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Our Folks

HI! Harry Holly. Halt-and tell
A fellow Just thing or two:
you've had a furlough, been to see
how all the folks in Jersey do
It's months agOne since [ was there
|, and bullet from Fair Oaks
When you were home-old comrade, say
D1d you see any of our folks?
You did?'-Shake hands-Oh, amt i
glad;
For if l do look grim and rough,
I've got some feelin
People think
"a "a sqIolers $ heart IS mighty tough;
But, Harry, when the bullets fly
And hot saltpetre flames and smokes
While whole battalions lie afieId,
ones apt to think about his folks.
And so you saw them-when? and where?
The old man-is he lively yet?
And mother-does she fade at all,
For me?-And Sis?-has she grown tall =?
=, And did you see her friend-you know
That Annie Moss
CHow this pipe chokes3
Where did you see her?-telf me, Hal,
A lot of news about our folks
It's likely, for they're always there.
Not Sunday?" NORA fun'ral? Who?
Why, Harry, how you shake and stare
All we'll, you say, and all We're out
What ails you, Hal? Is this a hoax?
Why don't you tell me, like a man
What is the matter with our folks?
Il said all we'll, old comrade-true.
| say all well, for He knows best
Who. takes the young ones in His arms,
Before the sun goes to the west
Tie ax-man Death deals right and left
And flowers fall as we'll as oaks:
And So
Fair Annie blooms no more !
And that's the matter with your folks
See, this long curl was kept for you
And this white blossom from her breast :
And here-your sister Bessie wrote
A letter, telling all the rest
Bear up, old friend
Nobody speaks,
Only the old camp-raven croals
And soldiers whisper:
Boys, be STILL
There's some bad news from Grainger's s
folks
He turns his back-(the only fee
And as men will, keeps down the tears
Kind nature sends to Woes relief
Then answers he:
"Ay, Hail. I'll try;
But in my throat there's something
chokes,
Because, you see, I've thought so long
To count her in, among our folks.
II s'pose she must be happy now.
But still | will keep THINKING too.
could have kept all trouble off.
By being tender, kind and true
But maybe not.
She's safe up there
And when the Hand deals other strokes
Shell stand by heavens gate, I know,
And wait to welcome in our folks"
Ethel Lynn.
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At the Clunie Opera-house this even
Ing the successful play of Clay Greene
and Joseph Grismer will be played py
the Daley Company with Darrell Vln-
ton and May Nannery in the lead.
''The New South" is a play of to-day
covering the enfranchisement problem
and existing race prejudice. Jefferson
Gwynn, the son of an eX-Confederate
General, is a candidate for Congress,
and the colored voters under the leader
ship of one Sampson are endeaVorlng
to intimidate him into buying their
votes. Upon being approached, he ad-
ministers a good thrashing to the lnso-
lent negro who retireS voWlng ven
geance. A company of United states
cavalry under the command of Captain
Harry Ford arrives in town to assist IN
the arrest of a gang of moonshiners,
and their presence is considered by the
SouthernerS as encouragement TO the
negroes Gywnn is elected, and the
colored voters attack the polls anu
carry off the ballot boxes. Gwynn ac-
cuses Captain Ford Of being abettor
of the deed and a fight enSueS, In
which Ford StunS Gwynn with his
sword scabbard. and hastens to secure
assistance for him in the house. During
his absence Sampson discovers the
wounded man and murders him. Ford
is charged with the crime, found guilty
on circumstantial evidence and sent to
prison. Prior to these incidents, Ford
has saved the life of George Gwynn,
Jefferson's sister. and she sets about to
prove his innocence. Paul FitZhugh, a
convict labor contractor under the
Georgia law, is an ardent admirer of
George, and his hatred for Ford, who
is placed under his control, prompts
him to inflict unusual and severe abuse
upon his charge. During an uprising
of the labor unions, in which they
attack the prison and liberate the in
mates, Ford escapes to a friend S
house, and before he is again captured
George Gwynn secures a contract with
the State, and the prisoner becomes her
property. Her action creates scandal.
and society partially ostraciZes her, but
to her purpose she remains steadfast.
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more reliable, if not always unpreju-
diced, English newspapers come to
hand. The cable reports of first nights
are particularly misleading, coming, as
they do from inspired sources. A
large American contingent in London
may always be depended upon to sup
ply the hurrah element on the opening
night of any star or company from this
country, and this the correspondents
always take advantage of in their eff
forts to give the impression Of Brit
ish triumph.
Since nothing can be gained in the
long run by deception and misrepresen-
tation, it seems to me that the Ameri-
can managers who encourage these
practices are extremely shortsighted.
They cannot expect to fool all Of the
people all of the time, as the great Lin
coin once remarked, and the constant
Misrepresentation will bob up to plague
them sooner or later. / have it on the
authority of William Archer, certainly
a most credible witness, that the inn
preston of success for some OF the
recent American engagements in Lon
don was greatly exaggerated, and from
other sources it is made plain that in
several instances, most loudly heralded
as great financial successes, the income
did not even serve to pay expenses.
Much as Americans wish to see their
art and artists recognized on the other
side of the Atlantic, it must be obvious
to all that these circus methods can
not promote that end. The English are
exhibiting a friendly disposition, and II
our campaign in their territory is pro-
secuted in a dignified manner and is
justified by artistic results, success will
eventually crown the effort. But our
British cousins very properly resent
Misrepresentation, and do not wish to
be charged with the unqualified in
dorsement of productions which have
merely been accepted in a spirit Of
kindly tolerance.
After eleven very successful per-
formances at Honolulu, Janet Waldorf
sailed for Yokohama Miss Waldorf
was accompanied by her manager,
James H Love, Ada Dow Currier, Vir-
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ginia Cranna and Norval McGregor,
the rest of her company having decided
to remain in Hawaii and play a stock
season there. Manager Love has sent
to Australia for seven new people to
join Miss Waldorf at Hongkong. The
company began an engagement at Ma
Mia on August 18th.
William Gillette has put the finish
ing touches to his Sherlock Holmes
play, and has given out the fact that
it would have sort of explanatory ap-
rendage to it's title to show that it
should tell of hitherto unpublished
episode in the career of the great de-
