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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-23
Polps Wonderland Theater.

Eugene O'Rourke and Miss Ada Dare
made their first New Haven appearance
in vaudeville at Polls Wonderland
theater yesterday, being greeted by
large audiences both afternoon and
evening. Both artists appear quite at
ease in their new surroundings, and one
would hardly recognize them as former
legitimate stars, so naturally do they
cotton to vaudeville. After the French
Ball. the lively comedy sketch in
which they appear, is well adapted to
their powers, and they make unlimited
fun in developing the situations COM
monty understood to follow an evening
at the liveliest Of all New York func-
tions. Both are sweet singers, and they
render quite a number of catchy songs
during the SKETCH Mr.. Morrissey, who
was formerly associated with Mr..
Sherman as the star of "a Jay Cir
Gus" appears with Fee Lung, a genuine
line Chinaman, and the only one on the
American stage, and they Introduce a
lively comedy and acrobatic diversion.
Others on the bill who present highly
entertaining specialties are Lewis and
Ernest, Mr.. Howard and Miss Bland
Cooke and Hertz, Miss Hazel Burt and
her pickanninies, Ray Burton, and
Barry and Bannan. The show is well
distributed between sensation, novelty
and comedy, and ought to prove a
strong attraction all the week.
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Grand Opera House.

At the matinee performance at the
Grand Opera house yesterday the house
was completely packed, hundreds being
unable to gain admission. end in the
evening it was the same thing. There
will be matinee to-day; prices 10, Is
and 25 cents, and the performance will
be repeated in the evening, when the
engagement closes.
If there is anything in name 1.-THE
Sidewalks of New York" promises well
and will no doubt be the recipient of
considerable public favor during it's
coming engagement at the Grand
Opera house on Wednesday and Thurs
day evenings. AS it's title would indi-
cate, the piece is supposed to be a living
reflex Of the characters, scenes and in
cidents indigenous to the streets of the
metropolis The scenes are sketched
from life and painted by that incom-
parable artist, John H. Young, of the
Broadway theater. superb scene of
Herald Square, with the New York
Herald Office illuminated in the imme-
date background, is pronounced the
best that ever emanated from his facile
brush. Tt shows every Broadway de-
tail, including the owls that wink from
the cornices. The street characters in
troduced in this act are accurately
copied from life and illustrate the
varied human types to be seen nightly
in that neighborhood. 1.-THE Sidewalks
of New York" however. does not de-
pend upon stage settings for success
for it is full of strong situations rapid
of action and sensational of denoue-
ment.
The great leap is made by Kearney
P. Speedy, the champion high diver OF
the world, who plunged 13S feet from
the st. Louis bridge into general no.
| toriety. Through this valuable proxy
the hero rescues his best girl, who has
| been thrown off the dock by the worst
villain unhung. The dramatic process
| is replete with startling situations, the
| tank scene being merely one of them
| There will be matinees Wednesday and
/ Thursday. Prices TO- IS and 20 cents.
The present season will be the third
and last of "A Run on the Bank" in
which Ward and VOkes have so firmly
established themselves as farce comedy
| favorites. f. d. Stair, the gentleman
who directs the interests of this due
l of popular fun makers, has engaged g
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.ENTERTAINMENT rs,


