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THE OMAHA DAILY REEi SUNDAY, APML 5, 1003.
MANSFIELD LIVES HIS PART
Identity of ths Individual Last in tls
Portrayal of Marcm Bruins.
ACTOR SKETCHED BEHIND THE SCENES
Whrrf ll I.Ives His Part Intently
ae Brier the Andlenc hnr
ncterlatle Anerdoten
aad Incident.
I went to see Mr. Mannfleld play Brutus
the other night from the back of tha
scenes, writes John R. Ralhara In tbo Chi
cago Record-Herald. Ills portrayal as pre
sented bfforo the' footlights has already
been dwelt on, generously and thoroughly,
tn the dramatic column. But there are
aoraa thing about this performance of
"Jullua Caeiar," Impossible to aee or take
notice of from the front of the house, that
are of too much Interest to pass over. Th'.-y
tell so much more thoroughly than any
thing else can do of Mr. Mansfield's person
aJlty and his methods.
When ha left his hotel that night for the
Grand It is reasonable to suppose that he
waa still, to all Intents and purposes. Rich,
ard Mansfleld. I haven't yet figured out
where and when the transformation oc
curred, but I will vow when he reached
the stage entrance of the theater and
walked swiftly across to his dressing room
he was none other than Marcus Brutus.
His stride was the stride of the dreamy
Roman, his ulster, to his nervous handa,
was nothing but the conspirator's Capping
robe; his whole Identity was changed. II
began to act his part not when he first
appeared that night before the curtain, but
half an hour before most of his audience
bad left their dinner tables for the theater.
I felt tempted for a moment to approach
and speak to him as he entered the door.
But, realizing that I had been taken tn at
a comprehensive glance with all the other
numerous stage properties and that he
probably saw me, If he aaw me at all, as
Fourth Citizen, Guard or possibly "etc.," 1
did not venture to break in on his walk
through the streets of Rome.
The property men, stage carpenters, light
manipulators and scene shifters seemed to
know his way better than I. They let him
go by without taking any more notice of
him than ho took of them. As soon as the
door of his dressing room at the other side
of the stage closed on him a little man
testing one of the calciums stopped his
work and meditated. Twisting his thumb
over toward the dressing room ho said:
"I'll bet a dollar ho don't know his own
name."
And there, It seems to me, is two-thtrus
of the story of Richard Mansfield's splen
did success.'
Between the Acta.
It Is all a matter of temperament. Somo
of the greatest of the world's actors like
Jefferson nnd Irving enjoy the waits be
tween the acts In their dressing rooms ns
affording them opportunities for social di
version that are very welcome breaks from
the strain of their work. They delight In
smoking cigars with their friends at auch
times and in brisk chat about anything and
tverything but the parts they are playing.
Mr. Glover tella me that during the whole
of the present winter season no outaider
has stepped through the door of Mr. Mans
field's dressing room. Alona with his
dresaer ho alts and lives his part as In
tently and earnestly as when be Is before
his audience.
On the night I speak of It was very in
teresting to watch him from the wings and
to see at such close range all the play of his
mobile features. But it was Infinitely more
Interesting and pleasing to note how, the
sincerity of his performance remained with
him after the curtain had fallen on each
act. There waa no light Jest or capering to
relievo the strain, though such a form of
relief can well be understood and sympa
thized with. Once I aaw W. E. Sheridan,
almost before the curtain had touched the
Boor on the deathbed acene of his great
Louis XI., Jump from his bier, catch hold of
the handa of two members of his support
tnd exclaim with a sigh of relief:
"And now for supper, supper, suppert"
Mansfield could not have dono that. At
the end of the tent scene on Tuesday night,
with all the wonderful struggle to master
the fear, of the apparition of Caesar fresh
upon blm and tbo ringing cry,
"111 spirit, I would hold more talk wtth
thee,"
itlll echoing through the theater, he waited
a full minute after the curtain waa down,
with hands clasped together nervously and
its eyes staring with their late terror. Then
lowly, with his head down, as It beginning
it that moment his march to Phtllppl, he
Irew his unwilling feet over to his dressing
room door.
Deep In Meditation.
Before the beginning of this act Mr.
Mansfield sat in his dressing room up to
the moment before the curtain went up,
giving himself barely time to reach his seat
it the table. Then he walked to the chair
is Brutus might have walked, apparently tu
leep meditation, bowed down by the tor
tures of conscience and utterly regardless
f the fact that there was still a barrier
between himself and the audience.
Rpfnra hla annearanee In the forum scene
ke left his room aud started round the back
of tha drop for the other slda of the stage,
where he was to make his entrance. There
as hardly room to squeeze through, but he
waa entirely oblivious of his surroundings.
Had everything that hid him from the audi
torium of the theater been suddenly lifted
Sway at that moment his manner, pose and
Itep would have been simply that of Brutus
walklnr toward the forum. Donderlne on
the deed of death in which he had been
rngaged and thinking of what he wculd say
In a moment or two when he rame face to
tare with the mob.
