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Show OfiDEX DAILY COMMERCIAL: i CHARLOTTE CRAMFTOX. DO JM PUTT'S RECOLLECTION THAT C GIFTED ACTRESS. Weaa,fta lmt wee, a, rUf tumt la k wkkk a Ti WMfc Tiaaaajr Bar m rtUr Dawafall What became cbert A brief brilliant career epoa tfcwaccra atafe. She took tLa honors front Murdoch ia a play eaSed "Wiuhcraft." and won in all she attempted, from the French Spy to Roueo. Bat the faarinaring lirUecreaa-er- s had within her the eeed cf death ia the form cl more nnoontrollaLle appetites than generally to the lot ot any one. Lore and liquor carried her duwn. The tact time 1 saw her was ia a ebeaf boarding bona at New York. In response to a note I climbed two flights of dirty stairs, redolent with the odor of cooked cabbage, Her apartment as desul&ta aa the interior of a gigantic akulL and although the little genius appeared blasted by the fires of fierce passions, she retained her exquisite form, and through the whisky tinted akin sum beauty of face. "How are yon, old Retribution!" she cried, arizing my hand in both of her. "Sit lightly, or that old chair will land yon on the floor. Ah, me! you bring back the glory of the pant I was a star once. I am doing Mazeppa at the horse opera now. Write me another play and 111 let up on love and liquor and shins again." Her latest speech to me was atrongly characteristic. While chatting about the past a violent atorm broke on New York. After a blinding flash of lightning and aa immediate crash of thunder she ran to a closet, brought out a candle, which she lighted, and aat down. "What is that forr I asked. "It is not dark enough to need a light" "That," aha responded earnestly, "is a blessed candle, blessed by the pope, and aa long aa she 4-- -4 thing barns you can't be hurt" Poor little misguided genioa. She was not a Catholic, not anything of a religious sort, aava what might be found ia her generous impulses when an awful temper would allow them expression. But through ber stormy nature cam falsa gleams of spiritual life, like distorted rays through rifts of thunder clou da She was ll-O- ace poo a time UarM Reid. before he had achieved fain and fortune as a faaj-natin- g story teller, fjond himself etnnd-- 4 m the hard Ur of poverty, and took rtfnge ia the old homestead at Mat He had tried acting and failed, soldiering in Mexico, and came oat recognized as the brarectof the brave, with a decoration in the shape of an ugly wound given him by the foe at Chapol-tepebut with an empty pocket; then ha wrote plays and poetry, to find the one unread and the other damned. He had. however, an Irishman's buoyancy of spirit, and hope smiled eternal through his hoars of gloom. Be had one play, "Loo's Sacrifice," that had failed la win popularity, although the character of the hero was rendered by himself, and ha was grieved at its failure. It was a beautiful proa d action, full of poetic expression, bit , lacked the dramatic quality so necwaaary to success. The characters were shadowy and stilted, and tbe action without that pivotal turn which excites and gratifies interest, and from necessity divides a play Into three or five acta Hs was reading it to me when I said: "Beid, you don't understand this thing. Tour play lacks action. In a somedy a man in shoes must kick a follow in top boots all over the stage. In tragedy Almira, the oppressed maiden, must stab the count, a deep dyed villain, after aha has been pulled through a eaoebraks of direful distress. Here, let ns get up a tragedy." About that time a poor, half crazed woman, deserted by her husband and robbed of her children, had murdered the mistress of her liege lord, and popular sympathy ran so high at Cincinnat that the fair ssnimin was acquitted amid roars of approbation, and the husband narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of a mob. "There," 1 continued, "Is a lovely subject Let us try it on." Beid entered into the spirit of the thing, and in a short time we had a melodrama of the bloodiest sort that we meant in fact to be a burlesque. One of the stage directions, for example, read, "Dip Lovett in a barrel of red paint and pitch him, with a rope about his neck, upon the stage." When the work was done we called it "Retribution" and