalf. When this adventure failed hu and Frank Handy made thu trip from Mexico to Oklahoma, 1,200 miles, in tho saddlu, much of their journey being through a rugged nnd unsettled country. The rigors of that Jaunt very nearly cost Frank Handy his life, as hu was taken III Immediately after POMPEII liEFOMi thelr arrival in Oklahoma City and lay for ten days at tho xlut of death. Bob's recital of the adventures of that trip would make "Darkest Africa" ashamed of itself. Thu withdrawal of Judge Cobb from the race for the republican noinlnatbn for dis trict Judge, to succeed Judge Field, who has resigned to contest with W. J. Bryan for a seat in Congress, has abated numerous com plications that were threatened. It Is an ojten secret that Maxey Cobb will be again a candidate for the republican nomination for county treasurer when tho timm comes for selecting a successor to Mr. Buriiham, anil had Judge Cobb permitted the use of his name in opposition to Mr. Strode hu would have boon breeding trouble for Maxey, for there ts every reason to believe that Judge Field and his friends secured the withdrawal of Mr. Strode from the congressional race by promiseH of the judgeship which Mr. Fiejd would vacate. As it is, Maxey Cob') Is not destined to have a walk-away for the repnu ' lioan nomination, as young Charley Miller, the present deputy county treasurer, Is m line for the same place and stands remarp ably well with not only the men who control nominations, but with the people, esieciallyi of this clly, as well, "I It is currently reported that railroad offlJ clals have promised the projectors of the. Suit Lake enterprise that a viaduct will span, the tracks on west O street tiefore next win-! tor. This Is entirely too good to be believed,' especially us no step has yet been taken to ward that end. The Sale Like people, how ever, have a substantial pull and will likely get the viaduct sooner or later. They have been given everything else for which they have asked, from a city electric. light to a graded county road, things which years of beseeching on the part of the natives would not have brought. Twelve carpenters, eight designers, a train load of scenery, together with a car of acces slons for the lire works arrived Wednesday for "Tho Lost Days of PoniMil." All the powder used to make the fireworks as well as everything elso needed for the display, that can be purchased locally, will bu supplied by Lincoln firms. Thu was one of the couces-1 slons that tho Lincoln street railway com-, pany demanded of the management and is certainly to Imj commended. The flro works I will ull bu made here on tho grounds. The Nesblt Shoe Store. Tho Lincoln Shoo Company who recently purchased the boot and shoe stock of S. B, Nesblt, Isopenniid leady for business. Tho new firm has rearranged the stock, which Is 1 tho newest and most s tyllsh ill the city, and " bite Squadron will Is-gln tho season at thu company did Thursday evening at tho I .am Ig bargains In nil lineal I Fourteenth street theatre, anil u long run Is ' lug iu "Tuxedo." The piece of course has is ottering mem at Dig nargains in all num. It has been generally commented upon thai) the Nesblt stock contained tho finest and 1 most approved line of footwear ever bi ought to Lincoln, and the fact that the (roods are , now being offered at prices way Mow com-V, petition, should I) J suttlcicut Inducement to every one that needs shoes to take advantage 1 of thu uppnttiiuity offered at an early mo lueut Tho same gentlemanly corps of sales- 1 men are In attendance, and thosniuucoiiitesy that has heretofore been shown the t lade still XHU Romeinbor tho Lincoln Shoo Com- nanv when vou wnnt footwear of anv kind .wilt's old stand ,101.1 O street, Canon City Coal and Lime Coal Co. at the Whltebieast n. T. TttfflTRft Hpeclnl CouiUKH Correspondence, Nr.w Yoiik, Auiiuht in, IBliJ.Tho season of til IKI began In Nuw York Monday with tho production of "Fn'herluud"nt thu Union Sxiiaru theatre. It Is a romtnilo drama-uf Tyrolean llfo written by Mr. Sidney Kills to fit Charles A. Gardner. Mr. Gardner ha an agreeable Individuality, slugs melodiously, dances lightly and entertains pleasantly. Thu piny Is of the old fashioned kind, but Mr. Gardner has surrounded himself with n good company and thu performance Is admirable In many reNMK'ts. Thu next opening of Im portance was at Minor's Fifth Aveiiuo thea tre where Mr. Charles Prnhmau's ptayers be gan the season with "Settled Out of Coart," August 8th. It Is to remain for four weeks -r - rilli DHSTHUCTIOS' and then Pauline Hall brings her new opera from Boston, Heptemlier 5th, which is to lie given a run. On Augsut 15th DeWnlf Hop per leglns the season at thu Broadway thea tre with "Wang," holding back his new op era, yet unnamed, until later In the season. On