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HE TIMES Newspaper and Commercial Printing. E. JONES, Editor and Publisher. Published Every Thursday. 00 A YEAR. The Only All Home int Weekly Newspaper in Bayfield junty. Lo't: A parcel of music, songs, c. bearing the name of L. A. And son. Finder will please leave at ix Bros.’ drug store. lOVEL GAME GF CARDS Eui.hre Combines Two Popular Pastimes. INVENTION OF A BROOKLYN MAN The Newest Social Diversion Is Played Like Ordinary Enchre Witli the Exception of the Moving and Counting—Tables Arranged In Sec tions Designated as American and English Courts.. Pingpong euchre, a novel game in vented by William A. Phillips of Brooklyn, was inaugurated the other night at a receprion given at the Hotel St George, says the Brooklyn Citi zen. Many guests engaged in the game or witnessed it, and a large num ber of prizes rewarded the winners. About 230 persons played, four at each table, which was covered with green baize. Two green sticks were placed at opposite corners, between whicn a net was extended. On one stick rested a pingpong bat and on the otner some times an English flag and at other times an American hag. The greatest interest was manifested from first to last in the proceedings. Pingpong euchre is played the same as ordinary euchre, with the exception of the moving and counting. Ten games, called a set, are played on ta bles, hereafter to be known by the name of courts. Each court is defend ed by four players, who play is part ners for the defense of that court, to which they are assigned during the en tire set. The tables are arranged in sections, designated as American and English pingpong courts. The moving or .pro gressing is done from the American to the English sections and vice versa, ac cording to the directions on the card laid down by the referee before each game. The moving of the visiting couple— that is, the couple who are to visit a foreign court—takes place at the sound of a whistle. The visiting couples take the cards with them, and when all vis iting couples have reached their desti nations play begins at the sound of a bell and stops immediately at the sound of a whistle. The counting of each court is done by the use of a pingpong ball, hung on the net of each court by the referee during the progress of the game. The individual counting is done by the punching of the tallies at the end of the game. The winning couple are en titled to the ball and after having their tallies punched they return to their home court at the sound of a whistle and hang the ball on the net of their court. This ball scores for the entire table or court. The following are the rules: First, Bix minute games; second, lone hands coupt two; third, if you order your partner up, you play it alone; fourth, no assisting; fifth, stop playing imme diately at the sound of the bell; sixth, the player having the highest number of points wins. Each player in the court having the highest number of pingpong balls on its net is entitled to a prize, drawn for in the order of the highest number of punches on the tal lies. The Way It Csni’.tly Ends. Yon I'-’..: What kind of a cook shall T f v •! ! •'•nn , V Mrs. Von r>i -mor-Cei one about thir ty. wi.o <. ...I-.-- go and bread, knows how *' • : <• n make fine pastry, v ' a ■. r 1 n - any company, doesn't : ■ '■ . . ’.is and b.is the very best re?' • r Von !'■ <■ ’’.n s p’ ose 1 can't gM such, M s. > ch. w 11. get auj one yo i t. V.ea.- thnar Set. Costly s Mrs. > in-tie -1 -V ) for;: Paris hat and tl.ni - alb : woman up the street man; .c and r g • <• • just like it. Hut i stopue-j her from wen-mg it! Mrs. Net -ich- How did you and * it? Mrs Neustlle— 1 gave the hat to the nurse and told her to wear it every tin; she took baby out. Baltimore American. For Sate Cheap One ]>At* of work horses, weigh in i? 3,4f 0 lbs, 8 years old and sound. Call ou or address . Li. D. Perky, Cable. iMiyKir .ti g Subscribe it. Mae . a, n(1 m tided jov*uins •; Foiev’s H-m -y ano I’z ••. ; s l. •3’ vo n ver ‘o iu-l - ! *a r o od reliab e a r m-oy h r * Orr-.-i ■ ,uug troubl-s as tds o tat m di< n* . Sold by Frost & Spies. IMPRESSIONS OF “PARSIFAL” Wagner’s Opera as Viewed by a Musician and a Dramatist. WALTEK DAMROSCH DISAPPOINTED He Misses Impressiveness of Bai rentli Production and Regrets Per formance Here—Bclasco Says Bni rentli Is Outdone—Declares Mystic Play Is Not Sacrilegious—“ Aud acious i \ es”—Second Act Marvelous. The following article in the New York Herald contains two impressions of the New York production of Wag ner’s opera “Parsifal” from the view point of a musician and a dramatist. Walter Damrosch, the musician, re cords the production of “Parsifal” as a bold and brave effort on the part of Mr. Conried and his company to achieve the impossible. “Wagner’s ‘last will and testament bequeathing ‘Parsifal’ to Baireuth ex clusively was no idle whim, but in spired by an absolute conviction, born of an intimate knowledge of operatic conditions, tliat this