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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-16
FALLS FIFTY FEET FROM ELEVATED
RAILWAY AND IS KILLED.

Boston. May i6.--John Newton am iron
worker. was Instantly killed today by
falling ~ feet from the elevated RAILWAY
structure. now IN course OF erection in
city SQUARE. Charlestown. Newton wss
~ years old and lived I'm this city.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-16
cars oprRATEu By NoN-UNioN MEN.

ST. Louis, May 16.-Trafhc. on the st.
Louis Transit company's system Is grad
lially assuming "A seinblance 10 the condi-
tions existing before the strike. None
of the 1926 striking employees has return
cd TO work. but cars are being operated
with the help of non-union men, many
OF whom have been secured from other
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-16
MSS VAUGHN AWARDED $50.

The jury which heard The case of
Grace Vaughn against Fred Irwin, after
l,einK out an hour and - minutes.
brought IN "A verdict in favor of Miss
Vaughn. but awarded her only SO. n
a 1tckennty was counsel for Miss
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-16

building lot on the shore at your own
price Oakland Beach Plat will sell fifty
Building lots at Public Austion Saturday,
MAY 18th. 1900 at o'clock p, m. Partic
ulars at q. il. & IL. j. GROSS, Banigan
Rufldinc
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-16
FINAL DECREE ENTERED.

a final decree was ent s-eJ today in
tho ase OF Daniel 7. Haaly vs.George
.5erhcrson. BY the decree the bill is
dismissed
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-16
The Cotton Market.

Reported by Davis & Dexter. Bani-
gan building:
Tuesdays
Open. High. Low. Close. close.
July .-...... 9.22 9.S2 9.25 9.30 80
August .... S.93 900 S.93 s.9S 9.O7
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-16
New York Stocks.

Reported by Sullivan q Sullivan
Banigan building.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-16

( Ex-Dividend.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17

or simplify It by the name OF sanitarlum.
but it is the door described in Dante's
Inferno. just the same. And those who
know her best tell me II will be true In
her case. and that she win never leave
the portals alive. Cocaine was her par
ticular viee.-Brooklyn Citizen.
Truly" says Henry Irving, ''the ac-
tors work embraces all arts. lie must
have the gift of sympathy and tina
imagery OF Of the poet: In his forms.
poses and appearance upon the stage ha
must have the gift Of the painter; tina
tones of his voice must have all the nex-
Utility and moduiation OF the singer. Act
ing may be evanescent. but IL can ana
viii live to add TO the sum OF human
knowledge and exist as a great memory :
Nobody" says Hillary Bell. "can arf
a Gillette hero except Gillette. Other
authors plays written without any es-
pecial actor in mind. serve equally well
for the use OF different companies. draw
royalties from various sources and have
a chance 20 live after the original per-
formers are gone. Gillette. however.
means that his dramas. like the art that
portrays them. shall cease with himself.
Secret Service" which seemed 10 be a
brilliantly clever play so long as be acted
II. Immediately lost favor when its hero
was attempted by a iess characteristics
player. and It is a problem whether
sherlock Holmes would have lasted a
month II the author had not assumed it,
title role"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17
DOES FAME HURT THE MIND?
BY A. M.

Edmond Rostand, the greatest French
dramatist, has gone the way of Guy de
Maupassant, the greatest French story
writer of yesterday. The cable tells us
that his friends despair of his reason.
'Cyrano de Bergerac" began the de-
struction of the intellect that created
it. "L'Aiglon" completed the wreck.
Rostand's first play lifted him in the
night from lowliness to Parnassus.
Idolatry, excitement, exhaustion-who
can tell the cause?-disturbed the bal
ance Of his reason. There was a time
when Sarah Bernhardt feared that he
would never finish - Aiglon."
But he did. His intellect rallied to
the task. All his nervous force was
squeezed into the second work. 1t was
the crisis of his life. The fate of "Cy-
rano" had been as nothing compared to
it, for in those happy days of obscur-
ity he had nothing at stake. "L'Aig-
Ion" meant everything.
His friends knew that "L'Aiglon'
was written with his hearts blood.
Nine. Bernhard knew it. The very
Drompter and stage hands knew it.
They read it in the authors burning
eyes, in his hands through which one
saw the light, in the twitching of the
muscles about his mouth.
What they did not realize was that
success would be too late to release
Rostand from its own penalties. That
is known now
The doctors call it. politely and scien-
tifically, a cerebral disorder" That
means a disorder of the brain. In 9TH
er words-madness. Rostand's life is
threatened. Paris hangs b~reathless
upon the reports from the sick chamber
just as the English speaking world
hung upon the reports from the Hotel
Grenoble, when kipling fought with
death a year ago.
Gabriel d'Annunzio, the most bril-
liant writer of Italy, has been on the
| verge of insanity ever since 1.-THE Tri-
umph of Death made him famous.
Ruskin's intellect persisted years be-
fore the man himself was called away.
Dean Swift pointed out a tree the up-
per branches of which had withere;i
and told his friends that he should die
like that from the top down-and
the prophecy was fulfilled.
Emerson's great machinery of
thought crumbled away and the philos-
opher became a child, content to play
with toys.
Poe and Baudelaire stepped over the
line that divides madness from such
gloomy genius as theirs. Pascal. Tas-
so, S-chopenhauer, Heine, Murger, Gil
rad de Nervel, these makers of litera-
ture ~relapsed from reason to
Is there another profession that an
show such a tragic roll or Its great
marks.
One cannot but remember George du
Maurier. moved down in his prime at
the height of a still more sudden and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17

