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THE GAMBLERS ARE FOOLS
PAT SHEEDY SAYS SO AND HIS WORD MUST STAND.
He Claims That the Only Wise Men Are Those Called Suckers.
The Popular Sucker Always Has Money to Build Brick Blocks While the Gambler Always Dies a Pauper.
Gentlemen in the Game
"A professional gambler is a fool: if he wasn't a fool he wouldn't be a gambler."
The speaker was Pat Sheedy. Now , it will be universally admitted that if there is in this country one man more than another who knows about gambling that man is Sheedy. He is known from New York to San Fransisco, and from New Orleans to Minneapolis, not only as a square sporting man, whose word would, and often has been, accepted as quickly as spot cash in any gambling house in the United States, but as one of the "highest rollers" and most terrific betters in North America. The tremendous winnings which he has made at faro bank has been forced to suspend business, having lost its entire capital to Sheedy in a night's play. Whenever he enters a gambling house on business the proprietors know there is a strong likelihood that before many hours their pet tiger will have had his tail pulled out and that they will be obliged to turn over the dealing box, which is one way of announcing that the bank is broken.
In appearance, says the New York Sun, Sheedy might well be taken for a shrewd, quiet business man by those not familiar with his looks, and if dressed in gown and cassock might easily be taken for a priest. His clothing, made by the most expensive tailor in New York, is of the quietest and most subdued pattern, while in his speech and general address he is quiet but forcible, unobstructive yet with a certain magnetism which attracts men and forces their attention, for when he speaks he always has something to say.
"A popular idea exists that gamblers are smart or 'fly' men,' continued Sheedy. "People see Pat Sheedy and another gambler walking down the street and say: 'There goes a couple of gamblers; they must be sharp, shrewd and fly,' Nonsense. Do you see any gamblers owning business blocks, large buildings or other solid evidences of presperity? Its the 'suckers' who own them. The 'suckers' are in realty the shrewd and smart people. There's been mighty few gamblers; no matter how wealthy in their lifetime, who didn't have to be buried by subscriptions raised among their friends when they died. Did they prove themselves smart men? No man is shrewed or clever who enters and follows a pursuit in which everything is against him, the law , society and the hand of the rest of mankind .
I have never met more than fifteen gamblers in my life - all the other were 'would-be's'. A soon as they get a clean collar a diamond and a mistress they call themselves gamblers. Then their ambition is satisfied; they never look higher than the roof of a house of ill-repute. Lots of this sort of fellows become gamblers through playing the races and making books. Why they haven't the first idea of gambling. Many such people who call themselves sporting men were a short time ago selling suspenders and jack-knives on Broadway; but in the eyes of the general public they are gamblers. These gentemen are like a cork, they are light, and need weights to hold them down. Ninety-nine out of every hundred of them are elevated to their positions; they used to be waiters or door-mat thieves and now they think they are full-fledged sports and know it all.
To show you the ignorance which exists among a large part of the uninitiated public about gambling generally; let me refer to this belief that all gamblers are 'crooked' and that such a thing as a square game of faro does not exist. That idea is the greatest nonsense. Does a wise man kill the goose that lays the golden egg? Do you suppose that a square gambler would countenance a crooked game in his house for the purpose of winning a few hundred or even a thousand dollars, after which the nature of the game would become publicly known to players and they would avoid it as they would a small-pox hospital, when by conducting only an honest game the patronage of players can be retained for an indefinite length of time? Why should a game be run crooked for a few weeks when by conducting it fairly the patronage of players can be held for years and when under the latter circumstances even the profits are so tremendous. There is no legitimate necessity for crooked work. Players do not stop to think what a great percentage is against them. For instance, a man will sit down to play faro with a capital of $100 and try to win say $1000 and often much more; or take correspondingly smaller sums. Now there he is trying to increase his capital with ten chances against him even if contines himself axclusively to playing cases instead of playing doubles, as well, where hof phs the chance of getting 'split' making the chance of his winning more difficult still.
My judgement is that gambling should be regulated by law, where it can be easily controlled, instead of driving it to the secluded places where the opportunity for robbery is increased. Gambling does not hurt anybody if it is confined to those who can afford to lose: but as for those men who run 'dinner-pail' games, winning from the working man his weekly wages of $12 or $15, why I think that such gamblers are worse than stage robbers, for they not only take from a man who can't afford to lose, but bring want and misery upon women and children who expect to have their father, husband or brother buy them bread with his week's wages.
