sIHMHHBHHHBHlliCiLvASfliliBMK II THE PITTSBURG DESPATCH, SUNDAY MAT 22, 1892. LEABIHO SING, Madame Albani Tells the Young Folks the Secret of Her Success. A YOICE A BIETHEIGHT. Upon This as a Basis She Built Her Fame bj Labor Incessant. 6HE BEGAN TO STUDY AT FOUE. it Eight lean She Could Bead Any Piece of Music at Siffht EHE IS CERTAINLI A PKETTT WOMAN tWBITTEX TOB Tnr DISPATCH.! Not long ago, "Vikiiig," a young Ameri can, came to mj- hotel with a plea for the young people: "Would Madame Albani consent to Epeak on musical training ? To sug gest how best chil dren might be edu cated to become singers t 9" There being as many views and methods as there are JLlbanCt Dog. nationalities, u was decided I should tell her of my own child hie for of that I can speak with conviction and emphasis as an instance practically il lustrating a certain early musical training. In a large room suggesting at once the word "home-like," although Madam Al bani was only tem porarily living at the hotel, I found the great Diva; one felt she had per sonally transformed the room; all was artistic, cheerful; everywhere the daintv home touches of a woman's hand. As for this woman of genius herself, for whom Dovoraek and Statw of Her Son. Gounod have com- posed great works, she was busily knitting, for charity. She was a charming picture of Testing, contented womanliness as she sat there 6miling and friendly, in the deep crmchair, among the flowers and silken draperies and solt rugs and couches. She had saved this hour to talk to me for children, and, laying down her knitting, Albaui began to speak in the most simple and direct way. Her voice is bweet and rich, and all children would like to have heard hertalk. "When I was a little girl,'" the Diva began precisely as it it were a tairy tale. "Worked Hard at the A?e of Four. "When I was a little girl, just 2j years old, a wee little missie, I could follow my father's violin. For you must know that my lather, Monsieur Lajeuness, was a great music lover and musician. I owe much to his guiding I began to study and w ork hard at the age ot 4. The compositions of great masters were given me as the material lor my study. Betore I was 8 years old I had studied all of Mozart's etudes and sym phonies. Yes, at 8 I could read any and all music at sight." Think of that, all you who have musical ambitions and dreams. Think of the steady work the child called Albani did! Think of the future Diva, and understand that the great Queens ot song do not warble irom the simple impulses of their natures as larks and nightingales do. The grand Albani could not s-ay enough to me, apparently, to sufficiently Wi " tcw : U -: ' -s .. "i satisfy herself as to this earlv work. She insisted that children could not be too often told that it was what they learned when they were girls and boys that they never would forget; that their success would really be in proportion to their thorough study at the beginning. She felt she did not begin too earlv, at 4. The Dhawent on: "Between the ages ot 4 and 8 1 studied five hours a day. I was studying harmony, technique, theory. By that time I could plav the piano and wasable to interpret in telligently. Oettinc lh! Troper Foundation. "I believe the great thing to do with children is to first find out their natural gifts and aptitudes. If they show musical in stinct and aptitude for music, then set them to learning what music means, of what it is composed, how to read it understanding betore they trv to sing it To me it is sim ply useless, this attempting to sing without the musical foundation! And the superficial smattering can never sustain one oh! They win nnu u out lormemseivese altera wnue, those unqualified ones who try to sing before knowing now to re?d. "Do I think that young to read music at sight at eight? No! not when one is born with the love of music, the gift, the taste for it You know it is a gift Voice comes to us at birth surejy as we are born poets, painters, sculptors or writers. At eight I entered the convent of the Sacre Cocur at Sault Am liecollet in Canada, for you know I am French Canadian, and there studied my French and English, and my music, too, perfecting mvself in composi tion, Mneing only as children sing at school. I remained there for five vears of studv. Then we went to live at Albany. I was i3 then. There I sang a solo from Rossini's Stabat Mater, at a mass in St Joseph's J WfJwSm ? ,rW K Yy AttxznL three vears' engage cburck It was a salaried position. The Trench Method Didn't Suit "When that engagement closed I was taken abroad to Paris and for three months I studied under the tuition of Duprez. But the French method was not found to suit my voice. Bv the advice of Prince Fonia towski, himself a musician and a warm friend, I went to Italy. There I studied hard with the celebrated SignorLampertlat Milan. Nine months afterward I made my debut at Messina, and have been singing ever since. It has simply been a touring from oue great city to another and from one country to another. "After Messina came Sicily and Malta and Florence, where I created Mignon and sang Somnambiila. Then London, where in 1872 I made my English debut as Somnam tmla. Then I went back and sang throughout Italy. But I have been a student all my life, and am studying now as hard as ever I did when a child. "But tell the young Americans that all the later work and progress has been the more rapid from the fact of the groundwork having been thorough. From those very masters studied in early lite I have chosen many roles other works I