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Show NJM?- - - v - I p been fired from the flagship. "I say admlrai,4ald the Englishman, polite-ly, "I noticed that you gave ns full OP SECLUSION PENT IN HOME 8HORT STORIES FOR measure of guns In your salute today.. SAYINGS AND DOINOSOP THB What was the extra gun fort" 'Wellj MEXICAN MOUNTAINS. THE VETERANS. PLAYERFOLK. sir, returned the admiral, without a hair, "I tired 21 gun for m I1M d A Girl T.1U of the Rases C.M Call 'ora la Millloaatra of Hoe turningVictoria Stuart Asks Am Aston lllttsratsT and ona for 'Joe Fjrffa. Queen Boaatlfal Wlfa. Who Flf.rod lo a Bivtkw hr Gsoerol Groat Afe.rtmo by Hobson, Tborsbjr RUrrla Ip a Horuef gad." Vow Yofth A Satire I Haatsathora HlatMlf la tiring SwmUddbI Happening Hsirass Mont Clyde rttshs MstboUs a Balata, Waau to Slag. Vigor of Rotlrod OBeora. Lieut. Gen. Schofield wrote ona of (Special Letter) Th Patted State, rise. the most luminous and Interesting auArt Artn IlllttrtU T The newspape; of a few days ago-of brave! folds shall the fly, Flag a current tobiographies extant after his retirethy Stuart Robson asks, in told of the reutrn to Lob Angelea of of hope and triumph high! ment in 1895, and at 70 he is still illitis Thesign If actor the article, magazine John Bradbury, a prominent CaliforWhen speaks the .signal-trumptone, physically vigorous and mentally caerate, and then proceeds on the basis nia mtllonalre, and hts beautiful wife And the long llnei come gleaming on. pable man. Major Gen. Howard was an was ho a actor, that Shakespeare, after an absence of four yeara far up Ere yet the lifeblood, warm and wet. in every way more able to command was not illiterate, and that on the In the Sinaloa mountains of Mexico, Has dimmed the glistening bayonet. an army at hie retirement for age la English-speakin- g actors many stage, in world cut off entirely from the gay 1894 than In 1864 when he marched to Each turn shall eye attainbrightly soldiers have noted for been literary which they were wont to move. The n To sea with Sherman. At 71 he le still where the burn. thy glories the ments Mr. Robson bonsideis that return of the parties mentioned to the And aa his springing steps advance, an active end useful citizen of the reheld1 in that is uot actor American exhome from which they voluntarily Catch war and vengeance from the public. Major Gen. Wesley Merritt rehigh esteem that should be bis poriled themselves recalls a chapter In the tired last year at 64. With the excep, glance, tion. He saS that in England, France life of Mrs Bradbury that caused her cannon-roouthinAnd when the loud tion of hie gray hair and experience tribute is and Germany, "grateful name to be mentioned tar and wide Heave in wild breaths the battle Merritt Is cot much less a boyand NOT MUCH OF A FINANCIER. paid to the masters of the stage." This Incident coat a human .life far more lit to exercise command than shroud, In England, in Mr Robson's views, wrecked several reputations, destroyed Sotlont of Boslastt . Halt! by mm And when he fought so effectively with tubers fall rise and gory of fate is the especial consideration much happiness and drove John BradLike shoots of flame on midnight's Sheridan thirty-al- x Gen. years ago. his is be the after dead, most actor, since, the was of one who bury, It would not be fair to class James C. Drum, who retired eleven, Richard Westla lie are to pa. Lot remains of permitted of all the young men Hamilton Lewis, former member of Then shall thy meteor glances glow. years ago, Is apparently as capable ' Angeles, into the deep seclusion of the congress from Washington, with the minster abbey, a distinction that he beat 75 of directing the Adjutant GenAnd - He does not cowering foes shall shrink Mexican hills. The story Is one of a most eminent of financiers He has holds of high importance.neath erals department as he wax In 1889, .pitifully foolish Infatuation, which led but a vague idea of business methods find that Cushman, Forrest, Burton, Each gallant arm that strikes below when the Inexorable law operated tohonwas Booth or to similarly Barrett, and according to his. own statement co m pel him to step out Mentally and1 That lovely messenger of death. A World of Woo. has not greatly improved since the ored in this country after death, and physically vigorous, he