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New-York tribune., 1902-01-21
CHILL BUYS 4 TRANSPORT
THp PURCHASE SAID TO HAVE NO BEARING ON
TROUBLE WITH ARGENTINA

Beeche. Duval & Co.. OF No. Broad-st-' nave
sold the steamship Manitoba 10 the Gillian Gov
ernment The vessel Is the newest or the North Az
lantic Steamship Company's Heet. ana WILL ssiso
as a TRANSPORT Owing to the development OF ouss-
ness on the west coast OF South America, ano tno
extension OF the service OF the Connpanla Sud Ans
icana de Vapores 10 San Francisco. the Cnlnai
Government has not been able 70 ootdin inc 80
qlired coast service from that me ,,. 40, ,s>
recent reports OF strained relations between SnaS
and the Argentine Republic, which the latest -
thentic adyices say have been definitely ssS&A0A
New-York tribune., 1902-01-21
TWO BIG FIRMS COMBINE.
wCKERs SONS & MAXIM AND BEARDMoRn &
60. AMAIGAMATn

London, Jan 20.-of1cial announcement was
made to-day of the amalgamation OF the firm Of
Vickers' Sons & Maxim, the gun manufacturers.
with William Beardmore & Co, manufacturers
OF armor plate and shipbuilding materials, of
Glasgow. The joint capital is 100000 (S3l =
100000. The Beardmore company owns a big
sh'pyard and recently acquired ground for an
other, on which the new combination intends to
install the finest plant in the world
New-York tribune., 1902-01-21

BoERs CUT Up A BRITISH PATROL.
Cradock, Cape Colony, Jan. 20.-wessels's
nonmand Of Beers On Saturday last cut I'D a
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1902-05-10

BENJAMIN NIELDS. President.
WILLIAM i BRlNCKLE, NIce-pres.
JAMES b. CLAEKSON. Treas. and Sec.
JOHN s ROSSELL, Trust officer.
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Cecilton.


GEoILrON. MD, May .. 1902
Mrs. H. G. Ellison and daughter Miss
Susie NJ. Ellison, OF near Mount Pleas
ant, spent Monday with relatives in on
town.
Mr.. John Price of near Townsend
Del, spent Tuesday with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyland Price.
Miss Mamie Jones is the guest of hen
aunt, Mrs. Fred Williams. near st. Au.
gustinc.
Mcssrs. Baden and NcaScy craycroft
have returned to their home. in philadcl
phia, after Il short stay with their aunt
Mrs. Il. V. Wills, of Earlcvillc
Mrs. &. w. padlcy, Mrs NJ. T.. Clay.
ton and Master John Clayton spent We'd
nesday with relatives in Middlctown.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Davis, of Balti
more, Were guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. j
ii. Smith part of last week.
DIR. and Mrs. X. NJ. Black have re-
turned from pleasant visit with rcla
tives in Baltimore.
Mr.. G. &. Morgan made II short stay
with relatives in Baltimore.
Mrs. Ellen Hall has returned hom,
after spending few days with hcl
niece, Mrs. Lewis King, near Warwick
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WOOdlawn.
WooDLAwN. May Q. 1902

The "Cecil Wing" is on sale each meek In
WoodldOn at C. s. Abrat0m's store. CENT,
a copy.
The Epworth League will be conduct
ed by Miss Bessie Rawlings on Sunday
evening.
Mrs. Don Malambrc and Master Guy,
Of Baltimore, are visiting friends here
Miss Grace Todd. who spent the winter
months in Baltimore. has returned to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-16
OTIS SKINNER.
william Winter Calls Him a Trage-
dian-Plans for the Future.

