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rod - 08 to k of color tried ae- ality Dar- tral- are rker *rays but few their that to at 310r, iy bysi- cold r ty- a in.. that ends ead's nent lOod a etre°. 3sc. It to i! kte is e np SPIE NATURALLY DRIFTED INTO THESPIAN REALMS. Tells a Iteporti, of Her Rise to FameWhen a 'school Girl She Was Too Shy to Recite Her Place - -Now Lead- ing Lady. ISS Martha Ford, the new leading lady, owns a name N7h e h is well known throughout the theatrical world. Her father, John T. Ford, who died eighteen months ago, was at heart an actor, though he never reached the stage in closer personal re- lationship than that of manager and playwright. His love of the stage and stage people seems to have been born In him, and therefore It is but natural that his bronze -haired daughter should choose her life's profession amid the people with whom her father was so closely associated. Dearly as Miss Ford loves her art, it is of her father that she likes to talk most. The blue- gray eyes, with their long lashes and pathetic expression, grow luminous when she relates incidents of her fa- ther's childhood. \Father you known, was a self-made man,\ she says with pride. \When he was a very little boy he kept a news stand opposite the Richmond, then the most popular the- ater in the South. Among the litera- ture fbr sale were play books and when the actors came across the way to buy one of these he would present them with a copy and in this way became, very friendly with many who after- ward became or were at that time leading lights in the profession. I could talk for hours about the way hie first play was accepted by 'Kunkel's Nightingales,' how he staged and man- aged it, and how he afterward became Identified with theatrical interests in Baltimore, both at Holliday's and the opera house that bears his name.\ \Thrt how about your own career?\ was ventured mildly, for it seemed a pity to interrupt this sweet-faced , daughter in her eulogy of a much - loved father. \There is nothing remarkable about It,\ was the modest reply. \I have been on the stage for years, making my de- but with Miss Marlowe in Baltimore in 'As You Like It.' It was just after Miss Marlowe's illness, and she received a great ovation which I shared simply because it was my first appearance, and in my father's theater. The peo- ple in the company were very lovely to me and I received so many flowers and charming gifts that I was bewil- dered.\ Here Miss Ford showed a su- perb little watch engraved with the date of her first.appearance which was among the \charming gifts\ received on that occasion. Miss Ford to talk with is unusually interesting, though there is a little trace of shyness which seems incongru- ous with her chosen profession. \I am horribly timid,\ she admitted when this peculiarity was mentioned, \and my going on the stage amazes me ter much as it did my family. There are ten of Mk living aed of that number I am the only outcast, the others never leaving home and mother. I am the prodigal and of my sisters and broth- ers the one least expeeted to take up a public career. When I was a girl at school I was positively afraid of my own voice, add e ben I would get up to recite it would he with downcast eyes and trembling . %oice. One commencement I selected Poe's 'To Helena.' and WAR to practice In the chapel with an audience at the back of girls who had congregated to ridicule my efforts. Whether I be- came imbued at that time with some MISS MARTHA FORD celestial fire If know not, but at any rate I recited that poem in a very dif- ferent fashion from the way I recited my lemons, and my eloeution teacher was quite indignant because I had given no te•idence of any talent In this direction before. leiter I recited once In my father's theater, and after that you couldn't have kept me off the stage no matter how hard you had tried.\ \Yon have played lends before, have you not?\ \Yes with Creston Clarke and with Wilfred Clarke. Last year I Was with Mr. Daly, but I feel that a stock com- pany as I am in now is the best school In the world.\ \Are you hotter pleased with the *notions, roles or throe; more humor - aria in chereeterr \I don't think I have ever plered in the latter, for, even though I have had pomp spiteful little parts, there are a few Uwe s mewhere that I could make sympathetic, so that they wouldn't think that I was altogethcr ugly \ Miss Ford an sbn said this Im- pressed her hearer with the idea that she noted make even \ugly things\ sound sweet and 4 stowly if Tom COOPER, THE FAMOUS CLASS B RIDER. A Product of tbis Present aesson—Pall- forela as ('enter of IlIcyclIng In - t Gossip About the Wheel, Shen. ' HE hero of the na- tional bicycle cir- cuit at the present time Is Tom Coop- er, the Detroit rider. Cooper, who is one of the young- est riders in Class B, made his debut on the circuit this season in a very un- ostentatious man- ner, and efter several months' riding