still keeps step) memthe belief his heirs that is it the one was of possibly John Bradbury days of his youth, of which he tells the of wave. the ocean on seas! with the times. Here In Washington Flag sufbe not s will Of actoi his father American to a great fortune which following story: "When I opened my ory whelh the retired, array officers are; Thy star shall glitter oer the brave; peobad taken from the Tajo mine, an first bank account not so very many ficiently revered among their When death careering on the ga'e, seeann greatest numbers, of sll ranks enormous blanket vein of gold and years ago. I didnt have much idea of ple until the equivalent of a WestminSweeps darkly round the bellied sail, and degrees of deterioration from adsilver, near Rosario, on the Gulf of how banks conducted business. - I ster abbey has been established. And frightened wavqs rush wildly vancing years, the observer requires Mexico. He and Lucy Banning were made a deposit Of a few hundred dolHm Keen Appreciation. no further evidence then his eyes that back, Her Los Angeles. ichlldren together in But Mr. Robsons main quarrel ap lars, was given a hank book, which the bnjfidsidee reeling rack, trfoe of every-tcare retired Ton be father was Gen. Phineas Banning, showed tho amount of money I had to pears to be with that part of the pubEach dylngwandprer, of the eea fore their powers are exhausted. It owner of the Island of Santa Catalina my credit and a check book. Upon lic that refuses to look upon the actor STUART ROBSON, siiall looMt onott to heaven and thee, is undeniable, however, that the best and a man of great wealth, and she returning to my office I carefully aa anything more than an entertainer, discounted, If tl(e Intelligence Interests of the service require that In AndAtotle to see tby splendors fly was one of the most beautiful girls in placed the bank book in my desk and and with those writers for the press parent Mr Rob' some manner the mossbacka be sidetohis oer eye. triumph two closing The up grew all California. forgot all about It I carried the check "who do not approach the task of the not to judge all tracked, and the system of compulsory, gether and the attachment one felt for book fn my pocket for convenience actor with that attitude of respect that "whose ambition le of the free hearts hope and retirement Is doubtless the fairest' Flag the other grew into love. One day sake. It was a new sensation for me Mr. Robson conceives to be his due thoroughfares," but It method of accomplishing this end.-- ) home. several years ago they quietly left Los to draw checks I was like a child 'A man of limited brain capacity may that the public noting so much posBy angel hands to valor given, Washington correspondence New York . Angeles and stole away to Oakland, with a new toy. When I needed monbecome a successful stage critic, in the ing, ig confused over the dividing line. Sun. stars have welkin dome. lit the California's Gretna Green, and were ey, or anybody else wanted some, all I Thy popular acceptance of the term, but Publicity is the life of the actor. It were bom In And all hues there married. There was no reason had to do was to go down after the not thy Is a successful in this country as much by heaven! for the - elopement, as both of their check book. 1 was the proudest man Llneola Faith, as easy of remark as to say, in turn, .the player whose intelligence la not pleased way in were Forever float that standard sheet, every parents'Gen. Daniel Slckela telle a story IlIn all the state of Washington. I imbrain limited of actor an aa to be class the of le that capacity it questioned by rotheir Where breathes the foe hut falls be- lustrating the tenderness of President. with the match, but it suited agined that my bank account was as may, through fortuitous circumstance, player Mr Robson calls Illiterate. mantic natures They returned to Los fore us, or succeed in Lincolns heart as well as his faith of cerJ a in Morgan that s8 Plerpont long Is more the Is The truth that the actor public pleasing With Freedom'! soil beneath our feet. Angeles in due time, set up a cozy John D. Rockefeller, or the moral law tain role and and his beautiful optlm-- j not become a critic open to the charge of conceit than be yet .home on one of the hills, purchased Itself, for that