have had writ ten lor me, and these I study, long and hard, until I have created them lor the public A Lire of Endless Study. "Handel's great oratorios have been a special study. I gave long study to the part of Iphigenia in 'Iphigenia in Tauris, by Gluck, and to Beethoven's great mass and Mendelssohn's oratorios. Dvorak wrote for me 'The Specter's Bride' and 'Ludmila,' and 'Redemption' was also written for me bv Gounod, and, I gave long study to them. Mors et Vita' and 'Stabet Mater' I created. Besides being one of the oratorio singers ot England, and taking part in the Handel festivals, which occur every three years, I have the following repertoire: 'Faust,' 'Les Huguenots,' 'Bigoletto,' 'Puntani,' 'Lucia,' 'Trovatore,' 'Otello, 'Lohengrin,' The Flying Dutchman," 'Tanhaueser,' 'Nozzie de Figaro and 'Don Giovanni.' Cannot you see what endless confinement to study? O, I have a great amount of work always on hand. And now you have italL" The prima donna has given you her secret of success the birthright of voice and the endless study of her art Albani looks as you see her in the pict ure a face lull of the light of kmduess, deep blue, smiling eyes, a sensitive mouth, a full brow, and over all a certain exultant glow of health and happiness. Her hair is dark brown, and she has small, beautiful hands. A Terr Fleasing Pretence. Albani's is a sumptuous figure. There is that indescribable stamp about her -which the French call presence. She conveys to the stranger an impression of height, but the word which seems best to fit her is "graciousness" she is gracious in every gesture. For in reality she is not a tall woman, and is otherwise an easily recog nized "Canadienne" in type. Albani likes heavy brocade to wear, em broideries and fringes of jet, rich laces and diamonds. She is watchful of her health. She said to me: "I take care never to do what is bad for my throat and general health. And n hat is bad lor the throat? Nuts and sweets and indigestible substances. Veal is not good for singers. I avoid taking colds by keep ing warm and out of draughts. Claret is good lor the throat and for the health too; that is why I drink it." She signed her "conversation" with me, to give oung musicians a pleasure; and you see her signature as it appears in her notes to the Queen ot England and on the list of her many charities. VIKING. A THEEE-MINTIE WOODEN HOESE. The Jfovel Invention M ith Which a Genius Is Startling Chicago. A wooden horse charging at breakneck speed over the asphalt pavements is what Chicagoans see occasionally now. The wooden horse is a unique contrivance invented bv C B. Bickley, who lives at No. 281 West Van Buren street Already he has attained sufficient speed to give the best of bicycle riders a close brush. He claims to be able to go a mile at a three-minute gait The principle on which the machine is run is simple. It is composed only of two cog wheels, an eccentric axle and a shaft On this shaft the bobby horse rests. Beneath is a sort of platform resting on four wheels. When astride the horse the motion of the body used in riding the live article propels the machine forward, and as it moves and the motion of the body becomes accelerated the momentum grows greater and greater until a high rate of speed is obtained! The invention is not yet on the market, though its inventor has already had some flattering offers for his patents. The wooden horse may probably be placed in the parks this summer. "o Sao Tar Awa'. Scottish Canadian For Heaven is no sao far awa'. If but the heai t bo pme and true. 1 he lfehts that free its windows fa', Reach oftentimes my view! And whiles I hear, or think 1 hear. At that sweet liout o' gloaming gray, Sao far awa, and sma' and clear, Its blessed bells at plaj! I ken Its wr's are stadium-heiaht, Upon their twal' foundations set; But irhaur my thochts can win their fllirlit. They'll open me the yet! I ken the verra speech they say I've heara the ower-wordo' their sane I've seen their flt-piints on the way I'll Join them orits lang! CATARRH SDrFERERi Here Is Something or Interest to Too. Chronic catarrh is, by far, the most preva lent disease in the United States; at least one person out of every three is in some de gree affected by it. Probably the most com mon seat of the disease is "in some part of meair passages iz., nose, tnroat, larynx, uroucumi muo ana mogs. (.nronic ca tarrh, however, is by no means confined to these parts; for the stomach, bowels, kid neys and pelvic organs are irequently af fected by it The treatment for chronic catarrh, wherever located, consists of, first, local treatment which includes gargles, sprays, douches, inhalents, snuff, creams, supposi tories and atomized fluids. These remedies are useful only as palliatives. They can never effect a permanent cure The treatment or catarrh consists, second, of the proper regulation of food and drink, and is a very important item in the treat ment of any case. The third item in the treatment of catarrtt is tne regulation of the bodily habits, as to clothing, exercise, cleanliness and sleep. The fourth and most important item, without which all other efforts will be fruit less, is the proper internal medication. The only medicine which can always be relied upon to do this work is Pe-ru-na. This medicine can now be obtained at nearly all the drug stores in the United States, accom panied by complete directions lor use. Any one desiring to become acquainted with the details of the treatment ot catarrh in each of the four items above enumerated should write the