and winning the reputation of a \fair racer,\ he electrified the racing enthuol- asts by forging to the front and defeat- ing Eddie Bald, the peer of the path, and all the noted men in Class B. Cooper's victory was not a temporary one, for his first success has been fol- lowed by repeated victories. Short dis- ta.nces seem to be his specialty. His rapid jump into prominence has nem- 'prised the racing fraternity. He has won twenty-three first prizes on the national circuit this season. In the arrangement of the national circuit cities have to be left out of the nation*, circuit meet for which they apply, owing to lack of time within the ordinary racing season in which to grant the date. In the arrangement of the naponal circuit the capabilities of the men have Indomitable will and a hereditary love of the stage went for anything, this gracious and lovely young woman will prove herself a favorite with the pa , trons of the stage. NOTES OF THE STAGE. A Wall street syndicate is said to be backing Lawrence Hanley, who is am- bitious to shine as a Shakespearean ctar. Miss Anna Bruce has just been en- gaged to create the role of Rosalind in the new musical farce, — rine Newest Woman.\ Apropos of John Hare's American tour it has been definitely decided to include in the repertoire of the Gar- rick Theater company Coughlin's corn - Royal Opera, Stockholm, Sweden; Miss edietta, \A Quiet Rubber,\ Sydney Grundy's \A Pair of Spectacles\ and A. W. Plnero's \The Notorious Mrs. Ebb - smith.\ Additions will doubtless be made and it is probable that some one of Robertson's comedies will be se- lected. Mme. Francesca Guthrie -Moyer, the dramatic soprano, will tour with her own concert company, supported by the following artists: Henry F. Stow, ten- or; Sig. E. Svedelins, late basso of the Royal Opera, Stockholm, Sweden; Miss Fannie Lobey„violinist, and Herr J. Erich Schmaal, pianist, from Vienna, Austria. The season will open at the Academy of Music in Milwaukee Sept 26. The Actor Whose Recent Illness Caused Much Anxiety. Mr. Mansfield was born in England in. 1857, studied for the East Indian civil service, but came to Boston and opened a studio as a painter. He went back RICHARD MANSFIELD. to England to study art, but necessity I lead him to the boards and he procured an unremunerative engagement in small parts In comic opera. lie came to this country again, and after a suc- cess at the Standard Theater, New York, as Dromez in \Les Manteaux Noirs\ his advance was rapid. His successes have covered the wide field from Koko in 'The Mikado\ to Richard III., but he has created many parts pe- culiarly his own, of which Beau Brum- mel, Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale in \The Scarlet Letter/and the titular roles in \Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\ are among the most famous. BASE BALL NOTE. _ The best strike -out record of the sea- son has been made by Thornton, the pitcher farmed out by Chicago to Rock- ford. In a game against Dubuque, Sept. 2, he struck out fourteen men in seven innings. Manager Ilanlon has lit upon a prom- ising minor league pitcher whom no other club seems to have unearthed. His name indicates that he hails from Erin. --Laitimore Sun. Must be Mc - flinty or O'Grady. President Kerr, of Pittsburg. is inech distressed because the profits of this year will have to go for the purchase 1 of stronger players instead of a new I grand stand. Manager HELI11011 favors the adoption of the double umpire system. A New York exchange says that St. Louis has but four men who are fast enough for league company, and names Ely, Cooley, Pietz and Breitenstein. Captain Tcbeau is rather mortified becauee the impression has gone out saute way or other that he believes that there is crookedness, and that Cleve- land is being dishonestly worked against. 0. P. Caylor has started In even this early to discount Fred Pfeffer's advent on the New York team and to make the road rocky for him. Caylor scenia to be never so happy as when roasting some unfortunate fellow being. Ex- change. Young George Reiman. the Maysville pitcher, who defeated the Senators in one game and won two from the Cin cinnatis, may be given a trial by the Indianapolle management Then, if he is all right. he will be shifted to Cin- cinnati Exchange. St. Louis won but one game front New York and Louisville hut one from Brooklyn. Louleville's victory crime in the very last game of the series, and also broke Brooklyn's string of con- secutive victories, that club being stopped at 12. A Lanky Sam' , Sarah Bernhardt frowns on bloom- ers. She thinks they are too daring. And what Sarah does not know about daring Is rot worth considering But perhaps she has tried them, and dis- approved of the picture of a match mounted on a couple of toothpicks, whi h she saw in the mirror. John 1- Wants to Keep • Gin win. John L. Sullivan, the ex-prlie eght- Pr. has applied for a saloon license In Boston. This