The Saint Paul Globe from Saint Paul, Minnesota • Page 9

THE FAVORED WOMAN. Miss Frances Folsom of Buffalo, Who May be the Bride of President Cleveland. Very Handsome Woman, Fanltless in Face and Form and Worthy of Such Luck. The Lively Fight Between Teller and Van Wyck- Their Cordial Relations Off the Floor. found of Wisconsin Keeping an Eye on Presidential Appointments and Willing to Take an Office.

Correspondence of the Globe. Washington-, March Will President Cleveland This is a question being quietly discussed in society circles here just now. Recent n-ports reaching here from Buffalo, his former home aud the home of the young lady lhat is accredited with being his "matrimonial choice, indicate that perhaps this much talked of event may be an tariy feature of Cleveland's term. It would be littie odd to have a wedding at the White house and have present the only of the White house." that ever has been. The only president that has ever committed matrimony while holding that office was, as is pretty well known, President Tyler, who married in New York, but brought his bride direct to tbe White house.

She was the "bride of the White house." Her portrait, showing her as a bride, hangs in the green parlor of the White house, and is pointed out to visitors by the attendants at the when they show visitors throusrh the parlors. But what is of more interest than picture Is Mrs. Tyler herself, for she is not only still in the "fi-sh, but has spent a jood deal of time in Washington since the bcjjinniuz of the Democratic reign. She is a thorough Democratic and Southern woman in feelings and principles, though a native of New Yurk. bhe has been a resident of MI" FRANCES FOI.SOM.

Vlrginiaever since living in the White house, nit has been here a guest of Mr. and Mrs. for some time. There is A GOOD DEAL OF INTEREST FELT 16 to President Cleveland's matrimonial Miss Frances C. Folsoin of Bufalo is the lady who is supposed to be the wining bride of the White house.

She is the laughter of tbe former law partner of Mr. Cleveland, uud is spoken of as i ladj of great brilliancy, and who would be an ornament to the White house and to society as well. r-in- is perhaps a young for an old fellow ol 48, for us the president celebrated his on Wednesday it hardly worth while to try and conceal bis ace longer. Her if so delicate a BUbjecl may be touched upon, ir- probably about half that of the president. She i.i spoken of as very handsome, with black liair and eyes, complexion, a handsome faci- and faultless tigun-, a thorough collegiate education, aucl experience in society thai would enable her to do credit to herself as the bride of tbe president.

It is a curious fact that the White house has been without a head, in the ftrict sense, about one-fourth of the time it has been occupied. It is. too, another curious lact, that this is tbe first time for twelve years that there has been vice president's wife in Washington, tt has been bo long since there hae been vice president with a wife that society has almost forgotten what to about It. and Mr-. Hendricks, although quite as busy us she desires, is probably not as much as will be case when Bhe establishes a receiving day and her rank as LADY IN TUP.

I.ANO Ib recognized, as it must be when society to think aixiut it; provided it thinks it before Mr Cleveland's marriage. deal of interest is felt here in the fiirlit going on between PX-Secretary Teller ami Senator Van Wyck, in the senate. They are managing to take mure of tbe tune of than all the other public business together. They whack away at each other in their speeches the the senate, ami seem be bitterly at war, yet their intercourse is agreeable. It is no uncommon thine: to see them chatting together on the floor of the senate after thr is over, 1 1 iso as can be seen tbe naked eye tbej are quite friends.

It seems odd to see two men who stundup in puMii- ami whack each other over the head.calling bard nunes and insinuating harder things, drop all the quarrel at the the day's tesaion, ami become as friendly as though nothing had happened. Teller comes back the senate much strengthened by bis four years at the head of SFVATOK VAN YTR. trie lr It has been a crwl htm, and he is remarkably ready lining to detai l.iy in that department narked addtttoa to HIS (H7BBI in only answering all the charges of Van Wyck, but standing tquareh by the administration of the past four years, cualleusrins: th- admiration of many who doubt the correctness of the theories on which he issued the patents to the "Backbone railroad." He is not a man you would pick out in a crowd of people an ex-cabinet officer, or one who could attract so much attention or consume much of the time as he does. He rather a quiet looking man, of perhaps 50, hisdarkbair and beard but mixed with gray, a semi-clerical aspect and manner. rather lone hair is always brushed straight back from his forehead, on Andrew Jackson pattern.

In manner he is quite agreeable and as an orator above the average the senate. Ills gestures are graceful and full of energy, voice pxvl and his sentences fairly well sounded. Hr drvscs neatly in a dark busir.es» suit. Van Wyck, who making the rUrht against Teller. like him only in one lost tis hair stands up.

In this particular he surpasses Van Wyck's balr not only stands up, but out in almost every direction except that which it ought to occupy. He curious study. He is one cf your pugilistic fellows, never thoroughly happy unless he is in a row with some body. He Is usually good-natured about his nuking them purely a matter of holding SO PERSONAL GRIEVANCES or feellnss, bat rnerelv speaking out his mind about whatever he that he thinks not right. hatred is Anything that can be classed as a monopoly he letls Mi especial Tictio, and he never fails to whack at everything bearing this trade mark, or in any way suspected of being in that line.

