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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-11
LONDON NOTES.
3 PROBLEM PLAY OF A DEBASED TYPE
AROUND EUROPE FOR A SHILL
GOVERNMENTAL
LONDON. October 26.


The revival Of the problem -ay has been the
feature Of the theatrical season. Mr.. Grundy
MI Jones, Mrs. Clifford, MI Barrie. and finally
MI Frank Harris, have sought in turn TO enter
tain the public with what is called earnest
drama, and four Of the five experiments have
been successful in drawing large audiences and
IN Offering MI Wyndham. Mr.. Alexander, Mrs
Kendall and other artists full scope for acting Of
high quality. MI Harris has reduced the prob
lem play to its simplest elements Of vulgarity
and immortality and possibly has raised the sig
nal for reaction against unWhoiesome themes.
Mr.. and Mrs Daventry does not contain a single
dramatic situation one good epigram, and
the actors have disagreeahe and offensive parts,
which do not ALLOW opportunity for the display
of their art. The plot is feeble the byplay is
dull every effect is tawdry and theatrical and
the characteristic feature OF the performance is
its unsavorfness. The problem play will soon
its course, and there will be a reversion 10
clean and decent drama if Mr.. Harris's example
of justifying immortality and making II unreal.
vulgar and -uninteresung be followed by other
pIayWrights.
At the Royalty Theatre Mrs Campbell as Mrs
Daventry is a high strung, imaginative lady.
who has intolerable brute for a husband and
a sentimental lover who lends money to him
out Of friendship for her. Mr.. Daventry (Mr.
Kerr forces his castof mistress, Lady Lang
ham, upon her and she witnesses from corner
Of her bOudor a disgusting intrigue between
them. When Sir George Langham knocks
the locked door, Mrs. Daventry turns on the
lights admits the wrathful and suspicious in
truder and scornfully saves appearances for the
base intriguers She then abandons her hus-
band, runs after her discreet friend Ashurst
(dr Gerald du Maurier) and virtually throws
herself into his arms Ashurst and Mrs. Daven-
Try go to Italy and Monte Carlo, and Mr.. Da-
yentry follows them in the course OF six months
with a challenge to a duel. This duel is pre-
vented by an hystericaI reference to an unborn
child, and the husband kills himself and leaves
the lovers free marry q their leisure The
coarse brutal RIGHTEOUSNESS Of the husband is
contrasted with the artfcially ideaZed i'm
morality Of the wife, and the motto Of the
wholesome drama, in which bored and vulgar
women over their cigarettes freely talk about
The world the flesh and the devil is the bad
parody lone touch Of passion makes the whole
world sin" The servants display all the humor
which the dull piece offers. and there is a scant
measure OF II. Mrs. Campbell looks white, sad
and fearful during four successive acts and at
the last moment exclaims that she can never
forgive herself. Mr. Kerr is consistently brutal
and Mr. Du Maurier discreety ardent, ana al
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the other representatives of good society are
stale fat and vacuous.
MI Harris takes all the realism and earnest
of the problem play, and reduces 1t to
the level of the third French novelette,
which the idle traveller buys Calais from a
basket and pitches out OF the window before
reaching Paris He shows much contempt
for real life as for morality. and exhibits little
social coterie of well dressed people. who are
trying to aInuse themselves with vacuous talk,
commonplace vulgarity and enfeebng vices,
and are failing dismally. He leaves the unfort-
innate spectator with bad taste in the mouth
and nothing whatever to think about after
evening has been wasted, without single ap
peal the imagination quiCkening Of the
pulse. The only service which is rendered by
the writing and staging Of such play is the
action which is excited in favor OF purer, more
wholesome and more interesting drama When
vice is made deadly dull and ohtrusively
vulgar. there is a natural revulson of feeling
in favor of the old fashioned virtues of purity,
clean living. self-sacrifce and nobility OF pur-
pose
The exhibition OF the Royal Institute OF Paint
in Water C0lors consists mainly Of studies
and sketches, and among the l33 drawings there
few works OF high quality. 1t has the gem
eral effect of freshness OF observation and rapid
improv isation; and when the Spectator has con-
WINGED himself that there remarkable
examples Of the old time English art Of water