Otis skinner very apparently increased
the liking the better class of New York's
playgOers already had for him during his
recent engagement in the metropolis. The
public did not flock TO see Francesca da
Rimini" as IL did TO see the more easily
understood dramas, but Mr.. Skinner has
shown that ne has another ambition be-
sides the making of money. Mr.. Skinner
has done enough in this single perform
anee,' wrote William Winter. Ito show
himself truly a tragedian-and that is a
noble title. and one proudly to be worn"
In talking of his plans for the future Mr..
Skinner said To a newspaper writer;
Il may, according to circumstances. ap-
pear i'm classic or modern drama. in comedy
or tragedy. In romantic or realistic plays.
1 am not one Of those who believe that the
stage Is goins 60 the dogs, or that genius
does not find an outlet. Let me tell you
that what is good in stage literature, as in
everything else. Will come to the fore by
the sheer force OF It's own merit. Much
that Is worthless gains a hearing, too, but
IL dies OF its w0rthlessness. Look at the
great plays that are being written and
acted te-day-ths plays of lbSen, Echega-
ray, SudeTmann and Hauptmann, and Of
the greatest of all, PinerO. For l do not
hesitate 10 say ,lat, in my opinion, Arthur
W Pinere ranks as the master of the liv-
ing dramatists. No one mirrors life more
truly or shows "A deeper, keener insight
into human nature. No enc has more skill
at construction or a more brilliant style.
ARd this is said with full realization of
the greatness of the Scandinavian and Ger
man schools The wonderful realism and
symbolism with which these writer's of the
NoFthland endow their works is unques-
tionable. And PinerO has been influenced
by them. lie has assimilated their methods,
but he has improved upon them by temper
ing their stern. rugged facts and tighten
ing the gloom that permeates their plays.
Ii is in this that PinerO Is greater. He has
all the realism OF lbsen and the others,
but there is not the shadow Of doom, the
utter hopelessness that they make domi-
nant. In PinerO there is always the ray of
hope. the brightness without which life
would not be bearable. Nor do l think this
difference is due 10 varying social condi-
lions. for this very spirit of hope is uni
versal. After seeing A Dolls House or
sMagda,' for example, one cannot but feel
depressed at the thought that life may be
so utterly wretched. But take The Second
Mrs. Tanqueray,' or The Notorious Mrs.
Ebbsmith.' Just as strongly there is borne
in upon one the fact that from a certain
chain OF circumstances but one result is
inevitable. Yet the effect produced is not
depressing, The bright side Of life is pic
tured with the darker side, and the con-
trast Is all the more powerful"
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MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
RECITAL BY EDWARD ZELDBNRUST,
A DUTCH PIANIST.
He Will Play at PropyIaeum on
Wednesday E~vening-At an Rehear-
sal of Paierewski's Opera.

Edward Zeldenrust, a Dutch pianist, will
give a recital on Wednesday evening at the
Propylaeum, at the invitation of the Mat
inee Musicale. The public will be admitted.
Mr.. Zeldenrust is making his first tour of
this country. His manager introduces him
in the following manner:
"Zeldenrust is the only legitimate novelty
in his line in America this season, and he
seems from all accounts to be thoroughly
sane and normal, not only in his art, but
in his manner of life. A native of Amster-
dam. he was a brilliant and conscientious
student in the great Conservatives of
Cologne. Frankfort and Paris. He is the
most mature pianist who has visited Amer
lea for several years, and IL is said of him
that he is the exponent of no one school or
epoch of music, but, having assimilated ali
that is valuable In man. methods, he rep
resents the best in all.
Winning his first as a Bach
player. a title unique as il is difficult of
attainment (and he eXcels equally with
Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt,
Zeldenrust's fame spread through Holland,
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THE NEWS IN LONDON.
"ArizOns's" atronag Falling on, a
Curtain Raiser Is Added.