Soptemlwr 5th we are to have a very elaltorata revlynl of "Tho Blnck Crook," which it is liood will run nt the old Academy or Alusio during the entire season. Tho 111 jou theatre opens September 5th with Jennie Yeamsns In her now comedy, "12 p. in." At the Garden theatre ;"8lnlad" will continue its' great success. for another four weeks, no Itlvely, but it-will probably remain until Ou- tober 10th, when Modieskn will appear for four weeks, if shu does so with n now play as she promised. "Thu Dostonlatis" are to return to this house following, and on December 20 the rogular season will Itcgln with Lillian Russell In "The Mountebanks'' which is to be Kept running, mid will no doubt do so, that , Is If Mr. French dives not transfer the fair qilllon to tho Broadway theatre, of which he Is now manager. Tho Casino will be contln-, ued In Its present shape until September 10th when it will be transferred Into a music hall, 0erator, A Mad Bargain, A Fatal Gift, A patterned after the London Alhambra. It is Planter's Daughter, Underground, Tho Col said that thu stockholders never received ouel, Thu Booiuladdy, III Old Kentucky, A a dividend since the moorish castle was built , Kentucky Colonel, That Man From Boston, and that the directors were influenced to A Dark Horse, The Lucky Nuinnur, with lots make the change by consideration of thu more to hear from. Dunlop. enormous profits made by the Alhambra. Daly's theatre ojveus late in October with "The Teniivest," but no one ever knows Dr. Augustln Daly's plans twenty-four hours ahead. At the Madison Square theatre A Trip to China Town will lie continued as long as the public will come to laugh over It. As soon ns it iteglus to weaken Mr. Hoyt's new success, A Teliieruncu Town, will bu given an elaborate production, the splendid scenery being already finished. At the Metrojiollian ojM-ra house the regular operatic soohoii un der Abbey and Ginu begins November 21st. During the season Ahbuy uud Grau will pro duce soctacular plays the equul of which It Is said Imvu never been seen in this country. Thu Manhattan opera house now building it, Thirty-fourth street near Broadway, will open NovemlK-r Mth with Mrs. Bernard Deere iu As In a Looking glass, under the management of Marcus It, Mayei , and later Iu thu season James Q Senbrooke In Hyruo and Hanlsor s new success, The Isle of Champagne will make its met etroiinlltiin debut. iNihlo s linrden will oten August August 22 1 under the management of Alexander Com stock, but the first combination to apear lliau ,w.t lim.1, ulilinlllimul III...... Int. I. ...... I.iwn ...... .ri-i-i ...... w.,.vv.t a,c, lt IFVI, fairly successful with his comic opera veil I ture at Pnlmei's theatre and may Im able to remain until Octotx-r lid, whsu Mr. John Drew and a Charles Frohuiau company lie- . glti tliu regular season with A Masked Ball. fids will Ih followed by Bronson Howard's HOW IllflV. Arlstocrucv. Tho much talked of exK-ciei. ii mu is) eiaoorniery mounted and it has much of the patriotic In Its comiiki- sltion nmy patch on. The Grand opera linilK lutulltS Itu hl'IIUtll Kiflltmil),..,- .Mil ll-ltl. I ...... rfk(.('. .... . ..--.It. . .. j.- ...m . ..... ...... PThe Powvr of the Press, followed by Aero-s ih Potomac, and then the usual weekly fli'l hinges until the snow has melted and the flowers bloom again The Lyceum theatre has Its usual preliminary scison with E II. Sotheiu in Ietter Blair. Ix-irlmiliiu- Mondav ''flllil ImkiIiiit until Inti, In V.il-uttilu.i ia lin lli.. I'rwi.ur season with thu regular stock will be H" but exactly iu what is not positively "known. J. M. Hill's Stundsnl theatre oK'iis a preliminary season tonight with Ijidy I.ll width will Ite followed August 20 with The I Private Secretin y, Thu regular season will 'begin September 5th with Jane, to run until November, when The Fencing Master will I hi gi en a run. The Windsor theatre Iteglus Its season August l.'lth with Jerry, produced then for thu llrst time In America, Fahblo ltouiaul begins thu season nt tho People's the atre tonight, mid on August 20th thu Decker Minstrels open thu Third Avenue thuatro. Tony Pastor has as usual kept right on dur ing the milliner, giving Jolly iMirformances mid making n good deal of money, On Au gust 20th Mr, Robert Mantull imiiis tho Twenty-third street thoitru In n new romnn tin play, mid if that Is not n go hu will bo seen In Hamlet and some of his old plays. Thu Star theatre throw open Its doors yes terday and Kuttio Emuiett tripnsl on thu stage in her nuw play, Klllaruoy, but will ho theru only for two weeks. Shu will Iw fol lowed by Roland Heed who will produce Lend Mu Your Wife. The now Emplru theatre on Broadway near Fortieth street, Is progress ing very rapidly. Theru Is every indication to bcltevu that the theatre will bo