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8 HERE.S ft NOVELTY ONE NEWSPAPER MAN SECURES AX INTERVIEW. WITH AS-} y'Zy ..- OTHER. ■: . A BRIGHT REPORTER'S WORK HIS INGENUITY AND TENACITY WOULD DO CREDIT TO A 7 DETECTIVE. *_IE DISCOVER- OF NORCROSS. How Inane D. White, by the Aid ol Button, Made Sure of Ills* Identity. Special Correspondence of the Globe. NEW YORK', Nov. S. — It is very little that the public knows of the individuals who. day af't&r day. with untiring effort and ceaseless watch fulness, prepare their news and their reading matter in the newspapers. And it is just as little they can. The picturesque and detailed account of some occurrence of great interest is read without -a thought given to how the information was obtained, or who got it; the writer of the brilliant edi torial which stirs the blood and kin ill, the admiration of the reader is never Inquired for, nor is it consid ered how great the study or how deep the research was to put the filets compactly together. The Amer ican and English newspapers sink the individual into the name of the paper, and work which would blazon the name of the writer, were it known, in-to the memory of the world goes down into the untold multitude of the anonymous. It is not that this letter is written for the purpose of rescuing one such character from oblivion, but be cause the dangerous paths 'that his newspaper duties led him along are so interesting and because they were followed with the consciousness that no one but his colleagues would know or care who he was. I had heard something of this reporter and his feats, and particularly that he was one of those tenacious, fearless, mod est men who say little, except to the exact point, but whose minds and in ■dies are reservoirs of earnestness and activity. So I interviewed him. "You know," he said, "this is the first time anybody has interviewed me, and I don't quite know how to begin." I asked him to .11 in his own way four or five of his most exciting ex periences when he was after news paper information, and this is what he said: THE OYSTER PIRATES. "Well, one day I was called into our managing, editor's office and given a letter to read. It described the doings of the Chesapeake bay oyster pirates, the helplessness of the state authorities to check 'them,; the fact that men and boys had been kidnaped on board their boats and were held in absolute slavery, and the- brutality of the pirates and their disregard of life and property. I was.' told to go down there, release the white slaves, and arrest the cap tains of the oyster vessels. I didn't ■want to overrate the difficulty and ■ the danger of the little expedition I organized, but these are the facts: It was winter time, and when I got to Baltimore the wind had been blow ing a stiff, cold breeze off the sea, and the water was nasty and rough. I found that the sta.ti -""oHce, after re peated efforts to arrest tlie pirates, had been driven off by threats of murder.and had given up all attempts to interfere. The sheriffs of all the counties bordering on the Chesa peake were laughed at, and had taken no steps to put a stop to what was well known as a disgrace to Maryland and civilization. There were thirteen vessels, either schoon ers or big sloops, at work in stealing oysters, and it was known that from thirty to fifty men and boys had been "shanghaied" or kidneped and held in bondage by the pirate cap tains. I learned also that these cap tains had the belief that their craft were their castles, and could be de fended against the world. Every body told me it would be impossible to accomplish the task I had been sent to do, arid I began to realize that it really was harder than I an ticipated. I went, however, to the United States marshal for that dis trict of Maryland and told him what I intended to do. I asked him to swear me in - as" a deputy marshal with twelve other men, and then I chartered a staunch steam launch, provisioned her, saw that each one of the deputies was armed to the teeth, hoisted the United States flag and sailed down the bay. Our cap tain" knew pretty well where one quarry could be found, but I had to assure him at the start that be for a gun was fired we would use all diplomacy and' peaceful methods of serving our papers. We saw the first pirate about noon, and as we came near him he brought his boat up in the wind and then we jumped into a row boat and before he knew it were on board, leaving one man in the small boat with orders to shoot If they attempted to cast him off. We were taken for a revenue cutter after smugglers, and I went down in the cabin with the captain and served the papers. When he saw he had been trapped he tried to draw his revolver, but he was surrounded by five to on g; and he thought bet ter of it. In the same way we got seven other of the thirteen brutes, and we brought off twenty-five men Awarded Highest Honors,' World's Fair. ■.