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Country Store Robbed.

pa' Texas February 2O.-The general
a4uls store of w. H. Thaxton at
springs eight miles from town. was
~ robbers last night and about $3.50
I ar ~ provisions, dry goods and groceries
r,,naep away The robbers used two
s'~ 70 carry on their spoIls and
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Officers OF Galveston Rifles.

Galveston, Texas, February 20-At a
meeting OF the Galveston Rifles for the
purpose Of rlcctlnR officers, Charles 7.
worth first Lieutenant Of the company.
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Bryan Wants Representatior

Austin, Texas. February 2o--Mr, Ed Hall
of Bryan was here this afternoon and aled
petition from the citizens Of BRYAN with
the governor for the appointment OF rest
dent OF that city on tho board of directors
OF the Agricultural and Mechanical college
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e,v., 10 Have a Pythlan Temple.

BRYAN. Texas. February 2o.-The knights
Of Pythlas lodge here has enthusiastically
indorsed the proposition to build a Pythian
hall They will form stock company and
erect a $4,000 building. The following
hrilding committee was appolnted; +.
Marion Law. chancellor commander, chair
man. Ed Hall. w r. Johnston. Paul Brad
lev NJ. Waldrop, Tyler Haswell j. *.
cole. II. w. Howell, DR.. w. II. Lawrence
and o. L. Saunders.
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entIHING COLD,

81 -
sI philosophy Of a cold is arrest %
,a,Dcs. o. the skin and mueus
s,sn The nervous respiratory
srsia. saiied sneezing, denotes that
rislsS inning of the nasal cavities
sars ahd that the general fuue-
Il e,n Oeen interfercd with.
d. ~ y, that underlie a cold are
Esstot Wv, n,al force and the irlpoyer-
4 Surj lug 'ue blood. The scientific medi-
hprtiavW that when all the forces
va nuns nuns OF the body are at par,
isaNt iu ordinary circumstances,
Y psr' nv which will keep the vital
~ soi INA thus enable the system
i Dr III "a grippe, and other dis
asgs h, 'iaFter's Iron Tonic. 1t
staae "a supply of iron, which In
&ad wSat of the blood.
e, Ms prominent citizens of
Pun Sy bl Iron Tonic is all right.
III. Andrew J. Smith.
ill.,. ma. lnklin Street Grocer.
4 s.dieis acquainted with DR.. Har-
hsse -, since the Civil War; in
" Sni,h' family on them"
" H,,.l' Aaker Of jug Cisterns.
Hass Medicines are all good.-
~ Asn. James Dicberson.
y. 5. Claim Atty.A
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Department Notes.

Austin. Texas, February eo-Three coun
ties today redeemed school bonds held nv
the State treasurer ms follows: Harrison
Bandcra county, 5000
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Austin Texas February 2O.-Tho follow
ing branch pilots for the port Of Galveston
were commissioned today: Rucker T. Car.
roll II. g. Jones, Fred johnson. Iavson
Auth, Lois Best, H. wachsen. WiuIam
Serlmgour, A. d. Smith and George vii.
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Mr.. McART's OPINION.
consolidation Of Small Oil Companies lie
Assured, He Believes,

Especial 10 The Postl
N.- orleans. February 20. The con-
..ndatiop Of the smaller Beaumont oil
-...nta. into one biz concern has hcep
@ueh talked abogt. and. believe It Is
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s4ERlFFs' DEPARTMENT

Taken up by Fl. L. Gibbs, Deepwater,
Texas, one bay horse, years oil, IA han $
high, branded y. II j. the being over the
hrnpdrd w with half circle uader L on
the rl~ht hip; also one sorrel mare, lSB
hands high. branded ] II F tconnecteh On
IN the face. A. r. Anderson, Sheriff.
strayed or stolen a dun mare, J years
old l4Ih hands high no brand, black name
and tall tall very long shod all around and
is very gentle; So reward. A. r.. Anderson,
sheriff,
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Insurance Permits Renewed.

lsui Texas, February 2o.--The fol-
hSnrsnce companies today renewed
Permits to do business in the State:
Liverpool. London and Globe of New
Nt sln.I4; agents certificates SO.
written during the past year, 1864,
Esllums, S2ll4S.u6. Losses paid,
EIss Losses incurred, $40 $40 50.
sae and Ladies Of Honor of Indian.
.'Oent Knights Of America.
$3.50 Nolnrll Of the Catholic Knights
Igr'ta q ST, Louis. Policies in force
IL paid during the year S92' 500,
sal claims unpaid, 5000.
s.h Friendship Order Of the Silver
~ and Leaf OF Macn-
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sranoh pilots oomnlssIon.d.

ia pursuit. "'y
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h CHARTERS FILED.
| t,.nIs for a Stock Exchange
1 al Beaumont
!. 4, GIRLS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
MANAGES Filed Against the
~ u ...t Of the Insane Asylum
'H' at Austin.

