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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-26
x.-FIsTs FLY.
By JOHN L. SULLIVAN. illustrated by
q. BOTTHOF
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Baldwin's theatre was thronged with
the beauty, wealth and fashion of San
Francisco
There was not scat vacant, and even
standing room was at a premium
Henry Henshall. moody and discontent-
ed, occupied a proscenium box alone His
bride of a few days was at the hotel, for
gotten by her husband.
1t was to be the last appearance of his
divinity, and although he had tried every
possible and impossible way of meeting
her, if only for few minutes, he had
failed
That night he had determined to speak
to her at all hazards.
Early in the evening he stationed himself
at the stage entrance. and there patiently
awaited her arrival
1t wanted but fifteen minutes to s o'clock
when she drove up in a modest hanson.
She stepped lightly out, and glancing
neither right nor left bolted for the door.
Her fame was so great that there was a
crowd waiting on the sidewalk to catch a
glimpse of her face, and no one paid any
particular attention to the haggard young
man in evening dress among them until
he suddenly pushed forward and attempt
ed to lay OBTAINING hand on the young
lady's arm.
She did not notice the movement because
quick as he was, there was another quick
er, and before he could touch her big
well dressed man stepped quickly forward
and with no gentle hand dragged Henshal
back into the crowd. saying gruffiy and
fiercely;
Must not block the passageway. 'Gainsi
the rules, see?"
What the devil say, let me go, will
you? must see that lady. know her
Do you hears Who the devil are you, any
way2" gasped Henshall, struggling in the
grasp OF his captor
The latter smiled snee-i-Sly and held the
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"Now, Lena, don't be foolish. You get
as much petting as the average woman has
q right to expect"
"Right2 Am / not married to him, his
lawful wife, and Shouldn't expect some
evidence Of his affections"
mo, expect nothing. You can drive a
horse to water, but you can't make him
drink. Let him get thirsty, let him alone"
But don't want to let him alone"
And there's just where you make mis-
take. When you get your third husband
you'll know how to manage him. The
trouble with you is this, you have too
many feelings and too much heart. 1t is a
bother to have feelings, and my advice is
to get rid of your heart if you want to
have good digestion and keep your youth.
"A woman with a heart is in the power
of her husband; wife who has none can
do as she pleases. Take all, give nothing
in return-that's the true philosophy of
matrimonial peace if you can't find con-
tentment; and you needn't hunt for happi-
ness. for it is not to be found on this planet
in quantities to speak about"
This sort of advice was gall and worm
wood to the honest, innocent young
woman, but she knew well enough that
her companion spoke from her bitter ex-
perience, and nauseous as the dose was she
took it, dried her eyes and went to dress
for walk.
They had been at the Palace hotel in San
Francisco for a week, and the painter had
sought in vain to meet his ideal
The amusement boards were placarded
with bills for her concert engagement,
every performance of which he had attend.
ed He had cultivated the acquaintance OF
the theatre manager, and through him Sc
cured an introduction to Herr Rudolph
Opper, whom he had wined and dined al
the hotel He had smoked, walked and
driven with him, and as q last resort to
win his confidence begged the impresario
to sit for a portrait.
Now, would like very much to have
you and Mrs. Henshall meet my little
star, but | have nothing to say about it.
II rests entirely with her, and she has pos
itiyely refused to make any acquaintance
These professional women, you know
have to be humored, but Miss Neville.
am convinced, has reason for wishing to
avoid people, and as she is not well, fee
compelled to respect her wishes"
Henshall was pretending to portray the
musician one morning when this CONVEX
sation took place, and at this rebuff hi:
brows knitted, his heart s.pk and hi.
brush fell from bis hand.
well, of course, Herr Opper. | DOM
wish to seem impertinent, but met Mis-.
Neville several times in New York.
'You didf" INTERCEPTED the musician.
THAT is, / saw her-heard her play, ant
have seen her every night during this en-
gagement. My reason for asking to b.
presented is that wish to make a pictur,
af her for the next Academy She is tn
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MR.. CRAWFORD.