He is good-natured, very obliging, personally, and can bear any amount of chatting upon subjects that are sometimes very tender ones to some people. He married a very pretty young wife three or four years ago. He is himself probably as devoid of personal beauty as any man in the senate, and he is sensible enough to know it. It is a favorite amusement of some senators, when they catch Wyek in a cloak room and all are feeling pretty good-natured, to chaff him about his pretty" wife and ugly self. "1 wonder who that good-looking young lady was that I saw on the avenue with Van Wyck," one of them will say to a neighbor in a tone he is sure will reach Vltu Wyck ears.

"That is Mrs. Van Wyck." the other senator will respond with a groan. "What, that pretty SEXATOR TELLER. woman?" will come from the first speaker. ell, I can't see how such a pretty woman should ever marry such an ugiy old codger as Van Tnen there Vill be a roar, and Van Wyck wiil adjust his spectacles, grin a little, run his hands through his gray hair to make it look more like a porcupine's quills, and get back on tbe first speaker with SOME KEEK RETORT.

This, perhaps, will make him wish he had said nothing Van Wyck is very proud of his wife and their new baby, takes her everywhere he goes, has built a handsome and costly home for them here, and is a model husband iv everything but personal appearance. Are the Mugwumps to get any show in the division of the spoils of office Ms a question that is iust now receiving a good deal of attention here. They are beginning to come to the surface here in a very suspicious way, ana to take an interest in affairs of this nature One of the most conspicuous is ex- Congressman Pound of Wisconsin. He has been here quietly watching the course ol events a good deal siuce the inauguration His name has been mentioned for the office of commissioner of the general land ollice and for ludian commissioner, and it is generally believed that he would be willing to accept almost anything offered. Pound is pretty well known here, having been conspicuous while a member of congress because of his maeniricent beard and the faculty of getting himself gen.

erallv disliked on small provocations- Another celebrated Mugwump who has been making himself rather numerous this week was Henry Ward Beecher. He evidently glories in the title of 'Mugwump," for his first inquiry after his arrival here in a barber shop here was, "Do you shave Mugwumps here He says he does not waut it is believed he would be WILLING TO SACRIFICE HIMSELF on the altar of duty if it should chance to be BX-COXGBESSMAX POCXD. located in the vicinity of the court of Pt. James. Innocent Theodore Roosevelt has been here, too, this week.

What he wanted he didn't say in public. "Please don't ink me to tell you anything to print," said be persuasively, "for I will show my ignorance. don't know a thing tfut say for publication." you know some New York "Not a word. The last tiling I hud to do with there was the election of Mr. Evarts as United States senator.

lam proud of the work, however; we will never regret that, I think. In the reorganization of the senate committees I was pleased to see bis eminent abilities recognized. He will take hold of the work quickly and effectively." "What do you think of the administration of Mr. Cleveland?" am just going to call upon him and cannot say anything, because I really have no opinion, except that the administration will probably be satisfactory." MAULII MKKKIMKXT. As a general rule the first symptom of Insanity in a woman is a disposition to be morose and silent: I a man it is to imagine that he can write poetry.

Fail Kiver Advance. It is said that the bee can draw forty times the weight of its own boaj, and after yon have seen a bee lift a hundred and sixty pound man off his feet you will believe it. Boston Bulletin. When Mrs. Plaaphor read that a mill operator in Philadelphia "had a thousand hands," she looked a little credulous, and then quietly observed that "it must cost him an awful lot of money for gloves." Norristowu Herald.

"We've 'cot'eru, we've be shouted as be returned late election night. "I should you replied his unfeeling wife, "but I would'nt expose myself to the neighbors." Boston Star. A doubtful compliment: What! Is the beautiful Miss Jones! Why. I admire you more than her, mamma. Oh, my dear! think she's perfectly hideous! London Punch.

Two citizens looking at an old house: First Cit. Tins to be good bouse. lit. It is. indued, a well-built (it.

was built when men were honest. Second Cit. Tea, a long time ago! Ule Journal. "We had quite a discussion at the club I last evening," said Feuderson: "I made the closing speech, and I think I made myself clear." returned have been misinformed. Imi told that you made the others clear." Boston Transcript.

oh Bmltir. A more beautiful farming country does not exist thin that along the southern shore of the Baltic. No fences mark the boundaries of the fertile farms which stretch away over the roillnsr bills to the distant horizon, ail aglow with yellow gram. At a clurcp of trees often seen intensely dark asainsl the ripe grain -shows -where a farm-" 1 hocse stands, and ciant windmills swing their sails on the highest hill-tops. The high-way, finely built leads straight across the country, only curving to pass through some village.

Mountain asb, kiroh. and cherry tree? border the road in rank." In the ditches and by the roadside crow countless varieties of wild paradise for the botanist, i From the highest hill the eye to the south a of grain fields. To the north beyond, the soft of the cultivated hills, the Baltic shimmers in the strung sunlight, a narrow line, sharp at the I horizon. The dimensioas of the brick barns prove the accustomed magnitude of the har- I vest; the luxury of the farmers' houses tells inherited success- F. D.

Millet, in Magazine for ApriL THE ST. PAUL SUNDAT GLOBE. SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 22,1885 MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. A Theatrical Manager Generally Criticises the Taste of St.

