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DER GERMAN COBBLER
He Makes Try at Being Good Fellow

| Dot vhas how she vhas NIT some pulls
Dot leetle tailor talks right out, und
don't lose no time. sooes by dot
sharge him q cent. Den invite all der
policemans to come in for cement patches
und half-soles, und II vhas all free By
she9rge' but you bet l In hsf some ONE work
all night but dere vhas no pay. So many
aldermans and policemans comes in dot
/ can't work for nobody else. I haf to
und by und BY speak TO dose alder
mans und say:
"'Vheil. how has she? Do haf some
pulls NIT your
snow on your sidewalk dis winter you
needn't clean 1t on und no one shall
bluff you
Dot don't make me good for my
stock. und so I says to dose police
'VheIl, how he is? Don't you send
me some friends around nit shobs to
'shobs7 shobsr says dot polIcemans,
Why. cobbler. you can't work fast enough
now. You put me OF for two days on
my shoes
But it vhas all free work.
But you haf a pull. II you don't haf
a pull you vhas arrested eafery day for
obstructing dot sidewalk und fad SIS
each time. Gracious, man. but don't be
some hogs! When a cobbler can safe
elb n udy ne Nlhs
"Mebbe dot vhas So" sighed the cob
bier but 7 can't see II. I make free
shoes fur fife aldermans. und I repair
free shoes for fifty policemans, und I
vhas out OF money. out OF stock und out
Of bread. Den I goes by dot leetle tailor
und tells him how Il vhas. He sits down
and shmokes und thinks. und by und by
he saws:
"'CobbIsr. see how she vhas. In dis
country dere vhas some pulls und some
soft snaps. und sometimes she vhas
mixed oop. It Vhas so in this case. You
vhas after a pull. While der aldermans
Und policemans vhas after a soft snap.
Dot pull got mixed oop und lost In DER
shuttle. You must shut oop der shop for
a week und den open on a cash basis.
Put oop some signs OF: NO Trust and
Good Bless Our Home" and she vhas
no more dead-head.'
Dots What I do. but haf lots OF
trubble NIT her. und I don't Eit oafer
him vet. Der aldermans don't shpeak to
me. der policemans like to arrest me, und
der pooblic says dot God Bless Our
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After supper Mr.. Dolby had gone over
to the store for q milestone and pa
Dolby was washing up the dishes and
singing The Home Over There with
great feeling. He returned in half an
hour, and as he reached the Kitchen door
the sound OF sobbing met his ears. DE
looked in to find Mrs. Dolby. weaving
back and forth on q chair with her check
apron at her eyes. Something had nap
pened. He didn't inquire what II was
step and in an absent way began sharp-
ening a sickle with the stone he hao
bought. 1t was ive minutes before MIS-.
Dolby volunteered an explanation. When
she saw that he had neither anxiety nor
sympathy, she hitched her chair into the
door way. used a fresh spot on the apron
TO wipe her eyes and finally SAID;
Samuel, when you've got that sickle
sharpened you might go over to Mrs.
Bebee's and tell her that shall be q
dead woman before tomorrow tou
needn't beat around the bush at all, put
tell her right out. She'll rather De e1-
pectin' the news. She was over here
this afternoon, and she said was liable
TO git my summons at any time. I've
got it all arranged with her about the
Mr.. Dolby did not look around. With
calm deliberation he spat on the Whet-
stone, and with calm deliberation he drew
it back and forth across the blade.
Yes, Samuel, my time has come, SOD
bed Mrs. Dolby after waiting reason
able time for him to speak. "A few
hours hence and you will be widower,
and a few days hence you will be wear
ing a red necktie and canterin' around
after a second wife When you started
over town, was as happy as lark and
hadn't the slightest idea Of dytn. Ten
minutes later when l went to carry the
butter down the cellar there came seven
knocks on that empty cider bar'l, and as
I stood there shakin' 1 heard whis-
pered vouce a-sayin, Hammer Dolby, git
ready to be an angelE 1t was my sum-
mons, and I've got to go. Nobody kin
hold back ag'in summons. What KIND
Of second wife shall you marry Sam
uel?'
Mr.. Dolby had paused in his lsbors
and was looking absently at a robin in
a cherry tree.
You needn't feel at all delikit about
talking it over with me-" said Mrs. Dolby.
as she dabbled at her eyes with the
apron. I've aHus s'pected you'd git mar
ried ag'in II I should die, and I shan't
howl and sCueal about it. Mrs. Bebee
says If her husband marries agin she'll
haunt him. but you needn't be afraid
OF me. I'd rather you'd marry ag'in.
II you didn't, you'd be goIn' to circuses
and dogfghts and candy-pulls and be-
come as wicked as Silas johnson. S'pose
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about the size OF an American silver dol
lar. The color was pale pink, and 1t was
framed in silver and worn around his
neck. This stone he had not shown to
the soldiers, but the prisoners in the
guardhouse remembered Of his having II
in his hands and gazing at 1t intently
as be sat by himself. He begged hard to
Dc permitted to retain his charm, but
ticles.
Chilka remained in Jail overnight and