But while there is less faro bank gambling in New York now by 40 per cent than ever before, there is more general gambling, but it's been driven to the clubs, big and little. Indeed, the amount of faro bank is decreasing all over the country. Horse racing and pool rooms are responsible for this. Men won't sit down to play bank now when they can go out to the track and win $20,000 or $10,000 in an afternoon.
[?] more under the head of 'kicks.' Not one-half of the money said by 'kickers' have been lost at gambling is really lost in that way For instance, a cashier or confidential man in an office acquires expensive habits. He does not get salary enough to meet the expenses of keeping a woman in a private flat up town, owning a fast horse and in buying diamonds. so he helps himself to the firm's money. Sooner or later he's found out. 'What did you do with the money?' he is asked. 'I lost it in gambling,' he says not wishing to give himself away about the girl and other things in which he has indulged. He lies and he knows it, but the announcement is publicly made that he lost the money gambling, and so gambling gets another black eye." -Chicago Journal.
HOW GIRLS SHOULD SKATE
Hints for Beginners the Favorite Winter Sport
The modern girl skater better merits the description given her ascentrees by an old chronicler, who writes that she went "as swiftly as a bird flyeth in the air, or an arrow out of a crossbow."
The best skate is one that clamps firmly on the heel and fits the edges so tightly it becomes a part of the foot itself. It should be aceurately and perfectly steady if properly strapped to the foot. Laced boots for skating are to be preferred to buttoned as they permit the freer circulation of the blood. The beginner might advantageously carry a stick or light pole in the hand, but never is a friend one in need and one indeed, as when her trusty hand forms the main stay on the treacherous and unknown slippery surface. But make a trail, learn to balance the body properly, and with a little confidence success will come very soon. It is wonderful how soon children lean to skate. Tiny little bodies, wee bits of womanly humanity dart by their elder sisters so cautiously feeling their way, bright fishes of gold and silver as it were, flitting by some unweildy body of the deep.
The girl skater, in learning, ought never to look at her feet, should keep the head up, advancing the body, her face in the direction she is going , and the body slightly inclined forward, according to the first principle of gravitation, which is scientific language says: "Keep the center of gravity over, the base." In skating all movements should be smooth and graceful, and an effort made to be quite free from jerking and awkward gestures. The art of stopping is soon learned. Slightly bend the knees, bring the heels together and bear upon them. It may also be accomplished by turning short to the right or left, and as you and I know, too often happens to us by sudden contact with what acts in place of "terra firma" and from no desire on our part to reach so decided a halt. The best skaters avoid swinging the arms. They are also careful to wear a close-fitting dress, as full and loose clothes catch the wind and retard the progress. A sensible skater never ventures on thin ice, and unless perfectly sure that the glassy rink will bear her weight does not dream of putting on her skates. -Ellen Le Garde in The Ladies' Home Journal.
The Physical Aspects of Australia.
In Australia of the present, what attracts the stranger most in the physical aspect of the continent is the weird novelty of the mountain regions. Yet to these regions the stranger gives, doubtless too much importance. Outside of the mountains, the well settled portions of Australia are simple, charming, and comparatively unimpressive. There is, indeed, the vast interior desert region, whose desolation is said to be impressive enough. But the traveler of ordinary inclinations sees little of that. What he sees near the coast, in the cultivated parts of Victoria and New South Wales, is a fair and general fruitful land sleeping under kindly skies amid conditions of climate which remind him of California. Far off blue hills, seen against the horizon, remind him that there are wilder regions not far away. But all about him vineyards and pastures indicate prosperity and the optimistic settlers, men plainly not as reckless nor as restless as our Californian population but active and hopeful, assure him, with all the well known loyalty and the vehemence of English colonists at this remote region is the best on earth for comfortable homes. - From "Impressions of Australia," by Professor Josiah Royce, of Harvard in January Scribener
A Horse's Speed.
While the public is still marveling over Salvator's wonderful performance in running a mile in 1:35 1/2 , there are few who have, through comparison and analysis sought to realize what a tremendous burst of speed that is.
