Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1902 — Page 23

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUrDAY. JANUARY ö, 1902. this wjcek's extertaixmexts THE DRAMA AMD MUSIC LEHMANN nnd CRAMER, SINGERS, j& i ix the city's PiAriiövsi:s i j& j& HOFMAXX AXD HAUER, RIA XI ST S j& ) uaJiKAh EWS Oi THE STAGE S jz TO BE HEARD HERE THIS MOXTII

NEWS OF THE THEATERS

A avi:i:k or .11 ma MAiiLowi: ix Tin: m jmi-Ki:sTj:it :m:i.oim ama. IVtcr 1. Duiley n( Ilcnil of Hie Vnndcillo Hill nt the ;nnnl Mmmva nt l'nrk it ml üinpire. Julia Marlowe and hrr company will give M.vcn porfirm;u;c.s of "Wlun Knighthood V.'as In rio-Acr," at Knplis-h's Opt ra House, tliiy. weok. Th- matinee v. ill br on Saturday. Paul Kc-sut's dramatization of Charles Major's nowl v. as produced, with 31id Marlowe as Mary Tudor, in the thru r.rw Illinois Tiuatrr, in Chicago, a year ÜRO lat fall. Soon afterward it was sern at Kr.slish's during a wtuk. The public likrd it to well that Miss Marlowe and her mancg'r thought it would bo bad budnj-s to ri.-k a nc-w pliy this season, whrn Mr. Kost r'.s play was Mire to continue profitable. Frw chans. have been nade in the east of characters in the play. It is as fid-low.-: Ilnry VIII CKinp of Knpland) "harls Harbury 1'ranciF D'Auoulcme (Dauphin ot France) Wilfrid North Thomas Wohev (Bishon of Lincoln).. . C. V. Gibney Duke of JJu kir.cii im Sydney Tolc r Tuk Dc Jvnqucvil!o (l'.uvoy ot Franco John laird "h-irles Brandon liruce Mrllae Sir Kdv.in C.iko.'en (Master of tho Dance) i.'onrf,o S. Christie Ma?tr Cavendish f Wnlnc-y's Sccreretary) .".Frederic Burt Sir Adam Juriou (Cou-in of BuckinfCl:am Wilfrid North Will Sommers (Kirg Henryk Jester).. Frank Ii k ner Captain Iiradshurt (of the Ship Itoyal Hind) Alrnnu Tassin Ilo?t of the How and String Tavern.. Frederic Leidie Servant at the Tavern William Charles An Adventurer R. C.-Beacroft fjween Catherine of F??!and .. Annie Clark Mary Tudor f Prince?- of Knpland Julia Marlowe Lady Jane Bolingbroke (Maid of Honor to Mary Tudor) Norah Lamison Mist rps Ann P.olyn (Maid of Honor to Mary Tudon Frances Ring Mistress Jane Seymour (Maid of Honor to, Mary Tudor; Maud Lantry Louise l" Valois Gwendolyn Valentino Synopsis of Scenes. Art I Near the river landing in "Windsor I'ark. May day. Act 1 1 Princess Mary's apartments In Uridewell House, London. Act III Great room of the Bow and String Tavern, Bristol. Act IV Scene 1: Room in the Palai3 des Tournelles. Pari?, two months later. Scene 2: Room in Greenwich Palace, Ensland. Time 1513-11. X X X Veter F. Dailey will be the most prominent person among1 the entertainers at the Grand Or. era House this week. He has been a popular comedian for many year:. Last fall hi started out auspiciously as a t-tar in a comedy entitled "Champagne Charley." written by Augustus Thomas'. The Kastern public did not like thi Fhow and the company was disbanded. It would feem that the comedy was too close a representation of New York's "white light" life to be easily understood elsewhere. Mr. Dailey decided to enter the vaudeville theaters in a sketch which is called "A Press Rehearsal," and which is understood to be an abridged edition oi Mr. Thomas's "Champagne Charley." Among Mr. lailey's assistants in his fun-making are Mac Lowery and Frank Lane. The other contributors to the bill will bo Richen's performing doss. "Billy" Clifford, who. with Maud Huth. used to lead farce companies; G orge Thatcher, formerly a minstrel comedian; Francis Le I'age. jumper; the Tanakas, Oriental acrobats, and the bicgraph. x x x The week of entertainment at the Park Theater will begin tu-day. This afternoon and to-night Harry Kllsworth Fcjcht will give his illustrated lecture on "Obcramir.ergau; Its IYopI- and Its Passion Play." The- repetition was suggested by the size r iid approval of Mr. Feicht's two audiences l ist Sunday. B- sinning to-morrow .afternoon, Alice Archer and her company will present a Melodrama. "Jess of th Bar Z." for three 'ays. It is a stry of the cattle rangs of New Mexico. The heroine Is Jessie MavI '.d. and the brand on her cattle is " Z." "I:ar Z.'' as it is spoken in that country. Miss Archer is a sister of Belle Archer, v.