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(: for this festival. Samuel p Warren Mark
Andrews. Daniel MaQuarre. Nicholas
Douty, Dr.. Carl Duff Mrs. Mary Hissem
De Moss, Mrs. Gertrude Stein Bailey, II.
Evan Williams, Dalton Baker, Clifford /.
Cairns. Conrad Kimball, Wilton Goodwin,
Mrs. J. NJ. GoodeIl and Mrs. r. c Falconer
An orchestra of forty-fve instruments has
been selected from the New York Philhar-
monic Society, with Henry 2. Schmitt as
concertmaster.
The Bach Choir of Montclair in two
choruses. aggregating $50 voices Clarence
Dickinson. conductor. and its chorale choir.
consisting of boys, women and men, num-
bering seventy voices. with Walter S
Young as assistant conductor, win sing the
great choruses OF the Passion" music.
The combined choirs, numbering eighty
voices Of the Church Of the Ascension,
Richard Henry Warren. organist and choir
master, and of the Church Of the Holy
Communion Scott Wheeler organlst and
cholrmaster, VIII give music festival in
the Church of the Holy Communion Both
street and Sixth avenue. on Wednesday
evening. The chief numbers Of the pro-
gramme are Haydns Creation the
'Magnifcat" by Stanford, and the Even
ing Hymn" by Rheinberger
The programmes Of Samuel A Baldwins s
free organ recitals AT the College Of the
City Of New York this week are as follows:
SUNDAY, MAY $. AT P n
Prelude and Fugue in Z hat..-........... Bach
6usLe 6 . ,.-i,s
scslerzo in F.-...................... Hofmann
II Twilight \sEiu
Theme and Finale III \ fat Thisle
WEDNESDAY. MAY Il. At -. N.
Sonata IN 4 minor Nwo movements, Andrews
FNlgue a "a GIgue. e.-...-.-....-....-....j
cherale Prelude tJesu .aeine Zuversichp Bach
"A liii,-s
Epic ODE. I3eiafrS
TTaufnerei and Romance -..hunla un
Overture ''SakUntaia' GodfnaIll
Victor Herlert ana his orchestra viii
give their last Sunday night concert of
the present season al the New York Thea
ire tonight As Oh other farewell nights.
the programme offered will be made up of
selections from Mr.. He,bert's operas and
from mis- various orchestral compositions.
among the latter being the Irish Rifap-
sodv,' the American Fantasy. and a
festival march introducing Aud Lang
Syne" Two works VIII he played for the
first time. They are sunset and ala "Air
lie Ballet" The operate selections on the
programme aye from "Old Dutch, The
PIiina Donna" and -.NordIand" ana they
give a hint Of the possible range OF encore
numbers. The SOLOS; Will be Horace Britt,
.cellist. ana ae will play the andante and
scherzo from Mr Herberts cello suite.
and by request '-Pensee A.noureuse' and
serenade.
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gary, hanged himself several weeks ago.
In a note which was found after his death
ne said he knew that the world was to be
burned TO cinder, and that he dared not
live TO see it Only last week an Ohio
farmer went insane and declared that the
comet would finish the world on May Il,
which would. he figured, sadly interfere
with the state primaries which We're to be
held the next day. Since the time was
short. he thought NIr. Bryan should be
made king of the world. Bryan had tried
SO hard. we ought not 10 grudge him that
small consolation, he said
In China the comet has been a real men
ace When it was first seen last fall the
natives hailed it as a heavenly sign calling
for China 10 rid herself Of the hateful for
eigners. Rumors were spread that it would
destroy the world. To quiet the people the
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their own financial affairs are concerned.
One of the better known of the cult ad-
mitted that in the last three weeks he had
read horoscopes for more than twice as
many persons as usual.
Curious questions they had to ask, too,
as he told of them. Most of the inquirers
arrived in a state vergtng more or less on
panic, and only wanted TO know whether
the world was really going to be burned up.
