Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 29, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 January 1909 — Page 3
LUCKY STARS IN THE AMUSEMENT WORLD ARE SHOWERED WITH GIFTS AND HONORS Many Owe Their Present High Prices to Amer-ica-Tommy Burns’ $30,000 and American Pugilists in Paris—Who Does the Least to Get the Most?
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attitude of insolent and utter triumph beside his prostrated adversary, while 9,000 Parisians, paying from $lO to sl, except in the highest gallery, cheered themselves hoarse. “What! $3,000 to do nothing, to risk nothing, suffer nothing?” Rejane exclaimed, scandalized. “That man gave him no fight, no hurt; when he got tired of showing off, he felled him
THE PRICE OF A MINUTE, ww? 1 Ek * •’6O ‘ * B *B ... u JJ^E^TAHE. I 111 One Thousand Francs a Minute Is What Patti Received for Singing Three Melodies That Lasted Five Minutes. Mme. Melba, for Singing Ten Times, Received 80,000 Francs. For One Rendition Chalispine Demands 10,000 Francs. Mme. Rejane and Mme, Granier, 2,000 Francs.
like an ox! Do you know, that American is better paid than we?” “Don’t criticise,” said Sardou, later —it was a short time before bis death. “You are all spoiled favorites of fortune at this moment.” Then he told her this tale of the gayest and most beautiful young actress of the second empire—Hortense Schneider: The .Rejane of her day had quit the Palais Royal in a quarrel at rehearsal. She was packing her trunks for Bordeaux when Offenbach came, offering her the title role of “La Belle Helene,” just completed for the Varieties. Seated on her trunk, Hortense heard with delight the airs that were to transform her to a veritable queen of cpera-bouffe; but her mind was made up, and she fled Paris. Demand Now Seems Modest. At Bordeaux she got a telegram from Offenbach: “Name your own terms.” And, almost as a joke, she wired an answer that Sardou kept among the financial curiosities of his theatrical collection: “As it’s Christmas, I expect a present; I won’t budge for less than S4OO per month.” “Poor thing! It’s Christmas every day now!” laughed Rejane, as Sardou went on telling how the famous actors of his younger days earned in a year what Coquelin has received for two nights in America. Paulin Menier, the Immortal Choppart of “The Lyo ^s Mail,” at the height of his success touched $1,200 per year, and Frederick Lemaitre, who has his marble statue in the streets of Paris and who went on European tours, never received over S4O per night. “That’s all very well,” said Rejane, “but who does the least to get the most to-day? I stick up for that awful slugger. He’s so heavy that no one can hurt him. I am told he has an uppercut, a hook and a short-arm jab, born in the man, that can't be learned. Next month he’ll get $3,000 again to shoow his graces and knock a man senseless.”
Not So Very Precious.
A New York hotel is going to have enough gold dishes to serve a dinner of seven courses to 75 persons. Os course, this suggests moralizing on prodigal luxury and allusions to Lucullus and Apicius and also to Belshazzar. But there was a time when even kings dined from trenchers, The introduction of pewter was probably denounced by the philosophers of the day as prodigality, and while silver
So the Parisian question rose—Who does the least to get the most? Rejane and most Parisians know noothing of the $30,000 of our Tommy Burns in Australia, “win, lose or draw,” but to earn it against dangerous Jack Johnson risked the very reputation that made life “Christmas the year round” for him. Earnings of Star Pugilists. Were star pugilists to really risk their reputation frequently they would fall into the category of Mephisto, the first man to “loop the loop.” He received $5,400 per month and became a great personage in all the capitals of Europe for risking to break his neck every night! No, the $4,000 that Burns picked up easily for knocking out Bill Squires last Grand Prix night was really better money, and it opened Tommy’s eyes to
EJANE had quit her theater in time to see Sam MacVea knock out Ben Taylor at the Paris Hippodrome. “What does he get for that?” she asked, as the Herculean American I negro struck an
Paris possibilities. But here’s the comic hitch: The Paris heavyweight job is held down already by a dangerous negro. Paris, waking up to pugilism wonderfully, has golden places open for an absolutely first-class middleweight and any lightweight who can whip Kid Davis. Jimmy Britt, who gets $3,500 in London for a fairly easy knockout like that of Johnny Summers, can make and hold a splendid Paris place with little risk. MacVea’s Paris price for doing nothing is $3,000, and as he is collecting it six or eight times a year, perhaps Rejane is not so wrong about him. Because Caruso, look you, is at the mercy of the first sore throat or simple catarrh. The keeping of that delicate voice in order is a veritable drawback to a life “all Christmas.” Caruso gets $2,500 every time he sings, and he sings 