was then brought into court for exam
ination. He denied knowing that the
like IT were found in his pockets he was
remanded to Jail to await trial He asked
Tor the pink stone, explaining that It
was a charm against sever. and II was
given to him. The story Of the mans
escape from the guardhouse had reached
the Jailer, and though he laughed at It
he at the same time locked the prisoner
up in a cell by himself. When his supper
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The guards in the cell had heard no
move on his part. His cell door remained
locked and there was the impress of
his form on the straw. You can't say
those men were fools. You can't deny
in the face Of all the talk and news
didn't vanish on the. different occasions,
as I have related. Indeed. the public
Investigations called out doctors, guards,
soldiers and attorneys, and they were
not men who could be ridiculed. Chilka
simply vanished as a spirit. The stone
was the charm which accomplished it
He was never found after his last es-
cape. The authorities didn't want to
find him. He was not only a spirit Of
evil. but his escape had a bad moral
influence on the Hindoo community. You
may turn and twist the matter as you
will, but you can't get over facts, and
the main fact in the case was that the
fellow could dissolve his earthly body
into nothingness.
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been taken to lapidaries and jewelers..
but no one had been able to give it a
name or to recall having even seen
one like it
When the charm was turned of to
Chilka he wept for Joy and called for
food. He was now taken to a corridor
in which there were four cells and all
empty. The only window was boarded
and a cell each side of the Hindoo was
occupied by a guard. The jailor himself
was the guard on the inner side OF the
door. The charm was passed over to
Chilka just at supper time. He ate his
food and lay down on the straw as II
to sleep. At 6:l5 the jailor looked into
$50 and 6:45. At Z o'clock he was gone.
Smile II you will. but the Hindoo had
taken his departure out Of an iron cell,
with four guards at hand, and not the
slightest trace of him could be found.
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with the back yard. We have an area
OF 3Oxl5 feet. One thousand hens wouldn't
have room to flap their wings in that
space"
Are you trying to make out that 1
don't know enough to come in when II
rains!' shouted Mr.. Bowser as he bobbed
up with furious gestures.
Not all; you are going into poultry.
You are going to make a fortune. i
haven't q business head on me, Of course,
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your pork to market. And you haven't
counted in"
Woman, do you take me for a foolT'
shouted Mr.. Bowser, as he jumped on his
chair and frightened the family cat un-
der the piano.
Not at ALL" she calmly replied. "A
fool would 20 into this hog scheme and
lose 5000 instead OF making $4,000, but
you won'tr'
He didn't know whether to blum II out
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you've kinder had your eye out, hev'nt
you, Samuel-that is, you've kinder made
up your mind about what sort of a woman
you'd marry?''
Mr.. Dolby withdrew his gaze from
the robin and returned to his work Of
sharpening the sickle, and Mrs. Dolby's
nose had grown very red with the pull
ing when she continued:
There's the Widder Lapham, Sam
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thus, and 1 am after them to become
members"
Then my speech caught the attention
OF the press, did it?" asked the SenR-
tor.
Like a Fifth avenue divorce case, sir
The newspapers are yet saying: II sena-
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OF the Rosicrucians and in the ceremonies
OF phallic alteration which have not been
dramatized or set to music by these
professors of the new thought. We can
only say that in the opinion Of some fairly
Intelligent people these fellows are no bet
ter than those shrewd Inventors Of re.
ligons which appear from time to time
as thin cloak for unbridled lust and Its
filthiest indulgence
The fact that Mr.. Schmitt has a real
talent makes the case only the more pitt
able. He has left Debussy behind in the
race after new harmonic atmospheres and
he has made Roger and some of the others
look childish In the use OF embttered
counterpart the polypnJu" that stingeth
like an adder. But we do not believe that
he can compose LES Elephants Savants"
or la Pythonesse" as he has pretended
g. do In his "Musique Foraines" And We
hope he will find some better food for his
imagination in the future than the dirty
tragedy In which one musical soul has al
ready sold Itself for thirty pieces Of silver.
Cesar Frark's noble symphony In n
minor opened the programme prelude
which hung over the "Salome" setting
like the clear sky over tropical jungle.
1t was nobly played too. The Schmtt
number was performed superbly. II was
triumph of orchestral virtuosity, The
final music was Rmsky -korsakov's Ca
price on Spanish Themes"
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ballet dancing that the Winter Garden


