Richmond Palladium (Daily), 15 August 1904 — Page 2

RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1904.

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Theatre II O. O. Murray Lassaa and Manager. Saturday, August 20 Matinee and Night. Al. W. Martin's Mammoth $30,000 production of the Immortal American Drama Uncle Tom's Cabin The late Harriet Beecher Stowe's Everlasting Legacy to Posterity, presented by a carefully selected Cast of white actors of talent and reputation 60 PEOPLE Magnificently Equipped o X Bands Solo Orchestra of 12 Musicians 2 Carloads of Special Scenery 20 Colored People Singers, Dancers 10 Caban and Russian Bloodhounds 20 Ponies, Donkeys, Mules, Horses Grand Street Parade at 10 a. in. Starting from Theatre. Prices Matinee 10c and 25c. Night, 10c, 20c, 80c and 60c. Seats on s e Nixon's Confectionery. BLAZE AWAY Who cares? I'm fortified with an "Elorado" laundered collar, "The kind hat don't melt down." The Eldorado steam Laundry No. 18 North Ninth St. Phone 147 Richmond. Indian A FINE On Street Cor Line In Boulevard ATA BARGAIN W. H, Bradbury & Son Westcott Block. , Harness For Show and harness for eve'y day use mean a difference in quality in some 'makes here they are identical in strength and durability. More style, of course, in fancy driving harness, but all our harness is made from good stock, and every'set maintains our reputation as to workmanship and finish. All sorts of horse equipments at very moderate prices - - - - - The Wiggins Co. Are You Looking For a Farm ? I have a number of desirable farms for sale. All sizes and all prices Remember the name and place. TV R. WOODHURST, 913 Main St., Rictmond, Ind. Nasal CATARRH la all Its stages there ebocM iw cleanliness. Ely's Cream Balm c!eswea,ooUie8anl heals the dUeased iaeniaie. 1 1 eore ct arrh and drives way a cold la the head oakiclr. ' Cream Balm is placed Into the nostrils, spreadi ever th membrane and Is absorbed. Belief is immediate nl cure follows. It Is not drying does Botprodaes sneezing. Large Size, 53 eenU at lrug. gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. LY B80TB2BS. M warrta StrteW New York.

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WAS THRICE HANGED LIVED. AND TRIED THE MINISTRY Lived to Marry Indian Maiden and Become Prominent in Politics. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 14. Thomas II. Tibbies, recently nominated for the vice presidency of the Populist Party, is - a unique character in the middle west. He is a man of strength, indomitable resolution and original thought. The nomination was entirely unsought and the compliment came as a complete surprise to him. The law, the clergy and the press have numbered Mr. Tibbies in their ranks. He is now the veteran editor of the Nebraska Independent, a weekly paper. As an editorial writer he is aggressive, merciless and sarcastic, but never indulges in personalities. In the days of the grasshopper plague in Nebraska Mr. Tibbies attracted some attention by his uncompromising dispute with the noted scientists who were then here studying the subject and trying to stop the flight of the pests. The scientists de clared that the grasshoppers did not travel at night and devastated the fields only during the day, laughing at Mr. Tibbies' assertion that the pests were active during the night as well as the day. Mr. Tibbies proved his point and turned the laugh by sending up at night a huge kite liberally smeared with tar. When he pulled it down the next day hundreds of grasshoppers were stuck fast to the tar. Three Times Hanged. When the Kansas-Nebraska bill was agitating the country, and John Brown was organizing his raiders, Mr. Tibbies, who had been educated for the law, was practicing in Council Bluffs. He became converted by John Brown's arguments and left the law to follow the intrepid leader. Quantrel, with a party -of his "borders," once gave chase to a few of John Brown's men- and captured

