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THE STJN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER , 1808. ' - theatrical amusements. I -, BBAMArtC HTAMM TMAT BKXWW I or orn r- " ,nH .nil njn . KMItatt Haw i.la All"" I ,t rt. Bemarannly Brilliant Cn- Catn' "Th Christian" Mays , ar Changt or Conttnuad. I .-. dramatic ftst. eolletlvely a brilliant fjution. shine on our stags this week. A I " ona among them I Viola Allan. eonsplcu I "torr'tr "" ,ul,n set's" "" I '".honowdlvuls herself sttheheedof her ssmpariy1 " RD,ea:erbooker. Bhuee ""msl purpose Hall Calna'a novel. "Tbe "hSw." Io ' theatrical version by tha fJerTnos who haTa read the book may 2g th heroine as a Manx girl, a buoyant, 5"Zf-, era' irf. who goes to London toasak "fortnns. becomes successively a nura In a ?Ltl a programme sailer In a theatre, a Lsr Mr rauderllle performers, a singer at i hTud private houses, a mlmle and ballad !K s music hall, an aetraea at a le rtiastt theatre, and Anally a saerlfloer ys brilliant career In oonsequen of htasBMS exerted upon her by a vary Lloni religionist. Professional oritlos in !JtiI eftles esy thit kttta Allan reallaa all that there Is In the charaoter. and that she haa ormnawly hit upon material with wbloh to rotper She Is known as an able and palnstak UJsrtfit who has resorted to no brnoble da nces of self-exploltatlon and whose present Mterprrte l marked by personal and profee gtonal dlanlty. In making the play Mr. Calna departed from the book in both story and , atraetertrat ion. but the central figure of Glory fetile remains intact. Edward J. Mortan la Ht join Storm In the east, which Includes CL 0 Cralc. John Mason. Jameson Las Finney. Georft Dickson. Ethel Marlowe. Carrie Mer n'es. George Woodward. R J. Dillon. Ony Stood. Myron Chalace, Edgar Morton. Frank j Keshan. Perdlta Hudspeth. Beaala Dunn u4 Edith Merrlles. The Incidental muslo haa tew written by William Furst and tha scenery : by Louis Young. A second player to start out aa a star la James 1 Htckett.several years tha masculine leader la lh Lyceum company. Ha begins at tha Colum Maln Brooklyn with "The Tree ot Knowledge." Thus there is no real experiment. He enacted the hero of that drama last winter with especial neiit. He Is a farorite with New Tork audi neei. The play is engrossing and suitable to Mr. Hackett's present purpose of a starring tour. A company promising In names has been termed, and the original outfit of scenery la allaed. By and by Mr. Haokett will appear In Anthony Hope s Hupertof Kentzau.' aeequel tt " The Prisoner of Zenda." Joseph Jefferson comes to the Fifth Aranna tith"The RiTals" to stay a month. He has an .most entirely new company, tha only hold vr being George Denham and Joeeph War ren. The cast names Ffolliott Paget for Jfr. Jfsiayrop. Verner Clargea for Sir Anthony, Otis Iklnner for (.'apt Abtolutr, Wilton Lackaye for fir Lvaus, Elsie Leslie for Lvdia. Blanche Bender (or Lucy, and Oeorge Woodhall for Fag. The mounting of tha comedy Is said to be wholly new. William H. Crane is the week's visitor at tha Montauk in Brooklyn. His play is still Eugene W. Prwbrey'a "A Virginia Courtship." a clever comedy of Old Dominion life a hundred years ro. It was successful In Broadway last sea mo, tnd is now given with the same cast, ex cept that Olive Oliver takes the plaoe of Annie Irish, and just the same handsome stage set ting. Mr. Crane la at hla best In the aerlo-ro-nio character of the amiable yet oholerio TL-ginlsn. He is to bring out next month a this city another Preabrey play called 'Worth a Million." John Drew passes into a third weak at tha Empire with "The Liars." by Henry Arthur rents, which play has gained much the aame nd quite as great rogue here as it enjoys In London. It is especially an allurement to fash ionable women by mean of its exposition of modish London people, manners, and apparel. Charles Wyndham has revived it for a second season in the British capital. Charles Froh man's stock company, now on a Western tour. Is rehearsing "Phroso" for production here ear.'v In I'eoeinber. Kdwsrd H r-othem is -ontlnolng with Vir ginia Harned and "The Adventure of Lady I mils at rhe Lyceum. There is not likely to re ,i ned of a change In play before the end oi his engagement next month. He will next thereafter apt ear In Philadelphia in "The Ring's Muske'eer." a new version of "The Three tiuardsmen." which haa just been put oo the stage In London. Then Daniel Froh ! stock company will enact "Trejawnyof the Wells. Alice Nielsen is physically the smallest star In the lot. hut she is ratable as a shiner of -.agnitmle in comic opera, though only lately siva ged she is at the head of the uncom- Imonly strong and well-balanced Perley com ranyai ttailt'.'k'a. where the performance of Herbert and Smith's collaboration "TheFor tUM Teller." Is doing right well. They and it W remain there. It is understood, at least a m .nth longer rruei Wilson, the other eomlo opera star to he.akyhif season with a new play-Smith m Eogl-inrW joint work. "The Little Cor-If-m -is as funny as ever at the Broadway In vver-,1 guises which his role provides for tun He appears to have at last got a valuable J-.-ewsor to Frmlnle." and it should keep fl-n In prosperity a long while to come. When h-l through. Jefferson De Angells will follow hnwj)i-e. R'-hard Mnnsfleld Is under general dlscus- ,ol ranrse, because he haa been the first M rg nut an Lnglish translation or Edmond .. "J r"1i" ( n"10 ,i" Bergerae." and because 'has done the difiloult job elaborately and fandsomely The prrxluctlon of the famous L- i milo,'rauia in our language at the Gar .J,i?" a''ovement. and Is bound to re MKr Mansfield richly In fame and money. Ha has reason to be proud of It. ., m Bernard, new among the stars, is dis rjyinghl,.nmlcaHlltlea In MacDonough and i"wnend s farce. "The Marquis of Michigan." EFTS? ,0 hlve transferred his fun from oon--!L. "i,"1 tn"?tre without loss of favor or juror Alice Atherton is Important in the en b,bnimTh wlth. h,ht"lnet of character a il Th, r,eIt ,ov,1 Jeoupant of the BUou l.iT,MV 'rwm In " Kate Kip." 251 7'',nwi may be classed aa a dra FS f'"ntiage. inasmuch as he is a noted London syist on theatrical affairs Borne of mh I ie h:,r commanded more than .,' m"r' attention, and he is a eonsplclous bK?kh 'or,,i?n art world. Major Pond has tn, . hlm r,n this country for a tour as a leo ip wh-.y ira"''.r bT.no means new to him. and TnIli.h . '" mhka hi9 N'w Vork debut next i kl .1i,rnToon at the Lyceum. His subject w H 1 h Drama as a Fine Art." ' atj the rush of new plays, some of the older are holding their places in popular Interest J?7 flrmlT without the aid of stars In their Jr T lie company performing "Sporting "" at the Acalemy of Music, however, has wait U) called "featarod" leader in Robert J rd. who makes a dominant hero, and awes in the spectacular scenes without letting at all belittled. In a concert at the aHUU this evening. M. E. Medvedieff. the tU!10 ,,'nor-w,l make his American debut 'bla Is the final weak of "A Brace of Par Jf at the Madison Square, after which Btran.! tctort will go on a tour, and the r??1r a a-on of comedies will begin. Charles cohman ha, formed a company with Edward "eland. rritzWHiiama. Reuben Fax. Amelia PrrJn u.- Kat""rine Horence. May Gallagher. aiin.'Vi fj"ihtof "A Day and a Night" wiui'iT'. '' ,"e iarrick. Jessie Merrlllea ' thP TV lo"monuw nlht ln u" character aV ii TJ'T'" donna and sing a song said to k?'' P-n the lst thing In "LtttlelfiaaNo-e-itorm.. hrtfw'll oe souvenirs at tlia nftleth 'ue .t u on,''t la An'8 HuaseU wifi tag " u -"" '''"atre in "Catherine after TSre. '' '"" Sh" ,oved Hlm B " f"iV, f""a remain iu the season of the IVr M." I 'V' an" A the Irvlrg Mace. Mr. kg in ' ,,''... atidMiss (ioermer. aggregat--"- v," l UL'1 "f one average adult, Tiut rr T V ' ,v",h ty."n"' talent, are as frisky aa Cvk V, " Ji'died .