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RRDRLL. Departed to DO with Christ. at the
Hotel Bcresford. suddenly. on Dec. 0. 1897. Julia,
wife of the late Right Rev. Gregory Thurston
Bedeli and daughter of the late James Strong, in
the 18th year OF her age.
Funeral services will be held in the Church of the
Ascension. 9th av. and 10th st., on Monday. Dec.
IS. at 1880 In the morning. Intsrment at Gam
bier. o.
BLIss.-on Thursday, the 9th inst. at her residence.
l49 West 9th ST.. Louisa Catherine Bliss. daugh.
ter of the late Robert Bliss. aged SO years.
Funeral services at Grace Church Chantry, Broad.
way and 10th ST., Monday. the 18th inst, at 1880
A n. lnterment at Philadelphia
DE LINA.-Sarah ". A. De Lima, widow OF David
A. De Lima.
Funeral from her late residence, the Dakota, !
West 72d ST.. Monday, Dec. IS. at 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
Dec. ~. 1897. Peter Lang. in the e9th
year OF his age.
Relatives and friends arc invited to attend the
funeral service at his late residence. 1870 East 5sth
ST., Tuesday. Dec. II. 1897. At 7. N. Interment at
convenience OF family. Philadelphia papers please
copy.
MALGOLM.-on Dec. 10. 1897. Francis Malcolm.
aged ~ years aud 9 months.
The relatives and friends arc respectfully invited to
attend the funeral on Monday. Dec. 10. at g p. NJ.
from his late residence. 2ot Rodney St. Brook.
Ign. L. d.
REED On Sunday. 18th inst. Mary c. Reed. mother
of Edwin L. Reed and sister OF william J. Ken
nard. in the 6lst year OF her age.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
RIDDLEsTORFFRR After q protracted illness,
Amy. daughter OF the late George Adolphus Rid,
dlestorrer OF Burgess Hill. Sussex. England, in
her b7th year.
Friends are respectfully invited to attend tho
funeral service, which will be held at her late
residence, WyEcham Cottage. horristown, n j.,
on Tuesday evening, Dec. IL. at 7 O'Clock. Inter.
ment private, at Woodlawn. English papers in
the county OF Sussex please copy.
o Saturday, Dec. II, Rebecca Wilson.
widow OF John Wilson.
Funeral services will be held At the residence OF her
daughter. Mrs. r. NJ. Smart. Boulevard. near North
st., Bayoune. y. J.. Monday evening, 18Th inst. at
O'Clock. Relatives and friends OF the family arc
respectfully invited to attend. Interment in New
York Bay Cemetery. at convenience of the family.
Kindly omit flowers.
WIsE.-suddt My. Dec. l2. 1897, at his residence,
bs West 5lst ST., New York city. James Lawrence
Wise, In the saith year OF his ago.
Notice OF funeral hereafter.
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For the first time since the junior class gave
q ball at Columbia College, that annual feature
of the college year will not take place in the
buildings. The university authorities would
not allow the use Of tho new library uptown
and offered the gymnasium. But that was not
looked upon as q satisfactory substitute. and
the ball will DO given at a Fifth avenue res.
have made a difference in the attendance II
the gymnasium had been used, but 1t is more
buildings under such favorable circumstances
would have more than compensated for any
ineSnvepience which the location "a Of the college
TONED. Tho Junior balls at Columbia have pass.
commencement, which was not many years
ago, they drew an attendance which was rath.
81, 100 modish to be wholly representative OF
the crowds that attended them grew so large
that for another reason they could scarcely hc
the college classes. Later thcy took on Just
the right quality. and that made them. what.
students.' Then they were always held in tho
college library IN foTty'ninth street an admir-.
ho oS ed ' BY many yoF Of 'q The g = r sauPos that. t rs no.
ferred 10 a ballr ON that Is IN frequent use for
all sorts q social Gathering. tho college
Indeed, disappear entirely, The students are
said to have objected 10 the use OF the gytnna.
than any place outside OF the college, even II IL
were not so desirable as the new college Ii.
brRry.
