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recreation is reading poetry. He is, more
over, a manly man, with a strong face and
an athletic body. Every day he walks ten
or twelve miles, often more. He is nearly
six feet tall, has a clear, healthy complex
ion n hair just beginning to turn gray.
He made his first appearance on the
stage in London This was followed by
many years of travel in the British prov
inces. Finally he returned to the English
metropolis and played the part of a villain,
and did it so well that he was Immediately
pronounced the best actor of villains in
London. He could get no other parts to
play. Managers insisted that he was a
born stage villain. This even went so far
that villain parts were known as willard
parts" in English theatrical slang.
He is not a sociable man, and is said to
particularly avoid the society of members
Of his own profession. Wilson Barrett is
his intimate friend, and the late Lawrence
Barrett was, until his death. Aside from
them he has never had intimates among
actors.
An English writer once described Will
lard as being the most earnest man he
ever saw, and it was a graphic description.
He has devoted himself to his art to the
exclusion of almost everything else. Per
haps this accounts to some extent for the
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scenes. There are very remarkable and
praiseworthy psychological studies, but
psychological studies are considered out of
place in the theater by most people.
John Needham's Double" another OF
Mr.. Willard's plays, tells a story of i'm
p~enetrable gloom. The public will not pay
for the privilege of being made gloomy.
The legitimate purpose of the theater is to
amuse. Tragedy can seldom be made to
pay nowadays and it is right that it is so.
The one other play which Mr.. Willard
has presented-"The Middleman"-is full
of human interest and ends happily. TIL.
fact that it has been the only one of Mr..
Wizards dramas to really make money
proves that human nature and happiness
are what theater goers want to see counter.
feited on the stage. Mr.. Willard has not
shown to the American people an art toe
high for them to comprehend. He has
shown to them an art applied to themes
which are not agreeable to healthy minds.
But If Mr.. Willard has not made much
money in America he has made many
friends. He IS a charming and admirable
man. He is thirty-seven years old and has
been on the stage twenty-one years, yet he
has not acquired any of the vices or mis-
takes of manner that mar the personalities
of so many actors. His favorite dissipation
is an occasional glass of ale and his chief
, 1892-03-02

The deceased was a member of the New
York and Coney Island Jockey clubs, the
exclusive Paris Jockey club, and chairman
of the board of control. He was the founder
and principal owner of Monmouth park,
which covers over 800 acres of ground,
cost nearly S2,00O,o0 o and is considered one
of the best appointed racing establishments
in the world.
Mr.. Withers was born in New York in
1922, but early in life became identified
with the racing interests n d politics of
Louisiana. In 1870 Mr.. Witt ers located at
New York, established the racing firm of
Withers g. Purdy and interested himself in
the ferry business. His wealth was esti-
mated at between ST. 0o, 900 and s., 1000, 900.
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A Little Girls Experience in a Lighthouse

Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Prescott are keep
ers of the Government lighthouse on
Sand Beach, Mich, and are blessed with
a daughter, four years old. Last April
she was taken down with measles, fol-
lowed with a dreadful cough and turning
into a fever. Doctors at home and at De-
troit treated her, but in vain, she grew
worse rapidly, until she was mere a
handful of bones." Then she tried DIR.
Kings New Discovery. and after the use
OF two and a half bottles, was completely
cured. They say DR.. Kings New Dis.
covery is worth its weight in gold, yet you
may get a trial bottle free at Roedels drug
store.
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somewhat morbid turn of his mind; but
the result of it in his stage work is very
easily seen. His art in making up' his
face amounts to genius, n he has such
control over his voice that he can disguise
it completely and make it fit the character
he is playing on the stage with a perfec-
ton that is startling.
His wife, who is known better as Miss
Emily Waters than she is as Mrs. Willard,
Is the author of many charming short
stories, most of which tend toward this
morbid. EDWARD MARSHALL.
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A Remarkable Cure Of Rbeunatism.