And at the end, when the final curtain
rpt down on the dead body of Brutus
urrounded by the conquering host of An
loiiy. the last man of the mimic array hat
ibanduned the stage long before Mr. Mans
M moved frcin his place on the heap of
rocks aud lifted the great war helmet from
bis head.
If hla work tn the sight of the audience
was reckoned incomparable, as most of the
critics declared It to be, may we not look
fur the reason to the splendid sincerity
of the man that held him In the spell of
Brutua when there were nons but a few
lage handa and hla dresser there to see.
not atland nlth Ilia Work.
' The claim for Mansfield that he ia the
foremost actor-manager now before the
publlo anywhere in the world la a large
one, and tt Is being made by people who
believe what they say, and whore opinions
Light to be given weight. But I understand
that the man himself, though he hopes to
terure a unanimous verdict to this effect
before tha close of hie theatrical career,
tud docs not hesitate to say to. is not at
this time disposed to look with favor on
the claim. '
He la not now and never has been sstls
Bed lih his work. Complacent over what
ever the macs of half-baked critics may say
jcnoerulni his endeavors, ha Is neverthe
less one of the most sensitive cf men whan
some dramatic writer whose views he re
ipecta acalyzta his presentation or whea
ha can stuiy the temper of his audieucea
and ascertain Intuitively, as he always
los, how be Is appeuliug to them.
The laiUr thing. Indeed hla sensitiveness
regarding his audleci e must be under
stood if you want to get any adequate con
ception cf Ihi estent to which he carries
bl heart into his stage life, aud the im
mense amount of nervous force he expends
tn his effort lo win the spproral of the
people who see his performances. Most
men who ar. constantly before the public
acquire a certain knack, or rather Improve
their powers of Intuition, with regard to
"sensing" the feeling of those who listen
to them. But tt Is doubtful if any of them
has brought this gift to as highly culti
vated a point as Mr. Mansfleld. Sometimes,
after a performance, he will say:
"There was something wrong tonight.
There was do more hesrt In ray work than
there Is tn a dry sponge."
"That's all nonsense," saya his manager.
"How do you come to that conclusion?"
"How do I come to It? IMd you see that
audience? I couldn't move 'em an Inch.
I'm a monumental failure. It might have
been a vaudeville show; they kept as still
as mummies."
"I guess," says his manager, "you
haven't seen many vaudeville shows. Of all
the things on this earth those are the ones
an audience does not keep still over."
But nothing can solace Mr. Mansfleld.
He knows better than anybody else Just
what his limitations are, and he knows In
a moment when be falls to reach the deep,
est etnotlons of the public.
Some people have such a passionate ad
miration for a man who displays true genius
that their regard for him can only bo ex.
pressed In hyperbole. Then there are other
to whom triumphs, particularly If they aro
public triumphs of a hard-working artist,
act like so many successive red rag to so
many Individual bulls.
On the whole, I prefer the people with
the hyperbole. They are at least nonest In
their opinions, and, more than that, have a
real affection not only for their favorite
himself, but for all the forces that tend
to beautify and ODnoble Ufa.
I'ndlstnrbed by Criticism.
Neither gnats nor honey spreaders, how
ever, seem to have any appreciable effect at
this stage of his career on Richard Mans
fleld. He has reached that enviable mile
past on his Journey when ho can pass over
unconcerned both attacks and fulsome Cat
tery. For he has blazed out a path for
himself and steadily followed an Ideal. The
axe he has used to mark his way has been
a btt dull at times, and more than once
the ground beneath his feet has been, to
put tt mildly, rocky. But the "bad stretch
of road"- Is over and done with.
When the people throng to see an actor
for the love of his own personal ability to
charm them, Irrespective of the vehicle he
employs, and when he has the courage to
make that vehicle something that the
croakers have for years been deciding
means heartbreak and failure to the man
attempting tt, he does not need to worry
very much about criticism, good, bad or
Indifferent.
Then, again, he has a life apart from the
theater, Its trials and its victories. That
Is to say, at the end of the season there
awaits his coming a home, wtth theword
written in big letters in the bend of every
rocking chair and the id of every car
pet, a wife who loves u n and a vandal
baby son who trtea to v ul out what little
hair he has left.
If Mr. Mansfleld bad kept on worrying
about the gnats with a combination of this
kind at his back ho wouldn't deserve to be
pitted.
Now Is the time to form a "Society for
the Prevention of Apologies for Mansfleld."
He does not need them any more It Indeed
he ever needed them.
The stories of his abrupt manner with his
subordinates, hla atormy outbreaks and
passionate insistence on things being done
his way have circulated everywhere, more
or less embellished. The best way to dis
pose of this topic here la to say that the
stories, ao tar as they relate to bis flighty
mannerisms and separated from the wild
eyed additions of unfriendly critics, are
true. Mr. Mansfleld la too manly to deny
them, and too manly not to be genuinely
sorry a moment afterward for the things
his high-strung susceptibilities have caused
him to say.
