Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1881, Page 20

of 20 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 183I—TWENTY PAGS. i870 was that it recognized a conimercial | "THE STAGE. Wiss Anderson Makes Her Reap- pearance in Old and in New Plays. b p A Brief Analysis of Mr, Keene’s Merits as a Great Tra- - gedian. w to u McCullough’s Engagement the Most Successful He Has Ever Had. The Union Square Company Seck New Pastures —-Ham- let’s Sex. ye Variety at the Olympic—News and Notes from Everywhere. Sq SPVICKER’S THEATR During the week just passed Miss ¥ Anderson has drawn very Jarge ho MeVicker’s Theatre. Mer popularity’ ap- pears to increase rather than to diminish with time. She has changed her program ni, every night, and has wisely done away with | © the Wednesday matinée, On Monday she pl appeared as Evade, Tuesday as Pa thenia, | 5.) Wednesday as Jalict, Thursday as Pautine, Friday as Blanca, and Saturday as Galutca, and Saturday afternoon as Julict. A notice ofher performance of Galatca in GilberUs play, “Pygmalion and Gz: 7? Jast night will be found in. another part of the paper. Her Julict drew the largest house, as it was fe ial and we have praised where pra of succes: quire “Arde Mike MeShan Larry’ Loan have drawn very large audiences to th! charming place of amusement and have pre- sented the climb the -Jadder requires hard work, and time, and. patient, persevering effort. cannot coat, pith aloud “Houp-la!? and then standing ia dt off the be done by throwing a a jump, taking =a run and Way up and trying to make the world elieve you are on the topmost rung. To the strong points in Mr. Keene’s personations we have rendered full justice as they have ‘es during the engagement, _ SEEMe! But it would resented themse! uerited with real pleasure. be wrong not to record the shortcomings and the chief of which 3s that the actor hat his management represent him o be. Of the company supporting him, with he exception of Mr. Learock, who has done some good work, the Jeast said the betterand the fewer peuple are likely to be offended. ‘ragedy is to be sueceeded at this Un by Bartley. Campbell's romar vy My Geraldine, which has been seen ere be! ASON Te, and is now? in its second s. It isan Irish drama, and h: yr Little Maude ‘Theo. Baltour .G. Cotter McManus AW, J. Scanhia C. Dubois AL White GR. The Union Square AND OPERA-HOUSE, Theatre _ company closed their engagement ot cight weeks last ight, and will leave today for Milwauke ‘here they remain the coming week. Their resence with us has been a source of great easure to theittre-goers and of profit to the anagement that brought them here. They ious plays given with 2 pe! ction of detail and a-strength of vast cer- inty never execlied. Every part, however small, has had a capable interpreter, so that whatever of merit and of strength there was her best performance. Vor (his cot jin the piece was. fully brought out’ by dng. Seek 2s Her kab eg eee, | its actors. “Daniel Rochat? held the Monday evening as the Countess i" | boards during the first two weeks, Love,” Tnesday evening as Julia | inen came “Felicia” one week, “ Mother “<The Hunchback.” Wednesday evening 35 Parthenia in“ Ingomar,? Thursday evening as the Countess again, Friday as Galatea, Saturday afternoon as Pailine, and Satur- day night for the first time in Chicago as . Berthe in her new play, “The Daughter of Roland.” Miss Anderson's merits a5 an actress have been so often canvassed that it is hardly nec- essary to renew the discussion now. While, to many she-is the embodiment of a perfect actress, to others she is decidedly crude and uneven in her representations. Suclt as she was a year ago she is today. The study and application for which she has had leisure . hag been given apparently to her new roles yatLer than to the perfecting of those with the Hnes of which she was already familiar. Undoatiedly Miss Anderson makes a charming representative of the characters she assumes. It is also true that we have not now any American actress with whom she can be compared. And in the display of intense emotion, in all the cli- miactrie scenes of the pieces in which she ap- pears, she is equal to the requirements of the part, and without overdoing fulilis the ideal the author had in mind in ereating the character, so far as we can, judge. Es- pecially is this true of her Evadne, Parthe- ui 5} re nin, and Julict. She is gifted with the qual le ty of personal magnetism, with the power of thrilling an auditor and meking him or her feel the emotion the actress herself only simutates. Here lies her strength and the | ,, secret of her great success. Yet to the critic pl erver th ing in M or careful ob 2 is som variably Whether it is the fact that he no port is so poor that assist her. .to thoroughly self with the assumed ‘character unti) the occasion forces her into the display of deep emotional qualities, or whether natural ability has been- so little aided by art that itean only manifest itseif when spurred and driven by irements of a great sc it is not ea: are tink Miss And nearly every acting is unsatisfactory, when the po: ties of the part taken appear not rea’ when, in short, the representation i: commonplace, and seeming even more so irom the subsequent displays of extraordi- nary power and ability. «- Iti atter of regret that, to use a-hack- neyed simile, so fair 2 jewel should have so poor asetting. No actor or actress can do themselves justice when so entirely out of harmony with their surroundings. ~The plays. have ‘been well mounted and the scenery is entitled tocommendation. But the company is very weak, and weakest where it should be strong. Mr. Studley is the only member- rising much above mediocrity, and he made a very good Ingomar and Mercutio. But Mr. Narris is stiff, awkward, ill at ease in every part he yp aud. as. thoroughly ‘unfit for the position he is trying to fill as would be any other member of the cast. Ue has in times past lent effective support to Maggie Mitchell and others, but does not ap- pear To have more than a very faint concep- it Li n ti Friend” the last wi have been introduced to Chicag and have received the same cordial welcome extended to such familiar people as Charles ny De Beltevil of De Curojue, and his leastsat bert Fielding. the least as Marcelle. chanical in action, one his plac A are Sterling old-school actors, the ti adapts himself to de work eut out for him. entitled to the prais lng the engagement. It gret that we cannotsee thi than one since he has been a star. kept on another six day gomar were last week Spartacus, Othello, Virginius again, and Claude Mclnotte were on th Ofethese performances his Virginins will rank as the best, and Spartacus, Othello, and Lear next, with Richard 711., Ingomar, Claude Metnotte, and Hamlet in the order as Barrett