messrs. Cage and Sherman, OF Alexan-
der. Texas. write US regarding a remark
able cure of rheumatism there as follows.
THE wife of Mr.. William Pruitt, the
postmaster here. had been bed-ridden
with rheumatism for several years. She
could get nothing to do her anv good.
WI sold her a bottle of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm and she was completely cured
by its use. We refer anyone to her to
verify this statement" Fifty cent bottles
or sale BY druggists. .
, 1892-03-02

NTERIoR OF THE COLUMBIA TuEATER.
man. Two thousand electric lights will
be used to illuminate the Columbia.
Brooklyn has now for the first time a really
complete theater with the most modern
appointments, 1t is proposed to tea down
the buildings adjoining the Columbia and
utilize the space thus obtained as a grand
plaza. The interior decorations and APP
pointments will be as rich as money can
make them.
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| see that the Knights of Labor of Ne
braska are agitating the question of leg
islation to compel railroad companies to
provide safety appliances for their
freight cars. 1t is high time that some
thing was done in this matter. The sta
tistics show that for the year ending
June 30, 1890, 2.451 railway employees
were killed and 22, 800 were injured. In
nearly every instance these deaths or in
juries were due to the dangerous meth
DDS employed for coupling or braking
cars. The railroad companies have no
excuse, excepting greed, for not using
safety couplers and brakes. | have the
authority of a we'll posted railroad man
for the statement that there have been
invented scores of appliances for freight
cars, which, if adopted by the compa-
MES, would reduce the accidents in these
branches of the service to the minimum.
These inventions nave peer bought up,
either before or after being patented, by
the railroad managers and hidden away,
30 as to prevent their introduction. OF
course the adoption of q new system
would require a considerable outlay, but
does life count for nothing at all with
the money grubbing monopolist? eff tho
same reckless cruelty and Indifference
were shown regarding the transportation
of cattle the humane societies would be
up in arms" truly remarks a prominent
Nebraska Knight.
Jos. r. BUCHANAN.
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Do you know that the Union Pacific is
now running a Pullman Palace sleeper to
St. Louis2
Its a fact The sleeper runs from
Salt Lake City to St LOUIS via Denver
and Kansas City and the Missouri Pacific
railway. Apply 20 your nearest Union
Pacific agent for accommodations 10 this
car.
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THE SAGE OF eRookDALE.

David d. withers' Death a Great Lo.r
to the Turf.
Death has reaped a rich harvest rmong
Americas leading turfmen within the
past two years. One after another, August
Belmont, Senator Hearst and Congress-
man Scott passed away, and now the grim
destroyer has eDie5 the career of David
Durham Withers, the Sage of Brook
dale" who was one OF the best known
lovers OF legitimate horse racing on the
North American continent.
, 1892-03-02

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non appease his hunger or shelter
bodyS Yes, wealth and poverty are Il,
tive terms, and with this truism shoa. !
GO another: the fear of want is little less
dreadful than want itself. Thus it is
that those who today have enough for
their immediate needs realize that under
beautiful system it is but a step to
tho lowest level upon which the hungry
and destitute stand. And the never end
ing tramp of those who are taking that
step browns to the ears of the student
the platitudes of patchwork regenerators
of mankind.
, 1892-03-02

Brooklyn's new theater, the Columbia,
is said to be the handsomest and most
elaborate playhouse in the United States.
1t will be conducted by Messrs. Edwin
Knowles, Al Hayman and Daniel Froh-
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MR. WILLARD HEACTOR
His Artistic Success Great, but
His Financial Gains Small.
HIS REMARKABLE PERSONALITY.