matter. Finally, howAnd Freedoms bannerstreamlng Ism. After Sickles had been wounded) follow to art of weakened he the apIs professes by overindulgent An ideal country home among the or- ever, I found that I had overplayed my o'er us! he was removed to In the course of his artielp Mr. Reb-eo- n plause and Indiscriminate praise. It ange groves at Duarte and to All ap- - hand, as they say out west. One day Joseph Rodman Drake. Washington, and the President called asks the reader to Imagine what is the blemish of conceit that must be I received a notice from the bank that on him at the hospital. When the genwould happen If actors were the un- eradicated before the actor may be as eral described the battle and the awful my account had been overdrawn to the tutored barbarians described by cer- seriously and revereptly regarded as A Girl Talk A boa Ona. extent of 37 50. I didn't really know tain writers. slaughter, Lincoln wept like a child." Ana would Robson Mr. him to went he summer I The have says, regarded. following "Imagine," two armies were convert- - ( what It meant or what to do. What napolis to see my brother receive his "While the a I went Into do you suppose I did do. Well, Ill tell said Lincoln, ing," Presiof from the the bands diploma HMBESS WANTS T 81X0. never as I and prayed1 you I walked Into the bank with the prayed dent, with the rest of the graduating notice of overdraft, drew a check for God that If we were to, -! midshipmen. It was a glorlous Jting beforer'T'iera to paythe both handed the amount, He must do It, forthe battle win day, and I was fortunate in having a went could. all I I done had ing teller and started out of the bank. that friendly recognition from Mr. Grant, from I was called back and matters were my room with a great load lifted, as I stood near him under the trees bumilia. much to my explained to me, from ahoulderi, and from that moduring the morning exercises. But bet- ment my tlon. Since then I have kept a little I never had a doubt as to the rea come. afternoon was ter to In the closer tab on the stub, end of toy check race was to be rowed, and my brother sult We shall head good news from book." was in one of the crews. With other Grant who has been pounding away so many months. I ladies, I wai In Commodore Skerrett's at Vicksburg for . Sport la tho Arana, am in a prophetic mood today, Sickles, troubled and launch by on, looking The accident at the Nlmes bull light the remarks of many that the river and I say that you will get welL" some time ago, in which onev man was "The doctors do not say so." was far too rough for rowing. But the tossed and another gored to death, "I dont care, Sickles; you will get" not and could President Cabinet stay draws attention to a most' curious well," persisted the President must be for another day; the race game, which, as bull fighting steadily And that afternoon, Gen. Sickles MRS. JOHN BRADBURY. crews start all hazards. The rowed at gains ground In the south of France, goes on to say, a telegram was reed, and proud was I to see my brothpe&rances led s life of Ideal happiness. Is becoming very popular among the ceived from Gen, Grant announcing ers boat now flying like a bird over They seemed 'especially devoted to Meridionales. If It were not unhapfall of Vicksburg. His own recov- - a the now in when lost the of the the one occasion, tops rollers, each other. , On to the gross the prelude merely pily soon followed. vIb-ery lt hollows between. But suddenly a cry the husband was returning from a butchery of the real Spanish game, the detained one went was from of and mine spectator to the Tajo dismay Jeu do la Cocarde would have much to another: She'a swamped!"