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VOLUME XXV-JfUMBEft 43.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1895.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,291.
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B.S. PEASLEE
had been a
widow for two
years, and did
not want to be
any longer. She
was very unhap
py. being1 a
widow.
Not that she
had so much re
gretted Peaslee
oh.no! Indeed,
if the truth were
told, she had
rather felt as if
Peaslee were doing the handsome
thins by her when he caught the
measles. He was seventy-eight or
nine before he did this, and having
escaped the contagion during his first
childhood, he had a perfect right to
it in his second; but it went hard with
him, and, after an interesting illness
of four days, during which he "swore
the very hair off her head," as Mrs.
Peaslee informed her neighbor, Mrs.
IJrown, he passed on.
He was a man of propert-, and, of
course, Mrs. Peaslee wept becoming
ly nt his funeral, and made herself as
gloomy as possible with crape folds
and bombazine.
She employed Paul Julius, the vil
lage poet, to write sixteen verses by
way of an obituary notice verses
which Mrs. Julius, who was not ro
mantic, declared touching enough to
wring tears out of a gridiron.
She also had a sixty dollar tomb
stone set up to his memory, with a
Very much bent over angel, with
spreading wings, reclining against an
urn which looked like a patent coffee
pot; and underneath the announce
ment of Mr. Peaslee's age was in
scribed this sentence from the Span
ish: "Mas vale tarde que nunca."
She had asked one of her nephews
a wild young chap, just entering
his senior year at college, for some
expressive sentence from some for
eign language to put on his Uncle
Eben's tombstone, and the young ras
-' cal had imposed upon her this: "Bet
ter late than never!"' assuring her it
meant "There is rest in heaven!"
When Peaslee's will was opened,
the widow was raging mad. All his
property had been willed to a certain
Jonathan Ebenezer Peaslee, a rela
tive of his, and the widow only had
her thirds. But she charged the
tombstone, angel and a"Tto the cs
tate,""and recovered the price of it.
After that, finding hhe was a desper
ate woman to have around, Jonathan
Ebenezer bought out her interest,
and the widow set us a house for her
self. Directly crape began to give way
to lavender ribbons; and when a wid
ow begins to don lavender, the fact is
significant.
Mrs. Peaslee was still young she
owned to 30, but was really about 40
and a verj good-looking woman. I
suppose she had an undoubted right
to look around after a second hus
Land. liarzilla Bodge was her first flame.
The courtship was made easy. Every
thing was lovely and the course of
true love ran smoothly. The wedding-dress,
white silk, with pale lav
ender trimmings, was ready, the day
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he west rr
tvas set, and the cards printed. But,
to use the language of the nineteenth
century, life had soured on Barzilla,
and a week before the wedding he
was seized with cholera morbus, and
in a few hours was no more.
Mrs. Pea-lee was again a widow.
She put on the old mourning it
was by no means rusty and wore it
three months. At the end of that
time she got a little bilious, and
black was not becoming, so she went
jback to the lavender.
Squire Lcgro began to visit her.
The squire was a man of wealth, and
Mrs. Peaslee considered herself very
fortunate when he proposed. Again
the bridal-day was appointed; but,
alas! fate was still unpropitious, and
stepped in between the widow and
her fond hopes of felicity in the shape
of Annie Tracey, the squire's seam
stress, who threatened to ue the
squire for a breach of promise. This
was too much for that worthy gentle
man, and he packed up his movables
and escaped. His hat was found on
the shore of Swift river, together
with a note directed to Annie and the
widow, saying that he preferred death
to disgrace, and announcing his in
tention to "shuffle oil," etc..
His body was never found, and a
year afterward he was seen in the
flesh full ISO pounds of it in Chica
go, along with his wife, and a pair of
twin babies. So, of course, he did
not die when he expected to.
A month or two after the squire's
xoius, John Nugent came to town to
engage in the very striking business
of putting' up lightning rods.
Immediately the widow was siezed
-with a terrible dread of lightning.
She had rods pnt on all her buildings,
the hen-honse included.
Mr. Nugent took a room at her
house. When it thundered, she flew
to him for protection. He protected
her. "When it did not thunder she
was afraid it was going to, and sought
of him consolation. He consoled her.
There was more lightning than
Usual (hat summer, ft&d Mr, NujrMt
IsfiariPy
ka4 his hands full. Altogether, it
was a delightful time. Everybody
was happy.
August the 5th was set for the wedding-,
but, alas! on that day of all
others, appeared at the Wi dow Peas
lee's front door, inquiring for Tim
Jenkins, a freckle-faced woman, with
five children.
