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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15
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ABSOLUTELY PURE

.dT.I in TO see Tue OLA HomesteaG' the
s~wallowtail coated usher who shows them
TO their seats is the first man they have
ever seen in "full dress" They are inva-
riably awed.
But after the curtain has risen the sim
pie country picture dispels all feelings Of
difidence. To visitors from the country it
is a picture Of home. To hundreds Of hur-
rying, cushing city men and women it is a
reminder of a purer, happier life once
known, but long forgotten. Eugene Field
has written:
Why. the robins in the naples AN the black
birds 'rOun' the pond,
Tn crickets an the lOcusts In the leaves.
hillside jest beyond.
An the swallers in their nests beneath the
caves
They all come troopin' hack witt YOU, dear
Uncle Josh. today,
An they seem 10 sing with all the joyous
zest
OF the days when we were Yankee boys an
Yankee girls at play,
With nary thought OF ~"livin'way out westF'
God bless ye. Denman ThOmps'n, for the good
y do our hearts
With this music and these memories o
youth
God bless ye for the faculty that tops ali hui
man arts.
The good Of Yankee faculty Of Truth!
EDWARD MARSHALL
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15
THEATRICAL NOTES.

The number of play houses in New York
is to be still further increased next season.
Plans rave already been drawn and sites
selected for two brand new ones, capitalists
are hunting for land on which 10 build two
more, and Harry Miner is energetically at
work r-econstructing his Fifth Avenue
theatre, which was recently burned.
Four Thespian couples nave been mar.
ried who first met while playing the parts
Of Harold and Lillian in Bronson Towards
famous play The Bankers Daughter"
The quarrel betu-seu Arthur Dacre and
Mrs. Leslie Carter has called ont many
emphatic eXprs ssions Of opinion from pro
fessiOnals as % the actors competency.
When Bronson Howard heard that Mrs.
Carter elaimel that Da. re lacked ability,
he wrote al oice TO Mr.. Dacre saving that
among the witnesses OF his talent there is
none more hearty or syn pathetic than the
great playwright.
The annual suL-idics paid 70 the leading
opera house, iu Europe are as follows: To
the Paris o ,4-rl house. c,1J.UJJ. 10 he Der
lin Opera house, -lwDt To the Souttgart
Opera housc, SlzJOJJ. o., tle BJca- Pesth
Opera house. Sl3J,O CO... tu the Dresden Opera
house, SSO,OOJ; u the N-lua Opera house,
10000; 10 the Copenhagen Opera house,
$4,000; 10 the opera hJuses i'm Clrlsruhe
and Weimar, &J0,o3l each; 70 the Munich
Opera house, $4,000, % the Stockholm
Opera house, s3J.OJJ. 10 la Monnaie, in
Brussels, szJ,eO0.
"The Soudan' cleared S25O,OOO in Boston
in four months.
Since the death Of Dion Boucicault there
has been a decided revival Of interest IN
his plays.
New Haven society is all a-lutter over
the production Of the Greek play-Soph-
ocles' "Antigaonen-which will take place
early in April. Three performances will
BE- given. All the parts will be taken by
Of them flakes in New Ha-
ven's very topmost crust.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15
ACTORS
As Much Character in a Pose" as Any
where Else.

