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ern country. His success everywhere was
phenomenal and he was praised as the
greatest band leader ever seen. In 1902
he organized a band of his own under a
long term contract with Howard Pew and
Frank Gerth, well known band managers
of New York city. They took him at
once to New York, where his success was
instantaneous, and. by all means, greater
than anything known in this country.
creatore's opening night on Broadway.
New York. was such sensation as the
metropolis had not witnessed before.
From the opening. and for 100 nights the
theatre was packed to the doors at ev
cry concert. The enthusiasm was main
tanned and the interest Increased to the
end, and nothing like 1t has been known
in the city. The lowest standing room
price of admission was 81, and there
were as many as ten ticket spectators
in front of the theatre some nights who
received as high as three prices for their
seats
Creatore and his band have now been
heard in nearly every important city and
with the same sensational and satisfac-
tory results. The critics everywhere have
acknowledged his unique personality and
his remarkable musical powers.
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nation therefor Mr.. Bryan recalled that
the czar, as the author of peace, was
first to call the conference at The Hague,
and has set the foundation of peace in
our times.
"Of course" Mr.. Bryan says, I'VE can
not harvest tomorrow what we have sown
today" but he hopes that the peace
loving tune of Russian politics will not
change. "At the present crisis in the far
east" Mr.. Bryan continues, when the air
is fun of war rumors, it is especially
pleasing. l shall sympathetically regard
Russia. whose future is very great. and
also Japan, which stands in the road of
progress, and it would grieve me indeed
If these two countries should meet in col
lision. All measures should be taken to
avoid this dreadful war; but this, l fear.
will not be DONE"
Mr.. Bryan was interested to know about
our new city administration. Te inquired
about the parties in the City Hall, and
whether we are satisfied with the result
of the election, and what we await from
the new administration. He himself Is
a journalist and editor of a newspaper,
the Commoner, and its circulation is $780,
900 copies. The Commoner is devoted to
democracy. as he is the leader of the
democratic party in America Mr.. Bryan
is also known as the leader of the sill
ver-16 to 1-sentiment. The American
embassy is giving a dinner in honor Of
its distinguished guest.
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their mornings. that they hang GREATNESS
~ upon his every move, feel with him
the agony piercing his features, and sit
transfixed as in a trance?
Climaxes have been heard before and
thrilling ones too, but Creatore's drive
one into a frenzy. Somehow. you feel
sinking ground beneath; you clutch your
heart, and lay fast hold to your seat.
The Creatore elimaxes are granite and
suggest the majestic "Lorelei-Fels' on
the Rhine, or the terrifying Mt. Yesuvius.
He leads up to them, not cautiously or
timidly, but with feverish eagerness. the
limit of human ability and endurance
seem to have been attained by his play
ers, but no 1t is yet too tame, and with
a stupendous stabbing move he shoots
both arms high into the air, the lid is
completely off and the blaze Of a moment
ago becomes a confiagration.
But Creatore has his gentle moments,
and then he stands revealed in a light that
is positively fascinating as when he plays
Schnmanns "Traeumerei, in which the
reeds carry the lovely melody.
Creatore will give three concerts at the
Jefferson theatre Monday, Tuesday and
Tuesday matinee is the dates selected.
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The ever popular Wells Dunno Harlan
company will return to the Bijou this
week, and the fact is more than pleas
ing when coupled with the fact that its
bill will be "A Milk White Flag" Hoyt S
wonderfully clever satire on the military.
The attraction will be a large and sump-
tuous revival of the best play Hoyt has
ever written, and the way 1t has been
adapted for the use of the popular or
ganization that will. play it, is, If any
thing an Improvement on the work OF
the man who made 1t.
Because of the fact that there are a
number of the old Hoyt forces identified
with the Wells-Dunne- Harlan company,
there is every reason why the piece has
made the great hit credited it where ever
the company mas played 1t. Them again,
there are decidedly clever people in the
combination who can more than hold their
own on any assignment given them, all
of which goes to assure that the Hoyt
play will have a good cast, and that 1t
will be one of the happy hits of this sea-
son. 1t will always be an acceptable Of
fering in any theatre, and especially at
the hands of this company of entertainers.
The company will score a hit with this
production second to none in its history.
The cast is the strongest since the origi-
nal production of the piece, and even at
that this declaration is not at all to be
confused with any understanding that
the original cast was any stronger than
that which will be seen tomorrow night
and the rest of the week.
John w. Dunno has won golden mem
ton in most every city in the country
because of his great portrayal of the
leading character He possesses a peculiar
talent that suits the character to the
strongest degree, and his support Will be
par excellence, for Little Chip will never
hear 1t said that any other comedian made
a bigger hit as the lone Private, for
he seems to have been created for the
part The famously funny little man has
played the part in many places, and his
specialties will be the feature of the pro-
duction. Mary Marble is going to become
a greater favorite than ever before after
this week, for she Is going to be seen as
the "Orphan." Otis Harlan as the
corpse" has part that heretofore was
never prominent. but the clever comedian
has brought it up with bound that
places it along with the other prominent
characters.
Besides the full strength Of the popular
company, there will be additions, and the
Bijou orchestra augmented by several adj
ditional musicians, will appear as the
band.
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BRYAN INTERVIEWED IN RUSSIA.
fovoe vremya Quotes Him as Demo-
ocratic Leader of United States.