Mrs. Peaslee told her that she had
not the honor of Mr. Jenkin's
acquaintance. And ishe called Mr.
Nugent down tojprotect her from the
woman's abuse.
At the first glimpse of him, the
woman darted forward and seized him
by the arm.
"Oh, Timothy' yflu UeartlesS, on
feeling man, you! To desert your
affectionate wife and all your inter
esting family of children!"
And then there was a fearful scene,
during which a good deal of hair
changed hands and everything was
badly mixed up.
And it all ended by Mrs. Jenkins
marching Jenkins off with a young
one on each of his shoulders, and the
others hanging to the legs of his
pantaloons, begging for cents to buy
candy.
Again the Widow Peaslee was a
widow.
At first she thought of falling sick
like the heroines in novels when great
emergencies occur; but, on second
thoughts, she changed her mind, and
sought consolation in various little
proverbs about "patient waiters."
Scraps of poetry also came to re
lieve her mind. She thought favor
ably of the wonderful production
which begins, "If at first you don't
succeed, try, try again "
Then she remembered the spider:
"Threo times the spider tried his web to tie
fast to the Mam
Three times to cross the main had people
tried tcforo Columbus.
I will not give up to spiders, Spain, or au;ht
but death "
quoth the widow courageously, and
she bathed her eyes, for she had been
crying a little, and prepared a plate
of toast and jelly for old Peter Pray,
who was sick, and a bachelor.
But the widow Jones was before
her, supporting old Peter on her arm,
and feeding him with mutton broth.
Mrs. Peaslee was too late. She gave
the toast to Jellison's dog, and went
home almost in despair.
But Providence favored her. A rail
road was laid out in her vicinity. It
was constructed, and brought a great
many strangers that way. Mrs;
Peaslee took boarders only single
men.
Tames Juniper was one of them.
Juniper was a rock-worker, and had
charge of blasting operations on a
ledge a little distance offk
The widow fascinated him, and in
due time they were engaged.
The day before they wer6 to be
married, a blast of powder went off
without any notice, and as poor Juni
per happened at the time to be stand
ing directly over it, he went up.
When he made his ascent he had
two legs and two arms; when he de
scended, it was found that one of
each was missing.
The widow received him at her
house what remained of him.
He lifted hispowier-blackened face
at sijrht of her, and said faintly:
"Hannah, be you going to give me
up? Because, if j-on be, I won't have
none of them doctors a-sawing off my
bones; but if you'll stick, let Vm saw
and he darned."
But the widow was loyal, and
James was raised up to life again,
though one of his legs is a wooden
one. and he has only one arm with
which to hug Mrs Juniper
So you see that patience and perse
verance always bring forth their
fruits, and when you feel inclined to
despair, think of the Widow Peaslee.
and renew j-our courage.
Homin Horns.
Some remarkable work ha been
carried out in Germany for the de
termination of the earthworks and
walls which marked the limits during
the Roman period of the frontiers
between the provinces of the Rhine
ana the uanuoe. lne commission
was half archaeological and half mili
tary in its composition, and the re
sults are highly interesting. The
lines between Upper Germany and
Kha?tia, as the Romans traced
them, are now fairly well shown. One
curious fact comes to light, showing
old methods of laying down lines. It
was not sufficient to build a wall, or
a fosa. because stones or ditches
might be torn down or filled up bv
floods. or by enemies. It was found
that running outside of the fixed line
was a trench, and in this trench had
been planted "rows of stones or bits
of Roman pottery, wood and iron,
which had been purposely covered
over.'' This was the hidden line
which, in case of dispute, would de
termine where the wall had stood, if
the wall had been ever overturned or
washed awav.
Expemlve to Be Rich.
Any one acquainted with the living
expenses of persons who esteem them
selves fairly comfortable finds a sig
nificant moral in the commands laid
upon the rich by their physicians.
Not only is the wealthiest patient
bidden to substitute costly table
waters and even imported champagne
for ordinary drinks, but every detail
of his daily life seems regulated with
a view to spending the most money
for his needs. The whole world is
ransacked for food that his weak
stomach can digest, for clothing sani
tarily suitable for his body. The in
fants of the rich are required to
drink milk at fifty cents a quart, anl
to wear tiny garments that exceed the
cost of plain adult clothing. It may
very well be that a child under two
hrears old, fed and clothed according
to a aoctor s prescriptions, may cost
more per annum than the living ex
penses of a wholesomely clothed, fed
and housed adult.