As Much Character in a Pose" as Any.
where Else.
In recent conversation with AN artist OF
eminence who has photographed nearly all
the celebrities Of New York for the last
twenty years, he gave me his views In full,
part Of which are here set down:
Madame Modjeska is usually very par
ticular about her pictures, and shows re-
markable taste. This is also evident in
her costumes. She has a very classical
figure.
Mrs. Potter's face i broad and short.
She is a pleasant sitter Her costumes are
all eXquisitely tasteful. She is naturally
graceful. Her great beauty, however. is
in her expression. She has a very 1.-the
figure and is full Of life. Il isa peculiarity
Of Mrs. Potter's figure that her hips are
like those Of a young girl. That T. why
her figure has so much sweep 10 Il. Tins
is due TO the fact that she wears no corset,
~ she old me.
Look at Mrs. IAngtry, on the contrary.
Her shoulders are wide, waist extremely
narrow and hips very large. IL isn't
natural, and can never he 1.-THE and grace
full
Mrs. Langtry has a mor beautiful
face, but not 30 fine "A figure as Mrs. Pot.
ter. The beauty Of Mrs. Langtry's figure
is In her bearing Her head sits beautifully
upon her shoulders. Her hands aud feet
are large.
Il think Ada Rehan j. the best sitter I
ever had She Is very graceful and artistic.
and poses before the camera exactly A. she
would II she were on the stage. Whenever
she entars the studio she brings in "a whole
hood of sunlight. And then her charming
little bouuet-''
sIwrHra NL.n ST.. gnna shin H.~a
against her il that she has dyed her hair.
II destroys her good looks. She is a bru-
nette Of the most pronounced type; deep
black eyes, Spanish olive skin aud red hair.
Why did she dye IT. Well, no doubt il
was turning gray, and she likes TO look
young, but il occurs To me hat Il would
law been easier 70 dye IL black.
Davenport makes n noble picture. She
has a very dramatic way about her. Her
figure is perfection itself. She is tall and
has a fine face. Just now her figure is in.
clined to obesity.
Kate Claxton isa good sitter and very
graceful She keeps her age well.
George Drew Barrymore take a splen-
did picture. Her character pictures a. she
appears in The Senator are excellent.
Booth is particularly averse 70 posing
in character, and has not done 30 for years.
All his pictures are taken In private He
Is a good poser, rather careless, IL any
thing, but makes a fine diRnifed picture.
What a pity that neither Booth nor
Salvini will be taken in character. Why
when these great men die we will nave but
the memory Of them left. Just see how
valuable such portraits of them would be.
Just think IL we bad Booth taken In some
Of his great emotional sceDes-part from
Hamlet The Merchant Of Venice or
'Richelieu' Or IL we had pictures Of
Salvini a. Sampson, or in some Of his mad
rushes in Othello.
II have with a snap camera taken
Francis Wilson IN all sorts Of funny atti
tudes and characters. He Is one Of the best
subjects / ever had"
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15

owner dCath-was doubtless the reason
why the bidding was not more spirited.
Potomac il ason Of st. Blaise, dam Susque
hanna. lie is said TO have PINT 100000 in
Mr. Belmo3t's pockets during 1880. and il
his present owucr has any sort Of good for
tune with him this year the horse will pay
for himself once or twice.
During his short career upon the turf
Potomac won three ont Of four starts, in
Guiding the Red Bank stakes, the Futurity
and the Flatbusl stakes. Has only defeat
was by Strgthmenth and Slllie McClel
land ia the Junior championship, ia which
race, win To his lack Of seasoning. he
was Left by "a few inches Many turf au
thorities consider Potomac as good .
2-year-Old rs was the famous S~aIvator
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15

Patrick Cahill, middle weight champion Of
the Amateur Athletic Union for 1855, 1883
and 1891, to lower his colors. For two years
Butler has been hard at work fitting him
self for the very feat he performed-name-
ly, the defeat Of Cahif. Buffers first ap-
pearance was at the West End Athletic
club's tourney, Brooklyn, a year z when
he Knocked out T. j. Kelly, Of the w. E
A. c.
He next bested j. ]. Van Houten, the
A. A L. champion Of 1889, and later was
defeated by Cahill. He was never satisfied
with the result, and soOu made Lis erst-
while victor his victim. Butler is % years
old, #. 81 in. tall, and weighs l45 pounds
when stripped for the fray.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15

served, Is forgotten. Kelly's worst fault
is his temper, which frequently gets the
best Of him, TO the detriment Of himOelf
and his team, He knows all the tricks,
and is as quick as any man to see a point
and take advantage of it.
HanlOn is not self assertive enough to
ever be a great captain. He works hard,
however. and watches the game closely.
The Phillies, with Harry Wright on deck,
are not at all handicapped by not having a
great captain. Ieadley is a good manages
and a capable director, bat he secure
a good man 70 captain his team in order to
keep Cleveland in the swim.
q W. l. HARRIS.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15