work was of a character so unique that a proper per formance is almost impossible in a regular opera house and decidedly so during a regular opera season. “It would, therefore, be folly to crit icise this performance on the lines laid down by Wagner, for, though Mr. Con ried had spent money lavishly and had given the work a fine cast of singers and more rehearsals than are usually vouchsafed anew production during an opera season, and though the per formance moved briskly and almost glibly along, Wagner's good judgment was abundantly proved, and I cannot help but wish that Mr. Conried’s fine energy and desire* to prove his mettle had expended itself on some work less exalted in character and in which so many fine points of art and morals were not at stake. “At Baireuth performances there were imperfections—artists even there have been known to sing out of tune—but the theater is ideally planned, and artists and audiences alike are enabled to con centrate themselves on the work, in spired by the unique conditions sur rounding them and undisturbed by the trivialities of ordinary life. “I cannot say that the performance reproduced on me the Baireuth im pression of the beauty and solemnity of the various ceremonials of the Chris tian church which are enacted and sym bolized before us in the first and third acts. These scenes, which were so deep ly moving and impressive in Baireuth, became dull and almost irreverent. It was frankly ‘operatic,’ and the scenes might just as well have been taken from some Masonic ceremonial. In the main lines the ‘stage business’ was the same as in Baireuth, but toe inner spir it was often wanting. “Whether it was the trivial manner In which the Holy Grail was uncovered or the slouchy way in which the knights of the Grail walked or fussed with their cloaks or the garish lighting of the Hall of the Grail, there was but little illusion and none of the mysticism which should envelop these scenes as with a holy mantle. It was heavily borne in upon me that a performance of an art work dealing directly with things and symbols most sacred should either leave the whole stage parapher nalia to the imagination or by incessant rehearsals and discipline succeed in pro ducing a perfect stage illusion. There should be no betwixt and between.” Mr. Damrosch heartily praises the musical performance, though he criti cises the weakness of the chorus. Fi nally, he cannot see why “Parsifal” should not be given frankly as an opera at ordinary hours, without all this flummery and affectation of long inter missions and trumpet calls. These, he says, “are but externals and cannot re produce the Baireuth spirit. These are but a mockery of that ideal which Wag ner tried ,o rear in that faraway little country town and which we, who starve in great cities, can only long for as young Parsifal longed for a sight of the Holy Grail in liis long wanderings.” David Belasco, the dramatist, says: “i saw ‘Parsifal’ in Baireuth; I saw FY-flon play in Oberammergau. m-rdnnKng is a delicate undertak en.. and ‘Parsifal’ is almost as difficult !:: ::t as the Passion play. Race, v.vin.Vn. training—all these have fit ted Mr. Conried for this remarkable “ i’ll ere is only one great tragedy in world, the divine tragedy. Wag > r las been influenced by it. by the •Man of Sorrows and acquainted with rnef.* Stripped of its incidental ad juncts, ‘Parsifal’ deals with a young n who. in the hope that he may l > ovo ,-j redeemer remains insensible to !.is suffering until lie becomes clair '•oy.wit by the kiss of the temptress Kx w.-lry aid thereby made to under - ; ! the meaning of pity. Wagner, c,is volcano of emotions this creator of bar! rans and lusty young lovers, has written a work immortalizing pity. But remember be wrote it at tlie end of liis life. Already his blood ran cold. ‘Par s fai‘ is p destined. Hence there is no complication, no great fall and no great story—that is. from a dramatic stand point. Wagner’s earlier poems of men and women who lived to love and loved to live are far more dramatic because they are more human. After all, hu manity is the playwright’s keynote. “The ‘difficulties’ of the book of ‘Par sifal’ are obvious. For instance. Ivan dry. Who is what we must call the prima donna, has the only female role" in tlie drama, and her singing is con fined almost entirely to the second act. Here we find the ‘woman’ element lack ing. No wonder such a strange story THE IVABLIBO RN TIMES THURSDAY .TANUAYR 7 . needed a peculiar setting! Was it be cause lie feared the theme of his drama that he first hedged it in at Baireuth? Sacrilegious? No. Audacious? Well, yes. And how much more daring out in the white light of Broadway! In Baireuth all things would have been possible, even the sermon on the mount as an epilogue. There, hedged with enemies on every side, like gnats, Wag ner battled for the impossible and in spite of the gnats achieved it. ‘Parsi fal’ is a monument to a daring deed. For today there is only one Wagner, al though the many gnats still remain. “To infuse the soul of a man—all the delicate shades of his meaning—into a work like ‘Parsifal’ would seem to be impossible. As the drama moved along I said almost unconsciously to a neigh bor, ‘Wagner is dead.’ The best testi mony to the excellence of Mr. Gonried’s undertaking throughout is that one does not miss Baireuth and Wagner still more. Even personal contact with genius, so to speak, at second hand is a priceless legacy. “While I cannot but think the orig inal scene of ‘Parsifal’ a more fitting place for its setting, Mr. Conried has far surpassed the Baireuth production. His enchanted garden of the second act, with its wonderfully charming flowers and beautiful coloring, was by far the better. “In this scene Wagner brought a storm of criticism about his ears by tlie astonishing size—the exaggerated orientalism—of his flowers. He had liis own purpose in mind, to emphasize the symbolism of liis flower maidens. But Mr. Couried’s conception was more artistic in that it left more to the im agination. it was a pleasing contrast to tlie garden in Baireuth, where many of the ladies, artists though they were, failed utterly to preserve the illusion of youth or the power to tempt. The transformation scene was magically effected. This second act was the scen ic blemish at Baireuth. “The lights, too; were better here; costumes, detail, accessories, better, belter, better! Americans have a way of praising something that takes place at a distance. They may make many comparisons, but there can be no ques tion as to the better presentation of the drama itself.” A LAKE OF SOLID SODA. Strange Dlseovery of Major Burn ham, tlie American, In Africa. Major F. It. Burnham, the American scout, recently returned to London from another difficult expedition to east Africa, this time through the east Africa protectorate and Uganda to tlie borders of the Kongo Free State, pene trating about a thousand miles and ex ploring much territory that had never before seen a white man, says the Kan sas City Star. The major was accom panied by several hundred blacks and twenty white men, three of whom died of fever and six were invalided home. The most interesting result of the ex pedition was the discovery of a lake of about forty-nine square miles composed almost entirely of pure carbonate of soda, forming a snowlike crust so thick that the party walkked across on it In some places the chemical is solid clear through to the ground. It is the largest deposit of the kind that has ever been found. The lake is fed by mineral springs carrying soda in solu tion, and the deposit is formed by the evaporation of the water under the burning equatorial sun. In years to come, when the inevitable railroads run through Uganda, this chemical lake will doubtless be of value, out at present it is one of nature’s in violable reserve funds. An active volcano was found at Lake Rudolph, and several others which were busily spouting mud and steam were seen. New Use For a Whipping Post. Rural England still contains a num ber of whipping posts, most of them attached to stocks. One of the most in teresting examples in tlie home coun ties stands on a patch of green by ihe roadside at Stondon Massey, in Essex. A peculiarity of this relic is that, though it still bears the irons by which offenders against law and order were formerly triced up to receive castiga tion, it now performs the office of a travelers’ guide, having arms which point the way to Ongar and other places in the district, says the London News. The Lovely Winter Time. [Well, I dunno. Of course it’s kind of nice to set around in your shirt sleeves sometimes in the summer, but people ain’t never real healthy except in the winter. We need seasonable weather to kill off the diseases and things, and a good, old fash ioned winter always makes me feel like giftin' up and doin’ somethin’.—From “Heart to Heart Talks With an Old Set tler.’’] I love the happy winter time, When all the hills are white, When frost is thick upon the panes And pipes freeze up at night. I love the joyful winter time, When, shutting out the air, We huddle in our houses and Inhale the poison there. O happy, happy winter time. What joy the blizzards bring! Hotv sweet it is to have cold feet While gladly reveling. O glad, O joyous winter time, When ice coats all the stones And people without rubbers on Get home with broken bones. I love the lovely winter time, The time of chills and ills. The time of doubling up on gas And coal and doctors’ bills. Come, let us join the ones who think The winter time is grand And that it brings a thousand kinds Of blessings on the land. O merry, merry winter time, The times of mumps and croup And smallpox and pneumonia! Let’s gayly, gladly whoop! Oh, let’s exult with them who say The wintry season frees The world of germs and in return Brings healthful ecstasies. —S, E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald. Ccru:<*etl?nt Mvfholog^jr* Once upon a time—to be more