Paul Theater-Goers. A Season of Melodrama at the Grand Proves Only Fairly Satisfactory and Remunerative. Successful Production St. Patrick's Week of a New Operetta by a Local Playright. The of Gold" Company Come 3to Grief and Its Dates Declared Notes from Minneapolis.

A MAD MANAGES. HE MAKES SEVERE ISEFLECTIOXS ON THE TASTE OF ST. PAUL THEATER GOERS. ''It is very evident that the people of St. Paul don't want to see an attraction like ours; it is too high for them and they can't appreciate a good, clean, wholesome drama, finely enacted and well mounted.

What they want is another 'Cold Day When We Get Left' company, or a song and dance show, where the principal artist falls from a pair of sfilts and is lifted up by the dome of his trousers. I tell you one thin it will be a long time before they have a chance to catch us again. The next time 1 come to St. Paul and Minneapolis with an attraction I iutend to flood the town with funny chroinos. You can bet I'll pack the and I'll have a carriage ready to jump the town right after the performance.

Here is a play that was given in New York to crowded houses: it was witnessed besides by every critic in the city, and I pledge you cay word that a play was never produced in New York that received such universally favorable criticisms. And just look at the house Hardly enough to pay hotel bills and transportation." The above rather animated remarks were uttered by a short, stout, rosy-faced and good-looking gentleman, who was tearing his hair and walking up aiid down the boxoflice of the Grand opera house, in the presence of Manager Scott and the writer last Friday night. The gentleman in question, as the reader may have opined, was tue business manager of the Maubury Overton Dramatic which was just then engaged in giving a very artistic performance of Frank Hornsny's interesting drama of "Woniau Against Woman." While tbe reflections were a little wide of the mark, they were not without thi; element of justice, ami 1 viewed from the standpoint of the gentleman with reference to the reception accorded his company they were truthful and well merited. It is a lamentable fact that in St. Paul, as in other cities more cosmopolitan, the great mass of the theater-going public has a manifest predilection for the barnstorming, break-neck song and dance companies whose sole claim to public patronage lies in their ability to raise a laugh, io matter by what gross and sometimes imieccnt means tue object is accomplished.

At the same time the fact is obvious that St. Paul possesses just as many theater-goers of good taste, intelligence and discrimination, relatively considered, as any city in the country. That an excellent attraction like the one presented last week with a company comprising such sterling and accomplished artists as Marie Prescott, Charles Man bury and Charles Overton should play to small audiences ia the exception and not the rule, It is to be hoped that the gentleman in ques- i tiou may reconsider his purpose of bringing a chromo to St. Paul, and stick to his present capital compiny and that upon tbe occasion of his next visit to this city the people may accord his attraction the hearty reception it dessrves. LOCAL AMUSEMENTS.

TIIK FESTIVAL. A meeting of those interested in the coming Kay festival to held in the Exposition building May 6, 7, 8 an.l 9, was held. at the. Merchants' National bunk last Wednesday afternoon and a strong and vigorous organization was effected. The enterprise is now I placed upon a sound business and financial footing and its artistic success is assured.

The festival organization was completed by the election of the following officers: William R. Herrian. president. Cob Gotzian, vice president. J.

P. Moore, general manager and treasurer. Charles T. Dunbar, secretary. Board oi Henry M.

Kuox, Nathan Ford, Prof. Frank Wood. Musical Director Signor All arrangements made by Signor Jannotta with the festival artists were accepted by the. officers of the festival and at once executed by the general manager and treas- I urer, who drew up contracts with the following artists: Madame Eugenic Pappenheitn, MissMathilde Pbilllpps, Mr. Clrarles Pritscb, Mr.

Myron W. Whitney, Prof. S. E. Jacobsohn, concert master and solo violinist, Madame Mac Prycp, Mr.

George H. Lott and Prof George Seibert for the picked orchestra to be selected from St. Paul, Miune- Kpolia and Milwaukee. Commencing with the ensuing week it Is" designed to have rehearsals with orchestral accompaniments on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of each week at 10 a. m.

The members of the chorus are expected to attend all mass and part rehearsals, as much of the success of the festival depends upon this work. THK LAST OF IT. The engagement of the Overton company closed at the Graud last uight with the performance of the" Wages of Sin," which was given to a good audience. "Woman Against Woman," was presented to a fair matinee audience In the afternoon. A BROKEN HOOP.

The "Hoop of Gold," which was to have been the attraction at the Grand this week, I vanished into thin air last Friday night at! Davenport, la. It died in 'the latter city after a brief but bard stnicrgle for existence, the causes of its death being hard times and a non-appreciative and calloused public. All advance are therefore declared off, and the doors of the Grand will remain closed this week. me OLTMPIC. The patrons of this amusement resort have been regaled during the past week with a very pleasing bill, the feature of the tainment being the return of the Myrtle Ferns company with their acting dog "Trix." Trie latter attraction will hold the i boards this week, in addition to which the historical sensational drama "Black Dia- monds or the Molly Maguires" will be pre- sented.

A good entertainment is assured. TURNER HALL CONCERT. The following excellent program has been arranged for the Turner hall concert by orchestra to-nlzht: PART I. 1. "Vein 2.

Ouverture "Fran Soppe 3. Ziseaner Staendchea (Gipsy Nehl PART It. 4. Flute "Arabesque" Xiramost M. Goibert.