'TTib ffirader escaping into a

nearby hiding place. Three times Quantrell and his men hanged Mr. Tibbies on a convenient tree, cutting him down twice with the promise of his life if he would not tell the whereabouts of his comrades. He steadfastly refused, and the third time the "borders" strung him up and rode away. As soon as they dared, Mr. Tibbies' comrades crept from the brush and cut him down none too soon, as it took hours to revive him. Mr. Tibbies tried the ministry after the civil war. For several years he was a Methodist minister, and later a Presbyterian, but strict creeds and denominational boundaries were irksome to him and he left both church because not enough latitude in speech was allowed. Hedrifted into newspaper work, and in that and in politics he has seemed to find his niche. While he was employed by Dr. Miller on the old Omaha Herald, Mr. Tibbies married his first wife, an English woman. He built a home on south nineteenth street, Omaha, where the Great Western terminal stands. When Mrs. Tibbies died she left two daughters, one of whom is now Mrs, Barris and lives in Council Bluffs. The other, Mrs. Herbert Bates lives in Brooklyn. When the Ponca habeas corpus case came up a few years after the death of his wife, Mr. Tibbies became much interested in the rights of the Ponca Indians and was engaged as one of the leading counsel. He went to the reservation to look up the case, and a beautiful young Indian girl, popularly known as "Bright Eyes," was recommended to him as one who would be apt to give him clear and intelligent testimony. He met the girl and became greatly attracted by her unusual beauty and quickness of mind. She had received an excellent education at an eastern college in Elizabeth, N. J. Mr. Tibbies and "Bright Eyes" were married in 1SS2. "Bright Eyes," who was christened Yosette later changed to the Eng-i lish form, Snsette La Flesche, was one of the seven children of Joseph La Flesche, chief of the Omahas, and his wife, Mary, who was the only daughter of the beautiful Indian woman Ni-Ko-Mi, and Dr. John Gale, an English surgeon in the United States army. "Bright Eyes" was born in Bellevue, Neb., in 1854, and attended the Indian school on the Omaha reserva

tion from the time she was 8 until she was 15 years old. Then a letter to a former teacher expressing her heartfelt desire for a higher education brought about the chance for the young Indian girl to attend the college in Elizabeth, N. J. During the four years she spent there she took every prize offered in the school except those for mathematics, and was graduated with the highest honors. She returned to the reservation and the next three years were full of hardships. Then she became a teacher in the Indian school at a salary of $20 a month. She had taught for several years when she met Mr. Tibbies. Mrs. Tibbies, in accordance wih the advice of Bishop Clarkson, went east, soon after her marriage, accompanied by her husband, on a lecturing tour in behalf of her people. She was a winning speaker and she was very effective in influencing legislation in behalf of the Indians and in betterng their condition. Praised by Longfellow. When the poet Longfellow, at his urgent request, was introduced to Mrs. Tibbies, he said: "This is Min