color painting, he is content to wander aimlessly
from room to room for the sake OF catching
gmpses of picturesque corners Of England and
Europe. The serious functions of art criticism
are not required for the examination Of so large
a collection OF sketches; and the pleasurable
excitement Of a journey around this gallery s
intense when one knows England well and has
travelled widely on the Continent. At every
step one is transported from shire to shire and
from one European country to another and in
the course OF an hour there will be "reminiscences
Of every journey one has made on the Continent.
The water color painters go everywhere and
sketch everything, and when they at liberty
to offer their simplest studies and of color
for public inspection, there is rare entertain
ment for sentimental travellers at the cost of
shilling.
Mr. Wimperis is the best guide for DevOnshire,
for he knows every heath and moor every
tangIe Of woodland and purling brook. Mr..
AVaIton's favorite corner of England is Corn
wall and Mr. Edwin Hayes has long range OF
Channel coast Mr. Orrock goes far afeld in
Wales and Yorkshire; Mr.. AumOnier holds fast
10 picturesque Clovelly; Mr.. Severn loves the
lake district: Mr. Pyne rambIes along the Stour
and the wye. and other English artists have
their favorite haunts Mr.. FueyIove sketches
DELIGHTFULLY."- at oxford, the Isle of Wight
and in Kings Lynn: but he is at his best in
Athens, Olympia and Mycene. Mr.. Macquoid
Mr. Evans is on his own ground in the Riviera
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and Mr., Swanwick in Tuns and Algiers; Mr..
Ferrter favors Brittany, Mr.. burlington the
Gr1ndelWold and MI Topham Venice Ravenna
and PompeH 1t is an easy way of seeing the
world-aimless saunterng from one bright cor
ner to another in these spacious rooms and
there Is treasure trove Of "reminiscences of many
sunny lands to be had out Of dingy Piccadilly
under a murky sky. There are also a few
finished pictures of excellent quality to be en-
joyed for their artistic merits. One Of the best
is Mr.. Cotman's Approach to the River Ham
ble"; another is Mr.. Green's In Danger with
its strong water painting, and Mr. f. J. Gregg
rvs Phyllis and Billy TayIor's Sweetheart"
are charming works. Mr.. Fulleylove also has
mastery drawing of St Pauls Cathedral. and
Mr. Bernard Partridge has a pair of excellent
sketches Of Sir Henry Irving as Hamlet and
Mephistopheies and a striking likeness of Mr..
Hall Game in a characteristic dramatic pose.
A casual reference Of mine to the Passion
Play at Oberammergau in recent letter from
the Engadne has left upon the mind Of a gen
erous critic impression which l did not intend
to convey. Monsignor Doane, in expressing his
dissent in The Tribune. ends. like Balaam with
blessing me altogether. for apart from his SYM
pathetic appreciation of my work. he has paid
me the exceptional compliment of remembering
my first letter from England and has even
dowed me with the enthusiasm of youth when
it was written five years ago. To one of the
veterans of The Tribune staff this is more than
kind. I must. however. assure him that it
rot ne inclined to suspect, case of
sour grapes" My sole reason for not going
Obt rammerCau, when l was at Munich and
could easily have done so. was that as a regular
first nighter' at the London theatres was in
the habit OF analyZing methods of acting. and
that did not wish to make critical exam
ination Of the processes even Of pious and rever-
entail peasants in the enactment Of sacred parts
preferred 10 the Madonnas and Apostles
and masterpieces Of the Old Pinakothek in a
eisureiy way and afterward to ramble among
the villages Of the Tyrol. The grapes which l
found were sweet. Possibly the grapes which
missed were swee:er: but l was content
The phrasng in which what was merely 4
personal eccentricity of holiday traveller was
limited at may have been unfortunate. but il
was far from my purpose to speak in terms OF
carplng dISparag"mcnt much less with con
tempt. either of IN" Passion Play itself or Of
the motives Of the pious peasants. Certainly
my references 10 the unaffected picty and re-
llgious devotion OF the mountain villagers indi-
Gated admiration and respect for the spirit
which had inspired the PASSION Play. During
thirty years OF active journalism l hay. mad
it rule write cvnjcalIy or con-
temptuously OF religious sincerity. and this IS
practice which as it is only just t. add
learned from the Editor OF The Tribune
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-11