Funeral March of Marionet (comic). 6. Violin "Seventh Air Beriot K. Schroer, Jr. pAirr m.

7. "Ruy Bias" Mendelssohn 5. Idylle -Eia Fruehlinsrstrania" Herfarth 9. SelecUoa (New Opera) Pisaqaette The last concert of this excellent series will take place two weeks from to-night. THE SET OPERETTA.

Among the delightful dramatic events of the past week was the production at 3larket hall Tuesday night of Mr. T. D. O'Brien's new operetta "Exiled, or O'Pbelan's Strata- The maiden bow of Mr. O'Brien's opera was made to an audience of over 2.000 people, and it given a right royal bum- I per, the reception being most enthusiastic and sincere.

The ope- 1 retta possesses a decidedly bright and clever libretto, the dialogue" being crisp, clean and frequently witty, and Mr. 1 Henry McLachlan, the director. sac-! ceeded in arranging a melodious score, the airs being spri-olly and familiar. The chorus wu admirable, and it would be cult to conceive a more harmonious easeni- i hie or rendition. In view of the narked sue- i I achieved by the production ills to be hoped that Mr.

O'Brien will be induced to soon produce it ou a more elaborate scale at the Grand opera house. ST. PAUL NOTES. The Fay Tcmpleton Opera company will play a return engagement at the Grand the last three nights of next week. J.

K. Emmet, the inimitable charactor actor, will appear at the Grand in his great success "Our Fritz," commencing a week from to-morrow night. The dramatic breach of tbe German society will give the comedy of "Anti-Xantippe, or Woman on Woman," at the athenaeum to-night. A fine, rendition may be expected. Arrangements will probably be made the first part of this week for a grand instrumental concert by the combined forces of Seibert's orchestra of St.

Paul and Danz's orchestra of Minneapolis. If given at all it will be at the Grand next Saturday night. OUTSIDE NOTES. ISOSTON IDEALS. The Boston Ideal Opera company are in the last week of their series of quasi-sacred performances of comic opera at the Fifth avenue.

The congregations have been of the highest order of respectabitity, but not so numerous as either the excellent Miss Ober doubtless desired or the reputation of the company deserved. The Bohemian Girl, Fra Diuvolo and Fatinitza have been presented this week. It is announced that this is the last season of the Boston Ideal Opera company in its present conditions. Miss Ober retires from the management, her interest with the title and "good will" having been assigned to a purchaser. Mr.

Myron Whitney retires to his former occupation as au oratoria and concert singer, and the rest of the artists find other places. Exchange. here's BICHXBBB. A new 3tar has risen in the theatrical firmament and the intelligence is wafted on the orange blossom breezes from Jacksonville, that the new genius is going to make Mary Anderson sick and throw the performance of Anna Dickinson into the shade. This most recently discovered asteroid is named Lenore Gordon Hussey, and the Florida Herald man, who is evidently more than a little "gone on her," discribes her, with characteristic southern pcr-fervidness, as "a young girl growing up.

tall, stately and beautiful, with the passionate throb of genius in her breast, and in her radiant eyes the glow of a promise as rich as the rosebud's hope." "Victor Durand" was played at the Columbia theater, Chicago, last week. It is pronounced a bird. My Sweetheart Minnie Palmer returned to Chicago last week and she was greeted by immense audiences. A new drama called "A Midnight Marriage" was brought out at Hooley's theater last week. It is pronounced a success.

Mr. Irving is to be entertained at a banquet at Delmonieo's before he leaves for England; and there is also a probability of the Lotus ciub getting up a feed in his honor. A great many actors besides Mr. Richard Mansfield appear to be afflicted with elephantiasis of the head. The disease takes the form of the expression of an intention to go starriug next season.

Mr. Frederick Marsden arrived in Chicago on Tuesday morning, read his new play to Miss Minnie Palmer during the afternoon, saw "Humbuur" in the evening and left for New York on Wednesday. Cash" is said to be as dead as a door nail. Mr. Curtis has worked like a beaver to make it a go, but the inherent defect in the piece is that it is not written to show the peculiarities of the genial drummer.

Madame Helena Modjeska has been giving performances at the Royal opera house in Cracow (Russian Poland) for the benefit of the distressed families, who have suffered from the bread riots iv that district during the severe winter. Mr. Frank V. Hawley, agent for Mr. C.

A. Chizzola for the American tour of Madame Adelaide Ristori, was in Wednesday, on his way from the Northwest to Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Mr. Hawley's mission to the East will include the preliminary arrangements for the conjoint appearance of the illustrious Italian actress and Mr. Edwin Booth, in the three cities mentioned above, in Shakespeare's tragedy, "Macbeth." Two performances will be given in each place, and they will certainly be most interesting and memorable events in the history of the American Lotta inaugurated an engagement at Vicker's theater, Chicago, last week, and the heart-foam writer of the News Letter says: "After an absence of upwards of two yean 'the incomparable 1 Lotta asraiu returned Vj the stage of McVicker's theater on Monday night.