In the drawing room of pleasant and
airy sleeping car supplied with electric
bells and thermometer was buffet. the
sandwiches in which smelled like lower
eight, while lower eight got even by smell
ing like a corned beef sandwich, and here
sat Mr. Crawford and Miss Brown. Below
is given a picture of Miss Brown. Her
name was Celia Brown, but her friends
called her Cell and Brown with an air of
badinage which brought rosy flush and
sweet bright smiles to her fair face
The artist has happily caught this smile
with his little catch-as-catch-can camera.
The picture was originally full length
dgure. but owing to the pressure on our
advertising space and note just received
from the chief of police we have decided to
condense the portrait as much as possible.
Briefly, but truthfully and tearfully, MISS
Brown made clean breast of her SORROW
full slavery to DR.. Watson, the is'pnotist,
and on her knees she promised the old man
that never again would she give him an
opportunity to WELD his ghoulish and dis
agreeable influence over her.
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IX.-EXPEDIENTS OF DESPAIR.
By MARY EkSTLAKE. Illustrated by
Miss E. L. SYLVESTER.
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1t is the nature of man to pursue.
He regards the whole world as hunting
ground, and anything that pleases his
fancy, whether it bea bird, pretty woman
or g brute, as his lawful prey.
He may not care for the game or know
why he pursues it, but the chase is ire
sistible, and, like the child with the butter
fly, he viii spoil his pretty clothes, stub his
toe and get his feet wet running through
brambles andpuddles as long as the winged
thing is in sight.
If woman only knew it she could win her
lover by eluding him, for man ever wants
what he can't get easily, and prizes most
the fruit that hangs highest. To him no
beauty is so enhancing as that which
smiles and bushes beneath the mystic web
of gauzed veil, and doubly lovely is the
loveliness that turns and flies at his ap-
proach.
Henshall knew neither rest nor peace OF
mind. The throbbing, sobbing notes OF
Edna's violin were as sweet to him as the
music of the rolling spheres to the old phi
losopher.
He had eyes for nothing but the soft
browns Of her hair, lashes, complexion and
dress. He thought of her through the day
they have been vocalized every sigh would
have uttered, 81 will find her"
And as he followed this sma woman
with his thoughts and his sou, ais bride
Lena first became moody, then fearful
and finally so respondent that she threw
herself in the arms of her companion and
begged her to tell her what to do.
There was not any too much nectar in
5
of her sharpening the edge of Mrs. Hen
shall's sensibilities. Instead of putting hel
arm about her neck, and electrifying hel
meduIla spinalis with the magic of hel
touch, she took hairpin from her couture
and proceeded to loosen the cuticle about
the girls finger nails.
And so you are disappointed with mar
ried life already? Well, my dear, you have
only made the common error of expecting
too much. You have foolishly invested TIT
field of wedlock with the couleur de rose
and studied your hero with the magnifyins
lens when you should have reversed TIL
glass.
Now let me advise you not to be unrea
sonable; don't tell me you expected to mar
ry an angel. You are mortal and mar
ried to man, one of the queerest brute
that treads the earth. Yes, men are quee
brutes," she repeated, crossing her eyes il
fancy; enthusiastic and deferential enougl
before marriage, but an entirely differen
sort of breed afterward."
But Henry isn't; he's the same nov
that he was a year ago. He scarcely notice
me, and never speaks unless l ask him
question. There's something on his MIND
1t isn't his work, for he hasn't finished
canvas this long time, and it isn't l, that
certain"
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MRS. uENsHALL.

Strangest of all, the blow had cleared his
intellect and knocked the laudable pus out
of his mind, as it were, and Lena" was
the first word on his lips The awful pict-
ure seemed to bewilder him moment, and
then he set to work. From the window of
burning car white and beautiful arm
extended through the broken window. On
the hand, though spotted with bright scar
let splotches, he recog nized his wife's we'd
ding ring.