tective, and showing his connection
with the strange case of Miss Faux
ner." Herein it would appear that Mr.
Gillette has harked away from the
doings of the original Holmes, as set
down by A. Conan Doyle, and has made
bold to devise somewhat both new and
interesting. Katherine Florence, Judith
Berolde and Ralph Delmore will be of
the cast supporting the playwright actor
and the play will be shown for the first
time at Washington on October 23d
Brooklyn Citizen: An actor was talk
ing the other day of the vicissitudes OF
the profession. do you know" he
said, that l only met my wife once
this season. 1t was at a change of
cars. We passed each other in the
greatest hurry. She was on the arm OF
her manager and | was carrying our
soubrette's satchel."
The present dramatic success in
Paris is PLUS que Reine," better known
here by its English title, More Than
Queen 1t will be seen in New York
at the Broadway Theater in the fall,
Miss Julia Arthur as the star.
Minnie Seligman and Richard Golden
are TO be the principals in the adapta-
ton I'm Paradise which has been
made for the Bijou Theater, New York
by Louis Harrison, and will be pre-
sented there for the first time this
month.
The preparations for the Passion
Play at Oberammergau next year are
already under way. All of the actors
nave not yet been chosen. but the cho-
ruses have begun to rehearse. Anton
Lang, the handsome young John of
previous festivals. is to be the Christ.
The most important change in the ap-
pearance of the theater will be the new
iron framework which will extend over
the space allotted to spectators. This
will be covered with canvas TO protect
spectators from changes in the weather.
An umbrella used to be the only avail
able means by which that could he
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Sampson is finally run to earth, and
Fitzhugh is accused as accessory,
having known that he committed
the deed "The New South" has not
heretofore been seen at popular prices,
and was only given once by the Girls
mer-Davies Company two years ago.
r. ]. Burdette: Elevate the stage?"
BY all means. Some of it will stand
elevating at least 45 degrees. And some
portions of it should be dynamited
above the clouds. And while it is up
there an exceedingly deep and dark
hole should be dug for it to alight in
when it comes back. Elevate it? Hoist
it! There should be evolved from the
genius of the playwright a society
drama based upon something beside
picturesque and commonplace viola
tions of the eighth commandment. A
society drama in which at least several,
to say, that is at least two persons, an
honest man and a decent woman,
should appear in the characters before
the curtain goes down on the last
scene in the fifth act. They need not
have much to say; a mere the carriage
waits, me lord" part would serve as a
pretext for their introduction. Just
enough to give them an appearance,
you understand. And the comedian
should sit up nights and study long and
deep until he could think of something
funnier than a commonplace expletive,
!. such as may be heard any time in the
week any where on the butter edge Of
the Slums, for nothing. Profanity is
. not considered very humorous, any.
how, save in the modern farce-comedy
There it always appears to bring
down the house." Which also seems to
call for a little elevation of the "house, "
so long as you and I have decided to
embark in the elevating business.
Lyman 3. Glover, the Well known
Chicago dramatic critic recently wrote
some common-sense views on the sub
ject of the highly imaginary accounts
of American dramatic successes in
London that are industriously circulat-
ed on this side of the water. This is
what Mr.. Glover said:
It would be very agreeable to our
sense of national pride if we could ac-
cept at par all the press agent state
ments of American success on the Lon
don stage. Unfortunately tie truth
oozes out sooner or later, and while it
is undoubtedly a fact that our artists
and our dramas are now regarded with
some degree of favor in the British me-
tropolis, there is small warrant for the
tales of great financial success that
are constantly sent to this country by
interested parties.
This abuse of the newspaper function
has reached the actual facts until the
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doing it's best work in following a
speaker? Evidently this is quite diff
ferent question from the inquiry how
long the average mind can read novel
on a stretch, or a magazine, or story
of George Meredith's or a treatise on
ethics 1T is quite different question
from the extent of the average mans
ability to work at his desk in an office,
or the number of hours a bookkeeper
can add and subtract. All these are
problems in attention: but in all of
them there is this important element.
which is lacking in the case of the
preacher and his hearers-when one is
reading or studying one can control
the rate of progress, read a page and
stop or twenty pages and stop, and so
on. But when one is listening to a
sermon or an address one must keep
ones brains at work on such topics and
in such manner as the speaker sug-
gests, or else fail to follow his train of
thought adequately or satisfactorily.
There is no time to stop and rest un~
less one is willing or obliged to do so
at the cost of some essential part of the
speech"
made a future Ingersoll impossible,
asserts the Christian Register CUnit),
Boston. IF he had made their teach
ings or any of their learning his
foundation, many of his lectures would
never have been written. The patient,
scientific, reverent examination of the
Bible, which has made its history so
much more comprehensive, and has
lifted its influence into purer effective
ness, is wholly without connection with
the onslaughts whose aim was ridi-
cule. and whose result was a lessened
sympathy with the purpose which lies
at the heart of Biblical criticism. There
is a great difference between a critic
and q criticiser. Wellhausen and
! Cheyne are critics. Kuenen and Rob
ertson Smith were critics. Ingersou
was a criticiser who dealt with the
Bible without sympathy, learning. or
result. One might as well be absurd
enough to say that he expressed the
aim of Unitarianism as say that he
carried out the work of Biblical crit
iciSm"
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After eleven very successful per-
formances at Honolulu, Janet Waldorf
sailed for Yokohama Miss Waldorf
was accompanied by her manager
James H. Love, Ada Dow Currier, Vir-
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New York Post: Sousa recently de-
clared to Chicago reporter that his
band can play a common street melody
like "A Hot Time in the Old Town"
in such a way as to make it respect
able. He is mistaken. Paderewski
himself could not make that hideous
tune respectable
The record-union., 1899-09-10