Mr.. John Hare. the distinguished
English actor, and his London Garrick
theater company will appear at the
| Hyperion on Friday evening next.
The very best play in Mr.. Hare's
repertoire has been selected for his en-
gagement here. 1t is "A Pair of Spec
tacles," in which the actor has now
won international fame. The part that
Mr.. Hare plays is that of "Mr. Ben
jamin Goldfnch," a retired merchant.
1t is character of ideal sweetness,
simplicity and generosity-a man who
loves his friends, listens to tales of woe
with a credent ear. suffers with the
| suffering of others, and rejoices to eX-
pend himself, his sympathy and his
money in the cause of friendship or
poverty. Soon after the action begins
Mr.. Goldfinch renews his acquaintance
with his brother Gregory-a Sheffield
manufacturer, a hard-headed, penuri-
Gus, selfish, prosaic and worldly soul,
who believes in nothing that he does
not see, who looks with suspicion upon
everything and everybody, and regards
his brothers scheme of life as foolish
|
of his strong rough vocabulary to ex-
press. Through two or three small
cynical triumphs-only one of which is
sound and pernanent-Gregory sue
ceeds In injecting his brother with his
own suspicious incredulousness and in
souring the abundant milk Of kindness
in his brothers breast. The result is
that the sun goes out Of Benjamin's
life; his lavish super confidence in all
human nature. and especially in the
men and women he loves, gives place to
a hideous general distrust He sus-
poets all the tradesmen who serve him,
his cook, his housekeeper, his faithful
old butler his manly and gentle son,
his honorable friends, and finally his
sweet young wife. Presently it is made
to appear however, not only that
Gregory's doubts and denials are near
ly all false and that Beniamin's loves
and condolences We're safe and sound,
but that the consequences of Gregory's
harshness and brutality has been to
bring suffering and distress upon his
son, and to make that son for a time
a liar and a hypocrite. Benjamin
comes back to his old optimism, and
views the WOflQ III more rOSeale nue.
than ever before. The tale Is told with
delightful briliiancy and hunor. This
play will be preceded by "Six Persons, -
by I. Zangwill. Sale Of seats opens this
morning.
Comedian Crane, who comes to the
Hyperion theater next Monday, is at
present in Boston, where his new play
"A Fool of Fortune" has made a very
pronounced hit. The critics were as a
unit in declaring the play to be the
best work the comedian has had since
1.-THE Senator" and he was given much
praise for his acting in it. The bust
ness being done by the play in Boston
is said to be enormous, the audiences
nightly testing the capacity of the Hol-
lis street theater. Mr.. Crane will bring
with him to this city a very strong
company and the production to be made
will not differ in any detail from that
which was seen in New York through
out the six weeks the play held sway
there. Sale Of seats opens Thursday.
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YEsYERDAY IN THE COURTS.

Motion to Dismiss Mrs. Hicks Divorce
Case OverruIed-Patent Infringement
Suit Argued-February Term of United
States Circuit Court Comes in To-day
Other Court Notes.
In the superior court yesterday at
ternoon Judge Shumway handed down
decision in the divorce suit of Isabelle
Hicks of Tolland, in which he overrules
"a motion to dismiss the case.
Judge ShunWay filed a memorandum
of the decision as follows:
lit is not intended by the decision to
relieve the plaintiff of any burden to
prove the facts necessary to give him
jurisdiction in this court The defend
ant seeks by this motion to deprive the
plaintiff of hearing in this state. He
has failed to prove the facts alleged
to the effect that the defendant had not
continuously resided in the state for
three years prior to the date of this
complaint"
In reference to the claim that there
was no actual service of the complaint
on the defendant, Judge Shumway
says:
'It seems that this writ passed into
the hands Of the confidential clerk of
the defendant and was within one day
delivered to the defendants counsel in
Bridgeport"
Now that the plea to the jurisdiction
of the court has been disposed of, the
question of alimony pending the trial
of the suit will be considered.
PATENT SUIT ARGUED
In the United States court yesterday
afternoon arguments were made and
the case went on for a final hearing in
the suit of George A. Kinner VS.. George
Shepard & Son, both of Bethel, Conn,
an allegation of infringement on patent
for wire hat brim. .-...
Ex-Commissioner William E. Simonds
of Hartford appeared for the complain
ant and E. B. Barnum for the defend
ant
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1rnited States Circuit Court.

The February term of the United
States circuit court will come in to-day
when the grand and the petit juries will
report A long list of criminal cases
are on the docket for trial
DAMAGES TO PLAINTIFF.
In the suit of William B. Foote Of
Branford against the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad for $4,000
damages for alleged injury done to his
property by reason of the change of
grade on Montowese street In Bran
ford. Judge Shunway yesterday award
ed the plaintiff nominal damages Of
$500.
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grauellcrs' Guide.
New York, New Haven and
Hartford II. r.


