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the reformer of the German drama.
Sachs life covered n period of So
years. and his ability rs. a writer wa,
nothing short of marvellous. 1t is said
that there were years in which he
wrote as many as Is plays. In fac,.
in 1856 he wrote eight tragedies and
ten comedies. As q heritage to pos
terity he left 19s dramatic works. %
tragedies, 65 comedies. 6i Shrovetidc
plays, and 10 dramatic works, which
the author termed plays" Not alone
was he famous as a dramatic writer
but 1000 master songs Were composed
by him, besides an immense number
of fables and epoch poems, Sachs got
his subjects everywhere. The Biblical
motives furnished him with such plays
as The Passion The Si.Crifice Cf
Isaac" The Childhood of Moses" etc.
The legends of the middle ages fur
nished him with Tristan and Isolde"
"Siegfried the Horny" oliver and Ar
tus," and he also introduced a large
number of classical subjects. includ-
ing aclytemnestra," "Alcestis," THE
Destruction of Troy" Ulysses" Per
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duction is one of the most massive in
this country. There IS n great scene
showing the barbaric beauty of the
Interior OF the palace of Saul. An
other big scene shows Saurs camp in
the vale Of Elah.
Each scene IL invested with a posi-
tive luxuriance of color and desic n.
Evcry shade Of Il changing sunset and
landscape view the simmer of rum
ming streams and the rich collage and
low stopping olive trees. the depths Of
dark forests and the glory of noun
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tain peaks-alI these are produced as
Iy Il wizards touch in The Shepherd
King"
\ very attractive ballet, represent
ing the dancing daughters Of Israel is
introduced in the third act of the play.
and there is also a splendid color
about this Oriental dancing and a
grace Of movement which Is difficult
TO adequately describe. The costumes
worn by the ballet are most attract
i've and give "A splerdid idea Of the
costumes worn by tse women of Is
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Persons who expect to find a strong
religious interest in Wright Lorimer's
The Shepherd King" are doomel to
disappointment. The story of the
play has Biblical foundation. but The
lay itself is in no sense n religions
play. 1t is a big melo5rama. using
that much abused word in its better
sense. Use is made of the familiar
stories of the affection existing be-
tA"en David and Jonathan. OF the
Staying of Goliath and of the affection
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being m"st entertaining and realistic
feature oI this stirring play, The real
ism 1T the raee scene cannot be denied
and Is c2~verly shown. An entirely
new sceRIc production has been gotten
up for the seasan of lg0s-I0, and the
company. headed by Mis- Mildred
Johnson AS the heroine. wiu be in
every respect up 20 the high standard
Of excellence always maintained ~
the a~tHEa 'naHagers or this classic ~
the A-@T5rtr1 stage Mss~r-. f.lt y
IiEsEE--
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seus." "Andromeda" and many Others.
Sachs particularly excened with his
Shrovetide plays, the best known OF
which were The Wandering Scholar"
and THE Exorcist" 1t was no doubt
due 10 Hans Sachs that the first the
ater of Germany was built in 1850 in
Neuremherg.
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episode, aud her ride to victory never
fails To arouse all manner of enthusi-
assn an the part of tho audience The
characters in the play are skillfully
sketched. the dialogue possesses more
than average literary merit, and, in
fact. the drama is the ideal play of
AwericaR life. 4 clever hand of COM
ical little darkeys contribute largely
to the hilarily If the piece. their scene
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"Lo," an cffervescent humor. world
of melody. is buiIded an the elemental
passion. says the Evening Wisconsin.
They have smothered .. Henry's psy-
Geological story under a modern whirl
of comedy and picture. 1t rises in tn.
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removing the uuo from the blood
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Probably the most stubendous and
massive production. outside of Ben
Hur." that will visit the West and
South this season is Wright Lorimer.
in THE Shepherd King" shortly to
be seen in this city. A few years ago
production of this magnitude was
practically impossible for a travelling
organization. but. thanks to the en-
ergy of Klaw & Erlanger. by whose
efforts most of the stages have been
reconstructed and remodeled. a scenic
spectacle OF the order of THE Shcp-
herd King is entirely possible Wright
Lorimer has presented his beautiful
and impressive play in every city of
note in the East for the past SIX sea-
sons. but his present tour embraces
the West for the first time. The man.
agement of William y. Brady is q
guarantee of the intrinsic merit and
King. and it is promised that the
forthcoming production is on the same
high level with such attractions as
Grace George, '"rhe Man of the
Hour" Robert Mantell, Louis Mann.
The Gentleman from Mississippi"
and all other attractions controiiea
and owned by Mr.. Brady.
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elsewhere in the southern islands they are more numerous, and in "Isla de Negros," under the Spanish rule, they became somewhat semi civilized and engaged quite extensively in agri- culture, but were so badly treated by their white masters who absorbed nearly all of the fruits of their in- dustry by excessive taxation that they gradually went back to their former state of savagery.
