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Step ladders zoe per step, quality
unsurpassed. Bamberger and Rob-
bins, No. 204 West Seventh street,
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Farland- Murphy GO For the past
two weeks. Hogan has been training
as he never trained before, because
his fight with the champion may be
the turning point in HIS career. Hogan
has positively declared that If he is
beaten by Wolgast he will never put
on boxing glove again. If he sue
coeds in decisively beating the cham
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LONG ISLAND
BAYSIDE BOOMING
q. oeo. 900 being Spent for
improvements.

In this beautiful suburb. two miles
beyond Flushing. real estate Is feeling,
10 a marvellous extent, the difference
between what might be termed isolation
and annexation. Only yesterday II
was n tedious trip by ferry and steam.
today a short trolley ride only from
the Waldorf Astoria or Mays. Baysde
il spending 500. 900 ON its roadways,
appropriations have becn made for street
lights. and a new two million gallon
pump il being installed at the water
works. All these point to but one thing.
appreciation. People arc quick to pick
up-activity breeds activity. and the
real estate man around Baysidc is a very
busy mortal. Among the most aggressive
il n Mr.. Walton. who i selling out an
estate near Bell avenue. south Of Broad
way. Teams much in evidence are
grading out streets and everything is
being done to make the property bright
and clean for Easter sunday. IL is to
be expected that many hundred persons
will visit this property tomorrow-for
the sale Monday ~ these lots is to be a
forced salc-a closing out Of a divis-
ional estate. the sort of thing that always
means d-bits To the public. Mr. Walton
has arrangements by which visitors will
he escorted free Of charge from tho
Pennsylvania depot at 3tth street and
9TH avenue. and automobiles will meet
every train. The entire country around
Bayside will be inspcc,ed-no one need
, hurry. until. 81 course. Monday morning
and then it will be "A horse. a horse. m,
kingdom for a horscr' Anyway. !
, means a pleasant outing at Mr.. Walton
expense and a Jolly automobile rid'
. over a pretty country. The public arr
4 invited and should respond.-Adv't.
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two men and with the other persons In
Louis Joseph Vance's romance. Gym
hia-of-the- Minute" tDodd, Mead & Coz,
she In TO adventure strangely. a great
deal by sea and a little by land.
Accident brings her to a meeting with
the boy and clean. good fellowship gives
her . day with him at Coney Island.
He 10 Bruce Cnttenden. once a prom
ising writer Of PLAYS. temporarily over
thrown by luck and a woman. The RED
Man. whose card proclaims him
George Rhode. Inventor OF Oocupa-
tons" has found him a place. which 10
excuse for the celebration at tho Island.
Presently. the same influence Ia invoked
for Cynthia and the next chapter find
her engaged a. companion 70 the rich
and eccentric and obstinate and COM
manding Nine Saveran. a retired maker
OF women's gowns
Rhode IL Madame's sonin-law. lie Is
engaged In a semi-piratical enterprise
afloat In which the old lady has been
~wlckedly entanRlcd through tho Will OF
her dead husband, And as the widow
means 20 see the thing through with
her own eyes, the whole party. Rec
Man. Cynthia. Crittenden n Madame
goes soon a-sailing with a murderous
crew into southern waters. on the voy.
axe murder, mutiny and robbery breat
forth. the last crime being Inspired by
th. presence Of Nine. S"avaran's jewc
box. The Red Man II undone IN MI
own villiany, ~Crittenden. a hero, Is des.
pcrately wounded and marooned on
desert island, Cynthia swims ashore
to nurse him. A wireless telegram, ;
Plnkerton man and a British cruiser
combine FOR the rescue. Then Mr.
Vance allows the trouble - cease
' There surely Is enough OF q.