-hildreu from the Roman Hnm '""'i' -aavlum. the German Odd Fal wiUatTe 'd" "". ihei H"br Orphan Asylum ""nW? "ett Wednesday afternoon's eaUar- Tl2 r JJ ' 10,;lt,,,tlon ot Mr. Koeenfeld. rf,."-m':,l,'1 'aroeatthe Herald Square. awjgame' .' "m,'d ,I?otel T,T Turvy.4 fS " ft' ' iii '"' . ? 'rwlth .repetition, and from th ," i'u not 'aea in vim Marie Dreasler tag,.' x '"''ariul actress on the American tli.T,., ' i mar be more phy-ioal ' u ... " "" llo,le t0 ' trustworthy. a ' ana with the fun assigned to her. ' -.';,"' "'-' "" tootlighta to hit the I ttihplr''r:'u'"'-'oat't that sonranireat thefti I autiT L " f ,',, "' The Turtla " at the Man I fiwf.ak.Lron!u-P0P,9,:Y wllTbruo.ult tion whether the recipient will take tha riak of being caught with than oa their peraooa going bom. Tha nasty farce la appealing to those who have a liking lor foulness- oa the stags, and aa yet there Is no sign that the police mean to atop it In tha scarcity of new olaya this week, ft happen that th reproduction of old on are of uncommon interest. In two ease th re vivals are of grand opera. Tha Castle Sguar company bring forward Venll's " Aids," which has never yet been rung ln English In this city. The promise It poaltlv that it will be given In good order, and considerable certainty aa to the merit of th performance lie In the name of the singers. There will be torn alternation from night to night. The principals In th Monday cast are De Trevill. Macnlehol. Sheo han. Btewart, Wltherspoon. Veron and Aspland. That for Tuesday Includes Effle Stewart. Grao Romalne. Mr. Chase and William Lavtn. In creased chorus and orchestra, a military band and fresh scenery are provided. The Royal Italian Opera Company, which was at Wallack's last spring, I at the Caalno for two or three week. Th piece chosen to start with la "La Boheme," unfamiliar here, a the first New Tork representation waa given by this organization In May. The bill for later In the week comprises "I Pagliaoel " and "Cav allerla Uustlcana ." Harlem get at its Opera House one of the best ot homespun rural drams In Lottie Blair Parker's " Way Down East." which slowly but surely won Its place In downtown esteem last winter. It 1 both wholesome and interesting, pure and virile. It picture of New England farm life are simple and true. Pbceb Davlea I still playing th heroin la her quiet fashion, and Odell Williams is restored to the part of the Squire. That forceful and picturesque melodrama of early Christian martyrdom. The Sign of the Cross." which made a great atlr In London sev eral years ago. and has gained much the same kind of attention here, come to the Fourteenth Street. Charles Dalton.whoenacted the Roman Emperor, la again at Jhe bead of the company. The sympathetic rfe of the tortured boy is ae slgned to Maude Warrilow. a stranger here, but she haa played it two years in England. The scenery and costumes are said to be new. This Is a week of minstrelsy at the Grahd Spare Houae. The exponent of that form of Iversion are William H. West's company, and at the front are Ear Kendall. Carroll Johnson. E J. Jose. Tom Lewis. Charles Earnest. Tro vollo. the Frees brothers. Joe Garland. Ed ward Gorman. H. W. Frillmann and Charles Kent, making up a representation of about all the kind; of fun and music now ln minstrel vogue. Mr. West himself appear, too. The Star baa a new farce to offer. It la called "A High Born Lady." and Is from the pen of Herbet Hall Wlnslow. who wrote it for Clifford and Hath. o that they might transfer themselves from vaudeville to something Ilk legitimate acting. They are humorists of a popular ctamp, and the aim of the piece la to give chances for them to be funny. A secret marriage is the excuse for most of the goings on by the various character. A variety enter tainment will be given here to-night. The Mordauct A Block stock company, which has been on a brief tour, returns to the Columbus ln Harlem, and makes a bold ex periment with " Leah. That drama, from the German, has been reconstructed by the Rev. Illii-er .1 lliiofh nf Montreal In thin vr'nn the Jewess does not die, but becomes the happy wife of the Christian. Una Abell will portray the heroine In this new aspect. Edgsr Daven port the heto. and Mr. Mordaunt Is in the cast. The dramatisation of A. 0. Gunter's very pop ular novel. "Mr. Barnes of New Tork." the starter of his career as a story teller, employs the Donnelly stock company at the Murray Hill. The principal roles are entrusted to Hannah May Ingham and Robert Drouet. The piece is a strong melodrama, not unlike "The Prisoner of Zonua" In ltsscheme of sending a young man beyond the borders of civilization for adventure In a strange land. The weekly vaudeville output Is again strengthened by new features and fresh recruits. As is usual, the continuous show get a major part of the newness. At the Pleasure Palace will be given for the first time anywhere a playlet entitled " Jack's Past." and in thiaS. Miller Kent and Agnes Riley Morse will be engaged. The most conspicuously placed specialists will be the smallest pair of the lot. the Rossows. whose familiar inning of athletics will be varied by songs from the smaller dwarf. Press Eldrldsre is next ln rank. and others are Lotta Gladstone. Josephine Gassman and her squad of negro lad, th Cornelias. Stlrk and Anita. Edna Bassett Mar- ! shall and the wargraph. To-day's concerts are largely In the hands of last week's roster, whose members by double snd treble service make it of "continuous " length. A dbut in the variety shows for Proctor's Theatre Is Minnie Dupree's. She Is best remem bered for her participation ln " The Two Little Vagrants," and will be heard in a new comedi etta entitled "Dr. Deborah's Elixir," Theodore H.Brown assisting. A second new playlet will be acted by Harry Lacy and Ida Van Slclen. "One of the Old Guard" is its title. Still another item that is far away from ordinary specialties will be the first appearand at this theatre of Ca milla Crso, whose violin playing was promptly classified br vaudeville audiences an something satisfactorily different from the ordinary ot ferlng. Variety innings are for Ward and Curran. Lew Bloom. Orbasany's coekatooa. the Reeds. Diana James Rlehmond Glenroy. the Lentons, and Ella Morris. Added to last week's performer for to-day's programme are Lacy and Van Siclen. The celebrity at Keith's will be J. H. Btod dart. who will be seen as MoHrjprnny. in a scene from " The Long Strike." A portion of this play was used for a time in vaudeville by McKee Rankin, who claimed its authorship, but the role was a One one for veteran Stou dart, and will be an admirable feature. The chief specialists will be Morton and Revelle. sketch folk : the Behrwaells. gymnasts, and the Macarte sisters, who are showy wire walkers. J. K. Emmet comes to Pastor's, this time in a Vketoh taken from plays he has used in full length, and which calls for singing. Anna Mort 'and is his companion. The others listed are Tony Pastor. Lottie West Simmons, the Sidmans. Nellie Burt. Jaok Everhart. M Wal ters and Troii. Lawrence and Harrington. Kelly and Reno.Derenda and Breen. the Car Ions, Sunderland and Foods, the Brilliant quaj tet, George E Austin and Grace Smith. The new Eden Mus-'-e orchestra has more soloists than its predecessors. Leader Poldi is, of course, the finest of these, but the efforts of the others help to make the music attractive. With the groups added since the war began, the wax works are In fine array. A music ha'I feature for to-morrow night at Roster A Dial's is promised to be an entire novelty in the ballet way. It Is a dance in a rainstorm, the dancers holding umbrellas acainst a genuine downpour of witness. This will be introduced