A Slisht Delay.
Lady Is Mrs. Binks at home?
Servant No'm.
"Can you tell me when she will be
at home?"'
As soon as she gets the parlor
dusted, mum, an' she's almost finished
now." Tit-Bits.
Hide I'er Heart.
"Your eyes don't deceive you, cer
tainly.' "I don't care about that, said the
nm iia ctnnlt mitl alt -l . -i .a -3
cuy otber folks, "Detroit Tribuafl.
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
ail Carious Experience Kit
Xu
Who Hallooed.
Once," Baid the retired burglar,
"I ldoked from the- upper hall of a
house that I was in into a room that
was so dark that you literally couldn't
see into it at all. It seemed as if they
must have had the "windows closed,
the blinds shut, and the shades all
down. It was blacker'n a cave. I
turned my light in around on tHe fl&of
to get the lay of things and to get 'em
fixed in my mind so as not to stumble
over anything. Over by the bed I
saw a chair, and hanging down from
it a pair of trousers legs. Then, of
course, I knew there was a man in
the bed and that it was his clothes
that were stacked up on the chair
there. I shut off my light and started.
I knew the way and I went very quiet
ly, but when I got about half way
across the room the man in the bed
began to holler.
"How he could see me I couldn't un
derstand, but I just halted andwtited.
He didn't holler very loud, though he
was trying too, hard; but he was so
scared that I was surprised to hear
him holler at all; it sounded as if it
was all he could do to catch his breath;
I was afraid he'd scare himself to
death right on the spot. I didn't dare
back out of the room for fear I'd meet
somebody coming id. I thought I
could dodge 'em better after they got
in: so I just stood there in the middle
of that dark room with that man
hollcrin' the best he could, and I
wishing I was somewhere else and
wondering what was going to turn up
next.
'Well, sir, in about half a minute
ho stopped hollerin' ftltopetheiS and
for a minute or two he did not
broathe. Then I was scared; but in
a minute more he began to snore.
You see? He wasn't scared at mo,
what he was scared at was a night
mare; he didn't know I was there at
all. But it was a mighty uncomfort
able position to ba In all the same. be-
cause of course, he was just as likely
to wake up somebody hollerin' in his
sleep as he would ha' been if he'd been
wide awake: he might have waked
himself up. as far as that's concerned.
But he didn't, nor nobody else, appar
ently, and when he'd got to snoring
again, and everything seemed quiet,
why. I just went ahead and collardd
his trousers.' N. Y. Sun.
GOVERNMENT TAKEN IN.
Uadlxoa M.iiimcript for Which 030,000
Wat P.tld.
In 1S37 congress appropriated f.30,
0 0 to purchase from Mrs. Madison
the 'manuscripts of the" late Mr.
Madison.' After the lapse of half a
century the general public is permit
ted to know what was comprised in
that purchase, and No. 4 of the bulle
tin of the bureau of rolls and library
of the department of state contains a
calendar of the manuscripts.
A cursory examination of its con-4
tents gives us an exalted idea of the
simplicity of the" government officials
who performed the transaction. The
jrold brick" and "green goods" ex
changes are nearly similar, cons'dered
from the standpoint of the purchaser.
We do not mean to assert that the
-ale was a job. but the government
was certainly taktJn in. The attorney
general decided many years after that
Mrs. Madison was entitled to what
she retained, but we marvel at the
blindness of the official who dealt with
her.
The real Madison letters were scat
tered at auction two years ago. There"
i only one series Of letters to Madison
in the department calendar worthy of
note the noble &erie of Jefferson
letters.
Turning to "Washington, says the
Nation, we find copies of five or six
letters. The originals of many (nearly
10 )) usually long and interesting let
ters from Washington. Pendleton. Ed
mund, Randolph, Joseph Jones. John
Armstrong and others were scattered
at the sale just mentioned, and could
have been purchased for one-half the
sum paid for the collection obtained in
i ,.
1S:'7.
In historical value there could be
no comparison between the two lots,
and yet the government made ho ef
fort to secure the more valuable let
ters sold in 1891.
Kn;Io and I on
A farmer named Sam Jones set a
trap for a fox the other day in a clear
ing in Seabury settlement, Now York,
and when he went to see if he had
caught anything he found that the
trap was gone, notwithstanding it had
been secured by a chain and a heavy
staple driven into a log. The chain
had been broken off and fox tracks led
away, leaving a tolerably plain trail
in the dead leaves. This trail Jones
followed until he reached a small
opening some dozens of rods away,
where on the moss lay his fox dead
and holding fast by the throat with
its jaws a dead eagle. The eagle in
sailing over the woods had spied
the fox in the trap and had swooped
down upon it. but the fox, though
crippled by the trap, had made a game
fight and killed his assailant while
yielding up his own life.