Any little hitcV-bad ventilation In
theater, faulty stago aettlng, the memory
of an unpleasant happening during the day
and his portrayal of his character for
that night Is far below his standard. One
afternoon in New York the afternoon of
the night on which his "King of Peru" was
to be produced for the first time Mrs.
Mansfleld lost a pet dog In Central park.
He went out and spent two hours hunting
It, working himself up to such a pitch of
excitement that he waa utterly unfit, when
night came, for hla task. The result was
utter failure of the performance, and Inci
dentally the loss of many thousands of dol
lars to the atar.
A Handle of Serves.
The man Is a bundle of nerves. But It
should not be forgotten that If his tempera
ment has led him at times to outbreaka of
anger, it is responsible also for his faithful
devotion to his work, his unswerving fidelity
to the Ideals he has set for himself and In
a large measure for bis genius Itself. Great
artists before Mansfleld have been possessed
of temperaments like hla own, and have
paid the debt of temporary discomfort by
resson of hasty words.
But defects of temper are momentary;
the attainments of genius are everlasting.
And In Mansfield's case It ts the verdict of
his fellow actors, both men , and women,
who have aaeoclated with htm In hts pro
ductions, that he loses no time tn nV.Ing
noble amends for hasty words. If you read
a little further you will see, too, that if
we count his impetuosity as a fault, we
must put tn the scales on the other side
many a word of sympathy and many a deed
of genuine kindliness.
Mansfield's stsge crowds arc not a mass
of supernumeraries huddled together like
sheep and watching a leader. They really
act their part, and the result Is seen In
some of the most notable portions of hts
Shakesperean performances. This end 1s
reached only after weeks of steady training,
in which he himself studies out every move
and suggests every picture.
A very apt example of this desire of his
to throw to an audlencean effect as close
to the truth as he can conceive It appeara
In hla present play of "Jullua Caesar." In
all former versions It has been the custom
In ths forum scene at the close of An
tony's speech for the staid bearers who
have brought the body of Caesar to the
spot to pick up the bier and carry tt out
again. Mr. Mansfleld, however, would not
have tbla ending to the act, though the
thought of thatiga only came to him at the
last moment. One afternoon the rehearsal
was proceeding aa usual when ho shouted
from the front:
"Stop. Walt a bit. Put that body down
again."
"Now, see here," he went on, "Antony has
Inflamed you to a passionate desire for ven
geance. Suppose you were really Romans,
Would yon let those solemn hired bearers
tske up Caesar and march out with him?
Of course you wouldn't.' Don't you see
what you'd do? Why, you'd rush for the
honor of snatching up the bier, throw It
high above your heads and tramp out with
It. with a long yell of reverence and re
venge. Now, hit's try It."
Hs worksd at this Idea with them for an
hour, and finally got In perfect and nat
ural. At the flrst dreaa rehearsal he saw
at once the wonderful picture that the
change was responsible for the great
blotch of crltnacn the shsdo of the robs
tbtt co v red the bier was borne along In
a majestic sweep, with the noble pillars
of the forum and the weeping women In
their massed group of color for a back
ground.
This Is one instance of hts method of
working out aon.e stsrtltng touch In order
to thrill an audience with a beautiful and
unexpected Stage picture.
Wbeii he first decided to go la seriously
for Shakeapereaa productions on an elab
orate scsle his friends argued with him
that he could make a great deal more
money by holding to his famous character
studies. They were right and he knew It.
It Is surely a proof of sincerity In his
work and the unswerving character of his
determination to keep on his wsy towsrd
tha high Ideals he is seeking to reach that
he gladly sacrificed great pecuniary gains
In order to further his object.
"It Is true thst my bank account would
have been larger during the last few years
If I had not taken up Shakespearean
plays." This ts what he says en this sub
ject: "But the people have responded to
the presentations nevertheless, and it la
worth something besides money to know
that audiences of from 12,000 to 15,000 a
week are being brought Into closer touch
with ths beauties and poetry of Shakes
peare." One of hla principal reasons for going
tack to the world's great playwright is tho
scarcity of great modern plays. He ex
aminee hundreds of manuscripts every
month, and saya that not 1 per cent of
them havo merit enough to warrant any
thing more than a superficial glance. No
ambitious playwright need do another day's
work as long as be lives If he csn give
Mr. Mansfleld a great character work. One
of these, by the way, asked Mr. Glover a
week ago what the star would offer for a
"first class vehicle suited to his strongest
stage ability." He got a reply out of ban!
and without consultation, "1100,000 to start
wtth and mora to follow."
Either the playwright's modesty was
shocked or hts brain was turned, for he
disappeared without another word Into the
wilderness of the city streets and has not
been heard from since.
But the offer atands In all good faith
Just the same.
Superstitions Notions.