A Constant and Careful student of Ev.
erything That Can Aid Him In His
Art-why He Has Made Little Money
in America
E s. Willard, the young Englishman
who has been acting in America for more
than a year, has won a veritable triumph
artisticaIly, but there is reason to believe
that he has not made a financial success.
1t is said in London that he has played
over the heads of Americans"-that his art
istoo high to win appreciation in Yankee-
land 1t would be nearer the truth to as
cribe his failure to make money to bad
Judgment in his selection of plays. Two
of the four which he has produced in
America, Judah" and Wealth" are
psychological studies arranged in acts and
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Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher thinks that
it is useless to expect those who have in
herited poverty to abolish it. Neither
does she think that the very rich will
ever be of any great assistance; but
sit must be the work of those usual
ly called the middle classes" These,
she says, who have always lived within
their incomes, twill do more by their
example than can be lone by the most
active societies, by committees, resolu-
tons or exhortations." | believe Mrs.
Beecher is right in her designation of
the most powerful force for the aboli-
ton of poverty, but | think she values
example" too highly in this connection,
1t seems to me that, as | have already
intimated, the middle classes will be
the great em~ancipators, If the poor are
ever emancipated, because they will re-
alize that they are saving themselves.
Self preservation is a strong motive and
the N of prevention a wise method.
However, there is no denying that the
middle classes have stronger sympathies
than the rich for the poor, and this is
obviously natural.
, 1892-03-02

Among the nameless heroes, none are
more worthy of martyrdom than he who
rode down the valley of the Conemaugh,
warning the people ahead Of the Johns
town flood. Mounted on q powerful
horse, faster and faster went the rider,
but the food was swiftly gaining, until
1t caught the unlucky horseman and
swept on, grinding, crushing, annihila-
ting both weak and strong.
In the same way is disease lurking
near, like unto the sword of Damocles,
ready to fall, without warning, on its
victim, who allows his system to be-
come clogged up, and his blood poi
soned, and thereby his health endan-
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Grace Greenwood thinks the question
too large to settle in a newspaper article;
but she gives in condensed form what
shes calls her modus operandi for the
abolition of poverty, and it is here copied
without comment:
My modus operandi would be a stern en-
forcement OF the golden rule, compelling all
rich people the world over, on pain OF death,
conlscation and cremation. to accept and put
In practice that divine law-even though they
strip themselves OF all else golden" 1 think
l have all due faith In humanity, but | am In
rlined to believe that only the author OF the
golden rule, only the divine originator and Or
ganizer OF tho universe, can abolish human
want and misery. Let poets say what they
will OF honest and %virtuous poverty" cruel
penury remains the child OF original sin and
the parent Of vice. To abolish" It we need
another Sinai. perhaps another Calvary.
, 1892-03-02

Ask your grocer for'Jaek Frost" -four.
The morning call., 1892-11-07
A KENTUCKY FEUD.
Brief Story OF the Eversole Trouble In
Perry County.
St, Louis Globe Democrat.

st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The latest and m ost famous of all the Ken
tucky feuds was that of Perry County. Old
Joe Eversole. merchant and lawyer. was the
boss of Perry County up to 1886. The Ever
sole family held all the Offices and all the
trade worth having, and when young B. f.
French came over from Breathitt in 1886,
and from teaching school began to set him.
self up as a business and political rival Of the
Eyersoles, that naughty clan resented his
lmpertlnence in the usual mountain fashion.
But French had brains and money on his
side. A lucky deal as agent for mineral
land syndicate made him wealthy man for
the mountains, and he made up for his
want of blood relatives by hiring assassins
at 81 80 day and supplying them with
Winehesters. Old Joe Eversole was killed,
and nearly thirty other members of the
gang went down before the superior gen.
eralship of the French faction. The Ever
soies bad been all scattered or extermiuated
when the State took hand. A Grand
Jury, guarded by troops, found nearly 400
indictments against members of the fac
tlons. and the troops helped TO make the
arrests. The whole gang was taken TO
Winchester for trial. and the cases have
been dragging along there for several years.
with no convictions. French himself. under
several indictments, has taken up his
residence at Winchester to practice law.
any of the crimes committed by his gang.
There Is still bad blood between the sur
vivors. but they are cowed at last by the
grasp Of the law.
Calling guns are now fired by alectrieity
The morning call., 1892-11-07
A STORY OF CHESTNUTS.
Great Fun During the Autumn Month
in Peunsylvania.