pre cise, in the latter part of the eighteenth century—thre lived a worthy Connecti cut divine named the Rev. Samuel Peters. Peters was a picturesque per sonage in his way, but his fame rests entirely upon the fact that he wrote a book. This is one of the most mar velous works ever issued from the press. It was Mr. Peters, for example, who first discovered and made known to the world that the founder of Yale college was a Rev. Thomas Peters, miently one of his own ancestors; that at Bellows Falls the water flowed bo fast that it became as hard as mar ble, making it possible to float a crow bar upou it; that two most marvelous quadrupeds, the “whappermocker” and the “cuba” (evidently the ancestors of tlie jabberwock) roamed wild in the Connecticut forests, and it is also from Mr. Peters that we first learn of the famous incursion of the Windham frogs. But it was in the early jurisprudence of Connecticut that this expatriate made his most interesting discoveries. He informed his English readers—and most of them believe the story de voutly to this day—that the citizens of the state were forbidden by ‘law to make mince pies, to play on any in strument of music except the drum, trumpet or jewsharp, and that every male must have liis hat cut round, “ac cording to a cap,” the model preferably being the hard shell of a pumpkin.— Leslie’s Monthly. Folding Reds. All purchasers of folding beds do not buy them solely for tlie sake of saving room. According to a manufacturer, some people with ample house room at tummaud buy them, for one reason, so that the rooms in which they are placed can be put to other uses than as bed rooms. This manufacturer mentioned one New Y T ork family in whose Louse are eleven fine folding beds. Any room in the house designed for and equipped as a sleeping room could easily be trans formed from a bedroom to one that had no appearance of a sleeping apartment whatever. There are produced nowadays folding beds of one kind and another that are sold at low prices, but the most costly of the finer folding beds may easily be pretty dear affairs. The manufacturer told of one elab orately designed and finished folding bed that/ cost SI,OOO, the cost of the carving alone having been s3oo.—New York Sun. Onr Unit of Value. The real, actual unit of value In the United States is the silver quarter. The dime is out of place. In the bar you get two drinks for a quarter; you buy two cigars for a quarter. One ci gar for 10 cents seems plebeian, so you take two for a quarter. In the restau rant you are ashamed to give the wait er a 10 cent tip and cannot afford to give him a quarter, but moral coward ice drives you to let him have the quarter. The quarter is the most beau tiful silver coin in the world. It is of the most convenient size. Mix up a lot of dimes, nickels and copper cents in your pocket, and your sense of touch balks at distinguishing between them. You must haul out a handful of “chick en feed” for visual identification. A quarter you can tell from anything by the “feel.” —New York Press. Delaware. Delaware has been called the Dia mond State, for, though small id size, it formerly was of great political im portance. It also envoys the nickname of the Blue Hen State, this having been bestowed on account of a gentleman named Caldwell, who made the state famous in sporting annals by the qual ity of bis gamecocks, which he always bred from the eggs of a blue hen, be lieving that this was the best color for the mother of a gamecock. Tlie “Angry Tree,” The “angry tree,” a woody plant which grows from ten to twenty-five feet high, and which was formerly supposed to exist only in one state in tne Union, Nevada, has beer* found both in eastern California and in Ari zona. If disturbed, this peculiar tree shows every sign of vexation, even to ruffling up its leaves like the hair on an angry cat and giving forth an uii pleasant, sickening odor. Batters. There are pour batters, drop batters and doughs, all depending on the quan tity of flour used with the liquid used. Generally speaking, one full measure of flour to a scant measure of liquid makes a pour batter, two full measures of flour a drop batter and three full measures a dough. Something, of course, depends on the liquid and the quality of the flour. Brass. Brass is an alloy of tin and copper, and analysis of the earliest existing specimens demonstrates that it was formerly manufactured in the propor tions of one part of tin to nine of cop per. A notice in Genesis fixes the dis covery and use of both these metals, according to the Bible, at between 4,004 and 1,633 years before the Chris tian era. Tli? Last the Worst. “Don’t you tnink the first year of married life the most tryiug one, Mr. Benedick?” “i did at the end of it, but since then I have given each recurring year the credit.”—New York Herald. Only Thankful. And now one of the professors says it will be 10,000,000 years before the sun goes out. Thanks! 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