FOR NEW YORK-*4:05, 1850. x6:0o.
"7:l5. $500, $50 $3.50, @9:S5, xlO:S0 a. M
$1,000, 1905, $3.50 (parlor car limitedl.
*l:S5, LAS, $3.50, 300. $500, a4:l7, 20.
$3.50, $50, "1:lO, $40, (S:15 Bridgeport ac-
commodauon), 1910, 9:l5 p. m. Sum
days-"4;O5, 1850, 500 a. m., x4:SO, x6:15.
*7;lO, $40, SIS, 1910 p. m.
FOR WASHINGTON via Harlem
River-"1:05, *11:50 p. m, (dally1
FOR BOSTON via Springfield-.1.1O
xlole. "i1:05 a. M, *1:45, $3.50 n M
Sundays-*1:10 (night), $3.50 D. m.
FOR BOSTON via New London and
Providence-*2:1O, 1920. "11:S5 (parIor
car hmited) a. M, "12:O5, $500. 500
"4:55, $3.50 p. m. Sundays-s2:10 9.2o
a. m, $4;55, s6:55 ps m.
FOR MERIDEN. HARTFORD
SPRINGFIELD, .Etc.-*1:1O (nirhtH
$40, 500, x10:10, %11:05 a. M. 1905 " az
Sl5, 800, 1852, (6:15 to Hartford), sos.
lO:O5 p. m. Sundays-*1:1O (nightl.
$3.50, 1928 p. m.
NEW LONDON DIVISION
For New London, etc.-*2.10 (night,
1920 (night, 7:55. 1000 (Guilford acc.r
ll.O5, *11.S5 (parlor car limited) a. m.
"l2:o5 $500, 1905, 1920, $3.50, 5:15. S:l5.
(Gullford acc.), 1885, 11:2O (Guilford
acc) p. m. Sundays-*2.1O fnightl.
1920 (nighD, a. M, *4:55, ss:55 D. m.
AIR LINE DIVISION
For Middletown, Willimantic. ere
7:46 a. M. 1855, 1888, sos p. m. Sun.
days-*7:15 p. m. Connecting at MID
dletown with Valley Division and At
W1llimantic with the N. e. r. r. and
n L. N. r. r.; at Turneryille with
Colchester branch.
NORTHAMPTON DIVISION
FOR Shelburne Falls, Turner's Falls.
Williamsburg. Holyoke, New Hart
Ioro ana intermediate stations-7:45 a.
IN. ana 400 p. m. For Westfield
ana intermediate stations, 5:55 b. m.
FOR Pennington, New Hartford and
points this side-7:45 a. M. 1900 4.0o
5:55 p. m.
BERKSHIRE DIVISION.
For Derby Junction, DERBY. Ansonia
etc.-7:Oo. 9:s5, a. M, 1900. 2:ss 400.
5:S5, 7:5o, 11:2O p. m. sundays-s:1o a.
M, $50 p. m.
For Waterbury-7:OO, s:S5 a. M, 1900.
1'o'' o.5o' 800 p. m. Sundays-S:10 a.
tion.)
For Winsted-7:oO, s:35 a. M, 2:3s, 5:s5
p. m. Sundays-8:10 a. m.
for shelton, Botsford, Newtown,
Danbury, Pittsheld, State Line-9:35 a.
| M, 400 p. m.
For Albany, Buffalo, Detroit, Cincin-
natl, st. Louis, Chicago and the West.
via state Line-9:35 a. M, Loo p m.
For Litchf1eld and points on S., L. &.
y. RR.-6:oo a. M (via Bridgeport.
400 p. m. (via Derby Junction..
express Trains. xLocal Express,
G. T. HEMPSTEAD,
General Passenger Agent.
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company of thirty people, who promise
to give the most thoroughly rolliclIing
presentation yet had of the ever laugh
able skit, The roster includes Charles
Guyer, Tony Williams, Joe Kelly,
Charles A. Mason, n, Wilmot Eckert,
Gus Meehan, Gilbertie Learock Mar
garet DAILY Vokes, Emma Francis, EN-
ma Berg, Adelaide Prucilla, Nellie DAILY,
Martha Franklin, Hattie Bernard, Lot
Ia Miranda, Sadie Whitcomb and
enough others to make the seasons
catch line of go to 3" "A Run on the
Bank" will be presented at the Grand
Opera house Friday and Saturday eve
nings. There will be matinees Friday
and Saturday. Prices 10, Is and 25
cents.
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''The result, after four hours use, was as,
founding. l slept like a top that night, ana
In a few days was well man. This infalli-
BILE remedy is world beater; may its use
grow daily everywhere"
DR.. Frosts famous remedies are put up
in handy pellet form ana are sold by all
druggists at 25c bottle generally. II you
specialists at Dr. Frosts offices, Phoenix
Building, Springfield, Mass, will charge
nothing for complete examination and
advice. Write freely, IL you cannot call.
Patients from distance provided with
rooms and treated for any chronic disease.
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Patrick Kelly was charged in the
city court yesterday with the theft Of
seven brass patterns, which disappear
cd from the yard of the Consolidated
road last week. Car Inspector Sewall
testified that the patterns were worth
about SIS Judge Dow imposed pen
atty Of IS and costs and twenty days
in Jail
WILL SUE THE CITY.
Mary G. Sherwood of 90 East Pearl
street served notice on the city yester-
day that she would sue for damages for
a fall on an icy sidewalk February g.,
when her hip was broken.
FINED ON THREE COUNTS.
John MCKINLEY, who was charged In
tbe city court yesterday with breach
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Obliged to Take Morphine
To Dsadsn the Agunies Of Rhsuma-
iisr.-.Dr. Frost Cured Him.

