Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 October 1897 — Page 1

VOL. 28—NO. 18.

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ON THE QUI YIVE. \y*%

The announcement comes from Indianapolis that civil service has no friends in the present congressional delegation from this state, and that when the Grosvenor bill to abolish it comes up at the next session of congress Indiana will be found voting solidly for the bill. The people who are active in the party's interest once every 'our years, when there is to be a president elected, and are either mugwumps or inactive during the remainder of the period, do not know or realize the deep disgust that is felt in the rank and file of the party against civil service. They think, therefore, that there is nothing in the so-called opposition to civil service, that it is simply that of a few ward heelers and street corner politicians, so-called, and that nothing will result from the fight of these people against civil service. The people will act as vice presidents for political meetings, once every four years, when some notable speaker is here, who do not perform the first duty of a member of a political party in whose doctrine they profess faith, that of attending the primary meetings, cannot realize the intensity of feeling there is against the civil service idea of perpetrating one man in office during life time, simply because he may have been there when a certain rule was promulgated, or because he may have stood a certain percent ata farcical examination held under the auspices of a civil service commission. It is as certain as the rising of the sun that no man can be elected to congress from this district on the Republican ticket next year, no matter how large a majority he has to start with, unless he pledges himself unequivocally and absolutely against the present system of civil service. Q. V. heard a well-known business man of this citv say this week— he is not identified with the class called ward heelers or street corner politicians— that he would not vote for the Republican candidate for congress next year under any circumstances unless the candidate Would assert to hlin, in writing, over his own signature, on his honor as a man that he would vote for and use his best efforts to secure the repeal of the laws in force providing for the present system of civil service. If we had primary elections in this district, and had two caridinates for the Republican nomination for congress, one committed to civil service, and the other opposed to It, it would be safe to bet at long odds that the one committed to civil service would not get a thousand votes in the district. In fact, I doubt if he would get five hundred votes if none but, Republicans were allowed to vote? If the theory that the majority Should rule in this couutry is correct, then the sham civil service-that we have now on tap should be wiped off the face of the earth. The majority of the people are opposed to it, whether they are Democrats or Republicans. And so I say, the Republican candidate for congress in this district next year, if he expects to get united" support from his party, will have to commit himself in plain terms against the style of civil service we have.

This will be Judge Henry's last week as judge of the Superior court. He has made an announcement to the members of the bar to this effect, and as his bond in the sum of $110,000 as collector has been approved at Washington, he will enter upon the duties of his office on Saturday next, that being the end of the official term of Judge Jump as collector. S. C. Stimson will be appointed judge of the Superior court as soon as Judge Henry's resignation is placed in the hands of the governor, who has heretofore announced his intentions in this direction.

Judge Jump may be looked upon as one of the luckiest fellows in the world. He steps out of an office paying a salary of •4,500 a year into that of receiver of the Terre Haute Street railway, which will pay him as good if not abetter salary than the position he vacated. The notable feature of the case Is that he was given this •oft job by the very man who is going to take his place. Both of the electric light companies uow in the hands of a receiver are controlled by Democratic politicians and both were appointed by Republican judges. The only thing, striking about the matter is that when our courts were officered by Democrat* they were always able to find Democrat* to appoint to these lucrative positions. It is fair to say, however, that in the case of the old light company the alignment was voluntary, the receiver being named by the officers of the company.

Township Assessor Otto Carrhas won his suit against the county commissioners, involving the salary, and therefore the employment, of a deputy in his office. Judge Piety decided the case on Monday against the commisssioners. The assessor of a township the size and importance of this cannot successfully perform his duties without the assistance of a competent office deputy during a greater portion of the year and the decision of the court justifies such employment. It is said that the commissioners are inclined to carry the matter to a higher court.

Mayor Ross has wisely Issued a proclamation regarding the observance of Hallow K'eti. He says that it Is "not the intention of the city authorities to prohibit or even to restrain any one from the rational enjoyment of Hallow K'en,'* but all persons are prohibited from engaging in any amusement which would in any manner interfere with the right* and happiness of other*, and as the police and all

who have police powers are called upon to see that the terms of the order are enforced, it is likely that there will not be a repetition of the riotous performances of former years. The mayor is fight in this and the community will uphold him in his endeavors to have the laws obeyed on an evening, when, according to custom, the destruction of property has been looked upon as one of the special privileges of the occasion.

A HANDSOME HALL.'