- - No Was Batik ' Bow Fnrtran Masro on ehlp in'quarantlne In San Francisco to recommend it to a place on the list and herself "Perfect wonderl" wife my manner smuggled folly!" the of young The constructing the fort hay, of trials of strength, for it Is essentrained gaze found but one abell on nt Old Point Comfort la Interesting , on board the Teasel at night, declaring amateurs an game, requiring tially the course; and that not Tom'sf and throwa soma light on customs and her place was beside her husband. She the highest daring and (kill, while It of Jack the braved "Pull!" cried kind Commodore Sksr practices then In vogue. The work yellow dangers .thus no cruelty to the bulL need Involve with him, while she lightened the The cocarde Is s little tuft of feathers rett, and we fairly flew over the was almost wholly done by slaves, viwater toward the goal and the barge who were brought to (he place by tbeir weary hours by her beauty and and ribbons Two of these are fastvacity. containing Admiral Porter - and the masters and leaaed to tha engineers ln la and than be bulls to ened horns, the During this time there lived at Santa turned Into the ring, where the playPresident's party. More than that, he charge. The slave-ownreceived BO s, me stand, for I waa too short to cents a day for each slave, and tha, Monica, the seaside resort of Los let him. are The on all awaiting foot, W. Russell Ward, a handsome ers, see otherwise, and the ladles sitting on government furnished each "laborer," is now to excite the bull into and vivacious young Englishman, who game each side of me held my bands to beep aa ha slave waa called, with two suits red usual the for this and charging,' ... was fond of athlUtlca . He journeyed to mt steady.. . Naaaa.Spoke, .Myers cf worklEg clothes,- - a pair-o- r two of atthemoment California with a party of Englishmen cIoths'are'ttiedr'Buf searched in vain for a red head among occasionand red Into dashes the quarters bull hoes, rations, rag the that scheme who went there to develop a the dark ones of the capsized crew. ally a little tobacco. The laborers" aside, and Intor making paper from the pulp of the the player steps deftly Just as my heart contracted with the worked with very little clothe and' cruel banderillo Yucca palm, but the scheme fell stead of sticking a fear that he must have sunk, a quiet generally without shoe. Tflsy lived to neck tries snatch animals tho through. Ward married a California Intococarde horns. The penetrating voice came across from in barracks and were subject to a kind1 from the bulls girl, one of the handsome daughters of the of course. Is won the barge; "Hea all right. Miss N.!M of military discipline. The owners, to first the by wss lor game, Don Jnan Bandlnl. It It wss Grant's, and there behind him were regular In coming In to collect! bull the Bafl-dlbut beer off the little trophy, natch and the couple lived at the In the boat wss my dripping, laughing the hire for their slaves, from which' a his .to bear Pacific plumes manages the usually cottage, overlooking brother, kissing hts hand to me. we may Infer that the "constituents" from the Santa Monica bluffs. Ward long time before being bereft of them. Youths Companion. those days knew how to appreciate of hut husband, model a spent seemed a male good his with thing to a degree worthy of the Tmmm A baa m Brat laoldoat. much of his time MISS JESSIE RINGEN. Oaa Ga tmr HIomoIt. "Fresh-Air- " generation. Leslies Monthly. present children in heroic sports. In 1897 Mr. the Among HumIs Miss It MonJessie of said Charles the lata that characters tha Santa of the to Rlngen, went daughter la One quaintest near Pittsfield, and Mrs. Bradbury who arrived at a farm tha old American navy was Admiral ica tot the summer. There Mrs Brad- in the Berkshire, hills of Massachu- millionaire stove manufacturer of SL phreys, tha tenor, of St Louis, killed' A Naval Mortal Soleatort. rehimself has were She because ambitions. has Miss had Louis, operatic Rlngen They Ward,' waa saw Joseph Fyffe, as bluff, and fearless an - Secretary Long has definitely select- -. a , mueh.of one last summer, poor setts, bury day fused his suit They had. appeared to- eld sea dog as ever stood upon the thrown a great deal into each other little tot who, as she was lifted from a beautiful Voice and .hag been entered a design tor the medal to commemgether In amateur entertainments and bridge In time of danger. There is Suddenly came the start- the wagon, caught sight of a field of taining tha visitors lately at the sumcompany. mer home In Green Lake, WIs. Her were fast friends. When Miss Rlngen hardly an officer or man In the service orate the naval campaign against1 daisies. With a cry ofdellght she ling announcement that Spain In the West Indies. The obverse the moment father is opposed .to her adoption of a went abroad she cabled her re- to tbla day but can repeat some of the of the medal Is surrounded by a VTd 4 Mr Bradbury Hd EUpo