■r'.'Pß; r CREAM mm MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other i__.it.r_ r. '■ • 40 YEARS THE STANDARD- and boys who had been held captives and who showed the marks of the bitter coM, insufficient food and shelter, cruelly hard work and inhu man 'treatment. Well, the results of this experience, which ended without bloodshed, fortunately, were that the practice was broken 1 up, and six of the - captains were convicted Jln the United States cou_QJ'' of inhuman [. and cruel treatment of seamen. A' > 'Z:SAj OFF FOR YUCATAN, j "The next- mission T was sent; on was as far away from New York as Yuca tan,and was also' to free men who "were virtually slaves. "gl* was Still on the New York World. "In* the* Winter of 18S8-ISS9 a man known as Liverpool Jack, a tough Bowery ward- politician ran an employment "agency. . It, seems that he was asked to pick up and send to Yucatan some fifty men to work on the docks and railroad«. These "men were promised good wages, and were told that their work would not be hard, a few hours In : the" morning "and then a long rest in the middle of. .the day in the shade of the banana trees. Liverpool Jack packed '. them ■ aboard r a Spanish vessel going to Yucatan. When on board and-, under ; way the fifty men were forced to sign a con tract in Spanish, which none could read. It Is needless to say that this contract bound them to all* sorts of conditions which fixed a low rate -of wages, made them pay their passage money out of this and so on. When they got to Yucatan they were under constant espionage for fear they would try to escape, and were worked I to the bone. Some did escape to yes- . sels lying off shore, but the police boarded the vessels, dragged them off, took them ashore and put them in jail. Others became violently ill of the debilitating marsh fever, but were kept at work till unable to toll further, and were then put. in a sort of hos pital. Others again became insane, and I saw some of these poor devils I living stark-naked in cells that would i I c__ .—-■.. 'FLUSHING." Fac Simile of the Water Color Reproduction of the Art Supplement to Be Given With the Sunday Globe of I*6 v. S7. disgrace an inquisition dungeon. Somehow or other a letter telling of all this was smuggled into a steamer and delivered to my newspaper. I was sent down. I got there just before *. the rainy season, when the rain falls in torrents on the hot isand and arises in clouds of hot -vapor" like a Rus- ' sian bath almost. I arrived early one morning about 3 o'clock," and we an chored four miles out from shore, as was necessary, owing to the bars i near shore. When I landed I saw j half a dozen men on the dock who j looked almorat like natives. They were stripped to the waist, wore the sashes and broad-rimmed hats of the country, were tanned to the color of mahogany and were thin and hollow eyed. When I learned who they were I told them who I was and what I had come for, and almost sooner than' it takes. to tell lt their comrades., had heard the news and the miserable exiles had flocked round me as If I had been a ; savior. An old man fell on his knees before I could prevent it, and wanted to kiss my hand. They were beside them- J selves with joy at the thought of freedom and home. They were not a | choice lot of men, mostly wanderers | on the face of God's earth, and tough ! ones at that; but their spirits were I broken and the bad food and climate j had sapped their strength. .It was pitiful to see them. I discovered that their boss was a Spaniard,: a sort ! of mayor and ..general functionary such as you see in an opera bouffe. His name was Don Alfonso Esca lante. I will never forget that name. I saw him and told him what I . was there for. To -my- surprise he said those of the men could go who want- , ed to. Of the fifty I sent eight away, they having some money. to. pay their way back; five more I paid for, five I smuggled on board the steamer, five worked their . passage and . one had his passage paid by the United States consul. This left twenty-six to be accounted for. .