Once assured that they would probably
escape with most of their friends and rela-
tives. they cared little for the dark future
Of the rest of the world. Others had private
forebodings.
An exquisite young creature came with
reference to something she WAS all worked
UP about. She had-she mad been-anyhow.
somebody had-had proposed 70 her on the
evening of April 49, Later she saw in the
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Haleys Comet Is Already Making Trouble on 70

paper piece that said the comet made I
it's ''perihelOn passage on the night OF
April 10 at II O'Clock. Eastern stand
ard time. She didn't know what perl
helion passage was, just exactly, but IL
must have been settled just about IL
o'clock-the engagement. Of course. not the
other-because it was only a-wen. only
little while afterward when she looked at
the clock A little bit Of a while No"
rnightn't that mem something perfectly
dreadful was going 10 happen 10 one OF
them. and could they be happy together
and would she have 10 break the engage
ment for their own good? She would hate
TO. awfully.
a timid Catholic woman arrived quite as
breathIess. She knew she ought not 70
come, but the astrologer seemed 10 know
a great deal about the stars. Was IL real
" true that the comet made that trouble
between Mr. Roosevelt and the Pope? She
was a great admirer OF Mr.. Roosevelt; so
was her husband; il grieved them that two
such great and good men should seem 10
misunderstood each other SO Even the
Church might feel the evil influence OF
comet. for she had read somewhere that
the great Pope CaIixtus III had prayer
put into the mass asking de!iverance from
the Devil. the Turk and the Comet
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Kurt Schindler announces for the coming
winter four concerts in the style OF different
periods of culture similar 20 the madTigals
Of the French Renaissance, which we're
given with success last season. The general
plan Of This musical pageant will be:
Frerca E2suaissan Cs;yle Henry II0:
repetition q last winters s. progTsme e,d Ti:h ~
le Jegne.
The Old Italian music.
AIadrsgaIs and arias by Paiestrina, Aonteverdi.
PeTf Csccini and Gas'o-di ,
Ea-Isicherd Rnd violin music By seaFiatil
Te h. followed by Terforfnance lin costume)
q The opera La Serva Pa6rona, BY
a r-oFrsr1n'e of Fiizabe5han music:
Purcell Blow Byrd. Boyce ana DoW-and' :No-
CA and Instrumental Inuslc,l - ~,
The period of The Rococo, from itan2esu 10 MO
Rs1nesu. AIRS and dances "a advertisement
couper.- and Rameau: Chamber music
airs by Gretry. Phildo- and Monsigny. -
Mozart: '-Bagtien e. Bastienne" "a ooe-act
operetla).
HIr. SCHNEIDER viii spend the summer in
Furore making researches for the material
Of his programmes. IN which the best
artists of the opera and concert stage viii
again appear These concerts viii be given
under the patronage OF Mrs Cornelius Van
derbit. Mrs. Winthrop Chanler. Mrs. Vic
TOY Sorcran. William Osgood Field, George
Foster Peabody ana others
The Bach Choir OF MontclaiT. which IN
the last FIVE years has given q number OF
festival presentations Of the music a.
Johann Sebastian Bach, viii hold its nth
Bach festival service under its new con-
ductor- Clarence Dickinson. in the First
Congregational Church. Montclair, on May
o. . an1 D, Conforming with serEices Of
otEer gears. The festival this year viii be
divided into fve meetings.
n preludiG2n organ recital viii be given at
tie first meeting on Friday. May .. al
mon. and Samuel p. Warren. dean of
American orsanis;s. RiI! preside at the
eIeau. A the second meeting, Friday
evening al o'clock. the music or TIE
Passion According 10 ST Matthew Part
:, VIII be given.
ON Saturday afternoon al 3 O'Clock the
third meeting VIII be held for which
orchestral interludiu1n has been arranged
Al ihis meeting tbe programme will IN
clUae = concerto Tor he orchestra, a group
81 solos Tor the harpsieEord (Arnold Dol
lnetsch). tenor solo ~. Evan Williams,
da,-l cer i.alIs:ehord ana flute tArnoid
DolmetscR ana Daniel Maquarrel and 4
suite f0f orchestra Tho fourth meeting
VIII occ'il On saturday evening al & clock,
when Part II Gf ne ST Matthew Pas
sion" muse will be sung.
