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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-28
Behind the FOOt1i9hts.

,ecial Corresnondence oil the close.

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
NEW YORK, March 25.-Considered
from every standpoint, Laura Keene
was probably the greatest woman yer
connected with the American stage. To
those who are familiar with her rise
from obscurity and her struggle for
fame, not only as an actress, but as a
manager, her career is all the more re-
markable. 1 knew her intimately for
years as friend and stage manager, and
I confess that the woman's. pc
culiarities were as much as anything
else responsible for the interest with
which I used to regard her.
I think it is not generally known that
Laura vas as a girl q barmaid at the
Scotch Stores in Oxford street, Lon
don. She was also famous in a small
way as "the lass of Richmond HILL" in
Surrey, where shez used to serve ice
cream to the, galHants Of the Royal
lancers and the other crack regiments
which were stationed there from time
to time. l do not know exactly how
she drifted toward{the stage-she was
always reticent on that point-but she
got there eventually and made quite an
impression in England. She was mar
ried to a man named Taylor, who was
a pretty bad egg, and I was told by
her that he was transported to Van
Dieman's Land for his absentminded-
ness in signing the name of another
man instead of his own to a piece of
negotiable paper
BEGINNING OF A GREAT. CAREER.
Laura Keene, toward the close of her
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-28

career, was called the Nine. Vestris Of
America, but when she first came over
here, it was not generally thought that
she would be an unqualified success be-
cause Of the fact that she had not
been doomed out Of all reason, like so
many Of her predecessors. She was
hen under engagement to j. w. Wal
lack, the father of Lester, and her de-
but occurred in 1854 at WaIlack's the
alter, at Broadway and Broome street.
The famous Hall Wilton looked after
her interests here. The comedy Of "'The
WIFI was at first decided upon for the
opening bill. But Wallack finally put
1t to one side in favor of 1.-THE Lady
OF Lyons" This was, by the way, a
very shrewd move on the part of Wal
lack, for the role of Pauline gave Miss
Keene the opportunity to be seen to the
best possible advantage. She did not,
however, take the town by storm by
any means, but it was generally con-
sidered that she had more than come
up to expectations, and it was at once
seen that she would become a promi-
nent figure in the American theatrical
world.
During her career in this city Miss
keene was the manageress at different
times of the Metropolitan. afterward
the Winter Garden, and Laura Keene's
theater, afterward the Olympic. She
was successful at both places, although
her artistic temperament was so
strong, II her sense of economy in
the manner of stage productions so
weak hat she seldom found her bank
count uncomfortably large. Her cOm-
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one of them was named Shaver some
months ago, so there seems to be a
mystical and occult reason why the
bird should come to you. He may
prove an affinity in less han 1000
years at any rate, L hope he will
prove a mascot. Yours very truly, Car
RE B." No address was given and Mr..
Perkins was never able to acknOWl-
edge the gift.
1.-THE stage is always liable" say
George Bernard Shaw, the London sati-
rist, "tO the incursions of beauteous
persons whose misfortune j. is to be
unable to dance at all, and who suffer
from a similar disability in respect
of singing or acting. some excuse be-
ing necessary for the exhibition of their
charms on the boards, an unSkilled ac-
compliShment had to be invented for
them. And this was the origin Of the
skirt dance, q dance which is no dance.
Thanks to which we sOon had young
ladies, carefully trained on an athletic
diet Of tea, soda water, rashers, brandy,
ice pudding, champagne, and sponge
cake, laboriously Topping, twirling, and
staggering as nuclei for a sort Of bOu-
quet of petticoats of many cOlors, until
finally, being quite. unable to perform
the elementary feat, Indispensable to a
courtesy, of lowering and raising the
body by fleXing or Strengthening the
knee, they frankly sat down, painting,
half begging for an encore, half wOn-
dering how they would eve be able to
get through one. The public on such
occasions behaved with it's usual weak
ness. 1t felt the charm of the petit
coats, and it was mean enough to ape
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a taste for the poor girls pitiful sham
dancing, when it was really gloating
over their ~Variegated underclothing.
VINO has not seen a musical farce or
an opera interrupted for five minutes
While the young woman, without mus
Gle or practice enough to stand safely
on n fOot-one who, after a voIley Of
wild kicks with her right leg. has on
turning to h other side Of the stage,
had to confess herself ANONYMOUSLY
unable to get beyond a stumble with
her left, and, in fact, could not, one
would think, be mistaken by her most
infatuated adorer for anything but an
object lesson in saltatory incompe-
tence-clumsily waves the inevitable
petticoats at the public, as silken
censers of that sensualism which is
h real staple of fve-sixths Of our
theatrical commerce.
The original term OF Mrs. Fiske n
'Tess Of the d'Urbervilles'' at the Fifth
Avenue theater will probably be ex-
tended, negotiations to hat n being
under way, says the New York Mail
and Express. The audiences continue
large and enthusiastic. The play has
taken rank with the best heard here
his season and is easily among the
leading attractions of the current bills.
i 4 j
Clyde Fitch and Leo D~ietrichstein are
writing a new play for William II.
Crane.
The once famous Russian actress. Nine. Or
lay. who is ninety-fve years old. recently
made her appearance an the stage at Os-a-
kow for the benefit of a charitable institu-
ton. About seventy years ago she created
the part in which she has just appeared.
The old lady was much applauded by a large
gathering of Russian actors and actresses.
She was the actress who first played Ophelia
and Lady Macbeth in the Russian language.
3 s It
Sir Henry Irving has taken the trouble to
declare in an interview that there never was
The slightest ground for the published inSinu-
ations concerning a disagreement between
himself and Miss Ellen Terry. The latter
will appear in Madame Sans Gene when
her health is restored.
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panies contained the best actors of the
day. She was a woman Of indom-
liable energy, and was at the theater
from morning until night attending
TO the details of the productions, and
the result of her methods were so
manifest that ere lone the famous
Wallack company was obliged to look
to it's laurels. Not a single detail es-
capped her. 1 remember we'll how one
day, when a new and very green
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soTHERN's jokes.