-■ In the -meantime the consul left to go' Into the" interior, an agreement having been reached i that such of the others as' were not in the insane cells or in the hospi- j tal should receive money In . wages j and be allowed to go. ; The consul, | however, was no sooner . out- of , the | way than Don' Alfonso broke the j agreement, had me • arrested- for. incit ing a riot, but allowed me to go on parole, .my case :to /be; submitted to the chief justice of Yucatan and our consul. I left the remaining • men » TO be disposed of by our consul, shipped aboard a steamer bound for New York and was not interfered with. . ":..._ ' NEXT INTO ALBERTA. "I had hardly gotten home from I the tropics when I " was sent In the winter out to the distant province of Alberta, in the far North west:* Singularly enough this was another case of alleged slay cry. ': A. correspondent J*f, the London Times had accompanied an official par- . try from Ottawa to .various.'. posts in the Hudson Bay company's, territory, and had written to his newspaper a letter in which he told the story of a yo*_r.g American girl being held in cap THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: 7 MONDAY - MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1895. tlvlty by the Indians the Blackfeet tribe. , According to him the girl was • the daughter of an American officer and was captured tn a raid across the border in which her father was killed. Her future, as the wife of some brutal chief, was drawn with horrible dis- I tinctness and the story in full was re published in the New York World.! Immediately the greatest interest was - aroused. We received letters by the , hundreds urging all sorts of plans of i rescue. One letter I remember came from a leading man lathe Grand Army of the Republic offering to fit out an i expedition of Grand Army men and I proceed to the spot. At all events, so great did the public Interest be- I come, that In the dead of winter I was I sent out to the North my only . weapon being a letter of Introduction I to a half-breed scout who was sup- ! posed to know everything and on ! whom I was told I could rely. After leaving my last civilized resting place near the Canadian border, I took my scout and traveled in a wagon j three ! days across the prairie to a mounted police station, where I got one of their teams and finally arrived at the Black feet camp. I saw the girl, who was I very light-colored, about twelve years old, and dressed as others of the In-, dian children. I met the Indian who ! claimed to be her father. His name j was Dogchlld. The mother was dead, ; they told me. I was uncertain what ! to do. My instructions were to bring that girl back with me; to buy her if I could, or kidnap her If I couldn't buy her. Of course, if she were In dian I did not want to take her, and yet I wasn't at all satisfied she was a | white man's child, at least by a white mother. While I was on the point of determining to offer to buy her there came to the camp an old French mis sionary. I can see the reverend father now about eighty years old, a little, dried-up, wrinkled face like a hickory nut, a little fur cape down to his hips, a round otter fur cap, buck skin leggins up to the cape and heavily ■>■■■■ a ..... i . gloved hands that were never still. I-' asked him about Dogchild's girl and he told me he had baptized the child himself and knew the squaw mother. - That ended the tale of the* English • correspondent. It was magnificent, but it was not truth. So I started on my long journey back, getting lost in a blizzard on the prairies and nearly frozen to death, and without a romance and a little companion to protect. f-'Ayl . i IDENTITY OF NORCROSS. A . j "The next matter of any general in- j terest was my discovery of the iden- .j tlty of Norcross, the man who threw i the bomb which killed himself and an other man, wrecked the health "of a , third and came near killing Russell Sage. I went to Sage's office where the '. bomb had exploded and got there with- ' in a few minutes after the explosion. | You remember that the bomb thrower , was practically blown to pieces. The j walls and ceiling were covered with . pieces of clothing and flesh and all, and the head of the murderer lay on the • floor by itself. Up In the ceiling right j over his head was embedded a button, a brass button. While the police were gathering the various bits of evidence they neglected to touch this button. I secured that and a piece of cloth of . his coat and underclothes. I said to my self these may tell me where he got his clothes and the clothesmen .may tell me whom they 'sold those clothes to, and so put me on the trail. I fol lowed the Conan Doyle system. The , button bore the name of a firm of Bos ton tailors. Taking the