-ho died a y. ar ago. "Happy Hooligan." a farce-comedy, will the attraction at the Park the latter li ilf of the week. Ross Snow will be at the I.e. id of the company, which will include "Willi"'' Gardes, ar a policeman; Mapgio Weston, as an Irish woman, and Frank otto, as a lerman. Harry Morris and his Twentieth Century Maids will make their yearly visit to the Lmpiro Theater the fr.-t three days of this we-'. Their entertainnif ut is com"sed of two burlesques. a pera vltch a la Russia" and "The Mormon Wives." and nn olio. The principal members of the company are Harry Morris, John A. West. Van Seer and Duke, Bryant and Brcnnan. .Tessite Webb, the Parkers and Martina and Smith. The shew the latter half of the week, "A Holiday In Coontown." will be given by olored singers and comedians. . . m:v yohiv's fki;( h Tiu:.Ti:n. lulrs tnmboii liiTtiir the Spread intC of Iii l.nnKnns Here. Jules ambon. French ambassador to the Vviud States, writes in the New York Telecrapli: "S.- you Americans are. oing to have a i'rench thater in New York, tiood. I am hiu N rly ghid that th- movement looking to ik: n! has at last assumed tangible form. I have (ften wordered why New York city, Kfeit a'-.j cosmopolitan as it is, has n.vi r Old a t!ieat:r deoted eilusively to French r' ays. You have a German theater, a Hebrew th.-atcr. a Chinese, theater, why not French theater? "Th. re are in New York city thousands of 1 i who speak the French language pc.ik it we;i and fluently who understand the Frnch j.-oph-, and there is no reason t my mind wh.y a theater given over to the production of French plays would not be an i r.;uallned suectss. I :ind that many of : our Ane ri -an ladies sieak the French i mguace vry w-ll. and this is especially true of the i.i.ii, s living in the eastern part f your country. I am sttre your American 3 ulies would pleased to have the facllii.es to hear and .o0 :t jday rendered in French. TJie tii. ;tt,r is a French art. "We have in Paris a rational school for fttiirg actors and actresses for the stage. j he re-tilt is that many of our actors and a tres.-' s are .-kid .l anl polished in thejr irof.ssion before t!.eV take up the stage. S'-rr.e of the Kr.ut- jdayer.s of modern times have come from our school of actIüc. Take Madame Sar.di Bernhardt and Jenoit Coiu!in as an illustration. When ts.ey come to America you hail them with Pmd acclaim; yen pack ymir theaters. T!us H but a recent demonstration of t!.e truth of what I say. that the American J'oide like to ?cc Fren.h plays, done in Fr.-mh. "I do not foresee the slightest difficulty 1 securing I'rerah tahnt for a French th- iter in New York. There aro in mv country po'.iahfd actors and actresses who, 1 dare bay. would be glad tu come to America, providing suhicier.t iinlueernents Wt-re held out to them. I do not paite understand Mr. Frohm tu's plan regard1" the establishment f a l'rench theater. l""1 he mean to play repertoire in French wirh French af tors ami actresses? Whether ft iravpllr.tr orgnnliation or a toek cornpir.v it matters not. I believe the venture would bo a macniJicent success. At the recer.r Bernhardt production of !AUlon' I unflertand the sale of the French book of the plav greatly xeeeded that of the Kfj?!i.a book. This, of itself, seems to me to be a criterion of what your people want. "The French language will spoken ftnl understood more in the prcacut cen-