ln that scene of "In Gotham" that shows a woodland doll of the Catakills. Nellie Butler will be a new partici pator In the ur'esiiuo Monday night Allot last week's Imported sn italteta hold over. At Weber A Flelds's " Hurly Burly" goes on as prosperously as did any of Its predecessors. At Its start Its players were potent factors in its success of laughter, but Its material has proved entirely acceptable to later audiences with no especial friendliness for its partici pators. Blight changes have been made ln it already, una soon It will be altered to admit comic assaults upon "Cyrano" and "The Christian." For this an enlargement ot its stage will be made. To-night's performers here are vaudeville folks. To-morrows visitors to the Harlem Muslo Hall are Iaham'g Octoroons, a touring troupe composnl mostly of negroes. " Ragtime Opera " Is the title of their longest number. Maude N ugent. Tim Cronin, and Charles B. Lawlor are some of to-night's specialists. Xlna Diva will be a new exponent of public disrobng at the Dewey. The sketch built about her undressing has a plot suggestive of "Orange Blossoms, whose director paid the law's penalty for promoting public nastlneas. The leaders In to-night's variety concert at the Dewey are capable specialists, whose innings, as at .on elsewliere. are clean. '"The Mock Turtle" la the title of a burletta that will he new at Sam T Jack's to-morrow. The Manhattan's current play is its subject. " A Warm Reception" Is another burletta in the hill, whose specialists are Annie Hart. Jenn'e Yeamans Fatima. Jeannette Harrington, and Paulo and Dicka. Bow th Deacon's Prayer Was Answered. iVcM (Ac Mtmpkit Commercial Appeal. Justice Haynea'a court room was thronged with men yesterday afternoon. There were lawyers, court attaches and one or two politi cians who had just dropped in to hear what waa going on. The situation at Jackson waa taken up. when one who had said little remarked: " Gentlemen, are you all praying that the fever there may abate ? There was no answer and he continued: "I once knew man up in the oil regions of Illi nois, I do not know that I should say the oil regions, but it was up In northern Illinois, a hundred miles or so from Chicago, where some oil was discovered a few years ago. There was a drought overspreading the country. On a pious deacon's farm they had been boring for o l They had bored and bored, but Anally gave it up and were drawing up the pi piug While the workmen were at this the deacon waa at his church, wher the Chrlatatn people of tha village nearby bad aasembled to pray for rain. They prayed powerfully. Before the deacon reached home that well, out of which the work- 3 en wr drawing the pipe, burst forth In a ream of water aa big aa a man's body which shot seventy-five feet into the air It continued to flow ana it flooded the deacon's place and all the country around. They dugdltchesaad tried to turn the water into a creek, but they did not succeed until much damage had been done. Finally some one thought of putting a cap on the wall, and altar much dimeulty the flow was becked. But the fields all about had bean well watered and prodnoed abundant crop thit tea oa. IanaJhnubvttlaMMc,h NEWS OF OPERA IN EUROPE. two mew wommh mimrt.AU nr wamm MVT VtTZJKM OTHMBWiaU. Chatyrtof " ItrWta" t B gsmg te Farts A hmn Prtasa Dsass Tolls Hew HtM Makes tJpA M. Petersburg a.OOO.OOt) Opera House A Meyerbeer Revival. The Grand Opera In Pari ha accepted Chab rler's one-act piece "Brisels" In spit of th fact that it 1 to have It first performance In Berlin. Th story that the score was merely an uncompleted lira act haa been denied, though It seems to be undlspnted that the opera Is merely the initial act of a longer work which th composer was prevented by death from finishing. It Is said to tell a dramatic story that la brought to an end In satisfac tory fashion. Contrary to expectation. It bear no resemblance to Carl Goldmark's opera which formerly had th aame title. It doe not deal with the Homeric heroin. Catxill Mendes.who has written the libretto, need Goethe's " Bride of Corinth," and German Influence waa used to have the opera called by that name. The notion passe ln Rom ln the time of the Emperor Hadrian. The episode whloh would have constituted the first act of the completed work shows the love ot the heathen girl for a stranger to whom she swears to be true before he leave her. After he Is gone she become a Christian, and saves the Ufa of her mother, although ah loses her lover. Goldmark haa treated th Homeric story In his opera, The Prisoner of War." and has recently contradicted some erroneous ru mors about It. He says that he finished the opera before "Da Heimehen am Herd," in stead of having written It during the last four months of th preceding year. He devoted four years to Its ompoaltion. Th work doe not take three hours and a bait to alng and la In two act united byja characteristic Intermecao. Lamoureux has already played the Chabrier muslo at his concerts, and the opera will not be wholly new to Pari when it Is given at the Opera next year. The Oolonne concerts in Pari will this year celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of their existence, and the event will be celebrated by a festival to continue In a certain way through out the entire season and Intended to serve ln a measure as a resume of all the orchestra's career. Colonne has tabulated the composers whoa work have been given more than 100 times during this quarter of a century at his concerts. Berlioz. Massenet, and Salnt-Baeni are the Frenchmen represented, while the Germans are Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Warner. A special concert will be devoted to every one of these masters. Massenet and Salnt-Saens will direct those given ln their honor. The performance of " The Damnation or Faust ''will be given on Berlioz's birthday and it will be the one hundredth time the work has been sung In Paris. Renaud. the baritone of the Ope'ra. haa been engaged byMme. Ooslrna Wagner for the role of Amfortat ln " Parsifal " at the next Bay rent h festival. Ludovic Haltvy has given to the Opera a number of documents relating to the first performances of "La Julve" which will soon be revived at the Ope'ra. He Is a nephew of the composer. Salnt-Baens has recently been expressing his ideas on "Dejanire." the musical tragedy which was recently sung at the Arena In Beziers with such success that It wlil be performed this year In Paris at the Ope'ra Comiqueorthe Odeon. He said ln speak ing of the success of the new work: "As ' Dsjanire' is not an authiue tragedy, but treats a modern subject, 1 have not written any archaeological music as for the antique, but striven for a style between the classic and the modern. It is only In the discreet employ ment of the Greek rhythms and of choruses singing in union with the actors that Greek character is preserved. As a small orchestra with string instruments would not do justice to my music in such a wide open space as the Arena of Beziers. I have recourse to a peculiar arrangement ot wind instruments muslque d harmonic, and by omitting the drums and temperately using the cymbals I have softened down the military character " The story of "Dejanire" deals with the love of H-rni!ricirIol. the daughterof Kins Eurv .'". whose city he has plundered, and the effort of Mdantr to regain his love. Meyerbeer's oneras seem likely to enjoy a fresh vogue during the coming winter. The Op5ra in Paris is to revive " Robert le Diablo," several German opera houses are to give the same work, and even New York will have " Le Prophets." with Jean de Reszke and Mme. Schumann-Heinck. Somebody has unearthed an opinion of the composer expressed by Von Weber when Meyerbeer was first struggling to ecure acceptance for his operas. It is a pity that Beer." wrote Von Weber, who had stu lied with him. "dedicated himself so thoroughly to the well travelled paths of art He baa a great, deep. German talent before which, when we studied together, I often trembled, and I struggled withlall my strength toequal him. In his opera 'Jerhtha' are extraordinarily beautiful things tboroughlv worked out. And now he writes all this stuff to honor the miserable fashion that prevails. and to win the favor of the masses for which he should hare a contempt." Yet, Paris critics, it is recalled, said that "Robert le Diable" was his most brilliant work, and one critic proclaimed it the great work since "Don Juan." The Czar Is to have a new Imperial opera house in St. Petersburg, which will cost $4. 