will, it is said, star in the formers plays
mex year.
THE H-ighwayman's' chief interpreters
next season viii be ]. X. Murphy and
Clara Lane.
Modjeska's company next season in
cludes Odette Tyler. and r. d. Mclean.
She viii produce King John"
Mile. Pillar Morin's repertoire mex sea-
son will include Carmen" East
Lynne" "Frou Frou." and Camille
THE Wooing OF Mrs. Van Cott,' John
Ernest McCann's new comedy, will be
produced by Edwin c. Jepson next sea-
son.
The locality of Robert Mantell's new
play, "A Free Lance" is Wolfsberg.
North Germany, the period 1450. and it
is romantic in story.
There will be another early opening
next season, despite the prospective dis
turbance Of normal conditions by a pres
idential compaign.
A Providence theatre. advertises: iced
lemonade given to the lady patrons and
cigarettes to the gentlemen, free Of
charge, at every performance"
Theodore Burt Sayress, THE Son OF
Carleycroft,n was disclosed in Boston
last week. J. H. Gilmour played Gabriel
Carleycroft and Sir Henry Grengille.
Lewis Morrison VIII rest next season.
but Faust will be produced under the
management OF Jules Murray. who Will
also manage Neil Burgess in The
County Fair"
Cora Urquhart was 1s years Of age
when she married James Brown Potter.
ra4nh Grr41rr aud Gor-o4a WALL u{ff
head Henry Greenwald's New York
Stock Company.
Liliputians. Mr.. and Mrs. Franz Ebert
are TO appear in vaudeville.
Sir Arthur Sullivan directed the first
production OF .Th Mikado" in Berlin
last week.
The composer Goldmark is at work on
a new opera, dealing with the life Of the
famous German, Goetz Won BerIichinger.
OF the Iron Hand GoIdmark is 70 years
old.
Cissie Lotus. who is TO play Bettina
in the Chicago Castle Square production
of The Mascot. this week. may be
leading woman Of Forbes Robertson's
London company next season.
The fiftieth anniversary Of the first
production OF Lohengrin at Weimar will
be celebrated in that city shortly with a
special performance OF the opera, that
Siegfried Wagner will conduct. The cell
ehration Is being arranged by the Duke
Of Saxe-weimar.
J. X Emmett and Lcttie ellison will
star next season in THE Outpost a
conedy-drama BY ". S. Harkins and
Edwin Barbour. the scenes OF which are
laid in South Africa during the present
var. Mr.. Emmett will play a young
Boer officer and Miss ellison an Irish
girl.
"Yale's .The Evil Eye win close a
season Of So weeks on July 7. The
DEVILS Auction will begin its nineteenth
season on August u. Yale will star Al
Wilson In The Watch on the Rhine.
i am told that Della Fox is In 20 bad
. condition that she cannot yet realize
that she Is In . madhouse. They dignity
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17