Beasimin all is different. The coast has sent excellent talent, and al- though their doings have not been those of world-beaters, Ziegler, Terrill and Wells have and are rapidly' cell- vincing the riders that the west is not to be sneezed at. It was in line, then, that the coast people should want to see their best men meet the best men of the east. Their promoting a month's addition to the national circuit, to ti place in October. was in keeping with their de- sire. They secured the national cir- cuit dates. Dealers worked together for these, and now that they have se- cured them not a dealer in California or a meet -promoting club intends the dates shall go a -begging for entries. KYRLE BELLEW. Distinguished Author. Playwright a .1 Romantic Actor. Harold Kyrie Bellew was born in England, but went to India in boyhood, his father. Rev. J. C. M. Bellew, being appointed chaplain of the Cathedral at Calcutta. Kyrie entered the English navy as a cadet, served seven years, and then went to the Australian gold fields. He later joined an expedition to New Guinea, which was shipwrecked, he be- ing one of three survivors. He worked for a time on Melbourne newspapers, then returned to England and made his debut at Theater Royal, Brighton. He became leading man and star in Lon- don. and In 1886 leading man in Wel- lack's Theater, New York. Then he joined Mrs. James Brown Potter, with whom he has played in all English- speaking countries. Mr. Bellew is au- thor of \Yvonne \Iolande\ and \Hero and Leander,\ besides many adapta- tions, to be taken into account. Racing is a I hard business when carriefl on through a great length of time, and the great distance that has to be covered in giv- ing meets, even with the great rail- road sytem anti the comfortable travel- ing enjoyed in this country. Thus it is that a - vast territory has hitherto been ;•nit off the list owing to a lack of time. California has come to be recognized as one of the best sections of America for the bicycle business. The racing - men from the coast have broadened out until that section is now and has been for a year represented In national cir- cuit races by men of high caliber and far different from the men of old, when the records of the coast were many sec- onds slower than the records of the world held by einstorn riders. Waller startled the world when he f Twsil (700PElt lowered the twenty -few. heir record a the world. Re did It on ft.- roast, and the eastern people came te realize that there was growing 01.1.1 across the Rock lea a della of riders that would be a factor in the sport of ue ;ling. Then Ziegler CAMP to DeTtv.1 - . 31111 the results at the time were sad to relate Ziegler wiped the ground up. to use a slang phi race, with the eastern men. At time there was Rome soreness, a grcat deal, in fact, and the western men re- turnee home with the real«lictIons of the easterners in their ears. Denver is a record breaker for raves, meets and hospitality. Ziegler mourns that he will not be aide to race in the East. Manhattan has added pyrotechnics to its racing meets and does better. eithanne Moilrila most that he could not win a first at his home in St. Louis. The opening of the theatrical sea- son hi being felt on electric light rac- ing. The L. A. W. Racing Board came out Oil top in the St. Leith; Sunday racing matter. Hissing judges for conscientious de- cisions is a thoughtless but Injurious; practice of spectators. Local lights whose sphere is Melted have plenty to do at county fairs in September and October. Canada gave the racers fro jn the States a hospitable reception, and there was a good time generally. As a result of business racing the ra, ing men are appealing to the courts. ,,, ; iTr t e o t t h h the judge's.refe referee's derision must give c Is C. Johnson. of Cleveland. collided with Ray MacDonald while training at Hampden Park Septeniber I. John - soil's wheel was demollsliel and he himself suffered a tract re of the col - 1st bone. quaint Deseription of Dancing. s party of ladies and gentlemen (who e ic ay, here pass for Intelligent beings) assemble at the hall room. Soon they , rray themscli,c, In opposing lines. 1 recently aloling 1:1,1 jlitnps up from 1' e floor, Wit` foot S1111 comes an again. Again she springs up anti th.; other foot quit g Then she turns round in her pee- springs up * \at stakes both her t tier intelligent partner opposite lei eirms the Same op- eritIons. Then lit nigh forward, and seize each Other R hands, jump up again. then shake their feet and stand still. The next ladt and gentleman vary rationally rind soberly follow the es.onPle Net s‘ , 1 th.111. shaking and till ping, and so Olt to the end. They know See .a Japan too At a recent celebration in Yokotintrea the imperial Guard pl;“ tel Liberty lieu,\ -Manhattan Bcc ii and The High School Cadets\ marches TWO PER CeNT OF POPULATION CONSTANTLY MOVING. - - The Proves. S •t13114,4 1.00kto hetural But 111.