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The Washington times., 1902-09-14
japanese Madic at Chase's.

The Chase Theater polite vaudeville
program this week represents the do
main of magic. comedy and novelty.
The former is personified by Ten Ichi
His hoop catching upon his tied thumbs
is SO exceptional that Mr.. Chase. follow
ing the precedent, OF Mr.. Keith, offers
$40, 900 to any patron who can SO bind
Ten Ichi's thumbs as to prevent him
from carrying out his trick. AS the
hoops are passed through the audience
and found. to be solid. Ten Ichi's feat of
catching them over his thumbs is as
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Josephine Hall, at the National.
Ten 1chi, at chase's.

ly fifty people, 1t is claimed, take part in
the mob scene in John Storms church.
The company will open with mat
inee tomorrow and will remain through
Fout 9he week, with 11Snnees'un wednes-
day. and. Saturday.
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Percy Haswell as a Star.

i'll be pleasure to Miss Percy
q lis many admirers in this city to
me her tomorrow evening at the
bia Theater upon her initiation as
fedged star. Miss Haswell comes
under the management of Mr..
" B. Harris: and supported by an
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HHs:::s
1eees esse
Byron Douglas, at the Lafayette.

parody singers. Their new act is called
"A Quiet Evening at the Club" and it
is said to provoke much mirth.
James Thornton. we'll known as COM
poser Of ballads and parodies. will be a
strong card. Orth and Fern are musical
comedians. who make a piano afford
them many opportunities for laugh rais-
ing.
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for this seasons tour are Caulfeld and
Ryan, than whom there are few cletersr
Irish comedians. They will play the
parts that made Murray & Mack IA
nous, and in addition, will interpoiate
the speciality which first brought them
prominently to the front with all the
leading comedians.
Little and Pritzkow, who for the past
FIVE seasons have been very successful
in vaudeville circles, have been en-
gagged forithe comedy. One OF the most
pleasing specia1ties of the show ir the
singing and dancing of Miss Anna Driv-
er, who is said to be one Of the most
diminutive personages before the public
today. For five years she has been
feature of the Murray & Mack's attrac-
tions, and the hits she has scored have
been almost without number As an
added feature to Miss Drivers act this
season will be the presence of twelve
young women, provided as a special
chorus for her. All the women have
been selected with great care, and all
have some special fitness for the parts
assigned them.
The balance of the supporting cast
will include James Fanson, Al Lawrence,
Joe Ined, David Weber, George A. Flori-
da, William H. Myers, Nelse Addison,
William Gilmore, Leona Hamilton,
Nancy Tempest. Lou Gernsey, Dolly Cas-
tie. Maude Madden, Aggie Fuller, CrSs-
tai Huntley, and feminine chorus.
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"Only a Shop Girl. ;"

The attraction at the Academy this
week, with the usual Tuesday, Thursday.
and Saturday matinees, will be "Only a
Shop Girl" Lottie Williams salter is
the brigh. particular star of the organi-
zation.
The play is said to abound in continu-
Gus action and revolve upon theme for
its axis that is not threadbare nor rusty.
1t depicts life in the large department
stores of the big cities with shop girl
as the heroine.
The manager says he has spared
neither money nor brains to make this
attraction among the best in regard to
scenic splendor, good cast, and elabo-
rately novel in the variety Of musical
numbers and specialties.
The company includes Anne Ethridge,
Ann Singleton, Minnie Barrie. Gertrude
Claire, Ethel knight. Jennie Cooper.
Bessie Cellar. Margaret Barrett, Grace
Farrell. Mabel Gillett, Emma Barron,
Sarah Stockwell, D. Norman Travis,
Robert W. Smiley, NJ. B. Streeter, Eu-
gene LaRue, Harry J. Pearson. Theodore
Lytell, Harry Roberts. Frank Woeder-
hoff, Fred Davis. Samuel Weston, Burton
Henderson, Master Jack Cooper, and
Lottie Williams Salter.
Shooting the Chutes" at the Empire
Murray & Mack's comedians will pre-
sent rat the Empire Theater all this
week the musical comedy Shooting the
Chutes. comedy with plenty of laugh
able situations, clever comedians and
pretty girls.
Among the principal people engaged
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"The Defender" Headed This Wau.

