'T8m z tiSHffiSttMS&pif&v * " " Wj 12 ' % * THE OMATTA DAILY BEE : SUJSTDAY , MARCH 18 , 1888. SIXTEEN PAGES. i * I' r v- TLJET N TAILOR m 1411 FAR NAM STREET , PAXTON HOTEL. - ELEGANT LINE of _ _ _ . . . , . _ _ _ _ „ , _ , , _ J.- - , „ , _ _ - _ . \ < t < l l Wlllim OUR WORD IS OUR BOND. OUR WORD IS OUR BOND. We have just opened our new and elegant importations of spring goods , which embrace all the latest novelties in men's wear. Our prices are the lowest and our workmanship the best. We have come to Omaha to fetay and intend that our work shall be our recommendation. Our invariable - riable rule is , that no piece of work shall leave the shop without perfect satisfaction to the customer and ourselves OTJIR , "WOZROD IS OTTIB , ZBOOSTD. THE AMERICAN TAILORS Paxton Hotel , - - - Building. A SKETCH OF JOHN BRIGHT , How Ho Lives hi His Natlvo Lanca shire Homo. A TRUE BRITON IN APPEARANCE. A Mnn ot the People His Carpet Fac tory Secret of John Itrlglit"'a Oratory Tlio Popularity of the Noted Personage. LONDON , March 8. [ Correspondence of the BBK. ] "What Lancashire thinks 'to-dayEngland | thinks to-jnorrow. " This remarkable tribute to the strong commonsense mon-sense of "Lancashire lads" and Manchester men , " I heard Lord Salis bury pay to the assembled merchants in the Manchester for a generation in spired the progress of the English pee plo. It need not bo retold how ho , with Cobden , created , championed , and con cluded in triumph the crusade * against the corn laws that starved the poor , nor how ho stood almost alone in his grandeur of principle and eloquence ns the protestor against the popular Crim ean war , nor how ho led the battle of reform that was won in 1807. Ho was the pride of his native Lancashire , Manchester honored itself by electing 111 in to parliament , his voice was the clarion call that could rouse the coun try to action or BOO the it by oxquisitc melody. Yet Manchester rejected John Bright in a fit of bad temper in 1857 , since when Birmingham has prized the distinction of calling him her M P. And , Lanca- ehiro-liko , Bright paid unfaithful Manchester back by keeping out of her way for nine long years. It was only f when the great wave of agitation for reform , arose in 1868 that ho relented for the good of the cause , and agreed to inako a speech , The memorable scene is never to bo obliterated. Moro than a hundred thousand had hold open-air meetings that afternoon. At night the JFroo Trade hall hold two or three thousand moro than its seating capacity llvo thousand ana when Bright's noble figure was seen the pent up en thusiasm of those nine cold years burst out in torrents of cheering , found a vent in the singing over and over again of "Auld Lang Syne , " while hard-visagcd jmen were moved to tears. It wns odd that his title of "Right Hon. " was pninocl by his acceptance of n seat in Gladstone's cabinet , which made him , the opponent of the state church , a patron of forty-one church livings. Ho BOOH gave it up. His homo has always been in his own country , near his mills and among his Jrionds , the working people. Ho is a typical "Lancashire lad" himself , plus a Quaker training and taste , which has smoothed down much of the ruggoU un- /couthncss / characteristic of the species. Rochdale is a typical Lancashire town , irregular , up and down , moro dirty than clean , its air penetrated with as rank a dialect as now remains in England. Near by , just across the wild moor that Logins back of John Bright's house , is Toumordon , whobo people explain its queer design , us the "Rachda fowk" might say of their town , "God ma < lo th' earth , but forgot Tordmuddon cos it hod potion under 'Is ' thoomb. " Tlo ) Rocn- ilalo co-oporativo pioneers are the largest trading concern on that system In the world. Through ono of its long Bimko-liko streets , out toward tlio moor , tiast n largo family of hugo factories , wo come to a plain , old-fashioned but state ly rod brick house , standing on n well-kept lawn , edged with llowor- Jjods and shrubs , Thifi is "Ono Ash , " , the homo of John Bright , Quaker and . - - - - - - Mnn of the People. No showiness , yet unmistakable dignity ; no trace of wealth display , yet there is a. refinement in the surround'ings which tolls of highly cul tivated taste. The homo proclaims the man. A maid-servant opens the door , a favorite Scotch collie gives umuclunoro home-like welcome