That the sunny-haired little 'dramatic cocktail' still retains her hold upon the public was abundantly manifested by the warmth of the greeting she received from the assemblage, which comfortably filled the theater. Lotta is wll, she is always Lotta, dainty, delicate and thoroughly spontaneous in all that she doesaudacious to the verge of recklessness, yet never by a glaucc or gesture implying even a notion of going a hair's breadth over the line of propriety, taking the audience thoroughly into her confidence and letting them enjoy themselves with her." MINNEAPOLIS AMUSEMENTS. A LONG PERIOD OF PAT AGAIN MC3IOAX DOINGS OF TO-PAY. The Grand will be closed all this week. The "II of Gold'" had becnidven dates for the last half of the week, but the "general depression" struck the company at Davenport, last Thursday and collapsed it.

On Monday afternoon of next week the first Dans matinee will be given and on Its success will depend those which may follow. F3V Tern pit ton whs well pleased the large audiences Minneapolis gave her three weeks ago and is coming back to try to duplicate them. She will be here on Tuesday and Wednesday of Lcxt week. Joe Emmet has been booked for the half of next week and will probably be here. Two ago he ran afoul of some WlieelinL', W.

bad and it floored him. but it is belcived he is once more on top. Brown's Theatre Omique announces some new attractions this week. His business was unusually good last week. A magnificent musical entertainment has been prepared for Harmonia bail to-morrow afternoon.

Tae program is an unusually briiliant one, and Danz' orchestra will never be heard to bett'-r advantage. The usual sacred concert will be given at Turner hall to-day. At the Columbia and Pavilion the customary Sunday evening concerts will bt given. DAINTY AND NOVKL HEADGEAR, 1 An innovation in aigrettes shows the ostrich feather foundation replaced by real flowers for evening decorations. It is thought that hats will be worn by older ladies as well young ones, the only difference being in the manner of trimming.

Feithers and flowers will both be worn. bat the favorite trimming for bats will be very large ribbon bows, the ribbons being wider than those of las; year. Some of the ronnd bats have Terr tall crowns.around which is wound a scarf in two an aigrette of feathers or a bunch of quill feathers on the side as the whole decoration. The peak -brimmed poke, the small capote, the Fanchon. and a rolled-back diadem bonnet are ail shown, but none look like bonnets to be worn bj sensible women in broad daylight.

Bows and of wide braid, cabbages of surah, velvet, etataineacd lace, and almost any millinery fabric in preference to feathers and Sowers; bat all this may be changed by the time of the spring openings this month. A little black straw bonnet, finished with a border of cot jet beads, Is set off with a floral garniture: an aigrette of lilies of the valley, coning ocl of a bouquet of velvet violets, forms aSJecoratlon which disposed at the top of the chapeaa. FOOTLIGHT FAVORITES. Actors Who Own Their Villas and Keep Bank Accounts Greatly in the Minority. Generous Living-, Love of Dress and Convivial Habits of the Profession Improvidence.

The Early Promise of James O'Neill, of "Monte Cristo" a Promise Not Entirely Fulfilled. Roland Eeed In His New Play As Mirthful off the Stage as Gossip. of the Globe, Chicago, March A few nights ago a half dozen newspaper men and as many others, members of theatrical companies theu playing at the different Thespian temples of the city, were gathered in a wine room in one of the night restaurants, enjoying a midnight lunch and a quiet glass of "something hot" or beer or ale, as individual taste might dictate. Conversation was general and finally turned on theatrical people and customs. "Jimmy" is known from one end of the country to the other as the Edinond Dantes iv the play of "Monte Cristo," got the floor, and the chat turning on the earnings of stars, he opened what aferwards proved an interesting discussion on the improvidence of actors.

I shall not attempt to quote verbatim, but present as briefly as possible some' interesting statements that were there made. The princely revenues of Booth, Barrett, McCullough, Joe Jefferson, Fanny Davenport, Mary Anderson and other equally fortunate stars were all commented on, and the various degrees of "closeness," "stinginess," which enabled these persons to hold on to what they received commented on in all possible shades of criticism. Tne general tone of the discussion led me to infer that actors in general are as improvident as their feliow Bohemians, the newspaper men. I then asked one of the company if actors were improvident. The answer was prompt and decisive, "You bet! But there are many good reasons for their being so.

Their surroundings, nomadic life, lack of home influence, the comparative uncertainty of their salaries and above all 'easily earned, easily all combine to make the actor reckless as to money matters. He is continually meeting friends, the cultivation of certain social relations which must stand him in the stead of home surroundings, the constant renewal of old friendships, generally cemented by frequent libations, are all influences against the laying away of something for a rainy But the main cause which is crenerally overlooked is that 'those who drift into the theatrical profession are already improvident before they get into it. The women are ambitious and thov want to shine. The largest demand upon them is the matter of dress. Elegant wardrobes, they fancy, will enable them to retain their hold on the public, and their finery must outshine that of all their rivals.

This eats up even large salaries. The rest goes to the maid and the many little luxuries which a luxurious taste requires for its gratification. as it may of the profession best known to the public own fine villas, bank stocks, railroad securities, elegaut cottages at watering places and summer resorts and can withdraw from Hip stage, at any time and live at ease the rest of their days. But there are not many such. I think there are fewer well-to-do pi rsons on the stage in proportion than in auy other profession." It is now at least ten years perhaps a since James O'Neill was the subject of much theatrical gossip and flattering notice in this city.