When Mr. Mansfleld travels he has a
private car. The one he uses now was
bought only a little while ago from Pres
ident Ingalls of the Big Four road and Is
one of the most costly and beautiful In
America. The luxury of tt pleases him and
the furnishings are his constant delight.
but the one thing he revels In more than
all the others put together Is a little
speed indicator set In the woodwork of
the apartment he uses for a study. By
looking at it be can tell at any moment
how fast the train Is traveling, and the
knowledge Is the Joy of his heart and In
cidentally the bane of the existence of all
about blm.
He refuses to travel at any speed greater
than thirty or forty miles aa hour, and
has a feeling that amounts to superstition
about going any faster. Before he got hold
of the wretched Indicator, which came
with the car, he didn't know that such
things existed. TJp to that time his trav
eling companions had been accustomed to
telling htm all sorts of fairy tales about the
rate of running In knots at that as a sort
of recognition of his possession of a fine
yacht.
Now, however, there can be no more
gentle prevarication and when the indi
cator whlzzea above forty miles or in
Mansfield's car parlance "thirty-seven
spankln' knots an hour" a peremptory or
der Is sent forward to the engineer of tho
special to shorten aall. And Mr, Mansfleld
stays with his glasses glued to the Indicator
till he has assured himself that the de
mand has been obeyed.
Traveling time Is rest time with him.
Often on all-night trips he will throw oft
all thought of study and work, and with a
select company gathered about him will
entertain for two hours at a stretch with
songs he has a fine barytone voice dances,
Impersonations and atorlea that run along
without a break.
His musical director, Carl Krusada,
Joined the Mansfleld company a little over
two years ago in the arttstlo capacity of
baggage handler. Arriving In America
penniless from his home In Austria, he
took the flrst Job that came to hand and
found himself, on the road with "Beau-
caire." A few weeks later whispers
reached Mr. Mansfleld about One of his bag
gage men who carried a violin everywhere
with him and played It when he was not
working. The young man was sent for
while the company was making an all
night rail trip and shown into the private
car, -where Mansfleld told htm that he
wanted to hear some music. The lad pro
tested that his fingers and hands were too
rough from hard work for bis to do hts
Instrument Justice. However, he finally
yielded and played. The star knows some
thing about the violin himself, but It did
not take him more than a few moments
to find out that his "baggage smasher"
knew a great deal more.
"Do you know," he said, "yqo've got an
easy living and fame in those fingers of
yours. I'm going to send you to a school
and get some training."
Krusada grinned. "I've had a little
training already." -
"Where?" asked Mansfleld.
"At the Conservatoire of Vienna."
This was an affair after Mansfleld' own
heart. He probed It, found that Krusada
had been the best baggage handler the com
pany ever secured and promptly laid him
oft and put him on a liberal salary "till
his hands got knocked back Into shape."
Six weeks later ha placed htm In the cast
of "Beaucalre" and let him play a violin
solo In the fourth act. With the begin
ning of the present season he doubled his
salary aad made htm hts mustcal director,
a position he fills with rare skill and Judg
ment. When Mansfleld was playing "Richard
III" a little girl In hla company acting the
part of the Prince of Wales was taken seri
ously 111. He at once sent the child to a
private hospital, brought her mother to
look after her there and continued her sal
ary, besides footing all the bills. As the
weeks went on the child grew worse and it
was seen that she could not recover. Her
one sorrow was that aha had not seen Mr.
Mansfleld play "Beau Brummel." They
told him of her wiah, and one day when the
company was filling an engagement 150
miles away he slipped aboard a train, bun
dled In a heivy overcoat, and a few hours
later waa at 'he bedside of the child.
When he took his coat off the doctor
and nurses saw that hs had his complete
Beau Brummel costume on undernesth It.
Then he began to act some of the principal
scenes of the play, the little patient watch,
int him In quiet delight. He slipped bsck
and rejoined his company Just In time for
the opening of the next ntght's performance.
None of them knew till months later what
he had done.
These are 'not laolated Instances. Mem
bers of his company and his other associates
who know hlrn best know of many such and
do not tire of telling them.
Altogether, you aee, a man of refinement,
a man of undoubted and lofty genius In his
chosen profession, a man of high-strung
nerves a man of heart.
He Is not yet old and has time yet to
carve hts name still deeper Into the tableta
that hold the best traditions of the Amer
ican stsge. That he will do thia there I
no doubt, though none can realise better
than he the penalties he will have to pay
for following his star.
If you were to ask him about that he
would agree wtth his beloved bard of Avom
There Is betwixt tha smile we would asplr
to.
That sweet aspect of princes, and our ruin.
More pang and fears than war or women
have.
tenant Heported Dead.
8ALONICA. Kuropean Turkey. April 4.
It Is reported that tha European consul at
Mltrovltsa, who was shot In the back by
an Albanian sentry there, ts dead".
NORTHWESTERN COPPER
P.emarkable Progress in the Grand Encampment Country
Those who are Considering au Investment in the Stock of tho Com
pany at 17 1-2 Cents Would Do Well to Secure it at Once.
