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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-08
MARsHA1L's ANNUAL CONCERT
At the Auditorium March Is to Clear
the Band From Debt

Many people are under the impression
that the members of Marshalls band,
and especially J. B. Marshall, are paid
a salary for the services. Others seem
to think the proceeds of the concerts
are divided among the musicians. This
is a mistake, as not one cent of this
money is received by band members,
but all goes into the bands treasury.
The only instances where individual
members receive any pay are on the
Fourth of July, out of town trips and
from paid parades. At such times the
money received is divided equally. This
gives each member On an average of
about $40 per year. Last year the band
held 80 rehearSals and gave rs concerts.
AT SO per year each individual received
about s cents for each concert and re-
hearsal. Including street car fare only,
this leaves each member out of pocket
about 81 per year to say nothing of his
time and labor, and the expense of
keeping his instrument and uniform in
repair.
Many people say, .'wel1, if the mem
bers of your organization do not re-
ceive any financial benefit from the
band, where does your money go?"
1t is very easy to see where it goes
by the following figures: In 1901 the
band gave 25 concerts, which averaged
SCI per concert. This in connection with
the proceeds of the programme adver-
Using and the balance on hand from
the previous year makes a total of 81, $50.
1t cost $3.50 to keep up the park, hall
rent 5000, repairs on band instruments
500, music $185 and incidentals 1852.
New fatigue coats were purchased last
year at a cost of $6S6.75. This leaves the
band in debt to the amount of $443.75.
The band hopes to pay off this indebt-
edness and have balance on hand of
$500 from the proceeds of the annual
concert to be given at the Auditorium
March IS.
The cost of tickets is 25 and so cents
There are over 200 people who have
tickets to sell. The chart opens March
Is at Stansfield's drug store 632 Kansas
avenue.
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Frank Lawton, the whistler. now in Lon
don, was granted last Saturday by Justice
Blanchard of the supreme court OF New
York.
Hall Game has written Liebler & Co.
that he will surely visit this country next
i isThe Eternal City which Viola Allen viii
have next season.
If the managers are complaining that
the the p lay Twenty-six dramas and
other stage works were copyrighted in
Washington last week.
I.iebler. & Co. have abandoned the pro
posed all-star revival of the Two Orph-
ans as Kate Claxton was unable to give
them a clear title to the play on account
of previous arrangements.
In these days of bigger combines it has
not attrac ted so much attention that the
ana the White Mice Of Vaudeville have
been merged into one trust
One of the handsomest wreaths placed
on the casket of William West. the min
strel, at his funeral last week, came from
Fay Templeton, his first wife.
Charley Hoyt furnishes one of those
The royalties his "A Texas Steer, :
"Trip to Chinatown," etc, one week re
s 80. a S''i' = - 1'''''''e- =
James o'Nel remarks that he has play,
feels that in it sympathetic or cold au-
dience affects him in precisely the same
way as when he first undertook the role.
The most popular song thai. the late
he received the least money was Just
Because She Made Those Goo Goo Eyes
Queen received the paltry sum of SIS for
Charles Frohman arrived in London last
Monday and the first information he gave
to the newspapers was that Edna May
would come to this country next season
instead of Australia. Miss May will have
a play.
Olga Nethersole and George w. I.ederer
are in correspondence with a view to the
latter's managing the English emotional
actress on starring tour of the United
States next season. Miss Nethersole will
tour the English provinces this spring.
Mrs Marion Faversham, wife of William
Favershan. the actor, began suit last
Thursday in New York for absolute di-
vorce. naming a woman prominent in met
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Theatrical Notes.