Those interesting ladies OF the chorus who
draw their Sl4 per week and throw the glamour
OF their beauty over upper Broadway arc some
times admired for their thrift and good manage.
ment, out few of them were ever 70 business,
like "a one Amazon In an uptown chorus. she
Is one OF a stalwart group That arpears IN sew:
eral kinds of apparel between y O'Clock and half
past ~ every night, and that al OF these 90"
tunes possess the common attribute OF being
quite without skirts is a compliment to the
young woman's ability to stand comparison
with the rest of the especially selected group
that repres ents the pick OF the chorus. She IL
active on the stage, and she must, moreover, be
industrious behind the scenes. as the audiences
remember when the curtain falls that her par.
ticular pair have been successiyely. red, blue
and black. but she combines with this the bust
ness of conducting a flower shop only q few
blocks down the street from the music hall at
which sbr appears. Every morning by 10
o'clock she may be seen in her place AT the shop
ready for customers, or busted about the place
in some way. She Is not averse to tho hard
work OF the business when IL Is necessary, an.
on the cold mornings stands In front OF the shop
directing tho cleaning OF tho establishment
with RS much cnIhEsiasm as she parades
! through Lhe Amax0A mAEehsSs
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bo" Dockstauer writes: Il saw in THE SUN
an advertisement OF a novelty 10 entitled The
Animated Music Sheet and a warning by
Anna Held and her manager, Mr.. ZiegHeld, to
the eject that 1t had been copyrighted. de-
siro to state that 1t is not a novelty. / pro-
duoed 1t for the first time on any stage in 1887
at Dockstader's, now the Jonah Theatre. IL
was performed by my ministries under the
little OF The Musical Blizzard II remained
a feature. Of the performance all that season
anu the Following. season on the road in the
prlhcipai c!lnes, A number Of organizations
ago, and now Miss Held and her manager are
Trying 20 make the American public believe
that they are producing something original
ana new. II was advertised by special iithu.
graphs in the shape Of a 2s.sheet stand pictur-
1ng the stan OF music, the notes being repre-.
scented by tho heads of negroes. 1t was never
Sopyrlgtted nor patented by me. and is there.
lection TO Miss Held or any one else prodnUciTmg
It, still, would like the matter rightcd in Inc
for my new ~ COON p%%ii eon * I Want WANT, r Mg y myself
conclusion allow me 10 state, please. that | do
,ass a srcS;i hhss He'd Of piracy: or Of trying TO
she has beer enormously informed.
1t requires rather a long theatrical memory.
to recall Alice Athcrton when she was a shapely
member OF the old ColyiiIo burlosquers, and.
with Willie Eiouin and Marie Williams,
headed tho extravaganza which that company
used to produce. She was younger and simmer
and she was clever. But she is much more Of
an artist now than she was in those DAYS. Her
laughing song nj Roster & Bial's Is the most
artistic piece OF music hall work that atnge has
divulged since \ vettc tiui!bcrt sang there. lie
sketch OF the London bar maid, which she gives
nraL. Is as eNpertly done. Hut burlnHids are
nknow types TO New York audiences. LuuK-
lily for the citizens who peIrunizO barrOulns lLey
Gro not compelled To come under their nIercies,
30 there is some compensation in seeing the
clever bit Of comedy which Miss Atherton gives
(Al to mako Its full effect with our audiencaa
DettsF u should forever remain unappTeciSted
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Watch the Smoke

If man smokes his cigar only long
enough to keep it lighted, and relishes
taking it from his mouth to cast look
at the curl of the smoke in the air, set
him down as an easy going man. Beware
of the man who never releases his grip
on his cigar, and is Indifferent whether
it burns or not; he is cool, calculating
and eXacting.
The man that smokes bit, rests bit
and fumbles the cigar more or less, is
easily axected by circumstances. If the
cigar goes out frequently, the smoker
has whole-souled disposition, is
hail fellow well met" with a lively
brain, glib tongue, and generally a fine
fund of anecdotes.
A nervous man who fumbles his cigar
a great deal is sort of a popinjay among
men. Holding thee igar constantly be-
tween the teeth, chewing it occasionally
and not caring if it is lighted at all, are
the characteristics of men who have the
tenacity Of bulldogs. The fop stands
his cigar on end, and an experienced
smoker points it straight ahead, or al
most at right angles with his course
Tid-Bits.
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pride and pet these boys are, came into
the hall, and when, at the conclusion OF
the number we were introduced, tears
| stood in the eyes of both-not because
we were introduced but because of the
| spirit In the music which we had
both been made to feel so keenly, and
| neither Mr.. Walter nor l are what could
be termed victims of the habit of weep
ing.