than a liveried foot man , and the simple ot cotoras that in terest the visitor in the druwing-room arc thoroughly in keeping with the un- ostcntatiuus character of the host. Busts of Cobdcn , Ohovrtlier , MilnerGib- son , and engraved portraits of others ot his oininont comrades in the old cam paigns are the principal works of art. A handsome oaken cabinet holds n col lection of the finest specimens of Staf fordshire pottery and other manufac tures , presented to Mr. Bright by the people of that country. His largo correspondence - spondonco finds him plenty of work with that fine small-hand pen which ho so courteously and conscientiously wields. Ho is simplicity itself in his habits. John Bright never was a society man. " Since his widowerhood ho has done moro reading. For several years ho had acliarming residence in Piccadilly , overlooking Green Park , with the lead ing people of title as his neighbors on either hand. His relations with his work-people are those of a conscientious employer , who pays market wages and expects n full tale of work. The local Institute has benefitted considerably by Mr. Bright's gifts of books and his kindly interest in whatever helps the progress of the pooplo. As CDrpot- makers , the firm of w.hich John Bright is senior partner have a world-wide reputation , and have made an immcnso fortune. The business has been under the management of Mr. Benjamin Bright , and is now chiefly controlled by John Bright , jr. , of whom something may yet bo hoard in the political world , though ho has not his father's elo quence. Mr. Jacob Bright , a younger brother , though now about sixty , is ono of the members for Manchester , a weak man , physically and politically , the champion of the woman's rights move ment , which big brother John stoutly opposes. Mr. Bright is always "proper" in dress. Ho does not wear the Quaker garb , though ho attends "meeting , " and occassionally preaches. You always find him in superfine black broadcloth , old-fashioned stand-up collar , black necktie , and a tall hat. But if you fol low him away north to the banks of the Tweed , you will see him "dress the part" in honor of the lordly salmon ho will soon persuade to accompany him homo to dinner. John Bright is a stal wart fisherman , orthodox in extolling the rod and execrating the spear , and ho will discourse moro eloquently and voraciously upon the haunts and hab its of the king of the fishes than any in the throng of his parliament brothers in the art , who love to gather round and hear of his hauls. This fishing hobby is John Bright's only vico. excepting his merciless slugging of his political foes. Ho drinks no intoxicants , I think ho never began to try. I am not sure if ho smokes , but I know ho fumes , and that right heartily. Hear him when ho harangues the throng. Look at him as ho marches to his place with an air imperial as that of a Roman emperor. Everyone , surely , , knows by some photograph that leonine head , the profile of loftv forehead , the straight , clear-cut nose , the broad pout ing mouth , the bold chin and strong neck , end the graceful flow of abundant white hair like a lion's mano. Ho is a typical Anglo-Saxon , a true Briton of the noblest mould. His majestic air strangely rivets the audience. The boll-liko clearness and resonance of his voice give a charm as of poetry to his virile prose. Gladstone is , in another line , as fine an orator , but Bright 1ms the gift of speaking our mothor-tonguo in its bltnplo purity. Gladstone ia a LatiniHt , and his long words run into long , involved sentences that are some times hard to follow in a long address. Bright knows 'no language but En glish , but of that ho is by far the most perfect master among Englishmen. Ho once told us that ho owed his unequalled command of the language to hia pref erence for reading the Bible , Bunyan , Milton , and the English poets , down to last century. In those wo have "a well of English undefllcd , " of which it wore well if the young men of to-day would think moro than they do. The beauty of Bright's speeches lies in their grand simplicity , not of thought but of con struction and expression. I have heard him often , in the old days when a hundred thousand clamored for a word from his lips , in the great hall whore his constituents crowded for his annual oration , and In the House of Commons. Wherever it may bo , you listen to