He was then a bright, handsome, promising young man, and a member of McVicker's Stock company. Hs was a lion, too, among impressionable" young ladies who attended theaters a good deal, and was the recipient of as many handsome bouquets and tender missives as the famous Montague used to receive. The dear, infatuated creatures bought seats the front row and carried powerful lorgnettes that they might feast their eyes on his handsome features and Apollo-like form. Since then his experiences have been extensive and varied, and besides he's married and rather fuller in habit, and a certain amount of his old attractiveness is lost. But his great promise as an actor has never been realized.

Perhaps after all too much was expected of him. At least it does uot seem much like a triumph to see him doing his best in a play like "Monte Cristo," when it is remembered that the beautiful and beloved Adelaide Neilson once complimented him by saying that she had never enacted the part of Juliet with a more perfect Romeo than Mr. O'Neill. In those early days he performed lago to Booth's Othello with an aptness and clearness of conception that all but eclipsed the star himself, and again he assumed Shakespearian characters with such force, energy and power that critics everywhere predicted all sorts of extravagant things for him. And yet, in spite of all his successes in the "legitimate," he forsook the higher walks of the drama, adopting melo-dramatic roles which are ephemeral as the day when compared with the true art in which he had given such promise.

True, he achieved a certain kind of success in the "Celebrated Cage," "Corsican Brothers," "The Danicheffs," Cristo." and other like productions. But that larger prize of recoguition among great artists he has hopelessly lost. There is no denying thai bis Edmond Dautes is wonderfully realistic and an artistic success, and that he has improved in the parts in which he has exercised his powers. But where is the James O'Neill that was to bel Perhaps it may be said of him a3 a certain ancient personage said of himself on hearing his bent friend was dead: "The theater of all my action is fallen Do you not remember the tragic end of Miss- Hawthorne, leading lady in Hooley's Stock company, at the time of the rage about handsome 0'Nelll? And such a terrible affair it was, when she took that awful leap in the dark which all men have feared since the world began. Young, handsome, talented, with a figure like a Juno and face as beautiful and perfect as But let that pass.

She wag worthy of love, and it was said that young O'Neill loved her, and of all her many admirers and suitors he was the favored one. He called on her one day at the old Tremont, where she was living. That interview must have been a stormy, crushing, heart-breakinc but what its nature only one living person can tell, for five minutes after O'Neill bade Miss Hawthorne adieu, she sprang from the fifth-story window and fell to the stone pavement below. When picked up the candle of life was extinguished, and Bat, pshaw! there are some events that murder a man's ambition, and that terrible tragedy may have altered the whole course of O'Neili's life. He alone can tell Roland Reed, who recently produced his new play, "Humbug," at the Grand was a member of that quiet company, only he was not quiet himself.

The fellow is full of fan off the stage as when in the midst of one of his most humorous scenes en costume. I have formed a higher opinion of his acting since I met him the other night, for I'm satisfied that his antics on the stage are natural and spontaneous and really mirthful. Reed by the way made his first appearance on the stage at the' immature age of 15 His father, John Reed, who for half a century waa gas man at the Walnut street theater in Philadelphia, used to furnish aH the babies for the local theaters whenever the play required a genuine squalling infant to complete its realism. Reed's progeny were so numerous that he supplied children of all ages to the different theaters for many years. Roland first distinguished himself when cari ried on the stage in the second act of the i "Swiss by pulling off the low comedian's wig with his baby bands and throwing it into the footlights Reed drifted Into journalism, but failed to make a success in that line, and easily drifted back into the that parental training and oc- I cupation had Instilled into his veins.

making a good thins of it, too. "Humj bog" is not so good a play as "Cheek," bat him man opportunities for his peculiar talents opportunities hi does not neglect, you may be sure. Talking about babies reminds me that Minnie Palmer, who is now playing at the Grand, has had her play of "My Sweetheart" rewritten, and the blessed infant that used to figure so prominently in the piece has been laid tenderly away. Thanks to the enterprise of that genial liar, John R. Rogers, her manager, Minnie is doing a tremendous business this week, and quite obscuring Lotta, who is doing "Musette" at McVicker's, by the brilliancy of her conquests.

The receipts, at the box ofiice Sunday night amounted to $1,300, the best night the house has known this season. By the advice of his uewspaper friends Rogers was persuaded to try the efficacy of newspaper advertising and abandon flaring posters and lithographs. The experiment has proven highly successful, and John is chuckling to think how he saved his "window privileges" and a score of other dead-head seats. But to his credit be it said he spent his money right royally for newspaper space, and I doubt much if he ever returns to three-sheet posters and huge pictorial placards where there are daily papers that reach the public. The theatrical fraternity of this city have about concluded that they are entitled to representation in the affairs of municipal administration.

