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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-18
THEATRICAL TOPICS.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THE
PLAYERFOLK.
bauri'e Grau, the Famous Impresario,
Is Given the Cross of the Legion of
Honor of France-About Some Star
Actresses.

A galaxy of beauty and talent is that
which contains the names of all the
young women who mean to increase
his season the prosperity they won
last year. There is Annie Russell, who
promises, if her health holds out, to
give a good account of her abilities.
mere is Jessie Millward, newly estab-
llshed in the applause of New York and
ready to carry the Empire into fresh
successes. There is Mary Mannering,
rescued from her threatened eclipse by
Julie Opp and fearless of Hilda Spong,
prepared to maintain her good looks
ano good quality against all corners at
the Lyceum. There is Margaret Anglin,
in "Cyrano de Bergerac,"
out now an Independent leading WON
an with more admirers than the long
nosed gentleman. here is Julia Mar
love-, who, after many years spent in
knocking at its doors, has at last been
admitted into the approval of New
YORK, and who means to continue by
honest effort in the applause thus won.
mere is Minnie Maddern, with an
adaptation of Vanity Fair" and a
promise to make her Becky Sharp one
OF the most interesting performances
or the season. There is Olga Neither
sole, provided with a new kissing
drama and many fresh styles in oscu-
latlon, by which she will advance her
popularity with the salacious if not
with the artistic. There is Lillian Rus
sell, with a contract as plump as her
self. There is Sadie Martinez, saved
from oblivion by "The Turtle and
ready for any comic ~iniquity that Zieg-
field may bring from Paris. There is
Maxine Elliott, with an English repu-
tation, ready to win a new and surer
n in America. There is Ida Conquest,
still astonished at the honors thrust
upon her by her manager, but willing
to accept more. There is Alice Nielsen,
now an established prima donna, with
money in her purse, melody in her
throat and hope in her heart. There is
May Irwin, plentiful in promises to re-
store the Bijou to it's ancient fortune.
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fever had infested them. had NOT beeA
destroyed on account of the sick sol
diers who were in them, afflicted with
that dread plague. A company q COLI
pred troops had fought all day at San
Juan, and that night had beer ordered
to proceed to guard duty to Siboney.
They had marched over roads you can't
conceive of, had lot rested one hour
AFTER nght1ng for nearly a day and they
did not have time to prepare their food.
They arrived at Siboney at 2 o'clock in
the morning, n many went to sleep.
None had anything to eat. We were
unablet to do much for our sick soldiers.
NO nurses had arrived, and we did not
even have a cook, for all cur volunteer
nurses and cooks were down with
fever. At 4 o'clock in the morning I
went over to the commanding officer
of that colored company to obtain q
cook and nurses. Knowing that ne
groes are afraid of the fever, l asked
the commanding officer not to detail
any of that company to act as cook or
nurses, but to call for volunteers. The
company was awakened and the men
OiAlO III Int, oil WIN were lell dlttT
the fight at San Juan, about eighty in
number. I pointed to the building and
told them that soldiers were in there
sick with yellow fever, that we had no
cook, no nurses, and that 1 had come
to ask who would volunteer to help us.
My words were repeated and the Ian
gers Of yellow fever explained to them
by their commander, and when he
called for volunteers the whole eighty
stepped forward. Within two weeks
two-thirds Of the company fell victims
to the disease. I had been told that the
negro is not to be depended upon, that
he is shiftless, lazy, indolent, etc., but
after this incident 1 am proud to claim
the negro soldier as my camp-comrade.
I do not want to cast any aspersions
on any man or set of men, but 1 should
like to know whether a company of
white men, eighty in number, after a
terrible fight, after a hard, forced
march, without food, in the face Of
mortal fear Of the disease, would have
responded to a man.
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cessful collaboration. He anne from
Russia to Paris some thirty years ago,
and, having married an actress, he
wrote a play, which he put without
name or address into the letter box Of
Alexander Dumas fills. Oddly enough,
the latter read it, showed it to the
manager of the Odeon, and agreed to
rewrite it for presentation in the win
ter of 1875. The arrangement resulted
in Les Danicheffs." AS Dumas inya-
riably refused proposals for collabcra-
ton, it was decided that an imaginary
Pierre Newski should figure in the bills
as author. AS o as the success OF
the piece was proclaimed, K~roukowsky
became quite persuaded that he wrote
Les Danicheffs," and his p~retensions
much annoyed Dumas, who left him in
future to produce his own plays. AS a
result they were ~egregious failures.
