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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-08-17

his worth. Strengthened by the exper-
fence OF the part three seasons. he will
make in few weeks the second assault
upon the citadal Of metropolitan approx
al. Remember the name: Walker
Whitesider'
I have been reading, says cores
pondent Of the Mirror, Bulwer Lytton's
Last OF the Barons, and as q result of
this reading / would like to know how
much, IL at all. Bronson Howard is in
debted to Bulwer for that scene in
Aristocracy where Diana Stockton re-
latee dream she has had about
snake. Snake stories have always pos
sessed peculiar charm for me. and !
confess read the following in Chapter
ILL.,, Book VIII, OF the Last Of the
Barons with much interest: while
Anne 10 sleeping, the king, who has be-
come enamored of her charms, enters
her chamber stealthily, only to find her
locked in the embrace Of Sibyl. her
friend and companion. and he retires
without accomplishing the purpose for
which he came. Upon awakening the
following morning Sibyl relates to
Anne dream which had disturbed her
slumbers during the previous night. as
follows: 'Methought you were asleep
and in this chamber; and not by your
side, but watching you at a little dis
lance; and, 10! q horrible serpent glided
from yon recess, and, crawling to your
pillow heard its hiss, and strove to
come to your aid, but in vain; a spell
seemed to chain my limbs. At last I
found voice. cried aloue-I woke;
and mol me not. but surely heard
parting fUotstep and the low grating Of
some sliding door,
Who Of those. who some eight or ten
years ago admired the gay and festive
Fay Templeton for her dsintiness. can
now imagine her as wiring to her man.
ager, E. E. Rice, when am l expected
to weigh in?' and all because she is
now in training to get down to an $50
weight. The one-time irresistible Fay
has grown noticeably stout in recent
years.
The Dramatic Ners and the Chicago
papers are authority for the statement
that Wilton Lackaye will never play
Svengsli again after the close OF the
Chicago engagement. just why he de-
serts the bridge that carried him into
such favorable notice is not explained.
only that he wishes to star the coming
season. 1t is probable that Lackaye
has played other characters far more
difficult than Svengali, for DuMaurieris
"black beast" is said not to be a difficult
one to portray only in the makeup. But
Lacksye has never achieved 30 much
Of a popular hit in any other character
or play, and by the same token, has
never earned so large a salary. But he
of Sven gall fame. like many another
good man. spoiled in his ambition to be-
come star. is suffering with the idea
that he must become a star. and that he
has already reached something OF
stellar attitude. And when a clever
comedian or soubrette gets the star
PRESCRIPTIONS
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-08-17

bee buzzing in his or her head, tney
forget that that the wise person says,
This is good thing and ! will stand
by it," or the favorite expression in the
Passing Show" Its good thing
push it along
George r. Sims, who dramatized The
City of Pleasure and who wrote the
poem 'Ostler joe" has written for
Charles Frohman the following poem
for his play THE City Of Pleasure.
Laughter and love and the sound of song.
And the dancing feet Of the thoushtless throns
That trip to a wild, mad measure;'
Siren, stretching your arms q white,
City Of all the worlds delight,
Paris! The City Of Pleasure!
Passion and Pride and the binding tears.
The grief that gnaws and tn shame that sears
And, sweetest of all earth's treasure.
The love that lives, and the faith that brings
The balm Of peace on its angel wings
To the City of Pain and Pleasure!
Mr.. John Hare, whose first American
tour is among the announcements for
the coming season, is an actor whose
work should be Of interest to all lovers
OF the legitimate drama. At the age OF
p he made his first decided hit as Lord
Ptarmigan in Society, at the old Prince
Of Wales Theatre, and during the ten
years that he remained under the man.
agement he became identified with SIM
liar roles. In 1875 he undertook the
management Of the old Court Theatre.
London. In 1879 he assumed, with Mr..
and Mrs. Kendall. the management Of
the st. James Theater. The co.part.
nership lasted until 1883, when Mr.. w
s. Gilbert built for him the pre,ent
Garrick Theater. Mr.. Hare will bring
with him to America his Garrick Thea
tire company and will visit the principal
cities.