two men resembled one another only
in their prodigious capacity for work.
l knew Rostand. / spent a great
part of last summer with him. He
was then in full possession of his re-
markable faculties, but not by any
means physically robust. The news of
his seizure is in expressibly shocking
to me.
+, The author of "Cyrano de Bergerac"
and "L'Aiglon" strove for perfection
of form every whit as laboriously as
the author of "Boule de Souif" and
"Une Vie" Nine. Rostand told Co
quelin that when the spell was on
him he would spend night after night
at his study table, rewriting, cutting,
modelling his play, contented,
always striving after a more express
sive adjective, a more harmonious or
original rhyme, casting aside a months
finished work without a seconds
thought when he judged that another
form expressed his idea more perfect
ly."
In a word, he was, like every true
artist. a slave to his work. When en-
gagged on "Cyrano de Bargerac" he
wrote steadily ten hours each day.
Coquelin said of him at this period:
AS the great work began taking
form, Rostand hired a place in the
country so that no visitors or invita-
lions might take him away from his
daily toll.
rich, young. handsome, married to
a woman whom all Paris was admir-
ing, with every door wide open before
his birth and his talent, he v~oluntar-
lily shut himself up for over a year in a
dismal suburb, allowing no amusement
to disturb his incessant toll. Nine.
Rostand has since told me that at times
she seriously feared for his reason and
his life.
IF Rostand's play is the best this
century has produeed-and our great
est critics are unanimous in pronounc-
ing II equal, If not superior, 10 Victor
Hugo's GROWING efforts, the young au-
thor has gained his l~aurels, leaf by
leaf, during the endless midnight hours
of toll and brain-wringing effort7a
price that few in a generation would
be willing or capable of giving for
fame
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17

Postal Salaries
5000 . the Regl.ssr.

Special 20 the Register.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.. June 16.-By
the annual readjustment OF post
masters salaries according 20 receipts.
the incomes of West Virginia post
masters have been advanced at the fol-
lowing points: Biueiele, $500 TO
81, 200; Buckhannon. 81 1000 10 $1.700:
Charleston. 8 ZOO 70 $500: Charles
town. $1,700 TO $500. C7arksburgs
81. 200 to 81. 400; Davis. $500 70 81. 500:
Fairmont 8 2 ZOO 70 s.. 300; Huntington
$500 to 81, 500; Warrington. S1.700 a
81, 800. Montgomery, $l.1o to $1,200;
Morgan1own, $500 20 $780, Mounds
Vile. 700 70 81 1900 New Martins<
Vile. $1.400 to S1.50e; Petersburg
$500 to 81. 800; R~avenswooa. 81. 100 "a
81, 200; Ronceverte. 1920 TO <1,s00s
Saint Marys, 1890 10 $500; shep<
herdstown. $f.100 70 Si.Z00. Spencer
81. 900 10 100: Wellsburg. $500 ia
-, 700: West Union. sl,i00 TO 81 200.
The salary OF the postmaster at New
Cumberland has been decreased from
81 400 to 1890. Z
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17

o sweeping success. Amiable giant
content with his vogue as an artist and
to scribble a little fiction, he awoke to
find that the English-speaking world
had gone insane over "Trilby." He
never recovered from the shock.
Is Fame so brutal that the delicate
mind of the artist withers under it?
Or is literary work of itself too cruel a
strain upon the powers?
Viewed in either light, literature be-
comes an Unsuitable monster, a blood
thirsty idol, a Moloch. The priests of
Baal, who, in the presence of Elijah,
cut themselves with knives to obtain a
favor from their god, were not more
patiable than the priests of literature.
Theophile Gautier observed that lit
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17
ADJUSTMENTS.
ebert aIanteII is in Europe.

Robert Mantell is in Europe.
Della Stacey has been divorced.
Bob billiards. son is II years old.
"~Unleavened Bread is TO be dramat-
lied.
Julie Mackie is to return from Europe
in July.
Harrigan viii revive 'old Lavender"
next season
The Bostonians will revive robin
Hood next season.
Jefferson De Angels next season will
be directed by his son.
Edwin Stevens and Anna LIGHTER are
to join the Tlvol Opera Company. San
Francisco
Alice Nelson is the only prima donna
who viii head an opera company next
season
lula Arthuss s4.tsr. Flora Fairchiid
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17

erature had ever been, for the genu-
inc artist, a Viva Dolorosa." AS if
divining how to the bitter end his dis
ciple-de Maupassant-would verify
his words, he said, speaking of these
modern times, when every sensation
is the subject of an analysis"
IF the artist cannot find another
corpse he will stretch himself on the
dissecting table and plunge the knife
into his own heart"
Rostand, unlike de Maupassant,
wove into his art no traces of the
morbid. His plays were at wholesome
as the sunshine. He did not share de
Maupassant's pessimism nor his gloomy
speculations about the unknown. The
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17

One OF the most stringent rules Of this store is never
to misrepresent any article, no matter how great or
small, either at the counter OF in the store talk in the
newspapers: and when anything is purchased and the
buyer is dissatisfied, for any reason whatever. the
money paid for it is returned or an EXCHANGE made
as c~heerfulIY as the original sale was made.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17
congressman Dropped Dead.