S 5 His work is not impulsive or spontancou: and Son” one week, “Banker’s Daughter” two weeks, *Freneh Flats” one week, and and The False yo new comers @ audiences, Daniel Rochat,” “Feli ‘Thorne Jr., Mr, Parselle, Mr.. Stoddart, Mr. Faweett, and M Jewett, Harrison, ad M ps. Mr. aus Shown hi usualy fine actor, his best aor C3 sseen Miss E) to best advantage as Lea Henderson, and to pleasing She but nota great one, b seis, that reacts upon the audience. Thorne is 3s 3 ‘Thorne. personations. bear a marked" sim to ,nother, which is to. s it due to che fact that the line of c! great versa- jentious and htbe dificult to fill Parselle and Mr, ° Stoddazt named he markable for the ease with which Phillips, and the restare ag received dur- L matter of re- ompany oftener a year, but for what we have had t us at least be devoutly grateful. Vernon, Mrs. @ extch DAVERLY'S THEATRE. Last night Mr. MeCullough closed the ost successful. engagement he lias ever zyed in this city, and the most lucrative This receipts will ot fall short of $24,000 for the three weeks. We doubt whether he has ever been seen to better advantage. In his portrayal of Ro- man characters he is unequaled -by: any other actor speaking the English language. They have very wisely, therefore, been made the leading features of the two weeks’ per- formances, ‘The first week was given up entirely to Virginius, and so suceessful w that the play could undoubtedly have been ‘The second week, Richard JU, and In- the attractions, and the car, Hamlet, ils. amed. Mr. McCullough is an earnest, con- scientious, hard-working artist, always striv- ing to improve and to perfect himself in those réles for which he is especially fitted. His. physical gifts, his deep voice, his clocu- jonary skill, and thorough familiarity with the stage have placed him at the lead of the chool of tragic actors ‘in this coun- Cullough is a follower of Forrest, sto some extent of Macready, Hon of what is required of him in the roles | 5, Nae Ness Teistrying to fil’ “The rest of the company Ber Ae AIMS: PSne tans | tliat sibs xeept perhaps Mr. Downing, who has a | NENG analy ing wu = xen or even before the interest of the good stage presence—are not entitled to any mention. HOOLEY’s THEATRE. With-the performance of “Richard III.” lastnight, Mr. T. W. Keene’s two weeks’ engagement at this theatre ended. During - hat time he has appeared in seven different characters, Richclicu, Shylock, Hamlet, Muebeth, Gloster, Bertruccio. and Uthello, each one requiring an actor of uncommon ability for its adequate portrayal. It is an insult to the work of those actors who have won fame and fortune in ‘these rdles after years of study to rank this new tragedian with any one of them. Jumping from tho character has unfolded itself in the plot. His Jack of impulsive action at times makes Mr. MeCullough less impressive, but it renders his performances wore cyenly developed. Both his ress. His eomp support, and Miss For selfan execilent actress as Purthenia and Desdemona. and his Othello show prog- ny has given him very fair rsyihe has proved 1 Lear OLYMPIC THEATRE. The Gulick comedy company in “ Fur- nished Rooms” will be succeeded at the Olympic by Leavitt's comprising, according to the play-bill, “a hurricane of talent selected from the amuse- ment centres of the world.” specialty company, The week will position of an excellent “leading man” into [ be devoted to variety business. Among the tragic arena, he at once attempted todo | the — perfyrmers are the comedians all that had been done by others in the | Sanford. - and- Vilson, the Davene same field before him. Instead of con-| family of acrobats, Val Vose, the fining his efforts to two or three parts | ventriloquist, Andy and Annie Lushes. for the representation of which he had nat- | Irish sketeh artists, “The Four: Diamonds” inan robatic, musical, no: ural abilities which might have been.grandly developed by patient study, he tried to cover at ouce the whole list of characters in the tragic répertoire. Gold well-beaten may be made to cover great space, but it is very thin gold in any one spot. So with Mr. Keene's position as a tragedian—it is still only a promise, only au indication of possibilities sure never to be realized uniess nore study, thought, and care are given to the task un- dertaken. That Mr. Keene has talent we readily admit. This he shows in some scenes hi ratic specialty,” Dolph Levi Dillon, Nellie Richards, Bonnie Runnell: Andy Collom, and others. ‘The engagement of this company is fur one week ouly. TO BE OR NOT To ie BE-A WOMAN. Hamict has been the most unfortunate of dead men. His life was full of troubles, of sorrows, and of mental despair. And since is death he has been periodically murdered and butchered allover the civilized world. AAs though that were not enough of misery in each phiy. hat he has alata eat | to heap upon whis unlucky “Prince, Retin s sete patched fe auriom the pete grave reflections have been cast upon the two weeks. And until he can tree him- | character of his parents, doubts even selt from the delusion which unwise friends | have been expressed as to his. ever havin and extraskiliful management appear tu have rooted firmly in his mind—that he is an_ ex traordinary genius, whose crudities are 0 dities and whose innovations are impro’ ts—he never will rise in his chosen pro- dession. ‘This may sound tike a harsh jud, ment, but we believe it is one shared b ya who are at all famiiiar with Mr. Keene’s pe. Zormances and unmtineneed or unpredju- diced in his behalf. Mr. Wheeler, in the . Feitilicton this week, speaking of this gen- teman, says: “In truth, his genius, great as itmay be, is somewhat obscured at_this distance by the blazing magnificence of his nianager. The effect produced upon the theatrical mind all over the country is ex- pressed in the remark, heard every. day, * Yow well Mr. Keene is being worked,’ nnd there is a deep rooted conviction wnong Doth managers and actors that the stu’s abilities are of much _le: ic count “now than his agent’ at agent took the contract to make Mr. Keene great and successful inside of a year, and we regret lo say that he is doing it? His second Week in this city has not been a success. le ‘has played to smatl houses, growing steadily smaller until the last night. “The people are quick 10 lind out when they have been mis- Jed, and. quick to resent it. And when the have been invited to see a great tragedian and have found only Mr. Keene, they have been unable to believe that the promises made were fulfilled. “Mr. Keene’s ambition ds praiseworthy. There is always room in ‘the upper story of every profession. #reat- actors of the future will be taken from among the young actors of today. But to 2 fi oO: el t t this. man then says that Zamlet’s shrinkmg from the role that fate had called upon him to play is what would be sted, and now comes one Edward P. Vining, and, proofs in hand, declares it to be fact that Zumlet was a woman! As to Hamlet’s actual existence—of that we must aduit since he is an historical character. De Beileforest’s history Hamict, after his In 5. death, becomes King of Denmark, ul visits England again, marries two wives, by one of whom he is betrayed into the power of his maternal uncle Wiglerus, and is nally slain in batile. De Belleforest de- rived his story from the Historia Danica of Saxo-Grammaticus, written about the close f the twelfth century. Mr. Vining prac- tically admits the existence of a Hamlet, or why write a book to show - that was a woman? This author expected from a gently-nur- “rather than from a fervid ured woman young Prince glowing with desire tozend un- equaled wrongs.”