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can occupy it If he will be earnest and
patient.
An interesting story Is going the
rounds concerning an actor who has
been seen by many Scrantonians in
New York, and who was seen by few
of them in Scranton, once upon time,
while playing with A. NJ. .Palmers
stock company in the Frothingham.
The story concerns Wilton Lackaye,
who lately contracted to be leading
man in the company OF Miss Olga
Nethersole, the young English prodigy
now on these shores, but who quite
suddenly abandoned that position, much
to the public's surprise. 1t seems that
for one of the English plays that she
has recently shelved Miss Nethersole
engaged the handsome Wilton to play
the second leading part. During one of
the rehearsals Miss Nethersole consid-
cred 1t necessary to push Mr. Lackaye's
beautiful curls back from his forehead.
Pardon me, madam, but l cannot per
init that" Mr.. Lakaye remarked. "Ah,
sir" said Miss Nethersole, but 1t is
my business to do that, and | shall be
obliged to even If you do not wish 1t.
Madam, beg of you not to touch my
hair" said Mr.. Lackaye, feelingly, and
with that the argument ceased. When
the performance rolled around to the
part where Miss Nethersole insisted
on caressing and turning back Mr..
Lackaye's adcSable bangs, she put eN-
ira emphasis in her work, and with wo-
mans inborn perversity brushed his
forehead clear. In moment after
ward she was sincerely sorry, for on the
floor, peaceful and bottom side up. lay
Mr.. Lackaye's beloved bangs. that un-
til then had been an impenetrable
secret to even his closest friends. Mr..
Lackaye left the Olga Nethersole COM
pany that night.
To a recent number of Harper's An
tonin Dvorak, director of the National
Conservatory of Music, contributed an
instructive article upon Music in
America" He finds that music of a
certain grade in this country can not
complain of a lack of appreciation. Our
concert halls are as well filled as are
those of Europe but our opera audi
ences are in no sense representative of
the people at large. He does not doubt,
however, that "if Americans had a
chance to hear grand opera sung in
their own language they would enjoy
it as well and appreciate it as highly
as the opera-goers of Vienna, Paris, or
Munich enjoy theirs. The change from
Italian and French to English will
scarcely have an injurious effect on the
present good voices of the singers, while
1t may have the effect of improving the
voices of American singers, bringing
out more clearly the beauty and
strength of the timbre, while giving an
intelligent conception of the work that
enable singers to use pure diction,
which cannot be obtained in foreign
tongue" He notes as one of the crown
ing absurdties of the present order Of
things that five American prima dom
mas of prominence are now singing to
American audiences in French, Italian
or German, but never in plain United
States" Indeed, in the pertinent Ian
guage of one of the commentators on
Dvorak's article: 1T is this foreign
tongue which prevents Americans from
enjoying opera to the full. Those who
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protest that 1t Is only the music, and
not the libretto, which one should re-
gard indulge in mere musical cant. The
libretto is mot paramount. to be sure.
But without an intimate knowledge Of
the words of an opera, it is safe to say
that, no opera-goe truly understands
the music. The fitness. of the harmonics
can only be guessed at vaguely. The
low state of the opera in America is
due to the singing In foreign tongue.
Opera-goers sit contentedly today and
hear polyglot duets and scenes; care
little for the acting, for the actions do
not need to suit the words; and endure
the worst of misfits in roles without a
murmur." In conclusion, Dvorak thinks
we have the material In this country
for a national school of music, but 1t
is poorly developed as yet. In some
thing more than a hundred years of ma
tional existence we have been able to
fertilize deserts and subjugate great
| mountain Businesses, but we have not
been able to compose even so much as
one original national air fit to be sung
to the words that eulogize liberty and
independence. Musically speaking, our
greatness lies wholly before us.
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES:
| VIII $. Rising has Joined the Louise
Beaudet Opera company.
Andrew Mack, the well known singer, Is
to star in "Myles Aroon."
