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ian company was induced to come over. but the experiment did not prove to be a success. The singers were mediocre. and the ballet was unattractive. This was the last season of Italian opera f, r several years. aes
 For at least eight years English opera only was sung to New York audiences. Both Italian and French companies toured South America and Mexico, and for several seasons French company was established in Havana. During that period New York cav plenty of artistic dancing. for Taglioni. Celeste and Fanny Ellsler were there. The lat- ter was given salary of $500 night. as much as had been paid Malibran. Niblo's was built. and the tuneful Se- guins made their appearance.
 About 1S44 the popular taste had drifted around to Italian opera. An Italian restaurant keeper. one Ferdi- nand Palmo, had made a fortune on Broadway, near Duane. and he invest ed it in a new opera house. It was in the orchestra of Palmo's that Luigi Ardlti, so long the conductor of Italian opera at the Academy of Music. made his first New York appearance. After three years Palmo's was voted too far downtown and new opera house was built in Astor place.
 This marks the period in which Max Maretzek came into public view. He was imported from London to become
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audience hissed the opera and demand ed that a rollicking farce known as "The Beau In the Suds' be substi- tuted, which was done by the terrified manager. In 1853, however, Hallam brought over a company from London which sang the opera very acceptably. It is recorded as one of the wonders of the day that a single performance yielded $500.
 The first opera of American com position was sung in New York during Christmas week, 1796. The scenery used on the occasion was painted by Joseph Jefferson, the father of the late great comedian. MT. Jefferson also sang a part in the opera, which is evidence of his general utility. Edwin and An gelina" was the title of this work, and it was received with many expressions of approval.
 It is instructive to compare some of the salaries paid in those days with those paid by modern managers of opera. In 1796 Mir. Hallam. an English singer, stood at the head of the payroll He received the munificent salary of s25 per week. Mir. Jefferson getting only s23. Mrs. Seymour, the prma donna, was given So. Well for them that they could not know of the royal sums that would be paid to their successors,
 The first attempt to transplant Italian opera to American soil was made by the famous Garcia in 1925. Dominick
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TT has come to light recently that
 Thomas r. Ryan of New York
 city. the we'll known capitalist and
 promoter. has signed a convention with the Kongo State which secures him the right to conduct certain op- erations in that remote African region. MT. Ryan has been engaged for a num- Der O. years in developing large rubber forests in Mexico. and he is desirous of testing in the Kongo certain meth ods for which his company holds the patents. It is also known that Mir. Ryan has been negotiating for the purchase or lease of the extensive hold ings of rubber lands in the Kongo Free State now operated by the aged king of the Belgians. With these in his possession MT. Ryan will be entitled to the appellation of "the American rubber king since he will be in a po- sition to control the supply of that commodity.
 The enormous possibilities of the rubber business have long been rec ognized by Americans. So astute an observer as Andrew Carnegie is quoted as having advised a young man who asked him for his opinion as to the fu- ture of the steel industry as follows: "The best opening for young man to- day is in rubber. Rubber will in q few years make greater fortune than steel or, in fact. any other branch of manufacture. The great value and manifold uses of rubber are just be- ginning to be appreciated properly. and profits in its production are greater than in anything else about which am informed"
 American ingenuity has evolved sev- eraI new methods of getting rubber ready for the market. The milk is drawn from the bark by suction. SO that the pure sap is obtained free from the foreign substances which were at- ways present In large quantities In the rubber furnished by natives. After the rubber milk is collected the pure rub Der Is separated from the other in- eredients of the sap by a rateat prrcezs ouch like that used in ilIe separation rf cream from milk In this new meth sd. which is she invention Of an Arnefi- Can. there is 10 waste Of sap. Under the native prcCess al least half Of u was wasted
 When exposed to the air the sap ccagulatss raVidly. and it iS then lied into bales and shfprcd to New Y0-k. shere IL finds a re4dy market at fro-n is cents to sI a pSsnd according ts its
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came the idol and the wonder of the city and the most marvellous stories concerning the family obtained cre- dence. One of them was to the effect that the elder Garcia had threatened his beautiful daughter with instant death if she did not sing up to his re-
 quirement and that her marvellous execution was due to fright The lucky Garcias gave seventy-six representa- tions in New York and then went to MeMco-all but the peerless signorina. who became the bride of Eugene Mali
 bran, a rich New York merchant, who was greatly her senior. He soon lost his fortune. and she returned to the operatic stage. By this time Italian
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Lynch, a wine merchant, was the finan- cial promoter of the enterprise, but Garcia was the impresario and general manager. His company was family affair, but fortunately his was a family of artists. Garcia himself was one of the greatest tenors the world has ever known. Signora Garcia was a fine contralto the son was an excellent baritone, and his accomplished daugh- ter, the incomparable Malibran, was a host in herself. The Garcias made their first appearance in Rossini's Barber of Seville"
 It was a revelation to that American audience. Nothing like the singing of Malibran had ever been heard. She be-
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opera had suffered a momentary eclipse. and English opera was once more the fashion. Malibran appeared in several English versions of the standard works and achieved a tre- mendous success. For one engagement she was paid the then stupendous sum of $500 a night.
 English opera was in the ascendant until 1882. In that year there was an attempt to revive the Italian brand. The first exclusive home of the opera to be built in the country was opened. It was on Leonard street, New York. and was very pretty little theater. decorated in white and gold and fur nished in blue damask. A native Ital.
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voice has h<en heard This occurred fn the Grand Canyon of Colorado. where ons man shouting the name -Bob- al o1e end was plainly heard al the ether end. which is eishree1 rnIles away
 Ths enxfn-s of a modern Uaa-of- var cr~t sbuuf ssssess-
 ssEssz1y cstheirsI has ,<s vi1f><a Irs srsre f< fsf fe>s hixh
 I- fsss ai-Iar e.rs r<rs ers< use1 spou a E-ssI>h Fszlvxy- n<y w~u
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-23