What a number of successes Laura
Keene scored with her company, Of
which she was the leading woman!
In fact. she never had. so far as l can
remember a single emphatic failure.
Her taste in .costuming and stage eft
fects was intuitive, and she never
went o / am inclined to think
that an artistic inheritance was COM
NOR to her family, for the famous
Keene of London Punch was Laura's
brother. Speaking of this brother, L
remember that when we presented
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" he sent his sister a mechanical
continuance designed to practically il
lustrate Puck'S feat in putting a girdle
around the world in less than forty
minutes. 1t was a most ingenious az
fair, and a man who understood it's
workings had come over from London
especially to manipulate it. He was a
FrenChnlan and understood very little
English. Ned Sothern-the elder, OF
cOurse-had a part in the piece. He
was a n irresistible joker, and he de-
teTmined to have some fun with that
machine. In some n he cOntTiVed
to Elk" the Frenchman, and with Mary
Wells c~Onnivance got in the way of
the mechanical Puck. Instead of cross
ing the stage from the right and dis
appearing, as it should have done, the
figure went flying from the wings to
the fOOtlights, where it acted in the
most unaccOuntable manner. falling
over and carrying terror to the PUCK
in the flesh. The FrenChman and his
clockwork dummy disappeared from
the cast after that one performance,
much to the relief of everybody except
Sothern.
A HASTY TEMPER.
What an awful temper the usually
sweet and mild hammered Laura had
when anything particularly exasper-
ated her! We were, while I was with
her, about to put on a piece entitled
"All That Glitters Is Not Gold" Ev-
erything had run along ~swinmingiy,
and / was cOngratulating myself thai
there had been no bitches, when the
day of the property and scene rehearsal
arrived. Laura walked on to the stage
and observed that the furniture was
upholstered in a pale green tint, IN
stead of pink, as she had desired. She
became enraged n began TO storm
like q al m Chairs and tables
were slammed about the stage and
damaged to the extent of many dollars.
Her bonnet, cloak n outer garments
were torn to bits. Her Wavy golden
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-28

woman had been hired as g. cleaner.
Laura tucked up her 500 satin dress,
and was soon on her knees showing
the slavey how to scrub the stage. This
was foolish and Unnecessary, but it
serves to illustrate the actress watch
fulness and contempt for work when
she thought some good purpose might
he Cnr1nd
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18