... February 2o.--The follow
-. ,, we're Sled today;
srta' Point Roller Mills company
G'''F' ,.,n, Kerr county; capital
pas Purpose; TO operate a hour
nil and cotton GIN lneorp OF
y = w. WINS, ". II. witt and j. W.
polnt Mercantile company OF
n l',. capital stock $4,000. lncor-
nu" McElroy. J. W. Wilson
w .,,on Brewing company OF Cat
s l.,It,l stock 100000. Purpose; TO
.d sell beer, other matt
ti'a' and to construct and main
y ar said purposes. lncorpora'
'ny Peters, II. wilkins and b.
~ u.oe,or. sre Adolphus Busch
5n'K Klein Of st. Louis; .. Au l,o,,
,,rs and II. wilkins OF Galves'o ni
Is ,nmcnt securities company ".
Rlu uuanitsl stock $4,000. Purpose
ssi, cap' sTchange with authority to
EinE S ,,ocks Of mining compan es'
ue MulhollNnd, w. {. Witcn-
KEss ~ =; o. IT.. NJ Beaumont; j. Z.
D. We Jobnson county, and W.
' 'T posers Benton county, ARK
Suits for Damages
y",os February 20-Suit was
4 no district court today by Viola
,,1 Mary Pulley against l.. w. Cui-
!, 5000. Plaintiffs allege that the
u, had smallpox aud was sick In
\. and that he employed them to
!. mattress, assuring them that 1t
I, bssu in his store while he was
"A smallpox. After the plaintiffs
IA tho mattress both were taken
sfh smallpox
4 i. beep filed in the district court
l, Tlonph and wife against Superln'
IN Worthsm ct nl Of the LunatiC
\ M saSO damages. Plaintiffs al
A,t their 12year-old daughter was
,,,r md permanently injured by .
y charge Of a luuatiC from the asy'
rs fled today by NJ. q. Clarke
/, me Houston aud Texas Central
In TO recover damages TO the amount
3SlO plaintif-s petition alleges tina;
l,m failed to deliver goods shipped
4 N line, at least the goods were lost
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umphantly have said. Possibly. as has been
declared, Grieg has not developed into the
most powerful expression, into graphing
with cosmic problems and solving them in
symphonies. Yet the time-honored custom
OF considering a composer of but middling
worth until he has foisted his aspiration to
immortality upon the world in the shape of
a symphony, is about as fallacious as the
eighteenth-century theory that whoever
had not written an opera was really no
musician of note. 1t reminds one of the
English literary notion that a poet who has
not written a drama, however lame dra-
matically, is no great poet. Grieg has
struck the pole of feeling rather han the
pole of thought. And within the sphere of
national feeling, at least, he has surely
combined the opposite elements, voicing the
epic and objective, as well as the lyric and
subjective. In fact the two are in him so
curiously blended that, contrary TO current
opinion, through Grieg's music IL is the ma
ton which speaks it's innermost thoughts
as much as Grieg himself. We agree that
he has been more of an artist in his produc-
ton than a philosopher. Hence, according
to the demands of some aesthetic rigorists,
he has failed to reach the very highest
rank. But a composer is not made up ac-
cording to a pattern, a universal pattern;
he is made according to something which IL
is in his nature to become. Grieg. with his
opportunities and endowmen appears to
have made the best of both, to have ex-
pressed what he found most worth express
ing with such surprising beauty and one
ness of feeling that the nation for which he
did this yves his work an infinite debt Of
affection and esteem"
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ing at Boston. al Trovatore" and Faust
will be sung during the week. The manager,
Henry w. Savage. has obtained the right
to present Puccini's 'Tosca" in English in
this country, and he has a hold on the
composers unfinished work. Mime. Butter
fly" Lloyd DAubigne, tenor, who was q
member of the Grau company, has joined
the English company.
Ernst Won Possart. who presides over
the Munich festivals, promises for next
year a series of performances of Wagner's
Nibelung operas of unparalleled %splendor
and perfection in every possible detail, "
writes Henry T. Finck in the New York
Evening Post. 1.-THE scenery is to surpass
everything heretofore attempted. and the
four operas are to be taken out of the cur
rent repertory of the Royal Opera during
the winter and every page studied anew,
with scrupulous regard for Wagner's inten-
tons. Now, this is just what Wagner
wanted when he constructed the Bayreuth
Theater. 1t was to serve as a model for
other opera houses, and he would have
never built it had the royal theaters in his
time shown a disposition like Ernst Won
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Possart's. Cosima Wagner, however, takes
a very different view of the matter. She
complains bitterly, and is even said to have
threatened suit against Possart (under the
statute of unlautere W~ettbewerb) because
he has undertaken to rival Bayreuth in per-
forming Wagner's operas In the true bay
reuth manner. and has actually engaged
some of the singers who have appeared in
the same operas at Bayreuth, Otto Less
mann has some plain talk on this matter
in the Berlin All2emeine Musk Zeitung of
Aug. %, which ought TO make the extraor-
binary coterie at Bayreuth vince. The ALL
gemeine Zeitung of Munich of Aug. p also
has some Information which unmasks Bay
reuth. Al the festival which closed on Aug.
20 the house was sold out for nearly every
performance The receipts, therefore. were
about $50, 0G0 marks $135, 600, say $1,000 per
performance, which is about three times as
much as the average receipts at German
opera houses. No wonuer Bayreuth wants
no rivals Put money in thy purse is its
present motto. Cosima Wagner, of course,
has as much eight as anybody 10 make all
the money she can. honestly, as she ooes
at B~ayreuth. But she ought not to let her
friends try to hide the fact that it pays
to perform Wagner's operas well, or to
prevent other opera houses producing them
according TO his intentions"
Prof. A. NJ. Wergeland contributes to the
North American Review for Septem-
Der an article on "Grieg as a
National Composer He asserts that
recent criticism of the music of
Grieg. while generally appreciative of his
technical skill and lenient to his peculiari-
ties. nevertheless plainly declares him TO
have fallen short of being a great musi-
%cian-that is, one who treats themes of uni
versal interest and whose ideas expand into
the breadth of a symphony" In defending
the composer, the whole article is very in
teresting and this, the concluding para
graph. gives a notion Of its spirit and sense:
1T is. perhaps. not altogether wrong to
say that the bane of Grieg's highest work
has been his settling for good in his villa
by Bergen and secluding himself from the
vigorous life elsewhere. Certainly. IL one
knows the temperamental likeness between
himself and Mozart, whose ethereal and I'M
worldly height of beauty and feeling he
renders as no one else does. and his strong
musical leanings toward Schurnann. IL Is
clear thai not all he has had 10 say is en-
bodied in the national. He has wished TO
express other things. which. with unim-
paired health, a different environment, and
greater means. he might, perhaps. ti-
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NEWS OF THE THEATERS
"THE sToRKs.. MUSICAL COMEDY, TO
OPEN THE WEEK AT ENGLIsH's.
Miss Lavfnfa shannon in Beyond
Pardon" Later-The New vaudeville
at the Grand-General Notes.