The NTH meeting. GA sunday afternoon.
81 o'clock. WEI De devoted to the singing
II el1orsles, The motei Blessing Glory
end y isiom" in eight parts. q capslla. and
Iae rendition 81 sacred songs by a bass
soloist dalton Baker. of London with ac-
eompsniment u q qusJ,eI OF trombones.
the following soioists have been engaged
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HpsferfcaT People
ConSuHfnS ASfrofo-
gers and Expect
fng fhe Vorsf.
.ht things 2 Comet always brings:

H!rd. Famine. plague and Death 10 Kings,
War, Earthquakes. Floods and Dire Things
So the old jingle goes. II WAS made ii
Germany IN 1873, but a a summary Of what
the world has thought of comets In all
ages il is handy and complete. Any stray
bit OF bad luck that might be left out is
certainly one of the dire ihings.' and so
hangs. prophesically speaking, TO the
coInet's taH. Poets priests. philosophers
and rl7onarchs nave all believed and circu-
lated ,ti1ese celestial scandals from The
DAYS or Sodou ard Gomorrah down, so
that for millions now living the comet has
2 bad name that beats the combined evil
reputations OF a Spanish Governor together
with half dozen Investigated State SEN
stors and a score OF Pittsburg councilmen-
Whatever damage comets may have done
by shedding mystic influences among the
stars, II is fact that no great comet ever
appeared that old not actually work on the
superstitions the terTors and the ambitions
OF men so as 20 leave earthly affairs
little different from the way they were be
fore. Panic and murder, war ana suicide.
one or all. have followed IN the train OF
each apparition and made uncanny tracks
on the path Of history. Halleys comet Of
1919 IS not an exception TO the rule Al
ready Il has very pretty reputation as
trouble maker.
There was John NcGrath, who went out
with his wife and his pipe TO see the comet.
II was the only pipe he had had in eleven
5,ears-a black II. D.'-and good the way
nothing but an old clay pipe can De, when
rou have bitten off six and a half inches
Of the seven-inch stem. The old couple
came down toward Bellevue Hospital, and
there they saw two great stars burning in
the brownish dawn over williamsburg. The
wife stretched out her hand and pointed.
That's the comet. John" she said. The
left-hand one. I seen il first. told you I
would. You won't let on 1 did, l know,
but / did. ali the same"
John did not interrupt and did not an
swer which was q strange thing 10 happen.
She turned 10 him. but he was not there.
He was not up the street: he was not
down the street he was not anywhere. At
the sight OF the hateful star he had disap-
peared-gone-vanis
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ARTISTIC DECEPTION.

Yes, we used to be quite enthusiastic
about art, but that was just after my hus-
ia nana ,s made his first million. We amt goin'
thuSiasm?''
You. see. them art dealers are such aw-
paintin' that they told him was a master
piece OF lmpressi0nism, and after a good
deal OF dickerin' he bought it for a big
pflce ana brought il home but we found
cut after we'd got it hung in our gallery
that IT was nothin' but an egg somebody
Ilau InTeW against the canvas Chica go
Record Herald
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apIanets and the coming of a comet viii!
affect Us for the worse
The strain of the stars viii be most
severely felt in America. The people of
America will have 10 pay dearly for ali
their riches and sudden prosperity. With
The coming Of another comet disaster will
descend upon America
a financial crash is impending. TO be
followed by a long train Of suicides. Black
ruling us, men viii commit all manner of
crimes and knaveries for money
The times are swaying toward degen-
Grafton. We are swinging within the evil
influence OF a strange orbit Oar souls are
:arred from their proper bearings
Il dare not say all that is revealed to me.
Il would he too terrible
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SOME GRAVE ACCUSATIONS.

