St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-22
mnss CLEvELAND,s BOOK.
She Refuses to- Allow Her Picture
to be Printed.

Special to the Globe.
New YORK, June 21.-The publishers OF
Miss Cleveland's book have ordered several
copies to be bound expressly for presenta-
ton to the surviving ladies Of the White
house who preceded Miss Cleveland and
also Queen Victoria. These copies are
said to be exact counterparts of those In
tended for Miss Cleveland. The floral
design of the cover, which represents a
spray of the primrose, is i'll the case OF these
presentation copies to be hand painted. The
ladies who will receive a copy are Mrs.
James K. Polk of Nashville; Mrs. Phillips,
formerly Mrs Betty Taylor Bliss of Wand
ridge, Va; Mrs. John Tyler Of Virginia;
Mrs Harriet Lane Johnson of Baltimore;
Mrs. Martha johnson Patterson, Mrs.
Grant, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs.
AfcElroy. Mrs Phillips, though the daugh-
ter OF a Wing, President Taylor, is herself
a Democrat, and therefore majority of
the former ladies of the White house are of
the same political mind as the present host
ess Unlike many of her predecessors,
Miss Cleveland is hostile to the custom OF
publishing pictures of the hostess OF the
White house. and her face has been set
against
in any illustrated paper or indeed in any
form. The only publication i'll which her
portrait has been used is in The Ladies of
the White House, and so particular was
she in regard to that that the artist who
made the photograph was ordered to de-
stroy the negative A Philadelphia made
the engraving which represents Miss Cleye-
land as she appears to-day. The publish
ers OF her book would have much liked to
use their picture OF her, and the author of
The Ladies of the White House had given
permission in case of Miss CleveIand's con-
sent, but her refusal ended the matter and
her book appears without it. 1t is said that
Miss Cleveland dedicateS her book to ''her
countrymen in schools and colleges" Ad-
vance sheets of the work, at the suggestion
of friends Of Miss Cleveland in New York
who have had charge OF the publication,
have been submitted to literary critics.
The book is promised for the 25th, and
meantime it is to be published in England.
THE DEMENTED TEAGEDIAN.
Friendly Acts Prevent JfcCuIlogagh's
Reappearance Gan tlae Stage.
Special TO the Globe.
New YORK, June 21.-The non-appear-
ance of the disabled John Mccullough in a
theatrical benefit performance wherein he
was to personate Brutus in the forum scene
of Julius Caesar" has given rise to con-
siderable gossip, much of which is mis-
taken. The tragedian is now in good
physical health, but his dementia is not in
the least abated. and ne WanderS about the
hotels and streets in aimleSS diSQuietude.
When he was asked by Plympton and
LeYlck, the actors who got up
this entertainment, to take a part in it,
he readily assented, for. it is his mania to
reappear on the stage. There was at no
time a confident expectation that he would
keep his engagement, and so Plympton I'M
derstrdied the Grafton of Brutus. The af-
ternoon of the advertised exhibition of Nc
Cullough he renewed his promise, but
| daZedly seemed to have a notion that he
was going to play ''Richelieu," but being
told that Brutus was his part, he went to
his room in the Sturtevant house to study
the required passage. He was at his task
| when Capt. Corners, his former manager,
called on him for the purpose of
saving him from the ordeal Of an
almost certain breakdown. So strong indeed
was the belief in his incapacity that in case
he went On the stage Plympton was to have
stood costumed in the wings to take his
place at an instant's notice. Conner did
not undertake to dissuade the actor from
his purpose, but adroitly led the converse
ton to other topics. lured him out to q din
ner kept his mind concerned with nom
theatrical subjects, and thus got him past
the hour when, in the Star theatre, the
audience was violently Kissing the
announcement that he had not arrived.
Several mutual friends were in
the plot and they e1erted themselves to di-
vert Mccullough from his engagement. The
place of their effort was a secluded apart
ment in the St. James hotel, where they
succeeded in keeping him willing and I'M
suspecting captive until past midnight.
Then he casually looked at his watch with
the air of one trying to recall something
and remarked: 1T seems to me that was
to have played tonight, but maybe I was
mistaken. I'll go to bed anyhow" and
he did.