hONDON, Feb. 15.-"Mice and Men" has
been particularly successful. and it's lease
of the Lyceum Theater will be prolonged
until Aug. 16. The new play which was in
tended TO succeed il has been discarded.
Max Berkersheim, who is not generally
given to praising, writes an enthusiastic
criticism of the play in this weeks Satur-
day Review, declaring that mice and
Men is delightful and rare among plays.
Arizona" has not been living up TO ex-
pectations in the way of full houses,
though King Edwards appreciation of the
play may turn the tide in it's favor.
The famous old Globe Theater has been
ordered to be shut up in March, as the
County Council then begins its demolish-
ment to make way for new street improve
ments. In consequence of the unexpected
shortness of its lease OF life THE Heel of
Achilles will be withdrawn Feb. 10. Julia
Nielsen CMrs. Fred Terry and Fred Terry
then substituting a revival of Sweet Nell
of Old Drury."
At Drury Lane "a Cigar Makers Ro-
nance ended it's run tonight. 1t will be
succeeded by Little Lord Fauntleroy."
No new pieces were produced this week,
but next week Arizona" will have a cur
tain raiser. "A Friend in Need" written
by Edgar Selwyn, who impersonates the
Mexican Vaquero in Arizona"
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deliriously the first night OF Der Rothe
Hahn" and when the play took book form,
the editions couldn't be printed fast
enough. The play is called a tragt-coEaedy
on the title page. but the comedy is sparse.
the interest centering almost from the
opening verse on the fate of the elderly
heroine, a character transplanted from a
previous drama n continued in this. The
wife of a village shoemaker, the heroine,
has "A mind above her narrow sphere, and
craftily sets her husbands house on fire TO
get the insurance. A half-witted boy with
a box of matches is made TO appear the in
cendiary, and the poets skill in creating
absorbing interest in details so ignOble is
the secret OF his astonishing success The
point being that human passion, character
and the humanities are as illuminating,
taught, pictured and idealiZed In such guilt
as this, as in the lOftier crimes of .Othello
or Macbeth. oddly enough, at the moment
this curious play was enrapturing immense
audiences. the Emperor called the artistic
folk Of his realm about hin TO lecture on
the debasement Of art in treating OF the
shady side Of life, the woes Of the human.
He was rhapsodizing the recent works OF
art planted in the public square,, while
Italian journalists We're writing home that
the figures of the HohenZollern dynasty
had no more 10 do with art than the plaster
puppets sold In the streets of Rome. Haupt-
mann's play, however, is a study of sin and
its consequences, and the critics unani-
mously declare ii the work OF the highest
order of genius.
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NEWS OF THE THEATERS
ssTHE RUNAWAY GIRL" AND MAGI-
CLAN KELLAR AT ENGLIsH's.
Fanny Rice to Lead the Vaudeville at
the Grand-ShOws at the Park
and the Empire.

At English's on Wednesday afternoon
and evening The Runaway Girl will be
sung by a company led by Arthur Dunn
and Clara Bell Jerome. Augustin DAILY i'm
ported The Runaway Grill from England,
and II was so pleasing on this side that
ever since the English writer's Of musical
comedy have been sure OF a hearing In
America. But 1.-THE Runaway Girl re-
mains the best work Of the kind that this
country has had from England, just as
1.-THE Belle Of New York" is still recog-
nized as the best of the many American
musical comedies. James T.. Powers was
at the head of the first American Run
away Girl" company. Last season he was
succeeded by Arthur Dunn, who is a very
small and clever comedian. Celeste Wynn is
one that will help Mr.. Dunn sing Follow
the Man from Cooks" and a chorus will
sing 20 Listen 10 the Band" and the other
ensemble numbers of the piece.
kellar, the magician, will make his an
nual visit on Thursday. Friday and Satur-
day. 4 matinee will be given on Saturday.
He has been most skillful in illusions re-
quiring heavy machinery. though slelght-
of-hand work has also a large place on
his programme.
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Charles A. and Dan Mason, who are not
brothers, will present a new farce. 'Ru-
dolph and Adolph," at the Park the first
half of the week. The story is of Rudolph
and Adolph Dinkelspiel. German dromios.
Rudolph is a horse trader and Adolph is a
ladies' tailor and they are so like that ever
their wives cannot tell them apart. The
entertainment is part musical and Lottie
Wtlliams-Salter Beatrice Mckenzie, Gloria
AlOnZO and the Lawrence sisters are in the
company. Charles MasOn's home is in this
city. In the old days of CrOae's Garden he
made his start as a sOng-and-dance man.
Last season he was in one of the vaudeville
shows at the Grand.
The latter half of the week will be Occu-
pied by a company that also is led by In
d~ianapOlis players. The Nichols sisters
ave been doing what is technically called
"a black-face sister act" in vaudeville for a
long time. They have been seen here re-
Gently as members of a minstrel company
and the Weber-Fields company. Now they
have parts in a farce named 'Papa's
BABY" which will nave six performances
at the Park, beginning on Thursday after
noon
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Fanny Rice's appearance in this city as a
vaudeville player will be made this week
at the Grand. Her A the French Ball"
was a familiar entertainment. In vaude-
Vile she uses a sketch she calls Sur
prises.' The surprise comes in the change
from merrimeRt 10 seriousness. She re-
tains her cabinet illusion, in which a minia-
ture body bangles from her head while she
sings. The other part of her sketch is a
poem descriptive of the persecution of the
early Christians. The stage is set with a
copy OF Gabriel MaX's painting, THE Last
Token" Miss Rice's assistant is Alice
Beach McCOmb, a pianist.
The others on the bill are the Misses Mel
Vile and StetsOn. singers and condolences:
Cole and DelOsse, slack-wire walkers; Hale
and Francis, jugglers and hOop-rOllers;
Margaret Scott, a balladist; Rome and Fer
guson, in a sketch, and the tanda Quar-
-
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WILLIAM III. WEST DEAD.
Prominent Minstrel Passes Away I'm
ChicagO-Estate of 100000.

CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-William FL. West.
the minstrel, died to-day of cancer. He
was fOrty-five years old. For months he
had been suffering from a cancerous
growth in his mouth, due to excessive
smoking. Several operations were per-
formed. Mr.. Vests home was in Utica, N.
Y. His friends here estimate his estate at
$500, 600.
West was a prominent minstrel for TWEEN
ty-fve years. He and George Primrose
were partners for many years. They did a
refined song and dance in HaVerly's min
strel show and later were of the combina-
ton of Barlow, Wilson, Primrose & West.
Still later they Joined with George Thatch-
er. Several years ago they separated and
Primrose formed a partnership with Lew
DOckstader and West organized a company
of his own. His entertainment was the
best singing minstrel show in the coun-
try. His company filled its annual engage
ment at English's Opera House not long
ago, but he was not with it. He had not
been able TO appear on the stage since the
beginning of the season.
West was very proud of his ability as an
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D'AnnunziO the Center of BattIe-TwO
Folk Dramas.

The correspondent at Rome of the ORA
matte Mirror writes:
'Nho glory has. war has" is a French
Froverb that d'Annunzio might well adopt
for his motto, for at the present moment
there are as many d'Annuziophobes as
there are A~nglophobes in Italy, and that
is saying much. Every novelty, every
struggle and every attempt to break
through conventionality in literature brings
critic can judge calmly any work that
breaks through certain conventionalities,
and he thinks il safer to damn IL than TO
praise it. But ii is only a dwarf fighting
against a giant whose sole sneeze can over
throw him as if he were a wooden ten
pin.
All this we have seen i'm the spiteful
criticism against Francesca da Rimini. 8"
that is an example of the liberty which
the author has taken i'm breaking through
conventional rules of Italian literature.
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HWORKED- THE TEACHER.
Pretended to Be an Orphan and So
Got consideration.
New York Evening Sun.

New York Evening Sun.
II don't know whether boys do so nova
days. said the man, reminiscently, but
when l was a youngster at school and pun
ishment lay in wait for any of us we boys
had a way of meistening our finger tips
with our tongue and tracing paths upon
our cheeks below the eyes TO initiate tear
stains. The result was really lifelixe, and
the teachers. women for the most part,
Many and many an offender got off from
his Well-merited punishment because of his
counterfeit tear stains. After men teach
ers became more common such appeals to
the feelings were less often INDUCED in.
They didn't work. Ii was the woman heart
that capitulated on the spot so soon as she
saw what TO her was proof positive that
the criminal had been moved to tears.
THE most telling instance of playing on
a teachers feelings had my own brother
for the leading role" went on the man. Il
had done something or other myself at
school for which the principal had occasion
10 send for my mother. The talking over
or my particular case dispensed with my
mother asked BY the way. how is my
repeated the principal. Why, l didn't know
you had but the one here My mother ex-
planned. calling my elder borther by name.
and upon repairing TO his classroom pointed
him out. That boy cried the principal.
more amazedly than ever, why. he told
me he was an orphanr II was my mothers
turn to be amazed. investigation followed.
and il transpired that my brother shortly
after entering the school had observed the
distinguished consideration with which an
orphan of the class was treated. No mat
ter what crimes he committed. nor what
mischief he was charged with, the orphan.
so soon as he dug his knuckles into his
eyes and reminded the teacher that he had
neither father nor mother was allowed
10 go scot-free. So my brother had prompt
" said that he was an orphan. too. since
when he had shared In the advantage of
such a plight. That particular class. by the
way, turned out 10 have more orphans
than any other in the school-mOst Of them.
like my brother, boys with sure-enough
teacher
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-16

The ReaIist Now Called "the German
Shakespeare" by HIS People.

