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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-03
Lafayette Theater.

Howard Kyle, presenting a play. "On
the Yellowstone" is announced AS the
opening attraction at the Lafayette Opera
House. whose season will begin with a
Labor day matinee
The new play Is founded on some stories
of the far west written by Frederic Rem
| ington, the well-known painter and should
present a more than usually accurate pic
ture of that part of the country. Mr. Rem
ington has furnished drawings from which
all the scenery in the new production has
been made and likewise provided plans for
all the costumes worn.
ION the Yellowstone" is a drama of ac-
ton 1t tells of the life led by the Ameri-
can soldiers stationed on the plains twenty
i've years ago. when fights with Indians
were of almost daily occurrence. and every
man lived each day as If it might be his
last.
Mr.. Kyle will be seen as John Ermine. a
white man who has been brought up in the
mountains away from his own people by "A
hermit trapper and with only Indians for
his friends. He finds In his waudertngs tho
photograph of Kate Searles, the daughter
of the major commanding at the army post
on the Tongue river, and Immediately falls
in love with her.
Mr.. Kyle is said to have been surrounded
by an admirable company. His leading
woman is Miss Nora Lamison. Others in
the company are Albert Perry. for three
years one Of james X Hackatts chief sum
port and loaned to this company for a brief
period Roy Dana Tracey. who was last
season seen in New York as Sebastian in
Ben Greets production of Twelfth Night
Frederic Weber who has been in Mr. Kyles
supporting companies for the past three or
four years, and Thomas Lawrence
"On the Yellowstone" will run for tba
week with matinees on Wednesday and Sat
urday.
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CONGRATULATIONS
Chase's Theater.

Hermann the Great, assisted by Marie
Hermann and a company Of twelve assist
ants. will be the leading feature at Chase's
next week Among the interesting phenom-
ena he presents will be THE Water of En-
chantment, The Isle of Canaries," The
japanese Pagoda," La Fete des Fleurs."
THE Bride Elect" THE Egyptian Crystal
Clock" Propaganda Extravaganza" "A
Miser's Dream" The Rings of Saturn"
lie Canon du Dlable." etc. Three other at
fractions listed as among the leading
events, and heading this class of supporting
features will be Miss Kathryn Osterman
and her own company especially engaged
for the new comedietta lately produced with
gratifying success in New York city. Jack
Norworth viii contribute a budget of mirth-
full chat. Charles Barry and Hulda HaIvers,
tons in Babes in Toyland" recently. will
brated Athos family of foreign acrobats
were secured at the last moment and prom
Use some surprising creations. Louise
Dresser, cantatrice, Will make her appear
ance and her Partisan gowns will form an
interesting study for the ladies in the au-
dience. Dorsch and Russell will give their
scenic novelty, and the vitagraph pictures
will show the great London fire Chase's
holds to its rule of never advancing prices
at holiday matnees.
AS a special feature Hermann will offer
the illusion Cleopatra. which is his own
creation, and has never before been pre-
scented upon the stage of any country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-03
Organization May Be Overdone.