From dramatist he became poultry
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ing his friends and in reading the
newspapers. Since the second trial Of
Dreyfus at Rennes he has been deeply
interested in the progress of that in
vestigation. Mr.. Blair started life in
destitute circumstances and made his
first dollar selling muskrats which he
had trapped. Coal, iron and railroads
have been the sources from which Mr..
Blair made the bulk of his vast for
tune. While he has been amassing
wealth, Mr.. Blair has interested him
self in advancing the causes of edu-
cation and religion. He has endowed
the Presbyterian Academy with $780,
900 and has literally contributed to
other institutions of learning, especial
ly in the West. Over a hundred Pres
byterian churches in various parts of
the country owe their existence to his
liberality. Mr.. Blair's special pride,
among all the educational institutions
he has helped, is the Blair Presbyterian
Academy, which he founded and en-
dowed so literally. Rev. John G.
Sharpe, D. D., is the principal. The
school ranks with the foremost insti-
tutions of learning in New Jersey,
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A Curious Fountain.

Queensland is to be represented at a
London exhibition by a fountain of
quicksilver, one of the ~colony's chief
productions. There will be two ba-
sins, one above the other. These will
be of iron, enameled black to give a
greater effect to the falling quicksilver,
the top one being three feet larger.
The mercury will run into the upper
bowl from a height, and then by little
channels around the edge into the
lower basin. The supply will be so
arranged that there is an almost con-
tinual flow. AS it drops into the lower
bowl the mercury will be conducted
by a slass-lined iron pipe to a reser-
voir tank and then lifted by a motor
so that it may return by the delivery
pipe to the upper bowl again. The
weight of the mercury used will be
about two tons, and the piping for the
delivery will be LOG feet long, and that
for the return to the tank eighty feet.
Each tank will hold two cubic feet of
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Difficult Eating.

Savannah News: There is a won
derful cockatoo in one of the islands of
the Indian ocean, near New Guinea.
1t is as large as a full-grown pheasant,
and it is of a jet black color. The bird
is remarkable for its immensely strong
bill and the clever manner in which it
is used. The bill is as hard as steel,
and the upper part has a deep notch in
it. Now the favorite food of this cock
atoo is the kernel of the canary nut;
but there is wonderful ingenuity re-
quired to get at it, for the nut is ONE
thing like a Brazil nut, but it is ten
times as hard. In fact, it requires the
blow of a heavy hammer to crack it.
1t is quite smooth and somewhat tri-
angular in shape. The cockatoo might
throw the nut down, but it would not
break, or it might hold it in it's claws
like the parrots usually do with their
food, and attempt to crush it; but the
smoothness of the nut would cause it
to fly out of the beak. Nature appears
to have given the possessor of the VOL
derful bill some intelligence to direct
its powers, for the cockatoo takes enc
of the nuts edgewise in it's bill, aud, by
a carving motion of it's sharp low or
beak, makes a small notch on it. This
done, the bird takes hold of the nut
with it's claws, and, biting off a piece Of
leaf, retains it in the deep notch of the
upper part of the bill. Then the nut
is seized between the upper and lower
parts of the bill and is prevented from
slipping by the peculiar texture of the
leaf. A sharp nip CT two breaks off
a tiny piece of the shell of the nut.
The bird then seizes the nut III it's
claws and pokes the long sharp point
of its bill into the hole and picks out
the kernel bit by bit. The ccckatoo
has a very long tongue, which collects
each mofsel as il is broken off by the
bill. This is a wonderful process, for
it is quite clear that without the leaf
nothing could be done, and it proves
how certain structures in birds are
made to destroy certain parts Of plants.