nehaha." He declared he should consider he had mastered the English language if he had such perfect control of it as this Indian woman. The lecturing tour was continued in Europe, and Mrs. Tibbies became very popular among the nobility. Mr. and Mrs. Tibbies resided most of the time in Lincoln after their return to the United States, both doing much newspaper and magazine work. Mrs. Tibbies' health, always frail, became rapidly worse and she died May 26, 1903. Mr. Tibbies has since become somewhat of a recluse and recently has lived in the Independent building in rooms just above his editorial sanctum. He is 64 years old. Sick Headache. 'For several years my wife was troubled with what physicians called sick headache of a very severe character. She doctored with several eminent physicians and at a great expense, only to grow worse until she was unable to do any kind of work. About a year ago she began taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and today weighs more than she ever did before and is real well," says Mr. Geo. E. Wrht of New London, New York. For sale by A. G. Luken & Co., and W. H. Sudhoff, Fifth and Main streets. O AMUSEMENTS. The Theaters. The Heber-Edison motion pictures were presented to a large audience at the Gennett Theater Saturday night and were very pleasing. Bloodhounds are essential in an Uncle Tom's Cabin production, perhaps as much so as the ever-pleasing lawyer Marks. Omit the dogs and you take the beauty fro mthe play and make it unrealistic. In the Al W. Martin revival, which is booked for the Gennett Theater next Saturday, matinee and night, are used sixteen man-eating bloodhounds which were secured by Mr. Martin's agents at no small expense or trouble. There is also carried for the production a carload of Shetland ponies, horses, donkeys, burros and oxen. The scenic display is the grandest ever executed for an Uncle Tom's Cabin production and the company numbers over sixty people. Taking the Martin revival as a whole, it represents the largest outlay of money ever expended on America's greatest play. Our New Man. There are times when it is good-to sit through a strong play of serious interest, times, too, when a comic opera acts like a nerve stimulant, but probably nothing in the way of an entertainment has such a real tonic effect as a genuinely funny farce which keeps an audience in a continuous state of merriment for to quote Lord Byron: "Merriment is the sunny side of existence'," and for that reason the heartiest of welcomes should be accorded the initial appearance on our local stage to Harry Beresford.a young star who has left in his wake throughout the country the most glowing press reports of his excellent work as a comedian of a hisrh order. He will offer his latest success, "Our Xew Man," which makes no pretentions to be other than a farce of the most farcial character, but it has this great advantage, it is mirth compelling from beginning to end and clean and pure in tone. Mrs. C. E. Perry, Bloomington . After years of suffering with headache and stomach troubles. I was completely cured with Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. Gained twenty pounds in eight weeks. A. G, Luken & Co.

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A Violin Maker Who May Yet Astound the World. (Brooklyn Eagle.) Perhaps there is a musical genius hidden away in Lockport whose achievements may yet astound the world. His name is Arthur Lewis Burtis. He is a cabinet maker by trade. He is also fairly well to do and has leisure to devote to his hobby. It is a strange one. He makes violins. There is nothing odd about that, but he refuses to part with any he has ever made. Thirty-five beautifully finished violins hang suspended from the walls and ceiling of his little work shop. He is at work upon another and in a few weeks, it too, will find a hanging place with the others, foe Mr. Burtis will not give it away, and he declares that he would quite as soon think of accepting cash for his own child as to dispose of one of these evidences of his cunning. Mr. Burtis is not wholly unknown to the ueers of violins of great fame and greater values. Every great violinist that has appeared in Buffalo or Lockport has been invited to give his opinion of the quality of the Burtis fiddles. Mr. Burtis said some of them begged him to sell to them certain ones they fancied, but he declined their tempting offers. It is understood that one of these artists shook $500 in Mr. Burtis 's face and had to go away disappointed. Mr. Burtis is a fair musician himself. He plays the violin with good taste and considerable skill. He is a tireless seeker for the secret which made Stradivarius famous and declares he believes that he has all but discovered it. Certain ly he has contrived to construct a violin which possesses sweetness and resonance of tone sufficient to make good his claim to some distinction among those whom he deems to be the most capable judges the great artists themselves. And this has en couraged him to preserve, so that he scrapes and scrapes awaw from morning to night. I He was asked if he had heard the story about the mysteriously seasoned cedars which gave the wonderful tone to the Stradivarius violins. He answered in the affirmative, but shook hi head doubtfully. "I have heard my own creation, that one yonder," he said pointing to a glistening instrument hanging where ' the afternoon sun shone upon its pol-j ished back, side by side with a Stradivarius that its owner said cost him $5,000. "I fancy that I have solved it, and I have had no mysteriously seasoned nor prepared wood with which to work out the problem, either. I used cedar and curly maple, as you see, and I fashion my violins after the old pattern. How I secured the tonal qualities of my instruments is my own affair." Cholera Infantum Thfe disease has lost its terrors since Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy came into general use. The uniform success which attends the use of this remedy in all cases of bowel complaints in children has made it a favorite wherever its value has become known. For sale by A. G. Luken & Co., and W. H. JSndhoff, Fifth and Main streets. Quickens the blood, rounds the form lifts the brain and body from weakness to power. That's what Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea does. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. A. G. Luken & Co. We can suit you with goods

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