She was perfectly serious in her queS-
tions SO the astroIoger said. He would not
sav as much for the man who wanted 10
blame the comet for the high cost of living
and the Chantecler hat
When a comet comes but once in seventy
five years. it is only natural for folks 10
want TO see it. This comet is only out 20
be seen hereabouts at 8 o clock in the morn
ing. Now, there are two principal ways To
he abroad at that hour-getting up and
staving up There are other places besides
New York where the second method is pre-
ferred above the first. So IL IS not strange
that Halley's poor namesake Is laden with
blame for every kind of late hours that
this rnany-sided city makes its people keep
They even say that the astronomers OF
Herald Square and Whereabouts nave us
covered that poker game, started WIN
the purpose of breaking UP at midnight al
the latest. gives the observer an excellent
view of the 3 o'clock comet on his way
home. So much scientific zeal has been de-
veIoped that the poker chip dealers OF that
region have suffered a run on their stocks
When the New York seers came TO pro-
phesv. they did not agree with the Conti-
mental proDhets nor with each other. Thus
Mime. Rique, who has prophesied early and
often and who once foretoId a Bryan de-
feat, interprets it in this fashion:
''The comet, with its orb of rays, VIII
touch and break the orb of rays about the
earth. Earthly affairs will be profoundly
shaken Each corner of the human trI-
angle will be moved; political. social and
religious troubles viii break out
America will feel a terrific industrial dis
turbance. The country. will not have a for
eign war but strikes and labor troubles
will rend the land. l should not be sur
prised to see the Union split asunder into
two rival and warning nations
New York is the greatest centre of pull
sation upon the globe. These waves of p.Ii-
sation travel through and around the earth
and come back at last to their source The
earth is moving faster. 1t urges the waves
on. The comet will trouble the swift move
ment of these mighty forces.
so, at the end of three. OF five or Of
seven years. when the waves reach their
| focal point, New York will be Overtaken by
greater catastrophe than ever over
whelmed a city. An earthquake Will bring
down our great buildings. They will lie n
windrows like grass where a mower has
! been moving. Fire will complete the work.
1 may not say how many thousands will
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TELESCOPE TRADE BRISK.

But. after all. the comet appeals to most
Americans through their curiosity rather
than through their superstition. For the
last two months. for instance. there mas
been a marked picking up the telescope
trade. Dealers say that more of the higher
grades of telescopes. valued at from $50 to
$500. have been sold in that time than dur
ing the last two years. The cheaper sorts
had brisk sale. and a downtown hardware
house put out a telescope with cardboard
tube which sells at 81. The pawnshops
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THE "oMINOUS PERIL. {"

Flaming black and orange volumes about
THE Ominous Peril in Our Sky" outshine
all the wild magazine coloring on the new
stands: inside they fairly smoke WITH
prophecies Of blood and hre.
Camille FlammariOn, the French as
tronOmer. when he was years younger
than he is now. was moved in an unslIard-
ed moment TO write a description OF the
earth being burned up by a comet II was
so lurid, so immensely, so satisfyingiy
CHASTITY. that periodicals have reprinted II
ever since whenever there has been the
least prOvocatiOn. It is especially popular
in America because it has a scientific
sound. and then, too. the Frenchman gal
lantly grants TO a California girl the honor
of sticking to her telescope -Onger than any
other astronomer in his burning world.
Those black and orange volumes give
food for an interesting suppositiOn about
comets. II rehearses all the sCperstitions
that have attached to comets since the
days OF the patriarchs. all the plaques,
earthquakes. famines. wars and the rest
that have accompanied the last Twenty-Five
appearances OF HaIIeys particular star
since the year IL =. G., with three different
ends of the world. one Of which 1t can
hardly escape this time. and then the book
closes with an inscription on the last page
in Latin verse.
