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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-01-22

the first critic i'm Paris to demand a
scientific miSe-en-s scene, and he wrote
the first history of dramatic criticism
in France. 1t was he who first desig-
mated Napoleon /. as the benefactOr
of the French stage and the father of
modern criticism.
To place Daudet in the front rank
of French novelists, with BalZac and
de Maupassant and Flaubert, is to do
him an injustice: it is applying a
measure too large for him. Between
their works and his there is that same
indefinable shade of difference that
you find between the pictures Of Millet
and those of Jules Breton. He had
neither their technical mastery nor
their elemental power. They were
the giants of letters, those three, and
this was only gay trOubadOur from
the South. with lutte as sweet as
nightingale's note and a song always
dipping from laughter to tears. He
left no novel which, in days to come,
will carry the conviction and power of
"NOtre COeur' or madame BOvary''
or ''Cousin POns." He has place among
the men who, from the recesses of a
single brain, fashioned a world. and
who created humanity of their own.
He was a temperamental artist. He
was not profound either in his Obser.
vatiOns of life or his Interpretation of
it. He saw the beauty which glitters
upon the surface and reproduced it
with a delicacy, a pleasure, a vivid
ness only possible 10 a temperament SO
alert, so capriciOus, so exqu'sitely sem
sitive. Sentiment continually tempt.
ed him and he was often dramatic
before he was true. He had thirsty,
ever-satisfied eagerness for life and
art. He could perfectly reproduce all
experiences: he described things utter
ly inexpressible: he mastered the Ian
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-01-22

guage Of sensations. That very ever
present personal quality which dis
qualities him for place among the
greatest creators Ot fiction. is his most
potent and persistent charm. He con.
quered by the element which was his
weakness: he made his deficiencies
glOriOusly triumphant. 80, wind and
fire OF the South, We are irresistibler'
''kings in Exile will always be
Daudet's most popular work i'm the
AnglO-SaxOn world. HenryJames SAYS
that it is "a book that could have been
produced only in one of these later
years of grace. Such book is i'm.
tensely modern, and the author is i'm
every way an essentially modern
genius"
But once and only once did Daudet
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-01-22
The Passing Show.
VILLA GATHER.
VILLA GATHER.

