Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 January 1896 — Page 1

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26—No. 29.

if ON THE QUI VIVE.

It is safe to say that never before in [she history of politics in this county has there been so much bad feeling oreated _teedlessly as has resulted from the congest over the position of chairman of the /Republican county committee in the •coming campaign. At the primaries •Thursday night to seleot members of [the county committee in nearly every preoinot there were two sets of delegates, each representing a certain candidate for the position, which heretofore jhas always sought the man, but in the fpresent, instance is being vigorously sought for. Republican characteristics Lin this respect are not so admirable, from a pollMcal standpoint, as are those of thelffi44flM^^he enemy. The Democrats flght eaoh other, say mean things, [threaten dire results if oertain things tare not brought to pass, but as the time 'for election approaches they get together, forget their differences and vote for their party candidate, on the ground that it is better to vote for a Democrat under all circumstances than a Republican. The Republcans are not so loyal to party, but if they have a fight on 'hand they carry it to the polls with them and use their snickernees with the same fiendish pleasure with which the unspeakable Turk slices off the ears or smashes in the head of the unoffending

Armenian. That doesn't mean toconvey the impression that all Republicans are given to such practices, but it Is more the characteristic of the average Republican |$ than of the average Democrat. If the

Republicans want to get together in the coming campaign they will have to begin work pretty soon, as some breaches are being made by indiscreet talk that can not be healed before the first Tues-

day after the first Monday in November next. The present contest, and the bad feeling engendered tbrerebv, is totally and altogether unnecessary. There Is absolutely no occasion for it. Perhaps without exception the men who have been named in connection with the •office of county ohairman are competent and well qualified for the position for which they were named, and there Is nothing in the record of either of them that shows that he has ever been other than true and loyal to the party. Yet mean things have been said about them all, talk of disrep utable things that have been done, for whioh there was but little, if any, foundation, and the result is there area whole lot of fellows lying around with knives up their sleeves, waiting.for the opportunity to Btiok one between the ribs of isome man who may have been known to be friendly towards or iutimate with any of the advocates of the other side in the present coutroversy. The majority of Republicans of Vigo county don't oare a snap of their fingers who is chairman, just so it is some person of judgement or sense. They don't-care to be mixed up in any factional fight, which always means temporary, and perhaps permauent, defeat. Many of them stayed away from the primaries Thursday night beoause they did- not want to be placed In the position of beting identified with either of the principal faotions that were struggling for the mastery. It is a deplorable state of affairs in whioh to begin a presidential oampaign, and some of the men who hope for the suooess of the party apart from any selfish interest believe that drastlo methods should be taken at onoe to put an end to the present trouble. It Is just this very feeling that exists now in a more serious form than ever before that has made it possible for the Republicans to carry the county in nearly every presidential campaign while the Democrats have filled the court house with their own men, who lost no time or opportunity in contributing to the defeat of the parfr whose kioklng members had made it possible I -for them to hold publio office.

Dollar gas is said to be making a lot of business for theeleotrlo light companies, bothjpf which a« overrun with orders of peopi* who ar doing away with gas for latlng purposes and substituting

ilium eleotri busin

Ity. Not only is this true of j* houses, but with residences as Jwhen the house cleaning season 'the oompantes expect a still f«rr/inorease in the number of electric 1't patrons, as many persons do not re to have their houses torn up in the Vaxiddle of a season, when the time for the annual oleaning is close at hand.

When meters are put in for measuring the Watt hours the prloe per thousand hours is ten oents. Mistakes are made in reading electrio light meters as they are in reading gas meten, as oustomers of both branches of light have discovered. With the inorease in the number of oonsumers of eleotrlc light the question has been raised as to whether or not the gas oompany's advance in the price of gas has made the money for the new owners that it would ordinarily be expeoted to make.

It Is wonderful the way the meter "wheels go wound" when the prloe of gas is one dollar a thousand.

It is understood that the Democrats will nominate Chas. R. Duffiu as their Candidate for senator from this county, in their effort to return a solid Demoooratio delegation yxm Vigo county, in the interest of Senator Voorhees* campaign for re-eleotlon. He has a reputation as an after-dinner speaker, and at the meeting of the Jack«ou league at flndianapolis last year made quite a hit as a speaker in a political way. From present indications J. W. Craft, or as he is better known, "Billy" Croft, will be the Republican candidate for Senator, to step into the shoes of Col. W. E, Mc

Lean. Mr. Graft is a good mixer, and mm

the chances $r'e that he would fen ideal candidate for that

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campaign that means Terre Hauteans, who a the position of sejQJ^fc, Senator Voorhees.