From the Wall Street journal.
The American commercial invasion of
Europe of which 50 much has been said,
has been in large measure the result OF
the splendid organization of our industries.
1t is because the value of organization has
thus been proved in this striking way that
many of our leaders in finance and trade
are holding to the opinion that it is only
through the complete organization of in
dustry upon a military basis that the larg-
est success can be achieved in the COM
mercial world. They hold that a line OF
separation should be drawn between society
as a social institution. society as a political
institution and society as an industrial in
stitution. They hold that while society on
it's social side may exist as an aristocracy,
either of blood or OF money and society as
a political institution may exist as a democ-
racy. industry must exist like a military
despotism, and that it can be successfully
carried on in no other way They would
therefore, convert the great forces engaged
in industrial pursuits in this country into
a vast machine, organized with military
strictness, perfect in every detail, and ami
mated by a spirit Of implicit obedience,
those at the bottom obeying the will of
those at the top instantly and without ques-
ton.
organization mas been developed already
to an extraordinary degree in the United
States. So far has it been carried that the
individual has come to count for very little.
being almost entirely swallowed I'D in the
organization to which he belongs We do
everything through the machinery of some
organization. be it incorporated or other
wise. If this principle of organization is
carried step further and converted into
huge machine, carried on with military
exactness and discipline, it will indeed make
this country more powerful in the world of
business, but it will tend more and more
to destroy individual liberty We shall have
a complete military despotism in business.
1t Is argued that such an organization nm
der absolute control could be entirely sena-
rated from politics, and that the individual
while under the discipline of this absoIutisn
in his business relations would still he free
to act as an individual in his poIiticaI re-
lations. But that remains to be seen Rusi
ness has entered so largely into notifies
and its interests are to so great an extant
dependent upon the policies of government
that already the business organizations re
taking an active part in the control of lao
islative assemblies, of political conventions
and of executive departments II is there
fore, by no means clear that n svstor, or
military organization in business cou1d axist
alongside of a democratic system of GOV
eminent. One would. it is probable over.
come and absorb the other.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-03
The College Widow.

There's a hint of much merriment in The
College Widow" George AIDES new comedy.
which will see the light Of day at the Co
lumbia Theater September II, for the play
is a mild satire of life at the smaller coll
leges. Incidentally. the playwright gives a
picture of the craze for athletics, which
cuts such an apparent figure nowadays in
the curriculum. and presents the types IA
rniliar to the provincial college village THE
College Widow" is a charming young per-
son. who knows more of the world in q
minute than the whole sophomore class.
and has garnered her wisdom by sundry
firtatiohs with various undergraduates AMI
maintains her popularity notwithstanding
her weil-known feminine propensities. Then
there is breezy athletic girl. who is in at
all the foot ball games. with her encourage
ing chatter: the young lady whose mother
boards the students and whose wits have
been sharpened by encounters with impc-
cunious boys: an ubiquitous town marshal
always on the lookout to prevent escapades
among the effervescent freshmen; tho
wealthy capitalist who endows colleges: tho
postgraduate tutor. and the long haired
youths who indulge in cigarettes and foot
ball. ''The College Widow" will be i'm.
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now that I, had been in love with Brown
for months and had been miserable and
restless because he was-only Brown.
heard myself saying: Il do forgive
you"
"And love me-a little?''
mo: not little.
Then he caught me In his arms. though
at any moment some one might have
He didn't think of that. apparently. and
neither did | at the time. l thought only
of Brown-Brown-Brown. There was no.
body In the world but Brown.
1 don't think precisely said in so many
words that 1 would be engaged to him.
though he may have taken that for granted
in the end: and If 1 did give wrong i'm
preston 1 had no time to correct it. for 1t
seemed that we had been talking about
the future and such things no more than a
minute when Dad came sauntering by with
Lady Brighthelmstone
They both looked at us as If they ex-
pected to hear something extra special"
as the neWSboyS say: and / gave a glance
at Brown. or Jack: or whatever 1 ought to
call him, which said. IF you dare,'
Having been forgiven once l suppose he
thought 1t would be wiser not to tempt
providence, SO he held his peace and we all
talked about the weather and what a nice
garden party 1t was
That is the reason why / still have the
thing In my own hands If read this over,
as am now going to do. and disapprove of
myself, it is not too late to change my
mind.
p 81 have read it. And I have thought
things over
Molly Randolph. If you hadn't forgiven
little wretch and you would never have
forgiven yourself. for he is the best ever
except Dad.
1t will be delicious to let myself love him
as much as ever l like. at last-my Light
ming Conductor.
(The End)
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Academy.

Langdon McCormicks latest meiodrama
of life in New York, Hearts Adrift." will
be the attraction at the Academy next
week. 1t introduces many interesting char
acters. most of which are new to the
stage. The story is an exciting one,
founded IN facts and police records The
leading male role of the eccentric Captain
Teddy is again in the hands of f. l.. Sna-
der. who made hit in this part last year
special matinee will be given on Labor
lay
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Molly Randolph to Herself.
JUTIUdT4 =,
Hotel San Domeuico. Taormiua.