80 times a year. But, really, his easiest money is $5,000 yearly, just for singing 20 short songs into a phonograph. He does it in five mornings, when he feels good—say about SI,OOO per hour! Money Easily Earned. Chaliapine, the great Russian dramatic tenor, gets $2,000 per night in Paris, Berlin and Vienna, the sole difference being that such nights are few and far between. So Patti, who has had $5,000 for a single night in the United States, received $3,000 once for singing three short songs in Paris at the Eden concert —say, S2OO per minute! Patti’s minute! It remains the highwater mark, but it dated after she had become independent in America, her Paris price for a whole evening at the Italian opera having been regularly S6O0 —and glad to get it! At this epoch in Paris Nilsson was getting $240 per night; Mme. Carvalho, the star of the Opera Comique, $200; Capoul, the legendary tenor of the Grand Opera. $l2O, and Faure, the famous creator of Gounod’s Mephistopheles, S4OO. It must not be forgotten, however,
is not commonly used for dishes from which persons cat, it is in such general use for the larger pieces and for spoons, forks and drinking vessels that the use of silver must represent, as compared with the previous customs, about as great an increase of expenditure as the use of a gold dining service does now. The precious | metals are not so precious as they ; ; were once.—Philadelphia Record. |
that such settled Parts engagement* carried valuable perquisites. When Faure sold his paintings, for example, they produced a fortune, and all had been given to him by admiring artists! Coquelin’s house to-day is a museum of precious objects mostly gratis—“ Half their charm,” says Coquelin. They say Melba mourns the coming day when her great voice must go. Her life has been a fairy tale of gold and honors, and her last engagement was $16,000 for ten representations. Yet few can hope to hold the splendid voice as Patti held hers; it goes crack! and suddenly the world-famed operatic star goes out, not pales down! Who remembers Capoul? Recently he was glad to get the position of stage manager at the Paris Grand Opera. Actors Have Advantage. Yet the “golden voice” of Sarah Bernhardt draws to-day as ever—she, a long-experienced grandmother! Here is where the actors have their splendid advantage. Life, for them, goes on “all Christmas” quite indefinitely. Sarah Bernhardt is as lucky, happy, feted and fete-giving at this hour as when she first discovered America with Grau, the impresario. That first American trip of Sarah’s lasted four months and put $120,000 into her pockets. Grau gave her SI,OOO per evening and paid all her expenses, to a special railroad car; but it pained the great artiste to see a simple impresario making money; and thenceforth she organized her own foreign toups. Once she took Coquelin with her to play “L’Aiglon” at S6OO per representation. At the Gaite and when he played “Cyrano” in Paris, his pay was only S3OO per night. They say that her own pathetic voice so affects Sarah that the tears come naturally, when wanted. In “Camille” she sheds 20 —which is SSO per tear. Coquelin counts speeches that bring down the house; he calls them “words.” In “Cyrano” there are 20 such—s3o per “word!” And the tragedian, Mounet-Sully, who had S6OO per night in America, $450 in London and Vienna, and draws S4OO in Paris, where he is a high stockholder in the Theater Francais, counts by roars. In “Oedipe Roi” he roars 20 times—s3o per roar! Have Retained Power Long. After Sarah, the two luckiest actresses in Paris are Jeanne Granier and Re jane. Both grandmothers (born respectively in 1852 and 1857), both continue playing the grande amoureuse, love, passion, stars, flowers, little birds, to the delight of everyone who sees them. In her American tour organized by the Vicomte de Braga, Rejane had S4OO per night—and, accidentally the honor of initiating vast reforms and a financial crisis! For it was the story of her dancing on a table after a dinner given by the vice-presi-dent of an insurance company that brought about the insurance investigations; but her grandchildren in Paris never knew it. To arrive at her present happy position as proprietor of her own Paris theater, Rejane first married her manager, then divorced him. During the struggle with Porel for possession of her liberty and t ne~VauUtivill played a rival engagement at the Varieties that actually ate up all the receipts, but that was a detail; her chief solace was to tell the public nightly in lines altered for the purpose the woes of a lovely star whose husbandmanager desired part profits! Jeanne Granier, on the other hand, declares that business details would spoil all her pleasure. If anyone wants to take her on tour her price is S3OO per representation. In Paris she takes $l6O per night—with a minimum guarantee of 100 representations. Above all, however, she is a perfect example of a queen of opera bouffe, wise In her