"A Trip to Chinatown" has passed its
| one hundredth night in London.
Adeina Patti is engaged for six operate
performances at Covent Garden next sum
| mer.
! Il. II. Sothern Is to have a play which
! is to have the Inflated Major Andre as
the central figure.
Daniel Sully Is writing comedy in
which Gus Il. Williams and John 4. Kelly
will star next season.
The st. Louis papers pronounce the
Pauline Hall production of "Dorcas" the
| best thing that has been seen there this
season.
1t may be that L. s. Willard will not re-
| turn to this country next season. He is
negotiating to produce a number of plays
| in London.
In Mr.. Potter's "Triby" Virginia
Harmed is to be Trilby; W. j. Ferguson.
Svengali; Burr Mcintosh, Taffy, and E. NJ.
Holland, the Laird.
c. w. Couldock will probably retire from
the stage shortly The veteran actor is
| said to be in very poor health lately. 4
| complimentary benefit is talked of.
Mrs. Langtry's three plays, "A Wife's
Peril" "As in Looking Glass and 'Es-
| ther SandraZ," are evoking very favor
able comment throughout the west.
During the run of Sowing the Wind" at
| the Empire theater, New York, last sea-
son profit was realized for Charles Froh-
man of over $50, 900. At the same time sgd
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News of the Green
Room and Foyer.
Some of the More Important
Doings of These. Our Actors.

The verdict Of Miss Sadie Kaiser in
recent London letter with reference to
Henry James new play, which has now
been withdrawn. after the run OF a
month. from the boards of the st. James
theater, has received Endorsement In an
eminent and unexpected quarter In
his last cable letter to the New York
Tribune, George w. Smalley severely
castigates the non-appreciative critics
of the metropolis who have concertedly
damned this production. He says:
"They have driven Off the English stage
one Of the most delicate and truthful
pieces OF dramatic art which that stage
has known. Mr.. James Americanism
and his training in the French school
have proved ineXpiable offences. True
Guy Domville' has run for month.
True also that it has been played to
appreciative and applauding houses.
True also that Mr.. Alexander modified
the second act, in vain hope Of satisfy
ing the prejudices which had been
aroused. Nothing availed. The houses
which nightly received the play with
cheers were too small to pay. The au-
dience, though fit, was few. But 1t is
true also that MI. Alexander mas SAID
that II the thing were to do again, nc
would do 1t again. True, hnally, that
the most competent judges on the prac-
tical side, with the best knowledge OF
thls curious English public, has said
that the play talls simply because II IS
TOO good for that public But. as Bill
Tweed remarked once, In another rela-
ton what are you going TO do about
atT III a public VIII not submit TO
being elevated and ennobled, what re-
course is open TO one, TINS side or BANK
ruptcy!
'''
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"'s oe i"iSeu aiso coiieeriiihs tiie
zen. "i'iuia"at VI play "" 'hiS siue
vi 'he water III announcing 'na' ne
hau uecioeu 10 she'e Dahiei L. mart
Nehi, washington ior .he renain-
"eI u 'he seasoi' L'aniel Suliy ia'eiS
oilereu' Ny way oi eNplahatioH' the
assertion that ~ NeilI was TOO good
play 10 De popular that the average
theater-going pubic did not wish TO
nave Its irish drama lifted out OF the
realm of bowling farce. There may
be some measure of justice in this
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Musical Director Charles b. Derman
will publish four or five new compo-
sitions for voice and guitar in the near
future.
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The Hollow Ruby

may possess brilliant and prsmac beauties such are found in
the story which JULIAN HAWTHORNE has written and which
is to be published in The Tribune, beginning Feb 10.
1t is of course, tale of Eastern life and full OF startling Incl
dent and huno Hawthorne has surpassed himself this novel
story and it has been fully and fttingly illustrated
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Professor Conant, of st. Luke's, spent
the past week at New Bedford.
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begin rehearsing the Bohemian Girl
next week.
