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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-01-20
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Rev. II. X. Berry, who preached sun
day at the Tenth street Christian
church, may be called to the pastor
ate of that church He has gone TO
Corvdon, KY, and Cave-in- Rock. Ill
The church has been without u pastor
for several months
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-01-20
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25
BY ROBERT THOMPSON.
Copyright, 1903, by Robert Thompson.

OF all these artists, the most inter-
esting to opera goers, and the Ameri-
can public will undoubtedly be Miss
Edith Walker. who has been engaged
to sing the leading mezzo-soprano
roles.
Her story is a romance of real life.
When she was little Long Island girl
her father was a nurseryman who went
around the island selling plants and
flowers. She was brought up among
practical" people, who knew little
about music and cared less. Old Long
Islanders remember her as a dreamy
girl who had a passion for studying
music and going to such concerts and
oratorios as came within her reach.
But none of them ever suspected that
she would become famous.
"As a little girl" says one who
knows her, "she was full of dreams of
music and ambition, but she had pos
itively no musical atmosphere or pull
Yet somehow she managed to work and
hope, creating her own atmosphere as
she went along. No one knew her or
encouraged her, but she struggled with
all her might and main to keep the
hspc from dying"
Finding no chance of developing her
talent and gaining a reputation in her
own country Edith Walker went to
Europe while still a young girl, ana
studied earnestly in the best centers
of musical education on the continent.
After a hard struggle. during which
she was often almost on the verge OF
restitution, she became known in Lon
don and Paris. But her real success
was not made until she sang in Vi
emma.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

berlain."
Sir Michael is an old man now, and
his eyesight began to fail him as far
back as 1886; but he is a great fighter
still, and his personal dislike of Mr..
Chamberlain will lend zest to his at
tack upon the latter's tariff schemes
when Parliament meets.
Since the death of Mr.. Villiers, he
has been the Father of the House of
Commons" which he first entered in
1864.
Few men have held SO many high
government positions as he. He has
been Parliamentary Secretary to the
Poor Law Board, Under Secretary for
the Home Office, Chief Secretary for
Ireland three times, Secretary of S ate
for the Colonies, President of the
Board of Trade, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer twice and Leader of the House
of Commons. Thus he has held the Of
fetal positions of both Mr.. Chamber
lain and Mr.. Balfour, as we'll as sew
eral others.
What Sir Michael does not know of
parliamentary warfare is not worth
knowing. He will tower head and
shoulders above his comrades in the
fight against Mr.. Chamberlain. I'm
questionably. he is the str INCEST man
among the Tories in the House of Com
mons.
He is a country squire, like Sir Will
liam Harcourt 1t is curious that the
two greatest British financial ministers
of modern times were brought up on
rural estates and knew not ing of high
finance until they we're pitchforked in
to it by the exigencies of politics.
Lord George HnmiltOn's Grievance.
The Right Honorable Lord George
Francis Hamilton has a special per-
sonal grievance against Mr.. Balfour.
He considers that he was induced to
resign his office as Secretary Of State
for India under false pretenses. That
is no small matter for Lord George.
He showed considerable moral courage
in resigning for the sake of his princi-
pies.
He is a very poor man, and his Off
cial salary of $4,000 a year was ex-
tremelv important to him. He will
now draw $4,000 a year from the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