According to the st. Louis Globe.
Democrat, the practice of the econ.
omles IN the fruit-raising sections Of
The West has developed new article
Of export. Until recently the orchard
owners and the evaporation managers
did not think Of utilizing the cores
and the parings of apples. They &C.
caslonally sold them to the iellv MAX
ers or fed them to the hogs, but more
generally allowed them to accumulate
as refuse in great heaps, who h slow.
" fermented and decayed. This year.
In many places, the parings and cores
are being saved. They are spread out
In the hot sun and dried, after which
they are packed in large sacks and
neld Tor buyers, who gather them up
and send away in car lots. The desti.
nation of the dried parings and cores
IN these large quantities is France. II
Is no secret that the refuse of the
orchards of the Missouri Valley and
Ozark country is now largely en-
ployed in the manufacture of cham.
payne by the thrifty wine-mako,s of
the yineclad slopes of France.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18

1t is with feeling of sincere regre,
that the Chicago Chronicle notes the
passing of the old lady. "Where are
grandmothers of tradition?" asks the
journal, ''the snow.haired, white.
capped gentle women to whom as chill.
dren we were taught all Difference
should De shown? Look about YOU.
she is nowhere visible. Alas. the
elixir Of youth, or, moro properly
speaking, an artificial mask of real
bloom and beauty, has tempted the
agelng woman to assume that which she
should gracefully relinquish, and the
true grandmotherly type, with soft
shawls, fine laces, artistic caps and a
heart in tune with the morning of life.
though the body bends under the
shadow of eventide, is gone, more's
the pity"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18

Professor D. Cady Eaton, the art
lecturer of Yale, has just returned
from making a tour of France and
Italy. "French sculptors," he said
recently, 'are now coloring their
thanksgiving them the tints and
oolors the subjects had in life. Every
color is reproduced on the marble
not exactly, because that would be too
gross and material, but an artistic an.
proach to the colors of life is shown
IN the completed work. What tho
scuiptors use to produce this effect T
10 not know. It is not paint. It isa
peculiar kind Of wash, and the effect
is beautiful. This coloring of statuarv
Is becoming general in Europe. r
formerly thought that the Greeks did
not color their statues, but am now
convinced that they did. Relics of
statues that had been colored were re.
GENTLY dug from the Acropolis, but
ne colors, now exposed, are fast fad.
ng."
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18
Gstt.
,4upercestibl.
destroy the brain
:. the rest:-thq are,
ne commanding ticera

OF. power; health and notion.
y rry, to make the tn cor still
stronger, is an irritant at certain
points, which produces little aarm if
1t comes at intervals or irreularly
Occasional worrying Of the sysem thu,
Dram can cope with, but the jeration
and reiteration of one idea O dis
quieting sort the cells of the rain are
not proof against. It is as ifhe skull
were laid bare and the surfac of the
brain struck lightly with a hammer
every few seconds, with Mechanical
precision, with never signd letup
or the failure Of e stroke.
just in :his way does thj annoying
idea, the maddening thou ut that will
not be done away with, sfike or fall
upon certain nerve cells,| never ceas.
Ing, and week by weeE diminishing
the vitality Of these debate organisms
that are so minute that they can only
be seen under the micpscope.-
maceutical Products.
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it true what she says?" reiterated

it true what she says?" reiterated
Patience.
"Y-yes; but"
Quick as lightning, Miss Eldridge
pulled the diamond cluster from the
fair finger Of her left hand, as if it
stung her.
"Take this to bear them company"
she said. II accept no divided hon.
age! As for you, Miss Murray
turning to Kate-''you have acted like
a woman of spirit, and I honor and
respect you for it. -
The male coquet sneaked out of the
Moreland House, feeling excessively
cheap and small, while Kate and Pa
thence cried in each others arms-for
they both liked him far better than he
deserved.
"Never mind, DEAR" said Kate;
'it's like having tooth out-hard, but
wholesome!"
eve shall get over it in time," sob.
bed Patience; ''for of course one can
never marry a man whom one des
pises."
Mr.. Appleton Arkwright secured
new boarding house at once. He did |
not care again to meet. the pretty
school-teacher who had turned so un.
expectedly upon him. But he had
lost his heiress; and Miss Murray has
the satisfaction of feeling that in this
particular instance she has vindicated
her sex.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18

The story Of the charge of the Cor.
don Highlanders across the fire zone
at the storming of Dargai Ridge, which
has come in bit by bit from India, re.
Veals many instances Of great personal
heroism, and has produced an extraor.
binary wave Of patriotism throughout
Great Britain. At the theatres and
music halls everything which can pos.
slbly be construed into an allusion
to the bravery and dash of the High.
landers is rapturously applauded.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18
DEADLY RUNNING FIGHT.
Eagle Killed by Locomotive Ensineer'l
Pet Cat.