the siimo stately opening of the case , in which calm commonsense - sense is lit up with humorous gleams as ho shows the weak side of tlic'ndvor- sary's statement. Then follows the plain presentation of the root-facts , in his inan-of-business vein. Every now and again there is some blunt exposure of some glaring inconsistency , which you never thought so important before , and when ho sees aud hears that his point has gone homo , then fall the sledge-hammer blows of argument , de monstration , ridicule , scorn , which do more in ono hour to demolish a wrong than the loadings of other leaders ac complish in a month. I am not exag gerating. There has not been a great triumphant movement in England the.se forty years that has not ended with tributes of this kind being heaped upon Bright by all the other orators. When ho has spent the volume of his stirring harangue in this torrent of denuncia tion , his gentler tones como back , and their music niaks sweeter the pleading words ho hopes will bring all mon into rational mood and agreement. John Bright overflows with sympathy. It is this which won the hearts of the "English people a generation ago. Ho could never have exposed a cause if his'-sympathy' wag not stirred. Ho has never mndo ah after-dinner speech , nor cared for ap plause. Ho is , in truth , moro akin to the prophets of old than to the modern typo of politician. His nature is in tensely religious , and his convictions , happily always on the side of justice and right , have boon called narrow. It is this puritanical earnestness , unwaver ing , unflinching , that long ago won for Bright the profound respect of his op ponents. No speaker causes so rapid a rusli for the dining andcothor rooms in the house of commons'as when the quick words round " ' . " goes "Bright's up. No tidings will bring a wider wave of sad ness 'over the heart of England than will the message ( long bo it deferred ) , " ' . " "Bright's gone. CHARLES QUAKLES. WITHOUT EVIDENCE. THK AFFAIH OF THE AVENUE DE L1IM- riSRATIUCJI. Erelun Thnrpe in Kcw York J/erairj/ . Two Americans , ono long a resident of Paris , the second newly arrived , had boon asked to bo present at the civil marriage contract of a compatriot of thoirs. This ceremony was taking place , according to the French law and usage , the evening prior to the relig ious ceremony. The lady whom Varloy was marrying was , nowover , not a French woman. The older of the two men now making their way in a cab toward the villa occupied by her had boon answering a few questions put to him by the younger , a newly fledged graduate of the Now York medical college - lego , as to Varloy's brido. "She's the widow of a very rich Span iard , who died in tlio Philippines. " said Castloton , who had a dry , taciturn face. "Is eho handsome':1" asked Mooro- liouso. "Yo-o-s. She is considered a great beauty ? " "Young ? " Castloton paused. "Sho looks so. " The villa was some distance duton the Avenue do I'Imperatrico. Its appoint ments were , all upon a scale of quiet magnificence. There could bo no doubt as to the dead Spaniard's rlchos. Var loy , however was not marrying the woman for the sake of the possessions. Ho had of his own as much as she. Be- Bldos , ho was as infatuatedly in love as a man can bo. "And no wonder , by Jove ! " thought Moorhouso , who could not take his eyes elf of the brido. "She's about the most superb-looking woman I've scon in my There were not many people present. It was still quito early when CaUlcton and Moorhouso left the house. As they were doing so a foooman presented a note to their hostess on a small silver salver. It seemed to bo a rather coarso- looking all'air. She took it up with curious fingers. "It looks like a begging letter. " If it was. the supplant had timed hie appeal well. Out of the plenitude of Its own happiness there is httlo the heart will refuse. And the beautiful woman who stood smiling upon her departing guests with her betrothed by her side , with the diamonds flashing from her dazzling throat , arid the light of many candles on her Wurnishod hair , had upon her lips , her dyfes , her brow , that seal of triumph , of fruition , of culmina tion , sot on man oV1 woman alone in those rare momentsof _ a very few lives when the apex , the pinnacle of success , seems to have beennrooched when fate can give nothing more , nothing beyond. Moorhouse , who wAs keenly impress ionable , caught the key-note of the sit uation otonce. "George ! That vomari is positively blinding ! Arthur Varloy's a lucky dog , and no mistake. She , looks us though she adored him. i .Strange , and yet physiologically natural , too , that a mag- iiilicent woman lilc ; that , with an abounding vitality , should love a dreamy fellow , withB.n , artistic tempei- meni , like Arthur. They are negative and positive. " "Oh , Arthur isn't weak , " commented Castloton. "They make a handsome couple , " ho added. "Oh , yes. Arthur has the dark , deli cate , poetic type. It isn't very Ameri can. 1 don't know where ho gets it from. But the bride's typo that is un common , if 5'ou will ! I don't think I over saw a hair of that Titiens color with so dark a complexion before. It § unique and startling. "Somo Chilian women have it. ' They had left their cab at the Arc do Triom- phc and were walking down the Chumps Elysees in the mild spring night. "And lonce&aw a girl in ono of our own southern states wsth just that coloring- too , " Castleton subjoined in a moment. "Well , its superb. But her eyebrows ! Have you ever noticed Madame d'Ar- royos' eyebrows , CastlotonV" The elder man gave a dry laugh. "I don't see how any ono could avoid noticing them. " "It is their irregularity ono so straight and the other so extremely arched , which gives all that piquancy , that btrango jo nc sais quoi , in the up per part of the face. I was some time finding it out. But the thing flashed upon mo suddenly. It is a defect , of course , but it Is a defect more faoinat- ing than a charm. It is like a brown mole on a white neck like Loulso do la Vallior's limp. " "Oh , you've lost your head , " said Cas tloton cooly. They had stopped before a cafe. "Are you coming in with me ? No ? Well , I suppose I'll see you at the church to-morrow ? " Arthur Varloy and Madame d'Arroyos were married at the Madeleine. She had adopted the wedding dress in vogue for French widows of distinction and were a long gown of white silk with a mantilla of black lace draped over her head and shoulders. A little stir ran through the crowd as sljo entered. The beautiful edifice was packed. She was intensely pale , but mono strangely love ly than over. * Tlio service was a very long ono. Once or twice while it progressed the bride had been observed to raise her handkerchief tohor lips , as though in faintncss. When she turned away from the altar with her husband she sank lifeless and had to be carried out in his arms. It was a sensation. "Poor woman ! Such an ordeal to go through ! " "Tho church was so warm ! " "Tho service was so long. "The shock she received this morning had something to do with her nerves , doubllcss , too. "What shock ? " ' : HowI You don't know ! Why , there was a man a laborer found dead just outside the garden of her villa at the gate , you may say. Her servants found him. He had crawled under some hushes. Ho had an empty brandy bottle tle beside him. Ho had died suddenly during the night , apparently. " ' .Shocking ! shocking ! " "Shocking , indeed ! " cried Mooi- house , who , with Castleton on the steps of the church , had gleaned these scraps of information from the environing chatter. "What a horrible occurrence to have taken place at a woman's very door on the morning of her wedding. No wonder the poor creature was un- btrung. Well , what are you staring nt ? " to Castloton. "Nothing. " Which was true. Never theless , the elder man had been looking intently straight before him over the heads of the surging throng. Moorhouso saw nothing further of his friend till the following day. Then he met him sauntering slowly over one of the bridges. "Where have you been ? " ho asked. "Talking with a detective. I know about the * Victim of the Avenue de I'Imporatricc. ' ' The papers had been printing all the known details of the afTair under this heading. "Well ? " demanded Moorhouso. ' "Well , they've discovered nothing. And they're not likely to. I saw the 'victim , ' by the way. " "No ! How on earth " "Oh , one can always manage those things. " Moorhouse expressed no further'sur prise. Castlolon was an odd sort of follow who passed his time much in ways of hisl own , and who , as a potential lawyer who never had practiced , however , might bo supposed to have a sort of professional interest in such cases. Ho liked Paris , and latterly had spent several years at a stretch there. Ho