"A Bowery Girl" from the pen Of Ada
Lee Bascom, will be the attraction at
the Lansing theatre August 81. The
play is one which caters to the public
taste, and deals with the life and cpl.
sodes OF that vast portion Of New York
city designated as the East Side. The
scenes are realistic and even startling.
One Of the most extraordinary effects
ever enacted in a modern melodrama lie
perhaps that which describes the blow.
ing up Of the historic palisades which
line the shores Of the Hudson river on
the New Jersey side. The company is
large one end the roster contains the
names OF number OF actors and actree.
SEES. who are familiar to the patrons Of
the Lansing. Mics Clara Thropp, who
plays Nora, the Bowery girl, is a SOU
brette OF well known ability. and will
introduce several Of the latest and most
popular songs during the action of the
play. Andy Aman. George W. Thomp-
son, Harry A. Burkhardt, Mart w.
Cody. Ed Clifford. Mamie Ryan, Josie
lie Col and little Mabel, a clever child
actress. are some Of the other members
Of the company.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-08-17
THE THEATRES.

Mr.. w. 7. Carleton sends me the fol-
loving story Of well known public
character who prides himself on his pre-
cision.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16

committee. In presence of non-board or illegal
competition a member may protecth his business
at any rate of premium necessary, and not
otherwise, provided he Immediately reports
the facts to the executive committee, who shall
grant relief.
Managers Duval, Magill and Turner of
the non-union companies say this is boy
colt, and being such is illegal. They have
union circulars announcing that for the
substitution of policy in a non-board
company insurance may be granted at any
rate of premium.
THE English companies have done
this, " Manager Duval Of the Continental
Company of New York said yesterday.
''They recognize that this is their most
profitable field and are using some of the
American companies as a catspaw to get
the business. When only hopeless discord
prevailed here after the old union burst up
London took hand, and all at once there
was harmony among managers of British
companies who had been cutting one an
others Threats before. They have intro
duced boycott against companies that
cannot agree with their ideas. / wonder
if the American people, imbued with a love
of fair play, viii stand this sort of thing
very long?"
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and Republicans. There will soon be
clubs formed by the different gangs, and
by the next election there will be 400
or 500 Chinese voters. Several of the
most active are spending money treating just
like white men, to gain favor and build up q
"pull." There are some who would like to be
bosses, but it takes very good talker to get
any control. The white bosses don't talk, eh :?
Well, ours do little else. Most of the votes for
Mayor were cast for DR.. O'Donnell; Sutro was
the next choice, and Ellert got some votes.
Harry Huff, the Chinese interpreter,
knows as much about Chinatown as any
one else and said:
Sue Lock, who does an insurance business up
here on Dupont street, has been voting for the
past ten or twelve years. Before the last cleo
ton good many of those who were born here
came to me and asked if they had a right to
vote 1 told them that they had and lot of
them tried it. There must have been forty or
fifty votes cast by the Chinese at the last. cleo
ton. They are like so many sheep, and now
that they have started will all register, prob
ably.
Ng Gam, who figures on. the register as
capitalist, was left enough property by
his father to enable him to live at ease.
He finds politics much to his taste, and is
recognized up and down Chinatown as one
OF the coming political leaders. He was
found at the Confucius Club at 1853 CLAW
street and said:
AT first most of the boys were afraid to vote.
but they will all come in now good MANY
people ask us to vote the Democratic or Repnb-
hcan ticket but we go for the best men. No:
don't think we will look for offices at all.
Ii Tai Wing, son of the late DIR. Ii Pc
Tai, who was so many years the leading
doctor in Chinatown and numbered MANY
Caucaslans among his patients, has sue
ceeded to his fathers practice and is recog-
nlzed as one of the big men in political
circles.
AT 753 Clay street the Chinese born in
this State have club called the Confucius
Parlor of the Chinese Native Sons Asso-
cation. Tong Lung, one of the mem bers,
SAID that it was their desire to affiliate
with the Native Sons of the Golden West
If allowed to do so.
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FIGHHING THE
RBFRIGERATORS.
INVESTIGATING AN ALLEGED COM
BINE EXISTING WITH THE
RAILROADS.
SOME HOPE FOR FRUITMEN.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS GATHER
ING STATISTICS FOR THE
ASSEMBLY.