1t is estimated that Lecocq's La
File de Nine. Agnot" has been played
10000 times, and has made over S1S.-
100000.
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The revival of "Pinafore" in London
recently has demonstrated the fact
that w. S. Gilbert's thrusts at the
Admiralty are as telling and deserved
as they were twenty years ago. The
librettist was happier than he thought
in his choice of subject. Ships and men
may come and CO. but the lords of
the admiraltee' go on unchanged for
ever.
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1t is said that the late Johann
Strauss at one time gave lessons on
the violin to the present German EN-
peror. Wilhelm H., at the suggestion
of his father, the Emperor Frederick,
studied dance music for a time under
Strauss, who declared him an apt pupil
The Viennese are at present consid-
ering plan for erecting a monument
to their three great waltz kings,
Johann Strauss, father and son. and
Lanner.
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Marshall p. Wilder announces that
he will continue in vaudeville through
out the coming season, and that this
will prevent single engagements else
where of less than weeks duration
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Minnie Seligman and Richard Golden
are to be the principals in the adapta-
ton In Paradise which has been
made for the Bijou Theater, New York.
by Louis Harrison, and will be pre-
sented there for the first time this
month.
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Carl Brown of Columbus, Ohio, who
is the inventor of several musical in
struments, and made such a success of
ten-stringed harp guitar, which he
brought out some two years ago, has
just added one more to the list of in
struments of the auto-harp family. His
latest invention is the harp-o-cord.
which he has just had patented. 1t
1t the first combination of wind and
stringed instruments of it's kind in ex-
istence, and consists of a high grade
concert harmonica or mouth-piece, and
a either of peculiar construction, strung
in simple open chords
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This is the latest rumor in musical
circles: 1T is possible that Nine Lillian
Blauvelt will sing in opera at the Met
ropolitan next winter According to
her agent, Henry Wolfsohn. Mr.. Grau
has made an offer of a place in the
cOmDany''
The record-union., 1899-09-10