1t is the monkish Church Latin Of the Mid
die Ages. Latin that would stand Vi-giIs
hair on end and make him look the very
twin brother of a comet. but it Is Latin
Notwithstanding. And this is a free trans
IatiOn thereof:
Happening AFTER this or that is not
always happening BECAUSE OF it, So the
old philosophers nave told US Use the
same good rule about these comet marveIs
' But why. you ask me, have you told
us all this about earthquakes. foods and
pestilences. screaming prophets. wars, fires
and the fall Of mighty monarchs?'
do you really want to know the reason.
my gentle reader? We ell. here it is: THE
WORLD LIKES TO BE TAKEN IN
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One Kills HfvnSel and
Many Others DO
Odd Things Less
Fo OfS6.

felt the quickening. too, busted out tfeir
front windows and many OF them havs
sold of their stocks Of spyglasses field
glasses, and even opera glasses.
Already tine cOIfIet peers down into ths
nuzzIes Of whole optical batteries "a Sc
looks west toward the towering homes OF
Manhattan. Once il has passed across the
sun on MAJ 10 and comes 10 shine IN the
o, eufnc sky. the city VIII brfstIs from erd
TO end with glass small arms. Even nov.
IL Won should chance to be abroad anIorg
the SIX yscrapers at , O'Clock OF a clear
morning, YOU may see q shivering group
with It's hands in its pockets and its necAs
pulled under It's overcoat collars. waiting
by a Ieveiied brass tube. and ore squirting
through il down the street that runs toward
the dawn close by the feet 0s the bright
ening Metropolitan tower.
But the astronomers. who have Spoiled
so many pretty fancies about the conet.
have meddIed even here. They say the
comet is not a telescope objecc" at a.
but something TO look az and enjoy with
the naked eye All that one needs 20 see
it at its best is one good eye and a root
with clear outlook 20 the horizon.
In New York. too. there was a rain Ot
ink and this one was the comets work De-
yJnd all doubt Every newspaper. almost
every magazine. has set printers ink flow
ing like n river 70 print IN full the story -
the comet and the story OF Edmund Haley.
soothsayers' words that are anything bIt
soothing the awful things the comet may
do 70 US, and the excellent reasons why IL
cannot do anything of the sort. Cut-OUt
tCys are made 70 show how the comet never
can strike the earth
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ENTERTAINMENTS.

Miss Elizabeth Harrison, Of Bloomfield,
y j. pianist, and Miss Matte z. korn.
of East Orange. soprano. appeared before
the Isabella Literary club of Verona. at
its recent meeting. Miss Harrison is a
pupil Of Mrs. Clara a. Korn, and has per
formed in public a number OF times during
this season. as has also Miss Korn. who is
the daughter of Mrs. Clara a. Korn.
Van Baar's Orchestra furnished the music
at the breakfast given by The Mozart Club
AZ the Hotel Astor yesterday. The orches-
ira will also play at the Passaic Board Of
Trade dinner Passaic y J.. tomorrow
evening
William G. Carl VIII give an organ con-
cert in the Morningside Presbyterian
Church Morninaside avenue ana l22d street.
tomorrow evening. a S15. assisted by Eva
Humphreys Loud, nlezzo-s soprano, and
Andre SaTto, barytoue. This win be Ny
Carts second engagement in the Morning
side Church this season.
The second of d series of musicals given
at the home studio Of j. Warren Andrews,
No Louisa Place Weehawken. y j..
took place on Thursday. Compositions of
the late DR. Eugene Thayer were played by
his daughter, Mss Louise Friedel Tnayer.
who i assistant orgauist, at St Paurs
Chapel New York City. and who was
assisted by Edgar a. Beesioy. yiolintst
on Wednesday afternoon ". ]. Kitchener
viii deliver short address before the
WOmc mcn's ciuh. Of Orange. \. j, upon the
merits ara origin OF tIe mandolin man
dola. Into moGerno guitar and banjo.
choice programme Of music has been ar
ranged 10 illustrate the possibilities of these
instruments when heard under ideal condi-
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missionaries published a pamhlet, showing
by diagram that the comet could not pos
sibly strike the earth, and millions Of copies
We're circulated. Still the comet was
garded by many a sign OF bloodshed and
destruction. The dispatches show that
throughout the late anti-foreign riots in
Human Province the leaders aroused their
mobs ny appeals to the sword-shaped sign
f,, l,a ell,
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ON SHORE OF HAMPTON ROADS.