Tha existence of Immense copper deposits of enormous value In the Grand
Encnmpment country of Wyoming J a matter about which no one can lmve
a shadow of a doubt who has learned even but a small part of the known
facts of that country; The great Ferrls-Hairgnrty mine, uext-door netghlwr
to the Northwestern Co., has ore actually In sight In workings less than 400
feet deep to the value of more than $4,0000,000. Just as flattering a statement
can be mode of the Donne and of the New Rambler. Such large bodies of
extremely high grade copper ore were never found elsewhere. These facts
alone show the enormous richness of this new copper field to be too vast
for comprehension. The above statements are simply facts that are well
known, well established and undenlnble.
Now who Is going to get the benefit of all this richness? There are
thousands of people who are saying that they would like to havo a share la
It. But It will be the same old story over again. While they are saying oth-rs
are doing. Many people are today putting a few dollars Into the Grand En
campment country which will return them fortunes and life Incomes. It
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to have the courage to act on the opportunity that Ilea before you.
Facts for Family Consideration
A few people seem to like the "get-rlch-qulck" scheme. But the great
majority are more honestly trying to provide for the future; trying to make
themselves secure in a certain and liberal Income, which will provide them
with enough to live on with comfort and ease, Insure them against want
from sickness and accident, educate their children and accumulate a liberal
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feeling of repose and security and removes anxiety for the future. They
want to provide for want from sickness and accident, because these may
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that Is by nature one of the chief ambitions of all high-minded parents, and
becauso they know that a good educutlon is the best start tn life. They want
a liberal accumulation besides, because they want to do good to others and
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The ordinary business brings in small profits. ' Nearly every man on a
6alary, even If It be large, saves but little. Money put out at Interest must
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penses, and It will be swept away, principal and all In case "of sickness or
accident. Five per cent Is as good as can be expected. At that rato $100
brings $5 a year.
What a Little Money Will Do
Now here is what it is possible to
pected from stock in the Northwest
come of $1,000 yearly for life from an
$500 yearly for life from an investm
If you doubt that this can be done n
vein of copper ore twenty feet wide
property. If It is mined out to a de
which the Lake Superior copper veins
would be 10,000,000 tons.
How it is possipble
ten months, to bring
$500 yearly i,
CANDY. FOR THE MULTITUDE
Omaha Makers Supply It by the Carload to
Ooniumsrs.
EATERS OF SWEETS ARE NUMEROUS
More Thnn a Million Dollars Worth
of All Kinds of Candy Is Made
and Sold In Omaha
Annually.
"Candy Is a habit and you would be sur
prised. I think. If you knew how rapidly
the consumption of It Is growing," said a
confectioner the other day to a consumer.
"One of our regular patrons told me yes
terday that be bad one J been a hard
drinker oh, a real hard drinker! and that
he cut his liquor out and began on candy.
He gets a bag every day and doesn't want a
drink, saves money by the change and
feel better."
The customer to whose attention this re
markable testimonial . was brought had
never himself felt the cravings of the habit
within him, being an erratic and un
systematic! purchaser, who bought when
ever he happened to think of tt, or )ad a
new gtrl to teed Into amiability. But the
remark of the confectioner aroused in him
such Interest that he visited several deal
ers in sweets and collected some figures.
An estimate made from these places ths
output during 1902 of the three manufac
turers of general confectionery In this city
D. J. O'Brien company, Voegele ft Din
ning and Kopp-Woodard company and
Woodworth's the Council Bluffs factory
at about (1,000,000. Then there are other
local manufacturers who make certain va
rieties of candy. Right here in the city
trade these three manufacturers sell about
1150.000 worth of sweets and ontside makers
take something like $100,000 more. This
does not Include confectionery sold to local
jobbers for outside distribution or the out
put of Balduff, Dyball, Dalzell and others.
One firm sold during eight months of last
year to the candy department of a certain
store 112,000 worth of goods.
Material hy the Carload.
Th.n thra is another way of getting at
the bigness of the output that fills the
..-f tnnth. Tha O'Brien factory has Im
ported two carloads of chocolate since No
vember and will have anotneraoom may i.
A car brtnga 1.750 cases of chocolate and
each case welgha 100 pounds. Then they
buy peanuts by the car ten cars of shelled
nuts and eight of unshelled a year for
peanut candy Is a stand"! production.
Then sugar, usually a ear a month, but live
since Chrtstmas. and a ear brlnga about
as anfl nounds. Then slueose runs about a
car a month and moulding starch, four care
In three years. The other lactones use
amounts more or less approximating these.
All confectioners agree that there has
been a large Increase in the consumption
of candy In ths last three or four yeara.
The O'Brien factory used only twenty-live
cases of chocolate for the entire year of
1897. Vogele Dinning figure that there
has been an Increase of 10 per cent during
the hst year. The growth of chocolatea
has been surprising, coming from a com
paratively unimportant position In three or
four years to the front rank, being from
one-third to almost one-half of the candy
made. Fully three-fourths of the bonbons
used are chocolates.