made his escape as soon as possible
and trudged hOmeward through the
snowy streets with no Overcoat and
with the icy wind whistling through
the tails of that sacred dress coat,
stopping on his way at the market to
drink a bowl OF cabbage soup among
the fish-m0ngers and vendors of veg
etables. Years afterward Sarcey tried
to recall the incident to Nine. BrOhan
and she said it must be mistake, she
Oaly knew Daudet through his books.
The long-haired Provencal youth who
broke her wine glasses she had for
gotten. A Partisan wit Of the last
decade once remarked: whenever l
meet particularly stupid boy from
the South have horror for him, for
1 am haunted by the fear that he will
become great"
When Daudet's first play, la Der
nier Idole," was brought out in Paris
he had been ordered out Of France for
his health. On the very night of its
first production he was in the further
end of Algeria living with couple Of
Arabs i'm a tent under a clump of
dwarf palms, and lay looking through
the flap at the burning orient stars,
longing for Paris. The telegram an
nOuncing its magnificent success was
brought to him across the desert by a
relocated horseman riding al full
gallop. Immediately he. was seized
with the fever for Paris, that city
which all the geniuses of France have
equally loathed and loved, from which
they are always fleeing but never
escaping. Daudet was annually taken
with -evulsion for the place: always
wandering back to the South; living
now in complete isolation i'm light
house with only the sea birds for COM
pany, now in windmill in Provencal,
now in the desert. But the end of
every journey was Paris. Once, when
he was working i'm an old farm house
down in the Rhone country, a reporter
from Paris came down TO write up a
country fair and dropped in to break
fast with Daudet. Daudet had never
seen him before, but as they talked of
the happenings on the boulevards that
ms vppo fnr hn f.tf r,an
over him, and though he was Just in
the middle of lie Petit Chose" and
knew that he could never finish it
away from the Rhone valley, by night
fall he was on his way back to Paris.
This delightful vagabondage, half
the restlessness Of boy, half the
caprice OF poet, was never quoted
until his marriage. What superb
piece Of irony that the man who wrote
Lies Femmes d'Artistes- and so bit
terly condemned marriage for artists,
should have married the woman he
loved and should have loved her
through a lifetime. As he wrote of
it years afterward: ~ married. How
ever did that happen? To what magic
art did such wild gypsey as l fall a
victim? What spell was cast over me?
What charm was strong enough to
bind fast my once ever-changing ca
price,"
By the English-speaking world Dau-
Diet is known chiefly as novelist: in
France his rank rs q dramatist is
almost as high The only one of his
dramas which has been produced in
America is ''L'Arlesienni," which
Minnie Madden Fiske played under
the rather inadequate title of 1.-The
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Alphonse Daudet's funeral was one
Of the dramatic events Of the season
in Paris. A demonstration which
could have occurred only in the cap
itol Of the world Of letters. With
honors such As other nations pay only
10 kings, they bore him through the
streets Of Paris, that same Paris to
which he came from the South some
forty years ago, boy OF eighteen with
a bundle of manuscript and forty sous
in his pocket. All, what labOrs Hercu-
lean, what battles and what triumphs
lay between that entrance and that
exit!
That he died in his prime, before
his glorious powers had failed him,
before the cold Of age had chilled the
hot boys heart of him, is only another
proof that Fortune loved him with a
more enduring constancy than is her
wont. Not for him was the pitiable
weakening SO often attendant upon
the age of genius, the senile vagaries
and follies, the ossification of magma
ton, the blind CROPPING for dead in
spiration. When AlphOnse Daudet
said adieu to life and art, the warm
kiss OF youth was yet upon his lips.
God send us all good ending!
And he had lived: No man of his
time more deeply and more richly.
He was the North and the South, the
Proyencal and the Partisan. the BO-
hemian and the man Of family. He
went through the noisy bazaar, among
the lying merchantmen and bought
only what was precious.
The story Of his first experiences in
Paris. Daudet himself wrote ten years
ago: how he went there in a third
class railway carriage, penned in with
a crowd of drunken sailors, and how,
ON arriving with capital OF forty
sous, he enters tho profession of let
tiers. He lived i'm an attic-the most
commonplace thing he ever did-on
the fifth floor Of the Hotel du Senat in
the Rue de Tournon with a horde of
hot-blooded young SOutherners like
himself. among whom was Gambetta.
All were desperately poor: all conf
IDENTIFY expected to become famous,
and all were citizens of that Bohemia
OF the roaring Forties," not then ex-
tinct in Paris, which Meuger described
as ian intermediate stage which leads
either TO the morgue Or the Acad-
emy." 1t was from this corner Of the
Latin quarter that. when re had
neither fire nor breakfast and az Paris
was wrapped in fog, Daudet used to
steal out to watch the great dome OF
the Odeon EN- ,rge slowly from the
mist, that Odeon where the audierce
was one day to rise when he entered.
1t was from there, too, that, attired
in his first dress coat, he went to his
FIRST reception at the home OF Angus
tine Brohan. the actress. He told in
his Thirty Years in Paris what
agonies Of bashfulness he suffered on
that occasion and how, in spite OF his
gnawing hunger, he could not eat.
and in trying to get drink Of water
unset a decanter and tray OF glasses
and sent them crashing to the floor.
After this embarrassing mislap he
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-01-22

By the English-speaking world Dau-
Diet is known chiefly as a novelist: in
France his rank rs Q dramatist is
almost as high The only one of his
dramas which has been produced in
America is '.L'Arlesienni," which
Minnie Madden Fiske played under
the rather inadequate title of 1.-The
Liar" Beside his work as a play
wright Daudet did a great deal for the
French stage in criticisms. He was
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-22