Newfoundland- Trouble.
Newfoundland is feeling the effect
of her isolation in the present crisis.
Her two chartered banks having been
forced to suspend, the notes they is
sued have lost their value as currency.
Money to pay workmen cannot be had.
Advances are not to be obtained on
the large stocks of fish in merchants'
warehouses. Outside help might
greatly mitigate if it did not cause
the crisis to quickly disappear. Out
siders who could help have, however,
no such direct interest in Newfound
land's affairs as to lead them to exert
themselves in her behalf, and it may
be some time before the local finan
ciers can make such arrangements as
will enable the island's business to re
sume its old lines.
Thn Death Rate.
It is interesting to note that while
the death rate among children has
been perceptibly lessened that among
adults has increased. Nineteenth cen
tury progress and research protects
the life at one end, only to overtax
and snap it off suddenly at the other-
A Princely Gift.
The prince regent of Bavaria gives
presents on his anniversary day in
stead of receiving them. His last gift
was 100 bottles of diphtheria serum
for the Hospital for Poor Children &
Munich,
"DOPING" THE HORSES
RACE TRACK METHODS OF
CROOKED HORSEMEN.
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How Gallant Racers Are Cruelly Mis
used to Make Them Lose Few Such
Tricksters Ever Have A ay Money
Leas Dangerou Dress Used.
The recent alleged dosing of the
American Derby winner, Rey el Santa
Anita, and the suspension of "Coun
selor"' Bill Brien, trainer for the Bald
win string, recalls to a Sjin Francisco
Call writer, some incidences 5t famous
racers that were "doped"' and the
methods most used by crooked train
ers and unscrupulous horsemen. In
England the crime of dosing is called
nobbing," and was much practiced
in the early part of the pre&ent century-
In the year 1825 Dan Danson was
caught at the nefarious practice in
that country., was co'ndemne 1 to death
and executed.
The most celebrated case of recant
years was the dosing of Orme, the
favorite for the English derby of 1S92.
The horse was given a drug a short
time prior to the great event bj some
Unknown miscreant, and his owner,
the duke of Westminster, was com
pelled to scratch him, thus throwing
thousands of pounds into the book
makers' coffers.
A large reward was offered for the
apprehension of the offender, but no
trace of him was ever found.
Great excitement was caused in the
country at the time by tho poisonirg'
bf the" great hide horse Warner, at
Nashville. Tenn.. when lie suffered
defeat from the gray mare Gamma.ndt
as good a race horse by many pounds
as Wagner.
At St. Louis in the summer of 1S02
Ed Corrigan's great son of Longfel
loVs Ffeelartd. was pojsoned in a most
fiendish manner. A hole was puric
tured in one of his legs, and the dead
ly drug inserted therein. This threw
him out of training and he ran no
more that season; but he recovered
and was a fine 3-year-old, and practi
cally unbeatable as a 4-year-old.
Annther ease, the details of whirh
were siniilat1, was the poisoning" of the
great filly Clipsetta. belonging t8 T.
J. Megibbn.the well-known Kentucky
distiller. She was treated in the
same manner at Chicago shortly after
the Freeland case. She had beaten
all tho best fillies in the South, and
was a hot favoritP for the Ladies'
staKe, out on tne nignt n
fore the race this fiend in
human form, by some means, gained
access to the stable, and she met the
fate of Freeland.only with much more
serious results, and the splendid filly
died in awful agony on the day the
stake was run.
Miss Woodford, who became the
qUeeh of the turf: wdn the event eas
ily it being her first start hi public.
But of late years, as in every other
science and profession, horsemen have
grown wise, and less dangerous drugs
and methods are ued that answer as
well and leave no ill effects on the
animal.
One very ingenious method that has
been used is to insert small silk
sponges in the nostrils of the horse.
After running well for some distance
his breathing becomes laborea, and,
in the language of the swipes, he will
"cough it up."
Another "stopping"' drug that is
used is ether. It is said that two or
three drops of this on a lump of sugar
given to a horse will make him think
he has passed the wire when about
three-quarters of the distance has
been traversed, and ho will slow up
despite all urging on the jockey's
part. But, unless well cooled off after
the race, this is apt to have an injuri
ous effect on the animal.