Hotel San Domenico, Taormua.
I'm going TO write it all down just as it
happened and see how il looks in black
and white Then perhaps I can Judge bet
ter whether I've Ieen very weak and I'M
diguided and a let Of other things which
I've always been sure / never would be.
under any .provocatiou; or whether I've
done what no normal girl could help doing.
It's the sort of thing one couldn't posi-
bly, tell anybody. not even ones dearest
school friend. l did promise Elise Ashley
that If l CV.r got engaged she should be
told exactly what he said and what / said.
but then l didn't know how differently one
would fee. about II atterward: besides. I'm
not engaged. | oUly-no. this isn't the way
! meant to begin. / am afraid I'm getting
a good deal mixed. | must be-more con-
else
Note / II l tiEnk. when l come to read
this over. that / have not demeaned myself
like a seif-respecting, patriotic American
girl / will tear this up and write letter
to-a Certain Person.
Note =. II. on the contrary. | de
eide. on mature elaboration. that
could not have acted otherwise. | VIII keep
this always III the secret drawer of my
writing desk, where can take II out and
look at il at least once every year until
am an old woman-ever SO much older
than Aunt Mary.
When Jimmy Payne suddenly hurled
himself at me out OF a cab gust as Aunt
Mary and and a donkey were trailing
discousolately down from Mola) and eX-
pioded into fireworks calculated TO blow
my poor Lightning Conductor into frag-
mcnts, / threw cold water on his Roman
candles and rockets
All the same. though. l felt as If l had
been dipped first into boiling hot, then
freezing cold. water myself. i couldnt [.
wouldn't and shouldn't believe any of
Jlmmy's sensational accusations of Brown.
and 1 defended him whenever Jimmy
would let me get in word edgewise. But
when he told me that dad had come half
across the world from New York to Sicily
on the strength of his statements / was
wild-partly with anger and partly with
anxiety to see my dear old angel i'm
mediately. il not sooner"
| don't remember a word Jimmy said to
me. driving down to Sir Edward Haines'
where dad had gone, expecting to find me.
I've Just hazy recollection of being hur-
ried through beautiful garden; l knew
that poor Lady Brighthelmston (piteously
worried about her SOM and a rather COM
mon girl and her father, whom we'd
stumbled across in Blois, were with us
Their cab had come behind ours. / saw
Cad in the distance. talking to Brown,
who looked less like q hired chauffeur
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Is through the Establishment of the college
widow he becomes an unconscious victim of
scheme to prevent him from entering a
rival college. Mr.. Truesdell's appearance
here will be of local interest being native
of this city, and his career has been watch
ed favorably by critics generally. Mr.
Truesdell has been connected with some Of
the leading organza tons. beginning with
Augustin DAILY. Later he supported w. II.
Crane. and last season was leading man
with Lilly Langtry.
TWO WASHINGTON SINGERS-Two
Washington girls who have been more than
ordinarily successful in stage careers come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-03
Comparison.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
Ernestine-"ano We're you very nervous
when you walked up to the altar?'
Eva-"Nervous? Why dear. tbara hoe
been only one time when / was as nervous,
Ernestine-"When was that?''
Eva-"The day | pressed Toms trousers
for the first time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-03