ballet dancing that the Winter Garden
stage has ever revealed. Mile. kyasht is
Russian. danced for several years In
London and must have well earned all
the fame she won there. She Is pretty, of
slight and dehcately modelled figure and
dances with an ethereal and delicate grace
that In sufficiently colOred by her personal
charm to remove II from the perfunctory
exercises of the classic dancer. Perhaps
the manifestation of her extreme light
ness Is the special novelty OF her per-
formauce. She leaps from one foot to the
other and into the air 80 lightly as
scarcely to seem to have touched the In
tervening boards of the stage. Then there
is artistic distinction in her performance
Her partner. Serge Litavkn. is an ex-
prossive mime and dancer worthy to he
associated with her. In the little panto-
mime Harlequin and the Blue Bird" Mile.
kyasnt and her associate. who was the
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NEW PLAYS IN OTHER TONGUES.
To Ne seen At the Ir>ins Place
Theatre aud the Thalia.

Rudolf Christians. who so iar has con
fined himself 10 German plays during the
present season. Will produce this week a
comedy from the French OF Etienne Ray.
II is called "Schoene Frauen lBeauti-
full Women and will be acted with Mr..
Christians in the leading role. Other
plays to he acted during the present week
are The Dark Point" tomorrow !:
Faust" on THURSDAY; "kaserrenluft."
for the fifteth time on Friday, and Alt
ieidelberg." at the Saturday matinee.
"Schoene Frauen" wal Ice given first on
Tuesday and Will be- repeated on Wednes-
day and saturday nights.
Mimi Agurlia has moved to the Thala
Theatre to play this week for her COM
patriots She wiz appear IN two novel;
ties by noted Italian playwt.ghts. Mem
memo nm Bacio' viii he played on
Wednesday. This is the lates; drama
from the pen of Roberto Bracco on
saturday night Sem Bcnclhs Lid Cena
del Beffe" will he acted for the first time
lu this country II is now among the
most popular plays in Italy, notwlth-
standing it has ueeu frequently acted since
II was written five years ago IL was an
uouuc-d here three years ago ~ Sarah
Bernhardt hut was Withdrawn. as the
leading role imposes n heavy task on the
actress.
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THE sEAGOERS.
Arrivals From Europe and Depsr-
lures for the south.

lures for the south
. 49,
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'''"' 'Po'' wv"
q Leslie Adams !F ailholland
Mrs NJ " Barnes L. a Read
Walter Lorraine Bell Cap, II II Ross
Viscouu ID. erhursi h'-ri Vincent sale.
A. DICKENS Er..pri-. S"hicf.
l., onard {. Foster iehr
npfanl narheI t"'" elarE- e
Mr. and Mrs John White
M,ci,he-.on Frank Percy Wild
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Columbia to give Three Pinyiets.

The columbia University pra.nat.c AS
so"iatior WI. present three serious play
lets 10y Columbia graduates ~ the Cen
fury Lycrum Theatre next Friday and
saturday evenings The first. "Nohles~e
oblige" by William G. De Mile. author
Of The Woman" ''Strongheart" SC. :
the second by Prof Erskine Hearts
Enduring" and the third, "t.mbTs" by
George Middleton. The authors are mem
beers of the class OF 1900.
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SALOME IN MUSIC
FRESH FROM PARIS
Florent Schmitt's Exposition Of
Mute Tragedy i'm New
Thought style.
COMPOSITION WELL DONE
Cesar Franck and Rimsky-KOr-
sakOv Also on Boston. Sym
phOny Programme.