The bark Is cut carefully ana only limited quantity of the milk Is taken at one time. so that the tree Is not in- jured and its growth not at all inter- fered with. From an eight-year-old tree a pound of rubber a year may be taken safely. With 200 trees to the acre the product would be 200 pounds of rubber. worth $40. without any ex- pense or labor except the tapping. A hundred acre plantation would thus produce Sl4.000 year income. This is exhilarating. but the picture may be made still more roseate. Rubber trees grow rapidly, and as they increase in size the quantity of the milk they will produce grows in an equal ratio. A tree fifteen years of age win produce five pounds a year. so that each acre will yield 1000 pounds. worth S7oo. This would make the product of hun. dred acres worth s7o.0oo.
 The rubber of commerce comes from South America, from the Central American states. from western Africa and from India and the islands in the Indian ocean. For many years. how. ever, the best rubber has been shipped from the Amazon region of Venezuela and Brazil. Until quite recently IS per cent of all the rubber produced in the world was shipped via Para and Manzos. It has not been an infrequens thing for vessels to rail from these ports loaded with carKoes of rubber valued at sz.ooo, ,ooo or more.
 In both Para and Manaos the most important feature of industrial life is the shipping of rubber. the product of the great American enterprise that has been operating for several years as the Para Rubber Plantation company. An the exporting portions of these citiss are occupied by packing houses. in which the rubber Is prepared for ex- port. To these vast depo,s the crude product is brought in humps that look like large hams. Each lump is weighed
 carefully and then packed. each box
 containing 100 pounds
 There are at least dozen varieties of
 rubber bearing trees in the Amaxon
 district. The bulk Of the product. how-
 ever. comes from two of them. Hsvsa
 discoior and Hevea brzzilliensis. The former rrovs to a height of fifty f.at
 asd .he latter to seventy and even ninety feet. Mir. Ryan's Mexican rub-
 Der plantation fs near Vera Cruz and cIose at hand is the large plant owned by senafor Clark of MontanA- Other | Americans own rubber farm in ths vicinity. JAMES n BENTLEY.
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stt.ched te trains between Doncsssa and Hzrvtch
 IA fs said that the tuxks of no fever than kslsss elephants are used an nusTy for pizne keys. Thts incl11es the pizrs nzkins industries al ever the world
 A rrn.kIrx p<sze pss vcn fn tks Coe- coriIz cfu5 cf B<<iln c <Esrt tize ago bv . n-an uno <srke1 kaf an suncs e tsbnrco is a rEpe ef . certain sDsc11s1 slss in e1vn<ea mInu11D
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day. Aliho1gh apparently motiOnEsss. they travel from seventy-hve to ninety miles an hour-
 TEe Siarnese twins were born in 1sIi znI died ia Is9t
 B4tzeen the island of Tristan FAeEnha and the na0ufh of tie La Plata scsrsiiuES cf over eight uIiies are said to have ben dfscorerefL
 The foantse< lays 7lets.ee9 eExs each year.
 sIser and lezd are generally found
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Motor busss are rapisly saEsrse5ins ssudoizs fu Ts15fG
 M ieas- r-sss.ess.sss zsues ef tizs vprtFz sz7EzEc egtgr Esld er silver tezrinE sxEs-
 The recuTsi h--75a eF -rsr<ss Eruu1 zi ArkBe.a71. fr p-rfr5zShirez ueiEtsi tue1ty-s5x s11 eue-kalf r-un5S-
 Srrfke< snrrea~e fa nun7her every -<ar ia Csrrzznr- The average nEz-
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quality. The total cost of extracting. separating and shipping is not more than cents ger pound This shows where the inmenss profit comes in The value of rubber has increased rrpztIy in recent years ca account q ths many rev uses tD which it is put At the present time the supply Is scarcely equal to the demand
 The uSrst feature in connection with
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BRIEF AND TRUE.