A good bran mash, with a liberal
supply of salt in it, is a pretty sure
guarantee that the bookmakers will
not be troubled with paying off many
tickets on that horse.
A very clever trick was once
worked at the Bay district
track by some parties that
owned a very fast sprinter. A piece
of gut was tied very tightly around
one of the animal's legs. She was
then taken out and warmed up through
the stretch, and of course pulled up
"dead lame." This report spread
around the ring and the horss from
favorite immediatelv became a Iong-
j price in betting. The owners then
played their money, the piece of gut
was removed and soon after the race
they had plenty of money.
At the last jockey club meeting the
horse Alto Mio was said to have been
run in a race shod with lead shoes,
and finished in the rear of his field.
But this became noised about and he
was never cut loose for the intended
killing.
At another meeting the horse was
started with shotted boots, and was
supposed to be a "dead one." The
owner 'and his friends on the inside
then proceeded to play another horse
in the race; but the "dead one," get
ting on in front, ran like a wild horse,
and was never headed.
But the method most in vogue when
an owner figures that his horse will
be favorite at a short price is to
run them "short," and is entirely
harmless in its after effects. For in
stance, if the race is over a distance
of one mile, the horse will be worked
three quarters, and after that distance
has been run in the race he will 'blow
up" and finish with the also rans.
These are but a few of the many
tricks that can be resorted to by
crooked horsemen to fool judges and
public: but the best proof that honesty
is the best policy is in the fact that very
few of the horsemen who resort to
the methods above referred to ever
have any money. They generally get
to the end of their rope with one
lonely plug as a sorrowful reminder
of the days when "Bill and me used
to get the stuff."
Government o!d.
It is contrary to law for a private
individual to buy gold from the mines
of Transvaal. The entire products of
the mines must be sold to the Dutch
government at rates fixed by statute
and any person found with uncoined
gold in his possession is liable to
severe punishment. This somewhat
singular law is being enforced rigidly,
and quite a number of well-to-do peo
ple have been sent to prison for
violating its provisions,
VERIFIED IN SECRET.
A Featare of Uaslness 1'e'rfarBtsd hf
Public Accountants Artar Iarc:
In many business offices there is
transacted a business at night of
which none of the employes are aware.
It is the auditing of books, a feature
of work fter fdrnle'd by several well
known public accounta8ts
Of course in the majority o'f sucli
cases the partners in the concern have
had some reason to suspect some of
the office force of dishonest practices.
A times, however, one partner may
suspect another; dr" soma reason may
arise where the firm desire td ascer
tain their standing at an unusual
time of the year, and without it bsing
known to the bookkeeper.
"It is1 by no means an unusual feat
ure of my work," said a well-known
public accountant in speaking about
the matter"recently. Many a time
when a large mercantile house has
closed for the night and everybody
has gone home my men have entered
the store, taken tho books from the
safe, and worked over them until day
break. "In such cases they never ouch a
peri or pencil to the books. They
merely verify the figures and tran
scribe the entries on paptr. The re
sult of each man's work is kepo by
itself, and turned over to another
person in my office, who obtains the
final results. Every care is taken in
handling the" books and rep'acing
them in the safe to give r.0 grounds
for suspicion of what is going on.
"No doubt many a bookkeeper and
cashier in this city would be surprised
to p2ep into his office at night and
find a force of men working over the
books, as familiarly as he and his fel
low clerks have been doing in the day
time for years. Tho night forco
speedily become acquainted with tho
names of cu-torners' arid the pages of
the IeJger accounts, turning td them
without reference to the index, like
old hands.
"Sometimes, of course, the fact of
dur working at night over the books
never become's" kndwri to the clerks.
If the accounts are found straight
there is no occasion to let them know
that they are suspected. At other
times they discover that their figures
have been overhauled when confront
ed with the UUmlstakablo evidence in
figures of their false entries'
7h- Ffost Flh.
A curious fish, the "frost fisa" of
New Zealand, has been recently ex
hibited in Edinburgh. It was brought
over to England by on2 of the mat
arr$'injr steamers in the refrigerator,
and is described a3 nearly fivp foet in
length, with flau sides about dur
inches deep, and at the thickest part
not more than one inch through. It
has a long, hard, sharp head, armed
with several sets of formidable teeth,
a most delicately transparent back tn
running from head to tail, about as
fine as ft film of gelatine, the taper at
the, tail not more thad a quarter of an
inch acrdss.and the tail is of very small
size for such n fish. measuring not more
than two inches and a half sterols tho
outer edges. Judging from it prscdt
appearance the fish in its natural
state must bo as silvery as a herring,
though without scaler The "frost
fish'' is said to b3 excellent ending.
