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ANXIOUS WAGNER. The First Performance of “RienzI’* at Dresden. In Ludwig Frankenstein's Wagner year book Gustav Klet?. tells this story In connection with the ti-st performance of "Rlenzi" at Dresden: "On the day of tlie tirst performance Wagner asked me to meet him in front of the theater niter the box otlice hud been opened, so that lie could give me and ln.\ friend Schuster, the butcher, tickets for the performance. Wagner was In a state of great excitement, and when he gave me the two tickets Heine whispered to me, ‘Take some ono with good big bauds with you.’ He watched the people as they came toward the theater, and every time one went in he would make some remark to his wife which showed bis satisfaction. I had to go within, but I shall never forget the childish joy of the composer when he saw groups enter the house and the disappointment when others passed the open doors. I thought of it even that evening when the enthusiasm was the greatest How happy Wagner and Ins wife must have been at the following two performances, when the house was so illled that even bis relatives, who had come to Dresden for that purpose, could not be admitted to the theater!"

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A Popular Play Indeed. Shakespeare's “Julius Caesar" has been translated into German nine times, into French seven. Into Italian six, into modern Greek three. Into Latin and Swedish twice and into Croatian, Danish, .Dutch, Frisian, Polish, Roumanian, Itussiun. Magyar, Portuguese and Yiddish. There are seven or eight English acting editions of the tragedy. But one attempt actually to alter and Improve It has ever been made. This was In 1722. when John Shcllield, duke of Buckingham, divided it into two parts at the death of Caesar, calling it "The Tragedies of Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus,” and made many other changes. To enrich this poor play, or. rather, these poor plays. Pope furnished some choruses, but they had the usual effects of ill adjusted ornaments they served only to make the meanness of tlie thing they bedecked the more conspicuous.

Full Faith In the Doctor. A young farm^aiiorer called one market day at the registrar's oiilce to record ids father’s death. The registrar asked the date of death. “Well, father ain't dead yet,” was the reply, "but lie will he dead before morning, and 1 thought it would save me another journey if you would put It down now.” “Oh, that won't do at all,” said the registrar. “Why, your father may take n turn Is'fore morning and recover.” “Ah, no, he won't,” said the young laborer. “Doctor says he won't, and he knows what he's given father.”— Liverpool Mercury.

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Irish Wit. As Sir Walter Scott was riding with n friend near Abbotsford he came to a field gate, which nn Irish beggar, who happened to be near, opened for him. Sir Walter was desirous of rewarding him by the present of sixpence, but found he had not so small a coin in his purse. “Here, my good fellow,” said he; “here is a shilling for you, but, mind, you owe me sixpence." “God bless your honor!” exclaimed tlie Irishman. “May your honor live till 1 pay you!” The Bone. “Say, paw,” queried little Tommy Toddles, "what Is the bone of conten tlou?” “The Jawbone, my son.” answered the old man. with a side glance at his wife.—Chicago News.

A Blunder. Customer—1 must say, waiter, this is the first time I’ve ever had a really tender steak here. Walter (aghust)Good gracious, I must have given you the proprietor’s steak! t- Loudon Standard. His Awful Threat. Mother—Why did you uot scream when linns kissed you? Daughter— He threatened me. Mother—How? Daughter—lie said if I did he'd never kiss me again.—Meggeiidorfer Blatter. Worry. He-You know, if you worry about every little thing it’s bound to affect your health I1L Wife—Yes. I know. That's one of the things I worry about. —Town and Country.

Difference Between the Star Day and the Sun Day. IT IS GREATEST IN WINTER.