darted to the professional career, but the singer fusal and Humphreys ended his witty and original sayings and doings wreath of oak leaves, In the center of They first went to a wayside retort. ehe Was set down, and, scrambling unlife. the der it, threw herself, face downward, hopes ,to overcome his objections. of Joe" Fyffe. Besides being as good which is a profile of Admiral Sampson - whence ehe sent theher Jewelsso tofailed ld on a seaman as ever trod wooden ships and the Inscription money beautiful and United States . among the pawnshop scene most of the time, and when the of war, the admiral had a tongue Francisco. Arriving CLYDK FITCH'S METHODS, arms San in them fled to her West In blossoms, clasping the lndles, 1898, they Campaign and and sohblng as lf her heart were Theatergoers see results on - th stage hands were setting the autumn which wss about as Impressive to for- and en the other elde, William Thomin that city they were arrested was Mrs. Bradbury breaking. She had never before seen stage. They do not see how they are orchard scene he himself strewed the eigners as the guns which peered from as Sampson, Commander-in-Chlef- ." placed In JaiL moon released, but Ward was held in flowers growing. During her stay she attained, nor the patient drudgery dead leaves about the stage. But Mr, the portholes of bis vessel. Joe Fy lies On the reverse is a representation of Fitch Is not cantankerous." Hs Is alideas of diplomacy were based on the the Men Behind the Gunn" In thn bonds of 12,000. He, toofwss released spent all her time among them, and often involved in the preparation. a few dayt later and told to get ont of when the moment came to peek her They hear the lines written by Clyde ways willing to consider a suggestion, primary principle that there was to be distance are seen the outlines of a way Bradbury declared he shabby little bag It was found to bo Fitch, bnt they do not know hla ex- ready to admit Its value and adopt It It no backing down or beating about vessel. . At the bottom Is the inscripthe country. back his erring wife filled with flowera. A touching poem treme peculiarity In details when su- good, and willing to make changes la the bush" under any circumstances, take never would tion,, Santiago, July 2, 1898, John And went to New York. On arrival about this pathetlo incident, "The perintending preparations Tor one of his plays when shown thst the pro- and that whatever mistakes Americans Smith, U. S. 8. Texas," the fisme of In the metropolis he was told that his Fresh-A- ir happened to mako should be stood the recipient and of the vessel upon Child," Is published In the hia plays. When Brady was preparing posed change would be an Improvwife bad started from the west to And Ladles Home JournaL. to put on his "Lovers Lane" Mr. Fitch ement These things go far to explain by," just as if they had been inten- each medal being different Admiral him and beg hie forgiveness. Then almost slept in the theater. He was his success. It Is not luck. tional nod part and parcel jot elabo- Sampsons picture wss chosen because -- ha relented. left New York next day Forfarne War Fapmiar. constant attendance and watched in rate plans. This phase of Joe" Fyffes he wss commander-in-chiof the The rage for perfumes reached Its the manufacture of the properties and for Chicago and. giving up all the character vti strikingly illustrated fleet, as Dewey's wss placed on tha Xaafcaa Ska OM Iraitatlag XV. bach wife Louis height during the reign of world beside, took his pretty toe building of the scenery as carefulThe British girl Is getting taller as about 10 years ago, when Admiral Manila medals. from all Throughout the continent his court to his bosom. He resignedfriends as line followed he of the every well as the American. Fifty yean ago Fyffss flagship sailed Into the harbor and was known as the scented coart It ly Ihls clubs, deserted all his during rehearsals. Fitch, Brady a toedlcal authority says the bight of Portsmouth, England. According to ToM af Goo. Lawkoo. lurried hia wife to the lonely Tajo Was then the custom when giving a play and Brady's general stage man- of a very tall British woman was five International etiquette, the saluting Hatch, The following is told of General were unllmbered on board the snlao In tho Mexican mountains, there largo