when Ritchie returned from these ex-
petitions. He would take up report,
beautifully written and neatly tied with
red tape, which stated with pleasure
that the administration of the mer-
chant shipping act was now complete
success in Mapping. He would smile
and ring for the writer.
"Ah, Jenkins" he would say, this
report is delightful. Things seem to
be going beautifully, don't they? No
drinking, no swindling of underwriters,
no murders, no overloaded ships. Wap-
ping is becoming quite a Sunday
school,"
I'm glad to think, sir" the graft
fled official would reply, that our eff
forts have borne good fruits"
II suppose so. jenkins, have you
ever, in your travels around Mapping,
made the acquaintance Of a gentleman
called One-Eyed Pete?"
mo. sir"
That's a pity. He is worth knowing.
Last week he shanghaied three boys
and put them aboard a tramp bound
for Yokohama. He runs an opium den
where the customers are apt to disap-
pear once in a while. Lascar Jem is.
perhaps, a superior practitioner; but
he's in the hospital just now with
knife thrust. He made the mistake of
trying to get a Dago's purse before
the Dago was thoroughly drunk. How
ever, you could go down and introduce
yourself to Pete. He might give you
some valuable material for your next
report"
Mr.. Ritchie has never come into vio-
lent conflict with Mr.. Chamberlain, as
Sir Michael Hicks Beach has done; but
there has not been much love lost be-
tween them at any time. In the cabi-
net Mr.. Ritchie's wise, sober minded
counsel was always listened to with
deep respect and 1t was generally CIV
en- against Mr.. Chamberlain's schemes.
1t is believed in well-informed British
political circles that he strongly opposed
the provocative policy which led to the
South African war.
| Although a Tory Of the old-fa shioned
! school, Mr.. Ritchie has initiated and
carried through Parliament more So
! cial legislation than any other British
| statesman. He made strenuous efforts
| to settle the great engineering strike
! in 1897; he carried through the House
| of Commons the local government act
of 1888, the housing of the working
! classes act, 1890; the public health act.
1891 the companies act, 1900; an act
for the better prevention of accidents
to railway servants in the same year,
and the factories and workshops act,
1901.
All these measures have proved to
be beneficial and successful, so that
/ when Mr.. Ritchie tells the British
/ workingman to beware of the dear
| loaf he will be listened to as a tried
and trusted friend.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

OAaer Heinrich Conried American
'seIS are coming to their own" ex-
',''eu a Well-known musical critic,
Nam 'eaoing the list of the stars" who
,,a appear during the forthcoming
~ opera season, which opens at
~. -Ne~ York Metropolitan Opera
srn1, IN November, and will be con-
american cities.
h - NC was right. Never before,
ann. Dry of grand opera in this
brn American artists had as
Inn fascination. This is espe-
nrt ~, ''ue of the mezzo-sopranos and
no. ''o9 whom Mr.. Conried has en-
n, ~ mere are seven of them, and
h We. nc American women. Edith Walk
fre,,s. oorh IN Long Island, Olive
scar5, Is a Minneapolis girl of
bon :, IAN parentage, Isabelle Bou-
sggo.1 brooklyn woman with a great
I'd equation in her native city.
Ao. Louise Homer and Fanchon
sagsr sS'" are well-known American
q ON ,.'s SIX pupils in the new school
a the er mich Mr.. Conried has started
q perm ,s' slep toward the formation
America unent conservatory, two are
popular ors st,Is' Josephine Jacoby is a
ssot Narciiso t ora singer in Manhattan.
Z many van Dresser is well known
"ecesses i, ~ 1scan cities through her
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

One evening in '9S he was walking
through the streets of Ealing, the con-
stituency which he represents in the
House of Commons, on his way to
dine with Sir Montague Nelson, the
local leader of the Conservatives. He
noticed a poor old washer-woman
staggering under the burden of a bas-
ket of newly-laundered clothes, which
she was taking home to a customer.
He stopped, politely relieved her of
her burden, and asked where she was
going.
ITO Sir Montague Nelson's house,
SIR" she replied.
Some men would have dropped the
bundle, under the circumstances. Not
so the Dukes son. He carried it to
the house, and delivered it to the
well-trained butler, who received it
calmly, as if Cabinet Ministers
brought home the laundry every day.
Then he went in and enjoyed his din
ner.
Lord George is never so happy as
when he can get away from politics
and watch a football game or sing a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