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The campaign for 189& may be said to be formally opened now that Governor Morton's buffet (pronounced boo-fay) with its 20 cent whisky attachment has been injected into the local campaign, by the Gazette, in the effort to scare recalcitrant Damoorats from voting for the candidate? of a party that includes in its membership a mau who allows hi a minions to charge

oents for wtrsky.

The Jackson club has the finest olub rooms of any political organization in the state, and the members are going to still further distinguish themselves in the coming campaign by wearing a uniform consisting of a light but "loud" spring oyercoat, double-breasted, and with large pearl buttons, black silk hats, and will carry hickory canes, in honor of "Old Hickory." The Jackson club fellows are hustlers, and to them belongs the distinguished honor of being able to get more political jobs from a Republican counoil than the McKinley club could get from a Democratic council In ten thousand years.

A great many persons are asking the reason for the suddenly discovered necessity for painting the water plugs white, in order that they may be moro readily discovered at nigut, when ooct sion arises for their use. For years the plugs have been used without this extra color, and no complaint has been made of the difficulty in discovering them after night. All at once it is discovered that the plugs must be painted white in order to secure their proper use. There must be some reason for this sudden necessity, and that is what the people want to know about. Who can answer the question?

carry both of his legs with him and is doing business at the old stand in the basement of the court house is due to Deputy Sheriff "Fatty" Mitohell being on old railroader with a strong arm. The other night while on an East Main street car accompanying a couple of friends home from the Opera House Mr. Hendrich's hat was blown off his head in front of Kidder's mili on east Main street. He attempted to alight to get the hat, and the sudden movement of the motorman in shutting off the electricity to stop the oar threw falen off the iront'pla^form, where he was standing, and he caught by one hand just as he was about to fail under the forward wheels of the oar. In this position he was dragged for oyer a square and had he not had the presence of mind to maintain his hold of the front platform he would undoubtedly have been drawn under the wheels and his life destroyed. Mitohell was on the rear platform, and saw a man fall, apparently under the wheels, ani with all the strength of his «ood right arm he threw his weight against the brake, and assisted the motorman in stopping the car. When the car was stopped young Hendrich found that he had sustained no damage exoept that of having his olothing soiled by his familiarity with the pavement. When the «ar stopped he found the motorman and Mitohell with the tears running down their oheeks, they thinking he had been killed, and he says thit from sympathy he soon found himself In the same condition. It is not unnatural to suppose that the life-saving deputy sheriff will be smoking good cigars at Hendrich's expense for the balance of the month at least.

If there is one thing the people of Vigo county ought to agitate more than anything else it is that of gravel roads. They are badly needed and the business of Terre Haute merchants would be greatly increased if the oounty throughout was substantially Improved in this respect. The residents of Ltntoa township are making a move in the matter that is deserving of suooess. They are trying to secure an order from the oounty commissioners for the construction of a gravel road nine miles in length, extending from the Seventh street, or Bono road, in a southeasterly dlreotion. It is estimated that the road will cos?t about $1,800 a mile, or a total of 116,200 for the entire distance. It has always been customary for the commissioners to pay half of the oost of ooustruotion of suoh roads, whioh would put about |8,000 of the cost of this road on the taxpayers in general. The remainder of the oost is assessed on the property abutting the road. It is not likely that any one oan be found to object to the commissioners spending $3,000 of the people's money in the oonstruo* tion of such a road, and the oounty oan well afford to spend a great deal more than this in the effbrt to oreate a perfect system of good gravel roads throughout the oounty. Qui Viv*.

CITY FINANCES.

From tax paying time in the spring until the close of the year City Treasurer Balch collected $90,800.94 in ta^M, the largest amouht during that period since city taxes were divided into two installments. The city started in the new year with a oomfortable bank aooount, having at that time $178,478.62 on hand, distributed among the several fnnds as follows: General fa ad S130.061 06 Park fund 2^87 03 Street inteneotlon fund ...... »j322 65 Bewer fund 10.039 65 Cemetery fund ............ 1,144 97 City funding bonds of "80, interest fund .T City funding bonds of "90, sinking fund Street improvement fund High school bond sinking fundi Library fund

1,588 889 S3 6,081 43 4^18 08

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Nobody ever accused me of being devoted to %igh art. A study that showed a taauve lawn, a green sky, a bright scarlet rock and two yellow ladies with \^hite hair—I say ladies beoause they both bad petticoats on—was once displayed to me, and I was told it was called "Love and peath." You could take your ohoioe as to whioh was love and whioh was death, but eaoh of the yellow ladies looked seasick the result probably of gazing too long at the purple grass. The young man who showed toe this picture said it was one of the finest examples of high art that had ever been painted. Then I was convinced that high art and I were two. Hence myliking for art which is ordinary and common. Some years ago, longer than like to remember, I used to stand pn the street and admire art as developed on the fences and also on ash barrels. It is true it was crude.