Each year they are subjected to some petty annoyance, and they have no one to champion their cause in the council, and if perchance some member does come to their aid, he immediately begins to draw on the box office for unlimited favors. Manager McVicker was talked of at one time as a possible candidate for mayor, but there was no hope of his "getting there." But now I understand that Hopley or McVicker is to be invited to make a stand for alderman, and there's no doubt that either would be warmly supported by the best element of their respective wards. Both are public spirited citizens, highly respected, and are recognized as valuable factors in Chicago's irrowth and prosperity, and there's but little doubt that either one of them could be elected if he would consent to make the fight. Ciiexet. THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Few Men Who Equal as a Speech Maker. There are very few men in England who can make as good a speech as the Prince of Wales. His voice is singularly far-reachiusr, clear, pleasant, and his delivery is simple and dignified. But it must not be supposed that the ease and fluency which now characterize his public discourses were attained without trouble, or the prince is one of the "mob of gentlemen who 'speak' at ease," and have very little to say worth listeningto. At first when he had to address an audienc and it fell to his lot to begin speechmaking whilst he was very young indeed he spoke with some hesitation, and he gavu his audience the idea of one who would be very glad when he could sit down but by persistent practice, stimulated by the certainty that he must look forward to constant calls upon him.

and animated by a high sense of duty, the prince overcame the difficulties which beset most young orators, aggravated in his case by "the consciousness that every word he uttered would be eagerjy weighed and recorded. He has acquired a command of language and a felicity of expression which commend his matter to the most critical, whilst it is at the same time judicious iv substance and much to the point. No one can make a better case for a charitable institution than the prince, and his appeals to the pockets of his hearers when he is presiding at a dinner to promote the work of some beneficent association, or to further some useful and meritorious enterprise, are so successful that is it considered the fortune of an evening, from a financial point of view, is secured when the Prince of Wales has consented to take the chair. On occasions of national importance and interest, such as the opening of public institutions, the prince's speeches, carefully prepared and excellently pronounced, are models of what such work should be, setting forth the objects in view, the history of the movement, and the claims it has to support or approval, in well-chosen and effective words. The princ lias had practice enough certainly, for since his marriage be has been associated with every movement in the kingdom, and has been called upon to open exhibitions, bridges and buildings, parks and museums, "inaugurate" statues, lay foundation -btones, preside at commissions and ban after year, and has answered to the call with unflagging spirit, cheerfulness and William Howard Russell, in Harper's Magazine for April.

A Sent on a Mumper. Cleveland Herald. "This Is terribly bad weather to ride on the bumpers," said a sorrowful-looking tramp as he endeavored to thaw out his hands with his breath and by slapping them together and holding them in his arm-pits. "It's a hard place to ride, because a fellow has to hold on all the time. If he should let go once he would drop off, and that would be the last of him.

What do we rldn on the bumpers that's onlyjplace on a train a fellow can thegc days where the brakemen wout bother him. The train men stick pretty close to the caboose this cold weather. If they would see one of us gentlemen on the top of a car though, they'd come out long enough to put him off. So we ride on the bumpers and they don't see us. When the train stops we bop off, for the men come out then, and when it starts up we jump on again.

It's tough sometimes, thou gh, because a bumper is not upholstered like a seat in a palace car. Delaware and Lackawanna ca are the lest for a fellow, because they've all got little platforms on both ends, and a traveler can ride on them like a daisy. "Some fellows ride on the trucks under the cars," continued the tramp, as he blew on his bunds airain. "It's a hard place, though: it's so dirty. Another place is on a passenger train on tbe firht platform.

The engineer and fireman Bee ue, but they don't care. It's the brakemen who bother the life out of us. Now, a person would think this first platform a good place to rifle, but it Isn't The cinders are terrible. We have to tight every minute. They tret in our eyes If we keep them open, if we shut our peelers the hot cinders fall oti our broadcloth and burn holes in our garments.

"You've heard of the baker-shop racket, haven't you? No. That's queer. You see we travelers sometimes get hungry, and then we work the bakery racket. We go into a bakery and ask for a job, pretending we're first-class bakers just out of work. We go around in the siu looking with eye of a critic at the stuff toe men are biking, as if we knew all about it, and help ourselves to fresh cakes and good things, just to try 'em, you know.

The men don't care, because we're bakers. I've been in many a bakeshop and helped myself to all I wanted, when if they knew I was a moulder and not a baker they would kick me out. They don't generally want to hire a man just then, bat when we do strike a job we work the boss for a small loan, if we can, and promise to be around the next morning ready for business. The next morning we are generally trying the dodge on some other hake-shop. Glycerine.

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"Now, Johnnie," said his teacher, "if your father borrows $100 and promises to pay $10 a week, how much will he owe in seven weeks?" "One hundred dollars," naid Johnnie. "I'm afraid you don't know your lesson vary well," remarked the teacher. may not know my very well," Johnnie frankly acknowledged, "bat I know my father." "I have tbee on 'the hip," cried rheumatism seizing his victim and tossing him on a suffering bed- "Not so," cried be, "not so! Walt, my ancient foe, just five minutes, until the boy a bottle of Salvation OH, i tees we'll sec woo wins the day." A PLEASANT PASTIME. How a Glided St. Louis Youth Varier Life's Monotony by Beating: His Wife.

A Repulsive Looking: Charmer Who Nevertheless Induced a Girl to Elope With Him. Resignation of a Y. M. C. A.

Secretary oi Account of a Difference With a Merchant Evangelist. Factional War Among the Chinese and i Wholesale Arrest for Playing The Police War. CorreeDondence of the Globe. St. Louis, March Mrs.