Mr.. Il. B, Fisk, foreman Of the Fowler &
Miller Printing Co., 341 Main St, Hartford,
Conn, says
"For eight years l have constantly suf-
fered from rheumatism in its worst form,
rendering me unfit for work, and confining
me at times to my bed l have spent hun
dreds Of dollars on doctors in vain. Re
Gently I went to GOodwins drug store for
morphine pills on a doctors prescription,
but he persuaded me to take Dr. Frost S
Rheumatism Cure,
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STARIN'S NEW HAVEN TRANS
PORTATlON LINE.

Daily Except SATURDAYS.
Str. JOHN H. STARLN, Captain
sn11i 1870 McAlster, leaves New Haven
from Starin's Pier. foot of Brown street, at
days. st ERAssfus eoRyNIN capta
Spoor, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays,
The STARIN leaves New York from Pier Is,
North River, at p. m. Mondays, Wednesdays
days and Thursdays.
Fare, ,75c; excursion tickets. $l.s5. State
rooms, 90.
Tickets and staterooms for sale at e, 2.
Nortons, 85l Chapel street; Peck s. Bishop,
102 Chapel street; Tontine Hotel and A.
Goodman g. 90.
Free stage leaves the depot on arrival oe
Hartford train, and from corner OF Church
and Chapel streets every half hour, commence
ing at $3.50 pm. Through freight rates given
anG bills OF lading issued to points west
Order your freight via Starin Line.
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CALIFORNIA.