1.-The Storks," a musical comedy, will be
shown for the first time in this city to-
morrow evening at English's. IL has been
a part Of Chicago's summer entertainment,
thus competing with 1.-THE Wizard Of o."
Frederick Chaplin wrote the music OF 1.-The
Storks" and Guy +. Steely and Richard
earle the libretto and lyrics. 1t was pro-
duced by the management of the Dearborn
Theater, which is responsible for The
Burgomaster" and The Explorers" II
both Of these pieces Mr.. earle was prin-
cipal comedian when they were presented
here last season. and in THE Storks" he
helps to act what he helped Mr.. Steely to
write. Mr.. Steely is a Chicago newspaper
man. and the composer. Mr.. Chaplin, also
lives in Chicago.
The Storks' tells of a contest between
the King OF Baktaria and a magician of
the same country. The magician's son is in
love with the kings sister. and these two
young persons sing the lyrics of the play.
The king and his courtiers foolishly take
some magic snuf and are turned into
storks- The magician gets control OF the
kingdom and is able to demand the kings
consent to the wedding of the aforesaid
young persons before he gives up the
throne. The scenes are the gardens OF the
KIN and the magicians banquet hall.
Besides Mr.. earle the leading members
OF the company are Gilbert Gregory. Frank
W. George Roman. Miss Ruth
White. Miss Ethel Johnson and Miss Jessie
1ntropodi. Performances of The Storks'
will be given on tomorrow. Tuesday and
"wednesday evenings and Wednesday after
noon.
XXX
Miss Lavinia Shannon. who was the lead
ing lady of the Grand Opera House stock
company. Is principal in a company that
will present a new play at English's on
Friday and Saturday evenings and Satur-
day afternoon. The play is Beyond Par
DON" by Theodore Kremer. who has writ
ten several melOdramas of the more SEN
sible sort. Miss Shannon's part is that of
a woman that wears a series of handsome
gowns. and. no doubt. is agitated by a
series Of interesting emotions, as the title
of the play indicates. A stirring drama of
heart interest is more than welcome.
Assisting Miss shannon i'm Mr.. Kremer's
play are Alfred H.. Hastings. Harry Gwyn-
cite. Marshall Farnum, Miss Estelle Ad-
ans, Miss Nan Hewins and a number Of
others.
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Is an stimabl accomplishment sufh-
cient excuse that the world owes its pos
SCISSOR a living? The question is suggested
by the statement, apparently well founded,
that some clever New York artists are un-
able to sell their paintings for more than
the cost of the frames, and that even the
frames must sometimes. go at less than
their price TO save the artists from starva-
ton. Yet who is to blame? 1t would be
the mass of Intelligent and well-to-do
could become so interested i'm paintings as
to welcome with appropriate numbers of
dollars the entire output OF all meritorious
artists. But the artistic sense is not one of
the basic virtues TO which all men should
conform; IL Is merely a phase of refinement.
Love or beauty as expressed by art is gen.
era, but no one has the right to demand
that IL shall follow the direction of his own
calling and for his personal gain. 1t mani
tests itself in many ways, two or three of
which are as many as can be followed by
any one who has affairs of his own to look
after. From wall paper and woodwork TO
paintings and poems there is a variety Of
subjects that are being treated artistically,
and among which the taste of the individual
may be g~ratified and refined. Except, per-
haps, music. there is no art that demands
more effort for its comprehension than that
Of the painter; so 1t would seem that the
i~mpecunious painter should, according to
his disposition, blame either his profession
or the impulse which forced him into IL be-
fore he had counted the cost.
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Footsteps of Angels.