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JOY OF THE ’COON HUNT. Good Occupation and Sport for Autumn Evenings. “This is ‘coon —coon pie,” said the gourmet. “It’s not bad, if you like a rich, sweetish meat. “I went on a ‘coon hunt some time ago at my uncle’s in the country. Autumn ’coon hunts are good sport. “A crowd gathers, with dogs and axes, at the edge of a cornfield after dark. The dogs start a ’coon in the corn, and you all make after them, stumbling in the night. Then, when the ’coon is treed, you have either to cut down the tree or to climb it and shake the ’coon off his branch. “ ’Coons won’t fight till treed, but if they get a grip they won’t let go. There are some horrible stories about ’coons fixed to young farm hands’ faces. “A 'coon hunt always winds up with a big fire in the woods. The frosty stars scintillate through the bare boughs, chestnuts and corn and steaks of grilled, stories are told and songs sung, and a demijohn of applejack passes from man to man. “Will you have another piece of pie? No? The meat is rich and sweetish, eh?”
The Antu Tuberculosis^Fight.
Educating the people to combat the spread of tuberculosis is a movement which it would be superfluous to praise. Miniature model tenements and graphic reproductions of the opposite sort will do very little positive good, however, unless the people who see them think to some purpose. While in our cities we have a system of taxation which penalizes with a heavy tax the builder of model tene- ।
। gensvaikui- Who remembers that Jeanne Granier created “Girofle-Giro-fla” in 1874? Hortense Schneider was still singing; could she have dreamed that her young rival, after scarcely repeating her successes in the “Petit Duc” and “Mam’zelle Gavroche,” could have the strength of mind to switch off to high comedy before the fleeting voice forsook her? Jeanne Granier’s triumphs in high comedy proclaim her one of the luckiest artistes of the age. Fortunate Paderewski. I once heard Paderewski’s manager, while playing poker at the Hotel Powers in Paris, proclaim his own principal as the most lucky or the happiest man. “He has but to keep up his technique, and he enjoys it. He is the typical one-man entertainer; requires no support; needs no advertising or accessories; has no expenses to eat into profits, and there is nothing to prevent Paderewski from drawing his $2,000 per night as long as he wants to play. You see? He has no contract to make with any manager. He just sells tickets!” Kubelik, the violinist, who receives S6OO every time he plays, depends upon an orchestra and takes his money from an impresario who shares the risks and profits. Apart from this, the one-man entertainer certainly has his luck simplified fori him. Even the champion pugilist m^st have a pug provided for him t-> knock out; but think of Fragson, S'lio just sits and sings at the piano for $4,000 per month! These music hall stars, surely, do ■ very little to attain much. Yvette Guilbert, who can still get $l6O per night at the Scala in Paris, receives $360 for singing a few songs in London, Berlin । and New York. Mayol, the comic tenor, draws S6O per quarter of an hour in Paris and $3,600 per month on tour in French cities. Louise Balthy, ; grotesque comic lady, earns $3,200 per month; Germaine Galliois, the beauty । escaped from comic opera, $3,000, and Mealy, another like her, $2,000 —all for , short turns in the halls. They are the . world’s favorites. They show them- ; selves a little quarter of an hour each night—and all the year is Christmas ; for them! i — "Little Tich” Envied. They have but one lurking danger—loss of popularity; because if the solitary entertainer profits tremendously • by the independence of his position, he risks greatly by lack of support. Once I heard a great tragedian of London mourning that he was not Little Tich! > “Little Tich is really independent, । happy, yes, for life,” he said. “The • frightful little dwarf discovered that , shoes half his body’s length permitted him to make a comic bow that the world could not tire of! That comic bow could bring Little Tich SIOO per । night in London, Paris, New York—anywhere! He has a cinch for life!” Who does the least to get the most? Probably Little Tich. If not, then ; Paderewski. The great tenor and soprano voices go. The champion pugilist will some day find his master —and i fall, plump, into obscurity. The comics . of both theater and, music hall, depend- ! ing on vivacity a Cl magnetism, lose ' drawing power w^ age. The queen —hQaffe see ‘ her charms fade. But there remaTii-^; grandmothers of • the Paris stage who own their thea- ’ ters. Sarah Bemjardt and Re jane have their popularly assured them by ■ the forces that hold all Parisian society together. Re jane was petty, therefore, to be jealous even for a moment of the placid American Hercules who had nearly punched a hole through Ben Taylor. When he shall have vanished from the ring Rejane will still be play, ing passion, love, flowers, stars and little birds in her own Paris theater.— Sterling Heilig in the Washington ■ Star.