posting was revelation in this line of work,
both in magnitude and character; the way in
which the tents were erected and the ground pre-
pared astonished the people, and when the circus
itself arrived not workman went to The fac
tories; the spindles We're idle all day. At every
performance the tent full and the vague
anupathy toward the United States has been
turned into respect and I'VE: the people say
anything Is possible TO Americans" Consul
Brundage thinks that if an agent for American
goods would follow in the wake of the circus
these would find u ready sale.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-11
An AMERICAN CIRCUS IN GrRu4NY

From advance sheets Of Consular Reports
The State Department has received a report
from Consul BrundaEe, dated September -
1900, describing the effect the people II AK
la Chapelle OF American circus. The bill
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
After British Bonds.

New York, Aug. $50 great was
the demand for tine new British
war loan that before IL O'Clock
this morning one of the United
States agents announced that sub
scriptions already received would
no doubt call for half of the entire
81O, 600, 900 issued. Another of
the banking houses in yesterdays
Bank of England's circular an
bounced itself ready to take all the
bonds if there was any likelihood
of such a proposition being enter
tanned abroad.
Today's subscriptions came
from insurance companies, corpor'
ations and private holders anxious
to exchange United States govern
ment bonds for the new issue, OF
account of the higher interest rate
on the English loan. C
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
why JESTER WAS ACQUITTED.
Jurors Give the Reasons Which Act.
uated Their Verdict.

New London. Mo-, Aug. A.
The question is being discussed by
the Chicago and New York papers
as to the reasons why Alexander
Jester was acquitted of the murder
of Gilbert Gates. Your CORES
pondent has talked to the juryBen
and asked them to give their Fea-
sons for acquitting Jester. They
say:
1. The state failed to prove the
corpus delicti-that is, that Gill
bert Gates was killed.
2. The state failed 10 prove that
Alexander Jester killed Gilbert
Gates.
3. Some of the witnesses changed
their testimony from that given at
the preliminary trial in 1871. and
the preliminary in 1899, at Paris.
4. The jurymen did not be-
lieve that the testimony of Shews-
bury, who said he saw the body in
the wagon with blood on the face,
and the testimony of Shuck, who
said Jester confessed to him in the
Paris Jail that Gilbert Gates had
cut his own throat. was true.
5. The presence at the trial and
active work of the Pinkerton de-
tectives.
6. The lapse of time and the I'M.
certainty of remembering details
of events occurring thirty years
ago.
Z. The free use of the money Of
John w. Gates in prosecuting Jes-
ter.
+ 8. The age and feeble appear
ance of the old prisoner.
These are the reasons, and they
form the basis upon which Jester
was acquitted.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
B arreIs of Booze.

1t is reported-that certain party
received 124 quarts of beer and
five gallons of whisky here We'd
nesday and that during the night
other parties stole it. There is
enough disturbance in that amount
of liquor to cause trouble. and the
fellow who stole it is perhaps no
more trust worthy than the indi-
vidual who shipped it in. In fact
the Indian Territory and Sallisaw
in particular is not a healthy place
for either party.-Sallisaw Star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
BATTLE1N PROGRESS.
McRae Press Association.