mailed it to Charley Barrass, subsequently the author of the "Black Crook," then at Cincinnati. Charley turned the drama over to a little Hebrew then man aging Wood's theatre, and the guileless child of Israel put it solemnly upon the stage. Beid and I were amazed to learn from the press that our burlesque was a ' great success as a serious piece of work. We slipped down to Cincinnati to find "out if possible what was the matter with' pur parody on snch plays. We thought to have it greeted with roars of laughter instead of tears. Hid in a box we had a revelation. that of the 4, The leading character, murderous wife, was done by an actress then billed as Charlotte Wilkinson, and who was afterward called Charlotte Crampton. She was a little creature of about 22, of exquisite form and a marvel of a beautiful head. The clear cut features came out from a perfect oval of a face that had not only delicacy but strength. Her large lustrous eyes seemed to illumine the stage, while her voice, of rare sweetness, had a compass as wide as it was thrilling. She was crude, it is intonation so true, and had the sing-son- g common to uncultured actors. But these defects were lost sight of in her full conception of her part and the strange power she exhibited in her rendition. Mayne Reid told me years after, when we last parted at New York, that the one thing that clung to him aa a vivid flash of memory was the murder scene in that abominable play of "Retribution." It is so with me, I feel in its memory as if I were recalling an actual assassination. The little genius had worked the interest up through her scenes of tearful pleadings with her beastly husband for her children, he h elding these children to force the mother to give up their little patrimony. Then she sought the mistress to appeal to her. The scene was of a gorgeously furnished apartment, for Lovett was a gay villain ain-S"course, and opened with the two at brjpkfast After a short hard nature of these characters was ahbn, Lovett left, and ' the wife entered. She began in a low, clear voice, that had in it an appeal to tears the house could not ifsist The woman, unmoved, responded in sneers and ridicule. As the mother proceeded she spoke of her little ones, who were hungering for her love, and fixed her eyes upon a door as if believing it shut them from her. She looked so wistfully at that door, and started twice as if to force it open. And then, with a fixed stare of one insane, she gazed as if she saw them, and the look followed along the wall, around the room, until it encountered the then with a wild shriek she rushed like a tigress at the wretch. Seizing the woman by the throat she hurled her down, then dragged her to the table. Holding to the throat with the left hand while gazing firmly down upon her victim, she felt over the table for a weapon. Securing the carving knife at last she plunged it again and again into the breast of the struggling creature. That feeling over the table was the most horrible piece of business ever done upon the stage. Men half rose from their scats and women fainted. It would have been simply horrible but for the exquisite scenes in which the little genius led up to it through pleadings of the c. - 1 rs mis-tree- s; fm'i EMIGRANTS Biil Doxx TAKEN Putt. Pimm 1 luslniral M aiJ 4'art tm i i11 uu A B . sasJU at tha . 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As pamaar ta 11a ra aaeduJ fault aa la Ha eompoanloa. As a powerful, tonforaunf toole. It impart atranfth to tha whola aytrm. to ta womb and Ms appendaava. For foebto womra tvwrally. Dr. iiaro( S laronte fVracripuoa litha sraa mat carta,l ly boon, bttng aaagnakd as aa appebsiaa-ordiasad fasturaUra tonle. or atrang-tB-. glTBT. on "Woman and A Book of MB Har Itawaara. their Nature, and How to car tarm." ant araled, ia plain eavetopa, on raoMpt of ten eeota, in atamps Address. Woai-D'- s Durum Hcntcai, AasocLtnoa. as Main SC. Buffalo, K. T. W mi rita.la.ar ri .mut ai mt S . . m durfc p. av rcS Daxiesi sistkm. busiaess distrtrt, drUrenes per day. at riurk a. m. and t o'trluri a. at. HiMtiruet dattrvt. uar Mttrrf pv day at 19 . avlasaall, a. M. 