 In 1901 the writer was with scout ing party in Bataan province. We approached a Negrito village and hear ing strange noises we stopped and held a consultation as to the advisability of going forward. Our party numbered only seven men, including a Tagalog guide, and as all of Luzon was up In arms we had to exercise extreme cau- tion. Finally we approached and were fortunate enough to be present at Negrito wedding. The youthful bride, who was about 12 years of age, was being chased around the small village of about a dozen huts by her husband to-be. As she was only playing in running away-as this Is a part of the ceremony-she was soon captured. She struggled and escaped and again sue ceeded in getting caught only to get away again, and be again captured.
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gress William J. Bryan came into Con gress. The then future Peerless one" was as fervid for low tariff as the de- feated protectionst was for the dogma of trade slavery. and little did then think that Bryan would ever consent to rub the word "only'' out of the dem ocratic platform, or that LaFollette could ever clash with Aldrich on the tariff. Yet both events have come to pass. And I have also lived to see protection features of a republican tar if saved by democratic votes from states that honored Tucker, Toombs, Yancey Jefferson Davis-I have quit calling i'm Jeff" for obvious and am pie reasons-Wigfall. Beck Benjamin and some others.
 I would here interpolate that splendid sonnet of John James Ingalls, his tribute to Opportunity
 Master of human destinies am Il
 Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps
 wait.
 Cities and fields I walk pene-
 trate
 Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
 Hovel and mart and palace, soon or
 late
 knock unbidden once at every gate!
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their morning catch there followed a scene not pleasant to look upon. Each captive was tied to a branch where he was fiogged in the most scientific manner. The stripes were applied with rattan, which cut the skin and brought blood with the first blow. They were laid on diaeonally across the back, first from the right side, then from the left, thus forming a pleasing checker-board pat tern. We were often forced to witness these cruel whippings during our stay. Some of the natives lay still and bore their torture in silence. Others cried out and struggled after every blow. After the whipping they were shut up in jail and kept there until relatives or friends paid their debts If there was too much delay another whipping followed. Men often died from the effects of these beat ings and women were subjected to the same inhuman treatment as were the men"
 There is a remnant of Negritos still living in the mountains of Mariveles on the west side of Manila bay near its mouth where the American govern ment has, since the occupation of the islands established a quarantine sta ton, but with this exception they are no longer found on the coast, but are confined to the interior sections of Luzon. In the Island of Negros and
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LIKE PLAYING CROOUET-By F. l. Monks

honorable and gallant gentlemen wiring the hearts of the assembly with their &C., count of the injustice of increasing the duty on razors and womens stockings. The Congressional Record is packed and stuffed with figures almost to the extent of railroad time table to prove the powers of research of senators and con gressmen. Oh, let us pray that when this revised tariff becomes law that there will be a clause added declaring that 1t shall stand for the next 50 years While what ever is may not always be the best, still 1t is better that things should be settled than that they continually be being un- settled even to improve them. When tho fiscal and monetary policies of a nation are fixed and certain stability is estab- lished and safety is assured; but when these two questions are made the subject of party success confidence Is shaken and the nation suffers.
 The debate on the tariff has ceased to interest the people and the sooner 1t comes to a close the better. Business is languish- ing, merchants are anxious to purchase stocks of goods, manufacturers are scared to start their factories, people are Idle and winter comes on apace with no pro vision made for its seventies. Shut off the talk and let the country go to work.
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mills declare dividends of 66 per cent In this connection, everyone should read Cores reply to Lodge. There is not man wearing a billed shirt in the United States, or a woman with a pair of cot ton stockings on her shanks, who was not forced to pay exorbitant prices for them. Ito protect the cotton spinners of New England, who discharged their American labor for French Canadians; and then discharged the Canadians for Creeks If opportunity came they would discharge the Greeks for Japs, and later, the Japs for Chinese, and that, too, when more than 90 per cent of their present labor is machinery-steam or electric that is as much of a pauper in this country as 1t Is in Europe, or in Asia.
 When Aldrich championed the Mo Kinley bill, 19 years ago, he found in John G. Carlisle formidable adversary, who opposed the textile schedules of that rnonstrous measure, and on the debate of the Dingley bill another Kentucky senator William Lindsay, grappled with him in a discussion of the double and cumulative taxes levied. Carlisle and Lindsay both utterly overthrow their ad- versary. but they did 1t like lawyers In the court room. Every word was dignity incarnate, and there was no excitement.