000.000. It ts expected that the new building will be ready next spring. The old opera house facing the Marie Theatre has for some years been used a a conservatory of music The orchestra at the present opera bouse has re cently through an imperial ukase received the right to be called a court orchestra and all Its member have been required to wear a uniform and to take part in all the court festivities. The 'director la hereafter to be appointed by the Czar at the suggestion of the Court Chamberlain, who will in turn consult the member of the orchestra on the nomination of the conductor. After ten years ot service the musicians are to receive the title ot Imperial court musicians, with the right to a pension ot $.00 a year for the soloists and S3o0 for the other players. The member of the imperial orchestra were formerly German, and some who had belonged to it for thirty years received three pensions in times past The orchestra will in tbe future be made upexoluslveiy of Russian players. Tsohsikowsky's Eugen Onegin," which Is gradually making its way through the German opera housee. Is said to be regarded now in Rus sia as the most typical of the national music in spite of the great i 'Hilar it y of two other works. These are Glinka's " La Vie Pour le 'zar" and Rubinstein's " The Demon." The Glinka opera Is Btlll said to arouse the greater patriot ism among Russians, although along with bis highly characteristic music the composer wrote while still under the influence of the Italian composers. Tehalkowky's superior orchestration is thought to plaoe his work above Rubinstein's opera, whloh has gained much of its popularity through the libretto. This is founded on Lermontoff's popular poem of the same name and much of th original verse is retained. The libretto of "Eugen Onegin "has the same advantage, as mucn of Puachkin's text has been used and Is said to preserve its epic character. The opera has already been successful In Prague and Vienna and la about to be sung at a private theatre In Berlin. Rosa Sucher. the prima donna of the Royal Opera House in Berlin and the great JiioUs of her day, ha added her opinions to the discussion ot tbe advantages of make-up whloh is being carried on ln Europe since Eleonora Duse's appearance ln Pari aroused Interest In the subject George Moore, In " Evelyn Innes." says that Frau Sucher always poses ilk a statue In a German beer garden, because Wag ner taught her to do that In the hope of realiz ing his idea of a union ot the arts in the per formance of bis operas. Maybe her idea on th subject of make-up have soma squally authoritative foundation. At all events, she wholly approve of the make-up. "It la indispensable." she said, "becauae th feature, through th make-up. are rendered more plastic the color truer, the eyes more expressive. The strong light and tbe distance from the spectator make it absolutely neces sary I have been often told that I looked well on the stage, and no less seldom asked how I made up. My maxim is one that could be ap plied aa well to many other questlona ln life not too mucn of a thing because it Is good. A made-up face must look well wheu one Is very fieer. Then only is It right tor the stage Bo ar a the kind of eoametioa affect the ques tion, my belief is that the must expensive are the beat I am careful to use little red, 1 take tints that ar neither too dark nor too light and am ohieBy careful to see that I pleas myself. Over the little red I use. light, dry English powder I sprinkled. I use blond for the lashes and black for the brows, following the plan of nature. Frau Sucher confided to the pnblic that she first app'ied red to cheeks and then covered It "'91 "Sir9' "i1 "Of- her lips with vaseline and a little red powder. She did not add that ah usually wrs a rjg that looks like yellow loth tM at th waist with gigantJe earo. Borne day the conventional BntmmMhU eo tamea will pe remembered with astonishment that they so long existed. Eugene d'Albert'a musical eomedy .eeTled Th Departure" Is soon to b sung In Mu nich. Lortalng's " Reglna." not a posthumous work, bat one revived after aa original failure rind yearn of disuse, will be produced at Bar In In November. Marion Weed, an America girl who sing with the opera company at Co logne, recently appeared In Hamburg as afa. Paul Kalisch Is the leading tenor of the company there. Nearly all the singers are new this year and the climate ot Hamburg has Incapacitated so many that most of ths performance have been given by un familiar artists. The situation grew so s,.rlous that ths humor ot it finally asserted ttaelt. The new manager of the Stadt Theatre who ucoeeded Pollinl Is said to have met a young man at dinner, and sat with him sometime afterward. As the guests war leaving the manager bade him good night. "Tour face seems familiar to me." he said, la parting. '1 think ! sen you before " "You certainly have." was ths answer. "I gang Wolfram in 'TannUnser' in your theatre hut night." But the manager expect to become ac quainted with hi singers after awhile. Count Zlohy. composer of sn opera sung In Berlin, and known aa a one-armed pianist. I the author of another opera to be sung during the coming season at Budapest. It Is called "Roland Mister." Knknska." by a former marine musical director, now In eharg of the band ot a Hungarian Infantry regiment, and "Hopscbelyke" are the other new works which will be given daring the season. Dell bes's " Le Rol I'a Dlt." with muslo from the same com poser's " Le Rol s'Amuse." will also be given. jarT AIT ALAMO CLOCK, TBTMT BATIK Th Sleepy Drag Clerk Finally IMA Be Thla Was What Happened. Th Long Acre drag clerk had one short coming his utter Inability to get down on time ln the morning. In the three yean that he held his Job It waa ohronicled only once that he reached the store at the proper hour. Finally the proprietor talked so much about It that ths clerk wrote to hla mother op the Stat that he was going to throw up th job. HI mother advised him to reconsider his deter mination, and concluded a fond letter with this advice: "Get an alarm clock and prove to roar boas that you can get to work on time." He had just finished reading the letter whan the aotor who Uvea Just around th corner sun ln. and, calling him to on side, began: "Bay. old man. you were lata this morning." "A little." mumbled the olerk. "Well say. why the dsuoe don't you get aa alarm clock?" The clsrk had often explained that he could never put up with alarm clock, for they star tled him by their sudden ringing, so hs left the actor' question without an answer and went to wait on the young telephone girt who occupied a room ln the family apartment house over the store. 