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gone" lie pretended that he hal
been walking IN hat forest Ter thr'c
days and nights, without stopping. look
Ing for Christine Daac! From TIN
10 time. he thought 10 saw her b.
hind the trunk or A tree. or giidine
between the brauc0c. and he y
TO her with words OBJ. duplication thst
brought the tears co. my eyes. IN F!
then. at last:
"oh. how thirsty ! 1mr he cried. In
delirious accents
too was thirsty. NJ throat Was
on Are. And. yet. squatting on the
floor. ! went on hunting, hunting. hunt
Ing for the spring Of the invisible door
especially "a It Vas dangerous
to remain In the forest as evening drew
nigh. Already the shades OF night were
beginning TO surround us. It rad hap
pened very quickly: night fans quickly
In tropical countries . suddsnly'
with hardly any twilight.
ITO Re Continued)
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and proclairns himself bound for STAN
ford.
He has mot tho girl once only. at a
Christmas house party. He meets her
again gladly. He's almost certain hat
he would not shun the meeting even
could he foresee that II " to result In
a vacation spent In trouble; that he and
the girl are TO be tho romantic figures
IN "A story TO be sorved out under tho
pens OF Wells Hastings n Brian
Hooker and published (BobbH-Merrill
Company under tho title Of THE Pro-
fessor's Mystery
Crosby-frst name L~aurence-is him
self the professor. She who looks from
tho car window is Margaret Tabor and,
OF course, adorable. \ scholar not so
young, nor so susceptible. nor 40 alto
Rether different from the ordinary aca-
demic concept might have been as glad
AS IN this young educator in tho book
Ia go to stamford Instead OF to Europe.
with so much beauty hy his side
Bat things begin 10 happen promptly.
After the train there n n trolley ear,
with "A speed nan motorman. Al "a
sharp curve there is an upset, Crosby
emerFee dazcd, 10 find Miss Tabor un-
conscious, Chivalry requires then.
among other things, n trip az escort To
the Tabor home. And tho mysteries
are on,
why docs Margaret wear q bidder
wedding ring on the gold chain which
Il about her neck Why Is Crosby.
after being Hospitality welcomed by the
Tabora, aroused from his bed and turned
out AT midnight, while a strange com
motion goes on IN the house? what IL
the secret under whose shadow Mar
garet BIDS tho professor TO come 20 her
no more Ana, Why, IN strange con-
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lie there Is hope. II IL not TO be be-
lieved-no matter how. for a brief
period. 1t may have seemed to have lost
its bearings-that II shall forever cease
to demand melody. to call for cultivated
voices, to enjoy the lovely art OF sing
ing that has been developed through
generations of study.
Lii lehmann's Views
when first ! began to study Wagner
roles I was encouraged by LIN Leh-
mann. You know the art OF bel canto.'
she said to me. and In no composer =
works is II as necessary as In the
masters. Don't let anybody frighten
YOU by saying your voice VIII be
ruined. on the contrary It Will be
helped. The voices of singers OF Wag-
ner tina are ruined are the voices Of
people who have not been trained 10
! sing properly. study the characters
| that you would like to !mpersonato and
sing the music as II YOU were singing
| Mozart. Don't strain your voice
| Simply sing. But II ever you should
find Wagner's music too much for you,
go back to your Mozart
THAT reminds me OF a very amusin9
and nattering thing that happened t'
I me in Munich some years ago" Nine
Gadski. who Is OF German birth. con.
: tlnued. Il had sung the Countess II
The Marriage OF Figaro with the pro.
nonuced approval OF the critics and oI
the public. Almost Immediately | was
announced to sing ~Brunnhilde. I'm
POSSIBLE everybody said. She is ;
Mozart singer. Where can she tlnC
the strength or the temperament {,
sing Brunnhilde?' out OF curiosity
perhaps, most Of them came to Sc
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PANTHER'S CUB.
How Fatally She Becomes Rival to
Her lntame,i Mother.

-OR the moment La Marmora Is
II kindly maternal.
i "Pull tho blinds, Elsa" she SAYS
after a long embrace. that l may see
my child"
But when sweet young g.rlhood I'M
folds itself before her-"Good heavens
cries the singer, How long are YOU?
Elsa. 1t Is u grenad!er.'