When the hours OF Day are numbered,
And the voices of the Night
Wake the better soul. that slumbered.
To a holy. calm delight:
Ere the evening lamps are lighted
And. like phantoms grim and tall,
Shadows from the ftful freight
Dance upon the parlor wall
Then the forms of the departed
Enter at the open door.
The beloved. the true-hearted.
Come to visit me once more.
He. the young and strong. who cherished
Noble longings for the strife.
BY the roadside fell and persisted.
Weary with the march OF life!
They. the holy ones and weekly.
Who the cross OF suffering bore.
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spake with US on earth no more!
And with them the Being Beauteous,
Who unto my youth was given.
More than all things else 10 love me.
And Is now a saint In heaven.
With a slow and noiseless f~ootstep
Comes the messenger divine.
Takes the vacant chair beside me,
Lays her gentle hand in mine.
And she sits and gazes at me
With those deep and tender eyes.
Like the stars. so still and saintlike.
Looking downward from the skies.
Uttered not. vet comprehended.
Is the spirits voiceiess prayer.
Soft rebukes, in blessings ended
Breathing from her lips Of air,
oh. thought eft depressed and lonely.
All my fears are laid aside.
II I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died.
Henry w. Longfellov.
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erary questions to the judgment of persons
of no literary competence"
David Warfeld has begun the season at
Boston in 1.-The Auctioneer," n when he
returns to New York he will nave a new
play. 1t will be presented at the Belasco
Theater. There. too. Miss Blanche Bates
will be seen in THE Bath Comedy" a dra-
matization of a novel popular some time
ago. This theater. which is Hammerstein's
Victoria remodeled. will be opened by Mrs.
Leslie Carter in "Du Barry"
Stuart Robson and his company will pre-
sent 1.-THE Comedy of Errors at English's
on Oct. IL. Dromio of Ephesus will be per-
sonated by Clifford Leigh. an English actor
who resembles Mr.. Robson.
x x x
The first act of Peggy from Paris" a new
musical farce on which George AIDE is work.
ing. shows an old-fashioned party at Hick-
DRY Creek. Ind. The costumes there will
be i'm contradistinction TO the fine toilets of
later incidents of the piece. William Ior-
raine, the composer OF "Salome' and other
popular music. is writing the score of Peg
gy from Paris"
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NOTES OF THE STAGE.
.BeIascO Gets Excited About ellis
Stars" and Other Fellows Nerve.