8he smiled as the clerk was measuring out the peroxide ot hydrogen, and remarked: "You were late this morning, weren't you?" "A little," he replied, shyly. "Well, why m the world dont you get an alarm clock? ' The newspaper man who dropped In at un certain Intervals appeared suddenly with a re quest for a stamp and change for a $2 bllL As the clerk was endeavoring to accommodate hlm the customer exclaimed? "I understand you were delinquent again to-day." "A little." said the clerk. "Well, if I were you I'll be hanged ft I wouldn't get an alarm dock." This customer had been gone five minutes, perhaps, when the laundryman who conducts a Place across the street came In. Quite a sad accident out In front here thla morning." he began. "I didn't see it," said the clerk. "Were you late getting down?" "A little." The laundryman shook his head. smlleL said something about an alarm clock and codding to the gas-governor salesman, who had juat dropped in. went his way. "Say." began the gas-governor man, pull ing a bottle of oourh medicine from his pock et, "my wife bought this here this morning. aad yea gave her the wrong kind." "I didn't sell It to her." said tbe olerk. "WalL It was pretty late when she bought It. and she surely didn't get It from the night man." cue aiuni get it irora me. "Were uiu late getting down to-day?" "A littie. drawled the clerk. The customer then went on to explain the exceptional qualities of some particular alarm clock, after which he bought another bottle of cough medicine and left. A moment later the telephone bell rang. "Say, old man," the speaker began. "I waa by to see you this morning, and you weren't there." "Kb." the clerk answered. "I hadn't got down yet." "Were you late" "A little." "Why don't you get" but the olerk hung the receiver up and went to wait on the velvet sale-man. who had dropped In during the con versation. The salesman smiled Ironically. "What's up?" the clerk asked. "Guess I missod half my life this morning, didn't I?" "Why?" "I understand there was a crank called on "l haJn'tTjeard anything of It" "Were von late this morning?" "A little." The velvet salesman then went on to say something about an Intermittent alarm clock and departed very abruptly when the night cashier at the restaurant on the same block happened ln. "You weren't around for breakfast this morning." he began. "X-o. the clerk slmplv answered. "Down late. I suppose." "A little." "WelL say. dear boy. why don't you get an" but the olerk was off to wait on the young girl who came ln every morning for a couple of siphons of vlchy. "Where were you this morning?" she asked. "Right here." he answered. "You were late, then," , "A little. ' "I used to have two alarm clocks" but before she hail finished the clerk ran to the rear of the store to till a prescription which It suddenly occurred to him had been there some time. When he had completed tbe task he stopped Into the proprietor's office and asked to be relieved from further duty that day. "For what?" the proprietor asked. "I want to go downtown and get an alarm clock." "Certainly, certainly." said the proprietor, springing to his feet in ecstasy; 'of course you can get off." Before 8 o'clock that evening the proprietor had fold everybody In the neigh borhood of his clerk's Intention. The clerk did as he said he would. He pur chased an alarm clock which waa guaranteed to ring ten minutes unless you got up and jtopped It by a little lever attached to the back. That night the clerk set the alarm for d o'clock next morning, put the clock on a little table near his bed and soon fell Into a sleep. Promptly at 0 tbe next morning the alarm rang loud and fierce. The clerk got up. pushed the lever back, stopped the alarm, yawned once or twice and then rolled over on the bed and fell Into a sound sleep again. AS TO STRIKtSa M ATI UK. Streaba That Show Where Lights Were Pro duced to Be Found Everywhere. "I may be wrong," said the little woman ln the cross seat of the car. " but I fully believe that a man would strike a match on the tomb stone of his mother." and her eyes snapped and her cheeks flushed at the idea of suoh a sacrilege. Uo where one will. Into the most out-of-the-way place or corner to ignite a match, telltale streaks will be found as positive proof that a match striker has been there before. Raise the drapery about a mantel and peer under neath and there again will come iu view the cabalistic brown tracks, the " blazed" way. a it were, of the match-striking guild. On every side of lampposts. Are plugs and bulk window frames are to be found the trail of ths successor of the tinder box and steel Letter boxes, street corners, every pillar In the elevated structures, door jambs, bottoms of chairs and edges of bureaus, was hatauda ami dressing cases possess the biero or pyro glvDhlcs. Even church ediacee ar not sacred when the hurry call is issued for a light. Even altar rails have be n visited by the same touch. In fact, there is no place too sacred or too much out of the way not to have, at one time or the other, received the necessary frio tion required to secure a light. When Cleo patra's Needle was placed In Central Park the apex bore traces, among the almost obliterated hieroglyphics, of the passing of th match. It is said that th same modem signs can be found upon the topknot of the Sphinx and upon the top of th Pyramids. Armed with a match ana a slight bias being a necessity, th bolder will make for the near est spot to obtain the necessary friction. Upon the variety stags, even, tbe production of flame from the sulphur-tipped sliver of wood is utilized by oueerly 'made up" mummers to win the laugh oV the man who haa paid to see. A made-up bald bead Is an attractive spot, and furnishes tbe desired place for coaxing th Same and bringing a laugh from th theatre Ktrons. It always succeeds, and would have J?'taw performance oeaval with Joe Mil Jyjjjokabook badmatcae be la exist! "ri i , i rowan womrm jusuaa What the BaJMgawaa. arert W-amt. mi. O.loretanmUem, X, rsptare soar Beta sasB jBab,,,a faWh its amoks hSa'lds ths swa, I aasflaad my lev the on Beta for bmI I shall knew aim whsr he seaaSa. All slons, Wtte ths power in hla handa . . . Itoto'sTterewai shall know him by his fees. fTJlf. fodhke front and grace, I shall Bold him for a spao adlmrowal Ittaha o. mylovat ...-. .. Boboldl It aa I all thy love ,..-. - .Foretold I Ml L O. love, what bliss! Dost thoa answer to ay kiss ? Ah. sweetheart, wnat ia thla J Lleth there Socoldl Be-r Haara, Te Her. 'Vm A CmmapoUImn Mmtanm. Her mind's a garden, where do grow west thonahS U t poataa la a raw: gar ao 1 Is aa some lucent star. That ahltaea upon us from star: Bar heart's an ocean, wide and deep, wbers swirling waves of passion awe. Ays, dsepsr than the deepest sea, and wlds as womaa'a mystery; O man, the mariner, beware Vet will I ehaaoe a aaipwrsok there. BoaiBT Lomua. Tha Sea. tYom IS CrOtritn. Who haa heard the cod-Una sinking o'er th hew? Who has hauled tha flashing prey across the wale ? wjo has felt the wst bna stthgliig oa the brow When the boat la all e-stagger 'nesth th gale? Who haa laid hlm m tha agalng of tha sail While the maathaad'a nodding aleeay to the noon. Aad has slumbered till tbe stars grow dim sad paUf Fill your bampara I Join ths ohoraa of mj croon I Oh. the fickle, faming, frolic-fretting seal Oh, the limpid, lapping, laughter-loving aval W who lovs bar nil our glseaaa . TothabestofaUthsfaass, Aad wa drink a briny bumper to tha swal Who haa lain open ths sloping deck awash? who ha hauled and dewed and chasta I the wtnd? wyheaaa watched tha mainmait bending nigh a-eraaa, Whits th rival boat's a dropping off behind ? Who haa leaned sastnst ths oreaking. Jolting wheal Through a moonlit summer night on southern sea? Who ha fait tha old aaslonging that I real ? JTUl your bampara, man. sad about aloud with mat Oh. th singing, sighing, saltr-scented seal Oh. the roahlng, roaring, ramping, raging a! On your feat and clash your glrtT'i. "To the beat beloved of laasaa area a brimming, briny bnmper to tha sear Biuaaaa amuus Powau, Old Novels and Hew. Frsst Ha Ltndtm