Scranton (Pa.) Corr New York Sun.
In the western part of this county and
all through the adjoining county of SusQue-
hanna an immense crop of chestnuts is be-
ing gathered. 1t is the largest crop, tho
country people say. that there has been in
eighteen years. All the nuts are plump
and sound. The frosts of last week opened
the bUrrs, and chestnutting parties of
both sexes have enjoyed life in the woods
and fields and gathered bushels and bushels
of the popular nuts during these golden
October days. The owners OF trees In the
clearings charge a party OF city Dymph5
and sYalnS a certain amount for all
the nuts there are Oh a tree, and after a
bargain has been made the young men
shake the limbs until not nut remains,
the girls pick them up, and lots Of
fun and jollification follows. The parties
lake lunches Tor an all-day outing, feed for
the horSes, cups to dip spring water with.
and bottles that contain something good,
ana many lively picnic have they held in
1ne chestnut groves during the past week.
he Eils Ratner handsome forest leaves,
eYefgreens, and bright red mountain ash
berries to take home, ana their escorts load
tne carriages with acDTns and pine cones
lne conductors on little railroad that
! runs from the main line of the Delaware
| Lackawanna and Western to tie beautiful
! mountain village OF Montrose have won the
| friendship oil all the chestnut gatherers who
| go into that region by rail. They let off
parties at any point between stations. and
! the engineers stop whenever they give the
| signal that they want to be taken on. The
conductors and engineers get all the chest
| nuts they can eat without having to pick or
| buy them, and they make tue schedule time
| just the same as though they were cross and
unaccommodatlng and stopped only at the
stations
The morning call., 1892-11-07
ELECTRIC TORPEDO-BOATS.
Success in the Next War VIII Largely
Depend on Their Use.
Pail Mall Gazette.

Pail Mall Gazette
The torpedo boat is one of the weapons
upon which we are to rely in the next great
paval war, aud men-of-war are provided
with second-class torpedo boats which are
10 be hoisiej out and detached when
occasion arises. 1t is obvious that one
of the great requirements for boats
built for this service Is that they
should always be ready for work
With steam launch some delay must be
incurred in raising full pressure OF steam,
even IL the launch boiler be fed with live
steam from the main boilers. The electric
torpedo boat can be charged from the
DYNAMO which Is now a necessary part OF
every steamships outfit. during times when
there Is slackness in the demand for steam
and when few lamps are switched on.
The cost Of charging is therefore reduced
to a minimum, but this recommendation is
one of the least important. because in esti-
mates for war purposes econ omy is a very
secondary consideration. The great recon-
mendaton is that she is always ready
Once charged she remains on duty. and
when the call comes she has to be put afloat
and the starting lever pnt over. She
is thus enabled TO 20 full speed ahead
on touching the water, and this is q
very great consideration. The difficulty at
present in the way is that of speed. The
data available TO the public respecting small
steam vessels is very meager. We can
easily find out particulars of the engines,
consumption and bunker capacity of ocean
steamships, although sometimes the iignres
are more approximative; but the builders
of little boats keep the particulars of weight
of machinery and amount of consumption of
coal very much to themselves. Then, too.
| the electric launches hitherto built have not
| gone in for great speed.
Those built for Thames pleasure pur-
poses, for example, are very much limited
| in speed by the rules of the Thames Gen.
| servancy. and the builders of craft for this
traffic are therefore obliged TO find an out
! let for their ingenuity by trying to decrease
| the weight of their machinery and In
| ereasiBg the length of time during which
! a vessel may run before her charge is ex-
/ haused. Thus at present We cannot pre-
! tend to give any accurate details regard
i ing the weight OF electric machinery
| required te drive seconi-class torpedo
| boat at the speed where her steam engines
| now take her. This. however. seems Ger.
| tain, she could be driven at her present
| speed in the present state Of electrica
| science, though her endurance would be les:
| with electricity than with steam. This is
| OF course, a disadvantage. but 1t must be re
| membered that In an attack By boat oi
The morning call., 1892-11-07
HUM MING BIRDS,
Some Curious Facts About These Minia-
ture Denizsus of the AIR.
St Louis Post Dispatch