Peruna Drug Manufact uring Co., of Columbus, Ohio, for a copy of The Family Physician No. 2. This book also gives cause and cure of la grippe, coughs, colds, bronchitis and consumption. Sent free to any address for a limited time' Church. This led to a ment to sing at that The Wooden JJorte. MONKEY EXPERT GARNER Readers of The Dispatch are familiar with the experiments of Prof. E. L. Garner in monkey language. The illustration above is from a snap shot of him and a party of his Simian friends, who are greatly agitated by his imitation of their word for food, and are chattering into the horn of hiB phonograph. Prof. Garner says: "Monkevs pro duce the sounds with their vocal organs, the same as human speech is produced. " From the rudiments contained in their speech the forms of human speech could be developed. The phonograph reveals many coinciding features. I think I have interpreted six words ot the Capuchin speech beyond all reasonable doubt, and I shall soon have three or four more. I think they only have nine or ten roots, which are slightly modified in uttering, so they may have in all from 30 to 40 words." A WONDERFUL PARROT. Stories Incredible If They Did Not Come From the Man They Do The Bird Can Improvise Music, See a Joke and Call People Its Memory. ICOEKESFOlfDKtCS Or THB DISrATCH.1 Pakis, May 12. For 23 years I have had a female parrot from the Gaboon, with ashy gray plumage and a red tail, now about 48 years old. This bird is so remarkably intelligent that it seems to me interesting to bring her into notice. Although she retains and imitates all the noises and sounds she hears, the distinguish ing mark of this bird is a peculiar origin ality which is hers alone, and which makes her at once au imitator and a creator. Be fore this bird became mine she was in Paris, in a house which contained a great many tenants. She imitated to deceive you the language of the sparrows which haunted the roofs and the vard of the house, their springtime troubles for the possession of a nest, and all their daily quarrels. She also imitated the street cries of Paris, especially that of the old-clothes man. During the war in 1870, I sent her to the country while I took my place- in the army of Paris. Her repertory then became enriched by all the sounds of nature, the quail, the owl, the magpie, the cock and the hen, in all their vocal manifestations. Can Give a Pig's Death Squeal. She excels in the phonetic reproduction of the killing of a pig, at which she has certainly been present She first repeats the interrupted cries, grave or sharp, utter ing the impatience and fright of the animal as it is being dragged to the place of execu tion; then comes the agonized squeals of the throat-cutting and the death agony, and all this is given with the same shadinsr. crrada- tlon and power as if bv the animal itself" Although she has not heard these sounds for 22 years, this funereal phantasy still passes occasionally through her brain, and she makes the windows of my house rattle with it till we are obliged to silence her. My parrot observes every movement made in preparing for an action which is itself accompanied by a Found, -and she makes the sound beforehand. It she sees me ap proach an open window and make ready to close it, she immediately makes the sound that will be occasioned by the window be fore I have vet touched it, and the same sort of manifestation is made it I go to open a window. If I produce my handkerchief she blows her noe. If she sees me take my overcoat she instantly mades in advance, with her wings, the motion which I mut make w ith my arms in putting on the gar ment She imitates the sound of dropping water. If she sees me with a glass con taining a liquid, or only sees me approach one, she imitates immediately, and in ad vance, the sound of deglutition, and of the descent of a liquid into the throat If she sees a cat, or it anybody calls a cat. she in- tstantly imitates the various forms of cat language; and the same with dogs, horses and donkeys. Into all these imitations, fre quently interrupted by her own bursts of laughter, my parrot throws a meaning, a mischief, a will, that are completely intelli gent "- Can Appreciate a Joke. But the most important thing to notice in the case of this bird is her ability to under stand what is taking place about her, and to take part in everything by her language and actions. When we talk in her presence she takes part in the conversation by "ohs" and "ahs" of astonishment, or of approba tion interjected at the appropriate moment She almost faints away with laughter if we A PLANISPHERE . CcpHIa Vego , fPelnii, ." "' . .. rwrs " v . CorCsroll J" 1 X . ,I'C!au, ' ' . " " '$' Pnt : eoMAEBSisca. -cy y I . ' LEO cS6 7 I I V -s j3"1" A good many eyes have been on the heavens of late, espeoially sin ce some enthusiast swore on a stack of Bibles that Venus was an electric balloon sent up from the World's Fair grounds at Chicago. The planisphere given shows the positions of the principal stars that are above the horizon between 8 and 9 o'cloek in the evening. This chart rep resents the entire half of the heavens then visible, Its circumference'marking the horizon; its center, the zenith, or point directly overhead. To compare it with the heavens, one should hold it overhead, or nearly so, when the stars represented on it fall into their proper positions and can easily be identified. Venus will attain to its greatest brilliancy on the 3d of next month. Saturn has passed its point of greatest brilliancy. Mercury is a morning star, and