ART CRUDE AND FLARING.

One always knew the villain by his jet black muBtache and his glittering white teeth, for in the pioture he grinned as if he were an advertisement for some tooth paste. Then the hero had long fair hair, wore a sombrero, hold the fainting heroine in his arms while one hand clutched a pistol pointed at the villain, and the other was stretohed out stiffly, so that the heroine's hair, whlcli trailed on the ground, had something solid to rest upon in midair and not allow it to sink too much. There was the elderly mother In the background, with spectacles and looking like a tame cow, while the heavy father had a curly wig that was a joy, and wore a soarfpin that must have been inherited from his ancestors, who owned the mines of Golconda. .Of course, you realise that this was a poster representing the end of the second act of that beautiful play, "Th? Daughter's Fault or, How She Won Him." As the years have gone on', andj they wont stop to oblige ybu or or anybody else, the theatrical posj has improved. It not only tells thesp^y bnt it points to some moralities few faults. With the lmprovem/ posters I began to collect theoMf .ny/at that time people thought I was^iizy and wondered what I wanted v!U®h clean posters. But let us be in the swim, my friend, and no longer call theoa posters, but-afflohes. Still, as my accent might be improved, I stick to the old name, though I give you the point necessary.-

The first appearance of the realistlo poster was made about two years ago When an enormous fence was covered by

A PROCESSION"®®1 PERFBOT'LADIES whose shapes were exquisite, whose faces were fair, and who were, evidently, 'believers in health in costume. They told by example that the greatest health was gained by the least amount of clothing. But this was a fine pioture. Up to the time the average ballet girl had been represented with enormous calves, a twelve-inch waist, and forty-two inch shoulders. The result was startling, not pleasing, and the looker on might have called the pictured person anything but a woman. However, the new school painted a magnificently shaped woman It is true she was Juno and not Venus, but her foot was in proportion to the size of her body, and while she rounded in at the waist, she did not present an unhealthy look, or impress you with the idea that she could not take a good long breath. That afflohe measured, I should think, at least Ave yards by four. The consequence was it could not. join my colleo tion, but I used to go and look at it, and one day when I was :gazing, a man, also a gazer, told me about it. He said: "This is the finest picture of women, in a group, that has ever been done, and the reason it's good is beoause the women an ^al women, real women in more senstK^tban one. Hot only real in ap pearance, but these wonieu exist, and eaoh one was chosen a little slenderer than the one before her so that the prooesslon might be effective in oontrast After the women were grouped the artist had models of them made in wax, and from these wax models the poster was painte^." From that time on I had more respect for them, but soon I no tioed that there was a change in the poster.

MAGAZINE AND BOOK POSTERS. The affiche began to represent a young lady with a thin face, green eyes, burn ing red hair, olothes that were fired on her with a pitohford, and she caressed either a rabbit or a bunch of lilies or a red umbrella. Nobody knew what it meant. This Titian-haired young female might have written under her, "Go and See the Gay English Girls To-Night," or the sign might read, "Hear Tommy Atkins Sing the Patriotic Songs of His Native Land," or her only explanation might be, "Buy the April Tuner! It is Just Out." You never knew what she meant she had to explain herself ways, and the explanatory letters very queer in shape and very od^ftn oolor. When the magazines began to send around these delightful and most artistic posters, then there was joy, because one could always bully one's newsman into giving them away.