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Social Lodge, No. 86, A. F. As A Dedicates Its New Quarters. Social Lodge, No. 86, A. F. & A. M., which since the destruction of the opera house in July last year, has been without a home of its own, on Monday night dedicated its handsome new quarters at 421K Main street, with a reception to the members of the Masonic fraternity of the city and vicinity, together with their wives and friends. It was made the occasion of a most en joyal entertainment, an elaborate programme of musical numbers having been arranged, which was participated in by Mesdames Charles Ohmer, Edward Hazeldlne and Alma Hyneman Smith, Misses Venie Richardson, Otella Schwedes, Florence Warhust, Rose Hirschler, Maude L. Paige, Olga Hyneman and Agnes Wey, and Messrs. Eineo.ke and Einecke, Hughes, Dickerson, Julius Blumenberg, Gabe Davis and H. M, Tourner. In addition to the musical programme there were addresses by Judge David N. Taylor and Hon. Thos. B. Long, past grand master of the grand lodge of Indiana. Following the programme, refreshments were served in the vacant store room formerly occupied by Sykes & Gray, and over five hundred took part in this part of the entertainment.

The hall has been completely furnished throughout with new wall paper, painting, carpets, furniture and fixtures, and it is certain that there is not in Indiana a more beautiful or attractive lodge room. There is a reception room on the second floor facing the stairs, with large ante rooms and the lodge room proper on the third floor, all handsomely furnished and lighted with electricity. The officers' chairs and the altar were tarnished by the H. C. Lilley Co., of Columbus, Ohio, while the following local firms did the rest: A. Z. Foster, carpets and furniture, Chas. H. Traquair, wall paper H. M. Glavecke, painting and graining: N. B. Yeakle, sign writing Briee Taylor, carpenter work.

With the exception of Terre Haute Lodge No. 19, whose charter bears date of September 13th, 1821, and Terre Haute Chapter, No. 11, Royal Arch Masons,

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oldest Masonic body in this county, charter bears date of May 29th, 1850. Its first Worshipful Master was Thos. I. Marshall, formerly a well-known resident of this city, but long since deceased. Other well-known residents identified with the history of Terre Haute who have presided over the deliberations of this body are: *Macom McFadden,

#Philander

B.' Brown,

*Wm, K. Edwards, *John Sayre, *John J. Bugh. *Henry S. Briggs, *August L. Chamberlain, W. Mayfield Mac Lean, •James S. Wyeth, *Simeon Wolf. *Hardin A., Davis, John Abbott,

#Paul

R. McCos-

key, Joseph K. Graff, Josiah D. Jones, James K. Allen, Robert M. Harrison, *,Tohn H. Clift, James N. Hickman, Wm. Cleland, David N. Taylor, Wm. E. Boland, Thos. C. Naylor and Geo. A. Schawl, the present incumbent. Those names marked thus are deceased. The present officers of the lodge are Geo. A. Schaal, worshipful master Chas. H. Traqffair, senior warden Wm. Tichenor, junior warden Max Joseph, treasurer James K. Allen, secretary Edward JE. Bitqer, senior deacon Reuber Bute, junior deacon Robert H. Catlin, senior steward: Chas. E. Jones, junior steward James H. Mullen, tyler. At the last annual report the lodge had a membership of 356.

Ked Letter Day at First M. E. Church. Sunday will be a "red letter" day in the First M. E. Sunday school. Letters on red paper with red envelopes have been mailed to each present, as well as former attendants of the school, which the superintendant hopes will be read. There will be a special programme, with appropriate songs, which, however, will not ba read, but sung readily under the direction of the ruddy chorister, Prof. Starr. The energetic superintendent and faithful assistant do not propose to paint that section Of the city red, but they are arranging for a pleasant and profitable Sunday school session. After a short lesson, which will be beautifully illustrated, a programme will be rendered, including music by Prof. Star, Miss Row and Mrs. Houghton, talks by Prof. M. Seller on "The Purpose of the Sunday School," Hon. Geo. W. iFaris on "The Legitimate Result of the Sunday School-' and Rev. D. Tillotson on "Why I Should Associate Myself With the Church, and an Opportunity To Do So."

Llcentcd to Wed.