Explosion.
Substances liable to explosion are,
as it were, says Professor C A.
Mitchell, in a state of unstable equili
brium, and often a slight cause is
euffioient s t disturb that equili
brium that a fresh arrangement of tho
particles takes place in other words,
an explosion. A somewhat analogous
instance of instability, he adds, is
seen in the case of water cooled slow
ly below its freezing point, without
solidifying, as occasionally happens in
bedroom pitchers. When tho pitcher
is lifted the movement destroys the
equilibrium, and the water suddenly
becomes ice.
A Wonderful Financier.
There is in New York city a police
man, who has managed on pay never
exceeding 1200 a year, and without
opportunity for unlawful gains, to put
one son through a famous college an 1
to graduate him in medicine; to get
another a commission in the navy,
and to send two daughters to one of
the best women's colleges.
THE WOMEN FOLKS.
May Why have you quit using
powder? Was it injuring your com
plexion? Mollie No, but it was ruin
ing Charlie's new coat.
In these days of shifting domestic
ass'stants it is worthy of note that a
woman died lately in Allentown, Ii.,
who had lived as a servant in one
family for a period of sixty-seven
vears.
The Prussian state attorney recent
ly pleaded for three months' punish
ment of a jrirl of 17 who had spoken
disrespectfully of the imperial family.
But she was let of with a reprimand,
in view of her age.
The doctor who pulled the old
ameer of Afghanistan throujh h.s
late illness is a young lady of Ayr
shire, Scotland, Miss L. Hamilton, M.
D., who took her medical degree
three years ago in Brussels, and
practiced in Calcutta bafore she went
to Afghanistan.
The steamboat Neztcha, plying on
the Lower Mississippi, has a crew of
women. The captain is a Mrs
Leathers, and the pilot, clerk, first
mate, first officer, steward and cabin
boy are of the geutlcr sex. The only
men on board are those who do the
heavy, muscular work.
A proposition is now well under
way to erect on Monat San Miguel, an
observatory with the largest telescope
in the world, an observatory in which
all civilized nations shall have not
only a scientific but a financial in
terest. Mrs. Richard A. Proctor is at
the bead of the. scheme.
The only woman insurance broker
in Chicago is Miss Mary Steenberg,
but that city claims more women
lawyers than any other city in the
United States. It possesses at least a
dozen barber shops conducted by
women, as many women dentists, a
number of physicians and several un
dertakers of the so-called weaker
sex. There are also boot and shoe
shops, laundries and photograph es
tablishments run by womeu. One
woman manages a butcher shop, an
other has a milk route, a third carries
on the largest cooperage business in
the city, and there is a wogian pen
sioa agent in Chicago.
TOIL AND ANXIETY.
PRODUCING A PLAY IS NOT SO
EASY AS IT LOOKS.
Jhoaad HasarUed am the Verdict of
Fickle FmbUe Datlea f the Stage
Manager. 8eene ralater, COSH
aa4 Other reople.
Outside' 6l ihose engaged in some
department of the theatrical busi
ness, very scant knowledge exists of
the labor entailed in producing'
play. The manager's anxiety and
troubles have only fairly begun when
he has ehtfsefl his play and decided on
the date of opening.
Usually the play has cYHBe" to him
from his agent, whose business it fe
to receive authors, examine.' tho.
scenario,- or full description of the
play, and tHe3 ttlrn It over to readers,
who report on the merits of tho work.
This sares the manager tho'so Im
portuning visits from budding authors.
After the manager has his play
secured, usually as above shown, or
maybe it is an ambitious soubrette,
wlio, having found "an angel," wants
to star in something strong, work
begins in earliest and the bank ac
count begins fo nielt a Way. Tho thea
ter i3 Pxed dn, after driviilg a hard
bargain to secre the best possible
terms. Usually, where d run" is
contemplated of a number of eeks,
tho arrangement is on the basis of
dividing tho receipts, the lessee or
owner of the theater taking the first
$3,000 or so and tho remainder, if
any, going to the manager of the at
traction. Then tho painter is an important
man about this time. It takes weeks
and weeks for the lithographer to turn
out thoso three-sheet stands that are
to so materially contribute toward
claiming thd public's attention. Ar
tists design and twist and reconstruct
sketches' until all hands agree that
they have a good stand. Then the
order is given. From three to five
Btyles of bill-board printing is tho
usual assortment. Then, if the com
pany" i to travel, a supply is sent on
in advance", that tho rural bill posters
may proclaim on dead walls the mo
mentous event
About the first and for daj-s the all
absorbing concern of the manager is
the formation of tho company, says
the New York Advertiser. Ho sets
one estimate on thd talent of an ap
plicant; while the actor has A very
different idee. After days, during
which, in Wall street parlance, they
are "wide apart,' contracts are final
ly signed one of those elastic instru
ment's that Daniel OTonnell must
have had in mind when he remarked
that any lawyer could drive a coach
and four through a certain paper.