bsr of strikes for the years 1888 tO rssg fnlIusfse Eas I-zGz ia Is3i 1t rose tc i.Sss and fn Iss5 to 1851
 In rfssv yeu can teu vhsre the peaS- ant sraasen cczae fr1u by ihs sine of ttszr earrings He s0atherners wezr ths izrEs-
 T1s kizasst eIo.zs reach ten r1iles sk.yse CT hszz< They are the white. fszrhery Forras whlch ve ses on . clear
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together. and some scientists think that lead disintssrates into silver Gold and copper are also found together In New South Wales the Great Coozr mine furniskrs copper containing four ounces of eosd so the ten
 Movable scenery for fheaters was fn- vented by Peruzzi in 1888
 There are fffy-fTe dogs fn the United KIuxsssn ts every tbousen1 h. hsbf-znts-
 la the vest elssstex ef westminstss
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abbey is a erzvestoa. to John Broogh- ten. cnce champion prizefghter of England
 The French e1snber of dsputis< costs the nation sasss day
 The 1Ifs cf an average brick buiit- ing is two centuries
 Rain is przcttcz1Ey unknorn in ths region between the frst and seccn< czrzrzcss ea the Me F1xhse>n uEes Is s.f9 ts be fh> i-uxest dls1znce nf rhfch . nmnrs
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nurseries were started at once. The young plants in rows look like a field of growing tobacco. The shoots are set out about 400 to the acre. When they have begun to make a strong growth. they are thinned out to about third of the original number. That
 is when they are at least six years of age. Each young tree that is cut down
 at this age will furnish i've pounds of
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|, creased to 100000. Then it began to decline, because the trees had been destroyed, and new fields could not be found. Last year less than a million pounds were produced. It had been the custom, in Colombia to fell the trees. and when the government forbade the destruction the natives tapped the trees in such a careless manner that they died. The same course was pursued in
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known. The parents or Adellna fAltl were members of his company at this house and were with him in 1853 at Castle Garden. The year 1854 was memorable one for Italian opera in New York and also for Maretzek-it brought Mario and Grisi to Castle Gar den and $50.000 profit to the fortunate imprcsario.
 Maretzek was the most energetic and successful impresario America had yet known. He 1t was who inspired tho building of the Academy of Music, the most pretentious home of grand opera which had yet appeared in America. He did not at first achieve Q financial success-indeed, the new academy passed through the hands of five differ- ent managers in the first fifteen months but he had the satisfaction of pro- ducing opera in it's best form and with some of the worlds most famous sing CTS. Among these were Brignoli and Adelaide Phillips.
 Maurice Strakosch, who had mar ried Amalia Patti, entered the field as impresario in 1857. Two years later Adelina Patti made her appearance as Lucia and carried everything before
 her. From this time on she was the undisputed queen of the operatic stage.
 Three years later her sister, Carlotta, appeared as formidable rival. but her exquisite voice did not wear well. By this time. 1t must be admitted. grand opera had obtained firm foot hold on the continent. As yet, how- ever, the position of impresario was a | hazardous one. It was only by supple | mentary tours to Mexico and Havana that many managers were able to avoid
 bankruptcy. Maretzeks Strakosch.
 Nixon, Grau, De Vino and Mapleson all