T. Henry French has secured the
American rights to with Flying Col
ors," just produced with success at the
Adelphia Theater, London.
The record-union., 1899-09-10

The present dramatic success in
Paris is Plus que Refine" better known
here by its English title, More Than
Queen" 1t will be seen in New York
at the Broadway Theater in the fall,
Miss Julia Arthur as the star.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-28
SISTER MARY GERARD.

The funeral of Sister Mary Josephine
Gerard was held at Sacred HI art churct
at 8 o'clock yesterday morning There
was large attendance of clergymen al
the solemn high mass celebrated by
Rev. Father McKeon. Rev. Father
Kennedy was deacon, Rev. J. D. Coylt
subdeacon, and Rev. George T. Synnott
master of ceremonies. Among the
priests present were Rev. Charles Nc
Gowan, Rev. Jeremiah Curtin Of West
Haven, Rev. M. O'Connor, Rev. b
OConnor, Rev. Fathers Blake, Fitzger-
aid, Russell ana Corcoran of New Ha-
ven. Nearly every prit st in tie city was
present. There were also present dele
cations of sisters from the various con-
vents in tsa city.
Rt. Rev Bishop Tierney delivered the
funeral sermon and spoke beautiful
words of eulogy of the deceased. A
quartette composed of Miss Elizabeth
Gaffney, Miss Mary Lynch, Charles
Lautenbach and Riley T. Phillips, jr.,
sang Schmidt's mass.
The pallbearers were John Clancy, M.
J. Sullivan, Patrick Donnelly Thomas
j. Lynch, William Keane and Francis
Duffy. Interment was in St. Bernard s
cemetery.
Solos were beautifully rendered by
Miss Gaffncy and Mr.. Phillips. After
the service of absolution the choir rem
dered in a beautiful and impressive
manner, THY Will Be Done"
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PoMoLoGICAL SOCIETY.
Fruit Growers of the State to Meet in
Jewell Hail. Hartford.

Fruit Growers of the State to Meet in
Jewell Hall, Hartford.
Hartford Jan. 27.-The Connecticut
Pathological society will hold it's annual
meeting at Jewell hall beginning
Wednesday, February 1, and continu-
ing two days. j. Fl. Hale of Glaston-
bury, president of the society, will de-
liver his annual address Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock, to be followed by
the report of Fl. G. C. Miles Of Milford,
the secretary. j. G. Eddy Of Simsbury
will make the report on business and
legislation, and Professor w. e. Brit
ton of the Connecticut Experiment
Station will report on injurious insects.
Edwin Hoyt of Canaan will read a
paper on How Can New England APP
pie Growers Successfully Compete
With Other Sections?" In the after
noon of Wednesday there will be adj
dresses by j. w. Clark of North Had
ley, Mass, ON "Orcharding on the Hill
Farms of New England by Roland
Merrill, president of the Michigan
Horticultural society, on 1.-THE Success
full Cultivation of the Peach; by A. c.
Sternberg of West Hartford, on "The
Problem of Overproduction," and by
Professor FL. A Ballou Of Storrs col
lege on 1.-THE Latest Concerning the
san Jose Scale.
In the evening Professor A. G. Gull
ley of Storrs college will read a paper
on "Some LESSONS from Our First An
nual Fruit Exhibit" Ernest F. Coe,
landscape architect of New Haven, will
have an illustrated paper on planting
to Increase the Attractiveness of the
Home" and Roland Merrill will speak
on Pruning and the Care of a Peach
orchard"
Thursday morning the speakers will
be Professor Byron D. Halsted of the
New Jersey Experimental Station on
Influence of Rainfall on Parasitic Fun
gi''; N. S. Plat, state pomologist, on
Conditions that Influence the Setting
of Fruit" and j. Norris Barnes of
Yalesville, on What are the Apparent
Results of the Repeal of the Peach Vel
lows Law" The reading Of the papers
will be followed by a discussion.
The business meeting and election of
officers will be held Thursday afternoon
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A GENEROUS GIFT