button and a .piece of the cloth of the bomb thrower's coat and' underclothes I started for Boston. I found the tailors by the ad dress on the button and asked them if they could tell to Whom they had sold a suit of the material of the cloth I had. . It turned out that such a suit made to j order had been the only one from that J particular roll of cloth and going back ' over their books, for a year they found , that this suit of clothes had been made ' for a\ man named Norcross, but that he I could not be the man I was after, be-_ cause he was a very quiet, industrious' business man. I said nothing, but went '■ down to the office of this Norcross. He I had been absent from town just the : length "of time necessary to connect * him with the crime. ' Then I went out'! to see his mother and father with '■ whom he lived. His mother described i him and his clothes, showed me his' j latest phot-graph, all without knowing j of the Catastrophe. She had packed his bag for him and was told he was going ' out of town on business for a few days.' , I obtained permission of. the. father to ! examine in his son's office on the pre- i tense that I wished to establish proof ! that it was not his son who had been J concerned in an affair in New York.,! Going again to the office I found partly j concealed some of the chemicals which;' had been used to make the bomb's ex- I plosive contents. '"■ My work was: now done and the next morning my news- . paper was able to give to the world the news which was afterwards con firmed by the Identification of the head • by the unhappy; father and mother." S|_4 I. What the next 'exploit : of Isaac D. ! White will be for the New York World j or other journals it Is useless .to' sur i mise, but after what he has already , done for his newspaper and for human | ity, after such' proof of the possession < ; of pluck, coolness, ingenuity, energy j and enterprise It would be foolish to I mark any limitation. It ls of such ! stuff • that Stanleys and Forbeses are 1 made, and he is only thirty years of age. \ . Featherstone. ITS BITE IS DEADLY. yy | People Should Beware of n Pret- I'CA ty Yellow Spotted Spider. . San Francisco Examiner. A ..' Next time anybody is bitten by a : "poisonous black spider" he will con- J fer a favor on Prof. H. H. Behr, If he t will refrain from crushing it long enough to give the professor a chance to be bitten, too. He would like to de monstrate to that part of the public, who feel finicky about such things that the bite of the same "poisonous black | spider" is really absolutely harmless ; and no more painful than the sting of a wasp or a mosquito, or even a flea of .the California genus. Mr. Behr is pro- j j fessor of entomology and araneology j . and a few othsr sciences at the big i . academy in Market street, and what he ! ! doesn't know about insects of all i kinds is hardly worth talking about. • .. j .. But If any one should happen to be , bitten by a small "black spider" with , j four or five scarlet spots on its back ■ he had better prepare to guzzle brandy ' j for a day or two, while a strong-armed A attendant rubs ammounla into the ! wound with one hand and keeps the t victim from squirming with the other, ! j The professor calls that, little spotted I [ insect the latrodectes macans, and says j . it Is the most venomous of all spiders, '. not even excepting the tarantula, which | is about ten times as big. It is ordl- I narily not bigger than a French pea, I but boasts of considerably more beauty -- ' - -' " _ ' B "■ ■'■ than is ' commonly found among, spiders. > • > "■'' . _. ,_ ' Its body is round and covered with a ; beautiful velvety black growth of short j fuzzy hair, with" the scarlet spots above , mentioned on its back. It has eight; rather long legs for such a small body ! and eight eyes, though they cannot be ; taken as distinguishing features of this particular style, as the professor says ; an spiders have eight legs and an equal ] number of eyes. But it Is by the loca tion of the eyes in the anatomy of th? insect that the classifications • are made, and as there are some 5,000 or 6,000 species known to araneologists, it is no small task to distinguish "which j is which." This one, however, may be told by the fact that four of its eyes ! located in a squad in front, with the j remaining "'. four grouped in . pairs on i each side of its head and a little to the rear . of the others. The eyes! are bulgy and glassy and of a deep, green ish hue. Its mandibles are not very large, . but, as many a victim can at test, are capable of doing great dam