knew it from end to end. "He was of the usual whisky-soaked pattern of tramp. I suppose ? " sug gested Moorhouse , referring' to the vic tim , and without much interest in iho matter. "I fancy he'd been drinking pretty freely lately , " resumed Ca'stloton non- committally. The affair soon gave place to a fresh excitement , and nothing having come to light which could load to the detec tion of the criminal an autopsy had proved the fact that the man had died of poison , though how administered , or when , was doubtful the case of the "Victim of the Avenue do 1'Itnporatrico" sank into the oblivion which closes over manp other undetected cJimcs. * * * * # * * * Two years later found Castloton still in Paris. There he also ono day ran against Moorhouse who , according to his own account , had been spending the interim in studying human nature in various parts of the continent before re turning home to go to work. "If you go on much longer you'll find that you will soon have no taste for studying anything else , " remarked Ciistloton in his shyly characteristic way , when ho hud invited the youngai" man into his semi-artistic bachelor don and pushed a cedar-wood box toward him. "Take warning of mo. " Moorhouso laughed. "I find human nature studied socially very absorbing , lor my part , And this refers directly to something I wanted to sco vou about. You remember Arthur Various wife , of course ? " CuatloUm looked up with interest. "Sho died last week at Nice. " "Possibly ? I saw nothing of it. " "I attended her in her last illness. It was a curious cabc ; I was called in very suddenly In the middle of the night. She had been thrown from her horse that day , while riding , and the shock , Arthur said , brought on a coiiges > tlve chill , though she was not injured. I did not believe it could have that effect without prolonged mental strain pre ceding the fall. Arthur looked aghast when I suggested as much. Still , he ended by acknowledging that Mrs. Var loy had seemed to have something in her mind for a long time. I did not think him looking well , either. Well , to bo "brief , her brain became affected , and she died a few days after in a rag ing delirium. And what form do you biipposo her mania took ? She imagined eho had murdered that man who was found dead in the grounds of her villa the morning of the day she was married to Arthur. Castleton had thrown himself back in his chair. Ho smoked n few moments with his eyes on the ceiling. Then ho said' "I am going to give you the benefit of an experience i had well , it's twenty years ago , now. During a short so- 'journ in the southwest I happened to witness the marriage of two youthful lovers the girl , at least , could pot have been moro than fifteen a runaway couple I believe. ' The bridegroom , who was a colossal follow , a finimal , had just enough money in his pocket to pay for his license. The bride , I suspect , had no other trousseau or dower than the clothes she were on her back at the time. But , though tho'two could barely write their names , and were thus deficient in worldly goods , they went off as happy as lords. The inci dent was diverting , but I should not have remembered it if it had not boon for the beauty of the girl , which fired my youthful imagination. It was not only beauty superlative in a degree , but most unusual in kind. She was as light and flexible ns a panther. She had a mass'of tawny hair , and with it the warm olive-tinted coniplcxion which habiturlly accompanies black hair. Most singular of all , though , she had eyebrows unevenly marked ; while one was straight and level the other , the left ono , was as keenly arched as a cir cumflex accent. " Mpornouso gave vent to. a low excla mation. "Of course I did not sco my crackers again , " Castloton resumed. "Three years ago , however , I met hero in Paris the woman wo have both since known as having the sumo peculiarity. The first time 1 saw Madame d'Arroyos all Paris was talking about her I was reminded of my beautiful young savage , who had gone out of my mind in the interval as completely ns though fahe had never existed. Arthur Varloy had already secured the entree lo the villa on the Avenue do 1'Imporatrico and was mak ing the running against all competitors , and I wns frequently thorn with them. Ono day that a portrait of a lady wns being discussed I ventured to make the remark that I had only once before