With cry of agony he dashed into the
crushed and burning wreck, and just as the
flames were beginning to creep upon her he
jumped from the hungry flames with his
fainting but happy wife in his arms. Again
and again he blessed the happy blow on his
head which had cleared his vision and
made him see how near he came to losing
agood, true and desirable wife.
Lena's hair turned snowy white, and is
so vet, but she makes beautiful matron.
a kind mother and good wife to the CASH
Ter of her fathers bank, Mr.. Henry Hem
shall, who has asignature now worth $780,
900 in his own individual right.
Edna was never fully recovered. Asids
from the hinges of her violin case, her re-
u1dluS W6IG ucN6T lOuuO. L HdOSQ W WTtOo
this, but am not here to be sentimental.
| must be truthful. Her money was used,
or portion of it at least, to relieve her IA
theirs indebtedness, and with the balance
was founded conservatory of music in
Boston.
DR.. Watson was pinned to the wreck By
the ear and slowly scalded to death. Be-
fore he died he said he was sorry for what
he had done, but yet with his last breath
he tried to bite preacher who was praying
for him. He was low creature. He was
disagreeable person, and his death utterly
failed to cast gloom over the community.
Mr. Crawford and his bride returned to
Chicago and remained there quite awhile.
/ They were very, very happy indeed
Mrs. DR.. Watson went on the stage and
did well. She receives good wages, and
also got S35, 600 insurance on her husband.
whose life she had insured the year before.
With this money she bought two beautiful
dresses. which she now wears on the stage
and which make great hit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henshall are real happy all
the time Henry is good provider and
Lena can construct a cake which will make
ones hair curl. They have good deal OF
company come to see them, and almost
without exception each one says on goinS
away. I'VE have had a real good time"
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young man easily until the fair vioIinisS

young man easily until the fair violinis5
had passed through the stage door
Then he released him, remarking: II
know you know her, you blackguard, and
/ know she left orders that she wished to
see no one. and least of all you If we
could only induce her to make a complaint
against you would take the greatest de-
light IN putting yon behind the bars. you
scoundrel As you have asked for my
name will give you my card. Here it is. y
and he handed the artist Il plain white
piece of pasteboard stamped:
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MISS BROWN.

AS the fair head of The beautiful girl
rested on his knee, and with trembling
fingers he screwed up her Psyche knot a
little tighter, so that it could not get
muddy as the spirited roadster sped along
the track, he thought he had never saw so
fair being, taken all around, as she was.
[Mr. Crawford always used the choicest
English in his conversation, but occasional
ly his thoughts were ungrammatical.l
81 also have confession to make, dear
one," he said. Prepare for piece of in
formation which you can hardly credit,
save that I, who am, or is, or are. as the
case may be. the criminal, tell it to you
myself.
would you believe that 1, who am your
comrade on this journey, whose face is so
refined, so spiritueile. could have taken the
life of DR.. Cronin?
could you believe that l, professor of
religion and worthy inside guard for two
terms in the Little Bethel Independent
Order of Good Templars, No. IS, 702, could
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EDNA CRAWFORD.

and she thoughtlessly quoted some lines
from the deathbed scene in which Litrie
Eva gently glides up the hume at 81 a
week IN an "Uncle Toms Cabin" company
II have saved quite little fortune from
my popular appearances before the publics
and wish you would give it to my father
if die"
A quick sob came from the lower berth
occupied by Mrs. Henshall.
1t was hers. She made it herself.
NAY, nay, my DEAR" she said, ''if eyether
die, let it be I-or me, if that sounds bet
ter. Oh let me diep'
With that she moaned piteously, like q
person who does not feel well.
eyes, dear lady" said Edna, handing her
crocheted purse containing So. This
will lift the mortgage on the old farm and
wipe out the personal Indebtedness of my
father. l am poor, prosecuted girl, fol-
lowed at all times by either a wild eyed
hypnotizer who is out of a job, or else q
spitz whiskered artist who barely earns
enough by kalsomining to follow me about
like a mutton headed Nemesis all the
while l shall die content, dear lady,
Good night"
cannot go to any great length to de-
scribe that horrible night. 1t was Won
der that one human being came forth alive
from the terrible wreck-and awful hell, L
/ was going to say.