? $ the impulsiveness which causes the hasty exclaimatioh— ‘Then, also, he sa “In Unhand me, gentlemen; By heaven, I'l make a ghost of bim that let's me! which induces him to jump into Ophelia’s open grave with Laertes, which leads him to slay Polonius the instant that he see ‘The | hangings stir, and which enables him at last the 0 take his full revenge upon the spur of the moment and without premeditation, we sce oaths” and fear of admiration for manly peeuliarities, whieh i the asperity with whic! to regard the mits of any displea: companions view | abuse of Ophelia is fen jis lack 0: and the fa the spir f st is wt that he is of his dead im is olution of Hamlets the in n 10 that so mizht a wom ucated from infan aeter tion of 2 development well admit “at 01 der that Cross-exanid his evidence. ever ocenr tohim that the réle of Hemlet shou formance in whi Denmai jon wou Mr. ne! Joln MeCullough of Chiexgo. production of literary point of it in ere The title role, Bfemnon fied school of acting. into situations which e with advantage. ‘There male parts in the strength, with a romant of the vicew order, fame_ and hi the invasion of Camby: ‘The play is susceptible setting, nd, borne, “ London.”” prettiest in London. “The Little Savage,” titled. “ Lorraine’s: Pri ding. The dresses of the |: provinces. called “Li tried the ubject. called “The Spider's duce it first in Bostun. James E, Murdoch wii but intend: ean lectures in Buston.. ie receipts of “* M del phia Assommoir’? is, the heroine of “ auth neriea, The Viennese magis tered considerable ovpa poses. pennies | that he hi in * Fresh, the ‘The ver: used by tation, the former one Ane! entitled ** burne plays clades Miss ton. Queer ys Wol Rose who came to th Ait Geurge Faw nye 000 during the last two he is zoiny to kuw to fin will fearn everything after Aur Handler. A tady after the performance that Jeamlet looked mourning. Mr. Daly will follow “ With a military comedy pla Mile, Rhea’s wardroi very attractive one. Sh pairs of kid gloves. Ii bring over her carriage of * Mi 1 Strogoff ? exceed $500,000, gelo,” by Hugo. Clara Dy ten, Lestie- Allen, E. enya, autre, play “Our Bachelors “Twelfth Night? the the third, aud “ Sharps week. agement ofa combinatio Fawcett Nowe, Fred Monday. Says the New York now probable that the Union Square Theatre all events, this will be duced, unless somethin: speaking characters, another feminine trait; that love of obtaining ayualy warfare | which tantlize and mock.*at Polontus 7 Mr, Vining_ thinks nin love with Horatio. Mis * pretty breaking into teai virtues, and his detestation loins: re with which thei briefly as possible, then, this—* that character arrived when it oceurred to the dran and that thereafter the changes in the eb md inthe play were ai in the di r. Vining has pro But, if he were MR. APCULLOUGH ‘otiations. for the pure ay, written in blank vers non,” the work of Mr. Jlenry Guy Carleton, After a careful readin: play Mr. McCullough became convinced that pathos and tenderness, Wi touch of refined humor—in short, just such character as Mr. McCullough i: and. training - peculiarly au: play MecCulioush erity. play is laid in Heypt at the time of her great est glory, and the events, mainly histo! Hl are those which led to her downfall through a wu be costumed and mnounte with splendid picturesque effe of production is not yet determ: price paid for the play Was $5,000. Jennie Lee's “Jo company disbanded, and Marie Pres: acomedy by Dumas fils, y revivals, to be succeeded by a light ‘The Thea produce wo new plays; this winter’ Rantzau,” by Erekman-Chatrian, and “ An- Edwards, Mr. Wailack is. starring by ni self, and began with **@urs” and “My Av ful Dad* in Haverly’s Brooklyn Theatre last and still unother in the advantage ina induces him to and Hamlet 2 3, his strength and manly of feminine “more suggestive of- women are thought s of their sisters, than 0 per his faintness, youthful beauty,”? never called son by father, Summed up Mr, Vining’s the . gradual - element, tim ati f ed- 3 part, ther in feminine the net and feel playa Prine of this idea.” We we do not hi it avoe with et. did it Anna Dickinson in Id be the ideal per- nee Ul td play” ) the finmortal Prince of beeomes a woman in nian’s garb? NEW PLAY. yesterday completed. ¢ ofa new trage- . entitled “ Mem- of the ry merit of extraordina view, and one strength in its dramatic constraetion, one peculiarly suited to Mr. McCullough’s broad and digni- qt acter of great force and s id to be achar- trength, brought 1 forth the utmost here and there a by nature ified te fill wre four additional of exceptional ie and lovely setting for the heroine, a young and beautiful girl. ‘Those competent by stage experience to form a correct judgmen t pronounce the play present perhaps litle need a new play us any actor living, — but he has." a generous appreciation of merit, and very likely an ambition to create an impersonation that will add alike to, his The se tl, Ss, King of VP gorgeous stage ‘The time ined. The DRAMATIC NOTES, Alice Burvillo-has amarricd Howell Os- The title of 1i. J. Byron’s latest play is D'Oyley Carte’s new theatre is called the the new play written for Maggie Mitchell, is not i success. J. B. MeCormick has written a. play en- ide” for Fred Paul- adies in the play of * Americans Abroad’? ure said tu have cost Kyrie Bellew is playing the principal parts in. The Corsican Brothers in the English id to have. tt has come to Sardou is said to be at work ona comedy Yankecs en Etrrope.? Fawecit Genevieve Ward is rehearsing a new play Web,” and will pro- il notact this season, giving a course of Shakspear- Mr. Uenry Irving has almost entirely re- constructed the interior of Lyceum Theatre for next season. his London ichael Strogoff” in are reported at 37,800 the first KK and $11,000 the second week to de revived at the ris, With Mile. Massin, ana,” as Gervaise. Miss Gertrude “Irving is the name of the rot * Bafied;” now being successfully ed atthe Standard Theatre, London. Mile. Colombier wants to come back to 4 and is going to tr the next French company vi: and come with iting New Yor tes have encoun- onto the proposal to tax the theatre tickets for charitable pur- John T. Raymond’s mania for matching gtown on hin to such an hada “matching” scene written wun. n of the “Daughter of Roland? Miss Mary Ander ent nis anew adap? ing been made by a daughter of John 'T. Ford. Mrs. Seott-Siddons’ new. and Cardinal.’ cy, and the easi Leclereq and Perey Comp- poetical play is 27 Mr. Swin- in- Miss Louise Balfe, a bright young actress, is country not longa ‘catt Rowe to play in been added to Mr. John S. Clarke’s com- Bo with Snitf,” Lytton Sothern says his father-made $200,- years of his life, and ul out where it is. Me but the thing he is . Barrett has adopted a new costume for coming out o£ the thextre heard to remark jike ‘Topsy Venn in “Americans Abroad’? by Moser, and later then several old be ‘promises to be a he had made in Paris thirty uew dresses, twenty hats, and 120 t is her intention to and horses. ‘The receipts for one year’s performances t the Catelet, Pari Atre Frangais will “Les “Esmeralda”is to be produced Oct. 24, The principals in the cast are Agnes Booth, Kate Denin, May Gallacher, Annie Russell, tt, Eben Plympton, Thomas Whif- A. MeDowell, E. F. Knowles, Davenport Bebus, Robson and Crane commence a four weeks’ zement at Uaverly’s Fifth Avenue The- ew York, tomorrow night. ‘They w 7 the first week, second, “ A. D. 19007? and Flats” the fourth ‘The members of Mr. Wallack’s company, who are nuw “traveling ” formances of old comedy, are under the man- and giving per- on consisting of George Schwab, and Marry Evening Post: “It is regular season at the will be opened with Sims’ play of ‘The Lights of London.’ At the first new play pro- to alter pres- 1g OVC. ent plans. Ibis a heavy piece in eight or ten tableaux, and requires the services of twenty In general features it resembles the’ Ticket-of-Leave Man,’ with a number of realistic effects. does -not, however, come under the denomination 2 spectacular dram. The principal parts will be played by Mr. Thorne and Miss Jewett.” Ihe French actor Got, speaking of actress- es, said the ather day that in his opinion it yas not necessary for an actress to haye loved in order to play ‘the part_of a wonut in love. “Women,” he continued, “are like ‘certain animus which discover trfllues without ever having been taught.” 5 Of Rossi it is said that he smokes -inces- santly off the stage, his favorit brand being a Tusea jess than a cent apiece. ‘The pl 7 was written for him by Ale: s. His Lear is univer sully admired, while Hamlet does not al- together please the critics. “Nym Ct makes this comment on ithe new. pl i broad”? “ Mr, Faweett’s p ait it is: not inartistic, but inane; it is not so unsym~ Las itis uninteresting. It is moral re, but it doesn’t go anywhere, or anything, or say anything. It presup- sonehing that it cannot del and that: omet, the ab: ¥ 0 ume ridiculous , it strongly with other airs as- sumed by foreigners.” Signor Rossi’s Othello appears to have been as favorably received as bis Lear. Mr. D in the stdvertiscr that *‘ Signor i has yet done nothing “in” Annie worthy to be compared with his tion of Othello. Intellectual tense passionate heat, enormo: cedre Dlended herein : tistinguished by nd truth? As com te authority thinks Hos: \- personatioe the nobler of the two, * the nearet to Niture and the poet's thought.” Wingfield, the Eng tells the New York Mirror that he is pers ally supervising the production of one of hi plays, wh has been purchased by John McCullough. When that gentenan was i London we had a litte conversation regal ing 2 pl ind {read the plot of one to hina which pleased him very much, and suo after FE closed negotiations with him, The ce deals with that popular, thougl trifle mythical, personage, J live acts, and requires a welve peopl he mout of the whole plot _re- yolyes on the pivotal -base—death or liberty. lt is a story of kingly wrong, ending ina popular upheaval, Inthe fourth act 1 introduced a grand spectacular feature, which will require the assistance ot some hundreds of auxiliaries. It represents the storming of Loudon Bridge by the army of the eanaille, led by Jack Cade. A large niin horses, eannan, etc re used, and it presents 2 be ge Dp Thave a model of the idea with me, which ts histor- ically correct. ‘The way will be produced in York some time during Mr McCul- Jough’s engagement.” CABLE RAILWAY. Last Week?s Progress—The Extension to Lake Street. Superintendent Holmes, of the South Di- vision Railway Company, does not think that the clerk of the weather has been doing the square thing by the company during the past ever, and a good deal has been accomplished considering the drawba From Adams street suuth to Nineteenth street there isa completed and unbroken line of road, and the road is finished from the Archer avenue excavation to the Twenty-lirst street exeava- tion. By the firstot the week the length of road between Twenty-first and ‘Twenty-see- ond streets will be completed, and -the con- crete mixer now at that: point will be re- moved south of Twenty-seeond street, where the construction of the road along the west track is being rapidly pushed. ‘The State. street cars now run from Wa- bash to State on_‘Twenty-second street, and at the corner of State street switch off onto the cast track. From this* point to T'wenty- fourth street there is only 2 single track, and av ‘Twenty-fourth re is a switch if the road From this s e here is only a single track, and ninth street south the old k been touched as yets ‘The Waiting -on switehes mi the time of the State s lower than usual, and gives, the passengers on that line some idea of what the lidiana avenue. passengers ‘suffer with their cand switehe completed. ninth street th from Twenty $3 te The wi ina point half way be tween Twer cond and ‘Twenty-third to" it vet -has been-¢om- for the cable, and a concrete mixer is ‘The track is in place € put in (o Twenty-six street, and from there to ‘Twenty street channels for the track are being cut, As tar south as Twenty-ninth street the west track has been torn up, and the iron s are is alung the sireet- to Thir street, ready to be put in place. ‘The city has begun’ the laying of the cedar block ment from Thirty-tirst street south, and wbout half a biock has-been tinished. The first of the week a gang of will be put the cedar blo from ‘I'wen- t south, The pavers. on the north end of the line-have reached a point above Fourteenth street. AT ADAMS STREET there is a third concrete mixer. and the track is in pla s being conereted to Monroe street. ation just south of Madi- son street has been nearly completed, and this week will be covered up. Many have supposed that