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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-17

e IN II I q c g o.,
and yet he was the trusted lieutenant of
Garrison, took a leading part in the set
Element of the Kansas question and
commanded the first colored regiment
raised to suppress slavery and preserve
the Union. Who has not read his Life
in a Black Regiment" IL of
the finest pieces Of literature
produced by the war period ?
Col. Higglnson's lot has always been
II of plain living and high thinking,
and, as a result, at siXty-nine he is still
a splendid specimen of vigorous
hOod-sturdy. erect, clear-eyed and
deep voiced. He has a pleasant home
at Cambridge and a summer cottage at
Dublin, n. Ii. He is still actively en-
gagged in literary work. and told me,
when l talked with HIM the other
day, that he hoped to soon
commence work on his recol-
lectlons of men and women
he has known and the events in which
he has taken part during the last fifty
years. He has an abundance Of ma
terial on which to draw. and is sure to
make a book Of great and permanent
interest.
Col. HigginsOn's literary taste is SO
hne and true that 1t is interesting to
know that among u younger writer's
he regards Harnlin Garland as the one
who gives the greatest promise of future
greatness. l wonder how many there
are who agree with him.
RUFUR r. WILSON.
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ing in 1893. he states that ne no longer

ing in 1893, he states that ne no longer
possesses these advantages.
Altered social conditions, in his Opin-
ion, have helped-to improve the bodily
powers and address in this class; such
conditions, for instance. as more whole
some and abundant food. better cooking,
! warmer clothing, moderation In the use
of alcohol, better ventilated sleeping
rooms, more change through vacations,
and, lastly, the healthy lives led by
women in their girlhood. One of the
most striking sights in the city of Lon
don is the number of tall women that
are to be found in the fashionable parks
during the season.
1t is more partic larly among the
women of the upper classes that the i'm
proved conditions of the last two gen..
eratiOns have left their mark. Women
OF five feet six inches and five feet eight
inches are common, and it is not a very
unusual occurrence to meet a woman of
five feet ten inches and even six feet.
A gentleman well known in London
society states that when he became of
age, twenty-five years ago. his sister, a
tall and handsome girl. was the talleSt
girl among the visiting acq ua%intanceS
of the family, and o she is overtopped
by nearly every IL of her younger lady
acquaintance.
With this physician progress there has
been a corresponding moral one. The
youth of what is called in England ''the
leisure class is not now so addicted to
the idle habits, the bad language, the
gambling and the unmanly amusements
Of his fOrefathers. Exercise has taught
him to be choicer III his dress and more
lavish i'll the use of water. The purer men
tai tone has %insensibly permeated more or
less other grades Of SOcintv and Tho
streets of large English towns are moi so
thronged as they were with drunken
and dirty toughs. The prominence
given to all bodily exploits by the sport |
ing and general press has likewise di-
rected puolic attention to the question
of physical education and has had an
eminently salutary influence.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-17