Henry Henshall was struck on the head
by a fresh train fig, and for Il time lay I'M
conscious, but the smell of his burning
trousers aroused him, and he got up and
went out of the car.
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have gone under
the cover of dark
ness and with a
bright new clasp
knife cut into the
nice warm vitals
of a neighbor, and
then, with his hot
blood squirting up
my sleeve, hacked
the dying man to
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the FAMILY and paid for, yet after all NJ
needed something that would almost xii
him, but not quite. This would, the dod
tor thought, knock the talents out OF HIM
and give him an ambition to do as h4
agreed and pay his debts.
Such an episode was in store for him
For, by strange fatality, this train h{
rode upon few nights later (although Mr.,
Esrnum. by slight oversight, which ia
perfectly pardonable in man who has 4
large amount of stock to feed and watet
and bed down and take care of nights
places the accident on the first night outl
crashed into the train which brought Mr..
Crawford west in search of his child.
On that fatal night Edna placed her viot
lin in her berth. where it could not get
overheated by the steam pipes, and then,
letting down her angelic hair till it fell
about her slight figure like halo of mo-
lasses candy, she looked SO sweet that the
porter thoughtlessly swallowed pillow
which he was holding in his teeth as he
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XII.-CoNCLUSION.
By BILL NYE. Illustrated by W. q.
SPRAGUE,
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Across the peaceful bosom OF the great
plains no sound disturbed the night save
now and then when at long intervals the
shadowy figure of a coyote crossed an aisle
in the sage brush, and opening his snap
ping, drooling jaws gave forth that justly
celebrated dietonic scale of bis which is so
we'll calculated to call out the goose PIN
pies even on the death mask of Methu-
selah.
Even the wind trod softly over the
scorched and withered grass, and the well
fabricated moon stole in and out among
the clouds without a creals, with the eX-
ception of Bitter creek, of course, which
laved it's alkaG shores in the eternal soil
tudes, and bleached still winter, as the
years went by, the snowy bones of those
who once had sought to invade this great
undertaking establishment of nature-this
petrified hush of centuries.
But what sound is this that gently beats
upon the tense drum of the listeners ear?
The distant jar and gentle palpitations
G. a coming train from the westl
Scarcely do we hear this and catch the
yellow twinkle of a headlight when an
other mufiled roar from the east and lit
tie crawling light growing rapidly out of
the dusk and distance swallow the inter
vening miles, and in flash the two scream
ing, snorting, painting monsters have met
like mail clad giants in mighty tourna-
ment.
Come to the bridal chamber, Death!
Come to the mother when she feels
For the first time her first born's breath;
| Come when the blessed seals
| Which close the pestilence are broke,
and crowded cities wall its stroke
| Come in Consumptions ghastly form!
| The earthquakes shock, the oceans storm
| Come when the heart beats high and warm
With banquet, song and dance and wine,
| And thou art terrible. The tear
The groan, the kneil, the pail, the bier.
| And all we know or dream or fear.
| OF agony art thine.
But to the heart, where love is dead,
| And hope is llneeng DER It's bier,
Thy face with joy is overspread,
| And so lights out with bounding tread
The soul that only sorrowed here.
When Lena awole with this dull pain in
her head she felt certain that she was dead
and was almost tickled to death to think
that her sad heart would sorrow no more
and that Harry was free; but almost at
once came the smell of hot varnish and
the slight suspicion of an overdone porter
who ought to be turned over
Great Gawdp' she said, as her breath
came in brief pants, "the car is on fire.
must go away"
To a spectator who might have seen the
collision it would have seemed impossible
that q living thing could come out of thi:
terrible wreck and holocaust, but ere long
venerable apple worm crawled out of til;
cool side of a nice eating apple, and seeing
that he could be of no further use on toart
the train came out of the car and slunf
away in the darkness.
