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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-12
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-12
RUSSIA IS STILL AHEAD


weapons on four Russian warsnips' .,,.,ac-
will be extended II they turn ou' "
tory
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-12

An Absolutely WE think that we Ar. a.
New glove first to show these IN ~
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'0s' a" known in London "a
very popular there. They are Voc. ae
gloves, of course, and they are knour !
Mock Reindeer" Why that It'll. !.
can't say, for they are not ofreindeer din |:
all, nor very startling imitation th.s..%s
The skin is lamb suede. treated !.
wholly new way, giving the rich A.!
depth Of color that reindeer skins tai. i.
with even more than their pliabiitv ~
softness. A superb glove for eveiv. H.
use. 1t seems impossible to wear il ON !,
soil them Out Of usefulness.
Seventy-five cents pair. You are a.
to buy, if you see them.
Broadway.
Women's DAYS like yesterday m,k.
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those made from lawns and orQandj.,
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Summer suits in serge, black or nav
All made within the last five days "
At SiO-Fly-front, silk-lined jacket, pereain. In,
skirt
At s15 and 81 Beautifully tailored gowns, a,
lined with tafeta
Al S20-With fy-iront Jacket. Marouise hounu 4
skirt (the first hint oil the coming Fall style) a.
throughout with silk, finished exqustely
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-12
Fine Silk
Umbrellas
At Little Cost

are pure silk in black or navy blue,
natural wood or Dresden handles,
rolling, "A and 20 in; case to match. 4,
Either would be good value at y
Now 81. T5-mens and womens.
Broadway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-12
Mems Blue Serge
and Other Suits

been, and are, very proud. We sod Il y,
hundreds and hundreds at SIS, and begged
you to compare it with SIS kinds, wnlen
you apparently did to your satisfaction a"'
ours.
Double breasted, silk faced TO buttonhoIe,
and with Wanamaker finish " IN every
seam and stitch. Take what is LEFT Of 'nes'
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caping in tiny tendrils about the face.
 Involuntarily one recalls Bernhardt with the story of fierce defiance written in every line of her. .countenance; Duse, the incarnation of tragedy; and Mod jeska appears by comparison the per sonifcation of wistfulness and romantic pathos.
 Are these the lines Fame stamps up- on the children of the gods? one is tempted to inquire.
 When I looked at Helena Modjeska, the consummate artist, and noted the pathetic tenderness of her smile, and the never-lifting sorrow in her eyes, l wondered If indeed the race for glory were not a weary strife, and the Suc- cess of the great actress seemed to me for the first time to show itself in it's true character a will-o'-the-w -wisp, scarce worth so noble a sacrifice.
 But this is what Helen Modjeska says of that fickle goddess who has been her friend and who is known as Success.
 Success. success. who can define it? I cannot even admit that 1 know 1t, for although l have for many years wor- shiped at the shrine of art until l have satisfied myself. I shall never know success, and as yet l have never been content with my own performance. l am always disappointed in myself, am always short of my ideals.
 You represent success in very lofty form to the public" I said, and every woman is anxious to know how you have made of yourself the eminent art ist the whole world acknowledges you to be- Has il been by talent, which God alone can bestow. or study. which is said to be the synonym of genius, or is there a secret art that leads alone to glory. and that you, and perhaps one or two other women of the century have been gifted with, or have learned or divined?
 '"The world Is overf1owing with wo- men who have made failures, who rep resent defeat in it's most tragic, de- spairing and, alas. sometimes almost grotesque form. The coming race of
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preserves and luxuries we wanted, be- sides new clothes and needed rigging for our own vessel. That's the time we had the laugh on the crew of the Sabine; they were patiently waiting at Aspinwall for these same supplies that never came.
 We did not burn the Union, but for a joke Semmes let her go after taking all he wanted and sent a written mes sage back to the United States au- thorities thanking them for sending such a choice lot of supplies, of which he stood in great need.
 By this time the West Indies was getting pretty hot for the Alabama, and there were lot of vessels hotly hunting for her. So we went down the trade winds, on the route of vessels homeward bound from the South At lantic and the Torn, and caught sev- eral of them, which we burned.
 We stopped in at the Fernando de Noronha, an island belonging to Brazil near which we found an American ves- sel loaded with coal. which we captured and from which we took coal.
 While lying there we sighted couple of whalers in the offng. and them. They hailed from New Bedford, and had been out three years. They had full cargoes and belonged mostly to the men on board of them I felt bad for the poor fellows, and they were very blue over the capture and loss of their ships and catch. We took the coal ship out beyond the three mile limit and set all three shins on fire together.