Cnnaea for tho laercase.
A number of things seem to have con
tributed to this Increase, but probably the
greatest factor has Leea the better and
more attractive output. Then there Is the
Increased population and a plenteousness of
money which lends Itself to the purchase of
luxuries. In connection with the making
of better csndy, the National Confection
ers' associslion and the pure food laws have
done much by the suppression of Injurious
materials In manufacture. For Instance,
, the terra all formerly so much used Is a
do and what can reasonably be ex-
ern Copper Mining Company an in-
investment of $175. or an income nf
ent of $8.75 a month for ten months.-
otlce the following figures. There is a
and 1.500 feet lone on the ivimniin v'u
pth of 3.000 feet not half the depth to
ic uucuujr ujiueu iuu loiui contents
for $875 a month for
an income lor life of
thing of tha past. Coloring matter Is now
purely vegetable, and it has been said that
a child could drink the coloring matter for
100 pounds of candy and not suffer anything
more serious than a stomach ache.
The old Japanese cocoanut may be taken
to Illustrate the serious effect upon the
trade of Inferior material. Everyone, ex
cept the very young, remembers the time
when It was worth whllo to buy one of
those flat strips of cocoanut and sugar with
the beautiful red and brown lines about It.
But It is seldom' seen now. In the old
tlmej it was made cf good cocoanut and
sugar, but makers of cheap candy, seeing
what' a profit there was In it,
made the confection of grain and
dry cocoanut, and glucose, and It bad no
taste; but the children had, and would
no longer buy the Japanese cocoanut. But
the candy Is so alluring in outward appear
anoe nowdaya as well as superior In flavor,
that the purchaser is made for the article
by a mere exhibition In the shop windows.
The satin-finished candles have been made
for only ten years. Then there are crys
tallized leaves violet, mint and rose, at $4
a pound, and caodlea made to match table
decorations for pink teas and the like. The
chocolates have forged to the front most
probsbly because the makers have taken
more pains with them than with other
confections. They are dipped by hand now
and put In such ornate boxes. Then
chocolate Is a cultivated taste and one
that becomes a habit like the drinking of
tea.
Where It Is Sold.
OX the confectionery consumed In Omaha
the local manufacturers supply fully nine
tenths, and In the territory tributary to
this city, about three-fourths. Bloux City
on the north and St. Joe to the south have
swoets to sell and cut In considerably on
the trade. The foreign candy aold in the
city Is mostly of the finer and more ex
pensive varieties and sells for a larger
amount than Its one-ninth share In quan
tity would Indicate. There aro several
eastern manufacturers of widely advertised
chocolates who have agents here and who
a few years ago sold nearly all the finer
chocolates In the market. But the local
makers have of late been giving their at
tention to the making of alluring package
goods and have cut down the Import to a
large extent. There are factories tn the
east which manufacture solely the lozen
ges which resemble dellcately-hued poker
chips and none of these are made In
Omaha. Twelve peddling wagons are oc
cupied within the city limits In carrying
fresh sweetness to the small retailers.
Public Taste la Pickle.
The tsste of the public Is hard to account
for. There are certain thing. peanut
candy, caramels, lemon drops, etc for which
there Is ever a constant and unflagging
domand, and on the other hand, combina
tions of palate tickling materials rise to
heights of popularity snd then suddenly
decline, lesing practically all sale. Of this
latter class are the long 1 mher licorice and
the all-day-sucker, which hss bad its day.
The children are the most erratic pur
chasers. It Is the consensus of opinion,
however, that the publlo taste has been
educated and la growing more exacting
yearly. A better grade of goods In every
line Is being demanded. The cheaper
mixed candy, which formerly had a good
aals, now goes to the grocer, who gives
It away to his customers. The city takes
on the whole a little bet'er candy than tho
smaller towns. These latter take gen
eral assortments, while In the city there
are two marked classes of retailers; the
fine shops, where tha expensive goods are
told, and the corner stands, where ths very
cheapest goss. There is said to be a
noticeable difference la the sort of con
fectionery bought by men and by young
women. The termer show a preference for
peanut candles and the sort of thing whlta
crushes between the teeth, while the lat
ter want creams and bonbons, which melt
delightfully. Hummer is tee bad season for
candy men. People want sour things snd
beer and tee, and chocolates are soft and
soil the fingers and sugar is heating. To
offset this there is Ice cream, which is a
Suppose that the ore contains but five per cent of copper the assays are
thirty per cent and higher, and all shipment out of that country average
twenty-five per cent but for liberality In tho calculation, suppose that this
ore averages but five per cent Then allowing eeven dollars for mining and
treatment charges and working out all of that ore In thirty years, there would
be a net profit of $2,000,000 each yesr. That Is, eight thousand sharea of stock,
costing $175. would bring a yearly Income of $2,000. But for tho sake of
still further liberality In the calculation, divide this In half and there Is
left $1,000. or $500 on each 500 shares, which can now bo bad by paying $8.75
a month for ten months. Marvelous at theso figures may teem, anch profits
are not at all unheard of nor even unusual In copper mining. In fact, they
are insignificant compared with the profits of tho leading copper mines. For
example, a thousand shares of the Tamarack copper mlno bring a yearly In
come of about $0,000. A thousand sharea of tho Calumet and TJecIa copper
mine bring a yearly Income of about $33,000. A thousand shares of tho
Boston and Montana copper mine bring a yearly lncomo of about $40,000.