It is nearly forty miles an hour- a rate averaged by very few of our fastest trains. There are 5,280 feet in a mile, so that every one of those ninety-five seconds this wonderful horse covered 55.3 feet of ground.
The shortest space of time noted by the turfman's watch is a quarter of a second - an interval so brief that the eye can hardly observe, the mind can hardly appreciate it . Yet in every one of these 382 quarters of a second that magnificent creature leaped 13.8 feet.
Such are the amazing results of careful breeding as exhibited in the American race horse. And heredity has done this in a comparatively few generations. If man can make almost what he wills of the horse, what a promise it holds for the upbuilding of his own race.
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The Vitrified Paving and Pressed Brick company have for sale 50,000 of the finest sidewalk paving brick ever seen in Nebraska. Telephone No. 2.
The celebrated Lutteman Sextett,. Tuesday, January 13, at Baptist church.
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Children Cry for Pritcher's Castoria.
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BLOW IN THE DARK. JOHN SHEEDY THE VICTIM OF A COWARDLY ASSUALT. Assailed by Some Unknown Miscreant at the Doorway of His Residence Last Evening.
He Carries a Bullet With Him. John Sheedy was the victim of a cowardly assault last evening. About half past seven o'clock Mr. Sheedy stepped out of the front door of his residence at the southeast corner of Twelfth and P. with the intention of strolling over to the Capital hotel. Just as he closed the door he was struck a heavy blow over the left eye by a blunt instrument in the hand of some unknown supposed assassen. Mr. Sheedy was momentarily stunned by the blow but quickly recovering himself, drew his revolver and perceiving his would be assassin fleeing away in the darkness toward the rear end of the lot, he fired five shots at him. The first shot startled Mrs. Sheedy, who came running to the door just as her husband fired the last time. The shooting startled the neighborhood and in a few moments a large crowd of people were gathered about the house, eager to ascertain the cause of the commotion.
After Mr. Sheedy had emptied his revolver he stepped into the house and remarked to his terror stricken wife that he believed that he had been shot. Drs. Everett and Hart happened to be close at hand and at once hurried into the house. Upon examination they found that Mr. Sheedy had been struck just above the left eye by a blunt instrument and a gash sit extending over an inch across and an inch downwards. The cut was almost [?] an inch deep, and it was necessary to put six stitches in it. Mr. Sheedy also received a blow over the back of his left wrist which caused it to swell to twice its normal size.
Shortly after the shooting Officers Otto, Kinney, Adams, and Bob Malone were on the premises and immediately began a search for traces of the assailant. On the porch just a few feet from the door Officer Kinney found a heavy leather case, the upper end of which was bent as if by a blow. Further investigation revealed a lot of blood stains on the south end of the porch, which were traced through the backyard to the alley, showing that Mr. Sheedy had hit his assailant. In the lattice work that divides the front yard from the back was a bullet hole within a few inches of the door out of which the fellow passed.
Mr. Sheedy's injuries are not of a dangerous character and he is in nowise alarmed as to the final outcome. He is of the opinion that the motive of the attack was robbery.
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MRS. SHEEDY WILL BE BAILED
THAT APPEARS TO BE THE PROBABILITY.
Judge Field Intimates The He Deems it Hardly the Proper Thing to Keep Her Imprisoned.
The Defense Alleges That the Chemist Will Not Make Known the Result of His Research Until Called as a Witness, and Give a Reason.