f ration that it was in the past because the Americans are learning the language, not as a fad, but as a matter of business. Your country is full of French scholars, men familiar with travels, men and history, and they crave an opportunity to see French plays produced as they are produced at home. This element alone would do much toward supporting the theaters which Mr. Frohman speaks of. "Permit me to say, in conclusion, that I hope the day is not remote when Mr. Frohman's plans mature and America may have in the heart of its educational, financial and social circle an opera house where real French plays may be seen." NOT11S OF Tili: STAG I.

3Inr;uorit Sylva Xnt "Prlncms Chic' ow Delia Fox Again. "The Princess Chic" has a new star. Maude Lillian Bcrri has taken the place of Murguerita Sylva. The company is now known as the La Shelle Opera Company. The change was the result of a disagreement between Miss Sylva, her husband, W. I). Mann, and Kirk La Shelle, manager of the company. Mr. Mann was the traveling manager of the enterprise for awhile. Miss Sylva was a member of the first Alice Nielsen Opera Company, singing in "The Fortune Teller." Last season she was here in the principal role of "The Princess Chic." Miss Berri. for several years, has been one of the prima donnas of the Castle-square Grand Opera Company. Sh.e once was a prima donna of her own company. Miss Sylva says she will have her own eompany next season. xxx Kyrle Bellew, who is playing In New York, in "A Gentleman of France," has received a letter from Cora Urquhart Potter, who is in London, faying; a syndicate lias been formed to back her as an actressmanag r. She has the manuscripts of half a dozen modern plays, she says, and all she needs is a theater and a company. Mr. Bellow did not say he would be Mrs. Potter's leading man. xxx John Moller, a wealthy man that has lost money In various theatrical enterprises, has decided to try again, and will start a company in which Delia Fox will be a star, in a play called "La Petite Mademoiselle." The tour will begin in Bethlenem, Pa. Miss Fox's husband. "Diamond Jack" Levy, is said not to be risking any money on the scheme. XXX It Is reported that Klaw & Frlanger will build a new theater at 212 West Forty-second street, New York, and that the Rogers Brothers will open It next season. xxx "I dropped In last night to see Kdna May's performance in 'Kitty Grey,' ' writes an American from London, "and her hold upon the audience surprised me. She really had a strong reception every time she stepped into view, and some extraordinary occurrences were noted during the evening. The people applauded her when she came on early in the performance in a fawncolored coat, and when she later changed to a blue dress there was a fresh round of hand-clapping. "At one place in the piece Miss May had to say she'd been told she re.-embled Kitty Grey, but didn't think so becauste that personage was so much prettier than she. Upon this speech the people In the gallery yelled, 'No, no. "At another time, when Leina was one of the singers and dancers in a pretty trio, the crowd cried out: 'Encore, Kdna, encore! They didn't seem to care so much about the other two performers, but they were fairly dotty about Miss May. I don't think 'Three L-ittlo Maids' will bo wanted yet a while.'' XXX Andrew Carnegie, in the Theater for January, explains why he will not help to establish an endowed theater. For some time it has been stated in various quarters that Mr. Carnegie approved of the general scheme a theater independent of boxottlee considerations in which the classic plays should be regularly performed and new plays worthy of its boards produced, and which should become the permanent home of the finest stock company in the United States. Mr. Carnegie, it was stated, was ready to endow such a theater, and a journal recently went to the length of stating that a national theater, with schools in all the departments of scenic endeavor, would have an important part In the national university the Ironmaster has offered to the District of Columbia. The Theater a?kd Mr. Carnegie to confirm or deny these rumors, and has succeeded in getting a definite statement from him. Mr. Carnegie says he does not consider it a proper field for private gifts and argues that if the experiment were to be made it should be by government, as in Europe. In the same issue of the Theater Alfred Ayres continues his Interesting" articles on the great players of the pa?t, and the number contains also an interview with Annie Russell, besides an article on the "Actors of the Ghetto." An amusing sketch, "Operatlo Stars cn Voyage," and the usual departments make up an Interesting number, which is profusely illustrated. A portrait of Miss Viola Allen, in colors, is on the cover. IMPORTANT INFORMATION. A I'ctt Facts and Some Impressions of a YVell-KnoTvn AVomau. Nebraska State Journal. A subscriber from near Saltillo, who signs himself "J. J. T.." writes: "You could please a host of readers in this locality by answering through the Journal these questions: is Carrie Chapman Catt married? If so, what business does her husband follow? Does he board or has he a housekeeper, or does he cook his own meals?" Mrs. Catt has a husband, ami the records show that his name is Catt, .also. He owns a home In New York closo to the sound, where he an hear what the wild waves are saying when no one else is saying a word. We believe Mr. Catt is a civil engineer, whose work keeps him from home very much of the time, but when at home the servants prepare his food. He does no cookin s himself, but has learned to sew on buttons with great dexterity. He was not ignorant of what he had to expect when he married Carrie I.ane Chapman, so the sufferings he endures are indeed self-inflicted, but, let us hope, not eternal. Some day Mrs. Catt will grow weary of speaking And sorry for unpleasant thoughts she has hurled; Some day Mrs. Catt will grow tired of shrieking For something that nobody wants in this world. Some day Mrs. Catt will have surely repented Her trips from New York to the far western Platte. And then her old man will go homeward contented. To rest 'neath his fig tree, a happy old Catt. Grandfathers' Clock. Philadelphia Times. Grandfathers clocks do not necessarily Imply grandfathers. In the last few years these articles have become very popular and. if the real old article, exceedingly expensive. There has, moreover, grown up a great trade in the manufacture of newgrandfathers' clock. excellent simulations of threal article. These range in price from Jcj to J,VO apiece, and the demand is very great. In one establishment In this city seventeen were sold during Christmas week. Real "grandfathers clocks." repaired an'd restored to keep accurate time, snowing the changes of the moon, and whatever else a real old grandfather's clock should do, ar sohl at fabulous prices. One, an elaborate and massive affair, recently brought $1.10 at private sale. It now adorns a fashionable Locust-street residence. The Fold. hrUi. Th time i.s now! rtrini? back. In Inj back Thy Mock of fancies, wilrj o' whim. Oh, lad them from the mountain track Thv frolic thoughts untoM. Oh, brin them in th f. Ids rruv iim And let me be th foio. rjchou. The tlm Is now! C.ill in, O call Thy patuilPK kls astray For scattered PTAeets. Gather thm all To h?ltr from tho col. I. Throns them together. clai and gay. Ana let me L the foM! Alico MmdL