Is : Il. H.. tall
ard tips me beam
az l5JFoulds His
first performance
Of note was on
FEB. u, $50, when
he defeated the "a
nous Splinter, W.
c. Dohm, from
the As yard mark
ia the $50 yard
race At the Ne
C hanics' Fair
building, Boston.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15

was afterward developed into Joshua
Whitcomb' through the agency Of J. VI.
Hill It may be inbsresting 10 know that
that pyrotechnic manage found in IL his
first big success.
Many Of the early years Of ThOmpson's
professional life were passed in Toronto.
While there be drew most Of the time a
fair salary, but he never knew the value Of
money-when there were coins jingling in
his pocket everybody knew that they
would be given for the asking. So when
he left Toronto he was heavily in debt.
Upon his first visit TO that city, after hav-
ing achieved his great success with Uncle
JOSH" he advertised in the papers and
sent out messengers to find his old credit
ors. During his engagement nearly 5000
passed from his hands into those Of credit
ors who had mentally given up their claims
as valueless.
Pretty nearly everybody knows by this
time that Joshua Whftcomb" and "The
Old Homestead" (which = really a sequel
20 the first named play are a. nearly
truthful pictures % a New England Village
and the life in it as the exigencies Of stage
craft will permit. They are both laid at
Swansea, where Mr.. Thompson passed his
childhood In painting the scenery artists
worked from nature. but no more so than
did the authOri in painting character. That
Of Uncle Josh is modelled from two resi-
dents Of Swansea-JOshua HolbrOOk and
Capt. Otis Whitcomb-quaint old New
England farmers. the latter Of whom is
still living. "Ni sh l cd play the piece in
Swanzy." said Mr.. Thompson, but a COW
cred bridges tn only thing there big
'nough TO act in" A moment later be said,
"But / played in Keene once, and all Swan
~ come on foot TO see it."
There is something different in "The Old
Homestead from ordinary theatrical pro
auctions, and the public recognizes it.
People who look askance at theatres gen
orally laugh and cry without a qualm Of
conscience as this plays simple story is IN
folded. This fact is Illustrated every
night at the Academy. / stood one night
with the dOOrkeeper, and In the long pro
cession filing by IL was easy 10 select the
ones who had never entered a theatre be
fore. One party Of four, whO were evident
IL visiting New York from the country,
protested when called upon 10 give up
their tickets. They wanted to keep them
As souvenirs Of this great event.
In the inoerior Of the house funny Incl
dent happen ~ LIZ scnre. TO mapy who
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15
SPORTING NOTES.

The Amateur Athletic unions fencing
championships will be held March 2 at
Central Turn Verein hall, New York
Proctor Knott, the Futurity winner Of
1855, will return to the turf this eason
One Of the honorary members Of the De
troit Bicycle club was the late Emma Alb
bOtt.
Fred Westing, the sprinter Of the Man
haitian Athletic club. viii endeavor to
make a 20 yards record this year.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15

A high priced bundle Of horsehesh Is Pc
tOmac, winner Of the Futurity stake Of
1880. AT the death Of his late owner, Au-
gust Belmont, the great 2-year-old was sold
to Michael +. Dryer for E5,OOO. an absurd
ly low figure in the opinion OF most turf
men. Potomac was considered worth at
least $4,000, but his lack Of engagements
for 1s9l-engagements Cancelled by his
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15

Peters is captain OF the b. A. A. football
eleven and Is said 10 be a crack halfback.
As a boxer be stands very well in his club
in the weit@F weight class. In a recent
contest Peters fought ~valiantly with T..
Mullins, Of the West End A. A., Newark,
n. J., but was defeated.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15
PENNANT FIGURES.
The Difficulties Found in Guess
ing League Champions.
TEAM HANDLING A GREAT FACTOR

Much Depends This Year on the Cap
tains. the Teams VIII BE So Evenly
Balanced-some characteristics of and
Points About the Methods OF Arson.
Ward. Ewing and Kelly.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15
He cAHlLL.

james Butler, One of the Crack ANA
teur Boxers of Brooklyn.
Here Is a picture Of James Butler. the
clever amateur middle weight boxer Of the
'amOus NaruHR o club, of Brooklyn.
b Is the only man thus far to cause
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15
JOSH WHITCOMB.
Denman Thompson and His
Two Famous Plays.
SUCCESS AFTER MANY STRUGGLES