St Louis Post Dispatch.
The Smithsonian Institution at Washing
ton has just issued a monograph about hum
ming birds. One reason why these daintiest
OF feathered creatures are interesting is that
they were unknown to the white man until
Columbus discovered the new world, their
range being confined to the continent of
America. 1t is not the naturalist alone who
has found them worthy of attention. The
demand for them is great for ornamental
purposes. Dealers, mostly Frenchmen and
Belgians, have established themselves in
many cities OF South America for the sole OBJ
ject of buying and exporting humming birds.
FromsSanta Fe de Bogota alone many thou-
sands OF skins are annually sent TO London
and Paris. The Indians rapidly learn the
art of skinnng and preserving, and because
of the exceptional profits to be got by this
industry, they often traverse great distance
to procure the birds. Residents OF many
parts of Brazil employ their slaves in COL
lecting and preparing them for European
markets, and great numbers are shipped
from Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Pernam-
buco. Inmates of the converts are supplied
with many of the most richly coiored species
for the manufacture of artificial feather
flowers. Myriads of hummerS are also used
by the natives of Mexico in making the
wonderful feather-pictures for which the
descendants of the AzteeS are famous.
piumeS of different eOlorS being employed
in place of pigments.
Although the commercial demand for
humming- birds has been the cause of their
wholesale destruction, ii has enabled natu-
ralists 10 become better acquainted with
them, the vast number of specimens con-
tained in miliners' and taxidermists' stocks
frequently yielding species which otherwise
would have been likely to remain unknown
to science. AS to the methods by which
collectors procure them many absurd no.
tions are current. 1t is commonly said that
they are shot with water or with sand. As
a matter Of fact, lead shot of the numbers
ten and eleven are employed. But by far
the most effective weapon is the reed blow
pipe. which the South American Indians
use with perfect certainty of aim, little
balls of clay being projected by the
breath. In Brazil very fine nets ale
utilized to capture the birds, and some
times they are taken by means OF
bird-lime, which is apt to damage the
plumage. Owing TO the reckless slaughter
of these little victims for ornamental pur-
poses, certain species are already on the
verge of extinction. This does not seem
surprising when one learns that 80, 600 skins
of the ruby-and-topaz hummIng- bird alone
were shipped not long ago from Brazilian
The morning call., 1892-11-07

this kind. detached from a man. of-war, the
time during which she would be required to
be under way would be very short.
The attack would probably consist Of
rush forward and rapid retreat TO the
shelter OF her convoy. Against this disad-
vantage must be placed the constant readi-
ness TO which we have already alluded, and
also another advantage. which is of
scarcely less Importance, viz, the absence
of smoke and glare. During the recent
naval maneuvers it was constant
complaint that when pressed to full
speed a flame appeared above the tunnels
OF the torpedo boats in spite of all efforts to
prevent 1t, and that this, of course, gave
fatal indication of their whereabouts. The
whole value of an attack could be lost ii
such warning were given in actual war
fare. and the electric launch could give no
such sign. The Liverpool Journal of Com
merce understands that data as to the en-
dureuce of electrically propelled torpedo
boats will soon be available.
The morning call., 1892-11-07

tilted and greatly embellisbed by Bishop
Chisholm. During the tumulruous times of
the Reformation there Is little record of
how this splendid ediice became partial
ruin, but the facl remains that by far the
most striking portion of ii, the nave (130
feet long, and the western entrance, with
It's famous "bayleaf' windows above, were
greatly damaged and defaced.
RIskln, in bis lectures on Architecture
and Painting" writes: "He was no CON-
mon man who designed the Cathedral of
Dnnbiane. / know nothing so perfect In
us simplicity and so beautiful. as far as 1t
reaches, in all the Gothic with which I am
acquainted. And just in proportion to his
power OF mind that man WAS content to
work under Natures teaching. and instead
OF putting formal, dry truth. as everybody
else did at the time he went down n ths
WOODY bank OF the sweet river beneath the
rocks On which he was building, took up a