HAUPTMANNS NEW PLAY

AX IXFOIIMING CRITICISM OF "IJKll ROTH 1IA1I.X, (.TRI- RED COCK.)" A Study of a Thieving Araricious AVonutn and Her Downfall Audiences Are Immen, Since the production of Gerhart Hauptmann's latest play, "Der Roth Hahn (The Red Cock)," in Berlin, the dispatches , regarding it have called it a failure without telling why. This is an impertinence In connection with such a writer as Hauptmann. Serious and appreciative consideration is now given to the play by Charles Harris, writing from" Berlin to the New York Evening Post. Mr. Harris's critique follows: The dramatic and literary event of the season thus far has been the representation of Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Roth Hahn," a tragi-comtdy in four acts, at the Deutsches Theater, and the appearance of tho play in book form. The demand for tickets for the first representation was enormous, and the curiosity of the public is not ytt satisfied, as the continued crowding of the house shows. This general interest in a new play by Hauptmann is significant evidence of the honorable place which he has won for himself in Germany. In view of the author's previous achievements, the play may bo considered neither a failure, nor a success. One reason for this lies near at hand. "Der Roth Hahn" Is a sort of sequel of Hauptmann's successful comedy, "Der Biberpelz," and shares the fate of most sequels in being inferior to the first work. The chief figure in both plays is Mrs. Wolff, now become, it is true, the wife of shoemaker Fielitz. The years of her widowhood and of her second marriage have, however, made no change in her character. From petty thieving in the first play she has progressed to the crime of arson in the second, but otherwise Hauptmann has succeeded in lending no new interest. Her intellectual superiority to those about her, and tho ease with which she makes them all puppets in her hands, are an evident in one play as the other. Except in the last part of "Der Roth Hahn," she acts in both plays from a kind of inner necessity which lifts her above trifling distinctions of me urn and tuum and all considerations of right and wrong. If "Der Roth Hahn" was to be a sort of copy of "Der Biberpelz," it was obvious that she must undergo some transformation; but Hauptmann's efforts in thia direction have proved only partially successful. For this reason the play is necessarily disappointing. The first act is a clever bit of exposition. The scene is the workshop of Cobbler Fielitz, in some village near Berlin. The worthy pair are seated in the shop at the rising of the curtain. Mrs. Fielitz has already determined to burn the house for the sake of the insurance and to erect a modern structure on its site. Only the details of the plan need perfecting. A few practical suge3tions from the husband, who is both fascinated and frightened by the scheme, make clear what is to come. The conversation between husband and wife suffers several interruptions. Wehrhahn, the stupid, conceited and autocratic administrative head of the village, comes to try on a new pair of boots. Rauchaupt and his idiotic son Gustav brins the iron cross fur the grave of the lamented Wolff. Langheinrich, tho village smith, meets them by appointment. The daughter Leontlne joins the group to read tho epitaph. Thus all the chief persons of the play appear in tho shop in the course of the act, and gdve the spectator a clear Impression of their individuality. All is life, movement, vigor. Though Fielitz declares to the end that hö will have no part in his wife's plan, it is evident that the cleverly suggested temptations of a fine new shop and the long desired "regulator" will yet prove too much for his weak virtue. The second act la rather tiresome Dr. Boxer (a Jewish physician of free-thinking proclivities, for whose presence in the play there seems no pressing necessity), the smith's helper, and later Langheinrich himself hold a long conversation under the shed of the smithy. From it we learn, to be sure, that the cobbler and his wife have gone to Berlin to buy the clock, and that the daughter has also left the house for the day; but the little that the first two-thirds of tne act contains in the way of necessary information or helpful characterization is to be got only with difficulty from the desultory talk. Something happens, at least, in the last part of the act. The idiot boy, Gustav, who has a fondness for matches and fires, comes running in and imitates the tooting of the fireman' horn. When the others try to hold him "back long Bnough to learn where the fire is, he rushes away, dropping a box of matches in his flight. Wo soon learn that fire has broken out in the Fielitz house, and the village firemen, of whom Langheinrich is the chief, hurry away to put out the flames. On the evening of the first representation the anplause of the audience at the end of the third act was rewarded by the appearanco of the author on the stage. The applause was no meaningless compliment, nor was it unjustly bestowed. The act i3 lull of dramatic movement and human interest. The scene is the office of Wehrhahn. some five hours after the outbreak of the fire. Mrs. Fielltz's plan has proved a brilliant success. The house has burned to the ground and the suspicions of Wehrhahn have already fastened upon Gustav. He bullies the witnesses and confirms himself overv moment more in his own opinion, so that Mrs. Fielitz, on her entrance into the office after her return from Berlin, has her work already done for her. However much others In the room, such as Langheinrich, who has found a bit of fuse in the house, and Dr. Boxer, may suspect her. they venture on no comments to Wehrhahn. Gustave is brought in by the pollc and bis father sent for. With the coming of Rauchhaupt the scene approaches its climax. The Idiot has been a burden heretofore, but now that he is about to be put in custody, the father's love and family pride awaken. He storms, threatens, implores, but all in vain. Gustav is led away, and the scene closes with Rauchhaupt's threat that he will yet fasten the guilt upon Mrs. Fielitz. livery spectator waited for the rise of the curtain at the beginning of the fourtn act, eager to see Hauptmann's s-olution of the problem which he had himself proposed. Whatever may have been his purpose in calling the play a tragi-comedy, it was at least clear that the name cut off all possibility of such an outcome as that ot "Der Biberpelz." where Mrs. Wolff's cunning, fortified by Wehrhahn's impenetrable stupidity, was triumphant to the end. But this time even Wehrhahn Is not wholly frte from suspicion, while Langheinrich, Boxer, and others more than suspect, and Rauchhaupt is hot upon the trail. Hauptmann's solution is unsatisfactory, however, and the strength of the third act made the weak conclusion of the fourth doubly disappointing. The scene is now an upper room in Langhclnrich's house, where the Fielitz family is quartered temporarily. Opposite is the new house, very near completion. Mrs. Fielitz is an invalid, confined to her chair. The belief in her guilt is general in the village. Nevertheless, she has emerged in triumph from three separate investigations into the cause of the fire. Her intellectual superiority over the others is as aanifest as ever, but the happy philosophy earlier days and crimes Is gone. She dreams of her own funeral and is inclined to pessimistic tnoughts. Just what ails her Is not so clear. Anxious she doubtless 1?, for Rauchhaupt has given her no rest, and comes again to-day to tell her that the net of suspicion is drawing closer about her and that punishment is near. It is difficult to believe that her conscience troubles her. for we sec her still working, hand in hand with her precious son-ln-lnw, deceive her husband and to induce Rauchhaupt to fell his valuable piece of ground for a trifle. Such a tough old sinner cannot die from the pangs of a guilty conscience. Yet she does die quite, unexpectedly a moment after the red cock (symbolic of its fiery origin) has been raised on the roof of tho new house. It is difficult to ward off the suspicion that her death is not tauÄil by aDoolexy or a guilty conacicnco

