Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-03-27

/, each two people moro unsuited to live to-
/ gether as man and wife could not easily
j be imagined. The husband was m igno-
rant man without any comprehension Of
the refined, brilliant and aesthetic woman
whom passion, not love, had deluded into
marriage. 1
Adah soon woke up to bitter realiza-
ton Of her mistake. From the hour Of
that marriage her star began to decline,
and her sustaining hope grew dim. This
. Ill matched pair lived together for only
few months, some say few days, and
, when Adah left him to'resume her profess
!. sion Heenan tried to have 1t appear that
the marriage had not been legal. In 1859
sAdah obtained q divorce from Heenan In
/ Indiana and returned to New York city.
BY this time Adah had become an 40.
complIshed actress, and there was chance
to havo redeemed the errors Of the past;
; but, still ruled by impulse and only using
her reason when 1t was too Late she mar
ried, In New York, Robert H. Newall.
| With Newall, Adah went west and to
California, where she soon added to her
list of accomplishments that of q daring
rider. Her riding was not of the sidesad-
die kind She could manage the widest
horse with halter, and, standing erect,
dash him over obstacles that the most
skilled cavalryman would have thought
suicidal. -. Z ~
| And now, as ga wild western eques-
trienne," Queen Of the Prairies," Adah
went with Newall to London, where she at
once secured a place in Astley's famous
: circus. l&- .l..s. siA%as9l,,&>a ~ -ss& Is.
Original In everything she did, Adah
INV, int, kho ruin
that startled the conservatives In such
matters and speedily made her '.'the talk
Of the town. Astley's, it was believed,
was IN its decadence, but the appearance
of the phenomenal American woman gave
new lease to its fortunes. ,.5 r. .fS-G<
The legitimate stage and even the opera
were deserted for the circus. Young and
old, rich and poor, peasant and noble,
f1ocked to cheer the "Queen of the Pra-
tries" and her pictures met the Londoner
at every turn.
AS Mazeppa she took London by storm.
Gifts poured In on hor, temptation beset
her on every hand, and she would not have
been true to her past had she kept cool,
not been dazzled and made giddy by the
flood of fortune and the Intoxicating effect
of adulation.
After over year of this prosperity Adah
this was in 1865-was divorced from
Newall, and, to the surprise Of every one
and the disgust of the Ashley managers,
she came to America.
There Is enough ohargeable to her weak
ness and restless love of adventure without
believing the rumor that she came to
America with the representative of a no.
BILE English house whose wife and children
were disgraced by the act.
In New York Adah resumed the role of
Mazeppa, and her success in the metropolis
and throughout the west was as great as
that at Astley's. She made a great deal
of money, but her lavish generosity rather
than any selfish extravaganza prevented
her keeping 1t.
II she had found instruction in expert
ence, she would have remained her own
mistress from this time on, but, true to
herself, in 1866 she married James Barclay !
of New York, with whom she at once sail +!
ed for England.
The i'll matched pair-indeed all her
matches were of that character-went to
London and sought to renew the success Of
the past at Astley's. But she soon learned
that the peoples idols stand ever on an
unsteady PEDESTAL. Brief as had been the
time since the crowds focked to see the
Prairie Queen, they had forgotten or we're
giving their unreliable devotion to another |
idol of the hour.
Much discouraged, Adah and her hus-
band decided to try their fortunes in Paris. |
Here she made some success as q rider, but
the circus has never been popular with /
cultured Frenohmen. Her money ran low,
and in her desperation she resolved to re-
sumo the business of dancing that first
brought her into notice.
She went back to ths variety stage, and
Barclay, wearying of her beauty, which
was still great and seeing that her earn
Ing power was declining, cruelty deserted
her. ''S.''''
Friendless and moneyless in great city
q less buoyant and elastic nature than
Adams would have been crushed, but now
for the first time in her life the latent force
Of her remarkable character asserted
itself. She took humble lodgings In q
quiet part of the CITY and appeared In the
Her linguistic. talents were remarkable.
She spoke French like Partisan, and her
Spanish would have been perfect In Mad
rid. She took pupils in those languages,
and II she had had support she would have
WOE, reputation as teacher, for she was
blessed with the gift of imparting knowl-
edge. $40. ,,..,'.,.,a.,r s,r,s...a II.
Her love for poetry returned, and she
devoted all her spare time to the art. As
d result of this comforting labor she pub
lished in London, or had published, for she
could not afford the expense herself, 9 SEQ
ond volume Of poems under the suggestive
title "Infelicia" (the unhappy :: This lit
tie book, q copy Of which IL before me, 10
full of feeling and IL written with music
al smoothness worthy Of Swinburne. a.,
Early In 1858 her health began to fall
and the red death dag Of consumption be-
gan to glow In her following cheeks She
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