"The Defender" Headed This Way.
1.-THE Defender" the new musical play
which Manager A. H. Chamberlyn brings
to the National Theater next week. and
which has just concluded run of 100
performance at the Herald Square Thea
ter. New York, has a decided nautical
flavor, and its music, scenic, and cos
tumic ensembles place 1t in a prominent
position among the best attractions Of
this class that have been seen in th8
metropolis in many years. The book
and lyrics are the work of Allan Lowe.
Many clever comedy situations out of
the rut of traditional extravaganza are
introduced, and the action is said to bs
at all times spirited, continuous, and un-
conventional.
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"The Liberty Bellies" Coming.

The announcement that "The Liberty
Bellies" will be seen at the Columbia
Theater next week will no doubt be read
with great deal Of interest. The piece
abounds in almost everything the
amusement seeker OF today Is looking
fors
Novelty in treatment and theme is
what every author of musical comedies
strives for. Some hit the nail on the
head, others fly wide of the mark.
In the case of THE Liberty Bellies"
Mr.. Harry B. Smith has evolved
scheme that is attractive enough to en-
list the attention and skillful enough to
hold it to the end.
Grace Belmont a Chorus Graduate.
Newspaper boys have risen to be mil
lionaires, soldiers in the ranks to be
officers, and ugly ducklings to be swans.
but it has been reserved for Miss Grace
Belmont to soar from a small position
in the chorus to the high grade of
prima donna in about the quickest time
on record.
The daughter of an Australian minis
ter, Miss Belmont. when a child, sang
in the choir of her fathers church, and
even at that early age was noted for the
sweetness and fullness of her voice.
After she had adopted the stage as q
profession she came to America, think
ing with many others that the streets
were paved with gold and the stage with
dollar bills.
At last she succeeded and obtained an
engagement with the Mile. 'Awkins"
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Lottie Williams salter, at the Academy.
unusually important company, to present

unusually important company, to present
"A Royal Family"
This is an important step in Miss Has
wells artistic career. She has been seen
in this city in many different roles, and
has vast following of admirers. The
| success she attained here and in Balti-
more during the last two years so at
tracted the attention of important man
ayers that Mr.. Harris determined that
there was a position for Miss HasweIl IN
the drama equal to that OF Maud Adams
Julia Marlowe, Viola Allen, and other
shining feminine lights.
To this end he seems to have spared no
expense in securing for ,her play which
contains a role ideally suited to her, an
excellent company. and. 1t is promised,
has surrounded her with a wealth of
elaborate scenery and costumes. A splen-.
did booking has been secured for Miss
Haswell throughout the country, but it
is a matter of sentiment that she has
selected Washington as the first town
to make her initial appearance in with
this important event.
Pike Company in 1.-The Christian.
The Pike Theater company comes to
the Lafayette tomorrow with its pro-
duction of 1.-The Christian" presenting
Hall Gaines play for the first time in
this city at popular prices.
The Pike company has become known !
in Cincinnati, Detroit. Minneapolis, St.
Paul, and other cities of the North as
thoroughly equipped organization, pre-
senting the later successes for theil |
first popular price productions. At its
home theater In Cincinnati the company
has its producing department where the |
stage settings and effects are newly |
built for each attraction and where the |
company appears annually for run of |
several months.
1t has secured 1.-The Christian" for |
production in this city, Baltimore. Gin
,innati, New York city, and Detroit, and |
carries a complete equipment of stage
settings designed from plans furnished /
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The Merru Maiden Burlesouers.