 experienced the ups and downs of tho
 venture, and Abbey, Damrosch and
 Stanton were scarcely less unlucky Tn
 most of their operatic flights. The
 public taste could be satisfied by only
 the worlds greatest singers. ard the
 latter were to be had only at prices
 that made the business Q fearful un-
 certainty.
 l After thirty years of ups and downs
 at the Academy of Music grand opera
 found a more splendid home at the
 Metropolitan. Henry F. Abbey was the new general. and the veteran Mapleson | prepared to give him battle at the | Academy. Then followed struggle
 not unlike that which is to be fought this season between the rival cohorts | of Conried and Hammerstein. The
 Metropolitan had for its major attrac- tions Christine Nilsson and Marcella
 Sembrich, but the Academy was even
 stronger with the invinciblc Patti and
 Eteika Gerster. then in the flower of
 her incompatible art. The big, new
 opera house brought ruin to It's man. ! ager, and the situation gave tho advo-
 cates of German opera an opportunity.
 under Damrosch. to gain that foothold
 for the Wagner cult. which has never
 been much shaken.
 | GEORGE H. PICARD
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-
 always a matter of interest, and the fact that is coupled with music does not make it less so.
 Grand opera has had long and de- cidedly checkered history in this coun- try. The first thing that strikes one who studies it's career of more than q century and half is that it has been a continuous. if not permanent, insti- tuition, ship ever changing its cap tain and cargo and never until recently coming safely into port. Until the last decade almost every promoter of the industry has been buried under the wreck of mimic trees, temples, gardens, palaces and X, the glittering parapher- nalia that serve to make the illusion. The day of financial defeat has come as certainly to the impresario as the rising O. the curtain and the going down of the same. .
 The situation has changed materially. The number of those who may have as much of it as they choose has been multiplied greatly, and the ranks of those who have acquired the habit of opera going in spite of financial limi- tations have been swelled amazingly. Grand opera in this country will this season enter upon new and striking period in its history. In New York city there will be two great opera houses in full swing at the same time, with two keen witted and resourceful managers vyin- with each other to please the public and with double galaxy of the brightest and most costly operatic stars scintillating to the very best of their ability.
 It is no exaggeration to say that the situation created by these rival pur- veyors to the public taste is unique. Should both MT. Conried and MT. Ham, merstein achieve success-and it seems likely that they will-New York will have won the distinction of being the greatest opera loving city in the world. No other city in the world has ever maintained two opera houses of the same rank as the Metropolitan and the new Manhattan. nor has any other city supported as many operatic spellbind- CTS of the first class as will be as- sembled in the American metropolis.
 The first opera ever given in New York was Gays ''The Beggar's Opera This was sung in 1750 in building on Nassau street by a company of English actors, who alternated it with farces and English comedies. At that early day Gays sprightly production was not appreciated in America, for it is re- corded that at its first performance the
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1906-01-04
WERE A DELUsION AND A SNARE.