Soon the cheerful car stove begins to ge
in it's work, and the chaos of broken wood
work begins to burn, at first slowly, then
as the swift winds of the plains catch it
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watched her skin
up the step ladder
and plunge into
her couch with a
glad cry.
She soon stuck
her head dow n
into Mrs. Hen
shall's berth, how
ever, and said ten
derby:
"My dear friend,
l do not know
why, but l think /
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But to the heart, where love is dead,
And hope is kneeling DER its bier.
Thy face with joy is overspread,
And so lights out with bounding tread
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-30
| darme III Gloster lU7, Burnside los HarWood lo2
Stephanie IS, Lille Kinney 90.
HANOYER'S CHANCES.
An Opinion as TO How the Great Racer
Will Run.

An Opinion as TO How the Great Racer
Will Run.
Hanover's name appears among the nomina-
tions to many of the stakes of the New York,
Coney Island and Brooklyn Clubs. and the
fact has aroused great deal OF conjecture as
to whether he could be considered a dangerous
candidate. When Hanover ceased racing IN
August last, at Westchester, it was because ne
was in q very bad way. He had badly bowed
tendon, and 1t was generally given out that ne
had run his last race, and the Dryers were
ready to sell him for stud duty. Mr.. Haggln
did not want him, and 1t is well-knoWn tnat AZ
there was some sort of proposition maue 70
Major Thomas to take him, but it fell through.
Speaking of Hanover the other day to rae
ing man the question of Hanover's chances IN
the races of the coming season came up.
'I think it very doubtful If the old horse WIN
do much good for himself and the Dwyers," ne
said.
"Do YOU doubt his Uraining3'
"Weil, from what DR.. Sheppard SAID last
summer lido. He said the horses tendon was
badly bowed, and it was the very leg that was
operated upon the year before when he was
nerved"
"BuT he has been nominated for great many
stakes"
Yes, but so is every horse as long as there is
a chance of his standing. Owners and trainers,
too will stick to horse as long as be has t"o
legs left. Beside, the Dryers had always .
weather eye to unloading their crack horses 1oi
stud purposes. To leave horse out Woulo
make him dead to the world. But by nominal
ing him IN the stakes keeps him before the
public, and makes him more salable; and then
| there's always a chance Of getting snort race
| or two out OF him. Great horses can often VIII
short races half trained, merely on theli
superior speed."-Sptrdt Of Times.
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New Len1ue Uniforms.

CHICAGO, January 29.-The Secretaries of
the clubs in the Brotherhood have selected their
club uniform colors. With the exception Of
Philadelphia. the teams have chosen white
home and colored travelling uniforms SO the
spectators can readily distinguish the teams in
the field. The uniforms will be as follow:
Boston-Home suits, white, red trimmings belts
and stockings: travelling, gray, red trimmings
belts and stockings,
Bufalo-Home, white, brown trimmings and
stockings; travelling gray, brown trimmings and
Brooklyn-Hom,, white, blue trimmings and
stockings; travelling, gray, blue trimmings and
stockings
ChicaSo-Home white, black trimmings. cap
and belt, Chicago in black on breast Of club
white stockings: travelling black suits, white
cap. belt and stockings, Chicago in white on
breast of shirt black cloth Jacket.
Cleyeland-Home white suits. bright gray trim
mings and stockings; travelling, black bright
gray trimmings and stockings gray cloth jacket.
New York-Home. white. black trimmings, belts
and stockings: travelling, Y ale gray. black trim
mings, belts and stockings
Pittsburg-Home. white, maroon trimmin gs and
stockings: travelling gray suits, maroon stockings
and trimmings, white cloth jacket.
Philadelphia - Home, navy blue, light blue
stockings and belts. white cap, with light blue
trimmings; travelling, dark maroon, seal brown
stockings, belts and caps.