pleasure. From a business point of
view, winter and spring are my pro-
ductive seasons. In the summer l am
lazy. In the autumn there seems so
much to be done, and during the long
days it seems sad to think of work. At
the present moment most of my draw
ings are done with pen and ink, or,
which in some ways l like better, with
a very fine brush. l have thousands of
studies, for l SO often modify my orig
inal conception that these generally
become very useful to me afterward.
When whatever drawing I am engaged
on approaches it's final stage 1 fasten
it by its edges upon a large sheet of
glass; this enables me to change or
add such details as l think fit. OF
course as regards reproductions, 1 pre-
fer the old-fashioned wood block; my
editors, however, do not see eye to eye
with me in this matter. BY the way"
he added, quackly, Il have never con-
scented to work to order-that is to say,
1 must be quite free to choose my own
subject'-Strand Magazine
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-22
Believed by Major General E. S. Otis to Be
Exaggerated.
a Telegram Received at the Adju-
tant Generals Office at Wash
ington From the Commander at
Manila in Answer to a Com
plant From the Secretary OF
the Vatican.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-Monsignor
Martineui, the Apostolic Delegate In
Washington, yesterday received ca
blegram from Cardinal Rampolla, Sec
rotary of the Vatican, informing him
that the Bishop of New Segovia, Phil
ipplne Islands. and several Catholic
priests had been arrested by the in
surgents, and were imprisoned and be-
ing brutally treated by their captors.
Cardinal Rampolla directed Monsignor
Martinelli to lay the case before the
War Department, with a request that
some action, if possible, be taken to
protect the prisoners from harm.
Monsignor Martinelli presented the
facts as communicated to him to
Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn.
and urged that the department COM
municate with General Otis. in COM
mand Of the American forces at Man
liza, with a view to affordlng reneI 10
the captured priests.
In compliance with the request. Sec
rotary Meiklejohn directed that Gen.
eral Otis be informed of the situation
of the priests, and asked to protect
them from bad treatment if they were
in his jurisdiction.
In response to this order, General
Otis cabled the department to-day as
follows:
Manila, Sept 21.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Believe reports of extent
of brutality to Spanish priests exag-
gerated Will send officer to investi-
gate, which will require several days.
New Segovia Bishopric 100 miles dis
tant OTIS, Commanding.
The information contained in General
Otis dispatch was communicated to
Monsignor Martinelli.
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Wooden-Soled shoes are made on a
small scale at a number of places in
Chicago. There are no factories, the
shoes being made at humble private
homes. Often a man and his wife put
in all their time making shoes, the wife
usually being quite as expert in the art
as the husband. When they have made
several pairs they bring them down.
town to some store, where they dis
pose of them for as good a price as
possible. Nearly all of the shoes made
in Chicago consist of the wooden shoe
and plain, heavy leather uppers. The
sole is made. of poplar or Eastwood
on account of it's lightness. If it were
made of any of the heavier woods the
weight, on account of the great thick
ness, would be such that the shoe would
be much too heavy for wearer to
carry around conveniently.
Usually the sole is over an inch in
thickness, with the normal increase at
the heel About quarter of IN inch
below the upper surface a groove an
eighth of an inch deep is made all
around the sole. Into this the lower
edge of the uppers is inserted. Tiny
nails are then driven from the outside
through the leather into the sole, fas-
tening the uppers almost perfectly.
Some of these shoes have been lined
with felt by the makers for the Klon-
dixie trade. 1t is said that the shoes are
well adapted to the needs of the gold
seekers in that region, and that many
of them have been sold to prospectors
who were about 20 start for Alaska
The shoes are not made for men
alone. as they are very often used by
women engaged in work which takes
them where it is damp. A number OF
pairs were shown by the Randolph
Street dealer. He said they were de-
signed especially for women and that
there is a very good market for them.
Women often use them to slip on for
trip into the garden, where the ground
is wet or muddy, and where more deli
cate shoe would suffer considerably. The
shoes which are made entirely of wood
are made outside of Chicago altogeth-
err Each one is made from a solid
block of wood, and, although the work
upon it is rough and rather crude, it is,
nevertheless, sufficient to fit the shoe
perfectly for the purpose for which it
was intended They seem very cheap
for the amount of labor apparently ex-
pended. The very large ones, intend
ed for slipping on over others of leath-
err, are sold for only 30 cents pair.
Those which have leather tops sell as
high as 81 80 pair. AT present there
are probably more of these shoes used
than ever before in Chicago, and their
popularity seems to be on the increase.
Chicago Chronicle.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-22
SITUATION AT HAVANA.
Disturbances Between Cubans and
Standards Becoming Frequent.

