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r vH ' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY MARCH 27. 1887.TWELVE PAGES. ' 'fl -TOUCHING THE TOURPRE. | ; Latest Society' Mandate in the Matter of Bustles and Goat-Tails. SFADS IN FICTION AND FENCING. Miijr FortcActio Helps Abbey Out or Xronblc Shamrock Gloves IllK" JlcitB Won't flown The Giddy llcrnlmrdt , * NEW YORK , March 21. [ Correspon- 'donco of the BEK. ] Young Mrs. Wai- dorlT Astor has sot a now fashion for the belles of high society. It is based on an rcsthctlc , intellectual , exquisitely cultured idca.nnd all the women in that particular circle are already obeying it. "Show no consciousness of your bustle. " That is the mandate. In other and moreexplana- lory words , do not betray the fact that you are In the least anxious bout that abnormally developed and easily displaced - placed appurtenance of your costume. "How do you know ho isn't a gentleman - man ? " asked somebody of Mrs. John Bigelow , as that eccentric wife of an ex- governor commented on a chap ut a recent - cent reception. "Because ho parts his coat-tails when he sits down , " was the reply , What she meant was that a true gentle man should appear so unaware of his clothes that , in taking a seat , he would not spread aside the skirts of his coat to save them from getting wrinkled. That is the doctrine embodied in Mrs. Astor's innovation. The belle must not adjust the draperies of her tournurc so much as by the slightest pat or the most obscure adjustment. The amended rule was lirst observed in operation at the big dinner given at Mid-Caremo by Mrs. Astor , and by the time haster brings out now toilets it will bo in full force among our swells. KOKTUNKS IN FICTION. Who shall say that a minute knowledge of fashion's changeful customs is not worth while , when Acnes Fleming got rich by that moans ? She died a year or moro ago , leaving a fortune , over which ft light has just arisen in the courts. She was a writer of stories for one of the cheap papers. I asked a publisher in that field how , when morbid fiction is so plenty , Mrs. Fleming accumulated wealth. "Principally by making a study of the ways of rich and fashionable folks , " was his reply. "Sho had a knack of conceiv ing good plots for stories calculated to interest women and girls ; but so have hundreds of amateur novelists , whoso work may bo had almost for the asking. Different from them , she took the pains to learn accurately and fully how women in 'tho best society' behaved , and he made her swell heroines conform thereto. Irf that way she produced imaginary - aginary ladles who were true to realism. She kept them right up to the times. 1 have oven known hcr.in re-casting one of her old stories for fresh publication , to al ter not only the costumes ol the heroine , but to change her tricks of manner to iuit now usages of society. Some of her readers may not have appreciated this. the editors did. and it vastly enhanced her In their estimation , and. boomed her along to popularity. " "And how much pay did she get ? " "At the time of her death she was under dor contract to write ton stories for $76,000. They wcro to bo produced at the rate of two a year , thus making her income $15,000 per annum. " How many hundreds of women with a literary bent will take up their pens , with convulsive Enthusiasm , on reading those figures ? i FAfn ONES WITII FOILS. "The La'dlcs' Fencing class of the Fencer's Club" is the long name of the latest association of Now York fashion able girls for purposes of exercise. It is a sort of inside organization of the Fencer's club , which has its homo at 10 West Twenty-fourth street , and is composed - posed solely of relatives and sweethearts of the male fencers. Captain Nicholas , ' the export , gives to them the benefit of nil ho knows , and on thrco days of the week , froni10 | o'clock until 3 , the priic- ticiug room is sacred to feminine shrieks and giggles , to skirls and Turkish trous- era. In the class are some of the best known belles of fashion in the city. The names of Lorillard , Vanderbilt - , derbilt and Astor are among the first on the list. TIjo limit decided upon for the membership has already been reached and the ladies have gone to work in very business like earnest , getting themselves organized , electing otliccrs , appointing committees and otherwise making them- tclvcs into an actual club. They have not adopted a special costume , but each one dresses to suit herself. Some still ehng to skirts , though made fuller and , ' ihorter than usual ; some have f alluringly clothed themselves in Turkish trousers , blouses and perhaps the addition of a yery much abbreviated skirt ; still others * vo put 'on Mrs. Langtry's costumes - tumes of jersey waist and loose trous- rs. While engaged in actual eaorclso , .All wear thick leather armor protecting If * tfce front of the body , with holes for the f fcras to go through and tied down the This addition to the costume is neither beautiful nor picturesque , but for beginners in fencing it is highly nocos- § ary to save the tuir form from punc- tare. ? THE LATEST IN OtOVES. The very latest spring glove just from Paris is suggestive of a sheet of mourn- IRK paper , of a black-edged handkerchief - chief , of a widow in the third degree ot woo. In material it Is of line undressed kid. and in color it is of a grayish grecnnry-yullory cast , as if it had not qulto recovered from seasickness. That Is , It la this hue where it isn't black. It la embroidered in black and bound with black , and there are stripes of blaok kid between the lingers and running their length. The effect Is unique. But there is a purpose in this. Those black strips are not. there because they are pretty. Their motive is more i philosophical than that. They are put in i , because they make the fingers look long , dernier and bird-cluwish. Many ot the mew gloves from Paris are. rather strik- ing. And some of them are pretty hard , too. A pair of yellow-green ones em- kroideroa in black , for instance , are quite equal in effect to u blow below the belt. A greenish tint sometimes quite decided. Mems to have struck all the colored gloves. Green is the most frequent color ' to the millinery importations , and it ho gibs to look as If fashion would make the procession from church on Easter Sun f Uy look like a St. Patrick's day parade FLumwr FOIITESCUK. Borne of our high society got odd in , ( traction and amusement from Mnj ' Fortoscuo , the English actress and scntl mental plaintiff , iust befora her depart are this week for homo. She is a beauty fe it understood , and her cleanly lawsuil pv * against Lord Garmoylo has forced hci imto fashionable consideration. She ma ) kftve failed , as they assort , in her pro feeeional tour of America , but the posi ' ( lively last appearance before un audience wu a triumph. Bornhardt , is playinf lure. She freakishly insists upon makinf th intermissions between acln half ai hour long. The people resent this tritlini . and Manager Abbey is seriously annoyed because it hurls his business. Fortcscui has been under his direction loo. She told him that she wished ti Me the great Frenchwoman act r "I'll Rive you a box , " ho said , "if yoi ' ' . .jrill wear good. olothes.look your pretties " Mtf sit at the front so that the audionci will have something to divert them dur < > * M the lone waita. " tf 3"lt'a a bargain , " replied Fortcscuc ; " will agree to cnlerUin the pcoplo 'twl.xt . 'r She did. with , a vengeance. She wore white llulllly , and carried an Immense fan of the same color. That made her conspicuous , for it is not the custom In Now York to don such clothes for the drama , though it la done olabontloly at the opura. She seated herself at the front of a lower proscenium box facing the audience , and proceeded to impersonate u vivacious , ingenious maiden , It was as bold an undertaking as anybody ever saw in a theatre ; it was a marvel of demonstrative pantomime ; picturesque poses nnd cxtravaga it gesticulations alternated ; a bevy of fellows supported her tableaux ; and the anuucu and amused spectators found that the tedium of the half-hour intervals was beguiled. But it would be a pity if the young girls present wcro to take pattern of Fortcscuo and behave in that extraordinary fashion at the theatre. IIIOII HATS WILL liOT DOWN. The efforts of mankind will never bring about the abolition of the hut in the thea tre. There are numberless reasons each more potent than the first , why the idea is impracticable. Those women whom Washington Bishop styles "carriage people ple , " will take kindly enough ns they al ways have done to the fashion. But the great majority who patronize the ele vated roads ami the street cars.will never yield. Bonnets that have been adjusted with infinite care and patience are not going to bo twitched off and surrendered to the tender mercy of u dressing room attendant to bo ticketed and jammed on shelves. Then think of the rush and crush to recover your property with an impatient husband or tno other fellow , cooling his heels outside while you fran tically struggle for an inoh of the looking- glass to see whether yojic hat Is eocked on four hairs or quite off sour ftoad. Why , the thought is preposterous. But the ono grand reason is this : Like the man who was accused of owning a Cannibal of a dog ho claimed his dog couldn't have bitten anyone , because his teeth wcro gone ; because ho was amiable ; because - cause ho was tied up , and because hn never had a dog. So , after all , the small reasons come in ; the weightiest is that in the present style of woman's dress. 110\V A WOMAN DHKSSES. She can no more put on her hat with her corsage buttoned , or take it elf , than she can stand on her head. The next article that goes on a lady , after her skirts , is in variably her bonnet. After a dress waist is buttoned , you can no more put your hands to your head than a trussed turkey can scratch its wish-bone. The poky little dressing room of a theater would have to bo an undressing room of immense capacity to enable a manager to enjoy n bare-headed audience. Iho only women in favor of the innovation arc' wardrobe women , . What a heavenly time they would have trying on hats ! No , dear men , your superior scientific attainments level tremendous obstruc tions ; the rocks on Manhattan Island hide their diminished heads ; vast forests fall at * ydur command ; the flags of your enemies lie in the dust ; great opposing forces that rear themselves against you give way ; but the hat of woman proudly flaunts at the mast head , and it will fly there till the end. William , the bald and John , the baldisl , will have to take their glimpses of Md'llo Pusseul's tantalizing toes through the waving feathers of Ma tilda's bonnet and the meshes of Maria's millinery. Women will never hit bare headed and expose their well matched locks to such hairpins as the dear