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tom In each case superior pro-
grammes are offered and strong attrac-
tions put forward
Eleanora Duse won a great artistic
triumph on the occasion of her appear
ance in the Theater Francois at the
farewell performance of Mile. Reichen-
berg. She played in the last act of
"AdTienne Lecouvreur," and was re-
ceived, it is said, rather coldly, but be-
fore the curtain fell she had stirred
her audience into wild enthusiasm. She
was called before the curtain many
times. and was complimented person
ally by President Faure
The manger grew hot because the au-
dience was cold:
The gallery get fresh" because they
heard a jokelet old.
Inc mouse was tuil of paper" so the first
night didn't pay,
Yet the papers didn't say a word about the
show next day.
An even hundred pounds was what the
heavy villain weighed:
Inc Ilght comedian was fat and of inur-
Ky shade;
The hero hed a strong" scene, when he
died from hungers pain,
! And the leading lady always was the last
TO catch train.
The "anger' .T of the company (oh, sad to
/ Because he was requested to come down
little more"
/ The hero didn't make a 'hit'' by striking
And 50 the show was stranded in an in
land town that day.
The London Philharmonic Orchestra
is in its eighty-sixth season. 1t has
guarantee fund of $14, 800 but is
sufficiently prosperous not to need it.
Nevertheless, the directors would look
with amazement at the $4,000 which
the New York Philharmonic will earn
this season.
The latest choral work of Max Bruch
is a cantata of large dimensions enti-
titled Gustav Adolf" 1t is to be
produced under the direction of the
composer at Barmen on May 22d.
Special musical performances will
take place in Austria Hungary in con-
nection with the approaching jubilee"
of the Kaiser Franz Joseph in Decem-
Der next. There is to be a competition,
restricted to authors and composers of
the empire, for a work suitable for
performance at the Hoftheater in vi
emma. Herr Angelo Neumann proposes
to revive, at Prague Mozart's La
Clemenza di Tito" with the original
text. This was the masters penulti-
mate operate work, and was produced,
without success, in the Bohemian Cap
ital on September 6, 1871, barely three
months before Mozart's death.
Lewis Ball of the Compton Comedy
Company, now in his seventy eighth
year, is probably the Oldest actual
actor on the English stage, though
there are older men in the profession.
He has been seventy-seven years on
the boards, for at the age of two
months he was carried before the foot
lights to impersonate the infant EliZ-
abeth in Henry VIII,' at the little
theater at Morpeth This was followed
by a number of other baby appear
ances; then came small child parts,
then boys, and so forth, the continu-
ty of his stage career having never
been broken For some years he has
been writing "reminiscences of his long
life. He remembers Edmund Kean,
and is full of stories about his per-
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the fact that they have never had the
smallest degree of attention has led
to the inevitable result-about half are
dead and the survivors soon will be.
The trees stand in vacant lot and
are inclosed by a red picket fence con-
structed about a generation ago. Since
that time local patriotism seems to
have grown entirely unconscious of
their existence, and though several
movements have been ''set on foot
they evidently tumbled over again. so
that there is no reason to believe bur
what the next move will be made by
the unsentimental builder and his
merciless ak. PRESTON JONES.
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Tomorrow evening at the Metropol-
ftan Theater we are to have the much-
heralded Partisan beauty and cham
teuse Anna Held, with a company pre-
seIting two plays, Fernald's The cat
and the Cherub," the rival Of Powers
Chinese play, The First Born; the
farce, "A Gay Deceiver," and finally
Miss Held in songs in character, with
an animated chorus" as the bills put
It, She was all the rage in New York,
and has had asuccessful engagement III
San Francisco recently, where there
was surprise that Anna was not
naughty and suggestive in her stage
work, but quite the contrary, as the
metropolitan papers put it.
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country by Gustav Walter They un-
dCubtedly do the greatest acrobatic
act that has ever appeared on the
Orpheum circuit, and they certainly 90
a number of tricks that have never
been attempted by other acr0bats. par
tiCularly where they turn somersaults
and strike on their hands instead of en-
their feet. A pleasing musical num-
Der may be expected from Sign0ra di
CASTILLO. a famed Italian opera singer,
who will appear in a repertoire Of high
class selections. A novelty on the bill
is the act by the Martelles, acrobatic
trick blcyclists, who perform a very
clever and interesting act. There are
several acts on the bill which are alone
worth the price of admission AMI the
Orpheum ought to be packed nightly
Matinees are to be given Saturday and
Sunday.