HAVANA, Sept. 10 (via Key West.
Sept. 22). = Disturbances in public
places between Cubans and Spaniards
are becoming frequent. The Cubans are
assuming an insolent and abusive man
ner in their treatment of the Span1ards,
whom they lose no opportunity OF open
~ referring to as vanquished. Many OF
them wear miniature Cuban flags, the
lone star of which acts upon the Span
fsh officers as does a red rag upon
bull.
Last night a serious disturbance oc-
CURED in a cafe on San Lazare street,
where several Cubans, adorned with
these emblems, entered. The saloon was
filled with Spanish officers, some in un-
iforn and some in civilian dress. The
Cubans at once began abusing and in
sulting the Spaniards, comparing their
quiet behavior to the cowardice of a
whipped cur. Their remarks were re-
scented by several of the officers pres
ent. who administered a sound thrash
ing to the indiscreet Cubans.
In consequence of these disorders,
Military Governor Arolas has issued a
general order making it obligatory upon
every officer to wear his uniform and
carry arms in public, whether on duty
or not. in order to avoid mistakes as to
identity.
Yesterday two boats rowed across the
bay toward the transport Resolute. One
was occupied by Cubans from Regla,
among whom was the we'll known in
surgent chief Rodriguez. The other was
filled with Spanish pleasure seekers.
The boat in which the Cubans were
drew alongside the other, and its oc-
cupants began haunting and jeering at
the Spaniards, who answered back.
When the boats were close to the Res
dilute Rodriguez took up an oar and
struck one Of the Spaniards over the
head with it. infiicting painful wounds.
One of the latter's companions jumped
into the Cubans' boat, sprang upon
Rodriguez and bit his whole nose off.
The fight became general, and several
of the participants were slightly wound
ed. When the men had been separated
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-22
"THE CHICKEN CAME HOME
Poetic Justice Wreaked Upon tn,
Man Who Sowed Tares.
T IA Smith of Pad,l

]. II. Smith Of Paducah, KY. tells a
good story on himself
Fifteen years ago, when I was but
seemingly incorrigible YOUTH said
he, Il CHANGED while out hunting one
DAY to trespasS upon the farm of one
of our neighbors, whose acerbity Of
temper was known the country over,
with the result that. "a severe chastis-
ing was given me. At that time my
anger knew no bounds, still discretion
was not entirely overthrown, and kept
my own counsel, with the result that
plan for revenge at last occurred 10
me. So one dark night, when all the
elements seemed at war, with pockets
we'll filled with Johnson grass seeds,
sailed forth, and here and there scat
tered them about his magnificent field
.In a few years the scattered seeds
had covered the field, with the result
that it had to be abandoned for agri-
cultural purposes, and eventually one
of the finest farms in the old Blue Grass
State was overrun with this pest. The
wears went RAPIDLY by, and soon both
my father and the old farmer were
gathered TO their reward, each leaving a
single child 1t was only last year
that my chicken came home to roost,'
so to speak, for L then led to the hy-
meneal altar the sole surviving heir to
that Johnson grass field in the person
of the lovely daughter of my enemy OF
boyhood days.
"To-day." he said sadly, about al
we have in this world in the way of
realty is that magnificent waste of rap
IDLY growing grass. Every time 1 lock
at that old farm l am forcibly reminded
of the shortsightedness of human flesh
in general, and the fact that after a
3. strict observance of the Golden Rule
is by long odds the best policy. To-day
| am spending every dollar / can pos
sibly rake and scrape together in a
seemingly vain endeavor to render SER
viceable my wife's inheritance. -
Kansas City Journal.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-22
COMTE ESTERHAZY.
He Will Publish a Book Throwing
Light Upon Dreyfus Matter.