Junta, s, th all ths novala of tha past, Thia or that olsaaie friend. Heroes and heroines gad at last Their KJen at tha aad; Their luck may fall at first, r , You nevar feel dejected. Bat certain that the aorrleat threw By Art will be corrected. Ton felt a confidence assured. Despite her mild alarme. That Omlle aoon would be allnrsg By Evelina's charms: Ton knew Mlaa Aunten'a ferule brain A method would dieoover Br which Anne Elliot might regain Her banished sailor lover. But now, egsdl tha hero wins The heroine half way through. And on the following page begins His triumph to undo; By quick degrees their fortunes fall To aome malign oonclualou. And ao eventuate, after all. In positive confusion. For either Angelina, tired Of Edwln'a faithful heart. And by soma newer paaaion find, Upsets the appla cart; Or Edwin, who had aeamad a aalat. To awell the general aadnaaa Develops an ancestral taint Of drunkenness or madness. Or worse, ln this outspoken age My modern novel cornea, Kxhallna from each grossom page The aavor of the alums: Where Bills and 'Arrleta nag aad aheu t. Or deal ln mattera fistic, And furious oaths are strewn about To make it realistic. Then, alnca I know that Ufa itself Haa grlmneaa aud to apare, I take " Pendennle" from ths ahalf And find my aoimca there: Or in ths lists with Ivanhoe I feal my blood a-tingln. Or else from stag to stage I go With Pickwick and with Jingle. Oh. re who eell such dismal wars. Let be, good airs, let be; Are there not sunht awset partem Whereof you hold the key; Where ona may for a apace perchaaea, Forget this world's disorder, And pluck bright bloaaoma of romance From each enchanted border? Something Lacking. Frvat Ma Atlanta Otutitmtitn, I. Hi hoa went dead an' his mule want lama. Ha lost sir cowa ln a poker game; A hurricane came on a -ummer's day, And carried the houae whar he lived away; Then a earthquake come when that vui gone. An' ewalloweii tha land that tha houae stood on I An' the tax collector, he come roun' An charged him up far tbe hole ln the grotm'l An' the city marshal he come ln view An' said ha wanted hia street tax, tool n. Did he moan an' sigh ? Did he set sn' cry An' cues the hnrrlcane aweepln' by ? Did he grieve that hia ole fnenda failed to call When the earthquake come an' swallowed all f Xrver a word of blame he said. With all them trouble on top hla head! Not him I He climbed to the top o' ths bJIL Whar srandln' room wuz left him still. An', barin hla head, here's what h aaidi I reckon it'a time to git up an' git; But, Lord, I hain't had the measles yiti" To the Sirdar. From Ot Poll Hall OastM. I have tha voles, tbe word, the phrases, I have the ar (a tuneful thing), Great Kitchener, t sing thy pralaee. And yet, alackl I cannot sing. Poor Dervlihea, how didst thou trounoe theml A theme for every poet's tongue; T't till I know how to pronounce them. My aong must atay unmade, unaung. How eonld t break forth thus: " Hurrah! he Turns all the Ha! diaU' nlan awry And routa ths hordes of AbdullAhl!" When I should aay " Abdulla-hi r" Wouldst thou not utter in thy grief a Remorseful and expreaalvo Ah!" To hear me cry, " Poor doomed Khalifa!" When thou mayat call him " KhAUntl" Thou'dst preach at me a wrathful ssrmoa. Should 1 slug how thy skilful plan Has brought thee aafelv to Omdurmaa. When really 'tt to Omdurmtn; And 'tis an Irksome task and dreary, More drearr than this aad ong talis. To And how to accent Kar-rri, Jebel, snd various Wad ela. Banc, though no strain could wall be ewseter Than mine will be. when mine la mads. The all-exacUng lawa of metre. And also rhyme, must be obeyed; But cease thy bitter lamentation. I'll alng a song that's worthy tha Whan Soudaneae accentnattoa Is not s mystery to me! p. af . OJ. Ten Tears Hence. Cwwat rr will com to.i And what la your nam J" the new teacher said Te ths dear little boy who stood at th had Of th wr big class ah was going ts tsash. With a winning amll to all and to each. " Dewey my name." said th dear little lad. Who looked as If he could never be had. " A beautiful nam," the new teacher said; " With U yen ar sar to be always ahead I" " Th class iu geography." then ah said, " May riee ao recite." From hr book sh read i Ths laseon'e about th Philippine Isles, Tia far from bar by ten thousand mil. " Dewey, my dear," the new teacher said. To that Uttls boy who stood at th head. " do to tha blackboard aad draw for as A map of Manila tor all to a!" What do you think that new teacher thought. Whan all thoa sixty small bora aha taught prang to their feat with on single accord. Aadruahad right over to that blackboard I Fausoxa Axaua Maraawa. as and Fall of Kngltah rtry. rrmnmalmimGlmU. Tw-day CWdnaoa. th father of English poetry. 1 to be 1ST a II from oblivion by th unveiling of anasanstsl eras at Whitby by Mr. Alfred Austta. Th poetry of w as hoes oan tree anek s dssoaat ss OaTaWFTOayg AJTD jmWMMM. Th STsBtatlu waghtrarbya.H.. "Fevnnly a weaasa'a aawetloa I not a thing to b aakad for or had for enly th asking." at from Longfellow'. "Oerertahl of Miles Btandish." wbr John Aldan fa ea his errand to PrlaeiiU Malllas. sent by Cap. Btandish. A friend writ that th pons sailed by Mr. H T. Chapman " Th Friendship of Death " is really 'The City of th Living." Ms do not know th author' name, with hla aid. w bar found th poeta la Part XXXI. of tha Standard Recitation; it I to ion to reprint her ilL'? "" p1n'on ss to what paepl oa earth to-day ranraaaat tha descendants of Kaau The Bedouins at Arabia Pttra am probably ths de seendants ot Tessa, but It I not crtoln. Oaayoa toil nva aaythtnt of th riming year, of Ui nomane, th expounder of evolution 7 A CUi5dJ!LS1"" 1"'? J""t Roman, recanted, or at l?.,i.5r?,U,r.!au,l hlsvtows.aaddle4ab.Ajav.wr in Chnt and His work of redemption. Is this .of W. Romane. modified his view In his later years and PTofemd a belief In th Christian religion. His posthumous writings lndloatod a retur to aa "orthodox position," but hs nver recanted his belief In th Darwinian thory, though he suggested modificatioa in it. What percent of people who angag or atari ln buelne. (net thai ar UbUshdj f all ! 1UA It ha been stunated that & par oe a t. of tuch persona fan. J. rnlmnr Cooper in his novel. "Ths Chain S!SV'l.H1 a0? of whloh Is laid in and around ".ZJS .!mm'S,a'-.'T' a"ar the Bevoluttonary War. Kiatftoi!?aa'1Stt,,ouon between Manhattan bland I and th. Island of Manhattan. Did auch a ulatinctloneerexiat? If o what ia It ? J. F. T. Manhattan Island la th island which forms th borough of Manhattan. Tha "Island of Manhattan" was an elevated piece of ground .urroundad by ewamp in. altuated oa th East River, between what an now Avenn A and Second avenue and Tnth and Fourteenth streeta. It waa reached by a road running from wbat is now Eighth street. How It got its nam history doe not aay . Kindly inform m If th British Wavy eontalna any oreigjiTa(unnturalutdl. and. If so. what percent age. The same of the British Army. E. ' . Both th army and th navy of Oreat Britain eon tain a few persons of alien birth; but they hav. all men naturalized, wa think. Th percentage of auch parsons is vary small. What was ths rank of Jamea J. Cogswell, now 1.1. wnant-Oommander on the r. 8. battleship Oregon, wnn serving on th U. 8. gunboat Tallapoosa in ths harbor of Bueno. Arte, ln 18W0? K. jf. anlSWO Mr. Cogswell wa s Lieutenant. Ha was promoted to his present rank Sept, 1, 18KB, having been a Untenant for twenty-oa years. 1. What religions dominate in the different countries f" '!.whAch country do, the olergr receive aaUriei rroln apa Government; also whar ha th clergy it aay In th Government? i. lathe Episcopal Church ln tha United State the same aa the one in England and is not Henry VUI. tha founder of aU of that denomination? 