The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-13

The Lane without a rurnIna.

The Lane Without n TurntnR.
1t is two weeks since Mr.. Benjamin Nathan
was murdered, and the public knows no more
than it then did in regard to the doer of the
deed. 1t was indeed generally hoped that the
inquest of yesterday, when William Kelly was
for the first time put under examination, would
bring TO light some facts calculated to direct
suspicion to more plausible quarter than any
TO which it had been previously directed This
hope has, however, been dissipated. The ex-
tremely rigid examination and cross-examima
tion to which William Kelly was subjected,
elicit, d nothing that had tendency to prove
that he was in any way involved in Mr.. Nathans
murder. To be sure, those closely-serried ques-
tions which mercilessly confronted him in
seemingly interminable files slashed into the
most prominent incidents of a life which has
not been altogether spotless and exposed some
points which it would be we'll for him, so far
as lb ic opinion of him is concerned, had he
been able to cover.
However, l do not want to throw any stones.
Any OIL e of us is liable, at any moment, TO be
placed in a similar position, and happy are
those who have no cause to fear having their
lives rdded by the merciless shot of rigid cross
examinations. There are thousands of ''re-
epectable" men who have done things incalcu-
lably worse, probably, than any that William
Kelly has done, but yet who, if placed in SINH
lar circumstances at an inquest, would be
screened by the prestige of position. That
remorseless and relentless newspaper, the Sun
which may be said to be sort OF daily Sunday
1fercury-is aping the atrocity of Caldwell e.
Whitneys daily sensatlon-sheet, and is trying to
fasten public suspicion upon this young man,
whose only crime, so far as the evidence goes,
consists in his living off his mother and "bum-
ming in an unostentatious manner. An un-
che mill have lee
yet, no tu ming in this long lane of murder
seebach and vepeta-An Anecdote.
Very little is known concerning Madame
Marie Niemann Seebach considering that,
within one mouth, she is to make her first
appearance in America. Mr.. Grau, unlike
the agents of Mile Nillson has not yet
taken any loud measures for the pre-puffery of
his star. 1 do not profess to know a great deal
about her, but considering that ere long she will
become a topic of general comment, the little
that do know you are welcome TO. am told
thai she is about thirty-fve years of age, and is
a very handsome and tender-looking blonde.
She is but little known in this country, simply
because she is German by birth, and not Italian
or French. If am to accept, without question
ing, what is told me, must believe that in Ger
many she holds rank equal to that held by
Ristori all the world over Her husbands name
is Niemanu. He is said to be very excellent
tenor, and to pursue his art with great devotion
and success. If exorbitancy of terms be test
of merit, Madame Seebach's claims to supremacy
are indisputable, for she is said to exceed
Ristori in the extravaganza Of her demands.
But then it is so greatly the
fashion-and a very vulgar fashion it is, too
to oexaggerate the prices paid to eminent per-
formers, that a shrug is the only comment ne
cessary to such rumor as this. Nine Seebach
. is to be accompanied by Mad'lle Veneta, who
belongs to the Royal Theatre of Vienna, and is
said to be very fine actress. In reference to
her there is a story which is not altogether
without interest 1t partly concerns Nine
Vestvali, who used to be great favorite with
us. 1t seems that Nine Vestvali (about whom
there can now linger but little of "The Magnif-
cent?, after drifting from Italian opera into
English drama, and thence into German roles,
took a fancy for managing, and contemplated
bringing to this country Madlle Veneta, as a
star. She had almost made up her mind to dc
SO, when she was informed that Mr. Grau was
also on the lookout for novelties and had closed
with Veneta. AS she was pouting her lips over
this veXation, one of her friends proposed thai
she should Immediately come to terms Will
Nine Seebach, who was as yet free.
81 am not millionaire" exclaimed Vestvali
''or probably should
At this moment q letter was handed her. Sht
tore it open, read it, and threw it down il
disgust
'sDid you ever hear of such man ~ she ex
claimed.
''What man ~ asked her friend.
"Why Grau! This letter tells me that h,
h g already concluded contract with Seebacl
for one hundred nights in the United States
md not only that; he has actually engaged m.
Veneta to support her !"
This is the story, though will not swear tina
it is not managerial invention, concocted b.
some agent with an eye to business.
No One but Themselves TO Blame.
The recent death of girl at Lowell is foun
to have been caused by the borrowings into he
brain of. an insect whose home had been tn
s'switch" wherewith she adorned her head. Th
risk thus indicated can scarcely be pleasan
one for women to contemplate. Why not abar
don the switch altogether? Because it look
graceful and pretty, and because your tru
woman would rather be brain-burrowed 10 deaf
by an insect than make herself laughing-stoc
by being questionable Such is woman. Tht
is the nature of the animal. She has good de;
of the old Adam in her-a whole ribful. Fashio
is female god, quite as merciless in her way
Juggernaut is in his. No woman that is w
man would hesitate between being bitten
death by an insect if the bites were incurred ;
the behest of fashion, and dispensing with
headdress that was according to the mod
Accordingly when person of foreboding mir
sees an deliberately switched woman, he WI
take 1t for granted that she is poisoning herse
to death as surely as though she dailyswallowt
solution of arsenic. Sooner or later tn
lutte will be the death of her. No argumen
from her will avail with me. With such