Now. the truth is that virginia. know
AZ FIT, Is in her twenty-frst year and
has grown up accordingly. Which La
Marmora should know quite well out
which. selhshly absorbed In her own
career and her own pleasures, she has
refused 10 know. She sent for what
she remembers as her little schoolgirl
daughter, and she has received by
return traln-the grenddier'
The revelation thus forced upon a
reluctant, passionate and ntamed moth
er brings the reader TO a vital point IN
panther Cub" doubleday, Page \
Coz, the latest roman by Agnes snI
Egerton Castle.
Another awakening awaits La Marmo'
ra. She has found difficult the tail, pale
young Lord Desmond, upon hon Sh'
has set her covotous eyes. She MAJ
worn for him in vain her most artfu
complexion. ner most radiant smiles
her most aIdac.ous costume creations
And, suddenly, one evening when sA'
has planned her most desperate attack
the plain truth is brought to her ina
Desmond's visits, his 'tatlons, nv
interest and flowers have been al! 10
the girl Virginia,
All. yes fifi is grow up.
That IL where the p%anther's cub he
ms 10 suffer. She is assailed brutal
v her mother. An attempt Is made t
rec her INTO \ repulsiVe marriage
"a as II that were not enough, Dies
md himself offers an insult to Whic
% 10 impellcd by a malicious slande
'imoted by the ruthless dowaGer VIII
mis- mother without a mothers heart
Just how and why old Fritz Meyer
u the lion head, comes to the rescue,
.1aE thu Authog 9f the book " ~
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CYNTHIA-OF-THE MINUTE.
Carried ny Love and Luck 20 Peril
and Fortune on the High Seas.

TOR the last time, az she believes,
r. Cynthia IL lunching at S~uzanne's,
L Tomorrow she VIII have to save
even tho IN cents o, that modest table
d'hote. After that-well. there must be
an end sometime and she can hope only
that II will be swift and sure and shame
less. For at last she must surrender
The great city has been too much for
her. She Is not of It's own and It VIII
have nothing OF her,
As things turn out, however. Il seems
that Cynthia has despaircd not wisely.
but too soon, She has failed 20 reckon
With Ito Rrd Man a. q noo " taOie
and with the huv w1o Is his r-igh5or
AMI whom, after seeing him lu tno
same place day by day, sle hos olassl-
fled as a derelict like herself, AN in
competent turned out to fight for a
living with no Weapons aside from hon
sxIA and 4 kQQl lotAnk' MAtA tnAAl
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which NJ. le Nicomto de
ChAgny a.. | were imprisoned
was u regular hcNagon. lined
- entirely with mirrors. Plenty
OF these rooms have been
seen since, mainly &, exhibitions. They
are called palaces of Illusion or some
such name.
but the invention belongs entirely to
Erik. who built the first room OF this
kind under my eyes at tho time or the
rosy hours OF Mazcnderan a decora-
tive Object. such as a column. for IN
stance. was placed IN one OF the cor
ncrs and Immediately produced n hall
OF "a thousand columns. for. thanks TO
the mirrors. the real room Was multi
piled by six h%exagonal rooms, each OK
which. In It's turn. was multiplied In
definitely. But the little sultana soon
tired of this infantile Illusion. where
upon Erik altered his invention into a
torture chamber
For the architectural motive placed In
one corner he substituted an Iron tree
This tree. with its painted leaves. wa
absolutely true to life and was made 81
iron so IA to resist all the attacks ~
the patient who was locked Into tn
torture-chambcr. We shall see how th'
scene thus obtained was twice altered
instantaneously into W successive
'Nlltl CIV ~ 'ti W t"'
rotation OF the drums or rollers In tn
corners.
These were divided into three sections
hitting int tho angles OF the mirror
and each supporting a decorasiv
scheme that anne into sight as tn
roller revolved upon It's axis.
The walls OF this strange room CAV
the patient nothing TO lay hold OF. be
cause. apart from the solid decorativ
object. they were simply furnished wit
mirrors. thick enough to withstand an
onslaught Of the victim. who was fun
Z into the chamber empty-handed an
: barefoot.