finished about thu middle of December. The theatre will Imj under thu exclusive management of Charles Froliiuau for thu next ten years. Thu new Park theatre Is not itoing boomed since Manager Dimluvy left and no ono seems to know when It will ocii. The Thalia and Amlterg's, German theatres, will ohmi iuSep tcmbor uud by that time Kdwurd Harrlgan and Mart Hanley will be buck from Hchroon lake uud the theatre otenod. It is doubtful If Mr, Harrlgan will produce a new play be foro very lute iu thu season, as it is his Inten tion to begin with the old but popular Mtilll gait Guard series. Hermann opens his Her- i manii theatre himself this season, and will do his little tricks for several weeks beforo ho , goes on tho road Everything is a little late . this season, but bv thu middle of September everything will once more be In full blast. Columbus theatre will this year begin with Mervyu Dallas In The House on the Marsh tonight, uud thu Harlem opera house 0ens August Llith. Of thu many new plays get ting leady iu New nrk for the road are The Kid, Teliphonla, Uirry thu Lord, The "Uncle's Darling" at the Fuuke Monday night was perhaps more charming to thu old I l,cle himself than to anyone else. At least one wouiu juugo so irom me iuci mai on mo fh st night there was only a fair house and thu second night but n iltry few. It's not the kind of play that takes In theso days. Ic takes considerable more than reindeers, lieurs, dogn, t-to., to draw, and not only that, but it takes talent of no small order to Im) successful Iu thu larger towns, Thu kind of shows that pleased Lincoln ten years ago, or even five, could not draw a half house to day. "Uncle's Darling'' with Hattle Ber nard Chase as tho leading lady is a sensn tionil drama Illustrative of Alaska life and scenes, and there are some commendable features iu the play worthy of meulion, but they are decidedly few, Mls Chase Is a handsome a -tress and she does some fair work, but her hues are not well dstlned mid sll she permits her woik to drag too much. ',,,' ,n" little captain, did some clever work and one or two or the others acquitted them geltes with more or less honor, but ns a whole, thu attraction needs new people dramatic jioople and then with the piece re written, remodel( and bitter staged, It might Ik a success. ' Few attractions in the minstrel Hue that have apjH-aro I In Lincoln In Uto years have l'lvmi tin. uitUfiiclinii liml Oenrirx Tlwiti-liHi-'s nine or no plot ami tno aiiiimr claims none fur It, but thesMvialtles are so ingeniously interwoven as to make a most enjoyable pro Ii.-.ll, Tliunu t .. ltu.... liilliiillnir nt fai,u .. ...... c..i-,i- in., ..I.'J ... infill, f, w ,,,,.? , comedy and miustielsy ami the two aie blended so as to give a pleasant vuiletyof each, 1 here Is nothing broad or vulgar In the poiformniice, a fact which In Itself is great i el'ef to tho-e wiio enjoy thu work of burnt cork artists, Mr. Raymond Moote's songs were as usual loudly applauded and en cores too numeious were show ered uhii him, His voice Is as sweet and clear as ever, and to those who have heard him this will explain Ids vtoikon this ccciiioit. Tho counter tenor selections by It. J. J-im were liken isoeujojed and the halftone of Thomas Iaw is was well i revived. II, W. Frilluiau has a U'liutlful m. ImissovoIoo. Itdeicends to a low register, being rich and isiwrrfiil nnd full of melodr The solos of Mr. Moore nnd Mr, Frlllmaii were the musical features of the evening. Tho quartette In which the four gentlemen nltovo named appear furnished several selec tions both new and titenslnu. and nut until tho It f tli encore was rescinded to did tun audience lelcnso thoui from duty, Burt Shcpard was tho leading humorist, but nsldo from him there was little of mm it to com mend. Ilughey Dougherty's day has past. Hu can neither slug nor tell a funny story nnd 1:1s so called funny dialect fell lint. Mr, John Coleman's dndu character was a Una bit of character work. Ilo also distinguished himself ns a most clover songster mid an oven letter dancer. Ho did some really In tricate, artistic and novel foot movements, On tho female sooio, notwithstanding Miss Vllchugh is heralded as tho piiiim donna, Miss Grace Hamilton docs far better service and takes better with the audience. She slugs beautifully, has a rich contralto voice and IMTforms soveral dances very gracefully that bring down thu house, whllo the work of thu so called prima donna fulls to oven bring. out nil encorj. The orchestra wns gixsl nnd the performance generally very satisfactory. V Tho announcement that thu Funko has en gaged Mr. Harry P Irvine of Omaha to lead their orchestra occasioned no littto surprise mid comment In Lincoln musical circlet. Many of our iteople nro tersonally acquaint ed with Mr. Irvine, many know