rom the Novoe vremya, st. Petersburg,
December g.
Mr.. William Bryan, the famous Ameri-
an politician and rival of the late Mr.
IcKinley in the two last presidential cam
aigns, is now visiting st. Petersburg. Mr..
bryan will not remain long in Russia. He
will depart in a few days. He came here
IS a tourist who is interested in Russia
nd interviewed Count Leo Holstoi, whose
writings and teachings Mr.. Bryan says
have penetrated his heart. The ex-candi-
late is of middle height, somewhat stout,
with handsome face and clover eyes.
His big forehead and clean-shaven face
remind us good deal of Napoleon l.
1t is To be regretted that Mr.. Bryan re-
fused to go into the question of some
sharp politics. In his early youth, he
says, he became interested in Russia.
fWhen a schoolboy I read some on Rus
Bia, and was convinced that there awaits
great future awaits the United States in
the New World"
We have mentioned in our paper more
than once that of late the American press
denounces us very bitterly. Mr.. Bryan.
when asked to give us some explanation
on this subject replied in a very resigned
tone:
THE United tSates are under entirely
different conditions from the rest of the
powers. They have no friends nor enc
mics. Nor do they have any allies" And
as to the American press. Mr. Bryan
points out that press often criticised
the United States government, but that
1t would be ridiculous to blame the entire
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Korean Architecture.

From the Housekeeper.
The Korean style of architecture is suit
ed to anything but an extreme climate
such as prevails there. During the winter
months it is very cold The houses are
made of bamboo framework, plastered
within and without with adobe mud. The
roof is thatched with rice straw, which is
weather proof. The inside may be made
into one room by tie sliding back of
screen-like partition. just why these were
introduced it is impossible to say. for they
are but rarely used, as privacy is never
desired in Korea. This open space becomes
the living room, and even when travellers
are passing along and must halt for the
night they are invited to share a common
sleeping place on the floor with the entire
family. The discomfort of such an ex-
perience is extreme during the summer
In the kitchen. which is just without the
living room, there is located most Curl
Gus kind of a stove. From this clay pipes
extend under the floor to the living room.
They warm the house summer and winter
alike, for 1t has never entered their minds
that some means could be devised where
by the heat could be turned off from the
other quarters.
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STARTLING RECORD AND
LIFE OF SIG. CREATORE