Emma Mersman, a well-known society lady, yesterday entered suit for divorce against Mr. Frederick C. Mersman, her husband, a very fair specimen of our gilded youth, who has a rich father and who drives a tandem and is a member of the Elks club and even-thing else that is right and proper. The has been living at the Park hotel in the West end and the story runs that Mr. Yocum, tit proprietor of that aristocratic elry, was obliged to kick Mersman out of the house one night as a sort of a return game for a beating which Mr.

M. gave his pretty little wife. The lady's story is a very pitiful one and recite 3 hair pullinss and horse whippings, pinchiugs and thumpings enough to "make all maidenhood eschew matrimony forever. What has been told, however, is not nearly as interesting as the story which everybody is trying to hush up, and which has, so to the good connections of everybody concerned, not appeared in any of the St. Louis papers, though it is common talk at every club in town.

There is a great friend of Mr. Mersman here, his chum, in fact, whose wife is perhaps the prettiest girl in St. Louis. She has a face like a flower, and in every feature one can read refinement, elegance and modesty. This lady's husband is a very gallant eentfeman, and if gossip is true he formedan attachment away from his own hearth with another well-known lady.

Probably for no very good reason Mrs. Mersman is said to have become very jealous of her husband's attentions to tbe wife of his chum and her frequent remonstrances furnished the cause for the discipline which she received. Queerly enough it is believed that the chum, who is the head of one of the largest firms in this city, is thoroughly aware of the condition of tilings at home, and only asks to be let alone in his own amatory pursuits, extending the same license to his wife that he takes for himself. This being the story which it is thoughUwill be developed by the examination of the witnesses in this case, it is easy to understand with how much interest St. Louis society is looking forward for all the delightful disgusting particulars of the trial.

The readers of the Globe will probably recall that a year ago last New Year's day one of the many mysterious disappearances of St. Louis took place. A special interest was given to this case by the fact that one of the two girls missing was the daughter of a wellknown newspaper man. After a time the girls were brought hack, and yesterday the man who had decoyed them both away Polk Cooper was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary by the judge of the criminal court, after a legal battle which lasted for fully a year. Cooper belongs to a very good family, but he has been in the gutter for years past.

The letteis found upon him at the time of his arrest were the strongest part of the case against him. The fellow drove a regular trade with keepers of houses of ill repute and provided victims for them. He is a mos trepulsive looking man, and how any girl could listen to such a charmer, much less elope with him, is one of those mysteries which none but women can solve. The letters which were found were pieces Of the coolest brutality Imaginable. A trader in Georgian or Caucasian slaves In the bazaars of Persia could not cry his wares with more anxiety to get the very be3t prices for his merchandise.

It is believed in some quarters the old fight on Chief of Police Harrigan will be reopened. Gov. Marmaduke recently gave the press for publication an affidavit meant to hit Mr. Rainwater I told you about the war which was raging between those two doughty ex-Con- federates but this affidavit was much more severe against the chief, who was charged with conniving with Rainwater to protect the It is only fair to say that this affidavit is ten years old and that it has been denied over anuVover again, and that Chief Harrigan Is the only man who baa ever broken up gambling in St. Louis and cleared the town of thieves.

He is making a most excellent chief and everyone, with the real interest of the department at heart, hopes that the old fight will not be begun and the old mud batteries started again. Two Chinese secretVjcleties, comprising in their membership the Chinese population of St. Louis, in all about 236 males, have fallen at variance and are waging a bitter war. Last night a member of one of the societies called on the chief of police and volunteered to guide the officers to a place where sixteen of rival society were gambling. A platoon and the corps of detectives were led to a house on Market near Sixth, where they swooped down upon the Mongolians.

The Chinese showed fight, producing murderouslooking knives and daggers. The officers drew their revolvers and threatened to fill the morgue with Chinamen if they did not surrender peaceably. The proprietor, with sixteen of the players, a dozen pipes, a large quantity of opium, a lottery outfit and a lot of gambling implements, were seized and taken to the statiou. The Chinamen offered $5,000 cash security for their appearance, but this was refused and they were committed to the calaboose for the night. The members of the prosecuting society have offered themselves aa witneshea to explain the mysteries of the game of "Tan" and calculating the chances of Chinese lottery lor the information of Judge Cady, before whom the cases will be tried.

Rev. Walter C. Douglas, for nine secretary at the Y. M. C.

A. in this city, will shortly resign to accept a pastorate in Boston, Mass. The resignation is said to be the result of an internecine war in the association. Several months ago Mr. C.

R. Garrison, a merchant and a member of the association, began holding Sunday night, meetings at the Y. M. 0. A.

hall. Fully 500 converts were recorded from these meetings and Mr. Garrison gained the name of the "Merchant Evangelist." Mr. Olin J. Gary, a real estate man, associated himself with Mr.

Garrison at the meetings, which became very popular. The conductors lately became demonstrative and Harrison-like. To this Mr. Douglas made objection, which reached Mr. Garrison's ears, and be withdrew from the hall and rented a church in the slums at Sixth, and Spruce streets, where be resumed his work.

This created bad feeling, which was suppressed in a Christian way, but the wires were nevertheless laid and the change reported above Is supposed to be the result. Rev. Douglas is well known in St. Paul and Minneapolis, where he has visited frequently on association business. Asuovzvs.

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