Why the Difference Occurs and How It May Be Observed—Oddly Enough the Shortest Day In the Year la Really the Longest Day In Time. How long, after all. Is a day? The geographies say that it is the time required for the earth to turn once on its axis, that it measures twenty-four hours by the clock and that a fraction more than 305 of them are to he fouud In a year. It Is a good plan when one reads anything In a hook to test it when he can for himself. We want to see Just how long It takes the earth to turn over once. Let us take any one of the fixed stars that chances to be in line with some convenient point and. wateh in hand, notice the precise moment at which the star touches, let us say, a particular tree, branch or steeple on tlie horizon line. If on the next evening we stand at precisely the same spot and sight the same star again lu line witli tlie same point as before, then we shall know that tlie earth lias turned on its axis just once. Curiously enough, however, we shall discover, if this is done carefully, that, in spite of what the hooks say, it does not require twenty-four hours for the earth to turn over once. About four minutes before the day Is up, by the clock, the earth lias revolved once and brought the star back to its old position lu the sky. Really, then, tlie earth turns on its axis once in twenty-three hours, fifty-six minutes and four seconds and, ns one can easily reckon, makes something more than 300 revolutions in a year. But human beings are not so much interested In the stars as in tlie sun. We really don't care mu.-li how long it takes tlie earth lo turn over and bring a star back again to tlie same point in the sky or how many times in a year a star seems to go by. We set our docks and reckon our year by the turning of the eartli under the sun, and because the earth not only turns under the sun, but also goes round it, it takes about four minutes longer to bring the sun up to its old place in the sky than to bring luck a star. Tills comes about simply enough. Suppose one is in a room looking out the win dow at a tree. If ho turns round once exactly lie will find himself looking straight at the tree again, but If he tried tlie same thing when lie was on a moving train he would find that while lie was making the turn tlie tree laid fallen behind. He would then, according to tlie way he twirled, have to turn a llltlo more- or a little less to bring the tree .straight before Ids nose. Therefore it is not quite true that a day Is tlie time required for the earth to turn once on its a .Is. It really is (Ids time plus the four minutes or so required for it to turn and look back at the sun The time ref]aired for tills extra turn Is not tin* same at all times in the year. One can easily see in the case of tlie moving train (hat tlie faster (he cars were moving or ihe nearer the track tlie tree stood the more the latter would seem to shift its position. Since the earth is some 3.000,000 miles nearer Ihe sun In winter than in summer, and since also Hie nearer the sun It Is the faster it (ravels, the difference between tar day and sun day is greatest In winter. Oddly enough, it happens that Dec. 22. which lias (he least daylight of any day in the year and is therefore commonly said to lu* tlie shortest of nil days, is really the longest. It does, as a mailer of fact, run almost half a minute over twenfy-four hours, while the true sliorti st day. which comes on Sept. 17. falls short by about the same time. So we really have three different “days." There Is tin* star day. which Is tin* time during which the earth turns over once. This, because the earth spins steadily, is always tlie same length, twenty-three hours, fiftysix minutes, four and nine-hundredths seconds, and there are 30G of them in a year. Then there is the ordinary legal day, which is ihe time required for a proper clock to get round twice. This is Just twenty-four hours. Besides these, there is the sun day, its time told by the sundial, which, taking short with long, averages twentyfour hours, but is never found to be exactly the same length for two days In succession. There Is a string of long days in the winter, followed by a series of short ones In Ihe spring. In the summer the sun days get long again, though not quite so long as in the winter. In the autumn conn* the shortest days of nli. Only occasionally are clock day and sun day of the same length. Only four times a year do clock noon by the clock hands and sun noon by the sundial occur at tlie same moment, while, because tlie long and short sun days are found in sets, they oftentimes may be more than fifteen minutes apart. The vast majority of tlie people reckon their time by the sun. But time for civilized men is time by the clock. The days are all twenty-four hours long, and no matter where the sun is it Is noon for us when the clock strikes 12. Nevertheless, astronomers often go by star time, get in an extra day In each year and have their noon fall at all times of the day or night.— E. T. Brewster In Chicago Record Herald.

It is a kingly act to help the fallen.— Ovid.