about the middle of the month it will be visible in the east at an hour or so before sunrise. Mars now rises at about midnight in the "Southeast In a couple of months ho will have become a splendid evening star. "Opposition" occurs in Aucust. when he will be more brilliant than at anr time since1877. when Prof. Hall discovered his two satellites. Jupiter is a morning star, but is too near the sun" to be seen well. AT HIS FAVORITE WORK. , ji, say something amusing and wear an expres sion of gayetv. If she need's anything she calls her mis tress by her Christian name, "Marie," and if the reply is long in coming her voice gradually grows impatient and imperious. One winter dav she was put in her cage, near the fire. A log rolled forward and sprinkled her with ashes and sparks. Her mistress, busy in another room, heard her crying, and calling "Marie!" "Marie!" like a person in danger or in violent terror. She ran to her aid. When her noon meal, composed of three or four dainties, is set before her my par rot sets aside everv day a little jam tart for her supper. She does not like men. One need only be of the feminine sex to touch and caress her without dancer. She loves her mistress devotedly. "When I have been awav from home, and am returning toward my house my parrot feels me through the wall, and, although she cannot see me, she warns her mistress of my return by singing two notes, "do-do," the second an octave above the first. She does this in case of no other person in the house. She bids me good-day in the same manner whenever I enter the room where she is. If I give her something she thanks me by voice and gesture, raising her wings. She Is a Feathered Composer. But my parrot shines, above all, in her extraordinary gifts as musician and com poser. If she sees a polka sung aud danced she utters an accompaniment of notes deli cately picked and in time, with the same certainty as a player on a trombone or a bass violin. She improvises veritable pass ages of music, which she whistles with end less variations, never repeating herself in her improvisations. She gives them with a taste, a style, an ardor to be envied by a pupil at the conservatory. She ends her pieces" on the keynote. She improvises before any chance hearer when her mistress asks her to sing. When several persons are listening she interrupts her strains I, from time ro time to utter a peal of laugh ter mingled with "oh s to indicate that she it pleased to be heard. Before improvising she often preludes with trilled runs and vocalises similar to those practiced by a singer to bring out her voice before going on the stage. From time to time she pauses to clear her throat, to swallow saliva, a movement accompanied by a dry click of the tongue against the palate, so that the note of the fife may issue more clearly I should rather say, the note of the flute, for we seem to hear a flute, large, flexible and clear toned. The low notes of this instrument are truly re markable. "When my parrot sings in faithful imita tion of the human voice, she often passes froni a deep bass to the purest soprauos, continuing the same air. I should not have dared to relate phe nomena of intelligence so surprising in this bird had not hundreds of persons witnessed them during23 years; and even yet, when placed outside an open window in fine weather, overlooking the street, my parrot assembles the passers-by of all ages, amazed at the music she offers them. I have passed deeply interested moments in studing this bird", whose intelligence brings a new element to the solution of the problem which my friend, it the Marquis of Nardaillac, in his remarkable study en titled "Intelligence and Instinct," has ex pressed in the following words: The reader may thus determine whether Intelligence Is thereal charactetisticor man; whether it digs an abyss between him and the animal, and whether there exists be tween ainerent creatures only a difference lndesiee;in other words, whether human Intelligence ditTeis in kind or only in quan tity from that of other beings. Augusts Nicaise, Member of the Anthropological Society and Correspondent of the Ministry of Public Instruction. OF THE HEAVENS. THE'BOYSOFTHEWAR. General Howard Tells Anecdotes of Several He Knew Very Well. MANY IN THE CONFEDERATE AEMI Hott Charlie Weise Lost His Left Ann While Holding Horses. STOEI OP THE DRUUMER OP SHILOH TWHITTEN TO-BL TBI DISPATCIT.t You ask me if I cannot write something about boys in the army during the War of the Bebelliod. Oh yesl There were many boys in the army in one capacity or an other. Every drum corps had several boys from, 12 to 18 years of age. There were boys who accompanied their fathers and were with them, like General Sherman's son, whose interesting story appears in his mem oirs; they were usually in the camps or bivouacs during the intervals which obtain in every army between battles. Some boys, like Charley Weise, who lost his arm at Gettysburg, oame out as mes sengers, being taken care of and paid by some officer of sufficient rank to afford such tender luxuries. And again, there were very many tyho entered the army as young as 14, 15 and 16 years of age, as did the present Secretary of War, the Hon. Stephen B. Elking. I think he had a commission at 16. Certainly the story of his first en counter with the enemy beyond the Missis sippi, commanding Kansas men, where the greater proportion of his detachment was killed or wounded, is full of romantic in terest Probably no boy in the service had at the close of the war a larger field of