New-York tribune., 1907-12-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

After the performance Of Wagncr's "Rheingold,'
Berne. Switzerland the 'Berner Fremdenbatt
contained account of the performance which has
caused much comment. One German paper, in re-
producing excerpts from the remarkable criticism
says: In reading it could not quite determine
whether the writer was rogue or one OF the Mark
Twain school. who Id enter the most sacred
realms of culture with savage freedom The
opera" SAYS the critic. furnished much aTuse-
ment especially the evolutions of the merry Rhein
daughters Their tricks were charming. and ~
the orchestra had played more appropriate music
the effect would have been perfect From what
we had heard We expected better music. certain
parts-the most tunefu ones-were reminiscent of
Mendessohn. and this originality seemed natural to
us. because knew that when Wagner the
child prodigy In Lepsic Felix HTendelssOhn directed
the Gewandhaus concerts in that city. All in ali
the opera Is rather stale but with the fine scenery
and real steam clouds il bearable. 1t Is prob
ably necessary that ono should see this 'Rhein-
gold as well as The Merry Widow. and
see it
Jones-What are YOU going 10 give your wife for
Brown-she hasn't told me yet--Judge.
Some Maine people are still hunting for Captain
Kidd's treasure. Two residents OF Bath now be-
leve that they have discovered the location OF the
legendary hidden gold of the famous buccaueer
and pirate They are Captain f. W. Neal. of the
New a1eadows Steamboat Company. and his run
ming mate CAPTAIN Isaac NJ Trufant. Tradition
has il that this treasure OF kidd's was hurried on
one island the New Meadows River. and for
searching parties have made efforts to find IT
4 Brunswick man. now dead. came into possession
of what purportcd TO he map of the locality
where the treasure was buried. and regularly
year used to search II. without avail. however.
According TO mysterious signs this the
earCh in order to he successful. had to be under
taken AZ a certain time II the year and under GER
tain conditions The Brunswick man faithfully
ref oyftfb fhe min do
tall and went 10 his grave firm in his belief that
ne was really u the trail Neal and Trufant are
not telling where they believe tho treasure to be-
but think that they have a line on 1t and would
have found IL last week had they had the necessary
tools with them to break the frozen ground. They
have carefully marked the spot, and will take up
the quest again
Bills it that heat ascends.
Jill-Oh yes: that is why so many hot-headcd
a uho spends a part Of his rest hour at
every day looking old books in the
1o-cent counter which he added to his collection
of queer books" 1t was an old Fourth Reader"
much the worse for and minus one cover
on the fly leaf and on number OF pages of white
paper which had been inserted. the owner whose
name does not appear. had kept the record of i'm
portant events in the 1855. The record is ileg
ible in many places where the ink has faded but
where the writing remains il is good as to pen-
manship although the phraseology shows that the
historian was youthful The first entry-Janrary
!. is: This is better New Years Day than last
year Under the date of January is ;is note:
Cen Grant and Sherman Will have visit from
secretary stanton On February 10 he SAYS:
''Old Gen. Lee ia going to have all the rebels
under him from now" March 10, old Jen Davis
knows he is beat. His message to the rebel Con.
gress shows that" The record must have been
kept for many months because the last entry,
dated Dec -" states: King Leopold. of HoI-
land"-meanlns Belgium probably-'is dead The
old book has fastened 10 one of the pages a news
paper account of the killing of Colonel Elmer 2
Ellsworth years before at Alexandria, Va The
man who found the book was pleased with his
discovery that he spends time than ever
before over l0-cent book counters.
Flashy Youth wish knew what that pretty
typewriter girl was buying who just went /
suspect 1t something for me
Department Store Salessirl tsiznE him up)-I
think It's quite likely. She bought steel hatpin.--
ChraGn Tribune