YOUR WORK. Rob It of Drudgery and Give it Your Whole Ability. No mutter how humble your work may stem, do it in the spirit of an art- ( 1st, of u master, in this way you lift it out of commonness and rob It of j what would otherwise tie drudgery. j Y'ou will find that learning to thoroughly respect everything you do and not to let it go out of your hands until it has the stamp of your approval upon it as a trademark will have a wonderful effect upon your whole character. The quality of your work will have a great deal to do with the quality of your life. If your quality is down, your character will l*o down, your standard dow n, your ideals down. Tin* habit of Insisting upon the best of which you are capable and of always demanding of yourself tlie highest, never acceptin'; the lowest, will make all the difference between mediocrity or failure and a successful career. If you bring to your work (tie spirit of nn artist instead of an artisan; If you bring n burning zeal, an all absorbing enthusiasm; if you determine to put the best there is In you in everything you do. no matter what It Is. you will not long be troubled with a sense of drudgery. Everything depends on the spirit we bring to the task. The right spirit makes an artist In the humblest task, while Hie wrong spirit make", an artisan In any < illing. no matter how h l :h. There Is a dignity, an Indescribable quality of superiority In everything we do which we thoroughly and lion estly resjieot. There L nothing hclittllng or menial which has to be done for Ihe welfare of tin* race. Y’ou cannot afford to give the mere dregs, the men* leavings of your er Tgios, to your work, 'i he best in you Is none too good for It. It is only when we do our best, when we put j >y. energy, enthusiasm a id zeal into our work, that we really grow, and this is Hie only way wo can keep our highest self respect. YVe cannot think mncli of ourselves when we are uot honest in our work— when we are not doing our level host There Is nothing which will coinpuisate you for a Es* of faith In yours-'if. for the knowledge of your capiu ity for doing bungling, dishonest work. Y’ou have something infinitely higher in you to satisfy than to make a mere living, to get through your day’s work as easily as possible that is. yom sense of the right, tin* d niaud in you (o do your level best, t > rail out the host thing in you, to be a man. to do Hie square thing. This should spenf* so loudly In you that Hi * mere bread and butter queition, tlie moi y making question, should he Insignificant in comparison.—Success Magazine. SAVED THE SCENE. A Casa Whero Necessity Was the Mother of Invention. William Faverslium once saved him self a dismissal from a eoi puny in h!.carly days through lii-i quick wit. "I had been engaged as ‘utility man,’" he says, “with a company that opened with u war play in a western town. I had a dli'icult part that ran through every art. and it was important even If l Ind lible to say or do. I got along vein well, nr 1 In spite of the many costume changes i had 1 met with no difficulty until the last act I was an ‘orderly’ in tills scene, and I was hurrying to buckle my bell when I heard my cue. “I hastene l to the wings. Some one threw fulle-'s earth alt over me to show’ that ! had been riding' hard, and I dashed m.itlky on Just ns the sound of hoofs died aw iv When I reached the center of Hu 1 "ta .* an I the np plause had subsided my hand went Into my tunic for my dispatches, which I was to hand to General Alien. I had forgotten them! “Now. Hi " • dispatches furnished the climax of the play, and something had to he done, and done quickly. I felt my heart rise in my throat and knew that every one on tlie stage was looking at me The wait was growing awful, terrible, and I was just about losing courage when a brilliant idea came to me. I threw open my shirt, ripped off a porous plaster I was wearing and thrust It into the general's hand. Then 1 staggered to a chair and dropped exhausted. T! ere was a round of applause, for ihe audience thought that I had boon shot and had covered ihe wound with the dispatch es.”—Bohemian

E'errerts of the Universe. Science declares Hint up to elate the suns and planets all seem to lie built up out of Identical materials. Wo are not acquainted with any element in any of the heavenly bodies which is not to lie found, for instance, on the earth. Helium, for example, first discovered in Hie sun, was subsequently found on earth in Hie rare mineral eiovlte. In Hie handful of earlh that you pick up at your feet you may liehold the contents of the universe.— New’ Y’ork American.

A Shave In China. The barber in China frequently pursues his calling under peculiar conditions. No soap is used, the parts being simply rubbed with water and then scraped with a fearsome iron weapon made locally, which, though it might astonish a Sheffield cutler, yet answers the purpose very well.—Wide World Magazine.

Floral Scandal. “You can’t paint the Illy.” declared the rose. “Maybe not." responded tlu* aster. “But have yon noticed?* "Noticed what?” “The illy pads!”—Washi: gton Herald.