so much as by the last act, that dreadful disease of whose tremendous fatality Lessing speaks in hi3 "Dramaturgy." Whatever may be its cause, her death Is both unexpected and unsatisfactory, and gives the play a weak conclusion. Of minor excellencies of "Der Roth Hahn" it i3 unnecessary to speak. They are numerous and finely wrought out. The humor is natural and effective, the draw-' ing of the characters Is careful and true. Unfortunately, all this cannot outweigh the weakness of the last act.

rilYSIOLOGY OF LIVING HIGH. That I, Illffh In Kle vation Cnnse nnd Iiffect of Mountain Sickness. London Standard. An important series of observations is to be taken, our Berlin correspondent informs us, by a body of Gerrrtan inquirers who are engaged in investigating the physiological effects produced on man by living at a considerable elevation above the sea level. For the first stage of their experiments they have chosen the Brienzer Rothhorn, a peak 7.715 feet in height, near the eastern end of the Lake of Brienz. with a hotel 750 feet below its summit, accessible by a mountain railway. As this is a few hundred feet lower than the Great St. Bernard, the Riffel Haus, and one or two other Alpine inns, and is only some 1.50) feet above Pontreslna, St. Moritz and other villages in the Upper Engadine, we presume they intend to observe at first the results of living there, as many people do, for several months in the year. Afterward they will visit tho Regina Margherlta hut, on one of the peaks of Monte Rosa. Here the conditions will be very different, for thl3 is close to the top of the Signal Kuppe, or Punta Gnifetti, which is 14,'JS3 feet above sea level, and is the most elevated shelter on the Alps, except M. Jansen's observatory on Mont Blanc. This hut has already been used for a similar purpose. It has long been known that any great change of barometric pressure is associated with physiological consequences, but their exact history is less certain. The earlier climbers drew moving pictures of their sufferings in ascending the higher Alpine peaks, but many of these were due to fatigue and general "bad condition," for they completely disappeared as soon as the travelers began to descend. Mountain sickness was practically unknown to their better tra'ned successors, though some confessed to getting out of breath more quickly and to having slight headache after a night on Mont Blanc. But complaints became more general when peaks distinctly higher than this were attacked. Mr. Whymper and his guides suffered in their camp on Chimborazo, at 16.GG4 feet, from breathlessness and acute headache. This experience, however, appeared to act as a seasoning, for they twice climbed that mountain and at least three others not much less than 20,000 feet in elevation without serious inconvenience. Sir Martin Conway, Dr. and Mrs. Workman and Mr. Vines, who in the Himalayas or Andes have reached altitudes ranging from 20,000 to nearly 23,000 feet, have all confessed to suffering more or less from lassitude, headache and difficulty of breathing anything tending to Jower the vitality undoubtedly aggravate the symptoms, as Mr. Fitzgerald and bis party discovered on Aconcagua. Some of these travelers took a careful note of their symptoms, but the most complete set of observations, so far as we are aware, was made about seven years ago in the hut on the Punta Gnifetti. These, an account of which, In English dress, was published in 1S8S, were undertaken by Dr. Mosso. A carefully selected party of soldiers vere placed at his service by the Italian minister of war, and these, as described in his book, "The Life of Man on the High Alps," took up their quarters in the Reginla Margherita hut, where they remained ten days. Their departure was hastened by the illness of one of the soldiers, but Dr. Mosso obtained a number of observations, showing the effects on respiration, heart action, tho circulation and the quality of the; blood, muscular fatigue and the like, tho significance of which he discusses, together with their relation to the symptoms generally epitomized in tho phrase "mountain sickness." He found the force of the muscles at this great elevation was slightly diminished; but, in regard to the fatigue produced, the differenco was so slight that it might possibly be due to some other cause; respiration was generally accelerated, sometimes rather conspicuously, and In a few Instances it became a little irregular. Tho pulse also was quickened. Some of the men felt headache and other nervous disturbance. M. Paul Bert's, experiments by artificially diminishing air pressure caused him to attribute mountain sickness to asphyxia, which, however, was not Dr. Mosso's conclusion. He proved that distinct effects were produced on the circulation of the blood, and maintained the more immefiiato cause of mountain sickness to be due to effects on this, and esptelally to a deficiency of carbonic acid. The investigation, however, is evidently so beset with difficulties that a repetition of the experiments, by an independent set of observers, cannot fall to be of much scientific value. Strinburne'ft Verse. W. L. Alden's London Letter. Mr. Swinburne has annoyed many people by his recent verses concerning the Boers, but why any one should be annoyed by anything that Mr. Swinburne writes I do not clearly understand. The charm of Mr. Swinburne's poetry lies In its versification. To look beyond that, either for good sense or sound morality. Is a mere waste of time. I could enjoy a thoroughly Swinburnian ode, even if it denounced me personally as the w'orst man and the most excessive idiot now living. The so-called opinions that Mr. Swinburne expresses are not of tho slightest consequence. We can always depend upon him to write melodious verse, and if we try to perceive the meaning of his poems and find that the meaning is an unpleasant one, wo have only ourselves to thank for the result of our needless toil. January. By her who In this month is born No gems save garnets should be worn; They will Insure her constancy, True friendship and fidelity. Notes nnd Queries. ATUn.T, HISTORY. 1. The Hound Just watch me pick this cotton-tail up. 2. Tho Hawk I guess I'll go way back and sit down.