8. Does tha law atill eil.t in Eng land which forbids man to marry their ue,-ed wlf 'a dater ? M. L. 1. In Austria. Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Inland th Roman Oatholloa an moat numerous: ln Germany. Sweden, Norway and Denmark tha Lu theran: In Ruiaia. tha Greek Chrtattana: in England, th Anglican; ln Scotland, th Presbyterians; in thia country, though than an mora Roman Catho lica than members of any other one church, th whole number of Protestant largely axceeda that of th Roman Catholic. In Canada there an mora Protestant than Roman OathoUc. In Mexico and the South Ameri can countries th Soman CathoUos predomi nate. In England and Wale, Spain. Portugal, and Italy, in Russia, ln ths German States, in Austria, and in some of th Central and South American countries, clergyman of tha established church are supported mora or le fully by th State. In th British House of Lord alone haa tha clergy aa auch any voice ln tha Government. 2. In belief it la. Henry VilL. la said by soma persons to havs founded th AngUcan Church, aud by others merely to hav "freed" it from It alliance with tha Church of Borne, as It had been founded almost in the tim of Christ We shU not attempt to dacld. 8. Tea. What are the "Russian color?" P. I. K. The Imperial banner la a yellow flsld. with a black eagle on it Th oolon of ths merchant flag are white, blue, aad red. Is then in existence s document known as th. "Britleh Constitution." and. if o, of what does it conhist ? If there is no such document what ia recotz alzad as the fundamental law of the land I A. C 3. There ia not. Then are traditional usages, docu ments, decisions of tha courts, and atatutea of Par liament, which, taken altogether, an raapacted aa precedents and form ths constitution of Oreat Britain and Inland. Why la a twin almond called a Philippine? A. W. It la called a phllopcrna or phUopene, not a Philip pine. PhUopmna Is compounded of phitti and pot'na, Greek word meaning repecUvely "loving" and "penalty." The Century Dictionary prefer your spelling, however, aad say that th "gam " 1. referred to th tradition that St. Philip's two daugh ters were buried ln on grave at Hiarapolla! Which correspond to our Stars and Stripe tha royal or the me rcanUle flag of England ? Which' flag la carried by the Bntiah Army ? Ia th royl flg used only at royal pageant or fertilities, or does it take th place of our national flag ? McL. W. The United State an the only Important country which ha only on flag tor all purpose. Thwafora, vary flag of every other country at aome time or other oorreaponda to our Stars and Stripe. Tha royal banner of Oreat Britain and Ireland, usually mlacaUed thwroyal standard, ia used officially in ac cordance with strict regulations, which we cannot quote; unofficially it 1 diplayd whenever the poe aeaaor chooaea. Regiments of the British Army crry th real British flag, tha Union flag, which we .eldom sm; It is a bin flag, displaying the three crosam of St. Oeorge, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick. The mer cantile flag I almply what It nam indicate. Th British flag la th Union flag. In s conversation between English-speaking peo ple, la it optional, when referring to foreum proper namaa, to nee the foreign pronunciation T For in stance, pronouncing Wagner the German composer) aa " Vaguer." the city nl Paris, aa Pi-Re, or Vienna' aa Ve-en. c. If foreign phrases ar interdicted! from an Engllah conversation, doea it not follow that the English pronunciation of the above I. the only correct on T DaisrraxirT. Than Is no consistency ln th English pronuncia tion of foreign name. The asm persons who aay Voehner," say " Par-rlss," and would not know The Hague if they heard It called by It Dutch nam, " 'Oravenahaagen." Is there a union jack In our navy T If ao, what la its color? s F. W. Tea; it la th small bin flag with white star, flown en a Jackataff on a war veaael In port; It oorreaponda ln meaning and us to tbe British union jack. What Is an " lmpul water wheel V a. W. S. A water wheel whloh owes it motion to th fore with which tha water ruahe against It buckata, and little or nothing to th weight of th water. An undershot wheal Is sn Impulse wheal. A modern lmpulao wheel I moved by water delivered nadar high pressure through a small nozzl tangential to the bucket. O. LtMthrm. England haa not tan rich.r mn than America haa. J. W. Tha Staten Island ferryboat Weatfleld blew np oa Sunday, July 80, 1871. . 1. JV.'d President Lincoln wa shot ihortly after 10 o'clock, Friday. April 14, 1805. D. C. W. Tha Orange riots in this city (eslud so beau tha Orangeman took no part in theml war on July 12. 171. A. M. C Three I no thoroughly good history of Ireland,. Walpola'a "Kingdom of Ireland" 1 aa attempt at one. J J. D Th Quean Regent ef Spain la aarond oonaln to th Emperor of Austria. Their grand fathers wan brothers. JCrris JacoDs. Russia atand fourth a a naval power, Japan sixth. Th order I Great Britain Franc, th United State, buaala. Germany, Japan. Mtwirsr. Thar te a prescribed form for will In thla State, Two witaasaca an needed; a notary public, aa auab, 1 not needed in making a will. Jt. H. Hobtru. v. do not know th. author of " Tha Heir of Bruges." Tha "Siege of UarletU," or, mora correctly, " Th Challenge of BarletM." waa written in Italian by Massimo )7Aieglio. 0. B. L. Th Mauser rifl used by th Spanish la s straight poll bolt rifl. oslibrs .176. It 1 60 1 Inches loag i w'th th hyont. SO baches) and weigh, a. s pounds (with th bayonet, 8.7 pound.), it has s magasin with 0 v cartridges. C. if. Dm B. Th pay of a Pint Lie n tenant, mount ed, la (l.COO: not mounted, Ii.MjO, of a ('-.plain, mounted. tJ.ooo; not mounted. (1.800. A private gu 118 a month, a Corporal li, a brgaat18. and a First Sergeant $26. The war py of nlited a I 80 per oastt, addition.) . than th private gte tia.eo. th Corporal IIS. th avtataat lll.to, tE Ikp hwanl-V " wnt - - r jtf roryrw abovt town. Three New Torkers were stttfng at tketr evening meal at Siboney when there run! two of the rough riders, both waD-knowa aana- ' tear athletes. One of the men at sapper was an uctor. who went to Cab to be news paper eonvupomlent and to gather loei color for a pm in which he is aoon to appear. The two roagh riders were weary aad be draggled. "Nobody to see the mn now." remarked one of th party at sapper, "woaldl soppose that, they were the famous thlssa they nre." The actor stuck to hla supper and then answered with tears in hia vtjIeeTTJoiF would nnvbcsly t.j look at me now think that I rn one of the finest comedian In Amenea.' This remark was too much to be borne van from a companion In misery. Thera are a food many people who have seen vow In the) nlted Btntes that would never admit thai" rejoined one of his coinprinloas. and th dl CUelon closed. M Lillian rt'.-unelt. after having gained awinkfir'all the success possl We In hsr own eoun try. has returned t,, 1'nmnn .Imm -k .a bar il'hftt and took the Orst fortunate steps ot her career She Is to sing in nearly all th dltles In Europe, including tha large ones aa well as the small, ntul her experience la Italy Is -on augury of prosperity In all of them. Bo Is to combine study abroad, with travel, and) her ultimate hone Is to return here among tha forces at the Metropolitan Opera Hoof. Mia Blaurelt rcallfes that the only approach to tha Metropolitan Is from Europe, and ah haa dis ci iv red that a lifelong residence here with the srproval that she has already gained wtraTd nover win her a plaoe there. 8o shs Will sea what a European Indorsement will do for her. Probably she will remain In Europe for two years at least, and whether or not her ambl- . 