The chief business Of the Boston sym
phony Orchestra at It's matinee concert in
Carnegie Hall yesterday was the perform
ance for the frs, time in this city of
parts of Florent Schmitt's Ia Tragedie
de Salome." after a poem by Robert
Il Iumieres This tragedy Is mute
drama and was produced at the Theatre
DIES Arts. Paris. on November 9, 1907. with
Schmitts music. The character OF the
drama may be surmised from the fact
that the role OF Saiome was entrusted
TO the hands land feeD OF Loie Fuller
who performed the dance OF pearls. the
dance of the peacock the dance of ser
pehts. the dance OF steel. the dance OF
silver and the dance OF fear.
Ii may he added that the supreme mo-
m,nt of the play is reached when sabine
: dancing a lascivious dance upon a stage
illumined 10y flashes of lighting. and
HJod. pursuing her. snatches OFF the
seven wells So chat she is seen for mo
mcut- nud,. Then John interviews and
covers her with his cloak. ~ this nom mt
HercdidS. n'uriated signals for the de-
struct.on of John. and a few inmates
later his head is delivered 20 Salome,
wko presently throws ii into the sea
This is by no means AL of this delec-
table drama. but it is enough. What
may be the precise purport of the music
of Mr., Schmitt II Is difficult to determine,
nor do we know just what episodes OF
the tragedy We're illustrated by the two
movements performed yesterday 1t
matters little. This kind of music has
one immense advantage over the older
kinds--it can he Understood IN any one
of thousand ways without violence.
Doubtless tins is pccaus. we dodderng
1nrients cannot catch up with the sig
nificance of the new thought In music.
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Scenes From the Broadway of
New York aud From other
Well Known Ways.
1.-The Whirl ~ the Worid"--N the Win
Ter t,nrtlcu

The Winter Garden rose last night to
It's professed task and in The Whir df
the World supplied New York with one
OF the entertainments connected with the
fame OF this cheerful institution. And
II never accomplished its task more sue.
cessfully. There may have been previous
Winter Garden shows" they are not to
he made into anything more formal and
nobody ever thinks OF them in any other
light-supplied with separate sensations
such as the gliding Gaby or the ebony
.Iolson. but in its entirety '"rhe Whirl of
the World" satisfies better than any pre-
vious expedition in search of relief for
the business man so tired that he can
lie diverted 10y nothing but Broadway,
with all the state OF mind the name of
that thoroughfare suggests. Singing
Broadway, dancing Broadway, Joking
Broadway-Broadway whether the scene
he laid I'm Paris or on Central Park West
since 1t has ceased to be abounded by any
continent, Broadway with all the posi-
bilities II suggests to the metropolitan
mind and moreover to the stage manager
that is the essence of the THE Whirl
OF the World" which kept its first hear
ers in delight last night.
OF course the new work has its lengths
They are most noticeable when Willie
fiOWdTu IL on lut stage amusing as ne
frequently Is. nobody will complain that
the evening does not offer a sufficient dis
play of his talents. Lillian Lorraine is
AS easy to look at as ever. one may still
take pleasure out of that occupation. But
experience on the stage does not seem to
make a dent on the hard surface of her
serene incompetency. Her disdain of the
qualities which are supposed to br nee
essary 10 the success of public per
former is splendid and is quite the most
impressive element about her participS-
tion In The Whirl OF the World" She
cannot speak nor move nor sing with any
suggestion OF the finish usually looked Tor
IN the least ambitious essays on the stage.
she is an exquisite sight. however and
clad altogether in what seeing IN the first
dc. shimmering mother OF pearl. THIS APP
partition of triumphant girihood quicts
the ever rising Interrogation IN the mind
Of every spectator why, Lillian L.or-
ralne!'
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Let US content ourselves then with
reooe niains the indsputable fact that
this music belongs to the present and
tAat u translates into tone the ideas
non nor aHn' in all She other arts par
ucaia-.y ~ Par:s. II cannot ye dismissed
w,ih contempt nor cSadcI 10y the easy
Application Of the term Impitssion.st.c.'
Il F.. neither crude nor vulgar in methods.
!: "a. on the contrary, pointed In pur-
pose, which is the modern one OF dclines,t-
ing moods 10y the combination Of puug.nt
and striking harmonic development with
ingenious INSTRUMENTATION. and II shows
forth a genuine mastery of materials.
it we were better acquainted with the
deiiusative design OF the, music. such a.
might be gained from a performance
OF the tragedy. We might more readily
apprycldt. tn" wonderful color scheme
of the composition. its extraordinary
treatment Of modern harmuuics, it's
pointed use OF stopped trumpets as q
new factor in chord tint!ng. rather than
as solo voices. it, utilization OF harp har-
monies in novel iguration and its intro
dUct.on of a sweeping plzaicato across
the -four strings of the violin family in
a new exhibition OF arpeggiated chords
In form there : no obscurity In this
music Ii - easy ,uouSh To follow. and thu
themes, while avoiding both the straight
liz rs and the perfect curves of old fash
toned melody, are nu' intangible, despite
the:r chromatic elusveness. All these
things belong to the apparatus OF the new
thought. which was nurtured At the Nou-
,elle Athcues .mmortalized by George
Moore. II WAS born when in the death
pallor of the zenith. like a white fla.
liutterins family. Symtohsts and Decad-
-t's appeared
Never before was there so sudden a
fluy and connux of artistic desire. such
aspiration Of the soul of man. such rage
cf passion, such fa.nting fever such Ger
tbral erethsm"
Certainly they were a scethng com
paRy. those New Athenians. but who will
explain to US why the movement set going
by them mas found 1t so much more com
Portable to walk In the gutter than on the
sidewalk" Is II "A manifestation OF genius
to discover the soul OF Sappho In the
body of night prowler of the Place
Pigalle? Are the passions 81 Solome and
her sort more inspiring TO true art than
those OF ScmirdmiS. whose flesh burned
after its kind no less than her mind after
power and kingdom? The chief fascna-
lions Of SdlOmo were her acceptance of
the h!deous rites OF mummy worship and
her eagerness To dance disrobod.
There are still many things In the ritual
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-31