The merry Maidens" company will
begin weeks engagement at Kernan's
tomorrow matinee. The company intro
duces some clever people and pretty
girls.
The performance will open with a new
first part, entitled 1.-The Joneses at the
Merry Maidens Ball." This will be fol-
lowed by an olio. including jolly Nellie
Hanly. the HATS. Spencer Bros, the
Johnson trio. the Nelson trio, and the
Tourist.
The closing burletta is a satire on life
at summer resort, and serves to intro
duce some very funny lines, humorous
situations. and the usual display Of fe-
male loveliness in the chorus.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13
EDWTN MOOD.

Edwin Harwood, who died last even ing, had spent nearly half century in Connecticut, and most of his life in Connecticut was in New Haven. He came here with wellwon reputation for sound learning and unusual talent and he abundantly justified and in- creased that reputation by his work here. He exerted a powerful influence here during his long and conspicuously successful rectorship at Trinity, and he made himself felt not alone in this community, but throughout the State
 and the country He preached uncom- monly well and he wrote uncommonly
 we'll He was wise and far-seeing. He
 had large Knowledge, much experience
 and sure tact. He was a strong and
 important factor in the affairs of the
 Episcopal church, and he won the re-
 spect and admiration of his associates
 in Church work by reason of his abil-
 ity, his Knowledge, his skill and his
 judgment. lie was ueeply Interested III
 all that concerned the welfare of New
 Haven, and keenly observant of all
 the important movements of his time.
 He was friendly and social and devot-
 ed to those to whom he mnistered, as
 they were to him. The uplifting and
 inspiring influence of his life and work  has been powerfully felt, and it will be long before it ceases to be powerfully felt Though dead he yet speaks to thousands who have been helped by his clear perception of truth and his forci- bIe and glowing presentation of it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13
TRIUMPH OF RIGHT AND MEMORY.

Perhaps Yale couldn't have beaten Harvard last fall with Cutts out of the game, but there is no doubt that Cutts helped good deal There was doubt then about his right to be in the game, but there is no doubt now about it. It is now plain that he was not "a pure amateur" and Professor Hollis of the Harvard athletic committee regrets that it was not plain when it ought to have been So do others, but
 better late than never, perhaps. Pro-
 lessor Hollis very properly says:
 Whether change in the football team
 would have affected the result or not
 makes no difference, the playing of
 man not properly eligible must neces-
 sarily detract from the satisfaction of our victories. It certainly must.
 Cutts' situation isn't quite as envia-
 ble as it was when he was cavorting about the field kicking the stuffing out of Yale, and winning boundless admir- ation and applause. Before he was de- clared eligible he made a signed state
 npenti that he had never received any payment whatever for instruction in physical exercise or for coaching schoolboy team. He now makes signed statement in which he says: While teaching in a preparatory school. I gave private lessons in boxing and fencing to boy students and I re- ceived pay When my eligibility was challenged I never once thought of these private lessons and did not recall them until they were brought to my at tention; as I had not considered them of any importance Cutts is young to have such a poor memory, and it is to be hoped that it will improve as he grows older.
 Of course Cutts' "impurity" wasn't very profound or widespread, but rules are rules, >and it was enough. He ought to have remembered it. But the right thing has been done at last, and though great game of football has been made to shrink the great game of football hasn't lost anything.
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Realism.

Hear the wild and bowling tempest burss iu fury on the stage, Hear the wind sweep OCT the housetops, and the rolling thunder rage, See the harlng, flashing lightning glaTins
 through the window wide, 10 reveal the scowling villain, lamping from
 the dark outside, While the rain is pouring, pouring, and the
 hero, warmly coaked, Pauses bflehy on the threshold to observe
 that he is soaked, See the canvas houses tremble in tho fury
 of the gale, And the heroine, poor creature, looks all
 terrified and pale. Oh, the dread of those dark moments, there
 amid that awful din: Which Is shaken by the stage hands from
 a few square yards of tin. Oh, the terror of those vivid sheets of
 blinding lightning, which Are produced by quickly turning off and on
 T rubber switch But the hero weathers safely all the fury
 of the storm. Braves the shot that makes the raln fall,
 and escapes quite dry and warm, While the villain, like an Ajax, gives the
 thunderbolts the smile, And amid those blazing flashes smokes the
 prop mans pipe the while.
 der close of day, AS the molten notes go floating OCT the
 hills and far away; See the peasants streaming homeward
 through the ruddy twilight's glow, Listening to the bells soft ringing as along s their way they go How the solemn spell is carried till 1t
 thrills the very air And oercomes those simple people as they
 stand bare-headed there; What a flood of sweet emotion that melo
 dious music brings, As it's hammered from a erowbar that's
 suspended in the wings. Now the foaming charger galops till he all
 most comes in sight By the tavern dooryard ghteway-almost,
 mind you, but not quite; He, no doubt would lightly canter to the
 center of the stage. And his thirst in wonder fountain realistic
 ally assuage; But although you hear him coming very
 often in the play, He's habit of remaining quite persistent
 ly away, And he has the best of reasons for abiding
 in the rear He's q horse composed of cogwheels built
 exclusively to hear
 Portland Oregonian.
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UNPR ETBHTED.