There was one that frightened our dog. It was all in black and white, and represented a dreadful old monk wearing a high hat—at least it looked like the sort of high hat peculiar to that time. He seemed to be arranging his library. He was supposed to be & boek collector, but he never would have answered for any book oolleotor that I have met, for he lacked that eager look of the eye that seems tossy, "Sell, or give me that book, or steal it." But, now, unlees yon have ooileoted a lot of posters yon are out of the fashion, and, aooording to the

EVENING, JANUARY 11,1896.

proverb, you might as well be out of the world. I te|l you, this is not an exaggeration, fq there has been a book brought out about posters, and with it there is glvrn away a most lovely one It done is enough to make you want to buy the book, whiob costs three dollars. I ap saving up for it. The trouble is th(i$ I have started to save in what is knfwn as a ten-dollar bank. There reposes in its metal precincts three dollars and ten oents, and the book might bp mine if I could open the bank. But, alasf I have to wait until ten dollars is accumulated before I can go in and treat the young man in the shop as if buying an Expensive book were nothing to me. ThWEf's no doubt about it a woman ijirwPin buy as if she didn't mind the money. I don't believe she has any pleasure in life equal to selecting a box of paper, and offering a hundred-dollar note,'and regretting that she hasn't anything smaller. If the people happen not to bftye any change, it dies ber so much good to sniff contemptuously, and say, "Well, really, I came to buy some paper, not to provide the shop with change."

A, FEW RUT BOOK FOR CHILDREN. By the bye, isn't it ourious how the interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has continued? To be quite honest, I oaie loii only one of his books, but there seems to have been something more than charming about the man, for women who have never seen him shed tears, bitter tears, for him. He fought so .hard against death be seemed to have found so much In life that was goiod that It was a pity he could not have had more of the life which he drank as eagerly as if it were the finest Burgundy. But the book? It is none of the learned ones, it's none of the tales of adven^e, and yet it is the one I like. It is balled "A Child's Garden of Verses?' and it is quite as good for grown up children as for little people. The lines themselves are most wonderful the pictures are joys, and, well, if you want to know exactly how good it is, I will 'quote you one whole poem ed »^A Thought:"

It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every kind of Christian place. Thetf hWe's anqttt ^Short and sweet It is called, MTheXV. |g} Duty of Chil-dren,'-'and if more ol|j|lren were raised on it there would be more better behaved onesiri the World:

A child should always say what's true And speak when &e is spoken to, jfrA/id behave mannerly at table

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verses are so much better than

those horrid books about the angel children who trot around and say impudent things to their «j||F iinder the guise of religion. TbereWi ..antleroy. He was lovely in a book, but' I should like to be preserved from living with children who know such an awful lot, and who are so beautiful, so meek, and mild, and so very ready and willing to run the affairs, not only of the earth below, but the heaven above. 5 DBEABV BOABDIN®

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LIFE.

Speaking of ohildren brings to my mind those that live In boarding houses. I often wonder why there hasn't been an addition made to the litany in the American prayerbook, that would read, "From the living in a boarding house, good Lord deliver us." I know there are different kinds of boarding houses There are boarding houses that are worse but what I cannot understand is why women who kept homes of their own comfortably seem to lose all knowledge of how to live when they keep boarding houses. They seem to think that everybody is to be treated with suspicion, and that children and dogs are to be regarded as oumberers of the the earth. It has always appeared to me as if there was money to be made in keeping a boarding house properly that is giving good rooms, neatly cared for good food, properly oooked and served, with an additional treatment of human beings, as if they were men and women, and not merely boarders. The better a house is kept, the more money a woman can make through it but the average boarding house keeper does not look at it in that light. If the unfortunate boarder happens to be a woman, she is credited with a desire to do something wrong from the moment of her arrival. IV she wishes to retain a particle of character, she mustn't take even her own father, aged 75, into her bedroom. If she happens to possess a number of books, she must submit to their being smeared by the young woman who pretends to dust thsm, and by having this said to her about them: "Miss Brown, I knew yon wouldn't mind, so I lent few of your books to Mr. Robinson, who don't feel well." The few lent ar« oertain to be first editions that she specially prised, and as weeks go by and they are not returned, she summons up oourage and asks the landlady about them. She doesn't remember ever having touched them. Mr. Robinson moved away that morning, and. she is surprised "at your making suoh a fuss about books, cheap as they are." If she happens to dress well the other boarders are doubtful as to where she gets the money to pay her bills. If she don't dress well, they feel sure that she is saving money and is too stingy to make herself look deoent, and then the landlady hints that she has always had stylish people in her house before now

Of her, it must be said that she is not born a boarding-house keeper, bnt she drifts into it.