Eagle Killed by a Locomotive Ensineer'
Pet Cat.
That famous catswhich has been the
constant companion Of an engineer on
the Delaware and Hudson road fol
some years narrowly escaped an in.
glorious death,
For a week past the engineer and
fireman had noticed large eagle sit.
ting in hemlock tree near the tracks
at South Windsor, N. Y. Whenever
1t saw the cat it would flap its wings
and show signs of anger. The cat
would sit upon the running board Of
the locomotive, paying no attention to
the huge bird.
On Saturday morning when the train
LETT Lanesboro the cat crawled out
upon the pilot Of the locomotive and
prepared for an enjoyable sun bath.
founding a curve near South Windsor
the engineer noticed the eagle sitting
IN his accustomed nook in the old hem.
lock tree. When the locomotive was
Just opposite the tree the eagle, with
low scream, dashed down upon the
locomotive and fercely attacked the
fight.
For several seconds there was bat.
tie royal. The eagle made half dozen
attempts to carry away the cat bodily.
but each time the cat would make |
savage onslaught on the bird with teeth |
ana claws, and the air was full of |
feathers. AS the train dashed ahead
the two men in the cab looked upon
inc strange battle with much appre.
hension, fearing the result. The
whistle was blown, but neither com.
Oatant noticed the sound in the least.
The engineer armed himself with
oar OF iron and started out upon the
board to aid his pet, but be.
ore ne reached the scene of action the
at had torn a great hole in the eagles
hroat, and the bird was in its death
truggles. 1t was carried into the 10.
omotive tender, where it died in a
ew minutes. The cat crawled into
ne cab, considerably the worse for
rear, but still in the ring. The cat
o longer ventures outside the cab.-
Jew York Press.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18
THE KLoNDIKE,

Wrapped in robe Of everlasting snow,
Where icy blasts eternal revel hold,
Where gaunt pines SILVER in the piercing
cold,
Where mellow summer noontides neve,
glow,
And sleety crags no spring-time ever
know
Thus. like miser, in his freezing fold,
The Arctic King has gathered heaps of gold
10 lead deluded wanderers unto woe.
80 in his radiant diamond palace there,
Amid white splendors Of his thousand
thrones,
Where keen auroras glitter, blaze, and glare.
Ana like Wandering Jew the wild wind
means;
he smiles at wretches in their last despair.
VINO dig for gold among their comrades'
About my homo I SEQ the sprine-time
bloom,
The sheaves of summer or the autumn
fruit;
10 make me glad, the robin lends its lute
L; me lilies blossom, liacs breathe perfume
me red leaves futter, golden asters loom
Around me; tones of loved ones. never
mute,
Are sweeter than the VOL or the flute
June-time gladness or December
gloom.
Ihe daffodils their golden treasures nour
By lapfuls 10 my children as they play;
Inc vines, with clustered rubies at nv door
dladden my good wife through the live,
long day; W.
SO So in this humble nest, my wealth is more
IMAM all the gold and silver dug from CLAW
Waiter Malone, in Harper's Weekly.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18
THE :. TRUE !: DEMOCRAT.
Published Weekly at
ST. FRANC1svILLE, LOUISIANA.
Professor Lawrence Bruner, Of
Nebraska, who went to Argentina to
study the grasshopper plague there,
writes that he finds great swarms Of
insects fully four inches long.

Out OF over 1000 lives imperiled
along our coasts during the last year
OF life-saving service only fifty-three
were lost. That is Il record that the
service has reason to be proud of. The
public does not begin to comprehend
the work Of the life-saving bureau Of
this country and the dangers to which
the men are at all times exposed.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18
How Worry Affects the Brain.

Modern science has brought to light
nothing more curious]y interesting
than the fact that worry will kill. More
remarkable still, it has been able ia
determine, from recent discoveries.
just how worry does kill. !,
1t is believed by many scientists who
nave followed most carefully the growth
OF the science of brain diseases. that
scores OF the deaths set down to other
causes are due to worry, and that alone
theory is a simple one-soes u
zone can readily rn&sa
:, it amour r. .as
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18
A Stamp That represents $4,000.