Sam T. Shaw and his fine company,
under management of II S. Duffield
opens at the Metropolitan Theater
Tuesday night for a week in repertoire
at popular prices.
On the 18th inst, at the Metropolitan
Theater we are to have Shore Acres
again, with James A. Herne, its au-
thor in the lead He made a great hit
with it last year in this city.
This will be a concert week in Sac
ramento-Monday night the concert by
Miss Belle Carington; Tuesday night
that by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Longbot-
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since the disaster to the Maine. There
We're no less than eight stock compa-
nies playing The Ensign two weeks
ago.
Augustus Pitou expects to spend the
summer at his home in the Thousand
Islands. Mr.. Pitou has had a splendid
season with his enterprises.
Isabelle Urquhart is having a new
tends to use in the vaudeville theaters.
Yvette Violette is to play the doll in
the DAILY revival of La Poupee."
May Vokes introduces a new style of
Irish slavey in the ''Old Coat" which
thus far has scored a hit.
w. H. Crane will so to the Empire
Theater, New York, late in April with
a farce called His Honor, the Mayor, -
taken by c. H. Meltzer and A. E. Lam
caster from the French of Meilhac and
Halvey.
1t is announced that no less than
seventy-four new operas were produc-
ed in Italy during 1857.
Henry Watterson has niece on the
stage. She is a member of the Castle
Square Opera Company, and her name
is Edith Mason
La Guerrero. who is called the Sara
Bernhardt and the Duse of Spain, is
to appear in Paris next autumn at the
Renaissance Theater
The new play by Bronson Howard
and Charles Klein is comedy of
Washington manners of to-day with a
dramatic background
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Admiral Howell was graduated from
the Naval Academy in 1888 and dur
ing the civil war was attached TO the
Gulf blockading squadron, taking part
in some important engagements, not
ably the battle of Mobile Bay. He is
the inventor of the Howell torpedo,
which is extensively used aboard the
vessels of the United States navy. He
has given the country a great deal Of
efficient service as we'll as this Valu-
q bla invention
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These people can only account for
| that dreadful if by the supposition
that the city authorities fear the pres
ence of a fleet Of Spanish warships in
the harbor that would make such a
celebration a perfect misfit for the
hour. Fortunately, these anxious
spirits are in so small a minority as
to be insignificant, and only worthy OF
attention as one of the pecullarities
that the hour has brought forth.
Down at Sandy Hook is a hidden bat
terry of giant rifles and mortars, of
which il is said that no hostile vessel
could pass. Once inside the harbor.
though it would be under the guns of
the Staten Island batteries, and con-
sidering the scientific devices used in
range finding at both fortifications and
the modern high-power engines cf de-
Struction there mounted, it seems an
absolute impossibility that such a YES
sci could be saved from instant de-
struction.
To the casual observer on the incom-
ing steamer neither of these defenses
are visible; in fact, a telescope would
fail to reveal one of them. while only
the trained eye of the military expert
could discern the other. Instead would
be seen a number of imposing looking
structures of brick and masonry, with
tiers of black guns protruding from
their portfolios, and all built close to
the waters edge. The expert would
look with contempt at these, and we
could well afford to allow him that
pleasure. They are all relics of COM
parative antiquity, and now depended
upon only for use as barracks, arse
nails or harbor scenery, and in the
event of an attack by hostile fleet
their giant ugly smooth bores would
remain as silent as during the most
piping times of peace.
A short time ago a sensational editor
discovered with fourteen-inch type
that the depth of water in the Mar
rows would not permit the laying of
torpedoes, and Immediately visions lin
the same caliber type) of disaster rose
in his mind. The facts of the case are
that New York, unlike Havana, is not
in the business of destroying visiting
vessels on peaceful missions. and there,
fore would not find it necessary to
sink tcrpedoes within point blank
range of Battery Park.