the cable line will end here, butit will be extended through to Lak streetatonece,they fon Company fra) ing agreed t cars OE Stay street forten daysalthough Superintendent Holmes: says the work. hrough in less time, aA twely wheel will be putin atthe M vation for the southern cable, and a six-foot wheel will be put in to run the cable from Madison to Lake street, in order that the cars may run slower aud-not be thrown off at the turns. nother six-foot wheel will be put in avation. ‘The Madison exeavauon will fed over with 'Y iron girders, mik a perfect un- ‘round room where the cable can be re- or spliced, and in it will run ith the slack cable to keep up a per: sion. ‘fhe wheel forthe southern cable at Twenty-second street will be a larger one, in order that the cars can be run faster from econd to ‘Thirty-ninth street, and pected that the entire road from Lake 2 iy two of the larger engines at the engine-hou corner of State and Twenty-irst streets, were put in place and bolted” to their beds, and the other two will be set up __ this . week. The immense © pulley and = cog-wheels for the Twenty-first street e: ‘ation are ready to be putin, as is the machinery Tor the Archer avenue excavation... Tunnels run.trom.the engine-house to Twenty-seeond and to Archer avenue, and through hn atrried to the branch Jines. ‘The engine-house will operate all the South Side lines except Indiana avenue and Areher avenue tof the bridge. As Staite street is the backbone of the system, more work has been done on it than. will haye't be done on any of the: branch Jin company employs 1,500 men on the we with the car operation has 3,000 men on the pay-roll, The cable roxd consimes two boat- loads of stone and one of gravel every day in concrete, and the stone is broken at the com- vany’s own works, built by it for this espe- cial purpose Eee DESPAIRING DEBTOR TO DISGUSTED DUN. (After Tennyson—somewwhat.) Ask me no morel ‘Tho leech may draw my pload ‘The hawk may stoop from Heaven to seize his prey; The aun, by perseverance, get his pa e answered thee as calmly as I coul Ask mo no more! Ask meno more! What answer should I give? I've given thee sotid cheek und played-out lie. r ask me no more, or I may make thee die! Quick! from thy shadow my poor floor relieve: Ask me no more! : DATER.. Ask me no more! ay Take pro tem. is scaled! Istrove against the stream. The struggle’s o'er; “The cruel sheriff lays on me bis paw: Squeeze not, good sheriff! Ata touch I yield. ‘ASK me no more! And he Ht out—{ex-illuminavit). P. A. ——— Easily Proven. It is easily proven that malarial fevers, con- stipation, torpidity of the lever and kidneys, general debility, nervousness, and neuralgic ail- ments yield readily to this great disexse-con- queror—Hop Bitters. It repuirs the ravages of disease by converting the food into rich blood, and it gives new life und visor to the aged and iouirm always, THE IRISH LAND BULL. History of the Struggle for Tenant Rights. The New Bill Wipés Out Rack-Rents and Feudalism. A Great Boon for Ireland if the Commis- sioners Do Right. Letter from the Hon. §.. 0... MoBlroy, of Ballymoney, Ireland. ho Hon. S.-C. McElroy to Mr, John Forsythe. Baniymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, Oct. 1, WsL—Johe Forsythe, Esq.—Dean Sir: Before complying with your request for information about the new Lani act, I deem it advisable to await the publication of the rules of procedure by the Land Comunis- sion, ‘Lhe ease is now ripe enough for ane: of opinion on. its incrits. You intimate that the information will be in- teresting to Americans, and 1 infer that you desire this letter to be published. _L appreci- we the. importance of conveying to Ame icans, especially Lrish-Americans, a vractical ieW of our present Jandmar This view y not coincide with views which have ob- tained considerable ascendancy over the wninds of Irishmen in America, but, know- ing that residence-in America has nov marred the generous features of the Lrish c¢lrar- acter nd that a fair hearing will be iven to one. who ~ imbibed his enant-right principles aud ideas of pop- ular liberty from the Rev. J. L. Rentoul, of Ballymoney, and Dr. MeKnizht,. editor of the Banner of Ulster and afterwards of the Londonderry Standard, Lam enboldened to write in the spirit of friendly candor rather thin. in that of diplomatic usage. It may not be inexpedient to take a glance atthe road which has been traversed, at Juast during the last fourteen years. In 1: Mr, Isaac Butt published his Fixity of ‘Ten- ure bill, ‘The fundamental principle of this bill was a sixty-three years’ term of oceu- pancy, with a ion of rent every seven years. In 1809 the Route Tenants’ Defense Association was reorganized.in the northern portion of County Antrim, and the banner inseribed with the memorable words * Fixity of Tenure, Fair Rents, and Free Sale” was unfurted.” The promoters of the movement were branded —as__revolutionists, firebrands setting class _ against Isv0; Mr. Gladstone _ passed fand bill, = Its nain cl his principle Was compensation to the tenant in ease of eviction... To cope with the evils of eviction was its primary object. Notices to quit were ed by Mr, Gladstone as falling thick Kes... The bill did not give entire satisfaction to the Tenant-Right party. At several conferences its defects were pointed out. It was inadequate witlr respect to the uniform revival of the genuine tenaut-right custom of Ulster; it made no provision tor the adjustment of rents; it.did not establish free sale: compensation in case of eviction was too luw te operaie as a deterrent. On various important points the decisions inthe land courts were adyerse to the tenants. In the North particularly the decisions were very contlieting, one administration uphold- ing an-estate usage, another ignoring i Chiet-Justice Monahan ruled in fav of leasehold tenant-right; Whiteside . gave a contrar shortly after the act y tion began for a more comprehensive land code. It must. be stated, however, that ‘some Excellent dee fons were en under cL 0: ChiefJustice ‘Very ruling. Dut n embodied were embodied misinterpretation. themselves to ‘ions of the act. certain in the uct, therein. were Landlords and r liable agents set te the beneficial oper: maintained in Ulster; where free sale existed it was regarded more to Estate usages wer "The only solid bene- t could not be evicted Without compensation. As a body the Chair- men_of the Land Courts did not sympathize with the objects of the act, and in process of time the people ceased to ¢ confidence in them, Rightly or wrongly, the court was a favor than a regarded ats more or less hostile to the in- terests of the tenantry, and you can imagine how the act of | 1870 fell in public estimation, With 1 its faults, ~ had fair trial from ve done more good and ation would not