THIS MONTH IN MUSIC

FAMOUS riAMSTS, SIAGERS AMI A WAGNCIl Li:CTtIlKR II LUC. Lillt Lehmann' Voice, WhicH "Was Under Wagner's Direction, Remains Firm and Strong Notes. Important musical events this month are as follows: Jan. 17. Lilli Lehmann and Josef Hofmann, at English's Opera House. Jan. 27. Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, with Harold Bauer, pianist, at English's Opera House. Jan. 23 and 30. Armbruster-Cramer exposition of Richard Wagner's work, at the German House. XXX LIili Lehmann is now an imposing woman, whose fine, strong face is framed In gray hair. Her voice remains whole and full of vitality, according to what has been written about her In New York, where ehe has been giving recitals of songs, mostly German. Her first visit to New York was just after tho failure of the attempt to make the Metropolitan Grand Opera House a horaa for Italian opera of the old sort. Then she revealed her power in the soprano roles of the German music-dramas. In 1S73, in the first performances of Wagner's "Ring." she sang the voice of the forest bird in "Siegfried," and also was one of the Rhinerraidens, under Wagner's directions, but it was not until she went back to Germany after her triumph here that she was accepted as a great dramatic soprano. Wagner was dead and Cosima Wagner invited her to Beyrouth to sing Brunnhilde. When she came to this country again she was a member of the prime "Tristran and Isolde" cast: Lehmann as Isolde, Jean de Reszke as Tristan, Edouard de Reszko as King Mark, Marie Brema as Branganene, and Van Rooy as Kurvenal. In her song recitals in New York in 1S37 It was feared that her voice was leaving her, but It improved after she returned to Berlin. Now, in America again, it seems to have all its old-time vigor. XXX The first of the two Wagner nights at the German House will bo devoted to the life of Wagner. 'Carl Armbruster, who was associated with Wagner, will lecture, pictures will be thrown on a screen from a stereoptlcon, and Pauline Cramer, a Beyreuth singer, will give selections from "Lohengrin" and other operas outside the "Ring." The second night will be an exposition of the "Ring." Prof. Armbruster will explain and elucidate the story, and Miss Cramer will sing. The stereopticon again will be used. XXX The following specially arranged programmes will be presented at the services of the Second Presbyterian Church this morning and evening by the quartet and organist: Morning. Organ prelude, "Holy Night" Buck Quartet, "Hark! What Means Those Holy Voices" Whiting Offertoire, "Prelude to Manfred". ..Rheinke QuarUt, "Hail the King" Bartlette "Tho Way of the Cross" (new) Solmon Mr. Miller. "Festival Postlude" Whiting Evening. Prelude, "Festal March" Smart Quartet, "Joy and Gla-lness" Trowe Quartet, "The Glad Tidings" Brewer "Abide with Me" Siddel Mrs. Evans. "Postlude March" Meyerbeer XXX The position of alto soloist in the Tabernacle Choral Society is vacant. Applicants should address Karl Schneider, director of the society. XXX Paderewski seems to have won Germany completely. Everywhere he plays he is called great. The following quotation from ono critic Is typical: "From being a mere drawing room pianist, he is a poet of the pianoforte who dives below the usual level and reveals to his hoarers things before hidden. At the same time he has an unusual power over the multitude. We feel inclined to say that in Paderewski Intimitat and popularity, are commingled in equal degrees; he is a Chopin infinitely enlarged, a Chopin for the masses." XXX A correspondent of the London Telegraph writes from Milan: "Manclnelli's 'Isaias which was composed for the Norwich festival of 1SS7, has Just been heard in Italy. Somewhat unaccountably, the work has hitherto been Ignored in its composer's