John F. Clark and Anna Jackson. Htram C. Dubhs and Susan Lints. Elmer Connors and Emma Smith. John W. Shannon and Mary Brockhaus., Patrick Rice and Mat? Bourner. Carl MeN'abney and Mamie Kennedy. John Nickel and Ann Breinfjr. Augustus J. Lcyden and Sarah A. Rear-dot*. Wm. L. McPeak and Harriet F. Chamberlulu,

W». P. Smith and Carrie B. Grabbs. Thos. Keene Gale and Clara L. Anderson. W— K. Pucfcey and Kate Marnley. Cl ie L, Wilson and Bess B. Ehrllck. Altar* J. Blley and Luclnda L. Loser, Jesse Slousfc and Mottle Wakens* Harry Oonover and Ella rowan.

Probably nothing is the cause of more coldness in early married life than a man'* dislike to being compelled to tell his wife he loves her when he has something else on his mind.

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ABOUT WOMEN.

It is becoming a noted fact that the young women of to-day show a decided preference for men whose reputation is not of the best. Speaking about this a few evenings ago a college man said: "It isn't much of an incentive for a fellow to keep his morality up to the standard when he sees the most disreputable men of his best set simply lionized by girls and their mothers. "I don't know why it is. Wo&en have a mania for cultivating men whose characters are anything but good. The shadier they are the more they appeal to women. Can't understand it." "Maybe it is because we so love to pose as reformers," ventured his hostess. "You know a woman enjoys nothing better than the fancy that she has it in her power to mold character—masculine character, that is." "All the same I shouldn't thinK she would care to make her parlors trainiog quarters for society toughs. There were two men in my class last year, the wildest, fastest fellows I knew, but they were made more fuss over by the mothers and daughters of their acquaintance than any of their well-behaved friends. These game mothers and daughters knew any number of bright, moral young men, but they ignored them every time in favor of the ne'er-do-wells—were flattered to death to receive the slightest attention from the wild pair. Their money may have appeared a satisfactory substitute for morals—but what a state of affairs!"

It is said that the supposed grave of Eve, in a cemetery just outside the walls of Jedah, is visited each year by 40,000 pilgrims. These pilgrims should all be women who should water the grave of the first mother with their tears. If it were not for the first mother the women of the present day would be much more respected members of society. That eafly mischance of Eve and the apple has cast a refiction upon all women, a reflection upon all women, a? reflection which they have never been abW to live down. There is no real reason fell supposing that women are more curioqji than men, yet whenever a woman desiring to increase her fund of information make$ investigations along her own original lines of research she Is called a true daughter of Eve with an air of amiable sufferance which is irritating in the extreme, tpiy there should be "daughters of Eve" witku regard to inherited characteristics any more than "sons of Eye" is a question. It is, in fact, very uncertain whether in the

jr.* Its anydnughters of Eve.Werknow, according to Biblical accounts, that Eve had several sons, but not a word was said about daughters. The history of Genesis is very much condensed and the statement that '"the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters," does not at all imply that Eve had daughters. The early patriarchs had paany wives. And if Eve had no daughters it is most probable that any peculiarities she had—if she had any— would be transmitted and carried on through the male lines of the family. But if women do inherit anything from the great foremother, it may be that the increasing size and height of women is one point of inheritance. Eve's grave is said to measure 50 cubits in length and 12 in width or, counting a Hebrew cubit as 18 inches—the smallest measure—75 feet long and 18 feet wide. The Arabs believe

Eve to have been the tallest of women.

To older people no other vagary of very young girls is more amusing than their penchant for urging changes on their Christian names. It is no uncommon thing to find that the little girl you have known as Sallie has returned from boarding school and expects to be addressed by the romantic and Byronlc-sounding appellation of Saidee, while unnumbered Malvinas have been metamorphosed into Malvines, and plain Maria disguises and Frenchifies herself into Marie. Others satisfy their love of vanity by introducing queer spelling into their names, and the accounts of balls and parties attended by Maymes and Caryolyns and others of their kln4 add a humorous flav.or. to the society column. -v

There is always a great deal in a name to a girl. She never quite understands why her mother named her after her grandmother in preference to Lady Claires or Gwendolyns, or Beaulahs of high-flown novels, and the diminutives she adds to her name is merely a Mark Tapley effort to be as romantic as she can under creditable circumstances.