The Ftbruary Cosmopolitan said that Senator Gark paid
for the United Verde Copper Mine $150,000. and that it
brings a yearly income of $12,000,000, which could easily
bt doubled if Mr. Clark so desired. J
Does it seem from these well known and undeniable facta that wo are
visionary in the above calculation?
Copper mining Is safer mm aarer thnn mil other kinds of saining.
Copper mines par larcer dividends than mil other kinds mt Industries.
The Northwestern Company is a well known Omaha company, with
well known Omaha business men ns oOlcera and the stockholders are
nearly all Omaha people.
The capitalisation la loir 100,000 which makes each shareholder's
Interest atand tor so much more than where tho capitalisation lo higher.
The property le mine well eonipped with machinery, with work
ings 1B feet deep and with a vein thoroughly In place at that depth. It
has therefore practically passed beyond tho stage of risk. It Is vanning
night and day. And the, price of the stock la a till hot IT 1-9 oeata a
shnre.
Where parties desiring to take a sufficient number of shares want to
visit the mine, the company will arrange for the expenses of the trip, and
in any case the amount of the expenses will be refunded where anyone
visits the mlneand finds that It is not as it has been described by the vm
pary. The price of the shares is 17H cents. $17.50 a month for ten months
buys 1,000 shares. $3.75 a month for tea months buys 500 shares. By this
plan a subscription made now will be no burden to you and you wllr take
advantage of the advance in price, which will be very rapid as tho work
proceeds.
Cal lor send for further Informs tlon.
F. E. Brown, Sec'y, Offlco 509 N. Y. Ufa Bldg.
Charles It Courtney, President , N. A. Kuhn, Treasurer.
W. D. Reed. Vice President C. W. Murdock, Director.
J. F. Fairlle, Director. W. H. Daldn, Director.
kindred product and of which one maker
alone turns out 200 gallons a day. The
busy time is from the beginning of the
cooler weather In the fall until after
Easter. Christmas and Easter both art
cindy-makers carnivals.
Novelties In Candy.
The man who can Invent a new candy
especially a penny novelty is a made man;
that Is if It catchea on In the popular fancy.
Many of the things the candy men have
turned out ns triumphs have not sold at all.
There Is a constant effort for the produc
tion of new things. This applies more
particularly to the penny candles, for the
children demand new forms, colors aud
combinations with unrelenting voice. It is
also a sore puzzle to find pleasing names
for the new candles. There have been
Klondike nuggets and Trilby cups, and 'a
Ben Hur mixed Is now on the market. Of
chocolates, fully eighty different combina
tions have been tried and are at present
manufactured. Among the newer articles
are jelly cherries, a new discovery tn hoar
hound drops, lemonade and soda water
drops, which put In a glass of water make
drinks after their own kind. Easter has
greatly risen tn Importance as a confec
tionery holiday In recent yesrs and now
rivals ChrUtmas. For this day there are
novel chick and rabbit creations coming
largely from Japan and Germany. One
local dealer claims to be the sole maker of
what be calls honeycomb candy; another Is
now making chocolate creams at $1 a pounl,
with a new black Martinique coating. An
other has patented an airtight bonbon boa
with a celluloid sheet Inserted in the top
which reveals the contents. This he calls
the "X Ray" and during two months last
year he sold 18,000 of them. The ordinary
stick candy Is not Increasing tn sale, but
this same manufacturer has a new Idea ia
this line. In a pure mold A sugar stock
put up In the X Ray box.
There Is nothing about a candy factory
more Interesting than the making of stick
candy. Take up one of the round pieces
from a bucket of mixed candy and you will
see that it Is a short section of a stick.
Look at the end of it In the center is a
figure of some sort with a surrounding of
solid color and aa outside coating of, ssy,
red with stripes ou It This Is all built to
gether In a sort of giant stick weighting
about eighty pounds and kept warm on a
heater. Suppose It Is an American flag
that is taken for the center. The candy
worker flrst builds up a rectangular piece
of red and white atripa, then puts in the
blue field and a piece of red edgewise for
the staff. Then be builds the batch out
with chunks of white to maks tt circular,
puts on a thick coating of red candy and on
this paints white stripes. Then all be does
Is to pull tho batch to a small point and
keep pulling and rolling on a small table.
The design and colors all come Into ths
stick in mlnature.
Some Interesting Proeesaea.