| II may be that the Impressions of New
| York managers concerning the unpropi-
| tiousness of a campaign year for their busi-
ness has something to do with the coyness
| Of the theater season in Washington which
| Is only now blossoming like reluctant and
belated rose. The first few petals expanded
under the warmth of the Herman and Stair
sunshine some time ago, the Lyceum and
Academy being the first in the field. The
Lafayette, which is both Herman and
Stair enterprise. follows next week. on
which occasion Mr. Frederick Remington.
who has enjoyed so much distinction as an
artist will be exploited as playwright.
The Columbia and the National follow with
a Henry Savage production of a new farce.
entitled "The College Widow" and Amelia
Bingham in repertory. Despite the almost
sCrerstitious dread of the time which comes
every four years. when speechmakers and
brass bands hurl dialogue and music gratis
to the breeze on every vacant lot, managers
are making extensive preparations that
promise some fine productions. If the con-
dition produces tendency to curtail the
expenditure for tinseled scenery and eX-
travagantly ornate millinery and a CORE
spending stimulus to playwrights in quest
for novel ideas. the result may be on the
whole quite satisfactory both to the public
and to the producers
The local prospect for the coming season
is slightly complicated by the deadlock
which threatens between most of the thea
ter managers and the musicians in their
orchestras. The public is confronted with
strange possibilities. When some one says
Listen, and l will tell you a story the
public knows that it is time for the ''e''
string on the violin to get industrious and
culver. Silence would come like shock.
And when the acrobat comedian does a
comcal fall the laugh will be checked if
there is no crash of bass drum and GYM
balls to emphasize the impact How often
has the tedium of an entr-acte been whiled
away by a dreamy contempla ton of the
slide trombone and idle speculation as to
whether it is fabricated by axle-grease or
bicycle oil. To say that these things shall
be no more would be to challenge some of
the most cherished traditions of the play
house, Perhaps audiences might become
accustomed to 1t; perhaps in time the abb
sence of these INCIDENTS of evening at
the theater would be welcomed as sweet
relief, for there are even today people who
agree with the cynic who classified music
as the least disagreeable of noises. The
musicians, however. cannot be convinced
that such constitute an appreciate per-
centage of the theatergoing population.
X
Chase's Theater opened its season with
every prospect of continuing its genial
monotony of prosperity through another
season. The bill not eXtraordi-
nary one, but the audiences were as rule
of capacity proportions. The rush to this
theater may be taken as an indication that
Washington is theater hungry and, free as
it is from the torchlight demonstrations
of a political campaign, should be relied on |
for good business, provided that the at
fractions worthy of claiming patronage can
be produced.
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guilibie as the man who wants to be gulled
| That was the beginning of Leon Hermann
! in the art of magic His father was con-
juror. so were two of his unces. At the
early age OF eight years he was taken in
hand by his father. to acquire his father
skill In magic.
What lie saw him do and what he was
shown he continually practiCed. MagicianS
are born not made The hands began their
development when the owner was still a
cSild. Little muscles were brought out
strengthened and made more plant. Six
ye&rs brought that development to a mar
veious state of physical perfection. There
were little hoilows left here and there amid
the muscles: hollows. in which coins. or
anges, billiard balls and other things may
be concealed to be conjured into visible ex-
fstence by Mr. Hermann whenever Re
Chooses. He accompanied his father in his
travels around the world. his assistant.
Several trips were also made 20 South
America. Australia and Africa At Carl
Herrmann's death Leon succeeded him.
and perpetuated the name in all the lead
ing capitals of the gloDe. At the death of
his uncle, Alexander. in this country sew
eral years ago. Leon first appeared here.
A RURAL COLLEGE CHARACTER
Any one who has ever attended provin-
cial college reception will appreciate George
AIDES character drawing In his latest COM
edy, The College Widow" The faculty
are present to greet the new students. fond
parents. imposing seniors and gay girls
with their escorts enlven the scene. and
the eliminating glory of the function are
the dances and the ice cream.
"Bub' Hicks. the new boy from neigh
| boring village. uncomfortable in his store
clothes and new shoes. ensconced in a lone
some corner. views the pleasure hopelessly
and sadly-the event is bewildering 10 his
rural point of view. A.sporty sophomore
accostS him.
Says 'Bub:" Il wish / were back home"
Replies the sophomore, enjoying the zee
cream: Where do you live?'
"Squantumville." fearfully gulps the lone
some .'Bub.'
What awful wishr'
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Two Views.

From the Somerville Journal
Hicks-'It the newspaper men should
print everything they knew, they would
make lot of trouble in this world"
Wicks-"They would make a lot less ~
they wouldn't print so much that thew don't.
know
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-03

According to am cut-of-town writer
statue of Frances Elizabeth Willard by
Miss Helen Farnsworth Mears is to be
placed, in the Statuary Hall at the Capitol
by the state Of Illinois. The work is fin
isLed and the unveiling. it is said will take
place next December. 1t is the first statue
of a woman to be given a place in this
American hall of fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-29
Marina Factions in WIscons in.

