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Henry Irving and Ellen Terry are
playing a two weeks' engagement in
Chicago. Tlioy have presented King
Arthur anil Louis XI. The Lyon'8
Mail, Nance Oldfield, The Bells, and
The Merchant of Venice will be given
As soon us "Trilby'' can be translated
into Italian it is to be played in Italy.
Paul Potter's wretched drama is uUo
being put i at o French so that Paris may
see "lea tiois Acghchcs." It has al
ready been played in Germany Catch
any of these three nationa going to lis
ten to a play in a foreign tongue! The
French and German listen to Italian
opera but they draw the line at plays.
When the actors are in France they
speak French. Whoever Jicard of Irv
ing and Terry going to Paris and play
ing in English? Bernhardt, Coquelin,
Guiibert with a lot of people from the
Folies Bergere to be sure the last
kind does not talk and although their
act is all French it does not need trans
lationwho go over to England every
year without takirgtho trouble to learn
English line6. Anything that can not
be put into English ought not be lis
tened to by English. There are more
English people who know French than
there are Americans who possess that
advantage, In America there are very
few who have more than a book knowl.
edge of French, German and Italian
Why should we take a humbler attitude
before our language than foreigners do
before theirs?
What will they do with al) the Itali
cised French in Trilhy when they trans
late it into that language? What will
become of the looks of the page? For
the Laird's 'Voila 1'espayce de hom ker
jer swee" the translator may put "that
is the kind of a huckleberry I ana." The
relations between the two language
must be preserved and it the English
be turned into French, the French must
be turned into English.
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Mis. Potter and Kyrle Bellew are
playing Romeo and Juliet in New York
to good business and pleasing the
critics beside.
A New York critic thinks he has dis
covered the reason why Duse will play
only four or rive times a week. "It is
to spare the lives of the members of
the company that act with her. Duse
is so insistent upon keeping her face to
the audience and thus holding the triage
that in Magda her father nearly dislo
cates his neck, her lover appears to be
trying to twist his head off; the good
rector twirls around himself in a sort of
serpentine dance, and her sister, her
stepmother and the maid execute more
acrobatic changes of position than the
entire Cragg family do at Koster fc
Bial's. As the fashionable audience
pay double prices for their seats in order
to see Du&e the painful gyrations to
which the company are subjected are
only fair to the public; but she is wise
enough to know that they would kill off
ber troupe if they had to be gone
through with on two successive even
ings, and so she will per
form only on alternate nights."
Actors call such conduct "bogging the
stage.' but perhaps she does not do it.
The quoiation is taken from Town
Topics. "The SauntererV principles
are to admire nothing, to laugh at every
thing. His duty is especially plain to
him when any one has aroused the
city's enthusiasm. "The Saunterer"' is
the custodian of wet blankets and cold
water and ho never uses any other.
S. B. H.
HISTORY AND REMINISCENCE
Jay Amos Barrett
Schuylkr, Neb.. April 8, 95 18 Jas.
Amos Barrett Dear Sir: Thirty-eight
years ago, on the 2nd day cf this month,
I left St. Louis to rind a location for
self, wife and one child. My destina
tion I intended to be Kansas. Long be
fore I got there I heard extravagant
stories of ite wonderful productiveness,
that a man alone with a spade could
dig up land enough to support a small
family. I got there about April 12. I
found such a wild state of excitement
claims tifty tnileB west of Leavenworth
held at 8500, without improvements
that I soon got disgusted anr kept on
up the river. I stopped at St. Mary's,
twelve miles south of Council BluffB
Found there old Gen. Sharpe, an edu
cated Frenchman who had been an In
dian trader for thirty-five years. He de
scribed the winter just past as the most
severe he had ever known. He was a
very peculiar man had a squaw for a
housekeeper. I could find nothing
there to suit and moved on to Council
Bluffs. There I found the same wild
excitement about lard. Money plenty.
Building going on on all sides. This
continued until September, when a
change began to be felt. Building
stopped somewhat. Builders could not
all find work, and they began to "go
east,'' as they UBed to say. Times get
harder every day. The two Nebraska
banks of Nemaha and Fontanelle both
went under like the "Wild cat" banks of
Michigan in 1839 and 1840. Business
nearly came to a stop the following
winter.
I still was not satisfied. Everything
was too wild to suit. Nude Indiana
could be found, in the beat of the day,
walking on the main street, and no at
tention waB paid to them. My stay
tbero was abort only thirty or forty
dayB. About the last of June I left for
the territory of Nebraska, for the Platte
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valley, starting west from Omaha, then
but a small village without one sidewalk
that I could find. I went west on what
was then called the "Military Road,'
staked on the highest ground for the
benefit of the military freight trains on
their way to the western forts. The
first twenty-two miles west on said road,
there was no house, up and down hiils
as wild ae it ever was, except that the
small streams had government bridges
just built all the way west for seventy
miles. Elkhorn City, twenty-two miles
west of Omaha, consisted of one small
shanty hotel empty, and another empty
shanty. This was my first iutroduction
to a Nebraska paper city. One mile
west on the bank of the Elkhorn, at tb?
government bridge was another shanty,
with a family just ready to pack up and
leave for Iowa, sick of the country.
After I struck the great Platte valley, I
found what I bad been long looking for.
a country where Uncle Sam's survey
ors had not been. For thirteen miles
west it was still an unbroken wilder
ness. Then I found the village of Fre
mont, three or four log houses not fin
ished, with one or,two families and part
of a steam saw mill, but no settlers on
the road. Ten miles west I found a
Mrs- f lager, a widow whose husband
had been lost in a snow blizzprd, the
fall before, within 100 yards of his house.
His bones were not found until the
spring following. Her account of the
country was very discouraging. Still I
kept on. Six miles on, I found a few
Scotch families at the north bend of
the Platte river. Thy had not yet
made up their minds to stay. Six miles
on, I found the city of Emerson, a paper
city of eight or nine hundred acres, one
shanty, one log stable, and no improve
ments. Eight miles further was still
another paper city of Buchanan, with
about the same improvements. Thir-
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teen miles west was another paper city,
Neena by name, of 500 acres, that I
know to have been surveyed and litho
graphed in Chicago. It was hanging in
most of the real estate offices in Coun
cil Bluffs before I left that place. Jt
had one log house half finished, built
by the fifteen stockholders of the city.
Lots were held at from HO to $80 per
lot. After the land cameinto the United
States land office, it was bought at 65
cents per acre, with land warrants that
coat that amount. Twelve miles west I
found the city of Columbus. One ste m
saw mill had been bought at St. Louis,
moved up, and placed on government
land. It had been partly paid for when
land came into office. Ihe land was
bought, saw mill and all, for 81 .25 per
acre. The settlers all came from Colum
bus, O., mostly Dutch. The above all
occurred in the year 1857. Before that
year had paseed.the excitement stopped,
the babble had burst. Money was gone
and times got very hard, just like Michi
gan in 1842-43, when I came to that
state.
So much for 1857. There was not
much to describe, no inhabitants west
of Omaha to speak of. H. M. Kemp.