been leading a truly rural life at her
chateau in the south of France, tend
ing her sheep, chatting with the peas
ants, and climbing the hills.
AS Calve wanders about she listens
to the folk-songs of the peasants. A
year or two ago she began to write
down her favorite airs, until at length
she had enough to weave into a one
act opera, which she sang recently in
London.
In return for the songs which the
peasants give her, she sings to them
the grand opera airs which Americans
eagerly pay thousands of dollars to
hear. Often she stops at a cottage
and sings song after song to please
peasant woman or a child, asking no
payment save a glass of milk.
Emma Calve is a sided, &C.
centric woman. She is deeply inter-
ested in all kinds of mysterical, occult
and spiritualistic lore, and she even
became engaged to be married to Mr..
Jules Bois a writer of mystical stories,
on the strength OF advice which she
supposed the spirits gave her. She
broke this engagement, presumably
because her PHANTOM counsellors
changed their advice. But she is a
woman with a keen sense of humor,
facile pencil, and a fondness for
caricaturing her friends. She is also
a NCAy NlCNGl uduCGIg anu Sdl 40 ltlc
lively serio-comic 'song-and-dance
act" with any soubrette of the Bowery
stage.
a New soprano from Finland.
A new soprano is coming from Fin
land in the person of Madame Aino
Ackte. To quote one of the officials of
the Metropolitan Opera House she will
be "the Eames of the collection" She
is not only a fine artist, but also a
beautiful woman, a society belle in Eu-
rope, and an exquisite dresser. She is
said to resemble the lovely Christine
Nilsson of other days, being a richly
colored blonde, tall, stately and grace
full.
Madame Ackte did not have to strug-
gle for fame, like Miss Walker and
most of her kind. She was born to the
purple" She is the daughter of the d.
rector Of a musical academy, and her
mother was a singer well known
throughout Norway, Sweden and Ger
many. The daughter. when only II
years old, sang at a concert given by
her mother, and after that was often
heard in her own country. Sc began
operate work very early, her Margu r
lite in the "Damnstion of Faust" being
her most successful role.
Madame Ackte left Finland to enter
the Paris Conservatory, and in the pre-
liminary examinations sto d first
among 1917 candidates for admission.
Later she was given the Grand Prtx
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

good song at smoking concert at
Ealing. He is a fine sportsman, and
especially fond of golf. cricket, shoot
ing and cycling. He was the first
Cabinet Minister to give out a news
paper interview on politics.
Although he has sat in the House
of Commons for thirty-five years, he
always seems very nervous there. He
is usually fidgeting, and when he is
going to make a big speech he has
curious trick of tearing scores of
sheets of foolscap paper into tiny
fragments and throwing them in the
air around his seat.
On busy nights in the press gallery,
the remark is often heard. THANK
goodness, Well soon get a rest.
George Hamilton has started his
snowstorm.' The reporters never
trouble to take notes of his remarks.
He has a wretchedly bad delivery. and,
unlike most of his kind, is aware Of
the fact. He, therefore, sends type
written copies of his speeches up to
the press gallery.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

for her singing of Marguerite in Gou-
mods Faust" Critics say that girlish
parts like Marguerite, Juliette, Elsa
and Elizabeth are best suited to her.
Madame Ackte is the wife Of lead
ing Finnish lawyer, Dr. Renval. She
is very much the grand dame, taking
almost as much pride in her costuming
as In her singing. She designs nearly
all Of her own stage costumes.
A Handsome New Tenor.
Several of the new male singers are
handsome men, over whom the NATL
nee girls of Europe have raved as
some American women raved over
Paderewski. 1t is confidently expect
ed that they will extend their field Of
conquest here. The handsomest Is
Fran Naval. He may be mobbed by
enthusiastic women, as Paderewski
was here and Kubelik in England.
Two of these men are anomalies in
the operate world. One of them Is
Naval. He is thin-a rare attribute
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

Old Emperor Franz Josef heard her
there and was delighted with her voice.
Calling the director of the Vienna I'm
perial Opera House, a state institu-
ton, he asked him to engage the young
American woman at once.
Since then Miss Walker has been
for several years one of the leading
singers at the Imperial Opera House,
and a prime favorite with the aged
Emperor. When he is wearied by the
cares of state and his ceaseless strug-
gle to hold his country together and
preserve the peace of Europe, he often
summons her to his palace to sing to
him in the evening, and declares that
that is the best relaxation he can OBJ
tain.
The Emperor's consent was necessary
to the engagement of Miss Walker by
Mr.. Conried. 1t is an open secret that
he did not wish to give it, but felt it
would be hard to deny her the oppor
tunity of making a reputation in her
native land. Thus it is that the Edith
Walker, who is remembered by Long
Islanders as a little girl of no particu-
lar account, is returning to her home,
for the first time in many years,
prima donna of European fame.
Interest in a minneapolis Girl.
Interest will also be felt in the APP
pearance of Miss Olive Fremstad, the
Minneapolis contralto.
Some years ago, when Seidl was
giving Sunday evening concerts in the
LenoX Lyceum, New York, Sofia Schal-
chi, the "cello-voced contrllto," ell
to appear at one of the concerts for
which she had been engaged. Her
place was taken by young girl and
that was the first time New Workers
IS
Like all the musical ge fuses of
America, Miss Fremstad had to go
abroad to study and become faUous
before she could hope to attain honor
in her own country. She studi under
Madame Lilli Lehman, first appeared
In opera with Colomme, the French
conductor, and made a hit last season
at the Convent Garden Opera, London.
Miss Fremstad is a beautiful woman.
She works hard, reads deeply, has
wide range of interests, is an expert
swimmer, is very fond of animals and
keeps a great number of pets.
"She is an original" says one of her
friends. Unlike most operate stars,
she is a triie careless as to her per-
sonal appearance, even on the stage.
She walks with lazy grace which Is
effective on the boards because of her
beautiful figure"
CaIve as n shepardess.
Madame Emma calve. who Is to re-
appear, after two years absence, has
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