'curs a. as. tu Pat, dose. By druaaTaU, TIME RAILROAD DAJLf, f SCa DAY St. Louis, Kansas City Lincoln, St. Joseph, Omaha. OJI ALL rSAIXa. Our Famous Dining Cars ArtACsan to six Taaocea Taaua ftal Bog-a-i No.t-Um- Arriva. Sax Fraxcibco, Sept 18. I was walking along Second street in Seattle a few days ago when I waa accosted by an elderly looking countryman, who inquired where he wanld find a certain Utah & Northern. bank. I did not know, but directed him MOUNTAIN TINE. to a bank just opposite where we stood, and advised him that he could there get Leave. Arrive. the desired information. While we were loValley talking a woman came np to join us, So. cal. Battle Creek, and 10 KM a. ml :lla m who, it transpired, waa the daughter of intermediate point. .. ) the old man, and the two had just arMail and rived from Iowa for the purpose of locatButte and Helena Kxall land. on preaa points north, f 6:45 p. m S:30 p. m government ing daily The woman carriwl in her hand a crumpled check on the bank for which Utab'CentraX they had inquired. I held out my hand MOUNTAIN TIME.) for the check, and she gave it to me without a word. It was properly filled Leave. Arrive. out and indorsed, and called for a conFi 701 No Atlantic Jet) siderable sum of aOuey. ft probably 100 a. m 9M a m Mail, Salt Lake Ci represented the sa zings of years of paJ tient toil, and the people were no doubt itv inspired with visions of wealth to be prow, Utah A Northern. Accommodation. easily acquired through judicious inSalt Lake I'ity. Frisco 9: s. m i M p. m vestment in western lands. I handed and all intermediate the check back, with the suggestion that points it be folded and put out of sight of the many people who would be attracted by No. 707 Atlantic F.x- - 11 JO a m 6:00 m p. press. Salt Lake City the public display of such paper in the intermediate points hands of Btrangers, or "tenderfeet," as No. 705 Fast Mail nndl all new comers are called. U. A N. Express, Salt The streets of these western cities are Lake City, and all 6:00 p. m 8:90 p. m points, constantly patrolled by rascals in search J daily of just such "settlers," and the papers hereabouts have almost daily recitals of Rio Grande Western. ignorant folks being fleeced by bogus T1MK.1 MOUNTAIN land locators, who lie in wait for their Leave. Arrive. gullible victims. These people had no 2 Fast No Mail, Salt means of knowing who I was, and yet Lake City, Provo, Leaiiville, Pueblo.Den-veX a. m 9:40 p. m they handed me their check to read withall and points east out a question as to the safety of such a daily transaction. I could but reflect how "Eli" Salt Lake ) easy it would have been for one of the No. City and intermediate? 11 30 a. m 5:40 p. m army of confidence men in this country ) points, daily to have volunteered to show them to the No. 4 Atlantic Express, bank, and either have steered them into 5:40 p. m 10K a. m salt Lake l lty.rueblo, Denver and east, daily some bogus bank, a den of partners in the trade of robbery, or else have taken Southern Pacific them to the bank, assisted them in cashMOUNTAIN TIME. ing their paper and then towed them Leave. Arrive. into some side street, taken their money on one pretext or another, and left them No. Fast ) 8 M a. m liJO Mail," San Franeisoo penniless. It seems to be a waste of ink ) daily to print the oft recurring instances of the kind. Some farmers either do not No- - I Pacific EipreMi, through to San Franread the papers, or if they read them apcisco and intermediate 12:15 p. m I M a. m not to the of profit by exposures pear points, daily the methods employed to trap the unwary. What wonder that so many fall into the hands of sharks and are devoured? Even the very doors of the banks and government land offices in the new states and territories are surrounded and shadowed by men whose Only object is to deceive and rob the unwary immigrant, and such have not the slightest difficulty in marking their prey among the untraveled and unsuspecting countrymen who seek homes in this far west. A common method of these gentry is to conduct the home seeker to the most attractive locality, and represent it as government land open to and collect an exorbitant fee for services rendered, when as a matter of fact the land pointed out is the private property of some early settler, and not even in the market at any price. The government