than he is a remarkable young man.
According to all analogy he Should
spend his time leading germans or SIM
pering in an opera, for he was born a
millionaire three or four times over. His
fortune-it Is so large it is hardly worth
while talking about-came to him from
the Astor estate. His mother was a
daughter of John Jacob AStor. His
father was John Winthrop Chanler.
who was a political power i'll New York
thirty years ago. Lewis Stuyyesant
Charler might have dangled about any
drawing-room he pleased, but he has
gone about the business of law in a
matter-of-faet way that is supposed to
be the peculiar property of men who
have no grandfathers.
He was the seventh son. One of his
brothers is the husband of that tamboy-
ant novelist. Amelle RiveS Chanler, by
the way. His education with the eX-
ception of a year or two at the law
school was carried on under tutors.
When he was twenty years of age-and
that was only IOu years ago-he mar
ried Miss Chamberlain and went West.
In Colorado he was admitted to the bar.
There was a man out there tried TOR
murder and convicted. AT this point
Mr.. Chanler was retained to fight the
case in the upper courts.
Il applied for a stay, but by the time
| had my case prepared" he remarked
rather gloOmily, as he tells the story,
they had hanged the man."
He returned to New York after this
experience and opened an Office in
Cedar street. The clients did not come
to him, so he went to the clients. He
haunted the criminal courts. until one
day Recorder SInyth noticed him and
assigned him to defend all old soldier
who had been arrested for assault
ing a saloonkeeper. Mr.. Chanler
won the case, slipped a SIS
bill in the veterans pocket and sent
him on his way. He was assigned as
counsel for two other pennileSs priS-
oners. In each of these cases the charge
was murder in the first degree, and the
young lawyer saved his clients from the
electric chair. After that he found it a
fairly easy road, and today he is as
ISOLATED with such lawyers as Charles
w. Brooke and Dr. William j. O'Sul-
Ivan. And he does not owe SiX-pen-
north of his success to the Astor-Chan-
Ter millions.
How does he look?
Slight, rather misunderstanding, six
feet tall. with a good length Of limb,
and a hand thatwould fit a boxing glove;
a strong face, the forehead high and
broad. the nose rather large, the chin
square and the lips full; a good head of
brown hair II brown tufts of WhiSkers
in front of either ear. He dresses
plainly in dark clothes; there is never a
piece of jewelry in sight. Altogether a
frank, downright and upright young
man. with a trick of locking at you in a
straightforward way. His country seat
is at Cedarhurst, l.. l.. He has no town
house, but makes up for IL by belonging
to a half-score clubs.
If people would stop referring to him
as Amelie Observation-Disclosures, Think
he would be perfectly happy.
VANCE THOMPSON.
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decides to protest, it is Maurice Grau
who settles the ruffied plumage.
So far, nothing very distressing has
happened. Mile. Calye, before her first
appearance, laDored under the convic-
ton that she was going to be the victim
Of a conspiracy. She, however, has
made such a great hit that Maurice
Grau's services have not as yet been in
request. Calve is a pleasant little body,
who is still ingenious enough to aver
that she is ''wedded to her art" She
will get over this shortly. At present
she is staying placidly at the Plaza
hotel, and posing as a sort of a melan-
choly Duse. She will also get over that,
especially when her sister song birds
open their mouths and chirrup pretty
interviews and small talk.
The De ResZke brothers never give
any trouble at all. They are charming
fellows, both Of them-what the French
call bons garconS, and they are very
popular with their managers. Jean is
perhaps not quite as much the idol of
the matinee god as ne used to be, but
he is a great favorite. They do not
seem to know the meaning of the word
jealousy, which is perhaps due to the
fact that they stand alone, rivalless.
L saw Miss Eames scintillating at the
AhC BOpO1itou lhO OIuCl uiSuU, Willis
Calve was singing. Eames was not in
the bill, but she has no objections to as
slstlng at the triumph of the newcomer.
That is what Melba will not do. The
Australian prima donna is going to be a
fayorite with the public, but L do not
fancy hat she will endear herself to
her associates.
Mangiere, the new tenor, is a quaint
little fellow who is very much charmed
with New York. He thinks nothing of
walking from T~wenty-third street to
the Battery, and taking i'll the sights en-
route. Everything that he sees sur
prises him. and he was a little bit STAR
tied at the size of the Metropolitan. In
Paris he used to Sing at concerts, and in
the choir of the Eglise de la Madeline.
lie has, therefore, not as yet completely
accustomed himself to the colossal the
alter at Fortieth street and Broadway.
You will perhaps have noticed that in
nearly every cast appears the name of
Mile. BauermeiSter. That little woman
who sings second fiddle to everybody is
the prime favorite of MeSsrs. Abbey.
Schoetfel IL Grau. a more conscien-
tious and amiable little lady it would be
difficult to secure. She has a repertoire
or something like three dozen operas,
and can sing every role at a
moments notice, in case of the
indispositlon or ill-temper of an
artist. Many a time has Mile. Bauer
melster kept he Metropolitan opera
house open for Messrs Abbey, Schoeffel
Grau when loss has stared them IN
the face, but this plucky little m
has stepped into their rescue.
They are a queer lot-these operate
singers representative, always at fe-
yer heat. egotistical. inconsiderate, pea
cockesque, but they charm us with their
art, ana we willingly succumb to 1.-The
funny little way they've got.
ALAN DALE.
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PADEREWsKI AND sLIVINsKI.