A Brief story of the Life of the Man
who Has Touched More Hearts Than
ANY other Actor-A Genuine Yankee.
On and on the stage.
.'Ye see tibet barn up there's" pointing to
a picture on the wall well. tibet barn
was riz on the same day het the battle o.
Bunker Hill was fit" Then Denman
Thompson leaned beck in his comfortable
dressing room chair at the New York
Academy Of Mus and heaved a sigh.
But it amt the e now he continued;
"lightnin' struck e.
The old actor. , I'D has probably brought
reminiscent tear 20 more eyes than has
any other living man. looked back into the
past. Ills voice had the quick New Eng
ranu JERK ID e nomeiy twaug which we
have all heard oshua WhitComD use A. he
went on, Go, , Z seems 20 longtime seuce
/ uset' swap - with tn man who owned
tibet barn"
The quaint New England dialect, the
homely SLAM, the good natured awkward
ness of movement and the ready wit are
as much a part Of Denman Thompson off
the stage as they are Of Uncle Josh Whit
comb when the footlight. are shining be-
fore him and great audiences are laughing
- AAAAA al h1 A1No aAhA hNENAAAA Z III
in his SORROWS. When he passes on the
street, although he has Travelled the worlf
over and lived in New York long enough
to be known almost as an institution" Of
the metropolis, his gait, his city made bat
roughly fitting clothes, and, most Of all,
his ruddy, glowing face, make one think
Of green clad hills and furrowed fields.
His dressing room at the Academy Of
Music is the largest and finest Of any in
New York, with one exception, and that
one opens from his and is used by his
daughter. For nearly three seasons he has
stepped from bat dressing room to the
academy's stage every weekday night and
played the .art Of Uncle Josh in one Of
the two plays, Joshua Whitcomb" or The
Old Homestead"
This great success - come after a life
full Of motion. Lately the movement has
been pleasing; but in the old days, before
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15

On March Is big Elk days go-as-you-
please walking nlotch viii commences az
Madison square Garden, New York. The
winner j. 20 resolve 5000: second man,
$40, third man. $500 fourth man,
S701. dffh man. 500, and sixth man. $50
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15

success and fame
rewarded his ef
forts, life was a
hard struggle. For
nearly twenty-five
years from the day
in 1850 when be
first stepped on the
stage-it was as a
supe" in Boston
hard, unremit-
ting toll alo ne
served 10 keep his
mead above the
waters OF financial
disaster. Once or
twice. indeed. they
rose and engulfed
him, bat he quick
~ came TO he sur
face again. The
first chord Of the
melody Of success
was sounded W hen
he as playing at
Harry Martins
Varieties in Pitts
burg, for then he
wro'e and acted
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-15

+. r. Peters. the champion runner Of the
Boston Athletic association at COO and Sc
yards, has "A recon- for these distances Of
lm. H. tj- aud-m. s., respectively. Peters
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-04-09
ELECTRICITY IN LAW.

Points About Inventions That Have Open
cd New Fields of Litigation.
One of the effects of the rapid introduc-
ton of electrical inventions during the
last quarter of II century has been to open
ny entirely new fields Of litigation for the
lawyer and new questions for the bench.
This in general way is true of every new
creation Of industrial property, but with
electricity many of the problems to be
solved are qui'c novel, and n judge has
often to go wide of practice or precedent
before he can determine the legal princi-
pie proper to apply in the case before him.
THUS, Tor instance, in Pennsylvania the
qaestion has been adjudcated upon wheth-
er a.>local electric light company was a
manufacturing concern. The court says
it isnot, and yet all that it does is to make
current for sale.
A similar point is that raised as to the
durability of electric current. The law
officers of the treasury say it is intangible,
and therefore pays no duty: yet it can be
measured to the mnUtcst fraction. The
Western Union company has had many
figh as to whether pole lines had any right
on the-public highway, and Massachusetts,
say they have, as transporting message is
partof the work of intercourse, for which
roads are laid out and maintained.
The American Bell Telephone company
forYears spent hundreds of thousands of
dollars in defending the abstruse doctrine
that telephone speech can only be trans
mitted by an undulatory current, that a
make and break current would not do it,
and that other devices are simply a juggle
to get around Bells patent. In electric
lighting millions of investments have hung
that the courts might attach to the word.
Among late legal fights is one that prob
ably the United States supreme court will
have to settle-namely, whether the tele-
phone companies or the electric railway
companies have right to use the earth as a
"return" circuit. The telephone people
claim that the leakage from the railway
throS! their service out of gear and rem
ders the instruments useless. The railway
people reply that their telephonic friends
have {. remedy in metallic circuits, and that
| no one electrical interest anyhow can "own
| the earth" Already this dispute has crop
ped up in nearly a score Of states, and the
| increasing number and magnitude of the
| electric roads renders it more and more
| important. In the meantime, the tele-
phone companies as far as possible are
putting their metallic circuits in, with a
marked improvement in the service.
New questions thus crop up every day
In the use for example, of the alternative
currents now becoming SO common not a
litte3has depended on the patcntability of
the principle of transforming the current,
and on whether Il 'step up" was eqriva-
lent to Il 'step down"-in other words,
whether raising the voltage and decreasing
the ampereage was simple and inevitable
converse to decreasing the volts and rails
ing the ampcres. Another point around
which legal controversy has gathered is the
fine one us to where "low" potential ends
and thigh" potential begins.-Pittsburg
| Dispatch.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-04-09
An Outfit for Neuralria.