men , while they have an ounce of sense in their noddles. AGKO BUT GVDUV SAHA. It is a curious study to sco the rapidly aging Bcrnhardt play the young , giddy and fascinating girl. Evou in the hey- dey of her youth she could not have boon in any sense prepossessing. A large nose , lantern jawed , colorless face , carroty hair , and a figure which justifies all the extravagant jokes about its leanness ; these must have bcon as strange to look at as they are now , but years have added to thorn the marks of old ago that the actress takes no apparent pains to con- coal. So far as facial make-up is con cerned Bornhardt comes upon the stage without any.excopt when feigning mortal sickness ; then the natural pallor of her cheeks is heightened by powder to a ghastly , morgue-gray. In dress she dis plays an Infinite variety within well de fined limitations. That is , in texture and combinations of color she has the world to draw from and never fails to give a vision of something now and beautiful ; but in style her garments are almost always distinguished by a cut that docs as much as art can to disguise the attenuation of her shape. She rarely confesses in her dress that she has a waist , and perhaps if the truth were known she hasn't any. And as for bust , that also is-nn unknown quantity. Her young girl , then , if placed in the corner as a wall flower would , only excite ridi cule. There are many successful ac tresses who are interesting if they but maintain a graceful repose on the sjage. Bcrnhardt is not one of these. The critics have told over and over again the meas ure of her success , so I am not concerned with that ; maybe they think her success is negative , even failure ; whatever it may bo , I have been interested simply in observing how she attains it. "FHOU-FROU " IN - , as all theatre goers know , she has to play the part of a light headed , excep tionally fascinating girl. When she lirst burst upon the scene she has on the con ventional riding habit. She dashes to a table , seizes a nowspapor.crushes it in her hands , tears it and throws herself upon a sofa panting and laughing. She remains but a few minutes , and during that time is in almost constant action , She never allows her face to bo passive. Her fea tures are always expressive of some emo tion , if nothing more than a smile of gaiety. When she has gone ono has not recovered sufliciontly from tlio vivacious impression of her entrance to realize just how she gained her effect. To show how she makes the evident old woman disappear throughout the play it would bo necessary to follow her from scene to scouo , from line to lino. For the se cret seems to lie in her cordless activity. When she agreed to accept Sartorys as her husband and the happy man had been summoned , thora is u moment when ono can watch without being bewildered by her rapid changes of position nnd ex pression. It is a time when she must ap pear AUTLESS , COV. FUANK , bewitching and just a little timid. Ex pecting the entrance of Sartorys , Born- hurdt stands at the left of the stage so that her profile is soon by the audience , Her shoulders are thrown back and her head slightly forward , so that in looking a person in the face , she bus to glance up under her brows. One hand is laid caressingly on the shoulder ot her sistet in the play. The other holds a rose , the stem ot which she places constantly be tween her teeth. Her lips are separated in a smile that conveys the impression that Irou-trou does not know whetjioi she ought to smile or look solemn , Her body . . . . sways . _ ever . so slightly " * and MI * i .I. 1 1 alternately with its swayin ? she gives a nervous nibble at the stem ol the rose , \\hon Sartorys at last come ; In she does not change her attitude until the cue to take his hand , when , with t ? 11 v ! s.Parkllu Blanco at her sister , it which there is moro of triumph than o fun , she withdraws her hand and extend ; ltnti/1V ° ver. , throwing her shoulder still further back at the same moment and as ho holds her hand for an instan she looks up nt him fearlessly under ho brows , still smiling and biting at the rosi stem. Ihero is no hanging of the heat to one side in Hcrnlmrdt's acting it i always forwards and backwards. An * cannot romombnr that in the entire pto " - ' "l-rou-rrou-'sho of - shrugged hur shoulder once a gesture much mVuclod , and oftei cleverly , by actresses playing slmila roles. CLAnABEg ) , , THE DEBUT OF TflE DIVA , Adam Badean's Recollections of the Lifo of tbo Queen of Bong. PATH'S PEERLESS PRESENCE. Appearance In New York Twenty- Years Ago Honors Shown by Crowned Heads He- cclvcd by Napoleon. Nnw YOKK , March 21. [ Correspond" cnco of the HER. ] The return of I'utti to New York suggests to mo many mem ories. I was ut her debut aC the academy of music more than a quarter of a cen tury ago. I was present ut the rehearsal , when she sang Lucia in a bonnet and shawl , and even then extorted applause from a critical and invited audience of connoisseurs. Earlier than this slio was a musical prodigy , and used to sing at her brother-in-law's , Strakosch's , concerts , traveling about the country , but not , as now , in a palace car. It was uncertain then whether the young voice that prom ised so much would ever be developed , and her elder sister , Carlotta , the lame one , was thought by niunv a finer artist thanAdelina. | There arc so many blossoms every spring on every tree from which no fruit is ever matured. At