should establish by law a board to be known as the "fool killers," and every intending emigrant to any part of the west should be subbeject to a preliminary examinationfound are all who and this fore board, to be incapable of passing a satisfactory test as to their liability to fall easy prey to the species of human jackal which feeds chiefly upon "suckers" should be quietly electrocuted, and their money LOST or TAILIKO KAKHOODi held in trust for their children or other 11 LniWffff''rJ and HERVOOS DEBILITY! soon Body ud Mind, Effects PaVllT4l!lw""of legal heirs. This measure would ExeesaM is Old or Toobe. Krronor Mli1,il;HII Hw tA altrf RMtofa, rid the frontier cities and settlements of KnlMMI. Sobt 11HHOOD fblly CniVllt0PED0B.l8PlllT8Ot SOLlI. a dangerous and pestiferous element SumtlMaHIlI, mf 1U1!.IT utUllac HOaE TBE4T1KIIT kalll la tmtlf trtm M Mum wmi torrln Melrtn.' Wrtw Um which now fattens upon the class refer- ttm hf pH,( U. Book. .ipi.B.Uca 'tjlw1 trr. jKOri cl a4nw CRIB inEOlCAi. CO,, BUFFALO, M. V. W. G. Bkntoh. red to. che No.-F- ai)t -. n F. B. IIUKLBUT, WaoLaasLB mo Brran. DRUGGIST, Ire. ud Twtnly-if- Stmt, uder Brooi TaJraOty li Hotel FtHaar Btotb or Proaonnosd the bast in Territory CflTii U ITFR CVVA "A I LA try it and satisfy yourselves. Run Summer Excursions AH POLLOWtts Soda Springs and Return, $9.00. Shoshone Falls and Retnrn, 117.35. . Hailey Hot Spring and Return,$15.20 Boise City and Return, 25.00. . Helena, Mont., and Return, Portland and Return, 50.00. Yellowstone Nat'l Park and Return ,67.86. San Francisco and Return, $66.00. 8. MFLLES, to infurm tbWr patrons that they are antaUnawt tiara la stay, aad ao tae bast vork ia Ivava .4 Rubber Stamps Proaaptly and ee: at SM Tweaty-nft- a Stencils Low Piitaa. St, Oooaa. Uraa. NOTICE! We have lately opened the Central Carriage Works, 23d and Washington Avenue, and are prepared to do all kinds of Carriage and Wagon Building and Repairing. Are the only firm in the city prepared to Repair, Paint or Trim a Carriage or Buggy Vet, Wygal, Manager. Ma.t4L 1laaa (Mil 1 1 CLOTHIERS. Gmi'1 Traffic HgT. ('.F.RVsKWf Hro THE LEADING $30-00- C. STiff ft 1 Complete. A. M. BUCK, Prop In the Market. divibioh. Metallic Cak4 anJ Wood Ckrtm aad t'orhns. (ifwiai ArtraiM paid ta fr ataalaiimc and rrofjaruia- rkMluat U MiifamL Urarra by pruaiMly attretiad lo. 1 kava tha uuly CivtiaM ilaraa ta tae city. TW-phuNo. Hi. SA.1 FRANCISCO AND PORTUPP TOILET ARTICLES MOUKraiM UNDERTAKER THE COMMERCIAL u this u r .Gen'l Mgr. , Gen'l Paas.lrt Th'is Fall wo Show the Finest Stock of A. ere oats ! 1 No.7u3-ParkC- Grande v r, Gay-se- Tna Grand Canon ol tae fpper aarramaniu, tna aaauUfui kiwd Falls. CaMla Kucks. Ml tibials and ine masuifloml srcLaryai tae Blsklyea Moauiaia a!t by day lit hi II UT1I6 I0CSU, flitST II TH W01LB. aXDDTXO for Breakfast. alaaOMS. andar Mt. Saaata, tor dinner. ASHLAND Orecoa. for Supner. Pant Mail, itd Oniaha. I'oanril Blufla, 9ii a m 1:30 a m l)niTr. Kaiuas I'ity. J and eaut. daily No. ft Atlantic Expma. Denver, Omaha, Conn- -' Sao p in 110) a m eil Bluffe, Kanaa i'ity J and rant, daily Taaoa. Tb Corner Wishingtou TIME.) Leave. Trs. OKO. W. VALLKKY, Union Pacific Railway. aocvTani aonearalnf tlcaat Aant, at address Una, apply la any Big dnasU. Prana Law And Funeral Director CAKMELO EL aad Pruaapt Anantioa aad S. M. PKKSIIAW, ONLY 36 HOURS FREE RECLINING CHAIR CARS Par farther tatormaUoa Arrival and dapartare of train carrins tha Cnioa depot, Ogdeo, I'taa. paavengwrs Hbterir Calirrmla Heme af Rameaa, Aad af Ue Padre Jsaiarta Swa BITVEH Denver, Chicago, TABLES. 1XCM.-DS- FI. tae OUre and the Tin. MOKTL-- SUitd .1 Alwars PraUi aad Murk ol fur Ouud tauuil. art tna eelcDrated Cape Mora. Aowa tareock the eiir af Ria del aacraarnta arroas lowly tna ceauuiul bay mat nval taataf asples ta tna great city af aaa Praaeiaea ay tae tMiaaa 80UD VESTIBULE TRAINS Cl FiLXCrS FELLETS aomrdlna; to ana of mats a vial. Orim Over the diarras Laa4 af Ue St, Ogdm. Twenty-fourt- h IMiiwy- - UNE. Toaemlta.-T- ha aad ML t larattra. or lataartia, .133 P. C. DIL Bltmfri St THI HIA. nanalc riy I'roduee ami Frnits, X3RIBWEST famed for fair Eeaerts wher ear tmt aat aad pleasare sever rloja. o. atun II. M. IiOXDiCO., toa raa a&. i-- Mi A.ND THE Saw Fh-a- a MABEL 3 Scenic Route GROCERIES n aaVMUi ana haiia. Tteekdaya. Tnurada)sip.sa. and OKluniaya. Mrtraad Flureaee, Twadaya and IN. Voallsh FcopU I1mm4 ky Lu4 AgeaU. Bpecial Oarrsspoodeae. 