By Scripps-McRae Press Association
Washington, Aug. 6.-The Fame
which brought the news of the
battle from Chez Foo is a high
speed torpedo boat destroyer,
and has been doubtless used as
a dispatch boat.
Peh Using where the battle is
reported, is about nine miles
north of Tien Tsin.
The Chinese are heavily en-
trenched on both sides of the
river.
From Tien Tsin it is announc-
ed that the allies are meeting
with greater resistance than was
expected. The Chinese are dis
playing considerable general
ship. Serious news also arrives
that large forces of Boxers and
Imperial troops have worked
around to the south of Tien Tsin,
threatening the lines of commu-
nication unless sufficient force
remains at Tien Tsin.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

Lorenzo MARQUEE, Aug. g.
Dalmanutha is strongly fortified
and fighting is expected any day,
Gen. Roberts is advancing. slow,
ly, intrenching his positions. Ii
Gen. Botha finds that the bur.
ghers are shrinking from Dal.
manutha. he will resign his com.
mand. The Boer army will then
probably melt, leaving Kruger
helpless, Gen. DeWet is south.
east of Pretoria, and Gen. De
lsrey northwest of Pretoria.
London, y Aug. 6.-The Lorenzo
Marquee correspondent of the
Daily express, wiring Saturday,
says:
"Transvaal advices declare
that Gen. Baden Powell was
wounded during a recent en-
gagement at Rustenberg when
the Beers, according to their
account, took some prisoners
and captured 324 wagons.
London, Aug. ga special dis
patch from Pretoria dated Satur-
day says:
"Gen. DeWet is completely
surrounded near Reitzburg, and
tits impossible for his forces to
escape through the strong Brit
ish Gordon.
"The Beers say they will make
a stand at Machadadorp. They
are short of ammunition and
food. Gen. Hamilton, by the
rapidity of his movements, pre-
vents reinforcements reaching
Commandant Gen Botha.
"It appears that after the
train carrying United States
Consul Stowe and flying the
Stars and Stripes was derailed,
south of Kroonstadt, concealed
Beers fred, killing forty.
MANY residents of Pretoria
have been sent into exile for
behaving cruelty to British sub
]ects before the war. The terms
of exile vary, in one instance
reaching twenty-five years.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06

In the first published directory
of New York. which was issued
over a century ago, the Wander
bilts. whose names appeared. were
not the old commordore's ances-
tors. They we're Dutch and
spelled their names Van der
Bilt," the most prominent among
them being a we'll to-do truckman.
AT that time the ancestors of the
present multi-milliOnaires were
farmers on Staten Island.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06

After many intricate experiments
scientists have discovered methods
for obtaining all the natural diges-
tants. These have been combined
In the proportion found in the body
and united with substances that
build up the digestive organs, max
Ing q compound called Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure. 1t digests what you
eat and allows all dyspeptics to eat
plenty Of nourishing food while the
stomach troubles are being radically
cured by the medicinal agents il
contains. 1t is pleasant to take and
will give quick cure-City Drug
Store, Ardmore, 1. T.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
THE CHINESE ROUTED.

BY Scripps- Mcf1ae Press Association.
Washington, Aug. E. = The
most recent news is to the effect
that the Chinese arms defeated
yesterday was only small body
between Tien Tsln and a short
distance out. 1t is the opinion
of military authorities that the
allies will now press forward
rapidly after the retreating Chi
nese.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
THE POWERS TRIAL.
By scripps-McRae Press AssociatIon.

BY Scripps-AcRae Press Association
Georgetown, Aug. O. The de-
fense in the Powers case will
close about Friday and two days
will be consumed in rebuttal.
One day will be required to take
the jury to Frankfort, and the
argument will take place in three
or four days.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
POISONED WITH SOUP.

BY Scripps- McRae Press Association.
Upton, Ga, Aug 6.-The Can
nors family had soup for dinner
yesterday; an hour later one
child died followed during the
day by the death of two others,
and the father and mother are
in a dangerous condition.
Poison in a tin vessel is sup
posed to have been the cause.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
WILL STAY AT HOME

By Scripps- McRae Press Association.
New York, Aug. GA Wash
ington special to the Herald says:
"Lieut. General Miles recently
applied for service in China, the
application was not granted nor
is there a Likelihood il will be, as
any change now would be a re-
Election on General Chafree.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
HEAVY LOSS TO ALLIES.