He sat down and told me many inter-
esting things about the boys, their life
and their home. 1t seems that in the
extreme southern part of Hungary there
Is small town called Billed, which
was originally settled by the Saxons, and
which now has population of less than
5000 people, where the men still wear
knee breeches and three -cornered hats
and where the streets are so narrow that
two people can reach out of windows on
the opposite sides and shake hands. No
need of anti-htching ordinances in
Billed because wagons can't get into
them. These small lads are not Gypsies,
but are directly descended from the old
Saxons, who intermarred with the Hun
garians, and they seem to have all the
best qualities of their ancestors of both
nationalities. Mr.. Walter says they are
polite, obedient to the letter and good;
they never quarrel-dont know what it
is; are loyal and brave as little lions; and
music is their very life The moment
they are out of bed in the morning they
rush for their instruments and begin
to play.
Their fathers are fully educated Hun
garian magnates not laboring people but
of the higher middle classes, or just one
degree removed from nobility. Many
of them are musicians in the army, and
the boys come from the military school
at Billed, which is maintained by the
government for the education Of musi-
clans for the military bands, and which
was founded in the fourteenth century.
The strictest military discipline is main
tained there, and children are admitted
from four years up, or whenever their
musical talent is discovered.
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these little magnates now, fitted up like
hotel, and they will live in that car
for the next two years, while they are
travelling and stopping, as they will, in
all the principal cities in America.
am booking their tour now, and when
they leave here they will go direct to
Boston.
I'm Vienna, on the way over, they
gave series of concerts to packed
houses; they played in Dreher's park
before 1900 people, ladies came in car
riages loaded with flowers, which they
showered upon them, and the empress
of Austria was there and sent each
member Of the band 81 bouquet. In
Bremen they gave three concerts, and
at the last the mayor made speech and
presented each boy with a one mark
piece for luck.
You will notice that the makeup of
the band differs from the American
brass organizations. There are no cor
nets, but fluegelhorns in place of them:
then the trombones are manipulated
with valve instead of pushing in and
out, the regular army trombone; again
there are three instead of four French
or Wald horns, and two Es claronets
take the place of flutes. This is all done
for betterng the effect in the ensemble"
And as the band burst into Sousa's
king Cotton" march conversation for
the time being was suspended.
EVA MITCHELL COOK.
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"Wednesday morning, thanks to the
courtesy OF the Orpheum management,
1 was bidhen to hear Kaiser Franz
Josefs Magyar Husaren Knaben-
Kapelle-wh The hour
had been et for 10 o'clock, and 1 was
there. had heard the brilliant perform
ance of theboys Monday night, and was
enchanted At the prospect of more
informal, hort-range squint at them
The courteous Mr.. Bray met me at the
door and dcorted me up the stairway
to large III in the Orpheum building,
where the Interesting ordeal Is con-
Quoted.
AS we refhed the second floor a riot
Gus saturr4ia of sound crashed out
Mr.. Bray bened the door of the hall,
and, behold there seated on three sides
of holloWsQuare were the little Hun
garians, lbwing until their eyes
bulged. anJnaking E. noise that sounded
like nothin so much as Pandemonium
and Bedlanmixed and in a lively state
of fermenttion.
Could 1t E that the young cherubs,
WHcSc cApSlte accuracy, DeautlIul,
richly mellS tones, delightful phrasing
and comp,t ensemble work, had
commandeth,y respectful admiration a
couple of Khts before had suddenly
been trans4med into small but active
f1ends? Hafhey all gone mad at once?
Was it a 1riety of Hungarian music
with whicl I was not familiar? The
bandmasteiwas not there-what had
happened the children in his ab-
scence? l liked helplessly at Mr.. Bray
That geieman smiled reassuringly
and said: They are just warming up
their instrhents!" Warming up their
instrument indeed! Well, either those
instrumentor my ear drums would
have n hobox within thirty seconds
II that infho kept up. But it didn't.
Just then iwalked Herr kapelmeister,
and with T military precision which
marks theievery move, the small imps
closed theirmall mouths, took the in
struments torture therefrom, stood
upon their nall feet and saluted.