A HOOSIER’S HORRIBLE FATE. Final Explanation of Accident That Should Have Satisfied. Paul Krauss, Jr., came down town the other morning with his hand in a bandage. / “I never knew there were so many i sympathetic people in the town,” ha ' said the day afterward. Within a distance of five blocks 20 ’ people wanted U know how the young i man had beer, inured. To the first five who asked fe replied: “Cut it on a pipce of glass.” Finally this reply became monotonous and Krauss changed the charactei of his reply. * “I carelessly handled my knife,” ha explained to abt>ut ten others. In a moment of desperation he tried to dash into his father’s store. But he was ndt to escape. A sympathetic woman h^Hled him. “Why, you lo<)k pale, Mr. Krauss,” she said, “ahd-^w. have been hurt. How did it happen?” “I was run ov^r by an automobile and killed.” As Krauss fled the woman with a look of amazement on her face remarked: “WelL how singular.”—ln dianapolis Star.
ment and rewards with a low tax the owner of a filthy rookery, model tene ments will conjinue to be few and fijthy rookeriel will continue to be many. Educat In is a great force in the fight aga "st consumption, and some day pc ill learn that there are more c wholesale ways of spreading ■ jetuating tuberculosis than toratiug in a cas or ferryboa
THE HORRORS OF WAR. I eNOLISCH SHFoKEN H«fr. | / UNIONLABORLEADERS GIVEN PRISON TERMS Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison Sentenced to Twelve, Nine and Six Months Respectively and Severely Scored in the Bucks Stove Case. —
Washington.—Twelve months in jail for Samuel Gompers, president; nine months for John Mitchell, one of the vice-presidents, and six months for Frank Morrison, secretary, all of the American Federation of Labor, was the sentence imposed by Justice Wright of the supreme court of the Samuel Gompers. District of Columbia Wednesday for ! contempt of court in violating an order previously issued enjoining them from placing on the "Unfair” or “We don’t patronize” list the Bucks Stove j & Range Company of St. Louis, Mo. All three of the defendants were in : court when sentence was pronounced, : and notice of an appeal to the court of | appeals of the District of Columbia | at once was filed, Gompers being released on $5,000 bond; Mitchell on $4,000 and Morrison on $3,000. In adI dition to the wife and daughter of ■ Gompers, there were present a number | of local labor leaders, and others who were attracted by the notice that a ' decision of the famous case would be | announced. Mr. Gompers’ family were j visibly affected. ; Gompers Weeps When Sentenced. With tears coursing down his own ! cheeks, President Gompers heard the i order of the court which condemned him to prison for a year. Both Mitchell and Morrison seemed stunned by the sentence, although Mitchell appeared to be the least concerned. Asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced, i President Gompers declared that he I had not consciously violated any law. | There was much he would like to say, | he said, but he could not do it at that time. He added, however, that “this is a struggle of the working people of our country and it is a struggle of the working people for the right. Mitchell and Morrison confined themselves to an indorsement of what Gompers had said. The decision of Justice Wright, which consumed two hours and 20 minutes in reading, was one of the most scathing arraignments that ever came from the bench in this city. American Navy Ranks Second. Washington. —Our navy stands second among those of the great world powers at the present time, according to the Navy Year Book, prepared by Pitman Pulsifer, clerk to the senate navy committee. Big Fire in Lima, O. Lima, O. — Fire raged in the business section of Lima for several ■ hours Wednesday night and threatened great destruction. A number of stores and residences were burned, the loss being about $150,000. Parents Fight; Babe Killed. Philadelphia.—Alfred Turner, aged ten weeks, was killed in a peculiar manner during a fight between his i parents here Friday. William Turner, j the father, according to the report । made to the police, attacked his wife I i because she did not have breakfast | ; ready when he came downstairs. Mrs. i I Turner had the child in her arms and j i in the fight she dropped it to the floor. | ■ She was subsequently knocked down i | or f?ll upon the infant, crushing it to ' । dea’-h. Both parents were arrested I ‘ wxc locked up.