as the leading Italian singer of the
old fashioned school. Like Calve, he
delights in caricature and draws re-
markedly well.
A New Conductor.
One conductor is coming whose
name has been for years a household
one among musicians, although he is
still young. Herr Felix Mottl is con-
sidered the greatest operate conduc-
tor in Europe, unless DR.. Hans Rich
ter be expected, and Richter is getting
old. This is his first appearance in
America. Motif comes from the
Royal Theater. Carlsruhe, where he
nils the position of Court Conductor.
Among the many pretty clever girls
whom Italy, Germany and Austria.
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Canny MIR. Richie.

The Right Honorable Charles
Thompson Richie. who has resigned
the office of Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer is a Scot, like Lord George
Hamilton and no cannier Scot than he
could be found from John O. Greats to
the Border.
Richie has never been famous as a
silver-tongued orator; he has never
swayed the passions of the mob or
tickled the ears of the groundlings;
and the public has known little about
him and cared less. But since he first
entered Parliament in 1874 his fellow
members have recognized him as one
of the best of business statesmen. He
let other people make the eloquent, use
less speeches while he mastered the
facts of the case and did the useful
work in committee or in private con-
ference.
Thus he became a power. and since
1855 no Conservative cabinet has been
complete without him. "Ritchie is
permanent institution" Mr.. Chamber
| lain is said to have remarked sarcas-
tically. HE is as much a part of the
furniture of the cabinet chamber as the
table itself"
Be this as it may. Richie has had
a steadily successfully career as Secre-
! ldIy 10 the AuIIllIdllSs IISSlucill VI inc
Local Government Board, president of
the Board of Trade and chancellor Of
| the exchequer. The solid business
men who form the backbone of the
Unionist party in England trust him
as they trust no other statesman of
! their party. They regard him as the
beau ideal of a good Conservative.
He has no surface brilliance, but he
possesses that infinite capacity for
| taking pains which is said to be the
attribute of genius. He is extremely
conscientious, too. When he was
president of the Board of Trade he
was responsible, among host of other
| things, for the welfare of the British
| merchant sailor. He had to administer
the merchant shipping act, and devise
rules and regulations for the proper
| treatment of poor Jack ashore and
| affoat. An ordinary departmental
head would have been content to re-
ceive reports from his inspectors. Not
so Richie. He would leave the gild-
ed splendor of the Carlton Club and
go down to Wrapping, Deptford, Roth
| erhithe, and other resorts of sailors.
| There he would disguise himself in
| tarry breeches and an old monkey
| racket, and spend evenings in the
| crimp shops, opium dens and taverns
where seafaring men congregated. In
that way he found out some startling
truths about coffin ships. shanghaied
| sailors, and Board of Trade inspectors
who never inspected anything except
| the champagne in the shippers cabin.
| The subordinate officials Of the de-
partment used to have bad time of 1t
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