Girls who bemoan the unpoetical taste of their parents in the matter of names may take comfbrt from the thought that they are not so bad off as they might be. The Indian girls of the Crow agency boarding school, in Montana, gave a soiree dansante the other day and the newspaper account mentioned the following young ladies as having been present: Mi—tw Clara Spotted-Horse, Edith Long-Sar, Kittle Medicine, Lena Old-Bear, Clara BullNose, Blanche Little-Star, Nellie Mark-on-the-Xeck, Maty Old-Jack-Rabbit, Bertha Big-Mouth, Katie Dreamer, .Fanny Plenty-Butterflies, Bessie Crooked-Arm, Martha Long-Neck, Isabel Lunch, Floy Haliy-Wolf, Lucy Hawk, Beatrice Beads-oc-Ankle, Maggie Broken-Arm, Anna Medicine^Pipe, Helen Come-Oat-of-Fog, Sarah Three-Horns, Ida Wrinkle-Face, Jessie Flat-Head. Lottie Grand-Mother's-Knife, Esther Knows-Her-Gun, Minnie NodsHfct Bear, and "others.'7

Fortunately, we are for too wise to make our names descriptive, as Is the custom of

TERRE HAUTE, DO)., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1897. TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR

the untutored savage. Our Daisies and Lilies and Roses are merely flights of fancy, ahd have no reference whatever to any resemblance between the person and the flower whose name they bear. Indeed, tfrere seems a fatal persistency with which l|lies are dark and sallow, and Roses {ire tf»in and scrawny and colorless, while the name of Daisy, instead of bringing to our n»ind the sweet, sly maiden who should typify the modest wayside (lower, has come to be almost a term of reproach.

Of course one likes to think there should an appropriateness in names, and it

fllust be a grievous trial to a poetic to be called Hannah or Sarah, en she would rejoice in being a Beatrice

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Inez, but fancy what consternation it Would create if we should adopt the simple device of the Indians and name a girl from some marked characteristic. How would it seem to read that Miss Lulu Been-Qut-Three-Seasons attended the bride .to the altar, or that Mamie Chew-Gum igave a pink tea, or Carrie ProgressiveEuchre won the card prize, or that Mrs. ^ony-Neck occupied her box at the opera.

On the whole, it is best to let well enough alone, and be satisfied with plain, honest, everyday names, that at least carry no invidious criticisms concealed about them.

Here's a hint for those girls who would dhange their giggle into a fetching, rippling laugh. A woman who noses around and takes notes is authority for the statement that a girl who is not on good terms With her laugh has hit upon a successful gpheme to improve it. After putting her Wits to work this laughter-loving girl practiced smiles before the mirror. After becoming an adept in facial expression she Sought the aid of the piano, there to practice laughing by music. A pianist was engaged, and for an hour every day he drilled her by running up and down the scale, she accompanying it with her laugh. The results were astonishing. From the simple primary idea of making her laugh musical the scheme developed until the girl is now mistress of a whole set of different laughs for different occasions—the laugh immoderate, the laugh cynlal, the merry ha I ha I aftd the forced flat peal that follows the conclusion of a chestnut. All who believe that "it is well to laugh" might profit by the same experiment.

A "Girl" writes: "I quite agree with your correspondent whb says men admire a trim waisted, neatly shod and gloved girl, but he is quite mistaken in supposing she can he 'clinging' at the same time. Nobody can cling in eighteen *inch stays, and that is one of their'.g^eatgst drawsM mbrace a small-waisted girl, and in a few minutes he will find her withdrawing herself gracefully from his clasp. He may put it down to coyness, but it is reully stays, as a distinct creak will inform him, if he has good ears. Why, when an actress wants to play a clinging, emotional part does she not put on a tea gown before she starts on the job? I have heard of a girl who always took o*ff her stays when she wanted to indulge in a good cry, and even nice, pretty pointed boots area trifle crampling to the affections. You can be be trim, smiling, amiable and pleasant even in sixteen-inch stays when you have got used to them, but, believe me, you simply cannot cling worth a cent. I have tried, and ought to know."

The Young Ladies' Minstrels. Rehearsals are progressing favorably with the minstrel entertainment to be given by the young ladies of this city at the Grand Opera House next Thursday and Friday evenings, and it promises to be one of the most enjoyable entertainments for which the amateurs of Terre Haute are justly famous.

In the first part the following young ladies under assumed names will act as end men with bones and tambourines: Misses Janie Hunter, Eva Hollinger, Mabel Cook, Alice Hammersteih Franceska Strong, Nelda Dickson, Grace Jenckes, Julia Ford, Elsie Crawford, Rose Hera and Laura Cox. In the first part there will be vocal solos by Miss Louise Smith, of Mi. Vernon, and Mrs. George F. Westfall and a whistling solo by Miss Cora O'Boyle. In addition there will be two quartettes, the first consisting of Mrs. Westfall, Miss Smith, Miss Edith Longman and Miss Jessie Perdue, and the second of the Misses Lucy and Marguerite Farral, Mary Bridwell and Carrie Hyde. There will be sixty in the chorus.