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"Ye olde Folkes" concert at Green
Ridge Presbyterian church last evening
events of the week.
4 \ u
The Scranton Oratorio society. under
the leadership of Richard Lindsay, will
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seven months but ! never
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it cost me hundreds Of
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condition WIS terrible,
life was almost q burden
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who had got relief advised me to try CuTICURA
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begin rehearsing the Bohemian Girl"
next week.
Congregational singing, with Mr..
Weldon as prompter, Is among the pos
sibilities at Second Presbyterian church
during the coming musical year.
The Old Folks concert, to be given
at Simpson Methodist Episcopal church
on Washington's birthday, will be con-
Quoted by Miner Worden.
Professor George Bonaparte Carter
will play upon a harpsichord 100 years
old at the Old Folks concert, at Elm
Park church, Feb. 22.
Musical Director Charles b. Derman
will publish four or five new compo-
sitions for voice and guitar in the near
future.
Professor Max Frankel has recently
issued folio containing gems from
"Ujijf' and some of his later compost
! tons.
"The Chimes of Normandy" will be
| repeated in the near future for the
benefit Of the Thirteenth regiment.
| Professor Conant, of st. Luke's, spent
the past week at New Bedford.
SIIARPS AND FLATS:
Paderewski will visit America next fall
| Caroline Hamilton, the prima donna OF
| the Bostonians, has entered suit for abso'
| Lutte divorce against her husband, Charles
Edward Hamilton
| Rudolph Aronson has engaged as tenor
| in his new operetta, Trial by Jury,
which will open the Casino on Feb. Is, Ed
| gar Temple, formerly of the Bostonians.
Chopin was lame and had consumption
| Beethoven was deaf; Handel and his
contemporary, Sebastian Bach. were
| blind Gluck was apoplectic and had &c
stop work in the middle Of an opera which
was to be called 1.-The Danaidos;" Weber
and Mendelssohn were consumptive, and
Schuman had softening of the brain.
The tour Of the Milton Aborn BijoI
Opera company will begin next week al
! Wiliamsport. Mr.. Aborn has a larger
| following III IHlliuelpTlS tHaH any Otnel
comic opera comedian and the engage
ment of twenty-five weeks at the Bijou
which will close TO-DAY, has been the mos
successful ever played there by comic
opera company.
Brahms and Goldmark were among tht
| most enthusiastic applauders OF johann
/ Strauss on Jan. 6, when his new "Garten
| laube' waltz was conducted by him foi
the first time in Vienna. OF course, ht
| had to repeat II, and when the audience
still clamored for more he played selec
ton from his latest operetta, which also
had TO be repeated.
While great composers are becoming
| scarce, great violinists are getting to be {
| drug on the market We have severa
| travelling in America at present, anC
| others remain in Europe. Among the lat
ter none has created a greater sensation
! than Bronislaw Hubermann. He is lucky
too. A wealthy admirer, Count Zamoyski
has made him present of a Stradivariu
worth over 5000.
The new theater at Wiesbaden contains
| 1910 seats. The entire orchestra location
can be lowered out of sight by hydraul
screws, for Wagner operas, or lifted III
for Italian works. The emperor him
| self designed his box. This theater cos
| Sl,O00OO0. The emperor grants an an
nual subvention of $50, ,000 TO the manage
ment.
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A Lady of Fashion

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which gems Yet purely from the romantic point
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Professor Max Frankel has recently
issued a folio containing gems from
"Ujiji' and some of his later compost.
tions.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-03
WHAT WILL THE END BE?