Argument of the Motion. The motion on behalf of Mrs. Mary Sherdy filed on Friday in the district court, asking that she be admitted to bail and that the county attorney be re-required to file his information against her, setting forth the crime with which she is charged, or his reasons in writing for not doing so as required by law, came up for argument before Judge Field yesterday morning. Messrs. Stearns & Strode appeared in behalf of the prisoner, who was not brought into court. Mr. Strode read the motion as printed in the issue of yesterday. He called attention to the fact that the transcript of the preliminary proceedings in Judge Heuston's court had been filed three days before the present term began; that the accused has since been confined in the county jail; that she knows not what crime she is to be charged with and can therefore take no steps to prepare for her defense; that the law requires the county attorney to file either his information or his written reasons for not doing so and that the county attorney has failed to do either. Mr. Strode said he had taken this step in preference to the institution of habeas corpus proceedings for reasons of economy; that the reporter has not yet completed a transcript of the testimony adduced at the examination: that it would cost the defense about $150 to secure such a transcript; that Mrs. Sheedy is shut up in jail without any money at her disposal and that her property is tied up by the proceedings against her. He said that he was informed and believed that the result of the chemical analysis will not be divulged by the analyzing chemist until he is called as a witness; that the proof against the accused was not strong or the presumption of her guilt great and that the examining magistrate had said when he held her that were it not for the possibily of finding poison in the stomach of the deceased he would not hold the prisoner, or words to that effect. Mr. Strode quoted section 9 of the state constitution, wherein it is said that "all person shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for treason and murder, where proof is evident or the presumption great," and submitted a brief showing a great number of cases in many states where people had been admitted to bail. He contended for a rule often held, that when there is a well founded or reasonable doubt of the guilt of the prisoner. it cannot be said that the proof is evident or the presumption great of his guilt, and it is a well approved doctrine that where upon evidence there is a probability of the prisoner's innocence there must be a reasonable doubt of his guilt. Mr. Strode contended that in the case at bar the doubt of the defendant's guilt is so strong and well defined that even the county attorney does not know the crime with which he proposes to charge her.
County Attorney Snell then explained to the court that the law simply requires that he shall file his information within the term, and that only three weeks of the term has passed away. He did not wish to incur any unnecessary delay and was simply awaiting the result of the chemical analysis that his information might conform thereto. He said that the defense must already know the nature of the crime to be charged in the court below.
Mr. Strode interrupted with the assertion that the result of the analysis would probably not be made known before the analyzing chemist is called upon the witness stand, as the coroner's contract with the chemist provides that he shall get $100 for the analysis and $50 per day for the time spent in giving his testimony. The inference to be drawn from Mr. Strode's remarks on this point was to the effect that if no poison was found the chhemist would probably not so report, in advance, as he would lose the $50 per day job. He said that Coroner Holyoke had received a letter from Professor Vaughn, the chemist, in which the latter had inquired, "Who is this N. Z. Snell? He writes me to report to him, and to him only, the result of the analysis." Mr. Strode said further that Mr. Snell had said that he would probably not make the result known to the defense until he filed his information. This, he thought, was not fair to the defendant.
Mr. Snell retorted that he did not care to go into these outside matters and that there was nothing in his letter of which he need be ashamed.
"I do not think it exactly right." remarked Judge Field, "that the prisoner should be held in this manner. What have you to urge against her being admitted to bail?"
"I shall certainly oppose that," remarked Mr. Snell. At this point Mr. Strode submitted to the [ceurr?] his brief of authorities and Mr. Snell asked time to prepare a brief in reply, which was granted. No definite time was specified and the case will probably be up again early in the week.
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MRS. SHEEDY'S CASE.
IT WILL PROBABLY COME UP TODAY.
It is Alleged That the Analyzing Chemist Will Not Withold the Result of His Analysis.
Nothing But Her Own Affidavit. Mrs. Sheedy's application to be admitted to bail will probably come up for hearing this morning. This is the second time her attorneys have applied to have her released on bail. The first time was at the conclusion of her preliminary examination before Judge Houston. This examination lasted some three days and at its conclusion her attorneys requested to have her admitted to bail on the grounds that it did not appear that the proof against her was evident or the presumption of her guilt great. The court took this application under advisement and afterwards refused to admit her to bail for the reason that he found from the evidence that Monday McFarland and Mrs. Sheedy were charged with the crime of murder, and that from the evidence he found the proof of the charge was evident and the presumption great, and he therefore refused to admit either of them to bail, but on the contrary remanded them to jail to await the action of the district court.
The application for bail at this time is based upon a motion signed by Mary Sheedy, and on an affidavit made by her, and assigns the same reasons for application for bail as were assigned before Judge Houston; and in addition to these adds that there has been no complaint filed in the district court and that Mrs. Sheedy's health is being endangered by her remaining in jail. Her attorneys have filed nothing else in support of her application except her own affidavit.
An impression seems to have gotten out that the chemist who has the analysis of the stomach in charge will not reveal the result of his analysis until he is called as a witness at the trial of the case. The prosecuting attorney says there is no foundation for it: at least the coroner has never received any such information from the chmist, but on the contrary the result of the analysis of the stomach will be made known as soon as it is ascertained.