[Original] John Meriweather was what the world would call a self made man. The reason why he was a self made niuu was because he had been given by his Creator both the desire and the ability to be such. lie had saved his pennies as a boy. paying for au education by working while studying, had denied himself when a young man In order to save capital ami had forged ahead rapidly by u remarkable capacity for hard work. He now lived in a fine house, drove Ids horses, was powerful and courted, yet he worked ns hard us ever, one day he overheard his butler lamenting to his coachman that the wealth of Hie world was very badly distributed and declaring that au equitable way of arranging the good tilings would lie for the rich and tlu* poor to change places once every ten years. “I’eter,” called the master, “come here.” I’eter would have been embarrassed at having lieen overheard, but lie had got the equality bee in his bonnet, and he approached ids master somewhat defiantly. "Fetor," continued Merlweatlior, “I’ve been working very hard lately and need a rest. I want you to l>e my representative. Go and dress yourself like a gentleman and come back.” At 'J o'clock the next morning Peter sat lu his master’s chair In ids master’s office, opening the mall. Meriweather was there giving him Instructions for the first day s work. Ills affairs were in good condition and easily managed. Indeed, there was little or nothing to do during the day but attend a meeting of directors of tlie Eureka Copper company at 3 in tin* afternoon. Peter, armed with nn order to net for his master, went to the meeting. Some surprise was manifested on the part of tie* other directors that tills Peter <’Vuiover should represent one to whom they were accustomed to look for a final decision on all Important discussions. The question came up ns to whether the company should Issue bonds for some Intended Improvements or pay for them out of the dividends. After a long discussion over the matter Mr Conover's views were asked. Peter resolved not to acknowledge any inde cision, remarked that It would be well to issue bonds. “Why so7” asked the chairman. Peter turned flaming red and said nothing. Tlie president stepped to the telephone, called up John Meriweather and asked his views on the question under consideration. They \ > given promptly, with Hie Is'st of reasons, and tin* meeting adjourned. When I’eter went home he eonelud ed to have a drive before dinner. On reaching (he house he learned that his master had just left on a trip. This both pleased and alarmed him. He would have free scope to enjoy the luxuries of Ids position, but no one would In* on hnpd to refer to In busl ness matters. His ride was interfered with by nn architect, who was erecting a warehouse for Mr. Meriweather. He laid ids plans on the table and asked for instructions. Peter was tempted to ask the man to wait till his master’s return, hut remembered that he was his master. Besides, the architect could not wait. Mr. Meriweather was called ui) on the long distance telephone, and the points submitted to him. A tine dinner was set before the representative of ids master, hut Peter's appetite was somewhat interfered with by the realization that lu* was his master only in name, not in reality. In Hie evening he went to tlie theater; but, since he did not care to take with him any of the servants, he was obliged to go alone. The play was om* of Shakespeare’s, .'11111 I’eter could not understand what tlie actors were talk ing about. When the play was over lie looked lu at one of tlu* swell restmiranls, but Ids new position had tired him, and lie needed some real refreshment, so lie went to a low grade saloon and ordered a dish of pork and beans and n mug of ale. He felt somewhat out of place in ids fine costume, but ho was alone while he ate, and the meal was Peter's only bit of comfort during the first day of Ids playing the gentleman capitalist. Tlie next morning I’eter opened his master’s letters. Fortunately he could read, but unfortunately he did not un derstand them, and if he had understood he would not have known what replies to make. Peter had supposed that all he would have to do In his new position would be to cut off coupons and cash checks for dividends. He now sow that he could not hold the position creditably for an hour. He concluded to let tlie letters go unanswered, iiave a good time till his mas ter returned and then resign. Putting a hundred dollars in his pocket, he took it home to his family. His wife. Instead of laying It by for a rainy day or to get Hie children clothes, spent It lu a trip to the country. I’eter could not go with them In his fine apparel, so. not knowing what to do, lie went to his favorite saloon and ordered n Slice of haiii and a glass of beer. Then he sat repeating ills beer till midnight The next day I’eter did not open the letters, lie stacked them up, and they continued to lie stacked till his master's return. One morning John Merlweather walked into the olliee and saw I’eter sitting before his desk with a bored expression and stacks of unopened letters before him. I’eter acknowledged that ids training iiad not fitted him to represent his master, and It was a happy day for him when he donned his livery and returned to the management of household affairs. UOPK HOPKINS.

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