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Discipline in the German army is
very strict. Not long ago the empress,
returning from a walk with a lady-in-
waiting, was stopped at the park gate
by a sentry, who refused to let her
enter. In vain the lady represented
she was the empress; the soldier said
he did not know her, and could not let
her pass till she could get someone to
identify her. That was eventually
done by another soldier. and only then
did the sentry allow his sovereign's
consort to enter her own gates. The
man has since had a special message
from the emperor, highly approving his
steady adherence to orders.
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service, gives eminent satisfaction In
artistic circles.
So far as the stage is concerned, Mr..
Grau has done more to familiariZe
Americans with French artists than
any other manager. During his career
nearly all the great French actors and
singers who have visited this country
have been under his management. He
began with Aimee in 1872, and since.
then Capoul, Paola, Angelo, Bernhard,
Coquelin, Jane Hading, Mounet-Sully,
as we'll as the great singers Of the
present day have come to this country
under his direction.
Honors are falling upon Mr.. Grau
thick and fast, and he is making money
as well. He has received official recog-
milton from Queen Victoria such as
never before has been given to a man
ager of opera. He has dined at Wind
graph of the queen, and has had con-
ferred upon him an order of merit.
Chester Bailey Fernald's new roman
tic Japanese play, in which Forbes
Robertson and Mrs. Patrick Campbell
are to appear soon in London, is called
THE Moonlight Blossom" The story
circles round the adventures of Aruno,
son of a native nobleman, who has suf-
fered disgrace and exile from his fa-
theirs home on account of a calumny
supposed to have been uttered several
years previous to the commencement
of the play. Nanoya, the heroine, anx-
ious to restore her lover to fortune and
his fathers favor, becomes the uncon-
scious tool in the hands of a dishonest
woman named Dodan. But the influ-
ence of this latter is brought to naught
and her scheme overthrown by the
power of a mysterious plant which
blossoms in the moonlight on the tenn
pie roof, and eventually provides a So
luton to all the difficulties opposed to
the union of the loving pair.
Although a rigorous Interpretation
of the Talmudic law forms one of the
principal features of the plot of Israel
Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto"
the play will be in no sense a religious
production. Mr.. Zangwill's only aim
has been to construct a play that will
fulfill the first requirements of the
theater- goers-to muse and interest.
Those who have read the manuscript
believe that Mr.. Zangwill has created
a powerful dramatic structure, which
will prove as interesting to the Gen.
tile as to the Hebrew.
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"All sorts of curious creatures" says
DR.. Morris Gibbs, come to us in
punches of bananas, and | know of
over twenty species of insects, reptiles
and mammals that have gained free
transportation to our land by slowing
themselves away in punches of this
luscious and popular fruit. 1t is a very
common occurrence to find spiders of
several varieties, all of which are pro-
nounced deadly poison, of course. l
have seen three species of snakes
which were taken in these well-built
places of concealment, one of which
was a greenish-colored boa, all of five
feet long, and two little fellows, and
all alive. 1t is not are to find active
little lizards which have made the
thick shelter their home, and been
taken over $500 miles into a foreign
land, never to return to their sunny
home in Central America. Curious
land crabs also migrate by this meth
cd, and, from foreign lands, are pro-
nounced most virulent and are killed
on sight, Then, too, we often find lit
1 ihlCO Will NCly loHS toiiS, WILMA
have made themselves comfortable on
the journey, by preparing soft nests in
the center of the bunch. The great
punches of fruit hang lea the ground,
and the wild creatures seek the space
within and thus escape the hot sun, or
perhaps their enemies. What more
natural than for a mous to build its
nest and rear its little brood in this
retreat? Then the time ome for the
shipping of the green fruit. The big
stem is cut with a huge knife, much
like the Cuban machete, and the
punches are carried to the coast, where
they are loaded on the steamer for
American ports. Thousands and tens
of thousands of crabs, reptiles, mice
and endless quantities of spiders and
insects are annually brought into our
boundaries in punches Of bananas, and
are distributed throughout all civilized
quarters in the Union Thurman Alli-
ance.
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Took Himself TO Pieces.