SuHrS anu Otner fellows nerve.
David Belasco, according to the New York
Telegraph, received word from Miss
Blanche Bates the other day that C. B.
Dillingham;, manager of Miss Julia Mar
lowe, had approached her as If he should
like TO have her change managers. Where
upon Mr., Belasco. whose principal product
is Mrs. Leslie Carter in "Du Barry went
on in this style:
why don't they make their own stars?
Judging from the number of pretended sue
cesses and absolute failures which have al
ready marked this young theatrical season,
there are surely needed real stars who
have been properly trained and understand
their art. 1 am absolutely independent. 1
write my own nays. l train my own play
ers and I produce my own plays. For sue
cess i depend entirely on the public's ap-
probation OF art. and | am grateful for
their appreciation. Legitimate, strong dra-
ma that requires legitimate. strong acting
has been my aim and i have achieved IL.
Milk and water plays, which are neither
drama nor comedy, and have no classical
ton. are of no interest TO me. No we'll
dressed puppets venting a meaningless flow
of dribble upon a helpless audience walk
across my stage. The alleged social stand
ing of any player l do not take into consid-
fact. unless his ability JUSTIFIED *, he never
should appear in a play which / produced.
Art, art! is my only aim. Now, when 1 have
laDOred through DuSy lays ana SleepleSS
nights with a man or woman, who has
genius. for his sake and my sake, and the
sake of the public. to bring out to its full
extent the capability of a player, can you
blame me for being angry with those who
attempt to take a player away from me?
Can you blame me with being vexed by
Mr.. Dillingham; or those for whom he may
be acting as an agent, when he sounds Miss
Bates on the length OF her contract?"
xxx
Several inquiries have been made as to
the time of the appearance of "Ben-Hur''
at English's Opera House. The manage
ment of the theater has not yet announced
the date. At present, "Ben-Hur" is at Gin
cinnati.
Miss Minnie Dupree and her company will
present a new play, "A Rose of Plymouth
Town" at English's. on Wednesday and
Thursday of next week.
William Archer. the London dramatic
critic, publishes in the Leader this opinion
of Judge Kohlsaat's decision that Edmond
Rostand stole from Samuel Eberly Gross's
1.-The Merchant Prince of Cornville' the in
cidents of "Cyrano de Bergerac:"
THE extracts furnished by the master in
chancery render 1t ~abundantly clear that
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show. This means that the turnout OF
society will be a beautiful feature of the
show and as necessary to IL as the exhibl-
tions OF the horses.
The horse show committee is now dis
cussing its selection OF judges. In what
manner the formal opening OF the show will
be, the especial prizes for some of the
classes and other details.
A preliminary OF the horses how that Is
regarded as instructive will be the window
decorations b. downtown merchants. These
decorations will include profuse use OF the
horse show colors-white and greenland
the use of crops and other emblems OF horse
shows.
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Oldest Naval Omcer.
Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
How old is Rear Admiral Thomas o.
Selfridge, retired?' is a question the Navy
Department is trying to solve. Is he ninety
nine or one hundred? The records don't
show n Rear admiral Selfridge won't
tell. He says it is nobody's business how
old he is. But as he entered the navy in
1918, and must have been at least fifteen
years old at that time. the supposition is
that he is between ninety-nine and one
hundred. The admiral's Oldest son, Rear
Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge, jr., owns to
being sixty-six years. The senior Selfridge
was born in Hubbardtown. Mass.
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The Merchant Prince of Cornville' is one
of those illiterate productions with which
every manager is only too familiar. The
man who was capable of writing it may
quite well be capable of honestly believing
that NJ. Rostand pillaged his precious man.
uscript. More surprising is the fact that
he should have succeeded in inducing two
other presumably sane human beings
Judge Kohlsaat and the master in chancery
to share that preposterous conviction. But,
after all, the episode is only a particularly
glazing example of an absurdity familiar In
our own law courts-that of subjecting lit
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MISS BINGHAM's COMPANY.


The most interesting theatrical event in
sight will be W performances OF Had
don Chambers's "A Modern Magdalen" by
Miss Amelia Bingham and her company on
Monday and Tuesday evenings Of next week
at Ensiish's. The play is an adaptation
from the Norwegian. Wilton Lackaye.
Henry E Dixey. Joseph Holland and Ferdi-
nand Gottschalk. especially skillful actors.
are in the company. OF which the Chicago
Evening Post said the other day:
Henry r. Dixey's hit I'm a Modern Mag
dalen' II a testimonial 10 Miss Bingham's
uberality. Most stars would have had that