Leaving Boston Monday, March 10, and
visiting Chicago, all the Leading Cities and
Resorts of California, including Pasadena,
Echo Mountain, Coronado Beach, San Diego
Los Angeles San Francisco, Monterey, San
ia Cruz, San Jose, Summit of Mount Ham
ilton, San Rafael, and the Sierra Nevada !;
and returning, Salt Lake City, Glenwood
Springs. Manitou, anu Denver. Sojourns at
some of the Finest Hotels in America, in
Guiding The Auditorium, Hotel Green in
Pasadena, Alpine Tavern or Echo Mountain
House, Hotel del Coronado, The Westmin-
ster or Hotel Van Mugs in Los Angeles,
Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Hotel del
Monte, Sea Beach Hotel in Santa Cruz, Ho-
tel Vendome in San Jose, Hotel Rafael The
Knutsford in Salt Lake City, Cliff House or
Barkers Hotel at Manitou Springs, and the
Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. A Delight
full Round of 40 Days under personal escort,
and in leisurely journeys, and without
waste of time
PRICE $3.50,
Including first-class railway travel. dou-
Bile berth in sleeping cars, all hotel accom-
modatons, transfers, carriage rides and in
cidental meals during entire trip
Independent Railroad Tickets via the
Boston & Albany, Boston & Maine, and
Other Lines; also Steamship Tickets to all
points
""*Send for descriptive circular of Special
March Tour.
RAYMOND WHITCOMB,
296 Washington Street, opposite School ST.,
Boston. f22 3t
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-12-23

Reaching trembling hand out TO his
dumb friend as though for confidence,
he whispered, hoarsely:
Gunner, what did she tell you fer
me? What did my old fiddle tell. you %
The governor waited for a moment.
perhaps to steady his voice; then. lay
ing both hands on the shoulders of the
other, his eyes reading with a fathers
tenderness the piteous, expectant face.
he said:
''Abner. she says-the old fiddle says
that you can go back to the noun
tains. And. my man. may God go with
you'll"
The convict stood for a moment like
one struck dumb. a womanish pallor
overspreading his cheek; then. with
cry which his listener never forgot. he
threw his arms around his liberator a nd
sobbed like a heartbroken child.
And the governor was not ashamed to
admit that something frightened in his
throat and broke out at his eyes. too
Nora c. Franklin. in Lippincott's Maya.
zine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-12-23

he placed the instrument in position,
drew the bow, and there sin the still
of the evening let her talk to him."
He was mountain boy himself, and
as the first soft notes fell on the air,
plaintive and piercing like the cry of
the whiPpoorwiil in early spring, he
felt the youth stir in him and heard
again the far call of the hills.
He saw the log cabin high up against
the side of the mountain, where the
laurel and the sumac grew and the
ash made bright the scene with its dark
fruit; where the breeze came laden with
the odor of pine from the forest, and
the birds touched the highest notes in
their shrill treble.
He saw the boy with his sturdy limbs,
his bold blue eyes and his waving hair.
barefoot and scantily clad, searching
for the earliest berries in summer and
the first nuts in the fall-free. joyous,
innocent, happy.
He followed him in the t'long, long
thoughts of a lad across the distant
crest of the Devils Backbone" and
wove with him mystic dramas amid the
shades of the haunted ravine.
He sat with him at the feet of the
poured the crude poetry of his awak-
ened soul into the sensitive instrument
which alone could interpret the mys-
terry within him.
He stood beside him and watched the
blazing pine knots roar up the cabin
chimney, while the old folks in the cor
ner looked at each other across the boy
with that surreptitious tenderness of
the eyes which takes place in those
grown gray, and sure Of each other. of
the more open demonstration.
He saw the whole % years of clean,
humble living; the unaspiring, pastoral
life of the southern mountaineer. COM
panioned of nature; simple. fearless.
brave; scornful of the false. reverent of
the true; tender to weakness. fierce to
wrong; and, alas! uncontrolled as the
elements around him; crushing, in some
mad output of strength. the obstacle in
his way. to stand afterwards in awful
recoil before the unknown potentiali-
ties of his own organism.
Full and swelling were the strains
that issued from the throat of the violin
as it told this idyl of the hills; passion
ate harmonies pulsating like the over
charged heart; long. tender, yearning
notes; sweet. caressing adantes; the
very spirit of love in the guise of sound.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-12-23