SHE SPEAKS OF HKR HUSBAND, if he is dead, as "one of the best of men, who was nobody's enemy but his own, and who, if he did take a drink, was always ready and glad to share it with a friend." If he happens to he living, she never refers to him exoept in a scornful

way, and when you first know her you feel sorry for ber as she talks about how lazy men are aud hints that she would be in the poor house if It wasn't for herself, and then she advises you, with a quiver in her voice, never to marry. After awhile you disoover that the little man who oarves is the one she promised to love, honor and obey, that he has a good situation and is so steady that the town olook is Bet by him, but that she keeps boarders beoause she likes what she oalls a lively house. If you happen to have a large mall, she utilizes her husband by getting him to Inquire at the postoffloe as to whether there is anything against you, and she has a pleasant way of conversing with your friends about you, pending your arrival in the parlor, and though you never know what she doe3 say, you fear it is not pleasant as you disoover that the people she cultivates, don't seem to cultivate you after that.

GIVE CHILDREN A CHANGE. But the children! Poor little wretches! Double price Is paid for them, and if they drop a ball over the stair case they are complained of. If they happen to laugh because they are go ng out Into the fresh air, they are too noisy. If they skip onoe or twice instead of walking with great regularity, they aie rough. And if by any chance they are taken sick, then the landlady does give her opinion of them. "Bothersome, nasty things, eat twice as much as anybody else and always in the way, and then go and get sick and make people gloomy." The only child that is liked in a boarding house is one that is deaf and dumb and unable to walk. And yet most of were children once. We trundled hoops and threw ball and skipped rope, and played battledore and shuttlecock, and were experts at jackstraws and We laughed and we skipped, and sometimes we screamed very loudly, but we had a good time. And that is the right of every child. Fanoy having to sit in one room all day and look at a book when you were a boy! Fanoy having to sit in one room all day learning how to sew, when you are a girl! And fanoy, even if you are twins, having your mother say to you, "Now, darlings, walk as softly as you can, else the lady who has the room below will complain!"' Horrors Suppose that had been your ohiidhood! If it had been mine, the result would have been terrible. From sheer perverseness I should have developed into a pirate with pistols stuck in my belt, a knife between my teeth and a .sword at my side... That would have been dreadful.1 What if' You say it' is bad enough as it is, simply because I am

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PEOPLE MP THINGS,

It is claimed that at present the Eniish language is spoken by 110,600,000 people. *Y''

Next season Frederick Warde will add two new Shakespearean roles to his repertoire. He has decided to confine his efforts to tragedy.

The use of bloodhounds by police and sheriff^ for tracking criminals is increasing rapidly all over the west, and the general' testimony Is that the animals are a valuable aid. Cuban bloodhounds seem to be the favorite breed, and the demand appears to be much greater than the supply.

At Mount Vernon, N. Y., there has just died Mrs. Henrietta Turner. She was the last survivor of the "flower girls" who met Lafayette at Woodbridge, N. J., on his last visit to this country, in 1824 Mrs. Turner was tben Henrietta Pryor, a ohild less than eight years old, and the youngest of sixteen girls who, attired in costumes of flowers, formed the words, "Welcome, Lafayette." She represented the last E in Lafayette's name, and was clad in marigolds.

London oculists are up in arms against the very serious danger to the comma nity caused by the electrio light. Several eminent eye doctors are agreed on the point that unless a stop is put to the exposure of uncovered electrio lights in the streets and in shops and offioes, nearly all the population will become blind. Experts are so greatly exercised in the matter that they even suggest that Parliament should take It up and prohibit the use of plain glass globes for electrio lights unless they are properly shaded.

A bill has been introduced in the Virginia legislature appropriating $1,000 a year for ten years, to be devoted to the preservation of the historio landmarks at Jamestown, Va., "the place from whioh the Star of Empire rose in the Western World." Congress appropriated $10,000 for that purpose, bnt tbat fund has already been exhausted, and the encroachments of the James river are endangering much of the work already done toward preserving the most valuable relics of the first English settlement in what is now the'United States.

CoUW.F.Cody, "Buffalo Bill," who has the knack of turning everything he touches into gold, and developed from a frontier scout to a capitalist, has another big project on hand. He is interested in a scheme for th6 development and settlement of the Big Horn basin in Wyoming, and is digging a ditch a hundred and fifty miles long, whioh, when completed, Will supply water to 800,000 acres of land. He has 250 men and about a hundred teams at work, and expects to have about twenty-five thousand acres of "irrigated land open for settlement next May. The surplus population of eastern cities and farmers who want to try their luek farther west are to be tempted with land at 50 cents an acre and $10 a year for perpetual water rights.

Twenty-sixth Year

AMUSEMENTS.

THE BALDWINS FAREWELL.