Chairman Cortelyou proposes, it is said, to settle the war that has sprung up in the republican party of Wiscon- sin, but Chairman Cortelyou can do no such thing. The quarrel Is beyond settlement. Governor LaFollette Is a candidate for third term, and he has all the party machinery in the coun- ties behind him. He has behind him a majority of the republicans, and some democrats. The Spooner- Quarles- Babcock faction has the fed eral patronage, and the empty honor of regularity at Chicago.
 Both factions present state tickets, but the Roosevelt electoral ticket can be printed on the official ballot but once. If 1t be printed as part of the Spooner ticket, will the embittered LaFollette supporters vote 1t in ev- cry instance? Again, If the federal pat ronage be used to sustain the failing cause of the Spooner faction, will not the LaFollette men resent 1t?
 The republican plurality in Wiscon- sin two years ago was 57,S35, and ten put of the eleven congressman are re- publicans. But when the republicans are split into two warning factions, becoming more embittered every day, ruch plurality does not count for much. There is no possible settle ment. Governor LaFollette is a fight CT. He is aggressive. and Senator Quarles at least is fighting for his political life. So perhaps are Sena- tor Spooner and Congressman Bab- cock These men are not accus- toned to defiance within their own party, but Governor LaFollette defies them all. Beyond all doubt he will get the most republican votes, but many think the democratic state and cleo toral tickets will secure in the big Wrangle pluralities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-29

man in every respect, and he is not such man in any respect.
 The minister who was assassinated yesterday had charge of internal af- fairs. He came into touch with the masses, and all the regulations in re- lation to the socialists or nihilists or Hebrews were issued by him. So far as the great body of the people were concerned, he was the czar, and he had no compassion for the liberals He was a conservative of conserva- tives-in other words, an upholder of the autoeraey in Finland, in Armenia, in Poland, in the Semitic belt, as well as elsewhere in the vast country. The people whom he persecuted or op- pressed became his personal enemies, and one of them put an end at last to his career.
 Government by assassination is the poorest sort of government, and even government tempered by assassination is deplorable. The assassination of the governor of Finland, followed speedily by the assassination of the minister of the interior, is but proof that Russia Is honeycombed with dis content and sedition, and that they are nearly ripe for revolution. This state of things in Russia has been foreseen and foretold, and the recent assassinations confirm all that core spondents have related A heavy de- feat of Kuropatkin's army or the fall of Port Arthur would recall all the blunders of the blundering Alexieff, who plunged the unready country into a desperate and unnecessary war, and a revolution would be imminent, and such a revolution might split the un- wieldly land into numerous fractions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-29
No Jury, No Chain Ganu.

The Mobile Register reviews at length Judge Speer's famous decision in relation to police courts and chain gangs. It believes the case uncovers "such fragrant violations of the liberty of the citizen that reform is inevitable through legislative action in obedience to public opinion. No person should be sentenced to the chain gang With out a jury trial, or as Judge speer puts 1t, one man cannot adjudge infamy.
 The acts of a police court are mu- nicipaI acts, and municipal acts are acts authorized by the state and are state acts in short, and state cannot deprive "any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law" There is scarcely any process at all in a police court-no warrant, no ln- dictment, no written charges or any sort. no pretense of trial, no jury just one man to hand out infamous punishment in the chain gang, i'm prisonment at hard labor. The Regis ter says in conclusion: Judge Speer's reasoning seems to us to be sound. We believe his decision to be impregna- ble. If it should prove to be so, then the summary proceeding of police courts will be impotent to sentence men to hard labor or the chain gang pr elsewhere. Hereafter the chain gang and the whipping boss can only obtain recruits when tho constitution al safeguards of human liberty shall have been thrown around the accused, when trial by jury shall have had It's perfect work, and he shall be ad- judged guilty under due process of law"