OF the $50 United States stamps
which have been issued, the values
have ranged from one cent to $4,000,
Five dollars is the highest value
amongpostaage stqnps, but newspaper
stamps reach thehundred dollar mark
vAlls a revenue stamp. may represent
5000.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18

According to the St. Louis Repub.
lie one normal pumpkin will make 100
pies. A normal pumpkin weighs not
less than fifty pounds. Five cents
~ buy it in any market in the world.
~mpkins that weigh three
Ids, and even one Of
urchased for a nickel.
lould not pumpkin pie
in the estimation Of the
amily that no other pro-
land or sea occupies? It
-~ chasm Between the mill
l.@% "a the pauper, between the
ma, dame and the petulant scrub
woman, between the dude and the
tramp In word, the pumpkin pie
gives that touch of nature which
makes all the world kin. The pumn.
KID is. therefore. to be revered.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18

My dear
with web
wright turne,
-"who is this. . ,ke
1t is some mistak. t1.
"No mistake at Horos
Pray allow the man to Ell. said XIII
regally, motioning for tie basket r.
be set down at the heiress' feet. ana
then dismissed the porter with q sec.
ond lmperlous gesture. ''NIiss El.
bridge, I believe you are to be married
to this gentleman. As his wife-ex-
pectant, l make over to you all the
presents he has bestowed upon mo
IN the course of the last six months
There are eighteen faded bouquets a.
pearl opera glass, a glove box. tEree
rings, a Russia. leather fan, a photo
graph album, q silver card case, six
:, volumes of poetry; gold BOUQUET
holder, a bracelet and point--lace
OF course, thew are Of
no further use to me. am only sorry
that I l cannot return to you the tender
hand-pressures, the expressive glances
ana a: one KISS bestowed during a moon
light walk in the park about six weeks
ago." 00A'
Mr.. Appleton Arkwright was D ta],
fellow, lacking not much Of
the regulation six feet in height, hit
ne seemed to shriyel and grow small
IND contemplate, as he stood there
lnder the scorching fire of Kate Mr.,
avs grand eyes. -
A cold sweat broke out in beads IN
lis brow. He pulled uneasily at h;s
yaxed moustache.
Patience Eldridge turned to him.
rs this true?" she asked.
ne cleared his throat with an effort
l-that is-a young lady has nd
lght to suppose that because"
Did you give her these things? Is
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-12-18

ATE MURRAY WAS
only a teacher-onlv
q teacher in Madame
Morelli's French and
English Day q n d
Boarding School, at
q salary On ,,o,o.
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SSSS'~~Ss's1~'t1t1t1t Jt.1tJt}G3S5S3Je.5t33ss
; HOW SHE WAS
! REVENGED.
by HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
a1NnNAnN~N0O@
by HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Mesa free press., 1897-12-24

Republican. There is likely to he
a conflict between the cattlemen and
sheepmen in the northern part OF the
territory. There is already more or
less bad feeling growing out of the
passage f large bands of sheep from
Coconino, Navajo and Apache coun-
ties to the Salt River valley. the
cattlemen complain that they are de-
yastating the cattle ranges. A band
of, say, 1000 sheep moving at rate
of about seven miles day leaves bu t
little in its wake, and that little is
disdained by the cattle. If the sheep
men would follow one trail, the cattle
men sa ythey would not complain, but
instead of doing that the Aocks paral-
lei each other and the waste and the
ruin is extensive.
Mesa free press., 1897-12-24

The Santa Fe mechanical depart
meut has ordered the construction of
twelve heavy consolidation engines.
one to be turned out of the shops each
month during 1898. The company
have built eight of these engines du-
ring the present year, and by the first
of January. 1899, they propose to
have on the mountain divisions of
their line twenty of these engines
They designed especially for hauling
heavy loads over steep grades. Their
average weight is to be about 225,OOO
pounds, and they are to cost from
$4,000 to $4,000 each.
Mesa free press., 1897-12-24
Skylight Kicker: The best and

Skylight Kicker: The best and
quickest way to get water works is
for our home men who have capital
to take tho bonds and put in the works.
To put money ia the bonds is one of
the safest investments chat a person
could make, aud sagaeious business
man who has surplus of cash will
reach out for the snap. If home men
will take hold of the enterprise their
interest will be such that they will
use good material and have the work
done we'll Besides it would take
several months to perfect a contract
with them. and they would go at it
as soon as pra ,ticable with energy
and vim and complete the system as
room as money and labor could do it