 Then we sailed into Bahia and land ed our prisoners. over a hundred in number, and remained there for two weeks After that we went out again and captured and burned several more vessels including the Louisa Hatch
 .'Nht1e we were at Bahia the Con federate cruiser Georgia came in. with Captain Maury in command and the officers and crews of both vessels had a good time visiting back and forth. It was only a little while afterward that the Florida put into Bahia and
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and scraping the vessel and putting her in good shape. We then left for Cape Town, and while going in met the American ship Seanrlght, o,di,e, Wnich ed to be within the three mile limit, and I think she was.
 s"The capture was plainly seen from shore SemmeS put prize crew on her and afterward made cruiser out or her. We stayed in Cape Town two weeks. and by this time I made up my mind that I had had about all of the Alabama I wanted. l concluded that she was bound to get captured or sunk some time before long, and as I could not swim I did not care to be on board when that happened. l was Petting no pay for my work, and could not until the end of the war. so 1 de- cfded to desert at the first opportunity.
 After we left Cape Town we went up the coast to Simons Bay, where Eng fish vessels are accustomed to refit. and stayed for a while. It was my duty to go on shore every morning for vegetables and supplies, and made an agreement with another man who wanted to desert that we would go to- gether at the first chance. So one morn ing when there happened to be a heavy fog we went on shore as usual. and after going up town we slipped into the hills and made our way to Cape Town across country.
 When we got there I reported to the American Consul. told who I was, and what I had done, and he got me ship.
 T was cantured on the Crenshaw in October. 1862, and stayed on the Ala bama until August, 1863.
 After I left her she got only three more captures. Tn fact, nearly all her work of destroying Northern mer- chantnlen was done while I was on her. The Alabama took about fifty ships while I was with her. When she went out from Cherbourg harbor to fight the Kearsarge Captain Semmes left seventy-four chronometers on shore; that will give an idea of the number of vessels be captured"
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HOW 70 SUCCEED
 AS AZ ACTRESS
My Experience or fife Stage and the AdWce /Woun Give Young Women Who Are Ambitious 10 Find Stage Careers.
BY HELEN M0DJESKA.

women want to know how to avoid failure. They are full of life and en- thusiasm and hope. They turn aside from the spectacle of disappointment which is everywhere. and, with the glo- rious courage of youth. they fix their eyes and their ambitions on the women who, star-like, have attained glorious heights. They all honor and love you, most of them can never get nearer to you than the other side of the great d1- vide which separates the actress rom her audience. They are eager to know how you reached Olympia's pinnacle
 You want to know how I became successful artist?" said Modjeska, once again turning that lovely smile upon me. And you expect me to say it was by study-hard study and Spartan per- severance. This is what you expect me to say. I am sure of it..
 "Yes," I replied with enthusiasm. That is it. Tell us just how you work. All about the terrible feats you must have to accomplish in memoriztng. l have read how you study constantly, and carry your lines about with you, day and night, wherever you go.
 Now I shall disappoint you," and Mime. Modjeska's voice was as sweet as the notes of the stringed instrument 1t resembles.
 'I have never studied hard at all. Ac-. cording to the common acceptance : am no student. I do not deserve praise for application or for hard work; l do not merit it at all.
 ''The longest role have ever mem- orized was in Polist-a five-act play in which I was upon the stage nearly all of the time. I was dead-letter perfect in 1t at the end of two days.
 "Of course, in English it takes me 8 little longer, but I have never spent 8 week in study of any one role during my entire career.
 'rWhen it comes to studying the char acter I am to play-ah, there indeed, perhaps deserve to be called faithful worker.
 "I do not know by just what pro- cesses I learn, or strive to learn, to be the woman I am to play. but just as soon as 1 decide to act new charac- ter try to become that woman.
 ''I learn the lines first, but they are comparatively nothing. My task is to learn to feel the woman who would speak these lines. The words are the work of another; my part must be to sink Helena Modjeska's personality into that of the woman who would spontaneously and naturally. under the circumstances indicated in the play, speak these lines which already I have
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us. while every ball from our vessel found a place in her null.
 Finally we sent a shell into her boiler. which exploded, and at once a lantern was run up to her peak and she called out that she was sinking and for us to send boats
 we stopped firing at once, got out boats and took off all her crew and off, cers-150 men all told, or more py sew eral than we had.
 "In ten minutes after we ceased fir ing the Hatteras went down.
 I've had only one man injured. and he was struck by a piece of shell on the jaw. The Alabama was hit four teen times.
 After the battle we examined our shin and found three unexploded shells from the Hatteras. One had gone clear tbroueh the vessel and stuck in the op- nosita side Two were found in the coai bunkers. We wondered why they had not exploded, and Captain Semmes had them examined. We found that instead of being filled with powder there was nothing but black sand in side of them. If they had been pow der filled and had exploded that would nrobably have been the end of the Ala
 ..The officers and crew of the Hat teras were treated well, Captain Semmes and his officers gave up their ouarters to them, and all were paroled and turned over to the United States Consul at Port Royal, where we went at once and landed them.