entertainment for the hoeteos to ager, spent two hours In experimental fact seven guns inches, while now the bight vessel' for the usual Salute Lawton: "When Lawton started out Ho work out a fortune while the world Inform her guests what particular odor placing of the bird which sings In th averages five feet six inc!.es to fire visiting was alowly forgetting the tragedy that she would use for perfuming her third act, and tried which are jiren In honor to ret anything, he hated to stop until 21 guns, of on limb every . feet tea Inches. rooms and each gueet would use that in whose harbor a for- It wss la his grasp. He wss tireless had blighted ao much In his life nation the of a every tree before fixing an one they court , In toilet At odor her making I v enters. By some mls-ta- himself, and he couldnt understand , Yragto Ward's Save all yonr wood ashes for your eign, warship different perfume was used for each considered best. on this occasion why other men couldnt keep up with of the gunner Though Ward's friends weat to his On the day of the first performance sweet of the week. Much more attention pea trenches. There is nothing Admiral -after his arrest, got him Out day Fyffes flagship thundered him. It always rather worried hlm was paid to the use of perfume than the trees whre hot finished and Mr. you can use as a fertilizer that la sq Kpport A return salute of 21 that It was necessary to stop sad cook had the proceedings against 22 guns. out Zelda Sean good. to soap and water, and cleanliness Fitch, with the help of disof ruBi'-wthe burden the fired from shore, and when -- meals for the men. Yea, he would say.: him quashed, and Annie Mifflin, two of the company was not numbered among the virtue Thrown know an army fights on Its belly,; him. upon was Bow seeds of Kenilworth ivy heavy the commandant of the navy yard grace who are still memben playing their of that age. . but Ill never be satisfied till I get hold official to visit A the his mad mat of the little circle of proprieties llnarla In ashore potq containing palms They original parts la McVlcker's wired the of a regiment that don't need to eat; and ifn which he had beenfindreared One Is alone in a crowd when one leaves on one of the trees During the cover the surface and drape the pot American flagship be took oceasipn to no mental could he Springfield Republican. 22 gijne had ' the that mention fact spent his life, en one loves. suffers performance Mr. Fitch was behind the prettUy. - A . foothold anywhere. . At (he time of tho BACK FROM lopement Mrs Ward and her children were on the ocean bound for England. Rushing toward London to Beck forgiveness from his wife and mother. Ward mind gave way" and he threw himself 'from a train In Nebraska end died In a lonely place beside the railroad track. In Mexico Bradbury and hi wife lived in the most affectionate relations. He erected a splendid mansion near the Tajo mine and during the four years they were away lived in no comparative seclusion, there-bein- g other houses in the vicinity of their Mr. magnificent home BradburyA chief amusement was the hunting alligators, while his wife's fad was taxidermy. Fortune smiled upon them and they have gone back to California richer than ever. Whether they will be restored to tbeir old position as leaders of society is a question that the people of Los Angeles are debating in their minds. EXILE. TOPHS. THEATRICAL company of atupid, uneducated Thespians trying to produce one of the plays of (be Immortal bad Unfortunately, the Imagination dees not need t(ng In that respect There have bee a too many examples of such undertakings to make them a matter of astonishment The immortal bard has, to a great extent, survived In lie of tbs actoi. It does not follow, hod e er, that all actors are stupid any more than that all persons who a rite about it tors are at all times a hat Mr, Robson calls flippant and facetious. The DlfnlH4 Aetor. ihe actor' iih something of Intelligence and dignity to ofTer does not often fail of a respectful hearing His efforts are fitye leniently regarded than otherwise He is not usually held up to i Idlcule, nor is his Intelligence CAMPFIRE SKETCHES. I 1 -- et sky-bor- gs qtt lighthearted on o- stage-expone- nt, - my.-roor- er An-fele- a nl oom-panlo- nt ' rail-fen- white-and-go- -- sf ke or-wh- X .1 |