Lemon drops snd similar hard forms are
made by running a batch of soft csndy the
shape of a board, through a machine like
a wringer with depresslones the size of a
half drop all over each of the rolers. Mixed
candy doesn't grow that way, but Into a
bin holding, aay, two tons, the different
varieties are placed In layers. A man
shovels tbess Into a shuts, thereby mixing
them. Glucose and other syrup runs from
tanks down to each floor. There baa been
a popular Impression that glucose Is an
Injurious substance, but it is nothing but
clear syrup made from corn and la neces
sary In all hard candy, in the ratio or 9
pounds glucose to 91 pouuds sugar. The
centers for cbocolste creams and other bon
bons and all molded candles are run Into
confectioners starch. The starch Is placed
la trays and depressiona tae shape of the
candy to be run made aa thickly as possible
over tha surface with plaster of psrls
moulds. These trays can be prepared
either by band or machine, the latter betug
the practice for the cheaper grades. One
local factory has a machine which prints
enough holea to mold 600 pounds of candy
in twenty minutes. The starch molds -are
filled either by band or by a machine which
squirts the hot candy into one row at a
time. When cooled ths tray of candy and
starch is dumped Into the hopper of the
starch buck, which thrashes out the cream
centers or other candy clean and fills the
starch Into other trays. Ths oooklng Is
done In copper steam kettles holding 100
pounds or mors and bonbon cream Is beaten
into whiteness after cooking. Nuts and
other centers are coated by being rolled
about In a revolving kettle like a bushel
basket Into which the coating syrup Is
poured. Every factory must have a drying
house where certain candles are. kept at
130 to 140 degrees for a day or two to
harden them; a cool room In which to dip
chocolates in hot weather, a chrystallztng
room where all candles which are to have
a hard sparkling exterior are coated by
standing In a saturated solution of sugar;
a taffy puller to pull 100 pounds at one
time, and cutters to cut sheets of carmel
Into squares; machines te pop corn for the
twelve klads of popcorn candy, and to
grind up nuts. The molded centers for
creams are dipped aad coated hy hand with
chocolate. The spot where vital Importance
lies la the extract room, wherein all the
flavorings are prepared and experiments
oarrled on, for oa proper work absolutely
depends the flavor of the candy.
I'OIKTEIO PARAGRAPHS.
Montana has a Milk river but It is mostly
water.
Many a man's settled opinions are set
tled by his wife.
Men laugh at tamlnina folly, but It fools
them Just ths same.
Ths average man can see where fame
makes some mighty poor selections.
Figures may not He, but statisticians oc
casionally get their dates mixed.
A girl may strike a man as a pretty miss
and hit him later as an angry wife.
Matin girls worship the hero because
they imagine his love-making stunt are
the rest thing.
Wealth is something that enables a mil
lionaire to stand up In meeting and say it
Is aa dlsgraco to be poor.
In searching for the per capita wealth
of a country look la the table of statistics
rather than la tho pockets of the people.
Chicago News.
LABOR AND INDISTRV.
Germany has now K.OOO miles of steam
railway.
.vT worl"a crop of beet sugar 1 double
tnat of cane sugar.
SLorV.hn. hBlf xternal business of
Conta Rica Is with the United States.
Texas now produces more cotton than
Georgia and Alabama the nest two larceet
cotton statea, combined. n"i
One hundred preseed steel cars are to be
delivered to the Pennsylvania Hallway com
pany every day during the current half
.urn,t,1 8tates gets two-thfrds of
both the export and Import business of
"0d"raa. The exports were, last year.
M.4J7JWI and the imports .7tf.64.
The estimate Is made that this country
annually receives Ia.0u0,0u on Its capital
!?,Y.e,"le? 'orelau countries and pays
I110.OU0.000 to foreigners on their capital
Invested here, making an adverse balance
of this Item of IKO.OOO.OOO. ,
Municipal ownership, of water, gai, elec
tricity, street railways, markets, baths and
cemeteries, in Nottingham, England, has
shown an average annual net profit of
tm.OM fur the last four years. The money
is applied to the reduction of taxes.
The annual report of the president Of the
American Locomotive company shows
earnings of U.6.Mb for nine months of
last year. Within tho last two months
orders have been received tor over tuo loco
motives. All of the eight plants of the
company, employing more than 14,000 men
are running night and day.
Representatives of the technical Indus
trie, la session at Frankfort Uermany, are
trying to form an approximate eatimate
of the water power of various countries
available for the production of slectrto
!''. According io a computation by Mr.
Uradewlta. tttrmany and Austria together
utilise at preeent lvj.OOO-horse power: ftwlts
erland, about let.OOO; Sweden. tuo.OuO and
the United States, iuO.OuO.
A comprehensive return of the financial
working of the pabilo utilities" undertak
ing in British towns and cities has liwt
ben given to tha public through a govern
ment board. It covers the four years ended
March. The principal undertakings
carried on by Z) corporations were: Mar
Vela. ti; water works. ISO; cemeteries, 143:
baths, lit); electrli-Uy. Iu2; gaa works, 7;
tramwsy. tt: harbors. 43. The aggregate
list profits were a,417,621 e e-