The condition of affairs, with the de-
fenses on the Sound, is, however, diff
ferent; the lack of modern ordnance
here has led to the placing of torpe-
does which the character of the wa
ters is more suited to. While in itself
this constitutes sufficient defense. it
would be a bold commander who would
bring his fleet through the narrow Wa
ters of the Sound for the distance of a
hundred miles, with either shore pro-
vided with any kind of defensive
makeshift.
Most New Workers are thoroughly
cognizant of these circumstances, and
those who would fear for the city's
safety in the event of war with even
a much higher class Power than Spain.
represent. as before stated a very small
minority-this in spite of yellow liter
ature and heavy caliber type.
No, the metropolis has no more to
fear from an attack of Spanish fleet
than has Cripple Creek, and this is the
opinion of every rational being, lay
or military, that the writer has spok-
en- to.
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Correctly Speaking.

Mistress-Your name is Maginnis, you
say. But what is your first name?
Maid-Mem?
Mistress-What is your first name?
Mary Bridget
Maid-It's me second name ye'd be af-
ter. That is Mary. 1 was a Maginnis
before l was a Mary, don't ye moind?
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Ere the wave of patriotic sentiment
that is now sweeping over the country
subsidies, it is to be hoped that some
few drops of the spray will fall on
Washington Nights, in the vicinity of
Hamilton Grange.
The country site that once belonged
to Alexander Hamilton is occupied at
the present time and in a good state of
preservation, but it is not the house
that requires attention but a famous
adjunct that stands across the street.
This is the group of thirteen trees that
the great contemporary of the Father
of his Country set out with his own
hands, and which, in a moment of
pretty sentiment, he declared was to
represent the thirteen States that then
comprised the Union. 1t may be TAX
en- as peculiarly symbolical of the pO-
litical theory of the splendid Federal
ist that he planted the oaks so close
ly together that their growth was sad
ly interfered with. This, together with
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sonal association with Macready,
Phelps, Blackstone Charles Dillon,
Mathews Helen Faucit, Nine. Vestris,
and all the celebrities of the early
Victorian stage.
William F. Norton, the eccentric
millionaire, who owns the Auditorium
Theater, in Louisville, KY, and who
manages it under the name of Daniel
Quilp. cleared cents a bushel on l.
0G0eD0 bushels of wheat during the
last jump in prices.
New York World: A little boy of
13 went to the theater the other night.
On the way home he said to his moth
er: TN going to write a good play.
There won't be any engagements or
marriages or any nonsense of that kind
in it, but I'll have the actors do some
thing on the stage all the time" If
he can manage that, this little boy is
the coming playwright.
Fever since Ada Rehan's first appear
ance with Augustin Daly's company
when her real name. Ada Crehan. was
changed into Ada C. Rehan. there
have been no middle initials allowed in
the DAILY programme. The latest suf-
ferer is James T. Powers, who. in the
bill of The Geisha,' plays Wun Hi as
plain James Powers. This latter seems
unjust. as before he went into the DAILY
forces Powers had earned a reputation
as James 7.
Murray Carson has secured the Eng
lish rights of La Pocharde." a melo-
drama. which has had a great success
at the Ambigue Comique in Paris The
piece bears some sort Of resemblance
to the coming new play at the Lon
don Lyceum, as the principal character
is a physician, who solves the problem
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of a crime, brings the guilty to justice,
and relieves the innocent from load
OF groundless suspicion.
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables' is TO
be acted anew in Paris at the Porte
ST Martin. Coquelin will appear as
Jean Vatican as soon as "Cyrano de
Bergerac" ceases to attract large audi
ences The theatrical form of Hugo S
novel is in sixteen -tableaux, and
was acted first in 1868.
Camille d'Arville was born in Holland
and in America is regarded as for
eign singer, but when she gees to Ber-
lin this summer to sing in The Grand
I Duchess she proposes to have herself
advertised as the American soprano,
the moral being the old one about the
prophet and honor in his own country.
A play called "Dreyfus" has been
successfully acted in several German
cities. The incidents are. of course, de-
rived from the famous episode.
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Signs and banners are being dis
played all over town just now, which
announce the proposed celebration of
Charter Day" May Sd and 18th. in
commemoration of the signing of the
document of consolidation. There are
to be the usual ceremonies in the way
of land and water parades. speech
making, banquets and display Of flags
and fireworks. A pleasant prospect
truly, We're it not for the presence of
an if-a threatening, an ominous 'if."