1t must be a hard ordeal for that re-
fined and sensitive young artist, the
Polish pianist Slivinski, whom A. NJ.
Palmer brought over this season, to hear
himself continually contraSted with his
predecessor. Paderewski.
1t Is a particularly trying situation for
any man TO follow in the wake of such
a human cyclone as last years musical
lion proved; at least, his effect in the
feminine heart of New York was cy-
clonic, and it was the peculiar personal
power of the man which caused his
tremendous success.
Without doubt other men, and per-
haps women, have played the piano
with as great skill and taste before New
York audiences. 1t is quite probable
that Slivinski is one of these. No one
seems to doubt the fact that ne is a great
artist. Every n comedies that he is a
delightful gentleman. 1t is only when
he is contrasted with the lion of the
boudoir that he seems to sink into COM
parative insignlticance. L am told that
he is keeniy and painfully alive to the
damaging comparison. He is devoted
to his art, and most conscientious in his
pursuit of it.
He ought to be judged upon his own
merits. 1t might have been better had
MIR. Palmer allowed a year to intervene
between the passing of PadereWski and
the coming of Slivinski. This would
have given the feminine heart time to
recover from the prostrating effects of
the former, and the state of the fem
mime heart is of vital interest in these
matters, since the success Of an artist
OF any kind in New York depends
greatly upon the women, who compose
so large a portion of the audiences.
l heard it remarked yesterday that
had Slivinski worn his hair long. and
adopted other So-called eccentricities of
his predecessor, his success would have
been as great. But this is folly. 1t
may be that, like Samson, much of
Paderewski's power lay in his hair. But
the mere growing of long hair will not
produce this power. 1t is an electric
quality. generated by peculiar mental
and spiritual elements in the mans
makeup, and impossible to simulate.
1t was not merely the feminine por-
ton of New York. either, which sue
cumbed to this influence last winter.
The greatest proof to me of the famous
planlst's power was the splendid and
stirring poem which his music inspired
K. w. Glider to write. Every line rang
and thrilled with the melody which he
described. You felt after reading it
that you had been listening to Pader-
eWSkl. 1t is the highest tribute to
genius when it inspires genius.
L hope SlivinSki may be able to do as
much. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
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IRRIGATION IN NEBRASKA.
Progress Has Been Made in Re
deeming the Arid Lands.

Progress Has Been Made In Re
deeming the Arid Lands.
Nebraska has always been included
among the rain-belt states, and yet the
western half is largely arid land which
will not produce remunerative crops
without irrigation. Thousands of acres
have been fertilized already by canals
that have been cut on either side Of the
North Platte river, but a vast territory
lies u~nreclaimed. The irrigation move
ment in Western Nebraska began in
1885, and, although it has been inter
rupted at times by failure Of capital,
much has been accomplished. One
company has dug in SCOTS Bluff county
a canal or ''ditcn,'' thirty miles long,
with an average width of sixty feet,
which waters $4,000 acres. This is
known as the Farmers Canal, and was
constructed on the cooperative plan.
Other canals are the Miniature, twenty
miles long; the Winters Creek, fifteen
miles: the Enterprise. thirty miles; the
Mitchell, thirty miles; and the Castle
Rock. eighteen miles. Besides these
there are a dozen or more small
''ditches." each watering between 1000
and 5000 acres. 1t is estimated that the
flood of the North Platte has been
tapped by 500 miles of irrigating canals.
With two exceptions these have been
dug, equipped and maintained by the
associated farmers themselves. A
compilation made two years ago is said
to have shown that the first cost of these
mutual enterprises divided by the num-
Der of acres for which they could furnish
water left as the auoitent $3.50. In
other words. the farmers had secured
for the sum of $3.50 per acre a certainty
of crops pepetually, with the trihing
cost of annual maintenance added.
This is a remarkably low result, as the
government reports show the average
rental of water to be from $3.50 to SIS
per acre annually in the irrigation
states or territories. 1t is true that the
Nebraska canals are for the most part
simply conduits that are built to take
advantage of the fall of the river, and
are constructed on a lower grade across
the level valley lands skirting the
stream. The North Platte lends itself
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-17