In the olio the Washburn Mandolin club will perform, there will be the following dances by the young ladies: Hottentot, Automaton and a song and dance. The programme in addition to this will consist of a drill by twenty-four young ladies, "Daughters of the Regiment," and a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's "Trial by Jury." Miss Lottie Longman will be musical director, Adolph Gagg will have charge of the first part and Prof. Duenweg of the dances. The performance will be given with the full Ritt^~ VI orchestra.

The sale of seats opened at Buutin's this morning and proved very satisfactory. The following is the scale of prices decided upon for this unique entertainment: Gallery, 25 cents balcony, 90 cents first floor, 15 cents and #1.

The most, costly building of modern times will probably be that of the New York state capitol at Albany*-Nearly 199,000,000 has been spent on it.

Id 1«3 Malcolm Forbes paid $400,090 to Senator Stanford for the horse Arlon, making it the most valuable equine the world has ever known.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

It has been calculated by Robert Ball that the whole coal supply of our planet would barely suffice to produoe heat equal to that which the sun dissipates in onetenth of a second.

An unique organization, called till Autumnal Straw Hat Association, has been formed in Boston. Its object is t-o persuade men to wear straw hats after September 15, provided the temperature makes it justifiable.

The public schools are the means of saving a great deal of property. It Is said that during the vacation the school children of America destroy, waste, or damage property of various kinds to the amount of $1,000,000 a day.

There are in Vienna 1,863 old buildings whose owners are guaranteed eighteen years' freedom from taxation if they will tear them down and put new structures in their place. Last year 242 owners made use of this privilege.

Bicycles are used for smuggling on the frontier of France and Belgium, The customs officers at Tourooing took to pieces the machine ridden by a man they suspected and found that all the hollow tubing was stuffed with tobacco.

The Cherokee form of marriage is perhaps the simplest and most expressive of any. The man and woman merely join hands over a running stream, emblematic of the wish that their future lives, hopes and aspirations should flow on in the same channel.

One of the important offidikls of the German court is said to be the "imperial pants stretcher." And as the Emporor has over 100 pairs of trousers, and changes them with considerable regularity, it is easy to see that the position is far from being an honorary one.

Modern man is gradually waking up to the fact that he can utilize everything. Coal is not only a source of heat and light, but a storehouse of colors, tastes, medicines, perfumes and explosives. From 140 pounds of gas tar in a ton of coal over 2,000 distinct shades of aniline dyes are made.

The value of the jewels in the British crown Is about $1,800,000, or a little over one-fifth of the cost of the crown of little Portugal, which is estimated at $8,500,000, The Sultan of Johore, however, on state occasions glitters in diamonds, the value of those in his crown and worn upon his person being not less than $12,000,000.

It is pleasant to be told that'wooing inEngland is, as a rule, the preliminary, to a

tics show that the average annuarnumber of applications for divorce

does

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575, which is certainly small, considering that the number of Englishmen and Englishwomen who marry each year is computed at 450,000

The London newspaper that has been dropping the letter "u" in words like labor and color and spelling "program" without the "me," is now overwhelmed with protests from readers against this surrender to a demoralizing Americanism in spelling. Such butchery of the English tongue, they argue, should never be condoned.

Congressman J. H. Walker said in a lecture-in Boston the other day: "I think if the Book of Proverbs should be destroyed by accident Tom Reed would be called on as the best man in the world to rewrite them The man doesn't live who can state a proposition—or anything, in fact— so clearly and so effectively in the smallest number of words as Mr. Reed can."

Walter Wellman says that^one short story will illustrate the spirit of English journalism better than any amount of generalism, and quotes Moberley Bell, the editor of the London Times, as saying: "We would at any time stop our presses and make new stereotype plates to correct a typographical error, but we would not stop our machines to get in apiece of late news, no matter how important or sensational. We could print that the next day without any bother."

LITERARY NOTES.