have eulmni: attracted - the «gi The general prov 5c the land agit to a point which has the civilized world. il of the act were a failure: and Mr. Brizht’s scheme of peasant proprietorship was @ prac- failure. Ata National Land Conference a Dublin in 1573 the right of the tenant was asserted thus: to. continue in undis- turbed possession of his farm, ata fair rent, fixed from time to time by-a valuation, front which the value of the tenant's improve- meuts should be excluded, with the power to transmit the right to his children. or to sell it for the highest price he could obtain,” At another National conference held the follow- ing year at Belfast the foregoing principl re reaflirmed fi nt, irres 1 held g: not less than sale mm recogni- tion nt’s good _ will and invested capital: continted oceupa- tion so long as the tenant paid the fultiled his equitable rent and otherw landlord. At. the: obligations to hi fereuces, my colleague “as secreti Ie, now 2 prisoner in 1 7 Lheld by tne three ed the Land League. Al ago a inecting of Ulster tei cht deputies was held at Belfast, tions were passed earnestly urging the Go ernment to liberate the ‘suspects, present, and the names mentioned in v were A. J, Kettle i he northern tenant-righters re- Kettle as one of the most adini 83 bout fortnight Davitt. menber Ar. able. charact it etween 184 and I8t7 the Jand movement m low but steady prog- n the latter year it entered upon a ze. The three years’ failues in crops which -supervencd were worth an age of argument in tavor of argricultural rights. {need not trace the course of the whirlwind. it has Jeveled feudalism in the dust.‘ stone whielt builders despised in 187 SS) R will be pardoned, come the head of the cornet ni stone’s rents, and free hinent of a peasamt proprietary _ it grants all that was demanded night, Mr. Butt, Prof. Smyth, and other veteran champions of tenant tight. Its details are worked out in a man- net which would have doubtless elicted from those nen high praise. In fact, the act glows with their principles; it is the iral outcome of their advocacy. Though MeKnight, Butt, and Sm ‘e dead, they through the Land-Law act, it i complete veritication of their policy. ‘Thi demand made in Belfast in 18Tt was one common land law for all Ireland.- ‘This demand was treated as utopian; ~ it is now. imbedded. in’ fact. ‘Chis result is calculated to inspire pleasurable emotions. At is the crowning victory of a thirty years’ war, the first battle in which was fought by William ~Shannan- Crawford in County Down. before men scout Mr. Gladstone’s legislation, let them consider what. Ireland s then and what it is likely to be ina few years. Of course Lassume that the adminis- cabo will be in harmony with the legisla~ jon, .The first clause of the Land-Law act. pro- vides that the tenant for the time being of every holding, not especially exempted, may sell his tenaney for the best price he can ob- By 1e those incident to the Ulster custom. The landlord may agree with the tenant to buy the hold! in the event of disagreement jhe nay apply to the court to ascertain its true value; in default of the landlord either agreeing to buy, or.applying to the court within a fortnight, the tenant may proceed. with the sale pursuant to. the-act. By a subsequent utes tenuntright at 01 the close leases is nlized. This | was a burning questiun — in Ulster. One ot the anomalies of the act of yalue_in an interest when it was divorced from its owner by eviction, Compen: sued,. but the owner could not sell held under the Ulster custom. Ow custom the tenant’s property was Ianalord’s grip—that is, the tenant had no powerover its disposal. Freedom of con- tract is now extended to the tenant’s prop- erty. ‘This i ‘aluable boon. It not only egtablisnes such freedom in. the south of ireland, butin Ulster it sweeps away estate usages Which linited the price of tenaut- right to £5 or £10 unacre, The tenant can sell for the best price he can get. fe In the act of 1870 there was no machinery for the ascertainment of a fair rent. In by- gone years perpetuity of tenure was put in the forefront; in recent. years - fair rent assumed priority. While’ admitting the importance of a solid tenure, it was felt th rent determined =the fate of aericulture more than anything el Hence, the cry for a reduction of rents be versal. ‘The act enables every tenani and every: Seholder whose lerse was forced upon him by fraudulent means since 1570, to apply to the Land Court to fix th future rent. In fising this rent the ten: improvements are to be excluded, The old complaint was that when rer finproved his land the Jandiord increased the rent. Never again 1 such injustice be perpe- trated. ‘The principle of the rent cliuse is. that the landlord is only entitled to the ly value of the soil in its natural state, sub- ject to the enhancement of this yalue through the saperal improvements of the country... Showkl the tendency he in a con- trary he value would decrease. ‘The fi ji ul rent attracts what term of fifte is renewable turever on appl the fourteenth year. I regard tht. grandest feature of the act. ~[t the tenant — inviokwbility. of paney, While the nd observes the conditions, which are not onerous, he cannot be disturbed. Me w i 5 i: vine and. fig-tree. oecu~ rent a r ery fifteen ye s his improvements are excluded from 102, this liability is not calculated to create any forebodings. “The tenanthas the option of going befure the Land Court, as constituted by the act of 1870, or the Land ‘The option will be invariably favor of the latter, which con- ant O'Hagan, Mr. Litton, ‘yrone, and Mr. Jolin BE. Ver- Stronger men on the tenants’ side inight have been appointed, but the reputa- tion of these three genUemen for moderation and fair-deali an clement in the appoint- ments which should not be depreciat Mr. O'iagan’s antecedents have in confidence, and M ‘Vernon's evidence before two spe commissions respect to the Bright cliuses was high- ly satisfactory, It is stated that as a Jand he has been just and considerate. Mr. Litton had not taken u prominent part in politics until he appeared i eandidate for Tyrone at the sb general election. He took a leading irtat the Belfast Conference in April last, der the bill, and. his sery- during the passage of the bill through ‘Ilouse of Commons were valuable. He intrasted with putti non. = forin the amendments proposed by the Uister tenant-right deputies who visited Lonaon during the eariy stages of the bill, With those deputies he codperated in a most t and Twas’ im- powers of lucid exposition and Statements of a somewhat been made, but Lam found him, and t y. ha 3 7 different kind speaking of Mr. Litton as T believe “his “career ¥ oners vointed—Messrs. Reeve: Carthy, Greer, and issioners are not tings of the rter_ sessions owns and petty