% o t.cncriti Itiiii• 011e Coo Sc,' the fringe, - MATI. , of an uctploreil Force. HEN emigration to the west began, as early, as 1783, the leaders of the east- ern statee were (r ) frightened. There still exist old cê pamphlets, not to say old caricatures, which ridicule the desire to go west. In a dozen forms the old story is still told of the emigrant from a Massachusetts town,who went to Ohio, carrying with him a jug of mo- lasses, and came back boasting that he had sold his molasses for enough to pay for the molasses and the jug. On the right hand and Oct the left, every effort was made to persuade our people that they had better stay here and not trust themselves to the rico valleys of the Scioto and the Miami. Those who went and 'trusted themselves there were perfectly indifferent as to what was said to those who remained be- hind. And the caricature anti the pamphlet are now left to the dust of antiquarian libraries, and only referred to as Mrs. Partington's broom is re- ferred to, with which she tried to sweep back the waves of the sea. All the same, however, little or noth- ing is known about the wave of emigra- tion. De Tocqueville studied the matter with care, and gave to us the curious figure, which has been verified, that the average flow of the wave was, in his time, seventeen miles inn a year. A similar flaw'began from the Pacific coast eastward, after we took a foot- hold in Oregon and California, and the two waves have met each other. There are people to -day who are as unwilling to encourage emigration to the west from New England as their grandfathers were. They are a little apt to be people who own tenement houses, ten stories high, and would be glad to make them twenty stories high if they could get good rents for the nineteenth and twentieth stories. They are people who are living under the delusion that a city, because its popu- lation is large, is prosperous and rich. But the prophecies of these people, and the Partingtonism, does not in the least affect the purpose of those people i who wish to emigrate. As Abraham Lin- coln would have said, itioee people wino want to go want to go, and those people wh i p mean to go mean to go. In point of fact, roughlye e epeaking. 2 per cent of the population of the eetiboard states move westward every year. It is a little curious, and it is satisfactory for Its in Massachusetts to observe that the attraction of Massachusetts to an- other set of people is, in its way, as great as, in its way, the attraction of the western valleys. It would prob- ably be fair to say that at this moment 280,000 persons born In Massachusetts are living in other states of the Ameri- can union, and that 280,000 persons born in other states are living in Mas- sachusetts. The two fancies about meet each other. The account is about as broad as it is long. At the interesting meeting held on Monday e4ning, the first colony club in Massachusetts was formed, not to make any particular colony for any par- ticular place, but set on foot such ar- rangements as shall tend to the com- fort of emigrant s. The Col- ony Club proposes to collect and circu- late information on the subject of open-air life in the west. It proposes some such mutual assistance as has proved possible in the (7hautauqua cir- cles and other great reading circles of the country. It proposes the establish- ment of similar clubs in all the larger centers of New England. And it cannot be doubted under prudent and wise management a satisfactory result may be s o a ecure1. To acertain icgtent, the Indifference of the general government towards in- terior emigration may be atoned for by such arrangements as these clubs nosy be able to make Edward Everett Hale, in Boston Commonwealth. A Heart Pmt . 's The old-time donkey parr, recently suggested a nee form of evening enter- tainment namciv, a \heart party.'' A large heart made of ted flannel cloth WAR pinned upon a sheet hung from a door. In the; center of the heart was sewed a small circle of white Arrows of white cloth with as placed therein were gIicti to the *fiesta. each arrow bearing a nember, the number corre sponding to a list whereon the names and numbers of the guests were plaeed The point of the game, of course. WAR to see Whit+ person, when blindfolded, would pin Hie arrow nearest to the cen tral spot of white Four prizes were offered one each for the lady and gen tleman conning the nearest to the rent ter. and Otte each to those mining the farthest front the bellseye. 