General Nicolls of New Orleans was
well known throughout the southern
states as one of the bravest officers in
the confederate army. He sacrificed an
eye, a leg and IN arm to the cause
which he believed just, and came out Of
the war as he declared, "only half of q
man." But the half hat was left en-
joyed a joke as keenly as ever. Science
replaced the lost members so success
fully that nobody who was ignorant of
his misfortune could detect it. The
general often told the following story:
Stopping at a hotel in Mobile a negro
boy was detailed to help him prepare
for bed. After his bag was unpacked,
and his coat. laid aside, he said: Nov,
Sam, take off my leg" Sam stared
speechless. Don't know yet how to
take off legs, Ell? Now, look here!"
He unscrewed the leg, and keeping it
carefully covered with it's long, black
stocking, laid it aside. Now, take off
this arm" mo, sab! no, sab! Nebber
took off no gentlum's ahm in my life!"
gasped Sam, turning gray with terror.
you're a pretty valet. Nothing cas-
ier." The arm was taken off and laid
beside the leg on the table, and the
general prepared for sleep and got into
bed. ooh, by the way! We'd better
take an eye out!" He took it out. Sam
backed to the door, afraid to turn back
on the terrible guest, who stretched
himself sleepily, and then said: Nov,
Sam, take off my head" Sam rushed
out of the room to the Office, and could
only find strength to gasp out, tits de
debbil heself, sab! He's taken hisself
man who has the nerve to make a joke
Of his sacrifices in any cause is very
sure of sympathy and approval.
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Spanked by the General.

There is a man in Chicago said a
major of the civil war, "who, whenever
l meet him, rubs his shoulder and pass
es me with a mischievous smile. That
is a reminder of his encounter with
Nelson soon after the division left
Corinth. Jack was serving as commits
sary-sergeant and was proud of his
rank. He fitted himself out with a re-
volver and cavalry saber and rode an
understood mule, with the air of a
man enjoying a great privilege. Jack
had a great admiration for Nelson,
and he had intimated to the boys that
he suspected that the general liked
him, because of his natty appearance
and his rather unusual armament.
One morning as the regiment was
waiting in line to pass in review be-
fore Nelson, who, with his staff, was
stationed on the roadside at the head
of the column, Jack came down the
road on his mule. He gave the boys a
triumphant look and said to those
within hearing: See me make an i'm
preston on the general He rode on,
oblivious Of the look on Nelson's face,
and when in front of the general made
what he regarded as a most stunning
salute. Nelson, who did not tolerate
any departure from army usage or reg
ulation, glared at Jack and his mount,
and then, squirting his large horse for
ward, shouted: Get off that mule,
blank you to blank; get off that mule
now Jack was a resourceful fellow.
and, bringing his mule to a quick
about-face, he evaded Nelson, saluted,
and started back. Nelson wheeled and
came down on mule and rider like a
hurricane. AS he overlook Jack he
shouted: Get off that mule and
struck at the luckless rider with his
sword, using it as a paddle. After re-
ceiving one spank, Jack threw himself
from the mule and scrambled up the
steep bank at the roadside, Nelson
spanking him as long as any part Of
Jacks body was within reach. AS
Jack stood rubbing himself, Nelson
roared, Come down, sir Jack shook
his head, and Nelson, realizing that he
was not playing the generals part.
rode away, murmuring: "A commits
sary-sergeant on a mule! The next
thing all the privates will be riding
Observation-Disclosures News.
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o, earth is full of lovely things
Which our dear Father, God, has made,
OF buds and blooms, and cleaning wings,
And bursts of light and depths of shade
o, thick across the purple skies
The wondrous flashing stars are sire vn
And bright with Observation-Disclosures eyes
The glowing world is overgrown.
But never, in the woods at noon,
Or underneath the stars at night,
Or in the low sweet wales of June,
Or on the mountain s upper height
o, never thrilled my blood so much,
And never leaped my heart so wild,
AS when | bowed my head to touch
The sweet lips of my first-born child.
q, in the u~nspeakable baptism
VI that strange owe that DER me stole,
How streamed the sacred, solemn chrism
Ihro all the fibers of my soul!
And every silent yearning hope
Shot outward into sudden speech,
And when | view my horoscope
The stars were close within my reach.
Ay! and I know that evermore
l nave held higher talk with Heaven,
IN deeper whispers than before
mat large new blessedness was given
l could not part her precious hair
Nor look upon her sacred eyes,
'iNilli my lull soul swear
10 mark her steps in Paradise.