ex perience than he. Plenty of Boys on Both Sides. I think there was hardly a company in the field that did not have some boys under 21 years of age, so that the aggregate of ct ual "bovs" would reach thousands. On the Confederate side the proportion of youths from 11 to 20 was larger than with us. It was deolared that General G. W. Smith's last command in Georgia, reported from8,000 to 10,000 strong, was made up altogether of "old men and boys;" that they marched to the field and all showed an ardor and devotion to their cause which cannot be underrated. Of course, I do not believe that the Confederate cause was a good one, and never shall be able to think that way, and the boys of our side, to their credit, were as ardent to save ' the Union and prevent the breaking up of the country as were the Confederate boys in the work of its destruction. Furthermore, I am not a very great hand to do justice to Confederate ways of thinking. Still, I can say with sincerity that I believe that the boys, as well as the old men, did the best they could do to defeat us; certainly they gave me and mine a good deal of trouble. I once knew Colonel Alpheus S. Hardee, the author of "Hardee's Tactics." I was stationed with him three years at West Point, N. Y., where he commanded the corps of cadets. I became intimately asso ciated with him and bis lamlly. Me had a little boy who was about 10 or 11 years of age when the family left West Point Willie Hardee. The Death or Willie Hardee, Willie entered the Confederate service the last year of the war, and certainly was not more than 16 years of age. He was a fine, manly lad, aud great sorrow smote my heart when I heard of his death slain in the last battle of our column, the battle of Ben tonville, N. C. General Joseph E. John ston, you remember, was there in chief com mand, and Willie's father had a wing of General Johnston's army. I once met his father in Alabama after the war. He spoke to me cheerfully, but the sadness of his face was too evident not to be noticed, aud ho hardly smiled as he spoke to me and men tioned his remaining family. The breaks between us of the North and South occa sioned by the great war were the most af flictive of all. Probably your readers have all heard the story ot little "Willie, the "Drummer Boy of Shiloh." His mother in Tennessee was left with a large family, Willie being the eldest, by the guerillas having taken the life of the husband and father. With her family she drifted to St Louis. Willie being about 10 years of age, was too small Willie Sherman. to enlist, but was received as a drummer boy because he had great facilitv with his drum, being able to follow the tall fiferin any tune the fifer could play. The Sergeant who had chartre of the drum corps A Became very louu oi wuue, auu hhiqii that his wages, as Willie greatly desired, went every pay day to his mother, that she might put bread into the mouths of the other little ori The Drummer Boy of Shiloh. After the first day at Shiloh the Sergeant missed the boy andahunted for him nearly all night, but could hot find him. Early in the morning he hcarj over beyond a knoll mat no was crossing uie bouuu ui z& uiuuj, It was Willie's. There was the lad with his back against a tree and drumming so as to call attention to his situation. As soon as the Sergeant approached he cried for water, which the Sergeant ran and brought to him; then the poor hoy pointed to his legs: both feet were off. A shell had carried them away. Ot course the Sergeant took him in his arms and carried him back to the field hospital, but the shock was too great: the little fellow died there, as did many others after that terrific conflict This was a Union family of Tennessee, and such was the sorrow brought into it by the war. The little hero, Willie, at Shilob, has been cele brated in song. Charley Weise. of whom I spoke, was a German lad. He was about 12 years of ae when he came to the front It was during the winter of '61 and '63. I first saw him in what was called "Camp California," near1 Alexandria, Va. He was a messenger ior Coh James Miller of the Eighty-first Penn sylvania volunteers. The Colonel gave him a pony which he rode back and forth from the Colonel's tent and my own. I became very much interested in the handsome boy. He was a thick-set, square-shouldered lad, like so many other bright German boys that we see. He always had a bright, smiling face when he handed me an official letter or took a message from me for his Colonel. Curing a Boy of Bad Idmgnace. ' When he first came out he showed me a German Bible which his mother gave him. He told me his mother was a good Catholic woman and wanted'him to read in his Bible. After a while, minj'ling with the soldiers ii i ' j " j .:.u I and hearing a good many rough words which I Ws $& ll!S Wa some of them were in the habit of nslng, he himself began to talk in the same language, and one day I heard these low expressions from his lips just outside my tent I had a sturdy Englishman iwho took care of me and my tent by the name of John. John was very obedient to any order that I gave him. I said: "John, go out and bring 'Boney' in," for the soldiers called him '"Boney," probably from some fancied re semblance to the '"Little Corporal." John brought him into the tent Then I said: "Put some water in the basin, and stir in some soap." When John had brought the water to the proper consistency which makes brilliant soap-bubbles, I said: "Wash out Boney's mouth." John did so. "Wash it again." He washed it again. "Washita third time." He