A benefit performance will be given for
the widow of Jack Haverly in New York
March IA
'fUncle Toms Cabin will be played next
month by a company of deaf and dumb in
Salem, Ore.
Bronson Howard, the dramatist, is still
in the south of France trying to secure
relief from nervous trouble.
Little Corinne and Yours Merrily''
John b. Rogers reached New York during
the past week direct from London.
A conservative estimate of the real es-
tate value of the so principal places of
amusement in New York city places it at
over $20,0o0,0 600.
The plans of having James K. Hackett
appear with his wife. Mary Mannering, in
Camille have been abandoned. Cause
not stated.
R. D. Mclean has a clearly developed
case of appendicitis, and his company will
close for at least three weeks until he re-
covers from the operation
William Pruette, the baritone, fell on the
ice the other day in New York and so
severely sprained his ankle as to necessi-
tate his canceling two wee ks of his book
iTrgs
Edwin Arden is back in New York from
short season in San Francisco and has
already taken up rehearSalS of Jim Blud-
soe,'' in which he will have the star part
Richard Mansfield will in all probability
act the role of Charley Steele next season
in the dramatization of Gilbert Parker s
melodramatic novel, 1.-THE Right of Way"
Virginia Earle's plea for divorce from
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what the colored race may do if given a
fair opportunity.
The name of Ira Aldridge, the one
time African Roscius" is known only
to students of dramatic history; and
yet, less than half a century ago he was
one of the tragic actors of England-an
American, hailing from Oswego, New
York He made his debut in London
in 1888, and besides meeting with warm
applause was praised as an artist by the
greatest actor that ever donned sock
and buskin-Edward Kean!
The BLACK PATHS" talent lies in a
different direction, and is not the less
marked. Her splendid vocal powers were
appreciated abroad even before they
were fully acknowledged at home
Kings, queens, and princesses, did not
think it beneath their dignity to APP
plaud this dusky nightingale, or to re-
quest that she sing before them. But it
is in America during the past six years
that she achieved her greatest triumph
and made a fortune for herself and
managers Her company for this sea-
son is one of great excellence, the lead
ing support being John Rucker, THE
Alabama Blossom" who as a dispelier
of gloom and a spreader of honest
laughter, is unequalled by his fun-lov-
ing and mirth- provoking race.
Anna Eva Fay will play a return en-
gagement at the Crawford Tuesday
Wednesday,, Friday and Saturday
nights.
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of the eager spectator. The conflict in
the heart of each of the brothers is ex-
cellently expressed by both Franklin
Ritchie as Ben" the elder, and by
John Dean as Frank" the younger
brother. AS the awakening comes to
them and to Martha Reese" the wo-
man in the case, that an awful problem
has come into their lives, each is caught
squarely between the paths of love and
Eelf-sacrifice.
Each then attempts the nobler part.
only to be torn by the whirlwind of per-
sonal suffering and passionate despair
At one supreme moment the natural
man in each of the brothers s'boils''
over, and they are simultaneously i'm
PEELED to destroy one another But here
enters the good angel. Old Capt Dan
Marble, Mr.. Woodward. whose blunder-
ing good nature presipitated all the
trouble, finds the two boys in the very
agony of their life to life conflict and
ne utterS one line of advice and warning
that is simply beautiful in its rugged
strength and characteristic seafaring
metaphor; Were aground, boys ne
says. We're aground and we'll have to
wait for the tide to float us
The late James A Herne was in many
respects, If indeed not in all respects
the foremost dramatic artist of his day
and generation. He certainly had no
superior in America as a portrayer of
real Life on the mimic stage. He was
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WOULD HE KILL HERP
Listen to the Letters Sent to Edna
May Spooner by Somebody.

New York, March S.-Edna May
Spooner, one of the members of the
Spooner Stock company playing at the
Park Theater, in Brooklyn, received a
letter written in red ink yesterday
morning threatening her life. The let
ter was mailed in Manhattan at 30
o'clock on Thursday afternoon and was
received at the Brooklyn postoffice at
80 O'Clock the same evening and was
delivered yesterday morning. The letter
is as follows:
Edna May Spooner:-I will kill you
on the corner of Fulton and Washing
ton street. next Saturday night. 1 would
not care if you have 100 detectives, and
if your husband, Augustus Phillips, is
such a. smart man as he is in the play
let him interfere and L will kill him, too,
and as you are such a crack shot VIII v
don't you bring a revolver with you. L
will kill you first and then Phillips If /
have a chance to escape, and the rea-
son T am going to kill you is that I
asked your mother for job and she
wouldn't give it to me, and as I ha We
a wife and five children and letting
them starve account of out of employ
ment 1 don't give a dam for life. I will
kill you like Golgoze killed Mckinley.
I won't kill Wilson as he is your best
actor or either Cecil as she is the best
girl ever lived
The letter was shown to Mrs. Spooncr
the head of the company, and she 2e2
ferred it TO Capt. Reynolds of the detec-
tive bureau and last night a dozen de
tectives were on duty from the Par x
Theater to the corner of Fulton and
Washington streets, but the letter wri-
ter failed to appear.
Mrs. Spooner said she did not believe
the writer of the letter intended to
commit any such crime as was threat
ened in the letter The police have no
idea as to who sent the letter to Edna
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and she goes about pale-faced, hollow-eyed
and haggard, piteous contrast to the
blooming health of her former self. But
over 100000 women have found health
again by taking Wine of Cardui. Asia
regulator of the menstrual periods Wine of
Cardui has never been known to fail. It
has. seldom failed to restore perfect health,
even in the most persistent and aggravated
cases of weakness.
Miss Ida M. Snyder, of No. 535 Bergen
street, Brooklyn, N. Y, has used Wine of
Cardui and she says it helped her into a
new life. Health to Miss Snyder is worth
a great deal. She is an attractive young
woman with intellectual attainments and
she occupies the position of Treasurer of
the Brooklyn East End Art club. This
position marks her as person of intellect,
culture and refinement and it speaks highly
of the respect and trust her fellow women
have in her She writes
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EXTENT OF OUR RAILROAD