age. Its action is quick' and. alert. - Prof. Behr- laughs at the idea that the bite of .the latrodectes.mectans .Is fatal, .but he admits that the";, patient suffers 'the' most racking tortures for several days," after which, if he has b:en properly treated, recovery is a certainty.. He says that many persons may have died of fright, but never' from the poisonous effects of the bite, i The tarantula, which is so universally dreaded, is, after all, according to Prof, j Behr, not at all dangerous. Though its i bite causes considerable pain anel i swelling about the wound, he says it ! is not fatal. Its bite is not nearly so ( dangerous *as that of the "katipo," ) but, be that as it may, it is more for- ! midable and ugly looking, and one ' might as well be poisoned as be scared : to death. ' -.-..... ■. Z ■ , iU ,. .\ Thought He Had Quit- .i" .1 San Francisco Post. ' ' I Col. . McLaughlin : sent his Swedish ; foreman out a few days ago to do some j work around the mouth of an old mm- I ing shaft, and he took a green coun-_j tryman with him as an assistant. In a couple of hours the foreman walked : up to the colonel's office and remarked: ; "Say, colonel, I want anudder man.',' i "Why, what's the matter with that man I sent out with you?" inquired i the colonel. • ' " •"* '■■ ! "Oh, he fall down de shaft 'bout hour ago, an' he don't come . up. .1 ! t'lnk he yumped his yob!" ■ • A ''■"- -•*; — r Stern -rnrental'HeHolntlon. ~:• Chicago Tribune. - - * -"- * ; * "Father," said Sammy, , "the teacher ■ says you ought to take me to an. op tician's. * He • says I've got astigma tism." vf;7-- ';•'- '.- - • ;-''ti: "Got what?" - .... :, "Astigmatism." .- I "Well, if he don't thrash that out of I you," roared Mr. Wlpedunks, "I will.**-] Stuart's, Dyspepsia Tablets cure dys A pepsia, bloating, sour stomach, nervous ■ dyspepsia, .-'".• constipation, and . every form of stomach ; trouble, safely 'an:! i permanently, except cancer' of 'the j stomach. Sold by druggists 7*at' 5. j cents, full size' , package. A.'..-: piLSfISpCBETB HENRY "IRVING NOT EQUAL., TO '•] THE WORK OP PLAYING THE ... 'W-., PART. ■-■■'•• : : ■ J; I . •..-_.- 7' :. ■. - , TERRY ALSO INADEQUATE. .CRITICISM OF THESE ARTISTS •;' IN ONE OF SHAKESPEARE'S GREATEST. 'AMERICANS IN THE PLAY Prove Decidedly Better Thun Either of the Great English - PLayerw. ! Special Correspondence of the Globe. j NEW YORK, Nov. B.— The "swell" ! event of the theatrical season thus j far has been the production of j Shakespeare's virile .tragedy "Mac ! beth," by Henry Irving and his Lon ,'don Lyceum Theater company. A ' half-dozen years ago the English actor produced this play in the Brit- I ish capital, and all manner of ful ' some laudation was flashed under the ! ocean of the excellent work of Mr. ! Irving and Miss Terry in the prin- c ipal roles. It was not difficult to be « lieve all that was said at the time, inasmuch as "Macbeth" is of all of i Shakespeare's plays the one in which i the important female character is I — ' ' ■ __* I maintained on something of a parity ( with the male. ! Either the cable reports were will i fully 'false or Irving and Terry have ! deteriorated woefully, for a more j tedious performance of "Macbeth" I ; have never sat through than that which these two artists gave at Ab ; bey's : theater. Mr. Irving does not j appear to. be able to body forth in HENRY IRVING. the -slightest degree the thane of ■-. Cawdor as he is generally under stood by Shakespearean students. , He makes him perpetually and tire | somely a sniveling, cringing cur r 10-w fellow, whose scene with the mur derer of Banquo after the commis sion of the crime partakes more of the quality of a discussion between .two low villains than of the unavoid able temporary association, for A a specific, purpose, of a monarch with an ill-bred rogue. A, - AAA V - A 1 Macbeth was a high-born man, the cousin of King Duncan, and this chummiriess with persons whom he must have regarded with loathing, despite the imaginary necessity which forced him to make < use of * them, is therefore out of place — J horrible-black splotch on . the beauti ful canvas. .A Besides, the .overween- j ing ambition which prompted Mac- I beth to commit one murder, and plot others.,, is scarcely . compatible with the physical craven .which : Mr. Irv ing gives us. To say nothing "of the' physical 'limitations which ''make the English 1 actor's assumption of the character little short of .; ridiculous, he .has so apparently attempted to mold Shakespeare's creation to a cre ature adapted lb his own personality j that the entitles are