washed it a third time. Now Boney, who had taken the matter good-naturedly, began to make wry faces, yet he did not cry. I said then: "I think your mouth is clean. Do not let me ever hear any such words out of it again." He went away laughing, and sure I never heard any such hard words from his lips, though he lived near me many years. At Gettys burg "Boney" was holding several horses. , He had lost his Colonel, killed in the battle of Fair Oaks, and was then on the staff of General George W. Balloch. Bow Boney Lost His Arm. The horses stood quietly together with their heads down and "Boney" had drawn one rein through the others and he was holding on to this rein with his left band when a piece of a shell, whizzing through the air, struck his left arm near the elbow P7 asfiSSsw?liffXsljsBBfirM2 hll wtr y wlJ&y Oiartey We'te. and clipped it off. The boy was taken back to the hospital and came under the charge of one of the most sympathetic and careful nurses in our army, Mrs. S. S. Sampson. ' While she was bathing him one day and assisting in dressing his wounds she could not help saying, "Poor boy! Poor boy!" He looked up with a resolute face into hers and said: "I am not a poor boyl General Howard lost his right arm, and I have lost my left; that's all about itl" So from this singular sympathetic connection you may not wonder that I followed Boney's subse quent career with much interest I shall never forgot his work as a clerk in my Washington bureau, and his happy face that so frequently met me as I stepped into his office room. Some years after he very proudly introduced me to his wile and child. My duties at last took me away from Washington to the far West I had hardly reached mv station before I saw the notice of the death of Charles Weise. His was a heraio spirit, and I doubt not is to day in the happy land that our Infinite Saviour and Lord has prepared for them that love Him. O. 0. Howard. DEEHIKG'S MALODOROUS EEC0ED, A 1.1st of Some of the Aliases He Assumed and His Crimes. The following is a record drawn up from the newspaper reports of Deeming's career under the various aliases he assumed, and of events with some of which it is thought probable he was connected: "Frkdebiok Batlet DEEMnro." 1831 Feburary Married Miss Marie James nt St. Paul's Church, Higher Tranmere Went alone to Australia. 18S2 Joined by his wife. Sent to Jail for six weeks for theft. Tie was at that time supposed to be work-in; as a plumber. 18St Numerous bank lobberles took place in Sydney, the perpetrators not being; de tected. 1885 More robberies, burularles, mysterious disappearances, and tragedies. 1885 Sets up shop in a large way, per petrates a fraudulent bankruptcy, and absconds from Sydney. 1887 Flees from Adelaido to Cape Town, after. It Is stated, robbing two brothers whom he met, or .60. 1888 Nothing known of him. During this year six of the Whitecbapel murders weie perpetrated. 1889 Poses in Durban as a mining engineer goine to Johannesburg, and succeeds in obtaining 00 by truud. June Has j3,500 advanced to him In Dur ban on bogus deeds, obtains 120 worth of jewelry and decamps. About the same time two muiders were committed in the Traansvaal, the murdeier escaping. July 17 The eiebth Whitecbapel murder. September 10 The ninth Whitecbapel mur der. September Tnrned up unexpectedly at Bir kenhead, where his wlte was living. October Is tracked by a private detective, who wants him for the Transvaal rob beries, to Camberwell, then to Stockton-on-Tees, and back aain to London. Xovembei Sails on the Jumna for Austra lia. Leaving the vessel at Port Said he doubles on his pursuers and roturns to Birkenhead. "HARRT LAWSOX." 1880 .January Leavos Birkenhead. February 18 Arrived at Beverly and mar ries Miss Matheson a fortnight after ward. March 15 Obtains Jewell? uy false pretenses at Hull. March 16 Sails from Southampton for South America. April 7 Arrested at Montevideo. October 16 Tried at Hull Assizes, and sen tenced to nine months' Imprisonment 1891 July 16 Liberated from Hull jail. July 19 Miss Lanuley was murdeied at Preston, near Hull, the murderer escap ing. "ALEEET OLIVER WILLIAMS." July 21 Makes his first appearance in Baln- nui, to inquire auoui jjiuuum una, ana takes up his residence at the Commer cial Hotel. July K Has tea at the hotel with a dark lady, who turns out to be his wife, Mrs. Deeming, of Birkenhead. Julv23 Lunohes at the hotol with his wife. Is afterward accompanied to Iluyton by Miss Matner, ana signs tne agi cement of tenancy. July 23 The first barrel of cement supplied from St. Helen's to Dmhain Villa to the order of Mtss Mather. July 25 Mrs. Deemimr and lour children ar rive at Dinham Villa. July 20-7 The five-fold murder Is com mitted. July 27 Beturns to the hotel. July 30 Obtains t o more barrels of cement. August 26-"Villiams" gives the Baluhlll banquet. August 27 Leaves Bainhill. September 22 Marries Miss Emily Matherat Bainhill. October 17 Sails with his wife fiom London to Australia. November 27 Miss Mather's last letter posted on the way out at Colombo. December 15 "Williams" and his wife ar rive at Melbourne. December 21 Miss Mather murdered. "BWAKSTOS." 1892 January Applied for anothor wlfo Jn a Melbourne matrimonial agenoy. Bec ognlzed In Svdney by a publican. Pro poses to and is accepted by-Miss Bounces veil, at Perth, Western Australia. February Wrote to Miss Matheson at Bev erlev, repeating a previously made re quest that she should rejoin him. March' 8 Arrested on the eve of his mar riage to Miss Bouncesvoll. FOB coughs snd throat troubles me Brown's Bronchial Troches. "lliey Hopped mi stuck of my suthrat cough very promptly. "-C. Fnleh, Mumlvllle. O. ttsu Roaches, hedbugs and other Insects are Conspicuous by their absence in houses where Engine is used occasionally. 