'Phi' prizes consisted ot a heart -shaped pincushion, a heart -shaped photograph frame, s ie ver heart -shaped pin, and a heart - shaped box of bonbons. The booby prizeg were a Brownie holding a tiny heart with an arrow inscribed \Try try again,\ end a pincushion made of ree satin, shaped like a beet. Ladies' Horne Journal. she Joel Rats Rim l`p. The ferns: , spider Is always larger than the reale and, if accounts be tree, is of a rat her peppery disposition When the husband becomes obstinate and will mict obey orders, the loving wife eats him up to get rid of him and seeks a more obedient spourie. HIS UNPLEASANT DUTY. Hi. 1)1.1 Not Make Awry Hurd Work of 11. After AIL Now the will rush for bonne begins, and when tele of the women, who have gotten to kriow each other very will, appears upon the porch of the country house or hotel. valise in hand, mei while the impatient driver of the stag' or carriage protests loudly and often, this sort of thing occurs: \Good-bye. Miss Benils (kiss). Good-bye, MN Jones (kiss). So sorry to leave you all' Good-bye, Mr. Brown; kiss your daugh- ter for me. All right, driver; we'r, , coming. Good-bye, Mies Jenks (ki,t•I. Good-bye, everybody. Come along Katie; all right, driver. Where's !bliss Burt? Oh, dear! I've left my umbrella, and it's bad luck to go back! Oh, thank you so much! All right, driver! I declare it's too bad to leave you al: You must c all and see us some time Newark, Ohio, you know. Gocal-lc , Good-bye!\ There's a flutter of handkerch ; from the stage, it reply from the poi , and the vehicle has turned the cor- ner. A quiet little map, who saw one of these performances the other day. need to his wife: - Maria, must we do that sort of thing when we go tomorrow?\ \Why certainly!\ wile the reply. \You wouldn't be impolite, would you?\ \Yes I v,e:mlii,\ said lie, earnestly. \anti I will, too. I'll never do that, and I tell you so right now. I'll say good- bye to the whole lot in a general way, same as the deacon said grace over the whole barrel of pork, but I won't go 'round in any such fashion as that.\ \Then they'll be very much hurt, and so shall I.\ said his wife. \You al- ways do want to sneak out'of every- thing and leave it for me to do.\ \Oh. all right;' he said, doggedly; \I'll do it.\ So when they appeared on the porch the next day, equipped for traveling. the husband laid his eatchel in the 'bus, came back, seized the prettiest girl, gave her a rousing kiss, and said: \Good-bye Miss Field; I really hate to leave you.\ Then he gyrated around like a hum- mingtop, shook halide with the men, hugged the landlady, and kissed two more pretty women—married, these— before their husbands could protest or his panic-stricken wife interfere. Then he bounced into the omnibus, and said. as they were driven 'depot - ward: \Well Maria, that was one time I didn't sneak, did l?\—New York Re. corder. A Model Child. Her temper's always sunny, her hair is ever neat: She doesn't care for candy she says it Is too sweet! She loves to study lessons—her sums are always right; And she gladly goes to bed at S every single night! Her apron's never tembled,. her hands are always clean : With buttons missing from her shoes she never has been seen. She remembers to say \Thank you.\ ' and \Yes ma'am, if you please:\ And she never cries, nor frets, nor whines; she's never been known to tease. Each night upon the closet shelf she pints au ay her to.)s: She never slams the parlor door, nor makes the slightest noise; But she loves to run on errands and to play with little brother, And she's never in her life been seen to disobey her mother. \Who is this charming little maid? I long to grasp her hand!\ She's the daughter of Mr. Nobody, And she lives in Nowhereland! - Helen Hopkins, in St. Nicholas. reoof of Genius. First Poet—I think Thomsone - see sons\ is the most remarkable book tell' written. Second Poet -Why' First Poet—It contains wee 1,000 lines on spring, and he unmanaged to get it pub I imbed. WORTH KNOWING. Women have colds in the head le frequently than men, because they are not arenstomed to heavy head cover- ings When an artery has been severed tee blood comes In jets, becatise the hunt throe,' it directly to the point 'Niter , . the at - tort, has been cut. The most sensitive nerves are iti 110 WIPP, tongue and teem, beCal184. In those organs greater set:mitt yen, - Is needed than in any other part of the body. Many diseiutes cause pallor because In westing diseases the number of red corpuscles in the blood is diminish , and this fact Is apparent in the color of the skin. The cheeks become pale from tear be- cause the mental emotion diminishes the action of the heart and lungs. and so impedes the clreuletton. The taste Is often the last faculty to Ice impaired by old age, because it is most needed for the protection of the Individual against the use of unwhole- 11° T ril h ee fo t orm e d , \thick-headed\ as apples/ to 'stupid people, has its foundation in a fact of nature. It often happens that the brain shrinks, and ask it does, so the Klein sometimes thickens. People sniff the air to locate an odor, weenie by distending the nostrils cm larger quantity of air is drawn in, the nerves are better exposed, and the odor more clearly perceived. Venous blood Is blue or almost black because it contains many impuzitio - 4 collected from the system, and has not itself been purified by contact WItIl sir in the lungs.