The first number of anew magazine for children, to be called Little Folks, will be issued the last of October by S. E. Casino of Boston. As its sub-title states, it will be "an illustrated monthly for youngest readers." Mr. Charles Stuart Pratt and Mrs. Ella Farman Pratt, who are to create and edit the magazine, will embody in it many plans and ideas which are the outgrowth of their twenty years' experience in shaping the children's literature of America (in Wide Awake, in little Men aati Women, in Babyland, etc.)

A territory of 271,000 square miles, comprising Washington, Idaho and Oregon as they are to-day, was saved to the Union by one man. He had the courage and heroism to ride on muleback for three thousand miles. The ride was thrilling, the trial and hardships marvelous, the result a glorious one. The whole story, beautifully illustrated, is given, in the November issue of The Ladles' Home Journal, under title, "When Dr. Whitman Added Three Stars to Our Flag," the closing and most intensely interesting article in the Journal's successful series of "Great Personal Events." The first women to cross the Rockies figure in the story, which proves beyond a doubt that they preceded Fremont, the "Pathfinder," by six years.

Apropos of Literature, the new periodleal of literary criticism shortly to be launched by the London Times and Messrs. Harper Brothers, it is announced that Mr. Barrett Wendell, assisetant professor

of Englishat Harvard College, will contribute weekly a letter upon topics of literary" ', interest in America. *!Vs r,\ dll?

Commencing with November, Harper's it

Round Table will be published monthly intead of weekly, as heretofore. It will become a monthly magazine for youth. The principal feature of the publication in iW new form will be stories—especially such as deal with adventure and acts of .,, bravery, and the healthy, vigorous side of every-day life. In additoin to fiction, there will be practical and instructictive articles: on hunting fiishing, and sport generally on travel and exploration, and all such subjects as the irrepr ssible energy of youth delights in. A point of additional interest is the new Round Table will be published simultaneously in London and New York. a

GRAND OPERA HOUSE*

Indications Point to a Successful ^Opening next Tuesday Night. Terre Haute, which has been without^ a theater since the destruction of Naylor's: on the 21st of July, 1896, will have one in full swing after next Tuesday night, and a beauty it will be. There is no prettier theater in the entire west than the Grand Opera House, which uew from one end to the other, will be thrown open next Tues- .-j day night, with that particularly jolly comic opera, "Isle of Champague" as the attraction. The opera has been seen here before, but never with a stronger oompany than the one now engaged In its produo-, ^"4 tion. At the head of the company are. Richard Golden, and Miss Katharine

Germaine. This composition by Americans, C. A. Bryne and Louis Harrison, Is '1 a strong rival to anything Gilbert & Sulli-, van ever produced for the England stage,

eventually a dispute aro*e concerning monetary itter.H and the play was withdrawn at the acmj of its miccess. That question having baen adjusted, Messrs. Biers & Co. have secured the opera and will produce it with such excellpnt costars as Mr. Richard Goiden and Miss Katharine Germaine. a talented company of sixty in support, handsome scenery, exquisite costumes, a large and well drilled ballot and a fine orchestra.

The advance sale of seats for the opening

performance has been very gratifying, and when the curtain goes up next Tuesday night it will be upon one of the largest and most fashionable audiences that ever gratified a management.

NOTKS.

Richard Harding Davis has finished his dramatization of "The Soldier of Fortune" and read the manuscript to Charles Frohman, at whose suggestion the novel was made into a play. He awaits Mr. Frohman's verdict,

De Wolf Hopper has accepted from Charles Klein the book of anew operetta, to be called "The Charlatan." The music hi to be by John Philip Sousa, and it is proposed that the work shall open the next season in New York./^V^V

John Philip Sousa will make his debut as an author on the occasion of the production of his new opera, 'The Bride Elect," in Boston, on Jan. 9. Both the libretto and the music of this new work are from Mr. Sousa's pen.

Jessie Bartlett Davis, it is said, will star next season in an operatic version of one of the Sardou plays, probably "Gismonda," although the negotiations are not yet closed. The composer has been engaged ai& the entire Fanny Davenport outfit will probably be used. If "Gismonda" is not selected. It may be "Cleopatra" or

LaTosca."

No one seems to appreciate too much of a good thing. Even the small boy doesn't want to go swimming when it's raining. tyg,

and goes to prove that although young, this country is not far behind its worthy parent in the things that man can do. "The Isle of Champagne" was produced 1 1 several seasons ago and made an Instantaneous hit. The theater on Broadway, New York, where it played, was packed.-^ nightly, which caused the financial suecess to be so unexpectedly great that

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