sessions r Ss practicuble, one or more niembers sally the holding where the ent isin question. This brings istration uf the act ahnost to the very doors of the The act will stand or tall by the action of the commission in the matter of rent. If rent. be generally v and substantially reduced, my opinion is that Irish agriculture will be able to bea against foreign competi ‘Th difference of opinion 2 farmers should claim a rev am inclined to think that all farmers should iin a revision, whether they are p: th rents or moderate rents, ‘The reas jal rent declared statutory’ te This trans- formation is worth receiving, even should a present ioderate. tent. ‘be confirmed, Some persons think the _ fifteen term too | J eannot see my W: adopt this view. If the Commissioners elude the tenants’ improvements, it i cult to believe that the prices of agricultural produce would fall so far below current Ales ts to Warrant a reduction of rent inside een years. The probxbilities are that fand. Lincrease in value, and the tenant's ne- cessity is to guard against an increase of rent. Ido not consider it incumbent upon me to refer to minor provisions of ‘the act. ‘These are tou voluminous for exposition in a letter dealing with the broad principies of the measure and the differences between it and the measure of 1870. With regard, how- ever, to the Bright clauses, I may state that the purchase-money to be gi by the State is increased from two-thirds to three-fourths, and various obstacles which hampered the development of the enterprise have been re- moved, + Whether the act will finally settle the. land question Lido not venture to foretell. One thins seems certain: it is probably the last of the tenani-right compromises. It is hardly possibie for any further legislation to he effected on the lines of double-ownership in the soil. [fit fail, no other solution seems. possible but the compulsory sale of the land. Jord’s interest to the tenant. Hitherto [have objected to this plan as beyond the actual re- quirements of [1 Agriculture. L would re- hment of the landlord sister, or, in other words, Tain in favor of rexulation, not abolition. But should it become imperative to choose between the landlord class and the farmers n ate to hold that tter have the first claim to preservation. This would be in conformity with the law of the survival of the fittest. “The British Par-. Tiament has passed a goad and comprehensive mea: and upon the Land Commission de- yolves its success or failure, Yours faiti- full S. G. McELroy, ou.-Sec. to the Antrim Central ‘Tenant-Lisht ASso- elation. Tir. TE. ©. Russell Criticises the Land Bu “ To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cicaco, Oct. —Referring to your leader in Frida you imply that the present Land bill should satisfy the people of Ireland. Before [ point out some of the weak points of the bill, permit me to say. that it is most reasonable that the Irish peo- ple should have no hope in English legis! tion fur Ireland. The Land bill of 1870 was. ushered in with a “flourish of - trumpets”; it was to pacify Lreland thoroughly, and, like the present one, it read very nicely; but, after having testea it for ten years, after having given it as fair a trial as it was possible for any’ meas- ure to get, the whole world, including Mr. Gladstone, acknowledges that it was a failure; and Lam thoroughly convineed that the present Land billis as great a sham as that of 1870, and that if the Irish people con- ee and bill gives the tenant for purch: ing hig farm is no greater than that given by te bil] of 1870, ept that under the present bill the tenant can borrow three-fourths inste: lof two-thirds of the purchase money. ‘Ty seems a most beneficent measure to one who knows nothing about the land system of Ire. land. Its worthlesness has been proved dur. ing the past ten y vell-known -fact that 1ot ars, Inasmuch -as ‘it: iy g ber cent of tiled themselves of ‘its existence, it ie uple of -Atmericg must be informed that itis now and ever hag been the desire of the Britis! Government, and consequently of the landlords, to prevent: in every way in their power, the land from being sold in’ small” parcels.” No landloy yen one Whose land is mortzaged, and Who is consequently obliged to seit it in the Ex cumbered Estates Court, will consent to sell it in sm aurcels ifhe can by any: means prevent it. ‘There have been ‘seures of in. stuices during the list ten years where ten. ants tried to avail themselves of the’ provis tous of the Land act in order to purchasg their holdings. but have succeeded ii hardly au rustance. isfortunes of tha tenants of the [arene property in the Coun. ty Kerry, who have been almost. ruined by their attempts to purchase their farms un. der the Land act, furnish a fair instance of the value of it, The Rev. Mr.” O’Connor ig now in this city trying to collect money pay the costs they incurred in their endeavors to purchase their What the frish want ‘1s s1 buy their farms, which the abolition of Jandlordis: tog elther: re volutionary or i t would be no more injustice to ce landlord to sell his estate than it woult be to compel an ordinary man to sell his land toa railway company in order that a mit road might be built. Feudal lordisin has been abolished in almost every nation of Continental Envope without doing violence to any one, and there is nothing to prevent the si being done in Ireland, exeept Bn. gland’s all-absorbing fear that Lreland might thereby become, first populous, and finaly free. O. Resse, FREEMASONRY. Wis Modern Orizin und Connection with the Building of Strasburg Cathedral, Landon Saturday Review. Another error respecting Freemasonry is that its “seerets” and ceremonial are some how connected with the ancient mysteries of faypt and Greece. ‘There is not the slightest foundation for such 2 supposition, for al though all secret societies are so faralika that they have their forms of. initiation, de grees, signs, and password, there can bene possible point of contact between the secret. ly taught science and religion of the ancien world and the essentially modern cock-and bull story about Solomon’s Temple which forms the motive for the Masonic ritual. The claims which have been advaiiced for it, that it was in some way connected through the Crusades with the Knights Templar and other secret orders, are-also without foanda tion, the known history of the craft being to- tally opposed to any such idea. The Knights ‘Templar were undoubtedly connected with the assasins, and through them with some of the older secret orders of the East, but their” story, though most interesting, and one which. deserves careful rewriting, has no more to do. with the constitution of Freemasonry than it has with that of the “Good Templars” of temperance notoriety. ‘The secret of Freemasoury is a_sceret-de if ul is to be read in fifty ditfer- ny one of Which will enable a rea innke his way into a lodge quite as well us though he had submitted to theinane monies of probation and initiation. If se, the society shouldauthor- ly deny its truth, or it will continue to be under the imputation of having fora great number of years made a great fuss about nothing at all. But in the tiquity of the Order, no disclai they could make would be of any: 1 ‘y of Hiram Abitf, and of the mysterious pillars Jachin and Boaz, which stood at the ‘Temple entrance, as told by Masonie ritual, avail. 