the beginning the future prinm donna COUM ) NOT ACT. They said she might become a vocalist , but that was all ; she was awkward and nervous like other novices. Who can fancy to-day that I'atti was over awk ward or nervous ? that model of self- poised , self-possessed , executive art ! the opera queen , who is equally at home as Marguerite and Somiramide , the Assyrian monarch and Qootho's maiden ; Amina and Linda , Carmen and Lucia ? In London , however , they praised her acting as much as her singing ; they thought the cathedral scene in "Faust" as line as anything Un the lyric stage , and the wild tremolos of Lucia equal in tragic power to the utterance of Rachel in'Thedro , " or of Grisi in "Norma. " The London Times of ten or fifteen years ago bopraiscd her till one almost doubted the sincerity , or at least the spontaneity of the plaudits ; and most of the otiicr journals followed suit. Hut the English have their fashions in art to a greater extent than Americans imagine ; partly , perhaps , because they have so little - tlo appreciation of what isgreat or genu ine in art ; for the English genius is ex hausted in literature ; there is neither power nor taste of the highest order left for painting or architecture or the drama to-day. Witness Lcighton and Gilbert Stott and Irving all learned , elaborate , artificial second-rate Naturally , - executants. ally the English thought Patti a great actress. They could not perceive that she always simulates and never feqls : they could not detect that she was cold and hard in whatever rcqniricd expres sion or dramatic quality. They hud not the sympathetic chord themsehes and could not know that it was not touched by a master hand. Accordingly Patti was for a long while the fashion in London. She had MARRIED A GENUINE MARQUIS , and was received at court ; so ot course she was a great actress as well as singer. I have been at court concerts many a time at Buckingham palace when the prince , aye , and the princess of Wales , went up and complimented her upon her singing , and Madame Marquise la Caux made a courtesy as graceful as she over performed on the stage , and as cor rect in etiquette as any of the prim peer esses about her could execute. Alter that yon may bo sure everybody else thobght her charming. She was invited to , little dinners at Richmond Hill by am bassadors , and taken out on drags by noble lords with noble ladies by her side. She was very pretty in those days. She retained her freshness of look and voice a long while and her toilettes were rav ishing. Her manner , too , was agreeable , although she was rather too conscious off the stage as well as on , but very capti vating all the same. And she sang dcliciously. If you did not care for soul there was nothing else to ask for. Vocalism , execution , facility , truth of tone , purity , sweetness , exquis ite quality something like the flavor of pate do foi gras , after champagne the lincst perfection appreciable to the most cultivated taste , and yet a sim plicity in result which is only attainable by the highest art , and that taught her to touch the popular fancy in "Home , Sweet Homo" EVERYTHING BUT 6OUI , . But never could she roach the power of infusing a sympathetic quality into that wonderful , flexible , tractable , elastic , ex tensible organ which in its own peculi arities is unrivalled in our lime. Prob ably Malibran may have equalled her ; but I said in her time. For all I know , there were singers before the flood with purer and higher soprano note ? , and who could execute the floriture passages of the "Traviata" or "Lucia" with greater taste or skill , but don't go back so far. I have heard all the great prima don nas for thirty years , and in that time no ono has rivalled Patti in her own domain of exquisite and artificial art. And certainly no one has shared her triumphs. Every capital in Europo.from Madrid to ot. Petersburg , has witnessed them ; Rome , Naples , Milan , Paris , Berlin , Vienna have welcomed her. She has been potted by moro monarchs and bad presents from more millionaires than anybody of this or the last generation except Tom Thumb. The bracelets and "rings and things , " as Potruccio says : the golden as well as laurel crowns that have been lavished upon her ; the emperors that have sent for her after the opera or visited her between the acts ; the empresses who have ALLOWED HER TO KISS THEIR HANDS ; tno students who have dragged her car riages ( it is always students who drag the carriages ; will any student of human na ture tell us why ? ) ; the crowds th&t have risen when she appeared ; the managers that hayo quarrelled about her engage ments ; the bouquets that have nearly buried her ; the salaries that have been showered upon her would require an especial number of the DEE to enum erate. Brought up to suppose she was a sort of Wilholm Meisters sweetheart ; petted by line ladies ; singing at concerts when she was four yours old ; then suddenly leaping into the position of the vary queen of opera , in the days when opera was still the fashionable amusement of the great worldA The English 'fash ionables have forgotten that they over hait boxes at Convent ( iardcn pr Drury Lane ; they now affufct the piny , and run after Irving or Kate1 Vaughan , or Nellie Fnrrcii. Opera houses with them are an old story ; while ours , and the people who frequent them , , uro nouvcuux. But in the days of Putty's prime , duchesses and grand duchessps , as well as grand dukes , still looked and listened , both in Germany and Britain. SHE WAS AN ESPECIAL FAVORITE at the Tiiillonos , while the Tuilleries ex isted ; the second empire admitted her to its exclusive circles. The Marquis do Caux was a member of the imperial court. Ono lineage was as lodg de scended as the other , and Patti'3 royalty lasted later than that of those who pat ronized her. This success , you may nay , was all very well , for a court like that of Napoleon II. , as much of a sham as that of Gerolstein ; but almost the same thing occurred in England , Putti was not only asked to court concerts to sing , but to court bal s to dance ; her name wasplactfU on the court circular , among those of the marchionesses ; after those that began with B , and before those ( hat began with U. And this was all the stranger , because at that time thu English treated artists do liaut en bag. I have often boon nt concerts at private houses , whore the great pcoplo of the stage worn hired to perform , and wcro kept rigidly off from the great pcoplo who came to listen. Perhaps a duchess might condescend to go uti and say how pleased she was to bo pleased ; but the singers must keep their places and wait to bo spoken to , not move about as guests. Their supper was always served to them apart. Patti was not treated in this way.EVEN EVEN NILSSON NEVER achieved the same position. I mot the Swede soon after 1 went to London , at the house of the countess of Essex , but that noblewoman hud hur.-olf been a pub lic singer , though the stain of genius was covered by the coronet , she did not forget her origin , and always treated ar tists as ladies and gentlemen. At that very dinner , Nilsson sat next the present Lord Rothschild , who seemed to tidmiro her vastly , and people were wondering whether ho would oiler her his hand or his handkerchief. But I thought the prima donna laughed too loud , and opened her mouth too wldo ( she sat op posite me ) ; her manner suggested that she had , indeed , been a Mignon. She bared her arms and showed the sinews that proved she had been a circus player. She was not the artist off the stage that Patti wasand could not play so well the role otngraudo dame , to which she was not born. ADAM BADEAU. WONDERFUL CASE OF JAMES HAKNET " 1 had been a medical student nt R college for about two years , " said a gray- haired doctor who was ono of a party around the cabin stove"wlion I met with a singular adventure. It was forty years ' Hgo , and only a few lines concerning it 'were ever published. The state prison was located in the same cityund although there was no law to that eflcct , as is the case now , all bodies of dead convicts not claimed by friends wore turned over to onr college for subjects. It somtimcs happened , however , that we did not want them , as wo drew from other local- Hies , and the classes were much fewer in number than now. At the time I speak of we. had three or four subjects , and would not want any moro for wee ks. "Ono dav it was in Juno I received a note requesting rae to call on a convict at the prison named James Harney. Ho was a man only twenty-eight years of ago , and had escaped the gallows by a scratch to bo sentenced to solitary con finement for life. Judges still sentence men to solitary-confinement , but it is well known that the sentence is not carried out. After a brief period in a dark cell the convict is set to work-with the other prisoners nnd treated iust the samo. At that time , however , solitrry confinement was a dungeon darker than midnight , with leave to walk in a corridor lighted by lumps half an hour every third day. Harney was a stout , robust fel low , _ with a constitution like iron , and had been in prison over two years when ho sent for mo. Some influential friends of Ills hud inter ceded with the governor , and Harney himself had saved a keeper from being killed by an insane convict , and in consequence quence the terms of his sentence had been modified anil mitigated. Ho was permitted to have the run of a corridor. , n ordinary cell was allotted to him , and , part of the time he carried the meals the he men still in the dungeons. There was no possible chance for him to escape , ind , as ho had apparently resigned him- elf to his fate , no one suspected him of inch an intention. He hiuLnot n note to JUG on the excuse that ha had some im portant matters to reveal- regarding a robbery perpetrated on my father , then dead. I wont to the prison supposing that was the convict's solo object. I was permitted to talk with himtwith an iron grating between us and a keeper sitting ii few feet away to see that I did not pass u any article. "Harney's boldness filled mo with as- onishmcnt. Ho bezan by stating that ho Kid hoard I was an enthusiastic student of anatomy , and that I had written two or three articles for a medical mucaziu on the subject of suspended animation and trances. This was ivfact ; but as they liad been written nnd published after 'larncy's imprisonment , and as he was lupposed to bo dead to the world , 1 could not understand how he had bccoino ac quainted witli the fact. Ho put his propo sition entirely on the ground of medical science , and it was no moro nor loss than that ho should die and his body bo turned over to our college. He stipulated that his body should not go into the vat where the subjects are kept for twenty-four hours after being received , and that I should personally watch over it