The present Board of Railroad Commits
sioners is likely to prove a more valuable
body to the material interests of the State
than any Of its predecessors have been, and
the Legislature has discovered the manner
in which this desirable state of affairs shall
be brought about.
Assemblyman T. L. Hatfield of Sacra-
mento has frequently expressed the
opinion that the board could be made of
great benefit if its work was directed in the
proper channels, and this belief led to the
introduction of a resolution in the As
sembly which, in substance, requires the
Railroad Commissioners to report TO that
body within ten days detailed statement
of the rates charged for the transportation
of green and dried fruits, ETC., to the East
from California with statement of what
devices are used in such transportation,
the cost of such devices, and whether. II, Is
not possible to provide for the use OF
equally satisfactory devices or plans at
greatly reduced rates.
The resolution is aimed at the refrlgera-
tor-car combine, and is likely-even with
but ten days at the disposal of. the Railway
Commissioners in which to formulate their
report-to give the Assemblymen some
very interesting facts.
1t has been asserted for long time that
an agreement existed between uHe TdlITC1lu
companies and the refrigerator-car and ice
men by which there was general ''divy"
among the train interests of the proceeds
of frnit shipments. However true or false
this may be it still remains fact that the
$500 extra charge for ice and refrigeration
in each car of fruit sent East in most in
stances ate up about all possible profits to
the consumer.
Since the Perkins car and a'.somewhat
similar process have proved successful in
operation, the fruitmen have awakened to
a realization of the fact that. there is
probability of obtaining relief from the
present oppressive charges. What bids
fair to aid them in their efforts is the posi-
ton of the railroad in the matter. That
corporation would receive Just as much for
hauling one of the new cars in which no
ice is required as it would. for hauling one
of the old efrigerator-cars-at least that is
the way an official put it yesterday-and
the decreased cost of transportion would
naturally cause a largely increased volume
of shipments. Hence the railroad is in a
position of neutrality, with its inclinations
somewhat favoring the investigation. o.,
Chairman H. NJ. La Rue of the Railway
Commission has personally taken this
matter in charge and is actively searching
for the statistical information desired by
the Assembly.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16
STRANGE NAMES,
Something About Their Origin in Vari-
Countries.

Something About Their Origin in Vari-
Gus Countries.
The Welsh have many peculiar names in
their nomenclature, or possibly a peculiar
way of using names, as in the case of a
Welsh storekeeper, who had on his sign
the names John Mary Williams. This is
relic of the old custom when Maria was a
name shared by both sexes, as Jean Maria
Farina. Itappears that Mr.. Williams,
man of position, had in his household a
woman servant named Mary, who was
known by her masters family name, Will
iams. When the woman married she
kept the names by which she was best
known and added to them her husbands
Christian name, John, bit of diplomacy
in the way of trade. Her husband was
always alluded to as John Mary Williams
In ancient times the Welsh were known
by personal peculiarities, as the American
Indians are at the present time, Hook
Nose, Black Beard, Crooked Tooth and
Fast Foot being the only cognomens be-
slowed on them.
There is a quaint story told by Barrie of
child named Davy, who makes brief
appearance in one of his novels. and takes
much OF the interest of the story with her
when she goes. For Davy is a girl. And
this odd name was an accident at the
christening. The minister looked Sternly
at the father and said: ''The child S boy,
is it not?" He had already been given a
paper with the name written upon it, but
when the confused father answered eyes"
to the query as to sex the dominic re-
sponded: ''Then L cannot christen him
Margaret, so 1 will call him David" The
mother felt very badly, but the only ex-
cuse her husband gave was that he dare not
contradict the minister.
The colored people, who once had only
such names as their employers chose to
give them, they being by law entitled to
no others, are fond of high flown, high
sounding patronymics, such as George
Washington Henry Clay Daniel Webster
Jefferson Smith, all these heaPed upon one
infant, who goes through life by the single
appellation of Wash.
Bible names are not always judiciously
applied. A man out West named Grace
had his son endowed with the long-sylla
bled handle of Nebuchadnezzar. The
Roman maidens were generally named for
flowers, and Flora was their goddess. The
Greeks drew their names from their sur
roundings, and the Latins had names that
denoted physical defects, such as Claudius,
lame Scottish-American.