25 cts. JIMT AWTmros are nsat ana l Matnaux A Son's, 6S Perm avenue. Jmr Awsiios are neat ana pretty, at man AN IMAGINATIVE ROMANCE WRITTEN TOB THE DISPATCH BY HERBERT D. WARD. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTER?. In a sleeping car Journeying from the West to Chicago are six chance acquaintances, Millionaire Vanderlvn, ot Chicago: Prof. Wilder, inventor of the Aeropole; Sergeant WiU twi:r, -who was with Greelyand with Lockwood on their Polar expeditions: Boyal Sterne, technical institute student: Jack Hardy, who is going into real estate in Chicago, and Fred erick Ball, an astronomical tutor. Out of a Jesting remark a serious expedition to the North Pole in Prof. Wilder's airship is arransed. Millionaire Tanderlyn furnishes the money, Wilder the conveyance, Willtwig the experience, and the three younger men the enthusiasm. Just as they start officers arrive to serve an inj unction on Wilder. The action is brought.by Hennepin, who claims the airship is his invention. After some exciting ex- Serlences the officers are persuaded to desist. Tne airship gets on, and when over Lake lichigan Sergeant Willtwisremembere that he left Ills supply of matches in Chicago. Only a few can be found In the pockets of the explorers and they are preserved as U they were gold. Soon a strange, new sickness steals over the party. It is like seasickness, only mora severe. Wnile they are prostrated by it they narrowly escape dashing against a mountain top In Canada. AU goes well until in the far north they espy a ship in the ice and from it a man is signaling. They throw him some provisions, go on and finally reach the pole. CHAPTER EC THE DEPARTURE. Twelve hours had passed since the in- J trepid five had been hurled to the earth. This is speaking metaphorically, for the earth was covered, perhaps with thousands of feet ot glacier, and only here and there a ragged spot of gray aud black told of hill and rock; whether of island or of promon tory none could say. The snn shone unblinkingly. It was hot It was 20 below zero. Sergeant Willtwig felt as if he were tanning. He had waited with admirably feigned composure the de cision of the tutor as to their latitude and longitude. This calculation was not so easy as at sea. They stood upon the edge of the huge Polar Plain. The earth is flattened at the poles, and where one can only see the distance of a quarter of a degree in the At lantic, here one could, with a telescope, ob serve three and a half times that distance, provided the plans of vision were unob structed. Thus an observation taken from a height might, on a clear day, extend to a degree and a half, or to the enormous sweep of 90 miles. At least, after six different calculations, the result was announced. It was awaited THE 8EROEAST ASD THE in the same mood in which Esquimaux dogs paw for their daily meal of empty tin cans and dried hsh. The four men devoured the tutor's face a3 he spoke. His answer was an epoch in the existence of these five ad venturers, it was an era in the exploration of the world, "Hurry upl Have it outl How far from the Pole?" Koyal Sterne could no longer contain his anxietv. The Sergeant was standing with bent head, his foot tracing a figure on the ice. "Longitude 6 27' east" The next words would indicate their ad- vance. "Latitode 88 35' 21"," the tutor finished. A silence fell upon the party. The Ser geant's lips quivered. His eyes filled. "My God! Is this true?" he demanded. "That is where we are." "Two hundred and forty miles higher than that hero Lockwood!" "Yes." "Only about ninetv-six miles from the Pole itself?" An affirmative nod answered him. The Sergeant acted a little as if his head were dizzy. No wonderl When a man almost grasps the object of a life's heroism; when he has all but attained the unattainable; when he Is the first in the world's history to accomplish one great thing then he is allowed to wander for a moment: then he is permitted to faint It is the sensation of indomitable intellect to bend before the supreme tension. The Sergeant uttered a few unintelligible words. His companions looked at him troubled, the tutor jumped to grasp him. His commander drew back. "I start for the Pole to-morrow, gentle men!" he said. "Hurrah!" "Bully for you!" "Bravol" "And I too!" said the tutor quietly. "And II" added Boyal Sterne, with a bold look and with an eagerness that made the Sergeant grasp him by the band. "I came to see the big hole, and I go, too," exclaimed Jack Hardy," waving his arms like a windmill. "I'll" do my best to make the grand push a grand success. That speech completely restored him to his leader's favor. "Then I shall be left alone!" ejaculated the inventor, pileously. "I don't see how I can leave her; I must get her ready to re turn. I expect she will have to be coaxed like a woman." He turned from theparty to his disabled machinery. It was not hard to see that the inventor was broken-hearted. "No," gentlemen 1 All cannot go," replied the Sergeant, much moved at the display of enthusiasm. "Mr. Ball shall accompany me. He will make the scientific observa tion, which is the true object of this ex pedition. Every increase in the party be yond the number absolutely essential is an element of danger and of failure. Hansen's party was made up of six. Schwatka's great sledge journey