for that length of time. Itwas only after a second end visit that 1 was enabled to fully com prehend his plans. Ho had discovered that he could die nt will and return to life at any hour not over a day and a night distant. Ho said that ho had tried it successfully up to ten hours on several occasions , and felt sure that he could make the time twice or three times ns long. A fellow prisoner who had ob served him while in this state had as serted that it was a perfect countofoit of death , the heart ceasing its pulsations , the limbs growing cold and rigid and the pulse being too faint to be felt. Ho ap pealed to my enthusiasm in medical science to make his cscupo from a life sentence , and though I was at first firmly opposed to the idea , ho brought forward so many arguments and put them to mo so keenly , that I was won over. ' "Medical science must have dead bodies to secure benefits for the living , ' ho argued. ' 1 am a practical demonstra tion of a medical theory you hold. You believe that human life can bo temporarily arily suspended , and you have been ridi culed for your assertions. Hero is the opportunity to prove your theory. 1 will dio. All the doctors will pronounce mo dead. You shall restore mo to life. The case will make you famous. ' " 'But your object is to escape from prison , ' I protested. " 'Granted. I killed an old man , who had only two or three years to live , any how. 1 have been shut up two years for It. It was my first and only crime , and I have bitterly repented it. Let mo out into the world and 1 shall bo a good man under another name. The law will suppose - pose mo dead and bo satisfied. ' "In the end ho overcame my scruples , and I agreed to his plans , but we wore baillcd at the very outset by the fact that vacation was coming on , while the col lege had moro subjects than it needed. This was June , you will remember , and it would bo near October before Harnoy's plan could bo carried out. Wo could safely figure in this case as in all others. The prison doctor was an old quack , who had secured his place through politics. It was well known among the modicalfra- | ternity that ho was stupid and ignorant , and that the patients who took his doses were as likely to die as to mend SVhcn a convict died , the case was nearly always reported as typhoid fover. The old fellow appeared to reason that this was a virulent disease , which ho could not bo expected to curo.and consumption lung fever , and nearly everything else wont down in his report ! as 'Tiefold fever badd case. ' It was bis rule to go the body out of the way as soon as pos sible. If a convict died early in the morn ing. ho was burriod in the afternoon , or his body sent to the college in the even ing. If ho died at about dusk , his bodj was disposed of before midnight. " 'Convicts arc useless critters alter the THOMASON & GODS' ADDITION * Lies just south of Hanscom Parkonly 2 miles from the court house ; I * on high and sightly ground. 176 beautiful residence lots. ' ' Events are shaping that will make these lots an investment of SURE PROFIT. $800 $ to $1,000 will Buy Lots Now , but one Year from Today You will Pay $1,800 , $2,000 , and $2,500 , for Them Ten months ago we told you there was big monev in SOUTH OMAHA property. You were skeptical and waited , and what did you miss ? Some people say , "Oh ! its all luck , this making money. " Luck to the dogs. Its Foresight , Judgment and Sand. These are the elements that go to make up the sum of prosperity. Tak a square look at the case of Thomason & G-oos' addition , who own the 600 acres adjoining it on the south. A RICH AND POWERFUL SYNDICATE Who , without anyfurther effort , could peddle it out in the next two years for ONE MILLION DOLLARS. Do you suppose they are Idiots enough to do this ? . No ! They will either build or subscribe to A CABLE LINE and realize three millions from it. to yourselves , do a little investigating and figuring and you will , see bhat there are the "Greatest Bargains on Earth , in lots in this "Key to Omaha and South Omaha. Remember , that this is no washings of the Missouri River , nor farm lands diverted from their natural uses , yeard too soon , but choice suburban residence property , situated OIL the everlasting Hills , midway between two cities , that are last closing in to one solid mighty metropolis. M. A. UPTON & CO. Pharmacy Building , South Omana and 1509 Farnam , Telephone 73 > reath leaves 'em , ' ho said to mo ono oc casion , 'and keeping a corpse around lore kinder discourages the living. ' "When I informed Harney that it would bo three months before our plans could bo attempted , ho grow desperate. Ho felt certain in Ins own mind that wo ihould achieve success , and the idea of delay made him reckless. The prison graveyard was then a part of the city rravoyard , or at least separated only by a 'enco. A dead convict was lifted into a ) ino coffin , the lid screwed down , and wo men with a ono-horso wagon drove : o the graveyard and dumped ho box into a three-foot hole and illlcd the hole up. There was no cere mony and no feeling. I know all those 'acts ' , for I had scon several burials , but low Harnoy could know thorn was n puss- ' , lo to mo until I learned that he got them while in jail awaiting sentence. Ho now sroposcu that ho should dip and be juried , and that I should di { ? him up and carry him oft' , and wait for life to come. This called for far moro norvp than the other plan , and I would not