; There was no furniture. The ceiiin
was capable Of being lit up, An IN
g~enious system of electric heating, whic
has since been initiated. allowed tn
temperature OF the walls and room I
be Increased at will.
am giving all these details Of n pei
fectly natural invention, producing. wit
a few painted branches. tho superna'
ural Illusion OF an equatorial forest bla2
Ing under the tropical sun, so that n
one may doubt the present balance q
my brain or feel entitled to say that
am mad or lying or that I take him "a
a fool.
| now return TO the facts where ! lei
them. When the ceiling III mp and III
! forest became visible around us. N
. viscount's stupcfactton was immens
4 THAT lmpcnctrable forest, with It's II
Vulnerable trunks and branches. tire
him into n terrible state OF consternatioI
5 lie passed his hands over his forehea'
as though to drive ava a dream. h
4 blu eyes bllnked and. for a momen
he forgot 30 listen.
ave already said that the sisSt
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OPERA SEASON ENDS
TONIGHT WITH "TOscA."

With the performance of "Tosca' at
the Metropoiitn Opera House tonight
the opera season ends IL has run It's
course OF TWENTY-FIVE weeks 20 the big
gest subscription on record and TO gen
orally crowded houses The artistic re-
suits achieved ave been sur
passed. Thanks to Mr.. Gatti-C azazza,
the manager. n TO Arturo Toscanini
and TO Alfred Hertz. the principal con
ductors. not to forget Edward Siedie,
the technical director. Jules Speck. the
stage manager, and. last but not least.
Giulio Setti. the chorus master. the per
formances have been of rare excellence.
The only drawback 90 complete SUCCESS
has been the withdrawal from the casts
for the last two months. because of
throat trouble. of Caruso, tho great
Italian tenor.
Two operas have had premier per-
formances here this season, Puccinis
Girl Of the Golden West and Hump
erdinck's Koenigskinder.' something
unparalleled In New York operate his
tory. Then there ave been presented
for the first time here by the home
company Gluck's "Armide' and
Dukas's "Ariane ct Barbe- Bleue" Mr..
Dippel's neutrality-suspicious. opera
Company on Its visiting Tuesday nights
nus 'lN' AihtAA' w Us wv
Herbert's first American grand opera,
"Natoma." Jean Nougues's "Qut
Nadis'" and Wolf Ferrari's The Secrc'
OF suzanne" Even MIR. Iiammerstein
eager for novelties az he always was
could scarcely approach this record.
, For mex season. which IL to begir
on Nov. -, there are all sorts Of posi-
bilities. including promises of one o
two operas to be sung In English. Thu
season again is 20 last twenty-five
weeks. not twenty-five, as was ono
said. This years success has en-
%boldened the management to raise tn
price OF orchestra seats for next sea- sol
from s. to 81. The prices for the res
OF the house will remain the same
Subscription books for old patrons ar
open until May 20.
The company arts Immediately 70
a two weeks tour that begins in Nor
troal and ends In Atlanta. for wNac
all the plans ia been made by OFT
Weil
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VICTOR HEReERr's CONCERT
FOR THE GAELIC SOCIETY

Victor Herbert and his orchestra will
give n concert at the Broadway The
atre tomorrow evening for the beneht
o: the Gaelic Society. This VIII be the
society's t~hirty-second annual Fels
Ceoil. or song festival. The orchestral
numbers have been selected from tho
works OF Irish born composers. and
Mrs. Helen O'ponnell, contralto. In a
thirteenth century costume. will sing a
number OF songs In English and Irish,
Melville 4. Clark. who has perfected
n harp patterned after the old Irish
instrument. will appear In tho costume
OF a bard with his harp and sing many
familiar Irish airs. Edward OMahonN,
basso, will sing in English and Irish
and. together with Mrs. O'Donnell and
the orchestra, will render The star
Spangled Banner" translated into lrisf
BY the late Father Eugene O'GrowneI
OF Maynooth College, Ireland. The pro
ceeds OF the concert are to he used e
further the objects of the society ir
promoting the study OF the Gaelic
language.