When Parliament meets, as it must
5 I'm do. Joseph Chamberlain and his
81 tariff scheme will be vigorously
4 If TO say viciously-attacked by three
zrmer members of the Unionist cabi-
kt-sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Lord
gorge Hamilton and C. T. Richie.
Some facts about the careers and
&aracters of these men will serve TO
tplan their present position. They
Re all Tories of the old-fashioned
pe. They are all parliamentary vet
I hans. They dislike Mr.. Chamberlain
hd all that he typifies. They fight for
4 Zee trade because it is the established
kstem in exactly the same conserva-
We spirit that their fathers fought
i gainst it when the corn laws were in
Iorce
fhamberlain's Most Dangerous Foe.
Mr.. Chamberlain's .sternest, sturdiest,
host dangerous foe in the House of
Commons is undoubtedly Sir Michael
Hicks- Beach, who resigned the chan
6orship of the exchequer in August
81 last year because, as he did not hes
i BITE to tell his friends, there was too
s UGH Joe" in the cabinet.
The feud is of long standing. Even
Ffore the South African war, Lord
bhsbury had to use his utmost per-
&nal influence to maintain a semblance
Il harmony in the cabinet between Sir
ichael and Mr.. Chamberlain. In 1898
pa 1899 the relations between them
Eere so strained that those who were
|Rhlnd the scenes looked daily for the
#lgnation of one or the other.
'Nobody, save the cabinet ministers,
Bows exactly what happens at cabi-
4 meetings, but rumors leak out. 1t
said that at one meeting, toward
#e end Of 1898, these two adversaries,
Ter bitter duel of words, rose ex-
#edly from their seats and seemed
#out to fly at each others threats.
%her members of the cabinet hastily
lew them aside and Gained them. but
e meeting broke up in confusion.
& Certainly Sir Michael and Mr.. Cham
ram were not on speaking terms at
~ time, or for long afterward. Sir
Aael seemed to take pleasure in
#l'tng' his colleague in the House.
prominent Liberal NJ. p. who
ated some information on a question
hhance, went to Sir Michael for it,
4 remarked to him:
MI Chamberlain advised me to come
"A you"
MT. Chamberlain? I don't know him.
q no is he?"
8 now absurd! AS if you don't knowi
mean the Secretary of State for the
An, yes, 1 am officially acquainted
"a Inc Secretary of State for the Col
eS' But l don't know Mr.. Cham
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

British exchequer. That sum is al
lowed to men who have been cabinet
ministers so long as they are out of
office. provided they made a declara-
ton that they need 1t to maintain the
dignity of a statesman. Lord George
made that declaration many years
ago, and has drawn his $4,000 a year
whenever the Liberals have been in
power. Since 1874 he has never been
left out of a Conservative government.
He is the third son of the first Duke
of Abercorn. That proud old peer had
a large family, but very little money.
AS a consequence, his sons have to
hustle for a living. Lord Claud, the
second son, is chairman of the Great
Eastern Railway, and bears the repu-
tation of being the best railroad man
ager in Great Britain. Lord Frederick,
the fourth son, used to edit William
Waldorf Astor's Pail Mall Magazine.
Lord Ernest, the sixth son, is glad
to turn an honest penny by writing
magazine articles and historical ro-
mances.
The handsome Hamiltons" as they
are called in Scotland, are one of the
produest families in the British peer
age, and they have the right kind of
"noblesse oblige." None of
them has sought to repair his shatter-
ed fortunes by marrying an heiress.
They have all preferred to work and
marry poor girls of aristocratic fam
lilies like their own.
Lord George entered Parliament
when he was % and has been there
ever since. He became a member of
the government at 20, and a cabinet
minister at the early age of 40. He is
now only So. which is youthful for a
British statesman, so that he may yet
have a great career before him, al
though his achievements up to the
present have been respectable rather
than brilliant He is regarded by the
Conservatives as a "safe" man, who
is not likely to make mistakes-or any
thing else,- either.
Personally, he is a, gentle, kindly
soul. His family pride is kept for his
own use and never shown to other
people. In politics he is a Tory of
the Tories, but in private life he is
the most democratic of men.
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are sending over for the classic ballet
which is to be a feature of the sea-
son, the first place is taken by Sig
norma Inrichette Varisi. She is an
Italian girl. and achieved success at
LIZ Scala, S;iran. Unlike many exp5-<s
dancers, she has a fine figure and is
only twenty-three.
Harry Mon Let. a Chinese youth of
20 years, has entered the freshman
class of the Baltimore City College,
and intends to take the full four-year
course. Let was born in the Chinese
colony in San Francisco, and studied
the language and literature of his
country at the Canton University. His
ambition is to become United States
ambassador to China