If there is any one in Macon who had
little faith in hoodoos and charms n few
weeks ago that person was Chief Keenan,
But at last all unbelievers are brought
around, and it appears this was the case
with the doughty chief. Some days ago he
was suffering considerably with neuralgia.
After trying every remedy under the sun
he ut last came upon Il friend who had
recipe which he was not caring particu-
larly to reveal to the chief, but seeing the
official in deep trouble he finally consented
to apply the remedy. Securing Il spool Of
black silk thread, he cut off several bits.
One he tied around the neck of the chief,
another down the back, and connecting the
one from the neck with that around the
waist, and Il fourth down his breast, con-
Meeting in the same way the two bands.
This completed the outfit.
When the operation was finished the
chief, with an incredulous smile. asked
what came next. ooh, you will talk diff
ferently in u few minutes" replied the
friend, with Il shake of the head. In n
minute the official felt strange sensation
in the face, and within five minutes the
pain had left him. To say that he was
amazed would be putting it mildly. He
has already given the cure to dozen suf-
ferers, and now he is at work solving the
problem of how he was cured. AS yet he
has found no one who can give the cause
for it.-Macon Telegraph.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-04-09

since that time his entire life has been
devoted to these Indians. He came to
where his mission is now in 1868, and has
been there ever since. He has lived
with the Indians, and knows their Ian
guage and habits better than any of them
do themselves. He has spent weeks and
months with them on their hunts and in
their camps to learn the meaning of their
signs and gestures. AS is generally
known, the sign language is by far the
most important part of the Indian Ian
guage. Rev. Mr.. Riggs was the author
of the first complete translation of the
bible into the Sioux language. and is
probably the best posted man on Indians
in the world today. He has gathered
around him now most prosperous settle
ment of Indians, and has certainly done a
great work among them.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-04-09

Next Door.
When the woman of the house answered
his ring he began:
MADAM, l am sorry to disturb you. hut
I came here from Buffalo to find work
at my occupation, and being unable to
strike"-
"What is your occupation'" she de-
manded.
81 am nurseryman."
'Then drop in next door"
"But, madam, I"-
"Next door, I say! They have seven
children there, while we haven't any!''-
Detroit Free Press
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-04-09
NIay Be.

Watt-Wonder why they always call
locomotive shes
Potts-Maybe it is on account of the hor
rible noise it makes when it tries to
whistle.-Indianapoli Journal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-20
YAcHTsMBN HELD AS sMUGGLERs.
An Unpleasant Happening to a Pleasure
Craft Party in the Port of Honolulu.


Craft Party i'm the Port of Honolulu.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. ia letter re-
ceived in this city from Honolulu reports
that a great sensation has been caused there
by the arrest of the owners OF the British
Yacht, Beadle, who were charged with
smuggling $4,000 English sovereigns into
that port. About September /, the yacht,
containing Messrs Bloom and Douglass,
the owners, and a young man named Joseph
Bvrne, arrived in the harbor. The party
rented a fine residence, furnished it hand
somely and entertained royalty.
On the arrival of the steamship Australia
from the colonies came detective and a
story of the robbery of q bank at SYDNEY
of over $50, 900. The detectiva left pho
tograph in 'he possession of Marshal Will
son, which Tailed With the appearance Of
one Of the parties here, and left on the Aus
tralia for San Francisco, for the purpose. as
he said, of cabling to Sydney for further
instructions. Tt was the intention Of Bloom
and Douglass 10 spend few months on the
island but they suddenly changed their
minds and prepared to leave November 5.
As soon as the clearance papers were given,
4 charge of smuggling WAS prepared against
the men, and they were placed under az
rest. At their trial the Crown asked for
further time, requesting their detention un-
Ill the steamer arrived, which would bring
the detective or the desired evidence The
cabins of the yacht we're searched, and no
sovereigns were found. Being unable to
maintain the charge of smuggling the
Crown dismissed the case against the own
ers, and thev sailed away on Monday. Their
destination is said to be Japan, but it is in
timated that they will touch at San Fran
pispo