 Nelson Deliver. LaFollette and Gore
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amnog the Gaddanes commences at the time of year in which the fire tree" com mences to bloom During this season it Is very dangerous for the enemies of the Gaddanes to be found in their part of Luzon. Tourists are warned to fight shy of this fierce tribe at this particular time. The flowers of the fire tree" are of a brilliant crimson hue. and their appear ance is the signal for the warriors to collect their ghastly trophies and cele- brate certain religious ceremonies. Of what these religious rights consist little Is known, as this tribe is extremely non- commital concerning them. The arms of the Gaddanes consist of long lances or spears and arrows. the points of which are made of double rows of sea shells or the poisoned teeth of animals They are deadly weapons in the use of which they are marvelously expert and are used in hunting and fishing, as well as in war.
 The American government can never subdue them. They will have to be exter- minated as were the North American In- dians. They are fatalists and believe that if they die in battle with an enemy they go straight to the Gaddan heaven. What this paradise Is like and where it is sit- uated no one but a Gaddan can tell you, and he won't.
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PHILIPPINE SAVAGES-By H. S. w. M D.

This continued for nearly half an hour much to the evident satisfaction of the villagers, who applauded every time the girl made her escape. At last an old gray haired man caught the groom as he captured the bride the last time, and an equally old woman caught the girl. They were dragged up a bam- boo ladder into a shack near where our party stood, and the old man, whom our guide told us was the village priest, soused both bride and groom with a cocoanut shell full of water. after which the party decended to the ground. Here the happy pair knelt be- fore the priest who proceeded to bump their heads together and the sacred ceremony was concluded. The couple received the congra tulations' of the en- tire village as well as the best wishes of the American soldiers, and started on their journey to the mountains. Our guide informed us that In order to conclude the marriage ceremony the bride and groom must wander in the wilderness for five days and five nights, or, as he expressed 1t, until the sun had circled the earth five times.
 The one savage tribe of the Philippines that the Spaniards let completely alone Is the Goddanes who live in the ex- treme northwest portion of Luzon island. They are wholly uncivilized and in dispo- sition the fiercest tribe in the islands. The, Spaniards entertained so great a dread of their ferocity that they never even much as attempted to subdue them This tribe Is active, muscular and as savages go. handsome. Their physical development Is superb. They wear their hair long like the Maccabubes. They are of a dark color and live chiefly on fish, mountain rice, herbs and game. They are regarded as the only really warlike and aggressive nomads of the Philippines are head hunters, and young men de- string to marry must present the sire of the young lady of their choice as many heads as possible as the best evidence of their courage and manlinese. Very often it happens that two young men desire the hand of some bewitching belle, and the young lady cannot decide which one to favor, as each of them has the same number of heads to offer. In case of this kind the rivals for the girls hand retire to some secluded spot, each taking with him the number of heads that he possesses. These ghastly relics of past battles are placed in pile and the owners engaged in a duel, the victor taking the entire pile as well as the head of his vanquished rival, all of which he carries to the father of the girl he wishes to marry, and eventually leads the blush ing girl to the matrimonial altar A young native of this tribe is looked down upon until he has at least one head to his credit. The practice of head hunting
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If sleeping wake; if feasting. rise be-
 fore
 turn away It is the hour of fate And they who follow me reach every
 state
 Mortals desire. and conquer every foe Save Death, but those who doubt or he's
 itate,
 Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore: answer not, and l return no more.
 It knocked at the door of the democratic party, this faithful opportunity the day the present session of Congress began. The old party was fast asleep or riotously feasting and did not wake or rise. What would it do with victory if 1t had it? Would it put it in the garret with the plunder? Perhaps Would it bury it in the cellar with the debris? Doubtless. One thing Is evident and 1t is this-the democracy that saved the south the pc riod of 1S65-75, has got to fight for its herd in that section now and it is not curious coincidence that the republican party of the east will have to fight for the west.
 Ring down the curtain. The old play is over. The next act is what the dem- ocratlc party will do for tariff for revenue only.
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primitive customs, in all probability they will never be civilized. This tribe at one time was the most numerous and power- full In the islands, and was complete mas ter of Luzon. They levied taxes on the Tagalogs, Chinese and Malays of the coast towns but after the arrival of the Spaniards they retired to the mountains and lake regions, where for over 300 years they have lived wild, roaming life, grad ually dwindling in numbers. until now they are but a handful as compared to what they were before Magellan discov. cred the Philippines.
 In olden times, when there was default in the payment of taxes which they levied on the invading Malays and Chinese, 1t was their custom to swarm upon the coast settlements in the still hours of night and carry away the heads of the de- linquents as warning to others, but after the coming of the Spaniards this order of things was reversed.