was made with a party of tour white men. The Lockwood ex ploration party of the Greely expedition was made up of only three men. Our ex pedition to the Pole will be made up of two. That is enoughl Prof. Wilder must put the Aeropole in order, so that we can return or there will be no retnrn." The two young men stared at the Ser geant when he finished speaking, then they exchanged blank looks. What did he mean by leaving them behind? They did not trust themselves to speak at first Dis appointment and rage choked them. "Sir," said Boyal, with tears rising, "I am as used to this sort of travel as Mr. Ball. I came to make the whole trip and I demand to go." The Sergeant looked at Koyal steadily. "And I." spoke Jack Hardr hotlv. "I demand to go. Yon have no right to leave ARCTIC EXPLORATION. ns behind. I wish to be of the party with my friend." He came over on Royal's side of the cabin and stood beside him panting. It was a serious moment Excess ot zeal has led to some of the greatest disasters in history. But the Sergeant was in no mood to be severe. He tried reason. "Who will take care of the Professor, boys?" "I can stay alone," spoke up the Pro fessor bravely. "Then none of us would ever see Chicago again," said the sergeant solemnly. "You both mean well, my boys, and your brave will touches my heart deeply. But the suc cess of the expedition is the first considera tion. Individual glory is secondary. Mr. Ball mnst go, for he alone understands the use of the seeded instruments. Ot coarse I must go. 2?ow to stay with the ship in volves plenty of hardship, plenty of grit, and, more than that, the success ot the expe dition. The base of supplies must be well guarded. The Professor must always stay by "his ship. You two may have to organize and carry out the relief. Your strength for the curbing of your will, your obedience, are as valuable to me as Mr. Ball's chronom eter. What do you say?" "I will obey," said Jack Hardy with a sigh. Boyal did not speak. He covered his face TUTOR START FOR THE POLE. and sat down upon the bank. The lighting of the spirit lamps in the heater and cooker was almost a sacred rite. A Buddhist might have thouzht it so. The Sergeant made it sufficiently impressive. "For," said he, "we shall take the remain ing 24 matches with us, that we may not freeze on our trip. Your fate is in your own hands, and if, by any misfortune, one or both should go out, the Professor will have to set them agoing with electricity. The problem lies with you." Every man Degan to feel that life was serious at the eighty-eighth degree. "By the way," whispered the Sergeant to Prof. "Wilder, taking him by the arm aside, a few minutes before he was to start with the tutor on the terrible tramp, "have you found out what was the matter with the machinery? Do you think you can pick us up at the Pole?" "I found that the oil on the bearings of the propeller shaft was frozen stiff. That is sufficient to account for the gradual stop page." "But wouldn't the heat from the friction keep the oil from freezing?" The Sergeant thought be was scientific. "'ot enough heat could be generated to overcome the inertia of such tremendously low temperature. If so, the bearings would have been burned awav." "Then," asked the Sergeant tremulously, "is this a fatal danger?" "We shall have to return without oil." "Can you? Have you power enough?" "We must," answered the inventor pluckily. "And as for power, we have enough stored to keep agoing lorsix months steady. If I can clean that oil out you see I must take the machinery apart I guess we'll go it yet She needs a rest She ought to have three weeks. When will you be back?" Ah, when indeedl To C3rry provisions, sleeping baes, instruments, spirits of wine and of hope over an ice-blocked journey of 200 miles, in such a temperature when might they return? The danger of attempt ing the passage of the Atlantic in a 15-foot boat was nothing to the peril of scrambling 100 miles to an unstaked spot and finding the way back. Three miles would make a toilsome day's journey. And then, hours of resting, or trying to rest, in wet bags, nourished on frozen food! Does thi3 not re quire the indomitable spiritual energy of hope, as well as the physique of an Ice lander? The Sergeant shook his head. "We have six weeks' provisions which we shall cache as we proceed, snd pick up on our way back. As I directed, you will cache provisions four days' journey due north for ns. We depend'for our lives on them. I have indi cated the spot I think you had better send a relief party as far as you can go, if we don t turn up in 32 days. He then delivered written instructions to the Professor, to be minutely followed, gave detailed cautions as to the stores, examined the box of 21 precious matches, lighted a lantern, which was to be their means of get ting fire, and walked, with a load ot 73 pounds on his back, resolutely and quietly out of the car. The tutor had preceded him. It was not a solemn moment for him, but one of excit ing enterprise. He weighed but 130 pounds, and carried 60. He did not stagger. The crystal air invigorated him. His intense nature gave his muscles power and his bones endurance. He bade the three a cheery goodby. But Boyal asked leave to accom pany his chief a little way. Emotion is not external when men do great deeds of daring. With a hurrah that hid any secret misgivings at the gigan tic undertaking, the explorers slowly marched toward the mysterious North. 2b St Continued Nat Sunday. OF 1 -o
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