I'M. G.. Cunniff in The Worlds Work
From a little wooden-track line along
the Laclxawaxen<C Creek, here the first
locomotive in the country had its trial
in 1929, the railroad systems of the
United States have grown in seventy
three years to a network of rails which,
Strengthened out. would make a single
track extending eight times around the
world. Visualize this eight-fold gfrdle.
Beside it a new track is progressing
twelve miles day on the ninth circuit
On every five mile stretch is a 1ocomo-
tive with a train of eight cars There
are five men at work for every mile and
two hundred and forty men coming to
work every day. The road carries more
tonnage than all the ships on all the
seas together with the railroads of the
busiest half of Europe. From the lines
that make up the imaginary manifold
belt one wage Garner out of every fiji
teen in the country. directly or Indirect
ly, secures q living for himself and his
dependents, If not as fireman or con-
ductor or superinte ndent, then as a To-
connective builder or q, steel worker, or
even one of the 1umberrnen engaged in
hewing down the three thousand square
miles of timber employed every year for
ties.
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the great American apostle of realism,
and was recognized in Europe as well
as in America as little short of a dram
attic genius. He was as great a dram
attic author as he was an actor, and as
a theatrical producer, if the single ex-
ception of Henry Irving be made, he
was the greatest in the world Mr..
Herne was long recognized throughout
the profession as the great authority on
dramatic writing and dramatic produce
ton, and the highest salaried leading
players in the country, both men and
women, were glad to sit at his feet and
learn the profounder secrets of the are
of dramatic Interpretation.
Mr.. Herne fas for many years recog-
nized as the representative American
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THEATRICAL NEWS
A Plenitude of Pastoral Plays
at the Crawford.
Richard Golden's cold Jed
Prouty" Tonight.
HERNE'S SAG HARBOR.'
laundering s'Capt. Dan Marble"
the Quaint Character.
Other News From Box Office
and GreenrOOm.
HERNE'S SAG HARBOR.'
AT THE CRAWFORD.
cold Jed Prouty" tonight.
PIacl- Patti Monday

Ola JeG
Black Patti Monday
Sag Harbor'' Thursday.
Anna Eva Fay four nights
Topeka is having much needed VS.
itation of the good honest rural drama
Tonight Richard Golden will play his
quaint and lovable old character of
Jed Prouty" in the play by that name
at the Crawford. On Thursday the late
James A. Herne's New England play
Sag Harbor" will be the bill Black
Patti and her troubadours will be the
bill Monday night
The story of Sag Harbor," as told by
the great playwright, James A. Herne,
is one with which people are not I'M
familiar, but it is story that will bear
re-telling. 1t concerns the loves of two
brothers, the elder a boat-huilder. the
younger a sailor lad, for the same girl
The appreciation of all three concerned,
the tragedy of the situation, and the
heroic struggle of each to say and do
absolutely the right thing in the stress
of the hour that follows the understand
ing, discloses somewhat the current of
it must be remembered, and primitive
in the force of their passions and their
impulses.
This is the dramatic situation that
dawns upon the auditor soon after the
curtain has risen, and the possibilities
for a real drama are perceived, and the
intense interest is never broken until
the fall of the final curtain diSpelS the
clouds and satisfactorily ends the thrall
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ONE NIGHTS PROFIT $4,000.
Prince Henry Good Grand Opera
Drawing Gard.