L near her low voice in the hall,
Her liquid laugh among the flowers;
ana pulse leaps unto pulse, and all
MY life goes seeking her for hours.
And when she rises to my knee
ana lightly nestles toward my cheek
with love that clings so utterly,
L clasp her, but / can not speak.
y, mia the tumult of the town,
The care, the tanker and the doubt,
AAd when the flaming sun goes down,
AND when the holy stars are out;
In the great stiffness of the night,
And in the front of garish day,
she wraps me like a robe of light,
AND turns to spirit all my clay.
600 bleSs my child! I never knew
Llte.s Vastness until sh q was born.
COO bless my child! and keep her true
through all her deeper, widening morn.
" reach Thy hand out, through the
years,
ana mold her near Thee undefled;
ana give her oil of joy for tears,
AND rather, Father! bless my child.
Richard Realf.
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In Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia there
is a remarkably resonant wood called
hormaguilla. The Quichua and Amay-
ra Indians make a most excellent must
cal instrument out Of this wood. 1t is
on the principle of the well-known
xylophone, only that underneath each
piece they construct a sounding-box
out Of the same wood, varying in size
to the note to be augmented and sus-
tanning evidences of the old prehistoric
civilizations. A party of P~eruvians
lately travelled through Mexico with
one of these large instruments ana Gre
ated quite a sensation among the
mu~sic-loving Mexicans.
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Maurice Grau, director of the Metro
politan o~pera-house, New York, has
been decorated with the cross Of the
Legion of Honor by the French gov
eminent for his services to French art
and artists during his long career. This
is the first time an American impre-
sario has received the decoration.
The cross was conferred upon M.
Grau by a special desire of M. Delcasse,
the minister of foreign affairs, and, be-
ing the first instance of the distinction
being conferred upon a foreign impre-
sario, and in view of his thirty years
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Negro Soldiers Bravery.

In the lobby of a hotel in Washing
ton recently several we'll known men
were exchanging their views about the
moral qualities of the negro. They
all thought him far inferior to the
white man. A colonel in the army
medical service told this story: Dur
ing the recent wal l had a leading part
to play with the medical forces of the
United States in Cuba. At Siboney I
found that certain buildings which l
had ordared burned, because yellow
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Ger the breadth of a great republic,
From ocean to ocean borne,
Whatever the stars of her banner
Clean out to the light of morn;
FROM the depth of her grain-sown val
leys,
The slopes of her wooded hills.
In the song of her wind-swept prairies,
Ihe rhyme of her peaceful rills,
Comes the noiseless tramp of an army.
Shadowy, silent and gray
An army, though vanished its legions,
Yet lives in our hearts today.
To the men who from field and forum
Uprose at the country's cry,
Ihe1r lives, If their need, for the honor.
Iheir honor for her to die;
VINO, selling the gun for the plowshare,
And graspfng the sword for the pen,
went forth an army of patriots,
OF noble n free-born men;
lis to these a hand of a nation
Its tributes of love will pay,
Wherever the grave of a soldier
snail hollow its soil today.
Not with branches of yew nor cypress,
but with roses and blossoms sweet;
with amaranth and laurel above them,
ana heart's-ease fair at their feet,
Whlle softer thar winds of the summer
ana sweeter than roses bloom,
are the memories and love which gather
Ana brighten each silent tomb;
ana though Time in his march triumph
ant
Bends all to his final sway,
yet the touch of the Great Eternal
Is nearer than he today.
Ger these graves where all strife is
ended,
Where the past and it's memories lie,
Rise the grateful hearts of the people
In prayer to the Lord Most High
FOR the hope of a prosperous future,
Inc gracious gift of His hand:
FOR a great and united nation,
A free and a fruitful land;
F"r HIS angel of Peace, whose pinions
ftretch over that land today;
Fer the love that claspeth as brothers
Ihe hands of the blue and gray.
-seatrice Harlowe, in Woman's Home
Companion.
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quicksilver, and the elevator apparatus
will be required to raise about one ton
an hour. Probably the thing that will
attract much attention will be a few
ordinary household f~atirons, which are
to be foated in the bottom basin, for
sne density of mercury supports iron
as water does wood. zsssae