native land, but last week the Royal Theater at Turin produced it amid many tokens of lively interest. Our Milan correspondent tells us that the audience was 'enormous,' and that the Duchesses of Aosta and Genoa were among tho important personages present. Mr. Mancinelll himself conducted, the orchestra being ninety strong, and the chorus numbering 120. The cantata seems to have "made an excellent impression on those who listened, and the composer Is said to have been rewarded by applause of the most enthusiastic character." xxx A correspondent of the Munich Allgemeine Zeitung writes that the celebration in Rome of Bellini's hundredth birthday was a scandalous affair from a musical point of view. A German opera house of the forty-second rank would have been ashamed, he declares, to present such a performance. It consisted of the overture to "11 Pirata" and selections from "Norma," "Sonnambula" and "I Puritanl." The chorus was awful, the soloists superannuated and the general effect that of a steeplechase. "The public finally lost patience, hissed and jeered and whistled a true witches' Sabbath." One of the features of the occasion was the reading of an ode on Bellini by D'Annunzio. It is a poem which reads well, but did not found well, as D'Annunzio's voice is hard, cold, sharp and ill-suited for reading aloud. xxx Several of the pupils of Edward Nell, assisted by George Eckert, pianist, and Hazel Woodward, violinist, will give a recital tomorrow evening in the temporary building of the First Presbyterian Church. No. 1423 North Alabama street. The singers will be Attia Malott, Grace Fcasey. Kate Gibson. H. M. Talbot, H. A, Conduitt, J. II. Roberts and H. W. Laut. xxx A Wagner lecture recital has been arranged by Mrs. Franz Bellinger for the Maenncrchor Ladies Society's guest day, next Friday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Bellinger will lecture, and she will be assisted by Mrs. Philip Goetz, Mrs. Frank Edenharter and a pianist, Leo R. R gs. The programme: "Pilgrims' Chorus" and "Elizabeth's Prayer," from "lohongrin," Mrs. Goetz and, Mrs. Edenharter. ."The Unknown Artist, Richard Wagner," Mrs. Bellinger. Selections from "Lohengrin," Mr. Riggs. "Dreams." Mrs. Goetz. "The World-Famed Artist," Mrs. Bellinger. "Dich theure Halle," from "Tannhauser." Mrs. Goetz. xxx The choir of the Memorial Presbyterian Church will repeat J. E. West's cantata, "The Story of Bethlehem," this evening. The soloists will be as follows: Mrs. Oscar Gladden, soprano; Anna Kellogsr. contralto; J. Edward Stilz. tenor; W. T. Chatfie, bass; J. Russell Powell, bass; Fasqualo Montanl, harp; W. H. Donley, organist and director. 1'attl'n Third. Philadelphia Tress. The gossips are busy trying to make out that Patti's latest marriage is not a happy one. If this is so. memories of the tender care of poor Nlcollni must make her present existence more miserable. Ills solicitude for her comforts while en tour was sometimes laughable to those who came In c ontact with them. To seo Nlcollni preparing a salad of an evening and interrupting the scraping of the garlic to stay pretty things to his wife was a combination of the

practical and romantic that was very funny to an American. Upon their reaching a hotel in Michigan one day Nlcollni would not allow Pattl to go to the room until he had first examined it carefully. He found it filled with flowers, placed there by the obliging landlord, who wished to make everything as pleasant as he could for his distinguished guest. The flowers wero sent out as quieklv as possible, for fear that their odor might affect the throat of the songstress, and a number of woolen blankets were brought in and pinned over mattress and pillow and every possible crevice In the window. BOYS WHO YVCAVi: CARPETS,