If there be war there will be either
no celebration or an indefinite post
ponement, a fact natural enough in
itself. but sufficient to cause additional
anxiety in the minds of the citys
doubt-loving inhabitants
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REAR-ADMIRAL HOWELL.
Commander Of the European Sta
tor, Of the United States Navy.

There are many veterans of the late
civil war who are row reliable and
efficient officers in the United States
navy One of these is Rear Admiral
John A Howell, who but recently sue
ceeded Admiral Selfridge, as command
er of the European Station of the Unit
ed States navy
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It is safe to assert that there is
scarcely a large business establishment
in the city that does not number among
it's employees several National Guards
men Under these circumstances en-
ployers have their own peculiar reasons
FOR looking unfavorably upon anything
pertaining to war, and thus the action
of a certain bank down town does GER
tainly seem extraordinary. This patri-
otic institution actually informed its
clerks militant that should they be
called into service their positions would
not only be held open till their return,
but their salaries would be paid regu-
larly during their absence. If all banks
and business houses were Of that
stamp no militia company in the Union
need ever have anything less than one
man more than ninety-nine.
But to return from such idle specula-
tions, however, to the facts as they ex-
ist: I doubt if there is a man belong
ing to the militia who, since war has
seemed imminent, has passed a quiet
hour of the day over his desk When
ever the telephone bell rings he looks
expectant; no messenger boy can arrive
at the office but what he sees something
of more than passing significance in the
visit When the noon hour comes he
rushes out to purchase the eleventh
war extra" and then can scarcely wait
till evening gives an opportunity to Sc
cure copy of the nineteenth" edition.
And thus day after day passes, much
to the disgust of the employer, who
cannot entirely become reconciled to
sundry clerical errors on the part OF
his soldier clerk, while the latter in
his perturbation, fails to realize that
his nerves are being drilled for the
uncertainty and anxiety of the battle
field
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra
is in its eighty sixth season. 1t has
a guarantee fund of $14,910, but is
sufficiently prosperous not to need it.
Nevertheless, the directors would look
with amazement at the $4,000 which
the New York Philharmonic will earn
this season.
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The latest choral work of Max Bruch
is a cantata of large dimensions enti-
titled Gustav Adolf" 1t is to be
produced under the direction of the
composer at Barmen on May 22d.
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since the disaster to the Maine. There
We're no less than eight stock compa-
nies playing THE Ensign two weeks
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By Virtue of Birthplace,

Two years ago Judge Ross, of the
United States district court for Call
fornia, surprised the bar of the coun-
try by holding that the fourteenth
amendment bestowed citizenship on
Wong Kim, a Chinaman born in this
country. The court held that the
sweeping words, "all persons born In
the United States and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof" included the son
of a Chinaman, himself a subject Of
the emperor of China, and made the
son a citizen by the mere fact of his
birth in this country This decision
was so directly in the face Of the con-
struction given to laws affecting citi-
zenship that it attracted general at
tention and comment. 1t went directly
against the decisions of the law Of
ficers of the department Of state, who
had uniformly held that the status of
the parent governed, and that a man
born here to an unnaturalized father
remained a subject of the country
whence the father came. Secretary
Blaine, in the case Of youg man born
in st. Louis of German parents, who.
on visiting Germany. was held to mil
itary service, held that this country
could not interfere, as the sons ma
tionality was fixed by that Of the
father, who had not abjured his for
eign citizenship.
The case Of Wong Kim went, on ap-
peal Of the district attorney, to the
circuit court Of appeals, where, If we
recall the fact Alright, the judgment of
Judge Ross was reversed. Now, on ap-
peal to the supreme court, the decision
of Judge Ross is affirmed, and the
fourteenth amendment is given an ap-
plication far beyond the case for which
it was intended. 1t was part of the
legislation that followed the liberation
Of the slaves and was intended to be-
stow citizenship upon them. It now
widens out to include such Chinese as
are born here. although the law for
bids their admission to citizenship
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Further complications may come to il
lustrate afresh the truth that it is
never sure that law will effect that
for which it Is designed, and it Is al
ways sure it will produce unattended
effects. Suppose some son Of foreign
parents residing here. but retaining
their allegiance to foreign potentate,
is drafted for service in the army or
called on for jury duty, and sets up in
defense the foreign allegiance Of his
parents and denies that he is citizen
and subject to the jurisdiction Of the
United States will the fact that he
is born here force citizenship upon him
whether he will or not? 1t would seem
so, for the wording Of the amendment
Is sweeping and contains no exception.