shattered, and we have left only an absurd, patch work of stilted ; posings, .guttural declamations, pompous strutting and feverish clutching at the air. It is scarcely worth $3 to see this from the orchestra chairs or $1.50 from the gallery.. These outrageous prices have served to make the general public the great middle classes realize that they are entitled to some thing extra good, and in this they were grievously disappointed ex cept for the stage setting, which is deserving of great credit. The piece was put on more elaborately per haps than ever before in this country, although I believe even this is denied by some of the old-timers. In brief, Mr. Irving has a good deal to learn about the character of Macbeth. He might, with great profit, sit at the feet of Milnes Levlck, who was for some time with Mme. Janauschek. Levick showed the Scotchman as he is understood, and as the Bard of Avon wrote him— masterful, virile man, whose over powering ambition counseled crime for the attainment of certain ends, the while his great humanity prompt ed the contrary course. Lady Mac beth was the evil spirit merely, who, with her scorn and specious argu ments, turned the scales in favor of the bad. But at all other times Mac beth was a masterful man, as wit ness his handling of his followers; the authoritative, as-good-as-done manner in which he orders the tak ing off of Banquo and Fleance and his general domination of the affairs of his country. True, he was defeat ed in the end, but that was to be ex pected in the natural order of things. Frederic Robinson, who is a good, but certainly not a great, actor in any sense, was another Macbeth whose impersonation was infinitely superior to that of Mr. Irving, be cause he made him a man. George D. Chaplin and James H. Taylor are also well remembered in the char acter. The greatest fault of all with Mr. Irving is that he appears to be constantly endeavoring to Hamletize the part, for no other reason pre sumably than that, like all of Shakes peare's important roles, Macbeth is a,< metaphysical study. This strain ing for effect," even if exerted in the right direction, is painful, but when improperly applied it is exhausting to auditor as well as actor, and that is precisely the effect of Mr. Irving's impersonation of Macbeth. Elen Terry, admirable in everything ': else In which I have ever seen her, is very, very bad, and totally unconvinc ing as Lady Macbeth. In her best mo-, ments she barely suggests the possi- Abllt ties, of the character in the hands of. an actress suited to that line of work. 7 . Miss Terry is at one moment Rosamond, ait another Marguerite, at another Juliet, but Lady Macbeth— -never.. She does not possess by half the force necessary to properly play the part and cause the onlooker to sympathize with, or at least appreci ate, the workings of a nature consumed by ambition, which in order to gratify its lust of power is able to display at will the velvety tiger's paw or the cruel talons beneath it. When she eggs Macbeth on to 'the murder of -'Duncan no one can understand why ■ her spouse should' yield, so lacking in strength seems the argument as spok en by Miss Terry. These, lines, of all in the play, should be uttered with deep, soul-stirring . intensity— in .-; short, as Mme. Janauschek, the greatest Lady Macbeth of i this generation, ut tered "them. I have seen her in this role five or six times and I well re member that in this'' scene she never failed to hold her audience spellbound. With Miss Terry, there was no more effect than in- the - ordinary passages. This but serves to demonstrate the difference between a great actress adapted in every way to a role, and a great actress who is out of her ele ment. The large audiences which have attended every performance of "Macbeth" would also seem to indicate that those aspiring actors of robust physique who will persist in butcher ing Hamlet ait a loss might possibly do less • violence to the thane of Cawdor at a profit, and in these matter of fact days when railroad companies, hotel landlords, lithographers and c'en the mummers themselves sordidly demand money for work done, this is a point not to be lightly ignored. -■'.