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Manager Dickson has prevailed upon^ Professor Baldwin to give an extra and* final performance at the Opera House on Sunday evening commencing at eight sharp and as it will be the last chance our citizens will hare to see this fascinating and bewildering entertainment a packed house is a certainty. In addition to the exquisite vaudeville features by the clever company and Mrs. Bald* win's bewildering somnomacy the professor will introduoea duplication of the materialization of the dead as praotlced by the seers and wonder workers of Northern India and Thibet, It is an item tbat is far beyond the powers of European and American so-called' spiritual mediums and has never been attempted by any of them. It is sure to cause the biggest kind of sensation as the claim is made that you can see and recognize the-faces of your dead friends in the bright light on the open stage. Seats for Sunday night—absolutely the last chance to see the Baldwins—oaD be bad now at Buntin's drug store.

JULIA MARLOWE-TABER.

Next Monday night should surely be olassed as a genuine society event at Naylor's opera house, when Julia Mar-lowe-Taber and Robert Taber with their excellent company of players will give a grand scenic production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It." Mr. Taine, the eminent writer, said of the fine old comedy, "As You Like It," "Aotton, there Is none: interest, barely likelihood, still less, and the whole is oharming, an easy .current of graceful emotions." This easy current is particularly noticeable in the aoting of Mrs. Taber as Rosalind. She Is considered delightful in this most bewltohing of Shakespearian characters, and has been seen and heard in this role so often and so acceptably that her portraiture of Rosalind has been so frequently praised tbat commendation seems almost useless. The pertness, the artless charm, the magnetism of form, face, voice and manner are characteristic of her impersonation* of this part which every one will easily remember. Robert Taber has often received the highest orltioal commendation for his impersonation of Orlando, a role for whioh, like that of Romeo, he

Beems naturally endowed. His faoe,.. figure and voice are peculiarly adapted^ to the rola, whiob.he plays with admifflk ble skill, refinement and grace. Monday night Julia Marlowe Taber will be seen as Rosalind and Robert Taber as Orlando.

J. K. EMMET IN "OUR FRITZ." The olever oomedian J. K. Emmet will {, be the attraction at the opera bouse next Wednesday evening. January 15th, presenting his great soenio comedy produotion, "Fritz in Ireland." Mr. Emmett will be assisted by his own company of oomedy players and will introduoe special and novel features—the chimes, the double quartette, songsr dances, eto., together with the donkey and a genuine Irish jaunting car.

I TOMPKINS' "BLACK CROOK."' This grand spectaoular drama will be seen at the opera bouse soon in all its magnifioently dazzling splendor, and Mtith the same generous attention to detail that marked its qaemorable New York run of twelve months. Three-1^' grand ballets and a sumptuous transformation scene will vie with the fabled gorgeousness of the Orient. In all, our theater-going public should not miss an attraction of this magnitude, whioh is rarely given outside the metropolis.

NOTES.

"An Enemy of the King" is the title J* of a new play, by R. N. Stephens, which has been submitted to E. H. Sothern, and which, it is announced, he will probably produce next season.

A newspaper correspondent, writing from Brighton, England, says Mary Anderson de Navarro has become almost an invalid. She is said to have changed from the slender woman of yore to ,'Jj matronly proportions.

The wonderful Baldwins have con-

sented to give one more presentation of

their strange, wonderful performance at C1 Naylor's opera house Sunday night, jf: when they will answer all questions, and in addition give a marvelous materializatlon seance, which will startle f| and thrill you. The Baldwins are truly the sensation of the day.

Richard Mansfield has announced his |j intention to retire from the stage at the conclusion of this season and go upon the lecture platform. It is further stated that he has Instructed W. A, McConnell, his general manager, to cancel as much as possible of the tour booked for him next season. It is bis Intention, however, to fill his theatrical engagements in New York and other large cities

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A well known Philadelphia journalist is perfecting a patent whereby in the case of a fire or a panic in a theater all the seats will drop out of sight under^4^. the floor, thus leaving the audienoe a clear space of reach the exlts.

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Julia Marlowe Taber is one of the actresses whose addresses and contributions to newspapers and other journals are sought after. She is frequently called upon to lecture on some stage subject. While in Philadelphia recently she accepted an invitation to speak before the Contemporary Art Club on "Woman's Work on the Stage," which was very cordially received. After the address she was given a reception. She has frequently written articles for the press and has demonstrated her ability in a literary as well as an artistic manmer.

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