f-ecn eyebrows like hers. I went on to toll her the incident I just told you. Wo were standing a little apart together. Citstleton hero suddenly leaned intently forward in his chair. "Tho change that swept over that woman's face I could not begin to describe to you. Some people might not have noticed it. I might not have under eomo circum- htancos. She Ijadhorsolf under control in a moment. To the last I am sure she never suspected for an instant that she had betrayed herself to mo. But that ono moment to mo was like a flash of light on darkness. The belief , pi'opp- torous as it seemed at flrst , that the wild ohlt of a country girl I had seen mar ried years before , and this elegant woman of the world , were one and the same person , sprung up in mo and re mained. And , after all , why go prepos terous ? How many clover adventuresses have done as much for thonibolvcs ? What was the great Nelson's Lady Ham ilton , originally , but a nursery maid ? But what had become of the big six-foot husband of the present Madame d'Ar- reyes ? . And how had she drifted to the Phllipnlna Islands ? I sot ubout obtaining such facts ns I could in a quiet way. I discovered nothing nnu'h except that there had boon an odd. fellow by the name of Arroyos long resident - dent in Manilla , and that he died , leav ing a largo fortune. There the matter dropped , . . , Well , shortly after , Artmir Varloy became engaged to Madame d'Arroyos. Then came the wedding. Do you remember , the night before , a note that was handed to mo ns wo were going away ? Do you remember her nervousness , her fainting fit at the church ? Do you romotnbor mooting nio the next day , when I told you I had been to see the body of the man found dead in the Avenue do 1'Imporatrico ? That man was no moro French , from his ap- puaranoo , than I am or you aro. And , changed as ho had become older , coarsened with hard labor and bloated with drink It was quito possible to trace in him the signs of some such physical conformation as that possessed by the young follow whom I saw mar ried down south to the beautiful girl with the eyebrows. " Moorhouso , who had followed the de velopment of Castloton's thoughts with a sort of growing horror depicted on his face , hero exclaimed : "Goou heaven ! you don't think " "I think that she made way with him yes , " said Castleton"steadily. "But- " "Sho may have thought ho wns dead. She probably did. Ho came back > nt what moment ? Think for nn instant what it would have boon for her to recognize him as her husband. No ono knows how he hud traced hor. She had doubtless lost sight of him for years. Consider what it would bo for a woman with ambition like that to fall from the height she had raised herself to. More over , and most of all , she loved Arthur Varloy. She wanted him. She would not give him up. She probably acted with wonderful promptitude. To steal out to the man waiting in her grounds with that fatal bottle medicated with some such drug as is kept in many n medicine chest would bo n very easy way of keeping him quiet for a whilo. She might toll him she would join him again in an hour. The follow would drink the stuff every drop of it , > ou may depend aud then ho would toll no talcs. By George , ono must admit that it wns artistic work. " Moorohouso shuddered. "But she was clover , devilish clover. A man I have since mot , who luid been long in the Philippines , remembered when she first came there under the protection of old Arroyos. She had probably run away from her husband long boforo. She used to say she was born in South America , of a Portuguese mother and American father , She spolto Spanish imporfeetly , and as a matter of fact , English with a southern accent. But no one noticed that. "Oh , yes ; she was clover. " "Good God I And can nothing bo done ? " cried Moorehouso , excitedly. ' Nothing , " replied Ciistloton , in the incisive tones ho had fallen into. Then , with a return of his habitual noncha lance : "Nothing. Nothing could bo done then , nothing can bo done now. There was no evidence. " There Is a floor walker In ono of the largo dry goods stores In tills city whoso great toes point toward each other In the most friendly manner. "What will you Imvo , madauil" said ho to an Irishwoman , who was looking hopelessly nround. "Calico , " "Walk thli way. " "Walk that way , is It ! 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