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her royal family is now pensioner. When
she starts East her retainers will return to
their island homes.
The Pomare dynasty reigned over the
entire Tahitian group since the accession
of their dynasty in 1920.
When Captain Cook visited the islands
in 1850 he found an expedition fitted out
for the conquest of the adjoining cluster of
islands, the Paumotus. Their conquest
was complete and firmly seated the house
of Pomare, whose representatives ruled
until the advent of the missionaries and
French traders.
Queen Pomare assembled the throne in
1910 and proceeded to check the unbridled
license which had made her kingdom no.
torious. The result was the advent of
Admiral du Petit Thouars with an i'm
perious demand for the repeal of the laws
forbidding liquor sales to her native sub
jects.
The Queen refused and Du Petit Thouars
declared that French treaty rights had
been abrogated, demanding 900 indem-
nifty. a war ensued, which finally resulted
in settlement by compromise.
Queen Pomare and her heirs were pen
stoned, at the same time receiving royal
titles and honors. The Pomare family is
now represented by Princess Ninito and
her cousin, Prince Hinui, who are yet in
receipt of the pension granted by King
Louis Philippe of France.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: 1t affords me
great pleasure to call the attention of the
public to the Excelsior Hair Tonic, which
is the first and only remedy known to
chemistry which positively turns gray
hair back to its original color without dye.
1t has gone on record that Nine. NJ. Yale
wonderful woman chemist-has made
this most valuable of all chemical discoy-
cries. Nine. Yale personally indorses It's
action and gives the public her solemn
guarantee that it has been tested in ever2
conceivable way, and has proved itself @
be the ONLY Hair Specific. 1t STOPS HAIR
FALLING Immediately and creates lux
urious growth. Contains'no injurious in
gredient. Physicians and chemists invited
to analyze it. 1t is not sticky or greasy:
on the contrary it makes the hair soft,
youthful, fluffy, and keeps it in curl. For
gentlemen and ladies with hair a little
gray, streaked gray, entirely gray, and
with BALD HEADS, it is specially recon.
mended.
All druggists sell it. Price, 81.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16
PAPERS UNRECORDED.
County Clerk Curry's Complaint Con-
corning His Predecessor.

County Clerk Curry's Complaint Con-
corning His Predecessor.
The Supreme Court in a recent decision
in the case of Stewart Menzies VS.. James
Watson ct al. intimates that the defend
ants had possibly lost their right to appeal
because the records of the County Clerk s
office, then under M. c. Haley's control
were so kept as to make it impossible to
tell when the clerical work of recording
the decision of the lower court had been
done. The right to appeal hinged on the
question as to whether the Supreme Court
had been resorted to by the defendant
within one year of the rendering of the
judgment.
By the evidence of Deputy County Clerks
it was proved that the true date of copying
was not always the one entered on the
books and that it might have been written
several days later than it purported to have
been. The opinion was written by Justice
Temple and related to the work of the
Office under Mr.. Haley's administration.
The Justice concluded, after a severe
comment on the general management, by
saying that the register and docket were
kept with total disregard of dates, and
that no portion of the County Clerks office
is more important than this as it often
bears on the rights of litigants to appeal.
Attorneys who have had cases decided
in the Superior courts and particularly in
the Probate Department within the past
three or four months, and have tried to
make their judgments secure by seeing
that all orders and other papers bearing on
the litigation were properly filed and re-
corded, have been making strong allega-
tons regarding the conduct of the County
Clerk s Office under the late administration
of NJ. G. Haley, and apparently they have
sufficient grounds for stating, as some have
done, that the work there was not only
neglected SO as to endanger the chances OF
some litigants, but in some particular in
stances SO much mismanaged as TO hope
lessly entangle the suits.
Orders which should have been recorded
Immediately after being made by the
courts were left uncared for, wills and
other important documents were lost and
the office was left in a generally bad state
County Clerk Curry was not averse to
telling of the state of affairs he found in
his office when Mr.. Haley's abandonment
of his recount gave him full and undis-
puted possession. While leading the way
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16
AN OLD WATCH CHARM.
Carrying a Part of an Enemy on the
End of Chain.


End of a Chain.