IA REHAN, as WOn plaud-
It's where most foreigners would have
challenged his ieS.
IL Is twents odd years ago, since 1 first
became acquainted with Ada Rehal,
and she was her almost unknown. In
the autumn of 1881, if l mistake not,
Mr.. DAILY produced at his New York
theater Qhe same which has since seen
so many triumphs) a comedy OF
mine entitled Our First Families"
The play vas instantaneously sue
c~esSfui, and l have always felt
that Miss Rehan largely helped to make
ii 50. Her part was Ii of the ingenue
sort, and she played it with wonderful
a%rchnesS and brilliancy. Long after
ward, when | met her at a banquet in
London, whittier many famous people
had gathered to do her homage, she paid
ME the sweet compliment of saying
aloud, in the presence of several dis
tingui5hed hedrers: Mr.. Fawcett,
here. gave me my first real chance; in
was in his play of Our First Families
that [ made my first real hit" l col
ored with embarrassment, as several
pairs of eyeglasses were directed upon
me. Yes" repeated Miss Rehan. cit
was in Eva Manhattan that l first won
an actual success"
And now marvellous. since them has
that success been ! Still, often having
met the actress and talked with her
through succeeding years. | have inva-
riablY found i'll her one marked and un-
falling quality. l mean that of mod
eSty. Some dramatic artists affect to
be humble. Ada Rehan's total lack
of amour propre could not be doubted
by the most acrid cynic. Off the stage
she is the essence Of simplicity and self
Atfannmpnt Tn nanr hnT i'm Snaial lifo
is to meet a graceful, intelligent, though
not over yivaciouS woman. Yet we all
know the Scintillating eXuberance of
mlrth and the magnetic funds of
subtlety. volatility, felicity which her
acting can disclose. She is 4 bOrn child
of the stage; the footlights are some
how her inspiring kindred. l have
often thought that she is never SO much
herself as when she is assuming to be
someone else. But IS not this true of
all great hlstriOnic artists, especially
when they are comedians? And yet |
cannot help feeling that if fate had
never called Ada Rehan to the stage no.
body would have dreamed her fitted
TO adorn 1t. Of many inferior act
resses this, l have found, is so
untrue. They act far better in private
than in public. To Ada Rehan has been
VouchSafed that strange and uneAplain-
able gift of receptivity, at once to the
demand OF the audience and the glamor,
the stimulus, the elixir of the surround
Ing scene. Many a novice might learn
a wholesome lesson from this plant and
plastic quality. And muItitudes of
noyices might learn still more whole
some lesson from the gentle self distrust
and genuine humility of this great and
now reigning artist.
EDGAR FAWCETT.
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Grand Army Camp Fire Exaggera-
tiOns.
Washinptnn Post

washington Post.
After the Grand Army parade in
Washington the old soldiers as usual
had a camp fire. The stories told were
about long-range shooting. Gen. Sickles
told about some of Berdan's Yankee
sharpshooters hitting a rebel a mile
away. The eXaggeration made them call
or Major Landon eli Perkins). of Kill
patrick post. New York.
II believe Gen. Sickles is truthful"
said Eli. 1--WE have marksmen up in
New England now who can outshoot
Berdan's men,"
Who? Where?:" asked a dozen voices.
"Well," said Eli, ''there was old Nat
wiley, who lived up in the White
mountains. near the Conway house.
One evening"" continued the humorist.
there were a group of guests sitting
around the blazing logs of the Conway
house. There were several K~entuckians,
a Colorado man, and Old Nat. They
had all told stories of long shots. but
Old Nat kept perfectly quiet. A KEN
tucklan told about his father, who was
a pioneer with Daniel Boone, IL how
he had killed a deer at a distance of two
milesr
Then there was a long silence, which
was broken by Deacon Head, who said
to Old Nat:
Look here, Uncle Nat, how about
that rifle that Gen. Knox gave you.
That could shoot some, couldn't it?'
You mean the one | had to fire sailed
balls fromH asked Old Nat.
Yes, tell us about it,
"'Pshaw! 1t don't matter. Let the old
piece rest i'll its glory
"And modest Old Nat would have sat
back out of the way, but the story
tellers had become suddenly interested.
lie us hear about it, pleaded the
gentleman whose father had been
a compatriot with Daniel Boone. Did
| understand you that you sailed your
bulIets?'
Always said Nat. seriously and
emphatically.
"'And what for, pray?'
"'Because,' answered the old mount
aineer, with simple honesty in look
and tone. that rifle killed at such a
distance that, otherwise, especially in
warm weather, game would spoil with
age before | could-reach It,"
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lances full tilted at the Tam
many wiewam. His dominant
characteristic Is fighting, and he
is a politician in the broadcast sense of
that much abused word. He knows how
TO mass men and hold them together
like a stone wall better than any other
person in these parts. He knows the
lngS and outs Of the political busy bees
OF Tammany hall. He knows all the
eddies and currents of politics in this
city. He knows how to select men who
may be relied upon when that reliance
is tempted by crisp green5aeks. He
knows how to use sentiment as well as
money, and he is absolutely without
fear when once he is engaged in a
struggle.
So you will see that Grace is a very
remarkable a He aimed t become
mayor OF New York city and succeeded.
de hoped 10 become governor but failed,
solely because the farmers of New York
state are not fold of the Catholic relig-
ion, for Grace is a Catholic. He began
his life with the ambition to become a
rich man, and he is worth today MANY
millions OF dollars. Garth in hand, and is
prospectlvely worth 500, 0O0, 900 more if
his South American mines but half full
III legitimate expectations.
Personally Mr.. Grace is a solid man
with grayish brown hair, moustache
and goatee, and big wondering eyes
that look at you through clumsey. old
fashioned sp~ectacles, He is about fifty
five years of age. He is of medium
hight. He is not much of a public
speaker, but he has an array of facts
and figures at his fingers ends that
always convince if their presentation
be not eloquent. He has given a fort
une to charities and is on the most
confidential terms with the Catholic
prelateS of this city. Mr.. Cleveland
owes more to Grace than to any
other living man. 1t was largely through
Grace's effort that Cleveland's name
was presented to the last Democratic
national convention. Grace is fond of
political life. and he has began a strug-
gle against Tammany hall that will end
either in his w effacement from poll
tics or the dethronement of the present
bosses OF the Wigwam. The chances
seem to favor Grace. There is no fight
pr In Tammany hall his equal to meet
him on the field of battle.
FOSTER COATES.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-17