will, almost unknowing. find bitter dis
possessed by sweet, and warmth
usurping cold therein. This world is
very fair and charity makes it all the
fairer when its glow reminds US of 1.-The
long. long night that death shall last"
Christmas feeling makes the most of
the now. 1t atones for the after-the
deluge or the dark. 1t is real, life to
live, If but for week, day. a moment,
in full sympathy of helping with our
fellows. If we can make others forget
the past we may forget our own. If
we can but give to others little of the
antidote of kindliness for the poison of
the present we shall find our own to-day
less hopeless. And the future is formed
of the spirit that animates to-day. The
real feeling of Christmas must blossom
into acts.-Detroit Free Press
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-12-23
ITS TRUE SPIRIT,
Christmas the Festival of Child

Christmas the Festival of Child
hood.
Christmas is the festival of childhood.
Whose would enjoy it truly must be in
heart even as little child. Its ecstasies
are in self-forgetfulness. in the better
ment of others. Its highest celebration
is in helping our neighbors to be happy
and thus sharing our happiness with
them. There is no happiness compar-
able to love. and the happiness grows
greater as the love embraces more and
more our fellowbeings. That is the
best Christmas time in which one feels
most acutely the actually of kinship
with all the world. 1t is the child that
is the real democrat. for. as Emerson
has it, he makes children of all the
adults that gather around him. levels
them to his own simplicity. The man
who has the child-heart is the man
whose interest in himself is most
merged into interest for his fellow
creatures. Though one may have felt
sin and shame and sorrow he NAV as
suage them all in the promotion of the
happiness of others. Love IS the only
anodyne. and giving it out it returns
upon us as manifold as the objects upon
which it is bestowed. That man who
awakens the Christmas spirit in the
hearts about him will find it subtly
stealing from them to his own. and
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But now the music changes Youths
glad symphony is lost in the wild major
chords of passion. Note dashes against
note like hail against pane. All the
tumult of the mountains, the forest, the
roaring stream when storms rive the
heavens, is sounded in that mad chro-
matte ascending to its climax
All of natures after-pennance
breathes in the signing minor of the
descending scale. Surely that was
human sob that rang through the room;
fellow mortaPs burst of sympathy.
No, it was just the old fiddle, who
knew things cause she'd been lynn so
long ag'in his heart"
And now from out her quivering
strings she sends forth a melody so d.
vinely pure, so immeasurably sweet, the
coolest ear must open to greet it.
In it are the prayers of mothers, the
tears OF wives, the sobs of little chill
dren-all of unlanguaged pain, all of
unlanguaged love.
1t is the echo of that song which
beats forever against the throne of God,
in tender, tireless cadence-the united
voices of many women pleading for the
souls of men.
The violin slips from the governors
hands and his head sinks upon his
breast.
The old fiddle has "told her story
straight
When witnesses were found who cor
roborated the statements of the pris-
oner, and Jail wardens certified to 20
years of exemplary behavior inside the
prison walls, the governor sent for Ab-
ner Hill to be brought to his private
Office
The day he expected him he placed
the violin in a conspicuous position on
the desk.
There was ushered into his pres
ence tall, angular man with the worn
face and STOPPING shoulders of three
score years; hair scanty. muscles fab
by, eyes dull; nothing to bespeak youth
but the faint red that crept into his
sunken cheek when the servant an
nounced his name. A single stroke of
sin and its ALTERNATING on the brain
had done the work of twice 20 years.
He stood inside the door with down
cast eyes and nervous, f1uttering hands.
The governor called his name, and
something in the kindly accents gave
him courage to look up.
Something else in the homely. hu-
morous face that no man ever looked
into without loving gave him courage
to speak, and his eye caught sight of
the violin.
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In GloNRE.

Rev, DR.. Primrose-You say if you had
a good suit of clothes you would be able
to make living?
Weary Raggles-Yes, sir. Den dey
wudn't chase me away from de free
lunch.-N. Y World