1890 GRAND A,LR0ADS: avniu of 1". &. Bria-a- hi Th younger, brighter form That ia battle sad In Mora. -R- Arrival and tral racinc i t i II, . 1 f3 JSpaoal Outraapoaaaaat Macxocbzi; O.. Sept ...1 teadcTtst a&d Sftort pathetic SATURDAY, OCTOBER ( .Western, any former seasons production. Perfect Surpassing in Fit, Handsomely Trimmed and of Superior Workmanship. In Keixev. Melton, Beaver. Chenehile, Irish Frieze. Scotch Cheviot, French Tricot and Other Fashionable Materials. (XRaiiwat, STANDARD (iUAGE. The Only Transcontinental Line Passing Directly Through 17C English Ilox Cut Coat. West-Il- l TITT? CTVT Hi Ol 1 IjIIiiO. Allert. moitjland. lrin? Mountaineer Prince Charles, Alaska, Qlueester, and Storm Kins Overcoats and Ulsters. SALT LAKE CITY CURRENT TIME TABLE, In affect August OUR BOYS AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING 24, UM, XABT BOUND TKAIKB. No. a, Tait Mail-- Par Salt Lake City, Provo, Lesvllle, Pneblo, Denver. last, dally and all polnu No. ,"KU"-- To No. 4, Atlantlo City, Provo, Pueblo, Denver, and all point Xast dallv DEPAETMENT :Ks.m Bait Lake City .daily, UJ0 Xzpresi Tor Salt Lake as 6:40 P.m Is Specially Attractive. Here you can find the i 7 FOR LIEN ONLY! .alT.wror WIST BOUaTD TXAINB. NEWEST NOVELTIES Salt Lak City, dallr. 6:40 p.m No. 5, Ill-rr- om No. S, Paciae Express From Ienver( Pneblo. and all point last, dallv . . 10KW am No. 1, Put Mail From Denver. Po- 9:40 pm eb'.o, and all point East, dally Direct oounectloa made in Culon Depot with all through lines. Trains Not.; I and sr run to 'scoom moil ate Ogden and Salt Lake passengers. In effect Jane 10, IfttM. trains ran between Bingham Junction and Alia, a follow: Leave Bingham Jouctlon at S.U; arrive at Alta at t.U a m. Leave alta at 1.60; arrive at Bingham Junction at a. SO p. m. D. C. DODGI, General Manager. or MAEKS, GOLDSMITH I. H. BKNNKTT, nn. Pau't .Art BARGAINS ANT For Ages 3 to 14 years and at the Lowest Prices. & CO. 2481 and 2433 Washington Avenue. ! SECRETS OF WHIOS I WILL DELIVER. Two Nob Hill orchard lota. each 50x137 ta alley. $300. 25x133 Woodmaosee lots, near 30th street. Cor. 30th and Liberty avenue, $1250. 115x132; fruit and shade trees. $3200. 80 acres foar miles west, fenced. Gonsulfthe oid Doctor 11100. A FREE. Private, Nervous and Chronic Diseases. snap. A Private Adviser for those contem plating marriaee and for men sutler-lu- g Thousands of young men and women saved Nervous or Chronic rrom an eariy grave; maae iauiers uu from Private. at i T! uisetiBes. oent prep&ia oy express. mothers; and restored to permanent manKead "Secrets hood and womanhood. of Life" aeut prepaid by express only. s Monroe avenue, 50x132 ; choice resideuce lot . $650. 60x132, VarBuren ave. "Bar$2200. s gain." $1500. 29th street, between Main and Adams, 82.x109; cheap. 6x8 rods, Madison, between $2100. 20th and 21st streets. $050. Patterson ave., between Grant and Lincoln aves. $1750. 82,x132, frame house, 21st street, near Liberty park. $200. Choice Lake View lots, 25x137, near motor line. I have bargains on Washington Ave., 24th street and 25th street, in business properties. Also acreage. It is a plasure to show you property. J. D. (JILL, 2404 Washington Ave., Ogden, Utah. Graduated with high honors. Twenty years experience aa Profeasor, Lecturer. Author and KpeciaQst la the Treatmeut and Cure of "oou Debility. Abuses of the System. .Exhausted Vitality, Confusion of Ideas. Aversion to Soolety. Loss of Energy, Premature Decllne.Varl-OOOl- e resultlnf from the damninfeffecwof youthful and Impotency You be in the first errors and exorases. but remember that 7011 are KTIIlNHflAn etAfres, may fast approaching the last. Do not iettalsepridoorshara inodcsty deter you from attendlno; to youi aironizlns- ailments. Many a brig-h- and naturally gifted young man endoivea with genius has nermltted hit case to run on and an until remorse racked hi Intellect, and death claimed 1U viciim. For remember, "Procrastina tion la the thief of time.' - and letter are saoredly confidential. 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