A gentleman of Houston, Tex, wears on
his watchchain a charm unique in it's
ghnstliness, but which he claims has
brought him luck and about which he tells
curious story. In 1862, when the young
Ccnfederacy and the Union were struggling
for the possession of New Mexico the little
town of Dona Ana was attacked by small
force of Federal troops, but finding the
place occupied by larger company of
Confederates than they had supposed the
attacking party was slowly withdrawn
under rather hot fire, but singular to re-
late, considering how close the two forces
We're to each other and how narrow the
fighting ground, the battle proved a blood
less one, except for the relic which now
adorns the eX-Confederate captains chain,
This was the first Joint of the foretinger
which some Federal soldier left behind as
souvenir, and the only one of that sum-
mer days fight. 1t was picked up just on
the edge of the town by the present pos
SCISSOR, who, being in those DAYS little more
than boy, conceived the idea of having it
preserved by chemicals, and, if possible,
returning 1t to its rightful owner The
first of these schemes he carried out. and
the second failed through no fault of his.
After the Confederates abandoned the
Territory to the superior numbers of the
Government forces the captain, then but
second lieutenant, ascertained the COM
mand which had done the attacking of the
little town, and during lull in hostilities
wrote to the surgeon of the regiment, ask
ing II he knew any one who had lost a
finger In the battle. The surgeon respond
ed, giving the name of the private who had
suffered in that way, the incident from it's
oddity having attracted the attention of
the medical staff of Fort Craig. The man
had gone home afterward on sick leave,
and it was here that the captain wrote to
him, telling him that he had the missing
member and offering to return it.
The soldier responded acknowledging
his loss and giving an account of how the
thing had happened, to obtain which had
been the lnquisitive captains aim all the
time. 1t seemed that as the Federals were
withdrawing from the place this man
wheeled about, and, raising his gun, was
about to pull the trigger on the figure of
the colonel of the regiment, when Just as
he bent his finger ball came whizzing
past and carried off the first Joint.
The wound was a slight one, but in all
probability saved the life of the officer at
whom the sharpshooter was aiming. The
owner of the member then added that as
he had lost it in a fair fight, the owner was
more than welcome to it as a souvenir of
Dona Ana and of him. Thus possessing it.
not only as spoil of war, but by consent
of him who had the best right to it, the
captain still wears it as luck piece. though
the thing has turned as black and hard as a
pebble of ironstone, and one might exer-
else ones guessing powers all day without
even arriving at any conclusion near the
truth. Through the ossified finger has
been drilled hole, and the chain passes
through this.-Philadelphi Times.
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to his copying department, where the re-
cordlng of the proceedings OF the various
departments is done, he said:
The best word Lean find to describe the
condition in which | found this office when
| finally got in is chaotic Not only was
the work far behind but we have found
almost numberless cases where the work
OF filing and recording important docu-
ments was totally neglected and forgotten.
Now, in the first place, the office under
my administration will have to foot copy
lists bills amounting to 1924, to do work
which should have been done by my pre-
decessor. When we came in we found that
at least three or four months work had
been left undone, and after getting things
Strengthened out so that we could map out
work for our men, we began the work of
catching up.
We are slowly but surely bringing the
work up to date, but in order to do so we
are compelled to put on large force of
skilled men. Now let me show you a few
instances where important matters were
neglected.
Here is the will of Mrs. Miranda Lux
disposing of millions of dollars, which was
flied September 4 last When we dug it
out of a mass of papers in the Probate De-
partment we found that it had not been
recorded, though it is supposed that such
work should be done Immediately Here
IS the book showing that we have had to
do the work. A still more important omis-
sion to fulfill the requirements of the law
was discovered in the case of Mrs. Mary
Ann Hopkins will which was admitted
to probate on July -, 1891. We supposed,
OF course, that it had been recorded, and
we. turned to look for it when some in
quiry was made regarding the estate. To
our establishment we found that the books
did not contain copy of the will. 1t was
placed on record by our men last week.
''The worst work of the previous admin
istration was done in the Probate Depart
ment, where two clerks, J. B. Sherrard and
things up to date Ne+ PapeTs Which 20 should ogf
have been filed and recorded at once were
laid aside and forgotten. Cases which. had