' At the oncert-"His voice has 2 | good compass
 Yves; but it didn't prevent his be- ing all at sea in that last song. Phil adelphia Evening Bulletin,
 Husband-"Yes dear, I think your new gown will suit you very we'll" Wife-"Why do you think so ? Husband-.Because the price doesn't suit me at ll."-Philadelphia Press. A Recognized Trait-"Her little boy has such a manly way about him. Yes, noticed when I was there the other day that he found fault with what they had to eat. t."-Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
 Lady Visitor-"And was your hus- band good to you during your long ill., ness?"
 Parishioner-"Oh! yes, miss. e just was kind: @ was more like a friend than 'usband. ."-London Tatler.
 Convincing Upton-"Did you tell him that I was not at home ?" New Servant-"Yes mum; but he didn' { seem to believe me, bein as I'm a stranger, Mebby you'd better go down and tell him yourself, mum. New York Weekly.
 Suffering with cold?" asked the hotel clerk
 Yes"
 "It's very unpleasant"
 "Oh, I don't mind 1t as much as usu- aI I am a stranger in this town. There's no one likely to give me advice about it" Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13
ONE OF yERomE,s GOOD WORKS

| ONE OF JEROME'S GOOD WORK S. l Mr Jerome the new district attorney | of New York, may not be the most dis erect man in the world, and he may not l do all that he has set out to do. But he has already done one very good thing This is the establishment in the | East Side tenement district of bureau | for the legal relief of the poor and ig norant. The people in that section of the city have suffered much in the past from eXtortion, petty robbery and blackmal Many of them are unable to speak or understand English, and
 they have consequently been easy prey to the sharpers, official and unofficial,
 who infest the neighborhood, The po-
 have bullied them. Now and then a
 particularly outrageous case finds it's way into the newspapers, but for the
 most part they have suffered in sl-
 lence. MT. Jerome has placed in charge of the office two men who are we'll fitted
 for the work One was secretary to
 the Committee of Fifteen, the other speaks Russian, German, Polish and
 Yiddish. Both understand the char acter of the people with whom they will have to deal. They are to collect evidence for the grand Jury and incl dentally to hear complaints and furnish advice free.
 This move won't be popular with those whose schemes will be frustrated by it, but it will be appreciated by the poor and ignorant people who will be helped by it. If MT. Jerome doesn't succeed in doing all he has promised to do he will at least have conspicuous credit mark for trying to help the East -Siders who much need help.
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cipherable, 1t would be worth nothing
 at all Such a taste must surely die
 out, Perhaps turn of the collecting tide in favor of omnibus tickets or lug
 gage labels may some day set limit
 to the price of old stamps.
 The collection of autographs is an- other, and perhaps a more comprehen- sible. form of the collectors mania. When autographs display the hand writing of great men long dead and gone they partake of the very real charm of antiquity. More modern au- tographs possibly owe their fictitious value in some degree to widespread belief that caligraphy has some relation to character. First editions of books, too, are generally sought after, often by those who have no desire to read them in any edition. We lately heard the title of book collector denied to man who had gradually amassed 6 particu- larly good library, on the ground that he was indifferent upon this subject Orchids are Jess beautiful than many common flowers, but their culture is be- coming a fairly common hobby. The truth is that rare stamps, rare auto- graphs, rare editions, exceptional flow CTS, exceptional furniture, and useless bargains of all descriptions are not sought after and bought for their in- trinsic value. They are all but count CTS in the great game of unnecessary buying, which is loved by almost every one who has ever so little to spare, and which there are men in all classes who would overwork themselves during a whole lifetime rather than forego to play.-From the London Spectator.
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4 SERIOUS EFFORT.