Fortress Monroe Va. Nav 7.-IIfe at an
army post is never monotonous and guests
at the Hotel ChambeeliH come IN for their
share Of the sayety ana are frequently en-
t5rtaned a luncheons. dinners and card
parties by the wives df the officers OF the
garrison The last week was an unusually
lively one. Booth Harrington. the novelist.
and his charming wife have been guests of
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fe rest
s@EsgEN
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honor at number of informal dinners.
They We're entertained Sunday night at the
thamberlin by Captain and Mrs Clarence
H Mcneil, A jolly party, including $50
guests. reached here on a special train
with George w. Stevens president of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, on Saturday
noon. For their luncheon the PAIN garden
had been transformed into summer
garden
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Hank Stubbs-Im skittish about them
airships fyin' over my house: s'pose one
should come down plum on the roof
Bige Miler-I can't help thinkin' that
mebbie our lightain rods will be ov some
use after au.-BOstOn Herald
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sWARMED TO AsTRoLoGERs.

But here in New York signs of the comet
are not far TO seek. The astrologers felt
it first, as was natural Anxious and super
stitious people focked to them as soon as
it was well in view. begging for warning
and advice on all sorts of subjects. Exact
information on such matters is not easy TO
get. for astrologers are not talkatiye when
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tions Spanish. italian and Creole songs
viii also be accompanied by their tradi-
tional settings
Agnes Sumner Geer will give her annual
pupils recital at the Waldorf on Wednesday
evening. She will be assisted by Frederic
Barryman, barytone; Roswell WeitZell (pU-
pill Of Frank Woelber) and Miss Elizabeth
Frances Munson. whistler and soprano. who
will also render Paul Laurence Dunbar's
When Melindy Sings in which she mas
been drilled by Miss Geer. Miss Pearl L.
Sparks viii act as accompanist. 1he pu-
pills taking part will include Marguerite
Adams, Florence Wilson, Clara Bozen-
hardt Ruth Bryan. Cecilia Talmey, Helen
Smith and Irma Rice. Miss Geer has just
returned from Atlantic City, where she has
been entertaining with Miss Munson.
Henry Lift had several opportunities last
week to show his versatility as a yiolinist
conductor and ensemble player. On Sunday
his work with the New York String Trio
in their concert al the Park Avenue Hotel
brought many letters of congra tulation. on
Tuesday morning at its seventh musical
morning, the American symphony. of
which Mr.. Lift is conductor, gave a readiHS
Of the Unfinished Symphony" of Schubert
and "Fingars Cave" of Mendelssohn. TIE
gypsy music of Sarasate was rendered by
one of the members of the orchestra. Mr.
Lift has a series of engagements booked
at the Whippany Club Morrstown. y. j.
for his orchestra. Tomorrow he will he
heard in solo at the Waldorf for the Daugh-
ters OF Ohio.
The closing concert al the Flushing
branch Of the Brooklyn Institute was given
by the Kaufman String Quartet at Good
Citizenship League Hall, Flushing. on
Wednesday. An interesting programme
was rendered
The Harlem Lyric Glee Club. OF the Har-
lem Lyric Conservatory. under the director
ship of Professor f. Graumann. gave its
annual concert on Thursday evening at thc
Palm Garden before I large and enthusi-
astic audience. In addition to the Jubel
overture by G. M Won Weber which was
played by the conservatory orchestra. an
opeTetta entitlsd The Japanese Girl" was
produced which gave several of the pupils
an opportunity 10 display their talents. The
concert was followed by dance which
was enjoyed by those present. who voted
the affair even more successful than The
last