He is veryoung, is this clever Mix
las Schilzoi, musician director and
master OF tfboys' band. Only 90 and a
graduate ofe same school from which
these boys pme. He has since been
an instruction the school. When he
was but 19ears old he directed the
stats kape in Siebenburgen, and he
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band, and who has entire charge of their

band, and who has entire charge of their
physical and mental requirements. He
teaches them for couple of hours a
day in reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic,' -
attends to their rising and retiring, and
motherly Hungarian woman manages
the commissary department, cooks
Hungarian dishes and attends generally
to their little inner men.
They don't like fancy cooking, won't
touch rare beef nor beefsteak; they like
their beef boiled, plain, nourishing food,
delicacies like sausage and ham, soup
and vegetables with plenty of paprika
in everything. They do not drink
either tea or coffee, but light Hun
garian wine, and they won't touch
pastry, these small Huns, nor ice cream
because it "burns their stomachs."
''The boys have plenty of exercise
every day." said Mr.. Walter land they
are growing so fast and getting so fat
that they are outgrowing their uni
FORMS" And I glanced at the wall,
where said uniforms were hanging in
a row, brilliant splash of color against
the dull background. There they hung,
braided Jackets and trousers, russet
be-spurred boots, glittering swords, and
caps with their perky white pompons.
Some of the trousers were inside out,
evidently having been literally peeled
off the night before and silent yet elo-
quent testimonial of Mr.. Walters words.
"They are the full military hussar
uniform, perfect in every DETAIL" said
he, land you will notice the shape Of
the swords-and they are none Of your
toy tin swords. either, but Of the finest
tempered steel, and the curve in the
handle signifies the magnate, and none
but magnates are allowed to wear them.
am having car built expressly for
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MR.. GEORGES POSTHUMoUs BOOK
Ready for the Press and Will Bear the
Title of "My Political Economy,

AlIlC VI &NAJ OlAt4Cdl
New York, Sunday.-Henry Georges
unpublished book, MY Political Econ
omy," will soon be given into the hands
of the printers. 1t is q sequel to prog
ress and Poverty" Henry George spent
several years on it and only dropped it
to plunge into the campaign which cost
him his life. But his book is DONE
81 have it SO far DONE" he said, only O
week ago, that in the event of my death
any competent literary man could finish
it." He said this to Louis +. Post, his
faithful lieutenant in the great cam
paign Of 1886, who hurried from Cleve-
land by the first train east when he
heard of Henry Georges death.
"Mr. George" said he tonight at the
Union Square hotel, "took more pains
over his work than any man I ever
knew. He would write and rewrite a
chapter till he finally got it to suit him.
1t will prove remarkable book. 1t deals
mainly with the subject of political
economy, starting from first principles
and working up to finished conclusions.
1t treats of many things as they never
have been treated before. The work is
divided into three parts. At first it was
intended to put it into one volume, but
the money question suddenly developed
into a great issue and one so important,
and took up so much space, that he
deemed it best to divide the book in two.
The money question is dealt with in the
supplement. The main body of the worl.
is now, for convenience, divided into
three parts. They are: The Nature of
Wealth. The Nature of Production and
The Nature of Distribution Each is
discussed just as Mr.. George would have
discussed it in a speech"
The publication of the fathers last
words now falls on the son, Henry. lie
will attend to the preliminary details
as soon as the campaign is ended. 1t
will be on the market within thirty days.
The son has issued the following state
ment:
II am an affectionate son of mos,
loving father. Between US has subsist-
ed the closest companionship. I have II
clear understanding of and profound
admiration for all that he has said and
done. A man has but one life to live.
solemnly dedicate mine to the cause
to which my father gave his. ."-Chicago
Tribune.
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is still IN army vice. He has entire
cnarge OF tne Dc musical education,
ana drills them hours every day
he mas great aty in technique; the
national fire turtn his blood, and he
plays upon the u as upon an instru-
ment, which resns to every slightest
but mastery molent of his baton.
Motioning the IS to be seated, the
rehearsal commen at once and with a.
Will. 1t was the hing's program and
the first numbeney grappled with
was the RakocsHerture, with it's
delicious harmoniits wild tumult of
feeling, its fiery ng. All semblance
of the discordanttieks had vanished
and through the low richness of the
basses ran the cl limpid sweetness
of the clarinets.