give him an answer until 1 found a fellow enthusiast who entered into the plot with great alacrity. Wo routed a room , arranged for a horse nnd wagon , provided our selves with an electne battery , various restoratives , wino and food , and on the afternoon of the 21st day of Juno I prom ised Harney that wo would be ready on the following night. Ho was highly elated , and assured mo that if there was any hitch in the programme it would not bo his fault. When I loft him I wont to the doctor's oflico in thn prison , and after a few general remarks , observed : " 'Well , doctor , is there much sick ness ? ' " " 'No , not much. ' " " 'Wo shan't want any moro cadavers bpforo October. ' " 'No , I suppose not. Well , it isn't much of a job to plant em. ' " 'I was fust talking with Hnrnoy No. 310. He's looking powerful bad , nnd I predict that ho won't live a month. ' " 'Harnoyl Oh , yes. I was noticing him the other day. Got all the points of tiofoid , ho has , and ho may drop off any day. ' ti 'Well , give him a decent burial , doc tor. Gooa day. ' "I had scored a point for my man. The doctor was prepared for his death , and would make the usual record. This is what happened at the prison soon after I left : The doctor was informed that Har noy was ill , and ho went in to see him and found him feverish and flighty , with his pulse way up. " 'Sorry for you , Harnoy , ' said the old quack , after making a brinf examination , 'but I'm ' afraid you are going to bo a very sick man. ' ' "Yes , I think so , doctor. ' " 'You've got all the symptoms of tie- fold ; and if the disease gets a good grip on you. It will bo a hard job to pull you through , ' " 'Uoctor. It's no use , ' whispered Har noy. 'If anybody can save mo , you can ; but I feel that I have only a short time to live. 1'vo had trouble witli my heart for a long time.and I fool as if I was gradually going to pieces. ' " 'Well , I'll send you in some pow ders , and perhaps you'll brace up ; but , to bo honest with you , I think your Hours are numbered. ' , "Next morning Harnoy was much worse , and the doctor gave up all hopes , and sent the chaplain in to console the dyin ? man. Harney was very penitent , and when the good man left him it wns with the lirm conviction that the dying convict had truly repented of all his sins. At 3 o'clock In the afternoon the hull master reported to the doctor : " 'No. 810 is dead in his cell , sir. ' "Oh , ho is ? Well , these that can't live must dio. Wo will have to go the same way. Have the body put in a coflln nnd carried to the dead house , and it had better bo buried as teen as night comes. ' , , , " 'Isn't it to go to the college ? ' " 'No. They don't need any moro just "A plain white wood coflln was taken into the corridor , nnd the body of 310 , which wns already growing rigid was placed in it , and the burden was then carried to a shod in the yard which was a dead house. A convict named Saunders screwed down the collln lidbut before ho had tinishod his work ho dropped his tools and ran 'to the door nnd exclaimed : " ' 1 believe Harney is in a trance or something of that sort , for as true as 1 live 1 saw his chest heave and his eyelids flutter as I put the cover on. ' " 'Uosli. ' shouted the doctor. "Bulldid , sir. ' " 'Look here , Saunders. I shall report to the warden that you had best bo re turned to the blacksmith shop. When a scrub convict has the audacity to stand up and tell the prison doctor ho doesn't know his business , one or the other must go. ' " 'Bull mcarttno disrespect , sir. ' " Perhaps not ; but when I pronounce a man dead of tlcfoid fever aye , when I have already made my report to that of 'ect he is cither dead or I am a cussed fool. ' " 'Yes , sir ; yes , sir. I was probably uistaken , sir.'and I'll promise that this docs not happen again. Please forgive no , sir. I must have bcon a little ner vous. ' " 'Well , I'll overlook it this time , but 30 more careful in future. Have him juried ns soon as it is dark. I don't like : lie idea of keeping dead folks around here. ' "Soon after dusk the wagon drove out of the prison yard with its burden of death , ana the burial party consisted of a citizen employed for the purpose and a trusty convict. They had the grave to dig , and they had not yet completed it when wo arrived on the ground and care fully crept to a position within car shot. They were in a hurry to have the job off their hands , and they had not gone down over two foot when the citizen employe of the prison said to the convict : " 'That's deep enough for him or any other dead man. Nobody's to know whether he's two or seven feet down. ' " 'Correct you are,1 replied the con vict , as ho got out of the whole. % I came near getting into trouble with the doctor over this follow. ' " 'How ? ' " 'As I put the lid on the coflln I saw his eyelids flutter and his chest heavo.and I went to the doctor with it. The old fraud threatened to take my soft snap away. * ' 'You might have been deceived. ' " 'Nwcr. I'm certain that wo are bury ing the poor devil alive ; but that's noth ing to you or mo. Ho'll bo dead enough by tho'tiino all the dirt Is on top of him. ' ' " 'Right you are. Ho mteht as well bo buried alive in this hole ns to'lie by inches in the prison. Grab hold , now , nnd we'll do him the good turn to lot him down gently. ' , "They made only ten minutes work of filling uu the grave , and they had scarcely reached their waaon when the two of us wore throwing out the