The ink is hardly dry on tho agree
ment when the actdr wants an ad
vance. He pleads that he must "dress
the rart well," though he has only
just beon given a typewritten excerpt
from, the play containing his "lines,'
as his speaking part is called, pro
fusely animated witti h'eroglyphics
telling him where to stand and whan
to enter ami leave the stage.
If the play is 0116 iht requires cos
tuming, the players are sent Jd have
their measures taken by an expert
eostumor, who has had long talks
with the manager and stage director.
Drawings are turridd fver to the cos
tumer just as they were to the sceno
painter, who has been buy for day.
A toy stage has been constructed.
This is to the stage director what a
set of architect's drawings is to the
contractor an arbiter and a source of
continual reference.
Wonderful irigenility is displayed in
constructing and arranging the pro
perties. The stuffed turkey is papier
mache, the grass is excelsior that has
been stained in dye. and so on with
6ach of the hundred and one retire
ments or exigencies.
Four weeks before the date fixed for
the opening, rehearsals are going
along briskly and every menibeV of
the company is presumed to be per
fect in his part. There is rarely any
trouble on this score. The stage di
rector i3 now as busy as the manager.
Details are thought out and provided
for and complications forestalled
there being a substitute or "under
study" provided, against the possible
non-appearance of a principal at the
last moment. Frequently the partic
ular identity of the respective under
studies is guarded as a great secret.
It is presumed that the company
now getting together is an ideal one
and no quarrel has engendered to add
another care to the shoulders Of lha
manager. As the time draws near
for the first performance dress re
hearsals are held. Everything is gone
through with and the stage is set and
lighted just as if the great gloomy
auditorium, where the upholstery is
covered over with ghostly white can
vas.were packed with "first nightera."'
Even the gas man is rehearsed.
The manager may be found in the
back of the silent house timing
the production and ruminating. He
probably stands to lose every cent he
possesses, besides involving friends.
He has hazarded all on the whims of
a whimsical public. His mood for the
intervening period is not an enviable
one.
At last the Lrteiul night arrive.
There has been no rehearsal that day,
that every one may be fresh and of
fine fettle for the evening work. But
there is no rest for the manager.
With nerves at their greatest tension,
he is busy until the electric light3
flare out their intimation that twilight
is at hand.
After visiting a barber he dons a
dress suit. In a few hours it is to be
either the approval of a victor, whose
triumph will be acclaimed by the
plaudits of admirers, or tho somber
hued garment of a mourner.
Tho curtain is rung up and there is
applause always applause, just as
there are always flowers, for the man
agement knows that one, like the oth
er, must be provided. Bnt his keen
ear waits for the outburst that must
come after a particular situation on
which he has relied. It comes at last.
Was it that spontaneous greeting that
puts the players and public en rap
port? Was there an electric-like thrill
of recognition of the dramatist's art?
Success or failure, the same amount of
work has been done. Nothing had
been left undone but to await the flip
of the penny the verdict of tho pub
lic. lcHer Bcojn t itlxea.
The new laY requiring all enlisted
en of the army to be citizens of
the United States has begun to work
results ia this direction. Many of
the soldiers have begun to realize
what the new law means and, in an
ticipation of their re-enlistment,
have taken steps to make themselves
eligible. About a half-hundred of
those stationed at Fortress Monroe
recently obtained leavo of absence
and went up to Norfolk, where the
United States district court was in
sesssion, and took out their naturali
zation papers.
DOING BUSINESS IN SIBERIA.
An Enterprising Ytnkeo Who Hu AWed
for Many Years Abroad.
The story of Enoch Emery's life in
Siberia is full of interest to the whole
world. It is of peculiar interest to
tbo people of tho cape, as he is a na
tive of tho country, says the Province
town Beacon. He went from Yar
mouth a boy. Hi ambition led him
to the generally uninviting country of
Siberia, the land of suffering, the
dumping ground of Russia's convicts.