DOVER. Del. June 1s.-Congress.
mar John Henry HoTecker. the stara
OF Delaware's only representative in
the lover branch Of the national legis-
Iature. and who is said 70 have been
the only Republican both factions Of
the party could agree upon for such
position, dropped dead to-day II
SMYRNA.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17
Silk Waist Patterns

Beautiful Silk Waist Patterns to be
sold this week at prices Tor the entire
waist, but little more than the original
cost for one yard of the goods. They're
In Plain Taffetas, Corded, or Black.
Satin Stripes, Barre, Embroidered
effects, ETC.. etc. Consider the values
and prices.
8 yard length fancy Wash Silks or.
worth up to S.a9, at............... OOC
3 yard length Taffeta Silk, worth ct ~
up to $500, 0I.fC
~ worth yfrq up l to 81 b. q aaf Silk. Sl.98
3 S yprd to le sa'Sl Taffeta Silk worth Sis
81 WORTH yfrd u l to al75, T ra SILK. $500
81 worth yfrq up l to- ssl5o. P afi SIX. s3.75
3 % " ST yard np to 5ea si5'de, Taffeta SILK. SIS. Is
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17
Sale of White Goods

Wonderful the amount Of White
Goods you sell in a town of this
SIZE" remarked the representative
of one of the largest manufacturers in
this country. The cause is simple
enough. Being satisfied with small
profits, and carrying the most extern
sive assortment-that's the reason
and the only reason for this great
business. This weeks selling is to
surpass all former records.
500 pieces 80 inch wide
nice quality White Lawn h n
this week, per yard. W.
And you never saw anything neal
like it at that price.
100 pieces, 80 inch wide, fine White
India Linon or White TAI
Lawn, at 70
per yard ........... zZu
No trouble about getting White
Lawns at any store at the above
price, but when you get from 15c to
18c Lawns at 1212c, the saving is
worth talking about. The finer
grades are here, as fine as any store
anywhere carries, and at less prices.
TABLE CLOTHS.
A surplus stock of 12-4 Cardinal and
Green Table Cloths, fringed all
AROUND, are to be sold Monday.
They were $1.S5 M No
each, Monday
choice 500. $4,000. WEsVV
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-26
TEXAS VAST RESOURCES.
a state That May Have 100000
People in TYventy-five Years.

a state That May Have 100000
People in TWENTY-FIVE Years.
AUSFIN, Texas. Dec zs.-The Texas cot
ton crop is figured out at 5,z5000 bales,
which represents but little less than S15o.-
ESQ coo 10 the planters Of that great Com
moBwealth This is nearly double the val
ne OF The Iowa corn crop. and lot very fer
behind the s22s. 0oo, e0e Which Is the sggre-
gaze value of ali that States farm pro-
duets. Texas has the cotton seed as well
as the lint, and IN addition wiII spin a
great deal Of her cotton, SO that it will be
safe TO put The total returns from her chief
staple for 1900 at SI75, coo, 600. CT even
s209. e00. eQe When there is added TO this
the corn and the wheat, the cattle aad she
hog and homfuy that are also grown,
The result is q sum that viii leave the
magnificent State Of Iowa plodding hope
lessly in the rear. The cattle interest is
SIN great one. bus az the big ranches
ars breaking up into far 1s as worthless
prairies ere turned into rms fields and as
mills ere being built TO convert the raw
ce;ton into finished products II can be seen
that Texas has a future before her that
viii have no competition outside of the
great manufacturing States IN the East
The Twelfth Census gave the Lone Star
State population and rate of growth
that put her well in line wiIh Ohio, Iili-
Hois. New York and Pennsylvania. but
what viii the next quarter OF a century
show With no more than the present
rate of increase in agricultural and manu-
featuring products Texas viii be able TO
feed. clojhe and educate 60ee. Gee il 1916
and 10000, 900 in twenty-five years from
nov. How many great cities will rise or
her plains and around the Gulf OF Mexi-
co il would take Texas ststistician 20 fig
ure out satisfactorily. buf the most con
SENTATIVE must acknowledge that big fig
ures erc required The fact~that this one
Commonwealth now grows third of the
American eetto., crop means that il Is GO
ing TO cut an equally wide swath in other
forms OF production. both Of manufactures
and agriculture. All that Is needed for
| Texan development is TO pay little more
attention 10 business and a little less TO
politics. A State with as much mineral
ana agricultural wealth needs all the rail
. roads it can induce 70 be built and all che
factories that can be established 20 work
up its raw materials.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-26