We read with interest in the Hart ford Times that the Connecticut Wo- man Suffrage Association, of which Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker is still the vigorous and vigilant leader will make serious effort to induce the Con- stitutional Convention to drop the word male out of the Connecticut Constitu- ton. The use of the Supreme court chamber at the State Capitol has been allotted to the Association, for such length of time as it may desire to oc- cupy it, and it is intended to hold meet ings there on the days when the con- vention is in session, at which, it is hoped, many of the convention dele will be held at ? D. m. to- morrow, when there will be discussion of the ques- tion Are Taxation and Representation Fundamental Principles of Our Govern ment?" The discussion will be opened by Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell of Al. bany, who is one of the most experi- eneed advocates of woman suffrage in the country.
 How seriously this serious effort will be taken remains to be seen. Serious efforts against male monopoly have been made in the legislature, and they have seemed to be taken seriously un- til they were voted on But the Con- stitutional Convention is not 8 legisla ture and it may be more serious than legislatures have been. There is cer- tainly reason for it to be very serious. It is in deep water.
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pupils, he thought, judgment that will attract attention and provoke in- dignation to the effect that there is danger of English education becoming such as to give superficial finish, unwilling to learn anything that did not pay, and unable to learn because they had not kept their intelligence lively"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13
THE PASADENA TOURNAMENT

OF ROSES" "
 "Kennst du das land wo die Citronen Bluehn? DahinI Dahin"
 This seems just now to be the motto of large portion of human kind, and if one had a good air ship with which to navigate the upper regions and thus get q birds-eye view of the country below numerous puffing. tueging trains of cars could no doubt be seen, all well filled with people. and all converging toward California as, one common ob- iective point.
 Like Jerusalem the ancient, Pasade- na is a city whither the tribes go up, especially so at the time of the Tour nament of Roses." and on the first day of every year we have with us repre- sentatives of every country and nation, all sorts and conditions of people so that we need not be al all surprised as we gaze out of the window to see the most impossible of persons and person. ages pass by,
 The czar of Russia, with gorgeous train, pomp, circumstance and magnif- icent display, may easily come along,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13

Rudyard Kipling isn't the only Eng lishman who is talking plainly to his countrymen, Dr. Cow, head master of the Westminster School, has told an association, of other head masters that English schools do not produce the re- suits obtained in Germany and that educational legislation does not amount to much. He said that what was lack ing was general pleasure In the exer- else of mental energy @ desire to learn and interest in the processes of learn ing. He added that this had been ''produced in Germany by means the English were determined not to adopt: that is, extreme simplicity of the ap- paratus of teaching" The parents in England were as indifferent as the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13

The London Lancet the other day re- printed a criticism of a medical lecture given in 1923 upon the power of the di- gestive organs upon ''substances en- dued with vitality" a category which includes the prophet Jonah "How the prophet passed his time in the cavity of the whales stomach, how far the confinement affected his organs of res- piration, are questions of minor import ance," we are told. But the main ar gument may be thus stated. When Jonah entered the whales stomach either he was alive or was not alive. If he were not alive the stomach would have had the same power over him as over any other inanimate substance, and the prophet would have been di- gested in the ordinary way" But since he was not digested he was alive when swallowed, and, as the ar gument points out must have con- tinued to i've Consequently, when he was thrown up on the fourth day he was deposited on the dry land, "prob- ably without any other inconvenience than some trifling Arrangement of his canonicals."