BY scripps-McRae Press Association
Washington, Aug. 6.-The fol-
lowing was received today from
Taus ssila Chez Foo Ko. "The
British boat Fame reports un'
an engagement at Peh
Using, Sunday morning, in which
the allied loss in killed and
wounded is 1900, chiefly Rus
SLAMS and Japanese.
The Chinese are retreating.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
JEALOUS COMMANDERS.

BY Scripps- McRae Press Association.
London, Aug. GA Dalziel
dispatch from Shanghai reports
that the slow advance of the
allies is due to jealousies among
the manders.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06

Sultan has ordered that all TIA
lians employed about the palace
be discharged.
He is said to be in constant
dread of an attack by anarchists.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
BETWEEN ALLIED POWERS AND
CHINESE, LATTER ROUTED
HtAV1 loss Of TIL AlED fOiG5
Il hunR Chang Asks for Sick Leave
EnRlsnd Sends lndIa Native Troops
JeeIOusIes Among commanders-
Assassin BressI Violent.
BATTLE RAGING.

BY scripps- -McRae Press Association
Washington, Aug. 6.-The fol-
lowing dispatch is from Admiral
Remey today:
can unofficial report but >be-
lieved. to be reliable, is that about
16, 900 allied troops are heavily
engaged at Peh Tsung. correct.
Daylight 5th.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
WANTS SICK LEAVE.

By scripps-McRae Press Association.
London, Aug. GA Shanghai
says Ii Hung Chang
has applied for twenty days sick
leave, although his effects are
sll packed in preparation for
leav ing for Pekin.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
TRANSPORT FROM CHINA.

By Scripps-AcRae Press Association
San Francisco, Aug. 6.-The
transport Logan from Manila,
via Nagasaki, arrived with a num-
ber of refugees from China.
Passengers will not be allo we'd
t. land until quarantine officers
have concluded their usual in
spection.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
DENOUNCED M'KlNLEY AND WILL
SUPPORT BRYAN.
pQ6ptOO5 PETITION f0Q AID.
Kl0adlke Treasure Arrives-Trsas-
port Arrives From ChIns-Immense
Crowd VIII Hear Bryan.
MAD 'MoRMoNs.

BY scripps- McRae Press Association.
Chicago, Aug 6.-The DOwie-
ties were not allowed to stop in
Mansfield, Ohio, yesterday.
They denounced Governor Nash
aud President Mckinley for not
protecting the elders and declar-
ed that 100, 900 votes of Zioniters
will be cast for Bryan.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
STANDARD PRosPECroRs.

BY Scripps-McRae Press Association
san Francisco, Aug. 6.-The
steamer Umanilla has arrived
from Cape Nome. The vessel
brought no gold or passengers,
and reports four thousand stand
ard prospectors have petitioned
the government to send a vessel
to take them back to the United
States.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
EXPECT IMMENSE CROWD.
y scripps-McRae Press Assoclatio

By Scripps- -McRae Press Association.
Indianapolis, Aug. 6.-It is
estimated that there will be 50,-
600 strangers in the city We'd
nesday to witness Bryan's notiti-
cation and hear speeches.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
The Tahlennah Arrow saws: "Il

The Tahlequah Arrow says: 1t
seems to be the prevailing opinion
amongst the wheat raisers in the
Indian Territory that the native
seed does better hers than the
northern variety. It is stated that
the northern seed that was sown
last fall made 3 good growth Of
straw. but the bends were light,
s. s. Hood hes a fne line oI
candies. lin
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-06
BECOMES VIOLENT.

BY Scripps- McRae Press Association.
Monza, Aug. 6. - Assassin
Bressi who is now confined in a
straight jacket is extremely vio-
lent, but it is believed he is
shamming insanity.