dirt. When wo came to the collin wo lifted It out. removed the lid , took out the body , and the collln was returned to the grave and the dirt shovelled back. In three- quarters of an hour from Harnoy's first burial wo had him in our quarters , and had escaped any chunco for suspicion of body snatching. During onr last interview in prison ho hud exacted of me the promise that I would make no efforts at resuscitation until twenty-four hours had passed. Ho intended U > die for just that period of time , and ho firmly believed his will could control events. After twenty-four hours had passed I was at liberty to use any .means I thought best. Wo undressed the body , wrapped it in woolen blankets , and laid It on a bed. On a stand beside the bed wo placed water , wino and food , and then loft the room and turned the key in the door. This was at 11 o'clock at night , and Hur- ncy had boon dead eight hours. Iho twenty-four hours would not expire until 3 o'clock in tbo afterr.o H of the next "Wo did not go near the room until half an hour before the expected timoand the moment \vo looked on the dead man's face we realized that reaction had set in. The pallor was disappearing , color was returning to the lips , nnd there was a moisture which felt warm to the touch. We drew up our chairs without a word , nnd paid the keenest attention to what was to outrival any experience in any doctor's career. At a quarter of three hero was a flutter of the" eyelids , and I nit my hand on his heart and could de * cet a faint pulsation. Th o color con tinued to come to his face , signs of life wore multiplied each moment , and at five minutes to thrco , Harnoy opened his eyes and looked full at us. Wo saw at once that ho was conscious and in pos session of all his senses , and I bent ovct lim and whispered : " 'Wo have kept our promise. Yovt died in prison , wcro buried by the of ficials , and wo dug you up and brought you hero. It in just twenty-four hours. Remain quiet until your strength re turns. ' " 1 ted him wino and food , and flvo minutes later he dropped off into n natural nnd healthy sleep , which lasted four hours. When he awoke ho was ready to sit up and talk , and , after cat- ing and drinking very heartily , ho was able to walk across the room. Whoa asked for his experience ho replied : " 'The only way that I can describe 1C Is to say that I lay down on my back on the floor , held my breath , closed my eyes nnd gradually became unconscious. 1C was perhaps ten minutes before I lost my senses. It was like falling asleep , only it seemed as if I was melting away to noth ing. I kept repeating to myself , 'Yon must awake at 3 o'clock to-morrow , ' and that was the very last thing I can remem ber. My coming back to life was like awakening from sleep , but I feel weak , and trorahlo as if I had just got up from u fit ot sickness. ' "Well , Harney was out of prison.nnd'I had nuchi facts and points on the subject of suspended animation as would ir.ako the public believe mo n liar and a fraud if I wrote the solemn truth. After two or three days , when I asked what ho pro posed to do in the future , ho sat and re flected , and then answered : " 'Bring mo a ruzor.somo court plaster and bandages , nnd I will answer your question before the week is out. " 'What do you intend ? ' " 'Trust mo and ask no questions. ' "Thnt night when I went to carry him his supper , I found Hnrney looking ns if he had boon fighting a duel with knivoB. und his face was so covered with strips ol court plaster that ho was a ludicrous sight. What had he done ? Well , it is worth relating , for ho exhibited wonder ful nerve ana skill. Ho had a nose with a very largo end. By the use of the raxor ho made an altogether different looking nasal organ of it. Ho had a fat chin ; ho made a dimple in it. His mouth was naturally largo. By making a cut nt ono corner , which would leave a scar , ho changed the contour of it. Ho had heavy eyebrows. These ho trimmed down and shaped in a new way. Two weeks later , when ho was ready to go out into ttio world ns William lledfora , no man could have identified him as James Har- ncy. Ho was n machinist by trade and. ho wont from our room to a shop in the city and secured work , and for over twenty years ho wan a resident of the place. As William Kedtonl ho married there , came to have a half Interest in the shop , ami for six years was an alderman. 1 have spent many an hour in his honso and have trotted two of his children on ' "Wa ho ever suspected ? No , but the convict Suunders , whoso time soon ex pired , told how Hnrnoy had been buried alive and the story created so much feel ing that iho grave was opened. They found the body gone , but the theory was that it had been stolen for some medical colh-go. I was the doetor called to attend - tend Bedford In his last illness , which , strangely enough , was typhoid fever , ana not half an hour before no died ho whis pered to mo with a smile on his face : " 'It will bo for good this time , doctor.1 "And so It was. " A rat nnd a cock-sparrow had a pitched battle in Oil City thu other day. The sparrow wad the aggressor , nnd attacked the rat viciously , striking nt it very much in the style of a game coek and then fly ing down and pecking at it. Once it strucK the rat in the eye , and thn rat spun around and around Before it could got itg bearings. In the end , however , the rat got the b-)9t of the battle , nnd the sparrow Sow away , having lost many ftuthura.