1 Nona are ttratillcd the n units of hsr trip ar certain to be advantageous. New fork ia proverbially llekle. and lor that matter so IS the public, of other cities. Miss Blanveltnaa sung with considerable regularity In this coun try, and when she oturni, after an absence of several seasons, sho will be welcomed with cordiality sufficient io compensat for her exile. Hhe Is one of the women who ar Ins snlred by Mme. Nordlen's career to hop ths J the greatest achievements of the lyrlo stag are within her power. Hbe has determined, to Tollow the course of hard work whloh led the American isoWe to her present emlnenoe, 1 he concert singers who are most successful here-Miss Blauvelt always received higher compensation than any other reallsa after a while that the Held has its limits. Mme. I lementlno de vere has decided to abandon, th? concert stage temporarily and see if tha field which mode a fortune for Emma Abbots haa really been exhausted. The Hungarian band detained on Ellis Isl-. ' and may really be composed of artists, may Indeed, be made up of the flnest'Magyar mual-' clans thnt have ever played in a Magnates, kapelle. but they will And New Tork distrust ful of their powers. The Hungarian band hag come to be so variously constituted that th publio is rather likely to be suspicions of It than to anticipate any great pleasure from It performances. Already the best establish ments have banished the Hungarian bands and substituted for them good orchestras of musicians. This Is especially true now of tha most expensive restaurants. This change doubtless comes from the publio weariness ot their playing, and that was In turn produced no more by the vagaries of the muslolans than, by their verv limited repertoire. In th char aotenstlo music, of their own country tha Magyar players could never.be quit as bad as they were at othor times, for they played with feeling ar.d split, and whether they were playing correctly or not nobody bat .them-i selves over knew. When it came to popular? airs the case was different. They never played current music until it had been long enough, before the public to make the least musical person familiar with It. and they ware never able to learn the most aged melodies accurate ly They played them by ear. and the skilful way in which they evaded the tun at lm portant junctures was so marked that Ik seemed the result of deep study, For several vears past the best or the bands have not been heard in conspicuous place, and th fao that they were stationed ln a high-priced es tablishment was no evidence of their quality. In fact, the best of them that New York has heard in years played in a small Hungarian restaurant in East Houston street, which al most wholly through the attraction of the band developed Into an extremely prosperous estab lishment. That proved at least that tha good Hungarian bands were still enjoyed. Far over on the west side of ths olty Is a foundry devoted to a class of work whicj could be done only in Europe until a few years ago. To-day the aspect of the establishment is wholly foreign, and the nationality of tha workmen Is not long in doubt. They ar all Frenchmen. If their appearance did not re- ' veal this, their language would, as English)' is seldom if ever heard. It comes occasion. ' ally from the mouths of a few apprentice, but ' the American boys who have undertaken to learn the business rarely remain long at It. It is difficult in a way they do not like. It makea too heavy demands on their patience, and Its semi-artistic nature does not appeal to them, strongly enough to keep them at the stow work. So the completely foreign atmosphera of the place is little disturbed, and the men work away at their moulding and casting lit surroundings that could not be less American if they were ln Paris Itself. One recent line of work which has delighted many New York sculptors was Imported by them. Htatuos made here oan be reduced to any size desired. and the result of this is that many well-known, American works will soon be put on the mar ket in a size suitable to decoration and the or-s namentatlon of ordinary rooms. Hlthertoi this process has been possible only ln Paris, but the Frenchmen ln their west side foundry; have Imported it recently along with th rsstt of their national characteristics. Th committee to notify Col. Roosevelt of htg, nomination for Governor was waiting just outs side the Long Island Ferry house at Thirty fourth street. It had waited for a long tlm. Edward Lauterbach. who had teen pat ln carriage with two candidates and Committee man Cornelius V. Collins at the Fifth Arenac Hotel, had not reached the ferry with tha rst of the party. ( hairraan Odoll of tha State Committee and Ur.lJe-.ewut the Notlfl3 cation Committee stood on their toea as train time approached and vied with each other In, crying ' here he comes" every time a carnage) aptieared coming down Thirty-fourth street, A funeral procession turned in from First ave nue from the south. "There they come." said Dr. Depew. An other funeral came down from the west and another turued Into Thirty-fourth street from, Firit avenue from tho north. " There they come." said Dr. Depew again. The first funeral came slowly down the street I The hearse wss pulled in close to the curb. BnT Depew peered in at the ooj&n, "o."he said. " it isn't Lauterbach." Lauterbach did arrive later. The Importance of the flrat of May In New York has diminished In favor of another data which, as marking the movements of New Yorkers, has become almost as significant. This is the first day of October, whloh sees almost as many changes as tha earlier date lq the travels ot New Yorkers from on part of the town to another. The residents of ona uptown apartment house realized this with) force tbe other duv when simultaneously tha occupants of five floors started to move out. That situation was appalling enough In itself, and a final complication in the ahape of funeral mode the dillieulty greater than II might otherwise have been. The unanimity of this exodus was due to an alteration ln tha building which darkened the rear rooms and with lesaiea ending uu the last day of Septem ber all the tenants left with the exception of I one. The landlords have come to realise tha iinrortance of the Ilntt of October as the new moving day in s manner that Is not wholly agreeable to them Now apartments and houses are more difficult than ever to real during the summer months. Formerly when a lioueo ae uka fur the year tbe lease dated fruiii May 1 ami the summer months were In eluded. Nosradays the owner of houses. particularly in the mw neighborhoods, finds '-asfssal liiiiiaelt iMiiir.u.iiiig the propoaal ttiatbla property be glen for nothing during tha summer. That Is the worst consequence to the landlord of the present popularity of Out. 1 as moving day. A man named Holmes, who cams to this country as a Commissioner from New Zea land to encourage trade relations with tha United States and to spread more widely ,9, I knowledge of New Zealand resource, offers in explanation for the great abundance of rab bit' feet required for as as pendants for campaign badges. The people who sen tha I.! badge have no hesitancy In asserting tha naM each individual foot is the hind foot of a let year-old rabbit, killed on a Spaniard's grave by moonlight aud all the rest of It. One of tha principal export from New Zealand to thia country has. acording to Mr. llolmes, ba rabbits' feet. He uses the fact to show now little Americana know of the real reoaros of New Zealand. IlabblU are a pest out there nd tbe State pays a bounty f"r every ona killed, snd the discovery that In far-off Amer-l-a a rabbit's foot was a highly esteemed ar tiele of commerce has greatly fmiliitatad tha (tork of the Uovemmeut in reducing th pests. It would seem, however, that the New Zealand supply ia not adequate, for aia out of tan of the rabbit' feet oJd about tha strt lllisanfa-JillWMMa-B