“Everywhere,” the court said, “all over, within the court and out, utter, rampant, insolent defiance is heralded and proclaimed; unrefined insult, coarse affront, vulgar indignity measures the litigant’s conception of the ' tribunal’s due, wherein his cause still i pends.” The law's command has been, he said, to “stand! Hands off, until \ justice for this matter can be ascer- | tained,” but, he said, there had been ! a studied, determined, defiant conflict I “precipitated in the light of open ; day, between the decrees of a tribunal i ordained by the government of the j federal union, and of the tribunals of = another federation grown up in the land.” One or the other, he declared, must succumb, “for those who would unlaw the land are public enemies.” Says Customers Were Intimidated. The customers of the stove company, the court said, had been intimidated, browbeaten and coerced out of their business relations with their customers “by direct interference with and boycott of their (the customers’) fjadw rckrti&as with—that- wa. customers and the public generally.” Following an exhaustive discussion of conspiracies in restraint of trade. Justice Wright said: “From the foregoing it ought to seem apparent to thoughtful men that the defendants to the bill, each and all of them, have combined together ’ for the purpose of: “1. Bringing about the breach of ■■ wk F - W John A. Mitchell. plaintiff's existing contracts with others. “2. Depriving plaintiff of property (the value of the good will of its business) without due process of law. “3. Restraining trade among the several states. “4. Restraining commerce among the i several states. The ultimate purpose of the defend- , ants, the court said in this connection, ! was unlawful, their concerted project ‘ an offense against the law, and, it added, they were guilty of crime. — .................. .... .. . i Loses His Eyes by a Fall. Warren, Pa. —William Ritchie, a prominent merchant, sustained injuries in a fall Sunday that will probably result in blindness in both eyes. His face struck the sharp-pointed guard rail of a stairway, one eye being gouged out and the other terribly lac- ; erated. Blaze in a Packing Plant. St. Joseph, Mo. —The fertilizing plant and tankroom of the Nelson Mor- I ris packing plant were destroyed by ! fire Sunday. Loss, $125,000. Father and Daughter Fatally Hurt. New York.—ln a collision late Fri- | day between a trolley car and an auto--1 mobile George C. Hurlbut, the aged I librarian of the American Geograph- ! ical society, and his daughter, Miss : Ilione Hurlbut, occupants of the autoi mobile, were fatally hurt. Burned to Death in His Home. Roanoke, Va. —In a fire which destroyed his home at Broadford, I Smyth county, A. GoUuhon:e, of | the most prominent men of the county. I was cremated.