Everything see1 to be going as
smoothly as heart Id wish, when sud
denly the Warninht-tat-tat Of the
~aton on the muFack implied that
something was at It somewhere, and
Herr Schilzonyi's n ear had detect
ed It, The music sped promptly and
in low kindly toneIe never raises his
votce) the conductn unctuous Ger
man made his cotton. or sugges-
tion. or asked a qubn which was an
swered In q sweetldish voice. and
the phrase was lated. For two
hours the rehearsa4ed, with three or
rour snort intermihs in which the
children got up, 4ched their little
legs, chatted toget strolled about
and rested, and tHthey went at it
again, with trumhnd drum"
For two hours thEorked, with fire.
quent corrections, phg the same bars
over and over. Ye all that time
there waB not sh. impatient, or
even tired gesture Epression. and
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scarlet line followed the outside seam
Of their pant-lets, their jackets had a
military cut, and their vizored caps
ditto. All their shoes were freshly
blacked, heel as we'll as toe, and the
small feet in them kept up merry tat
too in time to the music-not on the
floor, bless you, no. three-fourths of
them can't reach the floor, but against
one another or the chair legs; they We're
all going, though, in unison, quite diff
ferent from the repose they show on
the stage where each little pair is
tightly crossed and clinched to keep
them decorously quiet.
AT the rehearsal, however, there was
more latitude allowed, and although
their faces, hands, necks, even their ears
were as spotless and well groomed as
were their uniforms and shoes, they
gave unQuestionable evidence in many
ways that they are healthy, wholesome.
normal, happy boys, rarely gifted. un-
der as strict military discipline abroad
as when at home, but Il never see a
cleaner, more stylish mess O. children
in my life" (thanks, Mrs. Wiggin-
Riggs than are these same small Hun
garian musicians. And they are mu-
sicians in the best sense of that much
abused term.
If you don't believe it, try to play any
of the instruments that these boys
handle with such consummate ease and
skill. Take trombone or bass tuba
and see what happens at the other end,
see how hard you have to work to get
any sound at all, then try to get the
tone mellow and rich instead of a blar-
ing bleat. Take trumpet or a cornet
or fiuegelhbrn and see If you can get
any shading in tone; take clarinet and
see if it doesn't keep you occupied the
rest of your life to get the results that
these boys have already achieved; try
to start with the precision and end with
the same, that characterizes the work
of these midgets, and you will be able
to understand how remarkable are their
achievements, how wonderfully capable
they are individually and as a band.
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F, Mr.. Walter, when he went abroad this
summer in search of musical novelties.
remembered the Billed school, from
which some of the greatest composers
have come, and which has graduated
most of the material for the Austrian
bands, that are the best in the world, and
he went there and heard these boys play.
But he found it very difficult to persuade
their parents and the government to let
him have them. Finally, however, they
were allowed to come, that the outside
world might see and know their talent,
and Mr.. Walter signed contract to re-
turn them inside of two years and
clinched the matter with deposit of 5000
gulden.
With the boys, besides Kapelle-meis-
ter Schilzonyi, is Mikel Nussbaum who
plays one of the fluegelhorns in the
The herald., 1897-11-14
Vigorous Action Necessary

There should be no mincing of mo-
tives and yelling of crimes in the attack
on political corruption. The men who
plunder the people and who hold up can
didates. and office-holders are thieves
and blackmailers. They should get
their proper titles and the full benefit of
the law. Corrupt bosses" is too gen.
eral term for thieves who deserve the
pennitentiary. Plain speaking and Wig
orous action are needed in the plunder-
ing cities. Boss thieves anu their thiev-
ing tools should be publicly branded as
thieves and sent to Jail.
The herald., 1897-11-14
The Unique and Most Admirable Knaben Kapelle.
Gallant Young Hussars
oUTGRow1Na THEIR SCARLET UNIFORMS LIKE
cREAM-1T BURNS THEIR sToMAcHs
Will Travel
instructors in


thought-Where else could one find thir-
ty-three boys, ranging from to 16, who
would feel such absorbing interest in a
given piece of work, for it was work
even while it was play-which seems
paradoXical-that not one should give
some sign of fatigue or boredum? But
it was even so, and it is because they
love 1t, every one of them, to the mar
row of their little beings, and there was
the liveliest interest in each little face
the whole time.
The only sign Of fatigue about that
rehearsal was the uniform. In place
of the brilliant red, the diminutive
magyars were garbed in navy blue, a