invasion would hardly meet the present
views Of the country and might even eaGse
comment in national Legislative circles
Perhaps it would be as wise to first
catch the hair before. disengs ging It from
the butter. All the trouble Is not neees-
sariiy oyer ia The Empire merely because
Prince Ching has agreed to forward q
bitter pill 10 the Empress Dowager which
she is presumed TO be in no condition to
refuse. The Boxers are torturiug and
numbering missionaries again. and close
10 Pehn. War preparations eonunRe in
the interior as usual. On the other HAND
1t is asserted that Tuan has been arrest
cd. and Tung. Fuh Slang ordered 70 Sig
Han-fu. with a view to punishment. The
report may be true; but ii IS not likely
to be accorded mneh eredenee. outside Of
China unless the heads of these misere-
ants are handed over and identified by
the council of ministers at Pekin. not
necessarily for publication, but as an ski
dence of good faith.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-26
CHRISTMAS FOR IMMIeRANrs.
An Inpronpsu Celebration at the Ell
lis Island Station.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-The detained I'M
migrants at the new immigration station
on Ellis Island made merry yesterday. To
begin with. they enjoyed an American
Christmas dinner The ice cream. puzzled
them last year. this time the eesery was
conundruEa. Some of them tiseugh1 1t
designed for their personal adornn.ent,
and, breaking OF the stalks, put the leaves
in their coat iapels. After dinner an en-
tsrtainment and. dance served to make the
occasion still more jolly. Representatives
of several different nationaIfties partiei-
pated in these festivities
The half dozen cingalese dancers who
arrived here a week ago from Paris where
they had been dancing at the Exposition,
we're the principal performers They as
sisted in the orchestra and contributed to
the programme. They were assisted in
their orchestral efforts by an Armenian,
Afexsn1re R0odenian from Constantine
pie, who played an instrument resembling
a violin Two Syrians. Kald Orbagi and
Joseph Kahl. shuf1ed a Syrian dance.
keeping time to their steps With swapping.
castanet ike fingers The Hungar;ans
and Poles danced mazourkas The belle of
the event was Miss Estis Sosch, Russian
girl
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-26
China,s Christn,au Present.

It was on the day before Christmas that
the ENJOYS in Pekin finally received
Prince Ching and delivered to him the
protocol containing the demands of the
Powers upon China. So that corner was
turned at las and the world is allowed
&c hope that settlement Of some sort
viii be possible and be permanent. 1t is
hardly conducive TO any little prestige
that We may have left in connection with
the Chimes question. that the Admins
tration has felt obliged 10 notify the al
lies that the United States cannot be ex-
Deeted TO contribute anything toward the
means or measures which are to be tax
en- to secure compliance with the peace
agreement. after it has been accepted by
the Chinese Government. Troops. the
destruction OF native forts. and other
things wiz be requisite to the protection
Of foreigners and foreign interests But
We must abstain, and allow or expect
American citizens and American com
merce to be safeguarded BY and at the
expense Of the Concert.
What efTect This may have upon the
matter of our share of The indemnity Is a
question II Great Britain, Germany.
Russia. France. Austria. aud italy are to
keep the railway Iine open from Pekin
to Taku by military force. and are to oe-
eupy points and places. Including ports:
and are TO provide sn administration for
Chinese revenues until al the indemni-
ties are paid. ali at their Joint expense;
where VII me United States stand in the
PREMISES Il We are 10 collect. 1t is fair
10 guess hat vs. shall be Invited TO share
IN the general trouble and cost of ooilec-
tiea, This idea suggests more than the
possibility thai Congressional Legislation
may be necessary 10 place the Admins
tTation in a position 10 deal with China,
without violating The Constitution in the
operasiez The right to participate in
Tx eeeapstion and to maintain troops
could legally be only derived from Con-
gross. Anether strictly executive war Of