The resources of the government fol
| the past two years have been insult
ficient 10 meet the ordinary current ex-
penses One hundred million dollars
in bonds have been sold and still there
is nine dollars Of floating debt for every
dollar in sight with which to pay it,
Not even our almost unbounded credit
as nation has been equal to holding
the confidence of foreign investors
who are not only demanding their in
terests, rents and dividends in gold as
fast as they fall due, but who refuse
anywhere, and the president of the
nation is begging congress to authorize
loan equal to one-fourth of the entire
cost of the war, or of five hundred mil
lion dollars. The country has run
squarely up against an unsurmOunt-
able wall and must turn back or we're
iii another direction and that imme-
diately. The situation is grave even
to threatened disaster, such as this
nation never experienced. In addition
to our railroad debts and municipal
debts, which are held abroad, and the
land and manufactures owned by for
eignerS, we are paying two hundred
millions Of gold annually to Europe for
doing our shipping and for giving our
nabobs a good time in their travels. All
told these sums amount i'll the aggre-
gate to over one million of dollars per
day which must go in gold to Europe,
to offset the mighty current. Unless
confidence is restored and this great
stream is turned back for reinvest-
ment Il rich mans panic will follow in
the next few months of such magni-
tude and far reaching consequences as
will not be recovered from i'm a genera
ton. Everybody realizes this while all
talk of fiat money, parity of metals and
the like have ceased and the dema-
gogue has subsidized.
The problem which congress has to
deal is to relieve the treasury without
upsetting the currency system of the
country too suddenly. To do this it is
proposed to sell bonds and redeem
and relieve the legal tender notes, sub
stituting national bank notes of not
less than ten dollars denomination
thereby forcing silver and silver notes
into circulation. However, bankers
and boards of trade throughout the
country are divided in opinion. In
truth no man can see the need further
than that everybody realizes that this
country is SO vast and rich that it can
and will pay the debts incurred in its
wild speculative boOms. The way once
provided for taking care of the aggre-
gate debt, confidence will be restored
and good times will be with us again.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-03
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

B. L. Farjeon, the novelist, at
tributes all the good fortune which
has been his to the luck-giving New
Zealand greensboro which he has car
ried for years on his watch chain.
Sir Isaac Newton, in his Common
taries on Daniel" says that the &C.
clesiastical festivals were originally
fixed at cardinal points in the year,
without reference to the dates of the
incidents, dates which it was impossi-
BILE TO ascertain.
Beatrice Harraden thinks that the
women of the United States have few
things to complain of, and she admires
their franlSness, honesty, cleverness
and lack of affectation. She partic-
larly Likes the way American girls
behave about men"
Ira Ward, born in Connecticut
April Q, 1896. and his wife Hannah
Graves Crumpton Ward, born in Yer
mont, October II, 1897. are living on a
farm near New Hudson, VT They
were married November 16, 1877, sew
enty-seven years age.
Prof. John Stuart Blackie, the ia
nous author. is one of the sights of
Marlborough. His active life runs
through three generations aud at
eighty-six he is still vigorous Sur
viving so many famous men who were
his friends, he is justly called the last
O. the Scots"
Foreign papers say that the report
,x-h
broken engagement with the crown
prince of Roumania attracted world
wide attention, had been married Is
erroneous 1t seems that 1t was her
cousin, the daughter of the court-mar-
shall, T. Vacarescu, who became the
wife of Paul Catargi
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker at
tributes her good health in her old age
to the fact that she employs an cleo
trical or magnetic masseur at least
twice a week. Mrs. Stowe has the
same treatment, and is strong IN body,
though not in mind. IL Is a theory
with Mrs. Hooker that one can keep
young forever in this way.
Miss Emily Gerry, who died few
days ago. linked the days of indie
pendeDce with the present time She
was the daughter Of Elbridge Gerry,
signer OF the Declaration OF indie
penoence, governor, vice-president, and
from whose name the word gerry
mander" was made, and was ninety
three years old. having been born when
her father was ifty-seven-
Writers of fiction should be careful
how they trifie with natural science
One popular novelist described with
much eloquence q tropical ful! moon.
and represented as occurring immedf-
ately afterward a total eclipse OF the
sun. an astronomical impossinility AZ
such time An American novelist
represents one of his characters as
pointing 10 a certain star in the course
of conversation, and names as the ex-
act date of the incident day when
the star is visible IN no par. OF the
earth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-03
OKLAHOMA OUTLINE s.