This season at the Metropolitan Opera
House will be a remarkably profita BILE
one. made so. above all other reasons,
by the single performance given for
Prince Henry
q One expert estimates that the total
receipts for that night were SIS, 600 TIE
salary list amounted to about $1,000, the
decorations to $4,000 and the other in
c1dental expenses were not heavy
enough to interfere with the net profit
of at least $4,000 which is probably the
record for any single performance with
out a benefit attached to it. The shrewd
Mr.. Grau let 1t be understood that the
superb decorations would be kept in
place for one extra performance. at
least, and the result was that at the
succeeding night the house was packed
to the doors. Counting this extra profit
the visit of Prince Henry must have
meant at least $56, 900 to the Grau Opera
company 1t also meant a small for
tune to ticket spectators, who manag-
ed to get a few seats for the inevitable
late Corners Several reports had it that
as high as $3.50 was paid that night for
a single orchestra chair.
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INTELLIGENT STAGE ANIMALS
a Horse and a Dog Who Know Their
Parts Perfectly.

While Miss Blanche Bates is the star
of eUnder Two Flags at the Academy
of Music, her horse is playing her a
close second. ~
Indeed, she says that his head has
been SO turned by the applause that
she is sure he will go starring on his
own account next year. It seems that
after the ride up the mountain, when
Miss Bates comes before the footlights,
she calls the horse, who comes ambling
down the mountainsi0e with no one to
guide him, appears at the front of the
stage, and bows to the wild applause
of the audience: then when she at
tempts to take his bride and lead him
away he losses his head with resent
ment that he, the leading support of a
star, should be led off the stage. It
wouldn't surprise her at all to hear that
Clyde Fitch was writing a play for this
horse to star in next season. Miss Elsie
De Wolfe's French bulldog Fauvette
who appears with her in the first act of
THE Way of the World is also re-
ported to have got what is vulgarly de-
Scribed as the big head
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ropolitan society as correspondent. Mr..
Faversham is reported to have said that
he will fight the case.
Clara Bloodgood received so much APP
plause for her work in The Way Of the
World'' that Elsie De Wolf, the star of
the production, is reported to have become
Jealous, with the result that the former
will leave the company March 10. Mrs.
Sarah CoweIl LIE Moyne will take Mrs.
Bloodgood'S S place.
1t is said that the management of 1.-THE
New Workers. got a cable offer to open in
London June 2. Dan DAILY, who was play
ing in Chicago at the time and was wired,
Can do The New Workers. in London in
June What do you think?' The comedian
replied: Prefer to continue doing them in
this country There are more of them and
are more easily done at home"
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Miss
Ida NJ. Snyder,
Treasurer of the Brooklyn
East End Art Club.

'H women woald pay more attention to
their health we would have more happy
wives, mothers and daughters, and If they
would Use more intelligence 10 the matter OF
medicines, Observing results, they would find
that the doctors prescriptions do not perform
the many cures they are given credit tor.
s"'My life was burden to me through per-
sistent indigestion, anaemia resulted and my
friends thought / was an invalid for Lite.
But would not give up and when found
that prescriptions would not help me, tried
something else.
@sIn consulting With my druggist he adj
vised McElree's Wine of Cardui and 7 he'd
lords Black-Draught, and so / took 1t and
have every reason to thank him for new
and It only took three months to cure me-"
You may secure the same relief as Miss
Snyder, if you take Wine of Cardui as she
took it. Thedford's Black-Draught is the
companion medicine of Wine of Cardui
and it is liver and bowel regulator which
assists greatly in effecting cure. Go to
your druggist and buy dollar bottle of
Wine of Cardui and twenty-five cent
package of Thedford's Black-Draught and
take them in the privacy of your home. If
you take these medicines according to d.
rections, the relief and cure is simple.
Some cases are cured quickly and others
take longer because the disease has run
longer. Remember how Miss Snyder took
Wine of Cardui and has health. The
same medicines are offered you today.
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ORCHESTRA OF so PLAYERS.
Concertmeister Van oordt's Musicians
Coming to the Auditorium.