LONDON, Sept 22.-The Daily
News" says that Comte Esterhazy has
been sojourning in London in the guise
of an Italian Count. He speaks Ital-
ian fuently.
The Daily News" representative
caught him at Charing Cross as he
was about to start for Paris. In the
course Of the interview Esterhazy said
he had passed the detectives detailed
to watch him in Paris in his present
disguise, and that nobody had recog-
nized him. But" he continued Il
distrusted even this. / told General
Pellieux after the suicide of Colonel
Henry that it wouldj be impossible to
stop things, and that the movement
would be formidable. The Generals
lost their heads. I wrote to Cavaignac
a long letter acquainting him with the
points Of the affair. He refused to see
me. My ruin had been determined
upon. l was thrown overheard, and
had nothing left but to go away and
await developments"
Comte Esterhazy proceeded to de-
clare that he had vainly tried to con-
vince General Pellieux that the Henry
document was a forgery, but that Gen
eral PellieuX had declined to listen tC
him. There WERE" SD Count Ester
hazy, but three persons who knew the
truth of the matter-Sanders, Henry
and myself. The first two are dead
and l alone hold the secret"
Comte Esterhazy complained bitterly
of the treatment of himself and Mad
anne Pays, who is in prison in Paris. He
declares that Judge Construction Bon
tulois had Madame Pays brought from
the Saint LaZar prison and offered hel
liberty if she would reveal all she knew
about the Generals.
After reference to other phases of the
affair, Comte Esterhazy said: Il in
tend to publish a book that will throw
light upon the unhealthy Dreyfus story
Cayaignac made a mistake in perse-
cutting me. but he struck at the same
time his relation Colonel du Patty du
Clam. l may mention that I had al
ready declined a pension offered by
General Billot"
Comte EsterhaZy affected gay non
chalance, but just as he was taking
the train he said in a sharp, nervous
tone, without pausing for breath: u
don't Know whether I szall make use
of the documents in my possession. II
will depend upon the march of events
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-22
SCHOONER WRECKED.
Only Two Of the Twelve Persons
on Board Saved.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 21-Aus-
tralian papers received here on the
steamer Alameda report the wreck of
the schooner G. c.. Funk on Flinders
Island on July 31st, with ten of her
crew, all of whom shipped on the we'll
known coaster either here or in the
north.
Only two seamen, Albert Trough and
John peterson, We're saved, and but one
body had been recovered when the Ala
media sailed. 1t was that of Peter Nell
son.
The list of the drowned is as fol-
lows: Captain and Mrs. NeSson ana
two children, aged and 5 years, re-
spectively; A. Hansen, chief mate: j.
Stump, second mate; Charles Olsen,
Peter Nelson, Charles Johansen and
Peter Anton, able seamen.
The vessel was driven ashore by a
gale. and went to pieces in the surf
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-22
WINNIE DAVIS.
The Funeral Will Take Place at
Richmond Tomorrow.

RICHMOND Va.), Sept. 2l.-The de-
tails for the funeral Of Miss Winnie
Davis We're practically perfected to-
night The remains will arrive in
Richmond Friday morning, and Will be
met by Lee and Pickett Camps. The
body will be escorted to the lecture
room of St. PauFs Church, and be de-
posted there and remain under a guard
of honor until $3.50 p. M, when it will
be borne to the church. The funeral
will take place at 1870 p. m.
The honorary pall-bearers include the
following: Governor ]. II. Taylor, Cen
eral James 3. Gordon, General Fitz-
hugh Lee, General Joseph b. Wheeler,
General Taylor Ellison, Colonel VIM. n.
Palmer. Colonel j. b. Purcell, Major
Robert Stiles, Colonel Archer Anderson,
Burton Harrison, Colonel w. f. Cut
shaw, General Bradley Johnson, Gen
eral David A. Weisger and Thomas At
kinson.
Notices are pouring in from Confed-
crate camps from all over the South
indicating a purpose to send delegations
to the funeral.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-22
TURF CONGRESS.
Many Changes Made in the By
Laws of the Association.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 2.-The Ameri-
can Turf Congress met in executive
session here to-day. Among those pres
ent were President c. C. Maffit, ST
Louis; Secretary F. c. Hooper, Lex
ington; w. S. Shuttle, Louisville; L. p.
Tarlton Latonia; Ed. Corrigan, Ingle-
side, San Francisco; James A. Murphy,
Detroit; Frank Fowler, Newport, Ky.
The following officers were elected:
President, S. r. Montgomery, Memphis
Vice President, Robert Aull, st. Louis:
Treasurer, o. L. Bradley, Lexington;
Secretary, F. c. Hooper, Covington,
Ky; Auditing Committee-Schulte.
Reese and Fowler. Committee on Rules
Murphy Tarlton and Hopper.
The most radical action against for
eign books was taken by the prohibit
tory bylaws being incorporated into
the constitution.
Other changes include notice of ten
days, with the object named in the
call, for a special meeting; for mem
bers Of the Committee on Appeals and
License to serve three years, one mem
her of each to be selected annually;
that with consent of officials rendering
decision appeal can be taken after five
Gays limit, lIldl ON HSIS llltludN pa
owners, but not trainers with contin-
gent interest in winning; aftixing heavy
penalties for entries not in the name OF
the owners; compelling Secretaries OF
clubs to collect all jockey fees preced-
ing mounts, and TO collect declarations
as we'll as entrance fees; ruling off all
horses of any owner having fraud III
one of his entries; when two or more
horses owned by the same party OF
having the same trainer are entered
they must be coupled in the betting.
A new book, with the constitution
bylaws, racing rules, regulations anu
betting rules will be issued.
I Adjourned to meet in Chicago neX'
| September.