1 bear the unmistakable” “ Brummagem” brand, and will not for a moment bear the test criticism, either from. an, archivo logical or Oriental point of view. ‘Lhe real origiu of the Order as_ we it now appears to date from have about the beginning of the eighteenth cent~ while an extinet organization which ed the motive for Freemasonry, haying no timmediate connection with it, is some three or four centuries older. It has been indisputably proved that the inst tution of Freemasons took its rise in the guild of operative masons which. under the ame of the “Fraternity of Masons,” was formed by the architect and workmen em- ployed from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century in the building of Strasburg Cathe dral, ‘he tlower anu pick of the profession were engaged uvon this masterly edifice, and they were naturally desirous of perpet- uating the secret of such zood work, just as. the Comédie Fraugaise - preserve the trad tions of the art of perfect acting. ‘Their ex nmnple was followed by other groups of ma- sons throughout Germany, and alt these dif- ferent lodges. were, some twenty yeats after the completion o£ the tower of Strisburg, merged into one association, Their Act i Uniformity was drawn up in 1359, and mtr tied by the Emperor Maximilian thirty years later by an imperial diploma. ‘They adopted the instruments of the craft—the square, level, and compass~as their emblems, and nad 2 secret password, * Liberty,” which in its a clew to the ulterior aims of he y. The Fraternity of Masons last until 1707, when it ‘authoritatively abob ished by the Imperial Diet, 4 ‘These are the simple facts about the origin oi the society, or rather of the society whos constitution served as a model for the more recent and-spurious association which. taken its name. It is not necessary to enter into the question of the so-called Igher de zrees in Masonry, such asthe Knights lar, Rosi¢rucians, and the like. Their ure even more impudent pretenses n those of the craft itself, and exhibit mixture of arrint nunsense, child’s play, nity Which is rather shocking. lous. As a mutter of fact, Freemasonry isan ot ; cellent friendly pty, — established for - charitable and convivial purposes, and pos essing a widely-extended and excellent organization, while its so-called ritual, spurious, is at any: rate irreproachable on te = score of morality. If the members 0! craft choose to meet together in groups from time to time for the’ performance. of + solemn faree, or delight to deck selves out in fantastic gear, we hits . no more right to find fault..Wl them that we have to grudxe the Forest their processions,’ scarfs, bandit-hats other paraphernalia at_a Crystal Palace’ Lt would be more dignified, no doubt; atv? up the nonsense and. rely pon thé inirinsig uierits and the real objects of the Onder, but luystery, even when it is such an open ser as Masoiry, has its attractions, and provable does conduce toward holding the society ta: gerher. When, however, Freemasons ciaim to an antiquity and an Oriental oF which are absolutely delusive, and ¥ they deliberately seek to. impose the sham upon the credulity of the public, it becomes a duty to expose the real nature of theit pre tensions. Masonry is, we have said, lent triendly- society. ane coy widely “spread over Europe, and, ind! wherever Europeans have settled: but rn essentially 3 European institution, fas 09. sent to give it a fair trial they will find out its comparative worthlesness. tean hardly see one substantial benefit that the Land Bill of 1881 confers on the ten- ant. The fixing of the rent for fifteen years is more likely to be detrimental than’ bene ficial to the tenant, because the price of ag- ricultural productions is more likely to be lower than higher fifteen years from now. ‘The fixing of the rent by “a court paid by parabens Seems fair enough at first sight; but you_hav i ay that that court wit ope taey us the British Government, and that it will contain tain, subject to regulations. analagous to * only three men. In other words, thes Who are not only vaid but “pbointed by ane British Government, will have absolute power to fix the rent. 1t matters not who or What those three men are, they will natural- ly be more inclined to favor the Jandlords than the tenants, because the Government that employs thein' is wholly on the side of the landlords and wholly opposed fo the ten- ants. Besides, it will be utterly impossible for any three men’ to be just iu such a case as this; no three men can become so c= quainted with the quality of the land in every townland in freland as to be. able: to fix the Yalue of it with anything like accuracy. The only way this could be done would be to ap- point local courts in every Parish; the men composing these courts would necessarily know the: quality of the land, and would be likely to tix a fair rent‘on it. But it would be absolutely necessary that one-half of them should be appointed “by the tenant, other. Wise. istic to the tenant will be a sheer im- lity. ‘The power which the’ present bossil claim to a remote antiquity, and has not slightest immediate eunnection with tae or the least pretensions to antiquity.” TRANSLATIONS FROM HEINE. For The Chicago Tribune. O do not speak, but only kiss! I ne‘er put faith in woman's wo Xour vows are sweet, but sweeter is Tne honey from your lips drawn fo! i find the truest love-charm there; . ~ Your vows are light and ficet as air. The bright, warm Summer is blooming ~ Upon your cheeks, my dear: : But in your little heart, Q love, Cold Winter reigns, ‘tis clear. All that jill soou be chanwing, willful sweetheart mine! ‘The Winter's frost your cheeks will touch An your heart the Summer shine. Why are so pale the rosea? ve, pray telf me why. Wo; mourn, deep-hidden in the grass ‘The violets so shy? Why sings such sorrowful measures The lark'bizh in the air? Why rises an odor of corpses From the tlowers blooming tair? Why shines the sun in heayen So dismal and so cold? Why looks the world so dreary, So wrinkled, and go old? Why um I sad and weary? My love, speak—don't be shyt Otell me, my own dearl-. Why has thou left me—w Gy? a An open Secret.—Tne unparalleled merit Popularity of Dr, Bull's Cough Syrap.