This is the month in which Jewell was
| TO hang at Woodward
| Down at Blackwell the ice on the river
| is six inches thick and still freezing.
Blackwell by the last of this week will
be able TO talk to Wichita by telephone
| Somebody has seen fit to remark that
| there was no strings on Shoestring
! Smith.
The school board at Perry is in doubt as
| to whether a mechanics lien against a
public building will hold
| 1t is slowly developing that the resolu-
! ton in Oklahoma is to be weapon OF de-
tense for all ages TO come.
! No one believed those charges against
Judge McAtee any way. The judge is a
man whom the people like.
! r. T. Wray of Ponca City was a friend
| of 10. Campbell who was found dead IN a
hotel in Wichita the other day.
The contractors of the Choctaw pay the
men who work for them 81 % a day and
charge them 81 week for board
| Alfred Percy Daniels is still with the
legislature at Guthrie. Is Daniels trying
TO be the Sam Wood OF Oklahoma?
The old Beaver Advocate has been
changed to the Beaver Herald, and Misses
Lilly and Dorothy Wright are editing it.
| The requirements for entrance into the
I tAuO VI I-iAiu - mat Gil up
| rlicant shall prove that he owes a million
dollars.
+ Mary and Myrtle and Maggie Bills are
! three babies that were born at Yukon one
night last week. Their mother is Mrs..
/ Douglass Bills.
! The land in West Oklahoma City over
which Couch and Adams had their feud
/ has at last been awarded 10 DR.. Higgins,
/ one of the contestants.
| ]. H. Wheeler has been appointed TO the
mighty Office OF inspector general of the
militia of Oklahoma He will have to in
spect about forty-three men,
/ The fire-boys at Oklahoma City never
knew how fast they could go until the re-
port was brought TO them the other day
that Gristmill Jones' establishment was
on fire.
Judge Burford in a public letter says
I there can be no well-grounded reason
against criticism of a judges conduct,
ideas or decisions. Judge Burford always
was considerable of a man.
Whittinghill of Enid poked his head in
on the legislature the other day. He had
a silk-hat on and George Orner had to
move a suspension of the rules until the
council got over its surprise
Although the Usage Indians are worth
$S,O0o.Gc0 the government supports them
right along as though they were so many
raupers- What is the matter with the
government any way? Is is crazy?
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THE CoNsuMMATED JOB.

|. 1t will not be surprising if the people
of southwest Kansas now conclude
that the Eagles editorial of Thursday
morning, in which it was suggested
| that the present state administration
was in immediate danger of being de-
voured by the political wolves and vul
lures, was well founded For years,
and through Republican. Democratic
and Pop state administration alike. no
man, no city, no section of the state
outside of the old political den We're
ever conceded anything more than the
crumbs and Stops not desired by the
wolves and vultures. This is as true
of political honors and preferment as
to state institutions. Outside of the
rhomboidal pocket, Swallowed by the
wings of the vultures and prOwled over
by the wolves, the exceptions where in
dividuals were recognized or hOnOred
are few,as TO state patronage orinstitu
tions granted. none Topeka has been
at once the vent hole and the main en-
trance, the place for the principal
screeches and howls, as also the prim-
airy receptacle. A recognition of this
one-sided arrangement, the general
conviction that there was little hope
for anybody or anything outside of the
den, was found materialiZed in the Won
derful and enthusiastic support award
ed Ralph Burton for the United States
senate. Topeka, with the lions share
of all the important offices, federal
and state, and with the interest of the
greatest railway corporation in the
nation conferred in her, had no claim or
right to a railway commissioner. Not
only do the entire people of the state
recognize that the placing of one there,
was either a job or preconcerted ar
rangement, but the officials who are
responsible will be made to feel it just
as sure as that Ralph Burton could
through sentiment developed of like
impositions in the past command fifty
one Republican voters for United
States senator in caucus.