That implied in the words land sub
Ject to the jurisdiction thereof loses
whatever sense Of Limitation it
might have In the decision in the case
of Wong Kim. There is no method
provided by which man so swept
into our citizenry can avoid the opera
ton of the amendment. But, whatever
other questions may arise, it settles
what has been moot question The
recent decision Of our supreme court to
the same effect Is thus made the law
of the nation by it's court of last re-
sort.
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AT THE THEATERS.

The star feature of the Hopkins Trans
Oceanic Star Specially company, at the Grand
next week, Is Prof. Leonidas and his wonder
full troupe Of performing cats and dogs.
The manifold features of "Gayest Man1at-
tan" were responsible for the largest Mon
day night audience Of the season at the
Grand last evening. This queer titled bur-
elements farce. vaudeville. burlesque and
extravaganza. It Is in the hands Of a clever
company. Jean McIlmoyle, charmingly pref
ty, contributes one Of the best characterize
tonS of the production.
Richard German Is a host in himself as
Hiram Prindell: strong hits are also made
by Gus Pixley, Jennie Lewis, Alta De Ker-
man, Mabel Montgomery and others.
The singing Of Kate Michelena is feature.
The cast Is full OF pretty girls, who are
seen to advantage In a number Of pleasing
and the entire production bears a metropoli-
tam stamp. Tomorrow, at 2:30. the first pop
luIar priced matinee VIII be given.
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The Homeseeker's Opportunities.

One result of the financial depression
one of the good things that often
come out of evil-has been the back
to-the-land movement amoag urban
people. The illusions that drew thou
sands from the farms to the cities have
been shattered by the hard conditions
entailed by the panic. The vital, ever
present, unacceptable necessities of life
are bread and butter, and these the city
can give only at second hand. When
industry idles and wages cease the city
offers no hoard of food on which to re-
ly until industry revives. 1t is the
realization that whatever storms may
streW the industrial sea with wreck,
food, shelter and clothing are assured
to the man on the farm, while the idle
workman of the city must walk the
streets in vain search for work and go
empty-handed to the meager fare OF
the table where perjury provides the
food, that has sent and is sending thou
sands back to the land.
Supplementing this comes with rare
rates that makes access to the vacant
lands of the Northwest within the
reach of the poorest; that makes riding
by railway actually cheaper than walk
ing. The low rates open to the home
seeker the vast eXpanse of the North
west between the lakes and the ocean
ard enable him who will to go and
spy out the land and find that snug
harbor that offers security against all
financial storms. the farm. It is a
rare opportunity and one that should
be improved while it may last.
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with adopts? And why an incident"
merely? Because the naval court Of
inquiry failed to fix responsibility for
the incident" upon the Spaniards.
Under the circumstances (under that
one) 1t seems to u.s." says the Mime
apolis Tribune, that the Maine Incl
dent can only be used as the basis Of
a claim for damages" 1t Is not be-
cause the court failed to fix the Ne
sponsibility for the destruction Of the
battleship that it becomes a mere Incl
dent, but 1t is because the president
failed to make. upon the courts find
ings of fact, his conclusions of law as
to the responsibility. 1t is to cover up
that astonishing failure that his loyal
organs must now affect to believe that
it was merely an incident"
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1t is now only an incident" It
was, in its way, the opportunity for the
administration to declare that the hour
had struck for the departure Of Spain
from her last foothold on this henli-
sphere. 1t was the event which, when
it came marked the arrival of the time
predicted by President Cleveland when
II would become the right and the
duty of this government to interfere to
stop the war in Cuba But the supine
executive shrank from his opportunity
end threw himself back into the arms
OF Spanish justice, and the act of war
becomes only an incident" It's place
in history will be 'tthe Maine incident. +"
But All incident Of what? The minor
effect Of what greater event or move
ment of events? Is, it1secondary to the
clustering haste of war preparation? Is
1t an incident of the game of diplomacy
which set of novitiates are playing