Gerhart Hauptmann. who has now
reached the pinnacle OF The German
Shakespeare" says a writer in the February
Era, has met the ordeal OF his ''haupt
werke" OF masterpiece. and energies from
the court OF judgment with new blossoms
in his ~amaranthine wreath. Unlike DAN
nunzto, every word OF his drama is intelli-
gible, too Ineligible 10 the lovers of ideal
ism. for he still waters the gardens of dis
content without a glimmer of hope for the
better day. The drama. the cry Of the hu-
man. under the guise OF a familiar fable.
the Law Of consequences. reeks OF fhsen's
nothings. The author was hailed
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"Reminiscences of Rosebery.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

Long before Lord Rosehery. who Is now
so much in the eye OF the English word.
had won a name or place for himself ne
was for some time in New York, where
he became the intimate friend and ardent
admirer of the late Sam Ward. He always
put the greatest faith in the advice OF the
man whom he invariably called Uncle
Sam"-eXcept once and that time cost him
money. The story is told by John Gilmer
Speed. one OF the few New Workers who
remember the great English statesman as
he was in those days.
'Rosebery had gone back 10 London. !"
says Mr.. Speed, land Ward was in Italy.
where he had somehow gone I'm for
olairvoyance. One day he cabled 20 his
English friend 10 back a certain horse FOR
the Derby, which was 70 run 4 day or 50
later. But Wards choice was regarded as
a hopeless outsider and Rosebery took no
stock in clairvoyance anyhow. so the cable
was thrown into the waste basket. The
point q the story is that that same rank
outsider actually did win the race"
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interlocutor. He liked to wear elaborate
costumes and pose in the center of the
burnt-cork half-circle. He had thousands
of friends who knew him as a good fell
low He was twice married, his first wife
being Fay Templeton, now a member of
the Weber & Fields stock burlesque com
many of New York
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The

The Merry Maiden Burlesauers will nave
the whole week at the Empire. Nelly Han
~ continues 90 be the imposing leader OF
the chorus in the fore and aft burlesques.
The Intervening clio of vaudeville Will be
contributed by Lee and Chapman, ccmedi-
ans and acrobats; Flalkouki, a mimic; Har-
~ Setback, bag puncher; Spencer Broth
ers, dancers, and the Rever sisters.
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parent orchestration; pungent rhythms; set
forms.
4. Type: Faust Characteristic SEN
timental melody: pred0minence OF a tender
erotic element. ID fat major fyricism. In
its degenerate form this operate type de-
scends TO Nesslerism.
3 Type: 'Cavalleria Rusticana.' Char
acteristics. Nerism. The miiieu OF the lower
classes. Brute force, passionate outbursts;
raving: harsh contrasts and lack OF deli
cate transitions. H~omophOnic style. Unity
OF place and time.
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IBsEN HAS RECOVERED.
By Physicians Consent He Has Set
to Work on a New Play.

CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Feb. 15.-After
a years complete rest Henrik Ibsen has so
far recovered his health that his physicians
have sanctioned his resumption Of work,
and the dramatist has started a new play.
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Courtesy.

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech.
Is that fine sense which men call courtesy
Wholesome as air and genial as the light.
Welcome in every CLINE as breath Of flowers
IL transmutes aliens into trusting friends
And gives its owner passport round the globe.
James T. Fields.
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Detroit Free Press.
Senator Hoar Is an admirable example of
the well-poised man, Even the Endorsement
OF Senator Tillman does not embargass him.
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THE STAGE IN ITALY.

a discerning sense
OF decent and sublime. with quick
Disgust from things defOrmed.
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The following pupils of Edward Nell gave
a recital last Wednesday evening: Mrs. +.
Z. Fuller, Mrs. Rhea Hall Behymer. Mrs.
Jean Spangler, Georgia ". Calvin, Mary
lawson, Rozetta Hail. Grace Feasey. At
tia Malott, Frank N. Taylor. Volney HUFF
and H. w. Laut. They were assisted by
Nanette Grote, harpist, and Lulu Brown,
pianist.
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The Amphion Club, of sixteen members.
will Join the spring music festival chorus.
The club will rehearse "Olaf Trygvason"
al its own meetings. on Wednesday nights,
until the first of the last four chorus re-
hearsals. when the club will attend the
general assembly in the auditorium of the
Shortridge High School,.