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THE GRAINS OF MORPHINE.
INFORMATION IN THE SHEEDY CASE FILED.
County Attorney Snell Formally Charges Mrs. Sheedy and Monday McFarland With the Murder of John Sheedy.
Six Counts in All.
County Attorney Snell yesterday filed in the office of the district clerk the much discussed information in the Sheedy murder case. It is a voluminous document and comprises six counts, which, stripped of as much of the technical law language as possible, are as follows:
"Be it remembered that Novia Z. Snell, county attorney, who prosecutes in the name and by the authority of the state, comes here in person into court and gives the court to understand and be informed that one Monday McFarland and Mary Sheedy on and prior to the 11th day of January, 1891, unlawfully, feloniously, purposely, wickedly, and maliciously did conspire, combined confederate, and agree together unlawfully, knowingly, [?], and feloniously and of the deliberate and premeditated malice of each of them, to kill and murder one John Sheedy. That in the prosecution thereof and to accomplish the ends of said conspiracy the said Monday McFarland and Mary Sheedy, on or about the said 11th day of January, 1891, unlawfully, purposely, and feloniously, and of their deliberate and premeditated malice, and of the deliberate and premeditated malice of each of them, did make an assault upon the said John Sheedy, with the intent, him. the said John Sheedy, unlawfully, purposely, and of their deliberate and premediated malice, and of the deliberate and premeditated malice of, each of them to kill and murder, and that the said Monday McFarland and Mary Sheedy, with a certain steel or iron rod wound with leather, and commonly called a cane, which he, the said Monday McFarland, then and there had held in both his hand, the said John Sheedy, in and upon the head of him, the said John Sheedy, then and there unlawfully, purposely and feloniously and of their deliberate and premeditated malice, and of the deliberate and premeditated malice of each of them, did strike and wound, with the intent aforesaid, thereby, then and there, with the iron or steel rod wound with leather and commonly called a cane afeoresaid, to the stroke aforesaid, in the manner aforesaid, in and upon the head of him, the said John Sheedy, giving to him, the said John Sheedy, one mortal wound of the length of three inches and of the depth of one inch. That afterwards, to wit: On or about the 11th day of January 1891, in the farther prosecution and carrying out of said conspiracy, to kill and murder said John Sheedy, the said Monday McFarland and Mary Sheedy, then and there, unlawfully, purposely and feloniously contriving, and intending to deprive the said John Sheedy of his life and to kill and murder him, the said Mary Sheedy unlawfully, knowingly, purposely and feloniously and of deliberate and premeditated malice, did administer and cause to be administered to the said John Sheedy, in a manner unknown to the county attorney, a large quantity of a certain deadly poison called morphine, to-wit: Four grains of said morphine, with the intent then and thereby of him, the said Mary Sheedy, him, the said John Sheedy, unlawfully, feloniously, purposely, maliciously and of their deliberate and premeditated malice, and of the deliberate and premeditated malice of each of them, to kill and murder, and, by reason of said mortal wound as aforesaid given, and of said deadly poison to administered, and caused to be administered as aforesaid, by said Monday McFarland and Mary Sheedy, in the prosecution and carrying out of said conspiracy the said John Sheedy became mortally wounded and mortally sick and distempered in his body and of said mortal wound and mortal sickness from the said 11th day of January, 1891, until the 12th day of January, 1891, in said city, county and state, did languish, and languishing did live, on which said 12th day of January, 1891, in the city, county and state aforesaid, he, the said John Sheedy, of the mortal wound so received as aforesaid, and of the poison so administered and caused to be administered as aforesaid, and the mortal sickness and distemper thereby occasioned, did die. And so the county attorney aforesaid presents and shows to the court that the said Monday McFarland and Mary Sheedy, him, the said John Sheedy, in the manner aforesaid, unlawfully, purposely, and of their deliberate and premeditated malice, did kill and murder, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the state of Nebraska.
The second count charges Mrs. Sheedy and McFarland with conspiracy to murder Sheedy by means of a cane. That each of them made an assault upon Sheedy with said cane in the hands of McFarland with the intent to murder, and that Sheedy died from the effects of the wounds inflicted.