The Board of Education announcer
I tho following lecture-recitals for mex
week: on Monday, Folk Music II
! America" by Mrs. Enid NJ. s. Lamont
AZ Public School No. 20; on Tuesday
orchard strauss" by Daniel Gregor.
! Mason, al the Museum OF Natural His
tory, composers and Music OF Amer
lea" by Clarence DE Naux Roger. a
st. Cornelius's Church, aud RUSSIAN
Folk and Peasant Songs" by Edwar.
/ Rromberr, ut Public School No, !:
on Wednesday. Al Evening of Song.
by Miss Ada Louise Lohman, nj Pub
lie Library. No. 66 Leroy street, INA
tlonality in Music" by Edmund Sew
ern. at Public school No. lOl, an,
Music in the Home" by Peter "
! Dykeman. Mt Public School No. 81. an,
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
Inoul lie Ch,srv loves and e loved hy Chts-
tine DAae. a beautiful Young opera singer. tn"
iaTia btsrs House, where Christine sings, u
haunted. employees declare. M 4 skeleton like 40
rartion which thcs cdl The "u,-ta Ghost The
"bLern Ghost" fa'l' Inv love With Nitistine. slre
c~unfc~-- her love for Nsnnl. and. though warming
him they can ncvef MARY, bcynmcs tug,sci u
him. christine one iaN takes taou! "a. the ROT
" the b'ca Nou". There she tells him :" a
masked man uanri Elm, wlni seemingly siper'
natural tuNcts. vito loves her AMI whi once
carried her 10 his iNtlr uu an island lu the lsse
that lies under the opea House. Thctc. sue saws.
he removed lts mas. i-cl"ang , hnrrinle lace.
She cSsl-sl ir'm hi' I-'Ncf ht a ru'c. Haonl Il
eager 10 saN the mau. thrs'iur savs thts cannot
hc done. An unseen creature has t1llpv~l them
AMI overheard thea talk N thrs'ipv vss stni
Iug IN "F,u,t' one nishi shc l. m,pic1ously Rid
napipsi. kapul searches the Drsrs Hnu~c for
her. lie ms-nis All cNii~i Persian who claims tn
know Erik AMI the latter's hiding rlacc Together
ihtN start for the underground alsle. They reach
Enk's mysterious lou-' and find themselves In a
runm he has ftt"l un - an oriental torture
rhanher. The nom IL srfana-si hN means W
m .rr,ts. &c. 20 resemble a forest. From an All
Joining apartment the, hesf Ertk pleading Win
christine. Euk learns from Christinc'a frightened
manner thai there are iutrud,rs In The Torture
chamber. lie turns in'ens~ heat into this routn
making the Per~sn and i,aoul suffer almost un'
hoar1hly.
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AsNI'+AIsb IHiNA'Ii hilS NAs 'NN'
II ers again back to civil war times
Ana I'm his Love Under Fire
"a. c, McClurg & Coz he tells once
again the story OF a passion that knows
no dead-line between foes, HIS heroine
(, a beautiful little rebel In petticoats
and his hero a dasiing lieutenant who
goes scouting in Northern blue,
Lieut.. Galcsworth's first experience
with Miss Willlfrcd Gray Harry would
bc rather Notifying but for the accom-
panyiug circumstances OF youth, beauty
and the feminine appeal. For while the
gallant young scout Is looking his sharp
cst for a certain Billie whom he
knows to he carrying important papers
10 Beaurcgard, the daring young woman
rides by his side carrying those same
papers. which she successfully delivers,
How can the lieutenant he expected to
, know that his pleasant. occidental a.
opaintauce OF q lonely road in the
oncny's country Is known to her family
and Intimatcs by the caressing d.m.lu-
tive "Bilier'
Soon after the ride, Galesworth finds
, himself the girls prisoner and "t tn
I po.nt Of his own pistol, lie has picked
up such Information that NlSs Handy
docs not mink il safe 20 permit him IN
r,tlrn - his own lines lie ought O..