ASCENSION oF OUR LORD Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 3, 1909 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT.—Acts 1:1-14. Memory verses, 8, 9. GOLDEN TEXT.—“And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carr’ed into heaven.” —Luke 34:51. TIME.—The spring of A. D. 30. The Ascensicn, May 18. The ten days' waiting. May 18-28. I PLACE.—The Ascension was from Olivet, near Bethany. The meeting place of the disciples was in the upper room in Jerusalem. PLACE IN HISTORY.—The close of the earthly life of Jesus Christ. The birth of the Christian religion. Comment and Suggestive Thought. The life of Jesus on earth, including (1) What he was: (2) What he did; (3) What he taught; was an essential ! condition of all his power during the | centuries of Christianity. , It made him a real being to us, while unseen on earth. It illustrates his tea hings for all ages. It was a perpetual Ideal, by which to test all we are and do and teach. It is in itself a supreme power to influence character. Illustrations.—l know of no discordant note among educators in the testimony that “The greatest thing a teacher ever brings to a child is not the subject matter, but the uplift which comes from heart contact with a great personality.” President Charles F. Thwing records the results of “a very interesting study of 50 representative men to questions involving the best thing college does for a man.” The entire drift । of the testimony was that the most । these men got from college was inspiration from life contact with great leaders. “No nobler feeling,” says Carlyle, “than admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man’s life.” The promise of the Father was the special, overflowing gift of the Holy Spirit, as we learn from verses 5 and 8, and the fulfillment of the i promise in the next chapter. The Fa- ’ ther had promised this gift through i Joel (2:28, 29) as shown in Acts 2: | 17, 18; through Isaiah (32:15; 44:3); Haggai (2:5); Zechariah (4:6; 12:10). ! 12:10). The promise is called The Promise, I for it really includes all the promises of the coming of the kingdom of God. The disciples were the instrumenI tality used by the Great Leader. God । works not only directly on the hearts ’ of men, but through his people on i other men. Goo men is the power through which t l ** kingdom of God has so far come, i is to 'come in its fullness. “Th^ igencies he employs must, by the^ very nature, be the Divine Spirit and the human disciple.” —Kirtley. The achievements of the apostles in the story of the Acts were the account of what Jesus continued to do after his ascension. The author 'of “The Fifth Gospel” (1. e., Sai” Paul’s gospel as recor'* ~ x --‘- tlec, WTLieiioei^^ «.ne* first of our four gospels,) shows that the apostles not only preached the facts of Jesus’ life, but the significance of the life which Jesus continued to teach them through their own experience guided and inspired by the Holy Spirit. 1. They had their Ideal in the promise of the Father. 2. They were imbued with power by the Holy Spirit. 3. They were changed, transformed, by the Holy Spirit, into new men fitted to carry on the work of Christ. ' 4. They knew the facts about Christ, And they experienced*his presence and his teachings, so that they could be witnesses to the whole world. It was at this time, doubtless, that the great change came over his body jribed in 1 Cor. 15:51-53. For such a change Is signified by his appearance as John saw him (Rev. 1:12-16). The Importance of the Ascension. — 1. It is the one fitting ending to the earthly life of Jesus. Coming from the Father he returns to the Father. 2. The last view of Jesus is not on the cross, but going home in glory. 3. It kept before the disciples the fact that he is their ever living Saviour. We do not worship and serve and trust a dead Savious, but one who is alive forevermore. 4. He can rule and guide his people Infinitely better there than on any earthly place, where but few could come into his near presence. 5. It places Jesus before all men as their ideal. 6. “It enables us to realize his divinity, without losing his humanity.” 7. It gives us the true idea of hi 3 kingdom as a spiritual kingdom of righteousness. 8. The doctrine of the ascension, with its hope of future glory, with its I transfigured son of man (not son o) j Jew or Greek, but of man) on tho ' throne, “adds new dignity to life,” for ' the lowliest shall be changed into the I likeness of his glorified body. The power of faith in a supreme I leader. The church without him would be an army without a general, the evolution of nature without a God. Never has been such a leader as the ascended and enthroned Christ. The power of an ideal before all Christians, the ideal for each personal life in Jesus himself; the ideal to be gained by the church as a whole for which each disciple is laboring and to which he has consecrated himself and all he has and is. The assurance of success is a mighty inspiration in the times ot struggle with the powers of evil. World's Sugar Production. An estimate by the British board of trade of the sugar production of the world for 1906 makes a total of 14,312,716 long tons, of which 7,317,472 tons were cane and 6,995,244 tons beet, the production of both kinds advancing practically at the same rate since 1898. In the production of cane sugar W iti-h. India had the largest oun ut of 2.223,400 tons, a: 1 in bcot sn ir Germ. ny dom so 11owing at 81 pom.-.ls.