 The Castilians treated the Negritos brutally, as they have always treated the people of their colonies. The natives, who did not promptly pay their taxes to the Spaniards were arrested and cruelty beaten with rattans, such punishment often resulting in death. The Spaniards used an ingenious contrivance for catch ing delinquent taxpayers. This man 'catcher was made of "bejuco" or jungle rope rattan. This vine Is as strong as hemp rope, very pliable and has uni form diameter of about half an inch along its entire length. The rattan terminates in cluster of thick. heavy. sharp pointed thorns. shaped like a crescent and as sharp and strong as steel alarming needles. Clusters of these thorn-tipped vines were lashed to light but strong and eas- tic piece of wood about two feet In length, which was firmly attached to the end of a long, slender bamboo pole. This contrivance, when in striking distance, was thrown forward to catch an escaping delinquent taxpayer. The thorns would sink Into the flesh and hold the captive very much like a group of spring fish hooks will hold trout. There was no escape from this "man-catcher," for the more the poor native struggled the deeper into his Quivering flesh would sink the needle-like thorns.
 Professor Worchester the noted Philip pine writer, thus describes the mode of using this inhuman "man-catcher."
 'The hunting down of unfortunates who were in debt to the Spanish government was a regular Sunday morning pastime at Dumaguete. A squad of 'candrilleros' would go out armed with barbarous con- trivances called 'man-catchers surround the house of their victim and call on him to surrender. If he attempted to escape, one or more of the man-catchers were Topped against him. and after that he had other things to think of and keep hiEa busy.
 "when the 'candrilleros returned with
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That is LaFollette of Wisconsin; old Bill Morrison calls him Little folly Yet there was an energy, if not force, or rather a sincerity, if not sagacity, about the man that stamped his personality on my memory so to speak, and I have not lost sight of him from then till now. He Is both a robust and rotund man in figure, tn ough not tall. His voice has less volume, and fuency is markedly de- creased. He Is one of these here veg etarians-eats neither fish, flesh nor fowl-though he only got that craze when he got his crazy politics-some 15 years ago. No wonder he cant make three-hours speech without fainting. When old Everlasting" Allen made that 15-hour speech hand runnin'," in the Senate in 1893, in the hot month of August, he had at least three pounds of fifst-cass roast beef under his belt-and trimmings" to ballast 1t.
 The Mckinley tariff, of which LaFol- lette was one of the arch tects, and which he supported In fervid period in the Fifty first Congress, cost the man his seat. A democrat beat him in 1890, and as LaFollette went out of Con
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kI EVER was Ed Mccormack so
 M missed by read democrats as now. What a reinforcement he would be to them in this tariff debate in the United States Senate This is general re- mark at this capital, where he made a name unsurpassed for eloquence in de- livery and power in argument. What a thorn he would be in the side of Lodge, and what whitening sarcasm he would have for the protection democrats who have rejected an opportunity as propitious as that which came to the old party after the passage of the Mckinley tariff of 1890
 The cotton schedule has been before the Senate for some days, and 1t was the work of epublicans-Neson, Deliver and LaFollette-that has laid bare the in- famies of taxation of 5232 per cent on an article of universal consumption. In- deed, 90 per cent of the items of the bill enjoy an absolutely prohibitive tariff, and the other 10 per cent will be further pro- tected in the bill they are hatching
 Just think of -four cotton manufac- turers annually turn out a product over $1 ,000, ,000000 in value, and the imported stuff Is worth only a beggarly $66,0O0,0O0
 That is not protection; that is a prohibit tion that amounts to un absolute mo- nopoly. No wonder New England cotton
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Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise Victor Hugo put the same truth in couplet which. being translated, reads
 Dinner at six, bed at ten,
 Life to last ten times ten.
 Do not be reckless of your physical and mental resources. Conserve them by following the reasonable dictates of kind nature.
 Wind up the clock.
 A brave soldier on the battlefield of life was wounded to the death when Peter Fenelon Collier died in New York. Of' the self-made captains of industry Collier was one of the best made.
 Born in an humble home, he early made friends of good books. Loving these books, he came to find his earliest employment as a canvasser for the sale of then
 And here he got his life's inspiration.
 MT. Collier sold Bibles. The good book was then an expensive volume. One day, having tramped in vain, he finally came upon a scrubwoman, who said to him:
 ''No, me boy. I have not that much money. I will give you dollar now and 50 cents livery week till it Is paid.'
 Young Collier had no authority to make that sort of sale, but he went home and slept over the Irishwoman's s suggestion. The next morning he ex- plained to his employer his idea. His eloquence prevailed, and he was per- mitted to make time sales.
 The next day he sold 50 Bibles.
 The idea was the origin of his pub fishing business, the selling of books on installments.
 Successful in his business, Collier rem dered a service to the people.
 He cheapened the price not only of Bibles, but of all books. He knew the dynamic power resident in a good book in an humble home, and 1t was his ambition to put standard literature into the homes of the common people.
 It should be put down to the credit of Mir Collier that his publishing im- print never appeared on a trashy book. Standard history. real poetry, high fic-