The third count charges McFarland with assaulting Sheedy with a cane and Mrs. Sheedy with aiding, abetting, and procuring him to make the assault, from the effects of which Sheedy died.
The fourth count alleges that on the eleventh day of January, 1891, Mrs. Mary Sheedy administered four grains of morphine to John Sheedy with the intent to deprive him of his life and that McFarland aided, abetted and incited Mrs. Sheedy to do so.
The fifth count charges McFarland and Mrs. Sheedy with committing an assault upon Sheedy with a cane, and also with administering four grains of morphine to Sheedy with intent to murder.
The sixth count alleges that Sheedy came to his death by a blow from a cane in the hands of McFarland and that both McFarland and Mrs. Sheedy were principals in committing the assault from the effects of which Sheedy did languish and die.
There is but little material difference in the counts, several of them being merely repetitions. It was learned last night that although Mrs. Sheedy is charged with administering four grains of morphine to Sheedy, no word has been received by the coroner from the chemist who is making the analysis of Sheedy's stomach.
The following are the names of the witnesses for the state: Dr. M. H. Everett, C. S. Hart, H. M. Casebeer, N. J. Beachley, A. R. Mitchell, Ruth M. Wood, H. J. Winnett, T. H. Woodward, E. L. Hoiyoke and D. D. O'Gorinan, V. C. Vaughan, S. M. Melick, James Malone, J. E. Kinney, Louis Otto, R. B. Graham, J. D. Hood, Charles Carpenter, Mrs. Charles Caprenter, Mrs. J. D. Hood, Miss Norma Hood, Mrs. Pardue, M. C. Walsh, John Klausner, Anna Bodensteiner, Mrs. C. Coil, Mrs. William Coleman, M. E. Wheeler, T. C. Munger, Robert McReynolds, H. Goldwater, Mendal Goldwater, Dennis Sheedy, L. A. McCandless, H. P. Love, Henry Gerner, Mrs. Patrick Smith, Charles Tyndall, August Sanders, Joseph Scroggen, George Botts P. J. Stenney, A. H. Wood, W. G. Scribner, James Ga'schall, Albert Katzenstein, James Smith, John Sharpenstein, William Chinn, D. G. Courtnay, Sol Oppenheimer and G. Levy.
AMUSEMENTS.
Effie Ellalex in "The Governess" at the Opera House.
Effie Ellsler and company opened a three nights engagement at the Funke last evening, playing the new domestic comedy drama, "The Governess," to a large audience. While the play is net a strong one, it was presented by an excellent company and made a good impression. Miss Ellsler played the role of the governess in a way to win frequent plaudits and a curtain call at the end of the third act. The whole performance was pretty and at times quite touching, even if it was not of the kind to make a strong impression on the audience. The people showed that they were well entertained.
To-night the same company will produce the comedy "Miss Manning," and to-morrow evening by special request there will be a revival of "Hazel Kirke," in which Miss Ellselr made her fame.
ANNIE WARD TIFEANY IN THE STEP DAUGHTER
The return [engagement on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, of the distinguished Americans character actress Miss Annie Ward Tiffany in L. R. Shewell's great play, ["The Stepdaughter."] After a recent performance in Cincinnati the Enquire spoke thus of her and the play:
Havlin has a new play this week, "The Stepdaughter," by L. R. Shewell, author of "Shadows of a Freat City." Opening yesterday it had two standingroom only audiences. The play was written for Annie Ward Tiffany, who appears as the star, and who is well remembered as the Biddy Rouan of the "Shadows." The story is an interesting one of its class, and is very well told. As in the "Shadows" Miss Tiffany has an Irish character, a servant protecting an orphan child, a young lady whom she had nursed and cared for from infancy. It fits her to a nicety. Miss Tiffany is an Irish comedy artist of pronounced merit. She is smooth and natural in everything she does and says, bringing out her Irishisms as much a matter of course as though she were passing through the events being told instead of acting them. The supporting company is a capable one throughout, though the members are not called upon to do much. Miss Rose Tiffany as the young girl, the subject and victim of a stepmother's hate, acts the part very sweetly. Miss Bianche Bender as the cousin also acts well and slugs very pleasingly. Mr. Arthur Levingstone makes a good dissipated young man. Several specialties are worked in during the progress of the play, to very good advantage.
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