Harris b u rg
when old ST.
monCameron,
w h o h a d
taken a great
liking to him,
S e C ire d a
more impor-
t t charge
for him in
Washington.
Wash
ington he soon
passed to this
city and at
once took a
leading place
in his profess
o His con-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-17
GROWING
Effect Of Athletic Exercises on the
People Who Indulge Therein.

COPiO W hO urge 4AeTG1Hs
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Francis Gallon has collected some in
teresting facts in regard to the effect of
athletics and improved physical conGi-
tions during the last forty years on the
physique of the middle classes, that
great and important part of the English
population which. III the arbitrary SO
cial scale of the country. lies between
the artisan class on the one side and
the upper ten thousand" on the other.
MIR. Cation gives instructive evidence
of the amelioration of the upper middle
classes. When he was an undergradu
ate at Cambridge. from 1910 to 1914, al
though but five feet nine and %one-quar-
ter inches in height. he was taller than
the majority of his fellows. In address,
ing them he habitually lowered his
eyes, and if in a crowd he would readily
see owe the heads Of the people. Writ
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A Great Plan.
Puck.

Mrs. Foracloque-How have you man
aged to keep your last servant so long?
Mrs. Pinktee-rll tell you. l thought
up a great scheme, and it works to
perfection.
Mrs .Foracloque-What is it?
Mrs. PinkIee-When the new girl
came | told her | had to discharge the
last because my husband made love TO
her. / guess she is still waiting.
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generously to irrigation projects. being
II OF the largest rivers flowing east
from the Rocky mountains. lis volume
IS said to be greater than that of all
rivers OF Colorado, a state for which
irrigation has accomplished wonders
IN Nebraska this method is in its in
1ancy, when the territory still to be re-
CANNED and capable of supporting
many thousand settlers is considered.
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W life t h y
chubby and
piquant little
Mile. Vailot?
"a IL d h g
knows how to
appeal to the
vanity of his
arti S t 8. If
Mme. Scalchi
has a pain in
her eyebrow,
and refuses to
sing, it is
Maurice Grau
who has to
hustle for a
substitute. If
Miss Emmal
Games con-!
SiderS tn a y
she is not d
vantageousl v
displayed up
on the pro-
m and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-17
A Practical Suggestion.
Good News.

Good News.
Mrs. harvest Cat the worlds fairy
This is what you put on wal vessels. is
it?
Attendant-The very same. It's
called H~arveyized steel plate.
Mrs. Fdrwest-It does look real
strong. l believe if you'd make it
thinner you might sell a good many
yards of it for patchin' boys clothes.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-17
OUR CAPRICIoUs SONG BIRDS.

Maurice Grau is the great "prima
donna %persuader" of the operatic firm of
Abbey. Schoeffel & Grau. He comes
to this country simply because
he knows how to manage these
capIicious song birds. He speaks
much like a natiYe-for was not his