■.': Henry Irving has not lost his man nerisms. In fact, he has acquired a new and select one. He struts more pompously than of yore and mouths so terribly that it Is almost Impossible to understand him a few rows back from the stage. His grunt and his finger twitching are more pronounced than ever, and he has fall en into the .. horrible habit of pausing in the middle of sentences calling for continuous utterance. In this way, he produces a rhythmical cadence which gives a tedious sing song effect— the element, by the way, which mars some of Wilson Barrett's best work. Of American actors I be lieve that Richard Mansfield could play "Macbeth" with profit and credit to himself. He is an artist who does not usually befog a part with countless unnecessary details which are.'by those who employ them, serenely supposed to constitute "art." His is a virile per sonality and his aggressive methods, tempered with just the proper degree of subtlety,- would make him an ideal Macbeth. He Is in need of additions to his well nigh threadbare repertory, and this suggestion may be worth, consid ering. He would as certainly as it is possible to gauge future work by past be Immeasurably superior to Henry Irving In this great role. ' The following I wrote two years ago, when "Becket" was produced in this city. With the exception of the state ment about ranting— for Mr. Irving now rants as much as Lawrence Bar rett ever did— it gives, I think, the Eng lish actor's exact position on the stage. Here it is: vA'A "When Henry Irving dies, the world will not have lost a great artist, but it will have been deprived of the most unique and potent factor in theatricals that the last double decade has pro duced. He is not an Edwin Booth, for he lacks his remarkable subtlety, in comparable grace and intensely sym pathetic voice. He Is not a Tomasso Salvinl, for he lacks the great Italian's force, vigor and stage presence. His artistic sense and his ability to por tray character are* greater, than were those of Lawrence Barrett, but he re sembles that actor more than any other I have ever seen. Barrett tried to give fine productions; Irving does give them. Barrett almost always rant ed; Irving never does. . Both were great j students and conscientious artists, but the Englishman was easily the master, of the American, although neither of them was ever in the same class, from a purely stand, oint, wit- Ed win Booth, Tomasso Salvini and Rossi, who were easily the tragic kings of the world and a contemporaneous trio the like of which had never before been seen." Octavus Cohen. . .An Advanced Empress. •- The Empress of Russia Is interested In the advancement -of ~ female edu cation in Russia, particularly In the so-called Maria Feodorovna-institute, named after the dowager empress;. Her majesty has asked for a complete report of Its workings In Russia and German, to. the great consternation of the officials concerned, »v ho know next to nothing .oncerning the matter. What is CASTORIA Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. 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The order of the Ase " •^/^V^^vli^i^^-S^^^i^^^^ic^^y oh. there once was a time, lt has long / >v-A-3^^^^S^^^^^^^^^^^^^ TIMy When n man could te fooled with a /%JT .- vfi^* But tne Typewriter question is now fe4(tw wir* B . >r^»_ .*°*<?' <s 'v -^-_f_i «=^ For experience has proved the Smith <F£***U Premier the best. xH* i^^!!!!^^^ SvcOttrThrec Xew Models-2, 3 ' — and 4. The Smith Premier Typewriter Co. 1308 -sll^™' "" jft_4__El^ JOS - SCHUIZ BREW,NG co, ' s _l*ffi__-_i __^^_^^_fe ;i! 'i''" ' Celebrated Milwaukee ORKIft: EXPORT BEERS ;^^^^^g v • DEPOT, FOOT OF SIBLEY. ■-' ' _' '_ !___. r. — — — — .Made the Cook Eat the Biscuit. Chicago Record. Said a -former surgeon in the Con federate army: "I remember Gen. Ma hone as he appeared before Petersburg in 1864. He was already famous throughout the army for his fighting qualities- and his temper. My duty took -me frequently past - his head quarters, and one morning I saw him pacing up and down in .front of his tent while a negro sat In the doorway gorging himself with .a' fresh pan of biscuit. I turned' to an officer and asked the meaning of this strange per formance. Then came the explana tion that, the negro had baked a .pan of 'sour biscuit for breakfast and Ma hone, by way. of an object lesson, had set the cook to eat all of his own prod uct. -' The negro 'ate- as- fast as pos sible, and Mahone kept up his patrol until. the last biscuit disappeared. Tho performance, was characteristic of the man." "_ ."'A. * A",' '". ",,AA ;-i"- mkk Henry Krlnke, the Florist, will open his new store, 511 St. Peter street, Tues day, ' Nov. .12. '.' y Everybody*"- Is cordially Invited' to "attend.''''" '' •■'* Biini Machinists and Cosigners. : V . Brass Founders and Finishers.- Electro Plntinj.. .laniifncuirers of Electric Heating and Gasoline Lighting Specialties. 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