Some of the Most Intricate Persian Patterns Are the Work of Lad. Scientific American. A replica of the famous carref from the mcsc;uo of Ardabll. which is now preserved In the South Kensington Museum. London, is beingr made at Tabreez. Persia, the center of the carpet-making industry of that country. Tha flowering and designing of this carpet aro absolutely unique. A hand-painted design of the original haä been furnished to the I'ersian weavers, and so skillfully is the work being carried out that it is stated by the English consul general that when completed It will be equal In every respect to the original carpet, so faithfully is the work being reproduced, both with regard to coloring and detail. 1 The carpet is being woven by boys ranging from eight to twelve jvars of age. They sit in serried rows before their looms. Their method of procedure Is to pull the wool from a reel suspended above their heads in their left hands, and. with a flat knife provided with a crooked point In their right, dash the thread, with three movements, through the web strings, hook it into the desired, knot, cut off the surplus ends and start another knot. The work is carried out with such remarkable rapidity that it is almost impossible to follow the movements of the weaver. Before setting to work the weavers closely study the painted design which they have to reproduce, and then depend entirely upon their memories to enable the work to be completed. Their memories are so reliable that it is very seldom they will refer back to the painted design. When working upon a complicated pattern the foreman of the loom a boy about fourteen years of age walks up and down, calling out, in a curious monotone, the number of stitches and the color of the threads to be used. The Persian rugs and carpets are made by hand throuRhout and none but vegetable or natural dyes aro employed. It is to this fact that the longevity and durability of the Persian rugs are attributable, especially in connection with the colorings. BIGOTRY PUZZLES CHINESE. Cannot Comprehend 111 Feeling: Between Catholics and Protestants. North China Herald. A cause of wonder among the Chinese is tho spectacle which has been this year witnessed at Chekiang and Kiangsi, where there have been internecine .sectarian conflicts between native professors of Protestantism, and Roman Catholicism and their sympathizers. Naturally, Chinese nonconverts, skeptics in their way, seeing the peace always existing between Buddhists and Taolsts, are astonished to see the vindictive enmity shown by some portions of the followers of the foreign religions against each other, and cannot make out a plausible reason for all this bitter feeling. The governors of Kiangsi and Chekiang, especially the latter, are also at a loss how to explain this religious phenomenon in answer to the inquiries of the throne, and have, therefore, we learn, sent confidential deputies to Shanghai and other treaty ports to seek for some sort of explanation. One of these confidential deputies, an expectant prefect of Cheklan. named Hsu Cheng-11, is now in Shanghai, whither ho was preceded a fortnight ago by an official of similar rank from NanchAng, the capital of Kiangsi, and both are

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now quietly making inquiries to gatlu-r notes for an exhaustive report on the ub ject to thtlr sup rior officer. A hasty glimpse at the rouh draft of an Intended report by one of th c deputb shows that the gentleman has begun it with a sketch of the reformation, beginning with Martin lather in Germany and John Knox In Scotland, and so on n-?p hy step, through English, Dutch and Spanish history, down to the present era. With this as a basis to go rn and the trite remark that "human nature is the tame the world over," it became eay fur the writer of the report to show th reason ihle.i has produced this bitter feeling between the followers of the two religions in thU country, colored by local conditions. Educational. Chicago Tribune. "For instance," said Superintendent Payne, leaning over the board, "if yoil take three from eleven, what remains?" "Eight." "That's where you show that you really do need information. You have eleven left. In order to have been able to tako the thiee from the eleven you must ha had a separat group of eleven fron tho vicinity of which you could remove the three in fact, you must have had fourteen in order to bo ablo to take three fron eleven." "Hold on," said the other. "I had eleven apples. I took three of them away and there were eight left." "Certainly," said Superintendent Payne. "You took three of them away and left eight. But what did you take the three from? From the eleven? No. Indeed. From the other eight. Otherwise you must conceive of yourself as taking thn three apples from themselves, as they were a rart of the original ckerK" "Then, what should we bay? Eleven less three equals eight?" "No, for what part of speech is 'less?' " "Less is a preposition." declared .a principal, "and governs 'three.' "On the tontrary, 'less' means, aeecrdirg to Webster, 'smaller,' 'r.ot so much.' It is hard to say off-hand w hat would be a orrect phrase. Perhaps 'eleven diminished by three equals eight!' " The argument that followed was lr.g and fierce, but at last a majority of ihn, present decided to acknowledge th soundness of Superintendent Payne's pedagogy. An OIiI Ik Ins Pan tor. Boston Watchman. There i a point to this story: A burglar whose r.ight entry into the parsonage awakened the pastor, said to hi helples victim: "If you stir you're a dead man! I'm hunting for money!" "Just lt ine c; t up and strike a li lit." pleasantly repliri dominie, "and I shall be glad to as?ist jc.u in the search."

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