of him by reputation', others having danced to his iiiiisIo and soiuu having hoard his charming orchestra at Boyd's otern housu Iu Oinnha. It Is certainly n stroke of enterpilse on the part of the Funko management that will proven drawing card. It is Mr. Irvine's In tention U engage Lincoln talent In his or chestra, but that which cannot lu supplied heru will lo taken from the ranks at umnna. loiter In tho senson when Mr. Irvlnu'f or chestra will Ikj In llrst-clnss tilin he .will Itu otcn for engagements nt balls, partlos nnd In fact for all occasions where Ids services may tie desired. Thero apiears to be a general pleasant dltosltlon In mwdcnl circles to work for the general ndvniicemout of orches trn work Iu Lincoln mid It may Itu thnt later on Mr. Irvine may tu nble to bring the mem bers of the vnrlous orchestras together under ono cover nnd organize a musical union or chestrn and military band Juit like was done years ago in Omaha, nnd Is still conducted very successfully. There they hnvu u mem bershlp of over 150 musicians and the big or chestra Is tvi onnstruetnl thnt a halt dozen engagements can be filled in one night and each supplied with a first-class leader ami musicians, f.AHT DAVH Or POMI'KIL When Vesuvius poured forth Its deadly torrent of lava upon the ancient city of Pompeii, burying It under a mass of liquid stone, and destroying with pitiless force lira thousands of happy teople who dwelt within the walls of the doomed place, all was sad ness and griet . Cries of agony rent tho lurid air, and naught was apparent but desolation and misery. When nfter the force of tho mighty volcano was sjient, when It had ceased to pour forth Its molten cataract, the clouds of smoke cleared away and tho sun shone utou a scene never since equalled in the history of the world. Where but a few hours before had been n mighty city, proud nud majestic in Iu rearing temples and wealth of art, naught remained but a barren waste, with here and there a broken column standing like a grim sentinel over the rums. This baDDened eluhtueu centuries ago. Since then excavators have been at work and and their researches have brojght before the world relict of the fated city. Volumes have been written upon It, and the (teople have come to kuow a great deal of the history of Pompeii. So far at books can Uacb them, so far a lecture by sages can instruct them, they nro well Informed of tbe horrible night's occurrence, In which one of the greatest cities of ancient times was buried beneath a sea of hissing, molUn atone, . " But book, picture and lectures cannot portray the rene Iu all the grandeur it must have itoHsessed. Other means are i.ecessary. and the people of Lincoln will soon have them at their hands. H. J, Pain ot London, England, the most noted of all pytiMeclinUts, has conceived a representation of "Thu I.ast Days of Pompeii," a production of which, will be given In nil the magnificence ofn-vulc effects nud realism Hsslble to modem art during fair week at tho M street ball park. The production will be something tlmt will excel anything ever before attempted In n pyrotechnic and sjtectaculnrway, Complete In every isirticulnr, truu in eacli detail to history, correct in Its scenic aichltecturo, magnificent In Its costumes and grand be yond any precedent In Its entirety, "Pom lll" us presented will be a treat. A CoL'liltli reoiter visited tliepaikjes terday nud toiiud a small army of men at work actively engaged on jireimt atlon for the construction of the streets nnd scenes ot Pompeii. Cnis.-uters, designers and builders wer all busy ns bee and the work is being vigoiously pushed Iu eory detail. Thelurgo gland stand heretofore used bv Lincoln!!" to see thu national iiamo, is being enlarged tolilplelts former size. The great stage wl be 400 fret long, a lake 250 feet Iu length will Im put Iu, holding over two million gal lons ot water on which aquatic uoelti-s will Ito pre-eiited nightly. The scenei- is grand j and woiideifully leallstlc, ami tho lliewoiks , well, none were toucheJ off, but who l It is I stated that the cost of eich night's produc tiuu will lie mer i 1,000, their magnificence can well be imitgiuid. There will lie several hundred people on the stage and the scenery, all of which Is nature's sire or ueaily so, Is Iw3 ond thb mind's conception of magnitude and splendor. It requites 12,000 squat o yards of massive Iron, wood and cauvus to erect the scvniw of l'onieli and Is certainly thu most stupendous affair ever attempted in American stage ciuft. KMASK IIAMKUS AM) LITTLE I'l't'K. Ou Monday next Frank Daniels will iniiko his annual appearance ttefon a Lincoln au dience at the Ionising theatre, on which oc casion he will present n new version of hi time honoicd success, "Little Puck." Since (continued ou llfth pagJ.)