Etching "A Colonial Wedding" Present
ed to the Memorial Library.
There was hung on Thursday in the
reading room Of the Memorial library a
beautiful etching entitled "A Colonial
Wedding, the Marriage of DR.. Francis
LIE Baron and Mary Wilder, Plymouth,
1875" 1T is by Frederick Dielman, nj.
A., from painting by himself for the
late Robbins Battell of Norfolk, de-
scendant from DR.. LIE Baron. The etch-
ed surface is 1879 by 211a inches, having
eighteen figures, some of whose faces
are said to resemble certain descend
ants. 1T is beautifully framed and was
presented, as it Is, to the library by MIR.
and Mrs. Carl Stoeckel, to whom the
thanks of this community are certainly
due for the beginning of what 1T is
hoped may become a large art collec-
ton accessible to the public.-Winsted
Citizen
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OBITUdRY
Death of airs. Annie Judson.

Mrs. Annie Marie Judsln, aged thirty
six years, wife Of c. w. Judson, died
in Ashevile, N. G., this week, of the
grip. Mrs. Judson had been south for
two years to benefit her health. Mr..
Juds3n also moved there with his fam
lily of three daughters, Annie aged nine
teen, Florence aged thirteen. and Ruth
seven years of age.
Mrs. Judson was well known in this
city and in Woodbridge, where she
formerly resided. Her husband is a
son of c. w. Judson of Judson Broth
ers, who some years ago conducted a
big meat market and provision store on
State street. Mr.. Judson before he went
south worked for D. M. WEIGH & Sons.
The funeral will take place this at
ternoon at 204 Winthrop avenue.
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WEDDING IN WEST HAVEN.

The residence of DR.. Cummings OF
West Haven was the scene Of a very
pleasant event Wednesday evening, the
occasion being the marriage of his
daughter, Miss Susan Adams, to Homer
Lewis Bradley, clerk in the treasurer S
office of the Consolidated road. Miss
Cummings, the brides sister, was maid
Of honor, FL. Punderson best man. The
ushers We're j. N. Cummings, brother of
the bride, and w. Camp of this city.
Rev. N. j. squires performed the mar
riage ceremony, which was the Epis-
copal service, with two rings. The
bride wore white taffeta trimmed with
real lace and chiffon and carried bride
roses. Miss Cummings wore an orange
green silk and carried white carnations.
The four young ladies who served were
Miss Florence Hatch, in white over pink
silk; Miss Jessie Holt, in yellow silk;
Miss Woodruff, in pure white, and Mss
Beulah Bradley, in blue. The house was
handsomely decorated by Champion.
Charles Stormont furnished the music.
The bride came in on the arm of her
father. There were about eighty-five
guests. The presents were numerous and
elegant, showing the esteem in which
the young couple are held by their large
circle of friends. About thirty were at
the station to give them a royal send
off amid a shower Of rice, old shoes fire.
crackers and red fire. Folr couples ac-
companed them to Bridgeport.
On the return of Mr.. and Mrs. Brad
ley from their trip to Philadelphia and
Washington, they will reside at 231 East
avenue, where they will be at home af-
ter March 1.
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Mister" said the man with fringy
whiskers, 1--WE Joined the crowd unin-
vited, but you were talking so loud [
couldn't help being interested / want
to understand thoroughly and be fair
and unprecedented You have said, in
one form or another, no less than seven
teen times, that we don't want inper-
lalism. Would you mind answering one
question:"
Certainly not
''Who says we do want it?"-Wash-
ington Star.