I'M, t|horuI.uIy di-'omnied, Yet Us no,
There still are circumstances allurius
The r.l Is p|roti,cv hy lamplisht tina
she q,,. In ,lc woods. She d. 4 generous
canton too iy.Nr lI,r - lt'i" major -
save her prispnr' ON a troop of mel
IN gay. iurlJu.t- p'' alianHol IOyC.
VINO comes adventurous.
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billie" and her friends Then, with
alarms. mysteries and a red-hot battle,
which leaves the young Lieutenant
wounded and weak, with the pretty
little rebel for his nurse, the romance
works itself To a happy conclusion. Re-
garding the former alianced lover. who
dies after proving himself unworthy of
his gray uniform. It may be explained
that billie" had never really cared FOR
him as II betrutaei maiden should care.
only Tor a timc she did not know this.
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X NOVELS OF THE DAY TOLD IN A NUTSHELL X

Enough 10 say here that he brings Des-
mond to his senses, the efforts OF the
a~utocratic doWagcr TO taught, and FIJI
to the happiness she sweetly deserves.
And the panther loses her voice In "A
last scream of despair.
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THE PROFESSORS MYS,
Terry.
Hut for " Late Train lie WoniL
upys MISSED ~ ana the ,iri,

~ROSBY'S own train - forty
minutes late. lie vii miss
the steamer for Europe anyway.
~ Accordingly. when ne sees the
girls face az the Pullman win
dow, he grasps his bag frmly. steps on
Leeara tAa TAIN SolnG ne ~xapx VA.
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But Too Eager to Realize on Them
Aspiring Stuoents Expect
in a Year or Tue to
Achieve What Should
Take Then Six or Seuen
Years Word About
Singing Out of Tune
and the Decline Of Mu.
steal Art.
BY SYL vESTER RAWLTyG.

lNuEkS are SO frequently
-, out of tune because they do
not watch for the danger
points that they have to face in near.
ly everything they sing" said 10.
mamma Gadski in response to a query
by the writer. as we were talking
IN her apartment at the st. Regis.
There are other causes" she con.
tlnued, that lead TO disaster. Some
singers have not true ears. others
have not been properly trained in
voice placing and production, but
the main reason Is the neglect to look
out for the inevitable pitfalls and
distractions.
Let me Illustrate, once when was
i-,npersonatlns Elisabeth In 'Tannhaus-
err I started to sing some OF the
middle parts In her entrance arla
planissimo. M. Hertz toned down the
orchestra to keep in sympathy with
me. Suddenly | found that | could not
. the orchestra. / was tanding too
far back. | had to raise my tone, 10
which he at once responded by raislns
the tone OF tho orchestra. to find my
self. / made a mental note OF that.
Hereafter, l said to myself, must
place myself further forward to keep in
touch with the orchestra. A simple
illustration. YOU may say. but Il makes
my point. II is for Just such .htnss
mat npa must kAan nnnasapt1, -. ,ha
leok out.
Tho D~eeadenee Of Bel canto.
syinsins out Of tune IL d~eplorable. of
seurse. but you know mat the danger
e to-day Is the ~decadence OF the art
q bel canto. and that Is what you wan
~ 20 ak about. II Is a very serious
coalition that confronts us What are
~ modern composers writing to en-
courage the survival OF the art Of sing
ingf They say they ave TO give the
expression o: their musical ideas to the
orchestra because there Is a dearth OF
n no use In wasting years OF study 70
perfect their art. because the CON
poUsrs give them 10 chance 70 exercise
n Neither Is telling the truth. Ths
voice u as essential a. II sver was. II
IL Q distinct thing. Why try to max,
II take the place Of q violin, or a cello
or q flute? Each 10 excellent in It.
place, but the voice "a of far NOR,
importance.
false gods in operate music. In Amer
- -,,-I. ,.ln~- A..