Sig. Giuseppe Creatore is unquestion-
personality before the musical world to-
day. He is the musical marvel of this
century-a revelation to all classes, and
the most successful of all the musical
leaders, both from an artistic and a
financial standpoint. In a business way
he has done the most remarkable things
in the history of bands In this country.
This has all been accomplished on ae-
count of his personal. powerful, intense
individuality, supplemented by musical
genius of the very highest order.
No other leader ever did what creatore
has done in the following instances:
He set New York music mad, and was
gave concerts for 100 nights on Broadway.
He broke all attendance records of
fourteen years at the Pittsburg exposi-
tion in 1902, and it rained every day he
was there. Again in 1903 he broke his own
record of the previous season In the same
place. He was the talk of Pittsburg dur
ing both seasons.
He played series of eighteen concerts
III the BOSlOn symphony nan III lJu2 anu
thirty-nine in 1903, and set the musical
people of cultured Boston wild over his
musical personality and the excellent
playing of his band.
Hundreds of people were turned away
from four of his concerts in the large
Odeon in st. Louis. Likewise hundreds
were turned away from his various con-
certs in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland,
Washington, Hartford. Worcester and
other cities, particularly in the south.
In all of these places the highest praises
were sounded for Creatore by the best
of musical critics; and the highest au-
thorities in America have declared him
the most wonderful leader ever seen, his
spired and soul-stirring ever known, and
his band the grandest ever heard.
Sig Giuseppe Creatore. who Is but g
years of age, came to America less than
four years ago and played trombone solos
with an Italian band. He was the leading
feature of the organization, and when
the conductor was sick on one OCCASION
Creatore was given the baton. He WELD
ed it with such effect that he astonished
and entranced all who were present and
showed that he was a leader such as had
not been encountered before. The banc
was then divided, and Creatore was made
conductor of one section of It, and play
ed an engagement at the Atlantic City
Steel Pier from February to July in 1901
following with an engagement at Willow
Grove park In Philadelphia. and tour
of over 1900 miles all over the far west
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Saves All His Dimes.

From the Green County G<y.) Record.
In one of the dry goods stores this
week gentleman paid small amount
and afterward purchased about 50
worth of goods and also paid for them
in dimes AS dimes are very scarce,
the merchant asked his customer
where he got so many. His reply was
that he had sold load of hay to w. r..
Noe and had received the full amount,
So in dimes.
Mr.. Noe says he was In the habit of
taking two drinks of whisky day
every day. but now he gives his wife
two dimes a day ant abstains from
drink Since he commenced this prac-
tice he has purchased horse for 500
and paid for it in ten installments, all
in dimes, and after paying for his hay
in dies still has dimes left.
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West,s MinstreIs.

All minstrel shows are more or less like
all others, and the only opportunity to
eriticise lies in commenting ON the people
employed to sing or joke. William II.
West has gathered several very clever
people around him in his show. and es-
specially in his song department, which
Is probably the strongest that has been
here this season with minstrel troup.
In the first part, which by the way has
a very handsome and effective setting in
red, all of the best singing is to be
heard. The company does not contain a
man with a bad voice. and several are
very good James IL. Sadler sings Down
on the Farm" in two voices, a baritone
and soprano, and the latter sounds like
a woman. Were the audience unable to
see him it would easily believe that 1t
was womans voice. 1t is a novelty.
John II. King gets several hearty rounds
of applause from his 'erildy Ann" a COM
edy song, and Billy Clark did not fan
far behind with his original minstrel
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In a season that is VIGOROUSLY the worst
from the theatrical standpoint-that has
been known in this country for many
years. one fact stands out predominantly,
which is. that two great musical attrac-
tions have so far surpassed anything else
going, in point of view of receipts, that
comparison with other things are not to
be considered.
These two prominent features are the
tour of Adelina Patti and the production
of 'ParsifaI' in New York. OF the sue
cess of the latter-from merely pecun-
larry standard-there Is. of course, no
question. Parsifal has had booming and
immensely of advertising such as never
has been given any other single work of
genius 1t has employed all the resources
of the richest opera house in the world,
backed by the richest men, and the result
has been an average of something like
$4,000 at each performance
But Adelina Patti alone and unaided
drew by the magic of her name and her
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Pointed Paragraphs.