tThe good old times were a
deluslon and snare. We cannot
get too far away from them, They
are valuable now as topic of
conversation-ro talk about. AS
soon as the gray begins 80 creep
into a fellows topnot he begins
thinking about the good old times
and it furnicbes him some pleas
ure, so that it does 10 harm. He
talks about the fun he used to
have, and how much better every
thing was when he was young, and
how honester the race, and gentler
the people, and better, and he
finally comes to the point where
he believes himself what he tells
is true. As matter of fact, we
are living in the best days the
world has ever seen. Nothing in
the past can compare with the
comforts we enjoy in the present,
either as regards our wardrobe,
our feedstuffs or our homes. The
laborer who works in the shops
and factories now can live better
than it was possible for kings to
live i'll the past, and the man of
moderate means-and there are
more of them than ever before
can revel in luxuries Cleopatra
never dreamed of. Talk about
the good old times It's deIu-
sion.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1906-01-04
TWO POST-OFFlCE.

The British post-ofice makes a
profit of $25, 10000 on a total
business of $75, 100000. Ours
loses $I4, 100000 on a business
twice as great.
The British service is far supe-
rior. The post-man makes six
rounds a day even in the smaller
cities. A local letter mailed any,
where in Loudon is delivered in
hours. Rural free delivery is uni
versal, not partial as with us.
Delivery is daily anywhere in the
kingdom except to Every distant
farm-houses." A four-ounce let
ter goes for two cents; our limit
is one ounce. The registry fee is
four cents; ours is eight cents.
Parcels post costs from six cents
up tc "a cents for eleven pounds.
Our limit is four pounds at 30
cents for third-class matter and
GA dents for fourth-class matter.
Especial delivery" costs in
Great Britain six cents a mile
without other postage. Our rate
is 10 cents flat with postage.
British postal orders cost from
one cent up to three cents for
$2.11; money orders from four
cents up to 20 cents for 5000.
Our money orders cost from three
cents up to 80 cents for 800.
The shorter haul accounts only
in part for the striking superiority
of the British post. The main
reason for the inferior character
and greater cost of our own is that
the money-order add parcels-post
rates and limits are arranged to
suit the express companies, and
that the rates of payment to the
railways for hauling the mails are
fixed by system SO preposterous
as actually to invite and reward
the collusive defrauding Of the
Government.-New York World.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1906-01-04

Chang Sun Yum, a rich Chinese
merchant, was a passenger CD the
Pacific Mail steamship Korea that
arrived at San Francisco few
days ago. There were number
of Americans on board, returning
home from Manila. At sea the
Americans made mp poker game
in the smoking room. Chang was
an interested spectator. "Like to
play?" asked one of the Ameri-
cans of the Celestial. "No savvy
no say English" said Chang.
CHATS all right; sit down if you
have got any money; we'll show
You how the game goes" Reach
ing into his blouse he brought out
handful of gold. The play went
OH for some five or six hours. At
the end of it Chang oashed in
5000. He had shown himself an
apt pupil.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1906-01-04
apt pupil

While hunting Christmas day
near Dunwoody, Ga, Henry Ed
ward Jones, who resided with his
father, J. J Jores, on the Howell
mill road, was accidentally shot
and killed by his cousin, Wayne
Jones. Wayne Jones had his gun
on his shoulder An over-hang-
ing limb struck the trigger, dis
charging the gun. Henry was
walking Immediately behind him,
and he received the contents OF
the gun in the head. He died in
stantly. There were three eye
witnesses to the tragedy.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1906-01-04

A little girl stood in city meat
market waiting for some one to
attend to her wants. Finally the
proprietor was at liberty, and APP
preached her and said benign
antly, ''Is there anything You
would like, little grill" "Oh, yes
SIR, please; / want a diamond
ring, and sealskin sacque, a real
foreign nobleman and a pug dog,
and q box at the opera, and oh /,
ever SO many things; but all Ma
wants is ten cents worth of
bologna"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1906-01-04

Call a girl a chick and she
smiles, call a woman a hen and
phe howls; call a young woman a
witch and she is pleased, call an
old woman a witch and she is
Indignant; call a girl kitten and
she rather likes it, call q woman a
cat and she hates you. Women
are queer. If you call man a
gay dog it will flatter him, call
him a pup, hound or a cur, and
be will try to alter the map of
your face He doesn't mind be-
ing called a bull or bear, yet he
viii. object to being mentioned as
q calf or cub. Men are queer,
too.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1906-01-04

This year a permanent chau-
tauqua will be located at Silver
Lake, ten miles north of Atlanta,
on the Peachtree road. An op.
tion on 6S7 acres in that vicinity
has been secured and streets and
bculevards have beon LAID off. A
large hotel and an auditorium are
TO be built. Hundreds of cottages
are to be built around the lake
and it is estimated that when all
the improvements have been
made the property will be valued
at from one half to one million
dollars.