 "After this we went cruising in the Carihbean Sea and made several cap- tures. burning all American vessels and sending the crews ashore in half-prizes. We made one capture that caused a
 ..The United States frigate Sabine had been on trip to Aspinwall and got caught in a squall, in which she lost all her tophamper and rigging, leaving nothing but the hull. She got to Aspinwall with jury masts and sent to Washington for a new outfit to be shinned her. In response the schooner Union was loaded with the needed rig ging and sails, and in addition a full outfit of supplies for long cruise. She
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ingS of the Alabama had been sent to Aspinwan, and as it was suspected that we would try to capture a treasure ship she was sent by the route around the other end of the island.
 However, We made good capture within a day or two. We were lying close in shore with fires banked when the steamer Ariel of the New York and Aspinwall line was sighted coming from the north on her way to the isthmus. We at once got under. sail and went out to meet her.
 AS soon as we could get up steam we dropped our propeller and rapidly overhauled the Ariel. She did not sus- pect our identity. When we got close enough we fired a gun and raised our flag.
 At once the Ariel turned and fled toward the north as fast as she could. She had 750 passengers on board, in cluding 150 soldiers. We gave chase and soon commenced to overhaul her. As we came up we could see that ev- cry one was on deck. and the side of the vessel was black with heads. In fact, we could not see thing all round her rail but rows and rows of heads.
 AS the Ariel paid no attention to our blank shot, Semmes ordered solid shot to be fired, but without hitting her. Two of the guns were fired to- gether. One shot passed entirely over her, but the other struck the mainmast about six feet above the deck.
 Tt was funny to see how the heads disappeared when those shot went over her. Like a flash every one dis appeared, and the rail was left as clear as if there were not a soul on board.
 The Ariel at once stopped and we sent a boat aboard. The passengers were terribly frightened, but were as- sured no harm would be done them.
 "She had some money, which was brought back and then Semmes and his officers debated what to do with her. Semmes wanted to burn her, as she belonged to Vanderbilt, who had given a vessel (the Vanderbilt to the Government for the purpose of chasing and capturing the Alabama, and in re-
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was captured in the harbor by the Fed eral nan-of-war Wachusett and taken north
 After we left Bahia We captured several ships, among them the Iahs- man, which was bound for China. When her cargo was examined We found a complete outfit for a gunooat that was going to the Chinese Govern ment There were some fine brass lz- pounders. and Semmes took them out of her. Afterward We captured yes sel named the Conrad. She was such a good sailer that Semmes decided to make another cruiser out of her. So he put the captured brass guns on her and changed her name to the 1usca- loosa. Then he put a crew on board and sent her out to work on her own account.
 "A few days after this we captured a shin named the Schmidt. bound to san Francisco with a cargo of clothing, etc. We took a lot of her cargo, and the crew got good outfits of new clothing from her.
 .'The same evening. after we had set the Schmidt on fire a big ship passed us in the dark and Semmes gave chase; He fired a gur for her to heave to. and she fired one in return. We could not make out her colors. so We gave chase. It was not till midnight that we came up with her. and we thought she was going to be another good prize
 But when Semmes hailed her, ana asked what her name was, back came the answer, Her Britannia Majesty ship Diomede.
 'sSernmes was angry when he discov- cred how he lad been fooled, but he had to make the best of it.
 By this time it was getting pretty warm for us in that part of the sea. We were speaking five or six vessels day, and we learned that the Yankees had fleet of ships out securing the water for us. So Semmes decided to make a run for South Africa, and he headed straight for the coast.
 We struck it in just 31 days, putting in at Saldana Bay, some eighty miles above Cape Town, and a locality sel- dom visited by vessels, as the haroor was very difficult to enter. Here we stayed two or three weeks, refitting
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the harbor, which Captain Semmes at once boarded. After a short stay he returned. As soon as he came aboard the coal ship raised anchor and left. We stayed there two days and on the third day, early in the morning, the United States steamer San Jacinto came into the harbor in search of the Alabama. SenlmsS recognized her at once, but Captain Wilkes did not know the Alabama. and as it subsequently turned out. thought she was French man-of-war.
 ''The San Jacinto kept on across the mouth of the harbor. and at g o'clock Semmes. as was his custom, ran up the stars and bars.
 ''The San Jacinto at once stopped and sent boat ashore, which called at an Amercan vessel that lay in the har- bor and evidently made arrangements with her to keep the San Jacinto noti- fled of our movements In order to comply with the regulations of neutrals the American vessel kept three miles off shore and patrolled back and forth across the mouth of the harbor watch ing for us to come out.
 ''As soon as night fell we got steam up, covered every light, took a French pilot aboard, raised our anchor and started out. At our first move rocket shot up from the American merchant man, which was evidently a signal to lHe OdH JdClllO Ildl We were lTyluS lO escape.