From the Chicago News.
A Chinese laundry ticket is but mark
of irony.
Sometimes man lies when he smiles
and says nothing.
Every husband doesn't know a lot of
things his wife suspects
The trouble with most people who say
what they think is that they think such
disagreable things.
No matter how religious a bald-headed
bachelor may be, married women are al
ways suspicious of him.
A man may or may not consider It a
compliment to have a brand of cigars
named after him. It depends on the
cigars
A man would probably have more res
pect for babies If he thought they un-
derstood the language women talk to
them.
The young husband who praises the
cooking of his mother evidently forgets
that its the same his father used to
kick about.
When a woman gets cornered in an ar
gument she always says: Oh, well, you
know I'm right, but of course you won't
admit it,
Fortunate is the man who can forget
that he Is married long enough to look
pleasant when he is having his photo
graph taken.
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their enforced companonship in the car.
he did not succeed in learning her name.
Finding she had gone back to America
few days after this episode he fol-
lowed. Wishing to travel incog. he took.
at the suggestion of his friend, Montgom-
cry Putman-an American who had come
abroad to escape paying alimony to his
wife-his, Putnam's name.
At the Waldorf Astoria in New York
he finds the girl he is looking for and
is introduced to her as Montgomery Put
nam by his friend Arthur Weatherbee.
AS the object of his alteration is in real
ity Mrs. Montgomery Putnam-having as
sumed her maiden name of Harriet For
dyce until she can secure an absolute
divorce-the girl is, of course Immediate
ly aware that Putnam is an impostor.
She quickly discovers who he really is,
but not until the end of the play does
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feels. not like the ordinary apathetic, lazy
mortal. but in eight-fold intensity like
the octopus sucking the life's blood of
its victims through 400 and odd antennae.
While conducting his band he is absolute-
ly burning up with desire to make the
instruments "breathe" music with him.
This word breathe" Is the chief one in
Creatore's vocabulary. 1t Is with him
waking and sleeping. and while flashing
himself into fury before his men, it is
only with the view of making them
breathe" his throbbing life through their
Instruments. To him at those moments
there is no public. and no applause. only
musical heights to storm. Is there won
der then that in the whirlwind Of such
overpowering earnestness and abandon
his listeners are swept completely from
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she reveal her knowledge. Putnam's rela-
tives, some of whom have never seen him
are looking for him; as is also a lawyer
clerk with writ and claim Ter five thous-
and dollars, and another official of the law
who has been empowered to collect the
alimony due Mrs. Putnam from her hus-
band.
At the Waldorf everyone who is looking
for him, succeeds in finding him. and his
efforts to prove, by the use Of American
slang-none of which he understands-that
he is really the man he pretends to be.
form the basis of series of comedy stu
atoms which have never been excelled.
At last. just as everything is becoming
too complicated and he is about to be
arrested for obtaining money under false
pretences, for contempt of court, for nom
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Coon" There are several pleasing eff
fects with a quintette in old familiar
songs, such as Dixie with novel effects
In the olio the concert prince Siam s
Visit to America and the comedy, "A
Wizard of Boz" were clever but the
best feature of this part is Kartelli, the
wire walker.
The comedians sprung many ohestnuts,
but were themselves clever enough to
get away with laugh on them This lies
in the ability Of the comedian and not the
jokes.
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The story of 1.-THE Earl of Pawtucket,"
Augustus Thomas comedy success, which
will be seen here at the Jefferson theatre
next Saturday night Is developed
from the amusing and novel idea
of an English nobleman endeavoring to
pose as an American. A reversal of the
usual idea in such scenes. Lord Carding-
ton, the English nobleman, has met in
Europe a charming American girl through
the unusual circumstance of both being
imprisoned for twenty-four hours in one
of the cars of a Ferris wheel-the ma
chinery of which had broken down at the
moment when both were suspended in the
air one hundred feet or more from the
ground.
Her pluck and cheerfulness during this
unpleasant time, together with her beauty
won the Englishman's heart, and he de-
termined to win her for his wife. Despite
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creatore.