coming TO the AuQ1LOT1u11.
One of the largest musical organiza-
lions to visit Topeka is the Chicago
Symphony orchestra which viii be at
the Auditorium March 25.
1t includes: Strings-Eight first
violins, six second violins, four vfolas,
four 'cellos, four BASES and one harp.
Wind-Two oboes. two French horns,
three clarinets, three trombones, two
trumpets, one tuba, tyn.pans and
drums. Concertmeister, Van Oordt;
solo 'cellist, Herr Wagner; soprano solo
list, Mime. Ragna Lime; tenor Solofst,
Edward G. Towne, with AdoIph Rosen-
becker, conductor.
One of the members about whom
much interest centers is Madame Ragna
Lime, the soprano soloist. She is a ma
tive of Scandinavia and is descendant
of Karl v. Lime, better known as ChaS.
Linnaeus. Madame Lime has had much
success on the operate and concert
stage of Europe, as well as in this coun-
try. She has been soloist for the Metro
Thomas orchestra Schubert club, St.
Paul; Ladies' Thursday Musical, Min
neapolis: Beethoven club, Memphis;
Apollo club, Kansas City; United Scan
divanian Singers Festival, Omaha, and
many others.
Jan van Oordt, the leader is a pupil
OF Calsar Thomson, under whose
teaching he remained five years. The
Chicago Tribune says of the young Hol-
lander:s His talent is undeniably great.
There is an earneStness and sincerity in
his work that is extremely gratifying,
and musical sympathy as WE'LL"
Mr.. Towne, the tenor, in the language
of the matinee girl, sings 'sweetly
divinely." He has sung with the prin-
cipal orchestras of the United States.
Frank Wagner, the 'eellist solofst,per-
haps is fully as we'll known, thus com
plotting an organization which it would
be hard to excel.
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player in England, France, Germany,
and in fact all overAthe continent of Eiu-
rope, and as a dramatic writer he was
conceded first place among the Ameri-
cans by most of the distinguished writ
ers for the stage in the old world. VIM.
Archer, Clement Scott and Arthur
Pinero in England and Gerhardt Haupt-
mann and Adolp Somewhat in Ger
many, have all at one time and other.
and in many cases in constant reitera-
ton, declared the genius and the super
lor1ty of the distinguished author-star,
who though now passed away has lef.
the evidences of his genius behind him
Sag Harbor' has been recognized by
the dramatic critics of the entire coun-
try as one of the very best of the
Herne plays. and nowhere was praise of
1t stronger than in Boston.
Black Patti.
1t is generally supposed that the ne
gro has no histrionic talent beyond his
great fun-making and vocal possibili-
ties 1t is becuse, likely, that there is
no market for the negro in the legiti-
mate drama or on the lyric stage, that
he has not shone with becoming afflu-
ence in these two higher walks of the
drama 1t cannot be said, indeed, that
no negro or negress has trod these high
and lofty paths; the career of Ira Aid
ridge and that of Sissieretta Jones, the
socalled BLACK Patti'' are examples of
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II is one of the saddest things in life
to see beautiful young girl Ian
IL gushing on bed of sickness, when
she should be strong and healthy, filing
the home with the sunshine of her happy
face. Somehow or other as the mother is
the center of the home, the daughter seems
to be its greatest joy or its greatest care.
A home with an invalid daughter is like a
hospital. The sufferer with her pale
blanched face calls for every ones care and
sympathy. How different is the home
where healthy girl sheds her happy in
fuence and ministers to the comfort Of
every one in thousand pleasant ways.
It is remarkable that SO many women
will forfeit health and then suffer the con-
sequence of pain and sickness when it is
unnecessary. Women who enjoy this
greatest of Natures blessings are liable to
forget that health can be easily lost by neg
lect. They cannot realize that the loss of
eleep, little cold or irregularity of habits
can result disastrously until they once suf-
fer painful menseA Menstrual troubles are
generally the beginning of women's trou-
bles- The vitality is at low ebb, the
blood weakened, the digestion disordered
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May Spooner. She is not married to
Mr.. Phillips as the writer assumes.
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Frank Lawton, the whistler, now in Lon
don was granted last Saturday by Justice
Blanchard of the supreme court of New