fairs in its columns served to direct
AN even wider attention to his ability
knowledge and experience Mr.. Sears
deals only very briefly with this epi-
scde in Hays life. but this was per
hans unavoidable il may be true TO
scalc from an outsiders point Of view
when one takes into consideration
the slender proportions of this BIO
graphical sketch.
Until the defnitive biography OF
John Hay appears it is already being
written by William Roscoe Thayer
this well-writtcn little book will fully
serve its laudable purpose Of bringing
20 Americans a realization Of the
qualities of John Hay, the statesman,
and of the share he took n securing
for the United States the mighty and
benefcent influence it exercises to-day
in the councils Of the great powers, in
the shaping of the future of the ma
tiOng
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Roee4y Aogsz, 2on1el BIZ; D. uslueS~eo,, COZ
o

many Of them in direct answer to Mr.:
hearings book. OF the rising cost OF
labor that is, of labor unions-as a
factor in the situation ne observes, Tor
instance, that labor unions existed be-
fore 1896 in a period of falling prices;
and that. anyhow, any effect due to
labor unions in the last eighteen years
would be confined to the United States,
England and a few other countries, but
could in no way be held responsible for
the rise of prices in India. As matter
of fact, he points out, the actual cost
of production to-day, in terms of labor,
is lower than it was eighteen years
ago, since we must not measure the
cost Of production simply, without
taking into account the loss in the pur-
chasing power Of the dollar.
The book has a timely postscript
dealing with the probable effect of the
war upon the cost Of living Prices
will go up, of course. in Europe, but
more after the war than during its
progress. While hostilities continue
the rise will probably be less rapid in
England than in the other countries;
the level may even fall. But after
peace is concluded the increase Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-31
("or7 "C01ONlAL

ments upon il in his book. As "A matter
of fact. Russia began her mobilization
as long ago as last April, under the
prcte%t of a trial mobilization on
an Unprecedented scale. This eXplana-
ton was officially given out at the time
and much commented upon IN the Ger
man and Hungarian press. IN
deed. il was the first cause OF the ten.
sion that grew through the summer ana
broke with the double assassination AT
Saraievo. Mr. Henderson, an Amer
can. and the author of an excellent
"Short History Of Germany opens ms
admirably illustrated new book with
CHAPTER Of excerpts from the German
press dealing with the real purpose
behind this trial mobilization on
war footing. II contribution to the MS
torv Of the immediate causes OF the
conflict thus far but little known mere
His description of Germany's hghtlng
machine is brief yet mprehenSlVe'
his chaptcr on naval strategy ana TAG
tics especially deserves notice. ;" nc
German Army from Within" is book
Of petty enmity; THE Russian Army
from Within" is a pleasantly written
l;'tle sketch. in which the lndividuaI
Russian soldier is more TO the lore
than the machine.
rMr. Morris's book will be found OF
great use for the ready acquisition OF
a sorviceable general know edge Of the
war. It's origins. and the warllke
strength of the nations involved. 1t
presents a maximum of facts. and pre-
,onts them in good narrative form
The author does not so deeply INTO
spcculations concerning hidden causes
the right and the wrong Of 1t; ne
strives for impartiality, and, on the
whole. achieves it. lie devotes much
space TO the development Of Europe
during the nineteenth century, takes
in the enlarged scope Of international
rolitics caused BY the rise Of Japan
and the opening UP Of China. but IS
rest informing in his chapters on
Pan-Slavism and Pan-Germanism, the
strength and resources of the nations
at war. their rulers and leaders, the
cost of armed peace and the methods
Of modern warfare This Is one OF
the first of the books prepared IN an
tlciration of a sudden demand for gen
crai information, and as such 1t Is
creditable piece of work. There Is an
abundance Of illustrations.