Creatore and bis band is the most mar
velous musical organization that has ever
been heard here. Creatore is never at any
time the ordinary bandmaster, but a
genius, highly gifted, sincere. serious and
conscientious. Creatore is a conductor who
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payment of alimony and finally for the
murder of Lord Cardington-whom the
papers have announced has mysteriously
disappeared-Miss Fordyee interferes. ex-
plains who the poor earl really is, and
everything ends as it should.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
Al The JEFFERSON

Monday and Tuesday evenings
and Tuesday matinee-Greatore and
his band.
Saturday evening-"The Earl of
Pawtucket."
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BACK From the Woods

with several good teams prepared to do
hauling on short notice; single load or
car load lots; my personal attention given
all orders. office. Room 1888 First National
Bank building Bell phone, 1886. Resi-
dence, Peoples phone 205S.
]. t. RATLIFF.
1-22-15t-eod.
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ATTHE BIJoU.

, Wells-Dunne-H Harlan Musical Com
edy company in "A Milk White :
, Flag"
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we make the best Gus in town. Age
Herald Engraving Company.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-05
FEARS FOR TWO BlRGES.
1t They are Lost Nine Men are Prob
ably Drowned.
(By the Associated Press J

Newport News, Va, Jan. 4.-From al
vices received by shipping men here to-
night, it is feared that two coal barges
with the crews, which sailed from this
port Friday night for Providence, r. l..
in tow Of the tug Navigator were lost,
Ii the storm Saturday.
The barges are the Liberty and New
Jersey.
During the storm their hawscrs part
ed and both were carried out to Gea.
Ill day yesterday ard today the Naviga,
tor has patrolled the coast near Hog Is
land in a vain effort to locate the miss
ing vessels.
On board the Liberty were Captain
Peter Schipp, and four men and on the
New Jersey Captain Elmer Eamel and q
crew OF three. Each barge carried 5000
tons of coal
New York. Jan. 4.-The schooner NJ A.
Hascol. of Rockland, Me-. Captain Win
gard, while outward bound today for
N c., went aground H.
lower bay. Alter being fast Tor several
hours a tug succeeded in pulling her
clear. She is anchorede here.
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Hay Desires an investigation.

Washington, Jan. with the reassemA
bling of Congress today after the recess,
the chaplain of the House in opening the
session of that body prayed that war be-
tween Russia and Japan might be averted
by peaceful adjustment of their differ
ences. A privileged resolution offered by
Mr.. Hay (Dem. Va.), recited that certain
statements contained in the Bristow post
office report reflected upon the member
ship of the House. 1t provided for an in
vesugation by q committee OF five to be
appointed by the Speaker.
The resolution recites that the Bristow
report charged that long time leases for
postoffice premises were cancelled and
rent increased upon the recommendation
of influential representatives; that Beav-
ers allowed increases. in clerk hire on the
request of members of Congress regard
less of the merits of the case: and that
Beavers made contracts with members
of Congress for rental of premises. The
resolution asserts these charges and others
reflect on the integrity of the members
of the House
a point OF order made against the reso-
luton by Mr. Gardner (Rep. N. j.. was
overruled. and the previous question was
moved by Mr.. Hay. Mr.. Payne, (Rep.
New York;. desire to move its reference
to the Postoffice Committee for consid
Grafton, but it was declared not in order
The vote on ordering the previous ques-
ton resulted in a tie. the minority sup
porting Mr. Hay and developed no quorum.
At this point the House adjourned.