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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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