Mr. Emery has now resided in Russia
for twenty-seven years, where he has
established an extensive general mer
chandise business, with headquarters
at Mo-cow. He has made eleven
tours of tho world, always via Siberia,
and naturally has had many thrilling
experiences while traveling through
this Country. While en route from
Nijni-Novgo'rod toVladivostock he has
changed his horses as many as 500
times'. He has become greatly inter
ested in the construction of tho rail
road across Siberia, which ho do
scribes as one of the greatest projects
undertaken. Tho road, he says, will
probably be completed about 189S,
and will result in the rapid develop
ment of tho Siberian territory. The
line, when completed, will bo 6.700
miles in length. Its starting point is
Chelbinsk, on the western extremity
of Siberia, where it connects with an
English system of railways running to
St. Petersburg by the way of Moscow.
About 25,000 men. mostly exiled con
victs, are being employed in the con
struction of the road, which is entirely
under" the supervision of a government
commission, of which tho czarowitz is
president, and will, of course, be
operated under the direction of tho
government when completed.
Since Mr. Emery weut to Russia
from this country ho has accumulated
a large fortune. His stories of wild
sledge rides by night over the ice and
snow and of the tigers of the Obi and
Amoor are in the highest degree inter
esting. He met George Kennan the
first time he went to Russia and has
maintained a close acquaintanceship.
Although ho is a Cape Cod yankee,
from his long residence in this country
lie has become thoroughly Russianized.
He has a Slavonic accent and dresses
a'ter the style of the Russian.
He is a " tall, spare, dis
tinguished looking gentleman, with
flowing beard, parted in the middle.
Mr. Emery's life and experiences are
a striking" esamplc of what tho ad--enturous
ardor of an American can
accomplish in the faco of almost insur
mountable difficulties. Ho says that
he hae lived so long in Russia that he
at times almost doubts his identity
with the little yankee boy who left his
New" England home so many years ago.
The Carpenter Bee.
Tn America it has been scrvea
that bees often bore tubular corollas
in order to get at the nectar of flow
r?. instead of entering by the mouth,
as humblo bees do in Europe. In es
sas on the crOsf-fertilization of flow
ers this supposed anomaly has been
the subject of much comment. It now
appears that the humble bees of Eu
rope and America have identical habits
in regard to the manner in which the
visits to flowers are made, and that it
is the class of insect? known as the
carpenter bee. or the borer, which
works in the outside manner indicated.
lhe Novelty of It.
"There's only one game that's mort
wonderful than base ball," said the
umpire, "and that's football."
"Do you like it better?"
"I can't exactly say that I like it
better, but it is astonishing to stand
and watch em play, and see somebody
ettin"- the worst of it besides tho
umpire."'
QUEER ACTS AND FACTS.
A few years ago the great bulk of
the orange crop went to the North
and East. Now the West is a great
consumer and takes more oranges
every year, and the shipments, there
are correspondingly greater.
A single cargo of cotton which has
left New Orleans for Havre is worth
S."..0,000. The ship carrying it is the
Maroa. and the number of bales car
ried 15,320, the largest number ever
loaded on any ship in an American
port.
Nathan Whitj of Rutherford coun
ty, North Carolina who was born
June 20, 1794, still works on his farm.
He plowed every clay last spring, split
rails and mended hU own fences.
Although unable to read, he has a
cumulated a modern fortune.
There is a timbered chute out in
; the Oregon mountains 1.3JS feet long.
where the logs come whizzing down
the mountain side Into Columbia
river with a velocitv of a cannon ball
and make the distance,which is about
I three-fifths of a mile, in twenty
; seconds
j A woman rea'ly died of broken
i heart lately in England. She was an
J old lady of ST, who fell dead while
1 buttoning her granddaughter's dress,
; the post mortem examination show
J ing that the left ventricle of the
j heart was ruptured. Only one other
I Mich cases is on record
Reports, from Gibraltar say that
owin:r to threatened revolts the one-
eyed elder brother of the sultan of
Morocco has been walled up in his
prison at Widah The door and win
dows of his cell have been blocked up,
leaving only a small opening through
which food is passed to him.
Dr. Zakharin, the late czar's physi-
1 cian. has lately devised a new method
of stanching the flow of blood. Steam
is injected into the wound through a
catheter for a minute or less. The
patient, under chloroform, feels
neither pain nor any evil effects from
the steam. Experiments on animals
show that portions of the liver,
spleen, kidneys, lungs and to a cer
tain extent of the brain, may be re
moved withontloibs, of blood and with
out fatal results.
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