 Our guns were all shotted. the men were all at quarters and we were all ready for fight and expected one. but we never got a glimpse of the Yankee, nor she of us.
 'We then went to Rlanquilla, where we found the coal ship that we had seen at Port Royal, and which had brought a cargo of coal from Cardiff for us in accordance with an arrange ment made previously. We cruised there for week or more and took sev- eral prizes, burning them and putting their crews on board a "half-prize" to be landed.
 At that time Captain Semmes was lying in wait for the regular AspinwaIl steamer, bound for New York. which he had learned in some way had an immense sum in gold dust, something like $1 GOO 900, from California on board and which he was determined to cap ture. The regular route of these vessels was by the east end of Cuba, but as we afterward learned word of the do-
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acquired. If I cannot feel that under these conditions this woman'S words would spontaneously come to me, l know I am far away from what my impersonation must grow to be.
 For this reason 1t is impossible for me to play a part with which I cannot learn to SympathiZe. 1 was years and years in learning to be able to play Lady Macbeth. I could not feel her. I could not possibly have any sympa- thy for her. She repelled me. I want ed to run away from her, and refused, her, to attempt to impersonate the character.
 "On the other hand, take Portia for example, I loved her from the first. I felt that she was a woman of extraor- ordinary sweetness, of brilliant wit, cy and great intellectual power. She belonged to century noted for its brilliant women-a veritable golden age of feminine mentality.
 'Portia was undoubtedly woman of distinguished social position, with the charming. easy manners of high breed ing and perfect knowledge of the world. She was undoubtedly a hnguist. All the women of wealth and position of that day were superbly educated, and it was quite common for them to speak five or six languages fluently.
 When l was preparing to become Portia. read everything I could find in French, Italian, Polish and English concerning the period in which she lived I threw my whole personality, so far as I could. back into that time. I absorbed all the history. romance and poetry of the period. I became familiar, geographically. with the Italian towns in which she dwelt. I studied the man. ners. I wore the dress. I familiarized myself with the ethics of the time and people until I was saturated with the atmosphere of my beautiful heroine Finally. began to realize to myself the component parts of this young and lovely woman of marvellous speech and extraordinary sagacity.
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luS CllIlh OI SldSSSS l e1t OAANS "A recognized the violin-like timbre 1 of Helena Modjeska's voice as.
 in response to my knock at her
 Irawing-room door one morn ing last week, the lovely Polish-Amerl- can bade me enter.
 Coming toward me with both hands outstretched and a smile of frankest welcome upon her charming face, l fell an immediate victim to the allure ments of a personality 'foreshadowed in the melodious. sympathetic speech.
 Mime. Modjeska had just arisen from her breakfast table. Indeed, my en- trance was the signal for the dispers- ing of merry party. The actress was gowned in robe of diaphanous black material, made in the prevailing fash ion, extremely simple and elegant, fit ting her form closely and relieved here and there with a garniture of steel and rhineStones.
 If a woman be as old as she looks. Mime. Modjeska in her sumptuous apartments at the New Netherland Hotel the other morning was certainly not a day over five and thirty.
 Tall and 1.-the, with the figure of a girl of eighteen. slender but not thin. made up of delicious curves. Mime. Modjeska's figure gives no suggestion of the word so harsh to the ear of an matronly."
 It is girlish. poetic in its reed-like un- dulations. but without shadow of the heaviness that memorable time usually insists upon bestowing upon the wo- man past her fortieth year. Like Hebe in her early bloom. Modjeska's figure defies criticism.
 Daintily set upon this girlish form the small shapely head of the actress looked almost fower-like as it was sharply silhouetted against the pale draperies of her apartment. Her face is so intensely spiritual as to be almost startling. Nothing further from the material world of sense, of flesh and blood, can be imagined than this won derful face-pale. eager, delicate, with its dark, glowing eyes, that seem per manently imbued with a sad and wist- ful sweetness; the mobile mouth, deli cate nose low brow, crowned by an aureole of dark brown hair, simply gathered in knot at the back and es-
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life on Board tie Akabama Dur- mg the Time Sic Was Trying 10 Drive Yankee Commerce From the Seas.
y Man Who Vas Captured
 Made His Escape

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had food othes, wines. canned goods and all kinds of delicacies. The Ala bama captured her. and she proved just what we wanted. We took all the goods out of her. I tell you the crew of the Alabama lived high for while. We had all the timed meats, pickles,
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the windward passage and going to the harbor at Port Royal, where we anchored. There was a coal ship in
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BOVE the sound of laughter and the clink of glasses l at once T recognized the violin-like timbre
 | of Helena Modjeska's s voice as.
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YER in Alameda, in a modest little cottage, is the home of Alfred Baker, a quiet, retiring man of about 50 years, still 1.-the and active. but with nothing in